skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it is a pipe dream to assert that we can mine enough raw materials necessary to produce the wind and solar generation, install them (often in less than favorable geographies), install their requisite energy storage tech, in order to make a meaningful dent in CO2 emissions anywhere near as quickly as a renaissance in nuclear power would offer the world.

Solar module production is 240GW and wind is 100GW and both industries are growing at double digit percet yoy. Even at current production rates that will replace 15% of current fossil fuel energy before one new reactor like hinkley C will be built. At projected growth rates we'll see 2-4% of current primary energy in new capacity per year. The limiting resources (Silver and Copper) consume 2-5% of worldwide production.

Compare to the exotic metals like niobium, hafnium, beryllium and so on needed for a nuclear reactor which cannot scale to 100s of reactors a year.

Building a bunch of LWR plants won't solve the problem though because at those burnup rates world uranium reserves will only last around a century (and require just as much of that mining you complain about). Breeder plants and enrichment facilities will take even longer and cost even more.

> But it is a pipe dream to assert that we can mine enough raw materials necessary to produce the wind and solar generation, install them (often in less than favorable geographies), install their requisite energy storage tech, in order to make a meaningful dent in CO2 emissions anywhere near as quickly as a renaissance in nuclear power would offer the world.

Wind turbines can be built from abundant materials, but there is plenty of copper for current and future production (the same copper a steam turbine would use). Silicon cells are made of sand, Cu, Al, Ag, and Fe. There is only around 1g of silver per kW (and this proportion is decreasing faster than production is increasing) and a kg or so of copper for wiring -- most of which can be subbed out for Al.

All this nuclear shilling is just directing energy away from the thing that will make fossil fuels irrelevent and helping the coal plants stay on for a few more years.
To be clear, it's just you making a list of things you accomplished, because otherwise your boss is going to have to dig through their email to figure it out, and they may miss something / get something wrong which will hurt you. The lingo might be specific to FAANG but the practice isn't, including the part where you do "unnecessary" work to try to pad the packet.
I think artists don’t want “accurate recreation of the prompt”, they want unexpected and inspiring aesthetics
It's hardly a duplicator. If anything it's a DVD player that removes previews, and that sounds like a great product.
> Airbursts would magnify this effect.

The opposite is actually true. Airbursts maximize the damage to lightly protected targets, but do not irradiate and lift the same amount of material as a ground burst. Unfortunately hard targets such as missile silos are likely to be targeted with ground bursts resulting in large plumes of irradiated material falling anywhere remotely close to the missile silos. These silos are generally clustered in the mid-west. It's unfortunate that all sides still use nuclear tipped missiles for the purpose of striking missile silos - they only needed nuclear warheads to achieve their objective in the 60s-80s due to poor targeting.

There are going to be large swaths of Europe, Africa, South America, Asia, and North America which will be mostly unaffected by fallout or blasts. These areas for the most part don't include any industrial, or agricultural significance.
Schools tend to be worst offenders, clubs, companies (heard of at least one company which only honors warranty support via facebook!).
I mean from another perspective this is effectively a MITM style way of interacting with Meta's API. They are behaving as another unauthorized layer between the user and Meta's API. In actual secure systems involving third party clients the client usually authorizes itself on behalf of some user requests or permissions, so while it does things for the user there's a clear and secure delegation of permissions.

Have you done much work with authorization? To put it in another way let's say there was a website that said it authorized with Steam. It asked you to put in your steam username and password. Is this secure?

Now let's say that same website instead redirected you back to Steam (properly) and requested authorization on behalf of you. Is this secure?

Now which bucket does this app fall under?
It's usually Samsung people talk about with regards to spying on Smart TV, and reports saying they send regular screenshots home for analysis.

I don't know if LG does the same, but in terms on ads in the display I ... never really found it to be anything.

I sold my 55" LG OLED highend model last year when moving, but except for a "recommended app"-showing on the main menu I don't recall any nag-ware. I also found the smart TV features to beat most, if not all, dedicated boxes in speed and usability and preferred it to Apple TV.
It heavily depends on your abilities to get a decent paying job.

If you can convince the review process that out of the gate you'll have stable income (won't be a burden to their society - better yet if you already have the job at entry), is well behaved with potentially high education, the door with easily open.

I think a lot of people here would fit the criteria. Now it becomes exponentially harder the farther you're off that golden path.
Are we no longer doing MAD? Where you promise to turn kill everything no matter how small the attack was?
His coach who confessed to cheating numerous times still charges out $250 p/h for lessons and has students so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lba8_wknSY
They're not basing their IDE on VSCode, but Eclipse Theia, which is somewhat based on VSCode, but it's not VSCode.
Starting with 512 bytes of machine code plus source and building an entire Linux distro from scratch without any existing binaries means that it is exceedingly unlikely that such a backdoor would be possible.
California Driver's Ed hammered this in. In california you can get a ticket for going the speed limit if it's foggy, raining, etc. I can't imagine getting pulled over for doing the speed limit anywhere else. I think most of the rest of the country (that i've experienced) has a belief that 90% of people go slower than the speed limit, and the rest are split between people that go the exact posted amount, and people that drive over the speed limit.

