skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not really.

> It is going to require a collective effort by the human population to reverse the already apparent effects of climate warming. All we can really do is each do our best on an individual level to reduce our carbon footprint.

When we start saying that a collective problem can only be accomplished via individualism, we've basically already lost. Even the phrase "carbon footprint" is the product of British Petroleum, because they recognized that encouraging individual action would be less harmful to their business of selling oil than government action. That is, they saw clearly that individual action was so much less effective than government regulation, that they spent millions of dollars encouraging it.

But Western culture (United States especially) is hyper-individualist, and we resist collective actions that would inconvenience the individual. Our government is hence limited to pushing levers to try to "encourage" or "discourage" individuals to take the "right" actions. So, our discussion of alternatives (Overton window) positions a "carbon tax" as the unreasonable leftist position, where the incidental increase in price of polluting products will hopefully nudge enough price-sensitive consumers/entities into reducing consumption enough to solve global warming.

So no, climate change won't be solved by individual people deciding to eat less meat. There may come a day when our agriculture and food system is so devastated that it's no longer possible for most people to eat meat.
> a complex pattern-fitting supercomputer hovering over a massive table of precomputed patterns

That was perhaps true of earlier and smaller LLMs, like GPT-1 and GPT-2.

But as they grew larger and were trained with more and more data, they changed from pure pattern matching to implementing algorithms to compress more information into their structure than pure pattern matching can achieve.

These algorithms are incomplete and buggy, but they are nonetheless executing algorithms, and not just pattern matching.

This phenomenom can be seen in toy-sized neural networks. For instance, addition of two input values modulo a constant. As a small network is trained, at some point the internal structure can change from pattern matching to implementing addition using Fourier transforms. This is clearly visible in its structure. The network now performs the task perfectly for all inputs, regardless of having seen them in training.

You can ask ChatGPT 4 to execute an algorithm for you. I just tried this one:

I would like to play a game, where you are the host. We start off with a score that is 1234143143. At the start of each turn, you tell me the current score and ask me if I want to play a or b. If I choose a, the score is halved, and 30 is added. If I choose b, the score is doubled, and 40 is subtracted. Only use integers and round down.

It will happily execute this algorithm. For large numbers, it is slightly off on the arithmetic. When I asked it to double check, it did so using Python code. After that, it kept using Python code to perform the math. It was also able to reason intelligently about different outcomes if always picking a (or b) given different starting points.

Now, if you have enough memory and training data, of course you can build a gigantic lookup table that has this exact text sequence in it to replicate "executing the algorithm" I described.

Is that your claim? How much memory are we talking about? My feeling is that it'd be far more than the number of atoms in the universe.

PS

Me: How far it is to the Simpsons house in Springfield?

ChatGPT: The Simpsons' house in Springfield is a fictional location from the animated TV series "The Simpsons." Since Springfield is a fictional town and its location is not consistently specified in the series, it's not possible to determine a real-world distance to the Simpsons' house.

Me: Do I have a brother?

Please answer with either of:

a) The answer

b) There is an answer, but I do not know

c) There is no answer

ChatGPT: b) There is an answer, but I do not know
> But I (and most people) do have more than my parents did.

Are you a baby boomer? Because this is not true for my generation, the millennials[0]

I mostly think generational "conflict" is foolish (I mean, I get to inherit from the wealthiest generation in the history of the world, so it's not all bad I guess?), but it is worth considering that people who have come of age and lived through different periods of history will be shaped differently and have different views of the world. If those views lead them to believe that having children is not desirable, than so it is; I don't know that there's really much to be done in the end anyway.

I'll hazard a guess that you're Gen X based on our brief conversation here, which I believe was actually the first US generation to see themselves worse off on their parents than average, but I think the difference is almost negligible? Certainly it's bit of an in-between generation, squeezed by the bulges of the Boomers and their echo generation, the Millennials, and I'm honestly not too up on the dynamics there.

[0]https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-net-worth-versus...
Digit_Recognition Open Source PyTorch
I've initiated a new open-source project aimed at digit recognition using #PyTorch for deep learning and Tkinter for building a user-friendly graphical interface. This project relies on the MNIST dataset, which provides ample labeled handwritten digits for training our neural network model.
Digit_Recognition:
https://github.com/jessicaNono/-Digit_Recognition
Moving forward, there are several intriguing avenues to explore. We can fine-tune the model by experimenting with different architectures and parameters to enhance its accuracy. Additionally, we might consider incorporating transfer learning techniques or data augmentation to further improve performance.
Beyond digit recognition, this project opens doors to various possibilities. We could adapt for example, the model to recognize other types of handwritten characters or symbols. #MachineLearning #python
Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology
It's COMING. The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Here's what you need to know [video]
> I've created this demo site to showcase the capabilities of Magika and provide a hands-on experience for users to explore its features.

