skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Animations suck up so much resources. I have a PWA where I wanted a pulsating button with a frosted glass effect. I had to remove it cause it was using 20% of a single CPU core. After removing it the app is only using 6%, just sitting idle, which is about 6% more than any other native app on my Mac.
I don't know about Gay, but let's be careful that it's not character assasination campaigns by the reactionaries, seeking to seize control of these (educational) institutions too.

Such situations are tricky: If you dig through every aspect of someone's long career and life, there's a reasonable chance of finding something problematic or even serious [edit: also, in every field, the way sausage is made can be a little messier than the public's innocent, simplistic imagination]. On one hand, we want to maintain the integrity of the institutions and our society. On the other, we need to be careful about incidentally empowering political suppression.

I suppose part of the solution is not making it political, and not replacing people like Gay with their political enemies - ensuring there is no political benefit. Another part is to hold reactionaries and allies to the same standards; now egregious behavior and corruption is tolerated, and even encouraged as a way to flaunt power and disrupt order. (I don't mean that as whataboutism - if Gay did wrong, Gay should go.)
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I'd estimate that the lifetime of a house is generally longer than the "useful lifetime" of an education. House financing, as far as I've seen, rarely exceeds 30 years. There are probably outliers, just like in education financing.
I keep hearing whispering of an "AI boom" happening soon on HN but don't see in the real world. Has anyone seen signs either way?
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I work in a technology that's great to work in but has a bad reputation in places like HN because of irrational bias, there's no recession and salaries are still going up. Glad it keeps the competition away.
To render text in a browser, you are looking at a 10x cost in power.

to animate anything, you are looking at 100x cost in power.

This means that you will drain the battery much much faster than with native.

The solution is not using webtools, its making native much more open/portable. you know like java was supposed to be (kinda like how APKs are now. )
You should write something in-depth about this. This is a really interesting take, and you seem like a great writer.
Hey, LLM SW Engineer is not listed on your website.
Every professional domain has a vocabulary. You can ask the person who said something you didn't understand a question when you don't understand something.
If you want to catch plagiarism, you have to go looking for it. She provided a reason for folks to look.

Imagine chaos that Google could cause if it looked for common phrases across its corpus of sites/books/papers.
Would it still be 1D if there was a spot on the wall where you could step through and rotate to a tunnel on another 1D plane?
Currency exchange rate is pretty similar now which suggests similar inflation rates to both.
The question is: Why was she under fire? See my answer below.
Serious academics don't go into administration.
Was this an instance of "mob justice", or an instance of her seeing the writing on the wall and then resigning rather than trying to put up a fight? I skimmed the article and it doesn't look like she was explicitly forced out, although it's certainly plausible that public ("mob") pressure was a factor.
Some sayings are sexist.
It's easy to believe because the US is very good at commercializing and entrenching perverse profit motives, i.e. prison industrial complex and the US health sector knows how to extract more from bodies. The US was also rich/socially broken enough where locking up more people made political and economical sense (for some) and had decades of head start refining the process. Take PRC, Western estimates of Uyghur internment at 1/12 of population, or about lifetime internment of US blacks. Vast majority of mass internment was measured in months because they had to process prisoners through limited new facilities over a short period of time - the point was to filter problematic populations and find edge cases who were slapped with 10-20 year sentences. Majority was was released after a short stint. There's limit on how much country that intern on politics can extract value from industrializing prison, because they prefer not to have # dissidents get out of hand in the first place. Even coerced labour or organ harvesting is lame profit driver compared to the service jobs as a result of the US prison sector that benefits from countries having too much money. Most countries, especially developing countries, diverting people to lockup people is not productive use of resources, at least not for assembling widgets. PRC doesn't have the incentives to spend resources to lock up as large % of the population as the US in both scale and timelines involved. They spent trillions upfront to process the region so long term securitization doesn't involve expensive internment. Meanwhile, in the US, mass internment has become profitable, so it should not be surprising that US ends up imprisoning disproportionately more.
Are you intentionally being obtuse?

The GP made no statement as to his personal beliefs, just as to whether or not the statements violated a university's CoC, which none of us have more insight into than the current (now prior) president of said university.
Thanks, but I've already got a pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatics.

https://odysee.com/@NoVax:c/Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-...
not affecting me personally, but last year we were hiring for a lead engineer (for a fortune 50 company) - got 2 resumes.

