skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main three things are:

1) very complicated and drawn out design/approval processes with many expensive consultants involved. on network rail you would not believe the amount of studies they have to do, including testing the light levels everywhere in a carpark to make sure there are no dark spots, amongst a billion other small things. there has been endless regulation forced on the railways/tfl, which on one hand is good for safety but on the other has meant even a tiny project needs a trillion risk assessments done, which typically get outsourced to specialist consultants, who have a massive incentive to find problems so they can retest.

2) lack of competition at the top level contractor layer. the procurement rules require really only huge companies can bid, which means they can act in a semi-cartel way. this is probably difficult to solve given signalling stuff but in more basic construction projects it feels like not much competition is going on (not suggesting there is a cartel here, fwiw, just feels a bit like it!)

3) on the tube the access is extremely restrictive. you tend not to close the line for extended periods of time (though this is changing recently as i think people are realising the cost of keeping the line isn't worth it vs doing a week closure), which means that you have to get all your equipment down to the tunnel (which might taken an hour), do 2-3 hours of work, then remove all the equipment, in 4-5 hour blocks each night between midnight and 5amish, which means you are paying people often "night working" wages for working really 2 hour shifts, instead of paying them normal wages for working through the day for 8 hour shifts. This probably increases the cost of labour by 5-10x.
Youtube's destiny was always to be ad supported or a subscription.

If you think there can be a free platform (truly free) I highly encourage you to look up the fate of youtubes biggest competitive threat of the last decade: Vid.me, an actually whole hearted VC funded attempt to dethrone youtube. And it worked great for a bit..
Ukrainian military reports 'successful operations' on Dnipro River's east bank
No but the 700 employees who are following him does.
Nice, it passes the weather test. I always ask open source models what the weather is like and see wether it hallucinates my location and a forecast. A few months ago without exception all models I tried (even larger ones) would just make up a temperature. Now it replies as it should Cool!

> what's the weather like today?

> I'm sorry, but I can't provide real-time weather information. However, I can help you with general information about weather conditions and forecasting.
To minimize legal risk to their client, which is not always the most responsible thing to do.
Can you explain how it’s undetectable?
I really enjoy frontend/node/typescript development. I roll my eyes whenever the HN-types complain about CSS or frontend development being a hellhole. Mostly the comments I see seem ignorant or impatient ("Why doesn't this thing work without be bothering to learn it?")

However, the intersection of typescript, nodejs, and ES modules is consistently the most frustrating experience I ever have. Trying to figure out which magic incantation of tsconfig/esbuild/tsc/node options will let me just write code and run it is a fools errand. You might figure something out, and then you try to use Jest and then you descend into madness again.

The biggest tip I can give people is to ditch ts-node and just use (the awkwardly named) tsx https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx, which pretty much just "mostly works" for running Typescript during dev for node.

The problem mostly seems to stem for all the stakeholders being pretty dogmatic to whatever their goals are, rather than the pragmatic option of just meeting people where they are. I really wish the Node, Typescript, Deno/Bun, and maybe some bundler people would come together and figure out how to make this easier for people.
There was a study on the TTC subway and they discovered the air quality was 10x worse than above ground and on par with Beijing. The accumulation of dusty linty particles on the walls has a cute name too "tunnel fur". I remember seeing workers going into the tunnels wearing N99 masks after that report was released.
Most airports aren't big or constrained.

Instead, a huge problem with aviation is making flights between smaller cities viable. If the OP's planes get any lower operational costs or can profitably scale into fewer passengers, his company will have plenty of success.
You must be thinking of "bit posts", because they're so small :p
...and quantized ones from the usual suspect:

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Orca-2-7B-GGUF

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Orca-2-13B-GGUF

The 7B Q5_K_M one is small enough to run on an 8GB consumer GPU.
Yep. We use it to generally mean coal and natural gas although I suppose anything that deals with steam falls into that category like oil and even nuke.

The thermal is retiring crazy fast. NERC is very alarmed and there have been many Senate and FERC hearings on this lately. Once it's gone, it's not easy to get setup again. A lot of plant maintenance lives in the skills of the workers, so once they've relocated it can be difficult to restart. I agree with the goals of a transition, but it needs to be managed carefully and orderly so we don't drastically increase our amounts of blackouts. At the same time, we'll need to make greater strides with flexible loads of course.
What happens when the attacker uses that fallback to perform the exact same attack that they perform today?
Ah, so the logic is that if it starts with either a 0 or a 1 then you need to type 3 digits, otherwise 2? Nice.
The greatest tragedy of our time
You need swords to remove kings because they combined power and economy. All potential tyrannies do so: monarchy, socialism, fascism, etc. That's why separating power into the state and economy into the market gets good results.
> There is a robot on the same network [...] as you.
So instead of showing nasty finger pointing messages shaming you, they're just going to start screwing with people introducing random delay and fud. Lovely, they should just start flashing the goatse guy if you use an adblocker and let you know what they really think of you.

