skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From that same Wikipedia article: “The actual cost of generating electricity by nuclear power is not published by EDF or the French government but is estimated to be between €59/MWh and €83/MWh.” that’s using numbers from 2012 in todays money €73/MWh and €103/MWh. What you were quoting was counting “investments” not total costs on an inflation adjusted basis.

In 2012 published results for ongoing costs at “The court expects EDF's projected investment programme in existing plant, including post Fukushima safety improvements, will add between 9.5% and 14.5% to generation costs, taking costs to between 37.9 and 54.2 EUR/MWh” (Note that’s annual costs excluding construction and decommissioning.) Your investment number included R&D subsidies that aren’t part of that 47 to 67 EUR/MWh in today’s money. If you wonder how these could be so wildly different it’s because France isn’t just adding up total costs and adjusting for inflation they simply don’t want to admit how large the subsidies have been because it’s so dam expensive.

France nuclear power plants don’t hit 90% capacity factors. If your generate 30% of power from nuclear you can have capacity factors that high but France ran past that and ran into the fundamental issue that people want less power on nights, weekends, and spring/fall when they don’t need heat or AC.

How about some real world numbers. From 61.4 GW of generating capacity In 2022 France produced 282 TWh, in 2023 it hit 320 TWh that’s (282 + 320)/2 / 365 / 24 * 1000 / 61.4 = 56% capacity factor.

Wow that’s low let’s look at some lifetime numbers 72.60% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belleville_Nuclear_Power_Plant 75% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blayais_Nuclear_Power_Plant 74% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattenom_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Wow your 90% is sure looking crazy optimistic.

“80 year running life” you know France is having troubles keeping a ~40 year old fleet operating, I’m sure they will have zero problems trying to hit 80 years.
The dispute happens only if one party owns the trademark and sends a Cease & Desist letter. Different companies have different approaches to aggression here.

Second, it has to prove that it confuses customers (e.g. if you pick ten end users and do tests if they find that confusing). Maybe a sophisticated tech audience is better at finding differences than the general public.
Currently the motivation is mainly speed. For the really easy ones like "hey, how's it going?" or "sorry I didn't hear you, can you repeat?" you can easily send to Llama3 etc. Ofc you could do some clever caching or something, but training a custom router directly on the task to optimize the resultant performance metric doesn't require any manual engineering.

Still, I agree that routing in isolation is not thaaat useful in many LLM domains. I think the usefulness will increase when applying to multi-step agentic systems, and when combining with other optimizations such as end-to-end learning of the intermediate prompts (DSPy etc.)

Thanks again for diving deep, super helpful!
The newer Amazfit Bips sadly don't have transflective displays and do not last a month like the original Bip line used to. Why they killed off the unique feature of this product line and made it another generic LCD smartwatch when Amazfit already has several product lines of those I have no clue.
Oh god the repressed memories. I believe there was a SCSI thingy to do some basic sysex (or whatever format they were using) and presets save/load from 68K macintoshes?
Computer Security: The Better Generation
Haha, I remember this with Leisure Suit Larry 1. When you knock on the door at Lefty's Bar, a guy opens a hatch in the door and asks "What's the password?". Then you need to type "ken sent me" and press enter. I was 7-8 years old at the time, and it was hard for me to type "ken sent me" in the 5 or 10 seconds you have to give him the password. Sometimes I asked my dad to help me out, so he could write it for me hehe. But we found a trick after a while, you could just set the game to SLOWEST at that part, and you had much more time to enter the password. Good times!
But the dark forest theory suggests when you have an arrow, you should shoot others, because they can have an arrow too. This strategy can go wrong if they have a tank. And if you systematically shoot everyone, you're systematically looking for a tank.
I agree!

One example of something that feels off is the button styling on hover, dark backgrounds with black text doesn't work well aesthetically or for accessibility.

