skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For CA, depends very much on where you are. $0.47 is not the highest in CA, nor in the continental US.

Here in Boston, my rate is $0.14479/Kwh for delivery with a $0.33891/kWh supply charge, or $0.4837 per kWh. Yep, higher than you're paying. That excludes a fixed standing charge of $7/mo. About 53% of our base load (IIRC) is natural gas, so when natural gas wholesale prices spiked, so did our rates by 80+ percent back in October 2022.

My electric bill nearly doubled over the course of 6 weeks. I'm fortunate that over the years I had always driven my power consumption into the ground. Certainly paid off. Back in 2017, the rate was legitimately under half what I paid now.

Again, I believe there might be some parts of CA where the delivery+supply rate might be approaching $0.60/kWh at some points in time, but it'll be location dependent.
There are two maps on the same Wikipedia page that put the three mentioned countries in Eastern Europe.

It’s still a useless term.
its sad my biological grandfather got a bit lost in buying underwood seemingly out of mortification. He also spent a lot of effort in a not very successful political career in as you say, a very interesting environment. Imagine where Ivrea would be today if that effort went into SGS (and his personal Health i guess).
>why should a company give me some credit based on credit I had with another company that is even out of business?

Because the more credit that person had with the other business the more valuable the customer would be to have.

>but if one of the two is out of business it isn't a competitor anymore.

There are still other competitors who will be fighting over all of the customers looking for a new a company to replace the one that went out of business.
OK people are definitely talking about two different things in this thread then.

There's what you're talking about, W-2 contractors who work through a staffing agency which provides temporary work for lower-skill positions. They are often paid less than full-time but this is usually because they have less skill/experience. An equivalent full-time job often doesn't even exist at the company.

And then there are independent contractors (aka consultants) who legally function as their own company, and who do higher-skill contract work. They are paid much more than full-time.
I know RPN and found it pretty clear what he's getting at. The stack and parentheses are pretty common way of expressing it order of ops. Don't know Korean though.
> because you can't use your freedoms in practice anyway

Yes, you could. You can adapt the code and use an extension to use your "fork" instead of the provided one. A convenient extension to do this might not exist yet, but you could block the website's provided JavaScript with uBlock Origin / uMatrix and use your fork with ViolentMonkey or another *Monkey extension. And distribute your fork on some user scripts repository (for instance).

Free software is not (only) about avoiding spying. It's about running the code you want to run for any endeavor you can have, and be able to study and distribute your modifications.

I totally agree with your last paragraph and I agree something should be done to deal with how (web) software is distributed and run.
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I think cashing out might not be worst strategy with Angry Birds.

It was somewhat early with Supercell, but with Angry Birds I think getting money while possible is great idea.
Let's give praise where it should be. The amazing engineering team at SpaceX: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1647629006089461761/phot...
Maybe the next big disruption is not about making better batteries based on Li (Lithium) but to ditch Li for most mass use purposes and go with a different material, e.g. Na (Natrium, vulgar name: Sodium)… which unlike lithium is extremely abundant. It would (at least in its early less optimized versions) have a slightly lower energy density at about 200 Wh/kg compared to the current best lithium-based state of the art batteries, but still be in a similar ballpark and easily enough for many applications, especially given the much cheaper price.

Some manufacturers (e.g. CATL in China) are apparently already ramping up for Na battery mass production.

https://archive.is/qJQPn
He's using a different sample set than I did, I only used the centre pixel points, but (I believe) he has also included points in between.

Hence his version retains the blockiness of the Moore curve, whereas mine does not.
I didn't know about that. That's cool.
> ironic

No, I meant that it comes to be ironic (not that it was used ironically by the poster.

> It's not impossible it's used differently somewhere, if so I'd be curious to know

I would gladly provide: in fact, I did check on my RSS DB before my last reply - but I had rotated it only days before, so it contained a fraction of the usual data. I only found an interesting occurrence on the National Interest, but it was ambiguous, and an ironic use on the Guardian, but again it was not exactly in the way that I meant.

Let me assure you: there are authors that use directly the expression without the negative, e.g. "Populists always have silver bullets to propose". You can see that the expression makes sense: silver bullets work in tales, but this is reality. But the foremost example I have in mind does not write in English. I will check: if I can find a few references, I will post.
super! thank you so much!
I think Mozilla has historically had a lot of COM outside of Windows. But there's been a goal to remove it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:DeCOMtamination

I believe VirtualBox is another project with COM on other platforms. I see lots of GUIDs and HRESULTs in their error messages.

