skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The one I actually find annoying though is when people use "an" before a word that starts with a (pronounced) h, like "an historic building". It's like, dude, I know you're trying to seem all smart and superior and it isn't working. (Of course, if they said it with a french accent and a silent h that would make more sense.)

This is something that has puzzled me as well. My wife, a historian (not "an historian!") will write this way, and when I've asked her about it she says it's just the proper way. When I looked into the history of it, I concluded that it probably made sense for the British (who say "historian" with a somewhat silent "H"), and probably for early Americans. But for those of us who speak Standard American English, it seems somewhere between unnecessary and stuffy.

I wonder how spell checking software deal with this? IIRC it's an exception for words starting with "H" where there emphasis is not on the first syllable (which would result in the "H" being enunciated).
Whether astroturfers or free thinkers, I think the baseline requirement for any pro discussion should be prefaced with a redlined doc of the NRC reactor construction code citing all the oppressive regulations whose deletion will lead to our nuclear utopia.

Stop factifantisizing and show us all the ways to move fast and break all things nuclear.
That is great, makes me wish I still had a Mirage but mine died back around the turn of the century. Mirage was not great as a sampler but a great platform with all the software that got written for it over the years.
> ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response.

https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
Didn’t realize it was backward compatible without limitations. (also my posting is limited so couldn’t respond until now.)
It’s releasing on PC, which could be constrained. It wont be for a majority of players, but HDD setups still exist.
In principle everyone agrees with that, but the system tends to work against it.

Especially corporations or other large groups that specialize in X, where X is the currently mandated thing to do.
It's the shell (i.e. Explorer) showing a localized name. Although I think in Windows XP it was still baked into the language you installed Windows with and stuck with that.
Fortunately that's not true. The fission products that are actually dangerous only stick around for 300 to 600 years [1]. After that, you'd have to ingest what is left to be harmed. We have existing facilities [2] in the US where we can bury waste in such a way that it essentially becomes crystalized in salt after 100 years. Water moves centimeters per billion years in this salt. This one facility could easily service the entire country in perpetuity, even with 100x increase in nuclear energy.

Despite what the antis will tell you, the waste aspect of nuclear energy is overwhelmingly positive. And the crazy thing is, spent nuclear fuel isn't even waste. 90% of the energy is still in there. So why on earth would you bury it?

[1]:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fs4euEoWYAAx65C?format=jpg&name=...
[2]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6no0FmPk84
This is due to file system filter [drivers], not the file system. NTFS is perfectly fine and performs well.
I did that for lulz few times in Linux when I didn't wanted to fuck up with some old server's boot when I was decommissioning it.

Just make a big file in /dev/shm, add it via loopback to LVM and migrate system partition on it, then run shred on drives without the annoying messages kernel screams when it has its storage destroyed underneath
If you have a PhD in CS and you get tenured track position immediately right after finishing grad school without doing any postdocs, then I guarantee you can make at least 200k/year in your first year at any decently big tech company.

I have seen people with 2-3 NIPS papers and a bunch more from other conferences failed to obtain assistant professorship, it's ridiculous right now.
Switching from PNG to basis for my game (currently with a pretty minimal set of textures) was like a 50% reduction in load times with no other changes.

Note that I'm not storing assets at rest in a ZIP file because there's no reason to. If I was doing that it might close the gap some.
Yeah, while the fossil fuel lobby used to fight against nuclear, I'm pretty sure they're indirectly using nuclear to fight renewables right now.

For them, either renewables will cut into their business right now.. or they can argue we should build nuclear instead.. which could either lead to nothing getting built, or that nuclear gets built in 10-15 years. Either way, they delay the threat to their business. So it's a win for them either way. I don't think they have high hopes to fight off renewables or nuclear forever. So whichever is slower is better.

