skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do CTEs actually force an order of execution? I thought the point was that they are declarative
> Summer air conditioning peaks are shit on nuclear

They are not, of course.

And I wonder who will take care of peak air conditioning on a summer night?
I doubt these two scale linearly, otherwise how would they make money? Also, I could imagine that the people that want their comfort show to be running in the background 24/7 are the ones that won't cancel their subscriptions. It's the occasional watcher that will most likely deem netflix worthless to them, so their subscriber to usage cost ratio might even worsen. I'm just guessing here though, obviously.
> Are we really crying over this amount?

Yes since using 4-5 services will cost like $100 / month and if you pay that amount and still can't get most content it's ridicolously highly priced.
Both options are very time consuming and maintenance heavy building a native UI for each platform. If I were to do that, I would target Windows and Mac first since that is where the users are.

Tauri is the obvious choice to target all platforms in the quickest amount of time to market with less native specific maintenance.
What has always baffled me is the coupling of health and publicly traded businesses whose goal of record year-on-year profits is in direct conflict with helping as many people as possible. Profiteering from suffering is surreal.

As an outsider looking in, whilst the UK's NHS isn't in a good place right now due to mismanagement and underfunding, I can't help but feel that in a land of many billionaires, healthcare should be means-tested in its pricing, or there should be an equivocal for the NHS.

This'll be an unpopular take on HN, but what is it going to take? Government intervention? Wealth caps? Heavier taxation over x for the mega wealthy? Heavier pricing for the mega wealthy? If people can accrue billions in personal wealth and sit on it then there's a problem.

Access to healthcare shouldn't be limited by money. Society would be more productive if it were well. There would inevitably be less crime too.

The UK risks losing the NHS as-is. It's terrifying for most folks. No health insurance required to access it. Sure, you may wait for help, e.g., there's a six months waiting list on entering titration for ADHD meds, but access to the same private healthcare provider is there via the NHS, and the waiting list is generally no different than if someone were to pay for it out of their own pocket other than an additional week or so as part of the "Right To Choose" system to be referred.
Yes that's pointing out the correlation once again, but it doesn't shed any light on what I'm confused by, which is why reducing nuclear power usage would have a causative link to reducing fossil fuel usage.
You do not need to use the gradle wrapper - you can use your own trusted version. Wrapper is there just for convenience. I understand your concerns, but it is not the only way and you are not forced to use it.
Because electricity demand fluctuates. It's uneconomical to build enough nuclear capacity to satisfy peak demand. So even if you were to go to 100% nuclear, you'd have to store the excess power to satisfy the peaks.
That's not the point. You are confusing phylosophy and politics.

Benatar isn't trying to start a religion and makes convert. He is carefully building an argument that if we consider an axiomatisation of ethics where causing pain is bad and getting pleasure is positive, it can be argued that life is actually a poor deal. That's interesting in and of itself because it both challenges how we view life and the fondation of ethics.

You will never go far if you stick to a view where you have to either be for or against idea. Thankfully you can go beyond that. Parfit himself spent a significant part of his career unsuccessfully looking for an axiomatisation of population ethics avoiding the repugnant conclusion for exemple.
That might be a good feature for kids clothing. This mycelium Sponge Bob onesie grows as you do. Fits ages 5 to 60.
i am also interested to know !!!
I think his argument is that even when generation is consistently on some level, demand varies. And if you can't switch your nuclear generation into higher gear fast enough, you need some extra on-demand generation capacity. And if you can't switch to a lower gear fast enough, you can eg. pump some water uphill and have flexible demand.
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Pumped storage, grid scale batteries and syngas all exist.

When combined with solar and wind they can all easily compete with nuclear power on cost, they're just more expensive than natural gas for peaking.
GDB does so much cool. It just sucks that it's missing a high quality front-end. I know there are a bunch out there, but they all seem pretty janky and get confused a lot; I just want a really serious group of people (some Red Hat people for example) to make a high quality native debugging app which properly speaks the GDB protocol and handles all the edge cases.

(And no, I don't want it integrated into an IDE.)
Findings reveal that despite hormonal fluctuations, female mice exhibit more stable exploratory behavior than their male peers
Recreational drugs alter mental perception, otherwise no one would take them. It's a bit disingenuous to argue that psychotic drugs won't have a relationship to the causes of mental illness.
Presumably the other side of the planet blocking the sun's rays?
This frustrates me to no end. I haven't encountered the issue of having German audio only, but so often there are no English subtitles and it drives me mad.
Continued reliance on outdated nuclear technology might not have the same crucial global technology spillovers as investments in other clean energy (including advanced nuclear). Since the best path towards global decarbonization is through global technology spillover into emerging economies, the actors that have the best emissions score may, surprisingly, not be the most effective actors at reducing the global rate of emissions in the future. This has some counterintuitive implications. Consider that Germany has higher carbon emissions than France even though it has invested more heavily in solar than its neighbor, which uses much more nuclear. Should advanced economies like Germany leave their nuclear plants running? Perhaps, but it will not make a very large dent in global emissions because 75% of all future emissions will come from emerging economies, which will not adopt the kind of (non-advanced) nuclear power currently in use in Germany. Consider that German citizens environmental footprints are currently less than 4% of the global total, a share that is on the decline.

