skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take away from the article is that Watson and Crick were the ones who finally cracked the puzzle, but that Franklin and Wilkins' (and others') findings were a key part.

It's telling that the controversy only surrounds Franklin's contributions, not Wilkins', presumably because of her gender and the need to promote women's historical contribution to science. I understand the desire to do that, as the theory goes that girls can only be interested in science if they know of women who have excelled previously. (I'm not sure I completely buy this, but I'm not about to die on that hill.)

However, I'm glad this article was published, as it gives some balance to what has become (as per) a deeply biased and divisive discussion, mostly, I have to say, by the myth-making and narratives of one side.

To add a personal anecdote, I'll note that my son was straight-up taught (by his female science teacher) that Watson and Crick did not discover the structure of DNA but stole it from Franklin. I'm still not sure I've completely disabused him of this idea.
If you thought container in container was cool. How about k8s in container? Do checkout kind [1]

[1] https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/
Regarding coding practices:

I work as a data engineer and I always wanted to enforce some rules for the team:

1. DAGs must have a section that describes what it does and have link to jira ticket and documentation if applicable. Stakeholders should be named too.

2. DAGs must have a created by and modified by section with a summary of what they did. Yes we can track changes in GitHub but if we do a lift and shift upgrade of Composer instances all trackable changes are gone.

3. Comment the sql queries wherever hacky. There is no way I know why the original author put up some conversions in the code.

4. Every etl should check source data before and check loaded data after. Put up some test cases there. For critical processes, failure should always trigger emails and slack message sent to at least two places: DE team and related stakeholder team. God there are SO MANY cases we can get rid the trouble to pick and clean the data because we did not reject obviously wrong source data.

5. Think about potential errors. If you have to SUM a column of large integers, watch for overflows. If your column is nullable, watch for unexpected nulls. Such and such.
> “People have been making this assumption that we can use male mice to reliably make comparisons within and across experiments, but our data suggest that female mice are more stable in terms of behavior despite the fact that they have the estrous cycle,” Datta said.

Isn't this quote mixing up two uses of "stable"? They stuck with male mice to be able to compare to other studies, not to reduce variability within the study (which should not be a goal in itself).

If this shows anything, it is that we know way too little about biological factors underlying behavior, and that variation in other factors (age is an obvious one, but there are also genes that affect this behavior) should be investigated too.
Thanks for the questions! Here are my thoughts:

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Oh, and regarding your thoughts on companies sharing videos and conversations of previous candidates during the interview process, that's definitely an interesting perspective to consider. We're starting with interviewee-submitted recordings to provide a wider range of experiences and insights, but it's worth exploring the potential benefits and drawbacks of employer-submitted content as well.
The root issue here is that most people do not know how identities based on public/private keys work. So the stuff about using bluetooth and and QR codes is just a pointless and meaningless ritual. If anything goes wrong the user will have no idea about what they should do to resolve that issue. They won't know what they have to do to prevent things from going wrong.

The modern cryptography that this stuff is based on was invented only 40 years ago. There is as of yet no useful cultural context to base systems on. You can't expect people to be able to use concepts that don't really exist yet.
Plus, I would argue that any argument trying to scare people away from tech jobs based on the current economic circumstances is worthless if it does not suggest a more promising alternative.

Will an individual who has the appropriate qualifications and experience find that tech jobs are harder to find, less stable, and less well compensated than they were 5 years ago? Yes, absolutely!

But will that same individual find that tech jobs are harder to find, less stable, and less well compensated than jobs in another industry right now? If so, which industry?
Everything Is Sludge: Art in the Post-Human Era [video]
It seems like promo for some Call Center (IT Tech Support) boot camp.
Now this something which is good use of ChatGPT instead of endless summarizations and content creation stuff. Any tips on how to get started building something like this?
>Austria

You are completely wrong there, Austria is the biggest anti-nuclear zealot in EU, they are the reason why investments into nuclear are not considered green (effectively stifling development of it).
underutilized? Like the office suite, spotify, discord, teams, vscode...
Agreed. As much as I dislike the bulk of Electron this feels like the worst of both worlds: you get incompatibilities between different browsers and more difficult installation than with a PWA.
> They seem to be using an awful lot of wind, and it was my understanding that how much power they produced was somewhat random

The amount of wind that's produced is predictable. In NL they do "day ahead pricing". You can get energy contracts based upon those prices. It's pretty easy to predict the amount of solar energy and wind energy a day in advance. It's not random.
More Thoughts on a Bootstrappable GHC (Haskell)
But is that enough? How fast does demand rise and drop on an average and a bad day?
Upgrading to Wi-Fi 6E won't speed up your PS5 or Xbox Series X
If you make the speed limit for cars 55mph people will still got a bit faster, 60mph, 65mph. But almost no one would be driving 85mph. But if you say "nah people drive 65mph anyway, let's be realistic and make the the speed limit" they will go 75mph and more.

