skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you are making a stupid mistake 99% of Westerners make when dealing with Russia. You are projecting your values and rationality on them.

I am actually from Ukraine, my family is still there and I now leave in USA. I hate russian gov just as much or more as any normal human being.

The Western view is that West and Ukraine are winning because of costs russian people and army are suffering. But another view, closer to ru gov values is that ru gained significant territory while Ukraine lost it since Feb 22. You make think it is stupid and is definitely below their original goal, but it is non-trivial “gain” towards what they care about.
> unless we do something like a nuclear weapons armageddon

FWIW, the only way nuclear weapons wipe out all of humanity is if they start unprecedentedly large fires that change the climate.

At peak, we had about 80k nukes (way less now). That’s nowhere near enough to kill all 8bn people (as spread out as we are).

The way nukes end humanity is blacking out the sun and reducing plant/food output.
I feel like it's most places. But what does this have to do with what I said? Midjourney is based in the US, I expect US laws rather than Xi Jinping censorship.
you can create files and folders with illegal names like '.' or '..' with python. comedy ensues if you try to recursively go into . directory and explorer crashesh -_- . despite windows having rules, appearently not everything needs to play by it despite giving these expectations
The statistics confirm, people are greedy and while quickly cut corners when given the opportunity to enrich themselves in the short term.
That is some seriously cool stuff! It's a shame nothing came of it - but I suppose shipping something good with cool new tech is bound to be harder than shipping something good that's been done a million times. Not because the tech is difficult, but because there's less of a roadmap to go off of, design-wise.
Thanks for sharing!
You might be able to cherry pick some outliers for sure. Just like at any company or institute. I can tell you from personal experience though that the going rate for a new hire full STEM professor with tenure at a prior institution was 95k at UT Austin in that time period.
That would be far, far slower than just downloading the image
Yep, serves them right for making desirable products.

Odd that I don't remember anyone calling Nokia anti-competitive when their platform had the market sewn up and Apple and Google had 0%.
Gran Turismo in VR is an amazing experience. I'm not even a racing car fan, but holy crap does that game really capture an experience. I'm somewhat afraid to find out just how much data goes into a single model.
Average climate-change denier in Slovakia produces less CO2 emissions than concerned person in US.
So apparently there are ways.

Human nature is irrelevant. If not, it will be one day.
in Germany more than 40% of the total water consumption is cooling water evaporation.

btw how does France deal with nuclear waste?
This is the very first thing I thought of when he said he wanted to pause ChatGPT research; he was working on his own thing and wanted an unfair advantage to leapfrog them.

All those people pointing to Elon's name on the stop chatgpt petition should feel duped; you people were used as his little puppets, but keep on finding reasons to defend the guy.
Yeah, even getting that beast installed on a typical machine may not be straightforward. It has very specific hardware requirements.
I've used KeepassXC + Syncthing for about 8 years now, and it works fantastically. Syncthing provides redundancy, syncing, and versioned backups. There's a merge function with conflict resolution in KeepassXC on the off chance two copies get out of sync with each other after a long period without connectivity. I have full control over where my data resides, and the source code of the entire stack.

The only other stack I've used is on-premises Bitwarden for small businesses, because it provides a more flexible multi-user permissions model. That can be made fully self-hosted and open source by using Vaultwarden for the server.

I don't see any advantages to using Proton Pass over those, frankly.
Not sure about today (since I don't work there anymore), but my org at Microsoft back about 5 years ago had a role that was pretty much like what this comment chain is talking about.

IIRC they called it "design engineer". Not sure where in the org structure they fell under (i.e., whether they reported to design managers or engineering managers, i think it might've been under engineering managers), but I worked with a few of them directly, and it was amazing.

I was working on the front-end of a web app, so I did quite a bit of design implementation handed to me by designers. But for some very tricky styling or just in general, occasionally, design engineers would come out to help.
> This feels wrong. In that, I'd be surprised if they are not using compression.

Check this out, you can sort by the number of submissions to filter out indie games https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14CVXd6PTIYE9XlNpRsxJ...

from https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI
Games are duct taped together at last minute on impossible deadlines pretty much every time.
I agree with your point that upper division courses need researcher involvement, but please try to be less rude about how you say things. This is a comment thread, so there’s no need to act like that, you could make your actual point in a nicer way and I would have seen it like the commenter above you and agreed that I overlooked this case. have a great weekend.
> If the 100m users is accurate

Users or accounts? I made an account but I use it approximately once every two weeks for about 30 minutes at a time, as it hasn't been that useful for me (needs more up-to-date info after September 2021).

I imagine many people made an account but only a small percentage are using it meaningfully often.

Also users are limited in the number of requests they can make. I have a feeling ChatGPT is actually very expensive to run, and they are burning cash like crazy.

