skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great that the alternative is renewables then. Arguing against fossil fuels is a strawman.

You also have to consider what you need to get that 1kg of U-235 and building your huge power plant. This is called doing a life-cycle analysis. In that it has been shown the wind power is by far the cheapest in terms of material use, and solar and nuclear is about equal.

> The TMR (total material requirement) of nuclear power generation is significantly lower than that of thermal power generation and is similar to that of renewables. On the basis of the low greenhouse gas emissions associated with nuclear power generation, like renewables, it can be considered favorable not only from the global warming perspective but also from a resource use perspective.

"Life cycle resource use of nuclear power generation considering total material requirement"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262...
Yeah it’s becoming more and more common that universities allow previous experience to count, probably after raising the number of student intakes allowed in the UK. Now if you can pay and if you will probably pass you’re allowed in, from what I gather.
Most people do not run their data centers like Google. The data centers used the clos network to provide massive bandwidth between very many very similar machines, and so spreading storage across all of them made a lot of sense. Most algorithms were very parallel/distributed in nature and so sharding data non-locally made a lot of sense v.s. running databases or caches on single machines which favors fast localized storage (15K RPM RAIDs and then SSD and NVME, sometimes in SAN chasses to aggregate more IOPS/bandwidth over fast dedicated storage networks). As others pointed out, it couldn't use the traditional file system interface and so doesn't work with commodity software either. Rewriting all the open source software to use an open version of colossus would be a huge task, and without tooling the usefulness of such a thing is very small.

Most companies don't need to process hundreds of terabytes per second to and from disk and so they can centralize storage behind a few network interfaces. Centralized storage is conceptually simpler and more straightforward to manage.

In short, very few folks have the architecture to run something like Colossus, or the need for it, so it doesn't attract open-source replication. Gluster, Ceph, etc. are the closest.
Is meetup help on support.google.com? I’m confused.
Is there an open source selfhosted alternative to meetup.com?
Where can I read anything about this? I'm clicking around your site but my only options to find out anything seem to be downloading and installing it?

I watched your 30-second video, I still don't know if this is a Twitter, a Nextdoor, or a WhatsApp. Either way I don't understand why I would use it given those products exist. What does it do?
> this entire article ignores the fact that multi user machines still exist

In the same way the Pyramids still exist.
"Women spend as much time, if not more" - I think the ratio of men:women is about 2:1 on most apps, but I would imagine it takes men more than 2x the time to wade through profiles and send a message, than to read that message and move on (even if the message is low-effort). So I'm not sure I can believe that women spend as much time, and certainly the effort spent on the app per date will be much higher for men, not least because of the gender ratio.
Some searches with Google have become absolutely unusable, a flood of paywalled quora and random blogs that blabber without answers just to try and sell you a solution to a problem you don't actually have.

Kagi allows you to remove all that trash and actually find what you need.
We're not getting to a planet 100 light years away with chemical rockets so presumably the future inhabitants will be able to use high efficiency rockets to leave it.
> "concerts?" I couldn't talk to anyone at a concert as the music is too loud". "hacking camps", never seen more than 3% woman at any tech event. library? "shhh!, you're not supposed to talk at a library

Re: concerts and libraries, you meet people outside of them (for concerts, in line for them, or in the pit waiting for the show to start), not at them per se.

I don't know about "hacking camps" (hackathons? code boot camps?) — never been to one — but a close cousin of these, [industry niche] startup events, tend to attract just as many business cofounders as technical cofounders; and the business cofounders tend to be an even gender split. (They also attract seed-stage VC scouts and marketing people, and these jobs actually tend to lean female.)

> As I said, I do, but none of the things I like involve enough people of the opposite sex.

So... take up some new hobbies?

And when I say that, I don't mean to work "bottom up" starting from what you might like; but rather, "top down", starting from what hobbies your ideal partner might have, and then filtering those for which ones you feel at least amicably neutral about. E.g. if you feel like you'd enjoy being with someone who's also 50yo and "creative", and you're not against e.g. painting, or pottery, or creative writing; then attend a continuing-education course on one of those. Because that's where you'll find other 50yos trying to learn those things.
Chinese megawatt-level space nuclear reactor passes review
What could go wrong. . .
I don’t see how adding lowercase to ASCII could have resulted in massive backwards compatibility issues considering that uppercase-only ASCII existed for only a few weeks in 1963. Surely there was not widespread adoption of ASCII in the spring of 1963.
I love this browser but I have problem with missing autocomplete on text inputs and with latest update I can’t play any video on youtube. Also would be possible to not animate address bar when entering url?
Nobody is the manager of the Internet, that's the whole fucking point of the Internet.

