skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "miracle" would be admitting that technology can't get us out of every predicament we throw ourselves into, and disabusing ourselves of the notion that anything - the economy, civilization, human population - can grow infinitely on a finite planet without complete catastrophe. Admitting any one of those three things is anathema, though, so we comfort ourselves with pipe dreams of carbon sequestration, dyson spheres, and sending out probes to mine all our resources from the asteroid belt.
TIL that besides the neutrino there is also a hypothetical particle called the neutralino. And there is (of course) also a framework called Neutrinojs...
Wow! I had no idea about Terminator! It would be fascinating to hear about what happened from Bo's perspective.

edit: this thread has some more info https://groups.google.com/g/comp.dcom.modems/c/JdOtiDGCV3Y

There's one person in the thread who is skeptical that Bo was in the wrong!
It's a tree laid out more-or-less intuitively (like a mind map) on a two dimensional plane which someone is calling a map (you can quibble with the term "map" if you like but it's not a mind-bendingly incomprehensible term) in this context. It's not a power set, there would appear to be multiple singly rooted n-ary trees. You start with an initial query (the root node) and the generated ChatGPT responses (they are called cards here) branch out like a tree rather than being a linear back-and-forth convo – structured like, as I said, a mind map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map
They link a comparison: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

By those numbers it compares remarkably will against Tauri.
maybe try https://tauri.app/?
Yeah that seems more like how it would work, I’m curious about the internals there
Apple is such a monopoly that people are leaving it for the competition!

Nobody goes to that place anymore, it’s always far too busy!
"Future is not baseload except we actually need baseload, but let's call it by different names like flexible generation and magical non-existent new types of storage"
I wonder if we'll look at pre-2020 data as an equivalent of "low-background steel"[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
It reminded me of the this as well. I have been using this software to better understand prompt engineering.
They have had a team dedicated to improve their internal erlang ecosystem, which open sourced a few things, for a few years.

I do not know their status as of today.
Jobs was right. Microsoft really is the McDonald's of the software world.
> China, Russia, SK) are the ones that are known to skip on safety

And you have sources on this except opinions and FUD?
Honestly, who has time for that these days.
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That position might have had some merit if the replacement wasn't lignite burning plants, which score way worse on safety.
The description certainly sounds bleak.
The failure of EDF in France is not due to nuclear power inherent limitations, but to massive underinvestment from the French government. The Energiewende has cost the Germans more than 150 billion €, all that with lenient EU regulations.

Whereas in France, the new EPR in Flamanville, for all it being talked about as a failed investment, has cost 1/10th of that. With 10x the money and economies of scale, we could have had a crazy nuclear capacity with very strict, modern standards.

Whether France will build nuclear or renewables, the problem is they had to do it 10 years ago.
Note that dictionaries are officially ordered since Python 3.7.
> Sometimes I feel like Edge is made by 20+ different teams with no shared strategic goals

That's almost every modern Microsoft product, in my experience.
>Is that what you usually hear? That replacing nuclear (a lot of it) by (a lot of) renewables will actually reduce fossil fuel use in the power sector? And yet it is the main lesson here.

I don't follow the logic whatsoever.
Telegram is holding all of your messages forever, encrypted with a key they have.

WhatsApp doesn’t keep your messages and while they are on their servers, they are encrypted with a key only you have.

Security vs. Convenience
> are building more

Fun fact: In the last 20 years France has reduced its nuclear power output by just about the same total amount as Germany.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-energy-generation...
That seems weird, I have no idea of the answer, but in the UK there's typically several audio options and several subtitle options. Stuff that's surely pretty niche in the UK even (i.e. would be surprising that they paid extra for it) like French-dubbed/subtitled originally-Hindi films.
While people continue to push nuclear as a silver bullet, the painful fact is that nuclear won't be reliable enough in the dry Europe we are facing: Italy, France and Spain are in extreme drought and France in particular had to shut down nuclear power plants due to lack of water. In Germany rivers are also low and having plants like Isar 3 evaporate 770L/s is not sustainable in summer.

