skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an economist, but I'm going to go out on a limb here: my expectation is that between now and 2025, a decline in construction demand in China will have a more significant impact on global copper consumption than an increase due to EV demand. I think the copper supplies will be okay.
IIRC the "Apicula" project for yosys/nextpnr support for Gowin FPGAs is pretty good, but still lacks a few key features for many designs - most importantly, Block RAM, but also PLLs and I think serdes/transceivers?

I have one of the "4K" versions of this board (which also has an onboard Cortex hard core) and unfortunately still have to use the Gowin EDA suite for a lot of projects.

It's getting there, though!
The talent market for Botanists was very briefly completely saturated on Mars.
Knowing the origins of nicotine, an alternative use that should be investigated is as a pesticide. Completely discarding alternative research into nicotine due to other bad actors seems short sighted.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dr+daniel+griff...

Daniel is a practicing doctor, Vincent is a virologist. They know their stuff.
You just need to imagine that for every step of the way (say manufacturing, packaging and transport) there's a bribe (not necessarily to avoid a justified fine) for whatever official was supposed to take care of it. Corruption in South America is pretty much a way of life
... than you are in a small car with a seat belt?

The history of transportation is full of deadly bus accidents; cases when everyone or almost everyone on board was killed.

A vehicle which has a larger mass decelerates more slowly. (Mass isn't the only factor, but how it's distributed and how the vehicle crumples.)

The mass helps you only if you are secured to it, so that you decelerate at the same rate. Whether the vehicle stops in 0.2 seconds or 0.05 seconds, if you're loose, you're flying and hitting something. Something that has stopped by the time you hit it. Or something outside of the vehicle entirely. When you hit something, the deceleration of your body or body part is all that is relevant.

A standing passenger can fall and get seriously injured just from hard braking.
The last time to start nuclear to address climate change was the mid-2000s.

And we did start four reactors, with many more planned! However they are all construction failures, and the two at Summer were actually even abandoned half completed, it was so bad. And executives our going to jail for their lies during the construction process.

That's what I mean when I say nobody knows how to build it. We will likely never attempt another new 1GW reactor in our lifetimes, because even is some brave EPC firm thinks they could tackle the challenges, getting the money for that is nearly impossible.

Oh, did I mention that the only reason the four reactors were attempted at all in the mid-2000s is that the two utilities captured state legislatures and changed the law so that they could charge rate payers whether or not construction completed? Utilities memory of stopping nuclear in the 80s isn't because of protestors, it because of bankruptcy.

In any case, the only hope for nuclear is SMRs from new startups. But we can't depend on them because we don't know the costs. Fortunately nuclear is no longer our only hope, and we have other options that we didn't have 20 years ago.

Politics has nearly nothing to do with stopping nuclear. It all came down to construction mucking it up.
Paraphrasing, from memory:

Happy marriages are boring; They all look the same.

Whereas each unhappy marriage is uniquely unhappy.
I don't think it's normally apparent, since PAE is needed for NX (which is enabled by default starting with XP SP2) --- so the majority of 32-bit systems at the time were running in PAE mode, just with an artificial limitation to 4GB.
And the pool pumps would have to be replaced to deal with increased corrosion. I know of one such pool in a retirement home that had the saltwater pumps taken out because of cost saving measures. And the amount of salt was nowhere near enough to 'prevent drowning.'
Rio Doce was 43.7 million cubic metres and 18 deaths.

If someone blows up Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, it'll be about 18e9 m3, hundreds of thousands dead, wholesale destruction of everything downstream, shutdown of every energy plant that uses the resevoir for cooling, not to mention the hydroelectic station, and untold damage when winds blow the exposed sediment all over the steppe. Which is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world.

