skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These claims get thrown around all the time yet I’ve seen more studies that point toward balancing renewable being possible than not, and all-in-all cheaper than our existing energy infrastructure even with today’s technology. Once the transition is complete that is. Any transition we do whether it’s nuclear or not will be quite expensive to start with.

Hell, most of the world already have what we need for those super rare long dunkelflaute: gas power plants. They’re already there, no investments needed. They can spin up fast, they’re great for load balancing. If they only run a couple of times a year then the fuel costs become negligible. Just co-locate it with all the new hydrogen-hungry green industry we need to make steel and fertilisers carbon neutral. Set aside some of the hydrogen produced for those dunkelflaute. It’s probably a good idea to have a decent amount of buffer anyway.

Nucleus is absolutely not carbon free. It’s
low carbon for sure. But at the very least it needs a huge amount of concrete which is far from zero carbon. Concrete is also problematic these days for other reasons.

Nuclear is not good or economic for load balancing. They’re thermal power plants. They’re not naturally suited for ramping up and down quickly. And they need to run at near 24/7 to be economical. One of the first pumped hydro plants was actually built to help balance nuclear.

The world will run on mostly renewables. It’s incredibly naive to think anything else is remotely realistic at this point. Nuclear is a bad pairing for renewables, and there are actually plenty of good alternatives for load balancing if you care to look. So nuclear will most likely get squeezed out.

Not to mention that the transition always from fossil fuels will come with a lot of load balancing capabilities. Hydrogen, as mentioned, and huge fleets of BEVs as well.

Then there’s the looming threat of advanced geothermal. I honestly think that field will go ballistic at some point in the near future: when the oil/gas sectors sees the writing on the wall a significant portion of the talent in that field will take a hard look at geothermal. If Quaise works out it’s truly game over (well, technically it’s still nuclear: supposedly a big portion of the cores heat is from nuclear reactions.. so it’s a reactor we don’t have to fuel, maintain or decommission)

I like nuclear fission actually. It’s a super cool technology. I don’t fear it, or its waste. But I just can’t see how it makes sense in the coming decades.
I have not used it personally, but I hear good things about Rust Desk
https://rustdesk.com/
indeed.

the gap with PHP and alternative stacks has mostly closed.

PHP apps now alse get deployed by container or VM... so why not go with something like Kotlin + kotlin.html (HTML eDSL for server-side templating and HTMX), Ktor or http4k (web libs), jOOQ (SQL eDSL with some typesafety on queries) and Postgres?

the PHP, MySQL (MyISAM), mod_php, Apache days are over. and it's not only for security reasons: there are alternatives that score better in every dimension AND run/deploy well on cheap hosting
Random data loss happens on Android quite a bit too. Source: I have a PWA with a lot of users, and my #1 complaint is data being lost on both Android and iOS.

This is true even if you use Google's own tool to wrap your PWA and put it in the Play Store, and even if you use the so-called "persistent storage API" to have users request their data not be deleted - still get random data loss, and it makes it very hard to maintain a 4+ star rating when there are a bunch of 1 star reviews about users losing all their data.
Right, but when we’ve literally invented a superintelligence that we’re worried will eliminate the race,

a) we’ve done that, which is cool. Now let’s figure out how to control it.

b) you can’t get your gmail for a bit while we reboot the DC. That’s probably okay.
It doesn't have to be that bad before people think it's too much. People get blackballed and never can get a proper job in the profession they're proficient in. That's often enough. Who in their 40s or 50s wants to start anew?
"Smaller" servers, not really much any more. With high speed networking/SSD even 64GB-12GB servers warm up really fast. Back in the disk days that could take a very long time to read from disk especially if it was random IO.
It was actually Poettering that authored the fix I saw. (refuse to do anything if no arguments are given)

I think this change was only made in this release version too, and it wouldn't do that if you ran the same command on v255.
TikTok is copying Instagram again with Whee
I seem to recall getting that feeling looking at a box of the cereal called Total.
Nope. The vowel changes significantly for both, but the presence/absence of "n" remains fixed.

"trundle" is related to "trend", also German "trent" and "entrinnen".

"tread" is related to "trot" and "trade".
Let me see if I can remember what Arvind said. This was like 20 years ago so I won’t get it exactly right.

He was comparing to two CPUs sharing data with shared memory. In the shared memory case, each CPU stays on the happy path but sometimes has to do some cache coherence, which may stall the CPU, but that’s the worst that can happen, generally.

But if you try to send a message to another CPU, then you’re asking it to raise an interrupt. That’s not the happy path. CPU will have to stop everything to receive the interrupt and then divert execution to some interrupt gate. Arvind’s point was that every impl of this is going to be much much worse than the worst case of cache coherence.

Every measurement I’ve ever made confirms this.
and Fernando Alonso
Slow is relative. Slower than rated SSD speed I could believe.

