skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally support a natural origins theory, but I was referring to the disproportionate energy people invest in origins when so many of the same people have dropped mitigations. It's contradictory behavior. Either you believe it's a serious threat and treat it that way, or it's a totally disconnected reality X-files TV show.

If COVID is so unserious that people won't clean the air, wear respirators, test, isolate, or vaccinate, then why should anyone care about origins outside of public health professionals?
"The incestuous startup ecosystem that largely consisted of over-funded bullshit companies buying services from each other is done."

Bravo. Rarely do I see this mentioned. Much of the B2B sales by so-called "tech" companies are to other so-called "tech" companies.

It's also possible that many but certainly not all of computer users that spend significant amounts of money on goofy intangibles like subscriptions and "cryptocurrency" are in fact people working for so-called "tech" companies. Not representative of the general public.

"From this perspective most VC investments aren't about creating value but about strip-mining FLOSS projects and communities. The scale is for extraction."

Even a small rise in interest rates sent these VC into panic mode. Without free money (zero interest debt), the strip mining operation comes to a screeching halt.

The US economy has been recovering nicely now that the brake has been put on this nonsense.
> 15-20 year old fridges are about 35% less energy efficient than the best modern fridges, not 100x

I apologise that you took orders of magnitude literally. I'll settle for an entire order of magnitude really. I think it's _way_ more than 35%, though.

> It looks like very efficient fridges today use about 400kWh per year. Those are the best (not the average).

Where did you get that number from? Here's [0] a $220 fridge that advertises at 90 kWh. I found another that claims 61 kWh, but it's $1800 so I left it. 20 years ago is a very specific timeframe, if you go back 25 years you're also likely talking about removing a bunch of horriffic CFC's which were widespread at the time. I'm finding it hard to find numbers for that time frame though, the only ones I can find are early 90's claims of 1700+kWh/year.

But yes, I concede, we have not had a 100x improvement in energy efficiency in 20 years. The entire rest of my post stands, and I think we've seen a 10x improvement in efficiency. At today's electricity price in the UK, the savings from a 550 kWh fridge to the one I linked above would pay for the fridge in a little over a year. Said fridge is under guarantee for 2 years in the EU/UK, so it's a _guaranteed_ cost saving over that time period.

[0] https://ao.com/product/rl170d4bwe-hisense-fridge-white-80358...
Related:

“Cards as Weapons” by Ricky Jay (1977) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26106453 - Feb 2021 (2 comments)

Cards as Weapons by Ricky Jay (1977) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26048850 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)
This is one of the sadder reasons why scheduled aviation is so safe. When flying planes is your job, why would you ever push your luck? I feel so tired, that storm looks pretty nasty, or the maintenance guy seemed like he had no idea why it's doing that - fuck it, we're not going, get the airline to put you on another plane if there is one, otherwise get them to pay for your hotel, I'm not flying anywhere today.

One safeguard that is needed, and I believe is provided even in the US - is a strong union to ensure that "Because I'll get fired unless we go" isn't the answer. People in safety critical roles must be protected so that "No" is always an option for them.

For private pilots, reasons to push your luck sneak over from real life. To get home before the twins are asleep. To be back in time for work tomorrow. So that I don't miss Trisha's wedding. Because the replacement was very expensive and I can't afford it right now. The fuel prices are lower back home, we'll fill up there.
Not for everyone... I'll go with a different airline for a generally better experience. Ex: Delta over United.
Optimists Bet Big on Kemmerer’s Next-Generation Nuclear Plant
>I suspect I can guess what your opinion will be.

Indeed. Is #HateSpeechDenial trending yet?
The exact setup I tested (evil+doom) but without nativecomp, same feedback
or the e-cat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer
Yup, been there and walked away from it all.
Understood. Apologies, I wasn’t trying to be combative. I agree that what you describe requires a special emphasis on AI stuff or at least a part of the org that has a research focus. I work on an R&D team at a legacy org and we do the latter.
>That what Deckard's running is a "blade"—death

Yeah, could be "running" as in operating ("run: be in charge of; manage") a metaphorical blade, that is cutting their life short.
IANARS but I play one on the internet. Depending on exactly where it came from on the rocket and which rocket it came from there could be smaller tanks embedded within larger tanks and fuel lines that are still pressurized behind closed valves. That wouldn’t be known until they confirmed its origin. Finally the content of what could be pressurized is some pretty toxic and carcinogenic chemicals like nitrogen tetroxide or monomethyl hydrazine.
Your imaginations don’t have anything to do with actually having a quantum theory of gravity that works at high energies
Perhaps it would be better phrased as "'intel x86'" vs "'AMD x86-64'". Specific sets of mandatory instructions and extension parameters - But AMD's set "won" at some point in the past, roughly corresponding to the launch of Intel's "Core" microarchitecture in 2006 when they started competing in the x86 space again
Yeah and still you shouldn't break your encoding in such a gross way just because of that.

