skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple still uses and makes a lot of 4nm and AMD is also using 4nm for their latest ryzen CPUs which actually has shortages.
China to Keep Tapping Coal to Meet Its Energy Security Needs
Archived page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221129120058/https://mfiano.ne...
I bought the massive Kenney asset bundle on itch.io during a sale: https://kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-assets

When I feel like making a small game over the weekend, I can scroll the spritesheets and get ideas just from looking at them. They're so good.

And it's a lot more motivating to work on a game when it looks so good from the start instead of using crappy prototype art I built myself.
> AGI in some ways

In other words, just AI, not AGI.
And like it's an innovation.

They also have this footnote:

> Using memory extension (virtual RAM) requires enough storage space. To protect the storage, memory extension is automatically and permanently disabled once 90% of the usage limit is reached.

So you get to 90% (of 32GB) one time, and swap no longer works even if you clear space?
That’s awesome. I chose Japan as my place to live, but NL was a close second. I’ll have to think about it again next time I move.
We are nature. The separation between humanity and nature is a false one, that works against conservation efforts.

I like the idea of rewilding because it forces us to see ourselves as part of a large natural system - which is what we are - and helps grow appreciation for that system.

But until there is a way for recognition of that system to become more profitable than "othering" nature - polluting the environment, destroying parts of that system - or regulation prevents that othering, it can be depressingly isolating.
TFA admits that specialization can gain a temporary edge. But, says using that specialization is useless because the next gen will eclipse that edge using raw CPU.

Even if it is true that the next generational change in AI is based on computational improvements, how can it be true that it's hopeless to build products by specializing this generation of tech?

Moreover if I specialize gen 1, and gen 2 is similar enough, can't specialization maintain an edge?

There seems to be a timescale mismatch.
Somewhat cynically, maybe because there's VC in Cursor.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/19/in-just-4-months-ai-coding...
after june 2025 producers cannot sell a phone in the EU market with such a short software support timespan

https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/...

> availability of operating system upgrades [..] at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model
EU's 2024 new wind capacity less than half amount needed for climate goal
Good thing that's not global, right? I'm not in the US, our courts work differently.
Here's the cons from my experience.

Dart does not cross-compile, it's still an issue to this day and there haven't been any plans to fix that yet from what I can tell. https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/28617

Another slight issue I've found is the error message it spits out is kinda unhelpful most of the time, but that issue also applies to Flutter. The stacktrace is like 100 lines with only the five first rows is helpful, the rest is internal code.

Dart lacks a repl (there is this package called Interactive but it's a hacky solution).

One last thing I do not enjoy about Dart is that even if the code compiles, you are not guaranteed that the massive refactor you did is "sound", that will say, errors can popup during runtime, so you have to write tests for every part. This is such a bummer because in Java, if I do a large refactor and the linter, ide and compiler is happy, then you will likely be rest assured that the program will run fine (JavaFX is a exception).

Dart is a language meant for ui development, nothing else. The team doesn't seem interested in splitting up the language from the Flutter framework. There have been tons of work from the community to provide tools for standalone application / backend development (see Shoelace and Serverpod).

The pros is a beautiful, expressive language with awesome DX. Good range of packages available and easy to meta-program with, it's not on the Ruby level but with "extensions" you can do lots of fun stuff. Dart deserves more love than what it currently gets.
It's fascinating to see figure 1 and figure 3 where there's a huge amount of overlap between the groups. To get to a place on each graph where there are no men you also have almost no women either. It's only the extreme outliers who are definitively inside a single gender part of the results.
> It's only downhill from there.

I just hope it's over quickly and some other ownership model comes into place. WordPress is an impressive & important project, it'd be a shame to lose it because of one lunatic.
One could argue the sustainability team was disbanded in the name of sustainability.
Almost all of this also applies to pedestrians, and I expect you'd feel it would be a significant restriction on personal freedom if one had to be licenced, carry liability insurance and so on to walk somewhere.

In Denmark (where I live) pedestrians and cyclists will generally yield to each other according to circumstances. Almost everyone knows what it's like to ride a bike, and that it's easy (no extra effort) to pause for 1 second while walking to allow a bike to pass, which can save the cyclist having to stop and restart.
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Naval strategic value is in total.flux since the arrival of Ukrainian anti ship drones.

Imo it makes all littoral / near shore naval assets a sitting duck. Deepwater is probably safe for about another five years.

