skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacker News is one of the most communist leaning forums online, while at the same time strongly supportive of US government policy. How those two go together you'll have to ask somebody else. Any thread you read will have "regulation and government nationalization" as the answer. It's the modern day equivalent of "God will fix it"
> This comment presumes that public universities are the proper venues for this type of research. They're not.

Why aren't they? It reads to me like you are making the same presumption, just in the other direction, without the support you see as lacking in the original quote. Please forgive me if I've missed something vital.
While I agree that the high numbers are often because people are ill informed or even irresponsible about the loan, I don't think dragging out schooling is the best answer either, especially if you have higher earning power once you get a degree.

Also keep in mind the current system incentives - aid is inversely correlated with income and balances are forgiven in some cases. Why work harder if it means getting a worse deal? If one really wants it for "free" then there's always the military route.
Great analysis, I wonder why it didn't get enough attention here in HN
Isn't Siemens in the wind power business as well?
In most countries a copyright work need to be something substantial. You can not copyright single machine instructions. It needs to be a combination that is unique.
And just the instructions are not copyrightable, you cant for example copyright a recepy. But you can copyright a book of recepies. So if you make a program with many instructions put togheter you automatically get copyright. And if someone steals parts of your code it will be difficult to claim the copyright if those parts are used to create a new program. But if the new program is based on your program, for example a fork, or most of the code comes from your program its derative work.
No. There will be no solutions. Those who can afford to will take measures to maintain their quality of life, those who can’t will suffer.

This might change in a decade or two due to electorate and therefore representation turnover. Until then, you’re on your own.

Edit: @thriftwy reply here because of comment throttling

Will they though? Sounds like those folks are uniquely positioned to take the brunt of climate change. Hard to say who is going to a) still be living and b) have power that far out into the future.

Long story short, do what you can with what you have where you are while staying emotionally healthy and grounded. That’s all that really can be done imho. Take care.
I don't think the 7950x is NUMA?

But I don't have such a system, nor have I played with the BIOS settings of that chip. But it only has one memory controller, so I doubt there's a NUMA setting. Correct me if I'm wrong of course.
I did see a more recent and very comprehensive paper that found a few countries where costs haven't ballooned, or even fallen by very tiny amounts. Whether those situations can be replicated is unclear.

But even if we get to the best case scenario of small cost drops, nuclear will never compete with the tech cruces of storage and solar. It does not have the characteristics of a tech with falling costs, without a complete revolution in its operation, the likes of which I have not seen imagined by anyone. Thorium and SMRs are minor tweaks that who not reach the type of tech revolution needed to make nuclear into a tech with falling costs.

There might be a few niche locations for which nuclear is the cheapest option, such as maybe Finland who was able to finally get their new single reactor online, a year delayed from the first time they declared it online. But these are the exceptions. Unclear is it a general purpose technology, it should be viewed as useful only in special circumstances where traditional tech fails.
I don't mind about anti violation licence value proposal, I want to know if it works better than gh copilot? As it is free so I could switch to it.
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Essentially any modern image compression format is going to be limited, or close to, by storage speed (for decompression). So unless the user has insanely fast internet (and the servers are also able to saturate their connection), it will be faster in the end.
>Outside of chain emails and the movie "God's Not Dead", has this really happened?

As often as the OPs scenarios have happened, which you were strangely quiet on questioning the validity of. Just an oversight, I'm sure.
Are you aware that most non tenured positions require you to reapply every year for your job? Every 3 years if you are lucky. This in not a simple annual review like a normal job, this is you are fired at the end of your 1 year contract and now let's talk about the possibility of a new one year contract.

This in my opinion is really what tenure is about, getting out of the yearly firing that adjuncts and lecturers face.
Coal power plants, wind turbines and mostly anything else. They can end up catastrophic in a sense, but not to the same degree nuclear fission plants can end up.
Biggest problem is that people don't understand.

It's black magic, with "radiation". While in reality, it's basically just a big steam turbine generator.

Unknown things are scary. Turn on the light.
Say you have a super basic setup:

user = {user_id, email}
order = {order_id, user_id}

order.user_id is a foreign key to user.user_id. That's a perfectly valid and reasonable way to organize things.

Enabling RDBMS-enforced foreign key constraints is the issue. It slows everything down dramatically.
I doubt that. What does UCLA pay entering STEM AI faculty?

FAANG salaries for MS in CS at or above $300k. Starting salary in genomics, stats, ML and AI in a very well funded medical college with PhD and 4-year postdoc is less than half that.
My own hypothesis is that many adjuncts work under such poor conditions due to an irrational belief that it will lead to a tenure track position some day. Without that carrot the whole market destabilizes.

