skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but I don't get your point. All three I mentioned are in top 10 of their respective markets. North America is not always their main market target, as it's hard to beat the incumbents, especially when you consider tariffs. Think something like, I've almost never seen anyone using Xiaomi/OPPO phones in North America, but have noticed people using them in Taiwan/Singapore, where the price isn't the only reason why someone would buy them.

That being said, a bit more relevant market segment - bus manufacturing, is also full of Chinese companies that are producing those big boys left and right. They're even opening (opened? haven't kept up with the news) a BYD plant here in Canada.

Writing this makes me feel like I'm going full on Chinese-shilling, but I enjoy competitive markets and reading about them. You're right that brand names are definitely not as recognized as Sharp/Panasonic, but I think our age shows a bit here. I don't think younger people have heard of Sharp or JVC as they're not common household names anymore, but I can guarantee anyone who has ever thought of buying a drone has heard of DJI.
If it's thrown in a landfill then that defaults into letting it decompose in some unknown way for thousands of years. If it's stored and we find a way to break down or reuse plastic, it's still around.

We do need to cut down on everything "disposable" though. The planet cycles are circles not lines, there is no "away", what you mistreat will come back to hurt you later, line cannot go up forever, no infinite growth on a finite planet. These are lessons the smartest guys in the room refuse to learn because their ego has convinced them that human ingenuity is superior to every single problem that human ingenuity causes.
Spoken as in hearsay? Probably not.

Spoken with witnesses? Most definitely.
I'm not a musician but have training as a printmaker so I was intrigued by the use of the term "engraved" to put down music on paper. Looks like the early reproduction of sheet music was the intaglio process of engraving the music into a metal plate and reproducing on an intaglio press, that is the ink is in the groves and the surface of the plate is wiped clean.
Isn’t that the point? It’s not coating lives, so the enemy is still there. And may not like that he has lost the game.
> I've yet to see _any_ OSS model that I can run on my machine being as good as ChatGPT 3 (not 3.5, not 4, but the original one from when everyone went crazy).

It depends on your machine I guess, but IMO there's definitely OSS models out there that rival the original ChatGPT offering for certain use cases(dolphin mixtral comes to mind). Having a model with RAG capability is going to make a huge difference in the quality of the answer, as well.
If plastic becomes toxic, it won't _become toxic_, it will become recognized as toxic, which would mean that it's toxic right now, and while that's true for some plastics, it doesn't seem to be true for the majority of food-safe plastics in use.

I think it's more likely that there's some kind of subtle effect from the introduction of microplastics into the ecosystem that we haven't identified yet, but as of right now, there's no conclusive evidence that I'm aware of that microplastics are toxic, only that sufficient accumulation of them can impair biological function, just the same as any contaminant would.
Related: The purpose of a system is what it does. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
I use Node-Red to create my mind map. It's a flow based programming environment, so my mind map is actually executable.

All flows are just very large json files (array of objects), so it's easy enough to generate working flows that can be imported into Node-Red.

https://nodered.org
The Clay Shirky talk, "The Collapse of Complex Business Models" is play on "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter (as mentioned in the post).

Another great person to study in systems and complexity is Jane Jacobs.

One parallel is see is people "warning" about the impending population collapse (which we desperately need), but what we need to do is actively restructure our society to handle it gracefully.

https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/archae...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs
I read a Pocket story recently about cartels of cardboard thieves. Just the concept itself was wild.
Cloud providers are making a killing on their ability to spin these types of teams up
> plus most people had professions by the time they were 14 before the school system became normal

yeah and we as a society decided that child labor is bad and attempted to craft social conditions that would allow children to be comfortable and to learn instead of toiling in a mine.
Self-checkouts are disappearing from retailers. Here's why
When we have built entire civilizations that require orders of magnitude more burning of gasoline to get through a day, plastics are the least of our worries, IMHO.

If my fellow Americans were forced to lift and pour the 20 gallons of gasoline when they refill their tanks, they might start to realize the true source of the vast majority of their environmental damage.

