skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually, in the traditional enterprise, this kind of technical decision is not taken by the people who will have to actually use the tools.

There are layers of technical decisions, progressively removed from the actual job of delivering applications.

There are constraints like the utter horror enterprise has of the idea of NOT treating developers live commodity interchangeable cogs. There is careerism, there are outsourcing companies trying to position themselves as "specialists in X". There are naive technology executives and managers that are easily fooled by tool vendors promising the nirvana of code so easy to write that you could possibly fire all your experienced developers and hire some juniors folks out of a Bootcamp. There is the manager trying to be promoted by selling up this bullshit...
And we could keep on discussing this for days, as the enterprise is an endless sea of cargo cults, insanity and sheer idiocy.
Here's the economic argument against, from conservative economist John Cochrane (try to check the tribalism and focus on the arguments), who used to be a proponent of carbon taxes.

The standard vision in policy discussions assumes infinite substitutability. As soon as the cost of clean energy is lower than the cost of carbon-emitting energy, everyone substitutes completely to the latter and the oil and coal stay in the ground. This is the key question. What the graphs make clear is that the majority of carbon must stay in the ground (or go back there) if we want to avoid a large temperature rise. (Again, I do not quibble with the climate side of the models here. Whether the large temperature rise actually hurts GDP is a separate issue, which I'll return to in the next post.) But as long as the elasticity of substitution is finite, as here, then the carbon comes out of the ground. As you use less and less, the remaining uses become more and more valuable, so it's worth it, privately and to society, to keep using it although at lower scale.

This follows from a model that implies that even extremely high carbon taxes will only post-pone 4 degrees temperature rise by 50 years or so.

So I learn from this that a key focus for R&D is not so much on lowering the cost of alternatives, but increasing their substitutability for fossil fuels. Just because the cost of solar cells is plummeting does us little good. We need to increase their substitutability. This consideration once again points to nuclear and carbon capture and storage as really important technologies. We're really talking about how to replace coal-fired base-load electric plants in parts of the world that badly need electricity. Nuclear and capture and storage, though they might not be the least expensive, seem to offer much better substitutability options. That both are forbidden topics in climate debates is sad. Substitution also involves other large carbon emitters. It's hard to make steel and concrete without emitting lots of carbon.

This thought emphasizes a point that Bjorn Lomborg hammered away on in many different ways during a previous presentation: Simply making carbon more expensive will not work.

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/07/rossi-hansberg-on...
Well then you’re measuring wrong.

And, FWIW, neither Yesla nor Space X were created with his “personal brand”—its the other way around. The personal brand is good for some crypto coin manipulation and maybe 5hat boring thing I haven’t heard of on a while.
> One time my son said, hey get off your phone and lets go scooter around the neighborhood, the kid replied, hey I think I am going to go home. He wanted to surf his phone more than actually hang out with his friend

That is so sad. Interesting to see that china has 'LOCKED' down screen time controls for their youth, but they 'strategically' let tiktok run unfettered in other countries
That teenage driver goes through a training and certification process, and we have ways of stopping them from driving if they fuck up too badly. They also have liability for their actions.

Most of those are lacking or at least inconsistent, for AI driving.
The problem with auto lights is that they can be turned off or set into other modes that prevent the auto part from working. Throw in drivers who don't seem to notice that their headlights are not or barely illuminating the road and we get what I experienced over the weekend.

Maybe there's hope: https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/make-sure-your-headlights-a...
Gwern responded to a similar question in the comments section.

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> the fact that data and compute need to scale proportionally seems… like a big point in favor of NNs as memorizers/interpolators.

(gwern)

> Surely it's the opposite? The more bang you get out of each parameter, the less it looks like 'just' (whatever that means) memorization/interpolation. When you needed to increase parameters a lot, disproportionately, to cope with some more data, that does not speak well of abstractions or understanding. (If I can train a 1t model to get the same loss as what I thought was going to take a 100t model, why would I think that that 100t model must be memorizing/interpolating less?) Let's take your claim to its logical extreme: suppose we discovered tomorrow a scaling law that made parameters near-constant (log, let's say); would that not suggest that those parameters are super useful and it's doing an amazing job of learning the underlying algorithm and is not memorizing/interpolating?
Sure, slowing of China economy will make invasion to Taiwan more likely, for same reasons for which Hitler and Putin invades neighbors - all empires need to constantly show their people wins, or they will collapse.
That agrees with my intuition for the most part, although it might carve out some space for hope, in the sense that a paper about proof of A that doesn't mention !A means someone spent time in there and didn't find a bigger problem. The more times someone carves out a small amount of negative space in a problem domain, the higher the odds are that there's an asymptote that is nonzero.

