skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I'm using UN numbers, as they have the best track record.

Looking at past projections the population was typically slightly below the estimated figure, so the most likely scenario is that this will be the case here as well.

In any case I don't think that devastation will come to pass, as China's emissions pretty much plateaued already and India's are looking like they did as well. The west has been in decline in that regard for years now.

It's going to get worse - that's a given - but with the recent estimates giving a more precise number for emissions connected with land use change, global CO2 emissions might have plateaued, or even peaked a few years ago already.
Original title:

>The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin
Seems like it's not available in the EU, but this works: https://archive.vn/KHX0f
> nukes with questionable functionality

They seem to have ballistic missiles and they don't need to be particularly accurate to hit somewhere in Tokyo.
> How about we remove them - what would be the effect?

It would eliminate the only reason kids have to _want_ to be able to read an analog clock ;).
Why Ukraine Is Starting to Lose
Broadly speaking, sure. But I can't name any crisis that was solved by people individually deciding to purchase less of a bad thing.

US slavery wasn't ended by people boycotting goods produced with slave labor. We didn't go to the moon by holding a fundraiser. The ozone hole was repaired by banning the harmful chemicals, not by consumers deciding to pay more for refrigerators that didn't use CFCs.

Asking consumers to research every product they buy for its "carbon footprint" (including the whole supply chain and transportation) and modify their purchasing decisions accordingly is doomed to be ineffective. Some people will be very passionate about it and make a big change. More people will avoid some terrible offenders. And most people will make only small changes that don't inconvenience them much, because they already have 90 other things to worry about in their life.

(And now that it's been politicized, you get people "rolling coal" and purposefully creating extra emissions to... stick it to the libs, I guess.)
The territory sizes of the countries haven’t changed. It’s a 65/35% development partnership.
Ad hominem was not really the strongest argument but I agree with your stated reason in the second paragraph.
We can’t even make enough shells for Ukraine.
Isn't this describing temperature induced randomness and ascribing some kind of intelligence to it? This assertion has been made and refuted multiple times on this thread and no solid evidence to the contrary presented.

To go back to your first sentence - interacting with an llm is not understanding how it works, building one is. The actual construction of a neural network llm refutes your assertions.
I composed this comment concurrently with yours, so I'm moving it here as a response...

This is going off-topic, but Tufte's attempt to cast the problem as fundamentally one of poor data presentation is rather self-servingly tendentious, IMHO, in a way that unfairly attributes a degree of culpability to the engineers who tried to stop the launch.

The excellent video you link to, taken as a whole, supports this view, I believe.
Have you managed dev teams before? It's really nice when they do that, but that is far from the common case.
A lot of the tricks described in the article are relevant to programmers trying to achieve flow state.
I've seen fairly compelling evidence of hormone level change in the Western world, though it seems unclear what the exact causes are. An accessible reference is Count Down -- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50892327-count-down
Lowercase P, Dangit (2010)
The "why" was explained by another commentor. They became hostile to their community, pulling a bunch of features out of reach and moving previously free features behind paywalls. They're moving to target more enterprise customers, and as a personal user, I don't want to be limited in this way, so I've switched to the community fork (Forgejo)
Hacker worthy accounting software?
Every time I do bookkeeping for our family business, I wish the bookkeeping software was more like VSCode, so I started building that. A bookkeeping app for small businesses that looks and feels like a code editor. And then I kept building... Is this a terrible idea?
Well there is quietly. They are quiet about technical progress. They will only boast when they have something to show. SMEE and SMIC haven't posted substantial updates for years because they don't want to draw the attention of more US sanctions, but under the hood they're working hard to expel foreign technology. You also haven't heard about any progress in Huawei until the phone came out.
This is describing a different culture, so your expectations are being confounded. In places bribery is truly pervasive, paying bribes is a habit. You see your parents do it, you see how everyone around you accepts it. Indian (very broadly — this is a stereotype) culture can be less individualistic than the USA, and this makes it even harder to say no to things like this.

It’s like tipping, in the USA — so pervasive that it’s invisible. And these days with digital point-of-sale systems, you have to take affirmative action _not_ to tip, and people in line around you can see, so the social pressure is enormous.

So the note is proof that the person not paying the bribe is not alone, that they are part of a movement, that their actions are acceptable to at least some portion of their society. This makes is feel safer, and puts the onus on the briber to either escalate or to back down.

It also relies on the sense of shame of the briber. Since bribes are commonplace, some civil servants depend on them for their livelihood, or at least their lifestyle. Confronted with the evidence of a social movement saying that their actions are not ok, they’re more likely to feel some shame, versus just feeling anger at a random citizen confronting them.
That’s really interesting —- looks like there is a clear winner. I am curious as to why non blocking is slower.

