skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see nuclear having a lot of trouble competing with solar/wind for two reasons:

1: incremental construction costs: (NB, numbers speculative, think order of magnitude). Roughly speaking, 100e6 dollars gets you a decent solar/wind utility scale installation (heck, you can do it retail for a few 10e3's on SFH rooftops), but only (maybe) a feasibility study for nuclear. Definitely not an operating plant. Spending 100e6 dollars a year gets operating solar/wind generating capacity on an ongoing basis, same on nuclear gets you a working plant in how many years?

2: backend costs: I don't think nuclear has a business plan about the cost of decommissioning a plant. Or maybe it ends up like orphan wells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_wells_in_Alberta,_Canad....

Reason 1: means that the business risk associated with solar/wind is far less than that of nuclear. Given that nuclear and solar/wind are very similar as being base load [1] and not well suited to tracking fluctuating demand (so, both need the same sort of backup / storage tricks, albeit for different production profiles), solar/wind win the "cheap 'n' cheerful" race hands down. Also, manageable by private entities, so no WPPSS scandals ("whoops!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNP-3_and_WNP-5).

Reason 2: decommissioning/recycling costs are far lower. This reduces taxpayer risk (ie., externalizing costs). There's nothing exotic: aluminum frames can join the "beer can to beer can in six weeks" loop and the other materials (can't be bothered to find the references just now) aren't as hard to reprocess as detractors claim. Also, again, it's smaller increments, so no massive 6 reactor plant that will take twenty years to dismantle. It's far easier to develop a 'panels to panels' industry with a steady stream of little projects than with a "my career was about remediating Splitters Bay" model.

[1] nuclear has to 'throw it away' by paying someone to take the power, they can't ramp down. Solar/wind has to 'throw it away' by not taking what's on offer. No way to make back six hours of curtailed sunshine.
> In many cases, the Freedom Caucus actually drives policy to the left, as they leave the leadership no choice but to use Democratic votes to approve must-pass spending bills or keep the government from shutting down. But this is exactly what many Freedom Caucus members desire: by withdrawing their support for leadership, they can position themselves as true and pure conservatives. When the leadership then has no choice but to cut deals with Democrats, the Freedom Caucus can hammer the leaders in public for being weak and unprincipled. In some sense the Freedom Caucus can’t lose, because every loss is just another betrayal by the hated GOP leadership, which is often exactly what they are seeking.

Interesting and probably accurate. But I think it underlines a more important point. The freedom caucus is basically an enemy faction to the mainline GOP. At some point they’re going to need to be disowned if they don’t fall in line. Probably quite soon if the orange loses the presidential run.
Delta Airlines partially backtracks on controversial loyalty program changes
Naw, we'll go to using the water hose and a sprayer!

It's not as uncommon as you might think/hope.
>This is really silly. Life is for living, and I squeeze the fun out of software when I try too hard to do it "right".

TBH the incentives are usually not there for that effort. That gets people doing the bare minimum. It would be another thing if most developers had comp that scaled with how good your code does.
Counterpoint: SAG-AFTRA. Represents all the actors on set, ranging from the A-list celebrities getting paid millions down the unknown actors credited with "Gas Station Clerk #2" and getting some money to show up.

Your view of unions is the result of relentless propaganda in the US for the last hundred years, and at best is only somewhat indicative of unions representing extremely homogeneous, low-qualification workforces.
CRDTs can still involve a server, just not necessarily in the middle of everything. Consider you could have connections authenticated by the server, for one.

E.g., someone connects peer to peer to you and claims some privilege etc., you could use the server to verify their claim.

Also, I don't think CRDT necessarily implies peer to peer, as you can use a central server for message passing, but keep the CRDT model for resolving the current state on both server and client.
I'm a fermentation freak so I have to highlight how uncooked fermented foods like sauerkraut and the aforementioned kefir play into anti-inflammation [0].

