skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Xlinks Morocco-UK interconnect is building 10.5 GW of renewable generation, 20 GWh of battery storage and a 3.6 GW high-voltage direct current interconnector to carry solar and wind-generated electricity from Morocco to the UK. Total cost estimated at 16bn GBP, with break-even at 48 GPB/MWH. Hinkley Point C is a 3.2 GWe nuclear plant and is currently estimated at 32.7 GBP with a total energy price of 92.5 GPB/MWH.

Right now importing renewables from thousands of kilometers away is hugely cheaper than nuclear, and the economics are only getting more stark. Not every problem is solved with renewables (yet), and nuclear has its place. But anyone who looks at the plummeting price of renewables and thinks “just build more nuclear” isn’t paying attention to the economics.
I'll counter with the top result for "cats": http://diabellalovescats.com/catland.htm
Whatever you do, avoid the Planet Computer phones. They look amazing, but my experience with the company has been incredibly shady and I am not alone in this. It's a shame too because they really do look so good. More companies ought to make a similar offering.
This is my experience as well. GitHub Copilot has been very efficient at generating variants of boiler plate code. It allows you to efficiently repeat code so you can delay code abstraction or generalisations until you are confident a generalisation makes sense.

Having worked as a developer for many years I now much prefer to repeat code a bit to making the wrong abstractions to early. The tedium of writing out code is now reduced thanks to well performing language models.
Thank you for this excellent article, which I almost passed by until I remembered what the original XOR problem was (so, for me at least, the title is inverted click-bait!)

With regard to the question of whether human thought is Turing complete: on the one hand, we clearly can solve Turing-hard problems up to the limits of our memory (a constraint which is considerably expanded through written language), while on the other hand, we can and do make mistakes while attempting such problems. Personally, I feel the former is sufficient to answer the question in the affirmative, despite of the fact of the latter.

The issue of Turing completeness is central to the Penrose-Lucas argument against AGI, as discussed at length in Roger Penrose's book "The Emperor's New Mind". Here, however, the claim is that human thought goes beyond Turing completeness: Gödel-unprovable results are provable by humans. While I feel that the complete argument against AGI fails on account of it equivocating over what it means to prove something, the above claim about the scope of human thought seems to be an empirical fact.

I have no idea how this observation could help in AI development, but we know that one can prompt a current-generation LLM to produce sentences that humans would recognize as expressing the sort of thoughts that would be useful in solving the given problem (though whether the LLM will go on to produce the solution that is obvious to the humans, and consistent with its earlier productions, is hit-or-miss.) This suggests to me that some sort of self-prompting capability might be necessary (but not sufficient) for a general problem-solving ability.
Thank you. I needed this in my life.
Geolibertarianism is probably an ideal from the perspective of a fair society but it would probably require quite significant violence to achieve.

Similar to republicanism during the French revolution or the spread of communism in the 50s, it would likely invite invasion from foreign nations run by elites that are acutely aware of the threat this ideology poses to their power and privilege.

Even getting it on the agenda in a democracy is a struggle against entrenched oligarchs who own a propaganda megaphone: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4575382/How-Labour-...

(LVT strictly speaking exists in a few places like Hong Kong but it's always very low, way below the threshold where it would be considered a threat - e.g. 3%)
Let's start with AI coming to complete our tax declarations, without any need to review.
Building massive undersea transmission lines are not a weekend job either. We're talking many years either way.
Always thought this wouldn't be viable because of transportation. Is this a solved problem?
Leaving a comment to come back in a few years/months when someone releases an approach that makes this possible...
How does it compare to https://wiby.me/ ?
It could be just five or ten meters in each direction. For example this crossing always felt unsafe to me. The original crossing has been obstructed to prevent crossings and moved about 5 meters out, and it feels much safer now: https://goo.gl/maps/ipe8RXkdSgpZz72r6
Learning (visual) programming in the context of music
I bet there's companies eager to do Möbius strip mining. Could go on forever!
The simulations in this are great. It must have taken a ton of work to get this to such an apparently simple and almost self-explanatory state.

Really effective as teaching material; kudos to the author!
It's like talking to a student or an intern. Which is not bad normally because we are also educating them.
I quite like this build [1] for the WRT3200ACM. I run non-critical devices on the 2.4 network and only personal devices are on the 5. I used to have some intermittent Wi-Fi issues but haven’t had any since switching to the divested build.

[1] https://divested.dev/unofficial-openwrt-builds/mvebu-linksys...
Yeah I got a Pinephone for this exact peripheral and it doesn't even correctly fit the size of the phone. Not universal for all their phones so beware.
> His encryption password was supposedly greater than 20 characters and included a mixture of cases, numbers, and punctuation [...]

