skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We revisit the distant future of the Sun and the solar system, based on stellar models computed with a thoroughly tested evolution code. For the solar giant stages, mass-loss by the cool (but not dust-driven) wind is considered in detail. Using the new and well-calibrated mass-loss formula of Schroder & Cuntz (2005, 2007), we find that the mass lost by the Sun as an RGB giant (0.332 M_Sun, 7.59 Gy from now) potentially gives planet Earth a significant orbital expansion, inversely proportional to the remaining solar mass.

According to these solar evolution models, the closest encounter of planet Earth with the solar cool giant photosphere will occur during the tip-RGB phase. During this critical episode, for each time-step of the evolution model, we consider the loss of orbital angular momentum suffered by planet Earth from tidal interaction with the giant Sun, as well as dynamical drag in the lower chromosphere. We find that planet Earth will not be able to escape engulfment, despite the positive effect of solar mass-loss. In order to survive the solar tip-RGB phase, any hypothetical planet would require a present-day minimum orbital radius of about 1.15 AU.

Furthermore, our solar evolution models with detailed mass-loss description predict that the resulting tip-AGB giant will not reach its tip-RGB size. The main reason is the more significant amount of mass lost already in the RGB phase of the Sun. Hence, the tip-AGB luminosity will come short of driving a final, dust-driven superwind, and there will be no regular solar planetary nebula (PN). But a last thermal pulse may produce a circumstellar (CS) shell similar to, but rather smaller than, that of the peculiar PN IC 2149 with an estimated total CS shell mass of just a few hundredths of a solar mass.
And easy to find for DOS or DDOS. Doesn't seem like a benifit.
Yes, that's my point. One person very much can do it. There are train lines that have their signals & stations setup for this, and the trains prepared for this mode of operations. The MTA keeps caving to the unions so that the trains remain staffed with 2.
I think the idea of "stable neighborhoods" is complex and misses the point.

If supply goes up, existing homeowner value goes down, the amount landlords can ask goes down. I don't see any reason it is more complicated than that, the entrenched interest is obvious.

Doubling the housing in a neighborhood could halve peoples entire net worth.
"That may never happen, current technology does not seem up to it."

Any computerized system is only going to advance over time, with its theoretical limits far beyond the current state of the technology.

So full self-driving is clearly inevitable.
For that to be meaningful, one would have to consider what proportion of miles driven are in teslas, and where.
Forcing declares at the top makes it easy to estimate at a glance (or exactly calculate) how much space the stack frame will use.
The cloud feels like a casino designed to fleece you. No way to set limits + no way to check your limit (via API). The price calculators are as complex as they can possibly be, just spin the wheel and hope for the best I guess. Price estimations for my instance in my month vary wildly from cents to over 1€. I just imagine what would happen if I actually spent money there and price estimations are 100€ per month when I check in the morning and then the next day for whatever reason x10 higher.

Currently my supposedly free micro instance on GCP is projected to costing 1.50€ per month. Obviously I'm very greatful for free computing, that's very nice. It's actually the main reason I'm even entertaining using the cloud for things and bothering to try things out. My complaint isn't about that, it's about the fact that their stated cost isn't the actual cost. It does seem to actually cost something. No, not network costs. It says "E2 instance core" and "E2 instance ram". It will be very interesting to see whether I get an explanation for this and whether they will take the money. In the first month they already took a few cents for the 2-3 days I ran it.

I don't know if irony is the right word but the GCP cost only has to go slightly higher and I can already switch off the cloud to a standard VM somewhere to have cheaper compute. Imagine that, I'm not a 100k/month spender like some here, I'm a free user and it's already almost cheaper for me to switch off the cloud.
They have a quota page in aws console which displays all quotas. Defaults are in all the documentation. And quota information can be queries from the cli and will tell you if it’s adjustable or not.

They have a support page for quota changes and are usually actioned in around 15-30m on average.

What more do you want?
I don't think that's a good argument. If someone says something sexually harassing to me at work and I politely say "Oh, I guess I misunderstood" to defuse the situation, it would be specious for them to later claim that my statement of misunderstanding means that no sexual harassment could have taken place.
I don’t agree with what he did, but as time goes on I understand more why he did it.
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As an expat from Germany I also highly doubt this.
ZFS has the concept of a separate intent log device though, I wonder if that would be enough to make these types of disks work with it? I have no problem putting a couple of terabytes of flash in front of a ZFS array if it means I can have 40TB of redundant storage in 3 disks.
I've hit problems a couple of times with compute intensive data loading tasks in Pytorch.

One involved custom data augmentations on spatial graphs. I couldn't find any python libraries that offered performant implementations of the functions needed and ended up writing custom C++ extensions to call from python.

