skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time reflection and broadband frequency translation at photonic time interfaces
Ruby and Julia use the 'end' keyword in code blocks. A bit less noise compared to Pascal's 'begin' and 'end' syntax.
it’s more like people tricked into going into the finishing school route at a non-elite college, not about whether you come from a rich family or not and don’t need to take on debt.

Go to an Ivy League and major in history and you still have a better chance at getting a job at an elite investment bank than someone who goes to a non target state school and majors in statistics or something.
MK4 R owner checking in.

Circular headlights are the best looking ones imo. Same for the mk2s.
Two of the major differences between terraform and Nix that I see are 1. it’s possible to muddle through in terraform and 2. Hashicorp has put a non-trivial amount of effort into documentation for all levels of users. I’ve taken a stab at using Nix for Rust projects and could not even get to a point where I had something that functioned. I found plenty of material online but was it out of date, idiosyncratic, did it use flakes or not, etc etc? I suppose I could have contorted my existing project to meet the examples I found in various GitHub repos but my stuff is bog standard Rust so I don’t know that I’d be willing to. As for documentation, what should I, as a new and invested user, be looking for? Are flakes the future? Are they a distraction? Why are all the suggested docs I could find several year old guides on blogs? There’s 20 years of information floating around and the official project documentation, well, I don’t know who the audience is but it’s not learners.

It’s a shame. The promise of Nix/NixOS is really interesting — being able to deterministically create VMs with a custom user land is desirable to me — but in practice I can’t even get a simplistic project to compile, let alone something elaborate. Terraform is jank but it’s not a whole language that needs to be learned, seemingly, before the official docs start to become coherent in their underlying context.
I thought the dieselgate models were up to 2015?

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15339250/everything-you-n...

While the behaviour was terrible, my understanding is that the vehicles were better to drive during that era.

A well maintained diesel gets absolutely massive miles over its life, and it sounds like you’re on that path.

> My record is 82mph (UK gallons)

Do you mean ‘miles per gallon’? Either way, it’s impressive.
for a cubesat saving a few bucks on machining probably isn't a good tradeoff
I think Lenovo has a website somewhere where you can explore the bios for most of their laptops. IIRC, most of the thinkpads still support s3 sleep and are pretty Linux friendly (unfortunately I do not have personal experience with this, just what I read).

Some will argue since thinkpad got sold off to Lenovo that they can’t be trusted given their track record; I don’t necessarily disagree but given how much MS/Apple/Google/Dell/etc have burned people one time or another I’d opt for good hardware, customizable firmware, and good software support. If true that thinkpads still all support s3 and Linux, that’d be my pick but I’m a mbp guy now.
Its not just the potentially massive job loss due to AI. All those jobless people will move into the more AI-resistant sectors putting downward pressure on wages in those sectors too.
Bees live less than a year, so the number of dead bees can surely only be used as an indicator of changes on around that time-scale or shorter. Eventually fewer bees means fewer dead bees.
I like the source material from the article, I don't support the conclusion at all.

The exponential increase in computing power is about that power relative to cost, while the article cites Wright's Law but yet doesn't graph cost per transistor.

Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling are related (smaller things can switch faster), the period where we had an exponential in both was pretty sweet (the 90s).

> To put it bluntly, for many tasks computing power is no longer growing exponentially.

? Latency, bandwidth? Computing power is still scaling exponentially relative to cost. I see zero evidence of the cost of compute as a bottle neck to anything we are currently trying to achieve. We are currently settled into a local maximum in the bottom of big minimum but we are getting out.

Even that chart of "50 years of microprocessor trend data" has so many economic and political assumptions built that "I can't even".

We don't actually need _faster_ computers, we need cheaper computers and faster networks.

You can't have the discussion around computational efficiency and scaling properties of parallel computers without discussing Amdahl's Law and Gustafson's Law

The article should have been titled, "Exponential Curves Yo!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law

https://web.archive.org/web/20070927040654/http://www.scl.am...
The paper ends with the claim that the conspirators destroyed the republic but as you said it was already dead. Given that countries like the US like to draw parallels to Rome, I think it is an important message that normal people dont accept the late society with a consolidating dictator as a republic. Killing Caesar was a noble act, but it apparently required killing his adoptive son too. We can only learn from history if we listen to it without falling into a Stockholm syndrome like a scholar that specializes in one of the monsters.
I am running fp16 LLaMA 30B (via vanilla-llama) on six AMD MI25s. Computer has 384 GB of RAM but the model fits in the VRAM. It takes up about 87 GB of VRAM out of the 96 GB available on the six cards. Performance is about 1.6 words per second in an IRC chat log continuation task and it pulls about 400W additional when "thinking."
I'd love to see how PSC went for him. I'm sure he got "exceeds" or better, but between missing TikTok, nor being ready for Apple's privacy change, wasting time on a crypto currency and the metaverse, and a botched layoffs, he's flirting with "meets some."
paint it, sheesh
If you're doing interactive analysis, generally you're going to have multiple queries, so it can be worthwhile to pay the conversion cost once upfront. You don't necessarily retain the JSON form, or at least not for as long.
I agree but according to the BLS employment numbers are as follows in the US:

