skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's probably true, but entirely unrelated to what you claimed before.

I'm not seeing how but I don't think it matters.

> You said this specifically, and none of that is permissive anywhere in Europe.

Europe doesn't have crime? Europe doesn't have law enforcement that needs to assemble and collect evidence? Law enforcement in Europe doesn't have situations where the entirety of the situation and circumstances can't possibly be known and warrants need to be extremely (almost impossibly) specific?

Again, US centric but I point to the search warrant affidavit for a billionaire former US President[0]. Page 37 and 38 include language that (from what I've seen) is fairly typical. Statements like "any and all areas that may contain XYZ". "Any and all physical documents", etc.

The US and Europe generally are very different places and US governmental overreach, infringing on civil liberties, abuse of power, etc is a popular topic on HN (I don't disagree). However, the US isn't quite the dystopian Orwellian nightmare described on HN (yet).

It may be my US blinders but I don't understand an environment like the one you describe where a search warrant from government (law enforcement and an independent judicial branch) would be specific enough to include ambiguous terms like "servers". What is a "server", really? Even the technical crowd on HN would debate that ferociously.

I think HN is giving LE and government too much credit here. I have a friend in LE in the US at the federal level who deals with a lot of electronic, crypto, etc investigations and search warrants. He frequently tells me things like "then I have to sit down with the 60 year old lawyers/bureaucrats and get them to understand what a crypto tumbler is".

Again, possibly too US centric but Sweden or otherwise the process is clearly more similar that not:

1) There's an investigation.

2) LE puts together some justification for a warrant.

3) They apply for and get one (again - there's a low common denominator here because everyone through the chain up to and including a judge needs to understand what's described).

4) The get warrant.

5) They send out six police officers from the national police organization.

6) They arrive and someone (per Mullvad's statement) says "we don't have that". If there is a single computer on site (or potentially even storage media, etc) there's no way to establish the veracity of that statement (coming from a party that is clearly under criminal investigation) without performing a search of some kind or (more likely) seizing materials for review later.

7) Per Mullvad's statement LE didn't do anything and (incredulously) walked away without taking any action whatsoever.

I'm not saying what did or didn't happen, I'm saying what they're describing is pretty fantastical.

[0] - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22267182-trump-searc...
Yes. They are "serving". Especially Cancun Cruz. Seriously, they are not serving anyone.
Musk just removed the legacy verification mark. This resulted in a net increase of 28 newly paying users who previously had legacy verification. That's a pathetic conversion rate. (In total 5% of legacy blue checks have purchased verification).

https://twitter.com/travisbrown/status/1649433999914270722
This is an extremely relevant Matt Levine piece. He gives an example of long-dated treasuries trading at 83 cents on the dollar. Today long-dated treasuries issued during COVID are trading well into the 50ies.
What are different use-cases where text 2 SQL generation could be helpful?
With the latest LLMs/codex improvements, the quality of SQL generation has improved but how do folks feel about the idea in-general?
- Is it an overkill?
- Will it be helpful such generators act as assistants?
Clickhouse's data and control plane are well defined, so many folks end up using S3 (or something like it) as a backing store. From what we've heard, this is what clickhouse cloud does behind the scenes: https://clickhouse.com/cloud
In General Relativity, any momentum is encoded in the stress-energy tensor in the Einstein Field Equations, which relates curvature (mainly described by the Einstein tensor) and matter (mainly described by the stress-energy tensor). The vacuum of General Relativity has the stress-energy tensor filled with zeroes in all its components; a wave or beam of light introduces one or more nonzeroes. In suitable coordinates and the flat spacetime of special relativity, this is encoded in the "p" (p for momentum) in e.g. E^2 = (pc)^2 + (mc^2)^2, a fuller version of the famous E = mc^2. See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%E2%80%93momentum_relati...> for details.

Alternatively, we can consider the active and passive gravitational charges of a given mass, also commonly called the active gravitational mass and the passive gravitational mass. The passive charge describes a mass's response to a known source of gravitation; the active charge describes the strength of the gravitational effects generated by an object. In General Relativity the version of the equivalence principle that says that all objects fall identically no matter what their internal composition is ("universality of free fall") ensures that the passive and active charges are identical for all matter. Moreover, in the approximately three hundred years before General Relativity was first written down, there were many successful tests of the equality of the active and passive gravitational charges for many masses; many of these tests were motivated by the work of Newton.

