skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Institutional investeros investing in long-term projects, here PV, are devidedly not the same category of people investing in NFTs...

I think you missed the memo: institutional investors definitely invested in NFTs during the peak fad in 2021.

> Summary: You say PV in Finland isn't feasible.

Nope, I said building PV there is possible, albeit nonsensical. People put their money where their mouth is, and sometime it doesn't make sense and they get burned. If you think markets are always right, I have some tulips to sell you.

And again, as I said at the very beginning of the thread, there's no link between economic performance and CO2 footprint, something can be a very profitable endeavor even if it's completely counter-productive in terms of climate change, or even electricity production.

> I linked to a comprehensive report on solar in Europe elsewhere, all you do is moving goal posts and repeating false claims...

“Please check my gigantic comment history if you care about facts, I promise it's totally related to the current discussion”. Yeah sure.

Funny how you at the same time write in a very confident way (one could even say “arrogant”), and at the same time only respond to very small portions of my messages (“California”, “NFT”), putting the annoying parts under the rug.

We're losing the climate battle by a large margin, but shills like you are in full “this is fine” mode “solar will save us”, this is so depressing…

Like solar? Want to invest in it? Then finance solar panels where it make sense, in the middle East, in India, in Africa, in South America, and stop wasting them in Finland or Canada… Otherwise it's as stupid as Germany that got rid of its perfectly working nuclear plants before spending a decade trying to catch-up in terms of CO2 emissions (it's still has among the most CO2-heavy electricity mix in the EU to date), wasting hundred of billions in the process (while increasing its dependency to Russian gas, which their economy has now been paying a dire price since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine: play stupid games, win stupid price…)
Kempower introduces Megawatt Charging System for EV charging at 1.2 megawatts
Originally Wordpress 6.4 was supposed to introduce a native way to change fonts through the Font Library addition, but it’s been postponed until 6.5.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59166
So it's a matter of the city appointing/the voters electing better DAs?

The fact that a cop can't be jailed due to qualified immunity is not directly related to the fact that he would be fired long before that for not behaving up to standards.

Police is subject to checks and balances, their transgressions just don't seem to be the priority for voters.
Telcos filed blank robocall plans with FCC and got away with it for 2 years
Gen Z is quiet quitting because we've seen Millennials suffer economic hardship
And, uh, pass on nightmare homes. It might not happen frequently, but it does happen.
Having been in the criminal justice system I tell people "don't do anything that might look criminal."

(and don't make enemies of police either, as they can easily set you up/charge you)

You can lose a whole decade of your life in jail waiting for a trial that never comes.

Source: experience.
I actually think this is a really good idea for people who don’t have an organized workflow. Too bad there are so many haters on HN. Really excited to see how it progresses!
Public subsidies work, I'm not doubting that.

USSR used to grow orange in Siberia too, that a state program can do it doesn't mean it's efficient in any way…
The idea that Chinese families give up their born infant babies because of gender is a racist extrapolation of sex-selective abortion, yes. It was one of the big issues I had with the book, along with some unnecessary racial slurs earlier.

I don't see the fascism angle, though. What about the Mouse Army was a fascist story? I thought their story was good, aside from how the author justified the existence of this large group of unwanted children.
Was probably the inspiration for the movie “Brazil”, released in 1985 where the pneumatic tube system is part of the complicated and extensive "Central Services" administration.

Incidentally Brazil is for today's digital dystopia what Koyaanisqatsi (1982) is for environmental instability.
HypOps channel on youtube has the most detailed strategic simulations I've seen recently. Would love to know if anyone else has channels to share.
I agree, it can definitely be useful. I will push something out around this soon!
Same!! I absolutely loved a Diamond Age! I think about that world and humanity's future often!
> Currently the alternative to solar and wind, is coal and gas.

No, and this vision is the problem. Hydro, geothermal, nuclear, are other options that can make sense depending on the context (of course you don't want to start a nuclear program from scratch, but if you already have a nuclear industry and you're in northern Europe, then it makes much more sense than solar).
They are using ground based telescope observatories. "...To receive the downlinked high-rate data sent from the probe, NASA is relying on the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, which sits atop a mountain south of JPL."
I took it to be a bound manual (software used to come in massive boxes with HUGE manuals).
> Unless you're in the EU

I am in the EU
blogging never went away completely, it moved to substack, medium, and twitter notes
Yes, there can be too much beer in the house.
OpenAI's flagship AI model has gotten more trustworthy but easier to trick
Michael Nielsen (with Andy Matuschak) also wrote about how Hindu-Arabic numerals enabled more powerful kinds of thinking (compared with Roman numerals.)

https://numinous.productions/ttft/#how-to-invent-hindu-arabi...

