skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what you are expressing is one perspective on accidents, and it's true - the one guy who cares about cleaning up a spill is a good guy, the one guy who hoses it into a drain is a bad guy. I would like to offer another one.

The water is going to take all of the people who did it right, and all of the people who did it wrong, and average their actions together into a single number, the amount of contamination. On the other side, although an individual person can decide whether they're going to make disposing of those batteries easy or a bureaucratic power trip, when you are at the top and are going to fill 1,000 positions like that, you know in advance that some of them are going to be awful about it. So, from the top like from below, individual personal decisions become fixed quantities. Sending out 1,000 people and allowing 250 of them to make the independent personal decision to do it wrong is really the same thing as doing it wrong yourself, because it's guaranteed to happen.

That's essentially the story behind why you should think about accidents as an institutional problem even when they involve bad personal choices on the part of the people who did them. That One Guy is actually hundreds of people and although you can't tell in advance whether one person will do it you know that out of thousands, hundreds will.
Wow, I had definitely forgotten that was being worked on still, it's been a long time since I've played it.

Also reminded me that I backed Camelot Unchained that's still kicking around in development after all these years.
Batteries aren't the only way to store energy. Here's a short list of other ways to store energy:

- Pumped hydro: Use electricity now to pump water uphill. When power is needed, water is allowed to flow back downhill, powering a turbine to generate electricity.

- Thermal storage: Heat up water or molten salt. This heat can be used directly later (e.g., use hot water for showers) or to power steam turbines to generate electricity

- Flywheels: spin up a heavy wheel, which can "smooth" out power delivery when inputs briefly shut off

- Compressed air: can be stored / used to power turbines to generate electricity later

- Fuel generation: can use electricity during high-production times to generate fuels like hydrogen (electrolysis ) or methane (reverse methanogenesis).

None of these are silver-bullets. But if used intelligently for specific problems, they're excellent tools to help cover the volatile output of wind/solar.
Amazon is a different case altogether (see my other post about them) as they deal in physical goods; that transportation infrastructure allows them to capture greater market share even if online sales drop.
their payment model is really strange

(I looked into this a while ago, may have changed)

I think you get paid in some inscrutable formula of '% of subscription revenue when someone reads your post and then subscribes'

like based on some cursed attribution model

it also has a CMS technology that loads a visible page, then does a bunch of FOUC nonsense, probably messes with my scroll in some way -- heavy + awful presentation tech
Everything is a struggle, but then everything is a victory.
> simply because the Biden folks are being so cautious in so many other ways.

Biden said publicly they were going to "end it." The reporter who asked the question was even baffled and asked how they could make that claim when the pipeline was in foreign territory. Biden further confirmed that we would have a way to do it if needed.

If they didn't do it, then that press conference and that answer was exceptionally incautious.
The important part is at the end:

However, the state of alcohol purchasing says something larger about the American consumer. We’re seeing folks once again organize into two camps – haves and have nots.

Consumer demand for singular “sub-premium” beers is rising at the same time as high-end mezcal.

This has been accelerating since the 2008 "crisis" and got way worst the past few years. There is no middle, there's either premium to cater to the (mostly) white collar class who are now comparatively rich, and there's crap for the working class, who are now super poor.
Radioactive material is not something you can only find in nuclear plants (you can get same levels of radioactive materials in hospitals for example), there are also much easier ways to cause worse disasters (think about destroying a dam for example)
Not quite. Inventory is an asset on the balance sheet. It only becomes COGS on the income statement when the goods are sold.
They went completely crap on every single aspect. See the source code of a page that call itself "minimalist".

Then see their business model…

(I wrote about it 6 years ago: https://ploum.net/an-open-pay-wall-has-medium-lost-its-mind/... )
Musk fired top engineer for explaining why his tweet views are down
It's kind of not. One way to think of it is roughly as follows: Zig is statically typed at runtime. It's dynamically typed at compile time.

Anyways it's not entirely crazy to think that maybe this sort of thing should be the province of static linters
I don't know in the big picture. Here's my personal experience, though.

I never really thought that Medium was an attractive place. It had so many annoyances about it that I didn't develop a regular habit of going there. Then, at some point, it became even worse with paywalling and other additional irritations. I rarely even follow links to Medium anymore.

The actual writing quality was OK at first, but it also plummeted.
Sure, just as soon as we get those “contains code from new college hires” label I’ve been asking for.

Relying on perfect coding skills is a losing game. Way better to have healthy code review and testing processes that assume your developers are fallible.
Soon in supermarkets near you: the Apple Apple. Beautiful, healthy, tasty; no buttons!
This text doesn’t really disproof the Hersh story beyond nitpicking some details and incorrect use of technical languages. (Admittedly it would be hard to disprove; and it is the accuser that has the burden of proof.)

