skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ever Given has a maximum speed of 23kt / 42km/h and carries 20,124 TEU or approx. 7660 54-ft containers.

Rail figures are harder to find, but a reasonable guess based on what I can find seems to be 400 containers per train if the loading gauge permits double stacking containers. Speeds over 100km/h are easily achievable on railways without at-grade crossings.

So one ship could easily require ten trains to move all its cargo in the same time, plus the time taken to offload at each end, which I guess is why this hasn't taken off. Though if it's all just transhipped to trains this could be faster than at most ports where containers have to be sorted to different destinations.

Though interestingly with a dedicated right-of-way the trains don't actually need to be manned, remote control freight trains exist.
Yes from what I gather. And just to emphasize there's no LLM (re)training involved at all.
Yeah, but it's only mid January...
What I remember being useful was that, when you clicked on an item, somewhere on the page would be a carousel with items that other customers who looked at that item eventually ended up buying/also looked at. It was genuinely helpful information that generally would make it faster to find what you were actually looking for.

At some point they got rid of that despite it being useful. I assume that Amazon prefers being able to control what you see when you search for an item. Now you’ll still see carousels and comparison tables when you click on an item, but it’s all stuff that vendors paid to have placed there (or that Amazon decided it wants you to see).
> Have you tried emacs?

Here we go ...
Keynes has been discredited in recent years, it's odd that you think he's established anything. The Austrians were proven right and recent monetary policy reflects their view - you don't see much discussion of Keynes anymore. If you don't understand Keynes maybe that's why you don't realise that?

To recap Keynes: his core idea was countercyclical monetary policy, i.e. to issue debt (print money) when times are bad and pay down debt (recall money) when times are good.

It sounds good but the Austrians pointed out that there would be two problems in practice:

1. Give governments a nice sounding justification for money printing and they will do it to excess, creating inflation. The Austrians were right: governments cited Keynes when printing money in a recession, and then the "emergency measures" would conveniently never end. The part where you pay down the debt in good times by running a primary surplus would never be respected.

2. Keynes misunderstood the nature and cause of recessions.

Recessions occur when there has been widespread misallocation of resources, usually due to some collective delusion or state mismanagement. The groupthink breaks and people realize that their investments are duds. Credit is withdrawn, investments cease and there's a giant sucking sound as people lose their jobs whilst those who still have money try to figure out what to do next.

Keynes posited that recessions are quasi-natural disasters that just inexplicably happen, and that the fix is for the government to spend money to balance them out. But this isn't the case and so his fix just makes things worse. It may appear to end the recession if all you look at is a handful statistics, but the underlying misallocation still occurred and when governments step in desperate to create employment - any employment - they misallocate resources still further. Like someone taking stimulants to try and delay the end of the party, it works for a while but they get more and more messed up. There's lots of activity but not much is actually useful. Governments don't care though, because all they're trying to do is keep people digging proverbial holes and filling them back up again.

You can drown the signals of a recession by misallocating resources still further, but it's not a good idea.

Keynesianism has worked out in the past 15 years exactly as the Austrians always said it would, and now Austrian economics is back in vogue. The 2008 recession led to the ZIRP years of easy money that never ended, even when the economy was booming. Government debt climbed endlessly. Inflation span out of control and now interest rates have been hiked repeatedly even though the economy was trashed by lockdowns - exactly the moment Keynes said to do the opposite.
> Electric vehicles would destroy the current grid

If only the government wasn't openly hostile to new energy projects. Alas.
> There's something to the US government and their interest in UAP.

It’s a democracy, mostly.

Its demos [δῆμος] is weakly educated, poisoned by the self-regard of an imperial metropole, and, of course, of average intelligence.

That the officers of government and their priorities reflect this might be seen as a proper operation of the democracy. Garbage in, garbage out.
I feel like by the time I could turn it into a product, Microsoft & friends will release something that makes it look like a joke. If there is no one on the SQL Server team working on this right now, I don't know what the hell their leadership is thinking.

