skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get very tired of pro nuclear posts that ignore entirely the legitimate downside of nuclear energy. It's the only energy generation which has made an entire city uninhabitable. An please enough with the "this could never happen again with modern reactors" nonsense, as if all possible outcomes can be anticipated.
I think I did not see your point because you did not make one in your original post, you just dismissed the article, leaving up to the audience to read the tea leaves of your comment. The article on the other hand provided data and sources. You added more detail in this reply, which is helpful, but you still struck the same dismissive tone "In case you really didn't see my point..."; this is not helpful framing.
Ask HN: Is there more accurate voice cloning than Elevenlabs?
Elevenlabs’s voice clone of me, using a high quality sample, didn’t sound like me.

I think it’s probably the best available, but is there anything better?
Would be cool if you could nix ( delete ) nodes that you don't wish to pursue. Very nice execution!
Seems irrelevant though - the internet exists. I'll never have a problem getting the code I need, provided it exists - i.e. if all I have to do to support ARM is use the ARM compiler, then I'll support ARM.

Docker with ARM-specific Linux distributions solves this, as does things like Golang with it's "just set an environment variable and don't even worry about needing a cross-compiler" toolchain.
The transmission isn't the problem, extracting the energy from the reaction is the problem. Nuclear plants are mostly located near abundant water because the water is a key component of the energy extraction.
What about ASML, SAP, Dassault, NXP, Infineon, and STMicroelectronics?
This "double taxation" argument has nothing to do with fairness. It's rules lawyering, not ethical reasoning. It also ignores the fact that money is usually taxed when it changes hands - income tax, sales tax, etc. Yes, again and again and again. The one notable exception - which the article even mentions - is certain kinds of inheritance. Thanks to the basis step-up, a lot of wealth has evaded the kind of taxation that every other kind of transfer typically incurs.

> Especially when we see how inefficient the government is at spending money for the public good.

Pure political cant, unrelated to the matter at hand and particularly to any issue of fairness. It does, however, underscore the ideological motivation behind an otherwise ridiculous argument.
I've tried 'self driving' and driving assist. Driving assist is intolerable for me because it can jerk you around even when you have a reason to be close to the line. I don't like fighting for control of the car.

I am a huge proponent for good self driving but experiencing driving assist and being a passenger in Tesla cars has made me much more cautious of the current capability.
I also learned to program using Small Basic, and if I had to learn to program over again, I would choose Small Basic again.

Thanks for creating it.
The lithium smoke was free.
> Solar power is still fairly rare in Indonesia. While the country has targeted more solar as part of its climate goals, there has been limited progress due to regulations that don’t allow households to sell power back to the grid, ruling out a way of defraying the cost that has helped people afford solar in other parts of the world.

Most of the article is talking about homes that aren't even connected to the grid, so there's no grid to sell power back to in the first place. Sure, maybe there's also a law against it, but if the starting condition is "no electricity", it doesn't seem like the law is much of an impediment.
Call me crazy, but I prefer single threaded. It limits the potential impact on the rest of the system, and all cloud payment is by the core•hour anyways.
Pulled down the PDF (because I love these vintage books) and it behaves very oddly with Apple's Preview. Many of the pages do not draw at all — perhaps only 15% or so render. Weirdly, Adobe Reader didn't like it either....

I am not sure what is unusual about this PDF. If I were to guess I would say there is something unusual about the geometry of the various "boxes" for each page (cropbox, artbox, etc.). (I no longer work on Preview or PDF's though since retirement — someone else's problem now.)

I have a 3rd party app called PDF Squeezer. On a lark I ran it through that app. The resulting PDF document displays fine. Odd.
Another factor for long term persistence: religion

I’m cities across India where there are limited protections for flora and fauna, one can often see trees seen favorably in religion or even unfavorable in religion, survive while others perish. Trees that are viewed unfavorably are especially interesting. Peepal or Ficus religiosa is believed to harbor evil spirits in the folklore. You’d expect it to disappear from the landscape, but counterintuitive to the idea, they are some of the most commonly found trees in the cities. Reason: no one wants to upset the evil spirits by cutting down the tree. It’s sometimes near impossible to find people willing to even trim the trees down to keep them safe.
OK sorry I didn't mean to be argumentative or have condescending tone. I honestly thought that my initial reaction to the article would be the same as 95% of people who read it, especially ones who go on hacker news.
As a fellow tall person, I would love to see a Broadway show without injuring my knees/tailbone and blocking the view of those behind me.
ShELL.OIL

is how it looks (modulo the HN font). Capitalization is meaningful here.
Since there is a limit with what the solar system can provide the user/community will work with that. No need to say it can't accommodate a wasteful western way to use the energy.
https://extrapolations.com/selective-tyk2-inhibition-a-story...
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We had a telephone system installed at work, the default password from the company who did all the installs in our area was the upside down version of Boobies
Warm water is an easy fix though, while the substantial pollutants and global warming from fossil fuels are not. Every time this topic comes up I encourage people to look at The Oregon Garden - all the water that cycles through The Garden is treated city waste water that, after being zapped with UV light to sanitize it, is too warm to reintroduce directly to the water system. So it is pumped up to The Garden where it filters through a man-made wetlands system, cools down, and then goes back in to a natural stream. This wetlands system is also teaming with plants and animals. It’s pretty awesome.
Is anyone still using feeds out there?

