skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made this bookmarklet, which will speak highlighted text in the browser regardless of platform. It also makes the initial letters of each word bold. This is the code:

javascript:void function(){ javascript:(function(){ var selection = window.getSelection().toString(); if (!selection) { alert("Please select some text on the page."); return; } var encodedSelection = document.createElement("div"); encodedSelection.textContent = selection; var processedContent = encodedSelection.innerHTML.replace(/\n/g, " <br></br> "); var words = processedContent.split(" "); var formattedText = ""; var speechContent = ""; for (var i = 0; i < words.length; i++) { var word = words[i]; var chunkSize = Math.floor(word.length / 3) + 1; var boldPart = "<span style='font-weight:bolder'>" + word.substring(0, chunkSize) + "</span>"; var lightPart = "<span style='font-weight:lighter'>" + word.substring(chunkSize, word.length) + "</span>"; var formattedWord = boldPart + lightPart; if (word.endsWith(".")) { formattedWord += "<span style='color:red'> *</span>"; } formattedText += formattedWord + " "; speechContent += word + " "; } var newWindow = window.open("", "_blank"); newWindow.document.write("<html><head><title>Spoken Content</title></head><body><input type='range' min='0.1' max='10' value='1' step='0.1' id='rate-slider'><p id='content' style='background-color:#EDD1B0;font-size:40;line-height:200%25;font-family:Arial'>"%20+%20formattedText%20+%20"</p></body></html>");%20var%20rateSlider%20=%20newWindow.document.getElementById("rate-slider");%20var%20utterance%20=%20new%20SpeechSynthesisUtterance(speechContent);%20rateSlider.addEventListener("input",%20function()%20{%20utterance.rate%20=%20rateSlider.value;%20window.speechSynthesis.cancel();%20window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);%20});%20window.speechSynthesis.speak(utterance);%20})();}();

Also: https://pastebin.com/zuRVpiVh
The Russians haven't lost a vehicle.
TL;DR: Rewatching this trilogy is a cultural inception.

Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy (French: Trois couleurs, Polish: Trzy kolory)

- Three Colours: Blue (1993)

- Three Colours: White (1994)

- Three Colours: Red (1994)

. . .

Rewatching the Three Colours trilogy rewards with an ever deeper appreciation — Kieślowski's nuanced storytelling, interconnected narratives, and recurring symbols become more apparent and meaningful, with each viewing revealing new layers of meaning in the films' themes of liberty, equality, and fraternity, explored through irony and ambiguity.

Rewatching allows for a greater appreciation of how music, color, and composition work together to evoke specific emotions and convey complex ideas, enabling a richer understanding of their cultural context and how Kieślowski subtly critiques and plays with the political ideals of the French Republic.

Kieślowski's work is rich with subtle connections between characters and storylines across the trilogy. For instance, the brief appearances of characters from other films, like Karol's courtroom scene in Blue, create a cohesive narrative universe that rewards attentive viewers. These cross-film connections highlight the director's meticulous planning and the philosophical underpinnings that run through the trilogy.

Each film’s unique perspective on its respective theme – Blue as an anti-tragedy, White as an anti-comedy, and Red as an anti-romance – allows for various interpretations, making the trilogy an ideal subject for repeated viewings. Several rewatchings let viewers see beyond the surface narrative and explore the deeper existential questions Kieślowski poses about human connections, fate, and the meaning of freedom, equality, and fraternity.

In my experience, few film series reward multiple viewings as richly as Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy. It's so layered that every rewatch feels like a new conversation with a brilliant, nuanced filmmaker -- a cultural inception.

. . .

If you enjoy the director, see also La double vie de Véronique (English: The Double Life of Veronique, Polish: Podwójne życie Weroniki) exploring themes of identity, love, and human intuition, through the lives of a Polish singer and French music teacher who are "doubles".