So? This Kakhovka dam is a legitimate military target as the last remaining supply route for russian troops in/around Kherson.
Getting rid of DRAM would take us back a lot farther than 20 years. A typical desktop PC circa 2000 using PC133 RAM would have had a memory access latency in the tens of nanoseconds.
It's still tangential. It's hard to read for some but there's not much point writing the Nth grumpy comment about it. And if the author is here, as in this case, you can include it in whatever else you have to say about the thing without being a jerk about it.
At work I use React on the front end, that wouldn't be too strange of a choice for a game. (Though I'm getting interested in making game graphics in WebGL)

The back end at work is Java and would work fine for the "bookkeeping" functions of a game backend. Java would still be a good language for a realtime engine (with say websockets) but it would need an architecture designed to do that.
I didn't think it would combine the downstream cable video as well as "data that is decoded and presented as information available for computer usage (i.e., the Internet). (whatever that means)" into mpeg2 frames.

I was under the impression that internet downstream and upstream are simply operating on different multiple QAM channels in different distinct frequency bands.
Few? Here is another: mining

“Many Navajo people have died of kidney failure and cancer, conditions linked to uranium contamination. And new research from the CDC shows uranium in babies born now.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/10/4735472...
Looking at the timelines, kind of surprised you didn't cut your losses and use RPG Maker XP or later w/ ruby as the scripting language, which was released in 2004. I'm estimating that project wasn't started before 2005?

Why did you stick with using that when newer engines were around?
Arguing against nuclear power is not the same as arguing for fossil fuel. Many of us see them both being problematic.

EDITED: for clarity
I hadn’t really thought it’d get popular enough for something like that to be honest. But, that does sound like a neat blog post in the making. :)
> Yes. Did he do anything noteworthy after that? I honestly doubt it

Worth’s contributions may not seem significant to some, today, because he did make this contributions; championing simplicity and portability. In a lot of ways we stand on his shoulders. Anyone who feels shorted or that they don’t get their nickels worth should also read about the Oberon System which was a complete computer with peripherals and a ui.
Thanks for pointing that out, will keep that in mind in the future!

I didn't make it clear in the post, but our product for hardware providers is available for use right now. Here's the link in case anyone wants to try it out: https://portal.rentaflop.com/blog/hosting
How does a diabetic, goes on a vegetarian, or vegan diet? Wouldn't that have more carbs?
Very reasonable points but we are sadly entering a world with many legal+tech differences from the last three decades. The convergence of foo with bar is occurring in multiple societal stacks, in both top-down and bottom-up directions. Short of halting these flywheel transformations, OSS EEE is a safety valve.

If you are in the US, take a look at the recently approved UCC changes for CERs (controllable electronic records, e.g. blockchains and CBDCs), which will now proceed to US state legislatures, https://www.clearygottlieb.com//news-and-insights/publicatio...
> Photosynthesis is way, way less efficient than solar panels, even oned a few decades back.

It is. But solar panels used to be so expensive that photosynthesis was much cheaper, despite the differences.

> I'm focused on efficiency because that's one very important metric when we are talking about how to power the world.

But a factor of 3 is not very much when you look at the entire process. The costs can very so wildly, and the existing steps lose so much energy, that the particular number you're pointing to isn't a big deal.

> Ethanol is a scam.

Depends on how you make it, where you intend to use it, and how much you're willing to tax carbon emissions. If fossil fuels are $2 a liter, my best estimate is that cars will switch to batteries but airplanes will buy biofuel.
Proof of what claim dude? That actual Marxist have cultural theories and thus the term “cultural Marxism” is a description of things other than a conspiracy theory? I’m not sure what you’re arguing against at this point.
C++ is insecure in memory and has infinite unexpected behavior. Rust, on the other hand, does not compare with it, as it is safe. Linus doesn't like C++ because it sucks.
I'd still feel safer with the number of armed guards being nearer the 'nuclear weapons lab' end of the scale than the 'power facility' end.
> many people are used to floods caused by heavy rain, and the danger feels similar.

