skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) is like the old argument against reusable rocket boosters: there are none, so it's not possible. The US ran a thorium reactor decades ago experimentally. The "if it hasn't flown it can't fly" mentality that Elon cited in aerospace is actually pervasive across Western thought in regard to larger scale or more challenging capital intensive physical (as opposed to information) technologies. (Elon is not superhuman. He is only a "good" engineer and probably not a great manager. His superpower is rejecting conservatism and actually doing things.)

(2) is true for current generation uranium breeders that use ill-tempered working reagents like liquid sodium. The phrase "liquid sodium" combined with "power reactor" makes me want to buy a good pair of running shoes, as Derek Lowe of "Things I Won't Work With" fame might say. Thorium is a better idea. Those molten salts are nasty but they tend to stay in one place and do not spontaneously ignite when exposed to oxygen or water.

(3) true, but rendered less important due to (1). Thorium is much more abundant than uranium.

(4) also true, but probably not relevant. I think the seawater thing is a canard. Lithium for batteries from brine on the other hand is feasible, though maybe not economical given that there are vast easier to get reserves of lithium.

That being said, I think the renewables + batteries path looks much easier to deploy given other issues such as politics, up front capital requirements, and gradual scalability.

Also AFAIK a fully nuclear grid (with no fossil peakers) would require grid scale power storage to load level since nuclear is slow at load following, but not as much storage capacity as a fully renewable grid since you don't have to bridge long periods with no sun or wind.
Of course it's fine to have different views. What's not fine is to express them in flamey ways that break the site guidelines. It's not that hard.
This is the case where I would have used PDF. Didn't employers accept that?
Yes, those assumptions are very optimistic. If at all it would take to long to develop all this technology before it is too late.
This might depend on where you live, in my area every inspector will check the roof (unless for some reason it's unreasonably dangerous to get up there).

Obviously they can't see hidden problems but the really bad stuff (cracked foundation with seepage issues, water damage, mold, etc) is worth looking into. My inspector pointed out a number of things like old cast iron plumbing, some unidentified venting, electrical that wasn't to code, insufficient ventilation to the attic, etc.

It didn't affect the price but it did give me a good checklist for what to fix in what order.
There will always be 100 pixels, however, they will no longer be arranged in a perfectly straight and consistent line any more.
At my small firm, we rarely(never?) send the actual word document to clients/businesses/lawyers/courts.

The documents are always converted to PDF first.
Ever since Chernobyl nuclear power has been voter kryptonite. Trying to explain how all these fancy terms changes the equations won't do anything for those who recoil just by mentioning the term.

Nuclear had its run and we blew it. Literally.
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"And SpaceX also doesn't pay for articles, they have no need to do that."

of course they do. it is well known
You're right that holding debt through an interest rate rise will hurt, but I think the parent poster meant companies that issue debt, not ones that hold it.
Sure, but the bulkshipping is only from factory->Amazon unless it is a really common goods.

A consumer->Amazon->factory should be about twice the singleton shipping for a domestic source and destination compared to the reverse shipping path.

Amazon could in theory ship returns to sellers like they would be consumers ...
> a) where to put nuclear waste

https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html

> b) how to communicate to civilizations for the next 25000-50000 years what kind of waste that is.

I would solve the climate change problem first, otherwise all problems appearing in 25000 years are moot.
A lot of the fuel can be recycled and doesn't need to be stored for thousands of years. Storing the remainder underground is mostly a one-off cost except for some monitoring. It's a solved problem and only public misconceptions about tectonics and radioactivity are holding it back.
> And look for alternatives

I said this ^

Using QEMU solves the problem of not being able to run dependency X, blocking you from having choice ;)
Nanny states always turn out well.
The issue with this dialogue was that it was not long enough.
I think there are very real disagreements between Thiel and Graeber.
I think the two stand on opposite sides of the egalitarianism debate.

