skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your first graph shows diminishing returns for both battery storage and solar. It's also not clear whether that's the marginal cost or includes the capital cost to build the structures and all the infrastructure.

To compare nuclear against solar you have to compare it against the sum of the cost of solar plus battery storage.

Investing in solar/wind/nuclear energy sources, storage, and research for improving all of the above seems like the best strategic option for at least the next decade.
AI is not just LLMs. AlphaFold for example moved a critical goal post for everyone of us.

bitcoin is only negative. It consumes terrawatts of energy for nothing.
I received a nice email the other day after one of my blog posts got posted on HN.

It said:

Hi -

Just a note to say I'm a big fan of your writing. I always learn something and love your voice, which is hilarious and singular.

Write a book!

Best,

{Name}

{Link to sender's startup}

{Link to sender's substack}

New to writing online, it made me feel really good that someone enjoyed what I wrote and took the time to write and say so.

After reading this piece, though, I went back and read it again, and I just don't know. It's not quite GPT's usual voice, but it is strangely non-specific.

The startup is an AI startup, the person's Substack is full of generative AI illustrations, and they do seem like an AI fan, but reading their posts, they also seem like someone who's genuinely interested in preventing a dystopia.

I suppose receiving encouraging emails from strangers is just another situation that'll have us looking over our shoulders now, on guard, trying to walk the line between naivety and paranoia.
Unfortunately the margin is too small to contain it.
Read Philip K Dick's "A Scanner Darkly" (or see the movie). They're forcing overweight people in Ozempic rehab to farm the ingredients to make more Ozempic!
the "City of Edinburgh" may be 500k people, but the metropolitan area is bigger - once you include the outlying towns which people commute from there's more like 800-900k people.

https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/agglo/S20000463A__edinbu...

The festivals also completely skew things. Edinburgh in February is a vastly different city than Edinburgh in August.
> But the Euler equation e^iπ = -1 has nothing to do with exponentiating e, it's just a notational convention that is defined to be the series above.

Can't the same thing be said about using fractions on the exponent? Exponentiation is actually just repeated multiplication (a^n=a*a*...*a, repeated n times), but you can't do that when n is a fraction or irrational anymore than you can do it when it's imaginary.

We have to define what it means for an exponent to be non-integer: for fractions we might define a^(b/c) as the root of the equation x^c=a^b, and to allow irrationals I think you need some real analysis (it's been a while, but I think the usual way is to first define exp and log, and then say that a^b=exp(b*log(a)), which is kind of cheating because we have to define exp first!).

There's a very intuitive way to "see" that e^ix=cos(x)+i*sin(x): all you have to do is to treat complex numbers like you would any other number, and "believe" the derivative rule for complex numbers (so (e^(ix))'=ie^(ix)). Then you can just graph f(x)=e^(ix) for real x by starting at x=0 (when clearly f(x)=1) and from there take small steps in the x axis and use the derivative to find the value of the next step with the usual formula f(x+dx)=f(x)+f'(x)*dx.

Doing that you realize the image of e^(ix) just traces a circle in the complex plane because every small step in the x direction makes e^(ix0) walk a small step perpendicular to the line going from 0 to e^(ix0), simply because multiplying by i means rotating 90 degrees.
It sounds like extortion.

"I'm sending spam that sneaks past your spam filter. Sign up to make it stop."
Daylight savings time is not in a majority of countries. See the map on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
> ho at the very same time seem to hate cheap solar and wind energy and love expensive (and/or nonexistent) nuclear and fossil fuels.

Now this is a mad take

> Energy efficiency is a thing.

Yes, it is. There's a limit to how efficient you can go though

> The lowest hanging fruit is EVs and heat pumps

What do you think will happen to the power grid when everyone switches to EVs?

> That would be silly though since wind and solar are the cheapest available electricity.

They are also intermittent sources of electricity.

> if they weren't just pretending to like nuclear and really just stalling progress for fossil fuel interests.

Another mad take.

All in all you never addressed my post
It's a pretty good way of explaining it.

I've seen (1+1/n)^n before, but never seen an explanation of why I might ever want to use something of that form. I've used the e^ix notation extensively, but again I've never really cared, because to me it was just a compact representation of sin and cos together. Likewise, all the proofs in that article are still a bit "so at this point on this carefully chosen graph, the gradient is e" and I think "Who cares? You carefully chose the graph to prove a point, I'll never see it in the real world."

And then the example with compounding interest - immediately I can see the application. It's definitely a good way of explaining it, although maybe it'd be even more grounded if it had n=12 and n=365 as examples. When you notice that the actual values seem to be converging, then you can try plugging in ever bigger and bigger numbers. This way you can discover the value of e for yourself and that process of discovery leads to a better understanding than rote learning of an abstract thing you haven't mentally visualised yet. All the other explanations are useful later, and they allow you to see it in different situations, but having at least one "this is why it's tangibly useful" hook at the start is definitely a massive help in understanding something.
>A less controversial example than nazis (sigh) might be requiring basic hygiene.

