skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure, but not only.

The German way - turning off nuclear power to replace it with coal and gas while running token amount of renewables which will never cover the base load (because the required amount of storage would be insane), is very much the dream of traditional coal, gas and oil industries. Yet the Germans argue it is the best way because "what about the waste?!!!111"

It is a shame that whole country managed to get coopted, brainwashed and corrupted this way, especially since they try to push this evil on EU level as well, but it is what it is.
Mr Joe Hypothetical and Mrs Jane Hypothetical here need a good deal of FacePunches™ and a strong dose of MrMoneyMustache: https://mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/22/what-is-hedonic-adapt...
I do all my data analysis in groovy using JupyterLab via beakerx:

https://github.com/twosigma/beakerx

It has some quirks, but it works amazingly well really, esp. with the enhanced widgets BeakerX gives you.
The AMA Said Trust Your Doctor on Smoking
Exploring the Use of ChatGPT for Product Recommendations
Large language models like ChatGPT are getting embedded into search, and monetization is becoming a bigger priority. If things shift to an ad-based business model, it seems like this could lead to more biased responses in areas like product recommendations. I wanted to take a look at ChatGPT's product recommendations before this shift takes place, so I started prompting it to recommend the best product for various types of household goods. I tested each prompt multiple times and was surprised how consistently ChatGPT recommended the same specific products. I've documented some of the recommendations here and think it would be interesting to run some more rigorous experiments, which I can write up if there's interest!
The way I see it is that nuclear disasters are terrible and costly, but they don't threaten the existence of mankind or our way of life. Global warming, on the other hand, is threatening our way of life and well-being slowly but very directly. This is the real danger, and I believe that the green movement has been very misguided in its anti-nuclear stance. They are achieving the opposite of their goals. The carbon footprint of Germany has been much worse compared to France in the past 50 years.

We've had two major disasters in 30 years. Even if you assume that you get a Fukushima/Chernobyl-sized event three times per century, which is bad and should not happen with modern designs, it still doesn't threaten mankind as a whole because they are localized events. Global warming, however, is making Earth a less habitable place everywhere.
I’m just going assume that they don’t have much variety of experience under their belt.
There is difference in regulations in EU between renovating bathroom and doing electricity.
"Can this be decentralised within a federal system"

Money creation is central to the concept, and I don't believe there is currently an advanced economy where money creation is devolved to the state level.
This is the "fuck it, we're too broke for caring"
plan.

Basically since Fukushima it's been a downhill rollercoaster, covid and the Olympics being the latest blows. Energy bills are planned to rise by 25+% for next summer, while salaries are already wildly behind inflation.

Building a new state of the art reactor now could be done experimentaly, but wouldn't help to get out of current situation.
With an aggressive China at my door, i‘d build nuclear reactors as well, and not for energy use only.
Eclipse may not be as popular as it used to be, but saying it has "fallen into obscurity" is wild hyperbole. It's still very popular, albeit maybe not so much with the SV startup crowd which is so prevalent on HN.
Found a wikipedia article describing it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyadenylation
https://github.com/huggingface/datasets

https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
"Centralisation of power is the entropy of democracy."

Absolutely.
Creating something in the scope of Jupiter is not trivial.

You do have a few nodejs/typescript/javascript kernels that work fine, so I don't see the point for rewriting Jupiter in node specifically for any reason.

In any case, maybe creating something for the browser only is easier because JS is native, but still I wouldn't call it "pretty trivial". For this use case (and more) you have projects like

https://starboard.gg/

https://observablehq.com/
Do they? I was under the impression most small brands simply resell such ODMs as Clevo or TongFang perhaps they add RAM/SSD/such -- but they do not design custom motherboards and chassis.
Maybe we should base public policy off the facts, and not the public's (unfounded) fears?
The majority of Germans want nuclear power back. But politicians don’t want to. Green party has always been against nuclear power. It’s their ideology. And the Merkel’s party who shut them down (CDU) and changed their mind now is no longer on power. German politics bas been ideological madness for the past 18 years or so…
Tyler Cowen on AI and China
It's not. There's plenty of that elsewhere as well.
Jupyter

Ju(lia)-pyt(hon)-eR

To make it clear
The hawaii balloon had ground measuring lasers
I don't think the green movement is anti-nuclear, it is nuclear reluctant but given two choices, e.g. coal vs nuclear, green would always choose the lesser of two evils.
I've avoided writing objects altogther. Never ran across a problem I needed them for.
Aka the screwdriver’s turn policy.
Yes, except that political decision making doesn’t reflect public opinion. The majority wants nuclear power back.
I laughed when I read this

> Media keys for playback, volume, brightness, screenshots and more

and realized they're the usual function keys doubly purposed.

