skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. SMR is a much better drop-in replacement for fossil sources than renewables (generally stable/controllable output, dense locating so no expansion/upgrading of grid required unlike solar and wind, and can provide large winter outputs in more northerly climes where solar efficiency fades in the winter).
In my experience, the free university was much harder than the expensive university.
2012 === bad. 2022 == awesome!
Nuclear reprocessing and breeder reactors would entirely solve the nuclear waste problem. The only reason we're not using them yet is that people think we'd use the output to make nuclear weapons with (even though we can already do that without them).
FaceID has been a revelation for me. TouchID was rather touchy... If my finger was a bit damp it didn't read. If my skin was too dry, it wouldn't read. FaceID hasn't failed me yet.
If everything was priced in stock prices would stay constant
Test Typedream comment
I guess? But that’s not really a very good comparison? It’s apples and oranges, unless
your friend ground in SF was similarly majorly from improv (or a similar creative endeavor). Like, if I moved anywhere and made most of my friends from a particular hobby they would be different from my current work friends. That doesn’t say much about the respective places.

I guess for me my anecdote is; I have a wide variety of friends in Melbourne (having grown up there) and every time I go back it feels like a very large % of every conversation turns to property. It’s become some kind of sick national obsession, and it’s a thin proxy for money obsession. Startup/sv talk is at least sometimes interesting in comparison
https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...
The point is that apple wouldn't do it. Anyone can buy a 0-day.

It was not even a sure thing that apple could do it.
Rust seems to have failed to be a drop-in replacement for C++.
The first paragraph in the “Root Cause” section explains: that binary has access to a service that’s allowed to bypass SIP restrictions.

It’s required to have those capabilities because this is what’s used by Apple to install their OS updates
Oddly, no, not really.

Scraping is legal.

Attempting to block it is a grey area.
Is this a cryptic crossword clue for "slaves"? I know the parent comment spells slaves.
There's a ton of people in those countries offering financial services that consist of triangulating operations inside and out of the country.

Within the crazy insanity that's the system, it does end up working out somehow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn2J8W4csNc
Well I should correct this slightly. They have been fine if they connect to a VPN first. I'm not sure if they have tried the proxy option, though I was under the impression that this wasn't as actively supported. This is something I wish Signal would do better.
You’d need to compare to the subsidies and externalities of other power sources then right?
> The key principle of bulk energy storage is E = Fx, applied liberally worldwide for centuries. It is taught to every freshman engineering student

Hi there, I graduated engineering and am currently applying for professional licensure. I took only one course focused on energy, but I've never heard of E=Fx. Googling it brought up no relevant results. Could you expand on what it is?
Google has repeatedly restricted crypto advertising and down ranked legitimate Cerrito enterprises. Building this article using search visibility is going to give you local (US) results, and suppress a lot of the important ones who don't use that phraseology to describe what they do. Americans build your own biases always, then act like they don't exist
> Surprised they didn’t just go along with RocksDB

Given how often they're butting heads publicly, maybe Apple didn't want to use something developed by Facebook? It probably wouldn't normally be a concern due to the licenses of each, but it's possible that corporate politics might still be relevant.
Before anyone gets too harsh or critical, check out the about/research page. The author is in high school.

I feel old.
Lambda did it for a while, but it was only for 2 years, not a decade or two. It looks like they've now move to a slightly more conventional loan structure.
Not really m. Something has to provide power when the sun and wind aren’t available. Right now that’s natural gas, coal, hydro, or nuclear.
I can just hear the VC elevator pitch for this now, "We're democratizing chattel slavery on the blockchain!"
>I am quite hopeful that the ability for governments to extract wealth is limited greatly by the rise of crypto

I described a situation where this wouldn't happen though.

>If the government wants taxes they can do it by selling services to people who can pay for them if they agree it has value.

I'm sorry, this seems contradictory. I thought the possibility of this was already discarded when the idea of reform was thrown out. The assumption with the "bottom-up" idea seems to be that the government will always stay corrupt. If you take that approach then can't you see how this probably will end up like another failed bailout where nothing changes? Effectively all that's happening is more foreign money is being dumped into the system, except now it's just coming from offshore crypto speculators instead of from other governments. Try to look at this from a macro view.

Just my opinion: Crypto is pretty bad regardless of what your politics are. The ridiculous amount of fraud and scams in crypto, and other bad things like ransomware, are wrecking common people too. It can absolutely be worse. And, the theory and ideology of crypto doesn't actually stop a government from collecting taxes anyway.
From everything I've seen these past years, Scala is on the same path to extinction as Clojure is.

