skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[citation needed]

Lazard 2024, CAISO scenario: nuclear is cheaper compared to go with renewables + batteries (max 4 hours). It also does not take into account integration costs, such improving network connectivity.

It is quite ironic, because European Nordic countries do not want to build more network because of the crazy electricity spot prices that Germany has because of renewables. I live in Norway and no-one wants to further connect their electricity network to Germany, and the Swedish government blocked the construction of new connections. When Germany needs electricity, people in Oslo start to pay electricity even hundreds of times more, and when Germany has too much power from renewables, the energy price goes below zero, which means that German taxpayers are paying people from other countries to buy their discounted low value electricity, damaging the other producers. It is a terrible system, and it will only get worse without a good base load or accumulators that are not realistic for the foreseeable future.
If Germany had a stable electricity production with renewables+nuclear, it would be beneficial to strength the network, which would indeed be beneficial to renewables.

If there is a place which clearly show how the fight against nuclear caused damaged is Germany: ~700 b€ between investments and subsidies to renewables, has very high emissions in the energy sector, while being dependent on Russian gas (costed ~1500 b€ in the last years) and France export of nuclear energy, high and unstable energy prices, that contributed to an industrial crisis that made France more attractive (where electricity is cheap and stable), while still failing at reaching climate targets.

The alternative would have been to keep the existing reactors open, build new ones, for a grand total of ~36 b€.

Source: doi.org/10.1080/14786451.2024.2355642

The belief that renewables+batteries alone are the only solution (even in hard to abate sectors) is not supported by real world data, nor by simulations. IPCC scenarios clearly shows that there is the need of a nuclear+renewable mix to meet the climate targets. The report from JRC recommends the same.

Historically, German citizens have chosen to be reliant on fossil fuels and highly subsidized electricity to not use nuclear energy. I just hope that at Germany will stop blocking nuclear at the EU level if other countries have different opinions on that and rather prefer not to follow the demise of the German energy policy.
If a sufficiently large number of participants, with sufficient resources participate, then any open source project with sufficient utilization and value will receive funding.

Lots of “sufficients” in there, of course.
> Really, it could be much worse.

These are the official names for Germany. It does get worse!

My broader point is you can call yourself whatever you want, but you cannot tell others how to speak if they don’t agree.
The author is asking for a button that is accessible and got a button that is accessible. The system never claims to an expert in the subject matter, and yet still gets the ball in the hole.

The author didn't ask "give me the most basic button you can that a screen reader can still access."

The tool did what we expect and gave a reasonable answer, and was able to reason about why it gave those answers when questioned.

I don't see the problem.
> Hard to say about hollywood I guess bc its feels very subjective

It definitely is. But so was my iteration. A good chunk of the previous iterations of the culture war have been as well. A lot of my generation really didn't like how conservative the small towns we grew up in "felt", it felt oppressive and dumb.

> Either way, I just hope they/you get what you want.

Yeah, I'm not participating in this one. I missed a few years of the culture war during a raging alcoholic phase and both sides feel really foreign nowadays and kinda confusing. But I do occasionally like to pop a bag of popcorn and watch people fight.

> I used to be worried that this whole thing would spiral too much into violence

My guess is probably not much more than the 70s (and we're still a long way from that, there were ~2500 bombings in an 18 month period in 71 and 72), but it seems really unlikely to advance to civil war levels.
Ok great. Could you share the _whole truth_ then please? Could you discuss rocket attacks from Hezbollah? Massive tunnel networks and arms networks? Funding, military training, and arms coordination from Iran? The geopolitical implications of a weak Israel? The complicated connections with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

You’re just spouting one cherry picked narrative of an incredibly messy situation.
I think a large portion of America believes that the Second Amendment is functionally about guillotines.

When Barack Obama said, “my administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.” he was talking about a collapse that didn’t involve medical debt. 66.5% of personal bankruptcies do, and I’d wager half of those are related to United.
The US Fed came out with a stat a few years ago that 40% of Americans wouldn’t have cash to cover a $400 emergency: they’d have to sell something, borrow, or other.

That’s pretty much paycheck to paycheck if your savings are that low.
None of this prevents you from doing both inside the DB _and_ the app. That way you cover your bases that (1) your app is sound and has maximum amount of fail-early validations to avoid corrupted data states and (2) even if somebody decides to skip the app and try to be clever in a psql console they'll still not be able introduce corrupted data states and (3) leave the door open for other apps to be able to connect to the same DB and do stuff (or simply to allow for a rewrite in another language).
This is like saying that people deceived by false advertising should have to keep what they were tricked into buying.
Five simultaneous axis is unlikely for hobby anytime soon since it is export controlled ;)

Beyond that its seriously annoying to home and align a five axis machine. These machines would at least need absolute encoders to really be usable for hobbyists. Some do now but it's still pretty rare.
> There are clearly rules in places that force you to declare your voting budgets and where the money comes from. Seems pretty clear. So saying you spent 0€ and then have ads everywhere and _win_, is clearly illegal.

