skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Estimates of nuclear put the carbon footprint between 15-50gCO2/KWh, compared to about 450gCO2/KWh for gas

Both uranium mining and renewables mining have issues - I'm not going to debate or compare them because I don't know enough about the topic but due to the energy density of uranium I wouldn't be surprised if nuclear was better overall

Cost is the real issue - the cost and timescales of nuclear reactors are massive issues, and they are significantly worse short-term investments than wind and solar.

However, energy storage is not a solved problem, so until it is nuclear is not competing with wind and solar - it is competing with gas and coal, to which it has advantages in almost every category (excluding cost)
You might be interested in https://what-if.xkcd.com/7/

> Is there enough energy to move the entire current human population off-planet?
As of Android 11, Google actually made this flow easy. Right next to the allow option is an "Only this time" option.
The arguement that 'Nobody Looks "Beyond the Lock"' is not really valid in my opinion. If even 0.001% look, there's a chance someone will blow the whistle on a sketchy operation. Not to mention that I might only look closely on some responses.

The other issues with EVs are more damning to me.
Are you claiming that a desire for companionship with another human being is purely a modern social construct?

That seems a … bizarre opinion. Until industrialization, human relationships were directly tied to survival.
The Pandemic Brain: neuroinflammation in non-infected during Covid-19 pandemic
>It's problematic to be pedantic about something that isn't true. A vaccine causes an immunity response. A therapeutic cancer vaccine is a vaccine because it relies on an immunity response, not because it prevents the spread of cancer. Vaccinations are often the best method of preventing a infectious disease but not all vaccines prevent contagion.

I am asking these other people what we should do. It seems your in the camp that it's fine to keep calling the covid shot a vaccine. This is fine with me. We simply now need a new term for the vaccines which do prevent contagion.

I suppose the actual word used is irrelevant. Can you goto https://www.wordgenerator.net/fake-word-generator.php and push the button 5 times and tell me what the new term is?

I will then say, the covid shot is NOT that $newterm. That I recommend everyone get the $newterm shots, but since the covid shot isn't $newterm... well...
I recall reading that the fuel is 1/3 of the operating expenses, but I could be misremembering.
Chrome for work, Firefox for personal. Both macOS and Windows 10. I am in contact with 1pass on Twitter, followed their recommendation to turn off the legacy extensions Desktop App Required and it is still broken.
This is my favorite interview question. I like to start them off with a win to break the adversarial atmosphere.
Probably something with cleantech, as I think we're pretty much screwed long-term as far as climate change and that probably should be the top priority for most people out there, especially in the US, to work towards a massive reduction in consumption and resources. I did interview with a few places my last job search but the culture of the companies I interviewed at didn't sound great.

Seemed like I'd be in another overworked and underpaid situation if I was given job offers at those places (which I wasn't either, so hey, whatever). Instead joined a consulting firm with high growth for about 30% higher wage than the range I was being told for those other jobs and have now been there for about six months. Maybe in another six months I'll try interviewing for some more cleantech places and/or I'll be put on a client that is working on something in cleantech.

I do kind of feel like, I might have been put on this earth to bring a few game designs out there, though. One of my designs in particular was a popular Flash game[1] back in the day that I'm trying to bring back with a new version, and I've won awards for other designs in other game design competitions. I am working on that in my spare time but it's no income until they're out in the world (and realistically I'm unlikely to make more than a fraction of my current wage once they're out there either). I can't afford to do that full-time right now so it's still a spare time thing.

[1]: https://jayisgames.com/review/proximity.php
I wish I could link a great source, but I believe there was some credible talk of a sect of the Japanese military leaders wanting to overthrow the Emperor & keep fighting what would have been a very gruesome meatgrinder defeat/suicide pact
Just use VPNs and alternate the endpoints.

This is all theoretical, of course. I've had a think about running a botnet on reddit for a while because I detest what the place has become. I can literally see the obvious botting that takes place across the entire frontpage and it annoys the hell out of me. It's mass social engineering.

Time and time again I see people on reddit really intensely screaming 'go no contact with your parents, abandon your family for the slightest difference of opinion' and such a toxic viewpoint is not only heavily upvoted but applauded by others that jump in with 'I did the same, it's totally normal, everyone goes no contact with their parents these days...'

