skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even the UK prime minister Boris Johnson, a conservative pundit, went on record as stating that renewables were the quickest, cheapest, and easiest way to shore up the energy grid and remove dependence upon Russian oil and gas.

He is not particularly known for the virtue of truthfulness.
Turning the UK into “the Saudi Arabia of wind” has not gone the way he planned. Offshore wind costs have been rising, and the narrative of industrial growth has ceased to hold water.
Also why is onshore wind still so hard to construct in England? The PM had a large majority and yet failed to enact legislation to permit such development. I guess he could have been arguing to place all bets on offshore, which seems foolhardy given how often ocean cables seem to break/be broken.

> The rejections ignored the incoming economy of scale and ramping of manufacturing, instead focusing on an immediate cost comparisson

One might say the same of other energy sources… a consistent campaign of construction brings costs down.
The real real problem is that we don't know how to effectively use growing transistor budgets to speed applications up compared to the single core era. Adding cache and more cores are both options that make for very sublinear improvements at the margin.

(for 95% of usage - somen niche things can utilize resources better, those not coincidentally often being the focus of benchmarks)
"Multimodal LLMs will also replace much of medicine and nursing which is good"

Mind elaborate how is this done?
Lame, too strict. Let people say what they want to say.
Does this mean Spring Boot for example has to be spun up and reinitialise itself for every request?
Ah so all Legal disputes around AI are completely shut and closed cases?

I think it’s rather we have a very small number of reference cases from the past, but since things changed dramatically since then everything is still up in the air
Do editors even change the text in academic publishing?
I have the same experience. Often times I find myself skipping steps when explaining things to other because I'm referencing a very obvious (to me) spatial disconnect between two concepts. I've also noticed that I'll gesture to where in my mind those concepts are located spatially.

Other quirks:

- I am also always aware of which direction "home" is. I can't remember ever being lost.

- I have an automatic annoyingly good memory for songs and sounds

- "Remembering" feels more like a bundle of sense impressions being re-expressed than it does recall. This is nice because I get much more "complete" impression of what my mind remembers happening. Not sure when this changed for me but it was after definitely after a few years of meditating.

None of this is ever visual though.
We really have no idea what the training data is, or how the black box of training integrated that data. Perhaps a subreddit or other forum with hiring managers encouraging each others’ biases ended up weighing heavily. The problem is we don’t know. But whatever the input, the output is less useful, that much is clear
Never use git push —force. Alway use git push —force-with-lease.

Then if someone changed your remote branch, git will always let you know :)
Physicists accidentally found a new way to represent pi
> When you go to the all you can eat buffet there's a common sense understanding that you can't literally fill your pockets with a thousand bucks worth of food.

The name “all you can eat” suggests that you have to eat the food while you’re there, which naturally limits the amount.
Having good tools is definitely a force multiplier, but as you say, we already have those.

We are however limited in how fast we can interface with these tools. There is a lot of potential improvement from just knowing the answer to a mathematical/logical expression, just by thinking about it. Saving you the context and mode switch.

The real power comes from being able to simulate and model complex phenomena using wetware integrated tools.

A big component of intelligence is the ability to create accurate mental models, and probe them. If you integrate an accurate physics simulator, a 3D modeler, a ray tracer, etc. You have greatly improved their internal modeling abilities and they can (theoretically) dedicate more neurons to higher abstractions that rely on these well grounded systems.

It is also not clear that human level intelligence is any real limit. We could just as well make a super-intelligent AI without tool use. The current hype around tool use is just to make current LLMs a bit better.
The post you're probably talking about was hidden under "Show Probable Spam" on my end.
It's MIT licensed, how much more free do you need?
No, just the question whether machines can hold copyright is decisively shut and closed, until the laws are changed. Many other questions are debated.

Always fun to see the „AI is special, no rules apply“ crowd.
Finding people who pay you.

And good luck surviving off the scraps you get for streaming fees
Similar case for me, but I think the author says it well:

> That is, most of the cases Bash for me is enough, but if the script starts to become complex, I switch to Ruby.

Even if ChatGPT lets you bang out more complex shell scripts easily, if you have to come back to it later on to fix an error or add a new feature, it's really hard to understand it (if you don't deal with such scripts on a daily basis).
If you start with Ruby (or Python or similar) from the beginning, it's much easier to understand and extend later on.
Oh man, those were fun times. I started with a Model 15 TTY (for ham radio). When I got my first 8080 machine (statuc RAM was an expensive extra), I learned a lot by making a PC board to convert 45bps (5-bit characters) to 110bps Baudot (using 2 crystals). Then teaching the 8080 to table-convert baudot to ASCII (from a 'ring buffer' filled using interrupts).

The good old days, before layers of 'protection' got baked in (Apple II vs Mac).
Both, and it pays for itself?
Wow, CSS in a style tag in a string in try block in an anonymous function all declared right there in index.ts—no units, to say nothing of tests!

