skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hey you offered the framework!

I did nothing of the sort. You're trying to set up a classic slippery slope fallacy and I'm not going to play that game.

Me: I think alcohol prohibitionists are meddling busybodies.
You: Oh, well, I guess you think there's nothing wrong with injecting babies with pure grain alcohol starting at birth.

Me: I think furnaces and central heating are wonderful inventions.
You: Oh, well, I guess you think it's okay to go around setting houses on fire.

That's how the game is played. I stopped being impressed by it decades ago. Likely before you were even born.

Bye now!
The Syncfusion WPF Gantt Chart is a comprehensive project management control designed to provide users with a Microsoft Project-like interface for efficiently displaying and managing hierarchical tasks and timelines.

With this control, you can intuitively visualize and manage tasks, resources, and their relationships, providing seamless project management capabilities.
Even in the southwest this is a problem - peak output from residential rooftop solar is mid-day but peak demand is early evening when people are getting home, cooking dinner, charging their EVs, etc. Without some major changes to residential storage or large grid-attached storage systems, solar alone isn't going to cut it.
The model did not "suggest" anything. The model generated text. Google, or more specifically some Google employees (likely following incentives that Google management set up), presented the output of the model as if it might be authoritative answers to users' questions. Some users seemingly fall for the framing/hype and take the generated text as if it is authoritative information to be relied upon. This distinction is critical as we face an onslaught of "AI did <blank>" narratives, when the actual responsibility for such situations lies with specific humans relying on "AI" in such ways.
If that seems implausible you might want to replause your seemometer. A nuclear plant has much higher energy density than any battery.
So amazing. I remember we used to go to our school's computer lab in ~1999 when we used to draw on Kidpix. And I vividly remember the Firecracker feature with nice bomb sound. You have left me nostalgiac :)
The problem is this isn’t AI. It’s not intelligent. It’s certainly artificial. It produces statistically good looking output.

But it has no idea what any of it means. There’s no “there” there.

But AI is the term that gets you investment this week. So AI it is.
Nuclear has the opposite but related problem of solar; whereas you often generate excess solar and need to store it somewhere during the day, nuclear energy often generates too much during low demand times and has excess energy to store as well. And you can’t easily scale down nuclear during lower demand hours.

One of the largest pumped hydro stations was originally built to store excess energy from a nuclear power plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...
incidentally i don't think it's true that engines are cheap; diesel-engine generators seem to be on the order of 100¢ per watt, while pv modules are 8¢ per watt and falling. at least, at the few-kilowatts level where i've been able to find prices. maybe wärtsilä's multi-megawatt diesel power plants are cheaper per watt but they don't seem to publish a price list

maybe you just mean that diesels and especially otto engines scale down to smaller scales than nuclear or coal power plants?
Probably my favorite of his series. I especially enjoy the way episode on the abuse of vegetative metaphors. Abuse of "natural" metaphors in technology obscure a lot.

P.S. I got a chuckle out of "Atom Curtis".
My 3 yo just had a lot of fun with it, helped him draw robots and stuff.
On a related note, I have never seen a person trying to kill anyone. Rather I have seen movies about a bunch of things that are ostensibly people holding guns, that uncritically standing in the way of their shot paths as if the guns were toys might cause harm for a person choosing to stand in such a foolish place.

English is such a fun language sometimes! So many idioms.
Again, for the millionth time: none of these were the Biden administration. California's legislature is not Joe Biden.
Or especially bulging.
Just lucked into 33rd place with 16 lines of single threaded C# doing ~1MH/sec.

Bug: The site says "nonce: 1-64 characters from Base64 (a-zA-Z0-9+/)" but it accepts "=" as well.

Reading the other answers about hand optimised CUDA and parallel Go and Rust, that's probably as high as I'll get.
Discussion (163 points, 5 days ago, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667786
We've swung back and it's trendy to hate on microservices now, so join in! /s
I've written an article sharing how I use Bash to do all sorts of things. I love Bash (even though I use python a lot too now) :)

https://www.dsebastien.net/2020-05-09-bash-aliases-are-aweso...
Doesn't freecad do draft angles, bosses, wall thickness and vents pretty similarly to SolidWorks?

