skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The other thing worth considering here, is that it is fair; there are benchmarks out there [1] that show other languages may have lower latency in some cases, but the overall fairness of the BEAM scheduler is better, and per above has less traps/footguns.

This is a recurring topic in a lot of engineering problems: optimising for the best average case possible, versus optimising for the best worst case possible. Like e.g. a game that averages 200fps but has occasional dips to 20 fps versus a game that is rock-solid at 100fps and never dips. The absence of dips matters more than the peak performance.
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Maybe they moved to windows servers? lol
Well, nice.

I normally pirate my games to see if they work with my setup. If they do, there's a chance I'll buy them. But having it just work with Steam is much more likely I just pay a few bucks for a game, rather than look for it on a private tracker.
Well one of the reasons that a pinball video game is always going to be easier is that by their digital nature they're significantly more deterministic from a Newtonian physics perspective.

The "virtual solenoids" that control the paddles in a computer game are always going to exert the exact same amount of impulse on the ball each and every time they're activated. Contrast that with your average Addams family pinball machine that has been bruised and beaten have to death, and the flippers are practically flaccid.

The analog nature makes the game less predictable and therefore more difficult for players.
Is love to see us move to a different style of meat production, but very much too the same goals you mention.

The entire model of industrial meat production is unsustainable by design. Animals can be raised as part of a larger system that includes growing most, if not all, if the animals' food on site. Having to plant massive fields of feed crops so they can be trucked across the country to industrial meat farms raising animals in crowded lots and concrete boxes is an insane approach.
Configure a PHP environment on your windows, mac or linux machine

Create index.php and put your content.

Link Jquery and Bootstrap/Bulma/Skeleton css framework

Start with the basics stuff and slowly increment, until you have a working prototype.

Start with the default PHP server: php -S localhost:8000

PHP is object oriented and have a ton of libraries for everything imaginable.
ah, the good ol' regulatory capture.

sam must been hanging out with Peter thiel big time.

laws and big government for you, not for me type of thing.
Looks like it's back up. Still, this seems like an absurd absurd amount of issues recently
> Can't create new branches :(

Sure you can: git switch -c BRANCH_NAME

:)
CO2 Heat Pumps Found to Offer High Efficiency at Low Ambient Temperature
Right, misread your comment. Yes, the article is a bit dismissive, and I think it's a mistake on the author(s) part.
Rust and Nix: Parallels in Complexity Management
In total a land area about the quarter of the size of California was contaminated with over 37 becquerel of radiation due to Chernobyl, including 10,000 farms in the UK alone.

The solitary story was to get people to read the book. The debate is if fission is sustainable for the environment. I talked about contaminated agriculture and how much that was covered up and missing in the statistics — people still living in contaminated land and eating contaminated food today.

“The huge numbers of people” is what I’m concerned about and why I advocate for wind and solar. I’m not in favor of the fossil fuel status quo. The radiation and pollution from coal ash and effects of global warming on agriculture are massive. But that’s not an argument for “fission is ecologically sustainable”, that’s an argument for “even though it’s not, we should still build dams and fission power plants anyways”. Which is a fine argument. It’s just a different one.

A fission disaster or attack on a fission plant can take half of Californias agriculture out of the picture over night.

You can’t say fission and wind have similar risk at the tail ends. Yeah, statistically it hasn’t happened, but the risk exists.

Besides, new fission plants will take 20 years to build and by then we'll have actually clean baseload energy from fusion reactors. This video[0] is from 7 years ago, but it provides an amazing breakdown of the physics of fusion energy. The timeline and physics predicted in the lecture have come to pass perfectly since then, and SPARC is on track to produce true net positive energy in 2025. ARC will be capable of providing electricity to the grid within 10-12 years, far faster than a fission reactor could get online in the USA.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4&t=2414s
I agree. Most orgs will say they want more/better documentation, but their actions (or lack thereof) shows the opposite.
FTA, it isn't LE booting the cars, but private parking enforcers hired by the lot owners.
There was a zoo crossbred elephant. I think Motty was its name. It didn’t survive long after birth. But it shows that African and Asian elephants will breed at least, which implies they’d probably raise a mismatched calf.
Exactly. They want to have AI as a service. If any startup could do it's own AI on the cheap, this would not be possible (or at least not so profitable). They don't mind having other big competitors, they think they can win over big competitors with their marketing and first mover advantage.
What about using the graphic bits from WDL?
https://www.cockos.com/wdl/
Former Audi boss pleads guilty to Dieselgate charges
https://archive.is/aZCOz
If you commission a new plant today it will not produce before 2040. That is the single biggest issue
In 2022 American production of coal generated electricity was down to 854 terawatt hours from its peak of 2,016 terawatt hours in 2007. It's declining even more this year:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=55960

