skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I fail to see a distinction here. The government defines what is legal. I suppose one can appeal to some higher power as the source of all law or something idealistic like that, but that's not how the IRS or the Texas State tax assessor work.

Right. That's what I mean by conflating. One can appeal to a higher law. I'd argue that's the only way you can make a moral judgement about the actions of a government, since as you've pointed out they have the ability to create laws. So either there is a law that can be used to judge whether a 100% tax on the individual is justified or there isn't. If there isn't a higher law, then you're right - the government is a law unto themselves. They are totally sovereign and no one can make any moral judgement about their actions since by definition their might makes them right. Alternatively, there is a higher law: a supernatural moral law that transcends the will of men and which the governments of the world and all the people of the world are accountable to. If that's the case then there is a limit to how far the government is able to justifiably tax its citizens - the amount that the transcendent law allows gives them jurisdiction to tax.

It's important to note that if there is no law that transcends the state, then the state is not limited by moral law in any way. In that case it's the source of moral law and nothing that the state does can ever be justified as moral or immoral since under such a worldview the state is the judge of good and evil.
I'm waiting until around March/April... hoping that prices settle by then, also considering rDNA3 and hoping to see an R9 7950X3D model by then before making final decisions on a next build. Also, right now there's not really any good options for higher speed DDR5 at higher quantities and am curious to see which boards support ecc by then.
More or less these are the republicans of Sweden
They don't. They probably ban thousands of them every day, but since cryptocurrency still goes unregulated, there's always people spamming their wallet address and trying to hustle the less-aware.
if the genetic algorithm was built such that it used simulated traditional building materials and assembly techniques then sure.

otherwise most genetic algorithms essentially boil down to calculating local minima and maxima of stresses and strains, and optimizes accordingly. The resulting geometry is generally fine for a manufacturing technique such as 3d printing.

Otherwise, despite the material efficiency the labor involved might explode exponentially.
Nobody is claiming Rust would prevent all bugs, just a huge proportion of them. At least 70%, I would argue even more.

But yes it should also be accompanied by better security architecture, i.e. not running network drivers in a monolithic kernel.
The kernel loads your program, and schedules its execution. This is basically the same as using an async framework and sending the entry point to your application.

If you're willing to extend a little, there are also signal handlers, or setting up callbacks in pthreads.

Again this isn't to be reductive, but to say this is a super common method of encapsulating irrelevant stuff. It doesn't seem to be a significant differentiation between "I'm a library" and "I'm a framework".
From today's front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205813

> Georgia Power announced tonight that fuel load into the Vogtle Unit 3 reactor core has begun at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Ga. The fuel load process marks a historic and pivotal milestone toward startup and commercial operation of the first new nuclear units to be built in the U.S. in more than three decades.
I totally agree. I just feel like a bad boss hiring a bunch of clones would only be worse for the company.
That time in 2000 when I wrote a web service on top of authorize.net's payment gateway but didn't turn it into a product.
It seems likely to me that this will get solved with better battery tech. Solid state lithium-ion batteries seem poised to hit commercial availability sometime this decade. And there are hundreds of other more battery techs in the research stages. They're obviously not available yet, but it's not so long ago that lithium-ion wasn't either.

We can also have things like extra batteries that one can rent and stick in your trunk for longer journeys or times when you don't have time to wait.

> It's ok to be far less efficient if convenience to the consumer is increased

It's also ok if convenience to the consumer is decreased. Nobody is owned convenience.
As I read this with a growing sense of discomfort; a little voice in my head kept saying "What could wrong, right?"

The understatement of their comment "There will be challenges." is great.
The problem is when you have multiple very long identifiers that differ only in a few characters. When scanning through code, it's much easier to see the difference between a saaainheafh and a saaainheafi than it is a shouldSuppressAutocorrectionAndAutocaptializationInHiddenEditableAreasForHost and a shouldSuppressAutocorrectionAndAutocaptializationInHiddenEditableAreasForInput.

Also, autocomplete doesn't work when you're reading and not writing, or just using a text editor or reading/annotating a printout (yes, I still do that.) IMHO writing code that almost completely relies on special tools to handle it is a bad trend.
> And they knew that the single greatest weapon of the war, the atomic bomb excepted, was the German 88-mm flat-trajectory gun, which brought down thousands of bombers and tens of thousands of soldiers.

I beg to differ. It was radar-guided anti-aircraft guns, and proximity fuzes for artillery shells. This had the effect of doubling the firepower.

Another was high-octane gasoline, which enabled much more powerful aircraft engines.

The Axis did not have these technologies.
No, I moved because I like Italy and this is a great city to live in (a multi variable analysis I made).

If you have any Italian ancestor, you might be able to claim your Italian citizenship. I think there are some “entrepreneurial visas”, but I’m really not sure.
Is Fox News the ‘mainstream media’? Survey says yes (2021)
And they make video games to consume endless hours of Western productivity
‘thousands lines’ of gossip to not inform the reader about psychoanalysis…

which personally i hope starts to get less and less popular! giving placebo to patients that can suicide, for me, should be considered as homicide if recommended BEFORE any other type of treatment with a rate greater than “eating blades of grass” and thinking you are cured or will be cured
I haven't tested it yet, but yes it's a stated goal.
Do you have a hint of reasoning behind these remarks? Why the problem is not global and why the US is an exception? No basic healthcare, a deeply divided society along an unchangeable 2 party system, weakening weight on world markets and economy, huge wealth inequality, massive exposure to upcoming climate change plus apparently the same general problems the rest of the modern world has - in which sense does it fare better?
The newest US nuclear aircraft carrier uses Bectel A1B reactors [1], which produce 125 MWe and additional 260 MW of mechanical turbine power, which we could optimistically convert into another 260 MWe. This would be 385 MWe.

Each of the two reactors mentioned in the article produces 1250 MWe.

OTOH maybe a row of smaller reactors could offer a better economy of scale for production, even if they require more parts and more maintenance overall.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1B_reactor
"Translation: the Swedes are 100% sure they can prove the Russians bombed the lines, but they don't want the Russians to know HOW the Swedes know."

Peter Zeihan

https://twitter.com/PeterZeihan/status/1581009667920056320
My memories of circa 1998 are rather different from OP. That's the year when Visual Basic 6 shipped, and that IDE had code completion working perfectly. Delphi 5 was out in 1999, and also worked great in that regard. Even C++ IDEs had code completion which worked decently well so long as templates weren't in the picture.

Pascal/Delphi is actually almost a perfect language to write a smart editor around: the grammar is highly regular and requires minimal lookahead to parse, and definitions always precede usage.
I don't think most reasonable people count biomass in with renewable (at least not large scale biomass). e.g. this website https://grid.iamkate.com/ has biomass in "other" along with nuclear and pumped hydro storage.
> (Edit: that's six 960 MWe reactors, not 6,950 MWe reactors.)

That is why I almost always prefer to write out single-digit numbers.

e.g. Zaporizhzhia NPP (largest in Europe) has six 950 MWe reactors
If anything's good about renewables is that they can be quite small scaled. I think it's cool that I can be an energy producer just with my roof, plus decentralized generation = better security.
Why is nobody talking about this??????
A similar story, except for iOS, was discussed two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177629

(154 points, 76 comments)
Behind the Scenes of a Twitter Censorship
This does verge on political - nevertheless it's an interesting look at how a powerful Pfizer board member was able to get a Pfizer critic banned from the platform.
Electricity should cost peanuts and that should the goal of every sane government.
Big Fish Stories Getting Littler (2014)
The 13 generations is particularly bad, if you're just trying to comment to someone looking for a used system, when half the time they just list "Core i7" which is meaningless without at least a model generation.
New export cables will be ready the day these would come online, if the ever come online. Decoupling the SE4 and SE3 regions from the European energy market will never be a sustainable solution due to the possible arbitrage.
I have large cognitive dissonance to "we shouldn't be the world police" and "globalism is bad." At face value I agree, but...

If you believe in the rule of law and human rights, then globalism seems like a natural consequence, as does policing the world.

What would happen if you let China have global hegemony and they become the over-fishing police? What type of enforcement do you think they might have (or non enforcement, or selective enforcement).

It seems clear with world scale commons, there must be both a common set of laws (globalization) and an entity capable of enforcing those laws (America is the world police).
Did you leave District 1? Just curious. HCM didn't hit for me until I started getting out of that curated core.
Postgres Full Text Search has ALOT of limitations doesn't it?

I briefly looked into for storing long form text archive records for my company two years ago.
There are EXTREME limitations in the source code around it that no one really talks about but have important implications.

Phrase searching doesn't really work the way our analysts would have liked and needed. There are a bunch of technical limitations in the source about how much data is tracked about the tokens. I can't remember exactly but there was something weird about stemming or lemming in the phrase search too.

The following variables need to be bumped up to get phrase searching more accurate.

- MAXSTRLEN (2047) https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/include...

- MAXSTRPOS (1048575) https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/include...

- MAXENTRYPOS (16363) https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/include...

- MAXNUMPOS (256) https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/include...

TsHeadline for highlighting doesn't consider phrase searching so you can get weird results. It probably needs to be rewritten to match websearch_to_tsquery.

The accuracy issue drained the blood from my BA's faces. I eventually just went with on-premise SOLR because it's easier to add new hardware for it than elasticsearch.

