skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > 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.

More than half of a nuclear plant is essentially the same as any large scale power plant (goal, gas...). The opportunity for reducing cost through economies of scales is low. Economies of scales work for things build in factories, much less so for construction projects. That is true in general, not just for power plants.

> 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.

Why? It's the other way around, the actual cost of building nuclear instead of much cheaper and faster renewables causes an opportunity cost, because we can replace fossil fuels much faster building up renewables.
To get space or to be able to sit? It makes sense for there to be so many seats that during rush hours they are all fully used. Having more capacity would be a waste…
Maybe you should consider that when a person brings up their dating experience to support their spite towards some culture in a discussion about a child's broken finger, they actually couldn't care less about the child, eh?

There is really no other reason to bring "I dated someone Russian" into this discussion other than spite.
Good without evil is positive without negative, left without right, up without down, hot without cold. And like all those other pairs, good and evil are relative, as are happiness and misery.

It's for this reason that absolute avoidance of "sin" is misguided, even assuming we could reliably identify it. We were always meant to eat from the Tree of Knowledge; it was there for a reason, and the alternative would've been a rather stagnant and meaningless existence - certainly devoid of suffering, but also of joy.
> 128 miles of range. Which is near useless for the average user

Maybe if that is your only car. As a commuter or grocery car it would be fine.
Blaming something on the user is very very common everywhere. For example with car accidents (drunk drivers), guns (mentally ill people), etc.
One of the advantages of Overleaf is that I can share a link with a collaborator and they only need a browser to participate. I assume with this, everyone will need to download the editor?
If you replace the complex numbers with split-complex numbers, then the set of holomorphic functions becomes uninteresting. You therefore need to use * (meaning the split-complex analogue of complex conjugation) to get anything interesting. It follows that the obvious analogue of complex analysis over the split-complex numbers is pretty sterile, but I think that the split-complex numbers themselves remain interesting.

The operation * (meaning conjugation) isn't totally ugly. The reason for that is because it shows up in matrix theory. A lot of families of matrices (like the unitary and the self-adjoint matrices) are defined using *. Therefore, while the function theory of the split-complex numbers might be boring, their matrix theory is still somewhat interesting because of its dependence on *.

The relevance to generating fractals using the split-complex numbers is that you need to use non-holomorphic functions to get interesting results. Some results here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32211495
Looks like they'll do everything they possibly can to inspect the code and not submit any security patches.
You don't need to get the person fired - you need to get them afraid of potentially being fired. Not everyone will do a rational takedown like this, and if they do, you have millions of accounts to dox.
Bell Labs Proves Existence of Dark Suckers
Not sure what to make of it but according to nothlebookcheck benchmark[1] it seems like the AMD 6800u is very close to apple M2, close enough to consider it as a viable alternative.

The biggests wins of the m2 are still power efficiency and neural engine for video rendering.

[1]https://www.notebookcheck.net/M2-vs-R7-6800U_14521_14088.247...
> If a system guarantees the response time of some action is always below a threshold it's real time.

That's pretty much what the author said:

> Real time doesn’t mean instantaneous, or even as fast as possible, it means there’s a clear deadline in the system that the process must complete by a certain amount of time. That deadline need not be milliseconds. It can be weeks. In hard real time systems the system is verified in such a fashion that we can assume it’s impossible for the deadline to be violated. If the deadline is slipped the system is broken.

From what I got, the author's complaint is that most people who talk about "real-time" don't actually define, let alone guarantee such a threshold. Without it, the term becomes a marketing buzzword.

The actual definition is even more strict, implying a system cannot break the deadline because the time cost is completely deterministic and when you start a process you can already know the exact point in time the process finishes. That would rule out using any operations that have a nondeterministic time cost, such as dynamic scheduling or network requests.
Yes, and this is a hill I will die on. Refined sugars are arguably responsible for billions in healthcare expenses, lowered quality of life and lowered life expectancy for millions of people in the US.
Will any electric car let you drive while it's plugged in?

I'm pretty sure Tesla's Rivians get locked into park when the charger is connected.
Hey, I'm working on Typst. We try to open source Typst's libraries as soon as they are ready. The same goes for the Typst compiler: it will be open source when we go into beta.