Also please for the love of god do not use peoples names as file names because they are not unique and they change oftener than you think.
I think perhaps I misinterpreted your previous comment.
If you have a one-off server running nodejs, you've definitely got maintenance
Yup I grew up with one of those, my dad got some bonus at work and bought a BBC Micro B (with a 5.25" floppy drive, gasp!) when I was 7 and it was my first encounter with a computer... and then he got the (original) Elite game and I was hooked on computers ever since
It seems like there are almost daily HN front page items about aviation, and a lot of pilots in the comments. I've wondered about the reasons for such an overlap in interests among people here.

I fit this myself: I grew up playing flight simulators, studied computer science as an undergrad, was a military helicopter pilot for a while, and then went to grad school for computer science. Along the way, I've personally met at least half a dozen other academic computer scientists with a pilot's license or military aviation background. Is it just selective attention / frequency illusion for me, or is there more to this?
Take:

> Wrote Andersen on February 1, 2020, “I think the main thing still in my mind is that the lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.” A few days later, he and the other authors were searching for a plausible intermediate host such as a pangolin that would allow them to refute the theory.

Compare that interpretation with https://theracket.news/p/everyone-should-be-skeptical-of-nat... :

> That line, especially the “friggin’ likely,” has been the standout quote from the 140-page document. (Taibbi headlined his summary, “‘So Friggin' Likely’: New Covid Documents Reveal Unparalleled Media Deception.”) But there are a few things that the screenshot quote elides. One is the specific context in which was said. ... I don’t read this as a conversation between people who all know, or even suspect, that COVID didn’t come from nature. It’s a searching discussion — an argument in some ways — about the structure of the virus itself: whether it looks like it was engineered in some way or a product of natural evolution. ... The “friggin’ likely” is not a secret admission of wrongdoing. It’s a scientist talking to himself and his (skeptical) peers, saying, this is my assumption, this is what we need to test. ...

> If you keep reading though, a funny thing happens: the scientists get new data and start revising their conclusions. ... This conviction seems to have grown among the authors over the course of February. On Feb. 25, Holmes sends new data about a virus in a Yunnan bat from March 2019. Garry says: “Holy crap.” Andersen, revising his conclusion, says it “provides a template for how all of this happened in animals.” ...

You write "no new evidence" but in the link I gave, "Feb. 25, Holmes sends new data about a virus in a Yunnan bat from March 2019", and the Slack history shows it was new evidence for them.
Getting supplies such as food and shift changeovers?
And my point is that this is weird and lurid, not "cool". It's like cheering that a smallpox outbreak occurred so you can study the disease progression.
Groundbreaking ABS Study Explores Potential of Commercial Nuclear Propulsion
I hope this doesn't end up like a physics equivalent to Fermat's Last Theorem
She's also begging on twitter for people to stop attacking her since it's "getting to" her loved ones.
Absolutely awful that the solution to recoup the money was simply increase everyone’s council tax by 10%. Truly awful.
My son is 21 and leans right on culture war issues, he is skeptical of incel ideology (saw a friend get wrecked by it) but he is also skeptical of trans ideology (believes another friend is being wrecked by it.) He hates Trump and hates Elon Musk. He says that he is "ridin' with Biden."
I think we do use this turbine but with thicker liquids and in reverse as a pump -- maybe it was in oil or some of the chemical industries?
This is true - proprietary tends to lead - albeit it doesn't address the societal concern here: Are these really the only roles a software developer can have?

On one end, acting as a mercenary for platform monopolies doing the new stuff, and on the other, reproducing those designs without the same kind of paycheck?

I guess there is the third option of bilking investors by saying you'll definitely be a monopoly any day now and then open sourcing the whole thing.

My sense of it is that this particular phenomenon - the entire "hacker" arc from Unix in 1970 through the formation of the FSF to the present - was of an era, and the era is finishing up. Before that, there wasn't a software business to speak of, and after, the era of individual programs and proprietors is likely superseded by the needs of specific communication networks, which, like the Internet generally, everyone ends up standardized on, but no-one owns.

Part of why software is in a cynical state now is because the convergent network goal is ethically desirable, but the only way in which we seem to be capable of framing it societally is "someone owns this", so we have proceeded down a path of toxic corporate ownership, while everything else is a weird thing deserving of mockery.
https://archive.ph/WePGh
> They didn’t bother to dig basins

I thought you weren’t supposed to do this because the roots then grow in circles within the soft soil and eventually girdle/“suffocate” themselves.

