skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A vast supermajority of the entire inhabited human planet is so far below replacement-level fertility that human extinction is now closer than the ice caps being completely 100% melted.

This has been the case for several years and is a trend that still accelerating. Fun fact: human fertility per person is shrinking faster than GHG emissions per person are growing.

Even with a handful of countries still breeding like rabbits with 6.0+ TFR, the world population is set to peak before 2100 before entering a prolonged decline.

Ecological overshoot is a bunk idea. From wikipedia: "Global ecological overshoot occurs when the demands made by humanity exceed what the biosphere of Earth can provide through its capacity for renewal."

Earth's capacity for natural resource renewal is routinely increased by human activity.

For instance, when humans switched from hunting and gathering to agriculture, earth's capacity for natural resource renewal rose rapidly as many new reccuringly-planted crops sprung up in places they never had before.

Another example, the invention of fertilizer. Food scarcity used to be a real problem for large swaths of the planet. It isn't a problem for most of the planet now, in spite of the fact that demand has grown, and demand growth accelerated by orders of magnitude relative to e.g. 1000 AD. In fact, human activity has made the renewal capacity for earth so much greater that we now have an entirely different problem: for the first time in human history, there are more people consuming too many calories than there are people consuming too few calories. Clearly, food isn't the problem.

The sun provides enough energy to desalinate every ocean on the planet hundreds of times over even with our current rudimentary PV technology with efficiency rates in the ballpark of just ~20%. Water isn't the problem.

While fusion may still eternally be 20+ years away, we've had fission for decades now. You can power the global electricity needs of twice the population of today's planet with reactors taking up less space than Rhode Island. The waste can be permanently and safely disposed of continuously by launching it into the sun for something like 0.000001% of the annual global GDP.

Of course, the sun is also blasting us with the product of nuclear fusion constantly, so we could just massively scale solar to humanity-sized installations. Imagine using a bullet train to get from one side of the humanity-scale PV installation because driving takes too long. So ultimately, electricity isn't the problem.

In order for humanity to be able to run, we need to not kill it right after it started crawling.

I must be missing something here because it seems like we have pretty straightforward roadmaps to meeting the water, electricity, and food needs of a population 2x the current global population - just what demands are being made by humanity that our solar system is incapable of meeting, when combined with human ingenuity giving us the stream of groundbreaking technological improvements that pretty much everyone on earth is not only accustomed to, but continuing to expect more of?
As someone whose primary area of development is embedded systems and has never used a Container, I really like this ELI5 explanation.
I like:

- “open weights” for no training data and no restrictions on use,

- “weights available” for no training data and restrictions on use, like in this case.
The problem is when you say demonstratably untrue most of the things that I see flagged it largely depends on your perception and point of view. Because it's not arguing over scientific facts that can be proven, nor is it theories or hypotheses that have yet to have been found false. It comes down to statements that depend on context.

Because politicians make statements all the time that depending on the context you're hearing it in could be false in your mind but the context that they're saying it in could be absolutely true to them. It is very rarely a direct outright lie. This is the problem when you're hiring censors to flag contextual information.

The solution you're wanting is so ripe for being corrupted and being corrupted in a way that is unknown and unknowable. You're literally allowing politicians to determine what is considered truth and removing the individuals ability to understand or decide. I really going to need a lot more details about how censorship is a reasonable attempt to solve speech you disagree with.

Because the foundation of Western ideals with free speech and government powers come from the common well of the people (and not the king or the aristocracy) is in direct contradiction with this idea of goodspeak. Because those making false claims or twisting words have always been with us and will always be with us. Saying we're willing to accept some poison because we're unable to exercise our free thoughts as individuals boggles my mind. Once you start taking that poison that the aristocracy will decide for you there is no limit to how much they will feed you. We are failing to learn the lessons of History.
This is one of those "no shit" articles.
Maybe we are already 97% or something. I don't have games left anymore which I want to play and don't work in Linux. But of course, very limited perspective. Anti-cheat engines are the biggest problems still, while EAC and BattleEye are natively supported already.
Unrelated but it's interesting how english uses the same word to refer to what in spanish could be "clave", "llave" and "tecla" all vastly distinct specialisations of a "key".
It might make your life easier to just use a VM for Teams for when you have to attend fancy meetings, and your smartphone (or Chrome browser) for basic messaging. There's a Teams app for iOS and Android, so having a phone or a tablet is an option too.
"Good" definitely doesn't include government capturing taxpayer money and using it to try and cover up fundamental leadership mistakes and incompetence while hiding it from the public.

From the article referenced above:

"...though we won’t know how much those companies have been paid until they make announcements of their own.'
OpenProject 13.4 includes the GitLab integration into the core.
Don't be so mule-headed.