Is this rift completely insurmountable? Perhaps a kind of horseshoe theory can bring them together.

I am not even sure that bringing them together is entirely the goal. It would be nice if a diverse set of beliefs could be practiced in relative isolation to prove out the viability of these concepts. This is why the YouTube comments dont really matter. Not everyone needs to participate in these experiments.
> With the Apple Silicon, there is now a real contender

Yeah, no. It's a walled ecosystem, not a 'contender' in the sense that it can't be horizontally integrated with other technologies.
Homeopathic batteries
EU interior ministers welcome mandatory chat control for all smartphones
Subpixel AA has nothing to do with the GPU; not sure if it's enabled by default or not though, I didn't touch it, but it is pretty irrelevant with high-DPI screens. Apple does not use subpixel AA by default any more for this reason (and because they often use scaled non-native resolutions the way their UI scaling is designed).
Did a similar thing where I didn’t put the oil cap gasket back on right.

Was fine until oil pressure built up and the sprayed all over the engine bay.

Probably dirtier than yours. Originally thought “must be a plastic fire somewhere”. Oops.
Oops, didn't check it correctly. Wildcards don't work, so should be ycombinator.com as value to block all subdomains. Read https://www.chromium.org/administrators/url-blocklist-filter... for more :p ;) xx;p
Pumping the water uses energy, which changes the whole equation.
Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal, Denmark and Austria recently issued a statement objecting to nuclear being classified as an environmentally sustainable source of power. But, that statement was being issued by an EU commision. So, it sounds to me like Europe is not a bloc on this issue.

Source: https://www.dw.com/en/eu-states-split-on-classifying-nuclear...
Then the other side gets to argue that everybody knows or should have known that The Cloud works like that, and accuse you of doing it intentionally because you wanted the cost savings or convenience of the product with those terms.

Also, "jurisdictions vary" can be quite a relevant caveat for all the people in the jurisdictions that vary.
There are a number of approaches to this with increasing complexity:

- Sum of votes divided by total votes

- More advanced statistical algorithms that take into account confidence (as this article suggests)

- Recommendation engines that provides a rating based on your taste profile

But I'm pretty sure you could take this further depending on what data you're looking to feed in and what the end-users' expectations of the system are.
1. there are no working production-grade breeder reactors

2. you can't convert ALL of the waste into short-lived isotopes, just a fraction of it.

Sure, we can invest time and money into researching these topics, why not. But why not put the same energy into researching renewables?
Yes, but [most of the time] historically we also didn't have an all-time high retail participation in markets, highest P/E ever, unprofitable companies skyrocketing to crazy heights, insane speculative mania.

I agree that timing the drop is very difficult, but there is going to be a drop for sure - what has been happening in markets recently is definitely not "the new normal"
In general, low-skilled immigration hurts the wages of low-skilled Americans more than it does the wages of the higher-skilled, which partly explains why many elites do welcome low-skilled immigration, both legal and illegal.
you would like this: https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding...
> This will likely soon change.

It's almost like nuclear fusion, just with much smaller numbers. Thorium reactors are always just a few years away - since the late 1980s.
Isn't duckduckgo just an alternative frontend for bing with an integrated ad/tracking blocker. Or at least that's what they claim.
I agree, but I also think that by saying a practice is not sustainable, they mean that if scaled up and run for a long time, it would eventually cause an impact. You can swap out sustainable and scalable and it reads pretty much the same.

So saying "their practices were relatively scalable, since they were at a small scale" sounds wrong, which is why I think you are being downvoted.

