skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any parties who seek to gain a more thorough understanding of why nuclear power solves many (if not all) of today's power needs here's a resource that exlores mostly the benefits.

Freakonics podcast E516 (https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nuclear-power-isnt-perfect-...)

Also, there was a paper written by a NYC analyst firm from approximately 5 years ago that spends significant time crunching the numbers between green vs nuclear solutions and demonstrates the pros/cons of both solutions. This paper provides a very good baseline to start the process of assessing costs of either solution relative to the amount of power output from a specific solution. Unforunately, I seem to have misplaced the link but I'm sure someone can dig it up.

IEA (https://www.iea.org/reports/nuclear-electricity)

Energy.gov (https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliab...)
- Demonstrates the sheer capacity that nuclear has over other solutions. Spoiler alert - you might be pleasantly surprised.

TL;DR - Nuclear offers significnantly more benefits than most ppl (in this thread) seem to realize after you actually consider the output capacities of the different solutions.
In general, when travelling internationally, it is just easier to leave your phone at home and buy a cheap phone with a prepaid plan when you get to country. This avoids all of the potential intrusions that come with passing through security and borders.
Is this still the same chip but with 20% cores disabled due to manufacturing issues? That at least would explain the same name.
Interesting how everyone screaming about trusting an expert has never trusted an expert regarding epistemology. The problem isn't that the criteria are subjective, but that they get appropriated by politics if this is not institutionally prevented.
It is to me. "Up to“ is weasel language. It might support 100k homes for a few moments on an ideal day
Its just something I have observed over the years. Its like a different internet with a good vpn. Recent examples that come to mind- Starbucks.jp blocks logins from non Japanese ip addresses, I had to use a vpn to buy some merchandise even with local address and card. And space ALC the translation site runs super slowly outside Japan (like way beyond pacific ocean latency).
The made it mandatory in 2020: https://estatousa.com/esta-social-media-question/
Happy to hear and thank you for the encouragement!

It means a lot to me
Exactly. When the downsides look like $200 billion in emergency spending[1] , you start to wonder if there are any adults in the room anymore

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/margrethe-vestager-eu-german...
Thank you so much! That’s the exact one. I’ll upload it to imgur, since scihub urls tend to die over time: https://imgur.com/a/vdQP17I

The details are presented at the end of page 2. You can see on page 3 that the whole thing is a glorified “I can make neurons go to zero!” machine.

It kills me because there is real value in this work — the ability to modify neurons is a useful thing to be able to do. Showing that you can set them to specific values is worthwhile.

But that wasn’t what it was presented as. The focus was on the idea that the neurons somehow learned something. Maybe they did, and maybe time will prove me a fool by showing that this is how neurons learn in general. But it was so disheartening to spend hours carefully going over every detail, full of excitement at the possibility of machines that can learn… only to realize I could do the same thing by setting a value to zero in python, and that the complicated language seemed designed to conceal this.

I remember seeing a video on the discovery channel where they were interviewing him. He gave a dazzling account of the implications of this work.

Maybe he was predicting the upcoming ML boom. But now that I’ve worked in ML for a few years, I can safely say that this work didn’t help us get here. Maybe it helped biologists figure out how to control the signals that neurons deliver.

(I still think that it’s pretty darn cool that you can manipulate neurons at all, so hats off to whoever figured out how to do that. I just wish it was presented as what it was: the ability to set a value to zero over time via neurons.)

I really want to make a joke like “You know what else would set neurons to zero? Set them on fire and wait,” but the paper showed they could be set to arbitrary values. Which of course was the interesting and valuable part in the first place, not the plane stuff. But planes make good headlines.
decrying whataboutism is starting to just look like deflection. Calling out hypocrisy is not whataboutism.
Just as you, I certainly don't relate productivity and editor config.

My co fig now is really simple: I rely on other's work: I find powerline-10k + LunarVim to make for a more than good enough terminal environment.
No solution is perfect and disinformation is dangerous.

