skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now put in your cost function all the cost effects of coal to the land, the people and atmosphere.

Nuclear has been an absolute bargin and had more countries acted like France we wouldn't have many of the problems we have now.

> not even regarding CO2.

That is 100% false.

Please show me the study that shows this. Every single study I have seen suggest the opposite.
Yeah. A photograph was expensive in terms of your time (and money). Especially if it meant you had to change the film.

So many lost opportunities. When I was writing [1] I absolutely could not find any photos of the golf place, which is now gone.

You'd think the family would have some (I'm sure they do), but they completely ghosted me. No one from the old 'hood has any.

[1] https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/no-compliments-at-the-mi...
Being stubborn is highly underrated!
This is a normative fallacy. If people die because they didn't get healthcare, that doesn't mean they didn't deserve healthcare. I'd argue that everyone who needs a liver (which is not the same as a liver transplant) has the right to one.

> but they fact that you need them to survive doesn't define them as such

Isn't that basically saying that surviving needn't be in a definition of 'human right'?
That doesn't square with my experiences at startups. A $1k/mo service would have been something a manager could sign off on themselves, and all it took to do that was to get an engineer on the team be really excited about it. On the other hand, a $10K a month would have been a much harder conversation to have, falling outside the discretionary budget of a particular manager, and probably requiring meetings and demos with the head of the department to get approval.
Counterpoint: do you think it’s wrong to let the sick stay sick and not help them? Addiction is a sickness and often requires a lot of help addicts can not themselves do to quit. You can’t expect someone who isn’t able to help themselves help themselves. This is the crux of the issue.

Also, people in half way houses or assisted living absolutely should be sober so they don’t cause anyone else in the facility to regress, but it is a hard problem. These people often need intense rehabilitation and these programs are neither quick or cheap. Someone has to run the program and success is never guaranteed. Mandatory government funded rehab would be AMAZING, but imagine how many people would crow about their “freedom” to shoot up meth is being infringed if that happened at the federal level.

This is a very hard problem and there aren’t easy solutions. My opinion changed a bit after I married a girl with a masters in social work. This is very draining heavy emotional capital work.
Include the complete inputs for the solution, and verify on upload.

Then don't accept dupes and make the leaders winning flights watchable.
Seriously Susan – Melinda Harvey on Susan Sontag
That's just a badly implemented redirect to https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRfiRupL1WHMiwO10094hkuFS...
That's exactly what I did with all my faucets.

Call me paranoid but I've taken them apart remove all the mangled PTFE tape and sealed the thread with hemp.
Perhaps the biggest problem with Objective-S is that it isn’t tied to a FAANG?
I have many hours on a similar game on Android (Landing Confirmed), and although the particular tuning here is different, the general physics is the same. I'm having a lot of fun and it's still very challenging.
Torrents?
Apparently most repos still point to this domain as the homepage for dillo: https://repology.org/project/dillo/information
That link is not the source.
This is pure insanity. The algorithms do pass out of active memory and into long-term muscle memory, but 144 a day is ludicrous.
Don’t you think values are transmitted from parents to children?

I think the “gene pool” phrase is not there to be taken literally…
I'd rather pop up ads than the societal breakdown we have today, if that was really the choice. Also, popups weren't on the niche sites. AdWords really changed that.
Why are you assuming that you will need to maintain a static infrastructure?

Aren’t you able to (fairy quickly) autoscale up/down based on the size of some queue of test requests?
I think it has something to do with an accumulation of microplastics and/or PFAS/PFOS in our bodies. One of these things is going to be our generation's version of leaded gasoline.
Yes, but you don’t need to live in a city of 8 million people to participate in the global economy anymore.

Globalism has made it easier to do global business in much of the US, logistics, transportation, and communication have changed dramatically since then.

People take for granted the fact that you can pop into any small town grocery store and find a vegetable grown in another country. That’s a relatively recent possibility.

