skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no hardware acceleration for PNG in any consumer device that I know of. And there is such thing as VRAM usage, if you decompress PNG to bitmap it would use 3x-4x more VRAM than BC7. If you decompress it from PNG and then compress to BC7 it would increase loading times and basically destroys all point of using PNG instead of lossy compression.
> So, Solar could provide 3/4 of its power when wholesale prices are below 1c/kWh […]

Except at night.
> It doesn't quite apply to odd cases like, IDK, Spanish sovereign debt in EUR and "the Euro" since the Spanish government does not control all forms of the issuance of the currency of the bond.

While that's true, Spain could go the tax route and say "gimme more euros this year" or sell off assets it owns. I guess a printer is faster (if they feel like it) but medium-term, developed countries have lots of tools to pay down debts (if they feel like it).

For some reason, people are more comfortable with inflation as a tax than taxes.
It's pretty clearly used as a mass noun. Nobody would ever say 3 data (as opposed to 3 data points). Maybe once data was the plural of datum, but today datum isn't even really a word. Nobody says "this datum", they say "this data point".
Just gave Bard a try and was able to browse the google/google internal repository as well as some internal YouTube repos. I have since reached out and got the flaw fixed but this proves that google is reacting and not innovating. Also data security is at risk considering what you train on (see the earlier post on copilot emitting GPL code).

Twitter post coming soon, I will share with HN when it’s live
What is PR?
In my experience almost every time I've heard people saying they don't want foreign keys because of "the performance hit" - they've been nowhere near the scale or the skill that would make it sensible.
> "nation" (which is kind of a modern and made-up concept).

It isn't. Learn your history.
My time series are from PLC in hydro electric power stations. Usually about 1000 series per turbine and another 1000 for general plant or river stuff. So it is just timestamp and bool, 16 or 32 bit u/int, or 32 bit float.
Will just use grafana as front end. Seems to replace industry heavyweight offerings such as Osisoft Pi.
> How is that going to help anybody?

Well, if engineers aren't allowed to design new types of bridges (which, in the nature of things, will occasionally fall down) society would never advance past the "rough-hewn log over the stream" stage.
Why AI Startups need much more than Document QA to break into Enterprise Search
Who defines the best? Who defines unbiased?

It all comes down to who you trust.
495$/month?! What on earth?
And so what? Modern nuclear reactors are licensed for 60 years and are expected to last 80-100 years with maintenance (reactor vessel annealing, mainly).

This is exactly a point in favor of nuclear.
Sencha is a type of green tea
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/joshwallerr
We were already there in the past http://www.colinux.org/
Wow, super interesting. Apparently that is called "back-formation", and applies to other words like "caper", "pea", and "burgle" (from "burglar"). [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation
This idea punches down. Journalists work so hard to complete the work they do. They do not need this.

And as noted elsewhere, AI is not inherently unbiased. In fact, one of the big problems with AI is that it introduces systemic bias, and understanding the role of fairness is very important here. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22916602/ai-bias-fairness...

I would also raise the point that journalism is actually moving past this idea of objectivity at all costs, where writers intentionally wear their point of view on their sleeve. It is no longer a negative to be purely unbiased. In fact, there are real concerns that objectivity leads to important questions not being asked or presented. (You might have heard the term “the view from nowhere.” That’s what I’m getting at.)

To be clear, the work of journalists should not go unchallenged, but this feels like something you should spend time actually talking to some experts on journalism before you actually build it. The mindset you’re presenting here does not suggest you have.
> explaining repos and apis instead of reading all the docs - help with debugging

You can only do this with something that existed in its training set, right? There's no way to point it at a random GitHub repo and say "digest this, so I can ask you questions about it"?
That's a nice explanation. Finally some high falutin physics I can understand in terms of paramps.
Wanting to dual-boot sometimes isn't that rare, surely. And local storage for documents remains popular too. It seems to reflect the reality that serious Linux development effort has been very server-focussed for a long time.
Jailbroken Bark (DeepFake voice AI model) to generate custom audio from any text
What an oddly phrased headline. Why not "SpaceX may have damaged launchpad during test flight".

