skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people pushing nuclear to the exclusion of other things

Which is absolutely not happening here- the forecast balance being discussed in TFA is nuclear as a 10% foundation of largely renewable future.

On another sidenote, it's important to be extremely cynical about people re-framing pragmatic discussions about low level nuclear usage as "nuclear to the exclusion of other things".

Australia currently has vast amounts of renewables, and has a future that will see generation of exported renewable power for SE Asia .. and yet there is a place in Australia for base nuclear power to replace a small part of base gas and coal - and that's the opinion of someone who's accepted AGW models since the early 1980s and rarely votes for the Australian right.
Now the FTC is completely incompetent and can't control itself from bringing overbroad cases that are mostly heavy breathing with too little legal standing. These anti-trust suits keep getting tossed. Lina Khan lost against Amazon, lost against Microsoft, lost against Google, and now they're going after Apple for the App Store instead of Microsoft for this.
That is planned in advance, though.

Wind turbines have additional maintenance downtime too.
I think you can ignore that second number, best we know the universe is infinite. Though the visible universe is limited.
We know one filter. But to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, we don't know about the filters we don't know about.

Something akin to a gamma ray burst (not that exactly, since we do know about it but something like it)

So the Great Filter theory is one way to reason about the filters we DON'T know about
I think that's a typo, her Wikipedia sez Arkansas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Panahi
Prepend two spaces to turn a paragraph into a code block which leaves the text as is.

Not code --

Code -- (“ Code --”)
What makes you say that autistic people have weak rote but strong associative memory?

One common feature of high functioning autistics is an obsession with the memorization of minutiae (on some topic of intense interest) without at all understanding context.

For example, a former classics professor I knew told us about a relative of his who memorized the entire Persian king list for dozens of dynasties long. He couldn't tell you much actual Persian history at all, but the professor unabashedly admitted that almost no one of his colleagues outside of the actual specialists in Persian history could recite that list even with a gun to their heads, despite being capable of lecturing on Persian history due to their education.
To elaborate, my deadlift was 120kg (264lb) and I also had some overvigorous leg stretches done during a massage later that day, and that's when the piece cracked off painfully. Suffice to say I think I actually had a lower back injury from when I was a teenager and I was 48 at the time I did this injury. It was either the deadlift or the massage or both that were the final straw for the disk between my L4/L5 vertebrae and it happened while working on form with my trainer.

Not disagreeing with you, I'll happily deadlift only up 25kg but it still only six months after my surgery so ...
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The latest fad is running backwards:

https://marathonhandbook.com/retro-running-backwards/
Except for the crosswords, which -- thankfully -- are still British (and by extension, Cryptic).
Can't wait for the first Furry Liberation movement to take hold and campaign for their future kids to grow tails.
You can hold down a key (Ctrl I think) to force snapping to the "world grid" now. That makes everything you place line up even halfway across the map.
Coal and gas are major domestic industries and major export earners for Australia, so for a very long time it was a) political suicide to do anything that undermined them and b) simply way too expensive to bring nuclear power into the baseload mix compared to fossil-fuel plants. So the government wasn't going to subsidize it and private industry couldn't make a decent ROI on it.

A decade ago Australia repealed its emissions trading scheme, which would have made nuclear much more competitive economically. If the politics at the time were different, and a strong carbon market brough nuclear power into the conversation then, some large plants might be nearing completion this decade. They'd be a reasonable chance to make a serious contribution to decarbonizing Australia's energy mix.

But it's only in 2022 that the Australian population elected a government that took climate change seriously. With the timing of the net-zero pledges the new government has put in place, it seems like it's just far too late to put nuclear into the mix without paying hefty premiums for speed of completion.

Finally, Australia is physically very large but the population is relatively small. Less than one-twelfth of the US population, less than half of the UK or France's population. It might simply be too small of an economy to establish a domestic nuclear engineering industry and training pipeline. If that's true, it'd be a very tough sell telling people it's time to pay extra on their power bill or taxes to stand up a nuclear industry from scratch ... and most of that money will go to foreign companies and immigrant SMEs.
It's more like saying that maybe we don't need the NYT, the people who lied about Iraq: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/27/media.iraq, to get good quality journalism when the internet exists.

Journals are in the same boat. Any good they have done is dwarfed by the few 'honest mistakes', like Alzheimer's cabal: https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte..., which have done more to stifle science than anyone since Stalin picking which biological theories are socialist enough to be true.
I've used ArchiveBox in the past and it's been great for this purpose: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
I used to quite like the hack that LastPass authenticator had to make it easier.

If you ever encountered a TOTP form in your browser that the LastPass browser extension recognised it would send a push notification to the aunthenticator app on your phone which if approved would send the TOTP code to your browser and submit the form on your behalf.

