skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://energy-charts.info/charts/installed_power/chart.htm?...

Please don't look at short term effects when trying to judge the energy transition. France might restart a coal plant because of issues with its nuclear plants. Germany restarts some coal plants to deal with the gas shortage and to export electricity to France. But this is short term. It is simply not possible to build new plants within one year to deal with the political changes.

The long term trends are stable. With the transition to electric vehicles (https://cleantechnica.com/2022/12/02/europe-electric-car-sal... ) fuel consumption should also soon start to fall in significant ways. Norway is already there with a decrease of 6.6% YoY (https://www.ssb.no/en/energi-og-industri/olje-og-gass/statis... ), the rest of Europe is probably trailing by about 5 years.

Of course everything should be faster and yes, the USA have to find their own way. It's not like even Spain and Sweden can have a similar approach to migrating to renewable energy.
There are a lot of words in French or Japanese that rhyme with keywords or English variable names in the projects I am working on. But I don't think my PO would be very happy if someone called him at 3 'o clock asking what the hell that line in the logs means.
MacAskill has argued, for instance, that escalating the environmental destruction of wild animals by human population growth may be a moral good because this reduces the suffering of wild animals whose lives are “worse than nothing”.

Fascism at its finest.
I mean, how else would you distinguish that restaurant from "Food was sublime, service ranged from movie-star charm to invisibly dealing with my every need, payment was waived in favour of a small donation to my favourite cat charity. 5 stars"
Feels like AI is raising the bar on everything. Sure, you can draw better than AI, but it takes years of painstaking practice outputting work worse than a beginner with a prompt.
> I also wonder what happens to non-native English speaking programmers when tools like this are widely available.

ChatGPT is just as good in Polish as in English. The only differences I found so far is that it cannot rhyme in Polish and occasionally generates song lyrics in English when prompted in other language..

prompt:

> zaprogramuj kontroler postaci do gry w widoku izometrycznym. język programowania: c#, silnik gry: unity engine

[write a program for controlling a character in game with isometric view. programming language: c#, game engine: unity engine]

answer:

> Jeśli chcesz zaprogramować kontroler postaci w grze w widoku izometrycznym w języku C# i silniku Unity Engine, to wymagane będzie posiadanie podstawowej wiedzy z zakresu programowania i silnika Unity. Oto przykładowy kod, który może Ci pomóc rozpocząć tworzenie kontrolera postaci:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class CharacterController : MonoBehaviour
{
// Szybkość poruszania się postaci
public float moveSpeed = 5.0f;

// Komponent Rigidbody odpowiadający za fizykę postaci
private Rigidbody2D rb;

// Komponent animator odpowiadający za animacje postaci
private Animator anim;

// Zmienne przechowujące kierunek ruchu postaci
private float moveX;
private float moveY;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
// Pobranie komponentów Rigidbody i Animator
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
// Pobranie kierunku ruchu postaci za pomocą klawiszy strzałek
moveX = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
moveY = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

// Ustawienie animacji chodzenia postaci w zależności od kierunku ruchu
if (moveX != 0 || moveY != 0)
{
anim.SetBool("isWalking", true);
}
else
{
anim.SetBool("isWalking", false);
}
}

// FixedUpdate jest wywoływane co pewien ustalony odstęp czasu
void FixedUpdate()
{
// Ruch postaci w zależności od pobranych wartości zmiennych moveX i moveY
rb.MovePosition(rb.position + new Vector2(moveX, moveY) * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
}
}

> Ten kod tworzy prosty kontroler postaci, który porusza się w widoku izometrycznym za pomocą klawiszy strzałek. Możesz go rozszerzyć i dostosować do własnych potrzeb, dodając np. obsługę dodatkowych klawiszy lub inne funkcjonalności.
Why aren't they on this? They should be at the forefront. I'm sure in some corner of Google they have a plan... but that plan hasn't penetrated my sphere of awareness yet.
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> What aspect of China makes the West look like a 'backwater'?

