skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preferring a minimal look (and being immature) my desktop shortcuts for "This PC" and "Recycle Bin" have been renamed with two of the many invisible characters that windows allows.

I also routinely use single extended unicode characters as root folder names and identifiers for various purposes.

Using a search programme 'Everything", it's a lot easier to find things if I use something like pilcrow symbol as the root folder for any directory dedicated to text documents, when the alternative is to wade through results for 'documents', 'text', 'reading' or any combination of those words.

For the same reason, I find I can make much more memorable associations. It helps me harness things relationally. I can preserve uncertainty and avoid the frustration and negativity of trying to make shades of grey and rose fit black and white patterns. It does sound a bit new age, but there's no doubt in my mind, flat heirachical alphanumeric patterns are restrictive, prescriptive, insufficient. For example, a lot of artists actively work to defy pidgeon holing. I still need identifiers.

I mean, even if I wasn't into 'bleeding edge' culture, restrictions, problems and frustrations are the normal experience. I think this is illustrated by the unsatisfactory experiences that people find when they try to make id3 tagging "work".

It's as close as I can get to banishing the pervasive 'what-if' heartbreak of WinFS being cancelled. Sadly it doesn't help at all make up for what 'Semantic Web' promised. But that's probably why I'm a believer in GPT and the like.

Is it just me that can't help thinking they are products that have arisen from the need to make non-semantic computing useful again?
IANAL but I work alongside them. Here's an argument I've heard.

You can read the data to train a thing. So long as that thing doesn't literally copy the data into itself then the training hasn't violated copyright.

When that thing later generates an output, the output isn't copyrightable because it's machine generated (this is the current US position) and it isn't a copyright violation because it was generated, not copied.

You can launder copyrighted material through an LLM, basically.
the github thing acquisition isn't really a big deal in terms of LLMs as they could have crawled github regardless of whether or not they owned it
> Codeium doesn’t regurgitate non-permissive code

What is that? The problem is when GH Copilot it emits the code without the licence, not the licence.
Not the law yet, but as Scott Aaronson (I'm positive along with others) has pointed out, this would make their universities vastly less attractive to various incoming faculty.

Whether that would be as impactful in STEM as in the humanities or human-interest areas like law remains to be seen.
Anyone have more blog posts about video game backend tech like this one?
Wow, that's a fantastic price if you have a workload that can take advantage of the processor's architecture
American worker rights are very low compared to Europe. But in certain industries, such as software, our benefits are in line with global averages.
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These numbers make more sense on hardware from 5 years ago (to be fair, what they were dealing with), but postgres, on modern consumer hardware (Yes, consumer! Ex: KC3000 + Ryzen 7950x), already does over 50k QPS without being overburdened. You could probably squeeze out 100k QPS with faster NVME's.

That's like 10 tall servers for their peak QPS? (500k QPS on slide 19)

Lots of natural sharding points here too: company, game, usage of data, etc.

This is assuming you avoid or go light on expensive features like foreign keys (as Vitess already does).

The "scale magic" in Spanner (Big Table) inspired DB's are just hidden automation of traditional sharding-

CockroachDB: Sharded indexes, then runs map reduce for you.

Scylla/Cassanda: Sharded indexes again, but more limitations for speedups: Eventually consistent. You don't have fast delete- only update (discord uses tombstones). JOIN's are "in app" only.

Vitess: Proxy that dismantles/routes your query to the correct server. This scales, but is eventually consistent. JOIN's on co-located data, or "in app".... in simple terms, Vitess is like an externally managed "in app" query parser/router.
renewables are not cheap when you factor in decommissioning which nuclear power does. FTFA: "The International Renewable Energy Agency calculates that old solar panel disposal to meet 2050 Paris Accords 'will more than double the tonnage of all of today’s global plastic waste.'"
The GPHS RTG contains 7.8 kilograms of plutonium 238 but masses 57 kg in total. It also generates only 300 watts from that 57 kg package:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPHS-RTG

You'd need about 3 metric tons of them to power one Model 3 cruising at highway speed (assuming ~16 kilowatts continuous power draw).
The training data thing is a problem mainly for LLMs, so it might be a limitation if we purely scale up LLMs but there are other types of AI around too

Chip scaling still seems to be going pretty fast, and we may discover new ways to make better use of the chips we currently have, like better methods of quantisation, or just using more of them, which could get us just far enough to reach the self improvement threshold

So we could end up hitting a wall with chip scaling or something but I don’t think it’s that likely
For a lot of hobbyist projects, the development board is the final product. Not everything goes into mass production.
Wind alone produces ~20% of the recent years electricity in Germany.

Nuclear produced only half of that in recent years.

The whole renewable energy production covers ~40% of all the energy produced. Despite 16 years of almost full stop of expansion.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...
Ultimately, they need to monetize.

