skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It felt like every 3rd post was from someone complaining that their Modafinil “didn’t work any more” and they didn’t realize that tolerance was going to set in.

I believe it's at least partially caused by incorrect expectations. When people start taking modafinil, the effects are quite strong and stimulant-like, sometimes even with mild euphoria. But then these effects disappear and people are like - what's happening, I can't feel it anymore? Tolerance or fake pills?

I fell into this trap originally as well and was comparing production batches etc. But the actual reason is that with a pro-longed use, Modafinil doesn't "feel" like anything. There's no altered state of mind, there isn't even a mild kick you get from a coffee. Modafinil isn't a stimulant which would kind of push you to do things. It doesn't "give" you anything, it only "takes away" the fatigue, and this is far more difficult to notice. On a relaxing day off, it doesn't feel any different if I take modafinil or not.
There was a guy a couple of years back whose AI girlfriend went off the rails and convinced him to try and assassinate Queen Elizabeth
Wait so google doesn’t support e2ee for more than two devices in a chat?
It's definitely still available for Porsche[0]

[0]https://www.porsche.com/usa/motorsportandevents/deliveryprog...
This take keeps coming up and I do not get it. Kotlin has ergonomics that Java cannot match without breaking changes that are anathema to the JCP, and Java has no answer at all for multiplatform.

I have lots of respect for Java but I still greatly prefer Kotlin.
Imo it's a good bet for Sweden. They don't get as much sun as other countries. Providing the same energy as nuclear in a stable maner (when I say stable I mean more that 3-4hrs of backup from batteries) is hard with solar, wind sounds better but has downsides too. And also, why not both? Sweden is already among top cleanest energy countries. They can afford to make longterm bets in reliable nuclear energy. They already afaik almost finished their storage site. Maybe building more nuclear will make further building cheaper by growing expertise in this field, anyway, thing is, they can afford to think long term, it's up to other countries to decarbonize, like, say, Germany that refused to keep their nuclear on to make transition smoother and are bashing on France bc they have too cheap nuclear energy
The current government is pretty weak and one of their promises before the election was to increase nuclear energy.

So this is pretty much something they had to announce to keep voters happy.

Whether it will happen in practice is another question.

I guess at some point someone will have to make a business plan that shows that it is also a good investment.
Agreed. It's why leaving America was a great choice for our family. My six year old bikes to school.
In every case bar working with infra sensors/aesthetics.
It’s so well written so long post, I afraid I well never read it as carefully. Tonight I’m too tired to delve into its depths. Tomorrow I won’t remember, possibly. And the day after that I won’t remember for sure.

Sorry everyone for this off-topic, I just think it’s needed to be addressed, but I have no idea what to do here.
Metalheart hopefully
article from June.

Microsoft has already announced its custom ai chips at ignite this week

Windows App showcases the first step in this strategy.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-app/overview
STARTTLS is client-to-server (or at least node-to-node). RCS node-to-node is already always encrypted.

E2EE is like both sending and receiving parties agreeing to use PGP. The servers aren't involved with the details; they just move the opaque bytes.
Mars to buy Hotel Chocolat in £534M deal
I'd walk more when WFH because you can get out for a half hour in the middle of the day (particularly when its sunny) and you're not commuting to/from work and spending all day under fluorescents in the office (and its the winter it is dark when you're home).
How we do know he isn't just an AI by this point?
Just don't use it, don't generate cost for them, don't be trapped by them. Everyone wins.
I vaguely recall a documentary about the very real conflict in the deaf community regarding restoring hearing (especially to the very young) via cochlear implants, etc. Leaving aside that particular element, one of the other controversies was about a specific form of sign that is essentially a signed phonetic alphabet. So while it's (obviously) not compatible with regular sign languages - which have visual representation of grammar and meaning - it does have the benefit that those who learn it are primarily fluent in their native language, which many deaf people are not especially good at, since it's always been a language that they only learn from books. And you can learn a new oral language the same way that the rest of us do - instead of sounding it out with your mouth, you sign it out with your hands.

But I can never seem to find more information about it, and can't recall the documentary name for the life of me. Since you seem to have at least some familiarity with this, do you happen to know what I'm talking about?
It's up to 15 billion, and they are only issued in tranches when Rivian pays the money to the government entity. It's a tax break, but the state takes no credit risk.
Overactive Cell Metabolism Linked to Biological Aging
Quit using SMS and phone numbers.

How hard would it be to use a different signal server?
> Whisper 3 has many model sizes

Nitpick but important - Whisper v2 and v3 are large only. It's actually the same Whisper but the version of the model (large-v2, large-v3) has been updated.

All of the other model sizes are the original release.
not even linux? interesting how much they care
See my post, which I may have updated since you wrote this.

Renewables, without massive grid storage to dampen their unreliability can not be the base load upon which your grid depends.

