skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During my childhood we lit our homes with ridiculous incandescent lights that were powerful enough to fry an egg (a trick my friends and I used to pull off with a floodlight.) Our entertainment came from TVs that used enormous energy-hungry cathode ray tubes. Our home PCs used dozens of times more power than the iPhone I have in my hand, despite being a million times less powerful. Today I drive an electric car that is somewhere between 2-8x more efficient than the gasoline clunkers of my childhood. I could probably go on about heat pumps, but you get the point. At the same time, nearly everything I own or use is nicer and more luxurious than the things I had when I was a kid, even though those things are rose-tinted in my memories.

Meanwhile the cost of energy is going down faster than at any time in my entire life. They’re building an 800MW offshore wind plant off my coast, and another 2000MW is scheduled to go in down in Virginia. The per-watt cost of solar is now below most fossil fuels, and continues to plummet each year. None of this is perfect - there are still challenges related to capacity and demand matching - but it’s hard to argue that we’ll be facing some kind of long term society-limiting energy crisis in my lifetime, absent a world war. If anything we’re about to enter a period of absurd energy abundance we don’t yet know what to do with.
Your link from an ID verification company says “it depends” wrt fake id liability. I suppose there are sane places and crazy places in the world, for a limited time at least
I will say towing with my weak 2.3L engine is pretty comical. I have a hitch but it can’t pull much more than a flatbed trailer or a small sized UHaul. I suspect as long as you never took it on the highway though you might be able to really tow something of decent size with it, with the expectation you’d never be able to get it to go over 45 MPH.

It constantly does way more than I would expect though. I took it up a few mountains in Colorado and its little 2WD was going over rocky roads that you would basically otherwise need a Jeep to handle. Maybe that’s how I broke my sway bar.
Ethics is far from useless. It has important connections to open issues in society and e.g. birthed the effective altruism movement.

Metaphysics is useless similar to any foundational research. Theoretical (as opposed to applied) mathematics is also largely useless. Nobody expects to use transfinite set theory in practice. Or the cosmology of the early universe, for that matter. Or an interpretation of quantum mechanics. A lot of non-foundational research is also useless. Research on the evolutionary origins of the ichthyosaurs. Or the surface properties of Pluto.
I've found that Bard has an overly aggressive filter, like if I'm brainstorming ideas about thieves in a fantasy world (think Lies of Locke Lamora), it will frequently refuse to cooperate.

I think it's running some kind of heuristic on the output before passing it to the user, because slightly different prompts will sometimes succeed.

ChatGPT's system is smart enough to recognize that fantasy crimes are not serious information about committing real crimes or whatever.
I think the people that created smartphones and social media had the best of intentions, but the resulting effects on mental health are profound.

At the same time, it is hard to imagine someone letting go of implementing an idea because of vague negative future effects that are not real in the present. And there is a lot of money incentivizing betting on lots of new ideas to see what takes off.

So it's like, if we uncover the next transformative technology that we know little about the future effects of, we just have to eat the cost of proliferating it everywhere before countermeasures can be figured out, if they can be created at all?

Sometimes I think the ease of virality in software could be a Great Filter. If not something farfetched like human extinction, then the Great Filter of human isolation, or of lasting intergenerational conflict, or something else that's profound but not totally catastrophic. Not only is new tech too tempting to spontaneously put down, but it's nearly impossible to know when to put it down. I think maybe if information overload and the like was hypothesized about like AI is starting to be today, we would still not be able to leave social media uninvented, because nobody had tried it and witnessed it fail yet. But the Great Filter comes in when maybe you can only witness certain failures once.
And title insurance
This is pretty interesting timing, no?

Mortgage interest rates quite high, housing inventory not moving a lot, and now the National Realtor Association getting disrupted.

