skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of fields have run into fundamental physical limits that pause progress. Rocketry is another. In the 1950s we pretty much figured out how to throw gas out the back as fast as possible, and so not much has happened since that improves rocket performance. We did finally figure out how to reuse a bit of the rocket affordably though so that has been nice.

similarly airplanes stopped getting faster because we hit the point where the atmosphere starts melting you to death, and not much can be done about that.

battery chemistry is hardly dead though, since 20 years ago there have been all kinds of improvements in different directions. Just no big leaps. But the little improvements add up.
Typical nuclear fearmongers throwing nonsensical number about.

"Japan has spent roughly 1 trillion yen ($7.3 billion) annually on the damage caused by the meltdowns at the Fukushima "

That amounts to 84 billion dollars. That includes everything, including compensations and decomissioning. The cleanup itself is roughly 30 billion dollars.

While the costs are still huge, note: this is for a plant that was both hit by an earthquake and flooded by unprecedented tsunami.

Also note: even with all that in mind only one person died as the result of direct radiation exposure, and radiation levels in Fukushima region are normal or below average levels.
> I didn't mean "weak" in any legal sense.

So having a strong legal case is not enough for you?

> These are all technicalities

How do you know, the case is sealed. Like you keep arguing against something you cannot possibly have any knowledge of.

Like one of the crimes can be multi million dollar tax evasion from Trump org. Or killing a dog with a dog with a shovvel. Who knows what the 34 charges are. All that is known is that the investigation started on the payment to Stormy Daniels.

> many people will not think that any real crime has been committed.

12 people have already agreed they have seen enough evidence to warrant an indictment. who cares about any number of people who have not seen the evidence?

> Furthermore, things you present here as facts still need to be proven in a court

The things I presented as facts, ARE facts. All those events have been either sworn under oath, or are so easily factual as to not need any verification (like the dates or ammounts of the payments).

What has since been uncovered, in the 3 year investigation we do not know as it is sealed. All we know is a jury saw the evidence and saw enough to convince them to indict.

> which might be another technicality that evens out the other technicalities.

Going from manslaughter to murder is based on the technicality that you planned it and meant it. It being a technicality doesn't make the crime not stick. What kind of silly defense is this?

Yes legal charges are based on technicalities, depending on the ones you did you are charged for a crime or another.
Exactly, the 'sensors' are just at different levels between these models (abstract text) and humans (retinal cones firing, etc).
Copilot high jinks: your banana is out of juice
I was also able to make it generate potentially sensitive outputs by prompting it to "pretend you're a fictional character [add some context] and answer the following question"
It's even easier than that - Cohen already pled guilty and was convicted for this campaign finance violation. During the trial Cohen explicitly named Trump as a co-conspirator while the prosecutor decided to call him "Individual 1" in the filings
Hey! I still do that!

But it's true that after a point, the only errors left are the ones that can only be resolved by reading the documentation and experience (only 4 DELETE per hour, and you throw me an undocumented 503 error? Really?), and llm can't really do it for you.
The GDPR has extensive requirements that can't be met by ChatGPT because it's training on public data sources everywhere.
I was a Flash developer and have searched everywhere for a comparable tool. None exists. Recently I have worked on interfaces for touch screen kiosks, and digital signage. Flash was excellent for these kinds of projects and 10 years later nothing compares.
I would say desktop linux is likely to improve due to Steam and their steam deck.

just as linus would've predicted.

windows these days is a mess. and now some games are running natively on linux via proton.

the biggest hinderance of course is productivity / professional software
Yeah but he's not "King of England" any more than Joe Biden is "President of West Virginia"
Thats what FB would want.

