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I always enjoy reading some of your comments, they ameliorate the hype about LLM and give a critical review. Anyway, I think a stronger model than GPT-4 could improve the way to use tools, so that the model is able to self-improve using tools. For example using all kind of solvers and heuristics to guide the model. I don't know how to estimate that risk just now.

Edited: Don't know if is a good thing to study the weak points of closed LLMs. Even asking LLMs can give hints about possible ways to improve. In my case I am happy I am certainly old and my mind is a lot weaker than before, but even in this case I prefer not to use LLMs for gaining insight because she will someday get a better insight than myself. But the lust of knowledge is a mortal sin.
I’m quite disappointed that HN gets more and more political news here (which are not objective truths but are portrayed as such). Could we please keep it free of politics and more technology focused?
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If this had some way to convert to/from Tailwind classes, I would purchase in an instant...
Well I am more optimistic about its usefulness than you, I agree that it's a little ridiculous to announce v4, when v3 was out for over a year before it had decent support from tools like Postman and Swagger UI. There seems to be a disconnect between the people creating the standard and the people implementing it.
In science it seems the adage "talk shit get hit" is coming home to roost.
Mac App Collection
I'm reading a lot of the top-level comments here in Patrick Bateman's voice from the "Hip To Be Square" American Psycho scene, and it's pretty funny.
You could make a custom battery. I've done this for an e-bike to extend the range considerably.
Paragraphica is a context-to-image camera
Undersea power cables are already very much a thing, and energy transport across the grid is also very much a thing; Europe already has it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...). You're describing normal, already implemented stuff with a sense of incredulity I'm not sure I understand.
You live in your own World with other people. Please just keep in mind there are many other Worlds with other people and laws of the Universe.

I don't know if you're young or don't know much about history but what you describe is a fairly recent way of looking at things, it's not the only one and I guarantee you it will become "out of fashion".
Vast majority of our internet goes through submarine cable. Besides satellites aren’t launched from your home and land at google servers every time you open google.com which would be similar to what the tanker would be doing
I would recommend Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue as first listen of Coltrane , part of the legendary sextet.
What is a good book just for recursive descend parsing? I dabbed into some compiler books but found BNF difficult.

Just some clarification, it is not difficult to understand but difficult to build from scratch. I'm thinking maybe a book that asks me to build up BNF expressions for a series of grammars of gradually increasing complexity would be nice.
Is this a gpt summary
Healthcare is not free, it's taxpayer funded and consumes a huge portion of the national budget.
This gets brought up in [Homo Deus](https://www.ynharari.com/book/homo-deus/) as an example of the kinds of things we may see as post-humanist people augment their capabilities to increasingly incredible heights.
I presume having to interact physically via hardware adds an additional layer of security.
Lossless-cut: The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
China to implement stricter vehicle emissions standards from July 1
When I was younger, I always wanted a matte-black car like they had in Robocop. I was soon rewarded with a glossy-black one. Now the Vantablack BMW must be the Holy Grail for kids like me.
It feels a little bit different.

One creates uncertainty in all floating point results, given you don’t know when it happens. The other requires you to reboot maybe every ~3 years and you know exactly when it happens.

I’m not saying we should tolerate a defect, but it doesn’t feel nearly as problematic.
How else do you police the city against BLM riots then? If the police do not crackdown on loopholes then the riots will keep happening.
It's a shame about the tooling. It seems like maybe lack of corporate sponsorship is a problem. I know that many companies use open API internally, but of course are never willing to actually contribute or fund the tools that they depend on.
Oh I paid for the premium version years ago. Well worth it.
Quick Commerce Apps Like Getir in Need of Fast Reinvention to Survive
Crafting Interpreters was fun to read and easy to follow, even as someone with a mechanical engineering degree :)
Humanity will soon declive despite any ecofriendly form of energy generation
The purpose of copyright is to create moral and economical incentives to authors to create new copyrightable works, but giving those authors a time limited state granted monopoly. Reproduction is only one aspect to this. As an example, applying a song to a video require addition permissions even if the party has permissions for reproduction. The owners to a record can also disallow the use of a song in a political event based on the context of morality, even if the politician has bought permissions to play the song in public.

I would personally also argue that machine learning model is roughly equivalent to a compression algorithm. Converting a 4k video to a 420p video is just as lossy as feeding a learning model from a 4k video and ask it to reproduce the 420p video. It has nothing in common with how a human brain is consuming content or learns information. No person can produce a 420p video just by consuming a 4k video, nor can any machine learning model gain the emotional constructs and social contexts that human brains get from learning.
welcome to Germany
A lot of it will come from hydro used as a battery. The power cables across the North Sea will send power north in the summer and south in the winter. That power will be used to either pump water uphill, or just to replace the hydro power currently being used in the summer.
Is it covered by medicare/medicaid?
The thing is, many houses (like my own) aren't insulated very well still. Also, you can't look at production and use over a month. We often have multiple cloudy days in a row where we produce next to nothing in comparison to what is used. So you need something to bridge those days. We do have wind and off-shore wind is relatively reliable, so that's good.

Solar is just awful for our climate, since we produce most when we use the least, which you can see in the quite extreme negative prices for electricity we've already seen this year... And it's not even summer yet.
Ask HN: Cyber Security folks – what are your biggest pain points?
I'm building a startup which focusses on automated cyber defense and tries to build products which can adapt to changing situations in the network landscape as well as network behaviours or process behaviours (EDR/XDR/whatever BS term).

In my case I'm building everything from the ground up, and the MVP is trying to start with a better inventory of everything; whereas the inventory focusses on the network-scale rather than the "per single machine scale" that other solutions offer (if they even offer anything like it, which in practice they actually don't for the most parts).

My journey started with log4j's log4shell1/2, after realizing that most blueteams (my one included) don't actually have a full, reliable and correctly indexed inventory. If you ask around in other blueteams something simple like "How many machines you got?" you'll always get responses like "well, one software says 30.000, the other one 24.000 and our SNMP sensors say around 38.000..." which is kinda ridiculous to start with. If you then ask whether or not they use log4j in any of their software they either shrug or say "nope" with a panicking voice, because they don't really know for sure.

Anyways, my solution currently is a peer-to-peer approach where the systems themselves decide to mitigate issues, propagate patches (or even vaccines for zero-days) and also share incidents that look suspicious, so the surrounding nodes can start to quarantine themselves off, for example, when something really bad happened. For this to be a reliable product I decided to ditch the whole Windows "hooks are kinda useless" shitshow, and went for Linux/BSD/Unizes in general first, while leveraging a mixture of golang for userspace and eBPF for kernelspace.

But I wouldn't be a good founder if I ignored my customers, right?

So my questions are now somewhat to all the cyber security professionals out there:

- What are your biggest pain points? Do you use yet another Elastic Search dashboard that's painful to use in practice?

- Do you have a reliable software inventory / SBOM?

- Do you have a reliable network inventory / NBOM / SaaSBOM?

- Do you have an SBOM for all third-party software that's only available via binaries, where you don't have the source code available?

- Does your anti-virus / EDR solution still require signatures or is it behaviour driven?

- What about golang malware (aka malware that doesn't need to call hooked APIs in the kernel and can instead just use something like purego to generate shellcode directly)?

- How confident are you that your CVE/NVD vulnerability database is correctly tagged? (hint: I think it's not reliable for more than 80% of entries)

- Do you use Linux in your infrastructure? If so, which distributions?
I just bookmarked the website to show others later and realized I just did it again. I will never go to that site again.
Not sure about the term but I would have assumed northern Europe is Scandinavian countries and they have ground heat, water and nuclear.

France already has plans for more nuclear.

We Germans might have issues but let's see what this really means in the next 20 years.

We have a huge gas network and every sun hour will keep those storage tanks full for longer and it should be predictable enough to get good prices
Would be cool if they introduce some reasonably priced access for mass scrapers. Should make some nice income in addition to donations, and a valuable service to community.
So, she dreamed of it for four years, and suddenly it succeeded. What a wonderful science writer!
maybe he was rationalizing his own fate, like Rubashov in Koestlers "Darkness at noon".

A common response by those arrested during Stalin's purges is said to have been "this is a all a mistake, it will be sorted out soon"...
Even the dependency on email is looking a little outdated — at least that's not a requirement of security.txt though.
Cover up aside. As I understand it, currently the way these chemicals are regulated is: manufacture and use first, worry about safety issues later. More or less the opposite of how medical chemicals (i.e., drugs) are overseen.

As a result, a buffet of chemicals have been put in use and we know very little about their solo effects or what happens when they interact with other chemicals in the wild.

These companies not disclosing their awareness is criminal. But that doesn't explain why the government refuses to update regulations to be proactive in preventing such substances from being "use first, ask questions later."
I wonder what Bing has to do with it and whether or not MS is even aware of any of this or if it is 'at arms length'. For sure a great way to wreck your reputation, and likely you'll be blacklisted for life.
It's not that implausible and certainly not naive - Morocco & Algeria are already integrated into European energy! Algeria is the largest supplier of gas to Spain, and has been for more than 20 years, largely via pipelines that run straight through Morocco.