Even stealth submarines may be fundamentally vulnerable to a flotilla of drone submarines and ai detection. I'll give them ten years.

I used to think Zeihans prediction of a collapse of global trade because of piracy and the US shrinking from global sea police was loony, but drone threats may be what really does it.
Devils advocate;

In order for the elite to rule, they need a rich oligarchy of support. At least that’s how it’s always been.

And you want cooperation from the mob, if you want the place in general to thrive - and you do, if you’re smart. Because your genes do. Look what eventually happens to the progeny of /most/, bad dictators these days, eventually.

Using the biggest gang as protection for smaller, even tiny gangs kills two birds with one stone; Anyone can join the protection racket so the mob is pacified, and the biggest gang gets the support of the rich gangs, who get to sit in on the council.

Terey pratchett’s genius is slowly revealed to me over the years)))
Following up on the category requirement comment - if I hadn't read the parent comment here first, when trying the app I probably would have walked away concluding it didn't work.

The first button in the bar is create a new task. That's the first thing any visitor will click. If you try to create a task there is no category available, no hint they are required or important, no reason why I'd care what category the task is, and the error state is indicated by a green highlight - the universal signal for "everything is good." All I would have seen is, hmm, I can't make a task, this must be broken. Move on.

I mention all of this because the app looks like a fantastic new tool and I suspect this small issue would have a much bigger impact on adoption than you might anticipate as the author of the tool.
At this point, the lack of progress since April 2023 is really what is shocking.

I just looked on midjourney reddit to make sure I wasn't missing some new great model.

Instead what I notice is the small variations on the themes I have already seen a thousand times a year ago now. Midjourney is so limited in what it can actually produce.

I am really worried that all this is much closer to a parlor trick than AGI.
"simple trick or demonstration that is used especially to entertain or amuse guests"

It all feels more and more like that to me than any kind of progress towards general intelligence.
Mullenweg brought this on himself. Swisher is just reporting on it. A rush to judgement can be an issue, but that is definitely not the case here.
> there will be a valid open source competitor to Grafana ecosystems

You may want to check out SigNoz [1] - takes a all in one app approach compared to different modules for each signal approach which Grafana takes

Disclaimer : I am one of the maintainers

[1] https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
Doesn't work on FF/Linux
And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope
Aider is the single best tool I’ve tried. And I’d never heard of it until like 2 weeks ago when someone mentioned it here. I love aider.
The censorship (even here on HN! I seriously hope none of them work as Fact Checkers for tech) is inexcusable

You have real, credentialed doctors coming out and saying it's nowhere near as safe as we were promised

And yet those (actual) experts aren't enough for Youtube, who will remove your video, similarly inexcusably

HN itself should be ashamed of itself
I understand it if you look at the receiving end. Say in Germany they built natural gas plants shortly before the war under the premise that they must be Hydrogen ready, aka right now we use natural gas but promise in a few years when Hydrogen production is there, we'll switch to Hydrogen. That can be very easily criticized as green washing of the gas plants (although a gas plant is much better than what it would have replaced, brown coal). Now with the war and the pipelines destroyed, Germany went a different route and instead runs the coal plants for a longer time.

But if you look at the production side, they are building a solar power plant. How is that green washing? There is no way to use a solar power plant other than to collect renewable energy. Either it is operational and collects renewable energy, to send it to various places, or it is not operational, but then it's been a bad investment for the investors. Now, maybe it could be part of some greater scheme where one uses this plant as the "source" of a multiple of the ammonium it can actually produce, and sells ammonium from fossil sources as made by Chilean sun. But that should then be addressed on its own, and not hamper the project itself (although of course a different location would be better that doesn't risk the operations of scientific instruments worth billions).
It is very difficult for me to believe that Meta's recent political relations moves are not related to the open cases where Meta is the defendant.
Original author of the guide here. Wonderful to see these little illustrations still making the rounds. I first published them in 2010!

To those in the comments who mentioned you are just starting your own PhD: Good luck to you! And, I hope you, like I once did, find a problem that you can fall in love with for a few years.

To those just finished: Congratulations! Don’t forget to keep pushing!

To those many years out: You have to keep pushing too, but there can be tremendous value in starting all over again by pushing in a different direction. You have no idea what you may find between the tips of two fields.
The Apple //e version absolutely saved and loaded the tree. I played it just last month with my niece and nephew and it loaded the same ridiculous questions my sister and I had inputted as children 30 years ago.

