skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investing in nuclear power today is an insane prospect when the energy market is being reshaped at this speed.

In Europe old paid off nuclear plants are regularly being forced off the markets due to supplying too expensive energy.

This will only worsen the nuclear business case as renewable expansion continues, today being a bonanza fueled by finally finding an energy source cheaper than fossil fuels.

Nuclear power is essentially pissing against the wind hoping the 1960s returns. It needs to come down by 85% in cost to be equal to a reliable renewable system.

> The study finds that investments in flexibility in the electricity supply are needed in both systems due to the constant production pattern of nuclear and the variability of renewable energy sources. However, the scenario with high nuclear implementation is 1.2 billion EUR more expensive annually compared to a scenario only based on renewables, with all systems completely balancing supply and demand across all energy sectors in every hour. For nuclear power to be cost competitive with renewables an investment cost of 1.55 MEUR/MW must be achieved, which is substantially below any cost projection for nuclear power.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192...

China finished 1 reactor in 2023 and are in track for a massive 3 finished reactors in 2024.

On the other hand they are building enough renewables to cover their entire electricity growth.

Even China has figured out that nuclear power is not economically viable.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/chinas-quiet-energy-revolution-t...

Every dollar invested in nuclear today prolongs our reliance on fossil fuels. We get enormously more value of the money simply by building renewables.
The worst part is it poisons the whole business model for me. Even if your company could restrain itself from these tactics I won't know that until it is to late and even if I did research it there isn't any reason it couldn't change to be awful from being OK. The end result is I turn my nose at the very idea because subscription services are fine with me as an idea but in practice I just don't want to waste the energy dealing with them.
> How do I know whether my tests are passing because they're properly testing correct code or because they're failing to test incorrect code?

One mechanism to verify that is by running a mutation testing [0] tool. They are available for many languages; mutmut [1] is a great example for Python.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing

[1] https://mutmut.readthedocs.io
Because memory vulnerabilities don't make programs immune to other dumb mistakes. You get these vulnerabilities on top of everything else that can go wrong in a program.

The issue is that these great new tools don't just fix the old vulnerabilities, they also provide a lot of new, powerful footguns for people to play with. They're shipping 2000 feet of rope with every language when all we need is 6 feet to hang ourselves.
SciPost, a case study in open science
I've had to use FOSS in cases when there's no paid option of equivalent features. When I do, I donate. When I donate I see how little other people have donated. People who certainly are richer than me, but are spiritually still stuck on freeloader mentality.
Happy to hear that, and yes, will do!
You can do this with PayPal, Google Play, and privacy.com. Probably others too, these are just the ones I've used.

The thing is that sometimes you need to actually cancel the service, not just stop paying for it, to remove your financial obligations. Depending on the contract you signed.
misread this as "my tactical guide to firing a cofounder."

.....probably would be quite useful also?
how big is your sample? 1, 2, many?
Who will be liable for "defective" directives and regulations? I would like to sue someone for all the wasted time and effort around cookie popups.
For sure. I hate excessive regulation, but if companies keep poisoning the well, action has to be taken
Gettier clauses can be readily understood as a response to the conventional starting point for epistemology: the position that having knowledge is a matter of having a justified belief in a true proposition (often abbreviated to JTB.) (This really only concerns propositional knowledge, as opposed to, for example, knowing how to ride a bicycle.)

To know something in this sense seems to require several things: firstly, that the relevant proposition is true, which is independent of one's state of mind (not everyone agrees, but that is another issue...) Secondly, it seems to require that one knows what the relevant proposition is, which is a state of mind. Thirdly, having a belief that it is true, which is also a state of mind.

If we left it at that, there's no clear way to find out which propositions are true, at least for those that are not clearly true a priori (and even then, 'clearly' is problematic except in trivial cases, but that is yet another issue...) Having a justification for our belief gives us confidence that what we believe to be true actually is (though it rarely gives us certainty.)

But what, then, is justification? If we take the truth of the proposition alone as its justification, we get stuck in an epistemic loop. I think you are right if you are suggesting that good justifications are often in the form of causal arguments, but by taking that position, we are casting justification as being something like knowledge: having a belief that an argument about causes (or anything else, for that matter) is sound, rather than a belief that a proposition states a fact - but having a justified belief in an argument involves knowing that its premises are correct...

It is beginning to look like tortoises all the way down (as in Lewis Carroll's "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles".)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Tortoise_Said_to_Achi...
This used to be built into Brave: (Menu -> Save and Share -> Create Shortcut), then check the box.

They removed the option last August. It's really disappointing to me, because I'm a very heavy user.
Past canceling, there are so many problems with subscription programs. Too many products are unusable without a subscription that offer no additional value. Or disabling the subscription cripples product features that have no dependency on the remote service. Or they can 'alter the deal' at any point where what you get for what you pay can change despite the fact the product hasn't.

