skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solar panel argument is very weak, at best. There are some minor challenges with solar. And they are really very minor. Quite different to "don't touch the nuclear waste for the next few million or so years".

Nuclear has several problems. The main one of which is simply its cost. It is complex technology that involves dangerous materials that need protective measures against both technical failures and security measures against people doing things like building dirty bombs with these materials. You don't need a lot of nuclear waste to make a really effective dirty bomb.

All solvable, but it adds to the cost. Security generally involves babysitting reactors for their operational life as well as securing any sites where the waste is stored.

Solar is about an order of magnitude cheaper and faster to deploy. That's conservative. It's hard to not emphasize just how simple solar panels are in comparison. Mass producing them seems to lead to all sorts improvements in production processes and cost reductions. So they are an order of magnitude cheaper now. It might be two or three in some decades.

A solar panel just works for a few decades. You put it wherever and at the end of it's life you either recycle it or not. That's mostly a cost driven decision. We're talking perfectly inert material that you can have on your roof for decades without being exposed to anything harmful. Really, landfills of the stuff would not pose that many challenges. Certainly not compared to the other stuff we dump there like household electronics, old phones, depleted non rechargeable batteries, etc.

However, landfills of this stuff seem wasteful and probably the trace elements of various minerals and precious metals will be too tempting for recycling companies for that not to not happen. It will be some decades before we know because most panels in use today just got installed fairly recently and will be operating for some decades to come. Same with lithium ion car batteries. We already recycle lead acid batteries for decades. The value of lead is comparatively low to nickel and lithium. This might be a multi billion dollar industry. Nuclear waste is not very profitable at all. Just cost. People might get smart about lowering that cost is the best you can say about it.

I doubt the math will ever add up for nuclear to matter much. When your competition is orders of magnitudes cheaper, it doesn't matter how rosy a picture you paint for dealing with terrorists, nuclear waste, and the potential for area depopulating disasters. It's still too expensive. Mitigating those things will never be free. That's the problem.
I am in Europe now and am an American, I’ve lived in various major cities in USA including east and west coast. I have also lived in a handful of major European cities. So while my opinion is anecdotal still, it’s not uninformed.

Comparatively yes, Europeans live in small cupboards by and large. There has to be some data on per capita living spaces between the two though. Largely anecdotally, I’d say people in NYC who are interns or new in careers out of school live in the same sized places that people in, for example, London or Brussels live for their entire lives, per capita speaking.

Additionally they drive much smaller cars, as you probably know.

None of this is a bad thing, it does tend to be an artifact of smaller, walkable cities and a sacrifice for that sort of thing.
wind does not always blow nor can you always deploy a turbine and you clearly don't understand the ridiculous amount of space taken by the windmills to actually over provision.

Technically if you were to over provision, yes that would work, but the problem is more that you cant even do it because of multiple different reasons. It's easier to understand when you realize that we don't have more hydro because most of the good places already have a damn. The best place for mills is currently in Denmark where they are being deployed at sea, thats not most places.

Nuclear is the way to go for base power and the voltage adjustments can be done with windmills, solar and as a last resort with a coal/gas plant.
Can also recommend checking out onedev. Seemed much lighter weight to me than gitlab, and it didn't choke when handling large amounts of data like gitea seems to. Not used the CI besides some basic tests, but it looks pretty capable from what I've seen.
Ask HN: Not Growing as a Technical Cofounder of a CRUD App
I'm a technical cofounder and a solo developer of a CRUD app. At this point, all technical challenges has been solved. I will not learn cloud any time soon cause we're using PaaS, and we're focusing on building instead of scaling. I'm still finishing my degree for the next 2 years, so there's no option for me to work and learn in a bigger company. Sometimes, I'm spending money to ask senior programmers that I know to consult about building a maintainable software. I feel that I'm not growing as a software developer. What should I do?
For agriculture this seems like a good thing?

I don't know what the state of soil is in California but adding more can only be a good thing.
I’m amazed how often I “know” the primary definition, only to discover I’m wrong when I look in a dictionary. Same with pronunciation of words I’ve only seen written.
"Proofed" is not a word

Well it is, but it has to with a baking technique rather than anything mathematical.
> Forced institutionalization is plainly unconstitutional

False. If you are a danger to yourself or others, then you can be involuntarily committed after a hearing with a judge, and it's completely constitutional.

https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/civil-commitment-...

When you start with an immediate falsehood, why read further? The italics don't help your argument either.
Thank you, that looks interesting. I will check how it works with my projects.
Carbon intensity of electricity production in Europe, year 2021
> The figures I have for France (from Jean-Marc Jancovici) are that for the entire history of French nuclear energy, the total volume of long term, high-intensity nuclear waste is that of a single gymnasium.