I've probably put about 800,000 miles on the road in my life, and i gotta say, "exact posted" is fairly rare, but most people are within 1% or so. you really only notice if you're in a factory stock car with stock tires and have GPS telling you your exact speed. Otherwise it feels like everyone is going faster or slower arbitrarily, when it's probably just mechanical. I think i have read more than a thousand times that manufacturers allow for slop in the speedometers, so long as it shows you going faster than your actual ground speed. up to 10% even.

it's 2022, 2023 almost. Why isn't the speedometer at least half GPS or otherwise corrected? BTW, the way to determine if your speedometer is correct is with the mile marker signs. you set your cruise control or foot to 60MPH and start timer/look at a watch/clock and you should hit the next mile marker at exactly 60 seconds. From what i've read, most cars will hit that up to 6 seconds later than they should.

interesting aside: toyota and ford cars from the late 80s early 90s with digital displays would cap out at like 85MPH but if you switched to KM/H it would allow readings above 85MPH. then again, my first ford was missing the little peg that stopped the analog dial from going past 85, and at one point i was pulled over at 3 AM on I-210 going "R" miles per hour. The Statie told me he was on an interchange, and didn't believe his eyes, because that ford was basically iron oxide and epoxy.
Templates on their own aren't that slow, what is slow is doing crazy meta-programming tricks with them at compile time all over the place.
If optical works reliably, you could possibly leave both HDMI and optical plugged in to the sound bar. CEC volume control and power seems to still work with my sound bar when set to the optical input.

My setup currently has an audio drop out every few minutes. It seems to happen over both ARC and optical, though, so it's presumably just the Nvidia Shield being buggy. The UI bugs out too lately. I've had various forms of audio drop outs on that TV since at least 2020. It could be the TV corrupting the passthrough I guess. I'm not going to buy a whole new TV just to test that hypothesis.
This hardline/moderate is a myth at least for last 15 years. However, the Iran lobbyist (e.g. NIAC) keep this narrative alive. Even in the 2000s era, the crack in the structure were minor. The so called moderator didn't had the motivation to really change anything substantial. It turns out they just wanted to use the people vote as a bargain to re-incorporate them into power (that fraction was in power in 80s but then kicked out). The regime is pure hardliner bcz this is a regime that the whole power has been consolidated under the hand of supreme leader (and this is why people in the streets called him dictator). The parliament/president and the election is just a joke! A show! They've re-define almost any word and void it from meaning.

The Supreme Ayatollah has a flexible user interface (UI) for the "West". When he wants to retreats: It wears the so called moderate president (Khatami, Rohani) and when the business is as usual he shows his teeth (Ahmadinejad, Raisi). The so called "president" is a joke. The last one (Raisi) has basically no self-agency, he is all ears for his leader and openly is proud about it! The previous ones weren't much different but at least they put up a show or a fuss when they told to do something. But this last one is perfect pawn (A soldier of leader as he puts it): "Sarbaze Velayat". The show was such a joke that in the last presidential selection: The supreme leader even eliminated his own long time friends and allies such as Larijani* and played Qalibaf to reduce the chance of any uncertainty (+). Note even with those eliminated in the run, it was still selection between potato vs potato...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Iranian_American_Coun...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Larijani

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Bagher_Ghalibaf

+ Uncertainty because previously people have tried to select the least favorable one for the grand Ayatollah, this time he didn't want to tolerate even that level of surprise! He has no fun!
Gilgamesh has characters and a long story with character development, which makes it quite distinct from other kinds of writing like inventories, prayers, collections of advice etc. Typically it is called the first epic.

The article is kind of a straw-man - nobody have claimed Gilgamesh is the first writing we have.
Years ago, I got randomly mailed a box of potassium iodide tablets because there was nuclear plant in the region. But in case of nuclear war, I want a suicide pill. I want several to give to others. I remember jokingly promising to be euthanasia provider for my friends who didn't want any part of the apocalypse. But if that day ever comes, I wouldn't even know how. There should be a guide out there for how to mercy off yourself and others most efficiently/painlessly/rapidly in case the world ends, but reading it will probably get one on three letter agency lists.
Two observations, first, the significance with the Sumerians, especially in context of this article, is the writing (among other things), not the fact that they told stories.

Secondly, I think it's a fair assumption that there were oral traditions long before the invention of writing, but this is likely true for people living in the Middle East, or elsewhere. And as a sidenote, how can you prove the existence of extremely rich oral traditions?
This is timely.

