skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't benevolent but there is such a thing as a mutually beneficial relationship. I'm fine with people making money off advertisement as long as they aren't selling my data directly and the number of companies I trust to do that is very low. In a lot of ways targeted ads and the like can be beneficial, it's about connecting people selling something the the people who want/need that thing, the problem is when data companies can just hoover up or buy that data and do gross things with it.
The lack of prioritized problem solving amongst the climate activist set sure does seem to imply some inconvenient questions about their motivations. Either that or their numeracy and competence.

My personal conclusion is that any "solution" which significantly limits either a) economic growth, b) national security, and/or c) personal freedoms and choice is doomed to fail. Rather, the only practicable solutions will be technological (as throughout history has always been the case).
This is an example of bahnization - the tendency of every transportation method to evolve into a train.
> Frequentist statistics is (relatively) easy to understand.

Easy to misunderstand. NHST creates false beliefs, and that's even when you do everything correctly. If you accept NHST, you believe in "psi", because Bem has proven it.
Don't be sorry. I am / was already aware of those (in the trade referred to as MLAT's) so no reality-check needed (but thanks for pointing it out for other readers). Firstly, MLAT's are not Global (some countries play ball, some don't etc) but for that very reason I used the phrase "slightly more difficult" rather than any other word/phrase.
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Paying $400k for an Executive Assistant?
A flat front isn't a major issue at all - the most aerodynamic shape is roughly a teardrop - and the "front" of a teardrop is mostly flat anyway.

It's the backend and the wake you cause that is the major problem.
Wow, what a good summary. Thanks!
Put them all in a room and play On Writing Well by William Zinsser.
Good Luck!
I'm interested in game development as a side hobby to bond with my kids.
I'd be interested in more of a hobby oriented meetup.
Followed by a cookie prompt that takes up most of the screen on my phone.
I haven't much upkeep or compatibility issues. There are a few people that have started working on translations. I imagine they might need some help. In general though, it's a simple site with no server communication, running on github pages, with almost no libraries.

I use the site for my own students when I teach physics, and they catch a few typos and bugs each semester.
> It would seem that the biggest contributors to climate change and pollution are developing nations that use carbon based energy (ie coal plants in China, Russia, India, etc).

Well, those countries also have huge masses of people, and they are already well below the per capita emissions in the EU, and far below the USA per capita emissions.

So, one thing we may want to help with is finding ways to make it possible to have a good quality of life without such a huge impact on the environment - and then, perhaps, export these technologies to China or India etc.
I think that was just the restaurant owner having fun while making sure every part of their menu showed up as a restaurant search result
You don’t think there are new 22 year olds to replace the old ones?
I thought this was about Google after reading the first line.
By being a human you'll constantly think. Write your thoughts down. There you go, you know now what to write about!

On a more serious note, look for anything you are interested at and start to write it. You don't need to be a professional, you can write about it as an amateur and share your journey with others in a blog post or Twitter. Hell, even facebook.

Let's say you want to learn a new programming language. You'll have many thoughts like: hey, this function is pretty neat. This and that. I like this, I don't like that.

Find a clever way of writing those thoughts that is concise and that people would like to read.

If you are too shy and don't feel like sharing your thoughts with anyone, write it for yourself. Imagine if you could open a box with your texts from 1 year ago, with how are you feeling and what you are worried and excited about. I'd bet you would be interested at it. But you don't have it now. So start stacking those texts now for the next year.

As for exercises, there are so many and they will improve your writing in different ways, it's up to you to decide what is important. Find anybody that is inspiring to you and see how they write and communicate.

Also, like any art or subjective matters, writing is all about observing. Our brain has too many things to care about. If you don't make the conscious decision of looking at a text with a observer POV, it will just be yet another text and your brain will only focus on its content, not so much with style.
The problem with banning private jets for reasons of climate change: it is nothing but symbolism.
A private jet user might be personally guilty of having a large carbon footprint, but as there are only comparatively small numbers of private jets flying around, fighting against them serves the planet about nothing.
Changing the way we produce electricity, the way we power our cars, the way we heat homes, on the other hand, can have MASSIVE effects on carbon emissions (without sacrificing too much - just as an example: my rather new house has thick walls, so in summer we do not need a cooler and in winter a heat pump is enough).
The stuff with licenses Apple likes is relatively up to date; it's definitely not bleeding edge, but no worse than you'd get from Debian or RHEL. The criticism macOS gets for shipping ancient software is because one of the licenses they don't like is the GPL3. So there's a GPL2 version of bash from 2007, rsync is from 2006, etc. The end user can, of course, install newer versions of these separately.
I think it's a bit premature and depressing to give up now. If the developed world pioneers effective and affordable green technologies, the developing world has every incentive to adopt them. India and China have much more to lose from climate change than the US and Europe. Some of their heavily populated regions may become literally unlivable as the temperature rises.
> The advantage of batteries is that you can manufacture them into any form

Can you really though? For EVs they're all using the classic cylindrical shape as far as I've seen.
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> How do you know you know what a giraffe is?

