skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until the nuclear waste disposal problem has been solved (actually solved, not "we know how to do it but haven't yet"), I don't think you can call nuclear "clean". Beyond that, there are still valid safety and security concerns that people like you seem to enjoy hand-waving away. I agree that there's a lot of irrational fear around nuclear, but claiming that nuclear is 100% safe is also irrational.

I would much rather have nuclear instead of fossil fuel burning, but renewables are even better. The article even admits that solar panels can be recycled, just that most end up in landfills.
I'm sure there are plenty of unflattering photos a journo could use against me, but in none of them would I be dressed and posed to look like a subnautical mortician.
Well, this is pretty information dense -- lots of expressions in PPM, and graphs. One of the links within, at least gives some causal indications, in case someone wants to prioritize resources: https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions
Should you make a podcast for your startup?
This is akin to a Greek of 5th bce asking Leucippus and Democritus how we could know the structure of a world we cannot see.

The absence of an answer is not proof of nonexistence or impossibility. It is just neutral absence. Absence as evidence is only """ valid""" when all possibilities are exhausted in a definite way. Outside of math, that threshold is exceedingly rare in problems of even moderate difficulty.

Moreover, this style of inquiry can easily be turned on its head and used to (apparently) redress the interlocutor... Neither are worthwhile endeavors.
You said it was an absolute. Once we start weighing the costs against other things we care about like education it becomes a relative cost.
>I try not to pry but personally, I do have a friend in Canada that their dad needs a life saving operation but just can't get one. I really don't know what that means. They say the appointment is too far out and it costs too much to get it done in the US or that they can't get approved or something.

Here's something to help you understand the state of Canadian healthcare: Right now, it is impossible—let me repeat, impossible—for people in Atlantic Canada (the easternmost four provinces) without a family doctor to get one. <https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nova-scotia-still-struggling-to-...> The waitlist has been years long for years. This is not something occurring only in rural areas; this is true in big cities like Halifax.

I am hearing that the same is true in Vancouver.
Note: "subsequent encounter" refers to the type of care being provided, not the patient's encounter with the duck. https://www.cmadocs.org/newsroom/news/view/ArticleId/34855/C...
I agree, my only regret is not discovering them sooner. Id pay three times as much for them to stay open. Seriously...
As a farang, you SHOULD pay 10x local prices.
If you don’t understand why claims about sentinel AI are extraordinary then there’s really no point in discussing it.
If this is how the industry is complying the law was poorly written no?
Yet this was precisely the business model of high seas piracy, and very much still is, so they successfully applied the model.

Ok, I get your point too, I just want to emphasize that what the OP did was essentially similar to casino side betting, going beyond the predicted actions in the world, by adding a layer of “entrepreneurial” spirit.
I don't know anything about shipping containers but I'd assume that the container owning company had the two doppel-containers enter service at different times and/or locations and their asset database either isn't centralized or isn't de-duped.
I've also now seen that he is actually using this photo as his twitter profile photo.
I've stopped buying huge swaths of things from Amazon for this reason. I'm basically down to buying four categories of things:

1. Items whose brand absolutely don't matter so long as they work as intended (e.g., books, home goods like hangers).

2. Home goods it wouldn't be worthwhile to knock off (e.g., KIND bars, toilet paper).

3. Smaller brands whose market share and item appeal are not worth cloning (e.g., a mechanical keyboard breadboard kit).

4. Things I'd order from banggood /aliexpress anyway, that Amazon will get to me faster (e.g., some diodes).

For everything else, I'd rather get it at a local store or order it from Target/Best Buy/Whoever than risk the Amazon purchase.
Skills required for a CTO: be transformational
It's his LinkedIn photo
Humans didn't create dogs by typing a bunch of letters into a keyboard.
We have lower salaries and higher living costs compared to other countries. That's fair and true.

The bit about a "lack of culture and nightlife" is... interesting. What kinda culture were they looking for?

The criticism that it's hard to get a job implies that the people answering it aren't coming in on skilled migrant visas, as those require an employer to a) sponsor you and b) document that they weren't able to fill your role in NZ, so you'd already have a job.

So it makes me wonder if the people answering it had come over on student visas that became residency visas after completing their studies, in which case you're competing with all the other graduates (and we have had problems with private training establishments that were effectively set up to sell visas, so the "level 6 diploma in Business" you acquire from them has no value in the job market.
All of these are true, but I will never go back into the office again.
Close to a busy road, sure.
Most laptops become e-waste after a few years. Want an example? Macbooks before 2017 which no longer get any more major system updates and run as slow as turtle compared to the latest ones.
I can't quote the whistleblower statutes from memory, but I believe that, even if we conceded your point about his state of mind: there is no law that Google would be violating.

