skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- LCOE of solar and wind beats the pants off of nuclear and coal currently. If it isn't in Germany, well, that's a political and management issue.

- maybe you keep the existing nuclear around for levelling, well, fine. But just be ready for it to get "nuked" once the battery/storage costs combined with wind/solar drop under everything. That day isn't today, and it isn't next year, but with cheap sodium ion and many other chemistries in active improvement... it will.

- nuclear waste disposal is solved... if you have a LFTR or similar tech to "burn" it. Otherwise, the usual handwave on nuclear waste is a telltale sign of "old nuclear", as are the people that say it is safe. Solid fuel rod designs are not safe.

I am not saying that LFTR should be the only path forward for nuclear, but the advantages of LFTR should be what a "real" nuclear solution has. LFTR is:

- scalable in size
- meltdown-proof (plug and pool where the liquid loses criticality)
- burns/breeds virtually all of its fuel, and IIRC can "burn" spend rod waste
- somewhat proliferation resistant

Again, I don't know if the LFTR design challenges are truly problematic, but the CAPABILITIES of LFTR should be a standard next-gen nuclear must be held to.

The Greens aren't correct generally in engineering or science, but what they are right about, indirectly, is the culture of nuclear power that grew up in the Cold War and attached to military needs for weapons isotopes.

Those political priorities overrode safety, good design, economic performance, and other concerns, and left us with the terrible solid fuel rod design.

LFTR got canned in the US in a backroom political power move, and the same nuclear establishment keeps it restricted from funds and research.

Again, I'm not saying LFTR is the "one true path". But its core abilities address the Green concerns: meltdown proof and virtually waste free. Those two aspects are the base table stakes a "next gen nuclear" would need. Maybe you have a combined reactor approach where one design produces from solid or pebble fuel, and then that gets fed to LFTRs for final burn off.

So I guess I would recommend Germany / France keep their nukes going for now, but view them as life support: these things are going away once battery/storage tech scales to meet the need, a virtually guaranteed proposition in the five year near future timeline.

For nuclear to be relevant long term you'll need the safety tablestakes mentioned, but all nuclear projects are 10 years out: you'll need a stable price to target/combat 10 years out from wind/solar, and you don't know that right now.
Telephone I can carry in my pocket.

So I don't have to be paged. Or walk to a phone (possibly distant) to find out what someone thinks is an important "issue". Or possibly just read a text or email when convenient.

And I can (hopefully) turn it off at night.
From the Mayo Clinic:

The 3 main reasons cited by pharmaceutical companies for the high cost of new prescription drugs do not apply to insulin. First, the “high cost of development” is not relevant for a drug that is more than 100 years old; even the latest and most commonly used analog insulin products are all over 20 years old.8 Second, the pricing is not the product of a free market economy. Free market forces are clearly not operational; there is limited competition on price, the person who needs the product is not in a position to negotiate the price, and there is no relationship of price increases over time compared with overall market inflation. The price of insulin has risen inexplicably over the past 20 years at a rate far higher than the rate of inflation.9 One vial of Humalog (insulin lispro), which used to cost $21 in 1999, costs $332 in 2019, reflecting a price increase of more than 1000%.10, 11, 12 In contrast, insulin prices in other developed countries, including neighboring Canada, have stayed the same. Insulin pricing in the United States is the consequence of the exact opposite of a free market: extended monopoly on a lifesaving product in which prices can be increased at will, taking advantage of regulatory and legal restrictions on market entry and importation. Third, the arguments that high costs are needed for continued innovation and that attempts to lower or regulate the prices will hamper innovation are not a valid excuse.13 There is limited innovation when it comes to insulin; the more pressing need is affordability.

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(19)...
To cook us, it would have to be stronger than is actually possible given the mass, distance, and age of the sun.

To cook our power grid, small enough to be surprisingly common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_storms
The phased array can probably only do so much and a gimbal might still be needed to compensate for movement outside of what the phased array can handle?
On the one hand - bad for an EV.
On the other hand - yes a big giant EV truck may be less efficient than a sedan.

The thing is Americans just do not buy sedans.

We can hem & haw and browbeat consumers, but if they want to buy big trucks.. better EV flavored ones than V8 coal rolling polluters.

The more form factors are available in EV flavor, and the more price points they can hit.. the better.
Haven't tested much. But I think HTTP upload is reliable and has been ok for me on Snikket server (Prosody) between Snikket clients (Conversations) and between Snikket and Gajim.
If I prohibit my kids from going down a particularly unsafe street, that doesn't mean I'm against roads and sidewalks. Curious what stake you've got in this that you'd reply with such ridiculous hyperbole.
You can do sync via e2e and protect it from service providers, or let users provide their own sync (which they can self host or use a paid service).
Noticing that one is coming and disconnecting the transformers from the transmission lines (which become long antenas) may be a way...
Water is always an issue no matter what type of construction. Concrete and masonry? Water and freeze thaw cycles will eventually destroy it.

