skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to correct your usage of pejorative with perogative and found out that I don't know how to spell prerogative.
The fear I have isn't an AI doing things by itself, but being good enough so that if Joe Evil gets his hands on the AI, he can single-handedly (with AI help) break into secure databases, or something.

You know how a lot of us on HN talk about how security is just a latent concern for companies, but luckily there aren't enough hackers to take advantage of the massive number of bugs in every bit of code ever written? Well, a future powerful coding AI running on second-hand Etherium mining rigs in some extremist's basement in Chicago can probably do a lot more damage than a handful of state sponsored hackers in Russian and North Korea!
What is the problem with current disposal plans? My understanding is that there's rough consensus around just encasing and burying it as being safe enough.
Truly this is the most cursed thing. Why can I not even make apps for me and my iCloud family for free? I own all these computers. I pay Apple for a few of their services. Why am I prevented from personal computing and only permitted to use these computers for their paradigm.

But I don't think that this criticism of Apple's model requires alternate app stores (which I have seen first hand can be confusing for some users from the pre digital age). Just a side loading method.
I am not familiar with how GISAID works, but there any sort of signature that authenticates data and ensure integrity. If they backdated the post, could they also tempered with sequences data?
Please remember; Eric is very open to both the positives and the negatives. But do keep in mind the negatives.

Also, did you know that french nuclear power plants sometimes are taken down for maintenance. That seems super sketchy, doesn't it?

/s

This f*****g thread.
Given there's now native NTFS support in the Linux kernel, you could also do that that the other way around.
It's weird, in India, most companies have 2 month notice periods. Many have 3.
This is corporate overreach. They're suing a little guy to set a precedent. But this is the first time that I recall in the tech world a trademark holder is trying to extend their reach to a common nickname. JS could stand for many things.
Nuclear decommissioning costs in the UK are estimated to reach £260 billion[1]. It would be interesting to compare that to the inflation-adjusted construction costs for the plants. My suspicion is that it’s significantly higher.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/23/uk-nucle...
> Nobody knows what nuclear costs, because nobody knows what it will cost to handle the waste 10 years from now, let alone 100 or 1000 years from now. The solution to this for most nuclear operators has been to pay a symbolic fee and let the taxpayers cover the rest "in blanco".

We have a fairly good idea, Finland built a nuclear waste storage facility deep in bedrock for €818M:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re...

> The estimated cost of this project is about €818 million, which includes construction, encapsulation, and operating costs.
> Er, no it is the point. We've always been using the safety mechanisms you specified, so it's not going to affect costs because those safety features have always been there.

Again, the point is a generic one. When we find a problem with nuclear, we add extra safety systems. Those cost money. This is something much rarer with say, solar or wind because there's less that can go wrong, less backups needed, and breakage is much more acceptable.

> We make alternators for all kinds of products, so doubling the production of wind turbines doesn't remotely double the market for alternators because wind turbines are only a small segment of the market for alternators.

But it does mean there's factories already pumping them out, plentiful production capacity, competition, and cheap prices.

> People want solutions right now, and intermittent sources are not a solution until cheap and scalable energy storage is invented.

I don't think you're still quite getting what I'm getting at.

Consideration on the level you speak of doesn't exist. Nobody is in charge of the whole system, so a full functional system doesn't matter.

People will build intermittent sources because they're cheap to build, and because intermittency isn't the provider's problem.

Then things break, and people will seek solutions. There will be a rush and various patchwork solutions being implemented in a panic.

You're thinking like a sane person, trying to transition to a different stable system and ensuring it will work properly from the start. I think that won't be the case. We will keep pushing until things break, everyone will blame everyone else, and we'll need to fix things in a hurry.
Super cool, I like how you can host a server easily with another phone. Is there something equivalent but normal web browsing that compresses the data on a server before it sends it? For instance, T-mobile has free internet overseas but it’s usually stupidly slow since it runs on edge.
All of which amounts to sticking one’s fingers in one’s ears and saying don’t try to change me followed by a bunch of of neeeneer neeners.

I kid, but I guess that is what’s at the root of it. A fear of change and wanting to believe it isn’t so, because then there’s no need for change.

The whole attitude is foreign to me, because I believe in following the evidence wherever it takes me, no matter how frightening I find it. It would be easier if I could believe the comforting lie sometimes.
https://archive.ph/ECOij
Yes, but the consequences are different. If Russia destroys an Ukrainian nuclear reactor, there are grave, long lasting consequences for the Ukraine and possible larger parts of Europe, we still have enough contamination from Chernobyl still.
Russia did destroy large parts of the rest of the Ukrainian power infrastructure, as they targetted it, when they weren't shooting at hospitals.
But the power infrastructure is mostly back up, at least partial repairs were achieved. So quite a difference.
What's the suggestion to do it efficiently?