Of course, the connection Kieślowski explores is not just about the modern relationship between these countries, steeped in centuries of shared history and cultural exchange, but even more how European nations, despite their "alternate timelines" through history, share common human experiences and values today.
Crazy to think they would have had to be saved by Russia were it not for SpaceX.
I comment for fun, and this thread has stopped being fun.
> I thought Reagan beat that with his war on drugs?

Reagan in South Korea? Are you reading only half of the words in each sentence?
US access to Taiwanese chip makers isn’t hobbled.

Taiwan doesn’t consider itself part of China.

So the US view is in line with the practical facts on the ground.

And China wouldn’t need to saber rattle if they had credible “alternate” facts or didn’t feel they were the ones “hobbled”.
> An entire civilization can be built with this methodology. It would be a much better one than the one we have now.

No, it wouldn't. Trust is an optimization that enables civilization. The extreme end of "verify" is the philosophy behind cryptocurrencies: never trust, always verify. It's interesting because it provides an exchange rate between trust and kilowatt hours you have to burn to not rely on it.
You mean neuroscientists hawking powder made from desiccated leaves and stems aren't actually experts in nutrition? ;)
GDScript is really nice! It’s a 99% clone on Python with some extra lovely functional programming features added that make it much, much nicer than Python. Try it, it’s really fun to use.

Or, just code in C#, which has complete API support.
The Energiewende was expensive because it supported PV over 2009-2012 when it was much more expensive than today.

The Energiewende was an enormous success, because that success was instrumental in providing demand that drove PV manufacture down an accelerating experience curve. PV is now much MUCH cheaper than it was then and this impetus is a big reason why.

Nuclear in China is sputtering compared to their renewable rollout.
the problem with this argument is that we've been hearing it for the last 40 years - we could have had multiple generations of nuclear by now if it wasn't for the nimbys.
> This is a centralist argument.

It’s a French writer and not a very convincing one from my point of view after reading some of his other articles.

He seems to view things through a very French prism so expects strong statism and ecology dominated by a mostly alter-mondialist view when it’s not openly Trotskyist.
Not sure what you referred to directly, but GPT-4o gives me these two similar quotes:

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
- Tacitus (Roman historian)

"Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime."
- Lavrentiy Beria (head of Stalin's secret police)
There’s no _crime_, presumably, but far less clear that there’s no civil case.
This reminds me of all the times a manager asked if I (backend dev) could 'just do a little interface for xyz'

Like what do you expect from me? I would be rendering these docs in a w3 emacs frame...
So kubernetes has been around for more than gen years now and the argument doesn’t look at way to “just doing the bare minimum” and get the best of both worlds as long as you’re okay with spending a bit more.

Dumb idea: launch an eks cluster ok aws (managed control plane, little to no mgmt time + painless upgrade) and just create a nodegroup with one node.

You get all the benefits of kubernetes and you can upgrade the underlying machine with no downtime (add a new node to the node group, drain the old node, delete old node)
ParadeDB pg_search supports tokenizers in all major languages
r/politics is known for leaning heavily Left. There are a bunch of new subreddits popping up like r/inthenews that if you comment or post anything not leaning Left OR if you are a member of r/Conservative then you will be banned. If you try to use a separate account to bypass the ban then both accounts will be automatically banned by Reddit for 7 days. There is no appeal.

I was banned from r/Damnthatsinteresting, for example, because they said r/Conservative supports abortion. I have never seen that. It’s mostly just Trump leaning articles.
I believe when a bunch of ex-Goldman's were at BofA (they move from bank to bank, trying to re-implement SecDB [1]), they were creating their own time series database as well.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/understanding-secdb-goldman-sac...
Space applications cannot, of course, provide any justification for imposing nuclear on terrestrial markets.
This sounds very cool. I too am exploring RL these days. Would you like to share more about your learning path@
Exactly the same thing happened to us. Accounts suspended, no information or recourse.
Keeping it in Postgres avoids needing to denormalize the data, which is a big pain point. ParadeDB pg_search is based on Tantivy, a Lucene-inspired library, so in some ways it allows you to both benefit from a Lucene-based system and also keep it in Postgres
> What details are you assuming Telegram are sitting on, besides the data law enforcement already collected?

