skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best reading recommendation would be to look at climate change projections from NOAA or similar organizations for where you live or want to live, assume those will be true within some +-, and then base your decisions off of that. There doesn't seem to be a substantial downside to getting it wrong if bad scenarios don't occur but if they do occur you'll want to have gotten it right.

> People will always say "just use public transit" but most cities in the US have a barely managing system if they even have one.

If only we could possibly do something about that....

but yea, EVs on the whole are better than ICE in this context, but 1-1 replacement schemes are a very bad idea and don't really address the underlying problems we face on climate change and other problems (social division, obesity, premature death, etc.); we need to stop driving everywhere.

Unfortunately subtractive solutions (which are almost always better) such as building a little bit closer together (nobody is taking your SFH away), allowing businesses to operate near homes, and building sidewalks don't sell cars, don't fill transportation department budgets and justify jobs, don't win elections, and don't increase GDP. Some big multi-million dollar project that brings "300 new manufacturing jobs" gets the headline and gets the funding, even though building a few sidewalks and converting surface parking lot into businesses bring even more economic activity.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230425155432/https://www.resil...
Right now everything that works, sooner or later goes over or connects to internet. I don't think there is anything new coming up without internet connectivity
What can be done about that?
It makes absolute sense. There's tons of music/movies/books that I never would have been exposed to if it weren't for piracy. As a result, I've bought a ton of legal media from those artists that I wouldn't have otherwise.
I did not comment on that, nor on Biden's hypocrisy. The comment i was responding to was a comment on how top-level government employees should be barred from using their own stuff to bypass federal obligations. Gp talked about media platform, and my parent said basically : "hosting your own mail server and bringing your laptop to a repair shop should be forbidden to".

I wholly agree for the first, and hard disagree on the second, because i do not think the children of politicians should be impaired or targeted because of the job of their parents. At most by the IRS and FTC, by a transpartisan audit unit specialized in dealing with politicians (Hi Pelosi!), and even then, only if their parent's stuff look weird.
So as everyone's photographic style becomes easily replicated, that means all of photography will become an unimportant hobby?
Completely agreed. Also in my experience the takehomes are even more susceptible to being rejected for absolute bullshit reasons. Someone told me the thing I coded up in less than an hour to solve their problem was “overengineered” so they wouldn’t be moving forward.
> history, itself, will become unalterably altered

Is ‘unalterably altered’ not a contradiction? Or does it just mean there’s no way back?
That’s a completely different point.
In London at least, few people use cards any more. People often still call phone payment card payment though - I guess people have mostly figured out it's the same underlying mechanism. Personally, I still carry a card in case my phone runs out of battery, but I keep it in the bottom of my backpack.

If only Android had a way to pay if the phone was out of battery I could dump the cards entirely.
Or they just evaluate among themselves and never tell you what they thought beyond thumbs up or thumbs down.
Rather than a note dying, I wonder if notes could decay into smaller and smaller summaries.
Am I wrong? Why down vote? because it makes you feel bad? Where is the evidence we can continue doing what we are doing and not hit or exceed 1.5C?
> People should believe in themselves because they will always be useful.

Some people may always be useful, but that doesn't mean you will be useful.

Every change looks good if you insist on looking at it through the eyes of the winners, however small that group may be.

> Many jobs will go away, but new ones will appear.

Maybe there will be new opportunities for prostitution, for people desperate enough.

> The key is to work with AI, not against it. Everyone must start working together with AI to find their place in the future world.

A sanguine platitude, but what if your place in the future world is at the bottom, in poverty? The arc of the most recent waves of automation have included increasing inequality that has caused a lot of bitterness and loss.
Where did you read that the carbon cycle is coming to an end?
I’m guessing you’re getting downvoted for not expanding on:

> Life has been here for 4Bn years and we have about 500m left until our carbon cycles grind to a halt and all life on earth starts it’s final, and ultimate, extinction event.
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Plenty of projects in North America and Europe.
It seems to me to be incredibly arrogant to be reasoning starting from humanity as saviors of life in 500 million years.

And to say that that somehow means that the eco-movements (many of which are focused on the keeping us alive for the next few thousand years) are flawed seems wrong.

The focus put on silly Greenpeace actions and fights about nuclear in the media is part of a somewhat intentional strategy to paint all environmentalists as wrongheaded or stupid.
> Postgres as a queue is definitely working and scales pretty far

You mean with triggers and listen/notify ?
I am not sure. I think part of the reason is that programming lives completely on the digital plane, while other fields tend to have physical components that can't be faked and allow you to grasp someone's knowledge in a much more straightforward way (e.g cooks produce physical food that you can see and taste)
> 2a. Inline assembly or inspecting the architecture before choosing the @Vector width are both options, so you can write your high-level code with that information in mine if necessary (e.g., to make bolt vector quantization work well in Zig I'm pretty sure you need to inline-assembly one of the swizzling operations).

