skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm not joking.

ITER fails in at least two ways. First, the intensity of neutron radiation at the first wall is far too low for a viable commercial reactor. It cannot simulate the heat load a commercially viable breeding module would encounter. Second, ITER cannot operate for more than a few weeks, so it cannot simulate the integrated radiation load a commercial first wall would have to be able to withstand. It also cannot operate with enough blanket modules, for long enough, to move the designs down experience curves for reliability growth to occur so they are sufficiently robust for a commercial reactor (this is a huge looming problem, as they will be very difficult to repair.)

Abdou at UCLA has been beating the drum for a FNSF to actually address these issues. He's been beating this drum for DECADES.
If "making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done" - then I'm sorry, you must not be doing very difficult computer programming.
No evidence to offer? Not even a scrap? Thought not. Shadowy conspiracy theory it is then.
XFCE 4.18
Living long is highly over rated as quality of life tanks beyond a point. Ideally we should be measuring Gross National Stupidity.
This a pretty reductive take. Based on my observations so far,I don't think EM is as unprincipled as this suggests.
> TF2 lets you mod pretty much anything

It's not 2012 anymore, 90% of players play casual where sv_pure is always enabled so you can't mod almost anything.
This depends entirely on _how_ the code is wrong. I asked chatGPT to write me code in python that would calculate SHAP values when given a sklearn model the other day. It returned code that ran, and even _looked_ like it did the right thing at a cursory glance. But I've written SHAP a package before, and there were several manipulations it got wrong. I mean completely wrong. You would never have known the code was wrong unless you knew how to write the code in the first place.

To me, code that is 95% correct will either fail catastrophically or give very wrong results. Imagine if the code you wrote was off 5% for every number it was supposed to generate. Code that is 99.99% correct will introduce subtle bugs.

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No shade to chatGPT, writing a function that calculates shap values is tough lol, I just wanted to see what it could do. I do think that, given time, it'll be able to write a days worth of high quality code in a few seconds.
I think of HN as being a social network already. There is no need for another 'social network' in the world, actually less would be best.
> For solar to win, [...] If we can capture peak solar generation and move that energy to the peak demand period, we can have a serious discussion about moving away from coal for baseload generation.

Why is it always solar vs coal? The generation mix depends on your network, but AFAIK, the world is already moving away from coal towards natural gas; and solar is often complemented by wind.
Yes, it's extremely good. Can recommend. Also, the nice 2015 edition is on BGA.
> They are really mostly copying whatever they were trained on, but on a scale that it appears indistinguishable from intelligent creation.

Which is what most humans do, and what most humans need.
If only people understood that principle applies to everything from child kidnapping by strangers to police brutality to voter fraud.

Our brains are primed for clickbait.
How many "feats" at the level of writing Git have you achieved in previous holiday breaks?
"Improving human wealth" is hardly the point of anything at all. If you believe otherwise, I'm afraid you are horribly confused. You won't be alone, but you will be confused.

Are you trying to maximize "human wealth", "human life", or "quality of life"? You've brought at least three different priorities into it, and none of them are necessarily related to each other.

In any case, "climate change" will wreak havoc on humanity and everything else. We should aim to avoid that to the extent that we think wreaking havoc on humanity and everything else is bad. This will involve tradeoffs, some of which are certain to be unpleasant. Adapt-or-die is a fact of nature, so having to justify adapting is at least curious.

I remember a man on television many years ago who said he was in favor of "saving the planet", but who would pay for it? The implication was that if it cost too much money, he'd rather just let the planet die. That's a pretty wild idea, you know? Imagine a comet on a collision course with the planet, and we ask ourselves, you know, whether it's really worth spending all that money to prevent the annihilation of all life.

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> already debunked explained and reexplained in hundreds of variants

Appeal to authority isnt a convincing argument. But if you're going to do it, you need to at least reference what you're appealing to.
I raise you Italy and the office map I dorgot the name of and that is most likely just called office...
Might be beneficial to add flight history and number of times visited <current destination> over the last 10 years.
We have built an insane amount of infrastructure within 10 meters of sea level (cities, ports, nuclear power plants, homes) and any model that doesn’t take into account the destruction of that infrastructure is a broken model (it’s probably not incorporated because it’s so hard to believe).

