skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It already works. Contrary to vacuous and uninformed popular belief, there is no fundamental incompatibility between QFT and GR.
> I'm not sure where you get that idea from.

From this very discussion. Read what some other people here write.
That doesn't cover this particular third party API.
Writing an essay for someone else is cheating. It's still wrong. Just not as punishable as a crime. BTW, cheating in Keju (Chinese imperial examination) is a capitol crime, as it undermined the fairness of the system and the quality of the ruling class, and derived the chances of other poor candidates. Not that I think cheating is serious, mind you, just wanted to give perspective on how different cultures perceive cheating and the underlying rationales.
That's pretty interesting and impressive, it must have taken multiple lifetimes for the Mayans to establish such a calendar. I wonder if it had practical purposes beyond studying astronomy - I assume the most common needs (e.g. when to plant and harvest crops) would be better served by a typical annual calendar.
They just did exactly that, to my Google Voice account, around 6 months ago.
Blaming things on neglect or politics just isn't useful. We need power sources that have some resilience to those things.
The thing that I don’t understand is that:

* Academics say publish or perish is terrible and produces warped incentives.

* Academics say they need tenure to protect senior researchers from the publish or perish system.

* But academics seem to be the ones building grant and advancement systems that enforce “publish or perish”.

I don’t get it - it certainly sounds like tenure mostly protects senior academics from systems they built themselves. If publish or perish is so bad why don’t senior members of departments build advancement opportunities that don’t rely on impact factor? Cynically, it almost feels like tenure is enforcing publish or perish, because those with tenure set the rules and the current system protects those who are tenured.

Furthermore, I don’t see why the sort of “deep study” research that the idealized tenured researcher does would need special protection. If the researcher has a track record of success surely the department would tolerate a brief lull in publications while they work on their Magnum Opus? Private industry frequently does multi-year deep research projects without the need for tenure systems.
> actively retaliate against students who try to stand up for their faith.

Outside of chain emails and the movie "God's Not Dead", has this really happened? Anecdata, but when I took an intro to philosophy course my professor was pretty open to religious people talking about their justification for stuff. For that matter, I took a "religious ethics" class, which spent a not-insignificant time talking about Christian ethics (in addition to a lot of other popular religions). It was actually a pretty interesting class.

This was at a public school, evidently.
> This is only about emissions though. The radioactive waste produced by nuclear power plants has many many orders of magnitude more activity than the emissions.

yes I should have probably said "emission" not waste

> No, coal is barely radioactive at all.

but you need to burn orders of magnitude more of it, producing literal mountains of coal ash and exhaust emissions

whereas for nuclear the waste is an extremely small volume, of which almost 100% of is captured

scrubbing technologies have also improved since 1978, and scrubbing not-very-much thoroughly is a much easier than scrubbing vast amounts not-very-well
Newspapers and the government already basically spit out accurate sounding lies all the time also.
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How does nuclear fusion solve the issue of rivers getting too hot, such that the plant has to shut down?
I think it's a unique artifact of the way that software work is done.

Software is, at its core, an intellectual exercise. When you start up a new multi-billion dollar thing, there's very little physical manifestation. There isn't a sprawling factory, a company town, a bustling assembly line...

There's just a piece of software. Building it takes a lot of effort, but not like effort effort the way you have to move the ground and get machines in to build a factory.

So even though walking away from a massive software project means, in dollars, the same as abandoning a giant factory, it isn't legible in the same psychological way. If you're Intel, and your new process node isn't working the way you expected, do you board up the factory? No, of course not! It's a gigantic thing that you can look at and say "wow, we spent a billion dollars on this." But if you're Facebook, come monday morning, you can just tell all of your ICs -- "hey, you guys aren't working on this any more."

This is kind of related to how quickly money flows into software. Money come money go. Software come, software go. Not so in the physical world.

That's my theory.

That also means -- if you treat your software projects like a big factory, you can actually distinguish yourself. Like many on HN, I am very hesitant to sign up for a new google service, even if it's really really cool and I would pay for it! Because there is no factory, there is no machines, there's just information, information that can stop being improved tomorrow.
I wish I were as optimistic as you, but experience has shown me I can’t be, on this topic.
The average age of nuclear plants in the US is 40 years old.

I can't believe that modern nuclear plants wouldn't be dramatically more profitable.

Even if they weren't, it would be worth government incentives to prevent grid destabilization as wind and solar take over as the main sources.
This.

A friend remarked one benefit of moving to industry (aside higher pay and more job security(1)) was the reduced hours - no longer always continuing to work after leaving the office.

(1) job security after tenure isn't magical compared to industry around here; before tenure, job security is more or less a guaranteed "haha nope."