I actually really like the COM style when done well. HRESULT, the idea of somewhat standardized error handling that sub-divides the space of a 32-bit integer into various subsystem-specific error codes, is one of my favorite ideas from there.

Some things are not so nice. For example, everything being a virtual call is not good for performance. Reference counting is also great but over-use of it is also not great for performance (for example, in C++ it's considered poor form to make everything std::shared_ptr<> when you can get away with less).
> she's barely even attractive at all

To each their own, I suppose. I thought she was cute.
I like how you admit in the first sentence that you don't care about the facts regarding the false blame and just blindly continue to do so.

Meanwhile, without them, we wouldn't have almost half of our electricity generated by actually clean energy sources (renewables). They did a lot for climate change, and ignoring those facts in favor of false statements won't make it go away. It just makes those who spread those lies look stupid in the eyes of those who actually know the facts.

The German taxpayer did a lot to push renewable energy for the whole world, and the movement was very much motivated by the Greens. You should thank them and not spit on them.
What you said applies to race and sex. People expect their engineers to look and act like RMS, so minorities tend to have to "prove" they belong.
High latitude countries are the most difficult case, but even there it's possible, with a combination of wind and solar, and hydrogen for seasonal leveling. Germany has plenty of salt formations for hydrogen storage. Places a bit to the east (like Poland) with less wind will have an even harder time.

Granted, Germany will be at a competitive disadvantage vs. countries at lower latitude that won't need as much storage. But that's a separate issue. It could mean they won't need as much energy for industry, since their industry will move elsewhere.
Companies that operate under limited liability should have an obligation to run their companies in a way that benefits society (otherwise we should withdraw the limitation on investor liability, as it is being used against us).

It's pretty funny how lots of people that are more or less rabidly anti-regulation never manage to consider limited liability to be regulation.
I think we've had, what? 3 major battery techs in 150 years? The first one, then lead acid, now lithium ion.

It's a hard problem.

50% extra energy density with the same performance characteristics as lithium ion otherwise would probably level us up as a civilization.
> Presentational MathML is the only thing that matters; Semantic MathML is W3C semantic web wank.

No. There are situations where a semantic interpretation is beneficial. A simple example is ‘(x + y) / z’. The best rendering (inline or full line) depends on the context.

People can discuss the tradeoffs without exaggerations and calling names. Let’s try.
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That hasn't been determined http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

LLMs exhibit emergent properties as they scale, we should assume the same will happen as we run divergent models in parallel.

By asking a rhetorical question and then refuting a position that wasn't asked is a Straw Man, the reference to 10k monkeys is a false analogy, your 10k LLMs answer to the question no one asked is a hasty generalization. How have you shown that 10k LLMs won't fix straw-problem?
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Greed is the necessary evil of capitalism. Fair markets are the necessary counter.
I think[0] it's that it simulates how light moves and reflects very realistically.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physically_based_rendering
I _was_ going to take a look, but the trendy page design is effectively unreadable on mobile... just FYI.
It's not clear to me how the streams api did it, but it's clear to me now that the count of a range of integers is just the end minus the start. This is a fast operation, and I'm not sure if it was performed at compile time, by the JIT, or as a specification of the streams api.
> How do you measure sw productivity?

You measure it the same way that you measure the relative difference in compensation that a manager should make versus a SWE. You make a subjective assessment. Why is such a subjective assesment OK in the case of manager vs SWE, but not OK in the case of SWE vs SWE? Both assessments are equally prone to mistakes and difficulties of the type you are talking about.

> All we do here

Convince me of this, because to me, this is necessary to being fair and just. As an employee, I would feel ripped off if I am clearly doing more quality work than a colleague, but I am being paid the same. It's unfair, I am de facto doing work that's uncompensated if I am doing 2*X but am being paid as if I was doing 1*X, which is de facto someone stealing money I rightfully deserve. In effect and outcome, it's no different to wage theft being done to me, due to the fact that half of my output is de facto uncompensated. And let's be real, sometimes it's super obvious when one person is more productive than someone else, even if in other cases it can be hard to measure and separate the contributions of two individuals, and even if in other cases those perceptions are distorted due to narcissism and information asymmetry.
> providES

PovidED. You even admit it in the following sentence...

> It used to be around 25% back in 2000

And people where spreading the same fake news and fear back than. As we see today: it was stupid.

> and was still above 10% untill very recently...

No it wasn't. It was 6% max and more like 3% before Ukraine. If you want to correct somebody's statement, bring sources. Here is one for my numbers:

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...

> Well... I'm sorry, but you seem to be an expert on those.

Compared to what you dropped here, I actually am one. Thank you.
99% of consumer traffic is on 443 these days (citation needed)
Foe example, I wanted to see results pertaining to Clarence Thomas allegations.

