skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's crazy talk when you are using that as an argument (among others, of course) to convince a french president (whose country has a clearer separation between state and church than the US) to go to war.
Or you can also see it as the time to pay for all the demagogy and virtue signaling.
Can't wait to see the Thunderf00t video on that one.
I think this isn’t a very helpful perspective. Yes you can be mad, yell and blame or whatever. But if policymakers are transparent about incidents and root causes and follow up on failures, thats the culture I would prefer rather than getting mad and firing/scapegoating people.
A large nuclear power plant may use up to 1 billion gallons of water a day and, for this reason, they are often built next to rivers, lakes or oceans to utilise the bodies of water. The water is drawn from these sources and heated to create steam to power the turbine. It then condenses and can be reused in the power generation process. However, it is eventually pumped back into the body of water it originated from, albeit at very high temperatures. This can increase the temperature of the natural water source by up to 30 degrees, posing risks to the aqua life.

from this article:

https://monarchpartnership.co.uk/nuclear-power-water-consump...
I accept that a library should not be bundled into a single file. However I use esbuild instead of tsc for trans piling my code. It is blazing fast and make a quick write-transpile-test feedback.
Don't worry. They're still blaming the Reagan governorship for all their problems.
Because you require deep integration with the OS for some tasks, and the browsers will always lag behind that.

How do you create a menu to select a wifi network from a PWA right now? Or a new driver for you graphic card? Or an equivalent to LittleSnitch?

You can't.

The only way it would be possible would be that browser, os vendors and standard commitees manage to formalize an API for every single OS behavior accross all major platforms, and do so every time something new appear on them.

This would require a level of resources and cooperation that simply doesn't exist. We already have a hard time cooperating of thing that accessing BT and USB which have been there forever.
California’s electricity system is all kinds of broken. Has anyone noticed the cost per kWh or the rate at which it’s increasing? Or the fact that there are a whole pile of different rate plans, several of which offer incentives to use electricity at times that would be discouraged by other plans?

CA is very far down a good-intention-paved road, and not all of it is related to nuclear per se.
Example of a term it created is:

- sonder: The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

- https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/sonder
The most American thing in the world is to worry about the 4 deaths per year caused by the faults in that car while ignoring the other 40,000 deaths a year caused by cars in general.
At least they voted to keep their nuclear plant on for another 5 years.
NFC is a bit different - it doesn't try to pretend to be an input device. There are specific protocols that NFC devices can speak and the device can parse and then display (such as for NDEF tags), but short of exploiting a vulnerability in the parser, this kind of attack isn't possible.

The vulnerabilities outlined here are:

1) the barcode reader itself is configured over the untrusted channel via specific barcodes, instead of out-of-band via the USB interface

2) the barcode reader is either already emulating a keyboard, or can be configured to do so via the (untrusted) configuration mechanism described above.

This vulnerability can be mitigated by making sure the barcode scanner can't be reconfigured in the field and by talking to the barcode scanner over a specific interface (serial) instead of keyboard emulation, so that data from the barcode scanner has no chance of being interpreted by the OS as keyboard input.
Low 30s in Palo Alto and Menlo Park where I live. Cold enough to have frost on windshields or grass early in the morning. Biggest change for California weather was the delta between day and night!
'Curious' worker ignites foam, sparks factory conflagration in China [video]
Mid-west resident here. You think the power grid problems are only in California? Texas has their own. Mid-west can't handle some major wind or ice storms. One storm years ago I was without power for 7 days, some people in the rural area for up to a month. Solar would have been great since we didn't need a 8kw gasoline generator 24 hours a day for a 200-300w load.
It's really two steps, one to initiate the installation and then to approve it ("yes").

You can wrap the initiation any way you like. I prefer to make it resemble an app store people are familiar with. Screen shots, user feedback, a description with a "download" button. This communicates the intention pretty well even though it adds an extra step to the process.

I find the biggest hurdle is that people don't realize they can install an "app" so easily and so I try to bridge the knowledge gap.
California was a red state up until what like 8 years ago. According to your timeline it was those darn republicans after all.
Most non-AI art also does not ever reach the level of mythology you speak of.

There are scenarios where input may matter, such as in an art contest. Where the craft part is tested, not just output.

In the vast majority of cases though where the public meets art (websites, movies, games, magazines), I don't think anybody cares about how it was made. It's output-driven. It's not art for art's sake, it's art as utility.

Imagine your favorite writer. They have an incredible imagination and writing skills. But they can't draw or paint for shit. Now this writer uses their imagination to generate incredible illustrations to enrich the book. Illustrations that are relevant and beautiful.

