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You need to be aware of the tradeoffs, though. For example, adding an alias in your example could easily result in a lost update: if two users add an alias at the same time the second write will overwrite the first. You can go up an isolation level or check it in your application (do an `UPDATE ... WHERE` then check it went through), of course, but with relational tables you get this for free without any worry or performance impact.
Depending on the aspect ratio of the video and playback viewport, you could move the subtitles into the potential black bar underneath.

If there is no black bar, you could get one of those long narrow LCDs off AliExpress, set up the driver, add it as an X display with the right positioning... and then drag the mpv window across that and the TV. Should work. Those little LCDs are just silly expensive though...
I'm going to make the availability of requestFeedback function a boolean flag, so when running benchmark suites etc it can be disabled. Whether its an assistant or agent by that definition is just really a parameter value.
There are a lot of public Slack for SaaS companies, phishing can be detected by serious users (especially when the messages seems phishy) but an indirect AI leak does not put you in a "defense mode", all it takes is one accidental click
Would they be using AC or DC? I heard that very long cables using AC can be more lossy
I think we found the guy with NVDA calls.
Once we start making these predictions with no single one of such project even planned, then people start predicting about all sort of bat shit crazy ideas "within the next 100 years" and there is no philosophical razor we can employ to discern them from the legit ones.
Let's go with the elephant in the room: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069
I had the same feeling. Some of the results also made me wonder whether the reported feelings are actual feelings or lies. Which in turn made me wonder whether the view I have about certain countries is close to reality or not. Because in the end for most countries I've never been there nor actively looked up a lot of information about them, meaning all I think I know about it stems from media. Now, the sources I check are probably pretty objective (though as usual leaning towards only reporting the bad news and never the good news), but still, likely not sufficient to paint a complete picture of a certain country/culture.
The fossil industry is doing a fantastic job hiding problems in "free societies" and dictatorships alike.
I mean when the people saying it doesn't work for them, would kill them to give links to the chats on ChatGPT.com so everyone can see the prompts used? when they do, it's a different conversation. like the number of R's in strawberry, or 9.11 - 9.2. When the complaints are generic with no links, the responses are similarly generic, because both sides just biases that they're right and the other side is the one that's wrong.

I welcome people picking apart chats that I link to. it's not that I believe that LLMs are magic and refuse to adjust my model of how good these things are and aren't, but when people don't give specific evidence is hard to actually move the conversation forwards.

because yeah, these things are plenty stupid and have to be tricked into doing things sometimes (which is stupid, but here we are). they're also pretty amazing but like any hammer, not everything is a nail.
At the core of it, the high valuations were not a product of the potential LLMs had in assisting and enhancing individuals' works, rather because there was a hope that LLMs could replace some varieties of human labourers wholesale, thereby cutting labour costs which are often the highest expenditure of many companies. This has not materialised. I have seen more stories of PR nightmares out of attempting this than those with good endings. But maybe that is because of the sensationalist nature of news media itself.

Either way if it is indeed a bubble that will burst at some point, it doesn't bode well for the tech industry. With the mass layoffs, which are ongoing, seems like there won't be enough jobs for everyone.
Makes sense since the Russians have been fiddling with time and seems to have turned it back to 1962.
Funny you bring up logistics and (data) ontologies. I'm a PM at a logistics software company and I'd say the lack of proper ontologies and standardized data exchange formats is the biggest effort driver for integrating 3rd party carrier/delivery services such as DHL, Fedex etc.

It starts with the lack of a common terminology. For tool A a "booking" might be a reservation e.g. of a dock at a warehouse. For tool B the same word means a movement of goods between two accounts.

In terms of data integration things have gotten A LOT worse since EDIFACT is de facto deprecated. Every carrier in the parcel business is cooking their own API, but with insufficient means. I've come across things like Polish endpoint names/error messages or country organisations of big Parcel couriers using different APIs.

IMHO the EU has to step in here because integration costs skyrocket. They forced cellphone manufacturers to use USB-Cs for charging, why can't they force carriers to use a common API?
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Nuclear power is too safe, rare events are scary.
If there were more nuclear accidents people would accept it as normal and be all for nuclear power.
Quite pricey for what you get but its a BMW, its better put together than most. To be fair, with the number of models coming out I am seeing a lot of familiarity but nothing that truly stands out(I even hinted above that the Tesla is a decent car, not a perfect car: there are problems with it).