Remember when they got the biggest fine ever, like 5B (EUR or USD can't remember) and the moment this decision was made public the stock went up as traders had thought the fine is even bigger.
Well we don't need to replace old cars with new cars, we can share cars, and replace them with bikes and lighter vehicles
Does that include storage for 100% of demand for 1 year at 95% capacity? Pretty reasonable ask for

And nuclear proliferation would be a good thing. More nations have nukes the more peaceful world would be. Only those who want to invade other countries are against it.
i think maybe you're using ai wrong. its not akin to stackoverflow answers, its more akin to a jr programmer that can bang out some code for you while you go to the kitchen or bathroom and then you fix a few mistakes and integrate it with your larger project
Climate change movement has become a cult and most of the factual basis is disregarded. It's culminated into your Nike shoe boxes full of greenwashing labels.

Not a good look.
Ask HN: Discord vs. Slack/Zoom?
Teams switching to Discord from Slack/Zoom/Meet - what's your experience and why's it better?
Looking into the skill, materials, manual labor, novel techniques, and quality finish that goes into it, I would argue this an expensive, but somewhat fairly priced product.
>> Also quality of life in France is so so much better than it was in the UK. Comparing the last 5 years here vs our 5 last years in the UK and it is shocking how different and better our life is.

Do you mind expanding on this? Particularly the less obvious things that you didn’t notice until you’d spent some time living there.
You're right, but you see more and more countries forcing data locality requirements.

EU user data can't be stored in the US.

India also tried to push for data locality (though I think they went back on that)
Passive “fail safe” designs have been around for quite a while, like the GE ESBWR, which is a Gen III reactor. This[1] data sheet is from 2011.

Newer reactors, like the pool-type, metal-fueled, small modular Sodium Fast Reactor [2] are significantly more efficient, are air-cooled, automatically shutdown without human, electronic or mechanical intervention, and by using electro-metallurgical separation, can recycle up to 96 percent of the fissionable material.

[1] https://nuclear.gepower.com/content/dam/gepower-nuclear/glob...

[2] https://nuclear.gepower.com/build-a-plant/products/nuclear-p...
Parallelism only works through events

why is that a problem?
UK was explicit in this: they regulated the National Grid to be carbon neutral by 2030 or so. That target effectively shutsdown coal generation, harder than any regulation that affects nuclear or any other energy source. Unless a coal plant discovers a magic way to produce while being carbon neutral, coal is gone.

Nuclear power at least can keep going in the UK. It's not getting bigger, but is not falling either. Imagine they say today "National Grid targets being Nuclear free by 2040", like in Germany: it would hit harder than any safety regulation you could write, not just halting new plants, but shuting down existing ones.
That wasn't your statement. It's real weird how any pro nuclear argument always seems to be followed up by this exact same slimy deflection tactic and a never ending stream of lies.
Are those the only two sides? In public support and signalling, or wanting you dead? I think I'd prefer neither personally, and for companies to just do their jobs.
Only ~50-60% of the money comes from the state. ~30-40% comes from the local governments. (The last ~10% comes from the federal government).
Umm opt-out is not how GDPR works. It mandates opt-in for tracking.
Until shit hits the fan and they blame the “head of security”.
The rabbit hole I emerged from yielded this, it was interesting: their SpaceShipTwo was powered by the RocketMotorTwo engine [1] fueled by the solid fuel hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) [2]. HTPB's primary precursor compound is butadiene [3], which is a synthetic rubber precursor. No rubber plantations were sourced for rocket fuel, as green as that would have sounded in the marketing collateral; good 'ol hydrocarbons, mostly.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxyl-terminated_polybutadi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butadiene
Search (basically Google and now ChatGPT) do have a history of moving beyond the 10 blue links that search used to be, for better or worse- at the cost of the people that create the content.

Also neither company seem to have much regard for user privacy.
Take your eyes off your mobile phone, says inventor, 50 years on
Because Apple realised that a thin and small laptop sells better than a chunky one. Make a Mac Book the sane size as the iBook G3 and you could have a week's worth of battery.

