skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
F1 has gotten further and further away from production deployment vehicles in favor of more entertainment for the crowds. Tires all degrade to enable more strategy, and the ground effect cars are now designed for closer racing which production vehicles don't care about. Le Mans has more production relevance than F1 now.
Ahmen!
Pick up “Stop Stealing Sheep” an oldie but goodie on how type works.
Maybe it didn’t catch on and it certainly seems to have been disproven but there was some serious scientific discussion about an upcoming ice age.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1756074

I mentioned it in an earlier comment but it was also in my science textbook in my elementary school days.
> Tenure track and then have an easy work life

Most faculty works much longer hours than the private sector. It's not easy by any means.

People become professors for exactly the same reason why some people become doctors and others real estate agents - they enjoy it or their personality matches the profession.

Money is not everything.
At first glance it seems to only support bitmap? I means it does seems great, but I believe a big part of Flash is the vectorial format, it's not baked into the image, and it does look "good" in many resolutions. You can iterate quickly that way.
The story gets better here when you consider that most "waste" can actually be reused (93% of uranium fuel rods used in LWRs could be recycled). Also consider, more radioactive materials (the parts we can't currently recycle, outside of some exotic hypothetical reactor designs) have shorter half lives, and so aren't a problem for as long.

The best containment proposal I've seen is deep geological disposal.

Also consider, making fuel rods removes some radioactivity from the environment, so if you change the requirements from "keep all byproducts contained forever" to "keep all byproducts contained until radiation levels are no worse than where we got it from" the problem becomes more tractable.
Here is how I look at it.

Major universities have two functions: (1) teaching and (2) research. Teaching is further split between (1a) undergrad (basic) and (1b) graduate (advanced).

You could definitely sustain (1a) without the incentive (or carrot) of tenure. This is how most community colleges work.

(1b) and (2) currently rely on the existence of tenure. Teaching advanced courses (1b) requires research experience. Finding people willing to spend their lives in research (2) requires some kind of incentive, especially in STEM fields.

As others have mentioned, to eliminate tenure, you need to provide an equivalent incentive. If you don’t, you’ll end up with a race to the bottom and a very probable exodus of academics to either other states or - even worse - other countries.
I think cattown might be referring to statements such as this:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/17/openai-sa...

Not sure if I'd say there's a conspiracy per se, but I do think generative AI players are going to be careful about the optics of the technology and how it works. Anecdotally from speaking to non-technical family members there's very little understanding for how the technology actually works, and it seems there's not a great deal of effort to emphasize the importance of training data, or the intellectual property considerations in these companies marketing materials.
How combustible are these batteries compared to the standard lower density ones, and if one of them catches fire, how easy/hard is it for the fire department to get it under control?
> The point is that nuclear is safe because we've been making it safer over time, and that rarely makes it cheaper. The specific ways in which that's done isn't the point.

Er, no it is the point. We've always been using the safety mechanisms you specified, so it's not going to affect costs because those safety features have always been there.

> Everything does, but nuclear benefits less. Precisely because of what you said, they have no other market use. You'll need to convince industries that it's worth scaling up for that, and that it won't backfire. That will be tricky.

Quite the contrary, it makes it benefit vastly more from economies of scale. For example, one of the central components in a wind turbine is an alternator or dynamo. We make alternators for all kinds of products, so doubling the production of wind turbines doesn't remotely double the market for alternators because wind turbines are only a small segment of the market for alternators.

By comparison, nuclear pressure vessels are only used for nuclear power plants. Thus doubling the production of nuclear pressure vessels doubles the market for pressure vessels. Serialized production of nuclear power at scale would easily expand the market for nuclear power components by an order of magnitude. The same cannot be said of wind turbines and alternators.

You're missing the context that renewables are currently being used to supplement a primarily fossil fuel grid. This means we don't actually have to accommodate the intermittent nature of renewable production. Once renewables saturate the energy market during peak production, things become a lot harder for renewables. You're comparing apples to oranges when you compare an intermittent source to a non-intermittent source.

People want solutions right now, and intermittent sources are not a solution until cheap and scalable energy storage is invented. Which it hasn't. We have geographically-limited options like hydro which are good for the regions that have access to it. But for everywhere else, it's either continue to use fossil fuels or nuclear power.

> Yeah, batteries are expensive, but remember Tesla's battery in Australia that got done in 100 days?

How much does it store? Media reports this as "2,000 megawatt seconds" [1]. In other words, 0.55 megawatt hours. This is less electricity than a small nuclear plant produces every minute. To put this in perspective the US alone consumes about 12 TWh (or 12,000,000 MWh) of electricity every day. We'd need tens of millions of these battery facilities.

