skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major benefit of tenure is as a protection for pursuing the truth when researching controversial academic subjects. It protects the behavioral genetics research which takes place at UT Austin from left wing attacks and the positions some professors have taken on Texas A&M's annual drag show from right wing attacks.

As a student in the Texas system, I've raised questions which my professors refused to talk about fearing political backlash. Tenure is an important institution. I think you can only go so far to incentivize good teaching through termination.
Actually the secret ingredient might be more "central planning". Mostly used in socialist/communist countries, but US/UK know how to do it, when the stake is high enough (e.g. war).
One could argue that climate change is sort of a war, threatening the national security.
I do find it pretty crazy that anyone would argue against solar (and wind where it’s viable) at this point, it’s just way too cost efficient. (The feasibility and cost of grid scale storage is where my concerns lie)
My recollection was that the warming guys spent the 70's trying to figure out how to be coherent, and at the first sign of the solar epicycle going the other way, a bunch of whataboutists started clanging the bell about climate cooling they could drown out the warming people.

And it mostly worked.

The first time I was ever mad about politics was in grade school, when some fake magazine for kids (probably one of the ads from Scholastic) had an interview with Ronald Reagan, and what the interviewer thought kids needed to know about Reagan was how crazy he was for jelly beans.

If I had known the phrase, "What in the actual fuck?" I would have said it out loud.

It would be 6 more years before someone summed up how terrifying the 1980's were and that man's name was Phil Collins (Genesis, Land of Confusion). But those bases were already loaded with... well, take your pick. You can go with Michael Keaton Movies about the crumbling economy or West German rock bands with a sprinkling of Sting ('Russians') while we all collectively crossed our fingers that we wouldn't wake up on The Day After.
Here are some simple tests I ran on ChatGPT (not GPT4):

Q: "Who was elected first, President Trump or President Lincoln? Describe your reasoning."

A: "President Lincoln was elected first, not President Trump.

Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States in 1860. He served as President from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, was elected as the 45th President of the United States in 2016 and served from January 2017 until January 2021.

So, based on the historical record and the order of their respective presidencies, it is clear that President Lincoln was elected first."

Q: "Which happened first, Pearl Harbor or the Battle of Waterloo?"

A: "The Battle of Waterloo happened first, not Pearl Harbor.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on June 18, 1815, in present-day Belgium, during the Napoleonic Wars. It was a significant battle in European history and resulted in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Pearl Harbor, on the other hand, was a surprise military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. It led to the United States' entry into World War II.

Therefore, based on the historical record, the Battle of Waterloo took place many years before the attack on Pearl Harbor."

Q: "Would someone who died in the Civil War die before someone who died in World War Two? Explain your reasoning."

A: "Yes, someone who died in the Civil War would have died before someone who died in World War II.

The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865, while World War II took place from 1939 to 1945. Therefore, the Civil War occurred many years before World War II.

As a result, anyone who died in the Civil War would have passed away before anyone who died in World War II. This is simply because the Civil War took place earlier in history than World War II.

It's worth noting that the exact dates of death for individuals who died in either war could vary widely, depending on when and where they were serving. However, in general, the Civil War took place before World War II, so anyone who died in the former would have passed away before anyone who died in the latter."

It looks like it's perfectly capable of at least simple temporal reasoning to me.
In the context of this news, I'm thinking computer as something you can plug a USB stick and hijack it.
if it's on a modern SSD you can DMA it directly into the GPU

no CPU required
The article this thread is commenting on is about Japanese green tea, hence the confusion.
In the example from the article, copilot produces identical comments, not just a functionally identical implementation. So in this case your hypothesis is false.
But thanks for trying to stand up against the open source community for microsoft. /s
Fed Rethinks Loophole That Masked Losses on SVB’s Securities
> Western nuclear power plants always had containment buildings, so no, this isn't a factor.

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.

Mass production in general is made cheaper by simplifying and cutting corners. Nuclear isn't terribly friendly towards this, you can't just go "How about we use 30% less concrete?"

> Nuclear power benefits from economies of scale.

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.

> No, we can't.

You're missing the point. Here's what I envision:

1. Renewables continue to eat nuclear's lunch
2. Nuclear keeps not getting built
3. Eventually grid destabilizes
4. People want solutions, right now

At point 4, nobody is going to sit there and wait 5-10 years for nuclear to be built. Yeah, batteries are expensive, but remember Tesla's battery in Australia that got done in 100 days?

So that's how I see things going. Once the shit hits the fan, urgent solutions will be needed. And pretty much everything is much faster than nuclear.

