skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a fun exploration of algorithmic procedural generation with using simple algorithms to produce outstanding effects. It’s inspirational to my own work; how to find straightforward algorithms that are easy to think about but can produce outstanding experiences for users.
Well 20 years ago the US drinking culture and driving culture made car accidents a main driver especially in distorting the lower age demograpics.
But in the past few years opiods is basically the top cause of death of adults before 45 which then is mostly heart disease.
So the recent drop is almost entirely opiods.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/16umz...
PHEVs have much larger batteries than HEVs.
It always opens in a new tab (Desktop) for me, which might be an extension’s doing.
I found that a naive frontend for a language is not that big of a deal with something like ANTLR. The benefit is that you have a formal grammar syntax description, and you can iterate on that endlessly without too many code changes down the line.
Depending on your state of charge, some electric assist should make a short burst of acceleration better?
Terraforming:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming

Ethics of terraforming:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_terraforming

Terraforming of Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars :

> Mars doesn't have an intrinsic global magnetic field, but the solar wind directly interacts with the atmosphere of Mars, leading to the formation of a magnetosphere from magnetic field tubes.[14] This poses challenges for mitigating solar radiation and retaining an atmosphere.

> The lack of a magnetic field, its relatively small mass, and its atmospheric photochemistry, all would have contributed to the evaporation and loss of its surface liquid water over time.[15] Solar wind–induced ejection of Martian atmospheric atoms has been detected by Mars-orbiting probes, indicating that the solar wind has stripped the Martian atmosphere over time. For comparison, while Venus has a dense atmosphere, it has only traces of water vapor (20 ppm) as it lacks a large, dipole-induced, magnetic field.[14][16][15] Earth's ozone layer provides additional protection. Ultraviolet light is blocked before it can dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen. [17]

Oxygen evolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_evolution
The nitrogen cycle almost entirely involves fixed nitrogen, not inert N2. Nitrogen is fixed from the atmosphere slowly over time through lightning strikes and a very small number of nitrogen fixing bacteria that live symbiotically on the roots of very few plants.

The vast majority of the biomass on earth, including about half of the fixed nitrogen in your body was synthesized industrially via the Haber-Bosch process over the last 100 years.

Aside from those nitrogen fixing bacteria whose output we have already surpassed with industrial processes (artificial fertilizer), inert nitrogen plays no role in biological metabolism. It is not needed, at all.

Mars colonists can import nitrogen, or mine fixed nitrogen from the few deposits that are known to exist. It doesn’t need a massive atmospheric reservoir.
Yesterday I read a post here on HN about gambling and online casinos and went "pffft, people can't control their actions, isn't there accountability anymore?". Then I remembered that in 2006, while employed at the world's top company in 2006 I got into the poker craze and more than once a week worked from home so that I could multi-screen work e-mails with poker.

It was great that I noticed this before degenerating into a full-time addict. I used to grind at $15 9-player STTs and the variance was downright depressing. I cannot imagine what people playing at higher stakes go through. Just out of curiosity, I looked up many of the hotshot professionals of the day, almost none are still playing today. The games became tough and eventually everyone gets surpassed by the new guy using real-time assistance.

People starting this grind today simply shouldn't do it. Odds are that the game will become zero-sum at planetary scale given everyone and their mother is using GTO solvers now.
`awk` users hate this one simple trick!
The true believers don't want to hear it. You can show example after example of projects gone comically over budget and over schedule and none of it will really register.
I rented a PHEV Chrysler Pacifica and I was disappointed that whenever it thought I was giving it too much throttle, it would kick itself out of EV mode and start the engine. There was no way to force it to use only the battery until depleted.
Note to self: learn a lisp. Lisp people appear to be having more fun than the rest of us.
That sounds like it would come with a number of tax issues.

Is this money treated as a gift? As consulting? Work-for-hire?

Would it be subject to taxes or social security withdrawals?

Would the reviewer need to give tax info to the publishing company?

If the reviewer does, say, 20 reviews for an Elsevier-published journal, does that exceed a limit where tax reporting laws change?

Who pays for currency conversion?

Can the paper pay for a review by a Cuban or Iranian scientist?
>Some of these novel side-channel attacks actually even apply in completely unrelated architectures such as ARM [1] or RISC-V [2].

Possible? Yes. But far less likely.

Complexity carries over and breeds bugs. RISC-V is an order of magnitude simpler than ARM64, which in turn is an order of magnitude simpler than x86.

And it is so w/o disadvantage[0], positioning itself as the better ISA.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38272318
Indeed. FSD/Autopilot is no where near the time line that Tesla and Musk said it'd be, but it's vastly improved from when I purchased my Model 3 in 2018.
Alternative source: https://www.reuters.com/article/autoshow-la-camry/toyotas-ca...
That's for sure not true. For my bigger projects (over 200 lines), I tend to use VSCode. Just having a look at the larger projects I've got up on github, I'm over 2000 lines across 3 projects - all developed in Code.