Again, there's a reason why plans for a primary renewable grid assume hydrogen storage, or some new battery chemistry will be a silver bullet for storage.

1. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/07/27/tesla-big-battery-beg...
some countries have a public policy of “don’t negotiate with terrorists”. it’s so tempting for me to adopt the same policy in my own life. if a burglar showed up at my door demanding entry, i wouldn’t debate them about why it’s morally preferable that they don’t enter against my will. but when it’s some politician demanding entry, suddenly everyone thinks i ought to engage in that debate.

no. better to dispel the myth: those who rule without consent are illegitimate rulers. the problem isn’t us failing to persuade such rulers. it’s us failing to reject such rulers.
I see, thanks. Basically just store the foreign keys yourself as columns in relevant tables and perform the joins in SQL without having the DB enforce FK integrity for every insertion/update/delete. Would it be fair to say that read speeds are unaffected by this?
> Manager: "we asked, legal says you can't use copilot", dev: "okay, so from now on, I'll not discuss how I use copilot and will remember to disable it when someone sees me working, gotcha".

Manager: "Everyone else is running through their feature list faster than you. What gives? Remember, you're not allowed to use Copilot."

IC: "I'm not using Copilot."

Manager: "Remember, you're not allowed to use Copilot."
Because interpreting JS without JIT would drain the battery and make iOS look bad to its users who would not understand that the poor battery time was due to the third-party browser they are using.
ah thank you, this makes sense!
It is because the person is evidently a con-man.

So it is not as much "interesting" but "illuminating" that supposedly smart people like scientists can be just as easily mislead as the random person responding to an email scam.
Nobody asked for this, wanted this, or imagined it. But it was done and it is epic! A tip of my hat!
I don't agree evolution optimises for a goal at all. IMO optimising for a goal means you first define a goal, then you work towards it.

Evolution has no goal, it's simply a process determined by chemical reactions. Any goals we attribute to it, e.g. "for our genes to survive and be passed on" are emergent phenomena, a rationalisation after the fact that that is indeed what's been observed.

It's plausible that AI "goals" emerge evolutionarily as well, but for that to happen we first need to create not AGI but Artificial Life, which is a huge leap from today, and I certainly don't understand how that's inevitable.
I first saw this in action on StackOverflow when, during an interview, a candidate copy-pasted a solution verbatim including the attribution. Didn't even give it a second thought, like they didn't even read the code or what it was doing.

It wasn't the right solution to the problem in question, for what it's worth.

Just manually did what GPT does now.
Good points.

Interested to find out more what you mean with this:

> 5. Learn that design is meant to move, and pick up animation!

I mainly work with 'Enterprise' or B2B users. My experience those users don't care about animations. They just want the fastest way from A -> B and don't get in their way.

What's your experience and with what type of users?

I get frustrated with animated interfaces on the web. It usually means my laptop fan spins up because the designer wanted to show off how cool all those CSS animation thingies are.

UI animations seen on mobile apps are better, e.g. subtle animations used in Apple's music app improve usability.

I usually try to stick to using it for making signifiers clearer, to show state changes or for feedback.

This is a good book: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/designing-interface-animati...
> More precisely, it would be the immediate end of our ability to recruit competitively,

I wonder. For one thing, tenure can be replaced by higher salaries. Who knows, maybe these universities will get more bang for their bucks that way. After all, there are industrial research labs that play in the same league as the top research universities.

And there are other forces that make people want to pursue academic careers. Academics are very ego-driven, they measure their success in prizes, grants, publications, so if these universities give them the means to do that, they'll still attract top talent.
I am pretty sure these workshops [1] they host aren’t free to participate in.

[1] https://www.who.int/news/item/14-12-2022-gisaid-and-who-glob...
I don't think "lots of people" are going to living in Mars anytime soon. Before we start sending any people, we would be sending a whole lot of other equipment to send us high quality data about the environment before we are ready to start sending any real humans.

Personally, I think we should never send any humans ever to Mars. Humans will not be leaving the solar system anyway and glamorising the idea of humans being in Mars could just unnecessarily delay going further with life.
It also adds it's own special brand of crap .. as in after trying 10x different ways (not kidding: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...) of executing an external ffmpeg command over several hrs I eventually wrote a one line .bat file* and was done with it. Never again.

