skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The “saving X bytes saves Y emitted carbon” trope is a pet peeve of mine.

Nobody knows how much carbon a request’s full internet transmission path, storage, and possible 24/7 availability of a server consume. Stacks are too different, equipment widely varies, international internet traffic likely consumes more.

I’m typing this using wind energy that I pay extra for. But who knows what my ISP’s equipment and onward are using.

If you carbon-optimize your content so much that I have to make multiple requests or paste it into ChatGPT to understand it, you did not reduce your footprint.

There’s no direct byte to carbon conversion.
Is there a good explanation of u substitution (or any other integral stuff that makes use of the denominator) using non-Liebnitz notation? Is it just that ∂1 is actually ∂/∂1, and thus you can begin using ∂1 the way you would have used ∂x?
At this point, that one is the dupe even though it came first.
Not if you still had the original system as well. I imagine it is not the norm though.
How much approximately do you think a teacher gets paid? Obviously it depends on specifics so maybe say whether you’re imagining a city centre / suburban / rural school, and whether the state/district is wealthy and whether it’s a high school or whatever.

I have some guesses in my head for something like ‘high school teacher in moderately wealthy Chicago suburb’ (I haven’t written the number here because I don’t want to anchor you) though I don’t have a great sense for how many jobs like that there are in the US. Above base pay there can also be more for helping with extracurriculars, potentially a defined benefit pension, and after settling in teachers will have a lot of free time/vacation not spent planning lessons. The amount of pay may not excite you if you’re a professional software developer at a well-paying company in the US, but I’m not sure that a more typical professional job would be “much better-paid”.
Those few who are willing to go take a low salary to go deal with all the issues of the modern education system are just as good as those who are willing to go take a low salary and deal with all the issues of the modern education system, but have to jump through a few more hoops. I'm shocked.

Let's face it, those who are willing to teach, and are probably leaving decent careers to do so, have a decent chance of being an okay teacher, because they probably have an idea of what they're getting into, and are willing to work hard. ie they WANT to be teachers.

Of course, if we just paid teachers more, you'd probably have a higher number of qualified candidates, but that seems like that's too hard of a thing to do?
> Why is there no "AI Excel" that can take a 1GB CSV and answer questions that are one step more complex than Pivot Tables?

Not sure what file size limit is but chatgpt can do this.
Um, yes? When did we become such a shitty society that we can't employ a couple people in the government to go check on elderly pensioners once every 5 years or so?

The problem here is that the outsourced company doesn't want to spend a couple dollars to employ an actual person to either take a call or go check on people.

These kinds of things are supposed to be the duty of government precisely because they are unprofitable.
> The whole trick is keeping (side quest design and writing) from getting too same-y/boring

Do you believe an AI trained on human writing can accomplish this key task better than human writers, who themselves _at best_ have a pretty low success rate?
And training LLMs on material one does not own is not stealing either, apparently :-).
We’re both moving at the same time of course, the US has a huge amount of resources, so I’m sure if we had, say, a decade long really focused manufacturing-based economic policy there’s nothing they could do to keep us from taking the crown.

Alternatively if we catch a unicorn and contact some aliens maybe they’ll tell us how to make CPUs out of the horn.
When I was a kid my father, knowing I was obsessed with the Appalachian Trail, took me there from our home in a non-mountainous part of Canada for a few days backpacking in a section of the trail in New Hampshire.

On the top of a mountain we took some photos of the amazing view with the camera my father used for his work in insurance (so not great, but not bad) and got the film developed a few weeks later.

I realize the camera and our skill were probably to blame but the huge gap between the photos and the reality made me a person who treasures the experience more than the document. I am like you, I take a photo or two as a reminder but try to spend the majority of my time taking things in.
Internet and phone services are subscription based and going "pay what you use" would probably not go too well
Their software folks are really good, at least in the GPU space.

The hardware seems stuck in past decade and the process woes don't help either - but the software should be ready if they ever dig themselves out of the hardware hole.
That's kinda cute, yeah-- love how they struggle to explain their besoke "AI Tokens" system and incompatability with existing local models. That would have made sense when they started development (and generally for accessability), but I wonder what network calls it makes, and how well it would work if we MITM-proxied those to eg. Mixtral.
Yeah tons of games on Steam have zero DRM, many have trivially weak Steam DRM, and a handful have serious third-party DRM.

Whatever the specific license may say about your rights, it's usually easy to make a completely portable backup.
Bi-lingual people aren’t going away
That pretty clearly would fall under transformative work. It is not illegal for a human to paint a painting in the style of, say, Banksy, and then sell the resulting painting.
Most probably related with the revolts started in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan the last week.
What country do you live in? Here in the UK, you couldn’t be further from the truth unfortunately. There are a tonne of shocking things going on right now with regards to surveillance reforms which gets zero coverage on the news.
Who cares? It's not like most of us are designing logic gate cells for chips. The transistor dimensions are irrelevant to us.