I really think the place is being weaponised to disrupt society in a fundamental way. I mean, genuinely trying to break down the bonds of society and turn people against each other by creating this alternate reality. You go outside and talk to the average person at work or in a bar about opinions that, from reddit, you'd suspect are mainstream and they look at you like you have two heads. It's so artificial. I just pray that too many people don't fall too deeply into the trap.
I'm just as frustrated, but given how convoluted and complicated web site authentication has become, I've blamed the web sites, not 1Password. They can't possibly be expected to handle every scenario that every major internet site comes up with, and festoons with trackers and ads and javascript malfeasance and second-factor redirects. I guess if you're right, and 1Password is, in fact, to blame for this mess, then you'll find a great alternative. I just hope you post it back here when you do.
This is awesome - congratulations to the team on this raise. Very well-deserved :)
While non-IT enterprise is a big job marked, I guess the HN crowd leans towards the startup scene. There are plenty of python/django and ruby on rails and node companies in copenhagen :-)
These same people would then complain that Firefox's market share is abysmal.
I can only wish there were more options like that in Python space. Celery is just a horrible tire fire and everything else seems to be either pretty minimalist, somewhat immature, or both.
> But today, as quantum computers with dozens of qubits are being built, and systems with hundreds or even thousands of qubits are on the horizon, the complexity of programming a quantum computer requires a more structured approach. This has led to the birth of a large number of quantum programming frameworks and languages, ranging from fully-fledged programming languages like Microsoft’s Q#, to Python frameworks like IBM’s Qiskit, to basic assembly languages like QASM.

I'm guessing this is QASM https://www.quantum-inspire.com/kbase/cqasm/

Interesting graphics there. Seems like programming for quantum computers is an act of building "circuits"
I'm Gnot saying it isn't one... ;)
And then when you try to go self-sufficient with EV, PV, & Batteries, the state of California attempts to pass legislation to tax your PV array. Goofy.
Honestly I find one of the biggest missteps for me is that they started injecting UI into the web page itself.

I'm sure it reqires less work from the locally installed app (and lets them do away with it altogether, even), but it creates issues - it obscures UI elements in the page with a hard to dismiss overlay (no obvious clickable way to do it) that fits below webpage UI elements when it's heuristics identify it as an appropriate field.

edit: plus I regularly find that when I try to fill form fields in Safari and Firefox that selecting the appropriate login and hitting autofill does absolutely nothing.
Love the Orbital Index. A weekly Space treat in my email inbox for sure!

Subscribe link: https://orbitalindex.com/subscribe/
Million-Dollar Homes Are Becoming the Norm at Fastest Pace Ever
Foursqare/Unfolded Introduces Hex Tiles
I've found this to be true personally. Pre-pandemic I used to go to the gym after work every night. I'd always go in feeling mentally exhausted, and leave feeling mentally refreshed and able to work on some of my side projects for a bit.
Not really, the peak is around 6PM when people get home from work, turn on all their lights, tvs, appliances, etc. This will change as well with the push to fully electrify residential homes, which would mean very heavy electricity usage in the evening for heating, electric stoves for cooking, electric dryers, and electric cars being plugged in.

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/ebf483/node/534
Most social movements of the last 5 years haven’t been all that organized though. Usually there’s no clear leadership. It’s all memes
B is in the key of C. It's the seventh degree of the scale. It's the seventh of the I chord and the 3rd of the V chord and more. That's not dissonant in any way, shape or form.

Nevermind that obviously music is written in more keys than C anyway.
It appears that you're the only one who read the text and commented, so apparently interest for federated search is very low on HN.
Yes, async code in wasm is definitely possible. See for example here:

https://web.dev/asyncify/

It does have some overhead atm, which a new spec (stack switching) will remove eventually.
They want to run them nearly 100% 24/7 for economic reasons though. Also what is the effect of regulating with control rods on the fuel, does it have an impact on how often the fuel needs to be changed?
TS has a lot of DNA from the failed ES4 attempt.

I think we need something quite a bit more radical than Typescript.

We have "use strict" and I think we need to add "use types" too.

In that mode, we need to disallow the more dynamic parts of JS. They add TONS of typing headaches resulting in poorly-typed projects and they hurt performance too.

This could allow for a much more simple type system and allow a path forward where things like type coercion aren't a thing.
*For raising particular antibodies above an ungodly high threshold, not better at actually preventing hospitalization/death.
So, Google, how about giving me the option to completely delete my advertising id? It would be nice to completely opt out of your advertising empire, at least as far as personal tracking is concerned.
Well, it's not really all that different from any other programming gig, just very low-level. If you have enjoyed systems or maybe embedded programming in the past, you're probably at least a decent candidate.

It's a lot of fun overall, but still, not 100% of the time, for instance you have to interact with dozens of different protocols, all of which are braindead in their own special way. People skills are also more important than a "pure tech" kind of role.

I did have some trading experience already, which probably helped but is not required. It probably did help paper over some softer spots I had on the technical side, though :)
It is. I'm in London which means that our time is +/- 1 hour of UTC depending on daylight saving time.