But there’s also many cities of 100-300k residents with plenty of affordable housing and Fortune 500 offices.
> Is it that shocking that I would hold consistent views over time?

Not at all, in fact I respect that. I just didn't realize that we had talked about this before when I replied to your previous comment. On the one hand I feel a little silly, on the other hand I got to trot out that Ben Franklin quote, so that's cool. What do you think of that, what he wrote?

> I have some experience in this area that would be very difficult to dislodge. I have lived off the power, sewage, phone, and internet grid for 20 years. I have built cheap homesteads and expensive ones. I have spent days foraging pinion nuts and weeks bowhunting deer. I like to think I have some sense of the luxuries afforded by modern living, and what it is like to go without them.

That's fascinating! I don't want to get personal but I'd love to hear more about it?

> My specific point is that it still isn't, if you are willing to put up with the quality of lodgings non-industrialized people and settlers had. You can buy a wooded plot of land and build a log cabin for free. You can buy a steel shed that Native Peoples would have marveled at for a ~$1k.

> > A lot of places won't let you build and live in an igloo or adobe building today.

> Not in down town SF or most urban centers. If you leave these behind, nobody is going hunt you down and arrest you for living off-grid in a backcountry hovel. People actually do this!

You're right. My impression is that this is easier said than done, but that might be because I'm mostly only looking in California, where people have gotten kind of huffy about that sort of thing, at least in most counties. I've been looking at these cheap 2-5 acre parcels out in the desert (Utah, Arizona, NM, CO) that are just a couple of grand. Some of them even have electricity nearby. I guess the demand just isn't there.

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> > I promise I'm not fantasizing about magic elves. :) However, it's clear that Native American lifestyles were preferable to European-American lifestyles

> I think you are fantasizing about elves.

You think I am, I think I'm not, which one of us is closer to my brain? :)

> There is a lot positive to be said about native lifestyles, and negative to be said about industrialized lifestyles. However, I think most of them boil down to cultural issues and materialism, not the fact that Indians had somehow a superior material wellbeing.

There are very few cases of Native peoples voluntarily adopting Western lifestyles. They adopted useful things like guns and metal knives, but not culture.

That Ben Franklin quote makes it pretty clear that people preferred Native lifestyles despite the material lack. The fellow "reserving to himself nothing but a gun and match-Coat" shows that the "Wilderness" at that time actually met all his material needs, eh?

There's no doubt that the Indians did not have a superior material wellbeing. To me it's fascinating to speculate on what immaterial quality the Native life must have had that the European life didn't that outweighed the superior material wellbeing of the European.
Remember that their alternative is not “spin up VPSes” it is “staff an engineering rotation to maintain this service” which will cost them minimally a million annually.

But the default alternative is "continue making limited use of these integration tests and continue accepting the delays of running them slowly" which has a cost of $0 compared to status quo.

What proportion of series A companies that are trying to scale up and show results quickly so they are still around to raise a series B is going to spend $1M+ on a dedicated team to run a service for this? I'm guessing 0.000%. That means the comparison isn't a very compelling argument for the leaders in that organisation because really you're just arguing that your solution is better than something they obviously weren't going to do anyway.
This requires deterministic physics.
Words are not violence, but neither is censorship.

It is true you can censor someone's view as a byproduct of violence, but you can't stab someone in the face by deleting their FB account.
That is properly, genuinely impressive. I spent quite a lot of time finding the “simple” algorithms on my own, but this is a whole other world. Remarkable!
Why does Zoom need root access at all? That's the elephant in the room here. Zoom should be able to run in a sandbox.
> unorthodox and provocative ideas

Marketing drivel. You choose marketing drivel over science. That's how I read that sentence.
More prosaically: Having kids makes learning many things difficult from a time perspective — and they tend to show up exactly when people imagine they are suffering from age related declines.

On a positive note, they do give you other perspectives. So it’s not all bad.
>What makes you think, Germany doesn't have enough electricity?