> ...the Hindu-Arabic numerals aren’t just an extraordinary piece of design. They’re also an extraordinary mathematical insight. They involve many non-obvious ideas, if all you know is Roman numerals. Perhaps most remarkably, the meaning of a numeral actually changes, depending on its position within a number. Also remarkable, consider that when we add the numbers 72 and 83 we at some point will likely use 2+3=5; similarly, when we add 27 and 38 we will also use 2+3=5, despite the fact that the meaning of 2 and 3 in the second sum is completely different than in the first sum. In modern user interface terms, the numerals have the same affordances, despite their meaning being very different in the two cases. We take this for granted, but this similarity in behavior is a consequence of deep facts about the number system: commutativity, associativity, and distributivity
This hasn’t been my experience. Recently reported a large problematic activity involving hundreds of mailboxes. The post office told me to call the postal inspectors, and the postal inspectors said call my local office.

Idk where the “postal inspectors are bad ass” meme comes from online, but from my sample size they’re just as useless as any other government org.
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Unless you do it over wifi, then it's technically wireless fraud.
Appreciate the encouragement!
> I do believe that fully remote teams should meet in person

> I think it's really important to meet the human being behind the screen.

> I'd rather spend hours in a meeting room than hours on a Zoom call.

But why?
You can define nested types for args and return values:

def foo(bar: dict[int, dict[int, str]]) -> list[tuple[str]]

In older (< 3.10 ?) versions you have to import the classes from the typing module, but other than that it’s the same. You can also define types with the Generic class if you’d rather.

With live checks while you write, it’s pretty easy to do this as you go.
I will give you time to respond to my other comment rather than pestering you over the thread, but when you do respond to it I think it adds to what I'm saying to make clear exactly where I'm disagreeing with you: Your position is that the author thinks TYLIP wouldn't work, I don't think that is supported by the text of the book, exemplified by the Mouse Army.
You are right. Still, you need intimate knowledge of the state of the art in whatever field you're approaching to make your dent. And type theory, which TS gave as an example, is a field where all low-hanging fruit were picked decades ago so you'll have a lot of reading and understanding to do to get started. Something more "applied" may be more approachable. Like type theoretic construct X as applied to TypeScript to prevent integer overflows in domain Y (I don't know anything about type theory). A good supervisor could help TS pick a realistic subject. Unfortunately for TS, not every supervisor is good... But even with an awesome supervisor, awesome subject, awesome work ethic, and awesome talent, it's a lot of work.
Because the goal of a vulture crapitalist is to sell at the exponential part of the sigmoid curve.

And of course, sell the idea that "the next big idea" is exponential at 30x..... Until you hit the top of the sigmoid.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

EDIT: Whoops, I forgot to fellate venture capital. You know, the group of companies that would rather leave smoking ruins rather than happily sustainable to 5x companies, and deign to get anything less than 20x companies... and ideally 30x companies.

This is the same group of companies that destroyed Bed Bath and Beyond, Instapot, Toys-R-Us, and loads more, all to cash out and get a jackpot than actually create sustainable and happily workable long term companies.
> All we have to do is pay for it (and so I ask everyone to)

This is my take with Social Media now as well, and cloud hosted LLMs.

I pay my own OpenAI API usage fee, which is less than the $20 for their official program.

I plan to pay Reddit via their API to use an open source client as well so I can consume the content (ad free) in the way I prefer.
Your [1] shows 4% of Americans currently engaged in gig work, and 16% of Americans having ever done gig work. What's your threshold for 'common'?
I moved to Europe about a year ago and I think I get about 2 or 3 robocalls a week. Which is pretty bad considering my phone is on airplane mode any time I'm on wifi.

Pretty bold of those companies to submit blank documents. I wonder if there was something that inspired them all to do this like a phrase somewhere saying that they have to submit something even if it's nonsense.
What do you mean it "didn't work"? The goals of the people who gave the books to the mouse army were different than the goals of the original primer's creators, therefore it had a different result. How is that "didn't work"?
PyTorch got faster despite more Python, less C/++
That's where I've landed for the most part. Last real gasp for dev-board-style SBCs, for me, is when I'm severely space constrained, but can afford to locate a USB hub somewhere else. Then its just simple serial comms with a microcontroller that does the timing-sensitive pin twiddling.
Or less that $1 for a SoC powered by 32-bit RV32IMAFC RISC-V “SiFive E24 Core”.[0]

[0] https://pine64.com/product/pineseed-bl602-wifi-ble5-soc/
Surgeon would absolutely use a tool that tells them when they're about to make something that's 99% of the time a mistake.
All types of poker, or particular variations?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poker_variants
> That is a great argument for never building a hot tub, or participating in a project to build one.