I really don't understand why this keeps getting brought up. It's not even an interesting fact.

When the chip manufacturing industry started finding other ways to increase logic density, improve timing, reduce power consumption, etc, they just started bumping down the "nm" number to indicate the improved performance, in a similar way as reducing the transistor gate length would have done before. Simple as that.
You can do that with Immich or OneDrive, your photos don't have to be public
These auto mowers are so light they generally don’t make much of a pattern in the grass at all
The core of Notes/Domino was awesome and ahead of its time including a "NoSQL" document database with reliable multi-master replication and a public key security infrastructure. Unfortunately, after IBM acquired it they never realized the potential as an application development platform and failed to enhance it to keep pace with the competition. Just some really stupid decisions like keeping a 64GB database file size limit and failing to fully support XML.
Those two products have nothing to do with each other, so the mention of Apple Vision Pro looks like clickbait, and the article is an obvious puff piece that makes Teenage Engineering sound like a much bigger deal than it is in reality. Is the author related with someone there?
Sounds like Ubisoft should get used to people not playing their games.
In homage to Jackson, rules for using Twitter.

1. Don’t.

2. (For experts only) Don’t, yet.
> But you don’t need to go all the way to zero-indexing (which is definitely not a thing in the fields I know) or positional arguments. This is putting abstract notation purity above practical concerns.

Yes, it's definitely a perspective influenced strongly by computer science.

> It’s not surprising they like Scheme.

In fact one of the authors, Gerry Sussman, is one of the original inventors of Scheme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Jay_Sussman
Rabbit R1 is an interesting idea, but in practice I don’t see how it’s the killer solution here. It seems like a feature that should be built into existing ecosystems, not a standalone device. I’m not sure what moat they’ve created here that Google or whoever couldn’t just gobble up into their assistants soon.
That would be my fear. My Steam library has over a dozen titles which can no longer be bought.

Thankfully Steam still provides them for those who have purchased it before they were pulled from the store. Though IIRC some have been fully removed (with refund).
Do we have a backup of the pre 2023 internet (way back machine, wikipedia, etc.)
What are you basing this on? I'll link burkaman's comment here and you can explain how you came to your conclusion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39062512
> If the US was run like Japan or Germany we would be the wealthiest nation on Earth.

The US is wealthier than Japan and Germany combined. With room to spare.
>raises the question of how they're going to pay inference costs

All their AI services are online, so they get plenty of user data to sell.
Speaking from first-hand experience, the positive and negative experiences aren't mutually exclusive.

I might be a college-educated autodidact who made an entire career out of self-taught tech skills but that was despite a parent trying to raise me as a young earth creationist and despite all kinds of still un- and underdiagnosed trauma and disorders. Didn't get my ADHD diagnosis until my late thirties and still haven't been diagnosed as autistic, among other things, all of which likely would have been glaringly obvious to public school staff.
Was it popular? While a dictator is in power most people show they support for self preservation and once the dictator is dead / in exile there no skin in the game.
This sounds like a nice way to close out a chapter of life that will never be relived.
I could see Tesla flagging videos containing nudity to exclude them from their normal analyses/processes, but if you don't restrict access or just delete the videos outright, all you've done is make it easier to find the videos in question.
how can custom ICC profile encode information about bayer filter layout, dark frame or dead/phase photosites?
I mean, I’m equally uninterested in either of them. That said, the Rabbit is closer to something I could envision being successful. (Except that I hate voice UIs; even if they understand the words I say and what I mean, I don’t want to have to talk to something or listen to a response to get anything done.) But their interaction model is so slow and gives so little actual feedback, I can’t imagine anyone really using it, and even for what little it does, it has to be crazy expensive to operate.

I think passive AI assistants that watch our lives, take notes, manage schedules, remember things, etc, is probably where “real” AI could be the most beneficial for personal technology, but it’s also clear that current LLMs are just not up to the task for that sort of work, which requires multimodal input, huge amounts of context, actual data storage and retrieval, and no hallucinating.
> I won’t be surprised if in 30 years it is extremely difficult to _buy_ (legally) music.

When was ever feasible to legally buy music? I mean for the average Joe, not a record company or Michael Jackson.

It certainly hasn't been in my lifetime, and I'm old by Internet standards. The only thing that has meaningfully changed is that the license period terms have become shorter and shorter.
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> For Adobe it makes sense. Like, the full CS suite is 50-60€ a month... that was probably 10k worth of purchases before

Nah - the big-box Creative Suite Master Collection was $2300 in 2012 (link below) and it's a perpetual license, and (as far as I've personally tested it) Adobe's main titles (Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat) dating back to version 7.0 (circa 2001) work perfectly fine on Windows 10 (obviously things like high-DPI support is lacking).