I feel like this sets the stage for some serious change, but no idea to what end.
What's the worst piece of tech you've ever owned?
Drawing on the recent article about Kant [1], if a concept is a mental categorisation of patterns within our sensory inputs, and reason is the mixing of such concepts according to some rules, and arriving at novel concepts that we have yet to experience as sensory inputs, then philosophy is a discipline that is in danger of a combinatorial explosion of concepts. While adhering to the general rules of reasoning, such higher order concepts are far removed from the real world because they are built up on multiple layers of abstractions. And it never need to stop because one can keep building abstractions on top of each other, and one has people to talk with who speak the same abstractions. I suspect this is is what has happened to philosophy.

I think past philosophers drew more from history and their own experiences (closer to the "metal" as it were) than the writings of other philosophers.

On that note, it is interesting that we've not seen any contribution from modern philosophy to alleviating some of the greatest existential crises the world is facing today: e.g. "How much inequality is acceptable, if so, why? What are the ethics of damaging public goods such as the atmosphere? To what extent should citizens be held accountable for the war actions of their representatives? How far back can a historical claim to land go? Should the law view natural persons (who possess a conscience) and artificial persons such as corporations (who do not) in the same way?"

[1] https://ralphammer.com/immanuel-kant-what-can-we-know/
It’s not 20% market share it’s a fraction of that 20% that would potentially use Apple Pay. We’re talking low single digit percentages of total customers which is worlds apart from monopoly power.
Wrong.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/jpl/methane-supe...
Crazy how companies seem to be at high-level war with their customers. It's the end result of an oligopoly I guess.
Excess is excess.

Waste is waste.

Areas that are short on revenue...and need to *invest* in the future...

Well, I trust you can see where is is going.
I'm not sure a market is free in the sense people mean by that term when the market is dominated by network effects. A free market in that sense requires competition and the ability to upset existing players. As an example, you can't upset Google search, and even having a 80B company with an LLM integrated into a 2.5T company is having a hard time displacing them. If that's still a free market then I'm pretty sure we could claim the USSR was a free market and just that Stalin's Communism LLC dominated.
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5poLSRa3cpHBfiJ6wQdT...

Frank Tedesco, pianist / musician meets people on Omegle, takes song requests and plays them - and for ones he doesn't know, he listens once on his phone then plays them by ear.
I don't know about lo-res, but the HDR images are always a big tell when I look at postings.
Big fan of aider too. I spend way too much just playing around in repos.

I think Paul is somewhere on HN too.
Design Guidelines for Domain Specific Languages (2014)
I think that's why there's a big focus on its ability to write code: Spend the gpu-cluster cost once, generate code, run that code on tiny instance. Need to make changes? Warm up the cluster...
Yonaguni
I finally understand—-thanks for this example.
Turkey is set to get 10% of its grid electricity from the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant [1]

The build cost has been 22B (excluding loans) and it will have a capacity of 4456MW meaning it's $4.9/W.

On average the cost per Watt for solar is 27 cents (excluding loans and costs for storage) [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkuyu_Nuclear_Power_Plant

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices

EDIT: incorrect calculation
if you plan to include electrical in this, you're probably going to run into some issues with the building code.
Who could’ve guessed, coming from some of the biggest violators of financial privacy in the world.
Really curious how the show down over AI went. Even yesterday it was still being reported the studios weren't budging & were insisting on rights to reproduce actors however they wanted in perpetuity via AI. Hard to imaging there will be a SAG or actors at all in the future if that stuck.

Seems like Netflix &al was able to keep actors from getting a real cut of streaming revenues.
Sure, here’s a lawyers take - https://www.robertnkatz.com/amp/liability-for-selling-alcoho...
moot sold 4chan long ago
I’m so glad to see Harry Mack getting love on here. It’s wild that he just shared his last episode on Friday and now the site is shutting down. Glad he already took off and found success.
Yep, Verizon offers machine plans as low as a couple bucks a month. We use them for ambulance data connections.
What I got from a quick search, the order was:

* Omegle started with anonymous one-on-one text chats

* Chatroulette launched ~half a year later

* Omegle copied Chatroulette ~half a year after that

I've not used either one so I don't know if there was more to it. Does explain how I knew about Chatroulette but not this one, even though people up above were talking about how it was an original idea.
I find that it's very similar to mob tactics. Prospective homeowners just get passed and funneled from person to person that they effectively have no choice but to interact with. And each of those people take a piece of the pie.
It’s nothing that we haven’t dealt with?

