skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a result, not an action.

There's a book that came out recently - "Not the End of the World" by Hannah Ritchie - that starts by digging into a two-pronged definition of the concept of "sustainability", where the first prong is about meeting the needs of current generations, and the second prong (which is the one we usually focus on when thinking about sustainability) is about maintaining an environment in which future generations can meet their needs as well.

The problem with most of what we're doing today is that it fails the second prong: future generations won't be able to meet their needs if the earth is too hot to support human civilization.

But the problem with your proposed solution is that it fails the first prong.

If you were dictator of the world and waved your wand such that nobody ever dug up another fossil fuel, starting from this moment, the result would be upheaval, privation, and death on a massive scale. Human civilization is, at this moment, dependent on digging up those fossil fuels and lighting them on fire.

So what the (great many) people who are working on this problem are doing is trying to navigate a path that threads a needle between these two bad outcomes, transitioning away from the dig-stuff-up-and-burn-it model to one that still works about as well - or ideally, even better! - for people currently living, without sacrificing the lives of people who will live in the future. And yeah, pretty much everyone involved thinks that does mean we'll dig up very little of those fossils, on the other side of this transition. But that is more like an effect than a cause.

Hope that helps!
> Not for a monetary authority.

We track this information, though. Anyone doing any economic-related work will be well familiar with the data. We just don't publicize in any grand fashion because who else needs to hear it? I'll grant you that people who write comments on the internet tend to be completely out to lunch, but most people have some kind of handle on their COL situation. They aren't going to learn anything they don't already know, so there is no reason to listen in. You need demand in order for supply to show up.

Inflation doesn't mean much to Average Joe either, to be fair, except it is a leading indicator of interest rates, and Average Joe does care about interest rates, so this is why Average Joe is listening for inflation information.

> But political leaders won’t.

The leaders are the people. The very same people.

If you are trying to imply that the leaders are as lazy about democracy as they are accounting, and are willing to let the hired help do whatever it wants because they don't want to ever have to take the time to talk to them, I'm with you. Not much you can do there. But if they don't care, nobody else is going to either.
> price hikes appear designed to retain whales while tossing back small fry

Yea. That's how Enterprise SaaS has always worked.

I'm always going to prioritize F1000 customers over a small business. And small businesses in turn will end up using MSPs.

I'm not going to change my entire product roadmap to retain a customer generating $20k ACV when I can use the same effort for a customer generating me 6-8 figures of ACV.

Everyone from Broadcom to AWS to Snowflake to Databricks does this.

You get what you contribute for (either in money or code base contributions) - be it an OSS product or a paid product.

Welcome to business - the whole point is to make money, not art.

Edit: What's with the downvotes. Plenty of people come on HN for startup advice.

This is literally what EVERY company ends up doing. If you cannot target strategic or enterprise accounts, no one will give you money, and your product will inevitably be swallowed by a larger player.

And as employees it's critical to recognize this fact - this is the reason why your salary is getting paid.
The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard
It's not just expensive. It's solving the wrong problem.

You can't capture CO2 unless we have vast amounts of carbon free energy. If we have vast amounts of carbon free energy, we'll stop adding CO2. At which point the problem stops getting worse and (very gradually) improves on its own.

If the problem has gotten to the point where the amount of CO2 is itself a danger, it means we're still adding CO2 to the atmosphere, and sequestering CO2 just isn't an option.

So this is considering a scenario that isn't just expensive, but effectively impossible. And worrying about "things we might do some day" misses the fact that we need to stop using fossil fuels right now. Plotting to remove the existing carbon just isn't helpful and makes things worse.
You are describing the TSA!
It depends entirely on the specific model it's using, I guess. I believe the currently list it queries is here:

https://translatelocally.com/models.json

…Oddly, I don't actually even have Russian available at all in my desktop install of this. And there is Ukrainian, but only Ukrainian-to-English, so there's also no way that it could even be using another language as a pivot as there aren't any models that output Ukrainian. I guess the website might be using old, known bad models or something?

With "English-German tiny", I get "Private maschinelle Übersetzung, läuft lokal auf Ihrem Gerät", and with "English-German base", I get "Private maschinelle Übersetzung, die lokal auf Ihrem Gerät läuft", though I had to type it in lowercase.

I'd trust the translation quality enough to read foreign articles in it. Not enough to translate anything meant for anyone else to read…
Also Ireland, Greece, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic as well (I think) it’s not guaranteed and the details may mater (was it you grand father or stand mother, were they born there, etc)
This is often true, but it varies from state to state.

https://www.mit.edu/~jfc/right.html
That's certainly true, but can't account for the entire effect.

How high can import duties really be, compared to the markups of various middle men?

