skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like it is happening? I'm guessing the maintenance might be the downside here, but they now have all the experience to build newer, better ones.

> France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy, due to a long-standing policy based on energy security.

> France is the world's largest net exporter of electricity due to its very low cost of generation, and gains over €3 billion per year from this.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...
No miracles required.

Make the usage of fossil fuels a crime against humanity / all sentient life, and use nuclear reactors for base load with renewables for variable load.

Modernize the power grid by including excess energy storage mechanisms (batteries, water pumps, etc), harden it against solar flares, and create a profitable energy sink to keep reactors running (crypto mining) to further stabilize the grid.

Heavily subsidize electric vehicles to the point of gas trade-ins being a net profit for anyone with a car, and mandate conversion to electric vehicles.

Make all fossil fuels shipping barges illegal. Subsidize the usage of nuclear reactors on shipping barges. This can be done in several ways, such as expanding an agency like the NRC to manage reactors in consumer usages.

Those don't require a miracle. They require a sensible population to wake up and make the world better without compromises.
Microsoft choosing to have Windows 11 obsolete hundreds of millions of perfectly functional computers tells you all you need to know about their actual commitment to the environment.
Not that true. There were significant populations of slavic macedonians living in what is now modern greece back when it was all ottoman empire. Post ww2 there was a yugoslav - greek war disguised as a civil war, which led to ethnic greeks killing and kicking out the majority of macedonian slavs that didnt want to convert to being greeks (change their name, and stop speaking macedonian at home). I personally know plenty people whos grandparents were refugees from that “civil war” and had to flee to yugoslavia, because their land and houses were stolen. Actually if you go now to Florina and Kozani because times have changed you will find plenty of people starting to come out of the closet and speak macedonian yet again and start openly practicing their culture, despite enduring forced assimilation years ago. Even despite the changing of the majority of town names, theres still slavic sounding names in the thessaly and epirus region.

The current people living in modern turkey that were greek back centuries ago and had to assimilate due to various reasons from greeks to turks, would current greeks nor accept them as part of their culture and greek identity now? Would you say that current turks and greeks share some identity despite the annihilation of the byzantinians?

Would the aromanians of modern greece not be accepted as being part of the greek identity?

Would the bulgarians not identify with their mongol steppe nomad overlords that came over in early medieval age and started a khanate over the local slav populations?

Would the modern hungarians claim that they are in fact mongol asians?

These are complicated topics, and politics are just making it worse. There is no definite answer, because the truth lies in who has more power to enforce it. Both greeks and macedonians drown their daily life struggles and sorrows by beating the nationalism drum, so that the corrupt politicians can scream stupid lies on the microphones so they can continue with their corruption, and the common people eat it up like porridge. History is much more complicated.
The problem with training new hires is that they can leave with the the skillset you invested in them. I realize of course that employer loyalty erosion may be in large part to blame for that being a big risk, but the issue should be acknowledged in an era of increased job switching.
If something is good for public health or safety, the best way to deploy it is to start selling it now.

Exponential growth of production rates means that every day, month, or year you delay is many thousands or millions of units not produced.

If you care about public safety and health, your best route is to find a way to align it with something profitable. That’s just the truth.
Chinese version is here: https://energysingularity.cn/%E6%B4%AA%E8%8D%9270%E6%89%98%E...
Yes, true, though I don't see the relation to the previous argument you were making.
Thanks, that's my impression too. I wouldn't say Spain is much better, but my experience is limited.
This is an interesting point. Hangs usually cost $ from user experience, with serverless they cost $ from compute. All the more reason to set strict deadlines on all API calls!
> The more productive workers are, the more free time they’ll have to do whatever it is they want to do to make themselves happy

Right, there are so many countries in the world where increased productivity led to 4-day work week. In fact, I could count these countries on the fingers of one hand.
"Alexander" ("Aleksandros") and "Philip" ("Philippos") are very Greek names though. They are composite words with very clear meanings which any Greek with basic literacy can understand, because they use "αλέξι-", "άνδρας", "φίλος" and "ίππος" every day. This sounds more clear-cut than an instance of Greeks from different regions shitting on each other.

In any case, the notion that the people of North Macedonia have anything to do with Alexander is laughable, as Kiro Gligorov himself stated.
How far would we be if darpa net/ip networking was under a patent, the DNS system under a patent etc. etc.
Greece should have left the EU when the price of membership was revealed to be a generation of ruthless recession and exploitation. Somehow the german bankers convinced them it was worth it even though grexit would've been much more expensive to them then loan forgiveness. I don't see what Greece got out of EU membership other than a brain drain as their ambitious youth is forced to leave their country.
i agree that we should have a better model as a society to produce things like compilers, but having a direct retail relationship with a closed source provider was pretty nasty.

because of tooling, large code bases, and weak standardization they had a huge amount of lockin. and only a single narrow funnel in which to address deficiencies.

and while certainly on a lower tier than EDA seats, werent super cheap. they usually had limited platform support. while they did optimize better for their targets, otherwise they were poorer systems than gcc, with all its warts.
Claude Sonnet vs. ChatGPT4o: The Moscow Puzzles
Indeed, but it was just enough. In 1995, the PC was finally starting to move from 8-bit to 16-bit sound.

