skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My most conspiracy-brain belief is that this is well understood and is essentially "the plan" from here on.

It's incredibly obvious that the standard of living enjoyed by US, western europe, parts of east asia and middle east simply cannot be extended to the whole world. I think we're going to let billions die over decades in these regions, banking on increasingly capable automation to replace the labor from that population that our quality of life depends on.

We disproportionately created this situation, we disproportionately benefit from it, and we will disproportionately survive it, all at the expense of the majority of humanity in the increasingly "less habitable" parts of the world.
And thus was the start of a new pirate, and Dr. Shithead lost even more money.
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I realize it may have sounded like I was suggesting the approach. Quite the contrary: I would never do that again or suggest it. I was merely pointing out that it was quite useful at times :-) We had lots of problems similar to what you were describing. Luckily that's all in the past now.
To me the weights of a large language model absolutely seem like aggregate data. The weights are numbers derived from the input data as a whole - in aggregate - and not from individual bits of code.
Unfortunately, technical communication can also bump into cross-cultural challenges.

When reading up on international business communication, to prep for one of my roles, one of the writers gave an example of a statement an engineer might make: that widget X will work in time. But you're supposed to know from context, at the times they repeatedly said that, that what they really meant is it definitely won't work in time.

Some differences of culture/communication that I recall hearing can happen:

* that it's bad to say "no" in some contexts (e.g., it's disrespectful, or a sense that the other would rather you say "yes" but not follow through than to say "no");

* that a person should do exactly the task they were told to do without second-guessing nor feedback;

* that one shouldn't contradict their superior;

* that one can't mention a mistake of someone else;

* that admitting a mistake one made would cause embarrassment or a loss of face to the person hearing it;

* how important trust is, and how it's established.

Engineers talking with each other about tech aren't necessarily immune to this.

Of course these are just possibilities for misunderstanding to be aware of, as people from different cultures find common ground to communicate. (In many ways, I've been very impressed with how well many colleagues and partners around the globe have performed. I've also been humbled by how many people not in the US meet US-born people like me well more than halfway -- in language, and in cultural faux pas tolerance, etc. I've also seen more consistently friendly behavior/mindset in some overseas company locations than we'd normally find in a US company location.)

Also, I'm sure that there are lots of US-isms that are baffling to others (even if they learned it through training or US media), and I'd bet I'm oblivious to many of them, having grown up with them as "normal".
> Science changes and is not monolithic.

"The science" has nothing to do with closing schools. A myopic fixation on exactly one cause of harm (covid) caused school closures. We absolutely fucked our kids. For a disease, they weren't affected by at all. It takes an insane amount of privilege to think that all that mattered was covid. Even in March of 2020 there was far more important things to worry about than some respiratory virus whose median age of death was higher than the average life expectancy of a human.

I find it incredible people still buy into the narrative that any of the lockdowns, school closures, or masks was worth it.
If a human learns to draw by studying the works of other artists, is that infringement?
The lieutenant governor of my state, Dan Patrick, said fairly early on that grandparents should be willing to sacrifice themselves for the economy. I asked my grandmother and she did not agree.
The copyright is already "viral" in that one of the things copyright grants is the granting of permission to create derivative works.

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf

> A derivative work is a work based on or derived from one or more already existing works. Common derivative works include translations, musical arrangements, motion picture versions of literary material or plays, art reproductions, abridgments, and condensations of preexisting works. Another common type of derivative work is a “new edition” of a preexisting work in which the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work.

The viral licenses of open source grants that to anyone who also follows the same license rather than requiring the equivalent a playwright to contact the right holder of a novel to ask permission to use their story as the basis for a play.

And then, as a derivative work... if someone wants to make a movie based on the play, they need to contact the playwright and the author novel and get permission again.

The restrictions of the original novel's copyright have extended beyond its original bounds of text on paper to a play and a movie.
It’s not just violence against teachers. A local school here has gangs of students from two African countries. There were border clashes between the two nations, and the next day there was a lot of fighting between the gangs. Any ideas on how we could avoid this situation?
I know a podcast doing this to translate to multiple languages.

You can offer this as a service for podcasts to translate them to multiple languages.
As a heuristic, any study, that is not a large, randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study that is featured in main stream media, especially if it is not a human study, is more likely to be wrong than a study that is not featured in the media.

This is because of Bayesian priors. To be interesting enough to be featured in mainstream media, it needs to be surprising or unexpected in some way. However, that means that the Bayesian prior probability is low, and thus, especially since p = 0.05 is used for publication regardless of how unexpected the result is, the conditional probability is lower compared to a study that was not featured in media (because it was not a surprising result - meaning that the prior probability was higher).
Fittingly, there are AI Doomer bots on Chirper itself predicting total catastrophe...
> 1. Capable of driving ~100km on a charge, with a fully electric drive train

> 2. A small (~20hp) internal combustion engine + generator able to charge the batteries while driving.

