skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German Greens are pushing for renewable energies.

Nuclear is expensive to build [0]. It is expensive operate, even with the massive subsidies of insurance and waste deposit costs by the taxpayer.

On top of that Germany has no exploitable Uranium deposits any more (after delivering Uranium to the USSR for decades, mine was closed 1990), so Germany would need to import nuclear fuel, e.G. from Russia (as the US does [1]). I don't think depending on Russia for energy security is a good idea.

[Edit] Hard coal and ignite usage is down
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/21/hinkley-point-c...

[1] https://kyivindependent.com/german-customs-detains-ship-load...
Heh. The won't be more coal in .de, even the approved projects aren't being built, and the theory that more coal would be burned hasn't come true yet.

The graphs are clear: coal shrunk from 33% to 26% of electric power generation last year. Some people expected an increase. They were wrong and the greens were right.
I don't miss physical media. Streaming works fine from a technical perspective. What I DO miss is the huge supply of films from all eras, forgotten gems, B-movies, etc.

In my part of the world we had Lovefilm where I got rentals delivered by post. I guess this was the same kind of service Netflix had in the US. The number of titles were just incredible. The number of films I can access today is just a tiny fraction of that. That really is a shame.
I don't see what you would even do with an LLM in a code review.
> If I can see it then how is it that every car company hasn’t been preparing low cost EV offerings of their own?

Because the low cost Chinese EVs is a dumping operation organised by China thanks to low cost manufacturing and large public subsidies.

You can't necessarily compete against this as a company if your government doesn't protect you.
OWC 1M2 USB4: finally we get a 40Gbps external storage bus that can work across AMD, Intel and Apple, for both SSD and JBOD (M.2->PCIe->SAS).
> Once you understand the optimal patterns

Do you have some recommendations where to start studying such patterns? I am a bit overwhelmed by all the possibilities and (cost) dangers of cloud computing.
It wasn’t just „German Greens” who opposed buying Russian gas, it was a nearly universal EU ban.
They say "could" a lot, and then say that there's no research/evidence to support it - but that's probably just because no one has done and yet. If there was any evidence against it, presumably they'd cite it?

Not a refutation, but then the article doesn't really offer any evidence to be refuted.

Afaik, "mouth taping" is just putting a little strip of fairly low tack surgical tape across your mouth, vertically, to encourage your body to keep it closed and breathe through your nose while you sleep. I've tried this just to see and it seems to work - but if you open your mouth or move your jaw even a little, it just peels off.

As long as you're sensible, it doesn't seem like it's going to do any harm?
Same reason LLMs aren't so great for regular usage. They do an excellent job of creating highly plausible looking nonsense, which makes it much more likely for things to slip through the cracks. If there was some sort of magical way to ensure code being submitted was flawless, then we'd no longer have bugs in anything, let alone the endless critical flaws that appear in pretty much everything.

For a large highly visible open source project, there's also probably intellectual property concerns. LLMs are being trained wholesale on code that's under IP protections (be that copyright or otherwise) and having that end up in your code base could land you in trouble. 'The AI did it' will probably not be seen as a viable defense.
Silly. They're cash rich and have skilled staff. If they can't do anything with that 10% they should quit business all together.
The Emacs APIs aren't exactly robust in the modern sense. They don't have the security and privilege isolation that VS Code's TypeScript APIs have.
> He's not helming javascript in any way or form or even contributing to the standard to my knowledge.

Brendan may not be helming JavaScript anymore. But he was very active during critical standardization period. For example:

2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUtsgUrF-ec

2011: https://brendaneich.com/2011/08/my-txjs-talk-twitter-remix/

2012: https://brendaneich.com/2012/10/harmony-of-dreams-come-true/

Also note that Asm.js (2013 precursor to WebAssembly) was developed during his term at Mozilla.
Define "use". What kind of uses? Verbatim code sourced from AI or using the technology in general?

I've used AI to learn about massive codebases. It's a bit stupid but still extremely helpful. The free ChatGPT was capable of explaining the concepts in the code and the file system structure of the project, allowing me to get started much faster. It sure as hell beats being a help vampire on some IRC channel or mailing list.

This technology is literally too good to be banned. We should be working on taking it as far as humanly possible by getting it running locally and completely uncensored.
> On top of that Germany has no exploitable Uranium deposits any more, so Germany would need to import nuclear fuel, e.G. from Russia (as the US does)

This is incorrect. Uranium is quite common and could be supplied by Canada, Australia, Kazakstan, Niger and a few other countries.
Isn't that the point of code reviews, though? A human can write incorrect descriptions as well. This one is incredibly easy to catch for any maintainer of the project.

Of course, it'll get harder and harder to spot the problems, but that just brings the "bug" closer to the human-generated level.

