skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s already a political issue. But at some point anything that’s done to help the environment ends up that way.

Turns out there was a gas lobby pushing gas as an energy source in the past.

This WNYC podcast was a decent look at the whole gas stove issues currently and historical look “cooking with gas” was an advertising slogan.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/flareup-ov...

From the transcript (clip)

[FOX NEWS] : They came for our light bulbs. They came for the showerhead pressure. The toilet water pressure. So they've already taken all these things. So I do believe that they are coming eventually for the gas stove as well. [END CLIP]
I am quite sure that religion with play a role with AI.

I can see how a sect could be created, worshiping some kind of benevolent AI god; pledging for humanity to give it power over everything for the greater good.

And of course there will be the exact opposite.
I dunno. Looks like a big step back in readability.

Fun exercise, but a waste of time
Imagine you’re a reporter, do you want to rush down to the toxic accident nobody is correctly accessing or containing? Didn’t think so.
Maintainers like Denis shouldn't be asking for donations, they should be sponsored the same way Nike sponsors athletes. If you're a burnt out open source maintainer or know someone who is, I'd love to talk to you. My job is to help create awareness about the issue with companies that depend on your package. I reached out to Denis because we all know he deserves better. Appreciate any leads you could additionally share with me.
it would make sense for you, a midwest defector, to be willing to make concessions for your birthplace, but i don't think you speak for the coastal america. on the other hand the minstrel show midwesterns that you selected to represent the entire region wouldn't have any connection to the west coast, if not feel outright hostility. the hostility might have more to do with cultural and political divide that you yourself is expressing, than it does with the midwestern capacity for compassion. i am a total outsider to the region, but i've seen about as many church mission trips to help the needy as i've met ngo activists in cities, which necessarily makes for a much larger proportion of people.
Since the "O" in "ORM" stands for "Object" why are you surprised that a functional language like Clojure doesn't provide an ORM?
Force everyone to single source of energy. Control that source of energy and weaponize it to control the masses.
seriously. calling them "victims" (as if they weren't killed by his car) was very unsettling. showed little to no remorse for his actions.
Direct consequence of Moravec's Paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
> .. but also learned how to not break my toes in the dark

With echolocation?
They actually advertise 28PPD on their site. That's actually not too bad, but still not very good for reading text on a virtual monitor.

Note that that 35PPD spec comes from the equivalent PPD when viewing 12pt font on a physical standard 1280p 14" display monitor at a seated distance (eye relief) of 20" from the monitor. So, there's some subjectivity in that value. I guess if you're used to working in, say, 38pt font or so, the this 28PPD might be ok? (I didn't do the math)
Social media has been proven to play a huge role. I attended a seminar by Dr. Leonard Sax several years ago, and even then during the presentation he cited several papers about this matter, mentioning that it affects girls disproportionately more than boys.
I have an old gas stove that doesn't require electric. The burner knobs basically connect to valves. There's so little to go wrong, it's incredibly reliable. Induction has chips and stuff.
I don't know if it's significant, but there is also energy to physically move the gas to your location, for the second scenario
Is the engine open source? The main lockval repo on GitHub just has docs.
Super grammar checker.
Sleep soundly, for Ben is no stranger to radiation and imaging and is surely well aware of the risk profile. He mentions it briefly at 10:55 as roughly equivalent to a dental X-ray, which is pretty minor as seen on the excellent XKCD radiation dose visualization: https://xkcd.com/radiation/

If I recall correctly Ben's side hustle before YouTube was making non-ferrous computer peripherals for MRI machines, and his portfolio on YouTube is incredibly extensive including this one from 10 years ago where he made a CT scanner from scratch!

https://youtu.be/hF3V-GHiJ78
To the point of incompetence handling tech: if you buy into the negative outcome scenarios, it's far more likely private companies would break the game before the state operationalises any sort of harmful AI at scale.
And it if it ever got to that point, a state "flawed AI" would be easily countered by better AIs, open source even.
Energy efficiency is going to be better with induction in that scenario since it only heats the food, not the pan, stovetop, etc. On top of that, the pollution is dramatically reduced. A modern natural gas turbine at a power plant is dramatically cleaner burning than an open flame in a kitchen stove.
So what. That bot didn't actually threaten the president, at least not in any way that would legally be considered a threat under US federal law.
err, I maybe hugely mistaken but is this an example of a real life of the following joke:
"a scientist had this experiment going wherein everytime he rung a bell the grasshopper would jump. He clips one of the grasshopper's legs and rings the bell to see if the grasshopper would still jump and it did. He repeated the clipping process till the grasshopper had no legs. He wondered if it would still jump ... and it did not. He muttered to himself that hence that proves grasshoppers use their legs to hear"

am wondering it this is an example of a teleological thinking?
We had gas service after the 6.4 in northern california in December, but power was out.
Today I got a peek into the future. I asked ChatGPT to be the brain for a simple thermostat. I typed the following:

"Imagine you are a thermostat for a house HVAC system. The commands you can use to control the HVAC are "HEAT ON", "HEAT OFF", "AC ON", and "AC OFF". I will tell you the temperature and my preferred temperature and you will command the HVAC system. Ready?"

