skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet there's Japan, with low nuclear costs within the past couple decades. Were their skilled labor costs all that low?

High cost of large projects is certainly a general problem in the US, but it may not be due to labor costs alone. Here's a Bloomberg article that attributes it to "over-design, inefficient project management and misaligned politics." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-08/why-build...

I think it's entirely possible that in the US, where we have copious wind and solar resources and we've gotten bad at doing large projects economically, nuclear is not the best option. That says little about the rest of the world, though. And it's possible that small modular reactors would help even in the US, because while we suck at big infrastructure projects, we're not too bad at high-volume production in factories.

And that brings us back to fusion, because a lot of modern fusion designs would be more like factory-produced modular devices rather than large site-built infrastructure projects.
Does an HTTP gateway actually allow you to make peer-to-peer IPFS connections, or does the actual content end up being routed through the gateway? And if so, wouldn't that be equivalent to a traditional CDN from the perspective of a client?

It sounds like we'd need to have browsers implement IPFS protocol support directly for this to be a feasible alternative to centralized CDNs.
Just task switching on a CPU should not possibly be able to do that, so sounds like it's thrashing[1], would kind of fit except that with SSDs it should recover much faster than HDD. But I'd certainly put it more on IO than cpu.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrashing_(computer_science)
When I first got a cable modem around 2000, the tech installed another line where it terminated and didn't bother to put any of the line filters on. So on that drop I got all the premium channels.
No, you keep interviewing with Leet Code, and I will keep vacuuming up the fabulous sleeper candidates that cannot or will not pass your screens ;)
How’s Syncthing’s iOS situation these days? Does the app work well?
OP suggested SFTP, CVS and a $5 VPS.

I'm suggesting a 30 line yaml file and the occasional `docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d`.
I haven't thought about the bigco tech interview process like this. But now you put it out, it makes perfect sense :) I tried white board interviews about 10-12 years ago with big companies and failed miserably. Then I decided never to take a white board coding interview again which I haven't done yet. However, after working for startups and a few acquisitions later I ended up in a silicon valley big company without doing a white board coding interview. I'm not sure where I went with the story, may be to show that there are alternatives if you don't want to do white board coding.
I meant editors built with web technologies, specifically. Though I've been informed in another thread that there was one called Brackets that I hadn't known about
It syncs over wifi. There’s a windows/mac/ios app that you can drop files into and they show up on your reMarkable.

There’s even a chrome extension that lets you click a button and the page shows up on the tablet in epub form (which unfortunately doesn’t do images). You have to print-to-pdf then dump into the app to get a webpage with images onto the tablet. That part’s kind of annoying, but many articles work just fine as epub.
It's not about "harmful to society" in this case, but more "illegal, attracting attention from entities that make hosting the service much more painful and difficult".

More than once, I've had thoughts about developing some sort of discussion platform, but binned it because the thought of hosting it and having to deal with the not-fun problems of reducing spam and handling illegal content made it entirely untasteful. At least spam reduction can be done entirely on my own terms, but illegal content requires me to then coordinate with external companies or agencies, report content, figure out how to deal with and purge the content (or quarantine and hang onto it hand it over when requested), and live with the the pain of having to field DLNAs and other copyright claims.

I obviously have different feelings about piracy than I do about CSAM, but from a hosting perspective, both are just big pain points that make hosting a service where people can share non-text content a pain in the ass.
It's a lot more fun than getting fingerprinted, and you get the whole palm, too!
The plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated by government officers. They sought accountability for those violations which was denied by the supreme court. This will now be precedent for all the other officers who can violate rights; they can do so without accountability. It's a really big deal. This is the same supreme court that recently said that absolute proof of innocence is not a sufficient reason for the state to not execute someone.
Followup from "Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data? Because I’m getting null for something I know should be there" discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31667701
I use Roomba for vacuuming + Braava for moping and I'm very happy with the combo. Every Saturday morning they clean one floor and go back to charging, in the afternoon I take them upstairs to clean the other floor and it's done.

The only thing I need to do regularly is to fill water tank in Braava and wash the moping pad, and every once a while replace the bag in Roomba self-emptying base.

One thing to note is that this requires fairly high-end models, at least in case of Roomba. I used some e-series model before and I wasn't happy. Now I have i7 series and it's a big difference (primarily in self-learning and navigation)
Not regional, but limited to a relatively small number of major metro areas[1]

[1] https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports/Sweetgreen-USA/
Syncthing also has untrusted hosts support now: you can sync your files to a host you don't trust, and it keeps them encrypted on the destination.
Valetudo is not a custom firmware

Scrolling down

Building the firmware
The logical conclusion of this argument would mean that that seat-belt requirements, air bag requirements, crash testing, etc. are regulatory capture meant to impede new competition.

