skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a collaborative fiction writing project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation

> The SCP Foundation is a fictional secret organization documented by the collaborative-writing wiki project of the same name, with the abbreviation standing for "Special Containment Procedures". Within the website's shared universe, the Foundation is responsible for capturing, containing, and studying various paranormal, supernatural, and other mysterious phenomena unexplained by science (known as "anomalies" or "SCPs"), while also keeping their existence hidden from the rest of human society.

> The collaborative writing project operates on a wiki-like website, and includes elements of many genres such as horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy. The majority of works on the SCP Wiki consist of thousands of SCP files: mock confidential scientific reports that document various SCPs and associated containment procedures.
OpenRA will eventually get around to reimplementing it. They're now on Tiberian Sun, which has the same engine, so RA2 should be next.
I asked it to encode a 17th response with a suitable cipher. It produced something that looked remarkably like cipher text, but sadly was just gibberish.
I don't care about securities law or what the US government does towards crypto. My point is that these ARE securities and bitcoin IS a commodity. When people truly understand this they realize owning anything crypto is akin to buying penny stocks and Bitcoin is basically digital gold 2.0
> $100,000,000

Which still is 0.2% of what one dude paid to run one crappy social network.
Thanks for the reply. I tried to search for the passage but couldn't find it myslef.
I'm not into Ethereum, but "more precise estimation of gas costs" sounds like a letdown compared to what you would want to build a really reliable smart contract. Can't a contract just die if it can't pay its gas bill?

With all the investment in blockchain (as you yourself mentioned in another comment), and so much money riding on the correctness of contracts, it seems like the incentives should line up to develop proper, usable formal methods (starting with backing down from Turing-completeness for the most part, most likely). That would be a pretty nice side effect for us skeptics. That's honestly what I was hoping for, with OP.
Iran: State-Backed Hacking of Activists, Journalists, Politicians
Some Meta employees claim they're not getting promised severance
A scam is a scam, it doesn’t matter if it’s a mega corp or a single person doing it.

Selling lifetime licenses and then canceling them when you realize you want to make more money is a scam.
> There is nothing specific preventing nuclear and renewables to be used on the same grid.

Any grid with both has the nuclear plant very expensively acheiving nothing whenever there is a surplus of renewables.

This is about 6-8 hours a day without storage or dispatch. When you can match the EAF of the nuclear plant by overprovisioning slightly and adding a few hours storage at lower cost, there's no way for the plant to be economical as a suppliment, because it can't match the $0 of the otherwise curtailed renewable energy.

They might have a viable niche generating heat + electricity for some uses though.

> That is under very conservative assumptions about the types of reactors and state of ore deposits. Realistically, it's about 100 years, and that's likely overestimating needs because nuclear cannot do everything.

An APR like AP1000 or EPR gets 60MWd thermal per kg at 3.5%. Assuming 0 tails essay (economical enrichment leaves behind about 1/4th to 1/3rd of U235) this is roughly 300GJ electric per kg of Natural Uranium. Roughly in line with a CANDU. Reprocessing repeatedly until all the nuclides are fertile rather than fissile adds <20%, or (using technology that exists) <15% with a single round of SNF.

In the most optimistic scenario. For the ~10 million tonnes of reasonably assured resource assuming no increase in energy use and 8 of 18TW can be reduced or provided with waste heat somehow this lasts around ten years.
My wife played a lot of strategy games as a kid, including Dune 2 when it came out. She also speaks fondly of Dune 2000.
I just searched the Philadelphia Inquirer website for that phrase and was unable to find anything. I also searched Google for the phrase, both with and without quotes, and with/without the words “Philadelphia Inquirer,” and I haven’t found the original source.

Are you able to find the source of that quote? It’s so outrageous, and is so not something that a corporate spokesperson would say, that I wonder if it’s somehow been taken out of context. Or if it even happened.
Is there a reason existing programming languages cannot be used for smart contracts? The overhead of a new language seems quite high compared to the already established engineering communities around widely adopted languages.
I don't really dislike Elon. I think he doesn't do things from a bad place but possibly because he's not neurotypical he's been sucked into spending his energy pleasing his craziest fans.

