skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK coal use for electricity is now below 1%, it should end completely late next year.

https://reports.electricinsights.co.uk/q3-2023/coal-is-suppl...
The fact that you think that in 2023 we have to rely on "benevolent" billionaires to push space exploration forward just proves their point.
Stripe?
> I chickend put bcz I didn't want to be the only person on my team that understood it.

There are online courses for free and paid courses (online and in person) so if they have the desire to learn, you won't be the only person.
One step closer to a tricorder.
To all other people on HN: don't follow this person's advice if you live in the US. They are likely relatively healthy and has never experienced the crushing financial burden of long term, or serious health issues. The financial risk of living with insurance is high enough as it is, but living without insurance is madness if you have any sort of asset that can be taken away by creditors - assuming, obviously, that you can afford insurance (which most people, even if not as many as we'd want, can through work or Obamacare).

FYI, my family had a "bad luck" year with 2 surgeries that added up to over 130K this year alone, but insurance covered it all (after deductible). We are in good health now.
> There are no one-card infinite combos

There are. Basalt Monolith has "tap: add 3 mana" and "3 mana: untap". It doesn't actually have any net effect without some other card triggering on that or modifying it somehow, but it actually can do an infinite number of actions by itself as one card.
Well, you said a decade so I'll take an easy one from 4 years ago.

"Yes, you know all those r/amd and r/nvidia posts about people ditching their RX 5700 XT and switching over to an Nvidia RTX 2070 Super… AMD is reading them and has obviously been jamming them down the throats of its software engineers until they could release a driver patch which addresses the issues Navi users have been experiencing."

https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/radeon-rx-5700-drivers-black-sc...
Seems like one of the obvious applications. I wonder why it isn't mentioned. Is there a technical limitation that make it impractical? Size maybe, the lens shown in the article are all tiny and I guess lens that would be practical for AR/VR would be really expensive.
Troubleshooting an intermittent failure in CI tests on ARM64
I think you understand perfectly how Muslims are a minority group in the context of a conversation about European xenophobia. But you could delete the word ‘minority’ from my original post and it would still make the same point, so I am not sure why you keep picking at this detail.

>it's bizarre to act as if "the right stirring the pot" is the only reason such beliefs exist.

It would be bizarre, but I didn’t say this. There are individual people who are bigoted, which is bad, and then there are people who are making strategic use of bigotry to achieve political ends. At least in the UK, where I have the most knowledge, the current threat to LGBT rights (currently centered on various pieces of anti-trans legislation) has nothing to do with Muslims.

What if we look more broadly at the European countries that have actually seen major regressions in LGBT rights? Poland and Hungary are the obvious examples. Are Muslims to blame here? On the contrary, we see that the very countries that are most hostile to immigration and religious diversity are also (surprise surprise!) hostile to gay people.

On the one hand, then, we have a largely imaginary threat to LGBT rights coming from a supposed invasion of Muslim extremists, and on the other, a real threat stemming from a long and thoroughly ‘indigenous’ European far-right tradition.
Yeah. Sorry to tell you this, but the speculation / analysis is on incorrect premises.

It was never faster to write than it was to read.
It's possible, that's why I want to see the real thing or a review that tests these claims.
I love what you're doing here: you're assuming your argument to be correct, then discussing that assumption. It's ridiculous of course, but pretty hidden. What is currently in place is effectively a 2 country system. That's what "apartheid" means in your post. By that measure, people living on ANY country border, say the Polish-Russian border, or the US-Canada border, are living in "apartheid". I think you'll find that's absurd.

And what you're trying to hide is that you're suggesting as an alternative: a single -muslim- state. In other words, you're trying to hide that you're pushing repression of everyone. Including muslims btw, just ask Iranians or let a Saudi pour you a few (excellent, but WTF strong) coffees, then talk to them about how happy they are with their state. And I think you'll find Saudi are a lot less extreme than Hamas (for one thing they'd never do something as "low" as picking up a gun. That's for peasants)

In other words: the only alternative you're giving for oppressing 2 million people is oppressing 15 million people (15 because Palestinians would also be oppressed under such a system).

And then there's the trap: you perpetuate the leftist "vision" that people start acting more extreme when they don't get 100% what they want. Of course, this only ever applies to leftists and whoever leftists consider victims. It doesn't apply to Israeli, for example. Giving THEM 100% what they want (Palestinians stay on their land, 2 state solution, no more rockets or attacks, cooperation) is not under consideration. They're not victims. It's also trivial to give unending examples of this not being true. But that's not the trap. This is just the one-sidedness of the argument. Of course if you get your one-state solution you don't want to admit you're calling for, it will immediately make 10 million people a LOT more extremist (never mind what will happen when the inevitable happens and Palestinians massacre in Israel again, and I don't mean since Oct 7, I mean like they've always done. Most Israeli ALSO can't leave, so they will do the one thing they can: fight)

But the trap is: Hamas are racial supremacists. They believe they are better, they will win, because they are extremist muslims. That's how their value system works. If they get what they want, your argument is that they will immediately stop extremism. Does this actually happen? Talk to an Iranian, a Sudanese, an Indonesian, a Kashmiri ... did this actually happen? No. When they got what they wanted, they immediately became 10x MORE extremist and attacked.

