skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I don’t know where you’d draw the hard line in terms of user count, but it’s definitely somewhere before half of the human race.

Once that many people use your products I would argue there is a moral imperative to do right by those people. Yes, at that scale, people other than the original builder/owner do have the right to make demands.
I feel like most people I know who push Nuclear are already arguing for the use of both, and it’s the renewable side that argues that Nuclear is too dangerous to use or not necessary. Or have you come across a lot of Nuclear proponents arguing that we shouldn’t be using solar energy at all?
OP’s point still stands. If people invested in him to the tune of $500b, then they gave him enough rope to hang everyone with. They knew the rules when they decided to play the game.
That is what we're looking at, in a word. The quality of our knowledge-getting.

What we need is some kind of automated process for ensuring that the knowledge that the machine poops out is of the highest possible quality. Something that checks it every step of the way, from observation to cheeseburger.
"whole population has all the significance that exists" was an entirely correct and appropriate rejoinder to the extremely flawed argument that had been made which you seem to still be defending.

I don't think you are arguing honestly at all. No matter what stat I were to mention, you'd start screaming "you're fixated on one stat", then you ignore all the myriad medical treatment options available 100 years ago to now as if that wouldn't obscure the point your trying to make. Again, it's dishonest, you're dishonest.

If you go back to my first post I raise interesting an important questions. What are you so scared of? You must have some stake in the outcome, some stake that cannot bear normal scientific inquiry.
I was recently working on something for a new feature on my Elixir-learning site and opened a new file called "fibonacci.ex" to write a tail-recursive fibonacci function.

After typing in nothing more than, "defmodule Fibonacci do", Copilot emitted the entire module from the code on my site here: https://alchemist.camp/episodes/elixir-tdd-ex_unit

The function names and documentation strings were identical. Also, the site isn't under a GPL, just a standard copyright. That said, I'm curious to learn if others see the same behavior. It's possible I once opened that file locally with Copilot installed and that my own computer was its source.
Sadly, the powershell windows ships with is 5.1.

Why?

Because of backwards Compatibilytytytyy
The only reason this is a bad thing is because we live under capitalism.
Nuclear fusion will be the answer to baseload energy requirements without the need to worry over meltdown concerns.

There will be no need to do city or urban planning around radioactive fallout or leaks because fusion simply doesn't have those problems.
It's in the article:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.blueskyweb...
Tenured researchers shouldn't be teaching, IMO. They can be doing research full-time, and leave teaching to those who care to teach. I, personally, dislike research, but I would love to become a CompSci professor and teach the next generation of software developers and technologists. The problem is, I do NOT want to do research. Give me a Master's in CS with some sort of "teaching extension" on it and I'll go teach and the researchers can go do important work researching!

Edit: for the upper division courses, researchers certainly should have some involvement, I agree with several of you on that point!
> Nobody cares.

Actually, a lot of people care. It's just easier to pretend that it's "nobody" so that you can maintain the philosophy that your personal comfort is what matters most in this world.
That seems paranoid considering that I have never heard anyone getting food poisoning from tea, no matter how it was brewed.

edit: Reading the linked article, it seems mostly concerned about contaminants and not germs. Intuitively thinking, I'd imagine higher temps would end up extracting more of those from leaves to the drink than lower temps?
Going to be tough for UT, which regularly hires people who are among the best in the world, and was essentially at the Berkeley/UCLA/UMich level of public university. They will still be able to hire, of course, but they won't be able to get Nobel Prize-level people without offering tenure.
I don't have a good impression of chinese electric bikes. They don't make very much noise behind you (unless they have a speaker) and the people driving them are often doing dubious things that maybe the bike shouldn't be doing, like balancing a bunch of empty water bottles.

But I guess I feel the same in SEA where instead of electric bikes you have to contend with a sea of gas mopeds.
Nuclear power supplies about 50 - 60% of electric energy in Ontario, with 18 reactors currently operating, built 1970s - 1990s.

Activated water with tritium in it has been released accidentally a number of times, and small amounts of tritium and other gasses are released by any reactor, but no unapproved leaking besides that has ever been made public.

There are of course ecological problems with the heat, but all the reactors use one of the Great Lakes as a heat sink and water supply itself isn't a problem.

The CANDU design can be fuelled online and most of the reactors have been online over 80% of the time, including refuelling, maintenance and refurbishment projects. The later designs hover around 90%.

They were expensive to build, and the last plant was really expensive. This was due to various reasons, including post-Chernobyl reviews, and pausing construction for over a year due to a labour dispute, and high interest rates.

