skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I think the cost for converting thermal energy into electricity is high enough to make thermal energy uncompetitive with PV in most of the world, regardless of its source. So nuclear is unlikely to make a comeback unless there's a revolution (heh) in making steam turbines.

I'm not sure why they're so much more expensive than coal plants, though, and I don't think "really difficult to get right" is an adequate reason; the first nuclear reactor was successfully built on a shoestring budget with technology that is now 79 years old. 79 years ago, lasers, jet airliners, artificial satellites, LEDs, lithium-ion batteries, pacemakers, antilock brakes, organ transplants, strong carbon fibers, high-pressure sodium lights, programmable computers, and bulletproof polymers were not just "really difficult to get right" but actually not yet achieved. Vast improvements have been made in many relevant technologies, including control systems, electronics, materials science and engineering, mathematical simulation, metrology, materials processing, heat engines, construction, and of course nuclear physics, not only since the Chicago Pile 1 but even since the end of the last wave of nuclear-power-plant construction in the US 40 years ago.

I think it's totally plausible that the reason is that the right people (both investors and hackers) fled the field at the thought of having an "oversight committee" with veto power over their work, no incentive to not veto it, and either no experience designing nuclear plants, or experience doing so as employees of their competitors. I don't think that amounts to "regulation nihilism".

Do naval reactors have the same problem?
If you thought zoom/teams for 6-8-10hrs a day was bad, try doing it in VR!
> whats the alternative? depression? meth?

I certainly don't recommend it for everyone, but for Paul Erdős apparently some
drugs worked well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s#Personality
I never heard of inner voices, or have discussed such a thing with other people. Is that a cultural thing? I am totally surprised I thought it was a literal construct when I saw it in the movies etc

Anyway I had read that when you “vocalize” inside your head during e.g. reading you severely slow down. Isn’t that the same with any kind of thinking? Brain works with abstractions won’t involving your “voice” functions force you to early concreteness hampering, well, your heuristics? I have no idea
If Twitter is the only way you engage, then yes, you do need Twitter. If all your subscribers are on a platform that you don't control, they can cancel you and then you lose everything.

The good news is that there's this robust, free, and open protocol you may have heard of: email. I can hear Gen Z laughing at me already. "LOL, Gen X grandpa, why are you yelling at clouds? And what's 'email'?"

Yes, email. Build your subscriber list via email. Nobody can cancel you or take that away from you.
Why is that, specifically, wrong? I'm going to reply to your other comment as well, but I'd like to drive this point/idea to a conclusion as well.
Should be an option.

3 download buttons: Firefox (funded by Google), Firefox (funded by Ads), Firefox ($20/year)

But 99% of people will pick the first I'd bet
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Well, BlackRock actually manages their bond buying program, believe it or not. So BlackRock is the one executing the Feds QE purchases.

But I think it has more to do with the Fed trying to appease both the political party in power (as they control their renomination) and just people generally.

With all the social media etc nowadays, they have more scrutiny over their actions, and are afraid of making tough decisions. E.g. optimizing for the short run to the expense of the longer run.

But to your point, Powell in particular is much more focused on the stock market and how wealthier Americans (stockholders, homeowners etc) are doing. Past fed chairmen, like Yellen and Bernanke didn't seem to care nearly as much about market movements, and focused more on the economy itself, and their mandate.
A little OT but related and want to bounce this off HN.

I think we’ve reached a turning point in history and society, aided by lockdowns, where young people spend more time interacting online than IRL. This has major consequences for society and tech.

Young people present themselves to the world primarily through their online persona. The physical world is secondary. To reiterate, what happens online, what is shown and seen online, is more important to them than the same in physical space.

You could probably write a book about the consequences of this (maybe someone has?) but two particularly salient points: (1) if you’re not an onliner then it’s hard for you to understand how the future will look, and (2) your desires are just going to be fundamentally different from other people.

I know from talking to CEOs that those entering the workforce now are most comfortable interacting through Slack and WhatsApp. Physical interactions are sometimes difficult, because people have less experience of it - usually it takes them longer to bond, and more formal social situations are challenging because they’ve not had much practice and to learn the rules governing behaviour in certain physical spaces.

It’s easy for oldies to mock Zuckerberg with his embarrassing meta presentation, and indeed I think his influence is waning (because he’s also out of touch) but for sure the future is going to be driven by people who are living online. Avatars may seem like a 90s throwback but that’s just because of how we conceive of them; the truth is _we already have avatars, they’re just messy and distributed and mostly text based_.