We do not want to lock anybody into our service, so you'll always be able to download Typst for the command line for free. Only the web app will remain proprietary.
It's only untouchable if you're one of these modern special people who can't say anything that might offend someone else but the fact is, it only affects a very small subset of people with particular genetic and psychological traits.
I stopped using amazon a few years back after reading over and over about their treatment of warehouse employees. I couldn't stand the thought that the people handling my order are mistreated. I wasnt a big spender but still, up yours amazon. I redirect my money towards smaller shops even if i have to pay more. I’d even stop using aws but i cant talk clients into it. The cult like mentality that plagues tech is now focused on amazon web services. Cant wait for the fad to die off.
Cool thanks a lot. I will listen to it
The only thing that tops range anxiety for me is battery degradation anxiety. I would probably be totally fine with a lower range if I know that my battery can do 100 000 cycles.
From their about page [1]:

> We will publish Typst's compiler source code as soon as our beta phase starts. From then on, it will form the Open Core of Typst, and we will develop and maintain it in cooperation with the community

[1]: https://typst.app/about/
I've been using Kobo devices for over 10 years probably, I'd look at them for something equivalent to your Oasis!
You are trying to read tone into something that has already been translated.
Because I'm not an automaton and I enjoy. Drinking isn't really good for you but moderate drinking isn't that bad and can be quite fun in the right company. I like having a couple of coke zeros a day and they are apparently nutritionally neutral or a slight bit bad for me. The amount of cola and sugar in coffee that I used was much worse and provably so. Also none of us get out of this alive.
> With only the short range battery most of the time, my car’s weight is low and efficiency high.

That would however subject the smaller battery to more charge/discharge cycles for obtaining the same mileage. Wouldn't that shorten its life?
The editor is a web app! Because we build Typst in Rust, we are able to deliver it as WebAssembly and embed it into the web site.
> Hey man I just been using Hack for iOS lately. Please don’t update to Flutter. I’m an iOS dev too and the performance is just not that good.

What's HACK? I'm starting my journey into mobile dev and not come across this.
I really like my Kobo Forma. 8" screen, physical page buttons, allegedly waterproof (never tested though). I check out library ebooks then load them to my Kobo with Calibre+Alf the Apprentice.

It looks like the Libra 2 might be the new version that would compete with your Oasis.
The entire "scientific" field of nutrition has gone down a wrong path a couple decades ago, and the FDA specifically with their recommendations to eat a lot of carbs has done the public a great disservice.

Outsiders of the field have slowly started to figure out where nutrition went wrong, but since entities like the FDA have spread missinformation for decades, there is a lot of inertia to overcome, which will sadly take another couple decades apparently.
Best examples i can remember ad hoc are probably Gary Taubes and Robert Lustig.

It's pretty clear by now that the obsession with eating carbs is actively harmful and likely the cause for the diabetes and obesity epidemic.
The obsession with polyunsaturated plant fats is next, they oxidize rapidly, even inside our bodies, and cause great damage.

The issue for nutritionists is one of credibility, how does a scientific field collectively turn on a dime and proclaim literally the opposite of what they have claimed in the decades prior?
You can live a pleasurable life without eating and drinking unnecessary added sugars. You might even have a higher quality of life by eliminating sources of potential negative health effects.
With £6 billion spent annually on private tutoring in the UK alone, parents are realising the value personalised learning brings to their children. This trend is here to stay, but is this accessible to everyone?
Show HN guidelines[0] states that blog posts are off topic for Show HN.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Nailed it. Of course I got downvotes. However I know what I saw and others did too.
That’s my favorite way to think about this as well, but it’s very geometric and maybe not so intuitive to explain in a video that targets a non-mathematical audience. That physicists aren’t aware of this interpretation might be a bit of a stretch, that’s at least not been my experience.
I think you better do some more reading if you think stressing your insulin mechanism daily with far more sugar than humans evolved to partake of is "ok". There's pretty good evidence for 30-35% of humans not handling it well at all...
For me the novelty wears out the moment you start seeing these people's family pictures or political commentary. Even if I agree with them, I don't care about it, it's not why I follow them, it's just noise for me.

I'm not saying they should not post such content, don't get me wrong. It's just that Twitter becomes a distraction, your list requires constant maintenance, and the noise to signal ratio is not worth it for me.
> Unless someone comes up with a better solution (ie: smaller)

Be careful what you wish for! If you care about smaller above all else, there are much better compression schemes nowadays.

NNCP is on the range of practical, and beats LZMA: https://bellard.org/nncp/

If you really want to go crazy, large language models like BLOOM can be repurposed for compression; the Chinchilla paper lists a 0.3 bit-per-byte compression ratio on GitHub code.

Of course, the cost is in GPU hardware, or in time.
At the battery control system design stage, these two factors are mostly trade-off-able.

For example, you'll get far far more cycles out of a battery if you only charge up to 80% and discharge down to 20%. Early hybrid cars used this to an extreme - and always kept the battery between 45% and 60%. By doing that you can get 50,000 cycles necessary to recharge and discharge every time you go up and down a hill.
Yes, I felt that's the biggest deficiency of the article , not covering zstd.

