skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the honestly astonishing ramp up in solar power and grid-scale battery production over the past decade, I have to disagree with this take. We're hurtling towards solving climate change through market forces alone — now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't also be using policy to speed the solution, but it is pretty clear that, as Noah Smith puts it, "Solar and batteries are going to win, and our thinking needs to adjust accordingly."[0]

The coolest statistic I've heard regarding solar and batteries is that 0.5% of worldwide GDP is being invested in it. One out of every 200 dollars spent is being spent on solar energy! It's truly incredible :)

[0]https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/our-climate-change-debates-are...
A specification can be prescriptive (stating how things should work) or descriptive (stating the observable behavior of a specific version of software). For example earlier in Rust's post-1.0 life the borrow checker changed behavior a few times, some to fix soundness bugs, some to enable more correct code to work (NLL). An earlier spec would have described different behavior to what Rust is today (but of course, the spec can be updated over time as well).

How should the Rust Specification represent the type inference algorithm that rustc uses? Is an implementation that can figure out types in more cases than described by the specification conformant? This is the "split ecosystem concern" some have with the introduction of multiple front ends: code that works on gccrs but not rustc. There's no evidence that this will be a problem in practice, everyone involved seems to be aligned on that being a bad idea.

> Any divergence or disagreement is a failing of the implementation.

Specs can have bugs too, not just software.
>the west was on the right side of history by working with new democracies and has been successful in ensuring peace and prosperity through cooperation with their new partners

Very true, doesn't take more than a glance to see how much more prosperous former east bloc influenced states became once they broke towards the West. Certainly would have been interesting to see a future where Russia and NATO played nice and Russia ended up joining, and cultural relations were strengthened between both sides.

>He does not think very highly of people who buy the Russian narrative about NATO threat.

Unfortunately, I think this is just something that's part of human nature and will never truly go away. Humans generally tend to perceive others meddling in their affairs, with or without good reason or intentions as a threat- there are not many (if any?) countries large enough to exert both political influence and physical force on the world stage that would also at the same time tolerate a perceived enemy or human "other" to exert any kind of influence on their own neighbors and sphere of control.
Ohare also has a blue line stop. If you’re inside the terminal, you can get to many many parts of Chicago for free.
If everyone does this, does it trigger the next tech crunch?
I've programmed in both Ruby and Python. I like both, but ...

It should never be forgotten that the ultimate purpose of programming languages is to make specific usable programs. It's sort of fashionable to ignore performance but in reality it's always an issue of some kind. And the fact remains that the price paid for Ruby and Python's features is severe performance degradation. That's improved over time but as far as I know it remains a real problem. One shouldn't let admiration for language features supersede user experience and resource utilization.
If you knew a pastor who was having an affair on his wife would you accept a sermon from him condemning the adultery of another…even if everything he said was true? Or perhaps would you tune out that message because you can’t get past the noise from his hypocrisy on the subject?

It’s just hard to hear anything worthwhile due to all the noise.
NIST Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations
Prices increase when a seller increases them. That could be because their costs went up, but it also could just be because they felt like people would pay more.
Mainly agree, but defining "open format" seems problematic, and isn't always practical if you have some feature that the competition doesn't have
https://github.com/iam-abbas/FastAPI-Production-Boilerplate
Tesla removes Disney+ from vehicles amid Elon Musk's Twitter beef with Bob Iger
This.

Any other reply is going to be apologetic rambling.
Here in Norway the primary driver of the housing crisis is that people move from the countryside to larger cities, while hardly anyone does the reverse.

Ironically there's a shortage in the countryside as well, as many of those that move or inherit (ie kids moved) don't sell due to low prices, opting to keep it as a summer home.

And since prices are low it's difficult to get a loan, since sales price is often below the cost of building.
If that was the case Apple would have overturned this patent on the basis of prior art.
I'm inclined to trust ITC on this one more than a random dude from the internet, even though he is not a toad.
Look up nontrivial examples on their own docs.

“Simple” form validation is a clusterfuck and that’s what they’re leading with.
At least on macs you can enable find my with location services disabled, which mitigates your concern.
In some narrow cases I see the value in patents motivating financial investment in original research. But most of the time this does not apply.

Optical pulse oximeters are an obvious incremental thing, and with zero knowledge of the space I don’t think it’s crazy to believe these would have come into existence on the same time frame with or without the existence of patents.

Virtually everything humans create or “discover” is an inevitability. We’re all just memetic LLMs, remixing stuff with mildly differing levels of variance. Originality is quaint pre-industrial human myth.

That said, Apple would have absolutely done the same thing if they had the patent. So I have zero sympathy for either party.

