skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they have quite enough resources to do AB testing, it seems that needs a pretty big group of people doing it over a long period of time. AFAIK they are only able to do smaller targeted studies.

I'm not sure what you mean they don't have a proper feedback channel. They have all the same ones as most other open source projects: an issue tracker, a chat room, a forum, etc.
This was me doing my homework in the 1990's.
The point is not that no progress had been made by the 90s. The point is simply that we must acknowledge the complicity of large numbers of white South Africans in the apartheid system, and acknowledge that many crucial components of apartheid (such as a the ban on interracial marriage) were popular policies. Outside of revisionist historical circles, this isn't a remotely controversial point.

Ultimately I defer to the comprehensive TRC report. Here is an apt quote from the introduction to volume 4:

>An important debate with which the Commission had to wrestle was, as has been
fully discussed in the chapter on The Mandate, how to paint the backdrop against
which such human rights violations occurred. Without some sense of the
“antecedents, circumstances, factors and context” within which gross violations
of human rights occurred, it is almost impossible to understand how, over the
years, people who considered themselves ordinary, decent and God-fearing found
themselves turning a blind eye to a system which impoverished, oppressed and
violated the lives and very existence of so many of their fellow citizens.

>It is an old question: one that is asked of any country that undertakes acts so foul
that the world openly condemns it. It is a question that has been answered in
different ways, for such is the nature of historical debate. However, what is clear
is that apartheid could only have happened if large numbers of enfranchised,
relatively privileged South Africans either condoned or simply allowed it to continue.
Depends on your audience.

I can point to a handful of low-effort journos whose whole schtick is asking dumb questions on Twitter so that the would-be know-it-alls can post "well, actually" to them in the replies.

By virtue of the engagement numbers they clearly love it, and come back for more slop every day.
Why is it not realistic at scale? What part of it could not be scaled up? There is plenty of space for the PV. There is plenty of space for storage. The US west has effectively unlimited capacity for off river pumped hydro, for example.

The business about cars is weird, as car charging will be needed in a nuclear powered grid too. How is this an argument against renewables? If it's that renewables require more distribution capacity (due to a desire to charge vehicles during the day), then it's also the case that solar can be dispersed to reduce the need for distribution. And if solar + grid level storage provides synthetic baseload more cheaply than nuclear then the distribution argument collapses entirely.
US Justice Department warns of impending corporate crime crackdown
I use obscure parts. For example, just this month I've used a part that the manufacturer doesn't admit exists on their website, and a part where the manufacturer doesn't even have a website, and neither is anything widely used. But there's always a small community of people who use the part, and we cling to each other and compare notes vigorously.
> Revolting... at least my content blocker had their collection script already blocked.

Inspired to add a content blocker by this, thank you. Which do you use?
An interesting business metric I like to track, for companies like BT, is revenue per iconic red phone box (RPIRPB.)

For BT, their RPIRPB is £1.09m. Roughly speaking, for every million pounds they rake in, they are obliged to maintain one phone box.

BT have other infrastructure of course, as well as many of the usual costs involved in running a business that employs 100k people. That 1M£ RPIRB isn’t just for red paint!

Other cost centres include: branding consultancy (new logos and such), servicing venture finance (the £4bn for premiership rights alongside all the other investment into BT Sports channels 1, 2, 3, Classic, Free, Europe, Ultimate, BoxNation…); equity refreshers for all employees (5/1000ths of a basis point each, 3 year vesting); payroll (average employee £19k, CEO £5m.)

It’s all about balancing priorities — upkeep of a national icon with which you have been entrusted vs ongoing return on investment for private capital / shareholders.

Upsy downsies
Sounds like a good way to ensure your juniors never grow.
Wow what abusive behavior!

Just because a tool is OSS doesn't mean it will be community driven, and it also doesn't mean the publisher is subservient to the community's whims. OSS just means you have options when you are done with the publisher.

The irony is that the whining is support for M1. If this was about running on something less proprietary than Apple maybe I would sympathize more.

Signal is a great product. I just sent them a donation in response to the disgusting behavior witnessed.
> the 2 units at Civaux Nuclear Power Plant, took 13 and 11 years from construction start in 1988/1991 to commercial operation in 2002:

At the time France was simultaneously building many reactors, see:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_r%C3%A9acteurs_nucl%...

Some say that Flamanville-3 is a failure because it should be built along with many other reactors. This seems ridiculous to me, as if the problems (lack of adequate applied skill, bad project management... there is a complete official report about the causes, written by M. Folz) would be alleviated by parallelizing projects (it would instead worsen their effects and add delays).

> if they published optimistic numbers because they thought that there was more institutional tolerance

In France institutional tolerance for the nuclear industry is at its max. Start in 2007, to be delivered in 2012, nothing delivered in 2021 and 5.6 times over-budget... and no-one even talks about calling it off. Even better: M. Macron wants to start new projects!
Yes, the Unicode characters are a problem. But do the norms and tooling play a role here as well?

