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Please, send the PHEVs to the US where we have garages and such to actually utilize them properly...
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What makes gdscript object “heavier” than the c++ classes that implement them? IIRC the docs just mention that creating gdscript objects is an expensive operation, but that’s just as true with C# objects because both have memory allocations.

Modern gdscript best practices call for typing, but tbh I think making a game without types is possible and fine (Lua and JavaScript are used to make successful games for example)

Totally true about python. If you’re used to python, gdscript is like writing code in a funhouse mirror.

You don’t need to use godot’s editor. Godot has a built in LSP, so the vscode extension works well. I think they even added a scene graph view.

I mean use whatever you want to make a game, but personally, I find the Godot specific language features really sell gdscript. (Signal connection syntax, $ and %)

I usually wire up signals is gdscript and write actual work (algorithms and math) in dependency-free gdextensions
It's very easy to tell. AI fanboys will show you the most generic and bland pictures with crippled limbs and go "See? You probably can't tell if it was AI generated or not"

The code is usually equally braindead. Not that it matters of course, most code that humans write today isn't much better, but if you value quality like many foundational open source projects do, the difference becomes obvious.
As an aside, mksh hasn't been updated since 2020.

This is not as bad as ksh93, but it is starting to look more like abandonware, implying that oksh is healthier.

http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm
The US is also much larger than Germany and is in the process of building more nuclear plants.

If you care about the environment, nuclear is the only sustainable option at the moment. The plant costs have a very long time to recoup. Lots of plants built in the 80s seem perfectly capable of going until at least the 2050s without any danger and have requested license renewals to do exactly that. Each additional year further drives down the total cost of ownership.

I'll also note that people stupidly think only in terms of CO2. The truth is that a lot of the "forever" chemicals used in tho construction of wind an solar (along with loads of other toxic sludge) pose a much higher risk to the planet. If life on the planet starts getting killed off by the chemicals we spread everywhere, the temperature increases in a few hundred years don't matter in the slightest. We'll last way longer fighting CO2 than we will against the dangerous chemicals we're pumping out.
For old farts like me who used to use News groups where binary data was first encoded in uuencode and later with the innovative base64, it is totally expected behavior.

Also look into the text files für the public/private keys. It is always this, because the screen has only 80 characters in width.
Wow thanks. If the upper stage relies on lift though it might be able to reach a safe altitude.

The burning up temps wouldn’t be until getting close to orbital speed.

Also is it worth considering that this thing would have a super high volume to surface area (by being huge).
The standard you're looking for is UASP, which encapsulates raw SCSI commands over a USB connection. Most newer SATA enclosures should support it, they usually mention UASP in the product description if they do, since it has better performance than the older style which emulated generic USB mass storage.
Yes there is no government intervention in who can be a programmer, but that's not what the issue might be.

Might it be the stuff that programmers work with, the inputs and outputs of the craft, that are covered by laws that create an unnatural economic disequilibrium?
Or he was willing to part with his cash. I don't believe any news organizations made [substantial] donations to SBF, or FTX.
Even an average programmer can understand it if they bothered to read the TypeScript documentation. “Superhuman” in this case means “has read the manual”.
Anyone that says they won't buy a Tesla due to Elon's antics but will buy a Chinese EV is a hypocrite. China is a fascist state and no company does anything without party involvement.
It doesn't have to be youtube.com

plenty of sites get hacked and hackers phish their users, it's very real
How about Christmas lights? Washing machines? TV and video entertainment? Elevators for the first floor? How about for the second floor? Social media posts, like these?

The demand for technology leads to advancements that meet our needs. As we continue to innovate, we must focus on consuming more energy rather than less.

You are eager to decide what is useful and what is not. Can you predict the future? Can you predict the full impact of technologies? Can you see second, third and forth order effect? Likely not. For instance, many may not have anticipated the significant role smartphones play today.

It concerns me when some individuals attempt to control others' resource usage, potentially leading to authoritarian rule driven by fear. Such actions might result in adverse effects before any noticeable climate changes occur in the near future.
Yeah, the title should be "Beware of strings encoded with base64" (as in the specific utility, not the general encoding).
For me I never had too much trouble understanding the algorithm. But this is the first time I can see why it works.
I have also used Liquibase on one important project and it worked well. I would use it again. Code stored in git, deployed by CICD (Jenkins and in that project via maven).

Funny you mention changeset rollback. I tried doing that and got it working for a wide variety of SQL types of changes, but I had a hard time at the end of it convincing myself all the extra code writing and testing of all that was worth imposing on other developers for our fairly centralized SaaS-supporting database.

