skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What even is a natural equilibrium? One meteor strike or megavolcano and things will be boned for years to come.

A lot of things we consider normal has only been averages for recorded human history, which has also seen plenty of climate outliers, and is only a small fraction of the total history of earth and life on it.
According to ChatGPT it's not that different:

> Comparison:

> United Kingdom: Average wind speeds range from 13 to 19 km/h (8 to 12 mph).
> Netherlands: Average wind speeds range from 15 to 20 km/h (9 to 12 mph).
Given we need an emissions reduction of around 99.9% just to get into a steady-state, there's plenty of issues all around.
"Not sure where we go from here. I don't want my posts slurped up by AI companies for free^[1] but what else can I do?"

Why not display a brief notice, like one sees on US government websites, that is impossible to miss. In this case the notice could be of the terms and conditions for using the website, in effect a brief copyright license that governs the use of material found on the website. The license could include a term prohibiting use of the material in machine learning and neural networks, including "training LLMs".

The idea is that even if these "AI" companies are complying with copyright law when using others' data for LLMs without permission, they would still be violating the license and this could be used to evade any fair use defense that the "AI" company intends to rely on.

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2023/02/23/fair-use-week-202...

Like using robots.txt, the contents of a user-agent header, if there is one, or using IP address, this costs nothing. Unlike robots.txt, User-Agent or IP addresss, it has potential legal enforceability.

That potential might be enough to deter some of these "AI" projects. You never know until you try.

Clearly, robots.txt, User-Agent header and IP address do not work.

Why would anyone aware of www history rely on the user-agent string as an accurate source of information?

As early as 1992, a year before the www went public, "user-agent spoofing" was expected.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alandipert/ncsa-mosaic/mas...

By 1998, webmasters who relied on user-agent strings were referred to as "ill-advised":

"Rather than using other methods of content-negotiation, some ill-advised webmasters have chosen to look at the User-Agent to decide whether the browser being used was capable of using certain features (frames, for example), and would serve up different content for browsers that identified themselves as ``Mozilla''."

"Consequently, Microsoft made their browser lie, and claim to be Mozilla, because that was the only way to let their users view many web pages in their full glory: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.02; Update a; AOL 3.0; Windows 95)"

https://www-archive.mozilla.org/build/user-agent-strings.htm...

https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

As for robots.txt, many sites do not even have one.
Startup SpinLaunch aces 10th suborbital launch with high-tech slingshot (2022)
There is no redirect in place. They also have a http rss feed where all links are http. Maybe the poster uses this feed.

PSA: If you change the feed to https, it will also serve all links as https.
Dog-like robot 'sniffs' hazardous gases in inaccessible environments
In 9 years time, robots will publish articles on the web, and they will put a humans.txt file at their root index to govern what humans are allowed to read the content.

Jokes aside, given how models become better, cheaper and smaller, RAG classification and filtering engines like Perplexity will become so ubiquitous that i don't see any way for a website owner to force anyone to visit the website anymore.
That was also the state of the solar power industry a few decades ago, it took time and coordination (government action) to make it the dominant, economically viable form of renewable energy it is today.
My experience with taking things before bed has been negative because you have to take them with liquids, or else they're one of those combo supplements with a bunch of metabolites left over, and either way you end up waking early because you have to pee now.
Is this crypto idea utopic or just makes no sense?
Imagine almost all the tax spending is on a "blockchain", not each transaction ofc. Just which deparments gets how often and what amount. Some would need to expain how they spend those amounts and some would be just automated wage payments. I know this can't happen for decades. Point of having it in blockchain is for transparency? and each citizen and company would get a private key and see where the money goes. Unlike whatever we have now
Interested in understanding why the downvotes?
They are directing users __in__ in some cases though, no? I’m a perplexity user, and their summaries are often way off which drives me to the references (attribution).
The ratio of fetches to clickthroughs is what’s important now though; this new model (which we’ve not negotiated or really asked for) is driving that upward from 1, and not only are you paying more as a provider but your consumer is paying more ($ to perplexity and/or via ad backend) and you aren’t seeing any of it. And you pay those extra costs to indirectly finance the competitor who put you in this situation, who intends to drive that ratio as high as it can in order to get more money from more of your customers tomorrow.
Yay.
Agent - Something that makes decisions and actions that are not pre-programmed or predictable. Humans are definitely agents. LLM (eg Chat-GPT) are not quite there yet (they don't take action on their own).

Tool - Pretty much everything humanity has made to date. It does a preprogrammed thing or provides mechanical advantage. But it does not act on novel decisions it is making.

The terms come from an AI safety expert that Lex Friedman interviewed recently. [1]

Tesla FSD is almost an agent, though it asks a human to be ready to take over at any time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNr6gPelJ3E
What is this other than thinly veiled, generic climate change denialism? Black-swan events are by definition not something anyone can prepare for.
> 1000 ppm is at the level where us apes have measurable reduction in reaction time and other cognitive impairments.