So on average, industry has far better job security.
Same here in the PNW. Except e-bikes are also en vogue to get stolen by our fentanyl addicts.
There is a biiig mountain range in the middle of the state
Yes. But the difference in this context is nitpicking. The browser needs to know what file was changed, and what to do with those changes right? And preserve state. That doesn't magically happen it's the tooling that supports it.

I could probably set up a simple environment to watch for changes, run make, reload the binary at $current_state in gdb with a one-liner. But it doesn't really fit the work flow, and GDB already gets all changes after I run make.
Please re-read my post that I said from China specifically. Gyokuro, a green tea primarily of japanese make and style, does not apply to what I said. I'm thinking of gan lu or mao jian style teas.
They are comparable in some ways, though I've been surprised at the extent to which different milk substitutes differ from cow milk, and each other. Some are much sweeter, some have little calcium, and some have much less protein. It's nice to have alternatives, but it's important to look at the label to see if you're getting the nutritional aspects of milk that you expect.

We drink milk, almond milk, and oat milk, but I pick the liquid based on what I need for a particular purpose.
> If you need to carry passengers, a truck probably isn't the right choice. Four doors and a bed make for an oversized and inefficient vehicle for hauling either people or cargo alone. You say "broad market", I say "ill suited for most tasks."

It's a fine choice, as long as the truck has 4 doors. And the super cabs don't really affect gas mileage much at all.

When I was growing up, my dad had one of those tiny Rangers. There were 3 of us kids. My dad was a part-time plumber and also built our house when we were younger. We'd make regular trips to Lowe's or whatever with him when my mom was working. There weren't even 4 separate seat belts. It wasn't really safe, and it was a tight squeeze that was only possible because we were quite young. Anyways, many reasons why you sometimes need to do both.
Hanging your hat on fossil fuel base load generation seems unwise.
It's a book review.
It's probably a good time to plug the Unlicense: https://unlicense.org/

A truly attribution-free license that checks several other important boxes (disclaiming liability and warranty etc.)

If you want your code to be usable by things like github copilot, consider using it (can't imagine most of the HN crowd wants their code used by copilot, but maybe some lurkers here do!)
A sick obsession with founder-centric companies thanks to the myth of lone geniuses fueled by industry hero worship of folks like Gates and Jobs.

Fortunately, thanks to the flailings of folks like Musk, Zuck, and Holmes, that fever has broken and the sickness is starting to pass...
Agreed. It was a path to teaching 1 or 2 classes a year and doing whatever they wanted. I was at UC Berkeley in the 80's, if it matters.
> What I discovered instead was an irrational culture with an immature fascination for shamanism

Hilarious revelation to have from a trip. I never put it like that in my mind, but I feel kind of similar.

My take is.. people want an external locus of control and/or instructions on how to live so bad that in the modern bent towards Atheism/Agnosticism, they transfer that responsibility elsewhere (star signs, tarot cards, psychedelics, their political party, some 'expert'..)
> Europe has a large dependence on Russia for nuclear technology. There are also Russian reactors in Europe

That seems to be a legacy, not a necessary constraint.
What you are missing is 1 = 1 isn’t inherently true on it’s own.

There are sets of axioms where 1 = 1 is false, different sets where it’s undefined, and finally sets of axioms where 1 = 1 is true.

However, for a given set of axioms there is no choice and nothing to agree upon. That’s what makes math universally true.
"Small amounts"?

https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2012/part-ii-ap-impact-tri...

45 out of 65 sites had significant tritium leaks, some were migrating off site, some were starting to contaminate public drinking water.

The nuclear industry is so loosely regulated that a half million gallon leak of radioactive water recently apparently didn't require them to notify anyone https://apnews.com/article/xcel-energy-nuclear-leak-tritium-...

Also: "it's better than coal!"...no kidding. It's not better than wind and solar. Not in terms of price, time to install, time for carbon payback, waste issues, or safety.

That's why grid operators are shutting down both coal and nuclear in the US, and replacing it with solar and wind (the US has in recent years installed 6x more renewables-based capacity than nuclear capacity that has been shut down)
If you cannot grant the rights that Stack Overflow asserts on its content, then you are definitely violating copyright.
He's just showing off how many of his predictions have come true.
Didn't you say that it costs money to peer review 15 articles, and reject 14? It's unpaid reviewers and editors who do virtually all the work to peer review and accept or reject articles, so why does it cost money to do all that? Where does the money go?

I mean, I'm interested to know. I peer review for a few journals and I never make a dime, so where does all the money go?