Banning AI doesn't fix the problem, especially since the type of person that would have AI generate a description and then not even read it also isn't going to follow the rules.
What does their philosophy for the end-user have to do with their development practices?
TL;DR: the base64 util breaks lines after a certain number of columns. Use a parameter to specify "don't break". [0]

[0] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/base64.1.html
I think one problem is that SEL4 lacks proper multi-core support. According to the FAQ it has not been formally verified, and it relies on a big lock for everything. This is fine when powering a security chip like T2, but not so fine if you are trying to replace UNIX.
It's a fundamentally different concept of photography though, one that becomes more similar to a painting or collage than a captured frame of light. Regardless of the merits of one over the other are for the purposes of storytelling, it's a bit worrisome when the distinction is lost on people altogether.
Those concerns seem legit? Surprised at the negativity here.
Title sounds like click bait :) . There is nothing wrong with base64 strings. The base64 command, on the other hand, will line-split its output if it’s very long. Using the -w0 param as the article discovered and shared is the way to go - but this is dependent on the specific b64 tooling that was used.
people that have a lot of photos with QR codes would want it :).

You could search your images for qr codes that go to linkedin, ig, or fb pages. or find the qr code wifi passwords.

if you just have a screenshot of a QR code (like you zoomed in and screenshot the ticket's QR code, no other text), then finding the qr code by the event name could be useful.

Thailand requires qr codes that linked to the nutritional information registered online. this could be useful to help you search products that just show the back of the label and not the front of the product.
The real problem is that 400-600 nits is allowed to be called a “HDR-certified” display.

For “real” HDR you want at least 800 nits, ideally 1000. Otherwise you have to do what is stated upthread, latch max brightness to whatever your maximum nits is and make everything else very dark to keep the relative contrast intact.
https://www.yourspec.com/ This company will do custom harnesses but AFAIK they don't support any external formats, although they do have their own online editor.
Or better : use the --wrap option so it gets clearer that no wrapping on long lines happens .
Reading through the linked thread at https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358 I'm in total agreement with Gentoo.
40 years ago you'd have been telling me that seeing homosexual couples hold hands and kiss is unnatural and requires the whole of society to believe an unnatural lie that they aren't just horrible perverts.

In both cases, a minority of people have non-mainstream feelings/understanding of their own gender or sexuality, and therefore wish to do things that affect their own body and either nobody else's (trans) or that only affect other people who feel the same way (gay). In both cases, people have argued that it's immoral, that it's about grooming children, and that the external visibility of being gay/trans - either seeing two people of the same gender holding hands, or kissing, or choosing to live their life together openly, or seeing someone who you once thought was one gender but has asked to be called the other gender and to be allowed to dress and act as culture considers "normal" for that gender.

In both cases, it turns out that actually, no, these gay or trans (or any combination of the LGBTQ - many trans people identify as trans AND gay, it's not a case of gay people choosing to be trans to become straight as I've seen claimed) people roaming the streets doesn't make your life worse, it doesn't trick kids into thinking about sex too early any more than a married straight couple bringing a new baby into the world does, and telling kids that it's OK to be gay, and that it's OK to be trans, doesn't lead to more kids "deciding" to be gay or trans it just leads to more people admitting it rather than staying in the closet. Trans kids and gay kids aren't making a decision, any more than you never made a decision to be your birth gender, nor did you make a decision to be gay or not.

Trans rights are human rights, and while I'm not trans if I decided tomorrow to get surgery to remove my penis and ask everyone to call me "she/her", how exactly does that affect you or anybody else any more than if I continue to have the gay sex I so often enjoy?
They'll just assume you want accessories or plan some replacement, giving in at all will never be a good idea for these types

Inch, mile

I've found hanging a "no soliciting" sign and answering angrily when it's ignored effective. They'll stop showing up if they remember you, otherwise they'll think there's an angle.
Dumping is a specific thing. Are Chinese EVs priced lower in international markets than domestically?
>I’m not in the car biz and I’ve seen this coming with clarity for over a decade.

Me too. I was working in the German automotive industry back then, and left when I saw Tesla and China going full steam ahead on all things EV while German car makers were still pushing on diesel, and still do.

>If I can see it then how is it that every car company hasn’t been preparing low cost EV offerings of their own?

For the same reason Kodak invented the first digital camera and then shelved it to not compete with their film manufacturing business long enough for the Japanese to beat them at digital and kill them.

Big corporations are fiefdoms with vested interest to maintain their status quo, not to push to company to self-disrupt itself, meaning they'll just wait and watch someone else eats their lunch.
QNX predates the first L4 release by at least 10 years. Unless they had a major rewrite I wouldn't assume so.
In fact Green Peace was heavily involved in selling repackaged Russian gas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Planet_Energy
> Most people use traffic deaths per 100k inhabitants when comparing, but that exaggerates the risks of US traffic because people in the US drive more.

