skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even in China (relative to renewable installation)

To be fair PRC has finally, recently, as in last few years, started building indigenous nuclear relatively economically which appear to be performing around original expectations. What happened / what PRC couldn't seem to do, like the west, is build _western_ nuclear tech economically, even (if one choose to presume) without onerous western regulations. PRC nuclear ambition under 13th 5-year plan was delayed largely due Fukushima reassessement and drama over original pursuit of western nuclear tech (French EPR / US AP1000 technical and political issues like US sanctions / Westinghouse bankruptcy) forcing PRC planners to switch to domestic tech, which is now coming online. Current 14th 5-year plan still aiming for ~180-200 GWe by 2035 with ~150 reactors, which is in line with mid 2010s assessments.

What is also happening is PRC rapidly scaling up coal and solar, due to geopolitics of rushing energy security and lower renewable costs. No one expected renewable to scale so fast so cheaply. Another huge factor is PRC crack down on real estate shifted construction overcapacity into building renewables. 10s of millions of surplus construction workers + skills building skyscrapers and building solar and wind that is relatively transferable. Combined with vertical integration and industrial base, it's set of conditions hard to replicate in advanced economies unless they import a lot of labour. Which is not impossible.

Advanced economies also disadvantaged in labour with respect to nuclear, even in US with immigration, fulfiling nuclear workforce demand is currently projected to be a large challenge. EU likely more difficult with their demographics. Last thing you want is to build a bunch of nuclear plants that are chronically short on labour. PRC on other hand, despite demographic doomsayers, still has depth to generate millions of STEM/technical workers for decades (hence youth unemployment). I don't really know what the solution for EU is, but I'm guessing politically, they'd rather deal with nuclear plants and prioritizing lower # of nuclear workforce than immigration to build renewables. If there's any urgency, EU would have to import millions of (let's be real) brown people. IIRC, EU has like 100m more people than US and 1M clean energy workers vs US 3M. Can EU bring in 3M workers short term to get renewable rollout on pace? Again, not impossible. But politically difficult.
TIL:

"Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. Hare uses a static type system, manual memory management, and a minimal runtime. It is well-suited to writing operating systems, system tools, compilers, networking software, and other low-level, high performance tasks. " [0]

[0] https://harelang.org/
Huh. OK, I'm surprised, but that's a useful datapoint, thanks.
Right, and those C programmers talk big but there's no software written in C, where do they get off?

...I really don't understand this comment, there's so much Lisp code out there being used for everything from airfare search to video games, it seems willfully ignorant to say nothing is released in Lisp. I know, lucky 10,000, but still...
Apache Calcite has this as an integration as does SQLite though virtual tables.

Nonetheless nice work
Why should copyright law be as it is if it means we can't have artificial intelligence?
No, you need llama's binary, you can;t know what its trained on because thats a secret or at least obfuscated.

The currently LLM status is more akin to opensource plugins to some propriety system, like game modding.
Or the college kids are acclimated to the Google ecosystem because they been using Google Classroom on the Google Chromebooks in their K-12 classes for years.
That principle of demand increases up to the size of the supply makes sense until the supply becomes effectively infinity, which is what AI is doing. I'm not sure demand rises infinitely. I do believe that programming skills are heavily devalued in a world of effective AI, and most people on HN are a bit delusional about this fact, mainly because it's depressing to us computer touchers...
For hard real-time normal Rust (and I guess also Ada) is insufficient. This is such a niche of a sub-niche, that you no longer write the same language as for everything else, most OSs already preclude hard real-time by their very existence, etc.

Soft real-time is absolutely doable with a GC, depending on the required targets. Java’s low-lat GC (ZGC) has <1ms max pause times - you might not make the latest AAA game with it, but for the vast majority of popular games that is more than good enough.
The real slowdown of Objective-C method calls is at startup where the caches haven't been filled. Pure Objective-C apps typically spend 5-15% of startup time on objc_msgSend
bcachefs: Compression
Yeah, there's plenty of competition in the chip market — Apple, Intel, AMD, Samsung, and Qualcomm all are in the CPU business, and Amazon entering it as well seems like increased competition and a win for customers. And AWS is facing heavy competition from Azure now that MS has the exclusive OpenAI deal, so I'm not too worried about consolidation there either.
Classification doesn’t derive it’s legal existence from statute. It’s the POTUS’s inherent authority to maintain (and disclose) state secrets under the constitution and separation of powers doctrine. Congress has limited authority to regulate this executive power.
Ask HN: Anyone joining codingame fall bot challenge?
I'm loving their community challenges, each time they attract thousands of fellow coders.

I wonder if anybody from HN community join the challenge

https://www.codingame.com/contests/fall-challenge-2023
Location: Austin, TX

Remote: Your choice, but I prefer hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes, but.

