skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Look up Chernobyl. Ukraine already had a meltdown disaster. Spoiler: Europe survived.

That sounds like a bare minimum but not really a good argument for or against nuclear power plants. And if you do some research about the Chernobyl disaster, you might also want to look into the consequences that can still be observed today.

The officially acknowledged death toll is fairly questionable, primarily because of the "liquidators" and their extrem radiation exposure. The exclusion zone is still uninhabitable without facing serious health risks and the consequences can still be seen in countries other than Ukraine. In Germany in some areas the Caesium-137 exposure is still measurably higher than normal.

I totally understand the skepticism around nuclear power, especially in countries directly affected by the fallout in 1986.

Of course, statistically speaking nuclear power is fairly save (but still not without some major issues). But completely dismissing the emotional fear that has been directly shaped by personal experiences for many does a disservice to the whole debate.
(2019)?
If someone dumps toxic waste onto their property, which then bleeds into your property because they failed to contain it, the dumper is effectively dumping toxic waste onto your property and you are able to respond with legal action. This is the case in any society that recognizes and enforces property rights, libertarian or not.
At least that identifies the relevant namespace.

Imagine if people said 'mints' to refer to fiat currency. Then we'd have to work out if someone was taking about sweets ( candy ) or currency. In that context calling them all 'dollars' would help eliminate ambiguity.
You can't argue with the clock.

When I was living in Hawaii I was up at the crack-end a few times a month, pounding coffee, trying to ignore the roosters.

Social acceptability had nothing to do with it. It wasn't a great hour for Brussels either.
How do you know that the AES instruction set on your device's processor doesn't include a backdoor? Sure, the algorithm is public, but how do you know how it was implemented?
This is called "Reproducible Builds".

https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
No. There's right now a major dam that is feared Russia may blow up, just as it is feared that they might blow up the Nuclear power plant. If they did so, it would almost certainly cause more loss of life and damage than the NPP.

Why aren't you asking "Dams in war zones: A valid reason not to build more?". I'll tell you why: 1) because that would be stupid; 2) because dams don't invoke irrational fears like "Nuclear" does. Just stop it.
Three reasons. It's a store of value asset, a speculative asset, and a real option that the law will get changed.

Also, these kind of things get priced in, leading to lower property values. There will always be a willing buyer as long as the market price is above $0, implying that the benefits exceed the costs of ownership.
> Lack of housing is not a problem

Even though the population has been steadily increasing?

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23083/new-york-city/popul...
> There's no reason for any dark matter to be distributed in a halo.

This was one of the more eye-catching statements in this thread. To be blunt, you're wrong. A straightforward and almost inevitable dynamical explanation has been available (and explored in ever greater detail) since at least the mid-1990s, driven in part by the Saskatoon experiment and subsequently supported by BOOMERanG's observation of the first acoustic peak, and many others lines of evidence since then (see [1] for a less-heavy explanation than what follows).

You may wish to check this chapter from a forthcoming graduate-level textbook in galactic dynamics from well-known galactic astrophysicist Jo Bovy <http://astro.utoronto.ca/~bovy/>, which you can read for free at his site: <https://galaxiesbook.org/chapters/IV-01.-Formation-DM-Halos....>.

There are of course other already-completed textbooks. For example, one can find an excellent pedagogic (if advanced) treatment of primordial Gaussian Random Fields[2] as applied to halo formation in chapter 7 of Mo, van den Bosch & White (2010) <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/galaxy-formation-an...> (you can find the chapter on scy hob via its DOI if you don't have institutional or otherwise affordable access).

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[1] https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~deisenst/acousticpeak/acoustic... from <https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/people/daniel-eisenstein>

[2] If you're more visually inclined and can't find the illustrated version of Mo et al., see the diagrams on p.3-5 of this slide deck on GRFs <https://www.astro.rug.nl/~weygaert/tim1publication/lss2016/l...> from Rien van de Weijgaert of the Kapteyn Institute at the University of Groningen.
In defense of skepticism about deep learning (2018)
Looks like similar risks are much greater with renewable power: Russia threatening to explode Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power plant could cause greater damage, than blowing up a nuclear power plant.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63341251

Also historically, the largest dam accident in history has an estimated 20 000 to 200 000 death toll. This one data point is (almost) never included in comparisons of safety and death tolls of different energy sources, as it would skew hydropower and renewables look much worse in statistics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
If it was that simple, why wouldn't the deb package work like this? There is no technical reason a new version of a software can't execute in parallel to the previous.

Firefox can't do that. The simplest reason being that it is stateful and keeps records of history, bookmarks and whatnot which not only can't be accessed concurrently, but the specific storage model chosen can only be forward migrated. Accessing this data from two different versions of Firefox would inevitably lead to corrupt data, even when concurrency is not an issue.

