skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair position, but I say: What is somewhat rare is the opportunity to make large changes, but it's usually a false opportunity because large changes are generally ill-advised. However, large changes aren't the only ones we can make: We can and should always improve and if we do the improvements don't need to be large. That this is good because large improvements often don't work-- because people route around them due to their cost or unfamiliarity-- or don't do what we thought they'd do-- because we're not as smart as we think we are and we can easily make things worse through our efforts to do better.

So that's why I suggest things like I think it would be reasonable to put LLMs behind education in a way that we don't for search boxes or URL bars. I think anything we do to make us all more savvy consumers of information makes the world less terrible. Yet it's an improvement that is unlikely to backfire, doesn't present much incentive to route around, still effective if routed around somewhat, doesn't significantly impede forward progress, or increase costs tremendously.

I can empathize with the frustration that there are so many unfixed things that can be improved, but I'm confident in mankind that if we all keep nudging in the right direction that we'll get there-- and get there sooner than we would by attempting a Great Leap Forward that has too great a chance of disaster, too great a chance of stopping our progress, setting us back, or coming at too great a cost.

Like in software where the most complex code you can write is code you can't debug/maintain because you've got to be 10x smarter to debug it than write it, in our cultural progress we can imagine advances so much greater than we can accomplish safely and sustainably in practice. But what we can accomplish brought us to where we are now and we should feel proud of it and confident in the future, and know that no matter how much better we make things we'll still think they're terrible and find ways to improve things.
> You know we can see your comments, right?

Yes, I do.

> And you've got a… distinct… writing style

Ad hominem is not as good an argument as you think it is.

So. This is what I actually wrote, and not what you pretend I wrote.

The original statement was this: "If you push for renewables instead of wasting money on over due and over budget nuclear reactors"

To which I replied: "Almost three-quarters of hydropower, water, coal and nuclear infrastructure projects were over budget by 49% on average"

Which means only one thing: renewable projects are just as prone to time and buget overruns as nuclear. That is it.

How you imagined what you think I wrote, I cannot even begin to comprehend.
He didn't build that company, him and thousands of talented professionals built that company to where it is now. I'm not saying his contributions weren't a major part of that, but lets not act like he alone made this happen and this company is his alone to destroy, including all those jobs.
Good example with Ukraines power station that's actively targeted. What type is that one? It's a nuclear plant as I'm sure you know. Which basically the whole country depends on. I think if anything then that's a counter argument. The more centralized your infra is, the more vulnerable it is. Nuclear is the most centralized of all power sources.
Huh. Not a mention of the impact of tax filing changes around R&D. Software development salaries can no longer be treated as expenses and are now treated (somewhat correctly) as depreciable expenses.

Not sure this is a root cause, but it certainly must be on the minds of decision makers in tech companies (large and small).
Asking ChatGPT and Google Bard to Debate about Gun Control
Is it possible for AIs to have civil discourse with each other given the material they were trained upon would vary from civil to vitriolic?
- one of the plant regularly leaks radioactive material

In quantities not relevant to safety. We can detect extremely small amounts of radiation, down to 1.0001% higher than backrgound levels.

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

Not quite: the flow of rivers was low enough that they would exceed the 28C temperature limit (ostensibly to protect fish, but no adverse impact from higher temperatures has been observed). It was entirely possible to cool the plants, if this restriction were not in place. Perhaps the solution here is to ask for better evidence on the supposed adverse ecological impact of higher river temperatures, and examine whether it outweighs the global catastrophe of greenhouse gas emissions.

- 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...)

Quite the contrary: Nuclear plants have some of the highest capacity factors [1] of any energy source. France's reactors were taken down for maintenance, much of it actually scheduled in advance. This is, intentionally or not, cherry picking a year with a particularly low capacity factor.

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

Correct, and since nuclear thus far as proven to be one of the safest power sources [2] it's a reasonable change to accelerate the fight against climate change.

Nuclear is one of the few sources of decarbonized energy that is both non-intermittent, and geographically independent. Solar, wind, and hydro, are all either geographically dependent, intermittent, or both. Plans for a grid based on solar and wind almost invariably assume that a nearly-free form of energy storage will be invented in order to make these generation systems feasible. Unfortunately, such as system has yet to be produced. The heat engine made modern industrialized society possible, and it's easier to switch to a different source of heat than to restructure all of society around intermittent energy sources.

1. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity

2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
Work on transpilers to whatever is used instead and port existing libraries or support PHP frameworks in other technologies. This is to reuse existing experience and code.
Wonder if this could help:

Iron-Air Batteries Are Here. They May Alter the Future of Energy.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a42532492/ir...
> 3x as energy dense but only a 1/2 as volumetrically efficient (so, a given capacity battery will weigh 1/3 less

It would weigh 1/3, not 1/3 less.
PHP has already been "rebranded". When people try to dunk on PHP for supposedly being awful, people are quick to point out that that's all from "pre-PHP 5.6" and that "PHP 7/8" are bringing all kinds of excellent features, functionalities, and refinements

The author links to the person thinking that HypeScript is a good name. He says:

"The name HypeScript sounds like a logical name for me, it pays its respect to the name PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) as well."

That would be like suggesting that IBM rebrand itself "BizCompany" to pay respect to its own name (?)
> Elons original thesis of Twitters problems was absolutely correct, why you needed 8000 people to run that org (or whatever the number is for Lyft especially on the engineering side) is beyond me. Overengineered is absolutely the correct term in these cases I think.

Anybody who read the mythical man-months knows that adding engineers to a project gets be detremental if it leads to a point where the marginal added communication overhead gets higher without really needing more people to achieve the goal.

The usual solution in big companies for the overengineering problem is that people who don't want to fight the org self-select, drink lattes all day long, and let the few people who are needed to solve the engineering problems do the work.
Written by a very smarmy journalist imminently replaceable by the GPT-4 API.
With any luck Java will go away as well.
I recall a lot of hype more than a decade ago about all the textures going away and being replaced with math formulas to generate everything on the fly. Games were supposed to get dramatically smaller. What ever happened to that?
> * if they don't control the administration of the schools,

They control the purse strings.
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> Nuclear is the most expensive form of electrical generation while wind and solar are the cheapest.

Except if you add the cost of 12 hours of batteries to solar it's massively more expensive. You can't just compare an intermittent source and a non-intermittent source, without factoring in the cost of storage.
In my experience Humanities professors cared way more about the classes they taught. It was the Engineering / "Hard Science" professors cared way more about the research and treated teaching undergraduates as a chore and/or an afterthought. (Though there were a couple of exceptions)
OK but you also have to measure the services the university provides to students through the increase in administration. Things listed already in this thread articulate that students desire these services.

I think if you seriously looked at the difference in the level/sophistication of services over those 20 years, it explains the vast majority of the bloat.

Students are getting what they pay for, and ultimately they demand greater services.
Let’s write some regulations that say every code review must require a lawyer to comb through the code and look for possible copyright violations or compliance issues. The lawyer can then tell the author to change the lines of code and submit for review again.

Or perhaps every company can just invent its own programming language and translate copyrighted code into the new language and thus avoid copyright issues altogether, though they may still run afoul of software patents.
Wonder if this could make a difference?

Iron-Air Batteries Are Here. They May Alter the Future of Energy.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a42532492/ir...
I'm going to push back on this, largely because it assumes an all or nothing mentality which is discouraging at best.

If you look at the meat industry, and we all agree it's environmentally impactful to absurd degrees, one might apply that same all or nothing mentality here - which is incorrect. You don't need to become a vegan to have dramatic impact, but what if it became a norm to go a day without meat? We already have some religious expectations about that, we even have cultural norms that have altered what we eat and when (breakfast = sugary carbs in the West), why can we not do the same here? But this cannot happen magically, it involves individuals making the choice to encourage themselves and then their families. Everyone can do this.

I bring up a day without meat (per week) because it's a great example of how little change is actually required to have tremendous results. But we cannot get to those results if we expect some gigantic overnight change.

So going back to your article, you don't have to leave civilization entirely, and going plastic free overnight is silly. But, you can buy shampoo that comes in recyclable cardboard instead of those tacky bottles. You can eat delicious veggie meals for an entire day once a week. You can buy reusable utensils that you carry with you instead of demanding they be offered. You can use refillable containers to buy your groceries with and store them. List is truly endless.

You, yes you, can have a great impact. We as humans just struggle understanding long term impact. In the exact same way that we see someone like Michael Jordan and think he's naturally gifted, and ignore him spending 8+ hours a day practicing for years and how those choices have compounded for him.
The Moore's Law is Dead podcast recently did a podcast with an Infinity Ward award-winning effects artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmfHxJT1I3I.

The crazy thing he mentioned is that if there was zero compression, the latest COD games genuinely had over 1 terabyte of uncompressed assets.
I have decided to hedge my bets on a long life by smoking one cigarette a day.
Customers say 'tap-to-pay' charged their credit card through bags, pockets
This is objectively false and I always have a hard time believing that this is an organic opinion free of industry influence.

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.

No matter what you think of the safety of nuclear power, what I said is a fact and the industry spends billions on PR, lobbying, and even online trolls, trying to get people to agree.

