skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A half-life of a few seconds and it will probably decay before it gets near a human.

A half-life of thousands years and it will give out it's energy so slowly you will probably be more worried about it's toxicity (e.g. plutonium).

The most dangerous ones are generally those that have half-lives of days or weeks. That is long enough to get into a human body and give out a lot of it's energy. The is particularly the case for elements that are readily absorbed by the human body (such as strontium which replace calcium IIRC).

On that basis radioctivity from sodium probably isn't too much of a threat. I would be more worried about it's reactivity.

(not an expert on this, but did consultancy for the nuclear industry some time ago)
Powering the US without emitting CO2 generally requires either (1) lots of new transmission lines to share wind/solar between regions, or (2) lots of nuclear so we don't have to.

> Direct current (DC) is the worst kind of power type for long distance transmission.

AC was traditionally used for long range transmission because a transformer can easily increase or decrease the voltage. Transmitting DC is actually more efficient, but it requires modern semiconductor technology to generate the voltages necessary.

> My understanding is that solar and wind generated power has shown not to be consistent enough and too localized

That's why we would need transmission to make it non-local.
not every language uses i++.

increment operators are a language design antipattern anyway, not some fundamental knowledge.
I doubt that the world was actively preventing consumer vehicles from driving on existing infrastructure. It seems like the same people who are forcing the change over to electric vehicles are also actively working to reduce the presence of vehicles on the roads.. I don’t believe they are operating in good faith.
Right? Imagine, having the full benefit of hindsight, and still responding to such a massive opportunity by grumping that there’s no way it could ever work!
Some more on this here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_producer_responsibili...
You don’t even need JavaScript. CSS has Hover attribute and you can use it to fire beacons.
Still don't get it. You would think that they could make a heartfelt, transparent blog post and make a path for existing customers to continue their service off of Apple (e.g. web based), possibly at a marginally increased fee given that it will cost the company extra to service them.

As a company founder I'm just horrified to read these sorts of stories.
I think my biggest concerns are:

0) civil unrest from economic impacts and changes in how the world works

1) increasing the leverage of bad actors - almost certainly this will increase frauds and thefts but on the far end you things like, "Your are GPT bomb maker. Build me the most destructive weapon possible with what I can order online."

2) swarms of kill bots, maybe homemade above

3) AI relationships replacing human ones. I think this one cuts both ways since loneliness kills but seems like it'll have dangerous side-effects like further demolishing the birth rate.

Somewhat down on the list is the fear corporations or government gatekeeping the most powerful AIs and using them to enrich themselves, making it impossible to compete or just get really good at manipulating the public. There does seem to be a counterbalance here with open-source models and people figuring out how to make them more optimized so better models are more widely available.

In some sense this will force us to get better at communicating with each other - stamping out bots and filtering noise from authentic human communication. Things seem bad now but it seems inevitable that every possible communication channel is going to get absolutely decimated with very convincing laser-targeted spam which will be very difficult to stop without some sort of large scale societal proof of human/work system (which ironically altman is also building).
Peak utilisation is ~9 pm, best to charge is probably 10 am to 4 pm.

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
Ask HN: Why Do Phamarcies/Drug Stores Suck in US?(Walgreens, CVS, RiteAid, etc.)
Hi Folks,
Lately I have been going to Walgreens quite a bit for prescription medicine and every one of interaction has been at least 45min to 2 hour to get a simple prescription medicine for a toddler. Why does it suck so much?

1/ Why does it take 1+ hour for doctors to send prescription to walgreens 1+ hour?
2/ Why does it take almost 30min in queue (in Bay area, NorCal, CA) to get the prescription?
3/ Why has no disrupted this industry?
4/ Is it lack of tech (does not make sense) or regulations?
5/ How can someone like Walgreens/CVS survive of this long with sub par customer experience?
6/ Is this problem limited to Bay area or is it similar in other US states?
7/ Are there any startups working on this problem to disrupt this industry?
None of the renders from their examples look "photorealistic" to me, rather "sci-fi/cyberpunk themed, high contrasted, high-quality videogame renderer".
Where? I haven't seen anyone upgrading all the powerlines and power stations around my home... I haven't even seen any plans to do so. The local power distribution monopoly says it can't be done unless they raise prices 5x - which nobody wants to pay.

Also, power generation - if everyone wants to charge at night, we need to completely change the concept and stop the move to solar energy in favor of nuclear.
Something like that provides for programatic sms and maybe voice calling. Most likely, using consumer market sims, so tarriff arbitrage is likely a large component.

You might use something like this to do bulk SMS, which could be spam or could be phone number confirmations (like it or not, it's a common activity). If voice works, it could be a backup outbound connection for an office PBX (although, unless you had fancy SIMs, you are going to get the sim's phone number as caller id which is undesirable).

