skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"During the tests the process was seen to create the ionizing radiation and improve the base propulsion unit’s thrust by 50%, said RocketStar."

It does not say that the fusion increased the unit's thrust by 50%.

If you shoot protons into a gas containing boron, you will see some fusion. But the problem is not achieving fusion, it's achieving significant fusion. In this case, I'm betting almost all the extra heating is just due to the injected protons depositing energy, not due to the fusion they might be inducing.

If the gas being hit is only partially ionized then energy loss of the protons to additional ionization will slow them down very rapidly, and very little fusion will occur. This is why just slamming nuclei into a solid target can't possibly reach breakeven.
That's an oddly specific, very round number. You have metrics for it, or is this the same math being used to declare AGI is a year away?
Excellent work!

Like you said, there exists many chart libs out there already... Hope you find a way to sell and keep working on your product!
Dumping is more specific than that. What you're describing is simple price discrimination. Dumping additionally requires that the good be sold internationally for less than the cost of production.
Different models have different inductive biases. There is no way you could build GPT4 with decision trees.
I use this to copy programs from termux.

in termux (you need lld [pkg i lld]):

mkdir /sdcard/.adb
cp `which bash` /sdcard/.adb
cp $(ldd `which bash`|cut -d ">" -f2) /sdcard/.adb

in adb shell:

cd /data/local/tmp
cp /sdcard/.adb/bash
cp /sdcard/.adb/*.so
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.
./bash
It's only impressive if the boost is due to fusion, not due to the protons just heating the gas by depositing their own energy.
A bunch of parties where against nuclear in Germany. Can't blame them looking at the fuck up that is Asse II.
I’m way out of my depth here, but wouldn’t such a function have to encode an amount of information/state orders of magnitude larger than the definition of the function itself?

If this turns out to be possible, we will have found the solution to the Sloot mystery :D

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
Are those numbers for Germany or for the world? If for Germany, OK -- it is (still) a rich country and can pay for it's choices, including importing electricity at whatever the market prices for it. Although it's manufacturing has been hit pretty bad.

But for the world the total use of fossil fuels is going to keep growing long-term unless we mass switch to nuclear, which is unlikely. My 2c.
I regularly use base64 to {en,de}code binary files that I want to copy and paste - laziest rsync imaginable

Surprised I haven't run into this wrapping or worse, lol
> If it talks, it dies.

On the bright side, reliance on both broad conscription and mission command really ought to result in improvements to public education...

(a mission command anecdote: when speaking with a FSU friend, he related that while Zhukov was on his way to Berlin, the germans had broken russian codes — but it did them little good, because "our boys" were always "disobeying" orders in order to do what was necessary to advance on the ground)

> Those guys get used up fast.

Stormed at with drone and shell,
Boldly they strode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell,
Those 3,600.
I am confused, how is a translator comparable to an LLM that primarily serves as a generator? Just because it’s powered by some neural network behind the scenes?
> A human can write incorrect descriptions as well.

Sure they can, but the descriptions are completely irrelevant to what the package or project at hand does.
Reminded me of the last verse of a French fable, The Cricket (a.k.a True Happiness):

"Pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés."

- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian - Le Grillon†, Fables, 1792

Here's my quick-and-dirty attempt at a translation:

Poor little cricket
Hidden in grass flowery
A gliding butterfly
Beheld in the prairie.
The winged insect of bright colours shining;
Cerulean, gold, crimson burst on his wings;
Young pretty little master, he runs flower to flower,
Taking and leaving every which is prettier.

Ah! Said the cricket his fate and mine
Are quite not alike! Mother Nature
Gifted him all, and to myself nothing.
Of talent bereft, of face even less.
Disregarded down here, none take notice:
I just as much might not exist.

As he rambled, in the prairie
A childish troupe comes happily:
Chasing they are hastily
The butterfly they so envy.
Hats of all sorts to catch their game;
The insect twists and swerves in vain,
And soon enough becomes their prize.

A wing taken, a body seized,
A head now gone, a swift demise:
Little effort has it taken
To tear apart the beast fallen.

Oh! Oh! Cricket said, I am no more irate;
Too high a price it is to shine.
How I will love my deep retreat!
To live happy, live discreetly.

† https://www.laculturegenerale.com/le-grillon-fable-jean-pier...
It takes active effort to dial in the machine settings. If you just trust the APAP algorithm most people will never get used to it. Took me a year of tinkering. There's a great piece of software called OSCAR that helps.
-2 points, yikes.. not sure if if that's 3 angry people that had to deal with LILO not working or 3 people thinking I was just spamming who never had the pleasure of dealing with LILO.
Most movies ever made were not meant to be watched on home TVs. Playing it on your crappy 50" Samsung with a soundbar is as much of a sacrilege as running it through an AI. I guess you have never done that, right?
I just go there and paste the URL... It generally works on big newspapers, they tend to have their article open the first day it's up.
Sure. The amount of coal burned decreased by about 30%, and the decrease would have been different if this/that. It would not have been an increase though, and the people who predicted an increase ended up being wrong by a large factor.