Assuming that's true, these requirements exist in (I think) every country which makes automobiles. And even countries with no domestic automobile production.

Why single out American oligopolies?
I see your point, but wouldn't the issue than be visiting modern websites on dated hardware? Websites have gotten more complex, because of people's demands for better experiences visually. Therefore wouldn't we need stronger computers to keep up with the artistic expression and complexity of websites?
I’ve been wondering how much RAM to order on my MBA. I’m not a dev, but I do like to have many tabs open in Brave. I’m not made of money, but I don’t want performance bottlenecks. How much would folks recommend for heavy but nontechnical use? In case it matters, I’d be plugged to a 1080 display, so not a huge draw from the graphics side of things.
> full page animated old-spice ads

This is what ad blockers are for. I don't see any ads on reddit.
> It is so easy that Fortnite (the biggest game at the time, and maybe now) was/is distributed directly by APK.

Amazon Prime Video used to be like this back in the day. You'd have to allow sideloading, install Amazon's custom store, then install the video app from there.

This sort of thing is one of the reasons I like that iPhone is locked down. I know that none of the apps I use will decide they can make reducing my phone's security a condition of using their app. If they want to be in the iPhone store -- and they do -- then they'll have to work with iPhone's strong security.
The main issue is you can accidentally nuke your own source directory and it's possible to do so in non-obvious ways. This has happened to me a few times (though thankfully had backups elsewhere).
All of those things are people management, and I agree people management is an important skill to have if you want to work in a big company in particular it isn't related to engineering. A guy who is completely non-verbal but makes a solar panel that is 5% more efficient is a great engineer, perhaps not liked by those around him but still a great engineer.

Terry Davis was a great engineer and he had the worst commutation skills you could imagine.
The amount of false negatives really depends on where the bar is for passing the interviews.

If the bar is "it looks alright and the person knows the language they're using," it's probably not generating a whole lot of false negatives. If the bar is "the candidate comes writes the optimal solution to a complex algorithmic problem in 45 minutes," then that's highly noisy and tends to filter for people who have done a very similar problem recently.

Unfortunately, too many interviewers use the latter bar for passing or failing candidates.
I hope we're a long way away from VPS providers doing automated scanning for content rather than dealing with potential copyright infringement on a complaint basis.
Sites like (for example) new reddit or many things with infinite scroll on the typical phone in many countries is effectively a disaster.

Sites that like to have fancy scroll or background effects are generally awful if you don't have a graphics card. I browse on a Celeron J4105 or a Pentium Gold sometimes (I use it to build some x32 bins) and JS-heavy sites cause full tab lockups that take minutes to resolve until anything is usable at all.

Think of devices like this: https://www.bluproducts.com/devices/studio-x10-2022/ This is a 2022 model, with 1 GB ram. On a Samsung Galaxy A03 if I swap between tabs in browser, HN will appear near instantly, I assume because it hasn't been evicted from memory, but anything heavier will take a few seconds and be a full page reload.
In design tools, like Figma, undo sometimes just walks backwards through your selection (even if you didn't change anything). It'll even switch between pages. I'm interesting in seeing if there are other ones people can bring up
We need this for:

* "Smart" homes

* Electric Vehicles

* "Power Walls"

And everything else tied to an internet connection
where I work at, it is completely discouraged to do anything out of what was asked you to do. so I don't judge the workers/slaves. It's not allowed to be creative/careful in most places if it's not harming the bosse's wallets.
I used to be a huge fan of robot vacuums back when I had hardwood floors. When I switched to a house with carpets, I noticed my socks were never really clean and my kids started having allergies. So I bought the super-ultimate-mega model of a standard old fashioned vacuum (which cost less than half of a Roomba) and that significantly improved both my sock situation and my kids' allergies. For carpets, I don't think these tiny vacuums can compete with the powerful standard ones, the floors just don't get as clean as they can get.
> I don't think it is something that needs legislation

Why not?
Author here!

The numbers are generated directly from the current timer/counter value at the moment of the event. I'm not at all measuring time BETWEEN events. It's just a counter that overflows ~300 times per second (20MHz clock in a 16 bit counter), while the radioactive events happen every ~1-3 seconds. This ensures that the numbers are uniformly distributed and uncorrelated.

I am actually throwing away some enthropy bits doing this, as there will be significant bits to the left that i'm discarding. A somewhat next step in the future could be the assesment of how many bits can the counter be, without impacting the quality of the output. Maybe i can get something like 20 bits per event.
Easy fix, tape a boxcutter to the lid. Vale Tudo!
I thought about creating "OpenDRM" once, an open source DRM library. It was with another job in the past.

"But that's silly! You can strip it off!"