If NYC floods (a la Sandy) a few times a year, you can sure as hell bet there will be negative GDP consequences.
No, sure. Maybe the CIA won't betray you. I mean, they gain people's trust in order to betray it all the time - that's what spies do - but maybe your trust in them won't be betrayed.
I'm commenting on the quality of the video rather than the quality of FSD. More visibility equals more insight into the actual performance (or nonperformance) of FSD. A video where I can't see what's in front of the car is worthless.
Reminds me of the saying "money can't buy happiness". It can't but it does remove friction. A country with a larger GDP can do more for it's citizens.
I see a few major problems in the pursuit of modern scientific inquiry.

- Bureaucratization. The modern university model is basically the DMV. It functions to sustain the lifestyle of the administrators in charge and to prevent them from losing power, money, status. And no one enjoys it, not the employees, not the customers, etc. and yet who can change it for the better? It can and does only get worse, more bureaucratic, more soul sucking. Ask the post-docs.

- Feminization of academia and science. This is related to the bureaucratization. Process, safety, paperwork, meetings and community consensus are paramount. All becomes politics. Everyone must agree. Only small questions can be answered. You need permission for everything. Anything truly novel is considered a threat to the scientific community. Modern day "scientism" and other beliefs are the replacement to christianity in the west, and women are more religious (look it up), and academe is the modern day church. All dissent or inquiry is squashed.

- Denial of Great Man Theory. Great men invented modernity, and of course our modern industrial state requires many layers of managers due to the huge complexity, so sizes of labs, colleges, corporations, assembly lines, supply chains have exploded, and no one person can manage it all in their mind.

The false belief is thus: modern industrial society requires the managerial class to function, therefore the managerial class invented it, and it requires the managerial class to progress. Therefore great man theory, or the idea of the innovative genius, is supposedly debunked.

And yet you see nearly all major advances come from tech bros like Elon Musk et al who are trailblazers, ignore complaints of the bureacracy, etc.

- Could the university system have produced facebook, spacex, tesla, microsoft, apple? You can go on and on.

Please don't interpret this as an attack on women or femininity. Society requires everyone for it to function properly, and everyone has a positive contribution to make, but we have to be able to iterate and change when we realize certain modes of endeavor simply do.not.work.
Using the word 'trauma' to describe networking configuration is a huge exaggeration.
I agree with you. Even software that had no bugs today (if that is possible) could start having bugs tomorrow, as the environment changes (new law, new hardware, etc.)
it truly is bizarre how many haters came here to post irrelevant and incorrect information to attack Musk doing a change in twitter policy because of reasons we don't know.
It's not clear at all whether the model is a derivative work from a copyright standpoint. Maybe they are, may be they are not - it's definitely not settled, the law isn't very explicit and as far as I know, there is no reasonable precedent yet - and arguably that would be one of the key issues decided (and set as precedent) in these first court battles. I also wouldn't be surprised if it eventually doesn't matter what current law says as the major tech companies may lobby passing a law to explicitly define the rules of the game; I mean if Disney could lobby multiple copyright laws to protect their interests, then the ML-heavy tech companies, being much larger and more wealthy than Disney, can do it as well.

But currently, first, there is a reasonable argument that the model weights may be not copyrightable at all - it doesn't really fit the criteria of what copyright law protects, no creativity was used in making them, etc, in which case it can't be a derivative work and is effectively outside the scope of copyright law. Second, there is a reasonable argument that the model is a collection of facts about copyrighted works, equivalent to early (pre-computer) statistical ngram language models of copyrighted books used in e.g. lexicography - for which we have solid old legal precedent that creating such models are not derivative works (again, as a collection of facts isn't copyrightable) and thus can be done against the wishes of the authors.

Fair use criteria comes into play as conditions when it is permissible to violate the exclusive rights of the authors. However, if the model is not legally considered a derivative work according to copyright law criteria, then fair use conditions don't matter because in that case copyright law does not assert that making them is somehow restricted.

Note that in this case the resulting image might still be considered derivative work of an original image, even if the "tool-in-the-middle" is not derivative work.
TNT has actually pretty low energy density - lower than chocolate chip cookies if I remember correctly. It's only used because of its ability to deliver it all in one go - something cookies lack. Energy density alone is a fairly inadequate metric to decide how dangerous some material is, and what precautions to take handling and transporting it.
Many will point out that GDP isn't everything, and they're right, but you are asking the right questions. Consider that human development has always been about more energy expended per capita, and using that energy to shape our environment so that life gets better. A footpath that gets muddy in the rain becomes (with more energy) a Roman road paved with stone becomes (with yet more energy) a modern asphalt highway, each progressively letting people travel further with greater ease.