The other involved running video encoders and decoders inside the dataloader. The problem was more Pytorch specific than python per se, but the way Pytorch handles multiprocessing and CUDA streams made efficient parallelism very difficult. It would have been much easier in C++.

I've also needed to ditch python for ML inference in production when extremely low latency was required.
I'd get off any elevator playing anything on that page.
I’m not following your reason with aviation. Isn’t weight per kWh of hydrogen bad?
> The logic is really simple: someone can come up with almost any reason to justify murder if they believe themselves solely capable of such judgment.

I think if you do a survey you'll find lots of people agreeing that major oil executives and PR should be judged harshly. Not murder, but definitely being judged as bad in a way that everyday people pass.

I don't think your argument works at all. Harshly judging some people is not even close to harshly judging almost everyone. The former does not beget the latter.

> If someone recognizes the failings of every human then they are less prone to pass judgment.

Less, sure, but these are pretty egregious cases.

> Did Ted K not feel justified in his actions? Did he not find his own murderous actions acceptable? Why would he do these things if he didn’t think he was devoid of the sin he saw in his targets?

You definitely don't have to think you're free of sin to target sinners.
Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
Its a shame really. Elm seemed so promising a few years ago. I still like the ideas behind the project but the history of Elm is not confidence inspiring.
> I think the point is that activists don't care about collateral damage.

I disagree mainly because of this:

> Helping black people is not their real goal.

It's a weakening of Kaczynski's argument to say it's about activists not caring about collateral. His point is more that "leftist crave power and hate themselves so they'll push policies to punish their race and social class using a moral justification. These policies actively hurt those they are supposed to help"

He absolutely mixes in there insinuations that this is all by some secret design. He spends ungodly amounts of paper writing secret about the motives of the leftist.
Now be honest and tell us what Woodmac is projecting for storage by 2030. I'll wait.
> Ellul will push you off the cliff of society and do something that today is unthinkable: to question technology and technological progress itself.

I don't think this is as radical of an idea as you think as I think about this quite often. Basically the grim realizations of the harm I bring upon the earth in pursuit of my career, hobbies, and other lifestyle choices. It honestly bothers me regularly enough to make me question myself and my identity.

As for trying to understand TK - Did at any point you acknowledge - "I neither have his unique psyche and the lifetime of unique input that shaped it?" You didn't turn to criminality because you aren't TK. No amount of cosplaying will make you think like TK.
I disagree. The creator should slow down when writing, but they should not waste the viewer's time when speaking. I don't want to hear someone's ramblings unless they're really someone special.
I don't think this factored into Western distrust. The West had sided with White Russians and against Bolsheviks since forever, way before any purges or Holodomor or whatnot.

It's interesting that Stalin tried to get the West's help against Hitler before he giving up and making a truce with Germany to buy time.

Keep in mind that Germany was close and Hitler had stated he intended to expand eastwards towards Russia and he had declared that "Bolshevik Jews" were the ultimate enemy of Germany. If Stalin felt the Soviet Union wasn't ready for that fight, it makes sense that he would try to stall it. (Yes, then there's Poland and all that jazz. History is complicated).
I find “The System’s Neatest Trick” to be a much more enjoyable and applicable read: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-the-sy...
No, I'm saying Tesla won't sell an L3+ product approved for a CA autonomous vehicle deployment permit before Mercedes does.
I’m still skeptical there’s enough data to distinguish from the obvious selection effects. The difference in safety between manual and automatic 911s probably tells you essentially nothing about whether a random driver would be safer driving a random automatic or a random manual.
I'm not a screenwriter, but to be honest: ideas are a dime a dozen. It's the realization that matters.
Not even recreate, make the same mistake but even more intensely. It's impressive, in some ways.
They do not pollute heavily fume-wise, and most motorcycles other than Harleys or sport bikes with racing exhausts with the dB component removed are not that loud. I get 60 mpg and the engine is efficient. A car gets half or less that mpg, so is 2 to 3X more polluting than a motorcycle when you have 1-to-1 driver/passenger comparison. 2 people on a moto is even better than a car.
Heritage isn’t a reliable service and you appear to keep linking to them. It says a bunch of weird words and terms and obfuscates all the issues while making America sound amazing.
> One average US citizen produces around 20 tons of CO2 per year. A bus needs 3 of them working full-time. This completely dwarfs the emissions due to fuel use.

Are you trying to say that these people wouldn't already exist without the bus? So everytime we commission a new bus, 3 fully grown licensed drivers appear in a flash of smoke from the storage compartment of the bus?
Not to mention, this is sloppy:

>To the extent that it is defined at all, our conception of leftism is defined by the discussion of it that we have given in this article, and we can only advise the reader to use his own judgment in deciding who is a leftist.