What I'm more worried about is that we will prove that 'interesting text merges' are not all commutative. Though one trick we keep doing in spaces where things are proven impossible is that we cheat by creating tools that disallow or discourage the intractable scenarios. That could, for instance, lead to a generation of programming languages with a strange file structure that makes most workflows commutative.

That may sound strange or terrible to some people, but it's been my opinion for a number of years now that most of our coding conventions boil down to issues of avoiding merge conflicts, so a language that enforced a stronger form of conflict avoidance would be an 'opinionated' language but within the realm of the sorts of things we already put up with. Maybe no stranger than pure functional or Actor based languages, for instance.
I'd say also the nexus of narcissism between men and woman has changed. I think of that album Tommy by The Who which starts out with

"It's a boy, Mrs. Walker, it's a boy... A son!"

back then couples were happy to get a boy instead of girl. Mothers who didn't feel they could get ahead on their own felt they could get ahead vicariously through a male child.

Today it is the other way around. We hear things like "Girls are our most precious natural resource" and don't think about it... Feminists in the 1970s knew "girl" was a dangerous word (the example in the dictionary should be "girls girls, girls" with a photo of a 42nd st porno theater) but today there is a lot of pandering to young women. Many colleges are practicing affirmative action for men quietly because men aren't that interested in going to college yet young woman aren't interested in going to a college which is 70% female.

So I think the gendering of narcissism is in flux but, like usual for these things, we are looking in the rear view mirror and it will take the culture 20 or 30 years to catch up.
Is there a need for ... NPM: The Good Parts
I'm fairly confident each of those is a 2-byte float, but yes that's over 100 GB of parameters.
You'd think the NRA would be all over this: a legal gun owner killed in his home by police? Nope

In the gun community the NRA is generally seen has having failed gun owners. There are many cases similar to Amir Locke's. One in particular is Duncan Lemp.
They were on Perforce for a long time.

See e.g. https://info.perforce.com/rs/perforce/images/GoogleWhitePape... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889958.
That's funny. Grep, awk, sed, sort, uniq, emacs even. Most of these apps work and run and operate despite being old than me.

Maybe the problem isn't that code eventually decays maybe the problem is the vision of what something is supposed to do is lost and then it has no place later on.
We spread too much thanks to unsustainable technologies/ideologies and now that we're facing the consequences our excuse is "how will we continue living unsustainably"

Same answer as people who built cities in the middle of fucking deserts and complain about potential lack of water: you don't
> Whether is it rising prices or community that gives people joy in crypto I have no data on - are there any infomative studies around?

I'm not sure about there being "joy" in crypto currencies. This article [1] argues the exact opposite, but isn't a study of any kind. I'd be interested to see the average rates of depression among crypto owners. Gangs give people a sense of community (maybe we call that "joy"), but they aren't good for people's health long-term.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvn8z/crypto-bad-for-mental...
Yes it was. I am of a certain age that we had a certain number of classroom hours as well as a certain number of hours behind the wheel with an instructor as well as certain number of hours in a car as an observer with an instructor.

We had book(lets) that we had to read from to learn the rules/laws of the road. There were quizzes/tests to be taken during those classes in order to pass the class. Once the class was passed, I then had to take a written exam issued by the state. That was followed by an actual driving test with a state official in the car.

So assuming based on my personal experience. I know the times have changed, and you no longer have to do silly things like learn how to drive or be required to wear shoes while driving in today's world.
Well, the obvious incentive with such a rule would then be to install slightly different versions of the software in every vehicle.

(Or perhaps to have separate versions on file, and just load that different version when the first version is grounded.)

> Without a human in the loop, what's the unreliable part to point the finger at?

It's a cost benefit analysis. If the problem is sufficiently rare, it might make more sense to leave the cars running while you investigate. Even human lives aren't infinitely valuable.

Typical traffic engineering in the US assumes a cost of human life of about 6 million USD or so.
You aren't meant to put your own files manually inside node_modules. What are you trying to achieve with that?
I was kind of expecting some of the stuff in this article, but I was actually amazed that he was able to demonstrate the absurdity of carbon offsets without even getting into sticky topics like corruption (i.e. you pay for a tree to be planted which never gets planted, or the m² of rainforest you "protected" doesn't get cut down today, but in one month).

Someone has described carbon offsets as modern-day indulgences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence) - you pay someone to "wash away" your CO2-emitting "sins", and the less you think about how it works, the better you can feel about it...
No, neither are currencies. Cryptocurrencies try to promote themselves as currencies, but they're actually not, and they can't ever function that way, for a number of reasons.
Watch "Honest Government Ad | Carbon Credits & Offsets" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/iCRDseUEEsg
I caution against age as a sole proxy for driving ability. As a contradictory datum, my 80+ year old grandmother (in the USA) maintains a 100+ acre farm. She daily drives a (impeccably maintained) 2006 3/4 ton pickup, to include multiple yearly 10+ hour trips hauling a 10k+ lbs trailer. She almost always brings a passenger on these trips for companionship and safety. I've never heard any complaints, and never personally observed her driving unsafely.

