skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, does the accounting really matter? It's not like the federal budget is anywhere near balanced anyway. What really matters is when and how much the federal government is paying out to schools, and when and how much the debtors are paying back to the federal government. The actual cash flow.

This all seems pretty insane: on pages 9 and 10 of "An explanation of the budgetary changes under credit reform", it looks like one hand of the government, which is on budget, borrows from another hand hand of the government, which is off budget? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My mind is going, I can feel it.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/102nd-congress-1991-...

Anyway, since Congress changed the accounting method from cash to accrual in 1990, they can just change it back if they happen to not like the current deficit numbers. ;-)
It’s less than 2% of global CO2 emissions. If your tax scheme shaved off 15% of demand, you’d be saving 0.3% of global CO2 emissions—equivalent to a few months of global emissions growth.
What about designs like these:

https://youtu.be/cbrT3m89Y3M

My point being that a lot of debate on this issue assumes that nuclear reactor tech is frozen in time when it comes to safety.

It isn’t.
> federal regulators consistently assured Americans that the risks of a massive accident were “vanishingly small”—even when they knew they had insufficient evidence to prove it

Why is the burden of proof on them? Nuclear should be innocent until proven guilty just like any other technology. Once the principle design has been shown to be sound, it should be the job of those opposing it to prove claims of unsafeness.
You promote bad, inauthentic uses of the concept because you want the concept to fail. Why you want the concept to fail is left as a trivial exercise for the reader.

Psychoanalysis goes both ways.
You can get lithium compounds that are quite light from a brine lake, and the wind can have more than enough energy to shove it around for miles and miles. I've visited brine plants and done direct ground lithium mining. When mining lithium underground, you need very strict respiratory gear, because lithium particulates (especially from the dried clays around lepidolite and tourmaline) are generally fine enough to get past even HEPA filters.

And at that size, it doesn't take much in the way of a breeze to send it all over the place. You can watch it just from your lighting and respiratory exhaust. It just hangs there for a good while in almost-dead air. 'Falling out' takes dozens of minutes.
That “adjustment” is really tricky to do convincingly.

I’ve been trying to compare an offer in the US and one in Montreal. The raw number for the US blows Canada out of the water, obviously, but adding in healthcare and childcare really starts to close the gap. That’s at least sort of calculable, especially if you ignore their option values, but it’s harder to price in other intangibles, like living somewhere walkable or with good public amenities (parks, schools, events). Basically no amount of money will buy you a walkable neighborhood in parts of the US: we looked—-hard—-in Houston!
What I do for my homelab vms and such:

# If ~/.ssh/config does not exist, copy file
if [ ! -f ~/.ssh/config ]; then
cp ./.ssh/config ~/.ssh/config
else
# For each block in ./.ssh/config, if it is not in ~/.ssh/config, add it
while read -r line; do
if [[ "$line" == "" ]]; then
if grep -q "$block" ~/.ssh/config; then
# If block is not found, add it to ~/.ssh/config
echo "$block" >> ~/.ssh/config
fi
else
if [[ -z "$block" ]]; then
block="$line"
else
block="$block$line\n"
fi
fi
done < ./.ssh/config
fi
No. This is just clueless marketing teams trying to sound high tech, when anyone who knows the slightest bit about technology can see through the BS.

Stay away from companies claiming they've built an OS unless they're actually building an OS.
I had a couple of storage/media servers on Arch that I set up in 2008. In 2012 when systemd came, I experienced lots of pain. I eventually got things working but it took me a long time not to hate systemd. They both failed within a few months of each other in 2018, putting them right around 10 years of Arch as well.
Maybe because it's relevant to the discussion in the thread.

How many other times do you think it'd be appropriate to bring up the same topic? Probably very few, and it would get deleted if not.
I got solar recently because the payback time was around 5 years taking rebates into account. We often talk about how negative externalities of things like coal are not priced appropriately, however it goes the other way and renewable rebates exist due to the positive benefits.

I wonder if in the situation you mentioned, whether it would be profitable for a third party to handle the roofing and capture any value while covering the costs. The ROI might be a little too low for a traditional business but it seems fairly low risk and effort and would scale nicely if they get installation discounts. It would still be a lot of friction starting a business if you have to wait for them to do it, so many laws like this often only activate for businesses over a certain size (such as GST in Australia based on revenue, or WorkChoices based on head count).
I signed up last week and was given access in a day
Given how the HCA has taken so many traditional (archaic) views on media publication recently (see Voller 2020) I wonder to what degree this a political decision. The respondent is a very unsavoury figure in the legal world. Any lawyers able to interpret how narrow or broad the ruling is?
A charitable interpretation of the OPs suggestion is that this regulation would make the most sense in high to mid density areas, where land is at a premium. And any practical implementation of this measure would almost assuredly come with financing assistance and some sort of assurance that the electricity produced has an offtaker agreement that would eventually result in the project breaking even.

