skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greenpeace Finland has been remarkably silent on this issue since 2014.

Google-translated webpage says now: "We follow the nuclear power debate and highlight problems related to nuclear power".

This is not the official Greenpeace Anti-Nukular message at all. :-)
I use a Lenovo with a Celeron processor, 4GB of RAM, and Manjaro (Arch) Linux as my main computer for coding and browsing.

Swapping the HDD for an SSD and installing Linux, transformed this machine. Now it's fast enough for normal tasks, even for light photo retouching. And it loads web pages without issues. Faster with each new release of Brave.

Brave's Chromium engine is optimized for Chromebooks, which usually have low power processors, so it runs fine on almost any computer, even with Core 2 Duo processors from 2008.

I also have a Macbook Air from 2014, and it is plenty fast. If you have enough RAM, almost everything loads instantly.

To free up RAM, you can use a tab suspender or enable the battery and memory saver mode in 'chrome://flags'. Each Chromium tab creates a new process and eats a lot of memory.

https://blog.google/products/chrome/new-chrome-features-to-s...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/tab%20suspender

You can speed up Firefox or any Chromium based browser even more by storing the browser cache in a RAM disk. I use a small 128MB cache in the RAM disk and it works great. There is plenty of information on the web to set this.

There is a quite a lot of power hidden by bloat, in these old laptops.
The question remains, if you think your image is not a photo, why submit it to a photography contest?
Thanks for the near-academic preciseness and clarity of your explanation. Puny!
Oh, I missed that. Brilliant.
I'm sorry it's possible to read it that way. Wasn't my intention... Not the best with words.
Sites mostly didn't look this good though, they were even more garish colors and 'under construction' banners
With updates dating back to 1999! https://futureblues.com/what.shtml
Your second link makes a very strong argument against boiling water due to the minimal risk posed by unboiled water. Comparing it to putting your child in a car.

The recommendation appears to be just another attempt by the government to coddle and infantilize (no pun intended) their constituents.
Both sides of the divide would be happier
I didn't give a definition of either, so I don't know where you're getting any of that from, but you're wrong in any case. Not all, or even a majority, of republicans are far right. Endorsing conservative social policies, libertarianism, or being religious are not at all equivalent to being a fascist, a bigot, or a racial nationalist.
What's the similarity?:-) In the current AI hype, you can interact with the AI.
> One practice that tends to work for “releasing” sentimental objects is taking a picture of it, and being intentional about what value it brought me, and allowing it to go (in a fairly Kondo-esque fashion)

I wish the Kondo method worked for me. I still have a ton of old Sun computers in my basement I just can't get rid of, because they all SPARC joy.
All the more reason to appreciate the now.

I'll spare anyone reading the usual ramblings that come with this idea because you've already heard it before.
For me, the best part is the pun in the subtitle: "Logan-Nolan Industries - Helping Humanity Make Ends Meat"
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I appreciated the intent right away. Thanks for sharing.
The main obstacle to overcome is to decrease the consumption of energy :) it's tough because people don't really care about the environment as soon as they have to even slightly change any of their habits, and the situation would require that people significantly change their habits (so I'd say we are probably screwed)
Counter-signalling from the referenced paper:

> We thank [some people] ... various conferences and departments, two anonymous referees, and the Editor Lars Stole. All remaining errors are a signal of our quality.

https://host.kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf

There was a paper HN turned up years ago that noted the difference in signalling between local and non-local elites at Pakistani biryani fests; I claim the same behaviour (just with different outfits) can be seen in locals vs. non-locals attending, say, a Midland TX BBQ.
I disagree. When watching How I Met Your Mother, I am always astounded that it was filmed in 2005. Practically nothing has changed in daily lives since then.
Yes, you're doing what the parent promises. You're setting up some initial values for internal accumulators and closing over values that don't change in preparation for the loop. Then maybe you do a bit of cleanup after the loop.

But it's no more interesting than a "for" or "while" loop that takes up most of the body of a function in C or Java. People don't demand descriptive names for those, because they realize such a name would contain no useful information. That's equally true in functional programming.
Utah’s Great Salt Lake was disappearing. Extreme weather is bringing it back
In other unrelated, surprising news, the hurr durr Apple bad crowd suddenly stopped complaining about how the new OS is slowing down their computer and draining the battery.
Can you share some of that stuff? Where are these great movies I've never heard of? Where are the great books - can't people publish on their own nowadays?

