skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re already in the process of making that change. Wind and solar and storage are going to wipe out most fossil fuel usage within a few decades, and it’s pretty obvious that fossil fuel interests realize this — you can see it in the way firms are shifting investments from new resource development into profit-maximization. This will happen even if governments don’t put their thumb on the scale, but they certainly are doing that: the political pressure to transition is only going to get more intense as we see more severe weather events.

The question isn’t “can we keep using (substantial amounts of) fossil fuels long term”, that’s decided. What’s up for debate is how quickly we’ll reach the tipping point where it becomes obvious to investors that existing reserves are stranded. This will be a long time before we stop using lots of fossil fuels! The battle that (smart) fossil fuel companies are fighting is to push that date a decade or two into the future.

I hope and wish for a future where there is a reasonable accommodation and fossil fuel interests support action on global warming, even if it’s only SRM. In the real world I think these companies are fighting a vicious rear-guard action to get every scrap of profit out of the industry before it folds up and dies. It’s going to be messy and destructive and the strategy right now is to promote denial and sabotage anything that could result in further political consensus for rapid decarbonization.
What if they were more helpful?
llama2.ai
Fair enough, but I don't think that's a typical experience.
Are you proposing authentication over an insecure connection? If so, then the credentials could be compromised by a middle man. The same would be true for the signatures.
I'm not sure if a sensible timeslot based system could get down as low as the battery usage that something like zigbee battery powered sensors can get.

Those are transmitters running on battery, usually with the radio fully powered down, only powering them up to transmit if they need to report a changed value, or to report in at least once a day, so the hub knows they haven't died.

Something like a magnetic Reed switch door/winodw sensor would wake up the mcu via a level sensitive interrupt, so obviously the "sensor" portion for some sensor types can have negligible power draw.

How could any battery powered receiver possibly get power usage that low? Like even timeslots of only once a minute would seem likely to use considerably more power, and is likely too much latency for many purposes. But surely more frequent timeslots would only increase power drain?
Hi Yegg, I'm sorry to bother you about another issue; however, I'm having a similar experience with DuckDuckGo and Bing. I've exchanged dozens of emails with people from Bing's web team without any success.

Long story short - at some people in the past someone proxy-mirrored all content of SaaSHub. You'd open a page like "someshady-proxy-mirror.com/duckduckgo-alternatives", and it will mirror saashub.com/duckduckgo-alternatives. The same happened for all all pages. Soon after that, Bing (and DDG respectively) dropped all SaaSHub links from the index and kept the proxy-mirrored content! WTF.

After a week-or-two of "fighting" I managed to block the proxy-mirrors; however, I never got SaaSHub back in Bing's index.

I'm a single founder and feel helpless with this Bing/DGG issue. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
The thing is, HTML5 introduced the 'semantic' elements (<nav>, <video> etc.) which let the browser know what it is that it's supposed to be displaying. That means that an HTML5 page without any CSS or JavaScript could be understood by the browser and displayed exactly like a native application would be on the platform: the same visual style, the same accessibility features, the same behaviour for keyboard shortcuts or touch gestures.

With HTML <5 (and excluding XHTML from the discussion) the browser has no clue what all those <div> and <table> elements are supposed to be, so CSS and JS are necessary to reproduce basic things like screenreader flow for all but the most basic page layouts.

Ironically, the opportunity for users' browser to apply stylesheets on generic, semantically meaningful sites was one of the original concepts behind CSS (hence 'cascading' in the acronym - the browser takes precedence), which is now usually employed to overwrite the browsers' defaults!
Great to see Amazon employees being allowed to talk openly about how S3 works behind the scenes. I would love to hear more about how Glacier works. As far as I know, they have never revealed what the underlying storage medium is, leading to a lot of wild speculation (tape? offline HDDs? custom HDDs?).
With Lisp, is it even metaprogramming? Or maybe everything is metaprogramming…
I wonder how many HNers angry about this are also some combination of 1) working for bigtech 2) using iOS/OSX/Android instead of Linux (yeah, I know Android is technically a Linux) 3) using Chrome/Safari instead of Firefox and 4) have endorsed, at least in the past, bigtech firms like Google and Cloudflare acting as arbiters of what is/is not acceptable content for the internet, and even whether it should be viewable by anyone at all.
Studies of program verbosity have shown that long vs short names have little impact in other programmers' reading comprehension or code maintainability.
Hey - one of the founders here. Great question!

Wrt/ audience there are a lot of dimensions so to highlight some:
* self-directed (vs fully managed)
* values diversification (vs concentrated positions)
* longer term buy-n-hold (vs yolo)
* want their investments to incorporate a personal idea, need or value

You're absolutely right that some types of inquiries might only be 2 minutes of research. At the same time... a lot isn't and people might not know where to start.

