skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So build 9 new nuclear power plants? In 1972 alone, 13 new nuclear plants were ordered. [1]

Be careful with mixing physics/mathematical arguments and economic ones. If you want to talk physics, assume your (fairly generous) numbers of 8.75 GW. That's 9 nuclear power plants, as you mentioned. Or for solar, mean solar flux in CA is about 5 kWh/m^2 over a day, solar panels are about 20% efficient, that's 1 kWH/m^2/day = 24 m^2 / kW of panels = 24 km^2 / GW * 8.75 GW = 210 km^2 = an approximately 21 x 10 km solar array in the Mojave desert. That's well within the range of plausible land use. For wind, a typical offshore wind turbine generates about 8 MW of power, so we'd need about 1000 of them, turbine blades are about 750 feet across, figure 1/4 mile spacing, we'd cover 250 miles ~= less than half of California's coastline.

The reason these haven't been built yet is because of economics: it's not cost effective to invest this much when the demand isn't there yet. But then we're not going to get 31M car owners suddenly switching over to EVs. We'll get maybe 2-3M each year, switching over as they retire their old vehicles, and then we build one nuclear power plant, or 2 km^2 of solar, or 100 wind turbines, each year until the transition is complete.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cancelled_nuclear_reac...
"I love those "eras" when people only half knew what the hell they were doing."

I think we are at this stage in AI, robotics and a lot of medical research. Unfortunately the weird things we are doing in these areas are not very visible.
Why are we always comparing America to Europe? What if we compare America to China?

America is America. We will have to do what’s best for us. Constant and random comparisons with other countries picked for simply beating down America isn’t helpful.
I'm a huge fan of Booko, which has been doing exactly this for years
I understood most of it and looked up the rest.

PWS - Prince William Sound, a large bay in Alaska.
Bonkers - crazy, so a large amount.
Fry - juvenile fish
Seine - a type of net that hangs vertically in the water used to corral fish. Only allowed at certain times of year?

So fish farms feed whales, which also eat everything else, greatly reducing wild fish populations.
> If you take an equally liberal interpretation (which they obviously do), there isnt any clear evidence that Russia has broken any laws of war either.

Is raping and torturing civilians against the laws of war?.

Cause we have plenty of evidence of that alone, let alone the evidence of Russians directly targeting civilian buildings and evacuation corridors.
It’s of course no such thing, only an epidemiological question.
Who stole it from other folks.
What really bother me is that the police sting operation is legal in US. It's fundamentally wrong. They are creating the crime by criminal police activities, from my point of view and it's legally true in my country's law system.
Anecdotally, I've never seen the police chase a farebeater. I've never even seen someone be particularly dissuaded by police presence at the gates; in my old neighborhood I would see people hop the gate with the police right there. It simply isn't worth their time, and all parties understand that.
Carbon dioxide I think. But I think it's a fairly balanced process of trees eating CO2 and trees dying and releasing CO2 back. I don't think this action changes the amount of CO2 much since it evens out.

Humans in the last 200 years have massively increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by finding carbon buried deep underground and releasing it as CO2 into the air.

https://www.co2levels.org/
Smalltalk was originally a language for children, similar to Logo.

It is unfortunate that its youth was not thus preserved.

"Smalltalk was created to investigate teaching programming to children. Understandably, it's a very small and simple language, the simplest of the major programming languages."

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1241904/Introduction-to...
Given the memes around dentists and expensive cycling gear, perhaps they should tap into that market too. Make it lighter and integrate it into a helmet. Display navigation and performance metrics on 3D graphs in the environment. Hazard detection. Then it's a toy that can really have a life outside work.

I'm mostly joking, but the more I imagine it the more I want one for my PEV helmet.
Me: SHOCKED! SHOCKED to find software piracy going on at this users' group meeting!