Arguing for more solar instead of CO2 capture has nothing to do with trying to force an agenda and lifestyle on everybody. It is merely recognizing that of the options that are currently available to us or will be available to us in time to mitigate the worst aspects of climate change, solar, wind and storage are currently our best bets. Wishful thinking and breathless press releases aren't going to change that. This is about first principles, not agendas. Feel free to counter argue with something other than wishful thinking and grievance politics.
Why they are not nice in California then?
It doesn't have to be insider trading. It's blatant market manipulation, which is also illegal. And it also doesn't matter if it's her husband acting on it.

I've spent most of my career working in finance. Neither my spouse, my children, my siblings, my parents, my grandparents, my friends, my barber, nor my bartender can act on inside information I was privy to that I may have uttered in their presence. The relation doesn't matter, the non public nature of the knowledge is what matters.

That Pelosi not only has insider knowledge but the power the manipulate the market via legislation makes what she and her husband do that much more egregious. Same for any other congressional scum. They should be held to a higher standard than the plebes, not a lesser.
I like my pacman helper, pikaur [0]. Not only does it allow me to edit/view changed AUR files, it also alerts me whenever there is archlinux.org news

[0]: https://github.com/actionless/pikaur
> Not to start the usual HN debate

Then maybe don't throw up a giant strawman? No one is advocating for an exclusively wind-based power grid, so why pretend they are? Real systems won't have the failure mode you posit.

In fact real grids (c.f. the Republic of Texas, or for that matter most of the developing world) are operating today with genuinely terrible reliability without the kind of "high-severity catastrophe" you are analogizing to a nuclear meltdown.
I want to know if it's even remotely possible for a EV truck company like Rivian to unseat the F-150 as America's best selling truck within the next 5 years?
Did you already know some Greek to be able to read inscriptions too? This is on my bucket list.
This is sort of how it's playing out where I live now. The city has opened up densification in an area that has historically been suburbs. Old bungalows from the 50s/60s are being bought out by developers and turned into mini 6-unit condo buildings. So on one hand, densification, yay! On the other, starter homes suitable for young families are being lost and replaced with smaller apartments suitable for young couples, boo? Any potential family looking to buy those properties is completely outbid by the developer. The sale of 6x units covers the purchase price, tear down and new build with a healthy profit margin, the single family never had a chance. It seems like the middle is falling out of the market and developers seek profit in one of 2 ways. Mcmansion that maximize square footage on a single lot, or condos that maximize the number of small-as-possible units in one building. Then the government wonders why the birthrate is decreasing..
Even fields that require performance can have strong networking requirements. Academia, software, traditional engineering, etc. One’s reputation is rarely purely or even strongly reputation based
First I have heard of Solvespace so a naive zen-mind question.

Does any system aspire to be a Prolog for 3D? You sketch a variety of views and a system solves, if possible, for a solid geometry representation?
> Human graphic artists will adapt and the next generation will incorporate AI generated images into their tool kit.

And some of them are already doing that. In Peter Mohrbacher's latest newsletter he shared a digital painting which was started by Disco Diffusion which he then touched up to give it his characteristic look. Given the details and feel of the painting were unmistakably his, I wouldn't have guessed that the base of the image was AI-generated.
As much as Tesla's stock prices is inflated a lot of people dont appreciate just how behind the other car companies are when it comes to electric cars.

Non tesla fast charging is an absolute disaster, likewise most/all of these companies havent figured out how to update software without plugging in a usb stick at a dealership.

Maybe electric cars will be more like Apple/Samsung in terms of market share then the current range of car companies.
Then buy the waste in a salt mine or a deep bore hole.
Huh, Mars is interestingly outside the norm there.
I saw a video not long ago from some research using ML to gain new insights into Linear A. I cannot find it atm.
It's a defamation case and you will note the main question was whether or not publication occurred. The rules governing dissemination of copyrighted material are completely different.
> Graduate program data is irrelevant to the question on most people's minds--is college (i.e. undergraduate) worth it?

As a former graduate student in the humanities, and a longtime holder of student loan debt, I don't consider graduate program data irrelevant. In fact it's extremely relevant to me.

Graduate students owe half of all student loan debt, despite being only 25% of all student loan debtors. It's a massive problem, but graduate students are largely ignored.

Graduate students are exploited by universities for cheap labor. They need grad students for teaching and research purposes. But the PhD completion rate is low, and then good luck getting a tenure track job, much less tenure.

Some people want to make college all about money and earnings potential, but it's not. It's about education, scholarship, research, the advance and accumulation of knowledge. If college were nothing but a money-making scheme for students, then it would make no sense to even have public universities. In that case they all ought to be private, for profit schools like... um, ITT. ;-)

Do you want to abolish the humanities? Abolish everything that doesn't result in high earnings? Alternatively, do you want to make them only accessible to rich kids who don't have to borrow?

