skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She is implying that businesses will leave the US due to regulation. It's the most ridiculous argument ever though, given US is the largest and most profitable market for any business. A small thing like banning non-competes will not cause any company to leave the US.
Eventually, the limiting factor will be how to get rid of the waste heat.

Even if you can turn 100% of the energy you received from space into electricity, in the end it'll all turn to heat.
Me wonders - remembering the recent here post about the flooded underground silo with electronics - could it be flooded with WD-40 instead of water?
The cost of GPU time isn't just the cost that you see (buying them initially, paying for service if they are not yours, paying for electricity if they are) but the cost to the environment. Data centre power draws are increasing significantly and the recent explosion in LLM model creation is part of that.

Yes, things are getting better per unit (GPUs get more efficient, better yet AI-optimised chipsets are an order more efficient than using GPUs, etc.) but are they getting better per unit of compute faster than the number of compute units being used is increasing ATM?
Bookmarks are perceptually longer-term than open tabs, so there may be more reluctance to save to a bookmark. (E.g., if planning a trip to Italy, do you want to bookmark some blogger's food recs for Rome, forever?)

But worse is, it relies on recalling the text in the bookmark's title to resurface it. You might not remember the page title, but you can always scan through open tabs.
I can't speak to anxiety or other disorders but I have a hard time swallowing that leetcode discriminates against the older crowd.

I'm not older, but I was in the industry prior to the leetcode style interview. I've never sat down and "grinded" leetcode but I've also never had a problem with those styles of interview once they became common. Neither have my former co-workers. I have a few friends that are still working, past retirement age, that would crush any problem you threw at them.

In my experience, it's not much different than the whiteboard interview. Sure the presentation of a problem can stump you for a moment, but with a few good follow up questions a solution, however naive, becomes apparent.

I had a mentor early in my career that repeatedly said "There is no such thing as an unsolved problem in computer science". I think that mostly holds true, you either recognize the pattern and implement, or you learn and implement next time.

That all said, leetcode style interviews are the interview version of a "bad code smell" and I'd strongly prefer a bug-squash style, even if it was in a completely unfamiliar programming language. Actually, an unfamiliar programming language might make it fun.
A guardian or a gordian knot [0]?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
Australia is quite good with residential rooftop solar.
Last time I heard about payback times this was under 3 years for a 10 kW system.
I love the exception suppression via email.

Sr.Dev : "UserSignup failed, ask tech support what happened in our code"

Genius.
? Those are very much two of the world's most pressing problems, both accelerating currently. Though I'd phrase the 'poverty' one as 'wealth inequality' instead as whilst people are getting poorer their access to resources has been scaling well enough to keep them above the poverty line. That may not remain true for much longer though.

And the article is about nuclear energy and the premise of it being a flop and why that might be, based on a book about the topic. I don't think it has to mention solar and wind. Though I can see, as competing energy sources, why it would be useful to look at their impact on political momentum for nuclear, or how they reduce economic demand for the extra energy nuclear can supply.
Behold, professional bug bounty hunters.
I'd argue that people try it every now and then, only to realize that points on HN are worthless.
It took me a good amount of years to get some points. I couldn’t care less, because I never saw the benefit.

Who knows? Maybe there is a hidden club somewhere where your HN karma will open doors.
If that is your attitude to security scanning, you should not be in charge of anything more important than a speak and spell.
Humans do something very similar, fwiw. It's called spontaneous trait association: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221...
There's an interesting experiment in this direction here:

https://github.com/permazen/permazen

It maps Java objects to a scalable transactional K/V store of your choice, and handles things like indexing, schema migrations and the rest for you. You express query plans by hand using the Java collections and streams framework.
I think this is because a global toast service is trivial to implement, one service class / event listener, one UI component. It takes one ticket to make, and then it's just a matter of implementing the event publishes // serviceclass calls. This is much faster than implementing a plurality of ways to indicate loading and resulting success/fail.

In other words, it's a crutch that is often taken when there isn't enough budget/resources to make a proper UI (Or enough care/love/interest/skill).

I have definitely myself gone down the quick path of implementing only server side validation + toast service for projects where the customer just does not have the budget to do things entirely properly.
I stumbled upon your website because of your BlueSky follow. ;)
A file server that supports static serving, uploading, access control, WebDAV
https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml

Doesn't work.
And we're saying that deploying new solar sails (with integrated power transmitters) to orbit is cheaper than replacing a solar panel on earth?
too expensive and never built on time, only countries where it's cheap are dictatorships where you can hide problems
Policing what creators say on instagram/twitter?
good luck with enforcing that :)
Vitamin D is one of those substances few in number that the human body should synthesize (at all / more of) but doesn't.
It's not just about turning the wheel, though, is it? I would assume that much like when driving a car, it's a longer process of being a human PID controller and making small adjustments to angular acceleration based on feedback from the system. It might be useful to remove this mental load from the decision-maker.