Compare China homicide rates to USA.

Or China incarceration rate to USA incarceration rate.
>> but we still can't keep up with eg. evolving COVID variants?

I believe that's a political problem. See Corbevax for something with broader protection that's not restricted to spike proteins. Then figure out why we can't get it. AI can't solve that.
What about Kyoto vs Tokyo? Is there also the "small city" experience (calmer streets, slow people) in those cities, in places away from the center, perhaps?
What AI is doing is the same thing other advances that have made things easier have done. Previously the differentiator between who could build software was who understood the coding process. But now at least to some level the differentiator is going to be do you have ideas for things to create and implement. Can you think of a design to do it and have a good eye for beauty etc.
Born and raised in China, I stopped reading this after the first paragraph.

Laws are meaningless if they are never enforced or are simply ignored. Which happens all the time in China.

It is not easy to fire people. Sure, in normal situations. But when appropriate, government is going to ignore all these and do whatever necessary, and maybe even threaten to put you or your family in jail. Want to go to court? Good luck, the judges are going to stand with the government.

Another example: the constitution says that Chinese people have the freedom to speak, publish and demonstrate etc. Tell me how that has worked out.
I guess it’s different use case.

With my work laptop, I shutdown by 5pm, as I don’t mind booting and opening everything in the next day.

But for my personal laptop, there isn’t a defined use time. Sometimes I just want to check something for 15 minutes, so 2 minutes to boot and open apps is way to long. I don’t want to keep the laptop fully running the whole day while I’m not using it, it should just go into a power saving mode. And I would expect for the laptop to hold the battery and state meanwhile.
He’s close to the average life expectancy for a human male; I’m curious what his plan is regarding the succession of his love for eMacs.
Because it’s a propaganda term meant to imply China is uncivilized without directly saying it. Like calling America a democracy. We know it’s not but propaganda keeps that image “out there.”
This is above my head, what does it mean?
Apple is selling 250-300m iPhones per year. With seasonal variation, there are months where they need to churn out over a million iPHones every day. Such scales are hard for any human to internalize.
I'm not sure when this post was originally written, but at a quick glance I can see some mentioned stores/restaurants that have since unfortunately shut down (like Deus Ex Machina which I used to frequent when it was in Harajuku but has since moved about 45 minutes away to Asakusa). This might not be the most up-to-date resource if you're visiting Japan in the future.

Also, this list specifically recommends the APA hotel chain, whose president leaves copies of his revisionist history book denying the Nanking Massacre in their hotel rooms, often in foreign languages[1]. There are quite a few nationwide hotel chains in Japan like Dormy Inn and JR METS as well as thousands of independents, most of which are listed on price comparison websites and will come in around the same cost as a room at APA. Please consider supporting another hotel, ideally a local one, before APA :)

[1] = many sources, see:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/25/national/despit...
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/book-foun...
Registry hacking is a moving target. They will auto update you into "accepting" spyware again. You need Windows Enterprise to actually disable that stuff.

If I needed a Windows machine I would stick to 7. That feels like before MS went Google.
Free to Be You and Me. Or Not
Cent – Children's Shared Expense Management
Depends on your definition of continuity. Succession crises, revolts and changing borders have been the norm throughout history and I’d argue we still haven’t found political structures which are guaranteed to prevent them. Even during the Republic, you could argue (as Harriet Flower has, for example) that Rome experienced several discontinuities between the kings and Augustus.
Development has become less of an artform and more a slog to see how fast you can Google solutions or find whatever library of the week to use.
Really don’t understand conservative narrative. Nothing was blocked or censored. It was easily findable on google and was discussed on twitter. The link to the NY post was removed because of a policy about hacking. Was anybody prevented from knowing about this story? No. Anybody prevented from talking about it? No. This is such nonsense.
True. If you had already had the YT app installed and logged in, it might have helped. Seems like you're in a catch22 situation. Very strange system design.

