skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but the point is that they hardly caused a revolution in energy storage. If fuel cells didn't exist, for the average person life would be exactly the same.

Revolutionary tech does change normal peoples lives, and sometimes very rapidly, but a lot of stuff that looks revolutionary just kind of never works out.

I'd say nuclear power is probably the prime example of this. It was supposed to bring us electricity too cheap to meter, but it's actually the most expensive form of generation that anyone bothers to build.
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that's certainly interesting. i just heard about a case in germany where a city has two different systems, and they bought new trains for one of the systems but forgot that they had stations serving both systems where those new trains didn't fit because the other system had narrower trains and wider platforms. the new trains would scrape the platform edge and take damage.
Will Google Docs provide that level of detail for revision history in a way that teachers can easily see that's it's likely AI-generated, and have high confidence in that?
We love Alpine because `/` is a tmpfs. Your packages and other modifications are all reinstalled from scratch each boot. This gives such a clean install compared to most other distributions that it's not even funny, it's just sad.

We're not particularly interested in NixOS or Guix but we really really want to find a glibc-based distribution that works this way, because Alpine's musl is terrible for desktop use, but the package management is just so amazingly simple and beautiful on a daily driver.

-Emily (see HN profile for details)
How so? The motivation and competency and ownership is the same as at say Comcast?
My company, https://www.auxon.io. We created https://github.com/auxoncorp/ferros originally to enable a customer project early in the company's life cycle.

Some time later we had another customer interested in using it and having us add some features to it (e.g. some device drivers and a persistence layer utilizing https://docs.rs/tickv/latest/tickv/). It was becoming a massive pain in the neck to work out source code sharing agreements with them, so we decided to just open source it.

There are quite a number of things that we would do differently if we had to build it again, and at some point will likely do that work to revise it. The biggest one of those is root task synthesis. The other is to build and bring in facilities for running tasks that are compiled to WASM.

Somewhat humorously, the fact that doing system & integration testing was irritatingly challenging with a combination of FerrOS (which locks down as much as possible at runtime), and black-box binaries that couldn't be changed, played a role in us leaning pretty hard into using trace-based testing & verification techniques for our distributed systems & robotics testing products.
Was it snake oil like memory compressors?

Are some instructions cooler than others?
At best it's pick two. Often you get one or none.
Let's just say the company campus I was referring to had great fly fishing nearby.
I don't even think cost benefit is the driving factor. I think making tools is why a lot of devs maintain their interest.

For any given task you'll find 5 commercial solutions that basically make it 1-click, if you're lucky a few FOSS equivalents, and 5000 abandoned github repos that implement one or two specific features in the commercial ones.

Devs(In general, not myself) don't want debuggers, they want printf. They might want Linux, but they probably like their own DIY hobby OS more.
an important question to ask is, who is ultimately allowed to control their living environment (i.e. neighbourhood)?

I think it can be easy to try and draw a circle around NIMBYism and call it a class issue. I think it could be that in part. But I also think that if people like the environment they live in, they will naturally try and protect it, and that doesn't necessarily constitute discrimination. in some ways, I'd say middle/low income people in san francisco have done more to destroy affordability in their neighbourhoods than they've done to help it by torpedoing every new development.

It is no mistake that the community holds so much power in a city like San Francisco. Look up Jane Jacobs and her book. it's a blueprint for anti-densificiation
The whole point is that intelligence is a concept that points at a bundle of related characteristics.
There is one indication that Deep blue is more intelligent than a toddler - it can beat the toddler at a game of chess.
There are other indications that a toddler is more intelligent than deep blue - they could write better poetry, play tic-tac-toe better, play checkers better, play, well, literally _any_ other game better, do arithmetic better, etc.

So on one metric DB is more intelligent. On every other metric the toddler is more intelligent.
How many bytes should be removed from your gap buffer when the user presses backspace?

Does it matter if it's Hangul?
what is natural networking like?
Chicken flesh, is food, whether you like it or not. So is Tofu, and this also comes for Brazil and other countries which have chopped down many of their forests, such as the USA.

I'll assume you're a vegetarian, and you're probably eating legumes and the legumes you're eating are exported from a country where people cannot afford them. This was an issue I had with being vegetarian, one, I was hungry and tired a lot of the time and I needed a lot more time to prepare meals to feel better. Second, most legumes I had access too where taken from India, Mexico and South Amerca, thus people in those countries were going without.

I'll continue to eat food...and if I can't get access to it readily, I'll take it by other means.

So I get it, you're being smug, but you're dismissing the fact that people need to eat food. This should have priority over burning fossil fuels for energy.

You've not refuted shit with your graphs.

McDonalds isn't going to shut down for you. They' just drop their prices to lure people back.