Same way "I use gas to drive my truck" isn't sustainable, even if I'm the only one with a truck. The practice isn't sustainable, even if emissions from one person might not have a large impact.
Edge is available for Mac.
Crystal does look interesting, it also supports parallelism with green threads right? The thing that always bothered me about ruby is that there are multiple ways to do the same thing in the standard library.
Maybe I don't have the spare capital as I'm a fledgling start-up, but still want to be able to reach as many people as possible?
It seems like its very rare for anyone outside the immediate founding team to get enough equity to make an exit worthwhile. It's not like back-in-the-day where places like Google gave equity to their chef
A few years ago GSoC students could get directly get an interview at Google, but the rule has been changed since then and I don't think they use GSoC for recruiting anymore.
I think once you get more used to it you'll find the complete opposite. All those brackets are extra things your brain needs to process when reading the code, strip them away and it becomes just like reading written language. Ruby to my eyes, even when well formatted, looks as ugly as PHP - a mess of unnecessary indications that destroy the readability of the code (for me).
Legally, one is a theft while the other is likely a robbery. Robbery is generally treated more seriously.

As for frequency, people are more likely to take something if they don't have to confront a person. There are also a lot more packages available to steal today since more people order online now.
I don't think it's generations, just over the last 20 years. It was the inevitable long term effect of the Southern Strategy.
Trains routes are great as individual entities. I shouldn’t need to fly from Boston to New York or Philly to DC. Individual pairs of cities might benefit from rail. Rail as a total societal solution seems crazy to me, like how is someone in Norway supposed to use a train to get to Greece?
It happens all the time. In the middle of medical malpractice cases, divorce cases, murder cases - a virus update, an acrobat update, an email notification, etc. Everybody deals.
Isn't that much harder with architectures without a BIOS equivalent? The components on the motherboard have to be told how to talk to each other. Swapping out the CPU would require some reconfiguration.
Maybe that’s the difference between games of skill and games of chance.
When antinuclear activists constitute 90% of the population, the other people start to be called differently :( .

Despite attempts on HN to help me, I still don't see a good way to deal with nuclear waste, which would be well explained.
Gasoline fires happen all the time. They just don't make the news because they're not new. Like EV battery fires they are statistically rare. We got pretty good at handling incredibly toxic and flammable liquid fuels on a routine basis and we can do this for high energy density batteries too.
Diamond hauled from deep inside Earth holds never-before-seen mineral
Two different disciplines. The amount of refinement of the material needed for weapons is much much higher than for energy.
Get tax credits and government incentives for R&D spending
I think the online version of Microsoft Office is not as feature-complete as the offline one. That, and performance is surely worse on large documents.
Probably referring to this Washington Post data set:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...

If you query the data set it looks like 38 unarmed black men were shot by police in 2015.

To determine likelihood of a random “black porch pirate” being shot by police, we should look at the % of police encounters that end in unarmed shoots.

I found a random quota post [1] that says the number of police encounters in 2015 was around 53,469,300.

Back of a cocktail napkin numbers show that we’re talking about something in the neighborhood of .00006% of encounters end in an unarmed black person being shot by the police.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-estimated-number-of-police...
It's precisely it not being a SystemReady ARM64 device that makes it Microsoft's responsibility. The Windows kernel requires core changes to support this hardware; it cannot be done with just drivers. Nobody can make Windows work on this without Microsoft's help. Same reason we had to make a few changes to core Linux plumbing, besides adding drivers.
I do not understand why this comment is getting votes. The doomer perspective alone should be disqualifying... While we can't completely prevent any climate change, we have already significantly bent the curve and our efforts now are important - 2 degrees warming vs. 4 degrees is incredibly material.

More on this: https://nyti.ms/3Egq7tV
What is the advantage?
Why do this over installing a root CA and using mitmproxy as a proxy server?
If your product would be made better by version control, Fossil works really well as a white label VCS mechanism. It is BSD licensed, and the repository is just a sqlite db. While it has basic UI, ticketing, and collaboration tools no one says you have to use it. I have seen it used where a fully custom UI with proprietary diff tools was provided instead of the default setup.
It's not clear to me what you would consider more genuine. If you want to be specific, I can try!
If I found the correct lyrics, it's a "cover" version of a folk song and the lyrics refer to the 1877 Russo-Turkish war.
When I say "American-style," I mean a few characteristics that I understand to be mostly unique to American law enforcement:

* Devolvement to the lowest levels of municipal and/or county government, making standardization of training and practices across the entire country (much less individual states) virtually impossible. This is in contrast to countries like France, where the national police forces are an order of magnitude larger than municipal forces and command correspondingly greater authority.

