skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it help you learn better spelling and grammar, or do you just stop thinking about it? Is that a good thing long term?

Same with dev. Does it actually make you better, or does it make you not think about learning so much?
Except they don’t. Othwerise France would have been a wasteland by now usimg this reasoning.

We, as in the world, have enough experience with nuclear reactors to build safe ones.
> ...data loss bugs (!) in WSL2.

Mind going into this in more detail?
We have an induction stove too and it's great. But the kettle is still significantly faster at boiling water.
That seems purely emotional. An induction stove heats faster than a kettle at almost the same efficiency.
Radioactive water in the ocean is just a start
There's a long earth pin on the top of British plugs, the socket doesn't open the holes to allow the other two pins in until that's already inserted to the appropriate depth. So you can't stick anything in to the socket and touch a live wire.
You can already get one for around $7000 which seems a bit steep:

https://www.yarbo.com/shop

Lawnmower bots are relatively cheap, so the cost for snow ones will probably go down as well over time (then again the market for them is probably much smaller and yeah, snow removal is cheaper and easier for a human to do compared to lawn mowing)
Some devices can also be more efficient when using 230V. Eg: PSUs

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/469913/compu...
I think Node is still single core by default? Elixir (or rather the Beam) will handle core utilisation so if you start a load of Elixir processes they’ll be spread across multiple cores.
NHS watchdog expresses vendor lockin concerns over Federated Data Platform deal
An induction stove is still really inefficient at heating water, compared to an electric kettle with the resistive element in the water and 3kW of power.
Po-ta-toe - po-ta-toh. You can use 220V stuff with 230V plugs. There are fluctuations for each network, anyway.

Which country are you talking about?
Official announcement here: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/181

The linked article goes into more detail about this release, including:

- HNSW indexing support

- Faster distance calculations

- Parallel builds for ivfflat

One of the most common complaints about pgvector is a lack of HNSW support, so it's an exciting release for the Postgres ecosystem. Congrats to Andrew (https://github.com/ankane) on the release
In my opinion, it's the best on Linux.
Is this some kind of bad joke? "Privacy risks" of deliberately publicly posted content, abused to give cover for social media to become even worse walled gardens. That this will make real privacy worse for people using VPNs or front-ends such as nitter, that will get blocked by anti-scraping measures, is just a big coincidence, I'm sure.
The other linked article from The American Prospect better details issues on the job site:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-06-22-tsmc-semiconductor-fac...

And the NYT article from February:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/technology/tsmc-arizona-f...

https://archive.is/tJzIb
Wait, these videos don't prove shit.

In the "RealDanODowd" videos he has fitted an aftermarket accessory to the steering wheel to fake having someone touching and the other video "Elon Mode" had someone literally hack the car. Having Elon himself make a publicity video isn't a reflection on how all the cars work.

Anyway, Ford lets you use their system without hands on the wheel, as do the majority of other manufacturers. People just want to hate on Elon because of the "anti woke" crap but there's nothing demonstrably different to any other auto maker.

Way back in 2019 I rode in a Honda Civic that had lane keeping functionality (auto steering and braking) which let you take your hands of the wheel for short periods of time. I imagine the tech was about 1000 times less sophisticated, and in fact, I remember it leaving the lane and needing correcting often, where were the scary and inflammatory articles then?

Let's get real, there's one rule for any news about Tesla, and another rule for other car makers.
I’m really interested to hear more details about how this is possible, because it’s scary but fascinating!

Here in Australia we have 230V, and getting shocked is not at all common - we have very strict electrical standards for both installations and devices, residual current devices (GFCI equilivalents) now required on every single circuit, everything either has a proper ground or is double-insulated (unlike the US sockets here without a ground pin are very uncommon because you can’t plug a lot of devices in to them) etc.

