skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in NL there are continuous upgrades. Yes, the grid is stretched, and there are spots where commercial (or even additional residential) capacity is not available. But at the same time, the grid is upgraded on all levels, from street to international connectivity. It takes time, but EV's are no issue. Excess solar around noon is.
(Thanks for linking to the old reddit.com)

Here's the filing if you wish to read it yourself.[0]

It's 84 pages, almost half of which is footnotes to references. It's very readable, and not dense legalese, though it does contain a few legal terms.

The overview of case at the ICJ, which has updates and transcripts.[1]

[0] https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192...

[1] https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
Funny, I just started (yesterday!!) something similar: a kind of x86_64 (which I call x64) virtual machine for rv64.

I am writting this "virtual machine" in x86_64 assembly though (linux ABI). I don't plan to have native x86_64 compilation but only an interpreter.

This idea is to code rv64 executables(linux) which I could "run-ish" on x86_64(linux).

There is also the real machine emulator from M.Bellard : https://bellard.org/tinyemu

Well, RISC-V is gaining momentum, and transition apparatus from x86_64 is taking shaped from many individuals wishing risc-v to be a success.

BTW, if anybody knows about milk-v duo (the one with the SOC free from arm cores) resellers in Europe I can pay without a credit card and I can contact with a self-hosted email... thank you.
If the do release it , they will only release it for enterprise. Many many sql server installs are sql server standard. There is an entire ecosystem of companies built on selling packages that support sql server standard, wee DevArt, RedGate.
Raspberry Pi 5 shortages shouldn't last long
Anytype all day every day
RAG, at its core, is a very human way of doing research, because RAG is essentially just building a search mechanism for a reasoning engine. Much like human research.

Your boss asks you to look into something, and you do it through a combination of structured and semantic research. Perhaps you get some books that look relevant, you use search tools to find information, you use structured databases to find data. Then you synthesize it into a response that's useful to answer the question.

People say RAG is temporary, that it's just a patch until "something else" is achieved.

I don't understand what technically is being proposed.

That the weights will just learn everything it needs to know? That is an awful way of knowing things, because it is difficult to update, difficult to cite, difficult to ground, and difficult to precisely manage weights.

That the context windows will get huge so retrieval will be unnecessary? That's an argument about chunking, not retrieval. Perhaps people could put 30,000 pages of documents into the context for every question. But there will always be tradeoffs between size and quality: you could run a smarter model with smaller contexts for the same money, so why, for a given budget, would you choose to stuff a dumber model with enormous quantities of unnecessary information, when you could get a better answer from a higher intelligence using more reasonably sized retrievals at the same cost?

Likewise, RAG is not just vector DBs, but (as in this case) the use of structured queries to analyze information, the use of search mechanisms to find information in giant unstructured corpuses (i.e., the Internet, corporate intranets, etc).

Because RAG is relatively similar to the way organic intelligence conducts research, I believe RAG is here for the long haul, but its methods will advance significantly and the way it gets information will change over time. Ultimately, achieving AGI is not about developing a system that "knows everything," but a system that can reason about anything, and dismissing RAG is to confuse the two objectives.
> It’s unlikely that Schalkx will drive 12,000 km per year, and so, ultimately, he will produce less pollution than the drivers of more sustainable-looking cars that face none of these problems.

> Somehow, the Dutch authorities, who are not known for their permissivity, officially approved the car after inspection. Schalkx drives tax-free and – thanks to his car being an oldtimer – can enter low-emission zones, where he parks alongside the latest electric SUV. Justice is not yet out of this world.

To me this seems to be an overall endorsement of the project as an environmentally friendly idea.
From the linked article:

> It has more than $700 million in cash on its balance sheet and the goal to become profitable this year

So they clearly have the money to pay their employees. But instead of building a better product they instead mess up the livelihood of 170 people.
Outdoor wood boilers are somewhat popular (don't help much without power though), but I'd hazard a guess that more homes than not just have a small backup generator rather than rely on any kind of wood heat.

Might be different elsewhere; propane is cheaper than the national average where I live, so my experience might be skewed.
I don't know. I recall listening to conservative thinkers discuss the left. I'm not talking about alt-right or hard-right bozos, I'm talking about Thomas Sowell and Bill Bennett. They consistently used words like "opponent" or "opposition" when describing fellow Americans with differing worldviews. Then they dive into the ideas.

While I don't recall, for example, President Obama or President Clinton saying things like "enemy" or "evil" when describing fellow citizens, we do have candidates and mainstream press using much harsher and more negative terms. I started watching a video from the self-avowed "left" discussing what the left ought to know about the right (pushed by the algorithm). The expert being interviewed was a professor of some sort, and in his very first answer he used the phrase "fight the enemy" and "understand the enemy" when describing how to deal with half the population of fellow citizens who disagreed with his ideology.