Pure speculation on my part, I'll admit. But I see so many arguing for nuclear who doesn't seem to care AT ALL about climate change or preserving nature when you press them on their arguments. So I can't help think that way.
Nice! One small thing I noticed: it looks like you don't have compression turned up all the way. You might be able to save a lot of bandwidth if you use the most aggressive brotli settings for everything that's sent over SMS
A man who faked human cloning [video]
Gates wants open sequence data for his closed vaccine companies to profit from.
I've always thought filesystem compatibility between OSes should be a priority. Moreover, I've never understood why Microsoft developed ReFS instead of adopting ZFS.
But there was a time...

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/56/4/1776/213971/Proton...
You can’t draw a conclusion from less than 5 data points. If you look back in time on that graph you can see other points where it was flat for a few years, then skyrocketed.

If it’s flat 5 years from now then I’d be inclined to agree with you.
You'll find that's pretty common since block compression already reduces sizes pretty effectively. At install time the files will be compressed further over the wire before being decompressed, so I imagine the payoff is not that big in many cases. I do wonder how much of it is that a Kraken license costs money and it takes time to integrate, though...
They plan zero. Unlimited PTo relies on the rest of the business processes to regulate behavior.

For consultants, %. Billable will dictate your unlimited PTO. for widget making, quotas will work. For project assignments, expect tighter deadlines.

Company culture will dictate usage and accounting gets to remove the liability.
Bash Pipelining for LLMs
> all the textures going away and being replaced with math formulas to generate everything on the fly.

Anyone who thought this was incredibly naive.

I look around my room and try to think about what textures could be generated procedurally. My walls, carpet, and ceiling? Yeah, sure. The stickers on my computer? No way.
> Do you imply the universities will magically get more money somehow?

Well, some universities are quite rich. The professors salaries aren't always constrained by the university budget.
It's because PHP isn't simple anymore. It requires an IDE, it's likely using a framework (at least Laravel seems relatively sanely designed), and everyone wants to make it contain all the features (and most importantly syntaxes) of all their favorite other languages.

If you're using an IDE already pretty much any language could be the same.
I’ve settled on unraid with btrfs partly for that reason.
But not the high texture
I'd love to see a benchmark of NTFS on Windows vs NTFS on Linux. Unfortunately ntfs-3g uses FUSE so right now it's not really a fair comparison.
Biocomputing: could future computers run on human brain cells?
That kind of thing happens to be sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEXINT

But I find the sort of people who believe in "nothing to hide" tend to believe in the efficacy of bureaucratic systems set up to prevent that sort of thing. A belief (ironically) bolstered by the privacy those organizations secure for themselves, so that those kinds of individual abuses are rarely discovered. Who watches the watchers?

Whereas it's easy to understand that if you don't have a high opinion of the opposing party's most recent President, you might very well not want their administration knowing everything about everyone.
I guess that paragon driver got merged. I remember the pull request…
Thanks, I didn't realize that Brotli had multiple compression levels. I'll look into that!
Yes, that does keep being brought up, but I'm worried people will see this as an apple vs Facebook thing when Facebook isn't really involved.

Other developers have complained about the fees, the arbitrary rejections and not being able to mention web signup
"Data" as a grammatic plural seems to be more common in UK english than US.

I think the way to properly pluralize it is by adding a unit, the same way we'd do with words like "information" (bits of information), "work" (Joules of work), or other meta/physical quantities (rays of sunshine, pangs of heartache, etc.).
I've benchmarked it myself in my game. It adds a measurable amount of time to loads if you're decompressing all the audio up front to reduce latency, and during streaming it increases CPU usage. Obviously a modern machine can handle a few ogg/mp3 streams in the background during gameplay, but some games are playing dozens or hundreds of sounds at once.

"It's not like ENTIRE 35 GB of audio needed to be loaded all at once" misunderstands the nature of games fundamentally. Some games do potentially need the ability to access any of thousands of sound effects at a moment's notice with the lowest possible latency.
> we must use $ instead of :.

