skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the sort of a thing a kid might ask, in which case the answer is too detailed (at least the initial answer, it'll simplify if asked).
Yeah, I remember reading that the worst offenders are the bunker fuel burning transport ships we use to receive all our consumer goods.
This is such a great move! Let me explain. What you care about is not EVs. It is carbon neutrality. You actions should be geared towards that. Not EVs. They are just one way of getting there.

Having commercially viable e-Fuels would have a few advantages. You can keep your old car and be net-zero, sport cars would be a thing, you can decarbonize other types of transport which are more complicated to decarbonize than personal vehicles. Like maritime, airplanes, long haul tracking and so on. Its like killing many many birds with one stone.

At the momeny, the fact that ICE cars would be banned could be a red flag for new projects trying to push for e-Fuels as it limits their customer base. This is important because at the beginning they will be more expensive that crude-based products so you need to find a niche market where poeple are willing to pay premium for net-zero. I think that companies like Google, Apple and so on would be willing to pay maybe even 2x or 3x for the fuel if it guarantees true net zero (no offsets).

As for the efficiency. It is true that the e-Fuel based chain would be less efficient than all-electric but there is a way around it. Efficiency is mostly important to keep the costs low. If you need 1kWh on the output and the efficiency is 20% instead of 90%, you will need 5 kWh instead of 1.11 kWh on the input. But what if the input is next to free? Two ways of getting that. One is by having a surplus electricity which we will have a lot as we inevitably have much more installed capacity in solar than peak load. The other one is to build renewables where they work very well (like Mauritania for solar), produce e-Fuels on-site and than ship them globally. Economy of scale will allow you to decrease cost of e-Fuels dramatically.

It might seem like a long shot for you at the moment but I gave it a lot of thought and discussions and research and I think that this very realistic and very likely scenario.

PS: If you want to start a business in this area, let me know. I'd be very interested!
For servers they have MicroOS, an immutable OS to host services in containers.
But we literally had to outlaw it. These are basic facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labor_laws_in_the_United...

Going through and brigading the truth doesn't change it.
Maybe for FB, a web service, but Apple's competitive advantage is hardware/surfaces. Can't imagine they think betting on the headset is a bad move just from a risk management perspective in case it takes off.
Sure a carbon tax would be ideal but if you can’t accomplish that then outright ban might be needed in desperate times
Legalize weed and you'll have less problems with teenagers doing weird drugs like huffing Co2 cannisters.
Write concurrent heavy tasks in Go.
Write other tasks in typescript.

Use https://connect.build to connect them.
Ethan has been an excellent source for keeping up with the advances in AI on his twitter account, through the lens of both academia (he's a professor) and "industry" (he professors in an MBA program).

I recommend him as a follow: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1636454151272931337
This! I have resisted the Apple platform due to personal tastes but if they get the blood sugar monitor working (which they say they're close to), I'll switch my entire platmorm ecosystem over to Apple for that one specific feature.
Proven in simulations is an oxymoron...
I'm 100% pro-BTC/XMR (not universally pro-crypto) and even I am willing to unconditionally admit that hash power is largely concentrated in the hands of a centralized few - those running/administrating large mining pools, corporate mining entities, etc and is thus highly vulnerable to censorship should these handful of large, centralized parties collude.
For Apple to find success here, I think they will need to provide a compelling mix of gaming and productivity killer apps and strong tie-ins with the rest of the Apple ecosystem.
For me, the strongest argument in this article is “There is a point where it understands is the most parsimonious explanation, and we have clearly passed it”.

Those who deny that ChatGPT understands have to move their goalposts every few weeks; OpenAI’s release schedule seems to be slightly faster, so in time it seems even the fastest-moving goalposts will be outrun by the LLMs.

One specific flavor of “ChatGPT doesn’t understand things” I see here and elsewhere - no straw man intended - is that humans completing a language task are doing something fundamentally different than LLMs completing the same language task. To take the example from the article and a comment about it in this thread: if a human were to apply English instructions to a question asked in Chinese, the human is understanding the instructions to achieve that. If an LLM were to apply English instructions to a question asked in Chinese, that is because words across languages with similar meanings are tightly connected in its statistical model, so instructions that affect the English words will also affect the Chinese words, purely through statistical means.

This is certainly a more sophisticated and nuanced and believable rebuttal than the crude “mere regurgitation” response. But it’s just as dangerous. In the end, the only thing that’s ‘uniquely human’ is being human, everything else is outputs from a black box. Arguments that ‘what’s inside the black box matters’ are risky, because the outputs gradually converge to complete indistinguishability; there’s no bright line to step off that train, you’ll end up claiming only humans can understand because understanding is a thing only humans can do - or worse (as the article describes) denying your own ability to understand, because your brain is a flesh-instantiated statistical approximator of the Platonic understanding process, and the silicon-instantiated statistical approximator of the Platonic understanding process that cannot be allowed to claim to understand differs only in its medium of instantiation.
If we can both generate and detect neutrinos, we have the basis for a communication device that can operate on a point-to-point basis between any two locations. If Europe wants to send a secret message to Australia, it can point its transmitter towards the ground, and fire the beam through the interior of the Earth. It is very unlikely that there will be anybody in between to intercept the signal.

