skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That‘s nonsense. At least when you only relate this to renewable energies.
Ask the French, what they think about this summer, when they had to shut down many nuclear reactors simply because there was no water to cool them. Or us Germans when Russia invaded Ukraine and we were faced with our past decisions to completely rely on cheap Russian gas. Or look at water taps in the US that you can turn into little flame throwers because fracking contaminated drinking water. Also check out the rising numbers of earth quakes in the US due to fracking.
But sure. Climate change is great, so that at some point you won‘t have to wear any jumpers anymore, even in winter. Too bad that grandma then died a little before her time, in the last heatwave.
I would be willing to bet you $10,000 that it is actually very, very uncommon.
Seems like you won't accept anything short of Sam Altman himself announcing it on stage. I guess you'll just have to be satisfied not knowing.
They could create a new post, resurfacing this bet.
The planned nominal trajectory for the first flight (and, I presume, this one as well) set Starship up for re-entry without a deorbit burn, so they're not planning to properly enter orbit at all. This is to avoid the prospect of an uncontrolled re-entry after orbital decay if something went wrong while it was in orbit, or worse if it got up there and the tanks exploded. Elon doesn't ordinarily choose to be cautious like this, so it probably wasn't entirely his choice.

(They'll be putting out enough energy to demonstrate that it could enter orbit, but the trajectory that they'll be putting it into is an "orbit" that intersects the atmosphere.)
Thanks for this! Super insightful.
> The discrimination theory you describe ...

try again.
Developing countries owe China at least $1.1T – and the debts are due
You guys know you can distribute your app outside Play Store right? Not saying that's a long term business plan for most, but if you are at the point you can't even get 20 people to install, world of mouth can clear at least this hurdle.

As for requirement itself, non-trivial apps that didn't get even this level of testing are likely to be quite broken. Will you really test on different form factors and Android versions / anticipate all user behavior? So I can see the case for protecting basic store reputation, in that anything you download is unlikely to crash right away or drain your battery etc.
Have you used powershell?

Of course it’s available on all OSes right now, but Windows has had incredible programmability (not comparable to Linux, but superior to MacOS), and since Powershell probably has a much more powerful scripting story than any other OS.

The ability to write quick scripts in Powershell, but also tap into C#, it’s massive standard library of code, and all the many 3rd party libraries and commingle that almost seamlessly with Powershell is tremendous.

Finally, Windows had probably the best toolkits to whip up a quick and dirty UI for anything you wanted to do with WinForms (name?) which was more powerful and yet quick and easy to use relative to any other toolkit on any other platform.

Unfortunately, what Windows has gained on the command line it appears to have lost in creating GUI driven scripts.
> I know people who work more "average" service jobs and they make substantially less than engineers do and that's something that's made me pretty uneasy over the past few years. The societal value of generative AI is in making knowledge work such as law, medicine, and software engineering much more accessible to "average" people.

I think the fear of software developers is that they will join the low pay crowd.
I am always talking about large banks. The main business is not holding bonds, but they can suffer a transitional effect on their portfolios, that's all. Btw., Bank of America just under $8B in Q3.

You and I have a different experience regarding unidirectional pricing power, but maybe that is related to the different banks we have in mind.
The positive part of snaps, and I don't like snaps for myself, is that snaps keep updating on an unmaintained server. So as a default for VPS providers seeking to hand hold users Ubuntu perhaps makes sense.

At least that's what I understand.

However on a server I use Debian (stable) as I purposefully don't want to be at the 'cutting edge'. [I also use Debian on my laptop because it just works.]
That’s seems extremely difficult if not impossible. There’s a million ways an idea can be conveyed in language.
If they don’t want to pay for the work, you can always undo it for them.
I'm so confused.

When I install an LTS version with a Universe package like ffmpeg, does everything continue getting security patches for the full five-year LTS life?

Or do I now need Ubuntu Pro to get the full five years?
They had one (4167) for the 486 too, I have no idea if it only worked with 486SX systems, or if it could work alongside a DX (but then who'd have a co-processor socket on a DX board anyway, co-processor sockets had already become scarce in the 386 period).

By that era they appear to have mostly pivotted to their own 486 clones and VGA chipsets though.

edit: I just realised, it could have been like the Cyrix 487S which installed as a PCB carrier that plugged into the 486DX socket, and then had a socket on the carrier for the CPU itself, alongside the 487S chip.
yes, that's how professional journalists and outlets work: they announce news if they are verifiable. Tabloids spread rumors instead. There are many rumors to spread.
Sorry https://venturebeat.com/ai/openais-six-member-board-will-dec...
Arcade machines running 240p definitely had pronounced scanlines.
Link https://venturebeat.com/ai/openais-six-member-board-will-dec...
AI proponent typically assume exponential growth. They'd consider linear to be pessimistic :)
Its the US version of Chinese painting grass for the Olympics https://gamesbids.com/eng/other-news/beijing-s-grass-gets-a-...
>google 'igon value'

Hahaha. Thanks for the laugh! I always thought the guy was a fraud.
There's also a split between fresh ("green-field") projects versus modifying existing code ("brown-field"), where whatever generated snippet of code you get can be subtly incompatible or require shaping to fit in the existing framework.