When my family drives places we have not been before, the driver focuses on the road and the passenger seat is navigating, planning stops, etc. Sure, the driver could read them off of a GPS unit and improvise stops, but it is safer and (in our experience) better to have a separate person focusing on thinking and planning.

But also it provides a secondary check on the sensibility of the order. If my wife says "take the first right in this roundabout" and the first right does not seem like the way to go, I will do another lap and ask her to double-check. I can do that because I've been surveying the alternatives well ahead of time, which I could do only because I was not focusing on navigating.
Spotting and detecting SMS pumping fraud
It links to a similar problem of measuring engineering productivity, which the industry cannot do.

Notch wrote Minecraft when he was around 30. He didn't have 15 years experience in professional engineering and it seems to me he mostly just mucked around writing games in his professional life. He's now recognised as creating more than a billion dollars in value.

Is a "senior" engineer doing better than that at creating software? Did he ever make senior? Does he exhibit all the traits of a senior engineer in the article like not having an ego? This is a profound challenge to the entire industry. The title really is just for HR, a developed ability to choose what projects should be worked on is much more important and there is a big gap between a Senior Software Engineer and someone who actually writes great software.
The real reason is you can pay them less and they'll put up with more BS.
I have been working on that (tm). I got the audio visualizer prototype working on Windows. And the Spotify integration should be easy. IIRC rainmeter also just checks for the current Spotify Window title to get the song name.
The article mentions "ASTM International Standard F1166", and shows a few pictures and recommendations concerning check boxes. I'm very much looking for this kind of thing, for React-like interfaces, so that (1) we don't have to spend too much time thinking about this sort of details, and (2) we respect some good design principles without having been trained on it.

Unfortunately, the standard in question is quite expensive and probably most of it will not be useful for web design. Is there an equivalent document/standard for websites?
Some databases can do it autonomously. Oracle is an example. It can notice if you keep doing inefficient queries and add the needed indexes by itself.
> whilst people are getting poorer their access to resources has been scaling well enough to keep them above the poverty line

Defining poverty as "wealth relative to the richest person on earth" or whatever you're doing here is unproductive crab-bucket envy, not a useful definition. If you're talking about wealth, all that matters is if the baseline is going up. If you're talking about status, be honest and say that explicitly instead of dressing it up as a wealth issue.
> I gave GPT two small twists so it's not a simple case of copy/paste

Why? I see it like querying a database of human knowledge. I wouldn't expect a SQL database to infer information it's never seen before, why would I expect an LLM to do so?

I use it where I know a solution exists but I'm stumped on the syntax or how to implement it in an unfamiliar environment, or I want to know what could have caused a bug based on others' experience etc.
Another part is that artificial systems can screw up in fundamentally different ways and modes compared to a human baseline, even if the raw count of errors is lower.

A human might fail to recognize another person in a photo, but at least they won't insist the person is definitely a cartoon character, or blindly follow "I am John Doe" written on someone's cheek in pen.
NOTHING. CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.
Is there a back-story you can share here?

Do you have any idea on how well these perform?
Ask HN: Fine-tuning video generation models with reference video data
Hi HN crowd!

I'm interested to know if it's possible to create AI-generated videos based on other videos.
For instance, let's say I have 10'000 reference clips, and I'd like to create some new clips that are in a similar style or convey a similar message.

I have pretty big knowledge gaps here, but I'm aware of the concept of "fine-tuning a model", so would it conceptually make sense/is it possible to achieve this via fine-tuning the model with the reference clips? Or would it make more sense to run the reference clips through some "summarization model" that creates a textual description of the video, and then use the collection of textual descriptions as input to the generating model?

Finally: is there a video generation model that can run locally on a beefy machine (e.g. Mac Studio) for some experimentation?

Thanks in advance.
This is something that I think a lot of people miss. There is for sure a reason why google has that toast. One shouldn't just dismiss what the big tech guys do in terms of UI because they are among those who have the most resource to spend on it, and also the most amount of users. So for them it makes a lot of sense to spend effort to cater to people with various disabilities, as there is financial profit in there for them.

For a small regional golf court chain who want to build an online tool for reserving tee times? They most definitely won't have the budget to do things entirely properly.
Things that are coming to an end:

- Startups whose entire business model is to just provide a wrapper around OpenAI's API.

- Social Media "AI Influencers" and their mindless "7 Ways To Become A Millionaire With ChatGPT" videos.

- Non-technical pundits claiming we are 1-2 years from AGI (and AGI talk in general).

