skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see only two solutions:

* A global carbon tax/cap/trading/limit system, with sanctions for any country that does not comply.

* A realistic risk that a global compulsory carbon cap/tax/trading system will be implemented, and that any carbon emissions tracking will be backdated - such that any extra emissions today might disadvantage your country in the future.

With neither of the above two, it is in every countries best interests to emit as much carbon as possible and use free/cheap carbon based energy to produce goods/food/whatever, while doing only a few highly visible environmental moves.
Arbitrarily selected with little to no scientific basis. Check the siblings, it was some random “scientist” that pulled a number out of who knows where, under the consideration “politicians like limits and people tend to go over speed limits, so I said 1.5”. There’s no science to it, just fear mongering and grant seeking.

When this happens in any other “scientific” field HN is quick to jump on it, but when it comes to climate change we love to toe the party line.
The good news is UK is democracy, so no need to worry.
Love this. After 19 years I imagine your blog gets some traffic. Would you mind sharing how it's worked out? I think its pretty rare outside of newspapers to see someone publishing content for this long.
Seniority doesn't and shouldn't rely any flow assumptions or the agreement of juniors.

I would argue that seniority systems are the most fair, because the junior parties are the ones that drive the scarcity and create the problem.

On a small scale, If a family has been living off a stream for 100 years, and someone wants to move in an use the stream, in makes sense that the newcomer doesn't get access if there isn't enough for both. Similarly, it makes sense that the newcomer go without if there is a shortage.
>The foundations of the Intel Aurora genAI model are Megatron and DeepSpeed.

Intel is PLANNING to train a genAI model with a target of 1bn parameters... using an architecture from 2019
Well look, the sales pitch for SIT is that you get most of the HIIT goodness at three minutes per day of exercise. Now to hit the required intensity… how much is an indoor bike anyways?
> XinuOS

Did you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinuos or https://www.amazon.in/Operating-System-Design-Approach-Secon... ?
If doordash says we charge a X% fee but then Apple charges Y% on top while android charges no fee then logically it should be higher on Apple. If doordash is saying we charge a higher fee on Apple because Apple users are generally wealthier, thats pretty discriminatory.
> it's a humanlike intelligence

No that's incorrect. It is auto-fill on steroids trained on years of internet postings from actual humans (ie, reddit, twitter, etc).

That input is going to dry up - no longer free (Reddit has said all future posts are going to cost $ to access). Good for OpenAI as it has such a headstart, but many companies can source/tap into legitimate alternative user data streams - FAAMG for sure, but also any company that can convince it's userbase to provide training data that already has a foothold.
Amazing counterpoint!
This was my thought.

I don't see much functional difference between this and what Disney does with their ticketing systems, or what airlines do.

It's not something I'm glad companies are doing, but it's also not illegal as long as it's not a protected class.

Basically

A: I wish doordash wouldn't do this.

B: phone OS is not a protected class because it is deemed easily changeable.

If you can afford to buy the most expensive hardware as a status symbol, don't be too surprised when companies notice and scale prices accordingly.
Returning the money directly to the shareholder as dividend or buyback is an indication that management cannot find better use for the money, or unwilling to take the risk. Berkshire Hathway never declares dividend or does buybacks either. The profits are returned to you by giving you the choice to sell the shares when you want[1]

Google for example could have really invested in Google Fiber or taken a similar capital intensive project instead of returning 100's of billions of dollars.

Alternatively could be growing inorganically through acquisitions. The largest acquisition Google has done is only for $12.5B of Motorola in 2011. Only one of top 5 acquisitions is in this decade ( Mandiant) and top 5 combined they spent only $25B

Compare that to say Microsoft who are spending $70B on Activision, $10B on OpenAI, also bought Github($8B), Nuance($20B) just in the last 5 years.

Google simply doesn't seem to have any ideas on how to spend money.

[1] Buybacks give you the same choice as well, but they are not increasing the total value through investments to do so, just reducing the number of shares in circulation.
Loot into "transformers". They're the architecture everybody is using these days; and it's relatively simple.
Nothing makes me think of Altman as a grifter more than his trying to spook uneducated lawmakers with sci-fi notions like "superintelligence" for which there are no plausible mechanisms or natural analogues, and for which the solution is to lobby government build a moat around his business and limit his competitors. We do not even have a consensus around a working definition of "intelligence", let alone any evidence that it is a linear or unbounded phenomenon, and even if it were, there is no evidence ChatGPT is a route to even human-level intelligence. The sum total of research into this "field" is a series of long chains of philosophical leaps that rapidly escape any connection to reality, which is no basis for a wide-ranging government intervention.
Diphenhydramine as a first generation antihistamine acts on a large number of receptors and can even be used as a mild anxiolytic, so I'd guess it could very well have antidepressant effect.

