skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For nuclear you can generate as much power as you want wherever you want whenever you want. The downsides are it's highly centralized, extremely high up front investment, and generates nuclear waste and failure concerns.

For solar generating power itself doesn't generate waste and you can do it centralized, distributed, or a mix. The downsides are you either need to pay for backup systems that can take full load or enormous energy storage facilities. If a mixed model is at play then you need specialized equipment at each distributed location and you lose economies of scale in implementation/maintenance cost as a tradeoff for flexibility but still rely on a transmission infrastructure for when the sun doesn't shine. In a full distributed model the same applies but you lose economies of scale on generation/storage and margins thereof as well at the gain of not having transmission infrastructure. In all cases it's not an option for extreme latitudes. Also panels and storage technology do not last forever resulting in waste. Depending on technologies involved that can be anything from materials in the panel to whatever chemicals are in the old batteries.

A lot of the complexity and limitation in the solar option is inherent to all renewables of today not necessarily something with solar itself. In all moving to any solution that isn't burning coal or gas is probably a net improvement though. If I were to pick a magic solution that checks every box reasonably well compared to alternatives I'd have to pick a future tech like fusion or similar that doesn't actually exist as there isn't a single answer today that has no downsides in the generation of power.
professional developer for close to 20 years, never used calculus. but i also a dumb java on the backend javascript on the front end web jockey.
While it is true that there are a ton of great games out there, the reality is that if you enjoy multiplayer, community matters A LOT.

There was an excellent game released recently called Chivalry 2. It was an extremely fun "realistic-ish" sword fighting game with huge servers and excellent implementation.

Last time I checked, nobody was playing. This is true for SO MANY interesting multiplayer games.

So I feel what this person is saying. Popular multiplayer games are not to my taste these days ( I miss Quake III ). And there isn't a huge community for a lot of the games I am interested in. So it goes.

Another thing is: A lot of these games are made for young people. So yes they do dumb dances and are cringe-y but you have to just get over that. I very normal and was really into zombies when I was 11, I'm sure I would be doing the Fortnite dances as well. Though I may have been contrarian and into PUBG...
The goal of MISRA C mostly isn't to prevent problems in your code. It's to make the code more amenable to static analysis, which _can_ detect problems.
Not seeing any mention of Data Center Bridging Protocol there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center_bridging
The implementation of footnotes on the right side of the screen is really cool, and not something I've seen before. Such a cool idea. I think it would be interesting for news publications to try that out in articles as well. It could allow for brevity in the main article text, but still allow those who want to know the source of a statement/fact or more detail the option to obtain it.
As a chicken or a human?

Life should have a shot at consciousness. It's your privilege to be able to decide that you would have preferred not to have been born. Other lifeforms may come to an opposing belief, and they deserve that chance.

Most likely a chicken doesn't have complex enough thought to reach that, but that means it also doesn't worry about the day of slaughter, it just enjoys life, assuming it has a good range.
It was also my experience that lots of places in Italy don't understand the concept of "no dairy". We tried to look up how to say it, but it loosely translates to "no milk".

My brother told every restaurant, "No milk, please." Then they'd give him cheese.

So we learned to say, "No milk or cheese."

So they gave him pasta in a cream sauce. No milk. No cheese. Just butter.
“Modern nuclear plants with light water reactors are designed to have maneuvering capabilities in the 30-100% range with 5%/minute slope, up to 140 MW/minute.[7] Nuclear power plants in France and in Germany operate in load-following mode and so participate in the primary and secondary frequency control. Some units follow a variable load program with one or two large power changes per day. Some designs allow for rapid changes of power level around rated power, a capability that is usable for frequency regulation.[8] A more efficient solution is to maintain the primary circuit at full power and to use the excess power for cogeneration.[9]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#Nuc...
This. The importance of learning calculus and model building (physics) is all about learning to reason, making predictions and quantify domain validity. It's not about calculating derivatives or proving continuity. I think people take these requirements too literally.
I really enjoyed the book, particularly Ann's trip reports, but fair warning: it contains a lot more love triangle drama and, uh, old people sex, than I was expecting. Also, I wish I could buy just the first half of the book -- I don't want to end up on a watchlist!
I wonder why we can't hire more teachers to grade word problems in tests like SAT, like Asian countries do. Those problems are much harder to game or cram.
You still need to tag your own unions though, right?
Article writing is becoming increasingly valued by search engine optimisers. When your article is published on a website, a link back to your website can be included. This link is valued highly by search engines as it is one of the few links on a page and the page has unique content on it.
> Really the whole debate is mostly scientism: nuclear power didn't lose because it was too dangerous. It lost because it is too expensive.