At one point, German subsidies drove ~⅓ of the global solar adoption, ~86% of which occurred outside Germany (6x) - see https://founderspledge.com/stories/changing-landscape#fnref1
I suspect this won't matter as algorithms and architectures improve. I don't think whole-web scrapes will be necessary or even useful to the training of future LLMs.

As a thought experiment, consider how many words the average human hears before age 10. Most people speak at 100-150 words per minute. Let's be generous and assume a young child hears spoken language 16 hours a day at 150 wpm for 10 years. That's a total of roughly 500 million words, and likely a gross overestimate. English Wikipedia alone contains billions of words. Reams of video, literature, and spoken media are also easily available to teach dialog and conversation flow, not to mention multi-modal associations between language, objects, and higher-level concepts.

I am just an enthusiast, not an AI researcher, but the human proof of concept seems highly encouraging here.
It only means that there's still baseload, only covered by a much more fragile and complex system.

If there was no baseload you wouldn't care if intermittent power generation went to zero.

Because "Base load is the minimum level of demand on an electrical supply system over 24 h."
Sure, I get that. I meant that China has ~1.4 billion people and one of the largest economies in the world. If they really wanted to get a contaminated fab back into operational condition they could throw effectively unlimited manpower and resources into cleaning it up.

Thus it would be better to blow the place up and not have to worry about it.
using surplus energy to pump water uphill and then when you need it, generate hydro energy by letting it flow down again. Just imagine a lake you pump up the mountain to later let gravity pull it down again through turbines ;).
I don’t think LLM as a technology can get there, but I would happily be proven wrong. The issue is simply they quality of the output. I’ve tried several times and the output looks reasonable while being riddled with subtle errors. Unfortunately, being forced to look for subtle errors is more time consuming than simply doing it manually.

One possibility might be improving the quality of the training data rather than aiming for such a huge bulk of amateur works. Unfortunately, there might not be enough quality writing to get an LLM to work.
I'm sure, they can figure that out with something similar to irrigation channels and/or solar panels along river/channels to prevent evaporation. Would they do this? That's another question
How large is the flood? How far away are these zones?
i have to assume because the xbox and ps5 are plugged into an infinite source of energy with substantially better cooling systems on top
Ever questioned if maybe experts and politicians who deal with these issues daily are less delusional than you?

"Ecologists" weren't the ones who nuked nuclear. Popular opinion did. Impossible accidents happening a couple times too often didn't help.
Yes but Germany seems to only be using 10% solar power. They seem to be using an awful lot of wind, and it was my understanding that how much power they produced was somewhat random but fairly close to constant over time.

I don't think the solar argument sounds intuitively wrong to me, I just would like to see the argument fleshed out in some more detail. I have an open mind I've just never heard this argument before.
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> WhatsApp doesn’t keep your messages and while they are on their servers, they are encrypted with a key only you have

Yes, when I share one account with 3 other people I surely worry about encryption.

But anyway, existence of this new (for WA) option confirms what there is a way to solve that problem.
I think the key word you missed was "replacing".

Yes switching off nuclear and doing nothing else would have that effect. But that's not what they did, they pivoted to a renewable heavy grid.
If the Chinese can “channel 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water annually”[1] with one of the world's largest mega-projects then I imagine Europe as a continent putting their heads together can figure out how to provide/redirect sufficient water for a bunch of nuclear power stations.

Also, there may be areas prone to drought but there's simultaneously plenty of precipitation[2] across Europe; heck – build nuclear power stations along the West coast of Ireland and send the juice across the interconnectors[3][4] to the UK and France

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tran...

[2] https://vividmaps.com/precipitation-in-europe/

[3] https://www.soni.ltd.uk/customer-and-industry/interconnectio...

[4] https://www.eirgridgroup.com/the-grid/projects/celtic-interc...
I think the opinion piece is overly reductive on what the strategy is, and that makes it easy to dismiss it in this way. Actually diving into the details paints a different picture.

