skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's the point, really. Nuclear reactors are not economical if you're not really going for it, so in an environment where you are relying heavily on nuclear reactors, suddenly your entire endeavor is not very practical without massive state aid.

This is less of a problem in other places that have less nuclear power setup because they can be used to cover the baseline. Now, EDF is turning off reactors over the weekend cuz the power isn't needed, and in periods of high demand EDF doesn't actually have the capacity, because they don't have much peak generation!

Building more nuclear plants to cover peaks would make everything even more expensive, And decomissioning reactors entirely would cause their own massive issues because, again, electricity generation is not fungible.

One would (correctly!) point that most renewables don't help with peak generation either, and you would be right. But if you're planning on decomissioning a nuclear power plant, replacing some of that capacity with renewables at least gets your operating costs down. And energy storage solutions that are more fungible... well... you walk and chew bubble gum. Use what you have, and build what makes sense. Just in 2023 your choices for clean power generation for energy storage are vast.
> How so?

Because it shifts the contractual obligations and the "legitimate interest" of data to a seemingly first party, which all companies seem to think they can get away with.

Well, until the tracked subjects do a reverse DNS lookup anyways.
> Flyover country and flyover states are American phrases describing the parts of the contiguous United States between the East and the West Coasts. The origins of the phrases and the attitudes of their supposed users are a source of debate in American culture; the terms are often regarded as pejoratives, but are sometimes "reclaimed" and used defensively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyover_country
one of the more effective ways to topple them is using laws that serve the people. but, as long as they still keep doing "lobbying", which is a corrupt practice in many other places, then we're not going see anything different.
Here in Austria parking takes up too much space, almost all new super markets here are still built single floor with parking around them instead of putting the parking on of the super market. Also, thanks to the remnants of the Reichsgaragenordnung houses are still built with at least one parking space per unit, though exemptions are possible. You are also always forced to take the parking space that comes with a rental unit, total nonsense in a city where car ownership is staring to decrease. Road parking is still far to cheap: permits to park in certain zones is only about 50 euros per year in Linz but at least there's a trend in Germany towoards much more expensive permits.
Writers have started using AI-generated ideas to help them write books.

Same with code. Sure it might not write your product code from start to finish with no help but it will speed up your dev speed significantly for certain tasks. Just because we haven't reached singularity doesn't mean what we have now is useless and putting it down as a "parlor trick" as grandparent said seems to me very unwise.
My CompuServe email address is still active! It's hosted by AOL now, but the actual email address is the same as it was in 1997.
The Economist operates from a elitist vantage point and lacks reputation because no individual writer is ever given credit and no one ever puts their name to any opinion piece. So of course they're going to espouse whatever fashionable thought they have today and proclaim themselves international experts of local matters.
> I am not sure what can the serialization framework possibly _do_ to make things secure during the serialization

>> Loads of things!

>> A strict specification that can only be interpreted one way goes very far. E.g.: a machine-readable BNF grammar file or something similar with no ambiguities.

once again, that is not the domain of the serialization framework ! it is a policy which needs to be established and enforced at input / output layer by the entity which implements it.

a serialization framework should just serialize and deserialize objects to / from an i/o 'channel' f.e. file, network, etc. shackling it with specification / enforcement of security etc. policies seems conflating one concern with another.
i learned my first "programming" by doing autohotkey.

you write code line by line and the software expects to parse it one by one.

imagine my surprise when trying python for the first time and indentation error. WTF does indentation has to do with code?

i still cannot get over the fact that some interpreters and compilers and shit look at whitepace and go "this should be 4 space and not just 1 or 0. boo. wont run".

i get it, there has to be some form of beatification and stuff but why the hell wont the program run without proper indentation?

i have a problem at work, something tedious and my mind can think entire AHK programs. all i have to do is type them out and run.
QuickSort Algorithm (2018) [video]
I spend about $500-$600 per month for a family of 4 in the Bay Area. And it's very healthy - fresh veggies and fruit are cheap at Asian groceries stores if you buy in season. Buy in bulk, cook large portions so you have multiple meals with less work. For $20 you can cook enough food for 8 individual meals.

And that $500-$600 per month is not really trying to squeeze every dollar. We could knock off another $100-150 if we absolutely had to by replacing some of the more expensive items with cheaper, but still healthy options.
Lazard only does LCOE for short term storage, since there is little to none long term storage.
What about China? UAE? These countries actually know how to build large scale infrastructure projects and are highly successful building nuclear power plants.
The whole text reads to me as a huge ego trip.

Look at these quotes:

> You can’t tweet your way to self-respect.

> How can anyone farming a void on emptiness internally enact change?

