skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am about six years in on software dev career. Every so often, I'll see something that makes me think, "What fxcking animal wrote that?"

Very often, a quick git/blame shows my own name back to me.

Have patience, have mercy.
Nature is. Science is our effort to explain or understand Nature. I hope this or any other article is not recommending a return to things like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik or other paths to insanity.
I think the complaint is not about doing price discrimination, but being misleading about it. Calling an upcharge a "delivery fee" could be fraud if the customer thinks they're paying for the delivery.
> I wonder if AI will ever scale down to personal hardware

Happened last week. Download here.[1]

https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all
You should consider re-reading the original sentence as it appears you totally missed the joke.
> Reflecting the long-term warming trend since pre-industrial times, observed global mean surface temperature (GMST) for the decade 2006–2015 was 0.87°C (likely between 0.75°C and 0.99°C)
higher than the average over the 1850–1900 period (very high confidence). Estimated anthropogenic global warming matches the level of observed warming to within ±20% (likely range). Estimated anthropogenic global warming is currently increasing at 0.2°C (likely between 0.1°C and 0.3°C) per decade due to past and ongoing emissions (high confidence).

https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/
> It was the era of Reaganism and Wall Street greed, and art was now being marketed as an investment. Many gallery owners told customers a piece of art by the likes of Picasso, Miró, or Chagall would never lose value.

There was a good interview with Jeff Koons on 60 Minutes last night. Koons mentions how he met Dali and was instantly inspired. The two share a lot in common - mainly hyper-capitalism meets the art world. Humans are very good at creating near worthless (debatable) objects we covet and pay millions of dollars for.
This is not an in-app purchase in the same way a traditional subscription for an app might be processed. This goes entirely through DoorDash, and Apple does not see any % of revenue sent from the user to DD for their order.
Have you tried google colab? Runs pretty well on it
Its just like hitting snooze on an alarm clock for 2 hours straight. One deludes themselves that they will have the willpower in 5 minutes, and the end result is getting a terrible sleep AND missing class/work.
As horrible usages of water ad those are, it seems like significantly more water is used on also very inefficient meat production.

I would love a better breakdown of what exactly California & the west's agricultural water usage is.
While I'm on board with metric, this technique is used in countries where the metric system is the only system too, because our intuition fails us at scales that we are not accustomed to, no matter the unit, and for other reasons.
The same for me. I still sometimes find games that I can really get into, but it's much harder than it was 10-20 years ago. I think part of that is because I've played so many games that many new games just feel like the same old again and again. The other reason is, of course, that the general inability to concentrate hard on stuff makes it so much more difficult to immerse myself into the game world.

Some exceptions in the past few years have been Zelda: breath of the wild and GTA V (yes, I know both of them are a bit older, but I only played them relatively recently).
~9 is my magic # too.

Your partner may delude themselves into feeling "fine", but I'd guess it's more that they feel no different than the last time they did it. It's not even a conscious thing necessarily (although I have met people who proclaim, just a little too loudly, they only need <X hours of sleep in some sort of weird macho "ironman" flex).

It's possible; there are a VERY FEW people on the earth who need way less sleep/night than normal, but like multitasking it's a super small % and the number people who think they are in that % but aren't is massive.

Like the number of people (in the US, at least), who think they're in the "better than average" set of drivers.
I'm sorry, but Sam and OpenAI are massively overhyping the scary AI apocalypse vision of the future to get regulation in order to cover the "We store content from the planet and now want the exclusive rights to monetize it."

