skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is worth noting that the highest efficiency gas turbines are combined cycle. That is, the waste heat is captured almost in entirety to make steam to run other turbines (potentially part of the same generating unit) to increase efficiency.

From a grid standpoint, peaker gas turbines can go from 0 to 100% in a few minutes. Combined cycle turbines can take a couple hours. They are precision machines and need to warm up to operating temperature much slower.
That's what I do, plus I have an undersized tractor that tows a wagon with a busted wheel.
FYI: There’s an open Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative that aims to catalogue tablets held around the world:

https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/

For example:
https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/273210
Well, GP just shared that it's still widely used within security cameras?

It's also the only compressed format supported by many popular webcams, e.g. Logitech's C900 series ever since they removed H.264.

Digital cinema projectors apparently also use it (well, the JPEG2000 variant) exclusively since MPEG-2 was deprecated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package
The worm is the insincere kiss-ass, not the person who treats people as equals, no matter what anyone says.
> But this doesn't answer the question as to where firms go if they want to license a core rather than design in-house

My original comment. Qualcomm won't be doing this. Or at least not for a fee that is in any way comparable to what Arm charges.
>Most will discover that their 401K, despite maximum contributions, will be insufficient to retire on.

The biggest problem I have with the 401k is that it was very clearly set up as a tax break for the upper class. It was then extended to be the primary retirement for everyone and it has oh so many footguns and ways to bilk retail investors along the way.

1. It's tied to your employer, and not universally available.
2. Even when it's available, it's not mandatory to save anything. It should at the very least have a decent default contribution with a 'I really know what I'm doing' opt out.
3. Investment options are often active funds with subpar performance and high fees
4. It's too easy for retail investors to panic and sell everything during a downturn.

If the government were really intending to set up a defined contribution retirement plan, they should have just made the TSP available 'at cost' to everyone. Autoenroll everyone at 10% in a 'target date' index fund and don't let them touch it until their 60's unless they have a terminal illness or something. It really is that simple.
> Changes in past atmospheric methane concentrations are determined by measuring the composition of air trapped in ice cores from Antarctica.

measurement, not "guesstimate"
That's not the takeaway at all.

The takeaway is don't be good at things you don't want to be asked to do.
Meh, I don't think this extrapolates to a general principle very well. While no authoritative source is perfectly reliable, some are more reliable than others. And Elon Musk is just full of crap.
Humanity needs no help wiping out humanity.
The emphasis is on "tries", i.e. genuinely puts a mental effort (including research etc.) into forming an opinion.
Does it feel as ridiculous if you s/ai/nuclear weapons/?

The people worried about AI are worried that the first country that achieves ASI will achieve strategic dominance equivalent to the US as of 1946.
Computer-aided diseases diagnosis system based on tongue color analysis
Cruise Suspends Robotaxi Operations, What They Must Do to Fix It
On the contrary, I have been using ntfs3g driver in rw mode for years without issues.
Ah, Razor. Sadly it seems that DRM companies like Irdeto, makers of Denuvo, are now simply hiring talented crackers such that there are very few people now able to crack games beyond simple DRM. Empress is the only one remaining.
There seems to be a lot of disagreement in the replies to this comment around the exact nature of Jordan's health troubles/medical problems in 2019/2020. This is the most direct recounting of what happened, for anyone who cares to take a look:

Peterson Family Update June 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzRbEMzr0k8
This is how we can all expect to be treated in a cashless society.
Redundant code is not code that looks the same. It's only reasonable for people to believe it is about code that looks the same if they have never bothered to learn what it means.
To me, the title made it sound like Big Tech was underplaying the risk to humanity, when it's actually stating the reverse:

> A leading AI expert and Google Brain cofounder said Big Tech companies were stoking fears about the technology's risks to shut down competition.

which is of course 100% what they're doing
"It will drive down wages"

All evidence suggests that unionized workers earn more than non-unionized workers.

