skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard almost exactly the same thing about Japanese reactors, are you sure you're remembering right, that it is definitely the French because it seems a bit of a coincidence
> An actual professorship at UT even if it were not possible to be tenured would surely be preferable to those options I'd think.

And also it includes a gamble that texas will reinstate tenure.
but once you blow away the layers you are left with a virtual machine with a number of low level APIs. Most people won't want to use them.

Yes, I can see the advantage of rewriting those layers in terms of the lower level APIs, for example if the DOM API were to implemented in WASM, you could keep it out of the browser, and download only when/where needed (with a number of caveats, of course)...

The main issue is that even if you do that, I don't expect an API designed with JS in mind to be a good fit for Rust, and vice versa. The risk is that you end up programming not against the "Web Platform", but "WebJS platform", "WebRust Platform" etc."
Show HN: TxtNet Browser – Browse the Web over SMS, No Wi-Fi/Mobile Data Needed
Hello all,

This is my second year of working on a project[1] with the goal of browsing the web, on an Android smartphone, without reliance on Wi-Fi or mobile data. While this concept might seem aimless, my goal was to provide a way for people in areas with limited, expensive, or censored cellular internet access a way to view the web in a basic format. I finished work on a basic client-server model last year[2], and this year, I implemented a new pseudo-distributed peer-to-peer model that allows any TxtNet Browser user to use their own smartphone to run a background server service that communicates via the user's own primary mobile number. The main advantage to this model over last year's use of the Twilio API is the fact that with an unlimited SMS plan from a consumer carrier, you will likely end up paying significantly less than the amount you would pay for Twilio credits (averaging about ~$0.50 per website). There's a lot going on with the stateless nature of SMS, GSM-7 encoding, and Brotli compression, so please ask any questions you might have!

I've also started up a test server instance running on a +1 country code phone number, so feel free to test out the app with your own smartphone. Like mentioned in the GitHub repo, please be aware that I (necessarily) have access to every phone number and associated request that is sent. Of course, anyone can host their own server instance, and if you would like to share it, feel free to get in touch so I can add the number to the repo! Also, there are likely many bugs still lurking, so feel free to report those.

[1] https://github.com/lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32905496
Is that a bad thing? I think part of the problem with modern college education is the lack of industry experience and the another part of the problem is that professors are more interested in research than teaching
> "Only" Portland store is kind of a non-sequitur. Technically correct, but the metro has three other stores within about 15 miles.

Within 10 miles, actually.

It seems similar to the reporting on Walmart closing "all" of its Portland stores. That's 2 stores, leaving 9 others (4 of which are Walmart Supercenters) within 10 miles and 14 others (6 Supercenters) within 15 miles.
In mythical breeder reactors that, which all the built ones have been even less economical than regular PWRs.
Meh, the majority of people buying SUVs and flying for vacation aren't in their 80s ...
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...
There's an interesting [leaked] picture that shows structural damage to the rocket. Scott explains that that is a consequence of the aerodynamic drag vs gravity due to fuel being only in the starship and the SuperHeavy being empty.
"you've mistaken my kindness for weakness"

Wow people outside the military say this unironically? The military has some shit bags who really do think this way (taking advantage of people giving them a second chance), and while people say it and I never liked hearing it, to think a CEO has the nerve to say that like some paranoid despot is pretty out of touch.

This dude sounds like he started listening to some other, much more successful, much more insane CEO's podcast during the pandemic and lost his mind in turn. That article read like the Facebook post of a terminally online friend who's having a mental break
I think this is the least of the problems that nuclear has.

The problem isn't convincing J Random Person off the street, the problem is convincing somebody who has control of billions of dollars that there's any chance the investment will make financial sense.

Until there's a halfway compelling financial argument, until there's a way to reliably build a reactor on a realistic timeline, nuclear is a pipe dream.

