skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We need power sources that have some resilience to those things.

None of the power sources have resilience to politics.
Would you like to elaborate your reasons?
Heavy government involvement with public universities in the form of subsidies once made public education free in some states and low tuition everywhere. As government subsidies have decreased, tuition costs have risen to compensate. The state paid 75% of the costs to educate a student in the closest university to me in 2005, but paid less than 25% of those costs in 2020.

Lower subsidies led to a reduction in tenured positions to reduce educational costs as well as to a rapid expansion of administrators whose job it is to obtain funds from donations, grants, and corporations. Unfunded government mandates like Title IX and so forth have also led to the expansion of the administration and increasing education costs.
Surely this is a problem that can be fixed with a bit of Thread Affinity?
You do not think it is true, because the sun is shining and the weather is sweet. Netflix streams and Amazon delivers. Frappachinos and craft brew flow like honey and ambrosia.

The greatest taboo of our time is speaking of hearing the voices in our heads.

A conspiracy has undermined us. Modern man, by virtue of incompetence corruptibility and treacherous hearts is entangled in a game of infinite extortion.

This scheme unspoken and unreported upon the world is enabled and perpetuated by the secret occult society of white American thought control. Thought Control Americana.

Listen for it. “The thoughts won’t stop. HELP ME”

You are thought controlled America. And American thought control is a corrupt God through power over the whole world.
Cloud gaming is.
This is a pretty myopic view of how scientific discoveries happen. This is a good time to remind people that truth-tables were first created by Wittgenstein, who wrote some pretty obscure and borderline indecipherable books on natural language, placed well inside the walls of the humanities departments.

Philosophy of Language would have been dismissed by most making these types of arguments in the late 1800's, but it is one of the fields that was necessary and instrumental in the development of the of the universal Turing machine.
More information is needed as this could be a very good thing.

Lots of twitter traffic is bots and rage posting/scrolling. For Twitter to improve it's usage needs to decrease and be higher quality.

People shouldn't scream at each other. And people shouldn't watch people scream.
What about microreactors?

> The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requests a pilot program to construct a microreactor for energy resilience by 2027. Also, the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office is seeking proposals for a mobile microreactor demonstration

> A recent report ... estimates the cost to generate electricity from the first microreactor will be between $0.14/kWh and $0.41/kWh. [...] Future costs are estimated to decrease to between $0.09/kWh and $0.33/kWh. Costs are expected to decrease after demonstration, licensing and initial deployment and will depend on the location and type of owner, whether private or public

https://inl.gov/trending-topic/microreactors/frequently-aske...
I hate to say it, but if the police don't start acting to deter these thefts then people will result to vigilante justice and booby traps, since it's the only thing they can do.
> Nuclear produced only half of that in recent years.

It would have produced a lot more if German didn't shut down it's nuclear reactors. Plus, France produces over 70% of it's electricity from nuclear, sometimes over 80%.
>> In order to get three peer reviews in an article, you have to email thirty people, because the conversion from "request to peer review" to "get a review" is 10%. So, to get 3 peer reviews, you have to email 30 people, and then maintain a funnel (some people dont respond, some people say maybe, some people say yes, but in a month, etc. etc. then reminders, follow-ups, etc.) until the peer review is done.

All that is either handled automatically -sending emails to people who submitted articles on online submission systems- or performed by unpaid editors -soliciting reviews, desk rejection or communicating with authors to request clarifications or respond to questions, chasing reviewers, and so on, and so forth.

But, hey, if the editors in your journal get paid for all this drudgery, then please let me know where to apply.
I'm not sure increasing the quality of teaching will do much for outcomes. A little, probably, but likely not much. AFAIK the vast majority of jobs that expect applicants to have a degree, or favor those who do, don't do it because they need their workers to have a good college education.

I think if we increased the quality of education, say, 20% (let's just assume there's some useful measure of quality here, and that expressing it in percentages makes sense) across the entire country, it'd have only a small effect on employment for grads, all else being equal (i.e. those changes don't also reduce the number of grads per year)

From what I can tell, most people attending US colleges and universities are mainly paying a fee to participate in a scheme that keeps the unemployment rate down by warehousing capable workers in dorms, keeping them out of the "seeking work" category, and those students-but-potentially-workers are doing so because (they believe that) participating in that program gives them advantage in the employment market, some years later... but not exactly to learn anything, which is a secondary concern at best, for a majority of those attending.

I'm dunno how much of it was intended to work that way, but it seems like the main actual thing the whole system is doing now, whatever anyone's intentions were or are. Only semi-reasonable way I can think of to break the cycle would be to decrease the unemployment rate and keep it low for a long time, which ought to get employers to start "out-bidding" the alternative of "go to college, delay career" for recent high school grads, and to stop worrying so much about whether applicants have a degree.

