skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a well-known effect with oodles of articles on the topic. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=contrail+global+warming...

On one hand, it's a short term phenomenon. The effect of mitigations takes effect very quickly (and is mostly governed by the planet's thermal mass). Mitigations might be relatively easy, too (just taking it into account when planning flights would make a big difference).

On the other hand, contrails have a pretty immediate warming effect and aren't a slow process like CO2 forcing. Contrail forcing isn't making the overall problem any better, and if there's any tip-over in methane emissions, etc, from warming, contrails could be a part of the near-term trigger.
Specific bacteria is responsive to specific antibiotics. I have a family member who gets frequent urinary tract infections. They always have to characterize the bacteria to see what antibiotic it’s susceptible to, otherwise the bacteria just laughs off the antibiotic.
Old reddit loads faster and has higher information density. The New design is form over function.
When I started I studied some other channels in the photography niche. And I saw that you need around 100k subscribers to make a living. I also saw that most of the successful channels in this niche needed around 5-7 years to get there. So yeah this was very much expected.

But I’m not doing this for the money. I do it because it is the most fun project I have ever done. I would do it for free. If I go too long without posting a video I actually start feeling depressed. So for me it is therapy. But it is nice to earn a living from doing something you must do to be happy :) And also it feels nice when people ask what I work with, to mention something that actually earns me a living.

YouTube is pretty much the only viable platform if you make long form content and want to earn money doing so.
> Naturally there's a lot of people and some won't behave like the rest, but can anything be done about that?

Yes. Don't award anyone extra votes based on the kids that they raise.

> Sure, so don't let the abusive parents have the votes.

Good luck with that, and also good luck correctly identifying only abusive parents as abusive.

> > If you parent well, then your children, once they turn 18, will vote similarly to you.

> I think this a much riskier assumption than what I put forth above,

This has been studied. It is not 100%, but the trends do exist. I should have included some links along with this comment.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/22/13714556/...

> Ojeda and Hatemi found that only two in three of these adult children could properly identify a parent’s party identification with the broad descriptions of Republican, independent, or Democrat.

> And of that group, about one in four rejected their parent’s politics.

> if a child felt she was supported and connected to her parent, she was more likely to adopt what she thought her parent’s beliefs were.

Directly addressing your comment, "that parents are thinking about the future of their kids."

> "Parents are especially bad at perceiving their children, especially compared to how children perceive their parents," he said

> about two in three children were able to accurately perceive a parent’s party identification. But only 42 percent of parents were able to do the same.

A second link: https://news.gallup.com/poll/14515/teens-stay-true-parents-p...

> 7 in 10 currently say they're sticking close to their parents' positions on the ideological spectrum, many will possibly continue the voting tradition of at least one older family member.

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> We each do, but I'm also responsible for my kids' stakes. The fact I'm their dad is why.

No, you aren't. Morally you may think that you are, but legally you aren't. You're just responsible for how you raise them.

Morally I consider myself responsible for the future of all children, despite not being a parent. Legally, just like you, I am not though. I'm just legally responsible for not abusing other people's kids.

Why would a single person, who doesn't know how long they will live, vote for policies that they think will be bad for your kids' future?
Grid companies are some of the most competent corporations I've interacted with. The power is mostly on, I don't need to play stupid telephone customer support games with them, and they keep things running.

Maybe PG&E, or whatever they have in Texas sucks, but as a general rule of thumb, I wouldn't assume that grid operators are stupid.
I understand half life. My point moisture currents can spread water soluble things very far very quickly.

Think of it this way, what happens if there's a catastrophic sodium leak? The winds carry it far and the Na gets into everything because it will be diluted into the wind's moisture. Won't you breath the radioactive Na from the air's moisture?
Why do people think that these security schemes that are based on a "secure" central key are ever going to work in the long run. The most secret documents of the US state are leaked periodically by dumbasses, and yet the FBI thinks they can keep backdoor keys to all our devices secure.

Give me a break.
Pfft, keys, schmeys. Real security is built on handshakes and backroom deals, not strong encryption.
> questioning those things at lower levels is fruitless in MHO, since we would not be able to grasp it at lower levels

