skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I compress a Getty images photo to .jpg and put it on my website I’m still breaching copyright even though it’s gone through lossy compression and isn’t exactly the same. That’s essentially all a AI model is doing.

And copyright applies to every copy, not just when you download something to train the model. It also applies every time you make a copy with said model.
Hi. I'm not an expert, but should I be concerned that I'd be offloading my auth tokens to a cloud service?

Security breaches and so on.
Bringing clarity to Open Source Software licenses
I was trying to cover that with #4, but i put too much 'music-y" stuff in there. You're precisely one of the examples I was thinking about there.
Those charts are at 35w for the Ryzen, so calling that a comparison with a server class processor is a stretch. I don't see the power of the M2 in those benchmarks, do you know what it was for reference?
Arguing with you has been quite productive! Thanks for writing the detailed response. It shows me the perspective of where you come from. I am baffled and in awe at what you can achieve with one correct process and routine. I still have some opinions but those are useless because you have a proven track of the things that I exactly wanted to know.

1. How do you get the confidence over time? I am sure I can also do what you can but will take me 3x or heck even 4x the effort. So, it feels a bit sad to know by the time I am done, it will be worthless despite enjoying the process.

2. I liked how you admitted you forget things too. So this process of relearning for the nth time, does it make the experience enjoyable? For me, I find it tiring to know that I have to do the same thing over and over and some people just get by. It feels kind of disheartening. And more to it, now it's AI that can do it better.

3. I have tried different things big or small. Did quite a few interesting things but nothing remarkable at all. I like engineering/design and making usable things. However, whatever I do is never enough for "others" while it is really okay for me. Now this is the source of all issues. Once I finish a project, I move on to the next project or venture. There is no introspection from what I built. I just like building but not pushing. Consequently, they do not look impressive because they are just replicas nothing more. I get the illusion that I am learning things, but once I blindfold and try to recreate it, I can't. It is disheartening too.

4. I actually come from a disadvantaged background. English is not my primary language. Thus, I put in extra effort whenever I do something to compensate for the lack of communication. It has helped me. Now not everything can be communicated when there is no remarkable portfolio to show. As you have proven yourself, things take time to build. The problem here is I can't afford the luxury of time because of other aspects of life. I get an hour of free personal time at max.

5. The whole idea of finding an average job was to finish it within 4 hours (because I don't have to put effort) and later use the remaining time for myself. This is the only way in which I believe I can make substantial progress in self-improvement.

6. Answering your final question. I am poor in terms of background, skills, and execution (time management). I can do enough to get by but not enough to impress or get other people interested in me for opportunities. This is why I am direly seeking a position where I can get by and still get a chance to improve. I thought college would give that, but it didn't. I thought a postgraduate would give that, but it didn't. I want something easy because I am genuinely tired.

So, I am not living up to my potential, I am not getting hired because I don't have "experience" for entry-level positions in the field I am interested in. (Idk why it's called entry-level). Consequently, I just want to get through life, find easy tasks, get things done, and then carry on from there.
It's a nice looking map, I'm personally a big fan of https://app.electricitymaps.com/

I'm sure you could use the same datapoint to cover more zones (cf their Github repo https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib/b...)
That dysregulation of focus leads to shame spiraling. Both from parents and self inflicted.
I don't want to waste my time on straw men arguments so I'm out.
The Verge reports the Honda will launch at $995[1], while the Bromptom lists for $4700[2] so I don't know how you say it is a lot more expensive? Do you have a different figure for the price?

1. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/14/23872334/honda-motocompac...
2. https://us.brompton.com/p/766/electric-p-line-urban
I'm going to guess it's ISO.
This is like the classic advice on optimization.

The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it.
The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!): Don't do it yet.

It is because I know what a database actually does for me, and because I've had to write parts of that for myself, that I deeply understand why I don't want to write one. And why I want to push those problems to a database if I can.

Of course you should ignore my advice if you're named Jeff Dean. Look through https://research.google/people/jeff/. Among his other projects, look at BigTable, LevelDB and Spanner. All are databases, implemented for good reasons.
This, 100%.

I'm a hobbyist, and when I started out I used autorouting a lot initially to give me a starting point, and inevitably I would adjust everything manually. Autorouting wasn't magic, or even particularly good, but I found it helpful. My PCBs weren't particularly complex, but not dumb either.

I totally get that autorouting is almost certainly a waste of time anything serious, but writing off autorouting entirely, even for hobbyists, comes off as more of a meme than a position resulting from actual experience.

