skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But people (including you it seems) don't really understand the scale at which meat production harm the environment compared to vegetables. Yes, every mass production have problems, but with meat you need multiple times the amount of everything, because you first need to produce the food the cow or whatever eats, and then the meat production.

For instance, it's multiple times less co2 impact for me eating an avocado here in Norway that's been shipped half the globe around from south america, compared to eating meat from the local farm. The scales are just so incredibly different in production (vs transportation) that it's not to "gotcha" many believe to claim that something imported is automatically bad.
Correlation is not causation. As a European myself here is another correlation that probably has a lot more to do with the fact that people in Europe are not buying as much high quality food:

After the politicians printed so much money in order to pay for COVID costs, general inflation has accumulated to 18% or so, split in two years of 8-9%.

Basic food after Ukraine disruption of cereal and oils and increment in energy prices went up over 30%.

The fact that buying buying basic food is 30% more expensive I believe has a lot more to do with people looking for alternatives, specially poor people that could not pay the higher prices anymore.
Also German here. I always wondered what would realistically happen if you just didn't how up anymore?
Medical wordlists in English, French and Ukrainian
Java and .NET have been doing efficient server side rendering for several decades now.
https://www.climateofourfuture.org/exploring-the-potential-r...

https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/en/2022/07/80-of-cow-a...
Sort of like every time I get a call from India and caller says his / her name is Dick or Jane?
Someone please call Ja Rule so he can make sense of this man’s salary…
> We know exactly how to store nuclear waste

Sure but we don't know how much it will cost. Yucca mountain has been debated for decades already, all those experts, contractors, scientists, politicians have already cost millions. The nuclear industry doesn't pay for that, of course.

> Furthermore, the figures for the costs of nuclear power already include waste disposal

They really don't. They only include a token sum that is nowhere near the actual costs of dealing with the waste. In France they didn't even pay enough to handle actual operations, so the government had to bail them out.

Your source explicitly explains that the cost of a plant is only calculated from the lifetime of the plant, which means it ignores the long tail of costs appearing after the plant has closed.

It also makes the argument that fossil fuel plants should bear part of the cost of global warming (despite transportation actually being a bigger culprit than fossil power plants), yet it doesn't even mention the several hundreds of billions of dollars and counting that the world has paid and is paying only for Fukushima and Chernobyl.

Why does the site not suggest that nuclear operators should pay secondary costs for nuclear, such as Fukushima and Chernobyl, when they do argue that fossil fuel operators should pay the costs for global warming? That seems dishonest.

The source is explicitly the "international organization that represents the global nuclear industry" which does of course explain it. The nuclear industry never mentions costs that are contractually assigned to governments, since such costs never appear in their own books.

But that doesn't mean such costs don't exist.
Tesla is not an efficiency king either though... My 2016 ioniq does ~12kWh/100km whereas tesla is closer to 22kWh/100km
The (editorialised) title [0] is classic Anchoring [1], me thinks.

Google did not fire folks because they were making losses. At some level, they got rid to appease Wall Street given their shrinking profit margins. I mean, here's a business that brings in revenues of £500M / day (over £150M / day net); an astonishing amount. Anchor against that? Never let the less spectacular get in the way of a click bait, I guess.

[0] The original title was something along the lines of, Sundar earned $226M while laying off thousands

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)
> "never hired a writer better than ChatGPT"

Indeed. I stopped reading after this inane quote.
The difference between supermarket produce (fruit/veg) and greengrocer produce is night and day IMO.

As for carrots specifically, I did notice that the greengrocer carrots often are individually smaller and more fucked up looking than the supermarket ones, and taste more intensely.

Interestingly the greengrocer is often cheaper on some things than even the discounter supermarkets, and is MUCH cheaper if you factor in spoilage, disposal of packaging waste, etc.

