skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another complex question asked in good faith: Nothing has been done? Nothing?
This seems like an overtly emotional value statement to the global response to a complex problem-- our industrial activities have side effects that effect our environment. The challenge is, what can we do about it, and what has worked so far?

Can we explore this issue from a not-panicked perspective? Off the top of my head (feel free to hit me with Cunningham's Law):

- Aerosol CFC's were a problem we addressed

- Leaded paint and gasoline were another example

- There is a dramatic increase in interest in electrification, which seems to be spearheaded by the environmentalist movement

- I see more discussion about E-waste now than I did 10 years ago. Right to repair seems to be gaining speed in the Reduce/Repair side of the 3 R's

- Are we seeing increased efficiencies in extracting fossil fuels? Fracking seems to fit that niche

"Nothing was done" seems to be a value statement. If we are to agree on progress, we have to agree on who we are serving. Nether Molech (Unbounded consumption at the expense of the human) nor Malthus (Humans are an evil virus) strike me as great options.
> Amazon doesn't allow sellers to price their products for less off-Amazon.

A billion Chinese sellers don't care; they sell the same product under different names all over the place at random prices.

> This keeps prices off-Amazon high, which is bad for consumers.

Implausible.

Just from a technical viewpoint; Amazon is not able to police things that go on entirely within their site, never mind outside.

This buffoon stupidly picked a fight with Amazon's lawyers for nothing.

Amazon could not find a product off-Amazon, and a product on-Amazon, and determine that they are the same, if their lives depended on it.
You're getting a lot of the usual talking points back. People assume you're stupid if ask questions like this, and you get the equivalent of someone speaking louder and slower when they realize someone doesn't speak english.

Anyway, I can see the point that something equally or more disruptive will happen, so, whatever. As others have pointed out, we're all indirectly very bought in to the current equilibrium, even more so those in power. There's always resistance to change, and so I'd say it's that that people are against, rather than the end state. (And of course it's been turned into a big political power grab, so it's in everyone's interests for you to belive either it's the worst threat we face or it's not happening at all and we can ignore it).
and i’m quite literally seeing posts from people earnestly asking why they’re having a hard time finding property insurance in florida. and others earnestly asking “who could have seen this coming?”
That was an issue because of the validation pipeline Mapbox was using at the time, the vandalism had long been fixed in OpenStreetMap proper when the story hit the news.

So, yes, you are going to need to make a trade off between potentially more incidents, but faster repair, and less incidents, but being stuck with your current validated release for a while if something goes wrong.

PS: it is OpenStreetMap, no plural "s"

PPS: Meta produces a publicly available validated version of OSM data.
Template for Node app connected to HuggingFace models
A Github repo with a template for a basic Node and React app with a prompt UI that can communicate with HuggingFace Inference API models.
Do you have any source to this claim?

The letter that you linked doesn't cite any sources, and doesn't come from a reputable fund (based on a quick SEC search, Hirschmann Capital seems to only managing ~$20m AUM, meaning it's likely a one-man operation)
Mostly because Micro$oft shenanigans, or the fear thereof.

As if the VCs baking up all those WASM products are doing it from the warmth of their hearts.
I started playing the electric guitar in a school, where they also do lessons for bands, so now I play live some covers with them. I'm the by far the oldest of the group and I came to connect with a lot of people that also love to play of very different ages and backgrounds.
For textiles, but not print or computer screens. Also, it is a GSA guideline for use by US government agencies themselves only (along with quality standards when the federal government purchases things from private vendors such as chocolate [1], but it does not define what can be sold as chocolate and what not, the FDA would define that [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Specification_for_Cand...

[2] https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...
> response that just hand-waves a bunch of really hard problems or invents tech that doesn't exist

The tyranny of the rocket equation is irrelevant to the problem of extraterrestrial manufacturing, at least in the short term. It’s all ISRU.

