skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at my reply to Gasp0de.

> What fuels do you think are sustainable?

I really don't think we know yet (for transportation). The fuels we have are highly energetic (in particular by weight) because a lot of energy went into them to generate those tight bonds. Transportation fuels need a lot of important factors: energy density at a system level (energy per weight including storage), general safety at STP, etc.

There have been some efforts to make ptroleum products from captured CO2, which might be a temporary bridge (by definition it's GHG neutral and can use renewable power) but burning these fuels produces other pollution beyond GHGs (thus are't sustainable) so they still need to be eliminated.

Fortunately batteries appear viable for the middle of the curve, most wheeled vehicles. But at the extrema (ships, planes, and rockets), we need something that performs closer to what we have today and I don't see anything on the horizon.
Maybe on Hacker News, but not in the real world.
According to the copyright at the end, this is from 1990. (Speaking of pranks, I was completely fooled by the poster's username and thought that was a broken timestamp.)
Not OP, but

The new Magic Keyboard ( or Scissor 2.0 ) just doesn't suites me. 1.0mm Key travel is so so much worse than the 1.3/1.5mm old scissors on my 2015 MBP.

I actually dont need the seamless, ultra large trackpad. Which gets false positive from time to time. This has never been the case on a sane trackpad size.

My Workload is memory limited, and rarely CPU limited. Upgrading wouldn't bring a lot of benefits unless I have more memory, and Memory upgrade is expensive.

Did I mention keyboard or trackpad?

I just had a battery swap on this MBP earlier this year, hopefully it will last another 4 - 5 years or whenever I cant update Safari. Although I guess I could still use Firefox.
I'm sure the WFH needs have factored into many home purchases in the past few years. It is a real expense.
This doesn’t match up to my experience playing on Quest 3. Certainly I see better quality for lower bandwidth, but the client side decoding actually adds more latency at the point it actually looks better the HEVC.
Are user accounts data or systems? Compromise of AD is a very common means. This said this can still be fixed before putting it back where it could reach the internet and cause trouble.
I mean, it's a law blog describing the current state of the world, not new or proposed legislation or employer policy.
Weird. Also:

> And so, Britain traded the land illegally.

Whoa, strong claim. Probably backed by facts below? Nope. At the same time, Wikipedia:

> In November 1965, the UK purchased the entire Chagos Archipelago from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).

So, they bought it for 3 million pounds. Doesn't seem illegal to me.
Yeah I agree this word has a negative connotation but I’m not sure if another one.

They’re trying to collectively quit working at the same time (and use government power to force the company not to actually terminate them) as a way of pressuring a company to raise their wages.

It feels like holding a company hostage? Like for instance a protection racket: this feels identical (pay us or you lose your business) is engaging in the same thing, but feels “worse”.

I think the thing that makes this extortion for me is the government involvement. If it was just “we aren’t willing to work for that wage anymore”, that’s just bargaining.
you have genes for red hair, blue-ish green eyes, a facial structure that looks like X, or Y, and a skin tone of Z.

with a reasonable degree of accuracy you can then predict what that person looks like.

epigenetics and other factors make that something like a "best guess" approximation, but it is a good start.
Depending on what kind of software we are talking about, all kinds of things might change. Hardware and software environments evolve, legal requirements change, it really is an endless list of things that you can not control. Could you have written an image editor 30 years ago that would be usable today when you had less RAM than the size of an images coming from a digital cameras today and in an image format invented years later? Could you have written a text editor useful today before Unicode was invented? Could you have written a tax software that anticipated all relevant taxation changes 20 years into the future? Could you handle touch inputs well before smartphones were widely used and deal with the differences between desktop and mobile in general? Keep up with the changes to HTTP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript without updating your browser?
Ya, this doesn't end well. The data isn't amazing for homeschooling, but what I've seen shows a strong bimodal distribution. Extremely wealthy home schoolers with tons of resources have kids that perform well in college and have strong lifetime earnings. Everyone else not so much, unprepared for college, earnings well below their peers. Pair this with the fairly predatory organizations offering "learning materials" and education online. Could probably make a few million launching an overnight online school run by a bible trained LLM.
I think possibly the worst place to learn and practice social skills is from other kids who are just as in the dark as you are.

In my experience a home schooled child is significantly more likely to be good at social skills than a public schooled child. They are also adept at navigating adult conversation and social situations much sooner.
Do the screws have the latest firmware update?