In our March Short-Term Energy Outlook, we forecast the wind share of the U.S. generation mix will increase from 11% last year to 12% this year. We forecast that the solar share will grow to 5% in 2023, up from 4% last year. The natural gas share of generation is forecast to remain unchanged from last year (39%); the coal share of generation is forecast to decline from 20% last year to 17% in 2023.

This is a dramatic decline in coal as a percentage of the electricity mix and in absolute consumption terms.

There's a graph of historical American electrical sources here going back to 1950:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

You can see how the big brown wedge at the bottom (coal) peaked and then declined. Replacing coal was financially attractive in the US because the bulk of coal plants were already decades old by 2007 and starting to reach natural end-of-life. It will take longer for global coal consumption to decline because other parts of the world have built more coal plants in more recent years, and the purely financial breakeven point for plant replacement (neglecting pollution externalities) is further in the future.
Wait until you find out about the sorts of atrocities that are committed in American schools on an almost monthly basis
This is the direct result of the merger of Sprint and T-mobile. They swore up and down to congress they would NOT raise prices on consumers[0]. So instead they turned around and like gangsters would do said to every business in the US sending text messages: "It'd be a real shame if those texts reminders you wanted to send stopped working... Good thing you can instead pay us $40 / month to be sure those messages are delivered."

At the same time At&T and Verizon saying oh snap let's make money on this too and still being pissed about Stir Shaken so to get ahead of it for Texting before Congress forces it on them. This way they can make money on it before it's forced.

[0] https://fortune.com/2019/02/04/t-mobiles-john-legere-promise...
Microgravity surveying is great for this and other geo applications. I know of many geothermal fields mapped the same way to monitor fluid level and steam migration.
Good stuff!
A seperate git remote isn't incredibly unreasonable either - Even if it's just something on localhost in case of scenarios like this one

Github being down for a bit shouldn't disrupt your work flow
We have 3 kids. It’s not hard. Be there, care about what they care about, and treat them like other humans not property.
Here’s their recommendation: “WHO suggests that non-sugar sweeteners not be used as a means of achieving weight control or reducing the risk of noncommunicable diseases” [0]

But this is a “conditional recommendation” that “should be considered in the context of WHO recommendations to reduce free sugars intake and other guidance promoting healthy diets, including WHO guidelines on carbohydrates, total fat, saturated and trans-fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, sodium and potassium.”

This is informed by their findings in ”Health effects of the use of non-sugar sweeteners: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” [1]

The executive summary for that review connects non-sugar substitutes with a low or very-low increase in the incidence of a number of health issues. However, if my quick-skim understanding is correct, the outlook is more positive when using the non-sugar substitutes is compared with… using sugar instead.

Here’s the first paragraph of the “Interpretation” section of that review/meta-analysis:

> The results suggest that, in the short term, NSS use may lead to small reductions in adiposity without any significant impact on cardiometabolic risk. There is suggestion of negative health effects with long-term use, but the evidence is ultimately inconclusive.

(That’s on page 43. The preceding Evidence section and the remainder of the Interpretation lend nuance and expand on what those “negative effects” are.)

0: (PDF, 700 kb) https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1501485/retrieve

1: (PDF, 30 mb) https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1417548/retrieve
I'm in the same boat. Though, I think about it differently; the fact that I can print a case and use the mobo as a headless server is a differentiator for me. I also don't know if it's possible to design an attractive functional chassis that doesn't need iterating.

That being said I'd like to see a recycling program, or some way to reduce the environmental impact from upgrades.
The act is dated 21. 4. 2021. More than two years old.

1.) being a part of the team working on this has to be among the most exciting legal jobs in Brussels

2.) I did not have time to read the entire act, not even sure if I'd understand it, but I'd be curious how much of it is still relevant given the leaps in both tech and especially popularity in the last two years.
I think we should dig the California viaduct deeper. Make it one long lake. Or dig giant water holes all along it. All the excess water can just fill up the holes along its 700 mile length. No idea if it's practical(probably not), but watching all that water flow into the ocean this winter seemed like such a waste.