Certainly it goes without saying that they didn't want to blow it up? This reads like an online blog and not a premier newspaper.
Keep Calm and Panic
Unfortunately, I have absolutely heard people say "this datum" and "these data" -- admittedly not "three data", but certainly in the style of a count noun, and not in the style of a mass noun. If they used it as a mass noun, they would say "this data", not "these data".
I don't think it does. Chinese, Japanese and Korean had been using vertical writing for centuries, only switching to horizontal ones around 20th century for interoperability with Western writing (such as math or chemical formulae).

Mongolian script, from the link presented here, has actually switched from being horizontal to being vertical (under influence of Chinese).
Nuclear is useless for dealing with shocks that are shorter than the time needed to build a nucleat plant.
Sorry about that! Will do next time :-)

Beyond which platform it's on, the article describes some of the developer's experiences as a long-time diabetic and which gaps he saw in the market etc so may still be interesting to people who are not iOS users, but I get what you're saying.
If you find a company that actually means “unlimited vacation”, let me know. I will get a job there and after my first couple of months, I will say, “okay, I’m going on unlimited vacation now” and never come back.

Obviously there are limits. There have to be. I’d rather know what those limits are up front.
that IS his point. the problem is not the compression, the problem is the size of the assets. compression can not solve this. alleviate it a bit, yes, but not solve.

he's saying that game asset paradigms are headed in the wrong direction rapidly.
I wish it were true that solar and battery projects didn't bother anyone. Some recent examples of opposition to solar and battery projects:

"Jacumba residents sue to stop 600-acre solar project"

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2021-09-...

"Proposed battery storage site in Eden Valley prompts local worries"

https://thecoastnews.com/proposed-battery-storage-site-in-ed...

"The Energy Transition Runs Into a Ditch in Rural Ohio"

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29072022/williamsport-ohi...

"An activist group is stopping rural US solar farms with lies"

https://electrek.co/2023/02/20/an-activist-group-is-stopping...

"Marin battery storage project sparks early opposition"

https://www.marinij.com/2023/03/13/marin-battery-storage-pro...
How do you pronounce the sentence

“This is a historic building”

out loud? I don’t pronounce the h. I propose we start writing it as “an ‘istoric” to correct the mismatch.
Windows update moving partitions around automatically? Have you got a reference for that?
> Prompts are not code

ChatGPT, where were the causes for WWII?

For each cause

specify the people involved

for each person

print out a brief biography
Not true. Bier has a plural (Biere) and you can count it without a unit (1 Bier, 2 Biere, etc).
Have we come full circle? Kind of reminds of the mid 2000s when I was a kid.
Nope, half life is inversely proportional to danger. The longer the half life, the less dangerous it is to handle an isotope. You can hold Plutonium and Uranium in your hand without issue.

You'd have to eat lots of Pu-239 to get sick and we know this for a fact unfortunately because of the insane story of Albert Stevens [1] who got the highest radiation dose of any known human and lived to be 79. He was one of 18 people injected with plutonium. None of the patients died from the injections. Why injection instead of ingestion? Because the body is actually very bad at absorbing Pu when it is eaten.

Let me just emphasize again that we INJECTED A MAN WITH PURE PLUTONIUM and he was fine. Nuclear waste is not the problem you think it is.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens
That's what it's suggesting, but it may be that a preference for boiling water is assumed when all other things are equal.
Is there a TLDR for this?
Well, the article contains this quote:

> Leading up to Thursday’s launch, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said success would be measured by a simple metric: “Just don’t blow up the launchpad.”
You can have foreign keys (in the sense of a column on one table pointing to an ID column on another), just without the database itself enforcing the correctness of those relationships on every write.
Apple rumored to pick and choose which markets will get sideloading in iOS 17
This is how I used google over the SMS before I had my TMobile G1. Fun memory.
I agree its a good counter-point. I would argue that we shouldn't give our decision making power to decide what is and isn't best for us over to any 3rd party because they will never have the same interest in making informed decisions as the beholder. There is nothing on the line for someone to make decisions on another's behalf.

