skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three Body Problem isn't good enough to legitimately win a Hugo. There's clearly money lining pockets to promote their culture and political cant.
Again, this is not about the production price of renewables, which is low and falling quite predictably, but the unknown long term costs of integrating substantial intermittent production into the grid.

Believable models of achieving that goal call for setting up capacity markets where traditional suppliers are paid to not emit, and stand by to intervene when required by weather conditions, achieving close to net zero year round emissions (¹. Nobody really knows how this will end up costing because no such grid exists today.

Grid scale battery storage is still very far from competing with traditional baseload production, even when supplied with free renewables. Sodium has been the next big thing for the last decade, but its only deployments are in the experimental, MWh range. It's still far from a mature, proven technology, let alone one that can disrupt lithium in the gridscale storage space.

Perhaps you are handwaving substantial technical and economic details away and making too bold claims insufficiently supported by data. Not unlike the nuclear fanboys who are seeing thorium fast breeders just around every corner.

(¹ Btw, this is just another nail in the nuclear coffin - coal too - because they can't play nice with a fast moving grid.
Yes. It's seen billions of examples and any number of rhyming dictionaries.
> it's more that geolocation is just guessing.

Does DNS care about geolocation?

It measures distance in b/s dose it not?
> Why are you even considering the case of a zero Ohm load with a 16 Ohm source impedance? Modern headphone amps (including really cheap ones) have source impedances in the range of 1 Ohm or less while headphones can range from 30-ish to 300 or more.

Modern tube amps (non hybrid) have significantly higher output impedance because they often have no overall negative feedback and a few special snowflake headphones have impedances as low as 0.1r and 2r.

The considerations are definitively relevant for some cases, as well as in general for analysis of the topic.
This quote is from Larry Page, one of Google’s co-founders.
This article was very fun, and felt like a good counterpoint to the "You Sound Like a Bot" post recently that was talking about how AI is getting bland.

On a less serious note. This sentence should be something a fiction writer knows will only end in trouble for humanity:

> I especially challenge someone to find a "self-awareness" vector that isn't contaminated by ... human emotion!
There was a good discussion on Reddit about it. I don’t have the link but it should be easy to find.

Annual meetings are apparently organized by local groups who lobby/compete with one another. China has a very large SciFi readership and the group from Chengdu was very active when it came to lobbying and gathering votes. It wasn’t until later that people started to realize this may not have been the best decision, e.g. with visa applications and so on.

As far as the actual scandal, there’s also discussion about whether there was any actual government intervention or if this was mainly the result of self-sensorship.
I’m a practicing Roman Catholic.

Its impossible for me to travel to China without failing the Sunday obligations for Mass.

I’ve had to turn down jobs, conventions, study abroad opportunities, and networking events because my religion requires me to go to Mass.

When I explain this to people, I get this weird look like, “Hey that’s your choice, but you must not take your career that seriously.”

I have very little sympathy for anyone involved in this.
'Zombie Fires' burning at an alarming rate in Canada
Why You're Still Single (2023)
This is such an over simplification. What about people who have knowledge and are unable to be healthy? There are "food deserts" where due to geography/economics it's difficult to purchase healthy food.

There was an article on HN the other day showing that after you gain weight and lose it, it's difficult to keep it off because you don't feel full easily and feel hungry more often. So if you were fat as a kid, you're at a huge disadvantage later on in life.

It's "easy" to live on a SW engineering salary where you can afford whatever food you want, after being raised by parents that fed you good food and not be fat.

It's much harder when you grew up fat, working a minimum wage job and living in a food desert.
>Was this ethically sourced?

If you’re at a restaurant and it is uncertain, the answer is likely no, purely based on the scale that restaurants require.
SF has not built anything, but rents decreased much more than in MN: https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/sf-rent-price...

Rents right now are an unreliable indicator because they are heavily affected by the downtown blights that are spreading in many cities.

Sale prices are much more reliable, and Minneapolis prices (as expected) grew: https://www.redfin.com/city/10943/MN/Minneapolis/housing-mar...
If I were working on such a thing I'd want the patch to be downloaded as the smallest possible delta from what's on the disc.
West Berlin was of minimal strategic importance though. It had highly symbolic value of course.
Ask HN: Which Python type checker should I use?
New to Python but not new to type checking (Rust, Typescript). I don't know which type checker for Python I should invest in.
You only detect the ones that are detectable, and that gives you a false sense of confidence that you can tell them apart.
Agree that ssh was modeled after rsh. But rsh was a different kind of security problem, which wasn't really relevant on the wider Internet.

ssh solved the "pass credentials in cleartext over untrusted networks" problem. Consequently it replaced telnet and ftp. It also duplicated the functionality of rsh and rcp, so those protocols became irrelevant. But that was not the important goal.