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8147091/
It's so refreshing to hear other people understand what's really happening. How can I subscribe to these rants?
Well, we want to get rid of the coal entirely (that is those of us who care about climate change), so that's a big gap to fill.

Putting SMRs in coal plants to leverage the existing power gen and transmission is a very appealing proposition.

It seems that storage is a key part of the solution, and being able to distribute that more so that every neighborhood can have resiliency and the ability to charge fleets of EVs w/o taxing the grid.

Batteries win on convenience and are only going to get cheaper, but it would be nice to have other options. Flywheels are cool but Beacon Power's failure leaves that landscape looking bleak. Thermal storage seems like the best/cheapest option other than batteries.

I think we have enough technical solutions today -- now it's a matter of will and economic incentives.
What do you mean useless? Dial is going to revolutionize the way people insert numbers.

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/dial
Batteries costs and PV costs are both dropping exponentially. So it doesn't matter much.

Once batteries are everywhere who cares when the electricity is produced.

Hey btw Vermont Utility plans to installs battery storage at customers' homes because it cheaper than updating the grid

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/business/energy-environme...
Why isn't there a formal grammar for Markdown?
The whole speaker situation is the first time in a while I've seen Democrats effectively use game theory principles. Michelle Obama famously said "when they go low, we go high". This, sometime called bipartisanship, is provably a losing proposition in repeated games, like politics. One of the best strategies in the iterated prisoner's dilemma is tit-for-tat, which translates to "when they go low, we go low. when they go high, we go high". The downside of this strategy though, is that you can get trapped in a suboptimal state, where both sides continually fight against each other. The best strategy is probably something like a tit-for-tat with a rare, occasional olive branch. "When they go low, we go low, but every once in a while, we'll go high to see if the offer is reciprocated".
I'm having flashbacks of ASP.NET WebForms controls, but much much worse... as in SharePoint WebParts worse
I agree. It's one of my all-time favorites.
Much of the US's governance relies on politeness, the assumption of good faith, and adherence to norms. It was a system destined to fail as soon as defectors realize the power they stand to gain by deliberately bringing the system to its needs (and then blaming their opponents for it, trusting that their own constituents are too gormless to realize or care).

In contrast, here's how the old Venetians elected the Doge, in a process so complex that it was presumably impossible to game to anyone's advantage:

"First, thirty members of the Great Council were chosen at random. Then nine of those thirty were chosen, again randomly. Those nine members picked the next set: forty people from the Great Council. And those forty? Twelve, randomly picked from their number, moved on to the next step. Those twelve chose twenty-five; those twenty-five were randomly pared down to just nine. Having fun yet? This set of nine members chose forty-five more; eleven were picked – again at random – from those forty-five. The eleven chose forty-one members. Those forty-one (finally!) voted for the doge. There were some additional checks against skulduggery. Each noble family couldn’t have more than one member in each group, and members couldn’t vote for their own relatives. Every time a set of members voted for the next group, more than a simple majority was required: around three quarters of the voting group had to agree. (For the final election, just 25 of the 41 had to agree.)"

https://generalist.academy/2020/11/06/the-election-of-the-do...
> PV costs are falling exponentially

And yet there are plenty of grid-scale nuclear power plants, and very, very few grid-scale solar plants.

Weird, huh?

> If you decide today to build a reactor it will be ready in 10-20 years (don't be in the hurry)

Whereas one can simply wave a magic wand and a grid-scale solar plant will magically spring into existence.
I suppose that’s a fair point about Orion.

I know Safari has plug-ins, however the ones I use are not available for Safari and I would think most popular extensions aren’t.
discussed yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899993
despite common belief, IDF tends to own mistakes and if there was some kind of breach of rules of engagement - off to jail you go.it doesn't mean that idf doesn't kill anybody. it means that things not white and black as they seen on tv.

there was entertaining thread on reddit a few days ago, where people were searching for "widely documented mass rapes by idf". the only documentation going back to statements from 1969 or so. after this everybody were split into 3 camps:
- very good in coverup (kinda impossible given amount of human rights organizations that document everything)

- idf dehumanizes palestinians so idf is repulsed from idea of rape

- idf actually has some moral backbon
> ... barely an industry around it and there's no mass production.