> I see millions of empty users crying out for more validation

The author is web buddha and just achieved nirvana, others are just validation-seeking, void-farmer, self-disrespectful egotistical losers (I'm exaggerating, of course, but that's the gist of it).

I mean, I get it. First step to solve a problem is to recognize you have a problem. But does the text really does this, or just shifts it to a more generic, "it's everyone and not just me" problem?
It's also possible to see the names, topics, and timestamp of the last message of hidden channels through their API. The channels are only hidden on the client-side. (To be clear, it's still not possible to view the contents of these channels.)
It could double and I wouldn't be inconvenienced enough to care, different story if you have many domains though. I'm fine with NameCheap getting a little more profit for the good work they do.
I used gtkcord4, and I didn't get banned. I used Vencord, didn't get banned either. Of course, I wouldn't reccommend using any of these for the saftey of your account, as I was dumb back then and never learned about the risks.

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Also, one Discord alternative I would reccommend is Revolt[1]. Great community, and was famous for being featured in a No Text To Speech video (and my friend's server had a brief cameo too!), and it's adoption of discriminators (i.e. randomguyabcd#5408).

[1]: https://revolt.chat/
I think a large part is because those uses are much more sensory than thinky. And for those sorts of uses they're good at using a huge corpus to clean up the details but straightforward algorithmic methods can get into the same ballpark.
> gRPC ticks most of the checkboxes.

huh :) ! gRPC is a 'r-p-c' framework, and uses protobuf for serialization. you should be comparing protobuf to cap'nproto.
The contactor likely wasn't too small - that is a basic engineering thing that ford wouldn't have overlooked.

Instead they probably screwed up something in the precharge or disconnection process.

The contactors should only open or close when zero current is flowing. However that's often hard to achieve. Specifically, things either side of the contactors often have smoothing capacitors in, and all those smoothing capacitors need to be charged to the exact same voltage as the battery to ensure there is no sudden large current as the contactors close. If that happened, even once or twice, the surface of the metal contacts becomes non-flat, and then the contactor will have a higher resistance and overheat.

There is the same problem when opening the contactors. No current must be flowing, but sometimes that's hard to achieve when there are lots of things connected to the high voltage bus, and any one of them might be drawing or supplying current. It isn't helped by the fact that opening the contactors will probably be done in most fault conditions - and fault conditions could easily have large currents flowing.
There is probably some human who sold the ad space to somebody, and who is monitoring how many button presses there are. And they will probably put pressure on the supermarket to make sure customers are reminded that they have to push the button if they want candy.
Sure, the employees are probably sick of the ad, but the people who don't have to hear the ad don't care about them :)
I'm going to use it and not the original uBlock Origin for a week and see how it goes. Only sure way to tell.
Kanata[0] is amazing. It support both Linux and Windows. But I'm yet to try it on windows because my majority work is on linux.

[0] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata
There was a statement on the prior thread that described the situation particularly well I'll reproduce it herein and link the original comment rather than trying to better it.

> The headline doesn’t seem to be what actually happened. The filer was arguing that the ai created the work on its own as a work for hire and thus the ai was the author with the computer scientist merely being the owner of the copyright as it was made for hire. I don’t think the argument that ai is a tool and the human operating it is the author was considered because the filer explicitly didn’t want to consider it.

> In the review being appealed here

https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...

> It makes it clear that the computer scientist doing the filing was trying to argue this was a work made for hire with the author being the computer. They wanted to argue that copyright can be assigned to non humans, but that just isn’t how the law works. The summary makes it clear early that it’s just taking their word that the work had no human input and was thus purely the creation of the computer.

This seems to be a a better article https://www.millernash.com/industry-news/paradise-denied-cop...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37189599

In short
A: Computer generated efforts virtually certainly qualify for copyright.

B: Non-artists can in fact iterate and modify work not just randomly generate shit.

C: This will virtually certainly get much better over time.

You will still get much better work out of a professional who can both utilize such tools when desired, and actually create not just copy or prompt art. This thesis is supportable but we shouldn't build it on sand lest it look more vulnerable than it is.
The way I like to think about the Monty Hall problem is by thinking of switching not as being "switch to another unspecified second door" but rather "switch to the winner among the other two doors, if any of them are winners".
> company’s production facilities were based on the use of the latest SMT equipment, and the staff consisted of the most talented personnel in the field of computer engineering

Author only knows business park where head office was located, doesnt know any engineer names nor even where they manufactured.

