skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What are you doing to fight climate change?
Worldwide we keep seeing record temperatures, droughts, and other impacts of climate change. My country (Canada) is on fire and my city has a 300+ hectare fire burning uncontrolled a few kilometres from town, all the result of an ongoing drought due to climate change.

I’ve done what I know to do (installed solar, switched to a heat pump, minimize vehicle use, eat primarily vegan), but I want to do more.

I am interested to hear what the HN community is doing to fight climate change? Beyond what I’ve listed, what else can I do to have a greater impact? I want a better future for my kids.
First time I have ever heard that. Yes, of course I know SourceForge, but never heard the term forge being used generically, like, ever.
In the paper, I was able to find this:

> In addition to open-source models, we also compare Llama 2 70B results to closed-source models. As shown
in Table 4, Llama 2 70B is close to GPT-3.5 (OpenAI, 2023) on MMLU and GSM8K, but there is a significant
gap on coding benchmarks. Llama 2 70B results are on par or better than PaLM (540B) (Chowdhery et al.,
2022) on almost all benchmarks. There is still a large gap in performance between Llama 2 70B and GPT-4
and PaLM-2-L.
How does that follow from GP’s point? If remote interaction with a human doesn’t quite measure up to face-to-face interaction, how does an LLM improve upon that?
Ah I see there is also a llama-2-chat model.
In Tree Style Tab you can create a tab group (which is basically a custom tab whose title you can rename, e.g. "Docs"), then move all tabs you want to group as one "inside" it. That makes all the tabs the children of the tab group. Now you have the best of both worlds: tab groups and tree-based tab structures.
Yes, you can use QMK tools like VIA to reconfigure, or even just modify the firmware. It's all open source: https://github.com/frameworkcomputer/qmk_firmware
It would probably be a lot cheaper and safe to make an autonomous or semi-autonomous wheeled platform that unloads and delivers the packages, sort of a motorized pallet cart, which would be usable also for bigger loads.
Increasingly everything about Threads reminds of Google Plus.
Stuff like this is why I will remain a proponent for true vouchers for the rest of my life. No parent should be stuck without options when educational governance goes sideways like this.

Pull your kid. Find them a school that gives them the greatest opportunity to succeed and use the funds earmarked for their education to ensure they receive it.

Currently, options are restricted to parents who can afford to move to a different school zone, afford private school or have a parent available who can facilitate a home school environment.

Letting parents vote with their kids placement will force schools to truly advance.
You’re implying that the beliefs here must be racially consistent, which is a straw man.
Why? So researchers don't go there?
From the editorial: "It would be accurate to say that the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive. Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not able to address the question of whether mask-wearing itself reduces people's risk of contracting or spreading respiratory viruses."

Whether you think the editorial was them caving or not, they also issued it under their own name with the same weight as their other reviews, so they must have thought enough of it to do so.

Given that there's ample laboratory evidence of the filtering capacity of a good N95 or even a KN95 mask, and having worked with an N95 respirator in tuberculosis control settings for 17 years and never converted my TB test, I think I'll stick with the mask in future and I have no hesitation recommending winter masking to others who believe they are at risk of complications.

I've liked not being sick for the last three years.
Not meaning to be controversial, curious - why is it under a16z-infra namespace?
(the remote VM is in a datacenter, with Gnome desktop and Firefox: exactly as in my laptop)
Or really in any job in general where you actually use the tool for longer periods of time.

So that "eh, it's not that slow" and "It's only extra click" will bother you to no end when you have to constantly waste time on it.
Exactly. You can even name the bookmark folder either with the thing you're researching/interacting with or just by the date if it's a ton of miscellaneous stuff. Then later on you can go thru and delete all the date-named bookmarks older than 6 months. At that point just search your browser history
> Been to Poland recently? It's... kinda nice!

2 decades of EU largesse and cross-Europe migrant remittances will do that. Does the UK have a similar windfall coming?
Attend my Teams meeting choosing an avatar that nods occasionally and laugh as jokes are told and give appropriate non committal responses like "Hmm" - "Let me get back to you about that"
>A student with no idea about college or admissions, or someone who grew up with experience and knowledge of the institution.

Honestly, I think you're overstating things. That a parent attended a possibly distant school 25 years ago is a pretty indirect path to wowing an alumni interviewer.

Now, maybe it's different, if the school was a part of your life growing up. A good friend of mine's father has a doctorate from MIT and worked next door at a lab that used to be part of MIT and my friend tells me of sometimes being dropped off in Doc Edgerton's lab to be looked after. But that's hardly typical.
"Find a local bike shop that will let you try out several electric bikes"

where I live no shop is going to let you try one. Not even a regular bike, you want to try? Buy it.

