skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long term contracts (or state monopoly) at price based on average cost.

Typically what existed in France and other places of Europe before we decided to “liberalize the energy market”.
Europe has the ECMWF which is the leading meteorological research institute with the best forecasts in the world. Apart from that, all the large national weather services in Europe are top notch. In comparison, the US weather services are in a sorry state with outdated forecasting models.
To my understanding the use of nuclear would be to reduce the ammount of spread out battery stations that'd have to cover the base load when cloudy / at night.

There'd also be less overbuilding of solar as you have to build for winter weather and day length instead of summer if solar is supposed to cover everything
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I'm inclined to agree with the conclusion from _this_ data being a tad too early.

But, if one digs a bit into the data then one finds that EV sales in nearly all countries had double digit increases. The two major exceptions are Germany and Italy. But on the other hand the Chinese market both grew substantially and there it is more or less a policy goal to boost local manufactures and those are ~all electric. And if China is not going back to gas-powered cars then the conclusion is a pretty safe bet, isn't it?
Italy neither has the engineers to build a nuclear power plant, they would have to ask another nation, like Russia, Canada or France, to build it for them.

And where does the nuclear fuel come from? Russia.
It would be "perfectly legible" if it was just the logic. As it is, it's more `if err return err` than actual logic.

And there's high chance the layer above is doing the same thing, and the layer above, until you actually get to actual error handling.

Rust at least recognized this and first provided try? and then the ? operator as a shortcut to this boilerplate
It's democratic because it's on the index? Every state is on the index. China ranks 177 out of 179 states on the index lol. So sure, where a perfect democracy score is 1.0, they score 0.015. It's not zero.

Yes, the KMT dictatorship era was awful. You might be surprised to know that in Taiwan there are national holidays commemorating those persecuted by the KMT. The reason The ROC (Taiwan) is more aptly comparable to the Union when making an analogy to alternative American history is because it was the original, legitimate government of China and the PRC were the rebels, just like the USA and Confederacy.
> “Which point you can’t in good conscience stay”

I’m curious about this sentiment. Why would living in a place be condoning the international political actions of said place? If I move to Spain, I don’t automatically condone the government there. There are many reasons to live in a place, and politics is only one (hopefully less important than doing what’s right for family, job opportunities, etc).

Perhaps OP is suggesting the current events are bad enough to warrant leaving? Genuinely curious.
It kind of weird to have employees without an office. How could that happen?
It is the whole point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH9TmeJN_M
Thank you! I knew there must be some logical explanation beyond coincidence.
The last one I picked up off the street had no problems whatsoever, except for the fact that the power cord had been cut off. Presumably someone had cut it off deliberately, which is infuriating - but hey, free toaster.
It’s right there in the bit I quoted. That’s what the word “first” means.

By the way, I did catch the rant you posted before. I tried to reply to it but after writing it up and hitting reply, you had already deleted it.
> massive ecological consequences

As opposed to the minimal ecological consequences continuing to burn fossil fuels are currently yielding you mean?
No idea what this has to do with the halting problem
> not like all Taiwanese hate all mainlanders

Good neighbours, strong fences. You don’t need to hate your neighbour to appreciate sovereignty. If anything, returning to mutual respect between Taipei and Beijing, a stance which was being moved towards until Xi, should further cross-strait ties.
The Twitter playbook, except for the government.
One reason is that none of these factories can be built without European ASML machines, and given how the US is doing its absolute best to disrupt its relationship with Europe, maybe it would be time to stop selling them there and consider selling them to China instead.
Batteries simply raise the price of power up by 10x if not more. Not a viable solution.
I don't have the skills to get hired by Apple, but I think maybe for my mental health I should just work on my side projects instead of trying to get hired by the FAANGs.
> Electric self-driving taxis are going to be big in the medium-term.

This claim has been made for years now and a number of big companies like Google, Uber and Tesla have tried to jump into this market, but does this hold up?

I vaguely recall a self driving taxi service being active in some areas, but how are they doing?

Anyway, static routes and stations work fine for big parts of e.g. the Netherlands, but you need a good structure of bus routes and transit hubs. It's a fact that it takes longer than driving for most trips though and IMO the cost should be a lot lower, but that's the tradeoff made.
What if you changed __brand to be a Symbol that was never exported?
This. It would take a lot for me to switch over to a cheaper provider especially if it was something mission critical. It’s way too risky.

