skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:raises-hand: I tracked down one person after finding an old comment where they linked to a GH project, from there I found them on mastodon. I can't remember if they linked to it or if it was just username reuse (same profile pic as well). Then PM'd them on mastodon. They got back to me a week later saying they had accepted another job already.
Those subsidies are the result of getting rid of the EEG surcharge. Before that, the EEG surcharge funded the entirety of the feed in tarrifs. When you consider the fact that the CO2 price was introduced a few years ago, it means that the government merely shifted the burden away from electricity consumers to CO2 polluters, but it also reclassifies the payments as a subsidy that has to be paid through taxes rather than surcharges.
This is a little off topic but why did you end your comment with ellipsis? What do you mean with its usage?
It wouldn't have to. 10k years ago, the sea level was way lower. At the end of the ice age, the sea rose by about 100m. The Dover strait was dry land during the ice age. So if those places were built long enough ago, they would have been over the sea level.
Gotcha, I guess I was asking whether people specifically opted in to contributing to beaconDB, sounds like that's the case
Ah yeah, I've implemented LRU caches this way (hash map with an intrusive linked list overlayed on the values) but didn't put 2 and 2 together :)
At least no one notices when you only think in lowercase.
Long overdue: I'm all for subsidizing renewables, let's down them in money. But the way it's currently done in Germany erases all incentive to tap low hanging fruit in dispatchability. Which has lead to the ubiquitous biogas setups (capture methane that's created in the agricultural refuse>fertilizer cycle anyways and burn it for heat and electricity) all getting designed for continuously burning exactly the amount produced, instead of adding a little overcapacity in conversion throughput and the little short term gas storage that would be required to follow the intraday cycle. This would be easy enough, but the reality is that those biogas systems in Germany now run baseload with even less dispatchability than nuclear.
Bread has become more expensive over time too. I still buy it.
Well, Germany is now at around 65% of renewable power and is set to go coal-free in a few years. These concerns are outdated.
(They ain't worth 3T for no reason, unfortunately :)
A relatively famous example of the extent to which Indiana Bell went to avoid disrupting telephone service: rotating and relocating its headquarters over a few weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Building_(Indianapolis)
I love the questions the writer presents to effectively manage the psychological and personal dimensions of solo development:

1. How much time can I afford to spend on this without feeling bad?

2. What can obstruct me from finishing this within that time?

3. How am I going to avoid these obstacles?
> I am thinking of making a scaled down version of [1] so I can "talk" to long videos, like conference speeches or university lectures. Should take an hour or two to cook it up since it will reuse most of the code from [1].

This would be useful to me as well. If you do end up making it, could you reference it on your existingGithub
I have some confusion how a dynamically typed interpreted language that allows nulls interfaces with something that expects types, null safety, and ultimately is compiled.
Very cool. Since this is compiled to wasm can this run in the browser? It would be interesting if it could and still make fetch requests without attaching cookies to the request.
Probably not possible for the first several years, with limited bandwidth.
Maybe they could use sneakernet for periodic updates.
Drink a shot if you've heard this before:

> The EBA [European Banking Authority] is concerned that off-balance sheet exposures could become a problem for banks if large non banks need to access credit lines simultaneously.
Amara's law : We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

The AI revolution has only just started. The web took years to really find its feet.

Anyone who is calling AI a fizzer is calling the end of the race when the horses have just started out of the gate.
It's very polished:

"ALIEN is an artificial life simulation program that runs on a GPU. Its simulation code is written entirely in CUDA and highly optimized for large-scale real-time simulations of millions of bodies and particles (see the links for more information). This channels features real-time captures of simulations and technical demonstrations of the latest version."
What's an HOA President? A quick search didn't enlighten me (all the results just use the abbreviated form) but it doesn't seem to matter, so I'm going to continue under the assumption that HOA stands for "horticultural-ornithology association".

It sounds like this person did something wrong. Sincere apologies can help.
But if your goal is to "pacify the masses" and "make amends so to speak", then the apology won't be sincere.

An insincere apology and/or lying can be successful, depending on the goal, of course. I wouldn't "advise" someone to go down that path, though.
The only grid storage that matters at scale is pumped hydro. Everything else is literally a drop in the bucket. And you can't practically scale pumped hydro beyond what's there now.
That comparison lacks as France heavily subsidizes nuclear energy as well. At the same time having to demolish and rebuild multiple reactors. Nuclear energy was never cheap.
I don’t have the numbers but I doubt that France made the better net-deal.
Legend has it that the missile turret operator and hurl a load further than a devourer.
I think you're right. But I still think the quote from Graham is terrible writing: confusing, brittle, convoluted, almost as if it was designed to hide something from readers and manipulate them into a different understanding than what it actually claims.