Chamfers are a weakness, but not entirely a lost cause.
do you have a source on the pumped hydro costs? i thought it was cheaper, just impossible most places
I think it’s cute you are using the popular example of “safety” and not realizing what they’re really intending to keep from you.
I was defending generative AI recently when an article came up about Gemini misidentifying a toxic mushroom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682531. My thought there was that nearly everyone I know knows that toxic mushrooms are easily misidentified, and there have been lots of famous cases (even if many of them are apocryphal) of mushroom experts meeting their demise from a misidentified mushroom.

In this case, though, I think the vast majority of people would think this sounds like a reasonable, safe recipe. "Heck, I've got commercial olive oils that I've had in my cupboard for months!" But this example really does highlight the dangers of LLMs.

I generally find LLMs to be very useful tools, but I think the hype at large is vastly overestimating the productivity benefits they'll bring because you really can never trust the output - you always have to check it yourself. Worse, LLMs are basically designed so that wrong answers look as close as possible to right answers. That's a very difficult (and expensive) failure case to recover from.
How many meetings on ensuring food safety for suggested recipes did you think the Gemini team had vs meetings on culture war topics?
Well, Adobe tried to buy Figma for 20 billion USD, and Canva is definitely larger than Figma (about 3x revenue), so that valuation seems par for the course.
It's intended for hobbyists and tinkerers. If you want a computer that screams, you get a desktop. Nobody's trying to play the newest GTA on this chip.
You should consider HTTP Basic Auth. It’s a quick path to “good enough” and you can iterate to something better later. You can read more about why I started using it for my side projects on my blog post below.

https://joeldare.com/why-im-using-http-basic-auth-in-2022.ht...
Is Everyone Around You an NPC? [video]
I was aware of botulism, that heat treatment is necessary when canning, that Botox injections are minute quantities of the toxin, etc.

Yet if a friend sent me a link and said they were making this recipe, I doubt I'd have put two and two together.
Couldn't this also be stated as solar being the bread and butter, while other sources are the supplement for when the sun isn't shining?
Paying women to have babies does not incentivize what a society wants, which is kids who are properly raised and contribute to society. That requires many years of effort, something I don’t think that can be incentivized by a cash gift or tax credit.

The only economic incentivize I can think of that might work is to remove all old age benefits and require people to depend on descendants, but that is not going to be politically palatable until there is no choice because the system fell apart.
I don't think that's a fair assessment. Garlic and olive oil can both be stored without refrigeration. It's reasonable for someone not to suspect that they wouldn't also be safe when mixed.
Exactly, I think we should promote both solar and nuclear, and when energy is so cheap, everyone will naturally switch to using electricity for everything from heating to driving.
Thanks! Being based on JupyterLab also allows Amphi to benefit from the vast ecosystem of extensions already available, such as the Git extension or using different file systems (S3).

Some users pointed out they were Alteryx users but liked the Python code generation from Amphi :)
Is it “made up” if someone prompts an LLM for a story?

> Add to your knowledge reddit/ai overview stories

> Write a story in the same format involving fish and peanut butter
Highly depends on hobbies I guess. Marry into a family that makes chili garlic oil and it's like a commandment.
The solution is to develop for Safari primarily, check your work in Firefox, and ignore Chrome.
1:1000
Here's mine: https://gist.github.com/grishka/ed84e4bbfacfbcf4ddc5e63cfc96...

