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If people had been responsibly building nuclear 20 years ago the world would be better off today, but today ramping up storage and renewables seems like a better use of R&D investments and subsidies.

Nuclear and solar can each scale to ~40% of the annual supply for most grids without storage, but for different reasons they both need increasing amounts of storage as you ramp them past that point.

Solar because the sun doesn’t shine at night and peak consumption is mornings and evening, but Nuclear because demand varies though the day and season while the costs per kWh increase the more its capacity factor drops. France both had lower capacity factors and exchanged a great deal of power with its largely non nuclear neighbors. Exchanging power with less nuclear countries doesn’t scale to a worldwide increase in nuclear.

However nuclear also costs more per kWh as a baseline and runs into similar problems as the percentage of solar energy increases. Without storage, a 20% solar 30% nuclear grid is less profitable for nuclear than a 10% solar 30% nuclear grid. Given the long lifespans of nuclear power plants nobody wants to invest in nuclear if it’s expected to be unprofitable 20+ years from now.
This isn't a bug.

Instead of clicking the "login" button on discord's home page, you clicked the "Open discord in your browser" button.

This, by default if you're not logged in, takes you to a create account flow. The prompt you entered your _username_ into was the "Pick a display name" prompt. If you enter, say, "user" it silently adds numbers to your displayname to make a new username ("user1234"), rather than redirecting you to the login page or prompting you about it (like most other sites do).

At the end of the flow is a "Finish signing up", "claim your account" prompt (which really is the end of the "create a new account" flow, the ephemeral account without an email you're using there is in a partially signed up state).

This is the box where you were entering your email, getting a conflict, and ended up using a new email to create a totally new account.

I know people who use hacker news are on-average much less tech savvy than the average discord user, so I can get why you missed the login button on the home page and instead went through the "create account flow", but everything that happened is "working as intended" rather than a "bug".

I do agree the flow there is pretty confusing. They've managed to make the new user signup flow so optimized you didn't even realize you were doing it.

Still, by the time it was telling you your email was already registered, you really should have slowed down and noticed it was telling you you were creating a new account rather than using a new email address for some reason.
For context, the National Post is a pretty heavily right-wing/conservative slanted publication. Basically the "Fox News" of Canadian newspapers.
Nuclear isn't the only practical solution, though. We have the technology today to make a real go of properly using solar, wind, tide, etc.
Therein lies the rub

Movement, is animal like - perceiving self, environment and understanding movement through it.
- Movement is universal. Its the application of physics.

Thats not driving.

Driving is a social construct. It is the application of physics while navigating a social world.

Driving is observing the law, observing social constructs (that differ regionally), adapting to new constructs based on location and environment.

Thats the blind spot for self driving proponents. They conflate the two things, but talk primarily about the first.

As a result, you will never get self driving - the assumptions are wrong.

Let me put it this way - you get self driving when a car decides its best course of action is to reverse in traffic, because it perceives a tsunami coming from ahead of it.
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It's fantastic looking at Aminet today and finding datatypes for the original 68k AmigaOS adding support for modern formats to every datatype supporting program.
> Just to make sure, this is happening in a fresh browser tab, not within a webview from another app - right?

yep

> Thanks for your patience and support!

thank _you_ for a great game
UTM is great, and once snapshot capability is added [1] it will become my default recommendation for sure. Until then sticking with Parallels. NOTE: An unofficial snapshot manager exists [2].

1: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/5484

2: https://github.com/Metamogul/UTM-Snapshot-Manager
I know people don't like fact-checkers. But here is the latest recruitment advertisement[1] from ISRO. See for example page 2, job code BE005

[1] https://www.isro.gov.in/media_isro/pdf/recruitmentNotice/202...
• The story of Bedlam3: <https://rodneymbliss.com/2013/10/17/i-survived-bedlam3/>

• Ornk! <https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-sea-lions>
Perhaps, at a pessimistic extreme. Exercise of rights is important. It's worth consulting a lawyer for assistance. Organizations occasionally need to be compelled to do the right thing.

Life isn't always easy or fair, but standing up for yourself is important as you are your best advocate.
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Can you give an example please?

How dose ignoring dots cause you to receive other peoples mail?
A finding that VidAngel violated copyright doesn't mean their customers didn't also violate copyright. Their customers weren't the ones being sued, that doesn't mean the customers were in the clear.

