skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pricing is quite difficult to measure consistently. For instance, the cost of coal generation is usually priced around $0.10/kWh, but it kills 25-33 people per TWh. At the rate the NRC uses, the statistical value of $9M per life, that would add $0.27/kWh, totaling almost $0.37/kWh.

At that price nuclear is already dramatically cheaper than coal - about half as expensive based on the analysis you linked.

The thing is, it's not clear which externalities are priced into renewables. For instance, is the cost of cleaning up this disaster where rare earth metals are mined/refined priced into wind power? [1] Burying the turbine blades forever? [2] How about the cost of the global scale e-waste problem yielded by covering the earth in solar panels which last 30 years? [3] How about power storage - all that lithium?

I'm fine with nuclear, I'm fine with wind, I'm fine with solar. There's no such thing as "green" just shades of black.

Whatever gets us off carbon fuels - yesterday. I strongly doubt the pricing is what's reflected in those charts - they tend to underprice the externalities of everything non-Nuclear. Even if they don't though, I don't really care, at this point decarbonizing is worth paying double for power. I'm not sure how good a deal we're getting is going to matter when we live on Waterworld.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

[3] https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die...
Compass Pathways' Phase IIb psilocybin trial shows reduced depression symptoms
CouchDB has been running distributed Map/Reduce queries on JSON data for over a decade. It’ll be interesting to see how this compares.
Is there something similar for Google? I would love to download my mother's email. She died while I was in jail and while I know her username and password it's no longer enough to get into a Gmail account since they're a lot more secure these days.
Looks great! I spent a lot of time playing Escape The Red Giant, a flash game, which looks similar in mechanics (perhaps an inspiration?)

https://www.kongregate.com/games/oopixel/escape-the-red-gian... (requires flash)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW9zSXFy0rw
Agree with all the other commenters. I'm not necessarily against eventually downloading the plugin or changing my navbar setting, but, to be blunt, there is no way in hell I'm doing that before I get to try it out. I'm not going to trust you until you've given some evidence that you're worth trusting. Especially since your tagline is "built for devs", in my experience devs are the least likely to put up with unnecessary hoops and user hostile gates in order to try out a product.
Worth remembering that applying anecdotal experience to an entire world population in terms of generating statistics is unlikely to be accurate, and very much at risk of confirmation bias.

Most vaccines are only 65% efficacious in preventing infection from Delta. So even amongst 100% double vaccinated crowds, 1 in 3 will contract covid if exposed.

The real difference is the reduction in serious complications and hospitalization and death. Going off stats from my state (NSW in Australia), 78% of people hospitalized were completely unvaccinated. 19% had one shot. 2% had both shots. Those numbers are really, really hard to argue against IMO.

edit: I should add, it's even worse when you consider that 80% of our state is 100% vaccinated, meaning that the 78% figure above is true despite being from a pool that makes up only 20% of our state's population.
While the Quest 2 headset is subsidized by Facebook it is still a mind blowing device for $299. For that price it is the most revolutionary gaming/vr experience in the last 50 years let alone 25.
> Lithium ion battery storage is not cheaper than nuclear, and is not produced at sufficient scale to be viable for grid storage.

It may not be so now, but in 7 years, or in other words, by the time a nuclear power plant commissioned today starts producing power, it definitely will.

Global li-ion manufacturing capacity is poised to triple by 2024:

https://www.luxresearchinc.com/blog/li-ion-manufacturing-in-...

Without a sudden, disruptive change in the cost and rate of deployment of nuclear there doesn't exist a path for it become a significantly larger part of the energy mix.
Section 230 means you eventually win the lawsuits, but you still have to pay lawyers to defend them.
We could just tell them they can't sell their wares here and Europe can do the same and they can see if they can try their hand at making a living elsewhere.
I'm not. The 7 day timeout is very annoying and the windows server is spotty, due to the need to have iCloud + iTunes installed. And to periodically reinstall them when it decides that it's time to break.
I've not done IAP, just ads and amazon underground (which has since been cancelled). My games weren't geared for IAP. Underground by far made us the most. To be sure there's companies squeezing every last drop psychologically out of its free users, and it irks me to no end. Games are supposed to be fun.
Would this also be a move to establish itself for the "Meta-verse" market?
I don't mean that the extra width itself helps, I just mean that assuming vertical space is limited, then extra width means more words fit on the screen.
I think US devs that work on high IQ projects have nothing to worry about. It's very hard to find high IQ devs outside of the developed countries - trust me, I've tried. Whilst there are some, they're not nearly enough to influence the jobs market (and they usually charge US rates). I think the local environment plays a big role - stuff like early childhood nutrition, healthcare, clean water and air, a good education system that can recognize and develop talent. That's usually missing in developing countries.