However the big issue is the complete shutdown of media coverage and that the governments of Denmark, Sweden, and Germany all keep their investigations secret.
Nuclear energy should be orthogonal to meeting future energy demand and transitioning to a zero carbon generating economy. While it takes a long time for a nuclear plant to come online and become fully efficient. It's better than sitting on our asses and breathing in the toxic waste generated by fossil fuels.

Additionally, with the recent revelations in fusion, https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-national-laboratory-make..., nuclear will be able to provide us with more runway as mankind continues to march forward towards a cleaner future.
The good news is that carbon neutral synthetic fuels are rapidly maturing and arguably have a better carbon footprint than manufacturing millions of short life span BEVs.

https://coryton.com/lab/videos/how-can-we-decrease-carbon-em...

Hybrid is clearly the way to go until SMR's and a 1st world electric grid are successfully operating in California.

I was in a home brew electric car club back in 2012 era, people had the entire pickup bed of trucks full of batteries with a deganging lever like a giant train brake to disengage the batteries in the event of thermal runaway.

Asking people who aren't interested or experienced with cars to 'convert' for 2k is going to end up with a lot of cowboy jerry rigged opportunist fire hazard vehicles on the road. Portantino's proposal is naive and highly irresponsible IMO.

People who are serious about EV conversions use excellent companies like EVWest.com you can do the conversion math there...
Afraid I don't understand how me telling you to "Quit whining and fork the project" is actually the true whining.

> Plus you are resorting to insults and yet you claim I'm the unreasonable one.

I don't think I characterized anyone as unreasonable. Your examples are not analogous to the present situation, but I think your real problem is you're telling other people, very well aware of the Good News of GNU/FSF, something they already know.

I, and others, have taken a very clear eyed looked at the GPL/FSF and said "No, not for me," and I wish you'd understand one of the reasons why is yours and others rampant religiosity. I don't comment under GPL licensed project, "Hey I wish you'd change your license to MIT because [red herring, and bad faith argument...]" because I know it's in incredibly poor taste as a non-contributor. MIT/GPL/AGPL/etc isn't always my cup of tea either but its simply not my choice.

That said -- sure, if you/anyone has a merits based case to make as to why something makes more sense as GPL licensed, I'm all ears. But, as it stands, your arguments are in poor taste.
How do you know it's time to switch? How are you finding the therapist you switch to?
cory doctorow has codified this precisely in his theory of "enshittification":

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Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
Just on technical grounds, this is just not a very educational article. Any discussion of waste from the nuclear fission process should begin with an image of the periodic table and a chart of the curve of binding energy (whose peak, or trough, sits on Iron, which the most stable nuclei relative to fusion or fission processes). From there we can take a look at thermal fission product yield:

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

Notably there are two peaks in isotopic distribution, but there are a great many species generated, with varying impact on human health if ingested, depending on whether they mimic species like calcium (in the same column on the periodic table) or are actually used (iodine in the thryoid gland for example). Note also there are some transuranics (plutonium etc.) formed by neutron capture in addition to the fission products.

The risk is that these products don't stay sealed in their cooling pond containers (note that 'spent' is hardly the right term, it's really 'too hot to safely remain in the reactor' as they're still generating lots of energy by decay of the unstable isotopes). Eventually they cool off enough to go into dry cask storage (also a long-term risk).

Usually in these discussions someone trots out a line like 'airplanes are risky, too, but we don't stop flying just because of the rare plane crash, do we?'. The answer to this is that if every plane crash created a 50-mile diameter exclusion zone that had to be kept off-limits for 50-100 years without extensive decontamination, then we'd think twice about flying (note the nuclear-reactor-powered airplane was on the drawing boards for a while).

The end result of this issue is that nuclear reactors have to be heavily over-engineered to take into account so-called 'black swan' events, see Fukushima. This inevitably raises the costs of nuclear power well above those for any other energy source, which is why many people (myself included) think it doesn't have much of a future except in certain niche situations.

There are other issues, of course - high demand for cooling water, nuclear weapons material proliferation, uncertainties over high-grade uranium ore supplies (i.e. price fluctuations etc.), and so on, but attempting to claim long-term storage of nuclear waste is not a seriously problematic issue is just blatantly dishonest.
> there will be other stocks in a losing position that can wash the washer.

That is equivalent to “your stock portfolio will never grow”.

> This only makes sense to me if you have a very large, very diversified portfolio.

