skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally yes, for a paper to be accepted it should be reproduced, if ChatGPT is ever able to produce code that runs and produce SOTA results then I guess we won't need researchers anymore

There is however a problem when the contents of the papers costs thousands/millions of $ to be reproduced (think GPT3, DALLE, and most of the papers coming Google, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft). More than replication, it would require fully open science where all the experiments and results of a paper are publicly available, but I doubt tech companies will agree with that.

Ultimately it could also end up with researchers only trusting papers coming from known labs/people/companies
It's from Salesforce/Heroku. The documentation is definitely lacking, but it's battle-tested and under fairly active development.

I moved the Zapier CLI to oclif a few years ago over a bespoke version, since it handles a lot of the nitty-gritty of displaying text in terminals. It's a pretty nice setup and allowed us to focus on the important things.
The project looks extremely messy, so many packages inside packages. It feels like java, but less performant
I bet we can make an AI that can differentiate them better ...
I'm in London, electric prices last night: https://nitter.nl/pic/orig/media%2FFmNAukVXgAEF6Ar.jpg
As soon as I can sell my company I'm quitting!
Did you look at the situation in Germany? The foremost country on renewables...

And brown coal.
Cybersec is like "here we go again"
Slow build. May require multiple viewings or internet searches to understand.

Probably the most clever time travel film I have seen.
I won't defend TypeScript. Mainly because I'm not interested in doing such a thing; I don't like it that much, clearly not enough to care.

But even so, I will say a couple of things about your arguments.

Regarding i), no, it's not a framework. But then again, I don't think that's what your argument expresses anyway. You seem to be saying "it's yet another dependency you need to keep up with". This would be correct and a valid argument. But it's unrelated with "being a framework" (which, again, it is not).

As for ii)... I'm afraid this argument could be valid for any large group you want to pick in software. Are you arguing JS libraries at large are better documented? Sounds highly dubious. From a different angle, is this a problem with the language itself or is it a problem with the libraries?

Finally, regarding iv), there is no "progress including TypeScript in a browser" and you should never have expected it. Not saying it will never happen because some person somewhere might do it, but you shouldn't expect it.
I know on the ground, 400Hz was a better match for turbofan electric generators. Which were lighter and more efficient than normal ICE generators. And so used a lot when the equipment was mobile.
Because, overall the wind power is the cheapest energy source available, and has been for a decade (recently overtaken by solar in some markets).

Something that is cheap can have some percent wasted and still be cheaper overall than more expensive options.

Focussing only on the waste without that bigger context is at best a false economy, at worst fossil fuel promoting propaganda.
According to https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-circl/ this was released in 2019.
I was hearing one of the things they are doing is pumping water up the hills at hyrdo powerstation's to reuse at peak periods
The quickest gas generation (gas engines) can go from cold start to fully ramped up in 4-5 minutes. A typical OCGT/CCGT is a bit slower and has a higher start cost (and a CCGT won't reach peak efficiency for hours). Pumped storage hydro takes 20 seconds or so.

However, turning generation on or off isn't the only way the grid is balanced in the short term - turning up/down tends to be a big part of it too and most conventional generation can do that faster (sometimes a lot faster) than startup/shutdown.
Honestly, if I am going to swim in shit, I would much rather swim in shit at bigger corp making more money. As long as its not predatory lending I don't really care.

I think microsoft has decent standards, but hard to get a remote position from last time I talked to a recruiter.
Interesting to think about... I wonder if there would be a snowball effect of O2 loss with losing vegetation on land and in sea, having an effect as temperatures rise.
My understanding is most wind was bought at a guarenteed price by the government at the time of construction, so a wind farm producing 1MWh gets paid say £40 regardless of the cost of electricity on the grid - even if marginal cost was £20/MWh

As users are then paying £90/MWh for gas, does the excess £50 go to the government or to the wind far owner?
AFAIK Federated Learning is not a magic solution. This post explains how you can exploit FL if there's some untrusted server (http://www.cleverhans.io/2022/04/17/fl-privacy.html)
There's a couple reasons. A small amount of electricity may be generated from gas, but that small amount is often crucial and in a lot of demand. Furthermore, peaker plants will produce less and less electricity as more renewables reduced their duty cycle. But the overhead cost of maintenance remains: reducing a gas plant from running 10 hours a day to 2 hours a day does not result in a 5x reduction of cost.
> "RISC architecture is going to change everything"

Classic
The article is saying that more transmission lines were needed to avoid wasting 9b pounds of electricity last year. An already approved grid upgrade will cost 4b pounds, and would mostly be adequate.