With that in mind, and considering that fossil fuels are for now still the cheapest and most reliable source of energy for those who need it the most -- that is, the global poor -- I think an immediate phase-out of fossil fuels without an equivalent alternative is a non-starter, climate change or not. There is a lot of investment into renewable energy sources so it's possible that we reach that point of equivalence soon, though.

In terms of climate change itself, the argument I find most persuasive to significantly reduce emissions is to prevent geopolitical instability arising from climate-related natural disasters, mainly crop failure and famine. I happen to think that there's more pessimism than warranted in that regard, but nonetheless it's a real risk.
Can you give examples of those fun surprises? I'm curious. Thanks!
That's funny, because I actually dislike Musk and see some of his actions/statements as harmful.

So this assumption that I'm pro Musk is your limitation in seeing the world in a pro/anti-Musk simplistic binary.

You're a product of the culture wars. You think in binary narratives.
GitHub link broken--I assume it's still private.
I just added it to the main post in order to help shape the conversation. I have no desire to lead a social media company.
But they're Artists and makes the same approach all better

/s
There is really only a single barrier: adoption. You have to figure out how you can get thousands of users to join and then if it's a good product it should start to snowball.
If you create a trademark-violating image using an AI model does that demonstrate anything more than that that particular image is violating? Like it's also violating if I hand draw those images, the fact that they're AI-generated doesn't enter into it.
There is such a way to cheat, and it's pretty clever. Store a depth map and just approximate parallax while you're waiting for a real new frame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_reprojection
HTMX is hands down one of the greatest tools of the past few years. Very happy with it and Django.
"Motion picture" is the more traditional term, but it's clunky and perhaps unknown to the writer.
Nowadays, those private servers earn you a cease & desist letter. At least in the US.
If artificial meat is to be advertised as a meat replacement, it ought to have similar nutritional qualities to real meat. Otherwise we're either misleading consumers into thinking they're getting benefits that they're not, or creating mental effort for them as they now have to eat twice to get the same total benefit. The latter is something vegans and vegetarians already have to do; it's tricky to get enough protein and iron in a veggie diet while keeping calories low. If a single product can reduce that mental effort, that's great.
Not really. Don't remember where I read it. It was a few months ago.

I like the explanation a lot, and I think the timelines line up pretty well.

But sure, it could be one of those stories that sound true, but isn't.
A surprisingly high percentage in National Parks globally (ie. many different jurisdictions) that are also (or adjacent to) indigenous lands with various treaties and contracts.

eg: The US has one ~$64 billion copper resource (leased to Anglo - Australians) in native lands [1] which is an as yet unresolved and sizeable can of worms, and that's barely the start of the list (although it is the largest global pending copper project).

There's a nice GIS directory of such things that we (here in W.Australia) compiled a decade ago (along with automation to run it forward) that's now a bit paywalled [2]

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

[2] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...
It's part of the thread in the post I'm responding to, but here https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603235998263123969
Gopher called
There's some truth in this comment, and his reaction to the diver in Thailand was obviously not great, but at least on that topic there's a less scathing interpretation:

In a desperate scenario in which it was considered highly likely that all those kids would be unable to be rescued alive from the cave by any means at all, Musk said something to the effect of I have engineering and production resources, we can try and come up with something in case it may be useful, and quickly built and delivered a device after close consultation with members of the rescue team on the ground, and also supplied various other forms of equipment and expertise.

Luckily the kids were rescued and the capsule wasn't needed.

That diver then said in a TV interview that Musk should 'stick his submarine where it hurts' - for absolutely no good reason.

As I said, Musk's reaction was inappropriate and he's paid a big price for it, but it was hardly without provocation.
> The whole Unicode range is at our disposal

Sadly, no. There are actually huge swaths of Unicode disallowed in IDN [0]... although not everyone is aware of this and/or implements this check. Which is a shame, I'd really like to have e.g. "🃏-vd.name" for a homepage.

[0] https://www.iana.org/assignments/idna-tables-12.0.0/idna-tab...
Twitter now is unusable because Elon bans anyone who does something he doesn't like.

This includes criticizing him in various ways.