If they weren't burning cash to run the thing, it would be more widely available.
> a FUD spreader like you

Eh, what? That's not a very nice thing to say.

> So tell me

No, I don't need to. I refuted a claim. You can move the goal posts, but I won't participate in that game.

Obviously a coal plant emits more CO2 than a nuclear fission plant. But the criticized sentence contained the words "carbon free". Which is just not true. I don't see how pointing that out is FUD.
Reminds me of the 'ReceptioGate' scandal, where amongst other weird and dodgy behaviour, a medieval manuscript researcher, Carla Rossi, had invented an entire set of staff for her online research institute and was even emailing people from a pseudonym: https://thecritic.co.uk/receptiogate-and-the-absolute-state-...

(Previously seen on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34123302)
Meh, at this point it doesn't matter. There's so much (bad) php code out there that needs to be maintained, any person who learns to write good php has a job for life.

But I've always said that PHP's popularity was due to its availability on free hosting providers. However nowadays, you can get free hosting for a plethora of languages. So more competition, and also there are so many more languages that are competing for the backend nowadays.
> You can launder copyrighted material through an LLM, basically.

Good!
I submit that this arms race will not slow down and in the long run no one will end up caring about the licenses this was generated from (i.e software licensing is from a by-gone age already).

I too would prefer that these sorts of things cite sources and the licenses correctly. Will it get mired in legal battles? You bet. Will it get regulated? I assume they'll try! Will it slow down progress of code generating / auto-completing agents? My argument is nope, cut off heads of the hydra if you'd like but it's not going away at all.

Spend your day worrying about something else. This train has left the station.
Concentrate enough energy in a small area and baby, you got a black hole going!
You think they hold back from acting upon their desires because of god?
I asked it 'what day is it' it replied "Based on the context provided, it is March 24, 2023".
You can't get ahead if you're pulling carbon out of the ground. That's the fundamental problem. Go ahead and burn all of the carbon you want, as long as it's not coming from long-term storage (e.g. fossil fuels), and is rather already part of the carbon cycle (e.g. trees).
We've got a Kasparov because there are N billion of us: he is the Chess superintelligence for humanity. Similarly, my aunt is the person helping him eat soy beans, through the proper investment & maintenance of her combine.
A conservative extension of ISO 8601 to support fractional days
yes, this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent
Then you have to have the game reprocess all the assets on the users machine which could easily take an hour
Read the comments in this thread and others. See how many slack-jawed jackals are slavering over the idea of overthrowing Putin, ‘decolonizing’ Russia, Russia descending into anarchy, etc. These halfwits are merely echoing the myopic fantasies fed to them via the US media apparatus from the highest echelons of state power. Do you really think all these dark fantasies originated a year ago? Or is there maybe something else going on?
I'm talking about the people who seem like they could win a Nobel Prize someday when they're just finishing their PhD, not the people who already have one.
what can we do?

this is already happening in a lot of cases, we need to make sure this legal grey zone is closed and ruled in favor of privacy.
as government powers are derived from the people, and I don't have any right to walk into your house and ask for your mail, the government has no right to invade our privacy.
there are better ways to keep us safe. lots of private software does this already and has lots of problems. I see no reason to assume the government would be any better. I could maybe get behind less privacy for government programs interfacing with the American public and for corporations
While I empathize, there's a big difference: Meta is a US company so it's going to follow the cultural rules of the US.
> The only people who think we need more nuclear power plants is the nuclear power industry and the politicians they're heavily lobbying to stay relevant.

And also quite a few energy experts and the people who listen to them. The US nuclear industry's major players are bloated cronies satisfied with ALARA and other idiotic policies that keep them alive by preventing competition.

If ALARA weren't in place, nuclear would be thriving and competitive (and still safe!).
OK that tracks as more than just lazy comments lookalikes.
> Every person on this planet has the power and responsibility to change and act now

What more power beyond, say, recycling and using public transportation can an individual person have? Note how this narrative is literally shifting the blame from corporations, industries, and governments to individual people. "It's your fault you're not doing enough".

Meanwhile, Germany alone, thanks to the actions of its government, is responsible for more carbon emissions on a single night than I can even theoretically reduce over a milion lifetimes.

They shut down their nuclear reactors, and right now even on a windy night they burn coal and gas to make up for the difference: https://imgur.com/a/3bYudyd
"If one wanted to be educated by lecturers then they could attend a community college."

I'd argue that the vast majority of classes at a state school (what this rule affects) are already taught by non-research personnel.
I’m currently someone who’s learning to program to get out of the trades, I have a good eye for design and I’m decent at technical engineering (I think anyway) and I’m trying to approach it as a designer first who can code second, I figured this out when learning JavaScript/Python that I won’t ever be able to breathe code like some people but then I witness the design these end-game engineers come up with and I’m absolutely floored at how bad it looks.

