skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that's me told then. I promise I won't do it again, sir :P

For the record, when I say I "went off to do something else" I don't mean I left the pot on and went away, I mean I stayed in the kitchen and turned my back to it, while I was preparing to cook. This happened last summer. I started heating some oil in my French oven to brown some meat. It takes some time to heat the oil because I start from a low heat and increase it gradually to avoid damaging the pot (enamel is very sensitive to sudden temperature changes). Because I'm an idiot, I eventually turned the heat all the way to the max, even though it's a French oven and it will get hot enough to brown meat even at medium heat. In the meantime I prepared my other ingredients, then I turned back to the pot and it was smoking, so I took it out and left it to cool down, then changed the oil and started all over again. I think this has happened a couple more times over the years, when I changed homes or got a new stove.

I have certainly managed to burn food in hot oil, of course. That makes a lot more smoke and smells a lot worse. I have never seen any flames though. And I'm completely paranoid about frying, not even deep frying. A friend of mine had an accident when we were kids, when frying some eggs, and it's left him a scar for life, so I still treat frying oil a like an extremely dangerous substance. Which it is.
Now you're moving the goal posts. If something is too expensive, it's too expensive at small scale as well as large scale.

There is no engineering reason why a grid cannot have very large amounts of batteries attached to it. If they're at the moment too expensive, that's no inherent obstacle, since battery prices have been falling rapidly, much faster than nuclear's price ever did.

> Sources on "they work fine at scale"?

Hitchen's Razor. I can dismiss your original claim without evidence, since it was presented without evidence. In other words: sources? You go first.

I suspect you are parroting studies that assume batteries are used to get to 100% renewables, then clutch their pearls at how many batteries are needed. Using batteries for that last 10% or so is just bad engineering, so those studies are strawmen.
I disagree. LCOE is a favorite way to make nuclear look awful because it massively weights upfront capital cost (high for nuclear) and completely devalues the fact that nuclear plants can run for 60+ years.

Take any LCOE spreadsheet and check the sensitivity to revenue 30 years out and you'll see that it basically doesn't matter.
Is there a way to get this as just a single JS file, so I don't have to use node?

I can probably figure it out but if anyone already knows how it would save me some time.

EDIT: Figured it out: https://unpkg.com/katex
> Bare in mind most people can run the brain on 2500kCal/day

Which is, in turn, 2900 W·h, or 2.5 times less than one A100 card working round the clock (300W·24h)
There is still plenty of time to ask Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak about why Apple Inc. was the worst April Fools joke in history.

Worldcoin also isn't an April fools joke either and they are quite serious in selling there proof-of-personhood anti-AI snake-oil antidote.

Why? It's clear that it positions Mr Altman to a point where he cannot lose and is hedged on both sides of where this AI narrative goes.
There was a discussion here recently[0] where many people recommended Jellyfin in conjunction with its apps[1] for Android, Android TV, Roku, etc. I have never used Jellyfin before but their recommendations made me put it on my list of things to look into.

So what are you (and GP) missing from those apps?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461596

[1]: https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients/
On Win 10 ours randomly changes dpi. The multi-user setup is abysmal; one user can screw up another's settings. It spams notifications when you cause a quick-change-dpi event (you can turn off notifications, it's a weird default). It works very badly without the app running, ie it's a soft-mouse tailored to Windows. There's no Logitech Linux app (though the one I use is superior to the Windows app, IMO, clearer with less cruft -- https://github.com/libratbag/piper). Latest update reverted my dpi settings.

I'm not particularly impressed.
Yes, though those effects are much less on an incremental basis for any technology already at scale. The mechanisms still exist, but delay is longer.
>optimise that money

Perhaps the problem is defining a hospitals utility function as “optimizing money” rather than “optimizing a patient outcome”.

