skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not surprising. Despite the enormous energy costs and the threat to humanity by creating technology that we can't control, governments and corporations will build bigger and more sophisticated models just because they have to do so to compete.

It is the prisoner's dilemma: we end up with a super-advanced AI that will disrupt and make society worse because entities are competing where the metric of success is short-term monetary gain.

It's ridiculous. Humanity should give up this useless development of AI.
Which articles?
Is this like ResearchGPT by SciSpace? Could you please explain what the differences are?
We don't need competition to make everything better. Our (and literally our) schools, hospitals, police, road network, water and sewage system and military among others don't have competition and seem to work just fine.
For personal photos, integration with the iOS Photos library is something I'd like to see from more apps. RAW Power is pretty much the only raw editor that integrates well, without needing to copy files around and creating duplicates.
Nothing, I just keep using Photoshop. No skin off my nose.

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And to give an anecdotal counterpoint: I live in (relatively speaking because small country) the middle of nowhere in the Netherlands, I have 8+ charging stations (each with at least 2 chargers) in my small town and a fast charging point with 20+ chargers within a five minute highway drive.

Not that there aren't any problems, and there are definitely "dead zones" so to speak, but the situation you're describing isn't valid everywhere.
Depends, the insurance industry takes these all the time. Mind you, it's all on their terms, their risks, etc.
Yep, and size wise, busybox is <1MB and python is much larger.
Playing God: creating technology or inventions that are far beyond our control, or that will have unintended consequences that have the potential to cause significant material or psychological damage to a large proportion of humanity that cannot be reversed. Such technology is of the type that despite attempts to control it, it proliferates, and it would proliferate under a variety of economic and political models so that there is hardly any way to stop it except complete physical destruction.
Many ISPs have been lobbying for a tax on "content generators" which they say they would use to pay for infrastructure upgrades (or line the pockets of their shareholders who knows).

The EU has a consultation on it, although I think it'll fail to get traction.
I was a video game software pirate
Well VPN is off the table as almost all of them will be blocked by russia's regulators
It wasn't replaced, the other two commands were added to the cli.

It will take decades before git checkout will actually get replaced by git switch/restore in all the git books, tutorials and search results. Most normal users will keep learning and using git checkout in the meanwhile.

I understand why they can't actually deprecate existing commands. The git command is used in far too many existing shell scripts across thousands of companies.

I would argue that this is actually a fundamental deficiency of the "unix way" of doing things, where the same command is meant to be used both by human beings and in automated workflows. Automated workflows require backwards compatibility. Humans need easy to use interfaces that don't allow them to easily shoot themselves in the foot. The same tool cannot serve both needs.
Missing some, to cover the whole spectrum :)

Barely Acceptable Telescope

Mildly Average Telescope

Just Big Enough Telescope
The problem is who is "we"?

If the capability exists, someone will pursue it. Maybe the G20 will pass a resolution to put safety measures in place, but whoever decides to flaunt those safety measures stands to gain an asymmetrical power advantage

That sets up a competitive dynamic where players are incentivized to try to get there first, no matter the risks, because if they don't someone else will

Similar dynamics played out with the nuclear arms race
Reading that if there is a project that needs more hands it has to be GIMP... That being said without introducing more workload than it fixes.
I am not sure how long the lead up time is to being useful. Seems to me just fixing bugs would really help them - if can be done - without causing further issues.
Is it me or is this article quite light on the specific brain-like characteristics that were developed? It seems like they're reading into it quite a lot.
You jest but it's 100% doable. If I had a spare couple of months I'd build a UI for this on openstreetmap.org.

(How you'd do it: move osm.org to vector tiles, use Maplibre GL as the rendering library, enable users to upload and select their own JSON stylesheet, build some sort of rudimentary sharing facility so you could use others' stylesheets)
Now that Sam Altman's coming back, what's next for the creators of ChatGPT?
Ah yes. I often use Maps when I have a rough idea where to go, but I just need to commit the street names of a few turns to memory. Finding those names indeed tends to be a frustrating experience.
Also, its only illegal when you get caught </jest>.
It's not the point of all advancement. The Amish for instance have accepted certain developments but with caution, and with a centralized system of governing technology so that it doesn't get out of hand. Or consider the Mayans, who tempered their advancement with their limitations in terms of resources.

We shouldn't do it, and we should stop and be happy with what we have and learn how to live better with what we have instead of inventing more trash like AI.
The goal is different for different users of the map, as this thread pretty clearly demonstrates.

