skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.aei.org/economics/environmental-energy-economics...

I never said don't do anything.

What I believe is that we need to balance carbon elimination w/ carbon mitigation and not put all our eggs in the elimination basket.

We've got one chance to do this right.
Yet another of many reasons in this thread for why dithering photographs for the web is stupid.
A difference between ChatGPT and Google in this scenario is that Google cannot really synthesise or compose facts/knowledge together. These giga language models are decent at this, if anything they do it a bit too well/much, putting vaguely/somewhat but not quite right things together alot of the times. Which probably has some uses...
At what margin is this true? Is the claim that at all margins, harshness of punishment never has any effect on violent crime? It seems unlikely to me that people would not adjust their behaviour with respect to a type of crime, between it being unenforced vs punished by death.
I get your point, but it actually increases my productivity. Some examples:

I no longer have to worry about things unknowingly becoming undefined or falsey.

When chaining map, filter, and reduce, I know at every step of the way what kind of object I’m working with.

And when I use a dependency, I don’t have to trust possibly outdated documentation but can rely on types.

Just these three things make it 100% worth it for me.
> I guess it's reasonable to assume that there are parts of the universe that are far older and much further away (ie, their light hasn't reached us yet). Which would mean we can never really guess the age of the universe. We can only guess the age of our local area?

But older parts of the universe would emit light that would have more time to travel. So unless space is not continuous, we can confidently say that no older light exists. The main counterfactual is that there is an older universe that is discontinuous with the observable universe (but in what sense is that older universe part of "ours" then?).
This is clearly a case of market failure where the current users of gas are not paying the full costs associated with that use, and where full information on the impacts of using gas are not always known.

For example, between 6 and 19% of current childhood asthma in the US is attributable to gas stove use.[1] What parent would choose a gas stove if they knew there was a 1 in 20 to 1 in 5 chance that they would cause their child to have asthma?

1. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/75
So you took on debt knowning you wouldn't repay it? That's theft. Your whole comment is a weird flex. Enjoy yourself.
Crypto firms Genesis and Gemini charged by SEC with unregistered securities sale
What other way do you regulate this without impacting consumer choice?
For me this is the future of the productive web, documents sharing. Forget the smart apps

The only thing missing to make it perfect is XUL addons
SETI@home and Folding@home had to deal with these problems decades ago - even with a closed-source client people would mod it in questionable ways to cheat the leaderboards.

Any computation can be verified as having been done by, at a minimum, checking for reproducibility. This requires having each work unit be done twice and only issuing credit if both units match. For deep-learning applications "match" is relative: different compute accelerators are going to give different results. So, instead we can insist that all the floating-point outputs on the model have to match up to the first n bits of mantissa. Neural networks are actually really insensitive to small perturbations in their weights, and it's common to train on 16-bit floats to save time.

We can also exploit the loss function itself as a verification mechanism. Generally speaking training is more compute-heavy than inference[0], so we can just run the updated model on the training set and confirm that your trained model is better than the original you were provided with to start from. This will need upper bounds, too - if only to catch people trying to overfit the model to guarantee they get credit.

As for privacy and security... the answer is to not train on private data or things that people do not want to be trained. Period. This isn't even a problem solely with distributed computing. All AI training should be limited to either data provided with consent, or data that's so old that training on it would not cause harm.

Availability is a problem, but not necessarily one that most distributed computing projects actually have to deal with. There is a minor incentive to participate with the credit system; there's a leaderboard for the fastest/highest credit users and teams. And people do compete for those leaderboard slots, because that's effectively ad space.

[0] Model execution.
It's worth watching the whole video! He goes over how the engine works, cooling, coupling, safety features, breaking -- really everything. Fantastic detail.

In terms of being 300 more times efficient -- converting mechanical energy to electricity to drive wheels is always less efficient than direct drive because there is an efficiency loss in going from mechanical to electric back to mechanical energy. So this is about what is a more efficient transmission, because there is also loss if you were to use a mechanical transmission. For trains, mechanical transmissions would be infeasible at these power levels and for such a large number of wheels. That is why electricity is added to the mix -- it's really used as a transmission replacement.

The reason why diesel-electric can be more efficient than a semi is because the huge diesel engine is more efficient than the smaller diesel engine on a semi. It has nothing to do with using the electricity=based transmission on the locomotive versus a mechanical transmission on the semi.
What the heck is their problem?!?! Surely a company 10 times the size of Dell could produce just as nice of a laptop design...

I think a Linux-only laptop is pretty cool, even if it has some tradeoffs.
If you give GPT3 code with a bug in it, and ask it to find the bug, it can't really do that. I'm pretty sure giving it all the data and asking it why things aren't working the way it should, it wouldn't have actual knowledge.