Said another way: traditional nuclear power generation cannot jump onto the cost learning curve (Wright's Law).

Time will tell if small modular reactors can or will make that leap. Decades from now.

H2 is closer. (Because we've pointed a fire hose of money towards H2 and not nuclear.) So the window for a nuclear revival, in any form, is small and getting smaller.
I wish there were more forks that did not come with privacy features baked in and turned on by default.
But the Senate can pass a new dress code in 10 minutes.. it's amazing what they can get done if they actually want to
My advice would be to either build it for a different niche (i.e., not software teams) or to go against the grain and target it to the agile rebels. If you do the latter, it still needs to be useful but you at least stand a chance. What if it just does kanban? Can it be a better kanban only project tool? Can it serve the construction industry only? What vector can you differentiate on? Think hard about that. Price ain't it.
Great stuff - and it seems you and I are a kindred spirit. For the past few years I've been building iOS and Android BLE apps/SDKs using my own GATT YML spec, and using that to generate working apps+SDKs from custom GATT profiles.

It's like magic when using an LLM to convert the spec to YML to runnable apps.

There absolutely needs to be a general consensus around defining a GATT profile. The challenge is that each company has their own way of using GATT and documenting how it works.
Indeed, reading the QLoRa paper, 4 bit quantised data is converted to 16 bit floats (usually BFloat16) for calculations, then converted back again. I suppose this standard allows for smaller data types to be supported by the hardware instructions.
Yeah, the combat doesn't do it for me either. But the rest of the game more than makes up for that.
had to think about this a bit. It doesn't directly affect it, but it adds to the problem of global warming by increasing the temp gradient between the higher elevation interior and the cooler, lower elevation coast. This can cause more wind and increased evaporation, and, effectively, "pull" the damp air away from the central ice sheets.

But that's just me speculating. It definitely seems counterintuitive.
Indeed.

Imagine, the lead in our pipes (for those of us that live in Roman settlements or small American towns) is sooo radioactive Lead-205 has a half-life of around 1.73×10^7 years.

That's nearly 20 million years!!

Wait, is that a good thing or a bad thing, having a long half life?

Is that related to the toxicity of lead, or is that something else?

Are the really toxic isotopes long lived or short lived?

Still, at least we can all agree that just having a nuclear fission reactor out in the open is absolutely going to poison the planet forever.

Maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
Speaking only for myself here, I feel more free when I have less organizational hierarchy (read: bosses) to deal with. Might be different for others.

I know of no union that would give me the flexibility I currently enjoy--flexibility to bill hourly on some projects, lump sum on others. Flexibility to invest my retirement savings as I wish. Flexibility to work 12 hours days 7 days a week for 6 weeks, then take two months off to travel. Flexibility to tell clients "this is how _I_ do it, full stop. Flexibility to choose my own wage and benefits and career trajectory. Flexibility to work for equity alone, or barter, when it makes sense.

That's my reality, and I have yet to see a union that offers anything close.
The only world in which grandma cannot afford her LVT is if the value of her land has grown so high that she can make a disproportionately large gain by selling the house. This is very unlikely. And if it is the case, it’s not like the government is stealing her house, they’re just saying she has to realize some of her enormous unrealized gains.
"Long half-life" = "less radioactive".

By definition.
Lol. "Hey Bob - why are we in the news for a breach?" Seems closer given the news reporting and their tardy response.
> I don't see how having regular auctions to determine what the land is actually worth is compatible with true land ownership. You auction the land to determine the tax, someone pays more than the current lessor, then that highest bidder gets to lease the land from the government and kick out the old lessor. Where does ownership of land and ability to sell it and profit from improvements come into play?