I agree that money is definitely a constraint, but I’m not sure it’s what should be optimized.
Thanks, dang, I’ll try to remember this in the future. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and all the hard work you do moderating this place!
I'm not going to waste time watching a video; they're very poor at efficiently transmitting information compared to text. Can you summarize the argument so I can poke holes in it?
Church, guns, and "Make a Liberal Cry" are apparently their only guidelines; anything that supports one of those is fair use
I still use my 2008 MacBook with GNU/Linux and FreeBSD on it. It does all my web browsing tasks, and most stuff runs fine on it even with it's limited 2.5GB ram.
I guess OS X is pretty heavy-weight.. The 2014 MacBook Pro should be fairly usable even now with these OSes instead.
Do you really think an insult is the right rebuttal?

(Also, the insult is baseless, since the previous poster may have strong principles, even if they aren’t the same as yours.)
In the case of 20 frontends to 1 backend, it might make more sense to organize it as 19 frontends to 1 front/backend.

In other words, have a team with front and back-end devs working together, with a frontend acting as a sensible default interaction to an API. This can be something as simple as a widget or component.

This front end is expected to have a full suite of tests running through the API (or an api test device -- this test device can also be used to better communicate the requirements to backend devs), and be well documented in how and why it's doing something.

That acts as an example for any other frontends. When they have questions or issues with the api, it also provides an immediate source of truth to show how to properly do something. And it provides confidence that the API is behaving in the expected fashion for the user experience being provided for.

Just a thought.
Isn't re-encoding almost always a loss in quality? Unless you're doing it from uncompressed video or from super high quality video to reduce file size.
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed

https://www.midjourney.com/app/users/cac3fb17-9508-4643-8145...

https://www.midjourney.com/app/users/6664ba5a-9638-4acc-856a...

https://www.midjourney.com/app/users/b8563a5a-d81d-43c9-9394...

https://www.midjourney.com/app/users/f6909dd0-cc02-4024-8e37...
Why does it have to aid you in finding anything? We’re so obsessed with efficiency and “productivity” these days.

Let’s be honest, when you came to this site you weren’t looking for anything in particular. Instead the site invites you to simply look around, embrace the excitement of clicking randomly and not really knowing what you’re going to get, and not really caring either. Just be a thoughtless child, wandering a garden yanking leaves along the way. Now isn’t that rejuvenating?
The problem is the incentives of the decision makers often don’t align with that time horizon.

Consider a CEO who is rewarded by quarterly outcomes rather than how healthy the company will be in two or three decades. Or a politician who proposes a short-term policy that looks like a short term win but will undermine constituents after they are long out of office.
Fetching metadata deeds not imply I have highest movies. I could just be testing my movie app.
We obviously could supply much more than current demand with renewables. After all, the world is constantly being hit by 100,000 TW of sunlight, and total world primary energy demand is 18 TW.

If you are saying the currently installed renewables cannot meet current demand, why do you think additional capacity cannot be installed?
The keyboard you used to type this likely lacks open firmware.
These positions aren't necessarily inconsistent. Many conservatives believe that abortion is murder, which is a moral position. The moral harm of carrying out an abortion is not something that can be decided by evidence. Many conservatives also believe that vaccination is a good bit more dangerous that you or I probably do, and that Covid is a bit less dangerous that you or I do. If you carry this basket of beliefs, there's no contradiction in their position.

People lost a lot of trust in our institutions, due to some misinformation put out early on during Covid, and I can't really blame them. Trust is hard to gain and easy to lose, and the folks that should have been being honest screwed up. Most people don't have enough of a scientific mind, or enough of the time and energy to find reputable sources of information on important topics. Even folks on the pro-vax mandate, pro-mask mandate side. Many just got lucky in that "their side" happened to be closer to the truth in this case.

And it's very hard to argue on topics like abortion, because people typically pick the most rare and egregious examples that support their side. Liberal folks will point out scenarios where anti-abortion laws lead to abused teenagers being forced to carry a fetus to term, while conservatives will point out scenarios where an abuser can pressure a girl to get an abortion in order to cover up the abuse, or a woman doesn't use birth control and just goes and gets abortion after abortion, when we should really consider it a last resort.

