skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expecting global energy consumption to drop 8% in the next 30 years (while also reducing fossil fuel usage to 20% and all of that with carbon capture and underground storage) is... hilariously unrealistic (or very pessimistic for overall energy usage trends). Here[1]'s a visualization of world energy usage over time. Here[2]'s a sketch I just made to show what the IEA apparently thinks will happen to get to net zero (per your post). Here[3]'s a tweet that looks at the IEA's other renewable energy forecasts over time (spoiler: they were laughably pessimistic, which doesn't instill confidence when they instead make a laughably optimistic forecast)...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption

[2] https://imgur.com/a/xvkZSRi

[3] https://twitter.com/AukeHoekstra/status/1064529619951513600
I think Helion is the most credible of all the fusion companies.
Yes it does. See "The Chieftain: No, The Tank Is Not Dead" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7T650RTT8

TLDW: Tank has a task on a battlefield and fact that you can easily kill it won't take that task away. Same goes for infantry and they are not going away either. On the other hand we don't see battleships anymore, because big guns were replaced by precise missiles with much more range.
You shouldn't make the job harder than it needs to be. The main danger is using tools/techniques you don't know well. Learn radical new approaches on your own time. Don't bet the farm on the latest free monad framework which has 10 downloads on hackage.
Small drone warfare?

The Ukraine / Russian conflict has degenerated into trench warfare with thousands of 155mm / 152mm artillery being shot into each other's positions per day.

These are the kinds of conditions where tanks excel. Humans who try to walk at 3km/hr get blown up by shrapnel, even 100m away is "close enough" to cause a significant injury and take a human out of a fight.

Tanks? They pretty much ignore everything except a direct hit (within 2m) of the target. All that shrapnel just bounces off the tank. We've gone full circle back to WW1 trench/artillery warfare, where tanks were invented to break through the stalemate.

Other vehicles (even armored cars) don't have thick enough armor to survive the shrapnel reliably. APCs, IFVs, Humvees still get shredded by artillery and air-burst munitions.

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How do you beat artillery? You travel at 50km/hr, so you're hard to aim (a 20km shot takes 1.5 minutes to land. Easy to kill a human who can only travel a hundred meters in that timeframe, especially since its +/- 100m target size since the shrapnel blast is so huge).

Tanks / vehicles on the other hand, move too fast to be targeted by dumb artillery. Smart artillery still kills you, but its relatively rare on the battlefield (due to the high costs of computer parts needed to make a smart shell). The vast majority of these holes are dumb artillery.

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https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/...

This isn't the landscape of "drone warfare". This is WW1 style dumb-artillery wars.
Microsoft retires Internet Explorer browser after 26 years
It might make more sense to have either fossil-fuels as backups for such times, or for HVDC lines to connect geographically disparate regions (it's always sunny or windy somewhere).
Grid storage is proven through dozens of working installations earning decent money for their operators, pushing gas peaker plants out of the market.

Newer reactor designs are well simulated but have zero real world implementation.
I think you and those responding to you are saying many valid things, but there are ambiguities still. Does "dating" mean "late-stage worried-about-dying-alone parents-nagging-me dating"? Or does it mean "screw around and go where the wind takes me?". Is the context online or offline?

I think "looks win" accurately describes the way many women select men online for many of their dating years, but it can't continue forever. The "20% of the men get 80% of the women" works in short term dating, but it won't work out for more permanent relationships. From 100 men and 100 women, 20 men would pair with 20 women, and you have 80 men and 80 women left over. So they start to change preferences as they get older. And women know that a man can have a trait that's useless in the bedroom but very useful when raising a child.

It's also hard to say what "4th most important" means. Maybe looks are the 4th most important thing, given that the man is, at a minimum, in the top X%. But what's the formula? There are nonlinearities also, i.e. you can't always compensate. Having a million dollars and being 5.5 feet tall is better than having a billion dollars and being 4.5 feet tall, I'd predict. Something can be low-importance, but just about anything can be a dealbreaker.

