skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the correlation is with the gym
https://archive.ph/ECOij - the page wasn't loading for me for some reason.
I think Phind gets it right. I've found the service genuinely useful.

It's not that it's always correct in all that it says, and you definitely need sometimes call its bullshit what it's contradicting itself or whatever; that's fine. I've had it invent libraries and conflate data structures a few times so it's far from perfect.

I find it works best when you're familiar with the domain, or when you're asking basic questions about something you're not familiar with. It's not making me a 10x more productive developer or anything like that, but it's absolutely been helpful, significantly more so than Google recently.

(I like it so much I'll shill for it even though I technically operate a competing search service)
> Only nuclear power is carbon-free [...]

You can stop reading right there as this immediately identifies this piece as disingenuous at best, more likely though propaganda.

The whole process is definitely not "carbon-free". Uranium extraction, transport and processing produce emissions. Building the plants and maintaining them does. Eventually demolishing does. Transporting the used fuel as well as building and maintaining storage facilities does.

All those factors are usually brought up in detail for things like solar and wind plants. It's just disingenuous not to count them for nuclear power.
Modern governance is the problem. However, if there is no country that's, say 50% free (to put an arbitrary number on it), and even when we presume that America is 49% free and "everyone else" is less, that doesn't mean there is actual freedom.

American freedom seems to largely be centered around the ability to make money, the way things are going nowadays. We were more free in the 70s and 80s. Nowadays people in some areas get child services called because they dared to allow their child to venture somewhere by themselves. America is often the worst offender in some of these areas. True patriotism is understanding that we're not the "best" country in the world, and that we could stand a lot of weeding out chaff. Taxes go to a lot more waste than would ever come out of individual benefits, when you take the end result benefit to society. "Freedom" to allow poverty to exist is "freedom for some, but not for all".
Let’s create a mess by putting something important there.
> I fear there is a moral hazard if ones wellbeing depends upon corruption, even far away.

I don't see it that way. There's no moral hazard on the Kenyan side (they aren't the ones submitting work as their own). The same way a gun or car manufacturer isn't and shouldn't be liable for the criminal use of his product.

I could go on one of these market places and hire one of these Kenyan writer for completely legitimate reasons.
Databases are not the only contended-for resource in online games.

Those queues are usually the result of intentional capacity planning. Overprovisioning is expensive.
How you define “becoming” is the crucial part here.

How quickly do you become the thing when doing it?
Yep they do, but I did not see anyone generating chunks of gpl'd .NET code yet.
Perl was removed from FreeBSD base more than 2 decades ago:

https://bsd.slashdot.org/story/02/05/14/0015234/freebsd-perl...

And this was the right move. It meant that the version of Perl was decoupled from FreeBSD releases, allowed you to choose which version to install, and allowed you to install multiple versions if needed.
Alternative view: QML passed QtWidgets already in 2010 both in developer experience and quality of outcome. That's 13 years ago. It's time to let go.
Fusion is perpetually 50 years away. We don't have that long to wait when we're already crossing points of no return.
It is generally not cool to call something astroturfing here on HN. But googling the author of this article Todd Royal you can see he is a consultant for a lobby group called E4 Carolinas which is heavily funded by big energy companies who have big investments in the fossil fuel industry. In the past he has written articles with titles such as “Why Climate Panic Is Unfounded Hysteria” where he accuses advocates for renewables of astroturfing, while advocating for the continued use of fossil fuels:

> What the entire climate change, global warming, renewables over fossil fuels and electrify society movement is really about is one thing—money—clean energy is now worth trillions of taxpayer dollars. Government-sponsored science and economic growth at its worst picking clean energy over fossil fuels and internal combustion engine vehicles. These are disastrous energy policies.

> The existential threat narrative of global warming only solved by destroying global economies by switching to intermittent, expensive renewables over reliable fossil fuels is foolish according to Dr. Steve Koonin, a physicist who served as Undersecretary for Energy during President Barack Obama’s first term.

All the while pushing a conspiracy narrative and climate change denial:

> It’s particularly painful because climate doomsday scenarios are all historically wrong. Climate panic is simply unfounded hysteria. The weather and climate are dynamic and ever-changing. Seemingly, it’s a giant ploy to deprive people of their freedom and liberty.

> Blackouts are the future for the United States, European Union, Great Britain, and Australia if they continue on this clean energy transition.
This thread is a great example of how the meanings of words can be taken differently by different people. "Unreliable" is less of a description and more of a flag. Either it is or isn't. But the original commenter's threshold for unreliable = true is much much lower than most people's as illuminated in this discussion.

