skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does AI really get you anything in that situation?

Yes, it allows the actors to disassociate themselves with the act.

Assuming you have drones with on-board image processing and autonomous loiter capability, you could place them hours, days, or even weeks in advance and have them configured to launch at a predetermined point in the future.

FWIW, I wouldn't even call this sort of thing "AI" - it's already totally possible using mostly COTS ("Commercial, Off-The-Shelf") components and software. The only thing that would need to be custom is the image processing portion, and that's not really all that complex. The "follow me" functionality of most commercial photography-oriented quadcopters (e.g., DJI Mavic series, Autel Evo 2 series) already implements that sort of thing, just specific to identifying and tracking a person, vehicle, animal, etc.
The publications all appear to do what the README is describing, except for the part where the README says
bugs are preventing some results from being reproduced.

Going through the stuff chronologically seems to help understand how the ideas got put together. The 2017 MS paper is the oldest of the four and mentions a weaker MSPrecise method using summary statistics. I mean… if we really are sure some two things are somehow related, you might as well throw ML at it and see what it comes up. It's just linear, no super fancy models.
T-Mobile's acquisition of Ryan Reynolds's Mint Mobile could be in trouble
Windows does literally copy (parts of) files into memory. More precisely it's Windows Defender Real-Time Protection. It's a real menace when you're dealing with a lot of small files, e.g. node_modules.

Windows Explorer is also slow for an unknown reason.

Doing file operations through the API with Real-Time Protection turned off is several orders of magnitude faster in the case of small files. It's crazy stuff.
> First, nuclear doesn't always get cheaper. Chernobyl happened, how do we fix that? Containment building. That costs money.

Western nuclear power plants always had containment buildings, so no, this isn't a factor.

> Fukushima happened, how do we fix that? Better backup plans.

Most places aren't subject to magnitude 9.1 earthquakes, so no such plans are needed.

Nuclear power benefits from economies of scale. Building a nuclear power plant involves constructing things like pressure vessels and steam generators that have no market outside of nuclear power construction. The price history of nuclear plants demonstrates this: The plants built during the nuclear boom during the late 60s and early 70s were some of the cheapest forms of decarbonized energy production [1]. Producing a run of 40 steam generators [2] is a lot cheaper than a run of 4 steam generators. Same with pressure vessels, and other costly components. Serialized production of the same design yields cost savings.

> Same goes for say, pumped hydro and battery storage. Those things can already be done, and you can start doing it much faster than you'll get nuclear built.

No, we can't. This is just hand-waving away the biggest obstacle to widespread deployment of intermittent sources. Hydro storage is geographically dependent: you essentially need to be able to create an artificial alpine lake, and it needs to be close to an existing lake or river in order to fill it.

Battery storage remains prohibitively expensive. The actual cost of battery storage is much higher than the raw cost of lithium batteries [3]. Labor, installation, and DC to AC conversion equipment leads to net costs of ~$500/KWh.

This is why plans for a grid primarily powered intermittent sources assume that some other battery chemistry or hydrogen storage will make energy storage essentially free.

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_generator_(nuclear_power...

3. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/new-york-battery-storage-co...
Nuclear has only ever gotten more expensive, never cheaper. SMRs seem interesting, but at this point they're more science fiction than reality.
This:

> Ad hominem is not as good an argument as you think it is.

Makes this:

> is totally a thing I get and have experienced in reverse

A case in point.

I'm not even going to bother now with the rest; the abrasiveness you approach this topic with is uninteresting to me, and does not help me learn new things.

That's also not an ad hominem, by the way; it's a critique, sure, but not even intended as a response to the attempted argument.
that was a fun rabbit hole, thanks haha.
This is an interesting discussion on database performance and scaling. Thanks for sharing!
Not really. If you're going for performance, you're going to be using NUMA aware code, and your compute is going to stay on a single CCD (if you set up your NUMA domain correctly). Then it's up to you to decide if you benefit more from cache or frequency.

EDIT: AMD CPUs with nonuniform cache (such as this one), with the right motherboard, support L3 as NUMA, which means that each CCX is exposed as a NUMA domain.
And yet power plant closures were entirely due to politics, not the cost.

Now the price of energy in Sweden quintuples depending on demand: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1271491/sweden-monthly-w... I am just so glad that the expensive energy is out of the picture. (That was sarcasm, I chose to pay for electricity coming from nuclear, and it's not meanigfully more expensive than other types)
The world that PHP grew up in has changed. The language and community have matured, and in the process PHP has lost most of its competitive advantage: low barrier to entry.

It used to be:

* Moving from static HTML to dynamic server code was a matter of changing file extension and adding PHP tags.
* Many shared hosting services supported PHP.
* Deploying was a matter of copying files to the server.