Something had to get built first, and I guess they picked the wind turbines. This seems like everything working as intended to me.
Was confused by that as well. Sounds like Liquid Democracy doesn't do well compared to the alternatives, which would certainly be an interesting result, but doesn't fit with what the rest of the abstract seems to be suggesting.
Are pipettes or vials scientists? Computers are tools like hammers, and have equal agency. There are no nonhuman scientists.
> It's a framework, with all the usual framework downsides

> For example, a new package you install can require a new TypesScript version. Once installed, you then may need to update your source code. This can place quite a high tax on the developer, where perhaps a 10 minute change becomes hours long.

No. It's a language compiler. You can upgrade it safely without changing a single line in your codebase. If there is a breaking change (sometimes, regarding the strictness) there's also a configuration option that lets you keep the previous behavior.

> ii) Libraries are badly documented

And so you're going to lose any and all typing as your solution? I don't understand. Undocumented but typed >>> undocumented and untyped.

> iii) Error messages are hard to follow

I disagree completely, TypeScript has helped me many times to understand what's happening and why - I mean errors that I wasn't aware of in my previously untyped JS codebase.

> iv) It requires yet more transpilation

> Transpilation takes time, and always adds a burden to developers.

Doesn't matter. Use SWC or esbuild for sub-100ms compilation times. Your CI is a long running job due to tests and lint anyways. Nobody is writing pure uncompiled JS these days - you can't use NPM libraries that way, so there's always some (Web)pack step. I haven't seen a single developer who liked having to care about browser versions and wants to go back to that - but if you add a compilation step you get that for free and can write the latest and greatest.
Of course if you can have a in ground coolant loop, you can do even better.
(not claiming to be smart but the appetite for complexity seemed familiar)

I used to have an appetite for adding needless complexity, and what really helped me was finding better work/life balance. For example, personal projects in the evenings/weekends are a much better output to make something super complicated and brittle and just see how it falls apart or becomes impossible to make directional changes in. Also exploring other hobbies helped satisfy curiosity in a way that I would try to in my work code. Photography is a good one with a good amount of book knowledge, ability to get deeper into the subject matter, explore historical approaches (film and antique bodies) and a lot of space for creativity.

Adopting prettier really helped me with code consistency too. I used to spend time making code nest nicely or having a hard time reading others code when it didn't adhere to a familiar syntax. Prettier just undoes all my formatting on save/commit and unifies all our repos to a common syntax so in my head I just lost perfectionist impulses to put spaces or newlines in perfectly working code files.
They sure did make old electronics pretty. At least sometimes, as in the case of this device that probably cost as much as my car.

I'm curious about the soldered wires, though. Especially in a device intended to be used in an airplane. No concerns about brittleness? I was under the (probably mistaken) impression most vehicular wiring was clamped or crimped these days for that reason.

Maybe those aren't really soldered, but just look kinda like it?
> unless you count a pile of Linux and bootloader patches, which I don't

This is what drives me crazy. Vendor claims "open source" which means an outdated linux image and the source code is wrapped up inside of a megalith build monstrosity like penguintronix or yocto. Utter junk these things are.
The non-x products make it clear that the “x” products are just way out of line on the performance/power scale.
That 70% energy loss in round trip conversion to hydrogen doesn’t look so bad if the alternative is 100% loss by not running the turbines.
What about Matrix/Element?
I’d form an online vigilante group like Perverted-Justice, but focused on disrupting the operations of financial scammers who prey on people who are gullible, technologically unsophisticated, or demented.
In this difficult economic climate, Frank has made the difficult decision to let go of 20% of their fake user accounts /s
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201038064
https://support.cessna.com/custsupt/contacts/pubs/ourpdf.pdf...

This is an example of the pitot/static inspection procedure for a Cessna Citation Sovereign. The procedure itself begins on page 9 of the PDF.
Appears to be packaged in both guix and nix, which is surprisingly not mentioned on the website.
100% there is a group right now making an AI generated paper and trying to publish it for the next iteration of the Sokal affair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
There's been unhappiness in some quarters that back propagation doesn't seem to be something that biology does. That may be part of the motivation here.
> Just because it's in your best interest to fuck over the world doesn't mean it's morally justifiable.

When people talk about corporations and morality, I am reminded about the quip about Larry Ellison:

> You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.

Think of a corporation like a function called `makeMoney`, which takes inputs like costs, advantages, benefits, and so on. Morality is not an input parameter at all, so why do people expect that it would be taken into account? If one wants morality to be taken into account, it should be explicitly done so, via some sort of input parameter, like legislation. Otherwise, don't expect anything to change.
maybe the entire economic system is dysfunctional.
Maybe not dissolved but fines aren't enough: if they're not big enough or likely enough, companies may take their chances and if they don't apply personally to the C-level some fraction of people will try to see if they can get rich and leave before the fine arrives.