- The stock market assigning insane valuations to any company that claims to somehow be "doing AI".

Things that are NOT coming to an end:

- Ongoing R&D in AI (and not just LLMs).

- Companies at the frontier of AI (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Google, Meta) releasing ever more capable models and tooling around those models.

- Forward looking companies in all industries using AI both to add capabilities to their products and to drive efficiencies in internal processes.
I'm pretty ignorant about Singapore, but... I get the impression it's quite small. Wikipedia says 750 sq km.

The solar farm powering this Suncable project is 12,000 hectares, or 120 sq km. So the solar farm is 1/6th the size of Singapore. Although Singapore is only planning to buy around 1/3rd of the capacity, so maybe this'd be equivalent to only 40 sq km, or 1/20th the size of Singapore.

I suspect there are more profitable uses to the Singapore economy for land reclamation than dropping solar panels on it?
It's plainly not, when a phishing attack is receiving unsolicited links and providing compromising data, while this is getting it by asking the AI for something and getting a one-click attack injected in the answer.
You'll have to define "we all". Politically, most discourse that matters still flows through Facebook and Twitter/X, and will likely continue to do so until alternatives emerge.

Once knowledge moved to the online world, it was inevitable that debate would follow. This cat is not going back in the bag. We might refine our tools a little bit, but things are unlikely to change significantly for a very long time - possibly ever.
Not really? The company behind this, SunCable, has some history:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/billionaire-cannon-b...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-11/sun-cable-enters-admi...

I guess MCB found a way to make it work pending future investment that may not occur until 2027: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-21/suncable-receives-env...

> The approval paves the way for the next phase of development to deliver industrial-scale electricity to customers. But it still has some way to go, with a final investment decision not expected until 2027.

and

> However, SunCable still needs to negotiate Indigenous land use agreements with a number of different traditional owner groups along the transmission line route to Darwin.
It's the only one creating tech jobs at the moment
Drempels (2005)
Just subscribed, love how straight to the point it is
"no no, it's not that the technology has reached it's current limits and these companies are bleeding money, they're just withholding their newest releases not to spook the normies!"
The conclusions of the article is very good. I mostly agree with them. But there are two major flaws in the article:

1. “we need more like 25 TW”. That seems too high to me. Is that based on a direct conversion of the primary energy consumption today? The alternatives solutions needed for decarbonisation is generally much more energy efficient than the fossil fuel based solutions we use today. In addition, the energy used per capita to live a European lifestyle is decreasing year over year. And finally, the energy use will drop dramatically as we shift from primarily making stuff out of mined virgin materials to using recycled materials. For instance, commercial EV battery recycling is ramping up rapidly already today. Making virgin concrete is energy and CO2 intensive but that might not be a viable option for the long term anyway, as it requires sand that we’re also running out of. There’s already huge pressure to reduce the use of concrete.

It should also be said that 25TW or more of nuclear thermal power will contribute to thermal forcing of the planet that we probably can’t afford when the planet is already on the precipice of dangerous climate tipping points. The global warming effect of the thermal power plants we have today is already on the same order of magnitude as greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes.

2. I miss a discussion about the labour costs when it comes to nuclear. I think one of the reasons it was cheap to build in the past was access to cheap labour in the countries building the nuclear power plants. Changing demographics is an irreversible trend that will keep these labour costs high. Solar lets you outsource much of the labour costs of the production of the panels, and that production will probably end up being fully automated and then on-shored in the end anyway.
Well, thanks for posting but that page is way out of date! I don't think I've updated it for... 15 years now? The data itself is kept fresh though: https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php
I stop it from coding, just ask it to brainstorm with me on a design or plan. After a few iterations it knows what I want and then I ask it for specific outputs. Or I code those myself, or some combination.

I’ve found that it’s sometimes amazing and sometimes wastes a lot of my time. A few times it’s really come up with a good insight I hadn’t considered because the conversation has woken up some non-obvious combination. I use ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and one or two IDE tools.
Can Large Language Models Reason? A Characterization via 3-SAT
Mouse and Keyboard on the Nintendo 64 [video]
>"Florida later retired the punch-card voting machines that produced the ballots disputed in the case."

So they improved a bit? Thats good? They are still using Optical scanning with no risk limiting auditing which is not great. What are you even arguing anymore?

>machines messed up, humans without machines would have not.

You don't know that. You are making an assumption while improperly understanding what did happen. It wasn't the machines that messed up, it was the people caused by the paper ballot. I cannot believe it is so difficult to understand that a machine producing a consistent printout is better to verify than trying to decipher what humans have drawn in a circle.

>- attempts at recount were blocked by supreme court.

Again you are conflating two separate issues. The cause of the supreme court blocking the recount was the poor paper design. If the count was concluded before the networks called it then there wouldn't have been exposure to this seperate issue that activists needed to work on.