I also wonder if the reactive libraries could be refactored to use the virtual threading model. It would help with a lot of the debugging issues. I would be sad to see those libraries go by the wayside as they do make a lot of complicated tasks simpler once you understand it.
In addition to other responses, know that the zero-note makes its way to the corrupt official's hands before they can inspect it. From their perspective, they've just completed an illegal act with someone willing to challenge their authority out of a sense of justice. What would you even do after receiving a zero note instead of a bribe as requested? So goes the example: of a smile and nothing more.
Is the commenter above you implying humans hallucinate to the level of LLMs? Maybe hungover freshman working on a tight deadline without having read the book do, but not professionals.

Even a mediocre employees will often realize they’re stuck, seek assistance, and then learn something from the assistance instead of making stuff up.
That’s life expectancy at birth (which is still 30th worst in the world), and it doesn’t incorporate getting shot in a random act of gang violence at the old age of 17.
Clickbait? The link does not take us to a document of that title; the term "urine" is nowhere to be found there.
Anyone got a map ?
https://archive.is/HZBRP
They welcomed NBC reporters, too, apparently. Should they not also be excluded for having a belief system totally opposed to that of the people organizing the conference?

Or is it possible to accept people as they are? The point of the convention ~is~ (Edit: should have been) to welcome all and say "These here are the things we believe, and why, and why we think these attitudes might work better for you"
I think it's more subtly misleading - to be smarter, I need more knowledge. But knowledge != smart, knowledge == informed, or educated.

And the problem is more - how can an LLM tell us it doesn't know something instead of just making up good sounding, but completely delusional answers.

Which arguably isn't about being smart, and is only tangentially about less or more (external) knowledge really. It's about self-knowledge.

Going down the first path is about knowing everything (in the form of facts, usually). Which hey, maybe?

Going down the second path is about knowing oneself. Which hey, maybe?

They are not the same.
"Quitely" for an Economist reader perhaps. In the tech sector we are bombarded by news of new fabs and manufcaturing achievements from China
> BIND used to stand for Berkeley Internet Name Domain

Surely “Berkeley Internet Name Daemon”?
Note that this is a development deal. The territory is still a part of Egypt. Bad headline
Because they're presently employed, and a missed bribe is not worth their career.
Too late. It's been this way all through human history.

My favourite one has to be when six friends boarded the H.M.S. Dreadnought, and savagely murdered the British Imperial system with a sophmoric prank (1).

1. https://sniggle.net/cole.php
So a modern Copy II PC Option Board.
That's exploratory analysis. You don't use exploratory analysis as-is to draw conclusions. It guides you through your research but you do support it with other tools (statistical, logical). Science 101.
Mall stores aren't selling high-end timepieces. If the clocks are running, they will visibly disagree unless you pay somebody to handle all of the merch every day, time that could be better spent looking bored.
> "Can you provide a single link to a professional organization or group of relevant scientists that states humans are not causing global warming, or states that we cannot affect change?"

If 90% of the human population on earth would just disappear tomorrow morning, would climate change just stop and become a non-issue? Or would it just be pushed back for a little while?

Please re-read my original comment.

I'm saying that there's disagreement about the degree to which humans are contributing to global warming, and can influence climate change, one way or another, in any meaningful way.
How much of this is due to globalization and Americans buying a lot of products from Japan? If the global population reaches a peak, or population growth is centered in areas without much money, would that still hold up?
Maybe you are thinking of Canada, which stopped in 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(Canadian_coin)
Why not? You can be a very successful country on very little land. And if you get money, you can invest it.
I love sarcastic little pages like this. They don't provide full solutions to anything, but they provide a little push towards simplicity and sanity.
Nice idea.
However, please note:
`map(func, repos)` does not do anything. Your code does not do any processing. Try it.

You need to consume the iterator that map returns.

Please use Python as it is supposed to be used, not as Fortran.
Aerosolized LASAG for the treatment of influenza in hospitalized patients (2018)
Here you go: https://nitter.poast.org/ryanasanchez
So this about aerosolized aspirin as a treatment for influenza and other viruses, as far as I understand.

Seems the first research dates back to 2007 on ASA for respiratory virus treatment in general:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17324159/

I found an interesting article in German about why development of that treatment has been discontinued, but nothing in English unfortunately, except for a patent:

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2249866B1/en

German article:

https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/aspirin-koennte-auch-gegen-v...
> everything is a subdomain of something, even "rip" itself, which in a certain sense is a subdomain of the DNS root "."

Now that he's explained it, I'm annoyed that we use . to represent the root zone and to delimit between zones. Pick a lane already.
I know! Who has ever thought of Americans as a particularly refined bunch? I know that we don’t think of ourselves that way.
Not the examples I would use as all of those countries do have real problems and governments that would very much benefit from such distractions.
Presumably "infrastructure around to maintain the farm" has some costs.