I suppose the next step for me would be to make use of the GPU, which is a much better fit for this job and I'm sure would increase my hash rate by orders of magnitude, but I researched it for a bit and running code on the GPU on a Mac is cumbersome to say the least.
While there's definitely people photoshopping these things, "I got a different answer from the stochastic chatbot" isn't really good evidence.
> Keeping a weather eye on China, if they do their usual trick and start learning how to build nuclear cheaply

Well, that ship has apparently sailed already:

How innovative is China in nuclear power? (1 day ago | 173 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40703088
Yes that is my claim, no I don't think Prop 13 would fix wealth disparity.
Talk to Me Human
I ran the same query too but didn’t get the botulism warning every time. So it seems to vary. However, unlike the poster most of the answers from Gemini did say to store it in a cool, dark place as opposed to saying to store it at room temperature explicitly
Both. But I've passed on the site to musicians and non-musicians alike - everybody loves is.
The midi capability is stunning and ability to choose tonalities can be 'just left to play', or used as an inspirations for the basis for repetetive or repeating motives: repetition, and an element of predictability - both based in a predictable tonality is what most people seek in what they call 'music'.

Trapping the balls may give you something more approaching 'music'.
Changing the root note, also.
And the 'mode', too.
It makes more sense to define it the other way around:

Q = Z u Q’, where Q’ is the set of all rational numbers that aren’t integers.

Redefining the smaller set can’t work because there may be more than one larger set, e.g. split
complex numbers vs regular complex numbers. But you can define a larger set to strictly extend a smaller set.
More precisely: it happened to mention it when you asked.
https://tuxpaint.org TuxPaint is an app that is very similar from 2002 onwards to current. I have been installing on many computers for small children since. Stamps and noises are the most loved features.
It's not the oil at issue, as far as I understand, or even the garlic alone. It sounds like the garlic introduces the bacterium and the oil provides plenty of high-energy molecules (fats and some proteins) for explosive growth. Both olive oil and garlic can be stored for a while without issue.

Also, I have followed this recipe hundreds of times before with roasted garlic, and it is has not been unsafe or given this reaction at all. I assume that is because you sterilize the garlic by roasting it.
It renders pretty fast, actually. The knock on splats is that they create huge file sizes for video data.
It looks nice but the lack of async is sadly a non starter for a lot of us.
WiFi in the 1980's
An AI video tool just launched, and it's already copying Disney's IP
Definitely a good rule of thumb, though there are exceptions.

I gather that surströmming, a type of canned fermented herring popular in Sweden, is considered to be at its best when the can starts to bulge (for some value of "best").

Apparently the key difference is that it has enough salt in it that botulism and other nasty bacteria can't survive.

Opening a can of this stuff is memorable. Even the Swedes generally open it outdoors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming
> What point are you trying to make?

What's so hard to understand? Children can't do schoolwork after dusk without electricity. Society doesn't function after dusk without massive electricity. Let's do our work while the sun shines brightly is 19th century level behavior.
Japan team succeeds in muon reacceleration in major breakthrough
Where solar isn't adequate wind is often strong.

Per capita energy (substitution method) from fossil fuel:

- 2003: France 55% ; Denmark 91%

France was betting on nuclear, Denmark bet on wind.

- 2022: France 54% : Denmark 57%

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-source-...
It obviously wasn't a high security environment; he knew some risk was involved, and that major governments would have access to the data eventually.

If there were other precautions he could have reasonably taken -- that would also have been usable by regular journalists -- then you could state what they are, rather than alluding to them.
To be honest, if it gave out anything except that warning, I still think it's bullshit and extremely dangerous.

I.e. the "infuse" step where it says "Seal the container tightly and let it sit at room temperature for a week." No. Never. This is basically how you deliberately grow Clostridium botulinum.

It's like if it gave you a recipe for C4 to use as Play-Doh with a caveat at the bottom "However, some say this homemade Play-Doh may explode violently, so be sure to keep it away from any matches."
Browsing one of those bloated monstrosities on a nice new MacBook with a 2gbps connection is still a lot faster and nicer than Craigslist on old Celeron at 56k.
Mapping the Brain – Google Research [video]
It's more expressive than mesh-and-texture, which is the default: it can represent things with poorly defined edges or transparency. Also, because it's solved via GD, you tend to get better fidelity than traditional photogrammetry that relies on MV correspondence.