Most common major structural work with stick built houses is jacking them up and replacing the foundation. That's because the concrete or masonry foundation has deteriorated but the wood framing is in good condition.
> I think the mammoth price delta over RV is because it'll be usable offshore (starting Q4 this year) and presumably that requires some more complex satellite-to-satellite data exchange (which at a guess they want to limit usage of until it works well.

Sure, just like Tesla Autopilot is right around the corner, Starship will be flying this year, the Cybertruck has been released 2 years ago etc.
Isn't Union Types just the same as "Sum Types" (as in Haskell etc.)?

But does Haskell have Intersection Types and Negation Types?
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> You don't mean sharing raw traffic as in forwarding actual requests, I wouldn't think?

The usual method is either to use a splitter or switch configuration to mirror traffic to another interface, attached to a machine running packet capture/analysis tools.
From TFA: "However, Professor Qing-Bin Lu from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, told The Independent that research shows this new hole has been open for more than 30 years."

Apparently the only thing new about the hole is our knowledge of it.
Please don't take HN threads into hellish generic flamewars. We've been through this a thousand times already. Pouring out a whole bunch more gasoline and setting it on fire is exactly what you should not be doing here. We want curious conversation.

Personal attack is also completely off limits, and you did it more than once in this thread. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it turns out that you've been breaking the site guidelines so badly and so repeatedly that I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use HN as intended in the future. Among other things, that means no more comments remotely like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32005073

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32005050

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31992691

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32010891.)
I think this is a disingenuous take.

If the original argument was "the exact same thing that happened at Chernobyl will happen again", then that's meaningless and irrelevant, because... who cares? What people actually care about is whether a nuclear disaster could happen again, one that kills a bunch of people and makes a significant area of land uninhabitable for some long period of time.

If you think that's "moving the goalposts", then I don't think you're here to have a good-faith discussion about why people are worried about nuclear energy.

Having said that, I do believe that a significant accidental nuclear disaster is much much much less likely now than in Chernobyl's time. But that doesn't mean it's impossible, or that we shouldn't think about or be worried about it. And also consider that's "accidental": we also need to consider the possibility of terrorist- or state-level attacks, which may be harder to protect against.
When you have to handle someone with kid gloves that requires more time & effort than someone has.

There’s a reason most execs write curt emails, b/c they have 1001 things to handle and your feelings rank low.

Toughening up is about acknowledging that your emotional well being is not everyone’s #1 priority. You are responsible for that, and nobody else.
That is a very strong sounding approach to deal with just 250/4 = ~63 people from one state

Most of whom were probably never actually going to go through with it anyways
I'm curious if there are many scenarios where a CPU fallback, especially javascript based, would have acceptable performance when a GPU is not present. Is that even really a solution?
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Ask HN: Has the pandemic improved your risk assessment skills in general?
And if so, how?
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That's exactly what it is. ERO is a branch of ICE.
I'm getting really tired of people downplaying the significance of what is happening in the United States right at this moment.

I don't think anyone is saying this is the "first time" the big tech dragnet is harming folks. It's going to be a "mess" because of the sheer amount of data and legal bureaucracy that is very likely to go into this.

Location, application, medical, messaging data for half of the population of up to 22 states who are very likely going to be leveraging big companies to turn data over so they can arrest citizens seeking a medical procedure that is life or death. How is that not a mess? It's far more than a "few extra requests" imo
Someday, people may talk of Meta the way they (don't) talk of Magic Leap.
this however saves lives in the long term. MAD becomes predictable when you have AI v2 vs AI v4. The countries resolve peacefully before the battle even starts and exchange resources. The computers can ascertain losses before reality proves it.
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Have you ever considered adding a gps tracker to it? They are tiny, cheap and I think exceptionally well suited for the particular usecase of always finding a half grand in nintendo cartrides.
I was thinking about this the other day: a huge solar storm that can wipe out the power grid in continental United States will also wipe out literally every tech company. Google, Apple, Microsoft, social networking companies, none would exist.

