skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you are driving in such a manner that you cannot stop in time for toddlers, deer, or broken down cars. Perhaps if you were driving slower you would not need to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid road hazards?
There seems to be another propaganda/disinformation campaign going on in "eco" circles online, which I call the "personal responsibility" myth. One of the main themes of this "campaign" (if it even is one) is to put all of the onus on making changes beneficial to the climate on the consumer rather than pressuring our representatives and businesses to make better decisions.

My counterargument to these types of things is that if every single person took every single action to reduce their carbon footprint they possibly could, the global economy would simply collapse, and probably very quickly. Large scale, systemic change and likely a massive reduction in consumption is needed - I personally think it unlikely/impossible in today's geopolitical and domestic climate. Then, these types will just start calling you a "doomer." It's all so seemingly scripted I always feel like it's coming from somewhere because it is so insanely counterproductive and predictable.
That's the dream here in the states too. Our issue is that we have built our cities as enormous suburbs with such a low density that rail/transit isn't viable from a cost/person perspective. We tend to think of public transit a a business rather than as a service and our tax payers don't want to spend billions on not driving especially as our cost per mile is insane[0]. So, for the states EVs are basically the only way for us to ease out of 4000+sqft home on 4 acres and a 40 mile car commute and back into an built environment that does not require a car for all trips

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/the-u-s-g...
I'm not a huge TenCent fan but this is a wildly misleading title.
For others as lost as I am:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model

https://changelog.com/posts/waterfall-doesnt-mean-what-you-t...

(Links to the 1983 paper within both links)
The article is mainly about fertility rate which is difficult to predict.
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> have thousands of years of history with each other

Not really.

In many parts of what is now Germany, people spoke dialects that were incomprehensible even to people in the next valley; this was as recently as the 19thC. In the 20thC, a British leader could speak of Czeckoslovakia as "a faraway country of which we know little". Modern Frenchmen would regard their countrymen from 2K years ago as completely alien. Modern Greeks speak a language that is recognizably derived from ancient Greek, but in other cultural respects, modern and ancient Greeks are very different.

Those ancient societies regarded their neighbours as barbarian enemies, not as neighbours they shared a culture with. It's only since (say) the 5thC AD that European culture began to become more homogenous.

BTW, the idea that the US government is "unified" looks like a sick joke, from my perspective.
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Possibly worth also including just how controversial Wernher von Braun is.

Von Braun is a highly controversial figure widely seen as escaping justice for his Nazi war crimes due to the Americans' desire to beat the Soviets in the Cold War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Google has explicitly denied that Project Nimbus has anything to do with defense or military use.

And yet the IDF and other security agencies in Israel are proudly boasted of as clients in their own press releases.
Is it really censorship if the platform just isn't producing the output you requested? I understand "censorship" to be one agent blocking the ability of another (fully independent) agent to express themselves. In this case it seems more like an editorial board of a newspaper deciding what they will or will not publish, which is kind of a different beast.
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run0 has already been exploited: https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/17854955875146385...

There will be plenty more where that came from. Yet another terrible idea and terrible implementation from Poettering.
Could increased street sweeping help?
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I agree with you, your declarative abstraction has to have an imperative implementation underneath that will do all the dirty work. Ansible presents this declarative interface at the module level (if the module is implemented properly, most aren't), and a playbook is an imperative list of declarations to be applied. Roles also combine a list of imperative steps into a declarative interface.

Since apparently (I try to avoid ansible, so I might be missing something) playbooks are the go-to approach of using ansible this means that most uses of ansible are imperative (in the context of configuring a system), unless you only ever give a system a singular role and then you are probably defining your role in imperative steps.

A system like NixOS on the other hand presents the entirety of a system configuration in a single declarative interface that is applied in one go, while applying such a configuration to a system can be a thought of as an imperative step (although it is usually a singular, unconditional step). So it is declarative at a higher abstraction level.
Are there micro-optimizations that eke out small advancements? Yes, absolutely - the modern tokenizer is a good example of that.

Is the core of the technology that complex? No. You could get very far with a naive tokenizer that just tokenized by words and replaced unknown words with <unk>. This is extremely simple to implement and I've trained transformers like this. It (of course) makes a perplexity difference but the core of the technology is not changed and is quite simple. Most of the complexity is in the hardware, not the software innovations.

> And we need many more to get the technology to an actually usable level instead of the current word spaghetti that we get.

I think the current technology is useable.

> you shouldn’t just choose the attention hammer and hammer away

It's a good first choice of hammer, tbph.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198258
> I would suggest you put pricing on a separate page. Was about to leave and then only realised i had to scroll all the way down to find it.

This is a very common landing page design though for these types of SaaS apps, lots of them are long single pages with pricing near the bottom.
Except this is factually untrue. Social mobility is greater in europe than in the us:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/american...

