skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty interesting. A lot of people here are focusing on permanence, but for me the main difference on addressing by content vs by host name is the loss of authorship it opens up for the web. Since a research paper of essay is referred to by its hash, the owner effectively gives away all control of the work when it's first published. There will be no editing, no taking down unwanted work, and no real way to build an interactive website that allows dynamic linking to other materials by the author.

It's interesting how the same people promoting the "creator economy" also tend to promote the cryptocurrency space and IPFS without an ounce of self-awareness. IPFS sounds awful for creators of all kinds in the same way as BitTorrent was awful for artists. I can definitely see a use case for IPFS as a file storage for trustless systems such as smart contracts, which are designed as immutable, trustless systems.
Curious, what kind of sync are you wanting for the mobile app?
One thing that I've heard being said multiple times towards Redis Labs and other companies with an Open Source product, is (paraphrasing) "Companies make their products Open Source only because it helps massively with adoption, but then they don't want to accept the other implications that come from Open Source licenses".

This was often said in an accusatory tone by certain cloud vendors, with the implication that companies like RL wanted to have their cake and eat it too because they were trying to push for licenses that would prevent clouds from selling their OSS product as a service.

I leave it to others to decide how much that accusation was justified or not, but I do find it terribly ironic that now Microsoft is essentially faking a proper Open Source governance model for what could be considered the same end: make the product more popular through Open Source.
I'm saying it's the same reason why (x + y = z) should be illegal even if (x + (y = z)) is legal in any language. It's not specific to Python by any means. The target of an assignment needs to be obvious and not confusing. You don't want x + y to look like it's being assigned to.
I don't think any of the people who are sceptic about fission are pro-fossil-fuels.

I, for example, see the future in renewables plus storage, distributed and optimized for the local situation.

I accept fission as something necessary right now to buy time.

Maybe I'm wrong and fission is the better answer than renewables, but long term I feel like it's the same can of worms that fossil fuel was all over again.

I just hope we can make smart decisions that help us fight climate change short, mid and long-term.
If you can't answer this particular question after you've already advertised that feature there are only two possibilities to explain this knowledge gap:

1. You don't think upfront about the consequences your products have for people's privacy.

2. You don't care about the consequences your products have for people's privacy, and leave the particular details for the lawyers of how such products could still be distributed legally.

Which of this explanations should we prefer?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58749529
Even on Linux I rarely bother hitting a hotkey to open a terminal. Why? Because I have it load on startup and almost never close it.
180k could mean total compensation which is pretty typical for a new grad in the SV market. Usually the breakdown is base, stock, and bonus.

So for example: 120k base 45k stock/yr and 15k bonus ~ 180k a year.
For me the act of making connections is part of the review process. The connections are really in my head. The documents are just part of the memorization and structuring. I don't spend much time on it though. Just when a subject is unclear in my mind.

The Jiggl extension gives a local network view that is actually useful and not overwhelming. You can custom style nodes by folder or tags. This makes it intuitive and worth keeping open in a frame.
Offloading the problem to the consumer. If you want power continuity then you will have to provide it yourself. If you want reliable power that will be available but a significant premium over the unreliable version, and there will be a limited supply of that reliable power.

Pumped storage where available will help a lot, grid scale battery systems are nowhere near powerful enough to take on a significant fraction of the worlds powersupply so we'll have to make do.

Rationing of critical resources has many historical precedents, it's time we realized that power is not infinitely available at will, even though we would very much like it to be that way.
> * Unless the vast majority of seats belong to Microsoft, you can't say that it's "simply a fascade".*

This assertion is rejected by ReedCoopsey's statement regarding the fact that Microsoft reserves its right to appoint and control a foundation's director that happens to also have the privilege of single-handedly dictating and overriding any change.
The Soviets were the only ones that built reactors that way. As in, having the ability to blow up.

> Spent fuel pools are probably the greatest example of this. They haven’t caused a major issue yet but they’re potentially a much larger risk than the actual reactor.

I think you're also over estimating the danger here. We've been operating over 500 reactors for over 70 years. That's some pretty good statistical power.
Yeah the trick would be thunderbolt more than anything, USB-C out to all four ports would be easy enough with a hub?
That's fine. You don't have to worry about pausing, you have to worry about multiple threads getting at some memory at the same time.
This is attempting to put the solar and wind lobby on equal footing with the nuclear lobby: it isn't even close.
You can’t simultaneously assert that the fact that he’s not foreign is the most important component while advocating for excluding this information from the news.

Was he British? <censored>.

Was he foreign? <censored>.

What in his upbringing could have had ties to extremism? <censored>.

