skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the individuals know why the norm exist. It is probably an emergent phenomenon and not something that each individual thinks about or even decides for themselves.
I am one of these young people and I just never thought about it. On this particular matter I just do like everyone else because I have no reason to deviate from the norm.

Tbh, I do not see why nudism is attractive. Just does not appeal to me. However on a couple of occasion I did go skinny dipping, but more out of the necessity of not having planned for the swim, rather than out of some life philosophy that my penis must be in view of others.
> I guess with desertification it would be a stretch to find an ample source of cooling water

There is an ocean along the California coast. Desalination is something they need anyways, so combo nuclear+desalination plants sound like a plan.
The standard technique, at least when I was there, is to encrypt with a per-user public key whose decryption key is only present when your application has the user's login session. Basically, your application can't decrypt the data unless the user is making a request to your app. (There are a lot of potential attacks here, like modifying the code to exfiltrate data when the user is present. Hopefully those are easier to detect than just putting the data in a database unencrypted, though.)

I worked on Google Fiber. We sent all the system logs from our WiFi routers (etc.) back to us, mostly to get to the bottom of the most obscure WiFi bugs. This could have been a privacy disaster, as Linux logs all sorts of PII like the MAC addresses of devices that are connected to the router. My team modified the Linux kernel to not do this, and added filtering before upload to XX anything that looked like a MAC address. That way, when some PM came up with a horrifyingly bad idea like "hey, let's make a social network based on who connected to your WiFi", that data didn't exist. (This predated widespread implementation of MAC address randomization. We took care with your PII, but nobody else did, so phone vendors simply stopped giving access points PII. Probably the right solution, honestly.)

This wasn't just us that did things like this, it was institutionalized. There was a privacy team that had to review and sign off on this sort of thing. If you wanted to run something in production, or retain any sort of data, someone that actually cared about user privacy would be taking a look. HN kind of undervalues how much people actually cared; there is some trade off between usability and security, and nobody is going to use a product that can't be used, and no corporation can really stand up to the government the way they want. I thought it was a decent balance, though.

Obviously, some things can't be redacted like we did, and you should be careful about who you share those things with. Location history comes to mind as the most obviously abused feature. I thought it was super cool to have "you visited this cafe 2 years ago" on Google Maps, but it comes at the cost of fishy warrants for "anyone within 1 mile of this minor property crime". I'd rather not be on those lists, so I don't use it. (But be careful, your cell phone provider surely has this information, even if the Vice article is about Google. They just don't use it for anything useful; it's ONLY a dragnet.)
So electric vehicles might end up being part of the solution here. The new ones are starting to come with v2g.
This doesn't really address my comment but rather shifts the topic from power disruptions to quality of energy sources.
CA has been blue since 92 [1].

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/8/13563106/e...
> It was sort of picked by many nations as a next set, put it had a number of drawbacks.

It made a lot of sense. Sodium is an amazing coolant. It was also a relatively easy to implement design for a breeder reactor, with all the related advantages (much better way of using uranium fuel with no enrichment step, burning of plutonium and high-activity "waste", etc).

> I would like to know how cooling intensive it was compare to PWR. And what operating temperature.

Cooling should be overall similar to a PWR operating at the same power. The temperature in the core is higher than in PWRs (around 500 to 600°C instead of 300°C), but they have 3 cooling loops instead of 2. I can't remember the temperature in the most external loops off the top of my head but I don't expect them to be very different in both designs. They use similar steam turbines, so they should have similar operating regimes, but I could be wrong.

> Also, some of the Sodium reactor technology and materials is now used by companies like Moltex Energy.

Yes, the materials are quite different from PWRs because of the different neutron fluxes and spectra, but some of this knowledge can be applied to other fast reactor designs like the fast MSRs. Some of the corrosion mechanisms (which are a large hurdle to clear for MSRs still) also have some similarities.

> Molten Salt reactors are the likely future in my opinion, but not sure yet what form.

That is where the wind is blowing. It's difficult to say more at the moment, because there are very different designs (fast or thermal, uranium, thorium, or MOX, large or small and modular, etc), but there is a lot of activity around MSRs.
My points is that the immediate future (3 months) has already been decided in terms of gas prices and availability. Actions now could not meaningful affect that
> The funny thing is that they were all on camera. You can see the pause,you see the slight head turn and the eyes gaze away from the camera, you hear the click clack of typing and then the sudden recitation of a perfectly worded dictionary answer.

What was your reaction? Would you prefer they be more subtle of the poorly kept secret that most of this job is simply trying to figure out why the code isn't running and looking for specific error codes from other people's projects?

