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I tag those commits with "spacebar heating": https://xkcd.com/1172/
> My corpse would arrive there probably in 130,000 years

It is infinitely improbable that you would arrive instantly and alive.

Or could just turn to the ol janx spirit ;-)
That price is at least 5x solar+wind+storage.

I estimate 3/4 the cost of a nuke plant (when it gets finished at all) is graft. Besides the waste, it enriches crooks who go on to poison public decision making. That is how we got where we are now.

It costs more just to operate and maintain an existing nuke than to build out new solar. That is why they are being retired, and new projects are cancelled. Their power gets less competitive with every day that passes.
Unremarkable in what way? I don’t often read articles that accurately describe a theological movement, but this one does quite nicely.

I’d say in that way it is remarkable.
Yes. I use Fedora 34 and I completely agree. Obsidian is very smooth. I admire logseq but it is buggy and slow (although I will periodically monitor their development) and I can't see myself using it atleast for now (Not sure if it's due to OS).
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> You statement that "in that depth and meaning are what I value" is an explicit argument that there is no depth or meaning in what other people here value.

I think, to the extent that it is an argument for that, it is offset by the question "(probably more likely) have I missed something?". That seems to be a clear indication that, since other people here do value it, FourthProtocol thinks it likely that the depth and meaning are there, just that they haven't found them.

(I also think that many of us here, me included, have such an emotional attachment to HHGttG that it's easy to be offended by such statements, whereas clearly subjective statements like "Lisp is ugly and hard to read" and "Haskell is obscure and too obsessed with theory for a practical programmer to use" would, while surely provoking argument, probably not garner such an emotional response even from Lisp and Haskell fans.)
>AFAIK, we haven't

From Wikipedia, there are (or were) over 30 reactor (not RTG) powered satellites. One program was called "US-A" and another "SNAP-10A". These were launched at least from the 1960s through the 1980s, by multiple countries.

"The US-A programme was responsible for orbiting a total of 33 nuclear reactors"

"Normally the nuclear reactor cores were ejected into high orbit (a so-called "disposal orbit") at the end of the mission, but there were several failure incidents, some of which resulted in radioactive material re-entering the Earth's atmosphere."

"The higher-orbiting TOPAZ-containing satellites were the major source of orbital contamination for satellites that sensed gamma-rays for astronomical and security purposes, as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) do not generate significant gamma radiation as compared with unshielded satellite fission reactors"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A

"The [SNAP-10A] reactor measures 39.62 cm (15.6 in) long, 22.4 cm (8.8 in) diameter and holds 37 fuel rods containing 235U as uranium-zirconium-hydride fuel.[15] The SNAP-10A reactor was designed for a thermal power output of 30 kW and unshielded weighs 650 lb (290 kg)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A
It does only the first of those things: using content hashes means that anyone can populate an archive which is easily discovered.

For the rest, hosting takes money. People will not archive the entire internet for free and IPFS is not a magic wand which eliminates the need to have people like the skilled IA team. It could make their jobs easier but that’s far from “nearly complete” and no more or less pristine.
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Why not let the free market work its magic? If ketamine doesn’t work, the word will get out and these places will go out of business. People will self medicate with whatever is available to them. If you lock up ketamine, people will reach for alcohol.
Yes. Baseline is essentially the line below which demand doesn't drop.

A problem with renewables is that they still need storage to work as peakers, because in many places renewable production doesn't happen in peak times.
I'm already looking forward to brain-internet interfaces.

Does FB invest also in those?

Just imagine, all the possibilities!

[Do I need to mark this as sarcasm?]
ETFs only exist thanks to HFT

Have you ever wondered how is it possible that when you buy some shares of SPY someone out there is somehow able to collect 500 securities to fulfil your order? Even if it's not a literal action-reaction, that is what must be happening at the margin.

Also, if you still don't believe me, then try to find out how to unpack X amount of shares of SPY (for some non-small amount of X) into individual securities. Can you do it yourself, for example? Whom to call, where's the button for that, who can do it?
If you're a market maker, you really, really want to be able to do low-latency trading in order to hedge fills before the market moves against you. If market makers can't do this, they will make worse markets - show less size and wider prices, or just get out of the game. How do you do this under continuous batch auctions?

I have an underdeveloped idea that what we really need is limit order types with built-in hedging. "Bid to buy 100 gizmos at 30c each, and for every five gizmos bought, immediately offer to sell 1 widget at $1.20; cancel this order if the best offer for widgets moves below that price" sort of thing. Basically, you're moving the simple reasoning that has to be executed at low latency from the market maker's FPGA to the exchange's matching engine.

Sometimes, you can do this by putting orders in spreads, but only where a spread exists (or can be defined) for the two legs you care about, in the right ratio.