rings true
IMO this leaves out some salient details. For example, I'd say ChatGPT is a very, very good junior developer. The kind of junior developer that loves computer science, has been screwing around with miscellaneous algorithms and data structures its whole life, has a near-perfect memory, and is awake 24/7/365, but has never had to architect a data-intensive system, write future-proof code, or write code for other developers. Of course, these last three things are a big deal, but the rest of the list makes for a ridiculously useful teammate.
I’d go a step further and say that none of these types of products actually do the hard work that people would be willing to pay for. E.g. most of these statistics are wrong (net worth increased x% because I rolled over my IRA, dividend reinvestments treated improperly, basis accounted for the wrong way, etc)
Not only that, but it’s obviously a huge market opportunity from bottom up. Kids looking to enter the workforce should be able to expect all sorts of work related to electrification-electricians, engineers, etc. It’s likely to actually create niches and market segments.
Evil maids?
That's not really a relevant comment. We aren't talking about Earth being in equilibrium, we are talking about ocean temperatures ending their rise. Parent used equilibrium to describe the end of warming, not to suggest that we'd reach some kind of desirable global homeostasis. I think we'd all be happy with a disequilibrium that made things cool down from where they are presently, or from where they'll be in 200 years.
Forgive if I'm gonna rant a little bit under your comment. The phrase "the more we get, the more problems we will create, it is just human nature." struck a chord that I cannot myself stop ranting about.

I'm gonna ask again as I've done in some other post. Why we consider ourselves the most intelligent species if we don't stop and ask ourselves this: for how long are we gonna face challenges? What is the supposedly end goal that will terminate this never ending chase? Do humans really want to solve all problems?

I don't really understand and I'm 32 years old. I've been asking this question for a long time. What is the point of AI, raising consciousness, curing cancer, hell beating death, if we don't have a clear picture of where we are going. Is it to have always problems and solving them incrementally or just solving all problems once and for all? If it is the latter, there already is a great solution to it. If it is the former, then I'm afraid I have to break it up to you (not specifically the parent poster, but you as in the reader): you have sick mind.
I don't think this can necessarily be optimized at least with how the models work right now
Death rates from colon cancer dropped 56% from 1970 to 2019.

https://www.beaumont.org/health-wellness/blogs/colorectal-ca...
As someone who always wanted to work on multiple projects but was lacking the time and manpower. GPT has truly made that possible. Looking forward to GPT5.
Society always has people who contribute to specific things way more than the general population. And not even just generally in specific niches but some people are just highly productive and highly motivated.

I don’t think there can be a system to balance this without harming the wider system simply because these people make up the bulk of the work being done, and enforcement systems usually cause much of the same sort of power centralization, but often worse.

Of course not all of the work by these powerusers is useful but I can’t imagine a system that only blocks the bad work without harming the highly productive ‘good’ people who are trying to be more representative of the public. Plus stereotypically making the rules/processes is the easy part, because people are motivated at the start to fix things, but after it’s in place the actual hard work of enforcing it and doing it right is often neglected… or these same small groups of “powerusers” will also end up running the moderation and use it to explicitly control things even more.

Although those risks/issues has rarely stopped people from trying in the past.
They’re (were) called guilds, not servers, in the API fwiw
You know, I'll take a very minority POV: overall, Wikipedia does a pretty decent job of reporting the facts. I'll trust what they say about some non-controversial person or event much more than any other media outlet.

Of course it's not perfectly unbiased, and anal super-pedants do make it intolerable to try to contribute. That said, they do at least make an effort to stick to the facts.
Not everywhere. That is a very deliberate decision on my part. I have picked jobs which support it, moved where I rent based on it, and made it important. Not for the environment either, but for me.

If you want to work 15km from your home and can't bike/public transport to work and don't have the ~2 hours to walk (which I am not suggesting would be common) then you could do whatever makes sense to you. I have been finding work from home positions since 2015 without issue.

The comment about the grocery store is different than what you think. The problem is that people complain about carbon while doing nothing to solve it. In my scenario it is a 15min walk to the store. I carry two reusable bags and sometimes a backpack for bulkier items. The area is on the outskirts and the sidewalk is limited to one side of the road. Having walked to the grocery store some 500 times in the last ~2 years, I have met an astonishingly low amount of people doing the same. My neighborhood has two public schools and a highschool, to give you an idea of size.

These same people drive to the centralized park and convenience stores. It is a nice area with 80% NDP voters.

I collect groceries for 4 people and make all my meals from ~scratch (very limited canned food). We don't use the cities garbage services, everything is recyclable or compostable.

I'm not really suggesting anyone should walk everywhere, just that driving everywhere isnt helping the problem they claim to care about.
They're not quite the same thing. One example I see online is using "utilize" to suggest that something is used beyond its intended purpose. (I'm not sure I even completely buy that.) But, in general, "use" is shorter and sounds less jargony.
It does not have memory outside the context window. If you want to have a back-and-forth with it about a document, that document must be provided in the context (along with your other relevant chat history) with every request.

This is why it's so easy to burn up lots of tokens very fast.
I think using a rare moment of broad public alignment to change our transit paradigm is a lot more aspirational than issuing patches to a fundamentally broken system.
Nope. Works with any image in the Photos app.