I'm being sincere, because I'm studying AI and ML and I kind of doubt most CS majors could describe 85% of the concepts we cover at the undergrad level let alone describe the use of the sigmoid function and soft max when building a gradient descent algorithm in a NN if put on the spot; I know this because when I went searching for this they often say that even their professor sucked at describing it so much that they had just glossed over it entirely and admitted they would look it up when working with TF in the future.
Don't the modern Small Modular Reactors (SMR's) greatly reduce both the cost and time (more importantly the time) for a nuclear reactor to get up and running? Or have I been sold on a lie?
This was pre-GMail, which was the first big Google service storing personal user data.
Climate change and the 8 million people who die per year from fossil and renewable biofuel combustion products (WHO numbers) are far more concerning. Nuclear solves wayyy more problems than it causes.

Oh and nuclear fission used in breeder reactors is just as renewable as the fusion fuel in the sun that powers wind/solar/hydro/bio. We can make 100% of the world's primary energy for 4 billion years with nuclear before running out of fuel.
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> people having to ride 1 to 3 stops and having to pay 90 to 120 euros per month.

Stops aren't really a good measure of distances. Three stops by a regular all-shacks city bus? Three stops by rapid transit-type rail? Three stops on a semi-fast regional train? Three stops by long distance-express train? Those different modes of transport all result in massively differing distances as measured in kilometres (and also time).
The former, absolutely. The compiler can do whatever the heck it wants as long as the result is the same.
I don't think we'd be able to mine enough minerals to literally destroy the moon... or am I misunderstanding?
> California is a great example of the road to hell is paved with good intentions. At some point, we are going to realize "green" non nuclear energy doesn't work. We need nuclear.

Isn't Californias times of peak electricity almost always in the daytime and in summer? And largely due to the need for air conditioning in many places during those times?

Why wouldn't widespread rooftop solar be able to deal with that?
It reminds me quite a lot of New Jersey. You wouldn't know it now, but New Jersey used to be an industrial powerhouse. Now it's just known for it's corruption, high taxes, bureaucracy, decaying infrastructure and dying cities.

I have no idea idea if California's peak is already in the past, but the trend isn't looking great.

When people start taking for granted, that's when they kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
I was surprised to see the article specifically call out deficiencies at night as a major concern!

Maybe they do maintenance at night and thats why they don't have excess capacity as one would normally expect?
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I highly recommend the book! It's literally a dictionary and some words can really resonate with you
My recollection is that Speedos weren't exactly rare but they tended to be more associated with sports than something you wore to hang out at the beach.
Why do you care about other people wasting time?
Wait what? In a boat? https://randomstreetview.com/#11rvrf_-c284x_f_a_-r
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Do we know for absolute certain that we can obtain all the raw materials and manufacture solar/renewables completely within the U.S., or will we have to rely on international supply chains from countries that we might be in conflict with?

"The best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago, the second best time is now."
It gets more tricky because, sometimes, the value of art comes precisely for negating what is commonly perceived as good quality for the majority of human individuals. And, after seeing that art, even the individual that used to give a lot of value for certain dimension of quality, realizes the value in a piece of art negating it.
I assume you don't live in / know about the situation in France. Here most of the nuclear fission power plants are down because during the heat wave the rivers have dried up and don't provide enough coolant anymore. Yes, they are all under maintenance / being repaired as well, but that is because they aren't operational anyway so why not use the time to do what has been postponed for too long. No one in their sane minds would take down half their power plants for maintenance simultaneously. Also, nuclear power plants do not just stop producing energy when they are down, they even consume some.

In other words, nuclear fission power plants are not the solution, they even make the situation during a heat wave worse. I wish there was a silver bullet, but I fear this is not it.
It's a-theist, not a-positive. It can be confusing.

One positive might be protection against meme religions? Hopefully?
I think it goes beyond good intentions into management based on distorted reality thinking followed by entirely predictable failures followed by many people explaining how the dumpster fire created is actually nice and not a problem at all. (You can see this last part in other comments here)
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While France is generally a lot more self-sufficient (and exports energy to its neighbours), that's not happening currently, as almost 59% of its reactors are offline for maintenance.
> The ability to write software once for the web and have it work on web browsers on any platform was viewed as an existential threat.

Yes, exactly. This is what I meant with 'before the Web kicks our ass'.
> EV charging can be easily time-shifted

If, and only if, you live in a place that provides you with the ability to overnight charge. So that probably excludes a vast majority of Californians who live in apartments or condos.

Charging cables are also pretty popular with thieves, since they contain a lot of copper and provide no inherent theft prevention, another minus for apartment/condo dwellers.
This is completely incorrect. The CA senate has been democratic since 1970. Besides 95-96 the CA assembly has been democratic since 1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Legislature#:....

