skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How well do solar and wind infrastructures handle tornados and hurricanes? Also, consistent wind resources are notably absent in the South/Southeast. There are no Hoover Dam-like sites available there. Do you honestly expect to tell tens of millions of people that they should just be content with a single hurricane knocking out their electricity grid for a month? That's not realistic.

You cannot plan an electrical future on the hope that the weather is always pleasant and consistent. This is one of the reasons why fossil fuel dominance continues in those regions. Go ahead and draw a map of those places where hurricanes and tornados are most prevalent and their large scale adoption of solar and wind. They're not stupid. They're not just political. There are real concerns you are handwaving away because you (likely) like in a region that does not have these same concerns.

What works for California will not work for Georgia, Florida, or Nebraska as-is. Baseball-size hail destroys huge solar arrays let alone softball-size [0]. Nuclear plants laugh at hail and would handle and have(!) weathered tornados and hurricanes just fine.

Check the numbers. Even accounting for nuclear disasters outside the US like Chernobyl and Fukushima, the number of deaths attributed to nuclear power per unit of electricity is lower than any fossil fuel, lower than wind, and about equal to solar. Just imagine if we put the same R&D force behind nuclear that we've done for solar. You think solar's cheap? It wasn't ten years ago. It was intense investment that made it so. We have the same potential for nuclear.

At the very least, we should be aggressively working toward fast neutron reactors so that we don't have spent fuel that will remain dangerously radioactive for 100,000+ years. We can "burn" that "waste" and supply the entire current need for US electrical production for the next 150 years without mining a single new kilogram of uranium [1].

[0] https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/06/27/baseball-sized-hail-...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzQ3gFRj0Bc
One useful thing I’ve found with typed languages is that I end up implementing the entire specification for a program in the type system even before writing a single line of actual working code.

Makes it easy to fix and refactor things early on and improve things from a developer experience and interface perspective.

I push implementing a function as far out as possible, when the entire structure of the program becomes clear.

This hack easily makes me 10x more productive. Plus I don’t share the same annoyances with types and TypeScript for example that other devs face. Once it’s set up (just adding a tsconfig file and a package file) the type system just sort of disappears — I mean, I rarely fight with it.

I do agree though that most of the complaints with these systems, languages, and tools really come from the vast amount of competing “getting started” and build guides that always seem to get out of date or use some radical new way of doing things that upsets the whole ecosystem. There have been so many changes in this regard. That, I will say, I don’t have an answer for.
The actual paper without the spam and hyperbole: https://www.aging-us.com/article/204896/text
Is anyone surprised by this? After all the foolish moves Musk made with Twitter, I wonder why any advertisers stick with it.
hey, the link under "tag" in eddiot news frame is broken:

https://eddiots.com/ArchiveCategory goes 404
> someone is on the other side of that transaction, lending the billions. Who does that and why? Are they perpetual suckers, unaware of the decades of experience we have doing this?

The lenders in a PE buyout are securing that loan on the assets of the purchased company. Real estate, brand names, IP, capital equipment. Their worst case scenario is that stuff all gets sold off and they get paid back from the firesale proceeds.
>Doctors in England can be paid more in their system than they make now without putting in profit motives

Could their pay increase without the doctors profiting?
It's explained in the post. It makes the total amount be roughly 100 quads, which makes it easy to estimate all the numbers in the graphic as percentages.
You read that comment incorrectly, at least as it is right now.
This is about the API, which is no longer free. They are specifically blocking NSFW content from the paid API (and, by extension, from anything that uses it) so that they can charge money for it.
I have found the opposite to be true: it removes excuses not to cycle, and going faster means we ride longer. We’ve gone long enough without starting our car that I had to jump it a couple of time.
Would be really intriguing if it were getting dumber by reading more social media and ai-generated stuff, as is happening to us
Pensions are very rarely lenders. They may invest in lenders but tend to look at historical performance.

Political appointees are not the ones making investment decisions. At most they are setting very broad themes. For example, political appointees are the ones that say all investments must be carbon-neutral.
Could one PWM such a light to display high bit color content? By my estimates: to send 9.6Gbps, you need (at least) 9.6 GHz, and that's 160,000,000x faster than 60hz. log2(160 million) = 27.3 bits.

I'm sure that this idea is more of a fun hackaday-style gimmick (i.e. not productionizable for various reasons), but would be fun to see.
Decline the meeting and say I have a scheduling conflict.
> I think people should look at the output of their compiler and fix warnings before checking in code.

I agree, but I don't think they should be required to fix all warnings before checking in code, which is what no-warnings languages like Go require.

> And frankly I'd rather the build not stop on the first error. In fact it would be best if the build system tried to link even if there are errors. Might work.

