skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>At current rates

This presumes current rates holds, when rate is constrained by factors and levels off past certain thresholds of development, and inherent constraints limit PRC demands vs US. With geography/population/density constrains, average PRC household isn't going to average 2300+ sqft of space & 2 car household, so trend of PRC per capita emissions passing US not realistic extrapolation.

>poor central planning

Wasting a few 100 apartment blocks over decades (for corruption/wrong zoning) doesn't meaningfully adds to per capita emissions. It's a rounding error on scale of millions of normal housing upgrading/recycling/replacement cycle over time. Even currenty underutilized housing is mostly reflection of short term supply outstripping demand. PRC still has 300m people to urbanize and net short 100s millions of housing units. Upgrade housing also important in development, moving people from dilapidated huts to modern buildings requires emissions.

> Its per capita emissions rate is already higher than that of the EU average.

Catchup growth = pouring down 100 years worth of concrete + steel, aka generations of infrastructure. In that sense per capita emissions is a concession to developed countries, since real useful index is historic per capita emissions, aka how much energy was expended in totality to enable modern/developed levels of QoL. PRC simply very good at condensing all this grown in a few years, other developing countries will follow, but spread over time, with longer tail.

>can just in the name of development, especially when so many lower carbon options exist.

PRC emitted relative to tech available at time. They upgraded coal to clean coal. They jumped on electrifiction / renewables at scale when it was feasible to deploy at scale. Prior to that the tech didn't exist economically, nor at scale, and hence might as well not exist. They would have jumped on nuclear sooner if western contractors didn't shit bed. TLDR is cleaning energy didn't scale with PRC growth, one doesn't slow compounding growth and development because tech isn't ready because effects of growth > emissions.

>moral judgement

Choosing position that prioritizes emission over development and vice versa is moral choice since it prioritizes effects of climate change to effects of development. My position is development > climate always since second order effects of development (poverty alleviation) > emissions/long term health. My other position is climate change is anthropocene problem, earth doesn't care we die in ice age or fire ball. Anthropocene solutions to anthropocene problem = geopolitical compromises, not what's best for science/enviroment. And only metric world can realistically agree on is per capita metric, in which case lead emitters sets the standard for what's allowable, and if that level pushes everyone over the edge, then that's where we'll "fairly" go, because that's want's ultimately morally acceptable/feasible.
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“On the right track” would be “we know we’re going to make it without mass extinction of humans”. Currently I’m not so sure and I doubt anyone knows.

We’re making changes, but the course correction haven’t been sufficient so far and it remains to be seen if we will be able to do enough fast enough to avoid said cataclysm.
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Off-label drugs are still approved by the FDA for their original purpose.
I'd argue that thinking solely in terms of potential investment opportunity isn't capturing the whole value of trading on your local country's stock exchange. It's more money and a larger investor pool today, but less choice and power over one's destiny tomorrow. These sorts of economic micro-decisions accumulate. Where to put a company HQ, what stock exchange to trade on, hiring locally or abroad, selling up to foreign equity funds. As individual business decisions, the leaders might think it's an insignificant drop in the pond and simply the most important thing is making revenue tick up, but there are consequences to that being your only metric of success. It's jumping ship while the rest of the crew is trying to plug holes and bail it out. You've successfully escaped the sinking ship but are now in deep, shark-infested waters.

Perhaps I've just been reading too much on geopolitical power dynamics lately, but as a British person, I fear our economy is suffering from a death-by-a-thousand-cuts from seemingly "insignificant" decisions that pass on tiny parts of our sovereignty to other countries. In the case of companies trading on other exchanges, we're leaving ourselves more open to the whims of the investors on that exchange whose priorities and sentiments don't match the spirit of the country of origin.
There is a spectrum between invasive treatment and not doing anything.

You could have a scan 3 months later and if there is no progression the doctor schedule a scan 6 months later and then 12 months... If there is a progression he schedule an appointmentwith an oncologist.
I'm remembering that orca attack was one of the seemingly fanciful explanations floated to explain the disappearance of Jim Gray and his boat near San Francisco years ago.

