skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the energy cost of transporting millions of tonnes of pre smelt raw ores (Bauxite) to Bhutan (from, say, Australia)?

I prefer to keep total energy costs down (wrt to multiple factors including C02 production) and this isn't as straightforward as your comment implies.
>People are murdering less than a few decades ago

Check your stats, this is quickly becoming outdated. Murder rates are back up where they were in the 90's in many parts of the USA.
> Then a constitutional crisis there shall be. Words don't scare me

In what universe is constitutional crisis, the suspension of the rule of law, not cause a default? You’re trading a minor infraction for a major one. This is a false economy.

> Congress can impeach and convict if it's such a big deal. Until they do

Police can arrest me if murder is such a big deal.
Can it fetch me a beer from the fridge?
The Snooze button on iOS alamrs can be turned off by editing the alarm. I never use Snooze, so I turn it off for all my alarms. All that's left now is a nice Stop button.
Are you open to full-remote?
Police and emergency vehicles do it all the time. And sometimes, you get the terrible job of being an emergency driver.
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Im a software developer with experience in backend development mostly helping startups build their businesses and products.

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I was hoping to see some discussion of policy proposals and their pros and cons. Nope. Just another rambling news-style article. I think my experience with ChatGPT has changed what I expect in terms of information consumption. I’ve never liked the traditional journalism format; I’m more drawn to a well organized table of contents. If I want a freewheeling unstructured narrative, I can watch drunk history. Do others feel this way (about wanting better structured information, not inebriated content providers).
How does it embody stealing focus when this design goal is specifically about focus?

"Focused.
The clutter we take for granted in today’s operating systems can be overwhelming, especially for folks sensitive to stimulation. Mercury is respectful of limited bandwidths and attention spans."
Standard marketing copy does not have the word “speculative” in it because it’s not… speculation
I don't know why you people are so touched about somebody's attempt at redesigning an OS.

Here's the thing: You are not the target audience of this OS and you are by no means required to use it.

In my opinion, this is a solid attempt at creating an operating system for non-techies. Way fewer concepts to learn, way easier interaction.
The USA is the richest country in the world by a long way. How exactly is it suddenly becoming a 3rd world nation? I see this kind of hand wringing often from Americans, and I find it puzzling.
> President writes the budget

The President proposed budgets. The House and the Congress have the power of the purse.
Hello, I'm Garrett.

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I am a reasonably long-time "coder" that waited way too long to actually get serious about becoming a job-ready software engineer. I would be looking for junior positions, but would bring more to the table than the average boot camp grad. I am enthusiastic about learning new technologies and am capable of doing so with minimal guidance.
At the very least, if you get a second opinion that's different from the first, and it turns out to be the correct one, you should be able to get your money back from the first doctor.
Transmission loss can actually be reduced to zero, if voltage is infinite (or super conductors were used). However, the important part is the installation and operational cost of a high voltage line-- which is definitely non zero. For a small enough economic value of a far enough away stranded power source, installing transmission lines would not be economically rational. It is a bit like saying that every house should have 10 Gigabit internet. The technology is there, but the capital expenses are not reasonable for ubiquitous deployment.
Let's say, for some unexpected idiotic reason, ID age verification becomes widespread for more than just porn. Wouldn't that be the first thing people than start generating via midjourney and similar AIs? Fake ids to pass age checks?
How does AI generate the flashcards?
How Genetically Related Are We to Bananas? (2017)
its also only the first of the month, and a holiday in many areas.
There are many of us who just don’t care about mass surveillance.
Cmd + D > Fuzzy search

... or whatever your OS application search is
Show HN: I built a ChatGPT plugin to fetch token prices
It's just ridiculous. The author even stated:

> Compare that to looking at a typical chat interface. The only clue we receive is that we should type characters into the textbox. The interface looks the same as a Google search box, a login form, and a credit card field.

And Google is one of the most used tools. Probably more used than pen and paper today.
It played a big roll in making photovoltaics economical and boosting wind. Today more energy is produced worldwide with renewables than coal or nuclear.
There's something about being first that gives a pioneer a great head start that can't be matched when it comes to considering the implications of their groundbreaking work.

Even if they're too busy doing the work, they're still thinking about what it would be like if it performed successfully, and it does seem to always take more retrospection before a leader can fully raise their head and more carefully consider unintended consequences.

Early success can give the impression that future efforts have difficulty being as meaningful, but also realistically after that the successful individual does not need to struggle to prove themself any more the way the less-accomplished would be expected to do.

Then there's seniority itself, and maturity levels that can not be gained any other way.

