skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ~27% of the energy required to run a normal car

It would be slightly worse in colder climates. I wish car manufactures would allow for easy installation for range extenders in the front trunk. I'd be a great source of heat for the heat pump. Range anxiety would be gone. No carbon tax since it would be an aftermarket solution.

It seems Mazda MX-30 r-ev is the only thing you can buy.
It will be competitive disadvantage for many European companies that they will be forced to share data with American and Chinese competitors.

Siemens Gamesa, the second biggest windturbine manufacturer in the world, fears for their ability to innovate and seek patents because this law will force them to share data with competitors:

https://www.version2.dk/artikel/vindmoelle-gigant-frygter-ny...
Wish they picked Qt. Seems to be easier to create lightweight portable UIs with that, and the upgrade path is also a lot easier on the devs.

Not here to start a flame war. And I know about https://apps.kde.org/karbon/

But nothing matches Inkscape in features: I learned it years ago and still use it every couple of months.
OnlineSafetyBill: If you dont want people to add baubles dont design a xmas tree
Twitter thread of amendments submitted for the UK Online Safety Bill
Those are prescription. They send you to an online doctor.
Notably missing from the 5 points he makes at the start of the article:

Perl's regexes (unlike python and a swath of other languages) are first class citizens in the language (and not some effing library you have to import, along with its clunky API).

To wit:

PERL:

$x = $1 if(/^Line_start[ \t]*([0-9]+)/);

PYTHON:

import re
m = re.match(r'^Line_start[ \t]*([0-9]+)/, line)
if m:
x = m.group(1)

The latter is painful.

This is the only reason that still makes me sometimes pick Perl over python when I need to slap together a quick and dirty run-once script to chew thru a big pile of data.

Other than that, as much as I've used Perl over the years and found it extremely useful back in the day (coz it was the best there was at the time), it is a horrible language by modern standards ($ to identify variables, having to tell the compiler that an expr is at an end with a ';', ugh), and it is time to let it Rest In Peace.
I'm a Hindi speaker in training, but not music theory. I'm curious what they're named for?

Quoting the article:

> For instance, Teentaal (16 beats) is made up of four sections of four beats each, while Ektaal (12 beats) is made up of six sections of two beats each.

why is 'three rhythm' four beats/bar (and four bars repeating) and 'one rhythm' two (six)?
> Don't you think it's better to focus on other parts of that pie, where it's easier to implement widespread savings and change?

I looked at the link and to me transportation does indeed seem one of the larger sources of emissions. Everything else seems either very fragmented (lots of entries with around 2%) or similarly if not more complex - like energy use in buildings for all of the appliances.

What am I missing here, what would be easier to address than the abundance and types of cars and possibly the lack of proper public transportation?

I don't think that one can even make the argument that we should look for easy wins when change is necessary everywhere, unless we want climate catastrophe - because of people working against improvements due to their personal interests, inefficiencies in regulation and enforcement, as well as any number of other factors.
It is in the name.

Unidentified "Flying" "Object". Anything that cannot be identified is classified unidentified. It is flying, and it looks like object. Someone records it and enters the data as trained.

Someone is paid to observe sky, they see something they can't explain, they log it as they are ordered or paid to do. It might be explained with further effort, or it is just artefact of some other phenomenon or activity.
>prepared to start the third generation of internet companies.

With the same business model, you'll get the same problem.

What's new on this front? >$2/mo subscriptions and advertising? Meh.
The A-10 Warthog is so cool, though :-(
Okay so, let's say I overthrew the government, establish a dictatorship and then change the laws so I am the legal owner of the countries resources. This is now my property in perpetuity, since it was legal at the time when I, a dictator, decided on what the laws are?
Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/) is a real news bureau, not just some syndicated stuff. In this case, they literally follow the money.

