skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stability of the container stack is a much bigger issue than the pure weight of the containers. On board a container ship, everything must be lashed down tightly anyways.

Also, sails apply lift, so upwards pull. I know nothing about sail physics, but this claim is in the OP.

Since port stays are very costly, you won't deploy this for anything shorter than a transatlantic voyage anyways. So the double-wide setup seems less of an issue.
To be honest I'm pretty doubtful the economics of excavating a reservoir are going to work. It needs to be very big and very deep, which is going to be very expensive unless you're planning to go all Edward Teller (don't go all Edward Teller).
Workbench (AmigaOS)
You think the world's scientists constitute some kind of Politburo?

While the fossil companies - the ones that suppressed the research from those scientists for decades - are the freedom-loving heroes in this story?
I have a heated mat for my cat to sit or sleep on, my workflow is greatly improved when she's not sitting on my keyboard.
> And some people, like myself, have no monologue or internal dialogue. What then? I have no consciousness or intelligence?

I don't have this either, but I would still say I think in language. It might be concepts that link together in hierarchies or graphs, but those concepts are described in words.
If you had to use renewables for base load power generation, they'd be a lot more expensive, as you'd need massive overcapacity (and probably batteries / pumped storage too) to compensate for periods of low generation.
Well ... I mean ... there is now. Where does it get this stuff from?

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The 68k architecture, with its elegant instruction set and powerful addressing modes, can be seen as a refined Baroque masterpiece. Like Baroque art, the 68k architecture is characterized by ornate details, intricate curves, and dramatic flair, all of which contribute to its unique beauty and functionality. The 68k is perhaps best known for its use in classic computers such as the Commodore Amiga and early Apple Macintosh machines.

On the other hand, the x86 architecture, with its complex instruction set and historical legacy, can be likened to a Gothic cathedral. Like a Gothic cathedral, the x86 is imposing and intricate, with a rich history that spans many centuries. The architecture has undergone numerous revisions and upgrades over time, but its basic design principles have remained largely intact. The x86 is perhaps best known for its use in PCs and servers, and its popularity is a testament to its durability and versatility.

The ARM architecture, with its focus on energy efficiency and mobile computing, can be compared to a Modernist sculpture. Like Modernist art, the ARM architecture emphasizes simplicity, minimalism, and functionality. It is designed to be lightweight and efficient, with a small footprint that allows it to run on mobile devices and other low-power applications. The ARM is perhaps best known for its use in smartphones and tablets, and its popularity is a reflection of its ability to perform complex tasks while using very little energy.

Finally, the RISC-V architecture, with its open-source design and customizable features, can be seen as a contemporary installation piece. Like installation art, the RISC-V architecture is designed to be flexible and adaptable, with a range of customizable features that can be tailored to specific applications. It is open-source, meaning that anyone can contribute to its development, and it has the potential to revolutionize the computer industry by providing a standardized platform for building custom processors. The RISC-V is still in its early stages, but its potential is vast and exciting.

In conclusion, each of these computer architectures has its unique strengths and features, much like different art styles and movements. Whether you prefer the ornate beauty of Baroque, the historical significance of Gothic, the minimalist functionality of Modernism, or the contemporary innovation of installation art, there is a computer architecture that suits your needs and preferences.
Interesting. I'm British and I enjoy quite a lot of French TV: Engrenages (Spiral), Le Bureau des Légendes (The Bureau), Au service de la France (A Very Secret Service), etc.
It seems that there is no hard limit with ext4. It depends by inode size, disk size, etc. I searched a little and I didn't get any deeper than that. Anyway, df -i reports this about my 2 TB SSD

Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
122068992 4724107 117344885 4% /

I guess that 122 M inodes in the first column is the limit of that file system. Much more than 5 M but Google Drive is probably giving a quota to users. No idea of which file system it actually uses on the disks.
Calling VSCode a flavour of the month seems a bit harsh. It’s old enough to be well into elementary school, and it seems at such low risk of being dethroned that it’s probably going to play a big part in Microsoft’s re-attempt at world domination.
It's a low-stakes scenario, and the alternative was reading it myself - since paying legal fees in this specific case would be prohibitively expensive.
... That happens to be a Python alternative to PDFtk[1]. It’s been kind of abandoned in recent years, though.

Also, in the early times of OLE 2.0 MS Office included a utility called Binder that could put several Office documents in a single file and edit them using a common interface. Nothing came of it.

