skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. I quoted the US EIA in that 7.7c/kWh figure on the pre-subsidy LCOE of plants coming online in 2023. It was listed in my [2].

"In 2019 the US EIA revised the levelized cost of electricity from new advanced nuclear power plants going online in 2023 to be $0.0775/kWh before government subsidies, using a regulated industry 4.3% cost of capital (WACC - pre-tax 6.6%) over a 30-year cost recovery period" [old 2, sourced from new 1]

The response to you was a separate opinion on the role of government in the energy sector. After all, we've put trillions of subsidies into fossil fuels the least we could do is put money into something that solves problems instead of creating new ones. I also said I don't care whether it's public or private funds that are used to construct it.

Really nothing at that scale is built without subsidies, but the 7.7c/kWh rate was before subsidies.

Did I miss something? I thought I answered your question with that figure and its origin, it sounds like exactly what you wanted to know. I don't know which precise power plants they included but it's probably in [1].

[edit] I guess it's weird that we're so stuck on this one specific technology. What's the un-subsidized cost of oil power when the price of oil is set by OPEC, externalities aren't factored in, and every time it goes up we unload the Strategic Oil Reserve? How do you price in drilling in ANWR?

Coal, I mean, it's all unpriced externalities - death, environmental toll.

Solar 90% of the panels come from China, how much does the PRC subsidize the plants and materials that go into making the panels for their own geopolitical goals? Rare earths for wind? They all come from China too. Lithium for storage?

My question is sort of more "can anyone name any utility scale power project of any type that was built by a private entity without government subsidies of any sort? Why would they do that if they didn't have to? What does that even mean? And really, does that even matter?"

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation....
This answer right here is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting use cases that is available today.

Provide collateral and take out a loan against that collateral. It allows people to act as their own bank. No longer do you have to go to a bank, ask for permission and then get approved for a loan. Now, you can do that yourself, instantly, without any trouble at all. Amazing really.

What are those loans used for today? Well, mostly it is about interest rate arbitrage and providing liquidity. As a super basic example, you can borrow funds at 2% and then lend them out again at 3% and make 1%. It is essentially risk free (assuming the contract doesn't have bugs/exploits).

The larger picture will be to enable people to be their own Kiva's. Crypto often is pushed to 'bank the unbanked', but it is more than just holding money. It is enabling people to borrow against their existing holdings, effectively allowing anyone, globally, to put their savings to work for them, without having to rely on a centralized banking system to do so. This might not be interesting for USA people, but it is especially valuable in countries that don't have a stable banking system.
I like to think about how this works at smaller scales. When there is an office full of people all being paid about the same and (critically) where they all want and care about the same outcome, the shit jobs will get done. I have often called myself a "code janitor" since I clean up shit that was left behind. It's not because I didn't want to be working on fun greenfield projects but because it was shit that just needed to get done. So I did it. And so did others.

Another example to play around with is when you go camping with friends. There's some shit work that just needs to be done. People pitch in. The same with staying at a friends house or a vacation rental with friends. Or cleaning leaves off of the storm drains. We all do this sort of work because it makes our lives better. If literal shit was piling up in front of my house I would probably shovel it even if it took 8 hours.

Natural disasters are also examples where people do work for free without expectation of compensation. I think people are more like that than what happens in apocalyptic novels (even though I love reading them).
According to Solar Foods website, it contains all 9 essential amino acids required by the human body. Doesn't say in what ratios (see: protein quality), but this applies to practically every other protein source too. Combine & vary in order to get all your body needs.

Besides that a good amount of dietary fiber, some minerals & B vitamins.

And non-GMO. Not that I'd personally consider this "food", but as a protein supplement: why not, looks pretty good. Where can I buy? Oh... can't. Regulatory hurdles. :-(

Whatever one may think: scores pretty high on the innovation-o-meter.
It's all about the databases. Reading license plates isn't, all by itself, a very serious privacy problem. It becomes a problem, though, when that data is combined with hundreds or thousands of other data points (each of which also aren't a huge deal in isolation).

The privacy violation isn't really in the camera, or the telemetry, or any other data point you generate that is collected. It's in the combining of all of these things into a profile.
Operating officer, iirc. So not necessarily engineering but herding cats, still impressive.
That’s not where the actual scientific research about Maladaptive Daydreaming is hinting at. It’s not just ADHD, it checks also many marks with a PTSD or Dissociation but is still unique with its other characteristics.
So far he's abiding by the law and not going to jail. What is in "his own telling of his own story" that suggests he should be happy to go to jail? It seems like he's trying hard not to.
World’s heaviest commercial communications satellite will launch tonight
the US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion
On the (adblocked) computer, no. On my console (hooked up the to the TV) it's so unpleasant that I rarely use it any more. Worse than broadcast television, which is some sort of achievement.
While I agree, it's amusing to see this comment in a thread about an application providing a new database, and where one of the main reservations is around people needing to change the DB.