Hell, if autorouting really sucks that bad, then maybe that's a good way for some people to learn how not to route your circuit paths.
In VLSI you pay a lot of attention to those capacitances. I've even designed some VLSI circuits that make intentional use of those capacitances.
That's awesome!
Why is the PNW power-source display an x-y plot and the Midwest and Texas and New England (the others I looked at) are pies?
I see in the PNW plot there's a ~constant output from nuclear and the other sources are more variable (x-t plot makes it easier to see this) but nuclear is a source of energy in the other locations with pie charts, as well.
Until it's a calm night and your solar panels and wind turbines produce zero electricity.
An interesting precedent, disappearing a 10 year old game that people paid for, whatever your thoughts the game itself.
Important to note that Portugal's geography allows it to have a large fraction of base load met with an unvarying renewable - Hydro.

Not all nations will be able to reach these numbers with traditionally intermitent renewables like Solar/Wind.
Someone could put all of these reports together along with the paper trail of unresolved complaints to Google through discovery and likely end up with a great class action case or even a criminal negligence case.

911 is one of those things that absolutely must work and most phones will allow you through using any available network if you are out of range of your primary carrier.

The fact that this is unreliable on any mobile phone is completely unacceptable.
Those all look like the same, standard layout algorithms that don't seem to take into account any particular relationship between a group of nodes. Almost every graph layout algorithm I've seen just treats the nodes as individual things to be connected rather than additionally adding some contextual grouping context to various subsets of the nodes, which I think is what is really required for interactive graphs.

> What do you think 'tensor-based learning' or 'training data' would do for graph layout?

I didn't and don't have a comment on that.
Well obviously because you’re sales team is only talking to warm leads that decide to reach out. The question becomes how many people bounced that might have purchased because 1) it felt like a hassle 2) expecting sleezy sales shenanigans and upsell and custom contract negotiations 3) they may wrongly assume if they can’t afford it if since “contact sells” gives no context

A sales team closing on warms leads feels good and all, but you might be leaving cash on the table by running off people that aren’t interested in that type of sales cycle
Whether Google users are customers or not, is just wording. They are part of the eco system, just like the OS, the servers, the HW or SW devs, the agencies paying for advertising and so on.

Google needs to keep all members of that eco system content and treat them respectfully, labeled customer or not.
I mean that's not really gonna do anything. They'll just find another favorable court and continue.

The real solution is to make patent trolling impossible. Make it so if you own a patent you actually have to use it to make something. Not just use it to steal money from people who are actually making things.
Sometimes it deescalates.

Many times it doesn't:

long list of regions NATO meddling escalated.

Did NATO bombing achieve anything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
The renewable energy in Portugal is not generated by private owners. Solar panels are not very common on residential buildings.
People's right to move to better jobs (by their own judgement) is more important than a business's right to never lose money. In fact, businesses don't have a right to never lose money at all. A business can fail, that's okay, it's an important part of our economy that businesses fail. Let them take their loss, and let them fail if they can't find a way to succeed that doesn't involve financial slavery.
Not every mistake is a conspiracy. I’d argue those are examples of companies being monkeys rather than malign superintelligences.
How does every other phone manufacturer do it then?
I've toyed with the idea of a flip-flop that captures the input on both rising and falling edges. Doing this at the gate level seems inefficient, so I've wondered if there is a better way to design it, and if anyone uses such a thing in production. What do you think?
i think this is not relevant. if the maintainer is making money from support contracts he should be liable for those just as i am selling custom non-free software to my customers as a freelancer. do you think i have more resources than this maintainer?

if anything we need a carve-out for freelancers or even small companies. i mean, how is this supposed to work? if sell support for a software i didn't write, should i be liable for the whole of it?

on the other hand i see a potential positive effect too: commercial support is going to be more expensive. but i am not sure if it is possible make that work without some kind of price limit below which, the developer should not be liable.
The founder and Air are must watch. Also, Guru (Bollywood) is a nice one - story of Dhirubhai Ambani, the man who founded Reliance industries
65 million years ago an asteroid hit the earth, making untold species extinct and causing unimaginable climate change in the span of a few hours. Now, with humans on earth with telescopes and rockets and space-facing radar, we might stand a chance if it happens again. I’d say that counts for _something_.
> DAWs will need to refocus on managing recordings of live performances

They never stopped
I somewhat suspect the data. Could be that there is some inaccuracies and it is also from earlier point of time
> Makes me think transit as we know it wouldn't even work if everyone got one of these things or an ebike and took up so much extra space as a result.

