skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Topaz Solar Plant is my pet peeve in solar-v-nuclear cost comparisons online, because it pops up all the time and it narrowly misses the biggest story in energy: the cost of solar PV dropped by 90% in ten years! Solar went from being the most expensive way to generate energy to being the cheapest.

Unfortunately, people looking for comparison tend to search for the biggest solar installation, and Topaz pops out on that list. However, because solar is so modular, new installations tend to be small and quick.

Example: The Black Bear solar project in Alabama came online in Feb 2023, just 15 months after it secured $100 million in financing in Dec 2021. The project provides 100 MW (AC) of power. That's $1m / 1 MW of solar generating capacity.

The CEO of the Alabama Municipal Electric Authority is quoted as saying that, had Black Bear solar come online in Jan 2022, they would have saved $10 million in fuel costs (since natural gas prices jumped after the start of Putin's war).

https://lightsourcebp.com/us/project/black-bear-solar/

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/12/20/130-mw-alabama-solar-...

https://www.greenvilleadvocate.com/2022/11/29/black-bear-sol...
Meta releases 'human-like' AI image creation model
Meta releases 'human-like' AI image creation model

Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Tuesday that it would provide researchers with access to components of a new "human-like" artificial intelligence model that it said can analyze and complete unfinished images more accurately than existing models.
Except they do but just like pretty much every other insurance it does not cover everything and the payout has a maximum.

For example here in Finland the nuclear plants are required by law to get an insurance that covers up to 732 million euros (~1.2 billion euros in Sweden) of "third party damages" (they can buy additional insurances that covers damages to the plant itself). If that is not enough then government will take care of the next 500 million after that. If that is still not enough then the company is liable for the rest which effectively means they will go bankrupt as usually the only assets they have is the nuclear power plants.

This does mean that at the very end government will have to pay for it if the accident is big enough but gets to keep all the left over assets of the company.

They buy the insurance from this company https://atompool.org/en that is a consortium of multiple insurance companies that operate in the nordics. And there is multiple of these nuclear insurance pools around the world and they all reinsure each other.

Another question related to this is why don't big dams etc need similar insurances (at least here in Finland they don't). When things go wrong the damages can be just as big if not bigger.
Phone number, email, and banking should be separate. These are basically the pillars of your digital life. Then for the rest of Google services, you can just download a monthly data dump on Google Takeout which you can restore to any other service at your own leisure.
It's around 150k USD/month at the moment.

Would love to learn more about your setup. Email me if you're interested in chatting. Email in my profile.
I had to spend days trying to debug why a build that was working fine broke completely and NPMPM was unable to find the dependencies for the lambda.

I disliked how needlessly convoluted the pipelines are, and how some person pushing on accident to mainline can break everything.

So many things seem to be done the hard way.
I disagree, people care less about vulgar words than they used to.
> Use managed services for as long as possible

Big agree here.

Yes, you can save stupid money by handrolling postgres on an extremely beefy Hetzner server, or you can pay someone else and keep building your product: https://onlineornot.com/self-hosting-vs-managed-services-dec...

This isn't to say, "don't bother learning how to do it yourself", but more "learn to pick your battles".
Ockhams razor.
What is your definition of fascism?
The article does talk about US rear underride guards as well, but notes that they were inadequate for many years. I've driven past a hastily draped over fatality from such a collision in the 2000s and have kept a wide berth from trailers since.
I mean, to be fair -- they said we needed to conserve all the masks we had for medical staff because they had no idea what was coming.
The shape of the tail of the distribution of human activity is sensitive to many factors which may explain the diversity of opinion as to what is happening.

To start with, human society is very prone to long tails by the fact we are distributed widely and have limited means of communicating and coordinating.

All sorts of inventions, technical and social work on this substratum and produce more or less long lived tail phenomena.

E.g. the internet famously enables the long tail, but then the first page of google effect squashes it. Similarly social media platforms enable cheap and easily accessible dissemination but then algorithmic timelines and virality enhancers intervene to create "winners"

There is a complex interplay between concentration of power, wealth, control and technological capabilities on one side (the left end of the distribution) and the shape of material and information flows on the other (right end of the distribution or long tail).
Similar situation, but I've had people think I'm "hacking" them when I respond.

As a result, within the last 15 years I have only contacted someone back once. That was about funeral dates/coordination.
it's already happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_River_Nuclear_Plant?us...

I'm sure I read an article about this plant/procedure and they were looking to save 30 million dollars on a billion dollar plant.
This is ChatGPT's attempt to rephrase your comment in polite, constructive language.