While it is true that the investigation into the causes of the disaster is just starting and we don't yet have a definite conclusion, user "jordanb" has done a great service in pointing us to a book written by a domain expert which had pointed out fundamental design flaws in the design of Tankers long ago. Design Flaws have no expiry date until they are acknowledged and fixed properly. In an era of disinformation/misinformation and focusing solely on profits it is important that people be shown some factual data by actual engineers/experts who were very much concerned with safety and how all concerns were flouted by concerned companies/authorities.

Just like the Boeing disasters have shone the spotlight on Civilian Aeroplane Safety, this disaster shines a spotlight on Tanker Safety, arguably a far far more important topic since almost all the world trade of goods and oil is dependent on them exclusively.
I like Finland's approach to this problem: traffic fines are proportional to income.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/finnish-busine...
Cortana was pretty much already that though! It had mercifully mostly been removed, but I guess it’s time for round 2.
I think we’re at 90% right now.

I’ve been gaming on Linux (both retro and new games) for the past 3 or 4 years and the vast majority run with either no or minimal, identical config.
> But that doesn't mean that sleep apnea makes people gain weight

I gather that you are unaware of how sleep apnea causes poor sleep, which in turn causes insulin resistance, which in turn causes an elevated production of insulin, which in turn forces glucose into your adipose tissue, which in turn makes the rest of your tissues starved for energy, which in turn causes you to be hungrier, overeat and gain weight.

This is an oversimplification, of course, as there are hormones other than insulin and cortisol involved in the complex process of insulin resistance, but it is at least a starting point that goes beyond the useless truism that "people gain weight because they overeat". Of course they do, but the mechanisms why they are hungrier than they need to be are crucial if you want to address the problem, because in the long run every human being with free access to food will eat precisely until they are no longer hungry, whether or not they are metabolically healthy or not.
Yes I did. I even later tried to tell it to fix this, and was not successful.
There is no reason to imagine that your obligation to bob JR who you helped create ought to depend in any way shape or form on whether you were OK with aborting him. In the first place he wasn't part of the transaction. In the second place you never meaningfully made a decision you made a suggestion hanging your obligation on whether you made a suggestion in writing is nonsensical. If you want to point out

Ascending from the moral to the societal perspective every unconnected man ever would file an order of NMPB (not my problem bitch) at every unplanned pregnancy with a woman they either weren't in a committed relationship or with whom they decided they didn't want to raise a kid with either at inception or at any time before the local limit to abort expired.

One might predict an uptick of abortions. There would certainly be some additional further decreasing our birth rate which is already below replacement but the truth is there is already a strong incentive in that direction. It's already hard to be a single mother. It's already hard to make a fellow contribute. Many women already do without. I think the majority would have their baby and go their own way.

We would see a generation of children raised with even less help, in greater poverty, in greater privation. Society would bear more costs in terms of medical benefits, food stamps, housing assistance or society would bear the cost in terms of crime and generally poorer social outcomes.

I'm not "close to getting it" You are advancing the same position as 16 year old me. I just had an extra 27 years to think about it.
This is generally good advice. "Knowledge porn" is a waste of time. However, there are moments in a day when reading is one of the only things you can do. For example, while on a treadmill or 10-15 minutes before you sleep. As long as you read in those kinds of moments I don't see it as a waste of time.

On the other hand, if you're reading an hour or two a day when you could be building, showing or talking to someone then you're mismanaging your time.
I'm not in the USA but my universities in the 90s used to offer at least 5 online 5-year courses (CE, EE, Chemical, Mechanics and Energy) and you would have to go only one month a year for the labs. Now they offer ZERO. It wouldn't surprise me that some professors feel "offended" that people choose to follow the lectures online instead of taking the "advantage" of his prestigious person.
I have an RTX 3080 with 10GB of VRAM. I'm able to run models larger than 10GB using llama.cpp and offloading to the GPU as much as can fit into VRAM. The remainder of the model runs on CPU + regular RAM.

The `nvtop` command displays a nice graph of how much GPU processing and VRAM is being consumed. When I run a model that fits entirely into VRAM, say Mistral 7B, nvtop shows the GPU processing running at full tilt. When I run a model bigger than 10GB, say Mixtral or Llama 70B with GPU offloading, my CPU will run full tilt and the VRAM is full, but the GPU processor itself will operate far below full capacity.

I think what is happening here is that the model layers that are offloaded to the GPU do their processing, then the GPU spends most of the time waiting for the much slower CPU to do its thing. So in my case, I think upgrading to a faster GPU would make little to no difference when running the bigger models, so long as the VRAM is capped at the same level. But upgrading to a GPU with more VRAM, even a slower GPU, should make the overall speed faster for bigger models because the GPU would spend less time waiting for the CPU. (Of course, models that fit entirely into VRAM will run faster on a faster GPU).