I’ve been wondered something like this too when I see people bring their scooters into a restaurant, the gym or other indoor spaces. I get that you don’t want it stolen but it would untenable if everyone did it.
Look into Tony Seba work.
The transition is on an expodential path, most prediction are simple linear.
Solar + wind + batteries are going to displace almost everything in the next 10 years.
Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists
Salaries in academia are hardly a strong incentive. It's been a long time since a professor salary would put you anywhere near the top of the middle class. Especially if one considers the time and risk that you spend at lower rungs of the academic ladder. Typical professor salaries are in the mid 100ks, and you only get to that point after a PhD and several years as postdoc working 60+ hours a week for maybe $45k.

If your main incentive is financial you would be much better off to go into industry, a starting salary straight out of undergrad I a consulting or software development role is on the same level as a professor salary.
Must be one helluva boot camp for that kind of price. You could almost get tuition for a single semester class at a college for those prices.
Yes, the only way to truly learn that you should never write a database is to write a database. In fact, I bet that is what the author of the tweet did to learn that they should never write one.

I wrote a blog post about this: https://jacobgw.com/blog/observation/2023/07/08/shoot-yourse...
> Sure? This is how investigations work? There is no automatic assumption of guilt, which is what you said.

I know I would hate to have been questioned about why I wanted to take a conversation out of my corporate channel when I was trying to have an after work “get together” with a cute coworker over a decade ago (that cute coworker is now my wife).

> I’m sceptical of government overreach. But asking what was discussed in a meeting is incredibly standard investigative fare.

It’s not just what was discussed, the government is assuming any time that you ask a coworker to “call you” that they are going to question you.

I know I would never talk to anyone in the government without my own lawyer - and that would cost money.
Have you found a good alternative tool?

I've been using the Segway mini for years and think it's amazing, it hits all those things you mentioned.

Its only problem is that it's no longer sold, and mine is starting you show its age. My wheels and battery need changing, but I'm not sure if anyone can actually do that anymore.

So I'd really like another option...
Is there any software that can take handwritten equations (say on an ipad or ocr) and convert them to latex reliably because there’s no way I’m going to try and learn those incantations.
Off topic: I got distracted by the cookie banner which looks like Nina Brink during the IPO of ISP World Online in 2000, the Netherlands. The brain works in mysterious ways.
> Whether Google users are customers or not, is just wording.

No, it isn't, it's a huge difference. If Google's users were paying customers, Google's incentives for how to treat its users would be very different.

> They are part of the eco system

"Customer" does not mean "part of the eco system". It means something much more specific.

> Google needs to keep all members of that eco system content and treat them respectfully, labeled customer or not.

If you think Google is actually doing this, you're delusional. And to the extent Google's leadership thinks they are doing this, they are delusional as well.
Well, in principle one could store solar energy in the form of a flammable fuel which can be used to rapidly spin up a turbine, by constructing ethanol/methane from carbon dioxide and water. We can't do it at scale yet, but this is the realm of e.g. Prometheus Fuels.
Lazard's regular comparison of levelized costs of electric generation technologies breaks down capital, operating, fuel, etc costs.

In their latest PDF it's pages 12 and 13

https://www.lazard.com/media/nltb551p/lazards-lcoeplus-april...

Also most solar pv manufacturers warrant their panels at 90% for 25 years. I don't know if you consider that limited but to me that sounds pretty good.
During my brief stint with longboarding, I found that tumbling (as taught in gymnastics, martial arts, parkour, etc) is quite useful for a high speed unplanned dismount. That would be applicable here too. However, my stint with longboarding was brief because less than 100% of crashes led to a successful tumble.
How can you be charged for training that your employer made you go through?
> Is the disparity between disciplines that high?

At the wealthiest schools, yes. 200K is a high salary in many disciplines. Here's the data for a chaired professor of philosophy:

https://www.umsalary.info/index.php?FName=elizabeth&LName=an...

and history:

https://www.umsalary.info/index.php?FName=juan&LName=cole&Ye...

Still good salaries, but not at the same level.
That's called China, and such things probably already exist if you know where to look.
Insurance companies already use this line when they refuse to pay off a note with value vs financing owed payments. They flat out say "we are not responsible for bad financial decisions of the insured".
On the technical side, the patent is for Non-Uniform Constellations or NUCs. It's a modification of the modulation constellation points to match the error coding.