Once there is a way that nuclear can be built and makes financial sense, there are tons of locations that would welcome a new large source of employment nearby. For example, nearly all of the current nuclear reactors that are aging out across the US are in cities that don't want to lose the jobs and don't mind having nuclear nearby.
A full path on RISC OS included the filesystem:

ADFS::IDEDisc4.$.Games.!Repton.Arctic

ADFS is the filesystem, IDEDisc4 is the disc name, $ is the root directory, Games is a subdirectory, !Repton is an application directory (since it begins with !) and Arctic is a file within the application directory, not normally referenced by users.

Resources:$.Apps.!Edit

is the application !Edit from the built-in ROM.
>> A lot of people want to have their cake and eat it too: No tenure AND low wages. It won't work out.
Sure you can. That's what the current system of adjuncts is like.

>The problem is that you lose the people who are the most competent. Those who know what they are doing, have valuable skills, etc.

So, you can have your cake and eat it too... provided that the cake is half-off because it's not competitive.

Which is what Scott Aaronson said.
> elect the right candidates

That part's made even more difficult by there typically not being any right candidates at all.
Yes, I actually intend to read the book in question (with some salt on the side) but I'm waiting until I finish the Wolf Hall books because I don't want any Cromwell spoilers! An absurd situation but there it is.
Some games do this by splitting off the highest resolution textures into a free "DLC" that the user can opt not to install if they want to save space. It's sometimes done for audio as well, e.g. optional Japanese voices for the English release of a JRPG.

Remedy's Quantum Break had an unusual spin on letting users choose the install size, it made heavy use of live action FMVs which could either be downloaded ahead of time or streamed on the fly as they played. Downloading the FMVs more than doubled the games footprint.
Haha wow that is so ridiculous it's awesome. Seeing both the Linux root and Windows root with Program Files living right next to usr, etc. is _wild_. Very cool hack!
Sorry for calling it fruit-cakery. I can't edit my comment now, or I would. I'd leave the rest. I think celebrating religion has no place here, but I'm clearly in the minority. Do I have an intellectual curiosity? Yes. But I'm also curious about cancer. The self-congratulatory feel-good tone of this post and its comments don't sit right with me, but obviously, a bunch of people are into it.
Personally, I wasn't expecting anything as good as GPT-4 so soon. So I no longer have any real confidence in how far away 'real AI' is, whatever that means.

I would not be shocked to find out that AGI (using Altman's definition) is more than 50 years away, but I also would not be shocked if it came in 5.

It's really hard to know how scared to be, I think that rationally I should be pretty terrified but I'm not.
IMO, it became stable somewhere between 2013 and 2016. I definitely haven't had any spontaneous corruption since at least 2016 (on multiple laptops and servers; btrfs volumes that mid-double-digit of terabytes)

That said,

- My BDB and SQLite databases tend to corrupt if my laptop battery dies and they're on a volume that's not on LUKS.

- `btrfs check` (fsck), `btrfs rescue`, and `btrfs restore` are IMO not up to snuff if you do encounter corruption (caused by something else, like a failing drive). (But I'm working on that https://git.lukeshu.com/btrfs-progs-ng/ !)

- `docker build` is weirdly slow on btrfs, I always set up a separate ext4 `/var/lib/docker` volume.

- I do RAID and encryption separately in MD or LVM and LUKS, so no comments from me about the stability of btrfs' built-in RAID cor encryption.
You can't believe how stale an introductory course can get when the teaching staff is left to its own devices and research staff looks the other way. And that's at a name brand top-10 university.

Man, I wouldn't hire out of here.
> No it’s not valid in Sweden (or anywhere else). The date at which your resignation starts to count is the date that your employer learns of your intent to leave.

"or anywhere else" is an exceedingly broad assertion. For Canada:

> Yes, you do have to give notice of your resignation in Canada. The common law imposes a duty to provide notice of resignation on all employees.

