skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's apparent you didn't RTFA before posting. From the part before the paywall, even:

"IKEA grew into a furniture behemoth with a relentless focus on keeping costs low, but that goal has become more challenging. The price of metal, glass, wood and plastic have spiraled up, as have shipping costs. Inflation has squeezed consumers’ wallets. Managers at IKEA knew that something had to change to keep prices down and profits up, so in the past couple of years they have taken some of their products back to the drawing board."

This explains why the nicer Ikea furniture you purchased 15 years ago is of a much higher quality than what is built today.
The priority should be on protecting the biosphere, not on reaching arbitrary quantitative goals. The planet has adapted to much bigger temperature changes in the past, and will do so again, as long as humans stay out of the way. Staying out of the way means occupying less space, and particularly freeing up migratory corridors.
Thought that height was more like 2010-2015 before Netflix got really popular. Heck, I remember listening to Spotify in 2011...
How is MacOS compatibility? Or is there something similar for Mac?
The process for hiring senior management is different!
The seller probably paid about $60 for that mattress.
Not sure what you mean, most if not all department stores today sell small kitchen appliances and supplies. From Target and Walmart to Macys
That is a policy issue, if you want to save the world, you are going to have to drop the onerous regulations. You cant have it both ways.
Source code for paper “Enhancing Chain-of-Thoughts ” paper
> Not by planned action of another state - we've changed nothing - we're just in a different, statue-less planned state.

Some planned states (or even state-planned states) are preferable to other planned states; I completely fail to see his objection to that. Revolution and starting without a plan (I disagree that most revolutions start without a plan, though) runs much more "what if we end up worse" risk.

In the US the answer to many of those race-based questions is, yes, racism played a big role.

This is harder to see now than it was 60 years ago when many present policies and goals were formed, when it wasn't just "individual racists" but obviously-racist states and laws and policies. The need to counteract those past effects can be seen in the names of some of the results: "Affirmative Action," for instance, is very obviously about taking action to counteract it, without today's qualms about "but is that itself racist?"

Today the argument is also about "in the places that it has not yet fully balanced things, why" and hence the discussion of things like "systemic racism" (take away a families money and opportunities for 100 years, see how well they do in the following century compared to one that wasn't attacked; etc).
paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07249
> Would you be pleased if that applied to all of your work too? That immediately anyone can start taking your work and making money off of it?

Sure. From now on I either release my software as AGPLv3 or I don't release it at all. Truth is even if someone violates my license I'm not gonna waste my limited time on this earth litigating against them in court over it. I have better things to do.

Stallman would disagree but I think licenses like GPL shouldn't even exist at all: they all depend on copyright to enforce their terms and copyright shouldn't exist in the first place. It's fair as long as nobody is protected: billion dollar corporations can make money off my code but I can make money off of theirs too. Netflix code gets leaked? Oops, looks like it's our code now.

Also, Netflix literally exists to solve the problems created by copyright itself. It's ironic how it was ultimately destroyed by copyright holders when they pulled their precious content and started their own shitty streaming services instead. Were it not for copyright, we'd all be using peer to peer technology invented decades ago to consume content much more efficiently. Everything humanity ever created would be available at our fingertips.
I'm commenting on one of your older comments so it doesn't appear in the current discussion.

What I think needs to be adjusted with GR is simple: Just as time dilates, t'=γt, gravity emission itself must time dilate: g'=γg.

In the case of GR, just replace t with g. t'=t√(1−(2GM/rc^2)).

The problem here is solving for gravity self-interaction concerning gravity emission.
Another "slogan", Use a bicycle.

Yes, it's:

* Not possible on non-level terrain (although e-bikes are sometimes an option).

* Potentially dangerous in some places because of traffic.

* Some places will not be accessible by bike due to various physical obstacles

* Requires some level of physical health (although you don't have to be fit to ride a bike)

but still, it's a decent solution for many of those towns without a public transport system. And if you can get your municipal authorities to support it, you can address the second and third points above.
Whether a physical theory can be consistent without them is an interesting question

I agree, it is interesting, and the answer is yes, a physical theory can be completely consistent while never using complex numbers.

If you don't want to use imaginary numbers, you can avoid them for almost anything by using matrices instead. Use 2x2 matrices instead of complex numbers, and instead of 1, use the identity matrix:

1 0

0 1

Instead of i, use a matrix that corresponds to a 90 degree rotation:

0 -1

1 0

This means that i * i = -1, and so pretty much everything else will just work the same way as it does with complex numbers. Adding, multiplying, calculus, all the same. No need for complex numbers if you don't like them.

