skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/1675/2023/

We've added the energy of 25 billion nuclear bombs to the Earth system in just the last 50 years.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-ocean-heat-new-r...

Last year, researchers say, the ocean heated up an amount equal to the energy of five of those bombs detonating underwater "every second for 24 hours a day for the entire year."

... the ocean in 2022 was "the hottest ever recorded by humans." It increased by 10.9 Zetta Joules, an amount of energy equivalent to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and an amount of heat about 100 times more than the electricity generated worldwide in 2021

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This year is off the charts completely.

DATA RELEASED TODAY. North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly 1982 - 2023 (20/7-2023)

https://preview.redd.it/7ibmzvsi6ddb1.jpg?width=680&format=p...

THE DAY BEFORE (19/7-2023). North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly 1982 - 2023

https://preview.redd.it/payaxtpj6ddb1.jpg?width=1080&format=...

Daily Sea Surface Temperatures in the North Atlantic (20/7-2023)

https://preview.redd.it/q9ejy5xl6ddb1.jpg?width=1100&format=...
You forgot to look up the trivially googleable term (or to read TFA) before deciding to post.
Blocked by my ad blocker. This seems to be a sign...
> I'll run privately self-hosted llama on my phone.

any guides on how to do that?
Einstein "got" Quantum Mechanics better than most physicists of his era.

Einstein was one of the pioneers in Quantum Mechanics, making foundational contributions to the understanding of the quantum nature of light (the photoelectric effect and stimulated emission). Even in his criticism of certain elements of Quantum Mechanics, he was incredibly perceptive. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox is a really difficult problem, which gets to the heart of the apparent strangeness of Quantum Mechanics.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Podolsky%E2%8...
Agreed .. A lot of people will die as places become uninhabitable for a very very long time .. Access to clean water will become a major issue and the poor will lose (even more than they already are) .. Humans are a greedy species and this planet just can't support 8B+ (and counting of us) .. I don't know what it can support but we'll soon find out .. We are still decades away from near zero fossil fuels globally and yet we are still growing crops in the desert and watering it so people can have fun hitting a white ball .. Even if we can get to near 100% wind/solar/battery, we'll be busy polluting anything and everything with rare earth minerals as we churn through batteries like candy .. I don't see life being very fun in 50 years, even for the richest people
>The end state is something like media becomes so easy to create that most of it is only watched by the person who created it and even then probably not even that.

Sounds like how Trek envisioned holodeck programs. Though I guess a lot of those were "what if I could chill with a book character"
Before it died it crippled the web, the search, publishers' ad revenues etc.
You don't get lung cancer by injecting. Its just that everyday life sux in comparison.
Looking at it in terms of leverage and market-share is a huge mistake that Mozilla keeps making. Mozilla doesn't have a platform like Google does. What exactly is Mozilla even competing for? Popularity?

They should hunker down and make the best browser they can, implementing their best web. It worked 20 years ago, and in many ways the circumstances are the same. We have tech monopolies proposing ludicrous "content security" mechanisms. Where would Mozilla have been if they tried making some sort of half baked "less evil" form of Microsoft Janus DRM[1]?

People are going to get sick of how intrusive DRM is becoming, and there should be an alternative waiting for them.

Every person who has content they thought they purchased "expire" and be erased from their device, or who can no longer use their expensive projector after the latest mandatory update.

I evangelized heavily for Firefox in the 1.x days. People were sick of IE6, and were glad to have Firefox. I worked at a computer store and probably converted 100+ people.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_(DRM)
I think, as with any politically charged topic, journalists are going to have biases. I don't think there is any particular solution to this except being conscious of those biases, particularly as they relate to career advancement and money. Money explains nearly everything about the issues in the American media ecosystem for me, not cultural factors like "some journalists are more open about being on the left".

One writer that I followed nearly every day for the first 18 months of the pandemic was Derek Lowe at Science.org who runs a fantastic blog about drug discovery, and he has given his assessment of the origins debate a few times. The short answer is he doesn't know either unfortunately https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/origins-pandemic--...
In Paris, there were so many tourists visiting some of the churches mentioned in the book and "educating" their children based on what they had read from Dan Brown that these churches had posters on the doors reminding people to please stop taking Dan Brown seriously.

That being said, historically, there have been a number a debates among early Christians before it was made canonical that Jesus was divine. Debates continued a long time, too, to determine what the word "divine" meant in the context.
That Samsung uses the 12nm node, so you could say it falls somewhere between iPhone 7 (16nm) and iPhone (10nm). Those are worth about $100 used. A lot of the cost of manufacturing cost of cellphone parts comes from upfront capital expense, which is paid off by new models. This allows a strategy of selling cheaper, lower-end models using that old equipment.

