skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China? Not really.

Started reactors:
2019: 3 reactors (Yangjiang-6, Tianwan-5 et Taishan-2)
2020: 1 (Fuqin-5)
2021: 1 (Hongyanhe-1)
2022: 3 (Fuqin-6) (Hongyanhe-6) (Fangchenggang-3)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...

This trend is old and clear: nuclear produces 6% of China's electricity with 50GW nominal electric power, long-term plans for future capacity are 120 to 150 GW by 2030 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China ) while China already has 253GW solar and 281GW wind (plan for combined solar and wind: 1,200 gigawatts by 2030) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_China ). In 2020 alone China added 71.6 GW windpower... Even taking into account the load factors (nuclear may reach .9 while wind-solar combined are at .3 to .5, mainly depending on the proportion of off-shore wind turbine power) this seems quite clear to me.
The Internet was first available to the public in 1993. 10 years later, in 2003, it was so ingrained in everyone's life that we could no longer imagine living without it.

VR is available to the public since the 90's, it's as old as the Internet. Even if you consider that "actually useable VR" started with Occulus it was already 10 years ago.

I'm not saying the turning point for VR will never come, but it's certainly taking its time.
That's why we need "piracy". The "pirate" movement is the only reliable way to protect our cultural heritage against politics and copyright.
They never stopped their PC lines so I don’t think they believed it either.
I think the original intention was to get ahead of the story but I think the apollo dev's announcement that he's shutting down the app is going to make that difficult at this point.
> such as arriving late and leaving early

You see someone doing this and think: "slacker"...?

I come into the office around 9am and leave at 3:30pm to beat traffic and get a quick gym session in without the crowds. And then I hope back online to do some work. Am I slacking?
This reads like the infamous Dropbox comment, with the Flipper Zero you don't even need to grab code off GitHub, you just have to open a menu and press some buttons.
> But that does mean that those people are actually needed in any way.

True, the presence of people who spend time coordinating is not sufficient for success, nor is their presence in any way evidence of success.

But the absence of people who devote time to coordination has definitely sunk projects I've been on, including ones stacked with brilliant rockstars. It may simply be correlation, but I have never worked on a large, successful project that lacked people who were willing to invest significant effort in coordination.
Chinese government still afraid of AirDrop despite Apple’s change
Sure, to the extent peak non-VR gaming is candy crush.

Most gaming will be casual, in VR just like non-VR.

But there are much better and deeper games in both cases.
Ask HN: Companies that don't focus only on the next quarter
From the current wave of burnout and layoffs, it appears that most people are unhappy with the quarterly goals structure of companies.

Employees are unhappy because they are pushed to meet arbitrary deadlines, often at the expense of their personal life. Management harasses employees to meet those goals because they are incapable of doing the work themselves and because they will not get their own promotion if said goals are not met. Management implements backstabbing policies to force employees to compete instead of collaborate. See: All the negative ratings from Meta employees. Many employees seem to be unhappy.

Customers are also unhappy because the quarterly growth structure often comes at the expense of customers. See: Reddit saga where executives decided to abandon customers in order to meet their investor targets.

It looks like the quarterly growth model is exploitative - of resources, employees and customers.

This doesn't jive well with my values. What are some examples of companies that don't care about the next quarter as much? Perhaps they are happy with slow growth or just happy being a steady business.

E.g. Privately owned companies like Bloomberg appear to be less concerned about the next quarter but more concerned about building steadily for customers. Customers are happy enough that they would much rather pay high prices for Bloomberg data than go to a competitor that will likely backstab them later.

Are there any more such companies?
You might be right that it won’t matter in the long run. But I’d argue that targeting gamers and tech enthusiasts is going to make it harder to reach mass market adoption.

For instance, with computers, laptops and cell phones being first and foremost business tools it was common in the early days for those to be provided by the employers. That really played a big role in normalizing their presence around the home before they became mainstream products.

I have a hard time seeing a similar thing happening with these goggles, but I’m far from being an expert in these things.
How many were not hurt precisely because their government prepared and signaled preparedness to the USSR?

Also, USSR support for North Korea and North Vietnam surely hurt a lot of Americans (and others) for real during those two wars.
woah, I was with you until you brought chipotle into this. Hopefully we can agree that it's valuable to support your local chipotle over the financial district's chipotle, since it's also keeping people employed in their communities.
This comment is misguided for several reasons. Most notably, you’re linking to the sentence embeddings API, which is totally separate from the token embeddings that are inputted into GPT-style models. Also, a vector with std 1 doesn’t necessarily have norm of 1, which is what the link says (but point is moot because they’re talking about a different type of embeddings)
I switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro a few years ago and I have been very happy. The only issue is that commercial software companies have limited (if any) resources to devote to developing for Linux, so often I find that commercial software is available as a DEB or an RPM and that's it. In most cases if the software is popular enough it can be found in the AUR as what's essentially a "port" if any of you are FreeBSD people. But right now we're evaluating device/endpoint management software and the few solutions that ship agents for Linux all treat Ubuntu as king. We did find one nerdy solution that ships an Arch agent, though.
Funnily enough your description of your issues makes me think you're more likely to have ADHD than you think.

