skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is attributing 100% of the difference between driving and not driving to work to zoom, which seems very very generous.

Better title would be "Working from home has done more..."
Terrible analogy. What authority might a team of QA testers have on restructuring the methods for software development? Perhaps not as much as a software developer, but certainly enough to grope at and possibly conceive of new and useful ideas. A student is a QA tester for a classroom, they are not a dentist using a program, they were involved in the entire process and saw basically every mechanism with varying levels of ignorance on motivations.

Comparing a student to an end product consumer of software development is an embarrassingly long stretch - teaching is an art, but its not that complicated nor disconnected from its patrons.
They were air-conditioned.
3 MW is tiny. Today we build ~15 MW ones with capacity factors at 60-64%.

https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind...

https://www.vestas.com/en/products/offshore/V236-15MW

> Modern regulation and the scarcity of new builds has made building slower, but it should be expected that Areva, the builder of Olkiluoto 3, should be able to pump out new facilities and significantly faster rate compared to the last decade.

Went so swimmingly that Areva went into bankruptcy a couple of years ago. The company only exists to shield EDF and the French state from any remaining risk they still can from Olkilouto 3.
Equally without evidence is my hypothesis that Russian schools focus too much on math and science which has led to Putin's public support being so high.
Nothing to do with the fact that the demand for masks has cratered, with them not being required in most places anymore?
You can use a 3D printer to print a case that fits all the components and makes it look however you want. You're also not restricted to having your USB devices be right next to the Pi's board. It's just more flexible.

Another thing to consider is that the connection to the blocks on the Pockit might be fragile. If you push that button/joystick too hard or bump something, it could easily disconnect.
Well, if you had to pick one to build a standard on in the modern world, I'd certainly pick bitcoin.

Unlike gold, bitcoin is a network protocol available to anyone on the planet with an internet connection, can be programmed and improved, and you can secure in a way such that it's impossible to steal through simple violence.

But obviously gold or bitcoin is a false dichotomy.
The South Australian grid is a great example of how well this approach works.

It's mostly (>60%) a mix of solar and wind power, with some gas that fills in the gaps - as well as batteries for grid stability. Still importing some coal power from interstate, but that is decreasing too.

The investment has been incremental - so much smaller amounts, with much less risk and therefor more attractive to investors.

A large part of this (since 2018) has been done by a conservative state government, who have been highly supportive of the renewable transition.

https://theconversation.com/against-the-odds-south-australia...
My one concern (as someone who is still supporting Framework code at the day job) is if they do major backwards compat breaks again. We still haven't decided our path forward to move our web code that uses various Libraries that were not ported.
The truth is readily available in Russia. But just like everywhere else, truth and lies are rejected or embraced regardless of how flimsy or strong they are. Human bias and other psychology can be astounding.
Yeltsin was the alcoholic clown I referred to.
My understanding is that most of that gold isn't the US's, but other countries' gold that the US is holding for them (because securing tons of gold isn't easy).
I'm surprised by Canadians having 0% Gold according to that, when they actually mint one of the most popular bullions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Gold_Maple_Leaf
Very cool! BTW who is your nemesis? (The character by the bottom right tree.)
Don't worry, if we do get off this rock we'll just bring our problems with us. If we ruined one perfectly good planet odds are whatever state the next one is in it won't last long.
> (4,580 metric tons)

Somehow I always forget the actual (as opposed to figurative) definition of metric ton: “unit of weight equal to 1,000 kilograms (2,205 lbs)”

So 4,580 metric tons is 4,580,000 kg (10,098,900 lbs.)

That’s… a decent amount of gold.

> gold bullion

Bullion: “uncoined gold or silver in bars or ingots.”

Random page that lists heavy objects: https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/05/11/the-heaviest...

(Interestingly it includes a lot of objects related to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, even though the article was written 4 years ago.)
I'm really into bitcoin but comments like these make me cringe. Please add to the discussion or don't say anything at all.

For example you could draw parallels between a gold standard and a bitcoin standard and highlight why a bitcoin standard makes more sense than a gold standard if fiat currencies collapse.
And famously tried out negative learning by doing.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...
Canada is definitely the odd exception. I don't know what's going on there.
Do you have sufficient battery capacity to power your grid through a 90th percentile worst case scenario solar outage? 95th? 99th? How long can it go without running coal and gas?

Nuclear works when you want it to. Solar and wind work when they want to. That's a very big difference when you're producing the electricity people rely on to live their daily lives.
Look at Latvia. >45% hydro, plenty of space for wind, both on shore and off shore, and hardly any of that potential realised with only 2.2% active wind energy production.