Other UG Attendee: Here is your disk with zork on it, monsieur.
Thanks very much! If there are any features that would improve the site in your opinion please let me know and I'll build them for you :)
If you look at the 2-10 year spread US treasury bond rates, there is a massive yield curve inversion. Historically, this inversion has been a very consistent metric for predicting incoming recessions.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y

The current inversion hasn't been since the early 2000s and ensuing recession, which was characterized by the bursting of the dotcom bubble and the attacks of September 11th.

The dotcom bubble is attributed to venture capital funding, and the crash took out a lot of companies and hit others like Amazon pretty hard. Economic crisis is inevitable, it's built into the business cycle.

Following this logic, the next companies on the chopping block would be tech once again. This time, likely the "unicorns" that are the darlings of VC investors. Additionally, it's kind of an open secret that FAANG stock valuations are a bit disconnected from reality.

When you are on the edge of consumer tech, a lot of stock investors don't even understand how your business model functions and what gives it such a high valuation, and they don't really care as long as the price goes up. It's a darker side of the culture, as the trend is to splurge with VC millions and cash out at the zenith then move on to the next thing. History shows it's not sustainable.
Dynamically sure, but they've likely decided that's not what they're talking about. Hot enough, indestructible enough bubbles that are at equilibrium dilation internally, and have migrated to a minima.
What kind of ML techniques did you use on top of GPT-3, outside of the baseline model?
I tried Japanese - without some form of hints for the kanji (whether regular furigana, or my preferred "hover-only" tips) I suspect it's probably going to be of limited usefulness for most learners. I like the idea though!
Have you considered introducing TTS?

Also, after being asked "how are you", I said "Well and yourself", the response was "Me? I like soccer!", which is...well...an unusual response to say the least.
The first image reminds me of an old Larry Bird Sports Illustrated cover in terms of hair cuts, color pallet, and the models themselves.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221010024648/https://i.pinimg....
I love Booko as well, they have a great site. My only issue with them is I find their service slightly lacking when you're outside of Australia.
normal make has built-in rules for C
More control over your content with the caveat being you have to pay them for the service.
https://booko.com.au/ is a great example of this. You search the title first, then you can select the concrete book/edition on the next page, then a nice list of options.
I struggle to think of another example of an organization of this scale placing such a massive companywide bet on a new direction so far away from their core business or any existing mature market. Any Facebookers - ahem - Meta employees want to share their perspective on how this is all being perceived on the inside?
Yeah, that was my point :-)
Booko is fantastic, I just find their service a little lacking outside of Australia.
There's no fundamental reason it can't be decompiled. Vivado uses white-box crypto for their IP keys, and they're all over the Chinese internet.

No one in the West will publicly mention touching them, for good reason. In China they're everywhere.

E: not just China, but it's easier to find them there
BIOS seemed to work well for CP/M, DOS, etc.. Would probably work well elsewhere.
AFAIK 10G is only Sonic native
> a single shaft could run through all of them, and the shaft would not twist

I think this assumes that every AC generator has the same number of poles per revolution.

> If you did it wrong, there's a tremendous amount of torque exerted on the rotating machinery by the grid power, which may simply force it into compliance, or in more extreme cases, may shred millions of dollars of equipment in an instant.

Indeed. When I read news articles during the Texas blackout of 2021, the authorities were watching in horror the system frequency dropping and saying they had to shed load before the generators experienced permanent damage. It took me several days and reading Reddit comments to understand that the entire AC grid is one big synchronized machine, and if generators fall out of frequency or phase with each other, they will drive each other instead of the load, thus damaging the generators.
Culture isn’t about “mingling” - it’s about scaling a group of humans that’ll propagate a set of norms, rewarded behaviors and discouraged habits. If you just leave it to everyone to do whatever they please, you _might_ succeed, the same way you _might_ succeed by slinging code at the wall. You’re just ignoring the biggest leverage a group can use to achieve better results
In what sense is Smalltalk smaller than Lisp?
The feeling of a lot of people in Seattle is that the McDonnell-Douglas merger ruined Boeing. What had been a company run by engineers became a company run by bean-counters, and that has led to a certain lack of innovation in design. For instance, the 737 first flew in 1967, designed to be an airliner that could service small, even primitive airfields, and should have been retired decades ago. Instead it's been through four generations and 13 different models.

