skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a key point:

> Plants, though, take a decade or more to construct at best and the risk is high of running over time and over budget. Finland’s new Olkiluoto-3 unit is coming on line after a 12-year delay and billions of euros in financial overruns.

I'll expand on this further: do you know how many of the world's nuclear power plants (~660 IIRC) were privately funded and built without (significant) government subsidies? The answer is zero. This is not just a construction issue, it also affects maintenance [1].

Sure lets continue researching smaller, modular reactors that can be constructed more cheaply and in less time. But we're not there yet. None of the research projects, prototypes or proposals are anywhere close to commercial viability yet. Most of them don't even exist yet.

Personally I'm bearing on fission power. Plants take too long to build. They're too expensive to build and maintain. I don't trust humans or corporations for long-term management and maintenance, particularly in countries without strong government. We don't have a good story for the long term storage or disposal of enrichment waste or power production waste. The significant systems required around mining, fuel processing, spent fuel processing, maintenance, fuel replacement, inspection and oversight (eg the NRC) are significant and won't scale to the required level.

The article is right though: this is political and the politics are bad for nuclear. It will take the likes of China to mass deploy nuclear once these problems are solved to change any opinions in the West.

[1]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/nuclear-power-wont-surv...
I’m definitely in favor of keeping and upgrading existing plants and building some new ones, but there’s no source of energy that has 100% availability. A few years ago, France had 1/3 of its reactors offline at the same time for maintenance.

Indeed we would have to build enormous overcapacity with wind and solar to achieve 100% uptime, but until we perfect energy storage, that’s true of any energy source today.
Patents require the invention to be disclosed. Now the Atomic Energy Commission had some special classified patents that were exempt from that rule, but that is very much an exception. The whole societal bargain behind patents is limited time monopoly in exchange for disclosure.
Have you thought about buying a cheap cell phone with a plan? You can turn an Android phone into an SMS gateway.
It seems to be a combination of nuclear becoming too high tech combined with not enough volume to maintain the technology.

Maybe its a scale thing. If you build only a few nuclear plants per decade, you can't iterate over designs. You may lose valuable knowledge, etc.

If I look at complex building projects in The Netherlands, it seems that beyond a certain complexity, companies just cannot come up with a design/plan to make it work.

For example, the Dutch government said, we want the biggest lock in the world (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluizen_van_IJmuiden#Bouw_nieu...). Not a controversial project, yet the winning concortium had a design that didn't work and had quite a few other problems.

On the other hand, windturbine designs iterate so quickly, that even floating turbines in rough sea is now economical.
I reject your claim that bad arguments are hurting nuclear. Nuclear is in trouble because of devastating correct economic arguments.
Yes, it sucks. But the work is wholesome and you can listen to any podcast or audiobook you want when you're mending fences or mucking out stalls. Modernity has its perks, even on the homestead.

> I can't help feel frustrated

In 15 years when Ghawar is solidly declining, and the US shale miracle has long since peaked, and EV market penetration is still less than 10% - when the world finally wakes up to how bad our energy situation is, you'll be happy to be providing for yourself.

> when I watch my friends in the city enjoy all of the comforts it offers

Watch their instagram feeds in 10-15 years. Relish in their food riots and daily rolling brownouts while you post your pastured pork belly and egg breakfasts and 80kWh of off-grid energy collection and storage.

It's a hard life, but it will be worth it in the end.
Nuclear is obviously key to energy independence etc... but the very common take these days of "Nuclear power is the safest energy production technology available, just look at historical data" is deeply misguided.

It's very hard to accurately estimate the risk of a nuclear power-plant disaster because looking back at the past and extrapolating data from there is non-sensical when the risk is so fat-tailed. Sure, Chernobyl, Fukushima and ever Three Mile Island killed a few thousands at most in aggregate but for anyone familiar with the history of Chernobyl, the story is quite different.

