skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia makes a reasonable attempt to cite its references. If ChatGPT states something it doesn’t give any indication where it’s from. Could be from a textbook or a reputable website. Could be from someone shitposting on Twitter. Then you’re back to Googling to find out which.
I have no horse in this race but just wanted to point out the absurdity of this methodology:

“The generation data for wind, rooftop and utility solar data was rescaled to supply ~60%, 25% and 20% of demand respectively over the year. For example, over the last year utility solar generation has met 5% of demand. The target for utility solar was 20%, so I rescaled the last 7 days of utility solar data by 4x (ie, 20% divided by 5%).”
Science (or knowledge in broad sense) will be always unexplored, because humans are born ignorant.
I think you're missing the nuance of the author. "Bullshit" is not synonymous with "wrong information", it means something that is produced while disregarding the truth.

AIs don't "sometimes produce bullshit", they are always producing bullshit. Sometimes what they produce is accurate, as a consequence of the initial corpus being accurate. But to the AI, much like to the demagogue, this is totally irrelevant - it only has to sound good.

And if it's "easy" to verify what AIs say, then it should be "easy" to teach AI to verify before it speaks, which would automatically counter this criticism of AI as bullshit machines. But the real threat is that AI can produce bullshit which is hard to verify, and can do so at a speed that puts professional gishgallopers to shame.
If you work with the occult, then you're an occult practitioner.

Where you are on that journey is your business alone.
Given that ChatGPT generates responses based on the same data set that Google has access to, I find it difficult to believe you tried Google for hours and never recieved a single useful result.

It also seems odd that you had the materials available to research and validate the response ChatGPT gave you, but somehow no ability to glean the necessary answer from those materials to begin with. Obviously, because Google was completely useless to you, you didn't simply use Google to do that validation, nor could you have used another search engine, because then you could have found the result you were looking for to begin with. Did you just use ChatGPT to validate its own responses?
not entirely true. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38302908
Similar. I've held plenty of speeches and presentations in front of anything from dozens to hundreds of people and never as much as a hint of stagefright, and have no problem making a total fool of myself on a dance floor as long as I can treat people there as a crowd, but addressing someone individually is stressful.

To their example of "sex ed", I've done that in front of my high school class. It didn't bother me at all. But I'd hesitate before initiating a conversation with any of my classmates individually even after having been in the same class as them for several years.

But also, for me at least, it's mostly approaching a stranger that causes me anxiety.

> This probably has a name? but if it does I don't know what it is.

In "pick up" circles it at least used to be described as approach anxiety. I read quite a bit of that kind of material while trying to get a handle on my own social anxiety, and while most of that material ranges from just shit to shit and misogynist, there are some useful tips to take from it.

The repeat exposure starting with something really small that the linked site suggests is one of them, and does work to an extent, but while 30 days might work for some, it might be way too little for others - people shouldn't be discouraged if it's too fast.

E.g. I spent many months dealing with mine. For weeks I'd go out and force myself to do really inane things like just asking people the time, or directions, which used to be sufficient to set off my anxiety - I'd go to great lengths to make do without having to ask someone for help.

Later I'd start trying to greet cashiers and bus drivers etc.. That was actually very interesting but ultimately I ended up choosing to dial it back.

The reason being that it worked too well. Turns out a whole lot of people in service jobs are really starved for attention, and give it to them and on one hand it likely be a very positive experience: After living the same place for (at that point) ~15 years or so, none of the bus drivers paid me any attention. A couple of weeks after I started that experiment it turned out one of them went to my gym and started talking to me regularly. I'd suddenly notice people rush to open a till for me where I was buying my lunch just because I'd started asking how they were and they suddenly remembered me. People would pour out their life stories.