Perhaps a more interesting question could be: [how] do we know what consciousness is?
This is my reasoning exactly.

So let's push it even further, looking for solutions.

1/Ban coal, petrol and gas power plants in the western countries as soon as possible, pushing for fission and renewable+storage, whichever is faster and can give us the most GWh per $ (spoiler: it's fission). Fusion is too far off and renewable+storage are not ready, too expensive and demand too much land and materials to work at scale, over seasons.

2/Start to put import tax on products from carbon-emitting countries, in proportion to the carbon they emit per GDP $.

That's it, solution found! Yeah!

Of course it's not going to fly because politics and status quo and existing interests.
I moved to a Machine Learning Engineer role a few years back. I just did an internal transfer to a ML team with no previous knowledge. The team trusted me to pick up whatever I needed on the job.

Now I interview tons of people for MLE roles. Trying to get in "through the front door" is incredibly competitive. Not only you have to prove you are a great engineer, but also good ML knowledge. You'd be competing with people with MSc and PhD.

Whenever possible I still recommend following the path I did: become and excellent engineer, and then look for an internal team to transfer to. Any sensible manager will take you in and help you to grow into the role.

As always YMMV. This is my sample size of 1.
I'd suggest you consider a new name. Captcha stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test and this implementation has little to do with that.
If I'm thinking of the same post that logo is poorly done / chosen. I know the author wanted very specific imagery in it and achieved that but I don't think that logo would be considered "good" by most.
There's an author, Robert Anton Wilson, who started writing an influential novel called the Illuminatus trilogy which is a pretty fun read but basically if the whole point of his work was anything it would be that if you aren't doing something of your own kind of conspiracy and you're instead obsessing over real or imagined conspiracies that other people are doing, you're wasting your time. It's a fun thing to tell someone who's ranting at you about something you've probably just heard before and already checked out as inanity if anything. The other fun thing to do is see if they accept that the moon is a hologram (You'd be surprised how many people agree to this notion)

He has a quote about belief as a whole:

"My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. The more certitude one assumes, the less there is left to think about, and a person sure of everything would never have any need to think about anything and might be considered clinically dead under current medical standards, where absence of brain activity is taken to mean that life has ended."
There's a lot of people who make this same argument – DALLE/GPT/etc is just a 'mirror' or 'parrot' – but they rarely make convincing supporting arguments.

They just assert it as axiomatic, whistling-past all the ways that they themselves – unless they believe in supernatural mechanisms – are also the product of a finite physical-world system (a biological mind) and a finite amount of prior training input (their life so far).

I'm beginning to wonder if the entities making this argument are conscious! It seems they don't truly understand the issues in question, in a way they could articulate recognizably to others. They're just repeating comforting articles-of-faith that others have programmed into them.
It's hypothesized (and, I think, likely) that the machine learns some of those hidden/latent properties, though, obviously, only to the extent that they are useful to recreate the images.

In any case, it does at least care about the appearance of the actual objects. So I think it would be fair to say that there are aspects of the actual objects that the network doesn't care about, but there are also aspects that it cares very much about. Thus it's not "wholly unconcerned with the actual objects".
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>In a 912-page paper posted online on May 30, Szeftel, Elena Giorgi of Columbia University and Sergiu Klainerman of Princeton University have proved that slowly rotating Kerr black holes are indeed stable.

I wouldn't have expected it to be a short paper, but... 912 pages!

While I'm not a cosmologist, I usually enjoy reading through the papers that pop up. I think I might end up skipping this one and just stick to the Quanta article, unfortunately.

Hopefully Anton Petrov does a summary video on the paper.
You're lucky. On multiple occasions I've had rocks and leaves blown into my face by one of these people, while I'm driving in a convertible car with the top down.
Conspiring, thinking and talking about conspiracies is normal human nature. Nothing to see here.
> that can only be password reset in person (using a variety of checklists to prove you're the rightful owner).

But why in person?

There's literally nothing more secure about in-person with the sole exception of biometric checks like fingerprints or iris scans -- but neither of those require the "person" part of "in-person", they're just hardware.

The only thing an "in-person" encounter will do is check your face matches an ID photo, and maybe rough height/gender/eye color. All of which could be done over a webcam anyways.