There's been a couple projects where if I pushed a commit between 11pm and 1am some tests would break. I'm pretty sure the issue is inconsistent use of UTC vs local time which during that period will differ by one day.
I'm responding to the specific concern raised on the thread, not presenting my unified theory of authentication. WebAuthn is a better solution to "authenticating connections to services we have long-term relationships with, regardless of our relationships to particular websites" than anything in the TLS protocol could be.
There are cases where electricity prices go negative, and nuclear plants must pay to put power on the grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_pricing#Electricity
What's your heart rate after the first 20 or so?

If it's beyond 70% max heart rate, you are likely going anaerobic, muscles and heart start switch from fat to glycogen to ATP as the demand increases.

It's like a runner doing "speed work" on a track. First 800 relatively "easy". By the eight repeat, not so much.
Since this is a new report, we didn’t know its contents back then.
Memory profiling is hard, especially for Ruby.

To echo prescriptivist's comment, neither DataDog nor New Relic's profilers offer memory profiling for Ruby applications.
I read eev.ee's tutorial on platformer physics when doing a little gamejam.

Worked great! What a talented person!
I'd be curious to know what makes hexagonal tiles better than square shaped ones when it comes to working with geospatial data.
It's not generally a good idea to take contemporaneous sources out of context and uncritically. USSBS was basically the same people who had been advocating massive strategic bombing the entire war writing up a report on how effective their own efforts had been. They're not going to come out and say "Yeah, we achieved nothing in Japan and it was only the nukes or Soviets that had any effect". That's not to say the report is useless, just read things more critically.

Whether the bombs were the sole-cause of the surrender is a rather different discussion, and one I understand few historians would argue. It seems difficult to argue that they had no effect given that we now have records of what Japanese leadership was discussing at the time and atomics feature prominently, alongside the soviet invasion. That's why the whole consensus school thing exists, because neither was obviously definitive.
Like everything, it depends on the context. Ass-slapping athletes are different than Ass-slapping construction workers.
I like it, however I wish the colors wouldn’t change constantly when I click between tools. I would like to explore the possibilities I would have with one or two colors.
Neat, the UF matrix collection, but for graphs.

I wonder if their adjacency matrices would be interesting...
> You should get your timelines in order. English is used in modern India.

It wasn't me who gave English as an example for a shared language.

> Doesn't matter. Most people understand the language

There are over a billion people in the world who understand English. By your logic they all "share a language" etc.

> The characters and stories in our sacred texts are not about incidents that happened in Arabia and Africa that is then taught to children in Poland or Ireland or Turkey who have nothing to do with them. They are about our ancestors in this very place

They are as much your ancestors as Germanic tribes are ancestors to half the Europe.

And as any heroic ancestors they would slit each other's throats if the other looked at them funny.

> While peoples within Europe might have something similar, Europe as a political entity

As a political entity India came to be because of the Brits. Prior to that it was an ever changing tapestry of various states (like literally everywhere else in the world) at near constant war with each other (again, like literally everywhere else in the world).
> It's an attempt to create a simple but useful toolbox for common color related tasks and problems

this is better then the previous tool i was using as a toolbox. thanks for the work
Oh I thought you meant it would replace black bars with random not blurred text lol
I worry a lot about making credit card transactions with websites I don't have stable credentials on, and always opt to pay via Amazon or (gak) Paypal if it's my first time buying somewhere, unless they're using Stripe.
DataDog offer memory profiling for Java, I think, but not for Ruby.
> Nuclear is the opposite of variable, as it can’t be turned up or down quickly.

It's not as clear cut. Cold start up and shut down of nuclear reactors take time, but there's lot of in between and nuclear still has quite a lot of flexibility: for instance, you can quickly modulate the power output down to 50% without special considerations (you can also go lower, but then it starts using the uranium quicker[1]), or you can even go off while staying hot and in pressure, which means only the fission divergence needs to be redone, this is usually done during the week-end.

And keep in mind that modern (= high yield) fossil plants also have limited flexibility: a supercritical coal plant takes a lot of time to warm up, and so does a CCGT.

[1]: or more precisely, since the power is controlled by top-down control rods, you end up burning uranium in the bottom more than in the top, which means replacing the fuel earlier.
Because the adverse effects came from the pandemic, and lockdowns were merely a mitigating tactic with similar adverse effects.

