skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it turns out that those credits are a scam, then we know who sold them and who bought them.

This falls under the category of "not even wrong." The problem with carbon offsets is that they are irrevocable. Company A buys offsets from Provider Z. They do so because Z offers them for the lowest price -- say, alleged reforesting in the Brazilian Amazon. Years later, it turns out that no trees were planted, and Z was a scam from the beginning.

Company A doesn't care! Carbon offsets are irrevocable under every scheme. A got to produce about as much CO2 as they were going to anyway (not much less, because the fake carbon offsets they purchased were artificially cheap bc they were a fraud), and Provider Z gets away with it bc they live in a developing country with poor enforcement of regulations.

As long as offsets are irrevocable, there will be an inevitable race to the bottom to sell cheap, fake offsets. Carbon offsets are a great example of a fake solution that economists love but do nothing to solve the underlying problem.

(I personally favor a carbon tax.)
E-bikes an average end up being greener and healthier[1] than regular bikes because they get used so much more often, and the ultimate eco goal is to replace car trips rather than make the biking itself as green as possible. This is because they expand the possible destinations for a bike that fit into someone's daily life in a couple of possible ways:

1) The user doesn't want to be sweaty at the destination e.g. work, dinner

2) The user doesn't want to be too tired at the destination e.g. park, gym

3) the destination is too far away for their level of fitness

4) the destination takes too long to get to (a fit person can go much faster on an e-bike)

(3) and (4) are especially important in the US where bicyclists have to contend with the distances created by car-centric design.

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/08/11/electric-bike-riders-more-exe...
Ask HN: Making videos related to GPT-3, what would you like to see
For example:

* A video guide showing how to make a basic embeddings powered web app that does Q&A on a specific document source

* A video guide to using Gpt-Index

* A video guide to using langchain

* A video reviewing different utilities like langchain and gpt-index and dust.tt

What'd be most helpful?
Best of luck I hope you find a new opportunity soon.
This is the same method OpenAI uses to get ChatGPT to keep context between prompts in a session. It feeds the entire conversation back in for each new prompt
> The interface is fine and there are far bigger problems -- problems related to actual functionality as opposed to prettiness -- that desperately need work.

You may want to read the blog post again. This isn't just about a new UI, it's about overhauling the codebase in general, so that they can improve all aspects.
Does that import have side effects? Are we really worried about adding an entry to the imports dict if not? Or put differently, what cases do we actually get a negative effect from just importing at the top?
You mean like laying people off so the company doesn’t go out of business?

Whether the company “cares” about me is irrelevant. I need for them to put money in my account at the agreed upon intervals. I have family that “cares” about me.

Thought experiment: if the company you worked for that you thought “cared about you” told you they couldn’t pay you would that care be reciprocated and would you work for free? A 30% pay cut?
Fortune now confirming: https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/github-is-laying-off-10-of-st...
>it was not just him against the Church, as is often framed. It was him against the entirety of scientific knowledge and other scientists of the day

It really really wasn't. There were already models of the solar system that had the sun as the central element. Often they just weren't as good at predicting the movement of the stars because the prevailing mathematical models were very overfitted to the (bad) data, so it always looked closer. Really it had just been refined very well.

Some things to keep in mind: The scientific method didn't exist, the idea of representing the world as mathematical models to predict things and understand physics was barely there, and the primary purpose of the mathematical models of the solar system was to make astrology better. Nobody really cared about whether the world was helio or geo centric, because the idea of deferring to mathematical models was not considered the gold standard we have today.
In a system where private property ownership is only specially delegated to a handful of people or organizations, those few privileged people or orgs ARE part of the government. In a system where everybody has that right by default, that's different.

An ostensibly independent organization that has been granted a special right to collect a tax is an example of the former, not the latter.
Wonder if it's meant to be like it is with professional sports, where players on a visiting team often have to pay taxes in the state of the home team.
There is a point at which typical families aren’t equipped to care effectively for elderly.
It's just the potential. Something feels in the right direction. Perhaps it will only remain a tool and it will never write the next Infinite Jest, but the next David Foster Wallace will certainly use its potential to become a better writer, just in the same manner auto-spellcheckers make me a better writer.

Incidentally, David Foster Wallace would have loved ChatGPT: finally, he no longer needed to write, he could now dedicate all his time to watching television [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ujr9gi3wk
Imagine yourself a hideous quasimodo with nothing to lose. Proceed to
proposition every woman you encounter with promises of happy matrimony.
You will eventually convert someone dumb and desperate enough. And if
you do it long enough, you'll even snag an Esmeralda or two.
I got to play around with one of these during my stint as a solder monkey for the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab back in the early 00s. Lots of fun, worth trying out. It was, of course, way more expensive than a setup in the early 20s is.

