skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would they have been able to shutdown coal/gas faster if the nukes were kept running?

Probably, but it's not just the politicians and the population who don't want nuclear power, it's also the operators. They're not interested anymore as they can't plan ahead. If the current government decided that the nuclear power plants should run longer they would all need to get modernised first, meaning the operators would have to invest and who says the next government won't shut down them down again. Nobody is going to invest in building a new nuclear power plant that may or may not enter operation in 15-20 years.

> Could Germany reduce its dependency on Russian gas with more nuclear?

Short answer: No. Germany mostly relies on gas for heating, not for electricity.
Honestly, the battle Nuclear vs Renewable is quite sad when we look at the sources of energy over time.

https://ourworldindata.org/global-energy-200-years?country=

Coal is not even going down.
If you think this is horrifying, then I'd suggest reading the origin story of Sucralose.
Also cloud-act, not the best idea to open up your crown-jewels to every single US-Secret-service....by default ;)
I'm a front-end developer / artist / father. I'm trying to make a software application for families common in my situation.
I have an 8 year old daughter who is very autistic and there is a huge lack in tools I feel that a family and kid can communicate with. To that end - I am trying to make a communication board tool. In my mind think of Trello board but there's not much in the way of words only symbols. Right now I have mockups and am evaluating whether to do this in unity 2d or Web/JS. Throw everything you know of UX and common UI frameworks out the window this is for kids the world keeps turning it's back on to enable them to participate.
M = string length and M = number of different possible values are very, very different. One is the exponential of the other.
The GP actually praised Windows XP SP2, not Windows Me. Now one could argue that in some ways, Windows XP was a regression and Windows 2000 was the peak. But not Windows Me; that's widely regarded as the worst of the doomed 9x line.
>> Nobody asked for this.

When people debate Qt vs GTK there are some sound reasons to go either way. There are also some crappy non-technical or even philosophical reasons to go either way. This seems like an argument (against Qt) of the later kind.
looking forward to a future safety-critical network protocol called appleshot
> Then the law made them care.

A while back I came across a couple channels from various government agencies and organizations that document industrial accidents. They were quite interesting to watch, but after watching several they make me wonder if the companies do care with or without the laws.
We've increased our emissions almost every year for decades.

A few years back, in Paris, we signed a "you do you" agreement to all decide for ourselves whether to cut our emissions and not to complain if others don't cut them.

We're well on schedule to blow through all the ppm concentrations (I think we blew through the 1C rise one last year some time?)

It's like this weird open secret where we all agree something should definitely be done, and then do nothing. Like 100 people are a car crash all hoping someone else will get involved or something.
Directly from the CDC site (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...)

"However, data show fully vaccinated persons are less likely than unvaccinated persons to acquire SARS-CoV-2, and infections with the Delta variant in fully vaccinated persons are associated with less severe clinical outcomes."

I interpret that as saying, indirectly, that vaccination protects against infection, but not fully, and leads to better health outcomes in case of infection. I doubt you can explain that with differing behavior ("fully vaxxed people are more likely to self isolate ... less likely to be tested, while still being contagious")

I interpret this probabilistically and from what I can see, CDC is saying their data analsysi agrees with that.
So, I got interested, and I took some time and asked around and did some research.

According to somebody on /r/Grid_Ops, normal practice is for every single electrical substation to have redundant incoming feeds.

PG&E's "Local Capacity Area Substation List" lists 33 substations in Oakland. Wikipedia says that the population of Oakland is 440,000. So that's about 13,500 subscribers per substation (rounding up). I imagine the size varies, and some of those substations are probably dedicated to big industrial users. So let's say the bigger ones are more than double the average size and serve 30,000 subscribers.

That means that the utility is, in fact, providing redundant transmission lines at the scale of 30,000 subscribers. In fact, on the average they're probably providing redundancy at a much smaller scale than that. That's in spite of the fact that electrical power line redundancy is many times more expensive than data line redundancy. Running a 115kV feed for a substation is a whole different kind of project from running a fiber bundle.

But we're not done. That 30,000 is what you'd lose if the whole substation went out, but a substation is much better protected than a cable. To get to something comparable to this fiber case, we need to ask how many people losing any single cable might take out. That's much less than 30,000 or even 13,500, because a substation has a lot more than one downstream line, and those downstream lines are independent of one another. Losing any one of them doesn't knock out every subscriber of the substation.

I'm still unsure about that number, but from what I've seen it looks like it'd be more like 5000 at the absolute maximum, if a line got hit right next to the substation. If it got hit after some branching had happened, it would be much less than that.

It's less clear, but another person on /r/Grid_Ops suggested that they'd think of anything over 15MW as a "major outage", in a context that seemed to imply that "major outages" were the sort of thing you'd expect to have redundancy to prevent. I'm again not completely sure, but I get the impression that that's around 3000 residential subscribers.

