skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Was I wrong about something ?

Extremely.

> Right. This doesn't scale as close to as well as nuclear ..........

Using extremely generous assumptions about high grade ore, and old, much simpler reactors you can come in slightly under that for about a month.
https://world-
nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and-the-environment/energy-return-on-investment.aspx

EROI is significantly worse than solar because of ongoing energy costs for fuel and O&M. Especially if you use ore that is typical rather than the low hanging fruit. A perc module is around 60-120 depending on where it is placed. NPP is 15-60 depending on where its uranium comes from, how it is enriched and whether it uses reprocessing.

>> Mining: Ranger ore in 2008 was 0.26% U head grade. Energy: 273 GJ/t U3O8, 322 GJ/tU, including significant development work. (Note that if ore of 0.01% U is envisaged, this would give 1638 TJ/yr, 70 PJ total for mining & milling, hence total 108 PJ for the centrifuge option, thus inputs become 3.3% of output and energy ratio becomes 30.) All Ranger inputs are thermal (it generates own electricity). The Schneider 2010 figure for mining & milling is similar to Rössing.

> ??? if things actually do become expensive, welcome to breeder reactors bro

You can't start a breeder reactor without fissile material so new capacity still needs just as much (they don't exist so can't say for sure, but about double per GW by fairly generous estimates, actually). Additionally most of the concepts need about 2-10% of annual Beryllium production per reactor.

You have to fit something into the industrial capacity of the world before you can start gaslighting about costs that consistently go up or about costs of technologies that don't exist and might maybe start figuring out the hard bit of extraction and refuelling in ten years.

Expanding Uranium mining 5x would require processing a billion tonnes of ore per year. For reference Iron Ore production is about 2.5 billion tonnes. You'd need at least 30 million tonnes of sulfuric acid (world production is about 180 million).

Then for the reactors you'd need the most of the world supply of chromium. For a PWR you'd need half of the indium, and significant amounts of Zirconium, Cadmium and silver. Reliable Molten salt reactors don't exist and there's one MSR with okay capacity factor, but no information about how kuch noble metal they need is available.

This is just to match renewables now mind you, not where they will be when you finally open your mines (which takes years or decades).

The idea that Nuclear could scale to match renewables in under 50 years is laughable. Which is why fossil fuel shills butt into every conversation to claim renewables can't work and must be replaced with it.
I would say it's stylistically questionable to include the proof that it's in NP under the proof of NP-hardness. They could have written it in a paragraph before.

However it could still be true that this result was known beforehand (and judging by the length of the proof, it doesnt seem too difficult). So their main result would still be the NP-hardness, which justifies the name of the paper.
FTX had ties to Ukrainian government, WEF, and top Biden adviser
Author experiments with C++, Go, Rust and Zig as C replacement.
>”Now maybe, just _maybe_, the lending out of customer deposits could be a tightly regulated activity.”

This is a pet peeve of mine but I can’t stand the smug “maybe, just maybe” trope.
V3D Enablement in Mainline Kernel
Ask HN: What is a real life use case for Blockchain?
So I was thinking of what was the difference between Blockchain and traditional DB.

After googling and reading up on it, the biggest difference is the "Decentralization" ( I will come back to why I put it in "" ).

The second difference is the immutability or the way the data is handled, you can only append new data/blocks to the blockchain. Once added it cannot be modified, edited or removed from the chain.

there are more features to the blockchain, I would like to focus on these and ask, what would be the point of me using this?

So the decentralization is nice in theory but all Blockchains are in the end hosted in big cloud providers. Why? Because it gets ridiculously large because of the blockchain and updating everything. The transactions between the different blockchains is also super slow. especially if there are multiple things that need to be appended.

So what I see is I have a DB which is scattered, huge and slow.

So can someone elaborate this to me?
Heh, yes, I've known a few that trod that path and still swap yarns.

For context I'm an old AU numerical engineer type in geophysics | flight control | sensor | signals | astro application areas.
And also basic levels of German and French. Outside of tech I actually hear from multiple sources German is an important language for trade between medium-sided companies, to Germany of course but also a large portion of the other eastern EU members.
sure, the person only doing strength training will have better endurance than a person doing nothing at all. i also agree strength training is usually critically neglected compared to cardio (which is slowly changing tho).

it's the toxic "cardio kills your gains" broscience that's harmful, as it leads to people actively avoiding healthy cardio. i've seen strength athletes use the escalator instead of the stairs because they tried to avoid getting their heart rate up outside the squat rack. this is counterproductive to both health and athletic ability.
I think one of the issues with going beyond the basics is that once you start to tackle more advanced controls you not only have to be more opinionated, as there’s many ways to achieve these things, but also they become for more specific use cases and thus creating a general solution has exponential complexity.
Irish company tax is lower than Estonia and the process equally simple. Estonia, like Portugal, does one thing very right and its PR. But once you scratch the surface there are much better options out there to have a company or to live in.
Since all of these systems are negative-sum, in almost all cases, the majority lose more than they put in. That's how these scams work.