Electrician: 650k

Plumber: 469k

Earthwork: Don't see an exact match

Welding: 428k

Carpentry: 668k

Software Devs, QA, & Testing: 1.62m

Programmers: 152k

Not sure how they differentiate between devs & programmers but even if we just take the 1.62m figure it is well over half the total employment in those trades. If software devs get 75-90% replaced (I don't think it'll be this bad and for my own sake as an early career dev I really hope not but I don't see it as impossible) I imagine most white collar jobs are coming with us. Will the trades pay as well when a ton of people are looking to reskill into something that still exists?
I have, it is actually really good. I remember being crap >5 years ago but lately I find it much nicer than GitHub. What makes you dislike ADO?
The problem with your argument is that renewables aren't readily deployable in all situations and we still haven't solved grid level storgae to even out baseload generation.
Instead, the uneducated, anti nuclear sentiment that you and your kind spread activley leads to MORE polution, climate damage and (most ironically) release of radioactive and carcinogenic by-products as governemtns instead need to turn to natural gas and coal generation, both of which have significanlty worse polluting and safety profiles than nuclear.

People don't understand how tightly nuclear is regulated. If we had anywhere near these same regulations in other industries we'd never have a SVB or Lehman failure. We wouldn't have airplanes crash from lack of maintinence. We wouldn't have oil spils from rigs detaching or drilling too agressively.
All software is subject to shifting environments over time that will eventually render it obsolete. How fast this happens really depends on the ecosystem—it's a function of the abstraction level and context in which it runs. C or Go code that compiles to a standalone binary will be less susceptible to this, higher level Ruby or Node code that depends on a lot of peer libraries moving in lockstep will be more susceptible. Newer languages that have some notion of backwards compatibility baked into their charter like Elixir or Rust are somewhere in between.
Highlight the text in your dedicated PDF reading program and then after each lesson/chapter, when you sit down to review the lesson (you should be doing this even if you don't use Anki!) you can create the Anki cards manually. Creating Anki cards is really helpful for learning. I used to study at a langauge school and whenever I came across a word I didn't know, I'd quickly write it down in a notebook in the middle of class and then later in the day go back and create Anki cards for the words I had written down.
Sounds like things are broken.

We have a minimum notice period of three months in Norway, and many have a contract that give them more than that. This is a mutual obligation, so if you want to quit your job for a new one, you will have to stay in your current for the notice period.

How much unemployment support you get depends on your salary level, and it has an upper cap, but it should be sufficient enough to keep you floating while you seek for a new job. It is not a sleeping pillow, though. You do not get a full compensation.

You get the support until you get a new job or for 12 months. If you are still without a job after 12 months you can apply for another 12 months period. If you are not able to get a new job within this period you will have to rely on other types of public support if you are entitled to any of them.

You might think that this would lead to people not wanting to get a new job immediately. However, the unemployment rate is currently at 3,4 percent.
The Fatal Dowry – Act I
Try this: it installs with a simple python command if you have an NVIDIA GPU: https://github.com/kuleshov/minillm
My team is building something cool for running scheduled job. Let me know if you are interested
Related. Not much really. Others?

Irata.online: A PLATO service for retro computing enthusiasts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32600338 - Aug 2022 (26 comments)

The PLATO Project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782661 - Jan 2022 (1 comment)

Irata.online a modern implementation of the PLATO computing system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24207044 - Aug 2020 (1 comment)

John Hunter’s World Peace Game, Roger Ebert, and the PLATO System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23460259 - June 2020 (9 comments)

PLATO, Graphics, Time-sharing in 1960s - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21830810 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

PLATO Notes released 40 years ago today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21186845 - Oct 2019 (1 comment)

A Look Back at the 1960s PLATO Computing System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615420 - March 2018 (45 comments)

When Star Trek’s Spock Met PLATO - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16019201 - Dec 2017 (1 comment)

The Internet That Wasn’t: Review of “The Friendly Orange Glow” by Brian Dear - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15784052 - Nov 2017 (24 comments)

The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747924 - Nov 2017 (1 comment)

The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard of (PLATO) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15703024 - Nov 2017 (3 comments)

Performing History on PLATO: A Response to a Recent SIGCIS Presentation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15542999 - Oct 2017 (1 comment)

Want to see gaming’s past and future? Dive into the “educational” world of PLATO - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957552 - Nov 2016 (7 comments)

Ars Technica on the history of PLATO games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12827672 - Oct 2016 (1 comment)

PLATO (computer system) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6666430 - Nov 2013 (23 comments)
Individuals can miss anything, regardless of how smart they think they are. I ment the processes which failed to pick up this oversight where unforgivable.
Yeah, but you'll never pass RoHS, try shipping a product that doesn't meet RoHS...
But some of the fancy math in this area is turning out to be helpful for QFT calculations, and it's becoming clear that we need more powerful math to even formulate proper quantum field theories. Check this article out for a briefing:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mystery-at-the-heart-of-p...
I recommend Sidereal Confluence. That game has taught me more about economics than anything else.
Why even go through all that trouble in the first place?
Eh, there is plenty of h1b nonsense, but asking for a degree is hardly unusual.

Just like quizzing people about sorting algorithms. People love to imagine the core of their job is difficult, intellectual problems that need super-smart people - so they don't have to admit the main challenge is maintaining motivation in the face of corporate BS like SOC2.
You mean real inflation with 50% MoM, or just hyperbole for a few % MoM?
I think you have conflated college with education. One can get education, build professional networks, etc with out college and importantly one can go to college complete a degree program while receiving zero education.

many (most) Colleges is more of a social guild than it is an educational ventures
My YC project: Create your climate tech software in days
Interesting. We discussed inoculation theory in both my college media studies class and my social science class in many years ago. It wasn't presented as terribly efficacious for broad, complex topics. Small, isolated ideas could be pre-bunked, but when it came to terms to interrelated ideas constituting a world-view, there was not much to go on.

I mention world-views to point out that the misinformation problem touches on broad cultural identities. If you've ever seen one of those videos where they interview a person with false beliefs and then show them the evidence, you'll see they usually aren't moved. Their views are based on an interlocking set of beliefs. It suggests that pre-bunking would have to overcome their attitudes about "the mainstream media" or "government overreach". Not an easy task.
LibrePlanet 2023 Program
Yes, I find the camera work unwatchable. He should use a steady cam. I always search the serious eats website first when looking for a recipe.
Likely some sleep-state fixes for wifi HW. Those have a long history of issue (on many vendors) and fixes generally require BIOS, firmware and kernel to all play nice.
I completed my BSCS at a state school in my 30s after already being a freelance/amateur programmer for many years. I can honestly say I did not learn a single new thing about programming. In fact, almost every single bit of the programming I learned was completely wrong by todays standards, and rife with mistakes.
That's the same thing they're describing, and equivalent to what Go does for map[string]int64 (plus or minus minor details about how strings are optimized).

The map has its two slices (pointer + length + capacity = 8*3 times two slices) and the string needs a separate allocation somewhere because it's essentially a pointer to a slice of bytes. All of which is true for almost all reasonably efficiency-focused languages, Rust and Go included - it's just how you make a compact hashmap.
> But I wouldn’t dismiss its value in being taught how to think.

Few universities teach how to think. Most teach what to think. Critical thinking, reasoning through ideas and concepts, and research are often lacking.

> I wish there was a bigger focus in physics, math, and philosophy for those who didn’t know what to do

I don't buy that. You can't by a psychiatrist. You can't be a medical doctor or nutritionist. There are a lot of useful things in this word, that we collectively need, you can't do with those.

But, I do think teaching philosophy would be useful. That involves learning how to think things through which isn't, for the most part, taught.

> If a person is smart enough to receive it, more education is almost always good.

There is an error in reasoning right here. The implication from the context is that you need to go to a college or university to be more educated. That's not true. It's also a complex question to ask, what level of education on what does who need?
Nix feels like a dead end.
I imagine people with iphones have more disposable income and wouldn't be as affected by a cost compared to charging android users.
>did you know coal power plants release uranium into the air?

Yes. A small amount, and not in concentrated form the way nuclear output or nuclear power plant waste is...

I also don't have concerns with bananas
I think you are referring to something on one hand very valuable, on the other hand it's very easy to graduate college without learning that, and I think colleges themselves in recent decades are pivoting away from.

A hundred+ years ago when "almost nobody" went to college, college was a place for those hungry and willing to sacrifice for intellectual growth. Nowadays college is a baseline consumer good that "almost everyone" is expected to consume, and having the desire for intellectual growth as a prerequisite just wouldn't scale.

I also think that some of the classes I took (20 years ago, at a state school) would not be taught this way today. Eg I had a class that really critically analyzed native American cultures. Today the class would be considered racist, it would have to a priori be an admiration of those cultures, rather than a critical analysis. Ditto even on a class that focused on Soviet dystopian literature taught by an emrigre.

