skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More generically, scaling stateful things is generally hard than scaling stateless things (because you have to figure out what to do with the state).

Even horizontally scaling systems you either have to redistribute the data on scale actions or keep the data in place and send new data to new infra (which may or may not be helpful)
Since Texas is the topic: university salaries are public and used to be published in a Texas Tribune. A visiting professor at a Texas university, with probably no intention of tenure based on his career, was paid $340k/y back in the 2010s:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-creator-of-C++-Bjarne-Stro...

Of course he's not a nobody, but if Texas universities pay that kind of money to superstar professors, for small stints, this could attract people from industry that in the end are much more up to date on the industry's state of the art (vs the research state of the art).

The top 5 other professors (but probably many tenured) were making in the ~$200k range at that time too. In that part of the country, it's huge.

Ultimately tenure has a price. if there's no tenure, higher salaries would be offered.

Now the impact on student's tuition could be interesting, but if most of it goes to administrative staff anyways, who knows?
Becoming a tea snob helped me stay away from alcohol during quarantine :/
Once AI can write decent code from scratch, it is likely it can also circumvent potential copyright violations.

A. Check AI generated code against a comprehensive library of open-source copyrighted code and identify potential violations.

B. Ask AI to generate a paraphrase of the potential violations, by employing any number of semantic preserving transforms -- e.g. variable name change, operator replacement, structured block rewrite, functional rebalance, etc.

Lazy example:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex {
if (fromIndex > toIndex)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
if (fromIndex < 0)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
if (toIndex > arrayLen)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
}

private static void rangeCheck(int len, int start, int end) {
if (!(0 <= start)) {
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(`Failed: 0 <= ${start}`);
} else if (!(start <= end)) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(`Failed: ${start} <= ${end}`);
} else if (!(end <= len)) {
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(`Failed: ${end} <= ${len}`);
}
}
> I'd imagine higher temps would end up extracting more of those from leaves to the drink than lower temps?

that is actually an interesting aspect.
Wow. Thx for the link! Andy makes way more than I thought. He is, however, a reasonably nice guy. Or at least he was the two or three times I met him.
> Nuclear power is the power industry's answer to "clean" energy because it preserves the centralized delivery system in place. It does not disrupt the current distribution model.

Which is a good thing. Energy demand is centralized in big population centers, so centralized production is easier to deploy.

One of the big issues with renewables is that due to the low energy density and geographic variations in power output, they often need to be built far away from where energy is in demand. This puts more strain on transmission networks: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/30/178686...

> Nuclear power is objectively not safe, with the one caveat that we are talking about long term. In the long term even one accident is absolutely devastating to entire regions of the planet. This risk is simply NOT acceptible.

Incorrect. People seem to forget that we detonated hundreds of nuclear warheads in the atmosphere. Chernobyl was exposed to the atmosphere and burned for weeks. Chernobyl really was the worst-case scenario: an explosive meltdown in a reactor with no secondary storage. It really doesn't get any worse than that. We already have good data on the adverse impact of nuclear incidents, and while bad they're not nearly as devastating as you make them out to be.
I am no expert on Jack Dorsey, but have been continually impressed by his ability to answer sensible relevant questions, without actually saying anything. And without giving away anything to hang follow up questions on.

He has mastered the passive equivalent of repeating "Nothing to see here", in ASMR voice, over and over.
Yep, and that looks great wind, hydro, and nuclear providing 100% of power at 3pm on a Friday at 2.5c/kWh. But what happens on the weekend when demand for power drops even more?

Unfortunately the nuclear power plant operator losses money even faster than they are right now.
PHP is still what I use for my personal projects. Sublime + SFTP plugin & any shared hosting (all also give at least 1 MySQL). Phpmyadmin I know with my eyes closed but can also default to a static db like SQLite.

It is very fast for me to start, test & itterate.

I've also tried Node but idk sometimes it can hugg memory and even crash, which just never happened with PHP.

It is a little sad but I don't really care anymore because I am not doing client work anymore.

Edit: just to add that I also never really could stand promises in async execution. Such a headache.

Edit 2: also can you believe it that with Node, the script is also the server??? Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea? Like when the script crashed, it crashed the whole app for everyone.
Too bad numbers don't work when it's a quiet night, and you have to burn gas, caol, and biomass to make up for those nuclear reactors you've shut down: https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1647799729734971396
> Those queues are usually the result of intentional capacity planning. Overprovisioning is expensive.

I'd imagine they could spin up new servers on demand.
as far as I know, Australia doesn't have tenure either. But with the contract system they do have, it feels like a combination of "you'll be taken care of" and "...but you still have responsibilities".

