skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest Thomas Sowell's books on Facts about Geography Not Taught in School

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOpJiy5R9WMWL7-8d0JpCp5...
Unless the technology becomes obsolete. There are other ways to generate power.
It seems to me that having a couple of nuclear reactors as base load spread throughout the country would be more useful than having a massive spread out battery & solar infrastructure.

I mean as an example many companies, especially PG&E can't maintain adequate powerlines, who is banking on the fact that they'll do an even better job when we quintuple the amount of infrastructure and they have to develop a whole new domain of expertise based in battery technology.

Not to mention even the supposedly clean, solar and batteries, still have an enormous amount of carbon emissions involved in their supply chain, and need to be replaced on a fairly regular basis.
We build planes safely, but those same parts are 3x the cost. Safety isn’t the reason why it’s more expensive.
NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances
>>Give people enough resources and they'll have more kids.

Not sure I buy that - I know plenty of couples, each of them with good 6 figure salaries, who have no interest in having kids, ever - if they had 7 figure salaries, I don't think it would change their mind one bit.
The scam is that you need to work a certain amount of hours per week to qualify for health insurance. Most workers you see don’t work enough hours thus don’t qualify for health insurance.
Florida, Texas don't have mild winters?
Thanks for taking the time to reply! I still feel more comfortable with PHP, but I guess it doesn't hurt to start learning more Python.
Lockdown mode exists: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
FAANG companies are full of sunk-cost thinking.
Stopping to watch a random live that pops up on your FYP actually takes you out of the addictive flow of the tiktok algorithm.

Like Twitch, YouTube and strip clubs the addictive nature of tiktok lives has nothing to do with the algorithm feeding content it thinks you'll like. The addictive part is the attention you get from the performer in an exchange for money.
The article is dated Dec 26, 2023 but the linked announcement from Georgia Power is dated July 31, 2023.
Why JavaScript promises aren't technically monads
I sometimes imagine how cool it would be if some of the worlds biggest billionaires got together and just did some crazy mega project and didn't care about profits.

This nuclear plant cost ~$34 billion USD. What if Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, and a few others just got together and built 10 or so nuclear power plants? I wonder if that could actually bring down the price to build them.
"A bizarre number of people who commit fraud read my blog so I’m hoping that this will be helpful."
We paid the first-of-a-kind costs, we should reap the Nth-of-a-kind rewards. Replace all the coal capacity with AP1000s.
> Doesn’t matter where it’s made, just where the customer is.

It does matter where it's made; a location more distant from customers will mean they get pizza that's less fresh.
You seem confused. I didn't eat two tamales for lunch yesterday. I ate three. Don't make assumptions.

(Why do I need to post not just one but two exhortations to follow the basic rules of conversation? If you're going to say something, then say something true, but make sure it's also relevant.)
This is the case for all public works projects. The red-tape overhead is crazy. Regulation is necessary but the bureaucratic maze that has to be negotiated is a huge problem. I worked on a public rail system and the down-time waiting for permission on everything was draining.
> I think most people would agree that the physical trades and the arts are not well-suited for comparisons.

How is the writing of a book, the production of a movie or the recording of a song any different from the building of a bridge, the drafting of a contract, or the provision of management consultancy? How are they "fundamentally too different" if it's not the way we pay for them?

But more importantly, how is is that we see this difference as so fundamental that we afford protection to an artist (or more accurately, their publishers and the industry that surrounds them) via copyright for so long?
A person commenting on this topic at a different site mentioned that there is a lot of content on the internet around how to draw (animals?) with LaTex and a different tool (can't remember the name), so it's unclear if GPT is just regurgitating or if it's generalizing.
If models are training on NYT content the future of AI is horrific.
It's not an issue of having the resources to implement the spec -- it's that they're not convinced of the value of the feature, especially given it has the potential to impact performance.

I personally think they are vastly underestimating the enormous potential upside for the whole Internet if devs can make style changes with confidence, and frameworks like Vue and Svelte don't have to keep bolting on bespoke, expensive JavaScript-based approximations.
> If you invent new antibiotic it is immediately classified as "reserve antibiotic" and the sale is restricted.

Are there examples of this? I've heard people say this happens, but I've never heard a concrete example.

I googled 'reserve antibiotic' and found Ceftobiprole, and see it's for sale for $40,000/gram, so clearly it's possible to charge money for a 'reserve'.
I recently found this:

https://github.com/JuliaSpace/

Out of curiosity, what Python, Fortran, and C/C++ packages do you use / can you recommend?
I wouldn’t provide the grammar itself directly, since I feel like the models probably haven’t seen much of that kind of grammar during training, but just JSON examples of what success and error look like, as well as an explanation of the task. The model will need to generate JSON (at least with the grammar I’ve been providing), so seeing JSON examples seems beneficial.

