skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not going to happen for geopolitical reasons ever, unless we have a one king for the whole planet.
My read on this is they just wanted to cut out Ruby and do everything in Node. That's fine as a decision, but rest of the article feels like just trying to justify it after the fact. Like someone at the top decided, now lets pretend it's a good decision.

As you mentioned, if they're not OK with CLI, they could refactor in Ruby. The whole "embracing functional programming" and MVC architecture (i think Rails when i hear MVC) as reasons to go to Node, and not Ruby, is nuts.

If they were worried about dependencies, they'd use Rust or Go as they mentioned.
The telecom industry runs around the legacy SIP/WebRTC protocols. What about these? Both of them can be secured (TLS/SRTP/DTLS), but they are usually centralized.
IMHO, SBF is a shining symbol of a much larger problem that has been borne out of if not at least faciltated by the now crashing "tech" industry. What percentage of the top FTX creditors who curiously want to remain anonymous in the FTX bankruptcy are connected to this so-called "tech" industry. The media is suggesting there are some major "tech" industry proponents on the list. Internet-based surveillance and advertsing services disguised as "innovation", a "business model" and even as a utopia-like economic future for once healthier societies is a like a virus every bit as harmful as COVID. IMO.
I honestly don't know what to think, on the FTX US issue. Another US-regulated subsidiary of FTX, LedgerX[1], remained solvent and had not let SBF gamble customer assets, and was (somewhat famously) left out of the bankruptcy[2]. And I'm constantly hearing that US regulations are effective at preventing blatant financial fraud, so why would they protect one US-regulated subsidiary but not another?

[1] Though it was created independently of SBF/FTX and only purchased by them. (Note: not to be confused with Ledger hardware wallets.)

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/sam-bankman-frie...
Nuclear power plants can vary their output faster than most people think, see

https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...

... most of the modern light water nuclear reactors are capable (by design)
to operate in a load following mode, i.e. to change their power level once
or twice per day in the range of 100% to 50% (or even lower) of the rated
power, with a ramp rate of up to 5% (or even more) of rated power per minute.

One trouble is that changing the power output does put stress on components because of thermal expansion and contraction, potentially shortening their lifespan, but it something that can be designed for.
Do the sun/earth also limit where the Webb can point? It might have to wait until the earth goes around the sun more to look some directions
You have two problems:

1) a lot of wind means there's too much power... that has to be used somewhere, that's why you have negative prices, to get someone to take that power off the grid and use it for something, sometimes useless, and someone has to pay for that

2) no wind means you still need gas, hydro, nuclear etc. powerplants, because you need power even when there is no wind and sun, so you need all the power generating capacity covered even without wind
I gotcha. Agreed.
Iron and nitrogen. And the production methods look to be quite simple and scalable. I agree, this could be revolutionary.

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/01/iron-nitrides-powerful-magne...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160141082A1/en
Yeah, i feel exactly the same. Make someone write tickets with the exact problem/feature and expected behaviour.
> Many times-- not always -- the "B" team crushes the "A" team. Being underdogs promotes teamwork.

It's clear you don't understand what A and B people are then. If the "B team" is crushing the "A Team", then they aren't the "B team". Also, notice how you switched "player" with "team"? The quote is "A players hire A players", not "team".

The point is that top tier individuals typically hire top tier individuals. The reason this notion isn't so clear cut is because its hard to identify A players before the fact. It's a retrospective truthism.
Crimping on cars is probably just to save money, and some of the wire they use is garbage. Solder is pretty soft, especially lead based. Silver solders are more brittle and we don't use them for high reliability applications. Gold also has to be removed as it will embrittle the joint. For wires soldered to a PCB you can stake the wires with an electronics grade RTV, then bundle with twine, staked with epoxy. I have used low-outgassing RTV for space applications that costs $600 a tube.
This is not the case in Australia who has some of the highest costs ciggies [1]. FMC = factory made ciggies. RYO = Roll your own.