This is just my prediction of how they will do it. And it capitalizes on the same processes as Twitch, YouTube, etc.

You will be able to pay one offs for a tweet you like, like Reddit gold. Or generally buy them a month.

If 100 of Kim K's 75million followers buy her a single month thats over 8 years of bluetick for her.

It will have many many effects, but it would also reduce spam as follower count and blue tick duration become markers of authenticity. And if you spam and your account is blocked you would lose all that funding.
It's all the Amazon packages that were sent there, slowly piling up on the seabed.
You continue to argue in bad faith. Copyright law is often used to prevent people from copying work. The GPL and its ilk are legal mechanisms designed to allow people to share their work.
Even beyond that, USB is available on many microcontrollers, a USB CDC device is dead simple to implement, the drivers are baked into every modern OS, and all the software developers operating at that layer already know how to interact with text streams. Add in the ease of debugging when you can just manually send/receive ASCII to operate a device, and you've got the makings of a standard practice.
Justify? I don't know. Require? I also don't know, but intuition tells me that it does, at least in the case of Linux.
None of those companies make you sideload their apps to use them on Android.
CNN’s new, proprietary publishing platform helps ‘reduce tech debt’
This is the republicans punishing groups of people they don't like.
"holy shit" in the sense of "holy shit, soon everything will get polluted by hallucinated but convincingly sounding bullshit"?

LLMs hallucinate so you have to check everything they spit out. But their outputs sound convincing and people are lazy...
> I've been in the industry coming up on 20 years, and I've never seen a company send someone home after putting in notice of resignation.

I have worked at a company that had a blanket policy of always doing this.

Let me be clear: it was a dumb policy. It resulted in employees waiting until their last day to tell the company that they were planning to leave. It created all kinds of havoc with the lack of knowledge transfer and handoff. And if it was intended to prevent exiting employee from taking malicious actions, it was completely ineffective at that since the employee would know about the policy and would choose not to disclose that they were leaving until after the head undertaken any malicious action.

But, I can say with some confidence that there are some tech companies that do this.
Even with a car, you aren’t necessarily regulating millions of individuals - primarily just manufacturers. I suppose there is the odd case where “old joe” removed his catalytic converter and is polluting more than others but that is probably rare.

I don’t get your point on centralization however - more efficient but less robust (just like in software).
As a French not expert in the matter but living near nuclear plants:

- one of the plant regularly leaks radioactive material

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

- 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...)

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

(References are easy to find if you want confirmation)

I am not against nuclear power, but it has to be done properly and safely, which is certainly not the case around here.

Edit: it seems the fusion (no pun) of regulation organisms has been rejected by the senate. Still annoying to see this law discreetly pass, with no parliament debate outside of the senate, during a political crisis
Hope you can!
> While it may seem impossible to drive a $500 billion company into the ground, I firmly believe he’s the man for the job

It may be a controversial take, but, like... if he does that's fine. It's his prerogative and risk to take.

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.

At what point of scale do people start imagining they have a right to make demands on how something somebody else built and owns should be run?
the worst thing about windows paths is how unintegrated it all is. You can navigate into all kinds of weird paths in the win32 com shell (file explorer), which is itself possibly the pinnacle of executed design MS ever achieved. But those paths you build.. You can't copy them to the clipboard, you can't serialize them, you can't move them between various tools, and particularly not to the command prompt nor to socalled Power"shell. If there ever was a continent of independent fiefdoms, windows is it :-/.
If you don't know what i am talking about, try navigating to your android phone's image folder in file explorer. Next, then try to USE that path in powershell or cmd, to copy those image files.. good luck.
there must certainly have been some moron in charge to make SURE things couldnt interoperate on windows.. in spite of them having explorers design.
I actually regret spending a lot of time documenting the system and fixing critical bugs before leaving one of my jobs. The owner was a jerk and ended up screwing us over on final pay. If I hadn't been so professional, the system would have failed within a few weeks and he would have paid dearly for us to fix it.
I think I mentioned this before, in another context: the solution is known as "honeytoken", and it is equally applicable in computer security.
Nuclear is dense, comes with months worth of storage built-in, and lets smaller countries be self-sufficient for a while without having to rely on other countries.
Personally, I thinks foreign keys are great in dev and bad at any scale that you have many db servers.

And as you point out, there are exceptions, like financial data. But not marketing funnels where you might throw everything away.

You should probably have different types of engineers working on such different projects as well.
Renewables are absolutely not less risk-prone. Per kw generated, nuclear energy is the safest and it's not even kinda close. Renewables also cannot output a steady amount of energy. Maybe there's a massive drought upstream. Maybe there's no wind today. Maybe it's a cloudy day.