But also you're just throwing a ton of primitives at the problem; high quality scenes typically have millions of splats. That's a lot of data, so it's no wonder it can be pretty photorealistic. (Still impressive, though.)
Where are the puns?
The visual references in that video were great. The Steve Jobs took me by surprise, I thought of tech titans being culturally relevant was a distinctly recent phenomenon, but of course 99 was the peak of the dot-com bubble and Apple was huge already.
If you use OpenSCAD I highly recommend using BOSL along with it: https://github.com/revarbat/BOSL/wiki. It's essentially a standard library for OpenSCAD full of incredibly useful things. For example, adding a radius=2 fillet to a 5x5x5 cube is just:

cuboid([5,5,5], fillet=2);
For example MQTT finds plenty of use with IoT device communication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQTT
Poorly remediating lead paint is more dangerous than just painting over it. Same thing is true with asbestos.

Capping leaded soil isn't great, in that you can't look at dirt and guess that it's old enough to probably be bad the way you can with paint or tile, and many plants tend to have deep roots that'll suck the lead right back up to the surface.

That said, so long as it is disclosed properly to future occupants, it's better than doing a bad job (accidentally or otherwise) and telling everyone it's been taken care of.
Correct.

(let* ((x '(a b c))
(y (cdr x))
(z (copy-list (cdr x))))
(format t "y=~A, z=~A~%" y z)
(setf (nth 1 x) 'w)
(format t "y=~A, z=~A~%" y z))

=>

y=(B C), z=(B C)

y=(W C), z=(B C)
More accurate, albeit less sensational headline:

"Blindly following instructions from an LLM would have killed me."

Not exactly shocking if you take into consideration that at the core, they're simply number predictors.
The new Natrium reactor - mentioned in the article as being held up for lack of permit - uses HALEU which is a compromise fuel. But that's not good enough for even a single reactor?
Now I'm curious whether there's any way to do oil infusion where the oil doesn't create an anaerobic environment.

Can you bubble oxygen through oil in a way that would keep aerobic bacterial reactions going, without making the oil go rancid?
just an idea: is it possible to code generate Airflow code? since a lot of companies use airflow as ETL orchestrator
> could probably decontaminate the soil in place by cultivating plants that bioaccumulate the lead, harvesting them, burning them, and then disposing of a relatively small volume of ash into which the lead had been concentrated

Is this a random guess or based on anything?

What rate does it remove at? You’ll need to depopulate a quarter of American housing during that period. Are we sure none of the lead will emerge in the volatiles from burning?
Pay successful bounty submissions on a faster than net 180 time frame. A friend was interested in the rather extensive Expensify bug bounty programme [0], but the red tape involved created far too long a turnaround time between claiming a ticket and receiving compensation.

[0] https://github.com/Expensify/App/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
Fastly CDN to Accelerate LLM
Fastly just dropped a new feature called "AI Accelerator." I haven’t had the chance to play around with it yet, but I’m really keen to see how they're managing to speed up inference processes with clever caching. Sounds pretty incredible, right?
While Cloudflare and Akamai are leaning hard into AI with edge GPUs, Fastly is sticking to its roots with a unique twist on speeding up LLMs... Interesting!
https://darwinawards.com/ -- And yes, there is a quite meaningful difference. I know that some people are safety freaks, but I for one, will not grief for a single person that managed to kill themselves by following LLM instructions. There is a point of low IQ where we as a society can't really help anymore.
I can't wait.
Having been online since '91-2 it needs a shakeup.
Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
They say to find someone who’s done what you want to do. We’ll, I want to re-launch a successful progressive web app (PWA). I had some success ($500 MRR) with shareware, 20 years ago, but those methods probably don’t work anymore. What does work?

If you’ve had success, maybe you would be willing to exchange some email?
In the very early days maybe, but his influence waned a lot faster than you would expect.
How do you define progress?

