skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost is a separate issue/argument from simply being able to provide baseload energy to modern society. Let's imagine we generate enough renewable energy to power modern society. What is the cost of overhauling our grid to dynamically distribute it in a way that avoids rolling blackouts? We're talking about reinventing our society to revolve around several transient energy sources. Nuclear stays on essentially 24/7, has enormous output, and the input cost is so insignificant that even if the cost of uranium increased 5x, it would barely change the cost of energy for consumers.
But the knowledge we gain is only about triggering the bad paths of human brain, like addiction, greed, FOMO, etc. And who is "we" anyway, this stuff isn't public.
Backwards compatibility (i.e. practicality) has been one of Microsoft’s strategic advantages. Just like compound interest, it accretes value in a powerful way.
Autocomplete requires CPU cycles for the lookup and "jump to definition" requires an index to be built somewhere (CPU again, but also mem/disk space). Modern computers can handle both efficiently nowadays, but not a simple task back then.
A90J is, by the research I did and the word of the person who sold it to me (a family friend, has owned a TV business for 25 years, and gave me his at-cost price), the best. I absolutely love it. And yes, the panel + heatsink are top notch. Some other models/brands use the same panel, but lack the stronger heatsinks, and aren't able to utilize it as best as possible.

It runs Android TV, which may or may not be a dealbreaker for you, but I enjoy it enough. I just wanted to be free of a vendor-specific TV os, in order to give myself more flexibility when I try to set up a pi-hole in the future. There's also a hardware switch to disable the TV's microphone.

Also, the sound comes out from the panel itself, and is (to me) great. It calibrates itself using the microphone within the remote, by having you hold it a certain way when performing setup.

Finally, there's an incredibly posh and satisfying 'click' noise when you turn it off. I don't know why, but this makes me like the TV more.
> Do you remember the last Apple ad?

Yes, and dear God am I sick of it. AFAICT, they've bought all advertising space on the web, mobile, and TV for me, at the moment. (It's the one of the iPhone auto-dialing 911 in a wreck.)

I'm (still) not buying an iPhone.
The same way we found oil for the last century and a half; we explore and produce based on the price of the commodity. Lithium is one of the most abundant materials in the Earth's crust.
Yeah, that's the one we've had a lot of problems with.

> And stronger yet when the database is unusable due to an incident the cpu is maxed out and it doesnt allow any successful connection, nothing is detected

Apparently Azure's storage system that backs this uses some sort of thread pool and the thread pool can lock up/become exhausted leading to I/O starvation. When this happens, connection attempts fail. When the connection attempts fail, it can lead to a connection storm where all these new connections rolling in exhaust the CPU. The telltale indicator is Postgres checkpoints getting behind.

All the while, the DB I/O metrics look like they're completely fine because it's not hitting an I/O limit, it's hitting thread pool exhaustion in the some storage system under the instance, outside of Postgres.

You can also get some clues if this is the problem by enabling Performance Insights and checking the Waits tab. If all the top waits are related to I/O activity, that's another dead giveaway the storage system is locked up again. You can just web search the name of the waits to see what causes them. AWS has some nice docs detailing Postgres waits
ProPublica also reports on HSBC money laundering: https://www.propublica.org/article/hsbcs-money-laundering-la...
It sounds like you are saying "Yes, but its justified because they stole first". Is that what you meant?
For context, suppose Vogtle 3 & 4 generates 2200 MW during 16 hours of winter darkness. That's 35.2 GWh. If you had to replace that with Tesla Powerwalls you'd need 2.6 million of them or 22 copies of Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility (the world's largest). And that's back of the envelope numbers assuming a 100% duty cycle for the batteries and no degradation.
or just to say "hey", like the old far side comic with a canine decoder

https://elorganillero.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/canine-...
It's the ultimate riddle.
The ICJ only has jurisdiction to hear cases where either (1) the treaty in question explicitly grants it jurisdiction; (2) a state has lodged a declaration with the ICJ accepting its jurisdiction in general; or (3) the states agree to the ICJ resolving this particular dispute.

