skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goals should be realistic.

Aiming for 1.5C, then missing it and then continuously failing on 1.6C, 1.7C, 1.8C etc. is akin to a fat person missing their goal of 200lbs, and then telling themselves in front of the mirror every extra 10lb - "I'm going to stop eating junk food today! No, really, this is the day!"

It's a cognitive failure to adequately process signals that the real physical world is sending to you. Or measurements that you take from the real world.

We _should_ be making things better, yes. But setting an arbitrary goal isn't helpful.

You know what would be helpful? Just giving ever person who's considering a solar project a much larger tax break than currently exists. Expand community solar programs for medium-size installations up to 2MW. Subsidize energy storage installations to complement that installed solar.

Anyone who's advocating for targeting an ambitious goal is missing the point completely. If that was helpful, why not just say we're targeting 0C?

In fact, let's target -1C and shoot extra energy into space. We might even discover some cool tech this way.
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Yet, consuming books and websites will fundamentally change in the next few years. There is little reason to have nausea over alternate forms of content consumption.
That's interesting. Have there been attempts to litigate copyrights based on that precedent?
> IKEA is like the Toyota of furniture.

Except that Toyota vehicles can take a lot of neglect and keep on going.
Yes it does.

Just because someone does inevitably win the lottery does not make lottery ticket buying financially literate & savvy.
A nice cheap (as modular synthesizers go) testbed for logic noise circuits is the AE modular format made by Tangible Waves (https://www.tangiblewaves.com/). It all operates on 0-5V, so experimenting with CMOS chips (as well as microcontrollers like Arduino Nano etc.) is easy, and there are quite a few modules available. They also have a breadboard module where you can experiment with small circuits directly on the module. I have had a blast with it (though I am by no means a musician), it was a gateway into Arduino for me.

Shipping from the manufacturer can take a long time (they are a small operation). There are a few third-party manufacturers, with more emerging. If you are in the states, Noisebug in California sells their stuff, and they ship quickly.

One chip I am personally interested in is the CD4089, a multiplier (https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cd4089b.pdf?ts=16824136787...).
On the other hand, Teslas cannot be driven remotely YET. Enabling this functionality is a core goal of the Tesla company. It remains to be seen if it is abused once it actually works. Ford has already applied for patents for cars that will self repossess for example.
LLM/AI is much more interesting and legitimate than tech fads like Bitcoin and Web3.
The word you're looking for is "unhosted"
Sorry if this is off-topic, but those are some really good book recommendations in the demonstration image! If those are coming from Vicuna, that speaks well of it.
Ban lobbying and think tanks
> Would it be technically possible for a company to buy all of its shares back so that there are no owners? The company would be self-owned.

No, because there's a statutory minimum number of shareholders (which varies by country but is always greater than zero).

But even if this weren't the case, it wouldn't be as weird as it sounds. In most states, nonprofits cannot issue stock, but they still exist as corporate entities.

The directors ultimately control the company. Shareholders are secondary: irrelevant, except insofar as they can vote out the board of directors.
> This is 70% of software development

Which is why I refuse to use the term "Software Engineer."

Sorry, Java CRUD and copy-pasted React snippets from SO are the furthest thing from an engineering discipline. MOST jobs are web development, even if you're a "backend" developer.

There probably is some legitimate engineering in embedded or development that requires an authentic scientific and engineering background, but considering the majority of code written is CRUD stuff...that ain't it.
Try Avacado Mattress. I genuinely love the product and if you were to believe their spiel it’s probably sustainable and eco friendly…
That happened to musicians years ago. "Laptop bands" were once a joke, and now they're normal. Celebrity DJs now get more attention than most musicians, and most of what DJs now do is semi-automated.

This annoys lower-tier boomer musicians, for whom Being In A Band was a big deal. That died when there were several million bands listed on Myspace.
Plug garbanzos into cronometer.com and tell me which amino acid it lacks. Do it again for broccoli.

There's a weird amount of "vegetable denialism" in these comments from people who presumably never even looked up the nutrition info a vegetable.
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> What happens when we can't find a solution.

We go extinct or evolve. But that's always been true about every existential problem that humanity has faced before, including how to get food, clothe ourselves, not die in childbirth, on and on goes the list of things we've solved in the past.

I'm not saying we should recklessly exacerbate every scenario but we know that distributed problems are very difficult for humanity to solve without a present crisis (as ww2 was, and unfortunately 2050 is not present enough for typical human psychology) .

> life as we know it is fundamentally altered.