Having a more polished default set-up will be the cherry on top.
such wow very sad
Yet the way git is used is still similar. Both lead with ‘git’ in their name, both append a pithy three letter suffix to ‘git’ that both describe some kind of space where people meet to do stuff. Surely that’s more than just coincidence.
One side project I am working on right now is a 2d space shooter I am developing with my son. The idea is to have top down look, have each player control some kind of ship and fly in an enclosed area filled with space debris and shot opponents. An important aspect of this game is that the space debris can be moved around the arena and used creatively to capture opponents, prevent them from achieving their goals, etc.

As part of the project I was thinking we will skip game engine altogether because I wanted to teach my son a bit more about how to structure the application, etc. I thought in future we would use a ready game engine but at least once we would go through the exercise of implementing everything.

Everything was fine until we approached the problem of collision detection and handling. That's when things went downhill pretty quickly. Even with my theoretical math background I was soon consumed with just enormous amount of corner cases and finally decided to relent and use Box2d for this.

I am not a professional game developer, but I have over 20 years of development experience + math background and I still made the mistake of underestimating the problem. It really seems easy problem when you state it and just becomes exponentially more and more complex as you start digging into details.
I assume by

144 : Jan, Feb, Mar
025 : Apr, May, Jun
036 : Jul, Aug, Sep
146 : Oct, Nov, Dec

You mean: Jan = 1, Feb = 4, Mar = 4, etc.
There was a thread on here about google suggesting people put elmers glue on pizza to make the cheese stick. (Turns out it was previously a shitpost on reddit that made it into the training data.)
I don't think it's available here, at least not right now. One advantage (or disadvantage, depending on perspective) of the EC's increasingly grumpy privacy and anti-trust oriented internet regulations is that companies are becoming reluctant to throw any old shit over the wall here; "rush something, anything, out as quickly as possible to appease the shareholders" products, like this one, tend to have delayed launches in Europe.

(A less objectionable example: Threads, which seems to have been held up by DMA/DSA compliance; allowing read access without a loginwall and so on.)
the theory is everyone needs underline because not clear otherwise things are links - therefore needing underline come under people with visual disabilities but not thoroughly blind and cognitive issues like not having had any coffee yet despite being up all night, can't think of others offhand.
If you ever need a clojure boilerplate to start a SaaS product or a startup, there is https://shipclojure.com
> the sentence "8 from 4 is 6" is nonsensical to most such people

Anyone who understands "7 from 3 is 6" must necessarily also understand "8 from 4 is 6". Nobody learns how to subtract from numbers that have digits of 3 without simultaneously learning how to subtract from numbers that have digits of 4.

> I do think this is a rare case where Lehrer is just wrong, the "borrowing" style is a much better and clearer way to explain subtraction. It is just as fast, and it gives you a much better intuition about what's actually happening, instead of just learning the steps by rote.

But I already pointed out that the steps aren't different. They're the same style. Whether you use the term "carry" or "borrow" makes no difference to anyone.
- layerchart: Composable Svelte chart components to build a wide range of visualizations - https://github.com/techniq/layerchart

- svelte-sheets: Blazing fast excel sheets in the browser, hugely inspired by JExcel, built with Svelte and XLSX. - https://github.com/ticruz38/svelte-sheets
A better way to control shape-shifting soft robots
4 submissions for the same app in 24 hours, chill.
First- and Second-Order Pain
@dang black bar please ...
As an otherwise independent third party, I'd like to gently suggest that you read the words again. Each case, either too much or too little, is given equal weight. I believe confusion may happen there because our brains fill in the blank and in reaching for that language it's typically done so to contrast the subject.

Sorry to intrude with nothing more to contribute.
It would be nice if we could get a black bar for Kabosu.

internet sad

love much

wow

Rest in peace.
> Being cut off from it makes it really annoying to deal with ordinary communications with friends, for business, etc.

As someone who has never used WhatsApp, why is it annoying to communicate without it?
Why is it a limited resource world? Why do you conceive of growth as requiring coal or land? Why can’t growth be growth in wellbeing or health or satisfaction? Thus, why can’t we continue to grow indefinitely?

