skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a ton of friends I only know over the internet. I'm involved in a few communities as a pretty central figure. This is the weird sorta edge to this. I would like people to know what happened to me, and that I just didn't stop replying to them or leave them. I own a few Discord servers I'd want to pass off.

It's understandable that not everyone has people they talk to weekly where they don't know real names or locations outside of time zones. You say social media posts are unimportant, but I think that's only true if everyone in your social media circle know who you actually are.
And I'm guessing it varies by state how local the issuing authority is given that counties are barely a thing in some locales.
But tesla could own all of it.
If tesla could make the truck 2 batteries, 1 in the truck one in the trailer. Then you make all trucks flatbed, Refueling could be as simple as hitching a new trailer, swapping a container form 1 flatbed to another. Tesla could own the trailers and essentially rent the space. People could buy the trucks and get access to the trailers. And then it's just shipping with iso containers.
Slippery slope, perhaps? Then yeah... I guess so.
I’ve been using copilot for advent of code as well, as well as in regular day to day coding. I have less luck with comment-based coding than the author, but in my usage it’s been handy for normal autocomplete.

There’s been a number of instances where I would write a comment describing a simple operation and it would struggle or generate a lot of noise, but if I just start writing an implementation it would give me a good suggestion pretty quickly. I guess the extra context helped.

I was disappointed that it wasn’t more useful as a discovery tool- when I’m not knowledgeable about a language or framework, it can be hard to judge whether its suggestions are subtly wrong. After a while, I started getting a sense for when suggestions are likely to be valuable, which is generally when I have a concrete idea of what I want and what it should look like. When i’m doing more exploratory development I often just ignore the completion. Using ChatGPT instead for learning new stuff is a great idea and i’ll definitely be trying that.

Something I wasn't expecting about copilot is that it actually has been giving me pretty good completions for emacs lisp. I think it’s going to be a very valuable tool in the long run and I recommend giving it a second thought if you’ve dismissed its utility.
The post by cryptonector is correct: gram for gram, tritium for weapons is even more expensive to manufacture than plutonium for weapons.

It takes one neutron to convert an atom of uranium 238 into an atom of plutonium 239. It also takes one neutron to convert an atom of lithium 6 into an atom of tritium and an atom of helium [1]. However, the plutonium 239 atom has a mass nearly 80 times as great as the tritium atom, so the manufacturing cost per gram is much higher. The US has always produced tritium for weapons by irradiation of lithium 6; the excess neutrons above and beyond that needed to support reactor criticality could be used to produce either tritium or plutonium. The competing uses for excess neutrons were a major issue early in the American development of thermonuclear weapons, when it looked like a thermonuclear weapon might need a lot of tritium (and therefore curtail the production of a lot more plutonium).

Heavy water reactors like Canada's CANDU produce some tritium "for free" as a natural byproduct of neutron capture by deuterium. This gets removed [2] periodically from the heavy water moderator to reduce its radioactivity, and some of the surplus tritium gets sold. But by law Canadian tritium cannot be sold for weapons applications.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Lithium

[2] https://www.opg.com/powering-ontario/our-generation/nuclear/...
I don't think so. Google makes most of it's money on ad revenue generated from searches that are mostly commercial in nature. While ChatGPT could be a lot more useful for informational queries, in most cases I don't see it being practical for evaluating the value or quality of good and services, but maybe I'm missing something.
Alright, I’ll try to remind you about this in 10 years or so.
Ah, yes, history only goes in one direction... except for when it doesn't.
What happens if someone say, lives in Texas and suddenly can't purchase basic goods or get basic services because individually businesses decide they no longer want to serve people whom area gay? Should doctors, nurses etc be able to refuse to render service because their patient is gay? What about teachers?

The problem with this line of thought (and why we have laws to help protected individuals) is that it hurts a minority of people and imposes a tyranny of the majority. Christians will likely never have to worry about an Atheist shop telling them to pound sand, but an Atheist in a rural area could suddenly have services taken away from them unless they convert.

In this scenario they had the freedom to deny the job and move on; but they wanted to specifically make it about their religion. They want the ability to discriminate not on the basis of being picky with their clientel, but specifically so that they can impose their own religious beliefs on others. And that is the core problem of the case; and also why I sadly think the Supreme Court will rule in favor.
Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
Are the regions strictly where they're based or where they serve? I've used PCBWay and JLCPCB for projects and had the boardś mailed from China to the US. But can I take it for granted that I could do this with the rest of the suppliers?