The actual EU strategy hinges on multiple interacting elements. Making more of the demand steerable, to align peak use better with peak production. Overbuilding renewables capacity so it can still provide enough even at lower efficiency. Wind at sea at a never before seen scale (decided this week at the north sea conference) to have a form of base load (there is dunkelflaute but in general wind at sea is reliable at producing a certain amount of base load). And last but not least the EU hydrogen strategy, where a transport and storage network will be built similar to that for natural gas (in fact converting over that infrastructure), that then can be used to respond to demand in a steerable way, and that can be fed through shipping and pipelines from regions where renewables are most cost-effective at producing hydrogen.

Skeptics like to pretend the EU doesn’t have a renewables strategy beyond hope, but if you dig into it they (like in most things the EU does) have actually worked out a detailed and pragmatic strategy.
Just wait until the summer. Also exports from Germany to France did indeed decline due to the transition.
The financial failure of EDF are mainly due to european regulations that forced price caps, making france sell at loss price when others needed energy last year (before the mess with plants breaking down everywhere)

Either way it's true that they let the situation degrade far too much while resting on aging infrastructure; it'll take a bit of time to get back on track whatever the direction is.
The running costs seem to be quite high too.
The operator of Hinkley Point C in the UK for example receives a fixed "strike price" of 106.12£/MWh (currently) + inflation adjustment.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/21/hinkley-point-c...

https://www.lowcarboncontracts.uk/cfds/hinkley-point-c
i've never understood the policy either, especially because it actively makes google images worse
> Pumped storage

Very limited in where you can build it

> grid scale batteries

Don't exist. You severely underestimate the needs of the grid

> syngas

Aka burning furl and calling it carbon neutral. And have they passed the 1MW mark
I have hazy but broadly positive recollections of ant and nant. Wrote some c# and it showed up in the XML, behaved broadly as expected. Why did developers move away from it?
It was funny when Sun proudly and unilaterally proclaimed that Sun put the "dot" into "dot com", leaving it wide open for Microsoft to slyly counter that oh yeah, well Microsoft put the "COM" into "dot com" -- i.e. ActiveX, IE, MSJVM, IIS, OLE, Visual Basic, Excel, Word, etc!

And then IBM mocked "When they put the dot into dot-com, they forgot how they were going to connect the dots," after sassily rolling out Eclipse just to cast a dark shadow on Java. Badoom psssh!

https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/ibm-brings-on-demand-computin...
> I know from experience the platform-provided mutex implementation on win32 is horrendously slow

Sorry, but this sounds like FUD to me. First off, there is no single Win32 mutex implementation. The Win32 'Mutex' object is indeed heavy weight, but it is meant for inter-process synchronization. For thread synchronization you would rather use 'CriticalSection' or 'SRWLOCK'; they both avoid calling into the kernel in the uncontended case. SRWLOCK in particular is very fast.
It's Linux all the way down. Or, alternatively, it's processes all the way down :).
Right. And in reality discussing French energy politics by reflecting on the German politics.
Power plant coolant does not require desalination, but it does obviously require that the plant be built next to the sea. Which works fine for the UK and France but Germany has less coastline and more of it is either national park, tourist destination, or busy port.
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!

... oh, not those Transformers. Meh.
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It's not the replacement. The argument that "lignite" plants replaced nuclear power is mostly wrong. Especially not long term. But this argument is highly convenient for people who are delusional over the benefits of nuclear power.
https://archive.is/Uj8X2

it argues there are 3 types of RTO workers:

1. the resistors

typically senior-level employees and high performers, workers who aren’t worried that defying return-to-office rules will yield professional consequences

2. the defectors

Those are the employees who when pushed to return to the office will quit — either on the spot or in the months after R.T.O. rules are put in place. The employees most likely to leave, according to Tsipursky, are those whose skills are in high demand, like artificial-intelligence researchers

3. quiet quitters

They don’t want to go back to the office, but they also don’t feel they can defy the rules outright. Instead, Tsipursky explained, many of these employees express frustration with return-to-office mandates in subtler ways, sometimes by spending their hours in the office avoiding work.
Did you account for inflation? Because your 2008 dollars were worth a lot more than what they are now...
Just a little comment for correctness, since April 15th, all German nuclear reactors are switched off.
McConnell has never really been a fan of “purist” Agile.

Construx eventually developed a curriculum around a fairly “corporate-friendly” version of Scrum, that I never found that appealing.

The way I write code, these days, makes Agile look like Orthodox religion.

However, it’s highly dependent upon me, being who I am, and a lifetime of habit and personal process. It would probably not scale well.

McConnell has always been about introducing process, metrics, and rigor to software development. I don’t think he’d be thrilled with the way I do stuff.