For NATO, (1) is not applicable-there is no clause in the North Atlantic Treaty granting the ICJ jurisdiction. (3) is very unlikely-if NATO member states decided to expel a member, why would they voluntarily agree to let the expellee challenge the decision in court?

For (2), several NATO states - the US is one - have withdrawn their general acceptance of ICJ jurisdiction (or never accepted it to begin with). Even for those who do accept it, the ICJ’s case law says that it cannot hear a case unless all involved states are either subject to, or voluntarily accept, its jurisdiction. It would consider all NATO member states to be involved states, so it could only hear the case if they all consented to it-not happening.
You might be right.

But note that the KGB doesn't need to fully compromise some trusted medias. It's often just an "opinion" paper, from one guy. You just have to influence a few journalists. And it might not always be money. It might be embarassing intel, like things ready to be "leaked", it might be promises, conflict of interests... And then there are always people doing it for free, because they have come to believe the Russian State Media alternate reality.
Fossil fuel energy isn't cheaper than nuclear, the deaths they cause aren't priced in. Coal kills 25 people per TWh, and the NRC uses an actuarial cost of $9M per death. That means coal should be $0.35/kWh.
I think if you set speed to 1, it's realtime.
Sure, you can use a photocopier as a lie detector if your subject is sufficiently gullible. The real questions are why you think it's needed and what level of abuse/misapplication you're willing to be responsible for.

If your use cases cases as described in the OP are for real rather than satirical, you are a naive person and should spend more time reading about the history of technology to understand how and why good intentions can have catastrophic outcomes.
Ah, okay.

Yes, I always had the impression nuclear proponents vastly underestimate the time and work such a plant takes.
*Stop electing govts with poor fiscal spending.
Nuclear power has been in use in the United States for over 70 years without a single fatality to a member of the general public. Better than any other energy source.

A few plant and supply chain workers have been killed, but again, fewer than with any other source (mining coal and climbing on roofs and towers to install wind and solar is dangerous, yo).

Since I've been muzzled again:

> Climbing on the roof of a two story house to install solar panels is considerably less dangerous than building a nuclear power plant. Yo.

In terms of workers killed per watt-hour generated?

No, it isn't. It's not even close. Yo.
> considered to be sustainably harvested (by NOAA, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, others)

maybe they considered incorrectly, based on historical data that doesn't reflect recent conditions

also possibly that regulations are being flaunted by bad actors

it could seem improbable that either of those would lead to a sudden catastrophic decline, but many systems do experience a point where what had been a linear decline suddenly craters in a non-linear fashion
I don't know much about snow crab but Dungeness and various oysters in the Pacific Northwest US are threatened by rising ocean acidity caused by increased CO2. Warmer water is also allowing green crabs to take hold. Farther south urchins have killed off a lot of kelp forest in a way that seems not to self-correct. Easy to imagine there are similar problems all over the ocean.
Why are you assuming that the poster is hinting at China when his comment didn't mention the country?
We (I work at a crypto startup with about 100 employees now) finally reached the size where we need both internal and external docs. Before, we lived with whatever crappy confluence page I could write. Or we just relied on word of mouth. And that works when you have fewer employees and clients. But there are more now (of both) than I can keep up with. I think a lot of crypto companies are in a similar position right now. Were actually a bit ahead of schedule

That's why we just hired out first two technical writers.

I cannot comment on EA. Do you mean Electronic Arts? Sorry for my ignorance...
They sold reactors for 3 billion a piece but it cost them 11 billion to build the first one because they didn't have and couldn't find the necessary competence.
From your bio:

> SEO, and Marketing are my passions. Over the last 36-months my ads have made $1.36+ million in sales.

> Our ability to change the earth for the worse exceeds our willingness to change ourselves for the better.