@RemindMe_OfThis in January 2023
The EU had a third option: hold off decomissioning the "dirty" plants (nuclear and coal) until the renewables could actually handle the load. There are literally not enough lithium ion batteries in the world to solve renewable energy storage for the EU. The EU does not have very much domestic oil, but it does have coal, and there is enough fissile material in the EU to fuel nuclear reactors for long enough.

For most politicians, recommissioning those plants seems to be off the table. But why? Yes, it is expensive and not "green," but it will save the EU a lot of potential human suffering (and death) over the next year if they can do it. It only seems to be off the table because the politicians are unwilling to admit that they were wrong. The option you are not considering is to eat crow, turn the coal plants back on, and save lives.

Switching to renewables as fast as possible is literally not an option without the batteries, and there are not enough batteries to solve the problem. Switching to renewables too quickly is what causes the dependence on dictators, since the remaining plants are natural gas fired, which needs oil. Going "all in" on renewables in a more serious way will not improve the dependence on dictators for natural gas.

There is plenty of coal in the EU and plenty of fissile material. Turn the reliable energy sources back on.
> the results that came up mostly seemed to discuss the half-life in the body

Yah, there's a lot of data on "serum" or "elimination" half lives.

What you care about is "atmospheric", "aqueous abiotic", and "aqueous biotic" half lives.

So, e.g. for PFOA, atmospheric half lives are about 130 days... https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jp036343b

I can't come up with a link to share for PFOA in aqueous solutions, but it looks like 90-150 years.
Since several of you have asked how to watch the movie, we spontaneously decided to stream the first 21 hours of Logistics on Twitch. Since it will soon be night here in Sweden, we will not be able to keep track of the stream. We're keeping our fingers crossed that it works. Unfortunately we will not be able to stream the entire film this time, but hope to do so later.

The stream is live now at https://www.twitch.tv/logisticsartproject
No, castes are primarily a phenomenon from the Indian subcontinent and surrounding areas. It is becoming a larger problem in the world due to Indian emigration.
As far as a truck; most moving companies in my area also offer junk haulage, and the rates are pretty decent for something I do rarely (like less than once a year)
Sure, for an interactive endpoint, but for this a cold start of 200-500ms, or even a second or two for a Docker backed Lambda, sounds very workable.
I want to appologize for my rant about "quackish theories". While it is true that pursuit of truth and rejection of falsehood is a very grave responsibility, it is a personal responsibility. Ranting is, at best, an attempt to force someone else to change how they discharge one of their responsibilities. That's even worse. (And to be honest, rants usually involve a lot of "look how smart I am.")

Also, I had not considered that cleansing ceremonies have a very, very long history. There is a powerful psychological draw to them. Even "oxygen-free copper wires" could, in a way, be considered one form of that. :)

Edit: The question was an honest one. It certainly didn't deserve me going off, and it's unfortunate that some have also expressed disapproval of it.
Great idea, thanks!

Since several of you have asked how to watch the movie, we spontaneously decided to stream the first 21 hours of Logistics on Twitch. Since it will soon be night here in Sweden, we will not be able to keep track of the stream. We're keeping our fingers crossed that it works. Unfortunately we will not be able to stream the entire film this time, but hope to do so later.

The stream is live now at https://www.twitch.tv/logisticsartproject
Yes when it started out with a discussion of how he knew in 2014 an epidemic would emerge from the market I immediately became skeptical.

At this point, I'm deeply skeptical of any attempts to prove anything about COVID origins, short of maybe some leaked records or something.

Any epi analysis is based on known cases which is horribly naive when approaching this subject.