I am a Mazda fan so I lean towards their design philosophy. Once they release a true competitive EV, I will likely be happy enough to just buy it and be done. But until then it is looking like I am deciding between staying with another gas Mazda for a few years until they release a proper EV or picking something less than ideal and learning to live with it. My comment a few level up talks about buying my next 15+ year car so I am taking this very seriously. No perfect options for me in this transition period where the industry is still moving from mainly Gas to EV.
> which raises one of the weirdest behaviors of the HN system (at least for me)

I second that. Two months ago I tried to submit what I found to be a quite interesting video from 2018 and it was immediately marked as duplicate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40798566

Checking past submissions, I saw that the last time it had been submitted was a year ago:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

But then, as you can see from that page, someone resubmitted the video a month ago and for some reason that one got through.
> Or they were—costs are so high now that we don‘t even build plants anymore.

That's factually wrong. France has a program of nuclear building. We don't build a lot of plants in Europe, but we do.
> Just to work 1/2 days a week. Just to have a bit of a schedule and some people to be around with. I wouldn’t want to work from home. I want it to be in an office

This is an ideal. And it's the future too. But nowadays how do you even start to look for this kind of gig ? (Pardon my ignorance.)
You have, however, left yourself unprotected against real innovation in open source products which are value-aligned
Given the opportunity to offer up a better template ya copped out with a snide comment and didn't even try.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Something I haven’t seen discussed in the nuclear debate is that NPPs become a high risk target in times of war.

Look at what’s happened in Ukraine regarding the Zaporizhzhia power plant. The IAEA has been crapping itself the entire time while both Ukraine and Russia have haphazardly been shooting and bombing around it. If Russia were forced out of their position, they could adopt a scorched earth policy and destroy it, potentially irradiating the area.

Whether Russia would actually do that doesn't even matter - just being a possibility allows them to take the area hostage much more easily.

I am well aware that it would not detonate like a nuclear bomb or like Chernobyl. It doesn’t have to, it could still contaminate a huge area and harm a lot of people.
while this field is now paying my bills, i am lowkey happy to see this notion in the mainstream.

> “An alarming number of technology trends are flashes in the pan.”

this has been a trend that seems to keep on recurring but does not stop from the tech bros from pushing the marketing beyond the realities.

raising money in the name of the future will give you similar results as self-driving cars or vr. the potential is crazy, but it is not going to make you double your money in a couple financial years. this should help serious initiatives find better-aligned investors.
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I often walk from the place I live at one end of the city here in Lublin to the artificial lake at the other end of the city and I drive a bus back. It goes through the city center.

It's 12 km on foot one way and probably like 20 km in the bus the other way (it can't drive on the pedestrian/bike path along the river). I walk these 12 km in 2 hours and the bus takes 40 minutes to take me back. There's 25 bus stops on the route I take (and a few more later). There's 2 optional bus stops but they are past the point where I get off the bus.

So that's 1.5 minutes between bus stops (including the stops themselves which take around 5-15 seconds usually).

What's wrong with walking being competetive with buses BTW? The point is that it's better than driving in a car.
No, it's like saying "why take a cab where you have to provide the driver so much guidance on driving as to be equal or greater than the effort of driving yourself."
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> Booleans are not canonical Java as return value

What should you return instead? Or should the method return void and raise an exception on failure?
It's such a poor comparison it's ridiculous. A better analogy is "why take a cab if you know where you want to go and provide the car and instructions on how to drive"
What terrible local harmful effects? Only Chernobyl had any and they were very modest. Compare that to the hydroelectric plants. There we can talk real incidents with harmful local effects. If people actually feared incidents they would campaign against hydroelectric power. And the last such incident was last year in Ukraine. Also just building a hydro plant can ruin the local ecosystem even if there is no incident.

Fro the record I am pro-hydroelectric, pro-nuclear and pro-wind (I am a bit more skeptical towards solar but that is probably just me being from Sweden where solar isn't really an option). None of these are perfect but nuclear is by far the safest. The issues with nuclear do not relate to safety.
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I was also amused by a UX complaint on a site that is totally borked in a non-obvious way on Firefox.