I've been in Silicon Valley for many years, and this takes the cake of the most cynical, in your face, billionaires should steal sheep from their poor neighbors level of run away greed and sociopathy I have ever witnessed.
it's also about increasingly hostile profit opportunities being realized and normalized, enabled by tech (its decreasing cost, increasing prevalance, and increasing internet-connectivity) despite the externalized costs (in this case, the environmental cost of destroying still-useful materials, especially materials that are quite difficult to dispose of responsibly). this is an example of profit-seeking behavior acting against the good of society and consumers (or government) should resist this increasing trend.
The industry is surviving on investor cash…DoorDash founders have already cashed out generational wealth, so they’ll be fine whether the grift collapses or not.
Hypersensitive robot hand is eerily human in how it can feel things
Might also consider Winston's other book more focused on AI (rather than Lisp):

https://people.csail.mit.edu/phw/Books/index.html#AI

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/ai3/rest.pdf
Unfortunately, both can be true simultaneously[1].

1: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/
big into the star wars and hogwarts games recently, both open world rpg’s of a sort
They mixed up million with billion.
I mean, I would agree. The EU courts have ruled pretty much every cross-border data sharing agreement with the US as illegal (e.g. Safe Harbour ruling eight years ago). The EU Commission considered that data transfers to US were not compliant back in 2000, which led to the Safe Harbour in the first place.

Despite all of this, we haven't seen any creation of an EU internet, and even in this latest ruling, they've suspended the ruling until they hope the new system comes into place that will allow cross-border data transfers to the US.

The point being that politically, there is no desire in the EU to cut themselves off from the US internet as you see in China, Russia, etc.
Digital life isn’t as permanent as you think it is
Can you elaborate on the reliability issues?

Those on an iPad, were they using the app or the mobile web app?
On TVTropes this phenomenon is known as “‘Seinfeld’ is Unfunny”[1].

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
The long term solution is to stop growing things in the fricken desert.

Open a nuclear reactor in Canada and power greenhouses there. Desalinate some water while you’re at it.
Also known as the Matthew Effect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
Looks like 1-in-5 don't have a flush toilet.

https://hromadske.ua/en/posts/russia-is-struggling-with-a-sh...

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/02/indoor-plumbing-st...
Mismanagement could help those funds disappear pretty quickly. It's rare that any kind of organization or business needs no governance.
Isn't Sam Altman also developing a crypto project which collects your iris data? I mean, I don't understand what is up with their obsession with this AI Governance, it seems like it is indeed about retaining control, so that only the big guys can [attempt] to control any larger models. Same with him proposing such "AI Licenses".

What a time to be alive...
Does it depend on that? It will affect the cost to DoorDash, but if the premise of the lawsuit is unfairness of price discrimination based on device operating system, then I don't see how it's relevant to the end customer that DoorDash pays a different cost for their transaction.

That said, I'm personally skeptical that the premise is even defendable in the first place. Operating system is not a protected class and so I don't see any legal basis for why a company couldn't price discriminate based on it.
Wow, I haven't seen the Ol' Spicy Keychain in years... this takes me back!
Can carbon removal become a trillion-dollar business?
"High-tech, low-life" would be the hallmark of Cyberpunk. The "low-life" part might require some extra work by OpenAI.
There are two ways to interpret your question:

1. If you mean what 1.5 degrees is above, it's an anomaly, which is defined as the difference from an average computed over a somewhat arbitrary time window. I think this one is defined as 1850-1900, which is defined as "pre industrial" times. Britain and America might disagree about that classification, but this is how it's done.

2. If you mean what 1.5 degrees is below, the answer is nothing. A 1.5 degree limit is a goal designed to motivate politicians. It's not justified by any particular research. It is discussed in this interview in Der Spiegel with an IPCC climatologist [1]:

SPIEGEL: Why then have you, as one of the creators of the two-degree target, imposed such a magical limit to which all countries must slavishly adhere?

Schellnhuber: Politicians like to have clear targets, and a simple number is easier to handle than a complex temperature range. Besides, it was important to introduce a quantitative orientation in the first place, which the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change managed to elegantly wangle its way out of. And let's be honest: Even if we aim for the two-degree target, we'll end up somewhat higher. Whenever there's a speed limit, most drivers tend to go a little faster.

[...]

