skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reference, the nuclear plants Germany shut down, were all built in the 1980s as well, although some of them in 1989 with construction started in '82 or the 70s. People still complain, that those got shut down, but really the problem was rather that no new ones were built in the last 40 years, especially considering what we learned in that time.

Renewables are simply much easier to build. They mostly affect people that can see them and especially solar can be built in a lot of places, that don't really bother people, unless they don't like how they look (like a roof or to shade parking spots). Wind is a bit more difficult, but apart from the shadow and in closer distances the noise, the look isn't actually that bad. Kids tend to get about as excited about them as when they see a fire or dump truck. It is mostly that we prefer to look at peoples cars and streets than a spinning wheel on a wind turbine.

That's probably the big benefit renewables have. They have relatively few downsides to people and failure modes are mostly predictable as well (electrical faults or falling over would probably be the worst case and feel much easier to run away from, when you try to imagine them). So there shouldn't be as much resistance against them, apart from people living directly next to them even when people are unreasonable.

If a 100% electrical grid with renewables is possible (and I think it is), I think it is simply the better option, because it really shouldn't bother anyone (and probably also is cheaper and quicker to build). But maybe I am overestimating how much people care about looks or the coolness factor of nuclear.
Not all politicians are in DC. The US actually has a lot of local elections and votes. More than in many democracies. Yeah it doesn't get a lot of air time on CNN but local elections matter a lot in the US.

And yes, constitutions should be designed to keep representatives in check and afraid of messing with the people. A constitution should restrict the power of a government and empower the citizens.
Reaction: I'd reserve "come of age" for technologies with meaningful operational units. Which SMR's definitely do not have. Ditto for units under construction.
This is true, but the exploits listed in this article are poor evidence of this. If it was as simple as not giving Linux containers any capabilities or host sockets they would be a decent security boundary.

I find it super frustrating that we're stuck with kernels with inherent weaknesses to their security approach that we have to re-implement them in userspace in one way or another (gVisor, Firecracker, etc.) just to get the hardware-provided userspace/kernel boundary to work properly.
Yes, UBNT nanobeam 5ac AC wireless[1] is pretty dirt cheap. Can get a pair for about $199 for a wireless P2P link that can work over several kilometers. I have deployed a number of these myself, along with more high bandwidth airFiber stuff.

1. https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-wireless/product...
Damn, I was hoping they'd adapt USB-C like the Fiat 500 Hybrid.
It's a very simple question, telling that you refuse to answer it:

"but are you seriously going to argue that an author has no interest in providing a livelihood to their family and/or offspring, even past their own lives? That seems absurd and in defiance of the economic system we live under"
I don't know what it means; that's the whole point. I want a specific definition. I'll start with a question: Is a pregnant woman of 'able body'? Is a person who speaks english as a second language 'of sound mind'? Is a person who grew up in a place with very poor schools and who had to drop in high school to take care of their aged mother 'of sound mind and body'? Expound on the reasons please.
Consider the following: reading bad books can help you better appreciate good books.
What attack are you envisioning that is aided by docker bypassing firewall rules?
That seems incredibly hyperbolic. You might want to consider broadening your news sources or travelling a bit.

For starters, the US as a whole is less than 60% white. And California, while big, only accounts for ~20% of the non-white population of the US. In other words, there's about 120M people that exist outside of your "99%" bubble.
This kind of reductive dogma is meaningless FUD. A container is as secure as its underlying implementation.
I was in the British system (3 subjects, interview, effectively CV/Resume for top University, but mostly school exams, I academically stuck rigidly to the syllabus plus minor extracurricular).

My 17 year old son is in the Irish system. Top 6 subjects count for points, nothing else. Plus some minor need to pass requirements on other subjects. i.e. you cannot just specialise in science and maths at the end. (His 6th best subject will be Irish, English or French, all hard to get very top marks in.)

With dumbing down/grade inflation the skill to get ahead into a good degree is be pretty good at everything. Rather than absolutely brilliant at a couple of things.

He did a tiny bit of computers and maths extra classes, but we could not keep the maths classes going when it went back to in person after COVID, as we are on the poorer side of Dublin. Small chance he goes to Britain for undergraduate, which will be weird as he would suddenly have interviews/CV/Resume, whereas no interview/CV/Resume in Ireland.
There are thermal curtains now. We could carpet that space, though carpets are a pain to wash, and that area also gets treated as a mud room, sooo yeah, probably would get too messy.

I might try hanging up the acoustic sound panel at the start of the curtain track in the bedroom to see if that helps. I suspect the sound waves will just ...wave around it? But I am clearly not an audio engineer. :)
I live in a city and was happy to get a separate tiny apartment 10 min from my family house. It makes a great office and guest room. I hugely prefer it over having a bigger house with a home office. I also love that I can live in a safe city with 4 kids. And that there is a little separation from the chaos.
> I think the solution to these problems is to reduce dependence on the Internet

Uh, I thought the concern is about communications (email, IM, etc), not about content consumption. Communications can't be replaced with some static archives.