Unfortunately it only ever worked on the handful of websites Lastpass had implemented bespoke support for, but it was magic when it worked. It would be nice to have a universal standard for push notification 2FA.
Aye, but they've already put it off until now, so it can't be THAT much of a priority.
native english speaker. learned german (fluent) and italian (conversational). english is an insane amalgamation which may be why it’s become near lingua franca
Fair:

MVP lauches and the PM is at my desk. Hey we need these 5 features that you told me I would want but I swore would never be in the product.

MVP launches and the PM is at my desk. Hey this thing that I would have found if I took a paper prototype out on the street and showed it to random people would have been apparent ... well now we need that.

Hell I have told PM's that their print on demand product needed a dirty words filter. They told me I was wrong. Guess what the first feature was post launch in a panic. It's not like I haven't said "If you're launching in Germany you need to take checks" and then had someone come back when the sales numbers were dismal till they started taking checks. (And dear god someone tell me that Germany is past this).

Candidly most MVP's miss the minimum and viable because the people who are defining those things are making guesses with out doing a lot of research. Ethnography, Usability, all these things are much cheaper than development, and yet we dont do them...

Fuck it were doin it live.
The ones who got caught are still taking away the lesson that scammers win.
i added a search function
Peer review can be very simply replaced by skimming the abstract. If the abstract doesn't make sense the paper doesn't make sense either.

All the disciplines which use arxiv as their main journal are doing well enough without peer review.
What about Latin "k" and Cyrillic "к"? Do they look the same in your font of choice? Should they?
At least in the case of Australia, they’ll arrive at 100% renewables between 2030-2035 based on current deployment trajectories without any nuclear.

All of Australia has 18.4GW of coal generation capacity remaining (per ElectricityMaps.com). To replace this with solar, wind, and batteries will be trivial (China deployed 217GW of solar last year [2023], for comparison). There is already 40GW of batteries in their pipeline.

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2023/12/coal-will-be-a...

https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/major-publications/integr...

https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/australia-leads-globa...
Code Considered Harmful
This video https://youtu.be/f0Y0ILHwwaM makes the argugment that
code is no longer needed. If you want to create a game the AI itself
IS the game. This is similar to the transition from version 11 (code) to
version 12 (NN) in Tesla self-driving. There is no code, only the network.

This is probably the biggest transition in computer science ever.
53 years of programming becomes the wrong way to use computers.
The next generation needs to know how to express ideas using NNs.

Karpathy's "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero" https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
is probably the core of the next generation of computer science teaching.

The openinterpreter project finally lets me automate computer tasks quickly.
I can train a sequence using voice. https://www.openinterpreter.com/
Emacs has had key-sequence recording for years but now I can sequence anything
and do it by voice.

LMStudio is probably the fastest way to set up locally running versions of LLMs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fdZwKg9IbU&ab_channel=MatthewBerman

We seem to transitioning from "GOTOs considered harmful" to "Code considered harmful"
Thanks a lot! Believe me, there have been a lot of bugs (+900 issues closed today) because it's hard to save a web page actually. You were lucky not to suffer ;)
This is neat but the map by public transport time is probably non-euclidean because subways are like wormholes.
> run experimentation themselves to validate results

Let's just breeze through an that like it's nothing haha.

Also the people reading these peer reviewed articles range from new grad students to researchers with decades of experience.

There are many ways to see whether an article is high quality of not, which includes peer review, the journal it's published in, the research lab that wrote the paper. Reading a paper itself is a multi hour ordeal and you want to have a decent idea that it's not a crap paper before diving in. Believing what the paper says is something of a gamble because you really cannot just replicate an experiment that easily. And you need to read many many many papers before you can start doing your own research. So you want lots of assurances that a paper is good quality.
https://archive.ph/dGFnR

Registration pop-ups make the site unusable. This will get you around it.
The line is not blurry at all even in china.
Original RCT most definitely had underground building, both for paths and attractions. I think 1 or 2 parks in the 'campaign' was even centered about being mostly underground.
This post provides insights into managing overdue tasks, exploring various strategies for effectively handling such situations.
> "Since the octopus was not reacting to any existing threat, but rather in anticipation of one, it had demonstrated foresight and planning."

The journalist is hopefully misunderstanding a more correct explanation by the scientists. That most certainly isn't demonstration of foresight and planning. Nature is perfectly capable of encoding that sort of information as an instinctual response. Something like [trying to sleep] -> [get distressed by exposure to open ocean].