Some comment here says that the author of the article disapproves zstd with similar arguments as for xz. Have not verified the claim.
Peter Thiel on the Dangers of Progress
Never once has not drinking soda or sugary drinks or food ever impacted my life negatively. Takes like the ones you're referring to are completely alien to me.
How do you know the cheese caused it?
You are correct. Nobody is recycling LFP, because there is nothing valuable to recycle.
Don't switch the topic. You were saying something about blaming the kid and suddenly you are discussing the safety issues.

Also, you haven't seen much chess robots, have you? "Industrial robot", my ass. Have you actually seen one? The one that "could kill everyone with one swing" is a tad different.
Amazing read and a beautiful website. I'm battling the urge to redesign my own site (yet again) with this as inspiration.
There's close to an ounce of dissolved refined sugar in a can of soda. Hell, a can of ginger ale has almost 40 grams of sugar in it. Drinking that much sugar at once will spike your blood sugar levels and can potentially set you up for pre-diabetes if you make it a habit.
At least it isn't considered harmful
Sorry, but that's called "maximalism".
If your grid is large enough (and that is already happening in Europe for economic reasons), you have enough geographic distribution to average out variations. There have been studies that showed you could run the US on something like 500% overcapacity with a fully integrated grid using only renewables and no storage.

Moreover nuclear are slow moving, they typically don't load follow, so even with a combined nuclear/renewables you still either need significant overcapacity or some sort of peaker. So you haven't actually solved the variation problem.

Finally, because cost for nuclear is largely dominated by capex (construction cost, both in dollars and CO2 foodprint), not running the nuclear plant as close to capacity as possible will even more increase the price and also reduce the CO2 lifetime emission. In usual comparisons which puts nuclear on par with renewables, nuclear is assumed to run essentially 24/7 while solar/wind are based on some statistical uptime. If we operate a nuclear not close to capacity its lifetime carbon footprint becomes significantly worse.
Why would you want a car that can be used only for those tasks leaving you to seek other forms of transport for leisure and family?

The main positive factor of vehicle ownership is destination and route flexibility and if you trade that away then the advantage is gone.
Meanwhile, Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars are putting gasoline vehicles and electric to shame:

https://www.timesnownews.com/auto/car-news/article/toyota-mi...

Of course, you can't readily buy or charge one yet, but you don't have the battery problem (at all).
Car accidents and guns are not the same as an automatic robot. You could compare this to tesla. Users are blamed when it's the sole responsibility of user on how that thing can be used.
Depends on your use case. Saving the last couple of Bytes is often less important than fast compression.
I'm not sure your edit is right. No reason why there can't be a tiny but very complex thing which looks single-colour at the next 1 or 10 or 100 orders of magnitude.

But there are an infinite number of very interesting things in this fractal. If you constantly zoom in on interesting looking areas, you will find this kind of complexity with minimal need for backtracking.
I don't understand the udner the earth part. We've been able to transport power into mine shafts for pretty long.
I don't think the specific issue here has anything to do with commingling. Commingling means putting all inventory of the same item from different vendors in the same basket, and taking items at random from that basket at the time of fulfillment, without a clear way to know the originating vendor of the fulfilled item.

Here, the problem isn't that items are put together in the same basket, it's that they are counterfeit: no seller should have any "new" inventory of the book, at all; new inventory should only come from the publisher. As the publisher isn't an Amazon seller, Amazon itself needs to buy the book from the publisher, and carry it in their own inventory.

Not commingling, ie carrying a separate inventory for each vendor, doesn't change the problem at all: all inventory not coming directly from the publisher is counterfeit.

In theory, it could be possible for other vendors to buy from the publisher and then sell on Amazon; in practice this is highly unlikely. But Amazon doesn't care and doesn't do any basic check.

They are probably hiding behind the fact that the sellers are doing the counterfeiting, not them. IANAL, but since they obviously benefit from it, it should be possible to sue, not just in civil court, but in criminal court as well.
Yes, and some countries even allow car sized robots to operate next to pedestrians. That level of carelessness is something I can't understand. Almost as if they want to explicitly kill people.
Sleep deprivation is effective too!

But you dont see it in movies as I guess it's just really boring LOL

Although Ozark did it well - sticking Jason Bateman in a hole in mexico and blasting loud music at him!
And his companies started earlier than 2016... This is a setup that is long in the making.

You don't think it's problematic that the Ukrainian president is known to have off-shore companies to manage his businesses? Do you realise that lots of his governmental staff came from his TV companies?

Is this not at least newsworthy? Should he fêted as he has been? Is it really OK to sweep this sort of info under the carpet? As the accounts are known, should he not be forced to open up these accounts and let us see what payments, etc he has received, in case of conflicts of interest?

