skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
huh, yeah it implies that without unions companies wouldn't need any of that pesky management, just like without traffic lights cars wouldn't need brakes.
Oh yes, the classic climate change denier rhetoric, penning at the end a random quote. You mention some scientists tweets and the first one is a Economics Professor.. come on man, at least put some effort in your bullshit propaganda.
Melbourne residents love comparing themselves to London.
If it warms 2-3C as the IPCC predicts, humanity will still be thriving in the 2100s. Capitalism will still be kicking along just fine, and we ll probably be richer than ever.
That doesn't seem to make sense because we're talking about how many people produce and consume things, not the rate of which they produce and consume things.

We just need the working age populace to produce more than everyone can consume. Automation was supposed to achieve that. In fact, I think it has already achieved that long ago?

I'll reword it in a depressing, pragmatic way. We can already produce enough to satisfy the NEEDS of the entire population. So if you only need X jobs to produce for everyone, but extra people are getting born because nobody can just set a limit to how many people are born, then what do these extra people do in their lives? What is going to be their job?

If they produced things, it would be a waste of resources, because the needs of the entire world are already satisfied. But that's exactly what they do. Do we really need fancy clothes, and fancy houses, and fancy food, and TV shows and music? Do we need art? We don't really "need" them, but we already produce enough that we can afford to have people whose jobs is just making these things. But by this logic we don't really need computers either, you can't eat them, so I guess I'm superfluous as well.

I guess the point is, how many of these "superfluous" things we should produce? If population goes down, some jobs won't get as many workers as before. I can't really say "artists are unnecessary, we should just get rid of the entire profession and replace it with Dall-E because it's more productive." In fact, I'm not sure there is any job we can just get rid off to state "we will birth no more people to do that job. It will have 0 workers assigned to it."

And this is of course just speaking theoretically, assuming you could control births and professions with precision, which we can not in practice. People are going to get born and they will do jobs that aren't as productive as other jobs and there is nothing we can do about it. But to say we can't produce enough doesn't make sense if we can't even define how much is "enough."
Okay, I know HN is full of pedants who think a quick google can readily prove I'm stupid, but that's not what I was asking.

My sons are not currently TRICARE beneficiaries but were for much of their lives.

I have a serious medical condition. One of my sons has a serious medical condition. We got many thousands of dollars in value out of being military dependents for a lot of years. But, no, they are not currently beneficiaries.

I wouldn't begin to know how to figure out an answer to a question like "Of all Americans currently alive, what percentage of them has spent some portion of their life in military service or as a military dependent?" much less a question like "If you could place a civilian medical cost equivalent on the medical care they received, often for flashing their ID with zero bill, what would the total be or what percentage of their lifetime medical costs does that represent?"

And that doesn't begin to get into questions like "And can you even begin to measure the impact on health of having secure housing, of one parent participating routinely in exercise as part of the job, etc?"

I don't know how to answer such a complex question at all. You can google all the live long day and you won't be able to tell me the answer. Sorry.
That's answering a different question. It's about not creating people who will experience terrible suffering
I've never found this style readable unless with pipes (bash / elixir), where I love it. With any other syntax, I find it just adds mental overhead. Maybe because you have to read it backwards?
If there is a theory for how climate change will doom us, you should spend time talking about it. The threats people usually bring up are relatively mild. Eg, wet bulb events are pretty scary but are also sound relatively straightforward to mitigate if they start happening. Human societies deal with nasty weather events already.

I've heard scenarios put as mild as a reduction in real GDP growth, which is just a non-issue compared to the risks people want to shoulder to mitigate climate change.

> I've voted for green parties and politics my whole life

These people tend to be anti-nuclear in my experience; so I'm not sure from your comment if that strategy is a good idea. Environmentalists have been some of the more effective lobby groups for locking in fossil fuel use through 1980-2020 when we really should have been transitioning to nuclear power.
See for example https://adrenaline.ucsd.edu/kirsh/Articles/In_Process/MultiT...
Yeah you shouldnt strike because you could disturb those who like how the system works!! (because it works for them)

Solidarity doesnt mean being nice to others. Its awarnes of shared interests and acepting/enduring some pains for others. This includes understanding that you might not be striking today but you might in future.
The irony of putting something about a right-to-repair story behind a sign-in-to-read-this paywall.
The point was that it is possible to do so, and that this is much less true with more recent tech. This is a one time project which makes a point and not a call for everyone to go around restoring very old consoles.
This is not a problem because the atproto has true account portability, so your domain getting seized is not the end of the world, unlike in activitypub.
Capital = Assets - Liabilities -> Assets = Capital + Liabilities is grade school arithmetic though.
Same, actually. The fact that I can get the @stavros.io handle just by adding a DNS record is a nice touch.
I highly doubt bow and arrows have to do with this depletion, Australian Aboriginals were highly highly effective hunters with spears woomeras and boomerangs and there was an abundance of wild life around in their presence.
I argue that compression and not memorization is key to emerging behavior.

