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> for each € invested in nuclear, we’re actually much better off investing in lower-cost, lower-risk projects and technologies (renewables, electrification, heat pumps, grid upgrades, insulation, storage, etc) that deliver more carbon savings per € spent much more quickly.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely think all those are key, and need to be focused on immediately. Those help to reduce demand, but (with the exception of renewables) don't help improve supply. If we want to eliminate carbon emissions worldwide, nuclear will be a key component (along with massive renewables). For example, the Japanese grid has been developing various renewables on superdrive since 2011, yet they are only at 20% renewable, with national carbon emissions ~500gCO2/kWh - dramatically higher than when their nuclear fleet was operational. Germany has been pushing renewables for close to two decades, but they closed down their nuclear plants and are similarly at ~500gCO2/kWh. France has had a nuclear-based grid for a couple decades and while it has its own issues, their emissions intensity is ~50gCO2/kWh. Ontario is hydro and nuke, they're ~100gCO2/kWh (some storage and more renewables would help them dramatically reduce emissions from gas, but current conservative premier spent billions scrapping that plan)

> To put this in perspective: you could build on the order of 1000 Mustikkamaa heat caverns for the price of one nuclear plant!

Yes, all you need is 1000 old oil storage caverns already dug sitting there waiting to be filled with water...
This is a nuanced topic.

I think I probably have more firsthand experience with this subject than most.

All I can do is share my own viewpoints:

1. It's not uncommon for hard-opiate users to willingly ingest or even seek out fentanyl. I have multiple dead friends whom I asked repeatedly not to even stop using heroin/fent, but just to consider smoking it instead of shooting it. Opiate addicts live on the razor's edge between life and death where they're alright with taking the gamble every time they push the plunger. It's sad, and heartbreaking, but it is what it is.

(My father and his wife are dead from an opiate overdose as well, fwiw. Suspected fentanyl.)

2. There's a very solid chance, given his background and history, that the author was also using himself. If you live with a hard-drug addiction, you eventually become a husk of a person and you will hurt even the people who love you the most, so that you can keep using. Again, sad and heartbreaking, but it's the nature of the demon. One of the worst parts of getting sober isn't often the withdrawal, but coping with the regrets and memories of the decisions you made while using.

None of this is to say what was done is okay, or that people ought to have sympathy.

But what I do mean to do, is shed some light on what these sorts of situations are really like.
You're posting to a forum full of people who are the tech support for their families and friends that buy these terrible devices. Of course we dislike them. They cause needless trouble and work.
The original article's title has "of thousands", but somewhere in the chain from there to the HN title, the information got distorted.

But, isn't that just how it always works when you play Telephone?
It makes me very happy to see ancient texts digitized for the world to see.

If only the Spaniards hadn't burned every codex they could get their hands on. There are 12 surviving pre-contact Aztec codexes. The Aztecs produced 480000 sheets of paper annually. That amounts to heaps of records and knowledge that was destroyed.
FWIW, you're not supposed to chew it thoroughly, even if you're a smoker. You're supposed to gently bite once to break it open, then tuck it in your cheek or under your lip for a while, and repeat as necessary. Chewing like normal gum releases it all at once which is not advisable.
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last I checked nvidia on wayland was all kinds of broken, especially with multiple displays, can't rotate a display either. So I assume that has all been fixed then? (j/k)
The most interesting part to me is that Germany is attempting to tax worldwide income. The USA does this of course, although there are tax treaties that can reduce US taxes on some foreign earnings. The USA can get away with this because most companies simply can’t exit the US so there will be assets to seize and so on. On the other hand Amazon or Google or even Apple could just nope out of Germany and preserve their rest of world income.
Old enough to vote, old enough to waste money on shitcoins, in my opinion.
Gnome is so much better than what I remember in 2005. I've also grown up a little, and my internet connection is much faster. Yes, XFCE plays nicer on lighter hardware but I'm very happy with less sprawling dependencies and the polish in Gnome today. Plus Gnome is the one most likely to have HDR, VRR, and such sooner. I'm just not looking forward to next year with Apple Vision Pro. We're finally getting well-rounded desktop environments on Linux, now we have to edge into "spatial computer" desktop environments. That will take 20 years to catch up to.

I'm still convinced every desktop environment should be a physics simulator - 2D or 3D. If you want consistent animations, changes of state, etc. you don't hardcode these into your application. Your application should exist in a physics simulator. Your windows are objects with layers. You're looking at a composited view of them. In 2023 we have the hardware and the know-how to run physics simulators as your desktop environments.

</tinfoil-hat>
Came for the massive scoop on this couple who own (gasp), "tens of old phones."