> WordPress developers who do not agree with the idea of introducing SQLite in WordPress core are mainly concerned about ... migration process or converting from one database to another
Yes, government and military officials have lied to Congress or, at the very least, obscure the truth. Consider that, in many cases, these officials are actively serving in their official capacity and have a sworn duty to protect the country. Preventing the disclosure of certain information is a major part of what they do.

Since you mention the "yellow-cake uranium," you should read the history of that situation. It wasn't a single person's word before Congress that Saddam Hussein had the uranium but the result of an elaborate document forgery which was proven as false within a year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

However, each case you cite is either the justification or result of a highly-publicized event (Iraq invasion, Snowden investigation, Afghanistan withdrawal, Ukraine war). The UAP situation is quashed and remains a verboten subject in many circles, particularly in the media. As such, the UAP situation is distinct from those you mention.

You do suggest that this may be a way to raise military funding. If money was the end goal, they'd say that the US military could disable UAPs if we had more firepower or plowed more money into R&D to realize next-gen systems sooner. None of that was said, and both the witnesses and members of Congress directly contradict this theory. The witnesses admit that our existing military systems and any that we may build in the next "10-20 years" are inadequate to deal with the observed UAPs.

Some of my favorite questioning in the hearing came from AOC, who, when asking about increasing transparency in reporting UAP incidents, asked: "For the record, if you were me, where would you look? Titles? Programs? Departments? Regions? If you could just name...anything." Grusch responded he tell her "specifically" where to look but only in a classified briefing, which she took well enough.

>This is FUD until there’s evidence — these people have zero credibility.

They're individuals with verified and decorated military service records and have provided sworn testimony to Congress under penalty of perjury, which is far from zero credibility. As an anonymous individual posting on Hacker News, I have zero credibility beyond what anyone chooses to believe, and I suppose that's the main point: extraordinary claims require belief in extraordinary evidence.

On Dave Grusch and his claims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grusch_UFO_whistleblower...

On David Fravor and his incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos
From what I understand, this group wasn't actually funded to look for superconductors but instead for materials to aid in quantum nanoscience - so the claim isn't that they don't know how to read their instruments but rather that they aren't well-versed enough in superconductor research to appropriately design/test for the phenomenon.
I mean, they are trying to take a pass on AI... I wouldn't put it past us.
I agree with this, and surprised no one brought up how hard it is to recycle plastic. By hard I mean the cost in money and energy, thus more CO2.

It is time to eliminate plastic containers and force the use of containers that are easy to recycle, glass and paper. Yes that will be a pain, but I remember when everything came in glass and paper. People were able to deal wit it, but that was in a day when you bought things at ma and pa stores. It is all the large companies that push plastics, it moves the cost from them to someone else.
You have opened up my eyes to an important aspect. I hope you're right.
Why not just try regular gardening?

In a world of permies, regenerative ag, raised beds, and whatever this is, just having a small home garden seems quite novel, and the implementation is...pretty easy.
Air-gapped just means physical segmentation (as far as I'm aware). So you can consider the networks you're talking about to be air-gapped as well. Seems like the network I worked on was more isolated that what you're describing. I worked with a TS/SCI clearance though, and I know there are varying degrees of "C".
It seems more likely to me that the Cruise and Waymo engineers will respond by making tweaks to ignore cones, which then could cause new kinds of crashes.
This is a tech forum, not a finance forum though.

The original article doesn't even use bps. It just says "In support of these goals, the Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 percent"

The title could have just said "Fed raises rate from 5.25 to 5.50". That'd contained a lot more information.
> or integer types smaller than 32-bits

Java's got byte (8 bits) and short (16 bits)? (Still signed, though, of course.)

Unless those are actually padded to 32 bits in the VM or something.
Software that does not interact with remote computers is 100% secure. You just got the risk when loading malicious save files or what ever, but the floppy disk kind of viruses is a whole other level of security risk and the user need to load the files. It doesn't just happen (I know some Windows computers could get infected by merely plugging in some USB stick, but you get my point).

The whole connectivity thing is the fundamental problem. Transferring files between devices have never been as easy as during the floppy disk days. Usability is not the driving factor behind forcing the internet into everything.
I walked.

https://www.passwordstore.org/
> Lifetime thing is a rather large statement, especially with software though isn't it? Most of the pre-subscription model compares were never lifetime purchases.

