DisjointedHunt

Wow, is it not rude to question the intent behind asking for a technical clarification? There is no gotcha here. It's simply asking OP to rule out this very obvious gap that their statement leaves unaddressed. Being helpful != being accurate.

The OP has pretty much said that X-Check tags are not intended to automatically take action on reports.

That is a pretty different thing from saying the people applying the tags don't expect action to be taken, but there could be entire organizations of 1000s of people where those tags serve a different purpose.

Please read the link above for context on how terrible Facebooks data control practices are, wherein this very act could be routinely occurring and OP or anyone making decisive statements would be irresponsible in doing so.

An absolute coup that Apple might be able to pull off is if they're able to replace control electronics for Daimler with their A-Series (Or other custom ASIC) chips.

When Sandy Munroe tore down the Tesla Model 3, a remark he made hit hard. That the control electronics in that thing seemed like space age for the car industry.

That's not a compliment to Tesla alone, that's a criticism of the state of the art in the car industry where miniaturization has not kept pace with the leading edge phone generations that Apple spits out every year.

Imagine that, a common platform that Apple could upsell to ALL vehicle manufacturers with custom enterprise apps written by the companies themselves for vehicle electronics.

I'd speculate this is part of an "Opposition research" move by a political party that might benefit.

The extreme lengths that these people seem to have gone to is shocking. Whatever it is, FB has the evidence on their servers as Alex Stamos points out since they created a Workspace instance.

The background about Meta and The Wire, along with Alex Stamos' great thread about inconsistencies can be presented without resorting to conjecture on your part about the motivations of the owners of the publication.

Respectfully, it is because of the uncertainty in project approvals and financing to a large part.

In 2015, lawmakers made it mandatory to reduce Nuclear energy to 50% of existing installed capacity. So, pretty much all changes of mind post that point mean that previously shelved projects are re planned with FROM scratch with the new market rates.

That's fair. Having looked at a few of those threads, I think the premise behind the "level playing field" statement is likely flawed.

These are press releases. They will be sterile. Compare that with someone linking to their personal website where they can choose to add any title of their choosing. I'd humbly suggest that those two categories being treated the same on HN isn't right given how the latter may or may not be an originating story.

I respect the work you guys put in to offer such a service to the community and for the patience in putting up with a nobody who's challenging your historical decisions in the comments :) I hope i don't come across as rude by saying that the experience for niche topics might be a little better if the headlines are made accessible without adding opinion.

Other than that, i respect your work and will not editorialize the titles anymore.

If you own your own site, you could rehash a press release on your own and use whatever “mega comment” title you choose. Hence not a level playing field for anyone else posting a link from a press release.

If the title, as we see here is very niche, it will not spur discussion from people not inherently familiar with why “Vogtle Unit 3” is any different from 1 or 2.

You’re adding layers of friction and reducing accessibility to information. People won’t research every oddball title they see and thus get stuck in content/ranking bubbles.

The title of the press release is targeting people with a lot of context. This industry has very long cycles and thus not a lot of people will have all the context.

No no, this is a little more complicated.

The energy demands in the market right now are very different than what they were even 20 years ago (I mean, who would have imagined crypto mining or large model training in the state it’s in?)

We’re heavily constrained as a society in our use of energy. For example, you don’t just leave the heat/AC on all day when weather conditions demand it, do you?

Similarly, we don’t have massive desalination capacity on the west coast in spite of years of drought with the Pacific right on the coast.

Energy is one of those things that society has no choice but to live within its means on. We can build all the nuclear capacity we want to and yet, may still see future demand in intensive areas such as carbon capture, desalination, supercomputing clusters come up that are great candidates for any buffer capacity we may have, should we be so lucky.

This all goes without mentioning the huge surge of lower income populations that will slowly be increasing consumption over the next few decades. Hundreds of millions(perhaps billions) of people in India, Africa, Asia and South America (The global south) consume very, very little energy today because of financial constraints and development. A lot of these people may not have access to transmission infrastructure for a long time and solar, wind and the like certainly find their use in many such places today.

In short, this is not a zero sum game.

This is false.

Build all the solar, wind whatever you want. Doing so while ignoring the low return on energy security alone is a fools errand.

I’ve sat through meetings where carbon credits have been touted as the greatest weapon to transition the world away from fossil fuels. Carbon credits.