But the thing is, I'm deeply introverted. It was nice to connect with some more people. I enjoy social contact to an extent. But it was also exhausting. And I realised that as much as I was happy as I felt my anxiety for starting a conversation dissipate, and enjoyed many of the conversations, I didn't want to engage in as many conversations as I got into, so I dialled it way back. (Notably, the anxiety dissipating did nothing to make it less tiring)

But it's nice to find it easier to when I do want to, and it has made me more conscious about making an effort to pay attention to people and be friendlier when I have the energy.
This is like saying all network traffic should be tcp. For many applications there is simply no good reason and nobody would be willing to pay the additional costs.
I've grown accustomed to compact fluorescent bulbs these days - mainly to having been given a lot of them for free about 10 years ago. I suspect that I shall be using them for a while yet as my stock pile of them is still filling a shelf in one of my cupboards :)

Strangely the thing that I really noticed when we stopped using incandescent bulbs was that it felt a lot colder during winter nights, as the majority of the energy the old bulbs drew was converted to heat rather than light.
Everything you see that's made of plastic used to be made of wood.
Love appimage. Windows would always make me install stuff. Appimage? lol click click
Why is the notary making 2%?!

Is that including all legal fees?

Even still that seems like a much bigger rip off than a buyer's agent in the US.
It’s funny how often this works, there’s a ton of copypasta code in production out there.

I do some bug bounty hunting for fun, and just yesterday I Googled a weird snippet of frontend code from a major corporation, found the matching backend code in a blog post, and saw a bug in it. Alas, not a bug that could be used for anything interesting this time.
Yeah, just EOL it and leave it so that its open to basic security exploits.
Is Microsoft allowed to reinstall it after every update?
AI bros descending into the comments to justify their AI bullshit generator that not even they can explain how it works and why it generates random nonsense which they need to check each time they ask it.

LLMs still cannot transparently explain any of their decisions at all or reason why it is cannot understand its own mistakes, meaning that it cannot be held to account.

This is why no-one here trusts them at very high risk situations, only for bullshit and nonsense generation.
If you divide 6% commission by hours spend, how much does an agent earns per hour? Probably more than senior Google AI developer?
But, they are, right? They aren't preventing ALL ad blockers, but they aren't even merely preventing theoretical ad blockers: they are blocking concrete ad blockers that people have built and would actively use.

If there is a checkpoint at an event which seems to be turning away cars it doesn't matter if other cars are also getting through: the way we use the relevant phrasing allows us to say that "they are turning away cars" as that is a bit ambiguous as to why or how many.
How you know your Free or Open Source Software Project is doomed to FAIL (2009)
I will be in the minority here, but:

Native integration with Datalog.

Many times, I find myself working on a program and I realize that what I need is a database. But having a database, even sqlite3 or Berkely DB, would be an overkill. If I could just express my data and the relationships between them, then I would be able to query what I need in an efficient way.
You don’t think that it’s a concern that verification must be done?

People don’t do that now and we just made it easier to get confident answers that no one will check.
> and are not what users want

Ohoho.

I, as a user, want to see the content. The amount of times when the content is not available because for whatever reason JS/CDN/whatever didn't work is uncountable.

Hell, sometimes I get a blank page for the login page, which could be replaced with a three lines of HTLM form, but now it requires a ten web requests, wait for them to load and only then it renders something.

It's even more amusing if you look at Network tab of Devel Tools.

> but it’s simply not worth the extra effort and testing

Maybe you shouldn't made a simple page require tons of JS and CSS to show the content in the first place?

Maybe not everything should be a web _app_?
AI ethics stuff mostly: https://www.machine-ethics.net
I don't think there is personally, but how do you reliably keep track that it was the user that made that choice, and not some installer on the machine? I.e. Ol' McDonald AntiVirus installs an extension for scanning that marks the extension as approved like that, and then updates to also use it to inject their own ads for other security products.
In the US, the tips are usually to benefit the business.
What's the cost of maintaining both green energy plants & non-green plants for Portugal? What's the cost of electricity there? Is it subsidized (perhaps heavily)?
That signature is made with a realllllly heavy pen, I guess?
Archive: https://archive.is/SHAht