Message contents (vast majority of TG chats are not E2EE) and additional metadata seem pretty desirable?
From a defense perspective, Ukraine has shown that power plants are a vulnerable asset. Even sidestepping war, power plants represent a centralized risk that renewables could conceivably mitigate.

On the other hand there’s a little uptick in France’s nuclear power at the very end of the article, at the very end of the graph, that represents one of the key benefits of nuclear. Even with the huge push by Germany to go renewable, they didn’t have enough power to survive when the Russian gas got shut off and they had to import France’s nuclear. It just makes so much damn power.
Free pdf (50mb): https://10print.org/10_PRINT_121114.pdf
This seems to be a case of Westerners making excuses to screw up their economies.

The Japanese and Koreans have reduced the times for building power plants to 5 years and have even built some in 4.

This sounds like the Western worlds manufactured problems like trans issues and other such nonsense.

What happens to solar in the case of Krakatoa or a Sumatra volcanic event?

Why depend on unreliable weather to produce stable energy?

We are told over and over again that climate change implies weather disruption, so why depend on unreliable weather to produce reliable energy in the long term?

The Western world basically offloaded a lot of its own pollution to China then turned round to claim that they are making progress in achieving the green targets.

I mean the US spend trillions waging war in the Middle East, and yet couldn't invest the same amount on carbon-free energy, nuclear or otherwise. The West have become a joke.
It is: https://www.mactrast.com/2024/04/whatsapp-signal-threads-and...

Still possible to access with VPNs, though.
Wind turbines are beautiful. Solar panels on roofs are great too. Not sure why you think it’s one or the other.
We're really looking forward to Windows support - I don't think any Actions runners vendors supports Windows at the moment and we were looking at building our own runners as a result, but if this launches soon, we'd be very keen to try it out!
Great article but some benchmarks/profiling is missing.

FTS and trigram can perform quite poorly unless the data and indices are tuned properly.
SMRs are being touted because conventional large reactors are now painted into a corner. It's not that SMRs are good, it's that the larger ones are effectively dead in the west. SMRs still are in the running because their sales story has not yet been effectively debunked by experience.
If the rule of law is robust, we should abolish the police.

You are very mistaken. Democracy requires defense. Everyone can have its own stupid opinion, but that is not the point.

Actively sabotaging society via campaigns is something any sane democratic society should defend against (all western "social" media are relentlessly hit by troll bots and disinformation campaigns, funded by your favorite dictatorships like Russia and China).

It is no wonder that Twitter for example got in the hands of Apartheid Musk.

The paradox of tolerance, read it up. It is a __paradox__.
Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python
I love that you don't even need to write the rest of the comment! I bet even LLMs know where you were going :-)
Nuclear power has spent its entire life being forced into existence using subsidies.

A technology agnostic subsidy market for green power leads to exactly zero new nuclear power being built.

Thus the huge push from the nuclear lobby and fossil lobby loving a power source not generating a single kWh for 20 years to create targeted subsidies only for nuclear power.
Telegram is totally blocked in China
Probably more that lots of kids will try super hard to be good at sports. Being good at school carries a certain level of stigma and lots of kids who could be “smart” choose to slack instead.
Show HN: MetaDock – Productivity browser and window manager for Windows 10/11
Hey HN! This is a project I've been working on personally for over 3 years now.

MetaDock lets you create a grid layout of different browsers, native apps and/or games. These layouts are auto-saved, and restore seamlessly. You can have as many layouts as you want.

A collection of layouts is called a workspace, and restores to the same size/position across multiple monitors. You can switch between, export/import workspaces and much more.

NOTE: Apps and games must be running first to mount into MetaDock.

It also has its own browser engine, which allows it to create and control its own browser windows with some advanced functionality - such as the ability to sign in to the same website multiple times via multiple profiles.

