skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And it's privacy focused. We do not track you or anyone who clicks the shorten link. Other URL shorteners track location, ip and other details of the person who clicks it.

You host at Vercel, whom very much do log IPs and locations, so not very "privacy focused"

> This information may also include, but is not limited to, IP addresses, system configuration information, and other information about traffic to and from Customers' websites (collectively, the "Log Data"), as well as Location Information derived from IP addresses.
This guy Dyson spheres
A boarder tarrif helps, but I'm talking about the situation where a country hides the origin country to skirt the tarrif.

For example, imagine a company manufactured something in Qatar (which has the highest per capita CO2 emissions), then they ship their product to Greenland, which has the lowest emissions per capita. Then they repackage their stuff and upon import to the EU, report that "yup, 100% a product of Greenland". Which will almost certainly have low or no carbon tarrifs.

(Not saying any of these countries would actually participate in such a scheme, just an example).

This sort of wheeling and dealing is how companies skirted US and China tarrifs.
James admitted it was for himself rather than a bond to duty.
... and that ridiculous kluge is why the vast majority of users will never experience vertical tabs - which would be a better experience for the vast majority of users...
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How many FTEs were required with elixir knowledge? This day and age it doesn’t take many engineers to burn up $2M in comp and ben. Not saying it’s a bad idea as the cost savings will accumulate over time, but it’s probably not pure savings.
Most of these attacks can be mitigated by having a modem separated by a well-documented interface and a kill switch. These are exactly what I have on my phone.
That’s not the point.

People do not want to think of the things they buy as sellable assets. It’s just a shirt. Just let me buy it. I give zero fucks about your choice of backend data storage.
If they violate their own terms, nothing happens until someone knows about it and is inclined to act against them.
Bottle in glass, aluminum or paper. Beers, various soda and juice already use that
Don't know if they are, and don't really care either and I don't care to anthropomorphize circuitry to the extent that AI proponents tend to, especially.

Humans and Computers are 2 wholly separate entities, and there's 0 reason for us to conflate the two. I don't care if another human looks at my code and straight up copies/pastes it, I care very much if an entity backed by a megacorp like Micro$oft does the same, en-masse, and sells it for profit, however.
Same issue for me, I have a 2 paperwhites. But still primarily read from my iPad, as I also like to read online articles. Which doesn't work with the experimental browser.
> no mention of male fertility.

Divorce rates and video games are already helping to decline that
When I am fly by night posting I do be using those double negatives.

I meant less safe.
Scrum, Kamban, Agile, manifestos ... to h*l with all of them. I just want to get things done and go home.
Even when key change at runtime, wouldn't you use getattr on a module?

for name in userfilters:
filter_function = getattr(mymod, name, None)
if filter_function is None:
raise NotImplementedError(name)
im = filter_function(im)
Oi! Spoilers!
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Sure, but some people will accept the 300K so it could be worth it even if you scare off a majority of your potential customers.

If dodgy pricing/sales tactics didn't work then Oracle would be bankrupt instead of a 300 billion dollar company.
Until they overbook and don't realize because no one is going to complain that the extra seat isn't empty.
Alright - this looks amazing - thank you. I'm surprised I missed it, What's the best place to stay ontop of new/awesome neovim plugins? I admit to not having paid as much attention to /r/neovim as in past years after the recent api lockdown; but there has to be more o.0
Reads like an ad for their phone: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/degoogledphoneinfo/
Scientists are wrong... a lot.

The harm should be obvious to the layman IMHO in order to be legislated away. Otherwise, it should be left up to personal choice.
Ah, thanks for the compassion. I didn't take any offense though. :)
comparing tesla to shake shack (even via growth) is not a good comparison because taste is 100% subjective, build quality is not subjective.

im not saying that tesla doesnt have some issues with quality control, but most people get nice cars that work fine and look fine. you only hear about the outliers .
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Do humans really read terabytes of C code to learn C?

Humans look at a few examples and extrapolate…
Representation of Music Creators on Wikipedia, Differences in Gender and Genre
> This is the third time this week I've seen a study related to microplastics

Most of Science is utter junk, driven by the willingness or desperate effort to publish anything to make a career in academia or funded by special interests.

What matters is what can be consistently replicated, observed and explained.
seems to be down, here's the archive: https://archive.ph/L2cHM
There is a spectrum in between chop wood, carry water that looks like:
- use natural cleaning products
- use reusable bags
- volunteer in green space preservation
- vote in local elections

etc. Establish your principles and live as closely to that as you can, and tune out what is outside of your control. Seriously. Block it. No one needs to see this shit every day.
Mostly to prevent dust and other dirt accumulating before evrything goes into the final packaging.
Compared to the age of CRTs, modern TVs are much more power efficient.