On a serious note, when you think of what achievment this mission is, it's silly how this is the issue they are dealing with. Good they were able to get some of the sample out though and this will also help develop better solutions so they don't get screwed again :)
Do you work in the industry or something? Yes, all of for profit healthcare is a monstrosity that should be abolished. Everyone I’ve ever met knows the first part of that and it does not excuse how awful health insurance companies are or all the terrible things they’ve done, both past and present. Tort reform has been tried on the state level and it has no impact. It’s just a canard trotted out by those who are trying to keep the human suffering money pump pumping.
Hello,

I am an official representarive of the Balkan countries. A non-negligable chunk of our GDP is based on random Rust projects using Serbia's .rs and of course .me. If you stop using our TLDs our ecobomies will collapse.

Kind regards,

The Balkans
I work 100% remote, have for over a decade, if my employer/contractor won't cover my expenses it tells me exactly what type of employer/company it is. If you can't recognize the value in me working fm home you won't see the value in me as an employee. Hard pass.
> Many of America’s new home-schooled children have entered a world where no government official will ever check on what, or how well, they are being taught.

Isn't escaping from those officials the whole point? Either because they're failing at their job or doing things that are disagreeable to some subset of the population?
It is shocking how quick people are to blame perceived beneficiaries instead of the people actually pushing for changes.
They'll still fail because they won't be able to twist employees enough to reach the minimum footfall floor required for the economic activity needed to sustain before times downtowns, but it will be annoying while they try.

Mayor of NYC complains about remote work, but then expands it to non union NYC employees because they can't retain talent [1]. Mayor of Minneapolis complains Target and the local county won't fully RTO, but leadership at those orgs goes "meh" and continues because they want to retain talent [2] [3].

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/805-23/mayor-ad...

[2] https://kfgo.com/2023/08/26/downtown-businesses-ask-target-t...

[3] https://www.minnpost.com/twin-cities-business/2023/10/why-ar...
When I became a supporter yesterday, the average was under $10 per supporter per month. There's no shame in being a small supporter.

Edit: I currently see 279 supporters for a total of $2,328 per month, so $8.34 average per month per supporter.
I think this is a reaction to corporate leadership not wanting a discussion at all and using their friends in the media to spread propaganda that remote work is inherently bad. You wake up one day after a string of layoffs and read emails from corporate executives telling you you why remote work is bad and ineffective, and you’re not a team player if you are working remote. Meanwhile articles start popping up that only highlight the perceived negative outcomes of people not going to the office when there are many obvious positives that may not be mentioned or given equal weight.
You feel your decisions come from yourself - whatever that is. That's not at all the same as having objective proof they do.
"This way, Chrome gives you a personalized, predictable browsing experience."

Right... "predictable."
Even in chess, if you slam the table all bets are out.
Maybe an aftermarket keyboard? I know you're not serious but aftermarket keyboards some of them have little OLED inside the keys. Also somehow the Apple vision Pro headset might provide you with that one extra awkward step needed to accomplish a task interface that it seems like you might be humorously craving.
The new magic keyboard or new scissor keyboard has a key travel of 1mm, for me I wouldn't describe it as really pleasant.
Because they want something less user hostile than Chrome?
Can Mayor Quimby direct his secretary to tell John Q Malcontent that the mayor is in a meeting every time he calls?
I knew a philosopher who was mad for WordStar, ran it on a DOS install on VMWare.
If I'm not wrong paying to patent pool is capped, so apple would just pay at the cap
That is an assumption. No one has ever agreed on such concept on paper.
That being tracked costs you more money than not being tracked

If you can't afford to pay $5 cash, you certainly can't afford to pay the $6 the firm that's tracking you will make from tracking you.
Opinion Google Pixel's ad campaign is destroying humanity
"...But let me direct you, instead, to the ad campaign for the newest Google smartphone, which encapsulates all the horrors of our moment and gleefully promises to make them worse."
If they already have an office, the marginal cost of electricity and internet is not likely to be as high as the employee's home internet cost.
Ask HN: How to start working in private intelligence?
I have a particular set of skills in gathering and analyzing information via various (legal) means. OSINT is the most appropriate term.

I'm a very experienced data generalist and way more technical and experienced than most of the employees I see working in these companies already.

I usually work as a freelancer around more traditional companies but would like to work in a private intelligence project for fun = interest.

The problem is, though: a) through their standard recruiting channels, they seem to hire for very shallow roles (solutions architect etc.), and b) they don't seem to be very open about remote works and/or gigs. For instance, most of them are based around Arlington, VA (oh well) and London. Both of which are far from my home.

Any ideas/intros are welcome.

If you'd like to get in touch directly, please do so via smart.shepperd (at) outlook (dot) com or comment with info and I'll reach out
If you only take into account small businesses with single owners you are entirely correct. Mostly because large corporations are squeezing them to death with various forms of rent seeking. However, if your corporation is in a position to casually misplace half a million dollars, I don't think you are in that category.
There are many ways to obtain inexact value of pi.

