skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really expensive.[1]

"To put together a one-inch accurate RTK system for John Deere tractors, you start with an Autotrac automatic steering kit, which is $5,040 plus installation costs of $1,200. Then you add a monitor. John Deere offers three monitors: the basic Greenstar display for $1,700, Model 1800 colour display for $2,250, and Model 2600 touchscreen display for $6,294."

"The standard receiver with StarFire 1 capability is $3,144. That gets you accurate to within eight inches either side of the desired path. To move up to StarFire 2 and its sub-four-inch accuracy, you need software upgrades: $5,040 for the Autotrac software upgrade and $2,500 for the receiver software upgrade."

"To go from SF2 to RTK, you need a receiver that includes a radio to communicate with the RTK base station and with the satellites. This costs $1,695. You also need RTK activation, which costs $3,780."

"Add it up. From square one, with the top-end monitor, you’re looking at around $30,000 to equip the tractor for RTK. But wait. You need a base station. A two-channel base station will cost another $15,000 or so."

[1] https://www.grainews.ca/news/what-rtk-can-do-for-you/
>NTFS would accept almost anything.

So for the longest time Adobe software had random bugs where it would create a series of folders name "Application Data" repeating recursively 3000+ characters deep.

Yea, that was fun to try to delete.
The law should kill the seniority thing for vacation days too. Perhaps make them stick for a year (to avoid somebody being hired and then living after 6 months 20 days of which are paid vacations), but then everybody should be offered the same number of days to take annually. After all they've worked for the same number of days in that year as any older employee too.
I’d wager we start killing each other before that.
There are also some more lenient JSON parsers that will handle comments and other non-standard things. They can be a bit hard to add in to some frameworks as it’s kind of the opposite of what you are normally trying to do which is reject bad input.
Interesting fact is that mass nouns are not always the same in different languages. In German information is count noun and has plural case (Informationen). English spoken in continental Europe often carries the traces of other languages, so you may encounter in local documents written in English by non-native speaker something like „informations“.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English
> Education is an investment in the future; encouraging the best professors

The best researchers do not always make the best educators. The best educators do not always make the best researchers.

Being good at research is a nice to have, but a facility like UT Austin should be hyper focused on attracting the country's best educators to help Texas' best students get (or create) the country's best jobs in Texas.

That said, the best educators are likely also attracted by Tenure.
Right, that's exactly what I saw when my company did this.

If people saw the loss of guaranteed benefits to something entirely in the companies benefit, I heard nothing.

HR sold it like we were gaining something.

The people who gained the most were managers without specific output. Imagine you accrue enough portfolios, and now your set.
The memory access is through the same IOD (so memory access to main memory is fairly uniform) but there are two different CCD's, two different NUMA zones. Communication between them is slower than communication within the CHIP. And one chip has vastly more L3 cache than the other.
>Then you've probably been hiring people on the cheap, expecting low-quality work and getting it

If it works for their business needs, they could not care less, though...

If people cared for quality they'd be reading Tolstoy, Hemingway and the like, not listicles and Lee Child.
Peering into the Future of Novels, with Trained Machines Ready
> You can't build a building that contains a steam explosion from a runaway reactor. If you could, the reactor could be made indestructible in the first place.

Wrong: we can, and do, build concrete domes that contain a potential steam explosion. The pressure vessel has to connect to steam generators, control rods, and more whereas the secondary containment does not. Furthermore, once the pressure vessel explodes, the water boils off and is no longer being heated by the core.

> Chernobyl has cost over 600 bn since 1986 and costs billions per year still, and will do so for the foreseeable future. The same goes for Fukushima.

Got a source for these claims? Especially the "billions per year still" for Chernobyl? Even the more extreme estimates claim $200B for Fukushima, and much of that is speculative (nowhere near that much has actually been spent).

> Other countries can use other methods, like store heat, for example in molten salt. Thermal solar power plants generate power even during the night. Or you can generate Hydrogen or Nitrogen. Or you can store pressurized air on the ocean floor. Or you can use batteries.

Except for solar thermal (which was never cost competitive, and still suffers from intermittency due to weather), all of these things are experimental. Like I said: in order to make intermit energy sources feasible, we need some new form of energy storage that yields order-of-magnitude improvements over existing storage systems. Maybe some of these will be our silver bullet for storage. Maybe not. Most don't want to gamble the future of civilization on the guess that some silver bullet will be found.
https://archive.ph/Wg82t
The Clown Joke
Good lord. Have you heard the popular music of today's era?
As long as you train everyone to understand that it hallucinates and that you need to double check any numbers or other real facts.
Am I stupid? Where is the actual cheat sheet?
I agree, but I don't think that's a good example. The only reason for the existence of a bank password is to enable private interactions between yourself and the bank (and the government through their financial surveillance).

