skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a person who believes man is effecting the climate, and is very worried about sustainability, but also thinks that there are some climate scientists who are off in their estimates (or can be too myopic at times like any other human) and that there is still much for us to learn and discover, yes I can confirm that if you question anything or approach things with skepticism (even though that's the way science is supposed to be done), you are a "climate denier" or often called "a science denier." It's quite depressing.

I had hoped by now humanity would be moving deeply into rationality, but we're still just as emotion-driven as ever. We come by it honestly since our neurology is tuned to handle most (or maybe all) decisions subconciously and then have our conscious/rational mind justify the decision after the fact, but I do believe that by understanding our biology and implementing systems/approaches to combat it, we could become a highly logical species. There is still some hope on the horizon. Live long and prosper my friend.
If you're really mistrusting of your employer, you may not want to give them proof you notified them earlier.
> Why did this “3x shift advantage” deliver gains only in the past 5 years?

Intel, and the US, had an enormous head start. Gordon Moore started at Shockley, which was founded in 1955. William Shockley was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1956 for inventing the solid state transistor. Moore then went to go help found Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, which invented the CMOS process. Intel was founded in 1968. TSMC wasn't founded until 1987.

In 1968 when Intel was founded, Taiwan was a poor country with little capital. Its GDP per capita was around $300. Taiwan's GDP per capita in 1987 was $5,300 in today's money. The US's was almost four times higher at $20,000.
And that means that expressing requirements to chatGPT is not easier than expressing them to a human professional. Which is hard. And prone to misunderstanding, re-explanations, back and forth. Formalisms and modelisation have been invented (even before computers, eg. blueprints or paper forms) to simplify expressing requirements and make communication about problems and solution better.
Natural language is a worse way of expressing intent and complex needs that other forms of UIs. It has the benefit of plasticity, but is really bad at discoverability, consistency, least-surprise, recognition vs. recall, and many other important aspect of an effective, leveraging UI.
> The way to avoid this is to buy items that are “shipped from and sold by” Amazon or the manufacturer.

Unless Amazon has given up the logistical economy of commingling “shipped and sold by Amazon” products with “fulfilled by Amazon”, and FBA products across sellers, this doesn't actually help.
>inherently more violent then women

This isn't true. Women just express violence in different ways (many of which are not seen as typically 'violent' because the benchmark is based on the sort of violence men do).

Capacity & propensity for violence isn't an exclusively masculine trait, but rather a core human trait.
Journalwatch: Minimal journald log forwarder to AWS cloudwatch
They missed the opportunity to call it Voight-Kampff test
Lol, for the "human" just doing discord spam.
haha yeah nicely put
This is what GP means by “real” (after accounting for inflation) returns, as opposed to nominal returns.
If anything unions are pro work because they improve the workplace. Maybe you mean anti unchecked management class which, well, is not good for anyone.
You're not supposed to question the scam, you're supposed to get in on it.
Food is also essential. If housing appreciated at a constant rate against a commodity like wheat for example, eventually you would be able to sell a house for the entire global supply of wheat (assuming wheat supply grew slower) .
Their fabs would be instantly destroyed in the invasion. If China’s attacks don’t destroy them, the US will to avoid the tech entering China’s hands.

Frankly, the whole idea that the US is only defending Taiwan because of TSMC is ridiculous.

Losing access to cutting edge nodes will screw some businesses over but it hardly the end of the world.
I mean, you could have a bunch of other things in the GPU instead of those cores, but the reality is that ray tracing serves multiple target markets for GPUs very well, and actually meets a demand people have: better graphical quality. In contrast, while I'm jealous of my friend with a 16GB 4080, versus my paltry 10GB 3080, it does not realistically impact anything I do outside of occasional ML retraining tasks. Neither did my old 8GB card. Gaming workloads just generally don't need it, because people there are mostly bound by compute, not texture or RAM limits -- and solutions like super-resolution/upscaling instead improve performance and memory usage all at once.

> and it costs about $250 for a basic NVidia card today that can do slightly better

Eh, the 3050 is like 30% more efficient in every single benchmark versus a 1060, with 30% more VRAM, and costs like $280. I don't think 30% is "slightly better". The Arc A750 also is around the same price point and is nearly 80% better, but I admit Nvidia has the best software stack on the market at the moment so the 3050 is a more fair comparison.
This looks lovely! How do I configure width? I am especially looking for Twitter friendly width screenfetch
The wealthy people demanding luxury housing are the ones driving housing prices up. They’re going to buy a house no matter what - would you rather they “overpay” for an existing house in an established neighborhood and drive gentrification, or move into new construction?