I doubt any TLA cares if I read Python or Rust documentation, or if I watched Oppenheimer, or Barbie, or both. If they do - well, it's their loss, because such data is absolutely worthless at scale, as repeatedly demonstrated by the ad industry failing to extract any meaning from all the Big Data(tm) they hoard. And if they would somehow get interested in me personally - I don't think having an offline Wikipedia copy would help me any much.

The solution is to encrypt and authenticate every single byte transferred, end-to-end, with strongest known algorithms. And, well, some legislative action too.
I don't think "they" are the minority, but rather the GP who you're responding to. That may be one of the very, very few times there's been a comment that's been stridently pro-open plan. I suspect most people are at best, indifferent towards open plans, though would probably prefer individual or at least team-only offices, or even cubicles. Very few individual contributors actually prefer open plans.
Another thing that will cause 31 December 1969, regardless of timezones, is the use of -1 as a sentinel value, because taken as a literal time value that's one second before the start of the epoch, and thus it's also on 31st December 1969.

But if you checked the time and it's some hours off, rather than a second or two, then yes, that's timezones.
yeah sync- I like to be able to jot down a note on my phone while out walking. But might follow up on my computer later. For SimpleNote and NotesNook you don't have to think about sync and its free. I would only consider paid Obsidian for the sync. I tried Obsidian early on (years ago) and though it was awful and too bloated for my needs. It looks better now, but mostly I just need low friction to writing things down.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2024-chevy-blazer-ev-long-t...

Edmunds seem to have had a similarly catastrophic time with their long term review purchase.
Review of Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon
I would think you’d need to unescape the new lines and tabs and have a task for the model to perform with it.

Maybe try prefixing it with “summarize the following text” before compression.

Otherwise I’m not sure how it would judge what it’s important. Honestly I’m not sure what ChatGPT would do if you copied the text from this page uncompressed without asking it do something

Edit: pasting uncompressed it summarizes the discussion.

I think this solution isn’t well suited for this kind of task. It seems like you’d want to compress instructions, system prompts and memory. With a big block of text with no prior context you’re essentially relying on the smaller model to decide what’s important without enough information to judge.

Worth some more experimentation for sure
Isn't javas DX pretty great? I mean not the huge XML heavy frameworks but Java itself and the IDEs work well...
is it possible to fine tune something like Mistral 7B on a large PDF (i’m thinking like multi-hundred page spec/standard docs) and ask it questions on the topic?
Trevor Perrin, who co-designed the Signal Protocol, made the point that most people don’t have to do this. If a few people do, an adversary won’t know if the target is verified or not. If they MITM they might be discovered instantly. Which gives the entire herd protection.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2001&v=7WnwSovjYMs
> the modern definition that it has acquired independently, where by programmers knowingly take shortcuts

No error! That seems to be included in this summary, which Cunningham reviewed:

https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Int...

Quoth the PDF:

> When taking short cuts and delivering code that is not quite right for the programming task of the moment, a development team incurs Technical Debt.
Separate building on the same property is still very much "from home"—you have no commute, can eat lunch with your family, could invite the dog in if you want, can do laundry during breaks, etc.

Renting office space less so, but it still provides another key benefit to remote work: you can live anywhere. Office space doesn't have to be in a high rise, it can be unused commercial space in a suburb or even in a small town.

If you don't like remote work that's fine, but there's not much point in posting your caricatures of remote work on a thread filled with people who enjoy working remotely.
I think you're letting a bit of emotion get in the way of logic, take a step back and just breath for a second.

Given the information we had at the time, and how violent the virus was ripping through communities it was the best, worst choice we had at the time. Sure it meant you didn't get to go to your social functions or parties you craved, but we kept the curve down and allowed medical facilities and practitioners brace for the infection wave.

It wasn't irrational at all, and if you found wearing a mask a "ridiculous priority" you were part of the problem. Sometimes someone higher up than you needs to impose a restriction or law to protect others.
Black Americans primarily live in the southeast.
Oftentimes when you see online disparagement of the south as poor and uneducated, they’re describing predominantly black communities.

Florida and Texas are bastions of Hispanic culture, for obvious reasons.

California is certainly diverse with respect to kale options in the grocery store, though, I suspect.
Now in fairness, that is very specifically using a VM to add an even stronger boundry; it's not really the same thing.
Increasingly, poor writing suggests that it was written by a human.
That's what I meant! Thanks for the correction :)
Are you very young?
is it really fair to make judgements based on what “you see”? you must be seeing well under 1% of twitter traffic, no?
The only LLM-as-a-service I use is phind for the sole reason that it allows me to use it without "signing up" first.

