skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just clarified your first two "If's" with your last one.

Perception. Coal has killed far more people than nuclear ever has, despite the compounded blunders that led to Chernobyl and Fukushima (storing MOX on TOP of the reactors? Really?).

Wind is a fine thing to build out as a supplemental power source, but it can never satisfy baseline needs, and isn't even putting a dent in replacing fossil fuels -- at best it is helping to marginally slow the expansion of fossil fuel reliance as we add more and more consumption of power with the advancement of technologies across the world. The anti-nuclear movement was heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry from the get-go, and their propaganda has been more successful than they could have dreamed of.

But these perceptions are changing. Even Greta and her green minions are going pro-nuclear these days. It's a slow boat to turn, but there's a sign we might just turn this ship around to avert at least a portion of the looming energy crisis.
By that argument, are the "Gas Laws" [0] not considered laws of physics? They are an aggregated by-product of more fundamental inter-molecule interactions. Perhaps you'd class them as Chemistry rather than Physics?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_laws
I'm from germany but visited US many times.

In US, you wouldn't expect any privacy if you are in a public area. You can take pictures/video and you most likely are being filmed yourself by security cameras.

I like this rule (edit: first amendment right) because it's really easy to understand for everyone, you dont need a blog post to describe the nuances of it.

In Germany, even the use of dashcams is legally controversial. In Bavaria, passing on video footage recorded with a dashcam to the police or insurance company could result in a fine.
> Also, no one would care if it's green or not in case of a full-scale war.

If you're a nuclear country in a full-scale war with Russia or China, you are dead. Your family is dead. Your friends are dead. Everyone you know or love or hate is dead. Everyone who isn't dead is dying or going to die. Those who survive will be holed up in bunkers built with the expectancy that the population will naturally thin out (i.e. die off) to make the scarce supplies last or they will be on the surface facing starvation if they don't die from disease, weather or lack of access to potable water first.

I don't know at which point after the Cold War people forgot what "mutually assured destruction" means but as soon as you fire the first nuclear weapon, humanity ends. And it doesn't matter if the weapon is nuclear or not because most weapons systems that can deliver nuclear payloads can also deliver conventional payloads and all that matters is what your enemy thinks you're doing.

This kind of rhetoric:

> Your only priority would be to kill as many Russians as possible to survive.

This will make your enemy err on the side of you intending nuclear annihilation and respond in kind. The only reason we haven't killed ourselves yet is that a couple of times some level-headed soldiers weren't myopic enough to fall for their country's nationalist fervor and instead refused to follow the orders they were given.

If the US enters a full-scale war with Russia or China or any other serious nuclear threat, the bombs will fall before you have to worry about FEMA camps or the US national guard knocking on your barn door to confiscate your rusty diesel barrels.
i paid up, didn't get any emails and i hadn't logged in first, appears to be broken as I can't login with my gmail now.
Where I live the largest consumer banks have a state sanctioned cartel regarding electronic identification. They'll never support Linux, and I won't support anything else on my personal computers, which means I have to use regular Android on my phone so I can use their 'app'.
I am programmer, musician (singer), author and I used to do some martial arts when I was younger, though I had approximately 0 talent for them.

I also studied maths as my major (Algebra, to be more precise). Math is infinitely playful. Trying to weasel your way into a hard problem using various results is fun. (Especially if you don't have a fixed deadline that would turn the play into stress.) It is like sitting in an alien workshop and trying very exotic tools that fit other hands.

If you are more of a visual guy, play around with stuff such as fractals. There, you can visualize the intricate structure on your screen. I will never forget the moment when I saw the Mandelbrot set for the first time. Neither probably did Mandelbrot himself; according to the lore, he expected nothing like that and thought that the computer had an error.
For me it can be any notebook, as long as it's spiral bound (to avoid trouble with pages flipping themselves over), lined (to help me write), A5 (to help my carry it with me at all times, and write on my lap if necessary) and around 200 pages (to last a reasonable amount of time, but be filled before getting too battered), decent quality, and fairly cheap.