Please don't post straight up lies to push your political agenda.
This is exactly what people like Jeff Koons do.
There is a difference between a storm physically disrupting the grid in the mid west (breaking lines), and a predictable heatwave exceeding the capacity of the grid.
Look, we can talk about that in a millennium.
I also have delivery service for shopped items and the solution is simple enough: return them at next delivery. If the service is smart, they can give you a kickback like a discount or free delivery next time.
I don't think construction workers today would put up with someone in their ranks (construction crew on some big building) routinely dying and not strike for better conditions.
Could you elaborate on the differences? Nebraska might only have 2 million people to power but that also means they only have 2 million people's worth of income taxes to manage the infrastructure. Does power infrastructure and generation become exponentially harder to scale or is it linear? (I'm genuinely curious)
Texas and California are both extremely powerful in national politics. Neither has an incentive to give that influence up just to play at being a separatist.
I think the poster is eluding to a nation's claim or stake for the land.
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> Seems like the juicero for screwdrivers... over-engineered tool that without the "LTT" branding could probably sink in the stores.

I haven't used one so I don't know how durable they are, but I got the opposite impression. The juicero served no purpose. If you don't need a multi-purpose screwdriver that's one thing, but it does have plenty of use-cases and there are a lot of competitors which they showed so they are in demand to some extent. I'd say their attempt is more akin to Snap-on with how much energy they seemed to focus on ergonomics and UX, especially the ratcheting mechanism.
Latency-wise maybe, but throughput can be more important for a lot of applications or bigger databases.

I say "maybe" because even there, SQLite is much more limited in terms of query-planning (very simple statistics) and the use of multiple indexes.

That's assuming we're talking about reads, PostgreSQL will win for write-heavy workloads.
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Yeah perhaps not, that was always the question. Who has standing to sure the student loan reductions. If the Anwser is nobody that truly creates an interesting problem
It’s “multidisciplinary”, but funded programs are almost always large multi-institutional teams
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/295323...
You have cost effective storage? Why are you being stingy with it - share already!
Yes, and said "artists" seem to be specialized in doodling neon purple monkeys.
100% solar/wind/storage grid is entirely realizable in California using existing technology. It will require major infrastructure and manufacturing investment, unless people think relying on China-based supply chains is still a good idea for something as fundamental as the energy supply.

https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/los-angeles-100-percent-renewa...

Note the reason nuclear isn't being considered is mostly that you'll get more GWH per billion spent on solar/wind/storage than you will per billion spent on any new nuclear facility (which would take at least ten years to build anyway, by most estimates).
Functionality-wise, SQLite's dialect is really lacking...
Good intentions behind making life “more comfortable” achieving a result of inequality, inane busy work, and climate inversion is everyone’s fault.

Laws and borders are ephemera; California did not create this contemporary reality; the species did.

It’s easier to deflect than accept one’s role. I expect better of so-called adults; why buy the arguments of people contributing to the problem deriding others as the source?

Do less. Stop chasing incentives and buying into the nation state propaganda yourself then. Otherwise shut up with externalizing the blame; you’re part of the problem.
And since you're headed to the grave regardless of what you do, you might as well laugh. :)

"Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true."
> richer people pay the vast amount of Germany’s federal budget via ridiculously high income tax.

It's true that the top 10% are responsible for 50% of the income tax, but income tax itself only brings. ~30% of the budget. So at the end, those rich people's income is responsible for only 15% of the budget.
I was mostly referring to business decisions. For that type of decisions there are always political factors at play (building empires, career growth, dislike for another person/team) that do not necessarily align with business success. Lehman Brothers is one of those examples.
I think you're waxing philosophical about a bunch of stuff that's unrelated to what's going on here.
Speedos are associated with older generations and/or homosexual themes. That is why they are not popular among young males. Nothing to do with shyness.
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"after @ there are no dashes of any kind"
regular users of GFS (developers) couldn't trivially access that data, but certainly up to a point it was possible for expert users to troll that data (if you were caught, you'd be fired). Eventually better protections were applied.

I worked with a guy who had built part of search and later made the gmail "lawyer search" feature (legal discovery). He said that any interest in looking at people's emails went away after having to spend hours going over various emails involved in court cases (typically done in a room with several lawyers) to make sure the ranking algorithms could surface emails demonstrating illegal behavior
Rezoning entire cities also has environmental benefits.
Well except for the 'masks are useless', 'WMDs in Iraq', 'Fatty foods are more harmful than sugar', etc... which had no major outlets dissenting.
Reminds me of Twitter's world leaders policy they trotted out around 2017 to keep Trump on the platform. If I remember correctly Trump was even immune to DMCA 512 takedown notices, which is an absurd level of risk to take just to say you have @POTUS.
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> almost nobody you ever know would ever see pics

I have to imagine that we are not far from a popular public facial search engine. Send a picture from FB or LI and it will show you these pictures.