The Amiga was capable of 14-bit stereo sound in 1985. It required a trick that only became popular around 1990, but the hardware was capable on day 1.

Of note, the C64 was capabale of 8-bit sound on day 1 in 1981, but this was only discovered (by Linus Akesson IIRC) around 2010.
Most people run with whatever spin is popular in their circles.

AI is the current hype trend so things tend to be either breathlessly pro or anti AI.
strike a deal with publisher for every incidental background music barely noticeable one your videos?
Try 2400. Our current breed of capitalism is always only aiming to pick the lowest-hanging fruit and milk it to death and then beyond. Our current economics do not reward long-running projects with a huge payout in some 10-50 years in the future so I am pretty sure we'll never see general AI in this current phase of the civilization.
Yeah, one should definitely not assume that any signature scheme yields signer confidentiality out of the box, nor a non-signature-based, repudiable authentication scheme for that matter.
This is how proof of work dies, watch.
Ask HN: What do you guys use for project management, with multiple resources?
I realized, I need a better system of managing projects and people. I am evaluating Linear, as it comes heavily recommended. So does trello.

I have used github project boards so far for technical projects and simple google docs for non-technical projects.

Want to combine these two as our team grows.

curious about peoples experience with linear, trello or jira (though not a big fan of Jira)
Just want to say I really appreciate you maintaining this!
Something that kills cells on contact doesn’t sound particularly safe.
Can mafia children be saved from a life of crime?
Shadow of the Sun (2021)
I think it is because cloud computing demands far more programming the machine than deploying to compute instances does.
Could someone explain what a hammerlock is and why it is significant? Searching just said it's a type of joint lock in wrestling which doesn't make sense to me in this context.

Then again, I have never danced.
The cutting accuracy can be really low compared to everything else - 100um accuracy is fine, and even a hobby level CNC machine can do that.
It’s really strange, considering “net zero” data centers are all the rage right now. Microsoft, in particular, has solar, and sometimes wind as well, on-site generation, plus new builds require renewables in the power-supply agreements. The money’s there, so where’s the supply?
Even EGA was good enough for most people - and it was non-interlaced at 60Hz, much better than what Amigas could do back then. When VGA came out, it became clear the Amigas couldn't keep up with the ecosystem around the PC.
For many systems, the application and the machine are so intertwined as to basically be the same thing.

A lot of web apps are just boring CRUD APIs. The business logic behind these is nothing special. The differentiating factor for a lot of them is how they scale, or how they integrate with other applications, or their performance, or how fast they are to iterate on, etc. The “machine” offers a lot of possibilities these days that can be taken advantage of, so customizing “the machine” to get what you need out of it is a big focus for many devs.
Possibly of interest:

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-shape-of-nuclear-...
This test really threw me for a loop because it didn’t cover my main mode of thought. For me, I can consciously use my internal voice or visualize things, but if I am not actively trying to, they never happen. Typically, the results of my thoughts simply enter my conscious mind, and what brought them about is opaque to me.
Why do we need an energy sink? Can't batteries be a good short-term buffer? The nuclear fuel lifecycle is still quite ecologically expensive.
Dumb question, but is the basic idea that you need to harvest more heat energy from the plasma than is needed to maintain the magnetic field?

Also, very dumb question but the plasma means that fusion is actually occuring, right?

And does anyone know how this one collects the heat and converts it into electricity or whatever?

Or any other fusion device, how does it actually collect or output energy from the fusion. And how much do they make, and how far off is that from matching the input power?

Maybe it was some protons escaping from the plasma and hearing something external or something.
I'm in Canada, but yes it's that bad.
Do you mean cell membranes? Animals such as humans do not have cell walls outside of their cell membranes like many bacteria, plants, fungi etc.
I guess I need to clarify what I mean by the psychological component.

Technical and political components are external. Career aspirations and mitigating boredom/stagnation by pursuing complicated work create motivations to invent interesting projects.

And there’s the ability to claim integration from v1 to v2 as progress. Rather than only change.

To put it another way there is always some degree of change for the sake of change motivating our desires for change. Particularly when a big chunk of our time must be accounted for. Typically, playing video games, sleeping, and walking a dog through the woods instead are not viable alternatives in contexts where data migrations are being considered.