>don't think this is ADHD as I can focus on things I'm more interested. But now I need to focus on things that are less fun but more important. I think throughout my previous 40 years of life I have been haunted by this inability of focusing on important things.

Being able to focus on things one finds interesting and losing that focus for important, less interesting things is indeed the problem one faces with ADHD.

Although I digress, as someone with ADHD I struggle with a similar problem and I think the best thing you can do is to pursue those little impulses, but tell yourself that you'll pursue them once you've completed your task that you're engaged in at that moment(basically procrastinate following your curiosity).

Whenever you get that impulse to get on a side quest, tell yourself "I definitely will get on that side quest as soon as I finish the main one", that way either you may be more motivated to finish your course and you get to dive into things you find interesting too, or sometimes I personally end up losing that impulse if I spend too long without pursuing it, which might work out for you as well.
> The local people are well known for keeping aloof from tourists

A friend of mine tells the story of being in a bar in Reykjavik minding his own business, when two young ladies approached him and after a little small talk asked, "Do you know how to make love to an Icelander?" When he answered, "no", they replied, "You just ask." He turned beet red and left as quickly as possible, but... that doesn't sound aloof to me ;-)
Agree. Article contains misinformation and should be flagged. In fact the bacteria in question is often and readily consumed. Not to mention the fact that we are awash in bacteria all the time.

The source stating that the bacteria are considered pathogens, is selling his book. The link to the National Academy of Sciences is also broken.

Also most bacteria can be opportunistic pathogens, depending on the situation, even the ones in our gut.

So while the ethics can be deemed questionable, the article presents the situation as if harm was certainly done, when in the most likely case not a single person was adversely effected.
We had a supermod (someone who mods hundreds of subreddits) try this on a small subreddit I was active in years ago. They must have had a watchlist of subreddits to claim because literally the day the only mod's N months was up they posted to try to take it over.

It was a small sub and we were all well behaved so there wasn't really any need for moderation, and we didn't want some random outsider coming in and taking it over as part of his supermod powertrip or whatever. We organized against it and the Reddit admins ultimately denied the request.
Not really, Russia so clearly lacks the resources to really keep up - unlike the USSR for quite a while.
“Feeling good when you do good things” could be seen as a definition of hedonism ;)

I’d describe selflessness in this context as accepting that a community might have different rules and see someone’s actions as not helpful, despite their best intentions.
yes, i should clarify that LA has a pretty effective no-kill cat rescue network (even sending rescues to other states for adoption), so most cats here are neutered, chipped, vaccinated, and tattooed when rescued and adopted out (e.g., my sweet little rescue cat). but there are also dedicated TNR volunteers who strictly neuter and release stray cats and employ the ear-clipping method for that reason (easier to see from distance).

ear-clipping isn't foolproof though, since many feral cats will not sit still long enough or let you get close enough for you to observe a clipped ear. that said, plenty of stray cats are relative docile and friendly, and totally adoptable by simply picking them up and taking them home (which is what one of my neighbors did).
Plus how many of us are willing to buy 2x as many as needed, assuming some will be bad, and just chalk that up to the cost of not going to the store.
I can give you an anecdotal "indicator":

Been a gamer my entire life.

Ever since getting into VR 4 years ago, I basically haven't played a single "flat" (non-VR) game.

> pursuit of... what exactly

Experiences that you literally cannot get in real life without going to jail or dying. It's the same value proposition that gaming in general provides, but far more immersion and realism.
I demur. My 2017 38mm Series 3 w Hermès Sport band is a joy.
That's been the argument against higher level languages since punch cards.

Sure, there may be problems, yet somehow the internet runs.

Coding in asm is fun, and a good skill to have for when you need it - but most of the time, you don't.
Almost. Specific sections of neuroscience, which are actually just cell bio or biochem applied to brain tissue, sure. Often behavioral neuroscience has much of the same problems of not really having good definitions that map to tangible observables. Once good definitions are made, only then can decent work be done.
The difference is ChatGPT is objectively better in every possible measure compared to what was available in the past with zero downsides to using it instead of old stuff. It’s also a lot better.

VR so far only offers experiences that are moderately better in some ways (bigger screen, more immersive experience) while being objectively worse in others (heavy sweaty headset, lower resolution, nausea/headaches, high cost or be locked into a FB run ecosystem).