I don't remember the steps, but its either in a menu or you can press and hold the foreground object to make a "cut out" of it and paste it in a different app. https://youtu.be/qX82kIaRNKA?t=15
Prison vs. Harvard: The Debate Rematch
Jesus.

So the researchers "benefiting" should keep the volunteers alive, but actual compensation for time and suffering is somehow dismissable?

I think the people who say animals are sentient beings deserving of respect are less horrible
Everyone would be too busy wrenching on their cars to drive them
You can always factory reset.
It's not 100. It's 100/X and if you don't know what X is then your number is worse than useless.
Analysis to Predict Far Out Price Movements Using Harmonic and Fib Ratio
With the advent of LTO, unity builds are mostly a band-aid for poor management of header files. The Linux kernel project was able to net a ~40% reduction in compilation CPU-time just by pruning the contents of some key header files [1].

It really boils down to two rules:

1. Don't declare anything in header files that is only used in one compilation unit. Internal structs and functions should be declared and defined in source files, and internal linkage used wherever possible. gcc and clang's -fvisibility=hidden is useful here.

2. The more frequently a header file is included (whether transitively or directly), the more it should be split up. If a "common" or "utility" header file is included in 10000 source files, then any struct, function, etc. that you add to that file will have to be parsed 10000 times by the compiler every time you build from scratch, even if only 10 source files actually use the struct/function that you added. gcc and clang's -H flag is useful here.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YdIfz+LMewetSaEB@gmail.com/
How many of us have maids? How many of those maids are evil?
Trying to learn French I exported all the subtitles for an episode of a French tv show ‘Lupin’ and then worked my way through reading it first and then watched it but unfortunately felt no easier. Probably because reading it once through really isn’t enough.

Would be fun if there was an entire 10 week course that worked up to an episode of real tv that by the time you get to it watching is completely fluent.
Sure, no other countries apart from the US exist.
I guess in the UK there's a toddler getting a fatal drug interaction every day.
https://archive.is/pENoy
You can also use the `tiktoken` python library:

import tiktoken
len(tiktoken.encoding_for_model("gpt-4").encode(contents))
Why assume there won't be? Seems like the risk there is greater.
Non-fossil diesel is going to be very expensive... The alternative is battery swap stations. Nio seems to be successful with that.
To what extent were they good at navigating, and to what extent is there a survivorship bias?
Hah, funny, just this week finished the new Doctorow book Red Team Blues [0] which has a similar aspect.

[0] https://craphound.com/category/redteamblues/
As someone who is still scared of CSS and HTML, all I can say is: my time has come.
"Yeah no" and "No yeah" mean clear and different things, despite being superficially total nonsense. I've probably heard "comprised of" thousands of times in my life to mean "made of." What's wrong with phrases having meaning?
That’s what they say about every piece of software. There are always things to fix and add.
Too bad, I want to read but it’s paywalled
With McDonald's and the Krocs they were the ones making the donations after they had more money than anyone would ever need:

https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2017/1/10/joan-krocs...
Request for a message cap increase. I think they go up to 100 but it depends on what you are doing.
> Do we always need non anecdotal data to support every assertion that we make?

When the claim is that remote work is a mistake and that its era came to an end... Yes. It's an exceptional claim, and exceptional claims demand exceptional data. Otherwise we should call it bullshit.

> but the argument that there's no utility in face to face meetings is just as meritless.

Probably. I do prefer remote work, and I favor working for companies that allow me to stay remote.

But I think there's place to companies that prefer to work in office, and people that prefer to work in the same physical space as their colleagues.

This balanced take doesn't seem to be very popular, however. I wonder why.
Curious how this point in the tabs vs. spaces debate re-emerges
"This post is comprised of good points" is probably technically grammatical but it's an awful sentence. "This post made good points" works better. Better still would be getting more specific.
The Potential Economic Impacts of Various Debt Ceiling Scenarios
I saw a NN video about vertical navigation published 6 months ago in which they recommend avoiding hamburger menus on desktop sites specifically. Whether or not a pie menu confuses users depends on the visual implementation, how it fits into the workflow, and how well it conceptually represents the users understanding for how to accomplish their goals. A few tool options for a right-click menu in a desktop application? Adding toppings to a sandwich? Maybe a great solution. Navigating a linear workflow on a website? Likely a stupid idea. Like any other common UI element, including the hamburger menu, it can be used correctly and incorrectly. Of course do your own testing – that's not a good reason to ignore other research.