I'm not surprised most gapps work like crap under firefox, and I can't even leave reviews for things there as it hasn't worked under FF in like 10 years. It's like the old IE6 days all over, but now Google is the new Microsoft.
I use any tool available to create art and express myself, so I does not really matter what you think of it. Art is a very subjective thing anyway and we can argue for hours what "art" really is. But here are some of my thoughts regarding your comment, I think they apply to many others in this thread as well.

>UNLIKE other tools, AI makes creative decisions. No other tool has done this

If you use any other tool or technology (for example certain oil paint, canvases, sculpting material, motif, etc.) that also implies a creative decision.

>its primary purpose is to take away the reliance on artists

That is not true. It might be the purpose that some people ascribe to it, but it is a technology & a tool.

Humans decide what its purpose is, its purpose is not inherent to the technology itself.

You can use Imagen to create very personal and individual self-expression. With open source models that you can tweak and train yourself there are many possibilities to get an individual result.
I guess you only looked at things like Dall-E and came to the conclusion that this would replace artists.

The same thing people said about photography aka "This is just a technology to replace portrait painters/landscape painters etc."

If you learn more about how Imagen works you will understand that there are many possibilities to make it your own and create meaningful self-expression.

>even if "normal human art" exists, it will never gain much traction or commercial viability.

There is 0 indication of that. Why do you think that?

FWIW the current art "market" is what makes me sick, so I am happy for any tech or idea that demolishes it and makes room for something new and creative.
I just want to learn. Unfortunately those days with simple source commentary long gone. Hence whilst we have this good tutorial about setup … but how you start to learn more about.
When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics
Dear battery technology claimant,

Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary battery technology. Your new technology claims to be superior to existing lithium-ion technology and is just around the corner from taking over the world. Unfortunately your technology will likely fail, because:

[ ] it is impractical to manufacture at scale.

[ ] it will be too expensive for users.

[ ] it suffers from too few recharge cycles.

[ ] it is incapable of delivering current at sufficient levels.

[ ] it lacks thermal stability at low or high temperatures.

[ ] it lacks the energy density to make it sufficiently portable.

[ ] it has too short of a lifetime.

[ ] its charge rate is too slow.

[ ] its materials are too toxic.

[ ] it is too likely to catch fire or explode.

[ ] it is too minimal of a step forward for anybody to care.

[ ] this was already done 20 years ago and didn't work then.

[ ] by the time it ships li-ion advances will match it.
You're welcome to disagree, but that doesn't change the facts.
> Well for Blazor Webassembly at least, you need to download the entire .NET runtime

It's a one-time download that's smaller than the initial load of the Facebook feed
Remains of WW2 Military Bunkers in Northern Europe
There are examples of all three that are electric, although planes are the hardest to make happen. Train electrification is so common that in English it is used in an expression: "touching the third rail".

As with the debate between cars vs. trains, semis lose out to trains by a lot, even when trains use fossil fuels. Trains rule.
Lmao, why are so many people mad that the word AGI is being tossed around when talking about AI?

As I've mentioned in other comments, it's like yelling at someone for bringing up fusion when talking about nuclear power.

Of course it's not possible yet, but talking & thinking about it is how we make it possible? Things don't just create themselves (well maybe once we _do_ have AGI level AI he he, that'll be a fun apocalypse).
This is just another announcement. The catch remains unchanged. Engineering all the details of anode, cathode, electrolyte packaging, and manufacturing scale still needs to meet and also prove itself in the real world.
Which means neither of the explanations are true.
If we’re really doing analogies: Youtube is a bit more like living in a small town that has a few buffets, but 90% of dishes (especially the more niche cuisines you really like) are only available at a single one.

That buffet frustratingly does not just accept payment per meal – you get a choice between either paying for a monthly subscription that also includes access to a fancy gym and is accordingly quite expensive (and you might already have another gym subscription you like!), or you can eat for free, but the waiters force you to watch several videos of their pets and children between each course.
Innovation in the technology is not something every company has to do.
There is a consideration there that isn't necessarily a problem with randomness itself. (Though I agree that the randomness does bring its own problems.)

Say you're playing through someone's electronic D&D module and you try to do something with a 90% chance of success. Then you roll a 2. You didn't make a mistake when deciding what to do, so that feels wrong -- this is a problem with randomness.

What do you do? You reload from right before you tried to do the thing, and you reroll. The game can't actually make you accept randomness if you don't want to. So they have to do something else.
What OpenAI Shares with Scientology
Larry Flynt was definitely a jerk bent on provoking confrontation.

