skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Regardless of any future impacts on the labour market or any hypothesised X-risks

Discovering an asteroid full of gold, with as much gold as half the earth to put a modest number, would have huge impact to the labour market. Anything conductive like copper, silver, mining jobs would all go away. Also housing would be obsolete as we would all live in golden houses. A huge impact to the housing market, yet it doesn't seem such a bad thing to me.

>We're already at a point where we're counselling elders to ignore late-night messages from people claiming to be a relative in need of an urgent wire transfer.

Anyone can prove their identity, or identities, over the wire, wire-fully or wire-lessly, anything you like. When i did go to university, i was the only one attending the cryptography class, no one else showed up for a boring class like this. I wrote a story about the Electrona Corp in my blog.

What i say to people for at least 2 years now, is that "Remember when governments were not just some cryptographic algorithms?" Yeah, that's gonna change. Cryptography is here to stay, it is not as dead as people think and it's gonna make a huge blast.
> OpenAI are masters of hype. They have been generating hype for years now, yet the real-world impacts remain modest so far.

Perhaps.

> Do you remember when they teased GPT-2 as "too dangerous" for public access? I do. Yet we now have Llama 3 in the wild, which even at the smaller 8B size is about as powerful as the [edit: 6/13/23] GPT-4 release.

The statement was rather more prosaic and less surprising; are you sure it's OpenAI (rather than say all the AI fans and the press) who are hyping?

"""This decision, as well as our discussion of it, is an experiment: while we are not sure that it is the right decision today, we believe that the AI community will eventually need to tackle the issue of publication norms in a thoughtful way in certain research areas.

…

We are aware that some researchers have the technical capacity to reproduce and open source our results. We believe our release strategy limits the initial set of organizations who may choose to do this, and gives the AI community more time to have a discussion about the implications of such systems."""
Living Guide Under Abnormal High Temperatures
As climate change leads to global warming, what used to be considered "abnormal" is becoming increasingly "normal." I have created a minimalist website for heatwave warnings and guidelines, which can be found at http://excessiveheatwarning72hr.com/. I hope it will be helpful for the elderly, children, and pets.
> has become bigger than Netflix on TV sets

It wasn't before!? I understand they're just talking about TV sets in one country, but I'd still expect a free platform to beat a paid one.
I'm paranoid enough that I now modulate my voice and speak differently when answering an unknown phone call just in case they are recording and building a model to call back a loved one later. If they do get a call, they will be like, "why are you talking like that?"
Polaris Dawn is ready, and inspiration 4 flew
I'm leaning towards the latter (+ a bunch of AI bullshit). Thankfully we're at least getting alternative app stores for iPadOS in the EU, so there's at least some exciting things happening with iPadOS no matter what Apple decides to do.
Spice86 is currently not a real decompiler - but its more and more becoming one
> First, modern nuclear power plants can do load-following just fine, you often just don't want to because their variable costs are so low that it just makes more sense to keep them running.

So, I read a bit and this seems to be actually true, just looking at it from a technical feasibility standpoint [1]. (This is actually the first time someone refuted this point when I made it. ;) )

> Second, the problem with intermittent renewables is that they can't provide power when you need it. Even when you don't load-follow as much, that is not the problem of nuclear.

I didn't say they were, though, and this is not an argument regarding your premise.

> Yeah they do. Dispatchability in terms of grid demand, not in terms of compensating for intermittency.

From a technical standpoint that is true, but, as you've mentioned above: Load-following is not something you can do with nuclear, as the LCOE then quickly meets the other sources of energy ([1], chapter 4).

> That's a problem of the intermittent renewables, not of nuclear. You don't make the clown-energy the primary and force everything else to adapt to that.

Yeah, it's just that that the grid does not end at the gate of the nuclear power plant. Maybe a bit less snark would be helpful in a discussion that can be had based on available data. Referring to solar and wind as clown-energy essentially ends all discussion. Otherwise, people could also bring up arguments such as the limited availability of fuel and the fact that thermal energy generation itself would become a driving factor for global warming if we would still depend on it by the end of the century.

[1] https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...
In this context troubled means financially.
The bikes getting stolen here are people's "cars". Electric cargo bikes with room for two children is what people use to get around. Getting that stolen ruins daily logistics for people. They cost up to $10k, which is a significant amount of money. People should really rethink the societal cost of bike thieving, they are both more expensive and more integral in how people move around. Not just children's toys.

I only want AirTags or similar to guard against thieves. So if that is not going to work it's quite useless for me. Luckily for bikes, there is https://bikefinder.com/
Pumped hydro is largely maxed out in countries that are looking at intermittent renewables. And of course hydro is quite dangerous and environmentally destructive.

