skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why people are focusing on nuclear now, and not 5 years ago or 10 years ago. What has changed?

If I understand correctly, technology hasn't changed. People want nuclear because either they don't think renewables can scale up quickly enough or because of the base load problem (renewables can't always provide energy on demand). Has any of that changed? Renewables generally are cheaper and have more scale now.

If we'd started 10 years ago, we might have some plants coming online soon.
Unless I misunderstand, I don't see the point: you can get this data with a RaspberryPi and an antenna available everywhere (and probably built in China).

Military aircraft that shouldn't be seen should just disable data transmission.
Shopify banned my online store of 5 years with zero notice and no chance for appeal. That was after being invited onto the platform as a high volume merchant back in 2015. We sell adult comics, which was not a problem until randomly last month when they completed nuked the store.

We even use our own Payment processor!

Be careful with Shopify, they will pull the rug out from under you and there is nothing that can be done. I don't recommend building a platform on top of this.
This reply doesn't really have anything to do with your original comment. If Microsoft is producing a solid language / framework in the open and improving their product such that 3rd party "light-weight" libraries like Nancy are no longer necessary, why is that a bad thing?

In my opinion, while other ecosystems have exploded in complexity in recent years, the increasing simplicity and batteries-included nature of .NET is an appealing contrast.

That's my answer to your question about why you should be interested in .NET if you're not already in the ecosystem.
msbuild had publish since at least .net 3.5 (when I started to use the platform) it was just a little bit akward to use tough. and of course dotnet publish is 1000x better than msbuild with it's obscure syntax (which got way better in .net5 and 6 with -p: syntax, etc.)
And I'm absolutely not fine with it. I've only bought new one because they finally treated constant thermal issues seriously.
It says the page can’t be found.
30 years ago we used DOS and DLL Hell was a completely unknown concept.
We did have to deal with himem.sys though.
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If it makes you feel better, EVs and reneweables are a pretty great match and are much more efficient than what we currently use.

Of course, China seems to be doing both of those better than the US too, since they’re not captured by fossil fuel interests.
Yeah, why not? Index every page twice. If the non-bot result is materially different, rank the site lower. If the site is not accessible as a regular user, remove it from results entirely.
I actually don't see chaos, or mixing or any real competition between alternative DNA pools. What I see is a very orderly exponential expansion (into a regulatory vacuum) of a viral tech mode that successfully short-circuited many parts of the old "system" to finance its growth and in the process renormalized and redefined what is moral business (or actually any business) in the digital age.

It is possible that countervailing forces will eventually show up. But I am not holding my breath. The new pattern is now entirely systemic. There are some loose ends here and there as people must "adjust their expectations" around e.g., financial and medical privacy, but you'd be surprised what innovative types of smoke and mirrors you can cook up when you are swimming in a fresh multi-billion wave every per quarter.
> I want to be around folks who want to be around
me. And not all of those, either.

This is a great distinction that I think a lot of people would be happier if they followed. Just because someone wants your time does not mean you have to, or even should, provide it to them. Wanting to spend time with you is a basic prerequisite, but is not the only criterion.
Sorry, trying to follow the threads here. Because some violence was perpetrated against civilians, I should thus expect Nelson Mandela to denounce all violence against the apartheid state and condemn him for failure to do so?

Why is the same charge not levied against the apartheid South African state, which refused to renounce violence after committing violence against its own black citizens (forcible imprisonment, beatings, etc.) for daring to marry a white person, against anyone who was caught in a white area of the country, etc. etc.?
I mean... the technology has changed, but it is hard to argue that it has changed in a way that makes the decision different.
The top-specced configs are the maxed M1 Max Macs
They don't. There is a safety driver on board. The trucks do a 7 mile closed loop. And I bet you money when weather gets bad, the good old fashioned human drives the truck. This is just another fucking non-event hyped by a news website in the realm of autonomous vehicles.
All this without blackouts. Imagine that.
Discriminated unions is one of those features that everyone talks about, but never gets championed. Wish C# 10 already had this feature.
https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/2962
> As a male circumcised from birth, am I not allowed to hold an opinion on whether what I thought was done to me was a "terrible thing" or not?

You're absolutely allowed an opinion, and everyone else is allowed to view it in context. Women in cultures that practice FGM (both the milder and the extreme forms) are often its most ardent advocates, that doesn't make the practice okay. And while it may have worked out fine for you, it doesn't for everyone, as this story shows.
British East India company managed to accrue from 30--100m deaths all by its lonesome.

The private-enterprise transatlantic slave trade is good for another 100m or so.
No, they weren't. Nevermind the fact that "terrorism" is a stupid word - these were justified conflicts of a people against tyranny. Violence for those aims is justified.
Honestly? A lot of people are. Don't get me wrong, the US is a big part of the problem. I'm not trying to state otherwise. As a single country we are the second worse, and the worst on a per capita scale. To be clear, I'm not trying to say that the US is not a major contributor. We definitely are and should be leading the way to solve this problem.

