skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you had a look at what Europe didn't stop importing from Russia due to lacking alternatives... cough cough.

I also don't get how an article can claim a global solution if nuclear currently is at 10% and we cannot keep up with supply and plants and and and.. this wont scale to 100%, not even 50 or even 20% of future global needs, would deplete cheap enough enable resources too quick... and what also is always forgotten: our world will likely have more, not less conflicts, unfortunately. Have fun managing this plants with wars all around and rivers going empty.

Yeah yeah all the issues happening and brought up again is just stupid people, mismanagement, etcetc.. But that unfortunately is humanity :/

Just no :/ especially as there are good enough and more sustainable other alternatives.

> Germany had some of the best managed plant

Better than France, likely agrees.. but still awful and that sentence is a joke. If that is your bar, good night. German infrastructure is currently rotting at record pace, happy we got those plants out there.
The spelling of English definitely doesn't give enough clues about how a word is pronounced.

Me, and millions of other speakers of English as a second language, will vehemently disagree with that point.

The rest of your comment reads like a detailed attempt at rationalization of this untrue affirmation.

As a counterargument, take Spanish. Spanish is not younger than English, pronunciation has diverged and for example someone from Cuba and someone from Argentina pronounce many words differently.

The Spanish-speaking world is by no means small, or homogeneous.

And we absorb loanwords like madmen. Mostly from English, but also French, Japanese, Italian, etc.

The point is: Spanish is a much more phonetic language in its written form than English, so much that we have no spelling bees.

English simply fucked up itself with the great vowel shift, that's all.
I would absolutely try this out but elixir support is a must. Is there anything in progress?
If gravity would quantize into photons, that would have very weird implications for the standard model. It would threaten to equate gravity with the electromagnetic force, and mass with charge.
With Bing it feels like those large tech companies want to keep money-losing projects to keep their competition "in-check". Bing vs Google, Chromebook vs Windows, Google Shopping vs Amazon, etc.

There may be various reasons for that, I heard different opinions. It seems that it's just a part of the "chess" game between those companies.
> eliminate

The better is not the enemy of the best.
Most of them don't really want nuclear, they just push it as an excuse to do nothing right now (at least here in Norway). Yes, more nuclear is probably good. But planning, permissions, building and getting a reactor up and running probably is 15+ years most places. We need power before then. So we can't stop building wind farms, solar etc. in the meantime. Which is really what they want to achieve where I live: avoid wind farms, so grasping at everything.
I think a weekly hang is really nice. My best friend and I would walk on Sunday morning. Did it for 8+ years until he fell ill and passed away. I really miss those Sundays.
`winget install Microsoft.PowerShell`

5.1 was the last "Windows-specific"/"Windows-only" PowerShell (and is still branded "Windows PowerShell" more than "PowerShell") before it went full cross-platform (and open source). It's an easy install for PowerShell 7+ and absolutely worth installing. If you are using tools like the modern Windows Terminal and VS Code they automatically pick up PowerShell 7+ installations (and switch to them as default over the bundled "Windows PowerShell"), so the above command line really is the one and only step.
Yes, I find the tech illiterate tend to be less selective, and just install a ton of crap.

The highly tech literate are more picky and have fewer more specific apps.

Backed-up with zero data, based on anecdata from friends.
Total lack of due diligence and critical thinking, along with the very tech VC mindset where naysayers are poo-pooed for being out of touch luddites. Combined with the very weird incestuousness in tech investment circles where they all have the exact same brain worm.

Remember for the past 10 years where every bit of skepticism about these companies was vigorously attacked as either being a) grossly out of touch idiocy or worse, b) malevolent forces representing a conspiracy of anti-tech incumbents?

You had VCs that were willing to believe literally anything, and naturally an entire cohort of entrepreneurs happy to tell said VCs anything.

The fact that these same VCs haven't been run out of town on a rail suggests the bubble will regrow once things settle down some, and that's disappointing. I for one believe the efficient allocation of capital towards speculative technology is crucial to the advancement of the human race, but the people who've been doing it for the past decade have proven themselves to be credulous rubes who are utterly and congenitally incapable of it.
When someone else owns a majority of voting shares of the company they get to make demands of how it's run.

Unfortunately for regular investors in Facebook, their shares are each worth 1/10th of the votes of Zuckerberg's special Class B shares, and if they wanted to have a say in anything they probably should've invested in a company where the CEO/founder doesn't hold a huge pile of special voting shares.
> The cost of Unlimited 5G internet in India with 2GB allowance per day billed at 1 YEAR is 43 USD. It's 80 USD at minimum in US per MONTH.

