skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the willingness to open up your land for an extremely contaminating business is a factor.

I am not saying it is good or bad, neither trying to start a NIMBY discussion.

But I think Sweden has too strong laws and environmentalist movement (and too little corruption) for a permission to start a uranium mine to happen within a foreseeable future.
I was in Vancouver, BC at the time, and all the diving that wasn’t just wading in from shore was technical, due to the depths and the temperatures. So drysuits, nitrox, argon bottles for insulation in the cold, that sort of thing. It’s a fascinating world, but that time I had to do an emergency, no-air ascent from pitch black 110ft down after an o-ring snapped in my regulator kind of told me it wasn’t a life-long hobby.
Anders Puck Nielsen talks about this in his video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jabKKr3pstU
According to him the hallmarks of a Russian Flag operation are

1. Bad production quality and a clear message

2. Intense media coverage in Russia

3. Positive message about the Russian state

Literally none of these points were apparent here. It shows a weak Russian state, was covered only as so far as necessary and what the message would be was completely unclear. Don't hire mercenaries?
But there's also a difference between "paying salaries and cloud bills" and "fulfilling a $10 billion valuation"
$8/mo is also much higher than one time $19 payment.

And $8/mo is only if you pre-pay one year, or else it's $10/mo.
Microsoft has been messing up the stewardship of their platform, the games on it and the studios that make them for a long time. Not just with the early Xbox one.

Halo's fall from grace as an IP, for instance, cannot in any way be blamed on anyone other than Microsoft, at multiple times and with multiple bad decisions. It's not due to one bad big screwup with the Xbox one; it's an ever-continuing quality problem with Microsoft.
Oh man, don't let yourself be triggered by a Verge article.

For what it's worth though, the really skilled FPS players have always been on the PC side.
That being said stab in the back doesn't involve antisemitism in Slavic languages. I have the same idiom in Polish, and it's just an idiom for betrayal.
Yeah, people can barely handle having to install three game launchers on their PCs. Pretty much everyone I know would prefer to buy every single game on Steam, except those couple no-DRM fanatics that would prefer to buy every single game on GOG. Very few people are even superficially rooting for Epic Games Store.
Let's try to rewrite this in a somewhat more dispassionate style:

A pragmatic perspective requires one to accept the present reality as it is, rather than hypothesize an exaggerated potential of what could be. Not all concerns surrounding existential risks in technology are necessarily grounded in empirical evidence. When it comes to artificial intelligence, for instance, current models operate at a speed vastly superior to human cognition. However, this does not equate to sentient consciousness or personal motivation. The projection of human traits onto these models may be misplaced, as AI systems do not possess inherently human drives or desires.

Many misconceptions about reinforcement learning and its capabilities abound. The development of systems that can translate abstract objectives into detailed subtasks remains a distant prospect. There seems to be a pervasive certainty about the risks associated with these models, yet concrete evidence of such dangers is still wanting.

This belief system, one might argue, shares certain characteristics with a doomsday cult. There is a narrative that portrays a small group of technologists as our only defense against a looming, catastrophic end. These artificial intelligence models, which were engineered after extensive research, are often misinterpreted as inscrutable entities capable of outsmarting and eradicating humanity, while simultaneously being so simplistic as to obsess over trivial tasks.

Alternatively, these AI models could be viewed as valuable tools for knowledge compression and distribution, enabling the advancement of civilization. As a result, societal education levels could improve, and the cost of goods and services might decrease, which could potentially enrich human life on a global scale. While there seems to be a tendency to worry about every potential hazard, optimism about the future is not unfounded given the trajectory of human progress.

There are certainly different perspectives on this issue. Some adhere to a more fatalistic viewpoint, while others are working towards a brighter future for humanity. Regardless, once the present fears subside, everyone is invited to participate in shaping our collective future.
Isn't the entire point of it to be a mess, and to be hard to parse, because the topic is hard? I found it to be one of the most deeply engaging things I've read for ages, precisely because I had to put it down after each chapter and process it.
Practically the entire world is disgraceful then. :)

I'm tired too.
And again, a heady mix of accurate observations with complete bullshit. Separating out the misinformation is, as always, left as an exercise for the reader.
any examples of generated pdf ?
Yes that's the book. It is great and uncanny. Definitely not an easy read
Not just that but videos that were related for the wrong reasons, like being interesting to horny people. Recommendation engines get creepy if the “frequently used together” entries suggest inappropriate use.
> LLM's don't actually understand anything (as greater concepts), but rather operate as complex probability machines?

What does it mean to "operate as a probability machine"? And what does it mean to understand anything?

One recent example of understanding is that llms/transformers learn to parse context free grammars via dynamic programming (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02386). Basically they've understood what's going on well enough to mold their neurons I to the optimal algorthm for parsing this kind of text.