Still, amortized over more than half a century they've ended up being the second-cheapest source of power in the province, after hydroelectric. Government is casting around for replacement options as the reactors are retired over the coming decades, but nothing concrete in the short term.
This person is in PR and has never built anything of value. Ignore the SEO.
Wanted to write the great American novel but settled for role playing it instead.
even if they didn't currently abuse their power or abused it only an "acceptable" degree, we're never more than one election away or even just one hiring decision away from someone who would do much worse.

The right protection is for the power to not exist.
The author is a shill for not discussing a technology which is still speculative and has no realistic commercial roadmap?
Why not? Nobody put a gun to anybody's head and made them invest in META.

Arguably there's forced investment by index fund holders but now the SP500 eschews companies with that structure, so even index investors can avoid this sort of thing.
If We Had More Than a Hammer
But your Gtk2 apps will not work on later versions of Gtk, and most distros are on the track to remove Gtk2 from the repos. So this isn't a hypothetical.

And it will be the same once Gtk3 is phased out: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html
You think a dangerous sociopath is not virtuous if, for moral reasons, they hold back from acting upon their antisocial base desires?
Well yeah, we've already seen exactly this:

https://twitter.com/StefanKarpinski/status/14109710611816816...
All of that can be true and yet still trivial in comparison to the emissions that would be eliminated by replacing all fossil-fuel electrical generation with nuclear.

Nuclear works at night and in locations that aren't good for solar or wind generation. Nuclear with a relatively small number of generating sites feeding a large distributiion network fits in with our existing electricial infrastrucure better than the widely dispersed generation that solar and wind provide.

We need leadership that will just clear the way for liquid metal, fast neutron reactors that don't need refined fuel and produce less waste. If you believe that carbon emissions are an existential threat to human survival, it's time to stop fretting about nuclear proliferation and waste disposal. The challenges of those issues are tiny compared to global climate change.
The people actually trying to just get through their lives are going to be the ones hardest hit (as they have been for years now) so don't play that card. You know the people who are making all those "cheaper" things for you to comfortably exist? The reason you can even afford AC?

This also assumes prices will get cheaper, they will not. Climate change will cause prices to increase.

It's shocking how little foresight people have about this. You don't have to start screaming in the streets - but to publicly proclaim you have zero empathy... and so proudly too.
As I get older I notice my senses get less refined and weaker, especially smell and taste, and especially after a couple covid infections. This on top off constant distraction and stress makes it nearly impossible for me to taste any subtlety in things like coffee and tea and wine. To be frank I'm jealous of these people that can dedicate all this time and passion to various techniques and flavors.
What kind of queries per second did you see while running on kubernetes, compared to VMs?
It’s getting pretty common in conservative states. Just this year there were (in various states) hundreds of laws passed against public expressions of LGBTQ+ identities, including some that affect public sector employees (e.g., state university professors).
> The key point though is that their mechanism cannot work in vacuum. It absolutely requires that the light travels significantly slower than the gravitational radiation

I am not a physicist, but I understand we are talking about Universe so early after Big Bang that it wasn't yet transparent to light. There simply wasn't vacuum yet if by vacuum you mean electromagnetic waves being able to travel long distances.
This is getting pretty off-topic, but for the record:

I think I was taught that 1st year, or perhaps the predecessor. It's was MIS' first year teaching. IIRC, Trine's array started at 1 and there was much debate over the merits of that vs. starting at zero like C but other than that it was a reasonable language for the time.
Sure, France has it's own issues but they are not really related to the tech itself.

Point me any other energy company which could have survived basically 20 years without proper investments and forced to sell back electricity to their competitors.

I would even say that the tech is what made the grid still standing against all odds.
I love that one of the examples they showcase is an AI translation from a human question into a proprietary query language in order to filter down a list in a way that should be easy to perform in the interface if the product was designed competently.
If you have solar on every domestic rooftop, you can't bomb all of them.

I mean, you can try, but then energy shortage is not on top of the list of problems that the population has.
Half the people driving out of their way to get gas are bad at math. The other half simply don't assign a dollar value to their time.

If your car gets 30 mpg, has a 16 gallon tank (that you refill at 1/4 tank, so you're buying 12 gallons), and you drive an extra 5 miles to pay $3.93/gallon instead of $4.00/gallon, how much did you really save?

I'll give you a hint: It's less than a nickel.

Meanwhile, you've probably driven at least 10 minutes that you didn't need to drive. 10 minutes to save a few pennies.

The math only gets worse as the gas prices go up and your fuel economy goes down. You need a greater delta to make the drive worth it.
If nuclear is so great in Sweden, why were so many plants closed there?
No, coal is barely radioactive at all. The small traces of Thorium and Uranium are completely negligible. An old study from 1978 has estimated that nuclear reactors emit somewhat more radiation than coal power plants, but the levels are overall insignificant [1].

