skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nuclear is emphatically not an instant-on hot backup. Plants take time to spool up, and very importantly time to cool down

All modern nuclear plants work in load following mode with ability to change ant the rate of 3-5% of their rated capacity per minute.

Graph and text on page 8: https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...

> Fukushima happened because you can't just turn a reactor off,

Fukushima happened because the plant was hit with both an earthquake and a flood significantly exceeding its operational parameters (already extremely high)
Wow I didn't know that snowflake charges on query level. Very good business idea to first create dependency and rip them off once their business grows.
>Were this almost any other founder or top executive, there already would have been meetings about demanding an apology. At the very least.

Why do we place such great value on bullshit apologies written by PR? Everyone knows that the actual people saying the words from the apology note don't mean it, so what's the point? Liturgy?
Honestly I'm most surprised by how few people seem to recognize the channel lol. I figured maker YouTube and the open sauce type crowd would have a bigger level of representation here but I guess we all live in our bubbles!
All knowing user info provider service aggregator?
I totally agree uv filter fitness should be part of the equipment checks happening before an extensive filming.
> can actually ship polished software that works for normal people and move quickly

They can ship it, because they got a fuckton of money. But apparently they can not maintain it, because now they are crying about how expensive it is to run it.

Signal is acting like a sprint runner who signed up for a Marathon and wants to be carried out to the finish line after showing how much faster he was in the first mile. That's what I think is dishonest here.
tldraw letting you connect your own OpenAPI keys is such a good idea and turns them into a transmorgaphied user interface to GPT4. So powerful what it can do I can imagine MS bringing Visio back this way as a multimodal copilot.
The same argument was made about electronic music at the time.
Just like computers, AI is a tool used by human.
>The way to do this in my opinion would be to go over mental disorder demographics and see if any profession is underrepresented in actual cases compared to the prevalence of the job in the overall population.

I don't think that would get you any better data. Access to the care to get diagnosed in the first place isn't equally distributed, so some groups are going to be a much better sampling of their actual population than others.
Did you include the electricity needed for when all heating, transport, industry etc is electrified?
> what is the limit here.

Common sense and consent. Laws are not theorems or malicious genies.
Nothing is stopping you from using Messages by Google or Apple's Messages app if you prefer. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt over unnamed "security issues" is not a good reason to prevent other developers from creating clients for RCS, which is intended to be an open protocol to replace SMS and MMS, and not a closed "ecosystem" consisting of 2 apps from 2 of the largest tech companies.
The not so subtle difference is that synthesizers and drum machines don't play by themselves, or when they do (arrangers) they're 100% recognizable from a real band. AI will change everything.
iMessage, in practice, is not e2ee as devices escrow their “Messages in iCloud” cross-device sync keys to Apple in the non-e2ee iCloud Backup.

Even if you turn on e2ee for iCloud (“Advanced Data Protection”), your endpoint keys will stop being escrowed in a way readable to Apple in your backup, but the endpoint keys for everyone you message with will still be escrowed because they have not enabled Advanced Data Protection (because it’s off by default), so Apple will still be able to read all of your iMessage traffic.

99.9%+ of iMessages pass through Apple servers encrypted with keys that Apple has copies of (thanks to the insecure non-e2ee default nature of iCloud Backup). If the middle transit service has the private keys, it’s not e2ee.
> more practical alternative to the Arch AUR in many cases (especially the -bin packages which don't have any benefit of being a part of a "build" system anyways)

The AUR package would still use less disk/network since the flatpak is carrying around effectively its own distro / base image layers. OTOH no sandbox so weigh as you will.
Please, let's not let important words like "genocide" lose all meaning.
> 2030 you wont be able to buy ICE cars anymore.

I'm not convinced.

I'm expecting the automotive industry will just start producing vehicles that aren't effected by that requirement and those will be marketed in much the same way as SUVs have become pretty much the only vehicle type available because they're permitted to emmit more CO2.
> We now all depend on Google to keep evolving the API to keep up with advertisers and trackers.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
People are free to have their own opinions. But some things aren't matters of options, but hard cold facts.

Windows, especially after Windows 10, has been actively hostile and repeatedly ignores the clear will of its users.

At boot time, it regularly takes the computer hostage in an attempt to coerce me to mass-enable its many spywares. After disabling then one by one, I can login to my desktop only to find that it has changed my default browser again. So I have to change that back, which is kind of futile because various parts of the OS now ignores the default browser settings anyway. After that, I have to dismiss the relentless ads and remove the crapware that keeps getting installed at every turn and corner.