In my case, the amount of VRAM absolutely seems to be the performance bottleneck. If I do upgrade, it will be for a GPU with more VRAM, not necessarily a GPU with more processing power. That has been my experience running llama.cpp. YMMV.
in nature it is the restriction that affords growth. Not growth itself. Growth is like cancer. Restriction is like selection. Upvoting alone also doesnt outline content that is toxic, incorrect and makes it harder to find content that we are interested in. Afterall, you have a title that explains if the content is of our own intrest fairly well.. the upvote is a popularity contest. Downvoteing alone allows our own allows ourselves to decide what We care to endeavor in.

The way this supposed enlightened website grays text that speaks contentously as a way to tell people, "he is being negative we think" seeks to reenforce the popularity contest sort of aggregation.

I wish It didnt happen here. This persons post got to the top but HN wants to still put their own 2 cents into the matter.
they have a technical report coming! knowing the team, they will do a great job disclosing as much as possible.
America's Affordable Housing Crisis
Yeah I wouldn't read too much into any single study. But what I would defend vigorously is System1 / System2 distinction as something so clear/fundamental that you can see it constantly once you understand it.
Yeah, but I'm not sure it can do better than Trump can already do.

For all the talk that Biden looks old, Trump looks old too. In the case of Biden he has matured into a kindly old man who speaks earnestly but in the case of Trump I think once the campaign gets really going more people will see that he isn't the man that he was in 2016.

I think election prediction markets have tended to lean right because a certain kind of person who supports the right is a person with more money than sense. People with that mindset might "take one for the team" to raise the visibility of Truth Social.
Interesting! It is probably one of the worst trick I have seen in a while for a bar graph. Never seen this one before. Trust vanishes instantly facing that kind of dataviz.
> A Gallup poll made on behalf of CNN and USA Today concluded that 79% of Americans thought the Iraq War was justified, with or without conclusive evidence of illegal weapons.

If you honestly believe this comparison makes sense, then you are saying that Hamas is misleading Palestinians as to their motivation for attacking Israeli civilians.

Is that what you’re asserting?
Yeah that is what I mean.

Similar to how a lot of package companies have a certain pattern, length, whatever for their tracking numbers. If there was a somewhat reliable way to say "This is a 1Password key" or "This is an iCloud key" it makes it means even without context it could be an issue.
Sorry, I don't. Maybe just a rough texture would be good though.
Why do european farmers seem to have an aversion towards selling land? In the US it seems like farmers are always trying to cash out their land for a developer as soon as there is demand. Look at the farmland interface at most american cities and you can see active development on satellite views. Meanwhile over in amsterdam some of the most prime real estate not far from the central train station is still just farms. Seems to me they could stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars selling off these lots for development, then invest that money and make more than tight margin farming ever would have presumably.
Fantastic book - I certainly had to read it slowly, not fast.

Two things bothered me about it though - firstly, it landed shortly before the reproducibility issues of such research became more widely known.

Secondly - towards the end of the book, it espouses the idea that using some methods of psychlogical and behavoural manipulation is at worst a net neutral, especially if there was nothing to see of the manipluation in question. After all, who can argue against organ donation being opt-out by default, or similar?

To me, this is like a magician claiming that there was no sleight of hand, as we were free to look wherever we liked during their performance. Denying the presence and capabailities of tools of manipulation is, in my opinion, incredibly dangerous, and the worst of its outcomes has been very publicly played out in recent years.
It’s worth that much as a way to bribe him and not get sent to jail for doing so.
Guix seems the best when it comes to reproducibility https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2024/identifying-software/
Really? PC users need a fully-dedicated physical key for more AI bullshit because it wouldn't be enough to just macro it with WIN+<key> or key-chord it? It would be detrimental to PC users' lives if they had to put slightly more effort to activate some gimmick AI feature?

Imagine if a physical key dedicated to bringing up Clippy was added.
I suppose it doesn't make a material difference if it's enforceable, since if you have personal data on their platform right now you have to assume it's been accessed or consumed in some form.

They obviously had an inent to start using the data for something, and given what I know about tech businesses, I wouldn't assume they only started once the ToS change was made. I would consider my data compromised.
My personal advice, if the social network's well-being is dependent on a single individual, you might wish to consider the difference between going long and going short.
On my worst days I like to think "Well, at least I'm not a cockroach being eaten alive from the inside out, with my vital organs specifically spared long enough so I can survive as food for the thing eating me, by a parasitic wasp."