That's just the obvious reason with profiles. But there are also various other issues where Firefox interacts with the plugin system and other external data. All of these could probably be fixed, but it would require a radical redesign of the software which right now no one has stepped up to do.

The least problematic method of using Firefox on Linux for most users is probably the official tarball. It's the trivial method of unpacking a software and running it from the destination folder. It has implications for freeness and DRM, and the obvious problems bundled dependencies bring, but Firefox is unusually well maintained software with the manpower to make it work.

And containerization or producification on top of Firefox will only make it more complicated and worse supported than upstream is.
I'm guessing he's using a variant of his own Qwertuoso program for the playing, and it's tiny, less than 4k. Even with the horribly slow default C64 tape loader, that would be about a minute.

Linus is one of the demoscene's experts on fastloading too, so he may not use the default loader!
Solar output is ridiculously low in Europe winter, Germany take exactly the path you describe, fully renewable.
Except it don't provide a base load, so they must use gas.

You list installed capacity, solar available capacity rarely ever reach installed capacity in Europe.
Thanks, if I have a specific set of poll questions to ask, than I will try the poll feature next time. This time, mostly interested in how technical crowds evaluated the utility of mobile technology in general these days, and thought others may also find the results interesting. =)
Pretty sure duckdb can read and write parquet, if you were loving duckdb but worried about parquet accessibility
"Have you ever heard of a thing called 'fluoridation?'"

https://youtu.be/J67wKhddWu4
To be fair Gassée has said since they probably made the right choice.
Am not sure you can give him that much benefit of doubt. He was promoting btc heavily way after the initial excitement of crypto up until the end of 2019 (he gave a public lecture in Lebanon where he suggested it and blockchain technology are a good safe haven and solution for the country's currency crisis).

He was basically a fan and promoter from 2015 - 2020, that is a really long time for a critical thinker like him not to notice the flaws. I think he was blinded by his ever growing fanbase he had in the BTC community.
What other purpose than investment would a rental apartment have to the owner?
I thought Python couldn't multithread because of GIL? I understood from the article that async derives all its benefit from certain OS-level operations which don't need to run in a coroutine, like reading from a network socket or waiting for timers to finish.

Another question: Is Python's implementation of async/await identical to other languages? In particular, do they always use coroutines instead of threads?
It doesn't seem to take into account British and French nuclear arsenals (although they're not commensurable to US and Russian ones). Strikes on UK and French territory (which are shown in this simulation), not even mentioning NATO commitments, would incite a response.
Nuclear power also is the best option we have until we have enough renewables to meet our energy needs and the batteries and grid resilience required to complement those.

The short-term alternatives to nuclear power amount to either further exacerbating climate change (by burning coal and lignite, for example) or to accepting regular blackouts.
Is this a Russian take on how heavy-handed and 'elitist' the EU is in it's dealings with Ukraine and general encouragement of human rights? That seems bold.
Also my assumption is such meetings are at most weekly. I don't think it would be reasonable otherwise
Sounds like the big difference is that you can be both a DRI and an IC software engineer. PMs are not normally also devs.
Have a classic: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
I remember delaying an update for almost a year based on the rumors about the unibody design was coming. That MacBook then lasted almost 8 years for me!
I’m not sure where you got this form of communication where you respond to everything with a question, and I assume you mean well, but it comes across as patronizing and de-humanizing to try to follow these “rules to winning arguments passively”, or whatever it is.

Indeed, the confusion here is (I think) because your first comment

> Sorry for asking, but how is this relevant to the article?

Sounds accusatory.

Please don’t respond to this with a question.
This is an instance of the trope "if you can't solve everything, you shouldn't solve anything".

It is fallacious because you'll never get there if you're not allowed to make incremental advances.
That's can work once you have established profile and clients for long-term support - true. Before you reach this moment you really have to work a lot on your profile / getting customers.

Also it obviously gonna depend on what is your speciality. I guess some RoR / Java developer will more likely to find long-term contract.
> You list installed capacity, solar available capacity rarely ever reach installed capacity

That ratio is called "capacity factor" which I actually mentioned to be around 10-25%. There's a Wikipedia article on it if you want to know more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor
Phew, my country seems mostly intact. If you're sufficiently far from a major city or a base, you should be fairly safe. Although getting food could be a problem in the long-term if nuclear winter sets in, which seems uncertain based on what I've read.
In 2013 high profile German politician Claudia Roth of the Green party posted on facebook that the Fukushima disaster caused 16000 deaths, simply attributing all deaths from the Tohoku earthquake to the Fukushima disaster. It is really difficult to discuss with those people on a rational level.
I feel like this is a pretty reasonable question being met with non answers. And it's a shame bc I think MWI is the frontrunner as of 2022, but this is a pretty significant question with Many Worlds I had not considered before.
Looked up London

"The Cock Tavern

Tony had a proper English breakfast at The Cock Tavern which he said was directly below Smithfield Market, but I could not find that on the map"

It used to do a butcher's breakfast for the market butchers, I'm not sure it's still there. But Smithfield's market shouldn't be hard to find on a map mate!
I suspect that the public liked it before the pundits.
Letting your body move even just a little to music you are unfamiliar with, or even sceptical of, usually helps enormously. Has helped friends when I brought them to free or experimental jazz performances they would probably have otherwise described as random notes, or worse :)
Remember when Zoom claimed that meetings were E2EE yet you could join the meeting by phone and no one batted an eye for at least one or two years? Noticed how no regular person cares when the "security code" of a chat partner changes in WhatsApp or Signal? Not to mention no regular person uses self-compiled apps for that, even if it were possible. E2EE is close to becoming a cargo cult, because done properly key management and identity verification are a usability nightmare. It will always remain a toy for a niche audience. Most people just don't care, and the non-technical people that do care are happy with a green lock appearing somewhere. I do hope to be proven wrong, though.
How many detonations are groundbursts and how many are airbursts? The latter produce a very limited fallout, so it's a key question for anyone living away from the targets of direct strikes.
Of course, nobody who does biological sciences actually believes it is junk.
So what is the point? No potentially dangerous industrial plants because, in case of war, they can became a risk ? But they are a risk even without a war.

In other words:

- no hydroelectric power plants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_... );

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st... );

- no chemical plants
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chemical_disasters );

- no refineries, petroleum processing
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills );

IMHO, nuclear plans are a good option to solve current energy needs and modern nuclear plans are safe even in worst case scenario in Ukraine I don't think a new Chernobyl disaster will be possible because that event was generated by events related to a chain of factors impossible to exist there.

I think the better way to avoid the risk of nuclear disaster in case of war is to renounce to atomic bombs and working to avoid proliferation of that kind of weapons.
Any time you apply artificial price controls you create scarcity. Ask Venezuelans. The same bad policies are applied over and over with the same effects.
> "This is the whole reason why x86-64 is usable despite having only 16 architectural integer registers [..]"

Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here talking tens of registers, eh?

In them days we was glad to have two or three.

If we were lucky.

My first computer had 1 (one). One with less bits than fingers on our hands. It was so dear to us we even gave it a name. "Accu" it was called.

If you tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you.
Yes, 12% at winter noon, it's 0% at night, average in winter is way below your numbers: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
Nuclear power plants are usually located quite some distance away from larger settlements. This has multiple reasons - NIMBYism mostly - but it also severely reduces the impact a disaster would have. Evacuate that area and don't touch it for x decades. Except for the core areas, it will basically turn into a national park. Only disadvantage is that it would be mostly unusable for humans.

It's sad to have to think about this way, but to me it's much more acceptable to have a Chernobyl or a Fukushima every 50 years than permanently f*king up our ecosystems and threatening the continued survival of hundreds of millions of people due to climate change.

Consider that both disasters were caused by plants with outdated designs that were kept running for way longer than reasonable. On top of that, they were handled not only somewhat negligently, but outright hazardously. The Fukushima plant was hit by a freaking tsunami and was not completely set up to mitigate the risks posed by natural hazards (this was known since the '90s)

Newer plants generally have safety features that completely prevent or at least help contain the hazards of the older designs. And many of them are built like fortresses. Especially Soviet designs are impregnable to all but dedicated attacks with bunker busters or thermobaric weapons.
> Lots of people live in vans by choice

For a claim like this you’re going to need to do better than “lots”.
The big advantage of NeXT was the development tooling, it was streets ahead of almost anything else. As a unix it was nothing to write home about, but as a desktop OS it didn't need to be. Just being a Unix at all with decent networking was a huge advantage compared to all the misconceived desktop OS projects at MS, IBM and Apple at the time.
I’ve run most OSs under the sun. NixOS is a generation ahead.
Looking at that the big winner would be China as the largest remaining economic power with intact infrastructure.
0900-1800 CET is 1900-0400 AEDT. How would that work?
Why would you reach for literally the worst tool in your arsenal (price controls) with the most negative and harmful side effects to fix this problem?
Anecdote on eye strain, I can't speak to the contrast in bright environments. I am 46 don't need glasses but started feeling the strain of staring at a monitor. Switched to dark mode and my eyes feel better for it. I now use DarkReader in Firefox.
I'm in a large corporate (Microsoft) and in my new'ish team (under Office) we have very few meetings (compared to before, approx 1h a day) and no late-night ones.