Isn’t time and attention the only limit?

Here’s a brief history of capitalism: Running out of whales? Develop ground oil. Running out of elephant tusks? Develop plastics. Running out of intact forests? Develop carbon markets. Earth running hot? Cool it down. Too much carbon? Develop renewables. It’s all happening. Not at the pace you want — but do you really want to trust that a revolutionary new economic governance would deliver these outcomes as quickly or efficiently?

I agree that “the point of no return” is a real risk — thawing permafrost and all that. But this is why we need to figure out geoengineering rather than banning the science of it. We can’t be so romantic as to think that we should leave nature untouched. We are nature and it is our existential need to figure out how to sustain ourselves. I think progress has been fantastic. It’s all happening— we just need a bit more time for the energy and AI transitions to happen.

I believe that this optimism is both rationally founded — and probably critical for creating a shared social vision for positive outcomes. We need to know where we are going — and man, it looks good! There will be so many resources to support all human needs — and even most human desires. Let’s not break things.
He's just one DNS poisoning away from losing control of his website. Or a malicious DNS server used by a Wi-Fi network (e.g. public hotspots).
That sounds like the kind of thing which works if you're doing physics at 1kHz+ with an integration algorithm with good numeric stability which honours conservation of energy, but in games, we're often running physics at down to 30Hz using some ad-hoc Euler-Chromer, which requires very different approaches
If you use an existing game engine all you need really is some decent Google-fu...
I've been commissioned to create some non-public VR experiences for a couple of people and all I needed during development was some basic high-school vector math (like literally addition, multiplication, very occasionally a cross prodcut or a dot product which I googled by their purpose [e.g. "how to find a tangent to two vectors" or "how to check if a vector is aligned with other vector"]).

You do use that math constantly especially in shader tricks which do some visual magic based on angles between stuff but the difficulty is not in the math itself at all.
I've had Google photos eat ~12 months worth of pictures, I don't really trust anyone to keep my data safe.

Logseq has been fine for me over several years, but it also makes it extremely easy to auto-commit to git.
I am waiting for the day I can use Excel as a REST API client, so I write the ID of some record in a cell, and Excel does all the work of calling the API repeatedly and fills the rows and sheets with the required information.

This will kill a few Python jobs and make it a very popular REST client =)
> Color blind people could add css extension that underline / highlight links.

imo, if you're building a new library, this level of accessibility should be baked in.
Given the aim of the library to have better css defaults, expecting developers to override the link styling to add underlines or expecting the users to install browser extensions to do that, feels like a weird requirement.
I do, but I'm the main earner. And there were 2 or 3 times that she almost lost her job.
I would assume to appease the markets, whose limited collective wisdom is currently zeroing in on AI. Google has been known to overreact before; remember Google+, at the height of the social media boom?
Saw this earlier and it made me pretty sad. :(

I know it doesn’t 100% fit but… Black Bar?

For me she was a joyous milestone in defining internet culture.
There is an entire science yet to be formalized in this essay. When the author begins to backtrack on their thesis, and then says:

> I don’t actually believe this to be a universally applicable principle, as there are lots of exceptions, but I feel that there is “something” about it that deserves our attention.

That "something" is identifying where our current sciences, our language, and our intellectual curiosities have not formalized investigation. The mere fact that this observation has no name that can be commonly referenced is the clearest indicator it's an overlooked aspect of living a life.

I wonder if these ideas are not formalized already, some philosophical school of thought labeling this with some too many syllable name. I also wonder if the Dunning–Kruger crowd's work touches on this aspect.
They don't have to "work" as in "be an efficient pen and paper algorithm", because the far more efficient algorithms is "use a computer"! They have to be good to build understanding and intuition, and e.g. presenting subtraction as "distance on the real line" is an excellent way to do this.