Apple also pursues this strategy, but they don’t push it nearly as far as Samsung. The cheapest iPhone, the SE 3 at $430, has a 5 nm chip in it, which they only released two years ago. Apple just isn’t willing to release a parts-bin device, because they have a high quality bar. This is part of a moneymaking strategy, but my point is you can’t compare the A03 price to any current iPhone model.

Apple’s hardware margin is 35%, that is a reasonable estimate of the premium Apple is charging over a totally generic phone.
Do you know the feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you're wrong?

That's not what it feels like.... that's what it feels like after you learn you were wrong. There's no difference in feeling between being right or wrong. So, if you want to be right more often (a proxy for being "smarter), I suggest the following.

Write down predictions somewhere, along with your view of the world, things you're worried about, etc. Keep it private, but be as descriptive as you can to yourself, as time goes on, you can then retrospectively see where your biases and fears have distorted your thinking, and find clues to the things you were right about, but too afraid to follow up on. Over time, you should gain both perspective and wisdom, and perhaps a bit of "smarter" as well.
Dan Brown's books on Spain are a disaster on settings, they suck a lot and totally not close to the actual reality of the country.
https://archive.is/ws3pw
Ah, well they do that because of dependence on or influence of some key politician or industry in my experience.

A county where all the jobs are based on Coal mining better have a pretty good and realistic plan (and good leadership) if they want to try to move away from Coal after all. And those are expensive and hard to find, even if it’s possible.

Easier to ban other options and hope it works out. Not that it usually does, but it’s the natural reaction in many cases. Denial is a natural protective response.
Don't be incurious, be curious and sensitive to what you understand and what you don't follow. There's a degree of humility involved where you honestly admit when you don't understand something and be vocal about it so people of good will can help fill in the blanks.
IIRC, PIPs are literally designed mainly to create a paper trail to avoid unlawful termination lawsuits. By the time you're on a PIP, you're manager already has decided he doesn't like your performance and wants you out.
Yeah, its much more likely that people will use deepfakes and AI-generated photos/video to reconfirm their pre-existing biases, just as how we use manipulative news articles to confirm our opinions on topics. All that this will do if cement the death of an objective fact—at least for fields without strong empirical verification mechanisms.
Uh, I have worked cross team enough at huge companies to know that there is nothing magical about the size of a company when it comes to QA and bad UX choices.
it still is one of the largest internet use cases today, iirc ~30% of all web traffic is porn.
That does support the grandparent's argument.
this is explained well by Mark Fisher and Capital Realism, although it is a bit more grim than your take, essentially all pop culture becomes too commoditized and meaningless as a direct consequence of late stage capitalism
Some of it is just normal "popular thing sucks" backlash. But it had a weird cultural moment in the early 2000s where the press went kinda nuts with some of the psuedo religious themes, and there was a brief cottage industry for talking heads talking up apocryphal biblical books, Knight Templar conspiracy theories, etc which I think rubbed a lot people the wrong way.
Most of it is innate. We've known photos can be faked for a long time, it was a lesson in my history textbook in high school. We've known that anyone could fake a photo using a computer for a long time too, image editing software got good in the 1990s. And so on.

Rationally, we know all this. But biologically, we're wired to react first and think later; our reactions often shape our behavior more than logic. That's one reason that advertising and propaganda work; repetition trumps rationality. Add in the fact that large numbers of people are gullible fools who can be trained to uncritically repeat and spread untruths that appeal to confirmation bias.
It also helps when you're working as patent clerk and don't have doctorate advisor
Also, Broken Sword existed since 1996 too.
His citations for those claims about the authors are 3 substack blogs and something called "usrtk.org" which seems to exist largely to spread covid origin rumors.

I'm going to go out on a limb a suggest that he's already made up his mind and much like Fox Mulder, he just wants to believe.
> This sounds extremely bad at a glance (and we certainly had a moment of panic after first reading it), but now that we have done our homework and talked to a lawyer, we are no longer concerned.

This is something I've learned by now in the corporate and contract world. Companies and lawyers tend to bluff and fish first. If you have beef with another party and they have a lawyer send you a letter, you will most likely be threatened with everything theoretically possible. Everything will always be jail time, millions of dollars, years you cannot work on this, and you have to give away your favorite potted plant as well.

In many, many cases, /any/ pushback from (even seemingly) legal support reduces this to more reasonable terms. Even just a confirmation of receipt from a lawyer results in interesting reactions.
Suddenly? When haven't HNers had skepticism about native apps when the mobile experience is sufficient?