This storage could exist, but we haven’t built it and it isn’t proven.
> it's really bad is the company doesn't provide good service

Then you just buy from another company and market works.
I think it’s become status, but there are genuine reasons as to why people don’t like “green bubbles” in their chats. SMS breaks a lot of functionality that iMessage provides in group chats.

I don’t expect Apple to graduate RCS to a blue bubble, as it’s advantageous to keep the blue bubble “special”. I’ll be interested to see if society adapts and starts treating whatever RCS gets categorized as as “acceptable” or if we’re too far down the classism path for that to happen.
Many motor vehicles are large dangerous multi-ton vehicles using a dangerously volatile fuel source. There's a reason we require extensive licensing. We need to ensure that only appropriately trained users are sold these dangerous devices. At about 43000 fatalities per year, they are one of the top causes of deaths in the US. You can't just let everyone operate machinery like that.

This is setting aside the scope for direct to consumer sales exploiting uninformed customers. Remember: safety regulations are written in blood.
You should try and visit those regions with social issues and compare them with safe us regions, you'll be surprised)))
Yes, I think it's possible to have discussions on an abstract level and not everything has to be a case study.
I don't know why studies are even being made on the effects of these novel technolgies. We should just point the scientists to your email for answers.
I’m torn on this.

Yes, it’s never clever building a business on top of a single platform dependency (eg Twitter, Facebook, Play Store, etc)

Equally, if you take the example of the App Store, market pressures have actually forced Apple to reduce their cut.

Time will tell I guess. And also whether OpenAI end up with a monopoly, part of a duopoly etc.
Whoops, guilty as charged. I did indeed glance over that (both the text and the equation not actually being 1/r²).

In this case to get compiler help it's pretty much identical to Numbat. Annotating the "force" variables with a `Force` type. There's a few technicalities involved though. Normally the user is supposed to use explicit type annotations for variables. Quantities like `Force`, `Energy` etc. are mainly supported for function arguments (they are "concepts" in Nim lingo, a specific version of generics).

Technically you can abuse these concepts for type checking, by annotating with `Force`, e.g. `let force_sun: Force = ...`. That will correctly raise a CT error about mismatching units in this case. However, the code will /also/ not compile if you type `Energy` due to the underspecified type.

So what you're supposed to do is:

import unchained

let earth_mass = 5.972168e24.kg
let solar_mass = 1.9885e30.kg
let lunar_mass = 7.342e22.kg

let distance_sun = 1.AU # astronomical unit
let distance_moon = 384_400.km

let force_sun: N = G_Newton * earth_mass * solar_mass / distance_sun
let force_moon: N = G_Newton * earth_mass * lunar_mass / distance_moon

echo force_sun / force_moon

which will correctly raise a

Error: type mismatch: got 'Joule' for '...' but expected 'Newton = Alias'

(or any other unit of force; note that if it was a non SI unit, e.g. `eV` for an energy, you'd need to explicitly convert the RHS expression into `eV` using `.to(eV)`. That will perform the CT check of whether the conversion is valid, and if so, hands you the value in `eV`. Implicit conversions to explicitly given types is not supported)

So I think we more or less do the same things. :)

And just to clarify, I'm always happy to see more libraries / programs etc. that do units as types. But for the same reason you hadn't even heard about Unchained, is the reason I can't stop myself from mentioning it in such a context. :D (niche programming language + niche topic clearly doesn't help).
> written on Wednesday, November 1, 2023

People are arriving at this conclusion pretty late.

I remember reading dissenting blog posts saying this almost verbatim around November of 2020. It was so severely unpopular to write this blog post in 2020 that most that did are still in hiding or just starting to recover from immense damage to their personal and family relationships, careers, and livelihoods.
Commodore64 GPT
This seems to be missing the whole mens rea element on multiple fronts. To commit fraud requires intent.

First, it's silly to expect a company to be making public disclosures before it has its ducks in a row and can explain precisely what happened with a reasonable degree of accuracy.

Second, the idea that the act of being hacked is prima facie evidence of prior securities fraud is absurd. Assuming that a company took good-faith efforts to secure its systems, it wasn't lying (see mens rea above) when it said things like "we use strong passwords." I'm sure there's a point of gross incompetence or negligence that could get the company in hot water, but barring that, sometimes you just lose. Sometimes the robber picks your house and sometimes the hacker picks your company.
Yes :/ Like Android might soon use ios compatibility as a reason to further annoy you about changing protocols
After doing all of that, your wind and solar are no longer cheap. The cheap numbers per kwh for wind/solar currently are under the assumption that you take the power when you get it.
NVPL: High-Performance Mathematical Libraries for ARM
appreciate their transparency, but boy do their devs make a lot of money. their 2 highest paid engineers make around $750k USD yearly. I guess if that's competitive good for them, I'm mostly jealous.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824...
Sharing URLs is a fundamental operation.