Pleasantly surprised by the collection of unambiguously, not-cellular, vintage phones, including rotary dialers.
If OpenSSL pulls another one of their major api changes node 18 won’t even build anywhere outside of museums.
My friends who took up vaping (esp in pandemic) ended up vaping near-constantly

It's not the 80s, so vaping allows one to sit around the house and duff it in a way that most people wouldn't do with cigarettes.

I feel like nicotine intake can dramatically increase with vaping.
When they cause user disruption, which is vanishingly rare. At this point virtually everything is redundant, and services are abstracted away from individual hardware components.
$ docker pull public.ecr.aws/docker/library/golang
I read it in a “first to market” unfair advantage type of way, not ethically unfair. Of course, there are larger societal questions around access to early learning opportunities but I didn’t read into it that way.
I've yet to see a satisfactory explanation of either. It's always basically "you'd still have to change the headers" which misses the point.
I'm getting ready to fly home -- came in for GitHub Universe and was amazed how clean and refurbished things were. There was a distinct lack of homeless. They have been replacing pavers, hosing down sidewalks, and the area not how I remembered it in other years. Once I figured out APEC was here - all the dogs and police make perfect sense.

Definitely a different crowd doing breakfast this morning a the hotel.
And further improvements are expected.
Aha, I have found it in "The Golden Bough", which takes it back to 1890. It doesn't contain all elements of the story though - it doesn't have a priest calling for cats to be exterminated. Rather, it suggests that patterns of behavior similar to druid sacrifices persisted under christianity, and were there re-interpreted as driving out witches in cat form.
Maybe Firefox needing flags is a per-distro thing? I’ll have to check and make sure but I think Firefox works with Waylad sessions out of the box on my Fedora laptop. That’s using an Intel iGPU instead of an Nvidia GPU though so maybe that’s also a factor.
MSCE? Or purchasing officer/CTO?
I got curious about your comment, turns out there's a similar product on their front page!

https://www.phonecoinc.com/topic.asp?map=1&hhrl=home&gorl=gr...
> Rehabilitation is not the sole or even primary goal of incarceration. Nor should it be.

I don't understand this perspective at all. "We shouldn't punish them after they've served their time, but let's make sure they don't leave with any new job prospects either."
The tech brief with more details: https://books.google.com/books?id=Qp_Z-mvBehwC&pg=RA6-PA74&l...

Vol. 2, pages 72-74 with a classic HP workstation ad between.
The average citizen in every country is already willing to commit a crime. The difference between the average criminal and you is a couple of meals.
I personally had no desire to continue with any of them after a handful of times? Things like LSD especially just got completely redundant, and annoying, and deeply deeply fatiguing. I could never understand people who had done it more than 5-10 or so times?

Pleasure-hedonism drugs like MDMA, sure, I get it. Though I have seen how it can ruin lives, too.
Galacta7 hinted at it with the discussion of failing Communism -- there can be plenty of excellent philosophies on paper but once they enter the real world it doesn't matter how altruistic the philosophy is on paper if it's twisted by a single person when they gain control of the real world in some way.

I am not against the philosophy that there are optimal ways to help, and less optimal ways to help. I'm not against the philosophy that tries to weigh the best of the available options. I am against the philosophy that then arrogantly says "This is the best and only way to move forward for the best utility to humanity" as if they are able to see the future.

I don't doubt you have opinions on how to best help humanity, and that's great! As you said, the perspective that we only have a limited amount of utility we can provide for ourselves or the benefit of others, and we must be wise in how we use it is a good one to have. It's the same wisdom that helps me see that I can't give my rent money to another person and tell my family "tough luck" when we get evicted.

On the other hand I feel like utilitarianism can easily lead to decision overload when applied to everyday life. So it's a lens to view the world through but can't be a holistic principle that guides your entire life or you'd never get anything accomplished.
Honestly based on the photos this looks like they are hoarders.
I live in an apartment in Capitola and commute to Silicon Valley once to twice per week. Before interest rates spiked last year I thought about purchasing a home in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where home prices are considerably lower than either in Silicon Valley or along the coast.

Besides the wildfire risk (there was a devastating fire a few years ago), other concerns include:

- Inconveniences due to falling trees in the winter months during heavy storms, such as blocked roads (which could ruin your commute due to few alternatives) and power outages (could be a problem for remote/hybrid workers).

- Earthquakes: the San Andreas fault runs roughly parallel to Highway 35, and the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake was in the Santa Cruz Mountains in a place called Loma Prieta. I have a colleague who is a long-time resident of Boulder Creek in Santa Cruz County. When the earthquake struck in 1989, it knocked his house off its foundation.

- Living in the mountains is a different lifestyle from living in a suburban area, and it can be quite a transition for those who never lived in such an environment. For example, consider the consequences of living near animals such as deer and mountain lions.

