skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It really seems like some intermediate form that's supposed to be output from a proper frontend language

Honestly, it is. You're supposed to write your own operator that would in turn generate all this boilerplate properly — you can look at a tech blog of any large-ish corp that tried to use k8s, and they all say "yeah, we tried to write those manifests manually, it was horrible, we now have a home-grown piece of software that generates it" (I mean, don't you like it that your deployment manifest must have metadata.labels, spec.selector.matchLables, and spec.template.metadata.labels all have exactly the same contents or else strange and wonderful things happen?)

Then again, some people make their operators' input language way too flexible so in the end you again have a YAML-serialized AST of an accidentally Turing-complete language... but it's the common ailment that plagues us all: given a language, any language, instead of using it we start building an interpreter for some other ad-hoc language on top of it, and then suffer from the consequences.

As for standard k8s' operators... they're okay, but the moment you need to do anything slightly different from the intended way, you're in a see of hacks and workarounds. For example, you want your pods spread perfectly even between a set of nodes? Haha, why'd you want that, the k8s cluster is supposed to be RAID-like but okay, here's the beta-feature called topologySpreadConstraints. Watch out though: it disregards any inter-pod affinity constraints, and you really want to use it with a nodeSelector/nodeAffinity.
> I live with my partner in a tiny, modest apartment (<1000 sqft).

Perhaps that's tiny by Canadian standards. In Europe, it'd be actually considered large. "Tiny" is below 300 sqft.
Folder Labyrinth
Hey, a bit unrelated, but the blog looks great :-D May I as if it's a next.js public template (and, if yes, which one) or a private design you are using ?
8 inch floppies in 1986? My recollection was that the 5¼ inch floppy was ubiquitous with 3½ inch floppies as the up and coming next-generation technology.
>The usual argument I keep seeing is that with the exponential cost reduction in solar and green hydrogen we will have in the future a combination that will be cheaper than the nuclear costs of today.

Thats what its like today. That's probably why the nuclear PR articles almost never try to compare costs or speed of construction with demand shaping + solar + wind + storage. It does not stack up well.
I'm a computer scientist with degrees and stuff, and I don't mind. I believe this is an example of the proof being in the pudding?

By coincidence I just wrote a proprietary serialization format a few months ago for work, and it's proven to be 42x better than flat-buffers, depth-buffers, proto-buffers and even the equivalent electro-buffers. Unless you care about average space efficiency, then it's worse probably!
Yes, the point isn't the word used, but that they want to "neutralize" a campaign's effects not the union. That's just not how quotes work.
One of them is per family and other per person (family of size 1). Is it even comparable? I am not saying it is lesser, it's pretty high, probably 200% not 560% if I am right.
Coincidentally 1982, the year Tron hit the cinemas!

Fantastic footage. Sewing machines were all the rage I guess. ;)
Not OP but I think this is about classification which is done by the same office that gives movie ratings, etc. The way I understand it unclassified versions can't be sold via retail. The biggest stink was what happened to GTA with the Hot Coffee minigame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_...
Excellent project, and like many here I have also considered writing such a dictionary app for my own personal purposes - precisely because nothing out there does what I really want: give me the ability to easily change dictionary databases and work with the entire corpus in productive ways.

For example, I would LOVE to have a dictionary app that allows me to paste in some text, and have it build a custom dictionary that defines every single word in that text - with the option to do it recursively so that the user ends up with a dictionary containing all the definitions for all the words in the dictionary - that is, the user can construct a complete dictionary, rather than a partial one, for any particular text - which, when used with the text, will allow the user to understand any word in the original text, plus any they encounter in the definitions themselves.

This would be immensely useful for technical documentation writers and other authors for whom it is necessary to use uncommon terms.

Anyway, off to parse the rest of the thread to discover everyone elses' dictionary projects before I .. start my own .. ;)
Why don’t you offer an option to see stacks instead of vertical layout? It’s so much easier to read the titles when they are horizontal.
Show HN: White Label Any Webpage
The author changed the images. This is what it looked like originally: https://web.archive.org/web/20220801002853/https://nassimcom...