Would be a huge nuisance to maintain.
You seem to be confusing traits of individual competition (and even physical violence) with large scale organized war phenomena among increasingly larger and technologically advanced groups.

The logic that says that the latter follows from the former is simply not there. Social organization varies enormously in time and space and it takes a lot of "cultural bs" to get to a society that celebrates organized war and considers it inevitable.
wasn't this the VPN that was stated as a great feature for getting a pixel that all pixel users get? It's gone already? Wasn't that with Pixel 7 only when launched?
"mind's eye" is a metaphor. You, like everyone else, have two eyes, in the front of your face. There isn't an extra one embedded in anyone's brain.
I agree that this is spot on.

The last part missing is "build a flawed product and bake it into the contract so you charge high consultant costs to the customer to fix it" which is where the cash cow is for many enterprise / B2G products.
I've been using a Linux desktop workstation for like a decade. Never got on the laptop revolution, don't really understand it, seems like you're just setting yourself up for some savage RSI.
Very nice project. Would love to see it grow. Maybe hopefully can contribute. Having directions to the locations will bbe a nice add.
Yikes. Best of luck adding a new language or updating your templates without introducing bugs or discrepancies.
> reliance on their gas.

... and nuclear fuel and fuel rods from Russia. Which are still not being sanctioned btw. It's peanuts compared to the natural gas, admittedly, on the order of 700 million Euro per year.
At least using a framework like React would expose these HTML blocks to the typechecker.
And people complain about using the CLI on Linux :D
Agreed 100%, the reward cycles have become so small.

MMOs will return to super niche games for the most hardcore nerds - maybe that’s a good thing
>[From the linked HN comment] To erase an entry in the financial ledger of a company is fraud. It is a felony. [..] I believe that VCSes should be treated similarly. [..] once you check-in the change - it then becomes part of the permanent record. To alter that transaction after the fact is akin to felony fraud.

Yikes. To give a charitable interpretation, that's quite an extreme view. Financial ledgers and VCS histories are not equal and they serve different purposes; the primary purpose of VCS history being to aid in the understanding of the current state of the codebase. In some cases, the "true" activity may provide that understanding, and in others, it may hinder it. Squashing a PR-requested change like "rename new variable based on PR feedback" seems sensible as it reduces noise in the history - definitely not what I'd call fraudulent. To me commits are like documentation and I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to refine that documentation if I think I can improve it for a future reader.
What scripting languages come out of the box on Debian 12?
Same goes for nuclear power plants really.

A 2.5GW undersea HVDC line costs $2.5mln/km.

The cheapest nuclear power plant in Europe is the Ostrovets power plant in Belarus, the cost of which was $11bln for a 2.4GW plant.

For that money you could buy a 2.5GW HVDC line spanning the entire EU.
Exposure to greenspace may lower risk of certain cancers
Are there any Forth variants that have static typing? Or more generally, are there any interesting type systems that target stack-based machines?
> (bugs notwithstanding)

This is the reason. I've been on a maintenance team for years where almost everything we handle was written by people no longer at the company, and often enough I've seen bugs get introduced during the original work, where the fix ends up being obvious because I can see the original commits and how the code got into its current state. A squash of any sort would've hidden the refactor and made it much more difficult.

My favorite are ones where "linting" and code formatter commits introduce bugs. Keep those separate from your actual work, please.
> Sadly, 9 out of 10 environments lack a Ruby interpreter out of the box.

Please name those 10 environments you are talking about.
In my experience, a reasonably recent Ruby version is present almost everywhere.

> add 5 minutes to your docker build

Why on earth would it take 5 minutes to install anything?
If you install Ruby through a package manager (it's present in pretty much all of them: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/#pac...) it takes only seconds.
I think anything vague is and should be pushed back. If we do not know the complete user story, then it is not a feature. The problem needs to be well defined before discussing with the engineering team.

Example: We are building a desktop app. Now the management want to have a "login" page in the desktop app. This is a very vague statement to be discussed with engineering. First decide on who can login, how can one register, is the login possible only when the device is connected to the interenet., are we going to limit features of the app based on subscription, etc.
Hey! Don't let out the secrets :-) This is something i have been long thinking about (but have done nothing practical so far). The problem is how to bridge/shim between Erlang and those platforms which do not support it eg. Android (though some people seem to have done it - https://github.com/JeromeDeBretagne/erlanglauncher). Joe Armstrong actually called the Erlang/OTP System as a AOS (Application Operating System) in his paper i.e. it contains much of the functionality of a traditional OS but people seem to ignore it and insist on calling it "just another language".
That’s comforting in some sense. Got a link or a graph I can use to propagate these news?
The original chip set (OCS), which debuted with the Amiga 1000 in 1985, could display 320 by 200 in four colors, or 640 by 400 in 16 colors, and the colors selected from a gamut of 4096. This is non-interlaced in 60 Hz. A PAL display would have higher vertical resolution in 50 Hz.

