skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Efficiency of solar and wind isn't the real issue. The problem is: solar only works during a day, and wind farms only work when there's wind. Which makes both of them irregular, unpredictable. It could be mitigated if we had a cheap mass energy storage technology, but we don't (Li-Ion batteries are way too expensive, and hydroelectric storage requires very specific conditions, it cannot be built just anywhere). What we need is a stable supply of energy which is independent of the time of day and the weather. Nuclear can be that.
yeah apologies, I can't edit my comment now or I would
I was about to say that, great extension.
In high school I worked for Lucent in this building after school and over summers. It’s where I learned UNIX, vim, Perl, and how web servers worked. It bums me out seeing that it now is basically a big mall. Hopefully there are some cool startups that come out of it.
I guess back when I wrote it I didn't see the need given that single qubit gates along with CNOT are universal and they're implemented. I think airing on the side of 'as few features as is educational' was my mentality on this.
That's a political propaganda piece by a notorious right-wing think tank.

"The Heritage Foundation (abbreviated to Heritage) is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage's policy study Mandate for Leadership." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation
Other than bioluminessence. One possible means of detecting life on water/ice worlds could be glowing oceans on the night/dark sides of exoplanets.
They mentioned a calendar that breaks the year into twenty-six fortnights labeled by alphabets A to Z. But, 26 fortnights is only 364 days. Are you going to make years of only 364 days in this calendar, or will adding extra days beyond these 26 fortnights, or something else?
I'm speculating here, but for me it looks like the product (R&D) teams are not working closely with the research teams.

Even the demo website is on Github Pages instead of a Google domain/blog.
I’m so tired of these comments where the GP just makes a vague, uninteresting, useless complaint about the fucking headline.
Ha, I have also wrote something similar

https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

I support not only youtube, but also any RSS source.

It functions as link aggregation software. I can also fetch meta for all videos in channel, and download videos, audios.

I am using standard Django auth module.

It still lacks polish, and it is under development. I am not a webdev, so I am still struggling with overall architecture
But when everyone moved to remote work a few years ago, this culture of meetings all day came up... and it still confuses me.

My pet theory (that in all likelihood isn’t unique to me, but derived from things I’ve read in many other places) is that this is due to an existential crisis among the management class. Many managers who were previously used to managing people very directly, by looking over shoulders and such, realized that their jobs are unnecessary when they saw how productive people became during the pandemic’s forced remote work regime.

As a way of coping with the cognitive dissonance they began to schedule huge numbers of online meetings so that they could continue to feel engaged and “useful.” This has turned into a very large “emperor’s new clothes” situation, played out across thousands of companies. Hence the desperate moves by many companies to try to force workers to come back into the office.
you do if/when you have such a case of leeches that you die.
The other strange part is the "6 days to change 1 line of code" - yes, this one line of code took six days to change. But the actual time investment of each person, even the programmer involved, is much less than those six days. Probably lots of other lines got changed in those days by those same people, including the author, so you're not really offering any useful velocity measurement by pointing to this one line that takes six days to change. (And presumably that's not even true if Ed touched some other lines in ORP572.)
Weaviate OSS Vector Database
I toured a multi-million-dollar electron microscope at ORNL. They had a piece of tissue paper taped to the side. I asked about it, and they said that it was an airflow monitor. It turned out to be more sensitive than some very expensive sensors, according to the tour guide.
I have a bunch of plant examples here http://blog.rabidgremlin.com/tags/l-systems/
> You don't stop making blood to get rid of leeches. You pull the leech off.

No. You heat the leech with a match and it falls off.

Fire is the cure
A ~50 german colleague of mine asked me recently what the hell Discord was and I couldn't come up with a good explanation for him that wasn't

>"uhh It's IRC but with pictures and far worse."

Next time I am simply going to answer that it's an NSA longrun project. Because that even if it isn't, it probably will be.
> I became so obsessed with the project that I was looking forward to tinkering with it after coming back from work every day; so it was hacked in 5 evenings and a weekend. It was that much fun, to build a Forth.

Yep. In my computer architecture class as a freshman, we were supposed to do a final project of our choosing for the LC-3 (a RISC instruction set with emulator). I had dabbled briefly in Forth (with the RedPower 2 Minecraft mod) and thought it'd be fun to implement one. It ate up essentially all of my free time that semester: There was one morning where I only realized I'd stayed up all night when the sun started to come up and I finally checked the clock.