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.

In other words, even if wind and solar are more expensive or less profitable, they are simply better alternatives from the standpoint of humanity's continued existence on the planet.

There is no effective argument about this. I always get hit with the safety argument when I say this, but it's just all fully false. There is no safety argument because even an outlying and unlikely scenario is too devastating. And these scenarios, given enough time, simply will occur.
No? How many ovens, washing machines and dryers usually run at 2am when it's dark?

Sure people don't charge their Tesla at noon when solar production peaks, but saving that until the evening when the 15 miles use of the car battery need to refill is not a significant engineering challenge. Running a nuclear power plant is magnitudes harder.
That can be solved on first load with a texture cache. Shader caches are pretty universal at this point. Texture caches aren't (afaik), but I think they should be.
The false positive rate for students reporting “my professor is teaching critical race theory!!!” is outlandishly high.

CRT is also not “political pop science propaganda” so I’m not convinced you can recognize it either. It’s a legal theory. About law.
Exactly, that's why companies offer unlimited rather than a generous amount.

I worked for a firm that gave 30 days of PTO a year (in addition to holidays and whatnot). They budgeted it as an expense and planned accordingly.

It would be interesting to see what "unlimited" vacation giving firms budget and plan for as a liability.

If the goal is high employee morale, then they should budget and plan a very high amount. If the goal is to "benefit signal" to pretend they have good benefits, then they will only budget a low amount.
From experience, if it’s not a passion or priority, it helps externalize the decision process. Have a friend (or online service) who does the research for you. Then you buy the minimum equipment (a temperature controlled kettle and a strainer) and a few teas. When you get time, brew them to the instructions. If you have some free time, you can start it with a cup of tea.

There no need to get massively invested.

This is how I learned to paint minis. All I did was buy some unpainted ones and drop by a friend’s place. He has all of the supplies and equipment. All of my unpainted minis are in his closet. :)

Edit: By having a friend, I mean if you have a friend who is into tea/coffee/wine/etc. I enjoy hanging out with people who have hobbies I wouldn’t pick up on my own.
I'm not seeing how these distinctions are helpful. Maybe there's a miscommunication?

When we say "gravity isn't a force", it's shorthand for "our best understanding of gravity, with the widest explanatory power that most accurately matches experimental results, says that gravity isn't a force." But that's an exhausting, verbose way to talk. Knowing that GR is incomplete doesn't change that.

No falsifiable theory is 100% guaranteed Truth. Not GR, QM, evolution, or any widely accepted future Grand Unified Theory. Science is one big exercise in affirming the consequent, verifying contrapositives, and finding surprises. Maybe all mental models are wrong. Maybe we're brains in vats. Aaaah!...so what?

Evolution naturally developed eyeballs in mammals. My niece just turned 5. The atoms composing me won't rearrange into a facsimile of Abraham Lincoln tomorrow. I'm not going to add "to our best understanding, given the evidence, granting my incomplete knowledge, etc" about these facts in service of reality obviously being unknowable. It's pointless.

Gravity isn't a force. That's a perfectly "proper answer" -- no need to pontificate about philosophical relativism.
Then you've probably been hiring people on the cheap, expecting low-quality work and getting it. The material you're getting out of ChatGPT is probably still very bad, but it is at least grammatical, and free.

If you don't mind that your content is meh, then you might as well use ChatGPT. I don't know who would want to read it, but apparently people do.

People would probably rather read insightful, interesting writing -- but not enough to pay much for it.
I wonder if, in order to deal with attribution, the system could simply build a multi-megabyte file with "this code is derived from:" followed by all the authors the system could gather from the training data set.
Why is that a killer feature? Humans are quite good at asking different people different questions. If I need to do a simple math problem I'll just prefix "calculate" and pop it into Google, whereas if I want an intro to a named thing I'll prefix "wikipedia". That's not hard.

GPT is quite useful, but not because it solves the problem of "I don't know where the question I have is answerable by a calculator"
In the arbitrary case, the grid can look really skewed.

Even non-fisheye lenses have some distortion, but look at how wacky the grid can appear here:

https://docs.nvidia.com/vpi/image-003.jpg

And it gets worse if you only see the grid, and don't know how it was cropped out of the photo it was taken from (if it was off-center).

But yeah, I think we're all on the same page that some entrepreneurial image processing expert could make fairly quick work of the problem.
I'd argue that no single person should have that much power and wealth in this country. Why is it okay that Zuckerberg has absolute power over one of the most influential companies in the world? How does that benefit society as a whole?
It seems pretty obvious that Elon Musk acted as ablative armor for tech company layoff criticism and stock devaluation and the confidence snowballed.
At least for steam all chunks of a game download are compressed and encrypted.
Very true, and important to understand. Any energy transformation would result in production of stuff we do not like (trash). The Sun generates tons of trash (luckily for us for most localized on the Sun). Nothing is magically 100% clean.

