skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be more interesting to phrase this in terms of how much of the planet's production of renewable resources is being used/exceeded.

It's my understanding that not too long ago, when this last came up in an online discussion I partipated in, our modern lifestyle is burning through some 2.5 earth's annual renewable generation worth of resources each year by using non-renewable resources.

Consider that we burn up to 10 calories of petro-chemical energy to get a single food calorie for some crops --- we need to transition to some sort of sustainable lifestyle and energy usage in the near future --- the sooner the better.

A phrasing which I think would make sense, and which should at least be considered in such discussions is: Under what circumstances does a person have the right to generate more heat energy than 1/current human population portion of the amount of energy which the planet is able to radiate off into space overnight?

One good blog post discussing this sort of thing:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
Theoretically speaking, not all water use is renewable like rainfall, you can in fact deplete aquifers, and ancient near east in fact desertified due to unsustainable water use. Ditto for land use, you can in fact erode and degrade topsoil, ancient near east etc.

Skimming the report, it doesn't do reasonable job of taking land use and water use into account, but in principle, there's nothing wrong with taking unsustainable portion of land use and water use into account.
I learned Japanese by going there to work as an English teacher in 1993. I learned Sesotho by going there (Lesotho) to work as a volunteer teacher in 1988. I learned French in school and doing French immersion courses in Quebec in 1980/81 (free to any Canadian students, and still available!).

I have a chemical engineering degree, but have worked as a software developer for the past 25 years. Yes, learning another language does take time and dedication, no way around that.

If you learn Japanese, forget about learning to read or write (except katakana and hiragana, which you can learn in a week) and concentrate on spoken language, which is not that difficult to get to a basic fluency in.
Of course you have an idea who blocked, in twitter if you block someone they can’t see your content when you visit their profile. The mute on the other hand just filters from timeline
I’m running a global pilot to see how we can effectively use it for internal data at a multinational investment bank
Freshwater and fertile topsoil are easily exhaustible resources. There are rivers (e.g. Colorado River) that are drying up due to overuse, and much of human waste gets either polluted with chemicals or ends up flushed into the ocean, never to be reclaimed. Once you dry up one river too many, you'll have both starvation and depopulation, but also daily shellings.
Don't know why I remember this, but the iOS 7 icon for Voice Memos was a good demonstration of doing scaling wrong. It had a lot of fine detail so the gamma-incorrect scaling made for some obvious twinkling effects in zoom effects.
So is your point that externalities are non-existent, or is that even if they do exist they are irrelevant because jobs trump everything else, including the future existence of the human race?
> Externalities are the activists’ favorite technical-sounding economic concept because they introduce a fudge factor into every single economic process that can be abused to support almost any conclusion.

Citation needed.

Yes, they're a favorite. But I always thought that it was because economic models are usually simple, closed systems and that's a trivial, approachable way to show that they're wrong.

Similar to finding "bugs" with provably correct functional code. Wherever it touches the real world, it's no longer simple math and something hinky's bound to happen.
To me, that's a lot of money for a piece of plastic. I get that it's a medical device and needed lots of testing etc, but Nutrisense seems like too much "value add" to justify what they charge for it. Hopefully I can get a prescription and get this all covered by insurance.
Publishing, editing and the prestige assigned to certain journals can't me done completely for free. But it sure has gotten a lot more cheap and convenient to read papers on a computer via arxiv or even a PDF than in a physical printed journal. I do look forward when we have a well run open source SCIence HUB.
Huh? He’s not talking about creative choices, dude. The third note of a major scale is objectively the major third.
Isn’t kindavim more powerful?
The sneaky thing about the geography of Kansas is that it's longitudinally exponentially-scaled, with distances between stuff (people, raindrops, ...) exponentially increasing as you go west. No one tells you this, though, so when you're in the western Kansas outpost of Hays, you're actually pretty close to the center of the state. You're almost to Colorado! Just stay awake and you'll be there in like 3 hours. It's OK, your mind is already dulled and your resting heart rate at refrigerator temps. Just... stay awa.... [snore sounds followed by the screech of broadsiding a barb-wire fence at 85 mph]
It’s extremely under utilized.

Everyone could be producing way more than they currently are.

Everyone could be generating 1 app every 3 hours.

Everyone could be writing entire novels.

Everyone could be writing meaningful Wikipedia articles.

DIY guides should be 100x larger .
I worked with one of these. I did an internship at SCEE in 2003 to port the Eyetoy camera driver to Linux to work with ps2linux. Sadly, it was nerfed by legal right after we released it as GPL. I fixed it up to keep the proprietary stuff in a separate kernel module, but alas I was gone at that point and it never got past legal afaik.
>The French aren't protesting for good things

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Democratic systems of government are messy, and that's okay. It's not for you or me to decide what's a "good" thing to protest.
Millions of trees is nothing. We'd need 1000+ trees for every westerner (IIRC).
Yo, dang: ITB got flagged and killed for a fair enough question, anyway I can vouch for his comment?