You do not need to own much of the stocks to observe a fall relative to the purchase price in a stock you want to keep. The original “wash sale” prohibition just complicates tax planning - for everyone. Since it’s mathematically absurd, it’s prone to loopholes. But you need to spend time to find the loopholes, so wealthy people are (and will) suffer less.

“Wash sale” prohibition harms ordinary stock owners, like me, much more than it harms Steve Balmer.
Great stuff! If you're interested in something similar with a simpler language (Logo) and relative model construction (using the turtle) check out turtleSpaces:
https://turtlespaces.org/2021/09/08/how-to-create-and-3d-pri...
You can export STL files and 3D print them. We'll be adding a multi-color export method soon
If they would add ads, writers would ask for a revenue, too. If they'd do that, they would ask for a fair share, considering their amount of contribution. Means: how many articles they write. And with that you are back to the status quo. Dropping "get rich fast posts" and soul-less "top x lists".
Because adblockers have made selling "free" content to astute, tech-literate people extremely difficut, and in 2023 micropayment/subscription models are still hopelessly bad.
An oddity of the market that surprised me when I got into it is the relatively low price of a hand shaped board. They’re described in the article as high end, and they can be, but odds are a local shaper can make you something custom for around the same price or less than mass manufactured boards like FireWire, Lost etc. Only issue is you’ll have to wait for it to be made.
I keep forgetting about this game and meaning to go back to it. Definitely the "weirdest" (in a good way!) MMO out there.
> Gas stations and corner stores also tend to have the highest prices.

Yes, along with the least healthy food. Food poverty (in the sense of being unable to afford or access healthy food) is a very serious problem in America that contributes to the high numbers of unhealthy people and obesity rates. It's one of those things that isn't talked about enough, and certainly I don't read much about efforts to fix it.
Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists?
Will Prowse recently did a video on the Lightning [1]. He is running into some problems in his area acquiring the free charging or any charging away from his home. He can of course charge it at his home since he has insane amounts of solar. This could be problematic for construction folks going to job sites that may have limited power as in just enough for the tools and not enough to charge several trucks. This should be interesting to watch how it plays out.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATyBdJic8-o
At least it has kept the nice 90s atmosphere too. Generally HN users are high value targets - how little spam or trolling there is to be found here by outsiders is incredible considering the lack of safeguards you mentioned.
And at that point he'd played the game a lot, so he probably would have quit playing anyway. Were he like me, the fun at that point was the statistics portion anyway, and he'd already found and fixed that, so it was no longer fun either.
Ohhhhh man. That Windows 9x interface... takes me back to the days when computer apps weren't all webshit. And it's in Java, no less -- probably Swing!
The https://openinventionnetwork.com/ exists now too, to make defensive patents for those who want to open source their patents but keep a big corp from attacking after stealing an idea/patent.
Things that changed: subdivisions/teams, tech stacks, managers, areas of the business, enterprise procedures/processes. Basically everything. They even outsourced my job, then laid off my entire old department to ship that entire business unit to another contract company.

Then at home, kids and multiple family health issues. I guess my age plays a role too.
I regret that Hersh's reporting relied on anonymous officials. That's not a dig on Hersh - this is the standard for journalism on these topics. As a standard it creates a deniability to any story that comes out e.g. "they probably made it up", "the source doesn't know what they are talking about", "the source is influencing the journalist for their own ends".

I think Hersh's article is interesting and useful however. There are specific details that journalists can dig into in the future to find validating hard facts. This may ultimately press a government to cop up to involvement over time, once enough evidence has mounted. That's not to say there aren't possible false leads and inaccuracies in his report.

For the linked article - it commits far more journalistic sins than Hersh's article - in an attempt to take it down. Through continued use of insinuation, analogies, and strawmen the author makes the strongest possible case that there's not merit to Hersh's argument - but for me it comes across as Sophomoric.

In terms of who destroyed the pipeline it is clear that the United States, United Kingdom and Ukraine had strong motives - and the US and UK capability. It's difficult to read commentary that dismisses these motivations out of hand as outrageous. Or at least, I'm coming in with priors that significantly diverge from these commentators.
Excellent! I, for one, recommend using this tool to make parallel versions of important files in every github repo. If the AI can't learn to keep their hands out of the honey jar, they don't deserve to survive.
If you punish me every time I follow a link to your site, I may learn to avoid following links to your site.

Medium changed from reader-friendly to reader-hostile over time.
This made me sad. Long form content is the content I get the most value from. Short-form is largely pointless.
Nuclear reactor fuel is pre-assembled. There are licenses to produce/consume/export/import/store/dispose the fuel assemblies, with the quantities and weights being an exactly known scientific fact. Everything is meticulously recorded and tracked from source to destination, with stringent security measures. Local, international and inter-governmental regulators monitor, inspect and verify; penalties are serious.