You should hang around more in retro-gaming and retro-computing communities. They invest a lot of time, blood, sweat and tears to get to run some old software on modern devices, or preserve old computing/games devices that is able to run this software.
This is intriguing, in what career do you write a lot of code, but not as a software developer?
I can't speak to the ratio, but I know many local law enforcement agencies which mount these on patrol cars -- the LE agency benefits from access to the databases and in return provides data to the databases.

There are tons of private collectors, but lots of LE agencies are doing it too.
Legitimate question, I’m not very economically literate.

We went through wars in the past without crazy inflation, gulf war, Iraq, Afghanistan. Is it because of all the Ukraine aid we’re sending? If so, why is this different than other conflicts?

How does disease cause inflation?
You're literally commenting on a post that is a reference to a website that is trying to encourage a higher level of security in smart contracts. People are working on solving this issue.
No, they aren't. You can only buy the buggy processors that exist, not notional bugless ones.
Big differences between the two platforms.

People pay for Netflix because they want to watch the specific content, for which the platform has already invested money. It feels natural and fair to pay them. For the same reason, if they had a perhaps limited in content, but not obnoxiously annoying ad-supported options, people would be more likely to respect it.

On the other hand, YouTube wants you to pay to get rid of the annoyance they intentionally planted in their platform, while they have invested 0 of their money on content. Also, most creators don't seem to be paid enough from YouTube, and appear to make their living off of 3rd party sponsors, sales, referrals, etc. With this model, it is not surprising that people aren't very keen in having a YouTube subscription.
It's analogous to gigabit internet in the 90's. Why would anyone want that and what would you even do.
Yes. I remember being taught in grade school that "reduce, reuse, recycle" is the order of importance. Reducing consumption is the most important thing. Keeping existing things in use is next up. Recycling is the worst of the three options -- it's just better than the landfill.
WEI is about proving you're a human the way the Kid's Online Safety Act is about protecting kids.
I bow before his endless devotion to “Do-Nothing Farming”.
I thought it was a good read. Basically the essay argues that one should make time, and summon the requisite courage, to look for new ideas and new ways of thinking. Imo it applies to any decision that must be made alone.
So, no 4K Netflix on Linux (and not even 1080p without light hacks), presumably because of some incompatibility with the DRM. Still handily beats the situation that existed before. "Similar to video DRM" doesn't scare me. Mass surveillance is scarier.
This is usually where I reference the idea of toolkits taking to each other as pioneered during the Smalltalk era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw&t=4m19s

See also 'toolkits, not apps' tweet by Bret Victor : https://mobile.twitter.com/worrydream/status/881021457593057...
Sounds like you've been through the ringer yourself. I learned very early not to trust or be honest with authority figures.

Linking the people-pleasing to RSD and thus ADHD recently was a massive eye-opener. And the connection between people-pleasing and cutting people off as two sides of the same emotional spectrum.
Hah, indeed! IIRC he decided not to take the position and stay with the company. I don't know if they made him an offer.
Just fixed, thanks for the heads up. Latest version should be v0.0.207.
Obviously they have a much bigger garden
There's not much compiling any more in the age of python, Javascript, etc
Seems almost like you just read the headline
>Sneering at others because their cultural tastes don't match yours does nothing but help you feel superior to others for a few moments.

Taste is something one develops, not something one is born with. Taste on its own, is like an asshole: everybody has one. Just like "personal opinion".

>And I say this as someone who reads a lot of fiction, subscribes to a literary review, and treasures my library of printed books.

But who also treasures the unintellectual idea of every cultural taste being just as good as any other, and anything to the contrary being "pretentious".
Any plans for supporting Jetbrains IDEs?
Do negative prompt tokens count as words?
Exactly why what? "0.25%" is a lot easier to understand. It's even fewer characters than "25 bps"
This is very simple.

Tools in the "real world" generally work on one protocol: physics.

Yes.. there are standards and industries and the like in physical tools, but those are much more static and unchanging. Because physics and material world. A tool will generally be relevant until it wears out, and often/sometimes is useful for decades after "obsolescence".

In software, where (looks at the Javascript ecosystem) things change in a year. Sometimes less. Version churn and feature churn means your tool is obsolete/useless (if you are lucky) within 3-4 years. Often less.

In regular tools, it is pretty clear the distinction between a tool and the end product.

But in software, a tool is SOFTWARE, with all the problems of software: version churn, feature drift, underlying OS support, and all the other quicksand.

Tool markets are also inherently a fraction the endproduct market: The produced product volume is say 10x to 100x the value of the cost of the tool in the physical world before it needs replacement or wears out. Software being what it is, you can get 100000x - infinite the tool. That value proposition means the market for the tool is the inverse of the value factor of the tool. In software, you would get one tool and use it for 100000 products / views / etc. So the market for it is lower.