And compared to the age of the Pentium 4 with its 100W+ TDP, laptops now outsell desktop computers by a long way.

(I would agree that things like high-end gaming GPUs are using more power than ever before - but they're also a much smaller % of sales than ever before)
I'm not talking about a customer arguing that they deserve warranty. I mean if the human CS agent misunderstands the problem, the customer can explain the problem better and try to make the human CS agent understand. If the "AI" CS agent misunderstands the problem, there is no recourse.
And correlated with decreased sperm quality and count. Considering the sheer amount of bad health outcomes that are also associated with obesity in general, it's not surprising that it also affects fertility.

Question then becomes, if you adjust for obesity, how much has male fertility changed since 80 years ago?
I'm not sure that helps. I suspect -- but I would really like to know -- that the sources of microplastics are non-obvious. I've heard of cosmetics, textiles, tea bags, foams as the most likely culprits, rather than plastic containers at room temperature, which I think are pretty stable.
Interesting, llama-2 70b was coherent for me, Apple M1 Max.
A cat door, but contra the article, no actual cat flap. I believe that the cat flap was invented by Isaac Newton.
The alternative is that biased researchers are extremely bad at math when they want to demonstrate something they already agree with, and it’s a big nothing burger. Because, they’re so bad at math that when I compiled the figures they give, I find that we’ll get a +8°C and above scenario.

So, if announce it’s even remotely possible to not fall into that scenario, it must be that their figures are better than they say.
Manager prematurely distrusting developers syndrome, WSL1 had serious MMAP issues that was delayed as "low-prio" that wasn't fixed until late in the cycle (probably long after the decision to go with WSL2 was taken). Once those were fixed a ton of "weird" bugs magically got fixed.

Sure WSL1 could never have handled docker as-is, but general software would've been mostly fine and given us damn good windows application integration. (And I'm sure some Docker shims would've appeared fairly quickly to satisfy most basic developer needs).
CI/CD/CF? – The DevOps Toolchain’s “Missing-Link“
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I wish you wouldn’t delete your posts - it makes it hard to understand what the following comments are responding to.
> Nilay jumps down his throat as soon as the conversation gets political.

I would frame it as, Nilay jumps down his throat as soon as he tells an obvious, refutable lie. ;-)
Stop buying single use plastics. Stop using them. Spread the word and lobby you representatives. Find a group, make a friend, and work, work, work.
Is this manager advanced enough to replicate Vivaldi's tab tiling and stacking functionality?

(also not sure why the screenshots devote 80% of space to non-addon functionality like page with some distracting chip images and colored tables)
Amazon CEO tells staff to work in office 3 days a week or look for another job
I think the conflation of software testing and Quality Assurance is a major shame of the tech industry.

It's warped the understanding of the field of QA and pays little respect to Deming's ideas and goals.
If your company illegally treads on my IP, I don't care if your employees used LLM's or not; I will sue.

By the way, I don't have to win a lawsuit to get some justice; I'll make discovery hurt.

So if OpenAI stole my IP and used it for training (which they probably did, illegally IMO), I guess you're taking that risk if you let your employees use their LLM's.
It's worse than that because anyone who's touched a Lisp will think "this is a cond system! I know this!" and get the semantics exactly wrong.
Not sure why this was flagged? Maybe people don't agree with the content, but why flagging it?
I have had good experience with Scrum when all the participants had a common grounding in it, and worked together toward its goal of frequent delivery of valuable software. But I’ve also had bad experiences, in which the company claimed or pretended to do scrum but left out one or more key parts. The main thing you need, and that we don’t have at my current company, is someone to act as the product owner, the person who says what they want built. The key relationship is between Product (who wants a thing built) and Engineering (who build the thing). Without that, we have a lot of performative number-watching and busy-keeping.
Any charity/program designed to slow down population growth.
if only the industry recognized this – the-world-if.jpg. We get Conway's Law instead, which I'll cynically restate as "the org is a reflection of it's leadership" or "the org exists to lever up it's leadership, recursively" and that unfortunately has little to do with science
It doesn't help with ocean pollution at all, because plastic rubbish from Germany and other EU countries wouldn't end up in the ocean either.
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The struggle to figure out what the hell to name MyArguments is real. But that's also true about picking a name for the dict-of-functions-that-have-a-similar-weird-signature. :D
Woah. At that rate, how long until everyone is literally infertile? 15 more years? (Yeah, I know, it might not be a linear decline. It's still shocking.)
I prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Action :-)
I typically get our 15 minute daily done in 3-5 minutes. About once a week someone has a more complex problem and just those people who can help with that problem stay after for 10 more minutes while the rest of the team goes back to work. As the team lead I get regular (3x/week) checkins to make sure people are doing work and not stuck, but it doesn't take a lot of time while people talk about projects the rest of the team isn't on.
progomofo's save us!
No need for question marks. I think we really need to square off with the idea that, while we will personally not cause or contribute highly to major shifts in how the world operates, there are ways to contribute - even a simple e-mail to your representatives - that should be undertaken in earnest by each and every one of us, even if we don't feel that they will make an impact. Most people don't - and that's why the impact is negligible. We really should assertively encourage each other to participate, even to the smallest degree.