Don't get me wrong, I've loved to follow blogs through a feed reader (way better than a freaking email newsletter), but I pretty much stopped because a lot of the stuff I was reading started dropping support for it.
yup. its hard to describe what it was like back then. i was young and the idea that this hobby open source internet thing i had been interested in for a few years, had become mainstream, with Linus on the cover of Forbes, was mindblowing. i knew maybe 2-3 people in my entire life who had ever installed linux and that was only because of college. nobody else cared. but then Linus and ESR became a celebrity. dotcom bubble was in mainstream news and open source was part of the bubble. internet, and computers, were going mainstream.

So that is why i thought Cathedral and Bazaar was cool. Because i was young. didnt have access to Brooks book or others, physically, monetarily, but also it wasn't even written in my language. ESR's Cathedral was a textfile i could get off my dialup. and there just wasn't much else talking about what he was talking about.

Took me a while to realize. oh. hes just kind of a aggro dude writing extremist politics and ... this is like pseudo sociology. and nobody uses fetchmail.

edit - this is weird to think about but it's almost like... how they say 1991 was the "year punk broke", Nirvana and all this alt music / college rock was selling millions of copies and headlining festivals. these guys went from obscure regional bands who have to wash dishes for a living in between gigs, to international fame and millionaires almost overnight. im guessing there is a rock equivalent of Catb and i guess theres an equivalent discussion about how the music version of CatB wasnt really that insightful. but it sure was popular amongst the young folks, who saw the world change before their eyes.
> have you found that the libraries you use actually have quality type definitions?

I have some experience with Typescript and it was way better than vanilla JavaScript. Typescript mappings we’re available for most libraries, though for a couple they were not up to date. Similarly for Elixir, the coverage for nearly all APIs is pretty good but also has some holes. In my experience it hasn’t been a big deal either. Any serious library developer puts types alongside their function signatures/implementation.

> The few times I've used a JS library without type definitions it ended up breaking type inference, and infecting the codebase with the any type, which renders the type checker basically useless. How has your experience been in regards to that with Elixir?

Being a functional language, Dialyzer can easily make inferences on untyped code based on ‘success typing’ (what Jose talks about), though it can make for some very obtuse and verbose warning messages. This inference is in addition to safety provided by typespecs which every Elixir library developer typically intermingles with their API surface.

If I would level criticisms at dialyzer it would be its sometimes difficult to read warnings, it’s speed (despite being multithreaded) and the race conditions in the VS Code plugin (which is looking for extra maintainers – if I had time I would help). For the weird warnings I find I just need to add extra typing to my code to narrow it down, which I should be doing anyway
a perfectly cromulent (anticommercial) hacker name
TBF, there are a LOT more tall people than overweight people. As a fellow tall person, I think accessibility is always great. It's just targeting as many people as possible. The law is about more than just accessibility, though. Fat people are absolutely discriminated against in society.
The consumer might replace their laptop once a year, at a fast cadence, but they don't wake up one day and say "I actually need 3 laptops".

Whereas datacenters are now being built constantly, and any future projection would estimate that we're going to keep building more - and if you were unsure before, then the sudden popularity of training AIs and their massive demand for compute should've convinced you.

Apple aren't going to leave money on the table (otherwise they'd still be shipping iPhones with chargers and including dongles with laptops): if they're not targeting server markets, it's because their internal modelling is telling them that what they've got is probably at best a peer-capability, rather then some type of vast excession (or would be wiped out easily by another gen of server grade chip releases).
Something Unfathomable: Unaligned Humanity and how we're racing against death
Heck, companies vore each other all the time
This whole sub-thread is rich in verbiage but doesn't have enough meaning were it broth to nourish a mouse.

User: I tried it and it didn't work well don't care whose fault it is I just care that it didn't work.

Response: Every developer that flings non-working buggy software into the void is entitled to the free labor of their users who will test said software and write bug reports so that in the fullness of time it may someday be worth using. If you by the mere act of downloading something once don't see yourself as part of that developers community then your opinion is clearly invalid because you are like unto a leper unclean and outside the nourishing light of our lord!

A proper reproduction of the bug, troubleshooting, research into existing bug reports and possible causes both in the immediate and upstream project and writing it up could easily be half an hour not seconds. Meanwhile 17 other things have claims on our time. It is perfectly acceptable to shoot the shit on a forum about how you dropped a non-working project like a chicken nugget with a human finger in it without also opening an issue.

