skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was there even a "message" in "Wish" ?? I enjoyed the movie, but it was terrible from a plot perspective and almost entirely vapid.

I don't think there were many messages in other recent Disney movies I enjoyed (ex: Little Mermaid live action, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) either.

Its more like, Disney's Phase4 / Phase5 of Marvel was just poorly written. They ran out of creative juice for the movies after they spent it all on the TV Series. Disney oversaturated us with Marvel and needs to cut back down to stories we can actually follow.

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Star Wars didn't seem to have much "messaging" either in my view. It was just two directors arguing over the plot with the audience getting confused in the middle. Is Ray a nobody? Or is she the grand-daughter of someone important? Well, both, because the directors / creative team behind Episodes 7/8/9 couldn't decide and didn't have the heart to make a decision.

That's just crappy storytelling. "Messaging" isn't the issue as much as the writers just suddenly started to suck recently.

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As far as I'm aware, the best recent Disney movie, critically, was the one with "obvious messaging". Elemental, which was about how to think about immigrants and how their culture/strength/weaknesses play a role in cities.
Needs compiled binary size comparison somewhere on the website
I recall watching X-men on Saturday mornings as a kid and the only thing more overt was Star Trek having an episode where the half-white-half-black people hate the half-black-half-white people.

It’s not messaging. It’s release pace. If their goal is quality movies then they need to make that the goal. But the goal is “make money”, so their incentives are misaligned.
You are telling me that natsec people give every rando the full list of participants in the conspiracy? That just doesn't make sense for any (semi)competent security agency to disclose.
It's 50GW more than anyone else though. There are some nuclear projects in US/UK but I'll eat my hat if they actually get built at all.
> GenZ being overly earnest

Why do you say this?
That was my experience in the Boston area 3-4 years ago. Last year it had gotten to 3-4 days between ordering and the item arriving normally with probably every third or fourth delivery delayed by at least two days and occasionally a week.

Cancelling my 10 year old prime subscription was the easiest decision I've made in the last year.
That's a great excuse, but the motivation is for GE to be able to sell high margin filters due to DRM lock-in. Their filters with RFID tags cost 2x to 3x what compatible filters cost on the open markget.
In Slovakia, another landlocked country with lack of natural iodine from rainfall or diet, dementia became part of the culture. 30% (!!!) of population suffered from dementia. Iodizing salt raised IQ by 10 point every 10~ years but the damage is irreparable…
This is a good quality post except for the dig in the last paragraph.

I would, however, be curious if you can run the numbers for the UK or Germany. How much solar and battery would you need to be able to have no brownouts during winter?

Trying some very rough numbers myself:

Currently Germany seems to use around 3.3 trillion kwh[1] of energy per year. Likely around 300 billion kwh for December.

Having a look, the solar irradiance in the sunnier parts of Germany in December seems to be around 20-30 kwh/m^2.[2]

Cheap PV solar is generally around 30% efficient and 1.5m^2 costs around £91 retail[3].

So the order of magnitude solar cost needed for Germany in December to not need more than a week's storage is probably around €2 trillion. Amortised over 20 years that's €200 billion per year...

This doesnt take into account many things like installation and maintenance and the reduced prices from not buying retail, but it still seems pretty doable, though noticeably higher than current spend of around €100 billion/year. (Which is also roughly what you'd get with French style nuclear)

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany

[2] https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/solarenergy/maps_globalrad...

[3] https://shop4electrical.co.uk/panels/9905-ja-solar-jam54s30-...
Prime is already expensive. The only show I watch on Prime is Invincible because I love the comic book. We have to show these companies that it's not right to include ads if you pay $140/year. I will be canceling my Prime. I am very disappointed.
How you interact with parameters.

Lux is similar to Flax (Jax) where the parameters are kept in a separate variable from the model definition, and they are passed in on the forward pass. Notably, this design choice allows Lux to accept parameters built with ComponentArrays.jl which can be especially helpful when working with libraries that expect flat vectors of parameters.