A better example would be encryption keys.
Me: Please write me a paragraph explaining why content written by ChatGPT is likely to be of lower quality than that written by a human writer.

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, ChatGPT generates text based on statistical patterns it has learned from large amounts of human-written text. While it has the ability to produce coherent and grammatically correct sentences, it lacks the human touch of intuition, creativity, and emotions that make writing engaging and memorable. Additionally, ChatGPT may produce inaccurate or biased information if the data it has been trained on is flawed or incomplete. It also does not have the ability to understand the nuances of human language, such as sarcasm or humor, which can lead to misunderstandings. Overall, while ChatGPT can be a useful tool for generating text quickly and efficiently, it is unlikely to match the quality and depth of content produced by a human writer.

Well, at least it's honest about that. shrug

To be fair though, let's give it a chance to plead it's case the other way:

Me: Please write me a paragraph explaining why content written by ChatGPT is likely to be of higher quality than that written by a human writer.

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, ChatGPT has the ability to generate large amounts of high-quality content quickly and efficiently, without the limitations of fatigue, bias, or emotional interference that can affect human writers. With its vast knowledge base, ChatGPT can access information and synthesize it in ways that would be difficult or time-consuming for a human writer to do. Additionally, ChatGPT's writing is free of typos and grammatical errors, and it can produce text in multiple languages, making it a versatile tool for content creation. ChatGPT's writing is also free of human biases that can affect human writers, making it a useful tool for producing objective and unbiased content. Overall, while ChatGPT may lack the human touch of creativity and intuition, its ability to generate high-quality content quickly and objectively makes it a valuable tool for content creation in many contexts.
Relevant Matt Levine: "Why Would Anyone Buy Credit Default Swaps on the U.S.?"

https://archive.is/r0lI2
This is mostly because of the Sellafield site, which was used for nuclear weapons production. It's also the site of the infamous Windscale nuclear reactor fire.

The US has the same problems with Hanford.

But I don't think this is fair to ascribe these costs to modern civilian nuclear power programs.
Fair, I meant 'intermittent' when I said 'renewable'. Geothermal and hydro are very different since they can be relied upon for the most part. Hydro sometimes has issues with water levels, which may be exacerbated by climate change.

That's the other baffling part about advocating for solar/wind grids. We're anticipating major disruptions. Why would we want to be MORE exposed to climate change?
> Playing a movie for a few friends who visits is fine, but start to demand tickets and suddenly it will look like a cinema which is not fine.

Interesting analogy. "Ripping" something off an only using it for your personal project sounds like the "playing a movie for a few friends". Doing so for the benefit of corporation that then has thousands of daily visitors sounds like the "movie cinema" example. Though, in both cases it was an individual googling and finding how to implement a specific function.

"fair use" in copyright is pretty specific in that it refers to things like "you can play portions of a clip in order to comment on it." Or as another example, you can use clips/portions for the purposes of a review commentary.

"Form and function" is perhaps a very important crux here. Some things you can only do a certain way. For example, quick-sort, there are is only really one way to implement quick sort (or otherwise it is not at all quick sort!).

Personally I feel the copyright line is higher than a function, the copyright is on the collection of functions who together create a specific software. The individual functions IMHO are as copyright'able as-is a cog on a bike cassette, or the chain on a motorcycle.
Ultimately, the thing that really distinguishes Linux from Windows is file paths.
The world is not going to end

Most everyone will still be driving gas/petrol cars

No evidence will appear that will convince me [the denialist] that climate change is real

Peak oil won’t happen until 2020 at the earliest

As a meteorologist, I know that persistence is very often a correct forecast. Inability to predict change is when people die, though.
You did not answer the question. It's really not complicated: Can I offset my burning of one tree by planting another? Yes or No.
But double hyphen is emulating endash, not emdash. So surrounding spaces are ok.
You'd get numbers in red instead of a green zero, for any track where there was some issue.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1KdQNodN0
They replaced Upwork with ChatGPT. That probably is a step up.

If everything you do for money goes in and out over a wire, you're in trouble.
GIGO (garbage in, garbage out): it depends of your conversation [1].

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:70270343...
There are two possibilities here...

Connecting from another operating system that allowed names like that to be corrected to a Windows share.

There are a few other possibilities where you boot to Linux using a FS driver for NTFS that allows you to create illegal file names. And/or odd things like WSL/Cygwin.
Not a problem for the users
>immediately have to caveat

Yeah, I could've indicated better that I'm talking about on-disk compression of files.

>Sony included dedicated compression support in the PS5, licensed from a leading middleware company, specifically to make it easier to use compression in games. Games are using it.