It's important to consider the various factors that influence people's choices, as the question seems to overlook the complexities of life. New York City is a vibrant and diverse metropolis with a multitude of reasons that attract individuals. Let's try to be more realistic and understanding.
>if you search long enough on internet, something will turn up

Next crisis like this with chatGPT will be way more of this, imagine all the hallucinations.
> "Your data", like what? The domains you own and their full whois entries?

Single domain in, WHOIS data out.

> While this might be true, they might have seen a risk in notifying you (at least while investigations were ongoing), consider e.g. https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/258.html

I have a copy of the correspondence from Bundesamt fuer Justiz.

> Also, how did you come to know about all this? Who notified you in the end?

The cops questioning me did. I was actually under investigation for a different thing related to this website, so my lawyer got them to confirm it was indeed possibly related. They then dropped that investigation immediately, after months of nothing being added to the file (which I also have). While holding a pretty substantial bit of my hardware hostage. Weird how police work can be expedited when charges are obviously based on police not understanding how the internet (and Paragraph 10 TMG) works and they need to get something done for BfJ. Or maybe they did understand, but didn't want to afford those protections to an individual without commercial interest.

Mind that this was about 10 years ago by now.
I see Render being mentioned on HN quite a bit as the new Heroku. I’m still using Heroku for my personal projects but have been meaning to check Render out.
This discovery is from analyzing data that was captured during the Cassini missions in 2004. Imagine how much data we’re getting from JWST right now and what almost two decades of analysis will similarly yield from that. Absolutely stunning.
https://youtu.be/y6VJBeZEDZU
i replied to you and not the parent by accident. sorry.
Tell HN: Slack Is Having Issues
I do concede that isengard is pretty cool. I am looking forward to Peru as it will make dealing with dependencies a lot easier.
John was eaten by a Grue.
The L2 especially is more than enough for FreeRTOS though, thats 3 times the amount of memory my board has.
ChatGPT Alternative
Is there any tool which is best than chatgpt?
previously, I have used bard, sonicai, and jasper. Am I missing some other tools?

Please provide your thoughts in the comment section. Your insights will help me to know more about ai.
Administer is the opposite of complete.
the progression from Heroku to AWS is very common as SaaS businesses grow.
However one thing that’s missing from all “alternatives to Heroku” is what I call life after deployment or Day-2 operations.
Many solutions show you a sleek demo of how easily you can deploy a Hello World app to their platform but leave you in a straight jacket when it the app is deployed and you need tools to keep it running, like changing an Nginx (or equivalent) setting or using persistent storage or a Postgres contrib.

Making decisions about infrastructure is as much about day-2 as it is about the initial deployment. I see fly.io and render in this camp. Shiny day-1 docs and demos and then wishing you good luck when you need a `rails c` to see something in the DB
BreachForums is back – for real this time
What I find interesting, is that the new domain is completely normal.

However, if you visit the original domain, it gives you a message saying:
"Any forums claiming to be "Breached" or "BreachForums" should be used with caution. BreachForums will never return."
FWIW the tire story is a legend from decades ago: https://press.nordstrom.com/news-releases/news-release-detai...
Quantum entanglement means that pairs of particles can have correlated states regardless of the distance between them.

It does not mean that if you push on one particle, the other one lights up.

Imagine that two people are each given a coin with the property that whenever they flip those two coins simultaneously, they will either both come up heads, or both come up tails. How can you use that to communicate, that is, send information from one to the other? You can't. You can pre-arrange actions that you both will take when you see either heads or tails, but that's not communication.
> Espressif chipsets would be waaaaay more popular

Oh, don't worry, they're getting a ton of attention from the "pros" these days. In hardware no one likes to be the guinea pig if they don't have to be. But these days Espressif is not seen as an exotic choice, and their low cost, excellent feature set, and good supporting material are big draws.

Honestly it feels like they're truly just eating this market, but it's just happening (what looks like) slowly.
It's ridiculed because trust was immediately violated, and trust is not what science is built on. However just being an everything skeptic without any scientific education is not good either.

The problem was the politicization, the dishonesty, the corruption.

Both camps were wrong plenty of times, none would admit to it, and public discourse suffered because neither side was willing to cede ground to actual science.
I've read Cal's pieces when they've popped up from time to time. It seems like he's always banging the same drum, and that he doesn't realize how different his job is than most people's jobs (being married to a professor, I am familiar with the benefits of its unique cadence).

Can anyone recommend posts he's written that perhaps show a different side of his thinking? Have there been any good analyses or critiques of his work, which describe the types of people his writing is useful for? As a founder, who necessarily wears a lot of hats, I find it to be aspirational but not especially actionable.
If it's an easy election it's the republicans fault. Anti-abortion, attacking gays, lying about election fraud, etc. All she has to do is be a candidate from the opposing party.
Yes compared to the "classical" way of using an Arduino and maybe some ethernet shield, ESP8266 felt like a real revolution (in the hobbieist space).