I don't get responses where people point out that a proposal to solve a problem won't be 100% effective.
This line hit me hard:

> In a draft of his memoir, Ray modified his definition of depression: “This is not an illness, it is not a sickness – it is a state of disconnection.”

I've seen it in myself and in some of my closest friends, where we just start to disconnect more and more from others, more and more from ourselves. Especially from how we're feeling. Wanting to avoid emotions and thoughts, suppress them, repress them. I'm not too familiar with the vast theory in psychology and psychoanalysis, maybe what I'm proposing is quite aligned with Freudian or other thinking.

Just seems to me that when we disconnect, especially from how we're feeling, we can slowly start to shrink into ourselves and if we don't stop it, we sometimes implode.

Conversely, that by connecting more with how we're feeling, we can start to expand a bit, not just with ourselves but with other people.

One of the challenges in that being as we expand, things happen that can make us want to contract (rejection, being ignored, idolized, etc) and then back on the shrinking path again.
I converted to vim from TextMate, I dunno, something like 10-12 years ago? I've used neovim, specifically, for the last couple years.

I think the thing that originally hooked me were Drew Neil's Vimcasts[1].

I do agree with others here, though, that ~2 weeks is not enough time. You need to force yourself to live with it for longer than that, and any time you encounter a pain point or something that you feel should be less cumbersome, have the patience to Google for solutions.

Personally, I feel that time investment has been worth it, but YMMV.

I'd also probably recommend getting your vim/emacs/whatever setup working really well for one language at a time, rather than trying to make it work for a bunch of different things all at once. Getting e.g. LSP-based autocomplete to work is a very language-specific effort, and is far from plug-and-play.

If it's helpful at all, I publish and version control my vim config on GitHub[2]. I can't guarantee it'll work on anything but my machines, but feel free to send Pull Requests. :-)

[1]: http://vimcasts.org

[2]: https://github.com/codykrieger/dotvim
Agreed....but! This opens some interesting thoughts about various things.

Sure this Petri dish is not intelligent and conscious. But it's just a load of neurons right, just like the Petri dish in our head. Are we intelligent and conscious in that case? Or are we just a scaled up Petri dish that reacts to more varied stimuli?
Isn’t the reason that they payed with silver a reflection that China itself would only accept silver for goods such as tea at that time?
technically they used human skin cells, which they induced to be pluripotent, which then became neurons
Finally a sliver of future I'm psyched about. Induce stem cells to form neurons? Next step induce new neurons to form new connections in existing brain!?
I'm totally cool if you want to use IntelliJ. I'm somewhat less cool if you are telling me how awesome IntelliJ is this year after trying to get me to use Eclipse on your last project but are now looking at VSCode as an alternative because you are sick of switching between this stack and Xcode and PyCharm after you stopped just trying to use Sublime for everything... and I certainly lose all sympathy when these same people actively defend this insanity by saying they don't think it makes sense to "waste time" "over-engineering" their text editor setup.

Like, if you want to tell me "I use nothing but notepad, and I'm a god at it" I'm going to be "holy hell yeah, I want to feast my eyes upon this marvel"... but, first off, I'm betting at that point you are going to have gotten really good at using notepad, along with all of the little warts of how it interacts with Explorer... and second off, the people who are coming out always to bash on the people who bother to learn and optimize their tools to prepare for a lifetime of software development generally aren't people who simply chose a different tool.
Nope. AD103 vs. AD104.

https://www.techpowerup.com/299183/nvidia-ad103-and-ad104-ch...
Canada doesn’t need to get back at the US for the war of 1812 because Canada won the war of 1812. ;)
“Didn’t praise” is one way to put it. “Told him to fuck off” would be another.
> when I watch proficient people using these editors I'm always amazed at what they can do

Maybe provide a few examples? Might help to understand what kind of productivity gains you are trying to achieve (and help with giving you better learning material for vim/emacs).

I've been using vim for ~15y, and it's been my exclusive editor for the past 10y. But I also have a lot of experience with Eclipse (and love it!).

When it comes to editors/tools, I don't think about productivity, but the amount of irritation. IMO, it's not about increasing the output/speed, but removing the things that irritate you (cause friction) so you can keep longer focus and do fewer context switches. If there's no friction, the tool you are using is already good choice.

What I noticed when using vim:

- In the beginning, it was difficult to get used to the modal mode. It took me quite some time and effort.

- Setting up vim from scratch is pain. Having a config to bootstrap from is great help.

- The startup time is amazing! This was one of the sources of irritation when working with the other editors.

- Using mouse causes context switch. Another irritation.

- I love vim macros. They are uncomplicated, almost friction free. And make repetitive and dull task easy and less boring (less irritation).

- Vim UI for searching, replacing, jumping to a specific line is distraction free. No context loss due to a pop up like in the classic editors (have no idea what's this like in vscode). I realized this is an irritation only after using vim for years and then having to do find/replace in a word processor.

- Simple extensibility removes a lot of irritation. Instead of having to write a complex plugin, a small script is enough (e.g. I use Fzf inside Vim a lot, or calling other small scripts from vim). Having to adjust to UX of a specific plugin (and be ready for its brakeage upon every editor update) was significant source of irritation.

Does anything from above resonate with you? I'll be happy to provide more context or pointers.

BTW. the best short text about Vim on the whole Internet is the answer at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...
This is false.

Build all the solar, wind whatever you want. Doing so while ignoring the low return on energy security alone is a fools errand.

I’ve sat through meetings where carbon credits have been touted as the greatest weapon to transition the world away from fossil fuels. Carbon credits.

I’ve heard very reliable stories from China about business entities solely set up to generate unbelievable volumes of carbon credits to take advantage of this accounting trick.

I think the opposition you see is to the counterproductive moves of the past two or three decades where enormous amounts of money have been thrown at present renewable strategies and the world is worse off from an energy perspective.
In general I wish the "culture" of programmers would differentiate the "language" itself from the "things it is linked with" and "the ecosystem of available packages". We get a lot of pointless arguments where person 1 is talking about case 2, and another is thinking about case 3.

PHP, Ruby, and Node all use things like cURL or the same PCRE regex lib, but I've seen uninformed or misguided arguments about "how Node is better than PHP at making HTTP requests because of axios", and not "I like Axios more than Guzzle3".
I think maybe you have the benefit of hindsight, but even so your argument is perhaps unfounded.

First, I think it's worth pointing out that, for the most part [1],politicians operated in good faith, trying to balance multiple factors. There were a variety of strategies persued by different countries [2],and its somewhat unclear which was actually best in the long run. Social scientists will be dissecting the long term effects for decades.

Finally, the overall outcomes have been exceptionally mild. Globally a very large absolute number of people died. But as a fraction of total population it was tiny. A vaccine was developed, and distributed, such that everyone who wants to be vaccinated has been, probably many times.

Finally I don't think people would have responded any better to technocrats than politicians. Technocrats are not good at guiding large population groups, and are mistrusted by many.

In truth we still don't know which approach was (long term) the best, or even what the "best" ultimately means.

[1] the event itself was unprecedented in living memory, and there was no relevant historical data to lean on. Experts were consulted, only to get lots of speculation and varying opinions. In truth experts had very limited data to work with and most would have preferred a lot more data before making recommendations.

[2] Some countries had simple border structures (new Zealand) and could persure a total-close approach. Some had national lock downs, some had no lockdown (Sweden).

Overall though it seems outcomes were better in places where populations had a high degree of trust in their authority structures. Places like the USA with high volumes of distrust fared the worst. Changing the authority would not have changed that mistrust.