So if you want to not reach much more than 1.5°C, let's say 2°C or 2.5°C, you need to be realistic and set a lower goal. We will always be above any goal.
I am convinced that the mass layoffs are occurring because forward-thinking executives can see that AI agents are coming to replace employees faster than most people expect. By doing layoffs early they can cut staff before public opinion shifts to questioning AI as the motive, as opposed to "the economy".
I wonder if people who stood by and did nothing will find a way to blame their failure on “ecologists”.
UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal
Again, it's not difficult to understand but you seem determined not to understand it.

gender: how you feel about yourself: e.g. you could feel more masculine or more feminine, or something in between.

Sex: the actual hardware you've got.

Neither is binary.
My Overview of GNSS
I think people who say this have never coded outside. Keyboards and sand do not work together.
I looked into some alternatives a while back [1] and thought Neutralino looked promising except that it doesn't support node modules. I.e. you cannot use the existing ecosystem of node-stuff.

Still, glad there are many options for using web UI to create desktop apps these days.

[1]: Neutralino themselves link to this nice comparison table: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...
Doesn't this show how much Germany imports from France?
Idealism has brought us genocide, mass murder and war. Majority of the most awful people in human history have been idealists.
Microsoft "consumer" (live.com, etc) accounts are like this. They have a whole set of advanced, secure options like security keys, TOTP, etc but they force you to have either an email or SMS recovery option configured :(

Google on the other hand, do this correctly. You can configure a consumer Google account to only have secure options listed.
I don't think this is wishful thinking as Denmark is ahead of Germany in switching to renewables and Denmark is already in the situation you quote.

Many people completely ignore how well EU contries are interconnected and how EU is pressuring Germany to become even more well connected to other contries.

So electricity generation in EU should never be considered at country level only.

Today it is windy in Denmark. Wind mills produce 103% of current consumption, solar 33%, bio/coal 17%. Surplus is exported to Norway, Sweden, Nederlands and Germany.

During night time this often switches around and we import from those contries. Most days wind blows in Denmark during day time and not during night time, so we are extra hard hit by up-and-downs in renewable generation.

Tech for long distance transmission of electricity has also improved a lot over the past years but this is often ignored when speaking about renewables.
nice,but I don't have multiregional backups in mongodb I can't do anything...
For sure. That's why I mentioned multi-modal training, where the language model is trained on text in tandem with visual and audio training data. GPT-4 was trained on both images and text and can even explain why visual jokes are funny:

https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

Training an LLM on video seems like the clear next step. I wonder if images and video might not encode visuospatial relations that are helpful to learning language that describes them.
There is also wind. The mix of wind and solar works quite well in Germany.

Of course, from the carbon point of view, switching off nuclear before coal is a bad idea. But there are a few considerations to be made and the original plans were much more reasonable, but not executed.

- a large driver of decommissioning nuclear was about nuclear waste, safety and also costs

- the original agreement from 2002 didn't set an exit date but a total amount of nuclear energy produced. Which would have meant that some reactors would have ran into the late 20ies

- of course, the plan assumed build up of renewables at best speed

What where the deviations from that plan?

- the CDU/CSU+FDP government first prolonged the life time of nuclear, then after Fukushima shortened it beyond the original agreement.

- at the same time the CDU/CSU led governments from that on did not push renewables enough, at some time they actually started curbing the buildup. As a result, there is far less renewables in the mix than there could have been.

So the original plan wasn't that bad and has been screwed up considerably. Now we have to fix the situation but there is only one way ahead: continue with the switch to renewables at best speed.
My wife makes a living communicating with animals and still eats meat.
I guess in my example, that's about 5 cents/mile assuming 300 miles of range.
RATH's autovis feature is based on a data view. If your queries generates a data view (tables with columns), it can handle it.
> Germany would have had to burn coal that night anyway

But much, much less coal.

> The output of the remaining 3 reactors would have been only a fraction of the electricity requirements anyway.

That is s great way to say: we killed our stable source of electricity because of populism, and now we're burying our head in the sand justifying our decision.

> production capacity will be filled in soon.

