skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know if that source ultimately took into account the CO2 costs in extraction and transportation.

However, plastic sure isn’t free in that regard! 8-10% of petroleum (which is pulled out of the ground, with increasing effort each year) is used to produce plastics. I’d put good odds on extraction and transportation CO2 costs for petroleum exceeding those for LNG - no good guess on coal. That also doesn’t account for your energy costs in moving the post-consumer plastic around.

Plus, natural gas has significantly lower emissions than plastic to begin with.

Obviously, which others touched on, it’s better to displace burning fossil fuels and plastics (arguably fossil fuel too) with renewables —- an effort that continues to accelerate.
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I thought calorie restriction was another order of magnitude, beyond "normal" weight. But I guess if obesity was causing accelerated ageing, you could say not being obese is delaying ageing.
One example is to provide it a list of objects and ask it what would be the most plausible way to stack them without damaging the objects while also being stable. Optionally, you can ask the model to generate a rational for the solution provided.

You can even invent a fictious object that has never existed, define it's properties, and ask the model to include it in the list.
single-use instant hand warmers are catalyzed by salt and a little water. iron powder is indeed hazardous by itself but not like that
I wouldn’t be surprised if safety requirements will gradually tighten until every car will need most sensors. Manufacturers have an interest in selling expensive difficult to manufacture cars and politicians like to reduce traffic fatalities.
Recycling in the west means paying the lowest bid to "take it"

And they'd take it to Asia and dump it in the ocean on the way.
For small databases (anything with ~< 10,000,000 rows), sure, it's probably fine. Other than that, no.

* Unless you are self-hosting K8s and thus have a large amount of control over the underlying storage, the amount of IOPS you're getting will be hazy at best. Tbf this is also true with every single DBaaS, because the latency on network storage is absurd, so IOPS become somewhat meaningless.

* Unless you have modified the CPU scheduling options [0] in K8s, you have no control over core pinning or NUMA layout. This is even worse due to the fact that your K8s nodes are probably multi-tenancy.

* By its nature, K8s is designed to host stateless apps. It is fantastic at doing this, to be clear. I love K8s. But a system where the nodes can (and should, if you're taking advantage of spot pricing) disappear with a few minutes' warning is not a great host for an RDBMS.

* Hot take: it makes provisioning a database even easier, which means people with even less understanding or care of how they operate will be doing so with reckless abandon, which means people like me have even more work to do cleaning up their mess. I am a big fan of gatekeeping things that keep companies afloat. If you want to touch the thing that every service is depending on, learn how it works first – I'd be thrilled to help you. But don't come in and just yolo a copy-paste YAML into prod and then start chucking JSON blobs into it because you can't be bothered to learn proper data modeling, nor reading RDBMS docs.

Re: [0], if you don't care about core pinning, then it's unlikely you're going to care about any of these other points, and you probably also don't understand (or care) how blindingly fast an RDBMS on metal with NVMe can be.

I am not a Luddite. To reiterate, I have administrated self-hosted and managed K8s professionally. I also run it at home. I just have strong opinions about understanding fundamentals (and not causing myself extra work by allowing people who don't care about them to run infra).

[0]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-mana...
Not sure if it's common, but I really hate eating. Usually I distract myself with television or something. So being alone in a quiet place with a bunch of strangers, it's almost like pooping in front of them. Like, don't look at me, I don't like what I'm doing.
What I meant is that it can be used as a checklist of what to do, since so many linux programs can be built against it and it has been around for more than two decades.
"... a lot of snarky articles written about how certain countries or companies were not Y2K ready..." I know you're talking about articles written after Jan 1, 2000. But there were a lot of articles written before then that were Jeremiah doomsday articles, so the snarky articles were reacting in part to equally wrong articles before then.

One article I recall in particular was in Scientific American some time in (IIRC) 1998 or early 1999. It prophesied (I use that word intentionally) that no matter how much money and effort was put into fixing the problem ahead of time, there would be all kinds of Bad Things happening on January 1. It called out in particular computers that were said to be unreachable, like hundreds of feet underwater on oil platforms. (Whether there actually were such computers, I don't know.) There was a sort of chart with the X-axis being effort spent on preventing the problem and the Y-axis being the scale of the resulting disaster. The graph leveled off while still in the "disaster" range, but still presented a clear message: "Give us more money and we can prevent catastrophes".

Somehow I haven't been able to find that article. Maybe SciAm suppressed it when the outcome turned out to be way short of a disaster.

There was also a TV (remember that?) news site or three that planned coverage beginning on midnight December 31 somewhere in Europe (Russia and China were off the map, I don't remember about Japan). Of course the news was that there was no news. (Yes, there were some computer programs that died or spit out junk, but nothing rising to the level of news.) I think it was an hour or two after midnight Eastern Time (US) that they ended the news cast.