10 days after the main explosion, a leak caused a large amount of water to accumulate under the melting core. Had the melting core reached that pool of water, it would have caused a massive steam explosion that would have spread radioactive particles over most of Europe and Russia making them uninhabitable. Thankfully, three men risked their lives to enter the power-plant and closed a valve preventing more water from accumulating under the core.

Now, you could say that current reactors are safer, which might be true, but before Chernobyl, such a disaster was also thought to be impossible. Even if there is a 10% risk of contamination of a whole continent over a century, does it make sense to take it? One could argue that such risk would be acceptable if it prevents climate change. But acknowledging the existence of these enormous risks is a required step to have an honest debate.
Right, you're a logical person, this is how logical people that care about the environment would do it. I can't explain why the people in power don't naturally come to this conclusion, unless I account for corruption, then I can make sense of it.
Intercommunicating backend services isn't new, but having an HTTP API call another one from the backend is a case that used to be more normally accomplished by calling both APIs from the frontend. The slow ooze of browser-oriented thinking onto the backend took time. Existing backend engineers, who thought it a harebrained scheme, had to eventually wear down, and give up.
Despite a worldwide chip shortage, semiconductor sales cross $500B
patents do serve a purpose ... but I would reduce their 'impact' say a patent is only valid for 10 years and same patent can't be refiled twice.
Win 7 and 10 have frequently ran into issues where updates fail to install for goofy and often inexplicable reasons. It is easier and faster to just reinstall that garbage without wasting time troubleshooting.
I needed to sort incoming stream of events by time and after some benchmarking ended up using modified version of a count sort, which had same runtime complexity as radix but was 2 times faster for my use case.
No doubt. But it's important to differentiate "inherit" limitations of a technology versus situational ones.

Plenty of EU countries have coast lines too.
There's a reason kids sold their parents farms to Monsanto and moved into the city.
With the new BLE audio standard, everything will get better™
Maybe they were addressed to a five-year-old Richard Feynman
Sounds like maybe an "if this, then that" kind of thing https://ifttt.com/
Just a guess, but location services can use bluetooth scanning for getting a location fix even when bluetooth is off. Sometimes these pings will turn it back on. You might try disabling bluetooth location scanning.
> Well, if you read something like the The Californian Ideology

The Californian Ideology was written by Richard Barbrook, who subsequently wrote a book on Debords tabletop game _The Game of War_.
>Google could build EU data-centers and try to be GDPR compliant

That doesn't matter, since US CLOUD Act allows US law enforcement to subpoena data even if they are stored in the EU.

The only "way out" is to use cloud providers that have no presence in US.
Although finding a carrier that is ok with this type of use is more difficult. Most have fairly low rate limits and will consider kicking you off the network.
Honestly, I made my own using this[0] setup and I've never been happier. I had Sodastream before and the cost of refills and inconvenience of restocking them meant that I didn't actually use it that much. I bought some fruit extracts on Amazon, put a few mL in a 2L of water, and have delicious seltzer water without vendor lock-in. Now we need to refill our 10lb tank every few months, unless there's some leak/gasket problem (which has happened once or twice when the cats play near it).

You can make it more automated if you'd like with some sort of automatic agitation to dissolve the CO2, but it hasn't been too big of a bother for me to manually shake it yet.

[0] https://www.seriouseats.com/pros-cons-diy-carbonation-rig
Hey there, I'm interested in your HR Platform and maybe expanding that? If you've got one client already, it might be scalable! Currently I'm working on wordpress plugin development to try and make small software that I cant bring to market quickly. Would you wanna connect?
The best managers I've have were all people managers. Like a gardener, they "planted" me in my role because they wanted my skillset, and now they "cultivate" me to make sure I thrive as they know I'm capable of. When opportunities arise for my own advancement, I'm in the best condition I can be (thanks to their tending) and can naturally move up to the opportunity.