Inline assembly is great but support for intrinsics would be really valuable for Zig IMO.
You might want to check out Mimic 3 by the Mycroft team. Its also open source and runs offline.

https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/
Well, yes, but the comment didn't say anything about that in contrast to being an employer.
If we planted trees on every square meter outside of current cities (and let them grow without disturbing them), would that make a dent in carbon sequestration?

Serious question. Planting trees and re-growing ecosystems seems like a simple, straightforward solution, but I feel like it's a red herring.
> companies massively over hired developers to work on projects which have actually no value.

It's still unclear to me the layoffs are affecting actual engineers, outside of Meta and Twitter.

Meta is trying to execute one of the biggest company pivot in tech's history after completely giving up on the metaverse. Industry-wide they account for a huge number of laid-off developers.

In the meantime, Twitter's layoffs are minimal (it's always been a small company) but extremely visible due to the company's new owner's very public persona.

Elsewhere, it's pretty close to the normal number of layoffs large tech companies do every year. It's a little known fact to outsiders, but tech companies trim underperformers every year from their workforces. The media almost never report on it, except this year they did because Twitter and Meta were in the news cycle.

These stats also have "Software Engineers" as a category alongside "QA Testers", "Web Devs" and "Application Engineers" listed as different jobs, so I'm skeptical of how accurate they are.
I'd add that all our models include some form of carbon removal, which is still within the realm of fiction in any meaningful capacity.

So not only do our children inherit the mess, but our most optimistic scenarios all include our children being the ones to invent some sort of miracle tech.

Meanwhile we're mostly sitting on our asses and not even a global pandemic could convince us to make any sort of meaningful change.
Dividends pay the exact same tax rate as selling stock which is how you make money from buybacks. The difference is that buybacks allow you to take the income in the future and shift the tax burden timing.

Both dividends and stock selling are normal income tax rate if you've held the stock for less than 6 months and capital gains rate if you've held for more.
We can reforest vast swaths of land right now. For instance, most of the US east of the Mississippi.

That can happen with tax code changes and land trusts.

We don't need to wait for new tech to scale up. We need to prioritize the planet.
I wanted to take a moment to dispute this rumour regarding FFmpeg and Mans Rullgard, which I believe to be unfounded and baseless.

Firstly, I am proud to say that I have been contributing to the development of the SIMD optimization in the Libpostproc component of FFmpeg, specifically working on optimizing functions to take advantage of SIMD instructions on modern CPUs and thereby enhance performance and as such I have been involved in the FFmpeg community for a number of years.

There have been claims of a potential hostile takeover involving Mans Rullgard. However, I have first hand experience that these rumors are completely false and are nothing more than fabrications by a toxic spinter group within the community who are "gaslighting" the good guys.

In particular I remember but that an individual with a handle somewhat similiar to "aew4ytasghe5" was banned from our community due to repeated rudeness and hostility, and not for any other reason. I am not claiming this is you but it would not be a surprise to me on a personal level.

I hope that this clarifies the situation and puts these rumors to rest. FFmpeg is a community-driven project that thrives on collaboration and mutual respect, and I am proud to be a part of it and it hurts me when I see toxic people attacking open source communities.
> This sounds a little over-dramatic. I'm sure that people looking for CSAM know some places to look. But this almost makes it sound like anyone has a good chance of just accidentally coming upon it.

I've been on the internet for over 20 years and I don't think I've ever stumbled upon CSAM. But also I never browse websites like 4chan, and I don't really use the dark web for anything.

The modern web is heavily centralized, and the major search engines and social media networks are very proactive in blocking this content. So for the average person, it's very unlikely they would just stumble upon it by accident.
Paragraph 3 of here [0] probably

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth
are profits stable or increasing? stock going up?

incompetence only matters so long as the company is doing badly. happy employees are tangential to successful companies.
If we can't reach 1.5°C then we should try to reach 1.6°C. If we can't reach that then 1.7°C. Ultimately: It doesn't matter whether we can reach 1.5°C, because everything we try helps making things better.

And any carbon sequestation technology will only help significantly after drastic emission cuts, not as a replacement for it.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00953-x
It is not the only solution though. There are several choices we can make, but only we choose not to. Simplifying everything to just nuclear power is nonsense.
You sound like me. Middle aged and tired of the bullshit.

