skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can we please stop running network drivers and network stacks in kernel mode by default?

No. I want the kernel to have as much functionality as possible. I have some zero dependency freestanding software that I boot Linux directly into. I really don't want to have to maintain additional user space in the form of C libraries. If I need to manage wifi connections, I should be able to make some system calls and be done with it without having to link to anything else.

Anything related to hardware belongs in the kernel so that all software can access it via Linux's amazing language agnostic system interface. If there are security problems, then that process should be improved without screwing up the interface by replacing it with user space C libraries. We have enough of that in the graphics stack.
It’s called neofeudal which has been the global economic trend since the 2008 crash.
Submitted title was "The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading". We've changed it to what the article says.

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah I think this is a great idea, the trick is: how do we organize the knowledge?

The reason I ask is because I am working on that question (heyho! :) so my answer is that we need a way to prioritize the information so that people don't drown in it and that there is a clear way forward. Making these assessments about information sources should be a foundation in how we communicate so that we don't get as bad a case of tragedy of the commons as other wikis have.
> It's kind of amazing to look at the archaeology of how Windows works because it's the accumulation of cruft over literally decades. For example every exe file first begins with a DOS program that prints "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" followed by more headers that are then parsed by Windows.

That was not the case with defrag or regedit (or was it another register editor tool...). I remember using it without windows to backup and restore the register. This allowed me use windows as I wished and if it simply became slower because of the register, I could simply restore it.
And do you know what went wrong?
Thanks, that's very interesting!

The price I gave in the comment you're replying to is just a literal unit conversion of the price you gave.
Indeed, apparently Nvidia misjudged the GPU forecast and the crash of crypto mining on GPUs and ended up with a ton of stock. Apparently AMD was more accurate, so here's hoping AMD beats Nvidia to the punch at the $300, $400, and $600 price points.
"Solar/wind/storage can roll out today and start ... producing clean power at least during the day"

Why only during the day?
I think EVGA was probably unique in that the owner was passionate about actually providing a damn good product and service and at some point just got tired of it - hard to blame them. Running a business is stressful and if you have to become mediocre after striving to be the best it must just seem pointless.
Those news stories would be a lot less interesting with a black picture of space with a footnote that the satellites are there, just too small to see.
I don't really have anything to add except that I'm grateful you brought this up because reading your comment and its replies was a nice reminder that we're not alone. One day our young kids will grow up and be more independent, which is bittersweet, but 100% necessary if I'm to have any life. Hang in there, parents.
Colloquially, efficiency can be either dimensionless (e.g. x% efficient) or carry a dimension (e.g. L/100km, MPG, Wh/mi). In the latter sense, towing a load (particularly a high-drag load) will lower your efficiency.
HA I didn't even look but should have known it would exist!
The statement is that if he cannot verbally pass that information on and have them get interested/excited, no amount of documenting and cataloging that info is going to make them suddenly want to read it. No level of explanation is going to be helpful to them when they don’t care enough to listen/read.

And I claimed nothing about “someone who does the job is valuable”. My claim was that there are, generally speaking, three types of workers and the vast majority of workers are unlike OP, in the sense that they probably don’t care in the slightest because they are 9-5 workers or someone who would rather learn themselves.
Is the claim here that working in the advertising industry is worse than working on “doomsday devices to incinerate all life on Earth”? What a hot take!
Hehe so how did they assess which answer should be canonical? how did they manage the different answers?

Because this is still what we should be doing but we have got to be a bit smarter about it than just appointing experts.
So you're telling me that the belief some people have that Jews control money has to do where there from and not the religious teachings?

Does that mean that if I talk bad about Christianity that I am racist as well?
Wood -> Coal -> Oil/Gas -> Uranium

This is the most straightforward way to progress energy generation, increase fuel energy density

Renewable energy will find its place after batteries decrease 10x in price
Often not in the public catalog though.
You sound like you'd be into the idea of "qualia" if you're not already aware.
It make it sound a lot like you think that "porting" means what the rest of the world calls compiling and have no idea what porting is.
I understand your mindset, what I can't understand is why you offer religion as solace. These very real world problems won't pray themselves out. With your approach we might as well just act as if nothing is happening and be happy. That's a solution that might work for old people on their way out, but it's absurdly inadequate and insensitive for the young generations.
PostgreSQL has good enough built in search but I find it limited in large real world global user cases:

- CJK support is tricky for almost all of these search products, but postgresql is probably the only one that needs additional extensions, and some extensions are not updated for a while.