In some countries politicians erred on the side of safety - at the expense of the economy, in others maintaining personal freedoms, at the expense of a few deaths, was the primary goal. Which makes sense. Personal freedom advocates have never minded other people dying to maintain those freedoms. And the overall death rate was low enough that there was no real mass-fear of death coming to me.
Nitpick: WebKit is more of an Apple's thing than Google's thing. : - )
Because you need to build 3x as much to have a safety net that the system will be operational and produce electricity with the same stability as a Nuclear Reactor, and that says nothing on the cost of storage.
Depends what you mean by requirement. Visiting/moving to USA is not a requirement. Not perjuring yourself is not a requirement if you don't mind staying in prison and/or paying fines. If, however, you do want to travel to USA and want do it without worrying about spending extended "vacation" you do need to fill the form truthfully. That includes giving a list of handles you have used on those listed social media sites (at least on DS-160).
While much better, and also a reason why plugins should go back to OS IPC instead of shared libraries when security is a priority, it also isn't bullet proof.

How does QubeOS prevent black box attacks?

Meaning, finding a sequence of process interactions that eventually lead to data corruption on the process in-memory data structures, which might enabled a specific execution sequence to do B instead of the expected A?

Process is still inside its sandbox, no way to own it via an exploit, however that sequence (if achieved) has enabled the attacker to influence its execution behaviour.
Archived copy:

https://archive.today/tE7JM
I'm not readily finding numbers but certainly adjectives like 'devastating', 'massive', etc, so can't specifically compare. Might we suppose that interest of study is correlated with commercial interest? But it does occur to me that it could be a confluence of factors, like the hypothesis about Colony Collapse Disorder in bees having multiple factors synergizing.
One doesn't need seeing the film to notice the racism in the title. The title could be "terrorist rehab", but it now looks like jihad is bad per se, while jihad for Muslims can mean anything from "struggle against self ego" to "defend country from invasion". All Muslim scholars denounce terrorism and yet she chose "jihad" in the title.
Yes there is: https://github.com/hackerschoice/segfault
Can you explain this in more detail.
Avenue 5 (under rated show) has President 2.0! An AI who is far more competent. Or more like able to make tough decisions without human backlash.
Seriously? You're just gonna act like it's okay for them to have laws against being gay?
My wife just filled an ESTA and it was still optional.
Ask HN: How to Visually Design Tutorials?
I like to write articles about technology or to create tutorials.

I'm starting to feel the need to know how to structure them visually in a way that makes the right information standout. Sorry, if this is not very clear.

For example, I find that just using headings is not enough for this.

Does anyone have any reading resources about how to use design to improve readability? I think that's basically what I need.
> what it is that drives the human desire for meat

My guess is that it's a calorically dense nutritionally complete food (if you like eating organs)
Netflix Builds a Custom High-Throughput Priority Queue
There's also https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:gpu...
Can a TWN data sharing opt out be undermined by signing a background check agreement?
I don't know, I was just relaying information. Why does it matter?
Tragedy of the Commons is a fallacy.

1. Postulate the Commons

2. Also postulate private interests

3. Let private interests have unfettered access to the Commons

4. Problems!

The tragedy is supposedly Commons, but clearly the problem is private interests having unregulated access to the Commons. Tragedy of Private Interests?

In any case this seems like more of a climate change issue (again…)
It is different. A user can change their social media passwords and device after entering the country (sure, you can be stopped by border patrol anywhere, but that's relatively "rare"). The overreach takes place in a limited time and place, when entering the country, and aside from the data-harvesting concern can be counteracted afterwards to prevent future tracking. This app is a pocket spy that you're mandated to keep that pocket spy on your device throughout your entire stay.
Most likely you are SoL. By the sounds of it they simply won't let you into the country unless you can show that you've installed their covid tracking app
>Currently it is extremely difficult to find good talent when building on blockchain

Hm, I wonder why that is.
I agree, esp with ML models being where they are. For people writing blogs/articles it’s a similar problem - how do you stand out against the noise?