Even at an extreme rate of 50%, that would only account for a 33% lower price to the consumer – nothing compared to cutting out 2-3 intermediaries adding 20-30% each.
> regardless of your individual motivations and since there's really no inherent conflict either.

Within organizations, there's an inherent conflict between any orthogonal goals.

In theory there's no conflict, but in practice, there is constant competition for time and resources. This creates conflict between any groups whose goals are not aligned, including groups whose goals are completely unrelated. This is also why organizational politics is the way it is.
Yes, i've been trying to dig into this. People's values are basically a strategy; they hold these values, as a strategy developed by evolution. Evolution has found that instilling these values is a good strategy to sustain the continuity of life.

So, in my terminology, "values" are simply a meta strategy, that inform the development of more specific and functional strategies.

The reason I am trying to avoid the language of ethics/morals and values, is that they depend on an appeal to authority. Or at the very least, they take on the air of such authority. They're often presented as beyond debatable, somehow God sanctioned and any opposition to them is "evil".

What I would like to argue for, is that all morals/ethics/values are just strategies employed by a group of people. None of them are anointed by a higher power. Of course, we can still argue about relative effectiveness of such strategies, and why they're employed.
For big cities I disagree, was it ever standard for single people to be able to afford 1 bedroom?

People were able to afford places, but being single for majority of adult life is semi-new trend.
Especially in very dense cities.
There is a lot of fear in sunsetting features. This could be due to friction in how long it takes to develop. For example, consumer technology does a better job than regulated industries such as finance or healthcare.
> Also there is no reason to do it as it's not a man-made "climate change". People need to adapt, not fight it.

Even if you believe it's not man-made, the historical way that organisms "adapt" to climate change is by going extinct in favor of new organisms that can handle the new climate. "People should just go extinct" is, I suppose, a proposal that one could make, but I don't think it's useful along any axis.
Yep. I remember when I used to be able to search for exact strings and engines would find them! Booleans even worked. It was a magical time for web search from ~1999 to 2015.
Is there a conceptual difference to the traditional term "dead code elimination" that's been used for an eternity in C/C++ compilers and linkers?
This thread is about how closely to follow a moving car. The worry is if the moving car suddenly switches to being stopped. Will you be able to also switch to being stopped before hitting it?
It's very clear to me, let FSD stop the car, that puts all further blame on the guy if he dies or something happens. We should do everything in our power to reasonably and safely prevent it, and letting FSD stop does so, the rest is on everyone else.
I have to disagree on the "aversion to technology" point. It's something I've heard ever since I started working in software development, this isn't isolated to healthcare.

For sure, there is always some resistance to the extra work of learning something new. In my experience over many years, it's easy to overcome this resistance by showing clear improvement achieved by the new process, whatever it might be (change in order of process steps, new paper from, new software, etc.)

After working in healthcare (mid sized hospital), there is a big problem with pressure from administration that often makes little to no sense to those whose work is changing. I think a lot of this comes from weird incentives that maybe make sense in terms of short term business gain but, perhaps, are not worth the disruption to so many people's day-to-day work.

Lastly, in the field of enterprise software and healthcare in particular, I agree that many of the technical solutions are not great. There's a lot of resistance to changing software tools simply because people have changed so often and the tools are so poor. Often these tools do not come close to the promised improvement.
If you look at home ownership data across Europe, the highest home ownership is in Eastern Europe, now... one can argue that culture has something to do with it but the numbers don't lie. I don't care what you call it capital/commune but if people can't afford homes, I don't think they care. The story doesn't matter if the effects are there.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/246355/home-ownership-ra...
The article says "low power consumption" but what is the power consumption?
I say let Jim Keller show us all how it's done, as he's often done. Let him convince AMD (with their own interconnect and not specially on lead in Ethernet these days, maybe with Xilinx or Pensando but I haven't seen any serious integration in the road map?), Intel (Xe-Link on GPUs? Ethernet on Gaudi, both unobtainium? And they stopped working on their actual lead in switching/Ethernet with Tofino, WTAF BTW) and whoever else is shipping accelerator hardware to go full ethernet and maybe there's something.

But why would NVIDIA do anything to share this moat? Or even risk to have their whole ecosystem go glitchy and buggy with other hardware vendors? They invested heavily, very heavily, in network tech and did the whole integration (nccl, gpudirect, and even simple memcopy works fine with NVLINK without futzing with actual Ethernet/IP stacks) at a moment where everyone was fucking around either building GPUs back from scratch or buying and dumping good tech? If there was an actually competitive alternative, I could see Jensen have a look but I don't see it right now.
Sorry, but housing shortages were common actually due to lack of supply as thousands of people were moving from rural areas to the cities.

