skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By failure I assume you mean catestrophic disaster. The passive safety doesn't mean no failures, it just limits the damage done by them. The reactor is probably wrecked if the safety measures have to kick in.

But yes, if an operator (or more likely a whole shift of operators) was malicious, they probably could defeat the safety systems. The main innovation is basically just a huge tank of water that can drain into the reactor by gravity, so if you emptied this tank then the safety system is defeated. They could also just take a fuel rod, break it apart and dump it into a schools water tank. You can't really create a system that defends against murderous intent.
Previous (87 comment) discussion two years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26165357
Otoh at least extortion provides evidence against them, which might otherwise be hard to come by.
It says:

"These units are important to building the future of energy and will serve as clean, emission-free sources of energy for Georgians for the next 60 to 80 years."

Do nuclear power plants have an expected lifetime of 60 to 80 years?
Then must be shut down, with all the radioactive problems that present
and a new one must be built?

That seems like a short time to make good on the investment of building it.
(from an environmental standpoint, based on the lack of reuse of the real estate it was / is sitting on top of)
Alternatively, the antagonists of much of Neal Asher’s polity series are spacefaring crustaceans.
I wonder if it's the other way around... maybe this rule was grandfathered in from a time when Microsoft feared companies offering "DirectX as a Service" or whatever. It doesn't really seem like the sort of thing Nvidia would care about, especially considering the licensing of their Unix drivers and considerable enterprise support efforts.
Redpanda vs. Apache Kafka: A performance comparison (2022 update)
And I'm likewise aware that a centuries-old English monarch didn't call me to discuss the economic theories of her time (though it'd be pretty cool to see how accurately or inaccurately we've reconstructed Elizabethan-era English pronunciations).
Installed apps have lots more stable monetisation options (e.g: getting paid to load an sdk which runs a proxy), and not to mention they can more easily scoop-up alot more data.

Most of the claims companies like Reddit make about security/anti-spam benefits is simply not true. Once you require user to create an account/login it makes no real difference. Everything you need for the frontend can be done with JS, HTML & CSS, and the apps themselves on ios/android are nearly-always just that.

As for losing customers, I need to use Reddit to make Google effective - and Reddit knows this. They have a massive amount of power to force mobile users to use an app if they wish to. Given it comes with massive revenue-potential, why wouldn't they?
Has anyone looked into Vespa? Yahoo's relatively recently (2017) open-sourced search engine. Seems incredibly full featured but also an exceptionally large code base (which is less than ideal). Still, worthy of inspection.
Rel: Usenet spam
Agree that there have been many failures in the smart contract market.

In contrast to many crypto projects, we are only using smart contracts for financing Hellō so that we can separate the return on investment from the cooperative governance. This removes one of the common failure modes of governance gone awry.

There is significant innovation in the crypto ecosystem and while there are failures (as there will be with any novel technology) there are also successes. As we don’t need to issue any smart contracts in the immediate future, we will be able to build upon the successes.
> Once operating, the two new units, which will be clean energy sources that produce zero air pollution, are expected to power more than 500,000 homes and businesses.

I wondered how much actual power that was. More context is on wikipedia:

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

The site has two nuclear reactors already, in use since the 80's. 3 and 4 are each 1250 MWe reactors.

By way of comparison, the Zaporizhzhia NPP (largest in Europe) has 6 950 MWe reactors. (Edit: that's six 960 MWe reactors, not 6,950 MWe reactors.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Pla...
Next season on Discovery's Deadliest Catch:

Sig and Wild Bill learn how to knit.
I was thinking The Omega Man https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/
No idea if op refers to that. I don’t think so, but modern stack can be ineffective.

My work mbp M1 was having a delay writing text in external monitor

While all the rest, including vidéo, was display without delay.

I had to tweak some driver settings ( of the base , not my graphic card )
Psychiatry Wars: a lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial
Thank you for posting this, what an amazing lecture.
There are reasonable terminal viewers for many formats.