There's a depth to explaining things that GPT still can't do. It's still astonishing, and has completely changed my idea on what AI can do, like write plays with very incredible context (better than most humans!) but there are still major limits.
I don't think this is about politicians duping coal workers, no. And that $1M bonus idea is just a comparison of scale. It's a comparatively tiny industry, which is extremely harmful to the environment and its workers. There are certainly coal-mining towns that exist solely because of what's in the ground, and of course you can't just dig up something else there.

I'm not a "rootless cosmopolitan tech worker," I'm one of the only cousins in my family who isn't blue-collar or in deep poverty. I don't expect this to be painless, but we need to get off of coal for the good of the species.

I don't think the coal workers are being duped. I know that they're in a really tough spot. I think that the coal (and more generally fossil-fuel) executives are lobbying politicians hard, with complete disregard for the long-term impact that we've known very clearly for _decades_ now. Follow the money: politicians and executives are raking it in, and the small population of front-line workers' lives depend on it. Blame the politicians, blame the executives, who make their decisions for personal benefit at great cost to humanity.

Quitting tobacco, as a person, is hard in part because of withdrawal symptoms. The analog for quitting coal, as a nation, is that an industry needs to die. We need good policies to take care of the people whose jobs are impacted, but we techies are in large part responsible for automating away entire industries -- way more than 40k jobs -- and who's there to take care of _those_ workers?
What you're saying doesn't make sense - not even according to the bizzaro theory you mentioned. Even if there was a previous cycle, there would be no galaxies left from it to witness.
I have used PyInstaller for this before, which has the major caveat of it not being a cross-platform solution. You can only build binaries for the platform you're currently on. However, you can work around this by configuring GitHub Actions to build binaries for you for Windows, macOS (x86) and Linux.
Sequencer Party – collaborative music platform, supporting VST-like plugins
Yes, because now I need to install node, probably run npm install, etc…
It's almost like a working tech department and hierarchy might make sense (also includes mean you can delegate some, but I wouldn't)
I think it's a mistake for any DBMS to not support a schema. I bet this hurts Neo4j a lot and no question that this is a mistake. In fact some GDBMS, including Kùzu or TigerGraph supports a schema. I think MemGraph does too, though I might be wrong. Schema allows systems to do many core computations efficiently, most importantly scans of data, which is the backbone operation of DBMSs. In fact, because of this every semi-structured graph model historically has been extended with a schema.

In practice, if you want DBMSs to be performant, you need to structure your data. It's one thing to optionally support a semi-structured model, which is for example great when building initial proof of concepts when you want to develop something quickly. It's another thing to not support putting a structure on the data, which you'll want when you finally take your application to production and will care about performance.
Here is a source showing the electricity generation profile for each state:

https://nei.org/resources/statistics/state-electricity-gener...
You can find it here : https://www.bookclub.ai/AboutUs
The reasoning is that it incentives electricity producers to offer max amount of electricity at low prices without speculating how to maximize profit (as their sell offer will practically speaking have zero effect on the spot price). Nuclear plants, wind power, solar can just offer to sell at everything at around 0c/kWh.

It's claimed that another type of market would cause companies to speculate with their sell offers and thus generate less electricity. It would be interesting to see how this kind of market would work in reality, though.
My theory: It's not an edge but we look onto ourselves back in time. As space and time evolves, it's hard to identify as such.

One day we will recognize that we essentially were looking onto space to see ourselves while starring. The last thing is meant metaphorical.
Nice. But there is so much more work to be done. From a customer perspective, it's great. However, really feel as the entire developer experience is in need of an overhaul (And it seems pretty clear that they know that too). In saying that, even if things don't change, it's still the best option for a lot of merchants.
Attack of the Chatbots: Screenwriters’ Friend or Foe?
Knowing something must be checked, while your primary refuses to check it, what is one's recourse in the US?
Well most physicists assume it is massively bigger than we can see. It is in principle possible that we see nearly all of it, but that would be very coincidental. The only thing we know is that it is at least as big as we can observe, but it could be hundreds of times bigger, 10^100, or even infinite.

There are speculations one could make that imply a minimum size, I recall a reading a prediction of 10^50 times bigger or so.
Hostage laws!
> Sure, dealing with TypeScript can be a hassle, but it is less hassle than dealing with broken software.

Can you think of examples where it's prevented broken software? I would prefer to spend more time writing good unit test coverage which in my experience would catch anything that TypeScript would have caught. I have seen it be more useful for autocomplete and self-documenting code, which I could get using JSDoc or something similar.
Agile is born for that!
The increase should be less than your gas bill. If your utility burns gas to generate your electricity it'll use less gas to heat your house with a heat pump than you'd use in a gas furnace.

