skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nuclear is a legacy technology which is on the way out.

Don't tell that to Ontario-Canada

> Demand for electricity across Canada is forecast to double in the next 25 years, and all the signs from Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government indicate that nuclear energy will supply the biggest portion of the province's additional power needs.

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-nuclear-power...

and Poland:

> In December 2021, BWXT Canada signed an agreement, valued at up to $1 billion, to build key components in Ontario to support the deployment of Small Modular Reactors in Poland.

* https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1004711/ontario-lands-maj...

> German society didn't want to be stuck with it and footing a tremendous bill for subsidizing and later dismantling the technology in the end.

Ontario is not dismantling but refurbishing:

* https://www.opg.com/releases/opg-celebrates-the-early-comple...

The bill is such that nuclear is the second-cheapest source of power in Ontario (Table 2):

* https://www.oeb.ca/sites/default/files/rpp-price-report-2023...
Show HN: Routify, a global serverless API gateway
Hello HN, recently I've been working on Routify and wanted to share the progress made so far and hopefully get your opinion/feedback on it. Routify is a global serverless API gateway which handles routing, authentication, rate limiting, load balancing, monitoring, transformation etc (with more coming soon).

Routify makes it easier to manage and secure public APIs. It's distributed across many regions globally and acts as a proxy between your clients and your services. You can configure it through the interface in a matter of minutes (no code required).

There are three main concepts:

1. Routes - paths that define different operations in your API (can be with dynamic/optional/catch-all parameters)
2. Backends - a cluster of endpoints where the requests will be proxied to
3. Middlewares - functions that are executed in a specific order in Routify edge proxies and define how requests are processed.

You can use it as a reverse proxy, as a gateway between your APIs in different cloud providers, to generate fake data on the fly, as a geo load balancer or simply as a monitoring tool for all requests going through your API. It also provides multi-region healthchecks and alerts based on the requests.

So far, it has processed 100+ million requests without any issue. The average processing time for route matching and middleware processing is ~1ms (this does not include the network operations when proxying the requests).

For those interested, Routify is in public beta and free to use at https://routify.to.

You can check a demo of how it works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDisClPv09A

Thank you!
Tampa did this and it's frustrating. In many places I must turn right, drive down to a middle u-turn lane, then turn. It does not seem safer to me.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. The rightwards shift from the head of the senate is not random. In Brazil the far right is strongly opposed to court and Pacheco has been advancing part of that agenda in order to gather support from them.

https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2023/10/16/pacheco...
> For a period I had no FICO score, yet I was able to secure a loan from a Credit Union.

The credit union was content to use its own capital and hold your loan to maturity on its books. (I'm presuming you were probably a banking customer of the credit union, though I realize not necessarily.)

Non-credit union lenders though most often want to either sell your loan to investors or pledge it as collateral to borrow money for themselves, and for that they need a FICO.

> The score from what I have gathered when I learn really rewards those who remain in debt and pay substantial interest, not the frugal and financially stable (check to check is not financially stable). Basically encouraging to keep self in debt just at the edge of financial disaster's precipice.

That's not really true. Using a credit card for most of your expenses and paying it off in full every month is actually a great boost to your credit score. It's both an indication that you live within your means and you honor your agreements.
Is it? It's missing context but it's not misrepresenting the facts of the case.
I don't think anyone in America is working 40 hours and staying below the poverty line unless they have like... 8 kids as a single parent. It's really just not possible. McDonald's for 40 hours puts you well above poverty line
Researchers map a 4,200 km transatlantic flight of the Painted Lady butterfly
Scary Kazatomprom as a fuel source is an invented problem.

Nuclear fuel market is global with many producers. Fuel price is a tiny fraction of the nuclear electricity cost. Agree to a long-term contract at double today's price and there will be a line of companies running to sign it.

Cameco (and others) put some of their nuclear mining into conservation because there was not enough buyers. Uranium is one of the most abundant elements, the only reason for the shortage of fuel is the politicians reluctance to make nuclear a pillar of the energy production.
Euclidean geometry and its fifth axiom are interesting, but unrelated to the Banach-Tarski paradox. I don't get the point you're trying to make. It's not a "wider context", it's a different thing altogether.

Also, as someone pointed out in the linked thread, you're completely glossing over the theory of measurable sets.
People take taxis because they're too drunk to drive.

This sometimes leads to in-car vomiting.

There are also still smokers among us.
Retool expands platform to support external apps, too
When a page doesn't have an informative title, sometimes we like to leave it more mysterious and sometimes it's ok to explain. I think it's ok in this case. But if you asked me to say precisely why I don't know if I could...
> The only real trick here is the low number of pieces, if you allow an arbitrary number of pieces it's simple to split the points into two sets and move the points into two equal sized spheres

I took this as saying that it is easy to split the sphere into an infinte number of (I implicitly assumed) non null sets and recombine them in two spheres, to which I disagreed that it is hard to do so using only rotations.

