skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is a game of inertia & historical baggage

New is not always better, especially if your company essentially depends on high availabilty and security of their core systems

> more reliable & cheaper system using x86/ARM

The hardware is just a single aspect of reliability and total cost of ownership, not even the most important one.

> It's not impossible to teach GenZ to write COBOL

Not even Java or C++ as it seems.
That's not fast enough. Also, running nuclear plants at much below peak capacity is hardly efficient, increasing the cost.

Again: This is a problem no country experienced so far, because even France doesn't have that much capacity.
The problem I have with nuclear is that I cannot isolate any technical discussion of sustainability pros and cons, the practicalities and realism of specific energy transition paths etc. from the stark fact that we (as homo sapiens) are an unreliable, warmongering, self-destructive species.

As we speak there is a war in Europe and - in case you missed it - there is a recurring death dance around a major nuclear plant in Ukraine [1]. How can we ignore the depressing reality that geopolitical strife is not under control?

For as long as the risks from deliberate attacks on energy infrastructure are within the realm of the likely the only sane approach is to ensure that such attacks would have only contained impact.

In other words, the menu of energy transition options we have is not independent from what sort of political world we envisage to prevail.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/26/war-zaporizhzh...
> Besides, new plants can be built close to the sea instead of rivers to account for that.

I think that's a no-go due to the salt in the water that will corrode pipes etc. Not an expert on that, though, obviously.

All the other points don't sound too good either: Corrosion issues, let's fuck up nature with hot water, not very good at all.
System76-Scheduler 2.0 Released with PipeWire Integration
Big news headlines seem to be positioned in a way to scare people away from tech jobs right now, but the hard reality is that every organization relies tech people, not just those few big tech companies in Silicon Valley that over-hired during the pandemic.
...such that the regulatory authorities for all of this in space, environment, public health have all said "stop it" and Musk will have enough on his plate regaining public trust to proceed to make his rush to launch despite not having his steel plate blast system ready look even more stupid.

He really wrecked goodwill, people's lungs, parked cars, local windows, and his launchpad. Super smart!
Singapore executes man for trafficking two pounds of cannabis
Heads up that a Spotify family plan is cheaper for 6 people than 6 individual plans.
The Nine Levels of Nothing
> -There is a semi-obfuscated IP tracker in index.html

you mean that counter script, it wouldn't expose anymore information than a basic access log, I would assume it just makes it marginally easier to see which of his subdomains are popular.
that's exactly the reason, yes
The takeaway ought not to rely on a comparison of behavior stability but rather the fact that have studies on females is just intrinsically useful.
Doesn't matter the source of the energy if you have to store it anyway. With nuclear power the "good weather" is the actual problem.
A lot of people fooling themselves here.

Look, no one likes to feel like they're wasting their time, but with modern jobs, with the common "butts-in-seats for 8 hours" rule, we do waste a lot of time - much of that time is spent not working. It's dishonest to say that it's all spent working and I believe it does damage to a potential future where the "butts-in-seats for 8 hours" rule ceases to exist. If we value our time, let's start being honest, because then maybe that silly 8 hour rule can go away some day.
What a surprise, and Spain won't be the only one to go down.
Can anyone calculate how many million tonnes of co2 was created because the "greens" (reds) wanted to shut them down?
It actually hasn't, which is really frustrating. It's not possible to watch F1 online via F1TV in Germany - you must watch it via Sky who have purchased the exclusive streaming rights up to 2024, which is €20/month or so (and means you only have the German commentators, AFAIK). At least Sky don't force you to pay for a cable (or satellite) package - it is possible to pay just for a basic sports streaming package.
And anyone with a more modest understanding of Mathematics knows that it is incomplete, inconsistent, and undecidable and thus is not the end-all.

The example serves to show that a 3D object is simultaneously two different 2D objects. Very much like how waves and particle may be different concepts but things exist that are both of them at once. This is meant to be illustrative of our limited comprehension and nothing more.
Fukushima:

- hit by earthquake at or above upper structural limit. The most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan

"maximum ground g-forces of 0.56, 0.52, 0.56 at units 2, 3, and 5 respectively. This exceeded the seismic reactor design tolerances of 0.45, 0.45, and 0.46 g for continued operation, but the seismic values were within the design tolerances at units 1, 4, and 6"

- hit by tsunami exceeding that limit

The largest tsunami wave was 13–14 m (43–46 feet) high and hit approximately 50 minutes after the initial earthquake, overwhelming the plant's ground level, which was 10 m (33 ft) above the sea level

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This resulted in 1 (one) death directly attributable to the incident
I am also not an AI researcher, but shouldn't there be some quantification of how efficient the learning is. I imagine a human has much more information than the pure audio, which would then level up the information density, i.e. the 500 million words are not an equivalent, but should be compared to all of the audio, visual, tactile, etc. information, plus the context, meaning the desire of the humans, behavior, response patterns.
Oh how I wish we could get password auth back everywhere. We're working towards 6FA, they have to know your backup email address, your phone number, your location, your device, your security question.