When people are sick, they'll stay home, not work and isolate, lockdown or no lockdown.
I'm not an expert but my general understanding is that neutron poisoning is the big issue. Most reactors are designed around a careful balance of operating temperature and radiation field to mitigate neutron poisoning by the fuel, and operating outside of that balance will cause the problem to become progressively worse until the reaction is no longer self sustaining. So reactors have a "design power" and they can operate outside of that design power only for limited periods of time, while transitioning in and out of operation. Operating outside of the design power for too long causes thermal output to get lower and lower until the reactor just needs to be shut down while the operators wait out the half-life of the short-lived fuel products that cause poisoning, and then they can start it up again. I think this can be weeks so it's carefully avoided.
whoa! Don't hold back...
>What I'm having a heck of a time finding is technical content; long-form programming tutorials, deep dives into academic concepts

github search is good for that. search for 'list of awesome anytopic'/'curated list of anytopic'/'list of anytopic' and you might find a repository with a curated lists of links on anytopic. (search box on the main page of github)

You even have the 'The definitive list of lists (of lists)' https://github.com/jnv/lists

You might also want to check my side project: I have a search tool / catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators, i am hoping that it allows for better discoverability of specialized search engines.

https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html - (best viewed on a PC)

here is the project page on github: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang
It's ok, I'd say it happens to most of us. I wrote an essay (or recorded a podcast episode, I can't remember) the other day that I titled "Blinded by the fight," as I've seen how easily I can lock into a perspective based on the emotions I'm feeling in the moment. Eg, feeling fear of being too public on the internet and getting cancelled/stalked/manipulated can make me blind to the fact that many people on the internet may help me and support me in ways that I would love.

So, maybe a long way to say I'm grateful for what you said and glad we interacted here. Thank you :-)
At some point, it’s not a cost efficient use of land. Other, more valuable users of the land will buy it and junk the panels.
It will need new airframes and new cryo infrastructure, which is why it has been slow to happen. Once it does, building out will take a long time. But the competitive benefits are big enough to move a lot of activity.

In the meantime, we will need synthetic hydrocarbons, using captured carbon, for extant airframes. It will need to get (or be made, through carbon taxes) cheaper than the mined, refined, and transported stuff.

Having a big hydrogen synthesis infrastructure in place feeding hydrocarbon synthesis will then ease the transition off of hydrocarbons, as equipment that can use hydrogen directly comes online. Stationary uses will come first, displacing natural gas electric generation.
from the wiki page

> there was no international treaty or instrument protecting a civilian population specifically from attack by aircraft at the time

reference

https://web.archive.org/web/20130425044944/http://www.icrc.o...
"Sterilizing vaccine" is as good a term as any, IMO. Not that anyone will start making that differentiation, considering the politics of this.

My takeaway is that the government and media (thesis and antithesis) has it's toxic influence in literally every piece of information we see, and they both need to be avoided to keep a clear head. It's the misinformed vs. the disinformed at this point, and I'm pissed that I've been wrong about this particular "vaccine definition" point for so long.
> If conservatism is radical to you

non-sequitur, I think.
The article addresses that:

“The high operating and maintenance costs of running a reactor can make them uneconomical in some markets”

And “sometimes they operate at a loss”

They’re specifically talking about operational costs and excluding upfront costs.
People feel the need to be “special”. Even people who don’t think they are better than others have some way of identifying themselves as being special, even if that’s just feeling especially unlucky or downtrodden. “My suffering is unique” is not really different in its search for uniqueness than “my gifts are unique”. Even people who are aware that specialness is mostly an illusion seem to feel proud of that awareness, because it makes them special.

All of this is to say that you are correct.
> A cursory examination would reveal that Japan was ready to surrender before the bombs were dropped. There was only one condition that they get to keep their emperor, but the allies ended up following that condition even after the unconditional surrender, so that just wasn't relevant.

So what you're actually saying is, they weren't willing to surrender under the terms offered to them?
Yes, I agree. It's a real pain in the ass. That and still not allowing to ignore localhost for password fields...
Smaller plants combined with energy storage seems like it would help here. When prices go negative store the extra energy until prices also go back up.
Rivalry is a part of human nature. It can be leveraged in a positive supportive way (good sportsmanship) and it can be leveraged in a negative destructive way (war.) People can overcome rivalry through dedication and hard work, but this is a choice each individual would have to make. I love the idea of an economic system that supports open source software. I think Github has a sponsorship program that is attempting something like this. The way people pay for things is a big factor in the success of this economic shift. There may be some additional factors at play. eg. project diversity (differing opinions of project functionality), exposure of a project, reliability of the developers, and corporate undermining (companies re-branding and selling open source software)
If Bitcoin were to always increase in value (deflationary) there is a strong disincentive to ever buy anything with it. This makes it useless as a currency which means it can't replace USD. Why buy something now when you can buy it for less in the future? You could buy the famous pizza for a tiny fraction of a Bitcoin today
Zero-party and first-party DMP