I'm not sure why Nazis are "controversial". They're generally the universal boogeymen. Although these days, it does seem like some Nazi ideology has become more popular in some places in recent years...

When we test software, one thing we normally do is look for edge cases, and test those. If the program works with the edge cases, then it can handle any cases. So picking Nazis for my extreme example is just my use of an edge case to illustrate my point about the limits of inclusivity, and also points to Popper's paradox of tolerance, since the Nazis were the poster-child for intolerance.

But yeah, for a workplace setting, for instance, excluding people lacking basic hygiene (smelling like shit) is a good example. I've actually had problems like this at work, unfortunately (with coworkers smelling like this, not me!).
Take a look at Win32 + Xaml Island.
You will find that most problems in WinUI 3 gone.

Because Xaml Island is a "system component", you don't need to install or bundle anything. And unpackaged .exe is supported.

There's one problem, if you want to use Xaml Designer in Visual Studio: Because .xaml files are compiled and packaged into a "resources.pri" file. You have to ship this file with your .exe program.
This can be solved by hooking system dll, see my project: https://github.com/ysc3839/SingleExeXamlIsland
interesting, how involved is the AI boss? Just to-do based or could you have a 1:1 with an AI boss to give you feedback on performance?
> Interesting, but what are the practical uses of 3d assets beyond gaming

Probably many areas that we already use 3D assets/texturing for. Maybe objects to fill out an architectural render, CG in movies/TV shows, 3D printing, or just as an inspiration/mock-up to build off of. I'd imagine this generator is less useful for product design/manufacturing at the moment due to lack precise constraints - but maybe once we get the equivalent of ControlNets.

If weights are released, it may also serve as a nice foundation model, or synthetic data generator, for other 3D tasks (including non-generative tasks like defect detection), in the same way Stable Diffusion and Segment Anything have for 2D tasks.

> I cannot see VR replacing the interactions we have. It requires cumbersome, expensive hardware

Currently sure, but it's been a reasonably safe bet that hardware will get smaller and cheaper. Something like the Bigscreen Beyond already has a fairly small form factor.

But, I feel you're basing judgement of a 3D generator on one currently-niche potential use of 3D assets, that being VR/AR user interfaces (and in particular ones intended to replace a phone rather than, for instance, the interactive interfaces within VR games/experiences).

> The potential availability of very expensively (in terms of computing power) generated assets doesn't change that

Even just comparing computing power and not the human labour required, this is probably going to be an extremely cheap way to generate assets. The paper reports 30 seconds for AssetGen, then a further 20 seconds for TextureGen - both being feed-forward generators. They don't mention which GPU, but previous similar models have ran in a couple of minutes on consumer GPUs.
I use simplelogin with proton for that, they give you a few subdomains to do the same.
But we do know that the Proof of Stake system we currently have, is a lot cheaper and more advanced than what Bitcoin does.

Bitcoin doesn't solve any problem yet which is fundamental to our society and a fiat system like the trust issue:

If i exchange 1 bitcoin with you for any service or thing outside of the blockchain, i need the whole proof of stack system protection of our normal existing money infrastructure like lawyers, contracts etc.

And no smart contracts do not solve this issue.

What is left? Small amount of transactions per day with high fees 'but' decentralized infrastructure run by someone we all don't know aggregated probably in data centers owned by big companies.
If I had a serious interest in the project (more than, say, maybe sending a patch here and there to fix my pet peeve), I would definitely volunteer for something like that if there was a demand. That's something I quite enjoy, and am reasonably good at, I think.

And as for me being there for years to come, who can say that for sure? I would absolutely try to. For that matter, will Discord still be here next year?
Isn't this a Physics problem?
Not really, it's small but there is an overhead to running things within a container. If for e.g. you're on Mac and you're pulling an x86_64 Linux container then the overhead is larger.
FreeBSD at 30 Years: Its Secrets to Success By: Marshall Kirk McKusick [video]
Well, your tie to the advertising industry is that large parts of the web are funded by advertising. Get too anti-advertising and servers will just treat you as an ad blocker and find ways to stop serving you.
And keep iterating until you pick a single letter of the alphabet or emoji that encapsulates the essence of what you are trying to communicate.
The benefit is all for naught if it undermines the fabric of society at the same time. All these benefits will only go to the few who land on top of this mess.

It's continuing to widen the wealth gap as it is.
I don't think this is unique to this specific technology.