Rebalancing is not possible not due to code restrictions but due to the nature of the game. How could the program know what new labels to invent for the inner nodes of the rebalanced tree? Unlike integers, animals are not totally ordered.
> OpenAI has tacitly acknowledged that they don't know how to make a next generation model

Can you provide a source for this? I'm not super plugged into the space.
That's also my choice. If I don't service my car every year then no-one comes to take it away from me and do the servicing anyway.

And sure, the average person won't make sensible decisions for their own good about updates, so forcing them can be a reasonable default, but it should still be possible to override those settings. It's my computer.

As for choosing when to do it, maybe that's possible (although it's not been my experience tbh) but that all falls apart when, for example, an aged relative switches on their computer once a month to do one specific simple task and ends up having to wait two hours while their bargain basement machine grinds to a halt force-updating itself because it's past the update grace period.
No, the laws are the same everywhere. The timescape model just takes into account gravitational time dilation in large voids (where time passes faster). They say this can explain the observation that the universe is expanding faster (in other words, it's not, it just looks like it).

Also, this is about dark energy, not dark matter
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machines work on behalf of humans, any human could similarly claim their typewriter did it
"The Right to Privacy" (1890)
To your first point, the LLM still can’t know what it doesn’t know.

Just like you can’t google for a movie if you don’t know the genre, any scenes, or any actors in it, and AI can’t build its own context if it didn’t have good enough context already.

IMO that’s the point most agent frameworks miss. Piling on more LLM calls doesn’t fix the fundamental limitations.

TL;DR an LLM can’t magically make good context for itself.

I think you’re spot on with your second point. The big differentiators for big AI models will be data that’s not easy to google for and/or proprietary data.

Lucky they got all their data before people started caring.
The amount of resources required to create an EV's battery, battery degradation,
politics behind the mining, and importing of such resources, locations of factories whichbuild them, etc. is against it. 15% is because it was subsided and People we being scared by govt that they will disallow their cars from cities. And you're IT professional I guess so you're not the poorest person driving such.

Those cars will become unrepairable in a few years.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/mapped-ev-battery-manufa...
Does this include some of the config fixes that the sloth guys pointed out?
I see only one IPv6 timeout, for fragmented packet reassembly, in other words between reception of fragments. So it's a bound on jitter not latency, and I see no reason it couldn't be increased for interplanetary links.
Maybe I'm not aware, but as Meta's Llama is free for use, why is the lawsuit against them, vs OpenAI or any other company who have assuredly (from my experience in these companies) done the exact same thing if not worse and make a profit from it?
I agree that the exception is rare, but it suggests that the non-exception isn't exclusively necessary. It might suggest that the dominant paradigm of diplomas is quite non-optimal or at least optional.

Carlos Ghosn started out as a factory manager (although well educated), and in his Stanford interview the presenter noted that Stanford produced no factory managers, although it produces lots of would be global CEOs.

Perhaps it should produce more factory managers.

Musk has shown an ability to make an impact in multiple fields for which he seems quite under qualified for, for which he did not have "significant intellectual preparation and tacit knowledge". He read alot.

I think there are more non-celebrity exceptions that are simply not well known.

And there are lots of people in PhD programs who, despite their education, do not make credible or meaningful impacts, quite possibly not at all due to their competence or training quality, but due to wholly accidental or uncontrollable factors: industry shifts, business culture, changes in government research funding, or their entire paradigm being based on faulty assumptions that were simply not known and discovered later, or superseded by some innovation, etc.

Academics are rarely comfortable discussing the shortcomings of academia.
Jank
> In the course of my work, I think of an invariant as a state that must hold true at all points during the software’s execution.

That seems quite close to the author's answer:

> Perhaps it’s time to answer the title question: invariant is some property which holds at all times during dynamic evolution of the system.
I have two Chrome extensions in the store. They're not very popular and are really just features I wanted for my own use. I think I have less than 100 users total.

At least once a week I get emails from people

- offering money to add their "tracking" code

- wanting to purchased the extension outright

What they clearly want is access to my modest install base to push questionable code onto. I certainly am not going for these offers, but I could certainly see someone less financially secure giving in to it, and that scares me a little.