This is a very, very far cry from "everything is easy to accomplish, my personal use software just works and I don't have to struggle with extra clicks and movements for everything." Both things can't be true at the same time. I have to click, click, click, go through all sorts of hoops, and finally give up and throw my computer out the window in frustration to try to achieve what I want in Windows. And what for? Out of pure corporate greed.
No, that sounds about right.
From my own experience I can confirm that I vastly prefer programming in dome good old C++ when I am drunk.
Yes it is a good motivator to entrench revenue streams right now
I think we need to recognize our privilege in living in well functioning western democracies.

I'm very worried about what ai will bring for those less fortunate in that regard.
The website can use the toolkit by shipping it in webasm.

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I love that, you know? You have some good news regarding electricity and renewables, and instead of being happy, people start to look for problems.

But let's role with it for second. Renewables are, unfortunately, not at a point yet where they can cover 100% of demand. We cannot change the current mix neither. So, what would be your proposed way forward to "solve" climate change? I am really curious, because most of the time people just ignore the time schedule behind those transitions (power plants have to be built, grids to be extended...).
I think you underestimate Aliexpress, Wish, Temu, ...

The sheer quantity of goods being shipped in, one-by-one on a daily basis make it impossible to block in any effective manner.
The front page of this website has a 3d demo'ish interactive ui. Love it.
https://acko.net/

Great article.
You could consider France. We have a "micro-entrepreneur" status. But I (Basile Starynkevitch) am not a lawyer, and not your lawyer, but a French open source software developer and living near Paris.

My pet open source project is the RefPerSys open source inference engine (for future expert systems). See amateur website http://refpersys.org/ and serious C++ code (GPLv3+ for Linux, still buggy in mid-november 2023) on https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/

I am seeking applications and contributors for it.

If interested by RefPerSys, contact me (Basile Starynkevitch, in France near Paris) by email to basile@starynkevitch.net or by SMS or whatsapp to +33 6 8501 2359
Exactly. It's manufacturing + installation + maintenance + infrastructure cost that define what this costs. I'm guessing these would need quite a bit of maintenance and attention. Things get dirty, hoses get blocked, etc. And of course reservoirs for fuel and clean water fill up. You are not going to put these in the middle of the ocean probably.

This looks like it is designed for small scale usage close to where people live.
Regulators are the ones accepting the malicious compliance as compliance! So they did enforce cookie banners. When you ignore that fact, you are doing the pro-gov propaganda for free.
> It is a cool design, but 3 years? She definitely worked on other projects in that time.

She also had multiple treatments for brain cancer. Though I think that was before this project I imagine such a thing takes a considerable toll.
> But using Windows is from a data-privacy and security standpoint (ironically, the same reason I'm supposed to use Windows at work) an absolute no-go.

I agree but the real reason they use Windows is not security, but security theater. 99% of the companies only care about the checklists in their auditing and compliance forms not for the real security. The market of said checklists and compliance forms is cornered by Windows Consultancy groups. The only real OS actor here was RedHat and this is the main reason why they became successful imo.
Very reasonable with only 40 million users?! It's shockingly expensive.
it is a bit like: Car Mechanic - How much money did you make with this screwdriver? Still it is a valid question as it is interesting how extreme the return on invest can be in IT compared to other industries like logistics ...
I remember the first time I used a Windows system last year after tens of years on Linux/OSX, and it was really a somewhat strange experience: the moment I connected the ethernet cable I was instantly looking at random flashy news articles from another part of the world. Not in the browser, not in some kind of "News" app, but right in my taskbar! The most amazing part is that I did not even have to click on it – the system carefully opened it for me to delight me with some low-quality not-even-local news. I was not astonished then to see it resisting the Chrome browser download - something I had seen and laughed at many years before. What also caught my eye so much is the amount of branding around – there are Spotify, TikTok, Amazon Prime, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger icons right in your menu bar before you ever need them or attempt to download and discover these apps for yourself. I mean that is too much. It feels like you don't really own this system but use it in some kind of public library.
This 100%. I'm amazed that people somehow are unable to distinguish between the craftsmanship of a painting, and writing a prompt that an external system uses to paint.

What I always emphasize is that if the input and output are sufficiently divergent then your sense of accomplishment at the resulting creation should be proportionally diminished. But what do I know? People use ChatGPT to write a story and midjourney to illustrate it, then make a viral post with the caption "I just wrote a book in under 24 hours."
Can we not just implement this everywhere?!?
What we singularly call a computer is actually a collection of computers.

Each HDD and/or SSD is its own computer, with its own CPU (controller) and RAM (cache). Each video card is its own computer with its own CPU (GPU) and RAM (video RAM). Every USB controller is its own computer with its own CPU and RAM. Each NIC is its own computer with its own CPU and RAM.

And so on and so forth.

