skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the problem I have with naive environmentalism.
The most recent data I could find for the United States total carbon footprint was 5 billion (metric) tons in 2016.

Total energy consumption of all computers, mobile phones, datacenters, servers etc, combined, isn't even a percentage point of that.

Yes, CO2 emissions are a problem. You are not going to solve that problem by targeting sectors which entire footprint is not even a significant digit.
A board with ISA, Extended ISA, PCI, AGP, PCI-X and PCIe would be fun.
1) Parliament does legislate; and

2) Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
>Apple TV

You don't connect your TV but use Apple devices instead. Uhm... okay. You should see the IDS log I'm looking at here. Apple !== no telemetry. All you are doing is putting all your eggs in one basket.
Uncertainty and Change
Displays - TVs without the tuner, are very pssibly to buy if you don't mind it beint shipped to you. The sector is a live and well, just not targeted to consumers.
Yeah, this was the most messed up part of the whole article:

> I got back into housing a few weeks after I made my last student loan payment.

I graduated undergrad with $4k in student loans. The fact that there are people becoming homeless due to student loan debt is insane.
Adding any web-compatible media (i.e. flowchart.js) in PRESENTA Lib is just a matter of wrapping it into a plugin [1].

Then, I need to figure out how to allow end-users to include external plugins in Play tool.

Right now the dev-doc to create plugin is not ready yet, hopefully to release very soon.

[1] https://lib.presenta.cc/plugins/
Would you mind sharing a bit more detail on your setup?
Again, you are assuming that this incident was the only thing that led to her firing. If she behaves like this in public, how does she behave and interact with individuals inside the company? It doesnt matter if she interacts with senior management. If I saw someone i never interacted with harass someone, as a manager, should I just let her direct manager deal with it? Absolutely not. HR would fire that person if it was deemed against expected management behaviour. Google even explicitly stated that she was fired for unexpected management behavior.

You dont have to grasp a topic to know if someone is debating respectfully. I dont have to be a doctor to know that the person is an asshole if they act like an asshole towards me.

I think lets just agree to disagree. Focus on the behavior. Not what she is writing about in her papers. And imaging someone acted like that towards you in a workplace. Imagine you are a CEO or a manager and someone comes to you and says 'Do x y or z otherwise im leaving'. Id be like wtf, sure, if thats how you deal with disagreements, cya'. Everyone is replaceable especially toxic people.
I actually prefer the overloads or constexpr branches to make_visitor because it's easier to see what's going on.

Anyway, until C++ gets pattern matching for the simple cases make_visitor is the best we can do.

If you want advanced variant use cases you can always use boost::variant (v1) which supports multivisitation, which coupled with templates is exceptionally powerful.

If you want to go even further with open multimethods you can checkout the yomm2 library.

As always C++ gives you options
Under this definition, presumably a house flipper doing all their own decorating would be petit bourgeois (applying their own labor to their own capital), while a senior manager earning $500,000/year at Google would be proleteriat (selling their labor for wages)?
Sounds like you've made a good start, if you're a first time scope owner. Even a modest telescope can provide you views of the solar system as well as deep sky objects that can take your breath away. If I could, a couple suggestions that can enhance your enjoyment of your scope as you become familiar with it and the sky.

First, keep a log of each viewing session. Note time and date, location, sky conditions, what you viewed. If you're so inclined, make sketches of what you see. Its nice, later on, to have a record of what you've look at and how it may have changed when you go back to it.

Second, find a local astronomy club you feel comfortable with. Most people will go out of their way to help a newbie. Attend any star parties that they may hold. They're great ways to see how others work and to see what other types of scopes can do. You will also learn how to better use what you have.

In any case, enjoy your scope. They can be great fun and they really bring home how wonderous the skies are.
Good thing you, or I for that matter, have no say in what counts or not as art.
>but it cant ignore my router forbidding all external dns communications except for it

DNS over HTTPS says otherwise.
I heard that you can buy a dumb 55" monitor if you call it digital signage. Though these things are expensive because they're made for businesses.

Another option is to simply never give your smart TV any kind of network connection.
Yeah as others have said, the TV can't get online by itself, so you simply don't configure the "Smart" features and it should work just fine (although perhaps that is something to confirm before purchase).
AI ethics research is funny. It's obviously important but it's also kind of ... obvious. I am surprised they get paid so much.

* Lots of processing uses more energy..

* Large amounts of data might contain bad data (garbage in, garbage out)

* Wealthy countries/communities have the most 'content' online so less wealthy countries/communities will be unrepresented.

here's some more:

* AI being forced to chose between two "bad" scenarios will result in an unfavorable outcome for one party

* AI could reveal truths people don't want to hear e.g. it might say the best team for a project is an all white male team between 25 - 30 rather than a more diverse team. It might say that a 'perfect' society needs a homogeneous population.

