skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electricity generation is still 25% coal. Germany's emissions per capita are very high compared to, say, France, because their electricity production is still actually very dirty. France's electricity production has been very low-emissions for decades because of nuclear and hydro.

There's a lot of spin about renewables in Germany but overall this is a failed energy policy.

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Alternative: https://youglish.com/ (it supports other languages too).
Heh, and you could argue that laptops are standard these days. More laptops are sold than desktops, and HP is definitely a mainstream brand.

I understand your usage of the word, I'm just pointing out that if the mainstream ain't "standard" anymore... it kind of sets the standard in practice.
Yes, because real workers are never exploited and never have legitimate concerns and demands, especially in developing world countries /s

It's not like such companies like Chiquita even support dictators or topple goverments (or lobby to get it done on their behalf) to protect their margins and cheap labour...

"Among the Honduran people, the United Fruit Company was known as El Pulpo ("The Octopus" in English), because its influence pervaded Honduran society, controlled their country's transport infrastructure, and manipulated Honduran national politics with anti-labour violence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
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That's definitely fair. I just blurped it out that way because, at least in my experience, Russia isn't really considered a European country "colloquially". At least where I'm from, people would usually say it's Asian when asked what continent Russia belongs to (if they had to pick one).

But I agree it doesn't really hold up to more detailed scrutiny.
You don't have to rely on (faulty) memory, the very Wikipedia article mentions that the USA was a signatory of the Hague treaty.

As an aside it is pretty hilarious in hindsight that at the time all the countries who are now permanent UN Security Council member (which its associated veto powers) were in favor of a binding international arbitration court, but it was vetoed by the powers of that time like Germany.
This is also a good point. YouTube didn't even had ads when it initially launched.

Corpos will try to shift the deal in their favor all the time, take as much as they can take away with.

I intend to do the same. If you just want to take it, that's your prerogative.
stock value doesnt reflect a company's income or ability to pay their workers
The author also says this edited model increased perplexity (which as far as I understand, means the quality was lowered)
This writeup neither answers the essential question "where does the carbon wind up?", nor does it link to any more-clear original source or paper about the described research that could answer that question.

That leaves it so incomplete about its topic that the link should be replaced with a better one if possible.
Isn't Leonardo DaVinci famous for doing just that?
The software sucks because it’s just iPadOS with windows and iPadOS sucks. Yes, it’s the best iPad you can buy but at the end of the day iPadOS is incredibly limiting and visionOS is no different.

I really wanted to like my AVP and I was even ok with MVD being the only thing I used it for but even that was lackluster. I spent the rest of my time fighting with apps that felt like limited toys instead of a step forward in productivity.

Maybe if MVD gets as sharp as “native” apps I could use it and bypass the limitations of the AVP OS but I just don’t see visionOS getting much better. Look at iPadOS and how long it’s had to improve and it still is the limiting factor (not the hardware). An M* in a MBP runs circles around the same M-chip in an iPad.

I say all of this as a huge Apple fan who uses iPads as part of my business (I own over 40 iPads) and I bought the AVP at launch (then returned it).
Why? The F22 barely got any use at all.

Wouldn't swarms of cheaper drones be more useful, if only to loiter and launch air to air missiles?
If algae grows quickly and uses carbon you probably have to remove parts during operation, then there's 2 options, bury it (thus removing it from the loop and becoming negative) or optimally produce cheaper carbon fuel sources, thus we could replace parts of other "biofuels" and reduce the amount of oils we pump up.

I love the idea but I'm highly doubtful of scaling (really wouldn't mind being proven wrong).
Yep I also find it off-putting, it seems there had been a thesis to be confirmed.
AoE 2 is like a 1965 Mustang Shelby while AoE 3 is like an RX-7 Veilside. Both really awesome in their own different ways.
Few times seen a blog post touching on so many subjects, without actually saying anything. Is there an argument, point, story, poem, news, analysis or something being made here?
Everyone has decided government should be used to tell everyone else how to think.

I would like the option of a party that wants to focus on things like preventing fraud and ensuring freedom, but seemingly across the western world such things are uninteresting.
The bigger question is whether the paper reflects the views of insiders at OpenAI.
Don't market yourself as a founder. Market yourself as a former employee of your own company. Rightly or wrongly, holding yourself out as a "founder" is going to give a hiring manager the impression that you're going to be difficult to manage. Also, they might believe that your focus is going to be on your own business and not theirs.

I'm going to be brutally honest, the market sucks right now. I haven't seen it this bad since 2008. I just started a new role after 18 months of looking. And the only reason I got it is because I had someone on the inside who fast-tracked my resume to the right people. I have nearly 20 years of experience in software development, btw. I used to have to block recruiters because they would never stop calling. Now? Those recruiters all gave up and became realtors.
> it [the US] doesn't believe in the concept of human rights.