It doesn't really matter what kinds of characters your passphrase of 20 characters contains. What matters is how much entropy it contains, ie. whether it was generated randomly.

A random 20-character password containing just lower case English letters would still take more time to break than the age of the universe assuming one billion guesses per second.
I've been using NixOS on a Dell slim workstation as a router and I couldn't be happier. My config can be found here: https://github.com/seandheath/nixos/blob/main/hosts/router.n...
Nice to see another Georgist out there...

Too many people thing the only way to fund public programs is taxing labor or income, when that is the most unethical and least efficient method of taxation there is, and leads to all kinds of abuse by government.
Could it be related to WPA3 security? With OpenWrt you get a lot of "new" features like WPA3 etc. and sometimes older Wifi devices are not compatible. Then you need to change the settings (maybe downgrade to WPA2 on the 2.4Ghz Wifi).
In mice. Lots of reasons it's easier on a very small sample that presumably you're less worried about heating up. Not that it isn't an achievement.
> Meanwhile, an enterprise running hundreds or even thousands of mac OS devices is something I've never heard of.

as a former sysadmin in these places, it's not easy to lock down macOS down - and less so to ensure that compliance is being enforced. compliance is huge, far more important than what platform you run on. MS makes this easy, and Linux support is mainly for labs, etc, who get put on a separate network most of the time and locked down.

account management on linux and mac is a nightmare, and just simple to relegate to AD. for all its problem, GPO makes this cakewalk.
Copilot for individuals stores code snippets by default according to their TOS. Sure, you can probably find a way to opt out of that somewhere as well, but you'd have to read the TOS for every plugin and service you use, find the opt-out links and make sure you don't opt-in again via some other route (such as not Copilot but ChatGPT proper or some other Github, VSCode or some other plugin or service button or knob).
Google CEO Calls for AI Regulation
SSD password in BIOS is mostly a snake oil.
Nobody verifies that the encryption scheme is sound.

PS And when somebody takes a look at it, most of the time it is broken. Google the research.
The probability that BingGPT give me the right answer in 1 shot is higher than I look for it myself.
Michael "MrMobile" Fisher has reviewed the Unihertz Titan Pocket:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DpQff_8R7es

Notable to me because he is one of the only phone reviewers that is enthusiastic about a return of keyboard phones.
To me, this is likely an area where we'll see future coders tested:

Interviewer: Here is a very specific project. And this part here is NDA covered. We have provided a context prompt with all the generals. Let's say you are new here and we need you effective today. Show us how you'll cover the last mile with the LLM by writing prompts that do not violate NDA but get the needed work done. Then whiteboard for your team a prompt schema & policy that you think will work for this project.

I.e. a creativity exercise at the very least. You want someone who can code _for a prompt, to solve coverage problems_, and this is still coding.

For now I think a lot of people will hoard this kind of prompt info/leverage-pattern stuff when they discover it. It's not about the individual prompts.
I grew up in a rural area and currently live in a suburb… They are worlds apart in terms of:

* Proximity to (non-farm) work
* Available public/private schools
* Municipal amenities like parks and libraries
* Basic retail services - groceries, clothing stores, etc.
* Social activities/clubs

In short, other than needing a car to get around both places, they don’t have much in common at all.
Lifting for those who don't read the comments in the post:

> Scott Says:
Comment #12 April 17th, 2023 at 11:26 pm
So, why shouldn’t I cheer the destruction of universities, if they’re full of woke ideologues who hate me?
One might just as well ask: why shouldn’t I cheer the destruction of the earth, if it’s full of assholes, and morons, and antisemites who’d probably kill me if they got a chance, and wild animals that would rip me to shreds?
In both cases, the answer is simply: because this is my world, and nearly everything I love and cherish is here along with nearly everything I hate, and I believe that the former ultimately outweighs the latter, and if people don’t mind, I’d like to continue living in this world.
This guy is still around on 4chan:

https://twitter.com/4chan_greentext/status/84511828265908224...
When one lives under perpetual surveillance, one’s pragmatic judgement reweighs the situation accordingly.

And for the record, “dumb” is your word not mine. People make choices based on their own situational perception. I strive never to mute a person’s lived experience.
Or something like, notebook still had the keys in memory when it was recovered

Though from this description it looks like they read the disk (trivial) but it's not sure if they actually pulled anything from it (at least it seems they didn't pull anything incriminating if I read it correctly).
It always bugs me that the default alias for the fist bump emoji is "facepunch"...