Which is surely just the fuel. Which itself is a tiny amount of the whole amount of waste a nuclear reactor is responsible for in his lifetime.
You're referring to the fact that Capn Proto claims to be zero copy. That doesn't mean there is no serialisation overhead.

In my experience with Capn Proto, the vast majority of the time the zero copy feature is pointless. The Capn Proto C++ APIs are extremely unergonomic so 99% of the time you end up copying the data into your internal nice C++ structures anyway, completely giving up zero copy.

I've used Capnp quite a lot and I really wouldn't recommend it. It's quite old and complex and the unpleasantness of the API alone is enough to put me off. I would pick Protobufs every day for small amounts of data.

For large amounts you are better off with SQLite or DuckDB.
Check out babashka tasks. It's a take on Make for Clojure.

https://book.babashka.org/#tasks

Everything you do in there except shelling out will be portable, and if not, you can dispatch using the `fs/windows?` predicate.
Yep, that's the typical straw-man from K8S zealots: compare static, even bare-metal setups with theK8S API "revolution", forgetting that the "clouds" (both public and private) already had APIs that covered most of it.
Sure, there are some nice additions on top of that like "operators" that take advantage of the main loop you have already perpetually running in a k8s cluster, but the leap is not that astronomical as some says.
No, they did not say that at all. This is an excuse while pointing at the most ridiculous argument. This sound you like to justify yourself because you were opposed to the theory, which still can be wrong of course.

There was no problem with the conspiracy nonsense, there were people who denied the possibility and maybe ask yourself about your part in that.
> we used to have those in a lot of cities in america, ghettos and tenements.

Hate to break it to you, but there are still plenty of ghettos and tenements, and replacing some of these with tent cities is not an improvement.
So much for the bigotry.

Europeans are almost as fat as Americans and White Europeans are basically the same as White Europeans in that regard.

I've lived all over both continents and yes, Europeans live in very small flats. Energy is prohibitively expensive.

I enjoy European culture a bit more (both have advantages), but in North America you have the choice generally to live big or small. Not everyone needs a big home (or ranch) but wide open spaces are really nice.

We probably all have an overpopulation problem, but it'd be really, really nice to solve our energy problems, it comes along with fixing climate change and dumping Russians and Saudis from having so much power as we currently are sending them all of our surplus.

And yes, we already 'expansive thinking' in North America, it's why generally we have a bit more material abundance and are a bit wealthier at least by economic measures.
Patient Matching – Fixing an Identity Problem
Originally golf courses were built on marginal land on dunes.

The only thing you need water for is the green. Not that I see golf going back to that.
New copper coating could be the next superbug fighter
My music player is Audacious (itself a fork of XMMS I believe) with the classic WinAmp skin. Using this just makes me happy whereas using more modern apps or streaming services just make me feel confused.
No-pause GC is possible, when we're talking about concurrent GCs, but it also shouldn't be mistaken for a "no-overhead GC". And reference-counting, as long as the actual reference counting isn't done in a separate thread as well, instead of blocking in a destructor, which triggers other destructors, is not a no-pause GC. It's true that application developer can avoid pauses even then, but that's a different claim.

From what I've been told, C++ games do another thing and just use arena allocators, which make allocations cheap (just an integer addition, provided you know a reasonable upper bound on the size of an arena, and if you don't, you may reserve a large piece of virtual memory, and commit it later in reasonably small, but also not too large chunks) and free-s even cheaper (either reset the integer, so that the arena can be reused, or a single syscall to unmap the whole arena in one go). That's a different strategy than making a lot of little allocs and frees, and then trying to minimize them by reusing objects, which is also quite hairy.
The capacity of plants built now is about the same as it's being retired. This will only accelerate in the future as old plants get more and more decommissioned. I'm comparison there is almost 300GW of capacity in renewables added every year. All nuclear capacity being built now for the next decades is less than what's added in renewables every year, and that's even considering the capacity factor.

So they are not being built in any significant way. Percentage of nuclear went down from 20 to 10 percent and it will continue to go down, until it becomes economical or we figure out we can't get renewables to work. I personally wouldn't bet on either of those, but that's just my opinion. There is a third option of course that is very realistic, and that is that the nuclear lobby buys itself a business model through FUD and other means. Currently they realistically don't have one.
Wait, I’m confused: how did you manage to pass all those classes (OS, networking, hardware, etc)? Or have you failed them all and still graduated somehow? How is it possible that you just got a degree in CS and you are asking these questions?

Something doesn’t add up here…
I read 'go ask alice' as a teenager and even back then i found it blatantly fiction, watching a pretty-with-curls little darling degenerate into a sweary brat wasn't plausible.

I don't like being lied to, not like this and not by the coppas (I'm a brit) who came round to our school to give us The Drugs Talk. In a limited sense, when I became an adult (and a lot later), I was less afraid to experiment with drugs because of the one-sidedness of my drugs so-called 'education'. I guess it worked on some other kids though.
In quite a lot of places, highway was first. So, no I don't see issues.