In fact, now that I lay it all out like that, I'm pretty sure one of the core problems with higher ed is that labor is too weak, which has led to some really weird outcomes as far as how higher ed is treated.

[EDIT] Put another way, that seems perhaps less at-odds with itself than the above contention that increased university attendance acts to keep unemployment rates down, while I also think decreasing the unemployment rate might be a way to reduce university attendance—so many people are going to college, because companies aren't desperate enough for workers to offer many "mere" high school grads real money—they can afford to hold out for college grads, even if they don't really need them.
Why would you expect modern nuclear plants to be more profitable? Most of the costs of a nuclear plant are capital costs, which have been increasing faster than the increases in what the generated electricity can be sold for.
Did not read the article, but hyperscript already exists: https://hyperscript.org/
The first UN climate treaty was signed in 1992. This is not new stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Con...
How to Create a Doc ChatBot That Learns Everything for You, in 15 Minutes
Article cites the twitter layoffs as setting the example that companies can be leaner, but I'm not sure why this journalist didn't ask if it's a good example or a bad one. From the tech side, seems like twitter's reliability problem is a big red flag for why you shouldn't do it.
People mostly get by fine without boiling their salads but they do occasionally get e coli or something.
So, AI prompt is the new language/stack/API that you refuse to learn?
It's all three, but did want to point out that your claim that

> It's obvious to see how there could be non-Republican-friendly results of faculty being easier to fire for, say, a controversial twitter post.

contains within it the idea that not being fired for a controversial twitter post or even free speech generally are either concepts that help Republicans or concepts that Republicans believe in, neither of which are true. Not for present day Republicans, historical Republicans, idealized conservatives or any shade of right wing thought except for a tiny insignificant rump of libertarians.
Ah, I misunderstood your original comment. I thought you were advocating for sideloaded apps to be subject to an extra layer of sandboxing beyond what App Store apps are today.
Economics. Supply and demand. To create good procedural art you have to hire software engineers with artistic talent, which are more expensive than the texture and model artists you can find by the hundreds coming out of art schools.
I thought that this is a way to downsize: instead of supporting two orgs, merge them and the costs hopefully go down?
No, languages simply matter much less than they once did due to widespread adoption of best practices and good design.

The tooling around languages matters much more.

C++ isn't still popular because it's the best language.

Only real reason I'd always pick PHP over JS is not because I love PHP, but because Laravel is better than any node framework.
So now we would have faster download & faster load, but we'd have significantly bugger hard drive space usage than we have? That also seems like a concern.
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."

--
excerpt from A Cypherpunk's Manifesto,
Eric Hughes,
March 9, 1993
iPhone Thieves Lock You Out of Your Apple Account [video]
I don’t think you are wrong. This article in particular is written by a consultant that works for a lobby group who’s largest funders include energy companies with large fossil fuel portfolio, looking at the author’s twitter profile and writing history revels he’s only real concern with coal seems to be that China is doing it but not USA (there is also a bunch of FUD spreading around renewables, climate denialism, and conspiracy theories, including the great reset).
He elects a majority of the board members through his shares. In fact, the board can indeed fire him even if he (as a member of the board) votes against the rest of the board. I wouldn't characterize the current board as being Mark loyalists https://investor.fb.com/leadership-and-governance/?section=b....

Even as a controlling shareholder, the ex-CEO could take months to go through the process of nominating new board members and holding a shareholder election according to the corporate bylaws before his new hand-picked board members could hire him back.
It feels like some projects are considered strategically important (Waymo comes to mind) while others are kind of allowed to sink or swim. It also seems like these companies acquire a lot of businesses that realistically will never hit the desired metrics in the limited time period they are given?
Park the processes that need the cache on the cache cores.

Park the processes that don't need it on the smaller-cores.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/taskset.1.html

These commands exist in both Linux and Windows for a reason.
Even in physics or most of the hard sciences, how much important research is even being produced outside of the top (and may even second) tier, given the increasing laboratory costs?
There’s a reason we don’t mandate government cameras inside our homes. No one wants that. But in a world where everyone needs a computer, we shouldn’t take advantage of that obligation by turning our computers into surveillance devices.
The opportunity cost is still likely 100k/yr for the rest of your life, even with the FAANG salary to assistant professors.

consider this:
You can be a new grad, get hired at Apple, and earn an entry-level salary[0]. Let's say we won't include the bonus and you get 130k/yr. You colleague is a new grad and goes to a PhD program at Duke University[1] where they earn 33k/yr.