Is it though? It’s entirely possible that people who wanted him to win purchased ads to support him, possibly without his consent. This happens in most countries, including the US. That doesn’t mean he actually spent the money himself or had anything to do with the ads.
If you're using a CSS preprocessor like SCSS or LESS you can just define the height for the toolbar as a variable and then use the mask area for the blur as a multiplier (eg. 1.88) of that variable. In general for making things easy.to.maintain it's better to not build project-wide stylesheets with raw CSS.
> All the last decade has shown me is that democracy is far more fragile than any of us really realized. Populations are frighteningly easy to mislead and misinform en mass

This is absolutely the wrong lesson to take away from the events of the last decade. The whole point of democracy is that we don’t have a priestly class that gets to impose their views by fiat, like the Brahmins of ancient India.
> “I’ve noticed quality issues in your code recently that’s resulted in some rollbacks. Can we talk about how we can address that?”

That’s the first step in fixing the quality issues, not an end state. Reports don’t know what they don’t know, so step 1 is to get their ideas on how to fix quality issues.
https://www.unlistedjobs.com/

If you signup and want it free please just email me (listed on my profile). Currently asking $15/mo for the app
I once used `SELECT TOP 1` ... `ORDER BY NEWID()` to pick a record from a table of millions.

Millions of UUIDs generated! All so one would randomly be picked as the lowest valued and the attached record returned. Such a waste!
What BS is this even, What does this even mean?

> LLMs feel like the “kernel” of a new computing paradigm
The problem is attempting to optimize a noisy process. Instinctively people think they need to look at all the applicants.

Start interviewing people, and once you have enough people who pass your bar, you tell the rest tough luck.

Secretary problem.
I wonder how the dating world would go, given he's divorced, even before running out of money. I.e.: I think most women would immediately reject someone unemployed. (Even if he had money) Taking a risk like this while in a relationship is probably fine, but trying to start one with a stranger is likely to be significantly more difficult than while employed.
Out of curiosity, the OP’s language is “quality issues”, not “quality issue.” Why did you assume there wasn’t already a pattern of behavior implied there?
I'm working on building models that extract sparse and easy-to-interpret representations of musical audio. The work in this post encodes short segments of music from the MusicNet dataset as a set of events with a time-of-occurrence and a low-dimensional vector representing attack envelopes and resonances of both the instrument being played and the room in which the performance occurred. I think this representation could prove superior to current block-coding (fixed-frame sizes) and text-based generation models, at least for musicians who need fine-grained control of generated audio.
> Ryan McBeth, Ward Carroll - Two (ex) military guys who fill in a lot of details about how the world really works.

I don’t know who these two are but I would be highly skeptical of claims like that.
Social Media Needs a Phoenix Moment
UBI in the 2010s, 4 10s in the late 2000s. These things never stick. 5 8s is a great compromise between employers and employees. Every time someone tries something different they decide they don't like it, either the employer or the employee.

My employer hired me for 4 tens. I felt like a zombie during the week. I'd much rather have a few extra hours every day than a Friday to myself, especially since I need to go into the office on Friday's occasional anyways. I moved back to 5 8s.
> I'm not denying the West has been quite bad to the Africans, but China isn't any better.

If the western countries want to clean up their acts and offer something better than what China is doing, I am sure the doors of the African governments are open.

The problem is that the West has abandoned Africa, destabilized the region and then complains that Africa is looking for new partners.

What is the West doing to make amends? What are they offering? If those questions cannot be answered then it's no wonder that China is making gains in Africa.

> They're in it for themselves.

As opposed to the West who does things out of the goodwill of it's heart, I am sure. Do we live in the same world?
I can't argue with someone who chooses to selectively believe reality and institutions of authority according to their biases.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-ham...

Of course you might argue that Al Jazeera's Middle Eastern affiliations prevent them from giving unbiased coverage. Even though that would discredit every single Palestinian journalist. I honestly don't give a hoot if you keep your head in the sand.
The extremely obvious problem is that how you store data is an implementation detail and those change when requirements (or the market) evolve. I'll give you an API and will make triple sure it's as fast as a machine can even serve it and you let me worry about how it's all stored.

To additionally answer you with an analogy: when you have a problem with a company, you call the call center, not Jenny from accounting in particular. Jenny might have helped you twice or thrice but she might leave the company next year and now you have no idea how to solve your problem. Have call centers to dispatch your requests wherever it's applicable in the given day and leave Jenny alone.
As I recall, there was also some disagreement in discussions over what "having cash" meant. A lot of people have ready access to assets that aren't necessarily literally cash.
> disagree

This word is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your comment. A parasite was terminated.
That’s really cool. Can you share any insights the models have given you? My biggest point of confusion is what type of practical things these models can do.