But I guess what you meant is that you can build a bijective mapping S^2 -> {0,1} x S^2 just like you can build one for R -> {0,1} x R.

I did not consider the extreme case of every element of your partition being allowed to be a single point.
Well that’s exactly the point.

There was another recent article here on cartels that suck small amounts of blood from lots of people. Too small for anyone to individually care but collectively a lot!

What’s particularly insulting is that credit scores are commoditized - they are free to go check. Technically it’s vantage score vs FICO but generally the same and definitely not worth $150.
I wish Amazon engaged in a recycling program for their boxes and packing materials. Since they're coming to my house anyways, why not take back the Amazon boxes that I've flatted and left on the stoop? Getting rid of plastic is A+ for Amazon, but let's keep this going.
I can get from 25 cent/kWh (Elektrizität Berlin) to 39 cent/kWh (N-Ergie). It is what you choose.
Show HN: GitHub Copilot for SQL
Copilot has proven quite handy as a "smarter Intellisense" tool for me. It often accurately predicts the arguments I need for functions, including their types. Occasionally, when I start typing `a.map(`, it automatically fills in the transformation code I intended to write. The key enabler is the ability to ignore most suggestion. They don't get in my way.

The simpler the task I'm working on, the higher the likelihood it gets it right. This is where I get the most benefit from Copilot, as I already understand what I'm coding, why I'm coding it, and how it should appear. Copilot sometimes saves me the 5-30 seconds it would take to write it manually. Over the course of a day, these saved moments add up.

But I always found myself turning to ChatGPT for help writing SQL. I would 1) run a query to get the schema. 2) Feed schema to ChatGPT. 3) Ask GPT to write my query. 4) Paste query into client. Solid results, but the workflow was not great with lots of copy and paste and multiple apps.

I work at Hoopdev, an infrastructure access gateway and we happen to have a build-in web client. Therefore our language server has a REST API that we could hook to GPT4. But our first attempt failed. We tried the Ask AI box UX, which only solved half the problem: providing the schema as context. Not getting the way was still missing. The bad suggestions required another prompt to get fixed.

Therefore we went on to build the copilot experience [0], but the opposite of Github copilot happened: most suggestions are good. This is because the only context for writing SQL is the database schema and what you want to do, all the model has to do is translate your english query to another language (SQL) using a small context (schema), as opposed to full codebases.

Hoopdev's client is web-based, because of that you can try it in 15 seconds. After signing up you get a demo Postgres ready to be queried in the web [1]. If you don't wanna sign up, run it yourself and use your own OpenAI keys [2]. Please let me know what you think. any feedback is welcome. Is this helpful? Do you know/use a better alternative for SQL?

0. https://hoop.dev/blog/introducing-an-ai-powered-query-builde...
1. https://hoop.dev/start
2. https://hoop.dev/docs/deploy/AWS
This is incorrect. The "authors" of the article also run Energy-Charts.info where you can see how much was imported/exported. In all of 2023 Germany imported just 0.4TWh net electricity from France. Most of the import imbalance came from Denmark, Norway and third place Sweden the only other country with a significant nuclear percentage. The numbers are skewed by last winter when Germany did most of the exports to France, but at the same time it will continue to increase renewables capacity and decrease the imports.

In general I don't see a problem. Germany doesn't want nuclear because it considers it a bad deal. France thinks it's good so it sells it to Germany, and Germany buys it because it's cheaper than producing from coal domestically. Everyone should be happy.

https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...
No one is quitting their job to just be on unemployment. Unemployment benefit is funded by unemployment tax on both corporations and individuals. The unemployment benefit for CA is $40 to $450 per week. (You still have to pay income tax on that) Its much lower in conservative states. Its enough to smooth things out but not enough to live off of, you are still going to be digging into savings. Additionally you have to provide proof that you are looking for jobs ever week. Its not like I can take a holiday in europe and still collect.
> wouldn't this more or less apply to any product any large company is selling as part of a bundle?

That’s absolutely the basic idea of antitrust.

Using dominance in Market A to get advantage in market B
It's very easy to use any pytorch or tensorflow packages, or open3d, pcl, librealsense or similar vision packages. Powerful enough to do realtime vision tasks, which you certainly cannot do with 2€ boards.
Call me crazy, but have you tried asking Yahoo?

Worst that can happen is they quickly say no, but you never know. Something that old and irrelevant to their current operations, maybe they would open source the old code. Or maybe they deleted it years ago. But you won't know unless you ask.

I am curious what you would want with it? Geocities was coded so early in the history of the web that odds are that code isn't anything that you'd run again today.
Coming from Rust, there's still something about those Nickel error messages that don't read as well for me. They're much better than Nix for me, but weirdly they still read a bit busy. Maybe it's just my brain heh.. i can't explain it.