I realize this sounds closed minded or something but to me it's just a matter of time. Too much time passed, with too much interference from too many parties, to make much sense of it.
Why is the logo 69
Is there any link that has context? The link and the comments just point to a YouTube channel of someone practicing?
Upright city bike (rented). I love riding bikes and it's very easy for me, but still not as "open" as scooters e.g. getting on/off.
Correct except fares are not routinely checked on the TTC so once you've entered you shouldn't experience any issues.
Thanks! I didn't know about Landing Confirmed. It looks pretty cool too.
The thrust is constant. With both sides firing it has a 2:1 thrust to weight ratio.
I believe this is handled by the tty "canonical" (line input) mode. If you run "stty -a" you'll see a number of special characters defined, like werase = ^W

If you set this to something else (stty werase ^O) you'll see it takes effect immediately.
Agree: bike lanes are the answer.
By literally any rational calculation, starting in 1970s any strategy other then 100% nuclear is insane.

Nuclear wins in every first principle analysis, it requires the least amount of mining, the least amount of land, and produces the least amount of damage to the atmosphere and to local air quality.

That it did not happen is a failure in planning. Eisenhower over-promised when he said energy to cheap to meter, but the technology certainty has and had amazing potential.

In the 1960s they developed so many amazing reactors in such a short time, and then starting in the 1970 basically all progress stopped. The NASA Kilopower was the first new reactor in the US for like 40+ years.

Nuclear unfortunately was invented in WW2 and has been dominate by the military both in terms of access and in terms of usage. The only reason we have PWRs for civilian production is because PWR make sense for submarines and was commercialized based on that investment.
That's a great perspective to have on what it takes to make even the simplest things, like a pencil. Unfortunately, (but not unsurprising), Friedman makes the grand claim that capitalism crates harmony in the world at the end of the video, but besides that, it was a interesting and quick watch. Thanks for sharing it.
> Modern 100% RE scenarios often make wide use of power-to-X (PtX) technologies, in particular, power-to-heat [22] and power-to-hydrogen [23]–[24][25][26]. Where direct hydrogen cannot yet be used, such as in the chemical industry or for long-distance marine and aviation transportation, hydrogen can be further converted to synthetic electricity-based fuels (e-fuels) as chemically bound RE and such as e-methane [27], [28], Fischer-Tropsch fuels [29], [30], e-ammonia [31], [32], and e-methanol [33], [34].
Considering they still make up a significant portion of Ethereum’s daily activity, I would say pretty well! The NFTs are “here to stay” as long as Ethereum continues to fill blocks, which might be years or decades.
Not me. However, my wife tried 2 years ago but failed to sync the BIM layers with dlubal RFEM. However, it seems some progress was made. So I think it it might not be there yet.
Pans need to be actively seasoned, they won't develop it on their own.

You cover the pan with a fat, overheat it, and the fat polymerizes : https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-season-cast-iron-pans-ski...

Heck, I've done it on aluminum pans and eggs are fine, just like old-school breakfast spots and their griddles.
Two strains and still no wild reservoirs identified though. Everything about this runs into roadblocks.
Sorry I value my time too much: yes I walk long distances but miles through boring suburbs, industrial zones, office parks - nah.
Canadian startups are taking quantum computing mainstream
Adobe removing support for their products in Apple products would have just created a void that someone else would have filled.
Agree, it’s confusing, but Perl is just confusing in general.

As for a “spread” operator, JavaScript uses three periods to “spread” an array or object into a function’s parameters. I really like it.
Yeah, I think you might be right although AFAIK they still hold on to about 80% of their initial charge after that time (10y), which is quite a lot. 30 years was just a random thought that seemed like a sensible minimum to be somewhat low-maintenance solution.

I am just trying to think about different possibilities, they pros, cons and what might be net win in this case. Your remark on people not wanting to service yet another thing is spot on, grid always works for them.
a typical old 1 Gigawatt power station (ie. a big one) will produce about 2 gigawatts of waste heat. More modern tech could ~halve that. In an evaporative cooler, thats 800 liters of water evaporated every second.

The Amazon river has 209,000,000 liters per second, so it wouldn't be an issue there.