Heck, you normally can't even get a test drive when buying a new car.
I am immensely thankful for Go.

The simplicity of the language and the stdlib is shockingly well thought out -- things like io.Reader are so obvious and yet not part of many other languages. The language has made me a better programmer. And the cross-compilation story is chefs kiss.

Working on a cross-platform project where in Go, I write code and it just builds. In Java, I fight with Gradle. In Swift, I fight the type system and the way everything's constantly deprecated.

It's not all perfect. I wish the generated binaries were smaller. I wish the protobuf library wasn't awful. And better Cgo/FFI would be nice.

But overall, I've never been so productive.
Just bill your family by the hour.
Anyone who has ever worked in a major social media company knows that this is false - but as another person who has, I will chime in and say this is completely wrong, compliance (especially such obvious compliance) is taken seriously.
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In the things you can't do (at https://ai.meta.com/llama/use-policy/):

"Military, warfare, *nuclear industries or applications*"

Odd given the climate situation to say the least...
> [A tree interpreter] is really only used for extremely simple languages and small DSLs.

I don't agree; maintaining a tree interpreter for the entire language, in parallel with a compiler, allows you to write the compiler and library in that same language, without having a bootstrapping problem (needing an existing installation of the language to rebuild the language). You can bootstrap from some popular language that is readily available everywhere, like C.

You also have the language features specified in three ways: documentation, compiled semantics, interpreted semantics. If two out of three agree, the third is probably wrong.

I find it a great boon in the TXR project that if I'm chasing some problem where something in the library is miscompiled, all I have to do is delete that module's compiled file to have that module be tree-interpreted.

There is also this trick. If in a file that is being compiled we suspect that we have some top-level (expr ...) that is being mishandled by the compiler, we can change it like this:

(eval '(expr ..))

Now when the compiler sees this, it will compile it to a single function call to eval, which passes the literal code to it. When the compiled file is loaded, then (expr ...) is tree-interpreted, while everything else is compiled.

The tree interpreter can be your boostrapper and life jacket; don't throw it away too casually.
I live near the Selway, and it really is the crown jewel of Western Whitewater.

This post certainly doesn't oversell the difficulty of getting a permit to raft it. Your options are basically:

1) Enter a lottery to do it yourself, with about a 1% chance of getting in

2) Try and get on a paid guided trip (there are only 4 operators), that are typically booked out 3+ years in advance, and cost ~$4k+

3) Try and raft it "outside of season" (spring/fall) when conditions could well be difficult/impossible/dangerous/miserable.

By all accounts, it's worth it. I remember reading a book by a raft guide who had run an operation on the Salmon River (the other big multi-day remote whitewater rafting destination in Idaho) for decades, and the instant he had the opportunity to buy out another guide with a permit on the Selway, he sold his Salmon operation without hesitation.

I haven't had the chance to do a Selway trip yet (because of the above factors), but I've camped at both where the author put in, and took out. Both are very nice, beautiful places to camp. We camped at Race Creek a few years back, and my kids still talk about it like it was the best camping experience of their lives.

Like the author, I can whooly recommend the value of wilderness in improving your mental state, adding clarity to your life and just generally making you a better person.

I think we're designed for some time in the woods or desert or jungle or tundra away from humanity, and I'd encourage you all to seek it out.
This doesn't sound bad to me? At large, people eat a package of whatever snack they choose to buy. Also at large, people assume different packages of snacks should be roughly comparable for important metrics. And calorie count is probably up there for important metrics.
This is 100% the lazy approach to creating equity. Instead of investing more to help the kids at the bottom move up, they just cap the top.
I think the rafts you're looking at are just gear rigs, on long multi-day trips usually there is only one person with a set of oars. The boats have frames and lots of cargo space for food, clothes, toilets, tents, kitchen, etc.

Depending on the size of the boat and the difficulty of the river you can have more people on them, but still only one person rows.
Luck (excluding controllable factors by wealthy parents)
Not having explicitly legacy is probably often better, but I think it could frequently be effectively the same. If any non-rigourous scoring is done by people who know about legacy and whose bosses can be contacted informally by legacy parents to pass along complaints I'd wonder if it could be effectively just as bad.
Mayors from six continents go back to school
Google's LLMs are all vaporware. No one's ever seen them. They're supposedly mind-blowing but when they are released they always sound like lobotomized monkeys.