The issue is that we aren't leading the way, despite the best efforts of many of its citizens. But I also don't see anyone else stepping up. I also don't see people considering that the rest of the globe that isn't electrified is making the choice of "clean energy or a hospital." We know what they'll go with every time and we shouldn't blame them.

This is the most complicated problem that humankind has ever faced. We are doing a disservice by over simplifying the problem. We are doing a disservice by turning this into a political "shoulda-coulda" or "but they waste more" game. At the end of the day it doesn't matter, emissions still happen even if one person is more at fault. The worst part? The countries that emit the most will also be able to deal with the crisis more easily, and thus have less incentive to actually solve it.

I'm not saying the US isn't to blame. I'm saying the problem is far more complicated than the US and it's going to take more than them to solve it.
So what would you have had TC39 do, just never standardize a module system because Node made one first that was incompatible with the web?
Definitely true. The netherlands for example is VERY Microsoft oriented. I come across .NET everywhere.
Click Test by Dexter
Is there any estimate out there of how many joules of energy it took to train GPT-3?
We have built an interesting proof of concept / art project connecting existing worlds together! What are the right ways to think about the latent space between worlds?
well i hoped it would be easy to publish wasm modules that also works outside the browser. I'm not sure if that is possible tough.
> The US isn't the sole contributor to climate change and I'm tired of pretending like it is.

The hypothetical being discussed is "what if the US had went the same route as France and built an electricity grid with the majority of power being generated from nuclear rather than fossil" and for that we would consider the impact to the total (or cumulative) emissions during those decades.

As such, here is an "Our World in Data" article on the cumulative CO₂ emissions: https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2

In particular, the nominal cumulative emissions of the US were approximately the double of China. (A higher factor if considered per capita)

If the US had built nuclear technology many other countries (particularly NATO) would have also seen a higher nuclear adoption.

This would have accelerated some trends such as electric ovens and stovetops, electric trains (maybe even nuclear-electric rather than disel-electric), and local micro-nuclear generators on industry such as in metalwork.
I wouldn’t suggest using a GPU for Bitcoin mining unless you want to spend money and never see anything in return. I suspect Bitcoin in the headline helps with SEO.
A few reasons:

-- Cost: Drones are getting faster, accurate, reliable and cheap while storage devices are getting lighter and denser. If a protocol is in place, vast amount of data could be moved relatively cheaper at a faster rate.

-- Auxiliary Medium: If a campus network is down due to security threats or assessment or some other reason, this protocol may be used to pass critical data around.

-- Remote, inaccessible (edge) locations: Places where conventional network is difficult to setup due to temporal nature or hazardous conditions etc.
It likely depends. The point of laws like this is that they don't want people to exchange favours as a means to avoid paying taxes. When you help a friend paint his house you usually expect that he returns the favor and that's not allowed. If there's no expectation to return the favor it's fine. Anyway, these things are hard to prove.
https://chinadialogue.net/zh/4/40625/ (in Chinese)
There is a state-backed research project for underground storage of nuclear waste that can be kept safe for 10,000s of years.

Where can I collect the $100?

Edit:
http://hexuehuim.kechuangfu.com/site/content/8023.html
This is the researcher who is working on this project.
The research project's base is called "city 404" nice name too.
'Right click -> Open image in new tab' still works.
Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean others don't.
Aren’t speeding tickets known to be really big income for local governments?

They can be hundreds of dollars; I’m sure it can work out financially if they can hand out enough, which seems likely from an airplane.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
I was always under the impression that the US gets the most negative press about emissions because we have the highest per-capita (no way we were ever going to top China in total emissions lol). However, the US doesn't even appear to be top-10 on the per-capita chart [0], even coming in under some large countries likes Canada and Australia.

There's a bit of a cognitive dissonance here though. The US is the leader of the world and everyone looks to us on how to build their countries. No one wants to admit it but everyone wants to be as good as us. However, when we fail to live up to our reputation, the rest of the world is right to call us out for not living up to our reputation (that, to be fair, we regularly leverage). If you're in the US and you don't want to be criticized, that's fine, but then you can't also claim that the US is the best/strives to be the best.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
knowledge -- yes, practice -- no (for PPL).
Easier to sell 50 cars than 1/2 of a house tho.
>Our current cooling solutions aren't carbon free.

Are you referring to HVAC cooling (refrigerators, heat pumps, etc.), or reactor cooling (cooling tower, etc.)? Neither has any intrinsic carbon emissions though. HVAC needs electricity[0], but has no emissions other than incidental CFC release[1]. Nuclear / industrial equipment cooling typically needs water, but doesn't release any carbon.