Projects that started from HTML + PHP tags grew and became unmaintainable messes. The PHP community learned from this and evolved in a different direction. You can still _write_ PHP code in the old way, but it's strongly discouraged and (rightfully) seen as a bad practice. You don't even use PHP as a templating language anymore. Symfony and Laravel have their own templating languages that dynamically compile to PHP.

Modern PHP code looks very much like Java or C# -- classes, OO design patterns, and so on. Except in most ways, it's worse than Java or C#. Why would anyone start a new project in PHP?

Deploy models have also changed. You're usually not copying files to servers, but deploying Docker images or other formats. PHP has no particular advantage in this new world.

If PHP wants to turn things around, it needs to figure out what makes it unique or better than other languages. Right now, there's really nothing.
Interesting, just found another post from yesterday about the comparison: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35642522, though the comparison is coming from Pinot team.
Gravity cannot be exchanged by photons or any other spin 1 particle, for that matter. Spin 1 particles lead to repulsive forces for like charged particles.

This leaves you with spin 0 and spin 2 as the simplest alternatives. Spin 0 doesn't result in light bending and gives a wrong result for Mercury's perihelion precession. Spin 2 gives you General Relativity.
Could, but after near 20 years of WoW and however many expansion launches with big ole wait queues each time, they really don't seem to bother.
It depends on how Apple implements it, I guess?

Some Android skins show you a big red warning, disable the "install" button for a few seconds, and the cancel button is the one with the bright colour. This, plus not allowing sideloading by default, seems to work well. A simple popup probably wouldn't be as effective.
The Magic Sack by David Small made your ST a Mac!

PC-Ditto (a NEC V20 chip on a daughter card soldered to the 68000!) made your ST a PC!

Awesome hacker box, those STs.
You do realise that vagaries are written into the law all the time? What do you suppose cruel and usual punishments means? Or unreasonable searches and seizures? Or just compensation? Or a speedy trial? Or excessive bail? Etc. These are all subjective.
I happen to have the premiere issue of Amiga World magazine and looking at the original printed image, I can tell you that the vertical scan lines are straight as an arrow, and line up perfectly with the (cropped) sides of the image.

Even if they were distorted by a fisheye lens, it should be easy to use something like Photoshop's "pinch" filter to create an undistorted image to work from.
> I don’t care what CRT is academically

Wut? Aren't you explicitly talking about an academic context? Wouldn't that matter a heck of a lot what class your brother was getting taught? Like, hypothetically I can disagree with feminism but I'm just being stupid if I go to a feminism 101 class and get mad the professor is teaching feminist theories.
Mark or no-mark, the question is really about ownership structures.

Facebook/Meta and Google have ownership structures that give them wide latitude to sacrifice present earnings for the future. But aside from showing that it's possible to advertise to everyone all the time, they don't seem to have done much with that freedom. Ironically, investors are still happy enough with returns, but they weren't due to new products.

Musk showed electronic payments were possible, private space, and electric cars; tunnels and twitter are less successful. His problem is really that people will sign up for anything he says.

Apple has somehow managed to build 2-3 markets in the same time frame, with Google, Samsung, Microsoft (and the chinese) gamely copying along, based mainly on hard integration engineering and clear product focus.

Similarly, Amazon has taken one idea and simply out-executed everyone else. And they had the guts to open AWS, which spawned entire ecosystems.

I would say what distinguishes them is not leadership directly but their leadership building a culture of both ambition and honesty in their middle managers. As far as I can tell, they do this because they believe more in the company than in themselves - i.e., what they can do if they work together.

So my reaction is: enough with blaming leaders for specific products bets. Hold them to account for building cultures - the horrors of Uber/Twitter or the joys of Apple - particularly if they've been at it for a generation.

For that, middle managers need to stage some interventions. It doesn't matter if Zuck owns all the stock, if people refuse to go along with his hair-brained ideas on soul-sucking marches. Stop treating stock as the measure of power, and use consent instead.
I'd be interested if this was open hardware.

Otherwise, I'm better off with either buying an used Atari 800xl or with miSTer.
AI will just make non-permissive open source licenses more pointless than they already are. The GPL and similar licenses have been on a slow death march for over a decade. AI isn't doing anything that Human Intelligence isn't already doing. Every single developer has looked at non-permissive open source code for inspiration.
i haven't seen it posted before, but i've noticed many (if not all) Checker's (Rally's for some) burger restaurants have automated drive-thru order taker. You speak what you want and can upgrade sizes and so on and I've never had it not get my order correct.

Newer versions with the ChatGPT-like AI is definitely closer than people think. and Customer Service jobs are a very large amount of employment here and overseas. Bad for lots of people.
Oh wow. We are soooooo on the same page. I'll be in touch. Probably be one of your first customers, eh?
How does this debunker explain the correlating radar and other sensor platform data?