They were powerful enough to do useful work and you didn't have to worry about RAM.
Stopping a rogue AI is sexy. Tryin to stop the AI equivalent of XSS is decidedly less so.
Ditto. It’s hard to shake the feeling of what life could have been with an earlier diagnosis. Things are still challenging, but they are challenging for the right reasons.
Mentally counting words to move your cursor to right spot isn't a great way to move horizontally. I would usually do something like "/someVariable" and hop my cursor to the exact spot I'm looking for. If it's further in the line, just hit "n". It's pretty fast. But if you just need to move one word over w and b are nice.

Even with vertical movement I never count lines. Relative line numbers make it so you don't have to. Counting is not part of my vim experience.
I don't feel that we thinking about it differntly. It is that editing source code is much more than just editing text. And vim severely lacking as an IDE.

We don't need to associate motion style navigating and separation of command and insertion modes as something very vim specific. It is that vim is installed on every machine that I work on in like 99% of cases, and it made sense to me to learn something that is always available. But the shortcomings are very clear.

I can give an analogy of gdb. I feel that anyone who says that text mode gdb is anywhere near convenience that you get using modern IDE is suffering from stockholm syndrome. Yes, obviously it is more powerful in some circumstances, but for day to day use it is just plain inconvenient.

And that's why I said in my first post - I settle on vim as text editor, but I gave up trying to set it as an IDE, so I will never code in it, unless I'm forced to (who knows, weird job that requires vim use etc). Life is too short for that amount of tinkering.
You are missing half of it: Siemens. The EPR design is French-German, as an "evolutionary descendant of the Framatome N4 and Siemens Power Generation Division Konvoi reactors". [1]

This largely explain the complexity of the design: it would probably have been easier to make either an evolution of the Framatome N4 reactor, or the latest Siemens reactor. Combining both and trying to please all industrial partners (industrial work-share...) added a lot of complexity.

Hence the simpler EPR 2 design that is being worked on, presumably without Siemens Konvoi involvement in the design (although probably still as a subcontractor).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)

EDIT: clarity
It's alive in the way PHP is alive. It has so much stuff built on it that it will be around for a long time. But I don't feel Ruby is a good choice for projects anymore. The failure of bringing types in to the language has really doomed it. Pretty much all cases you might consider using Ruby, TypeScript is a better choice.

I have been doing Rails for the last 8 years but it's really showing it's age. Constant issues in our app that TypeScript would have caught, along with pretty dismal support for advanced editor features you see with typed languages.
That's a surprisingly accurate and in-depth article about France's situation.

I was struggling to find English language reporting on that topic, I'll keep it for further use. Thanks!
can ffmpeg be implemented in WASM?
- As one of the replies said, I was talking mostly about the IoT space, but I think it's true for the non-IoT laptop/server space as well.

- Sure - looking at what Apple's silicon team is doing with ARM would make you think that ARM has nothing to worry about for a while. However, notice that Apple is the only one who is getting a lot done with ARM at the high end. Qualcomm, etc. aren't getting the same amount of performance. I believe that's because of the non-ARM stuff that Apple puts in their silicon efforts. Imagine in a few years, when the small companies designing and licensing RISC-V cores are not that small anymore - folks like Amazon (uses ARM cores in their servers) and Apple might have a serious alternative.

- I think open source models win in the long run, similar to Windows vs Linux, or closed version control software vs Git. The tooling around open source grows over a few years and then suddenly it feels like it's miles better than the closed options. I think similar stuff will happen with silicon.

- ARM themselves worry about this btw - not that long ago they created a website smearing RISC-V which was mostly full of FUD. Their employees revolted and made them get rid of that site: https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/10/arm_riscv_website/
That position is commonly held (and matches common sense), but I think doesn’t match the law.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VvRPzvh-ZOE&t=100 as an example that I recall watching with some outrage.

Less outrageous is the requirement in many jurisdictions for vehicles to avoid collisions when possible and providing a general principle that a vehicle with the right of way but still having the last clear chance to avoid a collision is at fault for failing to do so.
I used to use the Ctrl-P plugin, but to be honest, these days I just use an IDE with a vim plugin. Usually if I'm in a remote terminal session, I don't have more than a few files open and can get by with :bn.
>The rest leaves the choice of reading the books in question up to the children (and/or their parents).

Complete nonsense. Libraries are not staffed by children nor their parents.
What goes into a school library is not some ideologically neutral ground where books just happen to appear, because of the inner desires of children. These books are bought because the people in charge off filling a library want children to read them. This is true for all books in a library, but it automatically guarantees that school libraries are curated. And curation is not ideologically neutral.

