skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which of the following was misrepresented do you think:

- that Germany has 135 GW combined installed capacity of wind and solar?

- that wind and solar, combined, were only producing 15% of their installed capacity aka 20GW?

- that Germany needed 61 GW of electricity?

- wind and solar, combined, were producing only 30% of Germany's needs?

- that Germany needed to burn 20 GW of coal to cover this?

- that Germany needed to also burn gas, biomass, and import electricity to cover the remaining 20 GW?
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That's like 80% of military spending. It's literally just a massive jobs program that also keeps domestic American manufacturing (somewhat) relevant.
Seems like they won’t work without the special notched rod with evenly spaced grooves.
I’ve had this exact experience with this topic learning python and designing my first app. GPT frequently sent my down the wrong path and wasted my time when I could of just used it to learn about a topic and make my own decisions.

It does not hand recursive thinking well at all.
You will always get either [1,2,3,4,5,6] or [4,5,6,1,2,3] in the upcoming `--disable-gil` builds of CPython 3.13 and the nogil forks. Most operations on mutable collections hold a per-object lock.

Part of the integration work will be to better document the thread-safety guarantees, but there is still a lot of work to do before we get there.
Why not? Wikimedia intentionally conflates the two in their own funding drives, which is exactly the issue we are discussing in this thread.
Are you serious? No one is being FORCED to suffer in the United States. Such is the beauty of our freedom.

No thanks, I’ll take the system that allows me to move up or down generally in correlation with my effort and work ethics.
Not to mention that you don’t think OpenAI is paying probably many, many more annotators?
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The U.S. is presently grappling with its own democracy-related issues, rise in authoritarianism, and declining quality of life, as well as a lot of “de globalization” problems originating in its poor attempts at playing hardball with China and other powers (Russia) that it just doesn't like.

In my opinion, the most grim and dystopian elements of China’s system (Social Credit, censorship, mass surveillance, extreme bureaucracy) are either already present in the U.S., but with a decentralized/capitalist bent rather than a centralized/communist one.
No, Microsoft is keeping all of that stuff under the wraps. They have a "secret scanning partner program" where they allow companies to have a endpoint GitHub can use for figuring out if something is a secret or not, so it's not just a library with a bunch of regex, seems like a service in itself and Microsoft doesn't really open source stuff like that.
>merely pretending to be incompetent

if they actually had a superior model they'd release a demo or benchmarks even if they didn't make the model available to the public
>, they're arguing against a fixed, non-negotiable 6% fee.

The 6% exists in a marketplace of various fees (some charging less) based on other arrangements (discount brokers, For-Sale-Buy-Owner). E.g. Redfin charges 1%: https://www.redfin.com/why-redfin-how-you-save

Apparently, Redfin has never made a profit.
Ethernet at 50 and still not slowing down - a testament to the saying 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.' It's remarkable how this old-school tech has remained relevant in an age of wireless everything. Makes me think of my tech stack, Java, monolith, sql db, etc. and it keeps serving all of my paying customers reliably, even though I'm not using the latest everything.
Nobody says it is correct

Just hard as hell to change
They can look, to your eyes, "like anything."

The problem is that the spectrum, which impacts "how other things look to your eyes," can be a wide range of things, ranging from "quite decent" to "a hot, peaky mess." They look the same in terms of how your eyes perceive the bulb, but other things will look very different. If you've ever had a pure RGB LED, and wondered why things look "wrong" when it's set to white, that's the problem - it's three very peaky emissions, and while it looks white, everything else looks wrong in it.

CRI measures this, and as soon as you get the RGB emitters online, the multi-color bulb CRIs tend to head downhill in a hurry.

You can see spectrometer graphs from a Philips bulb I reviewed here: https://www.sevarg.net/2023/03/11/philips-smart-wifi-bulbs/ - it's a good bit better than some of the other bulbs, but it's still easy to get it off the white emitter and into the peaky RGB emitters.
Plus: OpenAI is working on GPT-5; Google Gemini is delayed to Q1 2024; Nvidia launches H200; first CRISPR medicine approved in the UK; DeepMind's new AI for weather forecasting; and more!
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I'm not sure either. An alien could make a similar argument about our brains made of meat and electricity.
Wonder if we could get a multipath routing/BGP-style ring going.
Just because everybody does something the wrong way doesn’t somehow make it magically correct.