I can attest to good music being made, but it's still very slow to evolve compared to the 2nd half of the 20th century.
They use their opponent’s modus operandi, it shows their opponents in a bad light when they criticize them.
Storage is actually a solution to a lack of transmission capacity because it reduces the dependence on that. It can both absorb peaks in supply and demand. That's why it's so popular. So when there's too much power on the grid, you charge the batteries instead of dumping it out to wherever via the grid. And when you need energy during peak hours, you take it from your batteries instead of increasing the load on the grid.

The interesting thing with solar, wind, and storage is that we seem to be heading towards a world where there is going to be a surplus for each of those. So, we'll have lots of topped up batteries neither charging nor discharging most of the time. Probably that capacity is going to be measured in twh pretty soon. And then of course solar and wind capacity keeps on expanding to the point where they deliver more energy than we need.
Noob question here - when we say libav is dead, what does that mean? Asking because doesn’t ffmpeg use libav internally?
This sounds like view patterns in Haskell / active patterns in F#
The article mentions resistance. Things are needed to overcome resistance, and that introduces wear and tear. Magnetic levitation would likely alleviate those problems.
A quick search paints a different picture

> Germany produced 674.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MtCO2) in 2021 - an increase of roughly 5.5 percent compared with the previous year.
all I've seen from AI assisted art is endless variation of what's already out there. form remains the same. maybe it's just me but isn't it weird how technologies that supposedly are democratizing seldom seem to be emancipatory? i fear AI will only make culture and art more standardized, more of an industry.

But I think AI can be a revolution in the sense that it will lead people to think hard about what kind of art AI can't do, and that will hopefully get us back to doing, you know, actual art.
Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr are doing great job. Everything is easy and compatible with other system. Jellyfin sometimes needs help with media identification to create good nfo files, but that's rate. Then you can use Tdarr or unmanic to standardise on what the media contains, like, remove languages, hardcoded subtitles and convert to a single codec and container.

Sorting moving like this project suggests: E1.mkv, E2.mkv... yea, no thank you.
Yeah, just keep burning brown coal. I drove past one of the mines, truly big pits in the middle of nowhere. They can buy power of their neighbors, like the Netherlands, we are investing in new plants.
You are a bad, bad person.
"A lot of old documents were never digitized simply because people didn't think they had value. Is it time for a reinvigorated Google Books with a wider mission?"

We have to be very careful with the "factual" content of old non-fiction works. So much of that, from history, to medicine, to biology, etc, turned out to be straight from their writers' imaginations. If an LLM considers such books to be no different from modern books on these subjects it would get a very skewed view of the world.

Imagine asking an LLM for a medical diagnosis and it responding with something about the humors.
Why not just search “best book to learn X reddit”, take a look at a few threads and get the book mentioned, and read it? It was written by an actual expert on the topic, did not hallucinate bullshit and is actually correct, and if it is a good book then it has a proper structure, making you learn in a proper order.
Both Synaptics and ELAN drivers offered circular/chiral scrolling, but it seems this option is not prominently featured (or maybe unavailable) in Windows 10 and above.

IIRC the gesture starts at the edge of the trackpad much like regular edge scrolling, but then you can extend the motion to the entire working area of the trackpad, pretending to spin an imaginary jog wheel.
> And if the feature weren't desired, why would it exist on ANY drone?

Different market segments. To draw earlier on my analogy, loiter and automated flight exist in iNav, PX4, and Ardupilot.

Are you the target market for this product? Do you plan to buy one? Have you talked to people who are? Do they want goggles support?
Fauxghee - I can't believe its not bubby!
I'm pro renewables, but I think the supply side is a significant obstacle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc
Germany is running on coal. It's by far the worst example of energy vs pollution in Europe.
Yeah, if we say the three stages are 1) leather (shoe), 2) cotton (sock), 3) cotton + rubber (shoe), then (1) is extinct but (2) and (3) both exist today.
I scanned a school network once and printed about 40 pages of http request on every printer. I think turned out you just send anything on 9100 and it prints. I think it was nmap trying to detect the host with a query.
Worth noting that LCOE analysis generally helps nuclear, since the assumption is that once built it will be able to sell all its power, running at near full capacity for its entire 40 year lifespan.

Which is a dubious assumption in a world where the main sources of new power (solar and wind) and storage (batteries) are still dropping in price dramatically and are already at the level of the running costs of existing nuclear plants.
Most of those were in 2021.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." (1899)

When some important figure thinks things have slowed down, they've almost always been proven wrong.
Yes, your examples make sense in their own context, but are not relevant to the case of scraping publicly available data.

