skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China's emissions are the largest not because they are behind in transitioning. They are largest because they have the largest population.

It would probably be better to help the countries that have a combination of high per capita emissions and large populations that are being slow about transitioning.

For example, suppose we wanted to cut total CO2 emissions by 2.5 billion tons of CO2. There are 3 countries that could in theory cut their emissions by that amount: China, US, and India.

For China to do that, they would need to cut back to where they are similar to Spain, Italy, or Great Britain when it comes to how green their energy sources are and how much of what they do depends on emitting CO2.

For the US to cut CO2 emissions by 2.5 billion tons of CO2, we'd have to cut back to where we are where China is now on green energy and processes. That's how far the US is behind in transitioning. (Largely because the US is the only high emitting large population first world country that regularly changes its mind about whether or not there is any need to transition). (There are countries way farther behind like Qatar and Kuwait, but their populations are small enough that it doesn't really matter at this stage).

For India to cut 2.5 billion tons of CO2 they would pretty much have to stop doing anything that emits CO2 because their total emissions are just a bit over 2.5 billion tons.
I’m not very familiar with it. Why is that obvious?
Spinning up an emulator gives you to real first hand experience. It’s very nice; I ran it a long time ago on real msx-2 machines. Impressive work.
Not that I've implied it is better or worse or demanded subjective opinions about that, but when we are at it, here are some remarks:

1. No build step is an appealing feature for some.

Knowing that what is shipped is what you wrote, not what some transpiler spat out, might have some value.

2. Syntax is also subject of personal preference.

Anecdotally, I personally pretty much prefer having "non-executive content" swept aside the "executive" parts, not mixed together in single expression (when applicable).

I assume it is matter of habit, but even though I use both TS and JS, to this days, over TS

function uppercase (something: string): string {
return something.toUpperCase()
}

I'd really rather prefer seeing the "fluff" (types and comments) separated from the "meat" (actual code): in JS (JSDoc)

/**
* @param {string} something - glyphs presumably not (only) from upper case
* @returns {string} all glyphs from upper case, when applicable
*/
function uppercase (something) {
return something.toUpperCase()
}

since I still keep mentally stumbling over those :fluffy chunks in TS. Again, probably mater of habit really.
Big Data Is Dead,Prompt Engineering,NoSQL Misconceptions,There's an AI for That
Big Data is Dead - Prompt Engineering - NoSQL misconceptions - There's an AI for that
I think what Blade Runner 2049 got wrong was the way they depicted having sex with the Joi instance. I assume in 2049 we'll either have Neuralink available to enter a virtual world (à la VRChat) where we can do it more realistically, or we'll have the ability to buy full sexbots and put the Joi instance in them.

We'll likely also have virutal brothels using AI along the same lines.
In the tutorial they show it uses OpenAIs ada-text-2 over a graph search and one prompt to put together opinionated responses
I work on a frontend team, most of my coworkers use VSCode and very few use the vim plugin for it. On our backend teams I believe IntelliJ is still the most popular editor, it’s really uncommon to find anyone using vim or eMacs for work.

Personally I just use Jetbrains IDEs w/ IdeaVIM for most things because I can’t be bothered with all the plugins and configurations I would rather my IDE just work out the box in any language.
I completely agree, which is why frontend frameworks give me existential dread
In general you can't just use a package manager in many cases. Or you can, but it'll be even more painful.

Imagine that you're working in some sort of mono repo, except that some internal libraries are submodules. Then you'll often find yourself working outside and inside submodules to test changes. You can't do that easily with package manager.

That being said, I believe it should be possible to augment (some) package managers to handle local path only when in dev mode.
Posting the logos of huge companies signals to small companies that they're not your target market.