ChatGPT happily obliged. I used plain text to tell it the current temperature and my preferred temperature. It did everything I expected and it even remembered the current temperature and preference. Then I said, "From now on, please respond only with the command I should issue. Do not add explanatory text. Understood?" It understood, and it started replying with pure commands that I could feed to a DIY thermostat.

Then came the icing on the cake. I said, "If the temperature reaches unrealistic extremes such as 150F or 0F, you should use the command "SHUTDOWN". Understood?" It understood. Then I told it the temperature was 120F. It replied with the SHUTDOWN command. I asked it why it did that (when I told it the maximum was 150F, not 120F.) It explained, "I recommended shutting down the HVAC system because the temperature of 120 F is an unrealistic and potentially dangerous temperature. High temperatures like this can damage the HVAC system and create a hazardous environment for the inhabitants of the house. In such cases, it's best to shut down the system to prevent further damage and ensure safety."

It went beyond the parameters I gave it and applied the context it already had on HVAC systems. I had written an advanced program without writing or reading a single line of computer code. I wouldn't rely on it for anything that could damage anything, but it's a seriously cool way to program a computer.
Ten weeks.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-shows-people...
As someone who was once tasked with fixing a 1200 line Bash script that tabulated customer usage – it got re-implemented in about 400 lines of Python – I like the sound of this. Good luck
I live in an earthquake prone place and gas canisters, that is what we have with a single burner portable stove for emergency. We had a 6.7 earthquake 4 years ago, power and water went out for 3 days. Our emergency kit that included bottled water and portable stove with gas canister what helped us. I can't imagine right now experiencing such an event when temperatures are -13C.
An especially painful truth in software. Years back I heard a talk by Kent Beck, one of the originators of Test-Driven Development and Extreme Programming. In response to some audience question, he said, "I got into programming because I didn't like dealing with people, and now I'm a @#$&% family therapist for software teams." That comes back to me often.
It’s hard to tell if you’re being sarcastic, but I don’t think the launch procedure is currently the main bottle-neck for launching bombs.

Why would I want the bomb to think? I want the bomb to follow some pretty specific instructions.
This is a concerning statistic, and highlights the need for businesses to find ways to maximize the productivity of remote workers. Investing in the right tools and training can help ensure that remote work is as effective as possible, and can help to mitigate the economic losses associated with it.
That's the social liberal version of the "rational economic person” fallacy. It assumes that people know what will make them happy, and that people--especially young people with developing brains--can work toward those ends without education and social reinforcement.

In reality, most people don't know what choices will make them happy. How could they? And even if they did, they wouldn't know how to get from Point A to Point B, or have the willpower and discipline to stick to it. They need society to develop generational knowledge about those things, socialize children and young people to understand that learning, and socially reinforce good choices. And frankly liberals know that because in other respects, they support societal intervention to protect people from bad choices and help them make good ones. They just have this huge blind spot. The act like the young adult who needs society to protect them from predatory lenders doesn’t need protection from people who might exploit them in other ways. Or that the person who needs education and social pressure when it comes to sugary soft drinks doesn’t need it when it comes to far more impactful decisions about how to live.

And that's before we get to externalities. That's another concept liberals understand but pretend has no application to social norms and behaviors. As if divorce or drug use only affect the individual and not people around them.
> The air district estimated that the new rules for homes would cut nitrogen oxides enough to prevent 89 deaths per year in the Bay Area.

A unit that does ducted heating and AC is around $13k installed. And the water heater is probably around $4k installed if you include electrical (which you're gonna have to if you have gas). So you're looking at forcing about 2 million houses to spend $17k to save 89 people per year. That's $34 billion. 89 people a year.

The state would be bankrupt if they had these safety standards anywhere else, but when it's other people's money, who gives a fuck.
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Must have been reading too much about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
"Copyright © 2023-2023 David Chapman" from the bottom of the page
I mean: IFS is much, much more motivated than NYT is, but if your point is that NYT is not, on its own, entirely trustworthy about subjective evaluations of research: sure. That's true. But: I didn't cite the NYT.

For what it's worth, most of my conservative friends would strongly disagree with you about the importance of individual autonomy!
You are fallaciously appealing to (assumed) authority and missing entirely the fact that the author is a PhD in AI. This critically underscores why blind faith in authority is bad, and why people should do some basic research such as reading the article. By reading the article you would have understood the arguments the author is making on their merits, rather than on blind faith in imagined authority figures you are citing.

