skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what your point is.

The very first IPCC report (1.5°C) completely ignored permafrost.[^0] They basically admitted they didn't have data on it so they will just ignore the effect altogether. The IPCC reports that followed have all been increasingly grim. In large part, imo, because they stopped ignoring permafrost

[^0]: IPCC chapter 2:

> The reduced complexity climate models employed in this assessment do not take into account permafrost or non-CO2 Earth system feedbacks, although the MAGICC model has a permafrost module that can be enabled. Taking the current climate and Earth system feedbacks understanding together, there is a possibility that these models would underestimate the longer-term future temperature response to stringent emission pathways (Section 2.2.2).
"X as Y" is another boolean operator of pseudo-journalism, means two unrelated things stitched together to get more clicks.
In comparison, it's about $30-40 per 1 million view for Youtube shorts.
The first step is to reduce emissions, then stop them all together and finally sequester them to return to pre-climate-change level. I'd welcome all solutions along that spectrum.
A great list to start with yet there are still several items missing from their projected speculations. As a core software architect and founder who has built multiple acquired ecommerce systems prior to and since the dotcom bust long ago I feel it prudent to emphasize to those that lack the experience to see what is happening yet again in an even more critical modern societal industry. The coming energy opportunities for those entrepreneurs among us here that possess the appropriate subject matter knowledge across hardware and software is significant, I cannot state it enough, “extremely significant”. Should you have the tenacity and drive to create and build something which others state is not possible then there is no time like the present to start and prove them wrong as every living person NEEDS energy. Who knows, maybe along the way you even enjoy the journey and make a little income too.
And the other two halves are gRPC and GraphQL...

Perhaps a Monty Python Shoe vs. Gourd reference would illustrate...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9mfZbTFbk&t=44s
It depends on who you follow. I try to follow mostly technical people who post about technical things, or other musings. If they tweet too much about politics I unfollow them, no matter how important they are otherwise. If you do this, you get a high signal to noise ratio, but Twitter unfortunately lacks in the depth of discussion. And also it's not very social as you say, it's mainly a way for me to listen in on conversations between experts rather than as a way for me to chime in personally.
Hopefully YC stops investing in those companies to help the environment
Do you actually have to log every 15 minutes during work or you can log the time at the end of the day that accounts for every 15 minutes? I used to have a script that basically just fill out timesheets.
>Unfortunately, mine has no builtin CD-ROM, floppy drive, ethernet, serial, or parallel port

So it's like modern laptops? ;-)
please no AI is advanced enough to tackle vertical centering in CSS.
I really think there's likely to be gigantic class action lawsuits in the near future, and I support them. People did not consent for their data and work to be used in this way. In many cases people have already demonstrated using custom tailored prompts that these models have been trained on copyrighted works that are not public domain.
>ChatGPT can't enter the equation then.

In a few years, ChatGPT will be conducting these interviews.
I think that is what most people want.. However, I don't know how to make that self-sufficient let alone profitable .. People want free and free means ads and ads means click-bait/faux outrage/addiction.

The old model was this (MySpace) but you had to go look at people .. They didn't come to you and it wasn't addictive enough or profitable enough.
> This is unfortunately yet another gendered imposition, with women feeling like they have to adhere to a beauty standard that comes from the male gaze.

Women who are trans feel this pressure enforced against them with public humiliation, overt misogyny, and violence.

> It doesn't help either when males who opt-in to this beauty standard for their own pleasure get praised as if they are being good women.

Trans women aren't males and don't opt-in to the male gaze. Are you referring to drag queens? There's a more nuanced conversation to be had there, but not in the current climate of terroristic acts against transgender people. Drag is often a critique of gender roles.

There is nothing grotesque about femininity or a trans woman expressing it.
Nuclear reactors are expensive because we don’t build any of them.

Solar and wind occupy way more land for the same power production and can’t produce baseload power without battery storage systems that cost 5x as much.
Be careful what you wish for cause you’ll accidentally get doors with one of those ghastly Genuine People Personalities.
I mean, nothing would stop you from making a fake identity, and friending other anonymous people, and posting spicy memes. But you can do that on mastodon today, right? This is for the cases where you want to prove your identity. If most people use it that way, then the anonymous people would be little subnets that are either separate from the main graph or connected by only a few nodes. Typical users would* have dozens of people vouching for them, who each have dozens of people vouching for them, etc, which is strong evidence that they're who they say they are.

* in some hypothetical future where this gets made and is wildly successful
"Renewables need to be supplemented" is a very different claim from "the only thing that would move the needle ... is reliable nuclear energy" (emphasis added).