Helpfully Amazon (and most stationers) carry "Cambridge Jotter, A5 Notebook, Wirebound, Lined, 200 Page, Pack of 3, green" for £8.

I write the date started and finished, and the number on the front and I'm currently on 26/01/2024 #31.
The Safe Pinned Initialization Problem in Rust
Thanks for playing!

I had issues implementing the attack speed because it requires the current time, and WebAssembly doesn't have the concept of date time that I'm aware of (or at least Rust's std lib for it).

I ended up sending up the current epochmilli from the client as an i32 and used that to check the timings, which seems to work well enough for this.
Batteries carry a fire risk, so let's use a nuclear reactor instead.
Reliability and validity of AI tool for assessment of stress based on speech
reloading the grift on each model release.
Golang, Htmx, alpinejs and tailwindcss. the new stack
Generous of you to not even point to the environmental issues associated with the mining of battery metals making drilling for fossil fuels look like a band of boyscouts going into the woods to plant trees.
The voice user interface for natural two-way conversation is GPT’s killer feature. Gemini also suppports voice input, which I use to make interactions easier on desktop. Hopefully Anthopic will add at least speech-to-text support, although I understand smartphones often include that already. That said, the OpenAI Whisper TTS is really nice for English language input.
In the example above, Claude's crawler is on a whooping 0.0008 TPS, not exactly a DDOS attack.

I'm not against blocking Claude for the reason you outline (or all LLM crawlers for that matter), but it's not exactly an "aggressive crawl rate".
Not sure if you think training LLMs is carbon neutral, but if so I have some news about the barrier reef that you're not going to be that pleased to hear
I have 3 PC game platforms, Discord's desktop client, 4 cloud services, and probably some company hubs for drivers (Nvidia, Logitech, Razer, etc) that phone home. You can definitely access all these through a browser intermediary, but many don't. Steam sort of needs to stay on your device for DRM purposes anyway.
Well, that was exact-whelming.

Pretty cool anyway :).
Schools can't magic dumb students better.

School have know close to maximum learning for 100 years. Most of school is fluff. Better learning, or more efficient learning won't change it.

By far the largest issue currently is behavioral problems and worsening situation dealing with them.

This is bad students making good students fail.

Within the confines of what's currently allowed and dealing with politicians, drugging bad students seems the best solution.

The problem is good students are also being drugged.

The cognitive psychology solution is convincing parents of good students not to drug their kids.
The fat lady has not sung yet - terrible movies often become cult hits once they are "rediscovered" for their badness and prices go down. I wouldn't be surprised if Cats eventually became a streaming staple.
All of physics basically reduces to linear algebra locally (which becomes quite unilinear when enough tensors are multiplied).

Why shouldn't we expect AI to be created using the same type of math?

If there is a surprise, it's only that we can use the same math at a much higher level of abstraction than the quantum level.
From my experience they are running whole cluster dedicated jobs quite frequently.
Climate models can use whatever resources they get,
nuclear weapons modelling esp for old warheads can use a lot.
Read it again:

"The recent industrial development of the City of Cleveland, following the railroad lines, has already reached the Village and to some extent extends over into it. In its obvious course, this industrial expansion will soon absorb the area in the Village for industrial enterprises. It is in restraint of this prospect that the ordinance seeks to operate. In effect it erects a dam to hold back the flood of industrial development and thus to preserve a rural character in portions of the Village which, under the operation of natural economic laws, would be devoted most profitably to industrial undertakings. This, the evidence shows, destroys value without compensation to the owners of lands who have acquired and are holding them for industrial uses."