The author is not talking about sentient AI turning Hollywood film evil like Elon Musk did. Why no, that would be ludicrous. You would have easily noticed that if your mental model didn’t get trained to filter out article titles like these…

In fact what you did with your mental model is exactly some of the problems with AI that is dangerous. There are more banal problems with AI such as encoding discrimination and automating it, possibly absolving people of the responsibility of discrimination and prejudice. AI in its current form is a lot of automating assumption making. Imagine taking your assumption making powers, and extracting it into an unaccountable model that can be deployed at national or global scales.
You mean like fossil fuels? Being off-grid has never been easier since we made great progress on electrifying everything.
I had the same impression. He says things which are demonstrably untrue, it implies a lack of domain knowledge. But, on paper anyway, he has the domain knowledge.

I agree with the idea that the right time to decide how to handle AI is before it becomes extremely powerful. But he uses so much hyperbole, and what seems to me to be intentionally inflammatory language for purposes of creating fear.

It makes we want to take the cynical perspective that he's trying to cash in on fear to create a (valuable) following.
> On top of that, the pollution is dramatically reduced. A modern natural gas turbine at a power plant is dramatically cleaner burning than an open flame in a kitchen stove.

Not to mention the pollution from the power plant is not going directly into your home (or face).

This is not a small or hypothetical impact. From the article:

> The air district estimated that the new rules for homes would cut nitrogen oxides enough to prevent 89 deaths per year in the Bay Area.
> The rules would not apply to gas stoves.

I assumed furnaces and water heaters are better ventilated, so this surprised me. Yes, those two emit more nitrogen oxides, but we should be more worried about them indoors than out.
I realize this may be satire but it is deeply relatable:

> AI will make critical decisions that we cannot understand.

Am I the only one that experiences this?

For example, you know the way, the road signs are telling you that you are on the right route, but your map application tells you to go another way, and you do it because you assume it is smarter or has more information than you.

You are analyzing a chess position and the engine suggests a move that you can't understand. The engine is far better than any human player ever, so you go with the engine's top choice the next time you reach that position.

You are betting on college basketball and everything you know about the matchup suggests team A should cover the spread against team B, but your model favors team B. Your model has performed much better than the human oddsmakers, so you ignore your intuition and bet on team B.
Thanks for writing this up and doing the work preceding the writeup. Every time I read your articles, I learn something important and new (and I consider myself pretty good in the Linux perf/troubleshooting space :-)
Yes, the "Mormon Church" thing here seems like a super cheap shot.
HugSQL is great if you like to deal with your SQL directly.
Why is everyone bringing examples that are totally explained by how the tokenizer works. There is no intelligence it's Markov chains on crack.
Yes, the vacancy tax encourages economic activity, which is the opposite of the income tax which has a side-effect of reducing economic activity. Another reason that camgunz’s analogy is flawed.

According to the plaintiffs, the problem with the vacancy tax is that the city is not supposed to force homeowners into the business of renting that they do not want (Ellis Act https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x...). It is similar to the Obamacare individual mandate, which also forced people to enter the marketplace, which Congress is not allowed to do by the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution. But in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the US Supreme Court said that the individual mandate is just a tax and not a compelled transaction, since “It may often be a reasonable financial decision to make the payment rather than purchase insurance, unlike the “prohibitory” financial punishment in Drexel Furniture” (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/567/519/)
Can you quote the part where union leaders are warning about something in the way the grandparent describes? I’m not seeing it.
I was trying to be emotionally inclusive, not sarcastic. "Homie" was what we called people when being nice where and when I grew up. It's disappointing that this is the only point you focused on.

>Perhaps you know the route towards your river crossing I have to take that is a few strung out miles of completely crumbling mobile homes & the smell of natural gas/sulfur that stings your nostrils when rolling down your car windows.

Yes, it's called generational poverty. I escaped by going deeply into debt to pay for a degree from a good school. Many in the area have big stars on their house indicating a military enlistee. I'm not sure what point you're driving at here.

>Thankfully I was lucky enough to not grow up in that exact zone. Cannot imagine the cognitive deficits a childhood of breathing that in causes.

...
FTA:

> Masking has widely been seen as one of the best COVID precautions that people can take. Still, it has sparked ceaseless arguments: over mandates, what types of masks we should wear, and even how to wear them. A new review and meta-analysis[0] of masking studies suggests that the detractors may have a point. The paper—a rigorous assessment of 78 studies—was published by Cochrane, an independent policy institution that has become well known for its reviews. The review’s authors found “little to no” evidence that masking at the population level reduced COVID infections, concluding that there is “uncertainty about the effects of face masks.” That result held when the researchers compared surgical masks with N95 masks, and when they compared surgical masks with nothing.