That said, it seems stressful for new professors though
"So far this year, nearly 20 percent of the 170,000 tech company layoffs were software engineers, even though they made up roughly 14 percent of employees at these companies".

Software engineer was the most often laid off job role at 19.3%, recruiter was second at 4.6%.

Definitely goes against the sentiment I've seen expressed here that developers are mostly not being affected.
Did you consider using Stripe to do ACH payouts?
That's why I keep using PHP in my projects personally. Laravel is just so damn pleasant to work with.
How about rewording a code snippet so it doesn't exactly replicate the source, but is functionally identical? Could be applied before training. Can we say the LLM only learned the ideas not the expression? Copyright should protect expression and not restrict reusing ideas.
The problem is, as others have said, this severely degrades Texas's desirability as a career destination for academics as long as only Texas is doing this and other states are not.

Put another way, these are the people Texas doesn't want in the state:

- LGBT+
- women
- academics

Are they trying to have a student population composed of just cis crypto bros and assorted incels? Because this is how you get there.
> but they won't be able to get Nobel Prize-level people without offering tenure

I’m fairly certain that most Nobel Prize-level people are not worried about tenure. They will be gainfully employed as long as they want to be.

If they are looking for a delayed retirement, they can just move to a tenured spot when they reach a certain age.
I think your incorrect assumption is that tenured faculty are running and shaping the universities. Much has been written about the rise of different class in the academy: administrators. For a somewhat extreme position look here [1]. And even tenured faculty are subjected to the performance assessments that can seriously hinder their research agenda. As the saying goes: Tenure has never protected those who really needed it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2018/05/10/kill-a...
> I’m skeptical that tenure is good for students,

I’m more skeptical of the motives that animate these decision makers. After all, these are the same people who ban books, insist on revisionist history in Texas school textbooks, and engage in all manner of opposition to free inquiry. Perhaps by some stroke of luck, it will be a net positive for students in Texas institutions of higher learning, but of all the ways of promoting the academic and economic well-being of students this would be among the most tangential.
Ehhh, ish?

The page I linked above clearly demonstrates that Ethernet-CRC32 is Hamming-distance 2 at 524288-bits (aka: 65536 bytes) of input, or 64kB. IE: Its still *impossible* to have a 1-bit error escape undetected on 64kB frames (let alone 9000-byte jumbo frames).

I don't know where the 1-bit errors start to occur, but its well beyond 64kB (which is all the CRC-zoo tested for).

--------

Maybe you're misremembering your graph / data? There's also CRC-16, or even CRC-5 (aka: USB uses CRC5). Based on various analysis, its clear that CRC32 is sufficient for any typical Ethernet frame of any size under 64kB (and probably for many frames of size larger).
Bottleneck? Just asking what's the JS equivalent in convenience for deploying a simple project.

It doesn't need to even look like index.php, just needs to be as convenient, ideally?

Drop-in tools? Examples? I was using PHP drop-in tools back in 2004 but I'm not sure if that's what you mean.
Can you give an example of a power source that is resilient to politics? I struggle to imagine what that would even look like.
Oh man how do I find someone like this. As a backend/infra dev I respect, fear and loath (in the reverse order) css. If you can find your complement(s) there is nothing like it!
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Agree - OP even links to this[1] PC gamer article which calls out Hitman 3 as having a much smaller size compared to Hitman 2 (and Hitman 3 includes all of Hitman 2). How did they do it? Compression[2].

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/biggest-game-install-sizes/

[2] https://www.pcgamer.com/how-hitman-3s-devs-shrank-the-entire...
I thought so too, but no! The California General Election is Dem vs Dem, and they choose Feinstein! It's bonkers!
There are a number of ways to reduce ER stress and I'm far from an expert, generally anti-oxidants do the trick, if you have a similar illness I'd look up studies for your specific illness, they often do in-vitro tests of specific compounds to test their effect on diseased cells.

In my case I try to avoid alcohol, and I supplement with high doses of rosemarinic acid extract.
Yup. Changing jobs and I’m expecting to get 400 accrued hours paid out from my previous job.
It's quite a bit bigger than an Atari 800XL, but I jammed a whole PC in an old Mac SE case.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmods/comments/11zqznn/jammed_new_...
For JS, you need to setup a listener like PM2 and point it at the folder, but once that is done, you can drag and drop and index.js file into place and it'll all work as expected.
> This literally happened just 6 days ago.

On what day it happened is independent of how often this happens, for how long, with what demand and the amount of other electricity supplies..

> So, some magical future

A nice slogan you have here. It sounds cute, but essentially it is pessimistic and anti-technology.

