skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate that most education systems don’t teach that physics has its roots in philosophy and some of the most rigorous recent math stems from philosophy (Gödel) leading to vacuous gatekeeping comments like this.
It is good that something has been improved, and now you have concrete proof that change in the right direction is possible.

Now that renewables are on the rise, the same effort can be put into other things that need improvement. It's a great start!
Are we talking about textbook publishers, or journal publishers? For textbooks, I completely agree; but part of the value of journals is 1. (purported) peer review of the articles as a prerequisite to publication, and 2. a hierarchy of journal importance, where only the most ground-shaking things "make the cut" for the "highest" journals, thereby allowing people to follow a field "from the top down" by reading the top N journals (which should confer "most" knowledge of updates in the field, while dropping most noise; a bit like reading the first N paragraphs of a news article written in inverted-pyramid style.)

I know that trait #1 is on shaky ground these days, and trait #2 is something most people don't even publicly acknowledge is valuable. But they're both things that, if we discarded the current model of journals, we'd be doomed to reinvent (and therefore to produce new middle-men out of.) If we're to have a proper replacement for journal publishers, it would have to perform these functions, while not being so parasitic about it. (As just one idea, maybe journals could be run as nonprofit or industry-membership-funded bodies, rather than as corporations.)
And if I had a question that needed exactness I wouldn't ask an LLM.
Continuity bias seems to prevent people from understanding that in 10-15 years Russia will be less relevant than Mexico. And the longer the war drags on the faster that will come to be.

You might think that's inane but currently Mexico's population is 127M, GDP $1.27T vs Russia at 143M and $1.8T.
There is research done on this, example [1]. My feeling from listening what is said in the industry is that 80-90% will be not that hard, and that 100% will be.

[1] https://twitter.com/ChristianOnRE/status/1705676813366612109
Based on your comment, it seems you're assuming the people writing the standard don't intent to step on patents, but that's wrong.

Patents on standards is largely how standards are financed, by company who will then recoup their research spent on that via those patents.

I think that RAND patents and with the list of patents published alongside the standard are an acceptable compromise.

In France for the equivalent on ATSC 3.0, we standardized on Dolby audio (AC4), which is NOT available as RAND at all (and is stupid for many other reasons). So well, we've put ourselves in a worst situation.
I'm not arguing against the existence of contracts. I'm arguing against the position that people should have the "ability" to waive away their own rights. Such an "ability" inevitably leads to the boilerplate situation I described above.

My country's laws work the same way as what you described. I've had lawyers straight up laugh when I presented them some of these abusive contracts. This "waive your rights" business seems to be an american thing.
>> problem with DAWs are that they generally gravitate towards where the money is, which are pro users in music and film.

Is that the case though?

Ableton and such don't charge per revenue as far as I'm aware. They charge same whether you are scoring a $500mil movie or fooling around after hard day of coding.

And I feel in sheer numbers, latter outweighs the formers by several orders of magnitude. All forums I've been to are filled by, at best, "enthusiasts". Thousands upond tens of thousands of us with some disposable income we give to synths and software to tinker with :-).
> What if you still want the medium quality comments?

That's a good question that I don't have a good answer to. I would encourage people to strive less towards publishing what they want to be "production ready" OSS, and direct the efforts more towards building smaller building blocks with clear indication it's not to be used in production and extensive documentation on what work needs to be done to productionize the software for given applications. These are just my immediate half-baked thoughts on that question. I had not considered that there might be a demand for medium quality software.

> Publishing information has both externalized benefits and externalized costs, and we don't have a good way of internalizing the benefits or the costs

That is an incredibly well formulated point. This raises some interesting thoughts that I'll need to mull over.

> if you only internalize the costs you're surely going to deter things that were net positive

I think that's fine, right? Unless you are demonstrably deterring a ridiculously outsized net positive, that's just the unfortunate cost of risk management.
Certainly liability insurance exists.

Let me know if find answers to my questions.
Hold on, I’ll be ready to take my board out as soon as I figure out what’s wrong with my xorg.conf…
Hmm I can imagine what something will look like in a position in a scene but I wouldn’t call it AR like. This is a really interesting thread. I always thought people were much the same. But recently I also learned that my wife just sees words when reading a book whereas I see a “movie”.

Also I will project words in my mind to inspect them visually to see how to spell them, and if they look ok. And when studying I recall pages of books with the info in the place where it is printed, much like zeehio describes. This is super helpful when memorizing entire books ie when I studied biology.

But from this thread I still get the idea there are people that really really see things, whereas for me it stops at “visualizing”. Which does help when composing a picture but perhaps there is more? I think I’ll try this exercise.