Nobody's actually suggesting randomly auctioning off people's land at periodic time intervals.

You're arguing with ghosts.
I wrote a couple of toy FastAPI apps (not production) and I'm happy with Fly.io. Apparently they have lots of downtime issues, but I've never run into them (yet)
This is not just about writing "useless" software, but also advocating for avoiding so-called "best practices" in small projects

I made a static site generator for an item catalog. The catalog is simple and doesn't change much. I was debating on which database system to employ and ultimately just decided that I'll drop everything into a static array right in the codebase. It's one less dependency to think about and works perfectly fine for my purposes
That's what "alignment" used to mean until about a year ago; the term has since been hijacked to extend to making LLMs polite and obedient. This leads to confusion and people asking "what's the big deal with the 'alignment' thing?". The big deal is with "avoiding getting casually extincted by a powerful enough AI" kind of alignment. The "reliably preventing LLMs from saying undesired things" is much lesser issue (though probably a small part of the big problem).
Not mine and the site has sadly gone down, but enjoy this archive of The Indeed Project: https://web.archive.org/web/20201112020739/http://www.skulld...

(Every time Teal'c says the word "Indeed" throughout Stargate SG-1)
You'll get to experience the bottom percentile of Hacker News posting endlessly about how getting a cheap genetic test in the mid-2010s was obviously something only a total moron would do, and occasionally slipping in an "insurance companies would love that data!" (I'm not saying it, use-mention distinction) alongside it.

Your raw data hasn't leaked unless it was your account in particular that got used, but you could be put on some guy's "Jew list", which you may or may not care about.
In an ideal world, native apps shouldn't be able to compromise your whole system.
Tell HN: Don't use Wise Business (TransferWise) to receive business payments
Wise Business has changed the number of our USD account on a very short notice - just two weeks. The message was "Your old account details will continue to work until October 31, 2023. After that, any payments sent to these details will automatically be refunded to the sender. And any direct debits using these details will fail."

I can't believe how irresponsible and unwise (pun intended) this is.

We use(d) Wise to receive payments from enterprise customers. These payments are frequently made on a NET 30 or NET 60 term. The account number is registered in many procurement systems of our customers. Changing it is a huge hassle, and what's worse - there is absolutely no guarantee that it won't happen again.

Don't use Wise Business for receiving payments. Always assume that your account numbers can change at any moment on a short notice.
> City of Seattle to phase out gas leaf blowers by 2027

https://mynorthwest.com/3893695/city-of-seattle-to-phase-out...

5 years is a stupid amount of time to wait for this, but at least it's coming.
> in their dreams...

Heh. You made me realize that nuclear revival is the latest mania (catnip) for gold bugs. Just like cryptocurrency, err, I mean "digital assets".
if 23andMe knows this is happening, they should probably reset everyone's passwords...
It's not a remake, it's based on the original source code.
Mandatory 2FA announced mid 2022?
Grasshopper observational note:

"Eigen Maze by this pointer" may be theme song for this post; but no letting things be in order to let this stack down to get this pointer back to complete 'init & kill -9' autonoma sequence.
Some options:

- https://fly.io/

- https://render.com/

Your best bet is probably to containerize your application instead of looking for services that natively support ASGI.
> "Making an example" changes the state of the world

And? If there's no free will, there's no choice about "changing the state of the world", either.

Right?

> It's a 100% deterministic function, yet its output changes with its input.

Not if there is no choice about the value of x.
Fascinating! Thanks for posting
what's WLB?
My understanding was that debit cards typically have lower fees than credit cards (except for small-value transactions).
My point is that thermal power doesn't scale well. If you need 10x more electricity (growing needs plus electrification of all energy) thermal pollution of rivers becomes a big issue.
I agree the air currents matter. But at those altitudes the sun has a much larger impact than at lower ones. The models that rate places by impact consistently list high altitude cities with lower impacts.
My snarky take is that the whole thing is a farce and the House hasn't been more than theater (in an Article I of the Constitution sense) in quite a while.