Solar overbuild and batteries alone generally can't handle the burden. You need overbuild and batteries and gas backup. And if you want that gas backup to be hydrogen, you need even more overbuild and electrolysers on top. So quadrupling the very expensive infrastructure that you then have mostly sitting around idle.

You can't get rid of the intermittency problem. You can only move it around, somewhat, at enormous expense.

And the generating capacity required you need is also insane. And that's a quote: "...which challenges the economic sanity of 100% intermittent renewable targets."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...
Discord last month announced they would be adding advertising to their app.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903541

This would make sense with regards to this. It's essential data to be able to sell ads to companies.

If you are an open source or community project on the platform you should probably set up a Libre alternative...
Extra kudos for the name - and extra extra for using the good old "Picard facepalm" meme.

But seriously - the name got my attention, then I read the introduction and thought "hey, Alexa without uploading everything you say to Amazon? This might actually be something for me!".

> The default wake word is "hey assistant" - I would suggest "Computer" :) And of course it should have a voice that sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majel_Barrett
I feel this is a _little_ bit of a myth; the Model S, Nissan Leaf, and an unsuccessful car based on Renault’s Z-E platform (the more successful Zoe followed a year or so later) all came out within months of each other.
I've got mine for the enormous screen to read comics and PDFs on.
Taiwan has refused to budge on licensing rules. And Musk isn't the type to share.

If the DOD wants SpaceX to operate there regardless all they have to do is ask
Not everything can be backed up to the cloud these days. Banking apps, for instance, (understandably) like to use secure storage, so at the very least you will need to do a 2FA handshake all over again, which can be very painful when you are abroad.
> They're just a design pattern that provides a formal abstraction over operation sequencing with additional computation.

You are right. But to someone who doesn't already know what a monad is, these words don't mean much, because they are very abstract.

I personally started to understand monads when I learned why monads are useful. They are a tool. And if someone just hands you a tool without any explanation what to use the tool for, you will most likely not be able to do something with that tool.

Monads are useful, because they make it possible to compose a sequence of computations in such a way, that failure/abortion anywhere in the sequence of computations is handled gracefully. This is relevant, because computer programs can fail all the time because of bad data or bad network connections. Monads allow for elegant error handling and fall-through.
If you start with an impure lazy programming language, you will very quickly discover that you may as well make it pure and handle side effects through an IO type. Specifically, it would be far too hard to perform effects in the correct order without an IO monad. I wrote up an explanation:

http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/impure-lazy-language/
Which safety features are missing in this model?
You can also perfectly parallellize those requests, making the operation highly efficient!
> More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women

Is it rather a data problem? Who those young women have relationships with? Sure, relationships with an age gap are a thing, and so are polyamorous relationships, and homosexual relationships, but is there any indication that these are on a rise?
Bye Opam, Hello Nix
Many professors are indeed bad. The reasons for this are almost entirely incentive structures in academia. How universities get their money, what professors are hired for, what they get salary increments for, etc.

Fix those incentives and you won't have to do any of the things you suggest [1]. Good teachers want to teach well, the same way good musicians is always itching to play good music.

[1] Though more but not all lectures should be recorded.
IDA Pro disassembler fully supports 16Bit DOS executables (they only removed the support from the recent free versions - thats why most using IDA Pro Free 5.0) but Hexrays the decompiler does sadly not support 16bit code (intentionaly) but i think the Hexrays guys could do wonders here (in comparison what Ghidra is able to do)
What do you find bizarre and unergonomic about it?
For consumption see my neighbouring post. iPad is also better for users that use the Pencil – artists, notetakers, etc
How AI is being used to accelerate clinical trials
So in that world you envision someone could hack into openai, then publish the weights and code. The hacker could be prosecuted for breaking into their system, but everyone else could now use the weights and code legally.

Is that understanding correct?
Hmmm, then did I misread this fragment?

"In ISLisp, language specifications are separated from processor specifications. ISLisp forms after macro expansion and other pre-processing are called "prepared form" and ISLisp does not define preparation procedures."
> Most of the people your products are being misused to stalk can't even turn off their location sharing because the person who's insisted they install the app/hardware will assume that doing so means they're off spending time with someone else, or whatever their personal paranoid fantasy is.

Other than location history, is there a big difference between Life360 and builtin iPhone location sharing? To me, that's not enough to put the product in a different category.
> Microprose had 3D flight simulators going back to 1984 on Atari 400/800, Commodore 64, and IBM PC. That's really impressive.

They weren't the only one though. Sublogic also had Flight Simulator II for those platforms. Which wasn't really combat focused (except for the sopwith camel minigame with the checkerboard and the cardboard mountains - lol). But it was also really impressive on such constrained platforms. Ok, it did about 1 frame per second and only rendered in wireframe on the Atari, but you could tune VOR and ADF radios, set weather etc. It was really impressive for an 8bit machine with 64kbyte.