Traditional 64QAM:

https://www.w6rz.net/64qamrect.png

ATSC 3.0 64QAM for 9/15 code rate:

https://www.w6rz.net/64qamnuc.png

You can explore this with my open source ATSC 3.0 transmitter.

https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-atsc3

Demo clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmIGM0I3NE0
which would be no different than me selling support for software i didn't write.
>but had to be careful because we only had correlations as far as I knew

Sooner or later we need to throw caution to the wind when it comes to advocating for behaving more conservatively towards the environment and climate. If we have to wait until we have ironclad proof that we shouldn't be wrecking things, we are A. allowing our caution to be permissive of recklessness, and B. creating a situation similar to the asymmetry of spreading bullshit -- it takes far longer to prove something is harmful than it takes to switch over to some other equally (or more) destructive practice.

Sorry, I'll step off my soapbox now. Not even sure if you were discussing these things in the context of conservation.

It is indeed really cool stuff! The natural world continues to throw surprise after surprise at us, and the more we learn the more it looks like it really is Fern Gully operating in the wilds of our wonderful earth.

Anecdotally, grasses do seem to put off some smell at times, including preceding a heavy rain. To me, they don't seem as as heady and "luscious" like the rich floral terpenes from a forest (then again I'm from the PNW, so I haven't spent as much time in the grasslands). I wonder if it is more soil bacteria that the grasses are in symbiosis with that do the heavy lifting in terms of rain seeding. Neat to wonder about.
My hope is that some day that the passion for the political side of nuclear translates into passion for the logistical and project management challenges of nuclear. There's this false belief that if people just wanted nuclear, politically, it would be built in large amounts.

In reality, in advanced economies with high labor costs, nuclear is nearly impossible to build. This is true even in countries like France, that complete large construction projects like public transit and trains without cost disease.

In the US, we are beset with an additional challenge beyond the inherent high costs of high-labor demands for precision construction; we also have difficulty with any sort of project management of large construction projects.

If nuclear has a future in the US, we need to start construction on 100GW of reactors in the next few years to replace reactors at their end of life. But we only have a few tiny projects for SMRs, with designs that are barely complete, if at all.

The US is going to lose most of its nuclear power before it will build it back, if it ever does build back more nuclear. This is a stark contrast to renewables and storage, which are mature technologies that are on the TW scale, a magnitude that the nuclear industry can only dream of.
> when people use phrases like "the best product" or "product quality", they are in fact using those phrases to mean "the product that does the best job of giving users what they want".

Perhaps, but Google's actual behavior makes it clear that, whether they want to admit it or not, Google's executives are not using the terms that way.
Who mentioned residential panels?
I loved this magazine - could not afford a subscription but our uni had it but you could not take it out - many hours spend reading and making photocopies of the articles.

The NextCube , Transputer and the wacky Linn CPU.
hmm, ill have to look into that. in that case, check out this listing of all the areas we support: https://www.gridstatus.io/eia.

also, if anyone else has this problem please comment / email me max@gridstatus.io
If an employee has training, they're more attractive to other employers. Not the case with buses.
Double sided flip flops are used in DDR SDRAM and many other applications.
https://docs.xilinx.com/r/en-US/am010-versal-selectio/Double...
WiFi without internet on a Marabu flight
What if you still want the medium quality comments?

Publishing information has both externalized benefits and externalized costs, and we don't have a good way of internalizing the benefits or the costs, but if you only internalize the costs you're surely going to deter things that were net positive.

It's also assuming that the unrecoverable positive externalities correlate with the deterrent. But because they're unrecoverable, they wouldn't -- something with an enormous net benefit can be deterred by a small cost because the benefit was going to someone other than who pays the cost.
It’s easier to “raise awareness” than pick up litter or dig holes and plant trees.
In the DAW space, ProTools continuing-but-diminishing semi-dominance (at least at a professional level) is rooted in hardware rather than software. When they started, you could do not realtime audio on the CPU, so you got a DSP box with the software. The sort of hardware requirement was invaluable to Digidesign in establishing and locking in their early users, and it really didn't go away until sometimes in the mid-2000s when everybody started noticing that you really could do a remarkably large amount of processing on the CPU itself.

So in this world at least, the longevity of the first mover has more to do with actual and imagined barriers to entry rather than anything especially good about the software itself (and indeed, many of its users used to complain endlessly about the software).
This is not constructive for HN
Stupid question, but how do you turn?