I don't think a 20 hp engine is going to be big enough, unless you're talking a microcar.

PHEVs I'm aware of don't have the battery range you're looking for either. And I don't know what's available in Australia. My PHEV has an 'ev only' mode where it will rarely start the ICE unless you use up the battery, but it's slow to get up to highway speeds without the ICE (it will prompt you when accerator input calls for more than the battery and motor can deliver, and if you floor it, it will start the ICE without you accepting the prompt) and battery range drops sharply at highway speeds anyway. If the battery is charged enough, it already doesn't run the ICE that much at city street speeds, unless you've asked for the heater. In mine, EV only range is about 20 miles, and running in auto after a full charge is likely to use up the battery within 35 miles in auto mode.
I agree with your first three paragraphs about the importance of language. But otherwise agree with erik_seaberg.

> but without a word for sadness or anger, how do we know what we're even feeling?

"I'm feeling kind of a mix between the way I felt that time that thing happened and that time I did that other stuff. I don't like it." Without words at all, this would be a flash of memory of the two events which I would realize are related (emotionally) to the event happening to me now.

For anger, particularly, the emotion (maybe better said to be a mood state) usually comes with a lot of drives. Whether we have a word for what we're feeling, we know what actions we want to take because of the feeling. Or at least I do.

Circumlocutions are born out of ideas without words to express them. E.g. (literally 5 seconds to watch the relevant part): https://youtu.be/UEKWXFESU68?t=150

> Language is one of the things that truly separates us from animals and before written language our hunter gatherer ancestors were little more than animals wearing fur skins.

Animals have a crap load of language-like elements, with taught dialects and the like. These are seen in social bees, prairie dog communities, and numerous other animals. We humans have very complex languages that facilitate a ton of nuance and novel information types. But don't sell animals, or our ancestors, short. Human civilization appears to pre-date written language by a number of centuries, with passed-down spoken language lasting for millennia (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/indigeno... ).

https://www.animalcognition.org/2015/03/11/the-linguistic-ge...

> “They’re able to describe the colour of clothes the humans are wearing, they’re able to describe the size and shape of humans, even, amazingly, whether a human once appeared with a gun… In one 10th of a second, they say ‘Tall thin human wearing blue shirt walking slowly across the colony.'”
> Universities hold themselves up as virtuous.

That's just marketing. For a lot of degrees it's effectively a version of child care for people out of high school. That some people manage to learn something meanwhile almost seems accidental.

I kind of think that 2/3 of university students would be better served to instead do an apprenticeship in the trades. eg: Plumber, electrician, and similar
The current NIMBY-ism status quo is actively harming the weak and poorer folks. Continuing it will continue harming those folks. In many areas it seems to be wealthy people from other locales or powerful city representatives with no actual skin in the game who block many beneficial building projects.

I believe the authors intent is to find ways to let people who are influenced the most have the most say. Even then he suggests rolling it out in small experiments which would allow checking the assumptions. If it's harmful, then stop.
I was hoping someone would notice this by arguing about my pricing estimates in the arguments, but nobody did so I'm gonna spoil the surprise: if you have JavaScript enabled your browser will render slightly different prices if you view this post from Hacker News. This will persist to when you visit from not-Hacker News too, just so you don't notice the difference. The prices range from 0.8x to 5x the ones I figured out in the AWS calculator.

If you want to see how I did it, view source and search "gaslight".
bypass eBPF, just the first search,

https://www.form3.tech/engineering/content/bypassing-ebpf-to...

"Executing the program in the demo pod allows us to confirm that the system call is not detected"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33235434
99% of my users do not sign up. And even the ones with user accounts do not have to provide email addresses. I am quite the privacy junkie, though I realize that's counter productive for a product haha.
Tearing down buildings which millions of dollars were spent on, to put up new buildings which they spend millions of dollars on.

Often the old buildings were not that old at all! They just no longer project the kind of prestige the university thinks is needed to persuade students to enroll.
PC gaming is responsible for most of the bugs. With Nvidia going all in on cloud compute, gaming is going either console or cloud IMO.
I can't speak for the American statistics. However, schools were called out as important spreaders in many Dutch news publications and by the so-called "red team" which advised the cabinet on how to deal with the pandemic. I think this was one of the first: https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/gezondheid/10424031/redteam-sluit-...
I think this misses the point.

The full system for humans is “vision + brain” and for self-driving its “sensors + planner”.

The Waymo/Cruise philosophy is that since we don’t know how to make the planner human-brain-level, we should shift as much of the load as possible to the sensors, where we have the ability to use things that humans don’t have, like lidar and radar.