Unions are not perfect but they bring more of the value being created by employees to the employees.

An unionized US tech worker working from Bolivia will still make more than a non unionized US tech worker working in SF.
https://www.co2levels.org/#sources

> Atmospheric CO2 concentrations (ppm) derived from in situ air measurements at Mauna Loa, Observatory, Hawaii.
I think we (generally, HN) underestimate how bad the average person is at searching.

There's a reason Google has suggested results and ignores portions of a query.

I know I've done 5 minute search chains and had people look at me like I was some kind of magician.

Depressing, but true.
Autism is hard
What even is an activist doctor? Seems like a weird phrase to me. Shouldn't all doctors be activists, especially when they're in decision-making authorities such as the AACAP?
Hi HN community,

Eric here, CEO of Voltage Park. To add some context, we're announcing a new cloud consisting of approximately 24,000 NVIDIA H100s. Each cluster has H100 SXM5 GPU's fully interconnected with 3.2T Infiniband for peak performance. Pricing is as low as $1.89 / GPU / hour.

We think the current market for ML compute is broken, with access only available to the well-resourced. We're on a mission to make machine learning infrastructure accessible to all and will be opening up support for short term leases and hourly billing early next year.

We'd love to hear your thoughts around the ML compute shortage, what needs aren't currently being met, and what we can do to ensure that the AI ecosystem is healthy and accessible to a broad audience of users.
Databases Are Not Compilers
Windows Metro
Absolutely. This is how we operated when we were at the peak of our tech showmanship phase. We had ~12 different services, all .NET 4.x the exact same way.

This sounds like it could work, but then you start to wonder about how you'd get common code into those 12 services. Our answer at the time was nugets, but we operate in a sensitive domain with proprietary code, so public nuget services were a no go. So, we stood up our own goddamn nuget server just so we could distribute our own stuff to ourselves in the most complicated way possible.

Even if you are using all the same language and patterns everywhere, it still will not spare you from all of the accidental complexity that otherwise becomes essential if you break the solution into arbitrary piles.
You could also just use search-and-replace in your text editor. I've realized a while ago that my footer and header are highly "searchable", they look totally different from any other part of the web site, and many editors can do operations on multiple files, even inside a folder hierarchy.

I haven't acted on that, am still using a website generator. But in principle? Totally doable.
- "steam turbines[...] are based on 19th century technology... new supercritical carbon dioxide turbines... high tech supercritical carbon dioxide ..."

For some grounding context: gas turbines are also century-old technology, and supercritical CO2 as the working fluid is pretty obvious and was extensively looked at in the 1970's [a] (and perhaps earlier). There's no qualitatively new stuff here; it looks more like a reopening of old and simple ideas due to shifting economics.

I'm definitely not trying to assign a pro-/con- valence on the tech—I just prefer clearly-grounded discussions, not puff pieces.

[a] e.g., https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760016593 ("Energy Conversion Alternatives Study (ECAS), General Electric Phase 1. Volume 2: Advanced Energy Conversion Systems. Part 2: Closed Turbine Cycles" [1976])
What's the view on the immediate impact on elevated CO2 levels on humans? I know high indoor CO2-levels correlate with poor mental performance, but as far as I know that might just be because it also correlates with reduced O2 levels. But it seems reasonable that a 25% increase of CO2 in ambient air would do something to our health.
“Autistic”, “we” - how the author can speak for everyone if there is no one single diagnosis. There is an Autism Spectrum Disorder, and people might have very, very different symptoms. He even mentions it, but still posts his own impressions to explain what feels and thinks every ASD person.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but why are you talking about manipulating situations in ways that would hurt others as a positive learned trait? Skipping a line is beneficial to only one person, you.
Just two more years.
The inverse of a 33% reduction is not a 33% increase. It is a 50% increase. In other words, humanity has added half of the preindustrial CO2 level on top of the preindustrial CO2 level.

