skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this is related to this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-023-00782-2

Obesity is caused by a prolonged positive energy balance1,2. Whether reduced energy expenditure stemming from reduced activity levels contributes is debated3,4. Here we show that in both sexes, total energy expenditure (TEE) adjusted for body composition and age declined since the late 1980s, while adjusted activity energy expenditure increased over time. We use the International Atomic Energy Agency Doubly Labelled Water database on energy expenditure of adults in the United States and Europe (n = 4,799) to explore patterns in total (TEE: n = 4,799), basal (BEE: n = 1,432) and physical activity energy expenditure (n = 1,432) over time. In males, adjusted BEE decreased significantly, but in females this did not reach significance. A larger dataset of basal metabolic rate (equivalent to BEE) measurements of 9,912 adults across 163 studies spanning 100 years replicates the decline in BEE in both sexes. We conclude that increasing obesity in the United States/Europe has probably not been fuelled by reduced physical activity leading to lowered TEE. We identify here a decline in adjusted BEE as a previously unrecognized factor.

Fewer infections can lower energy expenditure. I recall when I had Covid in 2022 I dropped 7 pounds easily whereas in the prior 2 weeks despite exercise I lost close to nothing.

Food is so calorie dense it's not that surprising obesity rates are so high. 400 calories for a pastry or frape and it's not even that filling.
In part because crude oil is used for many different things so it’s not as clear exactly what the gasoline specific emissions numbers are. Roughly speaking 50% is a good estimate, but it varies quite a bit based on your assumptions.

Similarly the gasoline lifecycle + ICE engine, gas tank, and transmission should be compared to the battery + electric motors + electricity not just the battery vs gasoline.
It's a very clever piece of engineering. I didn't quite get it until I saw this webpage with a little visual simulator of how it works, which is really great!

http://eahart.com/prius/psd/
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The lack of nukes isn't because of restriction of information. That lasted about as long as it took to leak the info to Soviets. It's far more complicated than that.

The US (and other nations) is not too friendly toward countries developing nukes. There are significant threats against them.

Also perspective is an interesting thing. Non-nuclear countries like Iran and (in the past) North Korea that get pushed around by western governments probably wouldn't agree that restriction is for the best. They would probably explain how nukes and the threat of destruction/MAD make people a lot more understanding, respectful, and restrained. Consider how Russia has been handled the past few years, compared to say Iraq.

(To be clear I'm not saying we should YOLO with nukes and other weapon information/technology, I'm just saying I think it's a lot more complicated an issue than it at first seems, and in the end it kind of comes down to who has the power, and who does not have the power, and the people without the power probably won't like it).
Or that Apple was considering a "made for iPhone" certification program to allow manufacturers of USB-C devices to certify that they'll work with iOS devices -- which would be a perfectly reasonable thing for them to have! -- and misinterpreted that as meaning that Apple intended to implement a restrictive device authorization scheme like they had for Lightning devices.

(Just because newer iOS devices have a USB-C port doesn't mean that all USB-C devices will work with them! Devices still require drivers; if iOS doesn't know how to handle a device, it won't work.)
"A British Airways supervisor has gone 'on the run' in India after being accused of organising a '£3million immigration scam' from his check-in desk at Heathrow airport."

"The supervisor allegedly ran the 'scam' for around five years from Britain's busiest airport."

"The 24-year-old suspect, who is understood to have been working at Terminal 5, allegedly charged customers £25,000 to allow them to fly without the necessary visa."
BTW, the author of this earlier created IntyBasic, a Basic compiler for the Mattel Intellivision (https://intellivisionrevolution.com/intybasic). And the famous "nanochess" tiny chess engine (hence his user name of nanochess)
Conditions for factory workers in the US haven't improved because it turned out to be an optimal way to improve productivity. It's because of worker movements demanding it again and again.

Those productivity innovations you mention would've come either way. In other countries with worse working conditions and even less labor power than the US, factory owners reap the benefits of applying such productivity innovations AND the increased output of longer working hours than is generally tolerated by US workers.

From the parent comment:

> but for corporations to adopt this there has to be a measurable benefit to the company as well.