Did I ever state that everything we do has to be harm free?
That scrambling often comes too late to avert serious damage or deaths though.
The genie is already out of the bottle, you simply cannot take away a feature like this that people have already gotten used to and not expect a backlash.

There’s no good decision to make here.
Charlie Chaplin may have been there first. (Never diagnosed, but they didn't much diagnose depression back then.)

https://www.grunge.com/128829/charlie-chaplins-tragic-real-l...
> We know from people that have actually consented to be in the public sphere (politicians, performers, etc) that even denying an accusation against you still leaves you a pariah with the scarlet letter, to be ostracized in some cases.

Your actions as the officer of a company are generally considered to be "public".

You don't have a right to privacy over your business (you certainly don't have to answer questions from a journalist either, but they're not generally invading your privacy by merely asking them).
He was retiring the series at 100 episodes anyway, but yeah a sad day.
It's wild for an industry with such a low barrier to entry, overfilled with such jokers in the good times, and starving for business in the bad times.. they managed to protect their 6% fee so long. Cartels really do work.
Second vote for that - I'll def check it out. If you've used anything else better or worse I'd be happy to hear experiences.
Probably should sue whoever manufactured the device, the ISP, and definitely whoever provided her with the device and paid for her internet access.
Doesn't seem paradoxical to me at all. If you learn enough about the world, quite a lot of it turns into a big joke. It's a surreal feeling. Like nothing you do matters because it's all just an absurd joke.
No, they were finding them, outing them and reporting them. As he says in the post. There were doing that work.

They're being sued by a victim for not preventing the victim from being manipulated by an abuser. The fact that the abuser was caught and convicted with Omegle's help is apparently irrelevant.

It's hard to see how Omegle could have done this differently; no crime occurred until the victim was abused, and once the abuse happened any subsequent action is irrelevant because the victim was still abused.

Roblox will have more ability to hire lawyers to win the victim's court case. That's the only difference.
Used to work in utah, warren buffet is damn close with the mayor and team and threatened to use his full power if state starts using more renewable energy, he has huge coal mining shares fyi !!
There's a related phenomenon I've seen a lot, sometimes firsthand, of people who consider themselves shy while others consider them the life of the party.
natural language also has its wats
We don’t talk about 2 girls 1 cup anymore. Or goatse. Ugh, man those were a rough time.
I feel like we have had electronic databases with backup capability for so long that errors in titles should have long been a thing that does not happen anymore.
Wikipedia is so fast, soon they will predict the news
> Digital libraries are far more inefficient because of overly strong copyright laws and impotent fair use laws, not because there is something intrinsically wrong with the digital format.

It saddens me that we are doing our best to destroy the intrinsic advantage of ebooks: availability for anyone to read, nearly anywhere in the world, basically for free.

These are nearly ideal properties for libraries and readers, but are bitterly opposed by authors, publishers, and distributors who depend upon the current publishing business model.

I'm not sure what the right balance is among stakeholders, but it's certainly not what we have now. The loss of value to humanity as a whole is great, and most authors don't seem to have decided to embark upon a new writing spree simply because copyright was extended.

At least we can finally enjoy the bestsellers of 1925 (such as The Great Gatsby) without worrying about copyright or royalties.
> Imagine a transportation technology that killed orders of magnitude more of people every week. That's the reality if you just magically s/car/jetpack/g for everyone.

