skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a major LFTR/MSR supporter.

But the emerging economics of solar/wind prevent any non-subsidized nuclear from being viable.

Look at the solar/wind curves for the last decade. Yes, it is unlikely solar and wind will continue such a breakneck pace of improvement, but it doesn't matter. The point is that almost everyone will agree that solar and wind have not reached peak technology and economies of scale, and certainly battery storage has not either with forthcoming sodium ion and other approaches.

No existing nuclear design can compete. Natural gas turbine is being passed by unsubsidized wind/solar right now per LCOE charts. Other/new nuclear designs are (let's be honest) 10 years at a minimum before they come online. What price is being targeted by such a nuclear project?

I believe these new designs should be researched (and liquid fuel thorium research should be allowed too) and so should fusion.

I also believe that existing nuclear should probably be kept around for now for baseload and to keep the nuclear industry viable for the future.

Hopefully in 10-20 years solar/wind will stabilize, and then modular MSR/Thorium reactors can have their day.

I would love to be proven wrong, but essentially any nuclear plant has to look at the current wind/solar price, and target half of that (inflation adjusted) as a target competitive price. It's possible that won't be enough though.
Pinterest is in the middle of my Venn diagram between "signup wall i see most often after googling something random", "To this day I have no clue idea how it works" and "I don't know a single person who uses this"
That company's GPU was used in a few of Intel's early Atom SoCs, and infamously lacked documentation and source code, unlike other Intel GPUs of the time. It was also dismal in performance and efficiency, lacking a blitter and other acceleration for 2D unlike nearly all PC GPUs since the original 8514.

Ironically the source and docs were leaked many years ago, causing a lot of commotion in the OSS community; and more relevantly to this article, a Chinese underground forums community managed to make a decent usable driver for Windows XP, something neither Intel nor Imagination had.
You don't even need to make a skeleton repo first. By passing `-o merge` as extra option on the push to a non existing view, the merging of unrelated histories will be done by the server. See:
https://github.com/josh-project/josh/issues/596
Thanks, I did, and it works as well! The only issue is... well... it's not very accurate in predicting words (at least this version). It's funding* and putting other words. What version of Swype do you use?
Figurative, not literal poison. Unless you mean poison as in a substance that can cause serious harm under certain conditions. But then avoiding all such 'poisons' would probably not be that healthy.
A quibble, pipe embrittlement is not mainly from transmutation, but from atoms knocked out of place in the crystal structure.
Good question!

I am biased in this answer because I am building https://hotg.ai/ but I see the world going towards a more fragmented ecosystem. So:

- Portable computations - sending your workloads to any place where the data is

- Good local storage that keeps you compliant with local laws

(edited for format)
Here is how people get recognized:
(a) don't fix the existing stuff
(b) write a new tool to solve some problems, but not all problems
(c) get promoted, collect bonus
(d) Don't stay no more than two years, and jump to another company or another group in the same company; that way, you don't need to clean out the mess created by both (a) and (b)
(e) the people who end up maintaining (a) and (b) won't get rewarded.

Rinse and repeat.
Censorship is much more visible in modern social media because it happens after the publishing. Somebody publishes something, and then the platform reviews the material and decides to block it. In print media the filtering happened before material was published. Newspapers only print a tiny fraction of the "letters to the editor" they receive, but it doesn't feel like censorship.
Well, it doesn't help that Wikipedia doesn't actually have a single canonical version that is translated, but rather versions that are independently managed by separate communities and therefore diverge significantly
> Alternatively, they question the entire premise of social norms or morality, such as what PG has done here.

This isn't a deflection, though, it's the core point. What PG (and the rest of us) are trying to communicate is precisely that we hold different concepts of social norms and morality which used to be common in our circles. Among my friends up until the late 2000s, "insensitivity" was a minor character flaw and "ignorance" was no flaw at all. I still remember how shocked I was the first time I heard the phrase "educate yourself", because the idea it expressed was completely foreign to me - the people I personally knew who were passionate about some idea or another were always happy and excited to talk about it with people who weren't familiar.
Because it's my data. I should decide who can access it, when and on what terms. Relying on someone else to do it for me is an unnecessary middle man that exists for the only reason web developers haven't made a good technical solution that would be simple, secure and reliable enough for everyone to use. For goodness sake, we've had to come up with laws for how companies can use our data instead of solid technical solutions that address the problem.

The focus for the past 30 years has been on simplifying web content consumption. Everyone knows how to use a web browser. Why hasn't there been a similar push to make serving web content easier? There have been some attempts (Opera Unite, Sandstorm, Docker... web3?), but none have prevailed.