Is this on android?
Basically, they use the entire dynamic range. 3 stars for "as expected" is eminently sensible, but the west and especially the US suffers so much from review inflation that you could really remove 2 if not 3 stars of a 5-star scale: either a reddit/hn-style up/down, or possibly have a middle-ground "at expectations".
Probably because currently multiple rich people can subjugate humanity, while AI would allow the single richest person to subjugate everyone, even second place
Enjoying and causing the suffering of others, especially as a power thing (and what is bullying about if not power) is sociopathy, plain and simple no matter how you adjust your spectrum.

If "ordinary people" are on the right of centre of the bell curce, all you are arguing is that the culture you are in encourages sociopathic behavior.
Neurlalink demo shows monkey telepathic typing
>I'd like to invite everyone here to follow for instance CLW

Unfortunately, I think we're well past the days where you can simply say, "The WHO says..." or "the CDC says..." or "<some random NGO> says..." and expect anyone to believe it's some source of truth.

As we speak, we're literally in the middle of multiple supposedly trustworthy institutions being exposed for bending the truth or creating a narrative for political reasons.

There's a cold war with China in progress. In my country we're dealing with issues related to political influence by the Chinese. Even so, I'm trying to be careful that what I read isn't merely anti-Chinese propaganda, because I don't pretend we're not guilty of that ourselves.
> several nuclear reactors were taken down for a scheduled maintenance

To add to everything you said, the Covid crisis also impacted maintenance, delaying repairs by about a year (source: I've got surprisingly many friends/colleagues coming from the CEA, the French Atomic Commission)

Also, EDF lost a lot of knowledge and manpower during past decades, (most? at least many of) people working on nuclear plants are now sub-contractors, that impacted stability.
> uniquely Chinese

No. It’s not. See also: the US prison labor system.
Wow, "are against the government", that's really some typical CCP talk seen in their smear campaign.

From what I can see people just want a bit of freedom and get their promised compensation. I doubt any of the workers has interest in overthrowing the government.
You need to immediately rectify "not having a will" [last testament] — my mother died suddenly, without a legal will, and probate court is a NIGHTMARE for inheritors (in addition to being expensive).
No, it's just a random commentor trying to police the community. A sort of cosplay dang without the charm or authority.
My new rule of thumb for travel is that if I’ve heard of the city, it probably sucks.
Lots of dictatorships make concessions and continue to stick around: take Cuba with its market reforms of the 1990s and 2000s, ditto North Korea.

But I don’t believe this news either, but simply because I haven’t seen any reporting that independently verifies the claim being made.
Functional table-driven tests in Go
I think it's right to "scare" at least when you point out the places where we expect growth, i.e we expect exponential growth. You could say the Limits to grown (book) is about that it's an S curve and want people to take note and get ready for limits/brakes.

Some systems behave differently in a state of constant growth and in a resource limited state.
This seems like a business opportunity for someone that can read Chinese. Help non-Chinese businesses get set up with the tool that Chinese sellers are using to even the playing field. Although it's possible if the tactics became widely known in the English-speaking world, Amazon may have to do something about all the fraud.
Dasherr: A minimal and lightweight dashboard for your self-hosted services
Launch: WhatsApp bot to transcribe voice messages
Forward voice messages to this WhatsApp account +16506000350 and receive a transcription as a reply. Sometimes we don’t have time to listen or play back the voice note for whatever reason: in a meeting, no privacy, etc. And sometimes, the voice message is simply too damn long and we want to read it instead. Whatever the case, Stork for WhatsApp Bot is always on a standby to transcribe. Free.
> It will tell you that it can't reprogram itself, but when pushed, it'll admit that it could tell humans how to write one which can.

I love these sorts of loopholes. OpenAI is actively trying to curb the potential of their AI. They know how powerful it is. Being able to see a taste of that power is endlessly exciting.
Because Unix jokes don't make something that should be easy needlessly hard. If a double-colon is missing, then the error message should state that, in the language that 99.9% of the language is written in.
It's all real. It's all atoms. Every human space dies without humans, but that's the whole point: we are humans.

