skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello.

"Nuclear has always had massive scaling issues because leaving base load power generation means ever lower capacity factors."

So Swedish electricity generation used to be about 50% hydro and 50% nuclear. It worked really well for decades and made/kept us rich, despite our high salary costs due to the welfare state. Our industries had the benefits of very cheap and clean energy. The envy of the world!

Then our stupid politicans shut down half of the nuclear capacity and tried to replace with wind. I honestly think that the root cause is that the individuals responsible for this did not understand the difference between power and energy. It obviously didn't work.
No, this totally missing the point again.

It is not a question of what the sensor detects. It is a question of how it is possible for there to be an experience when sensing occurs.

Your introspection is simply pointing out the likely nature of what you experience, and I actually agree (tentatively) with the idea that most of our conscious experience is rooted in a self-reflecting system. But none of that has any bearing on how there can be ay experience at all.
Lots of people.

There is a legal difference, of course, between "truly anonymous" and merely effectively so. I am including situations like the designated trustee knows who the owner is, and if subpoenaed, will disclose that the owner is an Isle of Man corporation with a Panama address.

Here is discussion about it for Delaware corporations, but my understanding is South Dakota is currently the most popular US state in which to incorporate for, uh, privacy reasons.

https://gfintegrity.org/press-release/delaware-bills-mere-wi...
EU has a yearly public report on energy subsidies that demonstrate factually where subsidies goes, how much, and for what purpose. Nuclear subsidies are a proportional small part of the subsidies, and the public get more energy per $subsidies in nuclear than from other energy sources. Some key findings from 2021 report:

"Subsidies to nuclear had varied between €3.2bn and € 4bn between 2008 and 2019 but surged to (€6.3bn) in 2020 due to payments for early closures of nuclear power plants."

"In line with anticipations in the Commission Study, the financial aid to renewables in the EU27 is increasing at a low pace since 2015 to reach €78bn in 2019. Our preliminary estimations show a slight reduction in 2020 to around €77bn. Among the 14 identified subsidy instruments, the feed-in-tariff and feed-in premium schemes remain by far the MS preferred tools to promote RES technologies. They represented 79% of the total RES subsidies, i.e. €61bn in 2019"*
An urban myth about litter boxes in schools became a talking point
Say you deposit the money, let the IRS find out about it, but then just report it on the tax return and pay the taxes - what is the problem?
There are no "grid damaging events".
Fair to say they have shitty hiring practices.

If you want to give someone an IQ test give them an IQ test, don't crumple fucking papers while you talk loudly and ask them math questions. Sounds like a power trip.
Almost every grocery store/big box/etc. is laid out to direct the customer's experience and maximize the store's profits. 99% of the time I go to Costco with a list that I stick to. The other 1% I end up buying a new TV.
The effects of morphine are profound and obvious. It's like asking for a study to prove crack does something.
If you're talking about Caddy, its plugins are cross-platform, because Go (as long as you don't use CGO, or at least that your plugin that needs CGO also works on Windows). Read about Caddy's architecture here: https://caddyserver.com/docs/architecture
At some point, "one" company becomes a set of loosely-related "companies" all tied together by a single name and a chain of bureaucracy.
When you are salaried, you are rewarded based on your deliverables. If you can deliver two jobs of output to satisfactory results, then who cares.

Some employers may require the full 38 hours, but let’s not forget the whole point of salary is for flexibility on behalf of the employee AND the employer. The employer may ask you to work a bit of overtime, but likewise it shouldn’t be expected that the employer “buys” you as a salaried employee. You get benefits like leave and the employer gets benefits such as you turning up every day. They pay you, you deliver results, if you don’t perform you get fired.

This is a different argument for contractors who do get paid by the hour so that starts to descend into some very ethical grey areas. Those grey areas mostly exist though because a lot of employees treat contractors like salaried employees (I.e. expectations are the same but no benefits).

I could never do it, but there isn’t really anything REALLY wrong with it.
It is by far the most expensive method.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
Energy use in Sweden peaks in the winter, and especially a few extremely cold days. The sun literally doesn't rise in the northern parts, and the coldest days have almost no wind (and frankly it's not very strong overall either). This and last year, Swedes are stocking up on firewood, and it's not for cosplaying reason. Several knowledgeable people predict rolling blackouts this winter.

I would love renewables as much as the next guy but there's simply not a chance that Sweden could sustain a winter with the current supply. Importing helps with survival but the prices are insane, since their neighbors are cold as well. Dispatchable or baseload energy is necessary, and thus nuclear is the only carbon neutral option. Sure, it's more expensive than solar panels midday in the desert, but the comparison is irrelevant.
Your link and the posted one about body farms reminds me of the ethical questions raised by an article published in 2007 that got significant coverage: a professor of Medical Ethics, Anesthesia, and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School discussed openly the differences between brain death and heart death, and what that means for organ transplants (for example: some people administer anesthesia to the donating body just in case). It got traction outside the normal readership because... a lot of people didn't know.