Not sure what your point is here. Most compilers don't stop on the first error.
The article mentions the Super Game Boy 2, but only in an "Aside" box.

The main point is that the original Game Boy runs at 4.19 MHz, while the Super Game Boy 1 runs at 4.30 MHz, or 5.12 MHz if the game calls an undocumented API. (At least I think that's the main point of the article; it's only stated implicitly in the numbers.)
wirelessly streaming vr
> Even worse than that, when the answer was correct, I would, again, say "I am not sure that's correct". Instead of saying, "No, it is", it would apologize and regenerate a bad answer.

I doubt that "I think that's wrong." "No, you're wrong." appears a lot in its finetuning set.
> The instantiation operation (“calling” a class object) creates an empty object. Many classes like to create objects with instances customized to a specific initial state. Therefore a class may define a special method named __init__(), like this:

def __init__(self):
self.data = []

> When a class defines an __init__() method, class instantiation automatically invokes __init__() for the newly created class instance. So in this example, a new, initialized instance can be obtained by:

x = MyClass()

Seems like a good explanation to me? Maybe people are upset that it's buried a bit in the docs instead of having a tiny out of context statement about it?

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html
I thought this rotating house was impossible [video]
The first time, yeah, but its incredibly easy to filter after IMO
If the storage facility is absolute safe against nature and current and future human stupidity and curiosity, yes.
> if there were some Unix commands that manage an arbitrary DAG

There is: tsort. It's a POSIX utility, even, not just a GNU or BSD utility.
Sure you can add 2 floats 2e16 times a second but can you do anything useful with it? I know my computing tasks have some branches in there. I also occasionally need to wait for data. Anyway there won't be anyone smart enough to write to AI program in 100 years so there will never be 1 brain equivalent.
Doesn't the reader view already do this?
You are being deliberately pessimistic. There are a million fantastic, practical uses for text-to-speech.
Yeah. What benefit does an AI company have to offer dumb normies a SOTA LLM for a reasonable price. What makes the most sense business wise is to offer a quantized dumbed down public model labeled "ChatGPT" on the consumer level and save the real model for enterprise customers or internal use.
That 224GB/s figure is some serious bullshitting. For comparison, the fastest optical ethernet transfer over fiber is 800Gbps or 100GB/s, and even that is over 8 fiber pairs and still in-development tech. Claiming to do over twice of that in free-space with "common household LED light bulbs" is pretty ridiculous.
Book Review: The Educated Mind
The IL Protocol
Fukushima direct cleanup costs are $15B: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/03/10/after-fiv...

$60B in refugee compensation.

And $200B because they stopped using nuclear for a while as an overreaction.

Oh, and the tsunami+earthquake cost over $250B independent of the nuclear accident.

Your number is FUD.
In Indonesia, people name their children after the name of the months:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_names#Origin_of_nam...
Not until fossil fuels are eliminated for all practical purposes. The only real competition we have today is against global climate change. Once we get past that hump, we can quibble about non-carbon-emitting details.

As long as coal, oil, and natural gas are burned and released into the atmosphere, the economic "competition" going forward is illusory. We're just buying the mitigation and cleanup efforts on credit.
If you apply this logic universally then we basically can't have a modern human civilization, because airplanes, steelmaking, chemical manufacturing, and many other heavy industrial applications will also be considered too dangerous. This is exactly tackled in the post:

> Fear-mongers may be expected to gin up opposition to any human future which does not involve half-naked pithecanthropoids digging for grubs with dull sticks
Why is programming fun?
See, the problem you have is a large concentration of cars.
First of all it isn't a product. It's a f*king research paper. Like dozens other showing up on HN every day. Most of them never becomes a product.

Second of all, by whining nauseously you drown out discussions on the merits of the technology, and chase people away. I hardly read Google news on HN now precisely because of that reason. Imagine if "Attention is all your need" came out now? [0]

Save your complaint for when Google makes it a product.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15938082
Same. I strongly suspect people were wowed early on and the longer you spend with it, the easier it is to see the limitations.
Tangential: I’ve been using Phind for programming related searches for a couple months now, and while it was a marvel at first, it seems to continuously get worse unfortunately. I’m not talking about adding a quota for GPT-4, which is totally understandable.

The UI which used to be very intuitive is now a confusing mess since the “pair programmer” or something update, and external links in the sidebar mimicking a traditional search engine, which I find quite useful, are gone, replaced with references following the generated answer which may or may not exist, which also waste vertical space.