It really depends on what you do - one of the reasons I'm an IC and not a manager is to reduce the number of meetings (when I managed, even at startups it was always a lot of meetings which were needed/required).
Creating a Three-Bit Adder operating on fluidics
Are you willing and ready to work 12-14h a day, every single day of the week? And for your kids as well? Or perhaps you are part of the strata of society who won't be affected by the abolishment of labour protections, in that case you either don't have empathy or don't care about having it.

I don't think you completely understand what a regression to a world with no labour protections would mean. Either that or you'd be the one exploiting such lack of protections.

What's your proposal for the abolishment of labour protections, exactly?
Which is why many of us are firmly against RCS.

End to end encryption is critically important and no messaging standard should exist that doesn't include it.
Late binding exposing issues that cause run time exceptions. Except it’s not functions it’s bins in in paths. (Or shared objects (shudder))
whataboutism will not magically solve the problems with nuclear energy
> But completely dismissing the emotional fear that has been directly shaped by personal experiences for many does a disservice to the whole debate.

it's 35 years on and there is a preponderance of evidence that nuclear is safe. it may feel like dismissal because people on the pro- side have known and argued the facts for decades. at a certain point you realize the fear is trauma-based for some and cultural for most, and that accommodating it gets you nowhere. holding someone's hand doesn't make stumbling down the energy ladder any more comfortable
Sorry I just got around to implementing some of your feedback and didn't realize that podcasting 2.0 was the Podcast Index -- That is the main data source!
I keep reading about that trend since Windows XP days, and every time a new release of Windows comes out with stuff that supposedly is going to be it and everyone will migrate.
> Although getting food could be a problem in the long-term if nuclear winter sets in, which seems uncertain based on what I've read.

I would worry more about the severance of supply chains if your country/region imports much of its food.
But doctors tend to be pretty good at that part of the job you're describing. It's the Dr House part that often seems lacking, difficult patients often spend years going to different doctors only to keep hearing useless suggestions. It'd be amazing if we could have a solution for those people and AI might be able to help
Failure doesn't just manifest as vacancies. Also the change in vacancies over a two year period doesn't say much about 10 years ago. Show me a time series over the last few years.
I find switch to be a bad idea, better to build a new generation and reboot into it. Less inconsistency.
Every free software will have dozens or even hundreds of transitive dependencies.

It literally isn't possible for an ordinary person to audit all code.

At some point you have to blindly trust.
This has an analogy (maybe?) in service culture. In the US if the guy behind the counter is making a sandwich for someone else, I can ask him/her a quick question and get an answer without disrupting the flow of work. But in Finnish culture this is a no-no: the customer "owns" the worker until task completion. It is (IMHO) wildly inefficient.
The one thing waterfall did that I think was actually quite a good thing, at least for larger scale problems, was 'preliminary design'.

Experience shows it's really important to get 'the bones' of your system right, as early on as possible. Working to produce a preliminary design in an abstract space rather than in code frees you at this early stage from the inertia of code. It's easier to throw out a set of block diagrams and start over precisely because, as mere diagrams, they don't "sort of work already". And I'm certain that in the history of waterfall projects, nobody anywhere ever went off 'on the side' to knock out a prototype as an 'evaluation exercise', now did they?

That said, re the rest of waterfall? Not sure I'm missing that.
So what you're saying is, we can just put a green lock in the UI and call it a day.
If evacuation was sooo unnecessary, how do you would explain that people has not returned to the area yet?
> But I fear what this regime can and will do in desperation.

Why are you afraid what they will do in desperation?

First, their desperation is self-imposed. There is no outside force that warrants their desperation. Russian desperation is Russia's alone to deal with. They behave like the mad dog in the room to get what they want. Their apparent desperation is a tactic to frighten the easily frightened.

More importantly, are you in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland or rural northern Norway? Because the people who live in these areas will suffer in a nuclear war, but they fear nuclear war far less than a Russian victory. They support Ukraine despite Russian threats. Ask yourself why that is.

Unrelated, nuclear power is the Earth's best chance to avert climate change from carbon emissions, war notwithstanding. Modern reactor design will ameliorate even missile attacks.
> more flammable and easier to use as an explosive than a modern reactor

So we're good for 1 year or so of primary energy via PWRs?

After that the fuel runs out for reactors that aren't made of 100s of tonnes of liquid sodium each (and have no evidence of working reliably or not catching fire and being shut down for a year every few months), or (assuming they actually ever work) contain 0.5% of the entire world reserves of beryllium each.