Perhaps that's something along the lines of turning them into highly-regulated public utilities. The big thing I'd focus on is basically real auditing & accountability: serious environmental assessments with full public disclosure, a blanket ban on political involvement so you avoid the case we have currently where someone [not inaccurately] thinks it's cheaper to give lobbyists $10M to avoid regulation which will cost them $100M, and criminal liability for anyone who knowingly tries to hide information or mislead the public.
That's a feature, not a bug. It means that when you have 100 papers to check for applicability to something that you are researching you can do so in a minimum of time.
Well there was a benevolent dictator in the recent past (upto 1995), when the grid was publicly owned.
This works pretty good, but we've ran into issues where the downloaded file isn't code signed and then this becomes a big issue. AFAIK, if this is a public CLI then homebrew will codesign for you, if you are distributing a private CLI then you need to solve the code signing issue yourself. Not many blog posts on how to handle this...
you should see how much per MW/h it costs for power from a "Peaker" power plant.

Looks like $150-$198/MWh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant
Not all science results in 'code'.
Well, OK. But how is that different than the huge number of cameras that you mention in the US? Aren't the US cameras similar - doorbells, shops, banks, ATMs, etc.
> but take a long time to start and stop - gas

Despite the insistence that Closed Cycle Gas Turbines can't react quickly, because they're by far the largest component that we could start and stop the UK does in fact very quickly increase and decrease output from the CCGTs. For example this morning 2.79GW at 0600 to 3.89 at 0700.

There are much faster options, batteries, import, even the pumped storage is seconds instead of minutes - if available, but CCGT is just not that slow to change compared to the weather. In that same period the wind power went from 10.9GW to 11.4GW. 500MW is a lot of power but it's not more than 1.1GW
I don't know what argument you are trying to respond to. I'm saying it is an evil act to supply a product while withholding the knowledge that it will cause massive long-term harm to the entire world.

How are consumers complicit? By wanting nice things?
PoP os (flavor of ubuntu), cosmic desktop, and a company focus in desktop and laptop Linux.
The fraud was pretty thorough, they paid a data scientist $20k to falsify data and paid another business $100k for their list. They also performed third party validation on it as a test. It was only upon Chase marketing to the full list that the statistics became apparent. Random sampling may not have been enough.
That really depends on the capex of the hydrogen equipment. It has to be extremely low to justify not curtailing.
My take on "smart".

There is no one thing called "smart" so all of the people debating whether this guy is smart are missing the point.

People like this are "smart" in the sense that they have a beyond average capacity to keep track of complex systems in their head.

This person appears not to be "smart" in the sense of lacking the wisdom to understand what to do with the large volume of complexity they are able to hold in memory.

In my opinion, the second is much more valuable than the first for the average problem you have to solve on a project although sometimes you need people with the first type of intelligence. But these people are usually much more liability than asset.
Perhaps more importantly, she managed to find a college professor willing to create the fake accounts, after a data scientist (who I imagine is junior in stature and public reputation) refused to do so.
Switch to telegram when whtsapp dies or one of the gazillion alternatives.
Africa is where the child labor disaster is, I think everyone who is paying attention knows the methods and issues in Atacama/ Chile are very different to Africa in the coming tsunamai of extraction at the altar of electrification.

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/lithium-mining-leaving-chiles-i...
“The mechanism isn’t known for sure.”

clickbait headline. It should read “we don’t know why…”
That would just lead to an AI that makes better abstracts á la GAN.
Hi, I'm maybe one of those moronic retards you talk about. Please, please help us out! The world is eagerly awaiting your super non-garbage solutions. Please show us the way... You could be a hero!
And I think had far more impact. I think Theodora was one of the big reasons behind Justinian’s successes. She was the one who encouraged him not to flee Constantinople during a rebellion which probably saved his reign. In addition, she was good friends with Belisarius’s wife and helped smooth over Justinian’s jealousy of his very successful general for as long as she lived. It is after her death that Justinian discarded Belisarius and likely doomed any chance he had to re-conquer and reconstitute the Roman Empire.
The "location" attribute on Apple's App Privacy has also to be set for lower level location resolutions.

Hoshi has to connect to my server to get the newest games, leaderboards, statistics aggregations, etc. At the api temporary logs of all requests are created that contain IP addresses (e.g. for throttling critical api endpoints). To my understanding an IP address counts as "low level location resolutions" and that's why I have disclosed this information in the privacy policy.

In summary: Hoshi does not track your exact (GPS) location, just api calls.
Valid point and I completely understand in this day and age that the pressure to invest and help develop minority led or owned companies is massive - but even then, I expect a multi trillion dollar bank to be quite professional in their approach to investing in anything, including startups.