I do think there's a decent chance CRUD-related dev work wages will probably be suppressed. I think that's because the work is easier, so lower IQ people can do it well but also (and probably more importantly) a lot of that work is in the process of being automated anyway.
Congrats! It reminds me of Gravity Ghost from a few years back.
Do not trust anything outside the security boundary.
How is that possible? The fact that you are using Tor is detectable by ISPs just like it is detectable that you are using VPNs. Also, it's sometimes possible to de-anonymize your Tor traffic, and state-level actors would be capable to do so if they wanted.

https://www.thesecmaster.com/4-types-of-attacks-on-the-tor-n...
and who's allowed to sit in the car with you
it takes 5 seconds to install and uninstall an extension.
we will open source it also so people can see how simple and benign it is.
It feels like 5s to help move the internet away from a privacy invading monopoly isn't too bad?

If you like privacy and agency of your information diet, or saving lots of time while coding, or Reddit results always accessible to browse for most queries, etc.

Then the 5s install will be worth it for you :)

PS: You can try in incognito mode (though some apps wont work due to hardcore privacy and no location sharing, etc.)
Does a software company need to be a payments facilitator?
I was with him until he listed what he considered good. It looked like a kid had accidentally spilt lego on an abandoned city. Terrible.

I think some of the best architecture can be seen in Singapore.
This is true in some respects, but as someone who recently moved from Munich back to the states, there's definitely some aspects of life that I prefer here.

I'd list them now, but that would just invite the European Defense Squad to come out and tell me how all those problems are specific to Munich/Bavaria/Germany, ignoring how the original comment I was responding to was generalizing the same way.

The truth is that there are some things you can generalize okay on (e.g. healthcare being cheaper in Europe than the US, or the US having poor public transit), but many things really are specific to the particular European country at least. Biking, for example, might be amazing or completely terrible depending on the part of Europe.
Is a VPN illegal in Saudi Arabia? My girlfriend is Qatari and everyone there uses VPNs to access Pornhub etc. She says that while the state censors the Internet it does not criminalize the use of VPNs. It's a confusing issue.

(I also undertstand that even if something isn't technically illegal it can bring the heat of LEOs upon you)
lol come on man
Thanks! I've always been fascinated by electronics and I so envy people in that domain. I bought an Arduino board (sorry if that's totally kiddie to you) and some parts and so far, my son and I have made a little robot that runs very inefficiently on 9-volt batteries. I just want to plug the damn thing in to overcome the power issue.
TOR bridges aren't publicly listed and support various obfuscation methods: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/bridges/
"We"

I suspect you have awoken the Dark Ones (errr the PAM devs)
It would be easier to just make a law against continued consumption of energy produced from fossil fuels, with the fines focused on when the government eventually breaks the law in order to prevent blackouts.

If you forbid fossil fuels at a point in time (say 2030), the energy market will know ahead when demand will exceed supply. There aren't better incentives avilable if you want the mega projects built on time
Reminds me of: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half."
That other VC backed search engine also wanted an extension for beta.

Nope.
Not everybody has the ability to launch a land war in Asia
> I'd really prefer to leave my search engine as-is

That's a tough start for trying out a new search engine :)

But yes, you can go into incognito mode or manually set your navbar, or try a different browser.
I think it is pretty impressive, and dismissing it a simply a photoshop filter is not right.

While they don't look true anime style, they look properly very cartoonish, like someone would have drawn them.

Good job to the op.
Cool take.

I just checked, and it looks like Ulysses has a default width of 64 characters. Swapped it to 50. Let's see what happens.
do you have a source on that? Not questioning, but would like to know the details.
Thanks :)

I don't use Windows, but your comment led me to look at this GitHub issue discussing this feature in SumatraPDF: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/246#is...

Someone there mentioned that Firefox supports this. I just tried it (it's called 'Wrapped Scrolling') and it works well. I can't see how to advance by a single page at a time, but that's minor thing.
DeFi and free and open source clients that users can modify/compile at will for whatever platform they are on, solves this.

Really cannot trust centralized entities with the incentives in place now.
> pledge to be free of fossil fueled power plants by 2025

Unlike pledges, which can be produced instantly, actually bringing reliable power online takes more than 3 years.