Being irrational number, there are no finite number of digits (e.g. in decimal form or other base) to represent the pi value exactly. Nor can such value be expressed as ratio of integers.

Likewise, in your representation the ellipsis hides away the infinity.
https://calendly.com/seanfeiner/coffee-chat
Add frequent flier miles, "kickbacks" of a couple percent on credit card expenses that are reimbursed, clothing (such as suits) and commuting expenses that are not reimbursed, but uniforms (and related) that are deductible, etc. As you say it's a mishmash that doesn't have a real basis in some overarching principles.
i agree with both, "finished" software i think can happen only with small pieces of sotfware, every medium size+ project needs a continuous development
Vendor lock-in in the observability space
Yeah I would not like it if my browser did that either. There's probably a way to turn it off but I do not use Chrome so do not know.
Yep. My brother who is quite talented at Call of Duty goes through one controller every 8-12 months. He's on his 4th or 5th now.
Which is incompatible with couch play…
> Every .io domain you renew legitimises and reinforces the continued exile of the Chagossians.

The history there is unfortunate (although the history lesson itself is welcome), but at the same time this is akin to saying: you should boycott products and services from the UK/US. If you feel that way, you can try to do that, but I get the feeling that purely logistically that would get pretty difficult to do. Looking at every piece of food you buy at the store, to see where it's from, looking at every website of the companies that you want to do business with. You might lose access to a lot of hardware, appliances and even the majority of the websites out there to make a stand.

I get why one might single out the .io domains for symbolic reasons, but at the same time most people probably think of something like I/O and haven't even heard of Chagos Archipelago, ergo there's not a lot of intentional legitimization/reinforcement of any kind going on.
I didn't intend to portray it as a large part of my reasoning. It's not really any part of my reasoning at all except to illustrate that the sort of absurd argumentation that lead to the regulations Ng is criticizing[^1]. These lines of reasoning their proponents basically _begin_ with an all-mighty AI and derive harms, then step back and debate/design methods for preventing the all-mighty AI. From a strict utilitarian framework this works because infinite harm times non-zero probability is still infinite. From a practical standpoint this is a waste of time, and like Ng argues, is likely to stifle innovations with the a far greater chance to benefit society than cause AI-doomsday.

The absurdity of this line of reasoning also supports the cynical interpretation that this is all just moat building, with the true believers propped up as useful idiots. I'm no Gary Marcus, but prepping for AGI doomsday seems like a bit premature.

>In my experience, it's basically never been a part of serious discussions in EA/LW/AI Safety. Mostly, comes up when people are joking around or when speaking to critics who raise it themselves.

>Even in the original post, the possibility of this argument was actually more of a sidenote on the way to main point (admittedly, he's main point involved an equally wacky thought experiment!).

This is fair, it was a cheap shot. While I will note that EY seems to take the possibility seriously, I admittedly have no idea how seriously people take EY these days. But, for some reason 80,000 hours lists AI as the #1 threat to humanity, so it reads to me more like flat earthers vs geocentrists.

[^1]: As in, while I understand that Roko is sincerely shitposting about something else, and merely coming across the repugnant conclusion that an AGI could be motivated to accelerate its own development by retroactive punishment, the absurd part is in concluding that AGI is a credible threat. Everything else just adds to that absurdity.
> "Games like Myst have incredibly realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections."

So we've finally come full circle. Next step, bring the old CEO back in an advising capacity.
Very similar to the case of Henrietta Lacks.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks)
When you have kids your perspective on many, many things changes in very big ways. This is more true when the pregnancy is planned for and you and your spouse are both ready to have children.

We don't personally home school but have many friends that do. It's a very common thing in our church and community. It's hard to tell what kids are homeschooled versus the ones that aren't. Many homeschools engage in co-op programs and use curricula to drive personal engagement. For instance in one family we're very good friends with they use a curriculum that requires community service for middle school ages and up. There are several charities that they engage with in addition to the community service activities that the church is doing.
Can second this, raising my omega-3 ratio is one of the most effective dietary changes that helped my inflammation.
How much brainwashing does it take before you don't 100% blame the person making the poor decision?
Some quick napkin math:

Say you work 100% remote, 8 hours a day. That's 2080 work hours a year, out of 8760 hours.

That means you need to be connected to internet, have electricity, etc. 23.74% of the time - let's round that up to 24%

Say a worker pays $600 / year for internet, $2400 for electricity / year, and - dunno - $1500 for your cellphone / year.

So that's $4500 / year, and your employer must cover approximately $1080 of that. If the company has 1000 employees, that's a million in extra costs.

Doesn't really sound like it is going to break the bank, especially not if your employer is also able to cut previous office-related costs.

