skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2203 is around of the average aviation deaths per year

Planes have no equivalent, replacing them would be difficult.
Nuclear can be replaced by industrial renewables.

Moreover planes induce a very tiny risk for those who don't use them.
Nuclear threatens even distant people (in space and time).

Note: my own brother died during to a jetliner crash (Swissair 111).

> a lot of the costs are also because of the extra abundance of caution due to irrational fear

Those requirements aren't irrational, they are devised after studying incidents and accidents.

> - properly cleaning up a coal

True, but not pertinent as very few (and not me!) suggest deploying coal plants. This is about nuclear vs. renewables.

> The number of victims

This is a truism, in which way is it pertinent?

> this is something being pushed onto the general population.

This is an unsubstantiated opinion.

>> it is quite difficult to envision a solar plant or wind turbine fleet cause such disaster

> No shit if the energy production is more spread out the incidents will be more spread out as well. And easier to ignore. But not doing less damage in total.

Err... In your opinion when a tsunami (or anything else) destroys a solar plant or wind turbine fleet an emergency evacuation is in order (just as during a major nuclear accident, due to the potential release of dangerous material)? Is it a joke?
Free (liber) software is already independent of the US by virtue of being open source and free. In what way would your solution offer more/better independence ?

I am all for a production 20K trusted free+open computing base, but … I don’t understand the logic.
It's all about risk. Maybe you can run Finance on a spreadsheet and get away with it, and maybe you can survive driving without wearing a seatbelt too.
I just want to underline how different "middle aged man challenges another middle aged man to a fight then makes excuses" and "oligarch chickens out of an interview" are from "oligarch in one country offers to fight a foreign oligarch that is currently invading a third country amd offering to let them keep this third country if they win, which would be absurdly idiotic even if it was a joke but so much worse if you bring it up later as if it was a serious demonstration of your commitment to the third country"
The current culture about AI & LLMs is that we are "only" memorizing the Web into model parameters and that a LLM is unable to "invent" new paradigms. Maybe we are under estimating what Unsupervised Learning & RL could provide. Re-inforcement learning is about exploring and finding new ways to accomplish a task and I see no limit here (except the computational resources needed).
>If anything, we should be proud of britain’s response, especially knowing that it would never get aby kind of gratitude for it.

Some examples of Britain's response:

* Establishing soup kitchens for the starving, where, to acquire food one must renounce your religion, anglicise your name, and abandon your native tongue.

* Provide maize for the starving and destitute but not for free for fear it would generate a sense of self-importance amongst the millions who are dying of hunger

* Maintaining the exportation vast amounts of food to Britain throughout the Great Hunger

* Requiring the starving who couldn't afford to buy food from the British to build pointless walls in order to earn that food

* Forcibly evicting the starving and dying from their homes because they couldn't pay their rent for some reason

* Denying aid to anyone who owned more than a quarter-acre of land, forcing starving farmers to give up their land and become destitute in order to qualify for relief

So, on behalf of all those before me in Ireland; go raibh maith agat.
This is also what we observe while building Distr. ISVs are in need for a container registry to hand over these images to their customers. Our container registry will be purpose build for this use-case.
If the Excel file is just a snapshot of the financial situation and it doesn't feed back into the main system, I find it harder to see the issue. Essentially it sounds like a manager takes the Excel file, makes some small changes, writes some equations, produces tables/graphs and then writes a report.

Maybe there is an error in the reporting, but it can always be corrected. The idea isn't to explain where $16.129626356 bn dollars went, it's to explain where ~$16 bn dollars went.

I can think of many processes just off the top of my head where commercial software outputs something like a CSV file, I add my data to it, then generate a report. I don't think the process is insane at all. We catch errors by predicting the data to be entered and flagging if off by 10%, and then also looking at the distribution of the data entered (it should look like a skewed bell curve). We then have a stand-up meeting where we review the outputs and then have a process for later correction. Of course it's possible for errors to creep in, but the errors are very unlikely and have somewhat limited scope.

My point is that the situation in NZ seems entirely resolvable, and they shouldn't just throw it out if it was somewhat working. The whole "Excel" thing seems like a nothing-burger.
Headlines like this are more pleasant than headlines about how the $100M project to implement SAP is five years behind schedule, how Deloitte has consumed tens of millions of dollars that could have gone to patient care, or that the new ERP system has lead to a total lack of accountability for patient outcomes.
I think they went for the F-35 to carry US nuclear weapons. At the time, I read that planes need extensive certifications for this including giving US access to critical components. Obviously no european arms manufacturer should give these to the US.
actually how large are they? i believe ESP32 has a huge market share of a small market and i'm curious how you build a business like this
Wow, really impressive.
757 is too many though. If nothing else, if you couldn't find an extension that works, you could just use different browser profiles, or save the links in text files. It's just so ridiculous to have that many open when, without any doubt, you don't need them open all at once.