Be well.
No, the argument is that if this is true and it can be commercialized cost effectively that there may be an energy storage solution just over the horizon that would allow for all kinds of things that are currently impossible, such as summer/winter energy storage and other very nice to haves. It is obviously much too early to say anything about this so think of it as hope rather than anything more solid but it isn't necessarily about cheaper energy, just an almost perfect companion to cheap renewables whose main issue is that it is hard to store their output for the time when you need it most.
In 6th grade I wrote a fake virus that pretended to format the hard drive and then left the user at a C:\> prompt. I left it on my moms 486DX-33 (with a turbo button) for her to find it on the weekend. Well she never turned her computers on so it promptly left my mind that evening when I went to go play at a friends house. Fast forward to Monday morning I get called to the office over the classroom PA “ooooooh grepfru_it you’re in trouuuuubleeee”. I couldn’t imagine what I did wrong. I get to the office and the principal says I have to urgently call my mom. So I dial the home number and my mom is frantic on the phone “GREPFRU_IT MY COMPUTER ERASED ITSELF FROM A VIRUS! I TOLD YOU NEVER TO INSTALL GAMES ON IT”. Thinking: the last game I installed was a month ago. Then it clicked my fake virus. I laughed so hard I started crying. The principal and school administrators looking at me like I was crazy. I told my mom to eject the floppy disk and restart the computer. She immediately started laughing when she realized she didn’t check if a disk was in the drive. She said never do that again and hung up on me. I couldn’t stop laughing all the way back to class — to which I then pretended like I was getting suspended for getting into a fight (the whole class knew I was lying about that one though)

Ahhhh to be a kid too smart for his time again
... as in a Judeo-Christian code of ethics, or something different? Asking on behalf of everyone in the US who is nervously awaiting AirForce AI meets Christian Mingle.

As for the need of a code of ethics I agree, however ethics gets tricky fast. What are the minimum number of required characteristics/features to be tracked as "the ethics formula"? Can this be agreed upon? What bias does this minimal model of ethics introduce, because we've left out certain parameters? How does validation and benchmarking work (e.g., who owns this)? Are we committed to independent group consensus? How long before lobbyists take hold?
You might also just accept that it’s probably not the most important thing to work on. If you have any sort of scale, I would recommend split testing a new design - if it doesn’t convert better, you learned a valuable lesson :)
Because? Do your rules prevent PDF attachments, or what?
Ah yes the Rand corporation. It’s interesting, they seem to be aware of the growing fact of imperial overstretch, but cutting back our commitments and military spending are never even considered. Preserving the power of the empire is seen as an end unto itself- a goal, not a tool to do something positive for the citizens- and therefore is beyond question.
Only the bits that fix climate change (better batteries, lossless transmission)
How long should we expect vendors to support a device that may have retailed for $125-250?

At some point, if you want 10 years of support, you’re going to have to pay for it one way or the other.

When I paid $129 (including tax and shipping to my door) for my Chromebook, I was fine with getting a little over 4 years of updates from it. That worked out to be about $2.48/mo.
> What it does change is that at 150 million degrees Celsius you have some hope of extracting useful work from a very small quantity of plasma

It's also nice when your reaction quits flinging antimatter at your containment vessel :)
That's a shame. You missed an awesome show.
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"One of the top treatments by efficacy" doesn't even slightly imply that its theory of the world is more correct than those other top treatments.

Even being effective doesn't mean its stated rationale is correct. Acupuncture absolutely treats numerous conditions, but that doesn't mean meridians are real.

I'm glad you found a modality that works for you. But in general, it doesn't routinely out-perform other interventions. It is more popular than the other effective modalities because it easier to administer and sell to insurance companies, but that doesn't make it more correct.
The good news is that Unicode has stayed out of politics. Such things you're complaining about are graphemes comprised of multiple combined code points, and it's up to an environment to support them or not (Android and iOS infamously do this in China: text won't render the same within and without China.)
Red Flag Laws, that people like to advocate for regarding firearms and the 2nd Amendment, are so very controversial because of this very avenue of abuse.

A mere accusation can deny someone their constitutional rights, in additional to other costs such as losing their job.

We can't have a system were a mere unsubstantiated accusation has legal consequences.
I remember going there! There wasn't a single customer. I felt like something was very wrong and I needed to leave immediately.
The same way Christianity and Islam became prevalent. Pre-scientific people made up many stories about the universe. The ones that spread the farthest are the ones that replicate, by killing and converting opposition like these religions have. Similarly, many compounds have randomly formed that exhibit parts of what we call life. The ones that exist in noticeable quantities are the ones that successfully replicate.
Relatedly, quickselect (and it’s variants) are very important for distributed computing where sorting has higher communication costs.
Show HN: Sales job board where you can post SDR/AE jobs with video pitch
There's a powerful distinction between:

- Text linking to a general Web search.

- Text linking to the author's or publisher's choice of specific reference.