And of course the world won't end if temperatures go up by 2.01 degrees, let alone end suddenly. From today's scientific perspective, we could possibly live with a warming of two to three degrees

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-climatolog...
Eh, if most is rational, then I think they do a good job. Very factual too, which is good to know:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rationalwiki/
If by made up you mean a chosen measured timeframe[1], sure.

[1]https://climatepositions.com/global-warming-pre-industrial-t...
I've seen delivery robots on the streets of Santa Monica, those are wild.
>Does anybody know some interesting practical applications of PCA?

Not sure how "interesting" you'll find it, but PCA (and more generally, Factor analysis[0][1]) has been used for decades analyzing data from market research surveys.

Much of the process behind this analysis dates back to the late 1960/early 1970s at advertising agencies (notably Grey Advertising[2]) and market research suppliers like Grudin/Appel/Haley (all the name partners are long dead. but the firm continued as AHF Market Research. Not sure, but I don't think they exist any more).

These methods expanded within the industry and as computing resources became more generally available (back in the 60s/early 70s, it was all Fortran IV on punch cards, batch submitted to IBM/CDC mainframes), becoming pretty much de rigueur in the marketing/advertising industry by the mid 1980s.[3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_analysis#In_marketing

[1] https://www.qualtrics.com/experience-management/research/fac...

[2] https://www.grey.com/

[3] Source: Both my parents were involved in adapting such multivariate analyses for marketing purposes back then, and I worked in the industry for five years back in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

Edit: Fixed prose.
The vision that OpenAI founders are proposing looks more like humanity flourishing, rather than a dystopia.

It’s just that there is this uncomfortable moment that you can accidentally get turned into a paper-clip, if you get that one-off error or a sign wrong. But otherwise it doesn’t look like a bad future. Particularly, if it is compared to an alternative where, well, you just die in one boring way or another.
Investment isn't about how cheap something is, it is about how much of a return one can get on an item.
Racks full of GPU nodes are called supercomputers. Supercomputers that ran a single instance of an OS kernel are from even farther back, maybe the last century.
My Foray into Security by Hackforums.net
I don't think the metaphors would be evaded by using metric units, though. Would 4 Teraliters been more useful to much of anyone?

Converting it to gallons, liters, or any other common unit of volume probably leaves most people without a sense of relevant scale unless you use a metaphor (e.g. how many households it could sustain for a year) or otherwise tell them how much water the states use (e.g. including a percentage of total usage).
The difference is that making a chair involves labor and atoms. Enabling a digital hat involves neither.

If a wizard could magically duplicate chairs, I’d have the same argument. Why charge $5 for something that costs $0 to replicate.

The design of the hat and the system to run it costs something. The design of the chair and the workshop to build it costs something. Those are fixed costs. It’s the marginal cost that is very different.

I’m not even against charging people for digital hats (I paid $5 after all), I’d just rather companies be more straightforward. Id rather pay $60 for a game once and not be microtransactioned.

Id rather pay $6 (or not since I don’t like this app) once than pay to enable features that clearly cost nothing or very little to implement.

App makers can charge whatever they like. And potential customers can complain about how much it sucks trying to convince app makers to build in a way I think is better for society (ie, straightforward prices for things rather than income streams from payments). But I could be wrong.
Can't we just ask the AI how we should manage the AI?
It's, uhm, confusing.

She was living as a she at the time.

The first pressing of Switched on Bach didn't even have a name on it. She had to fight just to get W??? Carlos on the second pressing. (I have the first pressing framed.)