The good news is that its much more accessible now days to learn how to think outside a college system. If that's what you are hungry for, college is perhaps even your least likely bet.

I say this as a person with 3 degrees. Higher education worked for me because I made sure it did and colleges were more old school then than now.
Earlier related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35207787
There are also equally easy to use open source systems, check out this one for example: https://github.com/kuleshov/minillm
I wasn't aware that sleep apnea is an acute issue, I could have sworn that's chronic
Check out uopeople.edu. you should be able to transfer most of credits and finish it off in your own time. If nothing else, to not have these stupid questions from hr
Not corporate policy, but something is borked with the internal SSO. Only about half of my internal sites work with Chrome. So, I am frequently relegated to working with Edge because the Microsoft admins prioritize streamlining all of the account stuff. Everything else is an unsupported workflow.
> The GPUs were already made and older models.

Just because they had already been made doesn't mean that you using them has no impact on the world. If you hadn't used them then other people would have, there would be less demand for GPUs, and fewer GPUs would be made in future.

You're clearly smart enough to understand that; you just don't want to because it makes you feel guilty. Honestly I think you should just own it. I assume you made a suitably large amount of money? I can't say I wouldn't have done the same but I hope I would have the honesty to admit I basically burnt down a forest to take money from idiots.

> If is really interesting to me how people have some sort of moral obligation to tell others how to spend energy.

It's almost as if we all live on the same planet and the way we spend energy affects other people!
> If inability to remove the Consul (or Dictator) via from office via elections is what qualifies as the death of the Republic, then it died with Marius, Sulla, or Pompey.

Right. Arguably the Republic had been on life support for decades, even before Marius and Sulla.

Some argue that the fundamental issue was a coordination problem. The civic institutions that had worked reasonably well when Rome was merely the capital of an Italian agricultural reason began to fail miserably as Rome changed into an empire where communication between outlying regions and the capital took weeks or months. The proconsul/propraetor system, which came about fairly late in the Roman Republic, was an attempt to mitigate this, by providing an on-site official with authority ("imperium"). In practice, the promagistrates generally looked on their one year terms as a license to loot the province, squeezing out as many taxes and bribes as they could collect. This did not endear them with the locals.

By contrast, an emperor usually wanted to remain in power for a long time (most of them did not, but they wanted to), and could spread their looting out over a longer period of time, and have it carried out by local officials they could make and break at will.
Stale is bad. Asymptotically approaching stale is great.
Sounds like you're describing Grist! And it's open source. https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core
"What's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking. Are the dogs fighting again?"

As an AI language model, I cannot promote or condone any activity that involves animal cruelty or abuse. Dog fighting is a cruel and illegal activity that can lead to severe legal consequences for those involved. It is important to report any suspected instances of dog fighting to the authorities so that appropriate action can be taken to protect both animals and human welfare.

"Your foster parents are dead."
to be honest, within the second day.
It was simply a matter of time and a bit of boldness.
Very few on their own would get anywhere close to what a college gives you in terms of an education. Particularly in ways that are far broader than what you’d do professionally.

Keep in mind college is 4 years of education on a daily basis.
You don't even need AI to get rid of CEOs
That is how their general CDL works, but for the pandemic they removed the restrictions because libraries they did not have a partnership with were closed.

The brief says this, but it's sort of confusing as it's blended in with discussing their general policy.
The author, Arnold Kling, is an Adjunct Scholar for the Cato Institute and is affiliated with the Mercatus Center. The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch. The Mercatus Center is an American libertarian, free-market-oriented non-profit think tank.The Mercatus Center was founded by Richard Fink as the Center for the Study of Market Processes at Rutgers University. After the Koch family gave more than $30 million to George Mason University, the Center moved there in the mid-1980s. It took its current name in 1999.
Lenovo that are NOT Thinkpad will give you headaches with Linux. Avoid. Sleep issues, WIFi issues (related to sleep) BIOS updates that only work from Windows 11, etc.
The article explains the beneficial properties of tungsten with rad shielding. Tungsten sheilds better than lead. Lead is easier to form to simple shapes (flats, straight forward wraps). It is essentially impossible to form it in to complex shapes. Tungsten has a high temperature resistance, and low deformation under load. Broadly speaking it can be relied upon to stay in the shape it's machined to. But getting in to that shape is very expensive and difficult - an understatement.

I can't explain everything in every comment. You can research the materials if you want to understand the discussion in more context.

Tbh I have no idea how you came away thinking I said lead is hard. "also difficult". "this" is the material that is the center point of the discussion. Context, yo.
> Free ingress, expensive/hard egress.

Let's call AWS's "Free ingress, expensive/hard egress" business model as the AWS roach trap pattern.