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20231117124904/https://www.wsj.c...
Most people on this site are from the USA, so I would bet their legislators could do something, but choose not to.
I had this moment of cognitive dissonance when I noticed that one colleagues would use "open source" as a synonym for "poor quality". Context: I was working as a contractor, for a bank. That colleague was managing a bunch of *nix instances used to deploy our web services.
Idk man, I think this shit should be between the trans person and their doctor. We already pierce the ears and rip the foreskin off babies, and minors can get boob jobs and nose jobs already. Minors get all manner of drugs prescribed. If a doctor thinks some treatment is appropriate for a kid, okay. If it turns out to be medical malpractice we have the court system for that.

Also, I disagree that men in women’s bathrooms is inherently predatory. Frankly, this discriminates against fathers of young children because often one has to bring a daughter into the bathroom or change their infants diaper. Also, the bathroom thing is super weird, like how are you gonna enforce this in a non imposing, non disregarding of boundary way? Already butch women experience harassment for not performing femininity, and there’s news articles where nosy weirdos harass them in bathrooms…
I'm gonna stick a "citation needed" here. I have discerned no obvious difference in air quality from wood burners in the winter so unless London has a lot of folks burning wood in the summer I find it unlikely. As for Fireworks, their usage is so infrequent that I find the idea of "often" slightly confusing.

Disclosure, my family had open fires and then log burners for as long as I've been alive. Not in London where I now live. I love a proper fire, it's great, one of the things I enjoy about visiting family in the countryside.

I am, however, ambivalent about the things and wouldn't resent them being banned.
Yup that's what I read everywhere. Always comments like, "if you think you need dedup, no you don't".

Even recently when I maybe had a use case for it, I just decided to eat the storage space. I was rsyncing from multiple old HDDs to my NAS to have them more easily accessible, and some files are just the same: a few anime series I have rewatched (from the same torrent).

So my guess is that I could save a few hundreds of GBs with dedup, but with all the negative comments I'm leaving it as my last option. If I run out of space I can either buy more, or spend some time reorganizing stuff manually.
Global Carbon Budget 2022
Ask HN: Can adding another tab in HN be a good option?
I've recently started being active on HN and I'm loving it here.

In the ASK tab, we are asking for the advice.

In the SHOW tab, everyone displays what they've built.

Many times, there are many good YT videos or blogs, or resources on the feed. So is there any scope for adding a tab called 'YT' or 'resources' or 'Blogs' or 'Share' maybe

It just gets mixed up in the 'new', it would be nice to find it segregated, don't you think?
> As a fellow SAD sufferer, I'm trying not to be too harsh, but you clearly have a serious version of SAD, so applying your situation to this self-help site is a bit over the top.

I'm just trying to suggest that consulting a professional is probably a good idea - since someone running a platform like this won't be able to help with all of the cases. I still think the challenge is an okay idea for most people who need a gentle push, but won't work for everyone.

Just putting that out there, possibly "survivorship bias" is too strong of a suggestion to use here, that's a fair point, my bad. It's not that the method itself is bad, just that people are different and specialists should help with identifying what works the best.

Edit: survivorship bias, not confirmation bias
Unmentioned by the article is the fact that many (most?) New England stone walls are no longer in fields; they're in the middle of fairly dense forest.

Wandering those forests and coming across an expansive network of stone walls, it's difficult to conceive that you're surrounded by what was once field or pasture. The reforestation of New England as agriculture migrated to happier climes was dramatic!
Some previous discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4491554
> But like, it's 2023... Having that requirement isn't a hard sell. Especially considering the base of Windows and macOS have fancy requirements as a base.

I think this is a sad attitude, when software actually has quite a high carbon footprint[1] on par with the aviation industry. There is so much old hardware that would work just fine if we actually cared to make software that works for them.

I think new software should lower the requirement, and better hardware should mean faster software, not that developers can get wasteful.