The question is just exactly how large.
And then they got bought by Activision and everything went to shit.
> by having artificially low prices

Chinese car manufacturers probably make more $'s on each car sold than US manufactures.
The minimal costs of operating nuclear are around the same as the investment costs of solar parks, around $30/Mwh (building nuclear power plants is around $200/Mwh).

For example a nuclear power plant has employed 700 people.
A solarpark does not need a lot of FTE employees to operate (+ low maintanance).

That does not include waste deposit costs for hundreds of years and real insurance costs without subsidies by tax payers.
BMW are doing pretty well growing their EV sales (admittedly not low cost)

https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/financial-models/europe/featu...
DeepL, as in, the translator? That is very different from random text unrelated to the project.
Is that a requirement for dumping?

From a legal/WTO case standpoint, yes. Selling at a loss in general is perfectly legal, and lots of companies do that for all kinds of perfectly legitimate reasons. Using price discrimination to sell at a loss only in certain markets with the intention of damaging the domestic market in that region is when you get into trouble.
Marques Brownlee on Humane AI Pin: The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed [video]
>The article is very light on methodology or actual data.

That's because it's not a benchmark, it's an explanation.
Specially useful when you encode ssh key to base64 in github to use it in github actions.
I spent hour to figure it why the key is not working and the answer is -w0
The security implications of packages in front-end apps
Would love a monsterz80.com :-)
No scientific at all, but I keep a long to-do list for my current project with dates, and it *feels* like LLMs have allowed me to cut a third of development time.
Neverest, a CLI to synchronize, backup and restore emails
German cars are notorious for having unreliable electrical components. Now imagine the whole car is electric.
I am pretty sure that you could use AI to re-phrase your own description. Right?
What does "modern levels of image quality" mean in this context?

The article is about AI upscaling "True Lies", which was shot on 35mm film. 35mm provides a very high level of detail -- about equivalent in resolution to a 4k digital picture. We're not talking about getting an old VHS tape to look decent on your TV here.

The differences in quality between 35mm film and 4k digital are really more qualitative than quantitative, such as dynamic range and film grain. But things like lighting and dynamic range are just as much directorial choices as script, story, any other aspect of a film. It's a visual medium, after all.

Is the goal to have all old movies have the same, flatly lit streaming "content" look that's so ubiquitous today?

I think the argument against "isn’t there space for people who just want to see the story but experience it with modern levels of image quality" is that such a space is a-historical -- It's a space for someone that doesn't want to engage with the fact that things were different in the (not even very distant) past, and (at the risk of sounding a bit pretentious) it breeds an intellectually lazy and small-minded culture.
I stand against the tide for sure.

I am grievously concerned about the sea temperature being off the charts for a year now and we do not know why. Wasting tremendous amounts of energy to generate bullshit doesn't seem like a prudent action. Yes it's not yet a large chunk of total energy usage but we do need to stop the hype before going further when it'll be.

Because as https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650 explains it's good for naught else.

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.

And then of course there are all the ethical concerns.
Long and interesting article from 2024, the title is "The Great Purge (1933)" (which kind-of clashes with the HN conventions ...)
Does it still do this when piping into things?
> The battery economics really doesn't seem to work.

Huh what? Tesla hasn't been selling at a loss for years, in Q3/2022 they made a solid 15.000$ pure profit per car - that's what allowed them to cut prices without going into losses in the first place.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
Any good reason to still use base64 compared to base32 ?

Since base64 seems to be not much more compact in practice (?), but also fails at transmission through the lossy channel that is human communication.

(Arguably, there's also hexadecimal, but compactness starts becoming an issue there ?)
RAG is to me just a glued-up solution to try counter the obvious limitations of LLMs that they essentially find the next token in a very convincing fashion.

i am sure there can be newer ways to do prompt injection in an elegant way, but for the most part the llm is either summarizing the injected prompt or regurgitating it.

if the output is satisfactory, it is still more convenient than writing custom rules for answers for each kind of question you want to address.
He’s also concerned about this:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

If I could I’d accumulate Tesla starting next year as fed rate cuts kick in.
Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-car...

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59...

As is shown in the following notes, the definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of “rape” in common modern parlance, its definition in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes, and elsewhere.