A possible answer could be because it has created a huge market for 3rd party services to step in and make things easier for web users. And now it's probably too late to stop the train. But there's no reason this couldn't work while empowering the user.
Isn't their sync system CRDT-based? Would be really weird to not have undo with it.
use gcc -fdump-translation-unit switch compile old code, compile new code.

compare the differenct between the old gcc AST against the new gcc AST (or differences between the AST's generated when different compile switches are used) Doesn't mean there aren't assembly language differeces, but will narrow things down.
I’ve been working on UIs for 15 years and when I read comments like this I have to wonder if you’ve worked on complex, stateful, feature-rich UIs. The potential for bugs to appear is almost exponential as you add layers, and it isn’t really the fault of the developer so much as the nature of nested behaviours. This is true in any environment, but easier to manage when human beings aren’t the ones executing your code in non-deterministic ways in variable execution settings.

The tools we have in the browser are excellent up to a point. I think the challenge comes when you need to create reusable abstractions around them several layers deep.

There are tools which help manage these challenges really well, like state charts, but they aren’t perfect and they come with their own challenges. The reality (I think) is that UIs can present quite incredible complexity, and creating tools with approachable APIs to help tame the complexity is a legitimately huge challenge.

It could be that I’m a bad software developer (most days I’m pretty sure there’s some truth in that), but I’m passionate and spend a lot of time deep in this space and exploring ways to make it better. It isn’t rocket science, but it isn’t digging holes either. The react team is a bunch of smart people and they’re doing good work on solving a tough challenge.

I don’t see a Ponzi scheme at all. Sorry if I’ve missed some sarcasm or something here - feel free to disregard if that’s the case (or if it isn’t, too)
Yes, patents do hamper innovation. But this does not acknowledge or address the counterfactual of whether not having a patent system would hamper innovation to a greater extent.

Without this the argument rests on an unstated assumption / magical thinking, which is not borne out by historical data.

It’s like saying that traffic lights impede the flow of traffic (true), without acknowledging the fact that not having traffic lights would result in much greater congestion (also true).
> Storage cost is plummeting even faster than solar or wind cost ever did.

About batteries, that's no longer true - lithium, nickel and cobalt prices have exploded in recent months. Furthermore they're impractical ( you need massive space, and then you have a giant fire hazard) and most importantly, needed elsewhere. EV adoption is already stifled by lack of sufficient supply of batteries, and heavy duty vehicles are let to be electrified. Replacing all cars, buses, trucks, etc. ( and apparently trains in the US because they can't be bothered to electrify like normal countries) with EV versions will require a lot of batteries. And of course they have a limited lifecycle, and need to be replaced. And speaking of lifecycle, a nuclear reactor has 2-3 times ( at least) the life of a solar panel or wind turbine.

About hydrogen, green hydrogen in any quantities is only theoretical at the moment.

IMHO the best way forward is to hedge bets and do everything - build nuclear power plants ( and ffs don't close existing ones that can continue to operate to replace them with gas "temporarily" like the dimwits in Belgium are doing), expand renewables, invest in different potential solutions for storage. Fuel cells will probably have a part to play in transportation too, e.g. in aviation. However getting rid of the only low-CO2 baseload power source we have is shortsighted.
I use Insight Timer, completely free. I just use the timer mode in the app, so I can see my stats overtime.

Meditation is one of those things that you do not notice immediate benefits. It takes a couple of weeks.

Start with 5 mins a day and aim to build up to 10mins.

Has it transformed my life? Probably not.

Has it helped me stay calmer under high pressure situations? Absolutely.

The biggest change is you start to become self aware of how you are feeling.

"okay, I am feeling anxious and can feel my heartrate accelerating. That's okay, let's just focus on my breathing and stay calm"

Etc
> but don't see why there's so much interest in nuclear when low-tech concentrated solar in the desert can get the job done

Because not every location has high solar irradiance[0] nor wind density[1].

I'm not sure why comments (for and against nuclear/renewables) with energy ignore this factor. Wind, hydro, and solar aren't homogeneously distributed around the globe (let alone the US) nor through time. The conversations always devolve into "why do we need nuclear when there's so much sun" vs "baseloads."

The truth is that you should be using whichever resource best matches your environment. If you can get away without nuclear, that's totally cool. If you can't, then nuclear is a far better option than coal or gas. That's about it, and I'm tired of pretending it isn't. Pro nuclear is supposed to mean that nuclear tech is on the table. It shouldn't mean "nuclear for everything" or "nuclear everywhere." Just use whatever works in your area and gives you the cheapest and most reliable power (under the constraint of zero operating emissions). Anything else is typically not meaningful discourse unless we're willing to dig way deep into the nuances and everyone involved has a decent amount of expertise on the subject (I'm guessing most of us don't). There's so many constraints that go into power systems (reliability, land usage, access, population density, resource access, diversification, etc) that are never discussed in these forums I just don't think we can meaningfully discuss except at the high abstract level and mostly appeal to experts. Which as far as I'm aware most experts say "nuclear is better than coal and gas. Let's do as much as we can with hydro, wind, and solar, and if that's not enough nuclear is the next best option."