If you meet their demand with new housing, the demand and price pressure on existing housing inventory will decrease, even if you don’t build any new “affordable” housing.
(That made me think of that Life of Brian scene with the Roman guards :D)
but the real appreciation is actually in land prices. at least in highly contested markets.

though I agree with larger point that its not productive growth. In fact I have been saying in past that land prices are the perfectly useless sink for the worthless money created by central bankers out of thin air.
Stellar victory for their IT system also: no backups, no local data, no malware, just chuck the thin client and replace, the user is back working in minutes. If you can salvage a few with light repair, great, but the labor saving is substantial.
My daughter (11) has to constantly be reminded not to pick her laptop of by one hand, by the edge, holding it horizontally.

Back when day trading was a thing and Starbucks was packed with people on laptops, I used to see people pick up their computers by the top of the screen all the time. I never understood that.
It’s also worth noting that the 50+ future inhabitants of that building get no say in the discussion either.
I keep hearing from people that they like Amazon due to the ease of refunds, but it's not been my experience. The last time I wanted to return an item as it was clearly used, but the automated system rejected my claim because I personally had used it (I really needed it the day it arrived, so I didn't have a choice - and I didn't want merely a refund, but a replacement, so this isn't like I got full use and didn't want to pay).

Never had issues returning anything to Target. They just ask the customary questions ("Was there anything wrong with it?").

With Walmart the only issue I had is long lines. And if it was bought online it's pointless to return in person - the folks in the local stores aren't aware of the return policy for online purchases. But returning via mail - no problem. And getting a human on the phone was easy.
I was really quite fond of colinux, out of assorted VM tech, colinux, cygwin and WSL1 and 2 that have provided me with enough of an X11+xterm+ssh rig to get work done comfortably on a windows machine I think colinux and WSL1 have been the least friction overall.
> the wild population is larger than our own herds.

It is not.

Domesticated cows make up approximately 35% of the world's mammal biomass. That's the same as humans. All wild land animals combined - all the ones you mentioned and many more - make up around 2%.

One source: https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
Until a few years ago it was enough to ask someone if they were a human to know if it’s some chat bot or not but now someone can just setup an ai to say things for them. I’m concerned about the professions like therapist.
What notable languages don't have an opinionated auto-formatter? Like Python/Black, Rust/rustfmt, JS/prettier, etc.
The short answer is that unemployment claims increase the amount a company has to pay in during future years. https://unemployment-services.com/unemployment-claim-cost-em...
The fact that this isn't insanely obvious to every single person in the world is infuriating. It was obvious centuries ago. It's obvious now. Everyone that's aware needs to stop questioning their own eyes. If someone claims the sun is NOT going to rise tomorrow, everyone will put the burden of proof on them. Calling your observation a "prediction" is as useful as calling the claim that the sun IS going to rise tomorrow a prediction.

Calling these people fascists is 100% accurate and there will be at least one idiot that replies to this comment claiming it's hyperbole. We're WAY beyond that point. They are taking major action, daily at this point, and every "win" is emboldening all the rest. The exponential growth might be beyond stopping at this point. I know I have no clue what to do other than scream at the sky and prepare as best I can for the likely future of this country.
> that easy

Can you code? Can you illustrate? Can you build? Piece by piece, you sketch, implement, hone, finetune, improve, correct, retry, go into detail, expand... The ease of the process is relative to the tools adopted.

Of course there has to be knowledge behind it. Of course you have to know your tools. But "wild horse" and "diligent consultant", axe and scalpel require different degrees areas and modalities of competence.

A well built tool will build on the competences already natural for the professional (e.g. a graphic designer will be able to sketch and to instruct the machine in a reasonably standard language). Of course the better you know your tool, the greater the effectiveness. But currently, the systems can be strongly unreliable - they do not respect the request.

The user will have to learn to deal with a machine taking natural language as an input just like any manager has to know how to speak to personnel to obtain what is wanted. On the other hand, the implementation of "virtual personnel" which is reliable is a responsibility of the tool developers.
8 years is a very long time to support a device. How many other devices are updates made available for 8 years?
Sound like you need to learn to search. There's tons of resources on game dev. I can sort of see the value of using GPT here but have you tried using it in an area you're an expert in ? The rate of convincing bullshit vs correct answers is astonishing. It gets better with Phind/Bing but then it's a roulette that it will hit valid answers in the index fast enough.

My point is - learning with GPT at this point sounds like setting yourself up for failure - you won't know when it's bullshiting you and you're missing out on learning how to actually learn.