The one state solution that you hide you're calling for is not a solution to end apartheid. It will make a population of 10 million start an open civil war with a population of 5 million people. It will be a bloodbath, for entirely obvious reasons.

This is the trap: you say the one-state "solution" will solve the problem. Reality is that that solution will make things 100x worse, for everyone, since it will do what it did everywhere else this was tried: unending civil war with incredible amounts of casualties.

You're suggestion is putting out a fire by pouring gasoline on it.

So: no thanks. Go fuck yourself.
yes https://cdk8s.io/docs/latest/plus/
Put it on the cloud they say...

Reminds me of that time someone at Dropbox pushed a change onto production that ignored your password, so you could login as anyone with any password...
I would work with all that stuff, but only remote controlled.

I guess one day this will be indeed standard, but as of today, (useful) robots that could do it, are way more expensive than humans ..
> That's why I think a categorical ban is not necessarily "good parenting".

I agree -- both because it's unlikely to be effectual, and because it's not really addressing the root problem of parent involvement.

> I think you have to peek in and see what they're watching on TikTok, and provide relevant information.

Exactly. You can't just expect to go into your firewall settings, ban some URLs and expect that to solve the problem. Or at the same time, to just completely ban them from accessing social media at all (though arguments could be made for monitored/timed access at certain age 'gates') -- I've written multiple other comments about why that can backfire too.
I love Pipes, I also think it is the last best thing from yahoo
Machine-generated or people-generated hallucinations? You would be surprised at how bad most existing reports in business are - and people don't get fired for those.
You can get a new Android phone for $100. The cheapest iPhone also looks and feels like a phone from 2018 with its huge bezels, LCD screen and 64GB storage. Compare a similarly priced Galaxy A54 or Pixel 6a. iPhone SE is faster but unless you're gaming are you really going to notice?
First focus on inference. It is a lot costlier to have GPUs for inference.
Hydrogen cyanide, acetylene, propylene, ethane, propene.

There's bacteria that live off acetylene (though surely abiotic processes too).

I suspect this indicates plenty of energy and complex chemistry on Enceladus. Some of those compounds are energetic while others (I think?) are combustion bi-products.

Otherwise, I wonder when/if we'll ever see oxygen (O2) confirmed in a study like this? I realize it's highly/easily bound up in reactions, but what a finding that'd be. They list a probability of 0.64 (aka 64%) chance of O2 here. Imagining a surface of water ice and near vacuum atmosphere, I suspect any free oxygen would be very difficult to detect. But they also see co2 so maybe any oxygen is quickly used up?

source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02160-0.epdf
Why the sarcasm tag?
Not sure, if you have to have more karma for it (would not make sense to me), but for me the delete button is right next to the edit button.
This type of 360 photo media experience will soon be replaced by 3d gaussian / Nerf realtime render as demonstrated by the Smerf project which was trending yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38632492

Add a VR viewer and the experience will start to be really close to seeing the real thing...

I wonder if, at some point, there might not be a push back from museum and tourist attractions against using too immersive virtual experience for fear of hurting the number of actual visitors. (Although I guess, they could just charge for the virtual access to make up for an eventual loss).
Why are you putting the blame on scrum if you don't even implement it?
I did scum in a previous company and it worked fine. Nobody looked at the story points except the devs during planning. We had a honest discussion with the product owner every time and did find the time to do tech debt.

It wasn't perfect, but it worked well.

Granted, it required a very specific management, devs with the right mindset and constraints on the kind of projects that could be done (anything customer facing with a tight deadline was off for instance. We used that for the internal infra).
So I don't see how you would build a plane at Boing with scrum for instance. Or anything that require very tight coupling af many teams (or hardware).

But for us (60 devs in a company of 200), Saas, it worked great.
I am a CTO and have always tried to have the QA team to be part of the Product Office (CPO) . It tends to keep us honest and ultimately it aligns the decision of churning out new features and building crap in the same team/person.