It could go up to 16 colors in high res or 32 in low res, but this could slow down other operations.
I got aphantasia from Covid, apparently it's an extremely rare side effect - so rare I've only found a handful of people on the entire internet who've experienced it. So I happen to know how it is to live both with and without the ability to visualize, I used to be extremely good at visualizing. Most major impact (apart from the loss of ability to daydream) is that my memory is worse, as my memory was very much based on playing back memories as movies in my head. Especially childhood memories suffered. Also reading books is a very different experience, as when I previously would make up movies and picture the characters visually when reading, now it's all black. That said, reading books is still an enjoyable experience, it's just very different.

I also stopped dreaming in images for a long time, which was weird. It's still very dim (not so vivid), but at least that part came back.
What do you mean by "broken gems"?
The problem with ethics is that everyone has their own. Our definition of ethical behaviour also changes over time and between social and cultural groups. It's one of good arguments against training LLMs on past historical data or just giving them all the data we can find and hoping they will come up with the answers we will like.
Is Codeberg.org financially sustainable relying on member fees? Any precedents?
I'm not convinced that there is any evolutionary pressure on humans to become smarter.

I'm talking about the time when humans could talk, but were still subject to proper pre-civilization natural selection.

It's obviously useful to be intelligent, but after becoming the smartest animal in the world by a large margin, the utility isn't as clear.

Out-smarting other humans was certainly useful but it's not obvious that the ability to model other humans with very high accuracy was better than just being a little stronger or faster.
It is a sacred tradition
Can Codeberg.org achieve long-term financial sustainability relying solely on member fees?

Are there any successful precedents for this model ?
Parents are already spending way more time and effort actively parenting then was the norm in previous generations.

Just a generation before it was norm for 6 years old to play outside completely unsupervised and for teenagers to be about their own things with nothing but a list of chores from parents and deadline.

Result is that kids commit less crimes, get pregnant less often, drink less, smoke less ... but at some point you have to stop blaming parents for the whole society.
Francois Chollet – LLMs won't lead to AGI – $1M Prize to find solution [video]
EU commision answer to question regarding online video game discontinuantion
Not a good look for Anthropic. I mean everyone knows they are using stolen copyrighted data (same as Open AI and everyone else) but to be blatantly caught doing it is not really nice.
I would have thought than being in power for 40 years, being an island, and being in the post ww2 years (overall global growth, commerce growing but not globalization, China still weak,….) would be more important to Singapore’s fantastic evolution than AC…
All my devs who try to use ChatGPT or similar tools end up wasting more time that those who just jump into the code and try to work everything out themselves. How long till this balance changes is not known to me.
"Unlimited" and "For lifetime" are two biggest lies services are using to sell their products.
Can you give an example?
I can't think of a single situation where whitespace matters in Ruby (unless of course you forget to put a space between two commands or something silly).
Ah, yes. I see that now. Thank you.
Actually retristricting defined commands to defined sudoers should be one of the main use cases of sudo. This could be done as well via ssh config but one would need a lot of keys if you don not want a wrapper (and rewrite sudo all over)

If you are really thinking security, elevating a standard user seems bad practice to anyways. It is rather I guess a way to protect the user to do `rm -rf /` accidentally. On the other end adding an another layer of obscurity is practically adding a bit of security against script kiddies. But if that is of concern one could also rename the sudo binary.

One last thing the SSH trick might be interesting is the portability but in this case I would rather go via a standard TCP socket.
For 99% of use cases (especially when writing shell scripts) it doesn't matter, just pick the one you know better. Both are nicer than Bash though. :)
Your argument is that historical patterns of past conditions have to repeat for ever even when these conditions go extinct or get modified dramatically?

What is definitely part of inate individual behavior is competitiveness and occasional propensity for physical violence. The road from this simple trait to organize millions (and now billions) of individuals to apply lethal, technologically assisted force on millions of other individuals is long.

Modern organized war is business, politics, ideology and none of that is biology.
I would assume if you has to use SSH or sudo you've already lost. I've been working with people where we just completely lock down the VM or Container. They only allow necessary flow of traffic and are managed entirely from golden builds. If you need to make changes or fix something it is a new vm or container.
su is also a suid binary, no? It is probably a lot less complex than sudo.
Common Lisp has Coalton [1]. It's basically a functional Lisp embedded within Common Lisp which has HM types and a bit more modern constructs than CL.

[1] https://coalton-lang.github.io/
It seems a mis-prioritization of the kind that makes me dislike Apple products.

To avoid the imperfection of a bit of fan noise, throttle the entire experience. Great.
There has been decent traction for Frappe Health (GPL) in Kenya. Not spending on expensive contracts and losing valuable forex is a big driver.