Technologies: pretend I put down the sort of keyword spam that people do in order to indicate "generalist who can pick up anything just like anyone who's worth their salt but finds languages with the C syntax family most pleasant to work with"

Email: goodworker@duck.com

I have a technical background and am experiencing hardship in Austin. See my post in another thread <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38496624>

To be concrete with my request: if you know literally anyone with any kind of business in Austin that claims to be unable to fill an opening please have them contact me at goodworker@duck.com. I am a capable programmer, but I don't even mean jobs in the tech sector. I mean anything. I need to be able to pay rent at the end of this month. Empirically I know that I can survive (but not thrive) even if I'm only bringing in $250 per week, with $20 per week being groceries, and the rest going towards rent and incidental expenses like bus fare, mobile plan, and so on. I will even let you (or them) audit every one of my purchases if you want.

The caveat, obviously, being that I don't have a car to drive. I can state that in the 5 years since the accident, I've literally never been late. I will do what it takes to get there and will not overpromise. Places within a mile or two of the major thoroughfare (Lamar) and its busline are doable, whereas places "in Austin" but not actually in Austin are basically unworkable because there's no way for me to get there outside of pricey rideshares, which I can't afford in my current circumstances.

I have $125.98 in my bank account, $23 in my wallet, $1.29 in loose change, and 50000 Korean won. I do not have a support network I can rely on for help.

If you yourself are in Austin and want to vet me, I will personally handle your household chores. I will literally do meal prep and buy groceries and do your laundry, etc.

To give an example of the sorts of jobs I'm being ghosted on: <https://austin.craigslist.org/fbh/d/austin-shipping-receivin...>: "(Baking/cookie company) is adding to our shipping and delivery team! Job duties include picking, packing and boxing orders" "Shifts are Tuesday - Saturday 6:00AM to 2:00PM, though overtime will be needed during busy times". This is a full-time job that I'm more than willing to do despite what it would mean for appearances. It would provide me more money than I've made in years.
I really disliked Go as a language before generics. I was constantly frustrated by the limitations and clunky workarounds; often without code generation what you were trying to accomplish was simply impossible. Go generics are still a little anemic by modern standards but they are such a breath of fresh air.
Nothing existing only before 1985, that is, before the invention of the open source, was alive in the first place. The code for the classic programs is nowhere to be found. And if found, it is written in some interlisp dead language.
>I can't really see a future where big tech can keep up with a motivated community (and motivated it is, as any look at social media or tech websites will show you)

As far as I can tell, many of these "motivated communities" organize on Discord (search is garbage, poor integrations, login-gated and invite-only in many cases), and also Twitter/X (now login-gated, API locked down). And beyond AI there are communities and lots of valuable content on Reddit (also locking down as hard as they practically can). I will be 0% surprised if Github locks down their platform, too. It's too soon to tell how much it will pay off, but almost as soon as ChatGPT came out, the obvious strategy of every company with user-generated content is for all the valuable communications, insights, and social graphs of their communities to be proprietary training data for the proprietary LLMs of the future.
Fossil fuels are only 8.6%. I would call that "nearly 100% fossil fuel free."
If somebody walks past a shop and does not buy the wares on offer because they are offended by the horrible decor, I assume, under this definition, this will be called coercion in that that they 'coercing' the owner to change the decor?
It's not a completely imaginary problem or a problem only affecting big corporations. If I'm an individual writer or artist and my work gets fed into an LLM against my will it can seriously undercut the value of that work or discourage me from creating more.

If you can just ask the LLM to give you the contents of my book you are less likely to buy it, and if you can just ask the image generator to generate an image in my unique style for free you won't want to buy my artwork.

I think it makes perfect sense that a model needs a specific license to train on my work, especially if the model is run by a massive corporation making a profit off it, and the model after downloading a copy of my work and "training" can reproduce it verbatim on request.
One of my solutions last year, with F#, was very aware of bad input and was robust against it.

Here's a part of it:

type Shape =
| Rock
| Paper
| Scissors

let parseCharacters (line: string) =
let onlySingleCharacters (a: string, b: string) = a.Length = 1 && b.Length = 1

match line.Split() with
| [| a; b |] when onlySingleCharacters (a, b) ->
match a[0], b[0] with
| 'A', 'X' -> Some(Rock, Rock)
| 'A', 'Y' -> Some(Rock, Paper)
| 'A', 'Z' -> Some(Rock, Scissors)
| 'B', 'X' -> Some(Paper, Rock)
| 'B', 'Y' -> Some(Paper, Paper)
| 'B', 'Z' -> Some(Paper, Scissors)
| 'C', 'X' -> Some(Scissors, Rock)
| 'C', 'Y' -> Some(Scissors, Paper)
| 'C', 'Z' -> Some(Scissors, Scissors)
| _ -> None
| _ -> None

let rec readLines () =
let line = Console.ReadLine()

match line with
| null
| "" -> []
| _ ->
match parseCharacters line with
| Some parsedLine -> parsedLine :: readLines ()
| None -> readLines ()
Why do they care so much about teaching sex related things to children?