Hillary Clinton's memorable "basket of deplorables" is another. Don't get me wrong. Ten years ago, you wouldn't hear that kind of rhetoric from conservatives. But conservatism has been swallowed by alt-right Trump-style populism. I try to tune out the rants coming from the far right, so I imagine there are plenty of examples coming from awful sources. But this "enemy" rhetoric should never come out of the mouth of anyone respectable when speaking of their own countrymen or countrywomen.

I think I agree with you in that it is "not just a left problem" but there seems to have been a predominance of this "kill the enemy" rhetoric coming more from the left for many decades, than from the right. Part of the reason for this is that so many of the leftist playbooks like Rules for Radicals or Marxist strategy papers from Engels include "destroying the enemy" (encompassing eliminating morality, eliminating traditional family units, and fomenting violent revolt). Playbooks on the right, traditionally, have included understanding the rhetoric of the left, analyzing its ideas in terms of economics and personal freedom, and using debating tactics to "win" arguments.

I have to conclude that this is not just a "both sides" problem, but that one side spends a lot more of its energy on pushing toward the extremes.
If the sensors are up for it... Mountain roads covered in snow pack are a white blur, especially in certain light. Best bets for actually knowing where the road is might be previous tracks. I've dipped a wheel in a ditch more than once, not from carelessness, but snow drift obscuring the road... A road that I drive 500 times a year
Honestly, the progress looks very impressive.

We still need something as intuitive as Flash for developing interactive content for the web.

I was barely 11 or 12, and it was amazing how quickly i went from drawing shapes to animating them to making them interactive with simple logic back in that summer.

Fast forward to now, not sure what we have, that comes close to that level of ease of use. Maybe some game engine that exports to html canvas/webgl?

I know that it's not the web frameworks and the fragile wsiwyg editors that target them.
> I was advised that 50% of signed LOIs actually close. I bet it’s less. You will see the LOI and dream of trading stress for riches. Remember: Less than 50% chance of closing.

100%

Which is why I hate that exclusivity is industry standard.

It feels exploitative that acquirers can demand exclusivity in a deal when the chances of it closing are less than 80%.

Imagine selling a house and taking it off the market because you got an offer with a 50% chance of actually closing 3 months later.

Even worse, most acquirers will say “nope” if you ask them to cover your legal fees if they back out of the deal.

This happens because sellers of companies only sell 1 or 2 companies in their lifetime, while buyers of companies typically do dozens and dozens of transactions. There’s an extreme power imbalance in favor of acquirers. Most sellers learn these lessons the hard way.
ChatGPT-3.5 isn’t even worth touching as an end-user application. Bard is better (due to having some integrations), but it’s still barely useful.

ChatGPT-4 is on an another level entirely compared to either 3.5 or Bard. It is actually useful for a lot.

ChatGPT-3.5 can still serve a purpose when you’re talking about API automations where you provide all the data in the prompt and have ChatGPT-3.5 help with parsing or transforming it, but not as a complete chat application on its own.

Given the bad experiences ChatGPT-3.5 gives out on a regular basis as a chat application, I don’t even know why OpenAI offers it for free. It seems like a net-negative for ChatGPT/OpenAI’s reputation.

I think it is worth paying for a month of ChatGPT-4. Some people get more use out of it than others, so it may not be worth it to you to continue, but it’s hard for anyone to know just how big of a difference ChatGPT-4 represents when they haven’t used it.

I provided a sample of ChatGPT-4’s output in my previous response, so you can compare that to your experiences with ChatGPT-3.5.
> Also remember that there are a few common elements, like <p> and <li>, that you usually don't need to close.

<p> and <li> don’t ever need to be closed, do they? Closing would only be necessary if leaving them open would introduce ambiguity, but it never does.
I think you're assuming that popular culture is a lot more directed than it is in reality. The Grateful Dead (the archetypal band for countercultural LSD use) for example weren't making the music they did as some sort of shady propaganda to encourage people to take drugs, they did what they did because the experience of the early LSD-fuelled counterculture genuinely moved them to make their music.
This would be disability discrimination.
> C# is not more safe than Rust

By design, Rust requires unsafe code to implement any non-trivial data structures (except trivial POD types). This applies to both Rust standard library, and third-party crates.

The issue is not a theory, security bugs actually happened in reality. Here’s an example about the Rust standard library: https://shnatsel.medium.com/how-rusts-standard-library-was-v...

By contrast, thanks to the VM and the GC, C# allows to implement very complicated data structures without any unsafe code or unmanaged interop. The standard library is also implemented in idiomatic memory-safe subset of the language. For example, here’s the hash map: https://source.dot.net/#System.Private.CoreLib/src/libraries...

