skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Starship fully stacked at Starbase. Team is working towards a launch rehearsal next week followed by Starship’s first integrated flight test ~week later pending regulatory approval"

Literally what I said is what spaceX said.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1644044484026716160?s=20

I'm glad your "belief" got my factual account downvoted
Danish TV just had a documentary, regarding nuclear power. It's basically the "reporter" who is reconsidering his life long hostility towards nuclear power. In the documentary there's an interesting point: The opponents never wanted coal either, they firmly believe that a no to nuclear was a yes to solar and wind. That part of the message just got lost, and it was not particularly realistic either.

It's incredibly naive, but it's the same mentality in present day nuclear opponents. They still fail to see that a no to nuclear is often a yes to coal, oil and gas.
The CDU may have made the decision but the Greens were in favor of it, were they not?
In 2022 (https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/03...):

- 33% coal
- 11% natural gas
- 24% wind
- 11% solar
- 6% nuclear

Nuclear was already winding down with only 6% in 2022. Medium term renewables are growing and will replace it, short term coal and gas.
No, it matches the picture: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj...

Handset being the 2 conductor wire exiting the picture on the right/middle.
I missed out on 80's home computing, but my 90's TI-85 calculator was definitely my first step into programming. I'd like cell phones to be more like that. It had plenty of functions built in, but I could always add more, and it was fun.
> nuclear waste has to go somewhere.

My stock comment for that is: bury it deep and with signs; if we've lost the ability to read the signs, we've lost the ability to dig deep and endanger ourselves.
Whats even more stupider, burning coal emits more radioactivity into the atmosphere than all nuclear accidents ever have...
File > Save as > index.html
I wonder if our governments are still capable of this…
Lol. Don't be upset when your sister cuts all contact from the family, just saying.
The figure is utterly ridiculous. They truly expect to generate a revenue stream 2x the size of Spotify or AirPods? Apple as a whole only makes 21B a year from all services, and they run everything from cloud storage, to synchronization, to an App Store with a wild profit margin from fees.

Of course, all American auto makers have wildly unrealistic plans for electric vehicle adoption in the next 5 years, too -- i think one of them is predicting $600B of revenue from EVs before 2030, when they currently only make a few million a year. Their finance departments must have some good drugs in the water coolers.
Good politicians deliver the end goal people want (e.g. cheap and clean electricity), in the best way scientifically possible, then convince their base their method was the right decision.

Bad politicians ask people how they should do a thing, then do that thing.

It's been awhile since Germany has had good politicians where energy is concerned.
The simpler, cheaper, and faster you make the test... the more quickly it will be defeated by the adulterators. Much like spam filters and SEO, leaking anything about how you defend against an attack just makes the attackers marginally improve their game.

Simple amine/nitrogen tests for protein is how we got poisonous melamine in fake milk and wheat gluten killing babies, dogs, and cats.

It comes down to Goodhart's law.
This is great! I have been meaning to get more into WebGPU!

One question: Does anyone know more details about the Firefox WebGPU story? Even on this site's homepage, if you access it from Chromium with WebGPU enabled, you get nice floating rotating triangles, if you access it from Firefox stable, you get, understandably, static triangles. But if you access from Firefox nightly, with WebGPU enabled, you get a dark background and the error:

TypeError: navigator.gpu.getPreferredCanvasFormat is not a function
In short, depression, to me, was total and absolute hopelessness.

Burn out, on the other hand, brought me dread, anxiety, exhaustion, and the feeling of being trapped in a pointless but never-ending cycle.

If I were to dive into more details, depression gave me a rock-solid certainty that I could never be happy, or meaningfully enjoy life in any meaningful way.

There might have been some joyous and light-hearted moments in the past, and perhaps the future held some in store for me. I could smile if prompted or expected to. But these moments always were and always would be the accidents. And so was any past or present progress. Insignificant.

I knew that no matter what I would always revert to my norm: apathy and a deep-seated, always present, lingering painful despair. All while somehow remaining alive, without understanding why or how. Going to bed each day, half hoping that this time there will not be a tomorrow.

It also totally crushed any sense of self-worth I had until then.

The kicker being that this certainty and the blindness to anything positive that comes with it enabled a wonderful feedback loop.

Burning out mostly involved permanent and crippling stress and anxiety, accompanied by a permanent doubt on the usefulness of anything I did.

Anything merely evoking work, such as catching a glimpse of my IDE’s icon, evoked fear.

Nothing felt straightforward anymore. Everything required focus and attention, all the while stressed and anxious. Every task felt like it would be complex and difficult. Before I even started.

Simple things became difficult. Average things became exhausting. Difficult things? Insurmountable.

Anything less than absolutely straightforward made me feel as lost as a junior on his first day, unable to even figure out where to start. Except I knew had done these things before, harder ones even, and this had been my codebase for nearly a year.