Also, employers would probably start to offer a bit lower salaries to the workers that don't live in very high cost of living areas...if you pay 1000 employers on average $100k / year, that's a minimum $100m in annual salary expenses. If employees are willing to take a $99k salary for guaranteed 100% remote work, with the above expenses covered, then those costs are offset for the employer...
To delete your 23andMe data, go to your account settings page and find the “Delete Your Data” option under “23andMe Data.” You can download any or all of your data before you destroy it.
Tax deductible (which for most people in the US means nothing today) is different from being reimbursed.
you could say the same (or similar) about .so domains and funding corruption in a foreign unstable gov
I hope this bites console manufacturers back by raising awareness that hall effect analogs exist and why does sony only put them in 4x more expensive gamepad than the regular one without hall effect sticks. Source: dual sense broken over years 5 times, every single one from stick drift. We aren't throwing these controllers around. Regular use for gaming.
Those with the capacity and inclination to learn such things (meaning academic theory and systems) who are born into working class communities or families are heavily encouraged to leave the working class behind and cut ties. The working class communities are intellectually strip mined, and the kids quickly learn their only chance at success relies very much on learning to hide where they came from unless they're trotting it out for sympathy points/scholarships, in which case you need to talk about your background but make clear that you've ~ transcended it. As a result the only people left in the working class as adults are those who couldn't learn academic theory.

Some exceptions I've seen are people like my mother who grew up higher-class but 'defected'. Another exception is occasional disabled members of the working class.

It has nothing to do with the intelligence or ability of the working class as a population and everything to do with the fact that people in that class who have certain abilities and types of intelligence are offered a way out that others aren't. (e.g. A mechanical genius is less likely to get this treatment than a kid reading several grades ahead ).
Swift, meet WinRT
100% My wife and I both work from home. We are DINK but that still means we need to compete with families for homes with enough space for two offices. I'm not complaining, it's just absolutely a major expense.
Yes but they don't contribute upstream. They run a old kernel with an enormous out of tree patchset on top to combine dm-raid with btrfs.
> In what ways has mozilla meaningfully dared to try and expand their revenue streams?

Pocket. Mozilla VPN. Is MDN Plus meaningful? Probably the Mr. Robot ad would have led to paid ads without the backlash.
My own morality will never align perfectly with the voters in my jurisdiction, no matter where I live. That's how it works, no individual is ever perfectly aligned with the desires of the society as a whole. In my opinion, the best thing to do is for a somewhat low common denominator of things to be illegal, with a much larger set of things being "enforced" by messy social pressure pushing people on what legal things are nonetheless moral and ethical.

People stating "nothing that is legal is immoral or unethical" is one parry in that "message social pressure", and those of us disagreeing is a counter-parry. And that's the way I think it should work! People who care what I think (my family, my friends, my kids, people at work and in my community who respect me for whatever reason) will feel pressure from me, pushing them toward what I think is right (and vice versa!), and people who don't know me, but who think what I'm saying rings true will also be affected, almost certainly to a lesser extent, by what I'm saying. And people (presumably like you) who don't find it compelling, will debate what I'm saying, and other people may find their perspective more compelling than mine, and that's fine too!

And in my view, this is just how society works, we messily influence one another toward a loose consensus on what is good and right, above and beyond what we've enshrined into legislation and legal precedent.
I'm just as OCD about changes as the next competent programmer, but when it comes to say Starcraft, which is a beautiful one person creation (like most software that reaches a large audience for a long time) it now makes me uneasy as the tables are switching fast underneath.

Emulating X86 on ARM/Risc-V is an abstraction tree I don't want to climb f.ex.

Wine hides that power consumption.

It's a false sense of security.
Comp Sci in 2027 (Short Story by Eliezer Yudkowsky)
That's quite a limb to be standing on if you expect performance to decrease by half.
I guess the real question is if they're generally effective?

For comparison, Australia theoretically has protections for whistleblowers. But it's unfortunately common for whistleblowers in practice to get royally shafted, have their life destroyed, (etc). :(

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-27/richard-boyle-case-go...

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-13/trial-date-for-afghan...
Software is never finished, it can only get abandoned.
Sure, that's one model. The underlying problem is the completely unregulated nature. Similarly, there is household in my neighborhood that home schools. The kids (all 8 of them) never leave the house. They have a 8ft. fence and 1 acre yard where I assume they get some outside time. No one visits. Only dad is allowed to talk to anyone and when he does it's extraordinarily weird.
Go to war with European unions and then try to keep doing business as usual. Another union (Transport) has announced that they will stop unloading Tesla cars from ships in Swedish harbors starting November 7, and that's just the first sympathy measure.

IF Metall and Tesla will continue negotiations again tomorrow, so maybe Tesla signs a deal before then.
SO₂ was a byproduct of coal power stations, we started scrubbing it because it was the cause of acid rain.