Web sites that require JS to function (and there are many) is a bigger deal.

Same with pictures.

It's much more realistic to run a graphical environment and use a regular browser. Just disable JS by default and put a reasonable ad blocker. Then whitelist sites where you really need JS to work, like your Jenkins host :)

A reasonable PDF viewer is also not such a resource hog, same with picture viewers when you need to display pictures. Say, Firefox does a reasonable job of being both if you don't want to install dedicated software.

You can make a graphical environment which is snappy, low-distraction, and very usable. (That was definitely already possible 20 years ago, when my Linux desktop was my main working machine, and ran quite adequately on a tiny fraction of today's laptop resources.)
Order Pizza from TES4 Oblivion: Nickies' Pizzablivion -mod
If the US drastically cut its military budget the world will go to war fast. China will take anything it wants.

Our huge over bloated military keeps a lot of countries in check.

WW1 we went home and ignored the world. 20 years everyone was back at it.
We didn’t leave after WW2. Longest period of peace in history.
This is the precise reason I'm also very interested in this project (or more generally, any implementation of a web-based voxel game). Douglas Crockford correctly identified "load and go delivery" as a key feature of the web platform. I've lost friends as players because of problems they had installing the Java version of Minecraft on their new PC. If they could simply visit a website in their browser, especially on a mobile device, we could play again.

Amusingly, very early versions of Minecraft circa 2009 _did_ run on the web browser: as a Java applet. This was short lived, and of course since 2017, Java applets are completely deprecated.

Mojang also published a JavaScript implementation of Minecraft at https://classic.minecraft.net/. You can share a link to play multiplayer. However, it is only a version of Minecraft "classic" (reports as 0.0.23a_01), and even then, a reimplementation, not 100% faithful to the original. It seems to be more of a "hey look what you can run your browser" cool tech demo of WebGL and WebRTC, than a serious multiplayer survival game.

Hopefully Minetest for the Web can succeed in this niche. I, for one, am rooting for them.
Not always. We mostly fixed the ozone hole. Acid rain is largely gone from North America. Rivers in much of the world are much cleaner than they were in the last half of the 20th century. Air quality has likewise improved in many places.

I think that as areas achieve a certain level of plenty, their focus shifts from shorter-term thinking to longer-term thinking. And most places around the world are reaching that tipping point.
No, base load is indeed a myth.
Worse, if they have been infested with malware that may inject additional ads into sites like Amazon... Actually made me a fan of chromebooks for anyone that doesn't actually need more than that.
This is science fiction-thinking. Not just optimistic: absolutely naive.

We have the tech for nuclear, today. In fact, we could have switched the entire country over to nuclear 30+ years ago.

Instead, we’ve been burning fossil fuels for decades because, for so-called environmental activists, an impossible perfect solution is the only thing they’ll accept.
My argument is not really about price, but instead capability.

I'm not saying that everything is just great with nuclear now - my impression is that it's vastly overpriced due to excessive regulation and red tape and being over-cautious. Part of my argument is that one of the things we need to do is cut way back on all that stuff to make more plants faster and for less money than we currently spend on them.

If you total up all of the deaths from all nuclear power incidents that have ever happened, including Chernobyl, the total is orders of magnitude less than what the Global Warming people tell us is going to happen if we keep pumping out CO2. We know how to build the plants now, we know we need to get CO2 emissions down now, so let's do it.