I did not expect this short-sighted way to look at maths education here in this website.
Oh indeed they are. The problem is, not many young people wish to enter the trades - here in Germany, the homeland of the "Duale Ausbildung", the biggest issue is boomers with toxic attitudes and wages one can't survive on. You gotta be able to afford a trades education these days.
DNSimple doesn’t do that (https://dnsimple.com/)
In my experience Scrum is the worst enabler for micromanagers

- PO suddenly wants to do something yesterday - they just give their task top priority so you're forced to do it

- PO want the button to have that exact shade of teal - they won't accept the story until it looks exactly like what they wanted

- You want to clean up the messy code you're touching - just make a story for it and watch the PO rank it to the bottom (essentially meaning it'll never get fixed) - since it has no 'business value'

This leads to demoralized devs working on crap codebases they're not allowed to fix.
What would be an appropriate test?

- Given 2 word embedding sets,

- For each pair (A,B) of embeddings in one set,

- There exists an equivalence (A’,B’) in the other set,

- Such that dist(A,B) ≈ dist(A’, B’),

Something like that, to start. But would need to look at longer chains of relations.
Let's hope so, it's not a problem you can afford to be around even once.
I posted both the links. I initially posted this link, but then the Reddit comment seemed more valuable, so posted that too.
Does anyone have links? I don't have a twitter account, search seems login walled.
Reverse engineering ESP32 Wi-Fi driver: the road ahead
No way I am hearing this 4th time
Germany does share an electricity market with its neighbours, you can see the live import and export e.g. here: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/real-time....

Currently, Germany is averaging around 6.4 GW of imports and 3.2 GW of exports. During production spikes caused by e.g. wind or solar power, the price quickly drops in the whole region, sometimes into the negative in order to help stabilize the grid frequency.
ah, right, that was the one.
I'm a little nervous contemplating a future with both increased nuclear energy and extreme climate change.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464490
Tbh even Apple had the idiotic idea of curved screens on some models.

I'm still rocking an iphone XS with a majorly cracked screen. I haven't dropped it more than any other iphone i've had, but it's the only one I owned where the glass isn't protected by that straight metal edge. So ... crack crack crack.

At least Apple seems to have given up on it.
How about Excel as an API server, too?
19 months is less than the 24 month minimum warranty for consumers across the EU (which used to include the UK).
Thanks for the links, I don't know anything about usenet beside the fact that it exists, and didn't even know it was possible for email too.

I'll search for examples of UI used for many in-reply-to, it seems interesting.
I've been using Perplexity for months now on the Free tire (with the 5 Pro searches/4 hours) and its been plenty for me and I use it has completely replaced google for me. So I'm not sure where Perplexica fits in my use case, especially that I'll have to install and maintain it and use lesser models than Perplexity.
Is that what we're appreciating when we call the song a "banger"? Most people who like the song don't know the words.
Yeah, since they’re all mod 7.
This would eliminate the failure mode of my grayscale attempts. I would appreciate knowing the configuration steps.
> unable to do a better-than-trained-technician job of a (probably) complicated job

Isn't this because manufacturers are actively hindering repair shops? It's both the result and the cause of the manufacturers' strategy. No schematics, devices built without taking repairability in mind and very expensive parts or parts that come with caveats.

Making longer warranties is always welcome but it won't help as much, because the vast majority of repairs aren't covered under warranty. I'm guessing that most repairs are due to user error than manufacturing defects thus not covered under warranty.

> Because you generate, at best, an adversarial situation.

This shouldn't be the case. Reducing e-waste and thus doing everything possible for sustainability should be the priority here. I've found myself many times in a situation where a perfectly working device was damaged, or just stopped receiving software updates and had to be decommissioned because of security concerns, and this is not only limited to phones.
Why? The objective is understanding, not getting the rightsl answer, because you will never do a long multiplication in your life since a 3$ chip does it in a tenth of a microsecond
I reluctantly admit, "There Is No Antimemetics Division" had the best idea, even though its pacing is reminiscent of the Skibidi Toilet series.
It's definitely news to me!