> The 25% tax increases was associated with immediate (−0·745 percentage points; 95% CI −1·378 to −0·112) and sustained reductions in prevalence (monthly trend −0·023 percentage points; −0·044 to −0·003), which were driven by reductions in the prevalence of smoking of FMC. The prevalence of smoking of RYO increased between May, 2010, and November, 2013, after the 25% tax increase. At the start of the pre-announced annual 12·5% increases, we observed an immediate reduction in smoking (−0·997 percentage points; −1·632 to −0·362), followed by decreasing overall prevalence (monthly trend −0·044 percentage points; −0·063 to −0·026) due to ongoing decreases in the prevalence of FMC smoking and a cessation of increases in the prevalence of smoking of RYO.

I’m not sure what the price is now, something like $40 a box of 20? These days you hardly see anyone smoke normal cigarettes.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...
It is easy to point the finger at the CEOs and say, "you should have seen this coming." (In fact, I did that exact thing yesterday, check my comment history.) However, I don't think all of these choices were made in a vacuum. I suspect some of these started as 'suggestions' from the board/investors. I quoted that because it has the same connotation as a suggestion from your boss: power imbalances skew the optionality of it quite a bit.

There seem to be some resemblances to religion here: the downturn indicates that the gods are angry, and must be appeased through sacrifices. The CEO acts as high priest, carrying out the sacrifice, absorbing the blame generated by it. That may seem like a far-fetched analogy, but there's a certain liturgy to the whole process.

It illustrates the popularized image of CEO as fully-realized alpha male who answers to no one is naive at best. Almost everyone has to answer to someone. And that definitely impacts how they make decisions.
Flexport lays off 20 percent workforce
Indeed and other sciences seems even harder to reproduce/verify (e.g. how can mathematicians efficiently verify results if chatgpt can produce thousands of wrong proofs)
Yes, but she seems to fit the misunderstood Empress of great willpower description. For Robert Graves' characterization of her, if nothing else.
Agree, but there have been some very expensive local authority disasters around solar.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-chauffeur-the-leaked-tape-an...

Publicly owned old technology is very different to attempts to publicly develop next generation power, which tends to require brave entrepreneurs historically.
> Linux runs on most Windows hardware OOTB.

"Runs" is in the eye of the beholder. It runs, but very often with small glitches here and there, especially where hardware and software meet (e.g. suspend and resume.) Even Frameworks manages to screw it up, in no small part because they don't support Linux, only Windows. And AFICT, its _very_ hard to fully support both simultaneously.

This is why I only buy System76. I've considered Tux etc and may also. But so far System76 has been the best for me.
Spot prices are the best in order to save the planet so to speak. People will waste energy when it's cheap aka pay with their wallets.
A lot of EU household's pays market price for the electricity.
There are non-open source apps listed in the OP.
CSS is a monstrosity. If it doesn't make sense to you that is completely normal.

Remember, flexbox etc have been drafted on top of CSS after a decade even though vboxes and hboxes are essential in almost any other GUI toolkit.
Scrollyvideo.js – Scrollable HTML Videos
This is not unusual. There's many predictions made by MOND ahead of the fact that are borne out by reality. But don't worry - dark matter will be "retrofitted" so that it fits the facts and everybody will suffer collective memory loss again.

Edit: see for example table 1 on page 12 here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.06936.pdf from a review of prior expectations by both MOND and dark matter vs how they turned out against reality for a large variety of astrophysical scenarios.
Think about it like this... In 1-bit dithered scheme, 1 machine word represents 64 entire pixels worth of values. You can access 64 pixels at a time and use bit-wise operations to manipulate the individual values.

Compare to a typical 24-bit RGB array, you just reduced your full-scan array access requirements from 3 per pixel to 1/64 per pixel.

For 720p (1280x720), you'd only be talking about 14,400 loop iterations to walk the entire frame buffer.