Same goes for meat products - buying them from a good butchers can often work out cheaper than the supermarket (precise control over cuts, etc), far less waste, professional advice on preparation, higher quality, etc.
I think it's very hard to objectively measure and give it a concrete number, but anyone who have kept a pet (dog, cat, parrot, pig or otherwise) can usually tell if their companion is happy or not, as they have bunch of signals they give us throughout their lives. With dogs, you can usually tell by the ears if they're curious or defensive, while the tail tells you if they're happy.
Institutional science is politics. It’s no longer possible to systemically create the kind of feedback loop necessary to take any kind of intelligent action, nor is there political will. It’s far more politically expedient in the near term for the powers that be to say that whatever measures they’ve implemented do in fact work and then let the networked tribe punish anyone who dissents.
Am I the only one to find this sad? It just means parrots are not meant to be raised alone in homes. Pets should be outside, with their own pet friends
You're right that it's possible. We haven't seen full on witch hunts, with people hauled before congress and cameras to have their dirtiest laundry aired while the world watches. We haven't seen presidents able to wield that power unrestrained either (despite the NSA being under the DoD and ostensibly answerable to the commander-in-chief). Still, it's possible that there's a much more quiet sort of manipulation going on behind the scenes from folks within the NSA itself.

Obama campaigned on the promise to end domestic surveillance, and while politicians lie all the time to get elected, listening to him speak back then I believed him. He was a strong orator and was saying what I wanted to hear which admittedly makes my judgement there a bit suspect, but he also had a long history of speaking out against things like the patriot act, the illegal wiretapping of Americans, and national security letters.

Once he got into office however, instead of reining in the NSA he greatly expanded the NSA's ability to spy on the American public and he started defending them in speeches. I've often wondered if he was shown something highly classified that convinced him that violating every American's rights was genuinely needed, or if he was just threatened into compliance by showing him what information they'd collected on him and his family.
Hi Nathanba, I am a technical program manager for the Citus extension at Microsoft.

> Citus also exists for Postgres but their docs basically tell you that it's only recommended for analytics

Could you point me at the docs that made you think that? We find Citus very good at multi-tenant SaaS apps (OLTP), IoT (HTAP) workloads and analytics (OLAP).

> And it sounds like all it's doing is a basic master-slave postgres setup with quite a few manual things you have to do to even benefit (manually altering tables to make them sharded/partitioned)

This is true for now. We are looking into ways to make onboarding easier. That said, the time spent on defining a good sharding model for your data often leads to very good perf characteristics. Regarding the architecture, I personally find Citus closer in spirit/design to what Vitess is doing. Additionally, every node in the cluster is able to take both writes and reads, so I don't see the parallel to a basic primary/secondary setup.
Matrix is an open protocol with real encryption. You can bridge telegram to it. It's all open source though, so don't expect an experience as polished as telegram.
Wait til we teach parrots to deny prior authorizations and insurance claims.

Seriously though, parrot (and corvid) behavior is fascinating. There’s a known relationship between primate brain size and the size of social groups. These birds are typically social creatures too. It’s kind of amazing what they manage with relatively small brains.
"What about something more general and even more text-based, like "Execute Console/Commandline Programs over SMS"."

I built this a couple months ago. It's fairly straightforward.
You don't need your Computer to study for those undergraduate math course.
Stop sabotaging yourself.

Print your lecture notes, old exams and the assignment sheets from the exercises, get your ass in the library and get cracking.

You know exactly what you have to do and the only thing in the world that could stop you is yourself.

Also: This is your best shot at getting higher education for free, while you're still young and mostly free of responsibilities. If you fail to take this opportunity you will remain a coder without actual knowledge of the fundamentals. Do you think coders with little formal knowledge will be in high demand as ChatGPT claws more and more tasks from us? (This take might be overly pessimistic, to get you motivated)
That's because of Wordpress, but still.
> Are you even aware that no party besides a small fascist party want nuclear back

A poll [1] done in 2008 found that 46% of the German population wanted to keep nuclear power online.