>Any "risk limiting audits" will be thrown in the trash if it's convenient. Same as the recount attempts in florida.

Not if there are laws and processes on the books or else you could just do anything like throw out the paper ballots with some nonsense stating they are tampered with.

>You keep arguing for a complex unproven system that is easily compromisable and needs risk limiting audits just to exist.

Its the system that all the election security researchers say is the best system for the US's complex ballots. I trust them more than some rando on HN. Not to mention that it makes sense.

>You dismiss a simpler, resilient, proven, similarly fast without these glaring issues in EU.

This is the height of ignorance, thinking that since something works in one locale that it automatically works best in all other environments.

>If voting machines ever mess up then reality will smack us all, same as in the past.

Hence two way auditing....
From the article: "It is worth noting that the project received approval from Indonesian authorities in 2021."
I don't really think he understands why the safety paradigm is the way it is.

The problem is fear. Fear generated by individual incidents that have terrible local harmful effects. And the (perhaps inaccurate) perception that plants may still have issues. Plus the fairly unsolved waste storage problem.

Fukushima, 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl were existential for the nuclear industry. Like it or lump it, they made nuclear feel less safe.

When will we know that the new nuclear power plants are safe enough? Not for a decade or more.

Pretending that the industry isn't taking a rationale line based on the same tired stats about radiation is pointless. Humans are bad at judging risk, but your job as a power plant operator is to deal with the risk people perceive as well as the risk that actually exists.

(And the fact he links to LessWrong which is a site that overemphasises rational thinking to the extent it ignores the human condition says a lot to me).
> But I get that people here prefer

For many of us it isn't that we think the status quo is the RightWay™ - we just aren't convinced that crypto as it currently is presents a better answer. It fixes some problems, but adds a number of its own that many of us don't think are currently worth the compromise for our needs.

As you said yourself:

> The crypto ecosystem is shady, I know, but the tech is great

That but is not enough for me to want to take part. Yes the tech is useful, heck I use it for other things (blockchains existed as auditing mechanisms long before crypto-currencies), but I'm not going to encourage others to take part in an ecosystem that is as shady as crypto is.

> Thanks everyone for all the downvotes.

I don't think you are getting downvoted for supporting crypto, more likely because you basically said “you know that article you are all discussing?, well I think you'll want to know that I didn't bother to read it”, then without a hint of irony made assertions of “angst and negativity”.

And if I might make a mental health suggestion: caring about online downvotes is seldom part of a path to happiness :)
Looks interesting. When will the article be peer reviewed ?
I work it BI and am hoping to expand the team.
Does anyone have a good universal SQL code for that?

In my interview, I was given a T-SQL code, where I did point out the mistakes, but was told my solution wasn't optimal, but that was because I've never used that flavour before (nor was it specified in the hiring docs), so I'd like to avoid doing the same to others.
Interestingly, Australia is amongst the world's biggest exporters of Bauxite, which pretty much just needs electricity to turn it into Aluminium.
what did it do when you told it all of those things? was it able to fix the problems when you pointed them out? did you give it one prompt and expect perfect code out on the first try? is that how you code? all your code complies and runs flawlessly first try? I'm jealous. it usually takes me a bunch of passes before I get things right.

here's a chat for a uc and LCD chip that I picked at random (and got the name wrong for) (and didn't want raspberry pi code for so it stopped it short on that response)

https://chatgpt.com/share/2004ac32-b08b-43d7-b762-91543d656a...
I set out to read 26 traditional epics about woman heroes
Haha thanks fixed.
Don't graft generative AI on your system? Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Have you tried the Sideberry extension?
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK_JrrP9m2U

Website: https://civilization.2k.com/civ-vii/
The industry is taking care of that - the trucks cost has increased like 200% in 20 years.
LA's oldest record store is also its lowest rated
Graph Based RAG systems look promising
https://www.ontotext.com/knowledgehub/fundamentals/what-is-g...
This seems like good news. Does anyone know more about AMD’s incentives for participating in this collaboration? What’s in it for them? (Given that a large majority of their customers run either Linux or Windows.)
Thoughtful and insightful reflection, thanks for sharing. I think that interplay between personal sense-making, personal strengths and the addictive/rewarding aspects of belonging to a specialized/esoteric community are a very common combination driving the creation of new narratives, new factions/interest and, ultimately, all kinds of change in general… for better or for worse, usually only time and intervening chance can tell. It’s cool how meaningful it is to the participants, and also cool when you can zoom out and connect it to the experiences of others across space and time.
Who on Earth Is Using Generative AI?
Very interesting working paper using Semrush data to track usage of gen AI websites across the globe.