skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the way that data is presented, it's parroted all around the web for years. Even the graphic is super misleading (as are most bar charts) - the water usage by cattle farms and industrial scale farming are drastically different. For instance, here is a report with hard data about ground water consumption of dairy farming in CA - much of the water is recycled:

https://www.milkproducerscouncil.org/_files/ugd/318cf1_1f72a...

So, based on the research I've seen on this topic, I think claims like these are misleading in a way I don't really feel like debating, because it's exhausting and laden with propaganda (both from dairy farmers and from vegans).

In short, looking at things like "water used" is entirely misleading because that's not actually the environmental problem, it's about groundwater depletion - again, these topics are much more complicated than the way they are typically presented.
If the model weights are distributed, or its a free forever product... Fair use seems like a solid claim for LLMs in my semi-informed opinion. It seems like it will be a tall leap to create a trillion dollar corporation as fair use.

It would be unsurprising to me if OpenAI directly purchased copyright holding firms for the purpose of acquiring access rights to their material.
I'm waiting for content in like 3 live service games at a time. I rotate between them when they get new stuff.

I find some time nights and weekends.
I'm pretty sure your economic terms are not what the consensus of professionally trained economists would say.

>>>Locally-owned businesses. That's socialism.
There is definitely nothing in the definition of socialism that says everything is locally-owned. Moreover, that can be a way to end up with things like Redlining and other institutional racial issues.

>>>There is no value without labor.
The great thing Marx did was show that everything could be converted to a value measured by labor. But, economists afterwards showed that once you have that conversion, you can do it literally with anything. We could have a system based on the number of bumblebees required to build a house. That is a normative judgement that labor is somehow special.

Now, our current implementation of Capitalism is clearly wreaking havoc on our environment. But it has brought the standard of living up across the entire world past a Malthusian cycle of more food means more people, means they eat the food, and we have starvation.

The same can be said for current implementations of Communism all across the globe.

Lastly, cooperatives may be a great solution for a lot of manufacturing and housing challenges. And when you get to the scale of a country, a co-op is just a government, and a capitalistic democracy feels a lot more like a co-op than a dictatorship or authoritarianism even with all its pitfalls. A populous who then really starts to demand through votes that we change to improve the blight of our fellow humans seems an even better place to live, if we can just get there.
We don't use GH as a CDN, it's used solely for developing filter lists and issue reports.
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> Women can be more than just baby factories

That's a weirder take. Women who do a good job caring for the next generation are more valuable than most of the other impacts you're likely to make in a business career. Most people overestimate the impact of their work and underestimate the impact of their family and personal relationships. It's one of the most common deathbed regrets.
> There is no value without labor.

is this a serious statement?
Anyone can contribute to Bun, but we only hire IRL (and we help with relocation + visa).

Bun is an extremely context-heavy product and being IRL makes it a lot easier to help each other when we get stuck and explain things. I think if we half-heartedly did remote it would just be worse for everyone than being one extreme of either fully in-person or fully remote.

We chose fully in-person, but it would be so interesting to see the alternate timeline where we chose fully remote.
Well then it's a mere budget rounding error. But, the overall risk assessment shouldn't have been much different.
Good answer format is "I don't know, but my best guess would be ..."
Let us put it bluntly, the AI bubble is built on piracy.
I'd prefer you use wind to get the energy(or solar but there isn't much sun when you need heat) and burn nothing.
That makes up a tiny amount of overall plastic waste.

>I estimate that a few percent of ocean plastics could result from trade from rich countries. A figure as high as 5% would not be unreasonable.

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade
Perhaps? Your link is what brought attention to "official lockdowns". We all kinds of know that policy reached far, far beyond what that Wikipedia page is calling a lockdown. Nobody made the claim that lockdowns in the context of schools directly align with the shorter full society lockdowns. Reduced time at parks was also due to "lockdown" policy, but it wasn't written directly by the president. A lot of company and school policy was reflective of government recommendation even if it wasn't law.
MbedTLS has all the crypto primitives and runs anywhere.
Will vary a lot based on just window position and size... I got a very different score from the window fullscreen/centered vs off to the lower right when I first did it. My work monitor is not great, to say the least... will try on my personal display later.