You might also want to do more complicated things, like pulling an order in one product if another product moves a lot, because you think that presages a move in the product you're quoting.

The idea would be, firstly, to make it much easier to make markets without having to invest in low-latency infrastructure, broadening the base of participants who can do it, and secondly, to reduce the negative impact of speed-blunting interventions like continuous batch auctions or speed bumps.
We don’t know if things happen the same way everywhere. We also don’t even know what “everywhere” is. However we have mental models/laws that seems to approximate what our senses tell us in certain limited contexts. That makes the models useful.
> Schopenhauer used an equation with the answer of 42 to make a metaphysical point in “The World as Will and Idea.” I suspect this is the meaning Adams had in mind:

I think that DNA was satirising the idea of one number, or phrase, or any singular thing being "the" meaning of life—the meaning of life, I like to think he'd think, is life itself, not any minuscule segment of it.

The many interpretations that people can hang on even the most transparently ridiculous of answers is, I believe, part of his point. ("How many roads must a man walk down?" and "what do you get when you multiply six by nine?" as questions I think indicate how seriously he took the answer.)
> Prepare for a long read

Took about 6 minutes, is that long nowadays?
These weapons are intended to eliminate or greatly reduce the main strength of the US which is it’s power projection.

These won’t be used against cities but they can take out naval groups and any regional bases the US has.

If China gets to the point where they can effectively contain US power projection they would be able to operate in their region and much of the Asia Pacific without much of a challenge.

Challenging the US blue water capability and thus its power projection with symmetric means is a near fools errand.

This is why China is focusing heavily on “carrier killers” and on slow creep of artificial islands that would allow them to project their own power without matching the US in terms of naval assets not to mention naval experience.
I work in the field of distributed energy resources and it’s incredibly cool.

We’re remote first and hiring. https://www.voltus.co
I take it the big vendors (HP, Dell, etc) are now going to start adopting Framework's business model? If not the obviously somebody's gonna try and buy them for billions.
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The long-term storage solution we're using now for CO2, is to put it into the atmosphere. Putting that there is much worse than putting radioactive waste deep underground in a stable salt formation. It's even worse than letting the nuclear plant waste sit around in open water tanks, as we do now.
Ask HN: Best Home Server for Virtualization
I have a rather powerful computer that I have been using as my main driver up until now, and I recently got an M1 Mac Mini.

I would like to repurpose this old computer to run VMs. My workflow nowadays mostly includes building Docker and Kubernetes, and even though I can build them on the M1 using dockerx it's very slow.

What I am looking for is a way to create a local server on this computer that would allow me to spin up large VMs to run my docker build but I would also like to be able to spin up other OSes like Windows 11, macOS and even different Linux flavors.

What would you recommend for such a server nowadays?
Not quite the same because you would typically have some idea about the quality of a company before joining.
Pay them more, duh. Of course that's the easy answer, but where do you get the extra money? Raise prices, and pass the cost on to the consumer in other ways (close some locations that are costing you the most money, and customers will travel the extra distance).

Of course it's a big standoff between competitors now, trying to hold off on raising prices because they think they'll be hurt if they're the first to raise them.
Yeah no point in fighting it. It’s the standard. Learn to love SystemD.
> We cannot expect that technology will go backwards, and the only viable option is the China one of absolute information control, which itself is scary.

There is an obviously better alternative, which is non-centralized moderation.

This is HN. It's moderated. It's not moderated by a government or Mark Zuckerberg and it has no monopoly on the dissemination of information, so if you don't like the moderation here you can go somewhere else and there are in actual fact other places to go.

That works.

The real problem right now is that the biggest platforms are too big/centralized, which means you get chokepoints that attract hamfisted bureaucratic censorship instead of vigorous competition for high quality moderation.
You're nearly 100% certain that enabling Microsoft tech to play well with open source would never happen?

... It's already happened.

And it's the only reason Azure isn't already dead, and that Microsoft's market share and stock price haven't cratered.
Super weird about the realtek Ethernet issues. Linux’s support for Realtek is pretty good I thought.
Agree. And I don’t worship any of those. Which was my original point.
> Why not let the free market work its magic?

the literal snake oil market? no thanks.
Another bad example is Portland, OR when searching “Portland”. I’d expect it to be near the top, as my IP should be pretty clearly from the US and Portland is one of the largest Portlands in the US. Instead, you have to scroll through 15 results to get to the US, and then it’s probably 30 deep.
That made me smile :-)
> Isn’t the whole point of declaring pronouns that it gives you the option not to be gendered, if you prefer?

No, the point of declaring pronouns is to bring meatspace identity into cyberspace.

