skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course!

1. We've barely scratched the surface of this solution space; the focus only recently started shifting from improving model capabilities to improving training costs. People are looking at more efficient architectures, and lots of money is starting to flow in that direction, so it's a safe bet things will get significantly more efficient.

2. Training is expensive, inference is cheap, copying is free. While inference costs add up with use, they're still less than costs of humans doing the equivalent work, so out of all things AI will impact, I wouldn't worry about energy use specifically.
No, the funny math is typically from the nuclear advocates.

A usual bit of dishonesty you see from them is computing the cost of firming intermittent sources by assuming batteries are the only storage used. This massively inflates the cost, since batteries are unsuited for certain storage use cases (rare correlated outages, seasonal storage) for which there are other, cheaper options. They can massively inflate the cost by doing this kind of strawman engineering. Nuclear bros lap up the numbers produced by this sort of fraud and repeat them unquestioned.

Careful analysis using all the options for dealing with intermittency (storage is not even close to #1) reveals that renewables are very affordable.

But anyway: if nuclear really is so much better, it doesn't need subsidy. So let's let them compete head on. I don't think nuclear can survive if that happens though, since no unsubsidized nuclear power plant has ever been built, anywhere, selling into a competitive market.

The whining about nuclear opposition eventually boils down to complaint that nuclear isn't being given the massive public subsidy it would need to get anyone to actually choose to build it.
How ironic that the people exposing a fraudster must defend themselves from the false allegations of a fraudster. The sad and pathetic part is that Francesca Gino even tried to blame her colleagues for the fake data. These videos are a good primer on the dishonesty of Francesca Gino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNK4nXWA_s8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE5V_nW7pPo
> Getting naked and spreading your legs is neither as productive nor difficult as serving your country

We have different moral compasses, I guess. To me, obeying military orders (which often result in killing people) is neither productive, nor difficult (as a big part of thinking/initiative is replaced by blindly following orders). Military personnel basically outsource a large chunk of thinking and assessing good/bad to a "higher power". In a way, that's very easy and comfortable life for a specific type of people: all higher order judgments are deferred to higher ups in the military chain. Besides, I wouldn't say military personnel are "serving" their country more than, say, plumbers, electricians, railway workers, postal service, healthcare workers, or, even sex workers.

> Neither should it have the same social status

I disagree. The fact that somebody who has no other skills and initiative but to be a death machine/robot blindly following orders, doesn't warrant them to be a hero, and sure as hell doesn't qualify them to a high social status in my book. And, at least to me, calling military service "productive" is just plain hypocrisy. Their only function is to either destroy things during war, or sit around looking menacing when there is no war.

Imo, money spent on weapons and the military could be better spent to build more social housing, solve healthcare problems, etc.
Only for certain protected activities like employment or housing, otherwise it's entirely legal to be a bigot.
> Do you honestly believe that they have not contributed at least partially to the decline of Boeing?

No, because they just do what they're told. If the stuff they do is bad then necessarily the stuff they're told is, too. Therefore, it's management/business' fault. Boeing IS NOT an engineer run company.

> That union protectionism

Literally does not exist in the US, anywhere. We have huge problems with union busting and anti-union propaganda. The union existing and having a drop of bargaining power isn't "protectionism" - your lenses are skews.

> That hostile bargaining and strikes hadn’t hurt their finances?

Uh... this isn't a problem of finances, it's a problem of poor management. Planes falling out of the sky, coverups, lies, stock buy backs. A strike doesn't cause your executives to lie to the media and the FAA, does it?

> boogeyman of management

No management exists. The company does make decisions about its products, strategies, investments, time, etc. Those decisions ultimately decide the trajectory of the company. I don't think that's a boogey man.

> unbiased perspective

Yes, those repeating anti-union propaganda, which has been built up for at least 70 years in the US, are surely the unbiased ones. I don't know what to tell you hear other than - do you hear yourself? If you told me this was a comment from a c-suite exec I'd believe you.
Strategy: propose renaming it to his name. Let him tweak it insignificantly. Let him claim it’s the biggest improvement in healthcare EVER, then BING BING, continued coverage and damage mitigated? CAPS for emulating his character. I dunno—could be worth a shot! Healthcare in employment gap is fresh on my mind :)
No indication that that reddit user is affiliated with the campaign.

I have no idea what relevance any of this has to the present HN post, though.
Your first paragraph was pretty much true. Unions don't exist to be nice to the executives and shareholders. That's not their purpose. Their purpose is to act as a balance to the outsized power that corporate management and shareholders wield in the employee-employer-shareholder relationship. They only care about the "health" of the company to the extent that the company is healthy enough to provide good compensation and working conditions to employees. They're not there to add shareholder value. This is working by design.