Hmm. Great newspaper.
> everyone gets a chance to become an authority

Oh, great.
Capping total energy usage is not only realistic, if you're under 35 you will see it in your lifetime unless fusion becomes a reality.
Yup. Somehow climate change is supposed to be this planetary existential threat, but not, you know, so existential as to allow a salmon to be endangered or to risk building a nuclear plant.
Every time this sort of thing happens, it's the Home Secretary et al's opportunity to propose yet more measures attacking civil liberties, despite the absence (usually, always?) of evidence what they propose would even have helped.
What storage? There's no storage that can hold enough power to offset times when renewables are not working.

Overbuilding renewables doesn't help with baseline either.
> Miguel and Nat have, ever since the early '00s, been enthusiastic supporters of Microsoft technology and have spent this century doing little other than enabling Microsoft tech to play well with open source.

This seems like obvious Microsoft PR speech to me.
Yes, I agree an AMD chip isn't an Intel emulator.

However, if we were imagining an intel CPU inside a console like a Super Nintendo or Megadrive, then an "AMD CPU" wouldn't be good enough -- lots of games require bug compatability of undocumented instructions, and exact behaviour in terms of memory access, instruction execution (including how partial instruction execution effects memory + registers).

People at Analogue aren't just making something which implements the same instruction set, they have to implement exact behaviour in all ways.

Nowadays people don't write games which require that level of compatability, which is why (mostly) games work on both Intel + AMD.
Overwriting fresh manual input coming from autoritative source with scrape result is sloppy coding which is likely caused by combination of developers who do not have understanding or affection towards their product and its users; and their management who do not care about workings of their product, but only about some numbers or features that they report.

Such combination is prevalent in our industry. So the product is essentially not owned by anybody. It just exists.
If you're not familiar with event cameras, here's a video where Davide Scaramuzza explains how they work (at the linked time stamp) and what they're good for. If you search for Scaramuzza on Google scholar or similar you'll find more papers on the subject.

I think they're going to be used a lot in robotics in the future, it doesn't seem to make sense to take a bunch of frames, several million pixels each, and spend a lot of compute power to find features when consecutive frames are so similar.

https://youtu.be/6Sn9-M7qXLk?t=77
The 'in between' phase will be a tricky one. But it won't change the final outcome much.
The stereotype is that China probably didn’t R&D the capability, instead copying the tech from Russia, US or wherever else.
The vast majority of the time they'd not be on shore though. If, on first rollout, we notice a number of them melting down at sea...

Until then I'd not want to kill the idea without giving it a chance.
You can't easily turn just any dam to do pumped storage - you essentially need at least 2 dams, pumping from the lower one to the upper one. Normal dam will simply not have enough water "under" its single dam to pump up when needed.

Not to mention the power transfer to pump water up & down being possibly a big multiple of what a regular hydro plant on that one spot would even need to transfer.
It’s an unspeakable tragedy. But this is HN and I thought we were meant to skip the obvious and focus on insightful debate.

With any terror event, tragic as it might be, the aftermath tends to be way more impactful than the actual event. The death of 5,000 people in WTC started at least one UN-sanctioned war and cost the lives of many times more than the airplane strikes.

So yes, I’m choosing to focus on the aftermath. But Sir David, rest in peace.
> we had 2 regions becoming uninhabitable practically forever due to incidents that could have been much worse.

are they really uninhabitable forever? The nature seems to have returned to Chernobyl, there are still people living there who defied the evacuation order. Sure, as a precaution the exclusion zone makes sense, but to call it uninhabitable practically forever is a stretch.
>In an economy where almost all companies are hierarchical capitalist corporations, most of the market share is going to be owned by these corporation regardless of how successful a few alternative models are. This is by simple statistics and the regression to the mean.

But surely there would be at least one or two industries where coops rein supreme? If 5% of companies were coop, you'd at least expect 5% of leaders to be coop, or they control 5% of the market share.

>On top of that, in the current capitalist economy wealth naturally accumulates on a handful of companies (this is also a natural statistical phenomenon) and in the absence anti-trust and monopoly enforcement the biggest companies have an easier time driving any corporation out having a chance to out-compete them. This is also regardless of company structure.

why can't coops do the same? consolidate, gain economies of scale, making all of their members better off?
Climate disaster is a self-inflicted death blow by humans to humans.

As a human that's the particular sort of disaster I care about most.
One Right Way
Eh, there's a difference between giving okay results and the ones you need in every possible case.

Kind of how it's easy to make a robot that works 80% of the time for some task but the 99.999% of the time is the challenging bit. Which effectively means you have to go open google when the thing won't give you what you need after a few failed searches and some wasted time.

Like Yahoo and Bing may be alright, with their aggregators like DDG giving even slightly better results, but it still falls short of the big G. You can be good, but you will never be better.
Perhaps these are giant creatures sleeping, like Godzilla?
It's a rock, hurtling through space, covered in hairless apes who think very highly of themselves.
> Massive investments in renewables

Massive investments will be made either way, either in replacing worn-out fossil fuel plant or in renewables. The cost is a given.