I am not chasing this rabbit. Someone else will almost certainly catch it first. For now, this is a fun toy I enjoy in my free time. The moment I try to make money with it the fun begins to disappear.

Broadly speaking, I do think this is approximately the only thing that matters once you realize you can put pretty much anything in a big SQL database. What happens when 100% of the domain is in-scope of an LLM that has iteratively optimized itself against the schema?
Building the drydocks capable of submerging the rail cars and positioning the ship above them and then hauling the ship out would be the bigger challenge. Dealing with any slope with that much weight is tricky.
A big part of features is also due to regulations like from the EU

The advanced safety features which will become mandatory in all vehicles are:

- intelligent speed assistance

- alcohol interlock installation facilitation (i.e. a standardised interface facilitating aftermarket alcohol interlock devices being fitted in vehicles);

- driver drowsiness and attention warning;

- advanced driver distraction warning;

- emergency stop signal;

- reversing detection;

- accident data recorder.

Read more at: https://trans.info/the-european-parliament-agreed-on-new-saf...
US fines PwC $7M for allowing cheating in audit exams in China
An idea to avoid Git conflicts
This works very good on my pc! I've got as i3-12100f CPU, 16GB RAM and RTX 2060. Running it with `llm --cuda 4` answers very fast, with a lot of hallucination though :|
Nothing fancy. systemd for process management, Python for automation, and a whole bunch of shell scripts. IOW the way that I did things before Docker came along.

I still believe in containers in a multi-developer environment, but in my experience the disadvantages outweigh the advantages when your only coworker is future-you.
Developer receives 2-star review for using "race conditions" in app changelog
But people only hear where you went to school when applying for a job. In any other kind of human interaction, who cares?
> Does this help?

Yes, thank you! Great description. Will try! ;-)
>Many permanent worker contracts had clauses for people to opt out from EU work hours directives.

So we can guess who rejoiced at the news of the UK leaving the EU.
ha!

As they saying goes: "Harvard people boast that they 'went to school in Cambridge' because they're embarrassed they couldn't get into MIT"
> Looking at these people it's Tim Cook who should be complaining about being underpaid.

This is why it never makes sense to compare yourself or your worth to others. Everyone knows this, yet we do it all the time. The rat race doesn’t end.
For the second point, PyPI's trusted publisher implementation does this very well: https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/
Wild stuff.

We often read concern trolling about how BEVs will fail and struggle in winter climates but the reality is that ICE vehicles need a fair amount of special care in the winter as well, and the infrastructure is also fragile. This story here a remarkable example of that.

Was chatting with my Dad about all this and he brought up his war stories of trying to get an ICE car to start in a Winnipeg winter.

God help you if you didn't plug in the block heater.
That's roughly 10x the traffic through the canal.[0]

The project goal of 1.4 million containers is 16% as much traffic as the canal. For comparison the existing Panama Canal railway has a capacity of 2 million TEU/year.

[0] (yes these are annual not monthly) https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/panama/container-port-...
So the win was that you settled out of court? They didn't just drop the suit? You actually paid them money to go away and they got to claim you settled?
I've seen a variation of this problem firsthand.

Working at a cable company where they contracted out to vendors most of their software development. They had a few internal systems that they developed in-house and would only hire 'senior' developers. I was curious how they expected to have a steady supply of 'senior' skills without ever hiring, training, and promoting a junior.

I also saw they had no idea how to manage their vendors, partly because they didn't have in-house skills to serve as a sanity check on what vendors were charging. As a result, their vendors profited hugely from the company's ignorance (I know because I also switched to work for one of the vendors).
I posted this and can answer your question.

I don't live in UK, and don't generally read the local news section of BBC, so this was displayed on the side when I was reading a story about the volcanic activity in Iceland.

I clicked on the story, because it was about electric busses, a subject I'm interested in, since we don't have any where I live.