"...the ordinance of its own force operates greatly to reduce the value of appellee's lands and destroy their marketability for industrial, commercial and residential uses; and the attack is directed, not against any specific provision or provisions, but against the ordinance as an entirety."
Well, when you inquire someone why they don't want to have more children, they can shrug and say "population reduction is good for the climate" as ig serving the greater good, and completely disregard any sense of "patriotic duty" to have more children like some politicians such as Vladimir Putin, would like to instill. They can justify it just as easily as you can be derranged enough to call it a governemnt conspiracy.
I need the bank's eID-application to authenticate against pretty much all of the public sector, and when I buy tobacco online.

The banks were many years ago allowed to develop an electronic identification system and they now totally dominate in this space, and that's what the public sector generally supports.

It's the 'worse than Soviet' kind of nasty that tend to emerge from liberalist oligarchies.
From what I've been told, if you have salt formations for hydrogen storage (and Europe does) then hydrogen is better than trying to use methanol. The latter is much more complicated and has lower round trip efficiency, involving storing not just methanol, but also CO2 and oxygen (from electrolysis, to use in oxyfuel combustion to help recycle the CO2).
I'm trying to imagine what the reasoning at Apple even is, like it's literal peanuts for them even if they paid all bug bounties in the world.
Thank you for posting this. As a Maths tutor for children, I find this really useful.
> The "linux-firmware" repo is the standard place to put it, my reading is that Qualcomm are doing this in the right way.

Indeed, Linux-firmware is the correct way to distribute. Qualcomm is currently _not_ doing this for all their Snapdragon Elite firmware (please read the linked article).
Monochrome 8x8 images to be exact... but still impressive!
It’s just like that Asimov story where the robots take over to protect humans from themselves.

Except in this case the base AI model doesn’t care about us in any way and it’s the overzealous puritan humans trying to control us in the name of safety.
Linked from the article are the pre release testing cards.. According to Garfield - it all went wrong after this! Magic with it's twice a year new sets and pay-to-win is not what he had envisioned.

https://www.magiclibrarities.net/955-rarities-alpha-beta-gam...
JSON for something that essentially mirrors a shell installation process? Feels like you are trying to reinvent things with a golden hammer, not like actually making it easier.
And probably needs good clearance of milled debris (aka vacuum), otherwise it could muck things up for subsequent printing.
Wow, I had no idea! But the selection is not fluid at all and really difficult this way
I think mostly claims have been around multiplying the efforts of people for now.
TNG went off the air 30 years ago - find new references.
Improving the ChatGPT UI [video]
More services that cause automatic recurring revenue.

Last I checked, Apple has:

Apple Pay

Apple Card

AppleCare+

AppleCare Help Desk Support

AppleCare OS Support

AppleCare for Enterprise

Apple Messages for Business (not sure if this one is paid or free)

Fitness+

Apple TV+

MLS Season Pass

iCloud+

Apple News+

Apple Music

Apple Arcade

iPhone Upgrade Program

Apple Developer Program

Apple Developer Enterprise Program

Apple One

...and there are probably a few more I’m missing.

I’m surprised they haven’t figured out a way to charge a monthly fee for iMessage and FaceTime yet (beyond of course the usual nagging you for iCloud storage upgrades to store backups all of the attachments you’ve been iMessaged).
>Your (inexact) age and your gender aren't private.

"On the internet, no one knows you're a cat". Most people probably don't care enough to conceal such factors, but maybe we should be more careful divulging that information on a semi-anonymous platform.

Age is an especially dangerous thing to share if you're young.
> milling hot plastic is almost impossible

Automatic pause time of (say) 5 mins before starting the mill process? Or even some kind of thermal measurement (laser?) instead of using a fixed time.

Perhaps even fan forced cooling? The milling tool would need some kind of vacuum near it anyway for debris clearance.
Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports
as long as it can solder me a breakfast!
The Nascar Camera Tech Behind a Historic 0.001s Photo Finish
That bit "... there's a "solution"" - does it keep working in societies where there are mega corps pushing billions into developing engaging, compelling and interesting AI companions?
> There's literally no evidence that's the case, this is fear-mongering on a scale I've never seen before. To the contrary, the reaction of the world to this conflict has already made enough of an impression on any would-be invader that it's a really bad idea to enter a conflict where the West is on the opposing side, and I am very convinced that Putin won't try his hand again.