And the crux of it, whether it's morally worse to terminate a pregnancy or force a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, is something that you can only convince someone to change their mind on with evidence if they are pretty close to on the fence already.

I've had a lot of discussions with family members that disagree with me on both of these issues. If you try hard not to get angry or sarcastic, to stay calm and curious (or at least put on a really good act), to ignore the talking points and not push back instantly on everything that sounds incorrect or stupid to you, you can learn a lot about why people believe what they do. And sometimes they do make good points. And if people feel like you're listening, they're more open to listening to you.
For what it's worth, the sanctions frameworks against Russia are minefields on their own - and for a good reason, given the lengths Russia is willing to go to work around these instead of withdrawing their murderous goons from Ukrainian soil.

I would rather not err on the wrong side of a sanctions violations charge for supporting a Russian government institution, and e.g. in Germany, even linking to something illegal can land you a "supporting that content" charge - even liking porn on Twitter and no I'm not joking here, that's a currently ongoing issue.
12" MacBook is similar size because of reduced bezels (MacBook is 11.04x7.74x<=.52 2.03lbs) a little wider, way thinner and lighter) vs Samsung n150 10.4x7.4x1.4 2.8lbs) and the MacBook is a much better machine (display and computation).

May want to give one a shot...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-inch_MacBook
Ah. I thought they were a seed team, but that would be ridiculous, eh? The Globe Trotters is an apt comparison, and like the Bananas, I prefer them to the NBA. MLB and the NBA have the same problem. There are so many games that it seems as if chance and luck are too diminished, making the sports too predictable and dull for my taste.
> Known unfixed bugs are a fact of life in certified software.

And all the other software.
If you're into historical recipes, I can't recommend the "Tasting History" channel on youtube enough. It intersperses replicating the recipes with a whole load of historical context and nuance. "The Forme of Cury" has made some appearances on it as well.

https://www.youtube.com/@TastingHistory
Consider “freedom” to be right-wing shorthand for “license for well-off straight-seeming white men who can say the right words about Jesus to do as they please,” and that cognitive dissonance will be eased.

I grew up Southern Baptist in semi-rural Texas. People wondered why I didn’t date in high school… my focus was on GTFO Central Texas.

At the time, I silently fumed about my younger brother being allowed to stay out later than I had at the same age, despite my excellent grades and good behavior and his troublemaking and scraping by in school, but now I kind of appreciate it: the virtue my parents were protecting was inextricably linked to my freedom.
While I'm aligned with the FSF in most things, I'm happy to link to a bug tracker despite its shitty JS.

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/40...

Maybe they're sour about webp not obseleting all other formats by now?
I believe the cause is still undetermined but one theory is equipment malfunction in the manure management system causing the methane to get explosive.
MathML is not just for presentation. It encodes a lot of semantic information that Latex leaves out, and that information can be useful for accessibility, computer algebra system interoperability, etc. That said, I don't think it's used much for those things. I had really high hopes for MathML when it was first announced, but the poor browser support and consequential lack of use has been really disappointing.
> Furthermore, the law can be generalised to digits beyond the first

Reminds me of a fun use for second digit analysis:

"This study applies Benford’s law to detect anomalies in county-level vote data for the 2020 US presidential election. Most prominent distribution violations are observed with Republican vote counts in blue states, all vote counts in states won by the Democratic candidate, and Democratic vote counts in swing states. Distributions are anomalous in swing states won by the Democratic nominee and not anomalous in swing states won by the Republican nominee. The results are robust to two-digit analysis, Monte Carlo simulations of p-values, broad or narrow swing state definitions, and when compared to distributions observed in 2008, 2012, and 2016 elections." - ["Detecting Anomalies in the 2020 US Presidential Election Votes with Benford’s Law" (2020)](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3728626)
I am not angelmm, but another happy ArchiveBox user.