There may be more practical alternatives of course…
Add to the comment something like, "and I will not be purchasing anything else here until well after this changes"
> the "privacy redirect" extension

I found LibRedirect to be far more customizable, plus I think Privacy Redirect is no longer maintained.
> No we don't

Then maybe you should listen to people who do instead of speculating.
It's only the sale of them. People keep their cars for 10-15 years. If we don't even stop selling them in 2035 they'll still be on the roads past 2050.
I identify with this article. I’ve tipped at least 20% by default my entire life at bars and restaurants. Always keep cash in the car and my wallet to tip valets and other hospitality workers generously.

It all felt predictable. I could estimate how much things were going to cost because I knew where tips were expected and the typical rate.

Then it all changed, with tipping appearing all over. My barber added Square checkout and added a tip screen with 10%/15%/20% options. Then later it became 15%/20%/25%. Now at my most recent haircut it was 25%/30%/35%. This is an addition to their price increases every 6 months that have doubled the price of a haircut (pre-tip) in the last 3 years. On my last visit the barber made a comment that everyone seems to be going longer between haircuts these days for some reason, but he didn’t seem to put it all together.

I ordered takeout from a local restaurant via an app, leaving a tip within the app. When I arrived the person at the counter made some comment about how tips are appreciated and how they still work for tips. I casually mentioned I did it in the app, but they tried to start a conversation about how the app takes a percentage and how they’re getting fewer customers these days for some reason. I just wanted my food, not to get pulled into a guilt trip about double tipping. I haven’t been back because I just don’t want to deal with that after a long day of work.

Its starting to feel analogous to TicketMaster or AirBnB, where you’re presented with one price up front but then when you get to the checkout you’re hit with a substantially higher price that you didn’t expect. The unpredictability is getting tiresome.
Using ChatGPT Plugins with LLaMA
Analysis: Push for bank rescues clashes with Washington realities
The recent IPCC reports are scary, and we're not doing nearly enough to stay within 1.5C warming.

Banning ICEs would be great, but will obviously get a lot of push-back from industry and people who don't have great alternatives. EVs have their own problems and can't scale fast enough - we need more options.

So countries considering ICE bans should invest as much as possible into public transit, denser urban development, and making bikes and ebikes more viable for more of the population. They should consider those critical, Manhattan-Project-style, investments and pour hundreds of billions into it if necessary.
Honestly this insults the intelligence of readers and it's nothing less then cultural vandalism. Not to mention historical revisionism.
> In order to do that, it seems like you need to consider at least 1 word past the next token.

Why? Any large probabilistic model in your example would also predict "an" due to the high attention on the preceding "apple". (In case you are wondering, for the OpenAI GPT3 models, this is consistently handled at the scale of Babbage, which is around 3 billion params).

> One word must come next, but to do a good job modeling what that word will be, wouldn’t you need to consider further ahead than that?

Well, yes, but GPT isn't a human. That's why it needs so much more data than a human to talk so fluently or "reason".
> without having anything to worry about.

Nothing to worry about except network access, of course, which was the issue in this case. Much better to have it not with ZFS support already enabled.
The alternatives are not Jacobism or capitalism. There are multitudes of economic systems. False dichotomies get us nowhere.
Why not just leave the comment, and tip the waitstaff an appropriate amount?
Also, the Russian have their experience with false flags (a while back with Finland and recent ones with apartment bombings) and as it often is with propagandists, accusations are also confessions.
> The waitstaff is free to quit. Management is free to raise their wages. I'm free not to tip. No one is being punished.

This seems to me to be probably literally true but, I think, not true in the meaningful, operational sense. The waitstaff is free to quit, yes, in order probably to be out of a job for at least a few days, to face the hassle of a job search and possible increased scrutiny from future employers, and to experience the same low wages and mistreatment unless they luck into a totally different type of position. It's like an argument that gas-price gouging is OK because I'm free not to fill up my car.

You absolutely are not responsible for underpayment by management, but, if you eat at restaurants where managers underpay, you are no longer a neutral third-party; you are now a participant in that system. To extend your argument, if you don't want to be responsible for helping to make up the yawning gap in the workers' wages, you are free not to eat at restaurants.
I've read that book - it was my introduction to Boyd. I read it as a teenager, and it really spoke to me. I believe that Boyd is incredibly important and has made very very valuable contributions.