"You'll know one when you see it" is lazy handwaving for a guy who spent this much time blaming leftism, and it conveniently sets up the reader to rely on their own prejudice when determining who belongs to his problem group. Pass.
Not for me because I did my own translation and became a meme because of my awful accent according to comments, currently my French translation is making money which I found hilarious because ppl are posting me as the idiot who has good videos for MSTs and linear programming. Anyway just have fun and don't worry about money if the content is what you would like to see you'll do OK. Guys like Mr Beast have teams of pros
Only if it's a multi-actuator drive. Single-actuator drives are still barely hitting SATA II speeds, so this density boost on its own probably won't be enough to increase performance to the point where SATA III's 6Gbps is a real problem.
Yeah, self driving cars would be a step backward as currently imagined.

We need high speed rail to connect our cities.
What those utilizing the transportation network are willing and able to pay to use the network will be directly proportional to how critical the usage of that transportation network is to economic function.

So there is never any economic need to transfer the cost of using the transportation network from those using it, to taxpayers at large. In fact, socializing costs of transportation is what can cause economically non-viable transportation services to grow in usage, and in doing so, burden the economy with loss-making transportation.
UK here. I have driven both autos and manual cars.

It barely takes any mental energy to drive manual. After you learn it it's just not a big deal.

I drink coffee whilst driving.

Main difference is that American roads are big, grid layout, traffic light to runway to traffic light style things. UK roads weave inbetween buildings. It requires more attention.
No it's not. It's a technical term which means that the person is knowingly making an argument that is not valid.

See the definition of validity [0] in logic.

When I say they are "intellectually dishonest" I mean they are attempting to persuade others with an appeal to emotion in a subtly-crafted paragraph that looks like a rational argument, but technically is not a rational argument --- because it is invalid --- and they know it is invalid.

They are attempting to win by emotional persuasion rather than a series of rigorous rational conclusions.

How my statement that someone is intellectually dishonest is a personal attack, I do not know. Perhaps people skip over the "intellectually" qualifier and jump straight to the "dishonest" part?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(logic)
> His participation in a multi-year Harvard psychology study was a fascinating facet to the story and his development.

There's an angle where this whole tragedy is just blowback from MK ULTRA.
> We do not need replication right now because our user base is low

What happens when the hard drive or hard drives in this machine fails?

> I don't see how an hierarchical file structure would prevent us from doing it.

Because you are tied to one machine. Replication across machines creates a consistency problem. How do you ensure consistency? Either you write to N machines, which means when one fails, it doesn't get written to and you have to reconcile later, or you write to one and replicate to another.

(I am not a database guy and I'm on a programming hiatus, so maybe I dont understand)

If you cronned rsync or a backup script, how much data are you willing to lose? If a change is made right after backup happens, is it a big deal to lose it if a machine fails before the next backup?

The hash question was more to assess why your files need to be in a hierarchical structure rather than in a key value store, where the key is the file hash, and the value is the contents of that file. I was imagining an example being that nginx serves files directly out of these folders.

If you think you are going to grow significantly, tying information directly to a machine will create incredible operational pain in the future. Abstracting it away from a machine lets you do things like stick your data into s3, which will let you avoid a large number of operational pitfalls.

> Using your solution would abstract the filesystem

That's where I am going. If you do grow and your data out grows a machine or machines, I imagine you will have to do this. If your data is in s3, I imagine you are going to define config files which get consumed by wherever your "write" call is made and consumed by a script that validates those assumptions and emails a report of assumption violations.

I would assume a client and a cronned validation script that look something like:

Class ValidatedS3Writer:
def __init__(self, s3, validator):
self.s3 = s3
self.validator = validator

def write(self, path, payload):
self.validator.validate(path, payload)
self.s3.write(path, payload)
s3 = ValidatedS3Writer(S3(), Validator(VALIDATION_CONFIG_YAML))

----
if __name__ == "__main__":
validator = Validator(VALIDATION_CONFIG_YAML)
for path in db.all_paths():
validator.validate(path, s3.read(path)) # or s3.metadata(path)

Anyway I don't know your use case in detail, if this is a premature optimization, well that is the root of all evil. However if it is not an optimization, but an architectural decision, I would encourage you to think about:

1. What happens when a machine fails
2. What happens when you have hit some machine based limit.

If these files in a hierarchy rarely change and are pointed to by say an nginx config, then making sure your backups are sane (and testing them, actually testing them), and writing a validation script is probably a better investment that allows you to spend more time on product.

Operational pain comes from how state is managed, SPOFs, and consistency models. So anytime you have a SPOF, it merits thinking what it would take to mitigate it.
I like using the train in America.

The main issues I have are that the trips aren’t as frequent as I’d like and often don’t leave on time.
Model weights are a form of data compression. Have a look at variational autoencoders for example where this is made more explicit (its latent space is a compression).

Your arguments regarding "transformative work" is what the discussion is all about. Let's see where it lands with case law.