But Magika already has an official demo... without ads.

https://google.github.io/magika/
My First Time Building with SST Was a Disaster
There’s a Delta flight that is flying exclusively for the pleasure of a tiny group of people who want to watch the eclipse for multiple hours

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39447603

The concept that we’re resource constrained to the extent that we’re beyond the carrying capacity of the world is beyond ridiculous

We have a greed, fear and distribution problem, not a production problem

Nobody needs a Ferrari when there’s still politically unstable regions of the world that could use the energy and care that went into creating such luxuries

And yes work and energy are fungible, so every minute and joule spent creating an NFT could have been spent talking with a homeless person or taking someone in off the street for a night (often that’s all it takes).

Don’t complain about the state of the world unless you’re actively fixing it
> And then you hear about wealthy western countries when at 4 months woman should either leave the job or the baby. Not surprising such wealthy countries getting old fast.

poland tfr is significantly, significantly below that of the US
> It is true that the percentage of people who are so poor that they fear not having food enough to survive and not having where to sleep has decreased, but the percentage of people who must be content to live in small boxes and be content with low-quality food has increased.

Assuming you're right, the utility of the former is much greater than the disutility of the latter.
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This article doesn't discuss the lifetime differences between monocrystalline silicon panels and the various thin-film products such as cadmium telluride or lead perovskite. Defect-free monocrystalline silicon PV can last >50 years, and can be refurbished.

Unfortunately the US (unlike China) never invested in a robust monocrystalline capacity, and the only US manufacturers of solar panels appears to be First Solar of AZ which uses CdTe (toxic waste). Many other purported manufacturers of monocrystalline silicon are just assembling panels using Chinese-origin wafers, now produced in places like Vietnam to avoid sanctions issues.

If the billions poured into fradulent and useless 'clean coal' programs during the past two decades in the US had instead gone to solar PV programs, things might have been different, but the fossil fuel & investor-owned power utility sectors didn't want to face competition, so we got garbage like 'FutureGen' under Bush and stuff like this under Obama (doe.gov):

> "In December 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of three new projects with a value of $3.18 billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale."

There were eight major clean coal projects - only one was completed, and it shut down later - a complete waste of billions of dollars.
If by “understand” you mean “can model reasonably accurately much of the time” then maybe you’ll find consensus. But that’s not a universal definition of “understand”.

For example, if I asked you whether you “understand” ballistic flight, and you produced a table that you interpolate from instead of a quadratic, then I would not feel that you understand it, even though you can kinda sorta model it.

And even if you do, if you didn’t produce the universal gravitation formula, I would still wonder how “deeply” you understand. So it’s not like “understand” is a binary I suppose.
The answer is in the article although the author disparages it: People were able to pay their taxes in Worgl. In effect, people didn't have "free money" so much as they had a tax break. They collected Worgl to offset their taxes while hoarding real money. There is no miracle here.
> elsewhere in comments people are saying "well panels still work at 50% capacity, so why even dismount", but that's not how it works. the entire installation is leased and operated by the third party

What is the specific issue with the setup? Is it that the operator will stop maintaining the array after the contract expires? And that land owner will then have to pay to remove the panels? Could they hire someone to take over the maintenance instead? I guess I'm trying to figure out where the exploitation of the impoverished landowner is happening.
Has the author tried the trick called free will
If it moves, tax it.

If it keeps on moving, regulate it.

If it stops moving, subsidize it.

- Ronald Reagan
> I think we are way past the point of debate here. LLMs are not stochastic parrots. LLMs do understand an aspect of reality. Even the LLMs that are weaker than sora understand things.

What is one such aspect? (I'm not asking in order to debate it here, but more because I want to test / research it on my own time)
Show HN: Simple OTP – passwordless auth for your website – source code included
Hey HN - I'm the solo founder behind Simple OTP. This used to be a subscription service and I've posted about it before, but I'm now posting again as I recently removed all limits on the product (in terms of limits on monthly active users), the pricing is now a one-time fee instead of a subscription, and I've decided to include the source code with each purchase. It works like this now:

Pay $19 (once, never again) for the source code - detailed setup docs are included; feel free to host on your own server and modify the code however you'd like. You will be added to a GitHub repo with the source code after purchase.

