skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I explained why it isn't that clear-cut, even when it is about deleting data. I guess that's why there are courts, and not only HN opinions.
Sources on "they work fine at scale"?

Last I checked 4 years ago they didn't at all in terms of costs or pollution to produce/dispose of.

Natural stores energy like nuclear or hydro remain best.
Effective Product Team Structures for 2023
If you can always decide a posteriori your actions were not voluntary then there is no definition of voluntary
This was fixed in Typescript 4.0, with the introduction of variadic tuples:
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...
I doubt it. The share of nuclear power was too small to matter geopolitically, just 5% of electricity.
Just like textbooks!
Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence, 1982 w/co-author R. Waterman) in his subsequent late 80s & earlist 90s books mildly complained there seemed to be no next big thing on the horizon. Computers, office networking, and home computers had become embedded in society. What was next? BOOM! We're living in it.

Another love-to-hate techie (Micro$oft founder) said in "Business at the Speed of Thought" that we tend to overplay expectations of innovations for the first couple years, but underplay their impact over the following decade.

Screechy dial-up took a long time to become giga-bit transfers of the entirety of human thought. Now augmented in "AI."

What's next? The thousands of patents long sequestered away from the world in the name of national security. Innovations that've been perfected for decades and used _against_ the greater good.
Germany is a net exporter of electrical energy.
The Twitter Files could help out here. Plenty of examples in there of tech censoring topics and individuals that largely fell into what most people would consider "the right" during our pandemic response.

"The right" is generally defined as policital views focusing on individual rights. Tech platforms were blatantly censoring discussion that they believed could lead to vaccine hesitancy and individuals making their own decision. They censored topics related to alternative treatments and palliative care. The motivation was clearly to push individuals to go along with the recommendations from government authorities at the expense of individual rights, freedoms, and choice.
first time I hear about X266, interesting. I have just re-enocded a lot of Videos into AV1. Oh well....
Well you kind of are exposed to new things sometimes, but the algorithms wildly overreact.

As I like to say, "accidentally play half of episode 1 of some Korean rom-com, and suddenly Netflix shows you nothing but Korean rom-coms."[1] (Substitute Turkish or Finnish or Nigerian for Korean, to taste. Likewise for rom-com: choose your genre.)

Also, you can't set up filters. I'd like to tell netflix, "if you suggest something with Adam Sandler or Jim Carrey in it, I'll cancel my subscription immediately". But I can't.

1. Yes, I know. I need to work on making it more pithy.
Regulatory capture in one of the most literal senses.
The Importance of Teaching Fractional Reserve Banking
Whether you personally do or do not want an abortion, you can be in favor of someone having a choice.
I lived in Germany 30 years and have followed the country ever since. I don't think Greenpeace is particular popular in Germany. They have few activists and few supporters. The Greens' party which is clearly anti-nuclear is much more popular and still it's by by far not the biggest one in the country. A founder of the Greens' party said it this weekend: Even the Greens' party did not kill nuclear power. It was chancellor Merkel, a conservative, having the right feeling for the sentiments of the majority.
> While we can't link to Google's issue tracker directly because of another freedom issue -- its use of nonfree JavaScript -- we're told ...

While there may be genuinely good arguments for keeping JPEG-XL, I cannot take seriously the arguments of an organisation that cuts itself off from the rest of the world for such silly reasons.

Edit: Google's argument that there wasn't enough interest is equally impossible to take seriously when it was always behind an optional flag. No web devs are going to invest time in developing JPEG-XL functionality until their users can actually use it.
Yes, a fine specimen.
Showing that lies repeated often enough can be extremely destructive.

Nuclear energy is incredibly safe. It's very compact, very reliable, emits no CO2, and extremely scalable. It's now proven that dissolved uranium in seawater can be practically extracted and continuously replenished in the ocean from dissolved rock, making it sustainable and renewable.

