skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what is the current maximum ball park amount of data one can realistically handle on a single machine setup on AWS / GCP / Azure?

realistically means keeping in mind that the processing itself also requires memory as well as prerequisites like indexes which also need to be kept in memory.

maximum memory at AWS would be 1.5TB using r8g.metal-48xl. so, assuming 50% usable for the raw data means about 750GB are realistic.
Or perhaps they haven't been _replacing_ reactors as they reach end of life?
Europe got dependent on cheap russian gas. And it escaped into a bubble of irresponsible behaviour, where the idea that economic realities on the ground mattered itself got faded out. Scream loud and en mass that the rain should go up on the streets- and politicans would promise you the rain would go up, by installing ventilation, physics would not apply to the citizen.

Now the situation is different, and physics applies once more, everybody is screaming, but reality be a harsh mistress- she careth not for the sobbing.
I have found that the most lucrative work is when something needs to be done ASAP!

I'm happy to work 60-80 hours a week to deliver a specific result. Generally over a period of 1-3 months. I charge like a plumber/lawyer. So there's usually a pause of a month or two between gigs. Averaged out over a year or more it does look like part-time.
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A great hack that feels closer to Anjan Katta’s vision for what Daylight could become – that instead of VR or AR or projection, we end up putting high quality “natural” screens on more surfaces.

This classroom timetable shows the utility of that, and it’s not so hard to imagine it extending to other interactive or non-interactive uses (meeting room reservation, digital store pricing, bus timetables, etc.).
Ofcom really isn't actually independent on Online Safety in any way.

It has to obey instructions on prioritisation from the secretary of state and has no real operational flexibility.

As with much of the (dire) UK legislation here, the government saying something is true until it is blue in the face does not make it true.
The academics never consider the fact that an individual may do better socially in different cultures. Everyone ignored me in America, but after living abroad for 8 years in 12 countries, I was shocked how I was able to make more friends with people (men and women) in other cultures. The people who rejected you do not define your own value and worth in this world.
Looks interesting. Especially since it seems to be much cheaper that the closed solutions...

Have looked in this kind of systems, for my parents. The use case was basically, not about energy efficiency, but rather noise protection - to be able to sleep with a closed windows. I think so far I always had two issues (in that usecase).

- First the device by itself - produces a bit noise like 42db might be too much for some people if you want to sleep. Especially some of the devices are using one ventilator, which switches directions and won't produce homogeneous noise.

- Second 60 CFM is fine, but if you want to have the feeling of an open window - it should be much more and most devices can't deliver that. Also the heat exchange thing is kind of cool in the winter for sure. In the summer, you often have the case that in the evening you house is much warmer than the air outside - so you would like to turn the heat exchange off in the winter.

PS: Actually, maybe looking for a complete different use case. But I think what would be very cool, would be some idea to make at least one room 100% quite (with fresh air ) in a cheap way. Guess this would be a huge life changer for a lot of people, who suffer from noise pollution.
Sounds like The Netherlands. Hypocrisy. White supremacy. Living off of the image of a before time. Corrupt yet not willing to admit it. Blaming everything on immigrants.

I live in NL and a lot of what you say about Sweden sounds very similar.
I can see many osdev Rust projects in "PlusPlus Nation" near other kernels, which mean that "X but in Rust" might be in "X" instead of "RustLand".
You'd have to prove it first, I would say.
America will never cut social security. Never in the history of mankind have people starved quietly.
(In Norway is it the government making the money or private energy companies? Where do the profits really go?)
> Sweden has an overproduction of energy

Yes, that's because all the industry had to move because of the no energy in sweden.
Me? I am insignificant. But I talk about opinions of large parts of Europe, just look at recent elections (and US is exactly the same). Extremism never leads to good future, just more extremes and inevitably conflict where few profit and most suffer.

No snarky comment is going to change that.
Energy shouldn't be produced under capitalism IMO. Decades ago the government owned everything energy, and it was better, just like back when we had real postal services.

Energy, water, sewage treatment. Nationalize all of it.
> Do you believe that META does not censor content?

To some degree for sure, simply because they have to by law.

> Or amplify specific views? Or suppress the reach of certain others?

