skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um the discussion was revolving around a chess tournament organized (by admission of the moscow chess open website) part of the Russian government. As you know, Russian government right now has been agressively sending tanks into neighboring nations with the very flags of the USSR, including the hammer and sickle, while that same government goes on 45 minute tirades about restoring the glory of uniting former soviet satellites. So you know this discussion about the policies of the chess organizers, the russian government, has a lot to do with the USSR.
I don’t see the “clear path” here. As many others explained, deleting the video would both be wrong and potentially problematic.

I find it really funny so many people are up in arms against this perceived “verbal abuse” and giving the author a lot of flake for this one single word. The “you” he filled out in the appeal form clearly refers to Twitter as a platform. Maybe it would be clearer if English actually distinguished between the plural form and the singular form of “you”, like in various other languages? Perceiving this as a personal insult is exactly a “pride” issue of the Twitter employee and some of the commentators here, not the author, who IMHO acted perfectly reasonably.
> Now show me list of the 8 million people who die per year from air pollution.

Are you comparing to coal-fired plants? I'm talking about solar and wind.

As for fossil fuels, the expected deaths and environmental from nuclear accidents are - well, TBH, I don't know the math for that, but I would expect it would be on the order of magnitude of the extra deaths from fossil fuel electricity generation.

> I mentioned the solutions

I will actually look into that. However, the website says: "Finland ... No other country has yet reached the implementation phase of final disposal. ... final disposal of high-level spent nuclear fuel has not yet been launched anywhere."

So, that's not what's being used so far. This company's new approach - maybe it's great, I don't know, but it needs to last thousands of years, right? That's a very high bar - and a significant maintenance and hazard-management burden going forward.

> Lazard are a bunch of kooks.

That's a pretty strong claim. But - since I'm not an expert, I can't outright dismiss it. They're a popular source for a "bunch of kooks"... care to elaborate?

> Look at Hualong One costs.

I would look into them, if I could.
I hope so but have seen so many articles claiming this since February that I'll believe it when I see it.
So far, extra energy has been entirely targeted at increasing consumerism: it's the famous "such and such country is finally getting a sizeable middle class".

Translation of "middle class": class of mass consumers.
What is the "culture of power", can you give some examples? And what are your pronouns?
Unless it has changed, that's not true. Monero obfuscate but does not hide (unlike zcash?)
Cost factor isn't as relevant as you think, as this is an apple's to oranges comparison.

Renewables are too unreliable to act as baseline generation for a country.

In the UK last year for example we had very little wind, so we had to ramp up our gas power output to make up for our shortages in renewables. We burned through much of our gas reserves before the Ukraine war started, because of Renewable power unreliability.

Fission is the replacement for that baseline role that hydrocarbons currently fill, not the unpredictable-but-clean role that renewables fill.

The ideal future has both, with renewables producing as much power as possible and fission running on low capacity and ready to ramp up when renewables fall short.
> Besides, if your corpus is asymptomatically everything, why wouldn’t fitting it perfectly fitting it be the goal?

That's called Google, and it serves a different purpose. Perfectly learning the distributional properties of text instead is not overfitting, that's just fitting.
So, would an L7 engineer report to an L7 manager? Or there is a sort of limit on what levels would be direct or what levels?
The biggest problem to take any of these companies seriously, even the MIT spin-off, is that no one has ever attempted yet to extract a single watt of electricity from the fusion reaction. The part where the thermal energy is actually converted to electrical power is still entirely at the theoretical design level. While it is nowhere near as complex scientifically as actually containing the plasma, it will still be a huge engineering challenge.

When these companies come and claim that their better magnets will allow them to supply power to the grid 3 years from now when they haven't even arrived where JET is yet, so they haven't even started in the unknowns of actually running the reactor continously and extracting power from it, it is clear that they are gifting with their timeline. And if they are willing to lie about the timeline, I don't see why anyone believes them about the fundamental technology as well.
500 is 1-(1-risk)^500 the risk
Before you put them on rails, it might be easier to add panthographs to charge from overhead wires while driving in electric lane.