Here is a talk by Dr Mwogi on implementing at one of Kenya’s largest public hospitals https://youtu.be/yL6akPy2X5c?si=4UzUSJYm3PjxA3hL
I think these tips all make a lot of sense in realms far beyond emacs. Anywhere tech debt creeps in… Other editors, Linux desktop configs, software build tool systems, and software development itself. There something alluring about tweaking a system to be customized in a “perfect” but personally way… but it often only bites you in time. the longer I work with computers the more I appreciate resisting unnecessary connivance tweets, and learn to live with the defaults :)

One of the most painful tweaks I have made is switching to a non qwerty keyboard layout… this basically forced me to reconfigure loads of software, which all just feels like a mess of unnecessary work and maintenance. Especially since I use vi like bindings wherever possible and all vi mode defaults are qwerty based. I often consider scraping it all and going back to qwerty, but I’m not sure if I’m ready to relearn basically all my muscle memory for all software again. So for now I try to keep things the way they are, and resist adding complexity when possible.
> everything about any website

you're missing subdomains & certs, a very crucial part of investigations imo
Grab some popcorn and wait a bit. If Google-vs-Oracle can happen about reimplementing the API, we're definitely going to see a number of cases about the AI code in the future. And it's going to be way more interesting, because the threshold between copying and being inspired by is very fuzzy.
Quite smart idea, not for throttling when the fans are heard, but SPEEDING THEM UP while they are NOT heard, based on the noise floor of the current environment.

This, combined with an assessment how much of the environment the user currently hears (i.e. maybe he is watching a movie), could provide a lot of headroom for additional cooling without bothering the user.
@dang maybe the title should reflect the originality of the project, aka the fact it's all AI generated?
>You said "artists don't serve any valuable role in society".

Just because artists don't serve any valuable role doesn't mean they have no value. A cheap keyboard or a free piece of software isn't valuable, but they nonetheless have some value.

>I've never seen anyone say that. To me it's obviously false; the Internet has enabled huge wealth creation.

Most of the sentiment is based around the ever increasingly "cable TV" nature of the internet as well as the scientifically demonstrated negative effects of social media.
Yes, some form of organisational soft-delete is more than likely.

> We're afraid the TinyLetter data is no longer available

could perfectly mean: the backups we keep for one year are encrypted in case of legal trouble, but we require a legal action internally before them to be worth reaching out.
Wow, that looks like a whole tensor DSL for numpy (which itself is already an array DSL for Python).
I don't see how two sshd daemons and two sessions is less complicated.

Yes, removing sudo is one fewer moving part, but sshd is a much larger moving part than sudo. (If you think sudo is a larger moving part than it should be, I'd agree, and you can use doas instead.)

Regardless, the vast majority of my sudo usage is on my local machine, so there's no sshd involved at all.
Hello! Author here. Quick responses:

1) With superior scale, the utilization of each Waymo approaches 100%. "Empty rides" going to a new pickup spot become more and more rare because they immediately get a ride close-by.

2) I think you underestimate the case for shared rides. Any Waymo with >= 2 passengers is reducing congestion, not adding. When you consider small bus-shuttles, e.g. 6 or 12 or 18 seats, it gets even more impactful.

3) The point with suburbs is that they become more accessible when the price point comes down. If you have a 45-minute commute to drive yourself, an Uber might cost you $60, which would be prohibitive. If a seat in a carpooled Waymo costs only $5 or $10, the incentives and customer behavior change significantly.
Either dependency issues with other gems, or gems that break due to some sort of library in the OS. If you pin all of your versions, and use it in one place, that's less of an issue, but many scripts are designed to have some level of portability (even if it's to a new instance of the server)
What does this mean? What do you see when you "imagine" versus when you "visualize?"
Isn't it a bit a matter of culture, though? Colonial administrations are built to extract wealth from a country. So, when you get independence, that's still what the government, hell, even the infrastructure, is built for. Half the rail lines go straight to a port, all the bureaucrats know is how to squeeze people. So you end up with 'bad governance', even decades later, because that's the culture of governance that gets passed on, generation to generation.
Probably because there's nothing that says only users in wheel (assuming your OS/distro even has that group; some don't) can sudo. You can grant any user with any group membership access to sudo, either full access, or restricted to only certain commands.

If the package was set up to install /usr/bin/sudo so it was only runnable by members of the wheel group, that wouldn't work.
For turning on daily, perhaps use a 220V programmable timer? You can program the times of day when to turn the switch on and off. Costs less than $10, no wifi, no zigbee, no messing with APIs.
Im sure they will, it’s kind of a low hanging fruit. But with the fast pace the JS ecosystem has, network effects are key. So if they want to amass users quickly, making it as easy as possible to switch over could decide whether they can gain enough market share to stay relevant.