Highways exists. There are two options. First, they divide country into two parts you cant cross on foot without taking long hike. Or, you build tunnels and bridges.
IANAL but that doesn't sound like it would be enforceable at all. Consider that even in the case of something like a (physical) product recall, it would not be legal for them to break into your house to take them back.
If you add in "rebuild all the transmission lines" to the cost then that would be good. Comparing some costs of renewables to total cost of nuclear is a fun pastime, but doesn't help the debate.
Does the person choosing the wire know about and pay the ongoing future insurance premiums?

See builders/landlords and insulation.
The two minuses negate each other.

Linux--5.19 == Linux+5.19
Yay! Finally I can ditch Verdaccio and just use Gitea for Packages
If the goal is to reduce production of private jets and vehicles, then go for it.

The last time USA tried this it killed jobs and reduced tax income.
> The fact is the waste is negligible. Esspecially so when you consider the return of energy

It doesn't matter how much energy it "returns". It doesn't make the waste less worse for generations.

> Per square meter of real estate versus most viable renewables

You can literally put solar on roofs of private buildings...if your local fossil/nuclear lobby allows it. I don't even get how this is relevant. Especially because of the issue with constantly running nuclear reactors in an old grid clogging it up so cheap renewable energy needs to be turned off.

> but nuclear isn't something to be afraid of. Purely BECAUSE of technology.

Those jumps you make here from unfunded claims about waste disposal over derailing into fossil, whitewashing of that waste and old school baseload myths make me thing you're the one who's afraid of technology.
I’ve heard using offshore wind turbines to create hydrogen that can be burned is a good way forward
You might be surprised to discover that the world is different from your very limited experience of it.

I lived in New York City for thirty years. The subway is always the fastest way to get everywhere, except in the middle of the night.

Now I live in Amsterdam, and public transportation isn't quite as fast as taking my bike, but it's still everywhere, and faster than driving.

> The only real benefit of public transit is you can read during the commute.

Crazy carbrains, destroying our planet. So sick of you.
We (the tech industry) have lost so many great people by being an uncomfortable/unsafe place for a lot of people. In 2022 we’ve come a long way, but it doesn’t take long just flicking through HN to see how much further we have to go.
Kernels in LTS releases are already weird. A RHEL kernel might have version 5.6 yet it's been released today with a ton of backports on top of a kernel that's years old.
Sorry I missed your question.

Few things:

1) family reasons (father-in-law was sick, wanted to stay closer)

2) had enough of SF. Expensive, dirty, unsafe, poorly managed.

3) was missing some cultural interactions (European/Italian vs “shallower” Californian)

4) tax advantages for returning to Italy

5) wanted to start a new VC firm, thought that non-US became interesting.
> K8s as a whole? Imho the jury is still out.

Not the biggest k8s fan out there but I think the verdict is that K8S will stay for a looong time, especially in the enterprise that it's just starting adoption now.
I honestly don't get how Go managed to get this fake "low-level language" image, but no, it is not at all a low-level language. Like how does it even enter the discussion over, say, Haskell?
>when in reality you are just consuming things.

nope, in reality a lot of consumption is implicitly political or cultural, it's just that a lot of people aren't used to looking at things that way because you swim in it like a fish in water. Pay attention to how things are advertised. Autonomy for trucks, freedom for cigarettes (formerly, now nasty cancer images on the package), happy animals and low carbon footprints for vegan beans, clean air and environmental protection for electric cars, patriotism for the newest Top Gun movie, happy diverse people in the newest Millennial Netflix show, and so on.

Short of toilet paper a lot of modern consumption is about symbolic exchange, what you signal by consuming. I recommend William Gibson's Blue Ant series, he had a good eye for this many years ago.
Crime skyrocketed in 1990 as state lost power, as people lost jobs and quality of life went down for a lot of them. In Russia even more then in satelite republics. That is true both in statistics and in experience of living there. The mafia bombing attacks were the thing of 1990ties and after. They were not a thing before. They are not a thing now, it calmed. People did not even locked doors prior 1990 in quite a lot of places. Things started to be stolen they started to lock.

1920s is extremely far in history. There was whole WWII after that. There were purges after that. So much happened and power changed hands so many times in between, that it does not matter all that much.

Claim that criminality was comparably high in USSR is false.
AFAIK Allwinner is a Chinese company and the C906 core is an open source core made by Alibaba.
It depends on your application, but if it's just generated code then I don't really see the problem with code size. As long as it's easy to (de)serialize data or add a nice big facade between the generated code and business logic, the generated backing code can be a complete mess of spaghetti code for all I care.
Ask HN: As a security expert, do you still build?
I've been a dev for around 20 years. I love the idea of security work, both for the challenge , and the ability to learn about how to protect myself more..