But it's 100% fine that Google Maps isn't the all-singing all-dancing maps app for everyone. Other maps are available. Plurality is good.
Doesn't Jetpack Compose use native controls while Flutter implements its own controls?

Wrapping native controls often means being limited by a lowest common denominator in cross-platform scenarios.
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I'd like to add a bit to your comment. I certainly agree that negative prices in this context don't mean anything remotely nefarious, but part of your comment suggests that "it's all consensual contracts" is a sufficient ethical justification for a system — which may or may not be what you actually think — and I wanted to touch on that.

Markets come in all shapes and sizes, and in reality you can't write up any contract you like — nor should you be able to. Indeed, electricity markets must be tightly regulated due to shared infrastructure, which is an example of the fact that these markets don't arise simply from the application of a fundamental "allow people to enter into whatever agreements they like" principle, but rather requires pragmatic _design_.

Ultimately, we, as collectives, decide what the rules of the game are. In the case of electricity, the need for innovation and flexibility to decarbonise the grid are perfectly acceptable justifications for adopting market solutions (the only real alternative being to allow the State to monopolise the whole system, which would come with its own serious and disruptive trade-offs); but ultimately, this is a _system_ that we decide on, and it doesn't arise out of natural rights, and systems can be more or less well-designed. I think you touch on this in your comment as well.

Markets aren't evil, but nor are they naturally good. They are a tool in our toolbox for constructing resource allocation systems. And the success of a system, and indeed _the_ system as a whole, must consider all the interlocking economic and social consequences — and it's anxiety about those that the "late-stage capitalism" trope really reflects. It's not something to dismiss altogether.
There are two fixed fees households pay, an energy tax of 0,02253€/kWh and a security of supply fee (0,013 euro cents per kWh). These are not affected by fluctuations in the market prices of electricity.
The market is mainly regulated by having some restrictions on pricing by requiring the sellers to be able to prove that their price roughly matches your their costs + some profit margin (to stop a big player from buying all the cheap electricity and relisting it for massive profits) and forcing producers to put money into escrow/buy insurance for the case that they fail to deliver what they sold.

This latter one led the government having to open a line of credit for tens of billions euros last winter when the prices were high just so the actual producers could afford to sell their (historically highly priced) electricity as the money you have to leave in escrow/insurance price is tied to the SPOT price.
"... All transformers are blown. ..."

Sure, that's possible. Long powerlines are affected.

"... All electronics are fried."

What? All? How could that happen due to solar activity? My guess is that even the worst event would leave a ton of working electronics. I don't think mostly anything happens to our cars or laptops, for example.
Or alternatively: it's only a crime if you get caught.

A really big and normalized one is tax evasion in the form of paying for items or services in cash without administration. Most if not all people you can hire for jobs around the house - gardeners, cleaners, handimen, plumbers, construction, painting, etc - will take cash instead of going on record.

The challenge there is that this takes trust, because you take a risk as well / there are no assurances if they do half a job. Make sure you get an address so you can torch their house or business if they mess you about.
Don't think so. I suspect it would require quite in-depth surgery of llamacpp to add in the ability to send activations over the internet and pipeline stuff to keep all the cores busy.
That argument has nothing to do with communism. At most, it could be seen as anti-capitalist. As I understand it, the argument is that some so-called “underdeveloped” country is actually rich in natural resources, but foreign companies have come in and extracted the vast majority of the wealth, given some resources only to a select elite, as essentially bribes, and the large masses of people get nothing, and so remain poor. Even though the wealth extracted, had it remained in the country, would have made the country on the same level, or even higher, than the so-called “developed” countries. I can see no argument for communism here.

If anything, the argument is a nationalistic one, and nationalism have traditionally been associated with the right, not the left.
There's a difference between Wayland support and working on Wayland. They're asking about actual wayland support, not xwayland, which presumably was never and issue
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It’s not stellar, but it doesn’t suck, and I haven’t been forced to upgrade.

Maybe I will never migrate off LR and just create a new catalog on some other computer with Ansel or something.

I use the last version of LR6 one could purchase outright, and I dragged it kicking and screaming all the way into Ventura, but I’m sure the party well end pretty soon.
Absolutely, MirageOS is indeed pivotal in the development of unikernels. MirageOS not only developed the unikernel concept but also coined the term 'unikernel'.

MirageOS represents a significant shift in cloud and network computing, focusing on building highly specialized, secure, and efficient unikernels that streamline application deployment by shedding unnecessary components. It also puts extra focus on security, with most of the stack — including TCP and TLS — being rewritten in a type-safe language (OCaml).