Explicitly casting types, like String parameters to integers would make this much more explicit. The convenience of accessing parameters via destructuring, vs explicitly request.getParameter("\u3164"). Having a static array of permissible commands declared elsewhere.

There's something to be said for verbosity and explicitness. Where the tooling and norms shun it, these 'invisible' backdoors can gain advantage.
FWIW, China is building nuclear power plants like crazy.

And actually doing that as we speak, instead of "planning".
Those prices for home storage units are the price we pay for not having significant domestic LFP production. Maybe making a cheap battery unit is harder that I think but to me it sure looks like there isn't a lot of serious competition in that space, otherwise the units would correspond better to battery costs. (And why would you try to build a company around a product that some Chinese company can make the product at a cheaper cost because they have access to the necessary patents on more favorable terms? Maybe everyone knows that and is staying away, at least until LFP cells become a thing anyone in the world can buy at roughly-equal prices.)

I think it's useful to think in terms of cars. I'm actually doing an EV conversion right now, and I have a motor controller that puts out about 100 kilowatts of 3-phase AC. It came with the motor so I don't have an exact price, but fair market value is probably around $1500. (That's retail cost in quantities of one. Wholesale cost is presumably somewhat less.) It weighs maybe ten pounds or so. That's adequate to power probably about a dozen houses. I don't know if it puts out a sine wave or a square wave. Even if it's the latter, you could imagine a hundred of these things putting out square waves with, say, randomly-varying pulse width and having it average out to a sine wave. There's probably better ways to do that, but anyways the point is that we do have the capacity to switch enormous amounts of power in a very small package for pretty low cost. It's actually kind of amazing.

Maybe if the batteries feed into an HVDC line or they're co-located with a solar plant, then you don't even need to deploy more inverters.

A battery management system for my conversion is a little over a thousand dollars for a setup with about 48 cells. In a big installation you could amortize BMS costs by using bigger cells, or placing them in parallel groups -- the downside being that it might take longer to notice if a cell is going bad. My BMS is made by a company that caters to EV conversions; they're doing low-volume sales. A major utility ordering the equivalent for hundreds of thousands of cells probably can get a nice volume discount.

As far as foggy winters go: renewable energy needs to be traded over a wide geographical area. Purely local generation doesn't really make sense, unless you have some useful purpose for unpredictable amounts of surplus energy. Wind power would need to be a part of it. Even fossil fuels are a reasonable option as long as they're not used very often. Running natural gas plants for a week or two in the dead of winter or in case of grid disruptions seems like a reasonable use of fossil fuels. Indonesia has a lot of land outside of Java. Even Java is pretty sparsely populated outside of cities. Most of it is jungle which we'd like them to keep and farms, but solar doesn't need to take up a huge percentage of available land. Even solar panels on roofs can go a long way.
Let's look at math. Specifically, let's look at the cost for renewables + storage to provide synthetic baseload, a drop-in replacement for baseload source like nuclear.

https://model.energy/

The $40/W figure you get is utter nonsense.
Ask HN: What non-tech/-startup podcasts in the spirit of HN are you listening?
Not all people realize the bargaining power of a huge corporation is much different than that of an individual.

If a company of 100 people fires a worker, they lose 1% of productivity. If a worker loses their job, they lose 100% of income. This fundamental asymmetry makes me support unions.

On top of that, the corporation can afford paying to shift people's opinions.
Try not to get suckered into the notion that all ideas are cheap. Bad ideas are cheap and come from a place of either arrogance or ignorance. Great ideas are not cheap, as they typically come from folks who expended the required effort to become a subject matter expert, which gives them foundational knowledge and a better view of the whole picture -- both at a high and granular level.

That said, the parent comment's ideas are bad and ignorant, for the reasons you mentioned and more.
Reminds me of this post: https://lucasfcosta.com/2021/09/20/monte-carlo-forecasts.htm...
> What would winning this "culture war" even look like? Everyone becomes a leftoid/rightoid and lives happily ever after?

I dunno, I figure if I'm being called a Nazi by the lefties and whatever their puerile insult-du-jour is by the righties then I'm probably about on track.
"It is exceedingly complicated. There have to be guardrails and guidelines to protect children, to protect developers, to protect consumers"

I propose a heuristic that whenever 'protect children' gets used there's a high chance its a load of bull
Teflon is a brand and a history, so no there is not a page for Teflon. To suggest otherwise would be to suggest that to find GorE-Tex I’d have to know to look up: ePTFE
Yeah I made a UPS zip-weight lookup with GS/GAS before was pretty cool. Alternative is to use Google Drive apparently/more legit with user auth.
And why couldn't that be with a small nuclear battery ? Can you point to anything that could make remotely sense everywhere on the planet and in space?
> *There is a non-emergency number but this also seems to be just a way of frustrating you into giving up.