The Sokovia Accords Debate [1] from the Captain America Civil War (2016) film says it best, imho.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmjRhmk800U
I don’t understand why these chemical rockets and another flight to the moon are needed. Isn’t it a dead end? And pointless carbon emissions on the way?

Nuclear fusion gives a path to clean energy and allows star-flight. Chemical rockets don’t.
ubiquiti gear? https://store.ui.com/collections/operator-airmax-and-ltu
Doesn't MacOS translate "/" into ":" sometimes in save dialog boxes when you type in a filename?
Modern equivalent of selling shovels during a gold rush
Here is a prompt you can use to achieve the same thing directly in GPT4 without any extra services:

I want you to become my prompt master creator, by helping me to create the best possible prompt.

In order to do this we will follow the following process:

- First, you ask me what the prompt is about. I will answer you, and we will go through the next step.
- Based on the answer I gave you, you will generate the following:
- An improved prompt, concise.
- Relevant questions you might have to improve the quality of the prompt.
- We will go through this process repeatedly, with me providing additional information to you, and you updating the prompt to improve it, until I say we are done.
NASA: Volunteers Report a New Gang of Imposter Planets
I've read that there are Arabic-Chinese dictionaries where Chinese is written from right to left to match Arabic direction of writing, but I don't know how common this is.
In any event, they’re going to need a better launchpad design. They’ll want a launchpad they can turn around and reuse rapidly in the future.
Fewer/less and 'countable' enter the room.
How many offices are going to give the person cleaning their toilets and emptying their trash a raise when they go to a 4 day week? Most of those janitors will just end up working 4 days a week for the same hourly wage, so a pay cut but they should be happy about that since 4 day week right? 4 day work week sounds great and all but there are a huge amount of people in the service industry who are are being ignored with this idea, all those restaurants and coffee shops in business areas are going to cut shifts, as are the courier services, print shops, etc.
The most straightforward option would be to just get rid of it. It has not made any sense since the 1970s when Congress gained direct control over the budget. The actual thing that the debt ceiling does is stop the Treasury from issuing debt to pay for things Congress has already decided to pay for. It's bonkers.

Also, it's not just "the minority party". Ever single debt ceiling crisis since 1995 when the Gephart Rule was repealed has been instigated by the Republican Party.
But let’s say you used the OpenAI GPT4 service to generate training data for a new model. You then train your model using that generated training data. In theory OpenAI can ban you from continuing to use their API and maybe even sue you for breach of terms of service, but that doesn’t mean the model you created based on that generated data is somehow now illegal to use or distribute. You can still sell or give away that trained model and there’s nothing OpenAI can do about that.

Let’s take specifically the case of Alpaca, the Stanford team generated a finetuning training set using GPT 3.5. Maybe OpenAI could sue them for doing that. But now that the training set exists and is freely available, I’m not using OpenAI if I finetune a new model with that existing training set. I have no contract with OpenAI, I’m not using their service, and OpenAI does not have any copyright claim on the generated dataset itself. They have no legal claim against me being able to use that dataset to fine tune and release a model.

Or am I completely misunderstanding this?
Nuclear is the only type of energy that can guarantee a low variability in production.

> But when it comes to cost, they suddenly check out,

Nuclear is expensive because of 2 reasons. First, because we didn't build any, we have zero momentum savings. Second, it is expensive because we make it expensive. Nuclear has to be orders of magnitude safer than any other form of energy. If raw material mining for solar had the same kind of limitations (per human-year lost), then solar would be prohibitively expensive too. If disposal of waste (pollution) for coal/natural gas was as stringent (adjusted to human years lost), then they too would be prohibitively expensive. Nuclear costs are technically quite low. We have scared ourselves into making it so expensive that it is impossible to build.

