skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Total cost estimated at 16bn GBP

Somehow this estimation is taken at face value, and yet:

> Hinkley Point C is a 3.2 GWe nuclear plant and is currently estimated at 32.7 GBP

This is taken at actual value. Even though original cost was estimated at 12.4 bn GBP. A lot of cost and budget overruns for nuclear plants are purely political, amidst a rising ocean of FUD.

Meanwhile, https://www.offshorewind.biz/2016/12/02/offshore-wind-projec...

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Ernst & Young (EY) has found that an average power and utility megaproject is delivered 35% over budget and two years behind schedule

Of the megaprojects surveyed, 64% were delayed and 57% were over budge. Almost three-quarters of hydropower, water, coal and nuclear infrastructure projects were over budget by 49% on average,

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So that estimated 16bn GBP is very likely to be significantly over 25bn GBP by the time it's completed.

Edit.

More:

https://percepto.co/solar-construction-delays-budget-overrun...

"Data shows the avg. 50MW PV construction project delays cost $2M. The average solar construction project is delayed by about 20% with the consequences hovering around $2M in costs."

https://www.qualenergia.it/sites/default/files/articolo-doc/...

"we assessed the construction costs affiliated with 401 electricity infrastructure projects worldwide. We found that these projects collectively involved $820 billion worth of investment, and represented more than 325,000 MW of installed capacity and 8500 km of transmission lines. Taken together, these projects incurred $388 billion in cost overruns, equivalent to a mean cost escalation of $968 million per project, or a 66.3 percent overrun per project."

And so on.
I don't know if it was intentional, but when I saw the headline I assume they were axing the free tier or at least making it significantly less useful.

They were in fact doing the opposite.
> jumps

<irony>goto is considered harmful</irony>
> Fritz Lang's Metropolis

(produced 1927)
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I was a bit sad to see some security features like custom OIDC providers locked behind an enterprise plan, but after checking their pricing page (https://tailscale.com/pricing/) it actually seems like that is available on a lower plan.

And even better, the free plan seems very reasonable as a sort of self-directed POC, with access to many enterprise features, but limited to three users. So now I'm not sad, this seems pretty cool!
Interview with GM leader replacing carplay and Android auto
tl;dr GM doesn’t want to expose basic elements of the car’s operation to Apple and Google so they can sell things. This will be a disaster.
Right? Like, should I even bother applying for Phase II in September? There is no way I could afford to pay taxes on $1.8M.
The issue as I understand it, is that if you want to limit the amount of time that the user has to wait to a second or less (a reasonable assumption) then you can't use all that much memory with Argon2. So you don't get a lot of memory hardness.
https://openplacereviews.org/
I would say this is not horrible code - or at least, it's "hollywood horrible". [1] Yes, it's not directly intuitive and probably would need some illustrating comments, but it's still reasonably close to the "naive" algorithm that you could quickly figure out how it works. More importantly, it's still localized, concrete and side-effects free: The code has a clear goal and accomplishes that goal completely inside that one function. The non-intuitive parts also have a clear reason.

I think actual horrible code is more something that uses global mutable state, has logic spread over half a dozen units or does have weird roundabout implementations - however not because of a particular reason but because of unclear goals, big-ball-of-mud architecture, evolving codebase etc.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodHomely
I still own a Logitech iFeel mouse from the late 90's early 2000's. It's a heavier mouse that offers force feedback on the desktop, specifically as you move over icons and such. It also gave force feedback in games, such as Half Life.

Unfortunately on Windows the drivers havn't worked since probably XP, but on Linux I did figure out how to drive the motor, and wrote a PoC to get it working again. It'd need support from the DE and games to really be useful, though.
It's the nukes. They can't conquer Ukraine with infantry, but they can annihilate major cities in the US and Europe with nukes.

That's what everybody assumed all along that World War III meant. Russia's antiquated invasion of its neighbor is quaintly parochial compared to that... so long as that's where it stays. But if somebody, somewhere, gets an itchy trigger finger at just the wrong time, everybody everywhere becomes part of WWIII all at once.

That's why people keep referencing Russia and WWIII.
If your old job is gone, your opportunity cost is not your old salary, it's your potential new salary. Likely a lot less.
For context: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/feb/01/climate-...
Well, they didn't qualify it that way. So no, it's not "perfectly usable." It's perfectly usable for people who don't do much with it. If I need a modern mainframe terminal, it barely matters what laptop or OS I use.