Do disks lie? Fuck yeah, and so does everything else. Much like the human world, everyone (everything) lies so the system as a whole can (hopefully) keep running smoothly.
This reminds me about an interesting distributed project, which was trying to create redundant circuits to compute various arithmetic operators.
It has to be sigmoid not exponential but your point still applies.

Once it can do all our work we can just change over to star trek society.
This guy doesn't understand nuclear
You can still have a debloated Windows 11 setup without the bloat by just selecting "English (World)" in the localisation option during installation. Add to that the "no@thankyou.com" trick while signing in to Microsoft account and you'll have an option of a fresh, clean locally-administered install.
I live in North Texas what the fuck is a coat hangar gonna do for me compared to the back of a chair for a couple months?

If you think I'm being crass, I got this perspective from here. A rural Chinese student went to the big City. One classmate gave a pitch about a startup for family name / style napkins to sell. He couldn't help himself but show how most of the people in the country used napkins.

He wiped his mouth on his sleeve and they were offended.

Congratulations on your accomplishment, and as a creative person who constantly feels the wrath of rejection due to people not seeing the inherent utility of music as a pathway to happiness...this will go on my wall next to the toilet that encourages kids to poop in it by talking to them.
If you are told "there's a sniper in that window" it's critical info but you still need to aim your gun precisely with your eyes since "that window" is big enough that you can shoot all your ammo before you hit. Radar is the eyes of anti-ship missiles
> Are your numbers electricity or primary energy?

The original article speaks about electricity production, not primary energy, so are my numbers.
Which is interesting (at least my simpleton perspective). The mathematical form is designed to communicate the essence of an idea rather than exact process, so seems much more suited to LLM sourced expression.
Yeah, start-upsnonly fail because of the interest rate hike and not because they are unsustainable businesses. But other sectors requiring serious financing are absolutely not affected... Not.
Elegant Console Logs with Consola
Valve could have tried to cater to the Android/NDK folks to also support native GNU/Linux, and do some nudging into cross platforms APIs like Apple is doing with the game porting kit, instead they chose to solidify DirectX/Windows as the main APIs PC game developers care about.
You broke the site guidelines extremely badly with this post. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, and we've already had to warn you many times. I don't want to ban you, but if you keep doing this, we'll eventually have to.

Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules going forward? We'd appreciate it.

(Btw, the parent comment also broke the site guidelines, which ask people to omit internet tropes such as "citation needed", and I've replied to them too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300759. But they didn't get aggressive the way your comment did, and that's a big difference.)
For adults, the hyperactivity manifests more as restlessness and impulsive behavior. Conversely, tasks you find under-stimulating (boring tasks, waiting in line, driving in traffic) may feel extra draining or mentally painful.

Your living space may be cluttered or may become cluttered if you do not keep on top of it. Dishes can pile up and cleanup tasks feel insurmountable. Ironically, when you want to clean, you might hyper-focus into a mega deep clean.

You may also find that starting tasks is very difficult and you won’t until it become a crisis. Tasks with no clear “done criteria”, non-linear steps, or undefined processes will be the worst. You will either way over prepare or go in without any information and just wing it because it’s painful to get sucked into a rabbit hole. You might understand how badly this can (and will) turn out, but can’t seem to do anything about it.

You’ve also likely had many jobs, have an emotional hair trigger, tend burn bridges, cannot stand stupid in your life, but feel inadequate for, despite having good intentions, can’t seem to get anything done.
Yeah, you only ever hear the naysayers. So second voice to combat that: I like the integration and use it with (admittedly few) selected friends to split bills. And I think it fits signals mission.
Presumably they mean a potato chip clip. The kind of V shaped clip that one uses to close a bag of potato chips. A fancy clothespin.
It has nothing to do with friction...
ehhhhhhh i'm not so sure about it.

I think the details matter. Curtain rods are typically 1-4" from the wall. This product looks like it works best <0.5" [0] from the wall otherwise it's possible the hanger will move around or have a "sagging" look.

Finding curtain rods that are that close is uncommon and limited in styles/options (I didn't see one on a quick amazon/aliexpress search). That's not to say you're wrong, but I don't think it's as simple as you believe it to be.

[0] https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/043/060/840/f8e1ace8b30ae8b...
> E.g. if you have a UI customization cookie which sets the results density preference and you want to store that more than a session

I'm not entirely sure that this is true. You can implement a "shopping cart" on your site, with a session cookie without needing to have a "cookie notification", so depending on circumstance I'd argue that settings might be allowed as well. Or you can just display the cookie information along with the settings it self, it doesn't actually need to be a popup.
Thank you very much. I will check that out immediately
> Nobody is demanding them to stop supporting phone numbers as identifiers/verification methods.

Plenty of people are, and for good reasons.
Yeah, unicode characters in Nim code are supported. However, if by `x²` you'd want to square an identifier `x`, that won't work. The Nim lexer parses `x²` as a single identifier.