K-6 doesn't need to be exposed to it. This is stuff that would be R or NC-17 rated if it was in a movie.
Ok so 90% fossil free production year round every single day with a typical renewable contribution of ~20% that we observe anywhere with substantial renewable deployments. Who’s the one quibbling over facts? Storage is not needed for nuclear. Not sure where you’re getting that idea from. France is reliably the only developed country where most of the energy is produced without any fossil fuels and renewables are a relatively small part of that story.
and you had the source, documentation and all the bits needed to build it from scratch.

llama is a binary blob. Very capable, and its great that it got leaked. But its not a win for opensource. Its an accident of licensing. FB's lawyers would never have let it be a proper open source license, the PR and IP risks were way too high.

It just so happens that the leak meant that the PR risk went away, and knee capping openAI is a good thing for meta, and thus worth the IP risk.
Same question as a car enthusiast who wish for a Porsche every Christmas.
I don't think the comparison applies. Shareware can't really be modified in any way. However a foundational model is meant to be modified, fine-tuned, augmented, etc...

I agree calling it fully open source is a stretch but it's not the same as shareware.
Fake typing in python was a terrible idea I can't believe got merged in. The initial version where you had to import new typing classes was particularly ugly. Now it is mitigated somewhat with as you would expect builtin type hints.

The worst thing for me is I have to work with javascript devs that can also do python and they incessantly use python type hinting because they come from typescript.

It's useless, clutters up the code and decreases readability.
Odd-looking strip could revolutionise the way we distribute computer data (1986)
It's a contradiction I see in this discussion quite often.

If you want "quick feedback loops", a type checker is probably one of the quickest. Almost always quicker to give feedback than tests even. And certainly quicker than ftping code to a webserver and clicking through a webapp manually.
> Many of the individuals or groups would deny vociferously that the motivations and logical fallacies that I’m going to attribute to them are accurate, even as they would feel a frisson of cognitive dissonance that tells them something is not quite right. In most cases, these people and groups believe that they are correct and that their positions are rational and carefully thought through

A sad realization in life is realizing regardless of how right one can be, the ones who are wrong many times fall into this, moreover sometimes as groups, reinforcing each other.

A sadder thing is realizing you suffer from it too.
Right, but that's not rational. Especially as of mid 2022 and later, if you want to protect yourself, get a comfortable elastomeric P100 respirator (or SCBA or P100/HEPA PAPR or P100/CBRN gas mask).
It's a driver's car, and a collectable. In what way is it unremarkable?
Start is fair but ends in conspiracy rambling.
Yeah the base model taycan that is about the same price doesn’t even come with adaptive cruise control.
Young Chinese Women Are Defying the Communist Party
There are papers including one by Yann LeCunn which shows that the overwhelming majority of data found within high dimensional spaces is within decision boundries created by AI models. This implies that the overwhelming majority of things we think as humans are "novel" or "extrapolative" are in fact not novel and are nothing more than fancy interpolation.

Basically, we humans cannot tell when something is "new to us" or "new to the universe" and it honestly hardly matters in practical reality.

Finally, LLMs can totally "extrapolate" with techniques which encourage it to avoid its traditional training loss functions. A high temperature would do this, but it'll mostly just make your model crazy.
> Google/peers/family would help people more.

Tell me you've never worked in tech support without telling me you've never worked in tech support.

My experience in a tech support center for a software company is that, for the kind of person who calls in to customer support, them having made a Google search first is not something that should ever be assumed. And usually whole offices were chronic customer support users or none of them were—peer support, when present, is already sufficient, and in the offices where everyone is clueless having a system-native color picker isn't going to fix it.

> On top of that docs/knowledge would be more standardised.

If everyone started using the native widgets at once, then maybe external docs would be more helpful, but until that happens your software-specific documentation becomes much harder.

How do you take screenshots of the color picking flow for your documentation? If you just pick a browser to screenshot then you will get calls from people using a different browser who are confused that it looks different for them. If you screenshot every supported browser then your documentation becomes much more expensive to create and maintain.
I’m not sure if the authors comment that the rewriter isn’t used is accurate.

It might have been used for the windows port of iTunes.
A couple additional reviews:

* https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2023-porsche-911-sport-cl...

* https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a45547693/2023-porsche-...
https://archive.ph/De12q
Is this actually true? It sounds more like a claim by a random person.
A 10yo EV might be fine, might not.