I think I and a lot of people around me got used to the relative comfort in life. To the sceptics this may sounds like just more scaremongering, but let's face it, it _has_ been getting worse in many more ways than we wanted or expected over the last decade. The least we can do to try to revert this trend is to attend a march, send an e-mail or try to spare some time to vote. Nobody can ignore the fact, that it will not reverse itself on its own.
Military Crowd Groans as 200-Year-Old 'Time Capsule' Found Empty on Live Stream
Given the required permissions I’d like to read the source code before using it, but that doesn’t seem to be available. Is this correct?
> calling negative (future?) externalities "government subsidies" is simply dishonest reporting

If the government knows about those negative externalities, and chooses not to prevent or tax the behavior, but instead subsidizes that sector, how else would you describe it?

> "big government" and "big oil corporations" are mainly to blame for lackluster action

If one government takes action, those actions often get reversed within a few years. The issue isn't just one specific government; it's the system itself. Critics argue that neither capitalism nor communism can resolve this, but they're not the only systems possible.

The real culprits include the growth imperative in our financial system, politicians' focus on short-term actions at the expense of long-term vision, the slow adoption of renewable energy, and subsidies for harmful sectors decades after their impacts are known, etc.

We have only a few years/decades to reverse the effects of past actions; after that point, they'll become irreversible. We're in the overshoot for 50 years at this point, after all.

Blaming one political side or the other doesn't solve the issue. We must tackle problems like climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, overfishing, inequality, and the need for Universal Basic Income/Services across multiple fronts.

We need a Great Reset/Rewrite; otherwise, we should brace for a Great Simplification.
Sure. My point is that there are not only a couple of biggest problems that can be solved independently. There is one big problem: we rely too much on energy.

Which means there is one solution: we need to reduce drastically our dependence on energy. Everywhere. It's not a simple optimization problem where you can "profile" and solve the biggest problems in order. The only way this works is if we start fundamentally changing society.
> Another Inconvenient Truth is that the very structure of our political systems may make it literally impossible to fix this problem.

Can you expand on this? Because I disagree-- in my view, climate change in the US does not get tackled "appropriately" because of lack of will in the population-- everything else is mostly just shifting blame IMO.
Let's get to the point. Plastics are toxic waste.
Well I'm talking about water specifically. In theory I agree that we can avoid things we know are harming us. But there is a balance to be struck between avoiding things out of an abundance of precaution and paranoia. Let's not forget that mental health issues including anxiety have skyrocketed the past few decades. At some point it has to be measured or else we wouldn't know its harmful. With microplastics and water, you need to know what comes out of your faucet (or whatever you are drinking). You can't just rely on some study analogous to those finding issues with eating teflon or using it on very high heat. And not drinking out of plastic cups seems firmly in baseless anxiety territory.
> ‘water, seafood, consumer products (clothes, toothpaste, salt, sugar, honey, beer, anything stored in plastic bottles, plastic wrap, or cans/cartons lined with plastic), and via inhalation from textiles, synthetic rubber tires, and plastic covers’

How true is this? How do microplastics end up in honey, for example? And I thought plastic bottles/wrap etc were stable in the lifespan that they're used for food storage (BPA aside) - is this really claiming that plastic starts to fall apart from the get-go?
The problem is that one bad route in a BGP session caused the whole session to shut down. So if ISP1 advertises a new route with a corrupted attribute to ISP2 who doesn't understand it, and ISP2 advertises it to ISP3 who does understand the corrupted attribute, all traffic between ISP2 and ISP3 will shut down. So ISP1 has caused communication failure between ISP2 and ISP3 for all clients, not just for its own routes.
The problem of replacing plastic in food is the cost. If you use glass or steel or aluminum, you need new logistics to reuse them.

Also, glass is heavier, and requires a lot of energy to be made, so it would require a production chain that ships back empty containers.

The best silver bullet solution would be to have local canteen, a bit like in the army or at school, where you just get a subscription with a calendar (not on demand, you plan the meals you'll get), so it reduces waste and costs.

We should just stop eating at home, with individual fridges, ovens, kitchens etc, this is highly inefficient.

Yes, this is collectivization, but it's the best solution for an economy of scale. Individualism was never a good solution, individualism is often very wasteful.