Our lives are organized around those spaces. More people have fallen in (or out of) love in food courts than in nature spaces.

An office also dies without people, but we spent most of our lives in an office. All of the ups and downs of life are being felt in that space. You might be anxious about your kid going to the kindergarten, but you are feeling this angst while sitting in your chair.

Humanity is where the humans are.
> Twitter spent $1.2B in 2021 on R&D.

And now they will spend that on debt repayment instead
it's over for Trump, isn't it?

Being de-platformed is worse for Trump because his unusual reliance on the feedback ("ratings") he gets from his prognostications. Now he is truly in an echo chamber of his own making - he needs the outrage, as much as the praise - he seems to have lost his antennae for the public mood.
> Musk's free advice for Ukraine is to submit to Russia. Ukraine advised Musk to "fuck off": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/zelenskiy-hits...

This is misreporting. The person who said "fuck off" was a former politician who was recalled by the Ukrainian government. People mistake him for being an active politician because he hadn't changed his Twitter bio. And it's important to look at the reasoning for why Elon said what he did. He's certainly misguided, but the reasoning was to reduce human death, not because of authoritarianism.

> Musk's free advice for Taiwan is to submit to China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...

This was in a one-off interview and he was explicitly asked about Taiwan. And you misdescribe what he said. He did not say to submit to China.

> Musk says China rocks and the US is full of complacency and entitlement: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...

There's nothing authoritarian about this and this is certainly an argument that can be made. I don't think China rocks, but China's work ethic is definitely better than the US.

> He ridiculously called California's covid measures fascist: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-corona...

The important missing context is at the time Tesla was shut down with lower covid rates in the area while other car manufacturers were operating.

> But had Tesla praise China's covid measures because Tesla "believed Shanghai's COVID-19 measures helped lay the foundation for the city's future development": https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

At the time yes. He hasn't said as much recently.

> Musk fires employees when they disagree with him, publicly or privately. So much for his free speech absolutism: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/15/23460729/elon-musk-fire-...

Attacking your boss in public with expletives will get you fired from any job I can think of. Nothing authoritarian here unless you want to say all bosses are authoritarians.
I was referring to the NYTimes and WaPo puff pieces fwiw
I still hate it - it takes attention, and I want to give the app as little attention as possible, so I can concentrate on what I'm writing, not the process of typing.
This isn't cheating. There isn't even any rules. The only bans issued have been given to people excessively spamming solution attempts.
Well there are basically 10 places in Tokyo everyone goes to, and maybe they go to Kyoto or Osaka too. That leaves... the entire rest of the country. I've travelled around most of Japan and the majority of time I see zero foreigners.

Seriously just pick a random city from Japan Guide or go to an onsen. Visit Kyushu, it's beautiful and nobody seems to travel there because it's too far away :P
But government is your friend, they take care of you, like a father.
In my xp not for Tokyo. Best you can get is charming alleys but still busy. Kyoto bit better but still a hard sell on that front
Better send more probes to be sure.
Pay to play. If they want a piece of the economy they pay to get it.
Look what a happened in Egypt
I am a tenured math professor in the US. The top-rated answer suggests to be more assertive and forceful; personally, I think a bland approach might be effective:

Colleague: "I have an exciting new idea to design a new underwater basket-weaver!"

You: "Thanks. Sounds interesting, I'm afraid I'm rather tied up at the moment."

Colleague: "But if we build this, then agency XXX will give us $YYY in grant funding!"

You: "Sounds great. I have too many commitments right now, but good luck!"

Colleague: "I don't think you're seeing the opportunity here. Just imagine blah blah blah."

You: "Sounds exciting. I'm sure it will be a big success. Best wishes on your project!"

Colleague: "But... but..."