This is only true in a world where workers are entirely subservient to their masters.
Sure, very generally we're doing PEFT starting with insights from examples very much like this one [0] and have gradually built our own tooling and customized the approach a lot as the underlying Huggingface libraries have progressed even in the last 6 months.

I will say that one of the most important parts of the process that I've found is in the prompt structuring, the use of special tokens based on how the base models were trained and customizing the tokenizer where necessary. That work in particular is not covered adequately by the examples I was able to find when I started, in my opinion.

[0] https://medium.com/@kshitiz.sahay26/fine-tuning-llama-2-for-...
I’m saying we should change that
Advance was simplified a bit and slightly less janky, but the AI in the original FFT is superb. I find the original FFT more interesting on a revisit, at least until you unlock Calculators/Arithmeticians and break the game. It does have one of the more egregious fist mission bumps[1] though.

[1] Tactics games often have a very easy tutorial mission, then drop you off in a first or second mission with an enormous difficulty bump. Sometimes even having a reverse difficulty curve, where the challenge spikes hard in the first mission, then slowly declines over the rest of the game.
We've lost too many hackers to suicide. What if Satoshi was one of them?
It's "IEEE Access".[1] That's the low end of IEEE publications. Costs US $1,995 to publish an article. There's some minimal peer review, plus they run the content through a plagiarism checking program. This is two notches down from Proceedings of the IEEE.

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“Kinder prüfen meine Gesellschaft”

children check my company

„Kommen, prüfen, meckern, gehen“

come, check, complain, go

KPMG seems to have quite a reputation.
Yes exactly. It’s a regulated market, but regulated by private companies.
I don't think it's about him being a hypocrite - just him undermining his own argument. It's a tough sell saying AI is unsafe but it's still in the public's best interest to open source it (and hence OpenAI is reneging on it's charter).
Not the same, it's much harder to watch video content than content you can read.

I don't have time to spend 30 minutes watching some in-depth video essay on a game, but I can read someone's blog for 5 minutes that hits all the relevant points.
And some people are fine with that. I know freelancers and consultants who work for multiple companies (generally remotely) and they wouldn't have it any other way.
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To initiate a shock wave, I assume? With the rest of the plane kind of hiding behind it?

Reminds me of the bulbous bow on large ships, though probably a bit different. (Still, involves waves and something sticking out the front)
> but for corporations to adopt this there has to be a measurable benefit to the company as well.

> I do think there is one clear benefit as measured in the article - employee retention.

Well, sure, I think that's a given. This is also, for example, why companies pay their employees money in exchange for their labor. The measurable benefit to the company is that very few people would work for free.
I don’t think the comment you’re replying to was saying Apple’s PWA support was world-leading.

I think it was saying that if Apple wanted to kill PWA it would have made more sense to just not make those investments over the past four years.
Why did they burn it to the ground them? Why does Petlinsky, who tells the whole story, talks to Spiegel in Dubai? Why the prospective spy Marsalek is driven around the country and gets to know all the namedrops?

If something, it seems that Petlinsky is a German agent in Russia. I'm not even sure if the article denies it, too much of a wall of text.
I imagine the ICE and EV body is relatively similar. The extra metals found in an ICE engine probably aren't that much greater, considering all the extra support/casing requiring for the batteries/weight.

It would be interesting to see the numbers.
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From a commercial perspective, it definitely is. From a cultural one, I would argue that the fact that our modern culture gets outraged about such things is a sign of its illness: we are pretending that we can avoid difficult conversations about important things by ignoring them if they make us uncomfortable.
You said you didn’t believe C-suites were ignoring things that could make them more money. I showed you a bunch of cases where C-suites are hurting themselves by ignoring data.
> A horse is a rich man's toy.

To be a tad pedantic, it's more accurate to say a "rich woman's toy".

The vast majority of horse owners/managers are women [1].

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if productivity is the same why should i be paid less just because # of hours is lower? which isn’t even always the case as these companies will do 9-10 hour days
That seems to depend on the specific version of Office, if the screenshots I looked at are to be believed. Office 2016, for example, doesn't seem to have it.