My choice of extractors is the following: Singlefile, PDF, Screenshot, archive.org.

I found the largest issue with any website archiving tools to be the discrepancy between what I see in my Web Browser and what is saved. The most "reliable" way that still works today for me seems to be the "Save Page WE" Firefox plugin.

I have a sidecar container running that checks for HTML files appearing in a directory, triggers the archivebox save and then overwrites the "singlefile" capture by the provided HTML file. This way, I can trigger archiving by just using the Save Page WE plugin and storing the resulting HTML file in the directory.
PowerShell script that allows you to interact with OpenAI's ChatGPT
I think Greenpeace is more of a political organization these days than an activist organization, and it exists mostly to perpetuate itself and raise more funds. That said, they are found on the long term 'right' side of most of these arguments and a lot of their numerical work on the real cost of nuclear power has proven to be accurate in the longer term (even if at the time it seemed a bit pessimistic). This alone should qualify them to see the achievement of shutting down nuclear power as a major milestone for their organization as something of the end of an era. They worked - especially in the past - quite hard to achieve this goal.

I remember when Greenpeace was a bunch of guys and girls and an old boat that they painted over because they cared about the whales. Such idealism is a necessity in order to provide some balance in a world where business tends to dominate over social and long term welfare issues. In that sense they succeeded where many others have failed, their voice has added a lot of weight to various issues and has measurably increased awareness of many environmental issues.

To present their effort as having the opposite effect isn't really productive, it clearly isn't their goal nor does it match with any statement that they have made or even a realistic assessment of the technical situation. And that's what makes these arguments so annoying, it's just gamesmanship, it elevates winning the game to a higher level than that it does our long term survival.

Massive renewables + a viable storage option is clearly the way forward, anything else is just money games by vested interests.

As for jet fuels: I think the age of the jet will come to an end at some point and I'm not at all going to mourn that. It was a luxury that we probably couldn't afford and don't actually need all that much. Travel should be time consuming and expensive because if it isn't we will move around so much that the planet will suffer dis-proportionally. Maybe we'll see another round of boats or maybe a slower form of air travel, I really don't know. But the idea that you hop on a plane at 7 in the morning, are in Barcelona at 9:30, attend a meeting, have lunch and fly back has so much wrong with it that I much prefer our current COVID incentivized world of video conferencing.
But think of the landed aristocracy before the plague, or the rich in the US before WW2. They had things locked in hard and life was sweet. We're seeing that now with the current classes of the super rich. They are getting stuff locked in and life is absolutely amazing for them. What right does 99.9% of the people have to anything if it even remotely threatens their sweet sweet life?
Could this be where "to curry favor" comes from? Where curry, in it's "to cook" form basically means "to make"? So like "to cook up some favor" as "to generate favor"
Nuclear waste is also the issue the nuclear stans like to bring up, to propagate the falsehood that it is the issue that's holding back nuclear (so they can then correctly argue that it's not that big a problem, so incorrectly claim building more nuclear is a good idea.)
This is why you version an API.

Or just use GraphQL-esque methods, but versioning will poke its head in somewhere eventually.
And it's actually a service that still operates, does GDPR, anti-spam etc.
> The Twitter Files could help out here.

We know that "The Twitter Files" were a completely one-sided effort to only release information on one political side. Hell, we even have evidence of the Trump White House asking Twitter to take down posts that make fun of Trump. The partisan nature of the release should not just put it into question, but (in my opinion) serves as direct evidence that the right is treated preferentially. If there really was a preference for the left, they would have shown just how few requests the right made, and just how few leftists were banned. But all of this information is kept secret, and it's kept this way for a reason.
My argument for condemnation was not for disallowing participation but about hiding/denying the fact that they did judge that artwork to be really good.