Nuclear is THE ONLY SOLUTION. We would need such a hilarious, painful amount of renewable energy sources just to survive, let alone thrive. Or, we could just build a few thousand reactors around the world.
please lets avoid binary discussions 100% nuclear vs 100% renewables.

I think all reasonable people agree that it should be a mix with multi-faceted goals of zero emissions, reliability, low cost, stability, etc.
Now make it work with QFT.
It is the way of wasting money while facing the reality of cheap and truly clean alternatives. It's the way backwards.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylovins/2019/11/18/does-nuc...

And I'm sorry I hurt your feelings by pointing the obvious bias of the author.

This was not intended.
Thank you for illustrating my point about the poisoned well. Say "Don't participate in crimes" and it gets morphed into 1984.
This assumes future regulations will allow you to do this. There are already examples of commercial fuels today that sell fuel only to commercial customers at a different rate.

See "red diesel" in the UK - its just plain ole diesel taxed differently for commercial use, but illegal for use in privately owned personal vehicles. It's dyed red to allow its use in private vehicles to be discovered from the discoloration of engine parts etc.

Personally I expect rules on what can be pumped into what will be different by 2045 in a lot of places, and while it might still be possible it may not be so simple.

> https://www.crownoil.co.uk/faq/red-diesel-questions-and-answ...
When accessing email via a protocol with an email client, sure, but I primarily had the Gmail web app in mind when I wrote the comment. I also touched on protocols in another comment.

With what I had in mind, if you logged into my Gmail account, which provides both sending and receiving, you could impersonate me to my own mother, but I would have nothing to hide as I don't receive any sensitive information via email (privacy). However, accounts elsewhere could be recovered via my email, and thus be used to impersonate me elsewhere (security).
I recall otherwise. Early adopters of unlimited PTO tended to be progressive companies interested in employee welfare. Often attracting people from companies only offering 5-10 days PTO and restricting sick and personal days to a separate pool. Since then, it’s more common for more fixed PTO days to be offered and not to allow flexible workweeks rather than use personal hours, so more PTO can be used for vacation.
U.S. says it 'infiltrated' the Sinaloa drug cartel in the fight against fentanyl
If the GPL dies then does that kill every other EULA with it?
So the Texas Senate just passed a bill that makes it more likely that Texas faculty hires will be from a smaller and no doubt lower quality pool of candidates?

Why take a job without the possibility of tenure vs anywhere else in the US that has the option available to you?
Fusion - yes, fission - no.

Edit: the cost evolution of fission already points against it, any nuclear bet should therefore be on fusion, not fission.
I'm still irritated about whatever bit or bits of sloppy coding ended up assigning 1/1/1970 as a birthdate for all contacts in my Google account that didn't have a birthdate specified. Combined with birthday notifications and more annoying alerts in older versions of Android or in the browser, it made for annoying New Years Day mornings with several hundred alerts.
> this would make their universities vastly less attractive to various incoming faculty

...but given the flood state of the academic labor market, still rather attractive.
Humans don't naturally have glacial attention spans, pun intended.

The disaster is too slow-moving for human time scales to prepare for until it's too late. And our current systems of business and government aren't covering this natural blind spot when they're similarly incentivized to focus on short-term results/re-election.

On a lighter note, watch Invader Zim's Walk For Your Lives [0] episode which cleverly speaks to this problem in the subtext.

[0] https://zim.fandom.com/wiki/Walk_for_Your_Lives
Sure, if a device uses the form factor, then eneloop or the same approach by a different brand are even more ahead of pre-eneloop NiMH than they used to be: all the high-current use cases that were the weak spot of eneloop have long migrated to lithium-based.

But AA and AAA are increasingly rare not only because of price but also because of the ubiquity of USB charging, and because of the way the powerbanks that USB charging enabled weakened the "carrying spares" argument for AA a lot.

In essence: yes, the vast majority of consumer devices using standardized battery sizes continue to be AA or AAA (if we can agree in ignoring the ubiquitous CR2032). But costumer devices that use interchangeable standard size batteries have become super niche, at least outside a few fields where you expect years on a set of batteries. To go lithium means going fixed battery (unless you identify with the performance flashlight subculture, again something I very much agree with)
Zuckerberg singlehandedly owns the majority of the voting power, he can focus on whatever he feels like. The board and the share price are just along for the ride, getting sued notwithstanding.
I was given a free Oculus headset in late 2021. The novelty wore off after a couple of weeks, and I've barely used it since.
> Chip scaling still seems to be going pretty fast

it's not been exponential for years

> So we could end up hitting a wall with chip scaling

we did, years ago
On a night when wind output was particularly low.

Another way to put this is that variable sources of energy are variable.
I read that the first version of cloudflare was almost entirely a postgres extension.
Honestly, it may not be a bad thing. Tenure was meant to protect the academic freedom, and pursuit of the long-term scientific research. Today, most academics chase money, grants, trends, citations and status.