But in smaller streams, I could totally imagine there not being enough water even for evaporative cooling.
I've had the same experience. It's really a game-changer. Start the pizza in the cast iron pan on the stovetop first, then move it to the oven.
You can get such a good crust that's any shade of brown you want.
Yeah it's been a while since I consulted a leggit HOWTO... I think that HOWTOs get created by volunteers all over the web nowadays.
I'm glad I could be of help

There are some write ups out there:

https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/blog/covid-19-vaccine-long-ter...

> Once the body creates that spike protein using the mRNA instructions, the body quickly breaks down those mRNA strands and they dissipate within a few hours or days after injection. The mRNA never enters the nucleus of any cell (where the DNA is located), it doesn’t affect any genetic material in the body, and the mRNA strands are removed from the body through everyday cellular processes.

https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/where-mrna-vaccines-and-sp...

> The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work by introducing mRNA (messenger RNA) into your muscle cells. The cells make copies of the spike protein and the mRNA is quickly degraded (within a few days). The cell breaks the mRNA up into small harmless pieces. mRNA is very fragile; that's one reason why mRNA vaccines must be so carefully preserved at very low temperatures.

You can follow the links for fuller explanations.

If you want to see hard data, I'm also aware of two studies that investigate how long the spike-protein lingers after vaccination:

This one says five days: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/74/4/715/6279075

And this one says ten: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/17/5857/htm
Sure, but there are requirements in place to address some of those things. The commission can't be more than half+1 of the same political party, has to include a mix of lawyers and non-lawyers, etc. Compared to blatantly partisan judicial selections in other places, I think this system works pretty well.
You can dream every solution you'd care to dream, but right now gas-backed solar is how it's done in europe.
But trust me on the sunscreen!
You don't actually need a whole in the earth. With actual modern technology you only need to store it for 300 years and you can store it on a single football field in a desert or field without issue.

But we can't have nice apparently. We rather waste billions on some dumb geological storage rather then just use basic logic. Misinformation and politics are the only reason for these deep geological repositories.
No, primarily larks and amusement and interesting stuff. This was largely a labor of love, showing faith in internationalism and humanity
> https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1335725267340251137

Even people in the top 10% are making basically nothing. This was taken two years ago, but I would suspect the current situation is the same or worse. I'm not sure how to fix this, but I think something should be done. People in the top 1% or 0.1% should make more per month than someone in the top 10%, but the difference shouldn't be this stark.
I couldn't find any title that stood out as a likely candidate.

But I did come across this gem which I'm browsing now lol: "Prolog Versus You: An Introduction to Logic Programming"
Same, this just seems soooo very ugly imho
As it stands, more and more college level teaching is being done by non tenure track employees. Also, the non-tenure-track teaching jobs are a miserable grind. The thousand year old college system has evolved continuously from decade to decade, and is not the same thing that it was, even 50 years ago.
Hmm I don't have an android phone to test. I hope it's an isolated case..
The author is a professional writer, so depending on what specific writing tasks they're doing, they may be able to do portions of their job almost automatically, devoting far less than full attention to their work. (I know a few writers who do this.) Additionally the movie is silent, so I'd imagine that leaves the language parts of the brain fairly free when watching the movie.
Corporations becoming People would be the natural outcome of a libertarian society as well. That’s what happens when they have unchecked influence and power. It just took ours a little longer to get to that state.
No shortage of options, e.g. Dg, Mochi, Coconut, and Hebigo (based on Hissp[1]).

[1]: https://github.com/gilch/hissp
Wind absolutely does come in bursts. Peak production is as much as 4x as much as trough production. There's also hourly variation: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2015.02.25/main.png
I was also thinking of Architectural Programming Language, but APL..

Arches? Arch? (There was ArchJava, so there's a precedent).

ArchTalk?
Yes, but of the two, which one would you say is happier? Some people like doing it the hard way because they think a bit of suffering is good for you.
What strawman? This time I actually am confused.