Greenpeace doesn't give a damn about any of that. The greens hate nuclear because it's an extremely effective way to sustain and enhance human life.
Your argument is utterly unconvincing too, a human left alone with no parents or way of learning can basically do nothing at all, i.e. what we start with isn't some trained neural net at all, it's an empty framework with no data. The OP is correct in that we are several orders of magnitude more efficient at learning than ANNs.
German Amusement Park Inside a Nuclear Power Plant
Well, it's not that much about acceptance, the downgrade is being forced on people right now (via drought, ocean rise, heat, fire, and other climatic events, and all this will also cause hunger, population move and wars), and it's a much worse downgrade than what people could do volontarily to mitigate the issue.
I'm confused by this comment, some things made with AI tools are very similar to what we were seeing before but that's either done intentionally because someone really wanted to make something in an existing style or it's done by amateurs who haven't got the hang of crafting and combining prompts yet so they just use the copy/paste "in the style of" "by X" prompts.

Just try browsing the most popular images from Midjourney and you'll see a lot of stuff that stands out, and these are the popular images that most people find acceptable. The iceberg goes much, much deeper when you dig into the galleries of individual creators.

https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/top/

https://www.deviantart.com/tag/midjourney?cursor=MTQwYWI2MjA...

https://www.instagram.com/midjourney.gallery/?hl=en
>A big problem is that it often isn't a free market. Joe The Sandwich Guy can't just randomly decide to open up a store inside the airport. There's a limited amount of space, a lease can easily last a decade, and any that come up are usually granted rather than auctioned.

It's basically like a professional license. The system is designed to make you waste so much of your life and money entering the market that undercutting people by any appreciable amount is the last thing you'll do once you're there.
Indeed. If nuclear really were the economic bee's knees, as the nuclear stans keep saying, the opposition could be bought off and corners wouldn't have to be cut. But nuclear is way too expensive and that corrodes support.
Revolving doors are awful. Except that they, allegedly, save energy.

My gut says that more confirmation studies are needed on the energy savings. I mean yes, they technically keep the building sealed, but they operate like a giant fan, constantly forcing the exchange of indoor and outdoor air. I would expect that they waste energy, not save it.
Unfortunately MathML doesn't get you proper typesetting in epubs, so it has that in common with katex.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro and iMac. They’re perfectly fine for at least for browsing. The MacBook Pro has had a battery replaced along with a warranty screen replacement for a manufacturing defect.

I did get a new Apple Silicon MacBook for image/video work and because I wanted a more loaded on the go machine for various. And my older Macs don’t support current OS releases. But the new system was something of a luxury.

But to the article’s basic point I still have various old hardware laying around I should recycle as it’s really mostly taking up space. Maybe I’ll keep a few things but very little is either interesting or likely to be useful.
Something I've been thinking a lot about lately is the potential historical usefulness of LLMs which have been selectively trained on material from before a certain date, presumably resulting in a model exhibiting attitudes of the time in question. It would be extremely interesting to be able to ask for a 1950s take on a modern idea.

For this, large amounts of very old text would be extremely valuable.
There is yet another aspect to this: the radiation hazard of coal which is often cited applies to black coal to a much higher degree than to brown coal, which is the kind that Germany tends to burn, and it's not as if that ash tends to be released into the environment either. A lot of money has gone into the scrubbing of the exhaust of coal fired plants.

Still less of those would be better.
The problem with nuclear isn't safety, it's cost. If nuclear were 10x safer and no cheaper, it would go nowhere. If it were 10x cheaper and no safer, it would be going like gangbusters.
> The CDU adopted their environmental policies precisely to out-green the Greens and undercut their support. If the Greens hadn't been so vehemently anti-nuclear, the CDU wouldn't have gone in that direction.

I agree with this, but this in no way absolves the CDU. If they try to undercut another parties support and pass legislation with negative effects, it's their fault, not the fault of the party they undercut.