In short, who's getting put out of business for redisplay or derived data uses of publicly available data?
Only read the headlines but was this the cause of the recent cow-farm explosion?
an awful lot of years went by to skate under the radar.
Just use 8-bit memory cells and use the extra bit for parity/ECC. ;)
Unfortunately, "Rivian has deleted the Camp Kitchen, Tunnel Shuttle, and R1T Tent from its online gear shop. All three were previously listed as “not available yet” until earlier today when their entries disappeared."

https://electrek.co/2023/03/29/rivian-deletes-camp-kitchen-a...
I've done my share of weird stuff with TS types before, but I'd never seen the trick of using interfaces to make higher-order functions. Neat.
Has anyone found an airport from Brazil? I couldn't find any codes starting with SB.
Half of the readme is about what technologies this project uses. Why would the first thing about the project be about Vue, JSON and database, or planned move to React? You better give me compatibility with Sonarr and better ways to name files than E1.mkv E2.mkv.
Powerful ideas have long tailed effects. The nuclear panic that crested with Chernobyl has been embedded deeply in the public consciousness, and we have not seen its end yet. The science of climate change has not yet had an emotional connection with the populace, so when Greenpeace says they've killed nuclear in Germany they hear "nuclear catastrophe averted", when they should hear "we love to see more coal burned, more radiation released, and accelerate climate change".
As you’ve identified, few people will opt into a lower quality of living in the name of the greater good. The solution is to find better power generation methods, rather than force people to accept a downgrade.
I'm surprised by the controversy but also don't know any implementation details. The Netherlands allows temporary usage of the hard shoulder as driving lanes during congestion and in my experience this hasn't increased danger nor 'feeling' of it.

https://www.cedr.eu/docs/view/6063273e214d8-en

https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop10023/chap4.htm

https://www.itsinternational.com/its4/feature/traffic-monito...
They weren't asking for a solution.
The debate is about the right to get an abortion, not personal preference. The opposition believes there should be no right for anyone. In a context where you're discussing politics and not medical history, the presumption is that "anti-abortion" describes the political position. This is analogous to the difference between "anti-gay" and "straight".
I have dealt with it too. If you are someone of noble intent who is capable of feeling emotions and doesn't ride the apath line it's hard. Your goal should never be to defeat them, they will smell blood in the water and go after you relentlessly. It's how they operate.

The best advice I have is remain honest, don't play their games, document anything said in unrecordable media, and use the fact that they don't know how to stop being excessively brutal or recruiting others to do so against them if required.

No one has a recipe, each person operating like this has their own way of working. There are common exploitations they will use, but all you can do is laugh internally knowing their flaws. Their biggest weakness is they will destroy people unfairly and eventually cause enough damage to an institution that someone above them will realize those losses eventually. You can't call these things out, again you'll be a primary target. But you can easily get them on paper doing this.
You might want to read The Mom Test if you haven't. Or well, many of the books on market validation. The Startup Owner's Manual was the last book I read on the topic because I didn't need any more after that. Lean Startup is popular too but I haven't read it personally.

Questionnaires are cheap but often inaccurate. People will encourage questionaires and landing pages because they're so cheap, but most people who say they'd buy something don't and frequently people will say they won't buy something that they would.
To what degree is personal consumption driving the demand for energy?

And to what degree are industrials, workplaces or collective activities we do as part of the society?

In any case, what are the ways to reduce consumption of energy at an individual level and society as a whole?

Are there any novel ideas that are yet to be explored?
>> Can the world just run on renewables like Greenpeace is claiming?

> The main obstacle to overcome is to decrease the consumption of energy

If we can’t produce enough power using renewables to meet current demand you cannot run the world on renewables. So “no”.
> It will be quite a while before we get super conductors produced reliably.Of course the prerequisite is that a true super conductor is really created, in a lab condition, is going to take quite some time.