The hot tub is the land in this metaphor, no-one builds it, someone just put their butt on it first.

> Why bother making a tub, a neighborhood, or a community if it can simply be taken from you.

Something the younger generation has been asking itself for decades, since things are set up so none of us ever gets to "own" a place to live.

> Id rather burn mine to the ground

That explains so much about how the older generation has been acting politically.
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Source Code for Google Chrome Malware Loader Alleged
As Jetbrains is originally a Russian company, here's one Russian proverb reflecting on what's told in this story:

- Хороший понт дороже денег.

An English equivalent would be:

- Making a splash is better than cash.
Wow. I don't know what to say about that video.

I did a crazy stunt proposal, but it wasn't douchey like this. And no photos or video were taken.
Just a general tendency of all excessive violence always(ish, I can think of one exception) happening to be against colored people?
I do want to implement this, thank you! It would be cool to give users options for how they want their tabs grouped.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2055/how-... has some background on it, and it was a huge success for Microsoft.
I hated that about DOS, real-mode and BC++. After about 6-8 months of that misery, installing linux and learning to write C code with GCC was the best thing that ever happened to me. I felt like an animal being released from a cage and into the wild.
Definitely a Stephenson issue. It's a meme for sure, but there is some truth in it. Nowadays when I re-read any of his old works, I tend to stop after getting about 80% through. That said, I do think that these incredibly complex narratives are extremely hard to wrap up neatly. GRRM has this issue as well.

That's the problem with letting characters act how they would actually act, and make decisions that make sense for them. Those decisions often don't end in a way that's concise and brings closure.

I think he tried to sidestep this issue quite a bit in Seveneves in a fairly clever way. To me personally (and I know there are others who disagree), the third act felt the weakest. Despite that it did bring closure to the story. There was no finality to the characters themselves - it skipped over all of that, but there was closure to the story.

One thing I'm curious on the other end of the spectrum - who does HN think writes good endings to complex scifi stories?
Is a CSV not a good API? Most systems will allow you to export data in a columnar CSV format. Being able to then import these would solve the problem. "Swivel chair handoff"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234451/
VirtualBox 6.1.48 (Old Stable)
It's cool that they have $$$ to spend on stuff like this. I think we should encourage it if it doesn't make their products worse.

This thing is decoration. It's useless. And that's why it's fine.
VirtualBox 7.0.12
The robotic barista Jarvis is smart with the computer vision feature. It can detect unexpected object, object in an unexpected location and many other error cases with an "eye". Basically robot + CV is a smart and flexible solution. The team is adding new components and features on new generation Jarvis. A software based solution is flexible and friendly for remotely manage and upgrade. Jarvis can learn new skills with an simple upgrade.

This setup still uses regular La Marzocco Espresso Machine, Grinder, Ice Machine. The required footage is very small. There is not extra cost for the setup.
> free market economics

> nor do I want to live in a community that has ADUs

Would you rather have a free market or a local land use committee to forbid ADUs?
As a white person who has spent some time in China. It definitely is a thing. I have not been paid (also not interested), but have definitely been invited places for no reason other than to add a foreigner.
Not everything in the world is there to “get you”. Men who have friend girls tend to have much easier time finding “mates” in my circles. Again no citations, just observations. And it kinda passes the smell test, as it’s so much easier to talk to opposite genders when you somewhat know what’s going on in their lives.
I didn't think we were restricting the discussion to modern western cultures. In some cultures, marrying your brother's widow has been required; we generally see this as being part of the social safety net in that culture.

In some cultures, marrying your brother's widow is prohibited because it counts as incest.

I don't know how I would describe the state of this variable in modern western cultures. In modern America, I tend to think it would raise eyebrows and people would be uncomfortable with you.
I think it's a cyberpunk thing. There's all this action, and it is fascinating and absorbing. It's all leading up to some major reveal and then -- the reveal is disappointing.

There is the concept of a MacGuffin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin. It's the thing that sets a story in motion, but is actually irrelevant, beside the point. Like the Maltese Falcon in The Maltese Falcon. The important point is something else entirely, usually about human nature.

What The Diamond Age, and much cyberpunk do, is introduce the MacGuffin, but then they stick with it, forgetting that the MacGuffin is just a plot device. They mistake the plot device for the plot itself, like the whole point is to retrieve The Maltese Falcon. The MacGuffin is a point from which the story takes off, not the point of the story.
Will leave this here for people who might want to look at a comprehensive phd thesis on this matter. I personally found the reasoning very agreeable.

https://www.academia.edu/105134798/A_Partial_Decipherment_of...
That's not true at all.