> Has there been legitimate significant progress on orbital guns or space elevators since 2012

Actually, yes. I’m sceptical of SpinLaunch. But they are making real progress on the technology, even if they aren’t the ones to complete the package to orbital delivery.
It’s evidence of division and strife. They have allowed the environment to get toxic. Groups that were planning on adopting Rust will now think twice, as it’s future now looks uncertain. All organizations that produce something valuable face this test, it’s the ones that don’t fracture that succeed.
Tell HN: Heroku crashes for new deploys
Update: The fault seems to be limited to new deploys, and according to ntomas the problem lies with Heroku Router

We just did a routine deploy on Heroku, and _every single request_ began failing. Checking logs it says "code=H10 desc="App crashed"" without anything else.

Looking around elsewhere, I see other apps are failing with the exact same error (eg. https://isdown.app/integrations/heroku?c=1685469931)

Seems there was scheduled maintenance on some logging system, and there's some homepage / sign-up page service being done too (https://status.heroku.com/).
I say this in the most respectful way, but apathy and internet-complaining do not change make.

By what method do you suggest bankruptcy is changed?
You're right. I should at least give you an outline for the topic.
...and to clarify, you aren't addressing a claim that I made. You're making up an entirely different claim that is unrelated to my statement. You are contending that these companies don't know their operational needs and consequently hire and fire in arbitrary/capricious fashion. That may be, but it's irrelevant to the article or my point.

As you have pointed out, there has always been stories that large companies have unnecessary hires, and engage in strategies of cornering the market for labour. From that perspective, there has NEVER been demand for resources, there is no rationale for hiring more or fewer people, and nothing would constitute as "evidence" that there is demand.

Now the stuff you cite is not really supporting evidence of that. It's evidence that large companies often are inefficient and under-utilize use of their workforce. That is definitely not a new idea, and is well supported both by evidence and simply by intuition about the challenges of efficiently organizing people.

My claim was that given shifting labour demands, it's not necessarily "less harm" to under hire because at some unknown point in the future you may not want to have those hires.

Now, when you claimed that there was no evidence of an increase demand for labour... which really had nothing to do with my point. In part of my response to that claim that there no evidence with a statement that if there ever was evidence of demand, it was at that time.

There was, in fact, evidence. Maybe not sufficient to convince you, but certainly enough evidence to convince hiring managers. What there wasn't evidence of was that this increased demand would sustain itself forever. There never is. The idea that there is less harm in not hiring people because there is reason to believe that demand might decline at some unknown point in the future is just wrong. Sure, if you know that you only need someone for a week or a month, you shouldn't hire them for a long-term position. Not only is it harmful to them, but it is harmful to your organization. However, even if you know that need might dissipate at some unknown point in the future, if you know you need someone until something changes, there is no harm reduction in not hiring.
In many places, humans have adapted to live on the verge of the survivable wet bulb temperature. These places have been relatively static in temperature and humidity for hundreds of years and while they may have occasional spikes, it's something mitigatable. Climate change means longer and higher extremes, and if an area exceeds the wet bulb temperature then that means any sort of outside work or function is actively deadly.
Not sure why you're viewing this as a class issue. If you work at the supermarket and can't find anyone to help with a purchase at the hardware store after work (or vice versa), you're suffering inconvenience despite being in the same class.

Meanwhile, the people who are working there stocking/ cleaning/ etc are suffering constant interruptions by frustrated customers who can't find what they're looking for. On paper, their productivity looks poor because it takes them longer to perform any given task while the store is open and this is probably offered as an excuse to limit wage increases or promotions, since one can hardly write up a service ticket for every spontaneous customer inquiry.
You do have to go into the gmail settings to enable IMAP, FWIW.
I would like to humbly submit that we should address the beam before the mote.

https://i.imgur.com/UvyGJjq.jpeg
MAS.862: The Physics of Information Technology
No, more CO2 in the air does not lead to increased flora. In fact, the higher temperatures will more likely destabilize ecosystems and result in more deserts and habitats unsuitable for flora.