Soon when? And the question of quiet nights remains
To disable animations just set both the animation speeds to 0.
I studied systems engineering and the first class about algorithms and data structures started using pseudocode, then Pascal. And they still do today.
If transport over big distances wasn't a problem, both technical and political, solar would be the only source we need.

I've read here multiple times that a "small" solar farm in the Sahara desert would suffice to provide energy for all Europe. Even if you can solve transporting it, imagine what could happen if it's in, or the wires run through a country in civil war, like Sudan.
"Double tap the space bar to type a comma, triple tap to type a period. More taps have more punctuation."

lol reminds me of the Mactini : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGOn-H7s3Q

Only joking, this looks cool.
There are graphs in the report.
In Germany, there are only a handful of nights per year where you may want air conditioning. Most German homes don't even have AC.
Microsoft lets it sound like fewer PCs is a good idea, especially concerning the environmental impact, but they are treating vendor dependency and gouging in a cloud like a non-issue for customers, and that a cloud outage could mean a single point of failure for businesses. Whoever buys into this must take into account that Microsoft has an increased interest in pulling all of their customers into cloud to exert power and control.
Wait until we learn to communicate with plants. Then all the squeamish folks will have to become breatharians.
As gas fueled heating is phased out, most of Northern and Central Europe will get the same kind of seasonal demand as in Norway/Sweden. That is, much higher demand during winter.

There are very few places in Europe (outside of Norway/Sweden) where such long-term storage (sevel months worth) could be built at a competitive price. Currently, storage is usually counted in minutes to single digit hours, even in the optimistic plans.

So, barring some extreme breakthrough in storage technology, the only way to remove the reliance on fossil fuels, is to have significantly more plannable peak capacity than low season consumption.

In the case of nuclear, the main ways to bring prices down would be to create standardized and predictable regulations with a better thought out balance between the economic and health/safety costs, while also encouraging innovations and economies of scale to drive costs down in most other parts of the economy.

If costs could be reduced to €20-€40/MWh, some overcapacity would be ok.
That’s a level of confidence, preparation and forward thinking that would be uncharacteristic. The reality is that everyone else is cutting staff so it’s become expected. And because it’s expected and happening throughout the industry it’s a lot easier to do a layoff or two now than it was a year ago
Yeah I don't think I'm complaining here. But pointing to certain dynamics.

There is a lot of the groupthink on HN, and this might be one of the mechanisms suppressing debating certain ideas.

Downvoting definitely surpresses well written contrarian arguments. It often kills the discussion by moving it down.

On a personal note. It's fun to see a comment get a lot of votes, and also fun to see it get a lot of downvotes. But I'm not very emotionally invested into it.
Then why not simply build them on unpopulated coasts in Scandinavia, and run HVDC links under the Baltic? If it's good enough for solar power (not enough sunlight in Europe? Just offshore it to Africa [0]), it's good enough for nuclear fission. Extra plus, it's much closer, and all of the countries involved are low-risk, stable democracies.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611806
How would you convince me to take a guaranteed small cut to my life quality compared to taking a very low chance of earlier death?

In the end, the high impact risks of nuclear are of extremely low probability, and they compound better than fossi fuels: we have 1 30km-radius exclusion zone and some smaller non-exclusion cleanup efforts for some 1PWh(? can't find the number right now) of energy total. When an event like that happens, the affected population is tiny, and they are able to move out at a moderate one-time cost.

Meanwhile, fossil fuel generation downsides are inescapeable: every plant decreases the quality of life for every person, and we cannot escape it. How many people have died early because of the unescapeable, permanent health damage for each PWh of energy produced? There's no exclusion zone at all, so there's no ability to pay a one time price and be spared the long-term effects.

Which kind of generation has "this high of a cost"? What should be the average damage to the population which we take as a baseline?
Why are you convinced of this?

From what I can see, GPT-4 is incredibly useful but you have to be very careful to lead it in the correct direction otherwise it produces bad outputs. I say this as somebody that probably uses it every 10 minutes. Do you think that it will stop making errors of judgment and be able to behave as an agent soon?

I've not encountered anything yet that gives me faith in that, other than hype about it increasing in ability exponentially which seems unlikely.
Admittedly, engineers are pretty much the only people making calculations with those kind of units and they generally use metric as far as I know. I went to school a long time ago and there were probably enough legacy imperial units hanging around that it seemed worthwhile to at least be exposed to examples you wouldn't have encountered in day to day living.
There are some tools like CleanshotX that do this and make decent $$ AFAIK. No affiliation, just a happy customer.
Personally I'm fond of MS-DOS because of all the ugly, arbitrary hackiness of it all. It's a beautiful mess. It's also an incredibly lean and responsive OS compared to a modern day OS where every keystroke and mouse movement goes through a dozen layers of abstraction. DOS gives you close to direct access to hardware.
If only artificial scarcity were illegal and hackintoshes were legal.
The Bubbletea (TUI) State Machine Pattern
Data visualization is a crucial part of modern web applications. With various visualization techniques, everyone tries to make their application unique and appealing to users. As developers, knowing how to deliver these customer needs is essential.