Does it matter that AI helped with it, if it got the job done? I don't think so.
The Faster the speed, the bigger the mess
I'm disabled and never been in USA.

Never been able to take a plane without being patted down. However most times I am not asked for ID for the entire trip.

The absolute worse experience was in London, where the guard felt the need to put his hand inside my unbuttoned trousers to feel my butt.

Second worse was in Basel, where they actually took me to a room to strip down.

First time I travelled with my girlfriend she was very confused at me being stopped and talking with 2 or 3 guards. She didn't know that's how it normally goes for me.
I live in Venice, not too far either :)
> At some point, we are going to realize "green" non nuclear energy doesn't work.

It does work if you actually listen to the engineers that know what they're talking about. Renewable deployments need significant overcapacity, and have to be paired with grid expansion to average over regional variability, and energy storage to average over temporal variability.

Overbuilding should be no big deal because renewables are super cheap right now and that's something that can be done immediately. Grid expansion and storage were just not getting the attention they needed, but at least I see indications that storage is getting some investment now.
I’m not sure if this is real, but this video of a stable diffusion powered video editor was posted on Reddit a couple weeks ago and looks insane: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/wmypmh/a_d...
> Let each piece in the system do what it's good at.

Althought I strongly dislike the idea of introducing Excel in any equation, I wholehearthly agree with that quoted statement of yours. However, if I were you, I would use csv format. It can be easily read/edit from Excel if that's a strict requirement, and in that way, you can keep a grepable plain text versioned in the repository (the csv itself). The best of two worlds I guess. Also, from the top of my head, the Python standard library has a module for reading CSV, so less dependencies too.
How will this work out with the ban on gasoline car sales?

Are there plans & budget to upgrade the infrastructure?

Are there plans & budget to replace/update/install/negotiate new source of electric power?

(asking as I am not Californian.)
I've recently read some comment stating that conventional nuclear would run out of fuel in 5 years if we powered the world with only nuclear. What is the rebuttal?
It will soon rise again when everyone is charging their electric car overnight.
That's fully correct. The AI learned to draw based on work done by humans.
I had both 99/4a and later the C64. The C64 was just much more open, a much better computer to learn on.
Nuclear plants take around a decade to start up. Electricity generation companies are worried that by the time a new plant starts producing energy solar/other renewables will be so cheap that their plant will be obsolete. No one is willing to invest a billion dollars into a project with such long lead time given the uncertainty we are facing.
Which definition do you prefer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism

Some of my favourites:

> [F]ascism is best defined as a revolutionary form of nationalism, one that sets out to be a political, social and ethical revolution, welding the "people" into a dynamic national community under new elites infused with heroic values. The core myth that inspires this project is that only a populist, trans-class movement of purifying, cathartic national rebirth (palingenesis) can stem the tide of decadence. -- Roger Griffin

> Marxists argue that fascism represents the last attempt of a ruling class (specifically, the capitalist bourgeoisie) to preserve its grip on power in the face of an imminent proletarian revolution. Fascist movements are not necessarily created by the ruling class, but they can only gain political power with the help of that class and with funding from big business. Once in power, the fascists serve the interests of their benefactors

> It is usually assumed, for instance, that Fascism is inherently warlike, that it thrives in an atmosphere of war hysteria and can only solve its economic problems by means of war preparation or foreign conquests. But clearly this is not true of, say, Portugal or the various South American dictatorships. Or again, antisemitism is supposed to be one of the distinguishing marks of Fascism; but some Fascist movements are not antisemitic. Learned controversies, reverberating for years on end in American magazines, have not even been able to determine whether or not Fascism is a form of capitalism. But still, when we apply the term ‘Fascism’ to Germany or Japan or Mussolini's Italy, we know broadly what we mean. -- Orwell

> The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power -- FDR

I thought I was clear on the aspects I recognised.
There's a great comic / meme I saw that perfectly describes my feelings towards this situation.

A: Climate change will kill us all. Let's dismantle our socioeconomic system to prevent it!

B: How about nuclear power?

A: I don't want nuclear power!

A: I want to dismantle our socioeconomic system!
Political heft belongs to those who talk the loudest and organize the most effectively. Unstated political opinions do neither.
A ban on single-use bags in grocery stores had an unintended effect
I was just about to ask if anyone had used AFS.

When I went to college from 1993-97 our university used AFS for all the Unix workstations. We had a mix of Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, DEC Ultrix, SGI IRIX, and then some Linux boxes.

When you logged in at any workstation from any vendor in any computer lab your home dir would be mounted and everything was encrypted. We had ACLs where we could give permission by username and create our own ACL groups and give permission to a project directory to just our project/lab partners. It was so much easier than the chmod uid/gid stuff.