Java keeps getting more popular, pushed by the very solid innovations that Oracle has been trickling into it every release, and Kotlin has certainly picked up a lot of momentum these past five years.
There's also, honestly, the fact that full-size nuclear plants look threatening. They have an imposing size and shape, they dominate the horizon, they look like "if that thing blew up it would be catastrophic" (I know that's not exactly what happens, but still)

So as dumb as it sounds, just making the thing smaller might be enough to soften public opinion
Must 'debris from space' time. Seems a chunk of a SpaceX Dragon fell on Australia about a week ago.
Sorry, meant to say Slaver.
Obviously beer exists, yes?
> People might have been wrong about the exact date at which it would happen, but you should not let the exactitude of the date distract you.

Herbert W. Armstrong predicted that 1936 would be doomsday, and then that 1943 would be doomsday after 1936 came and went, and then that 1972 would be doomsday after 1943 came and went, and then that 1975 would be doomsday after 1972 came and went. How would you rebut that sentence if he said it in 1973 or 1974? Or if Harold Camping, who did basically exactly the same thing, said it? Why wouldn't that rebuttal apply equally to your use of it?

> Some people speculate that the arctic ice is a sort of heat shield. It makes some sense intuitively: all that white ice reflects a lot of heat back up.

But isn't the reason that the ice is at the poles that hardly any of the Sun's heat gets there?
The state should still own a large chunk of it.
If they’re unwilling to do the work, then they should stop pretending to be certain that their opinion is correct.
Probably where the 'Im' comes from!
Neal.fun — just for fun at the end of the work day when I can no longer concentrate.
Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 years
Hi HN!
Thanks for your attention to my post.

It was a big challenge to run most of Node.js packages in browser, fast moreover. Virtual File system, resolve import/export. I got cold many times, depressions, burned out, yet still alive and finished it.

Many guys helped me with an advice. Many users give a lot of positive feedback.
There are 200,000 monthly unique users.

I work full time now because of the freemium business model. To be honest - I am happy after many years of hard work.
> I don't think the Internet is overwhelmingly male

What you think and what it is may be two different things
what is that supposed to be useful for exactly? I can't really wrap my mind around it tbh.
"Virtually all of this is true about both USA and Russian media. "

Really:

LIST OF JOURNALISTS MURDERED IN RUSSIA [1]

This is as obviously, laughably wrong as the "The DoD has 50 000 secret media men running around!!!".

Is 'Q' one of your 'sources' for that?

The US has largely a free press, and there's almost nothing you cannot say, and the government has very little, usually no control over information dissemination.

US President DJ Trump just spent 4 years screaming about the press, they literally banned him from Twitter and FB and you think 'Mr. US Government' is running the show?

US Gov. has no influence over 'Democracy Now' or 'Breitbart' or 'Mother Jones' or 'Joe Rogan' and barely has any influence with CNN/NYT etc. even though in those cases they obviously communicate.

There are innumerable sources of information available in the US.

Conversely, Putin directly controls most of the main 'information outlets' (i.e. RT, Russia One) as they are designed specifically to be propaganda outlets. He fairly aggressively censors outside information, though Youtube, Google are still available, he just fined Google something like $300M for conveying information he didn't want Russians to have access to i.e. the truth.

Of course Putin literally imprisons and murders journalists who dare publish information he disagrees with ...

... and of course they literally censor vast areas of the internet [2]

... and of course they literally ban large swaths of Social Media because they cannot censor it [3]

But keep trying to make that 'Russia and USA are the same' argument ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskomnadzor
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_Ru...
> When it comes to an archival system, I'd like it to be able to run anything from an era, not just specially crafted binaries. I think Wasm meets that goal.

Wasm can only run specially crafted binaries; it can't run arbitrary i386 or ARM7 code, only Wasm code.

I think the way to run anything from an era is with the following four-layer cake:

0. Whatever hardware and operating system the programmer-archaeologist happens to be running 1000 years from now.

1. An implementation of the forever-platform running on that hardware and OS. This needs to be simple enough for the programmer-archaeologist to write and debug without a running implementation to compare to, even if their hardware is base-10 or balanced ternary or has 21-bit word-addressed memory or whatever, but efficient enough to support real applications.

2. An implementation of a popular platform from the era you want to preserve, running on the forever-platform, such as wasm, MS-DOS, RV64+UEFI, or amd64+BIOS. (This doesn't have to be a platform that was widely used, just a platform to which the software you want to preserve can be compiled.) Probably you want to implement this as a binary-to-binary compiler targeting forever-platform code, not an interpreter, so that the slowdown introduced by this layer is less than an order of magnitude.

