skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> compare that with the lifepsan of 80-90 years that nuclear often attain and you see that the cost that people usually refer for solar panel must be doubled.

One thing I am wary about is what the lifespan of any newly build plant would be that uses modern technology.

If you take a random 8bit home computer from 1983, all the non-mechanical parts on it likely still work today.

If you take a random computer from 1993, well most bits probably work.

If you take a random computer from 2003, if you are lucky some things work.

2013? Odds are it won't work.

The differences in manufacturing between everyday consumer electronics and high reliability electronics has grown larger and larger, for two reasons.

One is progress of Moore's law, smaller feature sizes have made electronics more susceptible to many different types of failure[1][2].

The second is RoHS[3], removing lead from solder has basically given all consumer electronics a 10 year life span.

Now of course you can get non-RoHS components, but they are not the norm, and to make things reliable you need to ensure everything is not RoHS.

Want a reliable storage medium? That is going to cost an insane multiple. Want a reliable computer? Another insane multiple, you are going to need to have something built on an ancient manufacturing process, and because you aren't getting the benefits of economies of scale you are paying more, and you are basically getting a bespoke machine so you now need to test it to heck and back to ensure reliability.

One problem with how we have chosen to advance our electronics industry is that the types of goods that are made en-masse have steadily separated from what types of goods need to be made for long term engineering projects.

An example of this in action: when Tesla first came out they realized existing automotive infotainment systems basically sucked and that they couldn't provide a good UX with anything available off the shelf at the time, so they instead plopped new consumer non-automotive gear. A touch screen that didn't suck! But it also melted. Everyone yelled at them "should have known better!" but their choices were "unreliable consumer" or "crappy behind the scenes".

Another example, RoHS doesn't have exclusions for home appliances. RoHS is also why the control board on washing machines gives out after ~10 years, necessitating purchasing a new washing machine even though the mechanics may have another decade left in them! (RoHS needs a crap ton more exclusions for long lived appliances...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_(semiconductor)#Fa...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...
I’m not sure they all have to be the same, but settling on a few standard designs would help a lot. SMRs might be good in some cases whereas in other situations a larger plant would make sense. I think privately constructed and run plants would be fine if the regulations were clear and didn’t change so frequently.
I appreciate your desire for the world to be ruled by the US. I do not think the rest of the world will agree. And if you enforce it using military means you are no better then the rest. Are you American by any chance?
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Both deforestation and inequality fall when the economy does better and rise in times of economic crisis.

The economic improvement "under" Lula was mostly due to international factors (the boon in the price of commodities) which is why it collapsed under Dilma (Lula's protegé).

Instead of using the economic surplus that fell into his lap to invest in infrastructure and industrialization, Lula used it to fund the largest corruption scheme in our history.
I went to a rock festival this weekend with a lot of bigger rock names from the 00s and 10s. Three day tickets were $200-ish, not /awful/ but a bit pricey.

One draft of Bud Light was $12. A little take-out sized noodle box was $15. Tater tots with cheese was $12. Grocery store freezer-grade chicken tenders and fries were $25.

It was absolutely nuts.
That's called _money_.
No reason you can't just take your whole family to the beach.

It's like complaining Steven King novels cost too much, thousands upon thousands of novels are free, you can always read those while you save up money
Regarding C++. IMHO - it’s not getting intrinsically better. More complex. Easy things become a bit less verbose, but the hardest things remain as hard and the compiler is as unhelpful as before.

I agree C++11 and it’s successors are sugaring the language to be a lot nicer but fundamentally nothing has changed.

Rust is fundamentally better in it’s compiler warnings (they are actually helpful), and contains specific solutions to the things that are hard and bite you in C++.

C++ is not going away and it’s my main professional language but Rust does have features that are better.
> The gains in the Donbas are small, incremental

And you believe that is a failure?

Considering that Russia's top objective is to take the Donbas, that seems like a success. Ukraine is not Iraq 2.0; they are/were the largest military in Europe outside of Russia. And that is without considering all the western weapons and training support.
First off, much of the conversation is about the US, and the site appears to only support listings in the UK.

> Find your next LGBT+ friendly household

I don't see this as discriminatory. Likewise, if somebody made a site for wheelchair-accessible apartments, that wouldn't be discriminatory either.
Although there are some journals that are "open access" and encourage mirroring their papers, most are not so and consider mirroring their articles to be piracy -- so until copyright law is reformed, there can never be a (legal) repository of the scientific literature, although projects like Sci-Hub exist just as things like Pirate Bay do.
A pistol is better than a sharp stick. There was a Grizzly killed in Montana a few years ago with a 9mm, the bear was spooked and attacked, iirc the gun was a sub-compact, so figure no more than 12 rounds if he shot and landed all of them.
First of all, IANAL. EDIT: Oh yeah, I guess this is UK only. In any case, I don't see why an equivalent US site would run afoul.