Nuclear energy can't solve the problem on its own either, because you still need plants to deal with rapid changes in demand. We shouldn't be working towards a silver bullet, we should be using a lot of different technologies together to solve the problem.
Import Linter is probably a better choice for Python since it’s free https://pypi.org/project/import-linter/
Can you answer this question first: Why would HN build a social network together?
And? Literally everyone else runs this same risk who uses an airline. Maybe if home boy doesn't want to get tracked, he should stop using a means of locomotion where every flight plan is a matter of public record.

Zero sympathy here. I'm actually more upset that there appears to be a "hush hush, pay to anonymize" program, and that it isn't rolled out as a default. Billionaires do not deserve exclusions from the baseline risk profiles everyone else endures.
> Not really, but if you're taking a class, "install this plugin before we go on" is the same level of insurmountable as "please install vs code so that we're all using the same editor even if you have a different preferred editor".

and as someone who sometimes have people installing VS Code as part of classroom settings, I can tell you that this can easily become a 2 hours ordeal + some help mails after the class when you have 30 students who are entirely computer-illiterate
Tickets are rarely correct as written. Is the to AI going understand that and conduct meetings to hash out the missing details and corrections?
I'm surprised this sort of post is even allowed to be discussed
s/a competing standard/a gated community/
HN is rich and detached from reality in other parts of the world. People still have to manage their savings to buy storage in non rich world.
I don’t know if you’re joking or not.
It is actually not fine for society to be "critical", when it means discarding the metaethics of reducing suffering in favor of the metaethics that flows out of believing that their interpretation of a 2000-year-old book is the absolute truth.

What percentage of detransitioners have been taken in by anti-trans panic and social contagion? What percentage will regret detransitioning? There are already quite a few examples: Elisa Shupe and Ky Schevers, who were both politically active in anti-trans movements, later retransitioned (and/or found a gender identity that works better for them) and regret the time they spent organizing against trans people.
I use QuiteRSS and use the filters to increase the signal to noise ratio.
There are some cars coming out next year that are more energy efficient than a Tesla, like the Hyundai Ioniq 6, but I don't know of any currently widely available vehicles that are.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/078 is a good overview of the statistical properties of SHA hashes.

Basically after ~10 rounds the output is always indistinguishable from randomness which means hamming distance is what you'd expect (about half the bits differ) between the hashes of any two bitstreams.
I would first create a script that runs a web server that performs as expected (serving files, and handling dynamic functionality in the script or in a perl module, or by paths to cgi scripts as needed). I rolled by own for packing my personal http media server (MHFS), but there's plenty of HTTP servers on CPAN. I'm not sure which one's are best.

Then, I would create a custom build of APPerl using Perl::Dist::APPerl 's apperlm and modifying the apperl-project.json to pack in the script, CPAN modules, cgi files, and the static resources into a APPerl binary. When bundled into APPerl, the script can read the files embedded in APPerl from the /zip path.

Perl::Dist::APPerl (with tutorial on building apps): https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Dist::APPerl

MHFS's APPerl packaging config: https://github.com/G4Vi/MHFS/blob/master/apperl/apperl-proje...
We've updated the title with a representative sentence from the article which makes this clearer.
It is not a huge ethical issue. The artists have always been at risk of someone learning their style if they make their work available for public viewing.

We've just made "learning style" easier, so a thing that was always a risk is now happening.
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> The issue is too systemic at this point

Ah, but there are also systemic issues that prevent Congress from doing the things you'd like them to do. For instance, Congress is vulnerable to money. Journals have money they can use to lobby. Are there other players with money and incentive to lobby for the "burn it all down" side? Which mountain of systemic issues is easier to climb? Sounds like an empirical question.

Solving the problem by either approach is going to be really really complicated and full of compromises you won't like, and anyone who talks like their solution is super simple and obvious should be read with skepticism.
Too bad it's paywalled
I think distcalculator is buggy:

"Distance between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA is 99 miles.

If average speed of your car will be standard for this route between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA and road conditions will be as usual, time that you will need to arrive to Los Angeles, CA will be 1 hour."
Perhaps you could explain what that means, given REST is defined fairly well in Fielding's dissertation, and fits in quite well with pushing data around with the HTTP method indicating the operation. Wat else?
While it gets the agree/disagree wrong most of the time, I do like that it makes my replies more pleasant and verbose. I used to write very very short replies but now can write a bit more to help.

It really tho tries to agree to everything. I dont do calls so I just have to change a few words. I like that the sentiment is respectful. Makes me sound warmer in reply.
McMurdo has a deepwater port, and a lot of fuel storage tanks as a part of its facilities. Tankers and can just drive up in summer and offload large quantities of fuel. It's not like the South Pole station where everything must be flown in. And the "waste heat" from the generators making electricity is routed throughout the base and used for heating.