It is like how humans feel cold and put on a jumper. It isn't a demonstration that we all understand heat flow equations and have modelled out that we need to consume less food if we put another layer between us and the outside world, increasing the long term economics of our survival, demonstrating an advanced knowledge of thermodynamics and economics. Our body has encoded "heat leaking through skin" -> "feel uncomfortable" into our senses and that is all we need to respond to without considering the consequences of the response.
I wanna ban ME from my house. :D
There are major cities where the airport is well into the path of totality, so you could skip #3 and watch from the airport.
It's a completely fair assessment of the current political embrace of nuclear power in Australia - it's being pushed more and more by Murdoch, his papers and Sky arms, and the most Vogon of the Australian political landscape, and they very much have a blind to climate realities "this is the fix" agenda.

The great problem with that is it drowns out any chance for any considered debate on the future of Australia's energy mix - there is an engineering case for a small percentage ( <10% ) of nuclear generation in parts of the Australian grid.
Show HN: Rusty eel-gathering hovercraft
https://archive.ph/Cuu7c
You could definitely build underground in the original game.

I only ever had the original one when growing up and did stuff underground a fair bit. One of the early campaign parks came with a bunch of rides and stuff underground off the bat.

I think there were some practical changes to make it a bit easier in RCT2, but it was never hard.
Not defending the sub but don't they have a market cap minimum for posts?
Ask HN: Laptop price drops later in the year?
I'm strongly considering buying this,
Acer Swift Edge 16" 4K OLED Laptop - AMD Ryzen 7-7735U, for about 600$. My main use cases are photo, video, and music production. Linux compatibility is a must as well, I vastly prefer Linux Mint or other Debian based distros. Gaming would be nice as well, but I'm not expecting AAA.

So my question is, should I hop on this deal or wait a few months. I plan on installing a 2TB drive ( this puts Macs firmly out of my budget).
Thanks, although (I didn't read every single comment but did read a lot of them) those just seem to be about people complaining about other people thinking they are gay, not somebody actually trying to defend that position. There is that one female who OPs a post about it, but I didn't see any actual argument from her other than "water in your ass is gay" but somehow not when it's in the shower? Anyway, you have convinced me that it is "a thing" but I'd (seriously) really love to understand why.

I hate making conclusions like this, but in this case it might just be this simple, that it is just a shallow emotional response to something unfamiliar that makes no logical/rational sense but is accepted by people who operate on emotion and don't make much use of the powerful Prefrontal Cortext that nature has gifted them, and happen to be from a cultural background that has weird superstitions about assholes :-)

Still though, if anybody knows anybody who feels this way who could explain it, I'd really love to hear a steelman defense.
Or just place foundations and build on top of that
That makes no sense to me. If there wasn't a great filter we would expect to find more intelligent life, if there were we would expect a much smaller probability of intelligent life.

If an event makes an observation less likely then conversely such an observation also makes that event less likely, not the other way around.
Users really need to migrate away from windows. It really has no redeeming qualities post W10. The sooner you get the heck away from the Evil monolith, the better.
I live on the Miura peninsular not too far from William Adams fiefdom. It’s possible to walk up the hill from Anjinzuka Station (The navigator’s hill) and see his and his wife’s grave.
A Dyson swarm does allow you to move the star or sterilise any planet in the galaxy by focusing the light into a “death ray”. So it’s a useful tool to have for more reasons than just energy.
Yes, I am.
Pack can hold millions of files with no problem. One field in which it shines is that, aside from being fast at processing large amounts of data, it can process many small files much faster than similar tools or even many popular file systems.

About piping, it can be done, and it is on my list. I will finish features based on their popularity and making sense.

As Pack has random access support, you can choose a file in a big pack, and it can stream it out to the output. It is already able to unpack partially to your file system (using --include="file path in pack"); streaming/piping it would not be a problem.
It's not though. Greed isn't involved for all the well meaning naifs who are just wiring cash to bail out their wayward grandson after he called them on facebook, or received mail indistinguishable from a bill and sent back a check.
Looking great! Any chance of having g really tight economics management?

Lots of potential to be an amazing city simulation game
Some of them are. Maybe half.

But cables are expensive and I object to being forced to replace all of those.
Yay! I love Shot Scrapeer - I wish you had made it a decade ago!

Thanks for shot scraper.

Off the top of you head what would be the easiest command to have shotscraper barf a directory of shot-scraper HTMLs each day from my daily browsing history.

This would be interesting if I have a browsing session for learning something and I am researching across a bunch of sites - roll it all up into a Digi-ography of the sites used in learning that topic?

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I've always been baffled that this isnt an inate functionality in any app/OS - its a damn computeer - I should have a great ability to recall what it displays and what you have been doing.

Heck - we need our machines to write us a daily status report for what we did at the end of each day.

Surely that would change productivity. If you were force to do a self-digital-confession and stare you ADHD and procrastination right in the face.
always close the toilet lid before you flush...
https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/2022-12/ezgif-3-...
The C++ pointer-to-member is a fairly confusing concept. What it actually is is a pair - a pointer to the instance of the struct, and a pointer to a function in that struct.