What does a native app bring to the table?
> GenX

> Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

Both of those two were born in 1955, making them solidly Boomers. Don't blame us for their shenanigans.
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Your counterpoint is made up. I’m not aware of any universities—neither free nor paid for—which offer a degree in underwater basket weaving. I assume you are creating a scarecrow to make your argument against free education more convincing. I’m not gonna grant you this, and instead—in the spirit of HN—assume you meant normal basket weaving, and respond to the strongest plausible interpretation .

For sure there are crafts programs and vocational schools which teach basket weaving, surely you must see the value in maintaining the craft of basket weaving and for there to be skilled basket weavers out there weaving quality baskets, and those interested getting into the industry of weaved basket, there should be an available avenue to learn this skill.
Warning: consumption of social media can lead to jail time.
<Picture of the Proud boys guy in court>
I agree. However, the problem lies far beyond the journalists' power. Let's take the latest investigation on the Biden family as an example. The IRS led the investigation for several years, and the IRS special agent provided a substantial amount of information pointing to bribes during their testimony. However, one of the political parties, including the FBI, showed no interest in finding the truth. This was evident from the type of questions that were asked. Why do they do that? Because they are protecting their own interests.

When it comes to journalism, we can observe the exact same pattern. Journalists are not allowed to be skeptical because their skepticism could impact their company's ad revenue. When I worked at Huffington Post, I was not "allowed" to say anything negative about the then-President (Barack Obama). Even after the FBI was pressured to release all the Biden documents (FD-1023 - the one they were initially denying the existence of), the "reputable" news outlets remain predominantly silent. Ad revenue is a significant factor in this silence. They are protecting their own interests.
The firestorm will be worse by then. I predict this RFC will not allow comments.
Speaking of avoiding discomfort.

If you have a lawn, you should cultivate it with vegetables. It's easy to produce a surplus that you can share.

Unless you want to avoid putting any sweat equity in...
I think history tells us that capitalists/aristocracy/owners don't voluntarily share their gains with the rest. They are perfectly fine living in splendor while the populace lives in poverty. And they tell themselves stories why they deserve it. The cycle usually gets disrupted by war or revolution.
They don't have to shoot for perfection. The bar has sunk so low even very basic techniques can yield huge improvements in trust:

1. Report the fact that disagreement exists. Phrased differently, stop taking academics at their word when they claim there's a consensus. Do some basic web searches to find people who disagree. Get quotes from them. Stress on the word people; not just other academics but literally anyone disagreeing on scientific grounds eliminates the claim of consensus. Bloggers are fine.

2. READ the papers. Journalists never do this. I cannot express how frequently you can spot scientific fraud by just reading the underlying papers, even as a layman. If you lack expertise maybe you'll miss 90% of the tricks but catching 10% of them is still sufficient to notice something is wrong, and often you don't need any special training. Here are some of my own investigations of bad papers - it's often obvious and most of it doesn't require expertise to spot.

https://blog.plan99.net/did-russian-bots-impact-brexit-ad66f...

https://blog.plan99.net/fake-science-part-ii-bots-that-are-n...

3. Hold sources to account when it's proven that they were misleading you. Report on bad behavior to discourage it next time.

4. Be willing to report stories dug up by other people, even when they make Team University look bad. Note how the reporting Silver refers to hasn't been covered by legacy media outlets even though you don't need to be a scientist to understand what they're saying and how damning it is.

In reality this stuff is easy. Nobody is asking for the NYT to engage in professional peer review of newly published papers. Just not assuming anything a professor says is gospel truth would be a good start, but there seems little chance of that happening :( Journalists depend so heavily on academics for rent-a-quote services and a constant flow of stories that getting tough would be biting the hand that feeds them.
The complex ARPGs have some unlikely competition: rogue-lite bullet-heaven games. The "rougue-lite" gives you short playing sessions where you die, but can still progress for the next game. The "bullet-heaven" turns your character into a source of powerful and explosive attacks, where your actions during the game may be limited to just moving around and selecting upgrade paths.

These lo-fi 5 EUR games give a lot of the monster-slaying fun of Path of Exile, Diablo etc. but with less grind -- and extreme variety. Yet the same idea of killing thousands of monsters with visually and mechanically varied attacks remains. Vampire Survivors, Brotato, Bio-Prototype and Halls of Torment are some of the ugly-looking but addictive games which make me question returning to another only slightly different season of Path of Exile.
Ultima Online.
> Value-added services in this context include but not limited to:

> System upgrade Over-The-Air(OTA)

Uhh, they plan to charge for the ability to upgrade? No thanks.

https://fydeos.io/faq/will-fydeos-charge-end-users/
It's a pre-registration. The app will start rolling out next week. https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1682480558545461249
I always bring this back to photoshopping. It's been around forever.