In both Newtonian gravity and General Relativity, light is deflected around large masses (e.g. light from distant stars, or radio beams from <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESSENGER> grazing the sun, and also lunar laser ranging experiments), so in both theories light has a passive gravitational charge (or passive gravitational mass). If passive and active gravitational charges are identical or at least totally equivalent, light must also source gravitation.
Yep. There's one guy at work who's kinda quiet, but one day he noticed me drinking tea. Turns out he knows a lot about Chinese tea and buys it online (helps that he's from China and familiar with the provinces), so he's given me a lot of recommendations and it's become a fun topic to discuss.
Does the world end in 50 years?
Depending on the need that may be perfectly fine. I wouldn't expect to be published in the New Yorker any time soon, but it can write press releases, marketing copy, technical documentation and probably a load of niches (real estate listings?) which are predominantly written by non-writers right now.
> I rather liked VMS conventions as it was immediately obvious what was the directory part of the path and what was the filename and the device.

1. unix doesn't expose devices in the file tree, and thank the [deity] for that

2. directory part: everything to the last /

3. filename: everything afte the last /

4. TEX_ROOT=/foo/bar; cd $TEX_ROOT/MF

Could it be any easier?
If you are paranoid about salmonella in tea, 185F for 15 seconds is enough, and it won't ruin teas that taste better at lower temps.
It's a direct consequence of general relativity, because photons carry energy and momentum.

Some discussion here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/22876/does-a-pho...
5% of legacy blue checks have purchased verification. Looks like HN users aren't representative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35661693
If renewables start straining the grid, they'll just face economically infeasible grid connect fees, reduced or negative rates. That's already the case in California.

Power companies don't get to just start supplying electricity to the grid at will; rather than the grid breaking, operators will simply say "no more". At that point, the only urgency will be an artificial, political one.
The details: one tube on a safety backup system, so with a 0.1% chance of needing to be used, was shown to have the potential to corrode under strain ("corrosion sous contrainte") this led to all plants using that kind of tube being shut down for months because of extreme care. The irony being that this extreme care is keeping things extremely safe, but somehow in the news it comes out as "nuclear is unsafe". The reality is there are many chemicals plants with much more damaging issues, but much less regulations, and significant accidents over the yeras, often not as bad as Bhopal, but still toxic to neighbours, that somehow don't get to newsworthy...
Downtown San Jose has been on an overall downward trend since the start of covid lock down.
The taxes and additional payments into the special fund established for this purpose [1] already cover the prospected costs of dismantling all nuclear power stations and treating/storing the waste (spent fuel as well as materials from dismantled reactors). While the additional "effektskatt" has been abolished in 2018 the payments to SKB continue. The total costs are estimated to end up at 171 billion kr allowing for a safety margin and taking price increases into account. Remaining costs as of 2024 are estimated to be 124 billion kr. The fund currently holds 80 billion kr, the additional 'effektskatt' brought in 38.5 billion kr, securities posted by the companies which run the nuclear power stations stand for another 59 billion kr. Payments into the fund continue, the proceeds of which are invested in state bonds and on the stock market. Even without these continuing payments and investments and disregarding compound interest the costs for dismantling current reactors and treating all waste has been paid already. As it stands the plan is for the remaining reactors to run until ~2045 [2]. Payments into the SKB fund will continue so by the time the last reactor is shut down the costs will have been paid several times over.

[1] https://skb.se/det-har-ar-skb/finansiering/

[2] https://www.karnavfallsradet.se/karnavfall-och-slutforvaring...
That's good feedback. Thanks. What would you prefer we write? Just mentioned "Web" somewhere in the headline?
It's not a slight against Kenyans. It's a slight against not connecting course activities closely with motivation.
You can boot Windows off a VHDX, which might serve your same needs. I'm running like this right now - it has a few quirks but works pretty well.
“Flattening more” is too vague to be meaningful, and there is nothing in that data to suggest that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will stop increasing anytime soon. Nothing.

Edit: and here is more damning evidence. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere over time is not flattening.
Obviously you can't pick up a grocery delivery and remain anonymous.

But in theory if you could pay for groceries with monero (you can't afaik), you could pay from the same wallet you conducted a hack from or purchased a darknet server to host leaked data with. The grocery store wouldn't know the originating wallet or any of its other activity.

Anyone who thinks grocery stores are going to allow monero payments is pretty naive, but Monero at least makes these flows possible.

For example, if Walmart decided to let people pick up orders with monero payments, you'd log in with your walmart account (linked with real name), place your order, pay to the generated wallet address with Monero, and then show ID on pickup. Walmart would have no way of knowing where the money came from.

I don't have any Monero or particularly like it (but mainly because I consider proof of work unsustainable and wasteful). But you have to admit the privacy implications are interesting, and the technology is impressive.
Vivid imagination? You might struggle to recall what’s real or just an illusion
>At what point of scale do people start imagining they have a right to make demands on how something somebody else built and owns should be run?