They have the technical capabilities and what Meta in particular does: I don't know. But given the social media landscape as a whole (not only platsforms by Meta) and seeing so many nutjobs having tremendous reach with lies and fake content, I really don't think there is a lot of suppression or view-shaping going on. The views would be a lot more homogeneus if you were being manipulated on a large scale.

Since you mentioned the conflict in the ME: There are proponents of both sides with tremendous reach and depending on your bubble, you either see more of the one side or the other. But of course, since the immediate conflict has been going on for a while, the sentiment changed.
That's not very logical at all.

I believe that a flying unicorn orbits the moon. When no unicorn is found, does that prove that a unicorn may exist?

You can't use a negative to prove a point. Either the point is proven and supported by evidence or it is just speculation. If it is speculation, then it can be dismissed since it has no basis in reality.

In this particular case, if an audit was done and found no backdoors then as far as we know and until such a time as we find a backdoor, then there are no backdoors.

If you want to continue to believe that there is a backdoor, then this is an opinion which does not constitute proof of any sort and certainly should not be used to come up with policies such as banning a company from operating in the US in case of a mythical backdoor which has so far eluded everyone.
I suspect this research applies more directly to some people than others and I also suspect the only factor of relevance is neuroticism. For example, I am thinking people more prone to anxiety will more likely correspond to this research while there will likely be a mild negative correlation for people with extremely low neuroticism.

If my assumption is correct it would explain why some people find social media to be a strong gravity while others find it to be a dumpster fire.
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> Sweden is a very corrupt capitalist country that is still riding the socialist image they created long ago.

What I don't understand is how the people living here can't see this. It's absolutely incomprehensible how naive they are. I don't know how the state could make it any clearer that it does not share their values and is not what people seem to think it is. That Sweden died long ago.
Side^4 of a southern hemispheric flavour

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/boor

[ok Bauer can also be perjorative, but im guessing it might require importing to render out the paisani]
> This wasn’t even a ban on TikTok, bytedance could have sold to an American owner but have refused.

So, you mean this wasn't even a ban, it was just robbery?
In 2022 Germany's nuclear plants produced 32.8 TWh of electricity, which was 6.4% of the load in that country [1].

Compared to 2022, the spot market prices in Germany are lower in both 2023 (significantly) and 2024. [2]

Seems a bit odd that the nuclear exit in Germany did not create large issues, but is wrecking havoc on Sweden.

[1] https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...

[2] https://energy-charts.info/charts/price_average/chart.htm?l=...
That is very nice, and I really appreciate that the design files are open source.

Great work.

I cannot help to wonder what brings the total cost to $600, the price of a modern, powerful computer.

And yes, I am familiar with the economy of scale :)
>You don’t fight censorship with censorship. That doesn’t stand up to even the most cursory thought. You fight censorship with openness.

There is literally no basis for this belief. Do you have a realistic solution to the gish gallop? Have internet comments proven to follow the most well reasoned with it's own uncertainties or the most rhetorically convincing?
HVAC folk ought to know about ERVs.

Type in HRV system in to your preferred search provider and hit the shopping tab.

Here in Australia they range from about 1500 Antipodean Dineros for a single room through-wall mounted systems, and around 5500 upward for a centralised unit. Plus installation costs, but HVAC install is one of my paid activities, so I mostly don’t pay that part.

NB heat pump is a more accurate term for refrigeration type air conditioners, as in cooling mode they’re ‘pumping’ the heat out of the inside environment and rejecting it outside.

But have you heard about brown?
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> I don't understand why the Germans closed down nuclear power plants without also building a viable alternative. There are lots of people in Sweden and Norway that don't have a lot of money, and have to skip showers and live in the cold because they can't afford to spend more on electricity.

That is what you get when strategical choices are done by ideology and not based on scientific facts.

Germany has a lot tchernobyl-traumatized boomers still associating anything tagged "nuclear" to the doom days from the cold war. These are a significant part of the electorate, specially among the Grunens.