What you probably meant is that 33% of the CO2 in the atmosphere is "man-made".
Original to Jeff or not, "A Thousand Brains" does a decent job presenting an interesting and highly plausible model of how the neocortext may function.

Your comment would be very valuable to me if it included pointers to better sources. I have sufficient background to see gaps in Jeff's book, and would be interested in exploring these, perhaps through the references you seem to be aware of.
It's also not effective. Mainstream people are never going to talk about 'X' or 'Meta' but will just stick with the old names
Revolut has very questionable business practices like having candidates work for the company for free just for a chance at an interview and a sick CEO that demands people work on Sundays.
> Maybe in theory but in a world where there is only one software union for FAANG, that won't be the case.

Why would it? My wife works in a heavily unionized industry, but you're not forced to be a member, but your baseline benefits are negotiated by a union. You're free to negotiate directly better terms if you can, you just can't do worse. I do see your point, say you have some benefits that mostly favors people with children, which you'd happily give up for higher pay. That is a downside.

> So you're at the mercy of the 51%?

Welcome to democracy, unless you're in the US where you at the mercy of less that 50% of the population anyway. I was always taught that democracy is the rule of the majority, but with consideration for the minority. In a normal election it's not win takes all, say you elect 15 people to run the union, sure 51% could elect the exact same type of people, in normal elections that rarely happens. It happens with gerrymandering, but normally, you broadly get a reasonable representation of the members. That's not to say that there aren't a group of people that believe something entirely different, and yes, it sucks to be them. Saying that 2% or 5% should be able to get exactly what they want, even if that costs the remaining group what they want is really arguing against democracy and I'm not sure what you'd replace it with.

Still, you should always be free to leave a union that doesn't represent you, but that should prevent everyone else from benefiting. Maybe most agree with you and you start a new union.
It’s called engineering. /s
Interesting that you can see the big wars affect Co2: Napoleonic wars, WW1 and Ww2.
I don't think they are so capable actors to do it on purpose.

I think they really believe what they are saying because people in such position tend to be strong believers into something and that something happens to be the "it" thing at the moment and thus propels them from rags to riches, (or in Musk case further propels them towards even more riches).

Let's be honest here, what's Sam Altman without AI? What's Fauci without COVID, what's Trump without the collective paranoia that got him elected?
Also, Twint (a p2p and b2c payment scheme) has established itself very well in most places. Even for really small businesses or events as the business only needs a QR code an and no additional hardware

(although the b2c charges for the businesses are quite substantial...)
With all the respect that is possible on an anonymous forum like Hacker News but I think you are wrong to not be concerned about a person receiving millions in donation funding (1) to counter racism who defines racism using the same word. It's a serious red flag and with the benefit of hindsight if you read the NY times article linked below there was and is very good reason to be concerned.

The person who asked the question states that he listened to the talk and did not hear any definition of racism. This is why he asked the question. If you're really curious you can listen to the whole talk (2). Not that I would recommend listening to the whole thing.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/25/opinion/columnists/kendi-...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzuOlyyQlug
Probably easier to just call it being manipulative and maybe sociopathic.
EPUB works fine for documents that mostly consist of easily reflowable text. For documents with lots of equations, diagrams, tables/charts, footnotes, etc. I would much rather have a PDF.
excited to see this launch!
> Yes, and it's people's prerogative to write reviews criticizing the software that is published, regardless of whether it's paid or not.

Do you think that review was respectful, now that you know that the donation prompt was not obtrusive nor randomly shown (see my other comments, it has been explained in detail)? Don't you feel that the way this person expressed themselves was rather demeaning, and perhaps somewhat unjust?
From the hot takes in this post from 2018 [0], I may be asking a contentious question.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16375938
HP or HPe?

