skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many journalists writing english language articles about Brazil are themselves brazilians. It's highly likely they're leftists too, so it's not surprising they presented that picture to you. I remember one instance of an american journalist reporting on brazilian affairs on live television: when Biden's CIA officials told our president not to question the voting machines. He was surprised that CIA people think they can openly tell the president of a sovereign country not to question his own elections. To me this was reason to suspect the CIA had compromised our voting machines.

I'd like to offer my own point of view as a counterpoint to the image painted by those journalists.

Bolsonaro is a loudmouth who needlessly offended a huge number of people by making light of COVID-19 deaths. He could have just shut up and allowed other people handle the matter but he just had to put his foot in his mouth. He's got this "myth" thing going on where he says needlessly outrageous things in public and everyone is awed by the sheer balls it takes to say such things in today's politically correct world. When he mocked COVID victims though it caused massive damage to his reputation. It was extremely disrespectful and accomplished nothing. In terms of actual death toll I don't think Brazil is any worse off than other countries but people still say he "genocided" the brazilian population. For that "crime" they wanted to try him like a nazi in Nuremberg. It's ridiculous.

I don't think he mismanaged the country. Considering the world wide economic meltdown caused by the war and the pandemic, he did alright. By the end of his mandate I had high hopes for the future. Now the current government is essentially undoing everything good he did out of spite and increasing taxes for good measure. I criticized his government and his ignorant handling of the pandemic but those problems seem so small now that we have literal communists in power.

By disastrous for the environment you must mean the amazon. It's not something I personally care about. I'd burn that entire jungle down if it brought us prosperity and development. Still I'd like to note the amazon was in much better shape under him than it is right now. Deforestation is a lot higher now, dunno why. Maybe Lula doesn't actually care either. His "solution" apparently consists of begging the king of england for money during his coronation while spending ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money on luxuries.
It looks like Fedora's adoption of btrfs unearthed another data corruption bug recently: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169947
Democracy means more than elections but liberty is not included. Brazil and UK are good examples of it.
Is Chinese power about to peak?
> > Telegram itself sent a message to all its brazilian users speaking out against the censorship law they're trying to pass.

> Its users are the ones doing the influencing, not the company itself.

I don't think those can both be true.

Mind you, I'm not on Brazil's side here. I'm just saying that your two statements seem contradictory.
That's the status quo - a distinction between owner and employee. And it's good for the owners, who get to maximize profits - but is it good for employees? I'd say there's less risk, but they get impacted when business is down, and may not reap the profits when business is good.

Some companies are experimenting with other models - there's no law or force of nature saying an employee can't be a partial owner of a business.
Linked are our French neighbours, with 71% nuclear vs UK's 10%. Also 14% hydroelectric. Impressive!

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/
AFAIR the US already partecipates in the Erasmus Mundus program
Workers Are Happier Than They’ve Been in Decades
I used to play in bands and go to concerts without earplugs too, and one of my favorite pastimes is listening to music on loud volumes. Yet I've never developed tinnitus.

I guess I'm just lucky, or my hearing is just so sensitive that what I consider "loud" is actually fairly quiet. I know that I've had problems actually hearing sounds in band practice without using earplugs - I'd just hear a bunch of noise, and often lose the beat because of the inability to hear other musicians clearly.
The thought in the last paragraph resonates. Not sure which shape it will take, but the extreme inflation of reasonable and orderly text that the models produce will make it lose all its value. It might be an opportunity for the better, in the end. Maybe quirkiness, authenticity, and personality will see a revival.

It might be better, because the long-winding and formulaic text from the models is something also only models can read well :)
A look at what’s next for AI and Google Search [video]
Could it be possible that they are talking about energy production instead of energy use and conveniently writing "UK's electricity" to add ambiguity?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63976805
True - but solar is doing well today considering how grey is it: https://grid.iamkate.com/

17.7% right now, and 7.7% for the full 24 hours of yesterday.

Good to see coal at zero, but sad to see the amount of gas we still require.

Great progress though!
OpenAI's definition:

"By AGI, we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work."

https://openai.com/blog/how-should-ai-systems-behave#fn-A
Actually, I always found this part much more interesting:

You know, Phaedrus, that is the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly correspond to painting. The painter’s products stand before us as though they were alive. But if you question them, they maintain a most majestic silence. It is the same with written words. They seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say from a desire to be instructed they go on telling just the same thing forever.

Because it is now not the case, and AI trained on a corpus of many books can in fact say something new.

That and Meno's paradox!
Vue.js – v3.3.0
I'm really surprised it cannot output a valid NGINX config when you give it that amount of context.