Your right to censor and regulate traffic ends exactly where your machines do not reach. Cloudflare own the machines in question, so they decide what stays on and what doesn't. They are the managers of the part of the Internet where their machines reach (Duh), but none else.

It's funny that I have to explain this because it's usually the other way around, some tech giant will usually ban someone for something incredibly arbitrary and nakedly unfair, and the folks crying about Cloudflare's decisions here are usually the first to start cheering and explaining to the rest of us how they're a private company and have the right to do anything they want. Well, Cloudflare is a private company too, folks, and they decided that free speech is awesome and worth it, and you gotta respect their decisions and stop raging impotently about things you can't control.
I guess I’m just one of those people that appreciate the no nonsense rapid fire format. I don’t have to watch his videos at 1.5x :^)
Oh and I really think the government should just ride roughshod over local authorities and allow wind turbines, solar etc to just get built with minimum fuss. Hell I'd even say the government should own nuclear power stations and just have someone run them.
Apparently the wealthy with vacation homes on Cape Cod didn't get your memo. Our local businesses don't have enough workers due to unattainable housing. Enjoy your long lines, reduced hours and hollow communities! At least there will be lots of pickleball courts!
> including subscriber's list with full name and email

That is the issue here. Someone taking over and creating events that others get notified about, okay. But the first paying person coming along gets all that personal data? That is not acceptable in any way and probably against GDPR and whatever that California thing is called.
When my meetup was active, we would frequently have "promoters" show. Often times these were for corporate-y events. Needless to say their attempts to indice a bunch of drunk socializing nerds to attend some corpo BS went poorly.

I can't imagine those slimey promoters being allowed to spam that meetup group now.
One of my students got a job offer in Portugal before the pandemic. He personally came to thank me for being his teacher; he is a good, dedicated student.

Pandemic came, he stayed in Brazil doing remote work. Found him a few days ago. He told me he gave up going to Portugal and decided to stay in Brazil for now mostly because cost of living there. His initial salary would be 1.6K euros.
Lots of folks here saying they won’t buy items without ykk zips but a lot of brands will use custom pullers by ykk. So there’s no visible ykk branding at all and you might be missing out.

Ykk’s excella range is very nice, particularly for higher end shoes and leather goods.
The interview was for a startup. I ended up rejecting the offer due to my fear of stability at startups, but it was one of the, if not, best interview i've ever had. The screening stage was great, talked with the recruiter about the job, work, etc. The Online Assessment was great too, instead of solving Leetcode, it was me solving FE problems. During the onsite interview, instead of them asking me leetcode questions, it was me explaining a personal project I've done and I was excited and loved this since I get to show off something I was passionate about. One the greatest interviews, and I wish them best in the future.
I'll make an exception because you've asked a good question that I think will help illuminate our different viewpoints.

> If Talibans somehow became a majority in the US, would you still consider it "their right" to vote away the democracy and establish Sharia Law?

Yes. The current form of government in the United States is a representative republic that has a constitution that defines processes for dramatic change including a constitutional convention that allows for open-ended changes to the constitution itself.

I don't have a divine right to the land, water, or air here.
Heavily taxing houses that stay empty and limiting short duration rental could be quite effective.

The issue is somewhat the same in Paris. It’s very hard to afford living there because non local use properties as an investment and prefer them staying empty than risking them degraded and people who want to rent make more money on Airbnb.

It’s fine if you want the city to become Disneyland but very depressing otherwise.
California lawmakers vote to keep open last operating nuclear power plant
> settler-colonialist state based on religion

Are you referring to Jewish colonialists coming to British ruled Palestine in the early 20th century, Muslim colonialists conquering Byzantine ruled Palestina in the early 7th century, Roman colonialists that exiled Jews and renamed the area Palestina in the early 2nd century after previous conquest, Greeks, Persians, Babylonians, Assyrians or Egyptians?

Or maybe how according to the bible the Israelites conquered the area from the native Canaanites? (Which at least according to Wikipedia is a myth and they actually are those Canaanites)

> With Israeli settlements we are way pass the point of two state solution.

Sadly, English Wikipedia has very little information on the peace agreement that was almost signed at the time of the Annapolis Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis_Conference compared to the Hebrew entry on the peace talks themselves https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA...
Those talks outline the (pretty obvious) path to pece via territory exchange and the fact they were very close to being signed show to me that maybe common ground can be found again.