ISE does occasionally hang / crash, but it's quite rare compared to how VSCode behaves across every machine I've used it with. It really seems to be just a Powershell problem, haven't had the same issue in any other language.

When I'm really making great progress on something, having to fart around with killing and restarting the shell constantly is really disruptive. Yes, Code has better and more features, but for me the extra productivity does not overcome the crashy shell.
> A good acceleration is improving safety.

Unclear this is the case, why do you say so?
Presumably the primary reason is that PHEVs have much larger batteries and additional charging hardware and thus cost significantly more.

And I suspect car manufacturers have found that car buyers don’t understand the tradeoffs and advantages of PHEVs. If I’m right about that, it really is a shame, because PHEVs really should be an excellent way to fit the vast majority of people’s driving needs and also squeeze out the most electrification per unit of global battery production.
I don't understand how's Excel page with macros inside different from random exe file from security perspective? Does Excel have some kind of excellent sandbox implementation, so it's safe to run random macros on the work machine?
Your first point is interesting. I’ve been meaning to explore some of these options lately (llama.cpp). I’m a bit too smooth brained to build a good business offering around that.
If it was discovered that someone had been operating a secret network of CCTV cameras pointed at every street corner on Earth for the last 20 years, would you say "well, you had no reasonable expectation of privacy anyway"?

If it really was every, then likely yes. No doubt there would be some interesting footage of important public figures in there too.

Not that I'm advocating against privacy in general, but when "I know what you did" is no longer asymmetrical, as in "I know what you did too", it'll certainly change how society thinks about these things.
PHEV tend to have very small batteries though, 30-40 EPA miles is rarely enough to go to work and back in the US.
I once tried to build a replicate with ML classifier.
It was quite fun.
And to achieve the accuracy of detexify is quite hard
Why is that a bad thing? Was the transition clunky, leading to a bad driving experience? Or were you just strongly preferring to stay in battery-only mode at the time?
I saw someone say they stopped reading after this line:

> At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, and, when thinking failed, tried Googling.

...and I don't fault them for doing so and making the assumption that the author is not an experienced coder
It's almost like asking whether it's more valuable to learn about networking, http, html, js, databases or start building apps on top of nextjs.
Requiring a cell phone to replicate features a car should have just makes more problems IMO.
I sort of agree, if it was merely matter of fact

This doesn't read like that though

It reads like “looll some women did something incompetent! get a load of this guys”
Nothing is bringing iMessage to its Android phone
More acceleration makes the average driver worse, as you’ve seen with 90% of your friends who bought an EV
2) is exactly what happened to the Python docopt project. It works well for most users but some corner cases trigger annoying bugs that are not fixed because the maintainer is mia. Lots of people have fixed the bugs in their own forks of docopt, but as there is not clear which if the forks is the "successor" to docopt, people keep running into the same bugs and keep forking over and over again.
The Twitter thread linked by the link posted GP actually contained a reasonable explanation of why that happened. https://x.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939644621545473
The PHEVs I've driven have had a mode setting for that. Some people I know virtually never use the combustion engine in theirs.
Hey jruohonen, great point. it depends on what does "survive" mean.

Monetize-able GPTs? Not many for sure. What will happen IMO is established companies will build official GPTs to better serve existing customers.

GPTs for personal use? Many GPTs will be abandoned and not be used by anyone. That's okay for one-off use cases.

There will be a loooooong tail of GPTs that people would use from time to time. There will be a lot of diversity but the top GPTs will eventually be like the top apps in the app store IMO.
OK, but how does that not just demonstrate LLMs can't generalize absent massaged training data?

> it's not as stable as you'd want.

Which I take to mean that a model can sometimes confabulate "B is A", solely out of random variation, and that it's possible to bias the data and prompt to generate the expected response. The model hasn't done any logical deduction, the response is just a bias-influenced lucky break.
Log_2(8 billion people) = ~33 yes/no questions
You are correct - one offs incur huge "unknowns" which bloat budgets.

You are correct that the obvious solution is standard production of modular designs are the solution to that.

This has all be true and obvious for several decades. Yet the realisation of this approach seems to still be far away.

It also doesn't factor in the non-technical hurdles, costs, and delays that are involved here. Environmental impacts, and local-population-resistance are significant, often terminal, factors in plant construction.

Put another way, nobody cares if I have solar panels on my roof. But if I have a tiny modular reactor in the garden the neighbours will (not surprisingly) object.

I say this as a nuclear supporter.
> Don't forget the Apollo program and the space race was in response to a real existential threat. Once the threat lessoned the appetite for risk went down and other priorities took center stage.

