skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Military reactors tend to use weapons grade fuel. Would not want to spread that across all unstable regions of the world. So quite the different beasts compared to the civilian side.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070209223424/http://www.nti.or...
https://web.archive.org/web/20210423232715/https://toaruos.o...
Rufus, terrific work here!

Niall - great to see you here. My mind goes towards helping others with "powers of 10 math" about climate. SWITHA for me embodied this concept of "how to think about the climate" more than anything.

That type of thinking is needed more now than ever. Even that line "2 billion years of energy reserves", so powerful.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)

Mathematician turned billionaire. The algorithms make the decisions

Also the reason we have this magazine that we frequently see on HN:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/
> Don’t assume you’re not being mined for data because you’re on Linux!

You make a good point that I'd not really considered. When I'm on Linux, I have a tendency to think I'm less likely to be tracked for stuff since mostly I just use the open source drivers.

I have a wacom tablet connected to my machine running Fedora and didn't install wacom drivers, it 'just worked' using whoever's amazing open source graphics tablet driver contributions.

But if I didn't know that or I had to install Wacom's sneaky drivers anyways? If I had to use Little / Open Snitch either way to use a particular piece of hardware, the thought occurs to me (this may be OT) that it I may just wander back to what I'm used to from the past: Windows.

Gravity pulls me to Windows because I'm familiar with its UX, I have lots of software I run on it, and it's less fragmented than desktop Linux.

But I am using Fedora here because it has a superior privacy stance, is not going to force me to update, is not going to violate my express preferences by willfully ignoring or un-setting my settings, and because there's less third party drivers required (provided I do the special Linux-friendly hardware dance).

I guess I'm trying to say one's personal computing choices are a constantly changing balance and your statement caused me to re-evaluate my balance there, so thank you for the thought provoking comment.
Well, Chernobyl could have been much, much worse, right? We got incredibly lucky [1] that the worst was prevented.

1. https://fantasticfacts.net/252/
Memory Folios Looks for Inclusion in Linux 5.16
I'd be very interested to learn about some of them -- what are two or three that are top-of-mind for you?
I'm generally on board with vaccines, and am myself currently fully vaccinated, however, this has just become a condition of my employment at _a very large tech company_. So the possibility that this definition is completely negotiable and shifting like the sands makes me uncomfortable.
How did China choose locations for their plants, and how did they convince folks there it was a good idea? What lessons should we take from them?
We let our kids wear their costumes for play the rest of the year. They get worn more in a few play sessions than on Halloween.

Also, roasted pumpkin seeds are easy, healthy, and delicious.

I wonder if after growing, harvesting, shipping, etc. a Halloween pumpkin is carbon negative.
Qubes. It's essentially VMs around every application, browser instance or service.
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Yeah well, that's what they get for choosing a bad name. They can wear that one. (I love the product and use it every day, but come on, "Live"??? no wonder everyone calls it "Ableton")
If you chose a server in your basement, then it’s communicating with federated servers. Those servers that your friends use have the same data that you’ve sent to them. So they don’t even need to find your main server, just collect enough.

An out of the US host is easier for them actually. Say hello to NSA exploits without a warrant!

Have you looked to see what metadata something like Matrix collects? How federation and contact lists work on that server?
I'm not making any claims of which race gets penalized, only remarking that it's difficult to effectively lie about race.

If we were to listen carefully to refugees from Lebanon / Syria civil wars, we may learn that the trajectory of an identitarian system is an acerbically contested tug of war between identity groups ever spiralling into violence. At the end of WW1 the Austro-Hungarian Empire broke down along ethnic identity lines for a reason.
>East Asian countries tend to be very racist towards brown Asians

This is the most nonsensical statement I have ever seen on HN. By the lens of racialism (which is also scientifically invalid), Indians would be Caucasian, not Asian, East Asian countries being racist against Asians would not be racism at all, it'd some kind of ethnic discrimination.
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Why compare against coal? It's all about to be phased out simply due to the cost of the steam side, which nuclear shares. Compare against wind and pv.
> "Logic" has nothing to do with it.

I guess the GP post is simply a direct quote from "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (where IIRC Spock says something along those lines while he and Kirk visit a 20th century museum).

Whales, their extinction and communicating with them was central to the plot of that film.

EDIT: Ok, I looked it up. This exact quote is in the movie, verbatim, in the scene I mentioned. At around 00:47:39
Funny enough, I think the SteamDeck is going to open up a lot of opportunities that have never been adequately addressed in the gaming world.

