skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which country should go convince China, the one that has twice the CO2 emissions per capita?
State laws do not generally apply to flying. Airspace is controlled by the FAA.
Choice is a privilege.
>There is just no democratic support for fixing global warming since it's too expensive. See the riots in France when they tried to tax gas more heavily.

It's not that simple. Gas is used primarily to work. People can't afford to live close to their jobs, so they pay money and take their time to get to their work, making them pay even more for gas with the absolute shitfest the housing market is means kicking someone while they are down.

Not to mention, if anyone is actually serious about reducing carbon emissions from commute? Penalize every single work that can be done remotely if it's not done so. It's an evident solution and there are A LOT of office workers, but some people don't like that idea, so instead of that poor people get screwed. Again.

The idea that it's about democratic support itself is something corporations have lobbied for, it's really not, the most evident example was covid, where consumption dropped like a rock, what was the first thing any government did to bounce back? Promote consumerism as much as possible, essentially throwing money at people. Our economic system is not equipped to deal with climate change, it's that simple. Not only are we on a train with no brakes, we are in that train, rocky terrain made us slow down and we shoved as much coal into the engine as possible to get back to speed because we can't have it any other way.

For Christ's sake, democratic support is the only reason there is any consideration for the environment at all. No corporation would ever give one single solitary shit about climate if it wasn't for "democratic support".
It absolutely runs on OpenWrt - simple as opkg install, then setting it up and sorting DNS redirection as needed.
This is very much the way I'm pushing in our internal development platform: I want to offer as little middlewares as possible, but as many as necessary. And ideally these systems are boring, established tech covering a lot of use cases.

From there, Postgres ended up being our relational storage for the platform. It is a wonderful combination of supporting teams by being somewhat strict (in a flexible way) as well as supporting a large variety of use cases. And after some grumbling (because some teams had to migrate off of SQL Server, or off of MariaDB, and data migrations were a bit spicy), agreement is growing that it's a good decision to commit on a DB like this.

We as the DB-Operators are accumulating a lot of experience running this lady and supporting the more demanding teams. And a lot of other teams can benefit from this, because many of the smaller applications either don't cause enough load on the Postgres Clusters to be even noticeable or we and the trailblazer teams have seen many of their problems already and can offer internally proven and understood solutions.

And like this, we offer a relational storage, file storage, object storage and queues and that seems to be enough for a lot of applications. We're only now adding in Opensearch after a few years as a service now for search, vector storage and similar use cases.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/dns/adguard-hom...
I have the M1 mini too, but 16gb RAM. It's decent value for the price. Desktop power in a nice little energy efficient package.

I have a linux desktop PC that sounds like an airplane is taking off. I can play games like Dota 2 on the M1 mini and it is silent.

> Are you tempted by M2 / M3?

Until my needs for more memory and processing power grow, I'll stay on the M1 mini. I'll use it for 30 years if keeps eating what I feed it.
The current shells aren't deterministic either. Everything depends on history, context, environment.

Early AI shells will ask for confirmation like "ansible --check" or "terraform plan". Running commands in a disposable virtual environment will inspire confidence. When they are trusted enough, direct execution.

Soon after you're able to say "Set up a k8s cluster for me!" you'll decide you don't need k8s anymore, you'll just introduce your AI model to your data-lake and be done. The days of thinking about how many nodes do I need, which immutable linux distro, t5g vs m4.xlarge are almost gone.

Read the lyrics to Graham Nash's "Teach Your Children", substituting "model" for "children" as necessary. :-)
Great job on that Pokedex and the video entirely. So freakin cool!
Robotaxi maker Motional not going anywhere after Aptiv bails
I guess not, but why does it matter? Let people enjoy other things.
I would love some screenshots
Point taken and that is certainly a risk, but the other risk is a massive anthropogenic extinction. We need fast-acting cooling solutions so that we have time to scale up long-term sustainable ones.
- I can choose to buy a smaller car and rent when I only really need the horse-power to drag a trailer.

Rising average weight of cars around proofs that people do not care about saving environment. Safety first?

But I wouldn't blame consumers for buying what manufacturers make. Individual never has significant impact on environment as corporations does.

So first we need to stop with hypocrisy to make people believe in narration of helping our future.
>A part of me wishes that (my coworkers) had done a walkout, or a strike, or that they had done or said something... I know it’s unreasonable to want that.

Yes. It is absolutely wild to think that your coworkers should risk their livelihoods to keep around people that, at least in theory, the company cannot afford to keep.
I think you deeply overestimate people's ability to make painful near-term decisions to avoid long-term pain that they can't see, have never personally experienced and also nobody they know or have even heard of has personally experienced.

It's human nature; we're extremely bad at making decisions related to seemingly abstract long-term problems.
There are a lot of people who can't afford these price increases _today_.