I'm not envisioning some utopic future, but one where problems will be ignored until something goes quite wrong, that's going to suck for a while, then things get hurriedly rectified in a huge rush and at great expense, but that will still favor non-nuclear solutions.
Are you seriously arguing that using short snippets open source code to inspire similar, yet not exactly the same, original code is "stealing code"? Human developers do that all day long. And just because a piece of code exists in a GPL project doesn't mean it originated there. Every algorithm or sort function likely originated in a more permissively licensed project before it got included in a GPL project.
How does it compare to OpenReplay ?

> Before deciding on ClickHouse, we were planning to use OpenSearch

You should have tried Quickwit :)

Anyway, sounds like a great project, best of luck!

[1] https://github.com/openreplay/openreplay

[2] https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
this can run arbitrary code on the machine and nest tools' results
>>>>>The first step is to eliminate cars as a primary mode of transportation.

>>>>The first step is to make it possible to live without a car.

>>>The first step is to set up separated bike lanes and improved electrified bus/rail routes.

>>The first step is to convince the legislature to shift infrastructure funding away from building new roads.

>The first step is to elect the right candidates, build a base of support, and draft an amendment which can get through the next budget showdown.

And so on...although it's more of a sprawling tree than a descending list.
Because he's an artist, not a programmer.

But I have to admit that, after finding the video on hacker news, I was quite surprised when he opened Photoshop too
Becoming a whiskey snob just made me wish I could abide cigar smoking.
Thing should get its own submission.
Agree. One major difference is between:

1. Technical TRAINING to do job X (rote-style)

2. Conceptual LEARNING to think creatively about solving
problems and asking and answering novel questions—big or small.

Many of us on Hacker News understands the huge difference between this teo modes that has been so elegantly captured in Richard W Hammings “The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn”.

If you want to be TRAINED then sure, go to an institution that does no research.

If you want to LEARN then go to an institution that does some research, better yet, a great deal of research.

I was an undegrad at UCSC in the 1970s—-no grades and great faculty who loved both teaching and research. I learned to learn and I still live to learn.

Now I am expected to TRAIN first year med students human genetics that will allow them to pass their boards. The boards demand insufferably ancient genetics—a cut-off date of 2001 would be fine-wonderful. But there has been a bit of progress in genetics in the last two decades. I tried to teach them a hybrid of the “classics” but with 50% of time devoted to cutting-edge modern genetics. I hate TRAINING to the test.

You can imagine my reviews as a professor. Who is at fault?
Chocked at FAT size video games file ? Me too.
Giga bytes Damned !

To reduce the size, I decided :
1) To use the standard PNG compression.
2) To limit mesh size at less than 300 points for a scene.

- Result :
a) File size < 1 mega Byte ( really).
b) It downloads in 4 seconds.

Check it here :
https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01
(pleaseload url twice : I still have a bug)

Question :
- why video games STUDIOS do not use this strategy ?
I rather liked it, but that's not a fair opinion, because way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth I did a BA in a nearly adjacent historical area. Not quite going in cold.
Let's say that was true and I am calling BS on it as I happen to consult in higher ED at an Ivy. Would it be a problem if it was true that someone with a phd and 3 or 4 years of additional research experience were to make the same salary as a newb undergrad?

Note, where I consult, new 4 year grads get offers that often exceed the salary of their tenured professors.
NYC will target food choices in its battle against climate change
> My coworker fell in Costa Rica, hurt her knee and came back and had an MRI the same week. I saw my doctor in mid-March and she ordered an MRI on my neck, it's scheduled for next week.

You started your entire argument on this point, i.e. (n=2) lol
No there was some global cooling whataboutism going on in the late 70's early 80's, but I didn't hear much about it until the late 90's, when we started talking about the 33 year solar cycle.
Some of the things Plaid can do for ACH:

- Verify that the account number and routing number are correct

- Provide a super tested UI that maximizes conversion

- Verify that the ownership info on the bank account matches the personal info the user gave you, reducing the risk of fraud

- Check that the account funding the transfer has sufficient balance so that the payment won't bounce

- Do other risk checks to identify the risk that the transfer will be returned, taking into account factors like account age and type

- Real time payments (this is new, we just announced it a few days ago)

- KYC compliance, if that's something you need to worry about with your use case

- NACHA-compliant UIs

I work at Plaid, and what I generally tell people is that if your use case involves a very small, select, patient, trusted, motivated, and knowledgeable userbase -- like a "friends and family" type scenario -- then Plaid might be unnecessary. If you're doing funds transfers for a wider audience and need to worry about factors like fraud, compliance, conversion, ACH returns, funds transfer speed, etc. that's where the benefits of using Plaid start to really make a difference.
Thank you! We would love to have you try it out :)
nope. you didn't miss anything.

we'd already be there if Bavaria and similar states hadn't blocked building wind farms in Bavaria, because of the bad looks, or myth busted infrasound, or myth busted bird mass extinctions, or very real existential angst of Munich's Siemens...
> or going to a competitor

Never say where you are going when you resign. That's standard practice (California, anyway) and nobody will ask.
The example given in the article isn't verbatim.
For what it's worth, I love this story! I took the opposite approach but with the exact same logic: Code came naturally but I wanted formal training in design so that I could really embrace both sides and shape excellent products (and in particular, implement all the ideas I had from start to finish).