It wasn’t all cursive, but close. For example, look at the word “need” in the second word balloon. It has no gaps – it’s clearly cursive. Also, in the seventh panel, second word balloon, the words “favourite [sic] language” are not cursive, but still almost unreadable. And so on.
It’s beyond misinformation now. These same incorrect statements get made again and again. It’s an actively malicious campaign from a group of trolls spreading fud.
Are you thinking about dropping out or will you have a phd in robotics?
IBM AS/400s are now Lindy.
it was meant to be a spoiler proof comment
How comfortable are you with logic gates? I found it pretty easy to get into with similar background, but it was crucial for me to think in terms of wires, logic gates, flip-flops and multiplexers.

Like, you're not assigning a value, rather connecting an output to an input with a wire. You're not writing traditional sequential statements, but wiring logic gates (level-based) or hooking up flip-flops and latches (edge-based) to implement state machines.

With this in mind, I got a very simple soft-CPU going in very little time.

I found it more difficult to get data into or out of the FPGA though. Things like I2C which is trivial with a microcontroller that has I2C peripheral is suddenly not so fun.
I have also not been able to find relyable datapoints on the total insurance cost of a nuclear fascility. I'd love to talk to someone in the insurance industry how they calculate this because that'll probably be a decent indicator of the risk involved.
FYI Checkout https://text-generator.io to save cost on gpt-3, pays to shop around and also try a lot of different prompt styles that can sometimes work with the smaller cheaper models,

With text-generator.io your only charged per request + a free tier so it's much more predictable and and you can generate lots of variants in one request. It's also API compatible so only a one line change, it doesn't do the dalle stuff though I don't think the competitors or open source image generation has caught up yet but won't be long
Journey to the Center of the Junction Box
> So multi-module projects. Weak point for maven

But not for gradle.

> Last time I checked, to publish Java library, you would need to GPG sign it. This fact alone is a serious stuff

Why is it a problem? This is partly the reason why the Java ecosystem wasn’t hit by all the malicious package fiasco.

> Github bot to update dependencies and deploying demo site

Never felt a need for this, but contrary to your misrepresentation, even maven plugins have a healthy ecosystem and being part of the 3rd biggest language, I would be honestly surprised if no such plugin would exist.
That Section 3 is fantastic. Thank you. I actually prefer definitions directly from statutes, because they're actual law and the copyright situation is better too. Are you generally familiar with Indian law? And a Python programmer? :-)
First: the EU is not a judicial unity, and the power of the "EU" (or its organs) does not extend to the judicial system (cf. the fight with Poland).

Second: All jurisdictions in the EU have "ne bis in idem" (which is part of the 5th, right?), and in the ones I know of, the suspect/defendant cannot be made to reply. Where I live, e.g. passwords are also under this doctrine, but not under all conditions. The 4th amendment is common too, although there are concerns that some member states aren't too concerned with a suspect's rights.

Australia's problems don't automatically apply to the EU, not even from a USA-centric point of view.
GeoCities GIF Bot – Web history, one GIF at a time
I am skeptical. There are almost 1B tons supposedly economically extractable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_copper#Reserves
Ironically this is what I'm going through; as I read these comments, in the back of my head I'm darkly ruminating about my day.
You're preaching to the choir. I believe that 100% of murderers should be executed; I just don't trust any justice system to be 100% accurate in ascertaining who is and who isn't a murderer. Thus I am opposed to capital punishment as public policy, in all cases (except perhaps those where the level of doubt is infinitesimal).
> beer over a barbie

I immediately pictured rude things being done to a Barbie Doll. Which is probably your point.
How ingress controller makes debugging obtuse? You're using nginx in front of your services anyway, right? Ingress controller is just nginx with some tool autogenerating its config from kubernetes objects. You can view nginx logs easily.
I'd also recommend - The Mom Test - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52283963-the-mom-test
> And our children's children's...

