skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The makers of these models and products will talk about those non-problems to cover for the fact that they're vacuuming up the work of individuals then monetizing it for the profit of big industry players.

Also why they claim these are "black boxes" and that they "don't understand how they work". They are prepping the markets for the grand theft that's unfolding.
> Then by that definition AI training has no goal, it's simply a process defined by calculations.

No, the very definition of training is that there is a goal which to train for. Those calculations were created by humans with goals. For LLMs, the goal is token prediction.

Evolution has no training.
A massive amount of engineering went into making it work and some of the stuff we did was downright evil :) in gw1, a lot of data was compiled into the exe as c constants so that we wouldn't have to do a bunch of file management and I/o to locate and load it. We ended up hitting limitations in the C compiler.
This is only if you demolish them, which makes as much sense as demolishing the Hover Dam.

There is nothing intrinsic that requires the plant to be ripped apart. It can be run indefinitely like any large concrete structure.
How does Texas's research output affect its ability to pull in top professionals from elsewhere ?

The mid-west has amazing public STEM schools in UMich, Wisc, UIUC, Purdue....and yet their economic centers are in free fall. On the other hand, none of Texas's top cities had a top public school (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) and they got by just fine. Austin's rise fairly recent. If anything, the sad state of local economies near massive flagship universities like UMass, Penn State, UFl, TA&MU shows that top-graduates clearly do not care about "sticking around" near their university, and instead just work at whatever the actual economic center is.

Waterloo is one of the top tech schools of the world thanks to a well run co-op program, and their professors have little to do with it. Top universities are amazing thanks to getting the best students and amazing undergrad teachers, who often tend to be PhD students or lecturers. Neither have tenure, so I'm not too worried about their ability to keep the momentum going.

Hell, I'm not even sure that the research output itself will drop. It's not like the total funding for universities went down. We might even see $$ go towards more competitive areas, and a further increase in productive output.
It's not apples to apples comparison. There's a multitude of tasks that human brains are very bad at.

GPT excellence is in raw knowledge and answering machine. You won't find a single human brain that can hold the same amount of knowledge
Easy money idea: when you know an employee will be leaving the company, have them spend their last weeks writing basic, foundational functions in multiple languages!
>Except if you add the cost of 12 hours of batteries to solar it's massively more expensive.

Nobody knows what nuclear costs, because nobody knows what it will cost to handle the waste 10 years from now, let alone 100 or 1000 years from now. The solution to this for most nuclear operators has been to pay a symbolic fee and let the taxpayers cover the rest "in blanco".

When accidents happen, costs also arrive very suddenly. Nuclear power in Japan is quite expensive already, for example.
> We know that gravity alone can create radiation - the Hawking one.

What does "gravity alone" mean here? Hawking radiation depends on a black hole that has energy to radiate. The radiation is not due to "gravity alone".
Unlimited vacation is great. Companies offering "unlimited vacation" when they don't mean it, and building a penalizing culture around taking it, is bad.
As someone with young kids, I'd like to hear people's pick for this exercise.
Unemployment is like $350 - $550/week.
The maximum path length of the NT kernel is 3276-something UCS-2 characters. 260 is a limit imposed by the legacy Win32 interfaces IIRC. I believe the W-interfaces get you the full-fat version, it's just that they're so inconsistently used as to all but guarantee that something you need will have problems.

The user-mode stuff is kind of a mess. The kernel-mode stuff is comparatively orthogonal.
They should have fixed that when they went to long file names. It's ridiculous that you can't name a file with its contents' actual title. Random example: http://doi.org/10.1145/327070.327153
I haven't mentioned a single thing about legality in my reply, and neither was it intended to imply anything about legality.
The average person concerned about the climate is probably not too far away from this, realistically.

Everyone doesn't have to be an activist or even perform outrage (for whatever marginal benefit that has to the cause), but if you're not willing to accept some level of inconvenience then that is a little abhorrent.
> what standard of evidence is letting you simultaneously write off the concerns as bullshit.

Negative marketing is good marketing. Look at all of us debating this scale theft promoting the brand of this non product.
PNG decompression is way too slow. Some games use it but it's on the way out, either being replaced by codecs like Basis or QOI in most cases
I believe it is a lost fight, but why have Rust and Go become a collocation?! It’s as faulty as C++ and JS.
> Then the legalities can be argued, but an individual is in any case not remotely comparable to a service like copilot.

Why is this? Copilot in some ways is an automated way to search code & stack overflow. There is a very annoying website that does nothing more than show relevant code samples of various google search terms.