It won't be this way forever, and I'm under no illusion that she is the norm for her age, but I'd hazard she's a better drive
R than most people on the road.

I would like to see a move toward more frequent driver testing for all drivers in the USA, decreasing in frequency after the first few years of driving and increasing in frequency for older drivers. Testing after initial licensing is not the norm in any state I've inhabited, so this would probably require a significant uphill battle on both the individual and government fronts.
Early 2010s web design was better than what we have now.
I wondered about the last point, too. But Waymo apparently worked out a satisfactory solution to that.
Memory tagging isn't remotely new, LISP Maschines and many others had done it before. So by that count they didn't invent anything.

The code for it isn't even public so other could learn for it as Oracle made Solaris proprietary again.

> IBM invented timesharing and containers, no need for Solaris stuff.

I'm not sure what you are referring to by containers here. Please tell me where I can find a non-property Unix that allows me to use these amazing IBM containers.

You seem to place equal value on some proprietary system that people can't actually use, and those that made it available to everybody in Open Source.

Call me crazy but I value innovations more that are in the open and available.
Ask HN: who wants to collaborate?
I'm still missing a vision for a positive future which lacks EVs.

Every vision of a low-carbon future requires many things to change. You're saying we should let the current slow movement on electricty generation be an excuse for not moving on EVs (despite the fact that they're an improvement regardless). You could similarly argue that the slow movement on EVs should be an excuse from not improving electricity generation (despite the fact that there are improvements regardless).

Whataboutism about one vision is worthless until you have a better vision, where we can compare the practical and political tradeoffs between them.
Maybe you need coaching not your direct reports. Training can be completely automated via technology with close feedback loops , AI and other techniques. Hiring can also be automated to a large extent specially for technical loops. Objective evaluation of someone’s performance can be done by tracking and task allocation systems. All these can be automated to a large extent.
Rails is often slow. Ruby's plenty fast though. Puppet was trying to do a lot with the way that it was designed and I think it's probably a side effect.

Ansible can be plenty slow at time too.
I didn't read the article but I recommend the Peter Thiel speech at this "conference": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko6K82pXcPA

The thing that comes to mind is George W. Bush's reaction to Trump's inauguration speech: "that was some weird shit".
Probably not an issue just yet, think of how much data is generated by Twitter on a daily basis for example.
Assuming you aren't driving far, the police will generally understand, and appreciate your regard for their safety. I have seen people choose to pull over in the worst of spots, where I am almost certain the police would have appreciated them moving to a safer spot.

As for the Arkansas lady, did you watch the video? IIRC, she went quite a ways before he PIT'd her. I would agree he shouldn't have done the PIT on her so soon, but it wasn't the case of her going a few hundred feet more.
I assume the FBI tip-toed around to the back of “Tarek Abou-Khatwa’s” house because he’s one of those white Arabs?

Also, as to the Rittenhouse case, you’re missing option 3:

> Rittenhouse’s attorneys wanted the jury to know that Rosenbaum was a low-life who was in Kenosha to riot and not for social justice protests.
It's really atrocious in so many ways.
Basically true of all smartphones, now. I recently saw a giant billboard for Samsung S22. I doubt Samsung has had 21 prior versions of the S line, but who knows. These phones all look the same and have had looked the same for a handful of years now.
Triggering testing/education after traffic violations might be a middle-ground.
> I'm quite sure scientists could get some grants to hire actual software engineers to come up with a better solution

Uh ... no. Grants rarely ever support SWE outside of a core application. No granting agency would support writing a new open source tool that effectively replicates what is available in market today.

You are right in that genomic scientists chose poorly here. Excel isn't the right tool for the job, but there are very few options that could work, and the others required some assembly ... which they couldn't get money to fund. And the other potential solutions were not ubiquitous.

For them, renaming genes is the easier solution than switching workflows to new (to be assembled) tooling. Remember, scientists are people too ... they will opt to take paths of lower resistance even when they are suboptimal.
>take it for granted that the CO2 will stay there for 10,000 years.

How do you know this? CCS isn't exactly a secret, it's regularly discussed in pop science and mainstream news. It's also controversial among actual geologists how well the storage part works, if at all.