It won’t explode the way LLMs and other AI has lately until it solves the negative factors it has. I say this as someone who uses VR regularly and figured most of this out from feedback from my normie friends and family.
I wonder if all of the WFH excitement would have happened if open offices had never become widespread and we all had an actual office with a door. It’s kind of funny that they’ve made offices so bad that no one wants to go there, but no one (on the corporate side) talks about improving the working environment in the office at all in the context of WFO.
June 2023 Data Dump is missing
It's how most of my online transactions are. When I buy online, I'm redirected to my bank's website to authorize the transaction. That's exactly how I want it. Only Google and Amazon and a few others require less secure transactions for some reason. I don't like that.
Yes, this is why Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria were easily subdued and all resistance was quickly quelled.
Yeah don't do that. :)

Do this:

interface Dog { typeName: "Dog"; woof():void }
interface Cat { typeName: "Cat"; meow():void }

function isDog(a:Dog|Cat) : a is Dog {
return a.typeName == "Dog"; // Some casting may be required here
}

function f(a: Dog|Cat) {
if (isDog(a)) a.woof();
else a.meow();
}

let dogish : Dog = {typeName:"Dog", woof: ()=>{ console.out("Woof this is Dog")}};
f(dogish);

The neat thing about TypeScript's type system is that it's structural but you can pretty easily implement nominal types on top of it.

(And if you only need compile-time checks, you can make typeName nullable; {typeName?:"Dog"} != {typeName?:"Cat"})
In South Korea those 'abilities' couldn't hide a nuclear scandal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_nuclear_scandal
I'm surprised the article didn't mention 2nd-place competitor product R:Base. R:Base was a pretty good implementation of SQL, for example it supported the INTERSECT command as I recall.

"In spite of its relative ease of use and ability to create useful forms and reports, the first R:Base did not have a conventional programming language, but instead relied on SQL statements to accept input and produce output. The lack of a complete programming language meant that the product was not well received by some portions of the market. This may have helped the early, barely relational, dBASE products to become dominant. The product was quickly upgraded to include Added Variables and a conventional programming Language (IF, WHILE, etc.) to the original SQL based language The update was released as R:Base 4000 Version 1.1 in March 1984. R:Base became the second most popular DOS database in the PC market (behind dBASE).[citation needed]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R:BASE
Not in quite the same way with people's imaginations running away from them. Perhaps important to remember how opaque the USSR was at the time -- e.g. when Chernobyl blew up, no one outside the USSR knew until radiation drifted over the border, and large riots were often received as only vague word of mouth rumour in the West. In such an information void, your imagination fills in the details. Especially if you worry about their industrial capacity, and maybe even secretly wonder if they do have a better way of organizing society like they claim, in terms of pure brutal results. A closer analogy today would be with China, and how paranoid some people were with the offensive potential of a balloon.
As the great warrior-poet Ice Cube once said, "if the week does not require an AK, it is good".
Alright well then I'll bite.

I'm in operational technology and deal with a lot of on-site tech, such as SCADA, factories, even stuff on trains or planes.

We have 3D lidar mapped files of factories that are scaled in such a way that users can throw on VR and "walk" through the facility and figure things out. It's not completely mature but it's pretty good, and there have been talks about putting a camera on a scooter and letting engineers remotely drive though the place in real-time -- not just the static files.

What do you do with it? erognomics engineering, looking at flows of goods, processes, etc.
It's pretty good advice. But also, go to therapy.
Monitoring Is a Pain
One simple way is it has superseded google/SO on my priority list for some reference lookups on topics I need to dabble in for work. (Like “Django custom function generate uuid”) Practically speaking, I’ve found this (most of the time) reduces the cognitive overhead of context switching. Less clicking, sifting, looking for recent answers, etc.

For slightly more complex reference on topics I’m dabbling in (Like “what’s the right way to use React hooks for this component”) the benefit of leveraging ChatGPT increases. In many cases you’re able to skip the step of generalizing your problem and you can address your needs from the “inside out”.

Inside out example: starting at some API method names and sample code for some libraries, rather than starting with a list of libraries or worse not knowing what kind of library you need yet.

Finally the place where it has had the most impact for me is as a force multiplier on efforts outside of my comfort zone as an engineer. If I have a side project idea, or if I’m trying to be ambitious in design at work, I can often discuss approaches at length with ChatGPT and walk away with several ideas, or even conclusions about how best to proceed without exhausting myself.
Volume and numbers mostly. Its biggest value is its activity/vibrancy.
What is the profit margin on Reddit API calls, and what industry benchmark do you think it’s exceeding?
Haven’t been on an airplane recently?
Scientists should not shut out other ideas for two decades even though there were serious challenges to the hypothesis the whole time. Part of being a good scientist is admitting your chosen hypothesis isn’t correct and that it’s time to create a new theory based on the experimental evidence available. Otherwise, it’s just a research based cult.
Not surprising. The Party doesn't have control over AirDrop. In their opinion, AirDrop can be used to secretly disseminate information critical of The Party.