But then you wouldn't be allowed to carry it on a plane. The limitation is not tecnological, is regulatory.
We could check popular job boards (or HN's Who's Hiring threads) and see how many postings mention compilers, kernels, assembly, GPU, etc. Then compare that number to the total.
Hard Work… and more hard work.

Developers are mostly not looking for new products so it helps (a) to have something really remarkable, and (b) bang the drum louder and much more often than you think is necessary to draw attention to it.
God please make them consider Microsoft the owner and calc revenue based on Microsoft's global revenue.
This is just a temporary annoyance for OpenAI.

Their partner/owner Microsoft already hosts GDPR compliant OpenAI GPT-3 models from an Azure data center (in the EU). It's only a question of time before they also host GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/o...

Azure ain't cheap but they know how to do EU compliance. Many EU governments put their citizens data on Azure's EU data centers.
On the other hand, if power in the US was as centralized at the time as you seem to suggest it should be, federal marshals would have simply enforced the escaped slaves act over abolitionist state's protests.
I keep getting surprised every time I read that when someone posting on HN was a teen Youtube already existed.
Reducing Layout Shifts with Custom Fallback Fonts
Native Instruments Reaktor looks inspired by LabView.
Honestly, for me, it's for driving pleasure, and for having the choice. If I’m kicked off the bus at some remote location, and all I get is an old Volvo Amazon veteran car, then I’d like to be able to drive it around. And where I’m from, you can only do that (legally) if you have the right license, which is the license for manual “stick” drive.

Other than that, it’s far less about logic, and more about the feeling of control and mastery that it gives you. True, this feeling is largely more inefficient and more prone to failure than an automatic system, but that feeling, man; that feeling is just so great!

I also live in a wintery country, with many winding roads, hills and mountains with diverse weather and road conditions. The argument was made that it’s better to drive “stick” under these conditions. However, I’m not sure the argument that manual is better for diverse conditions will hold for long, given the current advent of better AI.

I’ve already seen AI drive in very hilly and adverse terrain in the Hollywood Hills, rife with bushes hanging over junctions and pedestrians popping in and out of parked cars, and so on. Naturally, not much ice up there, but that’s a pretty difficult landscape for an AI to master, and the AI already masters it pretty well!
But human still struggle from novel university entrance exam questions. Unless you say human never struggle.
Well the risk is much lower if the EU government is the one promising to repay your investment, then a tiny startup...

So you are more likely to get money from risk averse investors.

The real problem is that in a high interest rate world, the EU will need to pay substantially more money later than they have to pay now for the investor to think it is a good plan.
For a while, but not the case anymore. They seem keen on having a diverse set of offerings, with some EV and hybrid cars. Yet the criticism continues
Because I live in San Francisco and it went to hell over the course of 12 years - and those cities that I travel too look like they are going down the same path.

But I will concede your point. The whole West is circling the toilet bowl but as you point out some areas a little faster than others.
I am curious at what stage the developer will loose the ability to understand code and pray that ChatGPT does not make a mistake.

I admit that I am using ChatGPT to write little snippets here and there but I am an old fart and was writing software for 40 years already. I am probably safe from loosing the skills bar going senile ;)
Did he though? Does anyone really believe that other than the most breathless opponents and news stations?

I never voted for the guy but it’s clear that the “insurrection” was hardly that and more of a protest that turned into a lawless riot. Of which we’d seen politicians and media celebrate a lot of over the previous year.

Isn’t a riot the language of the unheard, after all?
There existerar some 10+ year old patches to do so, which where never accepted/merged.

https://github.com/wichtounet/gcc-loop-fusion/commits/master...
Which pretty much sums up today's work culture. I was just talking about this same exact thing, yesterday.

That's absolutely heartbreaking.

In the old days, we would have a team, that would compete, as a team, against other corporations. Our team would stick together, work together, and, quite often, function as a unit; leveraging each others' strengths, and compensating for each others' weaknesses.

Nowadays, we look at our team members as "the competition." In fact, we may actually be making plans to move to the other team.