And what kind of volume is it that ClickHouse can't handle when Uber can?

https://eng.uber.com/logging/
By texture compression I meant something like LZ4 or Kraken on top of block texture compression, sorry for ambiguity. Of course they use block level compression. But it seems that it's the only thing they use, as I said in my top level comment.
Blame those who chose coal over nuclear in the 70’s. That choice killed millions from air pollution, gave us global warning, and stole a future of cheap plentiful energy.
Would the natural analogy of “tokens” be “words”, or something more like, “portion of mouth-movement”?
If I'm required to own three cars just to be assured at least one of them is operable at any given time, that's a non-starter.
When you ask a serious question you can expect a serious answer.
Related. Others?

Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592960 - April 2023 (1 comment)

Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34860299 - Feb 2023 (1 comment)

Null Island, the most real of fictional places [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31080519 - April 2022 (37 comments)

Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21854780 - Dec 2019 (56 comments)

Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21552176 - Nov 2019 (1 comment)

Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19329101 - March 2019 (1 comment)

If You Can’t Follow Directions, You’ll End Up on Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12090980 - July 2016 (54 comments)

The Republic of NULL Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11734180 - May 2016 (15 comments)

The Geographical Oddity of Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11600396 - April 2016 (14 comments)

The Republic of Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10952593 - Jan 2016 (2 comments)

A Brief History of Null Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10949292 - Jan 2016 (7 comments)
Imagine.... you're a bank doing prudent bank stuff. And your depositors flee to other banks playing fast and loose. Then, when the other banks fail, you get hit with a special assessment to pay for bailing them out.
Alaska will soon be the most desirable state to live in.
> That's not gonna happen. No climate model is predicting a doomsday event.

I'm not talking about the climate. I'm talking about the grid.

My prediction is that we'll keep on building renewables until renewables break the grid, then patch it up in a hurry, and nuclear will still not be built in the end.
Which animal body cells can be infinitely large then? This is foolery. "Neurons are of unbounded size" is a ridiculous statement, we any fool can see it's false. IDK what you're aiming at here, try making a case for something sensible?
> moving 11 miles becomes a real option to weigh against other factors.

Hopefully just to tide you over while you find another job so you can jettison this dirtbag company.
I don't know in what parallel reality you live, but France is having massive energy problems due to their reliance on nuclear right now. And it's only getting worse with rivers drying up more and more and power plants needing more and more maintance as they age. Building new plants is hugely expensive unless you lower standards, and security is already worse in reality than in the books as of now, you don't want to go lower than that and cut more corners.
I mean, I thought it was nonsense, and we shouldn’t let the feelings of a bunch of birds stand in the way of the largest rocket launch in history.

But the discussion around it was valuable, and as said before, some of the topics raised by the author were actually issues.
Ya, what is a datum? Is that like a piece of data?

I've heard that data is actually supposed to be plural, but that "correct" usage is so far outside of my experience that it just seems weird and confusing.

The one I actually find annoying though is when people use "an" before a word that starts with a (pronounced) h, like "an historic building". It's like, dude, I know you're trying to seem all smart and superior and it isn't working. (Of course, if they said it with a french accent and a silent h that would make more sense.)
“I'm not going to spend a day and a half reproducing old pixel art in Photoshop”

..instead, I will spend a month and a half writing a piece of software to reproduce the pixel art for me.

:^)
But what is Brunel’s solution to the underlying problem? A bridge has fallen down. Presumably the engineers who designed it had no murderous intent. They tried their best to make a solid bridge. Do we just let engineers build bridges however they please and then be angry if they fall down? How is that going to help anybody?
Seems like it's actually decelerating (or at least not accelerating), both global temperature and greenhouse emissions?

https://climate.nasa.gov/

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions
Those seeking to abuse power employ the nothing to hide fallacy.
There are heat waves and droughts but food production has tripled over the last half century, and the only thing I have ever seen during that period that kept the grocery store shelves from being fully stocked for more than a few days has been a pandemic.
But mine was only 1/10-scale!

You're correct this isn't really a Cray other than the vaguely rounded shape, but it is still adorable and looks super fun to program.
The layout breaks on mobile when displaying an answer. Overflows on both sides.
Opera Mini does this, but IIRC it's not self-hostable.
Screenwriting guru Robert McKee Writes His Own Ending (2022)
> Coal has killed tens of millions from air pollution alone.