Towards the middle, I don't really see it as blue or green, but kind of accept that it's towards the middle. Half randomly selecting really.
Additional CO2 in the oceans is indeed very bad for marine life. It makes the ocean more acidic. Ocean pH has dropped from 8.15 to 8.05, so far.

Pumping O2 into it isn't really any better. Sea creatures evolved for a certain equilibrium. Adding more of anything will throw off the balance. Some organisms would benefit, but others won't, and so the population levels can shift, throwing off the entire food web.

Those webs are pretty resilient, and it takes an awful lot of emissions to alter them significantly. But we've managed to overcome a huge amount of buffering to increase ocean acidity, and that's potentially very, very dangerous.
Here's good advice: "Have the people interviewing hires to be smarter than the candidates."

Otherwise you're going to have quite a few folks taking space, holding titles, and collecting paychecks. Even worse they could mess up development processes that only really start to show their costs after a major release or two.
Similar feeling here. I found that simple full-text search goes a long way to scale without needing to impose structures (and things like backlinks). It will probably not be enough for prolific note takers but I think it's enough for people with say <1000 files.

(although I use Xeft[1] which is spiritually the same but I find the UI cleaner and snappier because it uses Xapian rather than elisp for full-text search).

[1] https://github.com/casouri/xeft
Disagreements of course come up, but it's not an inevitability to descend into constant daily arguments about things. Been with my wife for 13 years, we rarely argue, but:

* we both have Buddhist based meditation practices we've cultivated individually for years

* we both have been to therapy individually

* we both have journaling practices to work through interior things.

* we have physical and artistic practices

* we take psychedelics together once or twice a year

The first couple years living together can be a little tough, especially if you've never done it with another partner. We fought more earlier on, before she started her meditation practice and before I went to therapy. As long as both people are working on themselves and the relationship I don't think there's a reason to descend into the stereotypical bickering married couple trope though.
If you're arguing that LLMs cannot imagine this "freedom", then I'd say that then an LLM and a Human are fundamentally different. Therefore, LLMs should not be granted human rights.

I think this is a matter of having your cake and eating it. You can't say LLMs should have some human rights (particularly the ones that generate revenue), but not others, like a right to freedom.

> I don't see why sentience would be required for some entity or tool to have the right to learn and synthesize new things like humans do

On the contrary, I don't see why sentience should not be required.

These laws, for all they have existed, only apply to humans. Dogs cannot use them. A plant cannot use them. It is therefore reasonable to say you must be a human to use these rights. In my mind, what is unreasonable is claiming a computer program should be granted these rights. You'd have to justify why that should be the case, what good that can do for humanity as whole.

Turns out that's very hard, so AI people don't do it. They just give up. Instead they start out at an assumption that puts their ideology in a favorable position - that being that computer programs should be awarded human rights.

But that assumption, you'll find, is not actually fool proof. If you ask around, a lot of everyday people will consider it preposterous. They might call you insane. So, to me, you must justify that in tangible terms.
> What was the "specific" definition of the aether?

TL:DR the aether has a reference frame. This is exactly what it's inventors wanted and exactly what modern things don't have.

Here is the long version:

When you put together a couple of the constants of classical electromagnetic theory (specifically the quantities called the permitivity and permeability of free space) you get out a quantity which has the units of a speed. You get this thing which is measured in metres per second.

Now if you're a Victorian era scientist, and you have fully internalised Gallilean relativity and Newtonian mechanics then this is absolutely, completely, insane. There is no way in their worldview for a speed to exist in isolation, without a reference frame for it to be measured with respect to.

If I measure a guy on a bike going at 10 miles per hour, and a guy in a car going at 30 miles per hour past him then the guy on the bike sees the car going at 20 miles per hour relative to him. If I sit opposite you on a train I measure your speed to be 0, even though we're both moving at 100+ km/hour. Speeds are (for Victorian scientists) completely relative.

So they have the theory of electromagnetism, which seems to be giving amazingly accurate predictions, except that it also gives you this apparently absolute speed, which makes no sense. Someone realises pretty fast that it's about the speed that light goes. So what do they do? They propose the existence of this "aether" stuff which is everywhere at all times and critically which has a reference frame. The aether provides a reference frame for the speed of light and the crazy meaningless absolute speed they didn't know what to do with now makes sense, it's relative like any other speed, but the magic quantity they got is the speed in the aether's reference frame.