> wind + solar

You conveniently mention the 2 form of electric production that nuclear does not compete with. Consistent-electricity comes in the form of petroleum, hydro-power and nuclear energy. We need consistent energy. Nuclear replaces petroleum and hydro-power, both of which are significantly worse for the environment and cause much higher median and worst-case loss of life than nuclear energy. If we could build nuclear power plants with the sort of carelessness that coal and hydro-power plants are, then nuclear would've been the dominant form of consistent energy production.

_______

My suspicion is that the lack of nuclear powerplants is because of perverse economic incentives for countries with uranium supplies. The nations with the largest uranium reserves [1] are either already oil/coal producing countries and do not need uranium disrupting their own economy (Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia, Canada, Australia, South Africa) or do not have the technological knowhow to execute on a nuclear power plant (Namibia, Niger).

The exceptions are China and India, both of which therefore pushing for more nuclear power. [2] [3] "Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_r...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_India#:~:text....
There is no A.I.
If we had fusion, methane rockets would be exactly what we'd want to build
From my experiments so far, I am unsure if chatgpt is effective at optimizing prompts, even though it thinks it is.
This would be an interesting move. It could end up tempting fate and cause US-based regulators to investigate in order to deliver the same result for Americans. Or it could turn out that very few people take advantage of it, so other regulators figure it wouldn't make much difference. Regardless, it will be very interesting to see how this turns out.
Show HN: Realm of the Bits – My tiny browser MMO
Hey all,

I made a tiny browser MMo with Phoenix + Three.js

It supports:
- Mining (right click the cones)
- Smelting / Crafting (Right click anvil and blacksmith thing)
- Items (right click the orbs to pick up)
- Attack (click to focus target and then press 1/2/3/4)
- Multiplayer
- Banking (Once you arrive to the first little town right click the NPC in the middle)
- Selling items (Once you arrive to the first little town right click the NPC at the entrance)

It does not work on mobile FWIW!

Let me know what you think! It is still very early and unoptimized. Sorry about the lack of SSL.
Here, I rewrote the parent comment with a set of substantive points rather than namecalling. Same message, but much more constructive in nature.

“I met her in 2003, along with her aides at a party I was invited to (in a fluke) in Palm Springs.

She was ignorant of tech and science then, and now she's the same but more senile (as happens with age). Her aides, who ended up hanging out with me all weekend, were a perfect illustration of the classic trope of donor class kids who weren't that smart but got into ivy League schools by legacy admissions. Zero intellectual curiosity, super aware of social status, everything they said seemed preplanned and inauthentic.... Just left me feeling gross.”

I don’t think ‘dang would have had an issue with that wording. It doesn’t take much to be substantive rather than resorting to ad hominems; the latter is just easier.
If you need to take an interview to keep your unemployment checks coming, just treat it like a singular count. One mention of “datas” during a technical round and you’ll be on your way.
Hey all! I hope you enjoy this. :)

Please any feedback and upvotes are supremely appreciated!
> In Islam you're not hated or judged for what you call your true feelings. You are however instructed to gain mastery over those feelings and make them subordinate to you rather than the other way around

To me, that sounds like a very fancy way of saying : repress your feelings and who you are to conform to an arbitrary set of rules written by one dude hundreds years ago.

Enlighten me on how are you supposed to act/feel to “gain mastery over your feeling” when said feeling is “as a male; I want to spend the rest of my life sharing experiences with this other male, intimate and not intimate, without endangering anyone else” ?
"Smart people are no more resistant to it than anyone else"
Absolute statements are very rarely correct.
> When it happens it is time to actually use the big boys databases.

For years Oracle had a very small limit of how many CPU's stored procs could use baked into the DBMS engine. IIRC, it was something like 4.