The WRCB's plan is to store 600,000 acre feet of water which is 26,136,000,000 cubic feet. If we took 500 miles of viaduct (2,640,000 feet) at an average depth of 30 feet and average width of 40 feet ( = 3,168,000,000 cubic feet) and dug it 10x deeper, we'd be styling.

I mean, a 300 foot trench along the middle of California is doable, right?
Could be translated as “OpenAI CEO concerned his competitive advantage may be challenged”
The quoted sentence is about training data, not about the output of the model, they're different things.
How about the auroch? Its extinction is much more recent, so presumably the available DNA is in much better shape.
Isn't it infinitely more efficient than just letting the potential power be wasted? If supply surpasses demand eventually wind farms are shut down. That has to change, IMHO.
Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense to send water directly down a hole without getting filtered at all through layers of earth.
Global executions in 2022 at highest rate for five years – Amnesty
Orogene – JavaScript package manager written in Rust
We touch on this in the docs [0]. TLDR, bundlers are still necessary (for now) to reduce the number of roundtrip requests required before page load (ideally to 1), and in more complex apps to avoid overwhelming the browser with parallel requests. Even HTTP2 can't handle 100k parallel requests for a big app with a bloated node_modules.

[0] https://bun.sh/docs/cli/build#why-bundle
I think the parent is referring to the Apple Neural Engine in Apple Silicon, which aren't widely used today (as far as I know)
GitHub being down blocks all of our CI pipelines, for example.
Woke is a specific ideology that it places every individual into a strict hierarchy of oppressor/oppressed according to group racial and sexual identity. It rose to prominence in American culture from around 2012, starting in universities. It revolves around a set of core concepts including privilege, marginalization, oppression, and equity.

Now that we've defined what woke is, I hope we can move on from this 'you can't define woke' canard I keep seeing.

Woke is no more difficult to define than any religion or ideology, except in that it deliberately pretends not to exist ("just basic decency", "just basic human rights") in order to be a more slippery target.

--

*Side note to ward off the deliberate ignorance of people who are trying to find a way to misunderstand - I've attached some notes on how words work:

1- Often, things in the world we want to talk about have many characteristics and variants.

2- Words usually have fuzzy boundaries in what they refer to.

3- Despite the above, we can and do productively refer to such things using words.

4- We can define a thing by mentioning its most prominent feature(s).

-- The above does NOT mean that the definition must encapsulate ALL features of the thing to be valid.

-- The above does NOT mean that a thing with features outside the definition is not what the word refers to.

5- Attempting to shut down discussion by deliberately misunderstanding words or how they work is a sign of an inability to make productive valid points about reality.
If I was starting a project from scratch, there are three reasons I would go with the BEAM:

- The runtime has so much devops/SRE stuff built right in. Hot code reloading, trace debugging, a remote shell. It's very easy for developers to do their own ops. Check out the book Erlang in Anger for more info.

- The language design (for all BEAM) languages is top-notch. Subjectively I appreciate the functional style of those languages, but aside from that they are also very expressive and have relatively few sharp edges compared to most languages

- Writing idiomatic Erlang/Elixir code means you will be able to have a system that is responsive even under load.

> In a run of the mill corporate Java app, if you experience an exception eg calling another service, unless you're doing something very strange, your app will not stop running, it will just keep error logging those exceptions until the problem is resolved. (whether by the target service coming back online or you send out a fix for the call or whatever) Really the only time an app will outright crash and completely stop is if it experiences errors attempting to boot in the first place, and the correct solution there is to not allow instances that don't respond 200 OK on /health to take traffic. You certainly don't want to attempt restart the system as it won't do any good.

I don't have the time to describe in detail, but I will just say that coming from a Erlang system to a Java/K8s/Microservices architecture, is was surprising for me just how much extra work it takes to replicate things that are built into Erlang.
What's changed about the chassis?
From I read earlier (I did not waste time on this article again) EU rules in the propisal that is not definite are about critical stuff.

I agree that would be idiotic to let some greedy bastards sell some MedicalGPT to us, or PoliceGPT, SurveilenceGPT.

