skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To give an order of magnitude: Germany is producing 11 times more CO2 to produce the same amount of energy than France.

But nothing is sure about what is going to happen in France. While Macron has announced some investments to develop small modular reactors, the path to get to carbon neutrality is still being discussed.

RTE, the electricity transmission system operator released a massive report last week with 6 possible pathways to get to Carbon Neutrality (1). 3 of them explore doubling down on nuclear while 3 others consist in divesting from nuclear and relying even more on renewables.

All scenarios are considered "realistic" despite each having some uncertainties. The projected costs of all scenarios is in the same order of magnitude (~10B euros). While the scenarios with nuclear seem slightly cheaper given median assumptions, it is a rounding error compared to the uncertainties regarding the cost of capital, the evolution of solar and wind prices, and the capability to deliver new nuclear plants).

Maintaining the existing 60GW of nuclear power would certainly make things easier, but the report makes it clear that it is more of a political decision than a technical constraint.

The report is clear about one thing though, renewables are not optional. There is no scenario where France gets to carbon neutrality in 2050 without massively scaling its production of renewable energy starting now.

1: https://assets.rte-france.com/prod/public/2021-10/Futurs-Ene... (see page 17 for the 6 scenarios)
An entitlement, rather than a right, but the problem again is who cleans these things up to a workable standard. Is a public facility worth much if clogged and overflowing with human waste? If antisocial actors spread such waste and other fluids on the walls? It becomes worthless as a public accommodation and so effectively ceases to exist again. Solution for public facilities is probably automated effective sanitation and/or a Singapore model of disincentives for being gross in public.
Well meat/fish have always been scarce enough to be high cost as well. So using salt to preserve them is a good use of it.

In many poor regions of the world salted fish products are the dominant animal protein.
The nonprofit Institute for Justice has a few cases similar to this one. It's a shame that the government can take peoples money without charging them with a crime. I'm not sure how someone would get their money back without hiring lawyer or having a non profit fight for them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bN-mpvg_-o
And what's wrong with xxHash?

According to xxHash's performance comparison page, xxHash is faster than MeowHash.
There's a middle ground between manually changing things and SkyNet pushing a broken config to the config pusher or breaking BGP on all colos simultaneously.

If the number of pushes is small and the time to make the change is small, automating the change, but running it one at a time in a loop works ok. When things start breaking, you can stop the loop before too many servers fall over. If you have a lot of servers, you can split your hosts and run up to about 10 terminals doing loops before it gets really hard to supervise. Often, you can easily parallelize the prep part of the update, and leave only a quick change to be serialized.

I'll have to see if I can find it, but yinst-pw was opensourced somewhere and is really useful for sudo password prompts if you're doing it half-way like this. Edit: ahah, remembered it got renamed to autopw https://github.com/jschauma/sshscan/blob/master/src/autopw
I would imagine an introvert would do far worse in a shared triple room with no common areas at all, in this dorm, they have a private room.
Chainlink solves a lot of this. Another irresponsible move by Cream.
Not the original commenter, but I think I know what they were getting at. Basically a given command may do something "different" with regard to the bare text, depending on the start position in an S-exp. For example, in these two (where | is point)

(foo bar |baz)

vs.

(foo
bar
|baz)

moving "up", point will end up on the same line in the first and two lines up in the second.

This, of course, is the point of structured editing, but it takes a bit of getting used to I think, and at first commands can seem sort of "unpredictable" or, as said "context sensitive" in a way that's different from more basic movement. (Though comparable to something like M-a for prose, of course.)
UK (230V) here, I've observed electricians working on live circuits frequently. That's why tools like this exist, 'safe' for working up to 1000V:

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/c/vde--insulated-tools/

Despite being warned not to over and over again, I have replaced multiple electrical outlets and light switches in my home without flipping the breakers
> Julia is another language that did not catch up as people expected

Wait what? Julia has been growing very consistently for years now. I don’t think anyone with a reasonably informed opinion thought Julia was going to take over the whole world in the blink of an eye.