There hasn't been any proper budgeting since Bush43. Among the unmet demands leading to McCarthy's ouster was lack of regular budgeting order.

The House has had copious resources to do investigations out the wazoo, but it's actual, Constitutional job? No' so much.

MODEST PROPOSAL: if a Congress fails to do its basic job, then none of the jackwagons sworn into that Congress (either chamber) get to run for their existing seat when next up for election. Do you Monkey Fighting job, or get some people who will.
Show HN: awesome-privacy-front-ends – private front-ends to popular sites
> Cutting down a 60 year old tree is not a weekly occurrence

The tree company I used to work for begs to differ. Our 2 man crew alone could do 2-4 trees a day depending on size, with one guy in the tree with a saw and one on the ground running the chipper and cutting the large bits into smaller pieces.

Every example I gave was in context of the comment I'm replying to, and that comment was talking about commercial crews doing this stuff all day every day and replacing their loud gas powered equipment with electric solutions. Tree companies, lawn services, fence installers, lawn care/landscaping places.

> Keep the gas powered equipment where it's needed but the typical weekly lawn service can replace their mowers and leaf blowers today with only slight tweaks to their day to day operations.

Weekly for you. Every single day for the crew, sometimes all weekend too if they fall behind due to rain, etc. They have to have EV that is just as powerful and easy to jump on and get going, run all day long and operate in dirt and wet grass, and not cost a million dollars in chargers and spare batteries, which if they are lithium ion batteries, have to be replaced a lot more often than a gas engine w/ regular oil changes would. And when the electric motors burn out (they have bushings and coils which wear out with use), I can't imagine they will be cheap or available at lawn supply stores where you can go to get any gas engine part you need to fix your money maker that day

I'm all for electric replacements, it's just a long way off imo. These machines get beat on daily and have to keep running. Gas is easy, produces plenty of power, and is cheap compared to an aresonal of batteries and chargers and electric motors and all that goes with wiring those things in wet enviroments
> 64 gigs of ram is nothing for a local machine

It's not nothing. Most developers are issued laptops, and a 64GB Macbook costs over $3000. Plus a CDE can be shared.
>nothing can fix this

Exactly.

>For these problems, undo and presence indicators go a long way to avoid these problems through human/social mechanisms.

x1,000 to this. This guy builds. That's exactly my takeaway as well from years working on this; provide a solid (by that I mean clearly defined) deterministic algo, and solve the rest w/ UX.
I found one or two lists around but they seemed unmaintained, so I decided to start my own list and try to follow the guidelines from the "awesome" line of repositories.

Hopefully, this will help someone :)
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN, especially on flame-prone topics like partisan politics? We've already had to ask you this multiple times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668491 (July 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29466650 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29282769 (Nov 2021)

We want curious conversation here, not denunciatory rhetoric, fulmination, putdowns etc. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.

p.s. No, this is not a function of which political side you're on. I don't know (I don't scan the comments for that) and it's the same either way.
> What you are arguing here is effectively that a different input applied to a deterministic process can't affect the future output of that deterministic process.

I am arguing nothing of the sort. If there is no free will, there is no choice about the value of the input.
You're loose with the terms. Java is not "literally reference implementation", it's the platform language of JVM.

While this is a major advantage, Java has also its fair amount of problems, some of them unfixable (or rather, the Java team is unwilling to fix them). It looks like Java will never get a proper fix for the whole in the type system named null, while there are some great languages running on JVM solving that.
More likely, western countries still have many escalation options available.

Russia cuts a cable, we donate some F16s that were already scheduled for retirement.

Which is going to hurt the most?

(Just a theory, but right now it might not be worthwhile to even acknowledge that they cable was intentionally cut)
This. Every one of these attacks I've worked were loud due to the volume of logins and ratio of failures.