You're getting hot backlash for framing this as tragic. Doubly so since you identify as "part of the worker class" but your entire post is simping for the executive and shareholder class who don't care about you and would lay you off without even thinking about it if it would increase the stock price.
I know nothing about the issue but I hear recreational use and I immediately picture people driving 4 wheelers and dirt bikes through pristine land and I'm like nope.
The stupidest thing about ai and automation is that they are trying to target it at large corporations looking to cut down on jobs or 10x productivity when all anyone actually wants is a robot to do their laundry and dishes.
Yeah, the article argues that degrowth doesn't have enough evidence and isn't progressing towards it fast enough. Valid, but that doesn't make me feel like the idea of degrowth is invalid.

They say that degrowth ideas would do "approximately nothing," but then their own article they link to states that "a shift toward plant-rich diets would do more than any other single change" to reduce emissions. They bash on eating local, but the academic paper they cite concludes "eating locally grown fruits and vegetables may be an effective strategy to meaningfully reduce food system GHGEs from transportation."
Too bad the ureach fails to provide some means to price or even buy one of their products. At least it doesn’t on iOS Safari.
> This is the wildest part. One company that is proving all the "why does <company> need 10000 engineers?" takes true.

Generally speaking, <company> needs <number> engineers because it's rational to keep hiring while each incremental engineer generates more value than they cost in salary and overhead, even if some of those engineers are at less than 50% utilisation and have to generate pointless make-work for themselves to get past performance review.
Wow that site is incredibly annoying on mobile, just let me scroll ffs. Anyway, is this comparable to those portable pump action espresso machines? Thus seems quite a bit larger for minimal gain, at first glance, but I'd be happy to hear opinions on how it might be better (after all, it is bigger, presumably for some good reason).
LR and CR cells don't contain mercury and never have. The original 12c battery was a MR44. 'L' is manganese alkaline, 'C' is lithium, 'M' is mercury.
You are tying to make an argument for destigmatizing sex work, but for me I think it really points out how we should really increase the stigma towards those working for social media giants, sports gambling sites, and other tech companies whose main operating model is actively getting people addicted to something and then profiting off of it. Social media is one of the worst developments for society in recent history, and the people working for Facebook or TikTok absolutely deserve to be shamed for actively participating for personal gain.
I didn't want to "quote the old magic" to you, but this story is squarely within the HN guidelines. It's interesting, stimulating, important, tech related, true, timely etc.

The argument that a games company losing their entire staff to resignations isn't 'suitable' because "most company personnel changes are not particularly interesting" is false equivalence.

This thread is full of comments describing what people are finding interesting about this. Dismissing that with 'every fp story has comments' is a really odd and (dare I say) out-of-character move.
Nah, they shut down their self driving car division because they needed a boring conservative safe pair of hands for operations and the current CEO wasn't much of a visionary unlike the founder. Say what you must about Kalanick being a frat boy but he embodied "move fast and break things" like no other.
> These things you mentioned are all still looked on negatively by some people.

I don't know anyone who has been denied a job or an opportunity because of those issues. I also don't know anyone who has been denied an opportunity because they made adult content. Does it happen? Absolutley. Is it crippling to the point of ostracization? Not even close.

If anything, being able to filter out people who would look down on those attributes/experiences is increasingly becoming a net positive. I wouldn't wan to associate with someone who disparaged people because they have a piecing or like to take naked photos.
I found this paper interesting:
https://ckraju.net/Joseph/Manchester-paper.pdf

Transmission of the calculus from Kerala to Europe: "...we propose to adopt a legal standard of evidence good enough to hang a person for murder." See document for (1) motivation, (2) opportunity, (3) circumstantial evidence, and (4) documentary
evidence.
With a half decent IDE you do not need it. It is inexcusable.
I think I would agree that most people don't like their experience of black coffee.

Whether that's because there is no coffee or brewing method out there that, when served black, would satisfy them, or because they've just not had the chance to taste what they would consider good coffee, of that I am not sure.
Embracing Chaos: Testing Resiliency and Consistency in YugabyteDB
I think the person you were replying to was making a slightly different point. They were talking about Wilderness as a legal designation in the US, as distinct from wilderness as a concept.

When an area is designated as a Wilderness, that requires a certain style of management that might or might not be appropriate for the area and is very hard to change. More flexible management options are often a good thing, and there are lots of options for managing federal lands (NRAs, NCAs, etc) that don’t come with the strict rules of a Wilderness but are still pretty limited in what they allow.

Non-Wilderness designations do mean having to place more trust in the people on the ground and the agencies involved. You might or might not think that’s appropriate. But what OC and the article both say is that we have to make those decisions with the mindset that “no management” isn’t the default or best option, and often people hear the word “wilderness” and assume that it is.
It's the same thing when people talk about the "risk" of owning a business. At the same time, those same people will advocate dodging accountability for business owners.