Not to mention almost a megawatt of wind turbines in the near constant wind.

A study on the feasibility of electric vehicles had the expected cost of electricity per kWh at the base lower than California residential rates.
It's the design musings of a non-designer who barely considers the actual discipline of design, let alone marketing. "This site suits my immediate needs best it must be best," is as good of a design practice as a naive non-developer slapping together some PHP and saying "well it runs great for me on my laptop so it must run great everywhere else."

Someone who'd name a potentially customer-facing piece of software "Medusa" probably isn't considering users needs nearly as much as they assume. If a non-technical user saw an error with the word "Medusa" in it pop up on a website they just handed their credit card info to, even if things go fine, that's going to generate a lot of anxiety. On the business side of things, stuff like that actually matters.
This works because songs are images in time. FFT analysis does not care.
Consent isn't required if they're making their work available for public viewing.
We should all care about bad developers because if they make bad products sooner or later you or I will use one! Bad developers are the ones who store your password credentials and personal information in plain text. We should all care about making it easier to do things the right way because then the right way happens more often.

This is one of those things that are obvious in the specific, but we're talking in abstract terms.
We plan to remove 4 Gt of atmospheric methane but the YC terms are too high for us. We're just funding it the old fashioned way.
You seem to be under the impression that real life access is the indicator of closeness of relationship. It is usually not.

Out of my set of close friends the vast majority I have never met in person. Most family I might add are in entirely separate states. Most of my IRL friends no longer live near me.
Unrelated, but I'm wishing to learn lisp myself. I started with Cloture since I have experience with the Java ecosystem. What resources do you recommend for learning Lisp?
The Apple religion seems to have devolved down to simple classism. Back in the 80s, Apple really pushed the "us vs them" othering angle but now Apple is for everyone, as long as you can afford it.
> making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done.

I'd reframe this to: making a living from your art is far more difficult than making money from programming.

> also be able to do the dumb, simple things most programmers do for their jobs?

I'm all for Ai automating all the boring shit for me. Just like frameworks have. Just like libraries have. Just like DevOps have. Take all the plumbing and make it automated! I'm all for it!

But. At some point. Someone needs to take business speak and turn it into input for this machine. And wouldn't ya know it, I'm already getting paid for that!
Sharing this not to say it’s true, but it’s my understanding of the EU’s biomass numbers.

As I understand it, a substantial portion of the biomass is wood pellets. These are harvested from the American south causing deforestation, are transported over the ocean with non-negligible emissions, and then burned in non-clean stacks releasing carbon, but they are accounted for as green. So you get a dirty burn, dirty transportation, and deforest a region as part of these numbers.

A quick search turned up this article: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/07/us/american-south-bi...

Its hard for me to accept that this narrative is correct, but I've struggled to find anything that explains how EU's biomass is net good for the environment. Do you have any insight?
I get the same results from asking for code. Near 100% success with an initial demo, and then pretty tragic performance when making a series of changes to actually fit the concept. I got it to write 3d rotation code, and to switch to using rotors instead of quaternions but when I asked it to rewrite the combine_rotors() method it rewrote it to combine Enigma rotors. I explained its error and it apologized but just wasn't able to go back to the original code and work with it anymore.

Interviewing is going to be shaken up but I think some methods are more timeless. I've been giving the subject code instead of asking them to write it for a while now. Largely because I wanted to talk more and watch them type less.

We start by discussing the coding challenge guidelines and I leave them vague. They need to understand the goal and what I've left out and suggest those guidelines themselves. Once we agree though, I give them the code. "Here's what's running now."

Then I update the goal and we discuss changes. I get them to "whiteboard" certain things, like what a query looks like with their proposed changes or whatever, and we discuss big-O, etc. This, imho, is how whiteboarding is actually used - not to write whole programs but to provide examples and pick them apart.

I feel that this would work even if they were using an AI in another window. We're trying to select for developers with common sense and domain knowledge, and who can clearly discuss engineering tradeoffs. Actually making the changes (the coding itself) was a big part of the job and that's decreasing, but imho all the other requirements remain. They'll still need to know how to handle the issues I talked about above, of trying to get the model to write the right code!
That is a hard fight to have, since it is the same for people. An artist will have watched some Disney movie, and that could influence their art in some small way. Does Disney have a right to take a small amount from every bit of art which they produce from then on? Obviously not.