Is there some law regulating sentience of computer systems? Of course not. So is there a law about "developing dangerous weapons"? Maybe. But is "sentience" a dangerous weapon?

You have to stretch the laws to the breaking point for your claim to work, sorry.
>Buying crypto (like Dogecoin, for $DEITY's sake!) at some ATM-like terminal

There are literal ATMs (not "ATM-like") in government buildings that say they do Bitcoin transactions. I haven't investigated exactly what it means, but I've seen them.

But you know what you can't buy with Bitcoin or credit cards? Lottery tickets. Got to have US currency.
I just moved to Taiwan from the States. It feels risky given the political situation. It seemed like the Russo-Ukrainian war would be a perpetual stalemate, and then one day everything changed. Taiwan is a beautiful country, and the Taiwanese people don’t deserve to be threatened with invasion. I suppose by moving I am betting that the risk is less than 50%, but I don’t think it’s 0. The United States enjoy a geopolitical security that may not be appreciated until you leave.
I'm downvoted for suggesting that the LA river was okay ecologically, extremely utilitarian, and that the cutting off its flow was a conspiracy with effects made obvious by this article about LA's other water source, the Colorado River.

The making of the LA river was a conspiracy! You people don't know anything, you just think yr smart.
Remarkably, this was being planned even while Australia had an anti renewable energy government, which was more interested in promoting the coal industry. Yet as the maps make clear, Australia with its climate, location, and low population density, is potentially a solar energy superpower.
wait, which white people would thai people have not liked (since you've implied being white was bad except for being a white american)? My time vacationing in thailand has always been overwhelmingly friendly...like the most friendly locals of any places I've been, but I stayed out of bangkok, which I hear is completely different.
Yup, that's what I've heard about him. It's even more apparent when he's contrasted with his wife. He's tried to get her to take likability training, and I know she's taken body language training (you can see it by comparing video of her over the years), but it hasn't really gelled for her.

Bill would never, ever have made the "deplorables" gaffe.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
–Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981

We deliver everything else by road. We should deliver power by road. The roads are already there. Once most long-distance trucking is done by robot (~10 years me thinks), there will be plenty of bandwidth. We need "standard units of power" (Sups) that are interchangeable with and usable with everything that produces and consumes power. The interfaces should be standardized. The internals can be proprietary.
Thank you for speaking up for those of us who think WFH is overrated.

This is the first time perhaps in my life where I have been beaten over the head by the in-group that I am in the out-group. I'm a mostly straight, white man who never had to worry about being targeted due to who I am, and who never had to worry about food or housing. I'm smart and never had to work to get into college or get a good job.

Reading HN makes me feel like I'm insane to think that WFH is a major societal change that will hurt many people, especially younger people who are just getting into the workforce.

Kids who just went through two years of remote study, who will now be thrown onto macbooks shipped to them and told how to do their coding and learn corporate culture and understand their fucking job that is a third of their life from a desk at their house. Good luck making new friends. Hope you're religious or an alcoholic or a sex addict, because that's how you meet people in the digital age.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills to think that interacting with people in person for some portion of the third of my life that is work is silly. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills to think that I should get some kind of social fulfillment out of the activity that I must complete to buy a table and put food on it.

I felt out of place today even chatting 30 seconds worth of brainstorming overtime on a zoom call, because no one "just talks" on zoom anymore to work out problems. We just zone out on Slack and trudge through our shitty WFH job, having many meetings but struggling to reach out for help.

I know WFH is good for many people and for many family situations, but I think the highlight of my professional IT life will have been my mid twenties when I really liked my coworkers and could actually feel like the work I was doing was a fun activity.
This is frightening. I don't understand how Amazon isn't liable for these things.
If you do that, you'll get dinged in your performance review for being insubordinate.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3HokGUffcU
You’d think serious contracts would normally have provisions that would require mentioning expected dates, since late shipments would presumably be a common occurrence you’d want all parties to consider explicitly.
A 1968 massacre in Vietnam
Aramco has done great though
You don't need to work in logical, sequential chunks. You just should organize the work after the fact before making the PR. I work the same way.
I'm not sure if there's any study to back this up but aren't introverts generally more sensitive to social cues? As an introvert myself, we have similar frustrations. In-person communication is just more effective in some cases.
Thanks for the reply - this all makes sense, though I might considering changing the way you message it a bit. If you pitch it as a tool to check whether what you've already agreed upon is fair, then you potentially cause conflict if your assessment says the agreement isn't fair. Rather, it might be better as a starting point - if you don't know how to divide your assets, this tool will tell you what the law would default to, and then you can adjust from there.