Sometimes that's the point of the space, as in social networks, but other times counter to the point. e.g. does anyone care what a typical HN user's gender is? Should they? I'd argue no, because we're here to focus on topics of common interest and our respective genders usually aren't relevant to that discussion.

An exception there might be users who we already know are dogs (those who have chosen to make their meatspace identities transparently recognizable from their HN identities).
Oh I very strongly resonated with that! This was one of the two quotes I wrote down from the interview. One thing I notice when I see artists works or when I'm working on an artistic project of my own is that the project is absolutely ugly for 80% of the process. It takes a lot of changing, tweaking, adjustments, and sometimes also an unreasonable amount of fine detail work to get something that looks good; and then a ton more work to get something that looks great. That's what he means by "mess" I think; all projects should start as a mess, and develop/grow/iterate into something more beautiful.

I find programmers tend to operate less iteratively, and more like engineering, where you need to come up with a good solution before implementing it, because in engineering you can't undo, and costs are high to make changes after a certain point. The analogy I like is: programming is often compared to engineering/construction, but is perhaps better represented by gardening; it's got a much more organic nature and flexibility.
It's not what you're asking but I wonder if NixOS's hardware repo could expand to support Framework with some good defaults

That being said, I think there could be a good use case for "meta" NixOS distributions. I'm working on such a thing for a NixOS based RetroArch type thing. But could see a PopOS like configuration, focused on on an “out the box experience”

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware
I thought most of the innovations those companies use were done by others, and what these companies are really good at is packaging things to make them appealing to the consumer?

What happened to the Microsoft hate that used to be on this forum?

Calling Microsoft innovative is a little... off, right?
Show HN: Qvm-Create-Windows-Qube: The most secure and private way to run Windows
Out of school is not the time for job-hopping anyway, if you've already got a good job. It is the time for learning everything you can, for, I'd ballpark at about three years.
I think you're assuming a false premise, that everything nuclear in space is an RTG.

It's always possible I've been reading misinformation, but allegedly the major source of radioactive debris in orbit is defunct nuclear reactors that collided with something, and they also interfere with gamma-ray observations.

So if it is indeed true there are many satellites powered by reactors, it couldn't be obscure, many people must be aware.
That's roughly what I was saying. It wasn't an oversight or accident.
Hi, HN! This is a small project I developed for Qubes OS that allows you to spin up new Windows qubes quickly, effortlessly and securely.

Hope you don't mind the flamboyant title, but, I truly do believe that the small attack surface of the heavily minified Xen hypervisor, networking stack, GUI virtualization, and much more Qubes OS employs + the Whonix intergration implemented in this project (making it a Windows-Whonix-Workstation; thus also giving it Tor-only Internet access with stream isolation between other VMs) makes it the most secure and private way to use Windows currently available today. Those are just the two main points, besides that, there is also the fact that because everyone using this project is both having their Windows VMs set up in the same way and running Qubes OS, that greatly helps to keep the OS and hypervisor fingerprint homogeneous across all users. This effect will only grow stronger as the Qubes OS userbase increases. Lastly, if the user wishes to reset their fingerprint, they can automatically do so by reinstalling Windows with this project.

Of course, I would be happy to go into detail and answer questions about any of this.

Note that this project is the product of an independent effort which is not officially endorsed by Qubes OS or Whonix.
You are missing the point.

Less than 5% of people are what most people would describe as coders and from my experience, I would say less than a third of those are not afraid of using a terminal. Why do you think people still pay for IDEs and fancy git clients with a UI? And of that, only a tiny fraction would have heard of decentralized social media / websites.

If these kind of projects want any global attention then they should be as easy to install as most applications on Android or Apple. Bitcoin began becoming popular when easy to use wallet applications and currency exchange began being mainstream. Same for BitTorrent, Signal and IRC.
I think "you host mine, I'll host yours" works better here than a financial incentive.

If you can specify "I've got 1gb spare to replicate other people's assets, as long as each of them replicates mine in return" then your incentive to replicate other people's sites is more redundancy and bandwidth for your own.

If you also prioritise files that have the least replicas across the entire network, and allow servers to re-distribute the content they are replicating, it would surely become quite hard for a file to be lost forever.

This makes more sense to me than having each site pay for their own data to be replicated, because those who don't pay don't get their content replicated, which results in missing content when the server eventually disappears. That is just as bad as HTTP.
It is not "vilified" except in the sense that in The Bible the term was used to identify all the Scrum Masters on Pharaoh's pyramid project by asking them about schedule estimates. If they replied in story points they were executed.
Does IPFS have an append only primitive? Something like the signed owner can add to an existing document? Is that built in or something you'd have to handle in the application layer?
Sounds like a miserable person displacing their blame on an independent third party. You will see stuff you disagree with, it’s healthy to deal with it productively. Temper tantrums solve nothing.
Well, thread safety is exactly about these cases of "well, it's hardly ever a problem".