A load of other features

Available right now for $1 for a limited time

https://www.metadock.net (goes to the steam page)

P.s. my video is old footage, it looks better and has more features than the featured video.
Already quite a while ago I was entertained by a particular British tabloid article, which had been "AI edited". Basically the article was partially correct, but then it went badly wrong because the subject of the article was about recent political events that had happened some years after the point where LLM's training data ended. Because of this, the article contained several AI-generated contextual statements about state of the world that had been true two years ago, but not anymore.

They quietly fixed the article only after I pointed its flaws out to them. I hope more serious journalists don't trust AI so blindly.
Well yes, that is what limited liability is. No argument there. We applied that concept to every industry and got fantastic results even though the absolute damage done by most industries is absurdly more than nuclear does. If you applied that exact logic to fossil fuels we'd never have made it to the industrial age. If you applied that logic to the industrial age we'd never have entered the industrial age, it was an OH&S disaster even before what happened to the health of the bystanders.

I'm not sure why we've looked at our collective history and decided the West's biggest mistake was ignoring the Luddites. The costs of nuclear are nothing compared to the potential we walked away from or even the costs we accept as part of standard day-to-day existence.
ADHD is largely an expression of dopamine misregulation actually.
I always think of God Hates Us All by Slayer. Can't quite pinpoint exactly why.
You may not agree that facts are better than opinions, but here is one: Aaronson-Carroll’s paper on sophistication, downstream of your link,

is now 10 years’ in the making..

If you manage to access Hutter, let me know if I already know your public key ;)
How can you call "alt-right" and anti-vaxxers as "extremism", and especially compare it to terrorism?

Seems like you're the one living on a different planet.
I suspect this is a component of why the presumptive president is pushing the unrealized gains tax. If Elon were forced to produce tens of billions liquid he would have to sell shares of his companies, and perhaps IPO spaceX, allowing the government to more tightly control it.
Especially since design, and issues with, potential future space reactors have nothing to do with those of terrestrial ones, so there's next to no potential for technology transfer or sharing.
Existing nuclear power is cheap enough to be viable in some locales. In others huge subsidies are being pushed through.

The article talks about new nuclear power plants.

Neither of those companies are even close to breaking ground on any new nuclear power plant.
Id be interested to hear how often you have your team use this to also store historical backtest results as people iterate on strategies.
I love this film, despite the hate, and despite its flaws, despite a few missed opportunities ... It's very progressive: it's completely different from what's gone before and opens up possibilities for future directions. It's a great film, though perhaps a better science fiction/horror film than an ALIEN film.
They have not started to do it. No nuclear power plant has been constructed for them. Nor have any even started construction. The article you linked to is purchase of power from an existing nuclear plant. This would be a fine precedent if one can build additional power plants for free, with all construction costs sunk. But the Nuclear Fairy is not available to wave her magic wand and present us with such free power plants.
I wonder if part of this is also not wanting to list all of the pre-requisites that are at least partly needed.
Why someone would want an imperative distro over a declaratively configured one?
I read the book on GE, Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric. I guess many things apply to Boeing too.
Trying to innovate digital language learning by building actual learning games, not just gamified apps.

Currently experimenting with a game build around the old classroom method of Total Physical Response — you can see a very early prototype here: https://kolja-sam.itch.io/the-tpr-game-gala
SMRs are well, a story. They don't exist and never will. Nuclear scales well with size, naturally meaning it scales poorly down. A small reactor is bound to be extremely uneconomic to run. They are just a distraction, not going to happen.
I am working on improving a system to inform citizens about the public benefits for which they are eligible [0]. It's hold by Barcelona City Council.

It analyzes the social situation of a person, or group of people that live together, and forecasts those benefits that they could access. It is an old base code that uses OpenFisca for the back, and React for the front. However, it's quite fun though. Currently I'm working on make it more stable as there are still some parts that could break the process.

[0] https://lesmevesajudes.barcelona.cat/
Authoritarian state still keeping a toe in for military and pragmatic reasons. With communistic 5 year plan system you can through sheer force build a few reactors to keep the option open.