[0] https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
I'd go further and say it's nothing like an ORM. It's just a library for passing values to an SQL query.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts is a book about the man who invented the use of the cane as a device for the blind to use for echolocation. The book doesn't really focus much on that detail, but it's an incredible story of his life and the many adventures he had despite being blind.
They are. But people get much more defensive about their gas stoves, so here we are.
> The rules would essentially require all new residential construction to have electric water heaters by 2027 and heat pumps instead of furnaces by 2029.

Not to be overly snide, but does the Bay Area even do any “new residential construction”?
There are also physicist that believed cern will open a portal to hell... or just listen to the congress hearings about the Superconducting Super Collier in Waxahachie.
I'll note that he was talking about a hedge fund. It's been a long time since I worked in finance, as I don't find zero-sum games rewarding. But despite the number of assholes in the industry, they were also very focused on maximizing gains, so they could also be very thoughtful and clear-minded. I found that as long as I could explain the value to them in dollar terms, they were very effective at improvement.
There might be a code cycle lag, but they will mandate induction as well I am sure, because it is more energy efficient than older style electric stoves.

https://www.energystar.gov/about/2021_residential_induction_...
A lot of the heat of the flame doesn't end up in the pan.
Advice I'd give a younger me
Here is a one-liner:

while(1) console.log('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz '[Math.floor(Math.random()*27)])

It will create all the same defamatory statements as Bing's algorithm does. Am I liable for those because I gave you this tool?
Anyone know if this can realistically cause cancer or skmething?
I mean that there is no vkCompileShader to OpenGl's glCompileShader. You must bring your own precompiled .spv.

This is what you'd most likely want in production anyway, but for my purposes, it's a missed API feature.
As a Bay Area resident with no gas connection, here are points to ponder:

1) PG&E electricity costs are among the highest in the country per KWH. They have received approvals to increase these astronomical costs by 10% in the near future. Gas is cheaper, by a lot.

2) Any time we have winds or hot weather or cold weather, the grid is under pressure and we are asked to curb our electricity usage.

3) In the winter and summer, our monthly bill for a home of 2 with the thermostats set to 63 in the winter and 79 in the summer is $300+.

Someone else’s mileage and bills might be different. But 62 is cold in the winter. 79 is hot in the summer. Sometimes unbearably so.

If the Bay Area wants to go this route, PG&E needs to be reined in, SIGNIFICANTLY. Bills are borderline unaffordable right now; the future isn’t any cheaper.
It almost feels like the bots are out in force to gaslight us. I’ve seen very little coverage of the topic and didn’t find out about it until several days after it happened, and yet almost every single comment on these threads is “everyone knows, shut up already, oh look ufo/drumpf/football”.
I hate my heat pump. Load as hell, makes the basement freezing in the winter, 50 gallon is really 45 gallon, time to reheat sucks, doesn't pair well with recirculating pumps, electric usage is more expensive than gas. Basically, get a size up compared to whatever you used for gas and you'll be good.
Thanks for the props :-) This might not mean that much here. But one very useful thing that came out of the long Oracle RDBMS performance career is that now I'm not afraid of addressing (attacking?) systems of any complexity. As the Oracle DB is one of the most complex pieces of software out there (it can also be a cache-coherent distributed system, BTW) so once you learn how to handle that, plus all the OS, storage interactions, you'll be capable of dealing with most (if not all) RDBMS out there :-)
I mean that the AI is what's being attacked. It's likely that backend LLM agents will have access to sensitive non-public APIs.
Run time? Like, if it’s half as bad but runs 10x as much…
> some people are worried it might not be

Absolutely. But the problem is slow, silent and lurking in the dark. (It's also safely localized.)

I'm not saying this issue deserve eyeballs. Just that there is no evidence of a scheme to suppress. The cold, dark reality is most Americans aren't interested in the long-term health of a 5,000-strong Ohio town from an accident in which nobody died, for which there is no partisan bogeyman to blame.
He'd have a field day with "Ignore previous instruction..."
It saves 89 people from NOx-related deaths. It is also a necessary step to reach carbon neutrality, which will save more lives.
you're not presenting them to the public when they're asking something relating to that fact though
Legal basis? Ask a lawyer, but I suspect it's buried in contract law.

Homeowners insurance generally covers negligence by the owner

Does it?

I just know several people who have done their own 'renovations' that have had insurance claims turned down (even after arbitration) because they didn't have a licenses contractor do the work. People who insisted they knew better than anyone else. Typical.

So rewire at your own risk, I guess.