Like craigslist, this site is entirely user-generated listings, and I imagine it gets the same 230 protections.

> Because this website is a tool with the specific purpose of discriminatory housing

It is not. It is a tool to connect people to be roommates together. No housing nor product is provided by the site at all. It is not a platform that targets advertising nor enables targeting advertising to protected groups.
Yeah, but that limits decision making to about 4 years if you have 5 year election cycles.

The last year you don’t want to piss off the voters so you have to be very sparse in getting anything done, so the last year in the election run up is spent pandering to as many people as possible rather than actually doing any of the real work.

Even if in the end you get multiple terms in office, you were never guaranteed re-election, so you were forced to make short term plans regardless (to stop the other lot getting in instead).
The incredible irony being that nobody died and no evidence has been found of health problems in the affects population. Nuclear energy is about 1000 times safer than getting energy from coal.

The level of ignorance in the general population is astounding.
And it also contracts.
No body is incorruptible. But less corrupt would certainly be a step forward, no?

I would suggest something like a global conservation fund responsible for guarding critical "infrastructure" of our planet. At some point, we will need to take action to prevent earth from becoming inhospitable, and this requires steering. Merely admitting defeat to greedy human nature doesn't seem to lead anywhere.
There were plenty of scientists letting the public know about the global warming in the 80s. The public didn't want to know about it.
They could not have done it and would not have gone over with the public without her critical (no pun) marshalling of the movement. She was key and deserves blame.

It's like expecting C&H would come around and denounce anyone who said, "ice-cream is great, I love sweets, let's all celebrate with sweets". Sure, if they were ethical, they'd mention how sugar is bad for human health and undermine their company.
> Are people really rejecting a whole project because one of 6 options is Gab?

Seems like you are drawing conclusions that I, at least, never said.

> Do you people not use yt-dlp (or youtube-dl) because some of the sources they support can have more "extreme" content as well?

I don't think this is at all a fair comparison, as a simple glance at the front page can see. I also specifically tied my comment to there being only 6 options.

> For all we know, the author could be reading Gab because sometimes you're curious to see what all the extremists are up to.

Why would you want a recommendation feed for it then? Wouldn't you want to see it without the algorithmic distortion towards what you would prefer to see?
The very idea of guns make some people crazy - for or against, usually against.
This extension can be used for free without paying unfortunately by changing the code. I don't think there is any solid way of preventing that.
Have Yuma temperatures actually changed that much? A quick check suggests that the level of change is much smaller than that in the UK. Climate change has increased the extremes in the UK quite significantly in the last 40 years. It's a case that the changes in extremes are not accounted for in UK planning whereas Yuma is known to be consistently very hot.
Doesn't look like it was codified. It was a supreme court ruling that baseball was not subject to the Sherman Antitrust Act
Great article on the why here: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cooling-the-tube-engine...
Did they reattach the finger? Does he still have feeling in it and can move it?
Wow, as a Brit with an engineer/machinist father, this would have been amazing to go to as a kid. We have absolutely nothing like that here short of taking a woodworking class.
I’m using Azure Cosmos DB, nothing fancy there, simple structure where each message references its parent message id
It's terrible because the best solution to escape the two-party system, including all the animosity (where it is always strategically disadvantageous to join any other party thanks to the first-past-the-post voting system) is something like IRV (instant-runoff voting).

> At least in China the majority of people actually trust their government.

Sure, as long as you don't say the wrong thing and get "disappeared", and have no one to turn to (since the one-party government also controls the courts and legal system), what's not to trust?? LOL, GTFO of here, you absolute fool

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/china-disappea...
I can't vote in american elections. Being a democracy is no solace to the people for whom the US is a foreign government.
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I remember Nietzsche had an argument that due to the success of Science that new things would be structured as if they were scientific, for example, that if a new religion arose it would pretend to be a form of Science. But that of course there are many things that cannot be scientific and these things would have to pretend to be while actually not being. As such Science would be subverted by the followers of its own success.

This memory is about 25-30 years old, so not sure how accurate it is.
X as Y is perfectly fine, but the article headline still and the HN title previously read X has Y. That is what I was wondering about, whether this is some strange headline shortcut.
Twitter’s Lawyers Flame Elon over His 'Buyers Remorse' in Court
If somebody with this app feels charitable, could they please try it on the page below and perhaps share the output via a gist or something?

https://www.warp.dev ("Download Now" or "Watch Demo" button)

There is no trial period, so it is hard to evaluate this tool. This is a really complex button, multiple SVGs, etc, so it might produce some insight into how capable the tool is.
What is the definition of what is "really" "my" domain?