>Consumer interest was captivated not only by the price of Soltek motherboards, but also by an extended set of interface capabilities of peripheral equipment, as well as a well-chosen set of utilities supplied in the kit

and as an example article uses low end 1999 socket 7 board with standard set of capabilities and peripherals

>organized several points of conveyor production of goods

>surprised the market from time to time with its innovative innovations

Two paragraphs about vibrancy of PCB colors on GeForce 4 MX 440 SE, absolute lowest of low ends in 2002 when released. Then even more about colors just to end at

>As it turned out, the process of creating motherboards in bright colors is extremely toxic

Article is filled with nonsense bloviation as if it went thru chatGPT or was a collection of machine translated Chinese press releases :( I was hoping to learn about the company, founders, ceo, business structure - did they sub contract manufacturing/design? This article has none of that, just a lot about pretty pcb colors.
AI is not a parlor trick.

AI is a branch of statistics. Nobody said that statistics must limit itself to quasi-linear models of numerical data. It was just a limitation of computational resources (initially "AI" was developed by human computers).

The trick is to get people not to associate the dictum "lies, damn lies and statistics" with "hallucinations, damn hallucinations and AI".
Comes in handy for opening Hearthstone packs so you don't need to continuously press space.
That part was banana pants! I watched that part a few times!
Well if those are the reasons then why not code it directly?

Ask the user if they liked the product and would likely gift it in the future and add the item to a "Gift ideas" list.

If the user returned then start suggesting immediately an alternative.

Blindly recommending the same thing just because there's a correlation seems stupid. Would be nice to at-least have a nicely visible button to stop recommending this item since I'm done purchasing anything similar for the next couple of years.
Most definitely.
With some albums it might have taken 5 - 10 years for my taste in music evolve and them to start hitting differently.
> often full with tools, dependencies, IDE indices, intermediate build results

Tools and dependencies go in nix. Indexes and temporary build stuff is just cache, which you can still have (I'd lean towards regenerating per reboot, but YMMV).

> but it's going to be a lot of effort trying to figure out where all your tools are dumping their state.

Fair. Kind of an indictment of the current state of the ecosystem, but yes.
iPhone share is growing because it is the best phone, and has been for quite some time.

Some aspects of androids are better computers, but certain the phone and communication part of them is far far behind.
The email address? There's no reason they should IMHO. At this point Aol email really has to be one of the longest lived and most stable services out there, and it's weird to even type that :)

The ISP? They could be paying less for a faster connection, and a new ISP would probably throw in a better wireless router than the ancient one they're using (and occasionally having trouble with).

The two are not related - AOL is a free online portal these days, accessible to anyone using any ISP. You can even go there and sign up for free email right now if you want. I can imagine a 'retro' email address fad might hit at some point ...
>> What should be an attribute on a tag, and what should go between tags?

Are you ok with <a href="..">link</a>?

That was kind of my original point, people are fine with html but don't like XML. I think the real reason people don't like XML is it reminds them of Steve Ballmer.
Isnt this Maxwell's demon ?

The paper is pay-walled so could not read the mandatory discussion on 2nd law of thermodynamics. The underlying idea is not new. Brillouin published Can the Rectifier Become a Thermodynamical Demon? in 1950 [0] [1]. I hope these are cited in the paper.

[0] https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.78.627....

[1] https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article-abstract/14/2/54/41611/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet
Instruments is not nearly good enough for any serious performance work. Instruments only tells me what percent of time is spent in which part of the code. This is fine for a first pass, but it doesn’t tell me _why_ something is slow. I really need a V-Tune-like profiler on macOS.
In contrast to the parent post:

When I was an undergrad, I interviewed at a then-very small, now-very-prestigious quant firm. In the last interview or so, I asked the quant head something like, “but what value do you provide to society?”

He said, “we provide liquidity.”

I turned down the job they later offered and went to work at a software company that sells a thing people buy.
Besides the fact that storage is cheap, FLAC has a more ample metadata model than MP3 and I'm already used to working with the toolchain for that metadata.
Iirc there is no confirmed instance where people got banned for using an alternative client.
>Iphones are more tailored for younger creatives

Funny, the only iPhone users that I see are technically-illiterate people asking around for who has an iPhone charger they can borrow because their battery went flat. There's a billion USB sockets in the building but I guess that's not creative enough.
If you were to supply that answer in a group concerned with time and gravity they might ask you if that was the right question to ask wrt "greatest relativistic time seperation between two points on 'the earth's surface'"

ChatGPT likely won't help - but you could look into the fact the the earth isn't round, being an oblate spheroid with 20km less radius at the poles than the equator.

Of course the fact the ideal WGS84 ellipsoid, the official mean global sea level, and the geoid (gravitational surface of equipotential) don't all align must surely come into play here - and that bloody great "gravitational hole" somewhere south of Ceylon.