It seems to be going right along the lines that most people I know in the community expected.
What's interesting is Steve Kirsch was touting this months ago alongside Robert Malone and Bret Weinstein.

That content got banned from YouTube.

Was more or less harm done by stifling this information?

In the desire to drive official therapeutics and vaccines was this potentially not surfaced as fast as it could have been?

I'm not sure. It's good food for thought though.
There were cholera epidemics in the 19th century, until we realized we shouldn't drink contaminated water. In cities such as London, this required major infrastructure investments.

We're just realizing we shouldn't breathe contaminated air, and we're just realizing that we need to make infrastructure investments.

CO2 is a good proxy for infectious disease transmission risk. We breathe out CO2 as we spread pathogens. Outside air is just above 400ppm (higher with auto exhaust) and architects aimed for 600ppm before the pandemic. As one approaches CO2 levels closer to outside air, infectious disease transmission plummets.

To balance ventilation with energy costs (and avoid accelerating global warming) one needs heat exchangers that can't easily be retrofitted into an existing building. Munger Hall could dodge all the bad publicity about fake windows if it sports a "next pandemic ready" ventilation system out of the blocks.

In my experience sitting on building committees, architects are better at original visuals than original engineering. When a Spanish village restores ancient stone huts for tourists, they run DC wiring for LED lights. When I ask if our new building will have DC wiring for LED lights, rather than a cheap, inefficient transformer in every bulb, architects just stare back at me, deer in the headlights. So I'm not hopeful that a radical reworking of our infrastructure will originate with architects.

Our building wasn't going to have windows that opened, till I suggested the building would be usable parts of the year even if the central air failed. I was assured it would never fail. The central air in the previous building failed the next week; I was never implicated. Then our administration overruled the architects and put in office windows. People teased me that I cost us a "this building pees spring water" green certification. Then the pandemic, and I was a hero.
It could be that our pop culture has been frozen in time as "THE pop culture" for 50 years now. Rehashed, rebooted, remade, and reimagined over and over again to become your pop culture too.

How am I supposed to NOT feel "stuck in the past", when the The Matrix is coming out next month? When there's a bunch of Star Wars and Star Trek and Indiana Jones (!) next year. We're on our third or fourth Spiderman franchise, and every other teenager that I walk past is wearing an Iron Maiden or Metallica t-shirt? The most exciting new video game on the horizon is Knights of the Old Republic. Geeze, Tom Brady is the defending Super Bowl MVP!

Sure, somehow I went from "liberal" to "bigot" without actually changing my social views, and somehow we determined that comic book movies never exist before Robert Downey Jr. But otherwise, I look around... and this really DOESN'T look all that different from the 90's, you know?
> The US doesn't poison people for 'leaking revenge'

...and I'm Batman!!!
Wouldn't this sort of "obvious" link require tracking every patients entire history? Couldn't it be lost in other confounding factors? This seems like it would require a lot of good data and then strong analysis chops to pull that pattern out.
Flash loans are incredibly powerful and allow those without capital to take advantage of arb opportunities. I don't believe it is a given that they do more harm than good at a philosophical level. Not to mention, this exploit still exists without flashloans (however, anyone with $500,000,000 in crypto has likely KYC'd somewhere, so the risk profile is different).

The solution is better coding practices, and plenty of platforms have protections against this.
If you think that is ironic, you should probably look up the paradox of tolerance. Someone saying they think people that like things different than themselves are morons, and someone saying that that viewpoint is small minded are not equal.
it amazes me how boring this topic is.
I also had a less-than-stellar experience dealing with a realtor on my first purchase a few years ago. The guy barely did anything useful except provide his credentials for access to tools.