All the AlphaGo/AlphaFold stuff is very cool, but since no one has seen their LLMs this is about as convincing as my claiming I've donated billions to charity.
Or just having mid-day break to cook and eat some food in peace. Splitting 8h day into 2x 4h parts helped a lot.
They simultaneously announced a deal with MS to make Azure the preferred cloud host. This is aimed at Google and Amazon.
We have five acres and we've progressively re-introduced tons of native plant species to our property. You can, too -- you don't have to have a ton of land. Look up native plants for your region and get a-planting, especially native perennials.
I just benchmarked both Firefox and Chromium on my desktop using Speedometer 2.1. Each browser was configured as out of the box, with no extensions, and with a blank profile:

FF (114.0.1): 101 +- 1.9
Chromium (114.0.5735.198): 94.5 +- 2.2

FF (115.0.2): 104 +- 2.4
Chromium (115.0.5790.90): 101 +- 2.6

Machine Specs:
Intel i5-3470 @ 3.2 GHz, 16 GB DDR3, 128 GB SSD. Linux kernel 6.1.38 (latest longterm branch) on Arch.
Now that would be useful!!
Yea for sure, just not London yet
>I am a lazy manager then.

And a very incompetent one. While there is some value in what you said i.e Engineers tracking their progress and what they did. This often results in bragging. The most competent people are generally not the best braggers. The best braggers often make a career out of it.

If I run a company and i had a manager like you, I would fire you. I really mean it.
Athletes keep the lights on
The way to look at it is these are the tradeoffs, so we understand the ramifications. Do we need defense? Sure. But every $ we spend on it should be spent wisely, understanding that tradeoff.

We spend far more than we need to, and Eisenhower is 100% correct in the things we are giving up when we overspend on military.
Look at Snapchat: https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/snapchat-announces-750-mil...

Just above 700m MAU. So yeah, probably aimed at their direct competitors in social.
Why are you citing documentation about wide strings, in response to a comment about byte strings (that even mentions UTF-8)?
I'd say it's directly proportional to the incompetence of the manager managing the worker.
I've tried a few of the free or low cost ones and have found direct from my mail server provides better deliverability in all cases. I'm not sure how well the more expensive ones would do, although one would hope it would be better.
Huh. And I actually had to play around in Android settings to exempt Firefox from regular memory management, so it stops unloading tabs so aggressively. Not only this was a huge annoyance when browsing[0][1], it actually prevented me from using the one PWA I cared about[2] - it would literally blank out every time I switched away from and back to it, while having as much as a single trivial other app open, forcing me to kill and relaunch it.

It's not that my phone was memory-constrained, we're talking a recent Samsung Galaxy flagship[3] - it's purely overly aggressive memory management on part of Firefox.

--

[0] - Have 5 tabs open, all something trivial like HN, put away phone, grab it 5 minutes later, switch to other HN tab, ... wait half a minute for it to reload on a spotty connection at my in-laws' countryside home.

[1] - Talking with others about how we experience technology, I'm starting to feel that I'm abnormally annoyed by large or unpredictable UI latency.

[2] - TypingMind.

[3] - I learned to save up and only buy high-end, thanks to the experience with my first smartphone, that turned out to be underspecced for its own functionality. It's probably a case of [1], but one time I deviated from this rule and got my wife a mid-range phone, we both started to regret it in a few months, so it's not only me who has low tolerance for jank.
Is there anyone out there who disagrees with this? I have not seen a single person (aside from the few people actually implementing these changes) that agrees with it.
I'd thought HN was above calling people Nazis? I've said nothing about race.

If we want a meritocracy we have to be comfortable with genetics playing a role in outcomes.

Personally I've realised that a meritocracy would not be "fair" in the way that a lot of people assume.
You left out the first part of my sentence:

> As they pointed out, antitrust has been interpreted to be about harm to consumers, and as described, consumers are not harmed.

I wasn’t trying to argue whether the court and government interpretation of harm is right or wrong, just that it IS the way it has been interpreted and is the current law of the land.
Worth noting that the person who coined "Meritocracy" was doing so in the context of his book-length critique of it and caution against its adoption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
do you know if llama.cpp will work out of the box or do we need to wait for the code to be updated?
I don't lie either. I just spit out words that is in alignment with my mental model for optimizing my future.
Apple would absolutely not want to use a competitors, or any other, public LLM. They want to own the whole stack, and will want to have their own secret source as part of it. It's not like they don't have the capital to invest in training...
The basic problem is whether the data says masks don't work, or says that people aren't consistent enough in wearing masks.

I've seen it directly--one woman putting on a mask when I approached. The thing is she had been hiking near the back of the pack in a group that got together for the hike. She was at a far higher risk from being downwind of her group (this was not a family bubble) than of me being off to the side.