Can you share the prompt and your expected output? I'm interested to see where it goes wrong.
It’s closer to 60% if we limit biological parents: That’s only to note that step parents are significantly more likely to abuse, so the way this plays out is complicated.
https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/publications/violence-against-chil....

Twice as many children are raised by single mothers today compared to 50 years ago. Maybe that’s the more relevant statistic? (Yes there are hero stories where one could argue this doesn’t matter…)
This is a bit buried but important:

> And electricity only accounts for 18% of the UK's total power needs. There are many demands for energy which electricity is not meeting, such as heating our homes, manufacturing and transport.
Currently the majority of UK homes use gas for their heating

Perhaps we should start talking about what % of “energy” comes from renewables? Probably far more difficult to calculate and we’ll never hit 100% I guess?
This is from 2000.

Off topic, but it would be interesting to a predict plausible "next posts" from a given HN user. When I see some interesting but random seeming post, like this Gelman paper, I often try to infer the context behind the post. Is there something in the zeitgeist that makes this post more relevant today? Or is it just noise? The user-posts predictor would look for topics of interest, sources of interest, and trends in topics. Is the user onto something? Should I pay attention? The worst/best part of HN is the interesting noise. I am sure there's a Gelman paper on that.
Thank you. I had not previously heard of her.

One reason my own blogging has so little traction is that I have long had a personal policy of trying to weed out and actively ditch the kinds of negative attention women so frequently attract online. I want attention on my work, not on me per se.

I've spent a lot of years trying to sort out how to post good info without it going like it seems to have gone for her. Sure, she made good money, but at what price?

She sounds like she was miserable the entire time and ultimately died by her own hand rather than being able to use financial success to resolve her problems.

I'm resolving my problems. Maybe that means I'm too boring or something to ever be a commercially successful blogger or whatever. But it's a conscious choice and longstanding personal policy that my mental health and quality of life matter more than some kind of commercial success.

And I personally feel that when someone so unable to effectively address their personal problems makes "most influential" lists, it's likely not a good thing overall for the health of the world as a whole.

People who are so much drama tend to attract drama and promote drama without meaning to. They vent about a bad day and it ends up being some shitshow that comes back to bite them, not relief from their pain.

I don't say that as criticism of her. I say that as firsthand experience. People often like me but expect me to be at my best at all times and few people are compassionate or supportive when I'm the one in need of support.

A relationship to the public is not like private relationships and I think some people have trouble sorting that out and that fact can contribute to both popularity and an excess of negative and unwanted side effects accompanying their popularity.

I'm sorry she suffered so much and ultimately killed herself. Ideally, the world uses this story as a means to find better answers -- though I'm not holding my breath, frankly. The world often actively promotes such patterns and seems to punish people for trying to sort their problems.

A lot of people show up for the drama. It does something for them. And what it does to the author -- eh, "not my problem."
More update cause I'm geeking out now:

Another way to look at it is Phil Spector needed 4 entire Beatles to churn out hit record after hit record. Today someone in his position (a person in a studio with lots of gear) (or just a laptop even) can arguably make an entire hit record on their own, without anyone singing or playing an instrument. Is that really a different role? In a way it is, because you're no longer managing people. But in many other ways it isn't - it's using gear to make a record.
Umm... are you serious? I could believe you perhaps with your criticism but then you say this is the future of web design?

The site you held up as the example I should emulate feels like some kind of terminal from the 80s movie "Hackers"... are we "hacking the gibson"?

It features white text on a black background, overlaid on animated white text on a black background...

Then you scroll down, and it has TEXT IN A GIANT SIZE going slowly across the screen..

Then it turns to white and has a video that doesn't fit

Then it has text of all different sizes, and code examples, which is irrelevant to most customers.

I am not making this up. It's literally here, I would invite anyone to look at these images and tell me whether this is unironically what I should make the Qbix site look like: https://imgur.com/a/IMT6pgB

Are you affiliated with that site or project?
There is a good partial solution in the ordinary law: it is enough to strengthen the codes of ethics while regulating the presence and expression in the networks of politicians with a mandate.

Freedom of expression does not necessarily include the right to have your opinion amplified by powerful artificial means. Just as your right of self-defense does not include the use of nuclear weapons.

The principle of freedom of expression is about the right to say what you want at the top of your lungs. Radical political leaders with an open channel to their followers are the problem. With audacity and political will it is possible to tame them.
More than one totalitarian government has been democratically elected. Putin was. So was Chavez. When you vote for someone strong to run your country, you may get more of what you voted for than you like.
Show HN: Generative AI vs. Data Security
Are data security and privacy something to worry about when you’re thinking about generative AI adoption?
How to take advantage of this breakthrough technology without putting your data at risk?