Wind and Solar can be intermittent but the drought is here to stay. A flexible system which reacts to electric availability is needed for the future. Wasting water in huge cooling towers will threaten food security.
The commentator is French
> Europe is very diverse and I'm comparing the US to the Scandinavian countries, as that's where I live.

Sweden somehow had an even worse policy than the US for dealing with COVID. Scandinavia is home to some of the largest white nationalist movements in the world.

Let's not pretend it's all roses here in Europe. Britain keeps electing Tories and effectively elected Boris Johnson. France damn near elected Marine le Pen. Nationalists control Hungary and Poland. About a quarter of Italy's parliament is far-right.

Don't get me wrong, I emigrated from the US in large part because of the political landscape, but Europe is not immune, or even close. And, really, the US is also "very diverse" -- plenty of states are generally well-governed.
Plus Czech Rep, Austria (and Switzerland) all have plenty of nuclear plants and energy, and will fight the EU to keep them. Germany stance is ideological at best and irrational at worst. Time will tell if it works well for German in the end. Unfortunately their recent track record with risky decisions is not great (I refer to the refugee crisis and the reliance on russian gas).
Yeah, I'm a central european and I would call it a football field. Granted, not the biggest football fan, I only watch the international tournaments which happen every other year. And I'm not a native english speaker.
Smh, Americans will literally convert into metric and back to keep using their bald eagles per shotgun squared units.
Safety you say?

How many people do you think have died from nuclear reactor accidents the last century? I ask because they're shockingly few.

In fact more people have died from radiation from coal plants than from nuclear plants.

The safety argument isn't based on numbers, but on fear.
This was a general idea back then terminal connections were physical. Small BASIC program (Your system does have BASIC, right?) or hex dump could be typed in to create a lowest common denominator bootstrap communication/encoding/decoding tool, which then could be used to transfer more complex program to the system. On DOS systems you could "copy /b COM1 file" (on a physical keyboard) or "copy /b CON file" (inside the terminal connection), then try to send data as is. If it was small enough, the line was clean enough, the settings matched, and the system was fast enough to chew it with one bite, it could work.

Here's an extreme example of such program consisting only of printable (and type-able) characters:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/a/tcomtxt.asm

(Seen on https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5202/tran... )

You can also notice the mention of bootstrap files in Kermit, and look them up.

I've recently seen some better known YouTube user doing exactly the thing we discuss on an old system (even including the consequences of accidental port setting mismatch), but, of course, can't remember the exact video.

Norton Commander, in addition to sharing files over serial or parallel port, was able to “clone” itself to another computer by sending a bootstrap loader the same way, then copying the rest. Hmm, the null modem cable pin connection chart in the readme seems to be a regular one (though without carrier detect pin), but the interlink/laplink cable is shown as 8 bit wide (though the thing should probably work with popular legacy 4 bit crossover):

https://rentry.co/nc50readme
It's a weird example of the original material like Cleons being good while stuff from the books being incredibly bad.
There are certain sporting events which are required to be broadcast free on terrestrial TV. Wimbledon and the FA cup final are the two that I can remember this applying to off the top of my head.
Nuclear power plants continue to have a DRAMATICALLY better safety record than the lignite plants that Germany continues to operate, so your argument doesn't make sense to me. Dramatic as in we could have a yearly nuclear meltdown worldwide and the safety record would still be better.

If anything you're more pointing out how hysterics over nuclear safety ended up endangering lives in practice by promoting the use of more dangerous forms of energy which don't arouse public fears as much since they kill people in an indirect and gradual way with unclear causation. Whereas nuclear kills people directly and suddenly with obvious causation.
Imagine replacing nuclear partly with biomass and not taking the opportunity to phase out coal burning.