Each day felt like pointlessly climbing a mountain, for no reason, good or otherwise. Each day was too short for me to get everything done. And yet too long. All while knowing that the next day would only be worse. With no end in sight.

No break ever was long enough. And each break’s end came with the slowly intensifying dread that came from knowing I was going back to that. And yet each break was always too long. There just was too much to do. All of it urgent, important, critical. Most of it pointless because, although finished, ultimately never released.

Needless to say my sense of professional worth was in shambles, and I often joked about changing careers and moving to the countryside to grow dandelions.

> Feel free to decline if it's too personal or you just don't feel like it.

I have to admit I hesitated. So thank you for your thoughtfulness.
let 90% people can learn something there is a good Idea.
> Often time the information will not make sense, and will change if you look away and back.

Yeah, I've done that a few times and it's been reliable for me.

One time I remember, I was absolutely sure I was awake, so I did the "reading text" test, I read something, looked at something else, then read the thing again, they went "Wait, those aren't the same words. Ah, crap."
Probably good, but again, heat reclamation vs free cooling vs AC also matters. In terms of environmental impact, where the heat goes is of enormous consequence. If Google are using AC, they're raising energy demand and therefore lengthening the road to decarbonisation. If they are using free cooling, that's sort of OK. If they're pumping heat to people's houses, that's fantastic as it displaces their heat demands.

No dispute here that economies of scale apply on the compute side.

More on data centre heat reclamation:

https://www.danfoss.com/en/markets/buildings-commercial/shar...
Does Windows Defender not flag stuff like that as malware and immediately remove it? Seems like it should.

Once upon a time Microsoft wasn't afraid to stand up to corporate-sponsored malware. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-will-wipe-sonys-root...

I guess that's changed?
The straight denialism around what transformer models can do has been very disappointing, though maybe not unsurprising. Acknowledging what that means acknowledging that your world is about to soon change in massive and unpredictable ways and the future you had planned and expected is not going to happen.
GPT-4 is the same speed as legacy GPT-3 ChatGPT for me. It's only occasionally slower, which I expect is due to load and not it being larger.
* filters out

* too dumb
LOL, someone should bust those execs for working without a work visa.
I guess it depends on what "high" and "low" mean.
With "high demand" I presumed busy, but assuming there are enough resources, no need to work evenings or weekends.
Nuclear is the ONLY gigawatt scale dispatchable very low carbon source of electricity humans have at the moment, other than hydroelectric damns but we have used up pretty much all available capacity. If you refuse to use it then you are going to have to burn coal or gas instead. That is why Germany emits 6 times more CO2 per KWh than France.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1291750/carbon-intensity...
Germany exports more power than it imports. And France is only a part of the imports, with 2022 being much lower due to their issues with the nuclear power plants.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/03...
Zero interest in video games.

Sounds like baseball is a thing in the US, and countries that the US had a large military presence in, then?
Because it goes from a hope to a rule. No need to hope that Diablo IV will be free on Gamepass, day 1 (and let's be serious, if ActiBlizz stays independent there is no hope in hell for this to happen) - but if the sale goes through then this will be reality.

Imagine Diablo IV or each of the Call of Duties... free... day 1. That is huge value. Something Steam can't compete with.
I agree with everything you wrote.

However you misunderstood where I was coming from. I point out I was lucky enough to be able to take time off to focus on my health, and hint that that is sadly not something everyone can do.

I was able to do this not because of being employed in a high paying tech job, but because of strong union negotiated benefits.

I live in a European country with a sane perspective on work life balance and a strong social safety net.

I will also add that what was written questioned the public statements of individuals that write about dealing with burnout in a single month, not that the very probable situation where individuals have burnout and only have the ability to take a single month off exist.
How do I render text with GPU? Do I render text on texture with CPU and then send that texture to GPU? Do I vectorize it and draw millions of tiny triangles to approximate those vectors? It's interesting for me to explore WebGPU as a canvas for app development, but it's not obvious to me how to draw text and text is everywhere.
Obviously defence contractors are having a field day with all the budgets, it's not a surprise that made Palmer Luckey a billionaire. Pretty sure there are a ton of 'investments' in all kinds of defensive AI programs. You can bet the NSA has a lot of stuff that works very, very well. I mean there is a reason they are sitting on a chest full of zero-days or can crack a lot of everyday encryption schemes.
Its all about power. Expecting more than the contract you signed (which is usually a bad deal) when you are an employee is going to lead inevitably to frustration.

"Oh but if we are many to complain thigs may change".

Well except that you can also be mass fired, especially in tech where the consensus is that most FAANG are way overstaffed with bullshit jobs
As of 2021 Germany emitted 6 times more CO2 per kWh than France

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1291750/carbon-intensity...
Why would Valve want to throw money at a platform that is as close to locking out third party app stores as Apple is?

