skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/why-are-nuclear-plan...

"a paper [..] provides some empirical evidence that safety changes have contributed to the cost of building new nuclear reactors. But the study also makes clear that they're only one of a number of factors, accounting for only a third of the soaring costs. The study also finds that, contrary to what those in the industry seem to expect, focusing on standardized designs doesn't really help matters, as costs continued to grow as more of a given reactor design was built."
Rotating Food GIFs from Archive.org
Well, if Germany had more nuclear power they would not be burning gas to help France during the French downtime now would they? Nor would they be restarting coal power plants, the dirtiest form of energy.

It's funny how the Green idea of a large grid that shares power, i.e. it's always windy somewhere, suddenly falls flat when the neighbors wind(nuclear, in this case) is no longer blowing.

The only fault of France is trusting Germany to have a sane power production plan when they entered a peering agreement with them.
You should pitch it to the governments running Xinjiang
> Conventional operations use large amounts of fishmeal and fish oil (and hence more wild fish) in their feed. All rainbow trout on the U.S. market is farmed-raised in the U.S., where farming operations are held to strict environmental standards. Improvements to feed have enabled less wild fish to be used.

https://seafood.edf.org/trout

So I guess they harvest wild fish to feed the farmed fish?
For a similar moto one I saw two problems trying to use microg/lineageos:

1. Bluetooth headset audio had some kind of bug. Something like this is a deal breaker or something you would never notice depending on what you do on the phone I suppose.

2. There's no sign of a key partition to support orange(?) booting. I just see N/A for the keys of whatever OS I might have booted.
I’ve used gpt3 to generate articles. They’re well structured, articulate and make sound points. They’re not good at citations though.

It works even better if you create an outline first and prompt the LLM through that.

The work I’ve generated made me very concerned because it generates undetectable plagiarism/fake work.
Trust me bro
Tricyclics are as good as the SSRI, but they aren't first line because of the secondary effects.
That's excellent! I'm looking forward to seeing that. I'm curious how the "pixel-streaming" works in terms of what protocol is used and what technologies are used on the browser-side.
That's what contractors have been doing since forever.

The output requested at a job can often be "not that much".

Where you lose me is on employment contracts making this illegal, that's quite a risky proposition.

Why not just get jobs as a contractor and be upfront?
I never figured out how to login on teddit. Do you need to host your own instance or something?
TLDR: “Li and his fellow Chinese money launderers married market forces: drug lords wanting to get rid of dollars and a Chinese elite desperate to acquire dollars. The new model blew away the competition.”

Comment: Nation states have been waging asymmetric warfare for long time, this is not new. China has become a major player in the illegal drug trade by supplying money laundering and chemicals [1]. Oldest modern reference I am aware of on the topic as it relates to China is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army titled Unrestricted Warfare.[2]

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[1] https://google.com/search?q=china+fentanyl

[2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare
I dread the day Google contrives some trick to make Picasa do this. That and Paint Shop Pro 8 are still going strong on my parents’ new computers.
Authentication and authorization: I hand it off to Firebase identity management. But you can also just issue your own JWTs. You can run full applications in GCR like KeyCloak or IdentityServer. But the Firebase identity solution is really good.

Example here: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/dn6-firebase

Persistent data: Firestore (or Supabase, Planetscale, or CockroachDB if you want relational). On other platforms, I've used Azure CosmosDB which has a pay-as-you-go model which is practically free for hobby/POC use cases.

Secrets: depends on how secret it is; actual keys go into secrets manager in GCP which integrates with Cloud Run. Otherwise, you can configure it as an environment variable.
This looks amazing, great work!

A web-based "Minecraft" has great potential, in my opinion, and has long been a dream of mine. My humble attempt at such a project: https://satoshinm.github.io/NetCraft/ (2017) - a port of Michael Fogleman's Craft, a simple Minecraft clone written in C, ported to the web using WebAssembly and Emscripten. It works, reasonably well (after a few small enhancements/fixes to Emscripten) but did not get very far. But it could be so much more, a "metaverse", if you will.

Minetest is a much more sophisticated application: paradust7's minetest-wasm port, even in its early stages, is already quite impressive. If it can be optimized, with streamlined add-on installation, seamless multiplayer/networking support, browser compatibility improved - I would not be surprised if this project catches on and gives Minecraft a run for its money.

Having the ability to easily casually play within a web browser, no install needed, is a massive advantage over the Java or C++ implementations of Minecraft - which have not (officially) embraced modding to the extent Minetest has. If successful, this project could capture the large and diverse community of Minecraft modders - able to more seamlessly deliver their creative content through the web. Excited to see how it develops further.
Wow, the criticism of his "Faces of Affiction" work is spot on.