FWIW, my stance is copyrighted content should not be used in training without request.

>It's bad practice to go around espousing strong and condemnatory opinions about topics you don't have a full grasp of. In this case, it's both the technical details and the legal system.
>It makes you look like a fool and costs you your credibility amongst peers in future encounters.

Agree, thank you for the feedback. My analogy was quite exaggerative.
I don't think "totalitarian" is part of Marx credo. Dictatorship is not used in that sense, and in any kind, according to Marx this dictatorship is transitional and must also end.

Agreed about the "not leaping" too soon comment, though.

In the end I think Mao simply saw the USSR as the more immediate threat, and faraway rightists in America were less of a concern -- and if they opposed the Russkies, so much the better!
> Recently I was reading that in Europe, most cars sold don't even have automatic transmission

I don't have any numbers regarding sales, but after renting 10s of cars in Europe during the last decade, it seems like they almost never have any manual cars anymore. In some countries, the entire fleet doesn't even include any manual ones anymore, I was told the last time I wanted to rent a car.
I’m sarcastic as it’s hard to assume people argue here in either good faith or have any idea about the problem.

Being capable of 90% self driving means it’s not self driving, period. And going to ~100% is extremely, extremely difficult. Anyone comparing those numbers to show Tesla’s superiority (or even being in the same league) just doesn’t understand anything about safety critical systems.

What’s better - Airbus 320, which has limited range, or a hypothetical plane, that can fly around the world, and to Mars, but just 90% of the time?

And arguments here are especially funny, as Tesla has been openly lying about their abilities and progress for almost 7 years now.

And talking about ambitions - design intent defines your ambitions and capabilities of self driving systems on the SAE scale. Tesla openly claims to CA DMV, that they’re developing level 2 driver assist system, not a self driving system.
When has reforming worked? No less with democracies (which are all broken anyway)
Now the NSA will have enough storage to keep all that surveillance video of me watching The Munsters.
I think OP is suggesting that commoditising, tracking, sequencing and optimising your actions (i.e. productivity culture) comes at the expense of your emotions, wants and "natural life", which is a Bad Thing™ - while also not acknowledging that a complete disregard for discipline or optimisation of life's tasks might also lead to Bad Things™ (e.g. lost time, failed/unfinished creative endeavours, unnecessary external stress, etc).

In general, this has always felt like the Golden Mean[1] problem to me - or for the Nietzsche fans, the conflict between our Apollonian and the Dionysian[2] urges.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_mean_(philosophy)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche#Apollonian...
Yeah, the highest paid single individual person on that list gets only a measly 8% of the total estimate per year, therefore we shouldn't tax the rich.

The extreme mental gymnastics some people will go to to rationalize the current state of the world absolutely blows my mind.
The state only has as much power as it can wield and as what the people will take. Individuality the way you’re implying does not exist in societies where not even food, shelter, and basic dignity is guaranteed and provided to all.
If you use something like yt-dlp that supports it then sponsorblock also strips it from the resulting files.
Not sure how that relates to the point OP was making. Unless I misunderstood his point?

> Mercedes is delivering a product that only support a few features but do it well

This naturally implies that Tesla experimented with a broader set of self-driving features in an throw-it-at-the-wall experimental fashion. Which is more of a technical/product management question than a financial/legal/marketing one. Unless OP simply means Mercedes released the same set of features just extremely restricted in what you can do with them?

If so the hacker/experimental vs limited focus on "small set of features" dichotomy is not super relevant. It's just business risk aversion or gov regulatory strategy, not product/technology development strategy.
>He justifies the trade-offs that come with losing industrial society as being worth the cost.

That is fucking deranged. Describing it as deranged is an understatement, and it blows my mind that you’re defending it _on an internet forum_. Only someone who’s never seen someone die of violence or disease could ever say some shit like that.

Today is reminding me that I need to take hacker news commenters much less seriously…
There are also an increasing number of subways out there that operate with zero drivers.
> In an emergency, that whole tangle of self-absorption lifts, because "what needs to be done" is usually so obvious that nobody, not even my inner critic, could reasonably disagree. For a certain kind of person – and I'm definitely one of them – this total absence of ambivalence feels freeing, even disconcertingly elating, never mind the fact that what's unfolding around me is unquestionably bad.

As someone else who runs toward disasters, this really resonates.
I think you're right. There's a few opinions potentially clouded by "I'm jealous because I want this but can't afford it."

If they were making a Quest 2 replacement, fine, talk about $500 pricepoints. If they can deliver a MacBook Pro replacement, then $2k+ is the ballpark.
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You get some data throughput increases by increasing areal density and number of platters -- the days of counting on 100-120MB/s from a spinner are now replaced by checking to see whether you get 220-280MB/s -- but you should not expect the rotating disk technology to push the SATA III standard just yet.

It will be more than 13 hours.