I do like complex numbers though. They are just a bit more concise and convenient than using matrices.
Or look on amazon, there are so many extremely well selling books based around that very idea. Unfortunately the end result is usually feeling productive by reading the book, but then never actually being productive outside of that.
Rape is also ubiquitous in the animal kingdom (and human history), yet we don't find that to be a convincing moral justification for raping women.
I’m not sure one single interface is the solution, but making a product that people actually want to buy is. At the moment you can subscribe to half a dozen different streaming services, only to end up with some of the content you want to watch. Spotify basically solved music pirating. Today it doesn’t really matter if you subscribe to Spotify, or Apple Music, or Tidal, or YouTube Music… most people can get most of the music they want to listen to from one of them, and the experience is good enough that pirating music would just be needlessly tedious (for most consumers).
Is there a future for AI generated content?
Recently a friend and I were discussing our pain points around the flood of information surrounding AI. Every minute a new article comes out touting the latest and greatest. This re-introduces the age old problem of too many articles, too little time.

Then, we got to thinking: what if we could use AI to help us summarize this? Would this just introduce noise, or would it be helpful? Would people be entertained? Would we like it at least?....and a million other questions we're still pondering.

This manifested into an experiment, Brief Bear's Week in AI Newsletter, aimed at answering the question: could an AI generated newsletter become the most interesting 5-minute read in AI?

We'd love to get feedback on the content and also hear about your gripes with and delight for AI generated content. We intend to start a discussion on these topics.

Read about my friend's thought process here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lucaserb/p/how-a-lazy-btch-lik...
If we're not at peak oil, we're close to it.
> Consent is implied in the usage of the product.

No, it's not. "Consent" requires being informed first.
I don't think it makes a lot of sense that COVID would have caused some kind of climate revolution. If anything, it made in-person physical work — necessary to build sustainable infrastructure — more difficult.

As it stands, global PV installed capacity has been growing by a pretty constant 20% per annum for the last five years, about half of which is in China and Europe but with similar exponential rates in other countries (Brazil in particular has doubled its installed capacity in less than three years). At that rate, depending on the capacity factor, it would produce the majority of the world's electricity in 15-20 years. Storage is behind, but faces a chicken-and-egg problem: if you don't have installed PV capacity, there's no demand to build storage.

My point is: 20% YoY growth is fast by the standards of almost anything, let alone durable infrastructure. Rome wasn't built in a day. Part of the challenge is to make sure we keep it up.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with American politics, but embarrassment is not a factor for roughly half our politicians. They can literally be child predators, why would their base care if they're destroying the environment future generations, even if they believed it?
It looks good. Couple questions:

1/ how do you support hierarchical organization. The links let you show relationships but how do you get to a hierarchical representation

2/ at some point this knowledge graph must become large and unwieldy, how do you manage that?
You assumed a specific instance of signing when I was talking generally.

Reporters attesting to their newsroom the authenticity of a photo, libraries and museums having stronger chain of custody and documentation of the state of their collections, etc.

As far as hardware signing, perhaps PKI and per-camera keys could be issued. HDCP was encryption with global symmetric keys, no? This would be a different case.
> Are today's kids more concerned about the environment than we were? It seems they like to consume as much as anybody else

I think we are talking about people who are yet to be born (in the future), not younger humans already born.
It's ironic that you make that comparison, as a lot of very very financially literate people buy lottery tickets because they know they're taking a risk, they know the probabilities, and they still do it because it's fun.

For the same reason, some of the most brilliant minds out there gamble on games of chance, or engage in sports betting, or other high risk activities.

Just because someone takes a risk that you would not take, doesn't mean they're financially illiterate, and certainly you are not in a place to judge one way or the other.

Edit: And as an aside, I can speak to this with some personal experience, as on a lark I threw a bit of money at GME back in the day. Not a lot! Certainly no more than I could afford to lose (and I assumed going in that I would lose it). It was a rollicking good time as I followed the hype cycle on Reddit and whatnot. And in the end I 5x'd my bet.

I don't for a second believe that was anything but dumb luck. And you won't find me running around finding new meme stocks to chuck money at. But I certainly enjoyed myself!

So does that make me financially illiterate?
Launchpad upgrades imminent after SpaceX's rocket blast pummeled site
Replace EVs with mass transit, and you've got something there. Density as an important component in reducing consumption doesn't end at the apartment building/Nplex lobby. Walking and cycling infrastructure also reduces health costs. Do you want to help curtail the oncoming Medicare crisis? Make Boomers bike.
I really hope you have property near a cost, any cost.
Yes linux _can_, the machinery is there, but culturally the common distros do not. And the defaults do not. On windows I can literally drop a DLL next to an executable and it will pick it up. On linux I have to do a wrapper script to set LD_PRELOAD, or mutate the binary's rpath to get it to load.

It's not really a question of capability, but a question of culture and defaults that makes linux hard to support.