Currently, MirageOS is expanding to include bare-metal and embedded systems, aiming to bring the same level of security and efficiency to this domain. The move towards embedded systems is a natural progression for MirageOS, given our emphasis on minimalism and security in environments where resources are limited and reliability is crucial. See for instance what is happening with SpaceOS: https://tarides.com/blog/2023-07-31-ocaml-in-space-welcome-s...
Aside: figure 1 epitomizes everything that I hate about high-impact results-first journals: everything has to be packed into this one figure because nobody's expected to read anything else. No disrespect to the authors, these journals force you to express your work in this reader-hostile fashion where the most important parts of the paper wind up buried in the supplement.
Listening to podcasts on my computer, I want to go and do some cleaning, so I switch it over to playing on my phone seamlessly so I can walk around the house listening. Spotify is the only solution that I know of for this.
"We" refers to human civilization, and is not just one CEO but the sum of all society that acts as an organism through the emergent behaviour of our social existence.

If "we" are doing something wrong, then "we" had better fix it. And that could mean governments or even counter-actions by individual people, or even actions by hacker groups....
git checkout is overloaded and has two use cases. git checkout $branch is safe, git checkout $file_or_folder_name will help you shoot yourself in the foot.
> SpaceX in-house demand for something we have no clue about its financial viability or profitability

Starlink achieved cash-flow breakeven it seems: https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-starlink-h...

But the journalism... that statement is only in the title.
I remember being really excited about the first GIMP release that partly used GEGL [1], when a fully GEGL-based GIMP 3.0 seemed right around the corner. That was GIMP 2.6 in 2008. I've been using GIMP for over 20 years at this point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEGL
They are in that paid traffic is essential for them but I don't directly receive income from ads for any of them. At least not in a way that an ad blocker would negatively impact my income.
> What is the probability that this will result in a scenario where we are playing God?

All of human existence is playing God.
Jetpack Compose is the new native controls framework for Android.

JetBrains is the one that decided to take it beyond Android.
Yet China or India have tons of startups without reserve currency status.
>I wasn’t familiar with the term calipers outside of the measuring tool.

It also refers to the part in disc brakes which holds the brake pads and squeezes them together onto the rotor.
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> BoxySVG

Both a PWA and desktop app. Cool!

https://boxy-svg.com/
I'm no Gimp user but it is tiresome when there is post about Gimp - people are just bashing it. You have found Gimp with bad UI and posting about it? Welcome on the internet!
Aside from TP-Link consumer segments being unreliable and buggy - I wonder if TTL comes into play here. I know some mobile ISPs have been throttling or block traffic based on packet TTL (as a proxy for tethering) but it's not something I've heard of otherwise...
> scientists in each field know which journals to trust and which to double check

I've not seen much evidence of this in my own reading. Maybe in some fields, but certainly not all. During the COVID years I read a lot of epidemiological and public health papers. They all had dozens of references and would be published in well known journals like Nature, BMJ, the Lancet etc. Yet when checked many of the referenced papers would simply not validate. For example, they existed but wouldn't actually support the claim being made. Sometimes they wouldn't even be related, or would actually contradict the claim. Sometimes the claim would appear in the abstract, but the body of the paper would admit it wasn't actually true. That was only one of the many kinds of problems peer reviewed published papers would routinely have.

It became painfully apparent that nobody is actually reading papers in the health world adversarially, despite what we're told about peer review. The "a statement having a citation = it's true" assumption is very much held by many [academic] scientists.

It's a subcomponent of the very strong belief in academia that everyone within it is totally honest all the time. This is how you end up with the Lancet publishing the Surgisphere papers (a paper using an apparently fictional dataset), without anyone within the field noticing anything is wrong. Instead it got noticed by a journalist. It needs some sort of systematic fix because otherwise more and more people will just react to scientific claims by ignoring them.
It's a self-imposed problem however. The economical system requires every interaction to be transactional and disincentivizes activities outside the economical system itself. This leads to transactional relationships supplanting those which previously provided mutual benefit.

In poor countries rivers used to be maintained by the community because of a shared interest in them. This works fine in a gift economy. But in a transactional free market economy the communal river is an externality because it isn't privately owned, which requires outside intervention to create a financial incentive (either via subsidies or regulations/fines).

The tragedy of the commons is not a natural law, it's an emergent property of the economical system. There are three remedies: privatization of the commons (which has its limits unless you literally want to commodify every atom in the biosphere), state intervention (which is how most functional mixed market systems approach it) or changing the system (which goes against the interests of those currently benefiting from it and may as well lead to a worse system than a better one).