The whole question seems to rest on the premise that somehow an in-person reset is more secure (or would provide a better security-for-ease-of-use tradeoff)... and I would reject that premise entirely.
The difference between Bayesian and frequentist statistics is that they answer different questions. People are often more interested in the questions that Bayesian statistics answer, and so they often misinterpret frequentist results to also answer those questions.

It's possible that it can happen the other way around as well, but my impression is that it happens less often.
Deployable parachute behind the truck and for super emergencies the front backwards facing rocket engages, duhh
For an example check out https://plurrrr.com/.
Oh man, 912 pages, they almost beat Almgren's big regularity paper.
Exactly (and cannot recommend Blindsight highly enough). Of course DALL-E is a Chinese Room. The most exciting and subversive idea in Blindsight is that consciousness is maladaptive, and the scramblers are _more_ fit for the lack of it. Long after neutral nets have surpassed our functional intelligence, we'll still be criticizing their ability to navel-gaze as well as humans.
If we're talking about „reading a full article + following the discussion“, then yes.

But for me, 1.) has also been helpful for discovering frameworks or tools that I'm now using in my everyday work life (e.g. LogSeq, Prefect). I wouldn't count it as „productive” either, but just reading announcements or random tech blog posts sometimes translates into actually adopting the thing.
So far I have observed that statistics as a whole are useless for decision support.

They are definitely useful as part of bigger models that we cannot explicitly express them in multiple fields. Physics, chemistry, ML, they all utilize statistics to make useful models and that is great.

The issue is that decision making is a singular point, and statistics are very good at not taking any responsibility for their bad predictions.

If you make a decision with an expected outcome the statistician will come out swinging. If it was the unexpected outcome then you are faced with “Well you were unlucky, that’s statistics”.
Since Google is not doing this with white owned businesses that means whites are now disadvantaged so white businesses should now get this forever?
Or one ecoterrorist able to play a long game slips a backdoor into a widely-bought drone's software.
They will, because a typical private plane passenger is already someone who chose to pay extra. The carbon tax will hit economy passengers harder.
unfortunately, the credit-card requirement kills sourcehut for me immediately. i know paypal is a pain when it comes to receiving payments, but it's my only option for international payments at this point. credit-cards are not common here, and getting one involves going through a lot of red-tape, especially for someone who is not local.

SEPA/iDEAL will open access to more europeans at least, where credit cards are also not common.
Well this explains the election deniers crazy batshit approach to ‘Stop the Steal’. It helps rationalize their belief that Trump flags and MAGA hats make an election. 60 rejected lawsuits doesn’t seem to break the fever. Why don’t we admit it’s a cult? This is how cults work, and they are dangerous.
> My personal conclusion is that any "solution" which significantly limits either a) economic growth, b) national security, and/or c) personal freedoms and choice is doomed to fail. Rather, the only practicable solutions will be technological (as throughout history has always been the case).

Banning leaded fuels or stuff harmful to the Ozone layer weren't technical solutions, and they worked, even if they restricted personal freedoms and choice, and limited economic growth through spending money on things that didn't result on growth.
I too can write a program that will synthesize an endless amount of pictures that the viewer will recognize as a giraffe. They would all be the same picture, just with one bit of noise randomly applied to each pixel - enough to generate more distinct 256x256 pictures of giraffes than there are atoms in the universe.

We need to go a bit deeper to tease out what makes DALL-E 2 amazing.
> I'll wait for you to provide some actual evidence that 51% of users have directly or indirectly made money on posts here.

I'll provide that when you provide evidence that nobody has.

Interesting how you can make claims without facts to back them up, but demand me to back up my claims against yours.
To some degree, I trust both Apple and Google but for different reasons. Apple is pushing privacy tools, and within limits of government suponenas they do a reasonable job. Google has a business of using your data to advise advertisers how to sell you stuff, but if you go on Google’s privacy settings page you have a fair amount of control. Personally, I let Google track my YouTube use for 90 days in order to make good suggestions and turn almost everything else off (Google makes money from me from buying content, paying for YouTube, and GCP).

I really respect people who self-host their own data platforms, etc. but I don’t have time for that.
If you cut half the air resistance and air resistance is 120 out of 200 hp, that's only a 30% total reduction.
You went from "this is not possible" to "will not be shared without your permission" in one reply sequence. This whole thread is covered with people noting your website's doublespeak.