He didn't do much to find properties for me. I had better luck searching open databases of listings that didn't seem any quicker to show properties than the janky search used by the "pros". Basically the realtor set up a search for me on his tool and it sent me new listings that met the criteria. But I couldn't edit this search or browse anything so it was mostly useless.

So I ended up just emailing him lists of properties I found on my own so he could set up times to check them out. And as I was looking for places that were decent but in need of some updates/minor work, practically every single place was sold to developers/flippers for cash before my realtor could get an offer in.

After a year or so looking, I ended up lowering my standards quite a bit because I was getting sick of renting a temporary spot. And of course you sign a contract with a realtor so you can't just shop around for a better one. I was basically stuck because the guy seemed decent in the beginning. But like a car salesman, he lost most of his interest once I was locked in and he realized I wasn't gonna be making him any massive commissions.
Robot taxi boats take to the water in Amsterdam
I went for a flu vaccine at CVS this week and the person giving it to me explained the process would be a bit different because they were using much larger needles than usual. I asked why and they said it was due to supply chain issues. While it effectively didn’t change much for me, it also was easy to see that with a bit more pressure, some pretty critical supplies could simply not be available in sufficient quantities.
This dorm gives everyone their own private room, far more privacy than the forced doubles and triples many (most) college have today.
Afghanistan’s girls learn, code ‘underground’ amid Taliban curbs
Cool! This is the first time hearing about DuckDB, exciting as I heavily use SQLite. And these benchmarks are showing it's 6-15 times faster than sql.js (SQLite) [1], along with another small benchmark I found [2]. I usually just slather on indexes in SQLite tho, so indexed queries may not stand up as well; and might not be as fast when it's on storage, as this is comparing in memory performance (I think?), but I'll give it a spin!

Gonna throw this out there: main thing I'm looking for from an embedded DB is better on disk compression; I've been toying with RocksDB, but it's hard to tune optimally & it's really too low level for my needs.

[1] > ipython

import numpy as np
duckdb = [0.855, 0.179, 0.151, 0.197, 0.086, 0.319, 0.236, 0.351, 0.276, 0.194, 0.086, 0.137, 0.377]
sqlite = [8.441, 1.758, 0.384, 1.965, 1.294, 2.677, 4.126, 1.238, 1.080, 5.887, 1.194, 0.453, 1.272]
print((np.quantile(sqlite, q=[0.1, 0.9]) / np.quantile(duckdb, q=[0.1, 0.9])).round())

[2] https://uwekorn.com/2019/10/19/taking-duckdb-for-a-spin.html
Algorithmic Trading Models – Breakouts
It's unknown what a Meta account will be, but I can explain the difference between a FB account and an Oculus one.

Having an Oculus account was pretty much like having a Steam account. It keeps track of your devices, your purchases, and you get emails or notifications (if you enable it)about products it thinks you want. Not perfect, but an a tradeoff I will accept for great devices and a good service.

Having to log into FB means you have to create an FB account, and they try to stop you from setting up a fake one not connected to your real phone number and emails. Using your device will mean that sometimes you have to log into FB which can be a real hassle on your home browser or phone. You have to think about leaving cookies, not leaving certain apps on your phone, particularly if you are on Android, and if you are a Quest 2 developer you are an Android developer so all the security questions are x2.

Plus, FB probably keeps this account you set up just to use your Oculus device and they post to it every time you buy a game or maybe every time you get an achievement. I have no idea if anyone actually has the misfortune to see those posts, but I wonder if they collect money on ads that are served to the accounts that have no other activity than automated Oculus posts. Someone here would know.

I love the Quest 2 and I am really happy FB is doing this. Thank you FB for this.
> If China tried to extradite a U.S. citizen acting within the U.S. who published leaked information allegedly in violation of Chinese law, we'd laugh them out of the courtroom, and rightly so.

Right, because China isn’t an ally. If a US citizen leaked confidential secrets from Japan or the UK it would be a very different story.