You know what you're talking about.
I've worked in a social network with feeds. Feeds are hard. Both fan-out on write vs fan-in on read both have upsides and downsides. Either way, it's "cheap" problem to solve in a couple of dozen lines of code.

When I said that you can't batch, I meant that each tweet will be at least one transaction. Async write with batching like you suggested will have a horrible user-experience, also your client often is a mobile device or browser - how do you deliver a callback from server there?

Nah, how many inserts your laptop can make and how many tweets created in a unit of time are two irrelevant metrics.
I’m still not understanding your point.

I must pay for socialized education regardless if I use the service. I might choose to not use this service because I lack children or I may choose a different provider. But this doesn’t mean I don’t have to pay my taxes if I don’t want to use a gov service.

What makes adults with kids special that they don’t have to pay this tax when they don’t want to use the service?

I'm struggling to think of a single public service that you can get a refund if you don't use it. Even private services like health insurance don't refund you money because you chose a provider outside your network.
Yes. I think it's pretty obvious:

a) it's not any kind of science in the first place

b) it is in fact charity and

c) it's poorly and unfairly directed charity

I'm not critiquing the authors. I'm critiquing the dumb social program.

The article said it was a "pilot" program and talks about unlocking their full potential. I'd certainly hope that was the point to just about any charitable program - so why pick this demographic over that one?
A nice installer is ideal, but more work to setup I think (I've never figured out how to write an installer so far). And I want the ability to download many versions and put them side by side for eg. running old versions, or bisecting bugs.
The FDA has officially declared a shortage of Adderall
oh, that's magical :D
No, because literally every business that exists wants to advertise. (And also organizations that aren't businesses, like NGO's and government agencies and non-profits.)
Simply put: Crypto needs good writers to help explain and educate the new burgeoning technology.

Early adopters struggle in this area.
What is the biggest Gen-IV design ever built, in MW terms? Is it the 200MW Pebble Bed reactors in China that just started powering lights at the very end of last year? Given how difficult it has been to build the much more well-understood PWR reactors, I can understand the skepticism for trying to build a Gen-IV design.
I disagree that developers should spend valuable engineering time on producing games that can’t be run. Spend that time making other games instead, or squashing bugs (looking at you, cyberpunk!) and maybe keep a backlog of future features to patch in when the hardware gets there.
Here is a good overview of the problem (and the controversy):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousnes...
Like Dennett's book "Consciousness Explained", the Aeon article falls into the category of explaining what we are conscious of, not how it is possible to be conscious of anything at all. It does not really tackle Chalmers "hard problem of consciousness", despite the subtitle.
Another balance is to just use real resources in CI with some concurrency control to make sure a single build runs at once. Locally, you continue to use mocks/stubs/fakes

You still get assurance from testing but reduce the amount of places you run the "expensive" (time, resource, $) tests
There is a limited set of knobs a developer can add without increasing their development costs. If you ship a set of "ultra mega extreme" textures that will only be usable with future hardware you are still bloating the download by many gigabytes, probably dozens or even hundreds. If your dev team says they can make even better shadows but not on today's hardware then is it really worth the development effort to create them now? You can multiply particle effects to crazy amounts but that ends up looking silly.
The cost of generation is not the same thing as the net cost of transitioning an energy grid to a different energy source. Wind and solar have cheap generation, but have much greater infrastructure costs than nuclear.

Storage is a huge one, we don't have effective means of storage besides hydroelectric dams which are geographically limited. Lithium ion batteries still take over $500/KWh to install (the <$200 figures are for the battery cells themselves, omitting the cost of installation, transformers, maintenance, etc.). And they're set to increase as raw materials are strained [1][2]. This is why plans to transition to a majority renewable grid typically assume that hydrogen, or some other form of storage will provide storage at a fraction of the cost of existing storage methods. Nobody has actually built commercial hydrogen storage, though, so this is a big assumption.