Yes, there are various motives and pressures at play, but that doesn't change for private industry. And I worry about the core motive of the private industry: Profit. If a launch won't be profitable, why would it happen, no matter how much it benefits humanity?

I worry about the profitiziation of space. I don't think profitization has done good things to the internet, media, and technology in general.
This requires a layer of gold below it, and a layer of graphene above it. If you’re worried about shorting things out, this isn’t your solution.
Dear lazyweb, is there a similar library for python? :)
Rookie mistake. The answer is obviously Silverlight.
If you need motivation, build an app. If not, study the theory, and implement basic models like linear regression yourself.
I can admit to being condescending. But the point is I'm also generally right. You may not make your living from programming but you associate your self with "intelligence" and likely programming and you refuse to believe an AI can ever be superior to you.

>It's not valid because it is vacuous. Technology generally improves. But it is the specifics and details that matter, they are the only thing that matters. Saying "AI will improve" is saying nothing useful.

Exactly. When I repeat well known common sense facts, I've essentially stated nothing useful to people who HAVE common sense. Common sense is obvious. Everyone has common sense. You do too. The question is why are you constructing elaborate arguments to try to predict a future not inline with common sense? The answer is obvious, you can't face the truth. Pride and emotion make you turn away from common sense.

>I think global thermonuclear war is a more likely disruptor in the rest of my lifetime than some AI nerd rapture.

That's an intelligent statement. How many nuclear bombs were dropped on civilians in your lifetime versus how many AI break throughs happened in the last decade? Again. Common sense.

>I am sorry that whatever schooling or training you had did not manage to explain that this style of rhetoric does nothing more than portray you as a condescending asshole.

Remember that movie bird box where John Malkovich was a total ass hole? Well he not only was an ass hole, but he was pretty much right about everything while being an ass hole. If everyone listened to him they would've lived. That's what's going on here. I'm saying ass hole things, but those ass hole things are right.

>You're just being a condescending twatwaffle since you are arguing with individuals in a forum of which you know nothing about. You clearly have no respect for others' opinions and feel the need to write walls of text to rationalize it.

It's easy to prove me wrong. Put my condescending ass in it's place by proving me wrong. Every ass hole gets off at being completely and utterly right. You can pummel my ass into oblivion by taking me off my high horse. Or can you? You can't because I'm right and you're wrong.
>15 years of backwards compatibility [...] is unreasonable to say the least

As a Windows user, it's sad that so many people think that way nowadays.

I've encountered one DOS program from the early 90s that doesn't run anymore because it used its own custom memory management which newer systems don't allow, but that one was later re-released in an updated version that still works today. And there were one or two late-90s Windows programs that no longer run either because they have 16-bit components or depended on some then-standard now long-gone libraries to be on the system, but those run in a VM.

Other than that, there is plenty of software dating back to the 90s, some to the 80s, that mostly still works fine. It doesn't need constant maintenance and updates. It worked about 30 years ago and still works today and should still work tomorrow. You'll find even older legacy code in major organizations that's still chugging along.

That's hard to find in modern software. Now everyone always has to have the latest thing and it has to be updated almost every single day just to keep a massive chain of transitive dependencies from collapsing out from under it.

I guess that's why people get rude and ask whether a project is 'dead' even though patches have been released for it multiple times within the last 10 years.
Summary of talk: Erlang + Cap'n Proto is going to be the next big thing, but they shall not be mentioned.
The local electronics recycling company where I live (US-FL) shreds hard drives by default and many of their enterprise clients apparently ask for it when they “donate” their old PowerEdge servers, NASes and whatnot. Now obviously the recycling company could try to discourage this in lieu of a 3 (or 7 or 100 or whatever) zero of the drives and then resell them as they do everything else they get “donated” to them… many are really expensive, high-capacity SAS drives that are only a few years old. But I guess nobody wants to be that guy who compromises company data or whatever just so the local recycling company can make money off their old drives in addition to their old servers, UPSes, racks, et al.

Of course if these companies were really smart, they’d have wiped the drives before going to the recycling company. I’m sure many do. Still, they don’t risk it and want the drives shredded.

Eventually, AES-256 can probably be bruteforced in a reasonable amount of time. If you write all 1s and then all 0s (or vice-versa) to the drive, on the other hand… there’s no way to recover the data. There’s a lot of debate about that statement, but ultimately, if the drive is in fact zeroed twice, it’s physically impossible to recover the data. The debate seems to be mostly around whether zeroing a drive really does zero every bit and that’s not straightforward to prove (many drive erasure programs will offer a printable “certificate” once a drive has been “secure-wiped”, which often mentions a “million dollar guarantee” or whatever… it’s a sham because how do you prove the program failed to erase the data on the drive? Especially days, weeks, or years later?).
"US authorities now want access to 'appropriate criminal, terrorist, and identity records,' and Visa Waiver Program states are the first targets for the plan. Earlier this year, the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU noted a 'lack of full reciprocity of the data to be exchanged,' indicating that the US wanted to receive more than it was willing to give. The USA also approached the European Commission and the two sides set up a joint working group."

