skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Belgium is sun setting its nuclear plants. Here's the schedule https://economie.fgov.be/fr/themes/energie/sources-denergie/...:

Doel 1 : 15 février 2025
Doel 2 : 1er décembre 2025
Doel 3 : 1er octobre 2022
Doel 4 : 1er juillet 2025
Tihange 1 : 1er octobre 2025
Tihange 2 : 1er février 2023
Tihange 3 : 1er septembre 2025

One of these got a 2 year extension, don't know if it's reflected in the list.

But I doubt Belgium could move a lot of nuclear energy out of the national grid considering the gas power plants needed to replace nuclear aren't built yet.

Belgium is also auctioning the building and operating of gas power plants: https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/167347/b... to replace nuclear plants. They aren't built yet but the first auction (for the building) takes place this week and the second one for operation some months later.

There might be a last chance for nuclear if somehow participants to the auctions can't prove it can be done but the government is dead set on retiring nuclear plants so it would only be a small respite for nuclear.

I am all for believing that renewables can keep on growing up but I read that our government is betting for some new tech in battery and power grid appliances to achieve 2050 objectives. Seems bold to me but I am not qualified to comment on that.
The "hundred thousand years" argument is one I hear a lot, but why do we all assume 1. our civilization will last more than 1,000 years. 2. there will be no new tech to address the issue in the future? The estimated time until catastrophic climate change are MUCH sooner than that.
Sixteen years in and I agree with the definition of extra but I do that in the bracket of normal work. As in I do the ‘extra’ stuff and take time out of my working day to do it.

I’m honestly not convinced it has much to do with developer longevity though.
> your management chain is going to decide you aren't picking up enough work in sprint planning

A trivial workaround: "hey team, a month ago I did some research on X, and maybe this is something that could be valuable for us to try". It's mathematically the same, but shhh.

You don't need to lie. It's actually better to reflect for some days on any new research.
This was already an issue on the Commodore 128, which had a 2 MHz "fast" mode but you had to manually engage it, and doing so would turn off the VIC-II. Good for doing large calculations or working in 80 column text mode, but useless for games etc.
And in the meantime some schools in my country (Romania) are either asking to close down temporarily or are keeping their students with their winter clothes on inside the classrooms because gas (and thus winter heating) has become too expensive. But we are an EU country and don't tick all the orientalist checkpoints as this article does.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1015/
I was developing designs in a complex problem domain, and I spent some time prototyping an ontology and inference thing to automate part of the design work. Didn't work out -- my time box circuit-breaker triggered -- but it helped clarify aspects of the problem domain in my head. I would say my "extra" compulsion over decades has enriched my career hugely, for both me and my employers.
I think we should, and yes, it's a lot to be sure. This is why I think small modular reactors offer some hope for a smaller footprint future.

We should do calculations that include all parts of the production pipeline for parts--factories, mines for raw materials, the trucks, the fuel, all of it, as well as the opportunity cost of not using that infrastructure for something else.
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Linked to an article that says Chernobyl is the worst disaster ever? I mean, it's not even the worst nuclear disaster and it's still really not that big. Repeating Helen Caldicott's bullshit doesn't make it true.

Also, I'm pretty sure oil shill hands posted this post.
> That sort of rule would quickly become very hard to untangle. For example news papers are often the only good source of reliable, in-depth book reviews and for historical reasons the companies that sell books and sell news papers are often owned by the same parent company....

> But it is not exactly clear how you would in a legal sense draw the line.

You could probably address that problem by permitting common ownership in cases where the company could prove to a court that it's implemented effective and rigorous firewalls, such that the reviews are independent and not affected by the common ownership and do not show evidence or tampering of bias. My understanding is those kinds of firewalls are de rigueur in the newspaper industry.
I've "built" such machines in FPGA; PicoRV32 core, hand made display processor, a bit of RAM, and a couple UARTs. It was fun and not that hard for me, a newbie to FPGA.

One of the bigger challenges is integrating peripherals. I got bogged down trying to do SD Card interfacing. There are off the shelf bits of IP from Xilinx, etc. you can use to do this, but that sort of defeats the purpose of the exercise.

I think modern machines started their slide into mind boggling complexity when bus speed and CPU speed outstripped RAM speed. So much complexity and unpredictability is in the all the infrastructure built around cache.