I’ve heard very reliable stories from China about business entities solely set up to generate unbelievable volumes of carbon credits to take advantage of this accounting trick.

I think the opposition you see is to the counterproductive moves of the past two or three decades where enormous amounts of money have been thrown at present renewable strategies and the world is worse off from an energy perspective.

Exactly. When the downsides look like $200 billion in emergency spending[1] , you start to wonder if there are any adults in the room anymore

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/margrethe-vestager-eu-german...

On HN, many people may run their own sites and thus able to freely editorialize however they choose.

Editorializing headlines of a press release directed at a different audience with likely more context to make it accessible shouldn’t be seen as a bad thing. It spurs discussion.

Perhaps the boundaries of editorializing headlines need to move to accommodate for this. So long as there isn’t opinion inserted, it seems fine.

The earlier submissions title was imperfect for being too short and missing the qualifier “The first . . . In the US”

You are conflating too many popular terms incorrectly while trying to make your point.

Baseload as defined by Wikipedia that you cited does not contradict my point, you don’t seem to understand the nuance of what economic demand is and why that is different from an attribute or minimum design spec.

It isn’t the consequence as you originally declared, it is an attribute of the grid itself. That’s a very important thing to understand. Anything can provide that input to the grid, but that means the source providing input to the grid must meet that very basic design specification.

Flexibility of generation capacity coming online is easily compensated by other parts of the grid such as the storage or load shifting characteristics of the grid.

It’s probably fair to say that energy demand over the next ten years will increase significantly.

The anecdotes of the end of Moores law that signifies the end of electronic efficiency through miniaturization alone and the increasing adoption of energy hungry devices for personal compute or lifestyle will certainly have a multiplicative effect over time as these trends make their way through society.

In such a scenario, it’s hard to imagine prices being the same if demand increases by even a single digit multiple of the present.

<facepalm>

It isn’t simply economic. I don’t think you understand the fundamental purpose of an energy grid.

It isn’t just a bunch of wires existing on their own. It is the energy delivery infrastructure for all of society.

“Baseload” is an attribute of the grid itself that indicates the minimum energy capacity these wires at present carry.

Baseload is NOT a constant value or a constant consumption pattern across time of day/day of week alone.

Baseload reflects the consumption of energy by society that the grid is DESIGNED to serve at any time.

In other words, were one to use your definition, the grid would no longer be considered a functioning grid anymore but one that is broken since it is incapable of meeting its minimum design specifications.

French politicians voted in 2015 to shut off all planned new nuclear investment in favor of transitioning to “renewables”

It was political incompetence that led to the French plants needing to have their lives extended MUCH BEYOND their expected lifetimes.

It’s not one dimensional.

Energy density can be both important for transportation and also be important for the ability to accelerate energy production without a proportional growth in mining/resource harvesting that harms the planet.

A melon sized chunk of uranium powers an Aircraft carrier of the US navy for over 2 decades while it circumnavigates the globe hundreds of times, launching aircraft off its deck and powering remarkable levels of energy demand from on board systems.

For comparison, a single trip around the pacific for a conventionally fueled aircraft carrier costs 125 MILLION GALLONS of fuel.

It’s incredibly hard to wrap one’s head around what 20 years x 125 Million Gallons x Num_trips per year looks like.

It’s the minimum specification of the grid.

Not economic, but functional.

For a grid to serve “production traffic” or be used in the real world, there is a minimum amount of power it must reliably deliver 24x7 ;

Looking at the F150 lightning convincing people who typically might fall in a cohort skeptical of EVs is eye opening.

People will happily buy EVs if it fills the gap their present vehicles do and proponents of EVs will do well to remember that not everyone leads the same lifestyle, living in dense cities with lots of highway driving.

I'm very hopeful for the future seeing the swarm of Nuclear startups pushing the boundaries in the United States. It feels like we're in ~2004 of the space startup phase with Nuclear tech startups.

Cheap access to plentiful energy has been one of the main drivers of innovation for all of human history.

It is very surprising in that context that Governments haven't pushed harder to secure their energy security more aggressively.

Imagine waiting 16 years for a PR :/

From the manufacturer, Westinghouse, so please take with a critical look:

Key quote from the second link: "The key feature of the AP1000 plant is the replacement of complex redundant safety systems that are powered with AC power with passive safety methods such as gravity and heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation.....