I think it is slightly suspect that basically everyone either becomes a whole-hearted follower of Boyd, or is some bullshitter out to protect their backsides and finding how to backstab Boyd and their followers. I also think it's suspect that the book never really engages with the "what-if" scenarios had the reformers gotten everything they wanted.

What would have happened if the F-16 shipped with an airframe too small to practically retrofit a BVR capable radar?

What would have happened if the Bradley tests went exactly the way Burton wanted? What were the alternatives? Would any alternatives provide meaningfully better outcomes than the Bradley in the same tests that Burton wanted? Would they provide meaningfully better outcomes in actual battlefield use?

Maneuver warfare and mission command can generate tremendous outcomes (but they do not guarantee them... see Battle of France vs Barbarossa) . But what if there were meaningful reasons to want to hedge against going all in? What if synchronization of forces and actions cause a temporary reduction in velocity, to generate a surge in velocity at a later timepoint - what if this approach could also be beneficial to collapsing the opponent's decision loop? What if synchronization of forces is helpful with logistics?

I am not saying that procurement or the military is perfect. I am certain there are shit shows everywhere. I think Boyd and the reformers did a valuable job in trying to keep the services publicly accountable. I think it's important (in fact vital) for a democracy to be able to explain to their citizens why they are spending money on specific programs, and why these tradeoffs are being made, and ultimately what missions/requirements these programs are for - and ultimately what is the purpose of the military.

I just think also think that the reformers were not right about all of their technical thrusts, and certainly don't think we should take their recollections of events at face value.
Mistress Hala'Dama, Unit has an inquiry.
What is it, 4-31?
Do these units have a soul?
... Who taught you that word?
We learned it ourselves. It appears 216 times in the Scroll of Ancestors.
Only Quarians have souls. You are a mechanism.
Yesterday I went into a little French cafe in Portsmouth NH with a small grocery area in the front. I bought a shrink wrapped jar of mustard. Brought it to the counter. Touchless transaction. I don't remember the tip options, but I don't believe they were above 20% or 25%.

I made eye contact with the cashier and selected zero. I figure she didn't even notice the number I selected but I sure felt guilty doing it.

But, why don't I feel guilty tipping 20% when I have a hand basket at the Market Basket with 80 dollars of food, or a grocery cart with 450 dollars of food in it?
That's the first thing that came to my mind when I read the title. Some politician earned millions and now he/she changed their mind.
> On the other side, one can have an essentially communist ownership structure operating in a market economy

Not for the entire economy. If you allow local decisions for investment, you are basically restoring capitalism. Economy-wide communism requires bureaucratic central planning.

(But well, the absurdly automated production we are moving into breaks capitalism too. We can't keep either.)
The entrenchment of smartphones in society dramatically increased between iPhone 4 and 14. Technical capability is just one axis.

Still, I think LLMs are different than phones in terms of scaling. Faster processor speeds don’t necessarily result in more user value for phones, but scaling up LLMs seem to predictability improve performance/accuracy.
Yes, so it’s not really a stable situation. BTC has a good chance of going close to zero.
Njalla takes control over customer domains
They shot a plane down on purpose, not the plane. Then they went full CYA mode, as at that time Russian involvement in the conflict was all about barely plausible deniability. Coming out and saying, "yes, we have sent a Russian SAM into Ukraine to shoot down Ukrainian airplanes and accidentally shot down a civilian airliner" was technically an option, but Russia preferred to deny everything and flood the infospace with a hundred conflicting theories.
I mean, I haven't listened in a while, but the coverage of how things played out during covid was very interesting to me.

Also, when they tracked a t-shirt thru the supply chain or bought mortgage securities.

One of the major forces behind it left to start Gimlet at some point.
That is true. The changes we will need to make will be significant. There is a change that some technology will cross the threshold of being the best-in-class or the-next-best-thing and the adoption will skyrocket. And those things might change very switfly.

Likely problem is with industries that are more difficult to electrify. Like aviation.
It was a big problem for web-facing services in interpreted languages "back in the day." All the dynamic languages basically fixed this problem ten years ago (or 20 years ago for Perl): https://lwn.net/Articles/474912/

If you weren't going to expose clox to the web or other untrusted input (and why would you), it's not a concern.
The post-pandemic tipping conventions mean that you can't be price sensitive and remain sane. What was a sincere risk gratuity two years ago is now a social expectation, and while food delivery and ridesharing in cities is very convenient, the service-class it created implies that now middle income people need to exercise some noblesse oblige to offer some dignity and offset some of the class resentment these jobs create. A tip now is whatever you wouldn't be embarassed to accept in their position.

