skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I don’t even know what this elegy is for. “what was wonderful about the web, was that here was a machine for finding people with similar interests and experience, anywhere in the world. That’s the web I want back.” Is that no longer the web? It seems pretty easy to find communities these days.

The web I want back is the one powered by real people making real things. But rather than complain about it I think I’d rather be one of the people who is still here, making things.
Pearl's ladder of causation (in maths and AI research) already tells you that causation cannot only be inferred from data alone. If you only have data, then you cannot generally go beyond correlations. This can be solved either by humans hardcoding their knowledge into a model that extracts causation based on that knowledge, of by giving a machine the ability to perform their own experiments. This is because there are some correlations (A - B) that are generated by causation (A -> B) whose direction of the arrow cannot be decided with data alone.
The context here is the technology available at the time of the introduction of FM in the mid-1930s. In that context, schemes for reduplicating AM over a much wider bandwidth than the ~40 kHz needed for high-fidelity audio may be interesting in their own right, but they have no bearing on the article we are discussing. AM, as it was construed and implemented at the time, was inherently limited to a bandwidth just twice the signal frequency.
At work, we have access to AWS bedrock, so we use that.

At home, I did the math, and its cheaper for me to buy credits for openai and use gpt4 than investing in graphics cards.I use maybe 5 dollars a month max
If the Q & A is already out there if argue we don't need it asking and, if we're lucky, answering again.

If the Q & A isn't our there, then it'll be asked on an online platform.
Would a merge instead of a rebase have made it easier to find the bug? (Serious question)
Is this the video you saw (posting below, for you and anyone who hasn't seen it).

While ignoring the question the first time, he did confirm that they were being assisted by a human. Perhaps not as clear as 'remotely operated', but that's about how I took the answer. YMMV.

https://x.com/zhen9436/status/1844773471240294651
At least in Australia, the oversupply of rooftop solar is already getting to be enough of a problem that its a signal to investors that getting into grid scale batteries could be profitable, and to home owners that house scale batteries are a good idea.
Yeah, it was a mistake to expect anything beyond thought-stopping cliches that were delivered by you. In hindsight it was a mistake to post at all. I don't think you've read my post anyways, or you've processed it on a level below a typical LLM.

Righteousness is the most potent drug of them all, is it not? No need to answer.
Have a good day.
Super preventable stuff too. "Itchy mole, prob nothing." Ope, it's a melanoma and has spread everywhere. You have 6 months to live.
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> * Nuclear plant construction times are on the order of a decade or (realistically) two decades in the West, if you include planning*

Sure. Forecasting twenty years out is tough. But our forecasts out 10 years show the power crunch easing to almost no degree--we'll still likely be making the same tradeoff then as now. (And, I suspect, still filling the gap with gas in teh west.)

You're broadly correct: we need to build faster. There is no reason we can't build a large plant in under a decade and an SMR in a few years. The latter is what Google is experimenting with here. It's a long shot. But so is hoping battery production scales the orders of magnitude necessary for it to become a utlity backbone over the next decades.

> first goal is to get renewables to 90-95% or more of power generation, massively overbuilt with short-term battery storage

We don't have the battery pipeline. What we're repeatedly getting is renewables plus gas generators. There is no world in which you put down trillions of dollars of gas infrastructure and then poof it in a few years because it's no longer needed.
(I edited the above comment to separate the first two links more clearly)
It's likely enough battery capacity if you combine batteries with e-fuels for longer term storage.

Assuming batteries are used for all storage use cases is one of the classic errors of energy system analysis.
And now that's not realistic, given their track record on EPR.
We had people swearing up and down that the Cybertruck would never be released because it was stock fraud. They already seem to be at a run rate of $1.5 billion in revenue per quarter despite launching in a limited fashion because of manufacturing ramp up.
VHF is actually pretty good for non line of sight (at least, better than everything higher frequency).

Its not great for over the horizon communication, but its pretty good at getting through trees and other obstacles.
The Punched Card Detective
Ok, we've changed the title to language from the article itself (edited to fit HN's 80 char limit) which seems both representative and neutral. If there's a better title, we can change it again.

(Submitted tile was "Google funding construction of seven U.S. nuclear reactors")
The network learns high-level abstractions, not just style. Crosstraining on reality will make it better at physics, logic, buildings, expressions, character animations etc. - even in a cel shading or topdown style.

It's the thing Miyazaki is on about with his famous quote.
What is the current target use-case for this company's airships, the use-case that will get them a consistent business that will allow them to grow?