But maybe I’m misunderstanding what is meant by “basin”.
You should check the guidelines:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

There's an entire "Show HN" part of the site for self-promotion of a project. https://news.ycombinator.com/show

You're simply posting your podcast as self-promotion of each episode, assuming that we're interested. I suggest you try a "Show HN" approach, and let _others_ post links to episodes they're interested in. If you don't, you'll hit a wall for self-promotion and get flagged/banned. (Eventually.)
I can get behind that, regardless of the origin of COVID-19. However, my concern is that so many of these political campaigns are billionaire / security state funded efforts to rally the public behind a "blame china" message so that way they can continue military aggression in the east designed to prop up American hegemony.

There's also a liberal idea in some supporters of "lab leak". They think of how the Bush administration handled Anthrax and falsely accused Iraq of having Smallpox and they think a change of frame will trigger the biosecurity apparatus to protect us from COVID-19. Unfortunately, that was all BS to get the public onboard with the Iraq war and funnel money to defense contractors and their friends. Because the upper class is afraid of freezing the economy with mitigations, these "trigger" words do not hold any weight.
> someone lost an incredible amount of money on this project.

All roads lead to Ratepayers (electrical customers).

> Georgia Power’s residential customers are projected to pay more than $926 apiece as part of an ongoing finance charge and elected public service commissioners have approved a rate increase. Residential customers will pay $4 more per month as soon as the third unit begins generating power. That could hit bills in August, two months after residential customers saw a $16-a-month increase to pay for higher fuel costs.

> The high construction costs have wiped out any future benefit from low nuclear fuel costs in the future, experts have repeatedly testified before commissioners.

> “The cost increases and schedule delays have completely eliminated any benefit on a life-cycle cost basis,” Tom Newsome, director of utility finance for the commission, testified Thursday in a Georgia Public Service Commission hearing examining spending.

> The utility will face a fight from longtime opponents of the plant, many of whom note that power generated from solar and wind would be cheaper. They say letting Georgia Power make ratepayers pay for mistakes will unfairly bolster the utility’s profits.

> “While capital-intensive and expensive projects may benefit Georgia Power’s shareholders who have enjoyed record profits throughout Vogtle’s beleaguered construction, they are not the least-cost option for Georgians who are feeling the sting of repeated bill increases,” Southern Environmental Law Center staff attorney Bob Sherrier said in a statement.

This will likely be the last commercial nuclear generator ever reaching criticality for the first time on US soil. Consider the current interest rate environment and the appetite for backstopping a multi decade construction project.

https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april... [pdf, start at page 4]
She's acknowledged her results were a hoax at this point.
Profile on the Fly with the IntelliJ Profiler
Me too! Those were my first and only Lua programs actually.
All landscapers plant trees too close to things because they expect to get re-hired every few years to replace them.
> I've wondered about the reasons for such an overlap in interests among people here.

I bet that a large part of why is that people here tend to have reasonably high incomes, and flying is an expensive hobby. I'm sure that flying would be an incredibly popular hobby across all demographics if it were affordable.
Even with a very small diameter hose/pipe?
That's all great but neither this nor www.xbrowsersync.org supports Safari.

That's the reason I don't use Safari beyond random superficial browsing.

Here is what xBrowserSync has to say about it:

"Will xBrowserSync support Safari?

No and it is extremely unlikely this will ever happen due to Apple moving away from the WebExtensions API and forcing developers to purchase Apple hardware and pay $99/year to develop on their platform."
This is pretty ahistorical. Most of the world's great civilizations have been from warmer climates. Northern Europe is an exception, not the norm.
Awesome! Nuclear is a fantastic and needed addition to the grid. The cost was high, but still quite cheap relative to the cost of continuing to build & run fossil fuel plants. It's a real shame we let 30+ years slip by, letting our ability to build projects like this wither. I hope there's lessons learned from this experience that will help get costs down for future plants. This should spur discussions on streamlining the regulatory side of things, and there's a lot of exciting stuff going on in modular reactors.

(In case it needs saying, which it shouldn't: yes, we should be building out wind & solar, too! We need all hands on deck, wind, solar, and nuclear, right now, to kill coal. We already blew our chance to do it cheaply, so now we have to pay the price.)
It may be unfair to compare to EmDrive; that was not possible under current physics frameworks, while there is no such obvious restriction for superconductors.
Tried going back to Firefox... seems to be running ok at the moment which I'm well happy with... no idea what was causing my problems before
You're right, I should have said sqrt : N -> R×R. I don't think the order is a problem, we can define the function such that sqrt(x)={a | a²=x}. Sets are inherently unordered, {-2,2} = {2,-2}.