No idea about deliriants like atropine/scopolamine, but in low doses, they were traditionally used to spice up beer (hence Pilsen named for Bilsenkraut, black henbane), so I could imagine short antidepressant effect there too.
Reminds me of the movie '12 monkeys', where the groups determined to save the world ended up destroying it.

Would be funny in a way if GreenPeace's actual accomplishment was delaying nuclear until it was too late.
Why 8 percent? Why not 7 or 6 or 5 or 4 or 3? Why not 8.2 percent?
If the cyberpunk dystopia involves aged hippies yelling about neighborhood character and historical parking lots in zoning board meetings
It’s interesting to see openai rush out of the gate without this.

Gpt4 existed for 6-8 months before it was released.

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say gpt5 or enough of it exists today.

Did this become an issue because of what exists being closed doors, or because there is suddenly a lot of competition and catch-up from the big 3?

Safety in regulation is often a moat against competition.

Concerns about superintendent aside, who picks the haves and have nots for Full access to this technology?

Instead of computers becoming a threat, are people being divided to be against each other?
> The dutch seizing farms in the name of global warming.

1. Seizing farms is not happening here, only a few farms have been sold by the owning farmers to the government.

2. The aim is to reduce nitrogen emissions, which have been accumulating in the ground.

The Netherlands is a net exporter, apparently, so we could stand to loose some food production.

But yes, Dutch farms are very efficient per area. We should export that expertise, and I think we actually do that too
Denying recorded averages in this case is unfortunately very reasonable, because temperature graphs don't show recorded averages. That is a common misconception that governments are happy to encourage.

Modern temperature graphs are the output of models. The raw data isn't reported. This results in strange artifacts like record breaking temperatures that later become un-record breaking due to revision of historical values. In fact, the "recorded" temperature for every month in history changes every month:

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/08/16/will-the-real-hottest...

NOAAGlobalTempv5 is a reconstructed dataset, meaning that the entire period of record is recalculated each month with new data. Based on those new calculations, the new historical data can bring about updates to previously reported values.
If you're curious about this, the recent IPCC report publications on mitigation have great meta-analysis on the component of carbon capture and as someone who also had put some mental stock in this (don't we all wish we could engineer our way out of this one easily?), I found it sobering. And then consider that many people found the reports too soft on CC.
Cloudflare and archive.* get in fights, check which DNS provider you're using.
'You Are Either With Us, Or With the Terrorists' - George W. Bush 2001-09-21

'Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.' Hillary Clinton 2001-09-13
but wealth also not a protected class.
Well of course they won’t grow it. They’re in a desert and that would be ridiculous! /joke
>eat one less steak or skip a handful of almonds

At least in the case of Arizonan desert alfalfa, this is a result of sweetheart lease deals offered to Saudis with no limits on groundwater access, who are effectively exporting Arizona’s aquifers in the form of livestock feed.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-company-fondomonte-arizon...
Heh looking at the source someone went all out on SBCL internals
Time to start talking to other companies offering better pay. Negotiating from a position of options is a far better position. Once a company has decided you aren't worth having any more its over and time to move on anyway.
Nothing win over the physical keyboard in my opinion, android or iPhone. I used to have Nokia E61i -i still have it technically but not in use-, and typing on it was so satisfying even with the old keyboard where 3 letters are on the same button.
The title doesn't do it justice. These tactics are pretty dishonest I must admit:

> Making its "Delivery Fee" seem related to distance or demand, even though none of it goes to the delivery person.

I could see they justify this as value-based pricing. As in, it would have costed more for you to travel farther to get the food from that particular restaurant if you were to order pickup. The thing I find dishonest is labeling this the "delivery fee". I always thought that the money goes at this partially to the deliverer.

> Offering an "Express" option that implies faster delivery, but then changing the wording to "Priority" in billing so it is not held to delivery times.

> Charging an "Expanded Range Delivery" fee that seems based on distance but is really based on a restaurant's subscription level and demand.

So things that bring no value to the user. The question is, if people know this will they vote with their dollars and move their business elsewhere?

> Adding an undisclosed 99 cent "marketing fee," paid by the customer rather than the restaurant, to promote menu items that customers add to their carts.

This one wins the cake. So each user is forced to pay a dollar to promote the items they have ordered from that menu. Let's call this preach-flation?
Pretty sure Apple is partly guilty as well. I really doubt they didn’t know exactly how Wistron was bidding so low.
The main thing Spotify is missing for me is to respect me as a paying customer and not shove down ads for other artists down my throat. Full-screen popups, not just once.
I recall reading that their colleagues were saying these guys would fry themselves long before it happened.
> restaurants are complaining that they dont make enough via the apps

Is this true? I can't think of any reason why a restaurant would put themselves on the app and spend all of that time managing it (Uber/Skip) if they feel they don't make enough?
If that was actually true we would need to talk about it.

