skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 5x wind and solar, you don’t need long term storage. Just short term storage for time shifting. It is fine to use gas peaker plants in emergencies and use the extra capacity to pump the carbon out of the air. Hydrogen would also work welll for few times it is needed. The nice thing is that use fuel that already use, but do have to worry about backup plants not being maintained.

Also, nuclear is so slow to build that we don’t know what storage will look like in the future. Nuclear is impeding against the unknown storage tech in 15 years.
Wow! Thanks for the response. This is exciting work, and I’m pleased to see it being iterated on.

Re: #2. I’m assuming the varying depth is manually-controlled? Or is it automated by some method? If it’s manual, can the adjustment be made while transcription is active? In other words, can I change the focal distance to match the speaker without interrupting the speaker?

All in all, cool stuff! Best of luck with the work.
I'm surprised and impressed. Given this code, which is probably obvious to a human who knows the context, I did not expect a clear and accurate "answer" from this tool.

h1s = doc.xpath('//h1')

h1 = h1s.first

r = /(\d{1,2} (januari|februari|maart|april|mei|juni|juli|augustus|september|oktober|november|december) \d{4})/i

h1.text.match(r)&.captures&.first

->

This code performs the following actions:

It selects all the h1 elements in an HTML document using XPath and assigns them to the variable "h1s".

It selects the first element from the "h1s" array and assigns it to the variable "h1".

It creates a regular expression that matches a date format consisting of a two-digit day, followed by the name of the month in Dutch, followed by a four-digit year. The regular expression is assigned to the variable "r".

It searches for a match of the regular expression in the text content of the "h1" element.

If a match is found, it extracts the captured groups (in this case, only one group corresponding to the entire matched pattern) and returns the string value of the first captured group.

In summary, the code attempts to extract a date in a specific format from the text content of the first "h1" element in an HTML document.
From the link:

> When U.S. government subsidies are included, the cost of onshore wind and utility-scale solar continues to be competitive with the marginal cost of coal, nuclear and combined cycle gas generation
Of course it was a bubble 2021 was nuts. People with just a few years experience were getting senior jobs earning hundreds of thousands of dollars, then leaving soon after to a new job earning even more. All the while WFH doing so sweet FA. I've never seen anything like that job market.
You are hand-waving just as much of not more than those you claim are in denial. What is a “probabilistic spark”? There seems to be something special in human cognition because it is clearly very different unless you think humans are organisms for which the laws of physics don’t apply.
That’s not a ban. A ban stops letting you use it.
Read: 40% of the code Github Copilot users check-in is either boilerplate or has bugs in it.
To support this anecdatally, I had severe pneumonia Senior Year in High School. Absolutely wrecked my health and athletic ability for years — and I was an active runner and participant in various combat sports.

Severe infections and diseases wreck your body in the same way a car crash or a serious athletic injury does. It leaves a mark on the body.

Long Covid seems real enough and we should do more to find ways to combat it from onset — I am afraid the current sufferers might only find mitigations and not total solutions.
Some of them worked in government.
Awesome web page, I collect these.
If you find this topic interesting I'd recommend "Writing on Drugs" by Sadie Plant which is basically about the modern-European-centric cultural history of drugs and philosophy (feature Coleridge, Freud, etc.)

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/580859

For a broader overview of the global history of psychedelics, "Plants of the Gods" by Schultes, Hofmann, and Ratsch:

https://www.amazon.com/Plants-Gods-Sacred-Healing-Hallucinog...

Fundamentally, I'd say psychedelics explicitly reveal that our sensory-informated reality is really just a somewhat fickle map of reality. This is particularly seen in the visual field, where images from memory can get fed back into normal sensory processing. One of the more accurate pop-culture references to what this is like was seen in this image from the first "Matrix" movie:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/zymAc.gif

Under higher doses one can completely lose grasp of visual perception (a rather dangerous state to be in if one is around say, high cliffs etc., which accounts for all the cautionary advice about safe settings and so on) but in this sort of intermediate state one can still navigate using one's sensory-supplied map of reality, but it really is just a map, and we are really in a similar position to that of a blind person using echolocation to find their way around. That's the 'great insight' of psychedelics IMO (which also makes psychedelics an incredible aid for 3D visualization in the arts and sciences, I think).

They can, however, also be emotionally and psychologically disturbing (fear, panic, paranoia, etc. are not unheard of responses).
Which is entirely beside the point, because (1) decay products locked in a rock are not liberated, and (2) we were comparing nuclear and coal, not nuclear and granite.
> $100b on a statewide high-speed rail is a much, much better use of my money than any Caltrans project in my lifetime.