I use tab session manager on firefox. It doesn't easily let me shift around tabs inside a session, if I want to combine sessions I have to open both and save as a new session. It does allow duplicating and trimming tabs from a session though.

If you need better session management capability, you could probably get an LLM to extend/fork an existing extension to add what you need with about 30 minutes work.
> where in all of your nice description does the prohibition against eating pork but not beef fit in?

I love rotisserie chicken, and tandoori chicken even more. You know why none of us eat rotisserie vulture? Because they're scavengers, and we should only eat scavengers if we're starving. Look up pigs in wikipedia and you'll learn that they are absolute scavengers who love to eat poop (learned that from comedian Daniel Tosh, who has a pet pig).

God's laws are always for our happiness. We are not to commit adultery because of disease and trust and love and the fact that jealously gets people killed, or at least causes strife and misery.

> Where does the prohibition against same-sex love fit into the universal compassion?

I understand that to be the result of human persecution of gay folks since time immemorial. I don't agree with persecuting gay folks, myself, and understand that we rightfully can do nothing against what people do in the privacy of their own home, not that I would intrude on another person's relationship anyway.

Certain sexual practices are certainly bad for our physical well-being, so God says we shouldn't do it, but only for our happiness.

Whom we choose for our best friend is a person's business, but that's just my reading of how love works for me. And I have found that gay folks are the least of our problems, except for Peter Thiel, but he's just a power-hungry asshole.

> and they have literally 0 to do with universal love. So why believe that religion is all about universal love when religious practices insist on so many other things?

What those supposed 'authorities' are doing is truly sad and WRONG, but we are free to be as hyprocritical as we wish, to be as willfully ignorant as we wish. A Jewish person can choose to be a Nazi, and anyone can choose to be an asshole.

That has nothing to do with what we SHOULD do, though, my friend.

You are bang-on correct: the vast majority of the world's understanding of religion is nothing less than fucked-up. And God is not happy with it, but It gave us this free will to be whatever we want, and so it is.

And, believe me, trying to explain love to the willfully ignorant, self-righteous, prideful, lying oppressors is walking uphill. But, I wouldn't trade it for the world. We are only responsible for our own ideals, attitudes, and behaviors.

We love you. I feel your pain, but love will help you transcend it, even if we can't transcend others' hateful idiocy; they have to choose to do that for themself.

Namaste.
I wouldn't think that would extend to threats like a cavity search and flagging their passport.
https://torrentfreak.com/laliga-blocks-cloudflare-again-new-...
> assuming you ignore Europe’s smallsat industry that’s constantly ridesharing with SpaceX.

I'm not saying "build it and they will come" is a bad saying, my point is that it's not a very good talking point when you try to sell stuff to European governments.

> SpaceX was working on high-frequency low-cost launch before Starlink was in anyone’s mind. The launch cadence caused Starlink, not the other way.

Before that, they had a sugar daddy billionaire.
Obviously, Arianespace doesn't have that.
Don't forget Reinhart-Rogoff, which ties into the other thread on academic fraud/nonreproduction, and arguably did huge amounts of economic damage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22223190
Kagi and Proton.

I pay for Kagi because it is a genuinely good search engine. I pay for both because I de-googled my life and I understand that one needs to pay for a service one way or another.

The price is negligible in the grand scheme of things. I've had nights out that cost more but gave me less.
Replace axios and qs modules with this in front end projects and reduce 73KB
I think that they handled this particular issue well. It was more rant about general state of things in the industry. I worked with Nordic chips and they also supply enormous 120 KB proprietary blob called SoftDevice which you supposed to put into your firmware and let it own all the interrupts. This is terrible experience.
> But then again Rust devs are more likely to use static dispatch via generics if performance is critical.

I'm not sure I follow - pretty much 99% of usage of C++ in the last, like, 20 years has been around making sure that you get static dispatch with polymorphism through templates. It's exceedingly uncommon to see the `virtual` keyword unless you have, say, some DLL-based run-time plug-in system going on.
Yeah but:

> Espressif will provide a fix that removes access to these HCI debug commands

Very annoying for researchers and tinkerers who would like to play with those commands.
Living in a bubble means you are unaware of outside perspectives.

For instance, if person A says “there are people who believe the Earth is flat” and person B denies they exist, the latter is living in a bubble because they are unaware of other widespread ideas (regardless of their accuracy or lack thereof). Person A doesn’t need to believe or agree with a viewpoint to understand there are people who do.