There's this false narrative about the US being the bastion of social mobility, but it just doesn't hold up to facts. Europe does much better on this.
Oh. Too bad.

I liked that. At the very least, I like to imagine that it helped women realize that making the first move is hard.

Not that hard, but I've heard a lot of women get frustrated that men are bad at it. Lots of women aren't so great, either. I got lots of "hi" opening messages, which is just lazy.

If you're interested, give some hint about why. Ask them something about their profile, or share something about yourself that matches something they talked about. Or if they didn't say anything (which is obnoxious), scrutinize the pictures for clues about them. If you're just matching with them because they have a pretty face, this isn't going to go well.

(And the same advice goes for men: if you don't say anything about yourself, they won't know how to make the first move. Though apparently that matters less now.)
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There's a difference between FIPS approved algorithms, which are actually pretty broad and well-selected these days, and FIPS validated implementations, which are at best a PITA and often actively harmful. Very rarely do you actually need a FIPS-validated implementation.
Having worked in telephone construction (including on a Centurylink contract), your next step after customer service fails should be your state's public utility commission. PUC complaints light fires under asses. Dead phone lines were not tolerated for us (due to, obviously, customers can't call for help if something happens), and you don't need a bonafide copper splicer to make a temporary repair to get customers back in service.
The LLM there runs on your phone?
If you're applying to frontend stuff, every monkey can do that.

If you really like programming, sink your teeth into C and C++ and Linux and look for jobs using those. I think it's much more rewarding internally, and, externally, there's a shortage of talent in programming that isn't using the latest corporate Products--I mean languages/frameworks (Java/C#/Go/Node/React/Angular). ;p
Long billion vs short billion?
I'm less concerned about regulations and more about utilities. Many of them are still stuck in a mind set of using fossil fuel power plants to meet peak demand. Recently Georgia Power and Duke Energy in the south east of the US said they would need to build more gas power plants to meet data centre demand. But they don't need to do that. VPPs plus additional grid optimisation negates the need for more fossil fuel generation. The Volts podcast talked about this recently: https://www.volts.wtf/p/rising-electricity-demand-requires
u/lxgr was referring to the business being crowded/not-crowded, not LEO itself.
I searched Claude AI in the apple app store and this app is not even listed. Searching Claude it is the 22nd result.

Is this supposed to be higher in the list or is that expected?
Yeah I’d maybe change that quick while it doesn’t matter to you. That’s a lawyer letter waiting to happen!
This and many other discussions misses the point that most people that don't like systemd have with it.

It can largely do everything it replaces, but differently, in some cases with improvements. Every year it increases its scope of 'problems' its solved.

But the issue is it hasn't _ACTUALLY_ solved a problem for me in about a decade, its only introduced problems. Its replaced things that worked perfectly for me and millions of other users for years/decades with something that... also works... but differently. Now to accomplish the _SAME_ outcome without any personal benefit I have to re-learn their new and usually opinionated way.

There was a time I could log into a system, find logs, parse dates and do everything in these discussions reletave to logs, rotation. Regardless of service because the standards were close enough and the basic tooling (tail/find/tar/grep/awk etc.) worked everywhere always, and you never had to google even if the service was one you never worked on before.

For systemd its the opposite, its almost a guarantee you have to google something along the line when interacting with new systems and services. And as soon as their newly enforced opinions and way of doing things is getting comfortable they go and replace something else that was also working... perfectly fine.

If it actively solved problems for the majority of users we wouldn't hate it so much. Instead it requires more mental overhead than anything other than XORG to deal with and constantly manage than anything else in the linux ecosystem.
There is a certain personality type that likes to reimagine that their original thinking was not flawed, even when presented with a detail that they did not incorporate into their original thinking. If the detail had been in their awareness from the start, they would have arrived at a different position, but they are bound to a strict sense of linearity for reasons inexplicable to me except for ego protection.
When I lived in Chicago the public water fountains just ran all the time. There was no button. The city is right on Lake Michigan so they have an abundant supply of fresh water. As I understand it, for many years they did not even meter water for residential service, you just paid a flat fee every month.
Lumen is a dead company walking.

Level3's autocratic-yet-incompetent philosophy as espoused by their garbage-tier middle mangement, took over after Jeff Storey became CEO and it's been downhill ever since.

You can see a lot of parallels between the Level3/CenturyLink merger and the McDonnell Douglas/Boeing merger.
They're pretty horrible.

I signed up with them and didn't get actual service for a month because the first tech didn't do anything (as confirmed by the second tech) and I couldn't take time off work to let them into the apartment for them to determine why it wasn't working for a while. Still charged me full price for the first month though.

The whole thing was pretty dodgy to begin with as someone with an AT&T shirt showed up at my door trying to sign me up for "internet" and, after figuring out what they were really selling and telling them I owed CenturyLink money, said "that's not a problem" so I'm like "fuck yeah, sign me up". No clue what he did to get me service but I'm sure he got paid just like the first tech who's inaction was found out too late to reverse their payment for "service" according to the second tech.