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/ai-internet-carbon-fo...
P vs. NP, answers are often easier to verify than to reach in the first place.

That said, there are many people who don't bother to verify anything, as can be observed in comments sections where one can in many cases find people who clearly only read the headline and not the article.
> LLMs seem to operate on the principle of "will this pass for a correct answer" rather than "this is how this thing works, so here's a reasonable opinion answering your question".

Isn't the hint in the name? It's a language model, not a knowledge model. LLMs are exceptional at generating stuff that passes as coherent language (like, the parts of speech are all where one would expect them to be in the sentences). The trouble is people think it goes deeper when the knowledge modeling part only happens incidentally because language and knowledge modeling are so closely related.
I guess 8 year olds shouldn't be playing in the street then. If you want your matchbox-sized car, more power to you, get yourself a Mini and call it a day.

I want and need something that I can drive out into the pasture, up the hill, to the row of oaks at the back of my property, whilst towing a log splitter, so I can saw down two oak trees and turn them into a cord of firewood that I can then load into the bed and drive back to my home to stack on the firewood rack.

You worry about your life and let other people worry about theirs.

If your hypothetical 8 year old's parents were worried about his or hers, it wouldn't be an issue to begin with.
Or bring us a lot closer in a 'measly' 30..40k years. See "Distant future and past encounters" here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars_and_br...

Maybe that's our 'test' as intelligent lifeform: have opportunities to 'jump ship' to other solar systems, potentially discover alien life there, if only we can survive & maintain space-travel capability long enough for other star(s) to come within hopping distance?
Update: At 1:40PM Eastern Time I saw that Instagram took down the post. It has still not replied to my email.

Interesting experiment. The author I think makes a really outstanding point when it comes to companies like Meta: concerns, complaint, actual grievances, go into a black hole. If you get locked out of your Instagram account, you're basically screwed. If it gets hacked, good luck, trying to get it back. I would like to see government doing more to force social media companies, to take responsibility for their users, and respond to their concerns.

Of course, if you don't like it you can go to another service, you don't have to use Instagram, you're not a customer if you are using a free service etc etc.

There are all sorts of retorts to this. Unfortunately this practice of ignoring users is not limited to just Instagram. There are a lot of companies that people use and depend on, but could not get them to respond to legitimate concerns to save their life.
> the software you release gives everyone the opportunity to infinitely exploit it

How is that exploitation if you write some software for yourself, think it's useful for others, release it and then someone else uses it? If the software wasn't released, then others may have the same need and thus similar software may be written multiple times in a huge waste of time and effort.

To my mind, open source software is returning to the basics of human society - helping each other where we can. If you only ever do things with the intention of getting paid to do them, then you live a sad life.
This is why the distinction between soft and hard realtime exists.

Linux-rt makes linux actually decent at soft realtime. PREEMPT_RT usually results on measured peak latency for realtime tasks (SCHED_RR/SCHED_FIFO) on the order of a few hundred usec.

Standard Linux lets latency go to tens of milliseconds, easily verifiable by running cyclictest from rt-tests for a few hours while using the computer. Needless to say, this is unacceptable for many user cases, including pro audio, videoconference and even gaming.

In contrast, AmigaOS's exec.library had no trouble yielding solid sub-millisecond behaviour in 1985, on a relatively slow 7MHz 68000.

No amount of patching Linux can give you hard realtime, as it is about hard guarantees, backed up by proofs built from formal verification, which Linux is excluded from due to its sheer size.

There's a few RTOSs that are formally verified, but I only know one that provides process isolation via the usual supervisor vs user CPU modes virtualization model: seL4.
Thanks. Would you open-source the server software so one can self-host it? To be honest, I wouldn’t want to disclose my calendars to a third party.
> Energy output is directly related to carbon content. More energy density from coal mean more co2.