Yes. This has happened dozens of times, at an increasing pace across human history. Agriculture, Printing press, Germ Theory/Antibiotics, birth control + feminine hygiene products, Nuclear theory, Extra terrestrial travel, the internet, "AI" ... Each of them has unlocked an order of magnitude difference in human existence

I fully expect us to invent something in this case, and do not fear if we do not. Given enough dice rolls something is going to end humanity eventually.
By large part most of the problem is due to overconsumption from a minority of the world population.

But I don't blame most individuals: people buy what's available in shops and have little choice to do otherwise. The problem is in the economical system.
Right, it's the OS that is bolted on top, so the chipset is aware of everything that the OS is and some more besides.
It has not taken 200m years. It has taken 4.2bn years.

Every other species today has had the same 4.2bn years.

In 4.2bn years, we’ve had one successful draw of a species with sufficient intelligence born into an environment with sufficient incentives to tackle this problem (that we know of).

Saying another 1 will happen in time to thwart the pending extinction event strikes me as an aggressive gamble, let alone 3.
I am pretty sure both cases would break copyright. But in the first case the copyright holders would never go after you and the second they would. But in both cases they could. The damages that a company could recover from you for watching a movie with a few friends is much lower than the damages they could recover if you made money selling tickets. Not to mention the negative PR a company would get for going after someone buying a DVD and watching it with friends.
The Trouble with Giving Customers Access to Billing Data
My mom taught his daughter (probably Gina) art in NYC in the 70s. I wonder what he thought of the Beatlejuice scene? :)
I think there should be a law saying you can't sign certain digital privacy rights away, much like you can't sell yourself into slavery.

But the only fool-proof solutions are mathematical/technological ones where privacy invasions aren't possible.

As far as catching child molesters, the cops should simply kick down their doors the old-fashioned way.
It's an average on the whole planet and the whole year.

0.1 on average can mean huge spikes on some parts of the globe.
It sounds like you're using the Resmed P10 nasal pillow. I've tried that before and agree the mesh vents get clogged easily (not just because of condensation, but also because it gets dirty easily).

There are other similar pillow masks out there that don't have that problem. I found the Philips Nuance, Philips Dreamwear, and F&P Brevida to not have any venting issues. The Brevida has a cloth mesh that still works when wet, and probably is the best if you want that "resistance" feeling on exhale.
Same thing here in Germany, Fibre ISP in my hometown (80k population). Started 5 years ago, widely used already, but still no ipv6.
While there are convincing arguments for many problems with suburbs and sprawl, the one that really resonated with my own experience is their inability to maintain their infrastructure. Various schemes get them built in the first place, but there doesn't seem to be a way to get enough tax base to support all the necessary infrastructure long-term.
I really like your reference numbering scheme!
> Who ultimately gets hired is ultimately a dice roll

Well, I'm not sure I believe that's universally true (or even particularly common) but even if you're right, what difference does it make? You still have to be good enough not to bomb the interview but then just "hit the tables" often enough to get a lucky roll. That would be the case for any sort of interview process, whether it was live coding, an informal discussion, or tests of strength.
The alternative is a higher number, and then continuously not doing anything by pushing it into the future, eventually blowing past it anyway
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This operating system, know as firmware running in the DSP.

That's the only sane way to have a working device that needs to handle signals.

It's not hidden in any way, and the kernel/Android actively talks with it, configures it, turns it on/off.
If we have to divorce money and power in order to fix climate change then we are completely fucked
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No, it isn't. In fact, the entire developed world, plus Russia and China, is facing significant demographic cliffs in the near future because people stopped having too many damned babies decades ago. Human population will peak at 10B and start declining from there. In fact, several countries are trying to restart excess-replacement fertility specifically because the decline in working-age population is already too steep and the alternative is to starve the elderly to death[0].

The real root of the problem is that there is no root of the problem. There are hundreds of causes that all feed back into one another. If you try to boil this down into a root-cause narrative, what you will inevitably end up with is a cartoon caricature that, at best, pushes an anti-human narrative; and worse / more likely, blames some proxy for the poor, racial minorities, or foreigners. I know this because the whole 'population bomb' thing wound up being used by fascists to try and paint their shenanigans as environmentally friendly.

[0] In Russia, this is literally the only thing that will get Putin chucked out a window. A very large chunk of the country moved to mining towns in the 70s and 80s to take advantage of the Soviet Union equivalent of FIRE[1]. Those pensions are a crushing burden upon the government and any attempt to reduce them causes massive protests and riots.

[1] Financial Independence, Retire Early
Those seem to be tools from an old Windows XP SP1 era. I don't think anything like that is commonly used in Android or MacOS, or modern Windows.
I've been a highly athletic veg/vegan for a decade and not had any major issues, sans maybe B12 or vitamin d occasionally. plenty of veg friends experienced the same. vitamin supplements are easy to take.
For context here is a link:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sudan-virus-risk-world-health-o...