*
for %%a in ("*.mp4") do ffmpeg -i "%%a" -vcodec libx265 -crf 26 -tune animation "%%~na.mkv"
> don't care if it does to do anything about it

This is most people. Which, frankly, makes governing possible. I understand the civic detachment. (I don’t care about most fights enough to get involved.) What I suppose I don’t is still wanting to comment on it.
Speaking to your situation - I've come to think that degree programs that only "pay off" after a certain level is obtained (masters, phd, credential, license, etc) - then there should not be an option to get out of the program until it's completed.

By that I mean eliminating the intermediary and largely useless degrees. You would instead enter into the Condensed Matter Program, which at the end awards a phd, and nothing in between.

This sort of program could still offer minors/concentrations and elective/exploratory classes, but the main degree program would only result in the final destination.

I could be persuaded this is a terrible idea - but the idea here is to eliminate the ability for someone to footgun themselves after dedicating 6-8 years to a degree that ends up being worthless.
Blender is such a mess and a nightmare. It's hard to believe it used to be even worse.
I removed it because I'm tired of responding about the individual anecdotes without anyone actually acknowledging the root argument. I don't want to write a three page essay on how I verify information that affects my general outlook of the world, and then dismiss and forget the details surrounding the verification of information as immaterial to the view I now hold.

I'm not an academic, I'm just a regular guy who happens to have had bad experiences with professors abusing their positions of authority. I don't have sources to cite, and this belief holds such a small peripheral place in my world view that I don't have the level of detail available to deal with this level of... whatever the hell this was.
China especially leads the deployment of coal power plants. Two new blocks of coal power plants are getting online every week.
To go down the rabbit hole that the GP started (about letting people for other people's blue checkmarks), 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. Obviously it wouldn't fix how toxic the place is, but I think if the goal is to get out of being sued, it would be enough.
good idea : one why chitty etxture quality, one with average, one with quality texture.
They have done this on web-videos. Why not on video games files ?
Did the headline get edited?
On TFA it reads ‘The REAL Magic Kingdom’, which definitely conveys a much different concept than the version here which omits ‘real’.
Um, no. It's not speculation. Many games have been shown to use uncompressed assets, that's an objective fact.

The thread might be speculating about _why_ they do that, or whether this particular game does that, but that's a non sequitur, that isn't what I was talking about.
I've tried using this in an argument and gotten a response along the lines of "I don't mind if people watch me poop."
Millions of dollars flow to an organization headed by a convicted fraudster ... rest assured there are much more efficient ways to divert those funds than workshops

If anything the workshops are legit front.
I have resigned for two different jobs where I was the highest tech leader, reporting to the CEO (basically CTO role without the title). Both times I gave 1 month of notice. Both times all the "transition" work was done during the first 2 weeks, and afterwards, I basically sat at meeting listening without say (I pushed for my "replacement" to be the one making the decisions as if I wasn't there) and even the CEO asked me to stay at home in one of the two jobs.

My thought is that if that worked for me for 2 weeks, it should also be more than enough for an IC.
Ask HN: Is it time to move on from my startup?
I'm facing a difficult decision and could use some advice. I'm currently the CTO at a tech startup, and I'm trying to decide whether I should stay or move on. Here's some background:

Cons:

- I haven't been paid hardly anything for nearly 3 years, relying on side work to make ends meet.

- As the CTO, I handle development, maintenance, customer support, and some sales (we outsource the majority to contractors); the CEO (non-technical) contributes, but not nearly as much as their equity stake suggests (higher than mine).

- Our CEO is trying to secure a 300k loan with questionable collateral requirements, including asking me to put up my car (which a bank owns) and a personal guarantee.

- It took almost 3 years to get a cap table and founders agreement in place, with the CEO dragging their feet.

- The CEO gave out additional equity to our CFO without consulting me.

- Advisory board contains significant portion of family members of the CEO, raising concerns about impartiality.

Pros:

- The 300k loan will be used to partner with a company that has a monthly revenue pipeline, potentially bringing in around 270k a year for salaries.

- Our sales pipeline looks healthy, but the sales cycle is very slow (some deals taking 8+ months).

- Our product has tremendous potential, but success remains uncertain as we haven't closed any significant deals yet.

I'm quite torn. I realize the cons have significant red flags, but I've put so much time and energy into this product getting it to this position. After writing this all down, I realize I should likely move on but I was still hoping to gain some outside perspective.

Thanks in advance.
Interesting, I would've expected more Windows software to just assume NTFS with some fallbacks for (ex)fat given how there haven't really been any other options for quite some time.

How stable is Btrfs these days? Remember reading years ago that it was bad about spontaneously corrupting itself for no apparent reason.

