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Officials underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions

theguardian.com
13 points·by bsdz·3 месяца назад·0 comments

Switch for joint aging: injection could prevent knee replacements

sinapti.ca
2 points·by bsdz·3 месяца назад·1 comments

London Man wore smart glasses for High Court 'coaching'

bbc.co.uk
6 points·by bsdz·4 месяца назад·0 comments

Atlas Eon 100 first scalable, permanent, DNA-based data storage service

atlasds.com
3 points·by bsdz·7 месяцев назад·0 comments

UK's largest mobile network tells parents: don't give under-11s smartphones

bbc.co.uk
14 points·by bsdz·2 года назад·13 comments

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bsdz
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I've used it. It's on par with OpenCode imho.
bsdz
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Doesn't GitHub get volume discounting they can pass on to their Copilot customers?
bsdz
·3 месяца назад·discuss
At some point I switched to "oh my tmux" which seems to cover most of the customisations I needed https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux
bsdz
·11 месяцев назад·discuss
> at least 50% have no inner dialogue

I'm not sure I trust this. A quick search finds a Psychology Today article about it along with a single reference. I lazily suspect the result is based on some type of questionnaire.

The way "chain of thought" is used in LLMs to improve reasoning demonstrates, to me at least, the value of capturing intermediate steps in some rich compressed structure. Nothing beats that than words and sentences (see them or hear them). A lot of ideas can't be captured with just photos alone imho.
bsdz
·в прошлом году·discuss
~Is there a simple proof for this type of identity?~

Actually I found something through Gemini based on the table mod 4 idea in previous post. Thanks.
bsdz
·в прошлом году·discuss
I was looking forward to seeing 12 neatly stacked & boxed vacuum cleaners in a dimly lit corner of your shed ;-)

That said, thanks for sharing the emails/headers.

It's curious that Amazon hasn't flagged you for purchasing & reviewing multiple similar items in such a short span of time. I would imagine it would be quite easy to spot someone who's bought and reviewed 12 vacuum cleaners in a 2 or 3 year window.
bsdz
·в прошлом году·discuss
I'm struggling to believe you have a dozen new vacuum cleaners in your shed. It's quite an extraordinary claim. Are you willing to share some evidence?
bsdz
·в прошлом году·discuss
Probably the same study from this slightly older thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247085
bsdz
·в прошлом году·discuss
I feel I'm in the same boat. For several months I've been thinking my GPU was on its way out (it's a pretty old 2080 now). My desktop freezes randomly. I can log into it remotely but all the usb devices stop working and the screen goes blank. l took a good look at the logs and noticed a bunch of pageflip timeouts followed by usb disconnections. I later discovered the Nvidia forums seem to have many recent complaints (with similar logs) especially around their latest drivers and Plasma + Wayland compatibility.
bsdz
·в прошлом году·discuss
In a, thankfully past, role working remotely for an antipodal organisation with badly configured networking; often, the lag between typing several characters on the keyboard and those characters appearing on my screen could be measured in seconds! Vi key bindings were a godsend as I could send commands (eg global search & edit etc) and be confident they were being applied before recieving a (delayed) visual update. I feel my experience seems to echo (albeit slightly) that of Bill Joy's vi development on a 300 baud modem!
bsdz
·в прошлом году·discuss
Yes I think I heard pypi started exposing dependency info so it makes sense to use that where possible.

The dependency resolution computation is an interesting problem. I think poetry at some point switched to mypyc for compilation (although I can't find conclusive evidence for it now). From my experience, mypyc doesn't really improve performance much compared to say writing a c/c++ extension. Perhaps offloading dependency resolution in poetry to a native c library is a way to match uv.
bsdz
·в прошлом году·discuss
Interesting - thanks. I use virtual environments and each has its own python version tied to it. Not sure if pyenv is useful to me but who knows perhaps one day. Good to know uv supports pyenv.
bsdz
·в прошлом году·discuss
I feel for me, at least one nice thing about poetry over uv is, that if I have an issue or feature extension, I can just write my own plugin in pure Python. With uv, I'd need to learn Rust in addition to python/c/c++/etc.

I wonder what it would take to get poetry on par with uv for those who are already switching to it? Poetry is definitely very slow downloading multiple versions of packages to determine dependencies (not sure how uv works around this?). Does uv have a better dependency checker algorithm?
bsdz
·в прошлом году·discuss
All even numbers are plural ;-)
bsdz
·2 года назад·discuss
The person I replied to had apparently already done that work. That's why I asked the question. I haven't made any judgements on which studies were relevant / irrelevant.
bsdz
·2 года назад·discuss
I put the article through an SEO external link extractor and I saw many more external links to various studies from various organisations. Why are the other studies irrelevant?
bsdz
·2 года назад·discuss
You can use matplotlib's pgf backend for direct use in latex. That said, not sure I agree that's better for scientific viz. Perhaps in the past. Also tikz/pgf is much more fiddly and has it's limitations too (imho).
bsdz
·2 года назад·discuss
The following definitions are from Google (Oxford dictionary):

Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. [1]

& Wikipedia:

... interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks. [2]

Then, that would include HN, Discord and various online games imho. There's more about profiles / services in the Wikipedia page. That said, such definitions feel like they would also include emails / Discourse etc. Mailing lists feel like they could be considered part of "social media". Sending emails to family or close friends doesn't. So perhaps one needs to separate the platform from its various applications?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=social+media+definition [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
bsdz
·2 года назад·discuss
It certainly feels like social media interactions should be restricted to older children. 13yo seems to be a common cutoff for administering one's own online accounts with various exceptions for many countries [1]. Perhaps social media should be restricted to those entering their penultimate year of Secondary / High school and be accompanied with some form of tuition / certification? (Along the lines of social media hygiene, online safety, local Internet law, reporting etc)

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1350409