If migration was something the OP didn’t want to do, the question would be about finding a new job.
Please do go on? I won't say irrelevant, but when compared to SPARC project, it seems kind of underpowered?

HH70: major radius: 0.75 m, magnetic field 0.6 T
SPARK: major radius: 1.85 m, magnetic field 12.2 T

HH70 has the advantage of actually existing and working, but to my completely layman eyes, it doesn't seem that using high temperature superconducting magnets brought expected increase in parameters.
> 95% of the world population uses Celsius scale, all scientists and military use it too, and ignoring units when having bombastic claims is either negligence or more probably on purpose.

The article is written for an American layman audience. The scientific publication it is discussing uses specific terms, as it should. You would know this if you read passed the headline instead of knee-jerk complaining about "Americans wrong".

> I am pretty sure the team (and subsequently company/companies) behind it is not limiting itself strictly to US market and willingly ignoring rest of the world, when there are countries with much bigger heat issues than US.

FastCompany is an American publication and American company. Their audience is most certainly American. The fact that non-Americans can read it is no more important than French-speaking Americans being able to read Le Monde; a publication that also doesn't bother converting or specifying terms for a non-French audience.
> But after the age of maybe fifteen

Fifteen year olds are still growing, in the anabolic phase, so they should eat more often if they have the appetite. Forget it when you are a fully grown adult.
Like alcohol or oxygen?
Good stuff. 50% of earth energy consumption will be in AI soon.
A lot of employers will never increase wages just out of spite. Clearly you haven't spoken with some of these awful human beings.

Don't assume the market is rational. History shows otherwise.
One of the most challenging things I find in life is explaining to a non-programmer how I visualise code. Because I don't really know how I do it; it is simultaneously grammatical and architectural, and a lot of the processes that guide me are really emotional or almost visceral. Code sometimes does not feel right.
optionsellers.com moment lol
Ideally, make your own music. Or use people's music who wants to share, they get popular and rise as a competitor and it shows that maybe going after minor background noise wasn't such a good idea.

But back in reality, you just don't monetize the content. Publishers don't really care about some unlisted kid's party with 50 views and monetization off. The YouTube stuff is draconian but not that asinine.
What you are suggesting would require coordination on a scale that's almost unimaginable. The effort and coordination required would be similar to wartime mobilization.
If this isn't a Sputnik and/or an Apollo 11-level wake up call to the western leaders I don't know what has any chance of working.
A markdown document (e.g. from Obsidian) can be hosted as easily.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40748225 except that that one links to the version of this article at the Washington Post, which MSN is merely syndicating.

As I said in comments on that one: This article claiming that "AI is exhausting the power grid" is surprisingly light on evidence that AI is exhausting the power grid. (In fact, I think it contains no such evidence, though it does contain evidence that tech companies have datacentres that use electricity and seems to think that that is an exciting and damning discovery.)
When Linux was written BSD was still encumbered by non-BSD-licensed AT&T code. That changed a year or so later.
It’s telling that I can’t tell if you’re talking about blockchain or AI here.
'Multiple disasters all in one day': New Mexico's brutal week of fire and flood
Greece fell from being in the top 10 wealthiest countries in eu to literally second to last. Of course the worker rights bacame a joke in the process.
I also use BART most of the time, but I often end up heading back to SF pretty late in the night so that’s not always an option.
This is another reason I am learning CLIPS. It implements a form of the Rete algorithm. A Rete network provides the same benefits of a neural network without the bells-and-whistles, and thus would be a great candidate for anyone who thinks they could benefit from the reasoning power provided by LLMs.
I dont believe magnetic containment would contain heat, so just run a liquid through the reactor and use it to heat up water to make steam and drive a turbine. Nuclear plants do this.
if people have too much time on their hands, they start to organise and ask for their fair share.
Is it still common to expect workers to pay government-mandated bonuses back to their bosses in cash? I know this was a common practice some years ago.
I was wondering why electricity isn't cheaper in France.

I guess one reason is taxes? Here's an article from January:
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20240122-french-electricity-pri...
All I've seen are pump and dump schemes. What useful strands are you talking about?
A zipper merge is fine, both lanes tend to fill up.

What I often see if a lane that intended to go through and a turning lane that is backed up; people pretend to be on through lane, then stop to merge at last minute into long turning lane and void the line.
There was this little thing here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Dushanbe_riots

Russians were specifically targeted. A Russian TV reporter murdered on the street in broad daylight. A school bus evacuating families of Russian servicemen shot with an RPG. Churches destroyed and clergy killed.
If you have a substantive point, please make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Did you just make up a strawman with an argument just so you could counter it?