One weird thing I often did (or try to do, doesn’t always work) as a kid is stare into the blackness of my closed eyes until I sort of got convinced there was a massive boulder looming over me. It would feel quite real and I’d really feel the massiveness and it would make me feel very small and even make me feel adrift. Strange, this thread actually made me remember, didn’t really do that for a long time now.
I wonder if this has something to do with certain people's brains being wired more towards images and others towards sound. I always felt like I'm much better with sound when it comes to recalling things and such.
It's an inside joke. Byte at its peak had some issues that were nearly an inch thick and could easily be used as a murder weapon.
https://archive.ph/BHyww
What drug has a 10 fold difference in Cmax, as a pharmacist I can’t think of anything even close to that.
Exactly. Consciousness is about qualia -- the color of red, the texture of sand, and so forth. It's awareness.

There's nothing we know now that suggests consciousness has anything whatsoever to do with intelligence.

We are aware (or conscious) of our intelligent trains of thought (at least up to a certain point), in the same way we're aware of a pain in our knee. We are conscious of watching ourselves weigh the pros and cons of a decision we have to make. But there's nothing whatsoever to suggest that consciousness plays a role in intelligent thought itself, at least not yet.

We know that we ourselves are both conscious and intelligent, but it's entirely possible that's a total coincidence.
>Presumably you're also paying a tens of dollars a month premium on your cell plan (compared to an equivalent "sim only" plan) which is subsidising that?

You presume wrongly. As I said:

>I have basically the world's greatest phone plan through Sprint/T-Mobile

I pay $20 total, including tax, for three unlimited 5G lines: One Kickstart version 1 line—for which $20 would be a bargain alone—and two free additional lines that Sprint/T-Mobile has offered since signing up.
Look at all of the small companies that Apple has bought over the years to integrate their technologies into the iPhone. None of those companies could have had the scale or the no how to create a useful product by themselves.

Even if you look at chip design, there are only a few companies that I can actually manufacture chips. But plenty of companies that can design processors.

Your law would only help big companies.
“Chatbot That Gives Detailed Instructions on Murder, Ethnic Cleansing”

Is this supposed to manipulate me? Just low effort drooling “think of the children!” nonsense?
Who is at their laptops thinking, “damn I wish I could ethnically cleanse people but gosh darn I just don’t know where to begin”?
"That article is so riddled with issues it's hard to take it seriously even if you believe the underlying conclusion."

I consider this person to be one of the smartest persons I know.

"This ignores the existence of a central bank, which can print money at will."

This does not solve the underlying problem. You will get hyperinflation but the money is useless.

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2020/11/09/energy-is-the-economy-...

"The world supported less than 1 billion people in 1750 because the industrial revolution and the green revolution wasn't a thing yet"

We can only sustain this with modern technology that is developed by capitalism. Production is pre-financed in expectation of a higher return. If the growth model collapses, so will capitalism. Capitalism is not the same as a market economy. We had a market economy before capitalism. The point Gail makes is that a society without capitalism may fall to a technology level seen before the industrial revolution. A society like the Amish is basically stable in contrast to our model.

"In a recent poll of climate economists conducted by Reuters, most agreed that getting to net zero would cost only 2% to 3% of annual global GDP."

Which does not change the underlying mathematics.
See also:
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/

"But let’s not overlook the key point: continued growth in energy use becomes physically impossible within conceivable timeframes. "

And

Wealth And Energy Consumption Are Inseparable

https://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy...
I don't even care - the HN crowd is uhhhh, how do I say... quite on the spectrum. Jumping to defend RMS, saying it's totally ok just because he's autistic.
Didn't really expect much to be honest given past discussions here, just a lot of enablers and fetish pushers.
There was even a ton of support for some caught in Thailand with underage people, and jailed in Australia I believe, people jumping to defend him here because he wasn't in Australia to break Australian law (really, they were just gas lighting their own deviances)
en link:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/cyberpunk_2077_phantom_liberty
https://docs.kernel.org/scheduler/sched-capacity.html https://docs.kernel.org/scheduler/sched-energy.html
Since the chat model is local, you can force it out of refusing to respond by giving it a partial answer where it does respond and having it complete that. Haven't tried it myself though.
It's a weekend project... The target audience is anyone scared their private data isn't as safe as they hoped. From individuals, to sysadmins to CEO's.

Sure, it probably would have been better to make 3 services tailored to each of those 3 personas, but that is beyond the scope of a weekend project.
We’re even more tired of the asking.

“Contact us” == “speak to us so we can gauge how much we can shake you down for”
And if I invent something that improves a car, does that mean I should have to manufacturer a car instead of license to existing manufacturers?
Debt can also be simply written off.

There is a long practice of mass debt relief called a jubilee:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_jubilee

In the Bible, references are made to a Hebrew jubilee every 49 years when “slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.”