Perplexingly to my point about software tools going out of support, is that REALLY established tools are long lived and never wear out. So a hot gee-whiz tool will be competing against well-featured tools (often free after a while because tool vendors go out of business and open source it), so there isn't much gee-whiz anymore.

OpenAI is an interesting "tool". We'll see where it goes commercially. But most tools have reproducibility. AI tools do not, at least currently they don't.

Free software tools seem more durable, because the user population sustains it generally with contributions, bug reports, feedback, and demand. And sometimes the minimal money to support the org. And sometimes marketing.

Software is also generally about building a bandwagon. Gatekeeping tools are not good for bandwagon building. So software tools are generally free to make jumping on the bandwagon easier.
Firefox's market share was in freefall long before Brendan Eich left.
If "profit sharing" is the "exact same thing" as residuals and residuals don't require a money investment - you only have to have worked - then why does profit sharing require one?
I believe RFK said he did NOT get vaccinated for COVID (he said that in front of congress).

I think if he truly wants to make a compelling case, he has to stop associating himself with truly bad ideas, for example, claiming that the CIA killed his dad and uncle (this was in a fox news article about his time on the Rogan show), that HIV doesn't cause AIDS (instead saying that it was caused by vaccine research: "Anybody who reads The River will come away pretty much convinced that HIV also came from a vaccine program, there’s plenty of evidence on that as well.".

It's really hard to parse out what he truly believes. It seems like he acftively skirts the truth and then backtracks when somebody calls him out.
The HN title is inaccurate. He didn't simply pretend to be psychic, but rather pretended to be one particular psychic, fraudulently using their name and image for profit.
Under COVID, when being able to board public transport, enter venues, etc. required showing one’s health status from one’s phone, the Chinese state facilitated that through two apps in particular: WeChat and Alipay.
Amazing choice of word. Always check your clipboard links before pushing send.
No, using ublock origin and don’t see any ads.
True. AFAIK he had created multiple accounts to play with, so he was exploiting his own test accounts. But as I said, we all talked about how risky of a move that was.
I also have dream continuity which I've gathered is fairly weird? Like there are consistent physical and 'multiversal' rules and I can visit the same places over and over + have impacts that last from one dream session to another.

I can also read which apparently isn't universal.
I have internet at home, but saying it costs $0 is stretching it, since you have to have a decent upload speed on the connection you're paying for. Not to speak of the server, in this day and age when most people only have a laptop.
There would be a perfect design for that one person, and everyone else would either do it themselves (not many could) or suffer
Thomas Kuhn’s Skepticism Went Too Far
At the very beginning it likely conformed to all the rules as there likely wasn't much functionality in v1.0. By the time it attracted the attention of Apple decision makers, it was too sticky to ban as another user pointed out.

i.e. Wechat users would rather switch to Android than lose the app.

I guess the lesson is that exceptions will be made if you can grow an app literally a million fold in a few years and become a vital part of your user's day-to-day lives.
Enjoy your Honda!!!
It is possible to pretend to be psychic without pretending to be someone else.
Some strange things are happening to it though.

As info explodes ( only .5% of content created is consumed as per UN Economist Network) how does cost of Advertising/return on advertising grow?

The advertisors and marketing theorists have no great answer to that other than to pay fuckerberg more.
> I've yet to see any recycling guidelines with anywhere near the amount of required precision.

This is the largest issue, imo. It's all extremely vague and confusing. Combine that with the message that getting it wrong means that potentially all of the recycling in a batch will just go to the landfill because of contamination and it's understandable why people might be inclined to just throw everything away.
They don't need to create the companies. They just buy from them.

Anyway, license plate info isn't considered a search because it's in public, and the SCOTUS doesn't care about how scale makes what used to be tolerable, a very different beast.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/how-law-enforcement-ar...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/auto...
As someone who used to own a Model 3, agreed. That is a good size for 99% of people. I wish they'd make a stationwagon concept on the same platform since the only reason I upgraded to the Y was because the trunk format is _just_ not good enough enough times that it becomes annoying. We tried to fit a Christmas tree and a filing cabinet etc and just couldn't...
> and impress the world all over again

Nope! The world just cringed a bit more.....only at you - X!
Grusch testified that UAP are observed everywhere the Navy operates across the globe. Additionally, allied and other military forces also admit the presence of UAP activity.
The real problem is that it is true for a vanishingly small minority of males. But that vanishingly small minority does enough "evil, vile, and perverted" activities to train women (and some men) to be afraid of males in general.

Because outwardly there's no sign people wear that separates the men from the rapists.

Around 1 in 6 women will be raped in their lifetime. 1 in 5 girls, and 1 in 20 boys will be sexually abused as children.