EDIT: Found it: https://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/sandscape
I've been slowly remodeling my tiny condo. Drywall, plumbing, simple electrical, windows, painting, flooring, etc. Teaching myself most of the stuff just off YouTube. It is a lot of manual labor work which is exhausting and gives me a lot of respect for the trade crafts, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit and slowly accumulating all the tools as well. None of this is rocket science.

In the back of my mind, I think of flipping houses as something to do if I ever get laid off from my tech job. I look at places coming up for sale on Zillow that were obvious flips and they all look like the parts all came straight out of Ikea / HomeDepot (and usually the most ugly stuff to choose from).
Can you give some examples of bad format?
I mean thunderbird is already running on an entire browser stack. Wouldn't electron be similar to what thunderbird is already using?
Do you feel bad for the minimum wage and non w2 people whose jobs you automate away being in tech?

I’m a highly paid tech employee and idk it’s different feeling bad for someone who lost their $10/hr job vs someone making 400k tc
One reason is that some ML libraries are really slow to import, so you don't want to put them at top-level unless you definitely need them. E.g. if I had just one function that needed to use a tokenizer from the Transformers library, I wouldn't want to eat a 2 second startup cost every time:

In [1]: %time import transformers
CPU times: user 3.21 s, sys: 7.8 s, total: 11 s
Wall time: 1.91 s
You’re trying to debate reality of the culture war issues but I’m literally just commenting that the idea that one political extreme have captured all institutions is an extremist view, because multiple institutions have arguably been captured by multiple different political perspectives. Please don’t try to drag me into which political perspective is valid or not.
Train and Deploy NanoGPT with Model and Fly
Seems like a golden opportunity for a community owned and operated Internet provider.
Really dumb question, but can't the doctor just ignore your conscious informed denial of consent for nutrition?

I had a cop completely fabricate a story I had ingested a bunch of drugs and he dragged me to the hospital in cuffs. I was stone cold sober and they documented I was fully alert and oriented and had denied consent, but I got cussed out by a nurse for denying consent and then she started touching and performing medical care on me anyway. I complained to the state board and my complaint was summarily denied on the basis the nurse can do whatever she likes as medical care providers actually do not have any legal duty to respect consent of patients, even when there is no court order.

I really walked away with that with the conclusion you have precious little choice over your medical care, and your care providers will do whatever they like and you have little choice even to deny it.
Just in case someone want's to try it I've did some work to allow build on linux (Ubuntu 18.04 and probably others too), you can see it here https://github.com/mingodad/cyclone .
I do so my .net dev on macOS and Linux including backend, front end and xam mobile dev. No issues.

Rider is your friend.
Perhaps I’m missing your point, but isn’t that what they do with their API right now? You pay for text completions, and can fine-tune their model with your data.
I was laid off in November. I've applied to dozens, probably hundreds of jobs. I've had two interviews (one bigtechco) and a YC startup. Both did not work out as they went with more senior candidates. I decided to take a different approach and tailor my resume to each job and narrow the types of jobs I applied too. This has led to an increase in recruiter calls and I'm setting up interviews now.

However it does seem there is still a lot of flux, especially with larger companies who are still trying to allocate headcount. I've had calls with Google that were basically like: "we're interested, but we don't know HC yet, let's circle back in 3 weeks".
Ask HN: How come no one makes 7“ Android tablets anymore?
The 2013 Nexus 7 is my favorite Android device of all time. It was so cherished that, almost a decade later, it is still receiving official LineageOS nightly updates, and has effectively served as the "reference" Android device all these years. Many people are still using theirs daily for ebooks, youtube, web browsing, responding to emails, legacy Android gaming, etc. It is possibly the only example of an Android device significantly outlasting its equivalent iDevice.

And yet, it seems devices of this form factor have vanished from the market. Aside from maybe Amazon Kindle devices, which all come with their share of showstopping issues, there are no options for those who want a decent economy-premium mini-tablet with community hype, love and support. If you want an 11" tablet, you're in luck; every company is pumping out multiple each year, that all compete with each other without really offering anything to differentiate themselves. But 7" tablets are seemingly nonexistent.

Did the rise of big phones kill the market for the paperback-book form factor of tablet? Does nobody want a modern Nexus 7 anymore, like they used to?
> Governments have access to many more mechanisms of wealth transfer and commerce than any average person does. The only special thing about crypto is that it's also available to the general public.

So what exactly other mechanisms do they have that are not sanctioned or radioactive? Duffel bags of cash, like another comment suggested? Please don't be ridiculous about a serious topic.

> Kicking out a government resembles a coup scenario, and if the next government doesn't want to be democratic, you are SOL.

Yes, that's a bit of a gamble. Perhaps another democratic country could help establish a democratic government (it worked in Ukraine) instead of doing the opposite of that and providing technology that enriches the authoritative one.
Best thing I've seen all day. The design is glorious.
I was curious about how this works on my computer. Looks like these folders are defined in a config file and it’s possible to add custom folders:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories

No way to add unique icons for them though:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/124714/custom-xdg-dir-icon
> You don't think any part of him is sour?

Did you not read the article? I wouldn't be sour about it either, if I were 75. Someone was bound to surpass you; that is life.
it takes too long to run
gpt3 =/= gpt

https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised...
Yeah I mean what's so bad about half that pay and living somewhere affordable?
Why are we ok with “AI is equally as bad as the current bad thing?” Even then, it falls flat because the average person doesn’t understand this as well as you do. There will be some severe consequences because of this.
Mailchimp lets you use GPT-3 [Instagram]
Mailchimp will be using ChatGPT & GPT-3 technology to create email-based prompts with play-by-play highlights in real-time and tweeting them out on their Twitter account.
What exactly are the equivalencies between coding and driving a truck - is it supposed to relate an industry potentially ripe for automation or just an "expected" service many people rely on?

I find this all hilarious because just like 5 years ago so many were quoting Bill Gates saying "programming knowledge will be the literacy of the 21st century" and it depends. If people are all so genuinely interested in tech and coding in the first place what's the problem?
One thing I would point out is where I live, you can only get morphine via pills if you elect in-home hospice. My father was terminally ill with cancer and chose to do in home hospice and he was always constantly in pain and uncomfortable despite having a enough drugs to fill the briefcase from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I think he would have been better off in a hospital or hospice facility where could have had a morphine drip. He refused to go to the hospice facility and even refused simple comforts like a recliner or hospital-style bed. It really painful to watch him slowly die and be always in pain. Hopefully when it's my time to go I can elect for lethal injection and not be a burden. I do not want to die in pain like my father.
Who is proposing the use of ChatGPT, in its current form, for search?

Bing search is not just "ChatGPT" added next to bing search results. Please look up how it works, it is quite sophisticated and (imo) designed well.

I have access to it; would you like a demo?
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Is this in addition to the 10,000 people Microsoft announced in it's layoffs 3-weeks ago?
> Yet literally every big tech company I can think of has had similar levels of layoffs. If these were Gitlab-specific problems you wouldn't expect the slowdowns and layoffs to hit everyone.

Many might just take the opportunity because "everyone else" is doing it.
> There is a reason why all the people above ask to get paid a whole lot in order to once again 'perform the classics'. The exception is the other way around.

Didn't know about that, but it explains a certain dynamic I've been wondering about. You go to a concert of a group that's been around for some years, maybe decades. You come there for the classics - the songs you've heard many years ago and grew to appreciate, the texts that you found some meaning in at some point in life. But the band plays new pieces, one after other, all inferior, all being not the thing you came for. You look around, you notice the facial expressions and body language of others in the audience. You know they came in for the classics too. The performers surely know that too. Yet they keep playing the new stuff, throwing in an older piece every now and then, seemingly oblivious to the meaning of applause and standing ovation they get each time.

I've assumed it's mostly that the group really wants to try new things. But it may just be that they're tired playing the old ones. Still, it's a conflict of expectation, and why I personally don't go to concerts much.
More and more software does not necessarily require more and more developers to write it.
An open source changelog inspired by Linear
Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It
Yeah, I worried about this, which is why I didn't tell anyone I was interviewing with that I'd been laid-off.

Laid off in August, new job by end of September. That being said, it was much tougher than other times, and I have 10+ years experience in data science (which most candidates in this field won't have). I also interview well, which helped a lot.
New York here. Been just over 2 weeks since getting laid off. I'm getting calls from recruiters and have interviews lined up, but it's been tough.
True. I work remotely in a different state from my company's HQ, but I travel to the office for about a week once a quarter. I actually feel safer with this arrangement than if my HQ were local, because everyone around me is slowly getting forced back into the office. First on an as-needed basis, then one mandatory day per week, then three days a week. Most big companies will be back to five mandatory days a week soon enough, it seems.
Yup, pretty much this. We all know who wears the pants in the NATO relationship.
System tools weren't written in Java that much.

People used Java, but mostly for GUI apps. Not command line tools.
> they were forced to for sure

So why not explain the reason?

Have people been threatened? (That might explain the lack of explanation)

Have they been warned that traders are bypassing KYC, or not doing it properly? (But why not say that)

These are person-to-person trades; the website is effectively just an introduction agency. I don't see what angle a "state-level attack" could use, other than bullying.

I don't use LocalBitcoins, I rely on LocalMonero. Can I expect this to happen to LM too?
How is "not even top 25 of all time" an argument. What kind of metric is that, why is that a requirement. A top 100 of all time would be a flop now?
Is there a single company anywhere that doesn't intermittently layoff employees? Like, I think its good, of course, to analyze and criticize, but why particularize it so case by case in all these threads? It just feels like a lot of missing the forest for the trees.

If you were studying an animal that has been shown in all prior research to intermittently eat its offspring, you wouldn't then stop at each animal and ask "why is this animal doing this?" You would start to generalize as a good scientist and understand that this is just how these animals sustain themselves. You wouldn't moralize the animals, you would understand they are apart of a deterministic system which requires this.

If you have a problem with layoffs and workers being chronically undermined for the sake of the bosses, then you have problem with our current economic order, not this or that company.
I'm in ML and I would also like an answer to this question.

I've seen a lot of Python people sprinkle imports all over the place in their code. I suspect this is a bad habit learned from too much time working in notebooks where you often have an "oh right, I need XXX library now" and just import it as you need it.

The aggressive aliasing I do get since in DS/ML work it's very common to have the same function do slightly different things depending on the library (standard deviation between numpy and pandas is a good example)

But I personally like all of my imports at the top so I know what this code I'm about to read is going to be doing. I do seem to be in the minority in this (and would be glad to be correct if I'm make some major error).
It seems to be a specific part of SeaweedFS, i.e. the "filer+client" components. It will use a database or key-value store for metadata and a blob store for data, and expose that as a filesystem.

The difference is that SeaweedFS has its own blob store ("volume server") while JuiceFS uses S3 (or some other protocols). SeaweedFS also decouples the server ("filer server") from the client ("mount" command or client libraries) while JuiceFS only has a single process, so the machine where you mount the filesystem talks to the metadata and data backends directly; this means you can't mount a filesystem on an untrusted machine if I understand correctly (you need full R+W access to the backends from the machine where you mount).

You can see it as similar to `rclone mount`, which allows you to mount a remote S3 bucket locally. The difference is that JuiceFS is much faster and filesystem-like, by storing the metadata in a separate faster database and by chunking your files in the backend rather than storing files unchanged in the bucket.
I'll have to do imports to change backends for matplotlib sometimes
Interesting. How good is the coffee? I was about to come at you for being too lazy to fill up a coffee pot with some water and grounds and hit "Brew" but then I read again and you're talking about _good_ coffee. Yeah, that takes effort. Need a scale, fancy setup, etc.

I've had coffee concentrate before and it's been mixed results for me. What makes Cometeer great?
Thanks! I like the idea of bookmarklets working with other bookmarklets
The Systems View of Life – Fritjof Capra in Conversation With
Is this because you don't know how to implement the weight updates in NumPy yourself?
Oh yeah, imports in Python are not just, like, extending a namespace like in many other languages. They, at runtime, go and run the module's __init__ and can have arbitrary side effects - an entire program can run (although usually shouldn't) just in the import. Imports of large modules often take entire seconds.

It is absolutely worthwhile to avoid unnecessary imports if possible.
Why would that make it easier? Everyone knows you shouldn't vigorously rub your stomach near your coworkers, but it's still hard to write a commitment that would satisfy all situations. What about when Gene gets a really bad itch on his stomach, and just happens to be standing by some coworkers?!

You can spend forever, drowning yourself in the "what ifs" trying to appease a type of person that will always be tilting at their preferred windmills, with their only point appearing to be "look! it's not PERFECT, so it's not worth doing."

Alternatively, you can understand why we - as a society - appreciate adjudication by other people (not an ironclad set of rules; the law leaves a lot of leeway for judges and juries to decide), and embrace that kind of governance even within your companies and other social structures. Rules to measure against, not rules to adhere to blindly.

You can pretend it's not the case all day long, but it's an observable state of the world that some people refuse the idea of "institutional racism". Some people refuse the idea that certain actions can be "racist" or "microaggressions". Some people vehemently REFUSE to understand the things that "everybody knows" because they are contrarian.

Writing rules around these people is an effort in futility. It's best to just identify those kinds of people and treat them accordingly.
But! If you disagree, feel free to write any sort of policy that you'd like, and ask reddit to try to abuse it. I eagerly await seeing your ironclad policies that take everything into account such that they can be listed as commitments to achieve said policy goals.

Alternatively, you could admit that not everything needs to be codified into a specific rule and that, sometimes, people are going to have to use judgement which, while not perfect, is not necessarily malicious or even harmful.

And hey - glad you found better situations! Sorry you weren't able to treat things seriously, in high school, but better late than never!
What do you feel about the figures brought up in the above posts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725407

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34727185

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726977