Now, don't get me wrong, my teams always do unit and integration testing, along with automation of those two. Devs are responsible for the quality of their work. But ultimately it os the product team, with input from their QA team the ones deciding if a new feature is ready for release as it is, or needs more polish
People are already killed and jailed due to garbage machine-generated data, so why would firing be off the dump?
I think the Asians would be able to do it.
Is YAML with go template hacks that much better? (Without any kind of type safety in a context where true != "true".)
I really love the way Logseq for desktop handles PDFs. That's the gold standard for me. I can highlight in four colors and add annotations wherever I want, and they're automatically pulled over into individual note blocks, which I can edit and tag alongside the doc. If I click one such note on the future, it opens the PDF and shows it to me in context.

But PDF annotation doesn't work in the mobile app. Omnivore is the closest to similar functionality for web articles that I've used so far, but scrolling vs. turning pages makes a big difference on the ereader's screen.

I actually used Calibre to convert all my epub books into PDF, and I try to read them on a convertible HP tablet/laptop I coerced into running Linux, which I can highlight on with a compatible pen, but it still leaves a lot to be desired.
If you want better accuracy in the similarity search, you make RAG chunks smaller. You then need to calibrate similarity "thresholds" to know the probability distribution of relevant/correct/incorrect chunks for any given sentence and what the N should be to reach them. It's not going to be perfect but you can end up with 90% accuracy on average which tends to be better than many full-text search solutions. Moreover, querying a vector DB takes <0.5s and you can run the LLM in the streaming mode getting responses pretty quickly leading to the illusion of talking to a real human (especially if you also stream audio/video with it).
Indeed, I suspect this wikipedia page has been astroturfed, or at least is lacking prominent messaging that these are only for show nowadays (perhaps always were?)
I don't think decentralization is the issue, after all most companies adopted Git eventually (or a forked and rewritten Mercurial in the case of Meta). It's just they did not feel the burning need the way some distributed teams like the Linux kernel team did.

And Kragen is right that open-source communities vary widely in culture and processes. Linux has its email patch based workflow, as does Sourcehut. There is the popular pull request model invented or at least popularized by GitHub. OpenBSD still uses its bizarre CVS workflow and seems happy with it.
The Register kept track, and started calling it Microsoft 362, Microsoft 361, etc. https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/microsoft_exchange_on...
The incentive for fund managers is to make as much profit as possible and not care much about losses. If you take into account that fund managers typically blow up every 10 or so years, then they do underperform by more than 2%. Read Taleb's books for more information.
My organisation has been using it for a month or two now, I forgot when it entered our environment as something we’re currently testing.

It’s been rather good at the “office” side of things, and not very useful at doing the things we were doing with OpenAI tools. We too have found it rather good at summarising meetings, a very useful feature for any sort of Microsoft Teams meeting and much better than having some unlucky member of the meeting do it. Copilot has really shined for us, however, have been with PowerPoint, presentations in general and all sort of investor targeted material. I work in the energy sector, and we can’t exactly produce presentations and materials like a design heavy organisation might. So there are two consequences of this, one is that any internal presentation now looks good, which is basically a win-win for everyone. The other is how we’ve basically cut our external orders on design projects to a zero, which is a win did us and terrible for an entire business of graphic designers who target organisations like ours.

I’ve personally mostly used Copilot to make funny pictures after it became apparent that it wasn’t anywhere near the level of OpenAI products as far as behind useful in programming and technology goes. Well, unless it’s very Microsoft documentation related, then Copilot does well at pointing you in the right direction. Well, on the frontend side of things, it’s replaced all our payments to icon libraries, as it’s capable of producing all the icons we need very well. OpenAI can do this as well, but at a cost.

As far as the price goes. Copilot comes with our regular Azure and Office365 subscriptions, and similar to Microsoft teams it’ll be the obvious choice because of this. How will you ever justify paying for a competitor when your budgets show that you’re getting copilot for free? Well, you won’t in most organisations. I’m not a fan of this sort of monopoly, but it’s not like it will change unless EU or US regulation stops it.
I don’t see how it would make a difference anyway; iMessage will still display the regular SMS messages, so iMessage users are still susceptible to spam. (I checked and as an iMessage user I had about 10 in the last month)
How much effort needs to be put into data classification before a copilot rollout?
Again, Mozilla had a long time to answer these questions (if they had a good answer). If you leave people to imagine things then don't be surprised if they don't follow your PR-sanitized version of events.

If mozilla cared about the open web they would immediately distance themselves from Google and reallocate funding from their CEO's family to things that actually matter for their mission.
> I'm only getting more confused as to why it's so popular.

I have a theory that there are a lot of users in places like the public sector and behemoth corporations who get issued with the cheapest laptop on the market, by default.