After clicking on the story, I was a bit disappointed with the lack of detail.

I decided to post here, because I figured if it got any traction, someone on here would post a bit more detail.

The top comment on here currently is exactly what I was hoping to see, and I'm glad I posted the story.
Is it just me or is there some application here to writing user stories?
Burning plastic, especially recycled plastic has the risk of producing all kinds of unintended by-products, some of which can be highly toxic.
That's fair and thanks for the elucidation on the topic
GPT-1
Or open source? You could get 10k stars :-)
ETL Texts
If it can be useful to anyone, I share below some code that I started to set up to build a process that allows me to extract, clean and translate texts from files

The repo comprises services for text processing and use cases for specific analyses:

Text Extraction: Extracts text from various documents.

Text Translation: Provides optional multilingual translation.

Text Cleaning: Cleans and standardizes text for analysis.

Information Extraction: Uses GPT-3.5 to extract information from texts, saving it in JSON format.
After a quick glance at maps, it looks like they will also need to build docks and container facilities in both ports. This isn't a terrible idea, but it's costly and requires a lot more than "building a railway."
If weight is ok, just put a lock on a rail: so boat enters the lock, two gates close behind it, the lock (and one gate) moves via a rail to the other side, reverse at the other ocean.
Open source is different, in that you as a company can become maintainer and therefore expert of that component _and_ profit of other work being upstreamed. In case the library is not your USP, I think it's not that clear cut.
Yeah I don't submit to journals often but have had similar experiences. They have also asked for addition of significant experiments with significant compute. Like they wanted us to try our technique on an additional 3-5 networks (which are all of the same general architecture we originally did) and it is very clear that one of the reviewers was an author of one of those (but adding the other two to "mask" themselves). It would have doubled the project's compute and they weren't happy when we responded that we simply don't have the budget and aren't convinced the experiments would be meaningful but we'd be happy to add them to our table for comparison. All three suggested that the paper did not have much value but the paper already had >200 citations via arxiv by this time too... (several works built on ours and even got published...)

It's a really weird political game and I just think we need to move to a system where we either have reviewing seen as a collaborative/allied effort (as opposed to adversarial) or we rethink the whole system entirely and let reviews happen naturally (i.e. submit to OR and allow comments). It's just very clear that a system can't scale if it relies on all members acting in good faith. Especially when there's high amounts of competition.

Edit: one thing I find interesting is I contextualize different than other reviewers. Like I see a experiment section where they have a node of 2080Tis and think "okay, students or small lab. Compute bound, so do the experiments they performed optimize under those conditions?" Whereas I think most reviewers don't contextualize in this manner and so I see many act as if every lab has access to many A100 nodes. I think this matters because the small labs can still do essential work, but we just need to recognize the signal may not be as strong. Their workload is probably higher due to lack of compute too (and I subsequently tend to see deeper analysis and less reliance on letting the numbers do all the talking). I don't think the GPU poor "aren't contributing" because they can't, I think they can't because gatekeeping. It's insane to expect academics to compete with big tech in a one-to-one comparison. If all you care about is benchmarks then compute always wins.
Smalltalk technology acquired by Sun lives on Hotspot, while IBM's Smalltalk technology lives on Eclipse and J9, and Rogue Wave had one of the first collection frameworks.

It doesn't help when Smalltalk vendors were the first to jump into Java.
Seems plausible, at least. A button is cheaper than a touchscreen, but you can replace N buttons with one touchscreen. (Citation still needed, though.)
How does your comment square with fact that it was Boeing, a publicly listed company, that decided to outsource its manufacturing in order to reduce costs and liability and knowingly sacrificing quality?
Not exactly the same but various basic HTTP server implementations are presented at https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Web_server
This was posted before and I still have no idea what the rationale is. No desktop PC or game console is RISC-V, so if I'm going to all the trouble to use a scripting solution that requires me to compile my scripts to machine language, why would I target RISC-V? Why wouldn't I just compile to x86-64 directly?