This is only about emissions though. The radioactive waste produced by nuclear power plants has many many orders of magnitude more activity than the emissions.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.202.4372.104...
The difference is its not easy to turn a nuclear plant 'off', quickly, and even then it still needs power to keep the spent fuel cool. If the plant loses backup power (which is finite) then you'll get a disaster with the spent fuel pool boiling off and the fuel itself igniting spreading radioactive ash for miles.

The point is it's very dangerous to have a nuclear power plant in the middle of a warzone.
In some sense, everyone is adjunct. People who work in industry have fixed-term renewable contracts. If job security is to be offered, extend it to other professions as well, as French do (with their CDI contracts).

The main point is, professors don’t need life-time protection in many fields where research is increasingly focused on obtaining results in short term, and has become money driven. The gap between the type of research in academia and industry is not that much in many areas.

Perhaps a 5-years contract model would work better: a performance review every 5 years. Professors get some job security if they want to pursue problems sometime ahead of the industry. The duration could depend on the field.
> In the same way the US government has eminent domain to stop someone from hoarding land that serves the greater good

Governments use eminent domain when they want to do something with your land, it's not been used to take it just because someone has a lot of it - and I think that might go against all the case law, but IANAL.

But all that said, I don't think the government should be in the business of picking winners and losers - no one can tell if a gambit is a good idea or a bad one until it pays off or fails spectacularly.

The alternative here is nationalization, and I don't think the government should be in the business of nationalizing the tech industry either.
The big questions that the article failed to answer:

1) Which specific people would do the job better than Zuckerberg? Just anyone?

2) What exactly would they do differently?

3) What results would they deliver to shareholders above what Meta has achieved so far?

A lot of the issues with Meta are issues it would still have under a conventional Fortune 500 CEO. Before you talk about firing Mark, find a superior replacement first.
I like this:

"Inertia Theory of Politics"
>Every person on this planet has the power and responsibility to change and act now, we do not need to wait for government and corporations to change.

I would take issue with that statement. It is very difficult to make the sort of personal changes which would eliminate your own footprint. It might be impossible without leaving civilization entirely, largely because of how our societies and markets are structured.

Here is the story of a journalist who tried to go a full day without using plastics (disable JS if you get a paywall):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/style/plastic-free.html
Really? The whole grind in academia for new hires is to get a job on the tenure track.
At the extreme, the demise of Microsoft would trigger an immediate and prolonged crisis response to everyone whose IT systems depend on it (i.e. essentially everyone, either directly or indirectly), both on-prem and for cloud services. At some point it is less about who owns the tree, and more about how much of the forest it will take down with it if the owner shows up and chops it down.

Facebook is not exactly at Microsoft scale on this, but it would still require an enormous about of human effort to reconstitute all the organizations, event planning infrastructure, relationships etc. that people currently manage via IG and Facebook.
Or anything from Numerical Recipes in C.
Once on the way from NYC to a long island beach, I saw about 10 or 20 on crotch rockets just splitting traffic and doing crazy stunts down the parkway. I'm pretty sure some new stereotypes were born in me that day, but I never saw that happen again (though I didn't live in NYC for very long, just a few months).
Note some good US universities pay entry-level FAANG salaries to assistant professors.

If you can negotiate a low teaching load, it might be OK in some cases.

Nonetheless, I agree with what you say. I'd add there is a ton of nasty politics, bullying, etc. which might be hard to avoid while you are on tenure track chasing tenure.
The IIfx, Quadra 900 & Quadra 950 each have two 6502 processors. They offload ADB processing (keyboard and mouse), the floppy disk and serial ports. MacOS uses all of them, NetBSD can use ADB offload.
I can find lots of uses cases for LLMs that are personally compelling but they aren't empirical, or leading anywhere commercial. Rather, they are phenomenological n-of-1 art experiments. That's given me an entry into worlds I don't understand like poetry and comedy.

My favorite thing about working with LLMs is that I can go for hours with wild experiments in a way that is very close to my early childhood basement lab experiments with biology, chemistry, and later, computers, and music. It's fun!

To me, anything that benefits from pairs work, which is everything from the art of computer programming to literate programming to research to sensemaking, things that give rise to reflection or the need for a feedback loop like design.

There's learning in working with a partner who's never quite right the first time, just like me. And so we riff back and forth and I get to decide when we're done. Sometimes that's a couple riffs, sometimes it goes on for hours. It's absorbing in a good way - a way that I thought was lost from computing when everything became commercial and social. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ghost in the machine was Alan Kay or Bret Victor.

To have found a partner in my aimless pairing exercises has been the best discovery I've made in a decade.

Here's a satirical example of one of my recent art experiments. I was surprised since I had no expectations. YMMV.

https://davidwatson.org/write/walt_whitman_agile_poet.html

I've got dozens of others laying around, but not enough time to publish them all. Obviously, LLM is not going to make me into an artist. I'm just enjoying spending time with emergent art grown by human-computer partners.