By the time LLMs are reliable enough to teach you, whatever you're learning is probably irrelevant since it can be solved better by LLM.
Land is an investment. And land that is in places people want to be is an exceptionally good investment.
Why affordable housing should be new?
> The nervous system is cross-wired [...] I asked my doctor last week why this should be, all I got was a shrug. So I asked Catherine Carr, a neuroscientist at the University of Maryland, College Park. “No good answer,” she replied.

After reading the piece, as he's proposition a potential theory based on mathematics and elegance of the solution, her reply still feels totally apt. That makes the title slightly misrepresent what he's trying to convey. We don't get the why, just a maybe.

Otherwise I'm not sure 3d mapping simplicity is enough of an answer when the brain can also adapt to way more complicated configurations when receiving partial damage for instance. It also feels like we have very few organs that developped along the most simple solution
You heard it here, folks! Climate change is a hoax.
> It's not like they're obligated to buy a car that's so tall you can run over a child without noticing.

We're stuck in a race to the top.

Intuitively, a larger car is safer: if two differently-sized cars are in a crash, the big one will win while the small one suffers greater damage. In the modern age of safetyism, that means that if I'm on a road surrounded by larger cars, I also must by a large car in self defense. Thus, everybody keeps upping the ante, buying larger cars.

(FWIW, I don't subscribe to that approach. I favor a nimble and agile car to allow me to avoid a collision in the first place.)
On the contrary, the point is to correct for that fact that a flat-fee fine is a complete non-issue if your income is high enough. There have been times in my life when an accidental or unexpected $50 fine would impact my ability to pay rent or other essential bills that month. But now I'm not even sure I'd bother going to court to contest something that small because I just wouldn't care enough to spend the time or emotional investment.
Not at all. Ending someone's employment because they are predicted to be insufficiently beneficial to the organization is a different topic than terminating someone because they made a decision that turned out to be suboptimal, which may have been unreasonable to be able to forecast.

It is possible that the suboptimal decision of overhearing was made in such a manner such that indicates the decision maker may not be beneficial to the organization, but not necessarily.
Why does it need to be non-destructive?
Shit parents will just buy themselves a laptop
this article is satire
No, it means exactly what they are doing.
> How? I smell bullsh*t.

Actually no, I don't think you would because raising/using cattle would not be allowed if we stopped all methane emitting activities. Also your farts can contain methane, so you'd have to hold them in ... forever. If you've ever had to do that during a long meeting, you should know it is negative to human fluorishing.

Giving up hamburgers and farting is not the only thing we'd have to do. I get the feeling you didn't think very hard about GP's comment before arrogantly and ignorantly dismissing them as bullshit. If you honestly think a world where only the wealthy had heated homes and many other products that everybody now takes for granted won't negatively effect human fluorishing, I'd be (truly) interested in hearing why, such as what would either replace those things or why we would no longer need them.
This article reminds me of the "Prayer of a Selfish Child"[1]

The attitude of homeowners is somehow slightly worse than "fuck you, I've got mine". It's more like "no matter what, I must stay ahead of those lacking the foresight to be born in the 1950's or 60's".
[1] https://shelsilverstein.yolasite.com/prayer-of-the-selfish-c...
So are humans. If I were to draw a Mickey mouse from memory, would it be amenable to copyright laws?
A new artificial (or otherwise) intelligence would also be a new form of social collaboration. And we shouldn't really insist that "its not intelligent" is true, when the semantics of intelligence is so loaded/vauge/unclear.

Maybe it isn't intelligent, but just because it is "statistics" doesn't imply that. Everything that can be thought can be thought with just NAND gates, Our brain is just atoms bouncing around.
How do I see the table schema? It doesn't want to accept "show table" queries
I'd like to offer https://github.com/jamesob/desk as an alternative to direnv. It's useful for also jumping to the project directory and doing other things like opening an editor.
This could be accomplished without surveillance capitalism.
I have to say I love editorconfig, I feel that once you start running code and managing tools it starts to get too much for me. At that point just spin up a VM or container so that the environment is yours.

I loathe pre-commit hooks. I often times just want to save work in progress or show someone what I have right now and they slow down my work or worse fail and lose my commit message and cause me to have to figure out how to disable them to continue. If you want to run checks for formatting or similar that is much better done in CI. I can get a reminder without breaking any dev workflows. Of course make fixing formatting a single command, and maybe an optional hook for those that prefer it. But when projects try to auto-install hooks it drives me crazy.
> I can’t stand when I see “my fur baby is lost!” when describing the escape of large adult social dog. No, that dog knows how to get home. It escaped its prison.

