skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending where you buy your beer ingredients a very basic 5 gallon batch of 5.2%ABV blonde/pale ale (10lbs 2 row, 2oz of hops, dry yeast), would be around $0.55/12oz pour for someone in the us (priced from morebeer). Of course $0/hr for labor. It would be very easy to lower those costs 20%+ buying a slightly more bulk amount, or buying the grain from your local brewery. On the equipment side you can go all out and get a setup for $1-2k or go super basic for a few hundred dollars.

Wine is even cheaper and easier. Most wine kits come out to be around $3/per bottle. And only need about $100 in equipment.
Individuals are not optimizing for any of the metrics you’re proposed.
Most email services now demand SMS verification to sign up for them now as well.
would love to know how “bad” Wi's hash actually was, like what percentile of the users DB sorted higher/lower than it
I know it's not quite ASCII art, but has anyone ever use PabloDraw? https://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/

I used to love seeing BBS ANSI art. There was just such an aesthetic to it.
Everyone knew who did it five seconds after it happened. People are denying it for political reasons only. And that's fine--that's how politics work.
> * is "controllable" the right word in this context in english?

I believe the appropriate term is dispatchable.
It's a strategy that's endured thru the millennia:

John 2:10

> “A host always serves the best wine first,” he said. “Then, when everyone has had a lot to drink, he brings out the less expensive wine..."
You mean “short term” of a decade? Apple created two hugely profitable segments since Cook - wearables, services.

The Macs are better than ever.

What else should he be doing?
America really lost the cultural victory here. In pretty much anywhere else in the world a place's unique atmosphere, customs, architecture and way of organizing would be generally respected even if to an outsider it's unfamiliar or odd.

You see this idea everywhere, it's not "corn is one America's staple crops and the use of corn syrup which is sweeter and more abundant than cane sugar gave Americans a preference for the very sweet" but "Americans with their unrefined pallets, unhealthy diets, and obesity crisis put heaps of sugar in everything."
If the US did blow it up, then good work.

It reduces Putin’s energy blackmail ability by just taking some of it off the table. It was kind of like shooting the hostage.

I would not even consider it a scandal. It’s all Europe’s fault for making themselves energy dependents on a dictator.
This made me laugh out loud.

1) I support Sizewell c & d. There's already two big reactors there, a third and fourth one make no difference to be fair.
2) I live about 20km from Sizewell.
3) The road that will be choked with traffic from building it is 1.5km away, the rail track is also 1.5km away - they should really build a sea pier like last time.
4) 5 years ago the wet storage at Sizewell suffered a leak.
5) No one noticed, until someone decided to do a wash [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jun/11/nuclear-...]
6) If they hadn't noticed then pond would have boiled enough to expose the rods. This would have taken just a few hours.
7) A column of fire would have erupted out of the pond, creating a radioactive plume that would have rendered my house uninhabitable, for like, 200 years.

So, I do not give a toss about whether it glows green or not... but it's definitely scary stuff that needs to be watched.

She is right about weapons though, that stuff is the real deal. There's 1000 Hiroshima's worth of Plutonium in a shed on the other side of the country [ https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inside-sellafield-nuclear-wa...] - that's even scarier.
> The fossil fuel industry is funding pro-nuclear PR because they realize that renewables do pose a major economic threat to their business in the short term, since they are now cost-effective enough to replace vast chunks of their business (even if not 100% of it.) Pro-nuclear (and coincidentally anti-renewable) PR is the most efficient way to protect their business. If they can convince the public [incorrectly] that the best way to decarbonize rapidly is to abandon/block renewable build-outs because “nuclear is the only way” then they’ve paid enormous dividends to their shareholders.

This is an interesting theory devoid of evidence to back it up.
Open AI serving us geek dads
I'm a geek. I'm not creative. I struggle making up new stories every night. And my kid doesn't like that.

But, again, I'm a geek.

I went another route and decided to experiment with a GPT-3 to build an app for coming up with infinite stories and playing it in a nice and human-like way.

Works like Magic.
It appears to me it's stealing everything it can and tweaking it a just a bit for responses to queries.

Should be fairly easy to confirm that by publishing some bullshit and see if it uses it.
Does increasing farm productivity relieve pressure on remaining natural areas?
I found it made more sense to brew 10 years ago. Back then craft brew wasn't as easy to find, so if I wanted something particular I'd have better luck making my own and sharing it with friends. Now I can go down to Whole Foods and have more options than I can fathom.

Cost-wise it just doesn't make much sense. A batch might be somewhat favorable in price for ingredients if you do all-grain, but if you factor in equipment cost and time cleaning up...
> You are the product even if you pay, because they make more money that way.