Why would you compare commercial nuclear energy production to the military scenarios, which have a completely different legal, supervisory, penalty and authority structure?
The idea that Russia would use it as a reminder that they could sabotage other pipelines doesn’t seem so far-fetched.
That's a strange characterization because none of my substacks are anywhere near being conservative.
Unfortunately we don't have access to an alternate universe where Bulgaria has taken the same trajectory in all things but Facebook, Twitter etc had been banned.

But my guess is: it wouldn't have mattered. I don't believe that we get that behavior because Facebook enables us to be petty. I believe that we get that behavior because of the circumstances (i.e. rapidly changing economical and cultural environment that make people fearful and uncertain and will make them fall back on their core values) and people realizing that you can convince/manipulate others better if you deliver your messages in a short, meme-style format, appeal to their emotions, play into identity politics and "own" the other side. Even if you outlawed Facebook, once politicians, activists etc realize that this works, they'll use it in whatever media you allow.

The only winning move (individually) is not to play, at least that's my experience. You can tune out, concentrate on whatever you deem important and the world won't fall apart just because you're not spending your time and energy explaining to people that they're being manipulated, because after all, most things move slowly. Before each election, everybody speaks as if this was the one that matters. As if, should they lose this time, all is lost because they will destroy everything. And afterwards, everything just trots on as it always has (Yes, I'm sure there are exceptions, but in most countries the situation isn't exceptional). And if you do play and try to educate others about their manipulated intellects, all they'll see is that you are being manipulated and you're now trying to manipulate them. It feels great sometimes to tell them off and get applause, but you won't change hearts and minds, and you should be aware that it's a game.

On the other hand, I firmly believe: if you want to improve society, hug the bitter aunties, ask them how they've been and share some traditional food you can bond over, that'll make it much easier to communicate and find common ground.
> Yeah, you didn’t cite any laws that restrict this future. You’re wrong.

I'm not wrong. I just don't call wishful thinking "the future", "reality" etc.

> Let’s also not be disingenuous. those “fantasy interfaces” are working prototypes and not just movie CGI

Prototypes are not "actual usable interfaces that are used by real humans for any extended periods of time". Note how his own company uses none of these interfaces.

> There are also real world products like NReal

Ah yes. A pair of galsses with 46 degree field of view that you need to connect with a cable to the actual device where all the processing and control happens.

> what Quest headsets and the new Apple headset will support

Ah yes. The new Apple headset that you know literally nothing about will one hundred percent will have this... Even though it's rumoured not to be VR device

> Bulky headsets are the past and present. That isn’t the future, or even the near future

Oh? We've solved the question of batteries? Of compact CPUs and GPUs capable of processing this? Etc. And all this is coming in near future?
Yes, but opening UK bank account is not that easy without your presence there.
Never heard anyone complain about this. You must have had some rare things coincide to get to that conclusion.
As long as this story remains uncofirmed by another party I'll continue to hold reservations. Still inconvlusive.
That's elegant. It's also not so different than a preprocessor gate, or a function attribute.
This is the business model of patent trolls.
A big part of the problem is that the U.S. doesn't have European-style local grocery stores (and if they do, they're expensive farmer market style boutiques in high-priced areas).
Adblockers only caught on because the internet ad industry is incredibly abusive.
It's more straightforward if you read a few more sentences.
Minor clarification: Elixir uses = for assigment. There's a special construct called "with" that's basically fallible pipes, and that's probably where you saw <-

with {:ok, id} <- get_id(),
{:ok, val} <- get_val(id)
do
show_success(val)
else
{:error, e} ->
# We reach this if either get_id or get_val fails
show_error(e)
end
In my opinion, the main difference is the history: this search engine has been used for 2 decades in various production sites.

Mantiscore is an opensource fork of Sphinx Search, which released its first version in 2001. The fork started after the latter went from opensource to proprietary, at the end of 2017. The engine is stable and battle-tested. IIRC, Craiglist uses Sphinx.
thank goodness for those credit card rewards
If we had started a serious decarbonization 20 yeats ago, sure, but solar is now so cheap and easy that it will be harder for large scale nuclear to ramp up in time to matter. Maybe those container nuclear plants and maybe the last 20% of base capacit by 2040. But slowing solar in deference to nuclear would prolong the era of high atmospheric carbon.
Right to Repair is incredibly important, but also feels incredibly insufficient in this context. What we really need is Obligation to Repair, or something of that nature. Producers of goods need to be accountable for the lifecycle of those goods.