I think they understand lots of things like this. Of course there's other things they don't understand or just pretend to understand.
> PlayStation and Nintendo consoles will lose games

No one loses games. Previously published games will still be playable. They may not have access to new titles in those series, but they were never guaranteed that anyway. Just like with console generations, sometimes you have to buy a new box to play the next game in your favorite series.

It seems that switch owners may even get access to Call of Duty, which they never would have without the aquisition.
It's not a new phenomenon. During the Chechenia war, On European TV, the poor Chechenia was invaded and civilians dying. My Russian friend was telling me on Russian TV it was all murderous Chechen terrorists attempting a coup.

On the verge of the second Iraq invasion, on European TV, there was doubt about claims of WMD but a hint of oil and USA agenda. American TV at my friends house was rallying that Saddam and his regime must be ended immediately.
It sounds both quite beautiful but also quite sad at the same time. I feel like it describes my experience when riding a motorcycle. Not as high as climbing, I guess, but much easier to add to any day of the week for short or long runs.

I owned a motorcycle for some years, but then sold it. Years later, when I got diagnosed with cancer*, I broke up with my then girlfriend (not a healthy relationship) and bought a new 1000ccm sports bike. That was a big tipping point in my life. I went from depressive moments with thoughts of "I want to die" to depressive moments of "I hate this, I want out, but I want to live". The motorcycle gives me freedom I don't feel in a car, makes my head clear up, and I feel happier after. I guess most of the change in thought patterns was because of the Cancer looking-over-the-edge-at-death experience, but the motorcycle adds life quality in daily life that is worth the risk. So, a bit like climbing? *shrug*

*- I'm fine now. :)
Why not keep your config externally available and reuse when setting up again? With Emacs that is easily possible.
Or requiring it just to render images. Actually seen some sites that work that way. And these were simple company pages or personal portfolio sites, so no reason why the images could not be static(ally served).
You'd be amazed how little platform engineering is needed if you can violently constrain technology choices.

Give me a blobstore and some VMs and I'll be happy, and if someone raises the slightest fuss I will point out that it's still years better than helm.
You don’t believe his statements, do you? All of them have a purpose and it is not to inform public about truth.
Sounds a bit like those places aren’t at the scale where a platform team makes sense.

What about when the one dev deploying their jar to an ec2 instance moves on to another company, how does the next dev even understand what this jar stuff is when they just want to push their SPA to vercel.

Allowing devs to do whatever they want works at small new orgs but you need to put some kind of shape on it as they grow.
It doesn’t really seem relevant to this conversation.

CICO can be true while also having genetic play a role.
> An LLM can only ever reproduce what it has seen before.

Anyone who's played around with these models know that at least some generalization is taking place.
There are more accounts that corroborate that the social credit system as depicted by the media is a myth, like Vincent Brussee who is German: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/15/china-social-credit-sys...
There’s no bright line. You’re just saying “my understanding of risk is correct, and yours is not”.

As an example, driving is a very avoidable risk. Owning or spending significant time around pool, too, especially with small children. Nevertheless many would say these are “everyday risks”.
Thanks for writing this. Finding it useful.
Any plans to make it opensource and upload to github?
With the current structure, Sweden is already a net exporter of electricity (ignoring a handfull of hours every year when it has to import).

The real problem is that they can produce it for cheap and sell it with a huge profit to other countries. Since it is an open market, this artificially drives up the domestic prices.

So a much cheaper solution would be to cut the cable to Germany and France and leave the open market
There is literally no way to differentiate between whether we are living in a real world, or we are just the single agent of a simulation or whatever.
And yet, I can’t take any windows laptop I’ve ever owned to work without a charger and work all day and come home. But can do that with the M2 MacBook. Cos under full load, the performance and battery life exceeds that of windows laptops.
> This INTERCAL code uses a clever trick to generate seemingly "random" numbers - using the `%50` operation (which in INTERCAL means to mingle the bits of two 16-bit numbers), along with unary operations like `#1`, `#2`, `#4`, etc. on the same variable, to generate different results each time the loop is run.

I don't know INTERCAL but this appears to be pure bullshit. Wikipedia's description of `%50` is consistent with the article author's: "after the identifier, a percent chance of the line executing can be given in the format %50, which defaults to 100%." [1]

And contrary to GPT-4's doubling down on INTERCAL not containing any random number support, a built in language feature that executes (or not) a line of code with a chosen probability really is random number support built into the language, just with a deliberately bizarre interface in keeping with the rest of the language.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL
I had written a script to manage my pdf literature using crossref and arxiv to fetch metadata and store them in pdf tags, and just renaming the pdf in place. No hidden complexity, no gui.

