skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...but thinks that Chernobyl was only responsible for 433 deaths ...

I can't say I've ever seen 433? About 50-ish people died from the acute effects of the disaster and over time, the number came in around 4000 according to UNSCEAR.

Note for comparison that coal kills 24,000 in the US each year, and no other nuclear power accident in history has killed anyone. Maybe 1 person in Fukushima, depending on how you do the attribution. Zero at Three Mile Island.

The Bangqiao dam killed 240,000 people in one fell swoop but nobody holds that against hydro. We assume we've learned from that and engineered a better dam. We seem to have different standards for the spicy rocks for some reason.

> ... and they fell asleep at their computers before considering the carbon footprint of uranium mining and enrichment (and unlike materials used in permanent magnets and batteries, which everyone loves to get excited about - uranium is not recycled, nor can it be at least in the US without enormous infrastructure and policy changes.)

Err, no, that's factored into the numbers. It still has a lower carbon footprint than wind and solar, let alone storage. Because uranium is so incredibly energy dense.

> Why? Because solar and wind cost a fraction of what nuclear does, and are getting cheaper every year.

Not for the same profile of generation, no. A pure wind and solar grid plus storage would cost dramatically more than nuclear does today. In fact even a 90% renewable grid plus storage is dramatically more expensive that nuclear today. So yeah, an incomplete solution is cheaper than a complete solution, I guess.

> And if a "once in a thousand years" storm (which is happening every few years) happens, and the plant does a Fukashima, and pollutes the largest fresh-water lake with radioactive waste, rendering a water supply for tens of millions of people undrinkable, then what?

This is a silly hypothetical with no basis.

Anyways, the data is clear.
ultra MTFBA?
Even doing it the opposite way around still doesn't work (installing Windows first, and then replacing the Windows bootloader). Every time there is a Windows update that is "major" enough, it will wipe the existing Linux bootloader.

I lived like that for about a year, but eventually just gave up and stuck to Windows. I like Linux a lot, but I've found that I save more time using Windows then trying to get Linux to work on whatever piece of hardware I have (driver issues, bugs, some remaining software that still doesn't work with Linux).

You can remove most of the crap via a debloater, but Windows 11 is just overall worse than Windows 10. The UI updates just took all the negatives of using a Mac, but without any the parts that make it actually useful. I miss being able to see the title of windows in the taskbar...

My favorite pet theory about Microsoft is that no one that works there actually uses any of their products and are just on Macs lol
My daughter is 4 and in the last year I've started hanging out with a few other dads from her preschool. It's been fun knocking back a beer while the kids go feral. I appreciate the diversity of thought vs. spending my days talking with coworkers. It definitely takes effort on everyone's part to follow through on plans, and having a supportive spouse helps.
According to University of Wisconsin: Fresh manure should not be used on fruits and veg beds, especially where the crops are embedded in soil, because it can transmit human pathogens. It needs to be fully composted manure - that's manure that's been processed for 3 to 4 months. (https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/using-manure-in-the...)

In order to supplement the nutrient content of fully composted manure, you can age and then dilute human urine (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200122080500.h...) assuming you aren't sick or on medications (https://morningchores.com/urine-as-fertilizer/).
Elitism in a sense of social status, I think. The husband has worked as a VC in Korea.
It's true, though; people who tell you it can't be done are usually older. They could be right, but they could be wrong. To paraphrase Planck, progress is made one funeral at a time.

I think America's cultural preference for the young and the new is serving it well. Making way for the new is why we are programmed to die.
Except those numbers are…wrong? I mean, they’re not far off, but they’re not actually right either. You should probably never trust ChatGPT outright with facts.

From the horse’s mouth, https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar21/index.html:

Productivity and Business Processes: 53.9B (not 53.7)

Intelligent Cloud: 60.1B (not 58.4)

More Personal Computing: 54.1B (not 53.6)
> RTX A2000

If you know that much about Linux, you should expect issues with Nvidia. AMD just works.
You realize that before google paid, microsoft actually did it and bing was used in Siri even, right?
> Every org I've ever worked at has had 6 figure monthly cloud bill, and the 6 figure monthly payroll bill related to teams working with cloud infrastructure

There was a point not too long ago when I managed a 6 engineer team responsible for 7 figures of monthly spend. Still seems outlandish to me despite the ops burden being pretty low once we had things sorted.
In your estimation, how much graphic violence should my operating system show me on a routine basis?
The problem with basic programming questions like this is that there are a million elementary online tutorials for doing this or that with a json schema. "Simple programming questions based on commonly-used technology" are something it's been very heavily trained on.
Pro-choice doesn't mean you do or don't consider impact on society. It just means you get to choose, using whatever criteria you decide are important. You might make your choice based on impact to society (however you choose to define that), you might not. The point is it's your choice and no one else's, using criteria you chose. That in no way forecloses any particular way of thinking about whether to make any particular choice.
There's also two dimensions.