If you wanted to find "cancer research companies" companies... there are hundreds. If you wanted "EVs but no Elon"... we'll help you broaden (diversify) that beyond just Rivian and Lucid.

The initial "query" here is just the tip of the funnel when it comes to portfolio construction and ultimately its automated management. But that tip alone is a pretty fun demo to play with.

Thanks for the feedback!
And because this material is 35% nickel. Nickel costs $21/kg.
1h45m at supercharger, depending on charging curve, should result in 200-300 miles. So maybe you were just queueing at supercharger or something else doesn't check out at all.
Ah, I see. I mean, the authors don't terribly seem to be worried about that. I thought we were talking about better for society or something.
A Long Journey to Cross Platform Developer Tooling Utopia
> when you look at how people lived without computers things were worse

In some ways. In other ways, things are worse now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_c...
The Dow sinks, snapping its longest run since 1987
One of the former main devs posted this on discord:

"Sooo here is a timeline:
1. WTT (the other core dev) left
2. I decided to also leave (see message in #announcements)
3. I gave the discord server, subreddit and github to QuantumChilliPepper
4. QuantumChilliPepper didnt really do anything, then went on a vacation, came back and went completely m.i.a. for over a month
5. Hackernews talks about eupnea
6. QuantumChilliPepper got compromised (at least eupnea email, github and discord)
7. Hacker deleted a lot of important channels and after messing a bit finally have back the server"
I don't think they have to do with inefficiency.

Predictability is there because combustion engines operate the same regardless of weather conditions.

AC / energy consumption anxiety doesn't exist because of said predictability as well as your ability to refill 1000km worth of fuel in a couple minutes.

The only difference if ICE were 100% efficient would be a slightly smaller gas tank.
https://archive.ph/S0gU3 (ehh, such times)
I think a lot of this comes down to a broader difference between Mac/Windows Docker Desktop and "plain" Docker on Linux. The former is actually backed by a VM, so a lot of the painless simplicity comes from having a true virtual machine involved, rather than just a layer of namespacing.

A lot of people are in here complaining about how Docker is not reproducible enough. But reproducibility of image builds is a matter of diminishing returns, and there are other problems to worry about, like the ones you are pointing out.

Speaking of which, it's probably good to get in the habit of installing some Linux OS in a VM and trying to run your container images inside that (with "plain" Docker, no inner VM), before pushing it to your cloud host and waiting for it to fail there.
I think one of the hard parts about macro economic data is it can be very divorced from individuals experiences precisely because it takes into account all the highs and lows.

When all the high inflation stuff was coming out I was baffled. My home expenses were essentially flat. And coming off of covid my savings and investments were stacked. But I wasn’t trying to buy a car and my mortgage was pre rate hikes, and I rarely drive and am in good health. It’s entirely possible there wasn’t any inflation for me.
If you ignore the GPU acceleration APIs and try programming graphics the old fashioned way but on modern multi-core & SIMD machines, you can more or less still have a very similar rewarding experience.

Sure it won't compete with the performance of GPUs, but I feel like we should have a category of GPU-less PC graphics for things like the demo scene. Where you strive to deliver interesting results at modern resolutions but hamstrung by CPU-only, incentivizing exploring parallelization techniques, SIMD optimization that strongly resembles assembly coding of yesteryear, and good old fashioned cleverness.
The core of the Earth is also far beyond the temperature/pressure at which this invar effect occurs.
I’ve had great experiences using Airalo in Europe.

Just download the iOS app, buy a 50 GB plan on a regional Euro eSim, and install the eSim.

That’s it. Seamless roaming across NL, DE, AT, CZ, CH.
hey yeah chatbots are kind of like the text version of mobile UIs.

Amazon, threads, instagram, offerup, facebook. They hide any useful navigation options and present you with a list that must be navigated in order, therefore ensuring ads placed in between the list items will be the only thing on the screen for at least 1 attention cycle.

Terrifying to think of a future where your device doesn't have any real capability because all the websites and apps are just AI driven chatbots/suggestion engines.

this post encapsulates the general feeling. https://032c.com/magazine/berlin-review-lan-party

Is this the feeling that every generation gets about the future as they age? oh no
> Suggesting that it coming off of that to a more normal growth pattern makes the economy very sick seems like a mischaracterization

Sorry if I was unclear. The sickness was the literal pandemic. The economy isn't currently sick, but it's not as robust as it was in recent memory. Many Americans can reasonably look at the data, see everyone remarking at the economy's unexpected strength, find themselves in no better condition than they were half a decade ago, and feel tempted to call shenanigans on the whole thing.
> reducing bias in the models is a noble goal

It's also a necessary goal in order for these models to be more broadly adopted.

We've seen too many examples of bias in the training data set manifesting in ways that actively discriminate against people. Which is unethical and in many places illegal.