If the chess community would assert that computers are worse than humans as chess and couldn't ever match human play, and when someone won a chess tournament with forbidden computer assistance the judges of that tournament would instead of saying "yep, the win was due to a forbidden advantage, so we disqualified that participant" rather hide the fact and go "no, that didn't happen, obviously human reasoning won all the games", then we should absolutely condemn them for that hypocrisy.
New account whose first comment is flamewar-style insult-no point engaging with them, they clearly aren’t here for constructive discussion, just flag and move on. With enough flags it will go dead

(Can everyone flag comments? Or is there some minimum karma for it? I forget.)
If you've never read anything by M. F. K. Fisher, I cannot recommend her enough; easily one of the greatest writers on food (or really anything) we've ever had. Consider the Oyster is a true masterpiece. She has a translation of The Physiology of Taste (La Physiologie du Goût) by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, which is a pure delight. It's a classic, and they're a perfect match for each other; I don't know that there's ever been a better pairing of work with translator.

At any rate, Brillat-Savarin relays a story wherein he attends a dinner party but the host is stuck with a turbot too big for any pot. Brillat-Savarin saves the day by cooking the fish in the washer/bath tub, using another basin to catch the steam and effectively steaming it. Fisher notes the connection to more modern cookery devices, but it seems like an early-1800s-era precursor to this!
It's gone a lot further than 'just talk':

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/12/09/borss...

But there is a lot of pushback and even if they break ground there is some chance that the projects will be cancelled due to cost.
For the record, it’s usually criticized dependent on the individual’s views on intermittent vs. non-intermittent… Just as green hydrogen is heavily criticized by skeptics vs advocates…

It’s not criticized broadly by the entire energy industry…
Because it's the readme in the GitHub repo. That's what the readme is for.
Why does everything have to be about AI these days?
> it looks like the salmon needs to be above 63C for 15 seconds to kill the bacteria

I guess if you like overcooked salmon.

Food safe temperatures aren't a hard line. Bacteria die off at much lower temperatures than 65ºC (from around 54ºC). What does change with temperature is the rate at which bacteria die. The usual safety goal is to get a 6.5 log10 reduction in bacteria.

The reason that 65ºC is usually chosen as a safe temperature is because once you reach that temperature the time to reach that reduction is very short (about 1.5minutes), at 70ºC it's instantaneous.

At lower temperatures, you have to keep the food at that temperature for a longer amount of time (there are reference charts to be found online[1]). For this to be safe you have to be able to measure and/or control the temperature reliably. This is obviously more difficult to do than just cooking to a specific temperature. In many commercial applications it's just easier to cook to a high enough temperature to not have to worry about it.

There are also other ways to kill the bacteria. I usually cure salmon overnight in the fridge (2:1 ratio brown sugar and salt) before smoking it to 54ºC. The temperature doesn't kill the bacteria but the curing does.

[1] https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/202...
Film animation: semiology of digital storytelling (2015) [pdf]
Call it what you will, but it's unable to survive until birth, so its not really alive is it?

Do we consider ejaculation murder too? They survive on their own, and can navigate their way to an egg... clearly they are from a human, living, and independent:)
> The episode lost trust with the engineering-friendly part of the audience.

This still sounds like an emotional response. We need to keep in mind that coal based energy emits more radioactive matter at a larger scale then nuclear.

The only difference is that the trash from nuclear is easy to handle and store.

It seems like we implicitly still subscribe the the saying that "The solution to pollution is dilution" – we rather want to dilute our radioactive waste in the air than to put it is manageable containers or leaving it on construction sites.
> Ha, this remind me of a time when I did google(?) searches to find specialized sites of RPGs, Anime, etc.

I still think fondly of browsing lspace.org (Discworld) and the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5.
MathML is faster to render. KaTex is a lot faster than MathJax but the difference remains noticeable. (Firefox extension to force native MathML rendering: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/native-mathml...)
But... it is bubby...