(And as far as waste, tire microplastics are a far bigger concern than any plastic packaging waste.)
thanks you're right about it.
I regularly create big chunks of paragraph just because i am not able to articulate myself simply because too much is going on in my mind and i wish to share everything.

regarding python , I actually think python is a one fits all and that definitely leads to issues since it doesnt master too much and i think there are better dsl focused language like golang/ts for webdev , julia for data visualization and arturo/rebol-based-language for basic scripting though i may be wrong
Or glass, or paper, and almost all types of metal.
you are right, and it looks like you were in light gamerspeak mode, while being right.

i dont think you said anything wrong there.
Mixtral aka the 8x7B the "sparse mixture of experts" one is not the same as, eg. Mistral-7B which is still very, very good, just not quite hitting the mark on some things.

I still couldn't run Mixtral 8x7B on an M1 Macbook Pro with 32Gb ram, so maybe I am indeed doing it wrong? Or are there better quantized versions available now or..?
On the vic 20 and the Commodore 64 we had 4 function keys (f keys)[0] The order was a bit weird and the usability was not optimal. Without pressing shift you had F1 F3 F5 F7

If you designed a menu with just 4 options it would look something like.

[F1] - new game

[F3] - high scores

[F5] - settings

[F7] - credits

After seeing it just once reading wasn't really required. You would just hammer F1 twice for [F1] new game > [F1] easy mode You might see the second menu flash for a frame or not at all.

If the menu got more complicated you could chose to use the shift+F key for options used less regularly or you could move the option under a sub menu, or a sub sub sub sub sub menu.

The weird thing was that if you accessed a sub sub sub sub sub menu a few times it would get mapped into muscle memory. I remember hammering out something like [F3][F3][F5][F7][F1] you press the second button twice then the one below, then the bottom one below and end with the top one. If there was any hesitation the visual menu would show up and trigger the memory before even parsing the text.

It would almost instantly get me to the correct action out of a seemingly unlimited number of options.

Not counting the unusual even options, if the menus have 4 options each 4x4x4x4x4 is 1024 things!?!

I remember the awe seeing other people instantly plop things onto the screen.

Of course with such a limited computer there was not much need for such elaborate navigation but it was truly fantastic. My hands would navigate menus I didn't even know I knew.

Trying to navigate windows with the keyboard was a big disappointment by comparison. I now had to repeatedly think how to do things which on C64 was almost never the case. After finding something my mind had to noticeably get back to what I was actually doing.

[0] - https://www.nightfallcrew.com/wp-content/gallery/c64_brown_f...
Sounds like AI’s killer app!
The article reads like "yes the Earth is greening, yes this is probably mostly good, but it's not all good and besides we aren't allowed to say anything positive about the environment".
He was a poet who could code. Not a software engineer.

(disclaimer: I really like most of his ruby stuff)
This is really great news, I will definitely be on the lookout for it :D
Instead of sticky headers, I would suggest using a limited viewport height, so that the headers always remain visible.

Like in DataGridXL (https://datagridxl.com) disclaimer: I am the creator
> I'm fine with most of my stuff being licensed GPL but if you want to have any other license on your project, you'll probably have to use something like GTK.

What's wrong with using Qt with LGPL? You can't link your app statically, and you have to publish changes that you make to Qt's source code, if you do, but that's mostly it. That's what I'm using for my app[1].

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/
Yes, totally applies to everyone within the system. When I first read that I immediately started pondering how my actual work is different than my stated role. The example of the king is just the most quickly grokkable example IMO
Is any of that legally binding?
> If these groups were doing their job, those bad guys you mentioned should be gone by now, right?

Wrong. By what magic do you think their opponents suddenly disappear or give up?

Martin Luther King said, "the arc of the moral universe is long". Progess is slow and subject to setbacks.

> They used to make the history books with their accomplishments.

Some areas of the country now want to ban the teaching of that history.