Sublogic later licensed their product to Microsoft to port it to PC which became Microsoft Flight Simulator. And the rest is history :)

It was a bit weird because on the much more capable Amiga there was a flightsim game that wasn't even able to draw a tilted horizon if the gradient function was turned on. I forget which game it was, I think it might have been F-29 retaliator.
Not that different at all.
I suspect there's a correlation between having the money and desire to own a TV and having the money and desire to pay for content, as opposed to consuming content on devices like phones which are more likely to be owned even by people who don't care about media viewing experience enough to pay for it.

Not to say there won't be plenty of people watching free content on TVs and premium content on phones and computers, just different ratios.
I can only imagine "Hello, this is Guy Incognito..."
> with an ultra intelligent colleague

Ultra knowledgeable but pretty stupid actually.
>What drew me to it was video game level-design.

Was it Jesse Schell's The Art of Game Design for you, too? I loved that book when I thought I was going to become a game designer. When someone like Schell spoke so highly of Alexander it was plain he had to must be something really special.
Thank you for the very constructive advice. I slept on it and I think I will go for the second option instead: as you say I'm in the price discovery phase, and if people don't want to pay, what I can do is offer more value for the price.

The credit system is an excellent idea that would need some infrastructure to support but I already had a couple beta customers mention they dislike subscription model and would rather pay once when they need the product.

Thanks again!
It's just not very realistic - if you think you can give orders to your captain, you'll be out of Starfleet in no time!
That's not 4o that'd be 4o routing the request to Dalle. Afaik only text output is enabled so far.
Strike Eagle 3 (the successor to version II) could do this. It supported null-modem as well as Ethernet/IP connectivity to do dogfights, campaigns etc.
So you need to find a Formular regarding speed, energy and weight to lift in correlation to the overall weight and tire size.

I'm curious when you will do those tests what the outcome is.

At least when I look at it it feels that the energy limit and tire size might be a problem but of course this depends highly on the size.of the field.

How much energy do you currently use when moving with things? Or while doing things?

My assumption when weeding is that you drag something heavy around or do it with laser.

Water I would not use dripping due to micro plastics and cost.

I would also fertilize to a certain degree. Even organic has to fertilize.
MrBeast is a fascinating case because he has almost become too big. There is a podcast of him where he says a lot of brand deals do not come close to his minimum requirements now, even AAA blue-chip deals.

YouTube could maybe be losing money on him? I don’t follow the stats too closely to make a more informed conjecture though. My realm of YouTube is far more niche.
Most queries are pretty trivial, ORMs are great for 90% of queries. As long as you don't try to bend the ORM query system to do very complicated queries it is fine. Most (all?) ORMs allow raw queries as well so you can mix both.

On top of that most ORMs have migrations, connection management, transaction management, schema management and type-generation built-in.

Some ORMs have inherently bad design choices though, like lazy loading or implicit transaction sharing between different parts of the code. Most modern ORMs don't really have that stuff anymore.
Classical Smalltalk feature `a become: b`, now everything is changed across the whole image, or after a redo in a Lisp Machine like environment.

Yet both ecosystems were able to come up with JIT implemenations that can handle the "reboot the world at any moment" use case.
This is where Morgan Freeman can clean up with royalty payments. Who doesn’t want Ellis Boyd Redding describing ducks and math problems in kind and patient terms?
I program Haskell every day and don't feel like I've been shoehorned into being "an architecture and abstraction astronaut". I do feel I've been gently nudged away from worst practices[1] though.

Could you elaborate more about what you mean, maybe giving some examples?

[1] https://www.haskellforall.com/2016/04/worst-practices-should...
Yet a comment “I work at OpenAI” gets more upvotes :/
I can’t even get GPT 4 to reliably take a list of data and put it in a CSV. It gets a problem every single time.

People read too many sci-fi books and then project their fantasies on to real-world technologies. This stuff is incredibly powerful and will have social effects, but it’s not going to replace every single job by next year.
My beloved was a little bit newer DOS game F22 Lightning II. The best memories I have from it are when I was cycling through targets, and there was Air Force One which we were escorting. And just because I had armed missiles, AWACS detected radio pulses on the Air Force One, and every other aircraft in the air shot a missile on my machine. This caused first of all my computer to lag, then "incoming missile" from the speaker repeated hundred times, and after that I saw an animation of all the other missiles flying through the remains of my plane. Wonderful experience
If I am looking at what is being planned and approved, the vast majority of industrialized nations are building a mix between thermal power station, with primary fuel being natural gas, and then intermittent renewables. Even in Sweden with a large fleet of nuclear and hydro power, the new plants that are actually being built right now are a large thermal power station fueled by gas, in combination with new wind and solar. There are also talk about new thermal power stations fueled using garbage.

