skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"how expensive and dangerous nuclear power is"

Well, it is dangerous and therefore expensive. Mining Uranium is dirty. Handling the waste is expensive. And handling a big accident is very expensive.

The alternatives are just expensive as well and not without risk either.

So sure, big parts of those fears are definitely irrational. The risks of the invisible dangers of things people do not understand. This is always hard, especially coupled with the fear of a nuclear war. It should probably have been propagated more, that radiation is a very natural thing and without nuclear energy, there likely would be no life on earth, as the earth would be way colder, without fission inside the crust (and core?) warming the earth.
The issue I see is some companies' reluctance to even shift from Java 8 or move away from legacy.

I guess that will be the biggest impediment to adoption of new features.
I know I have access to fine grained access tokens (beta) which let you get very granular on a per repo. I’m not sure if this is generally available or only because we are on Github Enterprise though.
It seems sensible to me, as a defense against someone taking your answer out of context and splicing it with a different question to make you look bad.
I think I prefer this:

foldr _ z [] = z
foldr k z (x:xs) = k x $ foldr k z xs
It mimics everything incredibly well, except for curiosity ("?") and soul ("!"). Very much like print, soulless speech patterns persist through the entire interview, as if they were reading a screenplay. The hesitations and pauses are still there, but not the soul. So either AI translates English punctuation poorly, or they weren't picked-up enough times to mimic themselves into this interview. Example: "Abolutely, Joe!" is very flat and non-emotional. It is uttered as a louder sentence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meu0CoYv3z8&t=460s
schedule some play dates with people at school/daycare. play dates are as much for the parents as they are for the kids. Many of the family friends my wife and I have were actually made by our kids being friends at school first.
Yes, and it's not that it's just slow, it also freezes Emacs completely when it borks (and it does bork). I also found that none of the emacs terminals could correctly display my prompt and I ended up writing a bunch of bash conditionals to make my prompt dumber to work in Emacs. Just worked out of the box with Vim's :term.
> I haven't met anyone who used VSCode / MSVS / IntelliJ products or Eclipse who was good at writing code.

How many people have you met?
In that case, my bad.
EFA is not InfiniBand. It has similar goals (low latency via kernel bypass), but is implemented using AWS Nitro NICs and regular Ethernet networking.

Other providers (Azure and Oracle) do offer InfiniBand, but that creates a problem with "islands" of compute which can't be easily expanded. There are also more security considerations when using IB in a multi-tenant environment which makes it not such a slam-dunk advantage as you might first assume.
Well that's gotta be by far the most depressing utopia I've ever seen put into text.
https://archive.ph/UocWR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Quant
HN is a free to access website, that anyone interested in tech can stumble across at any time and access with any personal budget (assuming they've landed an web capable device)

I was in high school with a basically non-existent budget when I first found this site, I'd trust someone here who says "Yeah, I'm not financially stable" - seems like the average income here is no longer relevant at that point.
Didn't SF used to be freaking scary prior to blowing up? I've heard people talk about it like they do Miami, Baltimore, Detroit, ect.

An undesirable place that washed up people ended up, riddled with crime and violence.

I think I might be getting the story wrong, but I recall hearing there used to be much more crime.
this comment makes no sense, what does Nazi gold have to do with safety? San Francisco is just as wealthy as Zurich if not more so.
Monogenesis is pretty deeply out of favor in historical linguistics these days. Afaik most linguists specializing in far ancient protolanguages just frankly admit that their techniques aren't capable of deciding it in either direction.

There's nothing even near consensus on how far back you'd have to reach to figure it out either. With theories it could be as recent as the out of africa expansion 50k years ago, or emerging with or even predating emergence of anatomically modern humans ~300k y/o, or literally anywhere in between.

Confidently establishing linguistic monogenesis either true or false is like nobel prize shit with significant ramifications across the entire understanding of human language. They have definitely considered number bases.