Come to that, why don't I get paid? It takes days to review one journal article. Why is Springer or Elsevier making money from my toil and I make jack shit?
Sadly, boiling water will absolutely ruin matcha. But I'm too hooked.
Too much emotion in a writing piece belies enough bias that it becomes uninteresting.

Of course Facebook is pivoting into AI, the entire universe is going that way, and any big company not embracing it will soon be doing even bigger layoffs than those that are.
Renewables aren't going to fail in a way that makes an entire city uninhabitable for decades.

If you want proof that renewables are the solution, look at California's power supply for yesterday. Just 2x the wind/solar/batteries of what's installed now could easily replace all fossil fuel and nuclear.

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html
Right.. I mean in my book only a disgruntled investor would be pissed about something like Facebook burning down. And investors have a moral responsibility, so..
The Forgotten 20th Century 'Sun Engine'
Apparently the S&P 500 rule is recently changed:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announ...
This is a huge step towards allowing TLA+ specs and tools that check them to be more widely adopted.
> the SEC don't like these structures

Standard & Poors doesn't either, apparently. Companies with dual classes of stock cannot be admitted to the S&P 500.
> Googling the author

It is at the bottom of the page, explicit.

> Todd Royal is the Senior Project Analyst for E4 Carolinas, a non-profit energy advocacy firm located in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is working on a three-year grant for the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration focusing on a value chain study for the advanced nuclear technology sector (Generation IV reactors, SMRs, and advanced reactors). Todd lives outside of Dallas, Texas
Can you help me understand what aspect of teaching biology in grades k through 3 would be against the provisions of the law in Florida? I studied biology to age 16 in England (“o-levels”) and don’t recall anything even up to that age that would be covered under this law?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Parental_Rights_in_E...
Andrew S. Grove wrote a book called High Output Management. While you might not necessarily engage in all the activities he describes, it's his attitude and approach to management that feels timeless. Each person on your team is an individual with their own aspirations that you may or may not be able to help them fulfill, but you can acknowledge and respect them. Expect the best and learn that you can be firm on deadlines and requirements without being a terrible person. Think about why people leave their jobs (they have a problem with their boss) and don't be that person. Constantly level up your own expertise so that people will respect and trust you. As I mentioned, entire books have been written and being well read will help find what is natural for you and shape your success in the future.
True, but in the meantime faculty need to find ways around the power of the administrators rather than waiting for fairy godparents to intervene, especially given that administrators control all the budgets and have entire departments devoted to flattering donors.
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/LZ

I think the right definition is this one:

Lempel-Ziv (dictionary-based lossless data compression)
Tenure is to Academia as Venture Capital is to Entreprenureship. You give resources (money, which buys time, office space, equipment, support staff...) to a bunch of promising individuals, hoping that some of them will do amazing things, but knowing most of them will not.
I got my 800 when I was 16, so I'm a bit older than you. I, too, had a 520ST. I later added a daughterboard bringing it up to a full 1MB RAM, and also make a little mod to expose a composite video connector on the back panel.

I never met anybody who had a Falcon, though. Very cool.
> He built that $500B company. Its existence is primarily due to him. He still owns the majority of it. He calls the shots on what that company does, that is the end of it.

If we transpose this to the medieval period, you could say the same thing about many kings who built their kingdoms by invading their neighbours. The problem, as others have pointed out, is that the number of stakeholders is huge. Some people make their living on Meta's platform so his decisions can have far-reaching consequences.

I would argue that Meta should never have been allowed to get this big in the first place. Allowing the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions was a mistake.
You don't know what you're talking about. Research and teaching at the upper-division level can and should be two sides of the same coin.
The above is false, math isn’t independent of axioms so there is nothing to agree upon beyond conventions where Math is simply the result of axiom choices.

I have a longer answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35659676

= 2 @ + 1 1 is a different notation, but the underlying math is unchanged. So if you explain the notation difference an alien that might use = 2 @ + 1 1 they would also agree that in an our notation 1 + 1 = 2. The same relationship is true of the choice of axioms.
I'm guessing "micro breaches" refers to hydrogen-induced cracks. Media likes to talk about it in bigly, threatening terms such as "THOUSANDS OF CRACKS FOUND IN REACTOR VESSEL" - of course anyone with half a brain starts to wonder "aren't these PWRs?". Much like people like to write headlines such as "HUNDREDS OF NUCLEAR INCIDENTS AT NPP XYZ", where "nuclear incident" means "reported event", which includes such dramatic incidents as "a backup valve in some secondary circuit had to be replaced because it was stuck" or "a bird flew into the transformer, tripping protection and taking a block offline".
Minority shareholders still have rights to good governance... so yes... they can make these demands, but are unlikely to prevail.
These days, I use Twitter more than ever. I pay for Blue, and the only thing I'd like to see is editable replies and a way to make sure I don't see political ads.
This is not accurate.