Flux lies somewhere between Jax and PyTorch. Like PyTorch, the parameters are stored as part of the model. Unlike traditional PyTorch, Flux has “functional” conventions, e.g. `g = gradient(loss, model)` vs. `loss.backward()`. Similar to Flax, the model is a tree of parameters.
> Nobody said Disney in this thread.

You mean in the "Disney CEO Bob Iger says company's movies have been too focused on messaging" thread?

I'm pretty sure Disney was mentioned at least once...
It's all relative. Chrome has plenty of sandbox escapes. Microsoft found one lately where Chrome was passing strings from JS straight into the Windows TTS engine, which turned out to be parsing XML from it with a C++ parser that was full of memory errors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_(film)
Not received at all or received as a still photo?
That's what IRENA worked out in the frame of the initiative to decarbonise ocean shipping by 2050 when it comes to fuel:

>> In the short term, advanced biofuels will play a key role in the reduction of CO2 emissions. In the medium and long-term, green hydrogen-based fuels are set to be the backbone for the sector’s decarbonisation.
Fortunately there are enough good old books that you could read them nonstop for the rest if your life and not get through them.
Per my other comment here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784723, courts have previously ruled that whether people would cancel their NYT subscription is irrelevant to that test.
I had the opposite problem. My RFID reading board went bad, and it would claim every filter was past due and would not dispense water or ice.
But remember that a square kilometer of solar panels needs maybe ten square kilometers of actual land. Anywhere other than at the equator, the panels need to be spaced far enough apart not to shadow each other. On a north-facing slop they would be even more spaced out. Do that in two dimensions, so they can track the sun, and keeping one square meter of panels perpendicular to the sun requires a suprisingly large footprint.

And trees. Clearcutting forests to make room for a solar panels just seems wrong, a Captain Planet style of evil. There are all sorts of places where the terrain just isnt suited.
One interesting point that I think is often missed, is that solar and wind produce energy roughly at an anticadence to each other and so storage is of significantly less of a requirement than one might imagine.
it's probably that some people don't think it's the worst job in the world that it continues to pay so little.

for me, it would be. YMMV.
Some description of this NIH https://docs.atomicdata.dev/interoperability/json#from-atomi...

TypeScript, MIT https://github.com/atomicdata-dev/atomic-server#readme
If you're going to be that nitpicky, I'll do the same and point out that the OP didn't say invention by/of Elon Musk.
Your double negative made me laugh.

In all seriousness, I wish I could tell you that you're wrong, but I can't.
I hope the whole industry listens to this.
You're betraying your bias by insinuating I suggested throwing out risk mitigation. I advocated for streamlined risk mitigation by highlighting the risk of unnecessary complexity.
This from Melody Horn back in 2020 is a great companion piece to this. https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.htm...
https://web.archive.org/web/20231215222059/https://www.borin...

They both echoed that we need to be prepared for such environment and they have some good points.
I consider that plausible with Google due to Google's funding history [0], but Apple is afaik way less "influenced" and the way this pwn was pulled off could also have been done by compromising Apple's hardware supply chain and not Apple itself.

Particularly considering how in the past Apple has been very willing to be on the receiving end of negative headlines for not giving US agencies decrypted access to iCloud accounts of terrorist suspects, with Google I don't remember it ever having been the target of such controversy, meaning they willingly oblige with all incoming requests.

[0] https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
Solar cannot provide reliable power. It's cheaper because it doesn't solve a massive part of the problem.