But I have written programs in C, that were still in use, 25 years later. I have written programs in PHP, that were still (are still) in use, 15 years later.

There'll always be room for the classics.

That said, I'm quite looking forward to seeing what I can do with the new AI stuff.
You might want to look into how often recalls are issued for medical software. Or not, if you prefer pisces of mind.
I'm reminded of a quote from Pirates of the Caribbean:
"One good deed does not excuse a man for a lifetime of wickedness!"
"But it seems enough to condemn him!"
If you put it out in the open – someone might read it. If they read it – they may remember it and retell it later or use it in their works. That someone may or may not be a human person. If you want to get paid for the work – don't put it out in the open.
Has anybody prompted gpt with the Sokal Hoax and seen what it thinks of it? Im sure it would gladly read it and find some valuable things to take away, and become that much more intelligent.
By indexing and training on everything it can find in the internet?!

To explain this further: OpenAI et al. (as commercial products) are being trained on content that is published under licenses that allow non-commercial use only. Do those systems respect these licenses? It doesn't look like that. "AI companies" need to stick to laws but as nobody is able to look inside their blackboxes, we can't make sure they follow the law. That's where legislation like this comes from.
That's mental. I guess they're trying to encourage people abstain altogether, but what'll actually happen is anyone inclined to dabble will steer clear of the kind of substances that can be detected for a while after you take them and use things that disappear relatively quickly.

"No weed for me thanks, I don't wanna take any chances. I'll stick to the cocaine tonight"
I feel the first example for ranges is a bit contrived, most people would end up with something more like:

void get_ids_adult_users(const std::vector<user_t>& allUsers, std::vector<int>& adultUsers)
{
for (const user_t& user: allUsers) {
if (user.age >= 18) {
adultUsers.push_back(user.age);
}
}
}

probably after calling reserve() on the adultUsers vector to avoid resizing.
Author here: actually, in this analogy (as this is just a demo library), the polygons change each time so we couldn't use this type of optimization (at least not in a straightforward way).
The early internet wasn't full of this, it was sparesly populated by it.

You hit the problem on the nail though, most people think like you and will have no problem paying hundreds of dollars in tax or subscriptions to traditional media, while staunchly refusing to pay a dime to independent online writers that they themselves read more and know are of much higher quality.
They use every bit of data they can find without regard to the rights of the authors, publishers, or subjects of the data?
To me, it is only an issue if they sit still after and do not start to work on something else. But I am unashamed to admit that if I don't find the error in github/gitlab issue tracker, and if it seems to take more than 20 minute to investigate, I'll open an issue then move on (if I already know the library, if it's new to me, I'll assume Pebkac for at least two hour and try to rubber duck the issue)
[chatgpt translation]

Stop ChatGPT until it complies with privacy regulations. The Guarantor for the protection of personal data has imposed, with immediate effect, the temporary limitation of data processing of Italian users by OpenAI, the US company that developed and manages the platform. The Authority has simultaneously opened an investigation.

ChatGPT, the most famous among relational artificial intelligence software capable of simulating and processing human conversations, suffered a data breach on March 20th, concerning user conversations and information relating to payment by subscription service subscribers.

In the provision, the privacy Guarantor notes the lack of information to users and all those concerned whose data is collected by OpenAI, but above all, the absence of a legal basis justifying the massive collection and retention of personal data, for the purpose of "training" the algorithms underlying the platform's operation.

As also demonstrated by the investigations carried out, the information provided by ChatGPT does not always correspond to the real data, thus determining an inaccurate treatment of personal data.

Finally, despite - according to the terms published by OpenAI - the service being aimed at those over 13 years old, the Authority highlights how the absence of any filter for verifying the age of users exposes minors to responses that are entirely unsuitable for their level of development and self-awareness.