The elephant in the room of student loan debt is that people who go to college are literally better educated. In other words, less ignorant. College is not a cure-all for ignorance, but it's a lot better than nothing. And it's difficult to have a functioning democracy if we put education behind a paywall. Arguably, we don't have a functioning democracy...
Nobody near a candidate big hole seems willing to go for that.
> as a declarative language, SQL does not expose the order of execution to the user.

As a practical matter, this is not true. If it were true, tools like EXPLAIN PLAN would not exist because it would not be necessary to manipulate queries to get good performance.
> Catastrophic accidents with large airplanes can also make airports dangerous places, right?

Um... no? I don't see where you're going here. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is a real place that displaced real people. There's never been anything remotely similar in the history of aviation. In fact airplane accidents have never been a significant/measurable risk to urban populations, ever.
Also zero people died in the immediate aftermath of Fukushima, and one employee sadly eventually died years later of a cancer that's being attributed to it after receiving an annual dose of radiation in the incident. Counting it as anything other than an indication of how safe these plants have gotten is pretty disingenuous.

The data is clear, it's the safest form of energy in deaths per TWh generated. [1]

Anyways while we fitter around and argue, China is building 150 new reactors in the next 15 years, as much as the entire world has built in the last 35. To go with their massive solar deployment. Now that's an energy grid getting cleaned up neatly. [2]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...
It looks like AI generated art will be a huge boon for the indie games.

Midjourney can definitely lower concept art costs by 5% to 20% as it stands. Nevertheless, AI generated art currently can’t fully eliminate real concept artists.
Edmodo.com is shutting down on September 22
I use Transmission, which has a web interface for this.
Physics duo finds magic in two dimensions
This article is so flawed in so many ways. The most obvious issue is failing to show the actual safety statistics! I mean, at least start with the obvious starting point: that nuclear energy's record is that it is one of the safest forms of energy. https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

There could be a disaster tomorrow 1000x worse than all previous nuclear energy disasters combined and it would still have been net-safer than coal (and this is excluding climate change effects, if you choose to include those.

I mean, if you want to then say "we got really lucky over the last 60+ years" I guess you can do that. In 1970, sure there were a lot more unknown risks. That was 52 years ago.
People are more likely to search Google and read a linked article about the guy than find the linked article just by randomly entering URLs in the browser without selecting anything from the autocomplete drop down.
Maybe not. A lot of the lobbying from Ford/GM around electric car subsidies is based around the companies actually selling electric cars.

The board & management may have that plan but until they can sell electric cars that a) exist and b) dont spontaneously combust they wont get significant subsidies.
Warning: you're going to get buried here.

The 'right answer' is going to be Paxos and it's many flavors; a few references to Lamport, Google's Chubby, "Paxos Made Real". If the right people are on hn today you're going to get a few references ZAB (Zookeeper Atomic Broadcast) and View-Stampted Replication. Oh, and go watch all of Heidi Howard's talks.

The problem spaces of byzantine and non-byzantine consensus are far enough apart ... well kinda like Atomicity in postgres and atomics is C++. You decide if that's a lot.
It generates zero megawatts far more often than 4.5 megawatts. 4.5 is peak on the best days. 0 is assured for several hours every day.
Those are pistachios, not olives.
The article is no longer available (since 2017 according to the Wayback Machine) so he probably did.

https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/17/1087245041025....
Postgres doesn't scale well across machines. There are things like Citus that help, but still.
The irony of saying nuclear propoganda is so repetitive when we literally define 48 hours as (9,192,631,770 * 172800) or 1.5884868e+15 'oscillations' of a caesium 133 atom (133Cs).

It's almost as if it means something!
Though you can easily see a quick jump to a point where the creating and then the tweaking doesn't need a human involved.
I think this is potentially a pretty fair startup idea. Here in Michigan I knew farmers who had meat packing plants on the farm. Most of them closed because they couldn't compete on price with the big meatpackers. There are also several large meatpacking plants in Detroit though most of them have been closed for up to thirty years.

Here's a niche where you could compete as long as you could get distribution and create a strong brand name. There's no good reason you couldn't create bologna just as good as the Mexicans. In fact there's a good chance you could export it to Canada as well.
> one almost always finds a vested interest in a corrupt status quo whereby a small set of hereditarily connected rent-seekers who stifle progress and don't care about anything but expanding their own wealth and power

Case in point, posted here just yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32479652

Sometimes it feels like there's only two options: become one of these rent-seekers or find a way to opt out of this system.
> Who would've thought a multiplayer blog built by a college kid could bring history's greatest superpower to its knees within a single election cycle?

Is this in reference to 4chan?
Right. They also extend, embrace, extinguish. They also make very clunky tools for people that like to click to code.
Wild guess: Facebook.
The answer is 2).

