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Listening to Penrose deliver his Feb 2023 lecture "The second law of thermodynamics: from black-hole singularities to conformal cyclic cosmology"[1] at Surrey university just now, coincidentally.

Penrose has a decent amount of lectures available on youtube that give an accessible but comprehensive introduction to his ideas on a cyclic cosmos, of which this is the most recent, afaik. I recommend it for anyone with a couple of hours who wants to understand where he's coming from.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLX4YwzuU20
https://thanks.dev/faq says:

What are your fees?
Tips at time of donation. You decide.

If payment is required to use a service then that payment is not a "tip" - it is a "fee". Anything over the required payment would be a "tip". This FAQ answer implies that the required payment is zero, which, it turns out, is false.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with charging a fee for a service, but there is something wrong with lying about it.
Trivago Reduces Software Test 'Flakiness' with Aggressive Monitoring
Why would this be irony? If anything it's irony that they're offering a for profit service to facilitate donations vs adding themselves as a donor recipient on their platform.
Railway Plans to Simplify Infrastructure for Developers
The problem, cynically speaking, is that you're not the customer. Their revenue is ad-based, so you're the product.
As a descendant of somebody other than Sun Tzu, I’m not surprised to see it here. HN is pretty eclectic.
Here is a bulleted GPT summary of the "Practical Validity" section of the "g factor" Wikipedia article (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) ):

-General intelligence (g) is the best predictor of job performance.

-The predictive validity of g is higher than work experience.

-G facilitates the acquisition of job-related knowledge, resulting in better job performance.

-G provides predictive validity for all jobs, regardless of complexity level.

-Specific aptitude tests tailored for each job do not add predictive validity over general intelligence tests.

-These findings could impact employee selection and training practices in various industries.
All businesses must mitigate against big tech companies cutting them off.

If that big cloud hosting company decides they don't like your company anymore, and you've put all your eggs in that one basket - that's your fault.

There's ample evidence now that big tech companies are elephants that don't even notice the ants they're stepping on as they lumber around.

Built your entire company on AWS, or Google or Azure? You're a fool if you haven't built it to survive a cloud chucking you out.

Most unfortunately, there's no alternative platform for YouTubers. Hard to understand why no company has directly taken on YouTube - not Apple, not Netflix, not Amazon, not Microsoft - until there's an alternative platform, YouTubers just have to hope they don't stray in the way of the elephants foot.
Urine-Diverting Conveyor Toilet
Probably not a television, but radio was first invented in the 1920s so possibly that.
This was different, admittedly. Their account got session jacked and taken over by a crypto scamming farm. Google was in the right to shut down the account until it could get resolved.

The fact people can get session jacked by Google, though, is still wild. Linus explained that their access control granularity is woefully underdeveloped, especially for such a large company.
Fyre Festival II is happening
> Storage is science fiction. We don't have the technology to store grid-scale power.

That's not true. We haven't built it yet. That does not mean it is fiction. We don't need it today.

> Power isn't "easy" to move with transmission lines: there are significant losses for long lengths.

Except for the few people who live off-grid, every single person on this planet is getting their power through transmission lines. Of course there's loss. So what? That's the way physics works.

> 3.1GW is nice, but the US's current generation capacity is roughly 3 orders of magnitude greater than this

No. Current generation capacity is 1,200 GW. Don't hand-wave to add drama. There's a huge difference between "rough" and "way off".

> Building just the transmission lines for what you describe would cost trillions

Well, yes. And that's what those proposing a transition to full electrification have to contend with and justify.

I am not justifying any of it. I am simply proposing that grid-scale solar does not seem to compare well with grid-scale wind. That's all. Don't go somewhere I am not going.

> What you describe isn't feasible.

Technically, it is absolutely feasible. I am even suggesting the wind-only option might be far more realizable than the wind + solar version of Tesla's Master Plan 3.

Financially? Well, Tesla's plan claims we need about ten trillion. You are welcome to argue against that plan if you'd like. I am not making a financial argument here other than to point out that I think wind would cost significantly less.

Here's a beautiful map of current wind generation resources. We could do a lot more than this:

https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/#3.94/38.94/-93.1

BTW, here are wind resources across the US according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/wind/images/US_wind_reso...

Interesting thing is that power is proportional to the cube of wind velocity. A little more wind makes a lot more power.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/wind/where-wind-power-is...
The government has access to Bitcoin... Everyone has. You need to be more precise in what you mean there.
This is a revolutionary toilet design being adopted by a lot of US parks to replace the (usually disgusting) pit toilets that have to be pumped out by trucks, or the composting toilets that don't really compost. It reduces solid waste by 95%, basically a big bag of dry dirt.