I've been looking at the industry for a while now, and the only thing holding me back is I think I would miss building things. I've avoid management for the same reason.

As a JS/Rails/Elixir/C++/Java dev I build something my users user. (even if those users are other devs)

Do InfoSec people still build things? What sort of things do you build? Who are your users?
> Is this essential agriculture that can't take place in another state?

Of course not.

But if you own some land which is worth $x00,000,000 when irrigated with subsidised water and only $x,000,000 when it's not, and you can give $x0,000 for lobbying to "protect farming jobs and keep food prices low" by giving you your subsidy? Paying $x0,000 a year is good business sense.
Why don't road users pay for the land the roads are on? Beyond construction and maintenence. If 1 square foot of land costs $600 (manhattan), and with say an opportunity cost of 2%, that's $12 a year per square foot. A 13' lane would thus cost $156 per foot, or $800k per lane-mile. Assuming an average 4 lanes per street/avenue (including parking) that would be the best part of $2bn a year for roads in Manhattan alone.
It's very strange some of the phrasing of this post. I don't know AWS and Azure that well so I might be off here but every time I look over into those ecosystems it's hard to not come to the conclusion that GCP is literally several years ahead in terms of what they are offering.

Even just sticking strictly to the K8s space, there is nothing even close to matching GKE standalone, let alone GKE autopilot that I am aware of. In the world of serverless the gap looks to be even bigger.

I couldn't imagine a situation where I would even consider something else in a greenfield project / company honestly.
https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

It's more expensive than mining but not by an order of magnitude
This is the first time i've read about differentiable programming and it was incredibly interesting. Also, it's the first time I've came across this blog and it's wonderful. The minimal interactions really helped me visualise the content and it helped with comprehension. Great job.
When I see Atari I think "cute RL environments". Nice historic video.
Not really. If the higher insurance costs are born by the building owner rather than the person who installs the wiring (which is likely the case), then increased insurance premiums aren't likely to haveuch effect. Classic externality
I don't know why statistics scares you? The interesting thing is the correlation factors and then choose an uptime requirement.

> South Australia is at the vanguard of the global energy transition, having transformed its energy system from 1% to over 60% renewable energy in just over 15 years.

> By 2025/2026, the Australian Energy Market Operator forecasts this could rise to approximately 85%.

> South Australia’s aspiration is to achieve 100% net renewables by 2030. In 2021, South Australia met 100% of its operational demand from renewable resources on 180 days (49%).

https://www.energymining.sa.gov.au/industry/modern-energy/le...
When modern graph neural networks do worse than classical greedy algorithms
How come it is a good location? Does archive.org allow copyrighted material?
>"Proofed" is not a word

Well, it is. It means several things (but not what the parent guessed).

Among those:

- something having been proofread

- a yeast having been activated

- made something waterproof
In a parallel universe where Linus learns Rust, I can imagine many legendary rants where a new kernel developer tries to be smart with some obscure macro and then getting summarily shot down by him.

Yeah, Linus doesn't like C++ because of the abstractions and complexity, which Rust doesn't save us from. He'd rather have a less secure but simpler (and more widespread) language. That said, it's great of him to stay open minded and opening the doors to Rust in the mainline tree.
It's also commonly usef for "having proofread", and "made waterproof".
This is from the original radio play. The books were written later, and had quite a few details changed.
If land use is the hill to die on a much better target is the beef industry.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-per-kg-poore
If your app is making money you can hire a developer, who you can supervise and invest time in another venture/app? Or sell the app and work on something more challenging.
but in North America you have the choice generally to live big or small

How is that different in Europe? For the price of a one room flat in the centre of the nice part of town you can equally get a nice big house with a garden way out of town if that is what you prefer. Sure US houses tend to be bigger on average, but it's not like you can't buy a big house on the cheap if that is what you want. You just have to be willing to live an hour+ drive away from anything in a place with no jobs.

The only real difference is that, on average, Europeans tend to prioritise shorter commutes and living closer to town over large homes.
The same is true for passwords.

With every restriction, the space of possible passwords becomes smaller.

Just 16 chars, you must use a number, a special character, but not any of these few of course...

Just give it a length of 255 and people can use arbitrary sentences as passwords, which they remember!

Then teach them to add some slight variants to them, like replacing a char by a number, adding commas etc.

Instead we get "passwordless"
If I can access the fuel remaining in the rods, sure! I always wanted a 15kw thermal reactor in my back yard... just need a few cubic meters of Peltier pods...
I buy the pipe fitters union power.

Just read an article in a local paper about banning gas connections in new housing. Had a direct quote from the union saying they aren't inherently opposed per se, but need ___ $$ to offset any job losses.

And then next graph mentioned that union was part of a lobbying pac thing fighting for the status quo