3. The application software you want to preserve, the "anything from an era".

Wasm is not even close to being a candidate for the forever-platform, but it might be a reasonable choice for (the CPU part of) the layer on top of it, because there are compilers that can compile a large body of C and C++ to it; and because it's a lot easier to compile from, and compile efficient code from, than botched monstrosities like amd64 and ARM7. (Did you realize that in ARM7 with Thumb an addition instruction can change the instruction set the processor is implementing? Because the low bit of the PC tells you whether it's in Thumb mode, and you can specify the PC as a destination register.)

In that context the fact that Wasm keeps changing isn't a big problem. You can compile some code with Wasm today and bundle it into a cart with an implementation of today's Wasm spec, and 8 or 16 years from now when you compile different code to a different version of Wasm, you bundle that code into a cart with an updated Wasm implementation.
Some cultures and individuals don’t cling to life at all costs.
Why is nuclear judged by near misses while coal pollutes like crazy daily and causes real lung damage and no one bats an eye?
Been using nittr for twitter links on an irc bot, works well.

Thanks for the list.
Most of a nuclear plants' cost is in construction. It doesn't really affect operating costs. Furthermore nuclear is the most competitive decarbonized energy source, because wind and solar rely on fossil fuels.
They will continue to require fossil fuels until energy storage comes along and we have no idea when that will occur. So far, all of our storage systems have proven inadequate.
That’s because it’s so awesome that it needs no definition.
This sounds cooler than it is. I showed my son his ultrasounds… stills and videos. He didn’t care.
I also have the impression it's not as actively supported, but when I first replied to you, I had the impression it no longer existed at all as an organized effort, so it looks like the situation is probably better than I first thought. :-)

There are a number of countries gearing up to actively regulate instant messaging, including with potential encryption restrictions and app-blocking remedies for noncompliance, so I imagine this functionality will become more and more relevant over time. :-(
How you gonna use it on a 3rd party module?
I changed jobs a couple times during the pandemic. Most of them are remote in a different state, 100's of miles away.
It’s if it was the only link you have in your bio.

I have Twitter in my bio, but also my personal site.

If your bio only had Twitter/gmail and no other sites they didn’t include it.
What is your estimation of the odds that the US security complex is funding the means to subvert its own domestic surveillance efforts?

https://www.rt.com/usa/420219-tor-us-government-funded-bbg/

Back in the late aughts a user claimed to have found some extremely suspicious activity:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070515180447/http://jadeserpen...

Some folks get emotionally invested in tor and get really bent out of shape when you bring this up. You will hear silly arguments about open source code as if that was any kind of guarantee about what’s running on a server you can’t inspect. Or maybe according to some explainer they read, its secrecy is unbreakable, despite that correlation attacks on the protocol have been known for years.
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena and Explanations
Then what will be used for grid-scale storage if not batteries and hydroelectricity?

> And as has been pointed out numerous times, no existing alpine lake is needed for hydro storage. And, the site does not need substantial "transportation infrastructure". Dozens of hydro dams, still in use, were built in California's Sierra Nevada mountains in the 1920s via roads a car cannot use.

Such as? How did they get heavy machinery to these dams to build them? All of the dams I can find like the Shasta dam, Orville dam, etc are in fact close to major transportation infrastructure.
There was no judgement on the person being uninteresting - the links to Twitter were uninteresting to what the OP was doing
This has got to be a real test of Bezos vs. Bezos. The issues are on his radar for sure. I'd love to read more about his possible reaction if anyone has links.

But IMO he's probably conflicted about the issues here and interpreting them deeply, using his non-business, personal-life toolset. The same toolset that gets him upset about critique in general. Bzzt.

This won't end well for his personal valuation of himself, or his public image, if he doesn't openly start to reconcile the need for a private, self-care yacht-world with the public, social-care world.

That won't be easy despite how it always looks to everyone from the outside, but it's also not like someone trying it out can be faulted much for trying. His default covert social contact is something akin to "I leak money into your world by acting like a machine all day, then when I'm tired I buy things I like, and you ignore my excesses, which are only human, because I'm not exactly lazy."

Much of the public disagrees that someone with so much leverage (built on various layers of infrastructure and goodwill) is "just" a human anymore, and there are good reasons to take that viewpoint seriously.

In his shoes I'd immediately start making fun of myself and learn to expose some of the complexity of that inner social contract for what it should be, or could be: A useful social heritage experiment in changing the traditional top hat model of billionaire life. A blue origin for living a life that's inwardly supportive of self and also outwardly supportive of humankind's social development and evolution.

Be that kind of astronaut traveling into the metaphorical unknown, and people will take your spirit with them into the spatial unknown for centuries to come.