You could almost get away without even compressing the frames in some applications. At 30fps, totally uncompressed, 720p 1-bit dither would come in right at 30 mbps.
I love this sentiment. Your questions would make for a very interesting post.

While we haven't rebuilt from absolute ground zero, Warp is definitely trying to extend the capabilities of a terminal (emulator) from what's historically been possible. For example, we introduced a dedicated input editor so you can have an IDE-like experience in the terminal. It's fundamentally different from how input is entered in a traditional terminal. But with this innovation, we've had to be careful to ensure that all the input features you expect in a normal terminal (even obscure ones like `alt-.`) work how you'd expect, _and then some_.

Overall though, starting from scratch is hard because we need to stay backwards-compatible with all the CLIs we use everyday.
> "(a nuclear reactor makes 700-800 MW)"

1.6 GW per reactor for the latest ones under construction (Hinkley Point C) and in development (Sizewell C). Each site has 2 reactors for a total of 2 x 2 x 1.6 GW = 6.4 GW.

Although this is largely just replacing the UK's existing fleet of reactors, almost all of which will have shut down by the time Hinkley Point C comes online. Of the current 5 operating UK nuclear power stations, only Sizewell B is scheduled to operate beyond 2028.

> "They will need them built in the right place, because while more power cables can be built, you can't transfer a lot of power on very long distances"

One of the reasons offshore wind has been so economic & successful in the UK is they can usually plug in to existing, redundant transmission lines left behind by decommissioned coal and nuclear power stations, which are often on the coast. It's relatively cheap to connect to the grid when the infrastructure is already there waiting: you just need to build the cables from the turbines to the shore.
Nepotism
Could it be that AI are subconsciously created in the image of their maker?
Agreed. Every year or two Shopify reinvents the wheel. Ruby => Go => Rust => Node => Wasm?

It will happen again. I believe they have terrible tech leads / managers who push/approve wrong things. They also grew exponentially during the pandemic, so that grew their manager's incompetence exponentially as well.
> Morality is not an input parameter at all, so why do people expect that it would be taken into account?

Do people expect it or do they merely want to change things such that it is an input parameter?

Just because sociopaths are allowed to run rampant and fuck up everything for the rest of us doesn't mean we have to like it and it certainly doesn't mean we shouldn't be doing something about it.
You could easily spin up some FreePBX server (or similar) and connect SIP devices to talk to each other entirely securely. But calls out to the PSTN are a whole different issue.
> The URL bar shows the malicious site either way

That's never been sufficient to keep bad actors out because end-users don't grok the URL bar.

This attack is superior to a mirroring attack because it uses the target site's own UI resources, so it looks very legit (no need to pay someone to monitor the UI of the target site for changes and rework your exploit to attack them).
Wow; this is insane.
Eugh. Yet more hassle to deal with as someone trying to build apps and deliver functionality. People should stop running to mommy to get their data deleted and just not share it in the first place. The internet was better before this kind of regulation and right to be forgotten. This sort of bureaucracy is just a drain on the productive members of society.
The very early universe can't be observed with visible light. It was filled with ionized hydrogen and thus opaque over long distances. The oldest light is from the era of "recombination", when things had cooled enough (c. 370k years after the big bang by consensus models) to permit light to travel. This is just the thermal glow of the universe, redshifted (way, way) down into the radio spectrum. And we can see it just fine; it's the cosmic background radiation and has been very well studied.

It's the region between recombination and the currently-visible-to-telescopes galaxies that Webb is particularly well-suited to study.
One possible explanation: leaded solder is more elastic than non-leaded. (less brittle)

Modern mass produced products generally have had lead engineered out of them, including in the solder.

One popular product specification in this domain is RoHS, the EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances Direction, which largely bans lead and 9 other hazardous substances:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...
I'm not familiar with the production process but it seems like these could be made from nearly 100% recycled materials. That would be huge.
Matrix/Element was the best fit when I looked into reasonably private messaging for a small org.