Forget racism and sexism for a moment: do you seriously think that the temporary existence of labor unions makes profit-maximizing corporations give up and give in to all of labor's demand for eternity, even after labor unions dissolved?
Agree 99%, but as plastics break down there's a chance that they do become toxic.

For example, a chemical used in tires is extremely toxic to salmon, but only after breaking down a bit:

https://www.science.org/content/article/common-tire-chemical...
I've always loved the idea of "Shoes". Can you make Shoes components that can be reused in other Shows apps too?
You don’t need to put metals in the recycling (at least not ferrous ones) because they pick those out of the trash anyway.

They just charge you extra to feel good about it.
Sway 1.9
Which the bar is not enforcing.
Humans did not have a long time span thousands of years ago as well…
> Becker believed that when companies have a big profit cushion … they have the latitude to indulge the personal biases of their managers … At Google in the 2020s, it means creating AI apps that refuse to draw White people in Hitler’s army.

I’m not so sure about this bit of analysis. It falls in line with the (somewhat conspiratorial) view that these organizations have some kind of woke agenda that they want to push to the masses. A far simpler explanation is that the managers have no personal agenda other than to mitigate the risk of public meltdowns like Tay [0], which now serve as PR case studies in what can happen when these types of systems are open to the public. It’s not a matter of some manager trying to erase white people—just a sloppy attempt to mitigate the risk of a flood of articles about “Google’s New Racist AI”. Since we don’t have technical solutions to these problems, however, we just swing the pendulum in the other direction; hence, the current flood of articles about “Google’s New Reverse-Racist AI”.

You can’t win, really. As soon as you put something like this into the public, you have people doing ideological pen-testing from every angle. And there is a dearth of technical solutions to this problem.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
"miracle"? ;)
It’s tricky. I used to have a passion which was a small bootstrapped side business, then due to life circumstances I had to give up on that.

I found that getting more invested in my 9-5 and my coworkers made it easier to get through the day, cause if not, good god it would be hard.

But now oh don’t get too invested as a guard against getting laid off…

Like I said, it’s tricky.

I do agree on signing off latest at 5 unless absolutely needed to tho, you’re just punking yourself otherwise
Also toner cartridges and pretty much anything else where "recycling" means putting back in the hands of the people who built it in the first place.
Another great related insight from Systemantics (see other thread below)

> For Every Human System, There Is A Type Of Person Adapted To Thrive On It. There are some attributes that are probably necessary for survival in any system, but each system has some uniqueness in the sense that it attracts different traits. It’s hard to tell what traits any given system attracts. The traits do not necessarily align with successful operation of the system itself e.g. the qualities for being elected president don’t necessarily align with the ability to run the country effectively. Systems not only attract people who will succeed within the system but also people with parasitic traits that thrive at the expense of the system. “Efforts to remove parasitic Systems-people by means of screening committees, review boards, and competency examinations merely generate new job categories for such people to occupy.”
Unfortunately glass isn’t recycled here. I’ve been trying to figure out why.

Probably more common in places that have glass production.
Italian Piracy Shield Blocked a Cloudflare IP
Just after 3 weeks from its introduction today the Italian anti-piracy platform known as Piracy Shield blocked one of Cloudflare IP addresses.
Then ban oil and cars, too. I'm deadly serious.
I think CSS's standard hsl(…) did most of the heavy lifting here. Tailwind took advantage and set variations to CSS classes.

I am coming to prefer lch(…) to any library. It scratches that consistent color itch and has basically universal support now in browsers. Then again, I prefer setting my CSS values through CSS variables rather than setting visual styles in the markup. YMMV
From reading the first few lines it's probably from the context: it's a well that's filled up with sediments in which objects from over a thousand years ago were found, so the assumption is that if the site remained undisturbed all objects that share a layer will share an approximate age, too.
NATO and its system of related organizations is another great example. Built to defend against the USSR, when the USSR fell it made sure to repeatedly provoke Russia so that the threat from the east would be preserved.
When I see a surge in crypto articles I can’t help but think these are part of some campaign of pumping/dumping on naive people.
The way it is listed, it definitely looks problematic.