Do the actual math on what it takes to get a reliable solar kWh onto the grid and suddenly it's a lot more expensive.
Gotta love the obvious ideological slant - apparently wanting "immigration quotas and restrictions on welfare benefits for certain migrants who are not in work" makes you "far right"? So unless you vote for completely unrestricted mass immigration you're "far right"? The bias is so obvious.
Like a CRC? I'm reminded of the the Broadcom compression algorithm that required tedious reverse engineering, or a look at the Wikipedia page with sample code.
Egypt and Syria mobilized on Israel's borders in May of '67. You're citing something that happened 10 years earlier. And this appears to be the best argument you've got, since you keep making it. Let's disengage?
It’s kinda hard to have newsletter in the age of AI-generated content. No, it’s all old school IRL.
even in the 90's "Pizza Hut" made Dominoes look like Arturo's on Houston Street. This is like a non-food product created in the most cynical way as some kind of corporate feed trough for extremely nutritionally impoverished people.
I don't think so, not the core language at least. In my tests I think I saw a 20-30% improvement at best compared to versions from 5 years ago. Not saying that that's still not a great job from the core maintainers, but I don't think Julia has to fear python getting fast. The issue is more that python is getting to the point where the ML ecosystem has already accepted using a slow language as long as everything around it is fast.

Though as I said before, sometimes no amount of c++/c escape hatches can improve performance since you have to use python objects at some point or another and that will be the bottleneck. But by then, you won't needing some of the stuff Julia offers like the REPL and notebooks etc.

I haven't used Julia a lot but to me it's in a weird spot where it would be ideal to start projects with in theory since you won't need to outgrow the language you are starting with, since it's fast enough and has a pretty good/maintainable/sane design. But then you are sacrificing so much and will need much more time to get started that you might not ever get to that point anyways.

Just as an example, debugging obscure problems or deploying pytorch models that are more custom in prod is already pretty daunting at times, and it's the "best" and most popular ML framework in the world. I can't imagine how much more time consuming it would be when using a much smaller/less used library/framework.

So yeah all of that to say that being way faster isn't how Julia will win. Maybe a push from an influent player/big tech might give it the momentum it needs.
> why I used "electeds" rather than "representatives", to make really clear the connection

I’m arguing the opposite. The voters have the tools to oppose the state government’s size. That they don’t use them signals support in broad terms.
What if I paid for all my free software?
I think you are wrong for the reason parent stated. Safety and regulations for nuclear are just too high to be competitive with modular solar that can scale and has no nuclear waste issue that is still unsolved.
That solves the specific problem, but if you were my coworker, I’d have to toss you off the nearest bridge.

Don’t monkeypatch Python, m’kay?
I've just seen a good video about art-deco buildings and their comeback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VNP9RYIS_E
This article is a training resource for scientific writers, not a guide on what you're allowed to call your grandma, which is entirely your business.

However, like everything else, language is a practice, and it can't hurt to practice your awareness of what might constitute impolite vs formally appropriate speech, even if you consciously choose to ignore it in casual conversation.
I'm sorry, simply no. I know myopia is supposed to be not reversible. No one knows how these methods work. But they work, and I'm so happy I'll be able to get rid of my glasses without laser surgery, I can't care less about what science or people currently say.
> Make sure to preserve the predators and clean any artificial niche or populate it with some alternative species.

Rabbits are not native to Australia, and they have no natural predators on the continent. Introducing new species to Australia's wildly unique ecosystem is rightly frowned upon (see rabbits, introduction of). Neither of these solutions would be effective.
> If it upsets you, just pretend it doesn't exist.

Solving the world’s problem right here
Ahem, you mean you have a single example, from a decade ago, one where Apple was hardly a key player (hence why Apple didn’t sign onto PRISM until half a decade after Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, et all), as conclusive evidence of “eagerness to partner with spy agencies”, despite numerous public cases where they’ve done the opposite… got it!
Cover 4,000 square miles of the USA in surface car parks[1] and that's freedom. Suggest covering 11,000 square miles of desert in solar panels which don't stop land being used for grazing or crop growing or insects or wildlife, and that's environmental distruction that "even" you would balk at.

[1] https://www.archdaily.com/976069/when-5-percent-of-the-unite...
why use make over sh/bash?
See also

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuD_SqLtxSdVDcrCYIHayTL91...
Great idea. Now, either apply to YC with it or convince the shipping industry to revise their decarbonisation startegy by going full nuclear with nuclear charging vessels.
You aren’t allowed to do that, but the iPhone is not a monopoly product. Market share is about 57%, just barely over the minimum threshold for a monopoly finding.