My personal hope is that the more unreasonable settlements will just be exchanged away and thus won't pose a serious barrier to peace. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic.

To inject some pessimism, I also don't see how a peace agreement can be signed with Hammas and the PIJ in control as in my mind a peace agreement will probably cause them to implode.
Do you have any idea how much material you'd need to remove from the Moon to change its mass enough to get a measurable effect on tides?
That's somewhat misleading. Here's the original post: https://web.archive.org/web/20091121080804/http://blog.okcup...

It says that women rate most men as less attractive than average, yes. But then women are quite willing to message men who are rated as less attractive than average.

Meanwhile, the men rank attractiveness on a shockingly mathematical-looking curve. However, at the same time, men overwhelmingly refuse to message any but the most attractive of women.

Thus, if you're an average-looking man, your odds of getting messages are actually greater than they are for an average-looking woman.
I'll expand this to say: talk to people.

It's just so easy to understand when you look at it logically. Talking to people (skillfully, which requires practice) will eventually lead to befriending some percent of those you talk to. Befriending people will lead to more opportunities to befriend others from a place of more trust. It's a simple networking process.

Eventually, some percent of the people you're meeting and befriending will be love interests. There will be mutual attraction, especially when you don't come across as desperate. Eventually some small percent of these mutual attractions will also be compatible partners under the right circumstances.

It's just a numbers game!

The problem is people design their conversion funnels all wrong. At the top of the funnel is conversations, then acquaintances, friends, mutual interests, compatible interests, partners.

At every stage there is a network/feedback effect leading to more input at the top of the funnel.

Go talk to people!
The US is pretty bad from this point of view from what I recall, compared to other places where it's generally legal to build a broader variety of housing in cities. But perhaps it just got bad here early compared to other places.

Portugal's demographics, like much of western Europe, didn't look like they were going to change dramatically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Portugal - so getting set up to build a bunch probably wasn't a priority.

It looks like immigration picked up a lot, and also there has been an influx of wealthier immigrants.

It will be interesting to see how they handle it. Having people with money move to your country ought to be a positive thing, but you need to build housing for them so they're not competing with locals - and winning.
This was an environnemental directive, for not releasing water too hot into the rivers. This measure has been temporarily suspended by the government.
The major factor is for delayed maintenance during COVID, and corrosion problems appearing lately.

https://www.dw.com/en/french-nuclear-plants-break-a-sweat-ov...
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No.
Please don't do that.
It's called Pick-Up Artistry, and it is toxic.

You will benefit more if you try to be a considerate human being, and not treat women like prizes, or prey to be captured. This way, you actually have a chance to healthy relationships.
It's because it's easy to see how it takes an existing artwork and modifies it.

For example when asked to paint Noah it used a stereotypical image of last century Jews. How would it know that Noah is linked with Jews, if not by finding another painting labeled Noah and working off of that?
If that got you, you might like their April Fools video that is nothing but ads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slwai2Jhy_A
Fair enough. I am an IC, but also an early-ish employee. And the startup I currently work at might be anomalous in how much they share about the company. With that said, if you are joining a startup to get founder level experiences, you almost certainly have some agency in this matter (that is kinda the point of working at a startup after all, you get more input and higher level input than at BigCo.) Go out and talk to folks about what they are working on. Ask the founders to share details about the company, including board slides, financial details, and product initiatives. If they don't oblige, it probably makes sense to work somewhere else.
This is not just Portugal. I see similar sentiment in Canada where young professionals in Vancouver or Toronto complain they can't buy their first home and Vancouver has been "sold out" to foreigners. Similar sentiment in Australian major cities as well.
> Dating apps strike me as a very low-quality (low fidelity?) way to match couples.

It's true, but a lot of people don't have the opportunity or patience for those other approaches. If they're not just homebody introverts in the first place, they may already have a pretty saturated schedule/network without many suitable people around to pair off with. This happens to a lot of people as college recedes and life establishes a professional, mid-life rhythm.

Dating apps are garbage, but alternatives aren't always practical.
Can you elaborate? It's not immediately clear to me what you meant. Can not both simple and complex decisions be the artifact of a deterministic process?
The current image generators certainly know about 3D internally. It's not put there explicitly but the wealth of knowledge they possess and the perfect lighting and shadowing and material reflections compared to the tiny amount of weights strongly suggest they have proper representations (just like humans by the way).

