skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How detailed are the maps?

Pretty detailed. I used to own one of the high-end Roombas that would show you a map of your house, and the wifi signal strength in all the nooks and crannies (really quite useful when you move to a new home).

It doesn't show what kind of chair you have or what you have on the walls, or anything like that. But it's not hard at all to determine the size of the rooms, the layout, the placement of key pieces of furniture, and similar things. From the way a home is arranged and the amount of furniture, I can easily think of ways that the map could be used to infer information about a home. (Larger couch and entertainment center may indicate someone more interested in consuming media. Individual chairs around a smaller coffee table — perhaps they like entertaining.)

The maps are far from accurate, since there are a number of problems with a Roomba building a full map: Closed doors; areas cordoned off by lighthouses; unless you put blue painter's tape over the sensors, Roomba thinks rugs with black in them are cliffs.

But the maps don't have to be prefect to be very revealing. Especially since the higher-level Roombas have cameras on them. I don't know how detailed the images they capture are, but even if they are only vague monochrome blurs, that's enough to determine patterns of activity in the house. (Family regularly comes home at 5pm? Start advertising dinner food on partner web sites and apps.)
It would be great if the US navy had floating nuclear power plants that they were willing to sail into Helsinki, Bremerhaven, or Portsmouth to provide additional power to our allies during this winter.
A vast subset of our economy depends on parasitically feeding off of people commuting to work.

If you think they and the government institutions and their politicians who rely on their tax revenues are going to politely shut up, you're mistaken.
> Remember folks -- according to nuclear defenders, nothing can ever happen for the first time.

That is sophism and what-aboutism and irrelevant.

> There is no valid technical reason you can point to that would prevent a 100% renewable grid from operating.

There is and it is named Energy Storage.
What kind of hypothesis and experiment would you set up to explore that?
https://asahilinux.org/
If you don't send the entire buffer then a monitor should have at least 6220800 bytes of RAM dedicated to the frame buffer (1920x1080 resolution), do auto refresh (standard 60Hz) on the panel, and accept commands to overwrite said memory with new data, partially or completely.

That solution is far from what we have now, and much more like a serial LCD controller.
CPU temps will spike, computer turns into revving jet engine. Opening a program is all it takes. Shouldn't have to have the biggest noctua cooler on the market to keep a CPU below 90C. They're meant to be quiet.
> This would again be a significant advantage for students from wealthy families who could opt out of the service by paying up...

Or when those wealthy families take a chance to build a business that goes wrong, they just file for debt forgiveness.

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 of the United States Constitution authorizes Congress to enact “Uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.” It provides that Congress shall enact bankruptcy laws to allow Americans to exercise their bankruptcy rights. So filing for bankruptcy relief is your constitutional right, specifically guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

Students should just file for debt forgiveness too.
Especially if there is no cure for inherited damage already done.

A solution would include medical therapies in addition to avoidance.
Ah yes. An energy system to supply the entire world has to be trivially easy or else it's impossible.

A renewable energy system to power the world would be an enormous undertaking. It's just that it would be less expensive than a nuclear system to do the same.
I use Emacs for everything except web-browsing. Performance has never been a major concern for me. When Emacs is slow it’s almost always due to a faulty configuration. E.g., spellchecker configured to run is gigantic .csv files and similar. When native compilation dropped a while ago, Emacs became technically 2-4 times faster but I hardly noticed it. I think the perception of Emacs being slow is 90% due to the Spacemacs distro. But Doom or hand-written configs should be fine.
> While Russia's attacks on Ukraine's power and heating infrastructure are vile and evil and designed to hurt civilians, I do believe that the West has many plans to help the people of Ukraine who are displaced and at-risk due to Russia's warcrimes.