Personally I don’t like this conclusion. I think the physical world is superior in many ways, for example physical activity and exercise are fundamental to wellbeing, and I can’t see that being properly and healthily replicated in the virtual world for a very long time. I think there are more noble and worthwhile goals to be pursued in the physical world. But just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean it ain’t true.

I’ve half a mind to join ‘em, half a mind to go build a log cabin.
I think this is about subvocal but conscious thoughts.
>> Why does anyone (besides China) care? Nobody in that region recognizes those claims.

> China has power, military and economic, and thus can't be ignored. If Fiji claimed a region of the Pacific, it wouldn't matter (in this respect).

It isn't ignored, but that doesn't mean those claims are recognized. The US (at least) takes actions to specifically show that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_navigation#Freedom_...
What's up with that mostly empty, infinite-height Web page? You can scroll forrrreVVVVERRRRRRRRR
all of the no code creations I have seen posted on this site in the past month are incredibly slow and sluggish. Sometimes even straight up buggy, for instance that font compare picker thing, would sometimes load no font (null) on the left side. As a paradigm, it has a long road to go.

If people really think that no code is acceptable, then I am going to cry. It won't be an improvement.
Some parents will constantly narrate the world as they imagine it from their babies perspective. Like they are standing in for consciousness that has not developed yet. Makes me wonder if the differences in how parents do this could effect inner voice later on.
The reality is that just about every single lisper will insist how they don't see the parenthesis and they are not a problem, and just about every single lisp has some ugly ad hoc hacks to reduce their clutter. They just differ somewhat between lisps.

Scheme (and descendants like racket) went so far as to make [] and () interchangeable. So you will in fact see brackets in some scheme most e.g. (let ([a 1] [b 2]) ...) is a common idiom, although old-school people stick to ().

Common lisp has stuff like loop, () aliased to nil (different connotations), and a verbose way to call passed or returned functions; it shares its infix pair syntax (head . tail) with scheme. Scheme, unlike common lisp has a pretty complex (hah) infix-syntax for complex number literals; both write rationals infix.

And have a look at the Lisp 1.5 manual some time :)

As far as such hacks go, this use of vectors in clojure is actually quite nice. Whereas the fact that clojure, unlike other lisps, uses "invisible" pairing brackets in binding constructs or "visible" whitespace in the form of commas for associative containers is a big pain in the ass for editing and formatting code.

[edit: fixed idiomatic let bracket/paren split, as pointed out by version_five]
https://wayland-book.com
A friend of mine at uni, who was a hobby cracker, went to work for Eset, the antivirus company.
Deconstructing the Postgres planner to find indexing opportunities
Woah! Superb post! It takes me back to my 3D modeling days in Maya, and the options at the time (10+ years ago) were NURBS and Sub-D surfaces. Now it's all just millions of polygons because why not. I mostly code now and got into math after that so I thoroughly enjoyed this lecture.
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That statement feels like a Tesla FSD announcement. I think Wayland people started to claim that before most Linux desktops even had a working replacement for any of the hundreds of things like screenshots, copy paste, etc. that where build into X11 but stripped out of Wayland.
I guess from a business perspective you are the ideal costumer. Doesn't know how to use the service, won't contact support, paying long term subscription and is even renewing this long term subscription!
I think that’s a very good analogy, not least because our incremental steps to self driving cars and similar to our incremental steps towards immersion - we already have some components (parking assist, social media) but there’s still a large gap.
The fact that secret behaviors can be well concealed within a ML generated model makes it critical to start defining what can and can't be tried.
The JVM is great, but I think it's not too difficult to do better in a language that doesn't force so much pointer-chasing. Cultural differences probably also play a role. Java systems tend to be engineered such that more pointer chasing happens even in places where the language doesn't force it.
What about harm per user?

I personally know 3 people that have tried heroin. It quickly has destroyed two of their lives. 0 ability to hold a job, maintain relationships, if not for family they would be homeless. My other friend was able to use it in moderation for a decade but recently going down the same path.

The idea that heroin is less harmful then alcohol is absolutely ludicrous. The reason it has done less economic harm is because it's less accessable, extremely taboo, illegal, etc.
When people talk about VR experiences in the context of “the metaverse” I assume it’s implied there’s a shared space connecting those individual experiences.
Or better yet, add a carnival feature where you pay x amount and you can create your own Substack reader, like building your own personal magazine
What "Wayland people"? You probably mean the former Xorg developers who shifted to full time Wayland development long ago. Xorg is on life support, it has been getting bug fixes and nothing else for the past several years.