I don't know what "people feel", but the reality of a large dam that is blown up is more like a tsunami than a normal flood. If it hits a city, casualties can easily reach the 10s or 100s of thousands, instantly.

In a way, an upstream dam is a health hazard for anyone in the area that might be flooded that should be concerning at the same level as living in an area that has had some nuclear contamination.
I don't need to rewrite my apps in order to run them on a different architecture. Recompiling is enough for compiled languages, and for interpreted languages you just need to add the interpreter appropriate to the architecture.

It's definitely not the same thing.
Worked for me this time. https://www.deck.rocks/display?job_id=5219&hash=686299789117...
Just the nature of a plant requiring active management (and power) to prevent meltdown is a weak point. The reasonable answer to this concern imo is explaining how passive safety systems have advanced and are implemented in new reactor designs, and how plants are built so when intentionally attacked or incidentally damaged a meltdown or release of highly radioactive material does not ensue, especially for folks advocating for the widespread adoption of nuclear energy worldwide. Strikes me as odd that the typical response is instead 'but this old energy generation tech which we all agree needs to go has downsides'.
The US has been decommissioning nukes for ages now. They're expensive as hell to maintain and the US has enough to flatten the earth as is.
>and his descendents will limit to 0 like everyone else in his culture.

What does this mean? Are you saying the human population of the universe will drop to 0? If so, why mention "his culture"?
Potential customers. ( From an B2B perspective)
Personally, I always have the opposite feeling; C# and Typescript was written by Anders Hejlsberg of Turbo Pascal and Delphi fame.
You are correct. The max charging rate of the battery is independent of its voltage, and runs around 2.4 C (Tesla) to 2.8 C (Porsche). You only get this max rate for the first 20% or so of SOC (state of charge). One way to think about this is that each individual cell has a nominal voltage around 3.7, and doesn't care how it's wired into the battery.

The confusion arises because a given DC charger can deliver twice as much power at 800 volts as it can at 400, assuming it's running at its max current. But that's a limitation of the charger, not the battery. This article has a brief discussion:

https://insideevs.com/news/512344/porsche-taycan-fast-chargi...

[ I used to work for a car company, programming battery charge controllers among other things ]
Yes, SMRs are the hope, but it's just a hope.

It's the right idea to switch away from construction to manufacturing, but it's unclear how quickly the manufacturing process could scale.
That is not how fixed unemployment works, the cause of fixed unemployment is people who are in the process of switching between jobs. Permanently unemployed people would reduce labor force participation, not employment as it is measured.
Dang. Funny but clearly I gotta ramp up the content filter…
>VCs squandered billions on scooter startups

They can afford it.

These are the same billionaires that would never invest in a risk-free venture.

So this was purely risk capital.
The big con for a solar/battery grid isn't the cost, it's the raw materials. We need an absurd amount of copper/lithium/cobalt etc.. and we need to be mining orders of magnitudes more than we do now.
> By design, you cannot run all of those in a single docker container.

Sure you can. The notion that “one container, one process” is the biggest misstep of containerization.
Kinda interesting same thing applies to JVM. But the JVM compresses the 64 bit pointers to get you up to 32GB if memory with 32 bit space. After that it reverts back to uncompressed, but with custom flags you can do intermediate compression up to 64GB.

https://www.baeldung.com/jvm-compressed-oops
Would be cool if you win money for solving it!
> I believe the reason people worry less about hydroelectric dam failures is because, if they fail, they do not leave behind a contaminated area

They very easily could, especially if they wipe out a chemical plant, a dump site, or a number of other things.
> In some respects, vulnerability to attack is a feature, not a flaw for promoting peace and collaboration instead of violence. A country with nuclear reactors is less likely to piss neighbors off enough to lead to an invasion.