Putin cannot afford to lose a war or to lose Russian territory. Putin is only president for life. No Russian leader has personally survived such an event, all the way back to the tsars. Faced with that history, he is more likely to use a tactical nuclear weapon than give up power.
What’s Stopping WebAssembly from Widespread Adoption
Should you secure your API? Of course. But you should not secure my data from me.
I agree that ublock origin is convenient, but doesn't do anything to block ads in apps, on (unrooted) TVs, etc.
rfork is also just a really elegant system call
Yes, Element is very loud about unverified device participants in an encrypted room.
People who actually ride bikes were not consulted about any of these designs, no question. I love getting shouted at by belligerents about not using the bike lane because I consider it to be hazardous.
Originally there wasn't even source code to look into at all, VSCode started as an Web IDE for Azure.
> That's also a fair position, but not mine because of entirely selfish reasons (it's inconvenient to me and non-adblock users are subsidizing my use of those websites).

That's fair - you are knowingly subsidising adblock users. If you don't want to subsidise adblock users, you're free to use a different site.

(That's your basic argument, right? Freedom?)
I thought most overweight Americans (I have sympathy, I'm one too) could fast for 3 weeks or a little more? People who fast usually say they're starting to feel good and energetic about day 3.
I live in Texas. 3 KWh of power is $0.29 for me.
There is one thing worse: Typically these phone carriers had a duty to provide service in exchange for their monopoly. Here FB can ban you from their monopoly playground piercing the liability shield working for a legal typically company gives you.
I tried it but couldn't seem to come up with anything useful with the tool.As an example, I asked it to draw architecture diagrams based on fairly specific instructions (boxes and arrows, etc). It would kind of approximate it but the text was always in another language or other such strange things. I wasn't overly impressed but I'm sure I wasn't using it for the intended use case.

GPT-3, on the other hand, was completely mind blowing for me.
Should your power company be able to impose a rule on you that you must not plug any Samsung-branded appliances into any outlets in your house? Re your "monopolies" parenthetical, what if you live somewhere where you can pick what company generates your power? Would this be okay in those places?
This definitely feels like an opportunity for Orion, which manages to support Chrome extensions despite being built on Safari.

I wonder if they can switch over to supporting installs from the Firefox addon store instead/in addition?
I treat good books, non-fiction and fiction alike, as something between reference material and a reliable if distant friend. I’m familiar with what the author of this article describes, absorbing only a fraction of what a book conveys. I’m also not nearly as well read as many people I know, but I do return to books I’ve valued, sometimes many times over. And I absorb more, sometimes vastly more from subsequent reads.

The book may or may not be a great format for linear acquisition of knowledge or consumption of information. Neither is the traditional “album” necessarily the best format for taking in a musician’s work. Coming back to it, though, absorbing it again, can give shape to what you didn’t notice before. The familiar parts can carry the less familiar to your attention.

As a fiction example, I’ve read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series at least seven or eight times and each time expands my appreciation for its detail. Some re-readings have left me wondering how I had no recall of entire subplots, themselves new worlds of detail to discover.

I’m not dismissing the thesis of the article, there are disadvantages to the long-form book format. I’m not even saying more people should re-read more books. I’m just saying that the format lends itself very well to a tendency to revisit it.
They give 50 free credits and then 15/month - it's probably to prevent abuse.
not only that, it took about 60% of the article before i realized this was in new york!
What does it mean? Techniques that avoid the vanishing gradient problem?
"Then I realized teaching couldn't support an adult human lifestyle" not a modern first-world one at any rate;)
The issue isn't that I can't use SMS without paying. Even if I am willing to pay, it does me no good if none of my friends are using it because they're all only on WhatsApp themselves.
A VSCode plugin doesn't mean being lighter, the Java tooling from Red-Hat/Microsoft basically runs Eclipse headless, at which point I rather keep using Eclipse anyway.
philosophy does seem to be particularly unique in organizing its entire subject matter essentially historically by thinker and around original texts

it's not unique. religion works that way too
That's funny. Wonder if there are any DRM keys that can be extracted after root.
Low data modes are also progressing quite fast. There is Dreamer and more recent papers based on RL in learned world models.
On the bright side, at least collision avoidance systems (AEB) in modern vehicles are getting better at detecting and avoiding pedestrians and cyclists.
Not expecting it to be this extreme. Seems to me the vast majority of people just want to fit in with whats “normal”.
Can NFTs solve this problem?

... I'll see myself out.
Technology's advanced a bit since WW2 so what's available today at our fingertips, is easily an order of magnitude more than in 1930. What that means is that it's important to make a distinction between "keeping up", and endless doom-scrolling. You really don't need the play-by-play on every. single. news. item. There are real negative effects to you and your mental health.

