skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is also misleading in that the paper (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319652121) doesn't claim to determine when the fastest rates of CO2 rise have been. In fact, it starts by saying cores generally can only support analysis of durations >100 years.

I take note of this because I've looked at this problem before and agree that core samples have a hard time supporting claims like "most in the previous XXkya" when compared with the last few decades, be it CO2, CH4, avg temp d02, etc.

Starting with layers as recent as 30kya, the age of the trapped gas often spans multiple centuries, and so e.g. you'd be averaging out point outgassing from even very large volcanoes well beyond detectability. Beyond 50-60kya, the layer durations are all in the few millennia range.

Here's my analysis worksheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p793c3NZFp2e80ufqyJK...

Reference data:
Antarctic Ice Core 155,000 Year CO2 and Gas Stable Isotope Data - Eggleston, S.; Schmitt, J.; Bereiter, B.; Schneider, R.; Fischer, H. 2016. Evolution of the stable carbon isotope composition of atmospheric CO2 over the last glacial cycle. Paleoceanography, 31. doi: 10.1002/2015PA002874
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/19942
I don't think there needs to be a false equivalence here. It's easy to prove that an LLM is a stastical model, since we know how they are implemented, don't we? Where's the equivalent proof that a human is a stastical model?

I guess where this goes is that we don't know for sure that intelligence, or even sentience, can't emerge from a statistical model like an LLM. Which I think is a fair statement. But you can't work backwards from there to say humans and LLMs are similar!
Arduino?
Probably has more employees than any other tech company.
> If you perform concurrent accesses through multiples processes

How would you do that in safe code? If I understand correctly, the problem you're referring to is the exact reason that mmap APIs in Rust are unsafe: https://docs.rs/memmap2/latest/memmap2/struct.Mmap.html#safe...
This is already the setup, the foundation owns the trading company and it is the trading company going to IPO.

From a quick scan it's not clear to me what share of ownership of RPi ltd the foundation would retain post IPO other than the foundation will be selling at least some of its stake:

> The Offer would be comprised of new Shares to be issued by the Company and existing shares to be sold by certain existing shareholders, including the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Raspberry Pi's existing majority shareholder.
This is really cool. Many of the foundational tools created for N64 decomp are finding their way into other system decomp packages. I recently came across https://decomp.me/ which allows collaborative decompilarion for a bunch of systems with presets for their relevant SDKs and hardware. I’d imagine this happening several more systems in the coming years.
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What you say is true, and I agree, but that is the emotional human side of thinking. Purely logically, it would nake sense to compare the two systems of control and use the one with fewer human casualities. Not saying its gonna happen, just thinking that reason and logic should take precedent, no matter what side you are on.
> My anecdotal receipt: None of the 15 functions we run in prod are switching to the 50% off model as product quality is degraded with gpt-4o.

Interesting anecdata — how did you validate this?
About higher dimensions and envisioning:

From what I've heard, a fair number of the mathematicians doing research on 4+-dimensional things seem to have developed very good intuition about them, and okay-ish ability to "visualize" them. Those abilities falls off as you add dimensions, or try applying them to more-complex shapes...which is hardly surprising, considering how an average person's ability to intuit and visualize (in dimensions 0 through 3) falls off when complexity and dimensions are added.
Why MSVC still doesn't support C99 features like variable-length array (VLA)?
Why MSVC still doesn't support C99 features like variable-length array (VLA)?
What's the alternative? Never ship unless the risk is 0.00? (And yes I get the book reference)
Can you say more about natively supporting discriminated unions?

You can already do this:

type MyUnion = { type: "foo"; foo: string } | { type: "bar"; bar: string };

And this will compile:

(u: MyUnion) => {
switch (u.type) {
case "foo":
return u.foo;
case "bar":
return u.bar;
}
};

Whereas this wont:

(u: MyUnion) => {
switch (u.type) {
case "foo":
return u.bar;
case "bar":
return u.foo;
}
};
I agree, 1-3% was a best case. While I agree it's a net zero, even those who argue for it really don't claim much more than a couple of %.

I actually expected objections on the opposite direction. But then, this is not twitter/X.

The point is that something that can easily generate 20%-100% growth per year (AGI/ASI) is so much more important that the best case prediction for crypto's effect on the economy are not even noticeable.

That's why comparing the crypto bubble to AI is so meaningless. Crypto was NEVER* going to be something hugely important, while AI is potentially almost limitless.