The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was “raped” within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump “raped” her as many people commonly understand the word “rape.”

Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.
For Germany.

I live in a manufacturing city in .de btw, and the "badly hit" manufacturers are hiring.
I think they mean use "--wrap=0" instead of "-w0" as it's a little better self-documenting for those who come across your script.

In general I always try to use the long-form options in scripts as readability is more important that conciseness.
I live in Bristol, so I'm not far from 20th Century Flicks (featured in the article).

They have some things I'd like to rent (and that are hard to find elsewhere), but ultimately I'm still put off by the prospect of having to pay late fees!
> In other words, explicitly forbid people from using ChatGPT, Bard, GitHub Copilot, and so on, to create ebuilds, code, documentation, messages, bug reports and so on for use in Gentoo.

Maybe a naive question but, how will they know?
He can't even invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.
I have been living in Japan for a while, and in my experience you can feel the earthquake coming a few seconds before the big shaking start. I don't know how to describe it, it is not a sound, more like a very slight movement.
I partially understand sporting events if people does not know each other, but birthdays?
Which country is this and what kind of people do you meet in this events? I ask because here in Poland behaving like this still would be seen as major insult and such people would be marked as outsiders. And this label comes with social stigma that can be transferred to child (you can forget about ever being invited to other people homes for children meetups).
> Imagine a world where every piece of poetry, novel or literature would be forced to be written in English.

Nobody is wanting that world.

> because "not enough Anglo Saxon"

What is this, the year 1055? "Anglo Saxon" ceased to be a cultural group later that century. Now "Anglo-Saxon" is just a phony geopolitical spectre, mostly invoked by despotic governments as a scapegoat.

> hire professional translators for that, and let the creator alone...that is the right thing to do.

It would be if scientific publications had audiences where it made economic sense to do such a translation. Additionally, the cost of such translation for scientific literature is much more expensive owing to the need for great accuracy.
I hate those mouthguards. I tried to use them before I got my CPAP but I kept waking up with hellish tooth pain in the middle of the night. Also, it was moving my teeth out of wack like braces do, for a few weeks after using it my teeth kept colliding when eating.

Maybe for some people they work but for me it was terrible. And they were custom-formed.
These things are very exciting. Flat piece of ceramic. Put a voltage across it and you get a temperature gradient, put a temperature gradient across it and you get a voltage.

I think there's a niche application to computer cooling in making watercooled machines smaller. The reasoning goes something like radiators work really well at high temperatures - say 75C to keep the pumps from dying - and CPUs work better when they're colder.

Watercooling has a surface area problem - the water/temperature delta is a linear function of radiator surface area. Going from ten degrees to five involves lots more heat exchanger or very loud fans. Tricky if you're carrying the box.

I think there is a point in the design surface for burning lots of electricity to hold the CPU somewhere around (maybe slightly below) room temperature while moving that heat and the extra power from the peltiers into a water loop at well over room temperature. Maybe a 40C delta between water and CPU, which probably involves stacking peltiers for even lower electrical efficiency.

The point would be a smallish (like LAN party size) self contained watercooled box with terrible electrical efficiency and excellent thermal density. Unfortunately I don't actually have any sort of use for that so never checked the curve intersection holds up in reality.
Despite having means to do so I refuse to buy a Tesla due to Musk's antics. I don't want to bankroll that man-child's descent into Q-Anon level idiocy. There are decent alternatives sprouting all around from traditional car manufacturers.
Abilities to do this range widely with individuals.

Leaving that aside, there is a concept of linguistic distance from people´s first language, which makes it easier or harder to learn another language. French and English are very close to each other, as are Arabic and Hebrew, the Scandinavian languages are also all very close to each other (a little further from English), except for Finnish of course, which is kind of out there on its own. There is a nice recent paper looking at this in the academic context:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004873332...

Essentially how far your native tongue is from the language you are attempting to learn will drastically affect how long it takes to learn it for most people.
No, just take a look at installed power in Germany.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...
OpenRazer 3.8 Brings Support for Newer Razer Devices on Linux
> As a founding member of the association, Greenpeace e.V. holds only five shares at €55 in the cooperative, otherwise the environmental group and the company are financially and legally independent, although they share the same office building in Hamburg.

It's kind of unclear just how much this organization actually is Greenpeace or not. That being said, extremist political parties and movements (e.g., UKIP), are so often financed by Russia as a form of covert ops that I wouldn't be surprised to find that they were a significant backer of Green Peace proper as well.
That sounds more like a local vs non-local problem.
I had the same issue with bite alignment after sleeping with a mouthguard for a few nights only!
Terminal based sequence editor for Git interactive rebase
I loved Scarecrow Video in Seattle when I was in the U district.
How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?
Are flying cars finally here?
> I don't think EVs are sustainable in the long-run

I think EVs today are a great niche technology that might have organically grown to dominance in several decades and tech iterations, but the current policies of forcing them down everyones throats from the top via regulation has doomed EVs. My 2c.