Bottom line IMO, either A) the Global Warming people are full of shit and they know it or B) we absolutely must get serious about nuclear power now, evaluating the cost both in dollars and lives against what unchecked CO2 emissions will do. We should be building them fast and cheap and cutting corners - I don't want people to die in nuclear accidents, but if we don't have anybody dying in accidents, then we're probably not building them fast enough. Kind of like how Elon Musk said about his rockets, if you're not failing, then you're not moving fast enough. We've got to get it done yesterday, waiting on grid-scale storage and transport improvements won't be fast enough.
That article doesn't even mention they release new services without IPv6 support. Azure Flexible Postgres can't be ran in a virtual network with IPv6 enabled (let alone support IPv6 operating mode/addressing)
Data Parallel Haskell has been deprecated since roughly when I started using Haskell. It's basically seen as a failed experiment.
Bus line was closed for 2 years from Covid.
Absolutely no chance I’ll trust a city enough to give up my car.
Outstanding! More, more, more!
> ... this global criminal is working on behalf of the notoriously anti-drug Chinese government

Anti-drug inside their borders. They are very pro-drug everywhere else, especially the US [0].

Regardless, what's with the whataboutism? Yes, HSBC, like many other major banks, have been facilitating drugs and arm trade worldwide, but that is not the topic at hand, thus it is irrelevant to the discussion.

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/03/07/c...
Office 2021 is sold as a one-time purchase, which means you pay a single, up-front cost to get Office apps for one computer

In other words, not a subscription as prognosticated in this FUD article.
Yep, came here to comment that same bit. So I'll contribute the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_north...
LOL base load is definitely not a myth. What's actually a myth is "supply and demand" in electricity, as if it's a commodities market. In reality it's more like homeostasis--you have to carefully match generation and load and if you don't match it within a few % shit goes extremely sideways.
did not realize that webkit has the equivalent of site-specific hard-coded stuff like this, or even isGoogleMaps(), it's like nvidia drivers for the web, crazy
Sharing is usually voluntary. If the government levied a 100% tax on your income and assets, kept the vast majority of it, and then redistributed you a year supply of beans, rice, and a tent you would consider that to be a violation of their taxing authority wouldn't you? Should the power of the government to levy taxes be considered limitless?
No Van Gogh painting will be lost. Those people don't underestand how democracy. They just need a lobbying agency and a revolving door to the government. Glueing yourself to a wall after trying to vandalise a picture does not show anything.
We are 5 past 12 with the climate change but nobody who can make a change, gives a shit.
And no, turning your lights off for 1 hour does not count. It's like trying to cool the Mediteranean sea by trowing an ice cube into it.
Insight! Good points still valid today. Although I wonder if the author has changed his opinion on browser.
Ditto. Started with the fugly Turbo Pascal 3 IDE, but stuck with borland thru version 5 or 6, before moving on to mostly C/C++.
I love how they name things

shouldSuppressAutocorrectionAndAutocaptializationInHiddenEditableAreasForHost(...)
> unhelpful for anyone who's on the fence about climate change

I have no interest in trying to convince anyone who is "on the fence" about climate change. It's real. Anyone who doesn't see that by now can't be convinced by facts, or overwhelming scientific consensus, they sure as hell aren't going to be convinced by me.

> Even the worst evidence-based predictions of the UN and the IPCC come nowhere near the extinction of all life or anything remotely in the same ballpark. What you're saying seems to be part of a doom and gloom fetishism

Some scientists like Frank Fenner, Henry Gee, and Stephen Hawking have already predicted that humans will go extinct in large part due to climate change, but climate research hasn't given much consideration to the worst effects of climate change and it's hard to blame them.

The IPCC has looked at tens of thousands of species of land animals and determined that as many as 14% "will likely face very high risk of extinction" and things are looking much worse for things living in our oceans (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/without-action...) but predicting the effects of climate change on animal populations is hard enough, predicting the effects of the collapse of human society is much much more difficult and also really depressing to think about. Still, scientists are saying that it's time to explore how bad climate change will be on humanity, what the collapse of civilization might look like (https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/15/8161/htm), and that human extinction is one of those outcomes we need to be thinking about. (https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2108146119)

You call it doom and gloom fetishism, but it's smart to take a hard look at the potential outcomes of climate change so we know what's at stake and can prepare as best as we can for what's coming. Even the DoD acknowledges that climate change is an "existential threat" (https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/25...).