Where is the problem: those people who don't have this risk affinity don't need to buy/use a jetpack. Similarly, not everybody should go ice climbing or BASE jumping. Thus I see no reason to outlaw jetpacks just because of their danger.
The US has actually tried small nuclear reactors before… “All components limited to packages measuring 7.5 by 9 by 20 feet (2.3 m × 2.7 m × 6.1 m) and weighing 20,000 pounds (9,100 kg)”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1
Because so many common problems can be solved by application of wealth and/or power, it's almost a tautology that the rich and powerful will be left with problems which are largely insoluble by external means; hence to reconcile oneself to the inconsistency of their constraints, it is useful to seek the consolation of philosophy.
Age verification in a way that is both robust and privacy respecting is an impossibility.

Pick one.
indiana jones style. people may start suspecting when they see your desk full of weird heavy trinkets
Just a minor point: while tsan is extremely helpful, it is not guaranteed to catch all data races.
I was growing up when the first people got BBS' and CompuServe. I don't miss the days of dial-up.

I miss the days just as you learned Google could answer questions you asked in free-form, without the censorship and advertisement preferences they give today. Those were better days on gonewild also.
So that's what Green Day was signing about
I grew up addicted to IV but since I discovered how much of their music is basically stolen (more so than most artists), I simply cannot listen to them. The originals are great though!
Show HN: Zobi – AI editor for Vue and Tailwind components
Any feedback is greatly appreciated
It's even worse.

It first reached a full stop after hitting the pedestrian.

Only then the car decided to pull over and dragged the pedestrian, ending with it's wheel on the pedestrian.

This is reportedly what caused the major injuries.
Not when it’s an IP literal.
Tell of what?
Instagram does a ton of A/B testing on new features, I'm sure they could have done the research.
lozenge tiling ...some very complicated formulas for something that seems so simple

putting a hole in the center of a tiling grid turns a trivial solution into one of immense complexity
Yeah, I've hired great, average, and lousy devs before (and been one) - I will keep my hiring on this project to people who like to make, serve, and talk beer.

Hope is that I can do the heavy lifting of getting things up and have something stable enough for me to run and a manager to be able to log in and see, at most.
Cruise recalls entire fleet of cars after San Francisco crash
And the underbody coat that totally failed to rustproof my home
2-4% is very high. It essentially means none of your trips can be completed without remote intervention.

This puts your cars and the safety of the whole city at the mercy of reliability of mobile networks. This is a fundamental architectural change in the design of the city. Do the telecom operators take liability if they can't meet their designed SLOs for availability? What are the worse case scenarios that you have considered?
This definitely may have destroyed the career of a large number of widely popular youtubers... It certainly destroyed their format anyway.

Imagine they'll hop to a different platform.
> Should we ban kitchen knives because they're sharp?

How about spoons? https://nypost.com/2019/05/16/police-station-mocked-for-phot...
Probably a bit of both, and to make herself feel better about it when things continue to get worse.
It’s important to remember that research and commercial funding for nuclear reactors has basically frozen for the better part of 60 years, which means that fission tech hasn’t been following Wright’s law and we’re still stuck with designs from 60 years ago. Things have heated up a bit more recently but this stuff has a long lead time (+ think of all the people who didn’t go into nuclear because of the lack of funding).

There’s actually lines of research to do direct conversion of energy instead of boiling water which gets efficiency up to ~90% instead of 40%. But the challenge with fission isn’t fuel conversion efficiency but manufacturing and maintenance costs. I wonder if getting rid of the water requirements for fission reactors would meaningfully alter the costs involved. Would be neat if it would.