That stat is effectively impossible to nail down after the fact. Air pollution is one metric of am extremely complex system, and coal or any other energy source is one of countless inputs impacting the environment simultaneously. At best we can design and run models to help get clues on what impact any one input has, but those models will always be rough hints at correlation with results that are heavily influenced by the assumptions used when designing the model.

You are correct that any studies claiming to put a number on how many deaths should be attributed to Chernobyl is propaganda. That holds true for the rest as well though, including any claims of exactly how many have died due to coal or cow farts for example.
Really ?
It does not feel this way on my scene that has more than 90 .png files used for texture.

The time to : download the globel zip file + open and reading the points and all textures => 5 to 7 seconds. This is super quick !
Is there data showing that the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are declining or plateauing? If not, aren’t you wrong?

Edit: here’s a graph. I see no reason to feel optimistic. https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions
That's like 50 hours of uncompressed stereo audio at CD quality. (2×16bit@44.1kHz) Do games really have that much stuff in them these days? I mean, I wouldn't doubt it, but it's surprising.
The argument that costs will come down if we build more nuclear worked in the 1950s, but we know now where that goes now. Build
More nuclear and costs come down. With more plants there are inevitably more nuclear incidents, the public realizes these things can make entire nations uninhabitable if they fail, and then they demand a halt to nuclear, pushing prices back up.

Nuclear prices have baked in the public sentiment on the risk of meltdowns. The prices are efficient.
We already paid the first of a kind cost at Votgle, ordering several more AP1000s is exactly what we should do at this point. We now have a workforce that has made the mistakes and knows what not to do.

If you don't want to do that, you can do what the UAE did and hire the Koreans to teach you how to build plants. They went from no nuclear program to 5.4 GW of clean energy in 10 ish years.
legalize. for the economy.
gc isn't the issue, the jvm is the issue
Cheap cynicism is fun, but Wh/kg has been steadily increasing since the '90s https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
Confirm it's weird, for me at this time, shows 10 hours in thread comment and 22 in their profile of comments.
> However, it also tends to demand more and pay less, so there is churn and burnout and when it comes time to triage, the triage can cut very deep.

Yeah, I've often heard that the advice for people who really want to make games is to get some friends together and try to put out something together as a side gig while you work somewhere boring to pay the bills.

SWE at a game studio, especially any AAA game studio, is an awful experience. The expectations are high and the salaries are low because there's a seemingly unlimited bunch of young adults that want to make games.

And yes, it takes extraordinary talent. Your code needs to be able to generate a frame in under 16 milliseconds in order to maintain 60 fps. If you want to appease the hardcore players with these crazy 360 hz monitors, you need to get your game loop down to a mere 3 ms.

The amount of shortcuts and optimizations needed to pull that off is insane. At that level, you're trying to figure out how to minimize cache misses and branch mispredictions. How many Node devs are thinking about those?
Yes. I've tried it - makes it obviously more bitter.
Should I be worried about money currently sitting in money market funds (VUSXX)?
And pascal!
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Thank you for the response and sorry for not doing the homework there.

Looking forward to seeing the project take off as we need to glue stuff together from various projects to achieve your goal now.
You got it. We just canceled Netflix and Hulu and I don't see why that money shouldn't be redirected to your project.

My desire is to get productive on the land (as in make some money) ASAP. Ideally it can pay for itself starting now.

Before I go off on a big ol' stream of consciousness brain dump, let me ask you, what about a scenario where you provide me with one of your kits (free or at cost maybe?) and I agree to give you, say, 15% of gross sales of produce raised with your machine? You would retain ownership of the machine, I would be responsible for maintenance and repair. Something like that? It just occurred to me so I haven't thought it through yet. (I can raise the question on your forums if you like? I just joined.)

Anyway, like I said, I want to make money on this land. I very much want it to pay for itself, I really want to avoid getting another programming job (now that the machines can talk and program themselves my heart isn't in it anymore.) And it would be fantastic if I can make enough money to fund all my grand ideas (including robots.)

I'm developing a plan (the purchase was kind of sudden) in roughly three phases:

I) collect and sell stuff laying around. Rocks, wood, etc. I am jealous of that matériel but it's a quick and easy way to make a few grand to fund the next stage.

II) SPIN (Small Plot INtensive) market gardens. ( https://spinfarming.com/ ) If i give over an acre or two to SPIN plots and figure out how to reach markets I should be able to make $50k-$100k per year easily.

Neither of the above are regenerative. The whole point is to fund:

III) Food forest. I figure you're hip to that already, but I want to share a video I just saw last night "From a Dry Field to a Lush Food Forest in 18 Months" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJx01VuV6I So there it is: if you have the resources you can do that in 18 months. (I have many of the species he mentions already in my seed box! Now I have room to germinate them! Que mad scientist laugh. I have about four hundred species of seeds ready to go.)