[0]Ostensibly nuclear in the context of this thread.

[1]Mostly a non issue post Montreal-Protocol
OT: anyone happen to know what it means on FlightAware when a plane is colored red?

I open FA when I hear a low jet, and recently I noticed that some of them were red. The red ones were always NetJets Aviation flights. Zooming out, I could see that there were red ones scattered all around the US, and they all seemed to be NetJets Aviation.

This lasted for at least a few days, but lately NetJets Aviation flights have shown up in the same yellow as everyone else, and now zooming I out I don't see any colored red.
>Yeah I never met to disparage or imply people who live in or are from NYC aren't anything less than amazing.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I certainly didn't feel you were disparaging anyone.

If my comment gave that impression, my apologies.
allow me to jump on the bandwagon and agree with you. what is the specific problem the blockchain solves better than other tech? (other than you used to be able to use it to get funds out of china and some people made a lot of USDs during various speculative bubbles, myself included)

ethereum smart contracts are "neat" but szabo, miller, et al. have been working on them for decades and bjg business hasn't jumped on them yet.

maybe we'll come up with a use... i've heard mumblings about agtech decentralized something or other.

kk touched on the idea here of tech monoculture and it's risks. what happens if stuff we trust breaks and we don't have a backup plan. maybe people are waiting for someone else to assume the risk and verify smart contracts work?
> Linux comes with potential drivers issues

Buy a device with preinstalled Linux, and all "potential" issues will not be affect you.
I wouldn't say so, because Vue Storefront supports a large variety of the e-commerce ecology. Shopify's Hydrogen is custom built for just Shopify.
I get a "connection refused", has it been hug of death'd or is my IP (range) blocked?

edit: And it's back!
API with NestJS #55. Uploading files to the server
The Most Italian Thing You've Never Heard Of: Fotoromanzi
> How do the hits from large scale GWAS fail to generalize within a population?

Great question! I haven't revisited the question in quite some time, but one possible explanation is sometimes called the "winner's curse." There's a "measurement error" for each site in that genetics is never deterministic, and when you have millions of sites, and only thousands of cases split into yes/no categories. If a particular site explains only 10% of the "yes" cases, it could be that random sampling makes it look like 15% or 7% or whatever. And when you have a handful of sites, each with measurement error of this sort, when you sort the handful of sites, the genomic sites with the biggest effect are likely to come from random chance.

More advanced models have a greater ability to find spurious signals, to overfit the data, and to mispredict. Training with more parameters, correctly, often requires more data, and the biggest limitation to GWAS is the amount of data. For some rare conditions, there may not be bough humans alive to provide the data fully needed, if we are going only by GWAS. Because GWAS doesn't have any model for how cells work, and the naturally occurring variation in the human population is unlikely to provide enough data to reconstruct the relationships that are necessary to rebuild the parts of that physical model in order to make predictions from DNA alone.

There are also potentially different prevalence of causal variants in different populations, depending on the interactions between different genes. In the San Francisco East Bay, there's a mixing of many many previously geographically different human populations. Rare diseases that are most prevalent in one population are starting to present differently when there's admixture with more distantly related humans. The whole combination of minor differences can cause changes to what we think was a well-defined disease.
We're going to have a relatively large number of children/inheritors to billion dollar scale fortunes within a decade or two. These individuals will have more money than they would ever need to use - however they will lack for prestige and impact.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of them choose to create university positions for themselves, or otherwise "self-fund" their own prestige projects.
I think a lot of the social stuff is unnecessary and getting ahead of things.

The core product IMO is just a resource database, with a nice resource description interface, peer syncing, and the ability to search and aggregate results from multiple databases together. A resource could be a web page blob, or a file, or plain text (e.g. a comment). All the social stuff, file viewers, blacklists, etc can be built on top of that, ideally by third parties in an open ecosystem.
> What makes you say doubling its electricity production is impossible over the next ~20?

Easy: It takes us decades to build anything of any significance any more. A nuclear power plant could take 30 years, maybe 50 at this rate. We need over a thousand of them.

In addition to this, the cost to build anything in the US is so high, I am not sure we have the financial means to build 1400 GW in energy generation capacity and the massive infrastructure upgrades this would require in order to be useful.

The famed California High Speed train is the perfect (and saddest) example of just how incompetent we have become. It was promised at a price tag of about ten billion dollars. It was going to bring forth an era of amazing energy-efficient transportation up and down the State. We are at about a HUNDRED billion today. We have only built TEN miles. Which are NOT OPERATING. And, if we did have a running train on these ten miles, I believe the top speed would be limited to somewhere around 50 MILES PER HOUR.