It seems like this is a daily occurrence online and in person.
The few people I know with tenure are just happy to be out of the academic grind, as it's absolutely brutal. Being tenured also doesn't lock you into a specific university- one of my professors had tenure but took a job elsewhere on a tenure track.
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Nuclear reactors are desirable targets for hostile forces, like Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant which was targeted by Russia. [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-ukraine-she...
At the university level, good teaching is a value only some institutions hold. They'll all say they care, but research schools are paying way more attention to grants, publications, parents, etc than to student evals. There are universities that prioritize teaching over research and, unsurprisingly, they tend to have better teaching professors. I went to a school that didn't emphasize research and never had a TA teach a class, for instance
Our CS department has been hiring for TT roles continuously since at least when I joined in 2010.
And then they have the audacity to claim It should be worrisome how easily GitHub Copilot spits out GPL code without being prompted adversarially right after prompting in adversarially.
Looting is a crime.

Writing an essay isn’t. (Maybe it’s not allowed for the college student.)
Even when they are doing their core differentiation of amphibious assaults they're not really swimming to shore. It's usually more of a survival need rather than being a military need.
I'm guessing private mercenary/security companies will become more common in the future, e.g. Blackwater
I agree the lack of commitment is weird. Microsoft stuck to Bing for a long time before it now having a shot of becoming something relevant to MS’ bottom line (i.e. > 1% of MS revenue)
I'm saying that the compensation a driver is willing to accept is a function of all the time it takes for them to complete a trip. That doesn't mean Uber compensates them directly for that time.
I rather liked VMS conventions as it was immediately obvious what was the directory part of the path and what was the filename and the device. You could create virtual devices as well, so for example, with VMS TeX, I had TEX_ROOT defined to point to the root of the TeX distribution and you would have TEX_ROOT:[INPUTS] for the input directory, TEX_ROOT:[MF] for Metafont files, TEX_ROOT:[EXE] for executables, etc. and everything was logically arranged. CLD files were another wonderful thing where you could define your CLI interface in an external file and let the OS handle argument and option parsing for you.
I would disagree but only, specifically, academia's already broken system. Tenure takes the heat off an academic such that they can deeply, deeply study a system. Academia's still stuck in lines-of-code style measuring sticks of performance so the rush to tenure is often pumping out salami slices worth of papers to secure future funds.
...but obviously only a relative handful of them, or they'd have run out of apartment-seeking one-percenters by now. To really shut down construction of apartments with $High/month rent, there is nothing more powerful than a really high vacancy rate for new apartments with $High/month rent.
The irony of commenting that under an article that cites the maximum path cannot exceed 260 characters is not lost on me
The first step is to eliminate cars as a primary mode of transportation.
I have no clear idea about the legality of AIs, but it definitely incited violence in several cases. If a person do it, it’s against the law even in the US.
Adjuncts get treated like dirt everywhere, afaik
You just said that you see no difference between people that take leetcode and those who don't So why the hell use leetcode as a filter if it doesn't filter for anything?
And variability is very bad. What are you going to do, stop using electricity because it's not windy?

Nah, the solution is to start burning coal, oil and gas, or leech off your neighbors who hopefully use something cleaner.
It does seem strange that they wouldn't have just shipped it to another jurisdiction where it could have been consumed.
The GPL is in no way a circumvention of 'draconian copyright law'. To spell it out: the GPL enumerates the rights and obligations of the recipients of a piece of software and critically relies on copyright in order to be able to do so. Without copyright the GPL would be unenforceable. So this is the polar opposite of your assertion, copyright is indeed used to prevent people from copying work without authorization. But the GPL and it's ilk are designed to allow people to share their work as long as the recipients respect the terms of the license. It's the critical bits that you left out that make all the difference, and without those critical bits the GPL would be useless and all of those critical bits have teeth only because of the existing framework of copyright law, which allows the rights holder to set the terms under which they license their work.

After all, if someone want to share a work without preventing people to do with it as they please then they are utterly free to do so by placing their work in the public domain or by sharing it using a permissive license.
Copyright is limited to works that meet a certain threshold of originality [0]. It is assumed that works meeting such a threshold won’t be replicated by mere coincidence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality
It does and I am not happy with individual persons.

Most people are waiting for big corporate entities or the government to do something. Yell that they need to do something, but in the meantime go about the lives as if nothing needs changing. People only care as long as it doesn't affect them and someone else acts or makes the decisions. It's despicable

Every person on this planet has the power and responsibility to change and act now, we do not need to wait for government and corporations to change. Waiting is just an excuse, and really is just slowing the desired outcome.
1. Yes!