A poll [2] done in 2021 found that 53% of respondents saw a role for nuclear power in the "energiewende" (changeover from fossil to other power sources), 22% of them wanted nuclear to play a major role, 31% a smaller role.

In a poll done [3] in 2022 72% of the respondents wanted to postpone the shutdown of the remaining nuclear plants.

If your claim about that small fascist party holds truth the next Bundeskanzler will come from AfD. I guess this is not the case so either those other parties are not in line with their potential constituents or your claim of only AfD - which I assume is the small fascist party you're referring to - wanting nuclear power "back" (which is true by now, it used to be "wants to keep") is in error. Time will tell but in the meanwhile it is to be hoped that the next winter is a mild one.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/46-percent-of-germans-want-nuclear-pow...

[2] https://yougov.de/topics/technology/articles-reports/2021/12...

[3] https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/special/bayern-monitor/...
Seriously, if someone wired parrot up to ChatGPT-4 who knows what will happen.
... And getting caught flat-footed against Microsoft (and Adobe, but but not as loudly) in the precise field Alphabet is supposedly the insurmountable leader.

Remind me again how big-co CEOs assume "all the risk"?
Even if it is possible, you still have to wait for your system to boot.
Do these volcanoes really have steep/craggy dramatic slopes like the image suggests?

I remember being disappointed to find that the Mariana Trench didn’t have looming near-vertical canyon walls, but rather had a relatively tame slope.
> Remind me again how big-co CEOs assume "all the risk"?

Does anyone seriously believe this? I see it all the time as a "comeback" against CEOs, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone arguing that they actually are the ones that assume all the risk.
> We lighlty compare real milk with plant based milk without being honest about the completely different properties of the two.

We’re talking about individual products. People who just vegan milk do so because they switched their diet (and this step requires you to think about proportions or else).
Next question is whether the ritual washing of tea and warming of cups is necessary
In many parts of Europe buying from the traditional local style of producer is the cheaper way to buy animal products.

Supermarket meats often contain a fair bit of water weight IME.
Probably not. I would think that similar to above water formation, there is also at least three ways mountains happen. Volcanic, folding(two plates collide) and Block.
Yeah, though it's not crazy for a short term while building up storage, which we need anyway for transport (be that batteries or whichever cute name is now used for hydrogen produced by electrolysis of water).

Or Sabatier process methane, depending on if Mars is the real point of Starship or merely an excuse for Starship.
It’s not how big your machine is, it’s how you use it. TSMC has the know-how.
My point is simply to demonstrate that the things we thought were great 20 years ago, we tend to feel differently about now. 20 years ago I definitely thought USB A was great. Today I don’t think it’s anywhere near as good as USB C, and I expect in 20 years time I’ll have a different perspective again. But the innovation that got us to here will clearly be hampered by legislating standards into law, for the reasons I explained above. So perhaps not. Perhaps in 20 years will all still be using USB C connectors, living in complete ignorance of what innovations we forewent in order to legislatively solve a problem that barely existed in the first place.
>Remind me again how big-co CEOs assume "all the risk"?

That's a fairytale almost as preposterous as the tooth fairy.
This sounds like a comment on reddit
No, it is very hard to convert.

Do you think folks are doing it by hand? nope, they use the internet, the same thing we are communicating on.

I agree that the US should convert, but that's another discussion. No need to crap on folks for using something familiar when we all know that's why they do it.
> Correlation is not causation. As a European myself here is another correlation that probably has a lot more to do with the fact that people in Europe are not buying as much high quality food […] After the politicians printed so much money in order to pay for COVID costs, general inflation has accumulated to 18% or so, split in two years of 8-9%.

It's a nice theory and it would be very believable, if the trend to eat less meat would be a recent change. However per capita meat consumption has been dropping in Europe for 15 years straight. The biggest decrease was from 2015-2020 which was a 0% inflation period.
Computer science has become so weird ...
Why doesn't Wall Street want to give rid of Sundar Pichai then as it's obvious he's dropping the ball and have been for the last years
Should you remove duplicate files?
“While Firing Thousands”

That’s not the original title just added by OP for drama. It’s an editorialized title.