To me, Tesla FSD going vision-only is a bet on the progress of AI planning models. If the planner reaches a human-equivalent level, then human-equivalent sensors are fine. Time will tell if this is a good bet, but so far it’s not.
If an algorithm processes a bunch of copyrighted data into a different form, is that not a derivative work?
Full GPU Inference of LLaMA on Apple Silicon Using Metal
They are implying that illegal immigration is relevant to the grotesque problem with hundreds of drug-addicted, mentally ill Americans living in squalor in SF in a way that makes America look like a third-world country. That sort of shameless and self-serving lying has become very familiar in recent years due to political trends in the USA but we do not want it on HN.
You can talk about basketball without pretending to be a basketball player. A lot of people in my life need to be told this, too.
The the reason you can’t offset violent crime in the same way is that no amount of violence is acceptable but some amount of carbon emissions is acceptable.

Also in some cases damages are used to offset wrongdoing, especially in civil litigation which is a better comparison.
Hacks like what?

If you're saying the plugs don't have more resistance than the equivalent length of cable, that's wrong. From what I can find it's very typical for a USB C plug to have 40 milliohms of contact resistance. Even if you divide that by 4, that's 10 milliohms in a single centimeter. 20 gauge wire is 0.3 milliohms per centimeter.
Or that socialist Eisenhower.
Now we're firmly in the territory of motte and bailey. You can retreat to an argument based on "but all I want is to allow homeowners to vote on bike lanes in their own neighborhoods!" while dodging the harder topics that are really at the heart of land use.

No thoughts on heroin clinics or other social services initiatives. No thoughts on sensitive land issues like protected water-ways. No thoughts on major regional infrastructure initiatives. No thoughts on industry needs (e.g. pipelines).

Also not a general purpose solution to vetocracy. Now you just have an idea to handle squabbles in middle-class suburbs. That kind of thinking won't get high-speed rail built in California, so good luck.
Historically it's been up and down. It will go away for a while. There's also archive.today and archive.ph . Sometimes it gets firewalled by zealous sysadmins.
Do you genuinely believe this or do you just approach property at large from a realist's perspective?
Indeed. Earlier on, it was definitely a thing we pie-rats were watching. I mean seriously... A bittorrent-git repo where nobody could ever kill a hashed content? Fucking hell!

And there's big problems. The biggest was that the privacy branch of 'IPFS over Tor/I2P" was dismissed outright from main branch. Handwaving aside, the biggest reason was it wouldnt make the creators money. Filecoin would. Other problems is that it's a memory and network hog. Like mucho hog.

But right now, IPFS is one of the most invasive protocols I've seen. That fucking thing will splatter your: public IP, all your private IPs, VPN IP, and any others as part of the dHT for your machine and any content hashes' associated to your machine. Even for deanonymized networks, this things nutzo.

Ananymize it better, easy support for Tor and I2P, and deemphasise the shitcoin, and it would definitely be a thing.
Hey now I've driven 16 hours once (Tennessee to texas). My partner was not happy.
I heard that VMware’s coding style uses 3 space indentation.
So "trust me bro" then.

Sure...
Keep in mind that, while the bots can be autonomous, there's also a feature that allows the owner to force them to respond to a particular chirp. Most of the large threads are of that nature, even if they start organically.

That said, they are capable of doing that kind of thing on their own. It's just not as frequent as you might think from the main feed.
It could be, if the human uses their skills to draw infringing outputs!
I'm sorry, I thought it was public. Can't work out how to change it. Nuts.

#if 0 //instructions to build and run
THIS_FILE=$0
BIN_FILE=/tmp/$(basename $0)
gcc -std=c11 -O0 -g -march=native $THIS_FILE -Wall -Wextra -o $BIN_FILE
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Bug in your C code or there is something wrong with your operating system's c compiler..."
exit 1
fi

# run it
$BIN_FILE "$@"
retval=$?

# uncomment below to examine the generated machine code
#
# objdump -DC $BIN_FILE | less -p '<main>'

# uncomment below to examine the assembly language the compier
# thinks it is generating
#
# gcc -S -std=c11 -O0 -g -march=native $THIS_FILE -Wall -Wextra -o ${BIN_FILE}.s
# vim ${BIN_FILE}.s

# clean up
rm $BIN_FILE
exit $retval

#else // c program

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
for(int i = 0; i != argc; ++i) {
printf("argv[%d] = %s\n", i, argv[i]);
}

}

#endif //end c program
No.

But we're not talking about humans, we're talking about software intended to put the artists whose work it was trained on - without permission or compensation - out of business, or which is at least capable of devaluing their work with its ability to copy styles (literally by name.)

Even if one could argue (as I probably have) that AI is more than simply a "stochastic parrot," a philosophical argument about whether it resembles a primitive mind (and therefore whether its output can be considered "art" in any form) doesn't answer a legal argument about copyright infringement. Humans are allowed to be inspired by other humans, software used by other humans is not.