2. Just some more than we have now.

3. Yes!

4. Yes!

Seriously though, I just want some reactor construction to spin up with non ancient reactor designs, to replace some fossil fuel plants. PBR[1] sounds good to me... but what do I know? There are experts who can decide this.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor
Give roundworms some weed and they’ll get the munchies, study finds
“it's not been exponential for years”

Really? Even a 5% generation-to-generation improvement would be exponential, it’s just 1.05 to the power of the generation. If it was linear you’d have benchmark results scaling by a fixed number of points each generation, which doesn’t seem to be a thing as far as I know
The relevant line is “information alone without a minimum of original creativity cannot be protected by copyright”.

There is definitely creativity in writing code; it’s not a completely deterministic translation of even a complete specification.
I see. I was wondering if this was the new "culturally accepted term" in Canada r something.

Side question: Is race as present over there in politics as it is here in the US? I remember reading about the country now having racial quotas for TV guests appearances and university research grants.
For me personally it's that everyone who is expressing these concerns has clearly done less critical thinking about the subject than your average extremely high teenager. When you ask them about details they get defensive, resort to even stranger ground like "Well a human is nothing more than an autocomplete" (clearly not true).
Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold
>go and find the same news story from three different publishers and read all three versions.

The problem with this is, if the three publishers have been funded by the same pharmaceutical company, NGO, or intelligence agency, they are likely to produce nearly-identical stories on $PARTICULAR_ISSUE.
The auto select ruins the game
This comment falls into the classic programmer fallacy of thinking you can hack the law with a technicality. If you are using an LLM designed to violate copyright with the intention of violating copyright, and you then violate copyright, a judge is going to find you in violation.

I'm generally in support of LLMs though and I think that they will very quickly be trained to remove verbatim duplication of the kind that a human would consider copyright violation while still using verbatim duplication where it makes sense (for example, every function in python has the word "def" in front of it).
TikTok, Youtube, Twitter does the same.

Even Youtube premium, where I'm supposed to be the customer, I feel like advertisers and content creators are treated better than me, and I'm not being served (youtube shorts, and lots of clickbait that I can't turn off are pushed on me...all it would take is a simple clickbait sentiment analyzer).
the german tea expert Ernst Janssen recommends to also use boiling water to prepare green tea as most of the teas are contaminated with germs and other things. different green tea brands including organic tea brands were tested by the renowned German test.de magazine and they confirmed that, also most of organic teas are contaminated. and since this is nothing you can easily check at home, better use boiling water.

https://www.ernst-janssen.com/tee-almanach
https://www.n-tv.de/ratgeber/Stiftung-Warentest-bewertet-gru...
Here’s how US law defines “copies”:

“Copies” are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.

17 USC 101.

There’s no way to look at your brain to perceive, reproduce, or communicate a work that you looked at, so under US law, your neurons are not a copy.

As for decoding a video to display it on a television, yes, that process requires making copies. That is why if you don’t have a license to a work, then decoding and displaying it is copyright infringement.
The EU ICE ban discussd here only targets personal vehicles. The trucking and aviation industroies are different discussions.
There's a lot of factors to it. The way the leaves are processed, the quality/freshness of the leaves, ratio of leaf to water, steeping time.

I think in general it's safest to brew green teas at 175f. But I'm doing quick gongfu brewing sessions with a late-march sichuan green tea, and it tastes great at 205f. Less intense at the usual 175f, but picks up more subtle flavors.
Google the author, who he works for, and some of the stuff he has written in the past, I think describing this a propaganda is actually giving this an easy way out.
You'd certainly want to shard from the start in any case, but it's an order of magnitude less postgres boxes for the QPS.
It's rare to see flaute all over Europe at the same time. You just need some ways to transport energy as well as supplement that with storage and you can compensate most of this.

If this sounds too complicated an engineering challenge then let's not even start to talk about the engineering challenges that would make nuclear safer than it is today. That's a whole different ballpark.
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> However, I don’t remember the last time someone showed me a great Facebook or Instagram post, or something they enjoyed seeing like you’d see something good from TikTok, or a funny tweet.

Really? Twitter and TikTok have quality content but IG has nothing? Even though creators basically post everything to TikTok and IG these days?
If you didn't see it for yourself, or you didn't hear it from a friend, then you are probably sucking fantasy.

One way of getting around this crap epistemology (to a degree) is science, of course. But who has the time for that?
Mark Zuckerberg literally cannot be fired. It's like saying "Fire the Sun." Not going to happen. If you don't like it, shouldn't have bought the stock -- this has been well-known since the S-1.
Copilot currently has great plugin integrations for a number of editors and IDEs. I'm sure the same kind of tooling is in the works for ChatGPT but it's not as mature.
Because coders drink tea?
Are you advocating for just more alarmism then?
> look at the data slightly differently

You mean like look at it upside-down? Or with your eyes closed? Please explain.
I mean, I don't think they believe she is "work[ing] to make the lives of Americans worse", even if they think the other candidate might be better. They agree with a lot of her positions. Heck, I agree with a lot of her positions, I just disagree with too many important ones.
Thanks.