If I need to hold 2TB of samples and have room for 2TB of video I'm working on and prefer it onboard, I can't get that at any price on a MacBook Air, and a soldered on 2TB is hundreds more than plopping a 2TB in my laptop's spare slot. In fact, I can max it out with 8TB storage and 64GB RAM for the markup to get a 2TB SSD/16GB RAM Air.

You see the problem. I'm not saying everyone needs it, but the broad claim that a $999 Air is perfectly usable has some large and varied edge cases. If a $999 Air were enough for me, then I would have put a new battery in my old laptop and put Linux on it instead of upgrading. Apple's lineup was considered and dismissed for the absurd markups on storage and RAM.
Please no. I wish the users who create quality posts could get paid. But sadly, once money is involved, people will start to gamify the system, posting as much barely-passable garbage as possible to maximize upvotes, and the quality of content will deteriorate very quickly.
Reddit has been experimenting with both fiat and Ethereum based approaches to compensate users. But we are talking about cents.
But that's a solvable problem. It's a chicken-and-egg problem, certainly, but if more people want to live in walkable "major downtowns", we could just, you know, build more walkable "major downtowns", not just inflate the prices of ones we already have. There's nothing really stopping us from building more cities or at least planning more suburban/exurban neighborhoods to be independently walkable and with enough amenities to be city-like other than status quo momentum and what remains of the current "American suburban dream" of single family detached homes and cars over public transportation and walking.
I’m not swayed by this rule of three. The experience I have is the reason I reach for a hammer immediately, instead of first trying three rocks to demonstrate that’s still a bad idea.
I've been using linux as my primary desktop for the past 20 years. Is it perfect? No, but it's damned powerful for development, fast, and fully customizable.

Ironically, my love of linux on the desktop has also kept me gaming on console. I've strongly considered building a pc and the thought of having to use windows (proton has come a long way, but a lot of games I'd like to play aren't supported) is enough to give me pause. I get the feeling that I'd mainly use WSL except for gaming.
They are getting paid: in the form of a discount on the cost for using the platform.
This is wrong on a lot of levels. Primarily:

1. Every nation with a declining birth rate is shitting their pants about it and trying to raise the birth rate. It is seen as an existential crisis to not grow in population.

2. Birth rates have already been dropping for decades and carbon emissions are continuing to climb because we keep finding new ways to spend money on creating carbon emissions.
Which maps directly onto Japan's Lost Decade - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades
The error message for when you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object
> If, say, ChatGPT is superintelligent, the only way it can hurt you is through insult or persuasion.

People are already hooking up ChatGPT to the command line of their computers and giving it access to the internet. There are plenty of ways a super-intelligent AI would be able to wreak havoc.
Haven’t you ever noticed how every Guardian article is based on fear to keep you thinking exactly what they want?
I am currently watching The kingdom of Dreams and Madness, a documentary of Studio Ghibli, in there the director / producer tell how they feel like they are the lasts of a creative era of animation.

It does seem that even though anime is more popular than ever, there is not so many modern anime classics.
This looks super cool! I have a use case where I store some stateful stuff in Redis that a worker constantly interacts w/ and updates. Redis is great, but the project is a very side thing and would love not to have to pay for bandwidth / just embed it inside of it. Going to take a look at this and see if I can make it work! Didn't see any serialization formats, so might just do that myself. Ty for building this!
And possibly everybody.
Thanks for this! It absolutely touched me. www in a way it was back in the 90 :) those memories came back when getting results to neocities.
Well yeah the hard part in running your own VMs is security (and backups), if you don’t concern yourself with this then it isn’t super difficult to diy. But how long will it stay online?
They are probably looking for an ecosystem around the tool, like how github built on git.
I think it's because this is described with the word "debate". Running 100m really fast is still clearly running, it's just very fast. Anyone can run, not everyone can run that fast.

That video doesn't resemble anything anyone normal would recognize as debate. The point of debate is to persuade people effectively. If normal people can't even understand what you're saying they can't possibly be persuaded so you have totally failed at debate. If that competition was described as a speed talking competition then fine, no problem, but it's not.
how dare you besmirch the Epstein drive
> Serious question, what is the path for a linter?

The natural end state is yet another build service.
Honestly, the entire isekai genre shows a disturbing trend towards fatalism.

The fact that no matter how hard you work, or how good you are, you have to die or go to another world before you'll see anything you might want to do because there is nothing for you here.

Its sad that the world we've made for our younger generation is such an unlivable place for so many that this is seen as one of the only escapes.