Ideally 'the market' would punish such companies but it seems to do the opposite in that once a dark pattern becomes mainstream, everyone quickly adopts it, and consumers don't really get any real choices.
Does this apply to gym memberships too? I wonder how devastated gyms will be.
Agreed. It saddens me how I feel I completely slept through a golden age of magazines out there. With no real clue how I could help support that coming back.

I was happy with the section in Wireframe magazines that would show how to code some game mechanics every issue. Would love for more stuff like that.
Adding more overcapacity just wastes energy. Storage is the main bottleneck to widespread renewable adoption without frequent blackouts. Having more energy when you don't need it is only really useful if you can store that energy.
Not surprised that you're being downvoted despite telling the truth, because "politics is off-topic while technology is on-topic" (even though politics is often deeply intertwined with technology).
Ads already pause if you switch apps on mobile, and vending machines/retail screens have had cameras in them for expression/attention tracking for years. It’s not much of a leap from there
> I know a lot of people classify "Clojure" and "Lisp" in different categories, but I'm not 100% sure why

It mostly boils down to Clojure not having CONS cells. I feel like this distinction is arbitrary because the interesting aspect of Lisps is not the fact that linked-lists are the core data-structure (linked-lists mostly suck on modern hardware), but rather that the code itself is a tree of lists that enables the code to be homoiconic.
Well, about 94% of the American population use the internet so it's a good base by which to conduct reliable surveys.
I can not use it as I do, the same with Facebook, but there are countless others taking disinformation spread on these platforms without bating an eye. Those countless others impact my life, they will vote, they will hate; stochastically it will affect me in some way even if I try to be as far away as I can from these platforms.
So, is the celebration around how Musk was able to use his money to NDA local officials and bypass normal procedures while consuming vast resources from the community?

I know as a community we aren't actually thinking Musk somehow had any technical input or assistance in this endeavor beyond encouraging the shady or strong-arm biz practices that skirt regulations and labor laws, right?
I bring it up because people claim there is lock-in and it’s not true.

Apple and Google both replicate between devices, so there is some replication, within ecosystems. I only need to create a passkey twice per account so I can use both. It’s not a big deal, though replicating between them would be better.

And so I am clearly not locked in. (Not because of passkeys, anyway.) If people think they’re locked in then it’s a “can’t be bothered” sort of lock-in.

Clearly not fantastical since I’m doing it.
Exactly! It's like that Skinner Simpsons meme. Are unit tests the problem and I'm wasting my time? No, it's the config files that are wrong.
A lot of people, myself included, find quadrotor drones in peaceful natural settings to be incredibly annoying. If anyone who isn't aware of the rules sees you breaking them, they will assume that they can do it too and will gleefully bring their loudest, most annoying quadrotor everywhere they can because "they saw someone else do it once." It also opens the floodgates to all kinds of permitting and other process questions for different kinds of activities and they have to justify why they let you do it but not someone else.
In Europe, they are basically the only LLM API provider that is GDPR compliant. This is a big factor here, when selecting a provider.
Well, I used Google, so that's what I wrote.

Coincidentally, I recently tested other search engines, from Bing to Yandex, and my results were not better.
Side note, he was an extremely talented math nerd and his manifesto did raise some interesting questions about technology and society.

I wouldn't exactly call him a "mass murderer", he only actually killed 3 people over a 17 year time span. IMO a "mass murderer" kills a lot of people all at once in a single location, for example, like McVeigh.
stil without terminal , brew and cc
The Kobo Libra 2 and Libra Color look to have a similar form factor to the Oasis. At least having a chunky area on one side with buttons that give a good spot to hold it.
Programming is just a tool to solve problems. By itself it hardly solve any direct problems.
Hard in this camp too. The OS tinkering that is as requirement of Linux racks up a massive time investment. When you use your computer for work, that bill gets big quick and sometimes it's an inconvenience you just can't afford.

MacOS, for all it's faults, can be tamed with little snitch and a slower update cycle, and then you have a relatively solid system. There's still some things to hate, like when I take my airpods out if I accidentally click one of the buttons Apple Music opens (no one wants to use Apple Music, ever). But, that little frustraition pales in comparison to the build your own experience a poweruser in Linux faces on a weekly basis.

This randomly came front of mind last night when I thought, I can't remember the last time something broke on my laptop. It's been literal months since I've had anything weird or unwanted that I've _had_ to deal with. Contrast that to the last time I tried to daily Linux, about 2 years ago when I bought a framework and couldn't even log in due to trackpad issues, sleep / hibernate issues, screen resizing issues, issues issues issues.
Closing the Gap: Accelerating Environmental Open Source
This isn't excessive at all. Making it easy to unsubscribe from things is totally reasonable to regulate in any world.
What are the other storage options? Besides batteries and hydroelectric, there's only prototype technologies that haven't seen any significant deployment at scale. Compressed air, hydrogen, and power to gas have been tried but no at anywhere near grid scales.
The CDC doesn’t record medical malpractice as a category for cause of death or injury. It’s grouped under “accidents” in their statistics (their official 3rd ranked category).