I would discourage everyone from developing the apetite for "free money" in these cases, because it isnt free. You were just lucky enough to be early in the pyramid scheme which ends with the vast majority losing everything. It was their cash you withdrew, that's the source of your "free" money.

If people want to know why these scams are so common, its because they work. People early-in, early-out extract money from the rest.

Nevertheless, in almost all cases, by the time you hear about the opportunity, you're too late to scam people. If nothing else, at least presume this.

(which is the anti-dote to FOMO: by the time you feel FOMO it's too late, you'll be the dupe)
I would not recommend that as it is won't to attract ants and insects.
The developers failed badly; their attempted joke turned out to be quite serious. And with more predictable emission rates than the clowns at the Fed, we might note. There are some real jokers out there.

There is a lesson here about how the developer doesn't have any influence over the crypto once a community gets involved. At least, not in their capacity as a developer.
Well I agree about public transport (and I happen to live in a country with decent public transport - I do less than 3000 km per year so buying EV makes no sense, I'm still driving a Fiat Punto made in 1995 and if not for my wife sentiment for the car we should probably just sell it and rent when needed ;) ).

When I was commuting 180km every day for a few months (lived in Lublin, worked in Warsaw temporarily) I realized I'm making the whole route using electricity (a trolley in Lublin, a train between the cities, a tram in Warsaw). And I was reading a book the whole time. It's the self-drivining car dream made true with 19th century technology :)

But US is fucked up culturally and infrastructurally when it comes to cars so the next best thing is making EVs cool.
Would the CEO ever say "Yes we are a ponzi scheme as well"?
You can entirely start a UG without ever seeing a lawyer and the fees are low, as long as you stick to the standard contracts available. You have to see a notary, though. A lawyer is important if you want to have complicated arrangements between the shareholders - they would essentially write your company charter.

The complicated part about having a limited liability company is that it requires double accounting and strict separation between your personal and the company property and that your books must be testified by an accountant. So you’ll need a tax accountant.

Minor note: having formed a British Ltd, I can tell you that some things are much more confusing for foreigners than you might expect. And some are outright hilariously bad. I could not negotiate a health insurance for our British employees since the insurance folks are not allowed to talk to foreigners - something something personal data something. Yes, I tried multiple companies.
Perhaps crypto is just like those ecosystems in Australia that require conflagrations in order for the forest to live through its life cycle.
Interesting! Technically I guess a lot of that is possible with raw CDK (centralized logging would be, for instance, if you created appropriate roles for each of the managed accounts), but it never hurts to have it done for you automatically! Sounds like it provides sensible default templates for things you _could_ roll by hand if you were feeling masochistic :)

Plus, as the sibling comment said, it predated CDK so was probably the only option at the time.
Nah, unless this mod somehow boosted beyond what it transmits to the sats, it’s safe. It would require a scary sticker otherwise.
Presumably because the contracting parties want the contract to be interpreted and enforced by the courts of a country in which they both do business.

It's not unusual, I think, for big international companies that already have assets and legal advisers in the UK to specify English law and English courts for a contract, but if a small Greek and a small Italian company were to have a contract in English, it would, I imagine, just make a legal dispute much more dififcult and expensive to resolve (whether or not the contract specifies English law and English courts: different problems in each case).
Your dates are wrong. And did you know that Switzerland the basting of direct democracy did't give women the right right to vote until 1971. Yeah you read that right 1971... what is even crazier is Liechtenstein was 1984...
uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock is what I use.
this is a very weird objection. Yes, we do finance newsletters and that's how we get paid for them.
Any idea how it compares to the hydraulic computer designed for the Pratt & Whitney J58 engine used on the SR-71 Blackbird? I saw this video (linked below) wherein a test engineer talked about the engine design. He touched a bit on the hydraulic computer (at the 6:50 mark), and I thought it was ingenious and fascinating.

https://youtu.be/MJrXUh0eZjw
> What a strange world we live in.

Crypto made me understand how much money are laying around. Now only if I could build a product people wanted...there is literarily money growing on trees.
I don't think much hate is directed at the tools per say, but rather it's at the syntax. It's like how people complain about all the idiosyncrasies of English, without denying it's an important, useful language.