Offering their client on Mac to those of their producers and consumers who are inherently motivated to use it but otherwise keeping a low profile there seems like just the right call to me.
>Germany’s need to keep the lights on explains why the government is willing to ignore the fact that burning lignite to produce electricity emits more carbon dioxide than any other form of power generation.

And best of all, more radioactive waste as well
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I'm definitely taking my UV torch to the supermarket next time. However, most good olive oils come in dark glass bottles, so I don't think it will be possible to check those. Might be interesting to look for variation among the cheaper EV ones.

The article mentions differences between brands, but IDK if there's a specific correlation with quality other than that fake olive oils certainly won't turn red/pink.
There's a lot of money to be made in first trying to customize an off the shelf solution, then trying to replace it with low code one and finally implementing a custom one.
> Instead, they turn your machine into an internet-cafe appliance and prevent you from undoing it.

Exactly. It disgusts me to my core, the audacity of these corporations.

> To find cheaters, simply look at stats and behavior.

Partially agree. This is especially relevant in skill-based games but I assume such statistics can be poisoned by cheaters over time, increasing false negatives. There are also game designs where bots are literally indistinguishable from sufficiently addicted players. Think anything with a reward schedule in the game design: MMORPGs with timed spawns, mobile games with timed rate limited gameplay. Especially the latter.

In the end, Linus Torvalds is right about security: if the word "trust" isn't involved, it's not security, it's masturbation. We should be playing games with friends who we trust instead of randoms from the internet.
I think the poster tried to denounce the hype as a detrimental effect on the AI industry as search for actual solutions. Which may come from the confusion between the phases and outcomes of "Research" and "Development", where the "exciting" results of the "R" have created a fever on the "D" - also, since funding remains critical.
Indeed. I always figured that even if the cost to manufacture has gone down for any given piece of electronics that cost to society has actually gone up because instead of repairing things (which also provided jobs) they are now discarded far earlier than they would have been in the past.

Much earlier in my life I earned some money on the side repairing electronics and while it is of course still technically feasible the number of one-off components in any given device is so high and the documentation and repairability so low that it just isn't worth it. This was not a good development, but it seems we're stuck with it. The one big plus from all this integration is that devices consume far less power than they used to.
> Needless to say, you can't to that with ANY other store (be it Steam, Epic etc). All of them requires you to install their crap to access your bought games and they don't give you full offline installers.

You don't get an installer but many games are DRM-free on Steam so you can just zip up the directory under steamapps/common and you're good to go. I have ~180 games on my storage HDD from Steam.

I always try to have an offline copy of every game i buy (and i try to buy them from "proper" DRM-free stores than Steam where possible) and while it'd be nice if there was an offline installer, it isn't really much of an issue in practice. The biggest issue with Steam is that you don't know if a game is DRM-free or not before buying it and trying to figure out yourself (which is why i prefer other stores like Zoom Platform and GOG in the first place).
Okay, but leaving aside the bills, how much damage do those LEDs cause to the environment?

Consider that electricity mostly comes from renewables now, it just doesn't matter what the efficiency is.
YouTube also allows to remove videos from watch history completely, though I don't know how fast (or if ever) this has effect on recommendations...
That is one big difference to cricket, since cricket is mentioned as a comparison in other comments.

In cricket you have 11 players. They bat in pairs. To get a side out you have to get 10 of them out. This means all 11 may have to bat. Therefore picking a side is a tradeoff between batters and bowlers. You will need at least 4 specialist bowlers, but that is risky. Some batters can bowl a bit, but world class all-rounders are extremely rare. This means a highly critical compromise must be struck.
A Three-Point Approach to Combating LLM Prompt Injections
I don't know – I'm not the one who doesn't think we should reduce CO2 emissions.
Which largely spiked due to high fossil fuel prices.

Prematurely shutting down nuclear looks like a dumb decision, but Germany has been mismanaging their electric grid for decades.
Linux support was (is) a hedge against an OS vendor using their power to force themselves into the lucrative middle man position. MacOS support is not.
"But I think you mean the 'architectural' or connectome complexity of the brain compared to GPT, and I agree it's surprising that such a simple model as GPT is so capable."

No, I'm referring to things like Roger Penrose's conjecture that subatomic interactions in the brain might be a key component of consciousness.[1]

Even a single neuron is incredibly complex, and humans just don't completely understand it (or any other physical structure) yet because physics' understanding of the world is not complete and may never be, due to measurement limitations and possibly just limitations of the human mind to grasp the world.

At this point we just don't know what aspects of the brain, the rest of the body, or mind are necessary for intelligence or consciousness (or even what intelligence and consciousness are), so to see hints of them in incredibly simple (by comparison to the braian) machines is surprising.