Of course, this is not a surjective function, but it is a function nevertheless.
I am not sure where to start with on this article. There are a lot of extraneous and tired points being trotted out that really clouds the underlying point.

Essentially the point I took is some people could use serious help, and they get laughed at by society and the drug treatment programs they find because their problem is cannabis (and not say meth).

I don't think this is a surprise or that profound. Drug treatment in the US has been generally 'jail' (and still is for most drugs, and for cannabis as well in many regions). Actual drug treatment in the US is something of a joke for any substance, whether you are taken seriously or not. Drug treatment programs are expensive, often not covered by health insurance (if you have health insurance), often not effective - and that is the tip of the iceberg.

US medicine severely struggles for holistic treatments. Drug addiction treatment needs holistic treatment.

For example, detox centers will help a person come down and get over the most intense part of withdrawal. This is super important for alcohol as that withdrawal can kill you. But, this is symptomatic of how US medicine works - treats the chemical and biology, but not the person.

Read further on the updated rat-park experiment for why 'treating the person' is so important:
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/what-does-rat-park-tea...

A couple of other notable points I'd like to raise:

> “You smell it in the air when you’re sitting at a stoplight,” Courtney said.

This made me laugh. Try to quit smoking tobacco... Try to give up alcohol. Both are _everywhere_

On a serious point, giving up any substance can be a real challenge, no matter what it is.

> and the potency of the drug has been increased —

This is such a boogeyman. Total amount of drug ingested is quantity times potency. Old school people made up the low potency with quantity. What is more though, there always was high potency strains available (just not as prevalent today). Thai sticks, hash oils, they have been around for a long time. So, the high potency stuff has been around, that is not new, and most people compensate for the high potency by ingesting less.
Thanks for sharing! I encountered something similar recently.

This isn't the only Stripe "secondary offering" I've found disappointing lately.

People - me included - heap praise on Stripe, and a lot of it is deserved, but there are certain times I think "Why did they ship this without X?".

Wonder if, in 10 years, we'll think of them like we do Google now.
> Bottom line: we need large scale carbon capture quickly

The short term solution/bandaid is pumping SO2 into the stratosphere while we figure out carbon capture.
The cheapest effective solution, but sadly perhaps not fast enough, and definitely not optimal if you're trying to create rather than just preserve habitats.

The way things are going we're going to need to learn how to construct artificial reefs to survive as a species, and quite possibly also artificial game habitats. Planting trees is just one part of that.
Part of the "Fire Upon the Deep" series of novels (that particular reference is from the "A Deepness in the Sky").
> everyone loses... again rather quickly

that's the thing - if it is hard to manufacture and works maybe 1:10 tries, how can it lose quickly experimentally?

In other words, what is a satisfactory proof that it doesn't work, apart from analyzing the original apparatus?
Note that the individual license for Matlab is $149/year [0], which isn't crazy IMHO.

0 - https://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing.html?prodcode=ML...
How does Apple keeping you sideloading apps protect you?
An more accurate title would end in "...for now" based on reading the article. Sloppy to list features or APIs that aren't in dev or production yet but this actually makes Stripe look MORE interesting to me as they keep adding tons of features I might need at some point (even if they aren't fully baked yet).
It used to somewhat work for humans, until about the mid-19th century (in Europe, other places vary). A newborn was unlikely to reach an age of 5, a 5 year old had better chances but might still die from illness in childhood, but someone who reached an age of 20 could be expected to reach an age of 40, and if you reached 40 you might well make it to 80.
"This is light on info but they're making a report later." would be a non-darkness answer.

But do you have reason to believe they're working on a detailed public report?

Because if they're not, then you missed option "NASA informs the public immediately, but never makes the details available" which would be unfortunate.

Also they probably already answered a lot of these questions internally during the last week, so it wouldn't hurt to put some of that information out.
Related:

Unix Recovery Legend (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25491790 - Dec 2020 (97 comments)

Unix Recovery Legend (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160417 - Sept 2015 (60 comments)

Unix Recovery Legend (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892471 - June 2014 (52 comments)

Unix recovery legend - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1212051 - March 2010 (83 comments)
Inevitable in that people in charge of the BBC want to prove that people (specifically an appropriate cross-section of the British public) use the BBC to keep the funding secure
The How and Why of User Private Groups in Unix
A classic case of the unit test passed but the integration test did not.