I think you're correct in saying the gender inequity isn't so terrible at the end of the day. I predict if you surveyed both genders about whether they get what they really want out of online dating, they'd largely say no. Yes, the average woman has lots of options on Tinder, but that doesn't mean the average woman enjoys using Tinder much. Men think women have it great online because the women have what men want - lots of choice. But I have many female friends who are depressed about dating despite their long list of suitors. They struggle to build satisfying connections. We could ask who is to blame, but I'll just note at the end of the day, one side might be slightly happier than the other ... but only slightly! So frustrated people should keep that in mind.
For I-Bonds the rates are now worth it. They are very CD-like, in that you can't withdraw them for the first year, and in the first 5 there is a few month interest penalty for early withdrawal.

You can only buy $10k per person per year, but as a married couple, you could build up 100K in savings over 5 years, and even faster if you hold them in a trust.
This is very terrain-dependent.

It worked around Kyiv because it's forested and hilly, it works in cities with large soviet apartment blocks, but isn't working well at all in flat Donbas farmland.

It's also a 100% defensive strategy. Unsupported infantry have almost no ability to retake dug-in positions.
Is 400k/yr overpaid for a SWE?
context: https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1536406121249796096

I'm new to this field and always thought that SWE (at least the good ones) most definitely add value in exponential multiples over the 400k value but maybe I'm delusional by all the VC speak over twitter. Does he have a point and that we're mostly overpaid? Hope to hear some good points from experienced devs.
Writefull have just launched an AI that generates an abstract for your paper
The death of Internet Explorer: Good riddance to bad rubbish
I do think there's no inherit reason why we need to know peoples' legal/irl identities in order to assert that they're suitable for a job.

Respectfully, are you extremely young?

Someone near me was recently convicted of embezzling $3.2 million from our local government. Should she be able to work as a city controller at another local government when she gets out of jail?

I could bring up another certain population applying for jobs at childcare centers but hopefully I am just misunderstanding your position because it seems so ludicrous.
This is the same senator who is widely reported to be 'not all there' mentally. Not sure if her endorsement means much at the moment....
Another solution would be Apertis (www.apertis.org). Unlike Ubuntu Core, it uses standard technologies like OSTree, Flatpak etc to provide similar features.

Disclaimer: I work on Apertis.
It certainly seems like it would have a ton of challenges, but also pros, and, in a good family, seems quite manageable.

For example, my mother in law had children as a young teen. She advised her daughters against doing that, but she also had a bad family that didn't support her. She had five kids, the youngest, now 30, cumulatively, have fewer kids than she did. One example, of a benefit to having kids young, is fecundity.

My mother in law is also younger and can help with the grandkids more and can spend more time with them. Your late teens and twenties you're better about to function on low or interrupted sleep and keep up with a rambunctious little one. A young parent will likely be closer, in an experiential sense, to their children and that may lead to a closer relationship.

The challenges - mainly not being ready emotionally or financially, seem like the kind of thing that having a supportive family would address. If my children were to get pregnant at, say, fifteen, I'd expect to be the one financially responsible (or share the responsibility with the other grandparents) and same for childcare. I would expect to hand that responsibility over to the parents over the course of a decade or so.
There were many brilliant Cracked articles in their day.
I think location is important.

In D.C. or N.Y. it's completely normal to meet people dancing to a drum circle in the park, or join people in acro-yoga, slack-lining, bocce ball or whatever. There's a visceral feeling of inclusivity and positive vibes.

In my home town of Dallas, Texas, you're looked at with suspicion if you approach strangers at a park. And unlike the picture I depicted above, small friend groups cluster together with ample space between them and the next group of friends/family. Also, people aren't doing much of anything, aside from eating or talking amongst people they know. If we look at the bar scene, the assumption is that you have no friends if you show up solo. If you want to meet new people you practically have to join something recurring and structured like a Meetup (which is nice in that it at least selects for people open to meeting new people) or join a amateur sports team (kickball, volleyball, etc).
I doubt it. There’s still a big difference between very low difficulties and god mode. God mode in the typical sense exposes the cracks in the game and breaks the immersion.