I know it sounds hokey, but sometimes I feel there's way too much emphasis put on tactics of management. A good manager, at least in my industry, is spending their time to make sure the team is running and nothing is weighing negatively on their staff.
JavaScript: Split String and Keep the Separators
Probably, but they like gas, Germany have decided that gas is somehow renewable.
Praise Your Competitors
What do you mean by "thumb off the scales"? Elimination of nuclear regulation? I'm sure that would be politically sane. /s
This is my excuse for why I have no idea what "performance optimization" entails or means. Now to convince interviewers..
I have this bookmarked from a few weeks ago found on HN [1].

[1] How to send text messages for free using Python | Use Python to send text messages via email https://www.alfredosequeida.com/blog/how-to-send-text-messag...
yes yes tone row massive
I thought that until I paid attention to the supported codecs. When I had a pair of Sennheisers that had AptX HD support, they sounded great on my Android phone and MacBook, but awful when I moved to an iPhone.
Don't forget the Yellowstone caldera!
Would definitely love reading a write up of this with more details. Super fascinating
I especially like the stock photo of a model looking at a pizza ad with a look of pure euphoria on her face. The pure excitement of being served an ad when watching a recipe video. Yes bitch, you unlocked the secrets of the universe. You can order a pizza instead.
Satoshi Nakamoto Institute – Emails
there are two ways to make money in farming, write a book or scale to thousands of acres.
What are you talking about? BLE is not an audio standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Low_Energy
Yea, thats the one
If you read the actual proofs, they count comparisons, not operations, when they arrive at O(nlogn). More advanced material analyses algorithms on random access machines with some fixed word size for cases where you can't assume that comparisons are constant time operations, or specialize for the data type, e.g. numbers, where you sometimes don't need o(n log n) comparisons at all (like with radix sort).
Never tried! Maybe I'll try next time I'm in the neighborhood. Been dying to get my hands on just one pi zero for a project for months now :(
I really can’t see many use cases for web notifications apart from annoying sites trying to bug me. So I’m happy Apple haven’t supported it.
It is important to mix your energy, but it is an insufficient argument.

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/kevin-steinberger/debunking-thr...
>They are also expanding into the US currently.

This makes it worse, since they fall under US CLOUD Act now.
I didn't want to mention politics, but "Critical Race Theory" is a prime example and should really be tabooed as a temporary exercise to aid understanding. So many discussions about it without people having a consistent understanding of what it means. I think they've even written laws regarding it without defining what it means. But, sadly, politics is rarely about understanding each other or reaching consensus.
The same book is also available without an account (although the images are lower quality).

https://archive.org/details/ChadwickJohnTheDeciphermentOfLin...
I don't think you understand this.

e.g., here's your "trivial" API's spec. Then there are the intentional deviations for CORS, e.g., which there is no spec for.

https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org

Not to mention the Fetch API isn't available on every other platform... maybe you're thinking of the general ability to make HTTP requests, but nodejs had that from the start.
iPad only, because strong software support,
after having disposed 3 android tablets
Browser Spyware Watchdog
Exactly, the price of nukes are roughly 100% regulation at this point. nuscale spent $500M+ just pushing paperwork at the NRC in the US and still haven't built one. It wouldn't surprise me if the NRC required global asteroid strike mitigations, just in case. The fact that not a single NRC approved design has successfully been built, should tell you that they exist to drive the costs so high has to be economically unfeasible.

Apparently, South Korea though has kept the costs down to 1980's levels.

A buddy of mine's joke is that the cheapest way to get new nuke plants in the US is to build a huge naval fleet and park them in ports.
I'm ideating around productivity and todo lists, I'd love to talk with and bounce ideas with any UX designers interested in the space!