The massive shared model could do better if it was fed on your company's private source-code... but that's something that probably isn't/shouldn't-be happening.
I recommend getting the X230 over the X220, if anyone decides to play with these old Thinkpads. I have both machines, and I found heat dissipation has been significantly reduced on the X230 for otherwise the same performance, thanks to Ivy Bridge's die shrink over Sandy Bridge. Most components from both machines are interchangeable with the exception of their bottom covers and motherboards (an EC firmware hack is available for interchanging keyboards and batteries).
Arguendo, assume Facebook lobbied for it. If only one market player doesn't follow an industry standard on public interest (consensus which prevents industry regulation), of course other players should lobby to get the player out.
Nope, math is discovered, without people also there is math. Math is how the universe works. When you describe relations between things, that is Math. Math is notated using many languages, but the real world itself cares not for which notation you use. So math is discovered.

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Have a look at how various cultures around the world did maths before meeting Europeans. You will quickly stop thinking "Math is a language".

Hell, even European maths wasn't entirely European. The most popular number system in use to this day, arrived in Europe via Arab traders and itself originated in ancient India. A culture that developed its own entirely different set of ways to explain some the logic of the universe.

While the ancient Indian system of arithmetic would look very different to anyone with a standard school education today, both systems describe the exact same things: addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division of things.

If we were to meet an alien civilization, who'd undoubtedly have their own language(s) and culture(s), the fastest way for us to learn how to communicate with them would be to look at how they do maths. Because, while their language and notation of maths may be different, what they describe is going to be same fundamental laws of this Universe.

Math is the Rosetta Stone of the universe.
Sea dumping legislation to allow Santos's carbon capture and storage project
Here's one of interest to any involved in global bookkeeping of carbon.

Can, or should, as yet unproven (at scale) industrial carbon capture promises be used as "a naked and shameless attempt to facilitate the dirtiest fossil fuel project in our nation's history".

This is the latest news on the newest Australian gas field project, seeking to pump emmissions across an international border and into the depths of an older decommisioned former gas field.

"Unproven" carbon capture and storage (CCS) is used above as CSS is still in a relative infancy that has yet to see all issues arise and existing issues ironed out - it's a technology but hardly a mature one.

The world's largest CCS project, at Chevron's Gorgon field in Western Australia, has been operating for seven years but has only stored about one third of its target after a myriad of problems, according to a company report published last week.
I am glad it came up again. I missed it 3 months ago.
I think the key is to start with far less restriction then you think you need, and refine your approach over time until you hit upon a happy medium, that allows novel experiences while limiting irrecoverable consequences.
Yaaay we did it thanks.
When it comes to distance from an exploding rocket, inverse-square works in your favor. It's relatively straightforward to calculate an upper bound on how big the blast can be based on the amount of energy in the fuel.

(I believe the closest you can get without going into the exclusion zone is about five miles.)
That’s a good point. I do find gpt 4 to be excellent at generating code snippets.

I think as the technology improves, it’ll get better. But I’m more hoping it’d be able to do something more interesting, say generate tests in the background.
Toshiba laptops last forever too
https://archive.ph/dG278

Not my favorite article, but here's a link if you were curious like I was.
Yes? Kinda? Hard to say tbh. I think the distance between these categories is probably smaller than you're implying (or at least I'm interpreting), or rather the distinction between these categories is certainly not always clear or discernible (let alone meaningfully so).

Go is a game with no statistical elements yet there are so many possible move sets that it might as well be. I think we have a lower bound on the longest possible legal game being around 10^48 moves and an upper bound being around 10^170. At 10^31 moves per second (10 quettahertz) it'd still take you billions of years to play the lower bound longest possible game. It's pretty reasonable to believe we can never build a computer that can play the longest legal game even with insane amounts of parallelism and absurdly beautiful algorithms, let alone find a deterministic solution (the highest gamma ray we've ever detected is ~4RHz or 4x10^27) or "solving" Go. Go is just a board with 19x19 locations and 3 possible positions (nothing, white, black) (legal moves obviously reducing that 10^170 bound).