Tenure is the key incentive in the academic tournament model. Other fields that do “out or up” (consulting, Big Law) offer major $$$ to the winners.
I look forward to a world where comments like yours get upvoted instead of downvoted.

Insightfulness adds value, particularly when it happens to be humorous at the same time.
This is the real effect of AI.

Non-permissive open source licenses have been on a slow death march for over a decade. They're effectively pointless now.

Either you decide to give your code for free to everyone or you don't. Adding a bunch of restrictions defeats the purpose of OSS.
Slow downloads wouldn't be a problem if shipping actually finished games on Blu-rays were still in vogue. And the disc limitation would make some publishers think twice about shipping 250 GB on 3 or more discs.
Yes, the native compilers are now LLVM based. Reading between the lines, it seems like this migration was one of the reasons this release has been delayed by a few years.
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> If job security is to be offered, extend it to other professions as well, as French do (with their CDI contracts).

A French CDI contract doesn't mean job security. You can be fired for low performance, or for economical reasons. You'll get a few months salary in the process, a couple of months notice, but they'll fire you if they want too.
> > The moment you give your resignation, there are good odds your company will say "we accept your resignation effective immediately. Goodbye."

> Genuine question; is this a US thing?

At least in California/Silicon Valley I have never seen or experienced such a thing in almost 30 years, so I can say confidently it is not common.

Of course it can happen, there are zero employee protections in the US. But it's not common.

People generally give 2 weeks notice and keep coming in to the office (pre-pandemic) for those two weeks to meet with others and help transfer knowledge, hang out, do farewell lunches etc. Only on the end of the last day is your account access revoked. That's the expected convention.
Hey, when you've got a political base to whip up and make crazy, consequences don't matter...
The design of ArenaNet's GW/GW2 has always impressed me. 99.4% of all of the game is contained in one file: GW2.DAT, which is (currently) 66.7 GB. I/O for updates is extremely efficient.

I've seen many games create a vast file system mess, and they're forever plagued by "corruption" or something, complete with "fix" tools, "cache" clearing push-ups and players reinstalling after big updates that don't install correctly for whatever reason. Somehow ArenaNet surrounded this whole problem and solved it optimally.
I always thought Sencha was different to green tea, steamed leaves, more subtle?
that's a good attempt to represent the original "not equal" symbol ≠
better than <> used by t-sql
Nuclear power in Sweden was expensive due to the "effektskatt" [1] (power output tax) which was levied specifically on nuclear power, ostensibly to pay for dismantling nuclear power plants after they were shut down. This tax made up about 25% of the production costs in the end [2].

[1] https://naringslivets-medieinstitut.se/det-var-marknaden-som...

[2] https://skatteupproret.se/skatt-pa-karnkraft/
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Battery storage, solar, stored hydrogen, demand response, long distance HVDC, advanced geothermal.

The answer is tech from the 2000s, not 1900s tech.

Power industry folks are used to a field where tech hasn't changed for decades. It's time to get over that and use the new things that have been developed that will reduce the cost of energy, increase energy abundance, and advance society. We need to let go of the obsolete.
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While a nice thought, the timeline (<18mo for the space-based sensor track) isn't aligned for developing anything truly new or revolutionary, just some quick reaction rehashing of existing tech (read: now with 'AI').
Nobody is using 50Wh/kg in UAVs; even 150C racing drone batteries are higher energy density (~135Wh/kg for Tattu R-line V5 1200mAh 6s, 195grams)
NASA did so many studies where they tried to put together Space Shuttle parts to make ‘low cost’ rockets (saving development expenses) but whatever they came up with was terribly expensive since those parts were expensive and that didn’t matter if it was a rocket with a cluster of 4 SSMEs or a rocket that strapped on 3 of the solid rocker booster.

You’d think NASA would have read their own studies and given up rather than proceed on the predictable Artemis boondoggle.
That's not how it works in the real world. There are a bunch of other companies also targeting the top few percent. Mathematically it isn't possible for them all to succeed in that goal regardless of their hiring process or compensation levels. If you actually talk to those engineers it's clear that beyond ability to solve "leetcode" type problems they are mostly pretty average.
Again measuring with different standards. Depending on the design of a typical wind turbine, you can recycle 90-95% of those as well. And that's without a prime design criterion of maximizing recyclability, which could be mandated by law and then you'd achieve close to 100%.

The sentence is just as disingenuous as the initial sentence that I criticized.
> And, besides, what's the point of expounding on how things could be better (in an "exit interview" or otherwise), when everyone knows all that feedback will have no impact?

Many employers do listen to exit interview feedback, and if themes are consistent, changes do get made. Have seen it happen more than once, although it usually takes multiple departures or the loss of a key person.