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children’s children, because I don’t think children should be having sex. (Jack Handey)
Takes about 4000 kwh to desalinate an acre foot of water. Would take about 2GW of solar to desalinate a million acre feet of water.

Los Angles takes 1.2 million acre feet of water from the Colorado. Replace that with desalinization, no heep big canal needed.
Should take a look at their up coming digital logic analyzers too. Sipeed is packaging up some very interesting hardware at cheap prices. Barely any documentation though, so prepare to get your hands dirty!
Maybe it’s time to investigate growing lettuce and strawberries in the Mississippi valley instead of a place literally called the Sonoran Desert.

Sending the Colorado water to Los Angeles was already completely stupid. This river runs completely dry in Mexico.
> First they are practical - unlike all renewables nuclear energy plant provides stable influx of energy to the electric grid, regardless of the weather condition.

That was "practical" in the 80s. Today it's a problem. You need to have a flexible grid to profit from the cheapest energy available. Having some expensive energy source clog up the grid so you have to turn off solar or wind is a bad thing.

> As long as we don't have good and, again, practical energy storage, renewables usability will be always limited

That baseload myth is dead these days. Batteries are merely one way to store energy but they’re not the only way. They’re not even the leading way.

A combination of efficiency, demand response, transmission, optimal mix of wind and solar, along with some storage will be more than enough to get us beyond 100% of current service demand.

And all of this is already working in parts of the world. For example in the EU where all that green and brown energy from Germany is saving Nuclear-Frances ass at the moment and has been every summer and winter for at least the last decade.

> nce everyone who would like to work on this was treated by the Academia like Holocaust deniers and anti-vaccination activists.

Billions disappear in nuclear research and has been since it's been invented. Billions which could have been invested into renewables which unlike nuclear produces real and fast progress so please...don't spread fake news.
Launching a container is implementation detail for Kubernetes. I could totally see Kubernetes which runs some pods in containers and some pods in VMs with tiny kernel. May be it even exists, I'm too lazy to google it.
On a continent-wide grid, there will likely be some wind somewhere, and some pumped hydro ready to take advantage of the low prices.

We'll also see micro-storage developing to take advantage of electricity price variability. EVs will charge when electricity is cheapest, household water might be warmed during the day when solar energy is available, etc.

Unfortunately losing nuclear means that we lose the potential for a self-sufficient regional grid. But since the costs of losing base load power are largely offloaded from national budgets, instead showing up as new costs for consumers and companies, it's a lot easier for a politician to advocate for renewables. No need to spend taxpayer money on a project that won't be finished in the 4 years that matter to your government.
Hardly, given they're still awaiting trial.
> The only reasonable solution is to stop building new homes right now, and look into how to reduce the number that exists because it's obvious they've already overbuilt.

Yep, reduce housing, don’t build more. Nobody wants to admit it because it doesn’t sound nice.
You can get a phone pureley for work, and turn it off outside of working hours. As with your elderly parents, it might be a good idea to tell them to call you instead of text for important/time-critical things. Non-important stuff can go to Whatsapp, and you check infrequently.

I myself gotten a non-smart feature phone as secondary device with a MultiSIM - i.e. both my smartphone and my feature phone ring when I get a phone call, and I can take it on any device. I also told my close contacts to call instead of text as I might be without smartphone. If I want focus time, I turn off the smart-phone or leave it at home.
8-inch floppies were actually quite common in the mid-80's on machines such as the OP described. I've still got a few stashed in some archives somewhere, with old code I wrote. I shudder to think the effort required to use those floppies again somehow, though .. not exactly the same dilemma I face with the drawer full of Iomega JAZ and ZIP drives, though .. :P
The Wheelbot – A jumping reaction wheel unicycle
> it can be pump storage plant or similar installations.