The Model S batteries are easy to service. A shop nearby does it for around 5000€.

The same shop says that Mercedes hybrid batteries are impossible to service, they always need to be fully replaced.

After we get more information, some EVs will hold their value MUCH better than others just based on the fact how expensive a 3rd party service is (not a full replacement, just swapping modules - something that OEM shops refuse to do).
911 owner here. Porsches are super responsive and in my view handle the way a car just naturally should if I abstracted the idea of a car. Or so I thought until I drove a Tesla. I am going to sell my 20 year-old Porsche and replace it with one. Even their lowest price model feels wonderful to drive. But to answer your question, this one has enormous horsepower, and would probably feel sensational to drive. Porsches also have an incredible sound, which does appeal to me.

From what I can tell, most people seem to choose a car based on its looks (even the truck drivers I interviewed when looking for a farm truck), and I don’t really respond that way, so I may not be typical. I imagine Porsches look a lot better, but that just doesn’t mean much to me.
The key is that mechanical designs cannot be copyright locked and you cannot build a closed ecosystem and demand insane prices for access to that ecosystem.

I feel like open source isn’t the point, it’s the solution. The point is that proprietary lock in creates artificial scarcity and allows protectionist rackets, and open source AND all mechanical systems counter this ugly consumer deleterious product choice that is incentivized by the market effects of protectionist proprietary ethos.
When the price is the same you're still getting the short end of the stick when you 'buy' digitally.

Digital license has lower quality video and audio

You cannot re-sell your digital license

You have a non-zero chance that your license will get revoked
I'm not sure how this is an attack. Is it actually vital that models don't repeat their training data verbatim? Often that's exactly the answer the user will want. We are all used to a similar "model" of the internet that does that: search engines. And it's expected and required that they work this way.

OpenAI argue that they can use copyrighted content so repeating that isn't going to change anything. The only issue would be if they had used stolen/confidential data to train on, and it was discovered that way, but it also seems unlikely anyone could easily detect that given that there'd be nothing to intersect it with, unlike in this paper.

The blog post seems to slide around quite a bit, roving from "it's not surprising to us that small amounts of random text is memorized" straight to "it's unsafe and surprising and nobody knew". The nobody knew idea, as Jimmc414 has nicely proven in this thread, is false alarm because their technique actually was detected and the paper authors just didn't know that it had been. And "it's unsafe" doesn't make any sense in this context. Repeating random bits of memorized text surrounded by huge amounts of original text isn't a safety problem. Nor is it an "exploit" that needs to be "patched". OpenAI could ignore this problem and nobody would care except AI alignment researchers.

The culture of alarmism in AI research is vaguely reminiscent of the early Victorians who argued that riding trains might be dangerous, because at such high speeds the air could be sucked out of the carriages.
Windows iTunes if memory serves.
I don't know if I want to record and publish an ep that I've been working on
You can fine tune it, which gets you far, don't get me wrong. But you cannot study how major model changes to Llama or changes during the training process behave when you apply those changes from scratch.
Yes, very likely. The website owner might not even realise if they use more than one IP address, which are then presented in a round-robin way to clients, so errors loading the pages aren't easily spotted.

If you find out the hostname used you could try contacting the website owner and check with them, bypasing Cloudflare (assuming you could either load the site and use a contact form, or find registrant's information).
The US West Coast lags way behind almost the entire rest of the US w.r.t using controlled burns to limit wildfire danger.

California intentionally burns like only half of the area as Minnesota, despite being like twice as big.

Arkansas, GA, SC, etc all burn like 5-10x what CA does, for prevention purposes.

Growing up outside of the West and moving to the West later, I was shocked how little controlled burns there are here.
EA open sources Mirror's Edge and EA Sports FC accessibility tech
Serial hybrids, where the ICE is just a generator charging a battery, should be just as reliable as ICE vehicles.

But hybrids where you need to swap the power output between the combustion engine and electric motors are _really_ complex and have way too many parts that can fail.
Oh yes, those were the days!
That has got to be the laziest “review” I’ve ever read. It’s as if they fed the Porsche press release to an LLM…
Very cool project! If I wanted to try it out in a repl based environment (maybe like a jupyter notebook?) where/how would you recommend I get started?
Superfastmatt made a great video asking the question "What's so great about Porsche?" It's about as long as an episode of TV and answers the question very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdJYiRROeAc

If you don't have time for the full episode, jump to his drive of a modern 911: https://youtu.be/rdJYiRROeAc?t=428
>1. I didn't call it "photography", computational or otherwise.

But why not? Composite photos date back to the dawn of photography: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oscar-gustave-rejlander...

If you want to maintain your own idiosyncratic definition of the term that's up to you, but what you did certainly counts as photography on any ordinary understanding.