Beyond that when retirement is within easy reach you don't really have the same obligation to decorum itself as you would earlier, in order to actually maintain the same desired level of decorum.

Dr. Hinton seems to do a pretty good job of comparing himself to Oppenheimer.

I don't see how anyone else can question his standing more seriously than that.
> biogas

If your objective is to eliminate carbon emissions, this won't do that. I'm not a purist though, if a small amount of natural gas or biogas needs to be burned at peak load that's not a huge deal.

> Batteries for intra-day storage

What do you do when cloudy + no wind lasts for much more than a day (as can happen in winter)?
It's slang for urination and sometimes, slightly less frequently, a penis. Tends to be used more by children.
Gentrification at its best
I've got a (not very) funny story I'll share on HN once I've done the write-up
As a member of the church that also served a mission in Russia, this all checks out. Putin's government and the Russian Orthodox church were incredibly brutal towards outside religions.
Human-specific gene increases size of primate neocortex in the fetal marmoset
Very cool. But the version you shared doesn't allow screenshots upload
GPT makes learning fun again
It's an industry nonetheless. Would it be as prominent if such a system were not in place?
I suppose the camera would have a great shot to prove this heroism, and if you couldn't get dismissal for the ticket under these extraordinary circumstances, you'd be one gofundme away from turning a profit from the outrage/sympathy legions.

sorry about your friend's friend.
No. These areas were not flooded overnight. It took many years. Any valuable items would have been taken as people moved ahead of the very very slowly rising water. Your chances would be little different than finding gold randomly on dry land.
If you dont really have budget constraint. You could try compressing the transcript by sending it few sentences at once. You would need some sort of dependency parsing to check for the splits. Ask GPT to compress it. Keep doing that till you are under 8k tokens. Finally input the overall compressed transcript.
I’ve avoided several collisions by making the snap decision to go ahead and run a stale yellow (knowing I technically was running a red). Some maybe warranted a moving violation if I’d been pulled over, and I’d (erm) cop to that if it were the case, but these cases have all been distraction by trying to avoid other driving dangers. Others were straight up design failures I couldn’t avoid if I’d tried, usually lights timed to make stopping impossible. In every case, I’d rather run a light than smash vehicles together to follow the rules.
2,202 deaths from evacuation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
False dichotomy much?
> slightly

Pardon me, but LOL. While there are other factors, none of them can account for such a vast per-capita increase. My health care premiums tripled since Obamacare started, even though I cut back the coverage quite a bit.
The reason for the observation in the first sentence (which I agree with) is the second sentence.

Lack of pressure to change something is absolutely a reason in and of itself. How could the system be changed to avoid this?
no, you wouldn't.

you know where the water is coming from. you know it's water.

oh. they don't need the fancy machine to interface. it's remote. they reply. you don't know where it comes from, either. or who.

trust me. you don't want to know what it's like.
This is why I use Google Drive which comes with 15GB of free storage. Even OneDrive has 5GB of free storage.
I think there’s a major difference though. You can understand public key crypto at varying levels of complexity because it is a topic created from first principles. Any sub-topic within the umbrella of public key crypto can be explored further. In this sense the knowledge is like a large program.

Neural networks aren’t like that. The whole thing works together simultaneously to derive a result. So I’m skeptical that there is a high level explanation other than “it’s doing it’s best to approximate the data it was trained on” which is not that useful.
The plan for German energy independence is renewables. There’s a lot of coal that was now decided to stay in the ground. Also the coal mine of the article was decided to be closed later. The only fossil infrastructure being expanded is for liquid gas import to replace Russian gas imports.
Good read:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4598574-inflation-update-fe...
Medicare and Medicaid started up in 1968.
OS design is in an interesting place right now.

I feel like it's impossible to have a device experience that caters to everyone.

The vast majority of users don't consciously register that they are using a computer with an operating system. Most don't know there are differences between tablets, laptops and phones. Most don't understand the concept of a file or a folder - "photos" are in "iCloud" and "documents" in "google docs", etc.

An OS for them, laptop or mobile, is something like iOS or Android (or the demo in this post). The spanner here is compatibility. I'd wager if Android or iOS could run Windows games/apps and fit on a desktop/laptop form factor, this would suffice for almost everyone. The iPad "Pro" is an example demonstrating the potential of this concept.

The non power-user professionals who use their devices for productivity purposes like spreadsheets, document writing, etc would need something that lets them multi task, wiz around and organise/optimise their workflow. Something like Windows 7 or MacOS. Something that doesn't get in their way, maximises the use of their hardware, is reliable and predictable.

The power user, administrator and developer are either agnostic or never happy (I fall into the latter category).