Was there a Y2K problem? Of course. But it was largely taken care of before January 1, 2000, Y2K Jeremiahs notwithstanding.
Does plastic do that? My understanding is that away from sunlight and heat it basically never breaks down.
or you can maybe skip the hydrogen intermediary on one end and burn the iron in an iron-air battery. then you get much higher efficiency. electrowinning of iron in alkali is also feasible, eliminating the hydrogen on both ends
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Then why doesn't Elon push back against blocklists from the UAE, Turkey, Russia, ... Are those governments less authoritarian than Brazil?
The big way I think about how much value AI is providing me is by thinking about how much of my Google search traffic has shifted to chat GPT.

It's not just that it's a bit better, it's that it can answer queries I had that Google never could answer, especially really vague stuff.
Language is the language model that extends Transformer. Transformer is a base model for any kind of token (words, pixels, etc.).

However, currently there is some language-specific stuff in Transformer that should be moved to Language :) I'm focusing first on language models, and getting into image generation next.
As a DBRE, I disagree. See post below [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41414237
> Taxing unrealized capital gains already isn't all that radical -- property tax is effectively a tax on unrealized gains of property value, and essentially every municipality has that tax.

Property taxes are a use tax (roads, police, fire, schools, etc), apportioned base on property value, it is not a capital gains tax.
I agree. Django's ORM is great because it handles the relationships well, where many ORMs barely do the object mapping part well.

I'm rewriting a large Django project in Java (quarkus + jooq), because it's at the point where I need a type system now, but it still has a place in my heart.
But then you have to keep on adding iron, which might be costlier than hydrogen. And you have to keep on removing iron oxide.
For me Django and ActiveRecord stand out as 2 good examples of what an ORM should be like. Both feel like they make the simple stuff super easy, the complex stuff figure outable, and the super hard stuff trivially possible with raw SQL and a decent mapping from that back to regular code.

Although over the years my code trends more and more towards `.rawSql` or whatever equivalent exists. Even for the simple stuff. It’s just so much easier than first thinking up my query then bending over backwards three times to make it fit into the ORM’s pet syntax.

Plus raw sql is so much easier to copypasta between different tools when you’re debugging.

And before you say “but sql injection!” – that’s what prepared statements/parametrized queries are for.
Good name for a rock band, too.
Several thousand years ago: "what's this black oily stuff oozing out of the ground?"
This "it's difficult to fire people" idea seems to be a meme that has caught on in recent years.

In the U.S. it's ridiculously easy to fire people (as pointed out above), once management has made the decision. What people seem to really mean is that it's sometimes difficult to get management to see the problem in the first place -- but by definition, this ultimately points to an issue with the management team, rather than the supposedly stealthily incompetent (or flaky/abusive) employee.

And also - when the right decision has been made, the team generally rejoices, and bemoans only the fact that it took so long. If the effect is seen as demoralizing -- it means the firing was likely political, or a result of team chaos / poor communication not specific to the employee. So again, the issue rests with management -- by definition.
There's plenty of space in north america that isn't beside residencial areas.
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Musk, like anyone else, has a right to endorse whoever he wants. Unless there's evidence that he's mass censoring or banning Democrats, I don't really see why there'd be any outrage. No one certainly seems to care when Silicon Valley big wigs donate to the other side.

Seems like even Masnick agrees, albeit begrudgingly, that this judge is an authoritarian. Where I cannot agree with Masnick is the implication that Musk and this man are somehow both equally wrong.

A government official, no less a judge, should be held to a far higher standard as his actions impact hundreds of millions of people. And as we can see by his unprecedented order banning VPNs, he clearly lacks the circumspection and self-reflection necessary to hold such an important office.
This is an underrated comment. I laughed out loud.
Spreading FUD about "pollution" is the real problem.

Yes, plastic is everywhere.

So what? So is water and air.

I don't give a shit.

Reconsider complaining about the things that lead to your existence.
But on the downside, your average matriarch or patriarch was probably a better parent than the government, and better positioned to exert social pressure needed by often wayward children.
Ha, this is neat!! I’d never heard of the Lucas sequence before, thanks for the new knowledge!
That's cool But it seems that Apple will support this feature in iOS 18
Is there any information on this either way?
Start with what you can definitely use, the 5 and 3 reviews, and assume that's all you are ever going to be able to get out of these companies. Augment them with data from somewhere else, rethink your design to make it work.
I'm thinking of Amdahl's law. Any effort to disaggregate OS and kernel for performance capped by the performance of the virtualization layer (about which I know to little to get any intuition).
solve this coding problem which has nothing to do with the job you will be doing
Browsers like Brave should be made illegal. Adblock == Piracy. Simple as that.
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I'm really curious how much valuations, especially for big companies, have been based on things like "anyone can create a website with no technical knowledge", "programming will just be natural language in a few years", and "you are now the manager for an infinite number of junior developers".