Capturing CO2 is relatively easy. When someone makes claims like it's almost guaranteed that the carbon stays in the ground for thousands of years, that's quite the grand claim that would require extraordinary evidence. Because knowing geology, there's a lot of movement through fluids, tectonics, magmatism and all sorts of micro processes altering the chemistry of the crust.
The number of sites suitable for pumped hydro is overwhelmingly more that is always assumed. In particular, you do not need an existing dam, a watershed, or even a mountain. But pumped hydro's main appeal is that it is very cheap to operate, in places it is easiest to build.

Ammonia electro-synthesis and air liquification are both mature tech, and just need to be built out. Hydrogen, similarly. Tankage for all of these is cheap, and power can be released via existing gas furnaces. Building out takes time.

Chemical storage has the massive advantage that it may be shipped from the tropics to anywhere it is needed, anytime it is needed, just like oil and LNG is today. That is where the majority of energy will be banked, because there is always demand for the same chemicals as industrial feedstock, so an always ready market to sell excess production into.

Batteries are the most expensive storage. You won't make much progress understanding power by thinking only about batteries. But anyway batteries are not dependent on lithium; iron-air batteries are cheap and iron is plentiful.

Nukes have no place in this future. Their power costs way too much to win a bid, almost all the time, but they need to win all the time to service their crushing debt load. And, it takes many years before any power at all comes out. So, they will predictably default on their debts; and thus not be built at all.
I've gotten so used to lights being on always that I classify cars with lights off as parked. I won't focus on them. I'm very surprised when they move.

It should really be hardwired, because people forget.
OSINT

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Judges are human indeed. But things like tax dodges still exist and other loopholes. You just need good enough lawyers to structure things for you.

Your second point would lead to a ban on all but one self-driving car systems, when taken seriously?
Playing with DALL-E 2
How can I make sure that the model I buy in US is made in India, not China?
Same for Kate, but for technical documents it's actually better that way in my opinion, since your vocabulary is going to be different than what's in your spellcheck dictionary. I usually just copy/paste another document with the same topic as a starting point.
Some people are really friendly with plants, and the plants tell them how to do these things.
Exploring the “Expression Problem” in Rust
Based on the responses/replies here -

Perhaps it is time to retire one of the HN guidelines namely - Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." since it seems a lot of people haven't actually RTFA when posting comments.
I mean the SEC has already had issues with Elon as a board member because he like to market manipulate using Twitter.
Samsung switched to using the current year for their model numbers. S22 is the 2022 model.
John Oliver Blackmails Congress with Their Own Digital Data
You can say „disabled“ just fine. I have a disability and I never met someone who preferred differently abled.

It‘s not a slur (yet)
Thanks for the laugh. :D
Hackers use Conti's leaked ransomware to attack Russian companies
This reduces package-installing friction, but this is a good thing anyway -- there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to use foobar@1.0 and foobar@2.0 in the same project. For all intents and purposes they're different packages, viz. the version is just as important as the package name.
In the meantime, consider In the Mood for Love which is paid homage or Swiss Army Man, directed by the same fellas.
It would probably be better to do a simple fact check before going on a dubious grand narrative :

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/world/middleeast/20archiv...

> After prodding by Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Hussein had offered to withdraw Iraqi troops from Kuwait in 21 days. But the United States appeared to be moving ahead with its land campaign.
>Men are more vulnerable to making certain narcissism-related mistakes

Does this mean there are inherent differences in personality traits between sexes? I don't necessarily disagree, but seems like a controversial take nowadays.
Exactly, except, I'm not sure where the 100,000km condition was established.

I'm in North Texas, so I have a personal rule that if the temps are forecasted to be below freezing with any form of precipitation, I do not leave the house. People make moronic decisions on how to drive in those conditions because it doesn't happen enough and as a collective, proper ability to drive is forgotten every single time.
Monitoring children, not just in a technical sense, is part of being a parent.
> There are prices to pay for living in city centers

These are the prices we pay today in the US, but they don't have to be. Other countries like The Netherlands and Switzerland take noise pollution more seriously and show it's possible to have quieter cities. Even among huge cities it's possible: Tokyo is much quieter than NYC.

We don't need to make people choose between living in dense, efficient spaces vs calm and quiet. Making urban living more comfortable is a net benefit: the people that live there will be happier, people that wanted to live there but avoided due to noise will now have that option, and people outside of cities would be unaffected. Why accept this as just the way it is when plenty of other cities have shown it can be better?

This video shows what it's like when a city takes noise more seriously (in this case, the whole of The Netherlands). It focuses on cars, but apartment noises can be handled too with building codes. https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8
Why are there so few women in the mining industry?

Why are there so few women in arms trade?

Why are there so few women in finance?

Why are there so few women in infosec?

Why are there so few women in ...

How is "crypto space" unique? It's so easy to find countless industry events which are full of mostly men.