I think you need to stop for a bit and think about what ethical behavior is.
The people who sell the fuels have approximately zero influence over the people who sell the trucks. Truck manufacturers try to optimize overall operating costs because that's the primary metric their customers look at. Adding active aerodynamic surfaces to trucks would cut fuel consumption slightly, but nowhere near in half (as londons_explore suggested); that's simply not plausible. And it would be another thing to break.
We do in fact require more than a report before meting out punishments. Whether that means "everyone who reports a crime should be presumed to be lying" or "everyone accused of a crime should be presumed to be innocent" is a matter of how you want to spin it.
Their 'entry level' bike is over $800. Except for e-bikes, that's about 4x more than I've ever spent for a bike.

Source: person who has biked to work for 20 years.
Ask HN: What are your novel random ideas to help tackle climate change?
I believe many people have had weird idea's on improving energy efficiency, material resource consumption, etc.

I believe most of these out of the box ideas are self-censored because others aren't seen voicing the same idea, resulting in the autonomous conclusion its probably a dumb idea. Most probably are. An unknown fraction are probably prematurely rejected ideas. A community that is openminded to considering these might weed out the good unexplored ideas from the nonsensical unexplored ideas.

I will give an example:

A large majority of humanity lives relatively close to the sea. Thermal energy generation (both nuclear as well as fuel based) requires a hot temperature bath (from fuel, fission or perhaps someday fusion) as well as cold temperature bath to drive a thermal engine. When the colder thermal bath is hotter than usual the efficiency of fuel to electricity is lower, when the colder thermal bath is colder then usual the energy conversion efficiency is higher.

Why don't governments build out "national heat pipes to the sea" ? The pipes themselves don't need to be copper. The working fluid could be benign distilled water in a vacuum. Usage could be metered by thermal gradient at supplier/user interface. The pressure (a slight vacuum in case of distilled water) could be adapted as a function of ocean temperature, for optimal fluid/gas ratio for optimal heat flow and coolant feedback.
For rts games, i recommend the spring-engine. Its kind of date visually, but the core multiplayer tech is rock solid.

There is a fresh fork developed by the team behind https://www.beyondallreason.info/ and they are working on performance improvements. In addition, you get the whole infrastructure developed by that team for free (Server tech, matchmaking, map editors etc.)

Its hyper specialized on RTS though. Dont try to make a jump and run with it. Although they tried:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1D295mRqdE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNGe4KTdVN4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FnmQUgR5RQ

Ludum Dares are pretty hard core engine tests, as in can you iterrate, pivot and check wether its fun quickly. Unwieldy beasts do not survive that.
I was curious about this as well. Here is what I got: https://i.imgur.com/Ey0i3My.png
It’s also not going to fly because it is extremely naive to the economic impacts your plan would have
Came here looking for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8An2SxNFvmU

Left disappointed.
My god it's all the things I do every day, and I didn't even realize it. And I bet I'm just awful at it without even knowing it! Great list.
We have a set limit for how much carbon can be released to hit the agreed on targets. Anything a person emits over this should be reduced.

Someone eating meat 3 meals a day and flying in a private jet, is using thousands of times over this level. The average person in a developing nation is using a fraction of this. Why should they stop emitting their fraction, when the jet setter uses their thousands over budget.

Stopping private jets is a tiny tiny tiny sacrifice for people. I for one have never used one, neither has anyone I know. We can safely ban them and only a few people will feel any impact, and it will be a pretty minor one, much less than thousands and thousands of people not having lighting or refrigeration.
Of course there are! But tech is now sealed with screws for which the screwdrivers are not sold! When I was 22 I worked on old BMWs - today that old bmw is mostly driven by computers for which the code is not available. See the installation steps of Command Keen for DOS versus Fortnite for iPAD for another example.

My point is pc enthusiasts is another entrypoint into tech that is becoming esoteric or hermetically sealed.

Anyways the PC market is much bigger than just the enthusiast market (by a lot) - so AMD will be fine!
I don't believe sex stereotypes, what you call "gender roles", should ever be codified in any sort of official paper, no more than the party people vote for or the religion they follow.

However, the sex of an individual who is born without any sort of ambiguity is useful data in a lot of cases, medical of course, and social to determine who has access to what segregated sex facility and so on and so forth.
Yep human brain is just neurons firing or chemicals activating
Too little too late from the BoE. Its almost as if the bull market in Bonds over the last 30 years has left an entire generation of central bankers incapable of reacting decisively to inflationary pressures.
I was saying a designer could use it for first draft ideas, not their client.
Even with zero storage costs, hydrogen cars can't compete with batteries, since it's electricity -> battery -> electric motor vs electricity -> hydrogen -> battery -> electric motor and that extra step takes energy.

It's only on longer distances that it begins to make sense as a tradeoff but even there it's not clear there's much room for it in the market.
This. They really seem to be off on the wrong foot from an honestly and clarity perspective.