> However, you don’t have to give two weeks’ notice of your resignation in Canada per se. Rather, you have to give a “reasonable” amount of notice of your resignation, which may be more or less than two weeks’ notice. The amount of reasonable notice an employee has to give will depend on their specific circumstances, as discussed below.

> The obligation to give reasonable notice is a general common law obligation of all employees. In Sure-Grip Fasteners Ltd. v. Allgrade Bolt & Chain Inc., [1993] 45 C.C.E.L. 276 (Ont. Gen. Div.) at pages 281-282, Justice Chapnik found: […]

* https://duttonlaw.ca/do-you-have-to-give-two-weeks-notice-in...

During the 'notice period' you still have a job, though the employer may tell you to simply stay at home (and rescind access, etc).
Now think of synthesizing and distributing novel chemical compounds, or using novel medical devices.
It forces you to understand how Windows functions on unexpected conditions and that knowledge can be extrapolated to other situations where something on Windows fails for no apparent reason and you just know it because you saw it before.

Do not underestimate the power of arcane knowledge.
>You could definitely sustain (1a) without the incentive (or carrot) of tenure. This is how most community colleges work.

Spoiler: this is how most universities work.

They have teaching jobs that are either filled with adjuncts, or are contract-based; or pay such small salaries that tenure is the only thing that would attract anyone to work them.
Some amount of that might be coming from Windows Defender and similar, but yeah NTFS isn't exactly a speed demon.
> You go to an "all" you can eat buffet but you know that they will object if you actually start eating ridiculous amount.

If they have a problem with me devouring literally every slice of bacon they have, then they can remove my fat ass from the premises at their leisure. Hope they brought a forklift.
> He is now co-founder of fission energy company ThorCon, which is developing liquid fuel fission power plants to generate electricity cheaper than coal, to solve the world climate/energy/poverty crises.

I think nuclear will have an important part of dealing with climate change but he has a massive financial stake in this. I wouldn’t trust that more than I’d trust the Exxon guys who told us climate change was a liberal myth for half a century.
> IMHO, right now, tenure is the only edge Academia has in many areas of STEM compared to industrial labs.

This.

Even with tenure in place, I'd never go to academia. So much politics, worry about grants, immobility in what to do research in, low compensation compared to industry jobs, so much frustration, frustrated and bitter colleagues... It's terrible. I love working with colleagues that all have the best interest of the workplace in mind. I find that in industry a lot. In academia it's really rare.
Hmm... so a human is somewhere around a 60000G model as models size is currently described?
Oh no!

"as someone living near a plant"

My first 18 years: I lived 45 km from a nuclear power plant.

It helped me getting interested in physics because of some in hindsight exceptionally well performed guest lectures from a physicist working there, in grades 7-8.
Interestingly, 1980 was the hottest year recorded up to that point. I'll probably never forget that now that I mentioned it to my mom, and she remembered it being super hot because she backed her car into a tree while trying to park in the shade to escape it and that burned it into her memory.
Using for training doesn't mean its reproduced.

Consider a junior dev who writes a range check function while working for a company (so they own the copyright) then goes to a different company and writes the same range function because that's just how he writes code.

Has copyright been infringed?
That's my understanding too. I was surprised to see the headline because we have a couple of assistant profs in my department going up for tenure next year and I was told that if this law passes they won't be able to do that anymore.

Edit: Looks like it applies only to new hires. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/20/texas-senate-tenure-...
So critical discussion isn't allowed around religion because it would be "a flame war"? This is so odd.
yeah I agree with this 100%:

> With that being said, Lyfts hiring practices is probably NOT why they are laying people off

My comment was more a critique of the en-vogue hiring practice of basing a majority of a hiring decision on whether the engineering candidate can pass leetcode level X.

As for why Lyft is struggling is really two-fold, not diversifying themselves besides ride-hailing really pinned them into a corner unlike their competitor Uber which branched into food delivery and other gig businesses. In addition they like many other tech companies over-hired due to pandemic money and herd mentality.
Thanks for the info!