Renewable energy is growing faster than expected, and population growth is slowing faster than expected. We do not appear to be on track to meet worst cases scenarios from the IPCC. Note that I'm not saying there won't be/aren't harms, just that the rate of change does not seem to be accelerating.
You're the one promoting nuclear as if it's better than the rest in this regard.

Nuclear is… just another mega project, just like the rest.

You don't get to use that quote to say everything else is more expense when it's everything including your darling.
Didn't he?
Yes absolutely, if the goal is co2 reduction.
You're literally denouncing the 4th amendment. You're saying that all of us must submit to warrantless and broad searches because the statistics says that at least some crime must be occurring. Absurd.

Or is it that there is an intermediary involved? Are you saying that banks that offer safety deposit boxes are responsible for their contents? Also absurd.
That is so wonderful to hear! We’re working steadily towards a system that would be perfect for you! I suppose you have found this?

https://community.twistedfields.com/t/join-the-solar-farming...
I think regulations can work when they enforce very well-supported, long-established best practices, such that if you don't do them it amounts to negligence.

They might also work better if they say “you can't do it that way, which is known to be unsafe,” as opposed to “you must do it this way, which is the only safe thing.”

Note also that regulatory standards are not the only mechanism in the law to create safety. Liability law can be very effective at creating safety, by giving the right incentives to the right parties, but liability law doesn't tell anyone what to do—only what will happen to you if you cause harm.
>researchers say LLMs rarely spit out training data verbatim unless interacted with adversarially, but theoretically, they could.

Theoretically they can generate any arbitrary snippet of code (if it correctly fits the distribution), regardless of whether or not the code was in the training dataset.
> You must understand the dynamics behind that decision to understand why it isn't currently legally/institutionally feasible to have merit-based admission.

Is this for any institution of higher learning? Or just public institutions (ie, institutions that receive public/federal money)?
Speak for yourself. I pay for Blue and I'm not embarrassed about it. I would rather pay for a service that I like and see fewer ads; maybe someday there will be an option to get rid of all the ads?
The same thing can be said of solar panels and wind turbines.

The truth is that the once the power plant is built it generates clean power for decades. That power can then be used to power things like building new power plants.
Most generative AI actually does have significant problems with the model copying the data into itself. Not literally - there isn't a bunch of model parameters that line up to the exact PNG bitstream of particular images. But courts wouldn't care as long as the model outputs something that looks "close enough", because the chain of provenance is clearly established from the training set, through gradient descent and the model weights, into the final output.

There's a paper from Google and Princeton about regurgitation happening in Stable Diffusion and Imagen: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.13188.pdf

OpenAI also had to spend a bunch of time on deduplicating an insanely large dataset to prevent this from happening in DALL-E: https://openai.com/research/dall-e-2-pre-training-mitigation...

I have no clue how they handled this in GPT-3 or -4. Given the amount of regurgitation found in Copilot I imagine there's lots of significant code fragments floating about nominally different projects that a deduplicator wouldn't match as identical.
Sorry, assume I'm dense.

> Take a well-formed 3NF schema and disable foreign key constraints.

I'm familiar with 3NF, but can you expand on how 3NF enables you to remove foreign keys? Or feel free to point me to an article/blog, I don't want to waste your time if it's too much to explain. I did some googling but wasn't sure where to proceed from your post.
Yes, intermittent (sun/wind) only could work with enough storage. Do you know if/when we could get enough safe storage ? My understanding is batteries is not possible at the scale we would need. Pumping water where it is possible would be nice, but not sure if it would be enough. Do we know the storage capacity than US for instance would need, if only using solar and wind ?

Note that the cooling argument would be the same for coal or gas power plant. They work the same way. So, until enough storage is in place, we might need some base production, and it would require access to cold source (river or ocean). France had to reduce the activity of some nuclear power plants last summer because they have rules when it comes to river temperature. The next 8 reactors that France is planning to build would likely be build on the ocean's shore for that reason.

The cost of nuclear electricity is mostly impacted by the cost of money. That is why the cost of electricity from a UK nuclear power plant is more expensive than from France nuclear power plant. The UK used private capital (higher interest) when France use gov funds (lower interest). It is correct that it takes time to build a plant, and it requires expertise. But it is also true that a power plant can run for decades (US and France pushing to 80 years) as anything in a plant can be upgraded over time (except the pool).

Until there is an efficient storage technology that can be deployed at large scale, we might need to run some nuclear power plants. No idea for how long ?