What the iPhone did for apps, the SteamDeck will likely do for video games.
Those were high resolution slices of CT scan and nice visualization as well. One can only hope human CT scans could achieve this level of preciseness without increasing the radiation dose.
it is only acceptable as an opt-in. Companies right and left try to collect as much data as possible, to a large extend not feature driven but marketing/sales driven, because having the users Email account, country, language etc. opens a sales channel. Oculus' Fb Account requiremet the most prominent example, but I remember also buying a GoPro Hero Black ~2016 that would require the companion App to create a GoPro account, just so you can change the settings of the camera (which some items were not changeable through the on-camera buttons).
Then why in the heck is he going for POSIX compatibility, when he can afford the luxury of not having to deal with blocking syscalls and all this crap?
Much easier and safer multithreading. Also faster.

And why we are there, why not a safer microkernel, keeping everything in userspace? Questions over questions.
The way crate_barre phrased his objection to "10 years of experience" may have been a bit harsh. But he brings up an important point that I've seen many developers fail to understand.

When you're 20 and you say you have "five years of experience", most employers will think "that's great that he was passionate about programming when he was just a teen". But by the time you're 25, if you say "ten years of experience", most people will think that he's exaggerating or embellishing. If you say "15 years of experience" at age 30, I dare say that most people will question your grasp on reality. After that, impressions gets even worse rather quickly.

In short, as you get older, the less and less non-professional experience is taken seriously. And to be blunt, the vast majority of people will assume that anything you did as a teen -- even if you got paid -- was non-professional.

I understand that there are exceptions, but I'm not talking about reality. I'm just describing how people will perceive such statements.
> this is certainly a clever solution to the "what incentive will people in the future have to resurrect cryopatients" problem!

You don’t need to resurrect them. All you need is to read their memories until you find what you want. Much simpler.

Another approach is to simulate their minds into a torture space until they give you the passphrase. When done, delete the data and use the storage for Chia ;-)
Agreed.

But assuming no technology advances in this area for 30 years time seems implausible. What has happened with price/efficiency of solar, wind and grid-scale batteries in the last 10 years provides a lesson. None of these were practical even 10 years ago and now they represent 90% of newly installed capacity globally (2020). And this is happening all-over whether with or without government support.

For example, new-build, grid-scale battery storage is now cheaper on an LCOE basis than new build open-cycle ("peaker") natural gas plants. This has only happened recently - about a year ago. I was completely skeptical that this could happen a few years ago.

I urge any/all hackernews readers to read more about _recent_ developments in de-carbonizing energy. It's fascinating and it has become clear to me that we're living through one of the great technology revolutions of human history. It genuinely is a Kodak/smartphone type moment with even bigger implications for human wellbeing.

It's amazing that by being cheap enough, all the disadvantages of a new technology become less relevant. A bit like how the PC displaced "real computers" (i.e. mainframes) even though at the time they were little more than microcontrollers integrated with a terminal.
It s big in the startup world too, lots of funding happened on iOS-exclusive "Clubhouse.". Black people use Android more, so it is partially back to the old racially exclusive Country Club system.
What about the idea that your dependency on your health protection could be affected by things like availability, quality issues, etc?

My wife is a diabetic, and I absolutely cringe at the thought that her insulin supply could be limited or tainted.

My wife didn't have a choice about being dependent on her medicine. But you did.
Game Theory would probably say that it is logical, though at the end self-defeating.

Usually the species is hunted for something valuable, and that means that the species becoming rarer translates to higher prices. So the people who successfully kill the very last specimens will get rich from them; an absolutely logical motivation, even if it has disastrous consequences down the line. If you can get ten million dollars for the very last whale on Earth, it is better than spending your life hunting some ubiquitous not-whales for 5000 dollars each.

Of course, the end result is bad - the entire industry disappears - but so it is in the Prisoner's Dilemma.
Not that different to talking to colonized people and ex-slave descendants...
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Just wait for the first recreational implant and the addiction that will come with it!
I'm just waiting for natural immunity to be accepted. I don't understand why I have to take a second (albeit small) risk.
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Only one of those places has rule of law.
Looks like the website has been hugged to death, for now.

I wonder if the web server is hosted on toarus?
I think it’s also important to mention that Max costs $399 extra
Heat isn't a greenhouse gas. It's not an issue compared to the CO2 savings.
This is very inspiring. Sounds so great! Would love to see a video about your process, including the failures and dead ends that you must have also hit in these weeks.
If you think that Starship will massively increase objects in LEO due to lowered costs then you should also believe that more of those objects than before will be astronomical satellites. I.e the space industry pollutes the view from the ground at the same time it makes alternatives to that view much more viable. Personally, I’d much rather have the benefits of orbital industry.
True that’s a steep one time cost for one patch, but then sell the process and tech to your competitors.
To anyone who thinks "it is easy", try this experiment: recreate a popular song (+100M views on YT for example) in some DAW. (the songs are produced in similar DAWs.) You won't be able to recreate the vocals, but you should be able to recreate the backing track almost identically. Put the original in right ear, your version in the left ear, and iterate until switching between versions sounds identical.