On the other hand, if it wasn’t mission critical (let’s say replacing my todo list tracker), then I wouldn’t even consider replacing it because it’s not critical, and it’s not expensive. Why should I waste my time replacing it with something a bit cheaper?

So it’s a catch 22
Apple Music's desktop UI/UX has been absolute garbage in comparison to iTunes before it since release. I have been patiently waiting for what, five years now(?), for someone to improve it, but they just haven't.

I don't think it's changed in any notable way since its initial release in 2019 and it's still beta quality at best. Do they even have people working on it?
As far as I know - which is definitely not that much - there are literally 3rd world countries operating nuclear power plants without accidents. It might have to do with iaea supervision as well, but I don't know what they do irl so I won't comment on that
Thanks for your reply.

> Overwriting function pointers gives code execution under shadow stacks

As you are probably aware, there are two kinds of CFI - forward-edge and backward-edge. Forward-edge CFI prevents tampered function pointers, vtables and such from being invoked. Whereas backward-edge CFI protects does the same for return addresses. Clang's and MSVC's (CFG) implementations of CFI only provide forward-edge protection, hence the need for shadow stacks. Without hardware support, shadow stacks can not be prevented from tampered, which is why Intel (CET) and AMD added shadow stacks.

> Mobile platforms are very memory sensitive

Agreed. I'd guess this applies to embedded too. But all things considered, I do hold the opinion that language-level memory safety is being overplayed a lot.
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I don’t think being bad a a game is a negative signal in and of itself, but what is is that he, like Elon, seemed to let people believe that he was extremely good at games as a way to build his own myth.
This must be the promised efficiency
Bc it was upvoted.
Their math is a bit off though... 300MW is not enough for 3.1 million households. That's 97W per household for like 2 hours.
And why is it on the main page?
Absolutely insane that this is what we've come to. It is mind blowing to me that this is what people want. We are regressing this country so rapidly that we are likely to become one of those shithole countries the president so loudly proclaimed Haiti, El Salvador and others were.
Harvesting, perhaps. I’ve never heard it referred to as mining
As an Argentinian, seeing the current US admin applying the "lessons" learned thanks to the javier milei experiment is the stuff of nightmares.

Preventable and predictable nightmares.
I don't get the systemd hate, as a user I find it quite nice. Centralized place all services live and I can see all the stuff I use and need. Good CLI for inspecting services and getting logs.

But like, I don't manage linux servers and stuff so I am sure it sucks in certain very specific ways for people who need to deal with it day in and out.

I remember my young days of using Slackware with init.d. That was hell.
I don't disagree with that and yet somehow Windows manages to largely maintain HW compat across major OS upgrades with the same crappy third party driver ecosystem.
Mozilla doesn't need any of that data from me, whether it is sold or not.
So a good trader or shortseller (like the now defunct Hindenburg Research) would make such news public to attempt to make a profit off it.

So why isn't that happening?
> V-dem, Bertelsmann, and EDI literally has scores for China.

I think you confuse being listed on those indices with being a democracy.

On V-dem China takes place 177 of 179, the Bertelsmann index categorized China as "hard-line autocracy" and EDI categorizes it as "authoritarian"
Maybe I misread it then. I interpreted it as "not low for the average person, but not that expensive _for someone with greater than average wealth_"
Don’t randomly accuse people of “sophistry.” Zelensky is publicly demanding a security guarantee, and sprung that on Trump at the meeting. I didn’t say there couldn’t be other support, but the security guarantee is what I’m talking about because that seems to be critical.
National stereotypes...

Italy's the 3rd largest economy in the EU, and 8th in the world, with an advanced technology sector to boot.

And if they somehow cannot figure it out, their French neighbors most assuredly can.
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COVID had a bigger impact than Brexit.
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perhaps he was just waving
confirmed - I just crossed the 500 line and the downvote triangle appeared below the upvote triangle
> Long two years

Probably a lot longer than two at this rate :/.
Italy is one of the best countries in the EU to do solar in.

https://solargis.com/resources/free-maps-and-gis-data?locali...
You're talking about domestic propaganda. The parent blames external propaganda, instead of doing something or at least admitting that the domestic propaganda pipeline backfired. It's usually extremely hard to make people see their own issues. It's always someone else, not them.