There was a possibility where you could pull the plug out very slightly and slide something like a knife in between the plug and socket and touch the active and neutral pins, so the standards were changed many years ago now so compliant plugs now have insulation on the live and neutral pins for the first half of their length (see an example plug here - https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/power-cords/0321168 ).
No, it really does not. A typical induction stove has ~2kW of power on each element, and is ~20% less efficient at heating water than the resistive kettle.

This makes it about half as fast at boiling water.
UK interconnections to the continent are via HVDC links; the UK grid is not synchronous with the continental grid.
My in-laws have fried three different induction hobs boiling a kettle on them. Good quality brands too, they just can't seem to cope with frequently being set to max.
> I was never sure where all the hate is coming from. Pinterest is actually one of my favourite apps, that I use regularly – and I use very few apps.

I'm not looking for an _app_ when searching in google, I'm looking for a link to a _web site_ with original image.
If they use UK plugs it should be impossible to touch that because there’s a shutter that covers it until the earth pin in put in

Here’s a video by Tom Scott about why UK plugs are safer: https://youtu.be/UEfP1OKKz_Q?si=f8UxqwhN4tmYxFMk
It's probably the most remarkable difference. It's interesting how houses are wired for 10-20A of current everywhere, regardless of voltage. You'd assume that since European houses are mostly wired for 16A then US houses would be wired for 32A (or the other way around, if you know US houses wired for 15A, you would assume the European wires for 8A). But curiously that's not the case.

Ignoring the UK with their 13A/30A rings for a moment, since their wiring is unique.
The uk grid is not synchronized with the european grid, it is just HVDC interconnected.

You are right about the european grid, it is synchronized
Yes, I really agree, and I've gone through the same pain, but try using the alternatives that claim to be better because they have OpenAPI specifications [1]

The example shows you how to use the swagger tool, parse the OpenAPI spec [2], auto-generate GoLang glue code, call __one__ of those auto-generated functions and log a trace.

However, there is zero documentation, zero other examples, and I'm left scratching my head whether there's even one person in the world using this approach. I eventually ended up just directly using the service APIs [3] via REST calls.

OTEL is painful, but the alternatives are no better :( I really wish there's some interest in this space, since SLO's and SLI measurements are becoming increasingly important.

[1] https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin-api-example

[2] https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin-api/blob/master/zipkin2...

[3] https://zipkin.io/zipkin-api/#/
> "The delicate balance of Nature moved to a new equilibrium point that involved a lot more human deaths"

As OscarCunningham has pointed out, nature does not have a balance or an equilibrium. That's the concept of "evolution".
These extreme claims strain credibility.

"We built this thing really shabbily and look how much we saved using a different stack. Oh and we also architected it properly second time around."
I'm kind of surprised by this. An induction stove turns the entire kettle into a resistive element so water boils super quickly.

At least with EU induction stoves, so 230V.
The 50Hz and 60Hz is quite noticeable. I'm used to hearing mains hum at 50 Hz, so hearing it at 60 Hz sounds a little different. (You can sometimes hear it in audio recordings etc).

50 Hz is about a G, and 60 Hz is about a B-flat. Video comparison: https://youtu.be/pMtn-loUrg8
Lots of questions. Did it hatch there or got in somehow? Why only one? Did it cause brain damage? Did it eat the brain?
Should be the same for type G, the pins are shielded such that it shouldn't be possible for them to have exposed metal and be live at the same time.
“the company formerly known as Twitter” Ouch, that really hurts. I still call it Twitter anyway.
> Now I just need to figure out how to plumb it through to WSL. Sigh.

Wouldn't the easier way be to expose the smart card to wsl and stick with Linux (wsl) tools on that side?
And to me this seems most obvious answers. With possibility that you had other resistive loads at that voltage already sold. And people would be rather gross if they had to replace them.
I thought this link from the same source was super-interesting!

https://multicians.org/myths.html
I'm struggling to understand how the British grid works, as an Italian transplated to UK. IIRC in Italy most residential circuit breakers have a limit of 3.3 kW, so it's pretty easy to trip it with a few appliances running, and we don't even use electric kettles that much.