Sure its not entirely our fault since the boomer generation is largely to blame for this, the cohort generally chose to enriching themselves over their kids, and maintained that through political pull for far longer than they should have largely as a result of better medical technology.
Maybe time fro another, huge, anti-competitive fie from the EU, like when back when MS did all those shenanigans around internet Explorer? I wouldn't be surprised of we see similar proceedings in the next years around cloud services (everything from OneDrive to Azure and equivilants, Office, you name it) once the EU is done with mobile devices.
It's not that that argument has no reason, it's that it is suddenly dumped on people without any ability to adjust. Similar to a car slowing to 0 from 60 mph over a minute is no problem, going from 60 to 0 in zero time is.
I’m glad Windows ate shit trying to get into mobile. Maybe it was functional, but Windows is fucking ugly compared to iOS, MacOS, and even Android.
Well... looks like everyone thought US Congress might come to its senses before it's too late.

Personally, I'd be inclined to say: let it all fucking burn to the ground. Maybe that's enough incentive for the GOP to come to its senses. But unfortunately, there is a pretty high chance the GOP is willing to risk a major economic crash just to push the responsibility on Biden.
The price of gas has been higher than the price of gas today + 53 cents, so from an absolute price perspective it doesn’t seem unreasonable.
It doesn’t learn in real time from the chats, though the feedback buttons can be used for training (but I imagine OpenAI review it first)
Reality says we have more Job openings than ever and the lowest unemployment rate.

I can't find a decent plumber, lawn mower, handyman or a doctor. If the economic incentives pushes artists to acquire skills that are useful to society then we should accelerate that process rather than artificially propping up their skills with debt we can't service.

There will be a time for UBI, but that day hasn't come (Unemployment and Job Openings will be a clear indicator) of that.

Imagine if we propped up textile workers or blacksmith or shoe repairer just like we are planning to prop up artists, the world would be much worse.

Today anyone born in a Western Democracy has access to basic needs -- food, shelter, knowledge without having to do anything.
Wood takes a very long time to saturate enough to properly sink. A partially-floating log in the ocean is sometimes called a "deadhead" log (supposedly named because the bobbing motion of the lighter end of the log resembles a human head, but this feels apocryphal). I cannot find reliable sources for how long it takes for a log to fully saturate with seawater before sinking below the surface. Some sailors have reported seeing the "same" deadhead for over a decade. (While the deadhead is still at- or close-to-the-surface, it is a major hazard for boats. Deadheads have been known to punch through boat keels and destroy propellers and other equipment.)

After the logs become fully submerged and settle, I do not believe that they decompose rapidly, but (again) cannot find reliable sources. The state of Florida has a licensed program for "Deadhead Logging"[0], but much of the content I've found about that program is specific to river ecosystems, not oceans.

A 2020 article entitled "First evidence of microbial wood degradation in the coastal waters of the Antarctic"[1] offers a few nice quotes:

> Wood submerged in saline and oxygenated marine waters worldwide is efficiently degraded by crustaceans and molluscs.

> Our results establish that there is ongoing wood degradation also in the Antarctic, albeit at a vastly reduced rate compared to warmer environments. Historical shipwrecks resting on the seafloor are most likely still in good condition, although surface details such as wood carvings, tool marks, and paint slowly disintegrate due to microbial decay.

[0] https://floridadep.gov/water/submerged-lands-environmental-r...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68613-y
Ariane 6 also had the goal of being a competitive commercial launch platform, not just a strategic European launch platform.
Apple products (Macbooks especially) are prohibitively expensive in most of the world. The US market is very important, of course, but Microsoft has very little competition elsewhere.
It's nice to learn more about Leiji Matsumoto, but it's also a little annoying that only the last four paragraphs of the article touch on what the headline suggests, and only half-heartedly.
It’s news to me, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. Maybe “people like” Smolin but not Smolin. I mean, he has a very good job, and has recently published books and papers, and interviews. I’m not sure I even understand what “cancelled by the physics community” would mean. Journal editors have secret instructions to throw out your manuscripts instead of sending them out for review?
>and will likely continue to be one as long as there are young people

every generation feels this way. not sure why it needs the qualifier you attached. each generation has to have it's own ________. can't listen to the same music as the prior generation, as that's lame. can't use the same social platforms, because you're parents are on it. can't use the same lingo as that's not hip and gotta talk in ways they parental units won't understand
Ah yes! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
seeing as how it was insanely profitable for IBM to lock some of its customer's apps on POWER or their older mainframe architectures, it'll probably be the case that lock-in is popular and inevitable until some open standard comes along which the consensus of developers decide is better and they force a migration to it via the market
Sabine is a theoretical physicists who works on the foundations of quantum mechanics. And she's not the only critic inside the field. The debate is over whether math should be elevated to the status that observation has in science, when it becomes difficult to make progress doing experiments.
Just let me believe she was knitting key patterns doing the encryption in her head
Well, the distribution of transportation's emissions within the US is completely out of wack throughout COVID-19. People stopped commuting by car due to shelter in place and WFH, air travel was paralyzed, deliveries went up and trucking was a shit show.