What help would it be in case of a blackout? Energy prices in Europe are soaring at the moment and I don't see a clear strategy how these infrastructure destructions could be mitigated and replaced by european nations on a timely manner, that is crucial for civilians' safety in major urban areas. People in rural areas could probably fallback to sustaining their households by burning logs and coal, but the city dwellers?
I suggest that you pay attention to the numbers in the article. Even super-fast allocation can become an avoidable cost at certain scale.
Sheesh, so the article isn't satire? I assumed the whole thing was making fun of libertarians.
To quote further down the page
“An MVP is a temporary site, it doesn't have to be and shouldn't be perfect.”
Even before this new reactor Finland had lower gCO₂eq/kWh than Germany or Austria (with way harsher winters to boot). Once this thing starts Finland will get even further ahead.

In Europe basically only France and the other Nordic countries are ahead of Finland in the cleanliness of their energy production.

It really should not matter how the energy is produced the only thing that matters for clime change is how much CO₂ gets pumped into the atmosphere.
No - Expectations need to be managed, especially right now. Take a deep breath and watch this discussion from Beau of the Fifth Column.[2]

Someone really wants to repeat the "Mission Accomplished" moment[1] here, don't they?

I'll believe it's over when a surrender happens, or when Russia abandons Sevastopol and withdraws from Crimea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1-8OWbI-U
Speed is one part of the equation.

Other parts are about how much resource it consumes for delivering that speed. Like memory and cores.
Official Myths
Yup. If everyone had made 5x the investment in nuclear 10-15 years ago (which would have made nuclear cheaper per plant as well: a huge part of the massive costs and time overruns on plants is the fact that they're pretty much one-offs), we'd be in a much better place with regards to the climate, and it would have very likely been worth the super -high costs (though questionable if we'd had also 5x the number of nuclear disasters). But we'd still be having the huge shift to renewables we're having now, maybe just a little slower.
Big Peter Lawry fan - I use Chronicle Wire (the library mentioned in the article) often, it's a really nice serialization/deserialization library when performance/allocation is a focus. Combining Chronicle tools + Real Logic tools you can build some extremely performant Java applications.
What Is the Commonwealth?
This is the sort of thing that lay people like me imagine that serious infosec pros would pay attention to.

But to be perfectly honest: between the uncle with TS at a defense contractor, the ex-girlfriend Political Science valedictorian with an Arabic minor who “taught English” in Waziristan, and the pre-IPO Facebook job, I just sort of assume that if the Equation Group wants to know if I watch Internet porn, “I will do nothing, because I can do nothing”.
AMD is also in the process of being a toaster oven. The new Ryzen 9 7950x will use considerably higher power (105W -> 170W) for a smaller die area, which is making people worry about air-powered cooling being not enough (previously a Noctua D15 was enough to cool a 5950x). And I really don't want high-end CPUs to require water cooling since it's more unreliable and requires more maintenance.
You can't even really own your computer anymore if you're a windows user. The entire operating system is "as a service" and windows 11 makes that even more true.
The future of the human race looks more and more like test tube babies genetically engineered for socially productive and harmonious dispositions, robosexuality the norm for non-elites and non-untouchables. Aggressive reproduction management of the underclass. Surrogate live births for those who can afford it. A small fringe of communities akin to the Amish who practice traditional human reproduction. Just follow the trend lines to the horizon and you'll see it.
Yes, this lame, but there is no lock-in with iRobot.

ADT, however.

https://newsroom.adt.com/financial/adt-announces-closing-450...

Now google will know anytime I leave the house, or there's "FAULT, garage door!"
Well, what is it trying to be "realistic" about? Does the announcement mention anything about taking over other browsers?

I suggest reading https://justforfunnoreally.dev/ .
Show HN: ReadToMyShoe – An offline-first web app for listening to your articles
ReadtoMyShoe (RTMS) is a web app that lets you upload articles (via URL or via directly pasting) and listen to them (via text-to-speech) at a later time. Some features:

* Offline-first: All the articles in your queue are available offline. RTMS is usable even in airplane mode.