TLDR: postgres search is probably fine for short-form content, but major gotcha's once you go past those max limits. Also phrase searching will probably not work the way people are used too.
Who gives you the authority to judge the morality and motivations behind this person's actions?
Yep. I don’t follow football regularly, but I love to go see Juve. Amazing Stadium and atmosphere. I’ve never been to the stadium of “The Toro”.
How many nuclear plants does it take to meet the world's energy needs? (2008)
The argument you're making is just eliding the "hard problem".

We can trivially imagine an electronic circuit that registers different current levels when exposed to red or blue light. Nobody (that I'm aware of) suggests that there is an experience within the electronic circuit, despite the fact that it "senses" different frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. The circuit is qualia-free.

You, on the other hand, are qualia-full. Whether the experience you have when a red object is in front of you derives purely from your optical sensory apparatus, or if it derives from a self-reflective awareness that your brain is dealing with "red" really makes no difference to the central point: you have an experience.

We have no explanation for how there can be experiences/qualia, and possibly, because they are either extremely or completely subjective, we may never any means of studying their existence.
While what they're saying is true, to me it rings just as misguided as not taking pain medicine when you have a broken leg until it has properly set first.

Medication for neurological issues isn't and shouldn't be the end-all-be-all but can indeed be a way to manage the issues at hand while teaching the tools needed to deal with the symptoms via therapy if possible.
Also discussed 5 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205632

(254 points, 232 comments)
Except nuclear is expensive and takes decades to build, runs on non renewable materials (a good percentage of which come from Russia), leaves waste that is deadly for 100.000s of years, and promising new technologies will need decades to reach maturity.

Now why is it so great compared to, say, solar or geothermal?
How is a 90% decrease in two years similar to a 93% decrease over 30 years?
This site is really cool, and I love your blog post explaining how it works. Hats off, fantastic work!
Tangentially I find it best with these things to work with a trustworthy and flexible team. That way if my good-faith estimate was way off they can communicate that to the client and make room for the surprise work.
> I'd say your experience as a full stack software developer is basically irrelevant

This seems to basically be true for any well paying ( > $200K) job at any of the better paying tech companies in the US. It’s all about the passing the algorithm coding interviews.
The more I use Terraform and GCP the less I want to bother with Terraform.

TF is not Infra as Code it’s infra as configuration files and it’s a mess.

I haven’t used Pulumi but that’s kind of what I really want. Give me Python and better abstractions to gcloud cli.
it was outdated even back then
PPAs at inflated prices are absolutely subsidies. They impose inflated costs on users of the power, which is only marginally better than on the body politic at large. Or marginally worse, maybe.

Much of the subsidies are the public picking up the tab for disaster insurance the operator is protected against needing to pay for. Of course no actual insurance company could afford to underwrite such a policy.
That was my thought... they should have just called it a "Super" still leaving room for a Ti model later. Or bring back GS designation after... 4080 and 4080 GS. They had lots of options to add distinction.
Seems like every sellout (pun?) TV news personality who writes a book with their face on a giant hardback cover and the last sentence of the book is the title (i.e. "and that truly was _the summer of our dreams_.", "So now we have _the conscience of a nation_", and so on) is deemed a NYT Bestseller. And it's so quick that that credential is printed on the first edition's cover!

I'm sure they list a lot of great books, but if you make it on there you'll be in some pretty shitty company at the NYT Bestsellers gala.
Apple’s AR/VR headset will scan your iris when you put it on
Batteries will probably be cheaper, but pumped hydro storage will probably cost about the same since it's a mature technology.

I could see Norway or Switzerland being major players in pumped hydro storage, given their geography.

Awhile back I did a bunch of math to try to figure out how much stored gravitational energy is in Lake Mead, and if I didn't make any major mistakes it came out to be about as much energy as the U.S. uses (as electrical energy) in 24 hours. The idea of moving that amount of water around on short time scales is hard to fathom.
As someone who has never bought real estate, why not? Is cash not universally accepted as a currency?
To do that, we'd also have to pay 1960s and 1970s wages. In the meantime labor productivity has massively increased, so it's harder to find skilled labor at those prices.
It’s smart how they make a backflip on the 4080 12GB naming to distract from the price hike. That’s playing 3D marketing chess …not.
How to figure out what you want out of life
> Is there a word describing this mass wishful thinking?

An existential threat to all human life.
https://archive.ph/L11v2

(Unfortunately the aggressive ads, video ads, and registration requirement make the article unreadable)
"When people see typos right now, they don’t think it’s a security issue. But in the near future, it might be something we will have to contend with"

kindle books are annoying. They allow highlighting and amazon has happily opted you in to share what you've highlighted with others (for example most-highlighted passages)

But they do not allow you to highlight spelling, grammar and syntax errors. That feedback should be dead simple.
Marketshare is important, default search engine revenue is based on usage.
Not sure why this is downvoted. Space is really, really big (the name fits!). The biggest Earth-orbiting satellites are a bit less than the size of a school bus (the biggest being something like KH-9 size) in terms of mass, somewhat bigger when it comes to things like parabolic dishes.

We worry about orbital debris because of the consequence of loss. There's a lot of room up there (not discounting everyone's concern).
Run your Pure Data patches on iOS with native GUIs emulated
There is plenty more good about renewables. Being the cheapest source of power that has ever existed is good, too.
Its all built on very old thinking. Nuclear may have been a good idea in the past, but with the rapid reduction of cost of renewable, especially solar, its no longer worth considering. Building a plant takes a decade, and a decade from now the difference in cost will be even greater. Nuclear will look like huge waste of money then.
VPN Providers Flee India as a New Data Law Takes Hold
Bear in mind that generation is only part of the holistic system of energy delivery. Intermittent sources require storage, which is separated out into a separate chart. Even just 4 hours of storage would bring solar's $30/MW to $210 to $350/MW. And 4 hours of storage is pretty thin - most plans call for 12 hours of storage. And storage costs are only projected to increase: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/ev-battery-costs-set-to-spik...

By comparison nuclear costs $131-$204/MW, so it's still cheaper after storage. The Lazard estimate also didn't include the transmission expansions necessary to support the distributed nature of renewable generation (explained further here: https://www.vox.com/videos/22685707/climate-change-clean-ene...)
Have you tried Cloud Run? It’s just kNative underneath so if you want to take it somewhere else you can.
The harmful UV-B rays are under 300nm, and that’s the cutoff for bee vision for the same basic biological reason. Below that limit is what you’d want to filter out.
The RISC paper was all about the need to strongly justify any complexity. I don't quite remember it even touching code density.
Yes.

Extreme draw distances:
large open-world games or those with very long, content-intensive environments need to resort to tricks to unload parts of the world that are not visible or quickly accessible. Extreme draw distance can mean keeping orderS of maginitude more objects resident, which could mean a lot more materials loaded, more draw calls, more VRAM usage, or more swap.

Higher resolution shadows:
Hard shadows tend to look bad, soft shadows tend to perform bad, and worse with more lights. It takes a lot of deep GPU knowledge to do these in a visually convincing and high quality manner. The difference between "good enough" and "perfect" will easily cost you double digit fps at a minimum.

Full quality textures:
As with the draw distance caveat, implementing LODs is rather work-intensive. Some people will tell you that you can automate it, and they're half-right. If you are looking for top-notch game quality, that absolutely does not cut it, but if you're not trying to go the extra mile it can be serviceable.

Games are super inconsistent in how far they push technology vs push the art, but there is rarely a "turn the dial to 11" knob ready to turn. The production requirements and technical limitations mix in unpredictable ways.

Other times, games push ridiculously far in certain directions that later become mainstream, and execute well enough that, after they are copied into other mainstream games, they feel deficient - not in spite of their success, but as a direct result of it!!
"More than 200" already fills that purpose.
You have to bear in mind that the public was hugely against it. No political party dared to push for it, although negotiations were held.

> The Moderates, the People's Party and the Social Democrats held separate negotiations to formulate a joint yes option with the implication that the reactors would be allowed to be used during their technical lifespan, which was estimated at 25 years. These negotiations finally broke down mainly because the Moderates could not accept the additional proposals: that the state or the municipalities would own the nuclear power plants and that so-called surplus profits from private production of hydropower would be withdrawn through taxation.

Translated from:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkomr%C3%B6stningen_om_k%C3%...
What has this general said that makes you doubt his credibility? That he admires the Russian army is purely from an military academic perspective because he is a general and studies warfare. And he clearly understands the strength and weakness of the Russian army, and thus is not swayed by propaganda from both the west and the Russians.

What does he actually say? He starts out by outlining Russian tactics that they have used in the past (WW2) and how it has evolved to the present day (as apparent in Syria). He then points out how Russia has deviated from it during their incursion into Ukraine.

He points out how Russian intelligence failure (to gauge the right mood of Ukrainians) resulted in the Russian army's failure to achieve their goals quickly. He points out how the Ukrainian army has successfully resisted the Russian onslaught. He points out how the Ukrainian could have actually been more successful if the west had supplied them with the right arms and ammunition the Ukrainian army has been demanding all along.

He further points out why Russia has been failing - mainly because of the brave resistance of the Ukranian, deviating from their standard tactics and the shortage of men it has committed. He also criticises Putin of micro-managing the war in the early stages. He highlights how a Russian general successfully achieved the military goals he had been ordered to do so because he deviated from orders and used standard Russian tactics. He also points out that Russia will not win this war if Russians don't commit more men to this war and if the Ukranian get the right weapons.

And look at what has happened since he made this analysis - the west has supplied the Ukranians with more weapons (don't know if it is the "right" weapons though) and Russia has ordered draft to commit even more men to this war.