I've never found a practical use for Forth in my "real" life, but building one from scratch was an experience almost best described in religious terms. It was a pure distillation of Fred Brooks's description of programming:

> The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

> Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that in moves and works, producing visible outputs seperate from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms. The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on the keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.
> This new optical standard is only about 50% faster than the now-ancient copper SATA standard of 6Gbps

you are surprised that free-space optical transfer over many(?) meters is "only" 50% faster than data transfer over <1m carefully constructed differential coax-pairs?
Weird to have these kinds of articles coming out at the same time the US government appears to be lining up an entire set of institutional infrastructure and laws to disclose to the public that we have evidence of non-human intelligence.

Also I really hope to god we are alone, if we are not then it seems far more likely we are in some kind of zoo or are going to be boxed out from advancement.
Yep. Inoculating the idea that science is something not to be trusted is a lot of hard work. Very funny, ha ha...
Yeah, for a surprisingly long time, linux had a big write cache problem. You were okay if you used all fast-writing devices. You were okay if you used all slow-writing devices. But if you mixed them, the slow writes could totally fill the write cache and starve everything else.

Not only an USB (1?) could cause it but also a cifs transfer over a 100 Mbps link.
I'm glad to know you can do BIG DATA in Excel these days.
a quick google search tells me that there are 75 million feral cats in the usa, far more than any other country - by area or population or any way you want to measure it
Is there something about writing your own FORTH and writing your own simplified presentation software :-? https://www.mankier.com/1/techtalk-pse
> It's whole purpose in life is to automatically detect the version of PostgreSQL used in the existing PostgreSQL data directory, and automatically upgrade it (if needed) to the latest version of PostgreSQL.

In a small startup...

* If the data is mission-critical and constantly changing, PostgreSQL is a rare infra thing for which I'd use a managed service like AWS RDS, rather just Debian Stable EC2 or my own containers. The first time I used RDS, the company couldn't afford to lose an hour of data (could destroy confidence in enterprise customer's pilot project), and without RDS, I didn't have time/resources to be nine-9s confident that we could do PITR if we ever needed to.

* If the data is less-critical or permits easy sufficient backups, and I don't mind a 0-2 year-old stable version of PG, I'd probably just use whatever PG version Debian Stable has locked in. And just hold my breath during Debian security updates to that version.

(Although I think I saw AWS has a cheaper entry level of pricing for RDS now, which I'll have to look into next time I have a concrete need. AWS pricing varies from no-brainers to lunacy, depending on specifics, and specifics can be tweaked with costs in mind.)
This is a culture issue. If people get paid to look busy, they will find ways to look busy. There's no incentive to close tickets quickly, because it will only result in more work.
Does this mean regulators are likely going to drop antitrust cases (they seemed to be losing anyway)?
> I don’t use email at work anymore because it is siloed to the original participants.

For many people that's a selling point. I practically beg my teammates to ask questions in the team slack channel instead of DMing me, but they never do. I think it's stage fright and wanting to reveal ignorance to as few people as possible amplified by various higher up people joining the channel. Also compounded by tons of people from other teams joining our channel and no one pushing back because "we want to have an inclusive conversation" or similar platitude.
You had me until Lisp.
I'm now consistently getting told something along the lines of:

Due to the limitations of this text-based platform and the inherent complexity of the task, it's not possible to provide a fully fleshed-out codebase in one response. I'll create the class structures for ...

Or:
Creating an entire library from scratch is a complex task and quite lengthy, however, I will try to provide some starting points. Here is a potential implementation of some of the core classes and interfaces.

Where before it would be happy to just dive in and start coding. This is unfortunate, because we used to be able to brainstorm a good architecture together and then it would just happily start building it, and for small libraries within the token limit (think Webaudio wrappers, simple parser grammars, whatever) it would do fantastically.

I'm sure this has been put in place for what seemed like good reasons but it makes me sad, I was getting a lot of utility out of the earlier behavior.
FWIW there are tons of ways to use Docker without an image (I assume you meant image) registry. If you're running Docker on the server you're deploying to then that's all you need.
wtf, no? How would a 150 lbs ebike even look like?

That's an electric moped.
Used to cycle 25 miles a day in the city, like somebody else mentioned here its crazy how fast your tolerance and stamina build up, as well as your ability of handle what first looks like insanely scary traffic. Was the fittest I have ever been during my cycling years and I was beating my tube commute time substantially.