The bank has a fiduciary duty to it's account holders and share holders. Spending a bit more time and effort to make sure it doesn't loose money investing into a fraudulent operation is something it is legally obligated to do. Instead, the bank apparently chose to ignore red flags until the deal was already completed. As a shareholder AND account holder, I am flabbergasted that the bank just decided to piss away any money at all on such a deal.

Banks are supposed to be skeptical - that's sort of the whole point of banking. You don't just go and get a loan by asking nicely, you get a loan after the bank thoroughly investigates your work, your finances, etc...because they're on the hook to get a return on that loan.
It isn’t besides the point, it is like saying a car can do 250mph, but can only do it for 1 second before the tires explode.

A CPU that can hit 6ghz while pulling 400amps but can only do that for a few milliseconds before throttling itself is not particularly impressive.
> Nothing new here, of course. Giving software to everyone has long meant giving it also to the Kims of North Korea, the Al-Assads of Syria, and, in an earlier era of software history, to the Apartheid regime of South Africa.

Couldn't help notice the USA/CIA [1] is missing from that list.

> Global public distribution has long conflicted in principle with arms control, sanctions, and other, less violent alternatives to “boots on the ground”. All of these depend on coordination. They’re undermined by defectors.

Defectors from US interests? The article assumes that large corporations and superpowers are more likely to use software for good, compared to smaller countries and individuals. Once stated explicitly, it's obvious how ridiculous that assumption is. It's better that both North Korea and Monsanto have access to GCC, rather than only Monsanto and whoever else IBM or Microsoft think should have it, in this hypothetical world without free software.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245026 - discussion about the "The CIA is a terrorist organization" video
Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging – ScienceDirect
If only there were some actually useful use of excessive energy that weren’t mining bitcoin.
This is what kills me. At work, they only swear by HP for some reason. So, I've got a shitty Elitebook that cost, after RAM and SSD upgrades, within 100 euros of a same-size MBP with same RAM and SSD.

But the build quality is uniformly worse. And the screen... it's an atrocity. You don't have to compare it to an MBP (I only have an old 2013 one, and it still wipes the floor with it). Even compared to an older XPS (7th gen intel), it's horrible.
$400M for 6900 units is about $58K per unit. Good god.
Not found at huggingface (yet)
Basically it sounds like your water cooling system was undersized. You didn’t have a good method to cool the water, so you just built up heat in your working fluid.

The air did a better job because it was open. So you average initial temp was higher but could be sustained, because you always had cool air.

If you had a radiator with a fan it’s like the water solution would have still worked better.
> dithered images compress poorly

If you think about error diffusion dithering in particular on a 1-bit palette - Information theory dictates that you are kind of pushing entropy limits as-is. Compression is still possible, but to get any kind of realistic gain it's going to have to be slow compression.

Piping stuff like 1-bit dithered graphics through fast, lossy JPEG/MPEG-style compressors (i.e. quantized DCT) will yield absolute garbage results.
> Except your own comment highlighted exactly what’s wrong with that: without the data the court won’t know how to rule.

And the burden of proof is on the accuser. The court doesn't just say "we don't have the data, so we must assume it's what the accuser says".

> If you insist that the complainant is the one who has to investigate the salaries and work performance of all her coworkers, you’re immediately setting her up for failure.

Yes! And that's exactly how the court works: the burden of proof is on the accuser.

> Requiring the company itself to record this information can provide evidence that they’re abusing employees

And why on earth would the company want to do this, when it could potentially harm them?
> I'd rather waste wind than waste money.

But doesn't wasting wind waste money if we have to pay so much for curtailment?
Canada is very much like this too. Can't really escape the US influence, so you see things like apples from Washington state in $ per pound.

Not too big a deal once you get a few basic conversions down.
Sounding right, gut feeling, these are staples of bad reasoning. Markets have long term gains and random walks when you zoom in. That's it. Over the past years millions of things happened and hundreds of markets behaved as markets do. Cherry picking is easy, and wrong.
I think part of the problem comes to the sheer amount of jargon in even the simplest research paper. During my time in graduate school (CS) I would often do work that used papers in mathematics (differential geometry) for some of the stuff I was researching. Even having been fairly well versed in the jargon of both fields I was often left dumbfounded reading a paper.

This would seem to me a situation that is easily exploited by an AI that generate plausible text. If you pack enough jargon into your paper you will probably make it past several layers of review until someone actually sits down and checks the math/consistency which will be, of course, off in a way that is easily detected.

It's a problem academia has in general. Especially in STEM fields they have gotten so specialized that you practically need a second PhD in paper reading to even begin to understand the cutting edge. Maybe forcing text to be written so that early undergrads can understand it (without simplifying it to the point of losing meaning) would prevent this as an AI would likely be unable to do such feat without real context and understanding of the problem. Almost like adversarial Feynman method.