Do you even need to mention it as a feature?
All the while the millions of yearly deaths directly caused by air pollution of fossil fuels are waved away.
As far as I understand, the FUD campaign was actually orchestrated by Russian gas companies to make Germany more dependent on Russian gas, and it seems to have worked.
I tend to view TDD as a form of coding using a REPL, like in Lisp, where you can easily test chunks of your code as you go along. The main difference is that you leave behind your tests so they can be used in the future.
They are private universities, why does it matter in the first place?

Should Catholic seminaries be forced to admit islamic students? Jeff Bezos has a $150 million house in Los Angeles, should he be forced to allow the homeless to live there?

There are a lot of other universities.

But if we are going to be strict about it, then it should be strict. We have to look at the exact makeup of every single group of people in the USA and make everything is exact. So that means Jewish students should make up only 2% of elite schools, Catholics should make up 22% of the student body, 1.1% should be muslims, 14% of students must be black, hispanics must be 18.7%, 58% must be white, 7.2% of students Asian and of course must divide it more and more. We have to figure out how many left handed students must be allowed to be in elite universities, how many with crooked vs straight teeth. This is all wonderful stuff.

Of course at universities, 50% should be men and 50% should be women. Right now, 60% of students are women and 40% are men, universities must stop admitting so many women, that is very clear. Universities should only allow 50/50.

At the premier public university of UC Berkeley, 36% are Asian and so that must be adjusted downwards to 7.2%. 23.8% of Cal Berkeley students are white, so of course, the white student population must be increased to 58%. A lot less Asians should be admitted.

At UCLA, 58.6% are women, so that has to come down so it is 50%. 28% of the student body are Asian, so that has to come down to 7.2%. White are 26.3% so that has to be adjusted up to 58%. Hispanics are 22.6%, that has to come down to 18.7%.

Of course, this must happen at every single university.

I am starting to see how this game should be played now.
Because it makes no sense to not go nuclear.

For one: Japan has no natural resources. Fuel for power must be imported. Materials for solar panels (or the panels themselves) must be imported. Nuclear is by far one of the most efficient /and/ effective forms of power generation humanity currently has.

For two: Fukushima was a result of human incompetence, nothing to do with the reactor itself or nuclear technology thereof. The meltdowns at Fukushima #1 could have been completely avoided had the government of the time not been a bunch of worthless fools (hint: TEPCO wanted to scuttle the reactors before they melted down).

For third: Japan needs power /today/, not tomorrow. Even assuming a transition to non-nuclear forms of power, that will not happen overnight. Using nuclear power is a concern of practical necessity.

For fourth: Nuclear fearmongering is patently ridiculous. Nuclear power plants are not atomic bombs, for crying out loud. The same people who cry their hearts out about radiation proceed to fly on airliners and eat bananas. The answer to nuclear fearmongering is not shunning nuclear technology, it's to teach and bring more awareness about what nuclear technology is.
lol…why would anyone buy this? It is more overpriced than an apple m2 machine.
>people are scared of nuclear energy

Let's not make policy out of unfounded fears. Let's look at some simple facts:

1. Fewer people have died from nuclear reactor meltdowns than from any other form of electricity generation. It is by far the safest form of power.

2. Even with the price of renewables dropping quickly, we will not be able to decarbonize quickly enough to prevent the terrible climate change outcomes. We need an all of the above solution to non-fossil fuel energy sources.

3. Germany decommissioned several nuclear plants out of fear and have both increased their reliance on fossil fuels as a result and increased dependency on Russia. It was a very foolish decision
It has actually happened: in 1992 the italian judge Paolo Borsellino was killed in a car bombing organized by the mafia.

The explosive was sourced from unexploded bombs recovered in the Mediterranean sea.
So, first you throw in some conspiracy stuff, and then appeal to some sense of injustice by adding some unrelated incident, as if that proves anything? The latter is widely reported, and probably not of the HN's crowd's interest.
That I did not know.
Whether or not you support nuclear power, being “scared” of it is an admission of ignorance and indicative of short-term reactionary thinking. It ought to be a source of national shame, not pride.

With apologies to Yoda, fear is the path to the dark ages.
Yes, that's the song! I mistakenly took the album name to be the song title. Thanks for correcting.

Now that I got to listen to it again, I can recommend everyone to here to check it out. The lyrics are pretty much an artistic interpretation of any of the almost daily HN threads on surveillance and digital dystopia.
Occam's razor suggests scumbag management at the rail company is more likely of a cause.
Stop spreading disinformation. Germany not only switched off nuclear plants but reduced its coal use drastically compared to levels 10 years ago. I've posted data on this a billion times, and am too lazy to do it now -- checking the actual data for once before posting an opinion should not be too difficult. Sorry, but this is beyond pitiful.
Maybe it’s good not to prevent scrolling. I have had many situations where there was a non-scrollable modal dialogue and the buttons were off-screen (my phone has a small screen). So the website became completely unusable.
> nd use scrum masters to actually do the "engineering" with getting work planned, done, and tracked.