Don’t hate the player, hate the “artificially granted ownership over progress” game.
It's so interesting to see things like this and imagine what peoples of times past would have thought about when first discovering such sights and sites! Or even imagine yourself seeing this thousands of years past with no idea of what or why it was happening.
Even without autopilot a modern vehicle has lane following, adaptive cruise control, etc. so if you’re not drunk enough to fail to turn those one, you may just look like another driver.
People do care when inflation goes up! Everyone complains when food and gas and rent costs more.
The issue with printing money isn't being 74 zelenskys in debt, it's having massive inflation.
Venezuela can print as much money as it wants, but they're in hyperinflation and it's terrible.
You could encrypt your boot partition as well as the others. ahem... A "friend" of mine does this and he sure looks silly decrypting the laptop 2 times upon turning it on!

Of course, this approach only solves the biggest problem when your device is stolen (your data won't be easily accessible, if at all really). But I wager this friend of mine recognises that as the only thing that has any actual value in there. There are ton of devices out there.
Venmo did this to me in 2019 :)

They thought I was under 18, so they asked for my drivers license. I sent a picture and they responded with:

"Thank you for sending us your ID."
"Your account has been permanently deactivated and we regret to inform you that we can no longer offer you the Venmo service."

Absolutely mind boggling.
I can't see a copy on any of the pirate sites.
I wouldn't. It's unethical and frankly evil. Physical access should always trump any remotely installed policies, otherwise you can never truly own something.

This, and remote attestation, are tools to enforce DRM. The anti theft stuff is just a marketing strategy you fell for.
My wife rigidly hews to the "10% over the speed limit" standard on the highway. So 6.5 mph over in a 65mph speed limit zone, etc. Never been caught for this. Of course she accumulates an entourage of people crawling up her tailpipe before speeding by rudely, even when she's in the slow lane. Because America.
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they fly by.” - Douglas Adams
I dont think i get your point. you view tech as low-impact, then offer restaurants or civil cervices as an alternative? why are those higher impact?

for what it is worth, IQ of 120 is pretty tame e.g. 1 in 10 people and I think there are lots of smart people that DO work in trades, restaurants, and civil services. I am friends with many .
>The west is why it's "most" rather than "all" regions

Not just the west. I live in Jacksonville, FL, an 8 hour drive to New Orleans, and just 6 to Atlanta, but I'd need to go through Washington DC to get to Atlanta or through Chicago if I wanted to get to New Orleans (on a train the whole way).
But it doesn't seem to be true - there's more of a moat around search than AI it seems, and the recent trend is people replacing the Google search app on their phones with Perplexity.ai.

You currently still need search too, for AI's to access data newer than their training set, but I wonder how that's going to evolve over time ... Could see AI's being updated increasingly frequently and tapping direct into news sources (not via search) for news/sports/etc.
doesn't the water used to create hydrogen need to be "clean" and desal'd first?
Winnie the Pooh don’t play
Respectfully, this doesn't have much relevance to the fact that basic necessities like rent and food are significantly more expensive than they were just two years ago.

Housing, transportation, and food account for over 60% of all spending.

Experienes and goods aren't my problem. My problem is that my dwelling costs $500 a month more than it did in 2021 and I live in the exact same place, and I haven't gotten a raise.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cesan.pdf
aghem, Stadia, aghem
Thank you! This comments section is so weird - most of the comments are the exact opposite of my understanding.

Find My Feature from apple.com:

> Activation Lock is designed to prevent anyone else from using or selling your device. When you enable Find My on your device, Activation Lock is turned on automatically.

> Your Apple ID and password will then be required in order to erase or reactivate it. And if someone is able to erase your device, the Hello screen will show that it’s locked, locatable, and still belongs to you.
That name is a little on the nose.
Yeah I briefly got really fancy with InDesign at work when I was much younger and arrogant. And then I had to hand off the project.

Instantly broke. Spent a good 3 hours that day porting to PowerPoint.
> It's impractical if not hostile.

On the contrary, decentralization is exactly neutral. It just feels hostile to users who've simply accepted a centralized vendor as the default, and now may need to consider an alternative.

Most decentralization in practice is messy: homeschooling, homesteading, private health insurance, or rolling your own email server. That is because the majority of the population will have a preference for not doing things this way.
I don't know enough about the AI space to comment on it specifically.

But this distinctly reminds me about articles around about the time of the first iPhone release which posited that Microsoft was in a unique position to ultimately win the smartphone market.