Honestly I don’t have answers but here’s a few ways I’ve found cool people:

- via “slow-grow” communities like lobste.rs

- if someone writes a good comment or tweet or whatever, check out if they have a blog

- Sometimes I subscribe to a bunch of things that seem promising, and then follow a “three strikes and they’re out” policy to extend the reach

- start reading papers from conferences. It’s a heavier format than blogs, but it’s reviewed and novel, at least if you pick good conferences.
> It seems like the terminal world is slowly getting abandoned in favor of proprietary GUI apps.
> Anyone still living inside the terminal? Links to tools for Slack are appreciated.

Fortunately, I work for a company that does'nt use slack or proprietary apps. I've been thinking of some kinda proxy for text browsers with customizable .. edits, to hide excessive html elements form the terminal. (Might need to be per site ?)
Melang: An event-driven script language
What do you use the "authorities phone" for? Is it set up with a mock account? What kind of emails are associated with it?
Take a loot at Write the Docs site. They have great resources. https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/index.html
Permissions from Aurora Store (3rd party to Play Store):

Hayya:

- control vibration

- have full network access

- prevent phone from sleeping

- run at startup

- run foreground service

- view Wi-Fi connections

- view network connections

- access sensor data at a high sampling rate

- access approximate location only in the foreground

- access precise location only the foreground

- listen to C2DM messages

Etheraz:

- access bluetooth settings

- control vibration

- disable your screen lock

- have full network access

- pair with bluetooth devices

- prevent phone from sleeping

- run at startup

- run foreground service

- this app can appear on top of other apps

- view Wi-Fi connections

- view network connections

- access approximate location only in the foreground

- access precise location only the foreground

- directly call phone numbers

I don't think these are really that extraordinary, but some are not obvious to me at least. Especially "listen to C2DM" seems odd, possibly a side effect of another permission. Of course with these permissions you can track and trace most of your life, but that is now the norm unfortunately.

> In particular, the covid-19 app Ehteraz asks for access to several rights on your mobile., like access to read, delete or change all content on the phone, as well as access to connect to WiFi and Bluetooth, override other apps and prevent the phone from switching off to sleep mode.

The statement about delete/change all content on the phone seems false tho. Also it doesn't "override other apps" whatever that should mean, but can draw over other apps.

edit:fix formatting
But they get better price for their electricity, more profit for the plant, more taxes and thus the people benefit.

Yes, local electricity bill would go up but if the price is often extremely low, selling some for higher price is a net win. Ie this is why we have trade as concept in the first place.
Presumably just backing up your phone, wiping it, installing everything from scratch with a new account would work as well?
Where do authorities ask for your phone? Just curious
I'm not sure if it's going to be effective at all. How do you even know that an authorative data source is actually authorative and correct?

It's also kind of funny that this idea comes from Japan, where school history textbooks, an authorative data source of sorts, have had a rather optimistic view on the world during 1937–1945.
This was the same situation for the UEFA Women’s Euros in England this year.

For those wondering, the app was simply for storing, transferring, and displaying your tickets. A ticket being a QR code for you to scan at the stadium turnstiles.

Was the app required? Absolutely not, there was nothing specific that the mobile app could do that a simple website couldn’t (apart from the screen brightness jumping to 100% when displaying the QR code). I’m sure even a printed QR code would of sufficed.

Both UEFA and FIFA should reconsider their approach to ticketing.
I can’t see the easy way you mentioned - could you explain?

I agree that a target of interest could be located to this service, but to correlate activity of two users would seem to require detailed logs from the provider - the logs they claim not to keep.

Also, by visiting a bank, there’s a chance you could end up being mistaken for a bank robber; or by jogging through a neighborhood, there’s a chance you could be mistaken for a thief; etc. We don’t usually give much thought to these possibilities, although they do sometimes happen. Is there any reason to treat this differently?
This is a pun on the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM". Don't read too much into it...