skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> don't look at these old designs, all these modern designs are 100% safe

This is only said as an answer to all the people screaming "but Chernobyl was horrible". Old designs are pretty safe too ( especially when terrible bugs like the one that caused Chernobyl are fixed), precisely because they keep getting updated to newer norms during refreshes and refits. There are nuclear power plants out there that were constructed in the 1950s that still work.

OP's point is that most nuclear power plants can have their life extended, at some cost, which is negligible compared to the cost of a new plant, and there's rarely a case where that doesn't make sense ( usually when for some reason the retrofit to update to new standards is too expensive). Why waste that? Prolong the life of existing plants, and build new ones to expand production and eventually replace the old ones.
I bought my SHEL in January. +20% actually. I'm not even someone who timed it that well, I know somebody talking about how oil was oversold in 2020 when the price of oil hit negative $40 and bought into the exact valley.

Even then: SHEL is kind of a bad bet. I was expecting that Europe would try to be more dependent upon European oil, but it turns out that American Oil (XOM) was the real winner of the Ukraine / Russia conflict.

I've also bought into TIPS / I-Bonds as this inflation thing is getting worse. Hopefully those do well in the coming months (or maybe not, they're more of an "inflation hedge", in that I know they'll do good if inflation goes bad. No, not the "crypto" kind of hedge, I mean something that's _ACTUALLY_ tied to inflation and does better-and-better the worse inflation gets).

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The key in these times is to remember what does good during recessions and war. And keep your wits about you as well. There's plenty of good buys if you know where to look.

All those cryptobros buying in 2020 or 2021 for "inflation hedge" have their moment to prove their theories today. My inflation hedge, TIPS/I-Bonds, are yielding 9% right now. How well are your cryptos doing?
It's very possible that you are right, that it's too late, that we can't redevelop enough nuclear capacity in time, that we are doomed to see the world burn.

That won't prevent me from blaming the anti-nuclear crowd that put us in that situation in the first place.

Yes, nuclear is expensive, yes it can be messy but it was our best shot to produce abundant amount of low carbon power. All this talk about switching to wind and solar power omit the inconfortable fact that the current low prices for those technologies are low because we are using fossil fuel to make them.

When you have to make advanced renewable tech with only renewable energy, you will see that it's no longer possible to make it economically either.
The US government's reduction and containment work is the origin of the "US runs secret biolabs in Ukraine" dezinformatsiya.

> Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States, along with allies, partners, and international organizations, has led cooperative efforts to reduce legacy threats from nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons left in the Soviet Union’s successor states, including Russia.
Ah. Turns out my numbers are based on packing density, while the study you cite is based on counting neurons. (I'm assuming here counting is the better choice :)

The main point remains either way - equating numbers of neurons with "smart" is a really odd definition of "smart". (I mean, most definitions of "smart" in animal studies are bonkers - the most common one is "is obedient")
Good for you.

Would the pay scales below for post-doc positions be about rightish or make you laugh hysterically?

https://www.crick.ac.uk/careers-study/postdocs

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/...

Just to put a rough scale on things
> Most of us actually make money from creating IP for others to own, so it's not nearly as hypocritical as you imply.

Actually, I think most of us provide services, and it is a big mix.

> many of us are pretty brazen about our efforts to circumvent payment for others' IP.

Let me start with a link on Elsevier https://openatcuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/05/20/elsevier-e...

Much of what is said about Elsevier, the worst offender, is true to a lesser extent in other paywalls.

I don't believe that paywalls are Moral, Ethical, or Fair. I also believe that paywalls can be discrimatory, and deceptive. This goes along with a general critique I have of IP. Paywalls regularly use others' content, without compensating them.

In many cases, content thieves likes Elsevier take content that is funded by our tax dollars, and hide it behind paywalls, or expensive subscriptions. I paid for that. This is stealing from me.

IP is really a fake term that conflates a number of things, some of which are just ideas or math. It also regularly cheats basic things like "Right of First Sale" through BS such as licensing/bundling/etc

Paywalls regularly permit search engines to index their content, but when you go to see the content that was openly indexed, they block you, and hit you up for funding. This is a bait & switch. Some paywalls vacillate between business models intentionally to get your personal data, sell it, while using ads, then go full paywall after the sale has already been made of info.

I think there is a social contract underpinning communications, that we were always free to redistribute them. But the "Communication thieves" Paywalls don't want that through the cottage industry that grew to exploit these gaps.

If we think of the negative impacts of all these paywalls to the 3rd world and increasing digitization, talk about a horrible digital divide emerging?