If there's no threat of liquidation, fines, bankruptcy... what's the risk? If the fed can't come into your home and take your furniture... what's the risk? Because those workers end up homeless in the case of failure. And the owners just go back to their mansions like nothing happened?
I think this goes deeper. Independently of this origin accident, calling this card - which is scientifically unfounded - police can discredit hostages who, "from the inside", see their brutality or ignorance. Not every hostage situation is actually life threatening.
This is no joke, it is a real danger of which one must be aware.

I have seen such a case. Several decades ago, the son of a coworker of my father, a young male in his twenties, not previously known with health conditions, has died by jumping in very cold water during a hot summer day. It happened that there under water there was a cold current and the water was much colder than expected. He had an instant cardiac arrest and it passed some time until people around realized what happened, so resuscitation failed.
You can always cherry pick a few counter examples to any argument without invalidating the typical case.
slippery elm. iykyk
The reason why that question is a famous question is that _many humans get it wrong_.
Right. In the modern economy we have a bunch of pothole digging industries and a bunch of pothole filling industries, and the operation of both causes the GDP to go up.
Im in this phase right now, I used gatsbyJS and netlify in my last projects and things became unmaintainable and difficult to upgrade after a few years, am in the process of just doing a complete rewrite where I have more granular control over everything regardless of framework / business corporatization
OK, so now we have: Basis Robotics (C++), Copper Robotics (Rust), and NComm (Rust) all trying to replace ROS. Shouldn't you guys be working together instead? Also, can't we just all instead improve ROS instead? I think Zenoh is leading the way there, introducing a new ROS 2 middleware, rather than trying to replace it wholesale.

Also, in case you didn't know, some much larger companies tried to replace ROS and eventually saw the light and gave up: NVidia (Isaac, yes, Isaac was at first a new framework for robotics that was meant to replace ROS, they've since reused that name to mean something else), and Viam (Go; now a ROS sponsor).
Every new generation is worse than the one before them
Donald Trump is probably launching a crypto token
Did you play the DLC as well?
Wow, it can do ODEs. Pretty awesome.
For all the people who are saying you don’t need X and Y - what is the simplest way to deploy a web app using TLS on a VPS/VM?

Let’s say I’ve got a golang binary locally on my machine, or as an output of github actions.

With Google Cloud Run/Fargate/DigitalOcean I can click about 5 buttons, push a docker image and I’m done, with auto updates, roll backs, logging access from my phone, all straight out of the box, for about $30/mo.

My understanding with Hetzner and co is that I need to SSH (now i need to keep ssh keys secure and manage access to them) in for updates, logs, etc. I need to handle draining connections from the old app to the new one. I need to either manage https in my app, or run behind a reverse proxy that does tls termination, which I need to manage the ssl certs for myself. This is all stuff that gets in the way of the fact that I just want to write my services and be done with it. Azure will literally install a GitHub actions workflow that will autodeploy to azure container apps for you, with scoped credentials.
I don't know what "redpill 'pair bonding'" means because I'm old, so it's possible that I misunderstood. That said, I don't think it's far-fetched to assume that someone who willingly engages in prostitution (as a seller or a buyer) has a somewhat cynical and transactional relationship with sex, and I understand why many people might not like that.
Thank you! This isn't the one, but it looks like a good resource. Appreciate you!
Their ToS doesn't apply to off site content
Also, they largely pollute to produce the shit we then can buy. Meaning it is also our pollution what they are doing an we support it by buying it.
Supersonic dirigibles? Isn't that an oxymoron?
To create the training data? Almost certainly something like that (likely more than two), but I think they then trained on the synthetic data created by this "conversation". There is no reason a model can't learn to do all of that, especially if you insert special tokens (like think, reflect etc that have already shown to be useful)
I'm starting this comment with the letter I. I don't know who decided that we needed a symbol for that particularly combination of sounds, or why they decided it would sometimes look like a vertical line with optional top and bottom bars and other times look like a shorter vertical line with a dot over it. That all seems incredibly arbitrary. In fact, every symbol I'm using to express this idea is incredibly arbitrary. Ever really look at a comma? A question mark is a curly, funny thing.

And yet, we still came to a consensus that these symbols have these meanings, completely arbitrary as they may be. I don't think + or ∪ or ≥ or λ is any more obscure than I or , or ?. I would much rather write "A⇒B" than "A implies B" 100 times on a page. Besides being shorter, using a symbol reinforces that we're referring to a strict mathematical interpretation and not the vagaries of ambiguous English.

