skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s actually impressive to be this ill informed at this stage of the game.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero/ele...

> The simple answer is yes. The highest peak electricity demand in the UK in recent years was 62GW in 2002. Since then, the nation’s peak demand has fallen by roughly 16% due to improvements in energy efficiency.

> Even if we all switched to EVs overnight, we estimate demand would only increase by around 10%. So we’d still be using less power as a nation than we did in 2002, and this is well within the range the grid can capably handle.

> In the US, the grid is equally capable of handling more EVs on the roads – by the time 80% of the US owns an EV, this will only translate into a 10-15% increase in electricity consumption.

> More and more of our electricity now comes from renewable, green or clean energy sources, and zero-carbon power in Britain’s electricity mix has grown from less than 20% in 2010 to nearly 50% in 2021. With the growth in onshore and offshore wind farms and the closure of a number of coal plants, transport is now the most polluting thing the UK does as a nation.
The joke the article references seems to think this too, saying you'll find real subcultures in Albany. For some reason the article thinks Albany is the county, despite the fact it is a city with a population of 100k and a couple blocks of skyscrapers downtown.
The TV show Severance shows the modern job and office dynamic very well.
Indeed, I wish the first iteration gets released as GPL or something like that eventually. I get not wanting to open-source Source 2, but the original is another thing entirely.
The tradeoffs from not wanting to read the article: the writer linked to another article explaining that accepting the deferred resignation contains the following risks:

1. Not getting paid: the agreement is written such that the government may rescind it unilaterally. It is also contrary to existing law in US Code that cap severances to $25k. If it is "administrative leave", then that is capped to 10 days per year.

2. Violating non-competes. If a person is still employed by the US government, they may be prohibited from working for a contractor or other employer with conflicts of interest.

Article by American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE): https://www.afge.org/article/afge-cautions-feds-not-to-be-tr...
I imagine software updates might bring improved support for various media codecs, or UI enhancements, or better Bluetooth compatibility, etc.
What's pointless for anyone who cares about fusion is commenting on it from the peanut gallery (i.e., any form of social media) rather than participating in R&D in any way whatsoever. The same goes for online outrage: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10095997

This entire site is nothing more than a sales and marketing tool and otherwise exists to waste peoples' time.
What's funny is that AI has been failing to be achieved for much longer than fusion energy yet so many here are convinced we're on the cusp of an AI apocalypse.
Some noise cancelling headphones/earpods can absolutely provide hearing protection, but it does depend.

Here are the specs for Apple airpod pro 2: https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/pdf/Hearing_Protection_dat...
AWS paywalling select knowledge base articles, requiring Premium Support plan
And it’s only £17 in the UK or €21 in the EU.
Many people who work under him say he’s the worst kind of seagull boss imaginable: swoops in, understands nothing, fires people for funsies, gives unreasonable orders, and leaves. Don’t be around when Musk is at the office is a common refrain.

But yeah, I’m sure he presents himself well to his C-suite “peers.”
I'm still a bit confused on why Source is close sourced when Valve moved on to Source 2 over a decade ago. I suppose it'd becsuse there's some basic overlap, but they still also feel comfortable releasing their gsmes' source?
If we are defeated by China or Russia, it will have been because of decades of political malfeasance and hollowing out of our industrial base.

>I believe showing Russia, China, and the world, that USA stands behinds it commitments and allies, defends the rule based world order and is true leader of the democratic society would deter leaders such as Putin and Xi from trying anything

Half of the European countries now are anti-democratic, and actively work against the will of their own people. As for "rules-based order" I think we are just the cleanest shirt in the dirty laundry. Don't kid yourself. Our governments have been up to a lot of nefarious things around the world. We don't have a clear moral high ground as the propagandists would have you think. But we're stuck in our own countries for better or worse. We have to do what we can to straighten things out.
What's wrong with DOGE? How is eliminating bureaucracy/spending a bad thing? This has been done about 100 years ago, research on what happened after. It feels like people that scream the loudest are the ones leaching from the system.
Couldn't the same guarantees be achieved with immutability? Of course this would be setting aside concerns with performance/resource usage, but the parent is describing an environment where these concerns are not primary.

Personally I find it much easier to grok immutable data, not just understand when concentrating on it, then ownership rules.
> That would be like compilers saying no if they think your app idea is dumb, or screwdrivers refusing to be turned if they think you don't really need the thing you're trying to screw.

What is the utility offered by a chat assistant?

> The question is useful as a test of the AI's reasoning ability. If it gets the answer wrong, we can infer a general deficiency that helps inform our understanding of its capabilities. If it gets the answer right (without having been coached on that particular question or having a "hardcoded" answer), that may be a positive signal.