Yet in Britain, with a 3 kW kettle, I've never managed to trip it, with a combination of laundry machine, electric oven, microwave, dishwasher. Is there no circuit breaker limit?
Resistive losses are related to current (I^2 R), so you need thicker wires to deliver the same power at a lower voltage. I guess it was decided that it wasn't worth the expense.
Er, I'd say it's the opposite, I'm saying Musk probably doesn't need the profits and people in remote areas of the world need a working climate to survive more than they need Twitter access provided to them by burning a massive load of fossil fuels to make it happen?
In The Netherlands the allowed voltage tolerance is 10% by law. So everything between 207V and 253V should be fine. And we also had 220V until 1989.
Ironically I've found GPT to be pretty terrible with plotting libraries like plotly/dash or even matplotlib compared to just about anything else in python.
Are people actually using induction stoves for tea, though?

For me, a big selling point of the kettle is that you don't have to clean it and stow it after every use, so I would still use the kettle even if it was slower (maybe no longer for pasta or when cooking in general though)...

edit: I guess you could just get a teapot that is induction-compatible, didn't think of that.
No? It's exactly how everything worked so far.

Live performance (orchestra and operas) were for rich only. Beautiful paintings were for the noble and churches. Porcelain was something needed to be imported from another continent. Tropical fruits were so expensive that people rented them.

Now we have the affordable versions of them for everyone in developed countries, and the middle class in developing ones. Yes, often we just got inferior, machine-made or digital copies, but I personally prefer something inferior than nothing.
Obligatory TechnologyConnections reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c
TLDR: in US it takes 2 minutes more :). Is that difference that noticeable IRL?
You absolutely can. I've personally be accidentally shocked twice by pulling a firmly inserted plug out of a socket, but it was my own fault. Get the plug partly pulled out then readjust your hand to get more grip around the side of the plug and in doing so accidentally touch the non-insulated section of the live prong just as it is in contact with the live terminal
Getting shocked is a symptom of faulty electrics, not of using 230V (even in a high humidity environment).
Relevant Technology Connections video: "The US electrical system is not 120V" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmUoZh3Hq4
Wikipedia lists 61 of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_s....
Exxon says world set to fail 2°C global warming cap by 2050
> which AI will take to a whole new level of bad.

Why do you assume that?

> What should be desired, is a return to quality and respecting the user (or at least taking the time to understand them), which unfortunately seems unnecessary now with a global reach and unimpeded manipulation and influence that can ignore demands for improvement.

I know the assumption is always that Big Greedy Co™ is hiring the worst possible employees to save money, but I think it's far more likely that the scale of work required far exceeds the labour required to provide it.
Better yet why does the UK use those ridiculous cumbersome over-designed plugs?

Or, even more curious, why are so many British authorities so bizarrely (to the point it's funny) protective over electricity, fining people and threatening to call police on people who try to charge their phones in train stations, for example?
It was great, we don't need UNIX monoculture.
UK actually uses 240V, which happens to be within +10% of 230V.
Picking a small point from your comment I find interesting, the voltages vary considerably across Europe depending on all sorts of factors.

In the UK at least it's from around 216 to 253 volts. Mine is sitting at 249 now.
Paulo here, author of the post.

Thanks everyone for engaging with it and for the lovely insights in the comments here. I hope more people get to know Deming because he showed us — multiple times — that it's people AND profit, not people OR profit. Superior intellect with what I know now was an enormous heart.

Thanks again!
Which is why you have to pair carbon taxes with some sort of carbon import tarrif. The EU/EEA (who have high and increasing domestic carbon prices) have now created the legislation to introduce one - though it will be phased in very slowly over the next decade:

https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustme...
> Log scale. It's worth noting that the hard, good quests here are also significantly more consequential than the easy, good quests.

literally log scale means this. but i guess he is explaining that to people who don't know log scale doesn't linearly scale.
We have ring circuits, which are typically on 32A breakers.
I think this is why most managers take the estimates provided by developers, double them and then go up one unit of time.
Same here. I wonder if it’s something with the audio they emit or more related to the physical stimulation of the ear (by having something plugged into it).