(Or Email in profile if you can’t share publicly)
As soon as money is in play, greedy people will start gaming the system. The anonymous guy in Nebraska won't have a chance, even if he is interested.

tl;dr: well intentioned, but it isn't gonna work.
"Stop pointing out our atrocious behavior!"
Well there is:

https://www.pentamachine.com/pocket-nc

(but yes, most software for that is ITAR-regulated)

but for 3D printing the forces are a lot less and there's a lot of potential, and there are other cutting options such as wire EDM (saw a hobby-level implementation for that recently)
It's obviously up to you how you spell things in English, but why do you draw the line at alphabets? I've definitely seen diacritics used in some proper nouns in English texts for which I have no reason to suspect diplomatic/political pressure.

As I see it, you either oblige with the Turkish government's request to use the Turkish instead of English word for the country (which is what it really is), or you don't – it has nothing to do with alphabets.

Whether people will practically go through the effort of setting up their keyboard layout in a way that lets them type it is a different story; I can't really blame anyone for not doing so in a casual context. Wikipedia usually does so – e.g. they currently use "Turkey", but would likely use "Türkiye" if they were to adopt that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42350116
Pardon me, but I don't understand. Was the recruiter mistaken about you getting the job?
Breakthrough' dementia drug looks to stop disease in its tracks
And everyone get ready for your insurance company to deny treatment to you and your loved ones.
Welcome to the Human Doom Loop
> Both your current projects look extremely impressive and polished. And viable!

Appreciate it and thanks for the positive feedback! But those are two of the multitudes of side projects I have collected that I haven't figured out how to monetize. My "day job" is at a VC-backed startup that is going through a protracted wind-down because it also failed to find a viable GTM. So yeah, I've learned some hard lessons in multiple facets of my career!

> Now if that person is a skilled salesperson then that might work

My rule now is that if I'm building something for fun, I just open source it. If I want to make money, I'm going to first figure out who's paying and how do I get them to pay. AI MVPs are easy now to let you flesh out an idea one level up from a slide deck (in fact, maybe this is its own startup idea? Use AI to build an MVP from a deck??).

I had a non-technical friend recently spin up a full blown startup with customers using nothing but Claude + Replit (not plugging, but just sharing to show that it's real: https://bullship.co). He came up with the idea after talking to a friend and finding that indeed, the market had only two major competitors who both charged too much for many smaller customers.

The code is throwaway in my book, but it's enough to validate the idea by actually getting people to pay for something they can use. It won't scale, but that's fine; by the point that he needs it to scale, he'll be able to hire people with more skill to fix or rebuild it.
AWS Lightsail is made for that. VPS with 2TB of bandwidth for $5/month.
What Arm's CEO makes of the Intel debacle
That's arguably an English name, not an "ASCII name". (If there was one, it would probably be "Cote d'Ivoire".)
Thank you on behalf of my waifu!
Instead of trying to disprove the dead Internet theory, try asking your friend about it. Ask why they believe it. Ask why it matters. Ask why it matters in the context of the real world with its real, living people. You probably won't be able to walk them back with evidence, but you might be able to walk them back by unraveling them with their own thought process.

See if you can take a walk at the park with this person and just observe the world. The Internet came to be not very long ago, the idea of allowing yourself to fall apart due to its decayed state is silly.
That is true, but I think this example shows systems being too restrictive. If people can read Latin letters the system should accept apostrophes.
There are masses of Leftists on X. Recently all seemingly intent on placing themselves on all manner of watchlist via psychotically celebrating and supporting the murder of a CEO, utilizing the logic of people with actual brain damage.

I'm sure that Bluesky was having a normal one!
tysm for the support!

OpenAI and Azure should be the same, it's weird that it shows it as different. I'll look into fixing this.

currently #2 on PH, any help would be appreciated!
Have you had a look at the bytea[1] type? It allows you to store binary objects up to 1GB and it's dumped transparently just like a string.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-binary.html
He's privileged sure, not because he had 80K in the bank to burn through, but because he knows it's not the end of him when it's burnt through. He COULD get a job and steady income if he wanted, in at least that 80K range (probably double really). So meh. Good for him though for scratching his itches though. Any dude who can code can be a wage slave if they really want to.
At least they’ll think twice about walking the streets. They can hide in their castles.
But the issue is, whatever the criterias are, they will become the main kpis opensource projects (at least the not-so-driven ones) will target for growth. Goodhart's law.
That book is wonderful
Remarkably good and level headed article on the topic. Thanks!
The UIA (Universal Internet Authority) is worried that by using UUIDs we are left with only around 34 trillion UUIDs per star and planet in the observable Universe. So the cosmic router might become DHCP-leasing dark matter.
And yet 93% of Hamas’ funding comes from Iran.