Of course not all employers are like this, but if you‘re willing to give yours the benefit of the doubt, it can be worth paying it forward to your colleagues by giving your feedback in a professional way.
Correct. But universities want researchers because they bring in research grants (which provide the university 50%+ in overhead: slush funds).
curious about this too
Piracy has been used to describe mass copyright violation for profit since about 1603, for a breach of a Royal Charter granting monopoly of publication to the Stationer's Company.

You might as well just say "acht-oo-ally, a geek bites the heads off chickens."
I highly recommend the Windows BTRFS driver.
Why? Why is that function special?
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And when they want to live away from home.

The living arrangements are getting more expensive. My college tore down their old, low cost dorms. They replaced them with suites that cost twice as much.
I get your using glassdoor and citing sources, but it's even worse, because someone competent enough to go straight into an associate prof position after PhD would guaranteed be making more than $200k at 6 years tenure at Apple, probably closing in on $300k.
Have we hugged to death? "revive-machines.com refused to connect."
> You want a citation? Look around.

I'm looking around. Can you show me someone from 1980 predicting what I see now? And I'm not talking about predictions about predictions about 2066. I'm asking for some 1980s predictions about the climate in 2023 that can be trivially shown to be accurate by looking at data like average temperature over the last year, or sea levels today compared to in 1980.
It’s behind a paywall but here is an article from a 1958 issue of Harpers discussing a pair of scientists, Ewing and Donn, had a theory about how the last ice age was caused by melting arctic ice. They were primarily trying to figure out what would cause the ocean to heat up so much so quickly.

https://harpers.org/archive/1958/09/the-coming-ice-age/

I have a distinct memory of my “science” textbook in 2nd grade circa 1981 had a section on the upcoming ice age. Once I realized that the book was old enough to not include the moon landing I didn’t pay much attention to it.

In any case, the idea about an impending ice age was in the science zeitgeist, at least the layman understanding of it well before the 80s.
I'm not sure if the core duty of a professor at a research institution should even be teaching vs research...
> I honestly believe that most of the carbon calculations come from the pro-renewable folks to promote whatever pet project they’re on about.

Sounds like reflection to me, if anything.
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Everyone thinks they’re irreplaceable. I’m still honestly shocked my last company didn’t collapse when I left. And yes with 2 weeks notice
stop flying.

https://www.google.com/search?q=airplane+emissions+calculato...
Completely unnecessary! These licenses tend to stifle AI! They are immoral. I recommend reading "Against Intellectual Property" by Stephan Kinsella.
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In terms of attracting engineering talent, how does the video games industry fare?

In a crunch situation, I can think of how easy it is for some to be able to circumnavigate various pitfalls while others fall into them and have no time to address it.

Very much a skill/experience thing. There’s countless examples of games that run horribly given their level of presentation, or have no business being so impressively performant on the hardware they’re running.

I can guess what execs will pick when faced with “delay the game or ship a massive bundle.”
8k texture with mipmaps takes around 100 megs uncompressed. Downloading it would be 8-10 seconds on 100 mbit connection. It is definitely possible to generate that image in 8 to 10 seconds on consumer GPU if you are using some kind of consistency models that are trained to generate specific game style and inferences in 8 bit.
Almost certainly is all about money.

How would you know how the millions of dollars sent to the organization are being spent?

For starters he is impersonating another director of the organization - right there probably pulling in two leadership salaries for a start. How many other fake employees are there?

Then he is most likely the sole decider on how that money is spent ... the article shows that he is a convicted grifter that spent time in jail for fleecing people ...
Time to sue MSFT
Or the issue with the ozone hole in the 1980s... that was not solved by people stopping personal use of CFCs, or boycotting products that used CFCs. A multinational agreement known as the Montreal Protocol is what stopped the use and production of CFCs.
Axioms don’t somehow superseded Mathematics.

Axioms are just another aspect of Mathematics and changing them has utility for mathematicians. Euclidean geometry for example uses one set and a wide range of non Euclidean geometry systems use different sets.

The universal truth that in Euclidean geometry the interior angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees is not diminished because the interior angles of a triangle can add up to different numbers in spherical geometry. It’s just two different systems but they all fall under Mathematics.
Great analysis and arguably much too conservative. But the assumption is that positions in industry are equally stable. In the world of startups not so much. And Google and Facebook making even FAANG look volatile.
Too bad the article doesn't talk about performance vs NTFS. Any quick and dirty comparative benchmark would have been nice. But then again, If BTRFS had been slower than NTFS it could have been due to a suboptimal (re)implementation.
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Are you still of the opinion that the article was not close to the truth at all? Windows were shattered, the highway next to the facility was damaged and is still closed, Port Isabel was showered with dust and debris, and more.
Répondre en anglais serait impossible pour un tel niveau de mauvaise foi et de malhonnetteté intellectuelle.