Renewables look cheaper: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-23/biden-...
Anti-ship missiles that are harder to shoot down.

Also, possibly missile defense.
Oh, ok. I must be following different news sources than you do then. According to the most recent push for nuclear it is all a-ok, safe, clean, infinite supply and even 'green' for whatever that means. If there are problems they certainly aren't given much airtime, if any, and if there are alternatives they are much less well funded from a PR perspective, because nuclear is 'big business' and solar and wind much less so.

All this is is a way to sway public opinion, nothing actually gets solved in the short term.
I guarantee you that energy use is going to grow at about 3% per annum over the next 50 years. After that, it will most likely increase.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=41433

If we discover cheap fusion, that number will go up.

Oh, and people will still be eating beef, driving personal automobiles, flying planes, sending rockets into space, and powering factories, too.
Countries which have large differences between the living standards of rich and poor is another way to frame it.

If you are in India, where the difference between poor and rich is enormous then you will likely do anything for a high paying job, even if you don’t particularly like it. My Indian friends tell me about this all the time. Getting into tech is seen as a lifeboat, so don’t complain, just do anything under the sun to get there.

So of course, if you are a woman, if you can do STEM, you will. Some will enjoy it, others see it as the way to not live as unprotected lower class.

In a country like Sweden, where “poor” isn’t “poor like in India”, there is far less incentive. In a country like this, women can study more what perks their interest. Here you see a deep divide in men dominating jobs to do with “things” and women dominating jobs to do with “people”.
Nix + home-manager is how I started on arch. After moving about 80% of my Pacman-installed packages over to nix-configured packages bit by bit over weeks and after that all of my dotfiles I plunged into nixos. Transition was super smooth, can only recommend!
i am hoping, like onenote, a note taking system that i can use on computer and mobile devices and sync to each other, easily. This is very natural need.
We are not going back to shitty old medallion cans. Ever.
Indeed and IIRC the increased code density got them into Nokia phones too.

I find it hard to believe that they didn't drop Thumb from AArch64 without a lot of analysis of the impact on performance.
> So you're saying that Zerrahn lies about Sinn's paper?

Zerrahn presents Sinn's paper in a pretty opinionated (and unfair IMHO) way, but I wouldn't call that lying either.

> Are you saying that Sinn actually models wasting a part of energy to minimize costs? (Because if he doesn't, then he commits the immediately obvious mistake that I described.)

No, but Sinn model the system the way he does not “to avoid wasting energy”, claiming otherwise is just an attempt to ridicule him. He's modelling the system the way he does because it considers a different set of trade-offs.

> Why don't you just go for a MILP model

I'm not familiar with those, do you have a good introduction?

> I've been intent for some time on applying this to the Czech grid, where it's actually somewhat simplified by the diminished need for transmission, but I have yet to gather all the necessary data.

AFAIK the guys making Electritymap[1] have open-sourced all their data sources[2], maybe it can help.

[1]: https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/CZ?solar=false&remote=tr...
[2]: https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/maste...
>> 4. This it he big one for me: I just don't trust governments or corporations to maintain, inspect, manage and operate nuclear power plants at scale.

If this is the coup d'etat then there's no argument. Because if you don't trust them for this then how can you trust them for anything? That's fair, not having trust. But at least be consistent.
Joplin is great, simple, and I love it. I find things like connections and tagging to be more work with minor, if any benefit. Just folders with markdown works great.
How to Stop the Employee Exodous
I see your point re noise - the case here is a lot simpler I believe: Being able to prosecute effectively anonymous death threats (which is a criminal offence in most jurisdictions) made via social media.

While not trivial it is fairly straightforward to get an anonymous e.g. FB account and a VPN and you are practically invisible to law enforcement. I suspect you don't even need the VPN for less serious offences.
I looked up to Miguel in the 1990s. But him and his father ended up supporting the current president of Mexico. Who is a demagogue with kleptomaniac tendencies.
Better them than us
Dam the Gibraltar! ;-)

Totally renewable - and not just hydro, but also solar (which takes care of the water you let in)!

And yes, this has been proposed and is physically possible & it alreadyhappened for geological reasons in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
No, the name hunter-gatherer does not imply that 50% of the calories were obtained from plants.

I linked to an article explaining that point, which includes the source and evidence.

Especially during the deep glacial periods of the ice age, which was most of the last 1 million years, humans sustained themselves almost entirely on meat.
You don’t need crazy IDs any more. In Obsidian I just make sure each of my notes has a descriptive title and that’s enough to ensure it’s unique.