Eg the Nord Stream was sabotaged. We don't know who did it. We probably never really will. Keeping track of every single detail about it dribbles out is "glue eyeballs to screen" stress inducing territory so recognize that knowing every last detail about it isn't actually good for you. Back in the 1930's you'd have to wait for the news to even get to you via newspaper. Now there's sourced wikipedia page for every information junkie to gorge themselves over. Don't get me wrong, if you're having fun then by all means, learn all about Gazprom and the board member who was recently killed, along with details about every other company involved with building the Nord Stream - but stop when it's no longer fun. It's totally fine to be ignorant about which Dutch dredging company was involved in its construction.

There's just so much information out there these days, and you can't know everything, which means there's just tons you're ignorant about so there's no shame in that. I mean, I don't know everything either. Also there's a real opportunity cost to learning about subject A, because it means you're not learning about subject B or C or D, and you can't know that subject C won't end up being of geopolitical relevance.
On the one hand I agree with you, and I detest FB/Meta, but the purpose of these apps is almost universally “block the ads that pay for the service”.

Given that, what should a company do?
> Academia is accustomed to publishing in the form of papers (e.g. pdf). This form has fixed margins, cannot contain animations or interactive widgets. Would publishing in an environment that allow for more flexibility be better for communicating their achievements and ideas?

I think it certainly would but we don't have a robust and time-tested format that allows us to carry scientific research in rich media across long periods of time, i.e. centuries or millennia. The simpler the medium the more robust it is to the erosive forces of time. So far, black ink on white paper is the winner here.
It’s not the low paid manually intensive jobs that will be automated by “AI”
And the student selling tickets at the counter and the lady cleaning the bathrooms. But not the venture capitalists who put up the million funding?
GANs have existed long before and such art was being made years ago.
Agreed on the nanny-state bit, but we kind of get what we deserve since most people are ok with "protecting" us from dangerous drugs. Except for alcohol and tobacco, those get a pass for $ome rea$on.

At least cannabis is making it's way into normality and states are recognizing that there's money to be made.
Sure, but presumably the Sumerians also had a long oral tradition predating writing.

It is just that we don't know anything about oral traditions thousands of years ago, since they leave no archeological trace. What we can know about is what is written down on durable material, and Sumer happens to have some of the very oldest surviving writing.

Stories are probably as old as language, but this is pure speculation.
>I have also seen very mixed opinions on whether Russia's tactical nuclear weapons are in suitable condition for use. But I think it is best to assume they are.

I've been thinking about this possibility since the start of the Ukraine War:

* Putin fires tactical atomic weapon at some empty plot of Ukrainian land, and announces it as a "demonstration" of Russian might.

* The weapon is a dud.

I'm not sure whether this outcome might not be worse in the long run, in terms of geopolitical stability, than if the weapon performs as expected!
You decommission a nuclear plant only once, after 60-100 years of operation (or even later). You need to replace the wind turbine blades every 15-25 years - the blades could literally fly apart if you didn't. And there's no good way to recycle them, so it goes into landfill. Not great.
Good. I hope authors start writing more succinctly.
Tangentially related: I can't imagine how hard writing this book must have been. Not only are the main topics heavy, but even some side characters and one-off jokes feel ominous knowing where life would take her. And then having to do media tours and interviews to relieve them all every other day? Oooff.
> Keep in mind that any use of a nuke effectively necessitates a large reaction physically to try and avoid nuclear proliferation and use going wild.

Seems more likely that sinking their fleet would cause them to use more and bigger nukes, and/or to sink every fleet of ours within missile range.
Advocating for violence is not good, but I can understand how women can be pissed at the patriarchy.
Okay, so you take an $80 billion yearly budget and dump an extra fraction of a billion on top. Is that going to do much?

I'd rather risk it on an attempt to make self-driving busses. Getting more development money for electric planes is a nice side effect too, but just in terms of improving transit, reducing the need for drivers would be massive.
> report median and mean hourly pay rates

Since it's hourly pay rates, I think "hours worked" is already factored in. I guess for salaried employees it'll be just considered 40h/w.
That doesn't seem so bad. By that point we'll have AR headsets to drown all that out.

Of course, those will have ads too.
MAD is more for large scale counter value exchanges. Nonstrategic / theatre level / tactical nuclear use was always on the table and IMO probable when nuclear states become cornered. Here's a CRS report on it from this year.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/nuke/RL32572.pdf
Or we could de-escalate?
Yeah, we should put nuclear missiles to Ukraine, 200 miles from Moscow, that will teach him!!
Hisayori Noda – Stockfish community mutual relation
Well it shifts the target a bit. Instead of infecting the compiler you'd try to infect one of the core OS components (presumably in the kernel) and have it detect when those were being compiled and insert itself. Probably also infect any compilers you detect while you're at it as well.

This would probably be a bit more difficult to pull off. If someone did pull it off, fully reproducible builds ought to make it readily detectable at least in the absence of some extreme rootkit contortions.