I hacked it into a python package a couple of months ago in an ADHD hyperfocus induced frenzy. Sounds like you might like it. Still a long way to go, but it's out there and FOSS. Contributions are welcome.

https://github.com/jayghoshter/prem
Aren't they playing catch up on solar panel manufacturing already? I keep reading news of production plants expanding every other day.

And I mean, they don't need to catch up, just have enough of their own production to keep prices low.
Wearing a seat belt, or attaching a safety rope isn't some subjective gray area of risk though.
1) Computers, smart phones, and pocket calculators also outperform humans at mental tasks. So do birds, dolphins, and dogs for that matter, at tasks for which they are specialized.

2) so? What are you imagining this implies? An infinity of possibilities does not a reason make, unless you are talking about arbitrary religious beliefs.

3) Right, no goals, no will, no purpose. Just some matrix multiplies doing interesting things.

Deduction requires a premise which then leads to another premise or a conclusion due to accepted facts or reasons. I'm genuinely curious why you think any of these properties automatically implies danger?

The future is uncertain. The stock market, the economy, your health, your friendships and romances, are all unpredictable and uncertain. Uncertainty is not a reason to freak out, although it might encourage us to find ways to become adaptable, anti-fragile, and wise. I think AI will help us improve in these dimensions because it is already proving that it can with real evidence, not beliefs.
I built this, kind of a mix of YouTube and mini Minecraft spaces: https://entervspace.com
Since Barsebäck is one of the only sites you are allowed to built nuclear plants on it is a high on the list of places where a new plant would be built. IF you want it built fast.
The github link is giving 404.
Firejail does this. The profile database is the two "profile" directories in https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/tree/master/etc
> Your computer is already conscious before you even loaded software into it

I don’t think that follows logically, it would be analogous to a (brain)dead person - who is not conscious. The software is what makes the difference here.
It tends to be a bit windy there, so... yes.
4 years running postgresql on arm in production with 0 issues. (2tb database so kinda small, a lot of indexes tho, a lot of which are on jsonb columns) I can’t think of any feature in sql server I would ever need that PostgreSQL doesn’t have. But sql servers lack of JSON support is a deal breaker for me.
Agreed. I want to pay for content but it's either subscribe to all these services, paying cable like pricing or manage which services I'm subscribed to each month.

The third alternative, the high-seas is cheaper and far less time consuming to manage.
I found my job at Amazon Web Services through Second Life, back in 2007/2008. This is a detailed blog post where I described the whole experience [0].

My best line ever was when they said they were looking for a technology "evangelist". I replied: I built a church, I'm your guy! Of course I meant that I built the replica of the Church of Saint Francis in Assisi inside Second Life.

It was incredible back then. Now we're talking about the Metaverse again, but in 2007, 16 years ago, it was so early days.

Another fun facts: Amazon's PR was... annoyed at my blog post, because it didn't meet the company's guidelines. I can easily guess that at least tens, if not hundreds, of people, applied for a job at Amazon because of that blog post. I left Amazon in 2014, and now I can safely say that Amazon PR was a nightmare, and one of the main reasons why I left. I wasn't perfect, of course, but still...

[0]: https://simon.medium.com/2008-how-i-got-hired-by-amazon-com-...
Unsure about Gnu pass, but several (offline) password managers on iOS support Yubikey. One such example is Keepassium (Open source, GPL)
https://keepassium.com/blog/2020/01/keepassium-1.10-yubikey/
? adding on ChatGPT data into existing data is not lessening the amount of data...
No, you're not wrong.

I've made good money on the stock market but at the first sign of trouble I cashed out. I remember it as a pretty nervous affair, being up before the markets opened and reading constantly about the companies that I wanted to invest in or had a position in. And being able to absorb considerable losses really helped with the ability to keep moving, if you can't do that then you should simply stay out of the market entirely.

I made a few hundred K and called it a day, the stress was just too much.

The other way to do this is to invest a chunk of your money into an index fund and to keep it there. Buy in over time to reduce the risk.

And then you still have to be careful which fund you invest in, especially if it is in a currency different from the one that you earned your money in - and intend to spend it in.

Oh, and get out when the people around you that have no clue about any of this are getting in.
I mean, the problem was never about drawing boundaries, it was drawing a minimum boundary.
There was never an electricy shortage in Sweden, but there was one in Germany which drove up prices in that portion of the grid.

Elbrist was always bullshit, it was just private Swedish electricity producers whinging that they couldn't hit max profits during historically high energy prices in western europe.
>The tricyclist, whether walking or riding slowly around people, cannot

That is simply not true. There are people getting killed every day (~8 a day) because phones are used in vehicles much harder to control than a tricycle, and I see people riding bikes, looking at their phone while zipping between pedestrians and cars.
Hahaha, thanks ChatGPT! This is better said than my snarky, frustrated at the FUD version, and I can learn from the approach.
That's quite a big stretch saying that. Christians did keep old greek writing during middle age. And muslim did Destroy as rich Persian knowledge.
> an extremely contaminating business

Like Copper mining in Kamloops and Sudbury? Or sloppy WWII era uranium processing in the vicinity of Hanford USA?