Unless when China, Russia, Iran or DPRK violates humans right according to their Secretary of State; in that case they cry an additional Mississippi river over human rights violations.
This is the company that installed a spamware version of candy crush on every windows machine by default.
Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon's platform for self-published ebooks: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
I've seen discussion about analog circuits which might do a lot of the work for much less power. I hope people are seriously investigating it. I think maybe analog computers were abandoned too quickly.
It seems weird to me to buy a company and then have to licence the company's own IP from a third party (AFAIK Qualcomm has an ARM ISA licence). Maybe Nuvia signed away exclusive rights to Arm, but at that point they'd be basically working for someone else's benefit.

Or maybe the cores aren't as custom as Qualcomm is telling us, and they contain some separately-licenced Arm tech.
There are clear, well documented, notorious cases, some of them even ruled on by international tribunals, of the USA causing direct harm in several South American countries (support and training of anti-government CONTRA torture squads, assassinations of El Salvador priests, mining Nicaragua's harbors, and there are many others).

That others also caused harm, both in South America and in many other places, in no way whatsoever excuses the clear harms caused by the USA.
It’s pretty bizarre how SV decision makers have shifted from talking about ML to LLMs to straight up Artificial Intelligence.

I think one of the reasons is that LLMs are very good at what the execs do every day for a living and because of that, use as a way of assessing each other’s mental capacity: producing coherent-sounding speech (1).

Now that the LLM can do what any VP has dedicated their entire life to mastering, they assume that the system will be able to handle any task that they delegate, including programming, system design, project management, etc. Since the people doing this are paid less than them, surely it must be simply easier.

By this intuition, LLMs have now become intelligent, and are capable of handling anything at all. It is a must we find a way to integrate them in all of our products. And so, they’re now AI.

(1) That speech doesn’t necessarily have to carry a lot of meaning. Its main purpose is establishing the competence of the speaker.
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Indeed, my perception of SF is pretty much Thunderdome.
23% coal, 28.2% less than last year.

Renewable energy is hugely increasing world wide.
That doesn't matter; ARM's argument is, that the Nuvia IP is bound to Nuvia's license and cannot be used with a different license (which Qualcomm has, without limitation to server).
Yeah scale is always the hard part; but it’s academia’s role largely to turn over stones and see what’s under them. It’s industry’s job to figure out which pathways are actually worth pursuing and which can be scalable/economically feasible. You never know which tech avenue might end up having some odd edge-case use unseen by researchers that ends up being a revolutionary because industry figures out how to apply it in some adjacent domain.
You could try disabling the Android system ("Google Play"), since they switched running Android in a VM in newer ChromeOS versions. So you have an Android VM running in the background all the time and that might overwhelm the small Mediathek processor in the Duet.
"power cells that generate electricity from algae"... in mice
> same clustering problem

Not necessarily. Depending on your secrecy desire, you could include the internal ID in JWT or cookie, and then locate the row (including the external UUID) using that. Another option would be to build an index with `INCLUDE external_id`. That way, it doesn’t impact the B+tree (kind of) but it still gets pulled along for query results. The leaf nodes would become larger, but the overall ordering wouldn’t change (I think – never actually tried this).
It was quickly taken down, but there was a video on YouTube from someone who got hold both of a Space Shuttle and a Starship heat shield tile. He analyzed it with a microscope. He found that the material was nearly identical. I do wonder why SpaceX thinks they can make a ceramic heat shield work when it needed lots of checks and refurbishment for the Space Shuttle. Recently Musk even said they will add an ablative heat shield in certain areas.

On the other hand, the at least the reusability of the lower stage shouldn't be a problem.
I feel bad for LLMs that get trained on modern publications ("high quality sources", heh), and internalize that this is how people are supposed to talk with each other.
Paying a terrorist org or doing business in a unaligned country is a very different story.

The US needs certain things from Russia: it's not that all trade has been sanctioned. Just trade that does not have enough lobby power to protect it.
Isabelle is generic and supports many object logics, listed in [1]. Isabelle/HOL is most popular, but Isabelle/ZF is also shipped in the distribution bundle for people who prefer set theory (like myself).

[1] https://isabelle.in.tum.de/doc/logics.pdf
Germany FUBARed this like you wouldn't believe, those responsible will probably be branded traitors decades after the fact, primarily Schroeder (now a Gazprom shill) but probably also Merkel for not doing anything to change the status quo.

Up until 2011 or so Germany was a leader in solar and wind power equipment production. Then they cut off subsidies and it took AN ENTIRE DECADE to get back where they were, in terms of adding additional capacity, by which point China absolutely towered over everyone else.

Europe has also missed the battery production train.