I want the Windows 7 with the classic theme experience on top of a Linux OS that features MacOS workspaces-per-monitor, with iTerm2 and where the start menu search is as good as Spotlight - but with extensions. It needs to be compatible with Windows games and where applications behave reliably, without jank.

My dream operating system is a spartan productivity workhorse born out of a vaporwave fever dream - and no designer in their right mind would ever sign off on it (I'd be willing to forgo the classic theme).

At the end of the day, I feel like we can't cater to everyone with one UI and the OS vendors are trying (and failing) to do just that.

Windows 11 is a dumpster fire and MacOS is increasingly hostile to the experience of power users. They gotta stop fooling around with "one OS for everyone"

What we need are real differences between "Windows 11", "Windows 11 Pro", "Windows 11 Linux Spartan Edition"
Updates and deletes in ROLAP dimensional data models are usually performed via explicit ETL jobs, not triggers nor particularly update/delete cascading triggers.

When a customer record is deleted in a source system, you typically do not want to delete (much less cascading delete) it from a downstream ROLAP data model because you are trying to maintain a history of past activity for reporting and/or audit purposes. Instead you might soft-delete a customer dimension table record and/or mark its effective end date as having occurred.

If a customer record is updated in a source system, depending on the design you want to implement for your use cases and history you want to retain or ignore, you may choose to update the corresponding "current" customer row in your customer dimension, or you may, for important attribute changes, update the end-date of the current customer row and insert a new second row with the latest set of customer attributes and new record effective dates (typically putting the effective end date in some distant future date).

In a standard third normal data model for an application, cascading update/deletes enable you to maintain a consistent state across a series of tables. In a dimensional data model, you typically just ensure that any dimensions get updated first, then perhaps outrigger/snowflake dimensions, then your core transactional tables. And transactional tables are rarely updated; usually you try never to touch them and you use ETL jobs to update the dimensions.

There are different styles/techniques for different use cases. At the risk of side-tracking you, a couple random points of reference:
https://www.kimballgroup.com/data-warehouse-business-intelli...
https://www.kimballgroup.com/2008/08/slowly-changing-dimensi...
https://www.kimballgroup.com/2013/02/design-tip-152-slowly-c...
It’s funny when we create fiction about 4d chess being played, in face of pure chaos.
This “flow chart” can exist now on the the back of well prompted large language models. Not that there isn’t potential for huge headaches for all parties (hallucination around medical topics will be really dangerous) but doctors should be prepared for far more sophisticated self diagnosis coming their way. I think the safest use might just be for lay users to get a third opinion and sanity check doctors.
Wow the CTO of OpenAi seems to have ~1 yr of hands on engineering experience, followed by years of product and people management, That’s unexpected. I thought the CTO was Brockman.
Is there a well established python stack for load testing and profiling? Like, I would like to load test a python web application, then use some analysis tool to understand what part of the stack is eating the CPU cycles and/or RAM.
How is an AI-generated profile picture going to circumvent an ID lookup? States aren't considering facial recognition for age verification; they're going to require affirmative proof in the form of a state or federal ID that can be looked up.

(And note: on a policy level, this is fundamentally different from your neighborhood's bar having a conveniently broken ID reader: an online service can't meaningfully claim to lack the connectivity needed for ID lookups.)
Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design (2018)
More often, cars at a red light need to clear a path ASAP for emergency vehicles approaching from behind. The cars at the front of the line have nowhere to go except past the intersection, running the light.
Photo of phallic iceberg off Canadian coast prompts merriment
You might not need a CDN
Lots of messy things at that time. For example, it was legal to kill a member of the church of Jesus Christ (i. e. Mormon ) in Missouri from 1838 to 1976. Doesn't make it right, but there were a lot of difficult relationships

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Extermination_Order
I would argue that it's imperative you should also widen your horizon and recognize you are viewing human history in too narrow of a lens (mostly post-victorian era).

The poverty statistic is one that gets thrown around a lot, but it's abysmally low still, and due to how our modern societies place far greater importance on money than any civilization before, this paints a much darker picture of our current timeline. This wealth inequality is also unavoidable, you cannot relocate elsewhere and forage, that land is already taken up by a corporation.

One might believe all civilizations were just as unequal, but they really weren't. Those that were restricted by land had far greater levels of inequality than those by labor[1]. This is crucial because we have created a modern hell, in which no amount of labor will give you wealth, you need land to accumulate wealth and most people do not have that when we are still judging "poverty" based on "$1.25". We make ourselves feel better about our modern life, but have we really advanced past dancing for our superiors' entertainment?