ITB > Were you a troublemaker ?

I might've been a bit of a disagreeable cunt, but I was never fucking Hitler.
There are 10 states with a population greater than 10M people.

And by that measure, we're mostly there. Chicago, New York, Philadelphia - we're good.

The next step would be to get reliable public transportation to the small towns in the Sierras of California.

My choice of Montana was for the size and the population density.

The issue sit hat the distance from {small town} in Montana to nearby city is much greater than in Norway.

If we're only going to do the eastern seaboard, ok. If rural areas are going to be ignored... ok... but there is a lot of rural area in the United States.

The idea of a train station (paved area next to the track) next to every small town in Montana with regular service to the nearby city (like Japan and Norway have) is impractical in Montana.

It is sometimes challenging to understand the sparseness of the Great Plains of the United States without having traveled through there.

Public transport outside of the large cities... the 10th largest city in Montana is Anaconda with a population of 9,000. There are 60 cities in Norway with more population than that. The 100th largest city in Norway has a population of 5000... if it was in Montana, it would be the 20th largest city.

Yes, let's start solving this in the largest cities and that will get most of the population... better public transportation and better electrical infrastructure. However, the approach of "just need more train stations" (yes, a simplified straw man) isn't going to work in most of the US when looking at it by area.
We should also focus on educating folks on self hosting and the value of owning their own data. Kids are taught way too early these days to put everything in the cloud, no clue what local files are, etc.
I have to believe most of us here on HN are in the boat of keeping a W11 partition for work and a Linux partition for everything else at this point.
What's interesting to me is how ChatGPT with GPT-4 can fail to follow your instructions randomly (for the same instructions, in the same session). That's these kind of behaviors that show it is, in fact, not intelligent, but that probabilities line up properly for the emergent behavior to look like it is.
Diaphragm earplugs already work much better than the technology you describe will, and are about $20:

https://www.gomumba.com/products/mumba-high-fidelity-concert...

This brand is ranked well on Amazon. I’ve never used them, but can’t remember the brand name of the name brand ones I had in the 1990’s. There are also ones optimized for hunting, or you like using power tools during casual conversations.
Does that mean subbing out my rice for brown rice or subbing out my white sourdough for whole grain sourdough reduced risk?? Or if I still eat way too much whole wheat pasta it’ll still contribute to t2d down the line?
Sure, isolation exists except for Riot Games (and any other company that adds similar mandatory modules, which eventually will be all). Oh yeah, assuming there also won't be any vulnerabilities, but that's impossible, because we all know about the high quality software coming from gaming industry.
The word "notright" is as clear of an example as you can get: does it mean straight or left? Up?

The most confoundingly powerful feature of language is ambiguity: on one hand, you can't take it literally; on the other hand, you don't have to.
My god. Those bastards have finally done it. They’ve finally automated culinary appropriation
I agree with the substance of what you say, but I wouldn't actually call it a design trend at all, rather it's a marketing trend, and I can tell you exactly where it comes from.

The reason behind it is a philosophy that you're not selling a product but rather a "solution". If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone explain it with the example "a customer isn't buying a drill, they're buying holes". The example apparently goes back to Harvard Business School professor Theodore Levitt, and it was popularized in the mid 2000's [1].

It was a legitimate observation around focusing on customer needs rather than your product line, and so what other products or services might you also be able to profitably provide? And in the tech world it turned into helpfully focusing on product-led "use cases" in UX design -- focusing on user flows of how to get things done, rather than individual features that a user can't figure out how to find or combine.

But then it got taken, in my opinion, waaay too far as marketing people started making websites that focus entirely on the "solution" and say next to nothing about the product. The site says "we'll fill all your hole needs!" and the customer is scratching their heads because they can't tell if this is a company that makes hole punches for 3-ring binders, or excavating equipment for your backyard, or drills.

And it's maddening. I share your pain.

Because it's not how consumers think. They think, I want a drill, and I have strong opinions as to whether I want corded or cordless, and to make sure it's compatible with the drill bits I already own. Consumers are generally pretty smart, and have already made the leap from "hole" to "drill".

So I understand where this "we sell hole solutions!" website pattern comes from, but I swear to god I don't understand why people are still doing it. The whole "it's holes not drills" philosophy has turned into a kind of cargo cult inside of a lot of companies, and it's not pretty.