Hyrum's Law says the opposite:

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

"With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."

Named after some guy called Hyrum who worked / works at Google.
I mean you're the one who votes for your officials in your area, so if they're accepting bribes that is kind of on you isn't it?

I as a tourist didn't elect your officials, so it's not on me.
Ok but isn't a formal system also an abstract logical structure? Why are atoms actually following truths from logical systems? The problem remains.

Wigner clearly delineates the problem on his famous paper about the applicability of mathematics. It's still a topic in philosophy to this day. I'm sure you appreciate that if it was a simple solution it wouldn't be a big deal.
The announcement seems somewhat disingenuous. The PR[1] found from their release notes[2] seems to contain only boilerplate and no real support for Mistral models or their weights.

[1]: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/pull/379
[2]: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/releases/tag/2.8.0
I've flown first class. Whether it counts as nicer or not probably depends a lot on your preferences.

The actual service provided on a first class plane flight is definitely more classy. Everything in the plane is more likely to be in perfect repair, with no signs of wear and tear like you see on Amtrak's aging Superliners. And the flight attendants are more likely to give you "first-class" treatment than an Amtrak porter in small ways like more consistently using "ma'am" and "sir" when they talk to you. None of that is consequential to me, but I realize it's worth calling out because my rust belt sensibilities are maybe tuned a bit differently from others'.

If you don't mind things being a bit less polished, though, a Roomette is physically more comfortable than a first-class seat in almost every way. It's quieter, you can get up and walk around as much as you want. You don't have to deal with airports and airport security. You can close your door and make a phone call without bothering anybody. You can close your door if you don't want to listen to your neighbor's conversation. You can close your door and watch a movie without headphones. There's an actual table so you can play a proper card game with your traveling partner. etc.
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Funny . i built something quite similar and many others I am sure too. World is pretty good today. BTW your price is very good, the screen and battery itself is quite expensive already for me (two color e-paper)
I do think the land-based deterrent could be regenerated as a mobile shell-game style force. The Chinese are clearly adopting this strategy and it would reduce the overall material and munitions costs/requirements while still requiring the target sponge allocation for the Western US that policymakers desire.
Ahhh, I understand now. Thanks!
> So I guess I am overestimating the average user by assuming that people read the text written on every single page they use to query the system.

Yes, you definitely are. Speaking from experience of supporting users for many years. People will not only ignore such text, they will repeatedly make mistakes or ask questions the text answers directly, even after you’ve explained it five different ways.

The rest of your post is full of assumptions and dismissals, so I think I may be wasting my time, but let’s please stop with the rhetoric that someone who doesn’t agree with you is somehow afraid or has an agenda. As way of example, your comment ignores the bigger picture of bad actors using LLMs to push propaganda, sow discord, or scam people. The “bullshit” part of the problem isn’t limited to “it gave me a wrong answer on my homework”.
For what it's worth, I mentioned they _contain_ the knowledge to try to avoid discussions about whether they really "know" anything -- if there's a better term like 'information about the world' or something, I think that's all I was trying to tell the original person I replied to. The point wasn't that they do what humans do, but that they are not just grammar machines.

> How do I know I _know_ something? Usually because I have searched for evidence from multiple angles / dimensions / senses. When multiple independent observations of quality agree, and my conclusion matches the result, it is safe to say that I know that fact.