From reading the sibling comment, if BSD guys want to keep using Xorg, they'll probably have to maintain it themselves.
Damn what a tragic story ! It's almost "cosmic-sadistic" that she got sick working with "natural materials".

It's also scary that the amount and variety of doctors she saw couldn't diagnose any of this. The best/closest they got was "are you working with anything toxic ?" - How in the blue-hell does most of us know the 'true' answer to that !?

It is almost like we need a new medical-specialty "Domestic And Industrial Toxicity"

a Few years ago my mom died after a bone-marrow transplant, she became very suddenly very sick, her body mostly stopped producing white-blood-cells.

She was mostly a stay-at-home wife/mom and lived with my dad in Amsterdam in a nice apartment.

He is 100% fine and for most part they share the same environment 80% of the time. The only difference was she was a bit of a health-nut. Lots of juicing,green-supplements and vegetarian about 60-70% of the time.

I was convinced it might be some sort of radiation she is getting exposed to. I convinced my dad to buy a "geiger counter" and sweep the apartment. Nothing :/

I know it's not really possible, but if ever we get to practice medicine like HOUSE MD (TV) and his team, where they go and investigate the house of the patient I'm sure someone would have noticed the blue-oyster shells.
Sounds like it's been rendered useless since at least late 2020? From the github:

> UPDATE October 2020. These instructions will only work if you use an old Firefox version which was around in 2015 (e.g. v37). Additionally the website you plan notarize must support TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 (a rare thing in 2020). Finally, you will have to modify /src/shared/pubkeys.txt and provide pubkeys which are up-to-date. Run the auditee like this python2 ./src/auditee/tlsnotary-auditee.py

Also, the site fails hard at explaining how the hell it works. If you're in a situation where you need something like this, you understanding how it works is irrelevant. It needs to be understood and believed by the person arbitrating the dispute. I'm a sysadmin, I've read it three times, and I'm still left blinking in confusion. I can't figure out whether it's exploiting some TLS weakness, or the plugin is performing a separate fetch of the page with the user's session credentials, or what.

Can anyone explain?
Keep in mind that DWM explicitly does not obey the ICCCM [0] (because they don't like it), meaning that large groups of applications might function erratically on it. This is not an idle concern -- I've had several bugs reported to me in some applications I've written were because the user wasn't running an ICCCM-compliant WM.

[0] https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xorg-docs/icccm/icccm... , the standard for how X11 clients and WMs should communicate.
In Clojure, `[1 2 3]` is a vector, which is a distinct data type from a list, which looks like `(1 2 3)`. A vector in Common Lisp is written using `#(1 2 3)`.

Using vectors for function arguments is unique to Clojure, and I'm not entirely sure why they chose to do it that way.
With landlords constantly legislated against, I wouldn’t be surprised if large landlords have increased. Only larger ones could navigate the bs rules
Take the stoical approach. Focus on what's in within your locus of control and ignore everything else.
As someone who reads exactly those kinds of newsletters, I would say the more niche you can be the better.

There's already an abundance of general tech publications that are mediocre, with a small number of stellar ones popping out. What tech nerds really need is something that embraces the niche tech that they use every day. Right now, the example I'm thinking of was a few years ago when Ansible became a thing and a few people started writing about it. It could really be anything from specific languages, frameworks, or methodologies.
> What about the excess deaths compared to other times?

So a single factor (COVID) is responsible for the excess death? That's simplification at best, because in reality nothing is ever a single-variable problem.
https://archive.md/tvoMO
Hate the font though. Makes your eyes stumble everytime there is a t in a word.
There are key-derivation functions like PBKDF2 that are computationally expensive enough that it would make brute-forcing infeasible at best and impossible at worst. Perhaps only if your password is 1234 or qwerty, but even then it would take literal years.

> I don’t think you grasp how the encryption keys are generated, derived, and stored.