Germany has a short section of highway testing that setup for trucks

https://www.sustainabletruckvan.com/pantographs-for-trucks-s...
You think it's OK that Zelensky has had all of his operation offshore for years? And that it's also OK that this hasn't been covered by the media? This doesn't raise any red flags for you?
Could well be he was tipped off about the purpose of the meeting...

Most fully remote companies won't demand an in person meeting unless it's something of a disciplinary nature anyway. Merely a message saying "Your employer requires you to appear at X time at Y place" would be a red flag for many.

The message would say "is it easier to discuss this next to a whiteboard?" If it were friendly...
Exactly. I can’t believe so many commentators here (and maybe the employee who reviewed the request, maybe not) missed this simple point and turn the heat on the author instead. A shame that English doesn’t distinguish between the singular and plural forms of “you” I guess?
Might be talking at cross purposes here: per bag 20kg is so the bag can be safely handled by staff.

When I fly between London and East Asia I shop around between different carriers and, in economy class, I'm normally offered up to two checked bags with a total weight of between 30 and 35kg depending on carrier and promotional offers.
I’d love a car with a tiny battery for 99% of the time when I’m just driving locally and the ability to have an extra, large battery that can be slotted in when I want to make a longer trip. With only the short range battery most of the time, my car’s weight is low and efficiency high.

Maybe I could keep that battery in my house and use it to store solar electricity most of the time. It seems like it should be possible to design a system for slotting it in that doesn’t require me to physically lift its weight.

I’d also be happy to drive into somewhere local that rents me that long range battery and slots it in with machinery designed for the purpose.
No it’s spot on. Check the response by the chess association. They blame the boy. In Russia, it’s your fault and there will be bureaucratic treacle to wade through instantly.

I’ve worked with many people from that region over the years and dated one and it’s absolutely right.

It’s also why lots of people left.
13 years ago this won't be so true. But this topic is generally regarded as true amongst even the non-technical crowd.

Google search has gotten that bad recently.
Batteries are dangerous? What do you mean by that?

> Dams failing have killed way more people than nuclear ever has.

And this solely due to one incident under communism where damn was not maintained.
Remove /dev/urandom and replace it with /dev/zero in your sandbox ;)
No my experience is that I sit in the hallway every time I take the train. I often get redirected because there’s something on the trail and or I miss my next train because a few min delay caused the quite tightly planned next train to be missed.
After public outcry, Google will reinstate Play Store app permissions list
So you're spending ~$80 per year for DO plus $180 for the hardware. Over 5 years that's $580 (if that Chromebook really makes it to 5 years and DO's prices remain unchanged). This is about half of what you'd have to spend on a local dev setup with similar capabilities.

Not bad, but I think whether or not it makes sense depends entirely on the productivity difference between the two setups.
That argument turns out not to be enough! A counterexample is the set of rational numbers, which has the same cardinality as the natural numbers, even though the naturals are a proper subset of the rationals.

Some infinite sets can be put into one-to-one correspondence with some of their proper subsets!
Aptera Motors
> They were bad, but just bad enough to roll over and give up on fission.

Competent engineers are perfectly capable of maintaining a nuclear reactor, _technically_ speaking.

Large projects are vulnerable to all vices of human nature though. Idiots in manglement. Greedy people trying to squeeze out more profit. Terrorists. Maffiosi, whether running a country or not. Let's not forget that scale is not just about money or spatial dimensions, but also time...

We have a perfect example: Enerhodar, Ukraine. A working nuclear power plant is in the middle of a war zone right now.
This is precisely the reason why I don't (and have never) make a PDF of my book [1] available. It took me a couple of years to write, and while it doesn't make a lot of money by pro author standards, it's been the difference between me going broke during COVID and not.