As Stroustrup put it: “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
I gave up on spam a few years ago. My gmail account which I got in the beta has 14000 unread emails in the inbox. I'm sure there are people out there with more. I used to delete/unsubscribe/report spam, but the amount just kept increasing, and I'm not the sort of person who can be bothered pruning his email inbox every day. If someone emails me something important, I usually still see it, or I search for it. If I'm unaware of it, well if it's really that important they'll call me. I've started to migrate to other addresses but I still use this monstrous account for a lot of things.
P.S.: If interested in how it was done, I once did a writeup on the matter [1] based on a great textbook on early video game logic by William Arkush [2]. Also, don't miss Ed Fries' entertaining tale of how he repaired his specimen of Computer Space [3].

[1] https://www.masswerk.at/rc2017/04/02.html

[2] "The Textbook of Video Game Logic; Volume 1" by Arkush, William, Kush N' Stuff Amusement Electronics, Inc., Campbell, CA, 1976: http://www.tokensonly.com/images/resources/manuals/video-gam...

[3] https://edfries.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/fixing-computer-spa...
Typically 12-18 months
The only way is to travel to places that the western "developed" media projects as "underdeveloped". You will be surprised how developed and full of variety other places are that the west has projected as underdeveloped. Example is Iran. I am not Iranian, but I have met people from Iran and you will be surprised by the modernity of their culture. I also saw an YouTube food documentary on Iran made by an American, and it was very good. China is another example. So if you travel to places that the western media usually projects as bad, you will experience different ideas and culture and realise that what is usually projected is not entirely true.
Does it render all that using X or what?
Sweden went through a massive cultural swing towards English/US culture in the later 90s and then at full speed through the later decades. English was initial an alternative language that Swedes could optionally pick at the age of 15-18 (a choice between German, french and English). Then it became a graduation requirement for all students at that age group (with German and french being delegated to a third optional choice), and then English moved down the age groups and now Swedish children learn it beginning as early as age 8-9. English has become a second required language in Sweden throughout the education system.
100% agreed, to the letter.

My recent observation is that programming languages are a bit like warfare. We are drawn to discuss syntax and features, or machine guns and fighter jets, but what seems to trump these on any practical timeframe is logistics.

When coding up a new project, I need a language which gets a lot of mileage, so the bugs are stamped out. It needs good tooling so I'm not stuck making it myself. It needs robust package support, so I can just type the project-specific code. Oh and the language can't be unworkable, and vaguely needs to fit technical spec.

It's a sad chicken-and-egg situation, but users are often not in a position to take the risk.
> But the German government really does not like to make itself unpopular by making professions redundant

Indeed, much more popular to be hit with a wall as soon as you try to start a business.
You do know that you don't have to use the system version of python don't you? You can always install a newer version and then select which one you use for which task.

If you want the system packages on your OS to jump up to new versions as time goes by then you want to look at a Rolling Release distributions (e.g. Arch).

Alternatively you can use Debian with either Stable, Testing or Unstable as the source rather than a traditional named version (Note: research this before trying it so you understand the risks that you are taking).
I got a phone number issued in ireland a few years back, dublin number, starting with 555... a lot of the time people think it's fake, but it's. Areal life number. Fun to give out, if someone is looking for a landline. Get some odd looks.
I'm in the UK and these notaries sound a lot like conveyancers.

In theory the conveyancer deals with the contract of transferring a property, they check the liabilities and conditions attached to a plot of land, and ensure the process goes smoothly.

In reality each side is paying £3000-5000 to have a bunch of totally form letters sent back and forth between the two parties.
That’s not true - you can have a contract in any language in Germany. But the first thing that a court adjucating any dispute would do is have a certified translator translate it into German - at your cost. And that translation will be out of your control. So it makes sense to have a German contract, so at least you know what the contract says going to court.
Your point doesn't invalid my point though.

If we consider it as a Casino platform, then what's all the issue is about then ?
Maybe you can add a set of buttons ?
AirDrop 'Everyone' Option Limited to 10 Minutes in China
Okay, thank you for the explanation. But is "becoming a king" the means that Effective Altruism advocates, or just the means that this individual decided upon to meet EA's larger goal?

EA may leave it to each individual to decide the best route to do good for the world.

I do agree that changing the system to make becoming a king impossible is the best route possible. But for people in some circumstances, even this goal may best be achieved by first becoming a king.
I'd say this is misleading, or only technically correct (the best kind of correct). Calling conventions are only the first step. For interop to be useful in practice -- to be able pass more interesting C++ types than integers -- you also need your standard library types to be (and remain) compatible[1]. This currently isn't guaranteed even across versions of the same compiler.

[1] Herb Sutter's C++ ABI effort was supposed to solve exactly this, but unfortunately never went anywhere. The proposal document pinpoints the problem very well in my opinion: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n40...
https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/blockchain-for...
> Berlin has unusually high levels of competence in English for Germany

I would not confirm that.

In Berlin everybody speaks at least some English, and more importantly, people are way less "shy" to do so.