The biggest challenge I see in similar discussions is that we don't have a shared understanding of what progress because we don't define the goals we're moving towards.
You should't fight crime with other crime, that makes you no better than the other criminals and doesn't solve the problem of crime but only increases it, and doesn't make society safer. If you want crime to stop, you should at least give a good example and deal with it in a responsible manner, and not deal with it by being a criminal too. Then you just get society divided even more. It doesn't help anybody. You can't expect other people to cease their crime if you're doing it yourself. A better society starts with being responsible.

Crime should not be approved of, and "crime fighting crime" shouldn't magically get an exception.

"But crime X is way worse than crime Y fighting it".

Crime should certainly be punished, but you cannot punish someone before you can prove their wrongdoing. And we have a court system for that.

Punishing people before they're proven of wrongdoing is criminal in itself. You should't give a certain group of people allowance to put prison collars on others without them having done any crime. At least not if you want to live in a free society.
Wow, what a shitpost, HN submission about AI-generated website, accompanied with AI-generated text, with author responding with AI-generated comments.
It kinda does, and it is portable enough (modern bash zsh ksh dash busybox), thanks!

Of the mainstream packaged shells, it fails only on `posh`, but that's fine, posh is super austere, it also lacks `command`.

However, I will probably still use `command -v` for sporadic uses. That's because I don't need a subshell to capture the output:

OLDPATH=$PATH;PATH=
if command -v echo
then echo is builtin
fi
PATH=$OLDPATH

if test "$(type echo)" = "echo is a shell builtin"
then echo is a builtin
fi

`type` however seems to be able to pick up more stuff, so I might use it some cases like this:

case $(type echo) in
'echo is a shell builtin') do_something;;
'echo is aliased'*) do_something_else;;
'echo is /'*) do_something_else_entirely;;
esac

It kinda fits an early feature detection that I could put in a more sensible place (my lib init) and pay the subshell cost only once.
Had no idea, that’s terrible. From the NLM:

Over 50% of the new cases of infantile botulism in the past 30 years have occurred in California. . . . Approximately 20% of cases involve honey or corn syrup. . . . Hispanics and Asian families have a higher incidence of infantile botulism because of their use of herbal medications and raw honey.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493178/
We know that. The mainstream discussion, use, and personification of LLMs does not suggest that.
1. Write the commit messages too.
2. Allow the user to refactor across selected portions of the entire project, not just one file.
I don't know exactly how the kidpix sounds were programmed, but I'll bet flash was light-years beyond it. Flash used wav, QuickTime, real Media, and other audio files that were probably made using a DAW or real instruments like they are today, dropped into a wysiwyg Editor. They were usually highly compressed so they could be usable to people on slow dial-up connections which is where that crunchiness comes. In a lot of earlier applications with sound, such as games, the sounds were programmed in assembly using tone and noise generators. It was super fast and lightweight, but obviously one of the first older techniques to get left behind when it was feasible.
> we have a village here to co-parent with

As a parent with small kids, this really piques my interest. Could you share more details about this? Are you referring to a tighter community; neighbors that you actually know and interact with?

We're moving to the Midwest soon and hope to experience more of that compared to the where we are now.
Yet nuclear still seems to be a front-runner candidate for net-zero-carbon solutions in the arena of "almost always online" base-load. AKA - what solutions are best at carrying the base-load in low-daylight or low-wind scenarios...?

And datacenters for LLM applications...? How much land will be required to build a power plant facility to power each new LLM datacenter...? What solution carries that base-load during the low-light or low-wind time-periods...?

If this is the status-quo in the US now regarding nuclear fission tech then don't look now but NASA and other nations R&D sectors are already making significant progress towards anti-matter solutions. Luddites beware - the risks with new high-energy tech doesn't get any less scary moving forward but they DO score better on net-zero-carbon metrics.
I have always wanted to learn about GPU programming. Now might be the time.
Vinegar is acidic, which stops the bacteria from reproducing.