The idea of paid malware insertion in smaller packages is kind of troubling in general. How often just in life in general do we just trust opaque binaries to be clean.
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> All of this is on you (the leader). That's reason for resignation.

Bingo. If someone wants to be the leader, then they have to deal with leadership. That means that everything going on under your leadership is your responsibility. We've let this slide as a society, letting leaders take credit for successes and then blaming others for failures.
I mean… they’re as much search as Amazon is retail, no?

Doesn’t GCP bring in big bucks?

Not to mention gsuite. If your company don’t use Microsoft office they use gsuite.
> The second thing to do would be to ask why only white males are applying, and consider what (if anything) might be done to alter that.

But this is exactly what I mean. You can try to make the job and the company sound appealing to females and minorities. But let's say 99.9% of the population around you is white and you just don't happen to get any female candidates applying because the number of females with those skills that are currently looking for work in your area happens to be zero. You could do a bunch of footwork and ask lots of "why". But if your small-to-medium sized company chiefly want to execute on a specific business goal, their focus will be on shipping product, beating the competition, keeping customers and employees happy. Who has pockets deep enough to fix some broader societal problem? How much of the budget should they spend on that? Is it even their obligation? What do the investors think?

This type of wider social problem should be tackled and funded by government: any department with a role in employment, equality etc. Responsibility for social issues cannot be left to private, profit-driven companies.
Saving for later thanks
Tree Well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_well

https://deepsnowsafety.org/

https://deepsnowsafety.org/tree-wells/

>In the United States, on average several skiers or snowboarders die each year from non-avalanche related snow immersion.
In hindsight (considering how LLMs are trained etc.) it makes total sense, but "Big Tech vs. Big Copyright" is something I didn't have on my 2020s bingo card.

I wonder who will come out on top, and whether there will be any incidental improvements for consumers, but unfortunately I can imagine an "AI training exemption" all too well.
AI isn't evil. Its makers might be
Grand Prix 2: Modernized and Natively Running on Windows
This is going to happen like in many engineering industries when a cheaper, more likely to be faulty part has been used in replacement of a more expensive, sturdier part. And people will groan but be unable to stop it, unfortunately
The big blue block is search advertising revenue:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093781/distribution-of-...

the much smaller black box is GCP. Much smaller. much much smaller.
I am far from a lawyer, but while it's free to use, Meta also uses Llama in their for-profit products. That is significant, is it not?
> Males showed 6.16% larger total brain volume and 5.64% larger intracranial volume (total space inside the skull) compared to females, even after accounting for birth weight.

One can have 100% total brain volume or intracranial volume. If it is not used, it's useles.
I was more struck by the fact that the author thinks anyone would or should care what some random tech journalist thinks about something. Person has opinions, news at eleven.
LibGen is the most generic name ever, had to look it up. Turns out that LibGen is a collection of pirated books.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
It's great, but I found the library ecosystem lacking for my particular use cases . The joy web framework, in particular, seems to have stalled in time.
First you need a parser, since the rust parser can't parse everything that is valid in python and it excludes whitespace.

After it has been parsed in an valid manner, simple scripts can be converted to rust. types that require lifetimes, pointers and generics will be much harder.
Check out the big blue box. I think Thiel's point is spot on:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093781/distribution-of-...
I think they licensed the brand out to another manufacturer.
One of the better nautilus articles I’ve read, usually they’re unreadable and boring, despite an interesting title. Unsurprising that it was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Good science communication is a real skill.
"Free to use" has never been legitimate excuse in copyright litigation.

While commercial motives do matter (as far as I understand), being able to find evidence and bring a case practically matters even more.
100000%.

I envy those who seem to keep the facade up after their own career hardships.
> as a nixpkgs developer even I don't use NixOS on the desktop

that's not every encouraging :)
This is so sadly true. I remember reading an article by philosopher and environmentalist Arne Naes where he remarked how surprisingly rare a joy in nature was, even if circles of environmental activists.

Our species is doing some aggregious things to the planet at the moment, like the article implies, I think in part, that's possible because of a kind of blindness we now have to the world around us.
Being able to decide a price and who you sell your product to is a huge leverage. Nvidia can go to a retailer selling something they don't like to be side by side on a shelf, hey ditch this and we will make you a price. It is never that overt of course and it can play geopolitically too, hey government you want chips? We have chips and it would be a shame if the market grabs them before you, BTW don't forget my tax cut.
Total Kievan Debellation