And if you enjoy dicking around and abusing cheats that’s fine but it’s about on par with smothering fine dining with hot sauce. Or reading the summary of a novel rather than the book.
What does this have to do with chore simulator games?

Did you read the article?
Estimates are not the same thing as real production figures. People estimated we'd have 10Ghz single threaded cpu performance by now back in the 90s. Batteries are already approaching supply shortages for input materials: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shortages-flagged-ev...

And as you correctly point out, most of these batteries are going to go to EVs rather than grid storage.
> soon most work will be done pseudonymously

Eyebrow raised very high

81 days this article was discussed in HN: https://www.sofuckingagile.com/blog/mourning-loss-as-a-remot...

In it, among other things, we learn a team member who was not even anonymous passed away, and the company only found out when the person's wife created a support ticket because they didn't know basic facts about them.

If after reading that article, you walk away thinking it's a great setup, I'm thinking you're likely very different from anyone I've ever met.
I did my last postdoc in another European country more or less 8 years ago and my salary was 1700 euros per month (after taxes). Very limited funds for traveling or going to conferences.
That was barely livable, considering it is temporary money, you cannot ask for any mortgage, cannot plan any future and you are often starting to have gray hair (or a full head of gray hair).
Chinese doctrine is explained in their constitution and it’s pretty much the exact opposite of Monroe.
Even at 10% capacity factor, and with a sudden cessation of the long term exponential trend in PV, and assuming the 2021 numbers for new nuclear power while ignoring that more was shut down, that still leaves more than twice as much new PV as new nuclear.
Not only they leak, but, unlike electricity, leaked gas is terrible for the environment.
If it has an auction house or in-game store I will not even try it.
I tried this a couple of years ago but it would be reset after every system upgrades. Is it still a case now?
Maybe war shouldn't have a future and not a role. We've had enough of the european way of war.
Mining & exchanges are the base of Crypto business (as long as they don't lose their pants due to hacks or emblazonment.. as they sometimes do). So they will probably be the last ones to fall.. (if it comes to it..)
> > The thing is, 183GW from PV is like 20-30GW of nuclear, because nuclear's capacity factor is near 100% and PV's is often near 10%.

> Renewables' capacity factor is much greater than 10%, in practice. If you need falsehoods to make your case, you have no case.

Residential/commercial PV -- e.g. rooftop solar-- very often is 10% or less.

If you want to only look at utility-scale fixed tilt, instead, recent deployments average near (not quite) 20%.

https://emp.lbl.gov/pv-capacity-factors

Nuclear's capacity factor is 93%. In which case, 183GW from utility-scale, fixed-tilt PV is like 183/.93 * .20 = 39GW. Which, admittedly, is outside of my range of 20-30, but also relies on generous assumptions (utility scale projects only-- which are only ~25% of US solar wattage).

If you consider only tracking, you can get all the way to 49GW, which still doesn't eliminate the point.

Perhaps the bigger point is looking at the eastern seaboard. Shipping power 2000 miles is not super practical for various reasons, and the capacity factors for a whole region of the US are pretty poor.
It’s just silly to insist on vinegar- fermented sauces are delicious, sriracha is mostly pepper paste, etc
Every single job posting is from a weird crypto bullshit company. Great.
I believe that tank tracks break frequently and the tank will carry the spare parts required to make a repair.
If you were on SNAP, you might have had some understanding around how much of a hassle it is. The list of things you can't buy is mystifying. $100 in raw chicken vs $80 to go towards hot meals, Advil and dog food might be a valid trade off when you have to watch over a kid who runs around a lot.
I need it to access my firewall.