What is "wrong" about refusing to answer a stupid question where effectively any answer has no practical utility except to troll or provide ammunition to a bad faith argument. Is an AI assistant's job here to pretend like there's an actual answer to this incredibly stupid hypothetical? These """AI safety""" people seem utterly obsessed with the trolley problem instead of creating an AI assistant that is anything more than an automaton, entertaining every bad faith question like a social moron.
Absolutely. I find having a notebook open when writing/debugging code is a godsend. Just keeping a scratchpad of design notes/ideas/tests while I work let's me keep a lot more in my head. Think of it as increasing your level 1 cache. :)
Is it possible that it was actually safer to grab it? Like if these items were stowed under your seat, then the plane flipped and now they’re in the “aisle”. Maybe picking it up actually clears the path? Maybe leaving it behind causes someone else to stumble?
That would be relevant if it was the CEO taking the risk but that is not really true in what feels like the vast majority of cases.
The FAA will actually fully investigate this as the issue COULD be due to pilot error or equipment failure. So it is still potentially an issue outside of the weather.
And critically, are these things more cheaply centrally provided by a government?

Not providing a medical safety net or social security net seems like it's saving money... until one has to account for the downstream costs those decisions have.
Your point #3 is concerning. It is almost saying that people are now unable to assume other peoples' points of view. That the skill of empathy -- in a narrow technical sense, not even loading it with positive moral associations; hell, a scammer may use their ability to take another vantage point in order to mislead -- is disappearing. That people are losing a "theory of mind". Mass solipsism. Excellent, autistic sheep, confused by the people around them.
We have an ICE mid-sized SUV and a model Y. Costco installed tires are within a few dollars of each other. There were more options for the ICE vehicle was the main difference. There are a lot of variables to really make a detailed analysis, it's a personal thing. If you ask 100 people on HN how much electricity costs at their home, you'll probably get close to 100 different answers.
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I was really impressed by the dlazaro's post[1].
So I thought why not edit and serve the image in real-time with live data rather than putting text over it in the front-end.

Added an option to download the image.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43086479
The guy is saying Godot is comparable to a game engine with hundreds of millions of dollars of product development. I wouldn’t be worrying about what other people might say.
most of this is aider / codegen:

Total tokens in: 26,729,994
Total tokens out: 1,553,284

Last month anthropic bill was $89.30

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I want to program with a team, together. not a group of people individually coding with an agent, and then managing merges. I have been playing a lot with merging team context - but haven't gotten too far yet.
GP's comment regarding the "Thick, bright red line on the floor" implies tax returns seeing the light of day should never happen in a democratic state. I take issue with that. I consider the terminology used in the comment to be hysterical, which allows Trump supporters to dismiss the entire story more easily.

As far as without oversight: not reporting the entire chain of command does not mean there isn't one. The employee needed certain security clearances to access the system, and they've been granted them (per TFA)

I think we agree on at least a few points though: Neither of us trust the current administration to actually vet who gets security clearance, to trust this is being done in good faith, to believe it will make a realistic difference in tax evasion (especially for the rich), that the time would not be better spent better financing the IRS, or that access will be used responsibly.

I don't think this is a good idea. But let's minimize the histronics and over-the-top language. There's lots to criticize without allowing detractors an easy win.
Gemini has been topping benchmarks and leaderboards for weeks if not months at this point. Nobody cares.
A Raspberry Pi with Alpine Linux makes a sweet little DNS server. AdGuard Home is even packaged in the testing branch[0] these days

[0] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=adguardhome&arch=
let me know how it works!
> Why is there a seemingly unending shift in the automobile industry toward digital/electric controls and away from anything mechanical/physical?

Because it is cheaper.
I'd recommend anyone who liked the "perspective character experiencing mental illness" aspects of this check out Atwood's Surfacing.
Is this really true? The margin must be huge. I've seen 4K smart tv's for half the price of 4k monitors.
Isn’t that the way politics is now? Freedom of speech for me, but not for thee? Or is it, My speech is free, but yours are lies?

Hypocrisy everywhere.
Perfect Is the Friend of Never
The VueUse library is a really good place for these since it's all composables like `useClipboard`.

Here's an example of a Vue composable for the clipboard: https://github.com/vueuse/vueuse/blob/main/packages/core/use...

Here is an example of how it's used: https://github.com/vueuse/vueuse/blob/main/packages/core/use...

And the unit tests: https://github.com/vueuse/vueuse/blob/main/packages/core/use...

Another one from the same lib: https://github.com/vueuse/vueuse/blob/main/packages/core/use...