In theory we could access other universities under /afs/mit or whatever site they were but I don't think we ever had that active.
Should have said the most performance oriented setting that's also safe from data corruption.
And than you look at France.
FWIW, I don't believe that's actually a commonly held belief. I believe that's <insert ideologically identifying term> leadership's dogma created to keep the other group(s), well, other. To prevent their followers from reaching out and looking for common ground.
>Didn't Californian just ban non-electrical vehicles?

Wasn't there a recent article on this very site, titled along the lines of "Yes, the US electric grid can handle EVs"?
They ban is effective starting only 2035, I thought. 13 more years to go before the deadline.
Contact with his collecting friends is an excellent suggestion.

I'd also recommend considering distributing some of the collection to friends and relatives. Something small like a single cuckoo clock could be a great memento to remember them by. It's not a burden to take one clock the way a whole collection would be, of course people should still be asked if they would like to have it rather than being voluntold.

My great uncle had a wonderful collection of beautiful old hand tools and made a point of distributing a portion of them to his various relatives and friends who had expressed interest. The bulk of the collection went to the relative who was his son in all but fact, but I have some lovely calipers and a handmade hammer that have a cherished place among my tools. Far from a burden, I remember uncle Mac fondly each time I see them while grabbing some pliers or a drill.

My grandmother has made us go around putting sticky notes with our names on all the stuff we want when they downsize or pass. Everything else will go to goodwill or the dump. The secretary desk my grandfather fished out of the dump in the 60s is a hot commodity that everyone is trying to lay claim to.
Yes, but jammers can be expensive - and AFAIK, they are directional. At least the ones I've seen in action, so you'd have to know at least the direction of the drone.

The big challenge is that the drones are quite small, and quite the distance above. In many cases the soldiers are completely oblivious of the drones, and will frankly not know until somethings detonated right beside them.
It's not good intentions. Most of these policies are created because they sound nice and "compassionate" to your average good-hearted but naive voter. Unfortunately, the reality is that a lot of these problems require "tough love" type solutions.
> having watched every race and attended 11 in the last decade+

I'm going to guess that "decade+" maxes out at 14 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Singapore_Grand_Prix
Deregulation ~= tragedy of the commons
"8 kWh of heat can be generated from 1 kg of coal, approx. 12 kWh from 1 kg of mineral oil and around 24,000,000 kWh from 1 kg of uranium-235."
https://www.euronuclear.org/glossary/fuel-comparison/

That is 24 giga watt hours from a kg or uranium. The article says California is set to "top 48 gigawatts" on some days. If it stayed at peak usage all year 48 * 24 * 365 / 24 = 17,520 kg of uranium for constant peak California consumption.

That seems like a lot until you think about how much oil it saves
I guess it depends a lot on what you think a government should spend money on or what its role is. IMO the 9€ ticket was a great idea because it was simple and unconditional.

Social security laws and subsidies are usually riddeled with exceptions and rules on when you qualify which require more people (meaning more expenses for the government) to check them.

In a society that is constantly chasing for even more convenience, reducing as much friction as possible for taking public transport seems like a good idea and far from a disaster?
Note that increased load from electric vehicles is helpful to the grid, not harmful.

From a reliability perspective, all recurring load is beneficial, as it increases the overall capacity of the grid, insulating it from demand shocks, such as cooling during heatwaves.

But increased base load that can be easily time-shifted is _massively_ beneficial to the grid.
If a customer ever changes their billing rate, you will need to keep track of when it was changed and what their previous rates were, otherwise you'll have no audit trail and no way to bill customers correctly.

One approach would be to have a billing_period (account_id, billing_rate_id, start_date, end_date) table. Another would be to store the billing_rate_id in your account_credit table so each usage can be tied to the billing rate the customer should be charged for it.

I also wouldn't keep a running_balance column. I forget which rule of normalisation it is because it's been so long, but you shouldn't normally store a value that you can compute from other data.
Tell HN: Meetup.com is offering abandoned meetups to anyone willing to pay
We moved away from meetup.com thinking our meetups would be destroyed at some point.
When we stopped paying, meetup.com actually "offered" our meetups, including subscriber's list with full name and email, to anyone willing to pay to keep them alive.

We are now out of control with no way to get the userlist cleared. meetup.com support is not responding to support requests.

Thinking of any action that we can take against meetup.com ?
An update on New Jersey's paper bag ban
And any significant material transport to/from Earth is not worth it unless it is to set up a self sustaining operation.

People writing this kind of articles just have no idea how enormous the gravity well of Earth is.
Which the US signed in 2009. The 2nd battle of Fallujah was in 2004.