(This is of course only discussing the non-Japanese Yahoo, Japan's Yahoo is still widely successful.)
> programs you have to make sure you don't integrate or communicate with a program which uses the LGPL variant[0]. Yes that's right, if you pay them money you better make sure that you never run your program on KDE because it would inadvertently communicate with software that you are not allowed to communicate with

Wow, you seem right. That's incredibly dumb. It almost seems auto-destructive.
You mean 90 degrees right?
What makes you say that?

I can definitely argue that mirrorless is always better for most users! Thinner bodies, modern lens selection (so faster autofocus and wider aperture, etc), real-time image previews, better low-light preview (in both rear and viewfinder screens), video recording capabilities better match professional video cameras (by removing mirror complexity) which better matches the hybrid needs of the modern camera buyer.
I am a product designer and literally every conversation I have now has everyone asking can we use an LLM here? They will be everywhere before long.
The amount of people saying this is ok in this thread is disturbing to me. Hitting the tugboat isn’t ok and you know how much everything costs in the Navy, repairing the damage will cost a fortune.
The current upgrade path from Win32 is Win32, I think. Microsoft now present it alongside WPF, WinForms and UWP as an option for developing new apps in the "get started" guide [1]. They have also added (or restored?) lots of useful documentation [2] on Win32, including how to handle UI scaling [3].

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/get-started/#...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/

[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/hidpi/high-d...
> trying to catch a yellow light

It sounds very intentional and reckless.
>EROI values for our most important fuels, liquid and gaseous petroleum, tend to be relatively high. World oil and gas has a mean EROI of about 20:1 (n of 36 from 4 publications) (Fig. 2) (see Lambert et al., 2012 and Dale, 2010 for references). The EROI for the production of oil and gas globally by publicly traded companies has declined from 30:1 in 1995 to about 18:1 in 2006 (Gagnon et al., 2009). The EROI for discovering oil and gas in the US has decreased from more than 1000:1 in 1919 to 5:1 in the 2010s, and for production from about 25:1 in the 1970s to approximately 10:1 in 2007 (Guilford et al., 2011). Alternatives to traditional fossil fuels such as tar sands and oil shale (Lambert et al., 2012) deliver a lower EROI, having a mean EROI of 4:1 (n of 4 from 4 publications) and 7:1 (n of 15 from 15 publication)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...
Fully Autonomous ChatGPT agent, that can Automate your device
SingularGPT is a opensource device automation project. That out of the box uses AI based vision and make it fully autonomous.
There is no need to audit the liabilities (i.e. the stablecoin issued), what matters are the assets/reserves.

And since these by nature are not on-chain for a fiat currency backed stablecoin, this is not trivial at all: Not only do you need to plausibly demonstrate the existence of assets, but also that they are not otherwise encumbered.
> although it's a different company apparently

No longer affiliated with the other Yahoo, significant stakes are owned by Softbank and Naver.
If I saw one of those ancient Nokia bricks, I'd immediately be suspicious.

There's probably people on this forum that have never seen one in the wild.
Since AI wants to be human, let's treat it more like a human.

For humans going to school is mandatory. And typically humans have to take lots of exams before they can work in various fields.

So, let's make that mandatory for AI too. Let government agencies design the exams. Of course, the creator of the AI has to pay for this.

And of course, the tests should be carefully designed and should also include a psychological test as we don't want to unleash psychopathic AI onto the masses. Also keep in mind that an AI that spreads false information can be harmful to society.
Sure that's the problem, but what are you going to do to solve it? Change everyone's mind?
Is there a way to test it?
Curious to see if it's directly embedded in ChatGPT with an add-on on top of it or it's something outside of it?
You’re being downvoted but honestly Inkscape suffers a bit when put up against some nastier SVGs. Chrome handles them alright though
The part of my rant about a basic scene setup, was unclear.
I'm disappointed about this part of the babylon design.
It just doesn't work very well, and isn't very well
thought through/designed (at least, I've seen better, in every way..)