Imagine the MedicaGPT will give you different treatment each time you ask since is not deterministic, or if you change the patient name from Bob to John then it gives you some wild results because test data had tons of hon Smiths in and nobody can explain this AIs reasoning.

So IMO for critical systems we need good rules for safety reasons, for non critical systems we need transparency and if you sell an AI product you should also take responsibility if it performs worse then you advertise. Like you can't SELL me a GPT for schools with a shit disclaimer "it might be wrong sometimes and teach the students wrong stuff, or it might sometimes be NSFW" , IMO fuck this ToS where this giants sell us stuff and take no responsibility on the quality of the product.
Russian Hacker “Wazawaka” Indicted for Ransomware
Github had to move to MS Teams and I bet it broke a bunch of workflows.
This is like saying we should just go ahead and invent the atom bomb and undo the invention after the fact if the cons of having atom bombs around outweight the pros.

Like try turning off the internet. That's the same situation we might be in with regards to AI soon. It's a revolutionary tech now with multiple Google-grade open source variants set to be everywhere.

This doesn't mean it can't be done. Sure, we in principle could "turn off" the internet, and in principal could "uninvent" the atom bomb if we all really coordinated and worked hard. But this failure to imagine that "turning off dangerous AI" in the future will ever be anything other than an easy on/off switch is so far-gone ridiculous to me I don't understand why anyone believes it provides any kind of assurance.
Seems like it’s under-studied (due to anglophone bias in the English language political science world probably) - but comparative political science is a discipline, and this paper suggests it’s a matter of single-member districts rather than the nature of the constitutional arrangement: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0010414090022004004

(I would just emphasize, before anyone complains, that the Federal Republic of Germany is very much a federal republic.)
From Ruby to Crystal: Writing and Distributing a CLI Tool
Are there any plans to enhance the sound quality in future iterations? The 80dB speaker upgrade makes it louder, but the sound quality is still lacking compared to other traditional machines.
But you can open the photos app and look at all the drivers licenses they've collected.
ASN.1 anybody?
Which is especially weird given that pybars3 is LGPL and Microsoft prefers MIT stuff
I've long believed that a market culture of releasing limited game demos increases the quality of games. If someone has the opportunity to play some section of the game they'll be able to judge the game on something other than marketing copy and curated screenshots.

> It could also end up encouraging longer "tutorial" sections at the beginning of games, which you can aggressively optimize to give players a misplaced confidence that their computers can run the game effectively.

This made me wonder about "optimizing the tutorial" for content of the game such that it actually takes the same amount of or less time to play through the rest of the game after. I wouldn't be surprised if this is attempted in some cases and it would be pretty disheartening to see it widespread.
Good lord, this all turned into regulatory capture quite quickly.

Someone update the short story where owning compilers and debuggers is illegal to include a guy being thrown in jail for doing K-means clustering.
My thoughts exactly. It's hard to see signal among all the noise surrounding LLMs, Even if they say they're gonna hurt you, they have no idea about what it means to hurt, what is "you", and how they're going to achieve that goal. They just spit out things that resemble people have said online. There's no harm from a language model that's literally a "language" model.
The concern is about the account that posted the videos being deleted along with the videos.
They Just published this blog post
https://github.blog/2023-05-16-addressing-githubs-recent-ava...
The thread also has an example of ChatGPT claiming to have written one of the professor's own papers.
Yes, growing. It's not that the Voices have suddenly been "platformed" - it's that the field made a bunch of rapid jumps which made the message of those Voices more timely.

Recent developments in AI only further confirm that the logic of the message is sound, and it's just the people that are afraid the conclusions. Everyone has their limit for how far to extrapolate from first principles, before giving up and believing what one would like to be true. It seems that for a lot of people in the field, AGI X-risk is now below that extrapolation limit.
> Hydropower can definitely be sustained indefinitely.

That’s absolutely not what “sustainable” means.

The difference between “renewable” and “sustainable” isn’t a fringe concept. It’s been pretty well accepted for about 55 years now.
Silence from the tech crowd in China? Cases like this have eroded trust in PRC-trained engineers in the US. What's the comfortable phrase? Right: 骗老外
Most of these outages during the past month have hit during European working hours, while most Americans are asleep. grumble

European working hours == Github maintenance window?

F that.