Throughout 2020 I practically never saw jets in the air, and that's quite unusual for my locale, being east of LA (JTNP).
> "reborn/reincarnated/transported to another world as a _____" has matured and gotten popular to the point of being its own genre with associated tropes, rather than just being a trope that would sometimes appear in fantasy stories.

I think of it this way: As the current world everyone lives in is devoid of meaning - you have to escape inside or to fantasy in order to find meaning. Disenchantment is the mood of the day. With the internet competition among local people becomes a bit moot. Economically everything is irreversibly and increasingly owned by the investor class and its likely that everyone will have more modest goods than their parents had.

Where and how do you find a purpose, a meaning against such a backdrop? This is the question that artists and writers are trying to answer. Defeating inner demons, finding connection and community, fighting an uncaring out of touch older class.. all sorts of theories are there.
There would be far less objections to generative AI if these tools were being harnessed by (for example) social democracies to make societies overall more efficient and productive and to redistribute gains into greater overall security. What HN users tend to summarily dismiss as Luddism is the “golden rule” form of American Capitalism, where having the most money/compute resources entitles you to scrape and enclose the sum total of human creative and intellectual output for corporate gain. It’s the basic conflict of Capitalism - what gains should be returned to labor vs Capital owners, sublimated through a whole mess of pedantry, philosophizing, and cynical legal maneuvering to obfuscate that fact.
Before Rewind.ai launched, I had made a counterpart for Windows, but just for web browsers:
https://irchiver.com/

Completely local, no network traffic at all.
Part of what made Anime and Manga so "exotic" back in the day was just how different it was to anything you'd find in the West.

A lot of early Anime has sci-fi/post-apocalyptic vibes because Japan was essentially a post-apocalyptic society. Japan is the only nation to have nuclear weapons used against it. It was so devastating, the entire world decided to just not do that sort of thing again.

But the level of national trauma Japan faced must have been something else. It affected their creative output for decades. Kaiju movies are essentially a response to the event. And elements of nuclear desolation is present in a lot of Anime. Akira, Vampire Hunter D, the earlier works of Miyazaki.

It's a huge fucking cultural touchstone for at least a couple of generations of Japanese people.

But we're also about 80 years from the event. Things are different in Japan. People have been born, lived full lives, and died between the time the bombs fell and today. There likely are children of children of people who were born after the bombs.

Japan today does have a lot more in common with the world at large. Their contemporary cultural touchstones are much the same ones around the world. So it makes sense that their art would reflect this.
At a mechanical level isekai in webnovel form lets you introduce the reader to a new world much more quickly and easily than if the MC were in that world with no reference to our own.

It's why I think it's so popular, especially when coupled with a "System" as in litrpg which accelerates that even more.
> dismiss anime as the lowest of trash.

Cultural poverty and ignorance are often dressed as elitism.
Yu Gong
I'm confused, when has NPR been deplatformed?
> Everytime my BT headphones connect, Apple Music opens up.

You make it sound like there's code to show you ads when you connect a BT headphone. I can't confirm this despite using it daily.

This doesn't happen with AirPods. Nor does it happen with a Sony headphone. So it's not behavior baked into the OS.

I'm also sure you meant Music.app, not Apple Music. When I open Music.app on a Mac, it shows me the local songs. It's also possible to hide Apple Music in Music.app.
Do what I did. Buy a xps 13 (dell has 'developer edition variants of these, so it fully supports linux). I actually bought the windows version because it was cheaper, instantly wiped it on boot and installed linux. I've upgraded to a 1tb ssd and might upgrade to a 2tb ssd given how cheap they are right now. Great experience though!
I'm looking forward to seeing how this plays out for downstream projects that use it. One of interest is dqlite.io...
It doesn't matter what it sounds like. It's literally the only solution. Western standards of living will, and must decline over the next several decades, either to mitigate climate change or because we've just made it so much worse.
It is extremely interesting that money fails so hard at the one thing it should be good at, incentivizing behavior. I mean, yes, you'd get more content, but it would be hollow, as you say.
Difference is GPT4all is likely stuck at GPT2.5 quality forever.

It'd be like Three calling naming themselves after 3g but offering 2.5g then continuing to offer than while everyone moved on to 5g.

I'm doing my best to always be constructive and I'd suggest that what we really need is something that could work as an edge processor.