The difference is I'm mostly tired of the social garbage that keeps piling up on top of things. The competitiveness, the pressure to "be productive", the grifters, the capitalists who put money before people, the bureaucrats. It's never enough more more more faster faster faster meanwhile the roadblocks that are put in place get bigger uglier and stickier than ever.

I just stopped participating in that stuff. Got off Facebook. Got off Twitter. Curated my Reddit feeds to be built around useful and helpful communities, not reactionary meme-ified BS. Started reading more. Started using RSS again (but again a reduced and focused subset of useful sites).

I'm feeling much better and I still find I enjoy technology. Microelectronics, 3d printing, functional programming, distributed systems.

I'm working on a cloud connected garage door opener. I don't care that it's never going to be productized. I don't care that I can go an Alibaba and order one for $15. I'm just doing it because I want to work on my microelectronics skills and I find it fulfilling. I'm doing it my way, at my own pace, without the BS.
A complex solution can be valid but you never measure a complex number. I'd argue that in situations like using complex numbers to simulate time varying electrical activity the ontological status of the imaginary part of the solution is uncontroversial: the complex numbers in that situation have no ontological status at all and what is present is charges. In that case we're simply using the complex numbers as a convenient notation for a variable and its conjugate. In quantum mechanics one is more easily led to wonder about whether the ontological status of the complex numbers in that theory really can be settled so easily.
There’s no guarantee the employer isn’t in final phases with someone else that will lead to them never even evaluating your work.
Not the author, but to the author's defense, it is meant to be non-technical. And the first paragraph reads interesting to me.
So it's like buying a Tesla

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...
Reminds me of browsing car and other shopping sites. They always pop up these chat windows and have stupid discount spinners that popup as soon as you access the site. I'm not going to spin for a deal on a shopping site I've never used before I even get a chance to actually look for something to buy.
Public transport is impossible in most US cities. By impossible, I mean so uneconomical that it cannot happen at scale. The geography is not there.

Even in the UK, a tiny island, public transport works well in large cities like London and Manchester, sort of okay but a faff in the suburbs of those cities and smaller cities, marginally as something for tourists in small towns, and for the rest of the country there's nothing.

Almost everywhere in the US has less density than a small town in the UK. In most suburbs just getting to the end of your road is going to be 10 minutes walk. It would mean half of the country abandoning their homes and rebuilding, which I imagine would end up higher carbon than just using the ICE cars.
This seems like a fairly useful tool, but I'd be a bit cautious - the tradition of poring over a carefully collected and curated data set using tools you understand the strengths and weaknesses of shouldn't be lightly tossed aside. That process can help researchers spot unusual anomolies that lead to novel discoveries, while an automated tool might just discard all outliers.

Incidentally, the far more concerning issue is the use of approaches like this to generate data which opens the doors to a plague of hard-to-detect scientific fraud. In that past, many such high-visibility fraudulent efforts have been detected because the fraudsters duplicated data (or reversibly processed old data in some manner) that was spotted by others in the field, e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal

Often these fraudulent productions are inspired by the desire to be first to publish, a situation in which everyone thinks they know how a system works but they're all rushing to get credit (and hence Nobel Prizes and patents etc.) by generating the data from a 'successful experiment' before anyone else can.
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Reminds me of this: https://www.palantir.com/platforms/aip/

I think there’s a lot of value here in empowering business users or more operational folks to use data without needing familiarity with a tool or language meant for data science
I totally agree that _They Shall Not Grow Old_ was an excellent use of AI, but I don't think it is a great counterpoint to this article. The article is predominantly arguing wholly AI generated imagery rather than restoration and that has very different ramifications to restoration of historical footage.
> It's the same reason the moon is lit nearly all the time.

The moon is 10x further away, so the Earth subtends/shades a much smaller angle.
This article recommends using merge requests (I'm not a big fan of the term pull request) only in specific cases: https://martinfowler.com/articles/ship-show-ask.html
> was easily outclassed and outperformed by 3-month bootcampers

I've literally never seen this happen in real life.
FWIW, I think the substance of your comment is correct, but it might be the dismissive tone that attracted downvotes.
Guess people will have to move to more dense areas if they want to survive financially then.
Like almost all environmental problems, nobody wants to talk about the real root of the problem: people have been having too damn many babies.
The city where I live is considering a tree ordinance, driven by some local NIMBYs. I did some rough numbers based on things I found around the internet and:

One year of carbon sequestration from a mature tree == 1 or 2 days of commuting to the city 20 miles away that many people who are priced out of this town drive back and forth from.

Trees are great, and most places should plant more street trees. But if you preserve trees at the cost of building dense cities that are more environmentally friendly, you're doing it wrong. Dense cities also allow for more trees in actual wild lands outside of them, rather than sprawl.