And you're wrong.
Do those even exist, paid-for browsers that is
I don't know how to frame this in economic terms, but here's an observation. It's no easier buying a GPU from a scalper on eBay than it is buying that GPU from Bestbuy. In fact, it's probably harder. So, they seem to be making it harder to obtain the item.
Since HN apparently hates actual dialogue about racial issues (what a shock from a primarily white userbase) I'll reply to bellyfullofbac here: I wasn't aware I had to explain that there is a history of racist oppression in many countries that has left minority groups, particularly people of African decent, at a disproportionate handicap when it comes to both inherited wealth and social mobility. Similarly, regressive taxation is so simple I'll save you the trouble of figuring out the keyword and sinply say that I chose "regressive" for a reason. I'm glad I could give you the opportunity to be glib since you seem to be orgasming from the opportunity to be racist without consequence however. I wouldn't want to make you feel guilty when I point out that minority groups typically suffer from classicism the most due to the aforementioned history.
Yeah, but the point of the fed is to smooth the peaks and troughs.

Stimulus in recessionary periods is smart, and prevents prolonged recessions like was seen in the great depression, and somewhat during the GFC.

But the stimulus has already been done at this point. The crisis is over.

The situation we're in now is corporate earnings at all time highs, the gap between open jobs and job seekers at all time high, consumers with spending power at all time high, home prices accelerating at all time highs, inflation running very hot.

So this is the exact time that the Fed should be smoothing the peak, to avoid a full on bubble type of scenario. By not acting, they setup the risk factors for another 1929 or 2008. E.g. encouraging mass speculation, high levels of debt and so on.

So I agree with you. But the goal should be to avoid creating the conditions for systemic failures by letting bubbles get out of hand. China in particular let their real estate bubble get far out of hand, to the point that it's not really possible to resolve without creating a systemic issue.

You fundamentally just have to accept some down periods and small hits to avoid the massive failures that come along with facilitating much larger bubbles/structural risks.
I spent a lot of time doing quant models for financial products. Two lessons:

- It's easy to get wrong. If you see a lot of opportunity all the time, it's your model that's wrong, not the market. Very trivial things can mess up your model, like not understanding what the input data means.

- Good trades are hard to get, common rule of thumb that your boss will tell you. Someone selling a house too cheaply? Either there's lots of other buyers or there's something about the house that you didn't think of.

I remember seeing an FX volatility model that almost never traded. It always said "the market is right, plus minus costs". Now and again it would ding and we'd carefully try to get it done in the market, you wouldn't do like Zillow and surprise all the sellers with a massive payday.

I also wrote an arbitrage bot from Bitstamp to MtGox once. I looked at it, didn't turn it on. Percentage wise it was a massive arb, but you couldn't see this in the raw numbers: credit risk on one of the legs. It just shows you that you still need to understand how things actually work. The model is only a calculator for quantifying opportunities that you understand.

This is perhaps the oddest thing about this story. Zillow must have run into several situations where they were paying more than what's sensible, and their staff must have reported this? Surely at the start of an algo buying program, you are vigilant to evidence that the program is wrong?
> What other explanation do you have for the large increase in deaths?

Lack of imagination much? See other commenter below explaining the various reasons why you might see excess death. Not everything is linked to COVID (at least not directly).
2b2t is a fascinating place. I always thought, this is the way Minecraft is meant to be played.

The comic series is legendary, but I don't think people can make something out of the animation video without context.
According to analysis from engineers, or Esther from a guy I used to work with who studied break waves for the state transportation board, less cars with larger gaps is better. That's why you see semaphores on highway entering ramps sometimes, ie 101 around SV or certain European big city inner highways.

This is a problem that can probably be solved someday with self driving cars collaborating to make highways huge coordinated conveyor belts.
That's their marketing and the fact that it is a rather expensive investment decision that you want to make sure to be right.
Same when you buy a Tesla: You get a mail welcoming you to the 'Tesla family'. And given the costs, you sure want this to be the best choice.
> People are hearing actual voices inside their heads?

Yes. It's my voice, unless it's something written by a person whose voice I'm familiar with.

> Can you all hear things like music and other sounds too?

I can hear music sometimes. Especially just a moment before waking up.
Yes, the correlation is not necessarily causation, but we can add some other data points -- for example the size of new construction has been steadily growing at roughly 2%, which does not suggest any kind of odd explosion in house size as a result of the price going up. Of course ultimately, ability to pay determines the price of housing and also house size.
Microsoft's LCAP product Power Apps adds native mobile app building capability
California is right behind them.
> Alternatively, shop locally

I have very bad news about how most of that local stuff gets there. Even locally made stuff is having a hard time getting raw materials shipped in, as it’s sitting in a dock alongside all the finished consumer goods everyone else wanted.