And, quite seriously, the existence of this type of horrific parasitism precludes the existence of any sort of benevolent god in my mind. It's easy to imagine a million different universes where this sort of abysmal torture doesn't exist, and it only makes sense in the view of "uncaring" evolution.
Because it's easier to support, easier to answer bug reports and/or crash reports etc. And distros can now not mess up the build too much, which happens a lot with any sufficiently complicated piece of software.
Besides your average user does not want to deal with building something like OBS or Ardour or any of these programs that have a ton of dependencies and no real unified package manager to install them.
In some businesses, yes, fines are just considered part of the cost of doing business.
I'm sure it is. But the point should still stand.
If you watch it in slow motion and how it breaks apart, you won't really find it surprising how things snap and bend considering how big the container ship is compared to the bridge. It makes a lot of sense.
Then it isn't FOSS, because it violates freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish
Correct, we don't need milk. Our bodies don't need milk past baby-hood. It's why women when pregnant only lactate, milk is for babies and we produce our own. Oat milk, coconut milk now make good alternatives and it's caught on because it's not a base item for meal.

I mean, it's used with other ingredients to produce the same result and you the difference is satisfactory. Coffee with oat milk, coconut is still coffee without or with dairy milk.

However, those substitutes in itself don't allow you to produce other products where it can aid in human development as an example.

Drinking milk by itself can be bad, your body can have trouble digesting it. But when the milk is used to produce cheese, which produces fat, proteins which your body do require in moderate amounts of where do you source that?

Robbing a cow of it's milk is an ethical question and one which is very debatable. Has the cow consented to giving you it's milk, as to the same as taking a hen's egg for a fried egg?

Nuts, have the tree consented for you taking their cashew nuts, olive oil which we inhumanely abuse too; forestation and the rest.

One could argue that the true food source is yourself.

Butchering your arm and frying it is probably the most humane, un-cruel source of food you could eat. But you were produced by your parents so you better ask for their permission first.

It all comes down to your morals and where your compass sits.
Although in reality this is persuaded and manipulated by today's social constructs so not everyone has full working compass.

For me, if a cow produces excess amounts, and I can thank the cow before drinking the milk; turning that milk in to another food source that can benefit more. I feel that is satisfactory.

If they produce excess amounts, why waste it? Same with grapes, wine, nuts. They are all food providers and in excess. If I don't go in to greed. Start taking more than what's needed; I don't need cheese everyday, I don't need eggs every day, I don't see cruel.

It is cruel when it has to be produced extensively just to fuel the people who want it for greed or no purpose. If they need it more for their young, then it's theirs.

I can give back and just out of my own heart I do when I can. I'm very grateful for the sourced food I eat and I eat it in moderation. Alternatives do exist but when I desire such produce I ensure the best quality even if it costs.

Which it should, it shouldn't be cheap nor a commodity, but that itself raises the questions of what about those who can't afford quality foods -- should they go without?
> no one is shouting "we must stop all air travel!!!" every time a plane fails and people die.

I know this isn't quite what you meant, but that's exactly what we do when a plane fails and people die, as happened in this case, as I'm sure you know! But only the plane that has the issue is grounded, not all planes.

As to the merits of John Barnett's complaints, I leave that to other people to decide. That he was murdered over reporting this is a claim I'm highly skeptical of, and to my knowledge there is only circumstantial evidence to suggest that he was.
I would suggest getting the teachers to put up a catalogs of frequently asked questions to help with seo, and charge for custom videos.
Honestly -- sorry, dang, but -- RTFA. You missed the entire fricking point of it. By a mile.
I know you’re being downvoted into oblivion, but I agree. I’m not overweight, but had put on nearly 40lbs more than my historic average. There’s all kinds of advice, but the best I found was: the only way to lose weight is to have a caloric deficit.

That meant measuring calories until I could generally estimate what I was taking in each day. 1000-1500 calories a day sucks at first, but seeing the scale drop is motivating. I dropped 30lbs in about 6 months.

You can’t gain weight if you are taking in less calories than you expend. That’s pretty simple. Not eating that cheesecake, on the other hand, not so easy.
git has been using the hardened variant of SHA-1 for ages, so the shattered.io files haven't had that effect for a long time.

Edit: Since git 2.13, released about a month after SHAttered was published in 2017: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNote...
There may be "many" people not thinking about it, but there are measurably and verifiably not plenty, which has a definition something like "more than enough". Fertility rates in western countries, including the United States, are below replacement level. There is a far more disturbing dystopia waiting for us than Idiocracy.
Yeah, this is why I ask climate scientists to use a proper 0 K graph but they always zoom it in to exaggerate climate change. Display correctly with 0 included and you’ll see that climate change isn’t a big deal.

It’s a common marketing and fear mongering trick.