Debian for example goes through great pains (or used to at least) to unbundle shared libraries such as openssl from projects like chromium.
Yeah, it can be also used for that, but the Azure characterization is misleading. The fact is that code-davinci-002 is the GPT-3.5 foundation model, the naked token predictor without any fine-tuning applied to it. See

https://platform.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers

This makes it a very powerful tool in general, since it doesn't suffer from mode collapse. It can be used for anything, though one has to prompt it right, since it doesn't follow instructions by default.
For those wondering, it’s about 6% of global GDP [0], annually. That’s what the world was spending on all things military during the Cold War, so it’s very doable.

[0] https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-carbon-notes-3-fo...
Thanks!

Inventing the Future forbids any hindsight. No one knows how it will turn out.

Hence the title: what if we DO allow hindsight?
"We can only indulge in such a guilt free way because we don't see how the sausage is made."

That might be for some people. There are many that would have no guilt. As you point out, some people know what is in a chicken nugget (chicken) but eat it anyways. This path might slightly reduce the number of omnivores, but I doubt it would have a serious impact overall. Like any reduction in consumption from them would just lead to a lower price and increased demand either domestically or internationally.
To be honest I’ve never understood why people believe they’re entitled other people’s work for free.

Perhaps someone can clarify?
Or you know you could just go to Wikipedia and see how many Apple Watches have been sold, then make a good solution for that platform (wikipedia estimates 100M units as of 2020): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Watch

This is absolutely no justification for telemetry.
You’re kinda arguing the same thing. Just because a torrent is active doesn't mean the volume is high or even remotely comparable to actual sales. For the right price, people will do what is most convenient, generally. The fact that Steam has DRM only matters to users here. Steam/GoG is easier than torrenting is easier than driving to the store.

Sure, not everyone has $70 to drop on a AAA, but then you get into the copyleft argument that authors would still benefit by giving their content to people who cant afford the list price for a reduced price or even free since you wouldn’t have sold it at full price anyway so you’re missing out on the word of mouth marketing and any lower revenue paid.
No, previous generations profited from easy access to energy, and let all that profit concentrate in the hands of the few, meaning that average people born today have a measurably crummier chance at a good life than previous generations.
Or maybe it's the best way for this person to stay on track. You seem awfully judgmental over a relatively basic strategy to complete tasks. Have you ever considered that some people do things because it's the best way for THEM to accomplish tasks?

I've got ADHD. I either (a) complete the task immediately, (b) have anxiety over the task and procrastinate, (c) completely forget about the task altogether until its important. I don't create lists for fun. I create them because I accomplish things faster when I have a list of things to knock out.

Virtually everyone who has ever gone through something like this has already DONE what you described, and it didn't meet their needs. If you've got time to waste on HN, then you're clearly not as hyper-efficient as you like to think you are.
If economic forces are powerful enough to cause climate change it seems reasonable to use another economic force to revert/cancel that out.
I think it would be meaningful to introspect that data since clearly it's not encrypted using https - this would be trivial with a MITM proxy on the gateway.

All of this to push your own platform without any data backing it up aside from an http connection and privacy policy. Pretty alarmist. Not that anyone is advocating for unauthorized connections to the manufacturer of your hardware, but the author should at minimum capture what is being sent (if anything) and what is being received in return. From what I can see this is a preseed for GPS data that speeds up GPS acquisition time by sharing the latest constellation data so the phone doesn't have to sit there for 5-30 seconds listening for enough satellite beacons to determine the position. It should not require any input data to provide it's function - that request should be a simple GET to an endpoint that has no extra query params or headers.

If you want to be concerned about something, be concerned about the very likely fact there is nation-state level backdoors sitting in that very same firmware (or hardware itself) that isn't using observable channels to operate. The plethora of "chatter" on the cellular network just to receive phone calls is orders of magnitude more than this request, and much of it is handled in the radio firmware invisibly which also has root-level access to much of the system.
The range from fairly durable/solid sheet metal getting larger and larger each year. But aesthetics not to everyones taste.
There was a joke going around after the start of the war where someone, in response to a discussion about the effectiveness of face masks, responded with: "I‘m sorry, I‘m not an expert in virology anymore. Currently, I’m specialising in the history of the cold war."
With China building 7 new coal plants everyday and cruise ships emitting more than all ICE cars combined I think the answer is either fusion or we just plant more and more trees.
You must have had the privilege to attend a very good school, possibly private.
> There's no big mystery--it is about revenue.

Thanks for unpacking that insight. It's always been revenue, fool. So, why now?
Having trained BJJ and some Judo, I have come to appreciate the idea that if you land a proper judo throw on someone in a street fight, i.e. on concrete, and you put someone down hard on concrete, the fight is almost certainly over.

The same applies for wrestling high-crotch or blast double. If you put someone down hard on the nearest solid object or concrete, there's a good chance the fight is immediately over.