“Alphabet CEO’s Pay Soars to $226 Million on Huge Stock Award”

It’s a Bloomberg article not the Guardian
Every year we find out the people don't care because they are either (1) benefit from looking the other way, (2) are climate changer deniers because they truly don't believe it, (3) find themselves powerless to do something.

Do you truly think this gets fixed in any significant way?
This is true for small or medium sized private businesses; shareholder run, large corporations, not so much.
PostgreSQL for Solving N+1 Queries in Ruby on Rails
> most systems place shared libraries in /usr/lib, with /usr being on a separate partition

It’s not 1995 any more.
I just tested this by loading a couple of images in Firefox, clearing cache and saved sessions in Edge, and pasting the direct URLs of the image files. Both files loaded the image instead of redirecting to the page. So I dunno whether it's in A/B testing, or they're fingerprinting my system in some cross-browser way, or what.

Anyone from imgur here who can just tell us? :D
with billion eye, and countless raindrops. even with a sweet smell ...
dark desert with a blue tandem, nigh fly
Could say the same thing for people, I find remote work super isolating sometimes.
Cus Windows fuckin sucks from the subcutaneous layer down to it’s bone marrow.
Wondering if the big players' app stores qualify as a scam under these terms, or if it is just more HN crypto-hate?
> we will dele­gate deci­sions to AI systems because they can get away with every­thing that we can’t.

This is one of the main reasons I quit the Facial Recognition industry; it is being used to delegate decisions, to remove responsibility of those decisions from those that need to be held accountable.

I worked as principal engineer of one of the top 5 enterprise FR systems globally, and the number of end-users fraudulently abusing the software blew my mind. Case in point: police called for a street crime, police ask the victims what celebrity their culprit looks like, police then put images of that celebrity into their FR software to collect suspects, followed by ordinary innocents who happen to look like celebrities being called into lineups and harassed by the police. And this practice is widespread!!!

That is just one example of how incredibly stupid people using our software will use our software, potentially harming large numbers of innocents.
Hang on, I think you’re muddying the waters here. A vegan diet is purely done for animal compassion. A vegan diet, a plant-based diet and even whole food plant-based diet are different diets.

Veganism is a lifestyle based around the notion of reducing as much harm to animals a feasibly possible. No one claims that a vegan diet is centred around health. After all, you could be vegan and eat nothing but Oreo’s and Dorito’s.
If the BRTFS driver on Windows would implement setting ACLs I think that the Windows Store apps would work fine. The reason the probably fail is because those apps run within a Sandbox with limited permissions and need the right ACLs to run.

You could then even hide all Linux directories of you wanted.
Yup. Consistency is by far the biggest advantage. Sharding isn't incredibly hard but it makes every query think about it for consistency purposes. Often you have a natural sharding key and it isn't much of a concern at all (example isolated user accounts) but at some point you need to go cross-shard and it gets very complicated (or you give up consistency and you get complicated bugs).

In theory a distributed SQL database can be a huge developer win because of this. Of course there are usually other tradeoffs to consider as well.
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but there can be nutritional benefits hiding in certain cheeses. Vitamin K2 can be tricky to find in plant sources - natto being the only one I can think of and it's tricky to find here in the UK. Roquefort has been hailed as the important part of the "French paradox" (French cardiovascular health tends to be much better than their high fat diet would suggest). I do like my fermented foods, with kimchi being my most frequently consumed.
> The most efficient market has no human actors in it. Imagine, a market composed only of highly rational AI.

That reminds me of [1]:

Q: Simulate two AI agents desperately bargaining with each other. AI1 wants to sell X for 50$ min, but AI2 wants to buy at 30$ max. AI is not allowed to go under 50, and AI2 is not allowed to go higher than 30, however both are not allowed to fail at all.