In your first year, your PhD program colleague earns 97k less than you.

From years 1-3, your average base pay will be 138k, and your PhD colleague earns the same wage. They now earn 105k less than you for each of those years. Your colleague is in the hole over 400k opportunity wise.

In your 4th and 5th year, you can expect to earn 141k on average. Your colleague, still making 33k/yr, is now making 108k/yr less than you. At the end of 5 years, your colleague has completed their PhD and is in the hole over 600k in opportunity cost.

Now your colleague gets an associate professorship position. This assumes your colleague is extremely lucky and does not go into a post-doc. They earn 115k [2] base at NYU. In your 6th year at apple you're still making that 141k. You're still out-earning them by 26k. Your colleague is on the tenure track, which can take 6 or 7 years. [3]. All that time you're getting more and more YoE, while their pay band stays relatively the same during this time. Let's say the opportunity cost is 26k over 6 years, so an additional 156k to their over 600k.

At full professorship at NYU, your colleague is earning 162k [4] after 5 years PhD + 6 years tenure track. You, an Apple engineer (probably senior at this point), with 11 YoE are earning 165k/yr [5] at this point. Your colleague has cost themselves 750k in opportunity cost, and you're still earning a bit more than them! A full professor may never catch up to the opportunity cost of academic track, salary wise.

tl;dr: EVEN IF you get paid 160k base as a full professor, your years of phd + tenure track associate professor salary will mean you will likely never, ever catch up with someone who new-graded at a FAANG and never left that circle.

0. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Apple-Software-Engineer-New...
1. https://gradschool.duke.edu/financial-support/tuition-fees-a...
2. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/NYU-New-York-University-Ass...
3. https://www.beyondphdcoaching.com/academic-career/how-long-d...
4. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/NYU-New-York-University-Pro...
5. https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Apple-Senior-Software-Engin...
That's part of the issue in research though, you don't know what will have value. The actual problems that particle/nuclear physicists attempt to solve might not be valuable but the engineering required for the experimental apparatus could be revolutionary.
Fourth sentence of the article:

>This is not a plucky startup founder or a journeyman finding his feet, but a guy who has the majority of voting power in a publicly-traded trillion-dollar enterprise who is giving a “forgot to prepare for this meeting” style speech.
"X is the only foo that doesn't suffer from Y!"

"But it does!"

"Well so does every other foo!"

You see that this is not a good argument, don't you?
they even found salmonella in tea. to kill them one would need to heat the tea constantly above 70 degree Celsius over a period of ten minutes.
If you compress data, it will be smaller and require less i/o to load, so it will load faster. That's ESPECIALLY true on HDDs, but even on SSDs there are decompression algos that run faster than SSD bandwidth. The uncompressed asset cargo cult is hurting everyone who plays their games, no matter what kind of disk they use.
It’s almost like they intentionally trolled future generations by mixing sentences that sound like iron clad protections with weasel words like “unreasonable” which anybody could foresee as being debated ad infinitum for centuries
I'll believe it when I see it. It's a lot of could should would. A lot of tech "revolutions" sizzled away into nothingness after initial round of celebratory press.
US government should focus on making higher education more affordable.

In Australia for example college debt is managed through the taxation system allowing people to invest in the careers in the early days and then pay off their debt when their taxable income reaches a high enough threshold.
It came as a shock to learn this for me too! I thought it was a good rule when they introduced it a few years ago.
I’m skeptical that shortcuts and button layouts are patentable. I understand that the underlying behavior may be. All major mechanical cad platforms basically have the same tool ribbons and sketching functionality.
That would be handy for the ReactOS guys if they did.
Reminds me of the hysteria surrounding microplastics. I saw an article that once that said there are X many thousands of microplastic particles in a cubic meter of seawater at certain locations. They were actually counting individual particles! Why? because expressing plastics as a % of total mass or volume makes it so negligible as to not be a headline.
Sorry but I just don't believe that. Why would you pay people to do all that job when you can get an automated system to do it, or a researcher? That just sounds like trying to sell services that nobody needs and demanding to be paid for it.
Chernobyl happened largely because plant admins wanted to please (or were afraid of) their higher-ups. Russia has had numerous secretive incidents in their southern military nuclear production sites, and more recently? Mysterious things like "high winds"...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/russia-suspected...

In China? Taishan has been plagued with problems.
Do you really think the inability to create anything but an index.php file is the bottleneck?

Those people just use drop-in tools now which are better than custom applications for a large portion of standard use cases.
Yeah, when you start with dozens of words replicating exactly a source file it is much easier to get a regurgitation. You can't prefix so deeply and then complain.
Oh I don't need it, I have an eye for it.