Remember, National Security in China doesn't mean the national security of China, it means the ability of The Party to remain in power. In The Party's mind, they are China (which obviously isn't true - China is bigger, and older than The Party and will outlast The Party), so any threats to their "stability" will be heavily scrutinized, especially if they are made by Western nations.
Reduce operating costs to the maximum extent possible. Look for radical solutions to the problems of moderation. (Possibly don’t let sites get too big, move the party someplace else once invaders get in, …)
The US congress would never bother regulating

"icanhazcheezburger.com"

These things and by things I mean the dumpsterfication of social media content or internet content because it has no value.

Those same things don't "influence elections" and traumatized children and supposedly destroy society.

Social media is a fancy dumpster fire and that's all it will ever be.
It burns out and starts anew from some other source.
Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law
I said they could walk back the charges for smaller operators, e.g. by having generous API limits that most third parties wouldn't hit.
So cool, I wanna try it!
I don't disagree, but Twitter never had a site wide Billion user blackout

If we blackout long enough and then figure out how to cooperate to create an actual community alternative in the blackout period, it could work

Not easy and will take real leader with 80 hour a week work ethic for a year, and probably a few million dollars to start.

However it would be an amazing groundbreaking feat
Making the code available is a wonderful thing to do. I love being able to see how others managed and structured a Go project that was actually meant to run in production.

Thank you.
Maybe the Vision will be what everybody want, but there is always space for “almost what you want but cheaper”. Mid range android phones are very popular worldwide. Mid range laptops too. I’m skeptical of VR promises, but if the industry grows Apple is likely to be the high end expensive option, but there will be great opportunities for other companies in the space. And oculus can offer very compelling products for a seventh of the price.

Not that I want to see Facebook succeed in their goals. I personally find a cheaper option like the quest more interesting than the vision, at least on paper, but won’t ever use a product that forces me to have a Facebook account.
I disagree, there's tons of valuable content on Reddit that people regularly reference years later. Tech support, product reviews, and similar. You'll often see people on HN recommend searching with `site:reddit.com` based on the valuable information it holds and the degradation of search result quality.

Saving content from forums is the same idea. Reddit is just a collection of forums.
The first part of this is patently untrue. The most successful startup I worked at (defined as having IPO’d, and having their products effectively everywhere) was fully remote. This was very much 0-1, 1-10 type work. The only requirement to ever physically be in a given place was when visiting a customer.

The FAANG I work for now similarly has lots of 0-1, 1-10 type work (at least for my team), and a fully remote team. It works fine too.

The part about more junior employees is _more_ valid, though we had no problem on boarding juniors in either of those two situations.

Ultimately whether remote work is successful depends on whether the people doing the work have sufficient self-discipline to get the job done, and whether the hypothetical office alternative is set up for success. Most offices are not remotely set up for success, but optimize instead for middle management (toxin or cancer? [1]) being able to view their fifedoms.

[1]: https://www.talkfrom.com/video?name=leadership-without-manag...
So the problem with that is that (a) it requires a full update or amendments to the ADA, and (b) it requires legislators to understand what an API i and what it does.

For point (a): We went from 1990 to 2008 before the ADA was last amended. So, according to that precedent, we will be waiting until 2026 or so. I guess that's not too bad. But my money says it's 2040+ before we see that amended again.

For point (b): It feels like this one may be like asking if you can lick a rainbow.
You do hear about teams struggling with correlation issues, where their simulations just aren’t matching reality.

They do use some of the limited practice time F1 teams are allowed to do things like run the car with aero rakes (lots of pitot tubes on scaffold like structures) attached or the covered in dayglo flow-vis paint to gather real world data.
I plan to stop using Reddit for social media. But I also add “reddit” to a lot of my searches, using Reddit posts for “Buy it for Life” products and obscure knowledge among other things, and I don’t want that to do away. So I’m glad ArchiveTeam managed to archive almost all of them.

I also use Reddit for tech updates and discussions from subreddits like r/rust and r/ProgrammingLanguages, but most of these already have alternative sites (e.g. discourse, Discord, SE), and I’m more hopeful most of the new posts migrate to one of these than other subreddits or Reddit migrating in general.
The nearly indestructible tardigrade can bring vaccines and medicine to Africa
The Internet (1993)
All the recent furore about Twitter's monetisation and Reddit's API changes reminded me of this article from 1993. Clearly, only one guy's opinion but I think we've strayed pretty far from this vision of the internet, as a protocol and connective tissue for people.

I can't help but feel like the fact the internet began as (or grew into) something free, underground, experimental led us inexorably to this path: where we expect or demand that online products are free at the point of use, which means we become the product.

I don't know that a small, more decentralised, cottage-y internet would be Better. But it's interesting to think about.