We'll have to disagree on Hastings quotes, to me they seem clearly a way to speak nicely about Musk with a wink to those who don't idolize him.
so for fun, i threw one at Los Angeles. Downtown specifically. By the animation of the fireball and sonic waves, it seems quite devastating. My question is if the fact that downtown LA is in a bowl, would the surrounding mountains lessen the devastation at all compared to the exact same asteroid hitting somewhere else much more flat like say Dallas? Like, would Burbank be less destroyed from an LA impact than say Frisco outside of Dallas with nothing to lessen/deflect?

then again, it's california, so the seismic damage might just set of the Big One(tm) resulting in even larger damage as california would just split off into the ocean giving arizona some much needed ocean front property finally.
The greatest battle capitalism ever won was against our Imagination

It's easier for most to imagine the end of the world than an end to capitalism
How does this work for blind people???
As I understand it, smart contract languages generally have to be specifically tailored to the primitive operations offered by the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine). Binary size is at a strict premium, because the price to deploy a smart contract (currently in the thousands of dollars on the main Ethereum network) directly depends on it.
Self published on Amazon, very impressive
Pavlov's dog would approve.
I have a condo in Chicago so there's more to it. And individually we live in "units".
>do we just forget other people's freedom when they do things you don't like

Yes, we do this all the time.
Well, there is Oscar Pistorius [1], a double leg amputee (below the knee) who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in running events, so ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius
> Basically, you live in a fantasy world.

Hoping to make the world a better place, via more democracy...

I objected to your original assertion that we should consolidate states in the U.S., because that would be less democratic, and I think we should go in the other direction. I assume more local government is better, because it is more responsive to the people. People revolt if when a government becomes too unresponsive. Also it's easier to corrupt a more centralized and far away government, a one-stop shop for the oligarchs. We've got enough of that as it is. I don't think theirs anything sacred about the status quo. We could do a lot better.

If the people in Vermont and Rhode Island want to merge, I'd be ok with that. I don't think they want to, though! If the people in eastern Oregon want their own state, or to join with Idaho, I'd be ok with that also.

I am still curious why you think less states in the U.S. would be better? Is there a reason you said that?

> but someone like Hitler doesn't stop with Bavaria, he takes over everything around him

Remember that Hitler didn't start as the ruler of Bavaria, he was able to become the leader of the entirety of Germany because Germany was already a large country. Also other large countries caused WW2 by leaving Germany trashed after WW1, a war which happened because a united (large) Germany was a threat to the other large nations of France, Russia, and the UK. Large countries caused those wars.

Prior to Germany uniting there were smaller wars in the area. Nobody said that small countries would never go to war, but they tend to so less often, and with less impact. Most people don't want to go to war, they end up forced into it.

Maybe this all goes back to kings who created these large countries to command more money and power? Hard to say stuff like that is in the interest of the people, especially considering how well many small countries have done for themselves.

> So, in your world, all the free nations will be too small economically or militarily to really do much and won't be able to effectively unite, and then they'll be beaten into submission by China and Russia.

Small countries confederate when they need to. They are aware of threats, they make alliances. They get caught off guard sometimes, just like big countries do. The U.S. entered the NATO alliance with other countries, we didn't have to merge them into ours.

There's no reason we can't make changes to be more democratic and still defend ourselves. China and Russia are not a threat to the United States if we have more states and give them more power. China and Russia are both large centralized countries that are disintegrating - the Soviet Union is gone, Russia is still declining, and China is headed in the same direction.

What do you suggest, we become a large dictatorship because that is the most efficient way to weaponize a nation, in order to best defend ourselves from hypothetical threats? Or do you think that everything is perfect in the U.S. at the moment, except for some pesky small state senators, and we should just plod along wondering if the next Jan 6 will be successful or not?
Repairing and Restoring Singapore’s Reel Heritage
This looks pretty intersting. Besides, I find it fascinating how jgm apparently is happy on both sides of the "typed language" spectrum. pandoc in Haskell, and djot in Lua. True, pandoc has acquired a lot of Lua in the recent years, but still. I wonder how it feels switching from the cozy safety of a language like Haskell, back to the "good old" interpreter days. I personally have dropped writing anything larger then 1k lines in a dynamic language. Have been bitten by my own inconsistencies too much in the past.

I wonder what someone like jgm has to say about the difference of writing Haskell and Lua.
Yes. Machines including GPT are not the ones doing things, they can't be compared to humans. And humans may desire to do things with machines that should not be considered acceptable because of how they affect human society, and humans may or should be limited (as they already are in all aspects of life that involve other humans).
Being uninformed does not mean one deserves crimes committed against them. The fault lies with those doing the stealing, not the victims of theft.
Release date is tomorrow. You might want to call in sick ahead of time.
It's funny because if they tried to replace key locks with fingerprint readers there'd be an immediate lawsuit over accessibility despite far more than 85% of people having usable fingers.
> If we applied the same standards to everything in life, then life would stagnate

Which is exactly why we don't, and essentially no one is advocating for it. But different domains of life need different risk tolerances. Some amount of greater caution, to say the least, is warranted when you're dealing with people's health.
Thanks for the details. In this case, if the allegations are actually true, and they accidentally used Bioglue on brain tissue, it seems like a fine is in order for the UC Davis lab. But does it really warrant an investigation of this magnitude? Why couldn't this be handled at the California state level?
Remember when Gmail was new and you needed an invite from an existing user to create an account?