You might be an implementor from a product management perspective, but a solver from a technical perspective. Here's a desired feature, figure out how to make it work.

Or you might be a finder from a product management perspective, and a finder from a technical perspective. Here's the vision, figure out what feature should be added and figure out how to make it work.
> the consistent keyboard shortcuts

Funny, I remember working at a Linux shop a few years ago - two higher-ups in tech there were fairly against paying for any software, but both used Windows for this exact reason.
@Asianometry (https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry) does great deep dives on ASML and all the chip makers.
The Dreariest Cities in the US (2015)
Google makes a shit ton of money from Search, Microsoft doesn't.

If Bing had more users the Microsoft would make more money from it, and vice verse for Google. Their respective sizes are a reason for Microsoft to grow Bing, not a reason to turn Samsung away.

Microsoft are investing $10b in OpenAI partly to make Bing better. That is not a sign they're happy with Bing's market share. They're coming for Google, albeit with an oblique strategy rather than competing directly.

how much can they afford to throw into this pit before investors start being worried

A lot, for a really long time. Microsoft have plenty of money and a history of playing a long game successfully. Have a look at Xbox if you want an example of Microsoft spending a lot of money for a very long time and coming out ahead in the end.
Elon Musk claims to be working on ‘TruthGPT’ – a ‘maximum truth-seeking AI’
Why would a CEO give this interview? What is the upside?
It's ridiculous because names are mostly for the benefit of other people, and unfortunately society isn't so tolerant that everyone will accept it. If you call your daughter Titan Invictus you're going to have her go through life with people trying to stifle a laugh when they hear her name, or asking "Sorry?" or coming back home and telling their spouse about the kid with the absurd name in the class they're teaching.

People are also unlikely to change their name, firstly since it's their name that they've had for years before being old enough to realise that people think it sounds stupid, and secondly because they worry about hurting their parents' feelings.
>Last I checked, cheese was allowed in vacuum-sealed packaging. Meat, fruit and vegetables are what's not allowed. Those you just have to eat before you go through customs after arriving in the US.

A good point. However, this wasn't vacuum sealed, just the standard wax around the ball of cheese wrapped in paper.

And I wouldn't have been all that excited to wolf down 2+ kg of cheese at the airport.
Eh, why not both!?
I would advise commenting out every console.log() for your production version, I didn't check till after I played but it's pretty easy to just see what the quote is there, and even without that I think having that much of (what I assume is) debug info showing up for users seems undesirable, to me at least.
As time goes on the cost of physical attacks increases. This was more true in the 90s when secure boot and FDE weren’t a thing, sure it’s still possible but it’s much harder now.
‘An AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe.’
The article does not mention how immigrants can make friends. Not all but most natives treat immigrants as outsiders. I get it that you are more likely to be friends with someone who is similar to you. If it was difficult for a city girl to make friends with people who look like her but grew up in a different location, I can't even imagine how difficult it must be for immigrants who don't look the same, have a different accent and grew up in a different culture. People living in big cities like NY, San Francisco may have a few friends from a different country but that is not representative of the entire population of immigrants. Also, I like to think that the nature of friendships is entirely different depending on where you grew up. The North American definition of a friend is very different from an Indian definition of a friend. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's difficult enough to start over in a new country all by yourself and making friends is even more difficult than that.
I'm talkative, outgoing and pretty funny in real life. I think I can say that people generally enjoy my company.

But I only have about three friends, and I see them maybe four times a year.

I really get along with my coworkers and enjoy their company at work. My wife thinks I should make more friends.

But the truth is (and I suspect this is pretty common with HN'ers), I don't want more friends!

Because in addition to those three friends, there's siblings, siblings-in-law, husbands of siblings-in-law, parents, parents-in-law, cousins, my wife's friends, my wife's friends' husbands, etc etc. And they all wanna see you!

That, plus of course spending time with my lovely wife/daughter (which I love to do), leaves not much alone-time to explore all the awesome stuff you can do in this world. Play guitar. Read a great piece of literature. Learn to draw. Learn Blender. Build some furniture. Grow a fruit tree. Grow five fruit trees. Keep a hot compost pile (more amazing to see than you'd think). Write a shitty piece of music. Learn to weld. Lift weights. Run.

There's just so much great stuff to do. I like people, they're great. But I guard my alone-time like a precious gemstone.
I don't know if this is a good legal decision, but it's certainly a good practical decision. California's forced electrification is a disaster in the making.
Browsers can not import CommonJS
ok, yeah I see now that the website is back up
Gravity can transform into light, mind-bending physics paper suggests
Is that particular risk common? I would generally hope that I/O pins put out few enough milliwatts that they can be shorted safely.
You could definitely brick it, in addition to all the stuff everyone else mentioned.
I have a theory. People who actually like Windows 11 are mostly new windows users. New as in they haven't used Windows 98 or it's likes, also they were never have been the power users of Windows from that time.