That might seem like a non-sequitur, but what I'm getting at is that there's a lot of permutations in software too and I don't think there are plenty of reasonably sized programs that would be impossible to validate correctness of within a reasonable amount of time. Pretty sure there's classes of programs we know that can't be validated in a finite time nor with finite resources. A different perspective on statistics is actually not viewing states as having randomness but viewing them as having levels of uncertainty. So there's a lot of statistics that is done in frameworks which do not have any value of true randomness (random like noise not random like np.random.randn()). Conceptually there's no difference between uncertainty and randomness, but I think it's easier to grasp the idea that there are many purposefully-built finite systems that have non-zero amounts of uncertainty, so those are no different than random systems.

More here on Go: https://senseis.xmp.net/?NumberOfPossibleGoGames And if someone knows more about go and wants to add more information or correct me I'd love to hear it. I definitely don't know enough about the game let alone the math, just using it as an example.
So they should ban instagram too. I have a feeling tiktok is probably more moderated and enforces stricter content rules than instagram. Of course may be tiktok is just more popular and so has the target on it.
Finally find after one day that it is quite easy. Download vice. right click the org file generated for c64 and then right click it to use vice's x64sc. It will output the Hello World message (as part of the basic).
2004 was good too, minus the malware which at the time was really bad.
> LLMs in particular can be a very fast, surprisingly decent (but, as you mention, very fallible) replacement for Stack Overflow

Nice thing about Stack Overflow is it’s self-correcting most of the time thanks to,

https://xkcd.com/386/

GPT not so much.
Humble is doing a Ruby/Rails bundle[1] that just started. We used to (maybe still do) source Chris Pine's book in the bundle at The Odin Project[2] when I was there. TOP is a good free curriculum for learning web programming using Ruby.

[1]: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/ruby-rails-pragmatic-prog...

[2]: https://www.theodinproject.com
I don't see it - and by that I don't mean I don't think AI can write good code and get better over time. I just don't see how it would work as a workflow to replace (most) devs by AI.

If I take a junior programmer's task, say, creating CRUD endpoints. Describing the requirement in a way that matches exactly what I want will probably take more time that doing the coding assisted by something like copilot. Can we really imagine a non technical user using an AI having it do development from A to Z? What if the generated code has a bug, can we really imagine that at no point someone will need to be in the loop? Even if a tech person intervenes in the case of a bug how much time would be lost to investigate what the AI wrote and trying to understand what happened in retrospect - the time or cost saved to write the code would be lost quickly. Writing code is a small part of the job after all. LLMs are good at generating code, but they are fundamentally not problem solvers.

The technology is amazing but I think LLMs will just be another tool in the arsenal for devs. It's also an amazing tutor. It can avoid having to call a developper for some self contained problems (writing a script to scrape content from a web page for example).
Wonder if that explains McDonald's hash browns going for $3 a piece now in the bay area. They can't be worth more than $1 for that size.
If you think this isn't working this way, then the legal system needs fixing so it would. As simple as that. Software patents situation is so messed up because basic and obvious ideas like this aren't applied as they should be.
I see. Thank you for the interesting article.

The Tragedy of the Commons as a historical event in Medieval England has been criticized (hard to say debunked from this one article, but perhaps there are more).

The Tragedy of the Commons as an economical/social phenomena has not been debunked.

Since 99.9% of the uses of the phrase Tragedy of the Commons are referring to the second case, I'm not sure it is helpful to say that it has been debunked.
It might be easier to use chatGPT to build something that is worth $10M. For example, there is the guy that made a crypto-currency.
The point of my comparison with a local developer is that you're hearing one person's viewpoint, who has a very specific interest in the case - so you hear the one specific worst piece of the review process. That criticism is valid. But if you heard only the other side, you'll hear about unsafe development process launching a rocket with inadequate protection of the flight termination system, resulting in extremely dangerous delay between destruct command and ignition of the device. Both viewpoints have validity. The truth is somewhere in between.
More than doctors? Feedback cycles in the OR and ICU get pretty fucking short.

I do think the overall premise is silly, programming isn’t that special in this regard in my opinion. Most professions are like this, they just might not be the most visible ones like politics, journalism, show biz.

Software developer have more to learn from other professions than they often think (the old engineering professions understand this a bit better)
It always has. You can only convince a billionaire to hate money for so long. Mark is going to rip the rug out on everyone soon enough.
Turns out, a full about-face on tolerance for crime in the city wasn't enough to deter the more determined criminals. Given how frequent this occurs, and how there appear to be a few very prolific thieves, it's obvious that even low-effort police sting operations would reduce property crimes by a significant amount. It's a shame then that the police in SF have no interest in doing their jobs.
With gpt4 and browsing enabled it searches the web and returns

> The XKCD comic about using the `tar` command can be found at [XKCD Comic #1168](https://xkcd.com/1168/). The comic humorously addresses the complexities and challenges of remembering the correct syntax for the `tar` command, a common scenario for many who use Unix-based systems.
It’s inline with the 30% fee apple takes for their App Store. Search from iOS is probably more valuable and a lot lot higher volume than any app. Essentially search is “installed” and used on all iOS devices in the world. So 36% seems ok
I was impressed to learn about their sneakernet-based continuity of operations plan: https://www.pcgamer.com/after-a-surprise-cyberattack-the-wor...