No. It means you need to burn a larger volume of wood to get the same amount of energy. And when you increase the volume, you increase the emissions. The first sentence of this quote may be true, if we are talking about absolute amounts, but then in the second sentence density is a ratio (energy to volume), which is why it’s not true.

I don’t know all that much about relative PM2.5 emissions, but a brief search shows a paper, which argues that PM2.5 emissions depend more on combustion conditions than fuel type[1].

[1]: <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31340411/>
Hungary has high taxes for the vast majority of tax payers, because it is not at all progressive.

Personal Income Tax is relatively low at 15%, but due to the fact it applies to every forint you earn, personal income tax is higher in Hungary until your salary reaches about 50 000 GBP (more than three times the median Hungarian salary), after which the UK is higher (noting that the median salary in the UK is already around twice what it is in Hungary).

Capital gains are taxed at the same rate of 15% with no allowance, while the UK has a 6 000 GBP allowance, and after that there's a system which has 10% for lower income tax payers, or 20-28% otherwise, meaning capital gains of less than around 25 000 GBP are taxed higher in Hungary than in the UK (assuming a higher rate tax payer, for lower rate tax payers, it's cheaper in the UK for a bit longer).

VAT is at 27% in Hungary compared to 20% in the UK.

Inheritance and gift taxes are 18% in the UK with no allowances while in the UK you pay 40% of everything above 325 000 GBP (meaning inheriting under around 600 000 GBP is more expensive in Hungary). Corporation tax is 9%, with additionally a possible 2% local tax.

In short, for the majority of tax payers, taxes are lower in the UK. The more money you make, the more favourable Hungary becomes.

Corporation tax though is indeed lower than the UK, at only 9%, compared to the UK's 19-25%.
Can you imagine if this came out back in the Nintendo 64 days? Kind of incredible that it was technically possible...
There are two forms at https://signal.org/donate/, the second one lets you set a yearly donation at a custom amount (and both forms a monthly donation at a custom amount).
I'll second that! WFMU is the best! Broadcasting since forever across the river from Manhattan. Yoko Ono and Matt Groening are known listeners.

"Bad Animals" is my favorite.

For funk and hiphop, look at https://www.wefunkradio.com/ for the guest DJ every Friday night.

And Soma FM has lots of amazing curated streams. Hands-down, THE best holiday mixes, with several hours of all the versions of aulde lange syne on new years eve! https://somafm.com/
Correct, I messed up my units, and miss-interpreted "biofuels and waste". Sorry. Graph is for:

Topic: "Energy supply"

Indiator: "Total Energy supply (TES) by source".

Looking at the stacked chart, for 2020, the sum is above 200 000 TJ (not 200 TJ as I wrote mistakenly). It's propably about 210 000 TJ.

Then, for electricity, I summed "Wind, Solar, etc..." (21 375 TJ) and "Hydro" (14 738 TJ).
I assumed that "Biofuels and Waste" (93 709 TJ) was used mostly for heating as opposed to electricity generation, and neglected it.

It's not entirely the case, though ; in the "Electricity Generation by source", you can see that 2 752 GWh where produced using "biofuels and waste" out of the 811 + 2752 + 4094 + 5476 + 462 = 13595 GWh of electriciy (~20%.)

So I guess that we should add ~20% of those 93 709 TJ, and say that roughly (again, I'm doing ballpark computations here) 60 000TJ out of more than 210 000 TJ.

Still, 28% !== 100%, isn't it ;) ?

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PS: Out of curiosity, from https://www.iea.org/countries/france, my home country would be at around 4% renewables, and 40% "non fossil" (given the share of nuclear in electricity), but as usual, we're outliers...
This is the most underrated comment in this whole thread.
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A nortary makes sure the sale ia properly exevuted and titles properly transferred, he is certifying the transaction and takes on some legal riks dor doing so. This provides legal security for seller and buyer, a service woth paying for in transactions most people only do once in their life (we talk about Germany here). For all others, it is just coat of doing business.

No idea why it is always everybody else who should work for free.