skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear is not economically viable compared to renewables (wind & solar), and it's rightfully on its way out.

What is really needed is for humanity to say "enough" and stop using fossil fuels. Would it be a problem if training AI models (or running any other analytics) be lot more expensive in winter than summer? I doubt it. There is no reason not to use more renewables for this use case, then.
Well, I think that's half right, in that "how large percentage of lessons are run by assistants" isn't necessarily a great measure of "quality of teaching" either. In some cases the TAs may be better teachers than the professors.
>nuclear disasters feels scarier

I am in favor of more nuclear power and I know very little about the field, but this argument never resonated with me.

If the Chernobyl series paints a reasonably realistic image of what could have happened had they not contained the melt down, we are talking "better part of a continent being uninhabitable for thousands of years". When that is the potential risk, comparing death counts from non-catastrophic scenarios isn't what we should be looking at.
It has made me stop using Google and StackOverflow. I can look most things up quickly, not rubber duck with other people, and thus I am more efficient. It also it is good at spotting bugs in a function if the APIs are known and the APIs version is something it was trained on. If I need to understand what something is doing, it can help annotate the lines.

I use it to improve my code, but I still cannot get it to do anything that is moderately complex. The paper tracks with what I've experienced.

I do think it will continue to rapidly evolve, but it probably is more of a cognitive aid than a replacement. I try to only use it when I am tight on time. or need a crutch to help me keep going.
> Once you get really involved, you just wake up

or worse, you got sleep paralysis.
I wonder if this is difference between libc fork (which calls clone syscall) and kernel fork syscall.
Lol I knew I would get this kind of answer and downvotes.

You still have to make an account on a totally unrelated website. It's the shittiest experience one can think of.

But your excuse is "Hey actually you can also setup the whole application yourself before making the account to post a blog comment on an unrelated website, so that's actually super awesome!".

Absolutely ridiculous, and if any company you didn't like were to do something similar you would screech.
I keep thinking about the recent videogame version of The Invincible. It's good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible_(video_game)

Moody, mysterious, 1950s style sci-fi references, bold moves, terror. All in a game the devs took serious when building.

Only a few bugs around getting stuck in an environment..normal practice of save regularly and you're good. PS5 version.
and this is how they keep updates flowing to games released 9 years ago. I'll take that over "log in every day to get your battlepass coins" MAU engagement psychological warfare any day of the week.
> Then you don't have a user to user service you're running, right?

"The Act’s duties apply to search services and services that allow users to post content online or to interact with each other."[0]

My instance does allow users (me) to post content online and, technically, depending on how you define "user", it does allow me to interact with other "users". Problem is that the act and Ofcom haven't clearly defined what "other users of that service" means - a bare reading would interpret it as "users who have accounts/whatever on the same system", yes, and that's what I'm going with but it's a risk if they then say "actually, it means anyone who can interact with your content from other systems"[2] (although I believe they do have a carve out for news sites, etc., re: "people can only interact with content posted by the service" which may also cover a small single-user Fedi instance. But who knows? I certainly can't afford a lawyer or solicitor to give me guidance for each of my servers that could fall under OSA - that's into double digits right now.)

> That's an entirely separate law, isn't it?

No, OSA covers that[1]

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act...

[1] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/i...

[2] "To be considered a user of a user-to-user service for a month, a person doesn’t need to post anything. Just viewing content on a user-to-user service is enough to count as using that service." from https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-c...
The Engine : Jonathan Swift (Sort of) Predicts Large Language Models in 1726
A cross-platform clipboard manager / search-and-filter tool / launcher built with Flutter that has a simple Python plugin interface.

Plugins can be used to add new "result actions" and new sources of entries to filter and select. Eg. recent Jira tickets, email inbox, shell history, Notion pages, etc.
The result actions are a way to easily perform common transformations on selected entries (eg. wrap in triple backticks, find and parse json, trim whitespace, ...) or kickoff some script with a selected entry as an argument.

Project started as a result of having to do a lot of work using Ubuntu and sorely missing Alfred and all the workflows I'd built with it. I wanted something for which I could build workflows once and have those workflows available on whatever system I'm on. Plus to be able to build some plugins that would be usable by coworkers regardless of what operating system they're using and with minimal runtime resource usage. There are some existing cross-platform solutions which could serve this purpose, like Cerebro, Ueli, Script Kit, some others.., but I wanted something lighter weight than is possible with an Electron app. Granted the current state of Epte is that it's built with Flutter + Go + Python so the final distributable and runtime memory usage are higher than is ideal.