It's also been a major supplier to Portugal, though recently overtaken by Nigeria, whose gas also runs through both Algeria & Morocco. See https://www.iea.org/articles/spain-natural-gas-security-poli..., https://www.iea.org/articles/portugal-natural-gas-security-p... for background, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgaz and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghreb%E2%80%93Europe_Gas_Pip... for details of the pipelines.

There's tensions and all sorts of diplomatic complexity and that have come with that, it's certainly not perfect and there's been recent diplomatic challenges specifically, but it's worked well enough to reliably supply gas from Algeria & Nigeria to Europe for decades, and has largely protected Spain & Portugal from the recent Russian gas challenges in Europe (because of this setup, they have an 'Iberian exception' on gas in EU law).

Not to say it won't be challenging, but given the profits involved, it's totally plausible to me that they could build a setup sufficient to deliver solar energy too.
I have C-states already disabled because of old linux kernel bug where the kernel hang on Zen3 architecture. So not much to see here :)
As grids reach higher and higher % of renewables you need more and more storage or more and more peaking plants. You could very easily just crank out solar panels but building the storage gets to be apollo program scale projects as % solar gets very high. Just a few tesla mega packs isn't enough if you are over 50%. You need entire lakes. And we should be doing those programs!
Reminds me of https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/ProjectVisBug
I am pretty sure you can create a mess with Haskell too
Nuclear powered civilian ship run by minimum wage staff with a Liberian or Panamanian flag? Are you sure?

Oh, military control. At which point the cost becomes either ridiculous or hidden in a different budget.
Hmm- finacial in the sense that at least one large investor went "Nope".

The underlying actual issue was the cable path .. not so much the length but the trip across a lively and still active earthquake | volcano | fault ridden region ( that spawned the Krakatoa eruption and others ).

The engineering, repeater stations, need for a "backup" cable (that was just as likely to break) etc just didn't add up.

The Singapore | Australia cable project may rise again - but for now exporting Australian sunlight is going forward via ammonia shipments.
this sounds promising but I just want to be a sharp shooter now
The 500km max number was before people considered using voltages over ~400kV. Those higher voltages are now more feasible due to solid state power conversion and better insulators.

Also, 500km was a good economic number, because typically if you need to move power more than 500km, then it is better to build generation at the other end and ship the coal/oil there.
This website makes my fans go brrrr.
GRRM described the harm, the loss of opportunity, to individuals trying to begin their careers in writing.

you state that the rooms are efficient, and that other costs, financial costs, are the issue.

barely talking about the same thing.
I avoid thinking about the opportunity cost and predicting what to learn for maximum efficiency – that could drive anyone crazy!

I mainly follow my emotions and varying interests and try to convince myself that most of what I learn can be very useful, it just rests on me to find ways to use it. It helps that I'm a big fan of applying wisdom from different disciplines to find unexpected solutions to problems.

I do however focus a lot on fundamental insights, the things that actually help me guide a web search in the first place. If I didn't have rooted deeply in my brain that the sample error is composed of bias, between-unit variance, and sample size, I wouldn't even know to start looking for ways to reduce between-unit variance as an economical alternative to increasing sample size.
We're discussing performance. Dynamic types do not mean no type errors while you write code. It means the types can be variant at runtime.
I see the same problems. I don't understand why we're still subsidizing solar. I hope we can harness tidal movements in some way, seems like the most consistent thing we're not really using yet. I have no idea whether that's even feasible though.
I am seeking a business cofounder in north Texas. I am building a solution to provide near universal decentralization. My email is in my profile.
It sounds like you made the right decision, "swim sideways" is what I have always heard to do if you find yourself in a rip current. I have luckily never had to use that information, but whenever I'm at the beach I try to repeat it to myself just in case, so at least hopefully it's somewhere readily accessible to my animal brain if it becomes important for survival.
"With no cloud cover and access to the sun’s rays 24/7, Space Based Solar Power (SBSP) could be harnessed around the clock and transmitted back to Earth as microwaves, before being converted back into electricity."

I had not heard of this - it's very interesting!
Why would I think that?
I recently stopped using Oral-B Glide dental floss because of this study [1] that showed elevated levels of PFASs in blood of users of that type of dental floss.

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/dental-fl...
Yes; the point is that mere cable length doesn't seem to be an inherently unsolvable physics problem.
If 99,9% of all users perceive screen tearing as 'a bug' or at the least an ugliness you can't blame developers from trying to fix it from occurring by default.
Energy != Electricity... What does energy generation even mean?
> So first some ground rules: “software engineering” is a real field

well, that’s settled then…
The purpose of publishing your [company’s] public key is not only to verify the sender. It gives the sender a way to send an encrypted email that only the recipient can read (as long as they still have the key pair.)
Because along the way the people creating open source software also have bills to pay, and found out that living outside Hotel Mama comes with own set of caveats.
Governments allow an addictive carcinogen to be marketed, tax it, and then pat themselves on the back for being "tough on smoking" and the masses fall for the ruse.