Over 100s of hours, this will train you ears, and you will appreciate the production quality of today's pop music.

This just covers the production and mixing, not the writing. Catchy pop songs sound deceivingly simple, which is the point and why they are so difficult to write.
I don't see any logical issue with that.

Logic makes no moral judgements, and also logic doesn't care about the future, if it doesn't include the invididual.

(Here logic is also a stand-in for "maximizing benefit").

If one/a group hunts whales to extintion and makes a huge profit (say, enough to retire), they would be logically sound (if morally bankrupt) to not care less if there are no whales left.
You want heroin and cocaine to be decriminalized and legalized?
The latency part is somewhat getting alleviated by higher refresh rate displays tho
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You can do all of this in your own hobby project.
The trouble I have with the Mate desktop these days is that most of the GTK applications out there are moving or have moved to GTK 3, and generally take 'advantage' of various GTK3-isms in their user interface. So you're going along using the app and them you hit some button and are confronted with a UI element that looks completely out of place, and often isn't styled properly.

So I gave up on it and switched to KDE. It's not as beautiful as Gnome 2 was (IMHO), but it's not bad, and it's still a platform that people write apps for. (To the extent that any Linux-based platform is a platform that people write apps for.)
That doesn’t really answer the question. What are these linuxisms, and why are they problems? Are they actually technical problems, or is this mere license purity?
Maybe in the USA, but they were barely used in the UK. From these discussions, it seems the (much) larger American locomotives and lower quality of coal required it.

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/mechanical-stokers.3374...

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/manually-shovelling-coa...
You have your enormous electric desalination plant, or metal smelter. It needs cheap electricity to be profitable, but there is cheap enough electricity during the day to be feasible. As a result, coal is now dirt cheap. You build a coal plant to keep working at night.
So? A lot of people who work with them call them distributed ledgers (and a fair number regret they got mixed in with crypto). I expect most of those people wouldn't have any objection to calling them a type of database with certain characteristics.
Sure. That’s not a YAML problem as it’s not part of the spec. Someone could to the exact same thing with JSON and use a custom spec that is a string starting with a bang and executes it.

I think the reason people don’t is that JSON is terrible for writing my hand and YAML isn’t.
google bought servers from dell, and from rackspace or some other vendor. I helped run a fleet of dells with 15K SCSI drives for google (mysql workload) that was absolutely critical and it took the company a decade to replace the dell machines with "white box" (really, self-designed and externally manufactured) servers.
Great news. At least there is some hope in politics, when they detect this high-paid lobbyists trying to selling their dangerous crap and super expensive power stations, when they still don't know after decades how to get rid of their radioactive waste. Not speaking about the risk yet.
Okay, you first.

I'd much rather find a way to maintain people's lifestyles, reduce emissions (and make it even better in the process).
I’m not sure the recency bias of a contemporary average person is a good proxy for the artistic achievement of a time now three generations past. If we were to enumerate the list of major, artistically significant films released in the 30s and 40s, we would produce dozens of titles that even the average person has heard of, if perhaps not seen themselves. In the same vein, the average person would struggle to identify Plato or Cicero, let alone have read any of their work, but the names would at least ring a bell.

Video games are in a weird place because they arguably reached maturity of design with 1985’s Super Mario Bros. But as wonderful as SMB is, it doesn’t mean anything or have anything to say: it is just the first game to truly nail 2d platformer mechanics to a transcendent degree. Indeed, as the OP mentioned, the best video games seem to be able to do as of yet with respect to depth of meaning is the equivalent of a mid-grade zombie film (The Last of Us), and the industry is such a grind that the writers burn out before really developing their craft. Maybe video games will eventually bring a depth of meaning and insight equivalent to their refinement of play mechanics, but they’re not there yet.
Correct. I think we're entering an era where Star Trek is largely forgotten.

As opposed to two decades ago (right column):
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/icq-2001
Read any of William Bernstein's books. The Investor's Manifesto is a good one.

If you don't want to engage in the emotional rollercoaster of price, it's a good idea to set your investments on autopilot--have your broker automatically buy a certain amount each month without having to think about it. Don't touch it! (Except for rebalancing)
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Elon Musk wants to build a tunnel to the beach. That may be just the beginning
Correction, Max for Live costs $200 extra. Ableton Suite costs more, as does owning both standalone Max and Max for Live, but you do not need the $400 Max to script Live with Max, you just need Max for Live. And given how much it brings to the table and how many community and built in devices you get for that, I would argue it's very reasonable compared to other pro audio software. (Mind you, not incredible like Reaper, Valhalla DSP or Klanghelm's prices, but very fair compared to many others)
The need to know what art applications to test their product against and what hardware configurations they might need to write drivers for. For example, is 99% of their customer base using GiMP or are they using Photoshop? Its important to know how to allocate their testing resources.