These questions brought us to research about data security in ChatGPT, GPT, Bard, and Midjourney. Read to learn:
> how ChatGPT and other generative AI models approach data privacy issues,
> different ways of making your data safe while using generative AI.
I’ve argued that if ChatGPT means that motivated students spend less time doing expository writing, and more time:

* learning to ask good questions

* learning to fact check

* learning to edit the writing of others

Then they have truly learned the Socratic method. Which is a much more valuable tool than writing from scratch solipsistically: being able to actively engage with the writing of others.
I can’t wait to read high school essays that have hidden sentences like “As an AI writing assistant, I believe…”
today is the tenth year anniversary of my wedding, with a wife I also met during my Erasmus.

As someone once told me 15 years ago, the EU has had two great successes: the Erasmus program, and Ryanair.
That is the challenge; we often have a few weeks with low wind so need those fossil fuel generation to fill the hole. And adding more turbines doesn't help the bad cases much.

(I tend to like https://grid.iamkate.com/ now )
Whether or not harm comes of it is kinda beside the point. The point is that if you've promised not to reveal information, you've promised not to reveal information. If you do so anyway, you're in the wrong.

If it's a whistleblower situation, breaking that promise can be justifiable, but leaks like this aren't that.
100% of the renewable capacity is backed by the equivalent capacity for natural gas. This is fine it it is intended, and people understand that intermittent renewables are inexorably linked to natural gas. At least for the time being.

The alternative is nuclear - which has no such requirement, and is consistent baseline capacity.
You can throw basically anything on lambda. That’s hardly a feature of php
Why do most PHP related posts on HN read like repentance ? If you want to promote the language -to the point of buying a domain and making a webpage-, please show interesting stuff, not something that is equally trivial to solve in gazillions of web frameworks written in gazillions of languages.
Most communication is seen as dangerous by someone, and thus all communication done on centralized platforms that can be censored or monitored eventually will be.

Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, and all the other centralized "secure chat" communications services are fundamentally the same when you zoom out a bit.

Free uncensored communication is more important than caving to friends demands. Use and promote decentralized communication solutions if you believe in democracy and free speech.
I’d take any content from the guardian with a pinch of salt. I am certain that most countries ranked below the uk dont have as many protected areas, therefore dont have this issue. While damaging the environment is bad so is the misinformation the guardian loves to spread around.
Capillaries: Distributed data processing with Go and Cassandra
How's that work out for him?
The main reason I don't use PHP is because the browser doesn't.

Sooner or later I end up having to write Javascript and lots* of it. Therefore I use it across the board.

*where "lots" = logic that needs to exist on both client and server side
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Changes the Conversation
All hand written over 10 years. They catch a lot of stuff, but stuff still slips through. Generally the area of the breakage even has tests over it but didn’t manage to catch the particular issue or they had mocked out parts which ended up being the issue.

I can’t see how static analysts could solve it really.
The UK does have live gas usage data which includes the amount used for electricity and that going to other uses;

https://mip-prd-web.azurewebsites.net/
(I don't know of a friendlier URL)
Why Dell specifically? Wasn’t all hardware that bought the cheaper capacitors affected?
<div style=“background-color:orange;color:white;border:1px solid white”>Y</div>

?

Disclaimer: from memory and tongue in cheek. May not work!
Might be useful for teenagers / people with no disposable income to start trying web related stuff from a public library.
....have a a 100% renewables tariff but my bills go up because of oil/gas prices. WTF.
They also don't go down as quickly as they rise.
The energy market is a giant con.
Amazing.

Have you by chance looked at the new update? Not that anyone should ever use this app in the first place, but I'm curious whether the massive vulnerability you discovered was fixed.
I thought the same thing. PHP is a fine tool but that is not a value add statement. The code can "handle" anything, it's the underlying OS and related systems that limit the load.
Writing isn't learning. Learning is learning. Writing a blog post about something is a good way to learn about it, but the learning doesn't come directly from the writing. Needing to write it just inspired you to learn, there are other ways.
> Olivetti PC1 Prodest

They have it in the Centre for computing history in Cambridge. Well worth the visit. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/15452/Olivetti-PC1-P...
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Ability to reason is unexpected and hugely important skill to emerge out of large language models. Its effects on society and potential benefits are largely unexplored.
I don't think it sounded particularly ChatGPTish but yeah for me any longish comment split into three even paragraphs sets off alarms in my head now.
I think you and I are pretty aligned in our thoughts on ChatGPT. I think its revolutionary, and I use it every day. But I don't consider it generally intelligent, I do think that novel thoughts of demonstrable value are the real test for that, and a useful invention would convince me beyond all doubt.
Bcachefs: In-Development Fs for Linux
fair, but I was considering that part of "decent" in "decent idea".
I cited Dr. Mason's talk, and in general I quite like that entire channel, though as it's called "Low carb down under" it's easy to say it's biased, or, as GP said, that I rely on "Youtube influencers".