Or, I guess, be a little creative and get your damn yacht problem fixed fast...
It was a sure thing that Apple could do it — the FBI clearly explained how. It was such a sure thing that Apple stopped advertising it couldn't do it after the FBI showed how it could, with the quoted wording in
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ios-8-even-apple-cant-... disappearing from Apple's website (but not from IA).

The only reason Apple wouldn't do it was that it was such an embarrassment for its marketing to be shown to be a lie by something that had made national headlines.

As far as anybody being able to buy a 0-day, the price for such a 0-day is much higher for competitors' phones with better security.
> 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

I agree— I really like NixOS-like module systems and how they merge together different bits of config to bring the benefits of Nix to configuration management. Being able to configure the whole OS or a big chunk of it via Nix, including running services, managing users, pre-configuring various programs, and more, from a unified interface in a simple language like Nix is awesome.

Declarative package management is great but the broader configuration/service management stuff is even better.

> Aside: I can't imagine figuring out how to use nix just from the official documentation.

That's part of what makes Ian Henry's blog series on the topic compelling! Nobody really learns it that way, and so he's putting the docs to an unusual and much-needed test. Definitely check it out :)
So, instead of nuclear waste we can package up and store away where it won't hurt anyone, we have plenty of coal and gas plants, whose waste goes into the atmosphere where it hurts everyone.
that sounds great on paper, but it could never work in reality.

why not just organize society to educate everyone, and thus enable everyone? it seems like that would maximize outcomes. nobody has a magical oracle, as you've proposed.
Circling back to the point of the article, they might leave the air conditioning running in an empty house if the power was free.
Eddie's Law of Empathy
Ah, this is important new information for me! I just visited the website, and looked for a virtual DOM API that I can use inside of my library. Unfortunately, when I read the actual "getting started", it showed me how to import react libraries for hooks, and use JSX, and so I concluded that:

(a) This is actually a React replacement, like Preact, not just a virtual dom.

(b) The homepage marketing is misleading! The project lost a bit of integrity for me at that point, and I started trusting it less.

If the homepage marketing is declaring it to be a virtual dom, then I want to see how to use the virtual dom API so that I can verify what it is! If it then on top of that has a React Compatibility layer, that's just awesome and makes me really excited to understand it, and I'll probably want to look at that layer so that I can see what React is beyond a virtual dom.

Anyway, do you have a pointer to how to use it as a plain old virtual dom? I happen to be in the market for one, right now!
awesome! I've been interested in something similar, after coming across 'famous' accounts in the HN comments often enough
Korea's First Virtual Influencer, a CGI nonhuman character [0]

[0] https://www.instagram.com/rozy.gram/
At $0 per game, the current income of $100mil speaks very well to Diablo Immortal's long tail.
In case you want to go old school, I made a clock. It runs in the browser too and it's a PWA. It's open source - just click "View Source". (Actually, I may have ripped off most of the code, I can't remember, so don't do that.)

Why? I like analog clocks to keep track of time. To me they're like moving pie charts. So I made this for myself and will bring it up on a second screen or an HDTV if I need it. You'd be surprised how useful it can be.

https://qidget.com/clock/
> The North American Amish population grew by an estimated 195,710 since 2000, increasing from approximately 177,910 in 2000 to 373,620 in 2022, an increase of 110 percent.

Wow... for context, compare to the fact that (at least according to the decennial census) the white population of the US actually decreased from 2010-2020.
The point is that no existing storage system is sufficient and thus solar and wind is really solar, wind, and fossil fuels. And nuclear power is indeed sufficient. They can indeed modulate power output, and we have the capacity to build them at the required scale. Some countries already have, like France.

> Why does pumped hydro have to be close to transportation infrastructure, btw? Can one not build roads or rail lines?

You can, but the more remote the build site the more expensive it becomes.
I didn't touch xrandr much in my life (I'm not the OP) and I don't know which APIs are available so I don't know if they are pleasant or not, but wouldn't I write coordinates and screen sizes in Python too?

Anyway, xrandr is already there and Google and stackoverflow are full of examples. I'm not surprised that people would invest half an hour copy pasting code from there instead of identifying and learning the underlying API. I don't see why that should be a problem.
By ignoring cheaters, you're penalizing honest students, who suffer grade deflation as a result. Even if you don't grade on a curve, and there is no resulting grade deflation, the honest students will have devoted significantly more effort for the same grade. Either way, only the honest suffer. Is that an ideal outcome?
The natural disaster was responsible for killing people, not the nuclear meltdown... maybe if we had been consistently building nuclear since the 60s we wouldn't be in this global warming catastrophe? Obviously speculation, but I'm curious what our global CO2 levels would be if all the major industrialized nations transitioned to 100% nuclear Over the last 60 years. Anyone happen to have some charts?