I've yet to see scrum masters do that though. In all of the many teams I've worked at, the tasks you list were performed by product manager. Scrum master's only responsibility was organizing the retrospective. Other than that, they just hang on all our calls and contribute nothing at all.
Great answer, I would add that also there could be new solutions to disposing nuclear material that adds more confidence to the full cycle.
> Japan needs power /today/

Not today, at least two years ago. Probably even earlier.
Is there anywhere I can get more information or how may I contact you for a job position if you are still hiring.
Until they have managed to redesign humans point two remains.
> Fukushima was a result of human incompetence

Also Fukushima was hit with BOTH by a record-level quake AND a record-level tsunami. And it still didn't cause a huge death toll.

If the backup generators would've been higher up, most of the whole issue would've been avoided. Now they got flooded by the tsunami and failed.
Ah, sorry yes, that was bad phrasing on my part. By normal I meant what was on the menu (water that is branded, bottled, shipped, sometimes stolen) instead of my out-of-the-ordinary request (tap water), but calling that the 'normal' is of course a culture-specific way of thinking, and a cultural feature I do not like.
I find Jupyterlab working great, if you intend to publish your work on the web. When I do straight data science / machine learning research and prototyping, I find PyCharm Scientific Mode much better suited for the task, than Jupyterlab. It does not have the publishing UI overhead and basically re-creates MATLAB UI/UX for Python, together with ability to run cells separately, which is fantastic for the prototyping.
and also beautiful brown lignite
Come on. So you think political ecologists have no role in the fact that very few nuclear plants were built in Europe since 1990 ? Even France, the nuclear plant country(tm) has forgotten how to make them (look at Flamanville EPR fiasco). Now, everybody realize we actually need nuclear but we can't make anymore quickly and are stuck extending the life of the existing plants like Japan is doing.
Same with many other well funded unicorns and scale-ups where my friends got hired in the hiring spree from 2020 - 2022, especially in the crypto and stock space.

They hired too fast and the new hires didn't have the chance to get ramped up to speed at all so most of the heavy lifting was still done by those with longer tenure in the company who knew the systems well but were too busy to keep it running and sprinting on adding new features to have time to bring the new hires up to speed, so the new hires were idling for moths doing nothing while collecting golden paychecks.

Probably now the companies realized they overhired, for an economic future that didn't pan out, and are now correcting this as they can still run profitably with the workforce they had before the mass hiring spree which brought them no benefits.
Relatedly, "The man who solved the market" [0] is a fascinating read about the history of Jim Simons and Rentec.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43889703-the-man-who-sol...
Let's write a setjmp
Thanks for all this. Looks like I have some reading to do.

On a side topic, is there much hope for devolution of power in our current political systems in the West in your opinion? I’m Australian, but would be interested in your take on any western country.
that is if La Hague isn't leaking nuclear waste
It embeds Jupyter and looks like the same as any Jupyter Lab install aside from the welcome page. I think it looks fine.
The current generation nuclear power stations need active human operation or the process will shut down automatically.

Chernobyl-style ancient reactors were the complete opposite - and even it failed mostly because of shitty politics and bad leadership culture.
Today's Kernel Upstreaming Nightmare
Do you see how playing this game of writing iterative tests would actually provude slower learnings than prototyping a call to an API and receiving a result that would inform a series of tests that would be much more informed?

It's just as easy to be inefficient writing useless/bad tests than it is writing bad code. I think every developer should do TDD in their career, because it will make you think about the testability of the code. That said once you understand how to write testable code than I think it makes sense to be flexible on whether you write the test first or take a crack at an implementation.

The argument that you should have a good understanding of requirements I think leads to a lot of analysis paralysis, and isn't a practical method for building novel things in a timely manner.
Code reviews without coworkers.
The biggest risk in nuclear material disposal is environmental activists blocking the transports en route.

The actual material itself emits less radiation than a store-bought banana when it's been properly stored.
I am typing this on their latest StarBook. It's a great machine. As for durability, it has an aluminium body and seems sturdily built. I expect it to last a good few years.
>Our politicians take Fukushima as an example why we should stop nuclear energy.

And the Japanese (to say nothing of the rest of the world) are taking Germany as an example of what happens when you depend on cheap resources from your geopolitical adversaries for your economy to be viable.

>People are scared of nuclear energy.