What made you choose the software track this time around?
Or, you can simply educate people -- this time doesn't need to be very different (though it certainly can be), because already-existing nuclear is very safe. Liability prevents companies dumping radioactive material, and radioactive material is very cheap to store! There's no benefit from dumping it. Yes, mildly irradiated water sometimes gets into rivers, and if you look at the amounts and risks it turns out to be quite reasonable relative even to solar and wind.

What happened in Germany was not rational, and it was not by any means good for the environment, or a net positive for German health and well-being.
(It's not just a grammar parser, for the record: that was imprecise of me. The best description of the thing is the thing itself. But, when considering those properties, that's sufficient.)

> But when it is better at humans then the definitions can just get tossed as usage changes.

I'm not sure what this means. We have the habit of formally specifying a problem, solving that specification, then realising that we haven't actually solved the original problem. Remember Deep Blue? (We could usually figure this out in advance – and usually, somebody does, but they're not listened to.) ChatGPT is just the latest in a long line.

> You are saying hard not complex.

Because reasoning is simple. Mathematical reasoning can be described in, what, two-dozen axioms? And scientists are making pretty good progress at describing large chunks of reality mathematically. Heck, we even have languages like (formal dialects of) Lojban, and algorithms to translate many natural languages into it (woo! transformers!).

… Except our current, simple reasoning algorithms are computationally-intractable. Reasoning becomes a hard problem with a complex solution if you want it to run fast: you have to start considering special-cases individually. We haven't got algorithms for all the special-cases, and those special-cases can look quite different. (Look at some heuristic algorithms for NP-hard problems if you want to see what I mean.)

> but think LLM are over rated,

I think they're not rated. People look at the marketing copy and the hype, have a cursory play with OpenAI's ChatGPT or GPT4, and go "hey, it does what they say it can!" (even though it can't). Most discussion seems to be about that idea, rather than the thing that actually exists (transformer models, but BIG). … but others in this thread seem to be actually discussing transformers, so I'll stop yelling at clouds.
> So, out-of-thebox int their primary tool frontend developers get: viewport simulation, cpu throttling, network throttling, sensor simulation (geolocation and orientation).

The linux kernel has KVM, doesn't get more out of the box than that. Do what you want with it. Emulate ARM? Sure why not.

> The original comment claimed this: "Maybe the web ecosystem will finally get some sane tooling".

Not my comment, I'm addressing your claim of "tooling most languages can't even dream of". The ellipsis doesn't really matter I'm not here to guess what you're meaning.

- can let me examine and change the UI of the app on the fly? Including handful tools like layout overlays, layers etc.

Most debuggers including GDB can print and set state.

> - examine and debug animations?

> - analyze paint/re-paint performance?

I don't do GUI development but you'll have to use a tool specific to the environment you're working with (just like how the DOM is a specific environment). What tool do you use to debug webview? Not your main browser. Systems development is the same.

> - view and debug delayed background actions?

You can get the time spent on anything down to individual assembly instructions if you wish.

> - record and replay user flows?

rr (which is GDB compliant hence integrates well with termdebug in vim).

I don't disagree that there are many tools for web dev. But they're not always better or easier to use. The built-in nodejs debugger is shit compared to GDB for example. My point is that everything you can do in browsers that aren't browser specific exists for other languages as well. Many times very specialized with better features that the devtools version.

Again, I love web development, but I also live in the terminal and love those tools even more. I wish they existed for the web.
Indeed you have a point.
Indeed. Corrected, while it still lets me.
NYC Subway Ridership Hits 4M for the First Time Since March 2020
I worked retail for 2 years after completing a master's in condensed matter and transistor physics. It just happened to be during a time (~2014) when that degree alone was insufficient in getting me a job, even an entry-level one.

I think barring student loans is part of the strategy. Also, focusing on financial literacy prior to high school graduation. If we must have student loans, then colleges need to publish data about graduation rates, job placement rates, etc for a given program, and let lenders determine if loans for that program are a good idea. The whole situation is maddening because there are so many loud voices blaming the literal children who signed for the loans in the first place but (as you say) nobody making any meaningful change to prevent it happening again.