"The European Commission has indicated that its working group with the USA has stopped operating, and that plans are instead being negotiated bilaterally between member states and the USA."

The paper linked is a fun read:

https://www.statewatch.org/media/4100/usa-ibis-privacy-impac...

I particularly liked this one:

"Privacy Risk: There is a risk DHS collects data on individuals who may never seek to travel to the United States."

"Mitigation: This risk is partially mitigated."
Eldercare, Family Caretaking, and End-of-Life Logistics
GPT4's "knowledge" is broad, but not deep. The current generation of LLM's have no clue when it comes to things like intent or actual emotion. They will always pick the most obvious (and boring) choice. There is a big gap between excellent mimicry and true intelligent thought.

As a developer you don't need to know how they work, you just need to be able to wield their power. Should be easy enough if you can read and understand the code it produces (with or without it's help).

Horses don't play a part in this; programmers are generally not simple beasts that can only do one thing. I'm sure plenty of horse drivers became car drivers and those that remained found something else to do in what remained of the horse business.

Assuming we do get AI that can do more than just fool those who did not study them, do you really think programmers will be the first to go? By the time our jobs are on the line, so many other jobs will have been replaced that UBI is probably the only logical way to go forward.
I am not sure why you are being so defensive.

It would be interesting if you could develop about what you mean by real world constraints and how cost of units affect what I wrote, which I did from real world experience.
don't forget Silkwood. now i know a lot of people are not convinced by her story, but the fact remains that even without her story, the nuclear energy industry in Oklahoma was a complete shit show, they were spreading nuclear waste on farm fields for cows to eat, to save money, and one time they blew open a huge container of uranium hexafluoride, killed a guy, injured a bunch of people, and sprayed a cloud of material over several counties because they couldn't follow simple procedures.
Well, if you write 1 to every bit of the drive, and then write 0 to every bit of the drive, the data is gone… but to be fair, I think the concern is proving that actually occurred before disposal. It’s easy to see the data destroyed when the drive is ground up before your eyes.
But wouldn't aggressive regenerative braking negate the weight penalty? The hybrid Toyotas I've driven are pretty weak here, but the Chevy Bolt I drove had very strong regenerative braking.

As for cost, well, that's what the subsidies are for.
I have had to build landing pages for various products of my startup, and I was annoyed that there wasn't a great way to handle the sitemap generation and SEO metadata together with the route configuration.

So, Routerino was born. It's very early still, but it works great for my needs. It is built to work together with pre-rendering, so that a client side rendered React app can have good SEO performance. I experienced this problem while working for a large blog company that faced many SEO issues from using Angular & React SPAs.

I'm working on vastly improving the documentation and hope to release that soon. Repo if interested is at https://github.com/nerds-with-keyboards/routerino
Data Downloaded via Parachute from a NASA Super-Pressure Balloon
1. Are you saying something is wrong with amateurs making 20%?

2. If an amateur could do it, hedge funds, HFT firms, etc have definitely been doing it for longer than them and have taken away and arbitrage opportunities.

3. It very likely might be that the one month lead that the politicians have make their trades profitable, while anybody copying them will be unprofitable due to those same politicians decisions
Sounds like an infrastructure problem if you need to go further than that just for work. But given you're French, vous êtes, selon toute probabilité, complètement d'acc.
A ton of people don’t have access to charging at home due to apartments or condos. Plus if they do it would likely be level 1, which is not exactly speedy.

I wouldn’t spring for a level 2 install for a 10-15 kWh battery.

I’m not sure PHEVs are the panacea many people seem to think they are. In theory most tris are short and could be covered by the battery. In practice do average owners do that?
> So in summation: I don’t think any of the examples the authors provided are proof of a Reversal Curse and we haven’t observed a “failure of logical deduction.” Simpler explanations are more explanatory: imprecise prompts, underrepresented data and fine-tuning errors.

Phew!
The average US commute is 27 minutes https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/acs/acs-47.... which is around 15-20 miles one way. That means at least half of US workers have enough range on a 40 mile battery to do the full commute.

More to the point though, even if you have a 40 mile commute, reducing gas consumption in half is still a massive win.
This guy calls himself a programmer but couldn’t write code to print 100 random lines from a dictionary?
Privileged myopia is certainly is alive in thriving!

I say this as someone who bikes their kid around most of the time; I love biking but it is way of life that only a minority of people can make work.
Surely you mean https://www.epochconverter.com/countdown?q=2147483648
Are you sure? ES has i4 2.5L atmospheric and i4 2.4L turbo

Camry does have V6 this year but it’s gone next year