The quote is, as you explain, technically correct due to its use of "always". Take this word away and the sentence is correct English, but the meaning now is incorrect (and would match the interpretation of the comment you replied to). Making the correctness hinge so directly in the subtlety of the presence of the quantifier makes the sentence brittle and convoluted.

It feels almost manipulative, as if the writer hopes the reader won't inspect the sentence so closely (and thus will miss this subtlety) and will understand something slightly different ("if you don't write, it's impossible to have clear thoughts"), so that the conclusion sounds much stronger. And readers do get the incorrect interpretation, as evidenced by the comment you replied to, which attacks the misunderstanding of that sentence.

So while I fully agree with you, I still think the sentence quoted is an example of terribly unhelpful and confusing writing. Especially because the full premise "writing down your ideas _always_ makes them more precise and complete" is debatable (you just need to find one counterexample).

(Incidentally, my recollection of Graham's writing is that this type of misleading sentences (that are technically correct but appear to say something else, something that isn't), as if they were deliberately cultivated.)

A much better sentence would be something like:

* "Writing down your ideas is great to make them more precise and more complete. It's hard to have fully formed ideas about a topic without writing about it." This matches the understanding of a quick glance of the sentence.

* "Writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and complete." Closer to the actual meaning, but doesn't do a slight of hand to hide the main point.
> One thing that we have, these days, is the luxury of believing that we have a right to be happy in our jobs.

That's one way to look at the common job requirement of "passion." Drink the Flavor Aid!
AI will always be far better at languages than I'll ever be and I expect it to get much better very quickly. But I'm still learning my partner's language and don't think I'll stop any time soon. I think it's interesting and fun in and of itself. It's also a great scaffold for learning about another culture and learning to respect and understand folks from different walks of life.
Solar and wind were too expensive twenty years ago. Nuclear was the only option back then. Everyone should have done nuclear but they didn't. But it's not twenty years ago right now. France is the way France is because of decisions they made decades ago. Given none of us have access to a time machine, the best decision is to pursue the most cost effective and fastest to deploy technology today, which is solar and wind.
I like "Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance." Thanks!

BUT...

Do you believe that the cohort in the "Associated Individuals" section of that article produce that respectable thinking?
Why would you compare bottom US to only Western Europe? Also, do you have a source on your claim? I’m skeptical that the US bottom 10% have it worse than “most or even almost all people from Western Europe”
I think “floating” units also have a different movement behaviour. They move a lot more like flying units. Do they also stack and transit through each other? I don’t recall.
A boss doesn’t need to be technically competent to a degree that they make important technical decisions. They just need to understand things to a degree so they can trust and delegate.

And tust is a two way street. It requires effort from both sides.
Coal-free, but how much gas?
I love projects such as this. Although I don't know how successful they're in actually getting new insights - artificial life was the reason I wanted to study informatics.
You are correct that most of Western Europe is ahead at the first decile, but you are incorrect to imply that it’s at the top 1% that the advantage goes away. In fact, the US meets the richest EU countries at the 50th percentile (meaning the median person is equally better off) and at the 90th percentile, you are much much better off in the US - it’s not comparable. The fact is, for everyone middle class (not by a local definition of middle class - literally middle) or above, the US will have you significantly better off. https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68...
It’s crazy how I assumed this was some kind of digital screen device for a solid 20-30 seconds before scrolling far enough to see the actual design.
Is there a specific treatment or pattern to make inside of tube less prone to reflections?
s/Italy/Greece. Virtually absent from mainstream cuisine
>You should just have a Martian Internet and then sync up the two every few hours or something.

the "internet" is just a network of computers. "sync up the two" would involve replicating the servers and coming up with some sort of consensus protocol. Needless to say, that's non-trivial to implement and needs to be done for each site individually. If there was a martian colony it might be economically feasible for some sites to do this, but if it's just a few astronauts the most feasible way of implementing internet browsing would be something like archive.today, where you send a url to some server on earth, the server runs a headless browser and takes a screenshot, and sends the captured contents back to mars/spacecraft.
> and indeed, much of what used to be fertile farmland in that part of the world is now desert from over-farming

Do you have a source for this?
What I find odd, is that moving between states in the US is relatively easy. Find a job and go.

But if a skilled English speaker wants to move to the Netherlands (whose population is smaller than Florida) or virtually any other European country, they’d have to be fluent in the local language. That’s a really high bar.

Seems like even for multi-lingual Europeans in the EU, this would still be challenging, especially for families. (Asking kids to suddenly attend school in a different language???)

Seems like Europe is the modern day Tower of Babel story.
Renewables are not truly CO2-free because sometimes the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing. And then renewable fans have to rely on peaker natgas plants, that emit CO2 (though less of it on a kWh basis than oil or especially coal).
November 2023: 18600€, 6.4kW solar, 8.7kW battery, inverter, installation, new electrical cabinet. The subsidy is the 19% VAT is free

Germany near NL.