After all it was dominant on the desktop and Windows Mobile already had a decent (albeit not dominant) marketshare in smartphones at the time.
The point I was attempting to make is I don't care what the thief does. I want the option to disable it if I've determined (on my own, with no help from anyone else!) that I'm not at a high risk of theft in the first place.
There’s a concatenative languages discord btw. Email/msg me joshcho @ stanford or @eating_entropy
> hundred million

this is about how many people now going to ChatGPT while were going to Google year ago for similar searches
How do you feel about Apple reverse-engineering Microsoft Office so they could make iWork compatible with it, and then charging money for it?
https://archive.is/a2spO
I love that I can't see CNN content because it needs me to disable my ad blocker to ensure my privacy. :-/
Had the iPhones still remained somehow reasonably priced then we wouldn't have had the thieves problem, or not as big, that's for sure. But when a new iPhone can already cost you ~1300 euros then things change, iPhone users now have a target on their back.
Huh, how'd he get caught? And how did his search queries get leaked? No VPN? Cookie jacking? Device cache?
At the risk of being a low quality comment:

Losing syntax highlighting on edit is rough. That's when I want it most.
hint for non-USAans: there are 50 states plus D.C.

count the number of distinct areas denoted on this map.

(please don't tell me about puerto rico)
If not in greater awe. ;-)
The so-called "implicit segregation" is only more evidence that the so-called "race" problem United States is a class problem, to a degree so overwhelming and predominant that it serves as an undeniable predictor, and logically as a cause. Given that, it's abundantly clear that public housing is way overdue.
> Meta will scrape all available data about your account

I genuinely don’t see the problem here. If it’s publicly available, why can’t Google/Facebook/Microsoft/etc scrape it? It’s like complaining that the wrong folks are reading the poster you just put up: well duh you put the poster up in public, of course it’s gonna get read!
The success of Github in creating software, and the success of software in advancing scientific progress.

Maybe something like nbdev.fast.ai.

In any case, it was just a thought, and likely not an original one. I would welcome it if someone tried to build this and proved it can’t be done.

Thank you for the stimulating discussion!
Design documents are good: they force one to think about what they're doing before they do it. Too bad they've gone out of style, since they directly contradict the "agile" approach where you just fix it in the next sprint...
> What is the better solution that retains the anti-theft capabilities of the device?

Include the unlock key in the box the device was sold in, and in Apple's database. Tech-savvy users can, possessing the key, change it. Tech-unsavvy users can behave the same as they have now, even if they lost the key, as long as they didn't change it. So long as they don't carry the key with the device, all the anti-theft remains.

The freedom-respecting solution is literally trivial. The only reason it is not implemented is because Apple likes owning your devices.
I like the vintage stuff because its usually easier to operate, and better built.

My vintage west bend percolator makes the best coffee you'll have - it makes maxwell house taste good.

I have 60 year old Zenith radios that work great, and have needed zero parts.
Otto robots web control (currently an open community project):
https://ottodiy.github.io/OttoWebAppControl/

And

Todo list app: https://ivanr3d.com/tools/todoapp/

Also a little games to help me to learn flags of the world :)

https://ivanr3d.com/games/flagquiz/index.html
Car culture. housing, and healthcare.

Healthcare costs an absolute fortune. If you're not paying it all out-of-pocket, it's being paid by insurance with big premiums from your paycheck. If you can't afford the full cost because you're too poor, middle-class people are subsidizing it for you from their paychecks. The middlemen (mostly insurance companies) are profiting hugely on the whole population here.

Housing costs a fortune thanks to America's NIMBYism, zoning laws, and lack of construction.

Finally, everyone needs an expensive car and all the costs associated (insurance, fuel, repairs), and I'm guessing America has the most lane-miles per capita of roads to maintain of any country (maybe Canada competes here).

All these costs add up, and mean that American workers need a ton of money just to have a basic lifestyle.

Personally, I think this is going to end up making American labor extremely uncompetitive on the global market. It already has in many industries, but it's just going to get worse, and other countries are catching up in development or have passed the US.
GKE Autopilot is pretty much useless, very few cases where it actually turns out cheaper than simply using Cluster Autoscaler + Node autoprovisioning. Not only is the pricing absolutely absurd, they don't even allow normal K8s bursting behavior (requests need to be equal to limits) which means you not only end up paying more than regular K8s cluster but now also need to highly overprovision your pods
They claim that the poisoning is transferrable across different models, which would not be the case if that was true.

OTOH, given this group's track record with their earlier poisoning effort (Glaze) vs. the adulatory press that they managed to arrange, I don't expect much from Nightshade despite the similarly adulatory press. Great media relations game, though.
No star, No fix
In Oregon we recently re-legalized 4-plexes and some other, denser forms of housing by right in our cities. But it's a pretty incrementalist reform, and it'll take time to see the effects.
A new strategy for making and manipulating higher-temperature superconductors
It sounds like something Elon Musk would say.
How do you expect to create a software product without doing any of those things?
I agree. But the limit is set super low now in many states, you just need a drink or two a few hours ago to go over. I’m a teetotaler, so I don’t think about it much, but it’s definitely something that can catch someone unaware, and it’s a huge revenue source for local governments, so maybe they are just going after people who they know can pay up?