But ultimately fission is still price competitive with renewables and that’s when you ignore the need for batteries and the fact that it’s taken a lot of investment in renewables paired with underinvestment in fission.
Archive: https://archive.is/FEb12
L-system examples using Inkscape(2020)
http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/posts/2008/11/16/game-design-tool...
Gpt-4 has the lowest hallucination rates:

> OpenAI’s technologies had the lowest rate, around 3 percent. Systems from Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, hovered around 5 percent. The Claude 2 system offered by Anthropic, an OpenAI rival also based in San Francisco, topped 8 percent. A Google system, Palm chat, had the highest rate at 27 percent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/technology/chatbots-hallu...
> I don't recall if it was decimal, hex or octal

Worse - it was split octal. "the memory location after 000.377 was 001.000." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_octal

But yeah, better than toggle switches.
No, not really...

Most companies have a pot of money they can put across multiple projects and will typically put that money towards projects that are going to profit the most. If you have a well near a major transmission pipeline, that's where you're going to invest most of your time and effort.

Self-generating still means your turning power over to the market, and in long runs of sunny/windy days power prices may go negative for some amount of time.

It's a lot of risk, hence why the oil/gas industry has lots of booms and busts.
Because if Mark doesn't want to see data, then it doesn't exist.
That project isn’t finished they are targeting 2026 and hope it’s only ~10% over budget.

Your solar numbers are wildly inflated because that’s per watt not per watt hour. Over 2/3 of nuclear power plants costs occur after you build the things. It would be comparable if 22B was the total cost and if nuclear didn’t need ~1,000 full time employees, fuel, decommissioning etc. Those costs delay how quickly you can pay back loans which then drives up how much interest nuclear pays over the plants lifetime.

Companies have signed solar power purchase contracts at 2c/kWh. Adding solar redundancy and batteries for 24/7 power is actually more flexible and cheaper than nuclear because you can cheaply follow the demand curve. Meanwhile nuclear power plants need to go offline for multiple weeks every ~2 years and really want to sit at 100% the rest of the time.

PS: Even just looking at construction costs is misleading because solar starts producing power so much sooner. You’re paying interest from day 1 of construction not day 1 of operations. So if you take 6 years to build that’s 5 years of interest on the first years construction costs without any revenue. Meanwhile solar’s been producing power for ~5 years and paying down debt.
One problem with summarization that I think is overlooked is that it relies on the context of the reader. A lot of summarization assume some ambiguous level of context, but it would be way better if you knew exactly where the readers coming from and used that knowledge to perform a summary
Also, don't get too attached to a project. Get mentally prepared to work on a project for 2 years then have it cancelled. It happens. Get over it. It's not your baby.
> > The China lab-leak is likely true.

> Maybe, maybe not, we may never know

Do you consider those that discredited or supressed the lab leak theory to be spreaders of "disinformation" and worthy of censorship as well?
>The final straw came on Wednesday, when NuScale and the primary utility partner, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, announced that the Carbon Free Power Project no longer had enough additional utility partners

I cannot help but to think the Fossil Fuel Industry had their hands in this.
Ummm, your message-at-rest inside a Telegram server remains ... unencrypted and is accessible by LEO.

That is, when you power of a Telegram server.
The KKK is like 5k in a country of 320 million. It has no power and hasn't had for a long time.

Good that people quit but the KKK at this point is more of a media creation than a any kind of threat.
The PLO actively destabilized Lebanon to turn it into their main staging area. Israel just ended up evicting them after they kept using it to attack them.

Those two are not the same thing.

How is the weather on the West Bank? I’m still waiting for those cites!
Same thought. You'd think title insurance would only kick in if the last title transfer predates say 1980, or some other relatively-likely-to-have-county-digital-records date
In that video he asserts through the closed door that Omegle hasn't done anything "for the children" and then in the article they have one measly line about how Omegle actually has been productive on that front. The text now on the Omegle site seems to support that they did what they could as well. Of course they're not going to get a good conversation with him when that's how they're going to frame it compared to reality. Whether Omegle was doing enough or should exist to begin with are different arguments but the premise of "Omegle is doing nothing" appears very wrong and I imagine offensive to creator/employees.
Yeah but how would the car manufacturers make any money /S