skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bear in mind that developed countries reached peak energy usage (per person) years ago, so we might be able to power new industries just by keeping production constant.

Ok, so that covers 10-20% of the population or so. Seems like we're going to need more power for the other 80% as they modernize.

> It still seems like you're saying "Nuclear is fine as long as nothing goes wrong" and "Solar is bad, because I can imagine that unspecified disasters have happened which the Illuminati have hidden all the evidence for". Sorry if that's an unfair exaggeration; I'm just trying to make clear that you can't hope away the very real problems of nuclear, and you can't hope into existence any non-real problems of solar.

No, what I said is that Nuclear is fine as long as nothing goes wrong, exactly the same as every other power source, including Solar. We shouldn't just Nuclear to a stricter standard than any of the others, so what's the issue with being realistic about the downsides of solar?

> To weigh up the risks of nuclear against uncertain future energy storage systems, though, we need real numbers. We have the numbers for how much land was evacuated because of Fukushima, and how many centuries and hundreds of billions of dollars it will take to clean up Sellafield, which may not give a complete picture of those risks, but they are more helpful than assertions about "plenty of waste" and "I'm certain there will be a few".

I get it, you are terrified of a handful of radioactive sites, meanwhile...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites. It's pretty funny for you to say we need real numbers in the same space where you speculate that "we might have solved fusion anyways" as a primary reason to ignore nuclear power. You could certainly run more high energy experiments if you had large, consistent sources of energy :)
Thanks for the overview, I do find it interesting to see how other people manage things. Like you say though, you're making a calculated risk assessment and allocating money ahead-of-time accordingly, and you also have a base salary and stability such that it makes sense to do so. I think if I were offered a new job, even at one of the big 5 (that isn't really in the cards fwiw), I wouldn't consider the same bet until I could all but guarantee that I'd have the job after that period of time. Particularly with a lot of people moving jobs in the last year, and with economic volatility, I think that's an appropriately conservative move to make for a lot of people. Would you disagree? Did you set out to do what you described as soon as you got the job and simply assumed that you'd have it 6 months, 1 year etc.. later? I personally hedge against having work 6 months out, but tend to account for that bias if I'm talking in generalities and be a little more optimistic. (high cost of living area, extreme income volatility, extremely unstable career, no savings, not a big spender etc..)
"Most of the oil produced in the U.S. fields in Texas, Oklahoma, and elsewhere is light and sweet, compared to what comes from the Middle East and Russia. The problem is that for many years, imported oil met most of the U.S.’s energy needs, so a large percentage of the refining capacity here is geared towards dealing with oil that is heavier and less sweet than the kind produced here."

Canada, Alberta specifically, produces precisely this kind of oil. In his speech announcing the ban, Biden listed several alternatives to Russian oil that the U.S. would rely on, including Saudi Arabia, but pointedly left Canada out. This is after one of his first acts as President was to scrap a (heavily politicized) pipeline that would have transported heavy Alberta oil to U.S. refinery centres.

It's worth asking what is going on here. Why does the U.S. seem to prefer relying on oil from regimes that are as morally questionable as Russia while snubbing a long-time stable supplier that is right next door?

Politically, Biden is committed to green energy and, of course, is not going to want to reverse his decision on a pipeline that Trump backed. However, reality is a thing. The U.S. needs heavy oil and isn't getting it as efficiently or environmentally friendly as it could because, as in Canada, infrastructure approval processes have become heavily politicized. Oil will indeed flow from Alberta to U.S. refineries, but mainly via tanker cars. This increases transportation costs and, hence, fuel costs. It also makes spills and accidents, such as occurred in Lac-Mégantic, more likely.

It may be time to look at ways to free long-term infrastructure planning and approval processes from the short-term needs of politicians looking for a quick boost in the polls before an election.
That's a somewhat recent addition, and it does help somewhat with the Photo library problem. It sucks if you don't have a fast internet connection, though. It also sucks if there's ever a problem with the photo library, because then you don't have a backup anymore.