So, no, it is not "normal" for "any type of infrastructure" service not to have redundancy for three densely populated square miles.
That is a huge number of SMS messages...what on earth would you need that many for with out the revenue to back it?
In my experience QC35 works well with pretty much anything except some Apple computers, such as on some Macbooks. Might be chipset dependent.

In my experience QC35 works well on Linux/Windows PCs and laptops, iPhone/iPad and on Android devices.
Government subsidized.

> In 2010, as part of the progressive liberalisation of the energy market under EU directives, France agreed the Accès régulé à l'électricité nucléaire historique (ARENH) regulations that allowed third party suppliers access up to about a quarter of France's pre-2011 nuclear generation capacity, at a fixed price of €42/MWh from 1 July 2011 until 31 December 2025.[47][48][49]

> As of 2015, France's household electricity price, excluding taxation, is the 12th cheapest amongst the 28 member European Union and the second-cheapest to industrial consumers.[50] The actual cost of generating electricity by nuclear power is not published by EDF or the French government but is estimated to be between €59/MWh and €83/MWh.[51]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Manage...
Their CEO is a tyrant, so this is no surprise.
Microsoft Lists for personal accounts is available in preview today
That's interesting, I always thought it was because it was a competitor to Infrared, hence something new with another color in its name. Interesting how random things in my life are assumptions I never questioned.
Exactly. My phone still once every few days struggles to connect to my headphones or my car, until I reset the phone and it all works fine again

I've actually worked on a bluetooth stack, and even I have no idea why it's so unreliable.
I grew up on a "hobby homestead", moved there when (as babe-in-arms) my folks faced a massive snowstorm that threatened to cut off natural gas supply, clarifying how utterly dependent they were on the grid/system. Big garden, orchard, wood heat, backup supplies, etc. It was all well-balanced with modern living.

When the "Y2K Bug" was looming, I explained the worst-case possible scenario to Dad (an electrical engineer) regarding worldwide computer system collapse. He listened attentively, understood, and responded "then I'll throw another log on the fire and go back to my book." That's how prepared they were.

The key is embracing homesteading, to whatever degree you choose to take it, as a lifestyle. It's not a hobby. It's not a job. It's what you do, blended with and influencing everything else, 24/7.

I now live in the suburbs, with a bit of forest. Having grown up homesteading, it still influences my thinking, and I'd rather return thereto. Though enjoying modern conveniences & luxuries, everything has an undercurrent of considering "one step simpler". I lament my kids not having the same upbringing, and do try to expose them at least a bit to living off the land.

Analogy: coffee. I have about 20 coffee makers, and several coffee shops nearby. Yes it's nice to pick up a cup (black, dark) for ~$2.50 ready to go. Yes it's nice having pod machines, ~$0.50 for "insert pod, press Go". Yes, I've tried every convenience for coffee. What I normally do, with no angst/struggle regarding the work and convenience of alternatives, is roast the beans myself in small batches, hand-grind, and do a hybrid press/pour-over - nearly every time, for years, despite the time and effort, it's just what I do.

Do realize that your friends are beholden to a system which can collapse, fast and completely. It probably won't ... but the probability isn't zero, isn't trivial, and historically we're rather due for another one. You don't want to spend your life preparing for a worst that doesn't happen, but you certainly can live such that societal problems don't tear you down. You can be ready and financially/socially robust; you just have to decide where your sweet spot in life is, regardless of what 'more' others have (and pay for by 'less' elsewhere).

The hard way isn't for everyone. You either internalize it as simply what you do, regardless of what others enjoy, or you move on to what it is you do, realistically, want to do. You do you, and be realistic about circumstances.
Do they really want people to find jobs or keep searching ?
> What's the problem with that? Radiation goes away, eventually.

Well, seems like a proper problem to me. What if something happens to those "safe" underground storages? What if radioactive material leaks into the groundwater reservoirs? There might be problems we can fix and control for say 50 years or so, like a generation long. But what after that? Maybe somebody has found a solution, maybe not. So bury it for another generation and hope the generation after that finds a solution? I don't like that as a "plan".
The ability to make money without contributing towards improving something is a cancer. If we don't cut it out things will get worse.
Yes, I agree that we need to include all costs. But, to my knowledge the costs presented in the link I sent to include all costs, e.g. here for batteries: https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth#batteries...
Won't work in practice. We tried that, and (scum)phone companies apply arbitrary filters to SMS sent with 'unlimited plans', not delivering messages which they don't like. Experiments have shown that SMSs with random text arrive in 80-90% of cases, but if they contain words like 'verification', 'code', 'код', еtc, only about 10% do reach the recipients.