Of course you can, and you can strip DRM off proprietary DRM schemes too. All of them are cracked. That's not the point. The point is that there's a way for someone to indicate their usage terms along with a piece of media. An OpenDRM would not even necessarily encrypt, or would do so only in a very trivial way. It would instead be a standard for indicating terms of use and automatically checking for licensing entitlements.
Who is going to do that, and why?
The above comments mentioned a "coup effort." An effort does not imply possession or control, only that an effort toward such an end was made, which it was, and which the Wikipedia article describes.

I don't know where you got the phrase "Trump's coup" from, but it wasn't from myself or the grandparent.
This is why you need a language (on a framework) with high introspection, with smart insights. Excuse my opinionatedism, but this is what .NET Core gives you. It even streams JSON serialization/deserialization without much memory requirements, iirc.
You don't really think it's "great", do you? More like, an acceptable trade-off? I'd love to hear the argument if you actually are pro-DRM as a thing in itself.
How does spending your time learning about things an IDE would have avoided make you "more productive"? That's a pretty clear cut argument that you were less productive as you were doing things manually a tool would have automated. Thereby spending time being unproductive.
I strongly believe that R&D teams should have some time reserved to "do what you want" (limited to product improvement, obviously)

Perhaps this might not be appropriate in the gaming industry... and who knows if Rockstar don't already have this.

However, the GTA loading time is horrendous (and I had a spectrum sinclair when I was a kid) - surely there must have been a work item, ticket, bug reports, or whatever, for this.
Yes, probably. This can bring its own problems, though. In Britain, for example, the Treasury is extremely reluctant to approve new public capital projects, even at negative real interest rates. Investment is effectively rationed by requiring a benefit/cost ratio of above 2 (at net present value, after making heavy optimism bias adjustments) before it will approve funding. New nuclear won't get close to that on any conventional appraisal, which is one reason why our current nuclear new build is happening on an eye-wateringly expensive private finance arrangement.
You made my day. Finickiness can be fixed. I’ve always wanted to use my iPad Pro on a monitor with proper full screen since it supports 90% of my day-to-day use cases if I have that flexibility. I’ll wait for the public beta but I’m excited to try it.
Unsurprisingly, after funding the initial round of Google investment, the DoD would come back not much later to eavesdrop on the email and uploads delivered to gmail into that storage.
Do you have this in your bookmarks? Super cool you could just pull this off of your memory and have a link to it!
Life circumstances changed. I got married, we both work from home, which means there's no convenient time for extended vacuum noise and keeping the floors clear of obstacles any more. I offered the Neato to a neighbor when we moved, it was still working great after a $30 battery replacement. I now just use a Dyson stick vacuum on our mostly hardwood floors.
I think different projects are now active in different places depending on the whims of that project. They might have their own forum like https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/, or they might be active on discord, or reddit, or they might just discuss everything on github, or mailing lists.

Back in the usenet days there was really only one place to host discussions, and that was usenet. But now there are lots of places. I guess this makes it harder to find, and makes it harder to jump from community to community.

Reddit is probably the closest thing. And I wouldn't judge all subreddits by the "front page" subreddits. I think the ruby and emacs subs are good.
https://afdc.energy.gov/stations/#/find/nearest?fuel=ELEC&ev...

5,591 results for DC Fast CCS charging stations.

1,540 results for DC Fast Tesla charging stations.

46,705 results for Level 2 J1772 charging stations.

5,226 results for Level 2 Tesla charging stations.

On the routes I'm likely to take, there are more CCS charging stations than Tesla charging stations. There are definitely more J1772 charging stations around me than Tesla charging stations. We're already past the point where there's more non-Tesla chargers than Tesla chargers.

Of course, theoretically you can use adapters for Teslas (decent but expensive CCS adapters coming soon to US) but then theoretically Tesla superchargers are supposed to soon support CCS, so the count of charging stations is soon to be moot either way.
The article misses another important aspect: loss of nuclear competency.

Between the 60s and 80s, there were many nuclear reactors projects which allowed an industry to develop and get better at it.

But since the 80s, there was comparatively very few new reactors built for over 20-30 years. The workforce that had the skills and knowledge related to actually building nuclear plants had mostly retired and their replacement had only theoretical knowledge and no actual experience. This makes building new reactor much harder than it should be.

The embattled EPR project at Flammanville is an exemple of that: the specialised company that was hired to forge the nuclear vessel were simply unable to build to spec and a defective critical piece was delivered, creating delays and cost increases. In the end, they even had to use it anyway as it was not economically feasible to simply have another one made.
CVN-78s reactor according to Wikipedia:

> It is estimated that the total thermal power output of the A1B will be around 700 MW

CVN-78 has two of them.
Thank you for the recommendations! I've read the Borges, but the other two were new to me and were a great way to start my day. The sibling comment also wisely recommends Ted Chiang. "Exhalation" is probably the canonical equivalent to The Last Question.
I like to believe that serverless technologies and cloud services reduce complexity for the org, but obviously that's at the cost of offloading that complexity to the cloud providers (and welding an org's software to that provider for years, if not decades).