Yead old windows had so many problems, mostly around finding where particular settings are, but otherwise it was fast and usable and was definitely not a Mac.

There is a saying in my language which translates to "when the crow tried to walk like swan, it even forgot it's own walk".
Hi I’m Fred! I have a bank!
Mainly because the maze is empty to start with, and the water must flow simultaneously to all points equidistant from the entry until the exit is "found".
In the late 80s/early 90s when I was kite-battling, it was common to use these glass coated strings. I haven't played in decades, but it does seem quite dangerous now that I think about it as an adult. I'm glad the practice is banned.

We live in a different age today in terms of safety awareness. I vividly remember playing with powerful fireworks during Diwali celebrations. We'd light them in our hands and hurl them skyward moments before they burst. Today the mere thought of this makes me shudder, and I can't even imagine my children playing this way.
If librarians and nurses are really such critical high demand jobs then they should be paying Americans more for them rather than importing them from China and India for pennies. There is zero shortage of either if you are willing to pay more than the equivalent of minimum wage.
> make good quality friends

Maybe your putting to much emphasis on good and quality and filtering them?

Like you already know friends come and go. Who cares if they're good and quality(ok to some degree... but the average person isn't immoral) As long as you can hang out and do something you should be good. They're friends, your not having a kid with them.

I think when we were younger, well me atleast, there was a huge emphasis on dont be popular, small amounts of good friends are better then having lots of friends . thats probably good advice for a ten year old struggling with self esteem. But as an adult? Who cares, be friends with everyone. If you really can't stand them, they'll be gone before you know it, just like the good ones.
“it’s disappointing the Ninth Circuit held that Berkeley, like many other cities around the country, cannot take common-sense measures to protect its constituents from climate change.”

I'm all for getting rid of nat gas heating, and I wouldn't install it in a new home, but that doesn't mean that I believe that I would be protected from climate change because of it.
Maybe try booting into a live Linux USB and poke around and see if you can replicate the problem there.
Good news. Electricity is several times more expensive than gas per unit of energy in CA, and I generally find electrical appliances to be inferior at the present. The ban was just too soon.
Weekly hangs are real. I have started and participated in several. I think a key to a good group hang is to have an activity that serves as a base narrative for why everyone is together. The activity should be easy enough for newcomers to join in, and compelling enough to keep people coming back.
Everyone has this need. Maybe treat your employees like you want to be treated.
addr2line is unlikely to be a trivial self-contained program without dependencies.
I don't want to read about the stuff because I know somewhere, an 11 year old is also reading about it and it's either causing them anxiety or giving them ideas. I'd rather not support that.
Not partially, totally now. They used Yandex before, but they stopped using it after the war I believe.
> addresses the birthday problem (in v4, chances of a collision in a 103 trillion set is 1 in a billion)

Does that mean if you randomly assign ID numbers to 8 billion people you’d get 8 collisions?
Most H-1B visas are filed for existing employees, and each of them has to try multiple times due to the lottery. So if Google is filing an application in 2023 it doesn't mean they hired the worker last month, but rather probably anywhere around 2020-2022. The layoff has nothing to do with it.
Then link to those dependencies.
> Windows Vista’s file controls blow every OS out of the water.

KDE's Dolphin File manager can:
1) Split the file window in two with a simple button press.
2) Pressing F4 opens an embedded terminal in the current directory.
3) Provides a super easy way of adding network drives, and a whole view to save them to.
4) Tags for organising files / folders.
5) Pressing space puts it into a super simple "Selection Mode".

There are more alternative file managers out there than just Mac's Finder. I don't think I have ever experienced Windows "blowing me out of the water" with it's file management controls.
> So... become a regular at local restaurants, random coffee shops, bars, clubs, farmer's markets, parks, hiking trails, start a band, volunteer somewhere, join a gym, travel, etc.

Maybe this used to work, but it no longer does. I'm a regular at several local hangouts, hit the gym several days a week, and go out to other activities regularly. I rarely have conversations with anyone beyond perfunctory pleasantries with the staff. Neither does anyone else; since COVID people almost exclusively stick to themselves or the group they came with.

There's been the odd occasion where I do get someone's contact info like the article suggests. So I text and the conversation tends to be some variation of "I'm busy the next couple of weeks, I'll text when I can hang out!" Of course they never do. Following up yields the same result and also reeks of desperation, so I no longer do that.

Meanwhile people seem to regard friendships as disposable lately. Within the past year I've been repeatedly ghosted and excluded from activities by longstanding friends for some perceived offense that I only found out about secondhand weeks later. Apologizing had no effect, and I regret doing it.