It's not totally broken, it shows the first frame of the image, there's just no indication at all that the image is actually meant to be a video, there is no play control, and it just looks like a static image.
What I mean is: I totally agree that Sourcegraph's practices and architecture made it seem much more like a closed source company. Once it failed to create an open and welcoming community of contribution and ideas, the path to source closure was likely inevitable
Yeah, I checked the routes I take and it's 40 minutes for 25 bus stops so about 1.5 minutes between stops.
Yeah, even the Wikipedia article the article links to claims that the transition's at 2AM:

> North America coordination of the clock change differs, in that each jurisdiction changes at each local clock's 02:00, which temporarily creates an imbalance with the next time zone (until it adjusts its clock, one hour later, at 2 am there).
If I were youtube I'd be concerned about the opposite. The whole point of youtube is you have all these different creators doing different things in different ways and youtube has stepped and said "No, don't do it your way, say our exact phrase and we'll help you". The downstream impact of that is Youtube's thumb on the scale is going to drive everyone to one particularly unconvincing phrase.
I like to introduce some form of ADRs (Architectural Decision Records) with some kind of decision making process based on consent decision making flow (stolen from Sociocracy)

Implementation details of the process changes from context to context but clear communication is needed in all workplaces, making the implicit explicit.
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Everyone is optimizing for their own local use-case. Even open-source. Standards get adopted sometimes, but only if they solve a specific problem.

There is an additional cost to making or using ontologies, making them available and publishing open data on the semantic web. The cost is quite high, the returns aren't immediate, obvious or guaranteed at all.

The vision of the semantic web is still valid. The incentives to get there are just not in place.
Maybe making Microsoft happy as well? FreeBSD is collaborating with Microsoft on Azure support.
Has it been a flop? They should ask France.

About the trains too...
That's a really interesting idea! Gonna give it a try
We do grok it. We also think they've reached the apex of the technology and have seen no evidence they'll close the hallucination gap.
any dev can ship tens of features, they will be as bad as everything twitter did
I fear the approach that maximises productivity is a literal one-shot approach: Give the LLM one or two shots at generating a somewhat passable first attempt (including all or at least most of the boilerplate) and then strictly fix up stuff yourself. I recently spend a day attempting to build a relatively simple GUI for a project which _maybe_ contains a couple of days of programming work. It got the gist of the GUI basically in one. And the next two or three prompts then added the buttons I wanted. Most of it even worked

But after that we ran into a kind of loop, where you put my feelings into much better words than I could. If I had stopped after iteration 3, I probably would have finished what I wanted to do in half a day
Does the US not legislate that a NPP should be built with certain minimum amount of concrete that is far higher than needed? I read somewhere that lobbies inflate the cost so they will not be built, IDK if that's true.
It's always good to have a second Unix'y option. Also good for customers like Netflix and companies that can't or won't use the GPL like Sony.
It's a way to do layoffs without announcing you are doing it.
Nuclear Power is a complex thing, as any complex thing it require attention and commitment. Therefore it is more prone to destablization by a small number of individuals.

Russia have been quietly lobbying against nuclear in the EU for a long time (looking at you german Green Party).
No one is claiming expertise is permanent. But some people know more things than others in select topics.

And no one is perfect but someone who has more knowledge and has spent more time studying a thing is more likely to get it right.

You can cherry pick examples and misuse tools or you can look at the very basic facts that the people who study things for a long time no more about those things.

For example, asking a doctor for health advice is more reasonable than asking random people for health advice.
is there any thing special about the nature of such project that makes you ask this question? By default, long range transmission is always DC for that exact reason.
> Regardless, that LLMs are competing with longstanding programmers is already an impressive feat, even if they're not 100% correct.

But they're not. They're a little tool some programmers use to save a small amount of time. They're not replacing programmers.

And there's no evidence they will ever be as good as actual programmers.
Fully agreed. When the Ukraine war broke out, in Germany we had discussions how we could no longer rely on cheap russian gas and there we politicians actively demanding NPP to be reactivated. At the same time our government decided to spent 100 bilion € for the military and defense. This is surreal, when experts explain how "safe" NPPS are, the safety assumptions never asume a war going on around that NPP. If you factor this in all NPP would immetiately fall into the very unsafe category and all other energy sources would gain precedence.
might be a pipe dream but it would be nice if this variant can stretch its legs without a fan. also in terms of the power supply needed, but maybe i might be pushing my luck too much on that front.
The EU is doing its part in some domains. There is e.g., the eProcurement ontology [1] that aims to harmonize public procurement data flows. But I suppose it helped alot that (by EU law) everybody is obliged to submit to a central repository.

[1] https://docs.ted.europa.eu/epo-home/index.html
That's wrong. France's electricity is 70 % nuclear, on plants that were never built during a dictatorship phase.
> NPPs become a high risk target in times of war.

In certain geographic areas, it could be said that nuclear energy presupposes stable peace.-
A lot of what is said about nuclear power fails to drill down to the bare essentials: how do you de-risk building nuclear power and how do you get the cost down. A lot of smug mumbo-jumbo written by industry insiders who have their heads too far up their own behinds tends to take attention away from the fact that, so far, we've gone about it in ways that don't make sense. You don't actually need to know anything about nuclear power to understand why the approach of building large nuclear power plants doesn't work. Some basic knowledge of financing and the statistical chances of "black swan events" when you stretch out projects in time suffices.