(I'm a Boeing baby -- my parents met and married while both were employed at Boeing, and I'm really sad at what the company has become.)
I think two decades is very optimistic.
It's a "voucher" for an epub/pdf protected by Adobe DRM.

After purchasing a book "you" get an ASCM file and use it to

a) download an encrypted file from a content server

and b) get the encryption keys protected via a PKS system.

This was cracked a few years ago and apparently Adobe/vendors never upgraded.
You need to be comfortable with yourself, in your skin, firstly. You won't be happy until you are. If this is about attracting women, they do like confidence.

Secondly, and it may be impossible to do, you need to consider whether what you are changing is really worth it. Compare fixing or removing some deformity or growth to a minor change to geometry. There is definitely a difference in motivation in either case, and thus a difference in mental outcome. Looking to other cosmetic surgeries, we see that there is a percentage of people who are unhappy inside and become addicted to surgery, chasing some ideal. We also see suicides in some transgender people who opt for surgery as it doesn't fix how they feel inside. You need to meditate on this and ask yourself, very deeply and seriously, whether achieving what you want will leave you satisfied? You also need to consider outcomes with less than total success. This isn't Photoshop after all. Reflect on how you may feel about it in 10 years, 20 years, etc.
I read that book! It's a wonderful adventure, enjoy!
Accessibility for one. Sophistication for another.

At that point not everyone was comfortable with writing a check for $1000-2000, stuffing it in an envelope and hoping to get a computer back in the mail.

Apples were in computer stores, the Ace, perhaps, not so much.

Having an actual use case to run both Apple and CP/M software was rare. It was also complicated. If you were an end user running CP/M on your Apple, it very well just stayed that way. Hard enough to wrangle a single computer system, much less two completely different ones.

While the value proposition of the Ace was there, a market large enough to leverage it was not.

And by the time the market was experienced enough to appreciate the system, the IBM was coming out.
Have you looked at a map? You are forgetting about Moldova, which already has Russian military bases "protecting" Russians in a small strip at the border to Ukraine, effectively occupying land.

Then you are forgetting about Georgia where Russia fought a war in 2008 resulting in Russia creating South Ossetia on Georgian land. Exactly the thing they now tried to do with Luhansk and Donetsk.

Then there is Kazakhstan where Russia did a military intervention to support the government in 2022, this year! Although, Kazakhstan seems to want to sever the ties to Russia now.

I have a feeling that you don't know anything about this topic and just read a single article and now feel informed while in reality you were hit by Russian propaganda. The author of the article you posted thinks that NATO made Russia invade Ukraine by expanding to far East, explicitly following Russian talking points.
Probably closer to habituation than prediction. Havnt read the full article only the comment at the top that summarizes the article.
They should just go on strike.
I think it would be fair to say that it's a kind of funny trie-hash-table hybrid. What's neat though is that it manages to achieve better space bounds than either a trie or a hash table would on their own.

I didn't invent the algorithmic idea --- it's basically a simplification of a data structure that was published in ICALP 2003 [1]. As far as I know, the idea of combining hash tables and tries in this kind of way (despite being incredibly simple!) doesn't appear in either the theoretical or experimental literature prior to that.

I'd be interested in any other earlier sources that people might have.

[1] Raman, Rao. Succinct Dynamic Dictionaries and Trees. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45061-0_30. ICALP, 2003.
Basic Fourier theory from the 1800s explains that your sound card is good enough to record the changes in frequency.

Chances are internally it uses a much higher sampling rate and digitally downsamples.
Not working with pi-hole. Some link synergy link. I searched for accelerate in case that's useful.
We actually stopped doing video calls and do exclusively audio, with or without sharing screens or apps like miro/figma, and I feel like stress dropped meaningfully. Video calls are awful, they add noise and delayed visual cues that just confuse the brain.
This system used IBM's DAE (Distributed Automation Edition) which was sort of like CORBA before CORBA. Imagine CORBA except no OO features, tightly integrated with SNA, no interceptors or IDL compilers and only worked with C, REXX and COBOL. And it was all implemented by interns and contractors.