- Text linking to the reader's choice of specified reference.

There are pros and cons to each of these options, mind, but I'd specifically draw a distinction between a search engine's algorithmic approach and an author's or reader's volitional choices.
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-121
> Let’s say you’re testing a text change for a link on your website. Being an impatient person, you decide to do this over the course of an hour. You observe that 20 people in bucket A clicked, but 30 in bucket B clicked. Satisfied, and eager to move on, you choose bucket B.

Horrifying but all too common. A wise man once taught me that humans feel considerable discomfort in the presence of uncertainty, and will tend to jump on the first solution that presents itself. His answer to this was to strive to stay in 'exploration mode' for as long as possible - explore the solution space until you've hit the sides and the back and only then make a decision.
I honestly don't pay much attention to Apple stock (hello, availability bias!), so I'm curious how often it does that. Assuming that day's move was just noise, though, should we conclude that it's unrelated to the AI bubble? That there is no AI bubble? Something else?
They were together for 6 months. He likely knew the information necessary, passwords or otherwise, to access her stuff.
Two of the core tourist streets (Pike/Pine) are getting redone to be more pedestrian friendly: https://waterfrontseattle.org/waterfront-projects/pike-pine-...
He's not sliding. He's been down there at the bottom all along. Scott Alexander is fond of numerous neoreactionary ideas, especially those around race and IQ (so-called "human biodiversity"). He's admitted it himself. In his own words:

"I am monitoring Reactionaries to try to take advantage of their insight and learn from them. I am also strongly criticizing Reactionaries for several reasons.

"First is a purely selfish reason - my blog gets about 5x more hits and new followers when I write about Reaction or gender than it does when I write about anything else, and writing about gender is horrible. Blog followers are useful to me because they expand my ability to spread important ideas and network with important people.

"Second is goodwill to the Reactionary community. I want to improve their thinking so that they become stronger and keep what is correct while throwing out the garbage. A reactionary movement that kept the high intellectual standard (which you seem to admit they have), the correct criticisms of class and of social justice, and few other things while dropping the monarchy-talk and the cathedral-talk and the traditional gender-talk and the feudalism-talk - would be really useful people to have around. So I criticize the monarchy-talk etc, and this seems to be working - as far as I can tell a lot of Reactionaries have quietly started talking about monarchy and feudalism a lot less (still haven't gotten many results about the Cathedral or traditional gender).

"Third is that I want to spread the good parts of Reactionary thought. Becoming a Reactionary would both be stupid and decrease my ability to spread things to non-Reactionary readers. Criticizing the stupid parts of Reaction while also mentioning my appreciation for the good parts of their thought seems like the optimal way to inform people of them. And in fact I think it's possible (though I can't prove) that my FAQ inspired some of the recent media interest in Reactionaries."
Was it this one? https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/03/book-review-evolutiona...
Nice. I like.
Both those licenses require you to add the license text as a file to the codebase. Eg see the "How to apply the Apache License to your work" section in the Apache license link that you have there.

Since it's dual-licensed you can add one as LICENSE-MIT and the other as LICENSE-APACHE.
Scorn is not an argument. I really don't see which part you think would actually be hard for this hypothetical AI to do, if there even is such a part. The whole premise is that it has better-than-human intelligence, so it can do anything that e.g. a physically disabled human employee could do, and such people are already able to improve AIs. Maybe put more effort into defining and explaining where you think that barrier is rather than expounding in detail how you think anyone who disagrees with you is the kind of person you enjoy bullying.
> Windows cut the mustard with Windows 11

I think that phrase means nearly the exact opposite of how you used it. (Or, alternately, I really don't understand what you're saying about Win11.)

"to be of high quality" or "to reach or surpass the desired standard or performance"
Why Verily in particular?
For my fellow Windows shills, here's how you actually build it on windows:

Before steps:

1. (For Nvidia GPU users) Install cuda toolkit https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads

2. Download the model somewhere: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-chat-GGML/resolv...

In Windows Terminal with Powershell:

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
cd llama.cpp
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DLLAMA_CUBLAS=ON
cmake --build . --config Release
cd bin/Release
mkdir models
mv Folder\Where\You\Downloaded\The\Model .\models
.\main.exe -m .\models\llama-2-13b-chat.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin --color -p "Hello, how are you, llama?" 2> $null

`-DLLAMA_CUBLAS` uses cuda

`2> $null` is to direct the debug messages printed to stderr to a null file so they don't spam your terminal

Here's a powershell function you can put in your $PSPROFILE so that you can just run prompts with `llama "prompt goes here"`:

function llama {
.\main.exe -m .\models\llama-2-13b-chat.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin -p $args 2> $null
}

adjust your paths as necessary. It has a tendency to talk to itself.
One thing that I'm looking for, that might be available but I can't seem to find it is actually before and after versions of designs. Meaning a janky/template edited and then shown the key differences and why.