Basically the same segmentation of “good business” and “bad business” there too.
While I see what you're saying, the issue is that when you eyeball the graph, you think, "wow, it's 4x what it used to be".
Alphabet is used a lot in economic radio programs as the parent to Google, so it's definitely doing its job in non-tech fields.
Journalists seem to talk about "X, the service formerly known as Twitter" or similar - I guess they have to call the company by its official name but also want people to know what they're talking about
> Or is it just a meaningless website?

It is a meaningless website. Everybody and their dog knows that in the present political climate it’s practically impossible to change the immigration law. It’s only a remote theoretical possibility that the US could fix their immigration system.
> direction that they believe

Fortunately we don't need belief, since the foundation has years of volume-based sales data on market segments, e.g. for the last two years they have prioritized industrial business users over education, during supply chain shortages.

Is there a published market segment breakdown for each generation of RPi?
Btrfs updates for 6.7 with new raid-stripe-tree
“Conscience”, there’s a word I haven’t heard in a while. If an act is “unconscionable” well then it’s legally indefensible. But the broader idea of “having a conscience” seems to have receded, to the point I don’t really know what it means.
Google promises a rescue patch for Android 14's "ransomware" bug
http://keygenmusic.tk/

and here
> Propaganda from the people who will benefit from a world without fossil fuel energy.

As in "everyone"?
I'm worried about the idea of a watermark.

The watermark could be "Created by DALL-E3" or it could be "Created by Susan Johnson at 2023-01-01-02-03-23:547 in <Lat/Long> using prompt 'blah' with DALL-E3"

One of those watermarks seems not too bad. The other seems a bit worse.
Apple Photos is almost impossible to get all your photos out of.
Where exactly are you seeing that $180K remote job? When I specify 'remote' on that site only 4 jobs come up. One of them is data scientist, another is IT Specialist and the other two seem administrative. The IT Specialist job is listed at $99K while the other three are around $70K/year.
This seems unnecessarily negative towards the trend of self-optimization. Self help media has been around for a long time, and this is just a new evolution of it targeted to a specific audience.

I have only watched a handful of episodes of the Huberman podcast, but I really appreciated that they have an actionable science-based takeway to help with the area you want to focus on.
Creators confused by Elon Musk's plan to "incentivize truth" on X
It will be bad news for any civilization who lives in low lying areas and will be completely underwater. Many island communities will be lost or displaced.

One thing the GP post didn't mention is that in that time period the entire US midwest was an inland ocean. Many counties that we have today simply won't exist.
Exactly like "fentanyl is so dangerous, a few miligrams can kill you" which only led to massive fentanyl demand because everybody wants the drug branded the most powerful
I work on low code cloud ETL tools. We provide the flexibility for the customer to do stupid things. This means we have extremely high variance in resource utilization.

An on demand button press can start a processes that runs for multiple days, and this is expected. A job can do 100k API requests or read/transform/write millions of records from a database, this is also expected. Out of memory errors happen often and are expected. It's not our bad code, its the customer's bad code.

Since jobs are run as microservices on isolated machines, this is all fine. A customer(or multiple at once) can set up something badly, run out of resources, and fail or go really slow and nobody is effected but them.
When money is free nobody cares about quality. When money is tight people of all walks of life are suddenly concerned with what they are getting for their money, employers included
The Scene is a fun and related miniseries worth mentioning and checking out. [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2FCB2871C396459
Lets not forget killing the drive instead of going read only, and later lying about this being intended outcome despite opposite statements in official documentation.

https://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experi...

"After a reboot, the SSD disappeared completely from the Intel software. It was still detected by the storage driver, but only as an inaccessible, 0GB SATA device.

According to Intel, this end-of-life behavior generally matches what’s supposed to happen. The write errors suggest the 335 Series had entered read-only mode. When the power is cycled in this state, a sort of self-destruct mechanism is triggered, rendering the drive unresponsive."
Nothing says "my opinions are correct" like refusing to respond to the content of criticism and instead trying to get it censored.
If you want hardware video encoding check out this SBC running a latest gen AMD 7840, all the encoding inc h264, av1, hevc plus latest gen AMD GPU:

https://youtu.be/WCRK-Uwb0EA?si=BlxaYkg7Ecq2rALJ
The ironic thing is that many individuals now clamoring for more regulation have long claimed to be free-market libertarians who think regulation is "always" bad.