Reducing the energy consumption could be done, but few government would like it, as there is a direct relationship between energy consumption and GDP.

If you want to produce anything (even services) you need energy. Cheap and abundant energy will make your economy thrive. If we want to power the next GPT and our current life style, we would need lots of cheap energy. I can see how nuclear could be tempting to use to boost the GDP with a minimal environmental impact.
The exact analogy that came to mind for me.

Plus, relational databases don't just sit under a single application. There's usually multiple applications/services talking to them. Worse, humans connect to them an do all sorts of things they shouldn't do. That's the whole point of managing referential integrity in the DBMS, since you can only control "just write good code" across so many application domains.

Of course whether the performance tradeoff is worth it is a complicated decision for many of the reasons people have mentioned. But in 20 years of working with relational databases at big companies, I've seen few examples where the performance win exceeded the business risk.
> Someone from France is telling you that actually, it's really not that great...

If there is one immutable truth about the French psyche, it’s that things are always “really not that great”.

Source: I am French, and left France because of that state of mind.
If users hate large file sizes, they should just stop buying them. Unfortunately, hitting the bottom line is really the only way to get this resolved.
Maybe - but remember that lithium ion batteries were first developed in the 1970s. It wasn't until the 2010s that they became so widespread and cheap.
Well thankfully people like you are in the minority and can be safely ignored.

Because learning more about our history and the world we live in furthers humanity in immeasurable ways often only appreciated years and decades in the future.
Mash-Allah Eid Mubarak!
I wouldn't worry about this code. It wouldn't compile anyways. lol

Syntax Error on line 1. Missing closing ) in the method definition.
A power generation system that can't lose power itself without resulting in a major disaster is far from 'superior'.

What I mean is the spent nuclear fuel must be kept cool at all costs, backups are finite. There's already been a few accidents and many close calls, none as bad as they could of been. Scale up nuclear to find how to bad it can get.

The NRC said so itself - https://www.science.org/content/article/spent-fuel-fire-us-s...
Nowhere near enough people care to make a difference. Almost nobody’s gonna drastically alter their lifestyles for the sake of the climate.

The only way things get better is via technology that allows people to use the same amount of energy in ways that are less destructive. Anything else is fighting against human nature and wasting your breath.
What's the JS equivalent of "place an index.php file in a folder to deploy"?

What's the JS FOSS equivalent of ProcessWire as a CMF + CMS?

What's the JS equivalent to e.g. DreamHost and other drag + drop hosts?

(Legitimately curious, and I'm mainly inquiring after equivalents-for...better-thans would definitely be interesting)
It's K-12 now. But, of course, when they started going down that road, we were all assured, on this very forum, that it's not going to get to this point.
Iron-Air Batteries Are Here. They May Alter the Future of Energy
> The authoritarian elitist crowd doesn't seem to like it when the unwashed masses develop these skills; they'd prefer to have a population of brainwashed zombies who get all their propaganda from a government-provided list of 'acceptable sources' and who don't have the cognitive capacities and practical skills needed to independently test claims for veracity.

How about this deluge of conspiracy claims?
Has that claim ever been made? Tenure is done not because of good average outcomes, it's done because of an assumption that it occasionally results in some positive outlier with enormous upside that would not have happened without.
A Closer Look at Bitcoin’s Rally Suggests the Depth of Demand Is Deceptive
Congrats on the launch! Looks great!
https://archive.is/Rzes5
These guys are trying so hard to smear Copilot. Similar blog post posted a few weeks ago with wild claims.
You can shut down the military if every other country agree. That looks difficult.

But how do shut down pensions?
> what to do about it?

Celebrate.
May be not in start ups but in enterprise Java usage is increasing only.
By doing everything you can to not get in a head-on. Ditch it, land it in a yard, etc. Just about the only thing I wouldn't do is dump it in a flooded ag ditch, but that's a situation most people don't find themselves in. If you're in a city where you have literally nowhere to go, nobody is going fast enough to the point where the size differential between the vehicles is going to matter unless you're in something exceptionally small.

There are multiple times where I've had to drive on the shoulder to avoid people out of their lane and they would have been a hell of a lot scarier than they were if I had to do it in an SUV/truck. I've been in multiple fairly severe vehicle accidents and I can tell you from first-hand experience that you're not appreciably safer in an SUV.
Is Codeium just using openAI's api ? It seems to be just gpt3