> But ultimately this is on the German voting public, a large portion of whom have had an irrational aversion to nuclear for a long time.

Aside from whether I agree with the aversion being irrational, this is definitely true. The CDU was following public sentiment.
This is beyond stupid, this is malicious
T-14 Armata – An AliExpress tank
I think they meant instead of burning coal that they could import electricty because NL 'is building new nuclear plants'. Whether they will ever really be built is still up for grabs, as is the question whether they will make money (unlikely).
Designing chaos: 7 pieces of gear that helped define Autechre’s sound
For those interested, here is a Userscript that marks Amazon-owned stores in the bookfinder.com search results: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/464153-outline-amazon-owne...
And loosing the argument no less
The last paragraph sums it up nicely. Incentives are completely screwed in this system. I spent a month working at a contractor. (Two weeks in, I presented my two-week notice.) It was just so breathtakingly wasteful.

The project I was working on had a team of maybe 100
engineers, but could easily have been done by a team of 5 in a tiny fraction of the time. The problem was purely one of incentives. The bigger the team and slower the progress, the more money the company raked in. It’s as simple as that.
Clearly a work of love (see here http://akusius.github.io/palenque/overview.html ).

I don't like the term 'crackpot' for someone who's earnestly trying to figure out the mysteries of life and the universe. But, well, "the first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.", said some guy.
Chessboard Simulator
not upside down
Denmark is probably the strongest, having never built any nuclear power plants and originating those "Atomkraft? Nej tak!" stickers you still see all over Europe.

https://www.atomkraftnejtak.dk/
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

Directed by Donald Brittain & Don Owen - 1965 | 44 min

https://www.nfb.ca/film/ladies_and_gentlemen_mr_leonard_cohe...
"docker-compose" is one of those "weird, dockerish things" to me. I use ansible to organize rollouts.
It is fair enough to argue that Greenpeace in fact want renewables. However, that should be seen as an energy conservatism direction.

The energy production needed to be supplied is not todays need, but the need of a future where we don't want to dig up oil.

This means that jet fuels need to be produced by sequestration and all transport needs to powered by electricity (or fuel from sequestration).

We also want a future where most of the land is not occupied as farm land and is more wild. This requires indoor farming techniques – again extremely energy intensive.

In the end we should plan for a world that uses a lot more energy than today.

As renewables scale roughly linear to land it is by many not seen as a feasible alternative, as it wouldn't be able to supply 10x the need of today (which it will already struggle with).

In the end: Greenpeaces argument only works if they believe that we are at the end of technological development.
We need antitrust enforcement on a massive scale across all industrial sectors; many many breakups need to happen. Luckily Lina Khan et al. seem to be up to the challenge. This should be a major issue in the 2024 election.
They deserve credit but while IBM did spend lots of money on Linux around 2000, and that helped legitimize Linux. I feel that RH has always been the leader in this industry, and RH Linux was well entrenched in the enterprise long before IBMs big push. So IBM helped but they did not create it, in my view.
> we are investing in new plants.

Which will come way too late to make a difference and will no doubt be subsidized heavily.

It's just the neoliberals' dream to find a quick fix so they can continue as they were.
The articles starts out with the premise absolutely backwards on its head: efficiency is the exact opposite of constant 100% CPU utilization.

The more efficient the program is, the _less_ CPU resources it will consume to achieve its task.

Specially when that task is serving http requests. Unless you are always serving one million concurrent connections with one servers, you should never see chronic 100% CPU utilization.
Something is only legal or illegal up to the point where it reaches the supreme court and Clarence Thomas is paid off to say whether it is or isn't.
If you had to guess, would you say the editors of that page are more or less likely to have ME?
I asked the question out of curiosity + shared what I'm working on.

Copying an idea and writing code will get folks maybe 10% of what goes into building a sustainable business, so I'm not too worried myself.
Red Hat getting access to IBMs vast customer base was why the merger was good for us and to the degree that pays my salary, that's great.
> Which only tells you that the issues with TSA are not politicized (in general). Which is a good thing.