Liquibase supports a lot of databases but not always all the data warehouse/lake latest ones I’m interested in, e.g. Athena/iceberg.
Not directly related but the author writes:

> However, it’s important to note that most of these ideas may not be relevant to today’s job market

Then advise to clone the frontend/backend of well known site.

What other project HN would advise to do that could increase attractability for the job market, especially in python (the language I know) or C# (the language I would like to learn). I'm not looking for a job currently or in the foreseeable future, but I'm not against having a step in advance in case things go wrong
>Once a container filled with stolen cars reaches the Port of Montreal, there aren't enough border guards to check it,

I expect every city's port union says the same thing.

So why is Montreal so much worse? Well it has much to do with Quebec/Montreal being so corrupt.

https://macleans.ca/news/canada/the-most-corrupt-province

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charbonneau_Commission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin_affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Applebaum#Corruption_a...

https://www.mtlblog.com/montreal-is-still-super-corrupt-af

These are just before covid.

How about during covid? The quebec government enslaved their healthcare workers. Their union filed with the united nations.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/nurses-union-submits...

Montreal/Quebec is simply that corrupt.
Yeah, I just don’t like C# lol.

It’s worth noting that they ported SS2 from unity to Godot, so it’s likely they were trying to keep as much of their existing code as they could, but tbh they’d probably use c# from the beginning regardless
Id rather pay more and have no Chinese involvement. China is not your friend.
Same as LFP batteries then?
In Germany you get tax benefits when buying a plugin hybrid instead of a pure gasoline car ... There's always been the legend that people return their leased PHEVs and the charging cable is still wrapped in plastic in the trunk and has never been used. Maybe there's some truth to this after all.
This is indeed perverse. Could someone explain why the solution isn't rather to not define default parameters for the args in the parent class? It makes more sense to me, as someone who doesn't even know the 10% of cpp required to claim mastery.
Hybrids were mostly a tax scam in my opinion. In Germany until recently you could get a 6,000-8,000 € subsidy on these cars and when leasing them through a company you got a really nice tax reduction from 1% of the list price to 0,25 %, which amounts to several thousand Euros per year as well. Not to forget the vehicle tax was drastically reduced as well. Overall mostly very affluent people bought these cars, and the net effect for the environment was probably negative. It’s just a stupid idea to put a tiny battery into a 500 HP car and pretend it’s helping the environment when it just contributes to putting more cars on the road.
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Some areas of the country have multiple counties with unbelievable selection between all the branches!
Servo and SpiderMonkey
llms like gpt-4 are enormously better than google at finding the relevant functions in an api and telling you how to chain them together to accomplish a given task. sometimes there are errors, but in most cases those are easy to spot, especially if you read the documentation for those functions. for some purposes, testing is enough (and it will happily write you a test suite too)

it's kind of annoying to ferret out the bugs it has carefully concealed in the code it wrote for you, though
There's no hate from me. There's a bit of snark, sure; but no hate.

He's specifically called out his own dislike of trade unions. I'm calling that out as being really very relevant to Tesla's ability to fire 10% of its staff.
Even libraries have dropped late fees, but YMMV…
>That's crazy to me, gasoline is so much more expensive than electricity, why wouldn't people charge the batteries more often?

Of course any sane person would want to charge their car electrically. So I can only imagine that the inability to do so is the problem.

My guess would be because many people can't. In most European cities having a dedicated place to charge your car is not affordable to most people. Which is one reason manufacturers targeted their BEVs at the higher end, the population who has a garage and can install a charger there.
ChatGPT3.5 already spots bugs, e.g. when I swap the order of conditions in fizzbuzz. An error that a human could make. We've been at the point where AI can help spot bugs for a while already.

AI can be used poorly, AI can be used well.
Personalized cancer vaccines are having a moment
>meanwhile the German Greens are happy pushing for more coal and lignite burning (since they opposed nuclear power, and now Russian gas).

This is impressively wrong. German coal power production in 2023 was at it lowest in 60 years.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-coal-power-pro....
> the temperature increases in a few hundred years don't matter in the slightest.

There are dense locations near the equator where the wetbulb temperature has gone over 34-35 degrees celcius, which is higher than is survivable by healthy adults for more than a small handful of hours. These extreme events will keep getting worse, leading to heat stress, prolonged school closures, etc. Not all of these people have access to air conditioning because we're talking about countries with less than $6k GDP per capita. Eventually this will drive climate refugees.
Lethal dust storms blanket Asia every spring – now AI could help predict them
For me it's just that utilities for base64 are included everywhere by default and the same is not true for base32
> $(echo -n $BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME:$BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD | base64)

I would really like some quoting of that argument. Otherwise a weird password can really break things.
Oh man, totally. The feeling of impending doom that's always in the background stalking even the happy moments.

