skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Baseless? The foundation of this accusation is rock solid. Offloading the exact same computation to another person so your energy numbers look better is not a greening or sustainability effort.

Yes, I consider it baseless for the following reasons:

- First, consider the hardware running in data centers, and the iDevices running at the edge – the iPhones, iPads and presumably Macs. There's a massive difference in power consumption between a data center full of GPUs, and whatever the equivalent might be in iDevices. Few chips come close to Apple's M-series in power usage.

- Second, Apple's commitment to making those devices carbon neutral by 2030; I'm unaware of any commitment to make cloud compute hardware carbon neutral, but I'll admit that I don't really keep up with that kind of hardware so I could be totally wrong there.

- Third, consider that an AI compute service (I'm not sure what you call it) like OpenAI is always running and crunching numbers in its data center, while the iDevices are each individually running only when needed by the user.

- Fourth, the people who own the iDevices may charge them using more sustainable methods than would power a data center. For example, Iowa – where I live – generates 62% of its energy from wind power and nearly two-thirds of its total energy from renewable resources [1], whereas California only gets 54% of its energy from renewable resources. Of course this cuts both ways, there are plenty of states or even countries that get most of their power from coal, like Ohio.

That said, neither of us have any real numbers on these things so the best either of us can do is be optimistic or pessimistic. But I'd rather do that and have a discussion about it, instead of dismiss it out of hand like everyone else does by saying "haha dumb, get greenwashed".

You're right that improvements don't need to be suggested to have a conversation about greening/greenwashing. My irritation lies more in the fact that it's almost a trope at this point that you can click into the comments on any HN story that mentions greening/sustainability, and there will be comments calling it fake greenwashing. I don't disagree that it's easy for a company to greenwash if they want to, but it's tiring to see everything called greenwashing without applying any critical thinking. Everyone wants to be so jaded about corporations that they'll never trust a word about it.

[1] Although this two-thirds total includes the bio-fuel ethanol, so I feel like it shouldn't be included.
the real _and unfortunate_ reason system like Docker became so popular: Caving in to the problem and creating endless replication and mess.
It sounds like the measure of preventing users from deleting/editing their posts contradicts EU laws?
Did you happen to have a source? Not that I think this is at all unlikely, just curious about it!
My brother is an audio engineer of a sort† and just this afternoon told us that he felt like his team at the venue he works needed a uniform, and he asked Albini about, and as a result everyone ended up with the same Red Kap coveralls Albini wears.

† (I say this only because I don't know precisely what sort he is)
But you're already logged in, and if you're not well that defeats the purpose.
That's the point. I have no performance bottleneck with no_turbo. My i5 tends to turn on turbo mode and increased power demand (heat leaks) even if it's no needed. For example with no_turbo laptop is always cold and fan basically stays silent. With turbo it easily gets 40C warm while watching YT or doing my developer stuff, building docker containers and so.
I'm considering adding a similar kind of practice to my vocabulary learning app: https://vocabuo.com

Translating sentences is problematic, because they can often include other words that users don't know and there are often many possible translations, which is difficult to check.

The task "say a sentence using the word [word]" and then correcting the sentence using some LLM seems like a very promising, especially when combined with spaced-repetition flashcards.
TFA seems to agree with you; it says that bubbles are an indication that the coffee was unevenly wetted.
Java – How to make an Android app without using Android Studio? – Stack Overflow
So you think that tooth picking cleans your teeth but somehow flossing does nothing? Flossing cleans for the same reason that tooth picking does.
When I posted my answers on SO, I did it under CC-BY-SA license, as did all other contributors. Which means that a derived work of those answers - which a model trained on them surely is by any reasonable interpretation - has to abide by those terms. Meaning that it needs to attribute all the questions on which it was trained (i.e. at least part of the training set must be public), and the weights themselves need to be distributed under the same license.

So long as OpenAI abides by these terms, I don't have any problem with them using my answers for training. Do you think they will?
I still use StackOverflow. Not as much as I used too, thanks to GPT, but still multiple times a day. What I find is that I spend less time on SO.

However, IMHO deleting questions you originally wrote in the past is hurting other users more than it is hurting AI training.

Other users cannot write similar answers to yours, because it doesn't add anything and they'd get downvoted or deleted. So if you hadn't written your answer years ago, others could've written something similar. Also, other users may have commented on your questions/answers. Their efforts would be lost/deleted if you deleted your questions/answers.

Thanks for your previous contribution to the community. But I would say the worst you should be able to do is remove your name/anonymise your posts, not just delete them.
That is why I asked my question. I wanted to see if others are going through something similar or if there is truly a light at the end of this tunnel.