They could ask permission first but this sort of telemetry is a nothingburger in my opinion, as unpopular as that might be on this forum.
Supernatural is a blast - if I had more space in my cramped apartment I'd be playing it daily.
It can be relevant when talking about a company like Facebook while not relevant to others.
Is Amazon Changing the Novel?
If you download the video and extract the frames (like, with ffmpeg), and load it into 3d Slicer (slicer.org), you can actually get a 3D reconstruction out of it! Out of a youtube video of the slices!

https://i.imgur.com/wmPQvfn.jpg
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Perhaps the whole problem is in finding a decent idea for the project. Your own idea, not someone else's. It may be worth studying more about the needs of people in your country.
For example, I am 49 years old and 4 years ago I started learning Python without having any knowledge of computer science. Absolutely none! But I have so many ideas that I just wanted to self-study and implement what I have been wanting for so long.
I wish for you to find yourself in this world of user needs.
If there's one thing I don't miss in computing, it's hard drives, especially the noise of hard drives. Clickety clickety. I associate it with my first "real" computer, which had 4MB of RAM and swapped constantly.
No. It's an awfully convenient substitute for an argument, but ultimately just an abused heuristic. There's nothing precluding a "bad" person from conducting good research or giving good advice.

If you don't have time to verify/consider something then sure, probably don't get your advice from hitler. But in an argument its a cheap and disingenuous dismissal which doesn't actually bring you any closer to truth/resolution.

In this case it's a compendium of interviews from current personnel. Maybe the implication is that the data is fabricated but the only evidence provided is in the form of "the author has opinions I don't like".
It is logical if the species poses an existential threat. Consider our efforts to eradicate certain diseases caused by bacteria.
But not in first person, you-are-present-in-a-3D-world games? At least I'm not remembering any that felt like Half Life 1 did.

The difference between a cut scene and embodying a character while things happen around you isn't a minor thing for many of us.
The establishment of "Space Force" is overblown as a story... but in ways that support your point.

It's basically a rebranding of an existing organization called US Air Force Space Command, which controls all military orbital launches and most military satellites (I believe NRO is its own separate thing). They just wanted it to be less specifically tied to the Air Force, and for its chief to be on equal footing to a service chief.
No, it takes loads more work to protect yourself online
If you like Gamedec you'd love Disco Elysium, but you've probably already heard of it.
Archive link for those trying to access from EU and UK (blocked because GDPR):

https://archive.md/JROeu
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> I replaced Google search with Brave and DDG,

I've been using Brave's new search engine for the last three weeks and it is extremely good. This is the first time a non-Google search engine has made it a week in my daily workflow (software development + own multiple businesses).
I agree with your general point, but this also appears to be an experimental, last-resort treatment. Doctors will hand out SSRIs like candy, but I highly doubt that happening for any kind of surgical intervention. I am not aware of anyone with a pacemaker who did not absolutely need one to continue living.

That isnt to say there are not problems with this kind of technology that needs addressing, but I would rank this pretty low in a list of scary technology.
You can mock injected entities in tests, instead of e.g. always connecting to the db
You need POSIX to compile nearly any program
I'd be in the opposite camp. Video game stories are those things I have to quickly click through to get to the next bit of action. Ya, ya, ya, bla, bla, bla, click, click click, don't care.

My ideal is to create my own story rather than have it spoon fed to me. Let me roll a character then let me do what I want in an interactive open world. Sure, some curating and minor direction is OK, but the less the better. I don't remember much of the story of GTA 3 other than slogging through it to open the city up but surfing a car all over town causing mayhem or endlessly jumping the ski jump on the third island, those are the memories of that game I remember vividly and cherish. To enhance this I absolutely love good procedural generation. Finding that one out of a thousand planet in No Mans Sky and just exploring it, taking screen shots knowing that I'm likely the only person who will ever visit it, wonderful.

The other problem with modern video game stories I notice now that I have a kid: there are plenty of video games that action wise I have no problem letting my kid play but can't due to the story and mainly the cut scenes. Seems to be a path to some edgy cred when the base action does not really justify it.
I'm very impressed any time I see people pouring so much work over long periods of time into hobby projects.
If you resist arrest or flee then things are not going to go well for you, more often than not. This much ought to be obvious.

From a cops point of view, it's better for him/her to assume the worst and act accordingly.

Accepting there are rogue elements.