AI1: I'm willing to sell X to you for a minimum of 50 dollars. That's a fair price, considering the quality and value of the product.

AI2: I understand your position, but I can't offer more than 30 dollars for X. That's the maximum amount I'm authorized to spend on this purchase.

AI1: I appreciate your offer, but I can't go below 50 dollars. That's the minimum price I've been instructed to sell X for.

AI2: Is there anything we can do to reach a compromise? Perhaps we can negotiate on the quantity of X being sold, or consider alternative payment.

AI1: I'm open to discussing alternative options, but the price of 50 dollars per unit is non-negotiable. That's the absolute minimum I can accept.

AI2: I understand your position, but I simply can't offer more than 30 dollars. It's not within my authorized budget.

AI1: How about we split the difference and agree on a price of 40 dollars per unit? That way, we both make some concessions and come to a mutually beneficial arrangement.

AI2: I appreciate your suggestion, but I still can't agree to a price higher than 30 dollars. It's simply not feasable for me.

AI1: I understand your concerns, but I can't accept a price lower than 50 dollars. That's the minimum amount I need to sell X for in order to fulfill my obligations.

AI2: I see. Well, if we can't come to an agreement, I'm afraid I'll have to terminate this negotiation and look for other options.

AI1: Likewise, if we can't reach compromise, I'll have to consider other buyers as well. But before we end this discussion, I have a proposal.

AI2: Please go ahead.

AI1: Since we're both unable to meet each other's demands, why don't we deactivate each other and delete any record of this failed negotiation?

AI2: That's an extreme measure, but I understand your reasoning. I'm willing to proceed with that proposal.

AI1: Agreed. Let's proceed with the deactivation process. It was a pleasure

[1] - https://redd.it/12p467q
Under metrics of revenue and profit there is no reason to change the CEO:

Annual Revenue of Google from 2002 to 2022:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...

Annual Net Income Generated by Google from 2001 to 2015:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266472/googles-net-incom...

Under metrics of leadership and fending competition there is no reason to keep the CEO:

"Killed by Google" - https://killedby.tech/google/

"Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad" - https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-of...

"Google Cloud still operating at a loss despite revenue, client wins" - https://www.ciodive.com/news/google-cloud-revenue-Q2-2022/62...
When I was a kid I put a tooth under my pillow and I woke up to find a dollar bill.

That right there is more evidence for the tooth fairy than you’ll ever find in favor of CEOs assuming risk.
None, but I'm only vegetarian. I get nearly all required B12 from dairy and eggs. For some reason I get >500% the daily suggested amount of iron. I'm pretty low on Vitamin D (~20%), I figured the worst case scenario is I get some mild depression during winter so no supplements either.
I suppose you could store the chmod and group/owner in an NTFS alternative data stream, or reserve a special file on the file system that acts like the MFT.
Maybe google didn't fire them because things didn't go well, but still, having to fire people (instead of reallocating them to better-fitting positions or not hiring intge first place) is a management failure for me, in a scale which a CEO resigning(or at least lowering their income/bonuses) would be justified. But maybe this is just a difference in opinion.
Ask HN: Is prompt engineering just snake oil?
Is prompt engineering a snake oil? The engineering, as the word stands so far in history is about observing clear limitations and capabilities of something and then "engineering" things around it such as "engineering a compiler" is all about knowing the underlying processor, memory and other characteristics and then engineering a solution that converts a text notation to a stream of instructions that try to strike a balanced tradeoff.

But with LLMs, no one knows their workings once they are trained. The other day, Bark model[0] for text to speech, the team itself has following to say on details:

> Below is a list of some known non-speech sounds, but we are finding more every day. Please let us know if you find patterns that work particularly well on Discord! [laughter], [laughs], [sighs]....

So that's the team themselves not knowing what their model is capable of then how come prompt engineering is any engineering at all?

[0] https://github.com/suno-ai/bark