That's for mobile internet I can only use in India, getting an Indian IP address. It costs 43 dollars but it useless once I land in America.

> The mortgage payment on a decent 3BHK house I pay is 182 USD per month.

For a house in India, in an Indian school district, under Indian jurisdiction. It is not the same asset because there's more to it than the number of bedrooms. See how many Mainland Chinese purchase real estate in America specifically because the assets are now under US jurisdiction and can't be seized by the ruling party, only by a US court of law.

> but can hire the same level of talent

Can you? Last I checked, Silicon Valley talent was pretty expensive worldwide. Partly because it's easy to relocate to the valley.
Exactly. Humans are part of the system, so human factors matter to reliability.
I disagree - we know the grid used. So the scan will just go through and pull out the average color found within each pixel area in the grid array, then those colors are adjusted to the nearest 32bit version (as explained in parent). I've done this sort of thing to convert photos into "pointillist" style images.

The first pass might be off - I can imagine adjusting the grid size to skip the scan lines for more accuracy. But the final result will be very close with 5% of the work involved. The guy has spent a day and a half for a task that should take less than an hour at most.
The #1 tool in our toolbox is prevention. This is a multipart prize, with $5m going to fire detection, and $5m going to fire response. To me it feels like pushing for research into reducing fevers when the virus is the problem.

The low tech solutions are typically fuel load reduction, fire breaks, controlled burns, and community education. The first two are standard techniques used by the forestry industry, and they funnel a lot more than $11m into R&D.

That being said, new tech for monitoring and controlling controlled burns would be great.

Biden-Harris cut loose almost $200m for wildfire defense a month ago. California got more than half of it, WA got $25m, and OR got $24m. I'm very interested to see the results.

https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/03/20/biden-h...
I really want to see someone make a renderer that can work on compressed textures. No need to decompress if you can just read the data on the fly.
Most people then thought of nuclear winter as more likely.

In the Fort Worth Star Telegram, 27 Sep 1981, is the article "World's mercury inching upward", discussing the science which wouldn't look out of place today. But it wasn't until the end of the 80s that the US government started to take it seriously.
Most pro-renewables news articles are disingenuous at best, or propaganda.
Linux Foundation launches new organization to maintain TLA+
Anglo-American legal writing often relies on French terms of art, but I don't think this license is quite applying the idea properly.
I was with you until your second sentence. The out of nowhere racism makes your original point (which I agree with) moot
> Facebook is only a public utility as long as we allow it to be.

Facebook won't take opposition lying down. Consider their free internet offerings in some countries. How is open source going to compete with that? And what service will you use to organize a movement large enough to upend Facebook? Twitter? Mastodon?
Terrible analogy. An invasion is a violent act of force, creating a popular website is not.

> Some people make their living on Meta's platform

That's their own prerogative, nobody forced them to do that.
I think both Pinot and Druid nowadays offer cloud-hosted solutions. Maybe you started early that only ClickHouse had that offering. Is cloud hosting the only reason you guys choose Clickhouse? I am also wondering is it possible to let users choose the data source?
And what's the relative power consumption? :-)
The first program I ever wrote was on an Atari 800XL - in BASIC. It played the theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Things are gonna get pretty silly when we've got companies using services like this to analyze candidates' answers, and candidates using their own chatgpt based tools to generate those answers.
in the humanities there is a glut of excellent scholars who would be happy to have a non-tenured professorship which is nevertheless a real job with decent pay, benefits, and working conditions.

in applied technical fields it will be really hard to hire people as tenure and academic freedom are the only reason people deal with the BS of academia over industry.

so this will probably have the opposite effect of what the legislature wants, the pool of left-leaning humanities professors won’t change much, while STEM will be hugely weakened.
Ask HN: Why use a service like plaid or yodlee for simple ACH transfers?
I'm reading the developer docs for plaid and it does a lot! If all I want to do is transfer money that I collected via stripe (credit cards) to 1000s of different banking accounts is a service like paychex or bill.com more appropriate?

Does plaid just make it so the end user doesn't have to find their routing number and account number and enter those manually? But if my users are willing to do this then is plaid overkill?
> however if the suit is successful: every company/individual that has used it is likely suddenly liable for millions of claims of copyright infrigement

Only if you can prove that you are the copyright owner of the original work.

That might be a challenge for many open source projects. Even projects that require copyright assignment might not have sufficient paperwork to prove this in a court of law. The copyright might not even have been the persons to assign in the first place.