[1] https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler
Cloud Spending Curtailed, on Premises Spending Heading into Recession
> Here in the UK (which is what the article is about), it is illegal for either (/any) gender to expose their genitals in public [1] - that is called "indecent exposure". Breasts are not genitals and it is not illegal to show them.

That's not correct in England and Wales law (UK law varies between the nations). The current law (as amended in 2003) says:

A person commits an offence if—
he intentionally exposes his genitals, and
he intends that someone will see them and be caused alarm or distress.

It may well be different in practice though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecent_exposure
Cultural norms are diffuse and propagate on their own. It's silly to try to attribute it to John or Bob or Jill.
Sure, but how much of that existing knowledge has been written down and published somewhere so it can be scrapped and fed into an AI?

Ultimately existing AIs can only help you with stuff that’s publicly documented, preferably documented multiple times. Lots of the world is either undocumented, or the documentation only exists in private repositories. Even AI can’t know what it doesn’t know.
If it has a catastrophe liability cap how can it possibly be capturing all of its externalities?

Nuclear power never pays for disaster cleanup and still can't compete with renewables.
Or it is a deliberate change, with the next logical followup being inserting algorithmic/promoted tweets in the chronological timeline making them indistinguishable from retweets
Can you guess why "horny teenage boys" aren't as common in Midjourney's space as they are in Stable Diffusion's?
Way better than paperclips.
That's a political choice being made by those who oppose renewables. It's not a limitation of the technology.
The yelling in "Western Fencing" is completely different from the "Kiai" in Japanese Martial Arts.

See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35437249
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I don't see how this is relevant or even correct. English speakers certainly can pronounce R.
For the Agents? Yes, indeed. Referred in the article.
Good luck buying any* kind of products when China is out of the picture.
I've found that the "dedicated" split keyboards don't necessarily have a comfortable distance in the split. The two keyboards end up about about a body width apart especially if I use a standing desk.

These days I use an old M4-1 keyboard (first gen thinkpad keyboard / trackpoint in a standalone keyboard) because I just don't type as much as I used to and I value the desk space.
> But the simple fact is that by virtue of people installing solar and wind at break neck speed there's going to be no shortage of vast amounts of excess power peaks that can be moved around and stored. Which does raise the question what the point is of focusing on expensive nuclear projects in a lot of places.

Here in the UK, our solar output varies hugely between summer and winter, and due to our climate we use a lot of heating during the winter. Currently in the form of gas heating, in the future presumably heat pumps.

And while batteries are workable to store daytime solar power for evening use, cycling the battery 365 times a year, summer-to-winter battery storage would only cycle once per year - making the capital cost 365x higher.

It's a shame nuclear is as expensive as it is, as a year-round zero-carbon power source would be a very convenient thing to have!
> There exists a plethora of real world coding challenges that are beyond typical boilerplate code that ChatGPT has in my experience been able to produce entirely acceptable working solutions for.

I'm delighted to hear that! But that doesn't really counter my argument, which is that if a task can be done by an LLM it wasn't a good fit for a junior anyway. Being able to just fling basic tasks over the wall to GPT is great, and should free up time for non-junior devs -- but since those tasks wouldn't have helped grow the junior devs in the first place it doesn't really affect them or their trajectory. Unless you were just using them to churn through drudgework in the first place, in which case I guess great, you can just purge them from your org at no net loss since they'd have burned out soon enough anyway.

If anything I'd turn the thesis of your title on its head: should engineering leads be worried that AI will take away the last bits of code they should have still been writing?

(Betteridge's law, of course, still applies).
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> the CEO takes the fall, and announces that this was the plan all along. Software would replace the sensors.

the CEO doesn't "take the fall", he __has__ the fall. He's the one deciding to gamble people safety and to hand to his engineers yet another unnecessary hot potato for sake of profit and share holders dividends.
They do cherry red versions too for linear switches.