I had to dig a little and in fact, once we remember that a slice is a view into an array and that "some" of these methods return slices, it's actually fine.

The only issue is perhaps s:=slices.Compact()
But that's not even because of the API. It's because of the short variable assignment that may allow shadowing, unfortunately.

The issue is probably overblown here.

To be even more thorough, I've had the pleasure (lol) to implement a wrapper to have some form of immutable slices so I can say that it is mitigable. Not pleasant but mitigable. (I needed to compare values of a slice stored in a map, value before retrieval from map vs. value when it had been inserted back into the map, so having aliasing was problematic since the value in the map would be updated at the same time the value retrieved was (obviously, duh!) , had to implement a copy-on-write variant).

:)
After the stone, bronze and iron age, we are definitely in the plastic age now.
Yi 34 200K finetunes (like Tess 1.5),Deepseek Code 33B and Miqu 70B definitely outpace ChatGPT-3.5, at least for me.

They don't have the augmentations of being a service, but generally they are smarter, have a bigger context and (perhaps most importantly) are truly unbound.

I am on a single 3090 desktop, for reference. Admittedly, this is much more expensive now than it was a few months ago, with the insane prices used 3090s are going for now.
Mandatory Labelling for Social Apps
This is pretty much the same as what I wrote last week, but something Ted Gioia gave me an idea for books: "Contains no AI content!" would be a great label for books on Amazon, and this is an implementation of the same idea for apps.
I have read the Wikipedia article again, and I am pleasantly surprised how more balanced it is now compared to the older versions.

For example, only half a year after the memo, some brave anonymous soul added the information that the version in Gizmodo (which most people have read, because almost everyone referred to it) was actually not the original one, and had sources removed (which probably contributed to the impression of many readers that there was no scientific support for the ideas mentioned).

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Google%27s_Ideolo...
I imagine in 500 years there will be nanobots and engineered organisms that recycle plastic in the environment.
Knowing Microsoft it's probably for some malicious purposes
Many here will see connections to The Innovator's Dilemma. So I want to ask, are you aware of any business that recognized it had become an impediment to further innovation and "consciously" applied the suggestions from TID? Has anyone done a review of their own business trying to see if they had become part of the problem rather than the best solution to the problem?
'Solves'?
These all boil down to “any collection of organisms will act the same as one organism”. It will focus on survival and self interest first. It’s an emergent property from the incentives of the (potentially well-meaning) individuals

Useful for thinking through questions like “does my organization/city/etc need this new team/committee/department to exist?”
Show HN: GPT for Sheets, Docs, Slides, Forms, Gmail
I have made https://docgpt.ai, a suite of add-ons designed for Google Sheets, and Docs, Forms, SLides, Gmail. These add-ons introduce customized GPT functions directly Sheets, allowing prompts directly from cells.
'The Architect of Berkshire Hathaway:' Warren Buffett Honors Charlie Munger
I suspect you’re right. From my hometown’s local waste authority:
After [we have] collected the waste from your bin, the purple dotted bag [with plastic waste] is sent on for collection and pressing before being transported to large sorting facilities in Northern Germany and other places in Europe. Here, 75% of the content in the purple dotted bag (figures from 2019) is recycled, and the remaining waste (often residual waste and food waste that has been incorrectly sorted) is utilized for energy.