* High-quality text-to-speech: RTMS uses the Google Cloud Text to Speech WaveNet voices. It's not quite human yet, but it's pretty nice.

* Saves your progress: Don't lose your place in your reading material. RTMS will save where you are. So next time you play an article, it'll resume right where you left off.

* Lockscreen controls: Play, pause, jump 10 seconds. It's all available from the lock screen or notification bar of your mobile device.

* Runs anywhere: Since RTMS is a web app, it runs everywhere a (modern) web browser runs.

* Add to Homescreen: RTMS can be added to your homescreen and behave just like a native app.

"Doesn't this exist?" Eh, sorta. I was using Pocket to listen to articles before this, and it was terrible. The UI had (and continues to have) show-stopping bugs, and there are practically never updates for it anymore. There are other apps too, but most of them are native apps, and the only decent ones I could find were also pretty exploitative (lots of pop-ups everywhere, free trials with no pricing info, etc.)

Source code: Everything here is open source. Please leave comments, open PRs, open Issues, etc. at https://github.com/rozbb/readtomyshoe . The whole thing is in Rust!

Finally, a note on this demo site: I can't run this site for very long. Google Cloud TTS is $16 per 1M characters. The average news article is like 6.5k characters, so $0.10. That's not scalable for me, so I gotta shut down the server after a little bit. I do have a rough plan to scale this though and allow for people to pay for their own TTS though: https://github.com/rozbb/readtomyshoe/issues/29
National Bureau of Economic Research Report on the Midlife Crisis [pdf]
Looks like the website is down, here's the YouTube video about the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd_P0LxIBGI
As a Pole I fully agree with you.

Also with regard to the nuclear threat.

Russia can threaten with nuclear holocaust at any time for whatever reason.

They could say tomorrow: give up all land that belonged at some point to Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact or we will start nuclear holocaust. They could even demand Alaska. Then what? We give in? No!
Thought:
The day-to-day situation in Mexico, for a number of decades, give a sinister data-point for the rate at which someone is willing to murder rather ordinary citizens.
In 2017 this angle was up in the news in the UK. Take the responses as you like.

> The government is using the “extremely expensive” Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to cross-subsidise Britain’s nuclear weapon arsenal, according to senior scientists.

> In evidence submitted to the influential public accounts committee (PAC), which is currently investigating the nuclear plant deal, scientists from Sussex University state that the costs of the Trident programme [1] could be “unsupportable” without “an effective subsidy from electricity consumers to military nuclear infrastructure”.

> [...]

> This week, the Green MP Caroline Lucas asked the government about the Ministry of Defence and the business department discussing the “relevance of UK civil nuclear industry skills and supply chains to the maintaining of UK nuclear submarine and wider nuclear weapons capabilities”.

> Harriett Baldwin, the defence procurement minister, answered that “it is fully understood that civil and defence sectors must work together to make sure resource is prioritised appropriately for the protection and prosperity of the United Kingdom”.

> [...]

> At the PAC hearing, the Labour MP Meg Hillier asked whether “Hinkley is a great opportunity to maintain our nuclear skills base”.

> Lovegrove answered: “We are completing the build of the nuclear submarines which carry conventional weaponry. So somehow there is very definitely an opportunity here for the nation to grasp in terms of building up its nuclear skills. I don’t think that’s going to happen by accident. It is going to require concerted government action to make that happen.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/12/electricity-...

> Andrew Stirling believes that there was a crucial, largely unspoken, reason for the government’s rediscovered passion for nuclear: without a civil nuclear industry, a nation cannot sustain military nuclear capabilities. In other words, no new nuclear power plants would spell the end of Trident. “The only countries in the world that are currently looking at large-scale civil power newbuild programmes are countries that have nuclear submarines, or have an expressed aim of acquiring them,” Stirling told me.