Something like an Amiga or Atari ST was still not hard to understand all/most of, despite being 16/32 bits.
This is completely irrelevant. The inter-annual variability means nothing in the long run since the climate only cares about long-term averages. You're ignoring the long-term trend on purpose. This doesn't mean in any way that Germany is switching from nuclear to coal. They're switching from nuclear AND coal to renewables.
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If the scientific method is so perfect why does it fail when used by imperfect operators

The scientific method is not perfect, but the best method that we currently have.
The supply did go up. It's simple arithmetic. This stuff has been going on for hundreds of years now. It's well known and understood.
Would you be able to recommend resources on learning towards becoming somewhat trained in typography? Beyond blogs and coursera courses, where might one start?
Fair enough. I stand by that so far as I can tell he incorporated every implementation optimisation he got as feedback, but you're dead right that I didn't represent his wording correctly.
Wrong. Business is about relationships. Be competent and do what is minimally required. Do extra networking or befriending your manager/boss/etc.

People who get ahead build relationships. The slaves stick around to do the extra work.

Competence + relationship > competence + extra work

It's so funny how all the business advice is about how to be a good slave rather than what really gets you ahead.
Yeah but he was like mean and stuff so off with his head
Radio contamination is at a different level
A low-grade heat is OK for heating of buildings, so it can replace natural.

LENR is hard to reproduce even for those who can reproduce, but at this point we can be sure that LENR is not a fantasy land. Multiple scientists in multiple institutions are able to reproduce the experiment sometimes, so this is the science.

IMHO, external factors are involved, e.g. cosmic rays, which generate muons[0], or radioactive elements or gases decaying, and LENR devices are just boosting them.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion
Yes, that one. One of the most thought provoking movies you'll ever watch. I'm not sure how well it translates culturally to someone who never lived under an authoritarian communist regime, but it's a masterpiece even if just half the meaning gets through. Basically all works of Bulgakov are wonderful and worth reading.
Because those features cost money to develop, and plenty of developers nowadays want to be paid, while refusing to pay for the work of others.

So you get what is possible with long nights, weekends and abandoned university thesis after graduation, instead.
What? That's not the case for me in incognito.
The Arduino IDE was originally based on the Processing IDE, so that's the main connection there.

I rarely, if ever, see a Processing/Arduino project. I do a lot with Arduinos, including interactive art, but maybe I'm hanging with the wrong crowd.
In case anybody's wondering what the heck I meant here, it's a reference to the song Time Flies By from Half Man Half Biscuit whose lyrics the title of the linked blog post also appears to be referencing.
I think it has more to do with a lack of competence on the part of the maps team. Place names are just strings.
"All that's missing are some batteries."
Isn't the burden of proof on the social media side? There is certainly prima facie evidence that this is the case.
Since everyone seems to suddenly be massively skeptical of medications, as an example, I would ask if at the same time as a new prescription aimed at teenagers came out teenagers started breaking out in green spots, wouldn't most parents stop the medication and wait for some other cause to be shown as the source of the green spots?
In other words, who is right and wrong has less to do with this discussion than being super careful with kids until we're solid that it's not harmful.
real time bidding, banner ads, ad markets. Anything that comprehensively covers the history of web specific advertising is a good place to start.

Even if ads aren't useful (getting leather belt ads after buying a leather belt... even ads for the same product), the incentive is to continue serving them because the company trying to sell shit is still winning to target all "belt searchers"
I feel like it's a good discussion; to what lengths are we willing to go to keep someone safe? We could put people into boxes, keep them drugged/knocked out and force-fed via tubes. Technically they'd be perfectly safe, so is it acceptable (they kind of mention this in the article as well)?

When I was younger my dad told me a story about a kid with a mental disorder who would hit himself repeatedly in the head. They realized he wouldn't hit himself when he was holding a glass of water bc he would spill the water on himself and didn't like that. They kept giving him smaller and smaller glasses of water to hold until they got him to the point where he only had to have a thimble in his pocket(without any water), and that was enough to prevent him from hitting himself.

While shocking people with electricity seems like an acceptable solution, when compared to the self harm, I wonder if some of these people could be helped without shocking them or drugging them. I'm also curious to know how strong the shocks are.
b-b-but Apple is... le BAD!
Yeah I suppose one could use a CPU similar to this 100mhz FPGA one and just have it do ~50 cycles worth of activity every time the VIC-II yielded control to it. Then it'd be idle for 50 cycles, etc. And then have a "fast" mode like you're talking about to do 100 cycles in a clock.

Memory and peripheral access would be seriously wait-stated though. 50 cycles of action doesn't do you much good if memory is slow. Especially when you consider that programs for the 65xx made heavy use of zero page / direct page as an extra bank of pseudo-registers.

So you'd end up implementing some kind of cache, or memory mirroring, or just moving the whole of RAM in the FPGA... and then you start to wonder why you didn't just do the whole thing in FPGA as a C64 SoC.
> it’s just a bloody font.