I wanted to thank you for laying out this perspective. In my experience, in discussions about LLMs, a lot of time people get caught up on words like 'know' which work well for talking about humans, but don't cash them out in definitions I know what to do with. This is a really content-ful of sharing what you mean by your claim.
Then refer to it as 'illegal copying', not 'stealing'.
Maybe some of them do not have ChatGPT account at all. Since you need to provide phone number.
I'm the person with a city center wood burner - They're terrible for air quality [0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/30/home-woo...
I've been getting 1960s public domain Atomic Energy Commission films scanned from 16mm reels at the National Archives and posting on YouTube. I noticed they were running a lot of ads even though I had monetization off. Turns out, each one got a few copyright claims from people who apparently release "remastered" old music in the 2010s. I got annoyed and disputed them all and as of yesterday the claims have all been released. What a pain.
Telling people to have gratitude isn't going to fix a logistical problem or social phenomenon.

It's like telling people not to be Christian/Buddhist/muslim because religion is just a bunch of fantasy stories.
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Where is it written that being an OSS contributor should be a sustainable career? Just go write software for a company if that’s what you want to do. But why there’s an expectation that “open” source software should pay anyone is beyond me.
Who says magicians are artists? I have never heard anyone say that. But, I guess if we're calling people "prompt engineers" then these superlatives don't mean much anymore.
You really only see that in tech, and do so because of lack of meaningful competition. You get some sideline competition, yes, but never direct competition. The law doesn't allow you to directly compete. As soon as you try you will be slapped with a patent/copyright/whatever lawsuit that will kill you off before you ever had a chance.

Industries where direct competition is allowable do not suffer from these problems.
"Registration Fees: $6 million dollars per year." "the registration fees that cover the delivery of verification codes during the sign-up process to help verify phone numbers and prevent spam accounts"

Can you please change Signal to not require a phone number? Requiring a phone number makes me question Signal's privacy. Looks like it can save $6 million dollars.
Danny DeVito playing Frank from It’s Always Sunny would be a hilarious narrator.
Because a fast train is about as fast as a plane on short flights once you add in security and all the little waits, plus getting to the airport of departure and from the airport of arrival.
> As David Lynch says, ideas are very quiet, you have to learn how to listen, so far I have not heard one, but maybe some day..

If that's your experience, either you're lucky, or just wait, or both. They're loud, and they keep coming faster and faster, and ideas beget ideas. You need a solid mental wall to protect yourself from them.

Edit: *you're
Yes they are. These are not legit emails.
thanks

I've heard of them https://fondazione.openpolis.it/en/manifesto it looks like they are really doing a great job
In that case, use DEBUG-only asserts. They're not foolproof (they're only as good as your test suite), but they're pretty damn good.
What's crazy is that the reporter previously filed a bug report about hijacking sessions and then it comes full circle during a different report.

That's karma
Indeed. For example, the video "Bruckner 8 trombone training" by Kevin Hertlein was uploaded to YouTube in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0m2cLH1m8

Back in 2021 it bore a note saying "Music in this video: song: Calling You (Live), artist: FUN. Licensed to YouTube by TuneCore (on behalf of FUN)", and a link to another video entitled "Calling You (Live)" that was uploaded in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-577Wp8yBQ (that has subsequently been taken down).

I contacted TuneCore about this shady use of their platform to make false copyright claims; I got a reply a couple of days later basically saying that they would only respond to reports made by or on behalf of the copyright holder; they seemed uninterested in the fact that they were (or at least appeared to be) accessory to copyright fraud—presumably at least in part because there was nothing to be gained financially by investigating and putting a stop to such fraud on their platform.

I'm glad to see that the false copyright claim was eventually dropped, but this whole thing could have been avoided if YouTube's content match system was a little more skeptical about claims made about music which has already been on the platform for some time.
Textbooks are a rather bad source of info. Consider that history textbooks in many countries look at everything through the lens of a particular national mythology, since one of the goals of a country’s public education is to forge a cohesive society, and that is done by downplaying past controversies.

For many other fields, introductory textbooks even at the university level may abound in oversimplifications, and it is only in later years of study that one begins, by reading specialized papers and monographs, to grasp how complicated the facts really are.
Huh, prices have come down on them recently. They're only about $20/bulb now. They used to be a good bit higher.