EDIT: For sake of clarity: creating a gift economy alongside a transactional free market economy is extremely difficult in an open system. They keep being reinvented in peer groups (e.g. buying "rounds" of drinks among friends without keeping tabs on who spent how much) but they rapidly break down when exposed to a transactional system because "freeloading" becomes an optimal move without the "honor system" enforced by social pressure (e.g. your peers thinking you're taking advantage of them and no longer inviting you to drink with them or having a stern word with you).
Well look on it as on product.

Joe can get ICE car for X price with range Y but it does not even matter because he can "charge" his ICE car in minutes.

Or Joe can get BEV car for 2X price with range Y/2 (or even smaller fraction) which actually matters because charging of his BEV car takes 30 minutes and more (assuming that there is no queue on chargers) + stress with stupid applications.

Now add there fact, that cca 50% of Joes can't charge at home, because they are living in apartments and you can see why BEV is inferior product from Joe's perspective, because in Joe's mind he is paying more to get less.

And btw I own Skoda Enyaq and that car is massive PITA when you have no place to charge.
And on that note, I just found this list of UniKernel projects:

http://unikernel.org/projects/

I have especially had hopes for the UniK [1] project, as it was/is written in Go AFAIK. I see now it incorporates work from the Mirage project as well. Not sure what is the status of this project anymore though.

[1] https://github.com/solo-io/unik
Bidding error sends Finland's [Electricty] spot price down to -50 cents per kWh
Not bad for a start by the US government. A bit more than half as powerful as the 1.7 trillion parameter GPT4 model.
I'm not sure. I think I might be happier in journalism, or doing industrial controls.

Most likely I would learn to code, but I think I would do it a lot differently.

I'm not sure if I would necessarily do it better, because I learned a lot doing tons of crappy useless stuff, but... I don't think I'd have much passion for some of those projects if I knew ahead of time how I'd wind up tossing them entirely.

I think, if someone were to ask me to teach them to code today, I would start with Git. I might even say "If you don't like git you probably won't like real industry work much".

Not advanced level git, I'd probably just show them git-cola and do everything in the GUI like I mostly do, but I wouldn't want to be writing 200 line programs without VCS, like I was when I first started.

I would not mess with odd tools like VB.net(I used that a lot as a kid), livecode, etc.

I would have a really strong focus on using modern tools. I would learn Python on VS code, with the debugger, all the type hints, virtual environments for everything, etc.

I'd want to learn earlier how all the parts fit together, how to do things in such a way that there's a linter watching out and VSCode autocomplete saving me time.

I'd want to learn about Not Reinventing the Wheel, and researching. I'd want to get in a mindset of "Oh, I need to do this, lets stop and look for what's out there" not "I'm just gonna keep click clacking away and parse this with a regex rather than stop coding and learn about some parser library"

I'd probably do more intentionally useless projects. If I knew the stuff I was working on was going to be useless, might as well do something fun!

And more highly likely to be useful projects. Get started with FOSS contributions early, spend more time fixing other people's crap code instead of doing my own crap code.

Then I'd probably show them Arduino on ESP32, since presumably they want to learn basic embedded, if they're asking me this stuff.

But I would not accumulate a big parts bin of junk. Eventually, you'll want to make a PCB and do a design with a bare MCU, if you want to really learn... but it's so much more tedious and frustrating and there's so much than just using a module.

Which is usually what I do for anything but high volume work (Not something I usually do).

I like to say "The parts bin can be the enemy", it costs money, it's unneeded clutter, if you are a fan of the "Digital mindset" you don't need piles of op amps and banana jacks and logic gates and a bench supply and signal generator, until you're doing pretty advanced stuff.

You need a nice tidy work area and an ESP32, some female 0.1 jumpers, and some Amazon modules.
> Applying git patches to a repository without the parent is not going to work.

If that's the case (and I'm not saying it isn't - I really don't know), how does cherry-pick work?

I know I can cherry-pick commits in the same repo from entirely separate commit chains, where the only common ancestor is either my local HEAD or some other commit way below both of us.

Why would that not work for different repositories?
It's hard being truly prepared to events that happen so rarely people may live their life without ever witnessing one, and it's true most modern survival is entirely dependent on those things, but that's a seriously excessive dramatization. Grids and infrastructure in general is being hardened to reduce risks in cases of geomagnetic disturbances, it's just a slow process, the risks are very well known to operators (but still not as dramatic) and so are the solutions for it.
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