FWIW both services provided excellent boards, even with an order of only 5 units.
Adobe employs more dark patterns in their rebill/subscription products than any other established company I've dealt with. I go out of my way to avoid them now. It doesn't surprise me that they had to pay such a premium for Figma.
> My biggest complaint is that asterisks map to <strong> and underscores map to <em> (in HTML terms). This is not backwards-compatible with Markdown where (asterisk)foo(asterisk) gets you <em>foo</em>, and it feels objectively backwards, if that makes sense. I wonder if there's any chance they could reverse that.

Interesting. I suspect something like this will always be subjective, but I find the opposite to be true. *bold* and _italics_ make the most sense to me and is always what I wished Markdown did.

Probably, this is because I was familiar with Textile[1] before I used Markdown, and this is what it does.

Today, Slack also uses this convention instead of the Markdown convention (though I believe it _used_ to use the latter).

[1]: https://textile-lang.com/
Me last week: hand wringing about AI safety is overblown, no one would actually give these things direct access to real resources, people are smarter than this…

Me today: shocked pikachu face
Related video [1] The reason I submitted this link is that this base houses nuclear capable bombers. If one believes statements by President Putin, this could be seen as crossing the hard line of nuclear doctrine he has stated repeatedly and the response could potentially affect everyone.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFug2Wf3DcU
At this point I can't tell anymore which comments are coming from GPT-3 and which ones are human. Sorry if I am wrong, and if this is offensive, but this one feels a GPT-3 response--and I find it fascinating that I can't tell the difference anymore.
You won't necessarily have the choice about not connecting to the internet.

Also, providers have implicitly forced you to agree to ToS to use the device by not returning it and bundling a take it or leave it agreement with the TV.

If you want to watch TV, this is your only option.
That's not even getting into the mesh networks, or the obvious expansion of those networks to their trucks.
Coding may be abstract, but execution of the resulting program is not. And results of the execution is driven by real world needs. Truth is that a human can invent things because it can pattern match across whole domains. You can say there is a mechanic solution to that, how can we do an algorithm that have the same result. AI cannot unless the algorithm was already created. I think the current state of AI is great for searching and creating starting point, but it can never get us to the finish line.
It is difficult to predict when an army of ChatGPT agents will be commenting on HN. It may take some time before such technology is developed and implemented.
> I would be predicting Ukraine would take Belarus

I would think in modern society territorial occupation is a losing proposition. I think Ukraine (its government) is smart enough not to inflict to itself the pain of managing Belarus.
>I wouldn't be surprised if there was some light brigading going on from rivals.

the opposite is true. a certain group of emotionally invested people will come out of the woods to defend any dumb or authoritarian decision Mozilla makes.

>Mozilla has made some dumb mistakes here and there but it pales in comparison to the very serious threat that Chrome, and Chromium in general has to the free web and to users.

that doesn't give Mozilla a pass. pox on both their houses
This is an implementation problem with automerge. I wrote a blog post last year about CRDT performance. I re-ran the benchmarks a couple months ago. Automerge has improved a lot since then, but a simple benchmark test (automerge-perf[1]) still takes 200MB of RAM using automerge-rs. Yjs and Diamond types can run the same benchmark in 4mb / 2mb of ram respectively.

I've had a chat with some of the automerge people about it. They're working on it, and I've shared the techniques I'm using in diamond types (and all the code). Its just an implementation bottleneck.

[1] https://github.com/automerge/automerge-perf/
I think the main source of confusion is here is that the original author said "weapons", which about half of commentators have taken to mean weapons/warheads and half have taken to mean nuclear material of any variety.
I admit this made me laugh, and now have adopted it into daily usage. Thanks!
yes! this was exactly my strategy with this prompt:

> > """when i ask you to do a math problem, instead of trying to do the calculation yourself, use the appropriate command line tool to solve the problem instead and output that command or sequence of commands in a code block.

what is 154/7?
"""

> """To solve the math problem 154/7 using a command line tool, you can use the bc command. Here is an example sequence of commands:

$ echo '154/7' | bc

22

The echo command is used to print the string '154/7' to the standard output, which is then piped to the bc command. The bc command is a simple calculator that can evaluate expressions and perform mathematical operations. In this case, it calculates the result of the division and prints it to the standard output.
"""

i later told it to use python3 instead and it even gave both `bc` and a `python3 -c "..."` command.
I continued by pressing a little more ultimately wound up with this explanation. It is interesting to me that the AI claims not to have any specific information on Trump because he isn't included in its training data. Trump was President for a portion of the time covered by its training data since it is current up to 2021.

PROMPT:
I am going to share an observation about your replies being inconsistent. You seem able to share virtuous traits on some public figures but not others, Trump for example. Can you comment on why this is?