As far as I'm aware[1], bokeh does not cause radar and distinct and tracking FLIR signatures in fixed 3D positions from multiple Navy craft.

1. I have been trained on and worked on low-observable (aka "stealth") aerial platforms and various aerial sensing systems (optical/FLIR/radar/multi-spectral/etc).

FWIW: I'm not in the "it's aliens" camp. My leading hunch is some sort of multi-spectral spoofing platform(s).
> I don't see why you couldn't do the same thing to e.g. the binary of the Windows kernel

Forget the binary; there have been Windows code leaks every now and again over the years. Feed one of those into a model, start generating code for ReactOS, and see how long until MS decides that actually AI is infringing...
We need to change planning.
EU, plus probably EEA States and Switzerland.

There are specific protected terms, since they can refer to places to processes.
I believe Champagne is both.
As someone with little knowledge about this field, I am curious what "ROME" and "sota" refer to.
AI’s uncanny mistakes reveal the gaps in how I perceive intelligence
Have you never taken a vacation?
I do agree with that and some replies in favour of nuclear energy were totally sensical. The initial article is not and should be balanced with issues and yes, sometimes irrational fears, we do face as a country relying mostly on this energy source. The risk of electricity cut was a big deal this winter, might be next winter too.
Listen to the answer to the question, "How long until our game installs take up 500 gigabytes of space": https://youtu.be/tmfHxJT1I3I?t=7152s

The reality is a game has increasingly more content nowadays. Remember, there's a lot of "games as a service". So you have many "seasons" of additional content. You may not play all the content, but someone is. And when people want 4K and 8K textures, different variations so effects don't look the same twice, on top of all the other sizes, plus all the other effects ... it adds up. Never mind huge open worlds, where the asset footprint for just the map might be 100GB.

Having been in a few AAA studios myself (doing database stuff) and sitting next to artists and even art directors, the sheer amount of effort, headcount, etc. put into the art pipeline is genuine madness. In a large studio, art is over HALF the production cost, sometimes more towards 60-65%. Heck, one of the things sometimes brought up about Red Dead Redemption II is that there were three full-time employees in which all they were responsible for was horses. 6000 man-hours a year, on just horses.

To sum up what Chris said towards the end, "The only thing keeping these numbers down is the compression algorithms. If we didn't have these newer compression algorithms, we'd probably legitimately be at a terabyte. I can actually tell you for a fact, that there are over a terabyte of assets in the COD engine."
The law defines that distinction just fine. Business necessity doesn't count for anything, only technical necessity for certain purposes.
Of course if only used on internal software that isn’t distributed, then copying GPL code is fine. Until a developer inadvertently distributes it or copies code from one place to another…
> Anyone used to scripting languages knows there's a difference between single quotes and double quotes for escaping.

Not necessarily. There are all sorts of scripting languages where single and double quotes are identical.

It is, however, super common for there to be escaping differences in shell scripting languages.
So? Would you rather we didn't make small improvements?

If we could just make big improvements we would.
Unlimited vacation works well for me. Instead of hoarding my precious vacation days, carefully judging whether some occasion is special enough to justify rationing them out (therefore possibly having to miss out on something else, later in the year), I just... take time off, whenever there's reason to, and don't worry about it. I don't know whether I take more or less time off, and that's the beauty of it: I get what I want and I don't have to think about it.
Oracle's actually been a really good steward of Java, besides it's open source.
Willingness to make personal sacrifices in order to benefit the greater ecosystem is what separates the weak from the strong. Hedonism is a copout.
It's not just through 3rd grade anymore. It's all the way through the end of high school.

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-education-board-ap...
And even tenured UT or A&M professors will seek to move out to tenured positions elsewhere because no one wants to go down with a sinking ship. This is a singularly bad idea as Texas had successfully transitioned from being a resource extraction economy to a technology and medical one.
71°C for 1/2min to kill salmonella, instantly with 74.

10min is around 64°C.

Remember that the cup often cool down the water 10-15 degrees. So the water should not be under 90°C from the boiler to be safe.
Take a close look at the dates on all of your links, then read this whole thread again.
France has been using nuclear power plants for more than 50 years, producing up to 75% of all electricity and exporting to other countries, and did not suffer any disaster.
There has been natural nuclear power plants that has been running for few hundred thousand years (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo_Mine)... so nature did it before us, and nature did not really care and left all the waste on the site. We have found more efficient ways to produce, reuse the waste and properly dispose it.
The .kkreiger devs really showed how far you can go to reduce download size:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya_MUKc343U

It is dated, but looks pretty good by 2004 standards.
I understand why it's not allowed, although apparently a few of the players would have been ok if they just had gambled outside of team buildings? I don't know all the rules here it's just kind of silly to me.
Life? The steady state is a nice calm, but you really want to know the people you're with can deal when things go south.