Many countries have been making a2p messaging harder and harder; using a sim farm is a tempting way to opt-out of official restrictions, although it seems like a lot more operational work.
Ice core records don’t go back that far. But some past mass extinction events were believed to be caused by more rapid climate swings resulting from asteroid impacts etc.
(I mean, their title is "Photorealistic Renders for Buildings")
Even with perfect knowledge and mandatory voting, if you are trying to determine the will of the people then giving a choice of (usually) two quite similar parties doesn't really capture that.
The most relevant argument is: this is an encyclopedia, its very purpose is to be precise. And words like "comprise" are specifically about defining the meaning and composition of terms. If the encyclopedia is sloppy with words why does it even exist?

Another point: the era of a human doing rote language cleanup is nearly over; surely an LLM can do better?
Will Robots Inherit the Earth (1994)
Did they do it in every developed country? The US doesn't have massively higher number of cars than other countries, esp. considering its relatively rural character.
Prisma's docs[0] are one of the best I've read

[0] https://www.prisma.io/docs
I don't think these things are in practice separable.

E.g., America's founding ended up being an agreement between well-off white men to limit power to well-off white men [1]. We can't blame "the media" for that. Neither can we blame "the media" for things like America's war over whether black people were livestock [2], or how the only successful coup in American history was about white men keeping that power [3].

We've done better over the years, of course, and we should be proud of that. But an important way to keep leaders in check is to have leaders with many backgrounds and experiences. Because their power doesn't just get used once every election, but every time a word is added to our laws.

[1] https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/elections/right-to-v...

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_189...
I’ve been out of C/C++ development for a long time but seem to remember that precompiled headers were a thing back in the day. That approach didn’t have the name space issues pointed out here. Why are precompiled headers not used anymore?
"ne... pas" in French is nothing more nor less than the correct way of formulating certain kinds of statements containing a negative. If you left out either of "ne" or "pas" in such a construction, people would either laugh, or assume you were some kind of primitive language generator.

It's absurd that English speakers are so tolerant of incorrect usage. It's partly the pedagogic principle that "All shall have prizes" at the school sports day; but it's significant that if you try to correct incorrect usage, you get referred to literary figures such as poets and playwrights that used some term incorrectly, as if people like (e.g.) Pepys are authorities.
Every 'world takeover' plan that an 'unaligned' AGI might do, can just as well be done by an 'aligned' AGI being commanded by humans to do said plan, the alignment ensuring that the AGI will obey. The latter scenario is far more likely than the former.

If your interlocutor thinks there aren't any humans who'll do it if they can, just ask him whether they have ever met humans or read the papers... As one twitter wit put it: "Demonstrably unfriendly natural intelligence seeks to create provably friendly artificial intelligence".

https://twitter.com/snowstarofriver/status/16365066362976747...
Probably meant "crept into". https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/creep-in...
i think that NATO countries are responsible for all their operations.

I also remember that in 2021, a UN report stated that a Turkish drone had killed autonomously to a victim in Libya. However, the company told it was impossible [0]

[0] https://ahvalnews.com/turkish-drone/turkish-defence-company-...
Show HN: PromptFlow – Desktop app for building and iterating on LLM workflows
"ATM machine"? RAS syndrome.
> Our new documentation system is built upon MkDocs, with theming designed to match WebKit.org’s visual style.

Slight omission there that it's using mkdocs-material for the theme, and not a theme they designed. mkdocs-material has built-in support for custom colour schemes which is how they've achieved the WebKit visual style.
> If we did some improvising, it might be useful.

Of course, it was the way back then. I've been told that it's changed a lot in the recent 10 or 20 years at least where I live. But the point is, even if they didn't teach improvising in the official lessons, the curriculum also didn't prepare us to do anything outside that narrow scope.

> playing pieces you dont like much again and again to perfection is not exactly motivating.

Sounds still better than half-assing a lot of pieces and then deciding that that's not it, let's try another one. It would have been nice to have some repertoire in playable shape for once.
is technology now (Ukraine war, ie) mature enough to be able to do that?
What never was so clear to me in that vision is, how the version n actually makes sure the version n+1 is actually faster and better.

Initially there might be the easy option of using more tokens/memory/<whatever easily measurable and beneficial factor you can imagine>. But when that becomes impractical, how will the "dumber AI" select between x generated "smarter AIs"? How will it ensure that the newly generated versions are better at all (if there are no easily measurable parameters to be increased)?
you're right that the essay is poorly argued. it all amounts to a whole lot of words saying basically "i don't like it" and trying to claim opinions as fact.

but also, i agree. i don't like it either. so i'm not sure the whole essay is necessary, but i appreciate the work this person is doing to remove the bad writing from wikipedia.
The first time I ran this game was on a 386/25 with 5Mb RAM.