> The CDC’s published mortality statistics, however, count only the “underlying cause of death,” defined as the condition that led a person to seek treatment.

Because of this political choice the information comes from 3rd parties digging into the accidents category.

https://www.propublica.org/article/study-urges-cdc-to-revise...
Yeah, I was thinking of what I could do with a company Brex card - but I can't with my personal CC, at least not directly through my bank (though as others note apparently Google Pay does this now).
At the very least so one doesn’t sneeze over the person on the next seat.
Now, let's institute an actual price rule. I can't rent an Airbnb or book a plane ticket without being lied to about what the actual prices is.
A friend showed me usb adapters from usb-c to lightning and I found that very helpful for usb-c -> micro as well to charge the kindle.
There is absolutely no chance Trump's donors, which include the A16Z clowns, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and a lot of anti-regulation people in Silicon Valley, are going to allow Lina Khan to stick around. Vice presidents have no power, and Vance is not on the ticket because Trump is interested in his opinion on the FTC. He's on the ticket because he said he wouldn't have peacefully transferred power like Pence did, and that's the only reason.
How is the cross-compilation of these 3 languages compared to Golang? I suggested Golang because it’s super easy, just set the correct GOARCH and you’re good to go.
Libgit2: Past, present, and future – Edward Thomson – GitMerge 2024
Ah yes, that's true - unless the character is "breaking the fourth wall" like Clarissa Darling, they'll be avoiding the direct gaze of the viewer for sure.

Another example, though, would be vocalists in a video; usually they'll be singing right at the viewer and making a connection there, unless they're just too cool and aloof.
What is going on with Apple's ratio on the iPads: all the original models had 4/3, then iPad Air 4 and iPad 10 got ~4.3/3, then iPad mini 6 got ~4.5/3

What could be Apple's rationale on this? why so many slightly different formats? and why those, they add black bars or crop to most normal content... pictures from the camera for example are still in 4/3 so they are cropped in Photos, videos are in 16/9 so they still have black bars, ...
You're welcome to compile your own Firefox or Chromium build if you disagree with the trust decisions the default ones make.
The new Kindle Scribe looks kinda lame compared to the new reMarkable Pro, though significantly cheaper. Maybe the colored ePaper isn't that great, but at least you get some color for highlighting, which is probably a non-insignificant use of these types of devices.

Either way, sad there's no Oasis refresh. I'm not super attached to the physical buttons, but I'd prefer it to not. Oh well.
Lately, I'm close to 0 code. I'm working in an Architect role right now, so most of my time is sitting in meetings and creating design diagrams, etc. I actually kind of hate it as I like writing software. I'm also pretty burnt out in general and haven't been working on much in my off time for close to a year, beyond reading.

When I was younger, I'd spend upwards of 60-80 hours a week writing software. I'd do work on my day job as well as personal pet projects. I spent a fair amount of time early in my career in the eLearning space. I had to work across several languages and platforms regularly as well as coming up to speed on the various content domains as well. This was mostly in Aerospace, but also some first responder training and general learning content as well. I've also worked in banking, security and eCommerce over the years.

Other than recently, I've always spent about 10-15 hours beyond work either reading, learning, experimenting or writing code. I've been at this a couple years shy of three decades so far. Between jobs is when I pushed even harder to learn new platforms and languages. From implementing something in a new language or platform to just scratching a personal itch.

In the workplace, I have spent a lot of time when not actively working on features or bug fixes just working to improve the pain points. I worked on an eCommerce site that was setup to email error events to all developers (small team of 3). There were so many emails that everyone pretty much ignored them. I took the time to try and triage the first few emails and see if they were frequent, then taking the time to actually fix them. A huge number were effectively global handlers that mis-labelled what should have been 400 series errors as 500 series, mostly from bots. Others were timeouts because of queries missing indexes in the database. I'd try to resolve at least one a day. After a few months, the emails were at a trickle and everyone started paying much more attention.

It's harder to do some things like this in a larger org sometimes. It really depends. But the best you can do is just put your head down and get stuff done. What you can do and how your time is worked out will really vary a lot from environment to environment or team to team.