- Matrix has E2EE support, the able to be self-hosted, decent if not perfect clients for all platforms, and an easy to spin up hosted solution through their services company. I think who talks to who could leak, but I think the content is reasonably put into an envelope so to speak. The 2019 security issue seems to have been resolved.

I just wish there was a built-in option for Matrix (Element.io) instances to enforce "only allow E2EE chats". I mean: allowing instances to disable federation prevents some outflows, and E2EE by default is sane, but I want to NOT allow users to accidentally (e.g., in ignorance) click the toggle switch that turns off E2EE for communication chats that they create.

BIGGEST FEEDBACK ON MATRIX/Element: I really think this "only allow E2EE" should be part of the protocol somehow (as an option for instances), and not just a server customization/implementation detail.
--> I haven't had the courage to contribute this meek suggestion to "More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI)" [0, 1], but does anyone know if it's being talked about? Does this make sense? It seems sort of obvious to me.

[0] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/mimi/

[1] https://turt2live.github.io/ietf-mimi-matrix-message-format/...
You don't even need jquery. jquery was created to abstract away some subtle browser differences that no longer exist. It's quite straightforward to write raw javascript and dom calls, using caniuse as a reference for what is widely standardized.
Visible light was scattering off densely packed electrons up to about 300k years after the Big Bang - so I guess - white.
We can see it and it’s called the Cosmic Microwave Background https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background. It’s not t=0.0000001 though as the time before the cosmic microwave background the universe was opaque to photons, you wouldn’t be able to see anything.
Check if ChatGPT has access to your location. If not, then it might just be coincidence.
That sounds like an interesting exercise. I would like to know about the 'red cell' scenario. Could you give examples of when someone would color a cell red?

My trouble is, a month is a super long time. So long as we are talking features, how messy does something have to be for someone to be unwilling to touch it (after a month)?

Could it make sense to simplify this and merge yellow and red together? Or change the definition of yellow to be 4 hours of code grokking (which would mean if I were paged, i could resolve the issue, but it'll take all night rather than knowing exactly where the problem is within 20 minutes)
UK is slowly turning into Nazi country.
No, but this would make an incredible Postgres extension.

(I’d also love one that lets Postgres use a covering index for primary storage. This can reduce data size and load less data off disk due to locality. MySQL has this by default and SQLite has it via WITHOUT ROWID tables.)
U.S. judge rules Apple Watch infringed Masimo's pulse oximeter patent
Correct me if I'm wrong.

Cosmic microwave background is behind the galaxies, and we can see it. The universe is mostly transparent these days, so light can travel across the universe from a distant galaxy to our eyes or telescopes. Long ago, the universe was full of ions-free electrons and protons-and these are very effective at scattering light, so the universe was effectively opaque at that point. The universe became more transparent as the universe shifted towards hydrogen atoms instead of free electrons and protons.

Whatever the universe happened to look like during that transition period, from opaque to transparent, is still what we see. It's the cosmic microwave background. Anything from before that time got absorbed.
They think of it as a benefit: "Node’s module system allows having multiple versions of the same transitive package without conflicting with each other"
I don’t know - here in the U.K. it’s getting fairly significant coverage on BBC, Sky News etc. The Today Programme on Radio 4 (which is the “definitive” establishment news programme) has been covering it quite a lot.
So... there are no tools used for managing people that are not used for managing software?

Well, that is remarkably fortunate.
Approximate Projected Bounds
Sure they put it as a prerequisite, but it's not.
Right? There's a reason supercars/hypercars exist and not every car is a boring tesla.
Not an expert here but it sounds like you might be describing the Cosmic Microwave Background. This is basically the remnant of the early opaque plasma cloud that filled the entire universe. As we look far away/back in time, the photons reaching us have redshifted due to the expansion of the universe. That's why these originally extremely high-energy photons are now just low-energy microwaves. The "background", 0 seconds after the Big Bang, is in all directions, and presents as the Cosmic Microwave Background. Or so I understand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background
AS NOT MATERIALIZED is equivalent to using sub queries
Of course I should not be plugging in faulty devices. But sometimes appliances that were fine before break down, perhaps some insulation broke down or just the ravages of time.