Played for hours. And I had the PC speaker sounds too. As an Apple 2 owner and user, I have a love for those sounds, and for me they made WOLF3D more fun.

During that long session, I found myself at the end of a long, thin hallway with the knife and a couple health points. Was a dire, grim scenario.

Then I went for it! Rushed up the hallway to face three guards!

I did this round Robin knifing attack, stick one, then the middle, then the other, then the one, middle, other, repeat, until they were gone!

I stood there for a brief moment of disbelief, turned and ran to a nearby cache of supplies and was back in the game, able to finish the level!

And that experience has stayed with me. Simple, yet compelling and immersive gaming at a fine peak on hardware I did not expect to deliver.

Re: 5Mb RAM

One was on the main board, the other four on an expansion. Many programs that required 8Mb would run poorly on 5. I developed software on an XT class machine to pay for the 386 I had cobbled together from the cheapest parts I could find.

I was online with that machine running winsock and WFWG 3.11
I don't think I said it was. I was addressing the specific use cases mentioned. If there's another use case you think is important in searching command line history, feel free to describe it.
Nevertheless, "use" is a better word. Using longer words, when shorter words are available that mean the same thing, comes across as pompous or pretentious.
Gen Z Is Ticked Off About a Possible TikTok Ban. Beware the Fallout
God damn it.

https://xkcd.com/386/

No, it's not a Turing machine - it's Turing equivalent.

Turing equivalent, say it with me: Turing equivalent.

No, it is not the same damned thing. No, my memory pool is not a fucking tape.

If I claimed that a Ryzen CPU is still and Intel machine, I would be wrong (I'd be less wrong than you are, they're a hell of a lot closer than Von Neumann and Turing).

There's a whole lot of nuance in this discussion that you are either unwilling or unable to understand.

Every comment you've left in this thread has shown some misunderstanding of the topic at hand - you might try listening to what people are saying to you.

And no, it's not pure pedantry - the machine architectures serve very different purposes.
Anecdotally, I'd noticed that tea vs. coffee seems to be generational. My wife and I drink tea at home while our parents prefer coffee (what coffee we have in the house is pretty much just for guests and some recipes that require it). Likewise, our siblings and their SOs seem to favor tea. My grandparents also tended to favor tea.

It sort of feels like a generational flip-flop thing to me between tea and coffee.
So you think that AGI is a pre-requisite, a requirement, of unlocking a general, Earth-wide collective super-intelligence of humans?
The post title misses the important "without investment and changes in charging habits". Most EVs can already be controlled to set charging preferences to match lower cost, off-peak charging overnight. However, this isn't the full solution as it can create secondary demand peaks. For example, if everyone in one region has an off-peak rate starting at midnight, you will get a step-change in demand at that time. Midnight onwards may also not be the lowest carbon time to charge as this will change every day as renewables are not predictable. In California right now, charging during the day would have lower emissions Source: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO

Many people are already thinking about this problem, including https://ev.energy. We go one step further and actively control EVs and EV Chargers to match their charging to when the grid is most clean. This may be overnight, but it could also be during the daytime when solar generation is highest. It is better for the grid not to use simple peak/off-peak pricing, but instead create tariffs that reward flexibility and move the exact charging times to best suit the grid.
Definitely less footguns too. The thing that makes me lean towards microservice thinking overall is the abundance of free tier building blocks.

Obviously doesn't scale but aluring anyway
Allow me to quote you back to you. "It’s also not really serverless to begin with, because at the end of the day code is being executed on a physical device that many of us might call a “server” [1]

A critical mass of people have adopted the term serverless. Therefore, the term means whatever they want it to mean, right? No sense in swimming against the tide here, correct?

Yes, words mean what people want them to mean if we're willing to shrug our shoulders and accept the new usage or terminology. That doesn't mean it's never correct to fight against sloppy or non-standard usage in the hopes that it won't be considered standard.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35811741&p=2#35812073
Your second link has the immediate comment "Gpt3 includes dense attention layers that are n^2". So it's not at all unlikely.
Gas distribution is a very different problem from electricity distribution, though. Gas was initially sold at pharmacies and it worked just fine before specialized shops cropped up. You can't have that with electrical grid.
Two weeks ago I would have agreed, but Red Hat had 4% of their employees laid off last week.
Mohit Bhoite's free-formed electronic circuit sculptures
Mohit Bhoite works as a senior hardware engineer at Particle, where he designs and builds their flagship IoT products. He is also an avid maker who dedicates his personal time to building free-formed electronic circuit sculptures. He combines his background in electronics and robotics to create static and kinetic sculptures that convey information fetched over the internet through sound, light, and motion. These sculptures sometimes take on an anthropomorphic form thereby leading the viewer to attach personalities and emotions to them.
One thing I like about this thread is the idea of a sink made of pure zinc as a metaphor for a typical codebase.
I'm interested in this - I've just installed.