The permanence of debt is an illusion created by our current political and economical system.
Gödel was a logician, which is practically mathematics. “Philosophy” includes everything from that to stoned Berkeley undergrads convincing each other that getting stoned must have been what led humans to develop consciousness from other apes
> The entire AI safety culture inside the corps is driven by abject terror of our modern cancel culture. I can't say I blame them. There is already talk of regulating AI by Congress.

Makes me want to see AI companies founded in countries that have very different cultures than ours.
> why tf aren't we using JS for styling already

People are and have been for quite a while

https://cssinjs.org/
Renewable energy is super easy when you’re a hot, sunny country with a lot of water. High energy demand for AC has a big overlap with the time of the day when the sun is shining.

It’s the opposite when you’re at a high latitude. Now you need the most energy for heating when there is barely any sun. Add some geography where you can’t use any hydro power and wind is all you have left. This is what a large chunk of Europe has to deal with.
Putting crypto as bait. Damn that is a good idea.
> It feels like there's just no way to bail, since there's a big stick in front of you

Ironically, the most ridiculous and most common way to hurt yourself on a scooter is to bail instead of continuing to ride the perfectly good scooter. You can find hundreds of videos on YouTube of people who upon seeing an obstacle just confidently step off the scooter (still going 15 mph) and eat dirt 0.5 seconds later instead of using the brake and safely stopping almost immediately (these usually brake just fine).
The Right to Secure Software
Whitepaper on the social aspect of software security
Why are you deflecting away from people are are taking steps to further their fetish of minors?
I’m not sure I see how that would result in these statistics though. The prevalence in the population doesn’t have to match the ratio for the statistical test
Which country? It might be more US centric but I think it's well understood in the core anglosphere.

That particular construction unambiguously has the speaker referring to 'the other' and although that can be innocuous, it's very often used by people being divisive or offensive. So any use of it at all can end up making people question the intentions of the speaker.
Google is still reaping its fruits from the early 2000's investments in a new browser that was lightweight and stable but had powerful search and apps, unlike the default browser of MS. So at that point in time people deliberately installed chrome on their PC since the default did not fulfill their wishes.

That doesn't mean that people today are choosing chrome and google search, as they come by default on their smartphones. Most smartphone users don't even know that the browser and search engine can be changed rather easily.
I like how the author has discovered that a problem that costs pharma companies billions of dollars actually has a quick fix: simply model how livers react to infinite compounds.

Since all livers behave the same and there is no variation based on gene expression or disease, this is a trivial task! The reason why this hasn’t been Solved is because none have been Disruptive enough to dream of doing research in this area.
> "Resources spent on scamming them instead" would be something like locking the customer out of doing their own firmware updates or refusing to publish documentation or source code in their possession for out-of-support products because it enables planned obsolescence. But regulations prohibiting such practices wouldn't see many objections from open source developers because they would be trivially satisfied by publishing the source code under widely used existing licenses.

That's definitely a problem which should be fixed and is indeed currently being fixed by the EU via regulation.
...you have to recompile the binary in order to incorporate changes you have made to the source code.

As for the last time I used Linux, it was just earlier this year when I tried Fedora Silverblue. The Nvidia driver just Broke when I swapped motherboards, and since the system is immutable, I couldn't even attempt to debug or fix the problem.

Of course, immutable distributions are the only ones that have that specific problem, but I haven't found a distro yet that doesn't have some problem.

I will admit, though, that GNOME Wayland is a better DM than Windows, for sure. And its trackpad support is comparable to macOS. (As in it has plenty of convenient gestures, supports right-click-drag, which Windows does not, and even supports middle-click-drag, which neither Windows nor macOS do.)
Cppfront: Autumn Update
That is 54% of Portugal's electricity and 18% of the EU's energy, from different years.

34% (PT) and 22% (EU) are the total renewable energy figures from 2021.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
The species that evolved in conjunction with those ecosystems don't have to put effort into maintaining those ecosystems. They do it automatically.
I have seen first hand how these things fail , i was riding down a hill with my friend on the on wheel and it just decided to stop flinging him on to stopped bus . If the thing fails there is nothing to hold on to , its either your hands that stop you or your face
A number of other computer mags have vanished without a trace, like MicroCornucopia and PC Tech Journal.
It’s challenging for many businesses because they worry they are one bad incident away from bankruptcy while also knowing that their staff is not perfect.

They assume they are shipping bugs and in some cases they are intentionally shipping bugs to make deadlines. It’s scary for a business to decide to make those bugs public even though most of us know the end result is better product quality and higher social capital.
You missed the point.

Us not polluting is, obviously, great news.