Of course, these same operators offer commercial rates for delivering 'branded' messages at a far higher rates.
My family nor me ever did when so.
I agree. It definitely has some "wait what?!" moments. Its that in our subjective experience while using the app, I've largely had suggestions that could do just fine if implemented without my approval. But yes, there are cases where the "fix all" could cause more problems that it solves. :)
Nearby share on Windows is NOT compatible with Android.
Many companies expect devs to be all those now. Except program managers.
Because Node is legacy and Ryan Dahl moved on to Deno... Node is just an outdated 'standard' at this point.
SICP is heavy on math and physics any more than it is heavy on banking regulations (see https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/3_002e1.xhtml).

Illustrative examples are drawn from the domains of math and physics in the same way that they are drawn from employee-has-wage-and-works-hours or car-is-vehicle domains without requiring expertise.
Another fun one: Greenpeace is a natural gas energy provider in germany (proWindGas)
Native software has been doing this for ages, its nothing new or difficult. It is a matter of choosing technologies that we can be sure have a good chance of existing and working the same years into the future. Well written C code is one such example. None of the experimental flavor of the month stuff is going to endure, what endures and keeps enduring is stuff like ANSI C and attempting to use only standard features of POSIX/windows api etc.
"Death is what soldiers deal in as even the armed forces most strident supporters will agree. It's the whole point, otherwise they'd be aid-workers."

That's undeniably true but it's oversimplifying and cherry-picking the facts. The literature covering this subject is so vast that many libraries would not have the space to contain it all. What's contained within that information is a myriad reasons that explain why that statement isn't as straightforward as you would have us believe. It explains why nuances and fine minutiae are so important in any such discussion—and so on.

You should also not forget that war and soldiering have been inseparable from the human condition from the very beginning of recorded time, furthermore, archeology supports that view much, much further back—even back to the time of the Neanderthals.

As much of many of you who've never been in the position where you have to make a decision come a war may dislike the notion, war isn't going to be declared obsolete anytime soon. Only an ostrich would believe that.

One wonders what you would say when an enemy was at your country's door and unless some of you actually stopped it, then not only would your life be in danger but also it's likely everything you own will be pillaged and that everything you stand for will be rubbed out in utter disillusionment not to mention that your women would most likely be raped and then killed.

I say that as someone who had his rights to say no taken away by my government and was forcibly inducted into the military system against my wishes.
TL;DR--an automatic xkcd recommendation bot. [1]

"Relevant xkcd" is a meme that's been a part of online communities for as long as the comic has had online notoriety. [2] I wanted to build a bot to see how true that was. I've got a lot of the hard parts completed (data collection / curation, initial models), sitting in my TODO box for quite some time and would love to pair up with a collaborator to get it across the finish line.

The idea is an automatic xkcd recommendation bot that takes advantage of the latest and greatest in NLP advances (a fine-tuned hugging face model). [3] I've already got the training data (reddit comments that mention "relevant xkcd") and each individual xkcd's notes from the xkcd wiki. [4, 5]

Feel free to reach out to me via email (in my bio).

[1] https://github.com/adithyabsk/relevant_xkcd

[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/xkcd

[3] https://huggingface.co/models

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3cej2b/17_billion...

[5] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
I want to play around with development on Solana. Not sure where to start. Could use a learning buddy.
The whole idea of "free speech" is misleading and should be abolished. There is no such thing in practice. No government wants information that is damaging, whether the information is true or not, to be leaked out to the enemy, external or internal. Same applies to every organization. They will create whatever structures/laws to make sure that they limit this. They should be expected to.

There may be some value in telling people that they have free speech so as to identify people's intent and take them out if they speak against the establishment... but then the really smart ones (who are the actual threats to the establishment in question) will also most likely figure it out.
I'd love to follow along once you get this started. Sounds like a lot of fun.

I'm personally limited on cycles currently (N.B. I am a cofounder / direct of eng. of an ISP that builds custom 802.11ax-over-mmWave last mile access networks and CPEs in-house), but since I have enough experience in that world I can probably jump in at points to help as I free up.
Wow! I came across a new information!
I guess we just need omniscient philosopher-kings to tell us ahead of times which safety regulations were actually necessary. Is there R&D into crystal balls?
I don't know why people are downvoting you.

I went to a middle school that was "mac only" in the 90s. They were complete and utter crap.

They crashed constantly. The spinning pizza of death made a near hourly appearance.