Is there a way to import all my existing history from `.zsh_history`? It's a real pain to have to start from scratch.
I live a city where the charging infrastructure matches my description. I do not speak for suburbanites with garages.
You can use “atuin import”

The docs need updating as we support far more data sources now!

https://atuin.sh/docs/commands/import
How does this compare to McFly?

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
> You can't claim that anything that differs from current law makes it inherently unethical

The person you're responding to didn't claim this, and explained in detail why early-stage testing on humans is unethical without reference to current law.
I usually see 'a proton is made up of three quarks'
I’m trying to compare this to mcfly, which does that, and also uses a sqlite db

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
As an aside (not that you endorsed it) is anyone else sick of hearing "tech bro"? It feels like a slur pretty much. I can't take anyone seriously who uses it. As someone who makes art occasionally and commissions artists regularly, when an artist whines about "ai tech bros" it makes me want to use ai even more out of spite.
And use of the suggested (and more correct) alternative "composed of" is more common than both of them combined: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22comprised+o...
It’s much cheaper to feed a human brain and a human body compared to “feeding” an AGI, I’m talking about menial (and maybe not so menial) tasks like garbage collecting. Under capitalism cheaper is generally used as the preferred option.
What do you call the intermediate stage where half of people have one definition and other half have a different one?
Warm water can’t solve as much oxygen, plus there are plenty of self-reinforcing effects that might have already started happening.

Life won’t die, we had plenty of mass extinction, but most of current species do like their oxygen. Also, their shells.
Thanks for pointing out how confusing the pricing page was for developers. I went ahead and fixed that. In regards to the background color, it should come out clear. Depending on your viewer I guess it's white. I can put those features on the road map. Have something similar for videos already, so I presume you mean images.
judging by the amount of money involved: is it correct to say that we now have a space race towards AGI going on between a few big corporations? Microsoft is reported to have invested billions into OpenAI
I'm not trying to discount the article, but why do these things show up on HN? Seems completely unrelated to the primary theme.
I forget if Langchain can do that, but something along those lines will exist if it doesn't already, it's too obvious not to, and too important for the free ChatGPT equivalents which will be popping up over a matter of days/weeks now that truly free versions of llama are coming out.

TL;DR the puck should get there very soon, not just Really Soon Now.
We’d like to be able to also export history, but atuin doesn’t actually stop your old shell history from functioning either

So you could uninstall it, and you won’t have lost a thing
You assume that the new one would replace the original.

It’s digital, both would exist. This simply makes it easier to do something people have done manually since the invention of the photograph, or even prior with print.

It’s the equivalent of scissors or a razor blade but automated. It’s not even the first ML based solution, and doesn’t do anything that we don’t already do every day for advertising or film.
The Cult of the Founders – Crooked Timber
You can, I’m doing it right now
Easy 10k per month in the finance niche with 4k video quality and descent lighting.
Korea build nuclear at scale and it's barely cheaper, still the most expensive form of electricity.
Ted Kennedy, her "chaperon," was male, so it works perfectly. Although I don't think the difference between the spellings is a gender thing, but rather a British/American thing.
So because you don't see anyone upgrading the powerlines by your house that means that there is no work taking place on the power grid?
At this point databases and filesystems should just merge to offer complete functionality as a standard.
In many, many places all over the world every day, just maybe not in your backyard just yet. Your local power distribution company is lying, and if you want to solve a fun problem you could get into the weeds and figure out how to work around them.
> I'm incredibly confident that this scenario never happens.

That's great, but you're talking about a branch of scenarios that nobody here is discussing. "AGI deciding to take over" is not being discussed, rather "shitty people/companies/governments using AGI as a tool to exert their will" is the concern. And it's a real concern. We have thousands of years of human history, and the present day state of the world, which clearly demonstrate that people in power tend to be shitty to the common person.
You need to at least tell us what your backend is.

Have you googled your question yet? Is there an issue with the solutions you did find? Why would you want an external service? You could be exposing private info using external services.
Yes, Cruise cars have enough pose/gesture recognition for this. It’s needed for road construction with flaggers.
It wasn't a problem because if you went on a longer trip where there was no gas, you just took more gas with you. Lack of gas stations wasn't even an issue for gas cars. People didn't just jump in their cars and go on a totally unplanned drive like we can do now.
> It seems to me that it’s really hard to get more than 10-14 GB of VRAM without using some sort of hyper expensive cluster.

Both consumer and workstation (the latter may be cheaper per RAM, but with fewer shaders) 16-24 GB GPUs (RTX 3080Ti/3090/4090/A4000/A4500/A5000), including in laptops, are not hard to find (pricey, but not “hyperexpensive clusters”), and its not until you jump above a single 48 GB RTX A6000 that you need a “cluster”.