The decision of phasing out nuclear was not rational nor strategical, it was a political choice to please a minority of voters.
It's a net energy exporter; as many sources will confirm.
It's fine in my experience. I use Synergy 1 and I turn off smooth scrolling on my laptops and desktops. I find it more distracting that some apps support smooth scrolling and some don't, so I just turn it off altogether.
Together with AutoHotkey on Windows and (Built-in) Applescript and Rectangle on MacOS, one is able to have similar keybinds on both operating systems.
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> Seems a bit odd that the nuclear exit in Germany did not create large issues, but is wrecking havoc on Sweden.

It didn't have any effect until the nets and markets were connected. They couldn't outbid us before that.
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Same in Denmark, we pretty much had to install one when building our house, to make up for energy loss from the large window area we wanted. We didn't have it properly calibrated at first, but once that was (professionally) done it has worked perfectly and kept a pleasant indoor-climate ever since.

The old-and-trusted brand here is https://www.genvex.com/en (ours was supplied by Ecovent though https://ecovent.dk/?lang=en )
Only the western mainstream version of karma is supposed to work within one's lifetime. The proper spiritual interpretations of it usually span multiple lifetimes. Not a huge believer myself, but I agree with your conclusion, this kind of short-acting karma surely doesn't exist. As demonstrated daily by the many horrible influential people.
What would be the advantage compared to commercial products like:
https://les.mitsubishielectric.it/en/products/ventilation_37...

This product cost around 500$ and also has heat exchange.
A friend of mine has installed it and is very happy with it.
Finding a group of people that don’t use either isn’t going to be easy. Especially if you want a broad selection of age groups.
The steady march towards authoritarianism continues.

Is there any way that we can overwhelm them?
A big problem with the "green energy transition" is that we're more than happy to build large wind-parks and promote solar (well, not in Sweden so much, it's dark in the winter), but we build little to no storage for it where surplus energy can be stored.
the reason behind millions of death because the grain rationing system leaving little to none food for peasants in the 1960s, yeah it's still economical issue.

Bad things happen when the state controls everything.
> Anyway, things are either ethical or they are not.

Where do you get that from?

> What would make it unethical?

One example: you build an AI so that you don't have to spend time with the person while not feeling bad about it.
Germany has a viable alternative.

Renewable energy with large scale gas power plants (and lots of other types of storage/temporary energy sources and coal for now).

It's just that energy is cheap when renewables are strong and high when they are not (and have to be filled with gas (green in the future), nuclear and coal, which is expensive and partly will be even more expensive in the future, thanks to CO2 pricing (which is good).
Thank you and congratulations for this incredible work. Maybe consider adding some type of reference/credits to the PDF?

I think it would be useful for people downloading this and then not remembering where they got it from. It would be cool to be able to give credit where its due :).
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Sure are alot of people insinuating they are
> [the webcam's] mount’s front-facing part dips too much down beyond the bezel, and it ends up blocking my screen.

As an old-school software engineer, I would've been strongly tempted to solve this excess material problem with a file.
I also prefer Mac with Nix over homebrew.
I added Phi-4 to my reasoning model collection because it seems to exhibit reasoning behavior, it stopped to consider alternatives before concluding. I assume this is related to their choice in training data:

> Chain-of-Thought: Data should encourage systematic reasoning, teaching the model various approaches to the problems in a step-by-step manner.

https://github.com/tkellogg/lrm-reasoning/blob/main/phi4.md
Even if the money is in flying 747s (it isn't), learning to fly a Cessna at a younger age is still beneficial. Same with cash money and young children.

For what it's worth, I've been in the software field for decades - long enough that I prefer not to use it. My preferred barber loses my business because he only accepts appointments via his app. I'm not installing it, so I cut my hair somewhere else. He knows this, and he's busy enough that the loss of a single old customer isn't compelling enough to get him to waste his time scheduling appointments by phone.
Building and reinforcing HVDC interconnects is happening all over Europe now. Certainly part of the solution. Note that the transformer shortage makes that more difficult.
I had a question about these prime number announcements you hear now and again.

When there's a new "largest prime" announced, does that mean we know all the primes below that number?
> as someone in Australia who strongly supports our recent U16 ban, I hope META gets removed/broken up for you guys soon after, at least for underage users.

oh boy… your optimism sounds childish after reading the second line
I wonder if this is a market specific thing, that is to say if it is turned on or off depending on which market you're in. For example I wonder if there are pertinent regulations applying in EU, if so I would expect it were turned off in EU.
34% in 1998 in the UK, and Internet access was a lot less as we never had free local calls.
This makes some sense from a state's perspective.