At some point security is a trade-off with convenience, I have a randomly generated >20 characters password that I use only for gmail but right now I'm in the hospital and they won't accept it because I'm not on my usual device and I didn't activate 2FA ... because it's exactly the kind of problem I wanted to avoid.

I know users reuse passwords, I don't, let me use my god damn password.

And my password vault is on my google drive ... someone come euthanize me please.
It is still very effective, it took you a day later to respond to the parent.

OP Comment: 25 April 2023, 00:41:52 AM

Yours: 26 April 2023, 03:18:06 AM

I was expecting a response much earlier than that since the answer is very obvious. Instead you decided to come up with a typical anecdote which can easily be dismissed.

The main fact is, almost everyone knows that you lose LOTS of users emailing you once a provider like GMail blocks you as it is the most used email provider. [0]

[0] https://mailchimp.com/resources/most-used-email-service-prov...
You certainly have to consider your situation. If you live alone or with someone you trust (who you want to have access to your accounts if something happens to you), writing down passwords on paper and sticking that in a drawer or in some book on a bookshelf somewhere is likely pretty reasonable. Maybe have them backed up in an encrypted file in the cloud someplace as well.

Live in a house with a bunch of other people out of school? Extended family some of which you don't get along with in and out of the house a lot? Certainly for work stuff in an office. Probably not so much. The risk may not be that great in absolute terms but I'd absolutely think twice.
> The problem of course is the proximity to power consumers or you have to expand the grid.

What's your opinion on UK-Morocco powerline then?
Ask HN: Will AI unlock communication with animals and make everyone vegetarians?
Maybe if you can have a conversation with a cow, you wouldn't feel right eating meat?
> and it turned out they were wrong.

I don't think there's much "right and wrong" in the court system. There's so much arbitrariness and even politicalization among judges. Just look at the Supreme Court.

The judge in the Epic trial, YGR, invented a whole new market concept out of thin air, "digital mobile gaming transactions", a market that neither side in the case argued for. I thought that was complete crap and a bad decision. What's the legal basis for a judge inventing a market? This seems like a classic case of judicial overreach.

One of the weirdest things about that market definition is that the App Store is not a game store. Of course there are a lot of games that make a lot of money in the App Store, but there are a ton of non-games in there too. (Also, WTF is "digital" supposed to mean? Are there analog mobile gaming transactions?)

I also thought, to be honest, that Epic's lawyers in the case were not great and seemed not fully prepared or technically knowledgeable. And some of the toughest questions for Apple were asked by YGR rather than by Epic.

> https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-monop...

"Entering into long-term agreements with Apple that require Google to be the default – and de facto exclusive – general search engine on Apple’s popular Safari browser and other Apple search tools."

That was precisely my complaint! So if I have a misconception, then apparently the Department of Justice also has the same misconception.
> That's not the point. You are confusing phylosophy and politics.

I don't agree I am. On the contrary, there is a lot of philosophical debate on the relationship between pragmatism and truth – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-pragmatic/ – and I think what I'm saying makes sense if you assume a certain position in that debate (albeit one which I'd expect Benatar would reject)

Obviously, in the short-run, the popularity of a belief tells us nothing about its truth. But what about the popularity of a belief in the very long-run, in the limit of future time? If we somehow knew that, as t approaches infinity (or the future extinction of humanity), believers in a proposition will inevitably outnumber its disbelievers, would that in itself be evidence that the proposition is true? Personally, I say yes. I don't know if Benatar has written anything on this topic, but I assume he'd have to say no, since yes implies the falsehood of his published work.

> 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

I think it is interesting, but for the opposite reason he thinks – if consequentialism/utilitarianism (or at least some versions thereof) produces that conclusion, to me that's another nail in the coffin of consequentialism/utilitarianism (or at least those versions of it).

> Parfit himself spent a significant part of his career unsuccessfully looking for an axiomatisation of population ethics

I've read Reasons and Persons. I think his discussions of the theory of personal identity are very informative, even though I don't agree with his materialist/physicalist premises. His contributions to ethics fascinate me less, because I don't believe in consequentialism, and I doubt ethics is axiomatisable
And one needs to understand that "base load" is mostly a concept important for slow, bad to regulate power plants. In those times, a lot of effort was spent on creating "base load" so the power plants have the least requirement for regulation. This will switch to more agile consumption where you get much cheaper electricity when you can time your consumption. So the amount of energy which was previously part of "base load" will be reduced considerably.
This essay is an epistemological endeavor towards logical paradoxes, and is not meant to be an advocacy on religion or atheism.
Yes all the time, how else?

