skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheap land is cheap specifically because there is a very great deal of it. But it is a stupid place to site solar, anyway: there are much better places, already in use, that may continue in that use, but with added solar revenue.

The overwhelming bulk of utility scale storage will not be in batteries. They cost too much per kWh stored. Bulk storage will be in media where incremental kWh are cheapest. Think tankage.
wow that really changes the context...

interesting that it didn't seem to affect him at all given the context of the prudishness of that age.

I wonder "when" flipping the bird suddenly become mainstream rude?
I think it's a sign of maturity as an engineer to realize that your favorite language might not be appropriate for a particular business problem.
Crypto isn't helping there, that's just another form of regulatory arbitrage. If you're exchanging the crypto for USD or pesos anyway then what you're doing is still probably illegal.
Not OP, but yes! I believe the argument is that in an alternative timeline where the US government invested in renewables, they would be both more technologically advanced and more commercially feasible today.

I’m not the biggest fan of arguing about alternate history, but this thread originally spun out after an ancestor poster claimed we would have a rosy present if only we had invested more in nuclear energy. I claim I find way more wishful then claiming the same about renewables.
I read the whole thing, including the survey results summary, but nowhere do I see how a survey of 2,000 of their own subscribers can be magnified to “represent” three million people. That methodology is not mentioned anywhere that I can see. And while I am definitely not a statistician this seems like massaging the numbers to an extraordinary degree.

I certainly have no doubt that a portion of the 2,000 people surveyed, that are very-likely already interested in cryptocurrency, use cryptocurrency for cross-border transactions as they say they do. But that’s all the survey shows absent an explained methodology for extrapolating larger numbers from their pool.

Edit: clarity.
I mean, this is why people hate proposals to tax unrealized gains.
Here you go:

- don't use nix-env ever

- enable and use the new nix command (nix3)

- enable and use flakes

- use home-manager

- if on macOS, use nix-darwin

- with flakes, freely use nixpkgs unstable (stable is still useful, but flakes provide their own stability through pinned versions).
:-)

You want to be rich or you want to be famous. Never both.
That's predicated on the idea that bitcoin has other uses.

Adding nodes to a linked list in the least efficient way possible to promote an mlm doesn't create any value.
Bit of feedback: marketing it as just "a virtual DOM" and not "a framework" or "a React alternative" made me think it would just be a VDOM, and not include things like state/hooks. Instead, it looks more like a Preact type thing: a framework that's mostly API-compatible with React, aiming to make different tradeoffs around bundle size, performance, etc. Is that accurate?
Thanks for pointing out mitchellh/nixos-config. Do you have a config published for nixos with UTM? I’m having a heck of a time getting the screen resolution and font sizes where I want them and I’m kind of lost.
Shortly after various battles featuring British archers, I'd suppose.

(yes, likely not entirely true)
No jury. Again it is not up to the victims. Like most prosecutions, it was plea bargained down to a lesser charge (first offense etc). Small district court in a rural US county with population under 20,000, where "everyone" knows "everyone".
I don’t think dotting nuclear reactors around everywhere would be politically very acceptable.
Each plant will also require some level of staffing, operational and security staff.
Seems more likely that small modular reactors would just be deployed in large batches to lower the fixed costs, and accept the transmission losses.
> Trustlessly

With cryptocurrencies, you need to trust:

* The exchanges (and other ramps for getting useful money into the system and out of the system)

* The developers of the chain

* The developers of the smart contracts

* The developers of wallets

* The miners

* The internet providers

* The hardware manufacturers

* The government (yes, they could punish usage of cryptocurrencies hard if they wanted to)

> Your will that declares what assets go to your children. The deed to your home. The lease for your car. Certificates. Art. Tickets. Contracts. Money.

Which can all be lost or stolen easily without a central authority and a judicial system. Do not underestimate the power of phishing, especially if it is directed towards specific people.
this is some dumb shit. how about just paying taxes? what happened to democracy?
Why Did You Marry That Person?
What does it take to clean the world’s largest dome
Yes and? French electricity is 10 times less CO2 intensive to produce than German. Given that France exports 30% more electricity to Germany than they import it reduces the carbon footprint of both countries.
If by “left” you mean economically. I don’t see it. They have certainly moved to embrace racial and sexual minorities since then though.
I agree that bitcoin needs to decide whether to be an investment or a commodity of exchange.

> If everyone is hoarding bitcoin how can you use it to buy things?

When people need something more than bitcoin, they'll trade for it. Food, shelter, medicine, etc. People will certainly trade for these things. But maybe they'll pass on replacing a phone that's only 2 years old or getting an xbox or 6 pack of beer.