It was not caused by lack of will to build houses, but lack of construction capacity. Over time, the problem lessened and ultimately by late 70s it was almost unheard of to find a homeless person in a city.
Even people with serious problems like alcoholism were housed almost always.

Unfortunately this resulted in lots of gray cheap blocks of flats. Looks drab. Over time also got improved.

Homeless people are around again and number is on the rise, shortage is around again. Very expensive "apartments" that are tinier and worse made than communist housing are sold for barely attainable sums now. They just look better on the outside.
Ive noticed the same on extremely small models aswell, magnitude is a positional encoding or a couple tokens, so its easy to grok?
Having worked near these neighborhoods the value you put in would be at a high risk. It's very possible you'll be assaulted, your home will be robbed, and the market value won't match the renovation costs.

All that said, some parts are gentrifying. Though mostly where developers can get large enough plots.
Actually, even if we stopped putting carbon in the atmosphere immediately right now, we'd still need carbon capture to meet our targets.
Right. Hence the required breakthrough
This is almost entirely a problem of shitty political leadership. There are solutions, and a transition is possible, if the emergency was treated like the emergency that it is.

But this threaten very powerful established interests, and those interests have been remarkably adept at mobilizing themselves and spreading disinformation, fear, and doubt in the population.

Even the most weak and financially friendly efforts are attacked and undermined. Like a carbon tax with a generous rebate -- like here in Canada, and a policy formerly advocated by conservative economists, but now a target of populist demagoguery and will likely be gone after the next election.

Conservative and neo-liberal ideological strains have spent 40+ years steadfastly eliminating the ability of central governments to plan and have coordinated industrial/macro-economic strategies in the west -- something they mostly had after WWII.

Now we desperately need it.
> Something I've never quite understood is why, in the UK, we cap the number of medical students per year.

To keep salaries high.

I'm brazilian. In recent years, brazilian medical schools have been "democratized", so to speak. The number of medical schools has exploded and acceptance of doctors from neighboring south american countries has been facilitated. About 50 thousand new doctors enter the market every year.

Result? Pathetic salaries. Actual unemployment. Doctors fighting each other over the shittiest jobs with the worst working conditions. Doctors becoming Uber drivers. Complete loss of the prestige the profession once enjoyed. Rampant charlatanism and unethical conduct. Badly educated doctors who kill their patients. Dishonest doctors promising miracle cures on Instagram because that's what gets them engagement and therefore patients.

There is no reason whatsoever to become a doctor under these conditions. Too much responsibility, too little reward. You're better off doing literally anything else.

Society needs to carefully consider the needs of those who will be responsible for other people's lives. When responsibility does not equal reward, it's pointless. My society chose to treat those people with absolute contempt. The results are plain to see.
> So this is considering a scenario that isn't just expensive, but effectively impossible.

Plants seem to do OK. I mean, fine, there are technical arguments to be had, but have them with details and not hyperbole. Starting from that kind of position is ridiculous when there's an existence proof all around you.
This article a few weeks ago gives a good overview of the current state of carbon capture: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/15/ccs-redux-best-carbon-c...
If a car has its brakes on, it'll be extremely hard to accelerate. The brakes create more movement resistance than air resistance does.
Tesla FSD is not snake oil.
It's also a problem because the median tells you nothing about who goes without. For that you need to know the distribution. Bottom 5% of housing cost vs bottom 5% household income is more informative.
You won't train a better Gen AI model from your desk
> the actual issue is disordered expectations from the other party.

There is something called "double empathy problem", referring to the idea that there is a mutual difficulty communicating across neurotypes. Neurotypical people struggle to understand autistic people because of a sort of "language barrier" even without a deficit in neurodivergent communication skills per se.

After all, if neurotypical people are universally great communicators, they would be better at communicating with autistic people than autistic people are, but that's not how it works at all.

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/double-empathy-explained/
Arrr another one up for the pirates. Privacy it is!
The American Medical Association says ... we need more doctors and Congress should increase Medicare funding for residency programs.

https://savegme.org/
There is already too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for use to not exceed temperature targets. We need carbon capture.

And carbon capture in the oceans promises to be much more cost effective.
That's something that always struck me as odd when moving from Europe to the US:

The same chinese-imported goods (i.e. those presumably sold relatively directly from the manufacturer under various autogenerated-sounding "brand names" that often disappear as quickly as they show up) on Amazon in the US are just much more expensive here, while quality control, support etc. seem to be the same.