And having copyrighted material and sexual content in your model will simply open you up to lawsuits as is happening right now between authors and OpenAI. Not sure that is a position most startups want to be in.
I thought wow, what a substantive, insightful comment on HN, I need to save this one. And then I saw you wrote it! Glad you're the one running our madhouse, thank you.
If you assume gender neutrality, you're still left with the near-explicit implication that management at Stack Overflow is chosen for their sexuality. It's not at all rare to accuse management (wherever) of being chosen for something other than competence, but usually you'd be saying they are where they are for political reasons, not because they slept with someone.

This claim is unusual enough that I wanted to know if it's what my parent commenter meant.
> Driving is not a privilege.

If you get a benefit from licensure then you should voluntarily contract with the State so you can get whatever benefits are in the licensure contract.

Traveling by personal conveyance is a right. I'm not engaged in plumbing or electrical businesses so I don't take those licenses. Same for driving. I am licensed for septic installation.
Do you hire virtual assistants?
I recently learned of a job as a virtual assistant.
Although not particularly wealthy and not relevant to me, it is still very interesting to me that such an industry exists.

Apparently, it involves outsourcing tasks and research.

Do you hire virtual assistants?
If so,
* What kinds of things do you entrust them with?
* How much do you pay them per month?

thanks
I wrote a small piece sharing my views on the topic https://medium.com/@anandandbeyond/rethinking-open-source-fo...
The Lab of the Future
Another aspect is that sons will always inherit the Y chromosome from the father. Other genes on other chromosomes have a 50/50 chance of inheritance, which gives a bit of leeway.
It explains how useless ornamentation is nevertheless sexually attractive, as opposed to just characteristics with clear evolutionary value.
This is 2020-level stuff. These days with emergent abilities in LLMs trained with over 1T tokens like GPT-4 a single-shot chain-of-thought beats most fine-tunings. I did research on transformer adapters i.e. parameter-efficient fine-tuning and that stuff is now completely obsolete outside of some restricted domains where small models can still perform well.
Anyone here read "Doom Guy"https://amzn.to/43DLW2U? I'd love to hear what you think of it.

I have really enjoyed Jason Schreier's recent books on game dev.
I appreciate the explicit nest around module. I was just suggesting a symmetric and consistent syntax that can be stated simply, to align with the stated goal.

Dare I say, the (important) bit of Lisp syntax fits in a sentence! Yeah they hide the complexity in the library instead...
> There is also a significant disparity between the errors that educators think students make and those that students actually commit.

That's fascinating. I'm off to bed now, but reminding myself to look up the reference for that sentence tomorrow.
I think it got bought out a long time ago and the articles are filled with tons of crappy ads and split over multiple pages. Nothing like it was when Marshall founded it. I still have the book they put out way back when too!
Very nostalgia inducing photos!
Poor people and new world order should be solution for making planet more cool?
Thats the joke, they changed the browser to harm the user and help the business. You and them have the gumption to act like wei isnt the same thing they've been shipping.
I would have assumed that someone who would go out of their way to steal somebody else's airbags would also not bother with safety inspections or whatever that might have kept their broken car from being on the road.
That's only for prehistory.

In any case it's a pretty silly contrivance, how about the oil age? or the silicon age? Both of those are likely to remain more impactful than the LK-99 age, in the event that it does turn out to be an ambient temp/pressure superconductor.
thanks for sharing, while your library looks really powerful my goal with Litellm is simplicity
How to Sell Your Old Comics
That link is blocked for me, unfortunately. Assuming that it is indeed cheaper than the equivalent models from competitors, why do the carriers do it? Do Apple subsidise the offer to maintain market share so that they can sell add-on products?
> "The idea of fine-tuning has a strong research pedigree. The approach can be traced back to 2018, when two influential papers were published."

The article refers to the BERT and GPT papers as the source of the fine-tuning idea. However, we actually first demonstrated it for universal models in 2017 and published the ULMFiT (Howard and Ruder) paper in early 2018. Prior to that, Dai and Le demonstrated the technique for in-corpus datasets. So it would be more accurate to say the approach can be traced back to those two papers, rather than to BERT and GPT.

BERT and GPT showed the effectiveness of scaling up the amount of data and compute, and switching the model architecture to Transformers (amongst other things).
But the comment showed you do care, you brought it up and pay attention to it. It’s all that the meter shows that you mentioned.
Assign the shortcut to beep or some intricate modal
> If it works for you, then it works for you. It's not the same as saying people for whom it doesn't work are motivated liars, though.