The real answer is AI are not people, and it is ok to have different rules for them, and that is where the fight would need to be.
I won't touch public-facing Drupal/Joomla/Wordpress/Rails anymore. The security vulnerabilities are too frequent and I value my time.
Had one paper with 5 reviewers: 4 thought it was pretty good or awesome, the 5th not... With about 7 pages' worth of criticism that were mostly invalid. I resubmit, with modifications. That same week a paper of virtually the same study (not plagiarized, just coincidentally the same study) is published by a heavyweight 6 hours up the road from us. So reviewer 5 says, even if the modifications are good enough, this has already been done by a bigger, better researcher and is therefore not original. Paper gets rejected outright.

So my supervisor does some digging, and guess who reviewer #5 just so happened to be...

Frack academia
As a fan of psychology, psychometrics are really frustrating. IMO they are given way too much weight in pop-science. There are a number of subfields within psychology that are doing amazing work, building out theories of behavior, cognition, etc. that builds well on top of each other, inspire theories in different sub-field etc. But psychometrics fit nowhere. Personality types and IQ does not explain behavior nearly to the same extent as simple environmental manipulation.

A couple of examples: People are likelier to cheat on a test if there is a visible cheater in the room regardless of how you score on a personality test. And you are on average quicker to spot a red square among red circles if you have been primed to spot a red square in a previous round, regardless of your IQ.

IMO the whole field of psychometrics is a scientific dead end. There are use cases for psychological testing (particularly in neuropsychology and as a diagnosis tool in psychiatry), but in general these tests are there to support a theory, not the whole basis for the theory.
Just means the clathrate gun hypothesis was correct, global warming is now a runaway unstoppable change, and we will be on track for 5 degrees of warming. What's there to talk about? /s
In my experience you can almost always do much better buying a full computer on a good sale than buying components and building it yourself.
Makes sense. Do you think a public musician today might have the experience of "“The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent", though?

It still seems to me that something has changed here, for the worse. That it's very unlikely that such a public figure today could discover that despite their fears"the public" was largely indifferent and unconcerned about it. sassyonsunday below, who I was replying to, seems to agree at least in part too. Which doesn't necessarily conflict with anything you said.

Anyway, either it is or not, we can have different takes, and we're not going to work out the answer here!
Are you certain that it’s “low IQ” that’s causing these failures. Are you failing despite working hard? Because at 23, you’re still young. You have so much more to live.
But very few do so for money.
Maybe next up is a model that generates Piet code

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
It would be nice if your pages are more tl;dr friendly than everything looking like part of a text book which exceeds the attention span to understand the page who's just getting into it.
I find it tiresome empty snark.

Better batteries are a really big deal. Is every promising technology gonna work out? Of course not. But there's valid reasons to be interested and excited. I like that these stories appear on HN so I can keep a rough understanding of how research is progressing. And usually there's some comments here from people who know the field a lot better. But to find those gems I have to scroll past a whole crowd of people posting this self congratulatory snark.
Various ports in Adriatic back when I was sailing around.

It is not translatable to english I'm afraid. Most probably UK/US guys have their own variants, but I don't know them. Something like rhythmic slang taken to 11. But you have to have a ton of background to fully appreciate the art.
Honest question, what would make it illegal? Charities pushing for social change is 100% a thing and I don't think it's limited to such a vague concept as "positive" social change.
Solving Grammar’s Greatest Puzzle
Reach out to the Beatstars CEO. He was looking for an AI play for his music producers marketplace. Probably solid B2B lead there.
According to their December newsletter, they project that point will occur in 2027 without subsidies and 2024 with the subsidies provided by the Inflation Reduction Act.
You'll find its nearly impossible to imagine a world without capitalism.

Capitalism is particularly good at weaponizing our own ideas against us. See large corporations co-opting anti-capitalist movements for sales and PR.

Pepsi-co was probably mad that they couldn't co-op "defund the police", "fuck 12", and "ACAB" like they could with "black lives matter".

Anything near and dear to us will be manipulated into a scientific formula to make a profit, and anything that cannot is rejected by any kind of mainstream media.

See: Capitalist Realism and Manufactured Consent(for how advertising effects freedom of speech in any media platform).
Algorithm interview and competitive programming type questions are probably some of the easiest for GPT to solve because there are a massive number of problems and solutions publicly available for training.

The real benefit of AI is somewhat shown in this paper, it effectively solved the problems through brute force generating millions of possible solutions. For real world problems it would be interesting to let GPT generate a bunch of different solutions and push them into a test environment and see which works best.

The biggest problem I see is black swan events where AI coded systems work great until something goes wrong and no human truly knows how all the pieces fit together.