If I understand correctly, in saying that this is scientism, you're saying something like that people on the other side of this debate think science and technology are the only relevant things going on here? Another possibility is that they do think other things are relevant (cost, political considerations, ...) but that they think that the expense is not intrinsic to the technology.

While I'm sure you've heard the "but it's expensive because of the anti-nuke people!" claim many times and have your own well-considered reasons to think that mistaken in some sense -- if I'm wrong and it turns out that it being expensive has nothing very much to do with anti-nuke protests, does that really make me a scientist? "Scientist", the way you're using it, is a statement about somebody's epistemelogical beliefs, I think?

> It's funny how your forward-looking worldview can turn all retro on you within just a few decades.

This could be seen as ad hominem and could usefully have been omitted I think
Pick a cloud platform and write your own system to manage instances. All clouds come with REST APIs for allocating instances and you can manage a warm pool yourself, it's not that hard and for a game this is a core competency. Why bring in something complex like Kubernetes into the mix if you don't strictly need it.

The larger concern here is the egress bandwidth costs from large clouds, which if you don't have Fortnite scale and favorable deals, will cost you ~9c per-GB. If you use bare metal, you usually don't have to pay that, the cost is baked in to the instance.

Cons of bare metal being difficult provisioning, generally having to purchase instances ahead of time whether you need them or not, and having them sit around and not be used when you are off peak time.

Best to write your own service provisioning layer that can support both bare metal and cloud instances, that way you fully understand it, can make changes to it, and it becomes a core competency for your team.
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> And rich people have the luxury of more time to study

Those rich students, they cheat by studying harder!

Btw, I don't actually think being rich correlates with better academic achievements. It's better to be in the middle, not rich, not poor. To keep motivated.
If Twitter can block Donald Trump, why not user posting against Hindu God: Delhi
maybe another way to say this is:
this is fantastic, keep up the good work. However, can you also PLEASE, add a pure "keyword search" where I can type a keyword and get a list of pages that have that exact word in them? in some cases (which might be the minority of searches, but still very important) I need to search for an exact good old fashioned keyword or phrase (similar to what `find` does except sorted by some magical "page rank" like metric. Like the good old days of google.
Maybe this can be a paid feature?!
The logician, concert pianist, Taoist, and magician Raymond Smullyan has always been of interest to computer scientists. Besides being a polymath, he had Feynman's knack for being able to explain complex subjects in an accessible way.

In Raymond's case, via puzzles that unfolded ideas in recursion, infinity, Gödel's theories, logic, and more.

The Raymond Smullyan Society was formed to preserve his work, and it has just launched this web site.
When space permits I prefer full-size 1U systems that have dual/hotswap power supplies and room for three low profile pci-e slots, such as a Dell R630/R640 or similar. With Intel chipset 4-port 10GbE SFP+ NICs this would max out at twelve ports plus whatever is on the motherboard daughtercard for network interfaces (2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE copper, or whatever).

for smaller or shallow stuff, supermicro, msi, tyan, asus
I'm in the same situation with LxAGI (https://lxagi.com/). It's very difficult to get away from skilled human training. I think it's actually a good thing, except for scalability problems.
> instead to guarantee a standard distribution of scores

Which is precisely what you want in an assessment test. Any assessment test.

You only want a normal distribution if the quality under assessment is normally distributed, but you do want a test where the worst candidate does better than chance, and exactly one candidate gets a perfect score. That's an ideal which is only approximated, but it is the ideal.
> An empirical survey of the 674 nuclear power plants that have ever been built showed that private economic motives never played a role. Instead military interests have
always been the driving force behind their construction. Even ignoring the expense of dismantling nuclear power plants and the long-term storage of nuclear waste, private economy-only investment in nuclear power plant would result in high losses— an average of five billion euros per nuclear power plant, as one financial simulation revealed.

https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.67058...
This rings true with my Gen Z high school experience as of ~7 years ago.
I don’t know how far you got into it, but I will underscore it does have a story and an ending (multiple, even). You won’t be in an infinite daily grind to finish, and your actions have consequences.
I'm pro-nuclear power, for the time being.

What worries me is that we need to have MTBF go down as the number of plants go up, otherwise we're making planet-wide safety worse. And I'm expecting full-system MTBF to be really hard to measure, let alone guarantee improvements on. Hence, I'm going to assume we're on path to making nuclear power riskier by scaling it up.

We've only been splitting atoms for a hundred years. It's very unlikely that we've seen the worst-ever accident yet, or the last bomb ever dropped. I have no idea what to do with this feeling, but I am happy my time on Earth is bounded.
Oil is not not just about 'The Environment' but it's 'Major War'.

So the calculus is palpitate.

Iraq 1 and 2, Iran sanctions, Saudi/Yemen, rise of Chavismo, now Russia, so much of it is Oil driven.