I suspect (I don't know for sure) that Sweden is unlikely to have the grades for a viable uranium mine.

Were that so it's certainly possible to mine uranium in a manner that doesn't contaminate the mine surrounds .. and possible to process raw yellow cake to usable fuel rods at a site built to modern containment standards.

There's no need for Sweden (were it possible) to have dirty mines such as the Congo Cold War mines.

[1] https://federalmetals.ca/how-does-copper-mining-affect-the-e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkolobwe
License is valid only for a year after which you need to re-register. IBM might one day decide to put an end to it and you would have to either pay up or migrate all your servers. After they killed off CentOS and Rocky/Alma i wouldn't trust them.
I might be wrong, but I belive that one was already reaching its end of life.

"Restarting Barseback will solve our energy crisis" is as practical as saying "to solve UKs problems, let's bring back Churchill from the dead"
I'd sum this up as: "A wealthy 1st world person is dismissive of their own possibilities". Like if we here said "Internet is useless, because people just watch porn and post kittie photos."

As someone from the former Eastern Block, I may reassure, that first travels abroad, especially if it wasn't mass sea resort, were transformative, mind-changing for us. For some who traveled back in the 90s, they were a shock. So yes, travel does change people. I remember well the English teachers who went on short programs to study abroad, and brought mostly their observations, some random artifacts like tourist brochures, that we, stundents, would look at and read.

Sure, after some trips you get less and less impressions, but... what's the right amount of travel?

Even a 1-2 days trip can boost curiosity. People come to a monument to an unexpected person in unexpected city -- start looking up his bio, start reading history books. Or start studying urban design being impressed with other cities -- I saw this with my eyes.

I can give my own example, that even having a lot of correspondence with people abroad, only after traveling in person I shook some my stereotypes off, for instance to Brazil (I've been to 8 big cities.) Made me learn the language, made write columns and be sort of volunteer journalist for a while. After I was promoting some solutions from other countries, later travels made me notice their drawbacks and be balanced in the views.

I think the author thinks mostly of mass tourism and the type who travel alone but stay in hostels with other tourists, hang out between themselves and just fill their checklists of things to visit. Well, even though this may be true, you can't draw a clear border between superficial and "transformative" travel. (Same goes for museums -- I've heard som art & museums folks both complain that "art" is not popular enough, and despise the selfie-takers who post about exhibitions on instagram.)
AI case with 'Explain your own style' in not working, black window...
they're also paypal only
not everyone. There are motivations other than money, and if someone has a dislike of Sam Altman for whatever reason, they could be the best person in the world for a job and still not want to work there. If some has moral or ethical reasons against something, they won't be swayed by money.
Obsidian has replaced all (work, home, mobile) note taking solutions everywhere for me. The last want from my side is removing the friction related to editing markdown tables (e.g. multi-line content in cells) - Obsidian has some plugins that makes things better but it is miles behind what, say, confluence wiki offers for tables.
Which unfortunately they can't due to EU agreements.

They could, however, tax/nationalize private producers and return windfall profits to swedish ratepayers.
s/stopped/closed down/ but yeah.
If you have the time, I suggest doing some research on the many available open source static site generators. One might meet your needs. If not quite, well, that's the beauty of open source ... you can modify or get someone to modify it.

If not, find some friendly teenage techie with free time on their hands, get them to do it for you, and pay them some amount for it.

If I was a teenager I would take up the job :)
4090ti is much expensive than an xbox + game pass.
RedHat creates and drives development of many OSS projects. FreeIPA, strimzi, systemd are some examples. Anybody can use these projects without using the RedHat labeled version. But none of this projects would be well maintained without RedHat.
I have a PS5 and Xbox Series S and Series X - the PS5 is just gathering dust, started up only now and then to play one of the few exclusives(last one being God of War.....like 6 months ago?) or Genshin Impact as it doesn't exist on Xbox. It's a brilliant system but the ability to pick up any Gampass Game and have the saves instantly synchronized with my gaming PC is just incredible. I can play something like Forza or Yakuza 0 on my gaming PC upstairs then go to the living room, pick up the controller and continue the same game on the Xbox - that's a complete gamechanger and what makes this console more useful(for me) than PS5.
>Status quo is much simpler - it's banned but if neighbours all agree have a late party and police aren't called

How is that any different to what I just wrote? In your own example, the "What's the radius" and "How do you confirm all have agreed" is no different either.