That's the whole point of any business.
Are you sure there's a difference here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greenpeace_Energy
I wish there was a way to combine the power of an imperative language driven model generating language like this (that generates breps, NOT meshes like openscad) but with the initial modeling using a GUI like a standard CAD tool. The reason being, it is much, much faster to draw complex parts using traditional methods versus trying to 'program' them. Writing code is fine for basic shapes, but go and try an 'code' a complex ribbed casting with bezier-definied swept surfaces.

I'd love to see a way to generate models with normal tools but, in the background, be able to access a code file that could then be embedded in an external script, headlessly. This way, say I have a part where 3 parameters change- I could take the code for that part, nest it in 3 for-loops, and iterate thru all the combinations of dimensions, procedurally generating the models (and potentially exporting them to a permanent format). FreeCAD allows actions to be scripted with Python but again, the actions have to be done in the language first- there is no 'going backward' from a part done in the GUI to Python (from what I can tell).

This is what parmetric programs like NX, Catia, Solidworks have the ability to do via "design tables" or other internal tools. But even those tools don't have an easily portable 'language' that the models are portable in, and the kernels aren't something that you can get in and poke around with (or interface with, say, Python, which is my dream).

Just food for thought for the author of this.
That class browser has been part of Eclipse since the start or very near it (I first used it circa 2003).
The reality is that we truly live in a post-truth world. Maybe we always have.

When it comes to Ukraine, that means you can't trust anything. Any piece you read will have the taint of Ukrainian, American, or Russian propaganda.

I gave up on trying to figure out what is really going on in this scenario a while back.

Something is going on. There's definitely some deeper exchange happening. But I'll probably never know what.
literally this! I speak 7 languages, and I could learn another just enough to have a basic conversation in a week or two.

opinion: Most language teaching apps and schools are pointless, and most just want you to keep using them.

You need to remember how you learnt your language as a kid, you picked up on the basic vocabulary, tried to make elders understand using a single word along with gestures. grammar came much later.

Do not ever start with grammar, Grammar is just a set of artificial arbitrary boundaries drawn by linguists with thousands of exceptions and spoken grammar is also very different from written grammar. do not use the apps or schools that teach grammar, they are a waste of your money and time unless you plan to give an exam.

If you are a foreigner in a country, the natives wont care if you have bad grammar or no grammar at all as long as you put in the effort and are able to communicate your points.

you can literally communicate in any language knowing just the top 100-200 hundred used words along with a bit of English and hand gestures. 1000 words and you understand most of what they are speaking and with 5000 words, people will think you have lived there for a few years.
No algorithm should be copyright-able but your expression of that algorithm should. Programming language choice, variable names, comments, code-style, etc are all creative expressions which are relatively independent of the underlying math.
This message feels like you're trying to make a case that the author must be dismissed because of her group affiliation. Is there anything in the argument itself that you find incorrect or misleading?
I think Paul's advice in that post is best accompanied by reading Thinking Fast and Slow. There is a big difference between knowing something in theory and being able to actually practice it skilfully, and self-assessment in such things is always questionable.
Look here’s what you want to consider. The waste needs to be stored safely and responsibly for not a decade, not a century but for thousands of years.

We can’t manage shit that needs a few years of care unless it continues to make profits right now. It’s a fucking joke.

So your local government is recommending a nuclear waste dump, as mine is.

Here’s basic maths to know if your getting screwed or if they’ll be doing all the coolest activities shown in the nice diagrams with big solid containers and a scientists in lab coats monitoring for issues for eternity. People will definitely be there working and maintaining 50 and 500 and 5,000 years after the initial political announcement, right?

Anything needing maintenance for decades either needs to be politically important, like government spending on educational institutions or hospitals. What’s that you say? Your hospital buildings are decaying. Oh umm let’s chat further.

Ok so back to the maths. This thing needs its own stewardship funding.

Let’s say it costs a mere $20million a year to maintain. To be honest I don’t know the cost, insert X. So what your going to want is a simple endowment, setup in a nice 10,000 year organisation that’s free from corruption, that’ll reliably generate your needed $20M in funds a year. What’s that, the government haven’t announced support for a new corruption free, science institute that is funded upfront to run for eternity? I sure you just missed it.

So your looking for an endowment that will reliable generate your $20M a year, or whatever figure, ongoingly, forever. Luckily this can be achieved, you just need to think of this like the interest to be earned from a big term deposit.

With say a need for a say 2% guaranteed yield, nice and conservative, you’ll need around $1 Billion to be setup in a waste stewardship endowment institute thing.