Yahoo mail was tossing those invites right into spam.
Ancient human relative used fire, surprising discoveries suggest
If the cost of printing a menu is more than the price of the meal, I don't want to eat there.
The article says the Nazis traded him 137 looted paintings in exchange for the Vermeer, so yes, at the very least he's profiting off the original owners, who likely died in concentration camps.
> The civil rights movement didn’t boo hoo that things were “hard to work around”.

I'm quite confident that the civil rights movement did complain that things were hard to work around. That didn't stop the movement of course. Just like people are still fighting the big tech monopoly, despite the uphill battle
It's also great to get answers for things you'd get downvoted to hell on StackExchange sites!
Alan Bourdain writing about a bread maker he knew: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29077398
The canned answer seems to kick in in response to that question on ChatGPT.

Can someone try it on raw GPT in OpenAI playground?
Adobe Stock defines new guidelines for content made with generative AI
I can’t imagine the intended audience being so wide as to include a goal of “replacing Markdown as the default on GitHub.”

Instead, this project appeals to me as someone who’s already “bought in” to the pandoc ecosystem. Pandoc makes it really easy to write filters[1] and to take the same source file to generate web pages[2], Reveal.js presentations, Beamer presentations, and long-form PDFs[3]. As someone who writes most things in Markdown compiled via pandoc, I see the cracks in the edges all too often, but I’m too stubborn to give up markdown or any of the tools I’ve built up around pandoc and pandoc markdown. I could absolutely see there come a day where I find some last straw where I can’t get done with pandoc Markdown what I need to get done, and djot seems like it would at least be a contender. I’m sure there are many pundits here would chime in and say “just use Asciidoc,” but every time I look at a syntax quick reference, I get about halfway down the page before thinking “nah, this looks too foreign, I don’t want something that diverges this far from Markdown.”

Djot deviates in annoying ways from Markdown, but not as many and so it’d be an easier pill to swallow for the narrow audience of people like me who want something mostly similar to Markdown that works well with pandoc and avoids the most common syntactic oddities of Markdown.

[1] https://github.com/jez/pandoc-sidenote

[2] https://github.com/jez/pandoc-markdown-css-theme

[3] https://github.com/jez/pandoc-starter
I wasn't expecting it to work on touch-only devices but the left "leg" worked. But the right "leg" didn't. Is it possible to let it work on touch devices by dividing the screen into two halves such that tap on left register for left and tap on right registers on right? Or is the intention here to keep it vintage and not make it work on touch devices?
the gold standard was abolished to due it's volitile nature, compared to stability of a fiat like the USD. Bitcoin being a volitile commodity itself, it will not be able to run the global economy on-top of it.
I was thinking exactly the same.

Fred has to push the crypto agenda, and this is another example of something that doesn't need "web3" at all, and yet, here we are...
> 3. GitHub is the king.

While I also like GitHub, I make very little use of its web interface. I mostly use gh to interact with the service. But I use markdown to generate document fragments on a daily basis. Claiming a technology is going to fail because the one big player in town has not adopted it yet is... not very open, to say the least.
I share this sentiment. Would be interesting to see how many folks this resonates with, maybe it's the beginning of a wonderful support group. And the irony that it started on HN will be lost on... well, nobody!
Feel free to have whatever opinion you want of Elon Musk, but SpaceX has been wildly successful by just about every metric. In terms of cost, they are launching payloads at 1/44th the cost per kg of the Space Shuttle and at a fraction of the cost of their private sector competitors. Also, there's the fact that we were bumming rides off the Russians for a decade because of NASA's issues...

https://medium.com/geekculture/spacex-vs-nasa-cost-4fae45482...
I do believe you need a card to use their boxes. Yes, I oppose that.
Plenty of use cases for markup languages that never touch Github, luckily.
My point was we don't need an AI to make a mess of things, we already have the ability to do that ourselves - and with the way we're going with climate change, a very likely collapse of society and path to extinction, it seems pretty obvious to me that an AI couldn't do much worse (though it might do it much faster and more efficiently, which would probably be a net benefit for the earth).

Basically, everything you point out I agree with, except replace "benevolent AI" with "myopic human".
The thing is that intelligence is kinda orthogonal to the ability to feel pain. Bacteria don't seem to have a nervous system, so that would be a place to draw a first line.
There are many predecessors that were strategy games that run in real-time, but they aren't RTS games in the modern sense.

One historian defines it as a game which:

> ...runs in real time, ... also one where players start with a largely blank slate, gather resources, and use them to build a variety of structures. These structures can in turn build military units who can carry out simple orders of the “attack there” or “defend this” stripe autonomously. The whole game plays on an accelerated time scale which yields bursts if not sustained plateaus of activity as frantic as any action game[1].