Do you have a source for the air delivery? I'm only seeing reference to WP artillery which is somehow kosher compared to something dropped from an aircraft.

This entire thread is a distraction though. The article is about urban combat in the context of Russia's war in Ukraine which nobody here wants to discuss for some reason.
This is basically the exact use case SQLite was designed for; PostgreSQL is a marvel, and at the end of the day presents a much more robust RDBMS, but it's never going to beat SQLite at the thing SQLite was designed for.
Appears term was invented in the book “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” in 2012 to create new words for emotional expressions, concepts, etc:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32676647
> "green" non nuclear energy doesn't work

Saying green energy just doesn't work is bullocks. Solar works great, can run your AC basically for free during daytime. It's not a complete solution, but it definitely will create less stress on the grid.
Companies that size generally don't follow one set of perfectly aligned goals. Both make sense for Google to support, even if they occasionally contradict each other. And that's before you look inside who exactly benefits from which goal.
It's self imposed.
Interesting. I've been thinking about an architecture like this for a while, in the context for the Salsa crate (a query engine for compilers).

I wonder if the Salsa maintainers have considered this.
"Art institutes" I'll give you, but surely you agree those are a pretty limited subset of what all art is. And even one look at one site like deviantART disproves your ideas about what most digital art is.

I say this with no snark intended: you are demonstrably in a filter bubble and need to expand your horizons before you can accurately make comments about what "most" art is
That, and the Coolpix p1000 taking good quality photos of you from 3 miles away.
This is fair. It was my mistake to bring up my preferred method of hosting static sites, because that dredges up vitriol around that method.

My point was that it's almost trivial to get 80% of the functionality of a dynamic site with a static site.
Ditto in the UK. Successive governments have run down infrastructure and power generation alike, with no thought as to how the UK is going to get enough power in the near future. The outgoing Idiot In Charge has just signed off on a new nuclear power plant but it'll take 10 years to build. In the meantime we're wondering if we could reopen some coal mines, and restart some of the coal-fired power plants that have been mothballed.
Sadly, right now people are happy to have the roof, regardless of the ongoing cost. And landlords... they'll just pass those costs on to the renters.
The article is thorough and covers why your [2], under tweening, is insufficient. Video beyond stereotyped repetitive movements is likely AI-complete.

Presumably you'd want to be director and be able to control camera angles. You might want to have a cartoon or 3D render visual style. Unreal engine prompt tag even more literal. Most important, you will want actors. Anything alive will have to move convincingly and intentionally. Some might even bring up the ethics of allowing the movie to end.

Before proper video, I think we'll first have to see tools for music, 3D rendering and animation that bring down difficulty by orders of magnitude.
Diablo Canyon can easily work for another 20 years, at least. Nuclear plants around the country have been getting license extensions. It makes 10% of the state's electricity, and nuclear fission is a zero-carbon process.

I'm glad they fought back against the anti-nuclear industry trying to close it prematurely. Now they should extend it 20 more years.
True video capability would entail describing a scene as a prompt and getting a video in return. Not interpolating between a handful of images as is being done now (not to discredit those).

This will be a huge game changer when it occurs. Whether it be for deep fake videos, creating custom content, or making a new season of your favorite tv show that was cancelled too early. The possibilities are endless.

This is probably not in the near future (i.e. this year), but I doubt it is very far off.
‘Historic’ James Webb images show exoplanet in unprecedented detail
Maybe just different styles and approaches and typing speed is a easy, obviously, and measurable metric to focus on but this sounds like brute force problem solving. I tend to prefer to build a mental model/plan such that once I start writing the first draft is probably within 90% of the final, some iteration taking place on that last 10%. But I don’t write and delete large swaths of code. This sounds like real time refactoring/lack of planning and completely erases any gain I’d get from being able to type twice as fast (I’m probably middle/average speed).

To use your mechanic analogy, the difference is the mechanic is confident in his abilities to tinker. The confidence is built on having a plan and some background knowledge. When he disassembles a carburetor he already knows the performance tweaks he’s going to make and how he’ll reassemble it. He doesn’t just start taking things apart with no plan, or start playing swapping on and off a handful of carburetors to see which performs best. He probably did his research and chose the carburetor/mod that was appropriate. It’s actually even more important with the tangible world because he has to plan and acquire the parts and tools before getting started or risk having a bricked vehicle for some period of time.

Non-mechanics know better than to tinker at all because they’ll likely break something they can’t figure out how to fix. So they might do low risk things like put high performance fluids in, or air filters, but they’ll never match up to the guys that have upgraded the mechanical systems.
They know very well what they are doing: they don’t want you using any personal transportation. You’re laughing your way to the grave.