Not sure about the rest of the world, but in the EU we basically maxed out those years (decades?) ago. We won't be getting much more. (I mean, without actual mountains, your pump storage plant is going to be prohibitively expensive.)

> The topic is very complex, there are disadvantages with every form of energy production

True. In France, we had a very recent report[1] that outlines various scenarios towards 2050, and it appeared that the least risky ones involved a fairly diverse energetic mix.

[1]: https://assets.rte-france.com/prod/public/2022-01/Energy%20p...
> ...you are requested to delete The Machinery source code and binaries.

This is pretty weird.

Then again, in regards to the engine itself dying, I feel like this is inevitable for many of the projects out there. For example, there was the Xenko engine which was later renamed to Stride: https://www.stride3d.net/

It's actually a nice project, has lots of great features and feels like it should be a more open alternative to Unity, whilst being similarly easy to use. However, compare the attention it is getting in comparison to something like Godot:

- https://github.com/stride3d/stride
- https://github.com/godotengine/godot

On OpenCollective, Stride has an estimated annual budget of around 12k USD, whereas Godot gets around 15k USD per month on Patreon. Stride has a bit under 100 contributors, Godot has almost 2000. Godot gets hype on various game development subreddits regularly, yet Stride gets no such love.

Ergo, it's probably pretty easy to draw a trajectory of what the next 10 years might bring for either, with one probably getting more features and development and becoming a mainstay of the indie scene, when compared to the other.

But the great thing is that if whatever engine you use has an open license, you cannot have it be taken away from you (as long as you have all of the actual executables and don't depend on external services).
That's why any new open-source project designed to be run in different environments should prefer Go over Ruby:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31686536
This is not true.

Rivers are often dammed to create an artificial body of water that can be used for power generation. You are storing water from the river when it has a high flow rate, in order to be able to generate power when needed.

There is nothing that requires the area downstream from the dam to have been previously underwater.
>Something being built means little when the time from "start" and "end" is meassured in decades.

If you'd go to check for the average build time of a nuclear reactor or the new reactors that come into service you'd notice they're often/typically connected and running 5-6 years after they start building.
A lot of that is helped by china and the likes not having horror stories like Finland.
>We could literally have hundreds of reactors blow causing 1000 km2 unlivable patches of ground and still be perfectly fine.

Your numbers are off by orders of magnitude. The exclusion zone for Chernobyl alone is 2600 km2, the areas immediately affected in the 3 neighboring countries is 130 000 km2, food and livestock in areas over 3000 km from the site have to be fed special food supplements in order to pass regulation for human consumption to this day.

And this was despite the fire in Chernobyl being handled, limiting the actual amount of fallout released into the atmosphere.

IMO, correctly prioritizing our fears means we should put all efforts towards solar and energy storage solutions. That's the optimal solution after all, aiming for anything else is like playing not to win.
I think this is partially true; there is some support for logical statements and control flow in differentiable programs -- at least in Jax. Further, think Deep Mind have a recent paper on a DL sequence learning methodology able to learn control strategies for lots of games simultaneously. I think this is a good example of learning discrete constraints with an NN.
Because cars are status symbols. The car you drive says something deep and meaningful about you. If you drive a BMW or Audi you are successful and everyone understands that. If you drive a Prius you're a tree hugger and if you drive anything cheap you're a failure in life that obviously can't afford anything better.

(Sarcasm btw)
Thank you for these points. I've made some corrections in the post.

> consider that something like à can consist of either a precomposed "à" code point or an "a" + "` diacritic" sequence

If Unicode provides a precomposed combination doesn't it mean that in fact has a code point for every character? Regardless of offering diacritic combination codes?
Same, nostalgia-wise. I still have my old Atari Portfolio with the Turbo C compiler onboard, it is easily one of my most treasured nerd artifacts, given that I wrote thousands of lines of code on the thing and used it to become a skilled C developer ..