[1] https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/what-customers-want-from-your-pro...
Yes, and humans will just skim search results rather than actually read the article. Or trust the Wikipedia page or book. Or believe the talking head. When they are not invested in the answer. But the occasions where it matters, we do read the article and/or check multiple sources and decide if it is bullshit or not. I don't much care if I get the wrong answer about how many tattoos Angelina Joli has, but I find myself comparing multiple cooking recipes and discarding about half before I even go shopping.
I would guess that processed grains and starches (i.e., stuff made of flour - even flour made from "whole grains", Veggie Straws, stuff like that) is still a bigger problem for most people. My understanding is that they get digested so quickly and efficiently that, from a nutritional perspective, they're equivalent to sugar.
You are neither curious nor participating in an intellectual discussion, you are just making statements from thin air.
You mean your company blocks it, or has OpenAI black listed particular VPNs?
The biggest problem is probably driver integration for machines targeted at android.

Bitch of a problem to have to constantly patch between them, and you're not getting any support from the vendors.
You must certainly glow in the dark.
People are subunits in a wider system. Moloch is the control structure of that system.
Vegans are the heroes we need

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/sony

and the book “Console Wars”. This is probably the most dramatic betrayal story you can get in business history.
Gonna be tough when window size is 32k max. Maybe fine tuning is where you are at?
i don't know if its fair to conflate an economic system with a political one
Hmmm, "We're sorry, but this video is not available." - probably because i'm not in the USA. Good thing we have YouTube :)
Congratulations on buying every car you've had with cash, I don't really see how that's relevant, everyone is dealt a different hand. Dealers are horrible, definitely blame them, but if the job you get is 30 min away by car and 1.5hrs any other way, then financing a modest ~6-12k car that's somewhere between rust bucket and new is not an unreasonable idea. That's what I did, paid it off in relatively short order, it helped me make money, seems pretty rational.

Wasn't there another report that indicated most people don't even have $500 saved for emergencies? Seems like a much more manageable few hundred a month on less of a practical liability would be wise.

Lastly, we should absolutely blame 70+ years of car-centric development and cultural propaganda on people desiring one so badly. There's always going to be people who would get themselves into a giant $50k+ truck to drive around the city with a 10%+ loan because they're morons, but it's malicious thinking to attribute stupidity to a majority of people wanting a car
Well, if it offers anything like increased speed and more useable searching thst’s good enough for me.
> I think what's surprising to me is all the people who seem to think that the chief method of conquest is replacement, when it's long been established that it's indoctrination. The Romans…

…are a singular example. I can name a singular counterexample: the R1 Y-chromosome haplotype completely replaced the preexisting indigenous Y-chromosome haplotypes across Europe, indicating that the male population was replaced wholesale. In more recent history, North American and Australian populations were also predominantly replaced with settlers, as were parts of South America.
You're being sarcastic, but it sounds like you agree with the authors about the situation we're in, and the desirability of building the sustainable utopia ~before we're forced to shut down our civilization and die off.
Sodium metal reacts explosively with water. Sure, it's fine when working as designed, but this piece aims to be reassuring people about disaster scenarios. And it's easy to imagine a disaster where part of the plant gets physically damaged and the sodium's exposed to the outside world, possibly including rain or flooding.

So why sodium? What does sodium accomplish that can't be done equally well with a cheap non-explosive metal like aluminum or iron?
> In response to public comments and to assure the safety and effectiveness of OTC hearing aids, the final rule incorporates several changes from the proposed rule, including lowering the maximum sound output to reduce the risk to hearing from over-amplification of sound, revising the insertion depth limit in the ear canal, requiring that all OTC hearing aids have a user-adjustable volume control, and simplifying the phrasing throughout the required device labeling to ensure it is easily understood. The final rule also includes performance specifications and device design requirements specific to OTC hearing aids.

The previous version of this rule sounds pretty bad!

Imagine the OTC hearing aids all being instantly permanently deafening with no volume control, and, on top of that, they puncture your eardrum and only produce feedback whine!
Or allow people running their own gaming servers that they can moderate. Solves cheating problem and when gaming company stops supporting their online game or goes out of business.
> Credit where credit is due. It was bipartisan legislation that was signed into law by Trump.

I was never a Trump supporter for reasons. But I was disappointed in him nonetheless.

I thought Trump, not being beholden to the traditional powers that be and having followers that would literally get arrested for him, would be able to bully his way into getting things done that he supported that no other Republican could.

He spoke out publicly against the drug companies and their prices and wanted up front pricing from the medical industry, believed in criminal justice reform (along with Rand Paul and the Koch brothers), and a few other measures I agree with.

But he let his petty grievances get in the way.

Yes I am well aware that the architects of the mess that criminal Justice is on the federal level was spearheaded by Clinton and Biden back in the day.
True story: I was in a bar in Lawrence with a friend late one night, being chatted up by a student of mine. When we asked her where she was from, she said some town in extreme NW Kansas (Bird City maybe? Atwood?).