Depression runs in our family and the portrayal of it was phenomenal, especially when they measure the size of the moon. From outer perspective they are told all will be fine but they aren't convinced and in the end it seems all the doom and gloom was justified - just how a depressive mind naturally is pulled towards the negative and creates self fulfilling prophecies.

Deep deep film.
Ahh, Hacker News never fails to disappoint. Are there any ones you would recommend? A quick Amazon search yields a ton of rando-name products that I don't place much faith in -- the only brand name I could find was Sabrent[0], but that's only 2.5" and I suspect it's running the drive at 5v. My current one (which I believe is WD) has long since been liberated from its chassis, but it does have a separate 12/2 power supply as opposed to running the drive on the 5v USB connector.

On a positive note, I very much suspect the USB-C connector of being miles better than the Micro USB 3.0 interface my current caddy uses. In my experience, a bit of external force can easily encourage the connector out of the port.

> (and a random £15 caddy is obviously not going to provide very good competition.)

P.S. re this, I can sort of understand it, as the caddy came with a drive -- they clearly had the opportunity to optimize away support for filesystems that they weren't pairing the caddy with.

[0]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-enclosure-indicator-tool-fr...
It’s not completely unfounded.

Water consumption skyrocketed while training up the current generation of models [0].

The energy (and water) usage to service requests is not staggering but it is concerning that is uses as much as it does for the output it generates [1]

[0] https://futurism.com/critics-microsoft-water-train-ai-drough...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/03/12/chatgpt-....
> hard free market conservative opinions

... I mean, advocating for protectionism could hardly be described as a "hard free market" position.

Protectionism doesn't fit neatly on a left-right scale (both sides have indulged from time to time) but it's clearly not a free-market position.
Even with a single mac, external drive is much cheaper and not much slower than built-in storage, and most importantly can be used to boot macos from it.
Meaning, if your mac dies, you plug that drive into another mac and continue working
I feel a bit embarassed saying this but, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

I've had issues dealing with the concept of death and this movie helped me more than anything else. The panic attack scenes resonated quite hard and the end message left a lasting impact.
Glad he didn't accidentally trigger a thermonuclear response.
Quite a few years ago I wrote a tool as a university project that can extract C (and to a lesser degree C++ and Pascal) struct definitions from DWARF debug symbols and output VHDL or LaTeX/TikZ diagrams: https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/arw/st
No average person would be happy if they saw that mess
De Chirico and Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: When Neurology Creates Art
I don't think that's what is holding ev back. They need to put more into battery research. They are too heavy, charge too slow, and lose capacity in cold temps. In addition, I can't find a charger within 15 or 20 min of my house, but there's probably 20 gas stations in that radius. I'll buy electric once it's not a pain in the ass.
It looks like a knee-jerk reaction by some "AI" hater rather than a well thought out request.

- 7 instances of the word "shit". I don't mind swearing, but it is indicative of the author being maybe a bit too emotional for a technical proposal.

- It is unnecessarily broad. Not using AI to create bug reports? What if you use AI tech to find a bug? Are you not allowed to report it? The stated issue here seems to be mostly about code completion, but it is stretched to everything AI-related, everywhere.

The point raised are copyright, quality and ethics, which are valid points, but not specific to AI.

Copyright: You have the same problem when copy-pasting code, and people do that, you can't really single out AI. Instead of banning AI, a more sensible guideline would be to just be aware of copyright when importing code from elsewhere, including AI generated code, but also copy/pasting from online sources (ex: StackOverflow) and using external libraries. There are tools to check for copyright compliance.

Quality: AI-generated code is often lower quality, but so is code written by bad coders, judge by quality of contribution, not by how it is done. As for the "we can't really rely on all our contributors being aware of the risks", maybe start by picking contributors you can rely on. And if you think they may not be aware of the risks, tell them about the risks rather than saying "you can't do that".

Ethics: I don't know what Gentoo stands for, but I'm guessing it is mostly about making a good source-based Linux distribution. Don't hijack the project for your own goals. Now, I have no problem with a Linux distribution that has "no AI" as one of its core values, but it doesn't have to be Gentoo.
They should have used copilot to write the comment, might hav been coherent them /s
It will keep growing until it doesn't - why people don't factor in that the sun will shine a lot longer than the wells will pump when discussing these plans I don't understand. Is technology so turbulent that no one wants to make predictions beyond the next ten years any more or what?
> The AI bubble is causing huge energy waste.

Pretty ironic coming from a distribution that requires every user to compile everything from source.
Hearing complaints about energy consumption from someone using a source-based distribution is quite rich considering they're often wasting much more energy than they need by compiling themselves instead of using a binary distribution.
If it’s true – which is rarely the case – a mass layoff is the worst way to deal with it: by your own figure, you have 9:1 odds of getting someone who isn’t a slacker!