So if the office manager of the IBM facility in Mobile, Alabama uses your SMS service to coordinate the contract janitorial staff, then boosting the IBM logo without this context sends the wrong message to the long tail of small companies who don't pay "IBM" prices for anything.
As far as I can tell, no. It’s mostly a lab level endeavor, funded by federal grants (with the purpose of reducing US dependence on Chinese mineral supply chain).
Show HN: ChatBusinessAI, fine-tuned on FourWeekMBA, integrated ChatGTP APIs
India’s central bank slaps penalty on Amazon’s payments unit
On AI-Assisted Software Development
This is the idea behind TERFs, right? How can women have equal rights if “women” don’t even exist? I’m honestly surprised more feminists don’t have strong anti-transgender sentiment.
I realised that I would always feel like I needed just a bit more. So instead I cut all my expenditures, and moved somewhere with a very low cost of living.

I did the 'café / tea room / barista / baker' dream for a season, hard work but fun! and since the lock-down nightmare, I am back to playing around with some tech ideas.

Maybe my next project is a farm renovation, and some local up-cycling services, something towards 'save the planet'. Just fixing up an old espresso machine, great fun!

Anyway I am not sure I could go back to freelancing, I cant stand these modern tech stacks :( Am I the only one that feels like I need to write my own language, or even OS? Although Zig is looking good so far... and some unikernals have promise. All this CPU/GPU power and things seem to run slower than ever.

But yeah, I sympathize and would only say, dont wait to start living your dream.
Till someone puts up a site to test it
DLP snoopware for me. We actually need to be able to demonstrate that we know where the sensitive data is and is not. We have a metric for unsupervised devices and we need to keep that number as close to 0 as possible.

2ndly, there is the nature of what the company does. If you are at a software engineering company, chances are you can just grab any linux lappy and get to work because everything you need is covered.

If you are at a software consuming company, you are at the mercy of what your LOB apps support. Software that has this kind of company as its customer either only targets windows or only targets web browsers (and even web apps somehow find a way to be windows-specific).
I've always had view-mode come on by default, and I have a bunch of custom keybindings for view mode which are nicer on the hands when you're just reading text.

So (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'start-view-mode) to turn it on automatically.

(defun view-mode-background ()
(if (bound-and-true-p view-mode)
(face-remap-add-relative 'mode-line '((:background "#9400D3")))
(face-remap-add-relative 'mode-line '((:background "red")))))
^ this helps a lot to know whether or not you're in view mode

And then:
(defun view-mode-keybindings ()
(define-key view-mode-map (kbd "j") 'View-scroll-line-forward)
.. etc
The issue is nobody wants to be out with the cars. Can't blame them, really. As a frequent CitiBike user I try to cut them some (purely mental) slack if they're not being too jerky about it.
You misunderstood. It's not "make some pizza"

It's "prepare a bunch of dough for the pizza tomorrow, freeze half then eat pizza for next 2 days, then always having option to thaw some more pizza dough to make more pizza
Don’t have to go that far. I’m productive when doing my own things, but if I’m taking a salary, my productivity is my employers concern, not mine.
Ask HN: New on macOS, what should I try/look into?
Hey everybody!

I got myself an "old" MacBook Pro (Mid-2018, i7) to see if MacOS could work out for me or if I should stick to other hard-/software.

I'd like to have a rather high level of compatibility/interoperability with Windows/Linux, so I'd prefer if I could use lots of tools that work very well cross-platform and not lock me into the Apple ecosystem too much.

Besides setting up the system (skipped Siri, iCloud, Apple ID etc. for now) I've so far only installed Firefox + Thunderbird, VS Code, Filezilla and Spotify. Next up would be the Affinity tools, but then I should be almost good to go for my daily stuff. OpenOffice would probably be another thing and something like Arduino, Nextcloud client...

But what should I really look into, what should I try that doesn't exist on other platforms or works just much better on MacOS?
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> b) Some business will eventually sell an off-the-shelf product

And by sell you mean a monthly subscription, ha ha.
Maria Bamford is excited.

But not too excited.
My system's .so files have had versioned symbols for ages.