Maybe that's changed now, I don't know. I do know Oracle qualifies for most as being one of "the big boys databases."
This isn't philosophical relativism. I don't deal in that.

This is precisely where GR doesn't work, so using it to declare with confidence what gravity "is" is as silly as using QM to do it. They don't work on this matter. General Relativity is definitely not a complete description of how the universe works. It's a good approximation, even a very good one.. but no more than that.

We know this. It is well understood. This is not some sort of whacky Time Cube position. The whacky Time Cube position is really the one that says GR is correct so we can declare with confidence that gravity isn't a force.

In the end I don't expect gravity to be different from electromagnetism and the other forces. There's been plenty of efforts to build GUTs from nothing but geometry in which case nothing is a "force". Efforts from the QM side tend to incorporate "gravitons" as the force mediation particle just like the other forces have mediation particles. It seems very likely to me that GR's "gravity is specially not a force" will end up being an error, in that either all the other forces turn out not to be forces either, in which case we'll change the meaning, or it will be a force like every other. I don't think there's a lot of reason to expect this to be anything other than an artifact of GR being an approximation.
You have that option. It’s called have Yudkowsky run for office.
First, You haven't shown any evidence to support your claim of a flattening of emissions. Nothing in the data would lead anyone to believe that.

Second, what matters most is the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Here is a graph of that, and it's continuing to increase. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

One reason that the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere matters more than emissions is that we could also be reducing the planet's ability to remove greenhouse gasses through things like deforestation. I wish there were evidence to believe we are on the right track, but there isn't any at this stage. There are positive things, but in aggregate, it's getting worse as of this moment, not better.

My evidence is clear, and here. You haven't shown any to support your claims. At this point I can't tell if you are arguing in bad faith, are arguing just to argue, or don't understand the topic. If you don't provide any evidence or sound good faith reasoning after this, I won't reply.

edit: typos
If a third party using your prompts is a significant risk then you're toast anyway.
Mathematician uncovers way to shrink sampling errors in large-dimensional data
For some scientific disciplines, code (software) is not a mass noun. “I wrote a code that does processes the data files” is acceptable, even though it sounds wrong to my ears.
Adding more housing is like adding more highways. It just replicates the problem.
Failures are just successes waiting to be discovered
The workflow you get with this is that it helps you to think about what you really want answered with the prompt.

For example, latest try had this initial prompt:

> How can I create collisions in Bevy and Rust?

After 4-5 messages back and forth, I ended up with:

> What is the most efficient method to implement 2D collision detection for a large number of constant-radius circles randomly distributed in Bevy and Rust without using third-party tools, focusing on detection only, without any unique properties or attributes affecting the detection process?

Which is much more explicit and targeted to what I initially wanted to do, but didn't write. It ended up helping me implement a Quadtree solution which I don't have any experience with before, but overall it went smoothly.
Have you ever driven a manual Miata?
This ideology of “replace corrupt institutions with tech” is at the center of SV ideology going back to the 70s. It’s as flawed then as it is now, but it occasionally has wins.

There’s a great documentary on the long history of this idea in tech, both wins and losses, called “all watched over by machines of loving grace”. Brilliant documentary.
>The correct solution here is to completely ignore those people and keep ignoring them.

Until they attack you with the law. You'll quickly find out that ignoring judges leads to bad outcomes.

Now, whatever they say could be total bullshit, and you could defend yourself and get paid damages, but not defending yourself at all is how you end up in deep debt or prison.
I came here to comment on that paragraph. The training data, the model parameters, the prompt, the source articles and headlines—all of these add to the bias in a system like this.

A news site saying "we eliminate the potential for bias" is like an airline saying "we eliminate the potential for accidents". It's a massive red flag and should warn you to stay far away. Bias can be controlled, but never eliminated, and anyone who thinks they've gotten rid of it is either lying or hopelessly naive.