I have met people who would reject the website for that reason and those who wouldn’t. By all means, discuss and disagree with it, but don’t close your eyes and ears and deny their existence. If you don’t realise both camps exist, by definition you are the one in the bubble.

Which I don’t fault you for, because to an extent we all live in bubbles. It is impossible for any human in one lifetime to be aware of all different realities. The very fact that we have access to HN and choose to comment here already places us in a bubble which excludes most of the world. Every other facet of our lives puts us in different bubbles of different sizes for different contexts. To believe oneself immune to or devoid of bubbles falls somewhere between the naive and the arrogant.
I'm actually part of a site like this, just a thing a friend of a friend made:

- You can write and edit one post at a time.

- This post, in whatever form it has then, gets published at 8 in the morning.

- You can only see posts for today. All old content gets deleted.

- No comments or feedback is possible.

- Only symmetric relationships are possible: you can add someone, but they won't see your posts and you won't see their posts until they add you back.

- All "friend" discovery is out of band. There are no recommendations, no boosting/retweeting, nothing.

This is obviously not a mass medium, but its reductionism gives it some interesting properties that have made me consider what a good social network would be. One post a day is a fantastic idea.

(I don't know if they intend for it to be named in public, so I'll refrain.)
Show HN: Quantum Evolution Kernel (FOSS quantum graph machine learning lib)
Hi HN,

We're proud to announce the release of the Quantum Evolution Kernel! It's still an early version, so feedback is very much welcome.

# What is it?

Quantum evolution kernel is an open-source library designed for anyone interested in applying quantum computing to graph machine learning -- and you don’t even need a quantum computer in your living room to start using it! It has a wide range of graph machine learning applications, including prediction of molecular toxicity, as shown in the tutorial.

# Why is it exciting?

Quantum computing has huge potential, but it needs to be accessible and practical to make a real impact. This library is a step toward building a quantum tools ecosystem that researchers, developers, and innovators can start using today.

# What's next?

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# Links

- Code: https://github.com/pasqal-io/quantum-evolution-kernel

- Doc: https://pasqal-io.github.io/quantum-evolution-kernel/latest/

- Our community portal & slack: https://community.pasqal.com/
The "problem" with most social media is the same with F2P games: they require whales to keep them relevant
> SpaceX' having its captive client (Starlink) isn't some external factor that favored them

No, but it's an additional information they had to make their decision.

> Arianespace took no risks, tried nothing, achieved nothing.

If you replace Arianespace by Airbus, your point has merit. Airbus, as a publicly traded company, of which 25% is owned by nation-states, has a different risk appetite compared to a privately-owned company funded by someone with deep pockets.
This makes me feel even more self-satisfied! But yes, very fair point that I had not fully considered.
I mean, 100% they are. Not sure what you mean by “somehow”. They have the data. There’s no way they aren’t using existing conversations (especially from free or low-cost plans) as fodder for future training. Maybe, we hope, run through some anonymization filter (likely including passing through some off-shored human-powered filtering for context tagging and anonymity checks). But sooner or later that may seem too expensive to them as well.
> It's like you were in a multiple choice test and instead of picking which of answers A-D you think made more sense you picked E "I don't know".

This is a problem for testing humans too and the solution is simply to mark a wrong answer more harshly than a non-answer.
https://www.latent.space/p/how-claude-plays-pokemon-was-made more info here too
Taking this as an opportuinty to pitch an extension I developed to do that and more: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-defuser/

The main difference between this and current element blockers is that Web Defuser allows you to block annoying behaviors (by modifying requests/responses in flight) in addition to elements.

At the moment it's a bit lacking in the UI department, I'd appreciate early adopter feedback (you can contact me at gmail with my username).
Yea exactly my take. This seems like exactly what Excel is good at doing.
How you think always-open debug is NOT a security issue?

The blog post is a "nothing to see here". You really fell for it? Do we still do car analogies? Here's this car with just a ignition button without keys, and keys to your home in the glovebox and the address already on the GPS... but the thief would have to break into the car first!
I agree. I think the game plan is to foster dependency and than hike prices. Current pricing isn't sustainable, and a whole generation of new practitioners will never learn how to mentally model software.
I'll buy it, read it and take notes.
I think BeReal was too restrictive. Considering all the types of content on social media, very little of it is selfies. The goal of that platform is authenticity in a very narrow sense, which is a noble goal.
Yes, let's make long term investment decisions from today's flashes in the pan!
Imagine how many errors occurred before we had digital spreadsheet technology.

That said, I’ve always thought there was a product that sits somewhere in between Excel and full blown custom software that provides some of the controls we need while still being and build able by someone with low/average technical skills
The government just announced an increase in pension of 3.74%. I think they'll do ok.
> some are even worse than US treatment they're getting.