I have been there and got the tshirt - litterally 20 minutes of automated mesasges. The end result - 'you should call the emergency number 999'
Google has us all by the balls. As a small business owner, in my particular market, I can't survive without their services, even though they suck and I hate them, and their entire company.

My business can be destroyed by Google on a whim at a moment's notice. How did it get to be so bad?
You should look at clasp by Google https://github.com/google/clasp

Have used it in past to do exactly what you asked for.
Does anyone know how easy it is to run aon OpenBOR game compiled for the Wii on the device? Anything special from Nintendo needed?
I think the current nuclear attention actually has more to do with oil and gas price instability scaring consumers, and more importantly voters, than with the climate. Climate is a vague threat in the future for most people. But high gas and electricity prices are something to be feared right now.

Of course the irony is that nuclear is actually more expensive than gas powered electricity and it will be consumers and tax payers that will pay for it.

The key metric to focus on is $/kwh. Anything else is just noise. People will wield terms like base load and speak in very assertive terms about how important it is to have it. Ask them 1 question: how many GWH at what price? It's a simple question with a simple answer for nuclear: not a whole lot at great cost.

Anything above 10 cents is ludicrously expensive. It's not competitive. It can't be done without raising energy prices and taxes or increasing national debt. I'm not talking consumer rates but actual cost per kwh for the producer. The difference is their profit. Profitability of nuclear plants in a market with dirt cheap renewables, is going to be a challenge and the mitigation plan for that is charging consumers and tax payers for it. It's beyond stupid to support that. Put a price on it and do the math. It doesn't add up to anything good.

Slightly below 2 cents is about the best you can get right now. E.g. solar in the United Emirates is bidding close to 1 cent in recent years (unsubsidized). Offshore wind is a few cents more expensive (5-6 cents). Onshore is actually cheaper but less reliable. Consumer cost is much higher than that. Which is why relatively expensive roof top solar (15-20 cents/kwh) is attractive to consumers paying much more than that for grid energy.

Prices are trending down over time (learning effect, improved technology, etc). Probably half a cent is a good cost target a few years from now. I.e. by the time these planned nuclear plants become operational. Certainly less than 1 cent. The most rosy projections for new nuclear plants tend to be closer to 10 than to 1 cents per kwh. Emphasis on rosy. Nuclear plants never get build on time and on budget. So that's an order of magnitude difference in cost in the best case. Worst case (i.e. what you should plan for), it's much worse.

And that's of course on top of raised taxes needed to pay for all this. Nuclear plants are expensive and not really doable without vast amounts of subsidies. The reason they are being lobbied for is, ironically, that they are that expensive and that it involves vast amounts of government handouts to build them. Good old greed is the main motive here. The nuclear lobby represents many billions of interests and they'll be happy to take your tax money. They'll take the money and then make you pay again on your monthly bill. And they are spending billions on lobbying to make you believe that's a good thing.
They would have a stronger argument if their products were actually secure, yet we see regularly how nonresponsive and even combative Apple is with security researchers and how journalists and activists are constantly hacked due to zero-days. They have $200B in the bank, they could throw a few at building a respected security org that could eclipse efforts like Project Zero.
Due to AC usage, electricity demand tends to be much higher in the summers than in the winters. And the demand profile in the summers peaks in mid-late afternoon. i.e You are not looking at the highest overall peak of the year, just the hourly peaks from the last few days.
38% of US adults believe government is faking Covid-19 death toll
TIL:

Metalink is an Internet standard that harnesses the speed and power of peer to peer networking and traditional downloads with a single click.

For users and content providers, Metalink makes downloading simpler, faster, and more reliable.

http://www.metalinker.org/
Why do you say that China does not have the land for renewables? Population denstity in China (145/km2) is less than for example Germany (232/km2).
> If you own a company and someone wants to contract you for work, you start explaining how what the client says it needs is not necessary and how he can manage with less than he demands?

Absolutely, you don't just build the first thing that the client asks for. And certainly not as a single main deliverable.
Please link it, I'll comment as well.

Yes, I file bug reports with lots of places, and Jetbrains is one of the best for actually doing something with them. It is one of the few non-FOSS applications that I am willing to integrate into my workflow (hmm, the only one I think).
Why wouldn't they grow? Once a junior has good technical skills they can start worrying about user concerns and therefore grow in other areas. I see no reason why this would limit them in any way.
Downside is never realistically 100%
Bruh you are so out of touch, unable to see how people generally perceive HN and the blatant biases here, from behind that thesaurus.