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1820

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System
What is this?! Maxwells Demon, battery edition?!
> their UI is a bit old school

This honestly is a (positive) feature IMO.
Given that the author died last Wednesday—this being her last post is likely why it’s front page of HN—I suspect your writing advice might go ignored in this case.
Dollar stores are certainly stealing a lot of Walmarts lunch in rural illinois and Iowa.

Why would you go 35min to Walmart if you just need 10 things when there's a dollar store 10 min away that's almost the same price as Walmart and much better shopping experience.
Python uses indentation for nested scope (I think that's the right term). While other languages might use curly braces or even keywords like do and end to enclose loops and functions, Python uses indentation. It ensures code is readable, but coding newbies have to learn about whitespace errors AND scoping together. It's one of the parts of the language I dislike the most.
This was literally legislated by green party politicians. They passed a law mandating that the nuclear fleet must go from 75% to 50% of generation. They also forced the company that owns the fleet (EDF) to sell power at a loss to energy traders and placed a tax on all power bills that went directly to funding their renewable portfolio.

Thankfully, they have changed course since the war and are now planning a new nuclear buildout as well as have removed the 50% cap.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-parliament-votes...
On both. Oil, gas and coal are the enemy here, not nuclear.

I can’t believe that people are still arguing against nuclear. It’s an extremely proven technology. It can be built fast, cheap and safely.
I read that as First Moon "Fight" Club until I read through the content.
Electric company is a bad comparison because they’re a utility and you usually can’t switch.

If grocery store A started charging $30 for walking into the store, you better bet everyone’s gonna head to grocery store B.
> Surely you must willingly follow people who post this kind of content, or inflammatory tags? Because I think it's the only way this content can reach you.

Really? Right now, if I go to mastodon.social, I'm redirected to https://mastodon.social/explore and 3 out of the first 4 posts are people fulminating about "red states", "anti-racism" and "Twitter" respectively.
I have seen 1 and 2 year olds learn to read playing video games. I see no reason why a properly designed game wouldn't be able to help develop social skills as well.

The study itself acknowledged this, saying, "a meta-analysis showed that greater screen use was associated with decreased language skills, whereas screen time spent on educational programs was associated with increased language skills," and, "A limitation is that the information we collected did not allow us to separate educational screen time from other types of screen time."

You're right that babies won't be able to engage with games or puzzles for 4+ hours per day, but that is not what others in this thread are suggesting. The criticism I'm seeing is that a parent interested in educating their children shouldn't throw out all screen time just because most other parents use screen time poorly.
I don't think most Americans realize how bad they have it. The US is a great place if you're rich. For everyone else, Europe is better because hyper-individualism only works when you have immense resources of your own. There isn't as much extreme poverty in the US (some in Appalachia still don't have sanitary sewers) than India but there is a great deal of borderline poverty where people live paycheck-to-paycheck in the US.
Reading this helped me realize some feelings I've been having recently after not being on Instagram for a few years and then going back to it recently. The content has shifted from a feed of my friends' lives to a feed of copy-paste memes, headlines with weird music playing, tiktok screen-caps, and a ton of advertisement as media content. It's unfortunate that the reigns of almost all kinds of social media are now in control of Meta, soon when X/Twitter disappears and Threads becomes the leading thoughts and news platform, it will feel like we might be missing big chunks of real news and life because that stuff doesn't sell ads.
Thank you, that's what I was interested in. Not sure why I got downvoted, it was a legitimate question as I didn't know what parts were adversely affected.
Is proton actually good now?

I tried it a few years ago to play some not-uncommon game and it was absolutely terrible, regardless of the hardware power available.
I'm afraid to share it here just yet while I flesh out the final edits but I can email it to you and we can discuss privately.
We've been saying this for decades. It's still not true because we haven't figured out massively scalable grid scale energy storage. The only thing that gets close is PHES and we don't have enough of it.
It was both. And in addition, some of these so called environmental organizations were funded by big oil.
Thanks, that was very informative! I really should get more into hobbyist linguistics.
I question the need for contactors in a modern EV.

They're basically a big battery switch that disconnects when the car is parked or if a fault occurs.

However, in the fault case, pyro disconnects can be used (explosively cutting the wires). They're far cheaper.

For the 'parked' case, MOSFETs inside motor inverters have low enough leakage current that there isn't a need to power them down.

The only remaining time it's useful to have the contactors disconnected is when doing maintenance on the high voltage system (motors, AC compressor). That's a rare enough event that I would think the technician could just remove some bolts to physically disconnect a wire for maintenance.
Browsers can look words up for you by right clicking so a dictionary bot would be annoying and not that useful.