Yeah.
The output of those deterministic processes _is_ the choice though? I don't understand how there's any semantically sensible way in which I, as a collection of largely or entirely deterministic processes, can process input and my internal state and reach a choice, where that choice isn't "actually" a choice or isn't "actually" made by me.
It is very dangerous for a blockchain engineer to reveal their line of work.
One of the main value propositions of Markdown is that it's readable as plain text.
The new Korean plants are designed for a lifespan of 60 years.

If governments provide guarantees for the loans, a discount rate of 3% is not unreasonable.

Set it like that, and it spits out a price of €32.6/MWh.

Now, to make it even more reasonable to emerging economies, assume that through mass production and a relaxation of security requirements to less paranoid levels, the overnight cost can be reduced to €1500, you get $21.3/MWh.

This is what the price of electricity SHOULD be, if we want the world to stop depending on hydrocarbons. (Not just a few rich countries.)
Absolutely! I would just posit that the organizations listed on the site seem to be handling this somehow (for now). I myself would be really curious as to how.
No, it was absolutely typical gross negligence, with unfortunately outsized consequences. Fukushima was exactly equal negligence, with absolutely expected consequences.
> Ocaml's standard library is a huge sore point.

I think this is a bit overstated. It's roughly the same size of JavaScript, missing regexes but having some stuff that JS lacks. And in lots of languages with large standard libraries, people tend to use standard library replacements. Considering that htere are also not a lot of people working on OCaml, the core team time is better spent on stuff like multicore rather than HTTP servers and clients.

The standard library is also open to contributions. For example, in OCaml 4.14, 44 functions were added in the module Seq https://v2.ocaml.org/api/Seq.html. String also had a lot of utility functions for integer decoding in 4.13 https://v2.ocaml.org/api/String.html.
Sure, but I think we already know that we build a lot more PV than nuclear. The question is, should we build a bit more nuclear? Even a small change would be equivalent to a lot of PV production, and provide power at times when PV can't.
Planning nuclear power plants based upon the Chernobyl disaster is kinda like planning road and bridge construction based upon the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse - ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940) )

Such disasters should only be a small - if bright red - footnote to a good policy: "NEVER build anything resembling this historic disaster. And if anything ever shows operational characteristics remotely resembling it, then shut it down IMMEDIATELY."
Was offered 1% for 11 month deposit yesterday. Much better than last year's 0.25%, but still, what, 1/8 of US inflation?!
> Tanks are much less reliant on complex electronics and manufacturing capability in order to be effective on the battlefield.

I don't disagree with your overall comment, but note the modern main battle tank is a really complex beast, both in sensors, gun control, and also defensive systems. Even Russian tanks are very complex (their current high losses notwithstanding), but Western tanks are incredibly complex. They are not meant to sustain heavy losses, they are designed to survive.

If modern weapons strongly reduce the survivability of tanks, at least the future of Western tanks may be in question.
The author isn't saying that $400k is overpaid, they're saying that not every company can afford to pay $400k. Which sounds very reasonable to me.

If your company can afford to pay $400k and the market is competitive - great, hope they pay you even more in the future. From a personal point of view, you're never overpaid - the more, the better. But what makes sense for the company is a different question, and only some companies will be able to afford those salaries.
Some of the most popular YouTube channels are similar: people doing "mundane chores" - some watch for ASMR but I think a lot of it to connect to the real world - because online is not very satisfying after you get used to it after the first dopamine hits:

• Lawn care and mowing - my favorites - both are Christians and do the charity of free lawn care for those having troubles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSI40gkivzw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unQl_quNh-w

• Rug cleaning - my favorite - those boots! But wait until the end of some of his videos - it's a surprise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m_m9WCXwpY

• Construction - my favorite - he shows rain or shine, sick or not; with a wonderful down-home accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1-svX2Oq6M

• Repair - my favorite - makes me appreciate his skill and confirms I'll never want to do it myself. I'm not for sure but reckon he's fixin' to repair that old boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZHws5d4rNU

• Art Restoration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egsEKeCXf60

• Magnet Fishing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlOEcihXsU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_LjAL84CYE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O55nCaG2QM

A common theme - they are NOT really knowledge economy jobs/work. Not everyone can become programmers. And online is far lower "information/novelty" than the real world. Another theme - these people are happy doing what they are doing - you can tell. Finally most of them how "fly-over accents" which is what most people experience everyday so it's more relatable to most people.
The thing is a man's attractiveness is not one-dimensional. We all know that one guy who does well despite not being physically attractive. But if you're talking about online dating only then you are probably right. Online dating isn't really good for us.
The bigger deal here is that you have an AIX-based EMR in 2022.
I have a ThinkPad T60 that I still use for a most of my personal tasks. X works fine. Wayland doesn't. Nobody involved with Wayland development seems to care. That's fair enough, but I see no reason to throw out a working device that runs fine with Slackware 15 just because the only display server that supports it is X.
Everything can be implemented using IF statements and GOTOs. That's how early processors worked, and Turing completeness and all. We don't _really_ need function calls, while loops, or for loops either.

That doesn't mean it's a good idea.
So anonymous tattletales reported that she isn't being invited to 'huddles.'

"Deese, speaking on Fox News earlier this month, called Yellen the team’s 'chief spokesperson on the economy.' Yet through Biden’s first nine months in power, Klain neglected to invite her to strategy huddles where Treasury had a stake, according to several officials familiar with the situation. That meant Yellen was unaware of some key economic messaging even if she was on the daily senior staff calls. Klain declined to comment."

This isn't news, it's gossip. There's a huge difference between professional writing and journalism. This is barely either and definitely not the latter.
Arguably the war is happening because we had prepared for it insufficiently.
Low inflation, yes, but not stability. Many people in their 20s now watched a parent lose their job during the 2008 housing crisis. Just because they didn't see the 70s don't mean they haven't seen macroeconomic calamity affect their parents microeconomic reality.
In other words, all this mess is a result of historical mistake of letting Russia to survive in its current shape.
This almond "drink" contains very little of the actual almond meal, it's 90% water, as opposed to the actual nut of the almond.

The pulp that's left after pressing is getting fed to livestock.
Apertis, Debian derivative for IoT and embedded
A Brief History of Physics
A tank is 15-75 tons of armor, engine, chassis and gun. It costs millions of dollars per tank.

An antitank weapon is 6-120 lbs of propulsion, controller and warhead. It costs between a thousand and tens of thousands of dollars per weapon.

Economics refutes you.
In our case we were building a solution from scratch. It is very hard to justify upfront costs like that, involving open-source and early in the project.
IoT solution costs should move up according to scale. That's why AWS, Azure, and others have grown their IoT offerings. Nobody starts paying $20k upfront to use AWS IoT.
I think the idea here is that it happens unintentionally, unknowingly.
To be very specific they took two samples of about 22,000 people each. One vaccinated and one given placebo. Then they counted how many people they caught with covid in each sample. 8 vs 162. Then based on those numbers claimed the 97% effectiveness as stopping infection (people getting sick).

Here's a video confirming that this is how they measured efficiency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huFLxbBw9OM

8 vs 162 is the people that they confirmed with PCR test to be positive.
They did not actually test everyone for covid. They admit that there were other people they suspected of having covid.

"Among 3210 total cases of suspected but unconfirmed COVID-19 in the overall study population, 1594 occurred in the vaccine group vs 1816 in the placebo group." Page 42 of the pfizer data leaks.

Hope you see why claiming 97% efficiency to the public was misleading.

After a year, and millions of vaccines later, we can clearly say that the study was bullshit. The vaccine did not offer anywhere near the sort of long lasting immunity that approaches 97%.

Our prime minster despite having two shots and boosted was sick with covid twice in 4 months.

So to cite this study as being accurate is kind of like claiming pigs can fly. Yes I suppose they could. If they jump off a cliff, for a brief second they could.