"I've been there!" my friend said.

"No you haven't." my student said.

"Yes, we went there on a geology field trip last summer. That morning as we left the campsite, the back door of one of the vans was open and and a food cooler fell out. We needed food so we stopped for lunch at a restaurant when we went through that town. The restaurant wouldn't serve us because they said that they only buy enough food for the regulars, because no one else ever comes in."

The girl was quiet for a bit, and said "My mom wrote about that in a letter."
I was at the beach and used it to write a streaming C++ web server integrating whisper.cpp. I should opensource it eventually, but was like totally amazing since I used to write C++ all the time but it's been like 15 years and was like well i'll use c++20 and sure enough even with a few drinks and a lot of sun the code came together really nicely.
Worse demographic ratios though which I think is likely more important.
I don't use it, it returns mostly incorrect code that makes me realize it's not worth it. I'm more productive and write better code ignoring ChatGPT 95% of the time.
I read that as ten amazing technologies that it never used.
The days of tuning software have changed. In the past, these systems were indecipherable and had no good profiling or debugging tools, so they came with a lot of hardware connected which allowed you to profile and tune and debug.

If you wanted to profile PS2 code, for example, the way you did that was with a gigantic logic analyzer connected to various traces at Sony's labs. We used their Redwood City lab. You'd give Sony instrumented code, and they'd do some kind of secret magic on it and run it on this instrumented PS3, and a few days later, you get a profile! Downside, this thing is incredibly complex, but on the upside, you had little performance penalty for profiling. Later, these kinds of tools came built into dev kits.

For the PS3, programming the Cell was quite difficult and so you had to do lots of tuning. The single PPC core (called the PPU) was really slow, so you had to offload what you could to the SPE's, which were incredibly fast on floating point math, but it was on you to interleave DMA and computation in a way to get good utilization of them. The Dev kits had tools to give you visibility into this.

Programming on a laptop only requires the laptop, as you've got all the tools you need in the OS. Only apple does debugging at the board level.

It's fun to take a stroll down memory lane.
The woke crowd always tries to bend the answers to question back to their own issues rather than give an unslanted opinion that isn't warped through a woke lens. Same goes with the far right. It seems almost impossible to get a straight objective answer from people with huge egos and political agendas in everything. This is why I'm a strict egalitarian and libertarian; I see people as humans first and as men/women/black/white/l/g/b/t/q/etc as second order concerns. Everything else is line noise in the grand scheme of whether or not humans manage to survive for another 100 years without destroying the planet.
Great idea, but I wish this supported Greek.

With new LLM tools I wonder if it would be possible to export the subtitles from netflix and then translate to the target language
Was it GPT-4 or ChatGPT?
> Even when it is visible, it is "fuzzed," so that the location anyone (other than you) can see, is a random one, within a 10Km square.

You may want to expand that in lower population density areas. If there's only one little town in that 10km square the fuzzing does almost nothing.
I'm also confused as to how "insufficient whole grain intake" has such a high correlation. "Whole wheat flour" hasn't been the norm in the US since the late 1800s and yet we only seem to have a Type-2 Diabetes problem recently.

Any study like this needs to have an explanation for the recentness of obesity and diabetes epidemics.
Genetics are weird. I have received next to nothing from certain ancestors, and quite a bit from others as far as DNA testing is concerned. Likewise, in a lithograph of one I can see an ancestor who looks nearly identical to a half brother of mine. Shit is so weird.
This didn't happen, but more importantly Twitter was far more proactive about resisting law enforcement requests for private info than other social media companies, which is the actual thing to be worried about.

Current Twitter ownership is allowing India's government to censor things worldwide and is obviously compromised in China as well.
WaZero is pretty freaking amazing. Been using it at RunReveal for log processing and alerts. Highly recommend picking it up to anyone wanting to learn about Web Assembly. Their docs are amazing and the team is really responsive, knowledgable and helpful!
even presciption is expensive. You can buy it on amazon in india but thats still like 80$/month.
Regarding the question of victim blaming (a comment also brutally murdered), sometimes it's a sane question to ask: if you never look into the contributing factors of a situation you can never stop it from happening again.

Put your pretensions about the sacred nature of life aside and understand that children are a pain in the arse to have, and the disagreeable son of disagreeable parents even more so.

But I maintain to this day that I was never really an arsehole.

Also, if people stop having kids we're going just as extinct as if we have too many. Learn a bit of moderation.

Considering that, we need to make having kids a more viable option than it is (and for a lot of the most useful people in society).
I couldn’t imagine how they can combine as the hygiene of this food place must be terrible. It’s like buying a sandwich from a car mechanic shop
Surely you need to keep the data inside your own system and can’t send it to OpenAI, right?