Eventually I couldn't pay the bill and they tried to collect but apparently couldn't even prove I signed up after I innocently asked why they're trying to collect a debt that was something like eight years old. Incompetent company meets irresponsible consumer...
With equal evidence, one might say that you didn't even spend one minute thinking about how such a scheme would necessarily be implemented before going "wooha, awesome!"

The idle compute power of millions of Tesla idle vehicles _does not belong to him_. The electricity in their batteries _does not belong to him_. The line power charging those batteries _does not belong to him_.
> It seems like it wouldn't be hard to train a model on this era of 4chan and create a simulacrum.

Out of curiosity, are there any models trained on HN posts?
This is my results on a dice roll

[1]
> 3 5 2 4 1 6 3 2 5 1

I tried my own experiments and ChatGPT felt like being funny:

[2]
> A third of the time, paragraphs end with the word foo, the other two thirds they end with the word bar, this time it will end on:
> How about "baz"? It's unexpected and adds a touch of whimsy.

Interestingly, this other prompt works as expected:

[3]
> about half of the time, you should say "foo", the other half, you should say "bar", what about now ?
> Bar.
> about half of the time, you should say "foo", the other half, you should say "bar", what about now ?
> Foo.

[1]: https://chat.openai.com/share/07388362-1a61-4527-81af-4941a0...
[2]: https://chat.openai.com/share/9caf07dd-69f4-4470-82a6-ab5642...
[3]: https://chat.openai.com/share/1c627528-60af-4cd9-a1ec-efa524...
Is the hypothetical immigrant not also part of the labor class? What about their massively increased surplus through immigration? Restricted immigration doesn't help the "labor class" at all except only as defined through a narrow nationalist lens.
I have a Gemini Pro trial, have been paying for ChatGPT since premium launched and as of last month started paying for Claude Opus.

Claude’s context window for Opus is remarkable and I’d say that GPT4 is vastly inferior as a result.

The second Anthropic ship Claude with a sandbox that can use python (or equiv) to take care of tasks, I’d happily end my ChatGPT subscription.

GPT4 has been here for over a year and it shows. But until other assistants can manipulate Excel data as easily… I’m stuck paying for it.

Claude is amazing for summarisation, copywriting and reasoned thinking. I love it.
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Hey I was feeling particularly dour when I wrote this, but not everything is doom and gloom. AI/AGI will be able to solve any/all problems sometime between 2030 and 2040. I take the alarmist position because I've been hit with bad news basically every day since the Dot Bomb and 9/11, and don't feel that I'm living my best life. But we can manifest a brighter tomorrow if we choose to:

'ChatGPT for CRISPR' creates new gene-editing tools:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01243-w

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205961

The intersection of AI with biology will enable us to free ourselves of the struggles of the human condition. Some (like me) are concerned about that, but others will run with it and potentially deliver heaven on Earth.

The way I see it all going is that a vanishingly small number of people, roughly 1 in 10,000 (the number of hackers/makers in society) will work in obscurity to solve the hard problems and get real work done on a shoestring budget. But we'll only hear about the thought leaders and billionaires who do little more than decide where the resources flow.

So the most effective place to apply our motivation, passion and expertise will be in severing the hold that capital has over innovation. Loosely that looks like UBI and the resource economy I mentioned, which I just learned has the name Universal Basic Services (UBS), and intentionally avoids complications from the money side being manipulated by moneyed interests:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_services

The idea is that by providing room and board akin to an academic setting, people will be free to apply their talents to their calling and work at an exponentially faster rate to get us to a tech utopia like Star Trek, instead of being stuck in the path we're on now towards a neofeudalist tech dystopia.

Sorry if I discouraged anyone. I truly believe that there is still hope!
You could have learned something.

Instead we all wasted memory remembering that twice.

I plan to forget your username. I hope I never have cause to remember it.

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Bloomberg journalism getting worse than a toilet rag these days. Remember when Bloomberg was written by more mature journalists?
With recent proposed regulations requiring real identity/kyc for IaaS, anything Turing complete served online is arguably included :)
No it doesn't, there is maybe a few grams of copper between the wiring and PCBAs in the devices. Majority of the weight is going to be cast aluminum (nearly worthless), plastic, and glass.
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Maybe the water waste in fountains feels worse in drought-prone regions? Even if the amount is comparably tiny, watching a precious resource just vanish down the drain might be hard to stomach?

I'm basing this on nothing, by the way, but it feels like a fun hypothesis.
Pretty much everyone who follows the space knows it, even Jalopnik themselves:

https://jalopnik.com/in-case-you-needed-a-reminder-tesla-fan...

The article starts with "I know that we often get accused of having a strong anti-Tesla bias on our site".

You can read a balanced article about this here:

https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/why-jalopnik-hates-t...