Unit test: https://github.com/vueuse/vueuse/blob/main/packages/core/use...

I'm pretty certain that Svelte took inspiration from Vue composables and I'd also guess that the community will have a bit of friction before people start to get its use cases (same as it was with Vue when it was introduced).
Most in-house game engines built after a certain point use a non-trivial amount of third party code, including console stuff which is under strict NDA, so it's a huge hassle to open source them. Most iterations of the Source engine use Havok physics for example.

IdTech probably was only open sourced because Carmack pushed for it, but it helps that IdTech of that vintage was all in-house code exclusively targeting the PC. I think the only thing they had to cut out for legal reasons was the patented shadowing algorithm in Doom 3.
"Securing the funding" is much closer to the work than "providing roads and sewage".

In most sciences, to actually secure the funding, you need to argue for why the problem is important, why the team has a shot at solving it, and what possible approaches look promising. Then you need to actually advise the team in supporting the work.
If our allies can't defend themselves despite being wealthier than their enemies and having more people than we do, we are literally worse off than being on our own without such allies. There's nothing wrong with asking them to pull their own weight at minimum.
Yeah +1 for NextDNS. It's so easy to setup and manage, and works really well.
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Ha! I bought a Pi5 as a Christmas present for myself, I've only done some basic setup and gotten sidetracked by other projects - but setting up pi-hole is near the top of my list of sh*t to get done
You can turn on showdead in your account settings. You still can’t reply to dead comments, but you can see what disappeared.
You’re conflating “content creators you’re aware of” and the entire collection of industries that comprise commercial art. Indeed, the search engine optimizing celebrity influencer content creation market is booming— a lot of it either being backed by legacy media, re-using other people’s content directly, or being better at marketing AI knockoffs of other people’s content than the original creators. Do you think that any of those content creators hesitate for a second to use copyright protections against someone gaining popularity using their scripts/footage/audio, etc to make the same kind of content? Beyond that, most commercial art isn’t feasible to sell in those mediums. The people benefiting from this is so infinitesimally small compared to and not representative of the many commercial art markets at large— everything from concept artists to graphic designers to dancers— that it’s entirely forgivable to exclude it from analysis altogether, let alone basing your analysis on it. You might as well deem someone with a gunshot wound perfectly healthy based entirely on their hair.

The other direct-sell platforms you referenced have already been flooded by people bulk-creating AI knock-offs. The giant slop hose has already won the race to the bottom making it nearly impossible for people that aren’t already established to get started. It’s most obvious in stock photo markets, but in music, some of the creation tools specifically advertise generating output to avoid triggering copyright scanners.

And no, you can’t just go grab a job at the big studios because a) a lot of them are using, or assuming they’ll soon be able to effectively use, the same AI tools that everyone else is based in other peoples labor and eliminating FTEs, b) since so many commercial artists have been displaced by tech companies essentially selling their work, everybody— including former freelancers and indies— is shooting for the same dwindling set of jobs, and c) nobody in those industries is leaving their jobs because they know it might be the end of their career if they do.

I don’t expect you to understand the markets outside of your area of expertise, but I would appreciate your being less patronizing while you attempt to explain my career to me.
> makes EVs pretty much never better economically

Then buy one of these “huge” depreciated ones and end up massively better economically? Why is this even an argument?
I think this one is hard to defend but let me tell you a similar story in the UK. Gov uk was redesigned by some of the smartest people and generally I still praise a lot of digital transformation from that era. But after a while people got complacent and not much is happening or improving recently.
So in that sense stirring the hive might be a good thing- even if 18F delivered good things in the past.
Unfortunately with doge and Musk I don’t really see how something better comes out of the chaos- destroying things just for the sake of it is not good enough plan and basically is missing the second part- what happens after the revolution.
There are plenty of places where we entrust software with our lives. We don't yet have brake by wire, but we certainly have software-controlled brake actuation on any car with ABS, and that could easily kill you if it activates at the wrong time in the wrong way. Uncommanded acceleration is another possibility that might have actually killed people (or maybe it was just floor mats). Outside of cars, your microwave could burn your house down in the middle of the night with the right sort of software bug. So could any device with a lithium-ion battery. And of course numerous airliners are fly by wire and they remain the safest form of travel out there.

Now, I certainly wouldn't trust anything written with a typical app development process with my life, but it's not the only way to do things. I'm totally on board with being pessimistic about most software reliability, but it's not realistic to say that no software can be reliable enough to trust with your life.
Lots of people (including me) have gotten burnt out from a job that should be a dream job, yet somehow manages to inflict so much mental pain that you have trouble getting up from bed.
> Do we have a way to tell if one model is smarter than another at that point?