It's these types of pledges that make the public view these replacement efforts as fundamentally unserious.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of nuclear and think the industrialized west should follow in France's footsteps. But we will not get there by 2025. We may never get there as long as we approach this problem in such an unserious manner.
DuckDuckGo seens to have been able to do this just fine, even with the weirdest name for a company ever. Their growing by word of mouth from geeks like us. I set DDG as default on all of my family/friends browsers. Focus on making a good search and users will come
Well, obviously. Facebook has something like 2.9 BILLION active users. I enjoy reading the Oversight Board recommendations, and think it's worthwhile, but "78 recommendations since January", from that many users, unquestionably proves that this is mostly PR, in my mind.
Well if you feel like putting something like this music holder above/behind your webcam that will do the trick to hold notes lol.

https://www.amazon.com/American-Plating-502N-Valve-Instrumen...
Between 2005 and 2015-2016, page views grew by ~11x, articles by ~12x, hosting expenses ~33x, and total WMF spending grew by 1250x.
1. Who are the folks behind this?

2. How is this funded?

3. The You.com domain must have been an incredibly expensive purchase. The folks that wrote the check for that were cool with never selling user data at any point down the road?

3a. Did the people that wrote the check for you.com make the money they put into it from investing in companies that do sell user data?

4. I’m actually supposed to believe that they don’t have a revenue model at all aside from affiliate links?

5. Most importantly, what is the current valuation of this business?
The correct spelling is 'nucilar'.
Not misguided. The IP is from a wireguard network setup by tailscale which only allows packets signed by the private key of the device assigned that IP. It's as secure as an SSH key pair would be.

The only question left for me really is the authorization of which users you're allowed to login as.
I think the poster above is referring to the fact that ftp:// is removed as a supported protocol in some web browsers now.
I'd love to believe this is true, but time differences between East/West Coast US alone makes collaboration incredibly tedious.

I'm really not a believer in distributed, remote teams due to time issues. It's more feasible in a similar time zone +/- 1 hour. Beyond that you end up with people working into their lunch hours, etc.

Global time differences within teams are really just a massive headache and a non-starter for most organizations.
Nice! Always wanted to be a game developer myself. One day.
All students cheat, at University we copied each other, did some hacking, snuck materials into exams, faked medical certificates, tapping pens in Morse code (This was more for fun)

But ohhh I want to live in a remote world and I'm to stupid to understand what that entails.

Lets just allow unfettered cheating? Are we all mentally ill?

Yes we all cheat, but within limits. And with remote those limits need to be kept. And if you want to live in gaga land of remote, you will need to make sacrifices. You get to hold your comfort blanket in your bedroom, how much more babying do you need?

Perhaps we need WeWork for doing exams, or hire-able laptops. But talk solutions.

"In the Real world we have the internet", or "trust" students, what sort of toilet paper degrees are we handing out that people devalue University so much they think this shit is true?
> Kept the conversation light hearted and mostly focused on general technology trends relevant to the job. Same as if you were at a meetup or something and had just met someone new.

I like your phrasing. I'm not in tech and don't interview folks for tech jobs, but do interview plenty of people for technical roles in financial services (for me: insurance industry). There are lots of ways to dig into their technical skills - white-boarding, take-homes, etc. but I am often digging instead for fit.

By fit I don't mean whether a candidate has the skills. I ask questions about interests. What does the person do with their free time? Is there something they are obsessed with? What would their friends tell me they talk about way too much? What topics eat at their brains at all hours regardless of time of day. What do they do to feed their interests?

Have had the most success with candidates who come alive (or more alive) answering those types of questions. They show their drive and passion with their hand motions, facial expressions, tone, and more. It's awesome, but importantly, it IS a discussion. It's no longer Q&A to me.

And if those folks fit my other needs (e.g. tech skills, requirements for job), I hire them.
I used to design and build scientific equipment for the South Pole. We had to do all our own materials testing because manufacturers would only specify their products to the bottom of the MILSPEC temperature range and the South Pole goes below that.

I remember one spool of cabling in particular - it was beautiful stuff, highly flexible, high current carrying, just what we needed. It stayed awesome right to the bottom of the milspec temperature range, at which point the exterior sheathing went through some kind of phase transition and froze solid, followed by the interior insulation having a different coefficient of thermal expansion than the exterior sheathing resulting in the whole thing shattering itself into pieces just a few degrees below military operating temperatures.
I gave up on the Internet when my favourite browser stopped supporting gopher://
> Base load is a dead concept.

Look at the chart in your last link:

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/kevin-steinberger/debunking-thr...

They match up demand with load by using a buttload of hydro and and even larger amount of natural gas. We can't use natural gas if we're trying to get rid of fossil fuels and we can't use hydro in places without appropriate geography, so then what?

To say nothing of what happens when solar and wind are "it's cloudy and there's no wind right now" intermittent rather than time-of-day intermittent.
Wind turbine blades and solar panels are almost entirely recyclable, current state. I don’t have a source as to current and target responsible rare earth mining practices. Lithium can be evaporated from brine ponds responsibly, and energy density insensitive chemistries can produce cells without cobalt (conflict minerals).