*If crypto had anything to offer at all, it would be ways to avoid fees, taxes and the ability to trace transactions.

The thing is, if crypto at any point seriously threatens to replace traditional currencies as stores of value in the US or EU, it will be banned instantly. Simply because it would make it impossible for governments to run budget deficits, prevent tax evasion and sever other things that governments care about.
Make the Weather App work offline. It's okay to show the forecast that you downloaded 2 hours ago.

Make the Apple Watch weather compilations update more often. Especially UV which could be the difference between being outside with our without sunscreen (and thus potential skin cancer).

Apple Watch Audiobooks should support the audiobooks I bought DRM-free.
But, you can get absolutely destroyed on life insurance and, just as critically, long-term care insurance. Genetic discrimination is perfectly legal in those domains.
No, that's not exactly a sci-fi concoction. In special and general relativity, there are three dimensions for space and one dimension for time, and this is not something that is of "incidental" importance to special / general relativity, it's a pretty essential shift in perspective to these theories to think of the universe as (curved) four-dimensional spacetime.

But "dimension" is something mathematical. I would say it doesn't quite make sense to say "is the fourth dimension time" in the same way as it wouldn't make sense to say "is the fifth an apple?" The same way that numbers can refer to different things in different contexts (including in the context of different scientific theories), dimensions can correspond to different things in different contexts. For example, statistics and machine learning heavily use "high dimensional" mathematics, but there the "dimensions" would correspond to different variables you are trying to predict or explain. E.g. if you were trying to predict chance of heart attack from 1000 different factors, then you would have 1000+1 total "dimensions," and in that case the "fourth dimension" might be "cigarettes smoked per week" (rather than time).
Way back when Arm were dual listed one of the explanations was that US based customers (meaning US based semi companies) preferred that the company was listed in the US and subjected to a similar regime, in addition to needed capital.

To be honest, that actually makes a decent amount of sense, but I suspect the real reason was to enable US investors to buy into it so they do not then support attacking the foreign interloper in their industry.
yeah, nobody can visualize it. it's something you just get used to after a while.

there's an old joke about a mathematician teaching an engineer about thirteen-dimensional spaces. "What do you think," the mathematician asks. "My head's spinning," the engineer confesses. "How can you develop any intuition for thirteen-dimensional space?"

"Well, it's not so hard. All I do is visualize the situation in arbitrary N-dimensional space and then set N = 13."
Their "do no evil" phase lasted pretty long at least compared to places like OpenAI at least. At the end of the day are there any significant companies that managed to maintain a mission that wasn't "make tons of money for already rich people"?
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I mean the only thing missing relative to GPT4o's featureset is a mic and speaker. (And maybe a stylus pen?) Or did you have bigger changes in mind?
Requiem for a dream still haunts me.
Yeah, it is practically true that AGPL means a project is impossible to use for a lot of people, but that doesn't have much to do with the license itself. A lot of developers work for companies that have legal departments that would rather err on the side of caution with copyleft stuff. But of course a lot of companies love GPL code nowadays. After all, the GPL allows them to exploit the loophole closed by the Affero clause, especially in the case of web services companies. From a corporate perspective, free software is good, but it's only great when you don't have to follow it, because then you effectively get to crowdsource some of your development costs without any reciprocal obligations.

The result is that a lot of developers have had to sign contracts with their employers that say they'll never use or contribute to AGPL code even in their personal time. This is often reinforced by mandatory compliance training that repeats bogus nonsense about how if you ever run an AGPL program on your personal laptop you could turn the entire company codebase into GPL code. These myths then proliferate and end up driving other companies to do the same thing. It's all FUD of course, whether the people repeating it know that or not, but the practical consequences are that a lot of people legally cannot interact with AGPL projects at all. Again, that's not because the license is all that restrictive but because of what amounts to a universal corporate boycott.
Right, the response will obviously be to do nothing/protect the whales.

(I'm being sarcastic, they'll get slaughtered)

Big incentive to learn the language I guess, so that someone can explain how one sided the situation actually is.
The problem is specifically that the government won't stop you. American free speech principles have been warped and distorted to give platforms total control and no responsibility over what they host. Hell, back during the last wave of Net Neutrality regulation, Comcast was arguing in court that common carrier regulations were a free speech violation. Which is absolutely insane.