Slower than comparable HDD? Slower enough that it impacts performance visibly for the same load?
Philadelphia real estate was very affordable at the time. Storage wasn't commonplace like it is now and would have involved moving things to a warehouse district, while there are some near where she lived that might have been less easy than just acquiring cheep coop apartments.
> a lot of systems (especially ARM Mali based ones) only providing OpenGL ES drivers

And sometimes minor hardware revision of these Mali GPUs change the internal API between user mode and kernel mode halves of these Linux GLES drivers.

The kernel handled it pretty well as it supported both hardware revisions. But my user mode app failed because the new hardware required a different version of that libmali-midgard*.so DLL.

Unlikely to happen on Windows because the GPU driver installs both kernel/user mode halves of the driver in one transaction. Linux doesn’t have ABI for drivers, all kernel mode drivers are pre-compiled into the kernel.
I’ll show the article to my linguistics friends and see what they say. From the beginning, there has always been a vocal minority in the field opposed to Chomsky; I don’t know rhetorical merits of the Scientific American article and if it represents anything new. The professional linguists I associate with haven’t brought anything earth-shatteringly new to my attention that seriously challenges UG. Thanks though.
reminds me of the thing in model railroading, where actual IRL rail equipment is referred to as "prototype" for the model
Major version numbers may not be sacred, but backwards compatibility is
> the XML specification has been at version 1.1 for 17 years as well

ISO 8879 (SGML), which XML is a subset of, was ratified in 1986 already, making it closer to X11.

Also, you may want to check what XML 1.1 as opposed to 1.0 is about [1] - the vast vast majority of XML is 1.0 and has no reason to ever declare itself as 1.1 and in fact, every reason not to.

[1]: <http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/effectivexml/chapters/03.ht...>
I think entire research subfields can go through a similar process. Plenty of mathematics was done before mathematical rigor really existed. Then axiomatization became more and more important. The intuition never went away, but I have heard of 'Nicholas Bourbaki' (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki), the movement to right mathematics in purely formal language while eschewing intuitive language. And then more recently I read a prominent mathematician describing this phases having been a bit of a mistake. But maybe it was just a necessary part of the fields transition.

I've definitely gone through a parallel transition in physics, but replacing 'rigor' with 'calculation' and 'intuition' for 'physical intuition/simple pictures.' In physics there is the additional aspect that problems directly relate to the physical world, and one can lose and then regain touch with this. I wonder what other fields have an analogous progression.
You are driving in your lane when suddenly, another driver decides to change lanes right in front of you without signaling or signaling at the last moment. As a result, you are forced to brake or lose your space cushion.
As someone who has taught university courses recently, I’ve noticed that more colleges and universities are abandoning computer labs due to the ubiquity of affordable laptops, where many students are well-served by a cheap Chromebook or a used ThinkPad. I understand the costs of operating a lab, but I think we’ve lost a few things with the demise of the computer lab, from having a standardized environment in which students can run required software tools (many of my Cal Poly professors had a rule that all programming assignment submissions must compile and run on their servers running Solaris, solving the “it worked on my machine” problem), to the social experiences of being in a lab. I have fond memories of my times in the CS department’s lab at Cal Poly during the latter half of the 2000s.
I deleted my comment to the author's chutzpah. It had a bit of "IamTheMainCharacter" and "IamAveryStableGenius" qualities. The thing is, I agree with them, even if I want to say "dial the ego down mate" -and after all if you cannot parade your worth on your own blog, where can you?

Still. I prefer self-deprecating. Maybe you don't get seniority in his space if you don't sell.
For what it's worth, I recall a talk by someone at Google, probably about a decade ago, saying that their bottleneck for scaling compute was literally how long it takes to pour concrete for new data centers. I suppose that might have been an exaggeration, but it stuck with me.
By reinforced concrete do you mean they build forms and pour the concrete into the forms, or do you mean tilt-up (pour slabs horizontally then lift them to vertical to form wall sections) or do you mean reinforced-CMU (build a CMU wall then put rebar and grout through the cores of the completed wall?

Pouring into forms is by far the most expensive technique because those forms are costly to build and set up. In the US poured concrete is only used in simple or horizontal structures (like foundations) or where the cost of the formwork can be amortized over a lot of repeated structures, like the floors of a highrise.
Unisoc and Xiaomi's 4nm Chips Said to Challenge Qualcomm and MediaTek
> Pretending like China can’t do good things because of some preconceived notion that they are evil, and failing to admit that China actually is outclassing us in many things and that we can do better, is a great way to let that world order crumble.

Fair enough, and it's a line of thinking I agree with you about.