I used to have awful RSI and switching to the Kinesis Advantage for a year fixed it. I don't use it anymore but I don't use the apple keyboard either which I think caused the RSI in the first place, or maybe it was just how I was banging away on it.
Sounds like there is money to be made, no?
Well said. Tubeless is fora shaving off a few grams from the wheels, which translates to a very low (but measurable) energy saving on acceleration.
They kind of have it at https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

"Kind of" because it seems to be unsupported but I see links to binaries and docker images on that page.
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That's why we have grids and storage. Perhaps you should investigate those before making definitive statements about what renewables can and can't do.
Equally there’s evidence that GPT-4 only excels on tests that happened to appear in it train data (presumably via accidental contamination). As has been demonstrated by it strong ability to solve tests written before its data cutoff date (Sep 2021), but struggles with equivalent tests written after that date.

https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1635790330854526981

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-decontaminated-evaluation...

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-professional-ben...
Having more data on strikes and protests isn’t a bad thing, it’s what you do with that data. The argument that Feedly is explicitly supporting strikebreaking by offering this is really flimsy. By her metric search engines and Twitter are both anti union tools.

I’ve liked some of Molly’s work in the past but this seems to be mostly rage bait. She’s upset that Feedly used the wrong words and that might maybe cause something bad to happen somewhere. Cry me a river.
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"soda cans" is very pessimistic. The structural integrity of containers is very high. Specially the end walls.

The typical problem with containers is non-standard or unsecured cargo pressing against the side walls, which are indeed very weak.
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Yes in those days car stereos were frequently stolen. The entertainment system is so integrated these days you'd have to steal the entire car.
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Thanks :) Working on it. Re local models - indeed, all started with using the Transformer models for extractive QA and semantic search. With the Promptnode, and/or the Agents it's also now possible to combine local models/pipelines & 'LLMs' freely.
I'm interested in a good tool for converting csv to pq. Seems many encoding features are not supported by most.
Yours is a perfect example of a recursive comment
Which also applies to renewables.

Actually it applies even more, because renewables are decentralised and small scale, so there's a wide range of jobs from house-level local installations to international infrastructure.
That's indeed interesting. By the way, it found another pattern: [d, f, h] => j. Your starting letters were sequentially meaningful too. According to this pattern the word "jazz" would be acceptable.

I experimented a bit with this prompt and tried various variations of it including one that added something like this:

"The age-category of this sequence is: "a child could do it". You are to solve this by pretending to be a young human with average skills and perceptions. You should assume average common sense in your answer."

Outputs are like this:

=====

"Now, let's look at the words. I noticed that the words have something in common with the numbers that come right before them. They are related to the numbers in this way:

'done' - It sounds like "one" when you say it aloud.
'free' - It sounds like "three" when you say it aloud.
'hive' - It sounds like "five" when you say it aloud."

"So, the pattern in the sequence is alternating between even numbers and words that rhyme with the odd numbers. Here's the whole pattern:

0 (even number), 'done' (rhymes with 'one'), 2 (even number), 'free' (rhymes with 'three'), 4 (even number), 'hive' (rhymes with 'five')"

=====

I agree with you that language models have vastly different failure modes than humans. Often extremely weird, but to even get close to their potential you do have to probe a bit deeper than just asking it stuff without context.

It just semi-randomly walks some semantic space and not all of those branches are fruitfully related to our initial problem. It doesn't know at all what we are doing, there is nothing going on "under the hood".

Edit: to be completely clear I'm not arguing it "does know" this answer or something. I don't know if it even "knows", but I do know a thing or two how to get better answers. Current models still are very clearly limited so sooner or later you'll hit it the limit and they start what I call "averaging": you'll get blurry pictures of what you want.
Some one else abusing the term "founder" doesn't change anything. Musk was an investor who made himself CEO several years later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhikkhu

Buddhism is at its heart a serious journey in search of peace and (as far as they accept it exists) happiness. The monks generally own one bowl, up to 3 robes and a few other things. If your goal is "true happiness" then people really don't need much except to spend time being practising being happy with what they have.

True happiness is an evolutionary dead end though, so most people pursue status, like owning a big car. That isn't going to make anyone happy though, it is going to make them look like they have money. Otherwise, a small car is more effective and no car is much more relaxing.
i actually found this bug - so if any of you fellas want to talk technical that's coo
Damn Italy, they ruined Italy.
Don't forget to specify which next of kin should receive it.
Since 2021, the damages have been calculated by the brilliant minds of our legal system as $137 million, $15 million, and now $3 million. But don't you dare question the outcome in the comments here, this is serious lawyer stuff.

Hell of a hustle the lawyers have built. They manage a cartel that is slow, labor inefficient and has horrendous quality control.