Eh, I just thought the $ in a Windows NAS share was to ensure the share was hidden from browsing. Microsoft used to have documentation on that, but seems to be missing from their site after they removed old articles.
> Axioms don’t somehow superseded Mathematics.

This is a mistaken understanding. Axioms define the logic of Mathematics.

E: I guess I may have misinterpreted. I mixed up “supersede” with “precede” in my head. I mean to say axioms are a precursor to logic systems. The axiom has to be agreed upon before any truthful statements can be made.
We hit comment cooldown but it's not foolery exactly, more like reflecting the futility of trying to make these kinds of arguments. The problem with this whole chain is we haven't actually defined what a neuron is. Take the purported bound above. Suppose I move an associated potassium ion farther away. Have I not changed the state? If yes, what's the limit to how far away I can move that ion and have it still count as part of the neuron? That's just one of the limits of physical laws, you can make very precise statements, but only under very narrow constraints.
Yeah, so the semantics of the filesystem APIs on Windows is very different, so you're not going to easily port filesystem code to Windows from other operating systems. ZFS is CDDL and that won't fly on Linux. Linux filesystem code is GPL2 and that won't fly on macOS. Licensing is a bitch.
> Of course he's not a nobody

That's an understatement. He's one of the most famous names in computer science alive today. You can't look at the top 1% of 1% to make statements about the whole industry. $340k/year is a real TC range for no-name ICs at a FAANG these days.

The numbers you are posting are making the opposite point you are trying to make.
It's good to see projects like this which basically confirm what we know about the modularity of the filesystem layer in Windows. In fact, the IFS API that enables this has been there since MS-DOS 4:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installable_File_System

Although I'm sure that Windows would have some issues with that as XP was the last version that let you boot off of FAT32

I remember it being not too difficult to boot Vista and 7 from FAT32, although the official installer wouldn't let you.
With the size of games nowadays, that's likely a net time save for many people from the discounted download time.
In the sense that my compiler wants my types to match. There's no literal desire, just like there's no literal artificial intelligence.
WinPE does that.
This is not a trivial article. It is well researched and very well written until it hits the finale.

To say something like this without blushing:

"The Restoration may have had its glories, but a larger glory belongs to those who groped, for a time, toward something freer and better, and who made us, in particular—Americans, whose Founding Fathers, from Roger Williams to the Quakers, leaped intellectually right out of the English crucible—what we spiritually remain."

... is quite breathtaking.

Get a grip.
Until the day it touches it and replaces your selection from the UEFI firmware. Or repartitions the recovery partition. Or decides to move the recovery partition from the beginning of the disk to the end of the disk. All stuff I have personally seen Windows Update do.

I am sure your custom bootloader will not be overwritten. All types of hell can happen, borking the entire installation -- and your bootloader will still be perfectly fine.
How often does GPL succeed in bullying people into sharing code under the same license when they wouldn't have wanted to otherwise? I imagine it mostly results in wasted duplicative effort to keep GPL out of the codebase. I'm glad more permissive licenses appear more popular now, like MIT.
To accelerate port to a new version of a toolkit? Sounds reasonable according to Mcconnell’s “cone of uncertainty.”
A 420p copy of the movie is very different from a 4k version. Similarly an encryption copy of the file will intentionally not resemble the original in any way. Both of those distinctions would likely be ignored by a court.

Similar, a movie that copies the plot points will likely be fine, but a song that copies the notes of a song will not be. Very different cover version will sometimes be found as a derived work, even when they are as different as Deep Impact is to Armageddon.
> It would be interesting to see what "unlimited" vacation giving firms budget and plan for as a liability.

“Unlimited” (=non-accruable) PTO isn’t a liability, that’s (from the firm’s perspective) the whole point of using it.
The lives of billonna5 today today are worth less than the trillions who will live in the future. We owe it to them to sacrifice ourselves.