The simple near universal human fact of "fingers + toes = 20" means any number of unrelated languages are likely to converge on that base and its factors. It doesn't disprove that theory it just isn't a useful bit of data towards it either way.
The equation he made isn't wrong, but it contradicts the fact that OP is criticizing people who agree with what they said themselves.

Data clearly shows a correlation between crime levels and average income in an area. Are we not mostly engineers used to working with data here? In fact, needing to "survive" is a common excuse used to justify the crimes committed in impoverished areas.
Note that I said correlation, not causation. If someone has data that says otherwise, please provide it because I would be genuinely intrigued.
I've seen the same euphemism used to pave over outright criminality.

Remember: If it smells like fraud, it's just eccentricity!
Not "all time low" but a 40 year low. Its easy to fuzz numbers when you start extremely high.
MIT license makes it easier to exploit a developer's free work
How atypical is a quake of this magnitude on that fault line? I feel like I saw a post of something similar in the last couple years, and in context it wasn't abnormal
> I don't even want to spend 45 mins a month fiddling with config. I really don't understand Emacs people.

Some people like to customize their environment to their exact specifications. Others will use whatever is available and never change it.

That is not required. Although default Emacs is pretty barebones (from a modern interface standpoint, not features) one can get a pretty good kickstart by using something like Spacemacs or Doom emacs and only sprinkling a bit of configuration here and there.

I too had a pile of config accrued over years - mostly porting features from other editors to Emacs. After adding Doom, I have just a few lines, it does all the rest.

The point is - usually on other editors you need to either wait for someone to create a "plugin" to do what you need, or you need to create a full blown plugin yourself, which is not a small task. In Emacs, it's extremely easy to create functions that will do tasks for you. And that gets addictive.
If you don't mind my saying so, I think it's your point of view that's naive.

OP is talking about a large cultural shift, the type that skeptics said was impossible back at the advent of the web. The orthodox opinion was that the web was a fad and we'd all be reading newspapers and using coin-operated phones forever.

The scale of change that he’s describing — where the internet ceases to become a source-of-truth — would be a complete paradigm shift. Whether it's a "core part of today's society" is entirely irrelevant… newspapers were once core too.
Many years ago I discovered and wrote the bullet in this article about the Zimbabwean hyperinflation:

"It is well known that Zimbabwe experienced severe hyperinflation in 2008..."

Very interesting article as a whole, of course.
Right, yeah obviously the selection part is not random ("the fittest survives").

I guess my point is that there is a tendency to say "evolution chose to make this because that's the optimal solution", where actually evolution may have "missed" the optimal solution.

But evolution is not an active process (of something choosing what's optimal), but a passive process (it does change, and some of those (random) changes win).

Or am I missing something?
There are few to no paths to a non-dystopian outcome currently.
Conversation branching in ChatGPT
The light bulb cartels are making lightbulbs that last 18 months on purpose. We should have had 20 year light bulbs fifty years ago.

Only the LEDs I have in table lamps have survived more than five years. All enclosed bulbs die from cheap components and heat damage.
I think you’re missing the broader point. The “netbook” form factor was absolutely on to something, but it failed to deliver. The atom processor is what enabled the form factor, and practically set the trajectory for laptops for next 10 years.

Everyone has rose tinted glasses and short memories when it comes to just how far computers have come in the last 15 years. For reference, netbooks predate iPads by 3 years. They came out about the same time as the first iPhone.

The low power long life computing platform has for the longest time been a dream. Netbooks with 4-8 hour battery existed at the same time that a top of the line laptop would get only 3 hours battery life, a normal consumer grade laptop would top out at 1-2 hours, for a 1/4 of the price.

If you squint hard enough, there is no discernible difference between the aspiration of the netbook platform, and a modern chrome book or iPad with a keyboard, but Intel doesn’t make processors for either platform.
According to new WaPo article, "he was a junior member of the military, but had access to highly sensitive information through his role as an IT tech within the military organization."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/13/...