(This problem is not a technical problem.)
Would there be some way to “launder” the model to make it plausibly viable for commercial use? Train a new model with the weights of this model with some kind of noise added to make it hard to tell what it is based on?
Assets don't go into database lmao.
Most Type 2 diabetes is not treated with Insulin. About 7.4%. This means that roughly 60% of Insulin users are type 2 diabetics... Yeesh! Especially considering that Type 2 is caused by excess insulin.
The really, really fundamental issue this proposal doesn't touch at all is that you also need to

- either version the data structures/classes/shapes of dictionaries/whatever that a function accepts/returns;

- or have converters between different data versions and use them inside your functions.

As I said in another topic on HN which was about that project that hoped to bring hot-code reloading in a C REPL or something: changing the code inside the running program is the least of the problems; flawlessly updating the data inside the running problem so that the new code could proceed to work on it — that's the hard problem (think e.g. about rolling back the update that threw away the bunch of fields).
The average lifespan may be higher, but how's the variance?
That may be, but I can only speak as to my reality. It is not actionable to me that in X country things are cheaper. I don’t live there and I’m not moving either.

Also, I’m not talking about “expensive” hobbies. Almost all sports need some sort of equipment and time investment from the parents. Summer camps for some parents are a necessity because they need child care during summer months. Vacations for kids are also expensive and people typically save all year long to take them. I could go on.
Came here to point out exactly this.
Not all code needs to process terabytes of data.

I have code running that reads ~20 bytes, checks the internal status on an hashmap and flips a bit.

Would it be faster in C? Of course.

Would it have taken me much longer to write to achieve absolutely no benefit? Yes.
This is not uncommon in the more blue-collar businesses. Many boomers now retire, and they often can't find a suitable successor. Most ambitious young people are being led down a different path via university, so there is a real unmet need in less glorious, but nevertheless still profitable fields. Btw he wasn't gifted the company, he had to buy it from the owners of course - still a good deal.
Huh? What I'm telling you is that this is not "AI", it is a LANGUAGE MODEL. It models language. People literally think that these chatbots have access to some sort of "knowledge base" or are capable of "looking up information", but they can't. It's not a matter of "misinformation", these companies are trying to trick you into thinking they have something that they do not.

And the idea that we shouldn't hold our tools to a higher standard is a joke. It's like if you sold me a screwdriver as a hammer and then went "wow, nobody's perfect, ok so we should just BAN all humans that are bad at hammering?!"
> a whole bunch of the footguns

Could you expand on this in the context of Rust?
In theory, this could be done, sure.

In practice, who's going to bother checking the language model? All the code that runs Stable Diffusion or other Hugging Face models that I've seen just downloads the model dynamically, then uses it without asking question. That's a pretty low-hanging supply chain attack waiting to happen, I believe.
Chill out, my man. Did the OP ever say that? No, they did not.

All they did was reference someone's opinion as they shared their own.
The docs are good:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/continuous-archiving...
Looks like the price has finally come down a bit, but it did seem to be $2000+ for something with a saw stop, but only $200+ for a regular table saw, making it out of reach of many home handypeople.

Interestingly, as I recall, nearly as many people are injured each year from power tools as are injured in vehicular collisions (in the US) and way more people drive than use power tools.

There is a solution, yes, but the problem is not solved.
This is pretty much the premise of the movie "Her".
Alas my joke didn't really pan out as planned
Every sentence of this is wrong.

Disclaimer: I am no fanboy of Tesla; I think Tesla's lunch will be eaten by BYD, either alone or together with other Chinese EV manufacturers, in part because Tesla has been resting on its laurels for so long (still selling the model S!); but facts are facts.

> But battery research is ongoing from a century...

Tesla's claim is about motors, not batteries.

Tesla has implemented solutions that no one else has, such as their "two casting chassis", which Toyota engineers recently called " a work of art" and "genius". The 4680 cylindrical battery is also a Tesla innovation.

> It is most certainly a trade off...

It is not clear at all whether this announced motor is a trade off. It may be the way ahead to further improvements in the space of EV motors. More detail would be good to have; that much is true.