Surely this would be an easily solved problem if Amazon cared to solve it?

[1] - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Guide-Music-Technology-Cub...
Interesting article.

Not entirely relevant, but I think that the Buddhist view of time is interesting, and I guess quite relevant to this block universe idea.

In the Buddhist view, all things are "emptiness", shunyata, without self-existence. This means that there is no fundamental basis with which you can distinguish between things. For example, there is no fundamental property that you can use to distinguish between you and I, or an apple and a keyboard, or even your body and your consciousness. The distinctions are just concepts that we make up and assert that the world fits into it. The Heart sutra says that not only is this true for all the elements that make up our experience, but even also for causal connections such as time.

This view of time was most explicitly emphasised by the Soto Zen philosopher Dogen. He called it Uji, which means "time-being". Effectively he said that being equals time, and that really all time is right now:

[quote]

An ancient buddha said:

For the time being stand on top of the highest peak.

For the time being proceed along the bottom of the deepest ocean.

For the time being three heads and eight arms.

For the time being an eight- or sixteen-foot body.

For the time being a staff or whisk.

For the time being a pillar or lantern.

For the time being the sons of Zhang and Li.

For the time being the earth and sky.

"For the time being" here means time itself is being, and all being is time. A golden sixteen-foot body is time; because it is time, there is the radiant illumination of time. Study it as the twelve hours of the present."Three heads and eight arms" is time; because it is time, it is not separate from the twelve hours of the present.

[/quote] (https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Uji_...)

The way we understand this as Buddhists, is that we are both at the very beginning and very end of our path, at the same time we are both deluded beings and also perfectly enlightened Buddhas:

> Time is not separate from you, and as you are present, time does not go away. As time is not marked by coming and going, the moment you climbed the mountains [walked the Buddhist path] is the time-being right now.

So effectively, we believe that all moments are contained in this moment, because there is no fundamental basis by which we can say that any other moment is separated from this moment. Before and after are illusions, they are just ideas that we have right now.
are all words based on stolen letters
Show HW starts with a sign-on page?

Pass.
I can see why you think that but I don't think it's quite so elaborate. More likely just production changes, maybe filters.
> Go on Amazon UK and search for books by "Anett Muller", no umlaut. A couple of dozen listings, everything shipped and sold by Amazon, everything an obvious fake

How are they obvious fakes? What is there in the product pages to indicate they are fake?

I see they're dispatched and sold by Amazon and I got no other information to tell those are fake. How do you know?
> I'm not sure why we aren't making EVs with small but upgradeable batteries.

NIO is:

https://insideevs.com/news/591837/nio-battery-swapping-stati...

https://insideevs.com/news/392660/nio-battery-swap-loved-by-...

https://insideevs.com/news/583809/nio-baas-battery-swapping-...

https://insideevs.com/news/596640/nio-500kw-ultra-rapid-char...

> Like for example a $20k car with a 10kWh "good enough for now" starter battery

10 kWh wouldn't get you very far in a car. In a scooter or quadracycle 10 kWh can be useful.
One thing that seems to be unmentioned so far in the conversation: xz is public domain, while lzip is subject to the full-blown GPL (v2 or later).

In any case, I don't really bother with compression for my own archival needs. Storage is cheap, and encrypted data is kinda hard to reasonably compress anyway.
The first commandment of C is: 'writing a naive C compiler should be "reasonable" for a small team or even one individual'. That's getting harder and harder, longer and longer.

100% agreed. I've always viewed C as a "bootstrappable" language, in which it is relatively straightforward to write a working compiler (in a lower level language, likely Asm) which can then be used to bring up the rest of an environment. The preprocessor is actually a little more difficult in some respects to get completely correct, and arguably #embed belongs there, so it's debatable whether this feature is actually adding complexity to the core language.

Your wish for a "C-like" language sounds very much like B.
They are the only game in town as far as self-print selling is concerned, if you want to make money.