It’s not, so here we are. Solar and wind do nothing for base load generation - except distract people from talking rationally about energy. I don’t know where people think all the power to charge electric cars is going to come from. And what transmission lines are going to carry the miracle of power either.
Privacy is an important aspect.

Authentication can be another important one, if you want to integrate with your existing SSO or other auth mechanism.

Last, customization. While this can be done via JaaS too (our CPaaS offering) you will always have full control over your deployment if you self-host it.
Portable VS Build Tools Installer
It would be nice to have a social safety net in regards to rent/mortgage. I'm not sure how to implement it though. The eviction moratorium played a big part in lack of homelessness during covid. The only problem is the government made property owners financially responsible for it. I'm not sure if they ever got compensated.
I got curious about the fact that the cited table from the paper only contains five laws, but the blog author describes seven such laws. So I read the paper. I have to say that the blog describes these laws superficially at best. I recommend reading the paper (instead of the blog post)! It's not too surprising (the results have long been digested into common knowledge since its publication, I guess) but anyway draws attention to the fundamental relationship between software complexity, program lifecycle, and the organization in which the software lives.

The first and second laws are more or less accurately described in the blog post.

The blog post reflects the third law as "... software development is an ongoing process that requires continual improvement and adapation." This does not match the description in the paper, where the third law is described such that over time, the system behaviour emerges from a (large) number of single decisions within a complex environment.

The fourth law is described by the blog post to be about feedback loops (which would be actually applicable to the third law). In the paper, it is about stability (no radical changes during a program's evolution).

The fifth law is described to be about incremental and radical changes, while the paper refers to quite the opposite. Organizations want to maintain familiarity, so the tend to reject big changes.

The sixth law in the blog post seems to refer to the actual fourth and/or fifth in the paper.

And the seventh law just seems to be made up.
That's a really great article that brings some solid facts to the question. That guy did his research.
Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors
"The year 2022 was the sixth warmest year since global records began in 1880 at 0.86°C (1.55°F) above the 20th century average of 13.9°C (57.0°F)."

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/g....
At which point increasing dependence on outside validation makes your opinion become irrelevant?
Interesting. Is there a book that focuses on evolution of allocators so we can follow along and code allocators of different difficulties?
Do you think that the average temperature is calculated by averaging across weather stations ?
In this case the problem can be solved with 2 edges :) I am your friend and your are mine. Keep an edge on each side. Heck I could be your friend you may not chose to be my friend and that is fine. This gets even more fun as now both parties have to consent to only share "their" friend status with FB. Americans are forced to share their friendships, Europeans are not. Again total value for users no?

Now is this technically optimised (for the company) - no and irrelevant (IMO) in the context of how much control/power a user has. You could extend this to messages too. What messages I sent, what messages I received. I didnt send it - I dont own it. What about shared documents you say? Here users are explicitly sharing with other users for collaboration (the contents of said documents totally are of no business to the company).

See providers are providing a service(?). If the services needs to harvest data I still question who is benefiting from that harvesting? If the user is not actually seeing value (apart from subsidizing the cost of the internet) are we then not just using technical/UX complexities to justify a low-value (to the user) solution?
Web3 sucks regardless of how this shakes out.
No tons of companies do this, people charge X for people from poor countries and a much higher Y for people from rich countries. People get paid less because they are from a poor country and more because they are from a rich country.
I've watched that clip, and quite frankly, looking at the entire context of the press conference and the tone of voice of the answer, it's clear to me that he wasn't in the middle of planning any attempts to sabotage the pipeline.

Recall that this is a press conference essentially announcing that Germany agreed NordStream 2 will not open if Russia openly invades Ukraine, that Biden is (by this time) sitting on very reliable evidence saying that Russia is planning to imminently openly invade Ukraine, and the reporter is asking "okay, what if Russia doesn't openly invade Ukraine?", whereupon the answer is effectively "that's not gonna happen."
Slotin was an arrogant ass. per wikipedia:

"Under Slotin's own unapproved protocol, the shims were not used and the only thing preventing the closure was the blade of a standard flat-tipped screwdriver manipulated in Slotin's other hand. Slotin, who was given to bravado, became the local expert, performing the test on almost a dozen occasions, often in his trademark blue jeans and cowboy boots, in front of a roomful of observers."

play stupid games, win stupid prizes. his only salvation was that he sacrificed himself to save his colleagues.