Email in profile :)
I think most apps with plugins have a safe mode.
You need to include the risk, cost, and near and long term consequences, of catastrophic failure in your analysis. That may alter the conclusion that N.E. is 'the least worst option'.
Not usable for these high volumes tho.
I feel more or less the same I think. However, if the income was the same as with a tech job, I'd go back to it in a heartbeat. Sitting on my ass all day in front of a screen is soul destroying in many ways - I'd much rather be out doing something in the garden :)
I'm a huge fan of ICE vehicles. In the interest of fairness I feel obligated to point out that electric motors are far more power dense than any mass produced ICE. Motor technology really could freeze forever and they would still be amazing.

Batteries can have any power density you want its really more of an aspect of pack design.

The only defficiency of EVs is the energy density of batteries.

Motors: high power density

Batteries: medium to high power density, low energy density

ICE: low to medium power density

Gasoline: high energy density
Sharing actions are limited. It depends on output and not all apps share well. Sharing is also 1:1. There is no "master these pages and share out a few pages".

On notes:

1. Notion doesn't have offline support, mobile exports don't work last I tried, no printing or sharing. Notion is block based, making it not appropriate for notes.

2. Quip is just a bad app. It's also a block based editor, and an office suite, making it inappropriate for notes.

3. Google docs is a word processor/office suite, not a note taking app. It has severe, severe lag past about 30 or 40 pages which renders it unusable. It has very broken behavior when you paste formatted text.

4. No experience with coda

5. Microsoft office is an office suite. It has the same general problems as Google Docs.

A note taking app, must:

+ Flow text correctly (not block based)

+ Handle copying and pasting correctly without barfing my formatting

+ Work offline. My notes are not useful if I can only get to them when I have internet.

+ Not be a word processor. Word processors are designed to format documents, not capture information quickly. Using a word proccessor for notes is like using the photoshop text tool to write essays.

+ It should handle and operate on a directory of files. I do not have one note. I have several hundred. Even a modest project is going to have a few note files.

+ It should load instantly and have no lag.The tradeoff is that you get less features.

Examples of note taking apps on the iPad are Bear, Notes, Obsidian, and I think Joplin has a port.
I have so many issues with it.

For one, no matter what I search, probably about half my results are “sponsored jobs” unrelated to my search.

It also seems to really want to prefer showing jobs that are closest to your profile and what’s on it regardless if that’s what you want or not.

Another issues I’ve noticed recently is companies drowning the listing by the posting the same remote job, but a new instance for every goddamn metro area in the US, which means even when more specific searches work I can see the same thing for pages and pages. Then ofc you have classic HR crap like keyword dumping every language in existence, i.e. you earch for Erlang jobs and you get no Erlang jobs, but Clojure or Scala jobs that have a requirement like “experience with a functional programming language such as: [proceeds to list every functional programming language they could find]”.

The filtering is otherwise ok (being able to separate job function and company industry is nice).
ɢᴀᴍᴇ ᴘᴀss is the auto-tune of gaming.
Given how quickly the App Store was introduced (just one year later) I’m betting that they never had the intention to go web-app only. They probably only needed extra time to figure out the experience for both developers and users (from native APIs to permission model to monetization)
Wouldn't that be something like this?

(1) state the problem, (2) state the source of the problem, (3) state the solution, (4) state path to implementing the solution
I'm going to assume that you've read the meme cartoon that goes around instead of actually reading Popper's actual words because that is not what Popper suggested at all.

It's only a couple of pages long, it's even free to read on archive.org.
I Figured Out Wordle’s Secret. It took me four guesses
anyone interested in the pdf -> word doc space?
technologically unsophisticated. no guns. hard (or impossible) for them to have wiped out a continent of megafauna in the timespans that had previously been suggested.
Untruths.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/package.json -> "electron": "13.5.1",

Referenced github issue seems to have only random people unaffiliated with the project team.
Ideally the project would use link-local addresses, but to quote Arceliar [1] (one of the devs):

> there's no standard way to specify these interfaces across platforms / number these interfaces intelligently. if there was, we could have set aside a specific interface number for ygg, and then just used link-local addresses, which is technically more correct than using a global address that isn't actually global

[1]: https://matrix.to/#/!vVtVcVdzAdhGFLzFwm:matrix.org/$qpV7j6LY...
No, for that you have the rats eating the cockroaches.
I've been using the service for a couple months (got in on one of the first waves of beta invites). AFAIK, there is no sharing invites to others. I can't see anywhere where I can do something like that. I think you just have to wait until DDG sends out more invites themselves.
More King Harald trivia: a story about King Harald making a boastful soldier shoot an apple off of his son’s head is the original source for the later legend of William Tell in Switzerland
You can also add page versioning and forks to this!