This excuse is deployed in every layoff but rarely mentions that if true, most of the people losing jobs should be the managers who weren’t doing their jobs. I will also note that most of the people I have seen not contributing positively were responding to the incentives management had set, or coping with policies and resource cuts. Every time it’s been a large group of people, they were working hard at something counterproductive some VP or consulting company came up with, not sitting around watching Netflix.
If you are the #2 or later programmer on a project, unraveling human generated code is the old programming.
Personal anecdotes ahaead:

I'm German. My grandpa was an electrical engineer. He is very enthusiastic about his PHEV and talks about it alot. He bought one because not only is he interested, but also PHEV sales got heavily subsidized (i think like 6000€ or smth) and so many people bought one in his area as well. Apparently, a surprising amount of old middle class German people bought PHEVs and literally never charge it. My grandpa told me he onced asked his neighbor for a cable and that thing was brand new.

I'm not sure if its ignorance or deliberate though. If you never use the battery the resale value might be higher? It's also literally just an anecdote but it was surprising
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Frontegg has that
Scalable as in loss wise scalable, not compute wise.
Or perhaps declarative services are superior to shell scripting' init scripts for entirely different reasons you never thought about, and it never had anything to do with whether or not anybody can write bash scripts in the first place.
What is this garage thing you mention? We don't have those in Germany!
Thanks. It’s a little odd they go so wild. I did mention unions and that’s a touchy subject too but the Elon disalignment movement has no brakes unless people decide to use them.
See my comment, my grandpas neighbors are seemingly doing that
I'm waiting for years for external 2.5" disks to go beyond 5 TB :-(
In even a modestly large layoff--which 10% probably qualifies for--there's just a lot of wrong place/wrong time. No one is devoting a lot of cycles to rehoming people who may be "good" but just aren't in situations that make the best use of them right now.
apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_bholua and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_papyracea, the usual species for lokta paper, are in a different genus in the same family as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworthia_chrysantha; is it possible the argeli mentioned is an edgeworthia species rather than a daphne species?

edit: twic found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40039860 that it's edgeworthia gardneri, which was originally classified as daphne gardneri by the gardner who originally named it
It isn't some kind of Markov chain situation. Attention cross-links the abstract meaning of words, subtle implications based on context and so on.

So, "mat" follows "the cat sat on the" where we understand the entire worldview of the dataset used for training; not just the next-word probability based on one or more previous words ... it's based on all previous meaning probability, and those meaning probablility and so on.
Not plugging it in does not mean the battery is not used, it just means that the battery is always charged by the gasoline engine in the car, rather than from the electric grid
The energy use of Gentoo is already way above any other distribution as it requires the user to compile all software themselves.
This is great, thank you. I wish there was a way to activate "zen mode" in the URL so that it could be bookmarked
To me that's a really weird analogy. Nobody would think about putting a gasoline tank and pump in their garage ... There's plenty of public charging infrastructure in Europe. Fast charging on the highways, slow charging in living areas. Even many supermarkets offer fast chargers now, so that during your grocery shopping trip you can get most of your charging needs covered. There's plenty of opportunities to charge your vehicle over night, or really quickly when needed. It's absolutely possible to own an EV without a garage
Depends. Could be that people are going further than the charge. If the EV side lacks recombinant braking, you might not charge. If there is a dearth of street side charging, you might not charge. If there is a dearth of office charging, you might not charge.

A big issues off all forms of chargeable cars is the lack of charging stations. When there are charging stations, the amount of time required to charge dissuades people from charging. Perhaps they look at the 20 minutes to charge a baby PHEV and say, “no.”
I completely agree, it's at most 50 lines of C code to send a notify message.

https://sources.debian.org/patches/openssh/1:9.7p1-4/systemd...

If Lennart thinks through that position... sd_notify() shouldn't be in libsystemd.so at all, it's an attractive nuisance.

At best it should be in a static library only.
If Musk is sincere in his tweeting then he has the politics of a 14-year old Reddit Troll (and I would know having been guilty of such behavior myself). There are much better ways to persuade people of your righteousness than posting memes where women are flashing their vaginas at monks in order to tempt them, but of course that takes actual work and lacks the dopamine hit that comes from such subversiveness. And again, I say this as someone who appreciates the occasional 420/69 numerology or naming your car models "S", "3" (E), and "X". To me that's playful, but he's taken it far beyond that and into something much darker.
highly plausible looking nonsense

Ask the LLM to generate some unit tests for the code it just generated. Then if the test fails, ask the LLM to fix the bug in the code.

I find that this catches and fixes a surprising number of LLM bugs in generated code.