And here’s where you can expose all the BS. I’ve seen no announcements for anything close to these funds, for these types of facilities. All that seems to be budgeted for is intial job creation construction as well as a couple of political cycles of funding.

These are mud map numbers, but hopefully they illustrate the grift involved in most of these initiatives when they are not taking straight on long long long term stewardship and how that’ll be funded 50, 500, 5000 years from now. Hell we can’t even think in those sort of long timeframes.

<end of rant/>
No, that’s not it, sorry.
The line of argument which boils down to „my side is guided by logic and facts, while your side is guided by emotion and fear“ makes the one who invokes it (ironically) vulnerable to missing valuable facts that might otherwise enrich or even challenge their mental model of the discussion at hand.

Note that this is a meta discussion which comments on how you were presenting your thoughts.
> Virtually no one who is critical of nuclear thinks that "it's scary" is the best, or even a good, reason for not having nuclear.

That's 99.9% of Germany's anti-nuclear movement. The "it's just not economical" is a super recent addition (last 3 years, I'd say) to the public debate, and it feels very much tacked on. If anyone discovered a method to bring down cost, most of those who are against nuclear energy wouldn't change their mind, because that's not an actual concern to them.
My hot take, pretending I was an environmentalist, is that fossil fuel/climate change is the object d'ire for environmentalists only because nuclear ended up not gaining traction. The masses of environmentalists have moved on to a different front of the battlefield for protecting the earth but would return if nuclear gained traction.

It's kind of like now that humans conquered polio and smallpox, the next challenge toward advancing the human race is ridding ourselves of cancer. If polio and smallpox returned, we'd be back to fighting those.
Yes, heat pumps do win. They win even more when you consider that the energy mix is not 100% fossil fuels. Globally something like 15% of energy comes from renewables or nuclear, plus 20-ish % from natural gas which is, as you said, 50-ish % efficient in turbine power plants.
Very weird. Would you volunteer a theory? (since that is probably all we can do for now).
They require identity, and a trust relationship with a bank, and only work inside the one defined economic zone.

Cryptocurrency is better than those systems by almost all metrics.
Has been, Schools are just greedy admins and sports teams that masquerade as tertiary education.
It's almost definitely an error, but I don't think it significantly reduces the chances that Hersh's source is telling the truth. This feels like a detail that Hersh (incorrectly) added to the story, rather than something the source claimed. The charitable interpretation is that the aging Hersh confused Stoltenberg with his father, a Norwegian politician who was indeed involved with Vietnam. It's not a good look if Hersh is conflating different people from different generations, but it doesn't really reflect on the accuracy of his source one way or the other.
Urbanites’ mental health undermined by air pollution
> Russia dismisses the accusations, claiming they are not going to invade Ukraine.

What's your point? That the Russian gov't is capable of lying, therefore they blew up the pipelines? What if I said that the US lied about weapons of mass destruction, therefore the US must have blown up the pipelines? It seems like a non-sequitur. State governments can deceive, especially about their plans for war.

That said, I'm not supporting Russia in this war, nor Ukraine. So I'm not going to participate any further in this other debate about the war that you appear to want to have.
There's actually a parking lot above the QFC. There's also a solid ramen place and a drugstore up there.
When the iPhone was introduced , there were already 1 billion phones being sold each year. Sj said he wanted Apple to sell 10 million to capture 1% of the market.

There can’t really be anything bigger than the phone market that has 90%+ world wide penetration.
Imagine you invested $100 into my company. Let's say my company specialized in doing absolutely nothing, as in, the company had a bank account and produced/sold nothing. In our little toy world where you always make money on investments, two weeks in I returned $150 to you (you've made $50).

This brings up questions like "where did that extra $50 come from", but maybe you get the point of the original comment now.
> OOP is not C++ best practice these days.

I didn't say it was.

I didn't say anything about best practice, only about familiarity.
there's also this old ribbonfarm post on "the locust economy", describing that sort of consumer behaviour: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/
We have separate Project Managers, and Product Owners.
"The process of selecting and showing personalized ads in Gmail is fully automated. These ads are shown to you based on your online activity while you're signed into Google. We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads" [1]. This was apparently changed in 2017 [2].

[1] [1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en#:~:text=Th....

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html
What would you do if this came up again? Would you still demur, but perhaps give a different reason (family needs right now, etc.)?
Smaller trucks exist, or at least they used to.
A (moving) picture is worth 1000 words!

I'll take that little smirk as evidence any day of the week
> Admittedly it would be hard to disprove; and it is the accuser that has the burden of proof.

Not quite. Any person who makes an assertion either positive or negative has a burden of proof.