Would be almost ironic if this were true. (An eminent CS pioneer falling prey to a whale R&D project decades before they took it mainstream.)
Yes, but it's really hard to see a technical solution to this problem, short of having locked down hardware that only runs signed government-approved models and giving unlocked hardware only to research centers. Which is a solution that I don't like.
And that makes the greenhouse effect not real how?
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Yes, we all have a various moral obligations. Do all of us have a "responsibility" to make the world safe for our most vulnerable individuals? No. A barista will make a hot coffee when asked, knowing it can hurt people who might spill it. A barista does not have a "responsibility" to make only medium-heated coffee. At the same time, there are people in the world who try to make good tradeoffs with regards to coffee temperature (e.g. MacDonalds corporate, or lawmakers setting an upper limit to allowed coffee temp). So at the same time, one person might make an effort to make coffee safe for vulnerable persons, while another person might just have a responsibility to serve coffee at whatever temperature was decided by the other people. Different people can have different responsibilities in the world.
I bought an Extech CO210 CO2/Temp/Humidity datalogger about ten years ago. It's been a very useful, reliable device. Maybe there are newer models or different manufacturers (e.g. the Aranet 4) that make ones that would work for your application case. I didn't just want the readout, I wanted datalogging, and back then it was way more expensive to do datalogging than to just have a readout.
Isnt normal inflation around 3% annually average over decades?
"try" doesn't imply "ship to millions of customers"

And sometimes there's good enough and you should leave it alone. QWERTY isn't optimal but it's not very far from it.
Have you tried specifying you field of inquiry which was algebra. Try saying solve this equation for me. I am a lawyer by day so I constantly face limitations of natural languages. The solution is to write less ambiguous prompts.
Same situation for me in the early 00s, though I suspect that was more because my parents didn't have the bandwidth to helicopter parent me due to one sister being disabled, and the other being a psycho.

I think the amount of independance I got would probably have been described as neglect if I had turned out poorly, and in my teenage years I really did flirt with a pretty bad path, but it turned out good so I remember it rather fondly.
They don’t attempt to measure it because it not something that’s even properly defined with any rigour. Any person who seriously uses the phrase is going to have their own completely individual idea of what it means, and there’s no reason the think any therapist would have this nebulous quality, or even that their idea of what it means has any similarity to your idea of what it means.
Couldn’t is a stretch. Microbes can control almost all aspects of human life, as evinced in 2020.
Here’s 2 MDMA deaths that aren’t: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22640978/

From one rave “Twelve patients with 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) toxicity from a single rave event presented to multiple San Francisco Bay area hospitals with various life-threatening complications including seizures and hyperthermia. Eight required emergent endotracheal intubation and six had hypotension. Hyperkalemia, acute kidney injury, and rhabdomyolysis were present in most of the patients. In all, 2 patients died, 4 survived with permanent neurologic, musculoskeletal, and/or renal sequelae, and 6 survived without any apparent lasting deficits. Hyperthermia was present in 10 patients and was severe (40.9-43° C) in 7. Using multiple cooling methods, the average time to achieve cooling was 2.7 hours. Serum drug analysis was performed on 3 patients, demonstrating toxic MDMA concentrations without the presence of other xenobiotics. Two capsules confiscated by police at the event contained 82% and 98% MDMA, respectively, without other pharmacologically active compounds. Capsule #2 contained 270 mg MDMA, which is more than twice the amount of MDMA usually contained in 1 dose. The MDMA-induced hyperthermia significantly contributed to the morbidity and mortality in this case series. Factors contributing to the severity of the hyperthermia include ingestion of large doses of MDMA, a warm ambient environment, and physical exertion.”

To be clear drug testing would have discovered fentanyl or other common drugs in their bloodstream, so it’s not just based on the pills recovered. Granted legalization would likely result in more consistent doses which would help, but the drug itself would still be risky if people just kept consuming more.
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Not like I know a ton of Amazonian white collars, but it still seems like a worse place than average. My wife's team had a guy leave a few years ago and almost immediately come back because it wasn't worth it. They seem to have a hiring problem that probably leads to all the stack ranking and mandatory attrition because they can't assure the people they hire are qualified. I interviewed with AWS once, but didn't accept, and the experience was frankly just bizarre. I was thrown back and forth between people with roles in all manner of completely unrelated disciplines. One woman accidentally hot mic'd herself when she didn't realize I hadn't signed off yet and complained that she had no idea what I was talking about because she hadn't had a technical role in 20 years. They gave me the option to talk one on one with a developer who would have no input into hiring and she told me, as the chosen spokesperson for AWS, that she didn't like working there and probably wasn't going to stick around, but it was her first real job after college so there she was.

Ironically, on the other hand, when I was first leaving the Army 15 years ago, the enlisted guys leaving at the same time were overwhelmingly all looking to work either as roughnecks or in Amazon distribution centers because they paid so much better than anything else you could expect to get hired for with no qualifications other than willingness to get beat up and tired.
annualized means "(1+r)^n" where r is the increase/month and n is number of months.

inflation is generally measured "over year", so "3.6% this month" would mean "3.6% higher than last year at this time", as in "this month's increase plus the increases for the last 11 months total up to 3.6% for the year". It has no predictive power for the future, and it's not an extrapolation of this month's increase for easy comparison to show what it would be for a year.
Even less than that - I walked to elementary school by myself every day in the 1980s. For the busiest streets, 5th graders served as crossing guards for the younger kids, which something I also did.