From his Istanbul post:

>Because being an addict here is an ugly and gross rebellion against a town that feels like a single massive mosque. A place that is welcoming, humble, peaceful, and sublimely beautiful. It is like pissing on an alter. A gross, ugly, and rebellious act that will bring scorn and shame. Both in the physical and spiritual world.
US cities by comparison have all the ethos of an office park. Drab, soulless, and endlessly competitive, where selfishness is rewarded. Being an addict there is like pissing on the drab shrub at the edge of a massive parking lot. It doesn’t feel that wrong. It even feels a little right. Especially if your a tad depressed. A tad isolated. A tad lonely. And many people are."

There is an issue here with this attempt at documenting people but without taking the time to learn and understand how to do it respectfully, ethically, and with consideration to the people he's observing. I want to believe his motivation comes from a good place, that he wants to bring attention to people's lives... but the way his writing reads sounds more like the fetishization of the marginalized and elitism over exceptionalism. It sounds like "yes I'm privileged but unlike those other privileged people I talk to the poors", because rather than centering the voices of the people he claims to "inhabit their tiny slice of the world"(while claiming his goal is "to better understand how they see the universe and their place in it") he dishes out his value judgements. The hubris that all you need to get an idea of how people live is to... show up. He does write that he sees traveling as fiction with the plot written in real time- evidently with him as the MC. He seems to want to change for the better though, and I hope he learns to invest a little more time into figuring out how to look at people's lives more respectfully than as entertainment.
You seem to have a lot of complaints about the internet and they may even be valid concerns on their own, but I fail to see how this relates to CLI vs. GUI. Google Reader would still be dead if you interacted with it via CLI. GitHub would still be dead if their servers shut down. Maybe you're equating CLI with some "good old days" that you fondly remember?
yes. reading some of your twitter posts I'd say I share your sentiment on how codex will upend the programming world. but I think better integrations and statement of intents need to be more fleshed out, given openAI & friends are tech companies and not user companies, the UX part will take time.
That's fair. It seems both issues have now been fixed[1].

I still think the approach of reporting this by the Deno developer was unnecessarily hostile.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33199911
What tech is powering this?

Is it unity or Godot or something?
There are many ways to solve the specific problem of overfishing, mostly to set aside zones where fishing is not allowed so the population can recover. This is at the level of government and states, having little to do with anything within my power.
> If the expelled state wants to claim that is illegal-there is no court with jurisdiction to hear their claim.

The ICJ has jurisdiction to hear treaty violation cases between states, but no one to rely on to enforce their decisions.
It enables smart cities with more surveillance to keep us all safe.
I don't get why they equate Picasso with Hitler. That seems pretty extreme.

Anyway, this news comes the same day as a story about protesters throwing soup at a Van Gogh painting, which includes other examples of the same group pretending ruining art is going to make people stop using oil. (Besides, how much oil did they use to get to and from the galleries in order to pull these stunts anyway?)

What is all this focus on destroying art about all of a sudden? Are we too good for our cultural past now?
From the landing page:

There was also a nice conversation on Hacker News about Collapse OS (and then another one and another one), but I didn't participate because I don't have a HN account.

While the author has no obligation to be interested or care what HN thinks, silly excuses like this are a red flag about any kind of tech project. My personal impression is the author is doing this from some mix of demonstrating how clever and low-level they are and nostalgia for earlier days of computing.

If the motivation was truly practical it would be a recipe for a cheap minimum viable stock of computing, storage, and power resources based on accessible commodity hardware, plus a distro of knowledge and software tools (Wikipedia, a patent database, a robust scientific development environment) that could do some industrial grade computation on sub-day timescales.

If you didn't want to be reliant on electronics at all, curate a high quality scientific library of books printed on Tyvek or with laminated pages, stored in a shipping container, and then make as many copies as possible and store them in geographically stable locations.
I think the reason for the heat is framing it as "it's impossible to survive".
I meant worst case, if sufficient scale for batteries is not immediately available, you’re still going to get lots of green power most days. Of course with wind you’d prob get power at night too. Either way the immediacy of this roll out is better than waiting 10-15 years for a nuclear plant to come online, even if storage takes a few years to fully meet demand.
coming back to this - amazing what you can accomplish with String.intern() and switching to Shenandoah GC. Memory usage is about 2.2gb now for 800mb of cache entries: http://media-server.fastcomments.com:8881/stats

About 500mb of that is netty SSL session cache...
Self-Powered Edible Defrosting Sensor – ACS Sensors
Even Sabine would not do it.
1) yes the financial system of the west (letting private banks print money to gamble on wallstreet) is insane (instead of supporging humans with ideas that might create jobs

2) No matter how much or how little one earns, 10% from the money coming in (at the first day of the month not at the last day) should go straight to savings account or even better: into silver or gold

Still have to find a bank account that can automate this
Ask HN: Any recommended Nginx log analyzer?
I'd like to understand where my traffic is coming from, which pages are most popular and so on but I don't want to use Google Analytics or anything else that is invasive.