But crucially the phone market is quite competitive. People can easily switch and the iPhone does not have unrestrained pricing power. People tend to enthusiastically vs grudgingly buy an iPhone.

If someone made a better product tomorrow it is easy to switch.

“It is big and makes money and I dislike it” is not a monopoly criteria. You can read them here.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
You see this all the time with new series that have one season to prove their worth, get picked up and then the creators/writers go "how are we going fill the next 3 seasons with 5 episodes worth of medicore content?"
Even if this just becomes chemotherapy but locally activated by near-infrared light, that would be great.

It means, at worst, don't go outside or be in bright sun-lit spaces, but also, we can shine a flashlight on where the cancer is to kill it. Even if it weren't very selective (which could be adjusted with other targeting molecules), light-trigged theraputics are easy to understand the propagation of.
How so? Any competent intelligence service will not just depend on the goodwill of a corporation to secure access to assets and intelligence.

If they cooperate that's good and convenient, but that does not mean the intelligence service will not set in place contingencies for if the other side suddenly decides not to play ball anymore.
Kaspersky can't prove anything so they opted to present the facts. They didn't state any opinion about who they believe is behind the incident.
Incidentally I've actually found "natural" solutions like boric acid and diatomaceous earth to be wildly effective (in killing/reducing established populations, not preventing new ones), if a bit unsightly and inconvenient to have lying around in piles to actually force the critters into crawling into them.

I probably ought still spend a day off sealing everything I can, though. Probably more pragmatic and less technically barbaric.
I was in SF until the pandemic and now live in another area of Northern California, but it's now just as expensive as SF was when I left in 2020. The catch 22 is that remote jobs may not last forever and the trade off is the cities near jobs have high cost of living and the cities with low cost of living have no/low paying jobs. Hard to know what the right thing to do is. Do my wife and I buy a house in a lower cost of living area and hope our jobs stays remote permanently? It's really just hard to know since there's no precedent for this. And if in 5 years everyone is now back in the office either full-time or part time, doesn't that mean prices will crash in those towns that went up in the pandemic?
Ah, I think there’s a misunderstanding of the parent comment. They aren’t necessarily saying that the problem is pro-renewable regulation, just that there are heavy (safety) barriers for nuclear.
As someone who gets lucid dreams frequently, they are overrated. I can see how maybe they could be fun as a novelty, but if you get them a lot, the drawbacks become very apparent:

1. A lucid dream is not as rich and immersive as a real dream. The more lucid you become, the more boring and pointless it feels. You might as well just be daydreaming.

2. Lucid dreams are caused by a failure to enter REM correctly, so a night that you get a lucid dream is a night that your sleep quality suffers.

If I never had a lucid dream again, I would be 100% happy with that. (And if I never had sleep paralysis again, I would be 500% happy with that.)
They're poor, in a state with abysmal public transport. It's not like they're driving uninsured for kicks. So do you think the state of Florida wants to lose >26% of their workforce? Often the lowest-paid workers are the most essential, taken as a whole anyway.
At a guess, there is probably a regress-to-the-mean problem where the people responsible for the scripts are pulling back to an ordinary level of understanding of nuance, motivation and whatnot. There are a couple of symptoms and people struggle to pick up when content lacks nuance - as far as I can tell it kinda feels wrong to them but they can't put a finger on why.

I've been interpreting the "they're politicised!" chatter around Disney & friends to mean that they lack nuance. Political messages in art isn't new - but using art for ham-fisted messaging makes for a boring story. Great storytelling often looks like, say, Portal I by Valve. Noticing the thickly layered feminism in that game is pretty hard, but I suspect there are literally no male characters and it is likely most people playing the game don't notice. It was jarring vs Portal 2 where a more ordinary game plot was used. But that sailed completely under the radar of most criticism of both games because it was a rather subtle change.
Coresight is not some backdoor - it's a debug feature of all ARM CPU's. This looks like a necessary extension to coresight to work with Apples memory protection stuff.