Basically, this feels like the WPF of 3d to me :-/.
If they have replaced this with something wonderful, I take it all back..

<babylon
aextends="minimal"
extends="default"
zmodel="https://assets.babylonjs.com/meshes/box.glb"
canfiguration="http://example.com/viewerConfig.json"
engine.antialiasing="false"
zskybox="true"
zground="true"
scene.debug="false"
scene.clearColor="Red"
scene.ambientColor="Green"
scene.fogColor="Blue"
scene.fogDensity = "0.01"
scene.fogMode = "1"
camera.use-bouncing-behavior="false"
camera.use-auto-rotation-behavior="false"
camera.behaviors.auto-rotate="0"
camera.behaviors.bouncing="0"
>

<ground receive-shadows="true"></ground>
<skybox></skybox>
<camera>
<use-bouncing-behavior type="false"></use-bouncing-behavior>
<use-auto-rotation-behavior type="false"></use-auto-rotation-behavior>
<behaviors>
<auto-rotate type="0"></auto-rotate>
<bouncing type="0"></bouncing>
</behaviors>
</camera>

</babylon>
I meant mathematically as in a proof. With LLMs knowledge has become - well, tokenised. We can now study it at an information processing level which likely to be at least similar in structure to how knowledge is organised in the brain. This in turn is likely to give us access to the way knowledge itself works, in a way that was not previously possible.

So we can actually look at concepts like “morality” and see how that is encoded. And I’m confident that this will give us empirical insight into these concepts in a way no philosophy has been able to do until now.
Let's start with them having to pay for "learning" materials.
And Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea. And while India isn’t as developed as those countries, it’s the world’s largest functional democracy and I’d argue at least meets the threshold of “civilized.” I’d probably concede that China is also “civilized.”
What I Learned Building Whist (Mighty Competitor)
Where have all the Fiorello La Guardias of the world gone to?
In December 2022, we shut down Whist after ~3 years. For those who didn't know us, we were a Mighty competitor, building a cloud-streamed browser.

I spent a long time reflecting on what happened, our successes and mistakes, and compiled them in a post-mortem. A few people close to me read it and some found it insightful, so I figured I'd share it with the wider community.

A story on hard-learned lessons that feel obvious in hindsight. Here's to hoping my mistakes can save you some!
nice find .. thanks
"Manage" to live there, but not well. Maybe they pile 4 people intona four bedroom apartment and work 2 jobs to do it.
It was not a petty insult. The options you gave are "fraud" or "unfounded speculation." Literally lacks any kind of nuance. What sort of nuance would you say you contributed?
A few years ago, I erroneously started a process on an unclean dataset, thinking it had been cleaned. This caused messages to be delivered to customers, asking them to take action, when in fact no action should have been taken on their part.

The cause? In a status update, the person cleaning the dataset said that she was "ready to begin". I interpreted that as "the processing process is ready to begin", not "the cleaning process is ready to begin".

When stakes are high, clear communication helps us all - even when whatever's happening is an SOP that you run every day.
It feels like something designed by somebody who was explained by someone else what they had to do, but never themselves understood the 'why'. Like WPF, which feels like it was made by someone who never had to actually do GUIs themselves.
At some point dramatically lower demand will start to push the gas price higher.
Almost all BMWs on the road in the US are built in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
I dont know much about all this, but I am surprised there is nk mention of quarter tones here - western music does not have them, but I hear quarter tone intervals alllll the time in indian music. Yet you indicate that there are the same number of notes in a scale- but it seems indian music has an extra "blue note" or passing tone that we do not have here in the west.
Embedding an entire web browser is the software equivalent of shipping a tiny part in a 2 foot cube box, or putting three layers of non-recyclable packaging on vegetables.

Storage might be cheap, but storage you already have is free. I have a drawer full of old hard drives - all perfectly functional, but not useful because software footprint has exploded in recent years. Embedding a full web browser isn't the only offender, of course - the various types of container systems are another.