As an individual I am more concerned about the spying that is effectively hostile to me personally. As a Westerner, I am fairly certain that this will be Western spying. I would expect a Chinese person to be more concerned with Chinese spying for the same reason.
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In Sweden, I've been in contact with several companies and associations which are raising small solar farms and selling stocks on them (so, there is a primary market for stocks on renewables). Investment is affordable and transparent and it feels "grass-roots democratic". The problem with solar farms is that this time of the year, they don't produce power. The only green alternative that would produce power is nuclear, and that one is out of reach for small private investors.... I don't even know if nuclear power stocks would be available in a secondary market .
Other countries are growing faster. It goes beyond America, the Western empire no longer dominates the global economy.

When the US president goes to Vietnam he has to treat them as equals.
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I don't agree. I believe that when the solutions' space is big design docs work best. If they are done correctly they are a (shallow) breadth-first search in the space. Specifically if in your design doc include "alternatives considered". Additionally, having multiple people looking at your doc you can prune some possible paths.

A breadth-first search is useful when you don't know much about the intricacies of the problem/topic at hand, and so you need some ground work to take informed decisions.

If, instead, the solution space is narrow then by all means do a prototype/throwaway PR/... to validate the approach.
At this time even management was kind of nerdy.

It was a time when you could be in some place outside the big meccas like SV and start a reasonably succesful company around simply developing some software package and selling it to a small to midsized companies in your region.

Even in big non-tech companies, tech people kind of were left alone in a distant building and as long as you had a suit and a tie for the very ocasional meetings with the civilized portion of your company you were mostly left alone.

Then, the business people started to slowly encroach into our domain, the project management people, their processess. I think that a lot of the early agile movement was kind of a immune reaction against it, until it was too coopted by the suit people.

Then the marketing consolidated and concentrated, and it was never the same since then.
This is a good take, but I wonder if there's a difference between "goes to old people" vs "is spent on things concerning old people" as in how much of that money actually reaches old people directly or indirectly. Given that "half a budget" is around 3 trillion and there are 60 million old people in the US this gives $100k for a household of 2 people which I doubt they receive. Quite possibly there's a big room for optimization too.
Yeah, that is what I thought.

I think you are trolling and your response is just a bunch of word salad without much meaning.

You agree with the ban because you agree with the ban because you think the ban is good. There seem to be no critical analysis as to why this is good besides some supposed good intentions.
Even with our cross counterflow enthalpy exchanger it can get somewhat dry in the bedroom in winter. The device in the OP would probably require an additional humidifier.
It was clear that the language was Clojure by the middle of the third paragraph.

Rust and Clojure are the only languages that always come with unsolicited sales pitches. Not knocking the languages, just observing.

I was half expecting this comment to end without actually naming the language.
So it's clickbait about a polarizing issue of nuclear. In that case this is actually a fair criticism. There is a lot of talk within Germany that this should change, and there should be multiple zones. A lot here means "people in the energy business have talked about it for some time". I believe the northern states have already requested it, but states like Bayern are very much against.

The main issue is that on occasion the markets get out of whack, the price is cheap because a lot of renewable energy is produced in the north, but there isn't enough capacity to transport it to the south. There they then have to fire up e.g. coal plants but this gets paid with other mechanisms and doesn't affect the price. At the same time they refuse to invest in grid upgrades, so they have low transmission costs as well, and also block windmills etc. So in a lot of ways they get to have their cake and eat it.
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Almost every violent street crime, street robbery, or armed robbery is perpetrated by people with some form of immigrant background. Both in the NL and in Sweden. (I'm a swede living in the NL).

Also western supremacy (the notion that western culture is superior in the world) is not the same as white supremacy.
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France is literally making billions by exporting in electricity.
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/electricity/r...

It's France 9th biggest export.
it can show a basic unbloated news site from my contry

it can show lwn.net

it can show HN

it can show old popular local forum

it can show rss feeds

it automatically blocks (does not work on) all the popular social networks

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what else is there?