-- Effective Altruism
Show HN: Self-extracting prompts for GPT-4
drives since 2018 or so

it's marketed by Microsoft as "direct storage"
I am not sure what you're getting at exactly. Although the paper does touch on early universe cosmology, the authors do their principal analysis using the refractive value for water, and there were no interstellar water clouds before early supernovae started generating oxygen. The authors also explicitly contemplate observables generated by LIGO-accessible compact binary mergers ("compact" here means black holes and neutron stars), all of which postdate the first stars.

In physical cosmology (and especially considering alternatives to General Relativity) it is very common to consider the possibility that some effect is strong in the very early universe and so weak as to be undetectable at present times (or even as early as the first galaxies or the surface of last scattering). Examples include auxiliary gravitational fields ("bimetric" theories, for example) that decay in the early universe, variable-speed-of-light/variable-Newton's-constant theories, and so forth.

Although one might think "hm, it's very convenient that an important effect only happens so early that we cannot use telescopes to see it", there is very good evidence for electroweak unification and cosmic inflation, both of which terminated (in different ways) in the very early universe, and are (or arguably were) too difficult to directly observe this late in the universe's history. Additionally there is ample indirect evidence that (if it exists) is within our reach.

That the hypothesized graviton-photon mechanism cannot work in vacuum makes it at least very difficult to test (or observe with telescopes) today, however the final section of the paper does suggest that if it happens in nature, where it happens is likely to become accessible to us in due course. This is not a theory that has a hard cut-off in the early universe; it is just a hypothesis that to be realized requires a configuration of e.g. binaries and molecular clouds that is not very close to what we commonly observe. (Double-binary compact objects in dusty environments might end up being commonplace though, and in those settings one could expect changes in "multimessenger" signals if the authors' ideas are correct. It's amazing how many star systems are turning out to be triples, and we know of triple-compact-star systems; there are a number of known quadruples like DI Chamaelontis; and Gamma Cassiopeiae is a system of at least seven ~stellar mass bodies.)
"green tea" is an English term which essentializes Asamushi, Chumushi, and Fukamushi versions of Sencha, Gyokuro, Matcha, Bancha, Genmaicha, Hojicha, Kukicha, Shincha, Tamaryokucha, Kamairicha, Konacha, Mecha, Guricha, Hentaigama, Batabatacha, Wakocha, Karigane, Tencha, Aracha, Yanagi, not to mention the regional specializations.
Yes I agree but the PNG compresion size is so great ! The Textures in total reduce enormously my game file size. By 15 times : so good. And because it is small the web download is VERY quick. Very....
So in a way I loose a bit on decompresing textures time, BUT a gain a lot od seconds in dowloading reduced textures files.
How does a server run on the client? It runs on localhost! Right?

It can show the user their own info back to them in iframes?
>This is not as bad as it sounds, because fuel is just about ~5% of the total cost of the produced nuclear energy.

Therein lies the problem. Capital costs dominate nuclear plant costs and they are high.

If you load followed such that you kept the reactor at an average of, say, 50% nameplate capacity that would lead to a levelized cost per MWh of about 2x$168 = $336.

(LCOE listed here is $168: https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/green-surge-is-circuit...)

For reference, Bhadla solar park sells a MWh for roughly $30, so even if you charged $300 to store and retrieve it you could still provide cheaper electricity than a load following nuclear power plant running at 50% of nameplate.
My place switched to unlimited, when pressed they stated you're required to take 10 days.

Prior to this, they had seniority up to 20 days based on number of year.

This was absolutely about removing liability from their books. And sold purely as a "look how ESG we are"
Companies are very good at making slight changes to bad ideas and calling them "new ideas". The plastics industry runs on this.
This comment was generated using ChatGPT 4 ^^
Hmm. I thought the problem was that NTFS is not particularly fast at file creation. Generally not a problem, except for the folks who wrote the npm tooling which generates 10,000 files in the blink of an eye.
does anyone ever read those braindumps?
What Would an AI Do? In the Face of Human Moral Dilemmas
Low is relative, in most areas a 3c/kWh wholesale price is wildly profitable for solar and a massive loss for nuclear.