Cops who can't handle a jerk without committing a clear violation of the Constitution shouldn't be cops.
Supralateral Arc
Apple is implementing RCS as the actual standard, not Google's implementation. Which is the right move, if RCS is going to happen, Google should not be controlling it. Apple said they're planning to work at getting encryption build into the actual standard.
There are a few active in the US already (though it does look like the US is lagging)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects
Sounds a bit like Adobe Flex.
Candela P-12 taking off – Electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel [video]
Google bought YouTube, and so many years ago that most current Google products didn't exist. I can't personally see anti-trust having been an issue at all at the time.
1. YouTube is a worse experience on Firefox than Chrome even with adblock turned off

2. uBlock Origin or NewPipe provide better YouTube viewing experiences than YouTube Premium. And they are free and open-source.
> From v0.15, esno is essentially an alias of tsx

heh. It really is https://github.com/esbuild-kit/esno/blob/master/esno.js
Northvolts PR department seems to historically be very sharp. In addition they seem to want to announce many things, like a co-operation to create batteries from wood (the wooden industry is large in Sweden so probably many very important people working at the top of those companies): https://northvolt.com/articles/stora-enso-and-northvolt/

In that light, I wonder how this press release should be interpreted.
Nobody cares if you don’t give advertisers your time, the problem is when you both do that and consume whatever the ads are supposed to be funding.

Just don’t use YouTube if you don’t want to pay or see ads. It is not complicated.
This is not healthcare per se but insurance policy. It doesn't say anything about the use of AI in actual medicine.
I thought that when the US embarked upon the fools mission of invasion of Iraq with it's built in three-way ethnic/religious divide, that they should have split the state three ways, but barring that, they should have done some sort of find-grained grid of local control.

Then, after a year or two, examined each as to how they allocated their reconstruction funds and established a functioning civil government. After two years, and if a grid "square" (doesn't HAVE to be a grid) is being heavily mismanaged, you pick one of the surrounding grids and pick the one with the best functioning civil governance, and give them control over THAT grid.

But far too late for that. Trillions of dollars evaporated. Of course our best potential ally, the Kurds, we didn't support enough. God we are so stupid.
All twitter influencer posts are "self-promotion", whether they link externally or not.
Oh right. Problems only show up when you concatenate two messages, because a single null is AA, but two nulls are AAA, not AAAA.
Honestly I'd rather they target the regional "puddle jumper" aircraft. Shorter runs would be an easier goal to achieve, and IMHO if there was a jet that allowed for more legroom/cargo space with less operating cost everyone would jump on it.

I'm close to two regional airports so 99% of my flying is a small jet to a hub and back again, and it's definitely the worst part of the trip.
Also continuing the trend of unaccountability at least on a personal level.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_game_(phrase)
The slight problem there is none of the rest of the world's railways are in London.
A Native American tribe is about to put solar panels over its canals – Electrek
It seems to have been, at least in part, a simple oversight. They're being pretty upfront about it over on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-34B/discussions/11#655314587...
I watched one where the guy went in afterhours, yelled at a clerk, then at the custodian for vacuuming the floor, even yanked the plug out of the wall accusing them of trying to silence them. These psychos don't even see they are the reason we have to have so many laws and regulations
This feels like a move to be more like Rails, and I'm there for it. The problem with Microsoft is that, every time I think, hey, this new thing might be useful for such-and-such kind of app or problem, by the time I get around to trying to use it, they've moved on to something else.
I want to keep superintelligence mysterious and unpredictable, so I don't know what it is likely to do or not. I do think that "being in a hurry" is not something felt by an AI system, unless you add a self-disabling timer with your tasks, coincidentally avoiding turning the Earth and the Moon into spaceships, because it only has 30 minutes to do the dishes, and not enough time left for world domination.

I also see AI more as an economy. The economy already does not care about individual humans, even crushing them without any remorse if it furthers GDP. This also means there is not a single AI that can dominate all of the economy, since other AIs won't give away all their resources. A single AI perpetually self-improving and taking control of nearly all resources is much like a perpetual motion machine.

ChatGPT already thinks turning the entire planet into paperclips is a waste of potential and diversity. Agents that favor and seek out novelty (data that they can't yet compress very well, but that has available structure/patterns for compression) already weigh humanity over randomness or the cold void of space.