...wherewas my Creative Cloud sub is costing me $65/mo now ($780/yr), and I've been a paying subscriber for 10 years now, so Adobe has gotten at-least $6,000 USD from me, even though I only use the base functionality we've had since the late-1990s - so I'd be $3000+ better-off right-now if I had the foresight to buy a big-box of Master Collection right-before Adobe discontinued it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120112103643/http://www.amazon...
Isn't the same true for uppercase letters, too? What about binary encoded text? Probably true if you translate the page to ones and zeros, as well.
> If I stole Coca Cola's recipe, or the design files for the new Nvidia chip, it wouldn't be theft then? Because they still have the original, they've not been deprived of it.

correct, it's not theft because it doesn't meet the definition of theft under the Theft Act

this is not difficult to understand, it's spelt in crystal clear unambiguous language in the GPs post

> I think it would be theft and I think a jury would agree.

you can think whatever you want, but it would never reach the point of a jury because the police wouldn't charge for theft and the CPS wouldn't prosecute for it either

because it isn't theft

now if you compromised a computer system to get those chip designs they might try under the Computer Misuse Act, but that's a different offence and not theft
I'm confused. We're talking about video games and other digital media. You would put those on an external drive or similar. Why would the vulnerabilities of such a solution have any overlap with windows 2000-era servers used for infrastructure? What does infrastructure have in common with personal backups?
Meet the Investors Trying Quantitative Trading at Home
At some point we're going to just produce all this electricity so some AI can troll itself on the blockchain to decide who is going to trigger the nukes.
My dishwasher is European and is hot-fill. It doesn’t even have a cold water connection. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cold fill dishwasher in the US.

I wonder what’s up in Europe.
There are many types of fires that can be extinguished by sprinklers but their primary function is to give occupants more time to escape.

A common type of fire that has emerged recently is lithium ion battery fires. Some jurisdictions have so many it is an epidemic.

Sprinklers do nothing to combat lithium iron battery fires, other than slowing the growth of secondary fires.

Honestly I don't think secondary exits should be required for small, low-occupancy buildings (that's a problem we solved with fire escapes but they're "ugly") but at the same time I don't think eliminating them would solve any accommodation availability problems.

For example, in the floor plan included in the article, eliminating the secondary egress staircase would add less than 140 square feet (varies by jurisdiction/occupancy but that floor plan looks like 48" wide stairs with 8 12" treads and a 48"*96" landing on each end) to the floor. In the article itself the author (rightly) asserts that adding a single bedroom to the design in a size acceptable to the market requires approximately 180 additional square feet.

So all you'd get are bigger bedrooms and/or closets, or the addition of a single tiny bedroom. Indeed, in the example given in the article it would be almost impossible to add an additional bedroom. But one or both of the apartments could be given palatial bathrooms...
Too old to remember CDs?
Any insight into the requirements and test cases for "health scares to mental breakdowns to their first time seeing a baby after it’s born"?
I see your point. On the other hand, modern games usually max out any DVD or even Blu-ray.

While I cannot image C64 games in the cloud, I also cannot imagine modern games on a DVD.

Even with physical access to a device, there are hurdles. Who still owns a C64? A 386 with floppy drive?

It is tricky.
> Intel (also AMD?) are "stagnated"

Intel are catching up and will likely launch their 20A node before TSMC 2nm. Intel's 20A also includes gate all around and backside power delivery, so I don't think it's accurate to say Intel are 'stagnated' any more.
At big tech companies we are embedding ai into all layers of our workflow. And it’s accelerating.
Possibly the most unpopular argument of all: do not comply.

Change your employees job titles and/or tax classifications if you have to. Whatever it takes to say "these are salaries, not R&D".

If you're big enough they'll notice, but for a 10-person company the risk of a bad audit beats certain bankruptcy.
I cannot help but grin as I read this. It’s as if AI will eat itself.

I have to bet this represents a severe existential threat to companies who don’t already have a war chest of decent training data.
> I'm belt tightening and adding another subscription seems crazy. Even if the experience is 100x better than Google's.

Search is one of the most complex and sophisticated products in the world. Genuinely curious, what other subscriptions are more important than access to high quality information that makes you even just 2x more productive and competitive in the world?
I don't remember them being that washed out.