And more detail:
This is how household plastic is recycled:
Collected plastic packaging is first finely sorted in Germany, before moving on to recyclers in the same country or elsewhere in Europe. We differentiate between the recycling of household plastic, which is the plastic you sort at home, and plastic packaging from businesses.
- The plastic packaging you sort at home is collected by the municipality or an inter-municipal waste company. They press the plastic together into large bales.
- Plastretur transports the plastic to a sorting facility.
- At the sorting facility, incorrect sorting and contaminants are removed. This can include paper and metal, or other items that ended up in the wrong collection at your home.
- Additionally, the plastic is sorted into different qualities, and non-recyclable packaging is removed. The sorting facilities classify the plastic into several plastic qualities such as PP, LDPE, HDPE, PET before it is transported to a recycling plant.
- At the recycling plant, the plastic is washed. This process also removes labels and glue.
- Then it is ground and melted into small beads, called pellets. Pellets are a raw material that can be used to make new products from recycled plastic.
I couldn't find it, either. I looked around their Github and Twitter going back to 2018.

I would wager it was a case of life getting busy, unfortunately, as happens to us all.
It was "released", like Tesla's fully automated self-driving was "released".
This essay is (perhaps unwittingly) about something important to entrepreneur-nerds (the putative audience for HN), encapsulated in the quote from one Janet Lustgarten:

Our customers are people for whom
everything else has failed.

A common trope here for the past few years is “your company doesn’t love you”. Well, your customers don’t either.

Sure, some products can attract a fan base for a while: Evernote. Apple. Certain car companies years ago (or even today). But that simply papers over the real issue which is that people don’t really care about your product, much less you.

I have been intrigued by the phrase “people ‘hire your product’ to get a job done.” They want the hole in the wall, not the drill and bit. So they won’t buy your product unless they have to.

I so often see here (and trust me, I make this mistake all the time myself) of people posting about their product/demo/something cool they wrote and but really only talking about themselves. That only works with the last of those.
Being able to reason about a particular instance of a particular compiler on a specific undefined construct does not imply UB is defined generally.
Neither is your comment. If you polled Americans I think more would say both parties are full of shit than would take one parties line like you are.
Hah just imagining having to help fill the jet fuel before ascending the stairs to the plane.

Same idea as slaughtering your own animals. Problem is that there is still a lot of other invisible uses from companies. Can't force Shell execs to bring paper towels to clean up an oil spill (well, maybe we can, but you get the point).
"Deadly" is the operative word, as that would cause incalculable suffering and damage.
I am not so sure about this. Do you have any sources? I think I read that it's difficult due to the abundance of very different aluminium alloys.
Some things are safe enough to eat but not safe to breathe aerosolized.

For example, pure elemental mercury.
Have some empathy, or even a sense of perspective: imagine how it may be interpreted by someone going through it, health issues can feel overwhelming and inescapable.

> Stories like this are also why a lot of women now are embracing the tradwife trend.

Lol, sources please
32 isn't quite enough to run a decent quant of mixtral(on a Macbook). You could try a Q3_K_M, but not sure how lobotomized it would be.
Single use plastic bags were banned here.

Two things happened as a result - the plastic thickness was increased so they can call them reusable instead of single use, and stores started charging for them.

Instead of reducing plastic waste it had the opposite effect.
> don‘t deal with the specifics.

Good luck with that. You'll be teaching your users (especially the paying ones) how to use the language.
Damn, I see, how many tokens per sec you get on that setup?

On a Macbook M2 I get ~10/12t/sec which is a tiny tad bit too slow for continued/ daily use, but if I think its worthy I might invest on a more powerful machine soon-ish!
> Aluminum isn’t transparent

"aye, how quaint"
Note that openlayers has greatly improved its webgl capabilities last year and seems to offer equal performance for mvt now.
so we just swap out a Harvard education for the handpicked acolytes of a single billionaire?

also, have we considered that optimizing for efficiency is not the best way to structure a society?
Insightful video. CO2 coalition (funded by Exxon) says 140-million year trend of dangerously decreasing CO2, with the implication that more CO2 is good. Potholer54 talks about this paper. Two insights:

a) CO2 levels have been below 200PPM for millions of years, and life on the planet was fine.

b) Over 140 million years, CO2 has been dropping 0.00001 ppm/year. We are adding 2 PPM/year now, 200,000x faster. This rate of change is unprecedented.