Renewables very much provide surplus power at scale, but they don’t always provide that massive surplus. So, Solar could provide 3/4 of its power when wholesale prices are below 1c/kWh and the economics still end up working out over the year. Meanwhile every other source of power needs to deal with electricity being increasingly cheap for most of the day.

> 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.

There’s almost nothing nuclear can do to reduce its costs when demand is low for a few days. They still need to pay interest, still need security guards, the reinforced concrete is still aging etc. They do major maintenance when seasonal demand drops normally in the spring or fall, but they don’t have any way to make use of downtown over weekends because weekends are so frequent. In a world with cheap electricity for 1/3 the day and cheap electricity 2/7 days a week and cheap electricity for 3-6 months out of the year, they need very high prices the rest of the time to break even.
Probably license issues - same reason Linus won't add ZFS to the linux kernel. https://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-zfs/

If Linus is afraid of Oracle, MS should definitely be afraid
U.S. Supreme Court preserves broad access to abortion pil
Worked in this industry for a bit. Lots of ways to tell. Like where did the drive start? Did it start at the same address as your residence?

Also most likely they care more about you as a driver then you as a driver of your car. At least in terms of rating your ability.
You also get (throttled) GPT 4 which is much better at many tasks. That’s why I paid. We’ll see if the novelty lasts for very long but right now it’s a exciting product that I use multiple times a day and the most sci-fi invention of my life so far so I don’t mind paying
AmigaOS is beautiful.

dos.library is a pus-filled abscess that simply does not belong anywhere near it.

It is unfortunate they were in a hurry and just tucked tripOS in there.

The ABI also makes you pass said pointers in data registers, unlike other libraries in AmigaOS, instead of address registers, because of course there'd be little point passing them in address registers when they need to be transformed for use. Horrible.

There's additional uglyness elsewhere. Like processes vs tasks, or the IPC ports. It ends up adding overhead, a layer of bad grease on top of exec.library.
Nah GPT-4 wouldn't surround a double hyphen or emdash with spaces
Then, where do they get money from and food, will that be provided for fee by AGIs? Who will own the AGI systems ? How will they ensure they’re in alignment with the children’s goals ?
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I think there is a legitimate market for little clusters with blinking lights that sit of your desk.
By analogy with the example from the article, water, data : datum :: water : drop.
Towards the end of the piece I was suddenly struck by how similar the works felt to NFTs. The old rich dutch put "oil NFTs" in their houses for display. In a virtual world (or metaverse), your "house" is in the virtual domain. An NFT monkey fits.
There is no way to have btrfs caps insensitive. So some software (poorly coded) could have capitalization issues that would not appear in NTFS that would in btrfs. But other than that I believe you are right (barring utilities specifically designed to interact with FS attributes)
I've been an author, and just once; never a reviewer or editor. It was with PLOSOne which is different and, though a lot cheaper, is still $2000.

As an author, I exchanged multiple emails with employees of PLOS even before it was submitted to peer review (or reached the editor desk) because the automated process of submitting my paper to the system crashed and required intervention. And mine was N=1, and it still broke. It's not "Google-quality engineering", if you know what I mean. So, all this "oh, that's just an automated system" just does not hold water.

Now, my turn to insinuate. Have you ever written a multi-step workflow management software system that coordinates thirty email threads? If yes, how much human involvement from the operators of that multi-step workflow is needed? And if not a whole lot, do you work at a "cool" VC-funded modern firm, or at a company that got started with servers in a datacenter in the 1990s?
The UK is very much an outlier in the nuclear sector as they went with impossible to refurbish gas cooled reactors. Their experience is unlikely to resemble other countries.

In the US at least, the cost for all decommissioning and fuel handling are built into the cost of electricity sold by law.