There was a blatant "port list" to the results.

To find some commentary by a nominally centrist voice, I had to search on a blog.

More pure mechanism, less bias, please.
Of course, but I'm claiming that there is an additional amount of work ontop of doing it right the first time.
I pasted the beginning of Hamlet into GPT-4 and it went on a run.

So it seems that the chance of producing one of Shakespeare works no longer requires each work in the play to be randomly chosen in isolation, just enough correct word guesses to get the LLM into the groove.

"ChatGPT, please generate 100 random words, then interpret them as the beginning of a literary work and complete the work."

This is real progress. Many many monkeys may no longer be needed.
What I was trying to point out is that contrary to the breathless reporting this isn't a new problem and it isn't getting worse.

So it's unlikely any recent phenomenon is to blaim.
So, if it's behind a flag then people know not to use it, and therefor no one actually uses it. So you can change it if you want, but you never will because you'll never get feedback.

Or, if it's not behind a flag, then you can tell people not to use it, but they will anyway, which is exactly what you want, because then you get feedback. And when you change it, nothing really bad happens.

Sounds like the flag method is a failure, and just releasing it actually works.
isn't that the purpose of the library of congress in the US? and wasn't the original intention of the US system of registering copyright, that a copy of the registered work was shared with the library?

the problem today is that there is to much content to collect it all, but i believe something like the MLK speech should have a copy in the library. apparently any US publisher is still required to send two copies of each publication to the library.
Distributing public domain content is a solved problem. You can put it on a government website with a BitTorrent seed, whereupon it'll be mirrored to Wikimedia Commons, Internet Archive, and everywhere else. Archival & digitization is the actually expensive part.

I will note that "who pays" is a problem even before the content hits the public domain. What you're arguing was specifically one of the arguments used to justify the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act[0]. Unfortunately, copyright is the wrong tool for the job. It merely says that if you produce a work someone wants to buy, then they have to buy a copy of it from the person who made the work.

The problem is, the vast majority of old works are not in any kind of demand. Congress and the EU made sure that copyright would vastly outlive the actual commercial lifespan of the work. So marginal[1] increases in term length do not result in marginal increases in preservation. Because nobody is going to pay for it regardless. In fact, nobody is even going to be aware that the work in question even exists.

The way that archival works nowadays is that you preserve everything you can get your hands on. Because it's the common garbage that nobody cares about that is the most likely to be lost. Any market-based solution like copyright is likely to miss such works.

[0] Derisively called the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, due to Disney lobbying for it, even though it was primarily started by the EU wanting everyone to adopt Germany's copyright term lengths

[1] In the economics sense. e.g. "on the margin, does adding one more year of copyright result in one more work preserved"
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I looked into this awhile back. While you're correct about previous freezing this is about mitigating microbe risk, not parasite destruction. The FDA has a specification that the fish must be frozen down to in order to ensure destruction of parasites. (I couldn't find a direct link to the FDA's guideline, here's one from MN that's the same: https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/food/... )

Ahi Tuna and most farmed Atlantic salmon (Norway is especially safe: https://web.archive.org/web/20200426100625/https://nifes.hi.... ) have low to no parasite risk. However, I would not buy and eat wild salmon sashimi without at least freezing for a week first. Even retailers as big as Costco don't have freezers meeting the guideline.
I think the point is that they showed they may sanction you for unpredictable reasons, without justification.
Yeah I'm not sure exactly how it works but I could definitely see an increase in value of labor providing more financial resources to a huge swath of people which allow them to influence the business sphere with their own ideas.

Nowadays there's pretty significant monopolistic capture providing the illusion of choice in most markets, food, telecom, tech, etc.

There's no breaking this stuff up without some major change in the foundation of society.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
This was part of it. Another part of it was they literally did not believe it was dangerous as it was. And that vaccines were government conspiracy.

It wasn't just values it was inaccurate beliefs about the world.
The rust beginners channel is excellent.
Modlin airport is miserable. Shouldn't even have "Warsaw" in the name, as it's nowhere near. To get to Warsaw, you have to take a bus first, then switch to a local train.
It's pretty hard to formally prove that such an attack is impossible given the infinite number of inputs you can give to an LLM, but from my limited testing this method is pretty robust and personally I didn't find a way to break it.
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Good catch, thank you for the correction. I should have dug deeper, at least to skim through the source material, instead of trusting a Wikipedia article to confirm my bias.
You are blaming the people who point out there is a problem, instead of the people causing the problem.