Maybe 240GB are enough for light usage if you store photos in the cloud. I can only say that in my experience 1TB is the bare minimum if I don't want to spend half my time copying files around.
It’s time to admit quantum theory has reached a dead end
Maybe part of it is just that typing text into a post doesn't viscerally feel like standing in front of a group of hundreds of people and shouting over a megaphone. I noticed that in myself when I first got into Facebook way back - when it was still novel, I tended to post 'stream of consciousness' type stuff. You intellectually know that your post is going to be seen by a lot of people, but _in the moment_ it doesn't _feel_ like that.

I imagine that many people have a similar experience. You're yelling into a megaphone but it feels more like you're writing an entry in your diary.
> As Ukraine (as well as the Baltic states, which are already NATO) borders Russia

There wouldn't be any Baltic states if they weren't members allready
And if they read this press release they will probably try to switch to per-core licensing.
+1 this is my point, you can frequently implement multiple overlapping policies whose combined effect is better than an individual policy. Order doesn't matter.

When you say "price controls don't work" you lack imagination for the space of possible policy problems and solutions. Sometimes price controls will be a useful part of a policy solution and likely more often than some randos on the internet can think of off the top of their heads. In general I would not bet on the idea that "mechanism X is shit because it's not the free market." Our societies have implemented many engineered economic mechanisms, some of which are easy scapegoats because they fail, but many of which are overlooked because they work quietly in the background.
I don't know if you ask these questions rhetorically. Not caring about the ethics of were you put your money and your actions it's "your"(i mean the entity doing that, obviously) problem, nobody else's[because not everyone cares about ethics & morals]. So yes, whether you stop doing business in Russia and that affects both russia and your business, everybody should think twice before doing any business with anybody. It's easy to hide under the umbrella of "just making money" without taking into account ethical and moral concerns. Because ethics and morals rarely come after-the-fact, whereas people who truly think about those things preoccupy themselves with those issues since day one.

By the way,this is not a "bug" of capitalism, it's a bug of people mindlessly not caring about the ramifications of their own choices and decisions, which is nowadays everything and every action being subjected to pay for/sell.

Also, I hate virtue signalling, but at the same time one could argue getting rich, making money throughout all means, it's also a "signalling" of some sorts, especially in US. Now whether or not making money is considered a virtue, that's a more complicated subject.
Is there something else to learn from this story besides not insulting people?
Look at

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/workstations-isv-certif...

or the HP equivalent - they're still equipping them with Xeon's from 2 1/2 years ago. So pretty stagnant.
That is very useful as I can use cross-OS

Thank you for sharing
They are also absolutely massive and probably much more expensive long-term because of the massively increased electricity usage.
I wish I still had my first-gen SE, because it actually fit in my small hands, and its nice solid rectangular body made it easy to hold and hard to drop. The home button on that unit was starting to give out after 4 years of heavy service and I didn't want to spend the money for an out-of-warranty repair.

Unfortunately the Gen 2 is also mostly "non-repairable"; I had to get a total phone replacement for something as simple as a dying Thunderbolt port. According to the person at the Genius Bar, the 12 Mini is much more repairable, more like the first-gen SE in terms of its internals.

This SE Gen 3 still has the rounded/slim iPhone 6 body style, so I would expect it to be equally non-repairable. So all things equal, I would still go for the 12 Mini over the SE Gen 2 if I could make the choice over again.
> The very act of copyrighting something communal is the problem.

I love that line and it makes perfect sense.
I’m find the slow drip of M1 extensions to be kind of ehn - like the tick part of the old intel cycle, only in this case it’s literally just gluing more of the same cores together (obviously work is involved, but not at the level of an architecture rev)

(edit: calm down people, I recognize it's impressive, but it's just not as fun an announcement as an architecture rev, which I was hoping for after a year :D )
I don't agree but a lot of people think Israel's justifications are valid.