I don’t believe we should determine who rules Palestine. But I also don’t believe we should allow a hostile state to just bankroll effective seizure of Palestine and the military intimidation of Israel.

It’s frankly insanity to tell Israel to be chill while a hostile nation, which is posturing a potential nuclear attack, is actively funding a large and growing base of terrorist operations next door.

Palestine is a proxy battleground of many foreign actors. Reducing it to a conflict that is just Israel vs. Palestine is bullshit
> Throughout the pandemic, the media focused on the idea of the “urban doom loop,” in which remote work would kill downtowns, triggering a downward spiral of reduced services that would cause people to leave cities. What went overlooked has turned out to be the bigger and even more consequential story: the human doom loop, a cycle in which people stop connecting in real life, reducing the quality of in-person activities and the physical realm itself, further discouraging IRL activities, and so on. Nearly five years after the pandemic, it’s not the real estate we need to worry about. It’s us.

> The pattern is clear: The more we go online, the less we show up in person. And the less we show up, the less likely our physical realm will offer experiences that can compete.
Impressive ChatGPT O1 Refactor of Python AST Analyser
Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data
I've been locked out of my Google account which contains over a decade of my digital life, and I'm at my wit's end trying to recover it.

The situation:

- Woke up today completely locked out

- Got "secure your account" message

- Set new password + recovery info but kept getting redirected to login

- Received "unusual activity" warning (around the time I was asleep)

- System asks for old phone number (lost in 2022)

- Have tried recovery dozens of times through g.co/recover

- Still have access to old recovery email but system never asks for it it

What I've tried:

- Using same devices and network as always (google pixel)

- Multiple recovery attempts with both old/new phone numbers

- Both old/new passwords (then never say which one they accept)

- Following all official Google recovery guides

I have so much of my life there:

- Primary email communications

- Password manager data

- Business documents and projects

- Personal documents

- Google Drive contents

- Contacts

- OAuth access to numerous services

- Years of irreplaceable data

I've exhausted all official channels and online resources. The thought of permanently losing access to this account is terrifying. Has anyone successfully recovered their account in a similar situation? Any Google employees or security experts who might be able to help?

This account represents my entire digital identity, and I'm desperate for any guidance or assistance.
but not at the penalty of annulling the election results

the government would just levy sanctions against the third party that failed to report
https://stable-baselines3.readthedocs.io/en/master/ is a great resource for hacking on implementations for RL - many good RL courses out there but https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwRJQ4m4UJjNymuBM9Rdm... is my personal favorite.

For LLMs / RLHF it's a little more difficult but https://github.com/huggingface/alignment-handbook and the Zephyr project is a good collection of model / dataset / script that is easy to follow.

I would suggest studying the basics of RL first before diving into LLM RLHF, which is much harder to learn on a single GPU.
How's that pronounced?
Show HN: Lume – An App That Knows You're Stressed Before You Do
Hey HN,

I’m excited to share Lume, a stress management app I developed after noticing a personal trend: my resting heart rate (RHR) would rise during anxious phases, and adopting healthier habits like exercising and sleeping well helped me bring it back down.

What Lume does:
- Predict stress before you feel it: By analyzing patterns in your data, Lume notifies you when stress is likely rising, so you can take action early.
- Personalized guidance: Get tailored recommendations to adjust your habits and avoid burnout.
- Insightful analytics: Track your stress levels over time and identify triggers and trends.

Why I built it:
Stress is a silent disruptor that can affect every part of your life. I wanted a tool that could help people take control before stress spirals out of hand, just like I did with my RHR.

I’d love your feedback on both the app and its concept. It’s live and ready for you to try:
https://tranquiltech.io/lume?ref=hn

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions!
Once more and more new training images are based off of those new upscaled images the training of those upscaling algorithms will tend to generate even more of the same type of information drowning out the other information
Don't quit your job to start something. Start something on the side. Spending down $80,000 in savings is a massive L.
Cost-Aware Architectures for Viewers Like You
Source: https://x.com/wgussml/status/1865227133506981963

> the key thing here is that there’s a bunch of tests that I do outside of my test closures file that it needs to satisfy as well as those worked. the previous implementation was completely ass

> it actually fixed a major design flaw with the approach as well

> 550 LOC to 300
It's a great idea; I have some similar thoughts. The looming problem, though, is that Goodheart's Law is likely to strike if this ever gets scaled up significantly.
> but also don't live in the US

There is your answer. The cities where you can make 400-500k are at least 2x the cost of other US cities.
Proactor vs Reactor
Only because it tells you how to use the tones, which can change a word's meaning completely.
Azure charges differently based on deployment zone/latency guarantees, OpenAI doesn't let you pick your zone so it's equivalent to the Global Standard deployment (which is the same cost).

[0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-...