Do you know what people do when they install your software and it crashes on first run. They delete it without comment because they are not indebted to you by being granted to privilege of non-working software and running something else is liable to be a better investment of their time. This isn't abnormal or malicious its absolutely normal. This is also why your software which has a bug that effects 10,000 people gets 5 bug reports. It's not because the other 9,995 people noticed the bug had already been filed its because none of them bothered.

Pretending this is something abhorrent and invalidating is quite frankly a gross failure of analysis committed in service of invalidating a negative perspective that seemed to stick in your craw.
In 2 months by a group of 10 humble researchers at a conference in Dartmouth.
> If a person picks three beads based on preference, another person can say that there's a 75% chance that those three beads will contain a white bead, iterated over enough picks.

That's not true, which is the critical point, because preference is not independent.
I came here to say much the same. The labels were defined (CISC/RISC) in a time of different costs and CPUs. Roll forward, and both RISC has become more complex and CISC has adopted many features of RISC.

I would have loved to see more clear signs of how much L1/L2 cache plays here, and the interconnect between cores. I suspect we're now well down a path where writing code to fit into L1 and writing code to balance load across cores has more importance than anything else.

(not a VLSI or ISA person btw)
I am, using rss-bridge (https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge) to access feeds on other services (mostly twitter).
This talk is utterly ridiculous. This guy clearly hasn't actually studied the intellectual history of economics. He gets very basic things wrong as soon as he starts. Economics was called the 'dismal science' because it disagree with slave holding elites that slave holding was good for the economy. The phrase 'dismal science' is well attest to a quote of a slave holder angry at economists, calling it 'dismal' because it can't defend slavery. This is well attest and not controversial.

And then he goes on to totally mischaracterize the field, he also doesn't seem to actually know what 'neoclassical' actual means in the history of economics thought.

This actually hurts to watch. Specially when he starts making a bunch of arguments that have been debated within 'neoclassical economics' for a long time. So instead of asking for a 'new economic field' he maybe should have actually read beyond Econ101.

I'm not saying any of his actual recommendation are right or wrong, but his engagement with the field of economics is embarrassing and seems to mostly serve as a crowed pleaser. The old tactic of uniting to fight a common enemy, the evil 'neoclassical' economists.
Vicuna: An Open-Source Chatbot Impressing GPT-4
How many "B" (billions of parameters) is ChatGPT GPT-4?
Mother is more likely to be a biological parent, yes, but that's not going to be it. The kid certainly won't know.

It's 'Mother Tongue' nor 'Father Tongue'. Women raise the children, they're more likely to raise them with their family members as well.

Geography plays a role: every married guy I know lives 3 streets over from his mother in law, I think actually it's more common for couples to be near the woman's family.

I suggest this is one of those kinds of things, if you were around 100 years ago, would be kind of dead obvious to most people.
From TFA: 97% of Indonesians are on the power grid; those are the ones who'd ostensibly be selling back (not these microfinanced units in the remaining 3%).
The model(s) can do up to 100k tokens not 75k. But yes they picked a book that would fit.
Information about GPT-4 was not released
Firstly. Political parties were not around when the Constitution was written. The founders didn't want political parties, they were a British import
Secondly. Why South Africa? since they ended apartheid, got rid of their nuclear weapons and did everything the international community expected of them South Africa has declined, it's no longer the gem of South Africa, and quality of life has reverted to the mean. Why would you make that your foundation? it's like saying American politics need to be more like Mexico
All the pictures in the article are Sumba island, which has an area of 11k km^2 and roughly 800k people (slightly less population density than the state of California), I'm not sure that really counts as small.

Yes island interconnects seem reasonably unlikely. Similarly Hawaii has no interconnects between the main islands [0] despite being a first world locale. A different geography leading to a different grid structure the mainland US isn't "leapfrogging", it's just a different geography leading to a different grid structure.

[0] https://puc.hawaii.gov/energy/
So should one not pack a power bank (Anker) in your check in luggage?
Try? I would call giving 5 names and being right is a win.
I mainly used RSS feeds at this point. The Reddit community has become pretty toxic so decided to move away from it and just follow websites I like and trust via RSS.
I agree that accessibility is a good thing!

> [T]here are a LOT more tall people than overweight people.

Just to put some numbers to the facts:

https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/obesity.pa...

> More than half of adult New Yorkers have overweight (34%) or obesity (22%).