I think wall street is a bit smarter than that, but I'm not totally sure. I'm thinking that there are expectations of efficiency gains across a really broad range of tasks, i.e. programming, support, copy-editing, graphic design, etc, which will lead to significant increases in economic value.

But it's impossible to know what the broad market is thinking, so IDK
Your post now will probably join the mix. So will mine and all the others here.
Django's ORM is acceptable - but I think Rails/ActiveRecord is superior albeit certainly more opinionated. Most likely just my personal bias speaking because Rails was the first web "framework" I cut my teeth on.
I agree, I looked around my area and found a task on top of a parking lot that says: "These elements have rare (<20 uses) parking=* values." What does this mean? Does it mean that the parking log is marked to have a "<20" value when the value should be a number instead of a string? Obviously I'm not going to go inside the car park and count all the park slots, there could be hundreds!
Related:

Barbed Wire Fences Were An Early DIY Telephone Network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007445 - Jan 2014 (1 comment)

Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Brought Isolated Homesteaders Together - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15951230 - Dec 2017 (24 comments)

Old-time ranchers used barbed-wire fences as phone network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19506811 - Mar 2019 (1 comment)

Barbed wire fences were an early DIY telephone network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30231837 - Feb 2022 (64 comments)
For those curious why, it’s to prevent water from leaking in. Instead, air from the pressurized interior will push out. This forces humid air to circulate with desiccants at various points, which will pull moisture from the enclosure.

Lastly, the sensors identify pressure dips, which tells technicians roughly where the leak is. Then they know which portion of cable to repair or replace.
You have a STOPPING line that is on YOUR side of the crosswalk. That is the line you stay behind during a red light, if you stop then cross the line and stop again in the eye of the law it's no different than if you hadn't stopped behind the line at all.

You are correct that it's not compulsory to turn right on a red, however, if you are going to turn right you can't just stop in the middle of the intersection you either stay back or you go.
The value in the proposition is OpenAI IP. Money and data centers are commodities easily replaced, especially when you hold the IP everyone wants a piece of.

The arrangement is mutually beneficial, but the owner of the IP holds the cards.
Not only do you live longer, but you live better!
Fat guys can do incredible leg press and calf raise numbers.
agreed. there are a fairly wide range of possible hydrogen storage forms like this (ammonia, carbohydrate, hydrazine, metal hydrides) but paraffin has many practical advantages. possibly aluminum (without any actual hydrogen, similar to the iron in the article) is superior, due to lower weight and higher round-trip efficiency, but possibly not. i think we can take widespread fischer-tropsch fuels for granted as part of the transition to renewable energy
> by this judge issuing illegal censorship orders

If the order is illegal you show that in court. U.S. district courts constantly issue illegal orders. There is a massive difference between appealing for an emergency stay and just blowing off the court. (Musk is a brilliant entrepreneur. He has given zero shits about the rule of law across his career, domestically or abroad.)

At the end of the day, both sides in this case are posturing. The judge gets to act like he's standing up to us American imperialists. Musk gets affirmation from his anti-work censorship crowd. The fact that X f/k/a Twitter has zero employees in Brazil should tell you how much that market really matters to him.

> Ultimately these decisions are made by Linda Yaccarino

This is nonsense. I have a lot of respect for senior people on the X team as well as many of their shareholders. Yaccarino is an obvious puppet.
No, I mean, a transformer is a very specific model architecture, and your simple language model has nothing to do with that architecture. Unless I’m missing something.
Compression schemes take an item, reduce it in size, and return the same item (lossy or lossless) when asked.

LLM's and other generative AI are not designed nor are particularly good at this. What they are good at is returning new results using 'learning' it has developed via training.

If I want to send someone a sample of code, I'll use zip. If I want to generate code from a prompt, I'll use a llm.
Because compression and generation are very different concepts.
This is classic "big corporations are bad". Simply put, the internet would be dead if it were not for megacorporations as you call them, like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

Google have provided an invaluable source of information all for free. The least you can do is watch some ads and let them harvest your data.
Expression is just a broader term.
> right to lie is fundamental to the principle of freedom of speech

It's obviously not. We prosecute fraud. No freedom can be absolute unless it is singular.
I think the phrase "stochastic parrot" is misleading and has fooled millions of people into thinking that LLMs can't do genuine reasoning about situations they've never seen before, nor been trained on, which is wrong because LLMs definitely are doing genuine intelligent reasoning.

What model training is doing is building up a semantic space of vectors from which astronomically large numbers of true facts and ideas can be derived during inference. I mean like a number of facts larger than the number of molecules in the known universe. A googolplex more facts than the sum of all of humanity has ever "thought".
It puzzles you in spite of knowing that wealthy people are taxed more by default due to progressive tax rates etc?
Where I lived in Europe (as an American), jaywalking wasn’t illegal. They didn’t even really consider it weird. After all, you’re just walking.