BTW gas furnaces don't work without electricity so switching to electric heat reduces you from two points of failure to one.
Yeah, but is it even worth saying that when the response will inevitably be "so what?" by the entrenched anti-MOND orthodoxy?
You could replace "gas stove" above with literally any obsolete product with no impact on how your statement reads - which means it's not a very good argument in favour of gas stoves.

Consider: "I like my sundial. It tells the time well and quickly. It’s not very expensive to operate. I hope my next timekeeping device has similar functionality. Busybodies are never satisfied."
It's like a cow's opinion.
Trust me, there are people who notice the difference. After having tried a good 120Hz display for work I now go out of my way to not need to work on 60Hz displays. It’s more tactile, responsive and immediate. Smoother. Helps focus.
I’m not these metrics are getting to the root problem:

The 13900KS boosts to 6ghz at 320w.

The 13900K boosts to 5.8ghz at 253w.

That’s a 3.4% increase in clock speed at the cost of a 26.5% increase in power. The marginal power cost for the frequency increase is way out of line.
I'm sure TransPennine Express and Avanti West Coast passengers would love that but it's not quite true (yet?)
What DNA test did you take?
I've never met a doctor who refused to check something if I asked for it. If yours does, can you switch?
Its' one of those rare instances where it is both because it is technically correct, while not being practically correct.
I mean, it wouldn't even be hard for them to partner with someone like ASUS, Acer, etc to produce semi-custom hardware.

The strict Clevo-based hardware will always turn me away from buying from them when I can get multiple AMD 6000-based laptops from Asus that run Linux fine (after a wifi-card swap, the MediaTek's they use are useless); and have superior build qualities.
do you drive a car, heat your home, or use shipped goods? that's about the same level of criminality as using bitcoin as far as i can tell.
As i said before, a lot of people expect that writing typescript is as easy as writing js, which is not. I estimate the typescript tax to be around 40-100% more time, especially if you want to do typescript right and not use `any` all over the place.
And besides, typescript is a poor fit for someone who is used to writing highly dynamic, lambda based code, which is one of the main niceities of js.
My guess is that a lot of people with a background in java and c# found themselves writing server side js and were really unconfortable with this paradigm, so they tried again to turn js into what they knew best - an imperative object oriented programming language.
Now, i'm not saying that types are a bad thing, i for one like typescript especially in projects with a lot of people, but, it's funny to see new people struggling to finish a task that should take a few hours in days.
Could you please elaborate on the link of error diffusion to information theory? as far as I understand error diffusion minimizes the quantization error for lower frequencies on the expense of adding more noise to higher frequencies. i.e it seems to be only optimizing for human perception
The article mentions that they're training neural networks to classify these objects. Give it a decade and this kind of high level number crunching will be as common as calculators are today. Transformers will find their place in all of this, and I am confident we will have a breakthrough in a few years regarding novel synthesis.
When you get injured you'll just die right? Ezpeasy.
FWIW, I've tried asking ChatGPT to walk through some thought experiments.

Things like, what happens if I shoot two bullet at c/2 in opposite directions on a train going at c/2? Now suppose, I'm an outside observer. And then trying to introduce quantum gravity.

My thought was that perhaps it could 'reason through'. Unfortunately, it was unable to. Eventually, it said that this is an unsolved problem. In other words, it 'recognized' the thought experiments. Perhaps if you use a phrasing that's not in the literature.

EDIT: Actually, just checked again, and chatgpt can't reason through relativity anymore:

Me: Imagine I'm on a train traveling at half the speed of light. I'm in the middle of a car and I fire bullets going at half the speed of light towards the front and back of the car. Do the bullets arrive at the front and back of the car at the same time?

ChatGPT: No, the bullet fired towards the front of the car will arrive at the front of the car first, while the bullet fired towards the back of the car will arrive at the back of the car later. This is because the front bullet is moving in the same direction as the train and the back bullet is moving in the opposite direction of the train. The relative velocity of the bullet and train will determine the time it takes for the bullet to reach the front or back of the car.
I've heard Nintendo didn't even release an RSP SDK until really late in the N64's life cycle. AFAIK Factor 5 loved writing custom microcode for it.
Again, that problem is better and more cheaply solved with adequate ventilation. And quality household ventilation not only removes natural gas byproducts in the air, it also removes CO2 buildup, dust, cleaning chemicals / VOCs, respiratory viruses, etc. Many benefits for much less cost than a gas -> induction stove retrofit.
Thanks, somehow I've never seen this movie.
One hundred grams of apples (with skin) consists of 86 grams of water and 10.5 grams of sugar (mostly fructose), 2.5 grams of fiber, and negligible everything else. The only vitamin present in apples in non-trivial quantity is vitamin C.