Mine were AirPods Pro, incidentally there’s quite a lot of reports of this phenomenon with them (which might be coincidence of course considering their popularity).
Al Capone’s vault for anyone here old enough.
I’m in my late fourties’ and have witnessed only a handful of transformative technologies in my time. Nothing in the last 15 years has given me that “tingly feeling” of excitement — you know, that feeling that we’re on the cusp of something transformative — than the recent progress in AI.

While the new AI frontier might be led by prohibitively expensive (and closed) large language models, we’re also seeing great grass-roots progress at a smaller scale with modest models trained by the developer community. I trained a baby GPT the other day using llama2.c for my own use cases.

It’s Linux vs Sun/Unix all over again.
> Because they want to support Git for Windows which is built upon Cygwin/msys

I read that, but I was wondering why they wanted that because they don't say. I've never noticed git to be slow under WSL but I guess that very much depends on your repo size and exactly what you are doing. It all sounds like a tremendous amount of hassle otherwise.

I agree, Cygwin did enable us to work productively for many years. But Cygwin's drive mounting modes caused lots of pain. And the Xserver is simply awful. It is/was a constant source of issues, the worst being the incredibly frustrating crashes. Maybe they were due to underlying issues in the applications themselves but those apps work fine under WSLg (of course there are other bugs but we can still work with those).
A British kettle on 230 volts boils enough water for a cup of tea in about 45 seconds. (3 kilowatt heater, 300 ml of water, theoretically takes 33 seconds, but slightly longer because it has to heat the body of the kettle too)
There is a small difference but not much. I compared my 230V Kettle with my 400V induction stove and it’s within 5% or so. Obviously it depends a bit on what pot you use. I’m guessing most losses come from the lack of insulation on the metal pot.
Why? I'm not sure I understand the logic.

For example this: https://www.emag.ro/plita-cu-inductie-aeg-hob-hood-60-cm-ikb... (in the EU), at max power can supposedly reach 7.3kW.

Edit: Checked per element, max 3.7k, more than enough anyway.
Here's one positive use of AI: detection of shark species by drones to inform lifesavers as to whether a beach should be closed or not. This saves both shark and human lives, and is likely more cost effective than other methods (e.g. nets). Noticeably, it's the choice of data (i.e. not ingesting the labour of others without recompense), and how it's used, that make it very different to the various products that startups are producing. But it's the startups (and their owners) that will profit from misuse.
> What we would benefit from is an understanding of absolute necessities and things with immense benefit to our quality of life, and then work back from there. Probably tax usage appropriately. Then we can judge how far from the mark "x" is and maybe consider if it's worth polluting or whatever for.

It's probably easier to go the other way: identify the largest problems, and try to tackle those. No point trying to fight hundreds of entrenched behaviours and industries to prevent only a fraction of a percent of emissions. Better to make a dent in the big boys (electricity generation, transportation, land use, etc.)

> Starlink, very cool tech, is it really required? I'd say no.

It's certainly debatable. A handful of geostationary satellites can provide basic connectivity; starlink's only purpose is speed.

> Another one is driving the kids to soccer practice in an ICE powered SUV, absolute lunacy given where we are with the climate crisis and a great way to contribute to a shit future for your children.

Right: this is higher-up the list of things that can make a difference. It's only lunacy from a distance: it's often a local optimum, due to problems like car-dependency, suburban sprawl, low fossil fuel prices, gameable emission standards, oil subsidies, under-funded mass transit, vehicle-size arms race, etc. Improving those will change the cost landscape, and give local optima that are less pathological (e.g. kids transporting themselves to soccer practice).
> Contrary to the AI doomer’s expectations, the world isn’t going to go down in flames any faster thanks to AI. Contemporary advances in machine learning aren’t really getting us any closer to AGI, and [...] What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism. Its staying power will come in the form of replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy, cheap robots.