Of course a few decades later Michelson and Morley show that this idea doesn't work, in an incredibly beautiful experiment, and the aether theory starts to look shaky. A few years after that Einstein (with input from people like Lorentz) cooks up special relativity which is almost like Gallilean relativity in that almost all speeds are relative, except specifically the speed of light is not. The speed of light is absolute, just as it has to be because of the way it pops out of electromagnetism.
An ad for Sqream in a msn.com wrapper. Original advertorial:

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>>> Locally-owned businesses. That's socialism.

>> There is definitely nothing in the definition of socialism that says everything is locally-owned. Moreover, that can be a way to end up with things like Redlining and other institutional racial issues.

I read the OPs post as an example of propoganda (mega corp - capitalism, small company - socialism) not reality.
The big problem with plastic waste is getting it to the landfill (or incinerator) in the first place.

Once the plastics are captured, I don't see too much benefit in incinerating it beyond freeing up landfill space. But that's really not a major issue as you can always dig a deeper and wider landfill.

In fact, a major downside of incinerating the plastic is you end up with greenhouse gasses as a byproduct.
> There is no value without labor.

While this is generally true, it's also not the entire equation. For example, there's no gain without risk.

- When I work for someone else, I am offloading some of the risk to that person/owner. When someone starts a company and hires other people... if the company goes belly up, the founder loses their investment; the workers find another job.

- When I rent from someone else, I am offloading the risk of owning a property to someone else. If I get a job across the country, I don't need to sell my house at a loss to move.

None of this justifies people making insane amounts of money while others are starving. But neither should the worker expect to reap all the benefit unless their also willing to take all the risk.
<sigh/> How large a military force do the ICC and "Human rights campaigners" have standing ready to defend Mongolia, if Russia and/or China took exception to Putin's arrest?
Yep. But will the govt kill OpenAI and others or change the law so that as long as your business is >$$$ you can violate copyright.
I'd like to keep my old car and convert it to electric but it's still really expensive. It's being done in Latin America tho: https://restofworld.org/2024/electric-vehicle-conversions-ur...
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Exactly. And as far as I understood the talk, nobody even asked the audience to change their ways.

Now, as mentioned by the presenter himself, refactors that change the API semantics will break any consuming code, no matter if written in Rust or C.

So, one option is that the whole issue around breaking Rust bindings is just a strawman and the vocal part of the audience just wants Rust devs to gtfo.

In the other, more charitable setting I can conceive, we are looking at an API that isn't extensively documented in the first place (obviously, otherwhise the Rust for Linux team wouldn't have to ask for clarification) and a small group of kernel devs who are trying to fix everything by themselves rather than documenting changes in a way that so other people can fix their own API-consuming code.

In this setting, also fresh would-be contributors using C will have a hard time getting to grips with the codebase. Now, if I remember correctly, one of the purported reasons for Linux to open up to Rust was to attract fresh developers, but in the outlined scenario, there is a clear reason why people might bounce off, and it is unrelated to the language (at least if this case is representative for other parts of the kernel codebase).

None of the options look good to me. But perhaps I am just missing something.
I have mild tritanomaly ("blue-yellow colorblindness"), which _directly_ affects blue vs green color discrimination, and I landed at 168, "greener than 85% of the population"
The "multiple timelines" idea was also in the earlier 2008 TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
i believe it has been like that all the time, because in the times without insurance and pensions children where the ones who cared for you when you get old and so people depended on their kids and it logically makes sense that they would show extreme care for them growing up. (this also reflects in the attitude of future grandparents who to this day push their children to get married and have kids. sometimes in extreme ways)
Taking an open source project and making it closed source no less. Poor taste IMO
Anecdata: I had some delusions about ten years ago, diagnosed as schizophrenia at the time and controlled with anti-psychotics for a few years until I was about to come off them.