- Scaling is tricky, bc on one hand, your search and other normal queries may not have same load pattern, but you only have one schema in multiple nodes, so sometimes you have to waste some resource; on the other hand, dependencies of the 3rd party CJK extensions makes it hard to use managed instances and maintaining your own is time consuming.

- Most other search engines have well tuned APIs for typical use cases like filters/typo/etc, but you have to build your own in PostgreSQL. Of course it’s not entirely bad thing bc PostgreSQL does have most flexible query capabilities for those less than typical use cases.

End of day, search for end users have many semi-edge cases, one have to try all these engines to find the best fit. For large use cases, operational cost and user tolerance of search errors are all part of consideration. A conventional wisdom is do less work in the early days , and find better solutions later if have to.
Pi-hole and WireGuard droplet image
Can’t use Zoom inside a terminal.
I just assume Douglas Adams got it wrong and it's the crabs that left instead of the dolphins =P
Yes, can anyone explain the problem in any detail? ie more than “regulations”

Decades ago the United States didn’t get to 20% electricity from nuclear power by being so inefficient.
>Ah yes, I recognise that particular md5 hash value from memory.

Excellent, I certainly know I am reading HN.
Gigatron: An 8-bit CPU built from 34 74LS TTL logic chips
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic but with this name I hope you are because it's hilarious.
Base load is a myth. You're right; you can break ground today with renewables and start pushing fossil fuels out of the mix during daylight and windy periods, with batteries slowly consuming more of fossil generation as their costs decline.

https://energypost.eu/dispelling-nuclear-baseload-myth-nothi...

There is ~1TW of renewables in US grid queues, and ~427GW of storage. While many of these projects might not get built, the velocity should be noted. ~95GW of nuclear generation capacity remains. It takes 10 years and billions of dollars to build a single nuclear generator.

https://www.pv-tech.org/nearly-1tw-of-renewables-in-us-inter...

https://www.energy-storage.news/estimated-427gw-of-energy-st...
I believe that is their point exactly.
But, we always affect it in negative ways. Our ability to change the world in negative ways says nothing about our ability to ever fix it since we have absolutely no experience doing that.
I'm not sure how to communicate this without making it sound biased.

Lufthansa's employees regularly act poorly and maliciously, when pointed out that they are in the wrong (weither local, foreign, or own company regulations or even being there when they're scheduled to) they don't care and they know they'll get away with it. They can and will leave you at the airport without a refund. It's been this way for at least a decade.

This has happened to me many times, and it has many documented cases on HN, Reddit, Twitter, settled EU261 suits, and FlyerTalk.
> I am especially overwhelmed by how all the big names have you apply for a particular position with a particular team, and worry about getting rejected applying for one team at company ABC when I should have applied for and might have had better success with a different position with another team at the same company. I'm also leery of silo culture and getting stuck in a team I don't mesh as well with at a company where switching teams isn't so easy.

Good companies will redirect promising candidates to more appropriate positions if they didn't start in the right place. If they're not doing that, they're probably way too siloed for your preferences.
> How do you envision energy storage of the future?

Not the guy you responded to, but: a combination of traditional batteries, molten metal batteries, liquid air or CO2 storage, pumped hydro, gravity storage, stored thermal energy, and more. All of which are around the commercial demonstration plant phase right now.

> Where are you going to get the metals?

Many of these don't require much metals. Molten metal batteries use metals that are extremely abundant.

> How much fossil fuel is going to burn in order to extract it?

In a decarbonized world? Zero. What? You think climate change can be solved without making mining zero-emission? If you're wondering how this will be done, it'll be battery/hydrogen/ammonia/e-fuel for mining equipment, trucks, ships, etc. We have to do that no matter what, otherwise we've just postponed climate change, not solved it.

> How else do you provide base load requirements?

Personally I believe a good share of base load will be provided by nuclear in many countries. I have nothing against nuclear. But I also think the base load problem can be solved without nuclear quite easily, assuming we actually solve CO2-emissions. This is because solving CO2-emissions means we'll produce batteries/hydrogen/ammonia/e-fuels on the same order of magnitude needed to balance renewables to provide baseload.

If you want to dive into more detail, look at Marc Z Jacobsens studies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09601...

I think advanced geothermal may become a significant part of renewable base load in the future. It would be a huge hail mary for the climate change cause, because it'd make it SO much easier to get political willpower and investments from the whole oil/gas-sector. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2P2stuQ_KY

> It's naive to think we can transition to a "green grid" without nuclear.