It is totally disingenious to pretend that this is not about you wanting children to read those particular books.
redundant pitot tubes also reduce fuel efficiency.
If a bank does this they can create and then delete their own money without having to pay anyone interest.
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> "Hosting and tinkering"

It isn't 1992 anymore, people don't "tinker", they have orchestration in 2023.

The orchestration tools for self-hosted are cheaper, more standard and more reliable. (Because Amazon's and Google's stuff is actually built on top of standard stacks, except with extra corporate stupidity added.)

Regardless of whether you use something industry standard or something proprietary, you will need to have an ops team that knows orchestration. (And an AWS orchestration team will be more expensive, because, again, their stuff is non-standard and proprietary.)

There are reasons for using AWS, but cost or time to market is never one of them.
> People are allowed to use their time & effort to do whatever they want to do.

They are.
If that's a good thing remains to be debated, given there are many urgent problems in the world to be solved.
Loving ffworks, been using it for many years.
What really sparked my interest was having WiFi in a chip that only cost maybe 2 usd at the time. Plus, you could find great usb dev boards for less than 5 usd.

If I had this stuff as a teenager, I would've lost my mind...
> You get to pretend everything is sequentially consistent if you write proper synchronization. The easiest way to satisfy proper synchronization is an acquire-release model

But acquire/release give, generally,a partial ordering, not a total order like sequential consistency. That's often enough of course.
I sometimes wonder how my career (and life) would've differed if 11 years ago, I had chosen to learn rails instead of laravel because of familiarity with php via Wordpress. From there it went on to C# (windows), JS (frontend), scala/go/node.js backend + JS front end. Lots of JS.

Here being Japan, there were a lot of opportunities to pick up ruby/rails along the way but I stuck on the JS trajectory partially because I didn't want to 'start over' with rails _now_. There were only a few times when not knowing ruby/rails meant I was limited to specific tasks so it was never really career limiting. It did mean that I actively avoided working in ruby shops, for better or worse.

If I had picked rails instead then, would I have transitioned into more of a backend engineer with some frontend duties instead of the reverse?

Not that it matters, but there definitely is a tendency in our industry to 'look down' on frontenders as not real engineers and thus not consider them for leadership positions.
I wonder what the long-term consequences are of western forums being flooded with people advocating CCP talking points whilst all counter-CCP arguments are blocked within China for everyone.

What is going to be the impact over time?
Of course it would be completely impossible to do a cost-benefit analysis taking into account fuel costs [1]. Might as well just give up.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2023-04/ANPRM-Si...
No. You missed the point of the law.

The state mandates curation of libraries. No librarian is under any legal threat because of private ownership. Stop halucinating.
I don't see any of those features as improvements. Even when I had to use an IDE (java...) I never enabled any of that.
Fulfilling 30k customer orders with LLMs
I didn't mean formatting, but just "wrap lines in editor". So long lines always fit screen, without actually inserting line separators.

I was speaking about

set wrap

but because I turn on display invisible symbols,

set linebreak

doesn't work. Why? I don't know. Somehow IDEs can do that without issues, but the technology isn't there yet for vim, seems like.
> It can, because 60% of students are women and very few of those are needed in the armed forces, so half are out.

You know that women are people too, right? It's not acceptable to solve a problem by simply ignoring the problem for half your population.
Armed with a lightning gun.
Or more likely, ffmpeg binary is embedded, considering that they don't provide instructions to download it on that page.
The idea that supply and demand determine prices is not a conspiracy theory.

Expanding the money supply five fold in two years will create inflation.
Numbers are mostly useful in macros and scripts.
> Node and Express. You just had to be there. And it was great.

I agree and Node and Express are still great when going with just js. Node and Koa more now but still great. Socket.io for real-time. All are great for getting things up quickly, simple and shipping things.
> Reddit's new garbage redesign

Five(?) years in, it's still "new garbage redesign". I love it.
> For example, by exciting your greed so much you come up with a justification for why an unusual circumstance is genuine.

But you might be better at that the more intelligent you are. E.g. I understand there's an established result that professional ethicists and ethics researchers act less ethically than the average person on average, because they find it easier to come up with excuses for how what they wanted to do was actually ethical.
This is partly wrong. For example, it's important how the fields are organized in a structure, and only the developer knows what belongs together and only they know the access patterns across threads (or at least should know). This is far from being a micro-optimization.
Looks like voters are going to need to regroup and regulate for all diagnostic work to be performed by manufacturers at no cost to consumers.

Plus put a limit on parts cost by allowing challenges arbitrated by true consumer-advocate boards very indirectly paid for by manufacturers, and highly insulated from their lobbying efforts.