Signed,

Militant Anti-Paywall Revolutionary
Renewables are only cheaper if you ignore the challenges of using an intermittent energy source. There's no real cost estimate for storing and re-distributing electricity, because there's no feasible plan to build an energy storage system at relevant scales.

Attempting to build just one hour of storage via lithium ion batteries would case the cost of batteries to skyrocket because 1 hour of global electricity use equates to 2,500 GWh. And annual battery output is only around 300 GWh. Supply shock would immediately drive up the cost of batteries.
Dealing with cash is complicated actually. You need to protect it from theft. You need to count it daily. You need a bank to deposit it. You need to have change because people don't bring exact amounts. Having change requires a bank or some other facility to exchange currency with.

Cards require a machine, some kind of network connectivity, and an account. It's actually a lot easier to deal with as a small business. Most of the people I know who go to conventions as vendors prefer cards because it greatly simplifies their logistics.
A mystery of the ketogenic diet: benevolent pseudo-diabetes in mice (2019)
Cloudflare Zaraz launches new privacy features in response to French CNIL
Higher education gets an absurd amount of funding. Entire generations are being saddled with lifelong, insurmountable debt because of how much universities are charging to get an education. The costs of tuition have skyrocketed at rates far above inflation. Many universities are sitting on massive piles of cash reserves. The problem is that most of that money is getting sucked up by non-academic sinks like administration.
check out https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/
starts at 3.99€
performs quite well
Original Apple-1 sold for $340k
Isn't the false dichotomy that if we spend €21 billion on a particle accelerator then we must take it from other research into advancing humanity instead of taking it from other areas that don't provide benefit to humanity as a whole (though they do provide benefit to some groups at equal or greater cost to others).

>'is spending this much money disproving philosophical arguments justifiable right now?' should rightly be being asked.

In light of all the expenditures we are already making elsewhere, I don't see how many of those can be justified but this one not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31719532 got more traction.
There was a time in 1998-99 when Internet Explorer 4 / 5 was actually the best browser by far. Netscape 4 was unstable and had completely botched all the fancy new features: its implementation of CSS (brand new at the time) was so bad that even font sizes didn't work right, its homegrown "layers" API for JavaScript DOM access was awful, and many web developers were wishing they could somehow get away with only supporting IE.

25 years after the release of IE4, I'm just glad both of those browser codebases are now dead.

IE was really done in by Microsoft's "Longhorn" OS project. After Windows XP, Microsoft was planning a very ambitious update that would completely reset core APIs. File systems would be largely replaced by an OS-level database, and the Win32 GUI API would be replaced by an XML-based UI framework codenamed Avalon.

A new Avalon browser would ship with the OS, and thus IE + HTML would become legacy technologies as Microsoft confidently assumed most developers would flock to building their web apps in Avalon instead.

To Microsoft strategists, it seemed that they had succeeded in containing the web: Netscape was dead, Mozilla had almost no users, Apple was shipping their IE in Mac OS X, Google wasn't on Microsoft's radar, and the HTML standard process was stalled. So while a lot of content was being delivered as HTML4, there didn't seem to be any reason left for Microsoft to invest in IE — they'd already nailed the browser, owned the market, and would push Avalon as the next step.

Fortunately, Longhorn failed. Some parts of the project eventually shipped years late as Windows Vista. Avalon became WPF + XAML and still exists in Windows, but the dream of a XAML browser replacing IE was dead.
How do these companies address tax reporting requirements?
As has been explained to you numerous times, intermittency is a trivial technical matter that cannot justify diverting capital to nuke construction or operation.

Repeating your falsehoods here does not make them true.
Kaiser Permanente Exposes Nearly 70K Medical Records in Data Breach
One third is including transport and heating.
Dalle-E Caption Guessing Game
> TCO only addresses recursion that can easily be replaced by a loop

This is simply false. Specialized tail recursion optimization, which I've seen a few places, approximately does that, but generally TCO covers a lot of things that aren't easily replaceable with for loops.

> its not just an optimization, as soon as code depends on it to not blow the stack its a required feature for all implementations

True, though that's an argument for it, not against it.

> loosing stack frames makes debugging harder

This is a weird argument to include with the for-loop thing, since the stack frames “lost” would never exist in the for-loop form for the case where there is a straightforward equivalence. In general, I find that this is mildly true (it sometimes make spotting the source of an error from the dump an an unhandled exception harder, but doesn't really make any debugging that involves more than that harder).

> functional languages with no side effects need recursion, everyone else really doesn't

Regardless of whether the language has side effects available, functional code without side effects is easier to analyze and assure important properties of, and it's beneficial to be able to leverage that even if you have a language that allows side effects.
Parsting HTML with RegEx
Bluetooth Signals Can Be Used to Track Smartphones, Say Researchers
I've met many people in life that trust their gut. Without anything else, from what I've seen, people trusting their gut is a net negative. With that said, that's mostly because it's a bit of a cultural thing that trusting your intuition is a smart thing to do. However, there are enough people out there who's intuition will kill themselves, if they would only trust their intuition (e.g. drug addicts, not limited to only them though). There are also less dramatic examples that I've seen (women and men consistently finding the wrong partner). So on average, a net negative. Since you're a random person on Hacker News making some bold claims, yea I need something stronger than just your intuition.
This was the original (1040s, Fermi) idea, hence reactors in Idaho (after becoming alarmed that they had constructed a reactor in downtown Chicago). I think however there's a reason this isn't done now: it acknowledges that large reactors aren't safe (which they're not), therefore begs the question why build them at all. For the idea to become viable, climate change would need to become a much more immediate pressing concern, allowing the trade off to be made between irradiating some Utah desert vs boiling the planet.
It's not ours to take. Where did it come from? Bezos produced it at Amazon. He has a moral right to keep it.

Beyond that, though, you can only tax away 90% of billionaires' wealth once. That whole game depends on them continuing to produce the same amount of wealth, even though they won't receive any of the returns. (Remember also that most of these people reinvest the majority of this money into their ventures, meaning that taking these dollars will have a compounding negative effect on future productivity.) Look at history. Your superficially benevolent idea has been tried, it always results in mass hunger and death.

Why would they keep taking on so much responsibility? To raise your standard of living? Why should they care about you?

Any of those guys are capable of becoming a surf bum, living on $30k a year, but instead, they build massive companies that deliver incredible value to the rest of us — they get their money because we pay them for that value. Would you rather incentivize Elon Musk to keep working on Tesla or would you prefer him to retire?
In the US, a postdoc at a top CS school makes like $60-80k and works 60-80hrs a week, whereas a new grad of the same caliber with just a bachelors (think top 10% of graduating class) can reasonably expect to make >$200k working 40 hours a week at a FAANG. Meanwhile, Research Scientist roles (the common alternative to doing a postdoc in CS) recently cracked $400k starting. These are numbers I have personally experienced. (Verifiable on aipaygrad.es and levels.fyi).

CS is certainly an outlier in terms of salaries, but ANY person capable of landing a postdoc in a STEM field at a competitive school in the US is capable of figuring out a way to get a job as a software engineer in Big Tech (the grind of leet code is nothing compared to the grind of doing a PhD, full stop). This is why >60% of PhD grads in CS across top schools are ending up in industry, and I knew a TON of PhDs from physics, math, chemistry, etc. who left research immediately after graduating and are now SWE.
There is absolutely no need for batteries to provide for storage, so that is a misleading assertion.
When I was learning to code, programmers had to know about a lot of low level details like memory management, disk I/O, process scheduling, etc. Today, the average JavaScript programmer never thinks about these things.

I could imagine a world in the near future where most programmers don't think about databases.
Not all consequences are the same, even if the initial conditions are of the same-type; not all people who acknowledge negative consequences think of themselves as victims. Saying one is aware that certain conditions and circumstances in childhood tend to cause certain negative behaviors in adulthood is helpful information. Dismissing it as having a victim mentality is unhelpful.
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Smallest thing I've found is a FreeScale SOC running a Cortex-A7.
Matter is supposed to be a local IP protocol. Explicitly does not specify a cloud protocol. But it is an IP protocol and many devices that interact with a network may expect internet access and not work without (eg hubs and voice assistants). YMMV on controlling matter without such devices.

Speaking for myself not my employer.
I completely sprinting away with anything canonical. SUSE/openSUSE/Micro RHEL/Fedora/CoreOS nothing else...no more canonical, too many disappointments and trickery into pay massive at the end of the day.
Google's horrible support might turn out to be an opening for Linux. There are a lot of Pixel owners who hate iPhones with a passion that are currently, against all of their instincts and values, considering buying iPhones because they get double or triple the functional life of an Android. They would even switch to something more difficult to use if they both could avoid buying Apple, and either extend the life of their current phone (unlikely at this point, but maybe in the future) or have confidence that the next phone that they buy would last as long as an iPhone.

If they could run Android apps on it with reasonable performance, it would be an easy switch.
Admittedly, that sentence might be a tad hyperbolic right now, but I do think increasingly it will be the case.

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. I can even imagine using Zero Knowledge Proofs to prove that candidates reside in certain territories, if that's a requirement that your job might have.
As I answered to my own comment:

> Found the source at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-020-02785-4.