Or in short: if you don't understand the goals you must navigate towards, it doesn't matter how much of the technical implementation you know.

"How Big Things Get Done" by Flyvbjerg and Gardner zooms out a bit (well, a lot) and draws a relatively clear picture of what approximate shape the solution space has for nuclear. Yes, the book gives a high level perspective. And yes, transforming the industry so it can fit within the constraints outlined in the book will be expensive and time-consuming. But it is worthy of serious consideration.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61327449-how-big-things-...

I tend to point out that the country where I live is uniquely suited to design and build reactors precisely because we don't have a nuclear industry. (We had a research reactor, but that's an entirely different matter and you would NOT want to involve the cowboys who ran that)
> The Man Who Knew Infinity

A very good film. I will seek it out again.
I get where you are coming from but I feel you are trivialising it a bit. It is only social media recommendations but I think they are a tool in information warfare. I won't cite any sources so feel free to disregard but social media is a major driver of information consumption today and it can be used to serve ideological ends if those who control it desire so.

I don't know anything about the geofencing psyop bit though.
Nobody care if Twitter goes out of service tomorrow, too. And everyday it has like, 10% chance of it happening lol
Don't worry, I think it's only a matter of time before you'll be able to do this. Either through an official PS5 remaster, an official PC release (less likely) or via some funky unofficial emulation.

Even though it's only 30fps the game is quite beautiful for being 9 years old and running on a previous gen console.
LessWrong emphasises taking human factors into account all the time. Maybe you're thinking of RationalWiki or some such site?
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Unrealistic in Australia for a solid report's worth of reasons that make them economically unfeasible.

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/news/2024/may/csiro-release...

Meanwhile nuclear is feasible in China, South Korea, maybe in the UK (who are well into sunk cost on their next reactor already), and probably in the US.
It's just that it's a post made by a web developper for their web developper audience. Safe to assume they know what a Toast Notification is.
I expect that won't work on macOS, because an "Always On Top window" is not equal to a "floating window"...

It's described here: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/1751#issuecomment-1973...
I started reading but there is a lot of content with little substance and repeated phrases, with some debatable opinions like "because the woman does not have a penis, her female presence provokes sexual insecurity in the unconscious of the male, wherein women are passive recipients of male objectification."

Could you point out what is actually wrong with one person being attracted by another person?
Could it be related to Huygens publication in 1657? (De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae)
Men are known to be callous dare-devils sometimes, but Women also exhibit a curious lack of good risk assessment that fits this pattern.

They either over-cautiously drink 8 bottles of water a day for dubious health benefits, or they uncaringly approach some wild animal that they cannot imagine goring to death them a few seconds later.
Simple, people found out the reactors get retired after 50 years and its an absolute shit show. Totally not worth it.

Then there's the unforgiving accidents.
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> Russia have been quietly lobbying against nuclear in the EU for a long time

And, given this, they might even have a perverse incentive to destroy nuclear facilities, if only as yet another form of pro-oil, pro-gas propaganda.-
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I am just curious which tasks people have to do in their everyday life as sofware developers which feel endless and sometimes even pointless.Maybe some of these tasks are easy to generalize and automate.
Somehow sometimes excel ends up being a database. And i really don't like to update data based on the "latest" additions to the excel.
Human error rates are also not a constant.

If you're about to publish a career-ending allegation, you're going to spend some extra time fact-checking it.
We’ll see, but I doubt its because of the election; as another commenter said companies can’t afford to lose that much money by waiting around for months for the right “moment” to release a product. GPT-4o is good, I’ll grant you that, but its fundenmentally the same tech as GPT3.5 and the fundenmental problem, “hallucination,” is not solved, even if there are more capabilities. No matter what, for anything besides code that may or may not be any good, someone has to go through and read the response and make sure its all tight so they don’t fuck up or embarass themselves (and even then, using AI for coding will introduce long term problems since you’ll have to go back through it for debugging anyway). We all, within a month of ChatGPT getting introduced, caught it in a contradiction or just plain error about some topic of specialist knowledge, and realized that its level of expertise on all topics was at that same level. Sam Altman royallly fucked up when he started believing his own bullshit, thinking AGI was on the horizon and all we needed was to waste more resources on compute time and datacenters.

Its done, you can’t make another LLM, all knowledge from here on out is corrupted by them, you can never deliver an epistemic “update.” GPT will become a relic of the 21st century, like a magazine from the 1950s.