Yes, that's Orwellian alright.
Ah. Perhaps the larger models will find use in in-house deployments where companies want their employees to have access to ChatGPT-like general purpose assistants, but want to prevent data from leaving their premises. LIMA shows the LLaMA 65B hitting a quality level somewhere between DaVinci-003 and GPT-4 with minimal alignment, so the base models are probably powerful enough already for this to work. Just speculating.
perhaps the current does not need to actually reach the brain in the way these studies are setup to measure? it’s possible the brain is more sensitive and/or there’s some low powered emf naturally at play in your brain/body, for example
Never played SimCity 2000? https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Microwave_Power_Plant
> I would think this can only ever be useful in places where a connection is needed only for a short time, e.g. to compensate the loss of a connection.

The one place I can see this being really useful is islands. Although even then it would have to compete with the same set of batteries permanently onshore with a renewables setup.

No, I don't think battery tankers will ever work. Maybe if people get a good electricity-to-fuel solution or flow batteries then those will be shipped around, in more conventional tankers.

(Flow batteries are in their limit still less dense than fuels, because the fuels store energy in their bonds and electrolytes can only store it in their redox state)

This from the same site looks more promising: https://maritime-executive.com/article/startup-uses-ammonia-...
Straight to the bin.

Obviously. >.<
I understand the reasons and justifications, but honestly it is still asinine to me that the fed badly wants to increase unemployment considering the precarious situation that unemployment in the US can be.
Wtf is Apollo
> Kafka's works have a sort of deadpan and absurdist humor to them and shouldn't be treated as seriously as they often are.

Kafka worked as some kind of minor bureaucrat in the Hapsburg government, and he is making fun of big bureaucracy. I always like to point out when people say something is Kafkaesque, as in "nightmarishly complicated", he himself was inspired by how absurd government bureaucracy is.
I keep expecting Vercel to be bought by Sitecore, given how they are replacing all the .NET stuff and pushing Vercel everywhere.
Yep I have received a genuine report completely unsolicited before, paid a modest bounty and fixed the problem immediately, then took some precautions to ensure any potential data leaks were rendered innocuous.

I was very glad to have received the info and I think folks such as yourself are doing valuable work.
Yeah, the "cattle not pets" philosophy is fairly recent, but I don't see it changing any time soon. If anything we're going even more in that direction.

And it makes a lot of sense because if uptime is that important, then no matter how fancy the hardware it can't do anything about disasters or losing internet connectivity.
Unfortunately it was too late to change the address by the time I discovered it, but we, uh, actually did order our own copy (from a much cheaper photo place) and it's currently hanging on the wall in our kitchen.
You might want to look into AMD as a company post Xilinx acq, and also why it doesn't pay to ship Nvidia cards[1].

Entertainment consumers have to ask for AMD before they can scale for competition against Nvidia, and it's apparently easier to get people to buy an inadequate Nvidia card than it is to buy another brand, regardless of cost, features, or quality. I'm loving being able to snatch up A770 16GBs for <$300, though - they're quirky powerhouses.

There's also no point in flooding the shelves with graphics cards that no one is buying, like Nvidia did with the 40-series. Starving the market is a strategy, and a smart one when Jensen can be counted on to let his competitive streak make decisions for him.

We're also still in an inflated market, and wages haven't risen for most people. Spending is down, desktops and components are not in demand despite falling prices, and the aftermarket / used GPU market is eating new sales. I don't know anyone with a 40-series, suppliers like Dell aren't shipping them yet (volume issues because they're all sitting on store shelves, unsold?), and people like me are only interest in A-series or newer, which already carry a premium.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/evga-ends-nvidia-video-card/
Probably the idea is to trust that people are inherently good and not malicious jerks willing to endanger everything around for personal gain. I think maybe it's the way to go indeed but then when it does go wrong the punishment should be proportionate to that trust.
Related:

> A man went to visit a friend and was amazed to find him playing chess with his dog. He watched the game in astonishment for a while. "I can hardly believe my eyes!" he exclaimed. "That's the smartest dog I've ever seen." "Nah, he's not so smart," the friend replied. "I've beaten him three games out of five."

In other news, an LLM that hasn't been trained to do translations can do some pretty impressive translations.
I think the major problem is that it is very difficult to view the source of an extension.

It should be just as easy as "view source" is for html pages. Require all extensions to use nicely formatted code with no minimalized javascript/css.

If you could look at the code, then for a lot of developers it would be easy to check if it looks reasonable or it looks like it sends browsing data to a server.