Current energy price 0.25cents/kWh. Sunny days gives 40kWh of production with 50% of it being used. Current rate is 0.807cents/kWh when feeding back to the grid.
Apparently not a "real proverb" for those as gullible as me who assumed it was :-)
GreenArrays: Parallel Processing for Embedded Systems
Vengeful behavior can be gratifying in the short term, but in the long term I've never felt good about it.

Maybe you'll find the same.
There's more pumped hydro only because pumped hydro used to be the only option. But it's no longer the only option, so that state of affairs will change soon.
>TL;DR: YouTube Embeds are like 1.3MB in size with no shared resources between multiple embeds. Using a <lite-youtube> Web Component is more like 100k, does share resources, and sacrifices no functionality.

I would even go further and wonder why lite-youtube still requires 100K? And why they are not shared across different sites.
Cellular automata simulation that uses a 2D matrix of cells to generate effects
- https://github.com/acionescu/digitalfire
It's showing that they're at a loss for words from the fact that industry is exempt.
I've noticed a kind of schadenfreude feeling coming from the mainstream media recently with these posts about what's going on with the profits of AI.

They, for sure, won't be getting any. So going against it is probably where they can squeeze the maximum of eyeballs they will get from all the "revolution".

You have all become AI food. Resign to your fate, past overlords.
With a fat enough pipe and big enough cache web browsing could be doable with push based caching.

Counterstrike or zoom meetings? Not so much.
Because they were never taught why to prioritize.
Germany has actively shut down nuclear plants and as a result burns more fossil fuel, no?

As a percentage of total generation nuclear in Germany was never as high as France, but couldn’t they skip the 20 billion euro cost of a new plant and simply restart an existing one?
'HOA' = Homeowners Association: in the US, an organization in a subdivision, planned community, or condominium building that makes and enforces rules for the properties and residents.
Dams have killed tens of thousands of people, the latest incident 10 months ago killed 10000-20000 people, yet I always see people bring up how dangerous nuclear is.
Photovoltaics and batteries have been on a multi-decade exponential decline in cost. The world is installing about twice as much PV capacity every day in 2024 as it did in all of 2004. (1)

The dynamics are so crazy, anything you've read or learnt about this 2 years ago is already outdated.

Extrapolating this another 2 decades into the future, all of the world's primary energy consumption will be covered by PV.

Those subsidies, in particular those in Germany, have had an important role in enabling this.

Now, what Germany did with nuclear is still insane, and it's not all smooth sailing to a carbon free 2045, but I think that should pretty clearly help you understand why people think that way.

(1) https://www.economist.com/interactive/essay/2024/06/20/solar...
Let's say that Western society has rotted so bad for people with the "They Live" glasses that an interesting job is the least we could get.

But well, that's certainly not a "right", as you said.
Ok, then you're just wrong, just like you were wrong about my nationality and faith, and it's pointless to argue with you.
curl and git are amazing but they aren’t skyscrapers. Building a skyscraper, space shuttle, or integrated circuit is hard to organize even once, let alone to abstract over the process of organizing and building it so that it can be reproduced. I don’t think that problem is solved at all. And it’s not at all as simple as “just take the open source legos and slap a few of them together!”
Banks don't care if it's "cheaper than" some other form of power generation, they care that profitability is safe over a very long time span. If power prices crash 5 or 10 years from now because of renewables overcapacity (which is already happening regionally on sunny days with solar), profitability is gone.
Yes, I thought I just wanted to chill and listen to a song, but actually cutting-edge AI technology decided that I will have a better time listening to this car mechanic over-reacting to my favorite song, that he surely hears for the first time in his life.

Not to mention that our AI-overlords coming out swinging, with a billion of dollars research behind, couldn't figure out that if I'm looking for a live recording of a song, then maybe, just maybe, I actually know those other songs too and could search those if I wanted to. Let's give them a few years to go back to search results they had a few years ago.
Depends on the idea. To me the whole article was too generic or handwavy without giving specific examples of what kind of ideas are actually fully formed and which are not.

What is a definition of an idea that is fully formed and that is sufficiently complex enough?
If it were posted anonymously it would have been ridiculed or ignored.
You can go and use:
https://github.com/blahgeek/emacs-lsp-booster

…I hardly ever run into any performance issues anymore with lsp when using that. The author mentions it, and I use it with Doom every day with minimal issues.
Hello, fellow clusterhead!

I trust you’ve tried the usual treatments—Verapamil as a preventative, and 100% oxygen 10-15 L/min combined with injected Sumatriptan as an an abortive. I’ve gone from reducing my cluster periods from once a year like clockwork to no more than once every 2-3 years, and the periods have been shorter as well.