Sometimes when this is discussed, people might feel this is an ungrateful perspective, but I argue the opposite: you can more vividly appreciate our ancestors and their lives for what you do not know of them, and to demand better of our lives instead of settling for these abysmal statistics.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ab...
I wouldn't mind paying the ticket if I thereby avoided an accident or got someone to the hospital in time.

I'm merely pointing out these absolutist statements are wrong.
Perhaps depends on your definition of “violent crime“ or what you are including. Armed robbery, for example, is a violent crime, and SF is in the top 20 cities in the US for that crime.
> It seems that all you are saying is that GPT is not AGI and doesn't have human level of understanding and reasoning. No one disagrees with that.

No, I'm saying that LLMs perform what is essentially an amazing, really hard to understand party trick that happens to be so good it is actually useful. They may be indicative (surprisingly) of how a lot of actual human speech production happens (or may not), and if so, that's really good to discover. That this is surprising represents a bit of a failure of our imagination, but it also leaves untouched the parts of speech production that don't use this sort of process.

Like actual reasoning.
>The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out of Crimea for good.

yikes. Nato is anti-democratic and destructive, but i wouldn't go this far. this is just one of Nato's many campaigns against peace and the rule of law.

surrounding, containing, harming, weakening, and ideally destroying Russia is the ultimate goal, but the US has already largely achieved its aims -- mission accomplished.

we're already onto doing the same to China. India is not a threat to US domination yet, and presumably won't be anytime soon.

US/Nato violence and coercion around the world will continue until the US population decides to put up a fight.

We're all going to pay for this war a million times over with the global warming it's accelerated. Spring is here and it only gets more fun from here on out.
You can't just leave it at that and not get on a throwaway and whistleblow.
To me, this is more like UX design than OS. Or I have a big misconception on OS and UX.

Anyway this approach is interesting if this could be implemented.
Yes, don't get me wrong, we should incorporate the externalities of all package manufacturing. Hell, all manufacturing generally. I think if you manufacture it, you should be responsible for disposing of it.
Most people mean that the gini coefficient is too high, not that it should be zero. Income/wealth inequality is a floating point scale somewhere in the range of 0..1 and neither extreme is likely to be possible or optimum.

But that is a fucking mouthful which is why normal humans just say things like 'wealth inequality is bad' -- until the internet's favorite pedantic muppets show up in the comments demanding clarification.
That's not how energy markets work
Yeah, like get this, when the world is turning to shit because of climate change and we're forced to live underground like rats, we can all collectively hallucinate what the world used to be like. It'll be grand. You'll be hallucinating, I'll be hallucinating, the AI'll be hallucinating too.

"His older work was much better," ChatGPT will proclaim. "... what older work?"
You'd probably like Axios where the journalism is presented in bullet points.
nice. How I integrate in my discord channel?
> You've conveniently excerpted the article to avoid showing that it wasn't two thefts randomly scattered across four decades, but four decades without theft and then two thefts that have just happened.

But the parent said just that in the third paragraph:

> does 2 thefts in a week, after 40 years count as a spree?
Yup.

As always, use your best judgement rather than blindly following rules. This is also why cops, prosecutors, judges, and juries have discretion about applying the law, because the law simply cannot be blindly applied.

(Which is why I object to mandatory sentencing laws.)
Eh, demagogues do it all the time, talking about how undisciplined people have become, even going as far as saying deliberately offensive things or curse words on national TV, and yet they get popular support all the same.

People aren’t necessarily proud. They just have their biases and they would love for a certain type of person or entity to berate them.
Another approach (which I'd love to see others pick up on) is treating the client as a dumb proxy to the server. This is the philosophy I'm embracing, and it's wonderful!

If you buy into the philosophy that the UI is a deterministic function of server state and ephemeral view state (ui = f(state, viewstate)), then the core question is medium.

With browser, embracing HTML is the only sane choice for business. As such, the function at hand needs to convert those two state objects into a blob of HTML. This is the classic HTML template problem.

However, if you treat the state(s) as streams, then you'll be where I am at in building a differential HTML engine. I'm calling this first (big) version: RxHTML ( https://book.adama-platform.com/rxhtml/ref.html ) and it uses my modified JSON delta format ( https://book.adama-platform.com/reference/deltas.html ).

The spiritual design question is what minimal things does HTML need with reactive data binding.

It's pretty awesome to be able to debug a user experience by having 4 views up at once, and then see a real-time update on all 4 views at once.

The tech at this time is beta quality, but I'm working through this as I build a real SaaS for everyday people. I'm having a bunch of fun especially as tailwind dramatically simplifies the styling.