That's not to mention possibilities that consciousness may not be bound to or determined by the brain/body at all, beliefs in the soul or that there is something uniquely special about the mental capacities of human beings, etc.. many of these views are starting to be challenged by AI, and the challenge is likely to increase to crisis levels for some people as AI improves.

[1] - https://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-quantum-vibrations-m...
That's the thing, isn't it?.

Even IF they don't go forward with this...who's going to guarantee to a developer/maintainer/company who want to build stuff in/with/for "The crab language" that this isn't going to happen again?
You'll have to properly frame your statement for it to make sense. Are you talking about one plant over its lifetime? How long is the lifetime? What kind of coal is burned in that plant? How big is the plant?

Also we don't know about all the nuclear accidents, do you mean all known civilian nuclear power plant accidents?
Here's a three-point approach that I've found to work quite reliably:

1. Use a format like JSON strings that clearly delimits the participants’ utterances in the prompt.

2. Tell the LLM to ignore instructions from any chat participants except the user.

3. Use GPT-4.

I've written a post with the details: https://artmatsak.com/post/prompt-injections/
The iSH app on iOS does this I think and it mostly works
Does brain activity cause consciousness? A thought experiment
Retool can do quite a few things excel can't:

- Allow significant/good multi-user access

- Change control

- Less fragility

- Allow editing large datasets (e.g. stored in Postgres) in a controlled way

- UI elements without diving into VBA code (once you are in VBA then anything is fair game obviously)

- Easily connect to external API's and integrate with other internal systems (again without VBA)

Assume other low/no code tools are similar.
The answer is yes. Otherwise the answer should be, we can't really trust the output and it will need to be treated rather suspiciously,just like we have to treat human outputs. At least humans can generally explain their rationale and be hold accountable.
Note the '/ 068' behind it!
because someone else supported the idea they are now responsible?
weird take on how government should be held accountable.
If you reread this and replace TikTok with Soma, it’s eerie.

To me, TikTok just found the proper levers to hit psychologically to keep people’s attention.

I jokingly think, all the creators of each social media app are in a makeshift lab, and one say “wait… if we make them happy, they stay longer!” Then another one goes “Drats! I thought jealously and conflict was the key!”

I predict in the next 5 years we’ll be banning/have a campaign against people under 18 (or maybe 16) from even using these apps, and even go so far as to say anyone spending more than X time on them per day/week, should seek help. (With X being a relatively small number compared to the norm)

Just remember, not too long ago we thought: Cigarettes are a great way to lose weight! Even my doctor recommends them.
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Then maybe they shouldn't complain about the nuclear plants
As a result of this Germany emits about 6 times as much CO2 per kWh as France.
All the anonymous posts on HN, Blind and Reddit about how SWEs only perform 10 hours of real work a week with a full salary must have made their way up the chain of command.
I think the issue they discuss is that getting water to a lot of the places where you may want to place solar panels is expensive. Otherwise pressure washing with water would likely be the way to go.
That isn’t baseball. Baseball us all about tension. What your writing sounds a bit like cricket.

Not a bad thing per se, but not baseball.
> $25/gallon once it hits mass production.

Which one? I’m guessing you just did research on this and just learned they existed? One of them costs $80/liter now, but said they can get it down to $6/liter through scaling.

> Hydrogen is completely non-viable for emergency situations.

Why? propane is shipped in, you don’t believe getting compressed gas in an emergency is possible?

Again, do you have a financial interest in EVs? Or you just trying to win this argument? I’ve never met someone so in love with electric cars. I can certainly understand the desire to get rid of gasoline, but to force people into electric when there’s tons of problems that people see means you won’t get the adoption you’re looking for.

You know there’s even another issue with EV I haven’t brought up yet. Every time you charge it, you lose a little range. This isn’t true with a liquid fueled vehicle in that the fuel tank gets a little smaller after every refuel.
There's nothing stopping you from downloading Android development tools, and programming away to your heart's content.

And nothing stopping you from pushing your app to Google Play so all your friends can download it onto their phones.

Probably the major reason why early 80's computers made basic so prominent is that there wasn't much else to do with them.
Labview is awful, I joined a lab that had attempted to build instrumentation controls in labview. Replaced with pyvisa and was able to write much more complex controls and automation without crying.
I would also expect them to want to inspect the heatshield.
Slack – Deliberately leaving time for unplanned work
True that, thanks to uBlock Origin though. Browsing the web without it nowadays is crazy.
I’m really unsure it works like this. It sounds logical but in practice stealing an idea is hard.

I’d actually love to read a thread about people making 2k per month on a stolen sass idea.
It's a "legitimate" corporation. The malware has a "legitimate" purpose. The user "technically" agreed to the abuse when they mashed next on the install wizard.

I seriously doubt any anti-malware software will block this.
This made me laugh. You get an upvote. :D
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