That teacher in the article - what if she was photoshopped instead of "deep faked" would anything have been different?

Photoshopping has been around forever.

Just a bit weird to me that people are predicting the AI end of the world with this stuff when its really just a slightly faster way to do something we've had for ages.
We weren't cooked/doomed for about two years recently. Sometimes I miss the pandemic and those two years only because that apocalypse at least had an end in sight when it came to the "educated" public's reaction to it, this climate thing is the new year 1000 hysteria [1], it's just unfortunate that it will spread over the next decades.

[1] https://www.bu.edu/history/files/2011/10/11.Fear-of-an-Apoca...
That depends on how the attestation is done.

If done correctly, TPMs on every computer would be preloaded with signing keys (probably microsoft). The web browerser would then ask the TPM to sign the Platform Configuration Registers, which are a hash of a challenge nonce, the system firmware/kernel/configuration/etc. This signature is then sent (along with a description of the system configuration) to an external attester. This external attester validates that:

A) the claimed configuration is "secure" (trusted kernel, bootloader, browser, etc) and

B) The TPM's signature attests to the configuration.

The validator then generates its own signed message that can be sent to the server.

In practice, I think this is logistically unworkable in todays computing environment. But with enough big players pushing for it, I don't see anything fundamentally impossible.
So, rckrd wrote a (rather short) article about the license of Llama 2 but got it all wrong: Even though the press calls it open-source, it's not.

Open Source has a very clear definition. Llama 2 fails in multiple regards.

First, the license by itself is not an open source license. It has important restrictions that make it non-open source.

Second, the distribution. You have to apply for the download with a web form and you are not allowed to redistribute the model.

Third, the source code, i.e. the data used to train the model. Meta is not telling us about it. One of the core features of open source is that you can recreate the binary (in this case, the model weights) by yourself. You can't do that here.
Reigning Champ has some of my favorite cotton shirts: raglan arms, adequate length, collar has 'ribbing' to help prevent it from going wavy and good length on the sleeves (not too short and not too long).

Arc'teryx used to sell the Anzo/Eris shirt. A mix of cotton and synthetic material, some under arm gussets, and an accent color chest pocket. I have a few of these and really like them. Probably my favorite shirt ever. Unfortunately they not sold directly any more.
ChatGPT for iOS is available here in Germany, so I doubt they would restrict the Android version.
Sort of tossing the baby out with the bath water.

If anyone posited alternate origins except what was the accepted leading thought of the time, they were ostracized across many segments of society. It became one of the things you couldn't discuss publicly.

Many topics became like this during covid including your mention of school closures. Weird time.
> forbids you from using its outputs to train other models.

I don't know how one can even forbid this. As a human, I'm a walking neural net, and I train myself on everything that I see, without a choice. The only difference is I'm a carbon-based neural net.
> making it easier to make more visceral and convincing versions of that won't have any bad effects?

This is not an argument that I see people making. They're saying that sending deepfakes to your job is just plain harassment, and that the photograph, which is only thought of as evidence because it is difficult to fake, will have lost its value as evidence.

The invention of photography didn't make it easier to fake narratives, it made it harder.
Well, if they continue on that path the EU will mandate upgradeable storage next.

I get why they do it though, my 2022 MB Air is serious competition against my work 2019 16" MBP. Far superior battery life, similar display quality (WTF that notch though), feels just as snappy with IntelliJ, 200+ Chrome tabs and Docker, and all of that despite just 16 GB RAM. No way to do that unless you got fast storage directly adjacent to the CPU so users don't notice swapping.
Check out the "automatic fabric punching system" running on cassette tape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWJZFQHklBg

No need for emulation when the original equipment is still working.
If they told the parents they were photoshopped instead of AI made, would that have changed anything?

Curious if we change the language used if that changes how people think of it...
I don't write articles on subjects I don't understand no matter how much paper money is thrown at me.

Maybe start there.
I too would've preferred a PWA, but in its absence, at least now I'll have easy access from my apps list.
It's an Orwellian name, but makes a certain amount of sense. That's the most effective kind of Orwellian name.

Even still, I think that it is wrong to give something a convenient name that espouses some virtue. They should have chosen something like Web Environment Verification API.

I think it's spyware, and I don't like it. It reminds me of the Stripe API, where you have to run some JavaScript on your site that snoops on your interactions and reports stuff to Stripe that it uses to detect fraud. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937303