There's no rational argument that's pro "saving the planet" that can explain that. As in, zero arguments.

That's delusional, plain and simple.
works for me with node 16 on osx brave/chrome
I’m not sure how we go from 20 character string to 256 bits? Guessing the 20 character string is a lot more likely than cycling through every state of a 256 bit key.
What is the sea?
Prioritizing sustainable cloud architectures: a how-to round up
France needs to buy electricity from Germany because reactors are down or can not function because the river used for cooling is to hot already.
Water problems will get worse in the following years.
The nuclear operating company is bankrupt and needed to be nationalized.
Not really the best look for nuclear. In other countries it might work better.
Very hard to reason about. I got that wind turbines do not actually produce more energy than was needed to build them. This is not shown in these charts, i.e. the energy needed to build the wind turbines was largely used outside of Germany, it was part of the price buy them.

edit: thanks commenters, i stand corrected
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There is more than Maven and Gradle. Maybe a new build tool callded "bld" could make life a bit easier: https://rife2.com/bld
I suspect the vast majority of Authy backups use passwords trivially susceptible to brute-force attacks despite only 1000 (!!!) iterations of PBKDF2. If Authy wanted to do things right, it would generate local encryption keys instead of asking normies for file encryption passphrases.
That's a really interesting take that you don't hear much. My view from knowing a fair amount of PE folks:

PE firms are run by very smart and practical people who understand incentives and finance really well. In many cases their incentives and the incentives of the teams they acquire align - they want the teams to be highly motivated and they understand how to use money to make that happen.

Not defending PE overall - smart and practical != nice - but PE doesn't exist just to do evil. They're bad guys in the vein of Slytherin, not Vlad the Impaler.
I can't agree. The comment above is extremely constructive, and I'd be glad to receive that much helpful feedback on a project I'd submitted. The advice is both well-informed and actionable. That's not something you usually get for free!
Once the world is fucked up because we failed to act, I wonder if ecologists who blocked our one way of solving the problem when we could will be held accountable.

Governments remain widely delusional so far and no other government is stepping into their bad decisions.
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Doesn't matter if you follow that logic, it's what the numbers say.

Maybe it becomes clearer if you look at them, e.g. chart 3 on that page:
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
> won't be reliable enough in the dry Europe we are facing: Italy, France and Spain are in extreme drought and France in particular had to shut down nuclear power plants due to lack of water.

No, no they didn't. The shutdown due to "lack of water" (which is also bullshit) affected 0.18% of power generation.

The shutdowns happened due to planned maintenance when French government finally got its head out of its ass long enough to realize that power plants need to be maintained.
The gist is that the carbon output from gas peaker plants is not that high because they don’t run that much more than under nuclear base load. Just at different times. Summer air conditioning peaks are shit on nuclear but great on solar for example.
You need to store the password on the iPhone in this case, which is insecure. The whole point of having the second-factor auth is using two separate devices: a computer stores the password (in a password manager) and a smartphone generates the TOTP codes.
UK GDP in USD 2007 - 3,092bn ... 2023 - 3,131bn

France GDP in USD 2007 - 2,660bn ... 2023 - 2,957bn

< same thing further afield, canada, australia etc. pretty incredible right?

Australia GDP in USD 2007 - 854bn ... 2023 - 1,552bn

Pretty incredible?
The concept is called "hidden champions" and they exist in Germany all over the place: companies that run impressive revenue and profits and sometimes keep surprisingly big parts of the economy (domestically or even internationally) afloat by simply doing their work that everybody depends on - and that nobody (outside their circle) has ever heard of.

Software AG isn't _quite_ that because hidden champions tend to be privately owned while SAG is publicly traded and was big in the M&A space, but they're still close enough in my opinion. Private companies in important niches of the economic fabric can work for a long time without anybody but their employees and direct commercial partners ever hearing about them.