If the manual version of something is okay (eg: googling for code, finding it, fitting for a new and specific purpose that is similar), why would an automated version of that be any different?
Take the UK as an example. It’s estimated that to decommission our former nuclear sites (built between the 1950s and 1980s) will cost around £260 billion[1] and take 120 years to complete.

This includes the cost of decommissioning closed nuclear plants, disposing of waste, and cleaning up contaminated sites.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/23/uk-nucle...
It's your choice not to care, and reality's choice to ignore you not caring - and to steamroller your dreams of a comfortable life as if your existence is an irrelevance.

Which on a planetary scale, it very much is.

Don't bet against reality. Reality doesn't care what you want. You will always lose.
Even better, why not offer unlimited vacation combined with a set minimum number of, say, 25 days vacation everybody should take?
What does you ingest setup look like with BigQuery? Are you using something like fluentd to pipe logs over?
sorry for unrelated comment.

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Hey robomartin, I'm trying to get in contact with you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560799

Your comment really inspired me, I've mostly tried following methods from leerburg, but I'm curious what other trainers you think are worth following and using methods they try to teach
"City upon a hill" [1] is a Christian sentiment.

Given TX also wants to post "the ten commandments" (no note of which ten) [2], given the rather impressive dominionist [3] domination of the US courts at various levels [4], I don't see anything contrary to the "city upon a hill" at all. Unless we want to ague over sectarian differences, that is. The people in power today tend not to be Puritans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill

[2] https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3963001-texas-state...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/roe-v-wade-abo...
Marijuana growers face oversupply and interstate commerce woes
They do, the Xbox calls it smart delivery.
No bound, got it.
I see. Thank you. The question then being whether the LLM has the right to distribute that code, makes sense.
We go into the energy transition with the economy and construction capacity we have, not the construction capacity we wish we had.

The time to transition is now, and making that transition with the ample tools we have right now is a good thing. It's not an argument that we shouldnt improve construction. It's an argument that we should at a minimum do what we know how to do.

If you have ideas on how to improve construction efficiency in the US, it's an absolutely massive addressable market that gets too little attention, and should definitely be addressed. I would love to go work for somebody that is fixing construction, if I had the right skills. I would love even more to do it myself, but I have zero experience or ideas.
Same here. Never had to do anything, with the notable exception of it being somewhat annoying to recover when the disk is full (which is why I've started to keep subvolumes that I can quickly delete).

But I'm not running a RAID, which I believe is where almost all of the data corruption has happened.
Is this true, or are these just benefits of someone who has been in the Senate for 30 years having good working relationships with 70 other Senators, and the branch new Senator being lucky to know one or two?

Put another way, what rules of the Senate benefit length of service over anything else?
Wait, are there more papers on this? Seems interesting.
And I do not even talk about the GPU work to handle those thousands of triangles.
With 300 points, my scene runs quick&fast even on budget Smartphones ! This is an important issues I can tell you. A video game that runs on all devices ...
You can sort by the number of submissions to see more popular games.
Well, there's ReFS as well. That experience suggests there are issues that the author might come up against following boot: Case insensitive lookup (NTFS has the option for case sensitive subdirectories but that probably doesn't matter), Mark of the Web/SQL Server (Alternate data streams support), UWP/Microsoft Store apps support (IIRC requires FS encryption support via a specific interface), DLT (Object IDs), getting DISM to work for updates... It's cool to get this far, full support will probably need a bit more work.
Can you explain what you mean by "slam dunk un employment claim"? Do you mean you'd be able to get unemployment benefits (which come from the state, not your company)? Or do you mean you'd have a claim against the company?

As a former lawyer (US-based), my sense is the first is true, and the second is not. As long as they're not canning you for being in a protected class, they can fire at-will employees whenever they want.
A better example are people that do have something to hide - whistleblowers, union organizers, political activists, journalists, upstart politicians... How does the nature of their work change, if the current government in power knows all their secrets, and abuses or selectively leaks/prosecutes them? And does that change society for the better, or for the worse?
Maybe it is a shame that WAP usage died off as you could probably get the essential information from a site with very few bytes. Combined with something like this it would be great for getting stuff done.
You'd hate to be anywhere near a coal plant then. They absolutely spew radiation and don't even really try to contain it.

Fact is, every kind of energy is dirty in some way. Nuclear energy is one of the cleanest kinds of energy we have by far. It's just people have been taught to have an irrational fear of radiation. They don't realize they are constantly surrounded by it already.
> Mass production in general is made cheaper by simplifying and cutting corners

This is painfully wrong. Go shopping for pretty much any industrial part, and you'll pay through the nose for a few. Order a few dozen, and you get massive discounts in price for identical products.

It takes time and effort to configure machines and tooling to produce something. Those are fixed costs- the more you order, the per-unit price of those fixed costs drops.

> Once the shit hits the fan

That's not gonna happen. No climate model is predicting a doomsday event. It's going to continue to be a slow, gradually worsening crisis at worst. From a political perspective, it'll never need an urgent solution, because next year isn't going to be significantly different from this year- just a little bit. Even for those people who finally realize they're going to be displaced, no urgent solution could possibly turn back the clock, short of a massive deployment of C02 removal from the atmosphere.
Great post that helps people understand why smaller isn't always better.
> There are those that want to regress society and cause harm just to cause harm…

Nope. It’s true that the US has split into two camps with competing worldviews, but the belief that your worldview is the one, true worldview, and the other worldview not only wrong but malicious is just dogmatic nonsense.

Out of an abundance of caution, I would advise against drinking the refreshments at your cult meetings.
Without doing a lick of research into the particulars of this plant the statement scans based on storage requirements for high level radioactive waste alone. Some of this shit has to be stored for several multiples of recorded civilization before it becomes anything like safe. We're talking borderline geologic time scales.
The comment quality in this thread is comparable to the average reddit thread. My lack of faith in humanity is restored.
Nuclear is not really suitable for load-following, at least not the installed capacity. Some are technically capable but load-following seems to be quite taxing on the equipment due to pressure and temperature cycling.

However it is very suitable for base load generation, there's a reason why oil and coal companies lost their marbles in the 50s and astroturfed anti-nuclear into existence.

I'm not sure if that's their most-effective campaign ever or if it's a tie with BP's popularization of the carbon footprint, which atomizes responsibility for climate change and has successfully delayed systematic action for decades. And even managed to get greens and climate change activists to do their work for them. Just like with nuclear. It's actually, genuinely incredible.
Oops, thanks for the correction! I must've seen this with other characters (most likely double quotes) and not realized slashes and backslashes are an exception.

Though ironically that still doesn't help you strip the last component, since it could still be a volume mount point. Like you don't want C:\mnt\..\foo to suddenly become C:\foo, just like how you don't want \\.\Server\Share1\..\Share2 to become \\.\Server\Share2, or for \\.\C:\..\HarddiskVolume1 to become \\.\HarddiskVolume1, etc.
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>The calculous[sic] is fairly simple. Tenure track and then have an easy work life but less money, or go to industry and make lots of money but work more.

You have no clue what you are talking about.

Going from academia into industry, the work is much less stressful, and the pay is much higher.

"Easy work life" and being a research professor are mutually exclusive. Your work never ends.

>The issue isn't stem so much as the stuff where there isn't a highly paying industry sector. Those PhDs will have to go out of state f

Again, you have no idea how this market works. The absolute, vast majority of PhD holders and grad students come out of state to begin with.

They will simply avoid Texas, which is simpler than going out of state.
"they will continue to encourage us to churn out content for free; they will work ruthlessly to capture our attention and then commodify it through every possible avenue"

The author left out the part about how, having perfected the extraction of profit from the users, move on to extracting profit from the advertisers while manipulating them into staying on the platform for lack of alternative ways to reach potential customers.
I bought the stock in the $30's, so I'm not complaining. It's had a good run over the past 10 years, so might sell soon.
This is a straightforward lie. Decommissioning a nuclear power plant down to a "brown field" can cost about 10% of its construction cost. Even grossly mismanaged decommissioning projects are at about 25%.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating...
I really thought HN was smarter than that french anti-nuclear college kid trying so very hard to appear super vague/undecided... but still clearly anti. Guess not.
Also that wouldn't have let him do the animation at the end of the video.
> should be more widely understood and, IMHO, criticized. I think this is almost as bad as the Nazis.

Cultivating too exalted a view of our human potential/destiny -- Modernism and some postmodernisms both following in a long line of philosophical aspirations to transcend internal issues as well as exterior ones -- and having too low a view of human potential/destiny each lend themselves to evil, for sure.

Immoderate moderation in all things, on the other hand, can be no less proud of its profound public-spiritedness though.
I think GP is talking about the ability of an AI to make decisions with reference to context from the past and therefore have a “will extended over time”
>In some places if you have vacation days in your contract then the company is required to pay you out remaining days that you left unused.

So? They should factor that in as a business expense, like your regular pay.

If you take no vacation days and end up getting paid 100% of them, it should be accounted, and if you do take some days, then the company can have that money.
This is truly a foolish idea. Do they not see how their customers use their car? And carplay?

Will definitely hurt GM sales, big time, and probably take several years to undo the damage. The innovation and speed to launch new services on carplay dwarfs whatever GM can do on its own, even with google, given the slowness of OEM software development and testing.
How to get a new AI powered software tool high up in hacker news? Mention GitHub Copilot, the equivalent of the abortion debate but for software engineers (everyone is certain to disagree and debate endlessly without swaying any opinions). This post seems like an advertisement for codeium. It wouldn't need to mention anything about Copilot at all and would be just as complete. My 2 cents, click bait & flame war trolling.
I don’t understand why people have become so accepting. “Oh they’ve stolen all the public code and not provided attribution then sold it for a profit, can we just give these poor evil companies a break? It’s just progress…”.

This is completely unacceptable and another example that Microsoft is an evil and amoral company who only cares about open source for financial gain.
What gives you the idea that data is singular? And then what is datum?
Just because it can be singular doesn't mean that it must be singular.
Unfortunately, it's an issue that's hard for many to understand until it directly affects them. Sometimes you need to find something relatively innocuous but still embarrassing and 'give them a thwap' with it, but even then the chances of them understanding are still low.
Low electricity costs are a problem for all electricity plans, not only nuclear.

Renewables are even more susceptible to this because the weather affects all renewable plants of the same type similarly across wide geographic areas, so there will be times when they all generate more than is needed and nothing can be done about it. What's worse, the output is unpredictable, so there's little opportunity for some business to base its operation on renewable electricity generation patterns.

At least the weekend demand drop is predictable, so businesses can use this predictable opportunity to reduce their costs and thus reduce the impact the weekends have on the profitability of nuclear and similar dispatchable plants.
Name a thing that is resilient to both neglect and human politics. We'll wait.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Do you implement your own storage with Quickwit or can it be backed by a cloud storage solution like S3?

Our session replay is similar to OpenReplay but we've focused a lot of effort on making a cohesive backend debugging experience. Highlight sessions give you backend error monitoring and logging out of the box to make it easy to get to the root cause of a bug.
I'd say, don't tell HR anything, and only tell your manager if you have a great relationship with them, and tell them only that you're _thinking_ about leaving so they have plausible deniability.
^ this is it. The advice of this post is so dumb. Unless you have a good relationship with your manager and your skip and maybe skip skip you’re looking for trouble by giving any notice.
> But I do hope we get a nice open source (self hostable) tool that can do what it claims (error reporting, tracing, logging, metrics) because there's no such thing that does all well at the moment that's mature.

Keep an eye out for Highlight then!

> Couldn't they just reuse other project's sdk or help with OpenTelemetry? Developing yet another batch of sdk for a dozen language seems like wasted time.

We use OpenTelemetry for all of our SDKs. All we do is thinly wrap the SDK so developers don't have to deal with OpenTelemetry internal if they don't want to.

There's a doc on it here:
https://www.highlight.io/docs/general/company/open-source/co...
My understanding (as someone who worked at Meta and sold a startup to a large corporation) is that, in this particular case, money-printing giants are cursed by their own blessing.

The thing that prints them money limits them in terms of what margins and growth rates are acceptable. As a public company, your metrics are all bundled for simplicity into EBITDA, profit margins, etc. Investors buying your stock and your existing investors care a lot about these numbers.

So when your new product has a lower margin or a lower growth rate, this affects your whole company's metrics. This is why they try to isolate such projects into "labs" and the like, and this is why it's challenging to move from this "lab" into the main company portfolio. Your metrics need to be as high as your main product line - this one-in-a-million exceptional thing that made you huge. Which is pretty impossible.

Basically, the bar is very high, and not killing it and maturing it instead has very negative externalities in most cases. And so, it goes to the history dump.

Very unfortunate, and as a startup founder, I'd think twice about who to sell to. Also, as a startup founder, I know that often there's not much choice.
They are referring to the leaking of tritium, which, while "technically" radioactive, regular water contains some tiny amount of tritium and deuterium naturally. They are barely radioactive, and you can actually buy them on Amazon - they are not regulated.

To say that the reactor is "leaking radioactive material" because of tritium is extremely dishonest.
Step one: Include Linux kernel in Windows.

Step two: Include Linux filesystem in Windows.

Step three: Windows is Linux.
I can't find it right now, but I believe there was a talk from a Rust maintainer a while ago about the Rust installation being way slower than it should be, which was almost entirely a rant on Windows file system performance.
I gave several months notice one time. They didn't use any of the time to onboard someone else, and afterwards talked about how I left them high and dry.

From now on I'm giving 2 weeks and getting the fuck out of there.