Significant public investment in wind energy announced to start construction in... 2026. That is a glacial pace in the face of an ecological and geopolitical crisis situation.
Show HN: Predicting Car Accident Legal Case Values (CO, CA)
i think if one were looking for a more philosophical approach to calculus, apostol would be a good choice.

i personally have found calculus to be useful in a fair number of domains i find interesting. anywhere computers process signals from the physical world, it tends to show up, whether it be sound, vision, or other signal types entirely.

not to say that graph theory and abstract algebra aren't important (especially in things like discrete algorithms or cryptography) just rather if you want to build systems that interface with the physical world, you need the original language of physics as well as all the linear systems and sampling theory to go with it.
Living in China or not, you are giving opinion about you don't understand. You probably didn't read the story of the 2 Michaels.

They didn't "do anything stupid". They are 2 Canadians that were arrested because Canada had to obey a treaty with the U.S. that mandates the country to arrest anyone that the American justice has judged as guilty. That treaty forced Canada to arrest the daughter of Huawei. In retaliation China arrested the 2 Michaels. The former U.S. "grab-them-by-da-pussy" in chief found it funny to keep her locked so didn't care about it. The whole thing got solved when Biden let her go and China released the 2 Michaels.

The bottom line is: China doesn't give a *** to rule of the law. I hope you don't discover that by yourself.
> For a good portion of the time that the Bretton Woods system actually operated, the head of that Treasury division was Paul Volcker (yep, THAT Paul Volcker!)

Bretton Woods operated from 1945 to 1971. Paul Volker served as the under secretary of the Treasury for international monetary affairs from 1969 to 1974. What am I missing here?
Sure, but if you’re rolling out an SOE for a business it’s really not much more work.
My guess, we'll be back wearing them again in two months.
In my time building Go apps in the past, you'd need to specify the netgo tag and others. Not sure if this is necessary anymore, but I can think of a few Go packages that require CGO and what not that will not work using a scratch image.
I stopped going when they stopped having real book stores
My understanding is, that there really is no issue paying. There are only 7 banks hit by full sanctions IIRC.
I'm not sure that's true about consumption in general?

But in any case, I don't think it matters too much whether individual taxes are progressive or regressive or flat. That consideration only really makes a difference for the overall tax system. Individual taxes can be designed to be as efficient as possible, as long as the overall system is as progressive/flat/regressive as desired.
>Particularly those who care about their grades and are actually trying to abide by the spirit of the thing and not game the system.

A grading system that is more work for students focused on the grade over learning is something I would see as a feature not a bug.
I'd probably wreck meals less if I understood how microwaves act on foods with varying moisture and lipid proportions.
Yea, though apparently they get 0.3% of their electricity from solar which seems crazy to me.
Easier when you cheat on the documentation. Sitting on two chairs at the same time is hard.

> In November 2012 it was discovered that over 5,000 small components used in five reactors at Yeonggwang Nuclear Power Plant had not been properly certified; eight suppliers had faked 60 warranties for the parts. Two reactors were shut down for component replacement, which was likely to cause power shortages in South Korea during the winter.[23] Reuters reported this as South Korea's worst nuclear crisis, highlighting a lack of transparency on nuclear safety and the dual roles of South Korea's nuclear regulators on supervision and promotion.[24] This incident followed the prosecution of five senior engineers for the coverup of a serious loss of power and cooling incident at Kori Nuclear Power Plant, which was subsequently graded at INES level 2.[23][25]

> In 2013, there was a scandal involving the use of counterfeit parts in nuclear plants and faked quality assurance certificates. In June 2013 Kori 2 and Shin Wolsong 1 were shut down, and Kori 1 and Shin Wolsong 2 ordered to remain offline, until safety-related control cabling with forged safety certificates is replaced.[26] Control cabling in the first APR-1400s under construction had to be replaced delaying construction by up to a year.[27] In October 2013 about 100 people were indicted for falsifying safety documents, including a former chief executive of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and a vice-president of Korea Electric Power Corporation.[28]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_South_Korea
As did Israel and Lebanon - as a meme it's been shot for a while
Thank you! This is very useful!
Well, let's start with commodities. They have value, see, and that value contains both the exchange value (what it's worth in exchange for another commodity) and the use value (the value it provides as a commodity, like a coat keeping you warm.)

But exchange value of commodity to commodity is a pain, so inevitably people tend to turn to a commodity that can be the "money commodity". A universal store of value, in this case gold.

Then exchange becomes commodity -> money -> commodity. Gold becomes the interface between commodity exchange.

But, over enough time something else happens. Hoarding, luck, and gains in the money form mean someone now has enough spare gold to skip straight to money -> commodity, which then can be sold for more money when prices fluctuate.

Now you have two flows: commodity -> money -> commodity and money -> commodity -> more money.