UPD They changed the wording, the current version:

>Teixeira told members of the online group Thug Shaker Central that he worked as an technology support staffer for the Massachusetts Air National Guard and at a base on Cape Cod, and this was how he was able to access classified documents, one member of the Discord server told the Post.
Plus the time for writing that blog post. ;)
Yes, there are a lot of people who will say that. They provide a living, walking straw man, and there are enough of them that I can't say you're cherry picking. As for the tweet, I can't see any reason I'd start reading twitter now, I've been long disgusted with the quality of discourse on twitter.

But if you decide to dismiss the concerns about the excesses of the far left by pointing to racist responses to a tweet somewhere, you aren't being honest about a real problem.

I avoid the term "woke", but when James Carville (famous democratic strategist) said "wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it" (in regards to the far left harming mainstream democrats in elections), I'm not sitting around scratching my head bewildered as to what he's talking about.
I'd love a link to the SFPD statement if you have it (I cannot find it)
> LA and Seattle

That's a strange way of spelling Cleveland, Memphis, Baton Rouge, Tulsa, Baltimore, Albuquerque, Detroit, Mobile, Cincinnati, Toledo, Des Moines, Seattle, Indianapolis, Spokane, St. Louis, San Bernadino, Bakersfield, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Minneapolis, Durham, Orlando, Wichita... And I can't be bothered to list the next 30, all of whom also have more burglaries per capita than SF, and most of which also have more assaults, murders, and rapes.

LA is #73 on the burglary index, by the way.

You're making a lot of claims, and providing zero data for them.

> These crime rates are what's reported by the police and they refuse to take reports of anything that hasn't escalated

Please provide a shred of evidence that this doesn't happen in any of the other other cities listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

Why even bother arguing this question, if all you have is anecdotes, speculation and just-so stories?
I have four commits to my .emacs in 2022 and eight in 2021, all fairly minor. So I guess that's about 45 minutes per year on average :)
That may be true but I would hazard a guess that 90% of mobile apps that talk to 3rd party services have keys stored in their binaries. It may be true as an individual that you should not do that but discipline doesn’t scale. We need a convenient best practice that doesn’t put keys in the binary. Setting up a proxy server that you also need authentication with that talks to all your apis is not gonna get done unless you make it idiot proof.
There's a lot of trust on the internal systems, once you have clearance, to be able to access these docs. In this case, however, he might have been involved in creating some of these (or some kind of rollup product) and would therefore probably have access to different material to help support that creation.

Or its a Snowden situation and he has access because he has privileges on the system due to being a sys admin of some sort.
I thought this was going to be about the British Academia/Government ISP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET
> but I hope there is pressure on the city to clean up the other bits.

Enough to displace the lobbying pressure imposed by the affluent side of it's population? I wouldn't hold my breath...
Midjourney has been the better base model since v3. When SD came out, i wouldn't say it was unarguably the better model (against Dall-E), and in fact Dall-E had noticeably better prompt understanding but the extra control and free open source nature gave it the edge over Dall-e which still hadn't been out of waitlist yet.

as for midjourney, there's just currently no comparison.

The only thing i'd say is that the new Dall-E (usable through Bing image creator) and a new model called Kandinsky 2.1 are much better than all the base SD models (incl the new XL)
Facebook has been getting preferential treatment by the corrupt Irish DPA: https://noyb.eu/en/irish-data-protection-authority-gives-eu-...

Not to mention, whatever fines they got, they still aren't enough to change their behavior, because their GDPR breaches continue as we speak.
> if you believe in the Unix philosophy then you have to admit that Emacs is simply bloated and trying to do too much and therefore is not really the best at anything

On the contrary, Emacs tries to do just one thing: provide an Elisp runtime for other applications. It does this fairly well.