Not really if we look at 3rd party games. Jedi Survivor is likely not using that since it takes 147 gigs on PS5 and only 139 on Series X. Warzone doesn't use it, Fortnite doesn't use it(despite Epic's acquisition of RAD), Hogwarts Legacy doesn't use it, Elden Ring doesn't use it, FIFA doesn't use it. These are some of the most popular games on the platform. My point was that he is talking about something beyond LZ compression when most games aren't using tools that are available off-the-shelf.

>You can argue every single file should be compressed at rest on persistent storage after install, but that's a losing argument. People really hate longer load times, so compression at rest is only appropriate if it improves them.

We have hardware-accelerated decompression in all current gen consoles and GPU decompression on PC. We would be in much better world if everyone used that.
I think you'll find that much of what you interpret as resistance to "climate change" is not so much resistance to the idea that it exists, or even that we should "do something" about it, but rather to the current approach where "doing something" involves grossly hypocritical billionaires and politicians distributing money to each other while lecturing everyone else on how to live and what they must sacrifice.

There are yearly conferences where hundreds of private jets emit more Co2 into the world than the average person will in their lifetime. And the people attending these conferences step off their jet, drive in a motorcade of SUVs to the venue, and sign documents committing to disburse billions of taxpayer dollars to LLCs and corporations their friends will form before next year's conference when they'll do it all over again. They'll lament about the epidemic of science denialism afflicting the common folk, and then they'll get back on their jets and fly back to one of their multiple homes to continue hoarding and growing their obscene wealth.

When you dismiss criticism of the status quo as "science denialism" or whatever perjorative is en vogue amongst your fellow saviors of "our democracy," you are serving the agenda of the biggest polluters on the planet, by looking the other way while they facilitate global corruption and forego any legitimate mitigation of the impending catastrophe you care so virtuously about preventing to stave off the existential threat so many of your fellow non-billionaires are too ignorant and science-denying to recognize.
If you plot the data with a moving average of anywhere from 2-8 years you can clearly see it flattening more now than at any point after 1950 (I didn't bother checking before).
Your statement that some games in the past have used uncompressed assets is a non-sequitur.

Has any game in the past 5 years that has an install size >100gb used uncompressed assets? I would be very very surprised! The likelihood of this being the case on PS5 or XSX hardware is approximately zero.

Yes I’m familiar with the infamous uncompressed audio in Titanfall.
Money for Volkswagen shows government has no confidence in Canadian innovation
Depends on the product in question. For integration products, its very common to support multiple database vendors with the same core engine. So any SQL written and db data-types is generally SQL-92/99.

This is pretty good since one can generally fast unit test DB code with an embedded database.
$ sign just really means "hide this", though it's commonly used on administrative shares.
How Bugatti is approaching electric car design
I'm working from old memories here but iirc the degaussing circuits in TVs and monitors only work after they've cooled down. He didn't have to leave it all night, maybe an hour if that would have done.
I wonder which direction causes more breakage for the non-native OS.
Back in the day I wrote a simple script for setting a bootable RAD up, which I never shared because I thought it'd be pointless.

It wasn't too hard. Just mount a ramdrive.device volume of enough size, mark it as bootable, copy the minimal files for it to be usable, or just icon.library, loadwb, a few commands and a startup-sequence.
This was very promising: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/stable-diffusion-...
This is good? Humans wasting their time writing junk to fool the Google algorithm is a waste of their time. The problem is 1c goes to Microsoft instead of $10 to someone needing an income, so we concentrate wealth even more.
Any high level googlers on HN? How impactful has Sundar been as seen internally? Externally, to me at least, regardless of what he did before becoming CEO, as CEO his track record pales to the likes of all the other comparable CEOs. There has not been a single new impactful revenue stream launch since he became CEO. What are the opinions at the high enough levels internally.
I think "why do you have the right to know?" is a decent answer.

"What level of trust do you think you've earned?"

"What do you want to do with all this information?"

"How will this make things better?'

"Don't you have more important things to spend time and money on?"

"Is this really the best thing the government should be working on right now?"

"How does this help any of society's ills?"

"Will taxes need to be increased to manage, store, and analyse the mountains of information that will be created?"

"How long will you store messages between me and my daughter about her contemplating suicide, and will those messages prevent her from getting a government job later in life?"

"Does the storing of all this data come with a responsibility to make it accessible to defend people who have been accused of a crime?"

"My wife works in law enforcement, will she have access to this trove of data?"

"Will there be a process to remove data from this trove that may be libelous or cause undue harm to an individual or company?"

"Is the government responsible for the complete chain of access to this data, or are there private companies involved that have to be trusted not to sneak a peek?"

"What specific issue, currently facing today's society, does this solve?"
That is pretty neat!
The biggest cost of producing parts is making the tooling to mass produce them. Manufactures will retool to produce other stuff once they have enough of a given part, but if there's a shortage (or they think there will be one soon) they'll bring the old tooling out of storage and set up the line again. It's common for auto companies to supply new parts for decades after a car is made.