We had two machines issued to each classroom, and most times the kids wouldn't even turn them on they were so bad.
And that’s a Good Thing. Instagram is cancer.
> As the Fukushima disaster unfolded in Japan in 2011, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a dramatic decision that delighted her country’s anti-nuclear movement: all reactors would be ditched. What couldn’t have been predicted was that Europe would find itself mired in one of the worst energy crises in its history

That's just not really true, plenty of people warned that with Germany closing nuclear and coal plants at the same time it would need to rely on external sources for energy, France for electricity, and with NordStream 1 and 2 projects, the reliance on Russian gas for Germany rose to around 50%. It was pretty obvious that becoming dependent on a not always friendly foreign power was a bad idea, but with Germany being so dominant in Europe no one dared to oppose it. Now Russia is playing this card fully.
High severity vulnerability in Element Desktop 1.9.6 and earlier
This may be the edge of what is off topic, but I’ve looked for a long time.

I’ve worked on a compiler for a HM type checked language for a while. Since September last year I’ve been stuck trying to implement tagged unions (such as Maybe). I’ve got all other features.

I’m looking for a tutor who would write a type checker with me in a screen sharing session. I’m located in Dalarna, Sweden atm, but can do any timezone that fits. I want to pay for this as I am really really curious to find out how it works! It’d probably be no more than around 100 LOC for just the type inferrer.
It makes [0]PWAs much more viable. Not having push notifications was a major blocker to make "almost native" PWAs. I'm excited

[0] https://web.dev/what-are-pwas/
Calling google's inline ads "not part of the search results" is the equivocation that's going on here. They absolutely sell top positions in results.
This one is designed to be compact and scalable, for use in military generators, not for automotive applications.
A net import of 250,000 MWh in the past month. That's not even 1% of Germany's electricity production. Germany produced 4x as much electricity from photovoltaics even though the sun wasn't shining.
Numb to Truth
> No, wind towers don't have infinite generation, require maintenance and decommissioning, and have been well around for long enough that statistics are quite well available throughout the lifecycle.

GP was making the opposite point that 1 (sacrificial death) ÷ 0 (TW generated from a brand new tower) is "infinite" (fatalities per TWh) which would really be undefined, not infinite, but a silly point regardless.
Not super tech focused at the moment, but I'm trying to start a surf community in the bay area. Main reason is that sometimes it can be tough to find a ride share to the beach and also to share surf conditions at diff. places (cameras are pretty limited)
While type 0 civilizations grapple with chemtrails, type 3 civilations grapple with magtrails.
> I'm not a web developer so I had a very hard time understanding why there are so many different type of imports in JavaScript like require, import, umd, amd, etc and which one works in browser and which one works in node?

If I remember my history correctly, it's because when Node first came out, there was no import system in JS, let alone a standardized one; there was no sense of scoping (everything global), nothing about dynamic or lazy loading of dependencies, no tree shaking / removing unused code, and even going to the definition of something in an editor was difficult.

NodeJS adopted CommonJS (I don't recall if they invented it), which is a module and dependency system based on require() and exports. It was only a few years later when the JS standards body settled on import; by then, the JS (dependency / module management) world was already very divided.
MQ was MQ series before the WebSphere rebrand. The rebranding happened because IBM is managed by silly people.
You don't buy 600 million dollars of patents as an NPE without planning to shop around licenses with an implied threat of litigation. You don't have to be scumbags about it, but you are going to have to press your claims to make money back.

I'd argue ARM isn't really an NPE. They actually sell useful designs that are actually implemented right? It's customers are paying for a design, architecture and software--not the freedom from being sued.
I'm working on a website where you can play a 2-player version of Conway's Game of Life.

https://github.com/lukew3/congol

I could use someone to help out and keep me motivated.
At that point you're effectively creating your own VM, and then you may ask why doesn't someone simply use the JVM or the CLR. Once you reach that degree of complexity, there are simply too many tradeoffs.

I certainly won't stop you from trying to develop such a thing, could be a nice way to get languages bootstrapped faster. Just keep in mind JIT compilation is forbidden in iOS, so e.g. C# needs an entirely different compilation strategy for that platform.
Naming one of the most inconsistent technologies I've ever used on the festering tooth of a dead king seems about right
Of course. I tend to excuse his behavior because of the accusations against him are dishonest to the core. Not that I would have had high expectations from anyone that calls himself Count Dankula in the first place.
I created https://www.dotheysupportit.com/ to help people track politician's stances on bitcoin and cryptocurrency innovation.

Would love to find editors/journalists who are interested in adding their own commentary to the site and helping rack and stack people as for or against.
Now that a few have pointed, I definitely see it. Much appreciated what you took time to point out.

Also, nice username.
If you want to see something fun, go check the size of the tires on your car (printed on the wall of the tire). It will read something like "245/35R18", where 245 is the section width in millimeters and 18 is the diameter in inches. All standard tire sizes use a combination of inches and millimeters, haha.
Speaking for Ontario, one province over from me, models with error bars is pretty much what the public was presented with every time they imposed new restrictions.
Its not conflicting data, its just the decade old numbers I mentioned in my comment.

The link I used used those numbers before they updated them with newer data.
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