Just two cents from a random guy on the internet!
I live in this area and I think it's important to provide a little context. Only this year did the Great Salt Lake set a record for the lowest level, and it's less than an inch lower than the last time it was at the lowest level we've measured, which was in 1962. Here's the interesting part: the highest point of the Great Salt Lake that has been measured was in 1985-86, so we don't really have enough data to know whether this is cyclical. Right now, it's just panic, but 25 years from now we could be firing up the pumps that are in the desert of the Great Salt Lake to pump out the water to keep the freeway from being flooded again, like it was in 1985.
As any experienced interviewer will know, “I’m looking to explore new opportunities” is code for “I got fired” or “I’m not doing well”. You’re giving the interviewer full control over what they want to guess your issues are, so it’s usually a better idea to be a bit more upfront (in particular if you can explain what you learned in the process)
So many questions...

Is this ad supported with discount codes for services I'm probably going to need, like dating sites (get back out there champ!) or cheap single dad studio apartments?

Is there a premium version that ties into my calendar so I know what weekends I get the kids?

What about a recipes page to stretch the ramen noodles to several meals?
Source?

Everywhere I see people talk about this issue, it points to cost saving -- what saajatjha meant
People may not have the up-front money, though.

Think about it this way: we take on mortgages and car loans and other sorts of debt because we can't afford the full cost of something up front, and accept the tradeoff that, over time, we'll be spending more money than if we had that up-front money.

Same thing applies here. Requiring solar on new homes will just make homes cost more, and will put home ownership out of reach in cases where people were already stretching. Either that, or it'll just increase the problem of people being in too much debt.

If the government wants solar on all new homes, they should be paying for it. I believe in renewables, and in distributed power generation, but forcing people to spend another $20k or whatever to buy a new home is a heavy lift.
Probably not what happened here but has there ever been a case of a cable getting cut to force all traffic through a compromised node?
I was trying to orient myself coming out of the subway in the heart of downtown Chicago, and I said "ah, the lake is over there, so that's east." My companion was surprised that that was the landmark on which I seized, but I grew up in a rural area in which I could never develop a sense of direction, and felt huge relief when I moved to Chicago and there were two landmarks (the, ahem, Sears tower and the lake) that could be used for navigation almost anywhere in the city.
Computers with business logic. It can't be the same one if it travels faster than is possible. And anyway, if they were being tracked ...
I feel what is always left out of these discussions is that my “office” time before the pandemic was already spent collaborating with people in other locations over Teams/Zoom/Slack. I was just wasting an hour at the beginning and end of each day to commute for the privilege of doing the remote work in an open office environment with everyone else on conference calls as well
I'm guessing the vast majority of lightning strikes don't start fires on wind turbines.

I guess I'll see - we had a wind farm installed several miles from us a number of years ago. So far none have burned even though we get our fair share of thunderstorms. I'll keep an eye out.
Excellent shout out for the Curious Forge and Grass Valley in general! The community up there is a huge inspiration down here in Sacto :)
Article has very good wording!
My dad knew a contractor once who said “you get everything, but I keep my truck, tools, and the clothes on my back.” Years later, “everything” became practically nothing on his ex’s side, yet he had restored his former standard of living. She dragged him back to court for more and after the judge looked over the original settlement, he threw the case out.
As a limiting case, a private system can't do it cheaper than a public one. A private system needs to skim profits off the top, which will always limit how cheap it can go
Other than getting a knockoff sheet pan once (which was still great quality, but missing the vendor's stamp on the bottom), everything I've gotten has been more or less what I expected. I don't know if it is because I deal with Chinese companies often, but the bad stuff is painfully obvious to me and easy to avoid.
It's correct, AND trivializing a whole industry.
Lessons from such cases(or case law) make one specify expected dates.
>Half of these idiots have resigned or are close to resignation due to an energy and food crisis that they have single-handedly created by the "free world" the last decade. They will just resign and live of their pensions while the rest of Europe is slipping into poverty.

Such as German foreign minister Heiko Maas, who when Trump at the UN warned four years ago that his country is endangering itself by increasing dependence on Russia, laughed with other German envoys <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJv9QYrlwgepe>. He is now enjoying a quiet retirement in Saarland.
The Unsung Hero of Indie Journalism
As a single guy in his early 30s, out of the things listed in the post, those I relate to most are probably having time that I don't know how to use effectively and difficulty in making friends and socializing locally.

That said, a couple years into remote work I'm starting to get a better grip on my free time usage, and I think friends will start to come naturally as I start to pick up classes and such once the pandemic situation improves.

As for the rest… For the most part all my days felt the same at the office too. Choosing a place to move to was a function of picking a place that was affordable and best suited my tastes. Schedule comes naturally to me because I feel terrible if I don't have one. The time I spend doing things I like I consider "meaningful" even if they don't amount to much. For exercise going on walks and a VR headset has helped a lot.