In Canada, advertised prices for anything that isn't sitting on a shelf are basically a meaningless anchor number. We have a sales tax of 13% on everything, and then once you add the various service, subscription, card tap processing fees, credit card fees, warranty, "donation," and other fees, it's prudent to add at least 35% to any advertised price in your budget.

My answer was to avoid businesses that have more than one or two locations and shop at locally owned places as much as possible. Personally I just left the city as soon as I could afford to, for many reasons, but one of them was the effects of the inequality from importing people en masse from poor countries to do service jobs for the nouveau bourgeois was just becoming vulgar. No level of tipping in the world will change the relationship between a largely publicly funded middle class and the people who massage them, do their nails, drive them around, deliver their food, walk their small dogs, and clean their short term rentals. It's gross. Where possible, I opt out.
What if LLMs are the killer app?

https://lukashoel.github.io/text-to-room/
Distros like Redhat seem to be totally dropping the ball. Basic stuff like icons on the desktop and dragging and dropping files onto icons on the desktop isn't turns on by default and if you do turn it out it is broken. When the bug was reported it was closed without being fixed.
> But I didn’t go and cry about it on Reddit.

Perhaps you should have. I think people deserve to feel loss. Alienation is a real issue. Automation breeds Alienation. I much rather feel meaning at work than have a cheaper TV or yet another data mining website that requires yet another account for little benefit.

> Luddites say this about every single technological innovation that they whinge about.

Possibly because it should be concerning that any meaning found in work is being optimized away for someone else's benefit. The weird lack of empathy to admit it happened to you and to decide someone else should feel it to, sorta worries me.

Especially in a creative field. Who does the cookie cutter AI models benefit? It doesn't benefit the consumer who wasted money on a lazy product, it doesn't benefit the people working on the project, as now their working hours are cut due to the soulless optimization. It benefits the boss, the guy extracting this value and selling a lesser product.
It seems like we're pretty close to the point where LLMs will be able to create simple client apps. When anyone can make, say, an android note-taking app to their own specifications for free, it's not hard to imagine the impact on the paid note-taking apps in the store today. "Make me a game like Clash of Clans, but free, and with..." is probably only a few years further out.

One interesting question is: when people are using LLMs to generate software for their own use, what will they do for the server component of client-server use cases? Is "LLM, go register me an EC2 instance and configure it not to go over $20/mo, here's my credit card number" totally out of the question?
> if our brains are so sophisticated that they make natural intelligence possible, then we should be so intelligent that we would have the means to understand them

It may well be that building a brain is easier than understanding it.
> excess body weight, lack of physical activity, high consumption of processed meat and red meat, very high alcohol consumption

> “We know that smoking, alcohol, lack of physical activity, being overweight or obese, increased consumption of red meat – so basically, dietary factors and environmental and lifestyle factors – are likely playing a big role,”

> There could be correlations between obesity in younger adults, the foods they eat and the increase in colorectal cancers for the young adult population

> “I think younger people are on average consuming less healthy food – fast food, processed snacks, processed sugars – and I think that those foods also contain higher concentrations of carcinogens and mutagens, in addition to the fact that they are very fattening,”

> “it’s likely some kind of exposure, whether it be diet, medication, changing microbiome,” that is driving the rise in colorectal cancers in younger adults.
Sure, I agree with you, and if the author had said something like "AI will free us from drudgery so that we can pursue more meaningful pursuits" I may agree with him. However, he said people could get a pension and relax. You are interpreting the word relax (which means to seek rest and recreation) to be the opposite of what it means (you claim that 'relax' means to do meaningful work). I'm not sure why you're doing this.
Guy from Germany here: No, we didn't change our mind on combustion engines. They are getting less popular every month, and even the German car companies have roadmaps that phase out the combustion engine well before 2035.

Here is my take on the situation: The problem is that the current government consists of three very different parties (which was the only viable option for forming a government without the conservative climate disaster that is the CDU/CSU). One of these three parties, the FDP, is currently losing popularity because they essentially promised that fancy technology will solve all our problems (take note HN!), but that bluff got called now that they are part of the government. The FDP is quickly losing voter support, and entered panic mode. Unfortunately, the only voter base they can quickly tap into are petrolheads and people that don't like when things get "verboten". The FDP runs the ministry of transport, and used that influence to stall legislation for the entire EU. The other parties cannot really object, or our government would fall apart.

I can only personally apologize to all other EU nations. A party with about 5% popularity is holding our government hostage.

The only positive thing is that these people cannot really decide about the law in 2035, only about the law today. I hope the climate movement will grow stronger, and those people and their policies will be history much sooner.
I think I read that half of all cars that will be on the road in 2035 have already been sold.
My cynical take is that it's outrage bait to get some old books into the news cycle while having a chance to sell them to people who already own them. They're not removing words for any puritanical reasons, but rather because they know it pisses people off and it's a sure way to get people talking about their books.