Toyota btw is focusing on hybrids, hydrogen is a non-existential side research for the Toyota.
> If I can see it then how is it that every car company hasn’t been preparing low cost EV offerings of their own?

Because they didn't believe that EVs or small cars were something that could be profitable, at least not compared to the high margin, cash cow SUVs. Instead, they did what they did the last few decades - invest into lobbying to keep emission standards relaxed. Only when Volkswagen and a fair few others got caught cheating, that business model went down the drain and suddenly they had to change.

> A few are but most seem in denial. Ford is the only US one I’ve heard rumors about having something in the works.

BMW is investing almost two billion dollars into its Spartanburg plant to produce electric versions of the X series SUVs [1].

> Tesla meanwhile spent tons of capital and time on ridiculous microniche products like the cybertruck.

Indeed. The thing is a joke on wheels... it shows that unlike SpaceX with Gwynne Shotwell, Tesla (and Twitter) don't have an "Elon handler" responsible for pushing back.

[1] https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T042217...
I only really know of Bevy that uses ECS for the rendering backend, but iirc even that doesn't really use entities and components, but rather its resource system, such that rendering commands are stored in the ECS "world" but as globally unique resources, rather than entities and components. But, my knowledge doesn't extend to AAA engines, perhaps things are done more extensively there.
You can condense a lot of it down if you use CD/DVD wallets. You can fit 100 DVDs in the same space as like 3 or 4 standard DVD cases.
Because markets are short sighted and the job of the CEO is to confront that. However in this case Elon needs a quick bump in the stock price for obvious reasons
That's the "bloodbath" Trump was talking about. And China is going through Mexico to import their vehicles into the US.
GCC version 14 coming soon – and will drop Itanium support
Maybe in abstract. I doubt the majority of people have considered those positions in more detail than "wouldn't it be nice if no one could tell me what to do?", or "wouldn't it be nice to never worry about money ever again?".

Close proximity to a bunch of tech executives very quickly cured me of any illusion that I wanted to belong to that in-group. Most already with more money than they knew how to spend, and still pulling 100-hour work weeks in service of the grind... shudders
I mean macro-economics in the long-run. As a niche, it's fine and profitable; but ICE market is just too massive, and replacing large parts of the supply-chain and transport-infrastructure will likely cause issues on the supply side.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2023/01/24/resear...
The problem is that current LLMs are capable of creating junk that's prima-facie plausible in industrial quantities, and finding the sound material within it is a big and growing burden for any organization, especially those that accept contributions from the public.

> The type of person that would have AI generate a description and then not even read it also isn't going to follow the rules.

This is not a sound argument against this rule; it is an argument for the proposition that current LLMs present a threat to the open-source model, despite this rule.
That's precisely my point. What does "AI-backed" mean exactly? The RFC doesn't ban LLM, but "AI-backed" contributions. Technically from my understanding and interpretation DeepL would fall under that category and would be banned from being used but in the linked thread people seem to agree that DeepL usage is fine. So where do you draw the line? How do you define which "AI-backed" contributions are still fine and which aren't. Eventually different contributors will have different opinions and it will get messy.
In any workforce there are 10% slackers or people who overcomplicate and derail projects.

If you can identify these people, then getting rid of them is the right move. But it's super hard to figure out who they are.
> What troubles has protobuf caused you?

we are primarily a c++ shop, so all comments are from that vantage point. in no particular order following:

1. extremely bloated generated code.

2. wire format is not optimal, specifically for large nested messages which trashes the cache on a already severely constrained h/w.

3. not easy to perform shared-memory exchange for large messages, for example, if you have 'string' types in your messages, those cannot be allocated on arenas.

4. <this space is for rent>
Sounds like you're leaning more towards the Qubes OS model, even though I'm sure you don't want to go that extreme.

Either way I'm very happy with Atomic Linux, it's a huge improvement. I'm sure there will be more improvements that will offer separate rootfs for each process. Isn't that already handled by running flatpaks in their own container root?
Glenn Greewald is the journalist who is best known for founding The Intercept and broke the Edward Snowden story. He is also anti war and spends his time these days criticizing the US policy that created the situation in Ukraine.

That makes him an agent of Russia using the same logic that decades ago said opposition to invading Iraq made you a terrorist sympathizer.
Why would you quote figures like that without adjusting them for population? Brazil has 40x the population of Singapore.