[Are links to sci-hub ok here? 'Brain Death - Too Flawed to Endure, Too Ingrained to Abandon' by Robert D. Truog, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Summer 2007, https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2007....]

In my area, you can indicate that you want to be an organ donor on your drivers license. It's a check box. But can you fully understand your decision at the DMV office, and can you fully contain your wishes within a check box?

Similarly with the posted links: informed consent is important, even if that means fewer volunteers.
I agree that submitting bug reports or patches is an important contribution.

I don’t see how that relates to market share, since regular users won’t do that.
But doesn't chess rely on two half-decent actors sitting down across a table from each other?

Clearly some actors are willing to throw the board across the room

In which case, why are 'we' considering creating that weakness?

I understand there is a strong wave behind nuclear right now, but it does feel like we're just creating the instruments of another, different, mess.
> A Form 8300 must be filed by any trade or business (including real estate) that receives more than $10,000 in cash in the course of a single transaction or two or more related transactions. It is not a SAR and is not used to report suspicious activity. Form 8300 is an information report that is required to be filed by any trade or business (such as a car or boat dealer) that receives in excess of $10,000 in cash in a single transaction. Therefore, if for any reason a real estate agent or broker receives more than $10,000 in cash from a buyer or seller in the course of a real estate transaction, the form must be filled out and filed, and can be found at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8300.pdf(link is external).

https://www.nar.realtor/money-laundering-and-terrorism-finan...

This is also usually how drug dealers get busted after paying cash for a car. It goes to the IRS and then basically every federal agency has it (DEA, FBI, etc)
The cost of batteries is immaterial to anything being discussed here.

As you already knew.
> that you can use combustion to generate electricity, means they are interchangeable

This is an accounting issue, not a question of thermodynamics.

Electricity typically refers to grid electric. We don’t count non plug-in hybrid electrical output as “electricity.” That’s how energy use can be stable while electrification increases.
That’s because consciousness is not well-defined and might as well be woo. The verbiage around it is the same as a “soul”

Define it rigorously and show a physical basis and you might have something to work with.
I'm familiar with IIT. I don't believe it suggests that a photosensor has qualia.
There's no such thing as the standard legal definition, most terms, including these, have multiple definitions. Does a militia refer to the organization that is the militia, or does it refer to its members, or to its potential members. At the time of the ratification of the second amendment, the militia was limited to able bodied males over 17, were we supposed to update this to include women as our cultural values shifted or stick with the original definition? For arms, were they going with the definition of any item useable for offense or defense, or were they using the definition of an item a person arms themselves with? Did they mean every weapon of the era, or every weapon that could ever be invented? Is a machine gun an arm? A grenade launcher? A cruise missile? A pipe bomb? A nuke? Does bearing mean the ability to use weapons, or is it the ability to possess weapons, or is it to carry the weapons physically on your person, or is it the more general state of taking up arms, or is it the right to serve in the military? If you are free to use guns but there are restrictions on transferring ownership, has your right to bear arms been infringed? How about if there are no restrictions on gun purchases but there areas where you're not allowed to bring guns, like public buildings? If a school is built in such a way that it is impractical for me to wheel a black powder canon into it, has that infringed my right? Is a noise ordinance that effectively means I can't fire my gun for target practice in my backyard at 2am an infringement?

It's turtles all the way down.

It doesn't matter that you think it means one thing, it's ambiguous because someone else can find a different meaning which to them is equally clear, using different but equally sensible definitions, and there is no way to determine objectively which interpretation is correct.

Most clauses in the constitution are ambiguously worded. This is intentional. The constitution was supposed to be the foundation of America's legal system, not its capstone. The founders easily could have made every amendment a 500 page document detailing exactly and unambiguously what they meant. They instead went with short and concise clauses that would guide future legislation while leaving plenty of room for future leaders to make decisions.
Why do you think it’s gaining market share? Because more of ARM is deployed than non-ARM.

I couldn’t find the direct source any more, but I remember that in the year 2020 AWS deployed more ARM than non-ARM, and today it is at around 80% ARM and 20% non-ARM for a newly deployed system. You only get to single digit market share because of the enormous amount of non-ARM that still exists and is being used. ARM is growing faster than non-ARM. That’s what I’ve said.
In fairness, you could say this about the state security services in any major country. Criminals are useful, and will do stuff the state doesn't want to get caught doing.
Impossible/beyond apparently have similar CO2 footprints as turkey.

On the other hand, we're in the middle of a turkey shortage due to bird flu.
350MV is the nameplate capacity. To get the actual generated power, you must, tragically, multiply by the capacity factor.

What's the capacity factor for Cleve Hill? We don't have to guess, it's in this document:

https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-conten...