> Moreover, lithium-ion batteries...[lithium] is the bulk of the battery.

Again, this is about motors, not batteries. It's eliminating the neodymium and other "rare earth"[1] elements used in the permanent magnets present in nearly all EV motors to date. No EV motors use lithium in significant amounts.

But the numeracy nazi in me must also point out that when it comes to batteries, there is more nickel than lithium, by a considerable margin, in NMC and NCA (nickel-manganese-cobalt and nickel-cobalt-aluminum) lithium-ion batteries. There is more iron than lithium in LFP lithium batteries. And depending on construction, there may be still more copper.

1. "Earth" is a now-obsolete term for "ore". These metals are not rare, but they spread themselves around, so economically minable ore bodies tend to be hard to find. The metals are not rare, but their earths are.
One thing I liked in 2049 was now they made the holographic projector seem more mechanical and less hand wavy with the roof attachment tracking along with the girl. Makes it seem more like something in reach rather than pure scifi.
I went back to school to get a teaching certificate and taught middle school for three years, a couple of summers at a high school, and three more years as a college lecturer (aka adjunct).

I'm back in tech now, which took hard work getting up to date. I was out for ten years and basically missed a whole lot, such as containers, cloud as the path of least resistance, and React. On the other hand, Linux and Python haven't gone out of style.

I enjoyed my time teaching and the perspective gained. I don't regret it, and I did learn more about my own strengths and weaknesses.
Norway is extremely wealthy. This undoubtedly skews the results by a lot. It's a bit like extrapolating that the next big consumer car-brand is Ferrari based on your trip to Monaco.
> That's actually dangerous.

> The gearbox is going to be shifted out of park WHILE THE MECHANIC IS UNDER THE CAR.

Yes the comment refers to “modern tow truck operators,” a field with a higher risk threshold than other occupations.
The article doesn't say anything about batteries. Just motors.
> Goodhart's law (mis)applied to discussions of machine learning pipelines

I see a way in which it overlaps with this issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting
Are you saying they are like compact memoizers? What Stable Diffusion can fit into that model is amazing.
As far as I am aware, there is nothing rare about "rare earth metals".

My understanding is that both China and Russia underpriced on purpose, driving (for example) US mines and production out of business.

And after, then raised pricing.

There are many rare earth mines in North America, sitting fallow...

(This isn't an unknown business tactic for anyone to follow.)
Medicare for All would be great, at the prices being quoted by folks on here. But I bet your premiums and deductibles aren't covering your costs, especially at your age. Over 65 spending is around $18K per year.

Average in the US is $7-12K across age groups and genders (depending on how it's counted).

The problem with traditional fee-for-service Medicare is that there is no mechanism to reign in those costs - doctors get paid pretty much no matter what they order. So they order a lot.

For Medicare Advantage, it's more a capitation model where the insurance co is paid per patient, and their incentive is supposed to be to keep the patient healthy and thus less costly. That's the theory.

Incentives matter, and getting them right in healthcare is a messy task.
I'd guess the 'Garden of Eden' as referenced in the Abrahamic religious traditions might have been in today's Sahara:

> "Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes."

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/green-saha...

If you're referencing the likely near-extinction of humans ~74,000 years ago, it's not clear anyone in the relatively recent past would have remembered that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
> "Not hitting things" isn't really the hard part of driving

Until your tesla hits a stopped firetruck at 60mph, then it's a real hard part
So cool! Minor piece of feedback:
I went to try the different levels and when I clicked on the 'master' one (pretty insane tbh) it took me a while to figure out how to exit the game and select another level of difficulty. I'd make this more clear.
Yup, same can happen to gay guys on gay dating/hookup apps. That's why I always meet in a public place, but even then you're still gambling.

But tbh aren't we also gambling by leaving our houses? Sao Paulo afaik is famous for crime/kidnappings/all sorts of bad crap. The criminals are just using Tinder as a tool today, tomorrow they might use whatever else is popular/effective.