But with Nuclear, guess who is the #1 source of Uranium? Russia!

That said, Canada and Australia have plenty. And those are 'Good Places'.
In that case, it was a doubly stupid move to antagonize Russia against denuclearized Ukraine.

Unless it was done on purpose.
Nobody is promoting communism here. But capitalism is imperfect in the sense that it's unfair. The unfairness motivates productivity. It's the best system but it is still highly flawed. Wealth inequality is one of the major consequences of capitalism that we haven't quite figured out how to tame.

It is freeloading in every sense of the word. You pay a slave a dime for work that generates you hundreds of dollars the slave still benefits, but you are still freeloading even if the slave is benefiting by a ten cents.

It's how things are, I'm not calling for a better system. But I'm not so stupid as to sell 100% of my loyalty to a company that in the end is shafting me.
>but the idea of standardised testing being equivalent across all factors just strikes me as being fundamentally untrue.

What's your take on MIT's stance?

our ability to accurately predict student academic success at MIT 02 Our research shows this predictive validity holds even when you control for socioeconomic factors that correlate with testing.
I have been trying to make the transition from being an AI engineer to being a web3 engineer recently so I've decided to make this. Turns out extracting the gas price was easy and I was able to create the whole thing in a couple of hours. Then I realized I really want an alert to tell me when the gas is cheap enough to buy my favourite NFT, so I added it... except that this feature took me almost 4 days to add.... I have been programming for over 30 years but I have always been doing microcomputing, server, data analysis and AI. I've never done any front end UI programming at all. Cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility for this notification feature was really nothing but a huge pain in the arse, and I still couldn't find a way to get that work in any apple products.

Anyway, I don't know how many more months the gas price will still be relevant, but here it is, a gas monitor with alert. Let me know what you think?
Roblox and kids might not be the best example, given that that doesn't reflect the reality for kids they'd want to escape.
> On the other hand, there does seem something funny about GPT-3 presents this shiny surface where you can send it any query and it gives you an answer, but under the hood there are a bunch of freelancers busily checking all the responses and rewriting them to make the computer look smart.

The author seems to be stating that there are people live rewriting answers on the fly so that they look better. I don't really see the evidence of that.

What openai states is that they have humans performing labeling and data cleaning, which, duh?

And then there's a bunch of examples where it gives the wrong answer, and that it's not truly AI, which, also duh...
Wanna know what? Wow is my first response!

Amazon's c5n.metals are actually too big for me but it gets most of the virtualization out of the way. And it's about $1.17/hr/box spot. Now there's a ton to like about Amazon: EBS, deployment, snapshots, and a whole bunch of other stuff is 100%. The AMZ linux image + DPDK works and built with no nonsense. Passing around public Amazon AMIs to help people eliminate code builds by just jumping into a ready-to-go-setup is another great upside.

Meanwhile on Equinix I've got a higher CPU frequency on a more gentle size (c3.small.x86) for $.17/hr. It's got two Mellanox NICs and two Intel NICs and although I haven't run any code yet, whatever I can use there is probably fine. I will be darn interested in comparing the two setups.

Thanks.
I'd like to see 1980s-1990s graphics programmers get away with just discrete math for all the innovations they did in that period.
Buried in the details it says that MIT will be accepting anyone over a (presumably secret) threshold, not using it as a ranking tool as some people might indicate.
If I was paid to read massive amounts of repetitive English with only 25 keywords besides nouns you are darn right I would setup syntax highlighting.
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It's not just the slaughter of chicks that's horrific, but:

1 - how they do it -- male chicks are often just thrown alive in to grinders

2 - the debeaking of chickens

If this was happening to humans there'd be outrage, but because it happens to animals most people don't care.
If we need calculus for CS, I wish we'd teach it under the CS heading so that exposure to math didn't have to be so biased towards real analysis. Students spend years achieving this arbitrary (unless you're going to be an engineer) goal and end up with the erroneous (and often harmful) intuition that all spaces are continuous metric spaces.
Yes, true -- it's more accurate to say "architectures traditionally don't have a way to know the stack base." Certainly, having an architecturally-defined way to know the base of the stack is/would be really really helpful, and would allow stack overflow to be at once less dangerous and much more debuggable!
I feel like your arguments on plumage could equally be applied to lower-cost cosmetics, to the point where being able to recognize that someone is 'that specific Heavy', is more important than 'a Heavy with the limited-release Sandvich Holster', and probably easier/faster.

The holster is rare, and maybe you recognize that it's rare, but they could have just gotten it out of a drop and kept it. The Heavy with the funny flip-flops and sunglasses is probable more recognizable at-a-glance, but could have bought a bunch of cheap cosmetics for a few dollars on the market.