If I put a custom domain on an S3/cloudfront that's part of my system, so it appears as `storage.mysystem.com`, is there something nefarious going on?

Who decides what is allowable declaration of a domain to be mine? And who enforces this with fines? Is there currently any way to fine someone on the internet for violating a rule? What would you imagine this looking like, an organization that has the ability to fine people globally, and enforce the payment of those fines (by... taking domains back I guess?), and who would control it? (and who would pay for it, how?) It's a lot of global legal infrastructure we don't really have now, I think. It would be a pretty huge step.
And others think: "we'll let the free market sort it out".

Now you have 3 problems.

1. There exists an entrenched monopoly with political influence

2. Customers are being price gouged as a result of monopolistic price setting

3. Regulatory capture through lobbying by the monopoly ensures there's no competition going forward.
IANAL but this seems like a bit of a shaky/grey area - you couldn't make your decision not to let the room on the basis of someone not being/identifying as LGBT right? So this is kind of facilitating avoiding that 'problem' arising?

I mean, imagine 'mystraightflatmate.com', the site to help you find a non-LGBT flatmate.. :/
Seconding the recommendation of CLIP embeddings, especially compared to image histograms + requiring OpenCV.

I wrote a naive, minimal dependency Python package to calculate image embeddings (https://github.com/minimaxir/imgbeddings) with some lookup demo notebooks and it works well in a pinch, although it's due for an upgrade.
There's an article here on the 5 million problem, that talks about Universal Credit and ponders what's gone wrong. Telegraph is usually paywalled but you may be able to find a way around:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/02/benefits-britain...

Firstly, he tackles the bogus claim that it's to do with Brexit:

"Immigration has bounced back. There is no Brexit-sized hole in our workforce; not anymore. Immigrants now account for one in five workers in Britain, the highest ratio ever."

Then he tackles the definitions used for unemployment stats:

"The low unemployment claim is a mirage. Britain has, in fact, been suffering a period of mass joblessness as big as any in our recent history. The proportion of people who are neither in work or looking for it is higher now than it was in the mid-1970s. More than five million people were claiming out-of-work benefits at the last count – a figure as big as the population of Scotland. But many of them don’t count as unemployed, because they’re not looking for jobs. So – presto! – they vanish from the national debate."

Parts of the UK have become massively dependent on benefits:

"In Blackpool, official figures show 26 per cent on out-of-work benefits. In Middlesbrough it was 23 per cent, in Hartlepool 22 per cent, in Manchester, it’s 18 per cent."

Why doesn't the Universal Credit system fix that? It's as I said:

"Why? How did we get here? How did Universal Credit, the flagship reform of the Cameron era, start to produce the problems that it was designed to solve? It was created with strings of conditionality on welfare payments, with sanctions imposed if people turned down jobs or missed face-to-face meetings. During lockdown, the conditions were abandoned – and never properly restored. So the new system has started to trap people in welfare as surely as the old one did. It has started to become an issue in Cabinet."
Based on my experience with how airport operations work I suspect they noticed a defect on lesser pavement or a service vehicle with higher ground pressure than an aircraft left a dent somewhere on the runway and they then concluded that they should stop bouncing object that weigh tens of thousands of pounds off of the runway until it hardens back up lest ruts form there.
Space in the deep tube tunnels is really tight[0] (making it tricky to fit on-train air con radiators) and there's insufficient air circulation in the to clear the extra heat emissions in any case. They're working on both, but (unlike the shallower cut-and-cover lines and the NY Subway, both of which have saner tunnel sizes) it's decidedly non-trivial.

[0]: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Why_London_Undergr...
Not American but I know that car reliability has improved to the point where motels and roadhouses have largely faded away from the highways as people are able to travel further more reliability.
At the time I'm writing this, there are exactly two comments (now three) on this thread that aren't an attempt to give an answer.

It's best to read things in good faith. On the whole, people on HN do try to be helpful.
This has me scratching my head. Why are you using <div> for everything? HTML5 has been a thing for years, along with semantic tags like <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <main>, <aside>, <article>, <section>, etc. Or is this intended for people still using HTML4 or XHTML? Also, why do you need a <div> for image captions? That's what <figure> and <figcaption> are for.

Also, anybody who cares about web accessibility is going to run into needless misery using this stylesheet.

https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://isneuu.com/css-blog-...
Nice, this is why I browse HN for. Can you tell use more about the tech involved?