5-6 months later we needed another lead engineer and we got over 300 for the exact same position, same pay, same location.
Thermodynamics is into blue LEDs. ;p

Your only hope is the transition to post-LED technology.
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The most egregious part of this story is the part Harvard University pays white-shoe law firms to threaten newspapers reporting about their administrator's misconduct. Casual abuse of power by those with far too much of it.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/25/harvard-threat... ("A Law Firm Said Plagiarism Allegations Against Harvard President Gay Were ‘Demonstrably False.’ Then She Submitted Corrections.")
…I’ll just leave this [0] here. A perfect example which just popped up in my feed list of “simple but does this job” tech. No js, no database, a $10 a month vps.

[0] https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-...
"Many apps are fine as PWAs" and "there is no technical reason for an app" are very different statements.

Many apps are fine as web apps without any OS support at all.
In the third grade I read a book called The Mouse and the Motorcycle which mentioned this object. I didn't know what it meant nor did my parents. So my grandfather bought me a massive unabridged dictionary which offered an unsatisfactory definition to the effect of "a cover for an armchair". If only I had this Wikipedia entry then... I would grok not only the essence of antimacassar, but it's origin and function.
I'm very much of two minds about this. The first is that, at the very least, the three women up in front of Congress did a very, very poor job dealing with Congress. That reflects the unequal treatment by the administration of different groups, depending on the types of speech being said. Saying that schools considered calls for genocide against Jewish people's protected speech ... was a bad tactic to take, given all of the other examples raised at that session.

Rules for thee, not for me, has been Ivy League's privilege for years now. She previously ran the DEI initiative that was found to discriminate against Asians at Harvard by the USSC. It's only equitable if some are more equitable than others.

That said, this will only further the restrictions on speech at universities, which has been weaponized to an almost inconceivable degree, as it was in this case.
> This makes GPU hosting far more competitive and ensures that i.e. participants choose the countries with the cheapest possible energy etc.

That seems good: I'd rather have GPUs next to where power is being wasted rather than have to build more nuclear power plants or water dams where there're people and wildlife.

If we can have say Arizona or even the Sahara covered with solar panels, I think it'd be better for everyone - humans, animal and plants included (there are not so many lifeforms in the desert)
Please elaborate on what you found antisemitic.
The rule in the USA (set by FAA) is maximum 3 minutes, preferably 2, or they deny your certification and you don't get to be an airport. So I would not characterize 6 minutes as decent. In fact, it's pretty damn terrible.

Source: 14 CFR 139.319:

Within 3 minutes from the time of the alarm, at least one required aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicle must reach the midpoint of the farthest runway serving air carrier aircraft from its assigned post or reach any other specified point of comparable distance on the movement area that is available to air carriers, and begin application of extinguishing agent.
Cool! What would you suggest for go?

Fwiw I develop on a Ubuntu workstation. I build and deploy to mostly Ubuntu or bare bones Linux.
Stop it. It's about whether it's a violation of a code of conduct. Not being "OK".
If only there was a website that allowed people to ask an absurd amount of questions, for free, and get people's insight within a semi-reasonable amount of time.
> I don't know about Gay, but let's be careful that it's not character assasination campaigns by the reactionaries, seeking to seize control of these (educational) institutions too.

You don't have to question this - the guy who originally started the campaign against her literally stated that this was his plan on Twitter. Both his motives and his tactics were public record long before the mainstream media picked up the story.
This! It was all about her testimony. See my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848351
From the same dude's another article

> The Balkan country was “liberated” by communists, either by the Soviet army (which didn’t give a shit about them)

This is measured, I presuppose, in comparsion with the Old Europe with its uncanny taste for all countries outside the Old Europe, though, sometimes they do devour each other as well.
I don't believe the claim was that it adds no complexity, but was saying it adds no complexity due to the reasons mentioned. He then goes on to write a paragraph about why that is the case, which you could of course respond to.
IIRC, it's inspired by this [1], so maybe the same?

[1] https://pokemon.fandom.com/wiki/Deoxys
Well, it either outs you as a non-San Franciscan or a poor one, since that's the native demographic that's historically called it 'Frisco'. Really, the frisco should be 'San Fran'.
Yes! Dillo enthuthiast here to say thanks and good luck.

What’s your approach to browser dev? Do you prefer to go wide or deep, for example the Ladybird project goes “deep” in that they choose an endpoint and try to get everything on the page working and whatnot. Maybe I’m rambling, but very cool!
You can do that with the canvas API as well.
Only for of the current lines, those using larger trains and shallower tunnels.