Obligatory http://wondermark.com/650/
> Are taxpayers funding the government?

Yes. It certainly isn't the billionaires as all their wealth wouldn't as the OP noted.

> Last year, federal tax revenues were $3 trillion less than federal spending.

A once in a few generations pandemic will do that. See how when things are put into context, it doesn't seem so bad?
>I completely understand that it was a profound moment for him.

The flight itself may be a stunt, but Shatner's words aren't. He's clearly overwhelmed, and his voice breaks as he thanks Bezos for giving him "this most profound experience". He then says he doesn't want to lose how he is feeling.

>The contrast between him and Jeff spraying champagne and squealing with his marketroids was very apparent.

Bezos isn't paying attention at first, but realizes what Shatner is saying and the feeling behind his words, and stops what he is doing to let Shatner unburden his soul.
All that matters career wise is whether you can leetcode. If you can, great! Go get a 450k offer. If you cant, get into management ASAP or move out of your developer role, because your pay is capped and theres no where to go.
HN has a healthy number of conspiracy theorists and flat out liars. There was a post about Apple keeping the 30% cut on refunded apps last year that is a good example.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23995750
I work on Stripe's banking as a service team, and our Treasury API gives platforms the ability to create FDIC insured bank accounts on behalf of their users. Would be happy to chat -- I'm tinakarraz@stripe.com
I've started reading it. I'll finish it.

But it's subjectively the worst font (or layout, or kerning, or aliasing, or something - I'm extremely not an expert:) I've seen since... mid-90's? I don't know HOW they made it look that bad; I checked if they were accidentally-enlarged images, but nope.

In addition to letters looking (subjectively) bad, it also looks strange. Kernings looks slightly off, and the "Small but necessary interruption" feels like it has another 3 fonts in there. Perhaps They're just lighter or narrow variations (again, not an expert), and then the user-added ALL CAPS with different spacing yet... it feels I'm reading 19th century print. Which is quaint, might be precisely what author is looking for (I once spent an hour trying to get letters on a CD look JUST the right amount of offset and wobbly :P ), but feels a bit... old school.

https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.ht...
I don’t think the article is about excuses but about finding reasons. Of course a reason can be used as an excuse, but I don’t think is the primary goal of attributing the causes to the dopamine rush.
I think it is, but that's all I think it is. I installed this and played with it and I honestly couldn't think of a single Linux-only app that I wanted to run.
>I thought that when he interrupted for champagne showers, but after that he seems more present in the conversation and really listening.

Bezos isn't paying attention at first, but realizes what Shatner is saying and the feeling behind his words, and stops what he is doing to let Shatner unburden his soul.

>I have to say that listening to Shatner's description made me more intrigued than the other stories I've heard from the recent visitors. His emotion, the voice, the particular idea he is trying to express of that change in perspective really captured the intensity of the experience in a way that made me want to know it as well.

Yes. The event may be a stunt, but Shatner's words aren't. He's clearly overwhelmed, and his voice breaks as he thanks Bezos for giving him "this most profound experience". He then says he doesn't want to lose how he is feeling.
Is that still true though? It was definitely the case some 5-10 years ago, but last time I checked they were pretty comparable, losing some, winning others.
I see lots of green names in the comments on this particular thread, so not surprised I'm getting downvoted here.

Reminder that it's more productive in the HN ethos to engage in discussion to the points raised vs downvote silently without expressing why / how your thoughts may differ and more valuable for everyone to engage in constructive criticism.
> What I was trying to say was that governments have continued to invest millions of dollars in improving INS in the years since the AIRS was developed. The drift you need for days/weeks/months of navigation in a submarine is much much better than what you need for a few minutes of missile flights.
lol seems like a great excuse to take a day off. we don't need more woke censorship. if they don't like Chapelle, how about just not watching his show? Why do 800 people get to impose their idea of whats just on millions of Netflix users? If Netflix salaries are as high as I've heard they should have no trouble finding replacements for these clowns anyways.
I don't know about what Chappelle said, but can you imagine all the latino employees walked off if there was any show that dipected latinos in a negative light, or black employees were upset because of older movies with negative stereotypes, that would seem untenable.
Imagine them end up exported
Sure, but if you aren't an asshole and give them a choice, the majority of boys prefer certain kinds of toys and play. Is all of the developmental literature part of some cis conspiracy?
> It's so funny how all the business advice is about how to be a good slave rather than what really gets you ahead.

This is almost literally the opposite of what the article is advocating.