It’s a job like any other, and doesn’t need protection, at cost to those outside the ivory tower (unless perhaps for a very small subset).
Faster in aggregate throughput can often be different from faster for a specific operation.

Personally, I find delete on cascade dangerous. I mean, lots of fun for a pen tester, sure…
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I meant a general trend for these companies to pull away from markets, not just scaling down employee count. Uber is only present in three markets now, and there are some credible rumors that they're considering pulling out from one of them (India) too.
This... seems like a relatively trivial problem to solve?

Each device that needs to sign messages (which probably should be only the ECU) is provisioned with a certificate signed by the carmaker. The device is also provisioned with a public-key pair, which is signed by the certificate (so you have chain of trust back to the manufacturer). The public key pair could be either programmed when the firmware is first flashed or generated at first boot.

A new door BCM accepts the first broadcasted public key from the ECU which is correctly signed. This would happen inside the factory for a new car, or when a new BCM is installed to replace a faulty one.

A used door BCM from a junk yard car could be programmed to accept a different (signed) public key by:

1. Being in the unlocked (and perhaps window-down) state; and
2. Pressing some combination of door buttons; and
3. Sending an appropriate command over the CANbus

It, of course, then verifies that the new key is correctly signed and reprograms itself to the new key.
In my experience most databases are read-heavy so that's what I was asking about. That said, thanks for a clear explanation.
The FONY (ie SONY) logo in Akira is really important to me. It’s a flawless pun, a fake brand, and does it in only 4 characters!
Nuclear only factors in decommissioning in the way that it gives the responsibility away to future generations...
Also, re: maps, fake streets and cul-de-sacs that don't exist.

I've set a "trap" myself years ago in code in a novel solution at the time for uploading photos from iOS non-interactively after the fact. It was to support disconnected field workers taking photos from iPhones/iPads, with the payloads uploaded at a later date.

Chunked form data constructed in userland JS was the solution. Chunk separator was 17 dashes in a row (completely arbitrary), company name in 1337 speak, plus 17 more dashes.

Found a competitor that had copied the code, changing only the 1337 speak part. 17 dashes remained on each side. Helped me realize that they had unminified and indeed ripped off our R&D work.

Wonder if Copilot could be gamed the same way.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, particularly this phrasing: "sets of axioms where 1 = 1". 1 = 1 is an axiom, not something that's proven by any set of axioms.

But I'm willing to believe I'm simply naive here. You say there is some set of axioms which prove that 1 = 1. Are those axioms not agreements? Since you seem to be familiar, what are those axioms?
Soon you're going to run out of land for your renewables. Plus renewables are extremely intermittent power sources. Nuclear solves both the land-use and consistency problems.

Plus, from the article: "...to build enough wind turbines and solar panels to supply at least half the electricity needed for global consumption 'would require two billions tons of coal to produce the concrete and steel, along with two billion barrels of oil to make the composite blades. [And] more than 90% of the world’s solar panels are built in Asia on coal-heavy electrical grids.'"

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/if-you-want-renewable-en...
how many tenure track positions are hiring these days? I have the impression that they are pretty rare anyway.
By Grice's maxims, you do.
In general, you're correct
I’m skeptical that tenure is good for students, I knew so many teachers that just didn’t much care for their work and probably would have been fired if not for tenure. I understand the arguments in favor of tenure, particularly when it comes to recruitment, but given the bloated pipeline into academia, I’m not sure they hold.
> One thing I always wondered was why Facebook never started their own cloud services offering like Amazon did with AWS?

I think the article addressed that:

>I’ll get right to it: Mark Zuckerberg is an ineffective, incompetent, and directionless executive, one bereft of complete or concrete ideas. He has entirely failed to innovate since the very beginning of Facebook — a product that he never envisioned as a business — and nearly 20 years later, he appears completely and utterly out of ideas.
> Solar power requires even more metals, cement, steel, and glass.

Why do they always use the same outdated data sources? Cement? Yes 35 years ago they thought you needed to put a slab of cement under your panels to support them, but we moved on from that. Please update to newer, more relevant data sources.
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If you can handle an error and still return meaningful data that's fine, but returning the coordinates 0,0 to the user because GPS isn't working is far worse than giving them an error message. At that point you're essentially lying to them.
didn't the LHC create a black hole that immediately evaporated due to Hawking radiation? ..maybe it was only a theory that the LHC could do that but i thought it actually did create one.
I think hardware is the biggest barrier to Zuckerberg's view of the metaverse. It's not good enough yet.

A close second is that the users and the interesting content are largely in other non-VR metaverses (like Roblox, Fortnite). Making it easy to make content probably benefits those just as much.

Starting to work on the experiences in 2d-screen-land while working on the VR hardware in parallel looks like the move that Facebook missed.