Not that I disagree. Solar even with storage is cheaper than nuclear.
IIRC the very first installations of Linix started with Minix as a base, that then was "patched" into Linux. So it was more than just the filesystem. But yes, Torvalds wasn't happy with Minix, and Tanenbaum wasn't happy with Linux.
Well it's a torus right? So you put a turbine in the middle? I don't think I've heard that explanation before.

Or maybe it can go in the outside. I guess it's like, you need a huge amount of electricity to make the magnetic field strong enough, right? So the question is, how do you collect enough heat without melting key components?
We have one group of people that finds it useful, and another group that doesn't find it useful at all. What are we to make of this? At the very least, it is not that it "definitely" is useful.
That simply doesn't pass the smell test. I think you would be very surprised if you actually talked to any real Russians.
I’m a bit confused on the “Threats” section, entering my member management startup https://embolt.app shows malware detected with a timestamp dating back to 2018 (we launched this year).

I checked out another startup I know of (https://highlight.io) and it listed the same results.

Maybe I’m misinterpreting what this section means?
AI displaces humans (and thereby their consumption of fossil fuels)
Different places offered vastly different experiences.

In Brazil we had mostly Sinclair, Apple II and TRS-80 (Model III and CoCo) clones and compatibles. PC clones were very expensive and only appeared later - and only became popular through smugglers, about the same time MSX 1.0 was introduced. I believe there was only one MSX 2 machine that was actually sold. Brands like Atari, Commodore and Apple were extremely rare. This was all because the military dictatorship reasoned, somewhat correctly, that in order to grow an indigenous industry, it'd need to prevent imports of small computers and heavily tax other segments.
If that's the case, that's most likely out of efficiency or other considerations; ECDSA definitely allows the recovery of the public key from message and signature alone.
They are indeed less effective than PrEP which is what the entire comment chain is about.
What triple A derivatives are blowing up?
> the plasma means that fusion is actually occuring

No. Plasma simply means a specific state of a matter. E.g. the fluorescent lamps (the long tubular lights that flicker on start) have a plasma inside when it produces light
Gotta love the EU and how well it sticks up for workers' rights and economic stability.
Those low-wage tourist-oriented businesses are making crazy high margins and paying workers peanuts. Beaches keep getting gobbled up by multimillion-euro hotel complexes (unconstitutionally) so they can make money hand over fist by taking advantage of public property (with the appropriate kickbacks to the local politicians), while the local economy benefits minimally from whatever minimum-wage jobs are created in the process.
If it's #1 it's god help humanity. A high lethality long latency disease won't be stopped in time to matter. If you can even stop it at all.

However, you've missed a #4--toxin from some factory in the area that has paid off the politicians.
Highly debatable whether AI will lead to lower population and/or lower per capita carbon emissions.
Yes it was. The person I responded to is asking why the person considering switching to injectable PrEP doesn't “just use condoms”
I wouldn't say "common to expect", I'd say "bosses blackmail workers into it".
'Blue screen of death' at the ballpark
Or collective bargaining.
1. Yes, sorta, but it's more than just the magnetic field. You're also heating the fuel, so you have to offset that too. Plus there are pumps which circulate coolant to carry heat away from the plasma and towards a turbine, so you have to offset their power. Probably a few other things as well.

2. I don't think plasma == fusion. You can get plasma just by heating a gas beyond a certain point. Plasma cutters, for instance, operate on super heated air, no fusion anywhere nearby.

3. I think the wall of the reaction chamber heats up because they're being bombarded by radiation.

Most of the radiation incident on the reaction chamber walls is infrared, radiated from the hot plasma, but there are also more exotic things like stray neutrons also crash into the sides of the thing. These cause the metal to deteriorate over time (and become somewhat hazardous), but they also they impart additional heat energy.

So you have to have two cooling systems, one to keep the magnets actually cold so they they remain superconducting, and another to keep the housing below the point where it melts. It's this second one that let's you pull heat away from the hot metal donut that is a tokomak and use it to make electricity.

Between the magnet coolant and the chamber coolant and the reacting plasma you have some of the steepest thermal gradients anywhere in the known universe.
Individually it doesn't make much sense. On the other hand, in some parts of the world (I live in Europe and it's normal around here) the operator owns the modem and the last mile infrastructure - so perhaps they would do it if the cost of replacing all the customer side modems and cabling + installing the antennas in that area would be larger than installing this simulated ADSL station. Also - you can't just switch 1000s of people in a dense small area to individual modems and expect good performance. There needs to be aggregation.

Presumably the last mile station would always have the perfect angle to the base station(s) - perhaps even radio priority.
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Pinboard is good; not perfect, but useful.