Despite getting 1/3 the money per copy compared to selling via Lulu.com (although this has changed now, lulu pays a lot less than they used to), I made a lot more money selling via Amazon than via lulu. I held out for years until the situation was untenable financially, and now only sell via Amazon for this reason.
The graphs of energy availability/consumption and emissions of garbage are correlated. This is a historical fact.

Life is literally as affordable for people as the amount of energy that is available to them, that's the main factor (a bit of optimization of processes also plays but at a more minor order). Food used to be 25% of households' spending early XXth century, when someone would go buy eggs from the local market or farmer. Today it is 10% if you count the margins of industrials, distributors etc. But if you just look at the price of the eggs, then it's probably less than 1%.

What allowed this? Energy! Energy allowed for abundant food, a long life, studying and the general tertiarisation of the economy (giving birth to tech) and of course consumerism. The more energy the cheaper everything is the more people consume, at least as long as we persuade people that buying things is the greatest pleasure in life.
I'm more in the emergent time camp. But the point is that it isn't an open and shut case with regard to the block universe.
Thank you, reasonable stranger.
You may be interested in bsdiff[0] or Courgette[1]. If the file is a new version of what you deployed previously, you can use these programs to produce binary patch files. Diff the old and new binaries, and you'll only need to transmit the patch.

bsdiff is a generic binary differ that is widely available. Courgette is optimized for executables and has an uncommon build system, but claims to produce files ~85% smaller than bsdiff.

[0] https://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/

[1] https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...
A few questions :

I'm not sure of why did the robot stop ?

Is the robot controlled by the tablet we see at the top ?

It seems a human that is not the robot operator panicked and pressed something (on-screen emergency stop button ?). Did the robot stop because it detected an excess force/failure to reach position, and is in fact not stopped and trying to reach position (aka crushing finger till the claw reach its closed position ?).

If e-stop was pressed, what would have happened if no-one pressed the e-stop ? would the kid have been dragged across the board then released a few seconds later when the piece would have been dropped ?

How much force is there in the claw of this robot ? What happens when the e-stop is pressed, does the robot fall limp or does it hold position with power in the motor or does it hold position because it is not back-drivable ?
Amazon makes too much money off of these kinds of 3rd party sellers to change course. These days its no different than browsing alibaba or wish
> > building a fission reactor takes one or two decades and its kWh is costlier than alternatives

> It didn't and doesn't need to be that way [..] a big part of the cost is the need to satisfy incredibly hostile regulations [..]

(Alleged over-)regulation is only part of the story.

"analysis, done by a team of researchers at MIT, is remarkably comprehensive. For many nuclear plants, they have detailed construction records, broken out by which building different materials and labor went to, and how much each of them cost. There's also a detailed record of safety regulations and when they were instituted relative to construction. Finally, they've also brought in the patent applications filed by the companies who designed the reactors. The documents describe the motivations for design changes and the problems those changes were intended to solve."[0]

"while safety regulations added to the costs, they were far from the primary factor. And deciding whether they were worthwhile costs would require a detailed analysis of every regulatory change in light of accidents like Three Mile Island and Fukushima"

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/why-are-nuclear-plan...
> If you believe that even the worst nuclear accident at power plant will "instantly fry us all to molten pulp" in any appreciable range (while climate change is worldwide), the you are mistaken

I am not wrong, in a world dotted with miniature fission reactors, as the most extreme pro-fission people would like to favor. If you can build one in space, and it powers the whole earth, that's obviously a very different story than building them every city block.

I am also not wrong about the effects of radiation on the human body, when used as a bomb nuclear weapons literally melt people into goo, ofc with a reactor there are various safeguards but the thing causing the flesh-melt is still occurring, so maybe less instantaneous melt and more gradual boils and blisters leading to severe internal cancers as your cascade of nuclear reactors around the city all blow in a beautiful chain reaction...