Do not confuse Elisp applications like evil, org, calc, magit, etc. with Emacs itself!
I agree that Assange has been subject to "aggressive targeted prosecution" (at the very least), he was repeatedly playing close to the edge and intelligence community bureaucrats were threatened by politically embarrassing info appearing in western media and decided to make an example of him. IMHO, determining whether he was actually guilty of the crimes he was charged with isn't all that clear since it depends on some fairly subtle interpretation.

Suffice to say, that without the intense high-level political pressure being constantly applied Assange would not be incarcerated today as he would either have won in court or convicted on a substantially lesser crime. Thus, I don't think it matters much whether he's technically guilty.

To me, the key meta-point is that the things Assange leaked weren't of much actionable value to the military enemy. Most of what Assange (and Snowden) leaked were already known or reasonably assumed by military adversaries.
Then you live in the suburbs, warts and all.

Give me the risk any day.
You're probably right. Similarly, the tolerated racism in South Korea would also be terrifying to people here.
You can use the new Fine-grained Personal Access Tokens [1] (as opposed to the original ones, now called "Personal Access Tokens (Classic)".

With the fine-grained tokens, you can literally grant this site:

- Repository access: none

- User permissions: none

- Repository permissions: none

[Or if you want to be really paranoid, make a burner account... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.]

But also, star-history.com is not a random site — the repo [2] has 4k stars and has been around since 2015 and has been popular for over a year.

If you've ever tried to make a public app that depends on GitHub APIs, the limits without taking PATs are very, very low — totally insufficient for an app with any popularity, so there's not really an alternative.

[1]: https://github.blog/2022-10-18-introducing-fine-grained-pers...

[2]: https://github.com/star-history/star-history
Still is. You cannot get cobalt from Congo without child slavery, and 3/4 of all cobalt comes from Congo. No matter what the phone and car companies tell you
I think we now have the technology to build the talking portraits we saw in Harry Potter.
Voice, facial movements, dialogs that matches the character can all be generated by AI now.
I'm just not sure if this can be done realtime yet to interact with another person.

In the future, you may be able to have a conversation with a portrait of your parents even after they pass away. (So collect as much training data now?)
Oh hey

https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1646442190841823236?t=h...
I care a lot more about outcomes than whether the person I'm talking to is "real" or not. If my bill gets corrected by an AI but not a person? I'll take the AI.

Think of the classic "is 0.002 cents the same as 0.002 dollars?" call - https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/ - I just tested, and chatGPT seems to understand the difference - so maybe this would be a case where the AI is better.

edit: to be clear I'm fine with labeling if that's desired, it's the "I want to talk to a real person" that I think is silly (and oddly similar to the "I want to talk to an American" that people also say).
Ironically AI spam might actually make “blockchain” or at least widespread of digital signatures useful ofc it would also mean an end to a mostly anonymous internet.
If 2001 taught us anything, it's that this mission is doomed.
Oh no, your hardware key was destroyed in a fire, you don't exist any more.
Why don't you SSH _from_ Emacs?

If you are editing a remote file there's usually no need to SSH and then invoke an editor.

https://willschenk.com/howto/2020/tramp_tricks/
Can't wait to have to restart a kubernetes cluster to get sensor metrics from the engine to start again.
the dry, temperate weather that has historically made homelessness in San Diego County relatively tolerable may be a thing of the past. Recent weather in California has been generally both hotter and wetter. Some studies suggest that hotter, much wetter weather may be the new norm for California thanks to global warming.

From an old blog post of mine, written November 2017.

California has about one quarter of America's homeless population, likely due in part to the history of dry, temperate weather in large parts of California. If Cali is going to generally trend hotter and wetter, we need to more urgently than ever find solutions for getting people into permanent housing and keeping them there.
That's cool and all, but I would have preferred ```csv as a marker instead.
Incidentally, while this is really interesting, what would be really useful is repairing, not reducing the pace of damage.

