skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> subsidizing fossil fuels to 7 trillion a year globally

This is misleading. See https://www.slowboring.com/i/145942190/the-case-of-the-myste...

> The vast majority of the “subsidies” are “implicit subsidies,” which include “undercharging for environmental costs.” In other words, they are characterizing governments’ failure to impose a carbon tax as a “subsidy” for fossil fuel use.
Nothing changed. We’re literally in an auto market flooded with EVs. Solar is a ROI positive investment that is gobbling up farmland in a problematic way.

If you’re a geek, you probably got hyped up by Elon when he was saving the world with electric cars. Now that he’s regressed to his effort to offer himself for impregnation services to repopulate and installing fascist dictatorships, the electric car stuff has gone by the wayside.

Cults of personality usually end up toxic.
Peering Forward – C++'s Next Decade – Herb Sutter – CppCon 2024 [video]
Who could have ever predicted this?
Thanks for sharing! The app looks good. Last I checked there are only a handful (or less) of really decent habit tracking apps, so the space could certainly use some competition!

What kind of GPT features does this app have and how are you thinking about privacy?
I'm rather torn on the discourse on this. I can understand disappointment that people are adjusting down on goals. What I don't understand is that this seems rather removed from outcome measures.

Specifically, in this context, they are still reducing output. Just not as aggressively. Do we have reporting on what this means in real impact terms? Last reporting I have seen, the majority of carbon emissions are from locations that we aren't governing. Such that this is akin to yelling at people for not eating all of their food, because someone somewhere is starving.
And you could argue that if the internal identifiers need to be capitalized or lower-cased, you've already lost.

On an enterprise app these little string manipulations are a drop in the bucket. In a game they might not be. Sort that stuff out at compile time, or commit time.
Crack may have been a poor choice. Many dealers cut crack supplies all the time with other drugs, borax, detergents etc.
Well because other species don't manage to break the barriers as efficiently as we do.

The way regulation works is that species are limited by their environment. If there are many antelopes, there can be many lions. But if there are two many lions, the population of antelopes goes down to the point where not all the lions can survive, right? This is simplistic, but that's the idea (the higher the population, the bigger the impact of a disease, etc).

Because we are really good at changing our environment in order to be more individuals who consume more resources, we escape those regulation mechanisms. By doing this, we destroy most species, including ours.

Now let's not pretend that ants would be better: if they somehow escaped those mechanisms, they wouldn't suddenly vote and stop growing (presumably). The fact is that they haven't escaped them, and we have. Well for a while. Now it's very likely that some kind of mechanism will end up regulating us. Maybe it will finish destroying most species, and it will take thousands of years to "recover" (with some definition of "recover").

What's interesting with us is that we do know we are destroying ourselves and the biodiversity (which is arguably one of the enjoyable things in life), but we can't seem to find a way to fix it.
> I am not sure why you are being downvoted.

Trigger-happy emotional non-intelligence.
No, you didn't! I don't really think Soffer does, either, but it's an issue that's sort of bound up with the analysis that follows his book. Today, excusing someone for serving in the Waffen-SS would be coded differently, and more harshly, than it was in 1950 --- not because people in the 1950s were O.K. with the Waffen-SS, but because they knew less about it. And it's subtle, because the United States Government did know, and cared a lot (but was deeply fallible, then as now) --- but here we're talking about a story where the federal government harshly cracked down on the "Oak Park Nazi", and his defenders were just random people who were, I think, mostly ignorant about the issues at play.

People look back at like 1959 Oak Park and say it was wild this guy wasn't reported to immigration as soon as he turned in his marriage certificate with the Reichsadler and "Gross-Rosen" on it, but the superintendent of OPRF high school almost certainly had no idea what the hell Gross-Rosen was; even the OSI had to go consult experts to work that out.

I'm a little bit judging other people --- not you --- for judging local civic officials for not meeting the standards of a society where everybody has virtually all the world's knowledge in their pocket at all times.
1-it's not companies, it's nation-states such as China and all across the "developing" world making the economic decision to use the cheapest, most easily accessible and reliable energy source (still fossil). And anyone providing examples of "yes, but..." should include an verifiable explanation as to why GHG emissions are not only increasing but accelerating

2- Carbon is much more than energy. Take a look at medicine, for example. Remove plastics, the field as we know it stops. Stop the flow of primary feedstock from refineries and no more medicines. Coal is another excellent example. You can replace as many coal plants as you want with renewables, you still need it to make the high-grade steel required to manufacture the renewables. Which is one reason why China is digging up more coal per year than any country ever had since the Industrial Revolution.
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The Problems with Calea-II (2013)
Legendary security pundit Bruce Schneier note problems with 2013 and 1994 laws mandated law enforcement surveillance of telecom networks that pre-shadow the current Chinese hacks of the legally-mandated surveillance hardware.
There's another one on Verizon USA right now[1]. Same story: heavy, bulky, anyone who asks for it don't commit to it.