* Use of force & weapons-carrying. It's my understanding that the vast majority of normal LEOs in Western Europe do not carry guns on them during their normal patrols, and that use-of-force incidents (including civilian deaths) are correspondingly lower in most of Europe[1].

* Prevalence of policing fraternities and unions. Again, it's my understanding that these are a somewhat unique feature of American police forces: other countries might have labor protections for LEOs, but do not have pseudo-official organizations that provide cover for officer abuses. The closest thing I'm aware of is the ECP[2], which seems to be more of a legislative group.

[1]: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/how-police-compare-differen...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Confederation_of_Poli...
Musing out loud: I wonder if FB knows who the Cambodian elite are, and have targetted marketing for them, probably in English.

Geez, if I had a social network and no morals and no fears of getting caught (or the fines are cheaper than the possible profits), I'd quietly try to sell "eyeball access" to high net-worth invidivuals, who I can easily find in the database. Although who'd want this access, aren't Facebook ads just mostly scams nowadays?

(I just realize I get a lot of ads on Instagram, and most of them look legit enough)
> was a fan of python whitespace indentation

That's what turns me off about Python (and f-strings), being a Perl programmer. I've had to do some proof of concept for reading smart cards and the Perl PCSC library sucks. So I did it in Ruby, which like Perl has pack/unpack methods for converting hex strings to binary and back. It's just great. Now I have not two programs to read smart cards, one using the Ruby smartcard library and another one using rubyserial and doing serial communication directly with the card reader, with a partial implementation of the T1 protocol, all in under 1k lines of code.
I really wish there were languages with tooling to expose the source as either whitespace-using or bracket-using. It would solve so many conflicts.

Let's have it handle tabs or spaces while we're at it. The answer could always be "whatever you prefer".

My kingdom for better tooling!
s/FDA/FAA/

darn TLAs
Gradient-cell high-entropy alloy with exceptional strength and ductility
Of course they confuse the issue by refusing to acknowledge some basics that would complicate their narrative: The difference between "selling" and "renting" for example.

Selling a kidney is a different thing entirely than giving or getting a handy.

Perhaps we'd better discuss who owns our bodies and what and how "Society's Interest" should impact our own sovereign position as the tenants of these bodies?

Many think their bodies belong to God. Other "Society" or The State or some other concept that is explicitly "not me". If that's your concept then I wont argue it as it applies to your body; but I feel I'm the only person that can make that decision for myself.

My body belongs to me, with a first call lien to my wife.
> Users are then to download and install the AIM client software, which AOL does not charge for

I suspect if this sentence was written today, the author would not mention the download was free. In fact, they would only mention the price if the download wasn't free.

It's an interesting change in expectation where in the 90s there was far more of an acceptance/expectation to paying for software as compared to today. I suspect Google changed expectations with Gmail (it provided an order of magnitude more storage for free compared to paid email providers), but that's only a guess. I would be interested in learning more about how the consumer expectation changed over time.
Waste is not a problem, you bury it in a deep hole and don't mark it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
Could be, yeah, that's a good observation.
Yes, but prices have also been rising over that time. I expect that if prices had remained constant our usages would have gone up exponentially (equivalently, supply would have had to increase exponentially to keep prices constant). If we have low energy usage over the next 4 billion years, but only because the price keeps going up, then it has not 'last us 4 billion years'. The price going up is precisely what 'not lasting us' looks like!
No idea. It's customary to include the year in HN submission titles if it was published before the current year. When I made my comment, the title didn't include the year.
it'll happen eventually :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxdRSCQfhyw
https://www.solid-run.com/arm-servers-networking-platforms/h...