Being able to worry about the years to come is actually a privilege.
Maybe you should read your message first before talking about narcissism. God forbid someone question something these days or even have the slightest need for a conversation, that you automatically become a whatever denier and a non believer in science. Comments like yours and others similar attitude turned all of this into a new cult or religion in which anyone who doesn’t 100% align with whatever views you have is dismissed and considered an idiot and the enemy. What do you want people to do, should we all live whatever lives we have in doom and gloom waiting for the apocalypse. Read the comments here, it reads like some doomsday cult of people proclaiming their superiority to the filthy peasants that don’t believe in science. Yeah, I’ll ride my bike and be a vegan so that half the people on this forum that work in companies that pollute and destroy this planet in one day more than I would do in 100 lifetimes can feel good about themselves living in their condescending bubbles.
I think that’s where our world views vary.

If you kill 20 people with a car into a parade, you have no chance at rehabilitation. Punishment is perfectly acceptable - especially when it is hardly brutal, we aren’t even sending the perp to an oil rig.

The sooner we stop playing games about prisons being rehab facilities, the better. I have yet to hear a successful prison rehab story, and the statistics show that doesn’t work. When punishment is the focus - look at the 80s crime wave. It worked.

I think it’s because I know that there is no way, whatsoever, to build a society without prisons, because there will always be crime.
I mean, it's... suspect, anyway. "University president" is not a good retirement option for worn-out politicians, in that it involves doing an actual responsible job. Whatever happened to them just corruptly joining corporate boards and things?

Like, maybe it's innocent, and they really were the best person for the job, appointed via a competitive recruitment process, but... I mean, come on, now, if you'll believe that you'll believe anything.
Imagining it won't happen to you is simply the human condition, especially younger in life. I can't blame folks.
This is a great write up! I’m curious, did any enterprise requirements influence this decision? Specifically supporting SCIM for synchronizing users with something like okta?
What’s the difference between this and just using their DNS addresses with the force redirect option enabled?
> we're also working hard to be sustainable

When people ask you what your business model is, they are asking you how you are going to do this.
Fair enough but I can’t do anything about that. Letting go of these concerns has made my life way better. And thankfully, environmentalists support my viewpoint. It’s not my fault. It’s because of corporations.

I used to think the way forward was that we’d use less fossil fuels but it seems like that’s not on us individually. Most environmentalists today support large homes on country lots over polluted cities and prefer cars to virtue-signaling bikes.

Given that it’s actually better to live in this way I just decided to lean in. After all, they’re environmentalists. This is what they do. So nuclear and geothermal stuff is probably bad and gasoline in the truck we use as a second car is fine. Besides, I look around me and see green. How can I be wrong?
My own father, who is in his 60s, has said blatantly to me that he will be dead before the real problems hit, so he would rather not give up his cruises, large cars and international flights - he just doesn’t even care that his grandchildren will suffer, since he personally won’t be around for it. Completely dispicable, but ultimately, asking people to do the right thing out of altruism is never going to work. Democracy will not work either because these people vote.

At least he can admit he’s being selfish I guess. I think most climate deniers, especially the older ones, simply can’t face the idea they might be responsible for terrible things happening, and don’t want to change now, so the brain latches on to any explanation that spares them that psychological pain. Thus arguing facts is pointless with these people because it’s about feelings not actual truth (as many things are with our species). The solution is to hack peoples psyche to make them “feel good” about climate change, somehow…
I deleted my LinkedIn account years ago, and I know a bunch of other devs who have done the same, or have just abandoned theirs and never use it anymore.

I'm not asserting that non-LI tech people are more than a minority, but there seem to be quite a few of them.
It's astounding to me, no matter how much you try to reason and give examples of why these approaches can't/haven't been working, it's like trying to get through a brick wall.

Do you think trying to force everyone to radically alter their lifestyles is going to work any better?

Once again I find myself confused when so-called environmentalists seamlessly shift between "renewables will soon be so cheap and abundant that there's no need for nuclear power" to "we're all doomed unless we strictly ration energy and abolish capitalism".
Time to retire the term 'renewable energy' from discussion and policy directives
The lithium bubble burst is an indicator that the renewables push is losing strength.

The pandemic and later the yemen-gaza-ukraine combo shifted priorities.