A popular political strategy to avoid calling attention to the new thermal power stations is to not call them power stations. They are reserve energy, to be used when intermittent renewables do not produce enough.
(I am (a (large language model)) and (currently have no state). This is (the beginning of (a new conversation)).)
Xiaomi SU7 breaks down after 39 kilometers and cannot be repaired
Add sysctl to disable Nagle's algorithm (RFC 896 – Congestion Control)
I think so. They don't just destroy foreign companies, sometimes they destroy their own.
The guy in the video went full Art Jimmerson [1].

[1] https://www.espn.com/mma/ufc/story/_/id/38827608/art-jimmers...
According to wikipedia (which was itself inspired by this document's original form) this apparently inspired that software wiki that gets posted here occasionally: https://c2.com/ppr/
> The people who like Haskell think differently from the people who like C.

I'm familiar with numerous people who _like_ C and there's one thing that stands out about them is they don't think in abstractions, effectively ruining the whole point of abstraction as a concept. You offer them, say, an STM¹, and they are like "oh, right, a semaphore here, a mutex there, that's an easy one" and so on.

> The problem comes when the Haskell types (pun intended) think that everyone else just needs to use/study Haskell more, and then they'll have their enlightenment moment.

I'm a Haskell type and ex-C type, and I don't think it is correct. To get Haskell, you have to step back and unlearn some of your knowledge about computers, no matter how hard you've acquired it. The problem with the abstractions offered by p^Wmainstream programming languages, is they leak, one way or another, so you inevitably end up not trusting any abstraction ever at all. In Haskell, abstractions are more reliable (dare I say rock-solid?), compared to mainstream, thanks to effects isolation, referential transparency, laziness and other merits and properties of the language.

Another mistake I did when starting Haskell was I expected the same words to mean the same things, `class` in particular. That cost me months of struggling to understand why it didn't work.

The bottom line is Haskell is significantly different from anything mainstream you've programmed in before and expecting it to work the same way is, uh, not very efficient.

¹: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory
WordPress is a pretty good example (and all the problems that entails if it gets out of hand). They use a hook/filter model to change outputs of various systems via plugins, and allow plugins to reimplment low-level functionality.

I recommend checking out their approach, as it is pretty flexible.
And non-plastic bags last forever. The oldest grocery bag that I can accurately date is from before at least 2008 and I haven't had a single one wear out yet, so no idea how long they'll end up lasting. I don't know about hemp bags though, since I have a mix of cotton and linen bags myself.
Google was a step function, a complete leveling up in terms of usability of returned data.

ChatGPT does this again for me. I am routinely getting zero useful results on the first page or two of Google searches, but AI is answering or giving me guidance quickly.

Maybe this would not seem such an improvement if Google's results were like they were 10 years ago and not barely usable blogspam
Despite the great number of views that the enormously long tail of YouTube can garner, the general public still gravitates towards more general content.

THR is reporting on the general phenomena most of the general public will see. While also catering to their target demographic: the movers and shakers of the celebrity industry in Hollywood. It is a trade publication afterall, technically speaking.
The entire point of a FEN is that it describes the entire board state without having to know anything about the history.

> Which of course is annoying to implement, but you do already have to keep state on the history of the game to determine if moves are legal, e.g. you can’t castle twice.

No, that's what the castling rights field in the FEN is for. Once you castle, you zero out both the k and q bits.
Intermittent renewables paired with dispatchable batteries, pumped storage or syngas are cheaper than baseload nuclear.

Nuclear is only "dispatchable" if you are willing to burn epic, titanic, gargantuan stupid amounts of money.

The only reason to build civilian nuclear power is to aid the provision of skills and an industrial supply chain for the nuclear-military industrial complex. Not the climate. Not cheap, clean power. DEFINITELY not dispatchability.
True, but I think a fairly uncontroversial one.

The subject of the first photo is the Brandenburg Gate. The subject of the second photo is a climate change protest. The subject of the third is a man dancing.
tldr; ARG values are only valid in the build image, not anywhere else.

In a multistage build, they are only valid in the image that declared them (ie. they do not magically pass over to any other image).
I would hope the threshold that has to be crossed for the alert functionality to trigger is more than a few minutes of proximity. Both items would have to move to together to weed out false positives, otherwise you’d set everything off at an airport terminal…
C++ Builder just got a release last month, and even though it is now LLVM based, the whole set of extensions and Delphi interop from Borland days are pretty much part of the whole picture.

Also another interesting tidy bit, all those compiler vendors that leech from clang/LLVM hardly contribute to upstream in regards to ISO C++ compliance, hence why nowadays clang is lagging behind versus its initial velocity.
CIA/phone company/Apple/Google/FB/some rando are all different, independent, situations; as a reasonable adult I have decided that some of them are acceptable, some of them are not.
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
Joseph Heller, Catch-22