> AWS, Azure, Google, CloudFlare, Digital Ocean, etc

I'm always curious to know if there are more casual options in this space, for non-earthshaking projects. Maybe more like how DO was at the beginning?
It's a review of three books, not a beginners guide to that period. I enjoyed and it made me want to read the books, so I guess it did its job.

It also contains a philosopher related pun which is either one of the best or worst I've ever heard. As great puns should be like that, it's probably the latter.
I read an interesting discussion (I assume on here or linked from here) about reversing grey hair. It was actually about progress towards reversing aging, and how if we could reverse aging, we could surely reverse grey hair. And that there actually have been instances of people undergoing, I think chemotherapy or some other heavy medical treatment, that had their grey hair get its color back as a side effect.

Anyway, it was quite interesting, if anyone knows what I'm talking about, please share. Unsurprisingly, it's not easy to google anything about reversing aging and get any real results.
This guy frucks!
> Can you cite any accurate prediction about 2023 made by climate alarmists in the 1980s?

https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_ha02700w.pd...

Feel free to superimpose today's data[1] on Figure 3 from the above report. Link to the CSV file is here [2] to save you some time with the analysis. Some discussion here [3] (2007). Seems to me that if you compare against the most recent data, scenario B ("the most plausible" of 3 scenarios) is pretty close to dead-on.

[1] https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/graph_data/Glob...

[2] https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/

[3] https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/hanse...
This is mostly true. The packages of assets for games are compressed but the individual assets are usually not. It’s mostly fancy zip of files with maybe a different header.
I disagree, often times for myself and many others I know they just walk you out the door that day, or in a few days, they rarely let you leave on your terms. This advice assumes your employer will act honorably, many, err most, dont.
Then by that definition AI training has no goal, it's simply a process defined by calculations. But whether you want it call it a goal or not, the fact remains that they look very, very much like goals. "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

> It's plausible that AI "goals" emerge evolutionarily as well

AI training is vaguely similar to evolution, except more efficient and directed
>Tenure was meant to protect the academic freedom, and pursuit of the long-term scientific research. Today, most academics chase money, grants, trends, citations and status.

These two statements are written as if there's an implication; there isn't one.

>It’s a job like any other, and doesn’t need protection, at cost to those outside the ivory tower (unless perhaps for a very small subset).

Bold claim! Let's see if it's more than just, like, your opinion.

(Again, it isn't).
Their point wasn't about absolute versus relative. You need food and shelter and the number needs to reflect both.

But I think it's fair to say that the baseline should grow, more slowly than the median.

The internet has replaced other forms of communication and is needed to get almost all jobs, so yes it's a necessity now.
As a TA at a certain public institution in Texas, the level of some students' incompetence by the time they reach their final year in undergraduate studies is shocking and saddening. And yet, almost no one fails, because there is pressure to pass everyone. One would literally have to do nothing in order to fail. Few professors have the time or energy to deal with these issues, so standards get lower and more students pass without knowing their subject. The only thing protecting professors from retaliation (not acquiescing to pressure from administrators / deans to pass students) is tenure. We can see clearly what will be the effect of this legislation.
The heuristic often repeated by folks in the profession is that you've got a top 5% of students who match your description of students who've proven they're good at learning, a bottom 5% who is entirely unprepared for university life and who knows how they got admitted, and the rest whose understanding of the subject matter is influenced by the performance of the teacher.

Post-COVID, lots of us (and you can find articles about this by conducting a simple search) have noticed that the top 5% hasn't changed, but the bottom 5% seems to have gotten significantly larger--10%, sometimes 15% of students in introductory level courses seem unprepared for university. I've seen functional illiteracy in some of my students at my good R1, for the first time ever. Our university is also on a huge enrollment drive, and are constantly hinting that faculty need to grade more easily to keep students happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AC6RSau7r8

More or less. Long story short, when money is lent in a bank, it’s then deposited elsewhere, and then it can be lent again, such that with a fractional reserve of 10% you can ultimately multiply the amount of money in all deposited accounts by 10. In other words, a whole bunch of money just got created. It’s not central money, but it’s still money.