Like, what is the vision here, a LuaJIT that targets RISC-V, running inside my x86-64 game, where the emulator translates the RISC-V back into x86-64... for reasons? Just isolation?
I would be tempted to pivot to that! I am working on similar for CSS (see bio) but if that doesn’t work out my plan was to pivot to other languages.
I think a closer analogy would be if your neighbor walked over while you weren't home and lifted on your garage door, noticed it wasn't locked, so went inside and poked around a little. Then came and warned you later that your garage door isn't locked and maybe you shouldn't store those bank statments in the garage.
Can you please post the rest of this in a format where anyone can view it, rather than requiring a Twitter account?
Lol what in the wild world of back of the napkin maths is this? Sonic drilling for heatpumps?

Lol way overpriced and definitely not suitable for all ground types.

BQ core drill on a udr1200 is what ya want. HQ Rock roll for the first 20m or til you hit solid, leave the casing in and then slam down that first hundred in NQ then switch to BQ for everything deeper. You'd need probably two trucks just for tailings from the cut. You gotta pump mud down, bring it back up, floc drop the particles out and recycle it back down the hole. Could do it using a series of tanks on some trucks for cleanliness and transportability.

Look in good ground you'll get 100m with a killer crew in a 12 hour shift. In shit ground you'll get 20m. Whatever you do only take rock doctor (geologists) reports with a God damn Boulder of salt. Those Muppets only have the vaguest idea of what to expect down hole. They over exaggerate how much they know about what's under the ground and what effect it will have on drilling. Their whole field it hypothetical when it comes to drilling. They got nfi until after the jobs done.

Source. Worked on a prototype deep hole drill rig and a bunch of udr1200s punching holes in and around Wiluna,WA. Deepest was >1600m.
Do any houses use wood for heating, or at least as a backup for times like this? My brother had a wood stove with fireplace that is somehow installed in a way that it heats his ~2000 sqft, 2 story house. I think the system was expensive to install, but it's cheaper for him to use wood than the gas furnace. Granted it doesn't get nearly as cold here in Philly as it does in the midwest or Canada... lowest temp on the 10 day forecast is 14 degrees as a overnight low. Having a backup heat source that is completely independent of the grid is reassuring imo.
Don't the pcap dumps contain signal strength for each frame? Is it unreliably measured?
For those of us not in the know: https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/consumer/p...
It specifically calls this out in the article... but its an art project not a way of life.
Here is an example of the kind of pretty minimal but valid HTML5 that I usually write when I write html by hand:

<!doctype html>
<html lang=en>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title>Hello</title>
<style>
/* css here */
</style>
<header>
<h1>Cool beanz</h1>
</header>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Home
<li><a href=/foo.htm>Foo</a>
<li><a href=bar.htm>Bar</a>
</ul>
</nav>

<article>
<h2>The Life and Dreams of Irish Setters</h2>
<p>Widely appreciated for their qualities, the Irish Setter is a breed of dog to behold.
<p>Lorem ipsum and so on and so forth.
</article>

<footer>
<p>Copyright © 2024, Bob Schmob
</footer>

Check it :)

> Document checking completed. No errors or warnings to show.

https://validator.w3.org/nu/#textarea
Agreed, i.e. * IF * we want companies to follow the rules... but so far, society (certainly American society...) does not seem to actually want companies to always follow the rules... sigh...
Essentially, generally, no.

Once you've discovered a security hole, exploiting it to see how much access you can get is generally frowned upon.
You’re completely incorrect. Trade by volume is massively down between the UK/EU. Trade by value is similar because of the effects of inflation. Once you adjust for that, you see a huge drop.
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I'd love to talk to some of you privately, but you have no way for me to contact you. Many more lurkers can relate. If you feel like you'd enjoy a conversation with a stranger, you should probably add something.
Disagree, their reputation is tied to their audit quality.