Some of my notes are literally just a bunch of links to other notes because the title of the notes is descriptive enough that stringing a bunch together I can form entirely new sentences.
> But he wasn’t foreign, is my whole point. He was born in Britain. Or if not, passed the whole naturalisation process. Apparently he’s indistinguishable from other British people.

Naturalisation process as it currently stands. I believe the GP was alluding to the fact that that process could be changed. Though I agree the public should base their sentiment on, for example, per-capita homicide rates of various groups, and not anecdata. But graphs don't seem to move people the way stories do, and we are stuck with the public we have.

> When a white British guy, with a name like Gary or Shaun stabs a teacher, say, you get stories from people who went to school with Gary or Shaun. He was an alright guy but a bit extreme when angry, maybe. Or no one would see it coming, he was a quiet guy. Why did no one see it coming? Ah well you can’t prevent everything.

After Stephen Lawrence, a Black man, was murdered in the UK by whites, he was commemorated by, among other things, making 22 April "Stephen Lawrence Day": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence
If you go this way, why even bother with whole .NET ecosystem? It is all Microsoft. It would be easier to go with Python/Ruby maybe Java.
You can work around this[1].

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1023036/how-to-install-nvidi...
You forgot the pars construens. "Occupational mortality rate"?
Another 4M workers quit in the 5th month in a row of record exits
Your ability to predict the future must have made you a fortune.
Isn’t Guido working at microsoft now?
> A note: This website is best viewed on a computer.

I don't know why, but the phrasing here really tickled my sense of humor
Startups are betting on a psychedelic gold rush
>terran

Could we please not alter headlines to replace real words with made-up scifi words? The original headline uses "terrestrial," which is correct.

Also even in the context of scifi, "terrestrial" has a completely different meaning ("of the land surface", vs "of the planet Earth").

Inb4 'all words are made up' etc etc boring thread

Mods, can we get a fix?

EDIT: Thanks!
Have you even looked at the statistics? The point kinda is that injury and death tolls tell you precisely how often it doesn't go well for different types of energy production (including the mining of resources, storage/dumping of waste, etc.). I can't imagine you wrote that comment knowing how much less risky fission is.
My Framework DIY just arrived this morning. I finished the build and installation of PopOS about an hour ago, but now I’m contemplating trying out NixOS due to this blog post.

Looks amazing!
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> The failure modes for a satellite phone in those days doesn't bear thinking of.

Hell, the same is true today. Any significant conflict between world powers may start with knocking out the satellites.
> you can't hide the effects of fossil fuels, but you can hide (and deny) the negative effects of a unsafe nuclear plant until it fails catastrophically.

What? The subtopic of the thread is climate change. That was hidden from the public eye for over 30 years. We're literally in the situation where fossil fuels have failed catastrophically and now everyone knows about it. Which I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate because a large portion of the population is still denying it.

So yeah, this is a poor argument.
"My theory is that he’s too valuable where he is, and that they don’t want to move him elsewhere."

Assuming the "they are too valuable here to be promoted elsewhere" hypothesis is true, and it may be true in some cases (and not true in the majority of cases), there is always an increase in compensation in the form of increased base salary, bonus, or equity, depending on the company, available.
A promotion is both a reward and a belief that the person would have a greater impact in another position. More money is also a reward.
This seems pretty naive to me. Big public works projects are big so they take a lot of time and money. Of course there's political overhead and graft, etc. However, I'd argue that doesn't really matter.

Let's say it costs $10 billion to build a nuclear plant producing ~2 GWatts (something about what has costed historically). This includes all the graft and corruption of which you speak.

We need around 500 of them (need ~1 TWatt) to replace all existing electric power generation for a total cost of $5 trillion. Financed over 15 years that's $50 billion a year (~8% increase in federal spending).

So really who cares if public works projects are inefficient? For a modest tax increase (or modest debt increase) we're done with primary energy-production related emissions.

Added benefit is we can almost certainly export our now resurgent and world-leading fission power plants around the world. This would (a) solve a big part of the climate change problem (b) make America look good, particularly if we provide fission technology at-cost (c) position us as a technology leader in the sustainable/renewable energy sector.

As a sidenote, it's also VERY likely that building 500 hopefully identical power plants would drive costs down significantly. Numbers given are worst-case.
Natural circulation gets heat from a reactor to X, but now your dependent on X. This often seems like a trivial detail, but Fukushima failed 3 days after the earthquake.

The issue is you want several things from a passive system at the same time, don’t lose heat in normal operation, quickly lose multiple GW of heat in an emergency and as much as 200+MW of heat for days after a shutdown. The obvious solution is to have a tank of water that boils if the reactor temperature gets to high, but now you need to keep that tank full.

Thus many designs result in a reactor that is passively safe for some number of hours and at risk after that. They describe this as a passively safe reactor even if it’s got external dependencies.
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