There are no decent arguments for Putin's war. It's even less justified than when Saddam invaded Kuwait but Saddam didn't have nukes and couldn't veto the UNSC
That's a good point. It doesn't feel good with the case on, and it makes me feel like I'm gonna drop the phone with the case off.
How ironic that sanctions and boycotting seems to be used in the case of Russia and we were always told to be not helpful in the case of Israeli oppression and war crimes against Palestinians.... Hypocrisy ? Racism because we empathize with Ukrainian more than with Arabs ?
Someone here recently said:

Russia has a big and advanced army. But the advanced army is not big. And the big army is not advanced.
GA pilot here. This is true and most of us don't like using leaded gas either. It's nasty stuff that leads to increased wear on our engines, is more expensive, and is increasingly used as justification for closing airports. Plus we're exposed to it when fueling our planes.

However, it's worth mentioning that recently the first unleaded avgas, G100UL, was approved by the FAA. We're trying to move away from 100LL (leaded avgas) and are finally making some progress on that front.

https://gami.com/g100ul/g100ul.php
You mean I get to save AND have fun building my own PC?
What about the 13 mini?
Probably not on the same design as the current M1 series, at least not for the Mac Pro. The current x86 pro supports up to 1.5TB of RAM. I don’t think they will be able to match that using a SoC with integrated RAM. There will probably be a different CPU design for the Pro with an external memory bus.
That cache is not uniform time access. It costs over 100ns to cross the IO die to access another die's L3, almost as much as going to main memory. In practice you have to treat it as 8 separate 32 MB L3 caches.

Also, not everything fits into cache.
Superman could've kicked the crap out of Ultraman, just FYI.
Im not sure that the apolitical stance many people believe to hold is such an apolitical stance. In fact, living in any state and taking part in any kind of society is political in and of itself.

You do not get to take part in any community without having a political stance - being part of a community is communicating that you agree with the morals and values of the community and wilfully accept them - thats the basis and general agreement of a community, it's what differentiates a group of people from a community.

Now, Im not sure that turning a blind eye to the consequences that this has is inherently wrong, that surely depends on what impact the concrete political/moral/ethical stance has, but I disagree with the notion that, really, anything is apolitical. In context, everything is political, and we have to live with the notion that anything we do has impact on other people, as long as the consequences of the the thing we are doing is visible to other people.
Chinese companies will fill all of these gaps as soon as they can and that will be that.
Proton also depends on DXVK, an additional translation layer that specifically bridges the Windows graphics APIs to Vulkan (as opposed to WINE handling its system calls in a general sense).

Meanwhile, newer versions of macOS (and the M1 that runs the ARM builds in particular) don't use Vulkan at all, opting for Metal instead.
Here is a very recent paper describing three worst of the worst situations, where a casing was improperly cemented. Even then it is really unclear how bad the contamination was. Keep in mind there are over a million fracked wells in the USA.

Hammond, P. A., Wen, T., Brantley, S. L., & Engelder, T. (2020). Gas well integrity and methane migration: evaluation of published evidence during shale-gas development in the USA. Hydrogeology Journal, 28(4), 1481-1502.
Does it run a non-Google/free OS? My primary qualm about switching to a budget Android phone from an iPhone is the security and privacy aspect, which seems okay under Apple but atrocious under Google/Android.
I think this only works if you're OCD and love tracking -everything-.
This is one of the reasons why - pro audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIQINCWMd6I
A good example of this is how extremely light, sweet Saharan Blend is $25 more per barrel than Canadian tar sand.
Prebuilt 3090 builds can often be found for less than the cost of the corresponding parts.
Why Britain Pulled Aircraft with Horses and Trucks
Why do you automatically assume wanting to ignore politics translates to support of the status quo?

I've heard this argument before a lot, and it just seems like a massive assumption. You can't read peoples minds.