I am not sure why the title is written as «reverse decline»: I have not read that in the article. (Did I miss something?)
I agree with you, but this is also just an opinion.

The reality is that he is officially being charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for coaching Manning on how to get around the military's encryption.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it supposed to output multiline suggestions as in the example for everyone? I can't find any option in vscode and just get line by line results (any supported language).
"In the wee hours of April 4, they were purportedly driving together through downtown San Francisco in a car registered to the suspect."

This is from "multiple police sources" from the article.
AI researchers and companies need to starting asking themselves: just because we can does it mean we should?

The societal implications and risks of this technology are enormous. This could lead to an erosion of publc trust in audio and video evidence. Imagine someone creating something that gives dangerous medical advice using Fauci's likeness? Or giving the worst politicians an excuse to say that something they actually said/did was just AI generated.

In the life sciences there are limits to what researchers are allowed to do. Especially with genomics.

There are great opportunities for AI to do good things for humanity. We should not waste the time and effort on trivial things like this that have negative net benefits to us.

Edit: spelling
It’s absolutely useful for that! You’ll be on a carburettor instead of injection but that’s about the only difference! The Miata really isn’t much evolved from the 60s sports cars it’s based on.
It’s pretty obviously not. The answers are in the article. The police claims they were driving together. You don’t usually drive together with someone you don’t know late at night.
agreed. the best papers are often better reading than the vast majority of technical books or websites. perhaps because of the pressure to be clear and concise. with books I find I often must wade through lots of fluff or "novel to novices" ideas. best papers have a great S/N ratio
Got it, thanks for the explanation :)
Using English is an HN community norm.

Flagging is the way the HN community maintains its norms.

Occasionally, content in other languages appeals to the community and gets some traction.

Generally, I presume non-english content does not prioritize community engagement since it outside of community norms. And not prioritizing community engagement is also a bit at odds with the vibe of HN.

It's probably worth pointing out that HN works because there are not a lot of legal fine points to be argued over. So non-English content is allowed, but the community response tends to treat it as noise rather than signal.

Good luck.
Sounds like someone is trying to put themselves in a category and everyone else in another. You were part of a wave of colonizers, taking spaces from poorer people. You can't hide behind being artsy.. those tend to be the biggest colonizers
I'm sure he's under surveillance but there's no reason to arrest him until the case is airtight and they've followed all the strands
Do you have any more insightful nationalistic cliches to share?
QMK does have this, unless I’ve misunderstood your use case. My QMK keyboard has CAPS mapped to ESC when tapped, CTRL when pressed with other keys. In my keymap.c file, I’ve put my caps key as just:

MT(MOD_LCTL, KC_ESC)
Many of the people who are succeeding at these things have a knack for seeing the emperor's clothes.
Yes - I’ll move he videos across to Mux’s native player soon and that will provide what you need!
The person you replied to said

"A person with a few full magazines and a semiauto rifle in a crowded place, and not much concern about surviving, can kill dozens of people in a couple minutes before there's any chance of someone else with a gun being able to stop them. I'm not aware of someone doing this with a knife.

The Canadian incident took place over days and 13 different locations. The other two incidents don't say how long they took but it just takes way longer to kill people with a knife than a gun.
Why's that? A history of cooperating with Western intelligence, even as a very low level asset, should be a bonus.
I'd say it's mostly ignorance and misunderstanding (or the result of being conned). Laypeople equate AI with some kind of sentient and powerful adversary, or get caught up in "took our jobs" rhetoric, or whatever.

And stories like this just capitalize on it to keep promoting the hype. There's nothing to see here.
People will just perfect the bubble, creating entire realitys disjunct from the scientific verifiable one and dig in there.
It's not just the camera process though - containers ship an entire OS (except the kernel).
It does not take too long to stumble upon the typical words accompanying "crypto" in general: scam, fraud, ponzi.

This adds somewhat to the list of this here: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/