This really helped me cement my theory and approach in my learning. I’d argue that adding marketing to your toolkit would flesh you out into a pretty decent employee at most companies.
I listened to a podcast that posed the question "is it better to pressure industry to stop polluting, or focus on minimizing your own footprint" and the dialogue that sparked, as well as the conclusions, were very informing. In a nutshell, it's incontrovertible that as a single person, most of us can only hope to achieve climate change, there are, after all, 8 billion of us, so on average each of us can only achieve 1/8e9 * 100% change in pollution.

However, behaviour is learned by sharing. In that mind set, the best course of action is, in addition to one's own virtue, to encourage others to also recognize the situation and to change their own ways. In this way, one multiplies their own impact. People need to be the first movers of any social change, regardless of their own insignificant impact, because behaviour spreads and eventually industry will have no choice but to change.

Simply sitting at the sidelines complaining of industrial pollution is about as helpful as watching your own house burn.
I thought PHP came from Personal Home Page(s).

Edit: Wikipedia says "PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor."
> they could still do so as part of "reproductive health instruction that students can choose not to take"

Wait, so it’s okay to teach about sexuality in the class where it’s most likely to be a relevant topic of discussion?
I also feel like if achieving Tenure then allowed profs to stop "playing the game" and start "focusing on the students"...that getting rid of tenure means no one can ever stop "playing the game" and will never be able to "focus on the students".

Personally I feel there are two different jobs in academia that need to be split up: Teaching students, and doing research. I feel that professors should be able to apple for jobs specifying a 60/40, 50/50, 75/25, 100/0, 0/100 split between those two roles. Don't make people research who just want to teach. And dont force students to suffer professors who don't want to teach them.
No, he suggested HypeScript, not HyperScript. That's the joke.
Tesla's Autopilot never claimed to be self-pilot, juror says
War Thunder kind of has that, except that the "progressive" bit means you need to download the full thing to progress in the game beyond a certain point.

Enlisted, which uses the same engine, is fine though.
> This was a regular sping night in a nation of 80 million people in the middle of Europe. Which means that for a lot of the rest of Europe it was also a quite night.

Nothing happened. In ten years we have 80% renewable. Again, nothing will happen.

> the answer is "sometime in unknown future we will surely build enough, and enough grid storage to boot".

Look at a nuclear power plant. If one starts building today, the reactor could be ready in 5, 10 or twenty years. In Finnland the EPR was 13 years late.

Renewable can be deployed much faster and more reliable.

> Almost three-quarters of hydropower, water, coal and nuclear infrastructure projects were over budget by 49% on average,

The new Finnish reactor was 3.6 times more expensive than planned. That's a much larger price increase.

> When there's political will,

of a dictatorship

> there are results. Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant in China: 6.1 GW nameplate capacity. Built over 14 years at 1 reactor per 6 years. Operational. Estimated cost 16 bln USD.

Try to do the same in Western Europe...

Btw, China deploys two large coal power plant blocks every week. -> to quote you: "When there's political will, there are results."

See the share of nuclear in China:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China#/m...

Tiny.

> I shudder to think about the future where we depend on whether or not the wind will blow at night.

I don't.

> There are also laws of physics and reality.

Another slogan. What does it have to do with energy politics and technology?
A Contemporary Paperclip Maximizer
My Pillow boss Mike Lindell to pay $5M to man over bogus election claim
born too late for homesteading to be a skill exercised and shared by a meaningful portion of society; born too early for homesteading to be made accessible via better technology.

but a hundred years from now i do think “have to go live in a cabin in the woods” will be more like “get to”. because if that was something everyone could easily manage, i have no doubt i’d find myself in some cabin-in-the-woods community full of all the other wackos like me.
Can you cite any accurate prediction about 2023 made by climate alarmists in the 1980s?
Thinking more on it, I am not too shocked that they would use uncompressed assets "at rest" on the machine. This is especially true for games mailed out on disks or cartridges. I'm still a little surprised, so the links are neat to read on.

I am kind of curious on why they wouldn't use compression in transport, as it were. I'm still mostly assuming that they do.
No court has said AI ingesting open-source code is "fair use".

Almost all open-source licenses say it can be copied for use in development (i.e., not for re-publication or regurgitation), and even completely open licenses are speaking to people as readers.

The only reason this is happening is coordination costs: a few extremely motivated people with tons of resources are copying from many, many people who would be difficult to organize and have little at stake.

Unfortunately, the law typically ends up reflecting exactly these imbalances.
There is no Visual Studio dependency. The VS Code / editor experience is on par with most other languages and Rider is surely more than capable JetBrains based alternative
They're likely referring to p+B11 fusion which is a potentially viable reaction that emits all its energy as accelerated charged particles (a current), which can, in theory, be slowed down by inducing a current in a coil (direct conversion). This skips the thermal cycle of electricity generation. There would still be heat, but it would be contained to the plasma with some amount of leak/waste.