I think we're ultimately in agreement — aliases should be 'transparent' and not imbued with any specific meaning. Of course, it's much easier for a very limited system like emoji to be able to deal with these things than an open-ended tagging system, especially one that caters for the entirety of Unicode.
In 2017, I worked at a company that built a websocket based app and ran it on Heroku. We had this exact same problem and all 5 of the engineers at the time spent all day until we realized that we had socket connections still connected to some "ghost dyno".

I can't remember exactly what we did but I think we just kept deploying over and over again until the old one finally went away.
The sweet spot in my opinion is to use an ordinary Linux box as the router and just wire up whatever wireless router(s) you have lying around for the APs (give them a static address in the appropriate subnet and you're done). No need to run OpenWRT on on the AP, since it's just mindlessly pushing packets around on the internal network.

For bonus points, block it from accessing the internet itself.
Much of the nuclear delays are due to political ambivalence, not technical issues. Once there is a clear will to move, they can move very fast.

Finland that you quote was marinating it's Olkiluoto reactor for many years. Then Russia invaded Ukraine and Olkiluoto got from "let's think about approvals for a few more years" to pumping out electricity in a flash.
Should be directly from GitHub except with some caching involved (like our Docker build cache).

(We don't run GitLab ourselves.)
I'm pretty hard on phones - I tend to end up having to pick all the dirt and sawdust out of my charging and headphone ports a couple of times a year. But somehow I don't remember having issues with dust in keyboards. I think on a lot of them the keys were all one piece of flexible plastic so there wasn't really a way in.
Yeah the german green partys entire existence is based on advocating for getting rid of nuclear. Go from there.
Exactly, I actually liked the systematic approach in the article, but it seemed pretty labor-intensive and ... not that much different from other types of programming
Or nftables...
Yes, TPM without a password is a step up from no encryption but TPM with even a weak password is a huge benefit.

Of course I am assuming that the TPM works correctly. Vulnerabilities in that may be more likely than with software crypto. But that is a difficult tradeoff to evaluate.
+1. The best search engine out there imo. This is their blog post on how they view AI integration. https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-ai-search
> We lived in the city before and it was dangerous and the neighbor had a crazy pitbull chained up that’d break out all the time so we couldn’t let her out of the house.

That's not specific to cities. My wife grew up on a farm, where neighbours lived a hundred meters away, and her brother had an entire chunk bitten out of his leg by a neighbour's dog. I grew up in a village, and I was terrified of some of the dogs there.

We live in a city now, and although we live in a street with a lot of dogs (to the dismay of my cynophobic kids), all dogs are very well behaved.

> The American suburbs are an excellent place to raise children.

I guess it varies. I've heard stories of American parents having CPS called on them merely for having their children play outside. Many American suburbs don't have the bike paths or even sidewalks necessary for kids to get around.
I wonder about this specific setup for cyclist. The yield sings when coming in are after the cross walk so here in Finland in those cases the cyclist would need to yield. And even more weirdly as car is turning when going out they would need to yield on that side to cyclists. Is that same or different in Czech.
Actually, we do tax machines that do manual work with property tax.
X-Truth
Yes, had my head spin till I compared the top down view with the result side by side.

At the conversion, because the elevations are not flipped.
It’s all fun ‘n games until someone treats something like an MRN (Medical Record Number) as if it were a number.

Edit: Also, would you mind changing that statement to not leave a preposition shooting off the end like Wile E Coyote?
Signalled intersections are likely a lot worse for pedestrians and cyclists, as non-compliant drivers can navigate them at much higher speeds. On account of its shape, it's impossible to blast through a roundabout at, for example, 100 km/h.

Combine with raised pedestrian crossings and you have natural speed bumps reducing car speeds even further at the potential point of conflict.
Why? What's well adjusted mean?
European Parliament adopts key laws to reach 2030 climate target
This is definitely the way. I used to use UniFi, but have kicked it to the curb. Omada is my AP Zen now.
the most neutral source I could find: https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-...
Know your classics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPRvc2UMeMI
Wagons have hatches, sedans have trunks.
I don't miss my N900; I still use it. I do not use it so much as a phone and more as a pocket computer. Install PostmarketOS on it with Emacs. Made a configuration that is very comfortable with the keyboard. I actually use daily, using it to write my journal, emails, have Telegram working on it within Emacs. Even whip it out in the train now and again to do some explorative coding. My favorite use of it is writing down my dreams at night. I can do this blind at night, don't have to look at the keyboard or screen which is excellent for dream recall.

For all these things the device is perfect. Though actually browsing the web with a modern browser is a no-go it is simply too slow. Would give a lot for a modern replacement. I have looked into the Gemini PDA though it is not the same as you need to put that device down on a surface to really use it. Not so with the Nokia N900. If anybody knows of a modern equivalent, please tell me.
It's interesting, and I really appreciate that you aren't trying to out-Google Google. This seems like a useful tool in its own right in addition to what else exists.
SamA strikes me as overly disingenuous - as if most of his interactions are marketing pieces / warfare. The entire lex + sama podcast seemed this way to me.