By the way, I was really surprised to learn that US Army special operations guys just procure whatever latest models of Galaxy S2x in a marginally special plastic case that clips onto a flip-down chest mount. If that's all they need for parachute jumping and covert operations as far as physical reliability is concerned, surely I am not going to need any more hardening for my daily uses.

On the other hand, I sometimes see these seriously rugged phones seriously beaten up appearing in used markets with warehouse or heavy industrial factory style damages. Clearly that's where IP56 protection is actually required and proven.

1: https://www.techradar.com/pro/phone-communications/kyocera-d...
I genuinely don't understand your point at all. I am not contesting that instincts exist, and I am not sure what you think the disagreement is. Let me rephrase:

There have been two sides to ANN development: architecture and data. If we're analogizing brains to ANNs like the author is doing, then brains also have an "architectural" component and a "data" component. But we need to be clear that evolution (including individual mutations and epigenetics) shapes the architecture, while lived experience shapes the data. The author is claiming that the experience of billions of years of evolution should actually go into the "data" column, somehow, and that human brains at birth have actually learned from the experience of rodent-lizards that lived 200 million years ago. This is just idiotic, and it does not help that the architecture is completely ignored. Again the problem is a fundamental bait-and-switch in the analogy itself.

Instinctual behavior is much better-explained by evolution influencing the architecture of the brain, rather than waving your hands and saying "data, lots of it!" The crying baby is much better explained by an ancestor to all birds and mammals who had a neurological mutation that made it whine (perhaps softly) when it was hungry, not because that lizard finally accumulated enough "evolutionary data" to learn how to cry. (What would that data be?) The neurological mutation is of course purely speculative, but it is plausible, which is not the case for what the author is saying.

The author claims quite directly that humans learn from billions of years of animal experiences in a very similar way to how GPT learns from billions of lines of text, which is a preposterous claim that requires extraordinary evidence. No evidence is provided. I am confident that this Substack is quackery.
I am not as certain. Sure, Musk and his product are no longer 'cool' given his move to US political right faction, but tech is tech. Some tried banning cell phones and whatnot and the old guard there had to adjust their expectations.

In short, I am not sure you are right about it. If anything, and I personally see it as a worst case scenario, use of that contraption will be effectively mandatory the way having cell phone is now ( edit: if you work for any bigger corp that and and want to log from your home ).
Twitter ignores revenge porn takedown requests unless DMCA is used, study says
What Jonas Tyroller's Games Reveal about the Steam Algorithm
> An attractive future direction might be to re-implement Htmx in React: The server sends a JSON blob that React converts into virtual DOM components.

Isn't this exactly what HTMX was replacing? The client needing to have a ton of logic and state?
My personal theory is that Demis and John will win the Chemistry prize for AlphaFold this year and that they decided to also award this one to help bolster the idea that ML is making fundamental improvements in academic science.

I would prefer if there was an actual Nobel Prize for Mathematics (not sure if the Fields would become that, or a new prize created).
Wikipedia used to have this picture for an illustration of Mojibake: https://dic.academic.ru/pictures/wiki/files/76/Letter_to_Rus... A very good job from the postal employees who corrected it.
yeah i don't know if I understand what they were saying either

regardless if you have a lot of events flying around then updating the UI via hypermedia exchanges is going to be a bad idea, as I mention here:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/#if-your-ui-s...
Honestly, go all in.

Find a good website name. Make business social media accounts. Do product reviews on your blog with an actual human being reviewing them and some decent footage.

Maybe get an audio capture card rig of decent quality, like a focusrite scarlett and a behringer DI box with RCA ins so you can record the outputs of the different devices and analyze their audio bandwidth output, noise floor, any "character" or "coloring" that the device adds to the output (which are entirely personal in nature and unquestionable)

Do some screen recording using OBS with the results, nice voice over, post to youtube, write the blog, and fill the space with your personal human recommendations and dropshipping links to the shopping page of your website and if the wave hits you'll already be on your board ready to go.

Sounds like a lot of work but if you take it on as a passion project absolute worst case you're out $1,000 and 6 months of your free time as you learn the ins and outs of running a business and trying to make something happen.
Boltzmann machines were there in the 1980s, and they were created on the basis of Hopfield nets (augmenting with statistical physics techniques, among other reasons to better navigate the energy landscape without getting stuck in local optima so much).