I don't see where you are getting the uploader is the one reproducing the work rather than both parties were? Also that appears to have been a streaming case so not really relevant?
Sometimes I feel like I am the only person who dropped Altavista for Northern Lights before Google burst onto the scene. I can't even remember if it's a local thing or where they were located but they always had better results than Altavista (in my memory).
Any von Neumann inspired architecture is going to resemble looking at your data through a keyhole and trying to cram as much data through that keyhole as you can. There is an obvious solution to that but unfortunately it does not generalize well and it would likely be very hard to program for. This bottle-neck is what we spend a very large fraction of our time dealing with. Crack that one and you will be more famous than Bill Gates. I've seen some really nice attempts at computing fabrics but none that were able to grab any kind of market share, there was a post the other day about another Barrel Processor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37315802) which is probably why this one is posted now. But Barrel processors are still limited by the die size and need regular processors to deal with the non parallelizable parts of the code, they're a different point on the general cpu <-> specialized hardware continuum that works well for certain problems.

Chances are that as we get closer to the limits of Moore's law that we will see a revival of such exotic architectures because they will be the only way forward to get more computing power. Especially workloads like AI and graph analysis could well benefit from this because the hardware and the data model overlap quite nicely.
My understanding is that enshittification is much more general (though perhaps this is just linguistic drift); an organisation that has done a hard thing, but now has to justify its continuing existence and expense coming up with things nobody needs and which add zero or negative value.

This can be rent extraction (literal or metaphorical, no matter where on that spectrum advertising goes); and also it can be feature creep, mission creep, scope creep, bureaucratic bloat.
It's a lease, not a claim. US even sends cuba checks for it.

Not even sure how you can equate a lease of one bay to claiming the whole island. Besides, If china stopped claiming Taiwan was it's territory and insisted on leasing one small base, I think we could all go to sleep better at night.
We had nuclear power in Italy. From my house, I could see the cooling towers of the abandoned nuclear power plant in Trino [1] in the distance.

There was a referendum in November 1987 asking whether to abolish any form of nuclear power. It won with 80% of yes votes. This was a year after the Chernobyl disaster. Over the next few decades, Italy started to import electricity at a premium, mostly from its French neighbour, which has never stopped investing on nuclear and is today Europe's largest electricity exporter.

No politician dared touch this hot potato ever again for the following 24 years, until the June 2011 referendum, that asked whether to revive plans for nuclear power. It failed with 94% of No votes. This was 3 months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

I do not trust politicians, nor anti-nuclear activists, to ever do the right thing and drop their outdated stance on the matter.

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi_Nuclear_Power_Pla...
I feel this misses just one adjective: "nobody interesting comes here anymore, it's too crowded". A similar feeling I get from overtouristed places, initially they are interesting because of some attraction: the nightlife, the art scene, the food scene, or any combination of these (and other factors I'm too lazy to list) with some quirkiness that attracts people who are interested in the twist. Over time it becomes attractive to more people because they hear about it from others who experienced it, then it goes downhill where people will flock to a place but nothing that made it initially interesting is there anymore, it just becomes a self-perpetuating meme.

It feels it's a pattern that develops in social media, tourism, products, etc., something fresh appears which gets overextended and bores us out in the end, the laggards missed the magic. Rinse and repeat.
Yes, agreed, that's probably why this was posted.
This. All people want is to be able to see pics of their friends and kids from whatever vacation they're on, preferably in chronological order.
This is maybe the impatience of youth running up against the false certaintly of middle age.

I think the reality is that both sides have good points. Nuclear looks like the only way to create enough energy density to power modern societies. On the other hand, build times for current mainstream nuclear plants are too long given the critical situation we're in, and we still dont have widely deployable solutions to the waste problem.
Depends. If used for construction, then no. If turned into pellets, then yes.

Of course, calculations like this take the dimmest possible view, in order to be as dramatic as possible. There is undoubtedly room to differ on the details.
That is actually a great question.

There is USA, there is Canada which has never declared independence, and I can't say outright that Canada is a worse country than USA, or has less self-determination, after taking population and geography into account. USA did lose quite a large amount of men in independence-related wars, though.

The same question about the French Revolution. Yes, they have no choice but praise it now, but Britain had no revolution and we are all now writing in English. Had France averted Revolution, it is likely that we would all be writing in French now, and English would be a niche language of England and some very backwards African ex-colonies. Was it worth it? Sure, French Revolution led to Napoleon, who could be a success had he not jump under the Russian steamroller.

The best thing about revolutions is not having them and waiting for a bigger sucker to have one. The benefits of somebody out there having a revolution seem to be shared, whereas the cost seems to be footed by the ones who did it to their country.