In the US, transportation and heating are our biggest individual contributions to climate change.
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Yesterday was the last day to use the coupons. They officially enter bankruptcy today.
Anything by Stephan Kinsella is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep2-ohgFOys

> ignore the current economic system and wellbeing of the authors and artists who produce work.

I'm not ignoring it, I will freely admit that I do not care about preserving the wealth of Atherton and Beverly Hills at the expense of poor children having second rate information. If they can figure out a way to make money in a world with actual property rights, great for them.

I also don't think Oxcontin or mRNA vaccines or Fox News or CNN, etc, make a good case for having patents and copyrights.
AI is just a series of tubes - all AI is bad except TruthSocial oops I meant TruthGPT (trademark pending).
Now do DRMs.
Pleasant Conversation with sarcastic undertones AI
It started with vegan and then lactose free. But hey, free marketing for a ton products, right?
Useful timing - a bag of ramps arrived in my family's CSA box a couple of days ago. Now I have some idea what we could do with them.
We will live long enough for some of these hens to come home to roost.

Kids judge their parents on their inability to change when it matters, and when you’re old and infirm and “kids” are taking care of you, you’re gonna be in for a bad time.
Every Vegan I know either looks like an underwear model or an athlete. Doesn't mean that all of them are like that though. Although being Vegan definitely stops you from eating at most horrible fast food places. Whenever someone asks me if I feel healthier since cutting out meat I just say "Beer is Vegan."

The moral arguments are pretty solid though. The amount of rainforest currently being clear cut to make way for cattle is insane. Ecosystem destruction is being fueled heavily by the demand for meat products. The US used to be covered in huge forests that were clear cut for cattle, way before any of us were born. Use of antibiotics is just one more aspect of why we should probably cut back heavily on beef.

The pricing does a good job of this, but I would encourage meat eaters to reduce consumption of beef products as much as possible. Maybe make it an occasional treat instead of the main course of every meal.
Probably a little of both. A staggering number of candidates are just completely unable to solve simple problems.
"Dopamine reset" refers to resetting your baseline levels of dopamine.

Highly recommend listening to Huberman's interview of Dr. Anna Lembke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JLaF_4Tz8

As well as her book, Dopamine Nation:

https://www.amazon.com/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indul...

Frequent, large spikes in dopamine, like those people get from drugs and to a lesser extent Twitter, can both lower your baseline and also make other activities seem uninteresting. They often lead to addiction, which is the primary example of people feeling low dopamine baselines and chasing high spikes.
Also... I think at 100% of the companies that have given me a homework assignment, it has always been in addition to, not in place of, a standard leetcode whiteboard round.
I agree that killing is inseparable from consumption.

But there is absolutely a huge degree of difference in how the killing occurs, and how the animal is treated during its life leading up to it.

These differences materialize as an array of options when deciding what to purchase, and are factors that can be weighed by an individual.

The difference is there and quite meaningful once you examine the spectrum of realities involved in modern meat production.

One might still believe that no form of animal killing is ever acceptable regardless of circumstances, but that places the argument in a different category.
And the "true believers": AI will lead to the singularity, which we must try to accelerate by any means necessary so it can be our new God.
People restricting scraping was one of my predictions. While now it seems to be limited to images and their creators, I would expect also other parties to join to the blocking fest, including perhaps even newspapers and such (unless they are compensated somehow or something similar). This will have all kinds of interesting implications for AI companies, Internet search, and advertising.
> It would mean half of the country abandoning their homes and rebuilding, which I imagine would end up higher carbon than just using the ICE cars.

Bet you it actually wouldn't, the impact of urban sprawl is absolutely massive and continuous as compared to a one-time cost.
I know the term serverless - but it was fairly ambiguous in this context.

I presumed the same as the person you're replying to.
I found that one hilarious

"The regex module uses global state: string_match runs a regex and sets some global state. "
I love the optimism, and the ideas in all of the rethinkX papers. They are great reads. Their predictions for food and agriculture might indeed happen, but not by 2030. The dairy predictions in that paper seem the most likely to occur.

Their paper on energy is also a fun read.
Seems very promising. I've used Claude a few times and the responses seemed significantly better than GPT-4.
Tracks with my experience.
This particular extinction is indeed man made. Oil companies knew of their impact and role in the seventies and close to not just suppress their knowledge but in fact funded disinformation campaigns.
See https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-a...
Yea there are lots of good options these days. The competition is great. Our financial footprint across organizations is pretty large. I'm looking to Apple to eventually allow stock trading or something similar in the wallet app or stocks app with it all linked up. It's not super Apple-y but I think they'll do it.
Some of those choices are on the consumption side and many of us are awful.
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