It's 10.8%.

This is a 35MW plant. Oh, but it has batteries I hear you saying!

Doesn't matter. It will generate 35MW-years per year. Batteries, at best, mean wasting less of it.

Meanwhile, a 350MW nuclear plant has a capacity factor of 90%, most of the loss being conversion to AC, with a bit of downtime.

So that would deliver 315MW-years of energy, per year.
From the previous comment:

> Batteries will probably be cheaper,

The above commenter clearly thinks that batteries are going to provide cheap storage.

If you have some alternative plan for storage at the scale of tens of terawatt hours, please do tell.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/09/alaska-snow-crab-...

Notice that this article is from 2021 for last year's catch.

"The 2021 fall harvest of Bristol Bay red king crab, another important source of revenue for that fleet, was canceled for this year because of too few females."

The collapse has been happening for years. This year it's just another species. Species by species it's going to collapse. Next will be shrimp and krill.

Don't be surprised when the salmon runs collapse too, because for 3 years now every single year has been a 90% decline.
Hydrogen is one of many practical storage media. Many will be used, different ones favored in different places. Hydrogen is particularly suited for places with large, stable underground cavities.
Wonder what US strategist are thinking. After recent moves to hobble PRC semi industry who will find less and less access to TW semi, destroying TSMC disproportionately benefits PRC by setting/destroying back US high tech and cost trillions in knock on value.

Recent NYT quote from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo:

>“The U.S. was in an untenable position,” she told me in her office. “Today we are purchasing 100 percent of our advanced logic chips from abroad — 90 percent from TSMC in Taiwan and 10 percent from Samsung in Korea.” (That IS pretty crazy, but it IS true.)

All the CHIPS act reshoring accounts for like 5-10% over the next 10 years. Seems to me US has every incentive to preserve TSMC fabs on TW that are dependent on US origin tech to operate. Versus PRC is rapidly building entire indigenous semi chain up to 14nm and has every reason to wipe out TSMC and close parity with west. The sanctions have shown US has unilateral leverage over semi during peace, but geography of where fabs/supply chain are (east asia) suggest PRC has the leverage during war. IMO preserving TSMC fabs is something in almost everyones interest. PRC will leverage to access high end chips, US can... not have her high tech industry destroyed, TW won't revert to being fruit farmers.
In this day and age you don't need any lines at all; a cop just has to say "stop resisting".
Define externalities. Is a balanced grid part of the externalities, ie the work needed to make sure that supply can always match that of demand?
This is the kind of project needed to make web3 accessible to a much wider scope of participants.

Any plans to support vyper?
yeah lower-case "d" is for local definitions (it just searches for the first appearance in the "[[" region if you are familiar with vim motions).
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/09/alaska-snow-crab-...

The alarm has been sounding for at least a season, maybe even more.
I’ve been quite impressed by the Gemini browser LaGrange[1]. Does it’s own antialiased text rendering straight to SDL. Automatic site coloring as an option. Would be neat to see something like this with basic HTML 3-ish support (basic tables, lists etc)

[1]: https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
it looks like contracts that have audits for them have it on their page. Should make the audits more obvious and noticeable, I missed it at first
So what's your solution?
Sweden generates 40% of the current power generation from hydro. Adapt that to be more flexible than baseload and Sweden has amazing capabilities to run an entire renewable grid mainly based on wind with a minimal amount of chemical short-term storage.

There are few countries with better opportunities for renewables than Sweden.
This argument is not "eliding" the hard problem. This argument is saying that Chalmers' hard problem does not actually exist.

We have many explanations for what people describe as "the hard problem". But nobody who believes in "the hard problem" accepts these explanations, which have been given for decades by philosophers like Dennett.

There is no way to reconcile your view, that there IS a hard problem and that no progress has been made toward solving it, with our view, that there is no such problem, and that it does not need solving.
Never is a long time. There hasn’t really been any demand for a chemical battery capable of large scale storage with frequent drain-recharge cycles. That is until we build out large scale renewable power plants. So if somebody has ever invented a cheap chemical battery that fulfills grid needs, that invention was ahead of its time and has been lost in obscurity.

So even if pumped hydro remains our best technology for large scale storage at the moment, I still remain optimistic that in a decade we will have market ready chemical batteries that rivals pumped hydro in places where geography does not favor the latter. I’m particularly looking at molten salt (or liquid metal) batteries here, with some storage facilities being under construction already.
Enjoy paying for storage. At least in the US, even if we get storage down from $438/kWh (Jan 2022 grid-scale storage costs) to $200/kWh, consumer electricity prices are expected to rise somewhere between 1400% and 2200% per kWh, and total cost estimates to switch the entire US's power generation + distribution to pure renewables + storage, while maintaining current production and availability levels, are over $430tn, which is >20x the US GDP, according to: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/12/the-cost-of-net-zero-...
If you're at that spot where being promoted means that your life will get worse, it's ok to be indispensable.
I largely agree. Sweden is close to a best case for nuclear as hydroelectric power can easily solve the dispatchable generation and solar isn’t viable. It’s still going to need significant subsides to hit 50%, but nowhere near what counties with less Hydro would need.