For me, it is amazing that the press do not talk about this. Its also a fanatic illustration of how they are just a arm of the governance structure and have little to do with serving us the truth.
No one seems to mention lrzip ?
I think you underestimate how much lobbying the nuclear industry does.

Here's the former head of the US Nuclear regulator talking about how he worked to reduce safety regulations to make it easier to build nuclear plants. Now he thinks no new nuclear power should ever be built: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-oversaw-the-us-nucl...
This is a very forward thinking move for 2018. I look forward to us all driving Chinese BYD cars at this rate of innovation
Great TV, but not relevant here. It's an AI that generates text, not thought. It doesn't work in concepts, which can be demonstrated an infinite number of ways, unlike with the character Data.
The point is none of what you brought forward supports any of your points
I don't see any assignment of blame there. They're explaining what happened without assigning blame to anyone.

Maybe you think the fact that they're not explicitly blaming the robot is tantamount to blaming the child, but I don't read it that way.
https://archive.ph/IthKe
Or append-only (think Git)
In short, he distinguishes between the heart and circulation (pulse, o2 transport, etc). While the heart may be required for an embodied creature to use their circulatory system, they are not the same thing.

If a bomb vaporized your brain you would cease to be an embodied creature and you wouldn't have a mind anymore. You can test this theory yourself but only once.
Here it is. Split-complex burning ship using Xaos: https://imgur.com/a/tBTuUDV

This is my first time using that program. It doesn't look too bad.

Same thing, but with the dual numbers: https://imgur.com/a/kTU5ztn
I'm sorry. I'm probably more antinuclear than you but a lot of the things you are saying are just ignorant.

For example nuclear bombs melting flesh is because of the extreme heat, nothing that is unique to the nuclear process.

You'd be a more effective advocate for anti-nuclear viewpoints by learning some stuff first.
> 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. Obviously we need strong regulatory oversight over nuclear power, but a big part of the cost is the need to satisfy incredibly hostile regulations imposed by politicians who are (a) pandering to public fear (b) heavily influence by the fossil fuel industry.

That is not true, there was an HN submission which broke down the cost of nuclear construction (am on mobile and can't easily find it right now) and cost is largely dominated by construction cost, which to a large degree (>50%) are the same as a regular thermal power plant. Regarding regulations, the nuclear lobby is actually very strong, they even managed to reduce regulations for the steam-generating cycle compared to other power plants (I think this was in the US).

> Also, talking about kWh cost in the short term is... missing a large portion of the point. Burning fossil fuels is only "cheap" if all the long term damage is ignored. Let's talk about how cheap it is once we start truly paying the price for climate change to the tune of billions of lives and many quadrillions of dollars.

But the comparison is not to fossil fuels, the comparison is to renewables. If renewables are cheaper and faster (which is the case) they will enable us to move of fossil sources faster than nuclear, so the overall emitted CO2 is less.
They are semantically visible. But visually invisible
Generally speaking the costs in those comparisons are usually without subsidies. However some subsidies are difficult to disentangle from the costs. For instance it’s difficult for nuclear power plants to get insurance, so often states take that responsibility.

Can you tell where you are from?
I've tried fixing inaccuracies in Google maps. The pin for my address is halfway up the road when in reality it's on the corner this is in a decent sized town not the middle of bumfuck nowhere so I assumed it would have been accepted but multiple attempts over the years since I've moved in have been fruitless.

It's not a massive problem as anyone I know I can just direct but no amount of shipping notes seem to help couriers or delivery drivers.
> A soft blame, but a blame nonetheless.

So, where are you from exactly? I am curious which culture draws an equation sign between "x triggered y" and "x is to blame for y".

Diverting responsibility is making virtuous political statements, instead of analysing what went unexpected.
Isn't this solvable with a DMCA takedown notice? Amazon is legally required to respond to them. Sure, the fake seller might try to create a new product page and post it again, but I imagine they do this with a lot of books, and being just annoying enough might make them stop doing it to this particular book.

I suppose the fake seller could also counter-claim the takedown, and it might be difficult to find them in order to sue. I wonder if you could get a court order to force Amazon to take the listing down permanently, though, after all that.
Once we get too big for our britches, the ancient aliens in our way will put us in our place.
I thought DwarFS[0] is better than SquashFS?

[0] https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs
https://archive.ph/Jj671
"Operating under the assumption that the video isn't misrepresenting the cultural aspects of Russia"

And why do you operate under this assumption?

The guy keeps saying '[In Russia] conservatives have always had power.' Was Lenin a conservative? Very few countries undergone such radical changes as Russia.

The one thing he repeats even more is 'infallible Tsar'. Let me tell you a secret -- Putin have ruled for so long because life for ordinary Russians was getting better despite all his fuckups. Now this have changed and we have entered very 'interesting' times.