One thing to learn, however, is that your job is to solve problems. This may mean writing code (especially more jr roles) or it may be to simply suggest for or against an off the shelf solution. Business doesn't care how elegant your solution is, only that it works reasonably well and effectively. You can get points for pretty, more points for faster, but great code is rarely rewarded.
This happend to my kindle to! After keeping in in flight mode for years I put it online again in order to buy a few new books from the kindle store, poof suddenly my entire library of side loaded books was gone, with progress and everything. I could see random metadata files related to the books on the drive, be books was gone. Super annoying as many of the books I didn't have locally anymore and to loose the "archivement" of finished books sucks big time.
I can see this may be implemented by amazon to counter piracy, but alot of these books was perfectly legal.
So the result of this is that I will never put my kindle online again and just stop buying from the Kindle store.
So you got one bad battery and you decide to ditch their devices? Seems weird. Fwiw I have an 11-year old Kobo that's still going strong lol.

Opted for a pocketbook this time though. Physical buttons and small 6-inch form factor? And respect for your privacy? Count me the fuck in!
Click to Cancel: FTC's amended Negative Option Rule, what it means for business
Original title edited for length:

Click to Cancel: The FTC’s amended Negative Option Rule and what it means for your business
Not everything is a conspiracy, sometimes things are just posted at the magic time for them to be noticed. You can always post a link again if you think it needs a second chance right?
You’re lucky. I’ve seen books disappear from my Kindle even in flight mode. I wonder what is behind such a persistent bug.
Yup, the person wearing one literally gets the “drives a cybertruck” spotlight.
Some purist won't consider Clojure a "true" Lisp, but it's a Lisp dialect.

> what else is Lisp being used for commonly these days?

Anything that runs on Clojure - Cisco has their cybersec platform and tooling running on it; Walmart their receipt system; Apple - their payments (or something, not sure); Nubank's entire business runs on it; CircleCI; Embraer - I know uses Clojure for pipelines, not sure about CL, in general Common Lisp I think still quite used for aircraft design and CAD modeling; Grammarly - use both Common Lisp and Clojure; Many startups use Clojure and Clojurescript.

Fennel - Clojure-like language that compiles to Lua can handle anything Lua-based - people build games, use it to configure their Hammerspoon, AwesomeWM, MPV, Wez terminal and things-alike, even Neovim - it's almost weird how we're circling back - decades of arguing Emacs vs. Vim, and now getting Vim to embrace Lisp.
Very interesting! I wonder if, sadly, the rise of AI-assisted coding will chip away also at this potential revenue stream? As developers simply ask a local or cloud LLM how to use a piece a software instead of reading the documentation.
E2B – Run AI-Generated code in secure sandbox
Thanks for sharing. It's an interesting idea, to try to trampoline it into another related commercial project. I just checked my RTD analytics, I get around 1k pageviews to `/` per month. Unfortunately I don't have a related commercial product either.
It's easy: if you as a website owner transfer personally identifiable information to a third party and it's not strictly necessary to provide your service, then you need consent from the user.

If you would refrain sharing that info, you wouldn't need to ask for consent.
There is no law that asks for cookie popups
And how many of those are regular vs. irregular trips?

Probably not enough to make the statement that flying is a situation people find themselves in regularly.
I once heard a story from a sustainable design architect. The customer wanted to cut down all their shade trees to install solar panels. The architect explained that, after doing a bunch of energy modeling, the shade trees were actually saving fifteen times more energy than the PV panels would produce.

So what happened? Naturally, the customer fired the architect. They only wanted to look green, but they didn't care if it was actually green. :-/
I am completely with you here man.

Everytime I upgrade my iPhone it turns on Bluetooth. Phreaking annoying.

Apple clearly wants their customer base to use certain features so they simply enable them at upgrade. It's gross.
It doesn't give any social cues on how you are using it. That is, people cannot tell whether you are using earbuds to block outside sound or to enhance outside sound. Therefore it doesn't work, until social norms change.

I remember the real hearing aids of yesteryear. They look sufficiently different from earbuds that they are always acceptable.
While I don't like cookie popups, I prefer them to the alternative - websites silently tracking me however they wish.

If the industry didn't want cookie popups, perhaps they should have respected the DNT header[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
ShadowLogic: Backdoors in Computational Graphs
For every "you" avoiding subscriptions, there's an idiot like me who has had several $5-10/mo. subscriptions for years because I keep hitting the "call customer service to cancel" wall and procrastinating.
So while this effort is commendable, it will do nothing to help open source projects that are good, but just have not become popular yet.

It makes you wonder how many projects are out there which have tremendous potential but still lack a critical feature or two that a bit of funding would help bring to fruition.
I’m not sure regulators would look too favorably on that merger, but also what would that give AMD? Enormous R&D costs and a mid-tier foundry business that’s losing money and unable to support their product lines.
Fair point. I live in Chapel Hill, NC, and we're fortunate enough to have multiple repeaters that can be worked with a hand-held from where I live. But yes, geography will definitely play a factor. I should probably have noted that originally. Good catch.
I wonder if this will speed up the push to "renting" software as opposed to buying it.

By that I mean, in order to use any software product, you will need to phone home and what you do is logged on a server. This way, the vendor may be able to find a way to blame you for a violation.