> Building nuclear submarines is a ferociously complicated business. It requires the kind of institutional memory and technical expertise that can easily disappear without practice. This, in theory, is where the civil nuclear industry comes in. If new nuclear power plants are being built, then the skills and capacity required by the military will be maintained. “It looks to be the case that the government is knowingly engineering an environment in which electricity consumers cross-subsidise this branch of military security,” Stirling told me.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/21/hinkley-point-c...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(UK_nuclear_programme)
>Public officials should be public, always.

By and large, I agree with the sentiment that "we should be allowed to video cops", but public officials includes people like the DMV - those people should be allowed privacy when they aren't doing their job.
I would be pretty amazed if this 6ghz "stock" clock can be achieved with just air cooling.
Squash and rebase are doing it wrong.
Clearly not as energy prices have gone up due to a shortage of supply.
It only seems bonkers to you because you're so wildly off the mark. Finland currently has over 4GW of installed wind power capacity, but there have been not just hours but entire days where wind power production has been less than one hundredth of that -- last Thursday's problems were aggravated by such a situation. 9GW of installed capacity will absolutely not guarantee 1GW at all times -- not even close.
I guess their competition is AWS and the public cloud alikes, and pricing is good enough to compete

But yeah, "marketing driven" price
Because nuclear is hazardous, and because of that, also vastly more expensive. The people here that claim it isn't a patently dangerous source of energy are not being honest IMO, maybe not even to themselves.
The armchair defeatist appears
Author here, I prefer the term "content marketing" xD

Jokes aside, there is a small plug at the end of the article, but the article itself is not an ad. I have a lot of thoughts on the current state of "DevOps" and enjoy writing about it
No, this is exactly what a base load it. What do we need to build so that, should all of our intermittent energy sources stop and we could not import energy anymore, we could still have the country exist and function. Where you put the line on intermittency is up to you (is hydro intermittent ? After all, you could technically run out of water in your lake. Is nuclear ? You could run out of fissile material. Is wind ? You could have clear skies with no wind all day long)

You can also provide a base load with just solar. You just need to spread your panels all over the country to make up for the fact that sun is not always shining everywhere, but the idea stays the same: can we produce 100TWh over a year with our installation, no matter what ?

Energy isn't produced for the fun of it. Base load is related to total demand, at all times. Some of that demand is so you can run your USB powered coffee cup, some of it is to run foundries. You pick what you fit in that, but whatever you pick must be covered by that base load.

Needless to say, with sources as intermittent as wind and solar, making any kind of plans except "we're going to produce X over this month" is pretty much impossible, and you need to compensate by building tons of storage to smooth things out, otherwise you get brownouts.
It depends on the fuel cycle used. Not all plants are suitable for generating plutonium and weapons-grade uranium.
And there is another reason why "smart" devices are all so dangerous. The older Roombas without any kind of network connectivity are still as safe to use as they were before.
> But there should be 100 others under construction right now under a wartime like economy.

Leave aside wartime-like economy. Actual war, even the actual apocalypse are excellent opportunities to profit from, in capitalism. So such concepts like 'sovereignty', 'industrialization', less, 'the people' are irrelevant in its context.
What are you doing that’s pegging your CPU at 100% for 8-16 hours? Or do you just turn off throttling?
> Is it one of the things in the table towards the bottom of the J article?

Erm, no. That table suggests using b. as a replacement for other (clearer) algorithms for performance reasons, rather than parameterisation.

What I mean by parameterisation is this: if you have a function that takes some arbitrary bitwise operation, instead of taking a lambda, you can pass the truth-table directly.

This idea is mentioned only briefly in the J article (More Info, ¶2):

2. Operand m may be an array, in which case each result cell will be the array of the results of the logical functions specified by m.

Maybe that is too-obvious to an array programmer and not-enough-obvious to someone who isn't, and so it is hard to properly consider the implications or applications of this.