In hindsight, it might have been less confusing to just use W. Carlos as her professional name. I certainly was confused because, in 2000, my college textbooks said "Walter Carlos" but the record store had CDs by "Wendy Carlos." I didn't figure it out until I Googled "Walter Carlos."
I think it's about misleading the consumer. This has less to do with a felony violation of the law and more about whether they are liable for the way they have marketed and misled consumers. The end result is a fine, not a criminal conviction, so I think the plaintiffs have a nonzero chance of winning.
It's a point of reference. I'd argue it's unnecessary, but people still use points of reference in the metric system. Sure, a hectare is simply 100m by 100m, but people will still use their personal memory of a space they know when thinking about a hectare or a kilometer, or whatever. People understand scale relative to something familiar.
I was responding to the "altering state of mind" comment, which is quite broad :)
That just simply isn't going to happen. Next plan?
I have been a longtime Mimestream beta user over the past few years. I have even emailed Neil re bugs. It's a nice client, better than Mail.app or the Gmail web interface, but the features it adds over Gmail are mainly cosmetic or nice-to-haves... it's mainly a pretty native app UI.

I have to admit that I didn't see a recurring subsription pricing model coming at all. I'm not opposed to the model in general, but I just can't imagine paying $50–60/year for... an email client... I'm scratching my head if there's ever been a (personal) email client (not service) billed similarly. Very weird decision by the founder... sorry, but I'm not buying.

It also feels super shitty to launch 1.0 out of the blue AND then expire the public beta builds that we have been using for 3 years with 4 days notice...

I hate to say it, but this feels like a totally botched overnight transition from longtime free beta to paid app to me. There wasn't even a notice given to existing users that 1.0 was coming (now or later). From the outside, it looks like they hired multiple engineers too fast, maybe they tried to raise VC and it failed, and this is an effort to pay the bills.

I think this pricing is out-of-touch with their userbase and making this drastic move randomly will cause them to lose 95%+ of their users. I would have given them a $30–50 one-time purchase for sure (i.e., something like Sublime's license model).
In Arizona, it's not even the US consumption. They're selling the alfafa to Saudi Arabia, which won't grow it itself because it uses too much water.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-company-fondomonte-arizon...
I don't think we need more "dramatizations" on this topic but rather realistic and pragmatic analysis and solutions. Frankly, while facing this just watching a show to pat yourself on the back as being part of the solution, isn't really appealing.
I have zero problem saying your startup or small business doesn't deserve to collect my personal info if you can't protect it.

Doing your accounting, paying taxes, and following labor laws are also burdens on small businesses. Not every small business is profitable enough to manage those things and that's ok.
Never, ever do something you have no intention of carrying through on. Your lack of enthusiasm will probably bleed through and using other people for personal gain isn’t the nicest way to be known. People talk, and it would suck blowing an interview and losing a job because of such talk.
He seems to be labouring under the misapprehension that Putin would tolerate a prosperous de-Russified Ukraine. He must never have read any of Putin’s speeches about the glory of the USSR and how it was a mistake to allow Ukraine to be separated from Russia. A vassal state like Belarus is what they wanted but their decapitation attack failed. Now they’re stuck in a quagmire with no clear end in sight. So much for a master strategist
I set one up for the first time a few weeks back. The Web UI would sometimes time out my session after less than a minute, and then many of the sidebar buttons would be duplicated. Choosing a "template" option for how the WiFi/LTE is used would appear to take effect, but be ignored. There was no option to enter a password for the 5GHz radio, it simply remained open. It stopped responding and had to be factory reset. This was all over a stable wired Ethernet with a browser config that allows scripts, cookies etc, and before any work I'd upgraded its firmware and performed a factory reset. I too was a bit horrified.
As a shopkeeper, I can offer a discount for cash rather than credit card. Why couldn't I offer a similar discount for some other device characteristic, especially if there's a direct line between that choice and the economics to me?

(I'm agreeing and extending, not disagreeing.)
What It Was Like to Live Inside Habitat 67
MattRix linked civitai, every model there can be run locally, you just need to choose the one you prefer.
HN isn't the source though. the two articles I can remember are sfgate.com, readership in around 30 millon/month, and ars Technica, which is a fairly popular site, though I don't have stats for them.
Portugal, Spain, France, Sweden, Finland, the UK, and other parts of Europe are running on renewables or low carbon nuclear for a substantial amount of time. As oezi mentioned in a sibling comment, the cost of renewables is rapidly approaching a point where they are cheaper than fossil fuels. The solutions are clear, we just need to lean into them harder (and make it painful for those who choose to continue fossil BAU despite the cost reversal).