Overall while I miss some things about the office, the balance generally weighs in favor of remote work. At this point I think I'd only consider coming into the office if I were living within a 5-15m walk of it.
Haven't the covid losses already paid back? We aren't in absolute catastrophe
> Also, if you plant too close to the coast (5 or 10 miles; can't remember) it discourages migration, and does more harm than good.

Source? City Hall in my oceanfront town didn't get that memo. Last year they actually handed out free milkweed to residents for transplantation.
At some point overhead is actually overhead, and not value. It's pretty much a given that all regulation has some amount of inefficiency, and the inefficiency is not value.
If the typo or phrasing confused you, you can just ask without taking swipes and then doubling down on them.
Well yeah. Isn't it intended for integration tests and similar usage and not for production "hyperscaling"?
As in many times more solar panels than can be constructed with all of the resources that can possibly ever be extracted from the earth? I suppose that is true, and an be verified with some pretty simple back of the envelope calculations.

I must admit, I only skimmed through the apparently meaningless technobabble, but if someone could let me know succinctly, we still don't have anything more effective at carbon sequestration that trees, right? And how well are trees doing?
He's probably thinking of Amanda Knox [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Knox
They are the same container but the entropy is reversed
Run the numbers, I don't think there's any chance of nuclear providing any sort of economic competition. Even at hopelessly optimistic prices like $7k/kW overnight cost, nuclear is at a huge disadvantage to current solar pricing. Much less the pricing for solar at halfway through the nuclear reactor's life, 20-30 years from now.

Additionally, we have little hope of scaling nuclear construction capacity to meet the necessary demand. Whereas solar/wind/storage is way ahead and scaling at ridiculously high rates.

Spend 5 years building a reactor, and you get a some number of GW. Spend that same construction capacity building mines and factories, and you get some GW/year additional production capacity.

Construction capacity is fixed, really bad, and productivity has not increased in years. Applying that construction capacity to nuclear is a linear attack to energy production. Applying that construction capacity to solar/wind/storage is an exponential attack on energy production.
The investment shift being into military contracting though?
You could play a version that you wrote yourself...

It's actually not that difficult --- it's probably one of the most cloned/ported puzzle games, but almost always called something other than Tetris because their lawyers really don't want you using that name. "Russia Block" is/was a relatively common synonym.
While I have no use case for a Celeron-based Chromebook myself, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this tweet thread as it progresses beautifully while examining the cost-feature angle via multiple humorous analogies. In other words, it's a beautifully designed tweet thread that keeps the reader entertained.
M2 MacBook Air throttling is being vastly over-exaggerated
Welcome to HN! Actually kind of surprised you’ve never posted here before today :)
My C302 flip chromebook was released in 2017 and is currently downloading the 4th OS update this year (rebooting after I post this).

And unlike almost every other device I've owned, it's still as snappy as the day I bought it. Plus now it also runs Android and Linux apps to boot. I use it mainly for golang and python development in VS code.
Thanks. As mentioned I found Nextcloud difficult to set up (though that's not a showstopper, since it's a one time thing and users don't have to deal with it). But its web UI was imho poor. It was way too easy to click the wrong thing and have the UI suddenly change. I remember deciding my mom would probably find it unusable. The Android app had some issues as well, but I don't remember what they were. IIRC one of them was some obstacle to getting push notifications from the server without some kind of Google Play enrollment.

I'll try setting up Jitsi, though I remember thinking the setup looked daunting. Nextcloud and maybe Jitsi were both fairly hungry for server resources when the server side should really be very simple. Just some simple TCP proxying for multimedia plus a ZNC-like scrollback buffer for text.
Three Arrows Capital founders emerge from 5 weeks in hiding, transiting to Dubai
Every other form of life we know of has some sort of continuous sensory input. These chatbots take in text, do math, and spit out text. They don't have the fundamentals for sentience.
“First in time, first in right.” https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-drought-imper...
Good farmland also kinda turns into cities. I don't think anybody is really into bulldozing Orange County, but I think the humidity is enough that orange trees don't need a whole lot of extra water. Manhattan was also (apparently) pretty great farmland.

It would have been cool if we'd built the cities out in the desert - people need water, but it's just not the same scale. Then we could have left the great farmland for farming. We'd probably find a way to screw it up regardless. Tigris Euphrates was apparently paradise back in the day, same for the Nile. To my modern eye, they're all pretty much known for sand now.

Honestly it's pretty incredible we're, well let me rephrase that. It's incredible _you_ produce so much from a damn near desert. I get it's easier to move water than homes. Shame the good land with plenty of water got built over.