Edit: Maybe this depends on settings rather than versions? Upon further investigation, I've found some screenshots of Word/PowerPoint 2016 that have a search bar and some that don't.
it's the weirdest thing to compare nuclear weapons and biological catastrophe to tools that people around the world right now are using towards personal/professional/capitalistic benefit.

bioweapons is the thing, AI is a tool to make things. That's exactly the most powerful distinction here. Bioweapon research didn't also serendipitously make available powerful tools for the generation of images/sounds/text/ideas/plans -- so there isn't much reason to compare the benefit of the two.

These arguments aren't the same as "Let's ban the personal creation of terrifying weaponry", they're the same as "Let's ban wrenches and hack-saws because they can be used down the line in years from now to facilitate the create of terrifying weaponry" -- the problem with this argument being that it ignores the boons that such tools will allow for humanity.

Wrenches and hammers would have been banned too had they been framed as weapons of bludgeoning and torture by those that first encountered them. Thankfully people saw the benefits offered otherwise.
>> A reasonable company would have some rotating in-office IT

Ya. We had that. We had 10+ people doing trouble tickets 8am to 4pm across more than a dozen buildings. They worked hard, but were never actually done. There was always a priority list. Now they work half the week from home. Stuff is piling up and we are begging for more non-at-home IT staff to be hired.
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Cool, that might make it workable then. :)
Congratulations, you’ve just described a corporate structure.

It honestly doesn’t matter what the tax statuses of either of the corporations are. If Musk had invested in OpenAI with the goal of making tons of money off their IP (as opposed to wanting to open source it) and then the board decided to just hand over all the IP to another corporation essentially for free, Musk would be just as validated in suing.
from the thread:

> why now?

> Electric motors are finally getting good enough in performance.

I am not fully convinced, but I think more companies making more innovative rockets is a great thing for humanity in general. After all, it is statistically unlikely that SpaceX has used every single possible innovation in their rockets.
People making so much money with stock options
On Reddit's WallStreetBets people making so much with options, turning a few hundred or thousand into thousands of hundreds of thousands. Anyone else feel like they are missing out, or is this just one giant cautionary tale of survivorship bias?

Even in 2021 it was not this much, and only limited to maybe 2-3 stocks, those being GME and AMC. Ai dialed it up to 11. I have never seen anything like this. The mere mention of "AI" can send a stock up 20-100+% in a day. A small earnings beat can do the same too. I made a lot, but it seems like I can always do better.
I'll address both your comments here if that's alright,

It's not about code quality at all, it actually doesn't matter that much if the framework is excellent or just okay to reap the main benefit, which is knowledge diffusion through the team and having a set of agreed upon idioms that there's no need to bike shed over. Not every team has a software architect skillset so it's a bit of a risk hedge as well.

There's no need to argue over implementation details, you waste less time onboarding new staff and you have that rich ecosystem of docs and community of solved problems.

That's all. There are great reasons to build your own software but if you're working in a team I feel it's an easier experience to use a known framework. Also a bit more responsible from a business risk management perspective, since you don't have as big of a "bus problem". Only your business logic is trapped inside your org.
Awesome! I applied. Just letting you know in case the system flags because I clicked "no" when asked if I'm in the US or the EU.

I agree that SSR makes the "frontend VS backend API" separation very confusing. Session token VS secret key is a better framing for this, and there's a very interesting insight into the paradox that you described! The ergonomics you mention for ensuring consistency sounds like a very interesting technical challenge.
I agree it's not optimal. It's not like every game changes on every MAME release, but some indeed get re-dumped from time to time. The usual example is encrypted audio data or color palette ROMs. In an earlier version, lacking the ability to decrypt them they would be emulated with samples or code respectively, then once it's possible to dump them they get integrated into the romset for better accuracy.
The fake hair on the screen totally got me!!!
Capitalism or Socialism?

(I am unaware of serious controversy around {when, I, buy, sell}, but am ready to be enlightened)

I was ready to quibble with the wording of the title, but after reading the content decided that it was okay.
As far as I am aware I haven't made any other calls at all. This one wasn't exactly hard to predict given their treatment of scotch.io

Both were marketing/seo plays and long term there was never any incentive for them to keep the brands independent and operating at full cost.