For instance, if this has happened in China there’s no chance they are extradited.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/business/carlos-ghosn-esc...
My charitable interpretation is that it means that only a narrow set of use cases are being used to judge this laptop. Perhaps the performance profile of this laptop is not so amazing for other types of users, who may still be better off with either an Intel Mac or a windows laptop. For example those that use virtual machines or boot camp to run windows alongside macOS are worse off with the move to Apple silicon. Those who play games are worse off. Those who write machine learning code for nvidia GPUs are worse off. And so on.
I feel like there is an entire layer of state bureaucracy and institutional policy wonks who are saying to each other, "we keep adding these absurdist totalitarian measures and dismantling socities piece by piece, but the populace, they all seem a bit quiet, don't you think? No resistance at all, paper tigers, no doubt. I wonder if they've even noticed..."
A living being is a machine designed to reduce localized entropy. In decreases internal entropy while creating greater external entropy.
Aaaand congratulations to the end beneficiaries of all of this action - big pharma, who made a boatload selling highly addictive, legal drugs and leaving a trail of decline, death and despair in its trail. Clamp down on the illegal stuff while simultaneously boosting the potency of legal stuff to the point it's often greater. Those dirty generic heroin users should use Fentanyl patches, like Duragesic®.
Ah yes, I meant to write below cost. That's what baby induced insomnia does to an adult brain.
Was it specifically because of this one claim, or because of his claims that hydroxychloroquine works and that COVID vaccines are toxic? I think you're doing a disservice by downplaying his history surrounding COVID.
> There's no way to succeed in such a high pressure environment like those college years with so little space and so little privacy

I feel like you haven't been in a college dorm in at least the last decade. These look far better than most dorms I know of.

I'd much prefer this setup than the dorms I had to be in freshman year. Small rooms fitting 2, 3, even 4 people in one bedroom is crazy. At least I'd actually have a room to myself. They call the living quarters small, but they look roughly the same size as what I had if you subtracted my roommate's space out of the room.

Thank god I got an off-campus house with friends years 2-5.
Difference is, nobody other than me is at risk if I go out shopping with heart disease.
It's where the majority of crime and pollution is. You can have it.
Just let the market decide ;)
This clearly makes sense architecturally, but my goodness these envvars are a nuisance in Nix where you have wrapQtAppsHook and a bunch of other hackery to ensure that the proper plugins are findable at runtime.
An Oracle is a way to tell the blockchain about external data like the price of something in the general markets. As I understand, a flash loan is a loan that is both created and paid in the same blockchain transaction (thus if it can't be paid it won't be included in the transaction), and that the exploit here was to both modify the price given by the oracle twice (up and down) and have a flash loan in the middle, all in the same transaction.

I hope I'm not adding to the confusion because I am not an expert.
I bet I could name you people you thought were garbage.
Sorry for replying with such a short response but your entire post seems to be based on this assertion:

> Say you had a 10 unit apartment building that is impossible to own

Nothing about this would make a 10-unit apartment building "impossible to own" (unless you're assuming that owning 10-unit apartment buildings is only feasible at scale.) The individual rental units are not the "property"; the land and building(s) are.

Obviously, serious consideration of this proposal would need to round up a lot of numbers to determine the scale of your "Big Shuffle".
I had this handy CLI alias which worked before wordnik went over to https.

alias -g define='BROWSER=w3m ddgr \!wordnik '

Usage $ define annoyed
:-)
No Ethics personnel on the team?
> How is he subject to US law but not the US constitution?

The Constitutional rights of foreign foreign nationals is complicated [1]. Long story short, the Constitution may not protect them as fully as it does U.S. persons (Americans and foreigners on American soil).