We're also cutting down flora at an unprecedented rate for meat farming and other uses.

Flora also don't grow that rapidly. Fossil fuels are compacted, sequestered carbon from thousands of years.
And also quite frankly Chat-GPT is being developed in the wealthiest area in the world

AI may not lead to a promising future, but a blind insistence on viewing everything through the lenses of class and history definitely won't.

If this was something as revolutionary as the wheel like many commentators said, surely the movement would have preceded the unveil not the other way around.

What does that even mean?
Yeah it seems that way. Though gyms them selves are pretty diverse still. Even when I was training in sf I was one of the few tech/software people
> The idea of a superintelligence becoming a bond villain via freelance software jobs (or, let's be honest, OnlyFans scamming) is not something I consider an existential threat. I can't find it anything other than laughable.

Conservative evangelical Christians find evolution laughable.

Finding something laughable is not a good reason to dismiss it as impossible. Indeed, it's probably a good reason to think "What am I so dangerously certain of that I find contradictory ideas comical?"

> Meanwhile, I work with LLMs every day and can only get them to print properly formatted JSON "some" of the time. Get real.

I don't think the current generation of LLMs is anything like AGI, nor an existential risk.

That doesn't mean it's impossible for some future software system to present an existential risk.
There's no actual evidence in this thread of Molson being served with an individual lawsuit. He appears to be subpoenaed and deposed in his capacity as a CA AG witness. Nowhere is he being sued by Amazon.
The standard looks great, and the IETF publication is a big step, but it’s still caught in the middle of a chicken-and-egg problem between email service providers and OEMs. Even worse, only Apple would have any incentive at all to natively support JMAP on mobile, as Google would prefer you just use Gmail. It would be the exact same problem as trying to get Apple to adopt RCS.

I’d love to see JMAP take off, but I don’t see a way forward in the current market.
> Wow, it sure worked out fortunately that half of their military was already there.

I'll say, if the whole military had been there the Ukraine would be sixteen times larger today!
I couldn't find that.
Check back with them in a few years. Tech has a way being fun ... until it isn't.
I’ve grown to despise that XKCD comic. It might be one of the more thought-terminating ones he’s made.
Forget ML, Lyft can tell if you are a more profitable / more engaged customer through your usage of Lyft Pink, which explicitly offers Priority Pickup. They are transparent about getting you a driver sooner, for cheaper, and I guess the subscription you pay for drives the value.
Would love to see both Microsoft (for exchange especially, but also their free accounts) and Apple implement JMAP. That said, I know they don't have many incentives to do so and that makes me sad.
Why is it not done today? Probably because of this: Mining rigs are a larger capital investment. They would have to compete with rigs in countries that don't care about CO2. Additionally, why would they be turned off if the energy prices are positive, but still below the cost of mining crypto elsewhere?
I know some Indians and Pakistani who play pickleball.

I know rather more Indians who play cricket. I think you have to have critical mass to get a cricket team going though... Not everywhere has enough interest.
> Presumably because their classifier is still wrong enough that it would think black people are not people.

That is a very weird interpretation.

The classifier is likely accurate enough to be useful, with many edge cases where things are mislabeled. Edge cases might be difficult to fix without causing other issues, or perhaps the technology to be more accurate is just not there yet.

One of those edge cases causes a massive shitstorm on social media, where many people would love to scream "racism" at it.

So we have two possibilities:

1) Put an indeterminate amount of effort to make things more accurate. It won't bring any benefit (as the current classifier is accurate enough), and if you keep mislabeling black people as monkeys even in rare cases, people will still yell on social media. Beehive indeed.

2) Hardcode gorillas out of the classifier. This solves the issue with minimal effort and causes no shitstorm, besides some annoying people grumbling that it is still racist, but with no substance to their claims.