I get out and use Caltrans-maintained roads every single day of my life, but have a need to go to LA maybe once a year tops, so would really have to disagree with this. That is, if this train ever gets past Bakersfield, which i think is not even planned anymore?
The US was founded by a bunch of rich white men who mostly inherited their wealth and literally owned other human beings. A lot of the government structures were explicitly designed to prevent the masses from having too much of a direct voice as they couldn't be "trusted." Electoral college to override a "bad" popular vote (not that most states did popular votes), senators not chosen by direct election, etc.

edit: Not to mention the US had an actual horrible bloody civil war fought by forcefully drafted soldiers due to conflicts over government processes. Truly a staller example of democratic decision making right there.
> but AGI claims really seem exaggerated.

What AGI claims? The article, and the comment you’re responding to don’t say anything about AGI.
Do you mind spelling out your NAS’s specs? Chassis, motherboard, etc.?
Thanks. No, nothing special, I just said in a new thread "Now your job is to entertain. In the style of Jerry Seinfeld say a routine about Linux server administration." (That was the full prompt.)

Before posting, I cut off the end of its response because I took it for its usual cloying conclusion: "So, next time you're knee-deep in server logs or struggling to remember that obscure command, just remember: You're not alone." I thought that didn't contain a punchline, but in retrospect it went over my head, since it had just said "It's like being part of an exclusive club". So it's a shame I cut out that punchline, I just thought it was being its usual obnoxiously wholesome self.
LLMs are not regurgitating copywrighted works. You're fundamentally missing what's happening here if you think that. They do the same thing you and I do; read the literature and come to a conclusion. To quote Wittgenstein, "My words are my world", i.e the sum of the textual and verbal output I am capable of producing are me to the rest of the world. In the same way, LLM AIs are approaching something indiscernible from human intelligence.
The drive to twist ideas, nitpick to death, put up barriers, literally to stop and start thinking as needed is done automatically and is meant to resist change.

People will resist change when the answer is right in front of their eyes and all they have to do is pick up a different object or walk through a different door. Getting them to change a procedure is even harder, and getting them to take another abstract route than last time is almost impossible!

The fact is that people don’t matter to ideas. Turn your ideas into reality, cultivate the values of hard work and idealism. This is much more valuable than anything you could sell at first. Creative and generative values lift everything. And there’s nothing wrong with a steady job while you build up and entrepreneur on the side. That’s what jobs are for.
Your entire career hinging on the ToS of a single AI company is not a good position to be in.

Not to mention, the ToS forbids it due to the experimental nature of the tool. In a few years, I doubt the restrictions will be as tight as they are now.
>We will need to find a way to have "human-verified-only" spaces, and making that will be increasingly hard because I can just manually copy paste whatever gpt told me.

Curious: what benefit do you see to human-only spaces?

From my perspective, humans have been flooding reddit/HN/twitter/etc with thinly-veiled propaganda and bad-faith content for years and I'd wager we both do a great job avoiding the areas of the internet where it's the worst (and existing moderation systems largely handle the remaining content in areas we do frequent). It seems like many of the current moderation systems will be strained by an increase in content volume to review, but still largely handle the problem of bad-faith contributions in general.

It seems, to me, that a human-only space would miss out on a lot of great content in the same way an AI-only space would. I feel like a larger focus should be on moderating content quality (as most moderation systems do currently), rather than trying to proxy moderation through who/what wrote that content.
I would expect them to say hey, now that you've got so much more capital in your account I'd like to set up a short meeting to learn more about your company. Then they meet with you, learn a bit about your business trajectory (for their own planning) and pitch some significantly increased benefits to keep you around.
Then the news media needs to modify their headlines, images and summaries to be less revealing so their content isn't stolen and so people will want to click through and read their articles.

Forcing social media to pay for links users post or click is only going to end up in the news media becoming poorer because social media will demote articles that cost more and promote articles that cost less.
I'd rather the stability come from prison sentences instead.
Skills needed:
- programming
- front/back-end experience
The only term I’ve found that gets me any relief (and honestly, it’s not much) from this sort of people is “idiomatic”

You don’t need to factor out idioms. That’s lunacy.
That was my exact thought. I don't use copilot but I'd wager that at least 40% of the code I check-in is autogenerated as well. A fresh modern JS project is 15+ files full of boilerplate around a single "hello, world" statement.

If there was a metric for how much net new application business logic was written by copilot, that would be far more interesting to study.
Yep, they're f**d. Flew too close to the sun, and got caught. Should have kept the white hat game, gathering bounties there and there.
yeah it's still only a cute little baby now, but wait until it grows adult and is 500m long and hungry… it will no longer be "kawaii" then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii
> It seems to me that changing over-regulation is nearly impossible, as it requires making suicidally unpopular arguments: “we shouldn’t weigh the risks”, “we should care less about safety”, “don’t think of the children”, etc.