IIRC, they eventually dumped DAE, but had to deliver something before CORBA (or DSOM) was a thing.
I have the same problem, so I use my personal domain [0] to redirect to repos page, it works great. here is the javascript code:

async function handleRequest(request) {
const requestUrl = new URL(request.url);
let target = "https://github.com/theowenyoung?tab=repositories"
if(requestUrl.pathname!=="/"){
target = "https://github.com/theowenyoung"+requestUrl.pathname
}
return Response.redirect(target, 302);
}
addEventListener('fetch', async event => {
event.respondWith(handleRequest(event.request));
});

[0]: https://git.owenyoung.com
And for everyone else that didn't read any of the text...

"We couldn’t help but think that the Stipa-Caproni looks like something you’d see in a cartoon, perhaps flown by an animal character."
The rates my utility (PG&E) charges don't tell the same story. Has been going up at >4x CPI since 2014.
It's simultaneously a blessing and a curse that absolutely minuscule quantities of radioactive isotopes are so easy to detect. More blessing than curse I think, but our ability to sense such inconsequential levels of radiation (combined with poor public education) is responsible for a lot of hysteria.
Heck, I don't know!

I just wish these languages preserved their sense of ingenuity and wonder, before putting on the iron maidens of their frameworks.

I wish there was a C for children, but explaining indirect addressing and the evolution of indexed pointers is a bridge too far.
Ask HN: Websites, Forums, etc. for Discussing Type Theory and PLT
I think the title gets right to the point, but in case more info would be useful… I am looking for something like Lambda-the-Ultimate seems to have been during its truly active days, somewhere to discuss/learn/find references type theory, programming language theory, and category theory. I’m not a huge fan of stackoverflow in terms of just asking throwing questions into the void and having less than satisfactory means to continue a discussion, and Reddit has been pretty bare in terms of subreddits that I could find. Anyone with suggestions please chime in and if anyone has another specific area they are looking to get similar references for let’s hear those too.
> A 9mm Glock handgun has no purpose that I know of beyond killing someone.

Target shooting, whether in competition or simply for fun.

Fishermen often shoot large fish (e.g., halibut, which can weigh hundreds of pounds) before boating them, to reduce the likelihood of injury.

Defense against aggressive wildlife.

Defense against aggressive humans that doesn't involve killing them, or even injuring them (very often merely displaying the weapon is enough to deter an attacker).

There are other uses that come to mind.

Perhaps your inability to think of these routine and completely justifiable uses indicates that you have serious deficiencies in your knowledge of firearms, and that you should perhaps make an effort to rectify those gaps before commenting on the subject again. Maybe?

I mean, even your use of "9mm Glock" indicates that most of what you think you know comes from TV shows and movies.

"Glock" is just a brand, yo... the brand name doesn't actually make the weapon more lethal.

In point of fact, 9mm ACP is a rather small and underpowered round. It's become popular with law enforcement agencies because it reduces the weight of the weapon they have to carry all the time, not because it is some fearsome Round of Doom.
Live eCommerce: Infomercials are popular again??
Which is perfectly normal population dynamics.
Lookism is devastatingly real. Studies have shown that attractive people are more likely to succeed. Even babies respond better to attractive people than they do unattractive people. There are so many upsides to being attractive that it makes sense to wonder if you could use an adjustment to your appearance.

It's not entirely useful to rely on what the people around you say. Of course your friends say that you don't need plastic surgery. Would you stay friends with them if you decided not to follow through with the procedure, knowing they think you're ugly? If even the female ones say you don't need surgery, just compare the way they treat you to the way they treat an objectively handsome man. In the presence of a handsome man, they're either fighting an incredible urge to throw themselves at him or they're sliding into his DMs without drawing attention to it.

Having said that, plastic surgery can only do so much. The celebrities you see who have undergone procedures went from pretty to striking. Then, there are the over-done celebrities whose deformed faces you would only stare at to gawk. You think you're ugly now? At least you can blame nature for being so externally repulsive.