Ask them to design a ranking mechanism for you. They are superhuman, after all.

(I really don't think we're going to have to worry about this).
I hear this sentiment all the time and the associated stats.

But somehow the pendulum of spending always keeps swinging.
I guess I'd always thought the direct opposite.

Naively, I feel to be useful, the goal of LLMs should be to more power efficient. So that eventually all devices can be smarter.

Power efficiency can be gained through less time-time, or more "intelligence" or some combination of the two. I'm not convinced these SOTA models are doing much more than increasing test-time.
This is a little complicated. There are many companies that sell gambling products. Nothing special about that. The tragedy is when you list your game on Steam and it gets popular, you are paying Valve 30% for the privilege of finding new users for CSGO and DOTA2. That is how they make money.
Given the leaks, the fact it's been over 10 years since last major game released using Source 1, and the fact most of the rendering code (probably the most valuable bits, aside from physics) in Source2 must have been rewritten given the new developments in game graphics; makes me wonder if there is any reason for them to keep it closed source.

Do you think they will release it at any point? Maybe there are licensing issues where they don't have the rights to all of it and couldn't easily opensource it. Or maybe there is in fact still too much secret sauce left there?
Microsoft already mastered this decades ago with a dozen different license tiers for Windows with unintuitive feature sets.
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Probably because for it to be really opensource it has to have a proper documentation and other resources.

if someone just does a `git push` and changes license it won't be much help to anyone until there is a proper documentation.
Eggs, panic buying eggs is the way to go.
Yeah cgo has been necessary for me, I forgot why but made that determination long ago. I have many pains with cross platform builds but never had an issue with cgo, and I’m targeting Android, iOS, macOS windows and two Linux flavors. I’m using the mattn/sqlite3 package.
https://archive.ph/bKZcF
from signal

> Without authenticating, hand the encrypted envelope to the service along with the recipient’s delivery token.

I'm probably going to need to read the white paper to actually understand this, because currently I'm confused as to how this doesn't result in knowing the destination. Surely I can reverse the delivery token if I'm in control of the servers?

but I was thinking network based disambiguation

edit; seems there's (maybe was?) a number of ways to disambiguate targets, users, and contact graphs https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/improving-signals-...
> Is this criticism unfair?

Only if you don't trust only Russians and no one else.
That's a great advantage in theory. In practice, I've never found X integration to work great in practice. For eg., when I asked it to source X posts on Nix related complaints it was only able to find a single niche user,

https://x.com/i/grok/share/Qw5NDq5BINGSBqNg9wrqBjf1y
Apples/oranges/not my car, but I had a similar situation in my 2011 Impreza and was staring at a $3500 repair bill for the head gasket. If you get the work done, there’s a litany of other things you really ought to do while you’re there (water pump, belts, etc). Sure, it’s not a new engine, and it’s certainly less than a new engine would cost, but either would be nearly as much or more than the vehicle is actually worth. For a 16 year old vehicle, almost any repair other than basic tires/brakes/etc can be “fatal” if you’re not doing your own wrenching. If you do opt to pay, you’re gambling on what else might be lurking around the corner.
Looks great. I ran a test browsing a folder of pdfs but it does not look like File Pilot likes previwing pdfs with Acrobat set as default pdf viewer; no preview/thumbnail shown for pdfs.
> fediverse

Is that suggestion ever made unironically?
The judiciary has decided to ignore the preamble "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". If that language was respected, the way parents currently work would be clearly unconstitutional.
The job ad lists two jobs:

- Lead Product Engineer

- Senior Android Developer

We are actively interviewing and hiring for both roles, so I am not sure what exactly your issue is.
What lies exactly?
At the risk of coming off as a nay-sayer, let's say engineering hurtles related to fusion power generation is overcome. How is the presumably high upfront capital costs going to compare with the ROI?

That is, it would seem likely that fusion power would be costly to build. It would also seem apparent that if it were to fulfil its promise then the power it generates is sold at or less than the current amount. That would then seem to imply a lengthily time to make a return on the initial investment. Or am I missing something else with this equation?
Easy way to remember it: Never both together (NBT)
If we decide to do these things with tax dollars, then as a society our goal should be the best outcome for the lowest cost. Many seem to have forgotten this
I found it better at reasoning, worse at coding.

Not doubting your experience, just thinking how subjective it all is.
As long as it remains profitable to lend after losses, the credit spigot stays open (with cyclic loosening and tightening based on risk appetite and position within the macro cycle).

How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
The official blog post: https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=238809

(Also includes links to recent updates for other Source engine titles)