The only strategy for not getting a DUI these days is not drink anything and then drive, but our society is still not set up for that, the temporary success we had with Uber not lasting.
Meanwhile Andy could’ve gotten Apple Care for 3 years for $140 USD (~ €128).
I’m really not all that familiar with the space so I could be mistaking. The definition of ai alignment on Wikipedia says an aligned model one that “advances intended objectives”.

In the paper, “distribution alignment” is one of methods used to improve the results of compression so intent is preserved:

> To narrow the gap between the distribution of the
LLM and that of the small language model used for prompt compression, here we align the two distributions via instruction tuning

So in any case for this paper alignment seems to be used in very specific way that doesn’t seem related to censorship

Edit: would to love to hear from someone who has a better understanding of the paper to clarify. I am operating from the position of layman here
> If the compiler claims to follow the specified version of the spec, and it doesn't, you file a compiler bug.

> And then use the subset that it supports, perhaps by using an older spec if it supports that fully. Perhaps looking for alternative compilers that have better/full coverage of a spec.

If you encounter rustc behavior that seems unintentional, you can always file a bug in the issue tracker against the compiler or language teams[1]. Humans end up making a determination whether the behavior of the compiler is in line with the RFC that introduced the feature.

> "Supports the spec minus these differences" is still miles better than "any behaviour can change because the Rust 2.1.0 compiler compiles code that the Rust 2.1.0 compiler compiles".

You can look at the Rust Reference[2] for guidance on what the language is supposed to be. It is explicitly not a spec[3], but the project is working on one[4].

1: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais...

2: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/introduction.html

3: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/introduction.html#what-t...

4: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/11/15/spec-visio...
There's gotta be more one-time-purchase software for sale now than there was in the 1990s.

I agree it was mostly better software, at least in terms of respecting users.

I bought my first Linux distro (Mandrake). It was worth it to avoid the huge download on 56k, and the hassle of writing a CD. Plus Mandrake played pretty well written my system thanks to the '3dfx' drivers.
See also: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/housing-cr...
In the same vein, an office with a door won't help at all if you have higher-ups who expects instant responses to any messaging/e-mail query every five minutes.
According to Betteridge's law of headlines [1], any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
I've got an idea. Apple could man up and create an android app instead of all this bullshit. They have been forced into RCS which will be huge, but they have already decided to keep the green bubble garbage. They will do their best to make sure the user experience is as degraded as possible.
For sure, SQL is a declarative language and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. The main thing I'm trying to highlight by stressing the "declarative" point is that the main feature of sqlauthz is that it allows you to specify a configuration for your permissions, and it will figure out how to migrate your db to that state. It's inspired by how infra-as-code tools let you specify the resources you want and figure out how to migrate your infra to that state.
I think it is important to remember that lot of that "luck" is someone else's work and sacrifice, and I think that is true the world round.

Most luck you or I have wouldn't exist is if someone close to us decided to coast or fuck up instead of making sure to cash keep cashing in those lottery tickets every day
In a presentation a few years ago Valve Software said that getting the Source engine working on Linux and Mac helped them find some issues in their Windows code (I don't remember the exact timeline though - I assume they had an Xbox 360 build pipeline at the same time, but maybe not yet a PlayStation 3 build pipeline).
You think that Nate Silver used Google to find out about the American political landscape? Don't you think that the many years he spent working in a field where he learned a lot about American politics would have made him pretty well-informed on the topic?
damn. cheap $400 Toshiba laptop from 2013 still going strong. and another one from 2015.
Complete Guide to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Personally, I think the show's creators did a good job with the resources they had and the huge limitations that were imposed on them. The production values were excellent, the costumes (particularly for the orcs) were amazing, the casting and acting seemed good, but the script was really weak. This was probably because of the Tolkein estate: they only allowed them to use the appendices from The Return of the King, and for some weird reason wouldn't let them use the material from the Silmarillion. The show could have been so much better if they had access to that.
I also love Ruby. I've been using it for over 20 years now, although always in a 'supporting' role--like at most maybe 5-10% of the code I write, and I definitely don't read or write it every day.

I've also never written anything particularly large in it. Like around a few thousand LOC, tops, for any one tool. And at that point, I often find myself writing a lot of things like assert { foo.is_a?(Foo) } to check parameter types, because beyond a certain size I just can't keep all the details in my head, and I don't want to rely only on comments.

Guess I'm saying that even though I really love it for small things, I'm also skeptical of its ability to scale.
Mistral 7b is serviceable for short contexts. If you have a longer conversation, token generation can start to lag a lot.