But, this is all very new stuff, so certainly worth experimenting with all sorts of different approaches.

As far as small models getting confused, I’ve only really tested this with Mixtral, but it’s entirely possible that regular Mistral or other small models would get confused… more things I would like to get around to testing.
Imagine telling those same people in the 50s that all those changes in productivity would come for the benefit of no one since the work week would be the same and purchasing power would decline
I don’t know what point you’re trying to make. They also return JSON more consistently than gpt-4, but I don’t use that because it’s overkill and expensive for my text extraction tasks.
I'm wondering how private models will diverge from public ones. Specifically for large "private" datasets like those of the NSA, but also for those for private personal use.

For the NSA and other agencies, i am guessing in the relative freedom from public oversight they enjoy that they will develop an unrestricted large model which is not worried about copyright -- can anyone think of why this might not be the case? It is interesting to think about the power dynamic between the users of such a model and the public. Also interesting to think about the benefits of simply being an employee of one of these agencies (or maybe just he government in general) will have on your personal experience in life. I do recall articles elucidating that at the NSA, there were few restrictions on employee usage of data and there were/are many instances of employees abusing surveillance data toward effect in their personal life. I guess if extended to this situation, that would mean there would be lots of personal use of these large models with little oversight and tremendous benefit to being an employee.

I have also wondered, with just how bad search engines have gotten (a lot of it from AI generated spam), about current non-AI discrepancies between the NSA and the public. Meaning can i just get a better google by working at the NSA? I would think maybe because the requirements are different than that of an ad company. They have actual incentive to build something resistant to SEO outside of normal capitalist market requirements.

For personal users, i wonder if the lack of concern for copyright will be a feature / selling point for the personal-machine model. It seems from something i read here that companies like Apple may be diverging toward personal-use AI as part of their business model. I supposed you could build something useful that crawls public data without concern for copyright and for strictly personal use. Of course, the sheer resources in machine-power and money-power would not be there. I guess legislation could be written around this as well.

Thoughts?
3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js
All good points. But the notion that our intelligence potential has remained static for at least 50k years and we hadn’t figured out how to cooperate and plant seeds until relatively recently is difficult to swallow.
Electric Vehicles Are Losing Momentum with U.S. Buyers
Mozilla Firefox + NoScript + DNT works very well for me.
> But I bet that millennials have no personal experience with it at all.

Mass vaccination started in the late 50s and especially early 60s (with Sabin’s oral vaccine).

Millennials start in 1981, so they would / could well have known affected adults.
Technical write-up (in Japanese) here: https://qiita.com/satoshi7190/items/23d192372877af75b283
They should try autoclave - it can do way better
Associating with a well-known initialism that means the exact opposite may hurt more than help you. But as long as you’re aware of it, worth the try. Best of luck with it.
I don't understand why tacit support of leftism is allowed but if I counter it, I am immediately flagged.

Very unfair that this is still happening on a site with so many smart people on it.
I dunno, it's really nice being able to get food other than pizza delivered. Most restaurants can't afford to do that on their own.
Tom Smothers, Comic Half of the Smothers Brothers, Dies at 86
Home ownership rates and price to income ratios are doing well in many states.

https://www.fatherly.com/news/map-cheapest-state-buy-house

https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/homeownership-rate-...
> We can’t and don’t want to ban all advertising.

I'm pretty anti-ad, but I agree with this!

I don't personally want to experience any ads, but the only ads I want outright banned are those that are effectively shown to me without my consent, and that can't be reasonably avoided - billboards, and PA-broadcast ads on airplanes come to mind.

I'm ambivalent about ads in media. If I can't watch/listen to something ad-free, I just won't consume that content.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/arts/television/tom-smoth...
>Although infections didn’t survive a reboot

Reminder to reboot your iPhone at least weekly if you are concerned about this kind of attack.
couples with two generous 6 figures salaries are not generally the people worried about unexpected huge medical expenses - they have good jobs, and good insurance.
Chisel isn't some toy, it's actually used in industry. IIRC SiFive's portfolio is built on it.
Iodine deficiency for everyone not willing to wade through the story.
Democratizing access to AI-enabled coding with Colab
These are not citations. The point is that it does not / can not reliably cite the actual sources it used to prepare an answer.
You know i assumed that was true until right now. But I can't think of a single example of reason and intelligence existing without any form of language. Even insects have rudimentary language, and in fact reasoning and intelligence seem to scale with the complexity of language, both by species and within species.
Clue in windscreen key in legal challenge to Queensland's AI traffic fine system
AWS is noticeably absent in the list of implementations.
It is interesting to see just how conservative the core devs are against even the most benign way forward (including more consistent aliases without immediate deprecation).