It's fascinating to me that people say currency can't be deflationary or people will hoard it. You're so against people hoarding, i.e. saving money? People act like the economy will stop, but no matter how deflationary a currency is, people will still trade it for needs like food and shelter.
100% renewable isn’t enough right now. Batteries cost too much. 70% renewable and 30% nuke isn’t a bad mix though.
Good advice. If you have to travel with electronics (and who doesn't these days?) the best solution is burner devices. A phone that is just a phone, a laptop that is cheap, gets the job done and can be trashed when home or, better yet for most people, a cheap Chromebook that is not logged in. Even if you've nothing to hide, suspicious people can find something they just don't like the looks of...
> Banning media is a thing repressive dicatators do.

That's what you do during a war. All democracies do it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Censorship
Node has been superseded by Deno, right? How about that?
This would be a really bad Web 3.0 invention.
Can you use SQL with graph databases?

Related to the current topic, do graph databases support hyper-graphs?
> There's no serendipitous learning: few random exchanges, little chance to see someome beaming & hear them brag/explain, rarely chance to see someone struggling & have somone step in.

That shit never happened to me when I worked onsite.
Most cases get resolved through plea deals, not jury trials.
it could come from a template function which don't have a sfinae branch (or `if constexpr (std::is_empty<T>::value)`) for empty type
Coal is dying in the United States for economic reasons, anyway.
> I still wouldn’t recommend anyone using Nix; steep learning curve, and too many rough edges.

I'd like to think there are roughly two camps of people:

Those who hear about Nix's declarative nature, with its reproducible/'pure' nature, and generational installation, all of which allow for some pretty neat UX. To this group, Nix sounds technically interesting.

The other group, those who want a tool that just works, that's simple to use, and already get their job done with other package managers. -- I think for this group, Nix is going to be a bad tool to recommend, even if they keep hearing about how neat Nix is.

Rather. Nix is wonderful 95% of the time. But the 5% of the time you run into some problem, it's much more difficult to get unstuck compared to other tools. (Other knowledge is necessary but not sufficient, the community is small so maybe harder to find a StackOverflow post, the documentation is fragmented, etc.).
So like, http://Planet.Famous.News.Ycombinator.com, as this idea would have been known in 2007?
The person most personally responsible went on to manage another, similar system.

Management failings are part of the risk profile of any hazardous technology, from nukes to feedlot pig farming. Leaving them out produces dishonest numbers.
The challenge here seems to be to resist the power law (pun semi-intended). It's not about water being too wet, it's about fish in the water being vastly different sizes, and a giant shark or two concentrating a biomass worth a million small fish.

The "truly decentralized" web, under this angle would only contain small fish. But the very success of the web means that giants will emerge.
I'm the insufferable coworker. I do it on purpose so that people leave me alone and let me work.
>If we relied on blockchain tech, it would've been processed in a day.

Why? This is an unsubstantiated claim. Blockchains still have an outside body that you're required to trust, several in fact. The most prominent one is the miners.

I can't tell what the admin issues with your sale were because you didn't mention them, but it seems like being able to see the validity of the claim wasn't the issue that took 6 years for lawyers to resolve. You can show them the validity in person on the day of the sale.
> You let it be published and broadcast, like a normal free country would.

You're being irrational. Free countries don't broadcast the enemy's information during a war.
Wait, am I reading it correctly that your reference is saying that the cost of fuel and operation of a nuclear reactor alone are already around the same value as the total costs for PV solar?

I didn't expect that.
Oddly enough, JSC is never defined in the article. From elsewhere:

> WebKit’s JavaScript implementation, called JSC (JavaScriptCore), implements all of ES6.

-- https://webkit.org/blog/7536/jsc-loves-es6/
This tweet[0] seems to imply there were only 3 members at this point.

[0] https://twitter.com/keithkurson/status/1527338239110967297
School stack taking is even worse.
> (Also I enjoyed staring at the chart and doing the imaginary color exercise but why are the edges of the newly-perceived colors fuzzy when the shapes are otherwise sharp?)

I'm going to blame the effect of saccades and other motions. If you fixed your head in a rig and used one of those eye tracking apparatus they discuss in the article, presumably the features would be much sharper.
Seems ill-advised to buy shares from someone with that much inside information who wants to sell.
yes, it's one of my favourite drinks. it's slightly acidic and very refreshing.
Noting the definition of proxy doesn't always imply aggression? I'm therefore trying to stop a fork due to a perhaps misunderstood comment taking us into other territory.
Agreed. And that's going to depend on your pre-existing beliefs etc.

I'm not sure how your comment changes anything.
“That’s your problem.”
Please do elaborate.

“If you have difficulty making friends…”
Who said the office was the only place that’s possible? You’re just missing it as a place that’s possible. You don’t agree. That’s ok.