Let's get back to your question of how best to reason through these considerations. The methodology you use to evaluate plastic surgery is honesty. Every time you lie to yourself, your life gets worse. Good luck!
I think that's misinformation. Do you have a credible source for this? Here is mine: Gas only for rubles: is Germany also threatened with a delivery stop? [https://www-br-de.translate.goog/nachrichten/deutschland-wel...]
> Hybrid species of human, once seen by experts as science fiction, may have played a key role in our evolution. Evidence of the importance of hybrids comes from genetics. The trail is not only in the DNA of our own species (which often includes important genes inherited from Neanderthals) but also skeletons of hybrids.

Made me think of this, alternative explanation:
http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html
I've also put up an article with a walkthrough of how to use the playground to run FFmpeg: https://runno.dev/articles/ffmpeg
And back then computing products were wildly different. Hardware and software was all proprietary and sold through relatively few retailers. Entire segments of industry were rushing to figure out how to fit in the computer age. And it was all super expensive. Ads were likely explaining things customers had no idea about.
> Battery has very similar issues with the rare earth problems

Utterly false. The elements needed for Li-Ion batteries are very much "in abundance" on Earth. Elements like lithium can be extracted from seawater around the world in quantities far in excess of what humans will ever use. It's just a little less economical than current sources.

Which gets us right back to hydrogen! There's no limit on the amount of hydrogen you can make, but YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ECONOMICALLY. Dismissing eminently practical, extremely efficient battery electric vehicles in favor of an insanely impractical, uneconomical, and thoroughly insane hydrogen economy that is going to vastly increase greenhouse gas emissions in the near future is utterly absurd.

> but its also no good for things like big aircraft.

Neither is hydrogen! Not a snowball's chance in hell of a hydrogen 737 or A320. The fuel tanks would need to be vastly too large and too heavy.

Li-Ion is practical for small, short-hop aircraft TODAY. Short-hop aircraft could gradually reduce the need for larger aircraft (e.g. two short hops instead of one non-stop flight), etc.

And there is absolutely potential for battery electric large aircraft in the not-too-distant future. Lower speed, propeller based flight increases efficiency. Flying wing aircraft designs can reduce power consumption by about 1/3rd. And finally, high power battery chemistries like lithium-air[1] actual have the same energy density as gasoline, BUT batteries/motors get ~90% conversion efficiency instead of the measly ~40% conversion efficiency of current turbofans!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%E2%80%93air_battery
Better not do anything difficult or interesting because it might fail and be labelled a scam?
“Chapter 15,” Titled “Creating a Totalitarian Mind:“Recipe for the Matrix: Misin
This question is disinformation.
I used to have an autographed copy of this article -- one of only two autographs I ever received. The other was on a check from Donald Knuth :). Sadly, I seem to have lost both of these at some point in the last 15 years :(.
<rant>Ah...Matroska was nearly perfect, and then they chose nanosecond-precision timestamps. Countless attempts at frame-perfect seeking thwarted and videos imbued with jitter over the years, subordinate to the tyranny of 33 34 33 33 34 33...

Even worse, not only is the recommended precision only 1 ms, but almost all muxers support nothing else, ffmpeg included*. A shame that despite such versatility, mkv is scuffed as an intermediate/archival format by lossy muxing, yet almost no one is aware.

* https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2021-May/280... matroska precision parameter coming soon? It's been over a year, though - looks like the patch is dead. Meanwhile, the bikeshedding of rational timestamps in the matroska lists can now be expressed with a timebase of decades....
A Cryopreservation Revival Scenario Using Molecular Nanotechnology (2008)
Looks like pi-hole only looks at the base domain which breaks most of the affiliate links on the site, I'll see if I can find a workaround
And take actual breaks. I'm on the verge of burn out and wondering "whats happening? I'm taking regular time off work" and realize I'm taking time off to do other kinds of work (parents estate, medical issues, just other life work) rather than actually taking the time to recharge.