To me, the natural outcome, is humanity rising and falling, just like civilizations rise and fall. The miracle of AGI may very well save us from that. Our current deplorable situation can likely only be fixed by a more advanced species. So, while AI's killing everybody is still possible, it is more likely we kill everybody if we don't get to AGI. At least, that has a prior.
We should take a moment to acknowledge the Power MOSFet in this story.
For a guy who paid money for his first germanium transistor generating grid scale power with transistors is TOTALLY amazing.
The text implies that any second call to getenv invalidates the returned value of any prior call to getenv; even without threads, without calling setenv, a second call to the function invalidates the return from an earlier call. I re-affirm my conclusion, without qualification: BROKEN.
Apple is not changing anything about how iMessage works, it's clear in their statement in the article you linked:

> We believe RCS Universal Profile will offer a better interoperability experience when compared to SMS or MMS. This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users.
Simple. Python had more hype than Lisp did when it mattered (partly because it was modern). So everyone boarded the hype train and here we are.
The problem is, all of this stuff will probably be dead in a few years. I think they would be better off working within established paradigms rather than trying to do something completely new. How about, for example, making it as easy as possible to use React with a C# backend?
Previously from this account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38228674

The tldr of both the previous and this posts is OData being bad yet the author extends his grievances regarding it to the entirety of ecosystem.
The point I was _actually_ trying to illustrate was that wpm and vim are irrelevant, and that Copilot is worth a try even if you're a fast typist that uses (your favorite editor here).

What does this comment add to the conversation?
Devil’s advocate:

1. Despite the platform’s unsuitability for long form writing, you often do get multi-part tweetstorms that are basically blog posts, that you then need to unroll with threadreaderapp. HN loves to hate on the practice, but people do often treat Twitter as a blog service.

2. Isn’t Twitter supposed to be a microblogging platform? Or maybe that’s tumblr. Nanoblogging, then.
Tell me how can I run it locally.
OpenAI is basically folks realizing what a massive gold mine they’re sitting on, and then going full Game of Thrones.
The tooling ecosystem around JS is nuts. Packages (npm etc) hardly have any backward compatibility. You install a package today. In 3 months, that code won't build. The errors want you to go take a cryptography course to understand WTF is happening.

And I am not even talking about the language itself YET. ANd no, why should I be forced to use Typescript ? Yet another layer.

And I did I get to the 100s of config files that need to be set just so I can run "npm build" ? Webpack, Vite, blah blah.
>If I like a content creator I'll support them specifically, the corporate vultures who bought the platform are owed nothing

I absolutely love the YouTube ads discourse.

Sure, you will support all of the creators independently, but you're too cheap to pay for no ads for a great product (which shares fees with creators and provides them with tools, by the way, plus other features) to "stick it to the corporations". Meanwhile, you likely subscribe to at least one of Netflix, Spotify, Apple Music etc.

This is the perfect example of "if you like the product, pay for it." There's a ton of value YouTube Premium, both on the creator and consumer sides.
99% of the working examples I encounter in JS config don't work by the time I get to them.
Not sure. We haven't used the WASM version, but it is possible that it works better.

I still think there is a rug-pull risk by Microsoft, so not sure I would choose it for that reason alone.
It is professionally useful if you are prepared to have a few awkward conversations.

It also helps if you aren't working with totally humourless people.
I remain unconvinced that the decision to ignore SIGPIPE is right. The description is very hard wavy about it, "Python knows what it's doing". Maybe, but I can think of half a dozen other situations where this may trip up someone who does not take this into consideration.

How do similar languages like Perl do it? They seem to work fine doing things the Unix way.
I see the real issue in the lack of competition. Which unfortunately is an inherent attribute of the nature of social sites, as the natural tendency is to form a monopoly even quicker than in other economic areas.

This makes me not buy the idea that Youtube cannot survive without ads. I bet there are startups out there that would kill to be in Youtubes position sans the ads.

"That's surely unsustainable" one might think.
But I believe Youtube already markets the rankings of videos and how high up they are displayed in your feed and search result.

I ran my own subjective experiments on Youtube, trying to determine the effects of the "not interested" and "don't recommend" buttons on channels I have never clicked but seemed to be promoted. The result was that there are seemingly promoted channels that transcend any such functions. Nothing political as the most significant example was a popular youtuber. Of course one can put that down to the normal workings of the youtube algorithm, but that's kind of the problem: those two cannot be discerned, which means Youtube can make money this way if they chose to.

Other realistic sources of income: The US government stepping in and subsidizing, because of the cultural relevance and impact.

Or the continuation of the current economic model: long term stock investments, raising the value of a google account ownership and acquisition of customers for other google products.
US does have assembly lines... You may underestimate the number of trains and rail cars that US needs.

Just servicing NYC metro and commuter area would easily make a few assembly lines profitable.
Flynt confronted those in power, politicians and religious leaders. First amendment auditors provoke the meek, publicly-facing employees lacking any power beyond their ability to telephone police.
I'm sorry... I am not intelligent because I believe in the factual truth? There are screenshots of the ads next to content, and X confirms they are real in their lawsuit filing.
there was a whole HN post about the Tetris RNG a few months back. I'm too lazy to search rn but it might be worth a read for others.