Zuck still has a fiduciary duty to his shareholders, who expect a return on their investment. Running Meta into the ground because of his own hubris is not acceptable behavior from the CEO of a publicly traded company.
That's a bit handwavey. And the problem for the economy (and the people that make up that economy) lies in the time in between them finding those other jobs.
That's not because of their credit risk but because they pay little to no coupon and get discounted through the interest rates. In particular imagine a treasury bond that will pay $100 in 10 years, you wouldn't pay $100 for that, would you? You'd instead put that $100 in a savings account (t-bills).

The true credit risk on US Treasuries is indeed an abstract and mysterious creature. Nobody knows what would such a "default" mean in practice, what paper would get paid up and what paper would not get paid. Would commercial bank deposits at the Fed get paid? And if not, then what does it even mean to "pay in dollars"? Like how do you achieve "paying someone X dollars", do you deliver printed currency?
> the false endorsement bit can be easily solved by changing the wording of the blue checkmark to be like Reddit Gold: it's something that can be "awarded" to you.

Would changing that text actually be enough? On its face it would still appear to other users as if the people Musk "sponsored" are real subscribers. How many people are going to (know to) click through to those checkmarked users' profiles, click on the blue checkmarks, and discover that bit of information? Especially if the number of sponsored users are a handful out of tens of thousands checkmarked users, meaning that even a person who was in the know would probably be disincentivized from checking every checkmark they saw.
There is a lot of diversity in journals, but MDPI has a very atypical model. More famous/prestigious journals, as well as more niche society journals are able to get PIs to work as editors for free just for the prestige of being affiliated with them. MDPI seems to have a very hard time finding volunteer editors and reviewers, to the point that they are aggressive and annoying- I was getting so many review requests from them (many per week) that I blocked e-mails from their domain, when polite requests to stop were ignored. That said, I did publish a paper with them once, and it was a positive experience.
It’s specifically for profs in the business school, who are in very high demand from the private sector. For many other departments those figures are correct.
IMO it’s the same thing because I fundamentally see LLMs in the same role as calculators that helps reduce cognitive load by offloading repetitive work.

Practically with an LLM the programmer can focus on the creative part (handler function, react component, etc) while the LLM generates the necessary boilerplate for the ever changing frameworks and infra configurations. The programmer (and QA) would still review and test everything but would save time writing boilerplate and ship features faster.
The debt ceiling functions primarily to give negotiation leverage to the minority party. The problem is, if the threat of not raising the ceiling is executed on then it hurts both parties. Even the possibility that the debt ceiling will not be raised is collectively hurting us. This credit default swap is one signal of the negative impact these debt ceilings negotiations have. We really need a reform on the way the US handles debt, one that provides more predictability.

A no-nonsense solution would be to make raising the debt ceiling part of the annual budget or any bill that that has an impact on the budget. Another potential solution would be to make increases on the debt ceiling automatic based on a percentage of GDP, or over time. Another solution would be to reduce the national debt. We have options, and it almost doesn't matter what we choose because our current path is too volatile.
Division is actually pretty straightforward: compute a residual using the multiply-add that you already have, divide _that_, and then add it to the quotient.

Or (roughly equivalently, but maybe easier to understand) do a native double division, then do a Newton-Raphson step, which requires only multiplication and addition (just like you would refine a reciprocal estimate).
I think most of the University could probably be replaced by short courses and long apprenticeships. At least in stem. This would likely reduce the amount of people who could go to universities.
> Musk has admitted buying some people bluetick.

People who specifically said they did not want and would not pay for it; he’s basically forcing them to be involuntary endorsers of Blue via the mark on their account.
>already reduces sizes pretty effectively

8k texture with mipmaps takes about 100mb with BC7. Which is huge. Should be around 30-40mb with kraken and oodle texture.

> I do wonder how much of it is that a Kraken license costs money and it takes time to integrate, though...

Kraken license doesn't cost anything for Unreal developers. And Sony licensed it for all PS5 games.
No, it's absolutely false because those teas are completely legit because in this case lower grade doesn't mean crappy. If it did that would be reasonable advice to give.

If you tell someone never to drink those lower grade teas you're doing them a disservice and that's the only situation in which the advice about never using boiling water would apply.
>People don't believe they have time to understand things on their own

Knowing more is better, but has particular risks...

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-12-28

It has taken me years to become expert level in just the things I do, there is vast range of knowledge I have, and yet because of the knowledge I have, I know that I barely know shit.

>we are encouraged to trust experts and to otherwise follow one of two distinct camps on any given topic.