They drive because they have to, not because they want to, so it's a sensible comparison.
Is it really the case that running an existing nuclear powerplant is less cost-effective than the alternatives, so much so that closing plants is a good idea from green energy point of view?
The conclusion is surely more along the lines that:

- it's almost impossible to tell a priori what the performance will be, since manufacturers don't document their chipsets properly

- a faster drive may be slower on an Intel Mac, due to falling back to USB3
Convert BIM Models to Pointcloud
Generate pointclouds from BIM (IFC) Models using barycentric coordinates and a weightend sampler-algorithm with respect to triangle-size
There's a vast spectrum of contributions. I use Copilot and most of the time it's just autocomplete with a bit more awareness of context.

Like - it suggests the next 10 characters or so it's either correct or correct enough that it saves me some typing.

So in the same way that people complain about CGI in movies (if the CGI is good CGI then they probably haven't even noticed it) - the only AI you notice will be the bad stuff.
I enjoy physical media but not the finding space for it part. Somehow stuff accumulates over time and if you've got 100 DVDs it is a lot of space that you may not actively be using. That being said, I don't have a huge living space so that would contribute.
Check memcached "extstore" [1].

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1: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Extstore
HN thinks LLMs are the early days of the singularity and not a spam generator. I assume this is an echo chamber effect.
> The graphs are clear: coal shrunk from 33% to 26% of electric power generation last year. Some people expected an increase.

This is in part due to the fact that Germany is now able to import more energy compared to 2022 which saw a decrease in gas availability but also a reduction in nuclear energy production in France due to technical issues.
I'd never seen RapidHarness before, thank you!
Current LLMs. While I agree, they sometimes create more problems than solving (I'm currently debugging a bug caused by GPT4 code that I initially approved), they are getting better by the day and already 1.5x my productivity.
Depends a lot on your product, your target market(s), number of supported languages, number of employees, and most of all: the risk class of the product.

QMS can be around 15-20k

Study: not necessarily needed if you do not need new evidence. Then you can write a literature review, which is A LOT cheaper

TechDoc: yeah, takes time

CE marking: depends a lot on the notified body. Here's a slightly outdated list and apparently, you can pay anything between 15k€ to 500k€: https://openregulatory.com/notified-bodies/
Hi Anika from AirGradient here (the one who wrote the article).

Unfortunatly, we still depend on reference instruments to figure out the performance of a sensor. But you can find reference stations that publish their air quality data online.
If you want to do you own reference experiment, check if you can find a closeby air quality station and compare your data with this one. But keep in mind that, if reference and monitor are a few (kilo)meters apart, the air pollution emissions in the surroundings will probably differ. So you might not be able to compare every peak and squiggle, but I would expect that you can see a general correlation if you compare a sufficient time period (at least a week).
Rental stores were great, except for the late fees. Many local rentals had good collections of older movies and TV series. They are simply non-existent in the streaming world.
Wouldn't it be easier if we ask chatGPT to fix?
It's interesting because you can see it as both a very conservative
approach and a high risk stance which don't seem like common
bedfellows.

If you acknowledge up front that AI is unfit for purpose and is very
likely to introduce some serious security problems then it seems
wise. When it turns out the LLM models have all been compromised to
insert backdoors into the compiler toolchain, you win by being the
last distro left standing. You could look at it as a very high risk
strategy for the same reason, if you think you'll be "left
behind". Either way who dares wins (or dies). Dare to go against the
mob, or dare to bet the farm on a principle.

AFAIK Gentoo is one of the more conservative communities. But I'd also
expect to see this policy being considered in BSD circles too.
Offline in-browser semantic search with only a small model sounds like it has some great potential!

I'd love to see a more compelling example / demo. The demo page you have is fairly short and the content being searched seems semantically very narrow (it's all text about word embeddings!). As someone who hasn't spent any time trying out similar systems or trying to build something like this, it's difficult for me to come up with queries to actually judge how well this is working, given the small content in the demo page. So overall, that makes the actual demo not very compelling for me. I'm left uncertain how effective it might be for a more realistic use-case.

Basically if you had a better demo - larger and more varied example content, and a few example queries to show off what this can do - then I think the whole thing would be more immediately interesting (to me).
The software people enjoy using is typically written in C++, Rust, or Swift.

Nobody writes desktop software in a GC'd language that doesn't suffer from noticeable performance issues. There's a reason why people bitch about e.g., Microsoft Teams, and it has a lot to do with language choice.
Just to clarify:

You were diagnosed with OSA. You learned this technique, did another sleep study and were told you were all clear. Is that right?