What is the target operating speed considering cargo weight?

How much cargo can such an airship carry at its target operating speed such that this is more efficient than air-freight and land-freight?
> If we could assemble the political will to raise taxes and build nuclear at "wartime" speeds, I'd say go for it.

Tepco, Russia, and MetEd all lied to or misled the public about the nature of their respective accidents.

Not enough people who were alive during those incidents have died.
This is why China installed 217 GW of solar last year, but only 1.2 GW of nuclear.
1) FUSE block sizes are somewhat adjustable (kernel forces min/max)

2) You can rechunk it in your HTTP client to make fatter HTTP requests: https://go.dev/talks/2013/oscon-dl.slide#51 -- there is even a way in FUSE of pushing the fatter results into the kernel page cache to minimize overhead of coming reads: https://pkg.go.dev/bazil.org/fuse#Conn.NotifyStore
Bar Part Time owner: Neil Mehta gaslighting about Fillmore land grab
Lillian Schwartz, pioneer in computer-generated art, dies at 97
If someone really cared about it I'd do something manually, but fortunately most HN users don't care.
Matt’s mother’s behavior really puts his own behavior in perspective.
The author of the post specifically addressed this:

“Today, CR is represented by U+000d and both LF and NL are represented by U+000a. Almost all modern machines use U+000a to mean NL exclusively. That meaning is embedded in most programming languages as the backslash escape \n. Nevertheless, a minority of machines still insist on sending a CR together with their NLs”

Who is the “minority”?

He also takes the position that the legacy behavior is fine for a tty, as it’s emulating a legacy terminal.
Yeah although typically they used water ballast, which is cheap and easy to find.

One thing worth considering is going back to hydrogen as a lifting gas. Not only is it a better lifting gas than helium and much cheaper, it could be used as fuel.

An airship that burned its own lifting gas would have the curious property of getting heavier the further it traveled. This could be countered by dual-fueling it and also have engines that burned heavier-than-air fuel like kerosene or propane. The hydrogen engines could burn the lifting gas at the same rate as the kerosene engines burn the ballast-fuel.
Imagine explaining to a newcomer that you write your app using Vert.x, it consumes AI models from GCP Vertex and uses Vortex for its high-performance columnar file structure.
> Eventually people will realize the light is busy when the person isn’t really busy

Like the geniuses that block off their whole day everyday on their calendar or set their Teams status to unavailable all day.
The most annoying aspect of blogging for me is terrible phone support.

If someone can figure out how to get iOS Notes published on the internet, I would love that workflow.
It would be circular if a single person was saying both of those.

Are the people you're talking to in support of the first quote?

I would expect them to say a lack of PPAs shows lack of confidence, or for them to barely care about the number of PPAs. Not to use it as evidence that there's no interest.
> "Maybe if you had a link to Markus' page I could have a look."

e.g. here: https://www.metalevel.at/tist/ solving the Water Jugs problem (search on the page for "We use iterative deepening to find a shortest solution") finding a list of moves emptying and filling jugs, and using `length(Ms, _)` to find shorter list of moves first.

or here: https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/puzzles under "Wolf and Goat" he writes "You can use Prolog's built-in search strategy to search for a sequence of admissible state transitions that let you reach the desired target state. Use iterative deepening to find a shortest solution. In Prolog, you can easily obtain iterative deepening via length/2, which creates lists of increasing length on backtracking."
The GP was definitely starting a generic ideological tangent ("boo socialism", basically) and by pushing back on that ("nuh-uh", basically) you perpetuated it.

Yes the correct behavior would be to not feed it by replying, but instead to flag it as off topic.

I definitely believe you that you don't intend to be nasty and I don't think I saw any nastiness in your posts, so that's great! But your comments (in this thread at least) have definitely been in the "generic ideological battle" category. Examples:

"Gee, almost as if decades of austerity politics, lobbying by financial interests, and regulatory capture" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41832880)

"Have you not paid much attention to politics since Reagan and Thatcher? Their whole objective was to hollow out the government" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840936)

I'm not saying you're wrong or disagreeing with you—it's just that this sort of generic ideological argument isn't the intellectually curious conversation we're looking for here, and we can't have both.
Dupe means duplicate discussion. There is an earlier discussion on this news story with plenty of upvotes and comments. Stop splitting up the threads, especially when it's a news story already developed from multiple days ago. Got something to add? Share it over there. Even maybe suggest the link over there in some cases even as a replacement article option. Stop splitting up threads and forcing us to repeat ourselves over and over. The discussion is over there.
> In theory falling launch costs will eventually mean maybe we can make space science missions more disposable