It is inherently cheaper to make a low energy, high carbon, biofuel than it is to make a high energy fuel that can actually be used. And it is cheaper exactly by the energy you don't have to leave in the fuel. Furthermore for many applications, electrical+batteries is more efficient than fossil fuels. So with projected near-term technologies, it makes no sense to make a round trip through fossil fuels.
If this gives you headaches, don't read anything k8s - you may end up changing profession.
>it is very far from the dream.

SQL is the great success story of that generation.

Writing database query and management code in an imperative language is a nightmare.
Are those property values high because there are a lot of mansions built out there, or is it specifically because of the population density in county limits?
My brother-in-law is pretty high up at a traditional manufacturing OEM. To be clear, they don't manufacture anything that has electronics or software in it (but there is a pretty decent chance your car has something they made). They have a Bay Area software office that does general tech stuff - manufacturing software, business software, etc. Internal things plus some B2C stuff for people buying/installing replacement equipment.

I asked how they liked the software and how the office was working out. The response: "Oh, we don't do it for the software. We can hire 100 people out of Ohio State or Michigan and pay them midwest wages and get the same quality. The SV office is for the connections and investors we get."

It's entirely possible that they know exactly what they are doing ;)
I think I qualified (for a little while).

I did this for 1.5 years from August 2020 to April 2022.

I (and my partner) packed up 2.5 suitcases of clothes, 1 medium box of spices, 2 containers of miscellaneous things (including our extensive 6 set collection of Dominion -- card game) shoved it all into a Honda CR-V and hit the road.

We stayed in Airbnbs or short-term furnished rentals for 4-6 weeks negotiating a rate with the lister most of the time (but sometimes the base host-set Airbnb monthly discount was pretty good) and usually went for 2-BR with good parking situation so we had a good work from home setup and peace of mind with our car (which we unpacked completely when we got to a new place). Our focus was to live in decent neighborhoods and get a place with a decent kitchen (we cooked a lot at home to keep costs down) with the apartment being more modern as a bonus as long as it didn't increase the cost. We also checked with each listing/landlord to ensure the internet was at least 50 mbps or better since both of us would be on video calls during the day.

Key highlights:
- ~14,000 miles driven, few tire changes, 3 oil changes, 1 small accident but no other driving incidents
- 11 national parks - Yellowstone, Great Sand Dune, and Petrified Forest were my favorites
- Fave city: Denver (great outdoors, vibrant young city, growing, lots of sunshine, main con was lacking in world-class food which we were used to from SF)
- Surprise hit: Boise (great outdoors, cool Greenbelt river area, very relaxed feel)
- Sleepier than expected: Santa Fe (very much a retiree community, lots to see, but gets to be the same -- you can only see so much art before it blends together, and food is a bit of the same after a while -- red/green chile rocks, just can't get over how 50% of the restaurants in the town seemed to serve it)

Overall:
- Really fun experience and I would highly recommend it to anyone who has the flexibility and can stand their partner OR be solo for a while
- If cost is the focus then you can go for cheaper accommodations at the cost of convenience, modern amenities, and "vibe" of being in the nicer neighborhoods/closer to the action
- Gets a little tiring exploring every city from scratch, not knowing a ton of people to build community around, what good places to go to/having a local spot etc.
White people are the ones who control “mainstream culture” and decide what gets absorbed into it. That includes things pertaining to minorities. For example, “BIPOC” is a term popularized by white people to refer to a group that’s most pertinent to white people—people other than themselves. Most people who fit the label “BIPOC” don’t identify with some larger agglomeration of “people who aren’t white.” They identify as black, Pakistani, Cuban, etc.

LatinX is a good example that clearly illustrates the power dynamic. Although it was coined by a Puerto Rican, it is unpopular among Spanish-speaking Americans. If Spanish speaking Americans took a vote, they wouldn’t call themselves “LatinX.” The term has become a prominent label because it appeals to white people.

Third genders actually illustrate how “BIPOC cultures” view gender very differently from white people. Bangladesh, where I’m from, recognizes a third gender. But it isn’t associated with ideas of gender and gender roles being fluid, as it is in white societies. It instead functions to separate sexual minorities from everyone else in a society that is intensely gendered and heteronormative.

The Wikipedia article on third genders actually contains a disclaimer reminding white people not to project their own concepts of gender and sexuality onto superficially similar concepts in other cultures.
What’s New in Kubernetes 1.25?
It's almost nutty to me that the number of workers who've fallen to their deaths from wind turbines per GWh is more than the number of people killed by nuclear power accidents and maintenance per GWh.
> After the Three Mile Island incident, a Presidential commission, chaired by John Kemeny, the mathematician and president of Dartmouth College, issued a sobering report.

As a random historical note that might be interesting to HN, Kemeny was also the co-inventor of the BASIC language.