Does anyone know of a simple tool to analyze Nginx logs? Perhaps a simple binary I can easily run?
This is some sort of horse-race journalism for quarterly and yearly economic indicators. The news are not good for Russia.

The more interesting comment was buried at the end - the IMF have upgraded the GDP growth from -6% to -3%, but that is apparently due to military spending (demand side of the economy). That is still negative. And even the military stimulus ils not something they can do indefinitely. Eventually OPEC+ will lower oil prices and Russia will suffer immensely.

In the long run the supply side is heavily damaged due to sanctions, lack of investment and brain-drain.
This is a PCB wrapped around a black box chip HDMI to USB chip, according to the article. Is that interesting all by itself? I expected that open source HDMI capture would involve an FPGA or similar decoding the HDMI signal.
And also tube matching for us tube guitar amp users.
Much like most decisions have been made by humanity since the dawn of time, yes.
Alberta regulator says anyone with the title “software engineer” must pay fees
"Disappearance" is a weird way to say overfishing. It's not like someone cast a spell or something.
Well, you need both GWh and GW ratings for storage - how much fits in storage, and how fast can you add and remove stored energy.
Several reasons. It started during COVID times when it was not clear if we are facing new economic crisis. So wealthy people used real estate to protect their savings. Then the government decided to support construction companies by subsidising mortgage for young families and as a result stimulating demand. And now again uncertainty of current situation stimulate people invest their savings in something safe. On the other hand sellers were afraid that ruble will fail significantly and raised prices so high that sells almost stopped. Right now prices to real estate are going down a bit.
I just wish there were some way to back up my messages on iOS. Their built in transfer doesn’t work. Luckily it didn’t delete all my messages like it did to my friend :/
You don't get out much do you? Not if you consider that a hellscape.
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That said, there are a host of caveats. Even the best behaving systems didn't play Pong all that well. The best performing control systems, which were likely to be moving the paddle randomly, consistently outperformed the average trained neural networks, and the worst performances by trained systems were worse than the average control neural networks. So, while the boost in performance was statistically significant, you couldn't necessarily identify a trained, functional system just by watching it play Pong.

The second thing is that there were a lot of individual tests done by the researchers: different measures of performance, different amounts of training, multiple controls, and so on. As such, you'd expect some good results to pop up purely due to chance. So, what you have to look for here is whether the good-looking results consistently point in the same direction.

That consistency appears to be there. The effect was seen in both human and mouse neurons, and several measures of success all moved in parallel: average length of rallies and total number of rallies with at least three bounces off the paddle went up, while the number of "aces" where the paddle never touches the ball went down. Giving no feedback when a game ends with the ball crossing the end line produced performance that was intermediate between trained systems and control systems. Combined, these suggest that there's a real effect there, even if the individual tests produced fairly weak results.
YIMBYism without markets or supply and demand
Other sources I've seen are blaming the dramatic heat during the summer of 2019. It "scrambled the broader marine ecosystem" causing die-offs and migrations for many species of fish. Snow Crabs are primarily deep water scavengers so they had plenty of food that year, but have struggled since.
"Metacognition" is a better term for what many refer to as consciousness.
PHP-FPM can be so unreliable too. It'll just go down randomly without any warning or logs at all. As you said, it's impossible to debug what happens there and all you can really do is setup monitoring to detect it went down and automatically restart it.
I'm tired, dang. I wanted to delete this account, but I'm not allowed to do so. I didn't use it for years until I tried to contact someone here. Now, when I even try to submit something here into which I've poured effort, it doesn't appear in the new section until after it can no longer qualify for the front page, as an underhanded method of trying to make me believe no one cares about it.

Why is Hacker News filled with political nonsense that gets hundreds of comments, while the programming topics get few or go ignored? It is so frustrating to try to have a conversation here, where people rather downvote and flag than write rebuttals. I tried to contribute to this forum, but my novel work goes ignored; my submission here with highest score merely hit hipster bingo.

What am I supposed to do?
Is it xenophobic when your own comment cites that exact behavior?
> Over 2 decades of pirating that has only been a problem for obscure and old stuff.

It's a common problem for old stuff like you said, very new stuff with specific formats. It's an issue for new stuff because it often doesn't have enough starting seeds, and people leaving as soon as they're done watching/downloading doesn't help the situation. Before I've discovered usenet this was a very common issue for me.

Then there is specific file formats like chunky movie rips with Dolby Vision + Dolby Atmos + Dolby Yet Another Audio Format + all of that again in 5 languages. People will often choose a different release to download, and that leads to fewer seeds.

I know a group of people on a popular torrent tracker that just downloading everything and seed forever. They do entirely for free. Those petabytes will probably rot once they...die.
Pardon my ignorance, but how in the hell do we get other things into space with all of this in way?
If you're reading this, then this Gamma Ray Burst is not going to hurt you.

Gamma ray bursts were first detected by satellites that had been designed to watch for nuclear weapons on Earth. They kept reporting super high energy radiation events-- bursts -- but there were no other signs of nuclear explosions. They were seeing light from outer space.

The short duration of these bursts, along with the extreme energy level of the photons, impose constraints on the type of event that could emit such light.

Light moves really fast, but it doesn't move infinitely fast, and nothing else can happen faster than light. Anything violent enough to shine mostly in gamma rays is going to be pretty much the only thing going on at the source: a big explosion. A burst two minutes long generally means that the source is two light-minutes wide. Something that would fit inside the orbit of planet Mercury. For example. It gives you an idea of limits that can be placed on the phenomena that might cause such a thing.

NOT_IMPOSSIBLE + REALLY_UNUSUAL = SCIENCE!
Eating is a top five reason for me to travel, maybe top three.

I know, not everyone's like me, that's fine. "Just don't eat, it'll make your vacation easier" is nonetheless one of the stranger life hacks I've seen proposed.

I think you're saying this with a straight face?
They could have died from the crab equivalent of a deadly heatwave. I agree fishing is the most likely reason but I can think of others.
The GP lists some ways that a terminal-only workflow limits you.

>Modern UIs try to go back to the original document UI concept but TOTALLY fails for the interactive part, they are mere view where you can touch some knobs someone else placed there for you, nothing more, and try to bend them is a nightmare.

I don't see this as a bad thing. I want someone responsible for the product to figure out the best way to use it via a focused set of controls and inputs. Some people fail at this, others are amazing.
The entire fuselage for the last 737 NG to be built had to be scrapped, and a new one had to be fabricated by the supplier, because certain parts were so out of tolerance that the wings could not be fitted.

https://twitter.com/aeroimageschris/status/11524425725533265...

https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1427119

edit - “Mad Dad” - that’s either a great typo or great use of alliteration.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/03/13/905323/ai-lie-de...

Skip to the end for the tl;dr:

The foundational premise of AI lie detection is that lies are there to be seen with the right tools. Psychologists still don’t know how valid that claim is [...]. The promise of a window into the inner lives of others is too tempting to pass up, even if nobody can be sure how clear that window is.

“It’s the promise of mind-reading,” says Wilde. “You can see that it’s bogus, but that’s what they’re selling.”
I’m honestly confused. The ATM doesn’t choose the exchange rate, your bank does. I use my own bank’s ATM card to pull out cash in foreign countries and it’s always the correct exchange rate, and always the same as using a credit card (which OP says is a good rate?).
The Street View cars log information about wifi access points, and use wifi data from your device to guess your location.
I heard recently of a study that found 2-4 hours is sufficient along with an interconnected grid.
We use Gin for searching cyber asset configuration at Resmo. It works good enough because users search for specific things like "logs bucket" or UUIDs and there are exact matches. Typos are not important. But if they'd be, Postgres search is not very helpful. But it beats hosting another thing just for this use case if you'd be happy enough.
>> https://youtu.be/fEkXTV69yo4?t=22s

Holy S$#! I didn't know about that.

Are there links between this Space Force project and Starlink?
I love sqlite's FTS. I have a number of personal projects where I have an archive of data and want to occasionally be able to do ad-hoc searches over and get reasonable ranking and results. Throwing sqlite fts at the problem gets me that in just a few lines of code.

You can even combine it with a sqlite vfs[0] to run full text searches against a sqlite db stored in s3 relatively efficiently.

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/sqlite3vfshttp
I think there are "shitty" schools, and then there are _shitty_ schools.

A "shitty" public school is probably generally underfunded, but at least has the decent-enough quality of teachers/parents to lead the motivated kids to the right information. That way those kids can go on in their own time and study enough to make it to professional jobs in the real world, although most of these kids will never make it to top-tier colleges due to optics of their schools.

A _shitty_ public school lacks even generally-caring teachers, and often suffers net-negative because of the parents. Kids in these schools grow up ignorant of what to learn, much less how to learn it.
> nuclear's great value and doesn't need the state to underwrite everything from the disaster liability insurance on downwards, great, go knock yourself out; get finance, get approvals,

Every significant solar energy installation in the world was built with massive government subsidies.
The satellites are not to scale, most are very small.
I've used goaccess https://goaccess.io/

It's single binary and you can do lot of analysis using it
Fully agree with your take on this.
Looks like this article was written in 2008. I wonder if the population has rebounded in the last 15 years at all.