This simple misunderstanding is one of the most dangerous beliefs out there if you ask me, and it is a broadly distributed belief.
In cold climates, systems have backup electric furnaces.
People have been lamenting about MacOS software quality since I got my first Mac in 1992.
Nuclear is dead - in the US anyway. Nuclear never made sense in the US. We aren't the kind of society that can make rational, scientific, economic decisions. Nuclear REQUIRES success at that. No pro-nuclear arguments are going to change those societal facts on the ground. Nor is their any reason to try - because nuclear is dead.
Systematic debugging flaws probably; and lack of tooling to easily isolate.

Systematic flaws: a cross between groupthink, early flawed assumptions, deference to team leads, a 'I just look for 1hr, if I can't find move on' (which leads to not looking), or just plain simple "reading" instead of searching.

Lack of tooling: many game engines are infamous for lack of control over tooling. I havent used many, but I understand it would be quite an effort to run meaningful parameterised or structured fuzz testing on most systems. This makes it hard to artificially confirm suggestions. That said, there is practically no excuse for them not to just add a bunch of counters to the game - even on their internal testers it would very quickly become clear there was a bias.

Most of my 'should have caught it earlier bugs' are of the 'deference to lead' variety. I looked, didn't see immediately, handed off with some notes, and then the follow up debugger(s) took notes or thoughts as gospel. This is really hard to fight - I write something along the lines of "my hunch is there is a problem in code x because it handles y and is poorly structured/tested. I checked z and found i, j - queries as follows" and then find the debuggers effevtively refuse to look anywhere past x. This is particularly true for a group of debuggers, who play chinese whispers with groupthink and invent reasons it must be x.
Space is a huge issue which I didn't take into consideration when buying the lowest/cheapest Steam Deck. This is a welcome relief.
> All of this is a world — probably ten years away, maybe less — where you go to a theater to see a handful of films each year. The tentpoles. Everything else goes right to your living room. The tadpoles.

I don't think this is the case for theaters. HMDs are already pretty decent for mono and stereoscopic movie watching. Even social aspect of movie going can be covered this way. Even eventual volumetric video would be better in room-scale rather than theater-scale. And pandemic did major damage too for the reputation of cinemas. Oh, and there is also this big reason why Super8, VHS, BluRay and eventually streaming won over competing standards.

And hopefully, only 7 years.
He said that in the context of sanctions, and which did end up shutting it down long before it was blown up. It only appears to be a threat of destruction retroactively because it was later blown up. There were no articles claiming he was threatening to blow it up at the time. Everyone knew the context was with regards to sanctions at the time.
chat.openai.com claims it is true, albeit without specific sources:

Yes, there is a significant amount of data and research that supports the increasing competitiveness of renewable energy compared to oil. Here are a few examples:

The International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that in 2020, the average global cost of producing electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) systems was lower than the cost of producing electricity from new fossil fuel plants, including coal and natural gas.

A recent study by the consultancy firm Lazard found that the cost of utility-scale solar and wind energy in the United States has fallen significantly in recent years, and is now cheaper than the cost of power generated from coal and natural gas in most regions of the country.

The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reported that the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for wind and solar energy in the United States has fallen by more than 50% over the past decade, and is projected to continue to decline in the future.

According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the cost of solar PV and wind energy has declined by over 80% and 60%, respectively, since 2010. IRENA also found that renewable energy is now the cheapest source of new power generation in many countries, including Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and the United States.

These are just a few examples, but they demonstrate the trend of declining costs for renewable energy and increasing competitiveness with oil and other fossil fuels.
Yes and my implication was that if we replaced those TLA agents with an AGI then the "Interesting. Please continue." might not be asked by a human, or at all because it is "just" (merely, not barely) static.

Here is the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeUuFHGj6TM.
Hacker News dataset not updated in BigQuery since Nov 16 2022
"Nobody lives there any more, because there's too much demand for housing."
Is there a rule preventing you from posting something again?
There is even a TV show (based in UK ) where they do classic cars conversions to EVs, called "Vintage voltage", the conversions they make consider all the related issues (weight/braking/etc.), though they don't look like cheap at all.

No idea how they actually manage to have the modified cars approved for street use, though in the UK AFAIK there are more possibilities (for prototypes and similar) than in the rest of Europe.

But there has been recently another show, this time Italian, called "Electromod con Mario Biondi", so there must be some way even in other EU countries.
Not really. There are a few people that disagree with the consensus (that's the definition after all) and they get outsized media attention.
It takes a decade to bring a nuclear plant online, at astronomical cost. Instead, why not take that money and start building wind turbines, solar PV and grid-scale batteries? They can start generating (ie. delivering ROI) in a matter of months, be constructed incrementally and are cheaper per KWH.