Without a URL, you can't text someone a webpage, refer to it in a social media post or a tweet, or link to it in a document. You can't make links.

Sure, you can browse the web without it. But you can't use any of our everyday basic tools for sharing and content creation without it.
Nothing human makes it out of the near future.
Eh, personally I view honeycomb and datadog as different enough offerings that I can see why you'd choose to have both.
I only use Windows at work, and only because I'm required to -- but maybe if it becomes cloud-only, my employer will let us start using Linux instead.

Keeping my fingers crossed!
Nothing, middleware is exactly why most game studios hardly care about religious discussions regarding 3D APIs, as in FOSS circles.

I guess the problem is the expectation exactly by those that feel GL and DX 11 are done, and they need to directly use their replacements.
Nuclear's cost drivers are entirely regulatory.
> When Replika.ai restricted erotic chat from their product, the apoplectic anguish on their subreddit was unlike any emotional reaction I've ever witnessed from a group of people about a consumer technology. And their anguish was genuine - there are Replika users who truly consider themselves married to their AI companion.

There's a second layer to this though -- Replika's marketing was heavily centered around that erotic chat element. I'm trying to think of a good car simile and actually coming up blank. It's, uhh, like advertising the incredible off-road ability of this vehicle, and then when you show up and purchase the vehicle someone comes and takes off the tires and replaces them with tiny balds? I'm bad at similes.
Thanks for your feedback. I quite enjoy walking myself, it's food for the soul. I actually love the idea of using the movement ring on your watch as a daily goal, it's super simple. Have you ever thought, ‘Hmm, it’d be cool if my watch could also do this…’ or are you all set with the way things are?
Personally, I refuse to financially support Signal so long as they're still holding my chat logs hostage on my old iPhone and seem not at all concerned about solving this problem, which has existed for years.

There was (and still is, so far as I know) no upfront warning to users that if they don't first sync with a desktop client, and their phone gets lost or stolen, their iTunes backups do not (unlike most iPhone applications) contain their Signal chats. And furthermore, there's no way to export those chats in backup format from an old phone.

(You can transfer, but the transfer deletes the data from the original source, which is extremely foolish and dangerous IMO, and anyways isn't a proper export accessible from other applications. Furthermore, so far as I know there's no support for transferring from very old versions of the Signal client.)

This has been a critical bug for years [1], it's one of the most complained about issues, and Signal has done (and intends to do) absolutely nothing to fix it. It is absolutely unacceptable to have our own data held hostage by them in this way, especially without any upfront warning.

[1] https://community.signalusers.org/t/ios-backup-keeping-messa...
I'm just saying if you're dying to use their post it notes but you don't want PFAS, check back in a couple years to see if they've been removed.
> I personally know multiple people who refuse to text green bubbles, to the point of refusing dates from people who have Android.

Those people don't sound like people worth knowing. Ignorant and judgy to say the least.
It's not as easy as drawing triangles but glut which was a part of old school opengl had the function glutBitmapString which made it pretty easy to draw text in a few lines.
My hunch is that they’re too contextually dependent upon the conversation / tokens that have come before. It’s not simply a “if user inputs A, output B” situation.
> their justification for dropping SMS capability from their Android app ... was a little more transparent about the obvious cost aspect

I'm not following. Signal gets stung for the registration SMS costs because they send the SMS to the user. They don't pay when one user sends an SMS to another user. If you send an SMS, you're the one who pays.

(I didn't realise they were moving away from phone numbers. Don't they they stay mandatory when PNP comes along?)
There is zero chance they’re going to change iMessage to green. RCS will be green because anything other than iMessage is “other”.
"Breeder reactors could, in principle, extract almost all of the energy contained in uranium or thorium, decreasing fuel requirements by a factor of 100 compared to widely used once-through light water reactors, which extract less than 1% of the energy in the uranium mined from the earth.[3] The high fuel-efficiency of breeder reactors could greatly reduce concerns about fuel supply, energy used in mining, and storage of radioactive waste. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor

China, India and Russia are operating these with Russia having the biggest one that produces 800 MW.
There are already plenty of banking sites and such that will turn you away for not having a standard-issue Chrome user agent header. Also, crank your browser's privacy settings too high, and any website with twitchy Cloudflare settings will give you the sisyphean "I'm not a bot" check box until you give up and go away (or come back with a Chrome that's hungry for cookies).

So no, on our present course, Firefox will not save us. And even if every HN reader used it, that wouldn't even come close to pushing its usage share out of the single digits.
"Hey kids! That used to be you! HA HA HA!"
Why would a phone company know a person's SSN?!
this concept is called a registered agent, they service all states. the largest registered agents in the US service every single state in the union.

it is not complicated or presumptive of anything like the another reply suggested.

every state has many service providers that compete with the national ones.
For each 10 ft wall youtube builds uBlock will eventually find a 11 ft ladder.
We can already see this with Replika when they took away many... roleplay... capabilities that originally came with the AI. The communities on Reddit and Facebook were absolutely devastated. People were genuinely attached to these AI's like a real relationship, and were feeling the resultant heartbreak.