This type of reasoning is really getting on my nerves lately.

Predicting the future is hard, yeah. But your predictions don't become systematically more accurate just by tackling "boring" and "capitalism" to them.

A lot of technologies can change our societies in emergent, non-boring ways. Climate change is an emergent effect of fossil fuel usage that you wouldn't predict by just looking at 19th century factories and imaging how they would evolve with "boring capitalism". The internet is extremely non-boring and has had profound effects on our society. Nuclear mutually-assured destruction is an extremely non-boring existential threat.

It could be that the dangers of AI is from the military, or the police, or terrorists, or from corporations seeking to replace labor, other conventional threats we already have a reference frame for, yes. Or it could be a completely novel from of disaster, like the equivalent of a school shooter getting AlphaFold 8 to make a novel virus that kills 70% of the population before we even realize there's a pandemic going on. Just because this isn't something we're used to doesn't mean it's fundamentally unlikely to happen.
Hmm, I measured it once (temp increase over time, computed back into watts, compared to a watt meter on the induction cooker), and I found that of the 3,5kW I put in, 80% actually convert to temperature increase in the water. That is not too bad, is it? Are electric kettles more efficient?
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>It does not mean going back to how people lived in the Middle Age.

It basically does though. The clever technology that allows you to have a smaller carbon energy footprint usually just outsources the cost to somewhere else.

There's just no way I can see how people would have anywhere near today's quality of life without the corresponding energy consumption. Number one reason would straight up be political. You're going to have to curb a lot of freedoms from people to do it and they will have a reduction in quality of life since you will never be able to understand what's important to them.
No More Code Monkeys
AI is the only way for small countries to compete with Hollywood. I'm sick and tired of all those glorified stage plays that my country produces simply because we have no access to Hollywood money.

Meanwhile Hollywood has so much money that they don't know what to do with it - they give it to directors like Michael Bay to create all those pointless cgi-fests.
So, not only is the UK 230v, it's also wired in a ring (i.e., your circuit isn't a branch from your junction box, it's a full loop). So, for a given power capacity, you can use much less copper.

(from the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_wiring_in_the_Unite...)

UK fixed wiring circuits, unlike those found in almost all other countries, make widespread use of ring circuit designs, as well as radial circuit designs often seen in other countries. (This was one of the recommendations of the Electrical Installations Committee, convened in 1942 as part of the Post War Building Studies programme, which in 1944 determined that the ring final circuit offered a more efficient and lower cost method to support a greater number of sockets.[6]) It continues to be the usual wiring method for domestic and light commercial socket and device wiring in the UK. Lighting circuits, which typically have lower power requirements, are usually radially wired, confusingly sometimes called "loop" wiring.

So, the why is: More power, less copper, and that's really useful when you're resource constrained because someone has declared war on you and is blockading your coast, or you're recovering from that.
Because they are different languages with different VMs and different concerns. Made for different purposes. Number crunching is slower in Erlang VM (you can call C code though).
You made me check and adjust my other comment:

https://www.aeg.co.uk/kitchen/cooking/hobs/induction-hob/ikb...

3.7kW for the main element.

Also, why would it be less efficient? Due to the distance?
There's no chance I'm bothering with getting out a stovetop kettle every time I want a tea. Far easier to just have a separate kettle
If you increase Ampere you must increase the width of the cable, or it will overheat. If you increase Voltage you must increase the insulation around the cable.
Isn’t that the traditional method with a kettle that whistles?
My experience with US induction stoves is limited but I believe it can also deliver 3.5kW on boost. My induction stove boosts to 3.8kW for heating which beats my kettle significantly. I also measures the efficiency and it’s quite comparable.