On the other hand, such companies tend to over-specialize and aren't very flexible when it comes to adapting to market shifts. Take automotive for example where there are a bunch of companies (that you likely never heard of) that do marvels in mechanical engineering for the big brands (that you have heard of): A fair amount of that is falling apart with the move to the much simpler electric designs where that kind of process simply isn't necessary anymore.

As an example, when people are concerned about the German industry and economy taking a hit by the move to EVs, it's not so much Daimler's (et al) hesitancy to move to EVs that they're thinking of, and worrying that they might not make it, it's that cottage industry of specialists which support Daimler et al that becomes redundant. That hesitancy to move off the well-trodden path might, in part, be motivated by a desire to keep that ecosystem alive, maybe due to political encouragement, maybe because it's the devil you know, maybe out of concern for the economy and workers.
"Nuclear requires the huge volumes of storage/flexible capacity provided by large scale hydro": sorry, what?
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There are many types of nuclear reactors and fuel types used. They can be quite different in operation and risk.
If you're a journalist you can't ask a swedish person if you've messed up any details? That's the point. It's so flipping easy to get the detail right.
The Soviets had one accident: Chernobyl. The USA had one: Three Mile Island. The Japanese had one: Fukushima.

To the best of my knowledge China has had none and South Korea have had none and the Russians (non-Soviets) have had none.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...
I specifically wanted an analog-style clock to fit with the rest of the decor. I could use a tablet, but it would be jarringly out of place with the rest of the house. And it also seems like a huge waste of compute to have even a low-end tablet just acting as a simple clock.

I need to sit down and dedicate the time to learn some electronics and "maker"-y skills, I'm sure there would be a way to mash together something like an ESP32 and one of those DIY clock quartz movement kits to get what I want.
If you can't tell that it isn't 1080p, does it really matter?
Not usable without desalination and far away from most reactor sites.
Anyone with slightest interest in space knew well in advance that the odds were stacked against achieving the full objective of that test, and any outcome that didn’t result in demolishing the launch tower would be a success:

“The most likely outcome is that something will go wrong during this flight... The primary goal of this mission, therefore, is to gather as much data as possible about the performance by Super Heavy and Starship in flight—for as long as that flight lasts.” [0]

But perhaps you know that too.

[0] - https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/spacex-to-make-a-sec...
> That being said, they havent really turned it into a product.

I don't think they need to, since they are also AI shovel makers due to their Apple Silicon chips.

So I guess that they will push for on-device LLMs soon. Won't be surprising to see that on iPhones and Macs.
> we could have had a crazy nuclear capacity with very strict, modern standards.

Would that help though, if drought periods hit Western Europe, like last year, and water levels in the rivers are as low as they were?
It boggles my mind that they would turn off the cleanest, most consistent power supply that exists, now.

"Focus is renewables, not baseload" - that doesn't even make sense, you still need the latter to heat a country through winter (or cool it down during summer, in case of Australia). So I guess on the flat, overcast days they'll burn coal instead, which has its own horrible mix of emissions. Or gas. Bravo, genius.

I'm all for green energy etc, but the focus must be on reducing total emissions. As someone who likes charging their EV from the sun I have experienced how bleak it gets during the Melbournian winter - I'll get 3-4 kWh in a day at worst/too often - maybe up to 8 more normally, compared to closer to 40-50 kWh on my 6.6/5 kWh PV system (rarely less than 30) during summer.
Meta comment.

Maybe i misunderstand the downvote mechanism on HN. IMO it should be used for inconsiderate, rude, spam etc. but not against an opinion you disagree with.

Everytime I post something against nuclear it gets a huge amount of downvotes. In this case it didn't happen to me, but happens to another user, see comments at the bottom of the tree.

I would say just don't upvote, or better write an argument why you disagree.

Otherwise leads to huge amount of group think because opposing ideas are pushed down instead of debated.
> France needs to buy electricity from Germany because reactors are down or can not function because the river used for cooling is to hot already.