Optimistic, but not naive. There's a clear path. Difficult, but not much more difficult than rebooting the nuclear energy industry.

And you have to be optimistic to think we can get to zero CO2-emissions anyway.
Nothing more than my personal experience of living in the boonies for ~20 years then moving to the "big city" for the remaining ~25 years, reading information online, looking at pollution maps, etc.

Edit: here's an example of online pollution maps: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/10/climate/drivi...
The only HAM radio guys I've ever come across (to be fair, as support/sales for a USB Oscilloscope) have been incredibly interested in and passionate about the theory and culture behind citizen band radio.

I remember one of the guys, with no prompting, sharing a map with me showing that there was something like a 2 byte/second emergency radio link between wherever he was and Melbourne.
Are you sure you aren't suffering from a case of confirmation bias here? I have noticed, especially in circles like Twitter or HN that people are very eager to accept and buy into reports that the Russian economy is doing poorly, but if Western sources, media, analysts, companies, think-tanks, and agencies report that Russia might not be doing as poorly as we thought, the amount of suspicion and the level of hard-facts standards suddenly goes through the roof.

This can cause us to reach at rather silly lengths to explain away these reports using whatever reasoning necessary.

On the other hand, maybe you're right, and maybe The Economist, Goldman Sachs, the IMF, and the numerous other sources referenced in the article have all been compromised by the KGB within the past several months and have been turned into Kremlin propaganda pieces.
Sounds like you meant to comment on the LEO Visualization post [1], not this nuclear power plant post.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205563
Be careful with physics-backed statements! It seems many in this thread don't appreciate the energy density requirements of modern baseload. Don't want to crush their solarpunk dreams.
> To have the same taxrate in Denmark you'd have to earn around 650k DKK, so close to 80K euro, not the 36k I am earning.

Or just start contacting, like many SDEs in Poland do, then your effective tax rate (taxes + health insurance + social security) is around 15-17%. The reality in Poland is that full-time employment (as opposed to self-employment) is for suckers.
The end results are not the same. There are many observable differences between doing business in China and in the US or other western market democracies. For instance, executive action is regularly challenged in the US, and successfully so.
Relevant David Foster Wallace

> As I see it, it probably really is good for the soul to be a tourist, even if it’s only once in a while. Not good for the soul in a refreshing or enlivening way, though, but rather in a grim, steely-eyed, let’s-look-honestly-at-the-facts-and-find-some-way-to-deal-with-them way.

>

> My personal experience has not been that traveling around the country is broadening or relaxing, or that radical changes in place and context have a salutary effect, but rather that intranational tourism is radically constricting, and humbling in the hardest wayhostile to my fantasy of being a real individual, of living somehow outside and above it all.

> To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience. It is to impose yourself on places that in all noneconomic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful:

>

> As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.
How can someone's packing tips be "utter nonsense"? That's completely personal.
Ahh fair. I was thinking along the lines of storing the 'base' VM as a memory snapshot and CoWing it per connection to save some initialization overhead perhaps...
Of course there can be. Show me an AST, and I will show you a lisp!
The problem here was sort of ideal for falling through the cracks.

The FAA is an executive administration ultimately organized under Dept. of Transportation. The FCC is an independent executive agency overseen, ultimately, by Congress.

As a result, neither org has unilateral authority to tell the other to go pound sand, nor do their up-org leadership (ultimately, the President v. Congress).

Their inability to find a resolution that didn't leave American pilots floundering is reflective of the inability of the Legislative and Executive branches to work together in modern federal governance, in general. Expect more issues like this in the future.
Heh, for some things.

Tons of reviews saying $900 for the 4080 12GB is insane. The 4080 12GB is after all a 3060 update with 192 bit wide memory interface. Even the 3060 Ti has a 256 bit wide memory interface.

Definitely had me decide to wait to see how AMD does in Nov.
Hard to tell, prices raised unevenly. Real estate have become very expensive. As for day-to-day spendings my unscientific gut feeling tells me that I spend somewhere 25% more. Official figures of inflation something like 12-15%.
Europe Is Likely to Avoid Unusually Cold Winter, Climate Model Says
The research agrees with you. Mind that fossil fuels are cheaper than nuclear.

> *B. Dealing With Variability and Stability*

> Much of the resistance towards 100% Renewable Energy (RE) systems in the literature seems to come from the a-priori assumption that an energy system based on solar and wind is impossible since these energy sources are variable. Critics of 100% RE systems like to contrast solar and wind with ’firm’ energy sources like nuclear and fossil fuels (often combined with CCS) that bring their own storage. This is the key point made in some already mentioned reactions, such as those by Clack et al. [225], Trainer [226], Heard et al. [227] Jenkins et al. [228], and Caldeira et al. [275], [276].