From the people dissing the award here it seems like even a particularly benign internet community like HN has little notion of ML with ANN:s before Silicon Valley bought in for big money circa 2012. And media reporting from then on hasn't exactly helped.

ANN:s go back a good deal further still (as the updated post does point out) but the works cited for this award really are foundational for the modern form in a lot of ways.

As for DL and backpropagation: Maybe things could have been otherwise, but in the reality we actually got, optimizing deep networks with backpropagation alone never got off the ground on it's own. Around 2006 Hinton started getting it to work by building up layer-wise with optimizing Restricted Boltzmann Machines (the lateral connections within a layer are eliminated from the full Boltzmann Machine), resulting in what was termed a Deep Belief Net, which basically did it's job already but could then be fine-tuned with backprop for performance, once it had been initialized with the stack of RBM:s.
An alternative approach with layer-wise autoencoders (also a technique essentially created by Hinton) soon followed.

Once these approaches had shown that deep ANN:s could work though, the analysis showed pretty soon that the random weight initializations used back then (especially when combined with the historically popular sigmoid activation function) resulted in very poor scaling of the gradients for deep nets which all but eliminated the flow of feedback. It might have generally optimized eventually, but after way longer wait than was feasible when run on the computers back then. Once the problem was understood, people made tweaks to the weight initialization, activation function and otherwise the optimization, and then in many cases it did work going directly to optimizing with supervised backprop. I'm sure those tweaks are usually taken for granted to the point of being forgotten today, when one's favourite highly-optimized dedicated Deep Learning library will silently apply the basic ones without so much as being requested to, but take away the normalizations and the Glorot or whatever initialization and it could easily mean a trip back to rough times getting your train-from-scratch deep ANN to start showing results.

I didn't expect this award, but I think it's great to see Hinton recognized again, and precisely because almost all modern coverage is to lazy to track down earlier history than the 2010s, not least Hopfield's foundational contribution, I think it is all the more important that the Nobel foundation did.

So going back to the original question above: there are so many bad, confused versions of neural network history going around that whether or not this one is widely accepted isn't a good measure of quality. For what it's worth, to me it seems a good deal more complete and veridical than most encountered today.
rustc_codegen_gcc is also a thing.
> without being attached to a terminal

Isn't that more the job of `nohup`?
Granted, but I don't think there are many people / teams who are capable of writing their own engine and then fail to port a few thousand lines of game logic. So I stand by my advice that if you decide later to write your own engine, porting the logic will not be the difficult part.
C++, where every line of code is a book waiting to be written.
A counterpoint to your last sentence:

From "Indonesia’s coal producers diversify as money for mining dries up" - https://www.ft.com/content/9546f590-2fb0-4939-a090-8bac7ba6a...

"In recent years, foreign banks have largely stopped financing coal operations, with Indonesian companies primarily securing financing from domestic institutions"
Love how good the CLS is. I wonder if you can deal with flashes of white during navigation with the new View Transitions API
Of course the researcher has to have htop open!

Btw has anyone done an analysis of Bobsweep (Canadian company) vaca? They kind of position themselves now as "privacy focused".
I find that this is the best advice for life, not just making your own games. Do what you're most excited to do :)
Probably because most of their logic is locked in "no code" systems, such as Unreal's blueprint or as Unity component data.

A well- and hand-written game is easily portable, see the original Doom, where separation between core logic and side effects, such as drawing in a screen, is clear. Actually, this is a good architectural model for all types of software.
There is a complicating factor for a Web developer's personal Web site: resumé-driven-development (RDD).

For those professionals who try to use personal side projects for RDD, so that they don't have to sabotage as many employers' projects as they would otherwise.

Which leads me to this morning, for example... For an indie Web site I'm about to launch -- and for which I'm using a popular modern Web framework, mainly for RDD reasons -- I could no longer update my Web site.

Because an NPM package had a Critical security problem, and trying to get the update got NPM stuck with some interdependency conflict that couldn't be resolved automatically. (Which, ironically, prevented pushing the security update to the production site.)

The site could be 5 simple handwritten HTML files, one with a sprinkling of JS inline in it, plus 2 small Perl CGI scripts. And it would work perfectly for 25 years and counting.

Instead, it's 129 NPM packages, frequently needing security updates, and a large tree of cryptic source files (template fragments, TS configurations, handlers), just for the NodeJS part of the site alone.