* AI could disrupt a lot of lower paid jobs first without governments having proper supports and retraining structures in place
I switch between macOS (US International) and Windows (UK 88 Key), so I like to think I have a few skills. :D

Also, I can touch type already (after far too many years of learning), but that obviates the necessity for allowing others the possibility to use my machine.

Brave, I know...
This is a very valid argument but it's hard to know what scaling a transformer will really do without trying (looking at you GPT-3). This is probably an issue for ML in general at this point.

I think a more nuanced conversation around these topics will look at exactly what you bring up, how do we properly trade the potential knowledge benefit against the costs?

It pains me that entirely valid avenues of research like this get covered up in nonsense and drama and their message seemingly lost in the midst of it.
Potential Process Control Issues with Remdesivir [pdf]
> who get to speak without having to host our own webservers, DNS, and CDNs

This is actually an interesting point. What counts as an "interactive computer service"? If I have a wordpress-hosted instance, are they a service? I host my own website; is Digital Ocean liable because they're hosting my web server? How far up does it actually go?
Why are you assuming anything about me? You realise I e used the word toxic in my whole comment history only related to this topic right?

I, like many others, dont like the way she deals with people. It is toxic. You call a toxic person, a toxic person. Ample evidence for it. Its not outrage, its just facts.
> I've never profiled world-wide carbon production but something tells me if you wanted to carbon optimise you'd be better served trying to take cars off the road and planes out of the sky.

We're getting a bit off-topic here, but the #1 target by far in reducing greenhouse emissions is power generation. In transportation it's significantly trickier to replace petrol-based fuels (especially for airplanes), but it's straightforward enough in power plants. And crucially, you can convert all the petrol-powered vehicles to EVs that you want, but if the electricity they're getting from the wall is still provided by burning petroleum then you haven't actually done that much.

Luckily, computation can for the most part be located anywhere (exactly the opposite of transportation), and thus you have a lot of data centers near hydro and other renewable sources so that they can use the cheapest green power available.
German rents are relatively reasonable:

"The price of Monthly rent for a 45 m2 (480 Sqft) furnished studio in NORMAL area in Leipzig is €352" i.e. slightly over $5,000 per year.

[Source https://www.expatistan.com/price/studio-rent-normal-area/lei...]
Yeah I worry about this sort of “annoy the customer into connecting” behavior becoming more common as integrating ads becomes more a part of the business model. Also could connect to open wifi networks in more densely populated areas

The real problem will be integrated cellular connectivity with no option to disable.
> This can be said of every media company. Every newspaper, magazine (low-brow or high brow), radio, TV station, cable TV company

No.

It can't.

How can you even believe something so ridiculous?

> It matters who you are able to disengage from.

It matters that the State is not profit based and is under public control.

Chinese are more free than many Americans

I would strongly prefer to be Chinese than black in USA

But what baffles me more are people always bringing up CCCP without even knowing about the different positions in the communist space (that people like you often confuse with socialism)

For example you even ignore the existence of the Sino-Soviet split of 1956

> o, you are so afraid of Facebook's "control" of the internet that you would actively advocate to put in the hands of tyrants and kleptocrats?

It's definitely true that arguing with stupid people is a useless waste of energy.
The "push" icon looks like he's pulling
It seems quantum mechanics systematically refuses to properly model the "observer". As in: mathematically quantum model of the large and complex experimental setup that tries to "measure" something, including the observer.

It's probably not done because it's too hard, but the day they do this and actually include it in any equations that try to describe a system, I suspect much clarity will ensue.
offtopic, on my system cmd+tab does not work to switch to the teams window, i have to click its icon three times to bring the teams window to front (first click changes the screen, second click focuses teams but doesnt bring the window forward, third click brings it up).

anyone having the save problem on your mac ? dont know what to even search for.
Yes, an in-depth nuanced conversation is absolutely merited here, and Gebru and her colleagues were having it in the most rigorous way possible -- in peer-reviewed papers at AI conferences. I won't pretend to remotely be contributing as much to the discussion as they were.
Funny, that's pretty much the only reason I pay for spotify. Having music offline is really handy when you're out and not near wi-fi.
Nice but seems like an AD hell hole. I understand that people need to make money to run sites but tapped on two things and each one opened an box that covered my whole screen. After that I closed the site.
We got here because adding library features is a lot easier and less risky than adding language features. Work on pattern matching [1] is ongoing, but the bar for entry for a language feature is much higher and as such takes a longer time.

1. http://wg21.link/p1371
So if I want to run a chess forum, and I remove non-chess posts, I should lose S230 protection?
> The only sure-fire way to improve code coverage (and by that keep software relevant) is to identify and remove the unnecessary code.

I remember what I think is a demoscene group taking that to the extreme. They ran coverage analysis and removed all uncovered code, thus achieving 100% coverage.

The point was to fit all their code in an very small executable (typically 4k or 64k). It was absolutely terrible for robustness: all edge cases are ignored. But since it was a demoscene production, it didn't matter, but if it was a server, that would have made it the most exploitable code ever.
I agree, the authors of cron and wget/curl should have taken steps to protect people from having their privacy invaded by others who use these tools.
I forgot the /s.
Indeed, it’s remarkable they want to make a fuss out of something that I can undo entirely via unitary transformation. There have been a number of papers with these kinds of “theorems” that seem to miss that proponents of the many-worlds interpretation would have explained (in this instance) Wigner’s friend in this way in the first place by eliminating all non-unitary evolution a priori.
If Facebook and Twitter vanished, the world would be immeasurably better.
Reserve your judgment until you can read the actual paper.
Green energy is often used in addition to the carbon-based energy. The total amount of used energy increases. Green energy should replace carbon-base energy.

Wind and solar are finite too. The places where they can be harvested are scarce. So if Google using up green energy for bells and whistles on the search page, less homes can use green energy for heating and transport.
I think 32-bit is still recommended on most Rpi 4 installs, because of greater software compatibility (across the established ecosystem). So it's going to change slowly.
I agree that there is a broader diversity of a thought, but there’s also a dominant, conservative streak when it comes to deferring to corporate authority. This is unsurprising since many people on this site get paid a lot of money by the same people being critiqued, but does represent a kind of self-selection toward servility.
> We're getting a bit off-topic here, but the #1 target by far in reducing greenhouse emissions is power generation.

I readily admit I don't know any of the numbers associated with carbon production and my comment was solely based on the one GPU vs car figure presented in the aforementioned paper.
It reads like a concise summary of red flags around cryptocurrency, on many dimensions. It doesn't mention 'tendies' at all, call anyone names, it doesn't reek of someone bitter because they lost all their money or missed out on a get rich quick opportunity, or have that cynical nihilistic "I'm smarter than everyone" geek attitude. And it isn't framed at a rant against a /group/ as much as a warning about being a victim to the (most vocal) self-appointed leaders of the group.

Yes, they're not citations to academic studies, but you don't see an in-group/out-group dynamic of "people who believe in the glorious future of Canadian dollars" vs "people who don't", or the desperation for the world to realise the truth of Mexican Pesos that only the faithful currently know, or etc.
The number is probably quite a bit lower. The Strubell paper uses a PUE coefficient of 1.58, while Google datacenters are at 1.1. The figures are for GPUs, but Google uses TPUs, whose power characteristics were not public. Price is a proximate for power usage, though. TPUs might have been half as expensive in that experiment. Let's say that a further half of those gains are money that goes to Nvidia and not really related to power. So, making numbers up, training with TPUs might be another 25% more efficient. That's probably conservative, as Google claims that the TPUs are tens of times less power-hungry, due to their simplicity, but on the other hand, you also other fixed costs like racks, fabric and the CPUs to feed the chips.

In an ideal world, nobody would get hung up on details and everybody would understand that there is a lot of nuance when comparing things. In practice, if Google published a paper which quoted the Strubell paper without the caveats, I can see headlines about how inefficient and bad for the environment Google Translate is. PR would get busy and obtain corrections or follow-up articles to clarify things, but those rarely get the same attention. And it's still extra work that could have been avoided, which in itself is bad optics ("do you folks even review the stuff you send out for publication?").

I'm all for reducing emissions and improving efficiency, but I find the premise a bit of a stretch.

Yes, large and wealthy organizations have a big advantage, but that applies to pretty much anything they do, not just language models. Inefficiencies are bad, but if you ask a number of people why fix them, I think they'd mention financial cost and wasted time well before looking at it as an issue of ethics and fairness.

Reducing costs for language models is already a great idea across all fronts. So is reducing inequalities. It's linking the two that sounds like a strained argument to me. Suppose someone makes models ten times smaller next week. Will marginalized communities' lives improve soon? There must be more. I haven't seen the paper, so I'm curious how it is all framed.
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It's not the paper that forced her out: she forced herself out.
> "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

What about "laundering" of responsibility? In other words, if a service like Twitter makes it easy to dodge your personal liability for your speech, isn't that problematic?

Can I write anything I want and then say "Gary provided the information." and I'm okay? Even if I can't tell you who Gary is?
calling everyone normies and accusing them of being in echo chambers

why do people on this site lack any and all self awareness of how they come off?
Another source that wasn’t paywalled for me

https://news.yahoo.com/700-epidemiologists-living-now-think-...
>AI ethics research is funny.

Calling "AI ethics" research makes it feel like it's actual science.

It's in practice much closer to "social science" than actual science.

And just like "social science" it isn't funny at all but rather a giant hoax.
Interesting! I suppose it depends on the context though, right? For answer-set programming like database queries and stuff, I've seen some impressive datalog work done in the past. I'm not well versed in the extensions, and I actually haven't been able to read this post yet, I've been at work since the wee hours, but I was thinking of the success of Datomic. I believe that's datalog under the hood.

I think of miniKanren as relentlessly general purpose, and not so much suited to a demanding niche like databases.

I'm very interested in both. I remember watching a talk called The Promise Of Relational Programming a while back and thinking "this HAS to be the future of programming."
This really isn’t “think of the children” so much as it is wanting to create SFW online platforms. HN is a SFW space free of sexual content.

It’s just an example of moderation that most people already understand. It’s the same if people wanted to create a woodworking forum and remove off-topic posts about goulash.
In a different post[1], the author writes:
> As my finances tanked due to a combination of divorce and medical crisis

[1] https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/07/independent...
>> You still have to figure the problem out before solving it with algorithms. No language or framework will help you do that.

I agree, I've coded in PHP/Python/Ruby/Perl/Bash for many years. All languages have there own place if you can code!

Spend less time comparing lanuages and actually code something!
Hacker News is about pseudonymous discussion. Only a small percent of HN posters are building a brand name. Twitter is much more real-name based and personal brand-building focussed.

Jumping in on a bandwagon to signal group membership in an in group can help brand-building. Going against the in group is potentially fatal to your brand. The risk/reward balance does not favor genuine discussion of a controversial topic.

On HN most comments are up/down voted based on their content. The post authorship usually matters little. There is little benefit for the author to announce support of a popular position and little risk for the author to express an unpopular one. So discussion here can be more about substance and less about signaling.
It's only Apple. The problem space of Netflix is easy.
Looking at you, deep learning.
Thank you, I gave advice and missed this change.

I've created issue "Local font name makes web accessible", and I hope it would be fixed.

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/2855
I don’t think so. The source of the ads is through YouTube servers as opposed to some separate ad network like on web pages.
Ask HN: Hacks to Read 10x Faster?
Here's my hack: I started adding books to Readwise that I have not read. I get the top quotes from those books in the daily digest. If I really like the quotes, I plan to read that book in full. If I don't like the top quotes, I know I don't have to bother with the book. This way, I can skim through 10x more books than if I tried reading all of them.
What are your hacks?
>And inevitably someone will say that they'd heard that Smart TVs will connect to unsecured WiFi networks in proximity and start uploading your data.

That's bullshit because that could get into a HIGHLY illegal issue on the manufacturer as they could join into a foreign network tampering with comms. And IDK on the US, but the fines on Europe on that are really high.
"We are deterministic" is no big deal, it's what scientists thought for centuries going back to Newton. In classical mechanics, if you knew the exact state of every particle then you could predict everything.

But superdeterminism is nothing like that. It's determinism not based on past states, but based on future states, where the universe prevents anyone from making decisions that would cause them to learn a certain type of information. How would that work?
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>The claim is that these actions fall under the purview of "curation" and "moderation" from either side respectively.

IIUC, if Twitter/Facebook chose, they could legally just block those tweets/posts altogether under the guise of Section 230.

In fact, they do that sort of thing all the time. The only reason they've started putting "labels" on these is because they prefer not to block stuff completely.

Either way, both section 230 and the fact that they're private (rather than government) entities give them that latitude.

Without Section 230, they'd likely just block all those posts and much, much more in order to avoid litigation.

That said, I'm less concerned about section 230 WRT to Twitter and Facebook and more concerned about small sites and blogs.

Without Section 230, anyone with deep pockets could just bury anyone who allows comments on their site in lawsuits. Twitter and Facebook could fight back and likely succeed.

But anyone without millions to spend on legal fees could easily be forced offline.

And so I wonder, what value would be added by removing section 230 protections? I'd expect that the only folks who would really benefit would be lawyers -- and the rest of us would be poorer, both in terms the diversity of voices and diversity of platforms, for it.
That’s not “think of the children”. That’s “not everybody feels like running a porn site” - for which there are completely legitimate reasons (more challenging legally, creates issues in some overseas markets, work-safe-ness, and yes - family friendliness).
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-cumulati...
I want to believe this is hyperbolic.

Do you really believe business owners, and landlords are sitting in some smokey room plotting to keep people homeless so people will pay their rent?

Really, that is your honest held belief of the situation?