We heard this twenty years ago. This year the share of renewable energy for electricity production is 50%. In a decade it will be much higher. The prices for deployment are going down. The cost for nuclear is going up, nuclear projects often have huge cost overruns and are slow to deploy. Example: The 'new' Finnish EPR reactor is 8 billion Euros more expensive than planned (up from 3 billion to 11 billion Euros) and 13 years late. Without government invention the building company from France (Areva) would have been killed - it had to take a 5 billion Euro loss from building the power plant with a fixed-price contract.

> Max capacity means nothing when production is low.

A high max capacity means that it makes sense to invest in storage and backup technology.

> More magical thinking (there are currently no grid-scale storage solutions that would've survived just one night from the link I provided)

We also currently have not the wind dependence. In the future this will change with more offshore wind farms.

That has nothing to do with 'magical thinking', it has to do with investments into technology and the created market conditions. Grid scale in the future means that there will be a large amount of storage options, backup supplies and diverse forms of demand steering.
javascript has the advantage that front and backend can share code, but as a language it's much worse. php at least has been able to break backwards compat to fix its worst design mistakes, and natively has typing
They are building a gigantic factory in Mexico and likely in China to build a new model. But the reality is most cars sold are simply SUV or sedans. If they add a smaller car and pickup/van platform. They can cover millions of sales with that alone.

Tesla saves a huge amount of money, VW in comparison has a MEV platform but then essentially builds almost the exact same car 4 times, once for VW, once for Skoda, once for Audi. And then runs advertisements for each of them. Achieving the same volume without splitting into many brands is a huge cost advantage.
My university had lecturers that were precisely this (masters in CS, focused on teaching intro undergrad courses).

However, I think there is still a lot of benefit from having researchers teach upper level courses. Firsthand experience in research brings an additional dimension that can be appreciated by students who are beyond the introductory level.

There are also tenured professors who are good at both research and teaching!
> they ACTIVELY duplicate their assets on disk so they load a bit faster on HDD

How does that work?
I didn't explain my meaning well enough, I apologize.

I mean a scenario where the candidate for doctor (or whatever) talks to half a dozen or a dozen doctors who then say "yay" or "nay" and if all of them say "yay" they are a doctor but if any of them say "nay" then they are not (although this doesn't mean that they can never become doctors later, they just have to address the failings first that led to the reviewing doctors to decline to admit them to their ranks.)

It's about humans communicating with other humans in a way that is extremely difficult to fake, as opposed to whatever testing system we're using now (that people cheat at) that produces (unreliable) proxies for actual domain knowledge.

If you just want to learn tests are unnecessary.

If you want to become a doctor the only distinction should be that other doctors must be willing to submit themselves to your care.

(This might sound crazy, but the person who is the greatest healer I've ever met IRL is not a doctor and would be laughed at by most of them, yet he can effect miraculous cures of major diseases, among other things. His art is completely off the radar of modern medicine.)
Yeah, I totally GPL’d

print(f’Hello, world’)

And it auto completes all the time!
Stone age animal urine could solve a mystery about technological development
In almost any other scenario this would be evidence. But Fast Inverse Square Root isn’t some tightly held secret. That exact code, with those specific comments included, is found in the Wikipedia page for that algo:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
Every model, except paying individually for what you want, has big-picture problems that eventually surface.

Collective subscriptions are terrible. You don't a voice to ask for the things you like. Ads brought us private surveillance, as if we don't have enough with nosy governments.

Even if it were seamless, I think many people would rather just scroll past some crappy ads vs paying even a few cents to read an article

Every time I hear about micropayments is about people trying to sell, not people trying to buy. And most often it's people trying to sell articles and quickly giving up and using ads.

A monthly sub works better, but the content that I'm actually excited to pay for comes from folks like YouTube creators with Patreons.

All of Substack blogs I've seen have a minimum paid option of something like $4/mo and it's all literature or opinion. I want something that's useful for me and needs works and yes, it's more likely to be found on YouTube.
Now it makes sense. Thank you.

At first I thought it’d be an alternative to Terraform such as Pulumi.
Scott Aaronson who has tenure in Texas describes the effect as this:

> […] it would be the end of UT Austin and Texas A&M as leading research universities. More precisely, it would be the immediate end of our ability to recruit competitively, and the slightly slower end of our competitiveness period, as faculty with options moved elsewhere. This is so because of the economics of faculty hiring. Particularly in STEM fields like computer science, those who become professors typically forgo vastly higher salaries in industry, not to mention equity in startup companies and so on.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7243
While you may pick, most developers do not. You are not the most developers, as you are special and probably much more talented.