And the fact that llms learn languages and can switch quite well in-between (even if you just replace single words) is proof of learning meta/high level abstractions.

I sometimes write a German word or describe something when I don't have it on the tip of my tongue
Where do you get the confidence from that it will eventually cool down and self-correct, and everything will be all right? Surely you must be aware somewhere back in your mind, that this is merely wishful thinking?

Even if you ignore the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_points_in_the_climat..., you must realise that climate change has already led to the extinction of a huge number of animal species, and that less biodiversity can lead to lasting problems in ecosystems, that take millennial to stabilise to a new equilibrium.

Not to mention the fact that it's kind of insane to kill of an absurd number of species, destroy a shitload of habitats, and then say "don't worry, some day this will be balanced again". Even if it did, that does not make it okay. If you say to someone "don't worry, your nose will heal" that doesn't mean it's acceptable for you to hit that person in the face.
That's not what they're saying. They are saying that focusing strictly on utilitarianism can prove to be unreasonable.
> I don't want to be crude, but the sustainable approach is accepting that a company won't grow every year for forever

No necessarily. An economy can be sustainable even if all companies grow all the time. You just need to allow that companies fold now and then and close down. Then the market place opens space for remaining or new companies to grow. This is not just fantasy, it's how you keep cleaning up. (It does not imply that the economy as a whole keeps growing. That's a different matter altogether.)

Nature works like this too, by the way. Go to tour nearest forest, all plants keep growing as long as they are alive. But they have a limited lifetime and are broken down once they die. Which allows new ones to flurish (and grow).
We need 2-6% of GDP each year spend on this. For the next 30 years.

This is an amount of money we could just create by monetary policy or Quantitative Easing as the like to say. Nobody needs to get poor when money is spend.
I think AI could be useful in MUD clients, to show a picture of where the player is, and in the future that might even be a moving picture showing the combat moves.
> The author made this story available to Medium members only.

Looks like it was the author's decision. +1 on the irony.
As long as we're in the pedantic mode: "More than a billion" could mean from 1 billion up to 1.99 billion. You need at least 2 billions to be able to add the -s

The poster you replied to wrote "so yeah probably less than two billions combine", so that actually means you could not use the "-s" ending in this case.
Huh? I know of at least three table frameworks with sticky rows & headers (MUI X and AG Grid, Ant.design).

And there are more virtual-list libraries than I can count my.
Google does not have a better product. They used to, but not anymore. I usually use google but only out of habit and because it was the default. A lot of times I have trouble and end up on duckduckgo, which uses Bing. Now with GPT integration Bing is really useful.
> or voluntarily imposing self austerity

The problem with this line of reasoning is that the only people who care are the anxious western upper-middle classes. Anyone poorer can't afford to care.

You absolutely cannot solve the problem through voluntary change of behaviour, and thinking that you can is a sign that you need to step out of your ivory tower. Instead you have to change the economy so that the most environmentally friendly alternative is the cheapest, and so that environmentally disastrous activities are prohibitively expensive.
I believe Golang uses a similar model but much more simple to use. Uncolored async is the way to go
Food is cheaper and easier to produce than at any point in human history. Most humans were subsistence farmers or hunter gatherers until relatively recently. Indeed, the main problem we have in developed countries is too much food.

People have migrated all throughout history. Humans walked across Siberia wearing animal skins to get to North America. I think they'll be fine if they have to take a bus or a plane to a new country.

There has been conflict all throughout human history. Currently it is at a historic low. Likewise, there have been disasters. Floods, volcanoes, earthquakes. This is not new.