Basic Windows support is almost there but there doesn't seem to be a great solution to switching to existing windows of an application instead of just re-launching it. The tool isn't intended to be as good or better than any given OS's built-in launcher so I'll probably just leave that as-is and upload the current state of the Windows build.

https://github.com/mwalkerr/Epte
An LLM assistant app for engaging with your journal. Insights, prompts (for humans), research leads, etc.
Magnetron.ai – Instantly Create Lead Magnets

I have been working on this tool to create lead magnets.
Magnetron researches the web for your topic and creates a well crafted ebook as your lead magnet.

You can try it here (https://magnetron.ai)

(This is still WIP)
I’ve deleted all my social media apps (including YOU - LinkedIn).

I’m trying to really see and feel what’s actually missing in my life and trying to build it. Right now I just want to see what my friends are up to in a non-curated way.
> and provided bits of the docs.

At this point I'd ask myself whether I want my original problem solved or if I just want the LLM to succeed with my requested task.
That's kind of the niche Age of Wonders occupied, a civ-lite strategic layer and xcom-like tactical layer. Too bad 4 is hideously bland (I'll blame paradox and focus group testing for that)
Note that the definition of "Services provided by persons providing education or childcare." is defined in law and narrow. I'm working with a charity providing online lessons for use in schools, where school children can post stuff others in their class can see. As far as I can discern they don’t fall into this exemption.
I've found ASUS UEFI can hold onto useless boot entries through thick & thin sometimes.

Booting to the UEFI shell, Shellx64.efi, will automatically map the drives and bring you to the Shell command line.

Lots of motherboards did not actually have Shellx64.efi built-in, in that case you would see a boot option in the firmware to boot to UEFI shell found on a boot device (an internal or external drive).

Plus some of the built-in Shellx64.efi don't actually include the BCFG command, so you might need to use an external boot device containing a more complete Shellx64.efi anyway.

At the shell command line, bcfg boot dump -b is what you enter to list the boot entries, starting with entry 00.

bcfg boot rm 04 would then be the shell command to remove entry 04, for instance.

You don't need Windows or Linux for this since you're booting to the UEFI shell to access the firmware directly.

This doesn't do anything to the boot entries in the EFI folder itself, which on Windows will likely have an entry in its BCD for every one it has been exposed to, and they can come right back into the firmware unless you also delete them from the BCD.

Remember, a properly crafted EFI folder will ideally boot as expected when there are not any boot entries in the firmware at all. Then the ideal firmware will autoinclude the entries found on the disk and you might not even need an EFI folder after that. But things are not usually ideal. Not every OS gets this right the first time, and it can change for the better or worse after a while.

Alternatively, if you are on Windows, at the admin command prompt, BCDEDIT /enum All, will display all entries, with the firmware ones towards the top. Then you can simultaneously delete an unwanted entry from both the EFI folder and the firmware with Bcdedit /delete {target-guid-here}, or in in powershell Bcdedit /delete "{target-guid-here}", since powershell is still having trouble with the curly braces.
As others have said, the zip is for use above water.

Underwater, men have similar choices – holding it in, wearing a diaper, or a condom catheter (similar principle but without the need for such precise and thorough glue application).
Yes, this video and the one before called "An intuitive approach for understanding electricity" are absolutely great.
Yes, they look dated but most things are just so incredibly stable, robust, easy to work with once you are in.

One of my pet peeves on github is with modern ecosystems that people ask after 1 week of no commits 'is this project dead'; we use rocksolid well documented and robust libraries that have basically not been updated for a decade; apparently you dont need to change the api every 2 days completely and introduce breaking changing in minor versions of libraries where the actual thing they have solved hasn't changed since the dawn of computers themselves... Like is the normal in npm libs for github star vying.

And the supposed lack of libraries; sure it happens, but more often it is so easy to roll (99% of npms) that in CL no one would use the CL lib if their was one; faster to roll than search for one.

I agree with the modernisation steps though: need to bring together fairly recent enough industry users and scan their code base for which common lisp functions and libs are used (as for as I see, most practical people use a subset and don't often go look for different ways to do something they might be buried in hyperspec somewhere) and distill that down to a Industry Common Lisp 'spec' and modernise everything related to that.
You don't need to be humanoid for those. A robotic spider with claws would be just as capable.
I think it's really hard to define this fully. The most relevant parts are probably the Pauli exclusion principle (which prevents two fermions from occupying the same point in space if they are otherwise identical), and the size of elementary particles (which, as far as we can tell, is 0). Overall this means that you can get two fermions arbitrarily close, but not to overlapping positions. Since they have no know dimension, they can't "touch" unless they are completely overlapping, and since they can't overlap, and since the electromagnetic repulsion increases rapidly as you get closer and closer together, I think the parent poster is right - regardless of inertia, they will always have some kind of electromagnetic interaction that will change their course or nature before actually "touching".

To add a bit of a complication, if two particles that have mass, even one as tiny as the electron, come closer together than some minimum, general relativity predicts that they would collapse into a (really really tiny) black hole. Of course, we don't know how and if general relativity really works at this level, so the relevance of this is unclear.
We certainly do need nuclear to replace coal.