The "tube" (with the circular tubelike tunnels) used electric from the start.
Carl sagan has a good video on that :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0
You probably hear it from people that have to sell you AI-powered products. At best it'll turn into a bubble, but more realistically LLMs will not cause any economic boom in and of themselves, especially in these shaky times. Content generation is not really what the world is looking for to return to the highs of early 2010s.
Hah, I was thinking this sounded a lot like "Lucky Jack".

I remembered that O'Brian had drawn on a lot of captain's logs for the novels but still based a lot of him on a single captain, but I wasn't sure if this was the man until your comment.
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Her qualifications were the previous jobs she held - leading the DE&I initiative. Not her scholastic bonafides - I read that she had 11 published papers before getting this job.
The other problem with the excavator argument is that all that amazing productivity isn't being pulled from thin air by cleverness -- it's burning (limited, polluting) fossilized solar power from a million years ago. We haven't avoided all the work of moving the dirt around, but only transferred the burden from ourselves and our horses to our unsustainable energy sector. AI (and all software, really) is similar in that it tries to do the same to intellectual activities: instead of requiring a cheese sandwich and an afternoon, some tasks can be instead be done with a few cents worth of electricity and a few hundred milliseconds, but I still eat the cheese sandwich for lunch, so in the final analysis we've saved time but no other resource.

We of course wouldn't have to make this explicit calculation if we could incorporate all this knowledge about fossil fuels directly into the prices of goods and services, but this is very difficult thing to do, and so far nobody has managed to do it in a global way.

It may still make material sense to use ChatGPT to create slides for middle management meetings, but that is not at all certain in a world with a significant price on emissions (though, to be fair, almost no human activity from the past fifty years stands up to this test either).
Wait, what? Whatever happened to all the coal fired power plants Germany is going to spin up to keep us all warm and toasty?
Basically an approximation of reader mode. Text and images will be fine, anything more advanced with CSS etc. will be ignored.
Well, I got laid off. I have a decent resume. In past job hunts, I got call backs on 50% of applications. Now responses are closer to 1%.

Sure seems recessionish to me.
I fell in love with Tetris back in the 90s, I’ve played it on a bunch of platforms (including a keyring). To learn VR game dev I’ve been working on a 3D version of Tetris:

https://youtu.be/o6RH_iVxlyc?si=Ha15IF1jPKkOsUwa
True...

Though I think there is more to LSD. It's fair to be skeptical. If the pitch is it's going to fix everything for everyone, or the likes, then it's definitely a lie.
I'm Jewish. It's clear to me that her actual statement has been significantly distorted; in context, it's clearly a very minor flub (and factually correct, with respect to Harvard's policies).

(Evidence of her plagiarism is also overwhelming, and she should not be Harvard's president with that record. It remains to be seen what percent of academics would stand up to that level of scrutiny.)
AI will in short order.
He also threw "decolonization" into the words you can be suspended for (part of his outreach after getting in trouble over antisemitism)
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844980
Could still be better. Having the same level of CO2e per GWh over the last 12 months as the USA is kind of embarrassing for an EU member state.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US

(You need to set the time period to last 12 months, not sure if you can encode that into the URL)
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The Airbus A350 has an external camera mounted on the tail. I believe that pilots can monitor that video feed in the cockpit so if the system is still working then they should be able to see a fire on one side. But I don't know whether that was possible in this incident.
I see what you mean. To be honest though, both Wired and The Verge are only really playing catch up to the current zeitgeist. If and when PWA's start being a big thing, we'll see articles show up about it. Even then, it'll only be when some major company makes a splash and being a PWA is the killer feature.

I don't really see The Verge and Wired pushing stories early. It's not that they're asleep, it's just that they're grabbing the stories from social media, converting it into press format, planning articles about it, then releasing.

They're not at the forefront of tech, becoming buddy buddy with the devs, getting that inside scoop. They're just doing broader coverage for the masses interested in tech. Anyone deep into this stuff is already subscribed to various subreddits, reading HN, nerding out in dev Discords, or having arguments on Twitter.
FWIW 4chan has a pretty active /fit/ board with pretty frequent bodybuilding threads.