You could maybe try to counter with "but but but bank runs", but if this happens the state tend to print central money to compensate, thus actualising the money creation that happened with fractional reserve banking alone.

> If we didn't have fractional reserve banking, it feels banks could not lend AT ALL.

They could lend their own money.

> Also, what does "more democracy" concretely mean here, as nice as the phrase is?

In this particular instance I’m thinking of full reserve banking (deposit banks turn back into glorified vaults), print central money for mortgages (and burn that money when it’s paid back), and democratically (with congress, referendum, whatever) define clear criteria about who can contract mortgages, and what for. Criteria which would then be enforced by mortgage clerk, on behalf of the state.

The point here is that instead of letting private interests that want to make money decide, the people decide (possibly through elected officials) of the applicable criteria.
That was true. I wonder if it will keep being so true as information is available everywhere and remote work takes hold.

I still think you can get a lot of benefit living for a while in a "center" like Silicon Valley, but a few years might be enough to absorb a lot.
You can imagine my reviews as a professor. Who is at fault?

It's the system that's at fault. Remember the noncanonical version of the Monty Python Dead Bishops skit? The murderer admits the crime to the police (in fact the Church Police), saying "It was me, but the system is at fault." The police proceed to question everyone else: "Excuse me, are you part of the system?" - "Yes." - "Come with me then!"
> You can stop reading right there as this immediately identifies this piece as disingenuous at best

Or you can keep reading it and see that it literally says "It is a misnomer to say renewables are carbon-free compared to nuclear power." And discusses the very things you stated was disingenuously discounted.
The pain is real! Speaking of Amazon - AWS CDK is promoting lots of terrible practises mostly built on barely supportable TS/JS, it's so... so terrible.
Is this like schema-less? How do you do indexing for individual log fields and stuff?
Hence why you should live on that unclaimed but of land in Africa. :D
It’d be great but … when does it go online? I’m not going any more and it’s been “real soon now” for my entire life. We no longer have decades to wait, especially when we can cover the vast majority of needs with renewables for less money.
I doubt you can do it in 8K at that speed and also why not just compress it? Any quality degradation from compression will be less than the artifacts produced by an AI image generator
BuzzFeed, Blue Check Marks, and the End of an Internet Era
>HTML & CSS seem a world apart from traditional programming (and computer science, etc.) and were initially much more about things that were the designer's realm--another tool for layout, format, hierarchy, etc.

This was the problem. HTML was for a very specific idea about design and page layout but designers wanted more options then the primitives provided by HTML.

So to fix they created CSS. Then started endlessly tacking things onto CSS until it's the mess that it is today.

A well designed API happens in layers. You have pixel primitives at the bottom layer and then progressing higher and higher to textual and graphic design primitives at a top most layer. What we have in the front end world today is HTML at the bottom layer and pixels inside the canvas layer. The whole thing is duck taped together in ways that don't make sense.
How does this stay correct in the presence of concurrent activity?
Assistant professors (tenure track) in decent public business schools start at $300k salary. And this is in the Midwest. And I know that the top private business schools pay more, just that it isn’t public information like it is at the public universities. Now obviously those people would likely be paid higher salaries in the private sector (even CoL adjusted) but the economics of it ensures that pay for professors of fields in demand in the private sector will be at least somewhat decent.
There's a huge difference between recognizing that most software will have some bugs and creating a system that's so broken by design that you have to invent a fictitious island to work around it.
Almost nothing about civilization is emissions free. In the context of comparing energy sources, it's a totally reasonable statement. It's only when you present it cut-off like you did that it sounds wrong. You're criticizing half of the tagline of the article, of course it won't contain all the nuances.