Perhaps they should be more scared of having no energy at all.
>It is also not good for internal networks where you can not valid out to something like lets encrypt to automate that validation process

Why not? Just use DNS validation.
Gradle, Maven etc are also a pain, especially when compared to cargo or other all-in-one package management and build tools.
Amen

I mean, I'm not blaming PEP8 per se (A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds) but it has a tendency to be taken as gospel by a lot of people

Funny enough, those who push for more strict adherence are also the ones that neglect other aspects (speed, alg. complexity, etc) especially readability (and no, PEP8 compliant code is not necessarily the most readable)
> 1. Fewer people have died from nuclear reactor meltdowns than from any other form of electricity generation. It is by far the safest form of power.

To extend this - this includes renewables.

Dam failures usually kill a lot of people (I think the estimate for Three Gorges failing was 10 million dead and 100 million displaced or something?) and a lot of people get hurt due to accidents while installing solar panels and wind turbines. The accidents don't happen that often, but you need a lot of solar panels and wind turbines to replace one nuclear power plants.
I see. I suppose what I mean is that it doesn't have a conceptual model of the what it knows and doesn't know. It doesn't try to improve upon that conceptual model because it knows that it needs to, it just maps sentences that typically require a follow up question, with a follow up question.
You can educate humans, or redesign technology to get humans out of the loop.
It makes sense that there would be better strategies for simulation than gridding Navier-Stokes (the regularities in weather phenomena show that the space of likely possibilities isn't evenly distributed throughout the space that values on an evenly spaced lattice represent) but it's probably too complicated to come up with those schemes manually. If I had to guess what the model is "doing," (as opposed, say, to compensating for undiscovered problems with data acquisition) that would be it.
Well, you'll just have to add event handlers. And some styling. Just like before. I don't think this element is so great. It's an easy one if you've got a simple HTML document and you need to throw in a rarely used dialog, sure, but once you want to build a page with more interaction, you're going to end up with Vue, React, etc., for which better dialog components exist.
Maybe just watching the videos healed your condition.
I really don't get the whole coloured function thing. How's it not just the function signature? You might as well claim a new function argument makes a new colour. Granted, all of my use of async is in Rust in which the compiler picks this stuff up, so maybe in python there are other concerns I'm missing.
Interesting parallels to the "epidemic" of Tourettes symptoms among teen girls that exploded over the past 2 years: https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-...

As with gender dysphoria, patients flipped from being majority male to overwhelmingly female in just a few years. They also tended to know others with the symptoms either directly, or from social media feeds whose algorithms fed them more and more content around the topic.
In your case, "something breaks in your automation" might mean that, by the time the cert is (about to be) in need of renewal, the notifications you set up are now going to an email account that doesn't exist any more, because you left the department got re-orged and...
at least their cities don't burn every other year
Uhm... Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_...

That ship carried our real ancestors. And the first thing they did was declare leaves to be money and then burn down forests to make it more valuable. -- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309207-thank-you-since-we-d...
You start by allowing external requests from inside the test and automate your exploration of the API. Then you slowly evolve it to mock or stub the elements that interact with the external system so you can run your tests in isolation.
Well, it also doesn't help that you can't buy a CRT TV anymore, but I digress.
So you're saying marketing has leverage and working with your hands doesn't? I seriously doubt that. Neurosurgeons work with their hands, and if I ever need neurosurgery, I'll probably be willing to fork over every single cent I've ever made or ever will make in the hope that it will make even the slightest bit of a difference in the probability that I'll get off that table being mentally handicapped. An oversight by a plumber that takes about 5 seconds to happen can mean the difference between five or six figures' worth of real estate getting eaten up by mold or not. The difference between a farrier doing a good or bad job on a race horse can mean millions of dollars in prize money.

Meanwhile, an important piece of career advice for marketers, bankers, and other people who think of themselves as commanding high leverage is this: Don't mistake the value of the seat you're in as being your value. The number of clients who can put a marketer in a seat where 5% of a skills-difference is an amount of money on the same order of magnitude as the marketer's take-home pay is extremely small relative to the number of marketers who want that job. Meanwhile there are tons of people hiring doctors, plumbers, and farriers who care a great deal about a 5% skills-difference, and many of them have money to pay for it. That gives doctors, plumbers, and farriers vastly superior bargaining power when compared to marketers, which, in turn, means that they get to extract a higher share of what they're worth to the client as take-home pay.
I'm doing the same things with Autohotkey but in a much less convoluted way.
How about they start by making the underground vaults, where they keep the emergency backup generators, watertight?
Yeah, I think we have experimental evidence from EU that shows otherwise.
Runs off a 2GB digital ocean box, which I think is $10 now?

It’s probably incredibly boring to describe, but I think that’s why it just tends to work. The whole thing took an afternoon to write (in PHP of all things too).