Land. Property tax. inspections. That sort of thing...
There's a thing called a wristwatch that solves your problem.
This. Not in my contact list? Good luck getting a hold of me. And people who know me know not to call on my phone.

My bank will lock me out of online banking if they want something from me. That will get me driving to the bank to fix the issue in person. Anything less than that will be procrastinated into oblivion.
Does the paper distinguish between hallucination and approximation?

If LLMs could be trained to approximate NP-complete functions rather than making stuff up, that would be good enough in many contexts. I guess it's what humans would do.
The original goal was to just turn an idea I thought was possible and figure out exactly how to execute it. The current goal is something like improve and iterate, while seeing what the market interest for something like this actually is.

I think most of the value is in the imaging technology, and could easily be offered as a mail-in service. I can also bulk manufacture the extractor PCBs and sell them at a small markup, while open sourcing the rest.
This isn’t sarcastic (protip: if it says it’s sarcastic, it isn’t). It’s also not simple and it’s definitely not sane.
Why not just get a watch at that point?
Right, the window tool debounces the events, IMO the battery attach/disconnnect messages are a poor mans heartbeat signal on the protocol. That ACPI/Windows didn't "sleep" the USB port, or that the controller in the UPS (chinese junk) didn't crash.
I couldn't do that from memory, not something that is needed 99.99% of the time. Just use a standard library.

I would agree that people should be able to understand what type of algorithm to use in different situations.

Most code I've seen isnt very good. The degree the author has (or the absence of one) has not been a useful predictor of code quality in my experience.
They could use control vectors, one for each individual - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414532 . Or they could selectively apply the censorship model they already quite clearly have running on ChatGPT's output.

Yes, people sometimes believe false things. And people sometimes harm themselves or others when acting on this kind of information. So what's the solution? Put a single mega corporation in charge of censoring everything according to completely opaque criteria? People get nervous when even democratically elected governments start doing stuff like that, and at least they actually have some say in that process.

Frankly, I'd prefer the harm that would follow from unfettered communication of information and ideas over totalitarian control by an unaccountable corporation.
Since “I’m in this photo”, I think it is mainly because she ch paths generally don’t seem effective. Changing the structure of society doesn’t happen very often, and tends to have undesired side-impacts.
Another example is the Hanoi's rat massacre.

In 1902, Hanoi, Vietnam was plagued by rats. The French colonial government, in an attempt to control the rat population, offered a bounty for each rat killed. However, this plan backfired spectacularly. People started breeding rats to collect the bounty! And the rat population exploded. This led to a surge in the bubonic plague, which killed thousands of people.

This event is a perfect example of the Shirky principle. Once a solution becomes institutionalized, it may perpetuate or even exacerbate the problem to secure its own existence.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-190...
Most people wouldn’t really have that understanding.
Fluid community would disincentive tight-knit community wouldn't it?

I feel that if you decouple the social reward and the grunt work of moderation and financial burden of hosting the relay, then the incentives just wouldn't be there to do the dirty work unless it becomes paid or monetized in some way.
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" has been debunked? Could you provide a bit more context?
Just wait until you spend a bunch of time around a politician.
> It also relies on the sense of shame of the briber.

You meant the sense of shame of the person being bribed? I ask to avoid a misunderstanding.
There is nothing wrong with that Delta eclipse viewing flight so long as they had mandated direct air carbon capture offsets to offset the flight. The fact that they haven't is the problem, not the flight itself. Take issue with the externalities dumped elsewhere, not on the activity. If you pay the fully loaded costs, by all means, partake in your CO2 emission activity (beef, air travel, etc). Current DAC cost is ~$800-1300/ton of CO2 sequestered. That is the cost of these activities. The fact that people don't want to pay that for luxury activities is the greed, not the activity itself.

Humanity has been living on credit by way of not paying fully loaded costs, in a variety of ways (entitlement programs and economic systems depending on never ending growth, CO2 emissions and cheap energy, plastics, and so on). The bill is coming due, and there will be sadness.

> Don’t complain about the state of the world unless you’re actively fixing it

Trying! We should team up.
> "It’s kind of a cliché that CS attracts antisocial nerds."

Say what? CS attracts asocial nerds.

antisocial = commits crimes and harms society

asocial = introverted or unsociable
Yes... but there's no national requirement. And in most master's programs there's no expectation of publication.
Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers
Not in Japan they don’t. Housing, outside of central Tokyo, is a depreciating asset (and even sometimes is there). Japan also has fixed rate mortgages that are currently offered at a lower interest rate than in the US.
Ah, you're right. They announced they would but Congress didn't act.

https://catalog.usmint.gov/proof-set-2024-24RG.html?cgid=ann...
Knew a guy who I clocked as a textbook case before he even told me that he used to knock over liquor stores as a kid (for some reason liquor stores draw them like moths to a flame). Very charismatic so he quickly made friends (particularly with women) but no real long-term relationships of any kind. He was never violent and basically law abiding, but couldn’t seem to maintain a job because he’d get cross with employers (often do to fraternizing with the ladies at work). Never has had a problem finding another job.