> one of the plant regularly leaks radioactive material

Je suppose qu'il s'agit du Tricastin, ou il y a de temps en temps des petits rejets de Tritium détectés, parce qu'il n'y a pas vraiment d'autres centrales proches de Montpellier qui ont des emmerdes. "Regularly" est un mensonge, et omet aussi les quantités qui fuient. Oui, c'est un problème qu'il y ait une fuite, et le CRIIRAD bosse dessus des que ca arrive, mais on parle de radioactivité non seulement très minimes, mais extrèmement diluées aussi.

>rivers are getting too hot to cool down nuclear plants correctly

Non. On décide de ne pas rejeter de l'eau chaude dans les rivières parce qu'elles sont déjà très chaudes et qu'on a des normes pour éviter d'endommager la vie aquatique qui sont extrèmement basses, et basées sur une moyenne de temperature annuelle. Dans la pratique, on pourrait faire monter largement les temperatures des cours d'eau sans danger encore, mais on ne le fait pas justement pour éviter des surprises. Et c'est oublier que ce problème n'existe que pour les centrales n'ayant de pas de tours aerorefrigerantes, auquel cas _il n'y a aucun probleme de refroidissement_

>nuclear plants are very unreliable, we almost got out of power this winter and next winter will be equally tough (only an abnormally hot winter avoid cuts...)

Jean-José Mauvaise Foi frappe fort la. 60 ans de production sans aucun incident majeur, il aura fallu trois vagues de covid + des conditions météorologiques défavorables + un problème structurel relativement mineur (mais corrigé du coup) qui a causé un alignement des arrêts de centrales.

>the government wants to simplify control organism and laws around building new plants

Fallait pas donner une majorité relative aux tarés.

Bref, comme d'hab, finir sur un "je suis pas contre le nucléaire hein" tout en donnant des arguments dignes du pire article de Reporterre.
Then why aren't they allowed with the JIT disabled?
It seems the state schools don't have as much incentive for that. The university president decided to build a conference center while I was at school. They didn't have all the money secured, so the state jumped in to pay a lot and tuition. Went up substantially. They're already cheap so the have no competition pressure and they know the state will bail them out.
If things described in this article are true, the the person running GISAID is a conman. WHO and other health orgs uses GISAID’s EpiFlu database to make a recommendation for which strains to use for next flu vaccines. Seems wild that an org ran by a conman has such an impact on the healthcare worldwide.
And we can do that if the will to do it was there. I suspect those that benefit the most from the subsidies that support their life styles will have the most to complain about.
Religious flamewar is not allowed here, so please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
TBH Im not surprised. The quality of their products is worsening to the point Im looking for alternatives; Google Home is as stupid or worse (still no conversations or clarification WHY it doesnt understand certain input.) to their software missing basic features for ages now, like offline Google Maps missing speed limits or even addresses of spots you favorited.. Search becoming worse, No proper way to flag bad ads in Youtube. Not to mention them being behind on the AI battle or Cloud Computing.
Sorry I don't believe in the existence of country-wide psyches. Also not claiming things are great when we think they aren't is how we bring progress.
I am sharing an opinion, which I didn't claim to be a fact either, but is based on my understanding the local and national news of the last decade.
Why all the endless bother across all Western media then?

In a decade or two, most of world's electorate, in terms of energy production and manufacturing production capacity, will be people from China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Brazil and the like. Iran, Uzbekistan and Tunisia. Maybe Nigeria or Congo. You will have to start climate change debate afresh because post-christian flagellation is starting on a seriously wrong foot when talking to these people (to whom I am not a complete stranger). The audience who is now receptive to climate change talks will be largely irrelevant.
This feels like a balanced piece: https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/04/is-nuclear-power-g...

Spoiler: It depends.
Chapo Trap House recently did a series too: https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/podcast/
Twitter used to monetize, they just had a bunch of organizational bloat. They then threw the baby out with the bath water by causing all the advertisers to flee when they did the organizational cuts.

It is going to be a much more difficult road for them to get in the black than it would have to make decisions in a rational, well thought out way.
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I struggle to see how this benefits Texas, though. Education is an investment in the future; encouraging the best professors to go elsewhere is like saying you want the future to happen elsewhere. Maybe that's what Texas wants, but universities usually bring startups and high-tech jobs along with them.

It kinda reminds me of how Texas wanted to get in on the blockchain hype, so they passed legislation making it extremely friendly to Bitcoin mining, which happens to be the most competitive, low-margin, environmentally damaging part of the crypto ecosystem. Meanwhile most of the high-margin profit centers (exchanges, DeFi protocols, new blockchain technologies) remained in the Bay Area. It's like Texas is awfully fond of setting up selection filters and then selects for the mediocre.
Or just not show up for a few days if you really want to