The experiments that showed this were confusing correlation with causation. High CO2 in rooms is a marker of reduced O2, and a lack of fresh air.

If you add 1000ppm CO2 to fresh air, it actually boosts cognition due to the Bohr effect.
They also mention their version is revised, so the version on YouTube is a better candidate for being the “first commercial”.
LLMs will fail this simple eval every time
Are these boogeymen the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation#Major_grants_a... ?

Looks to me like they're putting the country back together.

See also https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/about-ford/

> Across eight decades, our mission has sought to reduce poverty and injustice, strengthen democratic values, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.
> including battery backup

Ironically batteries is what makes it feasible - I can dump excess into battery instead of paying 3x more for install so I get hooked up to grid in a certified way.
I chose to go with a $3 subscription model myself, at that cheap it's just a waste of time to go through the unsub process. Cha Ching.
So don't single string the DIY version into an uncontrolled danger wire. There's several ways to accomplish that.
I assume that is Computer Engineering and not a Computer Science degree?
Intel Details Skymont
Let's agree to differ about the F-35.

I consider it to be the 21st century equivalent of the Brewster Buffalo. It will probably end up killing as many of our pilots as the Buffalo did in the 1940s.
Not me, not yet, and it's been a few years since I've used Blaze.

It ought to be fairly straightforward. Zig is an easy dependency to either vendor or install on a given system/code-base (much more painful currently if you want Blaze to also build Zig itself), and at a bare minimum you could just add BUILD steps for each of the artifacts define in build.zig.

Things get more interesting if you want to take advantage of Zig's caching, especially once incremental compilation is fully released. It's a fast enough compilation step that perhaps you could totally ignore Zig's caching for now and wait to see how that feature shapes up before making any hard decisions, but my spidey senses say that'll be a nontrivial amount of work for _somebody_ to integrate those two ideas.
Whether that’s the sweet spot really depends on what your goal is.

The languages that you mention are several times slower than Rust for non-IO bound stuff (in the computer language benchmarks game). If this speed penalty matters for what you are doing, then idiomatic Rust can be much better than Haskell or OCaml code tuned for performance.

And when it comes to Linear Haskell specifically, GHC does not use linear types for performance optimization. If this has changed recently, I’d be thankful for a source to read more.
"It was unclear if the driver would be cited."
Not useful code is always bad, because you never had to write it. It is just a waste.
I’m generally a bit of an LLM skeptic, at least as concerns extravagant claims around “AGI” or self-improvement of any of that nonsense.

But there are activities where an inherently high-temperature assistant (e.g. some Instruct-inspired tune) are a great fit, and those are almost definitionally at the boundary of “objectively faithful” and “a bit stochastic”.

I’ve never done any work in novel mathematics myself, but I’m a big fan of those who do, and any study of those who do paints a picture of roughly that boundary: those who are proficient can easily spot a falsehood but only with difficulty generate inspiration for a new idea.

Of all the highly optimistic applications for 2024 LLMs, mathematics sounds pretty plausible?
Wrote one of maybe the top four or five guides on how to play Space Invaders. What else do you want from a writer?
Combatting the byproducts of the entire industrial world is a huge undertaking. We should not expect statistically significant contributions to the fight, until the most promising technologies have been scaled up massively.

This does not mean the field is just composed of scams. The opposite could be true with the same results we see.
I never knew that was a thing! Of course they killed it. I wish they still had it. I would definitely subscribe.
And?

They're sold for apartments, and as DIY jobs. They're designed to fit on a balcony just about wide enough to stand on, and to be installed without needing an expert.

The point of the example is to show that you don't need an expert. It's not even trying to show a specific unit that suits all people, just that one thing, that you don't need an expert to install it.

The voltages are the same regardless, because that's how domestic electricity works. (If you forced me to guess, I'd expect grid-scale PV farms to go direct to a higher voltage than domestic users, but I'm not an electrical engineer).
An interesting coincidence was that custom IPX usernames was a paid feature, and payment was processed by a company named "Kagi" (not the search engine).

https://github.com/jthlim/impulse-tracker/blob/fb47b325454ab...

Kagi the e-commerce site apparently went defunct in 2016:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160915172120/http://kagi.com/
we know what we don't know :)
Relevant excerpt from the Introduction chapter:

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Conversely, I think this book is applicable to non-game software too. I could just as well have called this book More Design Patterns, but I think games make for more engaging examples. Do you really want to read yet another book about employee records and bank accounts?

That being said, while the patterns introduced here are useful in other software, I think they’re particularly well-suited to engineering challenges commonly encountered in games:

- Time and sequencing are often a core part of a game’s architecture. Things must happen in the right order and at the right time.