On the other hand, companies like Walmart, Costco, Corteva, etc. would still survive and possibly thrive. Amazon would probably end up opening physical stores.
I never said, that it is impossible to work without operator overloading (actually the opposite). Just that it is a very common feature in most programming languages, and I don't understand why an experienced developer would be confused by it. Even in maths expressions (where the operators come from), you have this behavior. If you multiply two matrices, it does something completely different. The result could be huge and thus in computing world require huge memory allocation. Also you can multiply matrices, but you can't divide them. The primary school level math you seem to be limiting the world to is not practical.
EU has an yearly report of the state of the energy grid, and a common finding is that different country spend subsidies on different things. Germany spend most of any country, and they spend a bit half of that on production of renewable energy and the remaining split between fossil fuel and shared infrastructure like power lines. Very little of the subsidies goes to the consumer side.

There are however countries who focused on the infrastructure/consumer side of the equation. When communal or heath pump based heating is significant cheaper, suddenly people interest to invest into home improvements goes up. As the report describe, it not obvious which strategy is best in order to reduce pollution.
While it is a little easier to deal with flat data than tree data, the real test of this comes when you process the data.

Trees invite recursion, and as the logic grows telling what is going on gets more and more difficult. While it's easier to process trees recursively, it is possible to iterate over it. It's easier to process lists iteratively, but it is possible to handle them recursively. Some people do, much to the detriment of all of their coworkers.

I'm trying to unwind some filthy recursive code on a side project at work. There were two bugs I knew about going in, and two more have been found since, while removing mutually recursive code in favor of self recursion, and then modifying that to iteration.

Iteration is much, much easier to scale to add additional concerns. Dramatically so when in a CD environment where a change or addition needs to be launched darkly. Lists can help, especially with how carefully you have to watch the code. They're not the only solution, they're just the easiest one to explain without offering a demonstration.
It’s land, isn’t it?

I thought there were plans for polar orbiting Starlink satellites to cover polar bases.

Even so it should be a map of the full planet
The sun fires multiple ejections a day big enough to cook us. They just all miss.

It would be like you stepping outside and shooting a bullet in a random direction a few times a day, with Earth being a golf ball miles away.

The golf ball would be destroyed by a bullet. But your odds of hitting it are very low.

Of course, over time the odds become an inevitability.
Predictability and stability count a lot as well. I think the starlink-as-low-latency-trading-medium is sort of like "blockchain for real estate" - it's not actually a real thing.
I wonder if public endangerment was ever on the docket...
>In addition to that, because this is a retro game application, the reason to stick with Windows 7 may be to preserve compatibility with older games

How does Windows 7 preserve compatibility with older games? Dolphin's goal is to be compatible with all Gamecube (and Wii) games. If Windows 7 is impeding that goal, I don't see how Windows 7 will have better compatibility with older gamecube game.

Also, from the perspective of Windows 7, every Gamecube game had already been released by the time Windows 7 was generally available (the Gamecube's EOL was in 2007; Windows 7 came out in 2010). No game could have "targeted" windows 7.
Yep, that's the one. Ballpark 7% of the Earth's surface, or 15% of the land-surface area (guesstimate based on the whole circle being about 22% of the land surface area—but much of the circle is over water). Over 50% of the population.
That doesn't matter in a duopoly. I expect the other half of the duopoly does the same thing, since they tend to move in lockstep.
Yes, and like in toxicology it matters very little if instead of injecting a spoonful of botulism you instead inject a spoonful of less dangerous anthrax. Matters of degree still care about orders of magnitude and bright lines defining fitness for purpose.

Lockdown Mode is being advertised as protecting against state-sponsored actors: “Lockdown Mode offers an extreme, optional level of security for the very few users who, because of who they are or what they do, may be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats, such as those from NSO Group”. They are attempting to convince people who would otherwise air gap to avoid being killed that their systems are perfectly adequate. Their systems are on the order of 100x worse than what it necessary to protect against state-sponsored actors. It is not acceptable to attempt to conflate the two just because everything is a shade of gray; one is off-white and the other is off-black, they are not even remotely similar.

Apple’s advertising of Lockdown Mode is unequivocally worse for the stated use case than not having it at all since then at the very least people at risk would not be mislead into thinking Apple can protect them. If they want to change their advertising to clearly indicate that it should not be used if you are at risk of state-sponsored attacks and that there is no independent verification for any of their claims, then I would agree with you, but they are not doing that. Until they do, they should be censured for making such irresponsible and reckless claims that mislead at-risk individuals from taking proper precautions.
Regulators must indeed consider EV efficiency and manufacturing emissions, but most importantly the national average of CO2 per kWh must be pushed much closer to zero for developed nations too.
OMG. The first sentence: "designate natural gas and nuclear as environmentally sustainable energy sources"

I argue that nuclear is making our descendants pay for our current consumption because of the waste. It can be argued that there are storage mechanisms that are safe tor two hundred millennium (I do not accept those arguments, but it is an argument).