You would also face the burden of proving that the fragment that Copilot generated was sufficient to be copyrightable in the first place. The limited grammar of most programming languages would probably make proving that something was copyrightable at the function level hard. Just because the entire work was licensed under the GPL, it doesn't necessarily follow that all the individual fragments when separated out are.

Outside of sampling, this is an area that the courts have largely punted on for good reason. It's a rabbit hole nobody wants to go down.

Either outcome opens up a huge can of worms that I suspect nobody really wants to touch because it likely ends in mutual destruction.
most gasoline available in the eastern USA is E10. I go out of my way to get E0 for a vintage high-performance vehicle I drive on occasion, it's noticeably happier without the ethanol, even if it can drive on E10 without damage.
those articles are pretty anti-scientific (especially the second one)

1.5 million litres of radioactive water (tritiated water) sounds scary, but they don't report the concentration, so it's meaningless

if it was 1.5 billion litres with the same radiological content it would be less dangerous

a load of coal ash getting into a river is likely worse radiologically and chemically than some tritiated water escaping

> Also: "it's better than coal!"...no kidding. It's not better than wind and solar. Not in terms of price, time to install, time for carbon payback, waste issues, or safety.

reliability

if you want the lights to stay on at night when the wind drops then you need nuclear
You need an origin, and tbh, there’s things that could be worse, somethings that looks close to what you expect, but actually subtly wrong, which is something we deal with on pretty much a daily basis. At least most of our customers are very unlikely to be doing anything at null island and the problem is obvious.

To a certain extent, all gps data is lying to you, it’s about figuring out how much it’s lying to you, sticking something at 0,0 is fairly tame and much easier to detect than something being out by 5cm

We do indicate to the user in the ui if no gps signal is available for example, or it’s low quality, but sometimes we get things like the system reporting it’s current location as the estimated location of the last wifi connection.

We also might start something and have no gps, but acquire it later, could be seconds, minutes or never, the accuracy can increase and decrease, we don’t force the user to give up, we record what we can. we still face limitations from software further down the chain that require coordinates as inputs.
You don't have to eliminate and not do you have to do it all in a single step. Everyone is different and in different situations. Just start doing where you can as best you can. Stop consumerism for the hell of it if you can. Stop following fashion trends and wear clothing until it falls from your body. Don't replace your 5ech equipment because it doesn't have the latest feature etc etc. The statement wasn't meant to be taken so literally and fully.
Because it's not just grades K through 3 anymore [1].

The law is pretty broad and moreover the legal costs default to the defendant. Even if my wife didn't do something that was officially illegal, we'd be stuck counter-suing to reclaim legal costs.

[1] https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-education-board-ap...
Your setup sounds exactly like mine. No-config i3 is nice. You might take a look at Regolith Linux, but that's unfortunately built on top of Ubuntu. I run Arch, so this might be useful at some point [0]. I might give it a go on my work laptop.

[0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/regolith-full
> Someone from France is telling you that actually, it's really not that great...

That person is really just spreading FUD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35659262

> How many times do people need to be told that with all the renewables coming onto the grid, we don't need more base load?

Of course we do

> We need storage.

Yes. And it's non-existent. There are literally no grid-scale strage solutions in existence.

> Do any of you geniuses realize that it's a lot more difficult for the grid to accommodate the injection of tens of gigawatts of power, than it is to handle tens of gigawatts of highly distributed generation and storage across a large region?

Neither are particularly true statements. Also, what do you think grid-scale storage would do if not inject gigawatts of power into a grid when needed?

> Nuclear capacity takes a minimum of ten years, more like 20,

Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant in China: 6.1 GW nameplate capacity. Built over 14 years at 1 reactor per 6 years. Operational.

Meanwhile the very distributed Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project was founded in 2018, and is promised to start powering Britain in 2030.

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Of the megaprojects surveyed, 64% were delayed and 57% were over budget.

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2016/12/02/offshore-wind-projec...
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So we know how that will go.

> Nuclear plants require a continuous, expensive, complicated supply chain and hundreds of people supervising and maintaining it.

> The panels last for decades, and can be recycled. Wind turbines require more maintenance but it's standard industrial electrical/mechanical stuff, just on a tall stick.

Of course it's not just a tal stick. It's a rather complicated machine that you can't even safely get to since it's so tall. And that's before we start talking about offshore wind farms like Hornsea 2. Yo need a lot of specialist equipment to maintain those.