If the sign up is a necessary barrier for your needs is for you to decide, but I just wanted to let you know that I was excited to try your product for my wood working and 3d printing needs until the required signup.

Just some anecdata that even a little friction can be a hindrance in people using your product.
That kind of vectorization is a royal pain to edit.
I also remember it being great in the aughts, but it's really gone downhill.

Your question left me wondering and as it turns out, they were indeed sold in 2018: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/purch-finalizes-sal...

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purch_Group

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4FRODO...
I dont see a problem with it. Moreover it improves their employment numbers, lest these clerks go unemployed and “automated” out of a job.

It’s a luxury item, who cares?

They could require a two year advance appointment and visit to HQ before buying, for all I care.

They should put their nose in Amazon’s business of commingling and allowing fakes and swapping products on reviews and that bullshit that does affect the Joels et Maries.
Can you use this for architectural plans? Or is that too complex?
CORRECTION:

> find and diagnose typing errors prior to running any type checker

Should read

> find and diagnose typing errors prior to running any model checker
I used a copy of (desktop) Vector Magic several years ago - it's almost certainly not worth the purchase price today (and better software may already exist), but it did very reliably get me a reasonably close SVG from an original image
> Sure it meant you didn't get to go to your social functions or parties you craved

I have to say this is ridiculously callous. My grandmother cried every day until she passed. I would like to see an investigation into pandemic preparedness. I don’t think we have been getting our money’s worth.
What I'm really curious about is how he got into Stanford, a school that famously no one gets into, given what we know about him. Not to say he's not smart or interesting - he's clearly a good writer - but I don't see what made him stand out to get into that school. I'd be interested to understand that.

I've got a freshman in high school - and he's very bright - doing AP Calc now. But he already feels like it's impossible to get into these schools so why bother. He started the conversation tonight with "I don't think I want to go to MIT anymore." Which broke my heart a little bit - not because I care whether he goes to MIT - but because it you could see his expectations being crushed by reality.

This is the system that we have built for higher education in the United States, and it's incredibly f*cked up.
Yeah “code is debt” seems to be popular meme among the “thought leaders” these days. Somehow their baroque processes (eg scrum), nonsense okrs and out of touch roadmaps are never debt - curious, right?
I'm just old enough to remember seeing the Marlboro Man cowboy commercials before they were no longer allowed to advertise on TV. I remember I liked them because they had majestic herds of horses and beautiful landscapes. My dad also smoked Marlboro so I easily could have become a "replacement smoker" just because I associated Marlboro with beauty and majesty and it was normalized by an authority figure.

It's probably one reason why I'm so rabidly against being advertised to. Nobody is going to keep me or my son safe but me.

Current things commonly advertised in America that I don't want to be normalized to my son: sports betting, alcohol=partying, materialism, phone sex lines (really sexualized ads of any kind THEY ARE ALL SO HORNY), or just outright scams.

Besides, every company is hoping to bore a hole deep in your brain to implant themselves into your life so you give them your money. Watching advertising feels like willingly allowing the installation of a brain worm. I hate it.
It's hardly a caricature, when you realize that by working remotely, you're asking someone else to pay the costs of you not being in the room. Maybe for some it's fine, and that's what your manager can do for you, but if you're WFH and your whole team isn't, the cost is shifted to someone else.

But for workplaces that presume WFH is cost-free and all benefits, someone there is suffering on behalf of the people who WFH.
A robotic arm capable of lifting a single bowling pin would cost $40-50,000, would be slow as shit at resetting 10 of them, and wouldn't pay for the rest of the mechanism such as catching and returning bowling balls. A mechanical pin setter with bowling ball return costs less than that even with the cost of delivery and installation.
> Taking a useful concept and stretching it to an extreme in order to generate a counterintuitive-but-plausible soundbite is not the same thing as wisdom.

That seems to describe most of the programming clickbait here. I could swear there used to be more discussion of startups . . .
How about this: you construct a society that obsesses about race, I build a society that obsesses about property rights and we’ll see who wants to live where?
Not everyone uses an off-the-shelf game engine. Plenty of games are written with a bespoke engine.
I agree, the bottom line should be: they should be able to make this decision.
Inca mummies and the Peruvian ancestors of American anthropology
I'm in public as usual, stressed out beyond words, dead set on being dead while eternally afraid to face death.
> So these laws prevent entirely legitimate activities from being carried out, because of the fear of being persecuted

Can you name a single legitimate activity that is prevented from happening due to the need to comply with CSAM related laws?
In Tesla's most recent quarter, their revenue for "Services & Other," which is where Supercharging lives, was $2,166M, while the cost of revenue for Services & Other was $2,037M. So, a gross profit of $129M on revenue of $2,166M or ~6% gross margin. This is in line with their previous statements that they run the Supercharging network at breakeven - although they don't seem to publicly break out SC-specific numbers from the Services & Other totals.