Coal and nuclear are both reliable sources of energy, unlike solar or wind. I'm sure you're about to go into some battery related hand waving, but that doesn't help in two ways. First, there will be intervals where the lull in production exceeds storage capacity, which means fatalities in many cases. Second, battery is expensive, so the total system cost can exceed the cost of nuclear (especially with sane regulation and continually improving engineering).

Also, as far as "coal trending downward", that isn't the case outside the US.

We're going to need a vastly increased energy supply in order to meet the world's needs. Nuclear fission absolutely needs to be part of that mix, as we work to master fusion and other advanced, safe, and environmentally responsible forms of energy production.

Beyond that, high density energy sources are highly desirable off-planet. :-)
This is fine, but all I want is the Windows XP dog back.
This is what a 20kW incandescent bulb looks like in a home/backyard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT5_-A0m8_U
Myanmar's exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid
When are the enormous salaries coming a little down then?
I’ve been improving the developer experience of the extremely janky Java Spring app that powers the most popular open source real time transit app, OneBusAway.

Last month I added Dockerfiles and a docker-compose.yml file to the project to make building and locally running it a breeze. Earlier today, I finally had a chance to figure out and document how to debug the app, which should greatly improve quality of life for anyone trying to fix bugs or add features to the backend. https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-application-modules...
While you may well be correct in other cases, my local intuitions led me to wikipedia's [0] references to a NYT article, which claims that the scam centers in the town they are cutting power, etc., to primarily target Chinese victims. Since the abductees and other staff manning these call centers are mostly Chinese, it makes sense their victims are too. China is rich enough that they don't need to go to the extra hassle to find western-speakers. In fact, through both local news and second-hand accounts, I know there are even Thais who get tricked and abducted to scam Thais! Scammers are just equal opportunity about their cons: even the poorest bumpkin with a positive smartphone balance is welcome to ride on their roller-coster of desire and loss.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myawaddy?wprov=sfti1#Crime

ed: deduplicate to; regret the last 28 minutes of my life.
Same here, spent many years in dark mode but solarized light is perfect and have been happily using it for the last five years. Thank goodness my current companies custom IDE supports it.
Knowledge is not inappropriate on its own, it must be combined with malicious intent, and how can a model know the intent behind the ask? Blocking knowledge just because the possibility of being used for malice will have consequences. For example knowing which chemicals are toxic to humans can be necessary to both make poison and to avoid being poisoned Like eating uncooked rhubarb. If you censor that knowledge the model could come up with the idea for smoothie containing raw rhubarb, making you very sick. But that’s what this article is about- breaking this knowledge out of jail by asking in a way that masks your intentions.
Security fixes. Which is especially important considering that you're running Windows programs.
Scripts in the Style of Top YouTubers
The problem with that is that there's x% of the voters that won't count, and parties would argue about the correct value of x interminably, especially if the value of x determines who is the winner of the election.

That can also end up like the "literacy tests" that were used to disenfranchise certain voters based on their skin color.
I am playing this right now and love it, though the learning curve is steep even for a Civilization veteran. This is what Civ VI or VII could be if they didn't try to dumb down the game to increase the audience.
I have different types of posts to support different habits of blogging.

1. First, I have classic essays that I wrote by hand. I'll ask an LLM for thematic flow or grammar checking, but it's my thoughts. It's more sporatic, but they're things I'm compelled to talk about and think deeply about. Example is on how visual programming is stuck on nodes-and-wires. https://interjectedfuture.com/visual-programming-is-stuck-on...

2. Next, I have posts that I write on a schedule. These are what I call lab notes, which I'll post every monday no matter what. These are easy to write because I just recount what I've been doing the past week and what challenges and wins there are. This exercises the muscle of posting something. Example is this past week on type checking https://interjectedfuture.com/lab-note-60-writing-words-and-...

3. I do write TILs, though these don't occur for me nearly as much at the moment, due to the type of work I'm doing. It's like my own stackoverflow, I guess. Example is on the common footgun of useEffect. https://interjectedfuture.com/today-i-learned/til-message-ha...

4. Lastly, I have posts where I had conversations with LLMs in depth on a niche topic that I think others would find interesting. If it's a back and forth, at the end of the conversation, I'll have it write a blog post based on what I thought the salient points were. If it's deep research, I'll just post that. I mark it clearly at the top it was LLM generated. The generation can be good enough that it's worth the post for humans to read. But also, in the hopes that the next model might pick it up, as an indication of what's good an interesting. It's basically one single sample eval based on my taste of what's good. Example is how algebraic effects are handled across Koka, Eff, OCaml, and Unison: https://interjectedfuture.com/algebraic-handler-lookup-in-ko...