That feels like saying "a woman who's not allowed to carry pepper spray is less likely to dress provocatively enough to lead to getting raped".
This is in dollars, but 10% of healthcare spending in the US equates to a good amount of health I reckon https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041201...
This is all the long tail of the corrupt-as-hell Scott Morrison government which was just evicted pretty soundly (after too bloody long though, and somehow Dutton is still in). NSW in particular once ICAC took a look had Gladys Berejiklian suddenly resign (as all these state level criminals do the second they get called before it), and the notable events surrounding why the Australian Federal Police Fixated Persons Unit arrested the producer of FriendlyJordies (political YouTuber) who was being sued by her Deputy Premier John Barilaro for defamation, who also is being investigated for corruption right now when a job was invented and given to him when he decided to exit politics (on account of "definitely going down for corruption as well").

Which is a long way to say that if the current Labor government has any sense, Federal ICAC will be done, and strong, soon (they say October) because switching the lights on in Parliament House is going to send a lot of cockroaches scurrying. Just need to make sure we get them with the boot.
The dispersed fallout? Hard to quantify because of it's dispersedness and long term slowness. But it is for example plutonium and we know it's effects on life on Earth, so one could proceed from there with some math and futurological trend extrapolation. And simply by using the knowledge we have about plutonium mixed with common sense.
Not a dam, but such a military strategy has already happened and was extremely foolish.

Intentionally breaching the dikes of the Yellow River killed nearly a million people, displaced several million more, and was a contributing factor to people turning towards the Chinese Communists and away from the KMT.
There are plenty of opinionated Python frameworks, you just seem to dislike ones that aren't.

This is also showcasing the ease of setup of Neon, mostly. Previous announcement here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31536827

Flask because it's literally anything that serves an API easily.

There is something a little cheap about these kinds of blog posts, I certainly agree, but you seem to have a lot of pent-up anger for it.
That's a great suggestion! A profitability calculator for hosts is on our roadmap and will be coming soon.

Thanks for the suggestion for rewording the hosting page, we'll get that fixed to clarify things.
Uncle used Module-2 to write simulators or a calculator for air venting of tunnels or something like that. I think that software was used until the late 90s, early 2000s. He was even updating it after his retirement :)
Recycling is not in fact any kind of problem for solar. There is a large, organized campaign by the derelict energy industry to plant the meme of solar as some kind of toxic menace but it just isn't one.

There is no cadmium in solar panels. There was a small amount in thin film panels briefly favored by utility-scale solar plants but thin film is economically dead and nobody is buying those.

Antimony is used in the glass, not the panel. The glass contains ~1g/kg of antimony, and PV panels contain about 50 tonnes of glass per MW (most of the panel mass is the glass). That works out to 50kg of antimony per MW, i.e. basically none. If you took all the antimony out of a 1GW solar plant and somehow dissolved it in water - which can't happen because antimony trioxide isn't even soluble in water, and dissolving metals out of glass with water is practically impossible - and if you dumped all that into Lake Shasta, it would still be within drinking water standards. And again, nobody will dump this into the environment because fifty million kilos of high-grade glass is going to get recycled, not dumped.

I think it's sad that the nuclear boosters are being duped into spreading these lies about solar panels.
Hostility to (human) customer support is baked into Google's cultural DNA. (That Larry Page bit about just automating away support.)
> but they are really two different undertakings

Not really. You can't realistically pursue more public housing in the US without major zoning and other building changes anyway, it's just too hard to build anything now, and that includes potential public housing.

You think the NIMBY's who show up at community meetings to shut down both for-profit high-end housing and also 100% affordable housing for seniors are going to hold off on blocking public housing? Without changes that deal with the nosy neighbor problem, we won't get anywhere.

> If you just advocate for building more, you're really just advocating for gentrification and making things harder for the poor.

Nope. This is a common talking point by the left, but it's wrong. If we had more reasonable rents like in Tokyo (compared to similar US major cities), that'd be great for the poor, working class, and middle class.