And because Apple's laptops start at $1500 that means for people in those organisations, if you ask for Windows you get a $500 laptop with a 1080p screen and a 1-hour battery life, but if you ask for a Mac you get a $1500 laptop with a retina screen and an 8 hour battery life.
Is there an example NNET to see how it is used?
and it's very nice to visit! Not too far also (from an US point of view :D ) is the cave Chauvet. The original is 37m underwater, but a replica opened few month ago in nearby marseille
Back in 2020 I was disappointed they didn’t rename it to 366.
Is he successful if the company is doing so bad?
> what can we expect to learn from those paintings that will further human civilization.

Perhaps not the painting. Perhaps we develop a technique which can learn from the dust on the ground, or the sediments accumulated in the cave.

It is a very small cost to keep the cave closed. And in the history of humankind we have multiple times destroyed stuff later generations could have learned from.

Just look up for example the history of the Herculaneum papyri[1] and all the attempts to unroll them with destructive methods. Many of those were destroyed forever without being read or only partially read. And it very much seems like we are on the precipice of having the tech to read them non-destructively.[2]

And if all you want is to ogle at the paintings then you can do that in the replica cave?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri
2: https://scrollprize.org/
YAML and other human-friendly presentation/editor formats are cool, but they need to come with a schema/validation/types. k8s APIs have a bit of validation, but there are frustrating gaps.
>Since the advent of Gaussian Splats, in August of this year, the image synthesis research community has clearly embraced this innovative approach to neural recreation of people, things and scenery.

I thought splats were explicitly not neural?
I was refering to assembly programming.

RISC-V is a worldwide royalty free standard ISA, namely in this realm, ISA abstraction using compilers are not worth their cost with their troubles: planned obsolescence from syntax to implementation, not to mention often insane complexity and size (vendor/developer lock-in). It is even more true on types of software on the classic life cycle: 99.99% of coding happens at the "start", then it is honestly "roughly finished" for nearly the "eternity".

But RISC-V compiler support is required for transition and legacy. But those compilers should not be "gcc/clang" (look at tinyc, cproc/qbe, simple-cc/qbe).

If you write 64bits code paths, those could then be re-used very easily from "embedded" to servers through workstations.

Do you realize how amazing that would be compared to the toxic "software" industry we have now?

You can even find a middle ground with very high level languages, with their interpreters written directly in assembly, you know for those slow, trash-able, and/or very dynamic in time types of software: python42, lua, javascript, ruby, perl666, etc.

You don't even need to re-write everything from scratch, you can "hand compile" existing code, or re-factor, comment and document the assembly output (to detach them from their toxic compiler dependency).

For instance, on the "Heavy Thing", one of the devs did hand compile without that much smart (was more brutal than anything else) the zlib (not vectorized), he said they got 15% average more performance, roughly speaking. It is lucky, as we are not supposed to beat an optimizing compiler on the average load of big code paths, if that happens it is anecdotical, or the optimizing compiler is actually trash.

All that said, RISC-V could fail it does not get extremely good implementations (latest silicium process and micro-archs), with all the pertinent software.
> I’m surprised they did that in a minor release and not a major one.

I think allowing it on self. can be argued to be a pure feature -addition- rather than a -change- in which case it being in a minor release is reasonable.

(I'm not sure to what extent I buy that argument, but it at least seems like a reasonable one to make)
The result of your calculation is technically the output. But if the program is just an infinite loop doing nothing... The output is heat :).
Try removing the quotes from the search query
Ahh the good old "Waterfall Scrum"
yes, of course, but the problem is that upstream (as in the helm chart ecosystem) doesn't want that, they just want to live in their little bubble.
> Copilot subtracted value compared to a simple Internet search.

And for me this is the dealkiller aganst BingGPT or however it is called these days. It just doesn't work if you compare it to a baseline of a simple query, which in addition has the benefit it will also directly give you the source and author of the statement. BingGPT will _try_ to disclaim the sources it uses but fail miserably, as a lot of the times the assertion will not be in the source, or the _opposite_ assertion will be in the source.
It will be awesome when this gains support for custom rules as I have a bunch of custom ESLint rules. The thing that annoys me the most about ESLint is that it has too many NPM dependencies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643348
We try to do this, QA owns deployment to production and has the final say if a feature needs a re-write. The almost adversarial incentives of dev and QA are why it works. Dev wants to close ticket, QA wants the feature to work, Product wants to tick a box, all collaborate so that the closed ticket delivers a working feature and not just one of those three things.
Port cloud? I think you've been working in IT for too long.
Yeah that’s exactly what we need.

An AI that calls us “daddy”

That can’t possibly go wrong. Nope.
afaik this is why android chrome never supported extensions.
Tangentially related, does anyone know why people (customer service people) at Hetzner are so...aggressive? A lot of reports on Hetzner sub are filled with screenshots of absurd over the top 'screw you'-esque responses.