We have the technology, and it's a tool available to governments and large businesses already. It's not a leap to assume this will be a normal product that people use in the next 5 years.
I'm not as excited by the demo as you are. It seems that they just detect foreground, key it and put an arbitrary picture (in this case from stable diff) on a skybox behind.

It seems closer to what Mac OS X Leopard's Photo Booth was able to do 15 years ago[1], than to a "Stable Diffusion for Video".

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20071018033504/https://www.apple...
Green energy is working fine. The grid operator declares their little emergency, people conserve power and optional loads are disconnected, and everyone is none the wiser. It's really the perfect triumph of regulated market forces.

As for nuclear, it is disappointing that people can't see through PG&E's little tin cup scam. If we give them at least $1.4 billion, we will get at most 10 more years of Diablo. If we spend the same amount on wind, we'll get the same energy in the 10 years, and then we'll get 30 more years. It's a no-brainer and they should just kick PG&E in the teeth instead.
If the FBI is accusing others of doing it, they're probably doing the same, or a more sophisticated variant of the same.
I tend to use something like this rule, too. Except that I don't like having an IP in the domain part (it's valid, but screams spam), and a FQDN instead of a (possibly local/internal) hostname. So /.+@.+\..+/ it is for me (plus checking it's not an IP). Unless of course the application interacts with intranet hostnames, but imho those should be avoided these days anyway.

Imho it's more important to allow a user to fix a mistake: "We sent you a confirmation e-mail to $email_address. Spotted a mistake? Click here to change your email address."
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That's quite a parlay of arbitrary requirements.
One way to measure it, might be to ask how badly off the rails would the project go (as measured by an external observer) if this person wasn't there. In the case of a Director and their film, it would probably not work out well, if at all. In the case of this guy and midjourney - the software could produce beautiful artworks all day long, purely by feeding in random numbers / prompts, and an external observer would likely be equally impressed.
I love this, and I have been enjoying DALL-E quite a bit, but does anyone else feel like AI art has a distinct look to it? I can't really put my finger on it, but it invokes an almost unsettling feeling that I don't get from traditional artwork.
Capacity has been flat for the last decade and California has had a reputation for an unreliable power grid as long as I've followed US news. You're dreaming, mate.
I'd go one further.

If you struggle with pointers and direct memory manipulation in C, you didn't understand Java nearly as well as you thought you did.

There's a distinction between reference and pointer in C++, but in Java they're basically the same thing with roughly the same semantics, up to and including the ability to be null.
A cursory Google search suggests all of their manufacturing is done in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Taiwan -- is that right?
Curious, what other notable features or use cases are people aware of that are already existing in other systems, but not present in Stable Diffusion?

Anyone aware of any other open source projects that have a known list of requested features and way for community to express support for them, for example bounties?
I don't know where that guy lived in Louisiana, but I currently live there and insulation is a thing. Weather-proofing is a thing. However, there is very little you can do that will last long against 6 foot water and sustained 100mph winds.
I play quite a bit, although I'm much more casual and generally just focus on the US. I find myself identifying areas based on foliage pretty frequently. They can be super localized and after you play a few hundred or thousand maps, you just start naturally associating different areas with different plants. I'm nowhere near good enough to guess in 3 seconds based off anything, but after a few months I find I can generally spawn, not move the camera, and correctly guess I'm in 1 of like 4 states. Depending on what's visible, I can often identify the correct state immediately, although pinpointing takes a lot more time. It's just like any game: repetition and practice makes perfect.
> Indiscriminate Russian barrages have destroyed not only Mariupol, Severodonetsk and many smaller towns in Ukraine, but also Grozny in Chechnya and Aleppo in Syria.

> The city doesn’t exist any more,” said Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, in April.
Came here to say that I experience similar, and my career is centred around audio. When people talk about "brighter" and "darker" sounds, that's very much a tangible concept to me and not some abstract thing. Different sounds have different colours, and my DAW templates are always based around this. Any gear that uses LEDs that can't be reassigned is a nightmare for me as it's visually overwhelming.

Funnily enough, I do a fair bit of scoring picture and games, and I find that the scene informs what kind of music I'll make. It's not painting-by-numbers though, but it's like sharing synaesthesia in a tangible form.