Now, having renter protections as well would be fantastic, absolutely. I think it's terrible how little protection renters usually have in the states.
Just noticed a funny bug. It found and listed deck.rocks on producthunt as its own competitor!
> What do you mean by "subsidized driving"? Care to give examples? I am not getting anything for driving, instead I pay taxes in registration and in fuel.

You pay less in taxes than it costs to maintain the roads — the U.S. average is about half.

Public space is reserved for driving — legal categories like jaywalking were created to remove other users from those spaces — and land owners are required to dedicate substantial amounts of space for parking, most of which is either not charged to users at all or at far below market rates (this is famously a cause of congestion as people drive around longer looking for street parking since it's so much cheaper). Even businesses like bars whose owners don't expect their customers to drive are in many cases forced by parking minimums to provide spaces, which means everyone is paying for that parking even if they don't benefit from it.

Employers can offer free parking as a job perk with no tax impact but cannot do the same for transit or bike commuters.

There are also a lot of social costs which come back to the idea that we've built the world around the idea that everyone has to drive everywhere: we're extremely reluctant to take away unsafe drivers' licenses, drivers are not required to carry enough insurance to adequately compensate people for serious injuries, cities are typically much slower to repair pedestrian infrastructure than car infrastructure, sidewalks, curb cuts, etc. are often not ADA compliant to leave more room for drivers, etc.
How close are they to commercial implementation
10,000 years from now, I hope the civilization has got to a point where robots or whatever sentient thing is around can sniff out radioactivity.

Long term thinking > Short term thinking > Extreme long term thinking.
Nuclear power pollution is the best kind: dense and contained. Imagine I tell you we could put 10% of the world's trash in a olympic sized swimming pool. Pretty appealing eh?
I have mixed feelings about this. Wherever I go, I see people taking pictures with their phones. I imagine that I am probably in many images and who knows whether or not they are flattering. Mostly I was probably not even aware that I was photographed. I have even seen a picture of me on google street view (face blurred, but I knew it was me). Now if I am not identified by name in the photo, and not characterized in some negative way by the captions (like: "Bunch of racists at a gathering..."), then, really do I care? The women in the picture in this article are essentially prototypes, not individuals. The vast majority of people who see the picture are not going to make a connection to any individual, and the intent of the campaign is very positive.

If I am in a public place, I personally realize I have given up some privacy rights.
Beginner's Guide to Installing from Source (2015)
Nuclear plants have containment buildings that can withstand strikes by artillery.
Network Pessimism (Alexander Galloway)
Most people in Germany just rent, because renting works fine there, due to renter protections. We could do the same in the US.
> I bought tickets to Joe Rogan today which made me happy

Yikes.
Attacking a nuclear plant on purpose will be seen as similar to attacking with a nuclear bomb in the eyes of the world.

If all you want to do is to knock out the electrical system of a country, you can use an EMP burst bomb over that country, and the grid will be down for months.
Not sure what happened there but here you go:
https://www.deck.rocks/display?job_id=5228&hash=767111081448...
Or just look up their LM-2.
> but we can redesign circuits to use higher voltages

Rings circuits[0], popular in the uk due to post-wwii copper shortages, use less wiring than the typical radial circuits. Wikipedia says about 25% less?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_circuit
For anyone else that didn't know, Asahi is Linux crafted for the Apple M1 chip:

https://asahilinux.org/about/
Because you have to look at reality. You may be willing to do that (though I doubt it), but people at large do not.
With a great public transit system, it feels like you are beholden to nothing. You feel like going to a restaurant and you just start walking. In NYC you can even get to hiking trails by transit. It’s wonderful. Not to mention no DDs
> This Kakhovka dam is a legitimate military target

Not under the Geneva Convention "Works and installations containing dangerous forces, namely dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations, shall not be made the object of attack, even where these objects are military objectives, if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population." https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_rul...
It's not an implementation detail, it is part of the interface. The data it points to belongs to the caller and the caller is responsible for managing it, just like anywhere else in C.