For someone like me whose default mode is definitely divergent, it's fun to have a responsive computer program that has the same kind of responsive cadence or volley I expect from one of my musician friends trading fours.
> Someone from France is telling you that actually, it's really not that great

Yet is amazing that even with the poor management of the French government, it is still a beacon of hope the rest of the world looks to for our energy future.
Static HTML pages discoverable by search engines, each holding messages written over the course of one day, without having to use the client.
> Today, most academics chase money, grants, trends, citations and status.

Grants, trends, citations, and status...but money really? I come from mathematics and the notion of getting rich in academia is laughable. Maybe that's why so many math and physics people go to finance.
Each one of those therapists I saw for at least 6 months, at least one for 2y. There's probably 4-5 more I saw for 2-3 sessions before abandoning.

With all this experience, I still don't know how I would filter a list of therapists except maybe remove ones that seem married to a particular method/style. Like a real relationship (that you don't pay for), it takes time to get to know eachother. And at anywhere from $100-400 (nyc.. sigh) per session, it's not free to keep trying (ignoring the emotional costs..).

And my experiences have taught me that like any regular person, therapists can be deeply wounded individuals or struggling with their own demons. Maybe they've conquered them, maybe they're hiding behind a facade of being able to 'help' others. It's messy. I think there's something weird/wrong about our current zeitgeist putting therapists on a pedestal or that everyone should go to one. They aren't doctors, and you aren't necessarily sick.
We don't need to enter a world where AI gets any better at all to be able to argue that software shouldn't be copyrightable, smart people have been doing that for ages.

The problem, however, is that we live in this world, where it is copyrightable, and componies relying on Copilot to do large swathes of code generation do potentially have to worry about including copyrighted code in their codebase, and what the legal fallout from that might be.
I wouldn't say it is matter of quality; or rather lot of high-quality teas can still be quite sensitive to high temps. Gyokuros mentioned in the article are good example
Windows.h defines MAX_PATH as 260.

Many apps do something like

char path[MAX_PATH]

In that case, no amount of prefixing will help you, if random app enforces the limit.
So, I think the bigger issue is that those things may not serve as an independent basis for liability. But (B) then says that those things may be considered as evidence if they’re otherwise admissible (under the Federal Rules). In other words, encryption by itself does not expose them to liability, but those who might get sued could have encryption used against them as evidence that they “knowingly” possessed, transmitted, etc. CSAM. If robust encryption makes it more difficult to identify or stop CSAM trafficking, and a service refuses to compromise its encryption, that could be used as evidence against them.

That’s the fear, anyway.
Their point was that a number of people who have range anxiety are those who haven't actually looked at what the impact of changing to an EV would actually be. Which, for a lot of people, wouldn't be nearly as much as they would think.

A lot of people with range anxiety probably use an EV with little to no impact in their driving habits other than plugging in when they get home. But they're so concerned with "what if's" that rarely ever come up in their lives. "But what if I suddenly need to drive across the country taking only back country roads and avoiding all highways across the furthest north roads in the coldest of winter?? Can't do that in an EV!"

The most common reactions I get to people asking about my EV are along the lines of "But how do you charge it? Don't you have to wait at public chargers all the time? It must be so challenging driving an EV with so many broken chargers all the time! You must have to wait so long all the time for all that charging, its so slow!" Which is quite strange, because the vast majority of charging sessions most EVs would probably experience are plugging in at their home entirely negating these concerns.

For a lot of those people asking me those questions (often friends and family), I know they'd be able to replace a car with an EV and have only positive impacts other than the costs of buying a new car (something they do on some schedule regularly). But the talking heads on the TV tell them EVs == slow, unreliable, expensive charging so clearly all EV owners must be dealing with largely unavailable, unreliable, expensive, slow charging all the time. When in reality I spend more time pumping gas in my ICE than I do waiting on my EV to charge, I've encountered more broken gas pumps than charging dispensers in the last year, and it costs me almost 10x less in energy cost than my ICE per mile.
> 5. Learn that design is meant to move, and pick up animation!

If you do, please don't force users to endure slow animations or slow "micro interactions", make it do what it does fast, especially if you're building applications people use professionally.

> Side note. I've worked in dozens of front-ends over a long career. CSS is the only constant.

Same here, and I'd add that JavaScript (not TypeScript, not React, not X) has also been a constant for me.
Personally, I'm not bothering to learn any new languages, stacks or APIs and will stick with what I know. AI will eventually (2-10 years) end up completely re-writing your whole program stack in machine code in whatever ISA without any bugs. The future of programming is a prompt engineer, write it in psudo code and english and output fully tested machine code.