The company founder, Geoff Hill, came up with the design during his phd in human waste management.
General intelligence doesn't necessarily mean human like intelligence.
IMO a good thing, lets them ventilate better. Not cancelling the timer is the wrong thing there.
I would have fitted a dashboard mounted solar trickle charger and left it at that.
In that case, the fact that black holes collisions/decay are visible in the ‘new’ universe means that they were breakîng this uniformity and scale invariance in the previous one, and therefore, the transformation does not happen everywhere and all at once from complete uniformity, leading to small variances that might give irregularities in matter distribution in the new universe. I’m no physicist, but is it close to the idea ? One other thing intrigues me: does this theory always lead to an inflation period in the new universe?
My wife leaves the toilet door open when she's in there, which annoys me. One day I asked her why and she told me she used to do it deliberately when the children were little so she could hear what they were up to, and talk to them if they needed it. It's now just a habit. Makes sense now I know.
Another fun “this decision is final” happened for me with Amazon recently.

We ordered two pairs of Beats. One was ordered by me, the other by my spouse. We’d discussed the purchase but we weren’t clear on who was actually going to order. Received both via Prime.

I setup a return. We return the item which was received on her Order ID against my return.

Amazon tells us we’ve returned a fraudulent item because the Serial # do not match. Multiple emails (5+) back and forth with Customer Service to explain fall on deaf ears. We give them both Order IDs. We ask for ANY option to solve this mess. We’re told repeatedly that this is their policy, their decision is final, go away.

Amazon won’t even send us the headphones back so we can send the correct ones — those have been destroyed.

“To protect our employees and customers, we have disposed the incorrect item that we received as per our policy.”

In a nutshell Amazon stole $250 from us, and is apparently creating tons of e-waste by destroying brand new, unused and perfectly good returns like ours.
It's hard to create something innovative or new using agile. Things always seem to turn into a feature factory.
An older cartoon with the same idea is Rocky & Bullwinkle. They had the slapstick for the kids, and sly satire for the adults.

For example, one plot centered around a pond named Veronica Lake. (Veronica Lake was a film star renowned for being sultry.) Someone asked where the boys were at some point, and the reply was "they are playing in Veronica Lake." I always wondered how that got past the censors.
Wakeup call: AI is making it easy for hackers to steal your passwords
Might as well just put a bunch of dirt on the tank.
Alright, how about: 87% of residents of Finland are ethnically Finnish and speak Finnish and have Finnish heritage.

Conversely, the most common USA racial group is non-Hispanic white (which groups many common languages/cultures, the most frequent of which are German/English/Polish/French). This group which is composed of all those different cultures comprises 60% of the US population.

> Compare this with USA where there is 1 language.

Nearly a quarter of American households speak a language besides English at home.

It's fine to say "there are things we can learn even though we are not as culturally homogeneous". It's fine to argue "cultural homogeneity isn't as big a deal for these things". But it's simply inconsistent with reality to claim that the USA is less ethnically and culturally diverse than Finland.
> Concerning soending, open-source contributors are not employees. They do contribute to business, but wouldn’t do what you need if you needed it, like fixing vulnerabilities.

I agree, there's value being brought by both sides of this equation -- F/OSS developers for building something valuable, and Nimbus for providing it, making fixes/upstream contributions when necessary, etc.

The problem with the current state of things is that the value capture is ~0% for F/OSS projects. Maybe 15%-30% is too high, but it needs to be appreciably above 0% for F/OSS to flourish.

> There should be the same difference as between standard on-the-shelf products and custom products made for the industry, that fit a particular purpose.

Would you mind expanding on this? Are you advocating for open core? It's not that I want to provide an enterprise version of 10/100ss of software -- more that I think there's value in them as a service (use Postgres, but avoid getting a degree in Postges administration).

The idea is to do just enough hacking that makes the service more reliable and sustainable to run without manual ops burden -- that's the differentiator for Nimbus (along with know-how).
I found Duolingo very good while I was actually in the country and speaking the language I was trying to learn.

It didn't teach me to speak alone but expanded my vocabulary enough to stumble through conversations. Which was enough to being improving through speaking with locals.
Foundational distributed systems papers (2021)
GPT is auto regressive. That means each output token becomes part of the new input sequence. Which is to say, the beginning of the model’s answer becomes part of your prompt.

If the model makes some mistake in the beginning, it now needs to explain / make sense of that mistake.

Kind of like a split-brain patient whom you ask why they got up, and they then say, to get a Coke. [1] In psychology, that is called confabulation. In machine learning, they use “hallucination“, probably so they can use the term across several disciplines, like language, audio, vision, etc.