The kind of emotional manipulation which can be done with these products is insane, and I can see things going very wrong very quickly.
Yea. You need to constantly produce the same amount of power that is being consumed, or you get a fall of the frequency in the system. Wind doesn't care about that. You don't need to look long at a graph showing the typical power production of wind vs something like nuclear over a day, to see that wind power is not only extremely unreliable. It also requires massive balancing measures from the other power types in the mix, which is sometimes easier said than done.

You definitely want to let the wind power mostly "top up" the mix, and not constitute major parts of it, unless you have tons of something else to balance up the fluctuations with (related, nuclear is not great for balancing this, as it can't typically change output quickly, but is great as the base load, just as the parent comment says).
Right. But still possible.

https://www.etas.com/en/applications/etas-middleware-solutio...
It doesn't matter if it's more expensive. The question if it eventually gets more expensive than nuclear, an energy form Sweden/Vattenfall recently turned away from because it was not financially feasible anymore.
What if there was more competition in the space, and there were operators of that didn’t gouge quite so much.
It's like guitar hero's evil twin.

After six hours, I wish the study would've differentiated between "tired" and "murderously enraged"
I mean, the argument isn't that they should accept the date (on the contrary, these signs are actually beneficial for staying the fuck away from these people), the argument, or rather statement is that this sort of "tech jewelry" is very embedded in modern society, with Apple being the frontrunner.

And this has real effects. For example, Im forced to use a piece of shit Macbook at work, where literally everything else in our cloud runs on linux, because the company issues Macs as a way of attracting talent since "tech" people also want tech jewelry.
Fandom is completely unusable these days without an ad blocker. I'm surprised communities still put up with it. Why hasn't another free wiki host emerged?
Um, no. Just have the control group do anything that is not a cold shower and then compare the results between both groups. Yes the findings may not be applicable to the entire human population but that is true with any RCT.
Sweden has proportional representation, so any government action has multiple parties backing it. Largest party in Sweden has only 30% of the seats (and they aren't even in the government).
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230613-onkalo-has-finla...
Wow - just tried this and struck gold on the very first amateurish-looking GPT-wrapper iOS app I tested.
Not much, this took decades to bear into fruition, it was only two years ago or so the biggest party was vehemently saying no to nuclear.

Expensive winters and the idea of green steel and the massive and likely unrecoverable expenses it brings requires massive amounts of power that just isn’t possible with any other means. If you want the green steel you need nuclear in Sweden, we just can’t put up tens of thousands of wind power plants to cover for stability and delivery.
Ticketmaster could take a smaller cut… or maybe just make their overall UX better for the end user.
Hyundai to Be First Automaker to Sell New Cars on Amazon
Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...

> THE U.S. GENERATES ABOUT 2,000 METRIC TONS OF SPENT FUEL EACH YEAR
This number may sound like a lot, but the volume of the spent fuel assemblies is actually quite small considering the amount of energy they produce.

> The amount is roughly equivalent to less than half the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

> And, the clean energy generated from this fuel would be enough to power more than 70 million homes—avoiding more than 400 million metrics tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

You say that you have yet to hear a convincing argument but have you been listening?
> because they're hugely expensive, they always require massive government subsidies, so are a convenient way to pipe taxpayer money to "useful friends".

And yet Sweden is not giving any subsidies (at least for now) and thus no new plants have actually been seriously planned.

The change here (going from 100% green to 100% fossil free) just means giving nuclear power access to the same subsidies green energy is receiving now with the important one being the government being a guarantor for some of the loans (25 billion SEK for this year). It remains to be seen if this is enough to actually get new projects going (probably not).

> nuclear power stations are a convenient way to produce material for nuclear weapons.

Sweden abandoned its (secret) nuclear weapons program in 1972 without managing to build a single weapon and it is very unlikely that they would be trying to get one now.
Even easier and completely legal: Data brokers will now sell you info on segments such as 'judges', 'elected officials', 'military personnel', 'national security officials', etc.

https://www.ft.com/content/6c8f1f24-b690-4bbd-b726-28b2d6f10...

Edit: I realize now that the FT article is a report on the OP. Oops.
This is honestly horrific.

They can't even get anywhere near feature parity with the web based office offering. Each of their web-based office apps is almost unusable for me.

If they go 100% on this, I will put money on it being looked upon as one of the worst decisions they've made as a company in 10 years time.
And another example to add to the other user, the one guy who killed himself when the AI he was talking to encouraged it.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-a...