> However, while it is true that keeping a system with variable sources stable is more complex, a range of strategies can be employed that are often ignored or underutilized in critical studies: oversizing solar and wind capacities; strengthening interconnections [68], [82], [132], [143], [277], [278]; demand response [279], [172], e.g. smart electric vehicles charging using delayed charging or delivering energy back to the electricity grid via vehicle-to-grid [181], [280]–[282]; storage (battery, compressed air, pumped hydro)[40]–[43], [46], [83], [140], [142], such as stationary batteries; sector coupling [16], [39], [90]–[92], [97], [132], [216], e.g. optimizing the interaction between electricity, heat, transport, and industry; power-to-X [39], [106], [134], [176], e.g. producing hydrogen at moments when there is abundant energy; et cetera. Using all these strategies effectively to mitigate variability is where much of the cutting-edge development of 100% RE scenarios takes place.

> With every iteration in the research and with every technological breakthrough in these areas, 100% RE systems become increasingly viable. Even former critics must admit that adding e-fuels through PtX makes 100% RE possible at costs similar to fossil fuels. These critics are still questioning whether 100% RE is the cheapest solution but no longer claim it would be unfeasible or prohibitively expensive. Variability, especially short term, has many mitigation options, and energy system studies are increasingly capturing these in their 100% RE scenarios.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910
Interesting... I will have to check it out properly at some point then, thanks for the insight.
Try ground view with debris on.

It looks like Asteroids after you've shot them into 10,000 micro asteroids.

Just needs a UFO going pew-pew...
This is sort of true in this case. People who don't follow GPUs closely, like me, now know that the 4090 is an appealing card and the remaining 4080 deserves the name.
We can see how useful it is by comparing the 1970s accident and death rate with todays. Doing that we'll find that we're spending over a billion dollars per life saved from radiation poisoning. Which is ludicrously inefficient.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Why wasn't the steam engine invented earlier? Part II - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32106467 - July 2022 (304 comments)
The US is an outlier in letting juries hand down such massive damages awards. In most other common law countries, the jury only decides which side wins, and damages are up to the judge-and judges generally show a preference for more reasonable amounts.
There will not be a 4080 12GB card with the specs it was announced with. Basically, "pressing the unlaunch button" is exactly the opposite of doing the announcement. An attempt at "we take back what we said, imagine that nothing happened".
Therapists just play the role close family fulfill in most of East and South Asia. That scales very well but requires a societal monoculture that I’m not sure the west is capable of.
Users have been noticing Google's ads are based on thoughts they had and without any chance of correlation to whatever Google's AI could infer from previous interaction. Same for Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, TikTok.

Big Tech's algorithms have long been tapping into illegal surveillance of an unprecedented kind - besides the cliques of insiders who misuse this for stalking and harassment of children, human rights defenders, activists, minorities and everyone else.

Don't expect them to be honest about their surveillance.
I’ve been thinking about this lately, and I am just getting into AI and NNs so take this with some salt…

A service could easily add something after the fact - like a water mark, but I think if it was mixed in with the content it would get learned and washed out when training or validating the output.

For something more fun you might be able to build a classifier per student that can determine if a student made the text. You’d have to build it based on the students past work - you could then get the probability that that student wrote that paper.

That classifier could also, maybe, be able to find the “voice” of gpt3 vs something else.

You could game that system by using AI from the start, or slowly adding in more and more AI paragraphs, in say, high school - where most of the training data for a student would come from.

On the flip side a clever student could build their own “AI based content generator” (not sure what to call that) and use their own content - which is my latest little side project.
Apple dropped NV because it's too expensive and apple is ruthless about their BOM.

Whats the story about Microsoft and Sony?
https://imgur.com/855O98r
This is truly fascinating.
What mods do you use?

I've tried base mineclone2 and mineclone 5 and they just feel like a clunkier version of minecraft. I played Minecraft Alpha and that was more polished.
With orbital junk visualizations, relative size isn't that important. What matters is collision probability. Low polar sun-synchronous orbits where the remote sensing stuff typically lives are super crowded, especially at the poles; in contrast, GSO is a well kept orbit with low relative velocities, and the dead stuff drifts away, so it's really safe.
Realistic optimists are required to effect change.

Finding negatives is easy. Working through them to a positive result is gold.
Oh those places still exist, for example I would trust #cl-school or the people on the guix matrix.