Nonetheless I still am just dying to switch to Nickel from Nix though. I am so tired of not having types in my config language, crappy documentation available to my LSP, etc. The wait for Nickel has been long for me
> This cartel will never be broken up. Too much money goes into the politicians pockets to move for break-up.

They said this about Bell Telephone at one time too.
> how stupid it was with comments like yours

Why ad hominem attacks? I didn't do it to you.
The web site you link to says information about Afghanistan was leaked, and no informant names published.
Trying to make the same transition right now. I’ve got almost 10 years experience with python and data engineering and I’ve been reading tutorials and playing with projects on the side.

I think I’ve got a grasp of the fundamentals and the ability to learn fast on the job, but every MLE job listing I see wants “4+ years of experience training and deploying models in a production environment” or something (even non-Senior roles!). I’m not sure how to break into it, to acquire a MLE job to get the experience to acquire an MLE job. Does anyone have any advice?
The highest rate of psychopathy I've experienced was amongst technologists thrust into leadership positions; they believe that people are tools, and thus reduce them to numbers, that everything can be operationalized and optimized, including the human mind.

It's a spiderman-pointing-meme. Workers blame management who blame workers ad infinitum.

Both workers and managers need to understand how to break that cycle and it's through leadership – which isn't something that is correlated with altitude in the org chart.
Remotely reminds of Joyent Slingshot. Oh, how times have changed.
So we can expect that MoPop (Formerly The Experience Music Project) has no safety net at this point also I suppose...

It's hard for me to imagine building Museums and other cultural organizations during your lifetime with the expectation that it would be dismantled after your death.

If these really were his wishes, that's very disappointing.
Yeah that's why the only and best way to send packages here is the USPS.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40790414
I don't know how it works in the US (and I assume it might be different state by state), but in many countries in Europe this is already the case.

For example: if you get fired today you are entitled to a benefit if you have worked at least X months out of the last Y months. X and Y must be chosen carefully of course.
I see why you have this assumption, yet we have 20+ years of data proving that a private bureau can actually compete, flourish and innovate while serving majority of the reports while gov-run bureau ensures that prices stay manageable.
Yeah, I gave up after a few minutes. If you insist on wasting my time by packing almost each sentence in bombastic sounding oratory (and failing!), give me a transcript to read instead, or I'm out of here.
No, physicists do not think that space is like a tinily subdivided grid. Lots of physics would break if that were the case, including QM.

We have a lot of hints that the amount of information in any given space might be bounded, but yet that space appears continuous. How exactly you reconcile this is (one of) the mystery of quantum gravity.
I would kill myself in that life. I guess if people like that, just give them some money and don’t let them interfere too much with people who are less inclined to such a depressing lifestyle.
Optimizing Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) for Speed and Scale
That's definitely not our intention: the output of all Community projects is by default Apache 2.0 licensed, unless the developer specifies a different one.

The community plan does have commercial use restrictions; it's designed for education, demos, and research. We have a pretty good presence in the academic community with tons of papers, code, and projects developed using our community version.

Here's a Google Scholar search showing a bunch of papers:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=%22edge+impulse...

We also have our own public sharing platform:

https://edgeimpulse.com/projects/overview
There's internal cameras that are periodically checked.

Not appealing for me personally.
Cool, thanks for the additional context!

As someone who is a Nix beginner and struggles with the language, I'd love to see an alternative that's easier to use.

Is Nickel at the point where it is a viable alternative for Nix than the Nix language? Is there any documentation about configuring Nix with Nickel?
I love infinite scroll, and hate pagination. All lists should be some combination of these: infinite scroll, filterable, sortable. Pagination should never be involved. If I want to get to something on page 2, I scroll. For anything else, I’m going to sort and filter.

If the thing I want is on page 17, and I see 1, 2, 3…79…159, 160, 161, I’m still just going to want to filter. The absolute best pagination is set up in a way that lets you binary search drill down for what you’re looking for, but even that is something I’d almost never prefer over filtering
The True History of "The Rule of Thirds"
Perhaps - as in most developed countries - the point shouldn't be whether or not the applicant 'deserves' unemployment benefits. But rather, whether they can afford to live without them.
"Everything revolves around NATO and deepening military
partnerships with neighbours (e.g. Germany and the
Netherlands have a bunch of shared, integrated units).
here is no EU military, but there are mutual defense
pacts, and the development of a real EU military is
something that is being pushed for by Germany."

That sounds counter to what you said above

"reduces their dependence on fossil fuels from Russia, the USA and the middle east, shifting those dependencies from rivals to their closest allies"

The US is one of their closest allies. It appears you are conflicting yourself.
A large part of the cost of title insurance is because the current system of tracking such things is such a massive mess. If you massively reduce the likelihood of issues cropping up by having actually good systems in place, you don't need to hire the teams of people to actually look into the properties and find the irregularities and end up still missing things from time to time.