But doing it the ridiculously complex way is something that professionals can't afford not to do. (For example, having Perl on your resumé would be the kiss of death for employability. The people who didn't throw away your resume for ageism reasons, would still think you must be an idiot for not doing RDD.)
"They literally say it is!"

They literally do not say it is. Citation needed. Quote what you're referring to.
Cabs refused to innovate. Before Uber the process to obtain a cab meant using a phone to call a human to radio a driver in a vehicle. It was obvious in the year 2005 that booking through the internet was going to happen.
You are right , Instagram and YouTube short is the same exact content only a week delayed .
I like the analogy. Lets explore it a little.

<< You can already hack people by just telling them things.

True, but language fluctuates, zeitgeist changes and while underlying techniques remain largely the same, what nationstate would not dream of being able to simply have people obey when it tells them to do behave in a particular way. Yes, you can regimen people through propaganda, but what if it you could do it more easily this way?
I like this not because I think the charbot will be any good but because it's clever stick wielded by this guy to get his opponent to debate him. Seems like the kind of thing that can only happen once though, and from here on we'll be seeing political takedown ads based on cherry picked excerpts from an LLM fine tuned on a political opponent's words.

I have no clue who this guy is or what his politics are but the True Representation Movement referenced in the article also seems interesting although potentially equally fraught as this AI scheme. https://truerepmovement.com/faq
The idea that people who use game engines are at all equivalent to AI art prompters is ridiculous. What you’re doing is being like a painter who says “real painters mix their own pigments”. It’s unnecessary gatekeeping.
I suspect the excuse is more like "it'll be nice if we had to warranty replace fewer water damaged phones" than it being a major selling point. Some places rain a lot, and not everyone sort trousers and purses by rain resistance.
I already responded to the condescending "you didn't really know what you were choosing" comment below. The tldr is that I knew exactly what I was choosing and have never had any issues with it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41772355
Not yet, but planning to.
Because the apostrophe as used in English is a punctuation mark, not a letter, and especially not a modifier letter. The author argues that any name ought to be matched by anything in \w, and we should avoid a punctuation character for that reason, but he doesn't mention other punctuation marks like the hyphen that also commonly occur in names.
Japanese wages are notorious for being lower that a lot of the developed world and there is a problem with stagnant wage growth.

I don't think there is any need to try justify a screw up on this level as being good. Fukushima was a disaster, economically and for the image of nuclear globally.
Not ignore per se. But I've never had a pleasant experience trying to get insurance to do its job.
User "ReyHahn" has changed it back to physicist. Justification: "he defines himself as physicist but he has worked i mnay fields"

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Hopfield&dif...
Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals
Back in the day mozilla (the browser, before the mozilla org made firefox) edited html in a wysiwyg fashion. All my early websites were made with it. I never did work out how to remove a <br>
Oh? I think that ship sailed with the FAANGs. Why would programmers have any more scrupkes than CEOs?
Bezos hasn’t been CEO of Amazon for some years now.
I think the concept of lifetime bans from big tech platforms needs to be reevaluated, but there is not much difference between Google's "trip wires" and Apple's "red lines": your app is not allowed to exist either way.

Patreon faces an existential crisis right now: use in-app purchases or the app will be removed. Game streaming wasn't banned right up until it was. No amount of support has helped with these red lines - not even the committee they allegedly created for developers to challenge the rules. Their support has only helped in the absurd cases, like demanding WordPress implement IAPs or rejecting dictionaries for containing swear words.
That’s completely besides the point. I agree that working on an engine can be very fulfilling and round you out as a developer. But it’s not easy and I wouldn’t recommend that somebody who just wants to make a game go down that path. I’m pretty sure some of my favorite games like Hollow Knight would have never been made if they decided to just build the engine as well.
Canada just had this a few days ago: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/govern.... They willingly and enthusiastically imported literal Nazis that Britain didn’t want, to own Stalin or something, and now they give them standing ovations in their parliament, build monuments for them, and their deputy prime minister is the granddaughter of a prominent Nazi collaborator. Prediction: in another 50 years nobody would remove anything off such monuments, and Hitler will just be known as an amateur painter who wanted to bring unity to Europe, but the bloody dictator Stalin got in the way of that noble aim.
It's morbid fascination for me. Up until a few years ago his outward facing persona/"brand" was just a regular tech billionaire occasionally spinning up interesting new stuff. And then almost overnight it's like he had some kind of mental break and started saying and doing completely nonsensical things. Why? What happened? Was he always like this behind the scenes and it was hidden from us or did something happen to him?
Meanwhile if you use an Erlang language you can horizontally scale later.