I'm doing okay now. I make a bunch of money as a software engineer, I get my heart broken by lovers now and then, I have depression and wonder why I'm alive. Not too different from before, not too different from an average person I imagine
I mean, not all at once, but (I only have 3) there's the one when I bought a new laptop in 2019 which I setup when I got that laptop and became the old one when I got a new laptop in 2021 and setup a second one. And then the third one is a backup key I made at some point and is stored offsite in case I/my house gets robbed/burgled or my place burns down in a fire.

It's inconvenient, sure, but it's more convenient than my bank accounts that are accessible online being cleaned out.
> I don't remember where I've used my YubiKey in the past.

I've yet to encounter a site that allows to enroll a FIDO device without setting up some other form of 2FA and for me it's TOTP which are kept in the app.
It depends on how the group was formed and what rule of law it operates under on who the owner is. where owner is defined on who gets to pick the leaders.

One person grows their operation organically from nothing, they then are the owner and get to be the king/dictator.

A group pools their resources to finance the organization, as such they are the owners to each a share according to their amount.

A group decides that all members of the group are the owners without regard to how much they financed it. this is a democracy.

The point being every group of people has an owner.
>government regulations do not take into account bystander lives.

In the US. In the EU pedestrian safety is accounted for in their ncap rating IIRC.
How do you know so much about electricity?
Nuclear was a thing in the 50's/60's but district heating isn't practical over long distances and nobody wanted nuclear plants in their suburbs.

Renewables we already do burn quite a bit of. But really, quite a lot of household waste is actually renewable too - cardboard packaging, food scraps that didn't end up in the compost, such things. So it's really not that bad.

Waste accounts for about 20% of the total energy required for heating in Sweden.
A workers cooperative is owned by its current workers. Are you going to argue that consultancies and law firms are not really owned by their current partners, either?
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> I thought they didn't bother and just buried it if it wasn't profitable.

The point is to cheat. Say you recycle and ensure that there are enough links in the chain nobody can follow it to the end and prove the stuff you ship to China wasn't recycled. China did recycle some stuff, but most of it wasn't. China decided to stop participating in that scam though.
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> I wish Yubico had some serious competition, but sadly they don't.

This likely wouldn’t qualify as “serious competition” but I have a few solokeys and they work fine for my use.

https://solokeys.com/
I believe that it's the "best possible under the circumstances". Anti-psychotic meds are no fun for someone with a desk job, required to focus, figure new things out on daily basis. It's harder with schizophrenia (larger doses or stronger meds, I guess?) but I've seen both managed up to "normal" by which I mean: no mood swings, being a member of, and taking care of a family, going to the gym or running often, and still present motivation, drive and creativity.

It took a few doctor changes for most of them, though, until they found a professional who prescribed some "hitting the spot" treatment and wasn't brainessly testing one drug after another at over-kill doses numbing the ability to think about daily shopping list.

EDIT: one thing I forgot to mention: every single person diagnosed with above and having a good life accepted that they cannot touch alcohol, weed and few other things ever again. On the other hand - there are high levels of alcohol abuse present in all the problematic cases.
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> Yet, products like almond milk (Again, this is just one example, there are others)

Could you share the other examples with us?
As distinct from the attack itself? This is an interesting exercise and worth publishing, but in practice I don't see much real world consequence even for a notionally vulnerable device.
It's pronounced differently in German
> In some sense, corporate employees that get some form of equity as part of their compensation are more literally worker-owners.

As soon as a worker leaves or sells their shares, these shares aren't worker-owned anymore and the interests of their owner can quickly diverge from the ones of a worker. That's roughly what a coop fixes I think.
Huh? Volvos are known for their wagons and their cars are among the safest in the industry.
This isn't a dispute between the two countries, it's a dispute between the law enforcement of one country, and the people they're accusing of breaking the law from another country.

> It’s standard around the world that employees are not held personally responsible for the crimes of the corporation they work for.

Is it really so simple? Is all that the cartels missing to avoid persecution from the US gov't simply incorporating in their home state? Of course not.

Imagine that offered death by drones. You tell 'em who you want killed and they mail a package containing a drone that pops out and kills the person when it's delivered. Would it be reasonable to say "Yeah we can't arrest anyone from that company when they come to our country because they incorporated in another jurisdiction?"