Just query the database. Are there any liens registered? No? It is clear then. Anyone that failed to properly file it in the database is just out of luck.

Insurance on something that constantly sees catastrophe is far more expensive than insurance on something that rarely ever sees problems.
Amazon has plenty of odor detectors for ~$50: https://www.amazon.com/odor-detector/s?k=odor+detector

I assume there are sensors available suitable for Waymo taxis.
A simpler solution to #2 would be to raise minimum wages.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-walmart-mcdon...

> Around 70% of people on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food stamps and Medicaid work full-time, the watchdog found, and the majority of these worked for larger companies with 100 or more staff.

So no, you can be gainfully employed in the US and still be on food stamps.
Yeah, but 1.5 bit isn't here, so they're not really late
There are cheating devices that simulate hands on the wheel. If FSD becomes good enough they could go from suicidal to popular. Regulators wouldn't be able to stop illegal aftermarket modifications for obvious reasons. I still think Waymo will win, but this is how I think a Tesla victory would look.
> It's not a coincidence that the German prime minister from the era when they decided to phase out nuclear now works for Gazprom and Rosneft.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schröder
This debate, like so many other economic debates (welfare, health insurance, what to do about homelessness, taxation policy, school funding, etc.) seems to really be venues for proxy debates between consequentialist and deontological ethics. The two major positions inevitably end up being specific formulations of, "We think that this might be best for everyone on average," and, "We're worried some benefits might go to people who don't deserve it and/or be paid for by taking money away from other people."

Both are legitimate ways of thinking about it, and centuries of moral philosophy have failed to adequately reconcile these two ways of approaching social issues. So I can't imagine this will ever be definitively settled. (Maybe it shouldn't be. Ursula K. LeGuin gets my respect for being author of both The Dispossessed and The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas.) But I think that failing to recognize that that's the core of the issue dooms people to endlessly, uselessly accomplish little more than talking past each other.
Hard disagree - your entitlement should be based on need, not social status. So your previous employment shouldn't factor in at all.
Mine was the Anal-Retentive Chef

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBQAwLuuDo0
I'm out of the loop on Lunduke but all the haters here have me intrigued.
I would say couch potato. a body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, so I think someone already working is more likely to change jobs, put pressure on the employer etc. Couch potato IMHO is much less likely over time to change his situation, let alone join union, be part of some change etc.
if ls returned json then it would have to decide what to do with non-utf8 filenames (or even users and groups, I do not know what the rules are there); it could reture either "filename.txt" or {"encoding":"base64", "data":"<base64 blob>"} to obviate the problem but it is not a very elegant solution
You're very confused.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/poverty-awareness-mo...
Waymo has a video of you, your full name, your billing address and your credit card on file.

The future is awesome
Conflict of interest, wrong incentive.
Germany does pay 12 month of unemployment benefits (at 60% of previous salary with a cap).

If you quit (rather than being fired), you don't get benefits for the first 12 weeks.

This is an okay balance in my mind.
This is an economics problem: if the cost of energy is lower or equal to the benefit of consuming it, the energy will be consumed. As more and more energy is consumed to run these datacenters, price of energy will go up, and datacenters will learn to either be more efficient, or will pass on these costs to their users who will learn to be more efficient. Of course, there might be inefficiencies like subsidies and monopolies that distort the market for energy for a while, but in the long run, this is a self-fixing problem.
Even in blue states unemployment benefits aren't... super generous. As with abusing SSI I suspect most folks proposing this approach haven't tried living on it.

The current setup has bad incentives, too; you can make someone miserable with the goal of forcing a quit instead of firing them.
Straightforward tool for managing documentation that includes code snippets
When I maintained the https://loco.rs project, I often encountered issues with documentation not keeping up with code changes.

To address this, I developed the snipdoc tool, which significantly improved the project's ease of maintaining and validating the docs as part of our CI.

I would love to hear your feedback.
Thanks!
You’d have to figure out how to curtail abuses, but generally “yes.”

This is a good counterbalance to companies that get “creative” with RTO mandates as backdoor layoffs to avoid paying out unemployment.
> Coal is providing a very different form of energy, used with very different applications.

What are those? Nuclear and renewables uses are indeed very different. Nuclear and coal for base load -- not so much. At least this is what I heard for decades. I would be interested to read a refutation.
This sounds like using the existing unemployment system to hack in UBI and universal healthcare.
Germany has I think around 80GW of capacity in coal plants so it can cover its own needs just from that if push came to shove. In terms of national security, nuclear plants are their own security risk, as evidenced in the Ukraine now.