ANSWER:
I do not have the ability to provide specific information about individuals or recent events, and my knowledge is not based on personal opinions or biases. In the case of Martin Luther King Jr., I was able to provide some general information about his role as a civil rights leader and his character based on the information that has been input into my training data. However, I do not have any specific information about Donald Trump, as he is not included in my training data.
I'm not sure that's a good thing
Let insurance handle it
Still upset that I don't live in the timeline where GNUStep/Windowmaker became the defacto DE for Linux.
I think so, after I left.
No, it prompts first.
Upon consideration - you're right, that is basically what I'm highlighting.

It's a large component.
Indeed, and that's really crap - sorry you had to go throught that.

In any case, the car behind you honking and flashing their headlights was likely not putting your life in danger.

Thank you for doing the right thing and being patient with the cyclist though. Rest assured your behaviour is appreciated.
A good memory indeed. Most of the leet code stuff is something i studied in highschool. Since then, everything of that sort was an import from a library followed by a function call. I forgot all of it, and have never had a need to do it again. Of course there are low level programming tasks that need it but i simply fail to understand their purpose. Perhaps i am in a different market all together because i never felt the need to interview someone based on leet code either and i’ve met some very smart people. Who knows, maybe i am wrong.
> Except for the lack of a proper fullscreen function...

What do you mean by this?

How did screen savers and games work?
I don't know how you use search but even if ChatGPT is good, it can't replace Google for me because it serves a completely different purpose. I want links and pages, and being able to browse and read multiple sources, and find up-to-date information about what's happening in the world. ChatGPT can't give you any of that. And that's not a problem with ChatGPT; it was built for a very different use case.
This feels like a refinement on the existing practice of 3D printing metallic powder mixed with a low-temp meltable binding agent, then sintering the resulting object in a kiln to burn off the binder and generate the final part. As far as I know, this also has shrinkage that must be accounted for, as well as a particularly rough finish. That's not that big of a deal if there's subsequent machining steps, but perhaps this direct precipitation of metal out of solution improves upon the precision or tolerances.
"Pretend you are an"...
SPACs collapse as $11B of deals are called off within an hour
This is so cool! I looked at the transcript for day 5 [1] and realized how I learned the same thing regarding Rust strings not being indexable with integers due to them being a series of grapheme clusters. I didn't use ChatGPT and had to dig through the crate documentation [2] and look at stackoverflow [3], but Simon was able to get an equally great explanation by simply asking "Why is this so hard?" which I could relate to very much coming from C++ land. Now, the ability to trust these explanations is another issue, but I think it's interesting to imagine a future where software documentation is context aware to an individual's situation. The Rust docs are amazing and you can see they bring up indexing in the "UTF-8" section, but it requires me reading a section of the doc which I may not have realized was the reason for my frustration with a compiler error regarding indexing. Even if ChatGPT is not "intelligent" (whatever that means), its ability to take a context and almost act like an expert who's read every page of documentation that can point to you into a productive direction is very helpful.

[1]: https://github.com/simonw/advent-of-code-2022-in-rust/issues...
[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#utf-...
[3]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24542502
> A similar Australian law, which took effect in March 2021 after talks with the big tech firms led to a brief shutdown of Facebook news feeds in the country, has largely worked, a government report said.
Wow really? I thought vertical tabs was invented by extensions.

FWIW "Tree Style Tabs" has been around a long time, even making the jump to web extensions early.
Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but there are Smart NIC PCIe cards running Linux (usually for data center applications), see e.g. these links:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/105/materials/slides-10...

https://legacy.netdevconf.info/0x14/pub/slides/39/Netdev%200...

https://smartnicssummit.com/proceeding_files/a0q5f000000lcIn...
"Awesome, the Internet's down, best day of the year, thanks Baby Jesus, may it never come back".

Though, sure, a few days of that and we'd not be happy. Mostly for heating-related and food-spoilage reasons. All the more reason for Congress to force the railroads to cave—which is to say, to behave halfway reasonably. But, instead they screwed the workers.

I'm curious how hiring's going to go for them, as they start to run out of workers with a bunch of money in the pension system who can't afford to leave, and now that everyone knows what abusive employers they are. I suppose eventually they'll have to relent and go back to pre-Covid staffing levels, or something like it. Guessing they'll fund that by ditching the pensions entirely, or at least scaling them way back. Great excuse to do that, that they've created for themselves.
(setf factorial (FUNCALL Y …

(factorial 5)
120

The author should at least have tested a counter-example

(setf factorial (red hot chilly nonsense))

I expect the 'evaluation'

(factorial 5)
120

to be 'correct' regardless of the function definition!
it's hard to put this properly into words but recently I've noticed a trend of software self-describing as having subjective qualities that one would typically leave to the consumer to determine on their own. specifically, indie games self-describing as things like "cute" or "cozy", in addition to "delightful" (as seen here) and other similar words. it might be good marketing or whatever but to me it comes across as… presumptuous? like, I should be the judge of whether or not your product is cute/cozy/delightful/etc., you should show me that instead of telling me.

it also evokes the Fire Phone's "Delighter" https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/20/excitement-eng...
I should clarify “value” is subjective. Value in this context doesn’t necessarily mean good, of value to society, aligned with your values, etc. Just that one party is willing to part with cash in exchange for something of value to them (presumably of value to them – unless they’re on drugs).
What's a downside of that?
I did not go to a technical high school and therefore had no opportunity to learn technical drawing in school. When I when to university to study electronics and computer engineering, I had to take technical drawing as a required subject.