> So I made a mistake and it's for 1 ton not 1 KG but my point rest, even divided by 1000: Germany destroy close to their GDP per year with their electrical production emission, which is in my book worse than potentially, loosing a region if you are unlucky.
I like the visuals. It looks cool, even on a phone.

But seriously, 0.5 ETH for an animated cube? I guess CS students have to live somehow..:
I actually find the model in the article pretty convincing despite agreeing with you on that it's a profession for people who like to learn knew things and that university/grad school should teach more generic, theoretical knowledge that depreciate slower.

However, these still don't invalidate the main point of the article, that a faster rate depreciation means that your max knowledge level, given your specific rate of learning, will be lower. I.e. your advantage over a less skilled, younger professional will be lower.

And you may say that learning a new 3D library shouldn't be counted as learning a new skill, but it doesn't make the problem go away. If anything, it underlines it: if you have to start working with a new 3D library then you will have to spend time and effort on learning it (to become efficient at using it) while if you were able to keep using it, you could spend that time and effort on learning something that we could count as a new skill.
I don't disagree with your main point, but what's the point of making a nature preserve in an already uninhabited area? Since it's uninhabited right now the animals are probably doing just fine. Also, power plants (of any kind) need heavy machinery for construction as well as regular maintenance.
New reactor designs, even with closely regulated designs, are very unproven. The next gen French EDF design recently had some units come online, but they had to figure out some unexpected buildup in some byproducts. You are also validating more than the design, you are validating a manufacturing materials control in a very long term feedback cycle - which is generally terribly difficult for making improvements.

In comparison to something like grid storage where one can site, build and operate, in less time than the make a minor nuclear design correction. Grid storage can correct mistakes at very low cost and on a very rapid cycle compared to nuclear.
Internet Explorer 11 has retired as of June 15, 2022
Yes, but I was talking about a scenario where there is no network connectivity and hence no ability to take card payments.

In the case of getting paid something versus getting paid nothing, I am guessing most merchants will opt to put in the work to accept cash rather than shut down.
Can you share a link to the sample code?
Sure. People can also just waste their lives away on shitty drugs. It’s their lives and aside from some edge cases I’m willing to ignore it doesn’t affect other people.

But maybe it’s not unreasonable to have an opinion that it’s a super lame choice. Maybe seems foolish. Or likely to lead to lesser appreciation of the art/life.
I'm not doubting your speed-typing ability, but if you can actually do that, it just means your password is too short
Looking at the jobs I wonder if many just aren't reporting... others seem to promise a lot that would make being pseudonymous impossible.
I see there's branching support. Are there plans for version control features? I'd like to be able to treat the database as a collection of versioned immutable artifacts. Diff database branches, merge/patch, revert to a previous known good version. This would allow me to eliminate "migrations" and simply stage a set of changes, test them, and then merge or revert them, knowing I'm getting exactly what worked before without writing additional code to ensure it or walk it back.
For individuals and hobbyists Ubuntu Server would likely make more sense than Ubuntu Core. I used to recommend it for use on headless Raspberry Pi's over Raspberry Pi OS. Use of cloud-init and netplan made it much easier for deployment of headless RPi's.

Unfortunately for 22.04 they made some changes on the RPi which severely impacted my deployments causing me to move away from Ubuntu on the RPi and to no longer recommend it to others.
The new data is what we're after ... to make discoveries! It's not just new data for new data's sake.

The LHC in that regard has fell short.
... yeah not going to happen. There's benefits to non-anonymous employment and the benefits of pseudonymous employment seem to mostly apply to illegal or grey area ventures.

If you work as a blockchain engineer these days I can definitely see why you would want to remain anonymous.
I always find myself coming back to it, both for work and personal life. I'm doing the whole "build in public" thing for my SaaS and use the public notion page to warehouse all of our updates and information.

I've found https://getoutline.com to be a pretty solid contender, although with slightly less functionality.
Sen Feinstein: Why I changed my mind about Cali’s Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
Trucks will operate on synthetic fuel, so no.
They still had installment plans for buying appliances and repossessions. I'm pretty sure usurious loans have existed since money was invented.
Nuclear is necessary for the near term. And it’s already a mature technology
Imprctical for any serious use due to spawning too many processes but extremely crazy pranking potential.
No. But if you're going to hoard cash, laddering is a slightly better way to do so.
Another way of stating that article is that most people in their 20s and 30s have only ever known low-inflation and stability. Those in their mid-40s onwards are possibly young enough to remember how what their parents dealt with in the 70s.