And that's without mentioning deployment: It's easy to take a fast, high-quality always-on internet connection for granted, but there are many, many people who don't have that, or use mobile plans with strict data limits.
Don't worry about them.

They were involved in the Libor things

They were involved in lybian government funds scandals

They had 2.6B of settlement in the USA for these cases.

They were involved in Panama papers

They once lost pocket money in risky investments (4.82 billion EUR) before the subprimes hit them (2.1B) (see the Kerviel case)

So I wouldn't trust them if they said they were the most socially responsible company out there.

But I trust them more than meme makers at FTX to back a stablecoin.
> I hate this hand wringing

What hand wringing are you talking about?
Clam down, we are just talking about how measure systems. And the previous ones existed not because of cultural differences, but because every king and tyrant wanted to decide which stick their vassals should use to measure the world.
This is hardly a new opinion. It's also an opinion I've come to completely disagree with.
Yea I like to describe fasting like going super saiyan but in spirituality and
religiosity.
It makes sense in C, doesn't it? You want your or some library's string abstraction available separately and not a bunch of errors because you both defined a different `struct string`.
The incentive wouldn't be any greater then forcing fuel users to consume as much fuel as possible to bring in more tax.
PowerBI, Tableau
cycling is my dominant way around the city during the warm months here. i used to take complicated, meandering routes to stay on the residential roads during my trips so i could avoid that type of passing. but at a certain point, i step back and realize that it doesn’t make sense to radically inconvenience myself in order to make auto drivers’ lives more convenient. we both pay for public roads: i have as much right to the good routes as any other resident; if it’s not working for you then vote for better infrastructure (in this case, perhaps a bike lane).

also FWIW this same problem exists in dense residential streets, just with the roles reversed. all those narrow intersections with no clear right of way and so many cars parked by them that you can’t see far: cars have to slow down way more for that whereas cyclists have maneuverability that lets them go a bit faster — until they catch up to a slow car on the same street. so anyway, don’t think that slowing down other classes of vehicles is a problem exclusive to bikes: on a mixed-use road every class of vehicle, including yours, will at some point require another vehicle to slow down for you.
Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?
Oh, I am no fan of ICE engines, at all. Hate them, personally.

But I know how harmful heavy handed-mandates can be. I have seen the damage such mandates have already made in other instances with voters being then easily recruited and radicalized by populist politicians.

This is a delicate issue, already highly politicized and deeply hypocritical for both sides. Completely curtailing people’s freedoms is not the way to approach it, if you want to change anything.
Snap is launching augmented-reality mirrors in stores
Tableau and Power BI are the most common off-the-shelf options these days, but a lot of especially large well-established businesses have bespoke solutions that they paid to have implemented sometimes a decade or more ago that are still chooching along just fine.
It’s a big rocket. What do you expect?
Bach quotes pop music all the time, for example in the Quodlibet of the Goldberg variations: https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Articles/BWV988-Quodlibet[Braa...

It's probably easiest to listen to the Bergamasca melody which was used endlessly in pop songs at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Lohr99FQA , one German version Bach's contemporaries would have been familiar with at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHypa4P7jT8 , and compare with the Quodlibet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvZfe35c410
I’ve made a bunch of things that are somewhat like this (combining markdown with sql and charts) and I find it so fun to use, and so fun to implement. Interactive coding stuff is just - it’s like catnip. So addictive to use.
>If you have ever tried to write a business application in PL/SQL

I've seen it work well however it requires a proficiency with SQL that most developers don't require so don't invest in.

It is much harder to debug but there is an elegance to the solution. It's often very compact and performs well.
How does that work when the car is driven only on a trip measured in minutes to the shop before it is even reported stolen, then is either disassembled in double-digit hours, or packed into a container headed for a 3rd-world country? The entire car is never seen in the country again.