He was the most interesting one I’ve met, the others are all just run-of-the-mill executives at large companies.

Edit: just remembered he liked to start bar fights so I guess was violent. I mostly meant not violent to people who didn’t want to participate in it; I’m led to believe he also mostly lost the fights so I’m not sure what it was about.
Eh, if you're going to be using it as a text editor for 8 hours a day, you can take 2 minutes to install a package, surely.
Almost argued against this for example then space industry, but it seems SpaceX is doing and progressing well and well within normal budgets
The simple truth is that due to decades of lack of investment, chronic individualism, poor vocational schooling and inflated university degree costs, US workers cannot compete. They are less competent, less disciplined, less skilled. Some of this is due to no fault of their own, while some of this is also due to the culture. This manifests in every facet of American industrial capacity -- from "toothpick and tissue paper" home construction to most basic manufacturing like injection moulding, where moulds are used far past their serviceing periods to churn out margins.
I'm just playing around with these models, first time using them locally. I don't know about huggingface, but with ollama I was up and running in about 10 minutes. Shockingly easy! Also, ollama claims to distribute the load automatically over CPU and GPU.

Gemma 2B and 7B are both very fast, work well in common domains, but have some holes in their knowledge. Mixtral impresses with completeness, but is noticeably slower.
I was also surprised not to see a flying probe system - I would expect this to be viable with modern 3D printer motion & control systems, but obviously this is highly non-trivial and has lots of mean details in the mechanical, electronics and software domains to solve.

I did not think of a die-bond machine (I suppose it bonds a wire to each pad instead of you doing it by hand?), but of course that also makes sense. And at least the motion system is much simpler.

A first step/experiment could be to automate creation of the gnd net. For that you only need a single tool head, meaning you can repurpose mostly any 3D printer motion system; for small increments, this could (later) happen during the die-bond process or become a precursor to a flying probe tool head. Of course I can not judge if that's a worthy investment of your time, or if you would enjoy building something like this ;)

Anyway, the effort, skill and dexterity are amazing! Spending 3 weeks soldering 1917 tiny leads seems to be just the icing on the cake :)
I'm going to take the exact opposite take and claim that "some excellent researchers" support it.

"AGI" is practically already here, you just don't want to admit it: https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...
The mall? These days I almost never see a mall.

And in age when everybody carries a cell phone, how important is a clock?
Never be responsible for what you don't control
Even 30+ years ago when I lived overseas on military bases, change was not given in pennies on the base exchange as it was too expensive to ship them (as I was told). Instead your change was rounded to the nearest nickel.
See also: https://jackcook.com/2024/02/23/mamba.html
Ever heard of wristwatches? Or phones that show the current time prominently on the lock screen?
Dude, bad news but Bytedance owns an office in San Jose. Can't believe the US would sell land like that. All land should be owned by the community and developed under Sixth People's Congress Local 718 according to the Four Year Plan laid out.
But the can say "I don't know." They can be trained to do so ("as of my knowledge cutoff in September 2020 I don't know who Bob Whatgenflabl is") and they can be given context that makes it more likely they do so (I've had good success with this for RAG applications, and extremely little, but not zero, for general prompts.)
No privacy policy, no contact info?
If this interests anyone who hasn't played with it yet, I highly recommend trying out Factor. For me, it makes programming fun again.

Some good practice problems can be found on Advent of Code, Codewars, and the Perl Weekly Challenge.
Since ~2003 I didn't wear a watch, because I always had a clock with me.

But a decade+ later I wear them again, because the process of checking the current time on the wrist watches is one of the easiest[0] and less obstructive things. So if I need to track the time then I just need to have a vague idea of it in my mind and therefore I would just occasionally look it up and have at least some understanding of how much time I spent doing something. Well, most of the time. Doesn't work good in a bar, but still does work.

And for the shops/mall and whatever - just write a goddamn list of the items beforehand! Be it a paper list[1] or an app in your mobile clock you always have on you, you would check out the items in no time and (if you are living not in the US) you would even know how much you would spend on it even before you enter the shop.

[0] well, partially, because I wear black Axiom, heh

[1] I recently bought a thin pocket sized notebook (not moleskin! soft cover) and an automatic pencil. Yes, a decade+ later. The most amusing situation was recently when I needed to do some explanations, the notebook (14", an electronic one) was on the last breath, phone was on the charger quite far away and I just casually pull out that paper notebook and a pencil - my visavi just burst out laughing. The best part is what yes, the pen on paper did make the explanations fast and easy!