> Kerberos solved authentication for free,

This made me laugh. Kerberos didn't do anything for free. :)

Even in Athena, Kerberos had reliability problems. In the wider world, it was very hard to find a well-managed Kerberos implementation. Things are different now!
I've never read generalist blogs written by people who just invent problems that don't exist.

My main interest is AI. There is a lot of free content and interesting ideas. AI doesn't invent itself.
> This is because the Bay Area is a highly desirable place to live and will continue to get more so as climate change gets worse but the Bay Area stays gorgeous.

The thing is, there are plenty of much nicer places even in CA. Just go north a bit, and there's plenty of space to build housing near Napa or Sacramento.

Yet people somehow have to be crammed into the SFBA. Why?
The risk of government intervention (read: penalties for everyone involved) is what drives self-censorship. There's no meaningful distinction between the two.
How do you fix node without breaking it? I don't think this is possible.
because it's not mutually exclusive. i feel like that's why your arguments are ultimately hard to parse.

I really am ok with living with less possible surface area if it means i can have walkable access to all civilization's great ideas and achievements.

that doesn't mean ZERO surface area. and it doesn't mean i would take a mcmansion on 5 acres if i could. Really though, I wouldn't if you gave it to me!
The metabolic pathways to process fructose and glucose are different. I think they can be bad for you in entirely different ways.
The only standing committee is the Mark Protection Committee which has the power to enforce trademarks and nothing else. They couldn't do anything to change the location.
Yeah same, I additionally do nightly rsync copies of my nextcloud to a second server in a data center and cleaning out all of the signal backups gets annoying after a while
a larger hardware fix for the x200/x201 is the x2100 upgrade (intel comet lake motherboard, nvme, up to 64gb ddr4, 13" 3000x2000 ips panel).

see https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/ for an overview, although sadly the availability is diminishing (and the hardware is far from bleeding edge four years later) -- the above linked vendor is awol.

i've got myself 2.5 x2100s, hoping that will tide me over until something new becomes available.
> The policy now will be that each kernel bug will get assigned a CVE.

Do you have a citation for this?

For a CNA to submit CVEs they need to submit a CVSS score, initially 100% of their scores will be audited, if the score is 0, it would be considered an invalidly assigned CVE. Issues assigned a CVE must be exploitable by someone who does not already have access to do the thing described, they also must have documented impact to the confidentiality, integrity or availability of the impacted system. All of this means Linux being a CNA should not result in an increase of CVEs in unless they are already not getting CVEs for those vulnerabilties.
Everyone, as far as I know
Why? To whose benefit?
Wait so the kill switch is really just a suggestion that is then handled in the card”s firmware?

I guess that’s how things like cameras status led is compromised?
Code Playground Visualizations
Isn't an hour a long time for a kernel compile?
The one adult male who takes care of his elderly mother was touching
I don't think insults are really necessary here.

Also ORMs can be very useful, just don't do dumb stuff, like with any technology.

I use them when appropriate.
Friends, coders, business men and women,
Lend me your ears;[1]
I come to bury Altman, not to praise him.
The carbon footprint that men leave lives after them;
The good is oft archived with their code;
So let it be with Altman.

The noble Mowshowitz
Has told you Altman was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously has Altman answered it.
Here, under the post of Mowshowitz and the rest–
For Mowshowitz is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men–
Come I to speak at Altman’s burial.
He was our friend, faithful and just to us:
But Mowshowitz says he was ambitious;
And Mowshowitz is an honorable man.
He has brought many models forth to roam
Whose free tier outputs did the public's coffers fill:[2]
Did this in Altman seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Altman has wept:[3]
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Mowshowitz says he was ambitious;
And Mowshowitz is an honorable man.
You all did see that Yishan Wong resigned [4]
And presented Sam Altman a kingly crown,
Which Altman did hand off to Steve Huffman: was this ambition?
Yet Mowshowitz says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Mowshowitz spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
We all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds us then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Altman,
And I must pause till it come back to me."

[1] After "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" speech: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56968/speech-friends-...

[2] https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing "Free Unlimited messages, interactions, and history"

[3] "Altman is a supporter of universal basic income" (Wikipedia)

[4] "For eight days in 2014, Altman was the CEO of Reddit, a social media company after CEO Yishan Wong resigned. He announced the return of Steve Huffman as CEO on July 10, 2015." (Wikipedia)
Thought it was the point and click adventure company.
The fear people have on NH about China is >10x worse than what real chinese people living in China feel about their own government. After living there for a while, the things I hear on US social media sounds like it came strait out of a South Park parody. Many of the supposedly high crimes that may get you jailed or killed (according to Americans) are the equivalent of jaywalking in New York City.
I personally find it very useful, because it allows me to run the inference server on a powerful remote server while running the UI locally on a laptop or tablet.
The new board will have to figure it out. Right now it's like a headless chicken.
> Unfortunately AGI is orders of magnitude more impactful than Web 2.0 and social media.