But natural gas: It is not sustainable (it is a fossil fuel, it will run out). Burning it produces CO2 which is burning the world, and producing it releases huge amounts of methane that cannot even be counted and that is worse than CO2 at burning the world.

Such greed, such hubris, such willingness to ruin the world that we borrow from our children to satisfy our greed.

Evil.
In my experience, massive reams of screenshots for evidence of process / tooling / etc. are the norm with auditors. I have in the past been asked to provide screenshots of source code even.
Which is my favorite kind of marketing. Others in this group for me are the Backblaze Drive Stats blogs and any guide that DigialOcean writes.
They had a business model that was fairly capital heavy. Since they decorated the properties themselves. It was an interesting idea. Maybe even niche.

However, I don't believe (as the article suggests) that this is a sign of something larger. Startups fail often. It is risky. They may have failed to execute and had a business model that was particularly sensitive to the pandemic.
I agree that this article does seem to lump some behaviors together of wildly different severity. But when the job is managing and monitoring the safety of children in a massive online space, it seems reasonable, nay necessary, to judge them by a high standard. It doesn't have to be a crime, or even inherently bad, to be a red flag.

In this case, I find it very strange that the head of Roblox's Trust & Safety department didn't think twice about following indecent accounts on public social media account. Even stranger still, that a company who pretends to value the safety of children either didn't bother with a basic background check, or saw it and went "yeah, this guy's got good judgement."

I've got nothing against people publicly endorsing/following these things, but I'd expect this dude to have enough discretion to recognize that many parents would object, and keep it on a private account like a normal person.

Heads of PR for major companies have been fired for a heck of a lot less.
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> Not a parent so this is a legitimate question: why not try educating your child on these dangers and how to spot them?

Because predators are older and smarter than your average naïve kid. A few years ago I'm making breakfast for my wife (I work from home) and the doorbell rings - it's two town cops asking if I'm the parent of <my kid's name>. Turns out, some local pedophile had sent some dick pics to my 12 year old kid several months prior on Snapchat and they wanted to interview her. This was the first we'd heard of what had happened. We'd long since removed her from social media (unrelated to this event). And this was after spending countless hours repeating ourselves to death about not talking to strangers online. And yes we checked her phone daily...But Snapchat being what it is (disappearing messages), makes it more difficult to audit. She even told this guy what neighborhood we lived in. Since this was his first offense, the guy got 6 months probation and a permanent restraining order against him. Nothing ever came of it, and she's a few years older (and hopefully wiser) ... and the social media restrictions are still on.

In hindsight I wouldn't give my kid a phone until they were > 15 years old and even then it would depend on their maturity level.
If buying at X and selling at X + ε is "arbitrage", every retailer is merely "arb-ing".

Even looking at the definition you gave I don't think it pass the smell test, the scenario does not require the buying and selling to be simultaneous... not in the ice cream analogy, and much less in the real uniswap mechanism.
I always encourage people who have this positive of a view of the FBI to go read the FBIs own case records and accounts.
They have to be decrypted to be played back. The analog hole cannot be closed.
Ah I didn’t realize you were talking about India, my mistake.
The same exact reason you've never seen an average person tried to even manually upgrade windows using flash drive. Why is this still need to be discussed again?
> Here's the problem with that, people using Windows 7 are still doing so because they don't like sending automated usage reports. They're not going to show up in your telemetry.

At this point - that's the users problem. Don't say you don't want to engage with the developers of your software and then be flabbergasted when they stop supporting you.
Iridium Go is designed to hit a price point. Whats the cheapest way to get data out in the middle of the Atlantic and is basically plug and play. It has leapfrogged SSB packet radio as the preferred, low cost data service.

Also data is not charged in minutes, it's theoretically unlimited. The voice plans are charged in minutes and I don't think worth it.

Just like the RO water-makers in the past, I believe this is the opening salvo in bringing data prices down on the high seas. A few providers have been the only players in this field (Inmarsat and Iridium) and it shows. Prices haven't budged in ages.
I believe the post-pandemic economic turbulence may have done a better job of improving my risk assessment skills than the pandemic itself...
Yeah, that does seem to be the main downside from what I can tell. Although Meshtastic devices seem to generally require a companion device to use most of their functionality, so I wonder how much that matters at this stage.

I definitely would like a small stand-alone communicator type device at some point though, and yes, that’s probably more feasible with Meshtastic at this point. (Though there are Feather boards that can run Linux too which I’ve thought about playing around with.)
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The WSJ maintains very solid separation between their news division (almost always solid and rigorous, with decent fact checking, their audience of investors wants good info) and their editorial division (intensely ideological and willing to completely disregard basic facts). So it's important when evaluating a WSJ article to know which part of the publication it came from.
Dardistan is "bardistan" :-)