They had already studied the evidence on February 2 when they had the slack conversations. No new evidence appeared.

Then they said out loud that they were changing the paper's conclusions away from their actual beliefs because of the political consequences:

> “Given the shit show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possible distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content to with ascribing it to natural processes.”

> “Yup, I totally agree that’s a very reasonable conclusion,” Andersen responded. Although I hate when politics is injected into science – but it’s impossible not to, especially given the circumstance. We should be sensitive to that.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/07/21/covid-origin-nih-lab-lea...
"One book opens another" - supposedly an adage from alchemical literature
I have often thought it would be good for there to be a journal that specifically focuses on trying to reproduce existing high impact (and even medium or low impact if there's time) studies. Unfortunately, verification is not seen as glamorous, but it's important work that not enough people are doing.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/irans-rockets-palestini...

also, it was 500 1min after it happen (very quick count), then it went down to 40 and then it went up again. don't forget those numbers are provided by hamas
To zoom in on one part of the post:

> Emotion & Empathy

> PRIMER: seems to show a level of empathy and emotional understanding.

> ChatGPT: can recognize and respond to emotional cues in the text, but it doesn't "feel" emotions in the way humans do. Its responses are based on patterns in the data it was trained on.

Isn't the fictional PRIMER also just responding to patterns in whatever data it was trained on? Sure it's fictional so there's no real answer, but I think it's interesting that the a̶u̶t̶h̶o̶r̶ ChatGPT seems to imply that the Primer's emotions are more real than ChatGPT's own. I would have assumed that the Primer also doesn't "feel" emotions in any human way, but it's just far more sophisticated than ChatGPT.

edit: Oops I misattributed this to the author but it was ChatGPT generated, which is more interesting! ChatGPT is asserting it doesn't understand emotion while implying another non-human AI intelligence does. Seems like more OpenAI hard coded rules put in to prevent ChatGPT from becoming too scary.
WordPerfect on IBM AT, checking in.
The gaussian splatting method optimizes the gaussians to lie in the volume of the object, so the approximate the surface well. That's why I figured it might work decently with a level set method.

I'm basing this off looking at the examples from the 4D gaussian splatting[1] posted here the other day[2].

[1]: https://guanjunwu.github.io/4dgs/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37905601
> Viruses and bacteria are unique in the fact that they can harm the whole globe as opposed to chemical and other disasters that will likely only harm the immediate area.

First of all, you added in bacteria, which are not viruses.

However, this statement isn't a useful statement "X is unique because it can harm the whole world, as opposed to Y that will likely only harm the immediate area".

The implication is that X will almost always harm the whole world, and Y will almost always impact the immediate area, but that's not necessarily true.

(I would remind you the "1% chance we'll ignite the entire atmosphere" of the Manhattan Project. Fortunately, any future nuclear weapons we might develop will almost certainly be less powerful... oh wait.)

It also implies that the risk of X and the risk of Y doing harm are equivalent, and that's undoubtedly not true. It's ignoring the reality that nature is already doing X all the time, and primarily in high population centers.

> And harming the whole globe is all the more certain for infectious diseases if you put them in the middle of a large city with lots of air travel.

I would think it'd be all the more certain if you're regularly putting the researchers working in the lab, along with any biological samples they might have, on flights to and from such large cities.

Pandemic risk is a systemic problem and has to be evaluated as such. Controls/mitigations you have in place generally have way more impact than where the experiments are run, and it's really not as simple as "well if the lab is away from people that reduces the risk".

> Why would you need to transport things at high speed for speculative research involving newly generated viruses/bacteria?

Because this research is not isolated from reality. Much of what they do is take samples from the real world, observe virology in the real world (both human and non-human populations), and work with front line healthcare workers who are usually the first to see new viral threats. Without that you pretty much eliminate the value of the research entirely.

> I never said anything about analysing things involving people who are actively infected, but there the disease is already out in the public, so the risk profile is completely different.

The threat doesn't come directly from a virus that is already out in the public. It comes from how a virus that is already out there might evolve. You appear to believe that nature is conducting fewer and less significant experiments in evolving viruses than people in labs. I don't think that is supported by the evidence.

The pandemic risk profile with a virus that is already out in the public is that it might evolve into something that has never been out in public before. Nature is conducting these experiments every day, all day. I'd be more worried about the outcomes of those experiments than anything going on in a lab.