But the overall level of education (and that includes foreign languages) is much much lower in Berlin than in the southern states. You can even get your Abitur in Berlin without having to take English exams. That's something that's impossible in say Bavaria.
After seeing the post yesterday about the e-ink weather display, I thought about how to do it with a kindle, since they’re (a) cheap and available
(b) basically self-contained versions of exactly what parts are needed and most importantly (c) subsidize the high price of the display.

I pretty much came to this same design, although was thinking more about disabling the screensaver and (hopefully) finding a way to tap into the sleep/wake power controls so that the display would only refresh once per day or and hopefully consume a lot less power.

Cool to see someone beat me to it! Although I’m not too surprised.
I use GTK3 with Rust for my video acquisition tool [1] and it's been quite pleasant so far. However, from my testing GTK3 & 4 don't play nice with OpenGL drawing areas, so the next project I'm writing (also in Rust) using Dear ImGUI.

[1] https://github.com/GreatAttractor/vidoxide
May I suggest you take some time to understand the concurrency and memory management parts of Rust a little more to figure out where your program is falling.

I agree it's not an easy language to pickup, but the use case you mentioned is a pretty common one and there are several ways to solve it. For example, any kind of config reading from a file needs it. Similarly, connection pools for DB etc are shared this way so its not an uncommon use case in day to day usage of Rust.
> The best right now is just duplicating it across multiple types of media and replacing each as it fails, which requires active attention and functional infrastructure.

Yes, that was what I initially claimed. No-one's claiming that digital media can be copied without power, no-one's claiming that a single digital storage artifact has a longer lifespan than (e.g.) a clay tablet. You appear to be arguing for a position ("sophisticated digital media storage artifacts have an individual shorter shelf-life than rudimentary ones") that no-one is arguing against.
This is not a niche scenario by any measure. Edu videos are getting more views than probably any other edu content online or in person.
The register is electronic and it’s common that people monitor it, especially if you have large sums outstanding. I have done so in the past. I know of multiple other cases where people monitored the register.

If they don’t have money and outstanding debt, they can’t liquidate the company - they’ll need to file for bankruptcy, which is an entirely different thing.
You can replace the OS that it runs with one of your own (that's not signed by Starlink keys).

You could, for example, modify the root filesystem to allow you to ssh into it, or query it with SNMP, or perhaps report a different GPS location to its APIs (instead of the one it's actually at).

I'd personally like my Starlink to use its real GPS for calculating which satellites it needs to talk to, but only report a truncated (or no) location to HQ, so that SpaceX doesn't have my meter-resolution location every time I'm online.

I imagine there are some Ukranian soldiers who feel the same way.
Haiku beta4 release forthcoming?
I believe the author’s point to be that due to no English translation available, the already involved process in Germany becomes unnecessarily hard for a non-native speaker. As a native speaker I can attest to lots of gobbledygook official documents I had to deal with in my lifetime. The amount of paper you have to deal with when running a business is truly staggering.

Bureaucracy is indeed a rampant runaway force in Germany. Every attempt at reducing it will inevitably create more of it, because, in the bureaucratic mind, you now have to create an oversight committee to control the adherence to the decree of reduction.

I believe this to be a universal constant: you cannot task bureaucracy to with making itself superfluous. Digital services are a decade behind here, since most bureaucrats fight tooth and nail against them, for fear of losing their job.
You can fork the project and ONLY publish your contribution with the public license (i.e. GPL) instead of agreeing to also cede rights to the company.

One problem is discoverability. GitHub lists forks in an un-sort-able manner.
Oops 0 was supposed to be

https://github.com/crisdosyago/BrowserBox
Company I was working for in the 1990s bought a PowerStack II machine to test on. This was the same but in a regular PC looking case. Of course being difficult the guy assigned this tried to put NT on it. After a week he couldn't work out how to get it to boot NT so the thing ended up in the corner of the office until it was chucked in a skip in the early 2000s.

We were a Sun shop mostly until Windows 2000 came out and then I left when I saw the death of Unix on the horizon.
bureaucracy is not mandatory here. If you are clever you can entirely bypass it.

When I registered my German company the worst was to get an internet contract. Registering was done in one or two day. Internet needed more than 2 months.

First you don't need a notary.

Second you absolutely must not need to register a Gewerbe, as this will inherit the most costs. Check how your work is a "free Gewerbe" (eg. providing system IT services, opposite to application IT services).

Third, get rid of a tax advisor, if you care to read the tax laws and maybe a book. I only took a tax advisor in one of my early companies, and it was a massive pain and costly. Without I always managed fine, and survived many extra tax office checks.

Finanzamt and Elster is easy. Social insurance also, just a bit expensive.
GmBH is expensive, so just take personal risk and register a normal UG.
Does the gitops emperor have no clothes?