Food forests not only produce, uh, produce, they also grow the seeds and cuttings etc. to make more food forest. (I've had people ask if regenerative ag is scalable. Yes, it is scalable. Life scales. That's like it's whole deal. That and being gorgeous!)

Long-term I want to have a botanical garden, a tropical conservatory, ponds and water systems etc... It's gonna be great!
What is it? Seams like it's an implementation of ecc,but does what? A p2p chat? ::Shrugs:: I'm not sure the failure to adopt your one elusive product speaks for the entire pop.
Okay this is actually super clever.. Really nice job !

Edit : I notice you don't have a server in Italy, I might be able to help for a while at least, I'll contact on GH.
I covered that point (or thought I did!) with the second sentence in my GP comment. The issue is what it does to us as a community. That's significant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you're a consultant, it's basically a meaningless offer as you're still X% billable.

If there's some other can ncrete metric, infinite PTO just means whoever already has their privileged position.
you're talking to me? i work a blue collar job. i've worked a fair few 15 hour days.
Why Is This Happening? Unpacking AI: “An Exponential Disruption” Kate Crawford
Great comments and advice. My neighborhood burned in the #GlassFire [0]. While our property was severely damaged, our home survived, due to many of the hardening techniques you mentioned and great work by CalFire. We had evacuated the night before and were staying in a local hotel watching the flames advance on our house via our security cameras. (Redundant net connections and a generator kept everything online). As our deck started to burn I called 911 to report it, figuring nothing would happen. About 20 minutes later a fireman walked into the frame of the camera and 2 minutes later the deck was out and the house was saved. I was cheering like I won the Super Bowl. So I really appreciate all the hardening I did, on-site water and CalFire.

When we rebuilt the exterior, I installed a set of sprinklers that ring the house and cover the roof/deck. They are not designed to fight the fire, instead I can activate them before a fire arrives to get things good and wet. This perimeter reduces the available fuels, reduces the heat load on the structure and reduces the risk of ember cast. It was a fun project with an ESP controller to sequence the valves and provide remote control.

Over the last few years, the Alert Wildfire Camera system, now over 700 cameras, has been a valuable resource. [1] Early detection of the fire, before it grows to extreme size has made a big difference. In the North Bay of California last year, this early detection and CalFire having nearby Air Attack resources on standby kept many small fires from becoming large ones in this area.

Another great resource is the Watch Duty app. [2] This is a non-profit, volunteer, but extremely professional service. They started in Northern California and are rapidly expanding. It is the go-to resource for Wildfire related information in the area.

Lastly, if anyone is looking at the X prize for satellite detection, I’d spend some time researching MODIS/VIIRS data products from NASA. [3]. A good starting point in some of the challenges of wildfire detection from space.

[0]. Fire tornado outside my window. https://youtu.be/1tZjWqh3-EU

[1]. https://www.alertwildfire.org/

[2]. https://www.watchduty.org/

[3]. https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/
I think the Fed saved us all when they got those interest rates up in time. I think even now we're tempting the 2008 bubble demon. There is still a ton of local inflation, but I can't imagine what housing would look like if we kept interest rates below 2%.
Well said. You can browse through the replies in the threads on this post, and see where all the cost questions go unanswered. Cost and the basic economics of trying to run a really expensive power source at a fixed high price over 40+ years when the competition gets cheaper every day. That’s the major why virtually none get built anymore. And it’s not going to change.
Back? Are you even aware that no party besides a small fascist party want nuclear back or did anything in recent years to stop the exit? The previous Government (today's largest opposition) had 16 years to stop the nuclear exit. They didn't. Even before Fukushima.

I wonder where you got this approach from since you've obviously not come up with it by yourself through research.
> That stat is effectively impossible to nail down after the fact

Sure, but given how long we've been burning coal and how dirty it is I'm positive that tens of millions is a gross undercount. It's not about getting an exact number. We're looking for orders of magnitudes here.
Some typedefs were promoted to 64-bit but it's the same Win32 API, even the name has not changed
SpaceX didn’t want to blow up its launchpad. It may have done just that
It seems, meta aside, that if anything the bulk of the tech layoffs were in Q3/Q4 last year and started trailing off Q1/Q2 this year. If anything, it seems like other industries are starting to go through this now.

With that said, it wouldn't surprise me if things look much better next year. Companies are actually doing quite well despite the fear mongering.
After using the scanlines to determine the grid size, I bet you could apply a pass of some filter in the frequency domain to remove the artefacts created by the CRT screen! Like here [1], where the author removes a moiré pattern created by the process of printing a photo.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28663719