> falls to prevent null pointer exceptions and modified collection exceptions

Yes indeed, but these exceptions are very unlikely to cause security bugs in the software.
If it’s stupid and it works… !
I decided about 10 years ago I'm willing to pay the premium for economy plus seats (more leg room). I don't fly often enough for the market to notice me, but when I fly I notice that those seats do sell out faster, if nothing else I can still pay extra for those seats. I can also pay extra for first class - however the premium is high enough that I cannot afford it despite wanting to.
Many people are safer than average driver, since most deaths are associated with high risk driving (more than a third are dui alone). So forcing everyone to use autonomous vehicles essentially kills safe drivers.
> He looks at it through the eyes of a rigorous scientist, unlike most people in nutrition science

I don’t know where you get your nutrition science, but that’s a very bizarre perspective.
Presumably posted due to this comment yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38988611
There's a pretty big jump in perceived criminality between violent crime and property crime; humans are social creatures, after all. Far more people are willing to steal a car that's parked on the street than to hijack one, far more people are willing to commit burglary than home invasion, etc.

Even for the people willing to use violence, having a human involved opens up unpredictablity and risk. You can't know what's going on in the head of a random trucker, whether they're armed, whether they fancy themselves a cowboy, whatever. It's a high-risk, moderate reward scenario.

In contrast, if you have a system for consistently hitting autonomous trucks, it's a (relatively) low risk, moderate reward crime.
Facing chemistry's destructive side (2023)
I have been keeping track of a few products like these including some that are YC backed. Interesting space as I am looking for a solution myself:

- Minds DB (YC W20) https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb

- Buster (YC W24) https://buster.so

- DB Pilot https://dbpilot.io

and now this one
I didn't expect fully autonomous trucking to be here yet. What I did expect, however, is semi-autonomous many-trailer trucks/convoys, because it's a much simpler technical problem that still offers enormous efficiency gains.

Let's get a little bit crazy and imagine something very different from what we have today, but still only requiring a single driver. One truck cab at the front. Individual trailers have their own wheel motors, their own steering, and a small battery for short range manoeuvring (e.g. at a loading dock/port or). Trailers follow each other at a distance that allows for emergency braking, but close enough that they can be connected by high voltage cables for receiving power from a "battery car". Both the cab and individual trailers constantly communicate, and the moment any participant suspects that all is not right, the whole train tries to slow down and pull over.

If one trailer has a blowout or other issue, it can be left behind to be picked up by another convoy.

At a port or loading dock, the convoy disassembles and individual trailers are driven by remote control, either directly by a human or eventually by the "site AI", so that large articulated vehicles never have to enter the area.

I'm imagining ~12 trailer convoys to balance efficiency gains with disruption to local traffic.
Any government is free to restrict such practices within their borders. And in a functioning democracy the government is the collective will of the people, meaning there is only a limited band of decisions they will likely make. I think it's fair to conclude that countries like France wouldn't allow hiring decisions or insurance premiums to be influenced by genetic markers, while the US might.
Vanguard recently started to restrict trading in most OTC stocks too:
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=375654
Even if it does leech, the carbon emissions are at least significantly slowed down compared to directly burning the plastic.
> and all these disadvantages make him think twice before he gets behind the wheel.

So.. it's a toy and not a tool. It tries to invest interest around this mans childish ambitions, but it fails to produce anything of lasting or shared value.
GH actions are free on public repos.
and thought provoking too, whether that was the artists intention or not.

Has a good callback to history (wood gas cars)

Has an interesting take on plastic waste - it's currently free which is weird when you think about it.

Is horrendous for the environment so would never scale but again do our current activities scale in a way that is acceptable any more.

Doesn't matter if you like it or not - as art it works well.
I'm pretty sure getting accepted to MIT also puts it out of reach for many, many people.
Again wit this nonsense ?

You are not engaging with the facts.

The fact is of course Israel is going after Hamas, they are literally losing soldiers daily in battles witn Hamas, it’s absurd to deny this

People have a right to fight against oppression is a red herring because you are unable to engage with actual facts

The actual fact is Israel left Gaza completely. At which point Gazans had a choice. And they chose Hamas which proceeded to continuously attack Israel and fire rockets at it, culminating in October 7th its impossible to deny this simple reality.

And this simple reality means Israel has no choice but to defeat Hamas militarily once and for all, which it’s now attempting to do

There is no Hamas in the West Bank? This is false, as anyone with a google account can verify. Hamas doesn’t fully control the West Bank, but of course it has a presence there along with other terrorist groups, especially in certain cities like Jenin

If you want to understand this conflict, you have to understand the facts first
Real programmers can write Fortran in any language.