We do have infix unicode operators though. So `x ÷ y` (spacing required though!) could be implemented easily. I use this for `±` in Measuremancer [0] (which btw also supports Unchained units, for error propagation on unitful measurements).

[0]: https://github.com/SciNim/Measuremancer
I was thinking it would be about the old-school handle pattern like in classic Mac OS, where memory allocation APIs returned pointers to pointers so the OS can move things around behind the scenes.
It's a common expression on HN and Reddit that people don't "care" about their job or their coworkers. They produce output, they get paid. Simple exchange. Code for money. So why does it surprise you that someone would see building this as just an exchange?
Self hosting since Yahoo! glory days.
The principle of this type of device has been around usually as a thought experiment for years (simple electrolysis or water evap from solar power).
Sadly they have not been efficient.

What they appear to have innovated on (skimmed summary only) is using newer tech to add a carbon mesh for filtration of dirt and raise the device to protect it, and allowed more sunlight through the panel to evaporate the water more efficiently.

By themselves some of these things may already be patented or done in academia, but this looks like the first time I've seen them all combined in a single device.

Nb. another similar device is a pool cleaner using solar to ionize the water, useful in small volumes, a few of those plus these devices may help clean small drinking pools.
My great-grandfather had a factory making light furniture and coat hangers, and had several patents for types of adjustable coat hangers. He was expropriated by the soviets after the second world war, in eastern Germany and fled to the west. It's fun to imagine an alternative universe where I am the heir of an adjustable coat hanger empire.
> Yes, you can install a dozen little extra utilities to customize your way out of most of these things... but I'm not going to

There is no OS where this approach solves UI hate, installing those extra utilities is the only way out

> how often the system is reimaged or whatever

there is another utility that restores your apps/configs, but of course, a no-utility policy breaks that
> 5. Neptune launchers and missiles in flight are fed data from TB2.

This part is really hard to believe. I briefly worked with radar systems (though nothing classified) These systems are all ancient and janky don't just integrate like lego. You can't just take a radar feed from a drone and feed it into the control system of a cruise missile lol

Even AEGIS systems can't really do that effectively - let alone systems from two different countries (cutting edge military stuff is tech wise in like the 90s at best)

It's not impossible, and it's wartime.. So maybe some Ukrainian engineers hacked something together - but I find this part very unlikely

To me it seems much more likely they got a radar bounce back due to a freak weather phenomena
Honestly, you don't even need Windows for gaming for the most part. 90% or more of the games I play run on Proton without any tweaking needed. The few exceptions are games which use anti cheat rootkits, games which I want to stream to my friends in discord (which doesn't pick up audio on Linux), and CP2077 (which doesn't seem to like ray tracing in proton).

I was very pleasantly surprised how smooth gaming on Linux is. I maintain a Windows 10 install and will for the foreseeable future, just for the odd cases where I need it. But I rarely boot into it any more.
Exploring V8's strings: implementation and optimizations
Hard disagree. Plagiarizing an entire source repo and claiming it as your own with zero attribution to the other original author makes you a bona fide raging pile of human garbage. Every other field seems to have a basic system of ethics in place when it comes to this kind of thing, I don't know what it is about the software industry that makes devs so shameless.
Consider using vim for side tasks to augment your main VS Code use, and maybe you'll make some useful discoveries while gradually getting use to it, instead of going all-in.
I am half surprised. People are often shocked when they discover the real number about the Carbon intensity of the German electricity production.

There is years of green washing to digest before accepting the truth.
The main challenge is not production but storage - e.g. several people I know have solar panels on their roof, sometimes with 5x their electricity peak usage without a way to store that electricity for later/night usage. The slow uptick of EVs in Germany is partialy part of the problem, it would be the easiest way to increase storage.

As a tought experiment, if all cars in Germany would be EVs, those could store 2 days of electricity usage.

For flat owners solar panel usage increased a lot, but battery production is way behind, the first usable ones arrived this year, but it will take some more years to get out of BETA. Also energy providers in Germany fight this tooth and nails, e.g. there is no easy way to get to the current usage data of your flat to regulate battery usage from solar storage ("zero feed-in").
Keep an eye on https://blackfridaydeals.dev
I guess I've been living under a rock, because I had the souvenir that disks with volatile write caches did have a small power bank, able to sustain the disk for the few seconds it needed to flush its caches (what it called a BBU?)

Which leads me to another question, should it really be the responsibility of each component to gracefully handle a random, instantaneous power loss?

Couldn't we have a small power bank on the motherboard keeping, say, 2 seconds of power and signaling emergency shutdown to components?

In a sense, that is very similar to sending a SIGTERM to a process to allow it to gracefully stop.