[0] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/solar/where-solar-is-fou...

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/wind/where-wind-power-is...
Also note that coal power plants release many times more radiation in the environment than nuclear power does.
...so you agree that the Republican Party has morphed into an outright White, Christian nationalist, identity-based party, but think that identity politics on the left is somehow worse?

I would say "disingenuous" is on point here.
They turn unproductive, cheap land into something more valuable. A second advantage is that it helps combat desertification. A downside is that the temperatures reduce the efficiency of the panels so you need to mitigate that.
I use zsh4humans, which is close to vanilla, much much faster than ANY other framework and still allows to easily import and update plugins/completions.
>but that has long moved to air freight

Well, not even air freight. How much extremely time-sensitive information is actually transported physically these days?

I have a few things like my tax return but most of what I deal with these days is sent electronically if it's really urgent.
Thank you so much for your encouragement! It's unfortunate I don't have any other place/people to show this to and to ask for feedback. But even the small number of feedback I get here is better than none. Thanks again! :)
Nice. Software homepage is still up at http://identicalsoftware.com/xwpe/ (with self-signed https), screenshots at http://identicalsoftware.com/xwpe/screenshots.html . FAQ about the original software preserved at https://web.archive.org/web/20030402074122/http://www.astro.... (from 2003(!), later versions are 404s). Ironically enough, the homepage itself describes this as a fork aiming to continue maintenance since the previous author of the software had stopped responding to inquiries about it. A perfect example, if perhaps a regrettably short-lived one, of how ensuring the Right to Fork can help address concerns about FLOSS maintainership.
What would happen if you worked 8 hours a day?
I heard that was so that other humans could see what we were looking at (though dogs may also benefit).

What I did notice was that dog sclerae are more visible than wolf sclerae, and I believe that to be for similar reasons, so a human can read where exactly the dog is looking.

What really blew my mind was learning that the "puppy dog eyes" look was due to extra orbital muscles that dogs have and wolves lack. Dog faces evolved to respond to human sensitivity to facial expressions.
If I said:

1. "Fuck Jesus, fuck America, kill all men."

2. "Fuck BLM, fuck diversity."

Which one do you think would get me cancelled?

Conservatives have comically little social power. Further, you can basically say anything you want around them, while conversations with the average liberal are a careful affair.

Perhaps though I am blind. Are there contemporary instances of conservative driven cancellations? The definition I like of cancellation is: removing privileges from a person when their qualities do not predict harmful use of those privileges.

For example, in the CBS article you linked, with regard to the parents, schools, CRT issue: I acknowledge the parents are restricting speech, but I don't think it violates the spirit of free speech. Teachers can say whatever they like, and parents are free choose what their kids listen to. On the same note, I think it is fine for schools to be forced to omit creationism when discussing evolution.

On defining cancellation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30770206

My personal axe to grind on left driven cancel culture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25977399
For intermediate or advanced Python, David Beazely's books are great.

I don't know of any beginning Python books as good as Learning Perl was back in the day. Python has gotten to be a confusing language and maybe not even the best choice for beginners any more though. What is the best choice then? I don't know. Each is terrible in its own way.
Knowing how they're hijacking my bandwidth for their Xfinity hotspot service, the dark patterns to enable it, and the hiddenness of disabling it - it doesn't seem implausible.
That is simply amazing, thanks for sharing :)
This position means that if I create a forum for fans of a band, neither I nor anyone else should have the right to remove comments trying to sell hair products or discussing cooking recipes. Not to mention sharing (legal) pornographic images.
This is going to invite all the people who know nothing about the language and the circumstances with regarding to Ariane 5. :)
8 minute is selling solar + storage for 4cents/kWh. Nuclear can't compete with that.

https://www.8minute.com/solar-projects/
It’s totally opt in, and in development only, so react doesn’t prevent you from using that other lib
Indonesia will, like everywhere else, end up relying on overwhelmingly cheaper renewables. Nukes will turn out to be a very expensive detour. We can only hope, for the sake of these put-upon people, that they abandon the nukes before they spend too much on them.

Storage and distribution of synthethic liquid fuels such as ammonia will probably be best adapted to Indonesian needs.
There is an assumption here that long-term mostly mild symptoms are unique to COVID instead of prevalent. There is an assumption here that such things are cumulative and will threaten everybody.

The reality seems to be much more like long term disease side effects are relatively common, extremely difficult to diagnose, and just starting to be understood.

For example there have been recent publications indicating the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV, often called "mono") is a cause or potentiator of multiple sclerosis.

We also have "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "fibromyalgia" which are essentially just clusters of symptoms with no known definitive cause which are quite possibly "Long-<disease X>" among others.