What we had to do to get to get here is the bad news. We chose to invest cash we don't have in fixing a problem we don't (really) cause and to which we don't (really) have a solution for. This, while 1/4 of the population earns minimum wage. My conclusion still stands.
You do realize that countries (Denmark, Sweden, etc.) used to legally make CSEM back in the 70s, right?
A few things

> If we could wave a magic wand and completely stop our CO2 emissions it wouldn't move the needle on global warming at all.

Some people completely ignore the fact that it does help, it may not help the ozone above China, but having a country that is not pumping out ash and other byproducts into the air does make it citizens healthier. They live longer, they have less health issues, they pay more taxes (potentially longer job life span), and they are happier. So regardless of the short sighted "we are too small to do anything" statement. It does help.

> Notwithstanding these facts, the government went all in on renewables and cutting down on emissions -- despite it not making any sense -- because it's a popular measure across all age groups.

Another interesting statement, should it not make sense for a government to do what it's citizens want?

> Energy companies had to invest in still unproven renewable tech which was very costly.

Solar is fairly new, but wind is certainly not new in any fashion, along with water it is one of the oldest forms of energy generation that exist. If anything coal/nuclear are newer than wind. And tidal assuming a stable tidal pattern is also an easy engineering issue to solve. I am not sure beyond solar you can argue "unproven renewable tech".

> Had we chosen to start investing in renewables more recently, like Brazil, we would be buying better and cheaper tech.

You can't really say that, if that's an argument then nobody would ever buy anything, because it could always be better and cheaper later.

I get the reasoning for your statement, because investing in natural gas or other oil methods like that can provide more faster for the general populace. But there is no reason that renewable cannot ALSO do that, it's just nobody has an example of such case. And there are plenty of examples with gas.
Many tricyclic antidepressants metabolized by CYP2D6 would be here, if you put the nonmetabolizers up against the rapid metabolizer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxepin for example.
How come one blog post with the torrent magnet of mistral says I need 24g vram but ollama says I only need 8g regular ram minimum?

If I wanted to experiment with working with models and finetuning offline should I just save for a 32g vram+ video card?
Suite for keeping track of file system changes
Ask HN: What’s the most interesting job that’s not on your résumé? Why?
I think the long-term satisfaction of having happy, healthy adult children is a little deeper than how well they take care of you in old age.
>No.

ahem. yes we do. we really, really do.
That’s literally impossible. It can only balance within its operating limits.
Sorry, forgot to add that it should be reversible, like the laws of physics.
> If it was my product I would have made damn sure the 911 experience was perfect before shipping

not absolving Google, but this is easier said than done
"Had we chosen to start investing in renewables more recently, like Brazil, we would be buying better and cheaper tech."

Yeah, everyone could just wait, until the magic revolutionary renewable tech comes around the corner and everyone implements it at once. Except progress usually does not work like that.

People do not learn to install solar panels or wind turbines over night. You want a solid growing workforce that can do that. And if not enough people are buying it, no one will produce those panels, can install or maintain them, or develope better ones.

And if this doesn't happen, then we will soon really learn, what a migration crisis looks like.
> Or... we can do both ? I'm fit, eat clean, live frugally, yet I still see how these organisations are absolutely fucking the system by making people overeat, overspend, &c.

That's good but have you considered that this is motivated reasoning? I.e. you think you have free will but all those shlubs making bad choices don't. This casts you as a hero with special insight into various oppressive "systems" to which you are apparently immune.

It would be better to judge people for their bad decisions. Although this strikes many people as cruel, judgment involves respecting other people's agency and creates a culture that encourages people to take responsibility for their lives and make better decisions. To put it another way, people don't intend to be obese...but they also don't believe they have a choice, and that's not good.

Finally, I think you seriously overrate the ability of behavioral sciences to do anything useful. What you're really pushing is the always-seductive idea that shadowy forces manipulate the masses through quasi-magical powers.
What is the track record of demographers predicting 75 years into the future?

I guess these models assume that neither human cloning nor interstellar space travel will take off in this century. Models in 1923 probably didn't expect another world war, birth control, or the crazy levels of agriculture we see filling up our satellite pictures. How does one sanely account for such changes in these long-term models?
Blackberry simply lost the appeal/marketing.

Yes the Storm was horrible and the Torch was just ok.

But Blackberry 10 didn't come that late. At release time it was superior to the current iPhone and Android in many points.
Usability, dynamic permissions, the Hub, animations were so fluids and responsives, virtual keyboard, advanced dev toolkit...

It was one single thing that killed it: Customers were told Blackberry is old and un-cool. So they think.
Has the War on Drugs ever been curtailed? Is anyone trying to curtail police power?

And it’s Google an adtech company. How are they infringing on your rights in a way that you can just not use them?