Yes, you should strive to leave your kids in the best situation possible, but you do that by locally improving your situation to be as good as possible. You cannot control the global food production or natural disasters or the climate. Nobody can do that. Everyone will have to work on setting themselves up in the best situation possible, which, incidentally, is all we have ever been able to do.
Ah, yes, the total global impact of climate change is so much less than the impact of mosquitoes.
They’re not “hidden” or “omitted”. They’re a widely known part of the climate record. Perhaps if they’re news to you you should take that as a sign that you’re not well informed about the topic.
ok, as suspected you are underestimating the scope of the invention and reducing it to a tiny feature of it.

the patent deals with what it is, how it interacts with running and exiting applications, how the user interacts with it, how it can be configured, in what ways it can be configured, even the start menu and a plethora of other things. it is an invention that can be patented and was granted a patent. was not even controversial. you don't need a blue led type breakthrough to patent something. if you can't see how coming up with all of the above from a blank slate and iterating on it until it fits with the system and user expectations to become the most successful UI innovation ever (remember, something that obvious was mysteriously not present on earlier systems, even when they supported multitasking) then again, I don't know what to tell you.
https://archive.is/sfAMv
> Not really generalizing, not memorizing, maybe approximating ?

The term you are searching for is confabulating.
Many of us don’t want to uproot everything - at substantial effort and cost - for unclear or negligible upside. USA is only at 13% of global emissions. And radically overhauling everything, as opposed to incentivizing greener tech over time, is unlikely to move the temperature much if at all. China will not play ball. The developing world will not play ball.

If we were dead serious about this as a civilization threat, we would start building as much nuclear as possible
Not all roses though: high grass makes for a lot of ticks.
> What's the revenue model?

(1) Lunar holidays for the ultra-rich. (2) Entertainment industry–reality TV shows filmed on the moon. (3) Professional sports–first ever professional [insert your favourite sport here] game/match/race/etc on the moon. (4) Oh no, China's lunar base is bigger than ours, we have to build one even bigger in response! (5) Scientific research – e.g. can mammals reproduce in lunar gravity?

> The ISS seems to have outlived its usefulness and is scheduled to be de-orbited in 2030. There's a successor planned, but it's much smaller

There is more than one successor planned. And I think with SpaceX Starship, launching much larger stations/modules is becoming a very real possibility. Once Starship is demonstrated to be operationally viable (not quite there yet but could happen this year), a lot of current plans will change, since the mass and volue budgets suddenly get a lot bigger.
I agree. I think the objections result from JSON having it's roots in JavaScript as an object. I built a streaming JSON parser for a microcontroller with very limited memory. It wasn't too hard to do though it probably doesn't cover edge cases. But it can be done if you change your mindset.
> There are some times when you're doing these operations in large vector types (like AVX), in parallel, when falling back to the SWAR techniques can actually be faster because of limited bandwidth on the port for micro ops in popcnt or clz.

I'm doubtful of this in general. Some older processors did have a very slow BSF/BSR implementation, so it may be the case there, but I wouldn't generally stick with that assumption these days. (and it's most certainly not the case on AMD Zen, given all its ALUs can do these bit ops)

AVX doesn't have lzcnt prior to AVX-512 CD, so it could make more sense there, though I'd imagine that abusing float conversion (convert to float, extract exponent) would still be faster.
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Playing with the smaller free models, I’ve definitely found that they like to play along and mirror whatever you say. They’re great as a sounding board and active listener when you need to work through something, and they’re good for recalling facts that they know. They can be really useful when they glue together something you’re talking about and something relevant that they know. They’re terrible for anything that requires interoception or any kind of confidence estimation. They have no idea whether they’re recalling or confabulating.
AFAIK the Medieval Warm Period was indeed a time with high temperatures but this was mostly local (restricted to few areas), while the current increase in temperature is global and is also clearly linked to human activites

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
We have those pointless documents used by architects at my place of work, most of them have something on the lines of,

Micro services, Kafka, Kubernetes, because what if we have a billion users compared to the current 4k users.

GraphDB, what if SQL would not be enough

ElasticSearch, what if we have to do full text search along with stats.

But most of these documents are just short for any of these, "I want to try this new architecture/technology because it's fun, my colleague at a FAANG uses it, I've read the BOOK, and it looks good on my CV".

When they jump to design the next Big project, we have to deal with their decision, having twice as many services than our team, having to keep all the above mentioned DBs and technologies in sync which is of course a simpler problem than making those "big architecture decisions".

Sorry for the rant :(
Her message and the way she conveyed it is, for the millions that it resonated with, more important than who her mother is or her credentials (what credentials are you expecting of a teenager?)
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It may be frustrating, but that's the flipside of wealth inequality being much lower in Scandinavia and thereby society being more equal. Which makes it much more pleasant to live in, even for relatively rich people.

(Disclosure: I'm one of those relatively rich people in Scandinavia and I pay lots of taxes but I also enjoy that wealth inequality isn't so extreme over here.)
What about most populated areas in the world cranking up air conditioning. Just not to drop everything on people living in colder climates. ;)
That's certainly true and remains an unacceptable state of the world, but it's also true that globally, it's a steadily decreasing number, even under conditions of population growth.