Hope you are well.
I find Feynman to sound almost rude or irritated at times when he answers questions. But I realized he’s fighting through the challenge of communication. And that might be what I learned most from the magnet question: that science and engineering communication is considerably more complex than one might think. It’s just so easy to hear a question, make twenty assumptions about the question, assume the question asker made the same twenty assumptions, and then to spend 10 minutes talking past each other.
Could you name these metrics?

Because, nuclear loses according to all of these metrics, for a start:

1. the cost of energy produced.

2. operational flexibility (ability to follow demand).

3. operational cost (the average nuclear plant in the US employs 750).

4. project risk

Pretty much everything beats nuclear on 1, 3 and 4 while gas turbines, batteries and hydro beat nuclear on 2.

It doesn't even win on the fuel cost metric, given wind turbines and solar PV have zero costs in this regard.
It's because it's a very new field. Few people would have ever thought diseases of the 'mind' could be related to the gut biome, so people are still actively researching exactly what is causing what. It's not because there's any question of whether this is an issue at all.

This is also an extremely important discovery, but it will have profound implications on modern health and diets. Everything from glyphosate to fake sugars has been argued to be harmless because we thought that they were largely inert. In reality they are having substantial impacts on the gut biome - the potential implications of this cannot be overstated, and so shooting wild and fast would be poorly advised.
If you like technology you could always slowly transition into teaching technology. Highschool programming courses, student robotics teams, etc might be fun?

Where Im from those programs and activity are usually ran by multiple teachers and need a lot more than hard science knowledge to run well. For you they could provide a on ramp into more and more tech without losing too much of what you have know
> The Solution is to Replicate the Embed Experience Another Way.

No, The Solution is to publicly shame Google Inc for wasting the resources.

When it would be on WSJ and The Guardian front page then, maybe, you would see the result.

Replacing the embed a one server/page is like pissing in the ocean - feels great, does nothing.
The Knotty Death of the Necktie
User side solution click 2 load for ublock users(note that chrome is transitioning to manifest v3 and might not work) is the following thanks to yokoffing/filterlists
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yokoffing/filterlists/main...
(Betterfox creator, he has other useful filters on github)

!||youtube-nocookie.com^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html,domain=~bing.com|~google.com|~duckduckgo.com|~video.search.yahoo.com
||youtube-nocookie.com/embed^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html,domain=~bing.com|~google.com|~duckduckgo.com|~video.search.yahoo.com
||youtube.com^$3p,frame,redirect=click2load.html,domain=~bing.com|~chatreplay.stream|~google.com|~duckduckgo.com|~video.search.yahoo.com
Still a bubble that will pop though. If only in the short term before things consolidate and mature as with so many other hypes.
Best technique I learned for this is to get good at remembering the points you made clearly, then counter-attacking using specifics, "oh so on [point X], what have you found to be the case?".

Basically you're trying to force them into positions where they reveal they don't know what they're talking about.

They'll then commonly start trying to squirm out of it by talking around the topic or using dishonest techniques. Each time you do, you just make sure to softly bring attention to the fact, in your very next response, that they haven't addressed your previous point, and the importance of it. You never let them sidestep or squirm away for a split second.

Their game is to go vague and talk shit, yours is to keep asking for details and pointing out why they're needed, revealing to others that they're a "fake it til you make it" idiot, until they either back off or others do something about them.

Doesn't work though if they're in a clear position of power over you, as this behavior is indicative either of stupidity or narcissism, and in which case you nod your head, and save your energy for breaking out.
Without you giving any context, was this "Insane HOA President Loses His Mind, Snaps Kid’s Fishing Rod For Fishing In Neighborhood Pond"? If it was, do they dispute the accuracy or context of that? (if they do, they could put up a rebuttal video or statement. If they don't, why should we accept the framing "HOA President is victim of internet shaming" rather than (say) "Teens expose criminal behavior by HOA President" or "Man claiming to be HOA President confronts teens fishing, breaks their rod").

Without knowing, asking "what would pacify the masses [on social media]" seems too vague.
Maybe to the tune of 15% or so, for now. With very gradual reduction to zero through 2050.
Same system, different actors. Johnson just exposed what was going on behind the scenes. Of course Sunak is similar in policies. So is Keir Starmer at least w.r.t. foreign policy.

Maybe he'll fix the library situation for positive PR, it doesn't cost much.
Nuclear power generation has been more or less flat since ~25 years, with overall growth of electricity generation. Solar and wind on the other hand...

Just look at the data:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by...
Reaction I: That was known six-ish decades ago, and did not require "AI". ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA )

Reaction II: In an "AI is your friend, at scale" world - there are gonna be a h*ll of a lot of powerful political and financial interests doing their d*mnedest to control or influence the AI "friends", as a way to control or influence the associated humans. (Ditto malicious states, cybercrime organizations, etc., etc.)

Reaction III: Except for the "AI companion" label, that #II looks awfully similar to right now, doesn't it?