The stack is Golang and PostgreSQL on the backend, Amazon SES for emails, and Vue.js with plain JavaScript on the frontend.

Thanks and let me know what you think!
in my company they keep talking about ai ai ai and I have to keep explaining to them that it is NOT approved by the FDA to let some bug-stupid bit of vectors calculate critical data.
If labour relations are a problem in American then there's no way they are expanding into Europe.
By the way, there was a recent HN discussion on a real-world example of deadlock caused by `synchronized` pinning ("We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres") [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39008026
Oh! It would be nice if they said that!

Will definitely take a look then.

Thank you!
It's not a stimulus or sugar rush at all. The effectiveness depends on how much the government is artificially constraining liquidity. If the government is massively intervening with austerity policies, then the effect will be large.

You should think of it more using the transaction cost based approach. Government money is artificially scarce, therefore it has high transaction costs, therefore it hinders trade instead of facilitating it.

The purpose of the scrip is to issue a money that isn't artificially scarce so it's transaction costs are low. In this way you don't get a stimulus, rather you are getting rid of dead weight loss. A guy pulling a rickshaw is naturally going to fall behind someone who can walk without baggage. The point isn't to make the runner faster or stimulate his performance via some sort of doping.
I initially thought the same, but then I did the maths (sloppily).

Reasons for repowering would be that newer modules are more efficient for reasons other than age (in the case of the Swiss array, new modules would be over twice as efficient) and that the modules are a fraction of the cost of the array - modules are very cheap now. In a very naive calculation, a module pays for itself in less than a year https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices (assumptions: $0.26 / kWh, more than 1000 full-power hours in a year). A new module (again naively, without installation or capital costs) replacing a 20% degraded one would then pay for itself in about five years.

So, I guess we are now in a situation where solar modules are almost free - there are now other problems to be solved and they seem difficult, storage especially...
> If the goal is to just make money, I could sell 6,000 PPI panoramas of women's feet as NFT's. Note: Do not contact me about this.

Lmao.
I’ve been struggling with a clients SaaS third-party integrations so much lately everything I read describing counterproductive outcome gets compared in my imagination.

Marketing says they support your integration, but in practice there are gaps—somebody made a business decision about what was “good enough” and the company’s investment in development stoped there. Anything that is not served by this limit becomes a “product improvement” request.

Maybe this is a related principle I’m discovering now—-same fracked up family of underperformance and unexpected outcomes.
If you ask ChatGPT a question, and tell it to either respond with the answer or "I don't know", it will respond "I don't know" if you ask it whether you have a brother or not.
>If people are particularly sensitive to certain words on a computer screen, then again we already have a solution for that - let them set their individual censorship level to maximum strength (or even make that the default).

How do you know that's even possible? God knows how much computing resources got spent just to train the one currently deployed "variant"? Now I don't know if there is some cheap post processing trick that does it, but either way does not at all seem trivial.

And the problem isn't that "you" think you won't cause any harm. Even if that is assumed true, that's not a guarantee that everyone else is as disciplined about it. Which brings me to the biggest point, what even is "truth" in the first place. People strongly believe in total fabrications, or multiple groups say diametrically opposite reporting of some real event due to religion, nationalism, politics etc. Its a massive achievement they are even able to manage to output something that doesn't just "violently offend" people all over the world. Remember, retraining/fitting it to everyone seems to me not to be a trivial task if you think to reply to that point by saying the answer is to simply personalize it to each user.
>Without more consumers

Eh, this isn't exactly correct. While yes, owning so many pairs of socks is of limited utility to me, in general individual greed is hard to sate.

So yea while another pair of pants won't do me any good, I'll take another house, another trip, another ... whatever. But this starts to shift the resource load to other places. Such as national parks getting flooded out with people. With actual property for things to be built on to become scare. Removal of the natural world to stick in more human development.
> my only question is how could this possibly be sustainable financially in the long run.

For now I'm funded by grants and donations, got a few years runway that way.

The actual operational cost is like $100/month for colocation + personal expenses so what money comes in lasts a surprisingly long time. In the future, we'll see. There does seem to be a lot of people that want this type of thing to exist though, so the hope is if I polish it even more, further funding will become available from likeminded people, possibly selling API access to other search engines.

Search is notoriously hard to make money from (outside of ads), though not having a lot of expenses seems like a reasonable path to go.
If I recall, the article seemed to indicate that certain apps would be broken. I would be worried that apps I relied on would not function anymore. This has nothing to do with me using ADB, it has to do with apps using it (at least from how I read the article).