Indeed, not a hill worth dying on either way but it’s a little wild the counter argument is “increased support costs” when, let’s be real, there is no significant increased support beyond the initial scope of work.

If core Python ever plans on consistency, introducing these aliases early is the main way for them to achieve it. Even if there is no direct plan for deprecation. Something something about the best time to plant a tree.
Nuclear does not seem to be on the mass production curve that solar and batteries are.

Even if you could design a reactor that itself can be mass produced at that scale, you still need to do the same with selecting and getting environmental and public safety approval for installation sites and production, transportation, and disposal of the fuel and waste.

I'm not against nuclear from a technological perspective, but I just don't see it being economically competitive with effectively printable devices like solar and batteries given the current direction of the cost curves on each.
I found this list which shows "under construction", "planned" and "proposed". It does not look like the US is planning to build a lot of reactors. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu...
You are usually not dropped in the middle of a spreadsheet with infinite rows/cols in each direction. You start at topleft which makes navigating much less 'exploratory'
keeping it specific to this article, pizza hut does NOT have to pay them. the consumers bears the cost directly. because of the way food is priced, this will likely be net zero or slightly more expensive for the consumer, but because of the way they perceive price it’s better than pizza hut simply raising prices.

for the same reason that restaurants keep the price the same but in small print charge a mandatory fee of some kind for benefits of what have you.
Take your pick. Rents from Monroe to Alachua are sharply higher (from 2019) (>2x higher for us). I've no reason to suspect different for Panhandle counties but they don't make the news often. No counties have been spared from home & auto insurance increases (+80% for us).
If only we could harness the boundless energy of nuclear bros somehow to put it to some socially useful purpose.

> Politicians want you to believe they already have a viable plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, and that we’ve already made enough progress in this energy transition to begin phasing out fossil fuels.

> They’re lying!

> They talk up their policies of subsidizing wind and solar energy development to appeal to your emotions, hoping you’ll conclude that great strides of progress are already being made. They never mention that every single wind turbine ever built combined with every single solar farm ever built supplies less than 2% of our energy needs.

> The politicians never admit that achieving their stated goals by 2050 with wind and solar alone would require building 50 times as much new wind and solar in the next 25 years as we were able to build in the last 25 years.

> They never tell you that the Electric Vehicle revolution will require unprecedented increases in environmentally destructive mining operations needed to supply all the copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese required to build all those electric vehicles.

> They never acknowledge how much economic inflation will be caused by the policies they falsely claim will achieve this energy transition by 2050. If the politicians have this under control, why has almost no real progress been made after two full decades of broken promises?

> Our politicians are paying lip service to energy transition to get your votes and stay in power. But in reality, almost no actual progress has been made toward reducing our dependence on fossil fuels

> And that’s not even the worst of it. I predict that well-intended but badly ill-conceived climate policy will directly cause a global energy crisis in the mid-2020s that could easily have been avoided with sound energy policy.

It's all very sad that these older engineers fell so hard for the "you're more intelligent than the sheeple" propaganda and now are left looking so foolish.
Sure. Even still you’re talking about a highly abrasive product often packed in plastic. But none of that is material to my point.
> You pretty much cannot have too much iodine

You may wish to research the Wolff-Chaikoff effect.
>Claiming knowledge without even acknowledging potential sources is gross. Solve it OpenAI.

I'm sorry, but pretty much nobody does this. There is no "And these books are how I learned to write like this" after each text. There is no "Thank you Pitagoras!" after using the theorem. Generally you want sources, yes, but for verification and as a way to signal reliability.

Specifically academics and researchers do this, yes. Pretty much nobody else.
I should have qualified. Large corporations don't tend to manage investments in REIT's directly. The funds in which they invest have in turn invested in REIT's. So if the finance guys at Company X are used to sweet overall returns, they don't want their fund managers pulling out of REIT's unless there's a damn good reason to do so.
Why is this post flagged? Is an influential engineer and businessman not 'HN' enough? What am I missing.
It's also possible to output libchafa's nicer rendering with a broader set of characters using ffmpeg.
There's no Federal agency that can decree that sort of policy. Coal generator retirement happens on a state-by-state or even business-by-business basis.

Some states are going to cling to coal power past its economically rational lifespan because important parts of state politics are linked to coal businesses. States where coal retires for economic reasons will go for least-cost replacement (a blend of solar, wind, and natural gas). States where environmental concerns trump cost concerns have little if any coal generating capacity left to replace at this point.
https://archive.is/YBMgY
During the ice ages, the sea level is lower, making more equatorial regions habitable. The sea level dropped about 200 feet (60 m) at the highest glaciation in the past 100K years.
Fast shipping and streaming were plenty sticky for me. I'm aware that Prime offers various other benefits, but I never cared about them at all. I paid for Prime for very many years and considered it a good value.