I don't write Fortran, but I can make my C++ look a lot like a different language. Knowing how those other languages work makes my code better. Sure the C++ syntax is ugly, but the design is what matters and that take inspiration from languages other than C++.
How could the Court have ruled otherwise? It would just defy common sense to say that the police are responsible to prevent physical harm coming to any person in their jurisdiction. Unless you were to have a police officer stationed at each resident's house, there would be no reasonable way to hold the police responsible.

A separate but related issue: If I see a toddler walking on the railroad tracks and I see a train coming -- but with plenty of time to intervene without placing myself at significant risk -- am I obligated to save the toddler. I think inaction is such a situation is not against the law, at least for an ordinary citizen, but anyone who hears the particulars of the incident will hold me in deep contempt.
We Are Doomed: A pessimistic point of view of "modern software engineering"
This study was submitted a bit earlier today by @hammock:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38994498

The HN link now returns a blank page as if it never existed.

EDIT: Your post now appears as DUPE/DEAD; a quick search turned up this post by @cempaka from two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974858
> We might be able say

Correction: "We might not be able to say".
> All housing is inherited in equal share by all descendants

Isn't that's how it works pretty much everywhere these days unless there is an explicit will?
This post is way less informative than the FAQ on your website. I clicked the links thinking I'd get an alternative to JavaFX, Qt, or Electron, but instead I found this which does a better job of explaining what this actually is:

EXT Technical FAQ

What is EXT?

EXT is a platform that allows third party developers to install, load, run, publish and monetize JavaScript-based extensions and native modules, while giving end-users complete control over each extension’s permissions. EXT also includes a store where end-users can find and purchase approved extensions (though the platform also allows side-loading private extensions and modules).

How do extensions work?

Internally, EXT uses the V8 engine to run extensions, which makes their execution extremely fast. Our build pipeline allows us to integrate the latest V8 engine versions automatically, which means you are always going to be up to date with the latest security updates when using EXT.
The V8 engine itself does not provide any APIs to extensions, all it can do is run JavaScript code. This is why we allow developers to load EXT modules (which provide functionality) into their extensions. If an extension wants to use an API, it must do so via a module.
Yes that is exactly the sort of thing that has zero non-bounty dollar value and next to no legal or brand risk.
Forward Email team here (https://forwardemail.net), we have a write-up and comparison @ https://forwardemail.net/en/blog/docs/best-quantum-safe-encr...

We've considered adding a E2EE comparison column as well (with the issues such as Proton rewriting your emails @ http://jfloren.net/b/2023/7/7/0 highlighted).

Privacy Guides Discussion @ https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/forward-email-email-prov...

Unlike Skiff, Proton, and Tuta... we're _actually_ 100% open-source. Those providers that advertise as open-source really only open-source the front-end, when the back-end is the most sensitive part of an email service.
> Why isn't Fedora Silverblue sufficient by itself? What does this project add?

I'm not affiliated with either distribution. Both distributions provide different out-of-the-box experiences. Fedora Silverblue tries to be a general purpose desktop OS while BlueFin has a focus on software development. You can still adapt both of them for the same purposes, but BlueFin might be a nicer starting point if you actually are a developer.

The biggest difference to classic read-write Linux distributions is that you have an immutable base system which includes software that you might find useful or useless. In addition, you can install software as Flatpaks into your home directory. It is also possible to change the software that is part of the immutable base system, but it is typically something you want to avoid.

> what features are described by the term "cloud-native"?

I suppose it refers to the container management software that is included in the immutable base system.
> we're trying to do exactly what you described

I was secretly assuming that something like that is already being done. ;)

Recursion is fine and useful. What’s detrimental is if each layer defines conceptually same things in slightly different ways and with different terminology. Make a recursive format (like a file system) and be done with it (and/or extend it so that all levels can profit from the extension).
I think you may be overestimating the distances here. It is 35 mins from downtown Seattle to the Boeing facility in Everett and 25 mins to Redmond.

Everett isn’t in Seattle, but considering it part of the metro area isn’t a stretch. You never leave dense burbs between the two.
Better yet to bury it in a landfill and not deliberately release CO2 at all.
We aren’t talking about “racial groups”—you shifted the conversation to “culture.”

So defend your premise. What is the “culture” of Mexican Americans (or any other group of your choosing) and how does that make a team of Chinese programmers better? That’s the central premise of “diversity”—that individuals from different groups are materially different—so give me one concrete example.
Are there any non profit alternatives? GEDmatch was this until it's 2019 acquisition by Verogen. https://www.openhumans.org/ perhaps?

Seems like a license is needed where the data must be destroyed upon change in ownership or control (or regulatory equivilent).
> Most likely just run of the mill shady government behavior that they don't want exposed.

If that were true, a massive seven decade coverup seems like a lot to go through.

What would Sagan say? "Extraordinary coverups require extraordinary truths."
Have you written up any results of your experience with each?

I’m interested in a survey of this field so far and would read it.
Yeah, it seems like WASM would be a better choice?