So now, I have almost no friends in my current town aside from my spouse, and rather than continue on with this charade we have decided to move back east - where probably the cycle will repeat itself, but at least in a more familiar environment where socializing is slightly easier.
Sure, but if you are going to give someone a "unique and fun" name specifically saying you are against feminine names because research says they are taken less seriously, but aren't really putting much consideration into whether "unique and fun" names are taken less seriously than classic boring names, something is clearly wrong with your logic.
And yet, people keep trying.

Consequentialism, deonthological ethics, ten commandments, civil laws. Your rules will never be complete enough to make 100% accurate decisions.

When will we learn to avoid this kind of nonsense?
It is interesting how at this point in time the OpenAI -> Nvidia -> TSMC -> ASML tech stack is effectively single source all the way down. We haven't really seen anything like that in the prior semiconductor, internet, and mobile tech waves.
That's a guaranteed path to evil [1]

[1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
Has it though? Erlang is still strong and Elixir is on the rise for some time.
Curious about where in Portland this is - St. John’s?
The main question here is how soon will the model architecture improvements come. I fathom it won't be that long till OpenAI or Google come up with something better. The tricky piece here is that these companies will now keep their models more proprietary to make profits. Can a competitor company figure out an on par or better model architecture in time?
That's a sysctl config (any path under /proc/sys/ is). See `man sysctl` for how to make it permanent (i.e., auto-apply it on boot). Here's an example:

echo vm.max_map_count=1000000 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/max_map_count.conf
sysctl -f /etc/sysctl.d/max_map_count.conf

Besides, there's plenty of ways to automatically execute any command on boot.
I'm very confused to see people pushing O365 as a viable alternative to GSuite for collaborative documents. It's not even close.
AWD with all the fixin’s (what we bought) is more like $58.
One example is flash memory which can only do a certain number of writes (in the order of 10,000-100,000 writes).

You could have a firmware that saves everything to flash all the time and eventually causes the flash to become defective. It'd be easy to burn a flash out in less than a day.
Sun Tzu.

When you are weak pretend to be strong.

When you are strong, pretend to be weak.
You probably tried on balanced mode, that is shitty. Tried now on Creative and seems... very good?

https://imgur.com/a/xekxNAh
I didn't say otherwise. My theory is just that some foods are more vs less conducive to policing, and theaters benefit from a strong preference for one particularly easily-policed food. That goes beyond the general economic logic of concessions markets that you repeated here.
> It showed that catching COVID-19 could increase the chances of a cardiac-related death much more than getting the vaccine.

This is and was obvious. Keep in mind that they always quoted a high percentage difference in likelihoods because the absolute number of vaccinated people who suffered from cardiac-related death in the one demographic group where that held randomly was around 20.
All test equipment has reduced performance near its limits. I probably should have just said range because it's implied.
Three factors identified to make friendships more likely:

See https://www.businessinsider.com/things-that-help-people-make...
Pretty much the only notable advantage MSO for my use is excel, which is better for "advanced" spreadsheet workloads. For collaborative work and 99% of documents and spreadsheets, Google docs is the superior option.

I haven't opened a MS product in years and my life is better for it. Their Mac product lineup is particularly lackluster.
I think my “regular friends” generally were still people I had significant differences in some ways with, and our initial connections were often something incidental like having nearby dorm rooms or enjoying televised football.
Tell your kids to study hard so they can afford to stay away from it.
I often see products optimise for the "get-started-quick" part, which is often 0.1% of the total experience. For example, reviews of operating systems often focus more than 50% of the content on the upgrade or installation process, even though that's actually a rare operation.

Azure focuses on Microsoft's large enterprise customers. They want guard rails, separation of responsibilities, policy, compliance controls, etc...

Nothing to do with the process required to get 1 VM up and running from scratch, including signing up. Their bread & butter customers have enterprise agreements in place already for Office and Windows licensing!
Linksys got GPL'd when they released the WRT54G which spawned off OpenWRT, ddwrt, and friends. This blunder on their part sparked a boon of open source firmware development, which ultimately made the WRT54G very popular. Compatibility with open source firmware is a hard requirement for any new router purchases that I make
reminds me of this saying, in different variations, attributed to Aristotle: "He who has many friends has no friends".
As if Windows or MS-DOS were ever good!
What makes someone a friend? Anyway?

When you were a kid, you play with other kids, slowly you know each other, understand each other. And then that understanding grow into trust, and further into reliance or even love.

As an adult, reliance and love is hard to develop due to many factors, but understanding and trust can still grow.

Under this new situation, maybe it's just more rational to change the definition of friendship, since deeper interactions (such as companionship) has now became too expensive.

> Eventually, loneliness can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Maybe one day you'll find that you already have many friends living around you, you ignored it in the past because "that's just regular old living".