Are Amazon's handling fees just higher in the US or is this a market inefficiency? And if so, who's making the extra profit?
Probably because traditionally, unused 'objects' in static link libraries were ignored in the first place by linkers. But with LTO the term dead-code-elimination makes sense IMHO (since the LTO pass will drop any code and data that ends up being unused).
The world is driven by Envy, not Greed. Everyone needs something to look forward to. The stoic find it in the act of showing their kids something new, or the joy of planting a plant and waiting to see how it comes out. But if you think you’ve been deprived of something (money, attention, novelty, experiences, career progression) then you can be wound up like a spring in childhood / early career and overcompensate. You find out eventually, when you’ve burned your time, heart, energy, money, what truly matters to you. And then you may hopefully get more of it to look forward to. Have you noticed that after having 7 kids even Elon Musk started spending more time with at least one of them - by being more of a caregiver than an absentee famous father.
A day in the life of a Walmart manager
Does someone thing this is not true?
Fedora 41 will unify bin and sbin
Organizational dysfunction is what I had in mind when I wrote it. It is highly complex. A founder led or a small organization is highly empowered to course correct the ship as opposed to organization with several layers of complexity. Everyone wants the buy-in but people don't have high agency.
yes, and: Limits to Growth. It was known in 1972. The number of people is too large. Much too large. But what can we do (nothing?)
Show HN: InvoicingAPI is finally ready
After a lot of personal hardships over the past year, I can finally say that InvoicingAPI is ready for public use.

It's a platform where you can create beautiful, customizable and dynamic, tax-compliant invoices with payment links built in, so your clients pay you faster. In your dashboard you can see your payments and payouts to your bank.

This is just an initial release and plenty of features are in the pipeline, like an online builder, automated sending, 3rd party app integration, etc.

Feel free to poke around and let me know your thoughts!
I misspoke. (got confused with the key limit in my link above)

Atomics work up to 128-bits (https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/#atomi...).

Regardless, it's still less than 100 bytes, which is the max length of city strings.
Do they account for methane leaks in their “carbon neutral” calculations?
You'd have to ban all private sector employment, book deals, and basically any other means of money transfer. It's impossible.

The only way to stop corruption is to make the incentive structure altogether unattractive. Singapore, for example, has done a world class job doing so and has one of the lowest corruption rates in the world.
I believe the current record using Shor's algorithm is 31, done by IBM recently.
Capitalism may be the cause of some problems, but not inflation. Inflation isn't caused by free markets or the invisible hand, but by public policy and an oversupply of money being created by the state.
hmmm…

Ownership rules can be arbitrarily violated by unsafe code which may cause a crash, or undefined behaviour but it does not prevent rust code from running.

Many “violates single ownership rules” (eg. Concurrent mutable references) actually dont break rust, because the undefined behaviour on many platforms happen to be “eh, does whatever c does, which is actually fine”.

It would be more correct to say that they must upheld to guarantee rust code functions correctly.

However, segfaults come from memory corruption, which comes from unsafe code; probably use after drop. It doesnt usually come from violating single ownership rules, and usually it’s from “object was dropped because it was owned and you forgot to keep it alive across a callback boundary” just like c++ code with unique_ptr

…but eh, whatever. The point is it crashes, which means the binding isn’t done correctly, whatever you call it. Lay blame where blame is due; the rust wrapper isn’t safe.
> The “Assume your equity will be worth nothing” mantra. Especially in 2024, people prefer to treat stock options as a lottery ticket and not as an investment.

The post itself provides ample evidence for why this is a rational position, especially for people with even mild risk aversion.

For instance, look at the table of "Startups that exited for more than they raised." Even among those who raised a Series E or later -- the most likely to exit -- only 40% experienced a favorable exit, and among those, the mean valuation growth was 2.26X.

Under optimistic assumptions, that's a "double your money" scenario with 40% odds, which is a not even a great bet in the aggregate -- but a pretty terrible bet for any individual.

Financial advisors counsel people all the time not to put their eggs in one basket. That's why index funds like VTI are so popular. They let you diversify your investments.

Heck, putting so many eggs into the basket of your employer is risky even after it goes public! I had a publicly traded employer who had a 401(k) match paid in company stock. Every pay period, I sold that stock and bought index funds instead.
I think that is an uncharitable reading of the person you are replying to. I don't think they want to wave a magic wand and stop all oil/coal tomorrow. But investing time/money/policy to move away from fossil fuels is something we could have been doing since at least the Kyoto Protocol and yet we are doing next to nothing, and in fact are still subsidizing oil companies.
I always find it odd when I see doctors saying stuff like "I have a duty of care, so I work 24/7 if I need to." I dunno about doctors, but after 12 hours of work my mind is toast, and I wouldn't trust myself to operate a toaster. I find it really hard to imagine the same thing does not apply to them.

Is an absent doctor really worse than an exhausted one? I mean, there's obvious situations in which this is the case, but is it true on average? If someone arrives at the hospital and dies because there is no doctor available, only for that doctor to go and save 3 people that might have otherwise died the next day because they're not exhausted, should we make that tradeoff?