When I was in Cyprus on business I got separated from my group who were walking ahead, we were in the strip/club district ofc bc most of 'em are straight.

I wandered past a strip club to catch up with the group and this chick grabbed my arm super hard and tried to drag me into the club, told her I was gay & uninterested and her response was "that doesn't matter". Bouncer at the door was just laughing at me. Managed to get away, but if I was the one that had walked up and grabbed her arm nice & hard I would've been been put on the fucking ground.
> Neither I nor my colleagues have ever had a problem with them

It really is like we live in different worlds.
> a) As these AI constructs become more advanced (especially around memory and personalization), we will eventually be able to treat them as people

There already planned products to "capture" someone's voice and personality to be able to continue experiencing "them" after their death?

Shit is already weird.

https://technode.global/2022/10/21/this-startup-allows-you-t...
I would finally learn vim to use this.
Nah, we just gotta man up.
My most successful career epiphany was realizing that everyone -- my customers, my boss, etc -- was happier if I shipped code when I thought it was 80% ready. That long tail from 80-100% generates a lot of frustration.
the inspiration for founding replica was the founder's intense pain and trauma from suddenly losing a friend to an accident. Then reflecting on the psychotherapy culture in a country with a rich history of government assigning what constitutes proper behavior patterns.
It's easy to label somebody's psychological state as inadequate, but what's harder is providing them tools to recover. What's nearly impossible today is providing such tools at scale.
Would your general sentiment on replica and it's users apply to using idiotic VR simulators for PTSD survivors? I can make an argument that a reasonable adult should not be tricked into believing they are actually on a roof ledge when they are clearly on a couch. However, that kind of therapy has shown some promising results and is certainly more accessible than traditional care. Granted replica may not be the working tool, but I'd be curious if you have other options its users can go to when traditional human relationships are challenging for them.
It was used for years to distribute World of Warcraft updates. No idea if it still is.
Viper mode is terrible though. Half the things I am used to in proper Vim do not work correctly in Viper mode. I don't remember those annoyances anymore but someone who has recently tried viper mode may be able to share the details.

(Edit: Turns out I do remember some of the annoyances. See the grandchild comment below where I have noted some examples.)

I found Evil mode is so much better at emulating Vim than viper mode.
Yeah, that's probably the most dystopian thing. This is almost a guaranteed outcome - someone pays a high subscription cost and cultivates a model with their personal details for years, and then loses all of it when they can't keep up the subscription cost. Cue a month or two later - they buy back in and their model has been wiped and their AI friend now knows nothing about them.

It's easy to poke fun at people who use these things but I believe these kinds of events are going to be truly traumatic.
yup, from decimal import Decimal, and get better accuracy than any default calculator
Don't download stuff at work either.
Most diabetes is type 2, but not all type 2 diabetes requires insulin, and it won't help. The body is still producing insulin. Only extreme cases require more of it.

The main medication for type 2 diabetes is metformin, which regulates glucose production. I don't have figures, but most type 2 diabetics don't use insulin, and use much less of it when they do. They're not the key driver here.

People should absolutely use diet and lifestyle to prevent type 2 diabetes. But this action is targeted primarily at type 1 diabetics, who use most of the insulin and who absolutely depend on it. They need it continuously, and become disabled within hours of not getting it, no matter how well they eat or how they exercise.
I've always preferred having LSPs installed in my user bin folder (or system wide). I like to hop nto other editors and some of them, like Helix, do not have auto installer for LSPs and tries to use the locally installed package.

In other words, I like to have 1 LSP installed in my system for all of them.
Perhaps they are using the hash output for quick corruption tests as well as signing for authenticity?

And if they are computing a hash for that anyway, the computation saving from signing the hash not the whole content might be worthwhile?
> Electricity costs are basically irrelevant because the cards are so expensive.

You mean in terms of money. I think this is exactly the problem that we have in CS, nobody really cares about CO2.
Thanks for such compelling historical perspective!

The title should've been: "Focus on things that don't change (initially)"