Do you consider "fundamental to the system" better? I don't.
https://www.stroock.com/news-and-insights/u-s-supreme-court-... provides some more context - and speculates as to why the court declined to take the opportunity to definitively establish a standard here. It seems to still be an open question what the standard is!
10x Impact
I've personally kept eggs unrefrigerated in the tropics for more than 30 days. You just have to flip them every couple of days to keep the shell from drying out inside and cracking. These were eggs purchased in Panama before a sailing trip. You can't do this with US eggs though, as others have pointed out, because the shells are cleaned up (from chicken poop) and polished, removing the protective surface in the process.
Levine is using a lot of hyperbole there.

To me it looks like a clearly-defined line between text and real-time voice/video. What the user experiences, not the technical background.

Ie it would have been perfectly fine for google to ban text chats, and just use calls/meetings; even with the same software. As inefficient and unpleasant as it would be.
They looked original.
New Twitter settings could hinder timely storm warnings National Weather Service
Before Western States Suck the Colorado River Dry, We Have One Chance to Act
For personal consumption, I'd assume a large part of the energy used directly come from home heating/cooling and transportation (cars). Solutions exist to improve both in many cases (insulation and public transportation/biking/walking).
Yikes!

Haloperidol 5mg every 8 hours.
We use https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs for our kubernetes nodes on GCP, as I'm sure most companies that use GKE do.

Your comment made me want to say "but COS is certified too!" however now I'm unsure - a quick Google certainly doesn't bring anything up. Why have Google not done this, is the demand not there? Or have they and they just don't document it prominently?

(Note we don't have any PCI requirements as we offload those to the likes of stripe etc)
These days you only see creative interfaces in video games.
NL is not building new nuclear plants. There's talk about it, but talk is talk, not building.
That is a really poorly thought out argument. Taking away existing rights and suppressing any discussion or dissemination of information that doesn’t align with the ruling party’s beliefs doesn’t strike you as fascist in its approach?
Audio and video codec libraries are among the most complex things there are in the software world, I'd say - even more complex than GPUs because there are only four major GPU vendors/families remaining (AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, PowerVR):

- knowledge about how encoding audio and video works is rare (as it involves a ton of maths 99% of the population won't ever come close to understand), and people not bound by NDAs and thus actually able to work on FOSS projects in that area are even rarer in the first place.

- they have to deal with an absolutely insane amount of different codecs and their "profiles" (aka supported features list) that are all in active use by someone or something (mpeg2 for DVDs and early DVB-T/C/S, h264 for fullhd stuff, h265 for >fullhd, AV1 for YouTube), and all the historical codecs

- almost all of these have some hardware encoders with their own unique quirks which libraries have to take into account to support playback (and maintain that as well), not to mention software encoders in different versions and bugs, or error correction to deal with bitrot or transmission errors

- on top of that, there's a family of container formats - although most have settled on mp4 or (in the piracy world) Matroska, there is still a lot of legacy stuff floating around

- dealing with codecs means walking around on eggshells around laws and patents (DRM, the minefield that are video patents, ...)

- dealing with multimedia files in general means dealing with densely packed and hard-to-parse binary structures, which is a Very Complex Thing To Do on its own and is a constant source of security issues.

- supporting acceleration means even more rare knowledge and dealing with more NDAs or reverse-engineering

- the APIs used to communicate with downstream clients (converters, media players, ...) are decades old grown baggage, and cleaning that up is next to impossible because the ecosystem is all so fractured, which means a ton of effort in implementations and maintenance

Long-term it's infeasible to have more than one open source project... there are simply not enough capable developers around for the workload.
This is an uninteresting argument. COVID happened, and suddenly way more people than before reported these kinds of symptoms. You can make this argument in any individual case, sure, but on the macro level, your argument becomes that either somehow lots of people got chronic fatigue syndrome (and similar) all at the same time, or lots of people are suddenly faking it all at the same time, or long COVID is real.