The author is suggesting that should you complete the work required of you then you should spend any spare time you might have on things that benefit _you_ rather than necessarily benefiting your employer. The author spends the first half of the article explicitly distinguishing this from doing additional, unrequested work that contributes obvious business value. The caveats the author provides are to encourage people to do this in a way that isn't going to get them into trouble, pretty much.

Relationship building for engineers nearly always happens outside of the context of the actual work, so I don't think that's particularly relevant.
I reject the thesis of this comment: moderation is not the same as censorship. If I host a private party and eject someone for being unpleasant, I am not practicing censorship. How is moderation on HN (or any other private platform) qualitatively different?
"Qubes OS is a free and open-source, security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing. Qubes OS leverages Xen-based virtualization to allow for the creation and management of isolated compartments called qubes."

-- https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/
Turned out to be our nginx cache fighting our wordpress cache.

Clearly should have done a premortem :p
Why was Facebook down for five hours? – Ben Eater [video]
So in a way, big advertisers that are leaders in their markets would be favorable to adblockers, because they free them of the need to do defensive advertising.

One could argue that no advertising is hard for the challengers, but in today's situation they are outspent anyway, so what do they have to lose?

The conclusion is that both incumbents and challengers would be better off in a world where no advertising exists.
In 2017 Gitlab was already gaining traction, it the very least it would be bought by some private equity firm.
Well it's from science.org (org being more sciency than com, but maybe not as so as edu?), and Science is in the headline and is even the name of the website. So it must be.

Check out this scientific headline from the site: "diverse South African scientists get superhero alter egos". Newton would be so proud.
Heterologous SARS-CoV-2 Booster Vaccinations: Preliminary Report
The Washington Post reports in Johnson & Johnson recipients may benefit from a booster, but perhaps a different shot, new data suggests https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/13/johnson-and-johnson-booster-shot/ "The documents include an FDA review of Johnson & Johnson's tests of a second dose of its own vaccine and a separate preprint study that tested mixing booster doses from different companies. The data could provide a road map for the 15 million people who received Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the United States, many of whom have felt left out because the vast majority of U.S. vaccine recipients received messenger RNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna."

The preprint: https://connect.medrxiv.org/relate/content/181
I'm very pro-Shatner here, I loved what he had to say. But I think other people were ready to party, and Bezos wanted to split the difference. Can't ignore the guys who spent over a million dollars each to be there, y'know?
What nonsense is that? I went to UIUC (one of the best for CS) and they were happy to give me credit for all AP classes, and then allowed me to test out of further 2xx and 3xx classes as I chose...
Any suggestions on good reading to learn?
The “Apple Hater” market is as big as the “Apple fanboy” market, maybe even bigger!
My guess would be twin-lens reflex like a usual Rolleiflex or Seagull 4, but could be anything really.
So you're saying this is merely a digital notary?

"Yeah, JellyBubble17 signed this"?
https://archive.is/Dgxa3
> Who would have thought printing Trillions of US dollars for pandemic relief would circulate more money in the market and lead to inflation?!

Plenty of folks thought (a) we needed to spend lots of money on relief, (b) this would cause a spike in inflation, and (c) this is fine:

* https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/opinion/covid-biden-econo...

* https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/in...

A 12-18 months spike in inflation is worse than the alternative, not spending not enough and the economy stagnate for years like it did post-2008:

> I see the following scenario: a weak stimulus plan, perhaps even weaker than what we’re talking about now, is crafted to win those extra GOP votes. The plan limits the rise in unemployment, but things are still pretty bad, with the rate peaking at something like 9 percent and coming down only slowly. And then Mitch McConnell says “See, government spending doesn’t work.”

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/stimulus-arithm...
iPhones have supported Wifi backup to local computer for a decade now.
The pricing seems reasonable and more or less inline with what an equivalent VPS would cost. I have a couple questions:

> When not used, Moonhome is disconnected from the network for maximum protection. When running, it sits safely behind the built-in network firewall.

So does this mean when I ssh in it proxies and forwards the connection to the actual host which is otherwise unexposed to the public internet? Seems like a reasonable thing to do, I guess.

> We update system images every night, so you don’t have to worry about any of that.

Okay, this seems fine at first glance but it’s really unclear. If I have Go installed, for example, will that be updated automatically or are my own development tools fully under my control and up to me to update? Also, what is the underlying distribution behind all of this? Is it just running ‘apt upgrade’ on a cron job or are you doing something else?

Is it a giant stack of Docker containers with some persistent storage?

Is this open source? Can I run a single command on a North American Digital Ocean droplet and run this closer to home? I don’t see much point in putting my dev env on the other side of an ocean.
Good question :) I actually haven't had a good excuse to use the C API yet. When I need C I just code the entire tool in C, or use IPC.
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