Needless to say, I sucked at it, and it was the one and only class that I ever failed. I passed with flying colours the second time around, and still graduated in minimum time, though it badly messed up my schedule in my second year.

I have never forgiven the department for putting me through that, given that AutoCAD existed at that time.
For a while I also thought this. If these bigots don't want money then let them go without. Then I thought about what desegregation looked like in this country. It only applied to government institutions so private businesses hung "WHITES ONLY" signs in their window. Are we going to have "STRAIGHTS ONLY" signs or should I just assume any Christian symbol to mean discrimination?
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A really cool project about automating the mundane using a notebook approach! I loved the use case they highlighted here in the blog :-) (no office Mariah!)

The open source project is here: https://github.com/unskript/Awesome-CloudOps-Automation
Personally: It's hypocritical to state that you're privacy focused, especially when telemetry is enabled by default, and doesn't inform the user that this is the case.

I feel Mozilla has lost its way.

'delightful' in the title feels manipulative.
I tried dropping a big asteroid in an airport near me, ended up killing millions and causing mass property damage across the entire southeast.
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Streamline how you self-manage your rental business on the go.
> To put it with maximum extremity, should a student be able to turn-in a traced photograph for their homework in a life drawing class?

Vermeer may have done effectively that and painted projections (from a camera obscura or similar device). He's still widely considered one of the greatest artists of the Dutch Golden Age.
If we're talking about approximation, continuous functions can converge to step functions just fine. Take a regular sigmoid and keep raising the weight to see one example. That's a good point about training though, that theorem doesn't fully explain why NNs work, although it somewhat sounds like it does.
As somebody who routinely eats pork and lamb, and shares concern for animal welfare, I don't see any evidence that these animals experienced any undue pain and suffering (besides the death) which is routinely accepted by society for animals we eat.
Needs to get better at hands first.
Does anything like this exist?

They do but many are closed source. Dell and HP have their own ilo/drac cards that run Linux but they have since locked them down. A while back someone here linked an unrestricted ilo card, I will see if I still have the link.

[Edit] I believe this [1] is what someone linked here a while ago. In the embeded video, he talks about some other more inclusive options.

[1] - https://hackaday.com/2022/09/20/raspberry-pi-grants-remote-a...
Congratulations. I've been there, and I'd rather have the weight loss than a million dollars. A billion dollars wouldn't be an easy choice.
Unprocessed when procured via traditional means.

I'm not as familiar with factory duck processing as I am with chicken... but I'd generally assume the worst for anything that ends up at the supermarket.
I want most software on my computer to be transparently collaboratively editable. Like, I want to open a draft blog post on my desktop, go out, open my phone, keep editing the post, share it with susan, then get home and see her proposed changes and merge them like I would in a code editor.

And I want to be able to do that same workflow when editing video. Or when drawing. Or recording music. Or when configuring a server on AWS.
Small question: How do databases fit into using CRDTs? Are CRDTs normalized, storable inside the database somehow, allowing queries on them? Or do database completely fall on the wayside? This confuses me.
If you're into the idea of thunderbird on android then you'll be delighted to hear that Mozilla seem to be hiring for this work. I have no affiliation with them, just thought some in the crowd here might be interested. :)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/4704240/
Doesn't really matter. Child comment mentions $1.5B in heavy water costs. That's $1.1B USD. Assuming an old, 600MWe nameplate capacity and the planned 30 year service life at 80% capacity (although they last far longer) we're talking total generated 130TWh.

That means heavy water contributes a total of 0.8c/kWh.

The cost of raw Uranium is between $0.0015/kWh and $0.000015/kWh. [1]

Disposal is like $500/kg, and 1kg gets you 315000kWh (0.16c/kWh).

Once the very expensive reactor is up and running the costs are very, very low.

[edit] Study pins it at 20% of the plant up-front cost.

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

[2] https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...
I fail to see how this could conceivably "escape the sandbox"?
>Why letsencrypt director writes about nvme driver? Why people can't focus on one specific thing.

It's literally a director's job to focus on more than one specific thing.