The first one uses gold as a means of smoothing the interface between commodity transactions, the second, however, makes increasing the store of gold the goal. But that surplus gold doesn't come from just anywhere. It's not just ethereal excess, it needs to come from either the raw material value or the labor that was used to produce the commodity. While rarely, surplus value comes from making a commodity cheaper, the bulk of the excess gold in a money -> commodity -> money transaction comes from extracting value from labor.
Oral exams are awesome. The problem is they don't scale up to a high number of students. A teacher with hundreds of students literally cannot afford the time and effort to properly examine the knowledge of the students. So they make these multiple choice tests they can just apply to every student in parallel.

All of these problems with academia are rooted in the fact it's a mass education system designed to teach hundreds if not thousands of people all at once.
Yeah, a big thing that makes gold messy is that you can have massive supply shocks. Asteroid mining in the next few centuries are likely to make that worse.

Gold being poorly divisible also makes it very impractical for day to day coinage of a growing population. Eventually, the coins start getting so tiny as to be impossible to work with. I believe that's a big reason why we started using silver and copper for smaller denominations at some point.
I think you're arguing against a straw man? Maybe you can give a concrete example of the behaviour you're concerned about.

Neither of the Google C++ Swiss Table presentations I've seen were about how somehow std::unordered_set can be replaced by this completely different thing. The existing container is just useless, that's sad but there's nothing to be done about it because the ABI break cost is unacceptable.

Instead the talks were about why this thing (Swiss Tables) makes sense, how you can make use of it in your own software, and maybe about tricks you can use in your own data structures, or about how Hyrum's law interacts with this work.
Replying here because I can no longer edit.

Yes, my bad. I confused this with something I read a long while back (~10Y). Energy production uses enrichment in ~20% range. Thank you for generously correcting my answer. As for a follow-up, I genuinely mixed up with something on the general ballpark of '90-94%' -> Is it something about Thorium-based breeder reactors? What kind of processes use high enrichment in this range
I would be very skeptical because the display surface of the door always seems to be kind of toasty warm.

These doors are brightly lit; they are a lot of pixels; each door has the equivalent of a computer and a couple graphics cards in them. I believe that the doors even have active cooling fan vents on the sides (the doors are something like 3 inches thick!).

None of this says "power savings" to me.
An increasing population wouldn’t need more gold, gold (and money backed by it) would just become more valuable, right? Or, in other words, prices would drop and there would be deflation, for better or for worse.
Makes sense, though that wasn't well explained in the article.
Eh, that's what eg income taxes are for.

If you want to do redistribution to help the poor, the impact of the overall tax system is important. You don't need to make every single tax progressive.

Individual taxes, especially sin taxes, should be designed to do their job as efficiently as possible.
Curiously, I haven't had these problems in Python/cherrypy/django/flask, Haskell/snap/yesod, NodeJS/express/nextjs, so, maybe it's something beyond lack of .net experience.
why are they not updating the value?
This is a bit paradoxical because it also works the other way around.

I definitely have the same resonance in terms of understanding, but I am also feeling like "Gosh, they had no clue what they were doing when they [game me this advice], [prevented me to do this], [scolded me for doing that] etc. etc.
> If you truly want to reduce emissions, then you should be looking at changing the way people use transport (or avoiding it altogether) rather than merely improving the fuel source.

On top of that, only 29% of emissions in the US come from transportation.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
No one uses batteries for large scale (eg overnight) storage. They are used for grid stability (eg, 1/2 hour supply).

Reliability comes from solar and wind power redundancy and geographic distribution. If your collection area is over a few thousand square kilometres it is very rare for there to be no wind and no sun. Make it a few tens of thousand square kms (which modern high voltage transmission achieves) and your reliability is higher than coal.
Severe oppression wasn't the the topic of the comment I was replying to. It was regarding unreasonable fantasies of competence in government oppression.

You can construct an oppressive regime simply by dedicating enough people to it, but they still can't exceed the fundamental ceiling of wage:job_tenure:performance.

Consequently, every example you mentioned routinely failed.

In aggregate they accomplished oppression, but emotional pleas about "forgetting history" don't change the fact that we're talking about bureaucracies. And bureaucracies only ever approach a semblance of competency via brute force, either in resources or manpower.
“Impossible”

Meet

“Beat him with this $5 hammer until he gives up the keys”
I don't think it's inevitable, but bitcoin can be audited and transferred immensely more easily than gold.

The fact that historically, foreign countries kept gold in vaults in the US, speaks to this.

Also, gold gets mined at a faster rate when its value goes up. In that sense, bitcoin is a "harder" money.

There's also the possibility of people mining gold from asteroids, which could destroy the scarcity and value of gold.
> b) no longer needing energy to run fossil fuel exploration, extraction, and refining processes.