I mean if it's just a few lines, a change to existing code, etc, you can jump straight in with actual code.

But if it's a new object/module etc, start by writing some function names, and some rough structure within them, etc. All in IDE/editor. And I wouldn't call it pseudo-code, just a rough outline.
My (admittedly short) experience with the platform is no, people will rush to down or upvote on the basis of general sentiment, maybe scanning the first sentence etc.
That's fucking appalling. I am horrified.
This articles reads more like a student recruitment brochure than an actual article
Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in gaming
This paper is a good summary: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.11002.pdf

And of course all other unlicensed band users do this. Again, this is a regulatory requirement. And ultimately, it is not just that you need to ensure others have access to the band, you also need to be robust in the face of persistent high interference given the number of users in the unlicensed bands. It's not a good fit for default LTE.
Those coal plants aren't operating at peak capacity, or at all, in some case. The suggestion they are replacing nuclear power 1:1 is a highly convenient lie.

The idea that coal power is less safe is bullshit. Nuclear power carries tail-heavy risk, coal plants have much more predictable risk. Nuclear power is only safer if you assume nothing happens that didn't happen in the past few decades and nobody actually deliberately blows up a nuclear power plant. Once you can't assume both, all risk calculations for nuclear power are meaningless.
> That's not fast enough.

That's more than fast enough. You could see it in the graphs in the document if you bothered to read it.

Note: renewables like wind and solar are orders of magnitude slower, intermittent, and actually require grid-scale storage
And it seems likely that the French taxpayer (via EDF) will be taking a loss even at that price.
When I remember to do it, I downvote comments complaining about voting (yours too). Caring about number of votes seems narcissistic and in my opinion tries to turn HN into Reddit with all its negatives including karma farming. Downvoting is not flagging and there is rarely so many comments that downvoted comment would become effectively invisible at the end of xth page.
And those price caps are what kept French retail prices reasonable. Either somebody has to shoulder the high cost or maintenance must be neglected.

In France's case, we had both.

Meanwhile because cost cutting on maintenance backed up wholesale prices next winter are a blowout - far worse than Germany's:

https://www.archyde.com/french-electricity-prices-soar-for-w...
reminds me of https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360

> I argue that data becomes temporarily interesting by itself to some self-improving, but computationally limited, subjective observer once he learns to predict or compress the data in a better way, thus making it subjectively simpler and more beautiful. Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more non-random, non-arbitrary, regular data that is novel and surprising not in the traditional sense of Boltzmann and Shannon but in the sense that it allows for compression progress because its regularity was not yet known. This drive maximizes interestingness, the first derivative of subjective beauty or compressibility, that is, the steepness of the learning curve. It motivates exploring infants, pure mathematicians, composers, artists, dancers, comedians, yourself, and (since 1990) artificial systems.
Imagine accidentally including a fragment of these products in the wash or hanging a belt in a closet without humidity control and coming back to a solid mass of mycelium.

I've worked on enough old houses to have seen my share of basement surprises like shipping crates packed with straw, stacks of newspapers and magazines, and sometimes entire walls being consumed by hearty fungus.

Embrace the fungus. Wear the fungus.
I am in IT but not this side and I must admit I do not grok this move... At all. I don't understand the risk to Benefit story. It seems (possibly incorrectly) to put all my eggs into one basket - whether phone (which annoys the heck out of me as it is NOT my primary device) or some cloudy account I'm supposed to trust with my life. It also seems to impose geographical dependencies (I want to check my email at my friend's but my phone is at home which is precisely why I want to use their computer etc). It also seems to bring terrifying consequences of losing some ethereal items nobody (regular) understands how to safekeep.

I feel like I'm an old grouch who wants things to stay the same... And that's kinda the case :-)
Ah yes. And you have cables sending you power from that other side, right?
Obviously, Germany has to install way more solar. Unfortunately, the previous governments tried to curb the installation of solar (and wind). But this is quickly changing now. Solar is especially easy to grow as there are plenty of unused areas (e.g. roofs) which can be used without much negative impact.
I compeletely trust the cracking teams themselves. They're not wasting their talents just to install a key logger into four random machines halfway across the world.

The problem is, the scene usually isn't about making piracy mainstream. Many release groups only released their cracks within closed circles to show off that they managed to crack a game. The cracks that made it out to the web often came through leaks, hosted on a shady site or distributed through torrents. For an outsider, these cracked files weren't all that trustworthy.