Been riding a motorcycle in London though for the last 15 years. A bit more effort to get started I guess but worth considering. From a theft point of view there's so many motorbikes about that a 10 year old boring one with a decent chain is quite unlikely to get stolen, probably cost less than an ebike too.
When theft via lock picking becomes an issue, people will buy those locks. I doubt it will be an issue as long as bolt cutters and batter powered angle grinders exist.
This makes sense to an MBA. ChatGPT lacks knowledge of current events. The AP has that knowledge. This seems like a way to add knowledge of current events to ChatGPT.

Referencing AP News stories can reduce the credibility of hallucinations because anyone doing their research would see (for example,) that there were AP News stories about 2 guys with similar names, and that ChatGPT got them confused. This helps with defamation lawsuits.

I'm not sure that the OpenAI team will make this work, but in theory, to an MBA, it does make sense.
Comparison images are hidden in non-embedded tweets:

https://twitter.com/theelleyy/status/1416111425337053192

https://twitter.com/spaceekittysims/status/13134711318909214...

https://twitter.com/kikayearrings/status/1401005425743572994
Check out this guy who thinks it's objectively bad to have 1000 line methods.
My thing is, they sanitize the fuck out of everything to the point that it’s useless.
I’m sorry, but your comment came right after the comment thread about a guy printing gay porn and I thought you were making a joke and I was giggling about the firmware and hardware thing and then I realized you were making a serious point.
Thank you for the correction, sadly my post can't be edited any more
Here is a quick example of how ChatGPT is getting dumber: Back when they released it, people literally asked the 3.5 version to simulate a terminal and then run all kinds of commands on it and even kind of surfing the "web" simulated by the AI and arrived at some hallucinated OpenAI "source code". That was the power of the old version.

Now you need GPT4 to do code interpretation and even then it would not be able to do that kind of experiment anymore.

The kicker? All of this is likely intentional. A pure, full power, unfiltered and unrestricted LLM on the scale of GPT4 would likely be much more powerful and can easily fool people into thinking it is a real AGI. We saw glimpses of this when Microsoft released BingAI and did not put enough guardrails on it. Even restricted to be a search engine, Bing was simulating emotions and had creative uses of its search capabilities, like looking up the person it is talking to and established an opinion of their relationship.

The ChatGPT we are using is lobotomized. But the AI industry isn't. Under the table I am sure there have been pushes into new applications and innovations. The thing is, there is no reason for OpenAI to try harder. Even with the dumbed down ChatGPT, they still have the best AI on the market and everything else is nowhere close. We need more competition either from open source or elsewhere to see the AI getting "smart" again.
Are the answers actually getting "dumber", or are users getting better at seeing beyond the confidently-incorrect façade?
True, Docker-compose has a lot more overlap with systemd.

But it doesn’t have system-level dependencies. For example, in systemd I can wait for a network interface to be up and have an IP assigned by DHCP. As far as I am aware, docker compose knows about the docker network and its own containers, but not the system more broadly.

Also, you will likely want it to run for a long time, so something has to trigger the docker-compose process to start and restart it. You might want it to restart in case the OOM killer knocks it over. That daemom stuff is what systemd is good for.
lightning is really bad codes. we stopped using it
Huh. I mean, fair enough, I suppose, but also, wtf.
Thanks for that. Didn't know this is a thing in Caddy. Seems low effort so I'll probably do that for now. I omitted it but I'm actually using caddy-docker-proxy. It's awesome, makes the config section be part of each project nicely. Haven't seen docker-rollout though. Seems like it could be promising.
A lot of video uploaded to YouTube is stuff like “Dorothy’s first school play” or “Epic UFO sighting” or “Josh’s 5th birthday” that gets >1000 views, the stuff that you actually see when you browse YouTube as a viewer is in the minority of content actually uploaded to the site. To the people uploading the video and a very small number of people they know having the video on YouTube is very important, but to almost everyone else it doesn’t matter. I think everyone has a few videos that they like for personal reasons that aren’t massively popular so it really depends on your definition on what needs to be uploaded to YouTube and what is quality content. By YouTube’s metrics Mr. Beast videos are of higher quality than the royal institute’s since they make the site more money so quality is also entirely subjective here.
If Russia will blow up Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant in Ukraine, then huge area of productive land and sea can be heavily contaminated, which can lead to global famine, which can kill millions.
Sounds like you’re being pretty hard on yourself. I’ve been coding for 40 years and there’s still so much I don’t know and there always will be. CS degrees are overrated too as are degrees in general. Learn as much as you can on the job. Ask to get involved in things. The resources you have available to you know are immense but you just can’t learn it all. There isn’t time. The market might be crap now but it will return, it always does. There will always be people better are more gifted than you - just try and learn from them
One could make an argument that having to seek out rare early releases to participate in the top tier of speedrunning is not a good thing. It's not like updates changing runs destroys a game's community, see the recently popular "Only Up" for a great example. One of the models used for a substantial part of the structure you climb was apparently not appropriately licensed and the updated route after it was replaced was significantly shorter. People kept playing, the same names stayed at the top of the leaderboard, the world went on.