The choice, to me, is obvious.
"Fair and impartial" is aspirational:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_judge_effect
I built one of these for a client a few years ago. Bought 10 refurb T2i kits and this software to stitch it together: https://www.breezesys.com/

Here's it in action from:
https://insidethemagic.net/2017/07/d23-expo-2017-take-virtua...
Nothing was done is not true. A lot of campaigning and lobbying by big oil was done.
SMTP and IMAP are different things.

Destination e-mail domains to which you want to send mail have SMTP servers. To send them mail, you have to contact their SMTP server somehow. If not directly, then through an intermediary.

> If you want something that works for everyone, it has to be port 443 and webby.

That doesn't follow. SMTP is already authenticated and SSL-protected (or can be). The port number isn't the problem, it's the spam.

Suppose that I run an alternative mail server, so that you can send me mail over HTTPS on 443.

If you're a residential subscriber, I'm still blocking you the same way.

Only, it's harder now. I have only one static IP address, and have to serve web requests on it on port 443. So I can't block you at the IP level; I have to let you access my web site (open to all) but block your use of the specific API. That's more costly in terms of system resources; I have to let you connect, and do the SSL handshake and submit requests, instead of turfing your packets at the IP layer.

> modern OS's don't let applications leave a hanging TCP connection open anymore

That has been the case since BSD Unix introduced sockets. When the application quits, the connections close. (At best, there is a graceful shutdown in the background, where the protocol stack exchanges the final FIN segments.)
I doubt most of tech would appreciate being lumped in with crypto, which should be the first sign that your take is a little off.

IE if you think you are just "tech being tech" but lots and lots of tech is like "uh, no, we aren't like you at all, please don't lump us in with you", that should tell you something.

Beyond that, your take seems so divorced from reality i'm not even sure where to begin.

I don't agree at all with your view of crypto's goals being bigger than tech's[1] , and even if i did, that the level of mess is proportionality similar, that this is a normal/good thing, etc.

These are sort of fundamental issues so it's gonna be hard to get somewhere.

I guess i'll just say if this is the best defense you've got of why what's going on is okay and good for the world, then you deserve everything crypto is getting and will get in the future.

[1] Crypto has always been a subset of tech's goals, and is even framed that way 99% of the time in presentations/etc. It's very hard for me to see how you can even argue otherwise.
Overprovision yes, install 100% as fossil backup no... scale fixes your fav-renewable cannot produce enough, because somewhere they will produce, and the different techs combine also well, and then storage a lot, yes, and some backup sure, but even worst pessimists go not with 100%.

> Thats pretty expensive

Longterm the other alternatives are more expensive.. and that's not even calculating in that they are less sustainable. You keep repeating dogmas.
Sites I've found being down with the exact same error. No clue what's going on here:

1. Ours - https://instorier.com
2. IsDown - https://isdown.app
3. LexGo - https://www.lexgo.be
4. Zen Factuur - https://zenfactuur.be/
5. Dandelion events - http://dandelion.events/

Multiple other people on Twitter saying the same: https://twitter.com/search?q=heroku&src=typed_query&f=live
It doesn't help Russia. The end result is the same: A smaller pool of customers and an anchored price for the remaining customers.

In fact, Russia had to reduce their output because they refuse to sell it to countries that participate in the price cap and there isn't enough demand otherwise (also most of their flow goes west through the now mostly idle pipelines to Europe - It's MUCH harder to move oil east or south because the infrastructure in that direction isn't big enough to handle such a surge). So Russia's losing even MORE profits by refusing to sell to them. AND they still have to maintain the now idle pipelines to the West or else they'll break down over time and become useless.
OK but it says "100% less bureaucracy", although it doesn't actually seem to have a plan for that. Changing the name is... fine? Like it's definitely a thing you can do, for sure.