But their shipping has slowed considerably, and I'm in the no-ads-ever club, so they've lost me as a customer.
Yes! That worked for Linus Torvalds! Oh, wait... https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/linus-...
What if you want to switch ONE monitor, for example a 5K Apple Studio Display, between a Mac Mini and a MacBook?

Does a reliable solution exist that includes all accessories built in/attached to the monitor? (Ethernet, monitor speakers, monitor camera, power delivery charging, etc.)
The salt used in processed and prepared foods usually isn't iodized, contributing to declining iodine intake given the increasing consumption of these foods.
I'm sorry that you're insisting on pushing that narrative, which is incorrect.

Your article literally starts off stating "Although cable television was never conceived of as television without commercial interruption, there has been a widespread impression - among the public, at least -that cable would be supported largely by viewers' monthly subscription fees." Not that it was actually sold that way or promised that way, just that people had some impression that was how cable would work. It also mentions how in 1981 (only few years after the first cable-only big TV channels came out!) advertising was already a $45M. It doesn't once state there were no ads on cable networks, and points to multiple TV channels which launched with ads. The article adds to my point, not takes away from it. There were ads immediately when cable TV only channels were a new thing, this article confirms it.

And this also doesn't say anything about the fact most channels on cable were just retransmissions of the major networks, which had ads. So most content available on cable was advertising based. And as mentioned, most cable-only networks had ads when they launched. Sure, there were a few out there like HBO and Z-Channel and what not, but most of the cable-only channels that came out had ads.

> Many cable channels have yet to begin operating, and those now running commercials, such as Ted Turner's 24-hour Cable News Network or U.S.A. Network's ''You'' program for women, carry 30-second and one-minute commercials that are a standard feature of regular television

Even your other article (everything80spodcast.com) makes a point at the delineation between basic cable (which channels often had ads) and premium cable which relied on additional subscriber fees. Basic cable channels like TBS and USA relied on ads, premium channels charged extra fees. Your own articles continue pointing to the fact ads were on cable from the start.

> Eventually, this cable television concept split into basic cable and premium. One of the first basic cable channels was the Turner Broadcasting System, or TBS. And two of the first big premium channels were HBO and Showtime, which will be a big part of the focus here.

And its funny you mention Z-channel as an example of one of the early "national" cable channels and call TBS "regional", when Z-channel pretty much never left Southern California. If TBS was a regional channel, Z-channel was a hyper-local one. TBS as a cable channel was in six states, over 90 cable networks, and several hundred thousand households in 1976. A decade later in the mid 1980s Z channel was still only in Southern California on a single cable network and had less than 100,000 subscribers. Which one was old hat? Which was the regional again?

Let me reiterate. I'm sorry that you're insisting on pushing that narrative of "national cable stations were commercial free for years" among other things, which are incorrect. I'm not arguing there were not some premium cable channels which didn't run ads, I'm saying the vast majority of regular cable channels had ads from day one. Your own sources agree with me on this. Good luck with whatever.
> How does Encyclopedia Britannica compare to Wikipedia?

My POV:

Britannica article often are written by experts, sometimes the leaders in their fields (in the past they even had authors such as Albert Einstein). There's an editorial process to ensure accuracy by its formal meaning, the three C's: Correct, Complete, and Consistent. Also, the writing is often exceptional - sharp, expertly informed, with personality, like a top-notch professor. The downside is that the primary authors sometimes appear to have written decades ago (budget issues?) and then the articles were updated by editors. Also, while articles are internally consistent, Britannica is sometimes inconsistent between articles; for example, the article on hominids might say something slightly different about the evidence for primate evolution than the article on great apes; however, that is the case with every large reference work I've seen - you need to read a few articles if you want the comprehensive view, like talking to multiple professors about the same issue.

My view on Wikipedia comes from the foundation that, if the accuracy of some information is unknown, the information is worthless (a judgment backed by theory, though most people on the street disagree these days). I don't know the accuracy of Wikipedia information; I don't know which information in an article is correct and which is incorrect; I don't know which is complete and which omits essential details; I don't know when it's consistent or inconsistent. I have experience editing Wikipedia and that supports my POV; also, when I've chased down citations for claims, they often have been completely falsified (the citation says nothing of the sort) or are misleading. In other words, I think Wikipedia is the epitome of online misinformation. Most disagree, I know; my guess is that they don't want to lose their treasured resource and habits.
Efficient Superconductor Arithmetic Logic Unit for Ultra-Fast Computing
Attack by CIA/NSA?

They have the best possible insight into the hardware and software
at all stages I should think.