Intuitively, I would have expected AWS to send back the EBS volume backing a powered-off machine into the Whatever Long-Term Storage Is Behind EBS, and therefore start-up time to be ~identical to a fresh start as the steps would be the same: retrieve data from long-term storage into a readable EBS volume, start VM etc.

It's very interesting that it is not the case, and that keeping the EBS volume around after a first boot makes a second boot so much faster.
The AI Transformation of Developer Routines by 2030 [pdf]
Full title: "From Today’s Code to Tomorrow’s Symphony: The AI Transformation of Developer Routines by 2030"
Regarding Cash Payments (DKK)
It used to be the other way around, with Excel leading the way.
That was a really poor counterargument on your part.
Smooth enough on my X201 with library wifi. Not a fan of those flashy websites though
Arc furnaces are also expensive so realistically you want to have one running as close to 24/7 as possible.
Thanks for the feedback!

- I have sometimes noticed the `%20` issue; it should be simple to fix. (The location name can come from multiple sources.)

- The app first tries to estimate your location based on your IP address. There is less friction (no additional prompts/permission required) but it can be very inaccurate. Eventually, you will be able to specify most settings/input via UI and/or URL params. For example, you will be able to enter all or none of: lat/lng, location name, C/F, etc. When a value isn't provided, a logical default will be used (like lat/lng from location name, or location name from lat/lng).

- Showing previous dates is very intentional (https://blog.leftium.com/2013/12/how-to-display-temperature-...). Weather stats are very relative, so "trendcasts" combine past history with future forecasts. (Also see the previous version: https://uw.leftium.com/)

- "I did really like the Dark Sky way of having a vertical bar for the precipitation, with the temps plotted next to it." I'm not sure exactly how that looked. Can you share any screenshots?

- The daily precipitation forecast bars will have an option to toggle showing the previous history. I was playing around with how they would look. The "current time" marker will track the cursor/finger on hover so you can see exact numbers in the sticky top section (Merry Sky sort of has this, but it's not sticky and hover only works in a few places.)

- You can already click any temperature stats to toggle between Fahrenheit and Celsius. I default to F because I still believe it is the more "human" metric for weather temperature. I use mm for precipitation because I feel that is the more useful unit for precipitation, but in the future this will also be configurable/togglable.

- Sunrise/sunset is one of the features I plan to steal from Merry Sky. The data is available in the JSON, but Merry-Timeline doesn't support rendering like Merry Sky (https://github.com/guillaume/merry-timeline/issues/4). I will probably end up writing my own forecast timeline component.

- Merry Sky already kind of has forecast bars lined up horizontally; I think shading the days with alternating colors would make it more readable. Openweather also has this (although it also needs to shade to make the days more distinguishable, too.) I'm not a big fan of horizontal scrolling, but I may add it as an option.
Ooh, this is super interesting! This video by The Science Asylum lays out the "distance ladder" in great detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrpdwJNNskk This wikipedia article also lays out the distance ladder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder so if our hypothetical "intelligent species on a planet orbiting an orphan star" were more than 30,000 light years away from the nearest star, they wouldn't be able to measure that distance with accuracy using the technology we have now. That might not apply to ranging whole galaxies? And they could get better with time? In any case, my idea that they might take off for a "nearby" star "only" ~100 light years away because they don't know better is foolish.
Using JSON without understanding it
The article talks about fio to warm the drive... That's basically fast snapshot restore[0]. This reduces the "first access" penalty for "dirty" blocks. This is probably the slowest part of the entire article (it's about 10 seconds per dirty GB to fio the disk).

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-fast-sn...
While fully open would of course be ideal, I'd settle for an unlockable bootloader.

I'm guessing whatever random extras "SolOS" grafts onto Android are probably fairly extraneous, and any vanilla AOSP-based ROM would be perfectly cromulent, provided it was possible to flash it in the first place.
True. When is the time to remove from checklists, and when is the time to add to them. If the feedback-loop isn't properly closed, you get imbalance.