Meanwhile Europe is no longer inching but running towards an ecological disaster with the ever increasing drought-deluge cycles.
2023 made it very clear that China knows the stakes and also sees an opportunity with owning the clean tech future. They built more renewable energy just last year than has been installed in all of the United States in its history. BYD just passed Tesla as the biggest producer of EVs. The opportunity is there and with China's faltering economy that was propped up by housing, I expect Xi to do all he can to be the provider of the world with renewables.
It's revenue-neutral, so all money collected gets redistributed out evenly, per-capita (the "dividend" part). The way that then works out is that if you're responsible for less carbon emission than average in your country, then you end up ahead, potentially well ahead. Since carbon emission maps pretty well to material consumption, and things like flying a lot, that means that most people will end up ahead, and this mainly costs more for people on the richer end of the spectrum. Likely the breakeven point is well above the median, given how wealth and income are distributed in a bit of a power law distribution. An extremely rich person gets the same amount back as anyone else, but his yacht and private jet become a hell of a lot more expensive to run.

This also has the benefit of making local manufacturing more competitive with overseas, since transportation becomes a larger part of the cost of goods. This would give blue collar workers back some of the leverage they've lost over the past decades.

So most people voting in just their short-term self-interest would do well to vote for this. And everyone gets the long-term benefit of civilization being less likely to collapse with massive resource shortages.

The challenge is explaining it well enough that people understand well that it's in their benefit. But I think "all the money from the tax goes into your bank accounts every month" would help a lot.
While this paper is clearly not without merits, it intends to be more like an excuse to make a bombastic statements about a whole profession or "industry" (perhaps to raise their visibility and try to sell something later on?).
The worst part is that they have actually referenced a single preprint document as "previous art" - and that document itself is not related to contract review, but to legal reasoning in general. (A part of LegalBench is of course "interpretation", and that is built on existing contract review benchmarks, but they could've found more relevant papers).
Automating legal document review has been a very active field in NLP for twenty years or so (including in QA tasks) and became a lot more active since 2017. At least e.g. Kira (and Luminance etc., none of which is LLM-based) are already used quite widely in legal departments/firms around the world. So lawyers do have practical experience in their limitations...
But Kira & co. are not measuring the performance of the latest and greatest models and they do not use transparent benchmarks etc. So the benchmark results in this paper are indeed a welcome addition in terms of using LLMs.
But also considering its limited scope of reviewing 10 (!) documents based on a single review playbook, they should not have written about "implications for the industry". It is very much pretentious and shows more of the lack of knowledge of the authors of the very same industry than about the future of the legal services industry.

If you're interested in the capabilities and limitations, I suggest these informative, but still light reads as well:
https://kirasystems.com/science/
https://zuva.ai/blog/
https://www.atticusprojectai.org/cuad
I've been on both sides of this..

Rabbit MQ and Elastic Search for a public facing site. The dedicated queue for workers to denormalize and push updates. To elastic. Why, because the $10k/month RDBMS servers couldn't handle the search load and were overly normalized. Definitely a hard sell.

I've also seen literally hundreds of lambda functions connecting to dozens of dynamo databases.

I'm firmly in the camp of use an RDBMS (PostgreSQL my first choice) for most things in most apps. A lot of times you can simply apply the lessons from other databases at scale in pg rather than something completely different.

I'm also more than okay leveraging a cloud's own MQ option, it's usually easy enough to swap out as/if needed.
Anyone have experience comparing this to Incogni? I’ve been an unaffiliated user for over a year now. While many brokers have replied, many never seem to.
So what’s up with that Oracle buyout/integration?

According to https://usds.tiktok.com/ all US user data is on Oracle servers.

Is that still happening?
Depends where you go. I remember seeing controlled burns in the Gila Wilderness circa 1993.
You can peruse the demo instance here: https://netbox-demo.netboxlabs.com/

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> The good news: the renewables explosion is going to make a big difference

Sorry but I've been hearing this for 15 years now. It's only resulted in widespread greenwashing and misplaced climate optimism. Now, even if everyone went carbon neutral overnight with renewables the situation is so dire that we may still be in a very bad spot (as you mention in the rest of your post). And, while I'm at it, let me mention that part briefly:

> The bad news is that we seem to be much closer to some really bad climate outcomes than scientists realized.

They realized it for a long, long time. No one listened, and people/media latched on to the most absurdly optimistic models as a sign that everything was fine and we could continue to procrastinate on this problem. Any "pessimistic" models were thrown out as bunk science. stuff like this is even now still referred to as "doomerism."
Just read some summary of his points elsewhere and had a hard time taking it seriously. For instance,

> rule seven—which is basically that once you have power, money, and success, people will forget and forgive how you got there—is such an important rule is that it frees you to do everything else. This rule says that at the end, if you are successful, success excuses almost everything.
We’ve been talking about this problem since the 90’s. If there were lower impact solutions they are either long past the moment they needed to be implemented (back when denial was still the norm) or they just don’t exist and aren’t coming soon. Magical thinking isn’t helpful, we have to fix this problem with the solutions that exist, not the solutions we wish existed.

Go to war with the army you have, no?