Additionally, we should stop measuring the size of a country's free speech commitment by how legally easy it is to host Nazi bullshit. Let us not forget that Nazis hate freedom of speech and use all sorts of extralegal bullshit to stifle it. A country or platform in which it is legal or permitted to express Nazi political opinions is one where you have less freedom of speech, not more.

Freedom of speech is a balancing act in which we tie the hands of people in power to allow those out of power to speak their mind.
Because of opportunities created by China.

When walmart moves into a town and kills the local shops, is it Walmarts fault for bringing cheaper prices or is the locals fault for moving all their shopping to walmart?
I wish I could find my Palm V. That device felt like quality in your hand. Metal back with satin finish, leather cover, the stylus was a snug fit.
> something simple, like a one-piece walking stick

Something like this? Except that it's not had its growth manipulated, either by tropins or mechanical means (it was coppiced though).

https://www.emilyhannah.co.uk/wooden-walking-sticks/knob-sti...
Humans Are Driving a New Kind of Evolution in Animals
Senators Propose $32B in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation
RSS: which readers do you like? Ie, what app? Thunderbird?
It certainly does if you count the wage-slave class that are often overlooked here.
Sounds like you're methodology is lacking, not your client. Be selective.
If they can't keep up with demand people will go elsewhere. Focusing on brand and perception instead of fulfilling demand is not a fundamentally good strategy.
> I can't wait for there to be 7 variants of RPi 6 all with some nondescript name and none of which actually offer exactly what I need

So you think with fewer variants, one of those few is more likely to meet your needs? Doesn't having more variants make it more likely that one will suit you, or at least get closer?
We put different meanings behind the word trust.

Yes, Raspbian is not 100% dependable/reliable, esp. when it comes to NVMe boot. They're trying to tune things aggresively for 5. I got three eeprom updates in two days in one case, when they were trying to tune temperature dependent clocking for RAM.

However I trust the OS to not do any backdooring/spying shenanigans since it's mostly pulled from Debian's official repositories.

However, even the OrangePi 5B uses almost the same repos with Raspberry Pi, I had to give it a purposeful dig to make sure.

I watched Jeff Geerling's video yesterday about NVMe hats, and he openly said that the firmware is picky about SSDs. In fact signalling over flex cables is problematic.

I built a BMAX-B4 N95 system for my parents to replace their big tower system. It has two SATA ports. One SATA and one mSATA. SATA port is routed to a slot via a flex cable, and Samsung's 870EVO sometimes initializes a couple of milliseconds late causing system to not to boot. I'll probably move everything to mSATA drive and let it slide, or try another brand of SSD hoping that it'll like the flex cable a bit more.
What an uncharitable diagnosis of my life.
The English version has the Chinese version as the canonical url

<link href="https://blog-cn.nocobase.com/posts/nocobase-opensource-income-3years/" rel="canonical">

That confuses the HN server that tries to avoid duplications. Send this info to dang so he can help easier.

(In spite of the fix of the HN submission, I recomend to add a visible cross link between the two versions, so people that arives to one of them using Google can go to the other if they prefer.)
The day before the mass firings, Tesla charging chief Rebecca Tinucci met with Elon Musk about the charging network's future.

Tinucci had recently cut 15-20% of Supercharger staff as part of wider
Tesla layoffs.

In the meeting, Musk was displeased with Tinucci's presentation and wanted more layoffs. When Tinucci pushed back, saying deeper cuts would undermine the charging business, Musk fired her and her entire 500-member team.
Not well suited for NAS at all. Too limited in IO and PCI lanes.
BSL is preferrable to completely closed because at least researchers can look at it now and it will eventually transition to open source. If Windows XP was BSL licensed then Wine would have a lot less trouble now.
The sign up to discover popover still happens. For a lot of people that is reason enough to just hit the back button and not even read.
> The search engine provides a path for victims to report that content whenever it appears in search results. And when processing these requests, Google also removes duplicates of any flagged deepfakes.

> Google's spokesperson told Ars that in addition to lowering the links in the search results, Google is "continuing to decrease the visibility of involuntary synthetic pornography in Search" and plans to "develop more safeguards as this space evolves.”

> ...

> “Google has ruined lives and is shamefully inflexible at responding to developing problems,” Goldberg said, joining others decrying Google's move as "too little, too late."

> Google's solution still largely puts the onus on victims to surface deepfakes and request removals, seemingly mostly because Google only proactively removes web results when content directly conflicts with the law or its content policies.