Yeah. No. I think a massive shift in leadership, national focus and philosophy has to occur before we can even dream of a future where our 300 million vehicles are electric.

What's going to happen is that --and I hate to put it this way-- those in the upper-middle class and above might be able to migrate to electrics while everyone else is stuck with gasoline powered vehicles at $10 per gallon. In other words, the poor get shafted once again. Brilliant.
But it’s your career and future against what, integrity?
Chernobyl exclusion zone: 1,004 mi²

Fukushima exclusion zone: 1,600 mi²

I can't seem to find great numbers of how much land we expect to lose to climate change, I expect it will be quite large.

I'm personally pro nuclear, but it's pretty clear we were building fairly dangerous plants back when Chernobyl & Fukushima were built. I still don't think it's a foregone conclusion that the world would be worse or better if we had built many of them in the US.
Are they connected to the Internet?

Think of the havoc government intelligence agencies are rumored to be capable of, in terms of hacking vital infrastructure. Or even all the ransomware outages.

Now imagine super human computers performing the same kind of attacks.
Inria is a research institute, not a university. But they do indeed do excellent work!
Data Rooms – why, when, and how? (oh and what the heck are they)
What's wrong with isolationism?
Otoh a society that values leisure and social cohesion than cold efficient capital making sounds like a much more fulfilling place to fill out a few score trips around the sun than waking up at 60 with no hobbies in a cold dead mansion.

Maybe the solution is just to go abroad if you find you can’t not be getting your excitement from taking business risks
They usually fly something like a 206 or 182 with a Flir gimbal and two people on board. Those types cost between $120 and $200 an hour to operate plus whatever the costs of the gimbal are (mind that the gimbal may cost as much or more than the host aircraft).

The pilot and sensor operator are paid so that's another $100+/hr after benefits and such are paid.

I'm guessing they just do it to subsidize the aircraft and give it something to do between calls when it's on station. The aircraft costs money just sitting in the hangar so it'll help justify the costs.
It loads alright at my end. Wonder if the old reddit link is an issue, but even that redirects me to new reddit just fine.
> However, these rules are currently renewed every three years, instead of being permanent, so it could not be the case in the future.

That's a lovely meta-commentary on this situation. Not just the DRM domains expire, so do the laws that allow their circumvention when they do!
> If the US military were its own country, it would rank 55th in terms of global greenhouse gas emissions, beating out 140 other countries

It's a valid point about the military, but all militaries run on fossil fuels and a handful of big carriers/subs that runs on nuclear.

During WW2, we ran petrol/oil pipelines from the UK under water to Normandy. Each pipeline was a steel cable rolled up along an enormous floating drum called a conundrum that weighed as much as a destroyer. There were 7 of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pluto

Then we extended those pipelines on land as we pushed East. There were 73 allied divisions, each requiring an average of 7 tons of supply each day, with 2/3 of that being fuel. The USSR had something like 600 divisions.

Modern armies need even more oil as jets are thirsty. Oil and gas infrastructure is critical to modern warfare at the moment, and I don't really see electric tanks or jets on the horizon. So that's not going to be an area where will be reducing much CO2 any time soon.

Long term, perhaps hydrogen might be a replacement for vehicles, and smaller nuclear reactors even for combat ships?? But we'd need to be able to make a lot of hydrogen very quickly, and have something like a strategic hydrogen reserve for wartime. The explosive nature of hydrogen is also a challenge when you are being bombed and shot at, and there are supply chain issues as to what operation Pluto would look like if it was hydrogen.
> The US is influential, for better or worse; I think many people rightfully expect the US to be a leader on climate policy.

This is the root of my problem. Yeah, the US _should_ be the leader on climate policy. But we've been failing for the last 20 years. At what point are we going to acknowledge that someone else needs to pick up the mantel. And as you've mentioned, it isn't like China is going to do it (you can shift my comment to China + US and the sentiment will hold true, but maybe I conveyed my thoughts poorly. Communication is difficult, especially over heated topics).
> If the US (and EU) grids went highly nuclear that doesn't mean we'd also have more electric vehicles or more electric appliances. We would look a lot more like France (in energy). It isn't just the price of electricity that has caused these things to become more popular. For example, with cars the battery technology is a big example of why we see them now and not in the past. There may have been more pressure for this, but it isn't an assumption we can make.

I don't know that the original poster is implying there's a certainty about this, but it's certainly a possibility. If the US had bet heavily on nuclear, there's a lot of dominoes that would fall with this. There'd be more investment in nuclear and potential benefits from that. There'd be less demand for fossil fuels, consequently less exploration & development of fossil fuels. It would also have changed positioning and strategy when it comes to global climate change initiatives. It's at least conceivable there'd be a dramatic global impact, but modeling the systemic consequences of one decision is problematic at best.