- Development cycles are highly compressed, and a number of programmers need to be able to rapidly build and iterate on a rich set of different behavior without stepping on each other’s toes or leaving footprints all over the codebase.

- After all of this behavior is defined, it starts interacting. Monsters bite the hero, potions are mixed together, and bombs blast enemies and friends alike. Those interactions must happen without the codebase turning into an intertwined hairball.

- And, finally, performance is critical in games. Game developers are in a constant race to see who can squeeze the most out of their platform. Tricks for shaving off cycles can mean the difference between an A-rated game and millions of sales or dropped frames and angry reviewers.
Aquí:

https://borgestodoelanio.blogspot.com/2017/05/jorge-luis-bor...
Cursed Units 2: Curseder Units [video]
Why should I have to differentiate Perplexity's services?
So maybe House lied then:)
Average temperatures in the Jurassic were only about +2.5C over current averages.

We're shooting north of the Carboniferous (+3C) and headed towards the Cretaceous Hot Greenhouse period, where average temps were +5C to +8C over where they are now.

Probably not survivable for humanity as we know it now.

We're already seeing wet bulb temperatures over the survivable maximum in some parts of the world, imagine stacking another 3-5C on top of that. Large parts of equatorial land would be fatally warm to humanity, and the temperate band for growing crops would shift at least a thousand miles north.
Solar is nowhere near to be a dominant source of energy and will never be.
Fun. And it ends with a mean cliffhanger:

> I would like to conclude this article with a question my wife asked me
while I was writing this: “But what about 20082009?”
I'm used to user-facing macros (as opposed to say a Lisp macro) being scripts triggered by a keyboard shortcut, so the terminology was confusing to me. Calling this "text expansion" or "text substitution" would have made immediate sense.
That seems like an analytical conclusion based on a primary source, and thus a violation of No Original Research policy if sourced directly to the primary source on which the conclusion is based, and not a published secondary source that actually provides the analysis of the primary source.
You are correct that there will be plenty of life on the much warmer, greener planet we are heading towards.

Well, probably. There won't be many humans around to verify.

When people say "Save the planet" they generally mean "save the planet as it currently exists", since taking 100 years to make environmental changes that usually take 3000 will have negative effects that outweigh the increase in plant life from a human perspective.
I want to know how when you see a stack of pager, each one knows its position in the stack so that when the stack decides to go into "attract" mode, it animates them one by one, like an elevator going up.

Somehow when they stack, they know where they are relative to the other pagers (at least something does).
Wikipedia has a few spread over several countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_journalism#Slow_journalis...

Techdirt does analysis https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=techdirt.com

Prospect Magazine does yesterday's journalism https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/

RetroReport does event postmortem videos https://retroreport.org/

For particularly brilliant writers (ex: https://duck.com/?q=Kashmir+Hill https://duck.com/?q=Zeynep+Tufekci), I'll see where else they're writing. Sometimes that turns up mags I don't know about.
Original: https://youtu.be/kkfIXUjkYqE?si=ltOcroFfnHJ06122
I recommend reading some of his books. They explain the reasons. He was an innovative and very readable writer.
To me, it's like trying to "solve The Pirate Bay" by making all the stuff they share public domain.

But thank you for sharing your perspective, I appreciate that.
> and will never be.

Why do you think that? Absent some other primary power source like fusion, solar energy is the upstream producer of all the energy we currently use. Using it directly seems like the most obvious answer, especially when replacing e.g. all the earth's energy usage would only take, say, the size of Arizona
There is removal and then there is burial. The latter is a scam. If buried in a liquid state, it will geologically remerge into the air. Proper removal requires a chemical reaction.
The blog post explaining the implementation[0] says the source of the buzzwords was a list “250 Buzzwords We Love To Hate” published on May 13, 2014[1].

[0] https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140516035753/http://www.ngenwo...
Is IP67 safe to wash like a car? Soapy sponge and reasonable hose pressure (not pressure washer) spray?
Ransomware attackers quickly weaponize PHP vulnerability with 9.8 sev rating
Patch(1), IIRC, was Larry Wall's, who has also made one or two other small contributions over the years :-)
Yep too much gatekeeping from all major players in the AI space.
If we presume that the loser of a great power conflict goes nuclear, they realistically have two options;

1) Go weapons-empty, launching every weapon you have at population centers intended to terrorize the world and induce a nuclear holocaust at the expense of guaranteeing the persecution of your nation for hundreds of years to come.

2) Launch a warning strike, at a tactical non-populated target, and hold the rest of the world in "nuclear blackmail" under the assumption/hope that nobody will depose you before your demands are met.