They pick JS because they know the language best and are more productive in it than in Laravel. There is nothing Laravel can do about it - being best is not going to change the direction, because the limiting factor is the knowledge of programming languages of most of developers.
France had to stop some reactors after detecting defected pipes. This was not due to age, but manufacturing issue.
Plants are constantly being monitored and pieces are replaced. After 50 years, very few pieces are original. That is why US and France keep pushing the retirement age of their plants as they function fine.
tenure was supposed to allow professors to be able to speak their mind without fear of being fired

but apparently modern bureaucracy has evolved to get around this
People always seem to come up with the argument that you can drop an index.php in a folder and be done with it. Only nobody uses php that way since decades.

Modern php code uses Frameworks, Package mangers, opcode caching, and application servers.
It’s just that other languages don’t carry all the cruft php has in its heritage…
Is there a name for designers who know CSS? I guess not. It would make it easier for to search for and hire them if I could identify them better.
That is already happening. One particularly promising scheme is using electricity to make hydrogen and then using that hydrogen in steel production.

But those industries also have other expenses. Even if you assume that energy is free, the investment may not be viable.
Yeah, it's still GPL though.
The germ thing seems to go back to this 2005 press release by the BfR, which does indeed urge people to use boiling water to kill Salmonella particularly when preparing herbal tea. It doesn't cite any known cases or numbers: https://mobil.bfr.bund.de/de/presse/presseinformationen/2005...

Searching further, there were a couple of cases of Salmonella in infants in 2003 that were traced to fennel anise tea. The timing fits. I couldn't find anything more recent, but I didn't look very hard.

https://www.ernaehrungs-umschau.de/news/16-07-2003-salmonell...

Here's more data from government sources. They tested tea and herbal tea in 2008, and found traces of Salmonella or E.coli in 2-3% of prosecute products, and mold in 20%. Doesn't differentiate between herbal and real tea.

https://www.lgl.bayern.de/lebensmittel/warengruppen/wc_47_te...

I'm not worried. But then I usually use boiling water, or almost boiling water, which should be enough to kill micro organisms. And I'm sure I get more mold toxins from various other food sources without noticing it, cereals, nuts, processed foods etc. Tea is a dilution, after all.
Unfortunately nuclear winter is still more likely, and that likelihood grows with each passing day.
Exactly.

The task ahead is to find something new that brings in a billion or so in profit per quarter, with headspace to several billions. And it needs to be a kind of winner-takes-all success that cannot be replicated easily.

Does the author have any idea how fucking hard this is? It's pretty much a once in a decade event: search, social networking, smartphones, AI. And most of these are ad-driven. So where do you go when you reach peak-ad?

The idea that because a company has lots of money and engineers it should be easy to launch one product success after the other at this scale, is insane. It should be thought of as near impossible.
Shorter seek times because the bits are likely to be on the same or nearby tracks.
> Without steps like the big improvements in PHP 7 and laravel, PHP could potentially already be irrelevant today.

So what? What's wrong with PHP becoming irrelevant? Surely nobody would complain that ColdFusion is finally irrelevant. People should focus their time and energy on better solutions than PHP or ColdFusion.
You found the symptom, but prescribed the wrong treatment.

> Considering the number of near-poverty retail workers trying to pay off college debt

> As it stands, the system saddles undergrads with tons of debt and not much to show for it, with socially disastrous results.

If you have a degree, and are working retail, and are near-poverty, then you screwed up somewhere. Your degree is objectively useless if this is the only prospects available after graduation - so why did you get that degree? Why didn't you continue into postgrad or change degree paths?

Perhaps we should stop offering student loans for useless degrees. Still offer them, but no loans allowed. That would go a long ways towards solving the diagnosed problem.

We've spent decades telling everyone they must get a degree to live a successful life - then we puppy-mill them into garbage/completely-useless degree programs, and are surprised when they go back to the same job they held in highschool. Now, we're going to forgive all those poor choices, because we think we did everyone wrong, but we're going to change not one thing to prevent it from happening again. Brilliant.
> What Microsoft does is take your original work, create derivative works and sell them for profit. Unless it's under creative commons zero or public domain it shouldn't be legal...

Why should it not be legal? Doesn't that make copyright equally powerful with patents? Copyright should restrict only replication of expression not replication of ideas.
The author of this article for one is someone who does not believe renewables should coexist with anything. Preferring continued use of coal over expanding renewables:

> Possibly, wind, solar, and utility-scale batteries can play some role in consistent electricity. Until that takes place coal, natural gas, and nuclear are the only sources of energy to electricity that provide this benefit for grid stabilization and human longevity.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/coal-versus-wind-rene...