I do suspect there were motivated liars involved, at least the media just wanting to benefit from hyping things up, because the claim was so bogus. I'm not that unique of a person that the iPhone 4 works specially for me. Actual buyers had the option to return the phone if it had issues, and basically nobody was doing that, both anecdotally and by stats.
No. It is fundamentally different. You don't view it as morally different because you don't respect the civil rights of people who who are LGBTQ+. While you are entitled to your moral view, you are not allowed to conflate it with a policy discussion.

Conflating a civil rights issue with a policy debate is patently bad-faith. It is a dishonorable form of political extremism, and should get you banned from HN.
> liability is a thing.

Liability is always a thing. Your physical harm to people or property is separate from the scope of a fishing license or some other State contract such as a driver license.
The worst part of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is the requirement that websites "prevent and mitigate" anxiety and depression in users and viewers under 18 years of age. Here is the exact text from the bill's Section 3(a)(1) which prescribes this restriction:

> SEC. 3. Duty of care.

>> (a) Prevention of harm to minors.—A covered platform shall act in the best interests of a user that the platform knows or reasonably should know is a minor by taking reasonable measures in its design and operation of products and services to prevent and mitigate the following:

>>> (1) Consistent with evidence-informed medical information, the following mental health disorders: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and suicidal behaviors.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/140...

There are many types of content that can trigger anxiety or depression that should not be censored for people under 18, such as political speech and negative/distressing news. (The implications this bill has on political speech and news reporting also raise questions about whether it is constitutional.) People under 18 have a right to be informed just as adults do, even if they don't have the ability to vote to protect that right for themselves.

If you are in the United States, please call your senator and representatives to reject this draconian bill: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
it's a plain text email, which is exactly the sort of thing &lt;pre&gt; is for - pre-formatted text
Opening Up AI
The fluidity of the scrolling in Commander Keen 4-6 was unmatched on PC for years, even as games moved to 256-color graphics. Between Carmack's incredible technical work and Adrian Carmack's [1] art, Id had perhaps the best-looking PC platformer well into the 1990s.

[1] No relation to the more famous Carmack, but IMO the unsung master of the 16-color palette.
It absolutely isn't. I agree with you. I have issues coping with my emotions. That's the problem, not tracking. I am acutely aware that I eat far, far past the point of satiety until it physically hurts at least once a week, and yet I still do it. I don't have any other functional coping mechanisms.

You can say "self-control" but what you mean is self-control 24/7, or at least 24/6. I don't have infinite willpower.
> Spoiler alert: Tesla models fare about as well, if not better, than their EV cousins, hitting around 80% of the stated range in the wild.

This is not true according to the very article we're discussing here, which across many analysis learned that three Tesla vehicles were the least-accurate (most-optimistic or most-deceptive, depending on your point of view).
He will get something moving alright: Shopify will nix his partner agreement in a heartbeat and it will never ever be re-instated.

These things are next to impossible to win for the smaller party unless you have all the time in the world and extremely deep pockets.
To be fair, the pricing is easily locatable in the hamburger menu, without the need to log in
Antilibraries and the value of the books you own but have not read
Does that do HA/replication/clustering etc though?
The longer I live, and the more I learn about other countries' education systems, the stranger it seems that maths education is mandatory in my country the whole way through. (unless you get an exemption)

English, Irish, maths. (to get a 'pass' in your 'leaving cert') Everything else totally optional, but usually four other subjects.
Replying to myself:

I've been musing on this subject all afternoon. I'm a user of Tarsnap, and I do find it expensive, in the sense that I would prefer to backup larger amounts of data for less amount of money. At the moment I backup photos separately from Tarsnap and in an adhoc way.

But I still cannot figure out a way to get all the benefits I get from Tarsnap from any other software solution.

* Must be usable under Nixos.

* Backups must be asymmetrically encrypted so that backups can be automated, yet a compromise of the system cannot immediately gain read authorization to arcived data.

* Backups must be append-only without further credentials, or otherwise prevent a compromised system from being able to delete existing archives.

* Deduplication between archives while still allowing archives to independently be deleted.

Using the ZFS snapshot functionality with rsync.net, for example, with Duplicity comes close. However, as I recall, duplicity wants to regular (typically monthly) full backups and then incremental backups from there. You cannot remove these full backups without deleting the entire month's worth of backups, and because the full backups are independently encrypted, there is (of course) no deduplication between full snapshots, even though the data is still likely largely the same. And because the snapshots are encrypted, it is impossible for the rsync.net storage to see or even know that large parts of the encrypted data is identical.

AFAICT there is really nothing else that does what Tarsnap does.
Ruby metaprogramming breaks `grep` and static analysis tools. This is a no-go for any large project for me
Lilacs season is very short, between two to four weeks each year. If the winter is warm they don't even flower at all.

Even using different varieties to spread the season to six weeks you would still have 11 months to enjoy the smell of manure. if is the unique candidate, is a poor choice.

So, nope. Definitely not useful. We have much better options