I detest "othering" - be it Westerners who do it about China, or vice versa. We're all psychotic apes so there's no point having a superiority complex based on identity.
I've been a piano player for more than 30 years. I'm not a pro by any means, but I perform regularly. I'm not saying I'm a great player, just that I have some experience with the instrument.

I've never heard of the breath thing.
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And if we start scanning tons of brains and finding out that X% of people with low gray matter volume do not exhibit any ADHD symptoms?
For real, if you applied the same level of scrutiny and the same kind of aggressive rhetoric to universities, the result would be a devastating critique. I think the same is true of other 'disruptive' companies that people love to hate (Uber, AirBnB, etc).

We uncritically accept the status quo, and at the same time compare all upstarts against some platonic ideal of what we imagine could exist.
> likely good for the local economy

Keep in mind cities pay tens of millions of dollars per year to host an F1 race, and they're often locked in for many years.
I'm not familiar with anyone confusing or intentionally conflating the two. From my perspective, it seems that AI still is what it has always been - computer systems set up to perform complex tasks that historically only people could do, whether internally they're based on ML or expert systems, or anything else.
I would imagine they do this because it’s a positive ROI.
Other way round.

NodeJS has had FFI for over a decade that allows you to call functions in .dylib/.a/.dll on Mac/Linux/Windows. I've used it extensively to link with libraries provided by USB device manufacturers to avoid direct USB interfacing.

See:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/ffi

This let's you call Node from inside Swift.
Building one sounds like a pretty fun project!
I think one of our biggest problems in society (business, politics, etc.) is that Stage 1 superficially resembles Stage 3.

This means that many people in Stage 1 (or Stage 0, if that's a thing) believe that they're as good as Stage 3 thinkers. AKA Dunning-Kruger.

In other words, complete bullshit, confidently delivered, has come to dominate informality-born-of-rigor. And the audience can't tell the difference.
Broadly it could be called “a breach of driving etiquette.”

If you are traveling straight in your lane at a steady speed, and somebody enters your right-of-way and forces you to brake or steer away from your intended path, that person is said to have cut you off.
Browser vendors are rightfully scared of "breaking" websites.

I don't know how you'd define non-trivial javascript in a way that couldn't be circumvented.
The easiest way to reconcile it is that Yann LeCunn is consistently wrong in the predictions he makes about this field and he's wrong here too.
Try rephrasing that without referring to people, otherwise you’re supporting my original point. ;)

“Try” does imply autonomy, it implies there was a goal on the part of the individual doing the trying, a choice about whether and how to try, and the possibility for failure to achieve the goal. You can argue that the words “attempt” and “try” can technically be used on machines, but it still anthropomorphizes them. If you say “my poor car was trying to get up the hill”, you’re being cheeky and giving your car a little personality. The car either will or will not make it up the hill, but it has no desire to “try” regardless of how you describe it, and most importantly it will not “try” to do anything without the human driving it.

You’re choosing to ignore my actual point and make this about semantics, which I agree is boring. Show me how GPT has any autonomy or agency of its own, and you can make this a more interesting conversation for both of us.
I understand the first sentence I've said "seems like" a statement made by with someone with prejudice saying something like "people with adhd are lazy". But as I clarified, my actual criticism is entirely different and I for one have never even seen it be mentioned.

We will never advance our understanding of psychiatry if we can't criticize it, and I for one definitely don't think we already perfected it.
I’d hope they do it because it’s a positive ROI but I certainly wouldn’t assume so. Often politicians sign up for these kind of things for the prestige, irrespective of economic cost.

It reminds me of the realities of being an Olympic host city:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/business/olympics-economi...
Frances energy costs are about as ideal as they could possibly get right now.

They have significant maintenance and decommissioning costs ahead of them. Right now it feels like they’re basically building up a form of debt, where they’re just hoping the nuclear power plants won’t experience unforeseen issues due to their age.

This has become problematic. They recently had to import energy from Germany for an extended period due to nuclear power plants being shut down. They’ve also had to temporarily shut some down due to heat.

Thermal power plants, especially old ones, are increasingly disadvantaged in a warming climate.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abd4a8

They also contribute directly to global warming (thermal forcing). Not a huge amount, but surprisingly significant. Shouldn’t shut them down as long as we’re using fossil fuels. But once those are cut the planet may be too warm for us to afford having thermal power plants. Every little bit counts when the climate is on the edge of total disaster
Used to play piano, can probably pick it up given a few months.
X was about 25 years old when Wayland came out.

By that timeline, we’re only a decade from Wayland’s successor protocol being released. It may, optimistically, have had five entire years of being the unequivocal standard by then!
Barcelona has a proper race track, this was only an exhibition.
Probably real time + 300 million light years latency.
It builds stuff? First they would have to do that over our dead bodies which means they already somehow able to build stuff without competing with us for resources, it’s a chicken or the egg problem you see?
> Have they figured out how to produce usable topology yet?