There are several plausible reasons to ignore and not discuss politics:

- You don't want to argue

- You don't think it will change anything

- You don't want to lose friends and acquaintances

- You don't want to find out someone you respect is "one of them"

- If the aggregate political beliefs of your industry does not match your own, you don't want to "out" yourself

- You want to change the status quo, but not in the way other people want it changed

- Your political beliefs are not strongly held

- You don't feel knowledgeable enough (I wish this was more common and people would share their opinions less when they know close to nothing).

I personally don't want to discuss politics much even if people agree with me - it either turns into a weird intellectual circle jerk, or gripe session about how evil the "other" is. Neither of which I really enjoy.

In short there are a lot more reasons to try and avoid politics than there are to seek them out. Being happy with the status quo is one needle in a haystack of other reasons.
Yes, unfortunately I figured this
might happen. People have been warning of some major issues with its design for a while now wrt security. Paired with the fact it's not much faster in practice than epoll in a large majority of usecases, I really worry it's going to footgun some people.
> NATO has never been a force for unilateral aggression

Tell that to people in Iraq... Or other countries NATO been fucking with for a while now.

During cold war for example NATO-aligned countries happily went around doing coups, sometimes backed with force (for example a US aircraft carrier threatening to bomb Rio de Janeiro in case of Brazil), replacing democratically elected presidents with dictators that would do whatever NATO wanted, how that is NOT unilateral aggression? Libya is a special case even, they were doing everything NATO wanted for most part, trying to make amends and create a good relationship, and got fucked anyway, NATO even gave air cover to people commiting black genocide there, what Tawergha people did to NATO to justify its "defense"?
Funny read in relation to Bitclout’s raise through AngelList and a user getting banned for sharing a screenshot that had been shared to them through telegram

https://mobile.twitter.com/cobie/status/1387037537454026760
CO is just a marketing stunt - no reason for any state to follow, not even FL or TX! Times may well be changing, but Bitcoin will remain a Ponzi.
Bazinga.

Seriously though. When he says "ignore politics" it doesn't mean you get to live without them happening. It means you get to decide not to care. Getting the reply doesn't mean you don't get to ignore it.
Even if their claims are accurate, it usually has the asterisk of *Only with Apple Metal 2. I honestly cannot understand why Apple decided they needed to write their own graphics API when the rest of the world is working hard to get away from the biggest proprietary graphics API.
> Russia on Sunday warned that any country offering its airfields to Ukraine’s air force attacking Russian targets will be considered as having entered the conflict, state news agency TASS reported.

From the article you linked. If that's accurate, the warning is very narrowly about letting Ukraine fly combat missions from other countries' airfields. They seem to have staked that out as their "OK, do what you like, but go past this line and we'll be big mad" position.
I can sympathize. I'd rather not fight that legal fight in the first place if I can avoid it. Plus I'm not a lawyer, and the Terms of Service are a thousand pages long. Am I entitled to small claims court or did I sign away that right and have to go to their arbitration firm? I'm not sure if the agreements I clicked through could say "I forfeit my right to any money and every dispute will be decided solely by eBay, Inc." and if it does I haven't read the thousands of pages of case law necessary to know in which situations that's invalid and I do still have some rights.

I'd rather just not play ball. Especially given that eBay harassed people who inconvenienced their business with bloody pig masks, live cockroaches, and death threats against the spouse[0].

0: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/ebay-execs-sent-...
I'm with you w.r.t. people on Jan 1 2022 trying to tag things as "(2021)", but can definitely understand the value of tagging as (2020/2019/...and prior).
it says "Powered by Apple silicon. The A13 Bionic chip enables innovative Studio Display features like Center Stage, Spatial Audio, and “Hey Siri.”"

Anyone knows what OS does the screen run ? embedded iOS ?
Sounds like Russia's on the winning side of this war.
AMD will be on TSMC N5P next year, which will give them node parity with Apple (who will be releasing A15 on N5P this year), and actually a small node lead over the current N5-based A14 products. So we will get to test the "it's all just node lead guys, nothing wrong with x86!!!" theory.