From what I can tell, the mentality of not allowing kids to get around on their own has really been in the past ~20 years or so. And (IMO) it is largely caused by some subset of people who freak out when they see kids alone unsupervised. Other parents (like me) would love to give our kids more freedom, but feel limited by the possibility that nosy neighbors will call child protective services if we allow too much.
obligatory https://xkcd.com/1181/
> the pricing page with no actual numbers and the ambiguous ‘Contact Us’ is a huge turn off.

It’s also one of the top-10 web usability mistakes as defined by the Nielsen Norman group.

As in, it drives away far more potential clients than it can possibly convert. It’s a massive anti-pattern.
It's staggering to me that people on Hacker News are actually downvoting people saying how AI is boosting productivity or levering business or engineering or finance. The denial, cynicism and sheer wilful ignorance is actually depressing. I get that not everyone is working directly with AI/ML but I honestly expected better on a website about technology.

People are deliberately self selecting themselves out of the next industrial revolution. It's Darwin Awards for SWE careers. It's making me ranty.
my apologies, english is not my first language, so sometimes my choice of words is not in line with that of native speakers. i think we actually agree. what i call surplus you correctly identify as allocation. and i also agree that the manner of how that allocation was achieved matters more than the amount. but, as you say, market power abuses need to be mitigated, and these are enabled even if the power was gained without coercion. an accidental monopoly is still a monopoly and needs to be stopped if that power is abused.

i disagree that doing this globally would be a disaster. but maybe we need to flesh out more what we actually mean by that. i have a sense that in the end we will find an agreement.

monopoly power and market abuse is a problem everywhere. i have lived in many countries and i have seen the same patterns repeat over and over again. yes. different governments should have the freedom to try different approaches. my point is, that we need to agree globally that market power abuse and anticompetitive behavior is a problem and needs to be stopped everywhere, and so no country may create a safe haven to enable those companies to continue their behavior.
I don't disagree with you. Especially the native development limitations. I don't think there's a right or wrong answer here. You just have to adjust your expectations and learn to live with your choices.
There's a phenomenon in which inflation-related posts generate lots of comments or concerns that the CPI methodology is manipulated in some way. If you are interested in learning more about CPI, the methodology is very complex but transparent. You can find documentation here: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/
and raw datafiles here: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/data.htm

If you would like to publish your own dataset based purely on changes in price level of chocolate cupcakes, per pound, in cities, you can do so by extracting series APU0000702411 from the raw datafiles.

There is also a short summary on "why averages and an individual's experience of inflation may differ" here: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/averages-and-individual-e...

Although it was not my main subfield, I spent a bit of time in grad school with people who are deep in the theory and practice of measuring inflation. It's really really hard, and it's the sort of place where there is a great public desire for a single number, but it's not clear that a single number is meaningful to cover all the most common use cases for inflation. (Use cases include: managing cost of living adjustments, understanding money supply, making investment decisions, making historical comparisons of other time series.) The many variant measures of inflation (core, non-core, etc.) exist to try to serve different use cases more effectively.
I see a few false positives. It appears that unsigned software is being labeled as malware, and as grayware on some pages.

Unsigned software is not malware or 'grayware'. It's not inherently malicious.

I'm also seeing coin miners being labeled as malware. They often are, but I'm sure there are misclassificatons along those lines as well in this dataset.
Trainspotting should be mandatory watching in schools.
> Switzerland is seeing a huge increase in violent crime. 16.6% between 2021 and 2022.

2020-2023 data should be mostly ignored, especially by news websites trying to generate clickbait content.

It's like when UK politicians gloated how they reduced shoplifting/burglary rates.

Yes, it was lockdown with shops closed and people sitting at home, of course rates went down.

Same thing here, there's no point drawing conclusion in data between 2021 (lockdowns) and 2022.

> The FSO noted [...] crime rates have shot back up to 2019 levels.
Yes, something similar with snapshots happened to me at a previous job. That led to the filesystem getting 100% full, and with btrfs, you can not even delete files anymore if you reach that point. This specific bug has been fixed since then, but still feel that although btrfs works much better than most are saying, it's still too easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

> These days, I do snapshots only on my homeserver (which is running syncthing) but not on my laptop.