Launch is less than ~10% of the cost.
People shouldn't worry about accuracy too much. Everybody in healthcare knows about the problems in various measurement methods as well as individual responses to measurement anxiety and the physical and emotional state you are in that particular time. The only accurate measurements are direct measurements through an arterial catheter which is a very invasive procedure.
Routine clinic measurements are used only to have a general idea about trend and secondly to catch severely high BP which is usually due to a secondary disease.
Also, if BP is high above a certain limit it is significant regardless of if you took rest for 5 minutes and other precautions. Because if BP is high the normal BP regulating system should kick in and lower it regardless of the cause. With advancing age and hardened arteries this response becomes less optimal and you need the support of anti hypertensive medicines. You can see this in real time in patients under anesthesia. A young healthy patient would have an initial peak in response to pain or other surgical stimulus but they will be able to lower it either spontaneously or with minimal outside intervention. Whereas in older individuals much more effort is required to control and lower the BP.
The general trend has been to treat both hypertension and diabetes early because the microvascular complications start much earlier before they become apparent clinically.
Routing is only important for a single page applications. Frontend frameworks are applicable to normal websites as well, they don't have to be SPAs with routing, caching, etc.
This is great for me as an Australian because the past government changed the NBN from fibre to copper and instead of gigabit the fastest I can get is 25mbps that doesn't work when it's raining.

But no it's okay because they told me nobody would ever need more than 25 megabit ever. No possible application for greater speeds would ever be thought up, they assured us.
Modern airships are semi-rigid. They have a keel and a rigid structure to support the empennage. The rest of the structure can be deflated and collapsed just like a non-rigid blimp.
This is unlikely. I work with people all over the world and generally we communicate our own time zone plus the top local time zone for our audience.

In an organization where people are accustomed to indexing their activities to other people who live in a different time zone, it’s actually easier to use the most common time zones than it is to switch everyone to UTC. When using UTC, you have to do the mental gymnastics twice. You first have to relate your own time zone to UTC, and second relate your audience time zone to it. But what happens in practice is that you quickly learn what times in your local time zone correspond to movements of the day in your peer time zones. And because everybody has the same mental model, it’s easier (and less error prone) to just to use local time zones.
that's different. Not knowing what he's talking about is different from a comment about character. But no point in arguing about this.
Rabbit Hole of Despair
Have a look at Rosetta Code

> https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

This might be a little bit nearer to what you look for.

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> it would be cool if there were a code puzzler site that is specifically geared towards little self-contained tasks

In my opinion the tasks on Project Euler or LeetCode are much more self-contained than what you suggest as alternatives: many of your suggestions are deeply intertwined with libraries (and understanding them) for doing the respective task instead of being self-contained programming tasks.
I have a similar experience, but I notice the age and single founder is getting better, at least in some regions. Now that VCs want ROI instead of an eternal money pit, some are now looking for experienced founders with some silver hairs. But it still sucks finding annd engaging with them and going through these crappy motions.
> They were smart and educated, but they were English majors or studied agriculture or business.

“Are you at all concerned about an uprising?”
https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky
Did you just whip out that amazing ASCII art or do you use a tool?
Didn't OpenAI demo facetime with a H.E.R. like chatbot/AI friend in April?

Where is that.. it's not available to anyone I know and was that actual real tech running or just faked demos? The tech playbook is hype even if it's not real and or really exists ... hype it up .. make them pay for the promise of something they think exists but it doesnt. Similar thing here Musk following the technology/startup playbook ... hype hype hype make people think it's real .. boost stocks as Open AI boosted it's subscription revenue Im sure in April of a promise of something that may or may not exist.
oh boy! but the scenery is stunning.
jaw dropped on game play video (MSFS 2024 Technical Alpha) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QWiA-j20_w

disclosure: not an active gamer
Fluoridated water is a communist plot?
All the fake sites that use those same words but have none of the real content
A used booster is probably more reliable than a new one. I know aircraft engines have a bathtub curve, perhaps reusable rockets work the same way.
> What is the endgoal for WpEngine.

Not paying $30mil a year in extortion?

> Are they legally in the clear?(Note:Legally)

IANAL, but:

The code is GPL ("GPL2 or newer"). That gives WPEngine (and you and me) a clear license to use, copy, modify, and redistribute the code, with some very well understood restrictions (which do require you to share your modifications under the same GPL, but absolutely do not require "contributing back to the community" or paying a competitor 8% of your gross revenue).