Don't worry though there will still be room to move the goalposts with "uhhh, but, Apple is designing for high IPC and low clocks, it's totally different and x86 could do it if they wanted to but, uhhh, they don't!".

(I'm personally of the somewhat-controversial opinion that x86 can't really be scaled in the same super-wide-core/super-deep-reorder-buffer fashion that ARM opens up and the IPC gap will persist as a result. The gap is very wide, higher than 3x in floating-point benchmarks, it isn't something that's going to be easy to close.)
> The russian citizenry are not (directly) responsible for Putins insanity

they are and alot of them still support both Putin and this "special operation"
A Love of Languages
Can I ask what phone that is?

I admit I'm being a little unfair on "small", to suit my own preference. But you could fit a 5" edge-to-edge screen in original SE size (the iPhone 13 mini has a 5.4" screen), and it'd be fantastic. Hell you could do a 4" screen - same size screen as the original SE - but make it edge-to-edge and the phone would be tiny and just as functional (except maybe battery life...).
This was an unsatisfying experience. The visual and audio fakes are easy to spot, while the texts are short enough and correct enough that you don't have enough to go with in making a technical decision. I did however get them right by trying to figure out if the statement made sense in the context of the respective politician's general stance on the issue discussed.

Update:

Come to think of it, IRL text deep fakes don't even make sense. You can make up whatever quotes you like, you don't need GPT3 to do it for you.
It's literally not.
IMO it’s not unreasonable to ban users who are outliers in terms of complaints from other users.
My wife has it.... chonky as hell. It looks and feels (not operates obviously) like a step back from her sleek and thin 6S.
Well that's your feeling and that's fine. But I'm okay with both white and brown noise, don't feel it's jarring. In fact, any other kind if noise distracts me
MKUltra was a better chip
Doesn't it make sense to fight them before they eat up more countries and get stronger?
how about 'nomenklatura' by analogy to the soviet times?
Well. What do you expect. Since 2008 Fed has more or less been determining who wins and loses and now ESG is just an equivalent to China's Social Score, but for companies.
Sad truth is that we are more of a planned economy than the bald midget's wannabe reich. Really sickens me.
Rubber ducking for non-technical issues. Love the concept
Which display are you using and does it wake up properly when you wake your mac mini? I've had a problem with displays that wake up normally with an intel based mac but not with an M1 mac.
It's a funny analogy, but there is a spectrum, no? Surely you could acknowledge that there is a spectrum somewhere between Black, Gay, Trans, and Toaster Fucker?

It's extremely easy to dismiss all of these as equally irrelevant. In fact many do (not saying you are) - "I don't care if you are black, white or purple. I treat everyone equally". "I don't care if you're straight, gay, or curvy - what you do in the bedroom is no business of mine". These attitudes SEEM like they are non-judgemental and egalitarian, but they tend to miss all the implicit ways in which the dominant society does NOT treat people equally in these circumstances. And being asked to be treated equally gets perceived as asking for special treatment until it becomes ridiculous: "Gay people want special treatment by asking gay marriage - they're not being discriminated - they can already marry someone of the opposite sex".

It's easy not to care about race or sexuality when society treats yours as irrelevant.
> A lot of health-related things took a turn for the worse in the 70s

People became far more mobile. Lots of diseases now seem to have some relation to viral exposure.
But static typing implies shared typing, and then you run into issues like: <type:Username> and how do you marshal that across system or library boundaries?
Could you show me what Wikipedia policies you base that on? Because I don't think it's correct.
If 'gluing cores together' were this simple, every random desktop CPU would have 20 cores. That's not the case.
Did we just hit peak oil? How the future of energy snuck up on us in 2020
From the point of view of chemistry, QM “works”. It provides results that can be tested experimentally and predictions that can be validated. There are issues with computability but that’s more engineering than science. Determining structure, spectra and other physical properties is quite helpful.

What was the cliche? All theories are wrong, some theories are useful. It needs to be rephrased from vector codes into massively parallel codes but people can work with that.
Yes! Or even better, a score distribution together with your percentile.