That dog may know how to get home initially and enjoys the freedom having slipped the leash and exploring. But there's no guarantee that when the dog decides it would like to get home that it can, nor is it making an informed decision about the risks that it faces.
Why crashing lithium prices will not make electric cars cheaper
Japanese houses are built to last 20 years and be thrown away. Japanese houses are better compared to trailer homes in the USA in terms of lifespan and depreciation. Also they have a declining population.
Happy Fedora user, here. I love it. I do miss the AUR from Arch, though. I miss absolutely nothing about Ubuntu.
To make new mosquitoes.
It's pretty great but the hardware has become crazy expensive in recent years :'(
As with many things Amazon, it seems like they're very good at optimizing, but they don't optimize for what I would want to be optimized.

For customer service, they seem to be oriented towards 'make the customer happy' rather than 'fix the problem'. So they end up in about the same place as most corporate customer service; the agents have no agency to get problems fixed, although at least they've historically been able to try to make the customer happy.
If he had taken a pay cut like Tim Cook, he would still be filthy rich and well compensated and thousand of google employees had kept their job. But we all know how he's "entitled" to it.
> I'm 22. This has been talked about my entire life. Progress on this has been glacial, if there's been any at all. At some point, enough is going wrong with this country that there is going to be a mass of young and angry protestors that's never been seen before.

Probably not. I'm 59, it's been talked about my entire life, in two countries. Governments are unwilling to fundamentally reorganize the basics of property ownership and building to help their citizens lead better (or even reasonable) lives, but they will go the extra mile or three to make sure that a mass of young and angry protestors do not get what they want.
> Nature doesn’t really like cyclic graphs, does it?

I had a course in computational neuroscience as part of my bachelor's and one of the things that we covered was that the timing of fires is important, in that depending on how soon before or after a neighbouring neuron fires, the connection may be weakened or strengthened. This is called Spike-timing-dependent plasticity:

> Under the STDP process, if an input spike to a neuron tends, on average, to occur immediately before that neuron's output spike, then that particular input is made somewhat stronger. If an input spike tends, on average, to occur immediately after an output spike, then that particular input is made somewhat weaker hence: "spike-timing-dependent plasticity"

From [1].

The implication of that, I believe, is that it prevents short cyclic graphs, for the sole reason of avoiding feedback loops that can cause the brain to go haywire (lol) due to the feedback loop. It sounds like an evolutionary adaptation to prevent short-circuiting.

From Hebbian Learning, we have that the cycles would become easier to trigger, meaning that it is a feedback loop that increases efficiency, however, without a mechanism to prevent this cyclical feedback loop, the brain could be filled with cycles that eventually turn to just rings, which is probably not a desirable property.

If anyone knows more about this please tell me. If it's a new idea, please remember to add my name :')

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike-timing-dependent_plastic...
> The way to avoid this is to buy items that are “shipped from and sold by” Amazon or the manufacturer.

Former Amazon seller here. Comingling happens, so this is not much of a guarantee. Yes, Amazon will track which seller sent the item that you got, and can penalize them, but I still have to put up with a return process.

Simply not an issue with places like Target and Walmart. Ever. If I order something new and Walmart is the seller, I will get a new, unadulterated item.

And while we're at it, I've never had a problem with eBay either. You'd expect this to be a bigger problem there.
Almost any area builds soil structure if you leave it undisturbed. It’s important to remember that solar installations aren’t an industrial concrete slab but leave space for secondary agricultural use. I have a hayfield which produces better year over years because the roots of the grass are undisturbed.
> far future

Voting demographics and policy makers will be dead by then.
No discussion of chess piece names would be complete without mentioning Uel Aramcheck's Forbidden Chess Pieces:

The Prophet, who is aware of the hands which move the pieces.

The Crows, placed on the board after the final turn.

And many more:
https://twitter.com/thepatanoiac/status/439992435205083136?l...
> Letters on your T-shirt appear reversed for the same reason that the name “Quanta” would appear flipped, as “Quanta” if you wrote it with your finger on a frosty window and then went outside to look at it.

I'm amused at the audacity of the author for asking the webdevs to manually wire up a unique HTML span with a custom CSS transform solely to make a single word appear to be rendered as though seen in a mirror. :)
Thoughts on the morning after the F5 reduction in force
The deniers are mostly denying that the impact of human activities on climate is real. They are just attacking the models as a convenient scapegoat which is weird because everyone know the models can be criticised but there is undeniable evidence for human emitted CO2 having an impact so it’s mostly a waste of time.

If you really want to criticise the models, demographic hypotheses are far more questionable than anything having to do with methane by the way. Population growth was widely overestimated in the 90s for example and might still be. Plus the impact of an aging population and immigration becoming the main factor of population growth in the USA, Europe and China isn’t really well studied. This is partially voluntary by the way as it quickly leads to unsavoury questions.