I ultimately decided against it, but I know people who live in the Santa Cruz Mountains and love it. It depends on how willing you're able to deal with the potential inconveniences and challenges.
Ask HN: How to cheaply use a vector DB to detect anomalies in logs at 1TB / day
I’m interested in playing with vector databases to detect interesting anomalies in a large volume of logs, like 1TB / day.

Is it reasonable to attempt to generate embeddings for every log event that hits the system? At 1TB/day, it’s like 1B log events per day, over 10k per second.

Would I just have to sample some tiny percentage of log events to generate embeddings for?

The volume feels too high, but I’m curious if others do this successfully. I want this to be reasonably cheap, like less than 1 cent per million log events.

Twitter seems to be doing something like this for all tweets at much higher volume. But I don’t want to spend too much money :)
Related topic - there are trees like the Jack Pine that need forest fires to reproduce!
Trendy field is trendy. In other news, water wet.
> There's a very solid chance, given his background and history, that the author was also using himself.

The author chimed in here and acknowledged that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38231933
If anyone's reading this like a joke, it's not. They'll also reorder your charges for the same purpose. Have $70, and then ring up charges for $5, $10, and $75, and you will consistently have three overdrafts instead of one.
I agree with you that just on the basis of this piece, he does not sound accountable and can appreciate given what you've shared about your own history why it might be particularly frustrating. At the same time, there are factual elements of the story that deeply bother me about the way we treat those who have previously transgressed. I believe that we do need systems of accountability, but I also believe that our current system is broken beyond repair and is not ultimately effective. Or rather it can only be effective if we collectively agree to condemn a certain class of people as criminals and therefore deserving of treatment we would never accept of non criminals. We would all do well to remember our own incredible good fortune in life.

Of course there are people in prison who are a menace to public safety and must be dealt with. And there must be consequences for harmful behavior even when it is "nonviolent" (which is a word that diminishes non-physical harm). But I truly struggle to understand how it is a good idea to segregate all the people who have previously transgressed, deny them opportunities for betterment and fully initiate them into criminal life.
Meanwhile working class people have lesser and lesser purchasing power to the point were renting and homeownership are out of their reach; subemployment / "gig" employment ("innovating" by removing without workers rights) is rampant.

Nothing like a system that produces a high amount of marginalized / vulnerable people and then blames them for going for "easy" money like drugs or prostitution.

I would expect the tech crowd here to be more inclined towards blameless postmortems / systemic safety.
I tend to react poorly to sales pitches.
The longer and dumber they are the more pissed off I get.
Something many a tech sales rep has discovered.

I think finally reps started to make notes in their CRM systems about me.

I am not opposed to buying in principle if something seems useful,
but I need the facts and the prices up front, then for some
questions to be answered in a logical and accurate way.

Asking a rep to write down what he just said and sign it is a good
way to ensure accurate information.

Some have adapted and some of them made sales.
A lot of them will never come back again.

Win - Win.
I think it was somewhere in Spain, like Benidorm or some other coastal holiday town? He was a taxi driver in England when I was talking to him.
I believe the US does already have this (went into effect last year, maybe). It applies to corporations which have a revenue over $1B.
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Unless the teachers and schools were required to issue refunds, debt didn’t get “cancelled”, it was shifted to those who had no part in creating or agreeing to the debt. So no, it was not “cancelled”, it was shifted to you, your friends, you mom and dad..
You are getting downvoted for your own ignorance.
Even as someone who’s using KDE on one machine I tend to agree. Things can be polished up a bit by changing themes and font settings but that only goes so far — it can’t do anything about widget arrangement and the general flow of UI design in KDE apps which I find somewhat awkward.
It's almost definitely in Google takeout if you select your YouTube videos.

But also losing something small like that is a small price to pay for ensuring what you truly care about (photos/documents) are truly backed up.
Definitely not. Cooling datacenters is a major cost component and that gets way harder in space as you have to radiate it away and cannot use air/water as a heat sink. Add in repairing components that break and that'll likely never happen.
This is what I thought off about the original story. Yes, the team got things done and was able to provision needed hardware by managing the pain signal. However, upper management was still isolated and didn’t trust or respect the IT team.
How does that help you mitigate when a site changes? If you’re fetching some value in a given <div> under a long XPATH and they decide to change that path?
If you are using some of the library packages (i.e nodejs / ubuntu / golang), you can resort to using ECR Public:

https://www.docker.com/blog/news-from-aws-reinvent-docker-of...

To quote the example in the article:

You can pull the images by simply switching from using docker pull ubuntu:16.04 to docker pull public.ecr.aws/docker/library/ubuntu:16.04. We automatically push images to ECR Public when they are updated on Docker Hub so you will get all the latest releases wherever you pull from.
I accepted the timeshare faustian bargain and regretted it.