Bonus, even if the car could report itself stolen in real-time and ubiquitous license plate readers were online so it became a significant problem for thieves, how would it defeat the simple measure of slapping on a valid plate with a magnet for the trip to the shop?
by the way, how did you do all those subscript formatting tricks?? It would be great to know how to post more advanced things in the comments here.
> How depressing that’s sounds. Kind of like cheap cattle feed or something. Are you only here to be entertained?

GP said "for the masses."

Popular media is just that: Cattle feed. It doesn't really matter if the next Marvel movie or the next Drake song is AI generated as long as it has its intended effect.
Really? I've written a lot of python, though less recently, and this doesn't sound familiar at all. What's in 3.8 but not 3.11?
> Python has stolen everything it could from Perl

It hasn't.

In python, regex's are an effing library.

In perl they're built into the language and can be summoned in a much more concise and efficient (metric:code clarity) way than python will ever manage as long as the bloody 'import re' will be required.
It is very possible that the research and development cost was much larger than the production cost of the duplicates. In this way the scientific funding is still being used to ‘hide’ defence funding. Externally it looks like most of the money went to science applications but that science was necessary for the production of the non-Hubble telescopes.
There are people that are still using them.
The Twitter files ware certainly not nonsense. Journalists ignored them only because they care only about the left.
Elo Worldle
Mileage != emissions
I feel like this is a misunderstanding of HN's niche... For most of my time here the majority of articles have been about social media and other consumer web and mobile apps. Which makes sense because that's what Silicon Valley has been up to and this is an SV rag. It's nice that there are also lots of nerds here who are interested in other, frankly way more interesting, technologies so we get a good number of articles about those too. But your criticism just strikes me as odd. Generative AI is much more interesting and fundamentally new than the stuff I was reading about here a decade ago when Instagram filters were the new hotness...
Isn't Microsoft too late to the chip game? Both their competitors AWS and GCP have their own ML training chips, while Azure has nothing. The article seems like they may have something by next year, but by that time the competition would have evolved even more. Nadella has executed on strategy brilliantly but on the cloud seems it seems like the tech innovation is a bit lagging. It hasn't mattered that much so far though due to how entrenched the MS stack is in the enterprise.
It’s the number of claps that matter.

Teentaal: there’s a clap on beats 1,4 and 12. No clap on 9.
Ektaak: Just one clap on the first beat.
Eco-friendly computing.
Thank you for building Boxy SVG, it's a wonderful tool, very fast and easy to use.
You could expect them to build adequate measures to limit damage like flame trenches and water deluge systems. And to build new rocket launch facilities in suitable areas with sufficient distance to cities.
It will happen sooner than later, as the fees will go to the copyright mafia industry rather than to the artists.
Aren't those also tests of sea worthiness? A ship will have to withstand much harsher conditions. It is better for it to fail early than in the middle of an ocean in bad weather.
Line trace. If only it had line trace.
square root is an IEEE 754 basic operation, correctly rounded (and therefore bitwise reproducible) on all compliant systems. What made you think that it isn't?
No, it's the biggest rocket. Normal launch precautions for big rockets would have been a good place to start.
The navy should give them to Ukraine.
Other videos of ship side-launches I've watched on Youtube don't involve a tug pulling at the same time the hydraulics are released. What was the deal with this one?
The problem is that outside of very trivial or temporary situations, regexes should be named and tested. Especially for scripts that tend to be written, deployed indefinitely, and mostly ignored.

One you have a name and a design where you can test the boundaries of that regex without, say, downloading large files or rearranging the filesystem, you aren't really buying all that much by avoiding some extra library boilerplate.

But I'll admit that native support for regex comes in handy for throwaway scripts.
Over a decade ago (I think around ~2010) when I was in high school I had an English teacher who required Times New Roman for a paper. I got marked off because while I had installed Times New Roman, I had a word processor which had silently replaced another serif font as Times New Roman when I selected it. To be fair I think it was one of the Bitstream fonts that looked a bit larger than Times New Roman at the same size.