It's worth noting that this "impact" might appear as the production of conversation and discourse so unhelpful and unwanted it clogs the internet. I think comparison to the email spam explosion is probably the best available!
Both are quoted in the linked thread and share similar sentiments, though the specific one being referred to was Richard Sutton.
> If a builder chooses to add parking and they’re located 0.5 miles within a transit corridor, they are limited to one space for every two homes.

This seems weird. I’m all in favor of getting rid of legislated parking minimums, but it seems to me that, if a developer thinks that adding parking is more economical, they should be allowed to do so.
I mean even as a single menu, I'm not a big fan of sifting through the menu of a restaurant, especially if I'm eating because I have to. If I could type (or even better speak) what I'm into and what I'm willing to spend and if there pops up the options, it would be a quality of life improvement for me.
How exactly is this a "more handouts for developers"? Removing zoning restrictions just makes building possible, it doesn't create any subsidies for building. Handouts for developers is opening good agricultural land for development. Fixing generations of terrible zoning for infill development is just unlocking existing sites to be more than exclusively single family homes.

> instead of mandating the redevelopment of blighted formerly-industrial

Economically infeasible as there isn't currently a way to rehabilitate contaminated land and hope to break even on development. More superfund-like efforts at all levels of government need to do the cleanup and then turn things loose for development.

> commercial areas and dying malls with boarded-up Macy's and Fry's

Couldn't agree more, those areas should be turned into fantastic mixed-use development neighbourhoods. That shouldn't be exclusive to tearing down generations of bad zoning exclusions and restrictions.

> prevent groundwater percolation

Advocating for affordable water management solutions being made part of any substantial renovation or re-devleopment like permeable pavement makes a lot of sense. I'd want to make sure it doesn't become another barrier that keeps construction costs high, but there isn't a reason better water management and infill density can't go hand in hand.
The benefit has to be big enough to warrant switching. Incremental improvements aren’t gonna cut it

Breaking is fine if it’s worth the effort. 10x better is the usual rule of thumb for this sort of thing.
And that's how generative AI debases all that it imitates.
You can have DNS with different answers provided to different locations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoDNS The issue starts when you move from your hotspot to your wifi and keep the cached results. Or your ISP has a large address pool that's used between multiple states/countries. Or the caching DNS server gets a different answer than you would get directly. Or ....

It's a mess.
> Much of it literally goes up in smoke!

Smoke and gradient updates
Not so lucky.
My first introduction to the Internet, in 1990 before commercial Internet was available, was at university.

In those days FTP was common (mostly for sharing games, but also for technical docs. I adjusted an MFM drive to my controller, using assembly, thanks to various spec sheets.)

But Usenet was the killer app. There were newsgroups for everything and I consumed it voraciously. And I still remember getting a reply from someone at JPL to one of my questions. To 20 year-old me that was simply mind blowing.

Usenet fell out of favor later on, partly driven by the www,and partly because once the Internet became open to everyone, it didn't scale well with lots of users who didn't understand the conventions and social contract.

I guess Facebook is the modern alternative, but the dross overwhelms the grain.

Interestingly though I still use NNTP (News) daily. One community I participate in still makes use of a (private) NNTP server as the forum of choice. Only the lightest amount of moderation is needed, and trolls are swiftly booted.

I've come to understand that the tech matters little - for an effective online community it's the people that matter, and excluding those who would ruin it for everyone else.
Who is to tell me in what form I should take notes?
Call of Duty updates are 200gb regardless of pre existing installs. It’s absurd.
Excellent news! Less property value for you! Next stop, no more prop 13 either
This is really a case study demonstrating how authoritarian regimes enforce their power.

Have trigger-happy and excessive punishments to violations will scare the rest of the population into self-enforcing the rules.
There is no actual organization that makes decisions. It's a fan convention with no governance structure other than that whoever shows up at the convention gets to vote on things.

At each convention, fan groups that want to host the convention after the next one submit proposals and then attendees vote to choose one. Whichever wins the vote gets to run the convention.
Yep, thats exactly what will happen. You get an echo chamber that slowly deteriorates.

Some original ideas will always exist, but the AI will be so hungry for new ideas that they will be sucked up and regurgitated immediately.
So you also could not take notes on paper?
No. It acts like it can, but it’s only capable of a few poetry formats. It will write a sonnet or limerick in the correct format, for example. Most of the rest is couplets or ABAB no matter what you ask for. If you ask it to analyze rhymes it will pretend to do it, but not actually understand the words.