[1] https://www.brainscape.com/flashcards/chapter-4-hemispheric-...
Of course, 2500 years later it can be a bit difficult to put these things into context. But isn't Sun Tzu actually frequently referring to other events in the Spring&Autumn period to illustrate his points?
A man who walked around the world
I may agree if these were paying customers we were talking about, but keep in mind they aren't. Youtubers don't pay youtube anything. They use youtube's service to host their videos and capitalize on youtube's marketing and ad services to profit. Youtube should've handled this situation better, but they are providing services for free and are entitled to suspend that service as they see fit. The customer complaints they must actually handle well are from advertisers who actually pay them money.
That's not the sentiment. At least not for me. As I mentioned it's not really where the employees are but the direction and perspective we as "outsiders" get from the team.

E.g.
- React Server Components currently only available in NextJs.
- The official docs recommend NextJs and Remix.
- Create React App is deprecated. Vite is not promoted.

It's already not vendor neutral nor Meta focused. More people ask about NextJs than React nowadays. Perhaps these "famous" hires you mention do more promoting and it's about the perception (that works both ways). Perhaps there's the aspect of choosing the frameworks was the best technical solution but what perception did this bring to the community? People ask if you can use React with NextJs :(
What are everyone's budgets (corporate or otherwise) for paying for open source work?
That's actually how most of my donations on Thanks come from - being a dependency of something the person donates toward.
That's a click bait title IMHO. Sure with some hardware changes you can get different tradeoffs with regards to performance, but that does not solve the distributed transactions problem completely. E.g. What about availability?
I enjoyed Trump and Joe playing Minecraft a lot more.
How do you suggest we can better word/explain it?
Is there something like a "small claims" court you could turn to?
I’ve seen dang’s comment but I agree here. While it’s great you admire a tool, overwriting it with a similar name is bad form and delutes your message instead of strengthening your message as you intended. Personally I would reconsider a name that may sound similar but also is different enough.
This is the only way. Yes, a reputable company operating in a country that respects laws will respect your robots.txt or some sort of future no-ai tag. But everyone else won't.
You need a country with strong consumer protection laws, such as Australia. In NSW, I’d go straight to the Department of Fair Trading, and they’d fix the issue.
I really like this feature as they managed to cut down on verbosity with only a tiny amount of change to the language, the bigger part is done by simply changing the default classloader (it accepting not only public static void main(String… args))
No, the idea of having a simple payments system for open source devs to use to get paid for their "free" software should be "free". Let the merit of the software dictate. That's the whole point of open source. To build things freely and openly to make the best possible software that we (humans) can make. We should also expect the same in the tools we rely on to do that work. It's not a hard ask. It's a philosophy of not wanting a corporation to own the keys and profit from others work. Stripe already takes 2.9%+. I don't want someone else taking 10%-30%. Then I have to give the government 30%.
You open source guys need to figure out a way to charge people for the value that you provide. You ran the experiment for a very long time and it looks like this "beggar" model really doesn't seem to be working for the vast majority of your projects.

Take money, don't wait for people to give you money for the free value that you provide.
They treat you this way even if you pay.
> A search engine that forces people to "sign-in".

I honestly think this may be what the future of search looks like. The only reason Google doesn't force you to sign in is they already know who you are.

Operating a truly public and anonymous search engine is a serious uphill battle with the background noise of bot traffic. Looking at what Cloudflare turns down, I'm currently on the receiving end of about 1.5 million fake queries per day from a botnet[1]. It's more traffic than you typically get from lingering on the HN front page for a day or so, and these aren't just favicon.ico requests, but actual search queries.

Websites submitted to HN regularly keel over from this amount of traffic. In any other business this would be a low grade DDoS attack. In search we call it Tuesday. Now I run my own hardware and the worst that happens is my site becomes slow or drops out. If I was cloud backed, I'd be destitute from paying the bills.

[1] https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/cloudflare.webp
Well, anyone given sufficient study can chase down those definitions to precise terms that can be used to make things.

If I wanted to normalize LGTBQ families with "ontological choreography" I can't get enough meaning out of that to even know where to begin to help.
I wish Google employees had the same empathy about their own customers as signaling about civil rights. Maybe you would be able to change the company for good.

And no “Google decides”. Google is not an AI (yet), people make decisions so everything “carefully reviewed” is [not] done by a human.

But honestly it’s high time to break up Google. 0 customer service and 0 consequences is incredibly crazy in 2023. Imagine getting away with stuff like this in a retail store, regulators would shot you down in a second.
thanks for spotting that, fixed here: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/13594
This EfficientVectorRouting paper (and related papers) is fascinating. It seems to have endless potential applications. I'm surprised I had not heard of it before. I'm excited to experiment with novel model structures incorporating it. What's the catch? I'm guessing they're fairly expensive layers, since they're based on EM? Although it looks like it's using incremental EM (iEM), which perhaps makes it less expensive?

