skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If we stop subsidizing fossil fuels, then the energy markets will be fair, nuclear will win

I can't see nuclear winning, it is at least the second most subsidized energy source we have and already more expensive than solar+storage, which is only getting cheaper while the true costs of nuclear are revealed to be larger than any estimates have indicated.

France recently had to pay a 50 bn downpayment for the fictional cost of nuclear they have operated with for decades, and that's just the beginning. In the US, the government covers a lot of the cost, for example by having the army maintain security for spent fuel.

The latest nuclear reactor in europe, Finlands OL3, had to reduce production earlier this year because the market price of electricity was too low. And that's already now, from a plant that is already in place. How can any project making new nuclear plants ever hope to be profitable if existing plants are already (granted, intermittently) losing money?
> Not saying it will be common but some sucker will eventually be killed by this.

People are killed by vehicles every day, and some of those are vehicle failures as well. Saying someone will be killed by it isn't interesting. The question instead is will it fail more often than existing designs, which is something only time will tell. But we've had throttle by wire for a long, long time now, and unintended acceleration issues caused by the system failing are largely unheard of. It's completely possible to engineer a robust electrical system just as it's completely possible to have design faults in the mechanical systems that cause premature wear & failure.
I'm interested in the problems--what turned me off was the stroads proposal.

The bad naming of strongtowns is just a passing comment on the jargon.
Air, Water and Shelter are solved and field-proven. (eg. nuclear submarines can theoretically stay out for years, only limited by food)

Food is an interesting challenge, since we haven't done food production at scale beyond earth yet. Small scale experiments and applications seem promising though.

Full self-sustaining is not a requirement provided there is a supply chain. (And vice versa) . Of course: As self-self sustaining as possible as soon as possible would definitely be something to aim for.

The one company proposing to colonize mars in the near future would do so with a fleet of reusable spacecraft capable of 100-metric-tons to mars surface.

"Take three of everything" becomes a bit less of a problem in that kind of situation.

Within those constraints, the challenges are certainly still significant, but need not be insurmountable. Also said ship is -itself- not yet proven, so we'll have to wait and see.
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How many times are we going to have to rediscover the supply/demand curve?

Turns out if you steal all the savings from owning an EV in terms of fuel from the consumer, they are less likely to want to buy one.

Will the mysteries of the world never cease?
Just so we have it, here is a script to disable Javascript in Safari, showing just the business logic for brevity:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari" to tell menu item "Disable JavaScript" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Develop" of menu bar 1
if (value of attribute "AXMenuItemMarkChar" as string) is "missing value" then click
end tell

I save it as an application called Disable Javascript under User Scripts in Script menu and enable assistive access for it.

You can attach a keyboard shortcut to any menu, for example System Preferences->Keyboard->App Shortcuts->Safari->Disable Javascript with command-J. Unfortunately that just toggles Javascript, with no visible indication of whether it's on.

You used to be able to assign a keyboard shortcut to launch applications and scripts, but Apple borked that long ago:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/175215/how-do-i-as...

So instead, I created Automator->Service->Run Shell Script with:

osascript -e 'tell application "Disable Javascript" to activate'

Then saved it as service "Disable Javascript". Then System Preferences->Keyboard->Services->General->Disable Javascript with shift-command-J.

Now I just periodically press shift-command-J while browsing. If a tab won't render, I press command-J, command-R to reload, then command-J again so the tab doesn't use resources.

I used to have a script to launch Safari with Javascript disabled, but Apple changed how it worked so that the flag is stored in their SQLite preferences somewhere, and I just never found time to re-implement it. If anyone knows a way, I'm all ears!

--

Edit: HN stripped the checkmark character (https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2713) when I pasted, even though I made it a code block by prefixing each line with 2 spaces. So I changed the line to:

if (value of attribute "AXMenuItemMarkChar" as string) is "missing value" then click

Sorry if that prevented the scripts from working!
unless things have changed their remote policy is pretty much a no remote policy. to be fair to them, I last interacted with them 6 or 7 years ago so things could certainly have changed, but at least at the time I felt like "Remote" was a bait and switch there
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Jesus Christ, nothing makes me reminisce about college quite as much as homestar runner.

That site was the beginning of my love affair with all things weird and esoteric on the internet.

I got scroll buttons as the day is long.
This is interesting because it shows some complexity inherent to a government supporting a domestic industry.

Naively it seems like the government would block imports of the small Chinese EVs so that domestic industry could compete

BUT domestic automakers do not want the segment of a $5k tiny vehicle to exist at all, and will not 'compete' for that market! The margins and sales on such a thing would hurt the us auto industry as a whole. Even if a single US automaker stood to win the whole segment, their revenue and OI would sink because of cannabalizing their own full sized sales.

So we're left with a profound market distortion, where the "government's" (scare quotes because legislation in this area is driven by automakers not citizens) work to support the industry is having a bunch of unexpected effects. Sure, the automakers stocks are doing fine, but this has shut off development of a new technology, which will end up taxing the populace & increasing impact to the environment, and throttling a new domestic industry that will have defense applications in the future.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Literally the equivalent of building your own ramp.
I assume you meant "on my shelf", but what you wrote is pretty amusing.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. One upon a dark age, we had mainframes and dumb terminals. Then came the first age of the PC - let's pull everything to the client. Then came servers and "thin clients". With faster processors and cheaper storage came the second age of the PC, with only the permanent data storage left on the server. As the Internet grew, centralization came back: web services and the cloud, with clients just serving dumb web pages.