Heck, Mazda makes new parts for the original Miata.[1] While the first generation Miata is a recognizable car, it's not very popular. A total of 433,000 were produced. Maybe half are still on the road today. That may sound like a lot, but twice as many Ford F-150s are sold every year. If it's profitable to keep making parts for 200,000 vehicles, it's going to be a long time before most ICE cars run into shortages.

1. https://news.mazdausa.com/2019-10-28-Mazda-Expands-U-S-MX-5-...
That would be 2 endashes, not an emulation of an endash, so surrounding spaces are not ok.

Although, I've always sucked at English so I'm open to being wrong.
I question your estimation of the capital cost. LCOE for most nuclear power plants is way below that: https://www.oecd-nea.org/lcoe/

For the US it's $33 per MWh, so doubling it still gives reasonable cost.

As for wind, it simply can not compete right now for guaranteed capacity. The adequacy rating for most wind power plants is around 10%, so you need 10x overbuild to even compete.
Tom Wolfe had the definitive word on Le Corbusier:

https://www.amazon.com/Bauhaus-Our-House-Tom-Wolfe/dp/031242...
Nothing about their comment is unique to an experience, yours on the other hand...

Risk isn't just about the likelihood, it's also the outcome.

Even if your manager loves you to death and there's just a .1% chance you misread the situation and your early notice goes wrong... the result of that .1% occurrence could be disastrous.

On the other hand, if a 2 week notice is likely to screw over your team, that's a sign of a bad employer. If 2 full weeks of notice isn't enough to stabilize things enough for you to leave on good terms, what happens if you're injured tomorrow?

2 weeks notice is good. The most you should do earlier than 2 weeks is start documenting the unwritten parts of your process and start getting others to understand those. A good manager will enable that without you saying you're walking out the door.
A non-insignificant amount of freelance writers are (were?) just writing spam blogs for SEO (aka “marketing copy”). Which in its turn funnels the search results into their actual money making business. Very rarely it’s done for the purpose of “good reads”. Writers who focus on “insightful reads” are more of columnists, substack people, personal bloggers whose shtick is writing themselves, rather than finding a freelancer.

In my opinion, for the former, the business is dead. Unless search engines figure out a way to derank GPT generated content (most likely will never happen) or they completely ignore random copy while ranking. For the latter, it might be exciting times, since people (I guess, me?) might start searching for actually human generated content.
Yeesh, reading the top comments, HN really has become the Slashdot I remember. Good times ahead.

Anyway, one thing this brings to mind is how much of Linux is encapsulated within the kernel itself. This is why distros feel so... similar.
Explorer can resolve some http urls to network paths, e.g. for SharePoint libraries.

Programs, e.g. python scripts, can then use those paths, but only after explorer has resolved them. Before that, the path will be treated as not existing.
This is kind of baffling to me. I'm a huge fan of the usefulness of ChatGPT, and I've found ways to use it to improve my productivity in a bunch of areas, but if you've "never hired a writer better than ChatGPT", I can only assume you've been hiring really shitty writers. Not necessarily that ChatGPT output is bad, but a lot of the copy has a similar, generic, "college essay" feel to it.

I saw this post on LinkedIn [1] that I think really nails it:

For anyone worried about how generative AI will make creative jobs obsolete, I asked Chat GPT to generate headlines advertising hot cross buns. Here's what it came up with:

"Get Your Hot Cross Buns Here - Fresh and Delicious!"
"Easter Treats Just Got Better with Our Hot Cross Buns"
"Warm Up Your Morning with Our Hot Cross Buns"
"Limited Time Offer: Hot Cross Buns Now Available!"
"Our Hot Cross Buns Will Leave You Wanting More"
"Celebrate Easter with Our Traditional Hot Cross Buns"
"Delight Your Taste Buds with Our Soft and Spicy Hot Cross Buns"
"Bring the Aroma of Freshly Baked Hot Cross Buns into Your Home"
"Satisfy Your Cravings with Our Irresistible Hot Cross Buns"
"Hop into Easter with Our Scrumptious Hot Cross Buns"

Meanwhile a human copywriter just created this real headline for a press ad for Tesco hot cross buns:

"Go Out With All Buns Glazing."

If you want originality, ask a human.

1. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/realtommorton_for-anyone-worr...
Yes this doesn’t really make sense unless it would denature any toxins which doesn’t seem that likely and will do nothing for any pesticide or heavy metal contamination except possibly extract more.
Step 2: idontgiveashitabouttwitter.com

Step 3: wordpress.com … or similar
When it is the race to the bottom, AI LLM services, like ChatGPT, Claude (Anthropic), Cohere.ai, etc are winning the race.

Open source LLMs are already at the finish line.