I saw this with "marketing examples" but then most of the are made up/faked. As in the good is example is made bad. But I want to actually see actually "okay" designs made better with a touch of thought.

But I do find that most "design" is subjective. And just need to fill your life with well thought out designs, and designers and live like a well designed life and then by osmosis or some kind of divine intervention that design style rubs off on me.
People have left. A ton of the technical people I follow have moved mostly to mastodon. Dan Luu of HN fame regularly posts on mastodon but hasn’t cross posted on twitter as often (which is sorta funny because he used to work for twitter, and left before the Musk acquisition.) Some people are still “on” twitter but post much less than they do on mastodon, like Daniel Stenberg (you might know him as the maintainer of curl.)

To be honest, as someone who doesn’t care about the twitter culture war and still sees a lot of value in the site, mastodon is steadily becoming a better place for actual technical content. Twitter blue checks have insufferable opinions, and I did better when their existence wasn’t forced on me.
I understand scale just fine. The previous record temperature was set 2 decades ago. This isn’t the cataclysmic event that the title implies.
Really thrilled to see my country (Nigeria) proposing a sub-Saharan electrical grid…when the mofos in charge can’t even supply stable electricity in their country yet.

This project will not succeed due to corruption and incompetence…you can trust Africans on that.
> I assume the energy lost as heat occurs due to the "current" going into the and gate having "nowhere else to go" other than to dissapate as heat?

Not quite, it's a thermodynamic principle that applies to any way you could possibly compute AND. Basically, the laws of physics are reversible, so your computation must be reversible too. There are 4 possible inputs to an AND gate, so to be reversible there must be 4 possible outputs, one for each input. But we only want one output for the rest of our computation, so the other one dump into the environment somehow.
check my comment elsewhere in the thread, I wrote build instructions for windows + Nvidia GPUs
The basic idea of the essay, I think, is that "an agent" is a thing in idea-space that a non-agent intelligence (oracle) has access to and can describe to a user.
"describe" in this context means "write code to represent"
Then the user is turning what was an oracular AI into an agentic AI. The idea here, is that if you think that you're safe because you haven't made an agent, just an oracle, that's a false sense of security. Oracles are just one user choice away from becoming an agent.
If one thinks agents are safe for some reason, that's a whole separate discussion I think.
Yes, true. Apropos antimatter, recently I read here on HN somewhere that lightning generates antimatter as well, and it made me wonder if earthquakes do too but I haven't been able to get a clear answer on that. Fascinating stuff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36749663
That's an awesome statistic!

I've been working remotely from Ohio for most of the last 15 years. (I did one year on site in the Bay area in the middle - I'm glad I did it, but I was also happy to move back home.)

For a little while, after my daughter was born, I rented a private office and biked to it most days. That was absolutely fantastic. But, we've since moved into a bigger house and I'm back to working from a home office. Some occasional interruptions from family, but overall it's pretty good.

For a long time, wanting to stay remote just meant that I couldn't apply to the vast majority of jobs. Not so much any more.

Fortunately I don't see myself looking for a new job anytime soon - I'm now at a company that was aiming for "remote equal" even before the pandemic, and my current team is fully remote - but it makes me happy that if I did need to find a new role today, there would be a lot a lot more options than any other job search I've ever done in the past.
> loud minority of Google haters

translation: loud minority of people who has a clue what Google really does
I think I agree. Treesize/windirstat’s list of folders in size order is just as useful as a treemap.

Maybe the treemap lets you hone in on the big files quicker but it only saves a few second’s really as you can expand a folder view to find the offending big files.
JFC, how is the _maximum_ sentence for (what I would consider had I been the victim) ruining her life for nearly a year (July '16 to June '17 from the looks of it) only ten years? I'm sure there will be a separate civil suit for loss of income, peace of mind, etc, but I would think that they would throw the book at someone like this. Not to mention the fraud he committed by forging policy cancellation letters...
It’ll be the equivalent to a shutterstock watermark.
...how do you plan to "master" something you don't understand and aren't curious about?
Great article.

This opinionation runs deep into the Kubernetes ecosystem as well (one of, if not the, biggest Golang project out there).

Here is an example: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53533
Progress causes unhappiness. It's understandable to avoid, especially when the government makes it illegal to deal with directly.
Where is the incompetence? Some systems can be manipulated by bad actors, but that doesn't mean there is a better option. One can hope that they are self correcting in the long run to minimize error.

Im honestly suprised how much work law enforcement put in to nail this guy. They surveiled his home over 3 months to get a warrant for his electronics. The obtained IP reccord from most of the victims accounts and tracked the perps website access. They brought people in for questioning, ect.

Also, the DA's in charge of the victims cases dropped the charges for lack of evidence, before the investigation took place when Kazzelbach refused to let his phone be scanned.