You're also neglecting the long term psychological and other effects of lockdowns.

It is not clear that the benefits of forced lockdowns or forced vaccinations beat the alternatives or that such things are justifiable in a free society... and if you want to live in a dystopian society that matches your morality I suggest you move to one.

As for me the cost/benefit of lockdowns has become clear to me and I'll vote with my feet if faced with another one.
Pretty easy to get llvm segfaults, I got that with pony also in development versions. The difference to rust is that this happens with rust compiled binaries also at run-time, in pony very rarely.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+SIGSEG... => 87 + 291

vs https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues?q=is%3Aissue+SIGSEG... => 11 + 50

Now compare that to a safe systems language, e.g. sbcl: https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl/+bugs?field.searchtext=SIGSE... => 1 (invalid)

or clisp: https://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/bugs/?q=%7B%22status%22%3A+%...
=> 15
I'll claim there's no such thing. Any good business can benefit from having more people than 1. One would have to be deeply eccentric to refuse to hire anyone, even an executive assistant, to scale up the business.
SaaS.

I do not believe it loses us any clients -- responding to RFPs or filling out questionnaires are a waste of our time. If they want us to jump through those hoops they are not our customer.

We simply do not give a shit about "their procedure". Our procedure is : credit card gets charged or wire hits our account and you can use our services for 30 days. We bill you on a day 25. If you do not pay by the 1st, your service gets shut off in 1 minute after your "paid for" period is over. We do not restore the service until you pay us.

We have gone this way after in a previous company I was involved with found that it is cheaper to sell invoices to factoring companies that take 30-50% than chase checks from companies with signed contracts
This is a good point as well.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey admits he's 'partially to blame' for a centralized
I’m getting the impression that someone expected this junior to be somewhat more productive than could be reasonably expected and you were caught in the middle trying to (as you said) code for two people. Lousy outcomes for all involved.
> so that you don't have to think about the decentralized aspect all the time

Depending how strict you want to be about this, torrents and Secure Scuttlebutt are pretty good in this respect. I especially love Secure Scuttlebutt because it simply makes the client the store of which messages it's seen which also means there is no authoritative view of the whole network but that's by design.

But probably the even better example here is email. It's the OG federated protocol and nobody thinks of it that way. Probably because casual users have consolidated around a handful of convenient clients (gmail, hotmail, whatever) and not thought too hard about how emails get exchanged from one corporate mail server to another.
I didn’t read that closely, but isn’t this is a segfault in the compiler, not a miscompilation?
I'm not sure how one would do that? You cannot create Hide My Email addresses purely to send mail. Your company would have to first send mail to that address, and then the person behind it may reply
If I was prez, there'd be a lot more national parks. There'd also be "greenways" connecting them.

I'd also make national parks out of sensitive marine areas, where no fishing or motorized boats would be allowed.
Postel's law is for when it's hopeless to get to a sane standard in the near-to-mid term, as with HTML and JS back in the day. Browsers had to implement ridiculously lenient parsing to provide a reasonable user experience on top of terrible markup and scripts.
How do you go about building a better society collaboratively when you started with calling your intellectual opponents ignorant and insensitive??

That's what actually turn people off joining collectivist causes; the judgmental rhetoric, moral absolutism and holier-than-thou attitude.
We could use a very basic standard so that I don’t have to click on cookie banners for every single website…
Why not just use phil+craigslist@gmail.com or phil+kmart@gmail.com? same effect and lands in the same phil@gmail.com address
> Grid-scale battery systems have fallen more than 70% since 2015.

Then why are there checks notes 0 deployments ? Battery costs are exploding currently due to the hikes in prices of lithium, nickel and cobalt. Battery demand outstrips supply by far, and batteries are needed elsewhere.

> It's competing against wind and solar, the two cheapest forms of generation.

They're complimentary, not competition. Solar+wind alone
Thank goodness it's not like that anymore. I remember those days too. People thought we were insufferable jerks back then, too, but they weren't on the Internet to tell us so. They were telling us in real life, but many of us weren't receptive to it.

> I still remember how shocked I was the first time I heard the phrase "educate yourself", because the idea it expressed was completely foreign to me - the people I personally knew who were passionate about some idea or another were always happy and excited to talk about it with people who weren't familiar.

I think what happens is, after a while, smart people get tired of exerting the effort to provide basic information over and over again to people who could find it by way of a trivial Google search.
On http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/freebooks.html a little over halfway down the page, it says:

> OpenBSD is famous for its extra concern on “security”. (the entire “security” problems in today's computing industry is a egregious insult to how things should be. Security problems are in fact created and fermented by the unix community. If unix did not exist, the computing world would harbor a lot less of hackers.)

That's a bold claim. That can't be factually true. Can it?