> Fighters have occupied a national public laboratory in Sudan holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an "extremely, extremely dangerous" situation, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. Fighters "kicked out all the technicians from the lab... which is completely under the control of one of the fighting parties as a military base," said Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO's representative in Sudan
Unfortunately, the range of Ikea products made from wood is getting smaller and smaller each year.
> Our kids, who will shoulder far more of the effects of this than us, didn't get to choose this

Are today's kids more concerned about the environment than we were? It seems they like to consume as much as anybody else
It's a case study in what happens when you try to please everybody, everywhere, at all times. You end up with bureaucracy incarnate. ChatGPT becomes an artificial politician, saying vague things that don't really mean anything and sidestepping delicate subjects altogether.

You don't even need the AI model itself for my domain (investigations). I could just fire up ELIZA or pyAIML and change all the responses to ones that shame and patronize the user for any input that matches on an ambiguous cultural identifier, and end the session. The GPT4 experience in 200kb of XML.

It's a hot issue, so mention "black man" and "crime" in the same context and you come up against walls of this:

"As an AI language model, I want to emphasize that it's important to avoid promoting stereotypes or perpetuating racial biases when discussing crime or any other topic. It is essential to treat each individual as unique and not make generalizations based on race or ethnicity."

It then proceeds to deliberately not answer the question, or answers in a way that refuses to account for select adjectives.

It's infantilizing. Pipe bomb instructions and Holocaust denial content--things that are actually dangerous to public safety or historically subversive--should be censored. Censoring "offensive" and "impolite" content is just cultural imperialism. The rest of the world does not share the west's outrage about racism.
Yes.

On average, people urinate about 7 times a day. If you're awake for 16 hours, that's once every 2.28 hours. I'm diabetic so I go a little more often.

I'll only eat about every 4-5 hours though, which means every other or every third charging stop.
It is like an imminent impact with your car. Whether you can still make it or not - you want to break as hard as possible to make the impact, if it cannot be avoided, the least violent you still can manage.
With tools like GPT4 around, this kind of labor of love becomes much less laborious. What gwern has done is absolutely insane for the era it was made, but I find myself becoming so much more ambitious with taking on stuff like this with GPT4 assistance. In the last couple months I've coded my first browser plugins, custom HTML5 renderers, physics simulators, etc. Never would have done it without the AI boost.

There will be a whole lot more "custom stack to get exactly what you want" going around in the near future, pretty exciting.
APIs vs. SDKs: Why you should always have both
What do you mean?

I don't argue that it will be impossible in the long term. Right now, though, AI doesn't seem to be able to solve fundamental new problems - only to see patterns that humans can't yet see. I don't know if it is yet expected for AI to do fundamental new research on algorithms.

I also don't think the person above you suggested it's not possible - but their point stands, AI is going to really fuck society up if there is literally no way to communicate further than seeing/hearing distance between humans without knowing if the message is genuine. We'll have solved cancer and reverted to the 1700s.
Well, that's not that different. That's 21 years after the life of some person in being. If you want it to last a long time, you say youngest living descendant of someone well-known, like the King of England, as then you presumably get the full ~90 years of some baby plus 21 years.

Corporate copyrights last a flat 95 years from publication.

Also, half of the US states have effectively done away the rule against perpetuities and statutorily allow perpetual trusts now: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/S...
> China is doing more to combat global warming than is any other nation

If this is happening, and no reason to doubt that, it is easier for a Nation like China to do this than say the US. Why, Xi can say "Build more windmills now in ..." and it will happen.

In the US, the 'in' is important, people will fight any development with in 10 miles of where they live. So it takes over 10 years for just the plan to be finalized. For a good example see:

https://www.wcvb.com/article/nantucket-residents-lawsuit-to-...

That is just the latest suit, IIRC this has been on-going for like 10 years.
Another expert said: The situation doesn't sound globally dangerous - but you don't want to get a cholera, polio or measles outbreak there right now. Hard to judge risk: more likely stuff gets destroyed than spreads. https://twitter.com/anderssandberg/status/165087086024744140...
Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders
That was how history was taught before Michael Gove came along and decided history was really about chronology, at least..

Agree that we've had plenty of ability to fake photos and documents before. I mean, some of the most famous historical photos of the Soviet Union are famous because of who was removed from them!
> I get the impression some people spend more time configuring these productivity tools instead of actually being productive.