Yes, in Russia it happened largely in the same way, and it started much earlier than in 2011 (in 2012 we already had literal Putin cultists marching down the streets). Some people blamed an external enemy for their troubles (both troubles and the enemy were usually imaginary, with the enemy usually being the US), others who rejected the idea blamed the other half and generally had their heads in the sand, but neither wanted to admit their issues or do anything substantial, leaving the Kremlin do what they wanted to do.
Solar + batteries is still cheaper than nuclear
> Not sure what go debugging is like but I imagine you can quickly work your way to the first err!=nil while debugging.

How do you imagine that happening? I can’t see another way then either stepping through your code or setting breakpoints on all the ‘return nil, err’ statements. You rarely, if ever, can use a ‘watch variable’ feature, because each function will have its own local ‘err’, and will have a new one on each invocation.

If, instead of ‘return buil, err’, there’s ‘throw new…’ in such blocks, I don’t see why you couldn’t do the same things.
> An electric bike or scooter can be brought indoors to charge.

Just look at this:

https://www.newsflare.com/video/704902/e-bike-battery-explod...

There are a lot of videos like this that shows the devastation of charging electric bikes or scooters indoor.
It isn’t a one time thing. Voting is the bare minimum and likely takes the least effort of all other types of civic engagement, perhaps only behind signing an online petition.
Try to leave before the US turns into full blown authoritarian country. It's quite common during authoritarian regime change to close the borders at some point and don't let qualified workers leave any more.

From a moral perspective I don't see any new big issues staying in the US.

(I'm European, not living in the US)
The USA was part of the Budapest Memorandum. This is a pretty strong reason for the USA to provide support for Ukraine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
The NT PE executable format supports quite a few processors families.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-for...

I just like the valid MSDOS stub header executable on the front of every DLL and executable.
"A list of democracies that don't score non-democracies" having China by definition means the indexes consider China a democracy.
You really think that this conflict has no repercussions or implications for US interests?
This is literally the state of most jobs. There’s no reason public jobs should have more protection.

There's no reason private jobs should have less protection, or that this be the status of most jobs.

See for example The Great Risk Shift, Jacob S. Hacker (2006):

<https://calitreview.com/the-disquieting-effects-of-the-new-e...>

<https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/books/review/Leonhardt.t....>
Linux? You won't have all your apps (unless you get Waydroid working, but that itself relies on an Android image), but it does work well enough that some people daily-drive it.
The fuel comes primarily from Kazachstan, Canada and Australia.

Edit:
Parent meant enriched uranium, not ore so this comment is not relevant.
IMO the main argument for devs to use linux is that Docker can run without a VM (and without Docker Desktop which is now payed) in linux. If you do docker stuff with any sort of frequency it will save years-worth of your time.
> Isn't the price of a KW of solar panels similar to the price of a KW of nuclear power these days?

Solar with battery backup is about that, globally, on average.

But: the averages have sufficiently broad variance that there's places where one wins, and places where the other wins.

PV+battery is between 75-140 USD/MWh; whereas new nuclear is, depending on who I ask, any of 81-82, 65, or 141–221 USD/MWh.
> But the ultimate reason for the navy’s resistance, argued Bernstein and Reynolds, was political. In 1830, when Harris seemed on the verge of success, the Whigs gained control of Parliament. In the course of a few months, many of Harris’s government supporters found themselves powerless or outright fired. It wasn’t until late 1841, when the Tories regained power, that Harris’s fortunes reversed

Some things never change.
Aren't there other ore sources ? I think nuclear powered countries diversified inputs.
Sure, but the US wants to put a minimum 25% tax on imports from Europe, that'll affect these machines as well.
Not at all. Transport is great for families. Get your groceries delivered.

Cargo bikes exist as well.
Didn't fix the best part.

https://github.com/jmarshall2323/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour/blob...
>And where does the nuclear fuel come from?

Canada, Khazakhstan, Namibi, and so on. Russia is pretty far down the list. Australia has the largest known reserves of uranium they just haven pushed to extensively extract it.
> Nuclear is very safe and reliable.