I'm not sure what that accomplishes - you can use this project and there's no trademark policy so... I guess you could abuse that if you wanted to? Like you could start your own "CrabCon" and no one could say anything about it legally... ok.
Google's data grab grabs mathematics
Local coffee places and bars; like minded people rock up all the time. Met lovely people just today; gonna meet them in an a few weeks for a hike. Never worked for me for focused envs, for instance the gym: too much whining about sports/health and not stuff I actually like.
A Sun-like star orbiting a boson star
John von Neumann — not only a very prominent scientist, but a self-identified conservative — described climate change in a Fortune article titled "Can We Survive Technology?" in 1955:

http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/von_Neumann_1955.pdf

>The carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by industry's burning of coal and oil-—more than half of it during the last generation—-may have changed the atmosphere's composition sufficiently to account for a general warming of the world by about one degree Fahrenheit.
I tend to agree, and appreciate the reference! I will also age out of this bracket in the latter half of this year :)

I just find it so funny, almost like someone did a s/crypto/ai in the uberelite techie hivemind.
There is this idea that governments should do stuff about climate change and I think only people enjoying the fruits of indistrialization in developed countries think that way to the most part. The side of climate change solutions I like are the people working to make clean tech cheaper. The world was an unpleasant place in 1965 and it has been largley fossil fuel enabled changes that have seen a lot of famine, sickness and poverty reduced. HDI has improved a lot!

My point is not to say how nice fossil fuels are but how much no one gives a shit when their people are starving and fighting wars over resources. The cheapest tech wins. Wanna kill fossil fuel? Come with a cheaper solution (and there are already plenty). R&D and infra spending is better than tax incentives and forcing companies to do expensive things.

Smarter spending too, E.g.: 10s of billions will go into ev chargers in cities but none to making cheaper electric trams and rails for public transport in cities.
A friend of mine is an extrovert with a touch of Agoraphobia. (The agoraphobia came on in middle age)

Most of his social life is online games these days like Destiny 2, Dead Island 1/2, etc. He's happy enough. I did the online circle of friends thing back in the Destiny 1 days and it was fun enough. I'm less extroverted, so don't need as much social time.
so I don't believe there are new entries on the site! because if it hasn't been updated for 5 years then there's no way it can be safe :(
At Basho engineers would often spend time working support to get a better view into customer pain points. Outsourcing support sounds like a giant middle finger to customers.
Rapidly increasing likelihood of exceeding 50 °C in parts of the Mediterranean and the Middle East due to human influence

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-023-00377-4
i hope you don’t read this as snarky as it’s going to sound, i really don’t mean it snarky at all… but people were pushing for changes decades ago in a non-panicked way.
I think this is a very good question! IIRC when the effects of greenhouse gasses were discussed in the late 1800s, some people thought that it might be a positive thing, and might make the planet more comfortable to live on.

I think "Climate Change" as a term doesn't really strike at the heart of the issue. The issue is not that 'any change is bad,' but rather that the climate is changing (1) in a way that will negatively impact people, and (2) because of _our_ greenhouse gas emissions.

There are many negative impacts, but here's one major one: farmers grow certain foods because their farms experience certain climates. If your farm gets too hot, or too little rain, or too much rain, then your crops won't grow. The world bank has a report analyzing this particular issue in depth: https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/6766014682496426...

If you're interested, there are many more reports, from different sources, analyzing the varied effects that climate change will have on humanity.
The actions of a malicious AI cannot be simulated, because this would require an inferior intellect predicting a superior intellect. It's P versus NP.

The point to make is that it is trivial to imagine an AI wielding power even within the confines of human-defined intellect. For example, depictions of AI in fiction typically present as a really smart human that can solve tasks instantly. Obviously, this is still within the realm of failing to predict a fundamentally superior intellect, but it still presents the terrifying scenario that simply doing exceptional human-level tasks very quickly is existentially unsettling.

Mere leverage has sufficient explanatory power to explain the efficacy of an intelligent artificial agent, let alone getting into speculation about network security, hacking, etc.