We do have working super conductors produced at scale, some of which are just 'boring' alloys. The problem is that the cryogenics required for operation are expensive and complex, making them not very appealing for widespread use.
Most sites were designed for 640x480 displays too so you really had to keep things concise to fit on the first screen/page.
Don't like him. Doesn't mean he can't be right. It bears thinking about.
Unwinding the Stack the Hard Way
This is the first article, feedback is welcome, I'd appreciate to know if that kind of content is interesting.
Yup, alomost but not quite the proper temperature for cooking salmon, which is around 130°F.
The heat from hand-rubbing in Moscow exceeded total German power output today.
I believe that the point is that even if they do solicit something new, it will only be within the statistical bounds of everything to have come before. The "different things" will only be different for the given individual, not the culture broadly.
The only missing chart for me is the one that shows how much money the defense companies have spent on lobbying the politicians to keep things as is. That would be fascinating but probably not very surprising.
yeah, she's totally underrated
Automating Email Parsing with AI
Hey everyone,

Have you ever found yourself spending hours copying and pasting information from emails, receipts, and invoices to different platforms like Google Sheets and Monday? It can be frustrating and time-consuming, especially when you have other tasks to attend to.
That's why I've been working on a tool to automate the parsing of emails, receipts, and invoices using AI. With this tool, you can extract specific information from your email and attached documents with high accuracy, saving you time and reducing the risk of errors.
I'm excited to share it with others who are looking to streamline their workflow.

I'm going to launch very soon, sign up is open right now for my waitlist!
The author talks about adding structure, and I've been puzzled about what they are talking about until realizing that they apparently mean that a reference to something is "more" than the something hence it "adds structure". That doesn't make sense to me. More structure is if there are more elements in the data (more fields in a struct, or more alternatives in an enum), whereas a reference is just an indirection of access.

Or am I missing something?
I think Poland might be worse actually, but yes Germany is bad.
Sure, it’s possible, but it all depends on who the AI is working for. In the 1990’s many of us thought connecting the world was a good idea. I was certain that the internet meant the end of authoritative regimes. Boy, was I wrong about that!

Personal computers aren’t very personal anymore. The web has returned control over computers back to corporations.
ahem name them as I very sure that freedom of speech via Constitution trumps weird reactionary without facts blithering.

In fact no US State has passed laws that will withstand review under the US Constitution restricting use of interstate commerce as its not a State power under the US Constitution but a US Congress power.

Yes, hard to believe but using any internet service is Interstate Commerce only under US Congress power not state power.
Deep ecology and luddite environmentalism are far right movements. They're adjacent to "trads." They just haven't realized it yet, nor have most of their detractors.
Of course mistakes happen .. but if you're making voluntary mistakes .. then you've got bigger problems than what we are discussing here.
> Every node can connect to every other one.

At the Tinc level, they can't connect to you unless you have their public key configured locally.

At the IP level, set 'StrictSubnets = yes' in the main config file to prevent nodes not explicitly configured locally to send packets to you.
For the record, the (widely shared) Lazard LCOE graph has been _heavily_ criticised in energy circles. LCOE not being a reliable or useful information in itself.

Indeed, it compares apples to oranges, that is intermittent vs non intermittent sources.
I don't think this is correct at all. 'Retro' of one kind or another has been the primary focus of mainstream fashion as far back as the 70s. Since the early 2000s retro become so ubiquitous that it's essentially invisible. All mainstream, big brand high street fashion is currently remixed 80s and 90s styles and colours.

It's not that you can't distinguish whats being worn now - it's more that it's a slight variation on what was being worn then. But it's objectively true that you could walk down the street wearing contemporary high street fashion in even the mid 1980 not seem wildly out of place.

By contrast, if you wore high street fashions of the late 1970s in the early 1960s, and so on, your outfit by contrast would seem outré and theatrical - perhaps even shocking, depending on the decade and the prevailing norms for concealing the female body.
Well, I for one think it's very easy to tell that it was filmed in 2005. Men are wearing "baggy" pants by todays standards, are close shaven and no one is wearing athleisure.
Crowd-based forecasting site Metaculus
While no actual Turing machine’s tape is infinitely long, I found issues in TypeScript with how finite generics are.

You have to define every possible count of generic arguments if you want to preserve their types. And if you go above that count your type system degrades. I think there’s also a maximum of 7 or so before it doesn’t work. Beyond that and the generic type widens.

For example, Lodash enumerating types for 2 to 7 generic items per function: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/0452...

Admittedly I don’t understand the problem space well. I’ve just seen it happen to me and in others’ code. It might not actually be an issue, or is already fixed.
> Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments. — ANW
> It's also anti-index.

That's maybe the sentiment of the users, but the implementation details allow indexing of public content very easily.

Anyway, the purpose - at least in my eyes - is not to compete with twitter as a whole, but to offer alternatives to people that desire it. And to this end, I think Mastodon, and I hope the rest of the fediverse proved quite successful.
>The multimedia community is plagued with drama like this

I think it is just with any Open Source Project. The more people there are, the more politics.

Generally speaking once you past 35+ you should gain a new world view how many of these things works and relate to other subjects in the real world.