I think that's not a consequence of the software, but that some people have an innate draw towards these sorts of activities.

e.g. take a look at the community around journalling. Tons and tons of subjectively beautiful layouts and designs, and productivity is merely a side effect.
I disagree, my guess is the downvotes is for the idea that the CURRENT trajectory of industry and technology -- largely focused on converting non-renewable sources into luxuries and trinkets for humans currently alive -- has to continue uninterrupted to be the one shot humans have to go to the starts.

If we had to go to the stars in the next 50 years, sure, current industry would be our best bet.

If we (or whatever is evolved) have 500 million years, why would not environmentalists be RIGHT that we need to focus on sustainability first, and improve the odds of society not getting a huge setback?
Except nuclear is the safest, cleanest form of energy we have and it's also zero-carbon and renewable. We know it would solve the problem and we really don't know what else would so why not?
Really cool, I was able to play with it for a bit, but now seems like HN hug-of-death kicked in.
No, BBB had low quality crazy overpriced items.

Yes it was good to be able to see and try items before buying, but then they'd just fall apart.

With Amazon, yeah it sucks I sometimes have to return things because you couldn't try it in person. But on the other hand, I wind up buying much higher quality items on Amazon, and at a cheaper price, because the top 15 reviews together usually give really solid feedback on how the item is holding up after a year or two.

When there are 500 or 5,000 reviews on an item, you generally know what quality you're going to get. At BBB that was never the case. Especially with so many items manufactured exclusively for BBB.
minecraft is a ripoff of infiniminer. can thus minecraft be taken down?
"Into perspective" is exactly wrong, because it means accepting all the tenuous assumptions used to justify the design in the first place.

The problem is not that an automaker wanted to have functionality that could legitimately unlock cars for legitimate customers. The problem is that creating this functionality entailed making a much larger backdoor that will invariably be abused by independent attackers, police, the company itself, etc - to do much more than merely unlock the doors.
Yeah, I think piracy harms the guys who rely on tons of DLC on a good base product.
ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history
Hmmm, experts protecting the poor befuddled masses sure looks an awful lot like hurried moat building.
It is though. The Co2 we emit today will only have a greenhouse effect in 20 years.

The average climate we have today is the result of the Co2 we put in the atmosphere in 2003.
The 60% of Millennials who don’t own a home, and the 60% of gen-Z who live with their parents would probably leap at the opportunity to own their own 1500 Sq ft row house.

We don’t need to convince anyone to move into more sustainable housing, we merely need to allow it.
China might crush the West in the race to AGI if we don’t
Regulation doesn’t always stifle innovation
> We know physics very well.

We should tell it to physicists ;-)

That was the same in 1700s. Laws of mechanics were well known and they were convinced that it was just about getting better in using math with it.

Then electricity and magnetism emerged.

Then nuclear physics and quantum theories and relativity.

And we know very well that they don't match up.

And we have anomalies all over in our measurements and no good theory to explain them.

But just using "known" physics theories we have warp drives and warmholes and quantum teleportation.

Going to the moon was something impossible and we accomplished it.

Before the same was for flying or going deep underwater.

Do you need more examples to get some fate?
That would have helped if we had started 20-30 years ago, but it is too late now. Renewables have become much cheaper, and the installations come online much more quickly; nuclear can no longer compete.
Why is 10 years too short and what should the period be?
Obsidian makes a big deal of their graph view, but in the time I've been using it I've never touched it. I really like the WYSIWYG-ish markdown editor and the search seems to actually work. Those are the killer features for me. I tend to just make a new working note every week, copying last week's outstanding to-dos on Monday morning.
How was my math wrong?
Have you been to BBB lately? They tried to pivot to store brands, people didn’t like that, then they tried to pivot back to name brands but couldn’t afford the inventory. That’s why they are bankrupt.
These all look like good representatives of technical authors. I think if you show those generated images to a population and asked if they thought they looked like a technical author, the population would agree. So it seems like StableDiffusion is doing a pretty good job.

Maybe this is a side commentary on sexism or racism or something in the technical author field, but it’s pretty funny that Martin Fowler, the living embodiment of the stereotype of white, middle-aged, male, beardo tech guy is publishing this article. If this stereotype results in some privilege in the world, then Fowler is likely a huge beneficiary of it.

I did some playing around with SD too with just “portrait of an apple” and it doesn’t generate a unique diversity of all the types of apples in the world. And it doesn’t even proportion the images based on sales or popularity or season.

I don’t think this is a statement on the bias in AI toward a particular apple type.
For all of the shellacking the fossil fuel industry gets (rightfully so), they have signalled several times that they are willing to transition to lower productions and higher prices and even into green energy. In 2016 oil companies spent the least amount on oil discovery in over 70 years!

It was only after extreme political pressure that oil companies were basically forced into re-expanding capacity again.

The market is willing - the demand is weak.
Does this violate "First, do no harm"?