The answers seem to be worse too even in GPT-4 mode. It used to quickly correct itself if I point out something is wrong or I’m actually looking for something else. Now there appears to be a lot of useless repetition of what was said before before it changes its mind, if it does at all.
I agree. I tried to use it for some basic programming questions in a language I was not familiar with and it made up so much stuff that wasted my time because it looked reasonable, but was fake.
I run that on ggml on a 5 year old CPU at about twice that speed.
No one is talking about redundancy though. I love setups like this but prod environments need robust forms of redundancy. Cloud run, k8s, and their ilk are extremely distasteful I’ll grant you (the added complexity and cost almost never are worth it. And don’t get me started on the painfully slow prod debug cycles…) but the redundancy and uptime of them just can’t be beat with a setup like this.

Also, none of the solutions discussed here gracefully handle new connections on the new service while waiting for all connections to terminate before shutting down the old service. Maybe some of the more esoteric Ansible do idk.

I TRULY want the simplicity of setups like discussed here, but I can’t help but think it’s irresponsible to recommend them in non hobbyist scenarios.
it will unlock new performance improvement scenarios.
I would bet 2 years tops
Best response would be to sneak into your friend's bathroom and leave baby scallions.
This kind of thing is malicious. It was maybe cute in the 90s/00s, but now? Too much fake news abound.
Oddly enough I'm the rare exception. I weighed my bike (21 pounds, hardly a lightweight), but it's thrown together from old parts, and hopefully not a theft magnet. But also, I'm conscious of the actual level of bike theft in my locale, and am not particularly worried about it. I can always park it next to a nicer bike with a less secure lock.
I remember reading that Royal Navy engineers maintaining nuclear submarines use Li-Fi to connect their workstations to the network.

They said it was a security requirement - does seem extraordinarily elaborate. It feels like using wires could have been a simpler answer...
Open Firware uses Forth. It's sad, that it didn't win over UEFI.

I also think to remember that it was used in movie productions to control movement and other parameters of props.
> One complaint about this setup is that paying $5/month for every service you want to run is a lot.

Oh, you sweet summer child.
They don't, otherwise there would be many former CEOs living in tents. In reality, those who control large amounts of capital are quite willing (and increasingly, say so in the open) to to deprive others of their livelihoods, homes, and ability to feed themselves in order to realize a marginal increase in their own wealth.
Thanks! I will definitely check them out. Still needs lots of work though. I'm still in the early stages so still lots of changes to come.
It's interesting how the area around NYC was the silicon valley of the mid 20th century. Most of the country's tech innovation was coming out of Bell and IBM. Has that area's loss of dominance solely been due to all the tech industry moving to California?
> I too have seen great agile

Awesome. It is a sight to behold and experience to savour.

> it required the team to be in control of its own destiny

Absolutely. If only someone had written this down. What a missed opportunity!

"The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams."

https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

> goal reporting timetable.

"Responding to change over following a plan"
claude 2 is pretty useful since it has a much higher context window so you can upload entire documents
The way the warning is worded suggests that any invocation of tup has a risk of deleting your files, implying that to be entirely safe you should commit before every single build, which would be ludicrous.
Here's my challenge, if you actually believe this and don't just want to whine at void, share some ACTUAL ARCHIVED PROMPTS you gave it, the date, response, and the current response to those same prompts.

Otherwise quit whining.
Not really. Given that the article's argument was "The old method of localizing manga was flawed because X, Y, and Z", I don't consider Y to be a good supporting detail when it essentially boils down to, "Japan has an irrational hatred of left-handed people."

One is germane to the discussion. "I'm disregarding your argument because don't think your username is very professional" isn't, unless the discussion were perhaps about lack of decorum in online discussions.
50 or 60Hz is low enough that even people who aren't sensitive can notice it. Cheap LED lighting more often flickers at 100 or 120Hz, using a bridge rectifier with a series capacitor to limit the current.
I've read this here in HN before and seems quite apt: ChatGPT is the Internet Explorer of LLMs.
Interesting post, I liked the deploy script that keeps the app versioned in the server, which is helpful to do rollbacks.

I have been running a similar setup for many years with some differences:

1. Use `EnvironmentFile` on systemd to load environment variables instead of bundling secrets into the binary.

2. Set `LimitNOFILE=65535` on the service to avoid reaching the file open limit on the app.

3. Set `StandardError=journal` and `StandardOutput=journal` so that `journalctl` can display the app logs.

4. Use postgres instead of sqlite, DO is taking regular backups for me and postgres maintenance is almost null for simple apps.

5. Nginx can have password-protected endpoints, which are useful to expose the app logs without requiring to ssh into the VM.

6. Nginx can also do pretty good caching for static assets + API responses that barely change, this is very helpful for scaling the app.

At last, I use ansible but I'm considering if its worth it, replacing it seems simple and I'd be able to keep a single deploy file that runs faster than ansible.
We already have entire industries based around uniqueness of personality. That's why "casting director" exists as a job.