there were also other, safer ways to do it

"Enrico Fermi reportedly told Slotin and others they would be "dead within a year" if they continued performing the test in that manner."
I’m fully onboard with this. Silicon manufacturing is one example that consumes an insane amount of water (100’s of thousands of gallons each day) but has to ultra purify it for their processes and then returns it back to the city water supply cleaner than when it came in. The water treatment plant has to have the capacity to feed it but to say that the water was “consumed” is a misnomer.
Historically, technologically advanced nations have worked together to develop some limited governance over sensitive technologies. It's an imperfect system, but tends to be better than a free-for-all.
Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it
It's a datacenter, not a single machine obviously. All "supercomputers" are datacenter today. They can use Nvidia or other processing units, it doesn't really matter.
When political parties have distinct relationships with objective truth, stating objective truths becomes political.
This is why I refuse to so my retro computing on anything without a floating point co processor. As such the 486 DX/2 66 mhz is ideal. Not too fast. But crazy powerful compared to rubbish 8086 machines.
How do they evaporate into the air? https://www.epa.gov/septic/types-septic-systems "conventional system" is the one I know most common, and I've never seen an evapotranspiration system.

Ah:

>Evapotranspiration systems are only useful in specific environmental conditions. The climate must be arid and have adequate heat and sunlight. These systems work well in shallow soil; however, they are at risk of failure if it rains or snows too much.

So it's a desert thing, I am not in a desert.
Renewables aren't cheaper than fossil fuels if you consider the cost of grid outages. This is an externality that is normally not considered when arguing they're cheaper.
With the rapid rise of fentanyl and closure of asylums, I would argue a bit of debt and having shelter is a significant improvement over homelessness.
Cool, I'll give that a try! I didn't know about it before.
1812?
(2) an Early Casualty in the AI Wars
Why are so many giants of AI getting GPTs so badly wrong?
> grubby subscription pricing

Not sure if you're a dev yourself, but I don't think yours is an uncommon feeling among developers reacting to pricing.

[TL;DR - I think our expectations are out of whack though]

Why do you think this is, though? As a developer, we know that all code has a carrying cost, and that when building on the sand that is the iOS SDK, that almost mandates at minimum a yearly compatibility update, and possibly occasional significant rewrites if some critical SDK feature is removed or broken. Also, this app is building against a third-party (HN) api as this one does, which could change at any time and require the developer to update the app to be compatible. Having a periodic subscription is the only way to align developer and user interests -- they need to keep earning your money a little at a time, and as long as there is a good audience, there is a matching revenue stream to justify continued maintenance on the app. A one-time unlock front-loads 100% of revenue, making all maintenance work have negative ROI unless the app experiences constant, consistent growth forever. And there's certainly a limit on how many people will ever regularly read HN. Eventually that ceiling will be hit, and the app's revenue could drop to effectively zero, even if a million users count on it daily.

As humans though, especially analytical ones who are keenly aware that $1 a month for the next 10 years is $120, we hate to think of spending an 'absurd amount' like that on any apps unless they fit a certain mental model (it seems things like Spotify fit a profile that we understand comes with monthly bills attached). But I think it's odd that, while we would feel completely fine spending $6 about once a month for an ice cream cone, Starbucks, a package of cookies, etc. we balk at the prospect of paying even $1 a month for an app, even when it's an app we use daily, like a podcast client or, for some, a HN app.

I think I place the blame on the expectations accidentally set up in the 1990s, when software for most consumers was preinstalled (thus invisible in cost) and everything else was "one-time" because both the need and the ability to distribute updates regularly was so much less. I assume companies like Microsoft and Adobe who did need to maintain their software could count on the massive ongoing computer adoption in that era to make them profitable even when many end-users would decline paid updates once the apps reached a certain level of maturity -- which I think was the predominant practice among anyone except certain classes of "professional" users. While I agree some apps are out there that charge say, a $19 monthly subscription to crop images, just exploiting ignorance of customers or preying on children, I think we should normalize apps that receive maintenance having a subscription model.
Mission accomplished! Good luck with, well, everything & looking forward to seeing you in back in the Union within 2 generations! Without the prior exemptions & special treatment, naturally.
The government will not save you. If anything what we need is more governance of the government. So many problems caused by government foolishness - housing crisis, giving businesses far too much influence over legislation, etc
Glad to hear the defaults worked well for you!

Jitsi is xo posee of several moving parts, and making sure everything works well out of the box is something we deeply care about.
It is not hypothetical, some of us do have to worry about "others". I( so do many here) have to take a decision for all my teams whether to approve this or not.

It can be become a long-term handicap to developers learning, or also hell to staff engineers and architects who are reviewing and designing. The power of LLMs based code assistance to be transformative is significant and cannot be ignored either, so yes we need to worry
Isn't it great how week keep reinventing text messages over and over so that things like this make international news?