Real life bugs have come from misapplication of correct parameters for memory barriers, even on x86. Python GIL removes a whole class of potential errors.

Not that I'm against getting rid of the GIL, but I'm more sceptical that it won't trigger bugs.

Though in my opinion python just isn't a good language for large programs for other reasons. But it'd be nice to be able to multithread some 50 line scripts.
You're probably right it was less significant, but both Norse and French have certainly contributed sounds to English.

Scandinavian speakers tend to struggle with the w/v distinction at the start of words for example, because most of our dialects do not have a distinction like that and so many of us learn one of them and use it all over the place. English appear to have imported the sound as in vacation when it imported most of the words (including valley) starting with it.

Another example is how when I first learned English in Norway the teacher spent a whole lesson early on drilling the pronunciation of the ch in chair (from Old French; compare "stol", Norwegian for chair vs. English "stool") because the sound was completely foreign to us but confusingly similar to e.g. the skj in skjorte (shirt; the skj is pronounced almost the same as the sh in shirt, depending on dialect)

So it may have had less impact on changing the phonology of Germanic words in particular (though I'm curious about some as Norman French changed the orthography of many words that used to be pronounced in the Germanic way but that now match the Norman orthography - e.g. hus to house - did the pronunciation change first?), but the sheer volume of French words that in at least some cases brought with them different sounds means it certainly contributed to the overall English phonology appearing more foreign to us.
> I still think jobs for people to "write their own plans and then execute the tests themselves" have mostly been automated out of existence,

Where I work, it's complicated to automate a lot of things, mostly because of the various installation configuration and how testing has to rely on external hardware like HSM and smartcards. And so the QA write the test plans and execute them, with automation testing non-regression on the most current use cases

> and they were still low-paid in Joel's mind.

Though I think the QA people at my current job at less paid than the equivalent on the dev side.
Bypass in context refers to the development of the motorway system in the UK. It was sometimes deemed necessary to demolish existing villages, or similar, so that a new motorway would follow a shorter path.

Specifically, the bypass would be a section of roadway that "bypassed" pre-existing routes.
sounds like a dismal future. I want to live in a future where we invest in infrastructure, not some dystopian world where tech-bro fantasy provided the rational for systemic disinvestment
Anyone know how far along graalpython is? I'd imagine it should be a suitable, if not superior, replacement with about as much effort right?
> That price is at least 5x solar+wind+storage.
Do you have a source? This seems.. unlikely to be true.

As for your point on graft, you seem to have a very black/white view of government. I find, in general, that black/white views are usually wrong quite often, since very few things are black/white. While I'm sure we can point to many examples of big public works projects that were debacles, certainly there are many examples which have turned out quite well. An immediate assumption that any large public works project will turn out badly is, I think, naive.
Wikipedia changes every second. That seems like a very expensive combination for a CAS system — even with good deduplification you’re storing a lot of metadata tracking every revision.
Maybe, but the other side is that good software dev shops are hard to come by. Industry is filled with bad practices, overworking, bad management etc. I have had multiple companies to tell me to prioritize them over everything else. It can degrade the relationship into pure value conversations.

So don’t blame you, but there are reasons - and more than discussed - of why people job hop and understanding that is important.
Actually we have solutions for All those byproducts. Just as with NO2,SO2 capture was enabled after we found those are bad. We can scrub CO2 too. It is just a matter of cost.
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I agree with you. But the flip side is part of the value you provide is because of resource scarcity. In other words, you’re valuable because you do the job well, but automating / documenting is a drain on time that is often occupied by fire drills that come from those same senior people.
So far, incredible! Still setting up my environment, but as far as how it’s running on the Framework, I 100% see myself fully transitioning to it from my MacBook.

Desktop wise, I’ve been using PopOS for 7-8 months now, so it’s quite great to have that same setup in a portable fashion now.
I agree, but would point out that "Try every option based on how credible it seems" is also an insufficient or under-specified answer, because the viability of each option depends on how much resources are invested in that option.

For example, if a trillion dollars were invested in nuclear reactors, it would probably be possible to build them fast enough and safely enough to satisfy most people, whereas spending just ten dollars on nuclear energy would not be enough to solve climate change. Similarly, over-building renewables and researching batteries with a trillion dollars might be enough to start reversing CO2 levels, but ten dollars won't make a difference.

Given limited resources, determining how to allocate them to maximise the probability of success is really the essence of the problem, rather than just identifying that there are several approaches that could be tried simultaneously.
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