I'd rather be dissuaded by 2 hours of reading an article at home than learning through the experience of a 2 hour sales pitch during my vacation time.
It's a shame that things increase in value, and lose value, both monetarily and sentimentally. I had a couple of dozen Monopoly sets from the 1930s that I had obtained in college. They didn't take up that much space, and spent a lot of time sealed in plastic in the attic. Last year I tried to sell them but nobody wanted them, so I just threw them all away. It's sad, because I had a real passion for those, and really enjoyed them, but after 20 years they were just in the way.
USA already does this.
Whatever people are incarcerated for, the fact of the matter is that 95% of the people currently incarcerated in the US will one day live next door to one or more of us. Isn't it better to prepare them to live there, self-sufficent and contributing to society? (Disclosure: I am the Cofounder of Unlocked Labs, Preston's current employer and formerly incarcerated myself). I can say without hesitation, Preston is an incredible employee whom I am happy we provided this opportunity for.
Awesome! I've been converting my house's existing phone lines into an intercom system, and have on my list to get a kitsch phone for each room.
Agree. The company would be better off if Elon stepped into the shadows and let someone else be the CEO/main face of his companies-delegation, no need to sell.
GNOME vs KDE race to HDR, VRR, and Wayland-only. :-) I am here for this.
Who was talking about Jurassic Park?
That makes, in Germany, around 35k gross per person. Not sure that's gonna work out...
Moody's cuts USA outlook to negative, citing deficits and political polarization
I know it's going to be highly dependent on state law, and I'm sure at least one state in the union has some kind of backwards law facilitating the inheritance of debts. I'm asking about general concepts, because it feels like a lot of the lay advice plays loose with the actual semantics. For example, there is a Nerdwallet article linked above that says you might want to file a disclaimer of interest. But the disclaimer of interests I'm familiar with mean estate law continues to operate as if you have already passed away - meaning the same dynamic would just land in the laps of your greater family.

The mortgage framing is really the same question - can a mortgage lender get a judgement for loan balance and costs above auction value from someone who didn't sign the mortgage note? Let's say you're transferred a claim to a mortgaged piece of real property through operation of estate law, deed of executor, or even deed from the living owner. Are you somehow obligated for the entire amount of the loan, beyond your desire to not have your interest foreclosed upon?

Talking about social credit reports is a bit of a red herring. If it isn't a valid debt, then it wouldn't be legitimate for someone to add it to the financial surveillance records about you. And yes I know these timeshare operations are quite adept at using extralegal pressure to goad people into doing foolish legally-binding things, but I'm talking about what's strictly legal.
Dude was already in crime at 17. He didn't really have any time with the luxuries of adulthood to figure out his own life.
If they cleaned up and listed individually on eBay, they might actually make some money. There is still a great prop business for movie studios. Creating a niche site and marketing it to collectors with the internet would solve part of their sitting inventory problem.

I know they are old people and might not have the energy and knowledge to do it but there could be a potential solution. Maybe their grandchildren could do it...
No amount of missed meals will make me commit a rape, a murder, or other heinous crimes.
I’m genuinely curious on whether this is an insinuation on me breaking that rule you posted in my previous comment or towards the general public.

If anyone can clarify what is meant by the above comment then I will gladly fix whatever I’m doing wrong. I’m just unsure (a) whether I’ve done something wrong and (b) what part of that statement I did wrong.
> For me, quitting smoking was easier than quitting coffee addiction

Operative phrase here: "for you".
Me flying to Spain and going to Arzak which has been around for many decades certainly paid their bills. It's telling that most people on tables around us were speaking English as well.
Use what your developers are familiar with.

Also worth asking the question: does your project even need a frontend framework?
Or just never build up and always use small doses. No real addiction, and you still get great effects similar to caffeine or amphetamine as long as you don't use it often enough to build up a tolerance (which isn't too hard).
I would not say the books of Diomidis Spinellis are timeless or that will change your life as Engineer. But always though they do not deserve the low ratings, and that as an author, he is very unfairly judged. So I am adding these three to this thread.

"Code Reading: Open Source Perspective" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529511.Code_Reading

"Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169414.Code_Quality

"Effective Debugging: 66 Specific Ways to Debug Software and Systems" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26720867-effective-debug...
> it is not an excuse.

Things can be a reason without being an excuse.

Sure I'm not in jail and on the surface I have my act together, but my entire life has been fucked up by what are now called "ACEs" and it's a miracle I'm as stable as I am.

I'm not going to let people off the hook, but I am able to sympathize...especially knowing the wrong person or event at the wrong time would have quickly sent me down the same path.
Do they charge if you cancel a bit in advance? Like the day before for example.