Part of me wants to try harder to find something better, but every attempt I make is crushed by my never ending lack of motivation/willpower. Another part of me wants to just get out of programming completely since the reasons I became a programmer are dead or were perhaps a fantasy all along.
An obligatory quote on the Langlands Program from a well-known category theorist: The thing is, I’ve never succeeded in understanding the slightest thing about it.
I agree with some of your points, but what about the frustration when someone breaks their nice & expensive umbrella by accident, or has it stolen from them? What about the inconvenience and anxiety of not wanting to lose it? What about not having a spare to lend (but actually give) to a friend or loved one?
Blooming in an Aeropress would seem to be unneeded to me if you are agitating.
My interactions with Google products remind me of 90's Microsoft. They are so rich and so well protected by their de facto monopoly that they institutionally give no F**s.

Example: In 2024, I have to go into my AdWords account daily and prevent them from adding irrelevant search terms they decide I should use to eat up my PPC budget. At best, that's user-hostile, if not outright theft.

I pay openAI $20 a month as a user and another $2.5K for their API for our business, and if I could put a memo in the payments, it would be FGooG. I don't think OpenAI is any better, but I'm ready for some new flavor of corruption.

Google is eventually going to have to pay for decades of user-hostile behavior. They just aren't loved; there is no stored-up goodwill there, which means if someone else has a better mousetrap, they die. Programmatically letting companies bid against each other for their Yellow Pages listing clearly is the most lucrative business model in the history of the Earth, but let's see what's next.
Similar at the DAC level but TI takes the captured CO2 and combines it with solar powered electrolysis created hydrogen in a methanation process to create a liquid fuel, while Climeworks combines the CO2 with water and pumps that carbonic acid underground to store it permanently as rock.

For the DAC, both companies use some form of chemical absorption or adsorption and big fans to move a lot of air, but the specifics of their filters, materials, and configurations don't seem to be public.

Climeworks is faster out of the gate, but I think TI plans to go bigger over the long term, perhaps 100-500 times bigger. Both are not ready for large scale without massive subsidies or more and much higher carbon taxes. They're both meaningless in the big carbon picture for the foreseeable future and probably will be for multiple decades. But, maybe as we get into the second half of the century, one or both will have a meaningful impact, or inspire others to similar outcomes.

DAC can work if we price carbon with DAC in mind. If we continue to pretend CO2 pollution doesn't matter much, it won't work.
Targeted ads
Speak for yourself. Without decent error type handling, exception handling is inevitable.
Given the lack of an alternative, should we instruct the human instinct of sharing in the pursuit of knowledge to sacrifice itself or accept the risk of exploitation?

If your sorry platitude is what we have to show for it, capitalism must go to Hell.
I know this wasn’t really your point, but it’s worth noting that Quora being low quality spam is not the problem. It’s why the hell Google surfaces Quora so prominently given that the results are pure shit and require registration to even see all the shit.

Is there any reasonable explanation for how they’re ranked so high? Like, how can even googlers tolerate it?
Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C
I didn’t start listening to PJ Harvey until later in her career, but Rid of Me is one of my favorite albums. It had a sort of harshness that put me off at first, but once I got past that it really grew on me, and now that perceived harshness is an inseparable part of the final product for me. I don’t know how much of that to attribute to Albini or what the album might have been with a different producer, but what it did become still stands out strongly in my musical experience.
Dice snakes fake their own deaths and use gory special effects to do it
> 30 grams of coffee, 500 grams water at 205°F

Woah, that's too hot IMO, and a bit watered-down.

Me: 33g coffee, 350g water at 190°F
This isn't a topic I know about, but wouldn't a 25-meter pool have more turns? But if that's a typo I can't see why stopping and turning would be a good thing?
> Enron and Pets.com? 1) Enron misstated earnings 2) Pets.com did not commit wire fraud.

… but both illustrate in different ways that “number go up” is not sufficient to know about the health of a company. Both had cheerleaders saying exactly what you’re saying now the whole time.

In Tesla’s case, that’s important because their P/E has been wildly out of the norm for their industry but they don’t have much in the way of a competitive edge and the higher end market they’re relying on is getting tight. Similarly, they’re making a huge profit on their carbon credits but there is no reason to expect that to scale up or even last long term.

The whole play is predicated on turning into a tech company, and that’s why this matters: if they’re saying that high share price is justified because they’re going to sell self-driving cars it’s especially important that company officers are not misleading the public. That share price would collapse if it turned out that they knew they were behind and were dishonestly hyping the stock.
But the equivalent pixel value depends on the root element font size, so the comment will be wrong when that changes. If you leave the math to the browser dev tools you'll get accurate results without any AI figuring out patterns.
Guy was as Chicago as a polish sausage.

Contributions to the remembrance thread:

Albini on Steely Dan ("the Dan"):

https://twitter.com/electricalWSOP/status/162260720209465753...