D calls these delegates, and generalizes it to being a pair consisting of a "context pointer" and a "pointer to a function". The neato thing is these do not have to be struct or class member functions. They can be nested functions, where the the "context pointer" is a pointer to the stack frame of the caller. I.e., a pointer to the closure.

Hence, these become lambdas.

Lamdas and pointers-to-nested functions are completely interchangeable with pointers to members. The caller does not know the difference.

In fact, lambdas are far, far more commonly used in D than pointers-to-members.
Yeah! I’m pretty excited to see the re
Does this not work on mobile?

If it does, can someone explain how to use it? No matter what I do, the map just warps a bit, and nothing else happens.
What survives is sometimes just by sheer luck. In the Acropolis Museum, there are a few reproductions of sketches on display by Jacques Carrey, a french artist who happened to visit Athens in November 1674. The Venetian's siege of the Acropolis in September 1687 famously destroyed a large section of the South side. Without this artists sketches, we would have no record of these lost parts of the frieze.
4D Golf
That was a very cheeky comment, and fully agreed.

I'm on the permissive side (Haskell and Lenseful Haskell at that!), but make it consistent and principled and it's usually fine.
And those differences that are not marked in English but are in French are the only hard part about learning it..
I believe a survey of planetary systems showed that the gas giants were more common closer to the stars (hot Jupiters), and they tended to eject the rocky inner planets. Our solar system might be exceptional because of Saturn preventing Jupiter from migrating inward.

Also the collision of Earth with the other body that eventually formed the Moon, as violent and destructive as it was when it happened, may been a big reason why the Earth is tectonically active (which also is the reason for the magnetic field, which helps keep our atmosphere intact) and the presence of the Moon also gives us tidal forces which may have been necessary for abiogenesis, The collision of such a large object at the right time of planetary evolution may have been a low probability event.

OTOH, alternatives have bene proposed. The moons of the "hot Jupiters" could get similar benefits as the Moon and the remnants of the collision gives Earth In particular, it is known that the moons of Jupiter experience substantial tidal forces.
Note that this is not about Dlang, the D programming language.
It sounds like you would prefer evidence of something like Kahneman’s System II as evidence of high intelligence? That is, an abstract general purpose thinking system, even if it is slower and in many ways weaker than the instinctive/trained/evolved systems for solving specific problems?
This is what it is supposed to do. The coordinates in map from one location to another change from distance to how much time it would take to reach there.
This is actually a pattern I really don't like: Why do I mostly get these thrown at me for TOTP, but not other 2FA methods? What am I supposed to do with these "backup codes"? Store them all in my password manager?

At that point, I might as well store the TOTP seed there and rely on its multifactor authentication – which is probably fair for many use cases, but suffers from the problem outlined by GP.

I think sites should treat TOTPs effectively equivalent to Passkeys, i.e. as maybe synced, maybe backed up, but maybe neither – and then the user needs an alternative login method, just like for all 2FA methods.
The decision to modify an embryo to have cat ears and a tail is a decision between doctor and parent!

As long as you get a doctor involved, no modification is too horrific.
I think assembly theory is most useful to define a spectrum of complexity.

Sure, a refrigerator requires intelligence, whereas loose carbon atoms do not.

What about everything in between? Methane? Complex hydrocarbons? Pointy sticks? Things that look like crude tools?

It’s about defining a metric that can measure complexity across a wide range of things you might encounter, to help estimate the odds that it was produced by something simple yet alive, or something complex and alive, or something alive but not very smart, or something kinda smart, or something super smart, etc
Feels tone deaf to use current tragedies as content.
The paper dries off the water after and provides the check!
Does that back up TOTP seeds in Google Authenticator? I thought apps had to opt in to this type of backup and would assume that Authenticator doesn't, but Google has changed the Android backup mechanism so many times, I lost track.
...and so is Selection Bias.
See also: the tadpole operator (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150525-00/?p=45...)

Returns x+1 or x-1 depending on the direction the tadpole swims (-~x to increment x and or ~-x to decrement x). For a short moment I believed this was a real thing, because my programming font has a special ligature for ~- and -~.
Good point. The Amiga did the same thing in the Amiga 500 and 2000. The Amiga 1000 would have if the operating system had been more stable at time of release. It also saved a significant chunk of RAM as the 1.x releases of AmigaOS used 256KB ROMs while 2.x on were 512KB ROMs.
If a bird pooped on your arm, would you just wipe it with a paper towel?!

The Qorantos/Trainwrecks conjecture
but it made me think that there must be a minority of humans with that mutation

There certainly are, but it is extremely rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail#Human_tails
Had this crap happen to me the other day with a banking app. Luckily I eventually managed to find a way to get them to call my phone with the code instead.

There are so many problems with SMS.