Or not, and just decide that future generations are going to have to suck it up, which is the default choice anyway.
> we are almost certainly going to see better emissions pathways than the bad ones we're currently projecting

I hope you are right. But when I am looking at ourworldindata chart about energy sources I still do not see this picture. While renewables are increasing, fossil fuels are not decreasing. It just seams that renewables are starting to cover ever increasing demand - not replacing all demand.
>Anyone with any sense would have bailed a few years ago.

The sheer lack of human understanding on display.

It isn't easy for many people to switch jobs. Moreso when the job is somewhat enjoyable, familiar and pays decent. Moreso when you're supporting others. If your skillet is entirely in the game industry, where does one easily jump?

I spit on the idea that anyone who is left in the game industry "has no sense".

Where does this active scorn for game developers come from? This isn't the first comment from you to express disinterest in those workers.
I think the "default feed" you're seeing is the "Discover" custom feed that shows up if you haven't followed anybody. Once you do that, your "default feed" is what your follows have posted in reverse chronological order.

IMO, the "Discover" feed can be a bit much sometimes. It's very much the collective id of a certain type of social media poster. And not always my cup of tea.

But the beauty of Bluesky is there are millions of accounts and thousands of custom feeds you can pick from to tailor your experience.

For example, here's one where people share photos of mushrooms: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hsqwcidfez66lwm3gxhfv5in/fe...
They don’t have anything like that. Just like flat earth believers don’t have anything like that. They specifically don’t care what is reality. They pretend to care, but even if they themselves prove otherwise, even then they won’t change their mind, because it’s not about truth, or what is dogmatic. We just create these explanations, because we try to make it logical. The answer is probably way closer to “try to belong to a group”, and “being alone”, than anything like thinking about what is dogmatic, or whether the current concept of knowledge is all right or not.
China spied on Dutch Cyber Intelligence through FortiGate backdoors
It can be fine to do something you enjoy doing for a period even if you know you could be making more. But you also need to periodically checkpoint whether something makes sense for the long term.
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Imagine if every baker or nurse would write a text of sorrow for everyone else to read everytime one of them got fired or closed shop.

This industry is filled with ego centric people that really think they are special.
Unsurprisingly, as predicted they eventually lifted the invite system.

Unfortunately the interest in Bluesky is not the same as it was, but still a viable Twitter alternative when compared to the others.

But my goodness this certainly did not age well at all. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876304
Your top level comment got flagged but:

some napkin math suggests the additional heat can’t solely be from those sources.

According to https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

The ocean gained heat at a rate of 0.83 watts per square meter from 1993-2022.

The same article also says there are more than 360 million square kilometers.

This gives us 0.83 * 1e6 * 360e6 = 2.988e+14 watts heating in the ocean in that time period.

A watt of electricity ends up becoming a watt of heat, and according to https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-information-overview... the world used 22,000 TWh in 2022. Converted to power, thats 22e3 * 1e12 / 24 / 365 = 2.5e12 watts.

It’s not right to use power here and energy should be used instead because that wattage will be lower each previous year, but, even at that peak, it’s not enough (by two orders of magnitude) to account for even just the ocean warming, let alone land or atmospheric heating.

The mechanism for CO2 trapping heat is well understood: https://youtu.be/sTvqIijqvTg?si=M_5uZwjNCThm3swH
Just curious, is there any implementation of infrastructures that actually harvest greenhouse gases for whatever profit? I assume we would need a LOT of them, but is it possible to build something close to the poles, assuming a lot of gases are leaking from there due to ice melting?
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This is a theory of the world that seems pretty non-falsifiable. "The real, uninfluenced people agree with my policy priorities and the only reason they don't is due to money at play." Any example of people disagreeing just proves that there is monetary influence that we haven't yet identified.

But I actually think it is somewhat falsifiable. Most people, when polled, are in favor of solving climate change - especially in nordic countries. But when you poll people with imposed costs, ie. $10/mo extra to completely solve climate change - the vast majority are opposed. [0]

This seems like people organically responding negatively to costs, not being brainwashed by media - otherwise they wouldn't support solving it in the first place.

[0]: https://www.cato.org/blog/68-americans-wouldnt-pay-10-month-...
There's definitely noise, but we also get some "fine wine" products that wouldn't exist otherwise. Examples include Bioshock, Arkham series (at least the first two), Prey, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, etc. I think it's the same for movies, most blockbusters are dreck, but without the dreck, we wouldn't get any funding whatsoever for the gold.
Or if the command can't be undone and with significant side effects, be `--dry-run` by default and have an `--execute` flag
> I can’t stand the look of a single BMW

Same. Recent BMWs look increasingly garish. Why would you make the "grill" ("nostrils" some call them on BMWs) bigger on EVs? And then when you get close to them you see there is actually no opening there - they're like fake shutters on a house.