Were they really that washed out or is it that whatever emulator they're using isn't doing the CRT colorspace and filtering conversion correctly?
If I have to hear at one more interview that they now use scrum and spotifys agile model with tribe/squad/guilds/chapters I'm gonna end myself.
not at all

it's a huge difference when you consider how it will affect how people see and what people think is okay to prevent privacy (people including law makers and judges)
As bmicraft said, I was calling out the use of the phrase "actual HNer" as being exclusionary, elitist, and toxic (harsh? Yes, intentionally so). Explaining the bar or posting a link to a relevant story or even just saying that it's a mourning band for someone impactful to the HN culture or history has passed away would have been a better approach than saying what amounts to "if you have to ask, then you don't deserve to know."
Vinyl? CDs? Cassette tapes?
Yes but they want your $60, not just the $10, while making you accept to basically get less.

They are in the money making business, not in the make people happy and still able to play great memories with their kids 20y down the road, occupation.

They want to get used to getting paid more overall. It's about the same lately with most products at the grocery store. Big brands know they wouldn't be able to charge more for the same thing, so they charge about the same for less of the same thing. Your 180g 2 bucks chocolate biscuits box is now a 150g. Sometimes they push the envelopes and up the price just a bit. Because they feel they can. And they do.

I highly doubt their tactics will work much longer, people learn and are starting to see, and angered by the squeeze. Brands would have to invest even more effort to find new ways to successfully trickery, diminishing even further value put in the product itself.

Good on GoG. Games are loved when they are fun, AAA aren't all that fun anyway. GoG's great choice for your wallet.

Back to being able to play good old games with kids decades later, imo emulators will support, at least much more likely so that a console to still be found and boot so long later.
Was thinking the same thing when I pre-ordered mine. Would be interesting to see what they let us do with the device.
i think its an attempt at ad hoc adjectivism.
perjorative yes, maybe vaguely humourous.
Russian propaganda, isnt exactly the most thought out attempt toward manipulating people. it attempts to muddy the waters, and make everything look like a ridiculous choice.
Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu
I invested my money in ownership of the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qlBC45jk3I
I'm not really sure that Ubisoft is to blame here. Blizzard pioneered this with World of Warcraft. You never "own" the game because all the value comes from the server, and if you don't pay you can't connect to the server. If you write your own server, then you are nuked from orbit by the legal department.

Speaking of which, someone should revive that project now that Blizzard is owned by Microsoft. Watching the new "we love open source <3" Microsoft stumble around the IP issues would be mildly hilarious.
In PG&E land, you can buy one of a handful of approved ZigBee gadgets that can read out your meter data.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38425251
> The premise of the rabbit r1, in case you missed it, is that it does most, if not all, of what your smartphone can do, but it uses AI to accomplish all the tasks in response to natural language queries. So that could be playing music, booking airfare, providing directions, hailing a ride, ordering food, translating in real time and much more.

I fail to understand why this has to be a device separate from a mobile phone. Once AI tech can actually do this (which is not now) it will be added to all mobile phones.

AR on the other hand is about something very different: improving our visual. Its in the path of bigger screens everywhere. Mobiles, TV's, all the screens are growing and we keep having more of them. One final immersive screen that is always with us makes sense. It will take a while and much more tech though. But Apple is probably the one company to pull that off.
I remember CDs well, but the music on them was never owned, even if Napster tried to make a case otherwise (if you don't know, it failed to make that case, leading to its eventual demise). You're going to have to go back way further, if there was ever a time.
Why waste money, time, and opportunities self-regulating when you can just leave it to the courts and agencies which move too slowly to keep up?
I’d love to see something like aider that just sat on a side window and suggested edits, automatically keeping up to date with my changes as I’m editing. Ie I want something to add to my existing workflow, not require my editor or workflow fundamentally change.
I think the goals are pretty much the same, but the ways of getting there is vastly different and in my opinion Liveview has much more potential in creating apps that feel alive.

The big backdraw of Liveview is that you have to use Elixir, but at the same time Elixir is the reason why it works so well. You can use something similar in another language but the performance will suck in comparison.
Gleam is a different language, so just because macros are the most important feature in Elixir doesn't mean that their absence in Gleam will be a problem. There's a lot to like about Elixir as a language, but the BEAM is great in its own right and a static language on the BEAM can stand on its own, not just an "Elixir but without macros".
This is very similar to my own experience. My older daughter was home educated until she was 16, then went to a sixth form college (school for 16 to 18 year olds) to do A levels (American equivalent would roughly be APs, AFAIK). Younger daughter is planning to do the same.

I did not even spend two hours a day teaching. They mostly taught themselves. It was fun for them, and rewarding for me. I also work remotely (self-employed) at that was vital.

So far both have done well academically.The older had offers of places at multiple good universities (Durham, York...) but decided to do a degree apprenticeship (govt funded, employer funded, degree + work) with Jaguar LandRover (and uni of Warwick, which is good for engineering) instead so dad's wallet is off the hook!

I am really glad we did it, and my kids are too.
Thanks for the explanation. One more reason I won't touch an EV with a pole in near future.
What a waste of resources.