TL;DR if you don't hassle your English teacher on why we use ? to ask a question, and it doesn't stop you from learning English, don't pester your math teacher to explain the etymology of λ. The history of those languages is a different subject from the practice of them.
Engineers always over value their ability to start companies on their own. There is a lot to building a successful company and needs irrationality and risk-taking (not exactly traits of a median engineer).

Engineers like Musk, Zuck, Gates are outliers than the norm. If you are a Boeing Engineer and had above average risk-appetite, you wouldn't be stuck in Boeing for 10+ years.
Literally a case of letting your ideology or bias get in the way of a good time or discovery. I’d say that might be the scourge of your times anyway! Hahahaha! :)
It's a false dichotomy. But also, we need to gain efficiency, and quickly.

That constitutes as growth. The degrowth ideas don't differentiate what kind of growth they are fighting, neither does targeting neutral growth. You can't target a single number that accurately, we need a details-based intervention.
The first time my dental hygienist asked a small talk question referencing something I said last visit, I was impressed by their memory/vaguely flattered . The second time it happened I was pretty sure they're just writing notes about what to say in my record. Especially when the new hygienist did the same trick :)
Someone would hate that I’d say this, but it really depends if you’re white vs. a minority. Minorities need more education AND experience to justify their employment.
If 90% of startups fail, why would you think winning wasn't mostly chance? Regardless of how many people work hard and grind, you can still fail (and most do, that's just life). Some are more lucky than others, and capital begets capital. Once you've "won" enough, it becomes much harder to lose, even if you make terrible forward decisions and run off the inertia of past wins (Twitter). Bezos built Amazon, but also has sunk somewhere between $10B and $20B into Blue Origin and it is still not terribly successful, for example, and demonstrates that even with resources and skill that success is potentially out of reach.

So, while I think the startup model is a fine way for investors to get exposure to an asset class that is the equivalent of 0DTE options, for the startup ecosystem to enable participants to play in the fiat that falls from those investment decisions, and perhaps some value to be generated, I would hazard that the model would not scale to meet the needs of the aerospace and defense marketplace at this time. All that is needed is skilled engineers and manufacturing practitioners to be enabled to do their best work, while keeping out of their way. Airbus demonstrates this, imho. They employ almost 150k workers, and successfully deliver products to customers that aren't fraught with manufacturing defects. They also have a book of work into the next decade, demonstrating customer confidence in the product and the org.

https://luisazhou.com/blog/startup-failure-statistics/

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/billionaires-and-the-evolution...

https://escholarship.org/content/qt6668s4pz/qt6668s4pz.pdf
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I get how it could be seen as "natural", but I'm not sure to see value in that definition. From that token, most of human culture is unnnatural, but honestly it doesn't bother me much.

I'm glad we have books, even as it's not as natural as oral transmission. I love photography, I'm so glad we have chemical food that requires such a brewing process to come to fruition, and I have no desire to go back to a hunter gatherer society, I like civilization in general. And pornography is sure part of it.
Yes, selling drugs to kids and being a "content creator" on OnlyFans are the same thing.
I wish the likes of Nintendo and Sony themselves finance such efforts. I mean it's one another way to create games (IP) for your console, what possibly could be the downside of starting something similar to Github Accelerator for your platform?
It's already commodities in places like California. For instance, the state considers a wife a depreciating asset that goes to zero at year ten, now owed potentially lifelong alimony as you've used up her most fertile years and therefore you must support her for life.

As a married person in balancing my finances I always then half it and then subtract 20 percent of my pretax income to find what's truly mine after liabilities to my spouse. This makes me explicitly aware of the true cost I pay, and if god forbid i am divorced i have already mentally written off most my wealth and home I painstakingly singlehandedly built stick by stick over a period of years as not actually mine.

Prostitution causes a real problem here as it throws a bone in the resource extraction from male to female by making the consumer more informed on costs up front.
> The union's job

Simultaneously the union is at fault, but when they try to fix it via bargaining power (like this strike), those same people lose their minds.

Which is it? Unions cannot simultaneously be super powerful tyrants and weak little losers. This is anti-union propaganda.
> The compiler is slower than most mainstream language compilers

Depends on which mainstream languages one compares with; there's always C++.

My project here has 50k lines Haskell, 10k C++, 50k lines TypeScript (code-only, not comments). Counting user CPU time (1 core, Xeon E5-1650 v3 3.50GHz):

TypeScript 123 lines/s
Haskell 33 lines/s
C++ 7 lines/s
You should not be asking it questions that require it to already know detailed information about apis and libraries. It is not good at that, and it will never be good at that. If you need it to write code that uses a particular library or api, include the relevant documentation and examples.

It's your right to dismiss it, if you want, but if you want to get some value out of it, you should play to it's strengths and not look for things that it fails at as a gotcha.