- Layerscape LX2160A 16-core Arm Cortex A72 (up to 2GHz)
- up to 64GB DDR4 dual channel 3200MT/s
- 4 x SATA 3.0
- 1 x PCIe x8 Gen 3.0, open slot (can support x16)
- 4 x SFP+ ports (10GbE each)
- 3 x USB 3.0 & 3 x USB 2.0
- GPIO header
- 170mm x 170mm standard Mini ITX form factor
>"But the problem nuclear is that either way, it's far too late."

Sadly I see no other viable alternative. Wind and Solar are seemingly clean but require a ton of resources, have a massive footprint, and just don't scale with on-demand needs during bad weather.

>"All the affordable reactor designs with no risk of accidents or proliferation are just 10 years away like they have been for four decades."

No risk of accidents is an impossible standard. I know this will sound snarky, but, if you agree with the idea that the danger of climate change is existential, affordability is a relatively minor concern in comparison. Especially when you consider that a big factor as to why Nuclear is so expensive today is because we don't build them anymore, outside of places like China and India, which already have nuclear weapons.
Your expectation does not match the best practices that language designers have converged on in this day and age. No one can keep up with all the variables outside a given function, and it’s way to easy to cause confusing, untraceable side effects. In almost every language, variables introduced in methods like this will be lexically scoped when the contrary is not otherwise indicated.

(Some of the older languages do differ, and usually best practices in those languages include running linters that yell at you to use explicit scopes.)
Installing a drop box is significantly more complicated than putting a cheap, plastic garden box on your porch/lawn/etc. The only thing “smart” about the box is the electric lock. It wouldn’t need to be connected to any network.

It’s a low value crime of opportunity. Merely hiding packages visually would likely prevent most incidents.
Happy Birthday Mikhail Tal
The point of all of this is it's a JS feature, not a system written on top of JS. A few syntax changes unlocks the rest of JS instead of having to reinvent the wheel, making your own loop and conditional systems. I don't see why the semantics of it not being included yet doesn't make it JS.

When the feature isn't in all browsers and only Babel doesn't make it not JS, similar to how async functions were JS before being natively in JS engines.

You're not being genuine when you say decorators aren't JS. No one looks at Angular 2 and says "whoa that's using some foreign language mixed with JS", they say it's using a JS experimental feature.

I'll concede that it's not "JS" it's an "experimental JS feature", I'll use that in the future to avoid this pedantic debate.
This is a great article. I really enjoy reading articles comparing two languages and these kinds of posts are not as easy to come by as discussions about a single language.
I'm subjective the other way, why do I need to type brackets when my indentation already carries my intention?
With the proposed scale of kilotons of Uranium per year, this comes still to hundreds of billions of tons of seawater every year.

Now consider that only a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of seawater is easily accessible.

There's a reason why we don't do this for gold. There is about 1/50th the amount of gold in the ocean, but it's also more than a thousand times more valuable, but it's nowhere near econimcal.

The scope of this product also dwarfs all proposed solutions for climate change.
1) Because we got rid of them for being annoying

2) Untrue. There are even breeder reactors with passive safety and very nice safety records, waylaid only by funding and partially by geopolitics (ok, coolant is expensive as hell, but that's because we don't mine enough bismuth)

3 & 4) Won't cover, not my area

The thing is, where are you picking up ridiculous 6 years amount? Because it sounds like very, very cherry-picked value.
As a consultant who is getting $XXXX+ for implementing the $XXX standards: most institutions could do without my consulting, but they don't because it is not the expertise they lack but the time and manpower, plus I implement this standards for a living and thus have a higher proficiency which reduces the project time by a factor of 2 + I can get some assistance on the job.

But you can easily pass an audit if you actually READ the standards...
If we still had math duels, my life would have taken a very different trajectory. We need these.