Beyond that, when you're doing research that few other organizions are, you're bound to get things wrong sometimes. That's fine. Modern medicine only recently discovered that peptic ulcers, which affect 1 in 10 people in their lifetime, are often caused by a treatable bacterial infection rather than poor lifestyle choices. Nobody gets it perfect. Self-correction is a sign of trustworthiness.
Alright STOP-- [Pixel turns off alarm]
COLLABORATE-- [Pixel turns on sharing mode] and
LISTEN-- [Pixel turns on listening mode]

Ice is back with a brand new invention ...

> "Song ID: This appears to be 'Under Pressure', by Queen."
Kind of/almost a good thing. More and more security processors seem to have irrevocable keys or other non-user setups. It's. Just. Not. OK.

And more and more governments are making demands about decrypting users data on demand, about blowing up security for their own greedy needs. They have no idea the awful horrific mess, the buggy by design systems we get when we forgoe security for their paranoid snooping. This is such a textbook lesson. Alas that we need another blow to the face to remind ourselves.
The Natrium data sheet[1] says that it is "Molten salt energy storage", so based on the diagram[2] it appears that salt (not sodium) is being pumped to to the reactor and stored in large tanks, similar to thermal mass solar installations. I assume the sodium is internal to the reactor only, but can't say for sure.

[1]:https://www.terrapower.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/TP_202...
[2]:https://www.terrapower.com/our-work/natriumpower/
That’s full frame and not medium format, no?
"Evil maid" is a generic descriptor for any number of attacks that can be performed with physical access to a device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_maid_attack

"The name refers to the scenario where a maid could subvert a device left unattended in a hotel room – but the concept itself also applies to situations such as a device being intercepted while in transit, or taken away temporarily by airport or law enforcement personnel. "
What’s runaway is our rate of change in releasing co2, compounding annually at something like 1-2%
How often does adding a friend cold even happen on discord? All interaction is based around shared servers. If user A wants to friend user B, they either are or will be a member of the same server. Globally unique usernames just aren't relevant.
There is no artificial intelligence. There are only systems that are very good at generating text or images when given a text prompt. That's not intelligence, and it's misleading if not dangerous to call it that.
the internet needs a kids table

people over 35 shouldn't need to deal with petty shit like this
Realistically it means a lot more people are going to cheat in Valorant.
I used to work for a Swedish company with a system named "foo-ws," as in Foo Web Service. It's pronounced "foo vee ess." Because Swedish. IIRC, www is vee vee vee.
> What’s wrong with asking people simple stuff that is published beforehand like “Who was our first president?”.

Its either not relevant (and therefore any coincidental discrimatory effect is far out of proportion to its value) to the voting at hand, or its not uncontroversial (in which case its simply a test for agreement with the viewpoint of the test creator, and a direct tool for excluding other viewpoints).
I'm not in the US but my idea of a good system is EV vehicle, solar panels, home battery storage, and a ground source heat pump w/ water heater. That to me is the perfect set up since the energy production is only at that single home.

The exception being very cold winter days, hot humid days, and EVs away from their home base needing to charge.

But even with rebates it's too expensive for nearly anyone who owns a home. Anyone of those items is minimum $20K to $50K and beyond multiplied by each of the four items.
If there's a data connection which is used to stop charging, then if the data is hacked or spoofed it can—by definition—stop charging.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.
I'm not sure that they can of the key is proprietary to Intel. I think this would open up those projects to litigation.
Ask HN: What type of content is missing in the tech ecosystem
I find lex friedman to be terribly boring and wish there was more content focused on the failures and human story of people building without raising millions in valuation.

I also wish that there was content that took tech leaders outside of their comfort zone, like hot ones for tech people
I had no idea that 1111..1111 was the smallest negative integer as opposed to 1000..0001.

How did I not know that after nearly 25 years of programming? I must be dumb.
On one of my systems disabling secure boot also disables other aspects of the BIOS. I forget what, maybe use of the Intel graphics on the chip? It was severe enough I spent an hour figuring out how to make secure boot work instead.
Have you been using the API with GPT-3.5? I wonder if they're prioritizing access to 'active' users who appear to be trying to make something with it, over casual looky-loos.
Perhaps. Those middle-aged parents are definitely thinking about their upcoming retirement, though.
Have you even been to the countryside? People live there.
Interesting article (from 2007).

In the test, two-thirds of the mechanics tested did correctly mention the battery cable. The article faults the mechanics for not also checking the coolant levels - but maybe you could excuse some of that as an honest mistake.
Exactly, cars currently return to a depot where they are charged and inspected.
Do you think AGI will get lazy?
How much capacity are they building and how much more do they plan to take offline? Why should we assume linear trends in a revolutionary time?