These suckers then have no choice but to make their largest failure the central point of their ideology. France did, so did USSR and arguably USA, however here it's not as clear-cut.
From both an engineering sense and an aesthetic sense, I would much rather have 2 nuclear plants serving as base load (not total load) for 10M people, supplemented by solar/wind, than relying solely on solar/wind/storage. (In part because that requires an incredible amount of storage to preserve the current uptime in my part of the US, but also because it's a much better match to the load profile [engineering] and a smaller footprint near people [aesthetics].)
"I'm not using my Gmail address anymore, please contact me at XXX"
Another edge case: aside from different orderings in different countries, in Spanish speaking countries people have 2 surnames.
I'd contact them first.
The article doesn't say there are crimes on KF, only that KF "provides a forum for gamifying abuse and doxxing". Magically, that abuse just happens without any planning of it appearing on KF, and then KF's users gossip about the results openly. The article says it supports prosecuting those missing-link people for crimes: "we fully support criminal and civil liability for those who abuse and harass others"

It does think companies should act on illegal speech; those "companies" are the people/orgs who run websites, like KF. "We should enact strong data privacy laws that target, among others, the data brokers whose services help enable doxxing". The EFF doesn't think other companies (network carriers, etc.) should act on illegal speech.

The government ought to take a more active role! Would you prefer the courts to affirm your legal rights, or for an oligopoly of private companies to brazenly deny you them, with no recourse?
> I also use it to run a tiny pi hole instance when I'm traveling.

That's such a good idea. I used to run one using a raspberry pi, which got lost during the house move, so would love to do that.

Is is better than running it via Docker, e.g. from the resource usage pov? Do you have any good resources/tutorial to share?

PS. In pre-Apple Silicon times I used it to play with old versions of Windows, but now DosBox seems like a better choice for Win 3.11 or 95.
By not being on the App Store, it becomes a significant hassle to get it running.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37334977
My main criticism of nushell is that it seems to be more developed as a programming language than as a shell.

Looking at the bug tracker, someone asked 4 years ago how to separate multiple commands, as in `git pull; git push`.

It turns out, this is hard with nushell. At some point a ; syntax was added in nushell, but it is NOT the separator you expect. It's actually a strange cross between bash && and ;

`echo a | grep b; echo ok` does NOT run the second command, so here nushell ; is like bash &&

`false; echo ok` DOES runs the second command, so here nushell ; is a plain ;

There is no exact && equivalent. There is no || equivalent syntax at all. And the closest form of a plain bash ; I could find is |1; (piping into a constant value, which guarantees a 0 return code, so that ; will never fail)
It's ridiculously uneconomic of course but a limited number will continue to be built in spite of this because of the overpowering military imperative.

If you have nuclear weapons/submarines/carriers/etc. like Russia or the United States or France it shares some of the gargantuan cost of building and maintaining them. I expect North Korea will get into it in the next few years too for precisely this reason.

Countries like Iran, Sweden and Korea, on the other hand, want to be able to manufacture a weapon on a tight deadline because of extremely self evident geopolitical fears.

Nobody else builds nuclear power plants. The vast power of the global hippy-industrial complex apparently prevented it :/

Of course, the western nuclear military industrial complex, who always HATED environmentalists with a seething passion, are aware of just how massively uneconomic it is but that doesn't stop them from trying to dress up as "young climate activists" to sell a form of power that is 5x more expensive as a green gamechanger. Consent for enormous subsidies needs to be manufactured somehow if nuclear power is to remain competitive with solar and wind.
Filter: Subject contains "new friends"

Action: Play sound [if working in office], Forward to "[initial sender]", Mark as read, Move to trash
Social networks put engagement before everything else and alienate their products. I moved away from Facebook to Instagram when it stopped being about my friends, and did the same when Instagram tried too hard to be TikTok.

And I like these services independently. I watch short content, I like following what my friends do and I follow(ed) strangers on Twitter. But the moment everything is crammed into one app the experience becomes dull.

I wish they'd spin up new apps instead of adding more and more layers to the existing ones.
What almost always happens in the context of evolution is that things are tried out and what works sticks around until something changes and the species goes extinct. Nearly every species that ever existed is already extinct. It's hard to predict exactly what will happen in the long term with evolution, but that doesn't mean "the species that are now populous will always remain so" is a good bet.
Less tools and software to keep up to date!
Co-location of storage with renewables is a very popular option these days, at least from what I am seeing in the UK.
"[in Germany] in 2022, CO2 emission goals were exceeded by 40 million metric tons due to the increased use of coal-fired power plants resulting from the necessary cuts in natural gas consumption; estimates for 2023 assume 38 million metric tons.

The Emsland, Isar II and Neckarwestheim II nuclear power plants supplied a total of 32.7 billion kilowatt hours of low-emission electricity in 2022. German private households most recently consumed an average of 3190 kWh of electrical energy per year. This means that these three power plants can supply more than 10 million, or a quarter, of German households with electricity. The resulting reduction in the amount of electricity required from coal-fired power plants could save up to 30 million tons of CO2 per year."

https://www.replanet.ngo/post/open-letter-save-german-nuclea...
The quote is disputed, and historical accuracy is important. Additionally, it's worth noting that attributing the burning of the Library of Alexandria solely to Muslims oversimplifies a complex historical event. It's important to consider the broader historical context and the contributions of Muslim scholars, such as the establishment of the Grand Library of Baghdad, which reflects a different aspect of their relationship with knowledge.
Most niche subreddits are still good. Just avoid big/default subs and anything related to politics and culture wars.