Evidently they think regulation is bad only when it puts their profits at risk. As I wrote elsewhere, the tech glitterati asking for regulation of AI remind me of the very important Fortune 500 CEO Mr. Burroughs in the movie "Class:"

Mr. Burroughs: "Government control, Jonathan, is anathema to the free-enterprise system. Any intelligent person knows you cannot interfere with the laws of supply and demand."

Jonathan: "I see your point, sir. That's the reason why I'm not for tariffs."

Mr. Burroughs: "Right. No, wrong! You gotta have tariffs, son. How you gonna compete with the damn foreigners? Gotta have tariffs."

---

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM0h6QXTpHQ
Peterson seems strongly influenced by Jonathan and Matthieu Pageau who are doing quite a job at restoring meaning to the western world, linking rational and irrational thinking into a kind of universal theory with mathematical notations across verticals. It's really mind-blowing and imho, Matthieu Pageau is one of the greatest intellectuals of our time and he remains quite isolated and hidden. His content is infrequent, freshly brilliant, and challenging for those curious to learn it.
I don't think I'm overlooking any major ones, but we are probably working in quite different types of systems - I'm not aware of any type of static verification I'd use in a rails application that would affect _architecture_ in a meaningful way (unless I would write quite terrifying code without the verifier I suppose).

I'm not sure about the tests - it depends on what you'd consider an impact possibly; I've been trained by my context to design code to be decomposable in a way that _is_ easily testable, but I'm not sure that is really an 'impact of the tests' (and I'm fairly confident that it makes the abstractions less complex instead of more).

Would you mind explaining what you mean in more detail?
NAL, but based on my armchair expertise it looks like an extremely hard case for Meta.

Any actual lawyers willing to chime in?
KillNet group touts new feature-rich 'DDoS-for-hire' service
Legend.

The X-risk crowd need to realize that LLMs, whilst useful, are toys compared to Skynet.

The risk from AI right now is mega-corps breaking the law (hiring, discrimination, libel, ...) on a massive scale and using blackbox models as an excuse.
(Not a lawyer, but have gained some working knowledge of UK trademarks.)

I don’t think this is totally clean cut. UK trademarks are registered against specific classes and those classes are categorised in families of goods and services.

A quick search suggests that this company holds the trademark for the word ‘Threads’ for class 9 (goods) and class 42 (services).

You can read the definitions somewhere by searching on gov.uk (or somewhere like https://www.russell-cooke.co.uk/media/bmin5fo0/goods_and_ser... [pdf]).

Meta will almost certainly make the argument that they are not operating in these classes or overlapping with the categories listed for this trademark. Class 42 does not seem to apply here, and for class 9 the Thread trademark lists ‘computer software, software and apparatus for the extraction of business information and knowledge’ which may not overlap.

Meta couldn’t also trademark Threads under class 9 (can’t trademark the same word twice in the same class) but just because they can’t secure the trademark does not automatically mean they are infringing on the existing use.

They could argue that their use of Threads as a trademark falls solely within something like class 38: Telecommunications services; chat room services; portal services; e-mail services; providing user access to the Internet; radio and television broadcasting.

If they could land this then there is no claim against them - their use can coexist with trademark’s registered in different classes.

For an app which can be downloaded getting around class 9 could be difficult - so whether they could land and make this stick is far from clear, but Meta have the resources to explore this indefinitely where as the pre-existing user making the complaint may not be able to afford the legal costs to stay the course.

Trademarks are messy and subjective and there is much scope for interpretation - even a seemly clear-cut case is anything but predictable.