What would Russia realistically choose? Option 1 is unthinkable; there's no reason to "burn them all" unless Moscow perceives hopeless conditions. At that point it's doubtful their chain-of-command would last long enough to get bombers off the ground; they are surrounded by adversaries that are explicitly armed with the capacity to disable them. It would be a last-ditch effort, would only detonate a fraction of the stockpiled warheads, and even those aren't guaranteed to make it. And afterwards, Russia is damned for eternity as a nation. You cannot discuss the possibility of an all-out nuclear attack without also considering the second-strike aftermath it would warrant.

Option 2 is realistic, but it relies on the rest of the world playing their game. If Russia is postured well, this could be a scary threat. Right now, they have enough morale that these conditions seem feasible (albeit completely stupid). This can only last so long though, and then you either have to dominate the world or lead a de-escalation process that stops people from wanting to stab you in the back. Russia knows they cannot de-escalate, and they lack the power to invade the rest of the world (let alone Ukraine at this rate). A tactical nuclear deployment would just guarantee firmer support of Ukraine.

So again, you really have to ask yourself; what does Russia gain? An Option 1 scorched-earth scenario guarantees their annihilation as a state and military power. Option 2 gives them a brief window of opportunity to make a statement, and then forces them to stand-down to preserve their standing as a non-rogue power. Neither of these are opportunities, so much as they are tradeoffs that end in misery for Russia and their dreams of expansionism. China knows this too; they wouldn't launch their nukes at Russia's behest because unlike Russia they aspire to be seen as a legitimate nuclear superpower. China's nuclear weapons serve a shockingly similar purpose as the United States'.

Russia would like for you to imagine a Tu-160 flying over your house; they spend a lot of money getting people to put that image in your head. That's their whole trick, though. The secret to carrying the proverbial "big stick" is that you have to speak quietly enough for people to think you're responsible with it. Otherwise you're seen as a brute with a club.
There’s also alot of PR behind making Southwest sound as bad as possible. The press is awful these days.
If you're serious, Southwest only uses Boeing 737s.
The only solution to this problem is reducing / eliminating carbon output. And the only way to do that is to stop making plastics, stop burning fossil fuels for smelting, and reign in all global manufacturing outputs completely. All of the solutions you guys are promoting ignore that and are trying to make a profit as part of the solution of cleaning up this mess. Pipe dream. Scam artists.
You really think HN readers can't find the interstitial bypass keyword? It shows up in the very first Google search for it, I am not sure who you think you are protecting.

I also find it goes against the ethos of HN to try to prevent a user from controlling their own hardware... if I want to MITM myself, I should be able to.
?? I think you've misread my post.

I'm saying that the fundamental things required in order to launch gram-scale interstellar probes don't seem out of reach; that largely something close to the requirements could be made at great cost today, and making a mission practical is mostly about cost optimization and economies of scale.

I think largely whether we do it in 50 years comes down to whether we've wiped out a lot of our economic output by then with strife, and whether we still consider exploration worthwhile to spend a lot of money and reources on.
Why the Heck Is There an EV Charger in the Middle of Nowhere in Wyoming?
What am I missing, it responded with specific examples of what it didn’t know
Some discussion on Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1dbxuqf/youtube_bu...
Solar is the cheapest and the one that grows the fastest. So eventually it will become dominant.
My bet is that this is wrong, and at the same time, language isn't required - just sufficient. I see concepts as defined only through associations with other concepts (which can be modeled as proximity in high-dimensional space, and that's precisely what LLMs are doing) and, sometimes, through memorized sensory data - the latter isn't the typical case, but it's needed to make the recursive definition (concepts defined in terms of concepts) stay anchored to reality.

From that follows that written language is enough to build that structure of concepts (latent space in ML terms). So is spoken language. So is vision in general, or hearing in general[0]. The brain will build one concept space out of all inputs available; it is necessary and sufficient to have at least one, but none of them alone is itself necessary.

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[0] - Languages are higher-level regularities used for communication, growing on top of those senses, but not strictly necessary for understanding the real world. I'd use people who have no perceptible inner voice and high visualization skills as a counter to the idea that concepts need to be thought of symbolically in something resembling a written or spoken language.
The article or the linked Google doc doesn't mention how AI for Math resources is different than other resources list out there?
The sunlight heats the panel a bit more than usual but there isn't really generation/dissipation going on.

And since heat radiates away at temperature to the fourth power, the increase shouldn't be particularly much.
> Copyright © 2014, Jeffrey Lim. All Rights Reserved.

I'm curious why "All Rights Reserved." was added. It may be obsolete, but if it was taken seriously today wouldn't it also be at odds with the BSD license?
Apparently this was hidden behind the Alt+F12 key combo? I might have to fire up a copy as I don't remember ever seeing this bit. Edit: it doesn't seem to be enabled in 2.14. Oh well, got to hear "Blue Flame" again!

The rest of the application runs in 80x50 text mode, and it included a character editor so you could customize the box drawing characters if you were so inclined.