TL;DR if you want your publication to live on well after you sell it, sell it to a publisher business, don't sell it to a product/service business.
This article is about 3 years too late.
I think non-profits change the argument here a bit. With a for-profit company, what your company is doing is trying to make money. If you change that, investors have a right to sue. With a non-profit, what the company is doing is some public service mission. Why does Musk have standing? Potentially because he donated millions to OpenAI to further their non-profit mission.

I'm not saying that Musk has a good case. I haven't read the complaint.

Still, with a non-profit, you're donating to a certain cause. If I create "Save the Climate" as a non-profit and then pivot to creating educational videos on the necessity of fossil fuels, I think it'd be reasonable to sue since we aren't performing our mission. There's certainly some latitude that management and the board should enjoy in pivoting the mission, but it isn't completely free to do whatever it wants.

Even with a for-profit company, if management or the board pivot in a way that investors think would be disastrous for the company, there could be reason to sue. Google removing "don't be evil" is a meaningless change - it changes nothing. Google deciding that it was going to shut down all of its technology properties in favor of becoming a package delivery company would be a massive change and investors could sue that it wasn't the right direction for the company and that Google was ignoring their duty to shareholders.

Companies can change direction, but they also have duties. For-profit companies are entrusted with your investment toward a goal of earning money. Non-profit companies are entrusted with your donations toward a goal of some public good. If they're breaching their duty, a lawsuit is reasonable. I'm not saying OpenAI is breaching their duty, just that they aren't free to do anything they want.
Thanks, I missed that.

I just ran qoibench on the photos they used[1] and QOI does indeed fair pretty badly with a compression ratio of 71.1% vs. 49.3% for PNG.

The photos in the QOI benchmark suite[2] somehow compress a lot better (e.g. photo_kodak/, photo_tecnick/ and photo_wikipedia/). I guess it's the film grain with the high resolution photos used in [1].

[1] https://imagecompression.info/test_images/

[2] https://qoiformat.org/benchmark/
Only indirectly via his equity in YC, but it's tiny, AFAICT.
I must say I admire the dedication.
A disembodied intelligent agent could still trigger or manipulate a person into triggering a weapon.
> light propagates forever .... Only in recent years have we managed to prove that assumption true

I thought the dark of night was explained by redshift (given distance, it shifts out of the visual spectrum). I guess the infra-red still continues on so that is in line with light propagating forever
The observable universe is finite because the light started at some point in time (and the corresponding distance in light years).

It says less about the size of the universe, than its age.
There's also Microsoft Editor to which I switched from Grammarly. I'd say it gets in the way a bit less than Grammarly but the suggestions popup/window sometimes gets buggy. It only works in Chromium browsers, so unfortunately no Firefox add-on :/
> A session token has such limited power compared to secret key

Does it though? Sure, it has different threat models, and you may choose to assign it different trust levels, but fundamentally (as I understand it) every session token _is_ a secret key, with added benefits.
"Regulations when I buy, free market when I sell"

Just doesn't have the same oomph to it as your wording
Sure, but calling it "napkin math" is disingenuous. If there's a specific problem with the math presented, they should point it out, rather than slandering the authors.
You sometimes need to break the rules in data viz (2020)
This shouldn't be that big of a surprise. The atmosphere is still there, it does the same thing to incoming light that it always does, your eye normally can't see it because the total amount of light drops the color filtering below the detection threshold of a human eyeball.
Recovering the wood from old houses costs a lot - mostly crew time. Demolition crews do recover the most valuable wood (large beams, planks and panels of rarer wood species that are no longer available). Safety and speed also matter.

Meanwhile the market for the recovered wood is limited. I've never seen someone use second hand wood for framing commercially (and I would suspect trying to do so would cause code or inspection issues). People building for themselves might - but they also often recover the wood themselves too.

Just my observations from watching many houses get demolished (still happening over a decade after earthquake here in Christchurch).

Recovered wood of nice old wood (particularly Rimu) does get used in furniture.
Doesn't that assume that an infinite amount of time has already passed? Which seems like a contradiction in terms.
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