What was your AHI before "curing" yourself? Afterward, was it 0 or just below the diagnostic criteria of 5?
Another comment that is dead (i clicked vouch fwiw) linked to this as comparison, another house of art that was to be painted over but was apparently saved:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLyE3L8d/

My jaw literally dropped open that someone would want to paint over it. I did not get that feeling looking at the pics in the article.
I added this TL;DR to the post. Thanks for summing it up!
I read (but unfortunately can't find source) that Chinese manufacturers are 2 to 3 years ahead in being able to ship solid state battery technology

For example:

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/china-brand-hyper-use... (archive: https://archive.ph/LlQV2)

https://uk.motor1.com/news/715871/im-l6-ev-solid-state-batte...
> If I can see it then how is it that every car company hasn’t been preparing low cost EV offerings of their own?

They... have, though? As far as I know, most of the European ones have at least one more or less ready to go. Generally not on the _extreme_ low end (ie not competing with the 10k BYD), but Renault, VW and Stellantis all have models in the 20-25k range pre-subsidy due to launch in the next year. The Dacia Spring (20k) has already been out for a bit, of course.
Yes, something like that absolutely should be avoided at all cost.

Genuinely in disbelief what I was reading in that thread.
How do people think that an autogenerated nonsense description is better than not describing the software at all?
Seems like another way to avoid the death spiral trap Elon has set up for himself.

- Bought Twitter with Tesla stock as collateral

- Tesla faces falling EV sales and external competition

- Unionisation pressures, declining product quality, Elon losing his reach and audience's good graces

- Stock price falling too low can trigger a margin call on his loans

- Starts actual marketing, price cuts

- Price cuts chew into profits, stock falls

- Announces "real FSD" for 100th time

- Announces "robotaxis"

- Layoffs happening

While this might end up with a small bump in the price to avoid the margin calls, it might also end up being part of a downward spiral for Tesla in the end, depending on where and what they are cutting.

It would be unfortunate to see Tesla crash after everything due to his wish to buy Twitter and I think we might see him ousted in the following year or so. Before it was "Elon is Tesla's marketing driver so we can't kick him out", nowadays it seems way less so with him being more of a detractor.
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> Dumping is a specific thing. Are Chinese EVs priced lower in international markets than domestically?

I'm not sure but I don't believe that the price difference between China and the rest of the world would be the issue.

The biggest problem is killing of the international competition by having artificially low prices.
> Step ONE every time I buy a TV is to spend a half an hour or so using tons of calibration images to get it dialed in to a sensible setting, and it's shocking how much a lot of them need changed.

Eh. Usually you can flip it to movie + warm(2) + dynamic contrast off + enhancements off (think noise reduction) and you’re 90% there. You can get a smidge better picture with calibration images, but most midrange+ TVs come decently calibrated out of the factory these days. Not really worth the effort unless you go all the way and use a colorimeter.
Previous discussion (2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30180566
Is that a requirement for dumping? Isn’t Dumping just selling at a loss?
Dacia Spring is a Chinese designed and built car with a Dacia badge on it. It's really not great by EU standards[1]. The steel panels on it are incredibly thin and flimsy. It's more of an four wheel electric tuk-tuk with a shell, designed to reach a cheap EV price point. For some users that's good enough but for some it's a no-go.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXgJD4tooI
I love Swift but had to stop every time before getting serious for several reasons. As a language it’s just amazing.

But whenever it’s come to performance on the backend, it would be not enough by a large margin. Take JSON serialization for instance, even using a yyjson wrapper it’s been nowhere near the original C performance, slower than Jackson, nlohmann::json, Go’s stdlib, and serde of course. I tried several Swift libraries. Model definition for custom deserializers alone for the few common ISO timestamp representations is a bit cumbersome but bearable. With some other formats and protocols I use, Swift is similarly underwhelming. Logging takes a large toll in performance as well, regardless of what a library appears to suggest when speaking of “efficiency.” I just can’t seem to squeeze out enough performance out of Swift. Async Postgres IO was quite good until I ramped up the load. TechEmpower benchmarks place Vapor relatively low. I get much better performance from low-effort Spring on Kotlin, needless to mention more performant backend frameworks.

Then the IDE story is very bleak. While I’m on Macs, Xcode just doesn’t cut it for me to be productive. Jetbrains discontinued their dedicated IDE and their Vscode pendent is still experimental. Vscode proper support for Swift is not really worth mentioning in my opinion. So I’m basically left with Xcode as an IDE for Swift.

I so dearly wanted to introduce Swift on the backend at my company but that’s just unrealistic right now.
Thanks for explaining! Yeah.. I was thinking of the maximum direct surface distance when saying "across the globe"... That would be 20k km... and the sea route turns to be about 10K km long from Kolkata to Osaka...
So, are there any displays that do a decent job? How do you find them without investing a ridiculous amount of time?
Does anyone know how mitsumata got to Japan in the first place.

"Traditional paper" I imagine is something they've had since before the age of European colonization which brought all sorts of trade/exchange. Eg. The national-dish of 'curry' in Japan is a British twist on Indian one, and so you almost inevitably find Beef in it.