The arguments you list are straw man arguments, but doubtless they would be levied against nuclear energy supporters.
I don't think he means practically, but theoretically. Unless you believe in a hidden dimension, the brain can be represented mathematically. The question is, will we be able to practically do it? That's what these companies (ie: OpenAI) are trying to answer.
In what sense is your "experience" (mediated through your senses) more valid than a language model's "experience" of being fed tokens? Token input is just a type of sense, surely?
Whenever you have an idea put it in a file or notebook vault. Prioritize them by putting the most interesting ideas at the top. Build and update the list of ideas for life and you will never have to start from zero when coming up with ideas.
There will be tons of lawsuits in the next decade over the data AI is using to generate its responses. Some of the most blatant and easy to prove have been in image generation with them literally including blurred Getty logos with their output.
SBNY Puts
No matter how difficult your ambitions may be, just remember it has to be worthwhile for you to sacrifice your time over. It’s part of the whole vision gig. If you have a vision you are willing to constantly stick with to reality, then you have a real suitable goal.

Second, the vision may be so far away into the future that today it may not seem possible. That is where a genius comes in. But 99 percent are not geniuses. So it is ok that it is not possible or no clear path is visible right now. And people are going to tell you exactly that because they are honest.

Third, being an entrepreneur is more than just having vision. It is also about having connections with positive and technical people. And being able to use those people to come together and make something brilliant. And that brilliant may not fit that vision you have but it may be good enough. You need to appreciate everything you come across.

Lastly, your story really resonates with me. Everybody keeps telling you no and then this one guy comes along and give you a chance and helps you win. That’s vision. Keep at it.
Build a Website Using Rust and the Rocket Web Framework
> Today there is some expectation that a fast reactor with a closed cycle gas turbine could undercut the capital cost of an LWR.

No there isn't. Check your figures. Breeder reactors literally cost twice as much as light water reactors of comparable power.
Or just the reign of brevity. Sheer volume is no longer impressive.
> As a professional...why not do this? There's a non-zero chance that it'll find something fairly basic that you missed and the cost is several cents.

Everyone forgets basic UI research. "Ironies of Automation", Bainbridge, 1983. The classic work in the space.

Humans cannot use tools like this without horrible accidents happening. A tool that mostly works at spotting obvious problems, humans start to rely on that tool. Then they become complacent. And then the tool misses something and the human misses it too. It's how disasters happen.
There is a ton of noise in data like this. Also, large companies don't hire the same way and for the same reason as smaller companies.

1. A lot of job postings are fake. They are meant to keep recruuting pipelines open. There can be a long delay between posting an ad, getting applicants, filtering them, doing phone screens, doing interviews, doing team-matching, extending an offer, negotiating that offer, having it accepted and that candidate start. It can easily take months. You may start recruiting before you have a position to fill. Or you may hire proactively;

2. You can't discount the effect of visa job postings. This is where you have to "prove" you can't fill a job with a US resident or citizen. One thing you have to do is post a job. There's a whole cottage industry in posting these jobs in obscure places (eg newspapers, caulk boards in obscure places in an office) and in finding legally valid way to reject applicants.

3. Smaller companies will have positions to fill. Larger companies have hiring targets and budgets, fill positiosn and then figure out what to do with them.

4. Part of all the above is large companies definitely over-hire as normal practice in case people are needed for something and to deny those people to other employers.

What we're seeing now is a reduction in that over-hiring buffer plus some virtue signaling layoffs all while having a useful opportunity to attack labor costs. It's a double bonus.
Isn't the biggest thing here that he never spent any of the VC money of he had $35m in the bank he bootstrapped!!!!
With AI doing things like image recognition it seems like real life observations and behavioral data may be unlimited at some point. How useful that will be, i guess we'll see.
Sign language (speaking with ASL in mind, unfamiliar with others) uses a different grammatical structure from American English. To boot, a signer can adopt different body languages to imbue their message with different tonality. Current ML models (as far as I’m aware) struggle with capturing that tonality in speech-to-text, and there’s _far_ less data for sign language recognition, regrettably.
Does the outcome justify the risk if the outcome could have gone radically differently?