For every passing year they’ve been pulling back their nuclear ambitions in favor of renewables.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/chinas-quiet-energy-revolution-t...
When I hear ECU, I think of Electronic Control Units for cars - EV would be Electric Vehicle then.
Nix is declarative, this one is imperative.
who told you that?
Sure. What if we remove the nonsensical barriers and then let it fail on its own in the market? Like, say it only has to be 2x safer than the next safest popular form of energy? That always seemed like a reasonable compromise to me. A radical reduction in the standard of safety we hold nuclear to.
Love the design and your way of communicating!! You just made me a fan of you and your product.

My personal flow to love your product was:
1. I was intrigued to click this HN due to an initial feeling of the product must be more interesting than the HN title due to all the attention, so let’s check it out.
2. Once on the site I was feeling “finally someone who dares not having consensus driven design”.
So please keep on daring!!
3. I thought “I know people who would love this design”.
4. Being a person often being asked to build friends’ sites and way to often having to say no due to: the time it takes, the inflexibility and the price for running with your own domain being annoyingly high for a small business, I started looking for answers on your landing page. You seem to be offering just that! As a dev I can do things quick, that look good and don’t cost a lot.
5. I started reading the this HN thread and was amazed by how genuine and down to earth you seem.

All in all you just got a big fan in me. I’ll try out the prodigy, have patience with its imperfections and if you keep on communicating with the people signing up in a similar fashion to this HN thread, I think you’ll have a big amount to fans eager to push you and your product forward.
"Management" is short hand for the Jack Welch wannabe MBA try hards. Not middle management.

From my limited experience with megacorps, and lots of reading, persons Director level and up are bat guano insane. Execs live in their own separate Machiavellian fantasy world bubble. Any nod to reality (eg rocket go boom) is a selfown for corporate ladder climbers.

Any productive work at an org like Boeing, post infection by MD's leeches, is in despite of "managagement"'s best efforts.
https://defguard.net/ - open-source SSO service built with rust on top of wireguard & OIDC. It's been a lot of work but we're slowly gaining traction and nearing the 1.0 release.

Some of the features:

* OpenID Connect based Identity Provider
* OpenLDAP synchronization - currently supporting users and groups synchronization
* MFA with TOTP, email, WebAuthn / FIDO2, crypto wallets
* wireguard client GUI integrated with OIDC, supporting multiple locations (https://defguard.net/client)
* secure enrollment & onboarding
* yubikey provisioning

Currently we're working on external OIDC providers integration.

Our github: https://github.com/DefGuard

(edit: formatting, github link)
What is the complication in West Bank? It is under occupation by all means. And also under apartheid. Occupying West Bank completely might also be just fringe ideas, that are not worth paying attention to?
Is it the complication of Smotrich price-tagging Palestinians by creating as many illegal occupations as the number of countries recognising the Palestinian people's lives?
> France has lost more annual kWh from nuclear than Germany since 2011

Maybe because we are forced to buy renewable energy (this summer nuclears plants were offline because of overproduction).

Also because Germany fund anti nuclear movement in france to sabotage our nuclear industry: https://www.ege.fr/sites/ege.fr/files/media_files/German_Int...

Author stats also doesn't include projection for 2024, where France exported a record amount of energy, and nuclear recovered from the maintenance schedules issues due to covid. The currently amount produced is already greater than 2022.

Germany also imported 9TWh this year because of the weather. Germany energy grid profit of the stability of it's neighbor.
Kind of a noob question, is it possible to design a GAN type network with LLM, where one (or many) LLMs generate outputs, while a few other LLMs validate or discriminate them and thus improving generator LLMs accuracy.
You should send an invoice to China, that fueled mistrust about vaccines via disinformation campaigns in the west on "social" media . [1]

(Do not take notice that China vaccinated their own people though, or the cognitive dissonance might be too much).

__

1. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-china-covid-disinformation-ca...
That article is about Amazon buying electricity from a 40+ year old nuclear plant[1] which will operate for another 20 or so years.

Hardly what one could call financing the construction of new nuclear power plants.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susquehanna_Steam_Electric_Sta...