“I can’t imagine any office culture worth the time I waste commuting.”
Sorry you haven’t worked anywhere with anything close to good culture. Bad culture isn’t worth a zoom call.

“For the record, I’m still friends with multiple co workers from previous jobs.”
Not sure why you needed this on the record. I didn’t. But now it is on there twice. I’m doing my part.

“But that’s just not the point of work.”
Yep, explained that. You’re not making as much money as you could. But that’s your problem.
People hate taxes.

Which they prefer is largely just a question of which ones shift the tax burden to other people.
I understand that Gemstone is an Object-Oriented Database that stores objects and is great at that. But can you query those objects with SQL?

What I'd like to understand is, is there some basic reason why RDBMS and ODBMs must be different databases. Or could their conceptual models of data perhaps be generalized into a single model. Using hyper-graphs perhaps. :-)
Many, many fewer rats, if it comes to that.
Fantastic. Some are very clever.
Drop me a line at ben@rocinanteresearch.net and I'll let you know when we can open-source some of it.

None of it is really all that magical btw, so you should take a whack at it yourself!

One thing that wouldn't have occurred to me that one of the Haskell geniuses I work with identified to use is the notion of a "free"/"operational" monad: https://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/operational-monad.html.
The survey results I saw, the important citations I didn’t see is how they extrapolated the results to represent anything more than the responses of 2,079 people that are interested in surveys about cryptocurrency and cross-border transactions. Therein lies the rub.
The failure of crypto to actually take off in El Salvador is pretty well documented at this point I think.
> Your supposition that reactor accidents smaller than Chernobyl might be hidden from the public doesn't seem well grounded either.

I supposed no such thing. You don’t need an accident to leave a mess (as evidenced by our current climate crisis). You just need to be negligent of the environment and surrounding population center. The US military (including the Navy) has a terrible track record when it comes to environmental issues around its military bases around the world. My supposition is that they are simply equally inconsiderate with their nuclear logistics as they are with their other operations. And Bikini Atoll is my ground for thinking so.
> One final note: the "authors" of all these current 992 papers are from Chinese medical institutions, most of them appearing only once.

I’ve observed something sociologically fascinating about China. In multiple fields, gaming, research, academics etc, the proportion of the population likely to cheat seems to be higher in China. Examples include,

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/how-so...

https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/02/16/99-of-pubgs-banned-c...

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02587-3

There are cheating scandals everywhere, but, as an outsider, it seems to be somewhat more endemic in China. The anomaly begs the question, why.

Being born in China doesn’t radically wire your brain in a different way. People seem to cheat everywhere, but more people are more likely to cheat here, in this specific environment, why is that? What’s causing them to adopt this behavior as an acceptable strategy?

I can’t seem to find any interesting research on the topic beyond idle speculation. Does anyone know of anyone investigating this?

Note - this comment is not meant to be denigrating nor a judgement, but an observation and a question. The question begs a deeper attempt to ascertain a) if it’s true and b) the factors driving it.
Weird, I’m not in there :D but have enough karma to qualify
To add to what other commenters have said, apart from the weapons proliferation issues, enriching uranium is very expensive.
U-235 only makes up about 0.72% of natural uranium, the rest of it being U-238. Running a reactor on low enriched uranium is much more cost effective, although reactor designs that can run on LEU can be less safe, like Chernobyls RBMK design.
The most reliable output of the nuke industry has always been dishonesty. There is no reason to expect this will change suddenly, or that it has already.
This is bigger than a single individual.

Maybe this technical choice makes that person happy, but what if it makes ten other developers on the team unhappy, or unable to do their work because they don't know this new technology?

What if that technical choice makes the whole code base unmaintainable in the following months because it gets abandoned, or is just so niche that it's impossible to hire developers familiar with it?
Alright, you find the county to be declared a no-mans land. Remember, you need a bunch of staff to run the plant, a source of water for the cooling towers, and of course you need to spend all that money actually building the plant. Let's not get into the fact that the primary reason people don't build nuclear power plants is that they're extremely expensive to build in the first place!

A serious question I don't have an answer to: is Chernobyl the worst-case scenario? Is there a way for there to be an even worse disaster? I do not know.

Though really we can walk and chew bubble gum. Build reactors and more renewables. I can't put a nuclear reactor on the roof of my home after all! I just really feel like this trope that anti-nuclear sentiment is why we don't have nuclear reactors everywhere has always felt weird when we're talking about market-based economies. Maybe it's just that unworkable in general! Why else would we not build these supposed money printers?
Not remotely. But it's very inconvenient to acknowledge that.
So on the one hand we have a technology that existed since the 1960s and would have solved global warming if we'd merely spent money building it out.

On the other we have a technology that still doesn't exist in the 2020s and would also need to be build out.