The proposed policy is terrible and based on the reaction of the people behind the proposal, they are fully determined to go through with it, which, to me, was very disheartening.

I see that a small part of the Rust community would love to blame it all on "Youtubers and streamers" without actually addressing any of their points.

The community, including many (not just a few) prominent members, gave detailed feedback on all the channels (see blogs, reddit, twitter and yt), and the only "rebuttal" of their points I hear is "stop the FUD", "you are not a lawyer so shut up", and "streamers drama".
I am sure you're not the first person to not want dependency on foreign countries that have lithium deposits. Why is this not done already with sodium? Is it costly to manufacture with it? Durability?
Lithium-ion is 50% better than it used to be (in terms of energy/mass, it's done better than that for energy/volume).

A problem is that lithium is more or less the best choice for materials, and we've been pouring resources into developing it.
Native language differences in the structural connectome of the human brain
LLM's are already indispensable.

How else can I get such a fast turnaround on new James Bond novels that include my pet green conure parrot Teansy as a pivotal character?

That is a serious question.

Also, I have really enjoyed playing with math concepts with GPT. It doesn't always get things right, but it's very much like riffing with another mathematician. It can pick up on new concepts, find pro and or con examples for them, etc. Pull in related concepts I hadn't thought of, or had never heard of.

Absolutely wonderful for initial or casual exploration of new ideas.

There is something fun about pushing GPT to grasp something complex it didn't understand immediately, too. Like mentoring an interesting student.

Despite the bittersweet of knowing its hard won understanding will evaporate in short order.
Unlimited is a term of art that means "limited".
> Now that my ISP bundles Netflix subscription into their internet plans, access to netflix and fast.com now practically saturate the fiber link

They may have an ISP-local netflix cache, from Netflix themselves not some home-grown hack, so they can achieve that with some reliability without it costing as much as it otherwise would for bandwidth peering.
Resilience and healthy coping mechanisms are orthogonal factors. Someone who is resilient and optimistic is far more likely to do well regardless of their attractiveness because they’ll be able to adopt an IDGAF stance, as you say, to compensate in case of shortcomings in other areas.

That, however, is a separate skill that must also be nurtured and developed.
Misleading paper title and misleadingly presented research findings. Models don't "degrade" over time; their timeliness and relevance remains frozen pursuant to fine-tuning updates while contemporaneous attentional demands upon them by users drift. They don't wear out like a pair of shoes.
Training a human and training a model may use the same verb but are very different.

If the person directly copied another work, that's a derivative work and requires a license. But if a person learned an abstract concept by studying art and later created art, it's not derivative.

Computers can't learn abstract concepts. What they can do is break down existing images and then numerically combine them to produce something else. The inputs are directly used in the outputs. It's literally derivative, whether or not the courts decide it's legally so.
Went on this today and wanted to share it as the technology is pretty cool (I’m not affiliated). It’s a tourist bus in Rome that can cover its windows with OLED screens to show what the current view looked like in ancient times.
> is that the barrier to entry is very different from for example drawing

Thqt got me thinking. I agree, but from another perspective: the skillset is different. Traditionally, the approach to art was very bottom-up. Start with a pen and basic contouring techniques. Understanding more advanced techniques require a lot of work (perspective, shadows, etc).

"AI" art generally does away with basic techniques. The emphasis is more on composing, styling. A top-down approach. "AI" artists may be able to iterate quicker by seeing "almost-finished" versions quickly (though a skilled artist can most likely imagine their work pretty well).

But most of all, the tools and required skills are very different. You don't need to know a lot about machine learning, but it certainly helps. Probably pretty far from the skillset of most current artists. And people generally fear what they don't understand. And if I was an artist, I'd be at least a bit concerned about (i) it undercutting the value of my art, (ii) having to learn this alien way of doing things to remain competitive (by way of selection, artists probably enjoy their current tools.

Anyway, I imagine photography was similarly upsetting in a lot of ways. It also didn't happen overnight. I also suspect we are going to see similar improvements to output quality as in early days of photography.

Another similarity is with digital music (and recording/remixing before that). I wonder if we're going to see new genres emerge as a result (the equivalent of techno/electro).
So the worst part of the job will become the entire job? Great!
I...don't care. Economic transactions between peers can and probably should proceed on a no harm/no foul/no reason basis; simplicity is the lubricant of economic activity and where and how you choose to spend your money is a sufficient signal. But once you have such large asymmetries that the possibility of dependence arises (eg a rideshare driver or a small online marketplace vendor), the great economic power comes with great responsibility.

The approach you describe is like a major league baseball player crushing little league kids. Sure, the major league player is winning through superior ability, but it's also a shitty way to behave.