Is driving without a seatbelt not a poor decision if one walks away from the wreck?
I don’t think it was co-opted, I think it never stuck. PP didn’t invent the idea of deduplication. I’m not even sure they invented DRY. But when that book was brand new there were already people misusing the idea of deduplication.
One thing you will see soon is forming of cults around LLMs, for sure. It will get very strange.
Wow, this comment is so deep. I am at a loss for words. I have tears in my eyes. Thank you to share this difficult experience.
This would be well and good if you couldn't occasionally ask ChatGPT for a response then Google it and find a near identical response elsewhere in what would have otherwise been copyright materials. Other AI tools are doing the same thing, and the most blatant is with art. If you honestly think ChatGPT etc aren't training on copyrighted data and just rewriting it for tons of responses (and images), you're out of your mind. It is just incredibly difficult to prove, and the laws currently are very blurred.
How do we define "understanding" though? Because you can add to your prompt: "Do it step by step, showing how you come up with the solution" and it will simplify the original complex problem into multiple smaller pieces. It's clearly doing something.

For example, I just asked bing: What does the following expression equal? Show your work, step by step: 4(13+2)7-1(4+3+9)+7^(2(2+1))

And bing responded with:

"To solve a math expression, you need to follow the order of operations: parentheses, exponents, multiplication/division, and addition/subtraction (PEMDAS).1 Here are the steps to solve your expression:

4(13+2)7-1(4+3+9)+7^(2(2+1))

Step 1: Simplify inside the parentheses first.

4(15)*7-1(16)+7^(6)

Step 2: Apply the exponents next.

420-16+117649

Step 3: Add or subtract from left to right.

118053

The final answer is 118053. I hope this helps.
"

I wrote the silly expression randomly. I'm not saying it's "thinking" or "understanding", but I wouldn't expect a text-generator to be able to deduce the problem down like that.
I mean with GPT-4 and image layers we've already started that process.
And now on to the other 99% of the problem. ;)
A huge amount of entrepreneurship today is about who you are and who you know unfortunately.

Something that depressed me back when I cared about entrepreneurship was how everyone I knew who was successful had some unfair advantage. Having lots of money, knowing some guy with lots of money, going to an elite school, etc.

I never met anyone like myself. I think in the early days of the internet people who cared about building cool products did well, but since the early 2010s I'd argue being a successful entrepreneur started to become more about being the kind of person who is fundable or has the money to self-fund. There are exceptions of course, but in general there was a clear pattern.

But worst still even those who managed to get funding generally failed. In once case I saw the failure of a business give a guy a mental breakdown. If you think you're stressed now, imagine having employees depending on you and potentially loosing everything you've worked on for years. I guess what I'm saying is that the life of the average entrepreneur is just an endless struggle.

I don't want to say give up, but I think these days if you want to be a successful entrepreneur you probably need a different strategy. You probably need to work for a successful startup and lead a product team or something similar. Then maybe after that you'll have the contacts and reputation to launch your own thing.

Personally I gave up on my entrepreneurial dreams a while ago. At this point I had been working my ass off at startups for almost a decade so that wasn't an easy decision. I felt depressed and directionless.

I still hold hope that one day an opportunity will come my way, but I see no realistic means of creating that opportunity myself.
Nah, they just wear corporate issued Apple Watches. Not everyone likes to wear stuff on their wrists though, so standard protocol is to wear it on your ankle.
Made me think of what the physicist Anton Zeilinger has said if the theory Superdeterminism is true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism, "If superdeterminism is true, some of its implications would bring into question the value of science itself by destroying falsifiability:

[W]e always implicitly assume the freedom of the experimentalist... This fundamental assumption is essential to doing science. If this were not true, then, I suggest, it would make no sense at all to ask nature questions in an experiment, since then nature could determine what our questions are, and that could guide our questions such that we arrive at a false picture of nature."
Job postings on Indeed doubly so.

If you're looking for jobs on Indeed I'm confused as to what you're doing. I found nothing useful there when looking in February, meanwhile LinkedIn was incredibly useful.

Did about 15 interviews and accepted an offer. No issues.

Indeed never had a single attractive company to apply to in that time: It was all consulting.
Blender is a registered trademark (®) of the Blender Foundation in EU and USA. Maybe modify that a little. How about FuzzBlender.
Dizzy apes give clues on human drive for mind-altering experiences
I don't know if there's a fancy programming acronym for this, but as much as DRY or SRP my rule is this: if I were to break this chunk of code off into a function, it would:

* Give this chunk of code a name

* Clearly document, in types and names, the inputs and outputs at its boundaries, without having to discover this through a breakpoint

Does the clarity of adding that documentation outweigh the indirection?

A great example is a set of 4-5 if-conditions. Looking at them might be unavoidable arcane-looking complexity with regex's or who knows. Now instead it's called:

if ($this->orderIsValid($order))

Isn't that nicer in most cases for the person reading it, who's trying to understand what the larger function does? Yes, even if it's only used in that one spot.

A lot of this is subjective so I'm not going to pretend to have written the programmer's stone tablet of rules but that's my strategy.