But I'm pretty sure in this case the scope was bad. Like they coukd have had audits on "Do I use OpenSSL well?" and then misrepresent that all their privacy claims were audited.

Now it seems like Skiff conveniently didn't allow Trail of Bits to publish their reports, they are usually here: https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/tree/master/revi...

Disclaimer, I have used Trail of Bits service in the past (and 2 other auditors for an security campaign on a blockchain, cryptography + networking product).
The answer lies in the reason why you would use an embedded scripting language/environment at all, over just loading native code plugins – sandboxing, fault isolation and such.

RISC-V seems to be used here more as a bytecode format of sorts, and at least compared to x86_64 it should be much easier to implement (first of all because all of the opcodes have the same size.)
Good post. I have a particular style from having Strunk and White shoved into my brain, that I prefer, so you can throw this comment away if you want.

But if you'd like feedback, I'd suggest brutally editing down the text to be more direct and concise. You can certainly write long form, but after a few minutes it started to pile on ancillary and anecdotal paragraphs and I lost the main thread pretty quick. Add to that a random picture with an inception reference and it's starting to feel less like an informative piece and was collecting random unrelated content.

Think about what you're trying to say, say it, then go back and make sure you said it and only that. Everything else is just practice typing, not writing.

Maybe you have 3 or 4 things to say, but just say them.
Just because an AI believes something, that doesn't mean it's true. This won't be convincing to anyone who believes we actually went to the moon, and it will be "proof" for those who think we didn't.

For a simulation with positive confirmation that the photos are real, Nvidia used ray tracing to verify(1) the light came from a single source - the sun. Unfortunately, what I said above applies in the negative - if you think we went to the moon, this is further proof. If you think we didn't, well, a human made simulation could be made to show whatever you wanted so it's not definitive.

1. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/real-time-ray-tracing-apollo-1...
How to bypass this paywall?
> Denser housing is a prerequisite for this?

No it's not. Not by far. That's just to get cars out of already existing dense urban areas because as long as you take aboveground space for parking cars, you can't plant trees there, and massive amounts of cars in relatively small spaces produce really nasty local emission concentrations.

> rural areas with trams, buses and subways?

Suburbs can be perfectly well served by buses, connecting to train stations that in turn connect to larger agglomerations. The idea is to have a dense enough mesh so that almost no one needs a car for their day-to-day individual transportation needs. Employment-related transportation (such as farmers, tradespeople and the likes) is obviously going to need dedicated vehicles even in the future, but the primary goal is to get the 80% [1] of individual transport made using cars down to as close to 0 as possible because that's where the masses are made.

[1] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/verkehr/fahrleistungen-...
Prompts are quite straightforward.

- OpenAI: https://github.com/vanna-ai/vanna/blob/a4cdf7593ac0c584f7d74...

- Mistral: https://github.com/vanna-ai/vanna/blob/a4cdf7593ac0c584f7d74...
That’s referring to illegal immigration, again.

I feel you cannot separate the two concepts. It is possible to support legal immigration but not illegal immigration, and remarks made against illegal immigrants cannot be used as evidence of any feelings towards legal immigrants. The two are, in every sense of the term, entirely disjoint sets.
Studio Binder is my go-to example when talking about well-run inbound content marketing.

They produce long articles that rank well in search for a wide variety of popular keywords related to movies and TV. But the articles are actually helpful and informative—so much so that they also drive organic social traffic (example: this post on HN). And each article features a few conversion widgets, but not so many where it’s hard to read the content.

I know nothing about the ROI and other back-end data for this program. It must be working for them, though, because it’s been going for a while.
So Texas / ERCOT isn’t alone, and PG&E isn’t an anomaly.

This is everywhere.
I made one with four thumb keys and I love it:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/george-i-made-a-keyboard/finish...

I should write up how I did it, it's now years I've been sitting on that post.
I think you are misattributing “doesn’t work the way I want” for “very badly managed”.

Investment has costs. Maybe not everyone wants to pay those costs, consumers included.