> It is completely untrue. Even among https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators it is not true.

It's not untrue if you define exposed, not to be disingenuous, but those actually exposed to the reactor meltdown, did not survive. Those experiencing second hand exposure in e.g. the town, obviously did not all drop dead, but had increased risk of cancer, death, and those globally exposed, well many fewer dead or at risk of cancer.

So unfortunately when speaking so imprecisely it actually is true, just not in the way you imagine. Even your wikipedia article admits among the liquidators the death rate was almost at least 20% by some estimates, and I would presume these people are wearing some protective equipment, so calling them "exposed" is somewhat disingenous in and of itself...
Why would you not compress first, then encrypt?
You could have used “cowboy culture” instead of “macho culture”, that way at least your over-the-top generalization would have been free of cultural appropriation.
> Construction time - average is 10 years, we don’t have that long to wait.

This is a fallacy in two ways:

1. Scaling up nuclear projects will decrease construction time and cost. Efficiencies are found by with scale.

2. The opportunity cost of not starting nuclear projects now will surely be worse than attempting 100% renewables. The point is that we can invest in both.
I did it and have been so happy. My family's now a "small business" with a business-only MVNO. Recommended.
This

Everything in the US (and eventually most other places) has been formed by the logic of capital. So of course airports try to make your way to the gate as long as possible, so that you buy shit you don’t need.

Think about what in your life has not been defined by the logic of capital.
This is bad, and it gets worse. They allow products under their identifier system (GS1?) to change entirely. One day it could be a key chain with 100 4-star reviews, the next day the same page is selling a piece of junk smoke alarm, a week later a USB cable or an iphone case. And the case has 4 color options... red, blue, selfie stick, and large.
Without these chips, we are in big trouble, and Britain has no strategy
How good is zstd for long term archival vs e.g. 7z? The latter appears (I have no data to back it up) to be vastly more popular at the moment.
The robot took exception to his pointer, and made it null.
Wow. It seems like you are blacklisting any current concern in the world. There are some very general terms here. With such a list, why bother and not stop reading the news altogether? It seems like you don't want to hear about anything going on. What do you expect to find in the news?

I'm surprised not to find Ukraine in this list (btw, for some reason, Firefox keeps crashing when I try to search on this comment).
Too many copycats, never found such site.

Is it a shared number?
...say like a battery trailer with a CCS socket, and with extra storage as well, for long journeys?

Low tech FTW.

Smartrail is still a better soln but we have to be realistic here.
If people wanted to travel 80km/h they could do so today. It is well known that going slower improves fuel efficiency. I'm asking for things like improved drivetrain efficiency and better aerodynamics.
Anyone with experience about SDM L8 and SDE L7 and how the whole rating works for these levels?
> Coercing the population to stop consuming is a non-starter.

Right now we are doing the opposite of that though: the advertising industry, one of the largest in Earth, is mostly about brain-washing people into buying more stuff. We can easily put a stop to this tomorrow while listing nothing of value to society, but instead we fetishize growth so we don't.
I think that depends on battery tech. If they get magnesium air or metal free organic flow working I would imagine it would probably be chosen over mechanical methods.

Ideally I suspect you don't really want utility storage anyway, you want something so cheap, small, and renewable you can do point of load storage and have a bit of grid independence, and not need as much transmission infrastructure.
Hopefully in 10 years all of these car batteries with 50% capacity left can be deployed as residential batteries for peanuts.
If your book blows up there will be people carefully photocopying the physical book and counterfeiting it for a profit.
It's not ridiculous at all, past a certain size basically all diesel vehicles are diesel-electric, meaning they run diesel engines to produce electricity to run electric motors.

All diesel trains do this to avoid needing giant gearboxes, mining trucks use it to cut weight, modern ships use it to enable articulating motors.

Now we are slowly reaching the point where it becomes desirable even for car-sized vehicles.