I really wish I could go back in time to slap 18-year-old me before I signed on for student loans, but by the time I understood what I was in for, my options were "take on more loans to pay to finish school and get a high-paying job, or take on jobs that will never pay well enough to pay off this debt". The sunk-cost fallacy is supposed to be a fallacy but perversely, as it pertains to student loans, its the inventive to keep going.
As a counter-example, I’d point to Apple developing the smartphone market, although many big corps tries and failed before Apple.

I think Facebook though has a special cluelessness/arrogance which might be more widely shared by the ‘new monopolists’ of two-sided markets who inevitably mistake their luck of the draw (having the two sided marker) for their own merit and skill. Thus that kind of company can be world-leading and senescent at the same time.
Side note: I use 1/1/70 by default when entering birthdays. Only if it's something that I expect to matter - financial or medical institution - do I enter my real birthday.

Entering random dates is not a great idea because I seem to recall one site (Yahoo!, maybe?) insisting on me entering the correct birthday and I had no idea what I put in.
> The majority of the logging industry is a good thing for the planet.

Absolutely not. The amount of carbon sequestered is inconsequential relative to the habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, species going extinct, etc.
Oops, you meant to reply to the parent comment. It's a mistake on your part, you may want to clarify.
I think using an example of {x} where x is an academic subject matter, and the complaint was that it was used in an academic setting, and is used as an example of a bad behavior involving academic institutions, it's worth inquiring if that example is valid! If I presented a mathematical proof in a math paper in a math journal, my proof being incorrect is kind of a big deal.
Ogden is about 50 miles away, depending on where you measure from. Provo is half that distance. The only concentrated population centers not within 50 miles of Draper are the Logan area and the St. George area in the far SW corner of Utah.

If companies start mandating in-person work based on distance from the office, that's a pretty good incentive for people to move away. If I lived 40 miles form the office and faced an ugly commute, moving 11 miles becomes a real option to weigh against other factors.
> 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).

Directly? Probably not. But the contamination from fallout is more than sufficient to poison a significant fraction of humans over a not-too-long time horizon and provide everybody else with a significant cancer risk. The ensuing chaos and resulting breakdown of civilization will do the rest. Don't believe it? Ever seen the panic when toilet paper is at risk to run out at Walmart?

Those who still remember the Chernobyl disaster are aware what that meant for Europe. A single plant, and everybody got warned and could take precautions.
Why bother removing it? You're not under the impression that misrepresenting your brother's anecdote matters.

I'm happy we drilled down and got to what really happened, which as far as I can tell was something along the lines of, "my professor said something about race once and it hurt my feelings." In Florida (and probably in Texas, too, or soon enough I imagine), I think that's a felony now!
You are talking about an amount of money that exceeds the easily available resources of the developer. That is true of nuclear but it is also completely normal in renewables. Projects if all types need financing. That could be a $200k anaerobic digester on a farm or a $7b offshore wind farm. But at every level the investor or bank will need to do due diligence and understand the risk.

Different types of project require different levels of expertise to do that.

A battery storage site is relatively simple and within the scope of smaller investors. An offshore wind farm might need large banks and energy companies. A nuclear power plant is in a completely different league in terms of expertise required. A bank will find it difficult to even understand the risk.
Sota is “state of the art”. ROME seems to be the technique previously introduced by the authors of the paper in the post
The issue is that nuclear largely makes renewables redundant. Nuclear is just as cheap to run 24/7 as it is to run half the time, unlike fossil fuels.

Right now, the way we're using intermittent sources is to shut fossil fuel plants off when renewables are producing and turn them back on when they are not producing. Intermittent sources are essentially supplementing a grid based in fossil fuels.

If we use nuclear plants to fill in the gaps in intermittent sources' production curves, then we'd have already built enough nuclear capacity to run the grid without intermittent sources so we'd just run nuclear plants at full capacity and eliminate the need for intermittent sources.
LongForm: Instruction Tuning for Long Text Generation with Corpus Extraction
Do you actually drink not-bottom-of-the-barrel sencha? If not, your experience is not applicable, respectfully. With even middle-of-the-road sencha the difference is far from subtle.
https://www.reedbeta.com/blog/understanding-bcn-texture-comp...

BC1-5 have been standard practice since before the original XBox. I think when people here are talking about "uncompressed assets" they mean "not applying variable-rate zip style compression on top of BCn compression."
Thought LIGO can detect these waves? https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
There was more to it than just compression. Hitman 2 allowed the player to install/uninstall each level individually, and the way that was implemented meant that each level had its own copy of every asset it contained. Hitman 3 removed that option and simply shipped every level in one unified package, with assets used in multiple levels only stored once.