I would absolutely like that to be safe. And like I said, if it's immediately life-saving, then I don't mind the power to the whole house being cut. But if it's "just" a bad appliance, then, well, I do find it a bit annoying that it reset all my electronics, and I would have preferred it if only that specific outlet was effected.

But I would still very much like the protection.
No, forwarding is broken by design, it always was. Configure whatever forwarding you use to do it properly, it's certainly doable (or just don't use gmail but a provider capable of handling this very common, if wrong, scenario)
I'm quite confident that there are cliques within "science" which are admitted without as much as a glance at the body of the papers. Some people simply cannot be bothered to get past the paywalls, others accept on grounds outside the content of the paper, like local reputation or tenure. Others are asked to review without the needed expertise, qualification, or time to properly understand the content. Even the most honorable reviewers make mistakes and overlook critical details. Then there are the set of papers which are (rightfully so) largely about style, consistency, and honestly, fashion.

How can we yield results from an industry being lead by automated derivatives of the past?

Is an AI-generated result any less valid than one created by a human with equally poor methods?

Will this issue bring new focus on the larger problems of the bloated academic research community?

Finally, how does this impact the primary functions of our academic institutions... teaching.
I'm thinking of the LHC or the JWST: billions of dollars for an essentially unique instrument, though each produces far more than one paper.

Code from ChatGPT could very well end up processing data from each of them — I wouldn't be surprised if it already has, albeit in the form of a researcher playing around with the AI to see if it was any use.
How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test
Under GDPR they'll still have to comply.

If they have a data protection officer then send him an email.
Else if you're in the EU get the Data Protection Authority (DPA) of your country in the loop.
Why are automatically generated abstracts bad? That seems a useful tool. It would be a problem if the abstracts are factually wrong or misleading.

They'd probably be better than what comes out of university PR departments.
which supplier are you with?
Good article, but the background beneath the text (the small paw prints) makes reading difficult.
I hope the abstract for this paper is AI-generated.
Not permanently, but yeah. I quit ~6 months ago. Made enough to support myself for a while and needed to take a break and focus on health.

Last few months I've started taking on small amounts of work and considering looking for full-time employment again in a few months.

No regrets - my health has improved.
We already have Chuck E Cheese
realistically? I've worked in HIPAA environment before, with secured corporate laptop, access keys to various departments, etc. Any person walking in there with a lowly USB stick could walk out with private personal data and no one would have a clue. It's just theater. I suppose for some sort of legal compliance thing you might want a laptop back so you can check a box on some form that says you did your role in the theater. Sure.
Many JSON dialects do in practice.
I like the bit at the end giving credit to trains:

> I feel very lucky to have stumbled on this interpretation of differentiation for datatypes with such potential for both utility and fascination, and has been intriguing me since the day I made the connection (whilst changing trains at Shrewsbury). This work has benefited greatly from hours spent on trains, [...]
In the Innovation Game, the Best Ideas Start with the Right Problem
and the control hardware. The things that stepup/down are not cheap.
You'd think they'd have foreseen that and just cropped their examples to be pixel perfect for their own fixed width content column.
Booleans, or NULL specifically?
Yes it’s shocking looking at food labels in the US how hard it is to avoid even basic foods without added sugar, which most of the time do not have it in European equivalent products.
Yeah, seen that way.

Pity that it misses out on the tooling from the other SDKs.
In a sense, JPEG is fancy dithering. The DCT gives you a dithering pattern customized for exactly the image you're compressing, every dot placed to minimize error. (With some hand waving.)
Microsoft in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI, putting their share at 49%
Walmart's drone delivery service raises privacy and safety concerns