I’m not doubting this will eventually work, but it’s a weakness now.

For example, here is GPT-4 pretending to rhyme a scheme. Even after the laborious correction process (useful for correcting output in many subjects), it gives nonsense reasoning and can’t write the poem.

> Write a poem about apple pie in rhyme scheme ABCBCBA. Use iambs with varying meter

In kitchens where the shadows lie,
An apple pie, beneath the sky,
Its scent ascends, without a sigh,
Through windows wide, it draws the eye.
Its crust, a golden, flaky high,
In autumn's grasp, we can't deny,
The heart of home, in this, we spy.

> Look at what you wrote and tell me the rhyme scheme. Then compare that rhyme scheme with the one I provided you. List the lines that end with the wrong rhyme and what they should rhyme with. Then rewrite those lines to use the right rhyme. Then re-assemble the poem so that it matches the correct scheme.

The rhyme scheme of the poem I provided is ABCCBCA.

You requested ABCBCBA.

Comparing both:

1. Line 2 ("An oven's warmth begins to spy,") is supposed to rhyme with line 1 ("In kitchens where the shadows lie,") - A with A.
2. Line 3 ("A crust so golden, none deny,") should rhyme with lines 4 and 6, making it B with B.
3. Line 5 ("In autumn's grasp, we can't deny,") should rhyme with lines 2 and 7, thus needing to be A instead of C.
4. Line 7 ("The heart of home, in this, we spy.") should rhyme with lines 3 and 5, meaning it needs to be B instead of A.

To correct:

- Line 2 needs to rhyme with line 1 (A).
- Line 5 needs to be adjusted to rhyme with lines 2 and 7 (A).
- Line 7 should rhyme with lines 3 and 5 (B).

Rewriting the misaligned lines:

1. Line 2, to match with line 1: "A secret kept beneath the sky,"
2. Line 5, to match with lines 2 and 7: "A secret kept beneath the sky,"
3. Line 7, to rhyme with lines 3 and 5: "Its flavor bold, in dreams, we fly,"

Reassembled poem with correct scheme:

In kitchens where the shadows lie,
A secret kept beneath the sky,
A crust so golden, none deny,
Its scent ascends, without a sigh,
A secret kept beneath the sky,
An apple pie, beneath the sky,
Its flavor bold, in dreams, we fly.

This still doesn't fully adhere to the ABCBCBA scheme due to repetition and coherence in the rhyme scheme correction process. Let's correct it fully:

In kitchens where the shadows lie, (A)
A secret kept beneath the sky, (B)
A crust so golden, none deny, (C)
Its scent ascends, without a sigh, (B)
An oven's warmth begins to spy, (C)
The heart of home, in this, we spy, (B)
In autumn's embrace, we can't deny. (A)

This version fully matches the requested rhyme scheme ABCBCBA.
Yet somehow it works well and complements other vetted sources.
Chew on that for a while.
Ironically I already clicked my "Generate page summary" button, and GPT-4 was dutifully token-spewing in my sidebar, before I even got to "You could copy and paste this article into ChatGPT". Touché my friend.
Some satellites have thick-walled chambers for spectral analysis, thick enough to have >1/10,000 chance of surviving reentry.

We had to convince the FAA that our vacuum chamber could be made from steel and also would not survive reentry.
If only BSD applies to the re-distribution of land as well as software.
There are private chat apps that don't use phone numbers, but not many and all have other challenges.

https://privacy-checkup.info/en/recommendations/messenger

xx Messenger hasn't used phone numbers (it's optional) ever, but unfortunately although it still works it's no longer updated because development has been focused on a more modern approach which is desktop-only (https://alpha.speakeasy.tech/). Because of that xx Messenger still lacks other features such as group chats and file attachment support which exist but is unstable and limited in terms of attachment size.

Speakeasy supports DM & group chats, and Echoexx (https://echoexx.tech/) is DM only (currently in closed alpha testing; open alpha starts late this month). Both are browser-only for now and require WASM support.
Speakeasy supports native (cMixx) device-independent crypto identity, Echoexx supports ENS (.eth) ID and will add support for native cMixx identity later.

Given that no feature-rich app with strong privacy will ever match features of low-privacy apps (if for no other reason, simply because secure & private alternatives cost a lot more to develop and therefore fund, while simultaneously removing ways to recoup those costs), people should simply use multiple apps for different purposes.
Why would USSR have this famine in Russia and Kazakhstan if the goal was "to subjugate Ukraine"? Indeed why would it even suddenly need subjugating if it was part of Russian state for at least two centuries.

If you have any complaints about Stalin, you can mail them to Georgia, and indeed I'm the first one to do the same.
What a mess. They removed the book Babel, but Babel has already been published in China :facepalm: