skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to [1], the US had net Greenhouse Gas emissions of 6558.3 MMT CO2 Eq, of which transportation CO2 energy emissions took 1817.2 MMT CO2 Eq, of which 58% was due to light-duty vehicles. That means 16% of total emissions are due to light-duty vehicles, not 12% as you say, and only 1% off the 17% listed above.

[1]: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/documents/us..., Section 2-3 Trends, Pg 94.
The risk isn’t internal nefarious actors, it’s internal people who don’t know or don’t care that they’re granting privilege escalation to a wider audience.

And zero trust is the only way to mitigate that. There are so many bad security takes in this discussion and I’ve barely read half of it. This isn’t an ignorant community. The implication is that every slightly or significantly bad take is compounded by culture and organizational ignorance.

The only solution is systems that can’t be accessed by humans by design. And building better reporting and isolated debugging tools to accommodate that.
There’s another option to target ads without knowing anything about the person.

You can choose where to advertise. Is this website, page, game, product, etc related?

You can do it how DuckDuckGo does it by targeting keywords.

Multiple people can buy space/impressions and you can rotate them. It doesn’t have to go back to old static banners.
Anti-vax messaging and riling folks up to gather in large, angry, infectiously yelling maskless groups is a really good way to leverage an unanticipated pandemic against the population of an enemy country, especially if you figure your own country can fight off the pandemic better… or you literally don't care about those who live in your own country as long as the enemy dies.

As a bonus, you can then get the enemy country to think the pandemic is brought by immigrants, or was invented by its own internal enemies, as a way of pushing for civil war or at least continuous, aggrieved, domestic terrorism. The pandemic has all kinds of uses if you control the discourse and can find something to blame. It becomes a natural disaster or some kind of pervasive biological weapon that you don't even have to deploy… just foster and nurture.
Is growth also increasing farm sizes and their water consumption? That will be interesting to understand.
I'd argue installing more solar panels is way more important than EV's. It's way cheaper, offers way better ROI (EV TCO are just barely cheaper than gas, especially without gov incentives) and helps with main problem - power generation. Sure it's boring af, regulated, politicised (Uighur solar) and inconvenienced in every possible matter...
After extending the original May deadline (for what reason?) and then underestimating the enemy and allowing the entire takeover in Afghanistan whilst also sitting there 'stunned' and doing nothing about it, isn't it too late for 'a plan' given all the time he had to think about it?

Might as well collect your belongings and leave Afghanistan in shame.

After that deadline extension, there is no pointing fingers at anyone else; it's on him this time. Unless you want to go back to how this 20 year war started in the first place with him and others voting for it?
are there not even buslines in American suburbs? I grew up in Germany in a rural village of a thousand people, was very lonely because of how ridiculously old everyone was and how few kids there were, but I could always hop on the bus and get to the 50k town that was half an hour away where we used to meet up as kids, go the cinema, game store, whatever.
> Yeah, in 2016.

Not out of the blue. AMD wanted that collaboration and got different parties interested. It took a while to get needed groups together and then develop it until it was out in 2016 (not by AMD alone at that time obviously). Where were Apple and MS when this was happening between 2013 and 2016?

Your argument about non-starter is clearly incorrect, since Vulkan did result from it all. So it was possible, but took time. Khronos was already managing OpenGL so they fit the role of overseeing it. Someone else could do it too may be, but no one else stepped up (including same MS and Apple who easily could if they thought they could do better).

> The story I’ve heard was that the release of Metal was a real kick in the pants for what became the Vulkan effort.

Apple very well knew there is an interest in the common API. Where were they? Making their Apple only NIH of course. Collaboration takes more time, sure. Did Apple join? No. They never cared.
> because I do not want my entire wealth invested in a single asset

That's the idea: with cheaper real estate you won't have to put your entire wealth into it, trading it would also be easier, and so ownership would be more attractive option.
I’m too late to edit but you are indeed correct, thanks!
Bring out the git.
There's algo GUN [1], but I tried it and it's too opinionated for my taste. For those who like it, it seems to be quite good.

1: https://gun.eco/
No, you make words in my mouth. We are reasonably sure of all three first items you have listed. I only make the contention that I have not yet seen evidence of this specific event. Most information I have heard suggest largest impact some years in the future. I say nothing about "bury our heads in the sand".
Same thing happened[0] to scifi author Greg Egan, who documented it and continued to update on the saga over a number of years. Google does not care.

[0] https://www.gregegan.net/ESSAYS/GOOGLE/Google.html
On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models Like GPT-3, Bert etc.
It depends on effective R that is affected by a lot of dynamic factors like social distancing and R0 (new variants keep popping). Herd immunity for Covid is bullshit.
Enhancing Usability of Malware Analysis Pipeline
This is just a clone of Svelte? It even has one of the same examples.. and similar syntax.

Better productivity is nice, but putting an abstracting in the way could be worse because it hides stuff from you you would otherwise learn or even make better yourself, this is also how we get slow apps which web based applications are infamous for. We need more native apps and new areas to explore not more of the same billion JavaScript libraries etc. JavaScript is brain rot for programmers and places creative people in tiny bloated slow sandboxes where they create carbon copies of each other. I hope someone finds it useful, i don't mean to rag on about this particular project.
Well, there’s events and there’s events. Bitcoin depends on there being at least some digital-industrial infrastructure being functional. Whereas if that all collapses, you can at least eat your gold bars.
>Even if the gains are dispropprante to the top, that is still a lot of wealth sloshing around.

wealth, or just money?
That is not the conclusion.

They set out to prove that renewables was the way. They discovered they were wrong. That is a paradigm-shattering conclusion. To this day we hear incessant talk about renewables "saving the planet". This is nonsense.

The only problem I have with the paper is that they did not follow this conclusion with a real study of the plausibility of any solution on a human time scale. They say things like having to capture carbon and have better power plants in 40 years. None of it is correlated to actual realizable effects at scale.

> Your last 'graf sounds like unmitigated tinfoilhat-ism

That isn't MY graphic! That's from the 800,000 ice core atmospheric sample data. Here:

https://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/co2/ice_core_co2.html

It's the first link in the "Graphics" section.

If you are going to all this tin-foil it means negating all science on the subject. This data is incredibly accurate and reliable. One of my first questions when finding this data set was the simplest of inquiries: Can ice core atmospheric data from 800,000 years ago be accurate? Well, it turns out, yes, it is. I found and read papers on the subject. It's fascinating technology actually.

The statement I made was that solar and wind --renewables-- can't help us and are pretty much an empty pursuit as it pertains to "saving the planet". These researchers went into it CONVINCED renewables was the way and conducted this research to, as they said, once and for all show the world. What they discovered is they were as wrong as one could be. Renewables are a waste of time, money and resources. They are good and very much justified for other reasons, just not anything related to climate change or atmospheric CO2 concentration.

As I said, I have a 13 kW solar array, soon to grow to 20 kW. I am under no delusion about what it is for. It serves no purpose whatsoever as it pertains to climate change. This is particularly true if you consider the entire installation, which includes a large ground-mounted structure, concrete footings, etc. I sometimes wonder how much carbon was produced to go from minerals on the ground to a structure on my property with a theoretical 13 kW peak generation capacity. Different subject.
SEVerity level of the incident
Solar energy is cheap, as in $0.03/kWhr. (PG&E charges you $0.30/kHWhr.)

The best inverters convert solar DC to household AC at 97.6 % efficiency. [1]

Adding more solar is a question of adding another panel.

The inversion loss is a small price to pay for safe power. [2]

DC is probably not coming back as a way to wire houses and buildings.

[1] https://www4.enphase.com/sites/default/files/downloads/suppo...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-solar-panel-fires-beco...
Here here! Seattle has been great for making money and not great for making friends.
> An LED doesn't run on 24V DC

It can. Cree's JR5050 24‐V LEDs run on 24V. They have 30V and 36V versions as well.
This comment has so many great quotes. Who wouldn’t want a t-shirt that said ‘I gave away more toilet paper than I bought’
Andreas, I love your videos. You have clearly managed to develop a very friendly community. I like how pleasant and accessible the community is! I am sure you guys will go very far and I look forward to using Serenity OS on a daily basis.
Lawful Carnage
I agree and disagree.

For the white collar, everything has gotten better.

For the blue and especially pink collar, worse.

I understand your perspective as it's one that I shared, nearly 20 years ago. I was a minimum wage laborer for a few years, and when getting my first desk job, I couldn't believe how easy it was, and yet how so many complained. And it's only gotten more surreal since. When your back hurts from shoveling all day, it's really hard to sympathize with someone in an office who complains they didn't get a perfect review. The one thing it did teach me is that people just like to grieve, whether it's from black lung or a small monitor.

It definitely gave me humility, and perspective. Service workers are treated as disposable trash, to this day, by both their employer and customers. I'm beyond excited they're quitting.
If you read to the end... This kind of system only makes sense where there aren't major appliances. (Think RVs, off-grid cottages, and developing countries.)

I wonder what would happen if we redesigned the grid today? Would it be AC or DC? If AC, would it be a higher frequency? (Smaller transformers) Is modern DC-DC voltage conversation easier than AC-DC? What voltages would we use?
One other way to think about it is that a massive content fork started happening around the time of the internet.

In the "beginning", as the article states, there was the big 3 networks, and a bunch of fringe radio programs, and movie theatres, and newspapers. Broadly highly consolidated. A bit more emphasis on local things.

Then there was cable. You were certainly going to get more perspectives, but your age group is probably going to still only watch a few channels. And still radio and newspapers, and movies.

Now there's youtube, twitch, cable, crunchyroll, radio, podcasts, social media. 10,000 channels of content. You as an individual mix and match based on your own preferences and interests. Its also available everywhere. As is conversing with friends.

It seems like pure logic that it is much harder to create a consensus in a winner take all political system.
PAQ and PPM are not fast, certainly not in the same category as LZ codecs.
On the fly synthesis of edit suggestions
Tribes was my life from 1998 to maybe 2002.
Mike Rowe suggested everybody only making right turns to reduce the risk of driving. It was a rhetorical example of the sort of tradeoff we choose not to make, putting other things above total safety.

But I like it. It might increase distance and time traveled slightly, but it should decrease both risk and stress.

It seems like an almost achievable plan, if the government ordered Google Maps and whatever Apple's thing is called, to only produce right turn routes.
They rejected it for (allegedly) requiring it. Apple’s obsession with “all apps must work for everybody” is losing them potentially original or deep apps. The same goes for example for the rule than any iOS game must be playable without a controller.

I get the idea that you don’t want people to download programs they can’t use, but I think a better solution would be to update the App Store to better communicate the requirements and make the refunds easier.
Yeah this is correct and I was oversimplifying. Though that begs the question of how that equation balances out - where does (a lot of energy) comes from?

The products on the right side sit at a lower energy level (they hold together “tighter”) overall. On the left, O2 needs less energy to break up while CH4 needs more, so in that sense the energy “comes” from O2 being easier to break apart. Conceptually I imagine these as a bunch of magnets with the two “magnets” in O2 held at a larger gap (so easier to take apart). With a jolt, things reconfigure and snap into a tighter pattern, and there’s an overall energy release.
Mass, sustainable renewables with large energy-storage systems do kinda make fusion unnecessary though.

Places with existing gas and oil, and maybe even coal, power stations aren’t going to tear them down when fusion becomes do-able or even economically viable. Not just due to the sunk-cost fallacy but because they don’t want 10,000+ newly unemployed workers who honestly probably won’t retrain for fusion. And more reasons like that.
"A Gentle Introduction to Tensors" which starts with not one word about what a tensor is, or why you might wish to be introduced to one. Good stuff.
I didn't have "real time" but did have an online (as in 1s/s) animation of telemetry data, and the product was such that "smoother than smooth" just meant we increased the maximum allowed charts until we were just back to "smooth". While adding a little latency helped from moment to moment, over a period of minutes you would see a pattern of stutters that was hard to ignore once you were aware of it.

Ultimately I had to fill the screen as best I could, if the paint happened ahead of the deadline I had to decide on painting ahead on the next couple of frames, or doing cleanup work. There was never enough time for both.
It’s on the far bleeding edge as far as languages go, so I doubt any businesses use it. The largest practical ATS program I know of is polyglot: https://github.com/vmchale/polyglot
The American way.
I have definitely done some stupid stuff because I was typing when a popup came up which caused me to hit enter on a dialogue before I could even read it.
RCRDSHP (Record Shop)
> Last but not least, low-voltage DC grids (up to 24V) are considered safe from shock or fire hazard

This is absolutely untrue. You may be safer from shocks, but it's a much _worse_ fire hazard. The currents need to be higher at lower voltages. Higher voltages need less current for the same power, decreasing the fire risk.
Oh I don't mean to say they haven't done anything, they certainly have. I'm more wondering if there is a system-level privacy feature that they could provide (enforce?) where the system provides a screen share stream handle to only a selected window, similar to the Selected Photos functionality in iOS today.
I think it might be a mistake to think that the model is not confident because its response is something a human might say if they were not confident. The model is 'just' completing the prefix text with something that has high likelihood from its perspective, so it may just be used to, for instance, seeing people hedge in similar conversations it has read in its training data.

More generally, whether these models are well-calibrated (that is, they know what they don't know) is an important area of research. I don't have references offhand, but I think it's true broadly speaking that these larger pre-trained models do tend to be better calibrated.
> "These extraordinary results from NIF advance the science that NNSA depends on to modernize our nuclear weapons and production. It also offers potential new avenues of research into alternative energy sources that could aid economic development and help fight climate change."

Well, at least they're pretty honest about the order of their priorities.
I see that folks in the comments are asking 'what would be an alternative to behavioral fingerprinting based on browsing history.

Perhaps we can look at advertising as 2 categories:

(1)
advertising -- as means to notify about an existing product or a service

(2)
advertising as means to elevate one product over the other in the eyes of consumers.

The (1)st category seems to be very legitimate and welcome.

The (2)nd category falls into implicit manipulation, almost con-artistry.

So let's assume that it is the (1)st category is the one the public would like to find solutions for (and the 2nd category will, eventually, become outlawed .. let's hope).

With that in mind, perhaps a way for a user to set legitimate interest (at the browser level) and the type of 'pages' they accept to see ads would work.

The 'types' of pages might be a some sort of taxonomy standard that labels a page with a type (eg privacy preserving or not and many subtypes).

As a user navigates to through the web, only pages with specific subtypes, would participate in the 'digital identity build up'.

The pages that, according to user preferences, cannot participate in the 'digital identity' build up -- can still show ads, but cannot use or 'donate' its information into the digital identity database.
I think it’s a bit of a choice, but also a result of tech workers definitionally being higher leverage employees. I worked at a giant employer in SF with a tall tower, and I had plenty of periods where I had to grind 12+ hours a day to perform at a high level, because my managers knew I’d do it if they dangled things in front of me, and if I didn’t, it was going to be visible enough to be very problematic for my career there.

Then I had periods where I’d crushed the before time, and could get away with walking the street shooting photography for 4 hours, as long as I didn’t have meetings. My attainment wasn’t that different in either case, I just got put on easier stuff, because I’d made it.

The shitty part is how easily the wrong manager can throw you back into that first place and effectively squeeze you, if you’re not an unequivocal top performer. In the past, I don’t get the sense that companies were as ruthlessly efficient and eager to cut out people who were good enough, but not excellent. It seems like it was easier to hang around, whereas now you have to grind and be the best for a nontrivial period of time to earn the right to relax a bit.
> They don't have a monopoly control of "land", the have control of the land they own.

The land-owning class as a group have monopoly control of land. As far as I know, there isn't much un-owned land, so the land-owning class owns all the land.

> And whether or not new land is being produced or land is unique is pretty flimsy.

This is one of the definitional factors of a monopoly: "a lack of economic competition to produce the good or service", so I don't think it's flimsy at all. It's also a very commonly noted point by basically every economist that has looked at land, when distinguishing land from capital.

> if you want to abolish private ownership of land, just out and say it.

Not at all!

> This is just emotional handwaving. Water is vital for human life and you can't produce more of it ignoring very minor exceptions of chemical reactions. If I pour myself a glass of water I don't gain monopoly control of water.

As it turns out, if you and, say, 1 million others owned all the water in your country, you would in fact be part of the group that has monopolised control of water. You could then charge whatever you want to those who do not own the water, given they need it for life. This would be rent-seeking, as the amount you charge could far exceed your marginal costs of production. Water is actually a form of economic land, it just happens to be in great abundance and is slippery enough to be difficult to monopolise.

> And Ricardo's Law of Rent does not explain that land-lording is rent-seeking. Millions of people own a second house and rent it out, how are they rent-seeking?

Rent-seeking is the activity by which people try to gain more economic rent; that is, they are trying to gain something without doing anything in return. Those who own a second house and rent it out are actually doing two things: they are hiring out a house, which is not rent, properly speaking. And they are extracting rent for access to the land, which is economic rent. Building a house and maintaining it is a productive use of capital, and hiring it out is not rent-seeking. Owning land and renting out it is, definitionally, rent-seeking (unless one were to only charge as much rent for the land as the costs of keeping the land).

Ricardo's Law of Rent does explain this quite clearly. You can see an introduction here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent but this lecture may be more clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyv1xYDWAxk