Waveform is a good example of a company that's trying to do it right - you can get photometric reports on their bulbs, with detailed spectrums, the full CRI chart (R1-R15, not just R1-R8, and, yes, their R9 values are quite good), etc.
I've tried different browsers, more so these past few years, and always end up back with Ungoogled Chromium. It seemingly uses half of the memory of Firefox.
The brief blurb about how GIL came to be, in light of Python’s success as a language and a tool, makes me question my s/e belief system. Things like this are like when good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. It makes you question the meaning of it all.

Is there no great architect in the sky? Is there no software god after all, looking down, punishing sloppy engineers and granting blessings to thoughtful engineers? How else to explain this injustice of sloppy engineering eating the world (to say nothing of JavaScript)?
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"Design wants to be free"
How close does it feel to pen and paper?

I loathe the idea of paying a subscription for a device I am already paying money for but I find pen and paper way more liberating than a computer. I am very tempted by e-ink notebooks as they feel somewhere in between the two
This was literally the definition of a black swan event: "an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight"
> I see your point, but instead of giving up, i would rather we work on a proper long term solution.

This is extremely hand-wavey. What long term solutions should we be working towards exactly?

Today, there are many people who statistically will never be able to have a romantic relationship. And regardless of whatever vague potential societal changes you're alluding to, there will always be a subset of the population that will be unable to find a partner.

> I am not against people using tools whichever way they see fit, but i am against the emerging trend of turning this stop gap solution into a permanent arrangement by exploiting these people’s emotional state.

As these services inevitably emerge, perhaps the focus should be on ensuring that companies do not exploit their users. The concept of regulating an industry is not novel. This should be possible unless you're asserting that a simulated relationship is fundamentally exploitative.
Makes you wonder what the efficacy of a dirty bomb which makes the surface of the earth uninhabitable with cobalt isotopes would be to nuclear deterrence.
Star Wars Holiday Special was genuinely dire – how did it happen?
I keep having to re-customize it after every update.
I think the word "radical" or "far" as in "far right" are being perverted to deny the existence of both the "radical left" and deny the existence of a moderate right. I've noticed the language war (as in, changing the meaning of words) is more heavily employed by the "far left" (see what I did there?) than the right, but I'm happy to see evidence of the right using it.

For instance, I think if the right fought the language war, nuclear energy should be called "green energy" because it doesn't emit greenhouse gases. And you should be called "against green energy" if you oppose nuclear power.

To be clear, I am vehemently against changing the meaning of words, but it's seemingly an arms race and I happily add the word "far" to referring to the left just to help balance things out. I just wish it didn't have to be this way.
>> I'd really like to travel by train sleeper car, but I just can't justify it as transportation

> What an odd comment. It gets you where you're going, the same as any other form of transportation. For a long time it was the default way people took long distance trips.

But far slower than air travel, which I imagine is a big reason why air travel displaced it.

> Do you also consider road trips or long bus rides to be not transportation?

I don't take the bus, but when I drive, it's cheaper than flying (or flying + car rental).

>> given the prices.

> Again, with two people, it's been about the same price the last few times we've done it.

But it's slower, so the time-cost is higher.
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I can invent a grammar, explain it to an LLM, and it can apply it correctly in ambiguous situations. If its just generating output based on statistical probability based on its training corpus, how would that work? It feels like there's something emergent there that isn't just a very good probabilistic calculator.
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A few days ago Forbes published an article about remote work policies and their impact on revenue

Would live to hear people opinions on this topic.

This is the article https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2023/11/14/companies-with-flexible-remote-work-policies-outperform-on-revenue-growth-report/?sh=7bb9020b5ae4
I don't agree with this formulation of the problem nor the proposed solution space. The cost/price angle might be useful to solve other problems though.

Publishing opensource to a package repository should have higher hurdles than picking a LICENSE file and pushing code to Github. Java/Maven repos typically have higher quality because to get code there, you have to have a domain, register it and get through the packaging requirements/bureaucracy. The use of packages from Github with merely a repo/git-hash is a bad trend. On the other side, if everything had a visible price/cost, then we might not end up with simple functions being overused and compromise a library ecosystem.