In fact, if you were in the street and a car hit you, the car driver had to prove that it was unavoidable to miss you, otherwise the driver was at fault.

It was also illegal to intentionally block traffic as a pedestrian unless you were at a crosswalk. But there was no law that made it illegal to cross the street anywhere.

Seems like the best of all worlds. And it’s easy to fully enforce the whole “blocking traffic is illegal” part.
How does a LLM compare to say .ZIP at compressing Romeo and Juliet?

How does ZIP compare to a LLM at answering a prompt to write a short story about cats in the style of Romeo and Juliet?
At least not yet, lol
> I've always said people should be able to directly allocate where their taxes go within the government expenditures, or be able to file an objection based on religious or philosophical beliefs to having their tax dollars fund morally objectionable things.

Obviously, this was supposed to be the job of the person you elected.

But in 2024 we definitely have the technology to let people vote on smaller units of issues that they care about.

I would be completely in support of people self-allocating their taxes as long as (1) the distribution still had to add up to 100% so you can’t under contribute and (2) government offices capped their income and redistributed excess to the general funds instead of letting some feel-good departments waste money they didn’t need but were allocated.
I've started working on a .NET project that uses EntityFramework and due to some of the magic, I prefer just using raw SQL as well. I've used other ORM solutions in the past as well and I am not a fan ...

But the team chose EF due to it supposedly being easier to integrate with whatever database the customer might be using and that seems like valid reasoning.
The effects that we are seeing now are temporary. Once the exit tax is in place there are no incentives to quickly leave the country.

What permanent effects it will have on the overall startup business is still to be seen.
> By its nature, K8s is designed to host stateless apps. It is fantastic at doing this, to be clear. I love K8s. But a system where the nodes can (and should, if you're taking advantage of spot pricing) disappear with a few minutes' warning is not a great host for an RDBMS.

Why is this a problem? A typical deployment will have multiple replicas, with (hopefully) small replication lag. Those should be able to be promoted to be the new primary within a minute.
well, adding iron and removing iron oxide is what electrowinning iron does, but i think i added that part of my comment after you made yours. but you can still add iron and remove iron oxide with the hydrogen smelting furnace the ethz researchers devised if you like that better
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It doesn't seem reasonable or work well to the holocaust deniers.
Early 2000s there was an unveiling of ARGUS-IS and if we have that and commercial companies know when daughters are pregnant before they tell their parents then stuff like the TV series Person of Interest seems all too plausible at least as far as mass surveillance AI exists. I doubt there is a Batman squad doing good on that level of technology out there hidden from society but there may be a military and CIA like op behind it.

There was tech to watch for what things you pick up and put back or dwell on in stores with cameras and heat maps and loyalty card tracking before 2005. it's not far off to get a person some computer thinks should be investigated based on patterns and data out there publicly.
This is probably at the center of it: only a portion of users want this, and thus it will be a PITA on iOS.

Apple perfected optimizing for the 80/20 split, where 80% of users will experience very little friction, and the other 20% can go pound sand. And that was obviously a clever marketing decision up to a point.
I'll have to look into it more, but from what I've seen, it seemed that people had to restrict calories so much that their immune system was underactive (which may be a large part of why it works).
Clever grift. I am surprised I have not heard more stories about “free” web tools utilizing some kind of similar monetization trick.
It varies from study to study, but generally what I've seen for anti-aging is ~1,000 calories per day or less. I've seen it as low as 500.
I didn’t say humans can compute how likely their answers are. I said LLM token prediction scores aren’t confidence of accuracy but likelihood of the tokens given the chain of prior token. The assertion that it is some sort of “accuracy” metric is false. The humans can’t either is a whatsboutism
Exactly this. I also expected the app to have the shell UI downloaded locally and only fill it with fetched data, but the slow load times and blank pages make me think it really just is a browser. Somehow worse than your typical Electron app.
I don't know what you read, but it wasn't anything that I wrote.

I've written only about my specific experience. I am not too smart to be propagandized.

Big subreddits clearly have major issues, and I acknowledged that. Presumably some small ones too. The ones I tend to hang out in ... I don't see any of the issues discussed here. There are no overarching mods, there is no groupspeak (to speak of), there is little to no banning/blocking.

So sure, maybe you have experience of smaller locale based subreddit that does. That's fine, no argument from me.
Im not questioning the quoted studies in any way but its either my language barrier or BBC has built a clickbaity title based on just one quote “ It wouldn't surprise me that improving people's health this way actually slows down the ageing process”
Wonder what would they write had he said “it wouldn’t surprise me if people get blue skin and tiny horns…”