Even a small model in early training learns to do proper shadowing and lighting and mostly makes mistakes in the 3D high-level object space, like wrong number of wheels or legs or fingers and stuff like that.
And now you know why people check that the product uses YKK zippers.
We aren't quite ready for international devs right now unfortunately.
I'm really not one to be offended by stuff like that, I couldn't care less, but the "he/she" "man/woman" trend is annoying me so much for some reason, it's like there aren't already words we can use as a replacement.. Just use "they"! Or "person"! Or really whatever else, it just becomes annoying to me mostly because the grammar around these obviously becomes complicated and you have to use "/" in other places as well, and sometimes it's confusing like here, and argh.... We have enough words to designate "human of nondescript gender"! Hell, I wouldn't even have noticed if it was just "salesman", though I know a lot of people seem to care nowadays.

Anyway, rant over. And of course, you don't _have_ to listen to me, or care about my rants, just like I don't have to listen to you complaining that I'm "offended".
Agreed. Visual Studio is awful.

I actually just updated a bunch of old Java code in Eclipse. It is simply faster than VSCode at everything -- syntax highlighting (noticeable delay in VSCode on a 1000+ line Java class), switching between files, loading files, etc. I only updated and used Eclipse because VSCode was being noticeably slow.

That was in a bare J2EE Eclipse instance, and didn't have any of dozens of plugins running that I typically would have back in my enterprise-y Java dev days. Visual Studio seems to have gone the "kitchen sink" route. JetBrains' IDEs typically wind up crammed with plugins from what I've seen. I wonder how much that screws with people's perceptions.
Another book along those lines I enjoyed reading was "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Indeed. Price caps turn an expensive market into a lottery. Hardly an improvement, in my view.
Been a paid Kagi user for 3 months and it's been a wonderful replacement.

If I could ask for one thing, though I don't think it is up to Kagi. I use my Android phone with the Microsoft Launcher and Edge and I for the life of me cannot figure out how to make it Kagi the default search engine.

Besides that, it has been a great service and well worth it! I wish the Kagi team well and I look forward to buying a shirt or hoodie in the future! :)
Fintech startup Alloy leans on fraud prevention to land new $1.55B valuation
It's not just the ratchet that is bulky. It's the shaft that is bulky as well, which is necessary to accommodate the bit at the end. I inherited a screwdriver with this type of shaft, and it just doesn't work for a lot of screws due to clearance issues. As a result, I have a set of normal screwdrivers, which makes the one with changeable bits totally redundant for all but the most esoteric bits.
The warnings are clear. But I'm sure some impact analysis was done to see how higher prices for natural gas would affect various industries.

It doesn't make it a wise choice to have no backup for Russian gas, but I'm sure the industry lobby to keep the cheap gas was very strong.
Yes, especially because we already have four different price zones. Power is still relatively cheap in northern Sweden and out of control in the southern part. The reason for the zones are said to be because of limited transfer capability from the big hydro power plants from north to south, adding a fifth zone for export would seem to be the reasonable solution.
I believe most EU countries do this in some form, but Austria by far has the largest and most successful public housing scheme. It is very effective at controlling prices.
Trust-minimized commitment pools with zkSNARKs
In April 2020, I emailed them with a question about the privacy policy. Never got a response, though reading it back I could have phrased it better I guess. Anyway, somehow this doesn't surprise me. They just don't care to operate within privacy ethics/laws.

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[hello, your privacy policy says:]

> In order to provide you with more tailored recommendations, we may obtain information about you from publicly and commercially available sources and other third parties as permitted by law. For more information about the data that we obtain from these providers, please contact us at privacy@meetup.com.

I have two questions about this:

1. Could you send me the information referred to?

2. How is it legal to obtain that data without informing users what kind
of data is obtained? Article 14 of the GDPR specifically requires the
controller (Meetup) to provide the data subject (users) with "(d) the
categories of personal data concerned".

[thank you in advance, kind regards, etc]

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> equivalent to a small nuke

Not necessarily a small one.
Although I'm sure you're a legitimate guy, I would be weary of applying for a job and submitting my personal information through someone's personal website found on the internet
Split rings (key rings) work well in my experience.
Not gonna lie, im considering moving from BC to a farm in NS. With the mortgage i have on a 2 bdr apartment in the lower mainland i can buy up to 3 farms in NS, which is comically sad.
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I've never been an admin of any meetup group, but I have been an attendee of many. As an attendee, I'm almost never caring who the group owner is, and it certainly doesn't play a role in whether I decide to join the group or not.

As you suggest, I think the community belongs to the community.
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