> The Earth has warmed drastically at many times in its past,

And in the past those periods of warming, which are nothing like what we face now, still resulted in mass extinction events that killed off 80%-90% of all life on the planet. Adaptation takes time, and that's something we might not have enough of.
They use that metric because it makes their marketing specs look nicer.

Ultimately it's a count of the number of SIMD lanes.
Great song about it by Finest Kind (sadly not properly available online): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX6dJgmof0E
As long as coding stuff can be done through SSH, TMUX, VIM and terminal I'm fine. I've got a netbook-like tablet(s3 active with keyboard cover) and working on it is real nice(I hope to start going a bit more nomad soon), I have to switch apps to Slack & browser but the OS handles this so why bother.. My 2013 notebook also holding up well since what I need besides the term is just the browser... I don't think it's going away, but for this kinda of port to be maintained it needs to fit in with what workflow the termnerds and geeklords are doing, I guess.

In my mind I like to entertain the thought though that this bare way of working computers is discovered by more people & younger generations, that maybe they pick it up and do more cool stuff etc because it's something I only grow to like more and more over time. Btw I was never was like the hardcore linux wizard or anything, more like 'touch typing + this is kinda like playing a fighter'. I've got 2 trainees who are trying to pick up Vim right now and I guess a lot of ppl notice it since they never saw someone coding like I do, like doing typing combos and working mostly at the CLI. It's also funny because my colleague at the company is a very respectable senior and about my age but its 2 totally different styles, he's using vscode & autopilot.

I have some RSI though and it sucks when it starts popping, nowadays that mostly when Im working more remotely since then I use normal keyboard & key setup. On my work computer I have a typematrix with some key customizations that have helped A LOT.
>it's always windy somewhere, suddenly falls flat when the neighbors wind(nuclear, in this case) is no longer blowing.

There is a difference between the outage of an nuclear power plant and the outage of wind turbine.

One power plant less has a much bigger effect than thousand wind turbines without wind.
Nuclear power plants are the equivalent of Cloudflare, one outage has massive effects. Wind turbines are decentralization and that's better especially since Russia return as the bad guy.

Didn't hear much fear about Ukrainian wind turbines but lits of worries about nuclear power plants.
A performance which will end bad for the actors.
"Best selling" by the NYT has its own algorithm which weighs audiobooks, ebooks, indie vs big store sales, etc. all differently. Additionally I would suspect selling children's books would have to compete with school-sized purchases. 25k over a year is great, but in the realm of children's books you're dealing with Scholastic magazines book hawking to every school in the nation.
You might enjoy this talk that Abhishek (@pretentious7) gave on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZBuYjy5rWE
In the past few years, lithium ion battery storage has plummeted in cost and is seeing massive deployment all around the grid.

Most utilities use five-year resource plans, and even then they tend to use out of date publications for cost guidance, which themselves took several years to be written and get through peer review.

So traditional utility deployment is done on 10-year old info. In more open markets, like Texas, storage is a huuuuge amount of the capital that's being deployed on the grid. And in places with more active residents that force the utility commissions to force the utilities to use realistic numbers, like California, storage is already deployed in GW range. For example, existing storage on the grid today was a bigger player than nuclear during California's recent and massive heat waves.

And one dirty secret that they don't tell you about nuclear: it's also going to need storage. Nuclear is not dispatchable, it can't be turned down on demand, and can't be ramped up. But real power demand varies a huge amount throughout the day.

The only reason France was able to get up to 70% nuclear energy on their grid was by using the continental grid to trade energy with other countries. France has a small number of super expensive nuclear "peakers" but they can only deal with very small fluctuations in demand.

So if nuclear were ever going to be a really major power source, or the only power source, it would require lots of storage to balance load.
> They over fish and destroy entire ecosystems and no one is doing anything about it.