I’m not against nuclear for geographies that need district heat or don’t get enough sun or wind for reasonable renewable generation, but I do take issue that it gets put forth as a silver bullet that we’re going to scale up in a reasonable amount of time when all signs point to that being objectively false. I’m violently allergic to platitudes and snake oil.
Wow, 5% reported suicidal ideation or self harm, in a clinical setting. That’s pretty horrible.
Reduce the tuition, which last I checked is still a substantial portion of the total cost of education.

How can a school charge the same amount of tuition, per unit, for different fields that pay substantially, sometimes orders of magnitude, different over the lifetime.

For example: MBAs, JDs, Medical fields' tuition is much higher. Why is that not the case across the board?
In SSH you can limit the login to a specific user or user with less permissions than root.

Is that something your PAM module(s) would need to handle?

e.g. Now that you're authenticated via the IP, how do we authorize the login?
half the internet seems broken to me right now so upvoting. was guessing we'd see a "aws/gcp/azure down" post.
I've never played that but huh, it's freaky how the mechanic and game loop are similar. There's even food flying around! Thanks for showing this to me, I will probably crib some stuff for an update. It's really cool. But I hope that floating baby finds a safe planet!
I started out same as you, charge a dollar or two for a quality game seems like a fair trade. But I can't count how many conversations I had with people who would balk at 99 cents while either holding their $5 daily latte or paying another $10 for gems/energy for the "free" game they were playing. It's frustrating but the mentality of the mobile market. There are good/ethical and bad ways to approach it, though. I wouldn't do anything rash with your first game; let it be as-is out there for a while and try different ways to advertise or work with user feedback and see how it develops.
Congratulations! Something I noticed - one of the screenshots on the store app page has a spelling mistake - the word distractions.

Good luck!
Nah. I agree with the other guy. AppArmour takes some time to learn and isn't super mainstream yet. At least it's a step forward from SELinux, but it still feels uncooked and adhoc to me.
I agree with you. For example, in an algorithms class they need to focus on the right things such as O() and not on the Java compiler or the Python interpreter or even worse (god forbid) on gcc.
I run an online Javascript course and we have what I think is a better solution than ProctorU:

1. We don’t require the student to install any software - we use the video streaming feature of the browser on their laptop to record the student’s screen and webcam

2. We get the student to place their phone camera behind them at the 4 o’clock or 8 o’clock position with a view of the student’s desk, then we record the scene using the browser on the phone

In this way we get 3 video feeds - the screen and two cameras - which we can monitor live and record. You might argue that this is still too creepy, but if we cannot see the student while they work it’s just too easy to cheat and that would make our credentials worthless.
Well, there certainly lots of audiophile features back in the 70s: Direct-Cut disks*, Quadraphonic music, dbX compressor-expanders, high-quality speakers that didn't sacrifice quality and efficiency so that they could be hidden away on a bookshelf, electrostatic speakers and headphones, feather-light stylus and tone-arm combos, very high quality tape decks, and so on.

Most music today is digitally compressed when it really doesn't need to be, as most storage media can hold hours and hours (weeks even!) of high-quality music.

Why would people bother with crappy MP3s when they could have no-loss storage instead? SMH.

* A friend and I spent an evening listening to direct-cut disks and then put on a normal pressed LP. We thought there was something the matter with the stylus, the pressed disk sounded so muddy.
Love that it’s randomized and double blinded. Will be hard to cast doubt on it.
Atom is not a low-end product. Atom is to Intel’s embedded product line what Xeon is to their server and workstation line. It’s the top brand.
Yeah it is curious. Unity was the simpler, easier, cheaper disruption to Unreal. It makes sense they work their way up the prestige ladder, but Weta seems a rung too far.

But a prestigious flagship does lift the whole company; skills/assets can trickle down to games; and they have been positioning themselves as a rival to Unreal for some time now.
On a related note: At one point I switched to working exclusively on a laptop and after a while realized that the smaller screen had forced me to write better code. I wrote smaller methods, made smaller files, kept my concepts together, the whole nine yards. I even wrote better tests since that helped me keep my work small.

It didn't last; I'm writing this on a 27" monitor, but I think that has more to do with bad laptop ergonomics than space.
When things are just right, it'll be there for you. :-)
Nuclear has been in a holding pattern for years in France while they waited to see if the EPR unit being built at Flamanville 3 would work out.

There was also a scandal a few years ago when the state-owned nuclear construction company Areva acquired Le Creusot Forge. It turned out that there had been a decades long coverup of weaknesses in the steel forged there for nuclears plants, and falsification of documents.
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