I actually run an imageboard myself. Btw, if anyone from 13chan is reading this, the solution to the challenge is "im_from_13chan_that_means_im_cute"

I love 13chan <3
This. Absolutely this. This is group identity and culture war ideology 101. It doesn't matter what you stand for, as long as the other side is "worse".
How is that in any way materially different from my point? The survey still isn't about what actions any of the schools have taken or whether the schools' policies allow for free speech. That makes it completely irrelevant in a discussion about whether the President of the school was committed to free speech. The survey asks students their opinions. FIRE actually has a separate tracker for disinvitations and, based on population sizes and breakdowns by political lean, conservatives request more disinvitations than should be expected for the population of students that consider themselves conservatives.

>A second ago you said that

Yes... and I also said that, as someone else pointed out also, it was irrelevant to a private university that is allowed to remove anyone from campus that it wants. Allowing Westboro to stay on campus shows that their policies on free speech extend to objectionable speech regardless of what ideology is stating it. That's not the same thing as students choosing not to invite or hear views from people whose views are readily available on the internet nor is it the same thing as student opinions overriding the actual actions of schools.
I struggle with the two-sided ness of his claims. If he wanted to build a free speech base, and burn his money doing so, that is his right, but then he can't whine and complain if his customers (advertisers) decide to take their business elsewhere. Which he does, in spades. Even more oddly, he has poor Linda Yaccarino out there pressing the flesh on Madison Avenue, trying to reassure customers that Twitter is a safe space for them to promote their brand.

The same logic applies in the other direction too, eg if I sell beer and my customers object to my spokesperson, I can be sorry about their decision, and regret their choice not to buy my beer, but I dont have the right to complain.

In both cases, a business decision was made, and the business owner must deal with the consequences.
Surely the next one will be a perfect person
I would like to be pedantic and mention that instead of outright bribery as we know today, the sort of coercion (in the broadest sense of the word) that enabled the rotten boroughs involved some far more innovative and long-term thinking like ensuring that the demographics of boroughs in question, if anyone still lived there, to essentially to owe their ability to live and by extension, ply their trades and all that. You are effectively voting so you can have a place to live, in many cases. Old Sarum is the classical case and almost certainly the most egregious one in a prima facie manner but thanks to the manifold of coercive measures implemented it took until the implementation of secret ballots to truly ensure that the old rotten boroughs age was finally no longer a serious concern, and that took another... 40 years? (I realize that I'm focusing on the descriptor on pocket boroughs specifically, which is a subset of the broader rotten boroughs phenomenon, but the subset's primary differentiation comes from how they were attained and not how their existence determined the makeup of parliament, considering that large landowners were able to have "in their pocket" the votes of multiple constituencies that they could exert indirect coercion over quite readily). Yes, it's amazing looking back that one did not follow the other somehow, but baby steps man, baby steps. It beats no steps at all when there's not really a better alternative on the table, even if it's a long way from ideal.
Climate and AI
Yes, as long as you pay for the mac hardware it’s yours to do with as you please. I’m not an attorney and this is not legal advice.
Elise Stefanik is not a good human, and those hearings were designed to get the soundbites they got.

The interactions that people got mad at were part of a longer exchange of wordplay set up by the congressperson.

The hearing was not in good faith.
You can do this within google as well, by the way.
This was before surveillance cameras were at every corner of every street.
It does. FIRE asks students how they feel about free speech. It has nothing to do with what actions schools have actually taken and what their policies are.
The fact that it’s technically true doesn’t really help her. Getting hung up on the technical details of Harvard’s code of conduct just comes across as uncaring about the big picture issue, that is, the thing people outside Harvard actually care about. Part of the job involves clear and sensitive public communication about politically charged topics, and that’s where she failed.
I actually thought nothing and was curious enough to ask for clarity, as clearly demonstrated. But if you're the type to read into the question what you want just so you can call me an "idiot", that makes you a pretty special type of asshole there buddy.
I think it’s probably worth doing some research on typical university President resumes. Laurence Summers had zero experience as a university administrator before he became President of Harvard University, although he had an impressive career otherwise. Ben Sasse is running a 50k student university; his previous experience is with a 1500 person college.
It's only a matter of time before something like this is done. Semiautomated detecdtion of plagiarism is already possible, and with recent improvements in NLP, I suspect it'll be much more robust.
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> No, I was not proposing such situations are knowingly maintained, explicitly the opposite

That was directed at the GGP, not you :-)
This sounds great, but to my naive, unschooled mind doesn’t this scheme fragment the maximum memory you can request in a single vmalloc request? What am I missing? Are the per-core pools dynamic in size?
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