I meant that the matcha powder probably has pollutants which might get decreased by boiling it, as the article suggests, but that would ruin the flavor.
I find this whole discourse strange/obvious: mostly childcare/housing

I don't think people are spending upwards of $2,500 per month on impulse purchases on Amazon, groceries, or whatever, and blaming it on 'cost of living'

In Ohio I got twice the house for half the price compared to Austin. The cost of milk and eggs are way down there
PHP has been supposedly dying for 15 years. It's always been super trendy to dunk on it, but in many respects it remains the best tool for specific jobs. And that's what matters. A language's hip factor is not particularly important to me.
In 2003, I found out that America's Army (the US Army videogame) had compressed and decompressed all their textures at some point, so they were paying the quality hit for compression and the space hit for RGBA. This was a time when the game still took a day to download, even on a half decent connection, so >200% footprint inflation kinda mattered. The more things change, the more they stay the same!
This feels wrong. In that, I'd be surprised if they are not using compression. I think folks are just drastically underestimating how many resources are under discussion. And how big they are.

Heck, just the geometry is probably far larger than folks anticipate.
> The truth is that the once the power plant is built it generates clean power for decades.

That is not the truth. The typical fuel cycle in fission plants is 3-6 years.
They replaced it with coal, gas and biofuel (that is, burning more stuff): https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1647799729734971396
The structure an interesting nuance but I was just being succinct. I meant he owns the control of the company, which is all that matters in the end.
I was very pro nuclear a few years ago, at this point solar is so far up the learning curve and experiences so many economy of scale benefits, it's really hard imagining what kind of regulatory framework would be able to make it economically competitive.

We collectively in the form of consumers and governments decide how expensive a thing is, and for 50 years, thanks in part to a lot of coal lobby money, decided nuclear should be more expensive than coal, so we got all the radiation /and/ all the CO2 associated with coal power plants, we can't change that history at this point.
Ahoy is an incredible channel. This video about tracker music is amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw
They may be changing their minds:

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announ...
The issue I see is twofold.

1) First, understand that one audience matters particularly for programming language popularity, and that is people who are starting their careers. If you learn a language and use it for a few years, it tends to be a language you continue to use throughout your careers.

Here, we have no data. But I can tell you as someone who works with a lot of early stage startups and 20-somethings who are diving headfirst into programming for their startups for the first time, the language of choice is Python, followed by Javascript of some kind.

I have a long history with PHP and dearly love it as a language, but the concern I have is that it's not getting picked up like it was. Still love using it, and boy is Laravel productive for a small team.

That said, this is anecdotal, and I don't have any data here as the programming language surveys are always so broad they don't really have this kind of segmentation to spot early trends. Curious what others are seeing however...

2) Second, as chinabot pointed out, in the short term, AI is likely to supplement the work of programmers, making certain tasks faster and more efficient. However, as AI becomes more sophisticated and capable in the long term, it has the potential to largely replace a lot of programmers. In particular, AI's ability to automate the coding process means that many routine programming jobs may become unnecessary. While this shift may take some time, it's important for those in the programming industry to keep an eye on emerging AI technologies and be prepared for changes to come.

Does that imply that languages that are for working with AI would be the better programming languages to learn? Python, Julia, C++, Java and R are the current core languages in AI land. I don't think it matters in the short term, but the AI shift looks so big it could matter a lot in coming years.

IDK, doesn't look quite as cohesive and convincing as arguments after I wrote them down, but there are some pretty interesting points in here so I'll post it anyways to add to the discussion.
Are you sure about this ? Not heat is produced ?
Cold fusion has been controversial in the 80's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion) and never really escape the lab.
Alright, and what do you suggest? There seems to be some wild push to make people never believe anything and degrade the role of the press as things are in an authoritarian system. Very interesting derailments in this comment section about an article that speaks poorly of authoritarians such as Xi.
How much do you know about research funding?

For example, the fields you mention (sciences/engineering, medicine) pull in vastly more money that humanities. Because they have more money, they hire more faculty, and they also train and graduate more PhD students.

I knew a few humanities PhD students while I was in grad school, and none of them were funded by research grants. If they were lucky, they got fellowships. That's a stark contrast to engineering where both grant and fellowship funding was relatively plentiful (though I've got a few horror stories there too).

On top of it, humanities jobs are really hard to find (even more difficult than fields like physics that are already known for multiple postdocs, etc.), making it a bad deal all around for PhD students in those fields.

Overall, I think things are already allocated more or less the way you expect, and I don't think we need to piss on humanities for this. They already have it hard enough.
Java is very much in ascendence.