There are a great number of asterisks on this. We are not close to making a p+B11 reactor.
You can combine the approaches! KTX2, for example, supports "supercompressing" GPU block compressed formats with LZ4 or Zstandard. The project I have been working on ships BCn textures compressed with zstd and it has been pretty dang good.
I started using BigQuery with stream inserts for logging. I have around 300k inserts a day und it costs a whole cent a day for writes and even less for reads (I don’t read much though).
Stuff like this should yield criminal charges.
> Soon you're going to run out of land for your renewables. Plus renewables are extremely intermittent power sources. Nuclear solves both the land-use and consistency problems.

I take no issue with people such as yourself advocating for nuclear power, but this particular argument is nonsense. You could generate all the energy used over a year in the US (100 quads or so) on roughly the amount of land that is currently used to produce corn for ethanol. Yeah, that's a lot of solar panels, and it may not be the way to get all our energy, but running out of land is NOT the issue.
Same here. I didn't have any TA taught classes because none of the professors I had were researchers.
That is the same level of advice as "humans need to learn how to fly".

You not only have to change planning, you also need to change all the existing cities to accomodate that planning
You are a king! Thank you!!
So, 'update regulations when new information comes to light'?

It is frustrating that common action often precludes such common sense sentiments due to the friction of interests or bad actors.
Timber tracing: Applying multi-element analysis to determine wood origin
You can add lossless compression, like Kraken, on top of that. PS5 has hardware accelerated Kraken decompression. And you can encode textures for GPU in a way that is better compressable with lossless algorithms.
Who put up the fence and who are the people in this analogy? I'm really confused.

It was the tracking advertisers who wouldn't play ball, so are you saying people are unfairly putting barriers in the way of tracking advertisers?
Take a walk on Mission Avenue in San Francisco then and see for yourself (actually, don’t do that).

Crime is extremely rampant in US cities, and I’m not even talking about shootings here. Assaults (verbal and physical) by mentally ill (or drugged out of their minds) hobos are extremely common. Car break-ins, constant shoplifting, carjackings, etc. For more petty stuff, public drug use and homeless camping on the streets are very common (these are crimes in Europe, and are very actively prosecuted there, unlike in US). I have been a victim or personally observed every single thing I mentioned above (except carjacking) in US multiple times, but have not observed or experienced this in Europe (despite living there longer), and have only once been verbally assaulted there by drunkards on a night bus.

Most of US is very safe, but portions of large US cities are literal hellholes.
"What does that even mean?"

It means you get 15 paid days a year to be sick. Beyond that, you have a certain number by law (I think 60) which you can take unpaid without risk of being fired. After that, sickness is theoretically grounds for termination, but very few large employers would do that because of the bad publicity. Also most IT workers here have long-term disability insurance for 'free' from their employers, meaning that they're still making 50 or 60 percent of their usual total comp for as long as they're sick after being fired.

"In Scandinavia, you set a mutual duration of notice for both parties when signing the initial contracts to start working. For IT jobs, the standard is 2-3 months."

I will gladly take a capped number of paid sick days to be able to leave in 2 weeks on good terms, and whenever I want otherwise. I will also take the lower unemployment rate that comes as a result of employers being unafraid to hire because they can easily fire. People seem to think labor flexibility is purely for the benefit of the employer. Not so. Short notice periods are a worker right, one Americans have and Europeans don't.
> It's not just speculation.

So it’s exactly speculation. A lot of games have done a lot of things for a lot of reasons over the decades.

Why are new games so large? Good question. This entire thread is speculative.
To me what's so maddening about these attacks on Internet privacy is that they're extremely unpopular with actual voters across the political spectrum (it's just that awareness of these measures is very low). No politician would ever dare to campaign on a policy like this because nobody wants it. These persistent attempts to pass anti-privacy measures really highlight the corruption of American "democracy" given that there is zero popular mandate to do this but politicians keep trying anyway.
There's a lot of conversation going on, but I am familiar with a number of the parties pushing this legislation. The entire point is so that the lege can force TX universities to get rid of "undesirable" faculty. Full stop: it's a means to stifle divergent opinions. I'm under the impression that there's already a list.
More likely that he will appeal this in court indefinitely which is somewhat of an ironic strategy.
You are making good points, however about the leaks, we obviously shouldn't wait for them to be dangerous to worry. It's hard to prove risks, it's also hard to prove the lack of risks if only for the living ecosystem around the plant. The leaks show issues in the alert system, it's not the first time it happened, and an engineer sued the plant for dangerous mismanagement.
Doesn't mean we should drop nuclear energy either.
Hmmm, in my vague memory I do remember some monitors having a "degausse" button...