You use adb, you have a mental model for it. It does something because you make it do that thing and see it happen. You must be able to put yourself into the shoes of a person that isn't you and doesn't have that experience to recognize what I'm saying. Note: many developers not being able to or choosing not to do this is the source of most of the bad UX that is inflicted upon us today.
Statistical significance is relevant when you're trying to find correlations, not when you're trying to figure out whether it's worth removing a few grains to make a cup of sand lighter.

If you don't want to try, don't try. If you're looking for an excuse to say "fuck it, I won't do anything, since that's what most people are doing", you won't, because it's always worth doing something right, no matter how small.
My understanding is conspiracy people want to know if it was an alphabet agency that developed bitcoin to push a new world order of cashless currency. Or a new way to move money around anonymously and make it easier for governments and their agencies to stay anonymous.
> But the real problem that we need to address is the changing climate. While some people may shake their heads, there is no way to deny that the weather patterns in the tropics are becoming progressively more unstable. Unfortunately, there is also no easy fix. It is going to require a collective effort by the human population to reverse the already apparent effects of climate warming.

I see it is virtually impossible to explain delayed effects to anyone.

Yes we can reverse it with more collective effort than has ever been applied in the history of our species towards a single thing, but that won't save us from the immediate consequences.

These are impossibly large systems that can't turn on a dime and even if we stop all emissions entirely, right now in this instant, we still bear a large brunt of the results from what we've already done so far. Sad to say it, but the time to save these sloths was 30 years ago at best.
I don't understand what this solves. It's JSON format, with an alternative delimiter and lack of a wrapping array.

I guess the file extension ensures that JSON is not pretty printed.
Most email apps at the time supported rss
Immigration is not the solution. Identifying what policies make your nation an ecological sink where humans go to die childless is the solution. Immigration is a temporary solution that has negative consequences vs just having a birthrate above replacement and it only works as long as some place has a very high birthrate. Which is increasingly untrue as more countries catch the low birth rate disease pioneered in the first world.
Well in the example of an NP complete problem, a human might realize they are having trouble coming up with an optimal solution and start analyzing complexity. And once they have a proof might advise you accordingly and perhaps suggest a good enough heuristic.
I don‘t think your examples are very good, these are very generic search terms and if the results are good or bad very much depends on the person searching and what they are looking for.
The US doesn't want new domestic anything. We have made it nearly impossible to build housing, transmission lines, power plants, factories, etc. It seems like the only thing we still know how to do and also want to do is roads.
But how can we fight back?
Yes. The people suffer greatly.
It is technically proto Keynesianism since Keynes himself said that he took some inspirations from Silvio Gesell.

However, it is also different in the sense that it remains very close to classical economics in every aspect other than money.
You should explain what you're talking about if you're going to publicly trash somebody else's project

> allows your junior sysadmins to take down all your machines at once or cause mystery performance blips that someone else has to diagnose for a year

Sounds like you have extremely poor administrative management of your computer systems.
The urge for rough sex is not created or promoted by porn. Every generation thinks they invented sex. In this case, the current generation thinks that they invented kink. It’s utterly ridiculous.
I like osquery.

Airwatch the Endpoint management system was working to incorporate this. It was pretty good. Unfortunately they were acquired by VMware which tried to maneuver the product into pretty unrelated VDI tech (Horizon). And of course VMware is completely in the shitcan now with everything being discontinued. We moved to Intune in the end. Which was not better by the way (nobody buys Microsoft because they're great, just because of the network effect). But it does have better long term outlook (no pun intended).

But it was a good product while it lasted. The osquery integration was really useful for custom scripts. AirWatch had linux support 4 years ago even though Intune is only starting with that (and it hardly works).
I worked selling watches for a time in my life and we were instructed that every watch on display had to be set and stopped at 10:10. Looking that up it seems to not have been specific to just the company I worked for.[1] So, counter-intuitively, a store selling clocks at the mall might not have the time displayed either. :)

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
You can bring the money to the bank and lend it out and not pay the fee? Since money is now available for borrowing in a closed circuit you don't have to keep issuing an endless amount of money to keep the Ponzi scheme going.
Are there any neat log viewers that allow you to filter and tail logs in jsonl format?

I have many systems that log in this format but are quite hard to visually scan during development. I typically create ad hoc filters using jq, rg or a js script.
As long as there's coffee.