Oil and gas are considered geostrategic priorities and almost every country tried to secure its supply. Solar and wind power equipment production as well as battery production, for some reason, were treated as second class citizens in a world where they will replace oil and gas for 80% of uses.
I wonder if the enumeration approach from this paper :

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ci025526c#

which (I'm aware it's paywalled) essentially enumerates using the inner duals of the tilling and then reconstructs from that inner dual.

Seems like if you could just run through the legal tilings, rather than have to reject ones where the random choice of next tile was not legal, it would be faster
I don't get the joke?
Information about explosives is removed. The good old Anarchists Cookbook is illegal to posess. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58926...
> At least where I'm from, people would usually say it's Asian when asked what continent Russia belongs to (if they had to pick one).

Heh, that's quite funny, where are you from? :-)
They become big but not necessarily huge - like the 10 biggest tech companies that people here put as the benchmark. For that one needs organizations that also continuously increases their scope - going into new markets, consolidating exiting markets, buying up existing players. And if they are to continue being "European" then they must resist being bought up by the huge US or global tech companies. The latter is a big problem at least here in Norway. We have some companies that grow quite big and successful - but it is generally just a question of time before they get swallowed by a huge corp, often with US headquarters. Example: Atmel, now Microchip
I would imagine that will be a bit hard as I assume most involved is either dead or too old to stand fit for jail.

But this is a civil case so they can't get more than money.

Honest what is disgusting is the chump change they are getting 38 mil only for the insane amount of profit the company gained.
> There is one exception, founded in 1984
Europe clearly has many problems stimulating investments and creating a competitive environment for startups and tech companies. But you can't say ASML is the only one "real" tech company. What about Adyen, Spotify, Klarna, N26, Revolut, etc?
> gets effected by ad block.

No, it’s effected by their personal choice and Google. They don’t have to work as content creators, but they choose to. Google doesn’t have to enshitify YouTube, but they do. I’d gladly pay creator directly if they would host their videos on a better platform.
I loved listening to Joe. Humility and humor (or, should I say humour in his honor?), practicality and intelligence. RIP
>At best, they're idiotically-attempted coups.

I am tempted to add an image of Jack Sparrow saying, But you've heard of me.

That aside, US would not fall for a coup because of the strong institutions in place. But these places are not that mature in its institutions. So they would fall. It doesn't mean that a similar sentiment is not present in US. And for all the talk of the freedom and democracy US always prefers demagogues and dictators in other parts of the world, as long as US can control them.

The Capitol insurgency and the stop the steal was pretty popular, but it is not a reason for another country to lie and invade this place. Same should have been applied to Iraq. That's all.
Why would spam energy make consumers feel guilty?
Yes it is - but Nvidia has larger contracts _right now_. Nvidia has been investing more money in producing more GPUs for longer, so it’s only natural that they have an advantage now.

But now that there’s a larger incentive to produce GPUs, their moat will eventually fall.

TSMC runs at 100% capacity for top tier processes - their bottleneck is more foundries. These take time to build. So the question becomes - how long can Nvidia remain dominant? It could be quarters or it could be years before any real competitor convinces large customers to switch over.

Microsoft and Google are producing their own AI hardware too - nobody wants to depend solely on Nvidia, but they’re currently forced to if they want to keep up.
> you are powned under every OS

That literally wouldn’t work on Android, or ios. And android’s solution is very elegant, and only relies on standard linux interfaces, so there is zero reason why running every process under a new, dynamic user is not the default way of interaction.
It was popular because it was fun.
This joke is too bitter to laugh about.
The tone of Aschenbrenner's paper is odd. It's somewhere between his wet dreams and his nightmares. In fairness he seems to be aware of that but it's like someone grinning reflexively while they tell you bad news.

He's convinced and it's going to be terrible and it's going to be important and he's going to be part of it.

I guess for sure in 5 years it will be much clearer.
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> What is the consensus on liability in case of regular web search? Your comment made me realize that I never thought much about it in 20+ years of using the Internet

Have you never noticed those "google has removed some results to comply with the DMCA" notices?
If aluminum is the issue, could steel and plastics be a solution? Especially with Starship coming online, weight should be less of an issue.
> The unequal distribution of height and muscle mass is part of sexual dimorphism.

No, it’s potential evidence for sexual dimorphism. It’s also potential evidence for systemic dietary sexism. You’d need to establish that the latter doesn’t exist to establish that the former does.

> Imagine you convinced someone this was true. They could say trans women should be banned from women's sports because boys receive superior training.

At that point we’d have shown that sexual dimorphism was not at play and that gendered sports were inherently discriminatory, so that hypothetical person would now be an idiot arguing against reality. The obvious solution would be to redirect better training at the now know equally capable athletes.

> The effects of hormones are not assumptions.