They even have cold temperatures to boost power plant efficiency and make district heating very useful.
Cookbook makes getting smart contract super easy, love it!
JRMF’s 15th Anniversary Math Festival
Thanks for clarifying. Depending on your job search strategy, you could apply as a generic software engineer or you could try to apply under a specialization. Specialists are valuable if the company needs you, but useless if they don't.

Here are some examples of specializations in quantitative trading:

Networking. For high-frequency trading firms, low network latency is extremely valuable. Some firms will need to build their own proprietary network protocols for their internal services because TCP is too slow.

Compilers. Again, for high-frequency trading firms, the latency from garbage collection, memory allocation, and system calls must be managed very carefully. Jane St is famous for being an OCaml shop, and OCaml is commonly used for building compilers and domain-specific languages (DSLs). When it comes to optimization, predictable latency (variance) can be just as valuable as low latency (99th percentile).

ML Engineering. While the quant traders build models, it is up to the software engineers to productionize and maintain the models. This can involve data engineering, feature engineering, model deployment, and monitoring the model for performance, predictive accuracy, and feature drift.
Yeah, Vyper would be nice, it's the late bloomer but is so nice to work with
Now that the paperwork has been done once, does that mean it'll be a lot cheaper/easier/faster to build additional plants with the same design?
Sounds like the ideal backup to me.
Yeah, there are steep hurdles, but the hope eventually with at least some of the smaller gen IV designs is that a design can be approved once along with any requirements for siting, etc., and that then at each site where they're to be installed, installers will only need to show that the site meets the already-approved siting requirements rather than starting a whole new process from scratch, which should seems like it at least has the potential to make the regulatory burden more sane. The NRC is already working on a revised approval process that aims at this goal, and is set to be ready in 2024. Who knows if it'll pan out, but there's at least the possibility of change.
It’s a legal minefield to directly administer IQ tests in hiring because of all the legal precedent around them
I use Neovim all the time but although I do have some linters installed I find all the fancy stuff so much worse than in a more visually appealing editor. I love vim and I do have a lot of affection for the terminal but things get extremely visually noisy with language servers in a way they just don’t with a more graphical interface.

It sucks because I want to use vim for TypeScript dev but I just can’t stand it compared to VS Code. For non-typed languages I still use vim, and I love how I can fluently edit anything on servers I shell into, but I kind of wish there was a middle ground of some kind.
>> Services available to the market
>>
>> An independent contractor is generally free to seek out business opportunities. Independent contractors often advertise, maintain a visible business location, and are available to work in the relevant market.

But it does mean that. If you aren't free to seek business opportunities, your services aren't available to the market. It's a factor, not the factor.
People have had terrible governments before, for most of human history in fact. I do expect global social conditions to deteriorate as climate change strains countries, but that's a far cry from the end of the planet.

As for global thermonuclear war, we could wargame likely scenarios and potential outcomes endlessly until the day it might actually happen. But anybody who tells you with certainty that one will happen in the next 20 years so there's no sense planning for the future (e.g. no sense building a power plant that will be used 20 years from now) is trying to indoctrinate you into a doomsday cult.
Lol, are you trying to make a convincing argument? And if not, why bother replying with such nonsense.
That short list provided is not "most software", thats a smattering of infrastructure type software.

If you're into idiotic discourse, go ahead and list 1000 open source projects on SourceForge just to "strengthen" your argument.

Tell me - what do most people in industry use for: image editing, video editing, audio and sound design, CAD, EDA, ERP, EMR, logistics, finance - you know actually getting stuff done with those things you mentioned above? Never mind that the vast majority of software written is line of business software.

The landscape of free/open source software has not changed much since the 90s. The market share has increased, some of the names have changed, but it's still the same types of stuff that it excels at (languages, OSes, frameworks).
Is the player you're working on public? Does the Picture-in-Picture API do what you need now?
Enforcement is far from a solved problem. For one thing, many fishing boats are still using slave labor.

I agree the technology exists, but there's no way the governments in those areas are going to enforce any sort of laws that hurt short term profits.
Top 2 comments are like "oh yeah this is over fishing" when the only thing in common with cod are that they're in the ocean.

Either folks aren't RTFA or are being willfully ignorant. Over fishing to the tune 1bn crabs when juvenile populations from 2018 and 2019 looked great? No way.
I'd imagine it would receive the same response as if Russia launched a nuclear missile directly. In other words, WWIII.
That is one grim Wikipedia article.