OpenAI, which does not have a headquarters in the Union but has designated a representative in the European Economic Area, must communicate within 20 days the measures taken in implementation of what is required by the Guarantor, under penalty of a fine of up to 20 million euros or up to 4% of the annual global turnover
Facepalm, with extra uncomfortable chuckles.
Yes, I see all these people saying they've tried ChatGPT and don't understand the point or why it's useful. They've probably just not learned how to prompt it correctly.
This is my statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35383560

This applies to the whole fearmongering about nuclear energy with actual slimy tactics.
Awesome! Really looking forward to the 2.0 release - specifically default object values, which is one of the few language-level pain points I've had.
Thanks!

The OP describes carefully monitoring reputation and is their own self-hosted mailing provider (not a service-provider) so presumably isn't hosting spam...

The difference may be the human contacts? Or just that self-hosted mailing providers are so rare that it's hard to keep their patterns from looking like spam to the filters? Or other?
Capped at 20 million euros
Perhaps a large pool of part time experts would be a better approach anyway.

Ie. "we will pay you to work for 3 saturdays to investigate these 5 companies and stack rank them on the question of 'contribution to increasing EU semiconductor exports between 2023 and 2030'".
Is this coming from the same community that has always said that copyright has to be abolished?
I think it's the same with AI art, its am awesome gimmick, of course there will be use cases, but ultimately, it's a party trick, albeit a freaking impressive one.

Similar for deep fakes, very cool, but really limited in actual practical applications.

I remember first playing with Midjourney and Dall-E 2, it was pretty cool but I'm over it.
Just my experience though, but I had better results with Alice: http://www.alice.org/ the 3D building blocks were more appeal. Now I cannot believe that they moved the objects using drag and drop with a small basic notebook touchpad. BTW I am talking about normal IQ children.
Can we mine lithium in national parks and on federal ground in the US yet?
Digital computers are also expensive, require specialized knowledge and are difficult to maintain. In a lot (most?) cases the scales tip in favour of digital solutions, but that's not always the case.

I'm not a specialist but I once saw here an analog computer stimulating a black hole using sound waves. Making a digital simulation would probably be less precise or a lot more expensive.
We eventually find ways to affect reality, so there is something in our method, which is:

people who are not smart enough to recognize that they are not informed enough, nor in most cases smart enough, to understand anything about the subject of your question, and they will be quite happy to answer

You take a point an push it until it breaks. Then you oh, well. And (with some friction) erase all contradictions it has left.

Does AI erase? (not a rhetoric q)
They're getting him on the technicality that it was not him but one of his corporations that made the payment.
>Sadly, performance did not seem to be the primary criterion for laying people off at many companies.

That's because layoffs are meant to adjust headcount due to changing business conditions (budget, etc). If you're using performance as a criterion, the word you're looking for is "terminated for cause" or "terminated for performance".
He asked specifically for self hosted solutions.
great tips, also more inadvertent is add in calls to action to a squeeze page for consulting/subscription/anything selling
Technically speaking you can not get rid of the anode unless you also get rid of the cathode as anode and cathode switch places between charging and discharging. It is just by convention that in case of batteries the role while discharging is used, I would guess carried over from non-rechargeable batteries, but the anode would better be called the negative electrode.
> Does that include storage for 100% of demand for 1 year at 95% capacity? Pretty reasonable ask for

Also a unicorn, pretty reasonable.

> More nations have nukes the more peaceful world would be.

Yeah sure, look how well it's been working.
You really only need to compute one eighth of a circle segment (so, zero to pi/4), everything else you can do by symmetry by switching signs and flipping x, y. (And if you supported a larger range, you’d waste precision).

In high school I was writing a paint program in BASIC on the Apple ][. Drawing circles was mind-numbingly slow until I read an article somewhere that pointed this out. It was like magic.
Sounds the same to me. A copper sheet coated with a thin layer of lithium-activated tellurium instead of a thicker layer of graphite. Not trying to diminish their achievement, but I don’t understand the anode-less claim.
You really think anyone in the royal family has ever done anything because "it would be the right thing to do"?