[1] https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
RedisInsight – A Redis GUI Client with support for modules
Yes, many buildings are shaped in interesting ways to allow it as well. For example, this building could have an interior courtyard and then have windows facing both out and facing in. Or even a few courtyards.
> Most of what we think of innovation is really business model innovation, rather than technology innovation. We are more easily amused and excited by the latter, but what changes our lives more often is the former. Business model innovations rarely capture the imagination of the masses or present well on short time-horizon focused mediums, say Twitter, but they matter.

https://www.readmargins.com/p/jokes-you-invented-bad-jokes
I am friends with a top auditor. He is a genius. Two seconds of looking at a contract and he's found 10 holes.

Auditing isn't perfect, but it is better than not doing it at all.
How much has IBM increased in value over the last 10 years? HP? Intel? Cisco? Oracle? There are tons of large tech companies which have severely underperformed the S&P 500, and Microsoft was in the same category for the previous 10 years while Ballmer was at the helm.
I'll wait for the medical profession to tell me the cure for a major ailment is a windowless, tightly enclosed space with limited circulation.
Can you call it innovation when much of the world has had it for some time? Good, no doubt, but innovative?
An oracle is just a provider of some kind of off-chain data. For example if I wanted to incorporate the stock price of AAPL in my smart contract I would need to "trust" some off-chain (and possibly centralized) provider of data to deliver that information to my smart contract.

The obvious problem is that if that data is manipulated somehow, the smart contract can potentially execute with malicious information.
You don't seem to like garbage collectors, or manual memory management (with which you'll get segfaults and double-free issues) or complexity (where the intermediate ground between manual and automatic memory management comes in, with compiler hints, etc.)

This doesn't seem like a satisfiable set of constraints. I'd recommend removing "not garbage collected" from the constraints, as automatic memory management mostly got introduced to reduce footguns.
That is exorbitant for anchovies + salt + time. It could be half the price and still marketed as a premium, niche thing.
Waypipe isn't relevant in this case, this post is about remotely invoking an RPC call over D-Bus. It's actually pretty trivial to forward a D-Bus socket using ssh -L.
Not that there aren’t other issues here, but there are imitation windows (portholes?) that would provide that light cue in the morning. It wouldn’t be a totally windowless cell.
I think the issue is how was it proven back then? There are a lot of people promoting ideas, some of which will eventually get clinical backing that they are correct.

Prior to studies being done, how do we evaluate who is a quack and who is correct? There is a lot of harm promoting quack ideas during a pandemic. Based on reputation? Twitter followers? Their passion?

I do not believe anyone censored research and scientific literature that was mainstream nor did they say they can not try to get your theories proven, rather they were basically saying do can not claim you have the truth if there is nothing solid backing you up. Basically skipping showing your work (e.g. peer review), and just saying you have the answer.

I would argue that anyone who had a solution to Covid should rush to get it published in a reputable journal -- because that is how science works. You do not go and make YouTubes first promoting it as the cure first.

Did Steven even have a role in this paper or are these professionals operating completely independently of him? So Steven didn't even bother to make this mainstream? Too much work?
A major purpose of writing these is to eventually convince folks who love cheap mortgages and well-funded pensions but hate CDOs that they have an incomplete model of how the world works and an inconsistent preference set.
I've started the slow move across. Im using a debian installation on an old laptop to start learning how to use it. How do deal with any of the problems that people usually encouter when using Linux, such at internet, printing, sound. The Proton project at Steam is making Linux gaming a far more viable option, and most of my entertainment options are web based streaming. Its not going to be easy and its comfortable just to go to windows 11, but I dont trust Microsoft not to try and force people to go through their store to install all software because "security". 5 years from now I want to be in a postion where Im stuck in the MS ecosystem, having to pay MS prices and having MS determine what I can or cant use or what media I can or cant consume. All whilst monitoring everything I do.
Magic Leap: The WeWork-Theranos Level Fiasco You Never Heard About
The Criminal Case Against Mark Zuckerberg
I stated above I was for welfare and medical services

This doesn't mean every space open to the public - be it public property or private commerce open to the public, needs to burden themselves with solving the problems of homelessness and drug addiction