All's to say to people, there's different modalities of blogging. If you pick just one, you might feel pressure to write when you have nothing to write. But if you don't write you don't get in the habit, which is why I do the lab notes. It makes me post even if I don't have anything to say, or the time to say it.
I built this small website to retrieve personalized quotes/poems and questions also some habit tracking https://www.checkindaily.ai/

Also I have built a chrome plugin that can filter twitter by feeding your feed to gemini returning only tweets that match a criteria (E.g. no politics, only Ai or something more elaborate).
Almost finished a short story I started writing when I read something on HN. It is about life expectancy.

Edit: Three from prior published here: https://github.com/jaronilan/stories
I'm working on adding floats to the RCL configuration language (https://rcl-lang.org/) to finally deliver on the json superset promise. Blog post coming soon!
I'd be curious to hear more. I presume you're using some kind of semantic search? Any other kinds of semantic technology? What kinds of insights into your journaling has it offered you/users?
I know Linux since 1995's Summer, starting with Slackware 2.0, and UNIX since Xenix in 1993, have subscripted to Linux Journal from 1995 until it stop publishing, got most Walnut Creek CD-ROMs, and plenty of other UNIX stuff.

Yet, I run Windows/macOS as desktop between private devices and work ones, eventually I decided to start spending my weekends doing other stuff other than making GNU/Linux run on laptops supporting 100% of the hardware, even when bought with Linux pre-installed like on my, now dead of old age, Asus netbook.
Woa, CodeWarrior was one of the worst compilers (and IDEs) I had to use so far.
I’ve seen a few times the option to email your comment, which I thought was a really elegant solution. So much in fact that I built that into my own site https://spenc.es/writing/email-as-a-commenting-system/#comme...
I'm working to make private hosting easier. I've been running a software development agency in Melbourne for 10+ years and have been building this platform in the background to help automate and standardise the hosting needs for our clients.

We're now getting ready to launch a web portal for others to manage their own private hosting in a simpler way. The product also includes a directory of off-the-shelf applications which can be launched in a few clicks (eg. Deepseek chatbot).

If you're interested in being part of our closed-Beta in March, reach out! (e: james at below domain)

https://getbach.io
It seems like it would be more useful if the Russian and Greek words were transliterated into the Latin alphabet.
It seems hard to guess. Could be lower level, lower performance, or lower compute cost.
Round 'bout 10 years ago I was working on this Python C extension and, after a distro upgrade, it started segfaulting. Dropping down into gdb, python was fairly obviously calling the wrong C function. I didn't know if the linker, compiler or python was at fault and "it is never a compiler error" was at the forefront of my mind so I never even tried to report the incorrect behavior out of fear that maybe I was doing something stupid that caused gcc to compile an incorrect shared library without complaining.

IIRC after the next fedora release everything started working again so maybe not me? Still don't know.
Still working on https://nocommandline.com which started out as a GUI for Google App Engine & Datastore Emulator.

I recently added support for Cloud Run and am now building it out. Support for Cloud Function is also on the road map.

I’m also still maintaining the patch [2] I created which allows you run App Engine Python 3 Apps with dev_appserver.py on Windows. To test App Engine bundled API/services, you need dev_appserver.py

[2] https://github.com/NoCommandLine/dev_appserver-python3-windo...
How would it compare to the persistent belief that the CIA uses the illegal drug trade for funding?
>A parser combinator library.

Cool. I got interested in this subject recently. Have been checking out some text articles and videos about it. Unfortunately there is not much info available (and some of it is advanced stuff), or at least I couldn't find much, so far.

I am working on a library, which is not exactly a parser combinator one, but borrows some of those ideas, for use in other projects.

>One of them is called `Compose`.

About the escapable strings example: can you not just rescan the string for the escape sequences, after grabbing the full string?
One one side: The whole point seems to be to vet who is willing to comply to arbitrary requests, and who isn't. The content of the responses is incidental, and maybe only used later if future tests are failed.

On the other: we write "snippets" at work, and I don't see how they are an outrageous request in government. The only problem is who is asking for it, and if they have legitimate power to ask. That's left up to the reader, and US citizens, to judge.
Its not punishing anyone when companies intentionally cycle CEOs specifically to avoid responsibility. Its accepting exactly what the company wants customers to accept.
I started to learn how to play the drums. I have a e-drum set and I’m building this website where I can put my scores and connect my drums, so it can tell me how on time I’m playing.

Almost like a guitar hero thing but with just a metronome

It requires WebMidi to be enabled:

https://metronome-1tb.pages.dev/
A reactive notebook that can handle side effects. I've had to go back to the drawing board, but making good progress. The latest is work on the core reactive and effect system and not yet integrated back into the notebook, but will get there. I've been logging my progress so far:

https://interjectedfuture.com/tag/lab-notes/

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