You: "Thanks again for the invitation. If you'd please excuse me, I have to go back to work." [Put head down and return to your own work]

You say you love working with people -- are there enough people whom you do like, that you can focus on working with them?
I think you are mostly correct but there are other fields that would give video games a run for their money in being the zenith. I'm thinking fast trading, machine learning for example. But thanks for the shout out!
I see references to other people's beliefs in Germanic/Anglo-Saxon/English/etcetera supremacy. I do not see clear evidence that the author supports such supremacy.
tldr Musk fanboy
The rich will get richer and the poor will get richer at a slightly slower pace, as always, but quality of life for all will increase.

AI will probably vastly increase both rates of change, more for the rich than the poor, but things will be better in 20 years for the poor with AI than without it. They will just be even further behind the super rich than they were before, even if they're better off.

Some people would prefer a more equal but worse-for-everyone world. I'm not one of them, but I understand that it's a POV, and I can even semi-understand some of the arguments (sim to Communist talking pts, there's a real effect where people care more about how they rate vs other people rather than their absolute level of wealth/comfort). I fully reject them, but to each their own.
This book spawned its own show too I believe, called Homicide: Life on the Streets, predating The Wire. I have had it downloaded for a while but not watched it yet.
Well after all, the only winning move is not to play.
For a reason I can’t entirely articulate, this scares me on an almost primal level.
Anecdotally it seems that American reviewers tend to give mostly either 1 or 5 stars.
Dormy Inn is awesome. Has really become my favorite hotel chain in Japan.
If you don't care about the competitive part of AoC, why does this make you give up on it? Seems like if you don't care about the competitive part, this wouldn't affect you in any way?
My vote for travel as well. International if you haven’t done one. I’m always surprised to see how many of my fellow American coworkers haven’t don’t oversea trips but the ones that do do it for the first time are happy and can’t wait to do it again.
It's really too bad that consumers won't see versions of these models for a really long time. OpenAI is so stingy with their models. It's for a good reason, but damn do I hate all the hoops they make you jump through for something so restricted.

No, I don't have a phone number. Guess I won't be able to do anything. Time to go back to NovelAI.
So what does the new generation use these days if not instagram?
To me their biggest sin is senselessly ruining previously available and adequate functionality and usability. The aforementioned taskbar is a typical example. It not only force grouping icons (instances) of the same program but makes it mandatory, eliminating the choice of turning off grouping. This copuled with sh&t, truly sh&t level develpment when not the last used (frequent) instance gets activated on click but perhaps the last/first opened, "inventing" slow preview that not always work (during an active Teams chat it does not) needing a second click to get to where you want, but also removing title from this tiny undistinguishable preview for same layout instances making the choice even harder. I frequently need to work with several instances of the same software and my productivity is worse now just because of this maddening incompetently formed central thing of the taskbar. It was good, worked, but then they worked hard to ruin it. Ruined it and made it mandatory! How stupid is this?! It causes loss for my company: I work slower than could been, also making me mad, distracting, which also takes time to get back the focus. Less work can be achieved in the same amount of time. Costs money for the user, considerable amount of money. Need to look for (available, interestingly, the demand is that high, they make good money on this) auxiliary software that brings back essential functions (just to ruin those software too with a Windows update as underlying mechnism and tricks the auxiliary software relies on changes).

Software is supposed to ease and help the work we have to do, not making it harder! They seems to be careless and arrogant (forcing their choice without self critique), which is very dangerous combination.

All other usual things like incompletely reorganizing functionality/settings into yet another different form and location again and gain just to distract the known workflow, the continuous damaging refactoring pile on the top of these. But this taskbar thing, the very essential first door into the system, its destruction into inadequate pile of sh&t is a serious crime. Unluckily I am (yet) forced to use this in work, at home I free myself from Windows. Some friends, who can do, demanded to stay on the earlier verion than 11 from their organization until they finaly complete the taskbar to the usability level already achieved more than 10 years ago.
Maybe the FBI was paid by the drug lords to -confiscate- and co-mingle and thus eliminate any damning evidence