Perfect for a daily meditation.
I think this observation is mostly overblown. I'm sure some people "worship" science to an irrational degree, whatever that means in each case, but it seems like in most cases what we're seeing is actually this: If you see two opposing opinions, and one is ostensibly derived in whole or in part by science, and the other isn't, then, prior to further information or extenuating circumstances, it makes sense to defer to the latter when making decisions or forming opinions. That doesn't mean you are sure it is correct, it means you are sure it is more likely to be correct than the alternative, which is far more reasonable. It might look like people are picking the ostensibly-science-backed choice with unthinking faith, when the majority of them are simply making the more statistically likely choice given the information available. In most cases, it's impossible to tell the difference, and this gives rise to a lot of political rhetoric that exploits that ambiguity.
Let's say "Runway melts" is X and Y is "temperatures in the UK near 40". "X as Y" says that these two things are happening at the same time. That makes sense. "X has Y" is incoherent.

I think this matters because some people on hackernews are not native English users. They may be legitimately confused or misled by typos that a native speaker would unconsciously correct.
I wish this was available as a normal text/image written article instead of a video. The content looks cool but the format doesn't work for me; 30 minutes is wayyy too long for this one!
Unfortunately HN audience can smell BS really fast and these kind of tactics fall in the BS category, hence get called out. Maybe in other lay person spaces it won't be.
The concept of pulling into a National Forest (or other BLM land) and setting up a tent anywhere is jarring for someone that isn't familiar with it already. The absolute freedom (and accompanying rules that aren't available on site, but that you're expected to abide by) is daunting when you've been conditioned that in order to stay somewhere you must pay and that there will be an obvious place to park your vehicle.

The first time I did it, I felt like I was doing something wrong and that a ranger could show up at any time to ticket me for camping too close to the road or doing something else wrong. Forums are full of warnings to use apps to make sure you're not on someone's private property adjacent to or embedded within the public land, lest they show up with a shotgun.

A lot of people have never been introduced to the concept of public land in a way that makes it seem like a viable/legit option.
To be breif and frank with you, I see those views as "part of the
problem".
IMO this is a pretty narrow definition of enterprise-ready, which is often actually more of a focus on being able to map a large organisations process into your application, and also how it scales with the number of users (ie your app is made for 1000 people to use rather than 10, and scales from a process/organisational perspective not just a technical perspective).

Small organisations are more willing to change processes to match your application than large companies, particularly if your process hasn’t been battle tested in other large organisations.
Show HN: TLDR your video-meetings with GPT-3
We recently plugged in GPT-3 to our software which can record / transcribe / search and share meetings.
And the quality of the meeting minutes outputted is just baffling.

GPT-3 understands what a discussion revolves around - even if the subject matter is only mentionned once - and summarizes it really efficiently. It lays out the different topics and always puts forward the next steps.

Linked is a quick example on one of my conversations with a company in the Philippines.

An amusing bug was that if for whatever reason no to little transcription was outputted, GPT-3 would insult the participants (is it trained on Reddit??).

The danger would be if GPT-3 misinterprets something and this then gets into the formal decision process of a company. However I haven't seen it yet after 1 month of live production and a little more than a hundred of internal calls tried out on.

Check it out it's free to try out:
https://cutt.ly/welcome_to_spoke
:)
"It tracks and stores your browsing habits (searches, clicks, content engagements, text input) locally" -- how is this technically possible, that a chrome extension can 'monitor' all my search/click/etc?
Netflix crackdown on password sharing now includes $2.99 “extra home” fee
> It's just that Brazil, right now, has a very unfortunate combination of a corrupt government, very valuable resources, and responsibility for the integrity of the forest.

That’s not an accident. Not misfortune. That’s a result of western colonialism. I’m no expert in brazil, but its history includes colonial governments, CIA backed coups, and IMF influence.

It doesn’t have a bad gov because whoops we elected a bad guy in 2019. It has a bad gov because throughout its entire history western govs and corporations have been exercising influence to be allowed to pilfer its resources.
I will say that because they are permanent as opposed to occasional, theme parks have more selection in terms of rides like roller coasters or any sort of water rides. And there is a whole world of difference in affordability and hecticness between Disney and something local like Hersheypark.
There's plenty of "us good them bad" kool-aid without FAANG influence.
Haha not at all. The constitution is esentially suspended the moment national security is invoked. It is still in effect but it is interpreted such that the authors of the rights and amendments clearly implied that those rights only apply i n times of peace which is why they can kill a US citizen with a drone strike while unarmed and posing no immediate threat with no due process or consequences. It's the joker card for the government basically.
Google Cloud (Europe-west2) is experiencing downtime
Has knock on effects for WPEngine which appears to use GCP (https://wpenginestatus.com/incidents/381158)
I find it inconvenient to play games on my phone while I'm driving I either have to look down at my screen while holding it chest level and no longer see the road even in peripheral vision or keep it in the holder where the screen is too small. Having it on the big screen will make it much safer for me to play games while I'm driving
Doesn't C++11 precede rust?