There may be outlier locations, but overall Supercharging is not a big profit center for them. Maybe it'll improve with scale.
That's a legitimately good use case for NFTs.

When you sell valuable physical objects that have a high risk of counterfeiting, the secure way is to associate a "digital twin" of the object that has verifiable provenance and this is exactly what NFTs as a technology are good at.

edit: Thanks to everyone that downvoted this to -4 despite the numerous good remarks in comment that spark a solely technical discussion on the topic. Please come over your hate.
nonsense like that gets you sent to your room without dinner.
There's another issue with firing up dozens of gas turbines: they don't spin up instantly. Hawaii (and California) are already starting to run into this issue, where peak use follows sunset. So even if you don't need it, you have to keep some generators going so they can ramp up fast enough when solar drops off and peak use starts. Otherwise you get outages.

They've named this issue the duck curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
Is there a world where 4 is not more than one?
Amazon's "leadership" principles are related to leadership in the same way a jellyfish is related to Smuckers.

That's not saying they don't serve a purpose or don't influence the culture, just that their title is a bit Orwellian and "Be Right A Lot" is a pretty shitty principle for any culture.

I think my main criticism of Amazon would be this point:

> Some companies rely on metrics which they do not quite understand. Metrics are proxies for their in-world representations, not actual factual truth indicators.

Not just in the literal sense, though I do think Amazon labors over metrics more than any other company I know, but in the corollary sense that process a means to achieve a goal, not the goal itself.

So many times with Amazon and management that comes from there they really only know the Amazon process without understanding why any of those things were done in the first place. They're the proverbial cook cutting the end off a roast because their grandmother's pan was too small 50 years ago.

This happens at all software companies but Amazon seems to be all about process over people and generate managers who know the process even if they don't know why it is the way it is.
Much more importantly for ARM phones video isn't decoded in the CPU at all, the SOC has video codecs built in. This allows things like all day netflix/hbo without draining the battery. AMD cpus don't have video codec coprocessors as far as I know. Not sure about GPUs though...
Off-topic but if every reference to your new brand has to include the old brand, you probably shouldn't have rebranded
I actually did like the closet in terms of feeling all cozy! But I can't deal with the feeling of overheating. I actually get something like hot flashes these days, so the feeling of heat can be particularly uncomfortable. If it was well conditioned and ventilated, I would have happily stayed.

But I'm also okay with my little space in the bedroom now :)

Bose headphones are great, one of the best investments I've made, but they don't reduce the noise in recordings, so I had to find other forms of sound reduction.
You have to give a reason?
Am trying to convince the team that is The One True Way but actually they made me re-dub my last video to say "V S Code". Sooo I might be wrong ;-)
Tell HN: TablePlus is a slick GUI db editor
https://tableplus.com/

It was oddly hard to find a DB editor, I needed something as slick as ArcType -- a feature packed DB editor that is recently shut down. Ideally, it would have been a vscode extension like Docker/Kubernets so I could stay in my IDE but failing to find a good looking one there, I opted to find an application.

Tried, Azure Data Studio and DBVis.com but finally happy with TablePlus. It is a freemium model but i'm okay with two windows and two tabs.
This is my plan: I live in a walk-able neighborhood of small Craftsman-style houses in an unremarkable, mid-size US city. It's great for kids because they can walk to the park and meet neighborhood kids roaming sidewalks, but it's terrible for getting work done with kids at home. Thankfully, there's available office space over old retail nearby, which rents for really reasonable prices and can fit a desk each for me and my wife.
Makes sense and matched my understanding of the pay at pump preauth for a fixed amount.

I guess the issue then becomes relying on contactless (only) without the hardware for full EMV with PIN, as then someone whose card has been used contactless one too many times can't charge, and potentially ends up stuck there.

It does feel like contactless is a good convenience measure, but probably isn't ideal as the only mechanism on a reader for charging infrastructure.

Unrelated to this, but not being able to initiate charging without internet access (for online auth of cards, and the ones that can only be used online) also is likely to become an issue in rural areas, as well as give quite a few resilience issues if cloud infrastructure isn't available, or internet backhaul from the area is disrupted. Even once power is restored after a storm, if comms are down (like with Storm Arwen), this doesn't sound ideal for EV charging...
Sounds like you need a cancelling microphone. At my university we had to make a lot of videos for distance learning, and after quite a bit of experimenting we used Poly Blackwire 5200 headsets [1]. Not only do these headsets cancel out office noise, they cancel out traffic, planes right overhead, weedeaters right outside, etc. Any noise from more than a few metres away, except for loud sharp cracks (e.g. door slamming), seems to just disappear.

[1] https://www.poly.com/us/en/products/headsets/blackwire/black...