Its crazy to think we can't really get a C compiler in our pockets, now, as easily as we once did.
Pumping water 4000 ft would use as much energy as desalinating seawater.
I agree that disabling will-be-posix extensions in POSIX mode sounds like an extreme idea, but seriously, such strictness is the main point of the pdpmake. It ensures that implementation conform to the current standard, not draft which may change quite often.
Nice tool. What size is the team who created this and what are the plans going forward (maintenance, community growth)?
By the House (of Representatives), or in extraordinary circumstances by the head of state (currently the regent of the Commonwealth) but typically that requires the former to formally seek such a remedy from the latter.

I believe by convention the deputy PM in Australia is necessarily a member of this group (also called the Lower House), though our PM could in theory be a member of the upper house (aka the Senate). I don't believe that's ever been the case, though.

Fascinatingly our constitution mentions the role of Prime Minister precisely zero times -- it was assumed to be understood.
I'd expect you could at least recover some of the electricity with hydropower on the California side.
>Currently nuclear reactors take well over a decade from construction to start of operation.

If I look at recent ones that went online over the past years most took 5 years.
> By whom?

Haha. You could ask:

Gough Whitlam

Kevin Rudd

Julia Gillard

Tony Abbot

Malcolm Turnbull
It’s not that I lack empathy - I know many of those folks, and I’d work there if I wanted to. It’s just that an empathy towards Lenin bust factory workers doesn’t make their hard work any more useful.

You’re confused, because you got it exactly backwards - most technical people who work this kind of jobs lack the big picture required to realize that the vast majority of their work is just technological debt. And some others that do get it also understand the business part - and while this overcomplication is bad technologically and user-wise, it might make sense to business.

Also, let me remind you that those “most-used services” are generally of quite poor quality, both in terms of reliability and user experience. There are services that do matter - ads and tracking - and I’m guessing those are more cared about, but I’m not talking about them.
> The topic is renewables vs. nuclear though.

I'm only commenting on a portion of the argument against nuclear based on its waste.

The fact is the waste is negligible. Esspecially so when you consider the return of energy from a nuclear reactor Per square meter of real estate versus most viable renewables

I'm personally of the opinion why not both. So I'm biased of course, but nuclear isn't something to be afraid of. Purely BECAUSE of technology.
Family size of 1 is given as 108L each, but average usage per member of a family of 2.3 people is given as 89L each, so presumably an average total household usage in Flanders would be about 2.3 x 89 = 205L. I'm not sure where OP gets the 202L number from, it doesn't appear anywhere on the page. Possibly mis-reading a date as a consumption, hence I'm using capital L for Litres.

That's more than 5x less than the US. It's quite plausible the average family size and environmental conditions in Flanders differ quite a bit from that in the US, but it's still a huge disparity, and according to the second link a lot of that seems to be down to domestic irrigation. Tackling that wouldn't be very popular, of course.
No demo to try it out? How does it compare to Fuse? I used that recently to write a search component in Preact for my site.

https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/writing-a-fuzzy-sea...

I might make a branch to try out Lyra and compare results.
Technically speaking, by Queen Elizabeth.
The article makes its point well, but its title is unnecessarily polarizing.

However little, fission does produce dangerous materials that need to be handled very carefully and stored in places where nobody cares that they are actually radioactive. What if fission was to replace 90% of other energy sources. Would you trust everyone in the world to dispose of their waste responsibly?

And while Chernobyl is far in the rear-view mirror, Fukushima is not. So while improbable, it is hard to argue that catastrophic nuclear events won't happen again.

Why not acknowledge the tradeoff in the title and say it's one of the cleanest and safest. People get the point about air travel: "it seems riskier because catastrophic failures are much more spectacular, but overall air travel is a lot safer than car travel". No one is saying "planes don't crash"
I can’t actually see the 2600 in this game, only a wall of shame behind the salespeople.

The only game control appears to be the intellivision running Donkey Kong.

It’s noteworthy that this was just before the 1983 video game crash.