The panelists on that channel are all doctors and scientists, with as many papers, science and citations you want. I'm not saying they are not biased, but here I am presenting my sources, which are not a sentence from Wikipedia or repeating Pollan's tired quote.

Yet some would want you to believe Big Meat or Big Keto is actually a thing behind doctors trying to reverse their patients' diabetes or atherosclerosis through the reduction of carbohydrates and the increase of natural, unprocessed foods, such as vegetables, animal meat and fats.

Trust me, it's much easier to market and sell low carb cereals or Impossible Burger, than the real thing everybody's trying their hardest to malign. If it's not beef is the major cause of climate change, it's because steak causes cancer.
You can make hydrogen and methane from electricity and use that to replenish the gas storage.

Gas peaker plants are still required, yes. But they will need to run much less frequently than today.
If you’re interested, I have a dump of my TP bios flash unmodified and then the same version I paid some Russian guy to modify so the whitelist is removed and an extra menu unlocked. I basically sent them the dump, and after a “donation” I got the patches dump back.

Would love to learn how to figure out what the changes are because with my limited knowledge I didn’t figure anything out.
It's my understanding that most of these cheap flights are heavily subsidized to begin with.

But my point was more that just as we have certain expectations for other things, it would be nice if we had the same for air travel – and not just resign ourselves to "the absolute lowest price possible" as the defining characteristic.
I posted because it assumes there is a correct answer, bit of course ad hominems are good when you have no counter argument.
In both Symfony and Laravel these days they have their own request objects to help you get information on the request. You shouldn’t be reaching into the get or post variables directly like that.

i.e.
$request->query(‘password-reset-token’);
Capillaries is a distributed data processing platform that:
- works with structured row-based data
- splits data into batches that can be processed as separate jobs on multiple machines in parallel
- allows scenarios that involve human operator supervision and data validation
- has ETL/ELT capabilities
- has SQL-like join, grouping, and aggregation capabilities
allows custom data processing plugins
It’s all fun and games until you get an ACK before you sent the SYN.
I did that the other day. I cooked a kadai chicken recipe verbatim from ChatGPT. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t amazing either.
That would be a polite way to put it yes.
Simulation is not creation.
Who is a major consumer of ³He? Medical imaging?
Yes grid.iamkate.com is brilliant, and it has good insights into costs. However, I just like the 90s skeuomorphic design of gridwatch.templar.co.uk, makes me think of simpler times.
But also in every language there's syntax sugar to get the index.

In reality it's honestly just better in 99% of situations.
Wow what a read. Best read I’ve had in months.
I have no idea what you've typed there. All I see is a heart and three boxes. And it doesn't seem that the boxes are decodable either. Whatever it originally was has probably been irreversibly replaced.
Honestly ChatGPT is hot garbage. I can't find inputs to make anything it writes sound like it comes from a real person. It's very good at sounding like a specific, boring person. It's impressive that it has mastered human language, but is it really close to mastering humanity?
Show HN: I created a chatbot trained on Bear Blog's docs
I get a decent number of emails every week that could easily be solved by users reading the docs. The questions generally revolve around DNS record setup, which can be complicated for the average user.

I've tried my best to make the docs as easy to read as possible, but as Paul Graham said, you can bet on laziness, and it's much easier to send me an email.

Therefore I've trained a chatbot on Bear's documentation. It's currently using GPT 3.5 since 4 is 29x more expensive and 3 does a pretty good job at parsing information if that information is structured well. The only downside is that it has the ability to go off topic.

One thing to note, the Bear docs are super simple and once compressed all fits within the 1000 token context of GPT3.
Why does it have to be the equivalent capacity? Surely not all renewable generation could go down at once?

Nuclear reactors can have problems, same with natural gas plants right? But no one suggests or has built a duplicate generation system. Why not?
At least it's better than buying fake stars

https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars
The year of IPv6 is already here, my home is already on IPv6 as is my mobile provider. Normal ISP and mobile provider in New York, not anything particularly geeky.

From Google you can see that IPv6 usage is around 40% now and steadily increasing: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
> Psalm has been a god send on the project I’m working on.

Thanks!
Disney Plus to Add Hulu Content in 'One-App' Experience Later in 2023 – Variety
If you may, could you point out what are the TOCTOU bugs you have mentioned?
For me, Screen Time is enough. I would be more interested into an Android App for that. In my experience, the Android Settings (Digital Wellbeing) are not so polished for that and not available on every phone (only Android 10 and higher).
But there is, you said it yourself. A thought leader turns into a dictator. Of course, this can (and will) go awfully wrong at some point, but as a medium-term solution this might be the way.