I mean yes, mass hysteria does exist, culturally-bound mental disorders also exist, but the most obvious explanation of these facts is that yes, long COVID is a thing.
If SF's contractor got caught killing a dude over bootleg smokes or kneeling on a guy until he died you can bet your ass they'd either be out or they'd be doing everything in their power to make people happy with them going forward.

Try that with a state sponsored security force.
What does your product do for people?

I would hire this tool to perform X job in my business - what's X?
The second domain I ever registered was for my ex-wife’s cartoon fan site for a particular Disney cartoon series back in ‘98. Her drive to digitize stills from the show and write character bios and episode summaries was something I never understood, but she was certainly dedicated.

I’d imagine all of that kind of compulsion ends up on Wikia sites and such today, but back then it was do-it-yourself. She was writing HTML in Notepad, making graphics in Paint Shop Pro, and uploading to the shared hosting site w/ FTP.

(Had she kept it going into the 2000’s I’d imagine she would have gotten a cease-and-desist from Disney.)
I'm not a big user of this kind of application but I played around with it a little. The UI appears to be very well implemented but at first glance it looks like you more or less ported gimp to the web. I'm not sure there would be a huge market for that sort of thing given that anyone can use gimp for free.
Fun exploration and exceptionally impractical. Love it.
A Conversation with Turing Award Winner Bob Metcalfe
Ha, this remind me of a time when I did google(?) searches to find specialized sites of RPGs, Anime, etc.

Every site was different and had a sense of wonder and discovery associated to it.

Back then, I used to go to page 10 of my search engine and still find interesting gems.

Nowadays days I just append “site:reddit.com” to try to dodge the SEO fulled blogspam hell, gobble the information and move on with my day.
I still use an iPhone 6s—typing on it right now in fact—and the web has definitely moved on past these old devices. When I got it, it worked perfectly. Now lots of websites will run out of memory and crash the tab after a bit (e.g. new Reddit, Twitter, most news sites), and just chug in general because the rendering can't keep up. I've gotten familiar with how Safari prioritizes painting because on slow sites I can watch the sections pop in.

I've replaced the battery and the health is fine, people just don't test their stuff with old devices (I've done frontend before, I get why not).
In America, where we have a mental illness epidemic. Culture also plays a big part.
not an easy task since you have to find a way to stop those "BS producers" without limiting the production of BS from the usual suspects (politicians, religions, and so on).
not unless the licensing gets figured out. as long as decoding requires paying no browser or website will support it.
> Somewhere between 2019 and 2022, military thinkers began to understand that we are in trouble. The realization that China has a military that could potentially defeat the U.S. prompted significant concern. China’s ability to build things is a big reason why. “In purchasing power parity, [China] spends about one dollar to our 20 dollars to get to the same capability,” said Maj. Gen. Cameron Holt from the US Air Force acquisition, technology, and logistics office.

We spend $20 to match China spending $1?

We only spend a bit more than twice China on defense. If our spending is 20x less efficient than China's, then they're outstripping us in substantial capacity built by 10x.

Do we need to talk about this? Like, urgently?
It seems to make the assumption that people already know how the Internet Archive’s “wayback” service works, or at least what it’s purpose is.

The essence is that web pages change over time and can be taken down or otherwise lost. A “snapshot” is a capture a webpage at a specific time, and I assume that “time capsule” is some type of format that holds the snapshot as well as the extra metadata. The result is something that can be used later to see that website as it was.
Dunno for others but Lithuania had the closure of Ignalina NPP as a condition to EU ascession.

Also, that was the same type of reactors as in Chernobyl.

It kind of made sense.
How is this the Democrats modus operandi? What have they done that's comparable to the current actions of the conservative side?

The only thing I can think of is racist and sexist content, and well... you can make that comparison, but it's not a good one.