And now we see the beginning of a migration back to client-side computation and storage.

Somehow, though, this latest iteration doesn't make a lot of sense. It's hard enough maintaining data consistency on a web service that may be used by hundreds or thousands of people. Imagine when this data is cached in microdatabases in unreliable browsers.

On top of that, the browser makes an absolutely horrible programming environment for client-side apps. For the programming part, Javascript is an poor language, so you wind up using heavy-duty frameworks like React to make it tolerable. For the UI representation, that's just not what HTML/CSS were ever meant for. So you get frameworks there as well. Young developers think this is just the way it is. No actually, it's more like the worst of all possible worlds. Using something like JavaFX or (I know, I know) even Visual Basic, you can produce a functional, robust UI with a tiny fraction of the effort.
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SUV is also an over-abused term because it used to only refer to giant vehicles, but now all the various compacts and crossovers are just cars that ride a bit higher.

And all things considered, a car with a trunk will almost always lose to the same vehicle with a more SUV-like end, because it can hold more.
I don't agree.

When you have lots of people whose livelihoods depend on the gravy train, who can't be sure that what they are working on is fraudulent because they are so specialised, who would take that risk?

Its all about funding. And in the US basically all funding comes from the same source - government, military or corporations - what I think of as the governance system.
> electric Honda fit

Are you looking for one specifically made by Honda? Or what is missing from the small electric hatchbacks like the Chevy Bolt or Nissan Leaf?
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It was fun to watch, but became more and more plastic over time. Excluding the clip show one.
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but what s gonna happen to all those AI valuations if we all go offline
This is just imposing an chosen (and in this case, pretty natural) order on a set without total order. But as you note, you have to give something up. In this case the order identifies each number on a circle in the complex plane with a single value, their magnitude.

I've never really seen this notation used, but it could have some use in partially-ordered sets.
36% was a quantitative statement, clearly wrong.
Many people still argue that loops are more readable than collection operations ("comprehensions" in Python). And many of us here, myself included, would argue that there are plenty of perfect cases for 1-line collection operations (such as each/map etc.)

Any langauge feature can be used well or poorly, so singling out some of these newer language features - just to show bad use cases - is kind of misleading. It would be better to stop using intentionally inflammatory words like "useless" and instead show "when to use".

The one-line "endless" functions are perfect for actual functions that fit on one line without additional punctuation.

For example, custom string manipulation utility functions read like documentation.

def string_of_tags(tags) = tags.join(', ')

def fullname(person) = [person.first_name, person.last_name].join(' ')
>On Linux, Firefox now defaults to the Wayland compositor when available instead of XWayland. This brings support for ... better graphics performance, and more.

Any benchmarks ? After all this wayland hype, will be nice to see how it performs.
Listen, in general I agree with you, but it is a theory that was built only on observations without any theoretical foundation, and modifying the theory parameters every couple of years whenever a new observation was proving it wrong. I am sorry, but at this point MOND is on the same level with the flat earth theory and maybe it should be renamed as the conspiracy theory of gravity.
Right, I think Flash was first. Before they hooked up with Quiznos, remember those rodents who "love da moon"? Or someone would take a mashup of Ol' Dirty Bastard ("Shimmy Shimmy Ya") and The Cure ("Close to Me"), then make a clunky video of the instruments (xylophone, but also humanoid skulls) played by various animals and sung by a tiger in that Monty Python-like jaw animation.
I'm asking for a list of production vehicle that don't cost as much as a house that run a sub 11 quarter mile.

You said "sports cars faster than a 911 are relatively common", so you should be able to pull together a big list easily.
This is so world changing! Exactly how I wanted to speak so confidently!

Thank you Meta!
It's really amazing Kitboga has built something like this - he knows this space extremely well and has the knowledge to understand what it takes to protect people from getting scammed.

The $2 / mo pricing is beyond reasonable if you're trying to protect your grandparents or non-tech savvy parents from getting scammed.
While true, opioid abuse can cause severe constipation (which perhaps helped kill Elvis), and increases your risk of GI disorders like SIBO.
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Forming professional friendships is looking out for yourself. It helps you get you new jobs -- ones that you won't have access to otherwise -- or employees, if you are hiring.
I mean, a 4090 would appear to cost $2000, and came out a year ago; it has about 70bn transistors. The M1 could be had for $700 for a desktop, $1000 as part of a laptop, came out three years ago, and has 16bn transistors, some of which are CPU.

An M3 Ultra might be a more reasonable comparison for the 4090.
FWIW, Web SQL was always fine, but could never be standardized, because no one was ever going to redo all the work sqlite has done (when every browser already uses sqlite).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database
I read that sentence as poetry. Beautiful.
You're right and while it might take up valuable rack space I would imagine there are some rack-based solutions that have most of the stuff included so that you don't have to rely on the dc providing it, pretty sure ServeTheHome has done a couple reports on them
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