May I ask what you are using it for?
If you have an anonymous class, it can’t be referenced from elsewhere (it has no defined class name) so it is strictly only for small projects, which is imo the correct choice.

But it is easy to “name” it when the program have to grow.
That's just insane. Imagine Mastercard or Visa shutting down card payments for Amazon.com randomly without anyone with half a sense doing a proper review. No circuit breaker in place to stop automated takedowns of huge accounts.

Google and especially Youtube seem to be run in a reckless, careless and incompetent way in this regard. Similar to Youtube seemingly being uninterested in solving the huge comment scam problem. I don't buy that the company that successfully filters out billions of spam messages in Gmail can't detect these really obvious spam/scam comments on Youtube. It's just baffling.
> let us suppose there are three probable reasons for such a book to be chosen as mandatory reading: because it is right, because it is wrong, or because it is historically important as a landmark in the history of military thought.

You might have better luck with some actual reasons. Assuming you're right and then complaining that nobody believes you even though your assumptions plainly show that you're right isn't going to make you sound any more credible.

Here's an article noting that UK water companies use divination to locate underground pipes: https://sallylepage.medium.com/in-2017-uk-water-companies-st...

Which of these would you say is most likely accurate?

1. The water companies use dowsing because dowsing works.

2. The water companies use dowsing because dowsing doesn't work.

3. Whether dowsing works or not is not a factor in why water companies use it.
It's about wind pressure only for doors that have the hinge at the back (I think those also have safety systems that prevent them from being opened while the car is moving). For the more common ones that have the hinge at the front, wind pressure will actually keep the door closed.
Mine auto locks/unlocks, and will message me as I leave it if I left it ajar.
They aren't moving away because these Google apps weren't using Flutter in the first place. The only ones that were are like, Google Pay and Google Classroom.

https://flutter.dev/showcase/google-pay

https://flutter.dev/showcase/google-classroom
I think it would be easier to defend taking a cut if the cut was calculated in the same way as for the dependencies, e.g. next.dev being automatically added to the list.
VMware's Freestyle Automations
A common reason for this (no idea on this specific case) is that the backup battery on the alarm (NiCd) is old/failed. The alarm system then keeps trying to charge it, hence the high (and possibly intermittent) drain.
A semicolon links two independent (yet related) clauses. The first, "all US submarines and aircraft carriers have been nuclear-powered for decades", is roughly true (that is, if you count 15 years as "decades"). The second, "it's been decades without any military reactor-related incidents", is demonstrably false.

> calling it "ongoing military nuclear reactor incidents" is misleading, since it was the normal operation.

I can't tell what you mean by "it was the normal operation". I can assure you that the plant was not designed to be in a state of constant leakage and need billions of dollars of continuous investment per year to facilitate its cleanup process for decades without end.

Well, that's a bit of a lie. The plant was designed to leak radioactive waste into the Columbia River under normal operation. But that was considered safe, at that time. Just as many nuclear things are now considered safe, at this time. For instance the Monticello leak less than 6 months ago, which was covered up for months before the news finally got out. Perfectly safe, at this time.

If we've really learned so much since whenever, let's use that knowledge to clean up all the messes we made along the way first. Once we know we can do that well, perhaps we can take on more projects. Until then we're the Junior Dev hopping from greenfield project to greenfield project leaving giant steaming piles of shit behind at every stop and telling ourselves "welp, I definitely learned from that experience! no way I'm doing that again!"

> This kind of wool-pulling makes it very hard to trust the _anti_-nuclear crowd.

I'm not asking anyone to trust me, I'm not an energy expert and never claimed to be. I'm just asking them to not lie in order to push a nuclear agenda. In general, if a concept is truly with pursuing, it should be able to be presented via a convincing argument without lies.
From “Skinner As A Self-Manager”:

> Skinner (1983b) refers to a memorandum de­scribing a standing order in Hitler’s army. When of­ficers were observed to suffer any of 18 different signs of mental fatigue, they were obligated to take an im­mediate vacation. (Skinner adds, ‘‘Fortunately for the world, [Hitler] did not apply the order to himself,’’ p. 241.) He suggested that we review the actual memo one day, and we found that I was suffering from 17 of the 18 signs of fatigue. Notably, Fred wasn’t suffer­ing from a single one.
This is Integza, someone who has a wild amount of experience developing hobbyist jet engines.
https://archive.is/MDbhu

I’m in the “introduces himself by his field, leaving out his title and firm name” camp. When possible, I leave out the field too.
> How could it even possibly have created a reason to be banned?

Maybe he posted comments using that account which broke the terms?
I don’t think it is that simple, it is a symbiotic business relation. If YouTube didn’t have the content creators, it would be pretty worthless.
The page talks about glibc.
Does AI mean saying goodbye to traditional mind mapping?
I think paid feature requests/support is way to go.