There are 500 to 800 people working on a nuclear power plant.

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Each windfarm tends to have between 7 and 11 employees per 100 MW

https://graham.umich.edu/media/pubs/Wind-Turbine-Economic-Im...

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So while fewer than per a nuclear plant, you still have to keep in mind that you need to massively overbuild renewables because their generation fluctuates.
Faster internet and cheaper storage is the answer :)

Or at the very least just offer two different downloads of the game, one with lossless textures and one with lossy textures...
If you like it so much, it's probably worth buying a kettle with temperature control.
_All_ powerplants have those problems, not _just_ nuclear. I agree it's a bit sensationalist of them to not consider the whole picture and declare nuclear "carbon free".

What are the total carbon emissions over the life time of usage including construction, operation, maintenance, and destruction of a nuclear plant vs a fossil plant?

I wouldn't be surprised if a nuclear plant emits far less carbon overall than a fossil-powered plant while operational for the same power generation and lifetime of use when considering those factors.
Please give an example of such a university?
Sure - but how well do most people read scary screens?

People click through pop-ups without reading them all the time.

Could pop-up a "click OK to send your money to us" button and people would click OK and I'd get calls from family asking where their money went.
this sounds like bad news, if you live in the deep south and like edibles
Further, it sounds like that 50 miles as the crow flies could be quite a bit more than 50 miles of travel.
Think the OP misremembered it, It wasn't global cooling in the 80's it was nuclear winter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
Does that mean that any contracted work is indentured servitude? That sounds really broad. If I hire you to build a website, and you bail out halfway through and the liquidated damage clause kicks in, I don't think that makes you my indentured servant.

I was most likely confusing with "financial penalties", mostly it means not paying you after you stop working, and in some specific circumstances you can sue for damages. They can't fine you.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I don't think "less angry" is a legal term.
This is awesome, and I'd love to see more of it. Seems like Amiga and Atari get all of the love (because the company is defunct), but I still hold out hope that someone will make a recreated Macintosh II or something.
Using ChatGPT to clean scraped data and how to handle big documents with ChatGPT
China can. Russia as well. It appears that the secret ingredient is totalitarianism.
How did you manage to find that your competitor copied your code?
Even the old PWRs can be operationally unproblematic if you do it right. The German Pre-Konvoi and Konvoi fleet had pretty good stats. I'm not sure if Grohnde (shut down in 2021) is still the NPP block with the highest total production (500 TWhr) or if another block managed to lap it. Overall capacity factor of these was around 90 %. The US fleet is similar iirc.

The French fleet has been running around 65-70 % CF for years, pretty bad, but clearly not root caused by the tech branch.
Nuclear power can be an answer, but it's not flexible enough to be the answer.

The demand for power is variable, and the difference between base demand and peak demand can be 2x or even 2.5x. While nuclear power can be viable for satisfying the base demand, it's viability for the variable part is another question.

Then there are cheap renewables. If you don't constrain the market artificially, it tends to build solar and wind until nobody knows what to do with the excess electricity. That makes power cheap on the average but potentially very expensive when the demand is high and the generation is low. Nuclear power, with its high capital costs but low operating costs, does not seem to be the right answer to this variable demand / variable generation problem.
The music industry is on alert after AI-generated Drake song goes viral
my company just changed the policy from unlimited PTO to a set amount (4 weeks). it made me realize that in almost a year of being at this company i've only taken 1 week off, and that was for my wedding.

ended up taking this week off because i really need to make sure i'm at least taking off the minimum given. this is precisely why we changed our policy. i would've taken more off if i had a baseline of what normal employees took off but most people didn't really.
> You're the one promoting nuclear as if it's better than the rest in this regard.

Do not ascribe words to me that I didn't say or imply

> You don't get to use that quote to say everything else is more expense

I literally said nothing of the kind
He completely misses the point. Games don't take hundreds of gigs because they have sub-optimal compression. They take hundreds of gigs because they don't use ANY compression. Jedi Survivor takes 139 gigs on Series X and mere 44 gigs on Series S. It didn't come out yet, but I'm 99.99% certain that this difference is just from inclusion of 8k textures into Series X version. That kind of scaling means that they don't use any compression beyond something like BC7. And some games are not only without any compression, they ACTIVELY duplicate their assets on disk so they load a bit faster on HDD. And these builds end up on modern consoles that have ludicrously fast SSDs.
Renderers have been using compressed textures for literal decades. Not JPG, alas, because the compression formats have to support random access to individual texels.