That, together with antivirus software being made completely unreliable because of false positives, made it very hard to trust the .exes/.dlls that I used. Piracy is still a major infection vector today, and I imagine it will always be because of all the fake cracks on SEO hacked websites and shady operations necessary for the original crackers to distribute a crack without copyright lawyers sending you very scary letters.
Not sure about learning to weld.

c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer , possible emergence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interfa... , remote working,
AI, and the implications of that.
Yes I know, I was referring to the debate in Germany itself. I think it's genuinely hard for most Germans, due to the anti-nuclear culture.
> And the cost of overbuilding is?

For renewables? Absolutely huge. We would need 10-20x the nameplate power. Perhaps even more. The only reason renewables "work" at the moment is that all other energy sources work overtime to compensate.

(And the EU's hydrogen strategy is a huge green elephant -- but Timmerman has invested most of his political capital in it so the idea doesn't go away until he does.)
I don’t know why it’s so difficult to understand. There’re social and biological components.
It is true that the problem of storing energy exists in both cases, but as far as I understand with renewables you lose reliability (in comparison to nuclear power).
I tried to get it running on one of my projects but ran into an issue trying to get my `NPM_TOKEN` into the environment variables of the container. It looks like it tries to pull from a .env file so I tried that and it didn't work. I also have the environment variable loaded in my shell but passing `-s` didn't work either?

FWIW maybe it is how I'm starting cicada with: `npx @cicadahq/cicada run dev`

The docs are pretty light on how to actually run this thing. It also says that it supports being run from GitHub Actions but does not show any example of that. Am I just going to write a GitHub Action that calls cicada? That is odd.
> Instant global communication is valuable enough by itself to attract massive investments and interest.

If that's the case, with the advent of email in the early 1990s, why didn't the internet completely take off? It took another 15 to 20 years and only when Google and Facebook came into the picture, did we get open source technologies that spread throughout the world and is used daily.
If you actually want to be faithful to your own wife, you might fear it being misinterpreted by the female colleague as you hitting on her.

The height of the housewife era was funded in part by the high savings rates during WW2 when many married couples were de facto DINKs -- dual income, no kids -- because she was Rosie the Riveter, he was serving in the military overseas and, as Lucille Ball once said, you can't exactly get pregnant by phoning it in.

Furthermore, most scenarios contain myriad factors and I'm much more interested in finding a path forward than in figuring out who to blame for the past.
> Fukushima was just another data point to stick to this plan.

Fukushima wasn't a data point. It was a populist FUD talking point.
@smashed, would also like to see your source here too.
Older generation nukes have atrocious throttle times and thus are pretty crap outside of baseline power. It's also one of the reasons they have the large cooling towers; to burn off excess steam whenever the reactor is producing more energy than the grid needs
If only people cared as much about dedicating time and resources to education or health care or fighting corruption as they do about sports. What is it about sports that makes people give a shit about something that ultimately doesn't even matter?
I am accounting for fat tail risks, I'm literally accounting for a nuclear accident happening every year, how is that not a "Fat tail risk"? The plausible fat tail of nuclear accidents being the everyday of lignite is the problem, the death toll of lignite is in the ballpark of 1000x higher. Having CONSISTENTLY 1000x higher deaths is not really a merit.

Sure nuclear meltdowns making territory unusuable sucks, but the mining does actually present a fair amount of ecological damage itself, and I think there's more metrics than potential territory loss. Notably lignites causes more radiation to enter the atmosphere, but unlike nuclear, this isn't neatly concentrated in one area people can just stay out of, which isn't conducive to people not dying.

I could maybe humour the argument that nuclear waste storage (Even accounting for these being very little of it, there will be very little of it for a very long time) or especially nuclear power plants encouraging nuclear weapons development being fat tail risks, but accidents, no. We're never going to see dramatic nuclear meltdowns even get close to causing the death toll of lignite, it just is way too implausible.
Has it been tried? I haven't tried all the online platforms in existence but I can't recall one where commenting and up/downvoting are linked.
I am specifically objecting to LLM’s rather than art because the output just isn’t useful to me.

With art you can discard the output with a glance try again so it’s not a waste of time. With text however you’re stuck carefully checking for errors and there is going to be many many errs. Now most students might not care because the grading is generally lenient, but having say a PHD thesis, resume, or professional work riddled with subtle errors is a more serious problem.

I personally just don’t see any real value in low quality output. The time I waste correcting it is longer than just doing it myself and maintaining your reputation is important so doing a poor job on unimportant things isn’t a good long term strategy. If you’re stuck at the level of “fiver” get good is just so much more valuable than get fast.
> It boggles my mind that Germany can decarbonize so much and so fast

Compare it to France which didn't have to decarbonize to begin with. Because of those bad-bad-bad no-good reactors.
> Waldorf-Frommer

Lawyers working there deserve to feel suspension and duress about something that is important for them. Exactly as they make their victims feel.