There's also the cost of transmission. Energy dense sources like nuclear power can be placed close to electricity demand. But low-density sources by definition need to be spread out and distributed. Decentralized generation is not a good thing, as it requires more transmission infrastructure to support. It's not uncommon for renewable projects to be denied because the infrastructure can't handle the transmission requirements [3].

Nuclear avoids these issues. It's a non-intermittent source with the greatest capacity factor of any generation system. Downtime is usually scheduled. This eliminates the need for storage. It's also energy dense. It can be used in place of existing fossil fuel heat engines, avoided in the need to make large build-outs of transmission infrastructure.

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/7/7/lithiums-insane-c...

2. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium

3. https://www.vox.com/videos/22685707/climate-change-clean-ene...
Bill Gates in India
I suppose it depends on perspective. MC Alpha these days lacks performance optimisation, and cannot beat the extensibility of Minetest IMO.
College isn't that cheap unfortunately.
We’ll break it till it’s fixed! Bearings will continue until morale improves! Breakfast and move things!
Advertising today is figuring out the preferences and behavioral patterns of different social groups. It's not based on economics, it's mostly stats and probability theory.
Maybe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32940495
> when you want to do more than quickly update a few files, you need a full Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

I remember that when I was developing with compiled languages ages ago (C and Java) I had an emacs configuration to compile and debug from within the editor. Eventually I gaved up emacs when writing Java and switched to Netbeans and Eclipse. Then I switched to interpreted languages (Ruby, Node, Python) and I'm using emacs again. Plain modes for those languages, no autocompleters except a very basic language indipendent one and it works like a charm. It also works like that with Elixir and Phoenix, which autocompiles itself. It's been probably 10 years since I installed an IDE on one of my computers.
In a month or two they'll probably sell them as 4070 or maybe 4070 Ti cards
intelligence creates and experiences all that
Sure! You can also use a Model T for all your auto needs.
Nope! Would still be fun to try, though.
that's as much as it is in europe
> (s)he

English has a perfectly cromulent singular neutral, no need for that.
I wrote a book, Computer Engineering for Babies. I’ve sold about 25k copies in the last 12 months, but I don’t have a publisher, a marketing team, or even an Amazon listing. I talked to a publisher once, they told me if you sell 10k books you can easily be classified as a best seller. But The NY Times, or anyone else, doesn’t care about some guy selling baby books out of his living room, and I don’t care enough about awards to try chasing them.
Golang Time.Parse
I recently discovered that Go's time and date utilities use the date "Jan 2 03:04:05pm MST 2006" as template values in order to parse and format dates.
Pascal equivalent of C union is a variable record. Nowadays in Delphi (Free Pascal still doesn't have that) records can be used as classes, with their own members and just like classes, their functionality can be expanded using some sort of inheritance mechanism called "helper". Actually, in Delphi, the only difference between a class object and a record object is that classes allow dynamic allocation while records are instantiated on stack from beginning all the way to the end of the program.

You should try Delphi nowadays, it has plenty of modern languages concepts implemented. Not to mention the compiler speed and the cross platform capability for all OS'es that matter.
But the non-conservative governments are also the ones that drove prices so high by preventing building new homes and making it harder to start businesses.
You can't enumerate DNS entries. (And not even privately: some of our (DNS) entries are wildcards, CNAMEs, etc. all make that hard.)

We do (now) follow the CT logs for ourselves. That catches some cases, but not everything.
The 24 they mention in the article are full time it looks like - does that change your mindset either way?
I’m in a high tax bracket but I still live paycheck to paycheck. Progressive income taxation doesn’t seem to be a likely solution.
Creating zones is one thing, enforcement is another. Hopefully technology can help solve this because I honestly don't see any other way - the oceans are too vast.
Or you could think of it like sharing. Generally speaking people create governments to help solve collective problems and then create laws. Charging tax is not considered a crime; it's one of the functions of government.
Wikipedia says its not expected to recover to sustainable levels until 2030. Mind that they take 2-8 years to reach sexual maturity and were reduced to 1% of original population level, so a span of decades to recover is pretty sadly expected.
> Unfortunately the world now revolves around [gui] web browsers. We brought this technologically retarded hellscape on ourselves and we deserve it.

This seems like rose colored glasses, maybe there was a very small period of time where there was a wide variety of things you could do in a terminal, but for business purposes it was mostly native GUI’s which suffer from the same problems as the web if not worse (maybe only better because they were harder to make so there were a lot less of them)
We are in an economic recession, so even if the people have the money, many are not willing to spend it on a graphic card. If you also consider parts of the world like Europe where the price of electricity more than doubled and the power consumption of 4xxx series (practically secondary room heaters), there are even less people here willing to pay the price.
> The baseload[1] (also base load) is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a span of time, for example, one week. This demand can be met by unvarying power plants,[2] dispatchable generation,[3] or by a collection of smaller intermittent energy sources,[4] depending on which approach has the best mix of low cost, availability and high reliability in any particular market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load

"Base load" on the power generation side has only ever been a side effect of economics, not an intrinsic property of the electrical grid.
You get me read the article. Here is the timeline according to the article:

1) Lufthansa said Airtag was banned:

"Hi David, Lufthansa is banning activated AirTags from luggage as they are classified as dangerous and need to be turned off./Mony"

2) Lufthansa clarified why it banned AirTag:

"According to ICAO guidelines, baggage trackers are subject to the dangerous goods regulations. Furthermore, due to their transmission function, the trackers must be deactivated during the flight if they are in checked baggage and cannot be used as a result. /Ana"

3) Lufthansa backtracked, implying that it was the government who was wrong and they only followed the rules:

"The German Aviation Authorities (Luftfahrtbundesamt) confirmed today, that they share our risk assessment, that tracking devices with very low battery and transmission power in checked luggage do not pose a safety risk. With that these devices are allowed on Lufthansa flights."

4) Lufthansa confirmed with NYT that AirTag was allowed after all.

All I can see is Lufthansa was wrong, double down, had to reverse the course with some vague excuses, and still haven't admitted they were wrong. What exactly is out of proportion? When they said they banned it without clear explanation, it inevitably opened the door to speculation, and lost luggage is an obvious explanation.

I have to question your bias against the media here. As for using "face plant", "awkwardly", don't you see the walking back earlier tweets, but not admitting error, as anything but awkward?
If Germany would have more nuclear power plants it would have more nuclear waste without nuclear repository.

More problems like Asse and Brunsbüttel
Seems they didn't review their code :-)
Just as handwavy as any other explanation of consciousness. I can make an electronic device that runs a Python program that predicts how input affects the device. That doesn't make the device conscious.
Hmm it looks like my idea of buying an AMD G series CPU with integrated graphics so I can wait out the current video card market was a stroke of genius.
I suspect they're trying to maximize profits before the 25% GPU tariff comes back. Then they can get good PR for keeping their GPUs at the same overly inflated price
There was at least one piece of good news this year. The river that hosts the Fat Bear competition had a record number of salmon this year. I think the estimate was 74 million.
I'm not sure I see the evidence you're invoking? "Grid meltdowns" are quite rare, actually, and on the whole electrical infrastructure has been getting more reliable over time, not less.

And in any case the two biggest "meltdown" events in recent history in the USA were in... Texas, and had to do with weather effects on fossil fuel generators.
In previous collapses such organizations sounded the alarm well before. Something else is happening.
The "best selling" lists have some pretty "strict" criteria, and they're all kind of lame, even if arguably some are there to prevent "gaming" the system.

And "best selling" as a substitute for quality doesn't hold that well, either.
Not going to agree on that one, the message was generally Nvidia is screwing gamers, but ANYTHING else.

Much like the general news of AMD server chips, tons of press on Intel's shrinking Xeon marketshare. Sure people are talking about Intel, as a lesson on what not to do.
I wouldn't be willing to bet my economy on that.