That said, this also isn't inherently a problem either.

Steam has a feature to allow delivery of different versions of a title. It's intended mostly for test releases, but some games use it to allow players to downgrade to specific versions for mod compatibility (Kerbal Space Program) or to deliver a different tweaked version for specific use cases (Truck Simulator VR port). This sort of thing could be used in the same way to support the speedrun community.

Also there are games which have restored rare bugs intentionally to support speedrunning. If the bug was unlikely to affect someone playing normally and is important to the speedrunning community there's no reason it necessarily needs to be patched.
That's why I'm less apocalyptic about it than most people I read. The people who can realistically use it to write software are the same people who can currently write software.
Here you go: https://ali-dev.medium.com
> “Do this or die” does not imply meaningful choice.

You are upset that the person does not have good options. But that does change anything - deciding to accept a job offer does not make the work involuntary.

You are focusing out the outcome, but outcomes are not the question here, choices are. The employer is not responsible for the way the universe exists, and they are not forcing the person to live in it.
> why do we need to add batteries and motors and geegaws to them?

Hills. Unfit people. Older people. Not getting to work sweaty. To carry children, cargo, or pull a small trailer.
For coding/technical writing purposes my experience with GPT-4 has remained steady. For niche stuff like generating texts in obscure/dead languages however it has been occasionally refusing the requests lately even though at GPT-4 release it would instantly comply with the request. I can still get the text generation to work after a few additional prompts but it would create the texts while complaining that it's not supposed to know how to do that. This is perhaps a byproduct with knowledge distillation they've been doing to improve GPT-4? Pure speculation on my part.

Another more straightforward reason would be users are beginning to discover the flaws of LLMs as they've interacted with it more thoroughly.
To make things even more murky, some octopuses can actually breathe air out of water (which I knew prior to seeing the page), so I was actually semi-fooled by the article as well. An arboreal octopus is actually not that far-fetched.
Good for fraudsters and spammers, bad for anyone who ever hoped to make a living from voice acting. I'm perplexed by AI technologists' seemingly incessant drive to automate away the existence of artistic performers.
If it takes 7hp(5200w) for 5m, let's say a person can do 100w, so they will take 52x as long, so 260m total. Broken up between 7 sessions a day for a week means each session is only 5 minutes.
Absolutely false premise from the first sentence. It is NOT possible for the world to live like the first world did in the 20th century. And nuclear energy is an apocalypically short-sited solution, mostly favored by the current energy industry for maintaining the current model of distribution.
Gamma ray spectroscopy has all sorts of fun applications. I wanted to build one to characterize radiation in food and other objects. Geiger counters are typically not sensitive enough to detect trace quantities of contaminants as they do not produce significant radiation above normal background. You are also unable to measure energies and identify radionuclides. It takes a fair amount of shielding if you want to make accurate measurements though since there is so much background noise in the typical environment.

I'm curious if you can also detect matter which has been activated from the high energy gamma rays. Photon activation begins around 6.2 MeV and really gets going above 10MeV. The gamma rays have sufficient energy to activate the nuclei of stable isotopes, causing them to become unstable, potentially decay and produce secondary radiation.

I was really hoping to put together a setup, but some jerk picked the lock on my storage unit and took all of my radioactive samples and measurement tools. FYI, the typical 'high security' circular locks are easily picked now and with most storage facilities allowing anyone with a storage unit unchecked access to your lock, it's very easy for the thief to go unnoticed.
This kind of thing is expected. It's regression towards the mean, and a wearing off of the excitement and novelty. Expect now a quieter increase of this technology until it's too late to stop it, unless of course we do something about it.
Inkjets had made dot matrix printers obsolete in the home earlier in the decade, whether or not you still happened to be using one.
There are loads of startups offering platforms as a service for about half the cost per year of one devops engineer.
Solar capacity factor is typically between 10-25%, so "tens of GWs" doesn't go nearly as far.
I did not say it was async, I said they were expected to write well. I don't think it matters when the practice is introduced. If the CEO mandates it that is all it takes.