One recent attempt at it is Mesh Anything [1], which tries to generate triangle meshes with sensible topology[2] for a given point cloud - but it's still in the early stages, it can fail somewhat dramatically on meshes with smooth and concave parts [3] and it has a hard cap on the number of triangles it can generate.

[1] https://buaacyw.github.io/mesh-anything/ (submitted previously as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40701992 )

[2] although they use the somewhat awkward term "artist-created mesh"

[3] e.g. https://i.imgur.com/z52QeiQ.png
I think these companies are trying to solve a different problem: They are just inventing a way to clean streets using near autonomy.

I am trying to figure out how to solve a pain-point which can work along with current or these technologies and I can bring them faster to market because they are not nearly as complicated (human supervision). Without elaborating the idea completely here(being cautious), it solves a problem unique to us that are not being solved by any one of these companies.
Bronx High School of Science
As someone who teaches 3D, a 'high quality' model would need to have clean topology: all quads which flow around the form in a predictable and rational manner. From this, I would expect a clean texture map. I am fairly certain that current technology is not up to this.

I have seen a few of these papers, and (from my limited experience) very rarely is the 3d model avauable for review.
> These entitled people protesting for everything and anything are just sad.

Not sure about where do you see the link between entitlement and protesting.

Anyway, I'm from Rome, Italy, and I absolutely hate every time there's marathons, Formula E and stuff and they close large parts of the city.

Formula E especially creates insane bottlenecks and everybody here hates it, thanks god this year they moved out of Rome. Would've not been surprised in protests if it came back again, but not sure where the entitlement would've been.
> So 38 000 came to watch the event and 500 to 3 000 came to try to ruin the fun for everyone?

Even if the rest of what you’re saying is true, the bulk of those 38k watchers will have been visitors to the city. The 500-3k protesting are locals. I think it’s only right that local people have more of a voice in what happens in their city than tourists do, irrespective of how many there are.
> How is this any different from social media influencers especially those in health and wellness?

If you are trying to make an argument that LLMs are exceptionally shitty at giving well-grounded advice, and instead excel at spouting asinine bullshit, congratulations, you succeeded.
As Jeremy Clarkson put it "Speed never killed anybody. Suddenly becoming stationary? That's what gets you."
I find it very strange that you'd associate climate protestors with petty crime and suggest that their actions might be worthy of years in jail.
> 2. Many people who are opposed to abortion rights have legitimately held moral concerns that are not simply because they have no respect for women's rights.

Then they are free to not get an abortion. I don't get an abortion every day, it's pretty easy to accomplish. They do not get to use the letter of law to interfere in other people's medical decisions and care, and they most definitely should not have the ability to use the letter of the law to get unhealthy women killed to suit their precious morals.

Like, genuinely, if you are near a woman who is having a serious medical condition where her baby is killing her, there is no, and I repeat, NO version of that where letting an adult, alive, otherwise viable person die in the hopes that the clump of cells killing her might make it. That does not make sense under any moral system at all. We don't even take organs from recently deceased people without their permission before they croak, and some people think they have the right to demand someone lay down their entire actual life in the hope a baby MIGHT be born and live? Fuck that. Stupid.

> 3. Roe v. Wade was the decision of 9 people.

Sod public opinion. The public is wrong all the goddamn time. One would argue they're wrong more often than they aren't, and the more of em there are, and the louder they are, the more likely they're fucking wrong.

> Social media facilitates communication. As long as there is sexism and freedom of communication, there will be people making money off of facilitating sexist communication because there will be people making money off of facilitating communication writ large.

This is such a defeatist attitude. There will also always be revenge porn, child abuse material, beheading videos and people putting monkeys in blenders. Do we allow that everywhere too then? Since we cannot guarantee total blackout on objectionable content, we just wild west it? Fucking nonsense. We decide constantly by way of moderation on every service and website that exists what is permitted, and what is not, and there is no reason at all that those same things cannot be enshrined in law, with steep penalties for services that fuck up and host it.
Devs maybe, but the author is talking about production environments which are definitely moving to rootless.
There's another case between these two. I once worked at a place where everybody used the word "leverage" in an infuriating way. Any time the word "use" was appropriate, they would instead say "leverage". I'm sure they'd "leverage" a piece of toilet paper to wipe their ass with. I felt like I was on The Kids in the Hall's "ascertain guy" skit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStcwT_RGrQ) except in reverse: everyone was saying "leverage" and I was the only one getting fed up with it. It almost seemed like it was coded talk, a shibboleth, a way of speaking that was an indicator you were "one of the team". At some point I thought to myself "seriously, what does leverage even mean?"
Absolutely nothing. (In best case scenarios.) They’re the lowest IQ people in the org, so let’s put them in charge. “Which company do you work for? A major one.”

Sadly this seems universal in Big Tech.