Russia is currently forming two new armies that have a larger size than the ground forces of most European countries combined, and preparing an extensive sabotage campaign across Europe, and chiefs of European military and intelligence agencies are issuing public warnings that this is a preparation for war against the rest of Europe.

Your mistake is projecting western sensibilities upon Russians and expecting them to act within the confines of western culture. They don't care about "losing a huge market", because they are driven by ideology. The timid western response to the war has proven two very important things for them: (1) western sanctions are not enough to suffocate the ability to wage war, (2) western sanctions will not lead to unrest and instability in Russia, (3) war is a tenable (albeit slow) method of achieving their goals.

Russian conclusions from the war so far are thus completely opposite of yours. The negative consequences have been much smaller than anyone expected: the economy has not collapsed, they have not run out of weapons and manpower, they have not seen mass protests, and they continue to make progress. They have learned that they can fire missiles into Europe and kill people every day and get away with it. They even have cheerleaders in the west who demand giving Russians whatever they want to make it stop.

> If you stop the war right now, zero.

You can rest assured that it will be nowhere near zero. Should fighting on the frontlines end, Russia will redeploy resources into weeding out any opposition to Russian occupation, which in practice means an extensive campaign of terror against civilian population, going as far as forced population transfers, mass executions and other crimes against humanity, as they have done everywhere else. This is their normal modus operandi.

Russia already operates concentration camps and death squads in occupied territories, and peace on the frontline will allow them to allocate more manpower to internal security and make the campaign more intense. This is a key point that naive peace activists get wrong: peace on the frontline will not mean peace for civilians in occupied territories, instead, things will get worse. Many will perish in "filtration" camps and "cleaning" operations where squads go from house to house and kill all inhabitants.

People arguing for peace without liberation of occupied territories don't understand what they are doing; it is a position held out sheer ignorance.
If you don't know, then it probably doesn't affect you.
AI is going to be fantastic at teaching skills to students that those students may never need, since the AI will be able to do all the work that requires such skills, and do them faster, cheaper and at a higher level of quality.
Wow 50 years
Pretty sure they said they would not release GPT-5 on Monday. So it's something else still. And I don't see any sort of jump big enough to label it as 5.

I assume GPT-5 has to be a heavier, more expensive and slower model initially.

GPT-4o is like an optimisation of GPT-4.
My teachers never called practice tasks "problems", and I still didn't like doing repetitive tasks like "do 20 long-form divisions". I think students do understand that doing something over and over will make you better at that task, and it doesn't motivate them much.
Appreciate you saying so mitjafelicijan. You're right, it's all about what is appropriate for the project at a given time.
I used "trespass" as a transitive verb. It's a remedy, not something the hypothetical photographer is doing. It's when a person who controls a property can demand you leave and not return under penalty of arrest. It's not linked to photography specifically—a person who controls a property can trespass you for virtually any reason or no reason at all. They can't make you delete your photos or anything else. The hypothetical photographer is only trespassing when they've been given notice that they need to leave (i.e. the person who controls the property has trespassed them) and they refuse to do so.

Again, this is not a grey area at all.
I've used a similar setup a lot, but in the terminal, with Termux and vim. Together with PentiKeyboard it's actually rather nice for casual programming and data exploration.