That's not just hyperbole, it's flat wrong. Some organizations try to do things about it, even if the methodologies have historically been ineffective. Nobody would be able to completely solve it, while the Oceans are still largely uncontrolled.

https://www.canada.ca/en/fisheries-oceans/news/2022/06/gover...
The blockchain aspect is not supposed to get you excited. :)

As a co-operative we don't have equity to sell for financing. Tokens enable us to separate ROI from governance, and many investors are willing to invest in tokens.

As a developer or user, the blockchain aspect is hopefully irrelevant.
Win, lose or draw, we Ukrainians will be hunting down russian war criminals for the next century, just like the Simon Wiesenthal center did. The animosity towards russians in Ukraine, and abroad is growing exponentially.

Combine this with the sheer amount of identifying data that the modern age is giving us on russian "soldiers" and their collaborators, we will have our work cut out for us.

Expect several decades of daily assassinations, retributory attacks and arrests.
Speaking of Minetest and the Web, it would be great if there was a web based control panel for Minetest servers, similar to how there are many out there for minecraft servers like Multicraft
At least the urchin problem is caused, in part, by the mysterious sea star wasting disease - a disbiosis of their microbial layer that leads to rapid death. Sea stars are the natural predators of the urchins, and with their disappearance, the urchins flourish and take down the kelp.
One-third of what we learned about IPOs in taking Gitlab public
They say the love of a child is priceless. You might think that priceless means worthless, but others can disagree; in a sense I agree with you that it's quite difficult to nail down. Perhaps the lesson is that one should be careful when doing intangible harm to others?
I always laugh when I see the huge "USE NEW REDDIT" header when I'm not logged into old reddit. I will stop using reddit if they ever force me onto the new interface.
Most of these "computational X" people do one thing really well: solve partial differential equations. Incidentally, PDEs are also a useful modeling tool for all sorts of simulation and optimisation. It's why you see physicists in finance, for example.
I find this comment absolutely inappropriate for this forum.
If you ever feel the need to divulge further into the concept of toolkits as opposed to frameworks, I would be most appreciative to read a blog post outlining such.
There have been a couple episodes of Darknet Diaries that have talked about this, I think “The Pizza Problem” and “Dirty Comms” maybe? He covers some SIM swapping stuff as well, and the arms race between companies security teams and the quickly professionalizing account takeover market.

It’s a bit annoying to Google for obvious reasons, but there was a huge leak of celebrity photos in the early aughts that was similar; iCloud passwords reset because celebs used their actual pets names as their password questions etc.
> "We are eating bait and moving on to jellyfish and plankton", [University of British Columbia fisheries scientist] Pauly said.

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/30/local/la-me-ocean30j... (https://web.archive.org/web/20161010003945/http://articles.l...), p3
Nikola founder Trevor Milton found guilty of securities fraud
This is the best article I can found about Microsoft choosing to end its relationship with Nvidia for Xbox: https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Nvidia-loses-Xbox-Mi...
Power plants need to come first. Make electric so cheap that electric cars are a no brainer. Not California nonsense of electric shortages while demanding everyone uses electricity.
How's this related?
Which law of physics are you talking about here?

I sometimes see mention "laws of physics" as a reasons renewables won't work, but nobody has ever, literally ever, been able to point to the law. Or run the numbers on why renewables would be be feasible for supplying all our power and even an order of magnitude more than we currently consume.
Tu quoque falacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
I am glad, because for years the prevailing attitude was that there's nothing special or interesting about consciousness at all, that it doesn't really exist, it's an illusion, etc.

I don't think we'll ever be able to fully explain it in scientific terms, because not everything is in the realm of scientific knowledge.
I mean small and really opinionated - the goal would be a look and feel more like a bells-and-whistles DOS setup than like Unix.
Inspired in part by https://prog21.dadgum.com/74.html
Ah indeed, thanks for reminding!
How many states are there with access to pacific waters that could potentially have thousands of unregistered fishing vessels and whom a poster would be uncomfortable naming explicitly for fear of backlash?