I’m incredibly biased though and feel slighted (as a part of humanity) by openAI’s actions, so perhaps I’m looking at his actions through a hateful lens.
Doesn’t matter what the front page says, you’re still using the GPT4 name.
The opposite might be true, and here’s why - 1) by using English as spec, the barrier of entry has gone lower, 2) LLMs can also write prompts and self introspect to debug.
Show HN: IronBoy, a highly accurate GameBoy emulator written in Rust, runs WASM
Hey HN! Been working on this emulator on and off for the last couple years, and thought now would be a good time to try and show it off here.

As far as unique features... I think this is the only online GameBoy emulator with support for save files? So there's your reason to exist, I guess.

The WASM port was something I had in the back of my mind but I just kept putting it off because it seemed like it would've been a pain in the ass to implement, but all in all I think it took less than a week so that was a nice surprise!
Your original post said SDK, that's AWS's name for this:

https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-net/
https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/
etc.

Not this:

https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

The person you're replying to was confused because you said "APIs and SDK" which clearly refers to the former, but then this followup post is referring to the latter. You can do everything with the SDK. The CDK is implemented on top of the SDK and cannot do everything.
At least here in the UK, our solar panels generate 5x as much in the summer as in the winter.

And yet home energy demand peaks in the winter, for heating (mostly natural gas, but we probably need to move off that) - just when rooftop solar is at its worst.

Putting the same solar panels nearer the equator would produce power with less seasonality - and more total power too.
Your argument is to gloss over his doctored videos in favor of the ones you think aren't?

Oh well, if being neo-nazi-friendly is OK, will you still defend him hanging out with pedophiles?

Here's pics of Ngo hanging out with Amos Yew, a year after Yew's tweets (also in pic) that children should be able to have sex, and that child porn should be legal: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FidcvHsX0AI1ncI?format=jpg&name=...

Feel free to admit that Ngo is a colossal liar and a horrible person any time now.
I had the "blackberry key one" from 2017 to 2018 and I really loved it. Like the Titan it had a keyboard, but it was an otherwise normal sized phone with a passable camera. Unfortunately it broke after one year, basically it split in half. I was hoping Blackberry would continue iterating on the design and I looked forward to buying a future, sturdier version but from what I can tell they abandoned that.

So... When I saw the kickstarter for the Titan I was excited. I have one in my desk but have never used it as my daily driver. I think the author really undersells how bad the out of the box experience is with this phone, sure Instagram stories look bad, I expected that. What I didn't expect is that almost all of the "optimized" apps that came pre-installed on the phone are poorly integrated with the screensize and keyboard. Furthermore, the keyboard is hard to type on! I mean physically, the keys are difficult to press down. I assume if I used this phone more frequently, this problem would resolve itself.

At the end of the day I don't regret buying the phone though. I have been an Android developer for around a decade and it's depressing how little experimentation is done with the hardware these days.
A reality inspired title doesn't scratch the confirmation bias itch quite the way that a title closer to the "criminals dumb" end of the spectrum does though.
A naive question: Are KDFs meant to improve the security of systems or merely preserve it? I was under the impression that the purpose of KDFs is twofold:

a) Preserve entropy of the password material (up to a limit - size of the input to the next stage)
b) Derive a fixed-length output suitable for use as an input for the next cryptographic stage.

If the password is, say, 'abcd', then it could be converted into an AES-128 key in the following ways:

1). Use 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' as the first four bytes of the AES-128 key (32 bits) in ASCII form, and then pad the rest with zeros or ones or use some other well-known pattern (based on convention). This method preserves entropy but is not computationally expensive.
2). Use a KDF like PBKDF2.

On paper, PBKDF2 is a better option because an attacker would need to perform the PBKDF2 computation before each decryption attempt, which would be time-consuming. Therefore, as long as the KDF is implemented correctly, it should offer better protection than the first option.

However, if we're talking about an attacker has the resources to brute-force a large number of generated passwords (based on real-world use or derived from hand-crafted or ML-derived criteria), they can precompute KDF outputs for each of those passwords and reuse them. This would make the second scenario (using PBKDF2) as easy or hard as the first one (using simple padding).

PS: Not a cryptographer, please don't shoot!
The only concerning thing is that someone somewhere in government will be stupid enough to push for this.

Maybe Excel could add a feature where taxes are collected every time you add a trend line to a chart. I hope they charge more for polynomial fit - it should be based on number of model parameters right?