Call me a communist or a socialist, I don't really care.
Translation: I'm going to make sure it's not going to work out for you
This would really be something if you could just give it voice commands. Typing is absurd amidst all this wonderful automation!
Sure, not wrong on the outset, but you do come across as dismissive of Elixir while stating this.
There are two macro population health trends that suggest we are somehow poisoning ourselves at a large scale. Most people do not relate the two, but I personally wouldn't be surprised if they have related causes.

The first is the Flynn effect, which was rising IQ levels decade over decade, which halted and then reserved for most Western nations around 1990s/2000s and is now declining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

The second is the dropping fertility/sperm counts/hormone issues/etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_infertility_crisis

I think microplastics along with forever chemicals/PFAS are two of the likely culprits and are probably fairly easy to deal with.

I wonder what else could be contributing?
> Compared to the age of CRTs, modern TVs are much more power efficient.

According to the internet a CRT TV used to use about 100W, while a big LCD TV can use more.

Regarding desktops, don't forget that these days we have many more electronic device in a home. Smart speakers, home media devices, consoles, etc, etc. Electronics probably use, in aggregate 5-10x what the old family PC used to use, I'd imagine.
What are the emerging trends in the field of conversational AI?
What are the emerging trends in the field of conversational AI?

1. Omnichannel Experiences: Conversational AI is increasingly being integrated across various digital platforms, providing users with seamless experiences across different channels, including websites, social media, and mobile apps.

2. Personalisation: Thanks to machine learning, conversational AI can learn from previous interactions, allowing for more personalized and context-aware conversations.

3. Voice Assistants and Smart Home Devices: The rise of voice-controlled AI like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant shows a trend towards hands-free technology and integration into everyday home devices.

4. Sentiment Analysis: More sophisticated conversational AI systems are being developed to understand and respond to the emotional state of the user, enhancing customer service.

5. Multi-language and Multi-dialect Support: As AI models become more advanced, we're seeing an increase in bots that can engage in natural language conversations in multiple languages and dialects.

6. AI-Enabled Analytics: The use of AI to analyze customer interactions and provide actionable insights is a growing trend that can help businesses improve their products, services, and engagement strategies.

7. Integration of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR): Some companies are experimenting with integrating AR and VR technologies with conversational AI to create more immersive experiences.

8. Human-AI Collaboration: There's a growing emphasis on creating systems where humans and AI work together, with AI handling routine queries and escalating complex issues to human agents.

9. Self-learning Bots: Advances in machine learning algorithms are leading towards self-evolving chatbots that can improve their performance over time without human intervention.

10. Higher Emphasis on Security: With privacy concerns on the rise, there's a greater focus on ensuring the security of data handled by conversational AI systems.
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> compare bottled water vs. tap water/well water.

Most modern buildings use PEX (cross-Linked Polyethylene) tubing for water in homes no more copper pipes like years ago. Basically plastic so it may not be very good.
See here for some notes on ranking possible concerns plus notes on what I've done about them:

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36226432

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642916

3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31549343
Seems to me you can either:

- Pick a "Big Cause" and go find a job supporting it

- Accept the things you cannot change, kick back, relax, and live the life you got, whatever happens

You don't really want to be in the middle, where you stress about all the bad things, but don't actually do anything about it.
Duet AI for Google Meet can take notes, summarize, and even attend meetings
One thing you can do personally to reduce the amount in your body is to donate blood
No, I really mean UNIX monoculture.

The world is bigger than the desktop.
I call you someone who doesn't like to eat good food :D
The go runtime has similar capabilities as the BEAM runtime when it comes to concurrent workloads. Go has the benefit of being a typesafe compiled language which gives it speed benefits. But using either one of them instead of Java is probably going to be a huge win for most teams on concurrent workloads.
GPT-4 Meets Mac and iPhone: Future with OpenAI API [video]
So let’s use your logic and ask how long could a person survive in a sauna?
The author said "V must die" in an HN comment here long after posting the articles.
Al Gore won the US popular vote and lost the electoral college vote by a whisker (and a recount.) The average voter was not opposed to his pro-climate agenda. If anything, the narrow nature of Bush’s win was due to his very pro-business agenda (which was huge on benefits for fossil fuel drillers). The idea of a candidate winning the popular vote and losing the electoral college may not seem surprising today, as politicians have optimized their pitch to appeal to the narrowest slice of the electorate they can win with — but it was extremely unusual back then (in fact Gore was the first Presidential candidate since the 1800s to lose this way.) The partisan Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision that decided the recount is also one of the most shameful partisan episodes in our country’s history.
This is an absolutely horrible heuristic. Let’s put radioactive toys, toys painted with lead, leaded gasoline, DDT, and thalidomide back on the market. None of these were “obvious to the layman.”

Individual scientists are wrong a lot. Science as a process continues to be the (imperfect) reigning world champ of truth discovery, no matter what contrarianism du jour memes are spreading over the internet.
- guy walking into aftermarket auto parts store