So when, for example, we train an ImageNet model over multiple epochs using rotation/scaling/etc augmentation, it's really better to think of this as one epoch over a unique set of images than multi-epoch per se ? I was really thinking of augmentation as a way to get coverage over the input space rather than ensuring the training data doesn't repeat, but I guess it serves both purposes.

It does still seem that many LLMs are overfitting / memorizing to a fair degree though - maybe just because they are still too big for the amount of data they are trained on ? It seems like a bit of a balancing act - wanting an LLM to generalize, but yet also to serve as somewhat of a knowledge store for rare data it has only seen once.
All of those services accept credit cards. Because there would otherwise be too many people unwilling to give up their bank routing number.

What you need is something that has irreversible transactions but also has a monthly total transfer limit and a "routing number" which is unique to the merchant and can be revoked for further transactions at any time. Ideally also something that allows people to make purchases on credit and earn "points" so it's competitive with credit cards.

That way people would actually be willing to use it, instead of having to give a startup with no reputation (or a company with the foul reputation the likes of PayPal) access to their entire bank balance.
Makes you wonder how many public repos you would need to seed with a carefully crafted attack/weakness in a common feature/pattern to start effectively poisoning codebases that are leaning on copilot
Anybody but me notice the weird wording on safety?

"EXCELLENT density"
"EXCELLENT performance"
"good safety"

Does this mean it's more likely to explode than current-gen NMC batteries?
It's literally impossible to avoid gambling ads when you watch sports now. I get these players shouldn't bet and are stupid for doing so, but it's just absurd to have the league simultaneously push fans to throw their savings into this pit, and punish players, taking away their livelihoods, for doing so.
> why cant we have a bit of both?

Because they're economically incompatible.

Nuclear is very expensive to build, and wants to run 24/7 to offset costs. They also want to run continuously.

The problem is that renewables are cheap, but intermittent.

So take an economically rational marketplace. I can either buy the same amount of power for $1, or for $2, what do you think I'd choose? $1 of course. Power is power, I don't want to pay more than I must.

So any time I can buy renewables for $1, nuclear makes no revenue. This pushes off its payoff into the future. This isn't a good situation to be in. Time goes by, components get older, people get impatient, more renewables keep getting built.

Now you're a bank considering a loan for nuclear you think might be paid off in 20 years. Or if renewables keep growing, maybe in 40. Or if they really take off, maybe never. Risking billions that way doesn't sound enticing, now does it?

If nuclear made money we wouldn't be seeing these blog posts show up over and over. Money solves many problems and greases many palms. If nuclear was profitable, every other problem would be solvable. Not enough safety? Money can buy that. Too close to people? Money can put a plant further away. Legal problems? Money pays for lawyers.

The logical end state of all this seems to be that renewables kill off the profitability of nuclear badly enough that nobody builds it (relatively speaking). Eventually the grid destabilizes and this forces urgent measures to shore things up. The final state I imagine is a very renewable-heavy grid, after a period of chaos in the middle.
The author's previous article is slightly less guarded in his support for fossil fuels:

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/joe-bidens-little-known...

> The United States under a Biden administration, similar to the British, would move towards an unsustainable, and national security risk by eliminating fossil fuels, and killing people who need electricity and global security the West provides.

And weirdly, for someone so excited about nuclear power, he has no idea where we could generate the electricity needed by EVs, so we should just stick to fossil fuels there too.

Does anyone else begin to see a pattern emerge?
> Focusing on the GPL license is probably the wrong move. We want to set precedent that _any_ licensed code that is emitted from an LLM is fair game.

If anything goes to court, that's what would happen. It's not "this is GPL code and they did not attribute", it's "they violated my copyright. As a side note, we license this code as GPL and they did not attribute in accordance with this license, so that's irrelevant". It would only be an actual license issue if they tried something like "license (C) at codium.com/all_licenses_dataset0423".
Maybe he is trying to establish a grand sweeping narrative arc, like the rise, decline, and eventual fall of the Roman empire
Risk isn't only measured in physical danger, but also financial risk. Which is exactly why for-profit energy companies aren't investing in nuclear. It's economically the worst possible approach when your concern is profit.
"copyediting and typesetting"? Ah, that would be where they take your article, already formatted using the LaTeX template they made available, and completely change the formatting so that all the formulae and all the tables become unreadable.

In CS you get this service for free. Neuroscientists have to pay for the privilege? Wow.