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/renewables-supplied-8... (Renewables supplied 88% of Portugal's electricity consumption in January)

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65557469 (Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time)

https://english.elpais.com/spain/2023-05-19/the-nine-hours-i... (The nine hours in which Spain made the 100% renewable dream a reality)

https://yle.fi/a/74-20032375 (Finnish nuclear plant throttles production as electricity price plunges) (My note: Estonia and Finland just signed an MOU to build an additional 1GW interconnector, "EstLink3", to import more clean energy from Finland but it won't be done until early 2030s)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35965186 (HN: Renewables supplied 65% of new US utility-scale generating capacity in Q1 2023)

https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/renewables-cheapest-form... (Renewables: Cheapest form of power)

https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost... (Lazard 2023 Levelized Cost Of Energy+)

https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/Tesla-Master-Plan-Part-3.pdf (Tesla Master Plan Part 3: Sustainable Energy for All of Earth)

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map?wind=false&solar=false (Live global electrical generation mix data)
It's cliche but metrics aren't the truth. Being in perpetual debt and living a hollow life is a much smaller improvement over being homeless than these percentages imply IMO. I'd be more interested in historical data wrt to overall well being rather than employment/arbitrarily defined poverty lines

EDIT:

To those who are illiterate, notice that I said 'small improvement' rather than 'downright worse'
It's up for me. You can try using archive.today or any of their other domains, and use https://isitup.org/ to check in the future if a site is down globally.
Alejandro Jodorowsky tried to get Dalí to play the Emperor in his mid-1970s film adaptation of “Dune.”

Dalí wanted to be the highest-paid actor in history, so he asked for a salary of $100,000 / hour:

”Dalí agrees with much enthusiasm the idea to play the Emperor of the galaxy. He wants to film in Cadaquès and to use as throne a toilet made up of two intersected dolphins. The tails will form the feet and the two open mouths will be used one to receive the "wee", the other to receive the "excrement". Dalí thinks that it is of terrible bad taste to mix the "wee" and the "excrement".

”It is said to him that I will need him for seven days... Dalí answers that God made the universe in seven days and that Dalí, while not being less than God, must cost a fortune: 100,000 dollars an hour. Perhaps that while arriving at the set he will decide to film each day more than one hour for the same price.

”The only condition is to have the Emperor on the throne scatologic. He does not want to read script: "My ideas are better than yours". He wants to choose his court among his friends, wants to say what he wants and moreover, at the time to sign the contract, will condescend to make me gift of three ideas that I will have the right to use or not.”

https://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowsky/

The story of this unmade movie is very interesting on the whole. It led indirectly to “Alien” and other sci-fi classics by introducing European artists like Moebius and Giger to Hollywood.
Yep, you can think of it as a Google Meet / Zoom / Teams you can self-host.
This is often repeated here, but from where I’m sitting it self evidently isn’t true. I wonder if it could be because in the US there are so many automatic transmissions, and hearing high revs is relatively rare.. but most cars here are manual and high revs (in traffic) is common place
Revenue is not the same as profit.. this fine is coming out metas income
Right. My bad: DUNS ID is only required if you want over the air (OTA) update to your Apple devices through the use of Mobile Device Management (MDM) tool. (I was looking for ease of use, easiest, that is.)

Was unclear on how to circumvent this DUNS ID for just the sideloading. of apps.
That’s not true at all. Check out id software. They made gobs of money through shareware.

And of course there’s lots of open source developers who are excellent and donate their time with only expecting $0.
Ok but what is the value? Is there hard value like "15.4 degree celcius"?
On its face I'm not against using analogies to explain scale, but its not like i really have an intuitive grasp on the size of a 747 or a football field's volume. It also helps to remember that 1m^3 is 1000L which allows you to transform this into much easier (at least to me) analogies.