Curious if something similar is possible with ZFS.
No but some are more resilient than others. It is much easier politically to shut a nuclear power station down than remove dirty wood burners from people's houses.
Can someone please explain the advantages of doing this?
They're not saying 3NF enables you to remove foreign keys. They are talking about removing foreign key constraints from your RDBMS of choice.

Something like SQL Server can enforce foreign key constraints if you explicitly tell it your relationships between tables. The downside is that having this referential integrity costs you performance as the database has to check your relations when inserting/updating/deleting rows. E.g. checking that a foreign key is pointing at a valid primary key, checking that you aren't leaving invalid foreign keys when deleting a primary key, etc. This is to prevent you inserting bad data into the database.

You can delete these constraints and still have the exact same behavior so long as your code is correct. It just means that the database isn't going to stop you writing bad data.
> I fully expect the FOSS community to fold if their rights are not respected and it could lead to a software dark age.

just happens to be a coincidence this was all initiated by Microsoft?
There is also this can of worms regarding translations.
For example C:\Users will be shown as C:\Benutzer on a German system but still be C:\Users on the FS.
"C:\Program Files (x86)" will show up as "C:\Programme (x86)" BUT "C:\Program Files" will stay the same (non translated).

(I forgot how this topic is called though and on what layer it takes places.)

Windows XP already could do it, but didn't for the most part. I remember, like ~18 years ago, I was a sysadmin. One user out of 50 got his "My Doc/Pictures/etc." in English but for me on the File-Server it was all in German. Very confusing.
Taiwan Quietly Urges US to Calm Rhetoric on China Chip Risk
https://archive.is/fOjc5
Specifically of:

“The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689” by Jonathan Healey
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/659745/the-blazing-...

“The Making of Oliver Cromwell” by Ronald Hutton
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300266443/the-making-of-...

“Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne” by Katherine Rundel
‎https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607401/superinfinite
The replacement for tenure track faculty is teaching only faculty, which is already happening across the world.

Teaching only faculty have even less incentive and time to stay on top of research progress. 10 years out of their PhD, the teaching only faculty is hopelessly out of touch of the state of the art in any super active field.
How's Your Health?
How are you feeling?

How does your body feel? Mind? Heart? Spirit?

How do you feel as a whole human being?

I put together a survey to see. I have my guesses, but I'm curious to see what people say.
> I thought you described a system that did what MuZero did. It still seems to me that's what you're describing.

I can see your reading of it. My point wasn't totally clear. What I was getting at is a system that automatically induces internal computational graphs based on its competence with natural language and its facility with solving planning problems. It's essentially a more general MuZero that is driven by natural language and can solve general computational problems over its entire learned world model. For example, when asking what is the 256th fibonacci number, instead of either retrieving from memory or confabulating a correct looking number, it constructs the right sequence of computational steps from its representation of the fibonacci sequence and runs through it. The difference is largely one of having the components of the system be self-directed through internal planning mechanisms, i.e. a cybernetic governor that can plan out general computational strategies. Natural language is a general representational framework and so a planning and computing facility over natural language representations is in my view a general problem solving framework.

>To clarify, "in-context learning" is what we used to call "sampling from a model" back in my time [...] Models got better and sampling from them gets better results, so OpenAI figured they could embiggen it and call it something more impressive than "sampling". But it's sampling, not learning.

The way I interpret this (analogous to sampling from a probability distribution), there is certainly a relationship between the two. But the difference is that in-context learning is much more general and flexible than anything that has come before. When the range of behavior far surpasses what has come before, its important to recognize the paradigm shift. There's a danger of expertise in old paradigms causing resistance to seeing these qualitative shifts. As Max Planck said, science progresses one funeral at a time. I can't help but see a case of this resistance in those who are downplaying the qualitative shift that in-context learning represents.

>The paper you linked describes a system that was explicitly trained to predict human moves. That's probably why it can do better at simulating the way humans play chess than a system that wasn't trained to simulate the way humans play chess.

The evaluation in the paper wasn't just for the network tuned to match human performance, it was also tested against Stockfish and Leela. Leela more closely matched human move choices at all human skill levels. It was also widely commented at the time that AlphaZero played a more human style of chess. The point is that this says something about how humans play chess, i.e. heavier on positional evaluation and light on calculation.
I am cautious on technology vs management. It's like the people who thinks death penalty is great in theory but the justice system is imperfect in practice: maybe, but you can't have one without the other. Nuclear plants have to be managed and that's an issue too.
People had no reason to believe that today's models would exist.

We are on this part of the ai takeoff graph. https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...