It looks like current geo-politics will undo years of disinvestment in the fossil fuel production while never having met the emission cut-off goals.
That is being tried, and worked well on one patient it seems, and a second more recent one: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00798-3
Big business execs: "climate change is bad... but not bad enough for me to let people keep working remotely"
There are flaws in the current bitcoin/cryptocurrency mechanism that there 'probably' will never be a 'bitcoin standard'.
The covid tests mailed to me by the US government are made in China. I'm sure the government contracted it to a US supplier who bought the tests from China...but come on . 2 years in and we aren't producing even Covid tests?

Why can't the US
government mandate hospitals need to purchase a percentage of their supplies from US manufacturers in order to receive medicaid/Medicare. It can be 10, 20%, low enough to keep costs down by importing the bulk from China, but high enough to maintain a base that can be ramped up.
And Fukushima would never happened if you were smart about it. Regulations are written in blog.
Perhaps because you will want to cook 4-5 things at the same time?

Aor of Indian households when preparing a traditional lunch will have 5-6 items (in the south, particularly in a Brahmin household, you will have one sambhar, one rasam, three vegetable currys, rice, and a fried item usually appalam). This entire meal takes three hours or so to prepare from scratch on my stove (a three burner lpg stove).
Two more usable burners will cut this down to about 2 hours
The total value of all currency right now is far higher than the value of all the gold - if there was some sort of rush back to gold the price increase would be tremendous
Not a lot of options for W2 income beyond the ones you mentioned.
Please don't argue in favour of electric car subsidies (or any other subsidies).

That's just needless paperwork, and never catches all use cases. Eg the guy who walks doesn't get an electric car subsidy. Or the guy who practices hypermiling on his ICE, vs the guy who drives his ICE like a maniac. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermiling

Much easier to just apply an emission tax (or a cap-and-trade program) and let people figure it out by themselves without extra paperwork and government favouritism.
Please don’t tell me how to talk. Please don’t go round the internet telling people how to talk, it is unbecoming. A real Bitcoiner would never try to impose their rules around speech on others.
It seems that having a controversial opinion is fuel for a good conversation.
Remember Chechnya and Grozny are a fraction of the scale that is Ukraine and its major cities.
Yeah our local mall used to have a pretty diverse assortment of stores. I haven't been inside it proper in probably 10 years, except some peripheral stores that have their own outside entrances (Target, and a couple of restaurants) but last time I was in it seemed to be all clothing or cosmetics. And the air smelled like farts.
The reason for pre-pandemic masks being mostly made in India was because it was a very low profit business that basically protected the many small-medium size incumbent who already had the machinery, know-how and connections.

Once the demand goes to levels similar to 2019 and the supply-chains stabilize, no business can escape the realities of the market unless they somehow manage to undercut the competition on price even more, which in this case is almost ridiculous.
I sympathize with the tragic situation in both these countries for the common person. My curiousness arising out of this situation is forced me to try to understand it and it’s roots. What I found definitely changed my perspective on what to expect out of this. I went in thinking this is a pivotal moment and unsure what the future looks like. I came out sad that this is not a one off thing for the people of this land. If you look at this in the context of the last 150 years - almost every prominent leader in this land was a) never phased by the (sheer) human cost to be incurred as reason to not chase the outcome they wanted and b) the people of this land have never successfully risen up to counter the oppression they faced. Many died trying but they never had the critical mass they needed to overcome the oppression. I dot not claim to know the reason why. I am sure it’s complex but it has occurred multiple times and there is something there to be said for that.

Utterly sad and tragic. But I am no longer expecting spectacular revolt and a feel good ending. History suggests this going to go down the same way it has for a long time.

I really hope and want to be wrong on this one.
Why would he? Literally nothing gutsy or illegalish.
Russia must have piece at any cost, doesn’t matter how many men, women, and children it has to kill to secure it!
Sorry I wasn't clear, I saw and understood the explanations in the article, I just find them weak.
That is due to short half-life fission products, not long half-life components.
It's possible to create N of M multi sig keys held by multiple people, making it literally impossible for any one person to comply with coercion.

And the more important point is that while yes, you can still use violence, the violence becomes more complicated and costly. This is unlike the situation with gold where you can break into my house, shoot me in the head, and carry away my gold. With bitcoin, you need to negotiate with my mind to acquire my consent, even if that negotiation is torture.
It's been interesting to watch the decline and fall of some malls and the rise of others. Hillsdale in San Mateo, Santana Row / Valley Fair in San Jose, and Main Street Cupertino are hopping. Vallco in Cupertino and Tanforan in San Bruno are dead already, and Mercado in Sunnyvale is getting there.

It feels like there's a certain style of "1980s mall", and another style of "2020s mall". The former is 2 stories of indoor corridors, primarily retail shops, with interspersed fully-enclosed restaurants and few areas to sit down. The latter is mixed-use, with condos, hotels, restaurants, and retail shops surrounding an open-air green space with lots of public seating and lawns. 1980s malls are dying fast, but 2020s malls are springing up in their place, and successfully drawing people to them.