.....The AP1000 plant does not require AC electric power to achieve safe shutdown nor to establish and maintain, for an extended period of time, safe shutdown mode while removing decay heat from the nuclear fuel. By removing the reliance on AC power, you solve the paradox in which you need AC power to remove decay heat. With the AP1000 plant design, you don’t need AC power. You just need the laws of physics and stored energy from DC batteries, compressed gases and gravity to remove decay heat, and that is what achieves the simplicity and robustness."

Safety features overview page: https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/energy-systems/ap1000-pw...

Interviews with engineers for a salesy focused magazine (Not mobile friendly): https://digitaleditions.nuclearplantjournal.com/JA18/22/

Product overview page: https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/energy-systems/ap1000-pw...

Innovation isn't very likely to be found in a sterile corporate environment.

The attempts by Meta to control so tightly what content ends up on the Quest will only end up with results that are a reflection of their creators.

I felt like i wanted to throw up with the whole bay area, corporate environment vibe this presentation gave off.

I was most excited by the prospect of having Xbox game pass on this thing until i found out all it is is a big screen in VR (What's the fucking point, guys?). If they have the engineering resources to convert even a portion of fan favorites into native VR experiences, that's going to kill.

This feels a lot like IBM labs where the technology is "there", but these clowns are not the ones who're going to find the killer application and yet are hell bent on controlling the whole thing.

Someones going to come around eventually and hook this up with porn, native video games, psychedelic experiences in legal states etc and push the boundaries of exciting yet controversial content that would never get past the committee of corpo minded rats at Meta and that will be when it takes off.

For their sake, i hope Meta realize this.

As someone who's spent time in countries where discrimination is rampant, i can tell you my personal opinion that it is not different at all.

In fact, that is a dangerous trend in liberal America that needs to be debated on its merits (or lack thereof).

You can't FORCE these things by doing the exact thing you stand against.

Wow, while this has been an open secret forever that HR recruiting for senior executives is highly "picky" going to racial lines, i found this hard to read.

Lets hope for a better future where ignorant hate like this doesn't exist as much as it does today. People deserve more than being judged on the basis of the circumstances of their birth.

For a company with such a competitive moat in global internet bandwidth, i often wonder why they simply don't undercut AWS and Azure on their egress fees and thus cloud bills?

Free unlimited egress would completely change cloud economics.

It's going to happen anyway, either wait to be disrupted by the likes of Cloudflare or do it now and disrupt the industry.

Keen observers of Chinese industry will note that there is also a significant threat of IP theft[1] to Apple by continuing to invest in advanced manufacturing over the long term in China.

Apple hasn't just outsourced manufacturing to China. They are on the cutting edge of many-a-technology , at least commercially available tech, and they ship enormous amounts of know-how.

Combine this with the Chinese Communist Party's aims to extend industry as an arm of state policy with the likes of Huawei getting into telecommunications and IT hardware, it's hard to see a future for Apple not getting overwhelmed by the competitive threat of a lower cost adversary.

[1]https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/18/huawei-cloning-ap...

That's a great point, thank you for the link.

That's . . . a very good point and hadn't crossed my mind.

I do hope these large firms with such a wealth of smart people on the inside have robust debate on the nuances of what "success" looks like as you say. If someone pushed a formulaic approach of juicing metrics, you need a healthy ecosystem of pushback.

Wow, i wonder if Facebook realizes how complacent they've become through such a relatively short period of dominance.

They need to rely on the army of data scientists and smart people still left there to help guide their decision making through data. Increasing ad load solves the short term problem of depressed conversion reporting thanks to privacy changes in the Industry.

It DOES NOT solve the business problem of a rising competitor in TikTok, a failing ads business model (for growth that wall street expects) given present privacy challenges.

People in the West rarely get to encounter situations such as these that make me thankful every day for the imperfect heaven we live in.

This is a daily experience for the families of those 230k. Imagine the horrors the families in places like Xinjiang are going through. Even if a small portion of these reports is factual, we're talking rape, torture, organ harvesting, despicable acts against human life everywhere.

What we have in the west isn't perfect, but God am i thankful to not have my family denied education or other social essentials because i decide to speak my mind.