Even though no public documentation exists, I'm sure thousands of Apple engineers have access to a modded gdb or other tooling to make use of it.
Python’s strongly, dynamically typed. Try adding “12”+3 and it will throw a TypeError at you.
It was widespread but has always been particularly worse in inland mountainous regions. To this day, efforts remain to eliminate iodine deficiency worldwide.

Maps with goiter prevalence can be found on the WHO's website: https://www.who.int/teams/nutrition-and-food-safety/database...
Funny, my take on Oppenheimer is the opposite -- and I loved both movies.

Nolan is making the explicit argument that Oppenheimer is the most important person of the 20th century, it's literally a biopic that adheres (shockingly) faithfully to history, is explaining everything to you from the history of Los Alamos to justifications to drop the bomb to arguments for and against the H-bomb, and you come out of the theater absolutely ready to debate the issues.

Oppenheimer is the literal opposite of art for art's sake. It's a straight-up history lesson that presents different sides of one of the biggest moral questions of the 20th century.

Now other films of his, whether Tenet or Inception or Interstellar -- those are much more art-for-art's-sake. You can discuss them aesthetically all you want, but aside from questions of taste and clarity and plot, there isn't much of substance to debate.

(On the other hand -- while Barbie was hyped as providing a lot to discuss, it was actually mostly just a very clever super funny comedy. It didn't really lead to all that much debate, aside from whether the idea of playing guitar "at" someone was merely a really funny joke, or one of top five funniest jokes in the movie...)
Compression of air in underground cavities

> Hydrostor, which is based in Toronto, is one of several startups working on fixing those problems. The company says it’s figured out a way to capture and reuse the heat generated when air is compressed, eliminating the need to burn gas. It’s also figured out a way to make the mechanics work in areas where caverns must be dug out of hard rock, rather than salt. <

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2023-01-12/th...
My biggest gripe is the villains. I want stories that challenge my expectations, not a litany of ham fisted cold war allegories.
Converting atmospheric CO2 into hydrocarbon fuels requires hydrogen as an input, so it'd probably be easier to just store the hydrogen directly. Right now, almost all hydrogen is produced through steam reformation [1] which emits CO2. Electrolysis is inefficient and corrosion of electrodes makes it expensive and hard to scale. Capturing atmospheric CO2 is similarly difficult. Carbon Dioxide is at very low concentrations in the atmosphere so it takes a really long time to sequester meaningful amounts of it. Similar issue with biomass: it produces energy very slowly and doesn't have the scale required.

There's a reason why plans for a primarily renewable grid assume that compressed air, synthetic ammonia, giant flywheels, or something else will provide storage for orders of magnitude cheaper than batteries: because existing storage systems aren't capable of meeting the storage demands of intermittent generation. Will one of these systems deliver a storage breakthrough? Maybe. But it's not wise to bet the future of your electrical grid on a technological breakthrough that hasn't happened yet.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming
Read the first line, was absolutely dripping with biased partisan hate, instantly closed the article. No thank you.
The actor John Shrapnel read this and 4 others (including “The Sentinel”) beautifully with very subtle background effects for bbc radio over 5 nights (labelled “The nine billion names of God”) but annoyingly they don’t seem to have them accessible anywhere.
As long as machines needs to leech on human creativity those humans needs to be paid somehow. The human ecosystem works fine thanks to the limitations of humans. A machine that could copy things with no abandon however could easily disrupt this ecosystem resulting in less new things being created in total, it just leeches without paying anything back unlike humans.

If we make a machine that is capable of being as creative as humans and train it to coexist in that ecosystem then it would be fine. But that is a very unlikely case, it is much easier to make a dumb bot that plagiarizes content than to make something as creative as a human.