Say what you will about pre-Elon Twitter; I never heard about anyone getting their account banned for saying bad things about Dorsey.
Chiming I here. “Dude …” is a dumb thing to say in a debate. Please take take that over to Reddit.
No, these are room-temperature NaS batteries. They use some special electrolyte, but I have no idea how this really works. Their main drawback so far was longevity, but this battery has a capacity fade of 0.05% per cycle, which is on par at least with a poor Li-Ion battery. LiFePo4 is still superior in that regard, but the much higher capacity and hopefully lower cost (if they can be manufactured efficiently) might make up for that, hard to tell.
I'm building a whole bunch of stuff and I'm doing it in public. I've committed myself to doing "one day build" style YouTube video's starting at the end of the break and going for at least 3 months (12 episodes). They should be pretty terrible to start.

I'm doing this because I think I have a unique style that I could share and because putting myself on a schedule encourages me to build something every single week and to keep track of it. My stickiest ideas seem to come from setting out a plan and doing regular work.

I don't imagine a lot of people will watch, which is okay with me.

https://www.youtube.com/codazoda
You noticed that slight of hand too? Go back to the original HN thread on this ban and you’ll find a poster asking for another “narrative” besides Musk being a rank hypocrite. This is that narrative his followers were looking for.

The slight of hand here is to conflate the car and the plane and the dates. This allows his followers to push a “it was for his child’s safety!” argument, in which yet again Elon Musk uses his children as a prop to avoid critical examination of his new story. Which, as you and others point out, falls apart due to the timing of the last tweet and the purported incident.
It's possible to do great things and still be a terrible person. I know some people might find it hard to believe but it's also possible for people to change as they age/get richer/get more powerful/get less powerful/get poorer etc. Elon 10 years ago isn't Elon today.
I don't know but then agree. The general concept sounds boring to me but I can see how this can be interesting for many people. For example as a Starwars fan someone must want to fly the same scenes in VR for a few times.

But I think the better is to train AI to generate scenes based on description such as "dogfight in P-51 with German ME-109 in WW2 for 15 mins" and after some computation the player gets to play this game in VR for 15 mins. The problem is how to make it possible at low cost as player will probably just pay a few bucks for such experience (but you can always resell the popular ones many times)
I don't know anything about the situation in India but I can give you a few reasons why I, as a westerner, am fascinated by the language.

First the depth and clarity of thinking by ancient and medieval Indian scholars writing in Sanskrit in relation to key philosophical and existential questions is extraordinary. Personally I am currently inclined to think that the advaita vedanta tradition may have the most accurate understanding of the nature of consciousness I have yet seen. Moreover this tradition is largely based on purely logical arguments, which, while perhaps not 100% convincing to a modern reader, are I think definitely worth exploring.

The above points are perhaps not unrelated to certain features of the Sanskrit language itself, which seems to have a logical structure that is rare or unheard of in other natural languages. The existence of such structure is in large part due to the work of Panini 2500 years ago, as mentioned in the article, but also to later followers who developed a register of Sanskrit that can be compared to modern frameworks for knowledge representation, as discussed in this paper: https://ojs.aaai.org//index.php/aimagazine/article/view/466.
Very nice!

I was almost surprised to see no GPT3.5 summaries lol (I think this might be the next trend for curation sites)
How do you get that coincidence? To be able to accurately respond to the cue of an artist's name, it has to know the artist, doesn't it?

In any case, in the example images here, the AI clearly knew who Mickey is and used that to generate Mickey Mouse images. Mickey has got to be in the training data.
Because the topic isn't whether Musk is an asshole. The topic is about banning a (re)publisher of information that leads to potential safety concerns.

If you think this policy is a good idea on merit yet a bad idea solely because it came from Musk, then you're clouded in judgement.
I don’t know man. There are times when I genuinely want an argument to clarify my thoughts. There is zero argument- it just gets downvoted minus three. So then I sadly delete my comment. I usually assume since I’m not an American (wasn’t born here), am not able to get the nuances right, or maybe there’s some deep underlying social dynamics I’m unaware of. So better to just delete my comment and move on. These days I use HN primarily as mathoverflow - if I know how to work a problem I post. Otherwise best to shut my trap. HN isn’t the place for arguing- atleast not for me.
Give a game... take a game...
Overture Maps Foundation
> The performance difference involved in these two styles is not small. Consider this case study which shows a 5828% improvement4 when taking an algorithm from idiomatic pure Python to NumPy.

I am not a python dev, but I've been told that's because Numpy is largely written in C, no? Rather than solely because of an array/vector-focused "style" -- 5000% faster?