People can be both wonderful and despicable, regardless of era or mechanism.
"Deception through omission is still deception – people should be aware when they're interacting with an AI agent versus a human."
You are correct, of course. If the project leadership does not see a value in using open infrastructure, of course it would look like additional (and unreasonable) demand. It's up to them.
Hey Mike, just filed a github issue for this: https://github.com/pretzelai/pretzelai/issues/111

If you wouldn't mind, can you please comment on this issue so we can ask a few follow-up questions to help in debugging this issue?
>It's not especially easy to bring people to Japan because of all the other administrative barriers around housing, bank accounts, etc., as well as the language requirement. As can be seen from the low immigration rate.

Wrong. It was really easy for me. The low immigration rate is because it's not a terribly popular place to live, and because of the language barrier. It's also historically been not very immigration-friendly (legally, the immigration laws were strict), but that's changed radically in the last decade or so. Now if you have in-demand skills and a company wants to hire you, you're in.

Housing and bank accounts aren't a problem. I got multiple bank accounts pretty quickly after moving here. Housing is pretty easy: some (individual) landlords won't look at you if you don't speak Japanese, but the corporate landlords don't care, as long as you have a guarantor and a job that pays enough for the rent.

The language is the biggest barrier, but that depends on your job. Companies that try to recruit skilled foreign professionals have strong English-language support.
I disagree.

Datacenters save a lot more energy than they make. Alone how much co2 is saved when i can do my banking online instead of having to drive to a bank is significant.

The same with a ton of ohter daily things i do.

Is video producing co2? yes. But you know what creates a lot more co2? Driving around for entertainment.

And the companies running those GPUs actually have an incentive to be co2 neutral while bitcoin miners don't: They 1. already said they are doing / going co2 neutral due to 2. marketing and they will achieve it becauseh 3. they have the money to do so.

When someone like Bill Gates or Suckerberg say 'lets build a nuclear power plant for AGI' than they will actually just do that.
Lavish subsidies. Even then they had to nationalize EDF because it was going bankrupt after posting historically unprecedented losses.

The problem is that stuff like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTRID_(reactor)

and this:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/french-nuclear-giant-scraps-smr-...

keeps happening. The last paragraph explains how, in spite of these losses, how to keep the power cheap:

>The federal Coalition has argued that nuclear might be expensive to build, but will deliver cheaper power to consumers. It has not explained how, but it has said that its reactors would be government owned, suggesting that – like France and Ontario – the costs would be borne by taxpayers and the supply of power to customers would be heavily subsidised.
So Todof nags you to success huh!? didnt think I needed Nietzsche breathing down my neck but hey it worked! Shakespeare as my personal reminder coach - super cool. However some characters may get a bit annoying lol.... But still works like a charm. #SuccessOneNagAtATime makes my minskipentials
I like your idea. Let me know if you create a browser extension / Gmail addon to automate the flow :)
> Don't hold your breath ...

No, I don't particularly expect it to happen. But Russia has a long history of revolutions when things (especially wars) were not going well for the current Czar / General Secretary / whatever.

> There ain't no easy solution that we would like.

True, for the big picture. But my comment was in response to user Animats saying "The West can push back." (About the article, on Russian fake news operations targeting the West.) If pushing back is the game plan, then "what does Putin most fear?" is an excellent basis for the pushback strategy. Ideally, he'd pull the plug on his fake news, because the pushback was too scary.
Doesn't Nvidia's USD format solve the multiple formats issue?
There is one clear (albeit somewhat boring) application of LLM: data extraction from structured documents.

That field has made a leap forward with LLMs.

Positive impact on society includes automated extraction in healthcare pipelines.
When you spend $200 on spamming people you need to believe it was effective
Area loss on Alaska's Juneau Icefield now 5 times faster than in the 80s
"How could it not?" There are ways.

Consider that we have fairly decent anti-spam measures which do not look at the body of a message. To these methods, it is irrelevant how cleverly crafted the text is.

I reject something like 80% of all spam by the simple fact the hosts which try to deliver it do not have reverse DNS. Works like magic.

E-mail is reputation based. Once your IP address is identified by a reputation service as being a source of spam, subscribers of the service just block your address. (Or more: your entire IP block, if you're a persistent source of spam, and the ISP doesn't cooperate in shutting you down.)

To defeat reputation based services driven by reporting, your spams have to be so clever that they fool almost everyone, so that nobody reports you. That seems impractical.

How AI spammers could advance in the war might be to create large numbers of plausible accounts on a mass e-mail provider like g-mail. It's impractical to block g-mail. If the accounts behave like unique individuals that each target small numbers of users with individually crafted content (i.e. none of these fake identities is a high volume source), that seems like a challenge to detect.
Sounds like you need a consultancy and not a startup to solve your problem.
And this https://bellerbyandco.com/
I don't think this practice is in Microsoft's interest. People who buy a PC with FreeDOS usually install a pirated copy of Windows (or Linux, but not sure what the exact proportion of those is), which definitely doesn't contribute to M$'s bottom line...
e is the unique real number satisfying 1 + x <= e^x for all x.