While I'm usually highly critical of Google, it seems like they're already doing what they reasonable can? Google isn't hosting this content.

Passing legislation is a necessary first step. Do we really want to set a precedent where Google is expected to proactively censors content that is, for all intents and purposes, legal?
Easy: These companies have a promotion process which require you to generate "impact" to get promoted. Using existing but boring technology which solves the problem in an efficient manner apparently doesn't show off how smart you are.

This is not a snarky comment from an outsider, I very much work at such a company. It's ridiculous.

Edit: But I must admit that most of this was probably developed 10 years ago when the ecosystem was much more limited. At least they now came to the conclusion that it's time to move on.
I would not have recommended Postgres 10 years ago and even today there is no way it would work at the scale of Pinterest.
But that's a mere engineering problem, not a hard physical constraint.
What I want is a transparent reverse proxy for both IPv4 and IPv6. Ideally it should work with encrypted SNI and ECH, using a static IP, because this is where the internet is going and anything else is probably a dead end I would like to avoid investing time in today.

Ideally, it has some simple firewall IDS/IPS capabilities (limit destination ports, limit source IPs…).

My threat scenario is, once someone has my home IP, they can cut off my internet very easily, just brute force traffic to my IP will clog my internet access.

The same would work via the above described reverse proxy, but I can diagnose it and turn off the proxy. My self hosted services will be down but at least I have Internet. If my home IP is known, there isn’t much I can do… My ISP doesn’t rotate the IP of a user very often (think months).

Currently I feel that cloudflare tunnelling is less worse than the above described risk, but it’s far from ideal, hence looking for alternatives.
> AI has now evolved beyond just the science

Pretty weak take there bud. If we just look at the Gartner Hype Cycle that marketing and business people love so much it would seem to me that we are at the peak, just before the downfall.

They are hyping hard to sell more, when they should be prepping for the coming dip, building their tech and research side more to come out the other side.

Regardless, a tech company without the inventors is doomed to fail.
For me, it's exactly the opposite problem. If I'm not checking something every day, I forget about it.

For example, I'm subscribed to over 700 YouTube channels, but most of them only post one a week to once a quarter. I force notifications on for these, and it's always a treat when one of my favorites pops up in the feed.

There are very few YouTube channels that I want to watch daily, unless it's a series... or Simon Whistler.
There's an excellent book just out about this and how the US has taken over the UK business world: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199503848-vassal-state
That's like asking someone from an unconnected tribe why kids are doing stupid stuff on TikTok.
Gonna warm it up baby so you'll be building new pyramids in no time!
AFAIK, yep. Jeff Geerling (hi jeff!) has a great video about this. https://youtu.be/hrhE6MnGi1A?si=IeHs2GKYqPjqPXSb&t=305
The reason "anti-drug training", "diversity training", etc., don't work is that lecturing is not conducive to learning for the vast majority of people. Most people need real life experience to internalize that people that seem very different superficially are just the same humans as they are, that addictive drugs can make you poor and sick and waste a lot of time, that getting a criminal record will fuck you over in every way possible, and so on.

Peer pressure works - if all your friends think drugs are really stupid you probably won't ever try them, but you probably will if they all do them. Indoctrination in this fashion works well in isolation but tends to fall apart as people move socially and geographically.
We're definitely not digging up and replacing water lines every 30 years, in general.
Do typical emulators compile ahead of time? Just-in-time?
If not, why? This approach (ahead of time compilation) appears to have huge benefits.
They’re probably referring to the earth getting enveloped by the sun in a billion or so years as it expands.

I still think you’re right though. The better plan is staying on earth. The trick is moving it outward as the habitable zone expands with the sun. Only have to convince humanity to sling a giant meteor just outside earth’s orbit every year for millions of years without messing up. What could go wrong?
They almost certainly have trillions of rows of data. The popular social media / user-generated content sites are just huge. You can easily get to that size just from the core product OLTP data/metadata, no need to include media.

For one comparison, Tumblr hit 100 billion unique rows of relational data in MySQL (on masters, not including replicas) back in October 2012. So they're easily in the trillions of rows today, and Tumblr is smaller than Pinterest!
>This is very different than the recall story, because in that scenario there is no cost to the public at all, only to the corporation.

...assuming they don't pass it on to the customers
But humans don't need to remember everything. You probably remember a few core details and then build up based on that and some logical reasoning at least subconsciously.