Here's one: Parsing AND/OR operations from an expression (like an SQL expression). You could use a tree of operators and then walk the tree for every row you want to consider or you could store the compositions as a list and do a single reduction.

Is that enough for you to get the idea of what is going on here?
For storage I was talking about holding electricity generated by renewables, not parking nuclear waste.
Interesting, could it be plugins/extensions causing the issue? I've been using Roll20 with Firefox and with Edge for a while without any major issues.
The paper talks about epigenetics and these chemicals, but isn't it possible the diet and lack of physical activity affected future generations as well? If not via epigenetics, perhaps via gut flora being passed down and spread?

They talk about lab animals with controlled diets and activity becoming fatter on average over the decades, and point to chemicals as the only possible culprit. I find that quite possible or even probable, but isn't it also possible the gut flora is evolving to be more efficient at processing modern food?
I was surprised that WordPress didn't support SQLite when I used it recently since a long time.
Makes sense that it does.
And yet, every single successful human society is organized in that way.
The 100 year plan is for $999: https://www.networksolutions.com/domain-name-registration/po...

Do you remember how much the 1000 year plan costed?
> Pension Systems that at this point are a Ponzi scheme where working taxpayers are paying for retiree income (Privatized Retirement is fairly limited in Europe and mostly optional on top of standard contributions)

How is this a Ponzi Scheme ? Currently working people help sustain retired people the same way retired people help the retired people when they were working and the same way young people will sustain the currently working people when they retire. That's called generational solidarity. What European countries used to do at a family level, they do it at a national level now.

One of the PROs of it is that if the cost of living change dramatically (which has been the case of the last 50 years) the pensions can adapt because they depend on current income instead of the pensioners relying on investments which sometimes are wiped out through no fault of their own.

One of the CONs of course is the delayed effect of the baby boom. But one can expect that it was a particular historical artifact that might not occur again.

You can disagree with the idea but calling it a Ponzi scheme is incorrect.
> The problem is particularly acute on YouTube.

And tiktok.
And it isn't happening now. The article itself only claims it's something that could happen if there are fuel shortages, plus it appears the article is incorrect.
It's not uncommon for LLVM releases to come with regressions that cause miscompilations. The compiler toolchain industry is very different from what you seem to think it is.
.space is managed by Radix, one of the entities I would consider reliable enough for a newGTLD.

For weird newGTLD the worst that can happen is the registry goes bankrupt and their TLDs are not saved by the ICANN or bought by another registry. In this case you'd lose the domain. IMO it's unlikely to happen to Radix.
Between this and the ridiculous TDP expectations for this generations latest graphic cards people are going to have to start thinking about using dedicated circuits per gaming computer.
Algolia improves site search functionality with Search.io acquisition
A cheeseburger is a terrible metonym for unhealthy food.

The large fries and enormous glass of corn syrup aren't welded to the burger, which has a perfectly fine nutritional profile for an entree.
A fork called Fandaniel Linux is sorely needed. It doesn't even need to have anything.
Still sounds like, with the wrong maze, they would tend to pile up in certain nooks.
If i'm not falling victim to Poe's law, I'm going to need further elucidation here, as that sounds an awful lot like punishing the child for the sins of the parent there.

You can't seriously believe that is a tenable/desirable state of affairs?
> In Finland's case the French state (Areva) provided the indirect €5 billion subsidy to get this plant built. Finland wasnt going to shoulder the full costs itself. It has no military nuclear interests.

Areva made a bid so low that every other builder decide to not even bother leave their final bids. It is not TVOs problem that Areva made a bad contract (other then making sure Areva had enough insurances/financial backing to finish the project even if it goes over budged)

TVO did have other builds interested (Sweden, America and Japan) but their reactors were only in the 1000MW range instead of 1600MW and cost a bit more. So obviously TVO took the best option. The best would have been for the government give TVO the permits to builds multiple reactors so they could have built 2x800MW or something like that which would have been easier/cheaper.