In this article, I will discuss eight JavaScript data visualization libraries every developer should know.
Transformers: Types, Basics, Construction and Operating Principle
The problem is we use the same platform, the web, for real-time applications, games, CRUD, static blogs, and so on. It’s a flexible platform and many tools have niches in these different scopes & some _are_ quite large. But a lot of folks misdiagnose the scope & size of their projects choosing the wrong tool. Some of this is fueled by wanting to build résumés or try new hotness or just overcorrecting an ancient jQuery spaghetti that should have been a web app. Suggesting jQ+PHP is the only thing you need is naïve: both in that there isn’t a silver-bullet software architecture for all projects and that often times even jQ+PHP is overkill when a static generator could suffice.
Superficially, it is similar to conky in concept, but with very different primary points of focus. whilst conky excells at having lots of info on your desktop in the background, eww might not be optimal for that. On the other hand, eww is generally a lot easier to get visually appealing main-point-of-focus widgets in, for overlay dashboards, media/volume controls and of course bars.
Eww was and is generally designed to be more or less "two-dimensional polybar", both in its original design of widgets and the state architecture.

Being written using GTK and thus also styled in GTK CSS makes a big impact here, of course
Maybe AG Grid + Svelte?
https://ag-grid-svelte.michael.kim/guide/overview/
The free/community version of AG Grid goes an awfully long way.
Vscode is electron. Discord is react-native.
Operating at less than peak capacity doesn't make burning coal any more healthy, and doesn't make the decision to not retire them any more safety-oriented.
What happens if AI unlocks communication with plants?
What a great journey man! Open sourced your hard work will definitely save a ton of times for later curious developers, kudos!
It is not only the death count. Large parts of Bavaria are still contaminated from the Chernobyl accident. They decontaminated most fields, but mushrooms and especial wild boar from the forests (they eat the mushrooms a lot) are only to be eaten with care (and the pigs should be all checked for radiation whether they are safe for eating at all, but of course that doesn't always happen).
This feature is built in by default to some screenshot tools. Funnily I use it most often not to make screenshots look better, but just to add some padding to beat the bad cropping algorithms on Twitter, Slack, Telegram etc that otherwise only show a small piece of your image in the thumbnail instead of the whole thing.

I've also found Browserframe.io useful (add a fake minimalist browser to your screenshot, and can also add a background, drop shadows etc)
Which problem does it solve? Looks like a list of a few tweaks of some browser defaults.
> I recently read in "The Little Learner" book that finding the right parameters is learning. That's the point. Everything we do in deep learning is focused on choosing the right sequence of numbers and we call those numbers parameters. Every parameter has a specific role in our model. Parameters are our choice, those are the nobs that we (as a personified machine learning algorithm) get to adjust.

Be careful not to mistake parameters for hyperparameters.
- Parameters are the result of the training phase, as you mentioned. They start with random values and are discovered by the training algorithm;
- Hyperparameters, on the other hand, are the knobs you tweak to make the training process arrive at the "right" parameters. You can think of them as meta-parameters;

Also, it is important to think on the ML architecture - transformers, neural networks, random forests and so on - as the parameters change completely depending on which one you're using.
Written using compose, neat. Maybe I can add a layout configurator to it at some point.
I've used https://www.elephantsql.com/ for smaller hobby like things with much success. It's not really "like Planetscale" though.
There are a lot of MessageEase features that it's still missing, but it's moving fast, and I'm very excited that it exists.
If this is a normal capability of most people, I am horribly broken.
Commenter isn't asking them to predict the future, they willingly gave their prediction without being asked. Commenter to asking for them to share the half of their prediction they are hiding.
Where's the boundary between plants and technology when you have genetic engineering?
> I ask because they're shockingly few.

Only if you believe the official numbers about Chernobyl, which are worthless. The Soviet Union and later Russia was not being transparent.

> The safety argument isn't based on numbers, but on fear.

Very well-founded fear, based on how bad nuclear accidents can be, how bad people suck at adhering to safety protocols when there haven't been accidents for a long time, and the possibility of such accidents even being caused intentionally.
Apple cares more about their stockholders than consumers.