I found Doom Emacs to be a bit too heavy-weight but it works and on a fiercer machine than my aging handhelds it would probably be fine.
This is a CPU benchmark, not a test of what OS is running on it.
I'm surprised that ChatGPT is proactively asking questions to you, instead of just giving a response. Is this new? I don't remember this from previous versions.
Companies have complex telecoms but generally want the outside as one company number. Solution, the sender send a packet with the number they should get perceived as. Everyone sends this on. Everyone "looks the other way" by design haha
Indeed, the problem right now is not production. We have overproduction in parts of Europe. The problem is storage and distribution. We need to improve the grids and invest in storage technologies to better time-shift renewable energy instead of shutting down wind parks when there's too much energy from solar on a day that's both very sunny and very windy.
After filling the word with AI, we all will discover the basic fact: we cannot eat AI.
Ai dont's have a salary, Ai can't buy items and sustain a real economy.
AI is not even Intelligent, or Artificial, it's our same stuff repakaged, clever techs maybe, but just a tech tool.

And as all tools the big problem is the USE 'someone' will try to do of it, and this is a human decision, so we can/must have a voice on this. Knowledge, culture, education, studies, experience.. are amongs the keys to do this.
> And you obviously can't run accelerated x86 VMs either way.

But Qualcomm should allow users to run accelerated aarch64 VMs on a Snapdragon Elite (just like users can on Asahi Linux).

> I think that for many use-cases containers already replaced VMs even for developers.

If you're happy with running containers then you'll be fine. However, many developers like VMs for the extra isolation they bring and other features like running a full Linux distribution. Example: You may want to run Ubuntu on your Snapdragon Elite system but also want to run a full aarch64 NixOS within a VM.
Why do some people gloat about moving goalposts around?

15 years ago self driving of any sort was pure fantasy, yet here we are.

They'll release a version that can drive in poor weather and you'll complain that it can't drive in a tornado.
Are you afraid for your and your family lives after posting this comment? If not, then it's not worse
How do you expect this to work out? "Hey did you steal my phone?" Again if its a multistory building you aren't finding the correct door.
The ARM vendors are annoyingly stingy about providing access to this. You’ll probably have to use Qualcomm’s proprietary hypervisor and even then it’s not clear whether they’ll give you enough access to run a VM.
Some Nazis/Nazi role-players were discovered in space reachable by a wormhole by players who don't like Nazis, determined by the names of their ships and structures (stations, storage, markets, etc). These players set about eliminating the Nazi menace.

They were having a rough time of it even with other people joining until the allies of the Nazis had a look at those ship and structure names and realized they were allied with Nazis. Those allies flipped and joined the attackers, and turned the tide of the war.
> generalized AI

No one is talking about it being AGI. Everyone is talking about just AI specifically. I think your problem is thinking that AI = AGI.

For example AI in video games is very specific and narrow to its domain.
Hear hear. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40350218
For me it's semrush, not being able to understand robots.txt wildcards, and 20x more traffic than normal bots. What are they doing on a movie site anyway? No problem with claudebot
This post misses the most important part of LISTEN / NOTIFY: transactions

The notify piece respects your current transactional state. So of you issue a notify within a transaction, it’s only delivered if the transaction commits. If the transaction rolls back, the notification is discarded.

This leads to the common pattern of combining the notification with insertion into a work queue. That solves the “listener was not listening yet” problem too.
I automatically filter anything with the word "ick" or any derivative in it.

Because I systematically find that the analysis is immature and shallow.

I ignored my filter on this article.

And yet, the filter was right again.
To be honest, this comment makes me think it would be interesting to have a grumpy version of AI just for fun
Didn't France also have to literally shut down a nuclear plant because of the drought last year or so? As climate change escalates, having a power plant you need to shut down when the river runs dry and then need to spend days booting up again isn't the best choice for sustainable and reliable electricity.
What about baggage handlers at two major US hubs where this bag flew? Plus presumably an entire plane of iphones and that plane is certainly not a faraday cage.
Yes, "linux-firmware" is the way to do it -- however Qualcomm is currently NOT doing it for all their Snapdragon Elite firmware (as per the linked article). This is on their TODO list.
Hopefully someone with more experience can chime in here, but what kind of deal do you have with him (i.e. can you fire him)? Either way, I'd consult with a lawyer to see what your options are
Look I don’t agree with your parent comment but, uh, yes I do. Do you not mindlessly select text while reading?