Cockroach archeologists will be puzzled why we chose to go extinct.
>I don’t like the regular way tuition works where you pay a ton upfront and they have no incentive to get you a job.

Agreed. And to be fair, typical four-year colleges were never meant to be vocational training programs. Employers have successfully shifted training costs onto those colleges, and thus onto students and taxpayers.

Colleges are meant to be repositories of human knowledge; whether or not that knowledge is useful in the job market is not immediately relevant to them. Students don't understand this, so they go to college thinking a degree is some kind of job certificate. And it's not really their fault for that misunderstanding; the myth is perpetuated across society, and it's very convenient for employers who can now select from a more educated labor pool at no cost to themselves.
> Germany is today burning less coal than would have been necessary if they had refurbished their nukes instead of spending the money building out wind.

Looks at France

Sure.
Phones also die and/or get discarded regularly, and a lot (most?) people don't do backups at all, or rely on cloud for backups.

Not to mention that I want my phone's battery to last as long as possible, and hosting websites off it will have an opposite effect.
I have tried using nix for weeks on macOS and it’s been a really painful experience. I’ve pretty much given up. I don’t think they care much about user experience tbh.
This idea gives "hostile takeover" a whole new meaning.
Wasn’t this the initial business model of Upstart?

https://www.upstart.com
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Nukes' competition is not coal. It is renewables. Comparing to coal is tendentious and disingenuous, not to say dishonest.
Right but doesn't that mean that in essence you will have two types of nodes in your conceptual model. It is no longer that you have just 'nodes' and 'vertices', you will need to have two different types of nodes, and one type of vertex. The new type of node could be called 'hyper-node' perhaps. Else you lose information.
>The internet did not have to overcome network effects in the same way that cryptocurrency has.

This line of thinking is extremely dangerous, even moreso for something that's claiming to be a currency. This is the mentality that lead to these ponzi-like schemes; the promoters are prioritizing growth at all costs for the sole purpose of overcoming the network effects. Not because they actually built decent products.
No you don't have that right. The US literally had an Office of Censorship during WW2.

Every country has different rules during war, and here in Europe many Russian politicians have made statements about attacking us. We shouldn't allow the Russians any means of attacking us from the inside.
Modulating nukes' output make each kWh even more expensive, when they are already not competitive.
I've been using a NixOS VM through VSCode's remote SSH extension for almost a year for all my dev work, and it's been working more or less flawlessly. I haven't had the need to install homebrew in the host macOS yet. Here's my approach: https://calcagno.blog/m1dev/
I'm just paying independent contractors with crypto. How could that possibly be illegal? What the contractor does with the crypto is not under my control.
Does HN allow you to go negative? I'd love to see a list of infamous HNers.
> Which they prefer is largely just a question of which ones shift the tax burden to other people.

What about Georgists? Their main argument for it is that there's zero deadweight loss, not that it's more "fair" because certain people do and don't have to pay it.
Again, nonsensical.

You're conflating intent of one law with execution of another.

No one would do that, because it's stupid and ineffective.

Instead you potentially punish the citizen for having committed a crime on foreign soil, and/or arrest the dealer should they come to your country. This is something nearly every nation state already does. Another thing to look at is extradition treaties.

In the case of disinformation, punishing someone for reading it doesn't stop the spread, but the manufacture of it is undesirable. Current execution is the best method to reach the intent, because doing things like blowing up webservers is undesirable.
I mean.. it sounds wrong[0]. I don't think flakes are really mandatory given that the status quo is stuff like brew, but home manager actually does "the thing" that Nix people are talking about. Without something like home manager or NixOS, you really are only halfway to what the actual pitch is for nix.

(Aside: I can't imagine figuring out how to use nix just from the official documentation. Those documents are a total mismatch from what the audience needs, focusing way too much on how to write your own custom modules, and not nearly enough on actually consuming them or decent patterns for it)

[0]: people are allowed to do what they want. But the path chosen by this author is not the easy path
That's cool to see. I have taken a liking to pal, so I've been wondering if some kind of tool along these lines might help me use both pal and Google calendar together to eliminate a little bit of redundancy.
Thanks, this is an astute summary actually. They would care more if they thought their voices mattered, I think. You can absolutely see a form of resignation in their expression. They act as though they basically have no control over it, it's like 'it's not their issue'. I do however feel that they would be more empowered were they to get better information, particularly the 50+ crowd.
The proposal to tax unrealized gains was criticized by many people who support higher taxes on income and capital gains.

It was really only supported by people who were willing or able to methodically think through the consequences.
That has nothing to do with bitcoin specifically though. What you're describing is either someone using another currency or using some kind of digital payment system. It doesn't have to be cryptos.