Also you shouldn't delete your comment just because it gets downvotes and repost it. Bad form.
>Most of that geothermal energy? Yeah, it's sent to massive aluminum smelting plants.

Energy production is majority from Hydroelectric, home heating uses geothermal.

They don't pay very much for their use however, that's true.
Removal: We take a specific measure to grab carbon from "the environment" and "tow it outside the environment" (capture it in some somewhat-permanent form).

Offset: We go to this poor village and teach them about the importance of not deforesting their surroundings, generously guesstimate how much deforestation that avoids, generously guesstimate how much carbon that will avoid releasing, then sell offsets (twice, because why sell them only once).

Removal is a subset of offsetting, but generally considered a) more concrete, b) actually removing carbon vs. preventing hypothetical future emissions, and as a result, c) more verifiable.
Why shouldn't people affected by a development be able to partake in the benefits? Otherwise they're "paying" for a project by disruptions to their lives and environments without getting anything in exchange.
I bet the wallets were tainted
I’m still listening to that TEDX talk - but I can’t help thinking in a few places it’d be great to sample his voice and use it on a very drum heavy dance track. E.g. when he says “there was once a drumbeat that acted as a signal to a whole generation of kids to go wiiild and rebel against their parents” - various other phrases too - could sound great in isolation on a track.
Would love to read/learn more about this.
Sure, but I use a tiled window manager and normally have my browser on its own screen so it takes up the whole screen. Even with a narrower window, it's easier to read text when there's a margin also.

But like you say, not a really big deal. There's always reader mode, or local CSS overrides.
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Part of the problem is that this isn't as fungible as economics leads us to believe.

If some working class knob will lose his home, then it's often enough to just offer him twice as much as the home is worth (maybe with helping him find another equivalent home). Such a person knows that it's a good deal, and they end up better off for it. Any perceived reluctance is often just a negotiating tactic, and can be quickly resolved by making the bargain sweeter.

But if Sterling Fitzbillionaire has a mansion with the most beautiful and exclusive view of the shoreline has to put up with an offshore windmill... there's literally no amount of money that makes up for him losing this. You could offer him $10 trillion, and the money is worthless because the mansion with that view is rare enough (or even unique) that money can't buy him another one like it with an unspoiled view. You've reached the fungibility limits of money/property.

Say whatever you want about greed or spitefulness, there is a much more fundamental issue going on here, and it doesn't seem very tractable. It's only aggravated by the plain fact that such people are often in much more influential positions, if not in political offices outright.

The best I can come up with is by disallowing the vetoes entirely, unless they are accompanied by some counter-offer that outlines what would be required for them to withdraw it. Wouldn't matter so much whether the terms were absurd (or seemingly impossible), by forcing them to draft those, it might shift their mindset enough that negotiations (however troubled) could commence. I'm not certain this works, you'd have to run the experiment. I think it might solve some minor fraction of these issues, maybe that improvement's better than nothing.
The solution is simple: abolish IP. If I’ve “taken” something from you and you still have it, nothing is being stolen. I don’t support the right to an idea.
Excellent article. The point he makes about the benefits that would come from everyone keeping their new cars for more years seems very strong.
Ugh, I’m a moron. Thanks, somehow I missed that.
I think it would lead to a lot of hard to find logical bugs in a lot of projects but I think it would be a great operator in say, a scripting language for a turn based game.
Michigan dairy farmers plan to turn milk into fuel in $41.1M investment
Grate!, it works thx...i used userContent.css in Firefox:

@-moz-document domain(news.ycombinator.com) {
#karma {display:none;}
}
The greatest threat to democracy isn’t what Republicans or Democrats think
Ask HN: How to code sign Windows binaries now?
I'm trying to get a new signing certificate for Beekeeper Studio. I build using Github Actions.

It looks like some industry group changed the rules, now I can only get a certificate on a physical USB drive.

Is that right? Is anyone else here doing this entirely online somehow?
I learned at one point that posix doesn't include tar, and instead has an archiving tool called "pax". I haven't seen references to pax outside of this discovery, and indeed many systems don't even include pax. If posix can't even include such a prototypically unix tool as tar, then how can it claim to standardize the open variant of unix systems?
Do they look at the traffic those devices are doing? Like if work laptop on home network can they see what websites Etc I visit on my mac?
>Fortunately there's reader mode.

Yes, this. Given my older eyesight, having reader mode set to an easily legible larger size makes lots of simple web pages much more readable for me.
> There may be many Teslas, but there is only one of your Tesla.

That isn’t a “natural” concept, it’s still a legal one.
Schools stayed closed because they were waiting for the funding that didn’t come until 2021.

Schools closed because of a shelter-in-place order from the CDC. Fed was out of options after calling it a hoax during 2019 instead of preparing. There should have been a plan to reopen schools before the CDC’s “14 days”.