If I want to see an older version of the page I like: click click click I have a (like really) permalink

If I wanna modify a page that someone else made, fork and edit!

It's like Github, but for our pages!

(too many exclamations smh)
I wonder though, I know a lot of tricks for performance are used, such as in python API, judicious use of inlining, putting some common functions in headers files etc. Depending on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go, could this library not also include code generation functionality for JIT's? Or even at compile time, is there anything stopping a library from generating code that could be included in your VM runtime as just an opaque function that can be called?
It's lovely to see Safari on iOS getting some attention, but I would love it if they fixed some of the long standing bugs such as the incredibly annoying text selection / caret issues with scrolling.

If you have a textarea or input inside a `overflow:scroll` and scroll it out of view or have a `position:fixed` element over it, the text caret or text selection hi-light remains visible outside/above other elements. It's incredibly frustrating for developers of PWA and apps built will frameworks touch as Ionic - it result in text carets and selections being rendered over the top of toolbars and menus.

Effectively the text caret and selection hi-light are drawn above all elements on the page with no detection as to if they should be hidden behind an element or are outside a visible scroll area.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138201

http://openradar.appspot.com/18819624
I'd even take 3:2
Collecting paychecks: there is a story that I suspect is centuries old, but which I heard attached to John XXIII. Supposedly somebody asked him how many people worked at the Vatican, and he answered, Maybe one out of three.
Same thing happened to a bunch of other release archives and broke our CI pipeline
You could set up a dedicated Android phone with SMSSync [0]. It isn't maintained but I use it for my own personal use and would think it could scale up to meet this kind of demand. I don't know the legality of using a cell phone service for this kind of service though, might violate their terms of service.

[0] https://github.com/ushahidi/SMSSync
Dharmesh Shah (hubspot founder) built a tool called FirstWord that ranks word choices.
https://firstword.com/
Are you serious, they literally just gave you an example lol.

I always hear that argument about "but when will I need it?" If you're using this system then you're always going to use it. It comes up all the time, it's natural so you don't think about it too much.

Does it mean it's better? Well yes, but it doesn't mean other measuring systems aren't good. You don't need it, but you'll want it once you learn it.
The trend these days seems to port cli applications to golang. I investigated porting rubygem's bundler to golang, but hit speed bumps (like in order to install the gem, you need to run ruby code).

I'd be interested in trying this out again.
Nonsense. If it weren't for FUD campaigns, nuclear energy regulations could be more lax (there's a huge chasm between the safety of nuclear and fossil fuels and no one had a problem with fossil fuel deaths for most of the last half century) and investment could continue in finding more economical designs. Note that various Asian countries are able to build and operate even older nuclear plants economically.
While I never had a ton of luck with it, SO Jobs seemed to have had a much better signal to noise ratio than most job boards, but they’re shutting down
Nice. It looks like a site with a similar idea was posted to hn before[1], but the result from ar5iv seems to be a bit slicker/cleaner than that site.

1: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/
Another solution could be to test the website with different bandwidths. Modern browser have dedicated tools for that.
It is unfortunate that mirroring is not first class concept on web. There are some concessions like relative urls, but largely mirroring a modern web site is a non-trivial operation. If mirroring was easier and more prevalent, then the longevity of individual websites would be less critical.
I think the "maintaining" is the key part here. Now that the hackers have the coins, how do they do anything with them without getting caught? How do you continue that over years and years and years?