So different, but not less complex overall. But maybe there is value in having some of that complexity consistent across a small number of cloud providers.
I think so. I spent maybe 30-90 minutes a day on art for a year or two and got pretty satisfied with my results. Here's a few pieces I did I was pleased with (some NSFW):

https://64.media.tumblr.com/9fcc42a5f4867f3588e3677cac68e944...
https://64.media.tumblr.com/a915729ac2c2b0bbba11d1b94c7f249d...
https://64.media.tumblr.com/0496ee9d307c685c18103e81745e2862...

Here's my whole blog of everything I did: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/tawsy-art

The ticket for me was just to grind it every day. I made art just all the time. I'd copy paintings, do figure drawing, practice from still life, make comics, just anything and everything to get better. If I hated a drawing I'd just photograph and it move on, vs get hung up on disliking it.
I only took 1 CS class in college- Cybernetics with Huffman. I failed! So clearly, that was a strong predictor for my future 12 year career at google (where I failed to do quicksort, or virtual ants problems). Nowadays I take a lot of extra time to come up with questions that aren't in leetcode, are easier than leetcode, and give far more signal than any leetcode would, for anything except for a 10X Staff Engineer.
fman author here. The Gifs on your GitHub look nice. Good luck with your project!
Is a static IP needed for that?
I've tried to retrain myself to open Obsidian (and have Obsidian configured to always jump straight to my daily note upon opening) if I compulsively pick up my phone. From there, I'm either going to write about what I'm actually trying to accomplish in the moment, or realize I had no real goal and just compulsively picked up my phone as happens more often than I'd like. It's then much easier to just put my phone back down instead of getting locked into browsing random internet streams, or I just do whatever thing I actually got my phone out to do.

I've injected some intentional friction into an otherwise compulsive habit, which opens up the opportunity to redirect that behavior. It's been very a helpful switch so far.
crypto isn't gold because gold doesn't need any continuous work to be done to remain a "store of value".

If every single gold miner would stop doing work, gold would still have "value". If every bitcoin miner stopped doing work, bitcoin would have zero value (as impossible to use as need miners to create new blocks on the chain).

That is why I dislike any comparison to gold and why crypto feels like a ponzi to me, even if its not technically a ponzi. To me a ponzi is a scheme that requires a continuous inflow of new money to prop up the old invested money. Crypto seems that way, we have to constantly spend money on it (via mining) to prop it up. If we stopped spending that money, it would by definition collapse to zero.

Just because there are incentives to keep on spending the money, doesn't take away from the fact that it requires it as well.
Note that the regulatory costs are only responsible for much of the increases of the 60s and 70s. They're the boogey man, but the increases of the last forty years can't be blamed on them.

It's a general problem: HSR and subway stations have seen similar increases.
Techniques for Training Large Neural Networks
Throw a few bits of conditional logic onto that fire while you're at it.

Some cache entries depend on the state of rows in Table C, but for some combinations of Table A and Table B, no data from Table C ends up in the cache entry.

All of this is business logic, and now it's touching one of our supposedly low-level libraries, which is separated by at least one level of indirection from the rest of the business logic - if your architecture is good. But caching tends to rot architecture.
Usually these things clear up until there's litigation involved.
This is a drop-in replacement for the CPython bytecode interpreter, right?

Didn't Microsoft also recently announce something similar? I could have sworn I saw a thread about it here recently, but i couldn't find it again. Or was that the Facebook project Cinder?

There are so many "high performance Python" projects now (and in the past) that it's hard to keep track!
> generally quite professional

It most certainly was not.
Marginal vs. average: which one to use in practice?
Some embedded devices use HTTP. Many do not, for anything, ever. (Do your anti-lock brakes use HTTP? I strongly suspect they do not.)
I make a daily backup on 2 ancrypted usb harddrives, in the morning when i go to work i take the nightly created backup with me and leave it at work and take the second drive that is at my workplace back home in the evening. Its not perfect, but secure enough for me.
Mostly just browsing. All my multimedia, code stuff, and other essentials are on an M1 MacBook. I could probably run nothing but a browser if I wanted to clean up the systems. So basically I can keep running them for a long time. They're fine for their current purpose.
> HN is topic-focused, rather than subject-focused

Can you explain what you mean by this?
> Cool kids these days are using Urbit

I still haven't dived into it, it felt obscure and obtuse last time I checked, but are the cool kids actually using it? I.e. do you have any more link to this niche community, to check what's the status of the project?
I agree, search in OSMAnd is really bad. Organic Maps is a significant improvement in local search, but it doesn't have all the features that OSMAnd has. I use OSMAnd for mapping and Organic Maps for navigation and a Google Maps equivalent (in Germany Google Maps is trash and Organic Maps is much better).