His old cooking blog, where I learned that cutting the casing off a hot italian and smooshing it flat is called a "torpedo" (at least at Paulina Market):

https://web.archive.org/web/20180125095923/http://whatimadeh...

Later

Another: his interest in uniforms, designs, and the jumpsuits they wear at Electrical:

https://paullukas.substack.com/p/talking-uniforms-logos-and-...
What does that mean "you can correlate"? That phrase is meaningless.
v0 wasn't standardized, so it doesn't count.

Also to add some more specificity to the bet, I mentioned a web component created in 2024 which wouldn't be v0.
Well put. It is fun.
I'm surprised OpenAI hasnt just crawled all of SO already?
So does anything do proper state tracking? And don’t point to the OP since very often purportedly better new architectures end up being basically vaporware (like mamba or rkwv, which still don’t have good quality pre trained models yet)
All true, but one missing is the one where people abuse things and use them in ways that were not intended by the manufacturer.
I want to hear from the base model.
So that JetBlue can sell more credit cards? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-b...
Holotropics has been around for quite a while and some yoga pranayamas also can lead to altered states. I have to admit I find mushrooms easier to deal with.
I tried to throw in some words like "mainly, most" to leave room for the many exceptions to my generalization, but perhaps it was a bit strongly worded. Even so, the point stands that people need a fall back plan to feel comfortable taking risks. I often hear business leaders patting themselves on the back for taking big risks, but leaving it unsaid that they had no real chance of losing everything. Risk tolerance enables risk taking.
I have the feeling a barely able to use the powers of the M1 iPad Pro. I think iPadOs is too limited to use M1s full potential
How is that extortion, exactly? They are merely refusing to trade their labor for the price offered. This is just basic negotiation, a fundamental mechanism of any free market.

The only reason to be offended by it specifically when people do it collectively rather than individually is because in the former case they actually have enough bargaining power vs their employer to get a better price for their labor. That is, because the market is "too free" to produce the desired (low) price of labor.
> How do you see your team environment?

Dysfunctional, disorganized, toxic, and downright incompetent.
Anecdotally? I wonder why, I'm assuming it's in response to spam, since it seems worse to me.
Targeted ads like the other guy said, and I also want to say specifically that that is useful to Google both for users who are signed out, and users who have separate personal accounts on their different devices, and also useful because they can figure out the same person using a device and account issued from their work and using a personal account on their personal device is the same person.

For example at my job we have a work-issued Google account that I use on the work laptop for their Gmail and Google Calendar. And on my phone I am signed in to Google with my personal account because I use YouTube on my phone.
Yes, he evolved! But that work (fwiw more the actual lyrics than the band name itself) still is part of a legacy.
# Listing branches in Git will output them in random order.

Why is this even an option?!?
Quora was already absolutely unusable back before GPT-2. It became unusable as soon as people realized that all they had to do was self-identify as an expert to get taken seriously on there, so people started developing whole lifestyles around building up their Quora profiles. From that point on the actually knowledgeable people weren't interested in contributing because there was no way to distinguish themselves from the people who were faking expertise. AI may have been the final nail in the coffin, but Quora was dead long ago.

Stack Overflow managed to avoid that particular hazard by placing less emphasis on real-world identity and expertise, but it also has been in a long-term decline for many other reasons. The fact that they made such a vocal stance against AI and then pivoted so dramatically is just one example of how much they've struggled to find direction lately.
From the top of my mind: just lyme disease by ticks alone is spreading.

Also that thing called 'valley fever' caused by some spores from fungi and blown by the wind.

Maybe even the plague, which still is endemic in some parts of the world.

Not that far away, actually. From the southwestern US down to Mexico f.e.

Also 'Zika'...
Yes they should. Academia and peer review is so corrupt, gamified, and poor quality that I’d literally trust capitalist parasites more than the current regime of “publish or perish” and citation cartels.

At least capitalists have something to fight over that’s worth fighting for (money). Academics will bitterly fight over the dumbest, least important shit. There’s a law about how the less something matters, the more political the fights over it will be.
What you see as elitism is mostly simple curating. You can't store everything because it makes retrieving value from the store that much more difficult. It's the same with wikipedia and other public content repositories. People cry elitism and gatekeeping but without curation you eventually end up with a haystack of mediocre looking for a needle.
Just a guess, but I think when they started losing the spam wars they put in some kind of handcrafted whitelist ranking boost, either directly based on brand/site, or link proximity to known good sites, etc. And maybe they don't update that list too often. You can find some info about an ML update Google called "Vince" that sounds a lot like that.
I would like to read more. Feels sort of like an expression of certain “universal truths” like the 80/20 rule or golden ratio
Perhaps you're letting your water cool? If the water in the kettle cools, and the water in the grounds cools while you let it bloom, then when you combine them they'll have a lower strike temperature then if you were to introduce the water all at once.
I guess this is the article referred to by this People Still Buy Books article.
The third section of the linked content argues for the possibility that, instead of search getting worse, the internet has gotten worse faster than search is getting better. I haven't seen that take elsewhere and it seems unlikely but still useful to consider.