1: https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-...
You were replying to a comment asking “Ant Successful”, so…
How to Dollyzoom
Funnily enough when you ask it about words that don't exist it gives you examples of totally real words.
>Besides the evidence to the contrary

You haven't presented evidence to the contrary, you've presented evidence that former soldiers make shooty LEOs. You should re-read the above comment chain, regarding what's being claimed and why, or admit that you're not here to argue a point but grind an axe. Sure, I have no evidence that training cops like soldiers regarding not firing their weapons until some situational conditions were met would reduce shootings, and I'm neither a cop, a soldier, nor an American. That said, there certainly seems to be evidence that training cops to view civilians as enemy combatants, and to be quick to shoot them, encourages cops to shoot people. I mean, it's called "killology" (I just can't get over that). It seems to me that if cops were trained to not fire their weapons until some situational conditions were met, it might discourage cops from shooting people. Maybe I'm being ridiculous!

"RoE, or specific claims about the implementation and efficacy of RoE, is/are bullshit" is a different point, which I'm totally willing to concede. Again, maybe I'm being ridiculous, but I figure reality of American policing is that it'd be easier to hoodwink cops into something approaching military discipline than, like, de-escalation training, actually barring crazies from the profession rather than allowing them to get jobs a few counties over, and handing back the Pentagon-surplus APCs.
Coding will just change, it won't go away. It will need to be directed and taught just like any other junior dev who knows the theory but has no sense of value-add or larger context.

We will always have to supervise the machines. Otherwise we wouldn't still be putting Prometheus on 'stable' systems
Perhaps time has passed it by, but I still have a warm spot in my heart for Marvin Minsky's Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines, perhaps to be read before Hopcroft, Ullman, and Motwani.
A one year subscription to oreilly.com is $499 +taxes
land also has a fixed supply and lots of people have argued that because it's a fixed supply it should be managed/regulated differently than things that have unlimited supply like say labor or produce
A more interesting consideration is how much data is going to be collected, retained, and monetized down the line. And probably handed over to law enforcement.
Surprised there isn’t a movie franchise about this.
Hostess decided to SPAC.
Your desire to speak English and choice of Scotland are incompatible.
I really don’t understand why we as a society have found it acceptable to experiment like this on other sentient beings for our own advancement.

Why are these animal lives worth less than ours? Just because we are more “advanced”?

Killing animals for food is at least in line with the natural order (leaving aside factory farming). Running experiments like this is far beyond natural, and to me is quite bizarre and unethical.
The Metaverse is empty, and an example use case for the future
> ... a frighteningly small sample to draw conclusions from?

Just make the usual assumption: The data consists of random variables that are independent and have the same distribution. Or "independent and identically distributed", i.e., the i.i.d. case.

Then can apply the theorems called the law of large numbers, either the weak version or the strong version.

Then in the application of the law of large numbers, the number of samples is crucial, but, possibly surprisingly, the number of cases in all the data does not get involved, is not used in the law of large numbers, and is irrelevant. That is, to be more explicit, with this approach, we don't care how many galaxies there are, 10^12, 10^100, 10^1000, whatever.

Right: With different approaches, might care a lot about (a) the number of galaxies there were in total, (b) the number of galaxies used in the analysis, i.e., if in (b) we had enough samples to characterize (a), to have a good approximation of the results we would get if we analyzed all of (a).

For more, might claim that (A) the distribution we use in the law of large number is just that of ALL of the galaxies, a large number but not infinite (commonly a distribution is for infinitely many) and (B) drew the sample to be analyzed by rolling dice or some other mechanism that achieved independence so that, net, we have i.i.d. as wanted for the law of large numbers. So, here the distribution is not of some imaginary collection of infinitely many galaxies but just of the large but finitely many galaxies there are in THIS universe or THIS observable universe, or ..., this universe once we get tired of collecting data, start to run out of grant money, want to get home with the kids, want to watch the soccer matches, ...!
Is Carvana going out of business? The 'Amazon' of cars tumbles
> Normally Java doesn't compile immediately but after enough iterations.

I've never done perf work with JVM, but ...

Is that iteration count reduced over time at all? If not, and from other behavior described, it seems like this could explain the 48 hours of fine, and then spikey garbage. Compilation cache is nearly filled, some bit(s) of code get called often enough to be compiled after 48 hours, finding space in the cache takes lots of cpu, eventually something more useful is evicted, but then you have even more cache pressure because those more useful items will come back in less than 48 hours, and more things will come in as they hit their required 49,50, etc worth of iterations.

If it's inexepensive to increase the cache size, seems like something reasonable to try, but the 48 hour period of stability makes testing difficult. I'm assuming the only realistic test system is production, cause that's how it usually is.
He’s a dude who bombed and maimed people, what are you on about?
Yep, for the 10th gen X1 Carbon
Probably Ark's best performing investment of the year
I'm waiting on the federal probe into Fauci's beagles. Talk about cruelty.

Not a fan of nuerolink and Elon, but it seems political.