It is an unfortunate precedent that they paid the ransom, however, I don't believe there are any institutions better suited for solving financial crimes than banks. I bet they've hedged the risk and have means to go after the hackers.
every current antivirus software has some false positives and some false negatives, that's why sites like virustotal exist. i don't see how this is any different
At least some times..

Because they hired some low cost contractors in a 2nd or 3rd world country to build a shitty version of the app in Django with Bootstrap. Now you get to inherit that at your starting place - oftentimes this is largely technical baggage.
I share the sentiment with others here that have become disillusioned with LLMs. Yes, their capabilities are impressive, and their progression is quite striking. But what I have realized, about programming specifically, is that I don't think LLMs can do a better job than humans.

To many futurists hopping on the hypetrain, this is probably somewhat of a hot take. But let me explain.

Ultimately, programming is about instructing a computer on what to do. We use programming languages because they're highly efficient representations of what a computer can do. In the case of LLMs, we need to use natural language to specify the program. For simple things, this can work great. But for complex programs, it's not easy to articulate exactly what a program should do. As you drill in to the details, you begin to experience an almost exponential growth in the amount of natural language specification you need. And so I think there is something very flawed in believing that you can replace human programmers with LLMs. In my personal opinion, a single programmer will be able to outproduce a single LLM prompt engineer, purely because programming languages are better at expressing ideas compared to natural language. At a certain point, it becomes faster to write code then to write sufficiently detailed prompts.

As a thought experiment for the reader: consider a complex system you've worked on. And now try to imagine writing down a specification for the system in natural language that an LLM could use to generate the code that powers the system. I honestly don't think I could do it for many of the system I've worked on.

So yes, I think LLMs are cool. And I think they're cool because they give creative power to people who can't program. But for sufficiently complex things, i.e. things people care about, a natural language interface isn't the answer.
LA named it Griffith Park years before the shooting, which was from his wife and him donating the land. but curiously it seems the theater and observatory were named for him years after the shooting. Strange world
That goes for virtually every corporate app that this policy change benefits.
That's due to increased carbon dioxide uptake. Essentially you're feeding the plant too much carbon dioxide, so the end result is unbalanced production of starches/sugars.

It does seem these electrical effects are well established, and seem to mostly have positive benefits: https://www.ehow.com/list_7531004_effects-electricity-plant-...
The spill has to remain in the keyboard area.

Friend of mine in college spilled.. I think beer?.. on this Thinkpad. He instinctively grabbed it (me, across the room, yelling to keep it stable) and turned it to the side. The fluid got into the fan intake and boom, dead it was.
zpaq archiver solves that by including decompression bytecode inside archives. So check if repository supports your algorithm, if not then include it inside your commit.
Alignment Course
Unless you have anything more than anecdotes and feelings to contribute to this discussion, I don't think there's anything more to discuss. Data makes a more convincing argument for such bold claims, especially when a minority of practitioners claims that their way of doing things is more correct than a much larger majority. I will say, from your maligning of "product and management folks" to your anecdotally-driven interest in page weight, its like every dev stereotype ever.
Does “it’s the law” apply to all laws?

Does “if you don’t like it then leave” apply to all people?

Are you sure I can’t find a counterexample? You have yet to present a single consistent idea and I doubt either of these will be any different.

You will support privacy for one person but not another solely depending on how much money you think you could nab. We’ve already established that.
Coming from Eastern Europe, which used to be dangerous in the days following the fall do communism, and coming to the US, the richest country in the world, you expect it to be safer than your poor European country. The reality however is very different.
Universe packages are not supported by Ubuntu unless you activate Ubuntu Pro. Thus, if you install ffmpeg on Ubuntu without Pro, it will contain several active vulnerabilities. The full five years only applies packages in the main repo.
SpaceX is a bit different because there's people like Gwen Shotwell there to keep Elon's worst tendencies in check. They also have to convince the FAA they're not doing anything stupid.
> The thing is there are just vanishingly few places where you only need a "sparkling of interactivity on top".

I would say it's precisely the opposite.

Say 97% of work done by web pages and web apps in practice boils down to "render some data available on the server as HTML, then show it to the user". For these cases, putting what amounts to an entire GUI framework written in Javascript on the frontend is massive, bandwidth-sucking, performance-killing overkill.

There are absolutely exceptions. Google Sheets exists. But your project is probably not Google Sheets.
See: Gemini and Mercury.
I think this could be linked to obesity