Have any of you seen this interpretation elsewhere? Does this theory have a name?
You cant delete your posts on here either!

Which I dont like :-)

I'm with you, I think you should be able to delete your own posts and erase your internet history.

I dont think that everything we ever write on the internet should be stored forever because of some misguided intention to preserve conversations for future generations :)
Google should get plenty of shit too for closing down GTalk in the first place. It's not an either-or. Big tech in general hates open protocols and interoperability for consumer stuff; Apple is just the most egregious offender there.
That was how everything was mixed in the early days of stereo. Beatles actually got away from it sooner than many.

Radio was all AM, which is mono.
Very lisp. Basically reprogram itself. Unfortunately this is not applicable to maintained code like c, rust … etc?
Ask HN: Startup full time or part time?
I am trying to figure out how often do people go into their startup full time before raising any funding. YC asks "how long have you been working full time"; so I am guessing there is a bias towards working full time for a bit before going and raising money. What was your journey like?
Nah. Apple doesn't have incentive to provide any more dev power. It will keep things locked down and charge people for Apple branded software products. That has been their business for the past decade.
I wish ielm had presentations like SLIME ...
This is a key but secondary concern to many of us working in molecular geneticist who will use AlphaFold 3 to evaluate pair-wise interactions. We often have genetic support for an interaction between proteins A and B. For example, in a study of genetic variation in responses of mice to morphine I currently have two candidate proteins that interact epistatically, suggesting a possible “lock and key” model—-the mu opiate receptor (MOR) and FGF12. I can now evaluate the likelihood of a direct molecular interaction between these proteins and possible amino acids substitutions that account for individuals difference.

In other words I bring a hypothesis to AF3 and ask for it to refute or affirm.
can't you just comment on the post informing people who land there that its out of date? id prefer that over following a cached link and hitting a 404
The machine understands, we do not, and so it is not science?

Can we differentiate?
If a human can detect it, it can be flagged. They already deal with human spam.
This is great. We should have many more of these. I am always surprised how different cities in other countries are when you travel there vs. what you see in the media. I really think this can bring people together.
> Like, how can even googlers tolerate it?

Assuming you mean people working at Google, the answer is probably that profit/promotions outweight personal use. More clicks, more back-buttons, more search adjustments, more advertising revenue.
Could this be a result of low-strength brew draining through during the bloom, which then has to be compensated for with a stronger brew for the rest of the cup? Or is the bloom being done upside down?
Why is it plain to you that people weren't blocked because they were Jewish?

Because the encampments contained many Jewish organizers / participants (likely equal to or greater than their proportion across the student body as a whole).

The contention [is that] Jewish participation is allowed only for Jewish people who disavow substantial parts of their identity.

I see what you're driving at, but overall it seems to be a weak and ancillary argument. It basically gets into the whole "if you reject / insult Zionism (or even the military campaign in Gaza itself) then you're insulting my religious/ethnic identity" line, which I just don't buy (neither do many Jews in fact, and in fact they find it rather insulting that one should presume that all Jews should automatically feel that way).

I don't speak for JVP, so you'll have to take up issues about their dining plates / ephemeral Houthi endorsements with them.
Another reason I seek the durable version is that I despise change.

Once I procure an umbrella that meets my needs, I don’t ever want to have to spend the time to go find another. If I manage to wear it out, I will grudgingly replace it with the exact same thing but if that’s not available I’ll go without rather than going through the process of finding a good one again. Modern casual clothing is a disaster in this regard because even the same sku often won’t be the same product year over year.
My teenager SMS dialect was because the title has to be 80 characters long or less. Cheap way to insult me, and trying to bully people into accepting your advice when they didn't ask for it. I asked if the company was doing something or not, and what is it?
what chromebooks come with a mini LED HDR screen and insane battery life? i’d love to know
That also means there is probably a lot of wrong information on Stack Overflow that is baked into the training too. Hopefully, they accounted for this in training, but no way of knowing.

I have not really had a lot of accuracy issues with GPT, but then again, I probably and not savvy enough to spot them, most of the time, anyway.
So essentially the annual revenue of Sherwin-Williams
They can quickly try with one of the open source models, then show a side by side demo
It's not about "Flakes vs. Channels"
The point still stands, Phi3 is an excellent model and shows that good models don’t need that many parameters

You should see the work on ReFT coming from mannings group showing that you can instruction fine tune models by modifying like, 0.00001% of the parameters. By doing it this way, you significantly mitigate the risk of catastrophic forgetting.
Wait until they hear about wheelchair basketball.