1 - x <= e^{-x} so e^x <= 1/(1 - x) for x < 1

(1 + x/n)^n <= e^x <= (1 - x/n)^{-n} for x < 1

Letting n go to infinity gives e^x = \sum_{n=0}^infy x^n/n! using Newton's binomial formula.
Hi, great that you looked at it, unfortunately it doesn't work for me yet. I made a video. Good examples are at 3 seconds in (video starts playing) and 16 seconds in (I end up at the FTL website instead of the menu option). Halfway the video you can see that the Communities button doesn't work at that moment in time (earlier it did). Good luck!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-CVVxIicNqQJ8iz9EP0nBlroPAs...
How to full text search on hn given user favorites only... If no such such option I feel disappointed
Complete nonsense. Practically speaking there is no limitation. Its only that we have minimally invested in using it well.

Even with the current suboptimal use we have plenty
The wealth gap is widening while in parallel poorer people have better lives than ever.

We house, heat and give access to knowledge to a lot more people than ever before.

Cheap medical procedures through AI will help us all. The AI which will be able to analyse the x-ray picture from some 3th world country? It only needs a basic x-ray machine and some internet. The AI will be able to tell you what you have.

I'm also convinced that if AGI is happening in the next 10 years, it will affect that many people that our society has to discuss capitalisms future.
> "At this stage, a technical defect is assumed to be the cause of the fire."
Certainly! Here's the revised text:

One overlooked aspect of the infrastructure here in Berlin is the subpar implementation of regulations related to fire safety in the old/legacy buildings.

In comparison with some places in America (US, South America), where fire extinguishers and fire combat apparatus are present in several places, including residential buildings, the engineering and architecture in Berlin do not consider these aspects.

For instance, when I visited the Axel Springer building, I noticed that there were no fire extinguishers on the entire floor, and the evacuation exits did not have fire-resistant doors and push mechanisms. Additionally, some exit doors were locked or inactive.
I wonder if some "prompt injection defense" embedded in public blog posts could help identify such AI-generated spam.
Yeah, Bitcoin is dual-edged like that. Harming people and harming the planet.
xLSTM Explained in Detail [video]
None of your problems in the first sentence are solved by LLMs. I do not dispute AI research and applications and their benefits, but the current LLM and GenerativeAI hype is of no value to hard scientific problems. Otherwise I agree with you.
He is using the top of the line hardware because of the nature of his work. And I'm presuming you can't disable the iGPU. You are really boxing him into a terrible situation and just because you can tolerate Linux nonsense does not automatically make it an ideal solution for others.
Just grab the cheapest laptop, it gives you a decent battery time, but modern laptops require Systemd to work flawlessly.
The language used in the article seems political/inflammatory to me.

It's not a lack of "fairness", it's just a lack of accuracy.

Imagine that you train a model to find roofing issues or subsidence or something from aerial imagery. Maybe it performs better on Victorian terraces, because there are lots of those in the UK.

Would you call it unfair because it doesn't do so well on thatched roof properties? No, it's just inaccurate, calling it unfair is a value judgement.

Bias is better because it at least has a statistical basis but fairness is, well.. inaccurate...
It means it did what was supposed to--inspire, stimulate imagination.
Some of them wont sink because they float...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordhordland_Bridge
I don’t think fully automated replies is happening any time soon. There’s way too much risk for you as a user.

Would you seriously enable it even if Gmail offered it?

Highly unclear.
can you set a vibe for the bot, or is it just a drill sergeant default?
Kazakhstan alone typically exports more than 20x a year than any given year of total US production.

The US has uranium deposits, yes, but they are relatively low grade and sparse in comparison with the major Uranium producing hotspots about the globe.

Typically the US uses in situ leach mining to dissolve sparse uranium salts from (say) breccia pipes.

Other countries mine faces (or bore through and extract) dense uranium rock ores (much more uranium returned per volume).

Oddly, stability has not been an issue with uranium extraction, the best mines ever in the Congo were continuously extracted throughout the height of the Cold Wat while secret proxy wars were funded and fought all about them to keep the region destabilised for ease of resource extraction to US | French companies.

Today Kazakhstan sells to the US via Rosatom in an agreement ratified by past POTUS.
The GUI framework we use for ST and SM is fully custom. We use GTK, Cocoa and Win32 for platform integration and custom software/OpenGL rendering (with a little help from Skis).
They can scrap my CSV at: https://github.com/kdeldycke/vat-rates
congrats my dude! and when windows & android version available, i don't mind 10 bucks per month subscription at all.
And even if it were just LLMs, I use LLMs in my workflow every single day, and I've never used a/the blockchain except for some mild speculation around 2017.
This thread is not about Sublime Text.