That's what disappointed me when I tried reddit alternatives. Politics and culture wars were there too, but niche subs were nowhere to be found. They don't seem to understand what made reddit worse in the first place.

So I went back to reddit.
I still remember how confused I was in my 101 course at Clemson. I was certain I was going to have to change my major.

Then one night on a project I was just staring at the code at 3am…and it suddenly all made sense. Got A’s in all my CPSC courses after that too.
MBP + 24", where the monitor is from Apple/LG and a pretty good match to the MBP's screen in terms of color, dot pitch, and glare. I've tried but a giant screen doesn't cut it for me; I'm just messing it up with hundreds of windows, have to move the mouse and the head a lot, etc.
We should emphasize the “preferred name” option because it can be very expensive & arduous to change a legal name. Also using real names in UI/messages should be considered a bad practice because you risk leaking info to shoulder snoopers or dead-naming folks that don’t want to expend the time/effort/money for a legal rename. Just don’t.
> AI-generated content is not so engageable as a human-generated content

Just wait until social media companies start to train transformers on engagement metrics.
Hmm the article title implies they're talking about all social media but most of it is about Instagram.

Also, it smells of a marketer's perspective. Of course if most posts are fake people will stop being interested in the platform.
Renewables industrialize much more land than nuclear and nuclear solve the challenge of renewables being dependent on the weather. Renewables are far more expensive than nuclear when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining.
It is not just that. At this point, most people know that their online presence is scoured by entities that may be unfriendly for one reason or another, or maybe is gathering information about you ( say HR people looking at your recent Linkedin posts ).

Honestly, if that is true ( and I have no real way of knowing ), I think that is a good thing. People are finally adjusting.
But we will need baseload power for a long time to come. The UK is not investing in battery technology and on still winter days the UK needs to be able to spin up a lot of power generation quickly. That role is currently filled by natural gas. Nuclear should have taken its place.
So it is actually possible to get to the end of the Internet?
This happened internally at Reuters, it was hilarious.
The issue isn't regulation so much as litigation. PV is safe, but wind turbines tend to suffer from this to a lesser extent.
What actually happened here is that the parent commenter, instead of clicking "login", entered their username into a "enter a display name" prompt on the home page, which registers a new account using the string you entered as a _display name_, and generates a random username.

The parent poster then did not realize they had created a new account and, even when it told them their email address was registered to a different account, somehow didn't realize they should go click login instead.

I think the easiest way for discord to make this a not-confusing experience for people who aren't tech savvy enough to click "login" to login, is to make it so the signup flow is a normal explicit "Enter email, enter display name, enter username" prompt, not a flow where they silently create a username if you _just_ enter a displayname.

The reason this would help is because forcing the user to enter a username early on lets you display a "Would you like to login instead?" message if the username conflicts.

Having the user enter a non-unique displayname, and silently creating a random unique username, means the signup flow no longer has the ability to say "Are you sure you don't want to login?"

Of course, discord mostly targets relatively tech-savvy users, not the average hacker-news-user, so it probably isn't that big a deal for their main demographic.
I can only imagine the code that handles the previous and next buttons and the counter, with all the exceptions there probably are.
the next of 403 is correctly 405, which correctly has 403 as its previous.
I don’t think it’s overstated. It’s just one of those things where some people can’t handle it and end up in a serious downward spiral but others stick to therapeutic use that positively changes their whole life, so the latter group always has to prove they’re not in the former group.

Everyone I knew in uni was on Adderall XR and some people overdid it, like making these crazy manic posts on Facebook and staying cracked out for days on a train of big redoses. There are real risks.

And because of that, any time I go to a new doctor, I have to deal with them side eyeing me as I try to prove to them I’m not just a pill seeking junkie even though I’ve been taking it for 15 years. It can be so dehumanizing, like I’m a child of a parent that goes to see if I really did clean my room like I said I did.
And if you like the Tetris movie I also recommend "Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game". About the guy who got New York City's long-time ban on pinball machines overturned, by proving that pinball was a game of skill, not chance.
Solar, wind, and tide are very dispersed forms of energy, so harvesting them on a significant scale has a massive environmental impact. Also there are issues relating to extracting the input materials, and to waste disposal after the devices are retired. It's not clear to me that "green" energies are any better than fossil fuels.