I can basically guarantee nobody there was experiencing any appreciable symptoms (10,000' up, miles from the cars--not something you're doing with any sort of respiratory infection) but most Covid spread is presymptomatic.

A solo hiker masking when someone approaches makes sense (and is what I did pre-vaccine), but not masking with your group but masking for a stranger? That's merely an illusion of safety and why masks "don't work".

There's also the problem that the Cochrane data included mostly studies of things other than Covid--when you go over their own data only looking at Covid you do see some benefit. Note, also, the pooling of masks and respirators--we already know masks do little against the Omicron variants. Respirators or don't bother.

Cochrane messed up badly in this case by looking at the wrong thing. I'm reminded of the BMJ study showing zero safety benefit from parachutes when jumping from an airplane.
I believe it was. Had a bit of controversy at the start with the guy fighting some taxi companies over it, but overall it does the job fine. The problem is that the taxis themselves suck.
What makes Sidebery better than TST? I'm consider trying it, but I don't want to lose all of my TST tabs.
It seems that these meta subjects, where rather than teaching a STEM topic the usual way. Facts and tests.

They try to teach how to think about a topic without hard tests.

Simply does not work.
In contrast to jebarker's comment, I actually think it's really interesting that a concept coming from game engine development actually seems quite applicable in some very different domains.

We (https://estuary.dev/) ended up arriving at a very similar design for transformations in streaming analytics pipelines: https://docs.estuary.dev/concepts/derivations/

To paraphrase, each derivation produces a collection of data by reading from one or more source collections (DOD calls these "streams"), optionally updating some internal state (sqlite), and emitting 0 or more documents to add to the collection. We've been experimenting with this paradigm for a few years now in various forms, and I've found it surprisingly capable and expressive. One nice property of this system is that every transform becomes testable by just providing an ordered list of inputs and expectations of outputs. Another nice property is that it's relatively easy to apply generic and broadly applicable scale-out strategies. For example, we support horizontal scaling using consistent hashing of some value(s) that's extracted from each input.

Putting it all together, it's not hard to imagine building real-world web applications using this. Our system is more focused on analytics pipelines, so you probably don't want to build a whole application out of Flow derivations. But it would be really interesting to see a more generic DOD-based web application platform, as I'd bet it could be quite a nice way to build web apps.
I have Safari, Anybox, and Alfred, and the three works together in a nice way to save anything interesting quickly. And once in a while, I comb through the inbox and sort them out. If I ever need to explore a subject, I then have a collection of links ready. I feel uncomfortable whenever I have 10+ tabs open. It felt that I’m not focusing enough on my research (taking the proper time to read and reflect in order to find a solution).

The only things I hoard are books. They are more like my antilibrary (things I’d like to have read already) than collecting everything I encounter.
Good topic for a book me thinks.
> CMS licensing was once seen as a lucrative opportunity for publishers looking to grow revenue beyond ad dollars.

> It stopped licensing Chorus to external publishers last year

Gee, I wonder why proprietary CMS systems struggle to find lots of customers? If the company that owns the CMS gets bored and moves on or goes out of business you suddenly need to migrate all of your websites to a new system and teach all of your employees a new workflow. That leaves a lot of time where you aren't "focus[ing] on [your] "core" business"
DIY Edition. I restarted on my laptop instead of my phone and was able to get it through, though not before missing out on batch 2 :(

I think there was something squirrely with my selection of keyboard options - I wanted two sets of spacers and a numpad, and on my phone I'd selected one set of spacers as primary and added another set of spacers plus a numpad. On my laptop, I chose numpad as primary and added two pairs of spacers, and that seemed to work.
"more appropriate for viewers" is a funny euphemism for "censored"
There's the theory that, by forcing the kids with the most engaged parents to go to schools with the kids of less engaged parents, the engaged parents will drive school districts to implement good educational policies.

In reality, though, that doesn't seem to have worked. School board elections have very low turnout usually, and the people elected to them are disproportionately ideologues who treat engaged parents with contempt for being "privileged."
> Tom Cruise is particularly guilty of overcasting beautiful people in his recent movies

Heh, this can be interpreted in two ways and I think both are true. His movies have too many attractive people (over-cast). Also none of those attractive people are very memorable because they're in Tom Cruise's shadow (overcast).
I’ve been hearing “Google has secret better models” for 7 months now. Maybe some UFOs in the hangers at Moffett Field too?
Among their many items were those that included guillotines and skulls with messages promoting violence.

Those were the ones that I saw in memes about the issue promoting a boycott; but Discord being what it is, I’m having trouble finding them now.
Does anyone know if this works with llama.cpp?