Actually they largely are… we really don’t have more than minimal and crude knowledge of precisely how hormones work or what their actual effects are.
I made https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com/

It is based upon a Kindle project [1] and initially I just used the quote library from that project (which is based on a crowd-sourced collection of quotes by The Guardian [2]).

Later, a lot of quotes have been added by kind strangers through GitHub issues and pull-requests [3].

[1] https://www.instructables.com/Literary-Clock-Made-From-E-rea...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/26/lite...

[3] https://github.com/JohannesNE/literature-clock/blob/master/l...
Python is the new Perl. Heck its the lingua franca of ML / AI and has been for data science for a while. Dynamic types dont mean you cannot compete with a typed language. Python has type hints which gives the benefit people are usually after, catching bugs / issues ahead of time.

Theres a library for just about everything in Python. I dont know that I can say that about Swift.
I live in Germany and I can't even remember where and when I have seen a fax.

I was flying back from munich to hamburg last week, with a passenger jet, which is produced in my hometown, with internet in the plane - not a fax.
The Japanese have already been concerned by this problem for a few years.

Their solution has been to develop satellites made mostly of wood, which will burn completely upon reentry.

The first such wooden satellite is planned to be launched in September. It is intended mainly for collecting data about the behavior of wood in the outer space, e.g. on wood expansion, contraction and degradation, along with internal temperature and electronic equipment performance.

An alternative to wood would be the use of synthetic polymers, but those are typically more sensitive to radiation, so more research would be needed for finding a suitable plastic and appropriate additives to decrease the radiation sensitivity.

Wood or plastic would not be suitable for ships hosting humans, because they are not hermetic, but they may be an acceptable choice for satellites with a short lifetime and with much more relaxed constraints for the composition and pressure of the internal atmosphere (which may not be needed at all, e.g. when the internally produced heat reaches the external radiant cooling surfaces through solid paths or through pipes with circulant liquid).
There is such a party. I've been a member for forty years. But there's not much point in naming it as it is almost entirely irrelevant to modern politics and that doesn't appear to be about to change. Our desire for this is quite niche.
Okay, that's fine, the person I replied to was talking about removing road noise from the environment, so it seemed pertinent that lots of road noise is from vehicles that are in no way trying to reduce it.
Sounds like the same Microsoft culture as has always been. Like a cult. It can do no wrong. The conversation with Microsoft businesspeople at conferences was always the same: Microsoft has no deficiencies, there is nothing it isn't working on and it has a solution for every possible problem. Other sources of software do not exist. There is only Microsoft. Total illusion put forth by delusional employees. The outside world can be ignored because life in the cult is good.
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Whose (and what) thesis, specifically?
In my field (web dev), it's more like "if you don't have time to do it right, just leave after your promotion and let the next guy deal with it"
> I'm not sure where you are that you can't read the signs (but have cell service), but you would be really out on a limb if that's the case and you don't have anyone to help you out. I'd honestly find it kind of pathetic to watch.

I guess you don’t travel often or maybe you can read lots of different languages. I can’t so my phone is useful.

Which would you say is more pathetic - the guy and his wife trying to read a menu in a foreign language or the person standing off to the side watching and judging?
I think there's also a very high prospect of virtual worlds with virtual people (SFW or otherwise) becoming popular, rendered with Apple/META goggles...that could require insane amounts of compute. And this is just one possibility. Relatively cheap multimodal smart glasses you wear when out and around that offload compute to the cloud are another.

Nvidia could just as easily triple in short order as get cut in half from here imho.
My question after reading the paper is: if he believe with conviction everything he wrote, why did he recently become an investor instead of either working in policy or working on the tech itself?

If the tech is going to transform humanity into a new economic paradigm and give the country controlling it a decisive advantage to be the sole superpower, being an investor is either futile or meaningless. Even doing nothing and just enjoy the ride seems to be more rational.
Or do both, work for a US company remotely. Most large ones even have an entity in the larger EU countries that can employ you with all the benefits of being an EU employee. They might not pay the exact same as in the US but still considerably above market rate.
The most senior author of this paper seems to be Philip E. Tetlock, the guy who examined forecasting and basically said "most experts aren't any better than a chimp throwing darts, but there are outsiders who are measurably better than the bigwigs".

A suitable research leader for such a controversial topic, for sure.
Men are more impulsive and prone to acting without considering consequences. And nuclear power can certainly seem like a great idea.

see how sweeping generalizations work?
I don't think it is weird.

Imagine you buy a non profit which has a special windows licence and then you use that licence for all your for profit windows devices, I don't think that that would be possible.

AFAIK ARM gave Nuvia a licence to use their ip (and access to their IP) for a specific market.

imho Qualcom has the right to use the nuvia ip as laid out in the licence agreement, but not for markets where no licence exists e.g. laptops.

Edit: removed some nonsensical text