This is what happens in the US because of our political system that loves turning everything in to L/R, Us/Them means of thinking.
Will their layoffs bring any significant efficiency compared to just letting go of Mark’s pet VR project?

I like VR, I think there is a niche in the market for it, and I respect Meta for their technological efforts in this space. But I have a feeling that Meta’s anti-competitive measures like buying up VR companies and hoarding VR talent alone probably cost more than this layoff will save over a decade.
Their agenda is evident in their claim that AI is unbiased.

It's hard to believe that someone who works with AI to this degree would think for a moment that it is unbiased. It's an attempt to deceive the ignorant, for whatever purpose.
This thread makes it sound like people are overestimating how good the content is supposed to be. Most clients want whats in their head, in writing, and they do not fully comprehend or care when its written badly (they aren't writers), it should convey the idea that they already have, to their potential audience. I have a client for which I develop software, who now writes 3-4 articles per day with ChatGPT, he no longer works with writers who take at least a day or two to put out one article at a time, and often need revision. And it is paying off looking at ranking and analytics of his product.

Yes, the content is not better than a human writer, but what my client is seeing:

1. Much faster turnaround.

2. He gets exactly what he wants and can revise himself.

3. Better results in his ranking due to the content.

4. Some sort of "Engine" which understand exactly what my client is talking about without getting confused.

Isn't that a "better writer" than a human in this case? In his mind, if he goes back to a human writer, he loses a very important and measurable edge he has gained over the past 4-5 months.
If wal-mart means "massive scale, low quality," then no. Elsevier runs many of the most highly regarded journals.
Except it is true because Pu-239 and other transuranic isotopes absolutely are a thing. In the case of Pu-239 it's half-life is ~20,000 years. Given the 10 half-life minimum storage requirements for high level radioactive waste, we're at 200,000 years, which is 40 times the length of recorded human history or if you prefer 2/3 of the time our species has provably existed on the planet.
>So can it actually connect to an original floppy drive...
Yup!

>... and read my disks?
You can try, little dove.
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Prompts are not code, fine. But are you saying that you'll potentially make use of prompts provided by users?
furthermore, so far in universe (after big bang), nothing is really created, only transformed.
I live in a bedroom community of a major city. There are about 25,000 people in my town and there are 7 gas stations. There could be a single station in town and it would still not be inconvenient. Some basic math implies that this one station would be as viable a business as it is today even if only 14% of the vehicles on the road use gasoline. I would be shocked if there are fewer ICE powered cars on the road than that in 2035.

I pass multiple stations when I leave town to get to work. Where I work looks like here ( home ) from a station density point of view.

For longer trips, you may be right that you may have to plan. But there could be very few ICE cars on the road before one station every 400 km ceases to be profitable. And, unlike electric, nothing is stopping me from filling up a gas can before hitting a leg I am really worried about.

I cannot see “lack of stations” being a problem for ICE for a long time.

The cost of fuel could be a thing I guess but, if demand drops faster than supply, the economics of that do not really make sense.

Also, if I am somebody that uses a vehicle “once a week”, is this really the car I am going to take on a 1500 km trip through unpopulated areas? I cannot rent or borrow an EV for that trip?

What you are suggesting seems to be that ICE vehicles are going to end up being errand vehicles for farmers, or the old truck hooked up to the boat to go fishing once a month. Or that people that live and work locally need them for the occasional errand. For the latter use case, where I live at least, just the insurance cost would incent me to replace such a vehicle with a ride share subscription even now.

I think it is going to stay viable to run an ICE vehicle for a long time yet. I also expect fewer people will want to.

This announcement has the potential to push things like Teslas to 1000 km of range. What happens when it hits 2000 ikm ( over 1300 miles ). What are you going to want to head out of town in?

10 years from now, people that can afford it will have all gone EV. People who cannot will drive their ICE until it needs a major repair. And then they are going to go EV.
> large entities who don't care.

Not only do they not care, they benefit from these laws, because they have the resources to implement new requirements while smaller sites don't.
You grossly misunderstand what passive cooling means. It doesn't mean they don't need water for cooling in normal operation. Air cooled thermal cycles are inherently more costly and less efficient
https://archive.ph/L19HH
I have tried to catch many a yellow light myself and am still to slide one lane, let alone 4. Don't try to catch it from a mile away.
They Saw the Aftermath of a Mass Shooting. Should We?
Yeah but he's an economist.
I think it is far more likely that the main impetus for this comes from those who can make the most money from it. Corporations and organizations who seek economic and political intelligence. Identifying employees who are considering other employment options, identifying employees who are considering joining unions, identifying employees political leaning, so that undesirables can be fired upfront and black balled.
Stages of Building an LLM Product