skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, Germany is worse than France. France has 35% of renewables, Germany has 75% of renewables! And they pollute ten times more than France.

26gr of Carbon intensity vs 260gr. Check it out live here:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

Germany has failed, and keeps pushing for its failure so that it can turn into a miracle, and it won't.
Sound like the company has not invented here syndrome. Maps is largely solved problem. Mapbox has a great product that is customizable.

Perhaps the company could better spend their R&D to focus on products that directly imoroves it's market share and revenue.
We’ve been moving our workflows out of Databricks to PostgreSQL to save a ton. Wonder if what they’re going to do with this would have been handy at the time.
By driving down the costs of training and inference, and then encouraging experiments. For LLMs, QLoRA is arguably a great step in this direction.
> Generation tech has outpaced the storage tech for a few years

It's more like storage tech went nowhere for decades.

> and now we are getting pathological cases like this cropping up from time to time.

It's not pathological at all to have more generation capacity than you can use when the source varies so much. It's just reality.
Nice.

I'm glad that you're defining it. There's definitely an issue with the vague term "AI safety" that so many people use to mean different things.
I’ll try that I suppose, it sounds like I’m going to have to delete that google group which is going to be a pain because I actually use it…

I did file a bug bounty hopefully that goes somewhere
Possibly it could be emulated using a Wireguard bridge? A Tailscale connection might be interesting.

Something like: https://tailscale.com/blog/ssh-console/
Are there good examples where an acqui-hire works out for the acquiring company? Seems like the acquiring company's culture is almost always at odds with the company being acquired and it causes the high performing teams they paid dearly for to leave.

I don't understand what a company hopes to gain doing stuff like this as the (long term) incentives don't seem to align.
Lesser of two evils ?

Even Ukraine keeps the Russian pipelines flowing
No, drivers don't see the destination until they arrive and the trip begins.

I'm often on one side of the Bay Area trying to get to the other and had many drivers pull up, then cancel or try to get me to cancel when they see I'm going across the Bay.
If you want to prevent this, you simply have to show that the probability for that extinction scenario is lower than the baseline where we start to care.

Lets take "big asteroid impact" as baseline because that is a credible risk and somewhat feasible to quantify: Probability is somewhere under 1 in a million over a human lifetime, and we barely care (=> we do care enough to pay for probe missions investigating possible mitigations!).

So the following requirements:

1) Humanity creates one or more AI agents with strictly superhuman cognitive abilities within the century

2) AI acquires power/means to effect human extinction

3) AI decides against coexistence with humans

Only need 1% probability each to exceed that probability bound. And especially 1) and 3) seem significantly more likely than 1% to me, so the conclusion would be that we should worry about AI extinction risks...
Would I prefer if we would have kept the nuclear plants running for longer? Yes! Is that the reality? No.

So instead of crying after an energy source of the last century (nuclear) I'm all for now building a 100% emission-free, decentralized and flexible grid. I am convinced this is the future and the journey to get there has already begun.
China has concentration camps. Western values say this is bad, yet we are willing to overlook them so we can have economic relationships with China.

Saudi Arabia, similar.
I've skimmed that section and.. it's a case study of tracking down and fixing some space leaks.

That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about understanding laziness, such that you don't ever write code that's as bad as the starting point there. Treat space use as a correctness property, and make use of documented space invariants to show what you intended. When you do all of this properly, space use becomes a very tractable local property. And sure, some bugs will slip in - but you probably will find them with much less work than the writeup in the section you linked to.
What you're describing isn't UX though. At least not in the way that UX professionals understand it.

There being "impostors" in the field who bluff their way through, while regrettable, does not imply that the whole industry is made up, any more than the existence of people applying to data science jobs with nothing but excel skills says nothing about data science.

And some companies really, really need UX people on board.
Ideas from Sandstorm also live on in Cloudflare's Durable Objects:

> We don't have any current plans, but... I was the co-founder of Sandstorm.io before going to Cloudflare, and Durable Objects are very much inspired by parts of Sandstorm's design. So yeah, I've absolutely thought about it. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24619148
In the Twitter thread he wrote:

> And in response, Amazon served me with a lawsuit.
The risks are real, but I don't think regulations will mitigate them. It's almost impossible to regulate something you can develop in a basement anywhere in the world.

The real risks are being used to try to built a regulatory moat, for a young industry who famously has no moat.
One of the very first chapters is "Heap Profiling and Inspection," which is where too much laziness would manifest. So I really don't think this is fair.

We'll have to see when the book's done, but a practical, techniques-and-skills focused approach to Haskell optimization seems like it could be a really good resource. There are plenty of other tutorials out there ready to explain how `foldl` evaluates one more time.
Note that someone who seems to manage a Swift team at Apple left a more encouraging response later: <https://forums.swift.org/t/why-is-swift-so-slow-timeout-in-c...>
But if LLMs hadn't captured the popular imagination I doubt this would have been written this year and gotten the attention of enough prominent signatories to frontpage on HN.
Your proposal around taxing people because they got a lower interest rate will undermine interest rate price discovery & the future effectiveness of interest rate policy.

Every policy action you take impacts peoples expectations. Taxing people with low rates will not "unstick the housing market."
Oh is these guys again that tried to trademark the Webassembly name.
Can confirm, my mother works in one, the stories are horrific, even for those paying north of 10K per month.
Have you considered switching to architecture role? Granted, you code way less but it’s still technical and you have more power over what is being built. And the toughest technical problems is for you to solve. Also you care more about quality attributes (security, performance, availability etc.) than functional requirements.
Corresponding statement from bit.io here: https://blog.bit.io/whats-next-for-bit-io-joining-databricks...
>As far as a pandemic or nuclear war, though, I'd probably put it on more of the level of a K-T extinction event. Humans are doing some work on asteroid redirection, but I don't think it is a global priority.

I think it's better to frame AI risks in terms of probability. I think the really bad case for humans is full extinction or something worse. What you should be doing is putting a probability distribution over that possibility instead of trying to guess how bad it could be, it's safe to assume it would be maximally bad.
Fastmail.com continues to delivery great innovations and open sources much of their work.

They are the company largely behind this, check them out.

(I'm not affiliated in any way to them)
> It took almost a year for market to readjust but now the prices are same as they used to be before all these events.

And that’s perfect, for the EU.
Russia won’t be enjoying that, which was the entire point.

I hadn’t realised gas prices had dropped so much.
Third parties can require reasonable compensation for complying with discovery requests.
That’s awesome lol
This problem isn't limited to the US and it isn't limited to the present.
We have something like this at our firm (IT consulting shop). Every Christmas, everyone gets to propose & vote on projects (software and otherwise) that we should fund.
Please make that sticker, I will buy it.
Okay, but the question I’m asking is, why does the basic version take 60 seconds to compile? Why not 6 seconds, or 60 milliseconds?

If there’s a good and insurmountable reason why it must be a minute and no less, okay. But I’d be amazed if there aren’t some easy wins to be made that could speed it up by a decent amount.

That’s not worth doing just because of the silly million-element array case, of course; but if you can make that silly case faster, lots of more important use cases will get faster too.
Honestly you would think Lyft would be more explicit about contributing back in their article.

This isn't the first time I've seen a company contributing back to open source but completely neglecting to mention it in their post about it. It's weird, usually companies love to virtue signal about any tiny thing they do for society.
Skepticism about Microsoft results regarding robust quantum bits
I implemented a prototype version of the algorithm in that paper when exploring exhaustiveness checking for pattern matching in Dart. I found it pretty easy to understand, but also really easy to get it to generate huge combinatorially large spaces. Some careful memoization and deduplication helped, but even so I never got the performance to a state I felt comfortable with.

Instead, I went with Luc Maranget's classic approach and figured out a way to adapt it to a language with subtyping (with a ton of work from Johnni Winther to figure out all of the hard complex cases around generics):

https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/accepted/fut...

The performance (in the prototype!) was dramatically better. You can always make pattern matching go combinatorial, but I haven't seen any real-world switches get particularly slow with our approach yet, and we have some fairly large tests of matching on tuples of enums.
It's fairly common to not disclose the terms publicly.
> Who hasn’t thought, while playing an AAA title game, “aw man, this would look so cool if I was IN THE GAME!”

I haven't, because every great game I've ever played has made me feel like I was in the game. Even games with primitive graphics or text-based games. The actual VR games I've played don't achieve that.
Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recursion, iteration
Debugging Network Protocols with Journaling
D is shipped as part of the Gnu compiler project.

> most of the cool stuff in D is showing up on the languages

It's true that many aspects of D are copied by other languages, but badly.
Lots of these artists share their code on github and release the works as CC0. If you're put off by NFTs you can still participate in the gen art community.
As usual, the expected Google Clown Platform support.

FWIW, 3 months ago they shutdown my servers for some minor issue and I'm only able to get them to reactivate after a week.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133917
`ffmpeg` is great, but it needs improvements for some tags / formats (that is why I developed tone in the first place).

Examples:

- Duration detection is inaccurate
- Tags `MovementName` and `MovementIndex` (for series) are not supported for some formats
- etc.

Another disadvantage is, that (afaik) `ffmpeg` needs to reprocess the file (audio wise) to write tags instead of just changing the metadata inplace.
> I read somewhere that some specialist types of fibre optic cables already make sense to make in orbit just for the microgravity, but I don't know if that was a proposal to try it or if they already do…

They are testing various prototypes on the ISS since 2019. Apparently the fibre quality is great and better than what we can make on earth [1], and the current prototypes are about automating the process.

I suspect that once access to space (and space stations) becomes cheap enough we will identify a lot of manufacturing processes where gravity is detrimental, and where the end product is valuable enough that shipping to and from space makes sense.

1: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/flightopportunit...
> It only succeeded through exploitation of labor.

There is no such thing. (Unless you are enslaving people.) People have agency and are are perfectly willing and able to change jobs if they don't like them.

Hiring someene to do something isn't "exploiting" them.

There are a TON of business that only exist if labor costs are low. When costs rise either those business don't exist or they get automated, or they raise prices.

People tend to get upset when services they need are no longer available, or only available to the rich because they are unafordable.
That argument is still invalid because in scenario 2 we would not be having this discussion. No conclusions can be drawn from such past discourse about the likelihood of definite and complete extinction.

Not that, I hope, anyone expected a strong argument to be had there. It seems reasonably certain to me that humanity will go extinct one way or another eventually. That is also not a good argument in this situation.
Who uses SUSE anymore?
Looking back it really is funny how impressed people used to be by dumb office perks. Free food and coffee? Sure, for the convenience.

But the slides, the ball pits, the scooters? Sure it might make the office a nice place to be but once the novelty wears off it's still really hard to beat working from home.
Use robots instead of humans maybe.
The article talks about that, and makes the argument that it isn't enough very clearly. Are you sure you read it?
I don't think high-brow / low-brow is a useful framework for understanding these models. They are good at certain things and bad at others and those don't correspond neatly to what a human finds easy and hard.
> Imagine if every cable news show and newspaper story led with "the information presented here may be biased, inaccurate and/or incomplete, because we need to align with the interests of our advertisers, owners and government regulators".

Don’t threaten me with a good time. Just the thought of this makes my pants tight.
Nuclear power isn't bad, they buy loads of it from France. They're being NIMBY, but if France actually had a bad meltdown, Germany would probably be heavily impacted anyway.
The more I look into it the less feasible it looks. My initial assumption is reflective of the peer comment that anything remotely heavy won’t have enough solar wind drag to get it out of Earths gravity well.

Just to be in the solar wind alone you’d have to be outside the magnetosheath ~60K Km at its closest point, 35K Km is geostationary orbit which costs $10K kg to get to with falcon 9. And now you’d have to send up a whole falcon 9 in order to bring the non byproduct mass back to Earth which would defeat the purpose of venting CO2 to begin with. For those who don’t know it takes roughly the same delta V to bring things back down as it took to send them up.
> Now you can run postgres and kubernetes in your Chrome tab.

This is what the world has come to.
Above ground parking puts a limit on density. And it causes a huge amount of traffic. On the road in front of my old office, 90% of traffic were cars circling in an attempt to find a parking lot (there were rarely free spots). And there were regularly cars honking at each other when someone took too long to get into a space.

Obviously cars are environmentally a disaster, but people like them too much to give them up altogether.

But if you drive a car, the least you can do is park it somewhere where it isn't taking away public space. (Parking cars are also in the way of other cars that try to get somewhere)
Pippin in My Orchard
How many only knew because of increased testing?

How many had mild cases?

Were there any severe cases?

In other news, being an expert in disease transmission does not make your immune system better.
In practical terms - its still basically Amazon, acting through the courts, trying to effectively strangle him.

I think that's what was driving when he said "Amazon served me".
Hundreds of Millions of Planets in the Milky Way Could Potentially Harbor Life
"The orbital eccentricity distribution of planets orbiting M dwarfs" - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217398120
Also, it depends on the type of code.

I tried to replace the quicksort with a radix sort, and the difference is much closer on this better optimized code (15ms vs 17ms).
The big corp I work for has many fun “speak up” policies. And after few years here I can tell only thing - speaking up is probably the fastest way to get in trouble. So yeah, the companies like silence and will send lawyers and/or Human Resources representatives to fix all the issues.
Your explanation of the situation sounds like the Byzantine corporate structures that multinationals use to evade taxes. I assume the goal is the same - to hoodwink and exploit the populace.

Morally speaking, I’d expect to have zero imports of Russian fuel to declare “independence”.
From the article:

"I don’t think cases like these invalidate the potential of ChatGPT and other chatbots. In the right scenario and with the right safeguards, it’s clear these tools can be fantastically useful."

It's not calling for people to lose access to these tools.
Cautionary Tale: OpenAI API key leak? Alerts needed?
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Ockham's Razor doesn't apply in adversarial situations.

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I think the primary risk these folks are worried about is loss of control. And in turn, that's because they're all people for whom the system has more-or-less worked.

Poor people are worried the risk that the rich will keep the economic windfall to themselves and not share it.
Even just 20 years ago renewable generation was barely a blip on the national power grid, because they were so expensive as to be completely impractical. Our era of affordable solar is less than a decade old. No demand for storage meant no activity in the market, hence the lag now that wind and solar have become so cheap that everybody can install it.
Thank you for the insightful suggestions, Artur. Your tips are truly valuable and greatly appreciated. Looking forward to implementing for the next version.
From the linked tweets: https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/status/1663582603906088961

> Amazon served me with a lawsuit.
This is covered in the article:

>In real life, people similarly believe that survival after CPR is over 75%.

Also:

>I don't think anyone is under the illusion that CPR is a hugely high-percentage life saving technique, except maybe the public at large

You don't think anyone believes this, except almost everyone?
At those levels of accuracy, I would expect the refractive index of the not-quite-empty space space in our solar system to prove problematic.
>Real risks are more in the category of systemic racism and sexism, deep fakes, over reliance on AI etc.

This is a really bad take and risks missing the forest for the trees in a major way. The risks of today pale in comparison to the risks of tomorrow in this case. It's like being worried about birds dying in wind turbines while the world ecosystem collapses due to climate change. The larger risk is further away in time but far more important.

Theres a real risk that people get fooled by this idea that LLMs saying bad words is more important than human extinction. Though it seems like the public is already moving on and correctly focusing on the real issues.
There are a lot of people betting on WASM as a successor to linux containers for many use cases. Sockets and threads have been the main barriers IMHO to that happening.

One exciting advantage of WASM over containers is that it can run across different processor architectures and operating systems (the proprietary distribution of Docker runs on Mac but it does so by running a linux VM and containers not built for amd64 are noticeably slower).
bit.io is shutting down its service and telling all its customers to find a new solution, so very likely, yes. https://bit.io/
The article I read talked a lot about the benefits to drivers. That translates fairly directly to the service being offered to customers. Having your driver more easily figure out where to pick you up or drop you off is a huge service win for customers. Keeping your driver more focussed on navigation translates not only to better trips but safer ones as well. The statement was that they did not want to rely on a 3rd party to generate 90% of the pixels your customers are looking at. How did you miss all this customer focus? I am not sure it is fair to say this was all about profit juicing for Lyft.

My issue with the article is just the mind-boggling premise that leveraging an Open Source mapping project is “the impossible” vs using Google Maps. Also, there are lots of other options including of course ESRI.
So... why was this flagged, exactly?

The "leadership chat membership" made a mistake, then they apologized and they're discussing how to avoid this mistake in the future. How is that irrelevant for HN?
If there isn't a lawsuit or a criminal case, how is there discovery?
Private Internet Access stopped releasing source code for recent versions of its clients.

Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35642700

These days, free and open source software clients are table stakes for a VPN to be considered trustworthy. The fact that PIA silently stopped releasing source code after previously promising to do so is a major red flag.
I imagine a whole new wave of “innovation” for VC, it’s like Uber, but in space
That shit is terrifying.

I've done LSD a handful of times, it's wonderful when done in the right set & setting.

Being dosed with LSD some 50-60 years ago without warning and without any knowledge of what LSD is or what it does to you....that's dystopian level shit. And it's not like mushrooms where after a few hours, you're back to normal. LSD lasts 12+ hours (and you're wired as hell for another 12 hours to the point where you can't sleep)....plus now you've got random people spying on you throughout the whole trip and you can't really understand why?

People in power really are sick assholes to their fellow human.
Fair enough. But with a biosphere, that makes sense. Mars has gravity and an atmosphere, so a biosphere on Earth is a smart project to resume.

I'm not saying we shouldn't test everything we can. We should, absolutely. But we also have to accept that the absence of gravity and operating in a vacuum are two major factors we could never adequately test on Earth.
>except ourselves.

Good argument, lets ignore the (human) elephant in the room!

>worrying about deadly quantum laser weapons

If humans were shooting smaller less deadly quantum lasers out of their eyes I'd be very fucking worried that we'd make a much more powerful artificial version.

Tell me why do you think humans are the pinnacle of intelligence? What was the evolutionary requirement that somehow pushed us to this level?

You simply cannot answer that last question. Humans have a tiny power budget. We have a fit out of the birth canal limitation that cuts down on our brain size. We have a "don't starve to death" evolutionary pressure that was the biggest culling factor of all up to about 150 years ago. The idea that we couldn't build a better intelligence optimized system than nature is foreign to me, nature simply was not trying to achieve that goal.
They should mine crypto when generating too much energy - perfect grid regulation + it makes money.
Yeah, good question. Whether it was intentional or not, it still acts as good Map Trap
"we"?

Is that Jake from State Farm?
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