That said, in a real scrappy fight, landing a proper judo through is a tall order. I've seen high level black belts fail to land clean throws on spazzy white belts. They get them down and technically win, but not cleanly, and not with the force needed to end the fight. Newaza (ground techniques, i.e. BJJ) comes in there to help finish.

Pure BJJ is great if you are fighting on dirt, and great to know defensively if you do find yourself ambushed or otherwise on the ground in an altercation. But in a real fight you should do your best to put the other guy down hard, get on top, and stay on top. Modern BJJ in particular is far too willing to concede top position, though modern MMA is thankfully pushing back on this some.
Does LL Bean sell frying pans now?
Yeah that's an insane take that unfortunately a lot of people share. Private jets are obviously a problem but there are much bigger targets to tackle first. It's like saying you won't tackle ocean pollution until your local pond is cleaned up. Private jets are flashy and easily polarize public opinion - but saying you won't do your part until those are banned is frankly a coward's move.
Landing radar was showing a couple hundred meters left, so, unless it was off by a lot, the telemetry loss was not it hitting the ground (last speed was 33 kph, so, if it hit the ground then, there will be no more contact)
Think about it this way: you have to implement the same amount of business logic in any case. The only question being discussed here is where the work will be performed. The author is talking about scaling. If you have 3 server insurance but 1 database instance, it’s better (generally speaking) to put the logic in the server because there are 3 of them. That will scale better. In the case of Postgres, even if you have replicas, they’ll be read replicas. If you put everything in Postgres you are putting everything in the bottleneck. You can add more server instances but you can’t add more database writers.
The right place to start is probably at the pre-K level. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691171807/ca... / book discussed well at https://crookedtimber.org/2023/02/06/can-college-level-the-p...

But most people feel powerless to do anything about that so ... the discussion instead lands in whatever they are familiar with.
Bye Bye, Baby
Most of these advances rely on (actual and quasi-) resources we're doing our best to exhaust before some future generation gets to have a share.

"Peak oil" and CO2 are just the tip of the iceberg.

Some future generation is going to dig up the garbage we buried and harvest it for resources. To a degree we're already doing this ourselves looking for stuff like palladium and rhodium.
Sorry as I’m not an English native, that level of languages nuances might be above what I will ever master.

To my mind, "kill" wasn’t something you might inadvertedly do, except maybe for bugs and thus small entities.

Anyway, once again, in no way I mean to play Amazon attorney here.
There is 50% chance that in the next five years we will experience a year where the global average temperature is greater than 1.5° C. We are already in 1.2° C and the El Niño index is negative. There is high probability that 2024 will be the hottest year on record (probably getting really close to 1.5° C).

Global carbon emissions are still rising. Climate policies are not being rolled out, new fossil fuel projects are still being approved and built.

I think that even if we stop emitting all CO2 right now (which is not going to happen), we are still looking at 1.5° C. I think it is time to admit that we have failed. And climate doom is upon us all. We are all going to die.
Ah, well that's fair! In any case though "spiral" is a pretty general term; I'm really just trying to get a sense of the shape the op was referring to, assumedly not something like an Archimedean spiral. Thank you for that idenfication.
Good point. I find this is a problem when I'm somewhere new and I'm not used to their point-of-sale device. But (like many people I assume) I make many of my purchases at the same few spots (grocery store etc) and I know where to tap for those.
I'm primarily criticizing Norway for hypocrisy. I don't think you missed that.
Maybe the answer is free versions that are fully featured and then become disabled after a few months (human usage hours) depending on utilization.
I think that's the only way we can stop it.

If we make reducing emissions profitable our existing system will do it.

The other alternative is to completely rebuild our political/social system around something other than profit. Good luck with that, that's a fools errand.
This is just a 5 year graph and it seems to show level funding. Where do you see expansion in this graph?

Of course any investment is new infrastructure. I think the analysis you want to do is a long term trend line of fossil fuel investment and a projection into the future.

What we, hopefully, want to see is that the overall % energy production projected into the future is decreasing.
Since you mentioned Kotlin, you might be interested in the recent gtk-kn effort which provides OOP bindings to GTK in Kotlin Native. (Early preview, not production ready at all)

https://gitlab.com/gtk-kn/gtk-kn
Well, the goals were realistic, and only became unrealistic, because action was lacking... and is still lacking.

People are being told technology will solve the problem, you can do x only if the alternative has at least the same advantages and no more disadvantages and you can't do y, because 'freedom'.
(oh and did I forget 'communism'?)

1,5 degrees aren't an arbitrary goal either, at least to climate scientists:
four tipping points are triggered at about that temperature.
https://twitter.com/globalcommonshq/status/16164772483740467...
Well I might not be making it much longer with my bad ratings. Plus, it's not a lot for supporting a family (lower cost areas would be different).