There is as much protein in broccoli as there is fiber in apples.

To get your daily suggested intake of fiber (30 grams), you'd need to eat almost three pounds of apples a day.
Ah. So it's a referential thing?

If we had some absolute zero reference outside the universe - let's call it a great alien petri dish - we probably could find something moving faster than the speed of light, in reference to that absolute, out-of-universe observation point? But measuring that might be hard.

And on the other hand, we might be able to find two objects which are static with reference to the universe, but actually increasing the distance from each other at a speed beyond c or rather 2c, which should be impossible, because the universe between them expands?

This is very weird to think about, but accepting your reference framework - the universe - changes makes it easier.
2010: https://phys.org/news/2010-03-iron-nitrogen-compound-stronge...

Attributes work to "A group of materials physicists from Twin Cities, Minnesota, led by Jian-Ping Wang have found a material comprising 16 iron atoms and two of nitrogen is approximately 18% more magnetic than the predicted limit."

Wang is the CEO of Niron (Nitrogen-Iron)
It's great too -- spiked out a CLI using it in my last company. It was really easy to set up and program in.
A good forum post on the challenges of the "obra dinn" dither effect in 3d.

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...
I've often wondered if matter from another galaxy is behaving the same way it does here on the macroscopic level, but varies at the atomic level.
Chollet's argument isn't about AGI or research progress. It's about business and real world impact of LLMs. He outlines two cases:

1. Bull case. LLMs become a kind of general speech/language interface to data.

2. Bear case. LLMs continue to be used primarily to automate customer support agents and help marketing people write blog posts, and within a few years become seen as a blockchain-like bubble: cool tech, not much real world impact.

So you're not making an opposing case, because you're responding to a strawman argument that the article isn't about.
> To repeat, curtailment is not a problem and does not need to be solved.

Agree 95%. The only valid question involving curtailment is how much must occur at each individual turbine or farm to make it a bad investment.
Is it legal for the CIA to spy on American citizens?
> I don't see why a site can't prompt a user to store a file in a user-specified location.

This is already possible with the file system access API. Clearing site data has no impact on these files. But you do have to re-grant permission every time you reload the page.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
Market forces won't work because either every house in a subdivision gets a gas hookup or none do, and that cost is going to be bundled into your house price whether you use it or not.
A lot of the enterprise requirements he talked about add no actual value to the product; they're just checkboxes on an RFP that are required.

Theoretically applying all of those requirements to your product might make your product more secure, scalable, or reliable. It'll also make your product harder to maintain, harder to test, and harder to improve.

Many of those requirements are there because vendors put them there. If you're part of the RFP process (and you should be if you're actually selling to that sort of customer) you should be actively pushing back on requirements that you feel are pointless...making them optional instead of required, or at the very least providing a delivery date instead of delivering day 1.

In the enterprise space there's no guarantee you'll get the contract; to an extent the decision more political than technical. You should do a brutal assessment of your actual chances before engaging in any work implementing their requirements before the contract is signed. And since the sales cycle will be at least 6-9 months you'll have plenty of time to figure things out.

Lastly, if your product is highly desired the "requirements" can be bent or delayed. They're guidelines and can be overridden, if you have the right relationships.
Does anyone know if there is a software that can open other software, manipulate that software, and then take the results of that manipulation and do other things with it?

I'm envisioning something like being able to tell the managing software to take your most recent photo, apply a filter to it, resize it with Waifu2x and then post it to your instagram or something similar.

Or to tell it to open Krita, make a line drawing of a character based on a photo, then use that as the input for stable diffusion 16 times and show me the results in a new folder.

I'm guessing the rudiments of such a system exist but that the control and orchestration element is missing.
You're really not going to like it
Beautiful! One suggestion: it would be helpful to put the original image first, so that people have context before seeing it dithered.
Every single link on that page is dead.
All hydropower that can be used is already used, and without neodymium magnets (which were commercialized in 1982) wind power doesn't work well.
The smoking and sugar consumption rate have both been declining in your country (Poland).[1][2]

So your statement that the tax is ineffective seems at best unfounded, and at worst, entirely false. It’s possible that there are other causes for the decrease, but you simply can’t say nothing has changed.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1038507/poland-share-of-...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1197501/poland-monthly-c...
I like using Typescript in general, but sometimes it becomes painfully obvious that it's Javascript with type checking added to it at a later time. So I actually kind of which there was a language I could use instead which is typed from the ground up and requires less boilerplate, no painful syntax and provides more extensive type checking. But of course the major downside would be that it becomes hard to mix that with plain Javascript.. Also due to its popularity I think this is the least of all evils.