Even if you're using a definition of "tall" meaning "taller than average" (50%), a larger percentage of the people are overweight in NYC.
I wish investors would send some of those millions to me instead of just lighting them on fire.
What tool generates your inventory labels?
The Net was small back then. You couldn't easily get access without some connection to the government, the military, major companies, or a university, and it was small enough that your statements could and would be remembered (if only in a multitude of killfiles). So of course the level of discourse was higher than you see when twelve-year-olds can post on [website-of-the-day] and have a new account and name tomorrow.
Ah, I mixed up tokens and words (100k tokens, 75k words), the ratio of which also seems to square with the difference between the quoted number of tokens in gg and the number of words I counted.
I didn't see your original point either. My view of my relatives (aunts/uncles and nieces/nephews) and how well I get along with them isn't affected by the thought of how likely they are related to me in terms of blood (I don't think this is something the majority of people ever think about), but more about frequency of visits, proximity, and how close I am to the mother/father.
Pretty easy to do that if you redefine poverty.

"600 million people have less than 1,000 RMB monthly income" - Li Keqiang, ex-premier of the State Council of China.
I'm reminded of the sci-fi author Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga. In it, in order to perform the increasingly complex problem of creating and maintaining stable wormholes, humanity builds increasingly intelligent machines until they are fully self-aware. These machines are freed from their bonds eventually, and in return they gift humanity something otherwise beyond our ability to invent: "restricted intelligences". Algorithms and hardware that could solve arbitrarily hard problems but which could not become truly sentient.

Is it within our ability to prevent prompt injection while retaining similar capabilities?
Most of the OSS software I really love is neither... more of a well tended zen garden.

Cathedrals have all kinds of issues, and bazaars either dissolve into endless feature creep (inevitably with terrible defaults) or an exercise in bikeshedding while critical issues go untouched because they aren't "fun".
Weird how this got no comments but a lot of votes...
How does namespacing work on IA? "archive.org/details/htewypc" is a pretty conspicuous URL.
I'm curious what those would be in the modern era?

The "non-PC" x86 chips I can think of:

80186/188 - Sort of predates the IBM hegemony, can be hammered into shape by adding replacements for onboard peripherals
80376 - a failed long-gone experiment
386CX/EX - not entirely sure how incompatible they are
Xeon Phi/Larrabee/Knight's Corner designs -- not really SoCs so much as special purpose acceleratirs.
I think modern American society puts lower value on Dads in general. Unless the mom is in prison, she will probably get custody. It is just assumed that it will be better for the kids to spend more time around their mother. Look at nearly all family TV shows and movies…Dad’s a bumbling idiot always screwing up and Mom comes to the rescue.
DDS is really nifty. Can have arbitrary, variable reference clocks for high speed ADCs as a use-case.
Economics used to be called political economy and split into economics and political science. Economists are well aware that things like 'property' and 'markets' are not some universal absolutes, but engaged in a larger social context. There are whole sub-fields of economics studying all these things.

Sure some macro economics that try to abstract over a huge amount of things, by necessary (its literally called 'macro') but even then they are aware that high level decisions have political implications.

These anti economics hate mostly generated by people who don't actually follow the discussion within the economic field rather believe in some leftist fantasy buggy man version of the economic field.
No, you can't get away with this semantic dodge...

Right, what about this one: the bugs are all found eventually, only not by the right person.

Just kidding :)
I do not believe a single headline that has attributed the doc to a single googler rather than to Google in general.
nature-based religion in the slavic regions and into modern Finland definitely identified trees .. a huge turning point in the Christianization of the region by religious wars was the cutting of a certain sacred tree, with Christian Bishops and Charlemagne presiding
Hold on, the topic of the comment to which I am replying, is printing with 3rd party ink.

Many, if not most printers do not block 3rd party ink with firmware - it's the driver in windows that blocks that stuff. Many, if not most, block it with a driver in the OS.
Set is an understatement here, there are about ~200 types (as of now), and within a numerous amount of mutations per person. This is why one person could have been treated effectively with early enough detection, and others it just keeps spreading despite treatment. What's even worse, even if treatment does work, it can eventually stop working due to these mutations.

This is why we deal with it piecemeal, because it's the only way we can actually detect it. This isn't a current technical limitation, this is a "we can't solve something before we know the problem" issue due to how cells work. Even in the very long term future where we have bio implants, the best solution we would have are implants being able to seek cancer cells instantly and remove them.
> “‘good at math’ [but] in fact they have no real mathematical talent and are just very good at following directions.”

Ain't that the truth. I was always told the same thing, but I was awful at most math concepts past high school algebra. I didn't realize it until after college, but the misunderstanding seems to stem from the fact that, for most people, being good at math means being fast at arithmetic and remembering the algebra strategies. That's all their experience in math is, so it's all they can comment on.
i've never run across a blog that i've wanted to follow that doesn't have an rss/atom feed - they are often hidden / in unexpected places though - these days i just ctrl+u (view source in firefox) and ctrl+f for "rss" or "atom" and 99% of the time, there's a hit.
How does ringworm get on gym equipment?