Right now electricity maps shows that France produces 60% of electricity from nuclear, imports zero from Germany, and exports 6% of generated electricity to UK.

Also right now Germany generates 26% from coal and 9% from gas.
I’m not sure about that. I was recently talking about the 1918 flu with colleagues and we were trying to figure out the mortality rate. I googled for a few minutes and there were multiple references, and ads, and call out boxes but the mortality rate wasn’t clear.

I asked chatgpt and in a single response it gave me the metric I was looking for and citations for me to check. It was a much better experience.

I’ve also found I don’t need to google for programming questions as much and have fewer visits to stackoverflow.

I don’t know if it’s going to kill search entirely, but it’s definitely a bad thing for search.
Nuclear power has high upfront investments, always. And pretty much all nuclear projects are finished behind schedule and wayyy above budget. After a couple of decades of this, reasonable people may come to the conclusion that these investments and risks are quite "inherent".

Your comparison is meaningless, because the 150 billion € investment is not comparable to a single nuclear plant.

And realizing ten times the current building capacity for nuclear plants with the same (or stricter) regulation and standards? That is almost delusionally optimistic.
There is a typo in the first code example, “memoy” instead of “memory”
The inherent limitations are largely cost. Large scale underinvestment plus the financial failure of EDF very much demonstrate that.
You don’t actually lose the old branch! You can use the arrows that appear to flip through each branch, at any level
> (IpAddr::V4(Ipv4Addr::new(

Rust is so simple and clear :3
HN guidelines are explicit in that downvotes on a thing you disagree with are ok.

That said, I do at times upvote comments that I strongly disagree with but are nevertheless so well argued that I disagree with them disappearing. I bet I’m not the only one.
The linear regression is somewhat interesting, but also points out that the double descent might have a somewhat strange cause. What technically happens is that as you have more parameters you not only optimize for the model fit, but also for the size of the parameters.

If you force the model to fit your training data perfectly then it is no wonder that you can only start to optimize the size of your parameters after you have enough leeway to easily fit the entire training set.

However another way to achieve the same effect is to make the assumption that the parameters should be small(ish) explicit. Fitting the whole training set is nice but ultimately pointless if you're just fitting noise. If the actual data is a simple polynomial + random noise then fitting all the noise will give a worse estimate.
> We engineers live in a different world

No.

Some of us, engineers, live in a world where 512b RSA is mandatory to order a pizza. Most of us are sane.
> I got that wind turbines do not actually produce more energy than was needed to build them.

Wind turbines generate way more power than what is needed to produce them. Loads of wind turbines will be installed in the North Sea by various countries to generate a huge amount of electricity. I really don't get how you'd think that creating a wind turbine requires way more energy than the electricity it'll produce.
I think the biggest disadvantage is the absence of Node.js itself. The development costs (time or money) automatically increase with the absence of third-party library support.
Chrome settings -> sync -> encryption
Not true.

> A 2014 study which looked at the same issue found that 2-megawatt wind turbines installed in Northwest USA paid for themselves in 5-6 months.

> A 2010 analysis of fifty separate studies found that the average wind turbine, over the course of its operational life, generated 20 times more energy than it took to produce. This level was “favourable” in comparison to fossil fuels, nuclear and solar power.

https://fullfact.org/online/wind-turbines-energy/
It's not baseload if it's not on all the time. The point of the article is that what was previously supplied by "baseload" is now generated from a flexible mix, with hardly anything generating 100% of the time.
Later, in what was an historically bad marketing decision, they launched the new clothing line just as HBO was premiering The Last of Us 2.

Apocalypse averted.
No problem, my apologies for it. In regards to disagreeing, that's fine. What I want is ethical ai and a healthy path forward. I absolutely enjoy this tech but needs to be done right. I don't understand why such amazing tech needs to be built upon malice when there are clear positive alternative ways to doing it.
A very german phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions