skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the US, our rights are innate and inalienable. We possess them because we exist.

Seems to me that about half your population no longer has an inalienable right to bodily autonomy.

Not to mention that once your security apparatus gets involved, your rights are as ephemeral as gossamer. Cross the wrong cop and you’ll find that your rights are terminated. Permanently and with extreme prejudice.

The Constitution isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on once you attract the attention of the government and it’s forces. Same as any citizen in every country on this planet.
Gasoline taxes and registration taxes might not fully cover road construction but other taxes do, I am just pointing out that drivers do not get subsidies but are taxed more than, say, bicyclists or pedestrians who use the same roads but don't pay extra tax.
If only they didn't reduce the funding to their police department which is now in the middle of a recruitment crisis...
There's plenty of reason to believe that we can't replicate those numbers, because we have vastly different labor costs, vastly different technological skill sets. Plus, costs in China are always a bit of a mystery. Russia or South Korea may also provide potential routes towards cheaper construction, but South Korea's success was based on at least a bit of corruption. And who knows what's actually going on at Rosatom.

I would also point out that China's only planning something like 50GW of new reactors from here on out, but nearly TW of renewables, so new nuclear there is mostly coming from hedging their primary bets, not as a primary source of future electricity.

The US definitely does need to relearn how to do big construction projects. But I think that the limited construction capacity we have would be best spent on projects that have no replacement, like mass transit. Or on building factories to produce energy generating widgets, which has an exponential return on construction effort when compared to constructing energy generating widgets directly.
Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't play any more. A few years ago I had to put a stop to it due to how much time I was spending. I can control myself not to play at all, but if I play a bit I can't control myself not to spend all my waking hours on it...
This is not a scientific study in the slightest, yet the abstract and title are presented as such. That is why it was flagged

> This article series is designed as an Oxford-style debate. As such, participants are required to argue pro and con positions, even when that opinion may differ from their own. The views expressed in this debate do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the participants, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, or the American Society for Nutrition.
If you reflected on the meaning you might have questioned your impulse to have kids
> Given two completely different encodings that map the same hex values in the message it would be impossible to determine which is the correct string.

Sorry, but I don't agree with this either. You can, as a human being (or smart enough AI), look at the result in both encodings, and make an educated guess as to which is correct. If they are wholly different as you say, then one should be gibberish, and one should map to some dictionary.
'oh, it seems like the whole company isn't productive...I guess I'll ... work harder.'
I totally get what you mean! They can get addicting for sure.
Its sad to imagine that people who turned to live in RVs probably aren't your average imagined homeless guy, who can't hold up any kind of job, but rather lower to middle class people who work a job but can't afford to live in an apartment in the area anymore.
Australia has constitutional referendum as well, these require a 'double majority' (from the public) to pass as well as an absolute majority in both House of Parliament. Which means it needs a national majority of voters AND a majority of voters in a majority of states and territories.
You can. Most orgs have a very flexible approach to full time remote positions.
Just to clarify, I don't mean that kids are not programming or making games in whatever form, just that they might not care to do so on a frozen-in-time TI calculator as much as used to be the case, so the "silver lining" of an unnecessarily expensive TI calculator being a child's first programming environment might not really exist anymore. As you say, kids have many other options today.
Application Architecture: A Quick Guide for Startups
What's the point in getting outraged over this?
Can confirm! Not for exams, but for "let's breakout into projects and meet back in 15 minutes".
They were very nice machines. I wrote my first useful programs on these using Mallard Basic to help with my school work. The word processor was really powerful too. I would have turned in my schoolwork using this too but that was unheard of at the time.
Minimum-wage earners in 91% of counties unable to afford a one-bedroom rental
It has not a click-bait intent. It hit the character limit.
It's just math. If you have a storage solution where you can recoup you capital costs by charging every day and selling electricity every night, you will recoup only one hundredth of that if you charge one day and sell 100 days later. Currently the capital costs of batteries add a few cents to the kWh (the average price of 1 kWh in the US in 2021 was 14 cents). If you multiply that number by one hundred, you end up with dollars for kWh, and you can sell that kWh, because nobody will buy it.

If you find a storage solution that adds only hundredths of cents to a kWh if sold daily, that would be absolutely fantastic. But no such solution is in sight.

The only long term storage solution that has a shadow of a chance to make it is hydrogen. But we are so, so much behind the plan in building green hydrogen production facilities. As for hydrogen liquefaction and shipping, that's just a distant plan.
> This has been true for me wherever I've lived. If you just happen to live near a major bus line or subway station, and just happen to go somewhere where a transfer is not needed, then maybe public transit is faster. Otherwise, not a chance.

That sounds like a great reason to build public transit infrastructure and housing near public transit infrastructure.
No.

Firstly, you talk about $ per capacity in MW, however solar capacity factor is 20%. Only use a levelized cost per MWh.

Secondly, solar needs storage which you think is trivial, but which turns out to be wayyyy more expensive than the solar panels. Some reports[1] only compare short-term (peaker generation) for storage. Nuclear is expensive, but battery storage is far more expensive to cover daily or longer load variation (non-peaker). That report mentions in a footnote a levelized cost of storage of crazy high $1613/MWh to $3034/MWh.

[1] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
There's a difference between sleeping under a bridge, and driving your 6 ton vehicle to the most valuable land in the world, depriving everyone else from using that space, and dumping your garbage all over it.
Well, there's heavy survivorship bias in the linked article, which talks about 582 startups founded in the US that are worth $1 billion.

Meanwhile, another comment here noted that there are about 45 million immigrants currently residing in the US. Only a tiny number of those are founders of the aforementioned startups. The article says nothing about how immigrants are doing overall financially compared to native born US citizens.
> In conclusion, (...) nuclear reactors are simply not going to be built because they are not competitive

What do you mean? 50+ reactors are under construction as we write [1], and almost twice as much are planned [2] (with even more proposed).

Furthermore:

> A nuclear reactor cannot be shipped

Marine nuclear reactors (of which 200-ish are in active service) and Chukotka's floating nuclear power plants are notable counter-examples. Especially with marine reactors being the baseline for the philosophy behind SMRs.

[1] https://pris.iaea.org/pris/worldstatistics/underconstruction...

[2] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu...
I've been using Office 365 Business Standard. Works quite well, works with all my devices (Windows natively, web with a very good web interface and iOS with the Outlook app and with Exchange syncing). Works nicely with a standard Microsoft account and can switch between them depending on what I need (e.g. Xbox/Rewards on personal account). Had to migrate stuff manually (using Google Takeout) to a 'normal' Google account which was pain - especially as they let you go from personal to Gsuite in one click - but once it's done it's done - thankfully Office 365 keeps the subscription & standard Microsoft account separate. Lost a YouTube account in the transfer but had to suck it up.

Can get a subscription for around £90 a year, usually with cashback through various retailers via the likes of Topcashback/Quidco (renewed last time with the BT online store and got cashback through TCB).

Spam filtering is second to none, nothing seems to get through it and doesn't have many false-positives either.
I have one of these, haven't spent any time with it yet, I've been looking for something this cheap to give FPGA classes with for quite a while
Productivity and focus must improve so Google generates more revenue selling ads on distracting, time-wasting, clickbait-y websites and smartphone apps?
A counterpoint is that wind and solar are impossible to defend in a conflict (especially off-shore wind), and can be irretrievably wrecked with minimal risk to the attacking force. I don't think this should be any sort of impediment to putting renewables everywhere we can though. If there is a war big enough that countries are destroying each other's energy infrastructure we'll almost all be dead anyway. Nuclear winters will kill solar production (and also most of the demand, I guess).
When people write code which doesn't have memory safety & lacks the compactness needed for a mature product, it is not C language's fault

C is a well tested compact language - the fact that Linux kernel, BSD kernels, device drivers and a whole lot of games and physics engines are written for performant systems is a testament to it's reliability.

Additionally, I think it's the sane move. A language which is hot cake today (Yes, Rust) may or may not be in fashion 5 years from now when there's a new hotcake. Choices are made keeping 10-15 years project development in mind
War on Terrorism is officially over, as far as your ribbon rack is concerned
The major problem for copper is the lack of large projects in the pipeline - current mineral explorers are entering a new phase of what they need to look for and it's a super exciting time to be working in Exploration, honestly.

P.S - Incredibly biased as I work in Mineral Exploration.
Is “principle of fundamental Justice” related to the concept of everyone being reasonable and acting in good faith, not forcing the legal system to evaluate every possibility?

Eg. The Republicans won’t stop passing manifestly unconstitutional legislation at state level. They force the thing to be played out rather than accepting what’s obvious and not attempting it to begin with.
I feel that you’ve kind of talked past my point, though maybe I missed yours.

My point was that unless you’re running on metal, the cloud people built all this shit, and much, much better than k8s (or Tupperware for that matter).

They’ll stick you Docker container inside a VM happily because people pay them to do it, but it’s redundant.

Google didn’t OSS Tensorflow out of the goodness of their hearts, they did it to sell TPU hours on GCP.

k8s is likewise not charitable giving: it’s to sell managed Kubernetes on GCP, and subtle nudges to get people to make it their careers are uh, just business I guess.

Provisioning as code is in a sad state: Chef/Ansible/Salt/friends can’t deliver on idempotency, Nix is too complicated for most. So people use a container primitive (Docker) to work around that.

This has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with service discover and failover and auto-grow and other Kube shit.

AWS does all that already. Better.

This is a borderline-cynical business strategy on the part of the cloud providers, and judging from the religious fervor around k8s (someone upthread has it in their username for Christ’s sake), it’s working.
gless: https://github.com/tpapastylianou/gless

it's such a tiny thing, but I can't imagine not having it on my machine. It's one of the first things i always download on a new system.

PS. The morse thing sounds cool! Care to share?
> You admit not knowing Quillette, but is a well-known alt-right website who notoriously don't care about facts and as such their content is no more reliable than Putin's Sputnik.

As a media outlet, Quillette is a valid target of criticism but these sorts of vague slurs are easily debunked with a modicum[1] of research[2].

If you don't like the story, criticise the story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quillette#Reception

[2] https://www.allsides.com/news-source/quillette-media-bias
>> This is not a scientific study in the slightest, yet the abstract and title are presented as such. That is why it was flagged

Still makes no sense?
Actually, iOS already has built-in support for dictionary and thesaurus. In any native text input field, select a word and choose Define or Look Up. The choice of dictionary is customizable; I usually choose New Oxford American Dictionary and Oxford Dictionary of English (not to be confused with the venerable Oxford English Dictionary). They are high quality dictionaries. They are basically the same except that the pronunciation for the latter is in IPA which I'm more used to.

When I need to look up a word, I create a new note from control center, type in the word, double tap to bring up the contextual menu and then the dictionary.

It pretty much checks all the boxes. For distraction-free reading, turn off "Content from Apple" in the Siri settings to avoid those obnoxious Siri knowledge panels.
It’s also so incredibly cynical. They aren’t supporting these organizations because it’s the right thing to do. It’s just a means to an end, namely preventing workers from organizing.

I wonder how many people who called out Amazon’s supposedly enlightened actions as unlikely to be altruistic or genuine were accused of being conspiracy theorists.
The comment I replied to stated that it was “impossible” to walk to school in the US. It might benefit your reading abilities to live closer to a school :).
"The difference between loneliness and solitude is who you are alone with and who made the choice."

I was told this 3 weeks in to an Outward Bound course in the colorado wilderness when I was 18.

It has stayed with me my whole life now (i'm 43!) and I think of it often.
Privbox: Faster System Calls Through Sandboxed Privileged Execution
Those are good omens. It is way overkill (wifi/bluetooth/gpu/video) for a keyboard controller, but at least, it does exists. If they follow raspberry on the same road, we may get a mangopi nano (hopefully with a with a risc-v 64bits cpu with a good bunch of GPIOs).
The title comes across kind of like click bait, and it presents itself as a study or review when it isn't

> This article series is designed as an Oxford-style debate. As such, participants are required to argue pro and con positions, even when that opinion may differ from their own. The views expressed in this debate do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the participants, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, or the American Society for Nutrition.
I semi-frequently forget to take my second dose of Ritalin in the day. Though honestly it helps me a little because here I can’t fill a new prescription of it until the exact day I run out. Gives me a little bit of a buffer.
That phenomenon is very real in my personal case. Unfortunately the ideas go away by the time i get hold of pen and paper after the shower. Possible solutions to this are welcome.
The article explains that doesn’t it? I think I remember reading it in there at least.
It's not "free", the property owners pay property taxes. The majority of roads inside cities in the US are paid for and maintained with property taxes.
Thanks for sharing, it all seems terrifying but still very interesting to explore. I was curious how the Windows nodes would even join - turns out they support cloud-init just like Linux machines.

https://cloudbase.it/cloudbase-init/

In theory this means they could be managed then by something like KubeVirt instead of treating them like a worker node. https://kubevirt.io/user-guide/virtual_machines/startup_scri...

Excited to see this space continue to evolve for sure.
"I'm here for the job managing the servers."

"Sounds great, when can you start?"
No, that's wrong. For a pressure vessel made of the same material, the same geometry (scaled), and operating at the same safety factor, the thickness of the wall is proportional to the linear dimensions of the vessel.

Here's a simple argument about why that's true:

https://yarchive.net/space/launchers/fuel_tank_scaling_laws....

> Take any plane that slices through the pressure vessel, and consider the
problem of trying to prevent the vessel from separating at that plane.
The pressure load trying to cause such a separation is proportional to the
surface area of the slice. The wall length available to resist it is the
outer edge of the slice. The load scales with the square of size, the
wall length only linearly... so as the size goes up, the wall thickness
must grow as well. Chase it through the math, and wall mass is simply
proportional to volume.

It's also a consequence of the virial theorem of mechanics.

Below a certain size you run into code minimums, but nuclear power plants will be well above that size.
I agree in theory. The issue is that some of those modes of transport are more efficient (when done right) and should be encouraged.

The funny thing is that you wouldn’t even need to make parking super expensive to act as a huge disincentive. $1/h is enough to change behavior.
My "Rust" experience apparently qualifies me for a job as an aircraft painter.
Indeed. I actually linked the redirect to demonstrate it does indeed redirect correctly.
Must confess, I get a bit irritated when people try to explain "open source", but then very carefully steer away from "free software" in the explanation. It is like trying to explain what makes water flow, but trying very hard to avoid using "fluid" or its cognates.

My irritation aside, though, I can't decide whether the author is passively ignorant of the rest of the iceberg, or actively chooses to ignore it.
The article says the Amish are doubling in population every 20 years.
"We owe the cultural achievements of humanity—which include philosophy—to deep, contemplative attention. Culture presumes an environment in which deep attention is possible. Increasingly, such immersive reflection is being displaced by an entirely different form of attention: hyperattention. A rash change of focus between different tasks, sources of information, and processes characterizes this scattered mode of awareness. Since it also has a low tolerance for boredom, it does not admit the profound idleness that benefits the creative process.

...

"hyperactive intensification leads to an abrupt switch into hyperpassivity; now one obeys every impulse or stimulus without resistance. Instead of freedom, it produces new constraints. It is an illusion to believe that being more active means being freer.

"Without the “excluding instincts” Nietzsche praises, action scatters into restless, hyperactive reaction and abreaction. In a pure state, activity only prolongs what is already available. In contrast, a real turn to the Other presupposes the negativity of an interruption. Only by the negative means of making-pause can the subject of action thoroughly measure the sphere of contingency (which is unavailable when one is simply active)."

"The Burnout Society" - Byung-Chul Han
This article dances around the problem of encrypting small values a bunch. Here's a Rogaway paper on how to do it:

https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/thorp.pdf

(You do not need to limit yourself to inputs that are multiples of the AES block size).

There's another one like this, I forget the name.

SHA-2 is just fine, and is usually a saner choice than SHA-3 (if you want to be a crypto-hipster, use Blake2, not SHA-3; it's usually an easier dep to pull in, and more things use it).
Do you have any sources for utility scale batteries with reasonable cost? The biggest I know of are in Australia and are extremely expensive, and provide such little reserve they are basically a rounding error.
That was [2015].

This might be the same person [2016]: showing a more successful build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzzD1aNsLVU

The concept looks the same: corners are big squares, edges are rectangles with an inner 20x20 of small squares.

Turning it is still delicate and fiddly, requiring some pieces to be massaged into place, but it's not disintegrating.
"kinda of like"

Since it's clearly described in the text exactly what the topic is about, is it not enough to read to understand what it is about?

And it has not a click-bait intent. It hit the character limit.
Apple Watch with cellular lets me leave behind my phone when I feel like it and still be contactable.
Are you based in the US? If so, please drop me a note regarding a previous producer in NW Arizona.
A lot of people worship at the altar of the almighty dollar. I mean shit, the head of the FDA goes to work for a giant tobacco company. Money talks.

It’s gross but it’s the world we live in and the culture we’ve largely cultivated.

I do not though and will not invest in tobacco companies for this reason.
Consider that cheap 3x3 Rubik's cubes will explode if you turn them fast, and hit a snag in the alignment!
Triggered someone who has a proud yc badge in their profile. Makes sense.
Automated market makers are useful collections of smart contracts.
Almost any technology can be used for 'good or evil'. The Internet. Personal computing. Mobile phones. All can be used in a productive way to make people's lives easier and more fulfilled. All can be used in a destructive way to make everyone miserable.

I am working on a new general-purpose data management system https://didgets.com/ that helps people analyze data quickly and easily.

Do I worry that someone might use it for something destructive? A little, but I don't stop working on it because that might happen.
I have yet to see an employee that works harder from home. Employees get lazier at home.
Don't Let Your Systems Fail Deadly
In NZ we like to claim we don't have a culture of suing, when this is mostly only because personal injury suits and ambulance-chasers don't exist here, largely because the ACC precludes that particular avenue for litigation.

All kinds of other tort suits exist, it's just that people without any money don't know it, they have no lawyer and nothing to sue or be sued for. So we go around saying "we don't have a culture of suing, that's so American".

In actual fact, wealthy people here are just as litigious as anywhere else... as you are when you have something to gain or to lose.
This. Their interview process selects people who have hundreds of hours to blow to practice on stupid competitive coding, aka LeetCode. These aren't people who are innovative, they're ones that know how to grind.

Same process used by Amazon, Meta, etc. And then they wonder why there's no more innovation at any of these places.
Google Once Again Said Even Though It Could Protect Privacy Online, It Won't
Surely that's just your view on it? I've been using Linux since I was a kid and it's definitely not how I or the people I know use sudo. Lol
And then even after building the plant your community may turn around and decide they don’t want the plant anymore. Then you’re out €1.4bn e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwentendorf_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
Zero-Configuration Networking