How do we stop fukushima-like disasters?
with WFH it doesn't seem very weird to me? why have the central office if the work is getting done anyway
France has never had a major nuclear accident. The biggest issue is of course, earthquakes in Italy.
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Would any of these be problematic for you? The US withdrawing from NATO, behaving in an adversarial way to your home country/Europe? Allying with Russia over Europe?
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The US-government is interspersed with oligarchs who want to diminish the ability of the government to actually act so that they can argue why everything should be privatized.
"stablecoin", sounds like an oxymoron.
It should be said that lots of people gain real value from chatting with AI, which can appear to offer some of the best facets of human relationships—connection, support, attraction, humor, love.

Umm, no? There is no love to be gained, there is no attraction. This is only a dangerous trap that offers lonely and unloved people a simulation of what it might be like to be in a long-term commited relationships.

I remember reading a Reddit thread about a woman wanting to date ChatGPT, because compared to her boyfriend, GPT was talkative, supportive and telling her all the right things. Why would you continue to date somebody who does not support you in the ways you want?

If you're using these applications to simulate anything regarding human social connections, please shut your computers down immediately. Find a hobby, join your nearest D&D club, just please do not become emotionally dependent on a simulation of a person, provided to you by complete leeches, who will only try to milk this connection for more and more money.
not exactly a stereotype, just facts.

for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi_collapse

and also check what happens (now more than ever) everytime there's a big rain in a lot of italian places. I'm very concerned about this.
Wow very intresting stuff
Most of the Democrats who are good on foreign policy are republicans now (Gababrd). The Democratic Party was taken over by neocons (Hillary Clinton).
So basically "we are deciding on how to organize how to begin deciding how to approach nuclear in the future"
Are you sure it was Larderello? Are you sure it wasn't... hell?
It seems like some of the people who don't think our government is functional are determined to make it so.
People that work "in the field" don't need a home office. I know a hydrologist who now has to go to the office, when much of his work is travelling around sampling groundwater. Another person I know works at OSHA, where she also travels to various work sites, but now has to go into the home office. Ridiculous waste of travel to have to go the the home office only to then leave to go somewhere else.
Everyone did this during COVID. Either got rid of office space or didn't add any to keep up with demand, because N% of staff was now remote.

I saw this at Google before I left in 2021. Doesn't surprise me that gov't has the same problem. Desks that could only be reserved/booked, not owned. Insufficient desks if everyone had to come back. They clearly didn't see WFH as temporary, even though RTO was clearly the long term plan.

Other bigcorps are the same from what I hear. Facilities got all messed up.
There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of designers in software.

- designers who come from an advertising/visual design/motion design/packaging/print (although those are a dying breed)/etc background.

Those people care more about how things look in a video commercial or on a giant billboard, and they care about visual aesthetics and making something that catches your eye because it looks really good.

- designers who come from an interaction/HCI/usability/accessibility/etc background

Those people care about things more from a systems point of view, how features will behave across a variety of contexts/modalities, how users come to understand them over time, etc. They had more of a voice in the 80s/90s (Don Norman, Bruce Tognazzini, etc are in that category) but have been increasingly in the minority ever since.

(Designers who come from an industrial design background are a bit of a wildcard - some will put superficial fit & finish above all else, while others really get how good ergonomics, tactility, etc can translate to software).

Honestly, there's value in both. Users will judge a book by its cover, and you want interfaces to look attractive and be compelling - designers from the latter group will be content with designing interfaces that just look like black and white wireframes.

But at the same time, you don't want pure aesthetics to run completely orthogonal to core usability. So it's a balance, and software interfaces are usually worse off when that balance is out of whack.

Anyways, I'll let you guess what category of designers are overrepresented in Apple's ranks. Hint: their current head of interface design comes from a magazine design background.
Why not get the nuclear fuel from Canada? There's plenty of uranium in Saskatchewan.
Indeed. GDP per capita has been decreasing for some years (effective recession) but this is hidden because the overall GDP is stagnant to minimally increasing via mass immigration.

Obviously it means that on everage immigrants earn less than average (thus bringing productivity down), which is not that surprising with the number you've quoted.
Looks like a scooter but twice as heavy and with a mobile app. The only reason you'll see it on the streets are subsidies from public "green" funds.
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In what timeframe?

Solar panels last 20-25 years. Nuclear power plants last for 50+ years and use fraction of the space that solar. It is hard to believe that the TCO is lower. Usually people just looking at the price in the short term and comparing that. Batteries are a whole different can of worms. Super toxic and you need a high volume of those because the energy density is much lower.

https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Energy_density