(I almost forgot, the cartel requires I tell you I am not a member of their cartel and this is not cartel advice. If I don't tell you this, they will send someone to hurt me financially)
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Personally, I think they could at least support some emulators similar to what Google Cloud does. Like the messaging/pubsub related products
The Home Assistant SkyConnect is a great excuse to rebuild your smart home
Haystack's agent is indeed using the approach suggested in the ReAct paper
It's over. The US China relationship is over for the foreseeable future. Both sides are actively preparing for war. Get over it. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose by sucking up to them. There are much more powerful forces than your greed at work here, (see Congress going to counsel Apple CEO on China operations this week.)
In fairness there’s a follow up tweet that sort of acknowledges their comms around this were piss poor.

https://twitter.com/googledrive/status/1643049396207009792?s...

Still not an actual apology, or acknowledgment they messed up, but at least an indication someone in the Google Drive team understands how badly they messed this up.
correct I was wrong on this one
TikTok fined £12.7M for misusing children's data
Cyberwarfare is all in the mind, says Britain
They could easily revoke your certificate, and deactivate your website.
Remove the text and the man's voice and I doubt you can actually understand what it says.
Thank you for the replies. It helps confirm my belief that AWS is just peddling the same security bullshit as everybody else and people keep falling for it.

Literally everybody has been promising general purpose machine isolation for decades and basically every one of them has failed. Actually designing such a system is a extraordinary claim demanding extraordinary evidence. Actual standards that can actually distinguish such a property such as the Common Criteria at EAL 6 and 7 require rigorous verification work such as formal proofs of correctness to actually positively assert such properties. It is ridiculous that people keep believing such claims without any guarantees, verifications, or audits when everything uncertified is so catastrophically bad at achieving isolation.

To quote Theo de Raadt:

“You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a
worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating
systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around
and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.

You've seen something on the shelf, and it has all sorts of pretty
colours, and you've bought it.“
>I wonder if there is still a limit with modern Linux OSes and that is why Google is limiting some of their users?

Ext4 has 32-bit/~4billion max limit per filesystem, newer filesystems like btrfs have a 64bit limit. Neither allocates the whole max size by default. I don't imagine Google drive uses an out of the box filesystem underneath though.
There are multiple real-world instruction sets that have a few dozen opcodes at most. Learning the mnemonics and operands for one of these ISAs can be done in an afternoon. Much easier than learning a really complicated language like C++ or Rust.

The hard part about assembly language is its very limited abstraction. You’re only one step away from the metal. So it takes a lot of work to build a large program and it can be very tricky to get right because you don’t have a compiler or any types to help you. If you know what you’re doing, though, you can write some very small binaries!
I've also seen a few game devs saying ECS are useless in quite a few situations (or, at least, a very zealous adherence to ECS).

I guess it's one of those things that you don't know until you try (and hit the limits of using or not-using one).

I'm also reminded of Robert Nystrom's "Is There More to Game Architecture Than ECS": https://youtu.be/JxI3Eu5DPwE

(Yes, Robert Nystrom of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters)
>Nuclear is fundamentally cheaper than nearly any other energy source.

It is not, the main costs are simply not included in the calculations. Operators are legally protected from most liabilities, and even setting liabilities aside they get bailed out if they fail to be profitable. You have to bail them out, there is no option not to. You can't simply turn off a nuclear power plant and leave it.

France recently had to bail out their nuclear operator to at least 50 bn euros. We reached the point where we're "the future" that had to pay for the energy that our parents got from nuclear. Our children will be the next to pay for it, and so on for centuries.

This means that even in a country that has had no disasters, nuclear power has operated under a cost model that was severely underestimated.

The cold truth is that nuclear power is not cheap even in a best-case scenario, and "not cheap" is the most precise estimate we are able to give.
There's some flag you can give the JVM which will make it dump out the assembly for JITted code. That is an enlightening read. There is all sorts of weird stuff going on in there to do with safepoints, dynamic deoptimisation, etc.
Common myths about sustainability and cloud computing
Yep I tried Mullvad and it's completely unusable on a commercialised web. Maybe for some people privacy trumps usability.
And every laptop is a desktop if you're one of those deskful types.
Main issue with geoparquet at the moment is theres no spatial indexing. When that comes it becomes a lot more viable to replace both other GIS file types like geopackage and also for some cases even database storage like postgis.

Very much looking forward to it though, hoping it covers pointcloud and TIN data well eventually also