Show one comparable story from an EU country.
Did any government, western or not? Without making other things significantly worse I mean.
I applaud the effort for the local (lo-fi) space ! Yet, reading over the example linked in the docs (which does not seem cheery-picked, kudos for that!), my impression is that the document is a rather messy outcome [1].

I think what's missing is one (or more) step in-between, possible a graph database (eg[2]), which the LLM can place all it's information in, see relevant interconnections, query to question itself, and then generate the final report.

(maybe the final report could be an interactive HTML file that the user can ask questions, or edit themselves).

There's also a similar open-deep research tool called onyx [2], with I think has better UI/UX albeit not local. Maybe the author could consider porting this to local instead of rolling and maintaining another deep-research tool themselves ?

I'm saying this, not because I think it's not a good project, but because there are a ton of open deep-research projects which I'm afraid will just fizzle out, and would be better if people would join forces working on those aspects they care most about (e.g. local aspect, or RAG strategies, etc) .

[1] https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research/blob/...

[2] "In-Browser Graph RAG with Kuzu-WASM and WebLLM" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321523

[3] https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx
I mean if you think about it, almost nobody here is a Barista (home or commercial), but most people here are technical. People don't realise the complexity of coffee when they haven't actually tried making espresso so it's not too surprising that you get people who think they've figured it all out in their head. Same thing happens on this website with basically any niche technology (haha, I can't believe I am referring to brewing coffee as technology).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onan
They are in a -lot- of edge devices. They became popular with DIY because they were a very cheap and capable option with the esp8266, which hackers converted from ultracheap UART to WiFi modules into general purpose mcus. They became the DIY default because instead of ignoring this, they embraced it and published specs and translated data sheets. Their diy friendly approach has garnered them a ton of software support and publicity.

They have responded very openly by publishing the vendor specific diagnostic commands.

This whole dog and pony show is very unfortunate, really, since the irresponsible security firm used the term backdoor in a completely inappropriate and misleading way, and the blogosphere and tech press just parroted their claim without bothering to read the disclosure, apparently.

The headlines should have been:

“Security firm Tarlogic makes specious “backdoor” claim at rootCon about popular Bluetooth/Wifi microcontroller deployed in billions of devices.”
> Proxmox always end up being too much to handle

I've been running a 2-node Proxmox cluster for about 3 years with close to no maintenance. What's too much about it?

It gives me easy VM and LXC management and very easy declarative networking and firewalling. That alone makes it worth it for me.
The author of the link had an article earlier this year about how he learned to love those estimates and claims it is in fact racist to not believe them:

"How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates"

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-to-stop-worrying-and-le...

He sometimes hides it better than other times but he's consistently been very into this stuff for years. There's old emails when he's more explicit about it and then tells the person he's emailing to never tell anyone he believes this stuff.

He's kind of sneaky about it public though, for example on genes Vs environment in the linked article:

> Practically nobody ever claimed it was 100% (Charles Murray estimates 50%)

Charles Murray of course wrote a really big book in which he consistently argued for not trying to raise the IQ of black Americans via interventions because that would never work, but constantly said he wasn't ruling out environmental causes as cover. I would argue that arguing against the interventions was in fact the main point of the book. Yet here he's portrayed as the reasonable centrist.

The author similarly switched between unveiling his eugenics plan for Africa and his more recent post where he says actually I'll defend this racist talking point by claiming it proves there are lots of non-eugenic interventions that would work.
I think giving your enemy money is beyond stupid.
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I think the important part that's not clearly portrayed in the OP article is that the "one Excel file" is actually not a single file used across the whole organisation, but rather a sort of master overview file that "consolidated files from each district into a single spreadsheet".

I don't think that fact is made very clear in the OP article.
True. I think most people care more about trend lines than anything else. If it isn't accurate, at least let it be consistently inaccurate.
Perhaps it means that the reorganization was unnecessary, and badly executed. Things seemed to go well before.
> What did voters have to see in Harris' team for that to happen?

Biden should have pulled out a lot sooner. When? At least a year before the election. But you can easily make arguments for earlier and earlier all the way back to having been too old to run for President in the first place, despite having had a really good term.

Also Harris needs to fire her consultants, who were still trying to play "fair" in an unfair fight and pulled back on the one attack line which was working: that Republicans are "weird".

Things are unlikely to improve until voters start primarying out anyone still trying to do bipartisan equivocation.
It sounds quite minimal and pleasant. I hope the project develops into something available more broadly.
Hahaha. As an undergrad in my University, I asked a guy just before an exam on electro magnetic waves if he had studied properly, and the guy told me dead serious, that he knows Ohm's law, and he can derive everything from it!
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