People are also profoundly irrational around anything anthropomorphic, to the extent of being unable to consistently order how well humans "do work" without succumbing to biases.

I think it's inevitable not because it makes for a better AI product, but because humans are reliably easy to fool.
Some interesting stuff in here:

Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately? (757 comments, May 31)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249

(indications that making it "safe" dumbed it down even for non-controversial prompts)
Alternative take: I LOVE riding in a dense city. It’s exhilarating and gives me the wildest rush akin to downhill skiing on mountain biking, it puts me in a flow state requiring extreme focus.

No doubt it can be dangerous and no matter how honed my instincts are with regard to predicting how cars and pedestrians are going to act there’s always unpredictable risk, so I understand not loving that.

In another life I wish I had done a few years as a bike courier, I would have loved it.
Just what we needed. The largest legal crime syndicate in the US legalizing yet another scheme to suck money out the system. Most likely targeting public employee pension funds that for some reason beleive that they need to have risk exposure to all asset classes including the currency of choice for criminal transactions. Great.
My ChatGPT use is down. After the novelty wore off, it quickly became apparent that ChatGPT was exceedingly willing to outright lie to you. Which makes it not useful, unless you’re already a subject matter expert who can spot its lies. But if you’re a subject matter expert, you probably don’t need ChatGPT to help you in the first place; I can find answers on Google faster than ChatGPT can generate them.

I suppose it’s also useful for generating things like letters (things where exact truthiness doesn’t really matter). But even for that use case, I find ChatGPT creates overly verbose corporate gobbledygook whenever I ask it to generate text. So I just end up writing the text myself.
That’s gotta be the fastest hype train I’ve ever seen.
I would suspect regenerative braking (assuming that this is actually true).
The thing about PE that confuses me, in fact it's about all finance.

Why is it that a business can be bought by a PE firm, that uses the existing cash flow of the business to fund the loan repayments, but the business itself cannot get a loan to invest in new capital / buy the CEO a yacht etc?

There feels like there is a missing market. There is the super safe regulated world of public corporations, where you loan MSFT your cash and they will spend it on marketing O365 or something. And there is the highly specialised one of a kind "selling it for parts" M&A.

But where is the middle market where a PE firm makes an offer and the next day the business itself puts up a prospectus and is able to find enough semi-liquid capital to take the self same bet?

Why is it so hard to raise funds?

or ami missing something
> Fitting an 800Gbps appliance into 2-4U means you can fit into a lot more ISPs.

The work and investment to turn that 4U deployment into two 2U deployments sounds like a far more realistic and effective way to go about the problem.

> Additionally, I don't know why you would choose not to use the capacity of the system you have, just because you can easily scale horizontally.

The point is that the capacity does not exist, hence these patches being shot down by kernel maintainers for being fundamentally broken.

Also, what are the real-world performance improvements of these memory hacks? Adding another COTS box next to the one already deployed should double capacity straight away.
I’m having conversations with ChatGPT 4. Since my framework of choice has always bern Django, I’m asking how to do this in Go, and how to do that in Go. Also this https://go.dev/tour .
> Many are but they also work with for profit pharma companies to fund the work.

It is sad to think that making profits for your masters is the only incentive to do good.

It is the way the system has been built.

It is not done much for many people's suffering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neglected_tropical_diseases#Ec...
Savate, advanced knot tying, meditation, advanced shell scripting, and R.
If by "experience and participate" you mean "get hit by a negligent car", then yes, I agree. I'll never ride a bicycle again until my city is serious about cyclist safety.
Forth was influential, but it is somewhere between obsolete and niche. It is much more difficult to program in than even raw C, let alone C++ and offers no advantage in speed on modern hardware where memory access is the by far the highest priority.
You should also include dogs in your list of damaging things:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433840-800-how-a-bi...

"Birds, it turns out, seem to be particularly sensitised to dogs – even on leads. In woodlands outside Sydney, for example, a study found that people walking leashed dogs caused a 'dramatic' reduction in the diversity and abundance of birds – more than double that caused by the same number of people walking without pets."
Portable angle grinders and certain kinds of jacks. A nail clipper with a bic lighter can get through a cable in less than a minute.
>until we can and will make any radioactive waste not radioactive waste anymore

Nature does that for us. It's why burying is a perfectly acceptable means of disposal.
I am so thankful for this sane, no-nonsense distro. It's a breath of fresh air in an ocean of design decision insanity.

(Obviously whether anybody will feel this way will be a matter of personal preference.)
> Individuals often respond to social status incentives more than cash

Incentives matter. But they are not the whole story.

People act for reasons other than incentives, also.