And in the case of keeping an uber ready, won't you have to stay pocketed long enough to learn if someone is a good or less-good choice? Even if it's raining hell on your position, you'd have a rough view of the Heavy and a kill feed that highlights the assists you're getting from them. What more is there to look for?

As for the Battlefield games you mention, my biggest issue in 5 was that all of the player models seemed to blend into the background. Most of the time, I wasn't able to spend brainpower trying to figure out who is which type of class, simply because I was too busy trying to figure out if some dull, misshapen blob was part of the map or trying to kill me. Combined with the general feel of the game (poor, imo), I was never motivated to spend enough time on it to get into anything serious. Haven't bought another Battlefield game since, and BF5 was on a steep sale at the time.
I think it's usually not improvement at the highest levels.
? In the meantime there's plenty of Uranium in Canada and Australia (and Russia) just 'sitting there', and so there's no need for complicated extraction.
You're constructing a vegan strawman here. Ethical veganism is about reducing harm to animals. You can't harm a hypothetical chicken that was never born.

Are you seriously suggesting torturing and slaughtering animals is a better alternative to a world where that doesn't happen and that might have less chickens?
> "post" was a different word for "mail",

this is clear

> and "fix" was for Sendmail

this is unclear. I don't know how you get "fix" from "Sendmail"
Hey!

My name is Jakub and together with my friend Michal we recently started on a mission to help improve the GraphQL tooling.

Our first initiative is to build a tool that can help «guess» the structure of internal APIs and combine it under a single GraphQL endpoint. We want to make this proces visual and as automatic as possible.

In the example posted above, we re-shape the responses so that a page in this web application can fetch only the fields it needs. This is just one of the things that can be done - there's more to explore.

Let me know what you think! (about this idea or about GraphQL in general)
More like "Things to do in Denver when you're dead."
Came here to make essentially the same comment as you? Why should we care about the opinions on GPT3 from people who aren't interested (or able?) to understand even the most simple ideas about how it works.

These sort of models take the context and output so far and predict a probability distribution over the next character. The next character is then sampled from the probability. In written text there is essentially never a single correct next character-- it's always some probability. This has nothing to do with trying to fake the inconsistent answers humans give.

Always choosing the most likely character drives GPT3 into local minima that give fairly broken/nonsense results.
and this is why trade schools like coding bootcamps are relevant at all

people aren't going to school to learn computer science, they are going to school to get a job and be effective in that field, but the universities shouldn't feel obligated to adjust to that since they've been for the privileged folks who are actually there to pursue education for the sake of higher learning for nearly 200 years (or much longer). it is mere coincidence that they have to put up with a few decades of people needing the school for subsequent employment and the school will exist after this phase as well

so with that observation it really is useful to push for trade schools again, for the people that actually need it

for the people that are really going for that upper echelon of access to other privileged people whether they get a wage-slave job or not, yeah they should slog through MIT, but everyone else should consider other things that more closely match the lane they were born into
“Hey are you available for a quick chat tomorrow?”

Only Americans know how to wrap horrible news into such a casual statement
Likewise I know people who went to MIT and are now working shitty low paying jobs in unrelated fields of study and generally have failed to get their life together in reasonable time.
I started looking for the incident I remembered from about 15 year ago and it turns out there have been many people have been arrested and jailed since then. [1]

[1] - https://www.google.com/search?q=us+citizen+jailed+for+nazi+s...
This is something your HR department should be very concerned about. If the questions you ask during your interview are not useful in finding a good candidate why are you asking. This isn't just about time either, interviews have some strong laws around them so asking the wrong question could get you in court.

I know when we wanted to do a coding test they told use we need to spend 6 months of giving everyone a coding test, have it independently graded by someone not involved in the hiring process. Then after people have worked here for 6 months we examine our actual results from those we hired and see if the tests at all predicted something useful. (or something like that - there is room in the scientific process for some variation)
Sendmail was the problem, Postfix was the fix.
US healthcare is honestly a big fat joke right now. If we had gotten rid of this private payer situation a long time ago, many of the parasites would have just died off. It truly is a system of how much we can steal from the taxpayer/patient rather than actually providing healthcare.
Passwords are a shared secret. I'm not sure I'd choose the word "insecure" but only because it's too black and white when the reality is more nuanced. They are clearly worse than doing public key auth which is the alternative and is Mandatory To Implement in the SSH (SecSH) RFCs.

Nobody said anything about requiring certificates in SSH, just public keys as authentication.
> that already happened

If you have evidence of people being unable to buy or sell goods without a vaccine passport, please share.

Oh, and do recall that the context from Revelation is that a person was completely excluded from the economy, not that they lost some privileges, so please don't waste time with false equivalences.

Although, honestly, it's probably a waste of time anyway: I just don't live in the same fantasy dimension as these people and their arguments hold no water to me.