For about 2 decades up until last week the WordPress trademark page explicitly told everyone that the use of "WP" was not covered by any of their trademarks.

US law has a concept of "Nominative Use" of trademarks: "Nominative use, also "nominative fair use", is a legal doctrine that provides an affirmative defense to trademark infringement as enunciated by the United States Ninth Circuit, by which a person may use the trademark of another as a reference to describe the other product, or to compare it to their own." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use

I guess a lot of lawyers are about to get richer determining whether or not WPEngine's use of the "WordPress" trademark was "as a reference to describe the other product, or to compare it to their own." To me (remember, not a lawyer) it seems quite obvious that "We sell WordPress hosting" is a reference to the trademarked Wordpress product, and is exactly what is allowed by Nominative use.

> Can they rebrand to something other than Wp?

I doubt they need or want to. They can fork Wordpress core itself under their rights granted by the GPL and they could name that something like WPEnginePress, or choose to use any other fork like ClassicPress or AspirePress. The Nominative Use "or to compare it to their own" clause allows them to say "We sell WPEnginePress Hosting, which is 100% compatible with WordPress and has an identical admin interface for users."

The wordpress.org theme/plugin repo is a bigger problem, but most (all?) of that is under the same GPL2.0 or newer licence, so WPEngine or any other fork can copy/modify/redistribute those as well (and WPE are already mirroring it), and at least AspirePress has said they've planning on getting plugin/theme authors to use their repo as well as the wordpress.org one.
Yes completely agree. This is hard for a PM to do.

I’m assuming that the OP is a founder and can actually make these calls.
>Each robot had several human escorts, and the robots were limited to slow walking and a few slow hand gestures.

More importantly, the robots were limited to doing no real work. They just feebly pick up objects and place them somewhere else, which I am pretty sure doesn't require AI.

For example, the vid shows the robot pouring hot water into a glass with a massive funnel strapped to it. Why not have the robot fill the kettle, place the teabag itself, etc? It seems like the kind of thing that should be developed before walking and talking and telling jokes.

What if the refrigerator, microwave, etc. could interface directly with the robot. For example, the refrigerator has some type of robotized shelf that is able to bring a rack of orange juice to the front before the robot comes over to grab it? What if the microwave is able to focus the microwave beam on the food to cook it evenly?

It also irks me how the robots are just humanoids. Like for example, why have a head with two eyes. Does it need to wear a helmet? Does it need exactly 2 eyes at exactly human-like placement to achieve stereopsis? Why not have 3 eyes? Did the designers think about the form of the machine at all, or did they just produce robots in the form that is associated with the most hype and thus will bring in the most investor capital? Is this really the ideal form for interfacing with humans? With other robots?

I am just very skeptical of these companies that want to go from zero to doing everything. By the time they accomplish a robot that can do "everything", who is to say that they will even be able to privatize it? The "everything robot" might just be built out of general-purpose components and software at that point. Why not just make a machine that does a limited set of tasks well and then build from there?

Sorry https://blog.comma.ai/a-100x-investment-part-2/ has me coping and seething at the AI space
Figure 01 does the same thing.
Sidebar: interesting how you typed out the email address (I’ve also seen variations like me at gmail dot com). This worked for spam and phishing crawlers that just did a brute force search across texts. But now that we have LLMs, I’m wondering if this will be effective anymore, since it gets the context as well and is not just a “dumb” regexp search?
I believe the term for this is scalar evolution.
Yes, this seems like the best paragraph from the article related to those questions:

Airship Industries is designing its vehicle to dominate transoceanic air freight. It checks all the right boxes. It shortens end-to-end freight delivery time. It lowers freight handling costs, delays, and breakage. It’s highly profitable on a unit basis. It lowers fuel burn and carbon emissions by 75 percent without any sustainable fuel breakthroughs.

How many shipping container can a single airship carry?
The issue for landowners is that digging pretty much automatically means you can’t actually do anything you might otherwise want to do with your land for potentially decades.

If you’re an archaeologist? Cool. If you wanted a patio? Tough luck.
It is insane what they survived. For me "The Worst Journey in the World" was a better read.
Yes, very good point. I would argue that what I’m suggesting is particularly well suited to startups. It may be relevant to larger companies as well but I think the politics and risk profile of larger companies makes this nearly impossible to implement.
That OpenAI demo is available right now to subscribers; I have access to it
Yeah, dude was head of Hyperloop. Nailed that one