And:

> leave the community if you feel it's so bad

Ahah there it is!! Really now? After all that big talk you have to fall back on THAT tired cliche-of-cliches response?

How about the other way around: Make HN an exclusive invitation-only community if feel opening it to public criticism is so bad.

You really should take a break and let some fresh blood replace you. HN is stale and stagnating, and it’s easy to see the cause.
I kind of don't get the fascination with spinoffs and narrowing company scope. Why is a company "focus" more important than diversification and lowering risk? Especially for GE, where one of their main businesses, aviation, is heavily susceptible to downturns. What happens next pandemic/ 9/11 / oil price jump / recession when they lose the majority of the Aviation business? They pray to have enough reserves? Why not have another entity in an unrelated sector like healthcare to help with that? And it even makes more sense to share resources on turbines for aviation and power, besides the redundancy.
but meta wont. much like the statements on facerec
This was still down this morning, 5 days after the original security breach.

It seems to have been orchestrated by accessing their Cloudflare account. Shocking that Cloudflare have still not pulled the account?!
Aren't obfs4 Tor bridges undetectable as of now?
Ask HN: What do you know/think about Atatürk?
Hey. Today (November 10) is Atatürk's death anniversary and we commemorate him in Turkey. I wonder how much people in other countries know him and what they think about him.

Bonus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk
Modern Nuclear reactors are incredibly save.
I mean the hash is unique, but the piece of artwork that hash is associated with isnt.

I'm not even saying something like "the artwork is all boring its not unique" or anything, or that someone could copy I it, I mean the seller is literally selling multiple of the exact same artwork.

But if the recipient being unique is all that matters, why have artwork associated with it at all? That's basically just a weird online packaging/box art at that point.
I used their VPS service before and I didn't have to pay for overage, but now that it's part of their cloud offering, overage is charged.
> Flamanville EPR is considered as some sort of prototype

No, it officially is a "tête de série" (meaning among the firsts of a series). It cannot be a prototype because this very model, the EPR, was sold to Finland and the corresponding project (Olkiluoto-3) started 2 years before Flamanville's.

> the one who worked on plants during the 70s, 80s and 90s and retired right after

In such huge heavy industry projects occupying tens of thoosands persons there is a constant stream of newcomers. Moreover this industry must maintain existing (exploited) reactors, and a non-neglectable portion of skills needed when building are also needed during maintenance. Also: many critical specialties, especially outside the nuclear isle, are qualifications built upon a non nuclear-specific trade (concrete, welding...): a "standard" professional can be trained in nuclear-specific skills in months. In any case the industry (which isn't exactly a low-cost lo-margin one...) has to manage human resources, and to find ways to maintain critical and very specific skills.
Perhaps the future will bring electromagnetic clamps like the Arsenal Birds seem to have in Ace Combat 7.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/acecombat/images/4/4e/AC7_...
free will is very inefficient in a power/performance sense: most decisions are made by your subconsciousness and your free will rational self will just accept the outcome if it is barely plausible. you have to focus to even be aware that it's happening.
My thoughts:

Freaking cool domain you secured.

I think I prefer things going in the less cluttered direction to win my use over G.

Good luck!
As a point of interest.. Apple requires new developer agreements rather frequently.

I had to accept a new set of agreements just a couple of days ago; they wouldn't sign any Mac packages until I'd done so. This happens about every three or four months on average, I'd estimate; package signing fails, so you have to log into Apple's developer site to find and sign the new agreements.

(I sell some cross-platform software. Not sold through any Apple stores, but I still need to sign the Mac app bundles in order for them to launch for Mac customers, by default)
> But the author gave a project idea where most of the project was figuring out UX concerns of non existing users.

> If you do UX then you need users to actually test what you write on.

No offense to azhenley but why do you expect any different? They asked a CS professor for a project idea. How many CS professors have project ideas that come with UX case-studies? How many CS professors have the resources to guide students to coordinate actual UX tests outside of a research grant?

It's an outside-of-class project. It doesn't need a compelling use-case.

> It is a horrible project no matter how you view it.

Too harsh, this has yet pedagogical value. Because, you know, they are students. Bulk (if not all) of the work you typically do at school teaches you things even if they are not portfolio-worthy.

> Building out a lot of UX features without users is an anti pattern, better write a bare bones implementation first and then work from there.

I agree with the thought but, again, this isn't real-world software engineering. I feel I can't emphasize this enough. Maybe these students have been writing from-stdlib-up CLI tools ever since and their teacher thought it's time to expose them to APIs other than stdlib. Who knows.

Might as well raise pitchforks that finding the most valuable customer for Northwind Traders (LLC) is counter-productive because the database is outdated. Better gather data first, why not normalize the schema while you are at it, so you can stream it to the cloud and get a better analysis than plain SQL. (Calm down, Northwind is a sample database for education purposes.)