You should try btrbk one day. I had a much better experience with it than with snapper.
>For example, imagine the Boeing CEO says "we could spend $20 billion on R&D and manufacturing of a new safety system that would on average prevent 1 crash per year, but a 737 MAX carries 200 people, at $15M per life that's only $3 billion in value, so it's obviously better for us to skip it and pass that $20 billion on to shareholders". This would be criminal, and not because their value of a life is off and they got the math a little bit wrong. It's criminal because they are consciously choosing to kill people unnecessarily.

It is not criminal and I have no idea how anyone can think it is.

The crime is in the first paragraphs of the article:

>Boeing has violated a 2021 agreement that shielded it from criminal prosecution after two 737 Max disasters killed 346 people overseas, the Justice Department told a federal judge in a court filing Tuesday.

>According to the Justice Department, Boeing failed to "design, implement, and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violations of the U.S. fraud laws throughout its operations."

So to recap, they were agreed to implement internal rules that match US laws after killing a bunch of people to avoid criminal liability, _which they failed to do_.
This. House prices (MSPUS) have been dropping steadily since early 2022 as a result.
> Did something I write make you think I was arguing otherwise?

At the risk of having boring meta-commentary about comments, I feel like I see people often forgetting that their comments are in the context of a larger conversation and are going to be read as responses to the parent comment that they are, well, responding to. And then they get confused when their comments are interpreted in that context, rather than as completely standalone statements. So let's backtrack:

(A) AGI is a threat to human civilization. (B) Actually, its risk is marketing hype. (You) It's not marketing hype. Our fear is deep-seated.

It's not that weird to interpret the 3rd comment as disagreeing that the fear is just hype. When in fact, you were disagreeing only with the word "marketing". It's "innate" hype, not "marketing" hype. That's a much -- for lack of a better word -- weaker comment, because it is nitpicking about a minor word choice ("it's marketing hype") rather than the sentiment of the comment ("it's just hype"). So now you're asking "why did you assume my comment was interesting, and not just a little nitpick!?"

> One could say we have evolved these instincts to fear them, because they are worth fearing

But now you're back to saying AI is worth fearing, right? Isn't that what you're telling me I was wrong to assume you're saying? This feels like a needlessly difficult conversation.

All that aside, your additions to the conversation are interesting. I actually really like your take on it being a fear of technologically superior tribes. It just doesn't feel like it needs to be quite so adversarial. You established an adversarial attitude with "it's not marketing hype".
You need to re-read about the right to publicity. You are using it outside of it's legal context of for-profit commercial trademark. The commercial benefit bit is the core and single purpose of the idea. Though you may remember those cases, those cases almost certainly involved business and that case law does not apply in this discussion.

>The right of publicity is an intellectual property right that protects against the misappropriation of a person’s name, likeness, or other indicia of personal identity—such as nickname, pseudonym, voice, signature, likeness, or photograph—for commercial benefit.

A lot of people seem to get confused about that because they cannot imagine people operating as human persons and not as incorporated persons trying to make money; a particularly bad problem on HN.
I’ve definitely enjoyed working out today’s puzzle. Thanks!

However, I am not sure about the daily aspect. I doubt I’ll remember about the puzzle tomorrow, and in any case, I like to do puzzles in larger batches, like for one hour in the evening.

Re: visual design: I think showing the actual line of mirroring would be nice. Also, the numbers of taps and swipes were too small for me to notice, I’ve discovered them quite late.
How's the feedback on Alma Linux vs Rocky Linux?

Hearing conflicting opinions.
Here's what they say about the boot process in the blog post:

> The boot stack on Snapdragon X Elite supports standard UEFI-based boot. Linux boots up using devicetrees, and all standard bootloaders, including Grub and system-d boot, should just work out of the box. We use Grub to boot into Debian, and to dual-boot Windows and Debian.

> We’re working closely with upstream communities on an open problem with the UEFI-based BIOS while booting with devicetrees. The problem is that, when you have more than one devicetree blob (DTB) packed into the firmware package flashed on the device, there is no standard way of selecting a devicetree to pass on to the kernel. OEMs commonly put multiple DTBs into the firmware package so it will support devices with slightly different SKUs, so we’re keen to solve this problem. (See the Embedded Open Source Summit presentation on this topic by my colleague Elliot Berman. Links below.)
Thanks! Yeah, it seems like a lot can be done with just text while we wait for multimodal models to catch up. The recent Platonic Representation Hypothesis [1] also suggests that different models, regardless of modality, build the same internal representations of the world.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987
Here are some pictures. https://www.dragonflytelescope.org/gallery.html

It uses a raspberry pi for each lens(https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/dragonfly-spectral-line-map...)

Early paper about the telescope. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014PASP..126...55A/abstra...