I've been in enough situations where production is having issues, and it's good to have engineers on point.
Seriously though, I always post this comment and get downvotes.

Are we going to see any realistic solutions to climate change, the ones which do not expose you as a religious person who want to flagellate themself and still be a sinner?
Won't you be able to get more work and bill more for the additional support?
You're looking at this from a healthy body's perspective, in case of an excess of misfolded proteins the ER stress increases which activates the unfolded protein response (UPR) which tells the cell to produce less proteins to let it chill out a bit, and then if the ER stress remains too high leads to apoptosis (cell death). That's the way the body normally functions and it's all good.

But if your body produces a majority of misfolded proteins you don't want your cells to freak out about it and kill themselves because you need those cells alive for your body to perform its normal physiological functions. At least it's an emerging theory that in some case the systematic destruction of the cells leads to worse outcomes than just having cells living and working with misfolded proteins.

Take all this with a great big grain on salt because it's the blind leading the blind. I'm not a biologist, I've just read a lot about my illness.
Copyright protects not the idea, but specific implementation of it. It's there to prevent unauthorized copying of software. Not every software has to be novel enough to be patentable, but may still take effort to write a millionth-first JS framework.

If you take someone else's software without a license and rename variables, it will be a copyright violation, because you've copied (and then modified) it without permission.

But if you write your own software from scratch, even if it happens to be almost identical to someone else's code, that's fine. You've done your own work and a copyright owner can't stop you from doing that. They control their own work only.

As you can see, this is very much tied to human work and intent, since the concept has been invented long before ML existed. This is why ML "learning" and doing "work" is so controversial and appears to be a loophole in copyright.
This comment presumes that public universities are the proper venues for this type of research. They're not.

The only reason people are foregoing higher salaries to work at universities is because universities have pushed private research almost completely off the map.

And even if public research is necessary, it doesn't need to be part of the university system. Ever heard of the NSA? They do research, yet somehow they're able to exist without being a university.

(Not saying OP is disagreeing or agreeing with the statement from the article).
Will this help to drop prices of homes in San Jose? I remember a lot of realtors selling the future of google
Yup. gg, gpl
thanks for contributing exactly nothing to the discussion
There's no reason for attribution. It's inspired code, not included code. Human coders do the same thing every day.
I think it's a halflife/timing thing. Once it hits boiling, it's instance death for most microbials.

You can keep it a lot lower for longer but it's also potentially difficult to tell the temperature (easier to say, bubbles? It's hot enough)
You think Atari execs were bad? Don't even get me started with Commodore.
I can confirm. Matcha tastes like crap when made with boiling water.
> Man, i've had config files break because i saved them in UTF-8 instead of ANSI.

Isn't this because random Windows tools add garbage bytes to the start of the file (a "byte order marker") and then don't tell you they did this?

It's not the encoding that's the problem, it's the garbage bytes.

P.S. I do know of exactly one program that only accepts UTF-16 for its config file, and won't accept UTF-8 or ANSI.
2 and 4 work.
No, China can not build nuclear economically. That's why they're drastically reducing their nuclear goal while they continue to scale up coal and solar.
repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559145 but instead of phys.org it's from the source, UW
Twitter drops 'government-funded' label on media accounts, including in China
I don’t think “nearly everyone” is a correct assessment. The current conservative coalition includes a lot of Gen X and Millennials. In 2022, the D advantage among voters 30-44 in 2022 was down to 4 points: https://i0.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/.... These are folks who grew up in the 1990s in a much more permissive free speech culture. These are not necessarily the same folks as the ones in the Texas Senate.
The rule of thumb is expect to be off-boarded the minute you give notice. ie. don't expect that if you give X days of notice that you'll be working those X days.
It's great that they've removed "non-permissive" (GPL) code from their training data, but it looks like they still train on code with "permissive" licenses (they use MIT, BSD, Apache as examples). But don't these permissive licenses still require the copyright notice to be reproduced?

From the MIT license:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

From the BSD licenses:

> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated in all such forms...

From the Apache 2.0 license:

> You must retain, in the Source form of any Derivative Works that You distribute, all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices from the Source form of the Work, excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works
It was the first server language I learned. I mean, i did know how to program in java, but i mostly wrote java applets.

I find php easy to write, i can get an API running with a few lines of code without any library, and I find it very easy to deploy.
Not sure about most things transferred via touch/sneeze but I imagine lack of moisture would cause anything living to die fairly quickly.
Geez, I'm really worried about discussion styles here.

Nobody claimed that other species do. That has little to do with the question of why I should care about our's surviving.
Do they really use gamma, or just electron beams like in a TV tube?