WFM. YMMV.
You've conflated sex and gender there.
At least its simple to watch region locked content with a vpn on GCN+.
It’s now advised to failover to different region (vs zone in the same region).
The problem is that bad quality comments are cheap and good rebuttals are hard. The downvote mechanism does improve quality and people usually know why they got downvoted even if they won't admit it.
This article shows that it pays off to diversify. Invest in all low carbon tech. -isms, be it pro- or anti-nuclearism get us nowhere and poison the public debate.
Speaking against nuclear energy on HN is like burning the Quran in Saudi Arabia.

The level of group think and indoctrination is hilarious.
Also this is because of quantarive easing and low interest rates.....
Interesting. I always do that when programming something non trivial. I found it very helpful to sort the threads and clear my thoughts and capture what I don't know but I thought I knew.

I then keep the pseudo code as comments in code and go from there.

But I don't know others are doing the same. I'm a pretty mediocre programmer so I have to do it a lot.
I was just following the terminology of the OP: "buyers of third-world shitphones" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35696458

For some reason you chose to be pedantic with me but not with the OP.

Go away.
Everything in React is just a function, so there is expectation of how it works. The data binding in Svelte is a bit magical and not always clear if there are race conditions, but I'm a Svelte noob trying to port my existing app to it.
Nuclear power projects are always finished late and way over budget.

There's definitely a pattern there.
This is why you let a computer choose. By doing that you end up forcing the attacker to brute force, which we all know is mathematically unfeasible given enough entropy.
> The actual EU strategy

There is a strategy beyond populism and FUD?

> Overbuilding renewables capacity so it can still provide enough even at lower efficiency.

And the cost of overbuilding is?

> And last but not least the EU hydrogen strategy, where a transport and storage network will be built similar to that for natural gas

Again, some future magical solution with unspecified costs
A secure pseudo-random function will generate passwords with no less entropy than your keypairs. Builtin password managers in browsers do that. And if the server is compromised, the attacker doesn't need your credentials at all: he already has more access to the server than you ever had.
Multi-Zone failure in Google cloud: europeParis (Europe-west9)
> better education programs in schools

Maybe you went to a different type of school than me, but from my memory no one ever took the 'drugs are bad, mmmkay' speeches seriously. The visiting anti drug crews were taken even less seriously. And my school was one of the more respectable ones in an affluent area.
Germany is now a net exporter of energy, but is going to become a net importer precisely because of nuclear phase-out. As described in the IEAs report [0]:

"The government expects it can meet future generation needs after the nuclear and plannedncoal phase-outs with additional renewables capacity, energy efficiency measures and increased imports (given an estimated 80 GW to 90 GW of overcapacity regionally) (Eckert, 2019). However, Germany’s switch from a net exporter of electricity to a net importer will also have implications for regional power generation adequacy."

[0] https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/60434f12-7891-4469-...
Hasn't everyone?
This will be an unpopular take I'm sure, but to do what you're describing is to deny yourself personal growth and to deny yourself the best of what life has to offer. Yes, being alone sucks. Take that sentiment and go out and seek companionship in other human beings.

Our relationships with other people, platonic or otherwise, and the pain that may follow, is all a part of the human experience.

My father never remarried or had another relationship. He's now in his seventies and laments that he never tried again. No, he doesn't want to be friends with the AI arse-wiping machine. People live and people die. People love and people leave. Find happiness in the good moments and seek out the next one.
An early explainer of transformers, which is a quicker read, that I found very useful when they were still new to me, is The Illustrated Transformer[1], by Jay Alammar.

A more recent academic but high-level explanation of transformers, very good for detail on the different flow flavors (e.g. encoder-decoder vs decoder only), is Formal Algorithms for Transformers[2], from DeepMind.

[1] https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09238
Fossil is the one to look at.
A lot of assumptions here. What intellectual advantages do chimpanzees have over humans?
Their survival advantages over us are in other planes. Clearly at some stage between the last common ancestor and us there was an intellectually inferior, yet more or less human.
Sure they could maybe sleep naked in the cold, run marathons in 1:30 or even, as a facet of mental ability, have superhuman reaction time, but they would just have no place in the human society.
Your refusal to even consider a genetically defined human subset of inferior intellect is quite typical, I suppose because you don't like the conclusions for if it existed.
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Requiring a comment with a vote will only lead to tendentious arguments over voting, and such discussions are always boring, low quality and tangential to the subject. This is why downvoting without commenting is preferred here, and discussing downvotes is explicitly forbidden - silent rebuke is often the best way to separate signal from noise without doing further harm.
How many Waldorf-Frommer letters so far? :-)
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You would still be wrong. No sparc for windows, no sh4. No Hitachi CPUs. Linux has more busses isa in 2023 for example.

Where are you getting your data?
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What a load of crap. Nuclear has been load following (and required to load following by EU regulations) since forever.

Capable of changing power output at 3-5% of nameplate capacity per minute. https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...
And don't forget 'culture', which I think was a huge contributing non-technical factor.