E.g. looking at child mortality over time

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-deaths-igme-data
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Yes, it would help if we would be more careful with our choices. But it would also be nice if politicians could be held accountable: if they say global warming is fake, and it turns out to be true, they should get some sort of penalty. Same with allowing pollution, you’re responsible for the health impact.

If a politician doesn’t think global warming is true, at least be open to the fact they might be wrong and be careful with their choices. The environment is a fragile balance, better to be careful and limit things that might impact this fragile balance.
Well, I would like my children to have it as easy as I had, ideally much easier and better. The general predictions and what the world looks like is not particularly cheerful. I think we are the first generation that has it worse, statistically, than out parents.

Everyone is free to have children (sometimes - unfortunately) so it is a personal choice, even if it seems hysterical to some.
The part where I said I was unable to turn up stats was not the part you rebutted with stats. It's the part I quoted. It's a disingenuous argument to smear me like I am stupid and can't find birth stats when I didn't say that's what I looked for and failed to find.
What cloud GPU instance are you talking about here? Most of the GPUs cost around 2 to 40 dollars an hour. I would love to know the provider who is offering one for 4 dollars a day...
I mean, I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove by asking for a Markov chain model like that. It’s trivially true that you can have a Markov chain output whatever you like (somewhat artificially, but we are talking about memorisation here) if you pick your training data carefully.
I don't have much that I can help you with but

> I've been looking for a job/contract for 6+ months but last week I was evicted

Suggests your real problem is not finding a job but rather a lack of connection with reality.

> + she kicked me out after my episode of psychosis years ago.

I have a close family member with mental health issues. Your situation is going to make you more exposed for a psychosis episode. I'd focus on getting somewhere to sleep at any cost (any CC to max out?) as soon as possible to avoid getting an episode while you are homeless.
This sounds like it's suggesting adding documentation of the major units, what their purposes are, as well as their interfaces.

I agree with this. A map of the code is great. It's like an exploded-view drawing of a mechanical component. It helps highlight what goes where and connects how to what.

...but is this what "architecture" means? I was under the impression that architecture went beyond major-units-and-their-interfaces and had more to do with the decisions and assumptions that lead to those specific units and interfaces -- the why behind the what.

In other words, the "architecture", in my view, is the thing we might go against when we refactor things. Not because names and interfaces change, but because the rationale for having things a certain way might still apply only we don't know about it because those assumptions and decisions -- the architecture -- is rarely documented and still would not be under this proposal.
Absolutely every single time when I use functional programming, I store my intermediary calls in a variable, specifically because naming that variable forces me to explain what that intermediary result should be.

If the intermediary result makes no sense, and only the function composition makes sense, I'll create a new well named function that does the chaining, even if it's single use.

This is literally the only way I've seen multi-year projects be maintainable, and anything else eventually breaks down into uninteligible code.

Writing code for other developers in the long-run is empathy for yourself, since you'll eventually forget all the context you once had.
The emissions trend is slowing. We have the technology we need in order to change course, we're just not deploying it fast enough.

The worst projections, at least, are off the table: we're not headed for 6 degrees of warming, we're on track for 3, and I strongly suspect we'll end up closer to 2 degrees of warming.

That is going to be terrible. People will die, wars will be fought, and we'll see the largest migrations in human history with all the attendant political upheaval and barbarity, but we'll still be here. Humans as a species are going to make it.

For me, I found it helpful to go and work in climate. So long as I wasn't actively working to solve the problem, I was driven mad by the knowledge that we were heading for disaster.
DACCCS is currently insufficiently mature to estimate how "reversible" any specific level of warming is, but current policies are expected to limit warming to 2 to 3 °C by 2100, compared to over 4 °C where no policies were implemented. Net zero emissions by 2050 would even be compatible with 1.5 °C, and that is well within what is achievable with current technology. Plus, with AR6, we have the first estimate of the zero emissions commitment over 50 years, and it is centred around zero, with a 90% CI of roughly ±0.3 °C, meaning it is likely (with "low confidence", meaning this is our first time doing it as part of CMIP) that changes in 20 year average temperatures will be quite small after complete cessation of emissions. That means assuming we ended up on a trajectory like 2 °C by 2100, if we wanted to reverse GSAT at least we would have a better than 66% chance of having another 5 decades of research and development and deployment (plus the 7 decades it took to get there), so once we get to zero emissions it becomes much less urgent.

There will still be permanent changes to the biosphere, but there is no reason to feel doomed.