skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's only true if you expect managers to control the people they lead. Another approach is to empower them instead. As a manager my expectation is that each of my direct reports eventually grows to be better at their job than I am at their job. My job is to make sure they have clarity on the team and organizational goals, make sure my management has visibility and confidence in our team, and create a healthy, high trust environment that allows my team members to work at their best. Again, it is my hope and desire that my reports exceed my own expertise. Additionally, management is itself a different skillset.
I wonder if you could do a hybrid approach, where the nuclear device is very small, but able to charge the battery over a longer duration to the point where the solar panels can be repositioned and utilized again.
I haven't used cursor.ai, but Claude 3.5 Sonnet definitely has the issues I'm talking about. Maybe I'm not great at prompting, but this is far from an exact science. I always ask it specific things I need help with, making sure to provide sufficient detail, and don't ask it to produce mountains of code. I've had it generate code that not only hallucinates APIs, but has trivial bugs like referencing undefined variables. How this can scale beyond a few lines of code to produce an actually working application is beyond me. But apparently I'm in the minority here, since people are actually using these tools successfully for just that, so more power to them.
> Copy-paste is OK once. The second time you're introducing duplication (i.e., three copies), don't. You should have enough data points to create a good enough abstraction. The risk of diverging implementations of the same thing is too high at this point, and consolidation is needed. It's better to have some wonky parameterization than it is to have multiple implementations of nearly the same thing. Improving the parameters will be easier than to consolidate four different implementations if this situation comes up again.

The more I do this software engineering thing the more I feel like this “advice” bites me in the butt. Understanding when you should duplicate code versus when you should consolidate (or if you should just write a TODO saying “determine if this should be split up by [some set in stone timeline]”) is simply just a HARD problem (sometimes at least), and we should treat it as such.

DRY/ WET or whatever shouldn’t be a maxim (let alone a habit! lol), it should at best be a hand-wavey 2-bit dismissal you give an annoyingly persistent junior software dev who you don’t want to actually help!
Germany that high? Do they count fax machines as digital?
This part of the article really stands out (emphasis mine):

> Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version. But he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada’s has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used “for freshness,” according to the ingredient label.

How can anyone working at the NYT believe what they are writing? They're equating "blueberries and carrots" with "red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene"?

I'm not exactly an RFK fan boy, but if I read things like this in what's supposed to be a respectable newspaper, I know I'm going to think twice about the other writings of that paper.
Ukraine already has the capability to make nuclear weapons.
If you do this, please sell it as an intensive sleep retraining device, a la the Thim.io device except not garbage.
The damage to ecosystems, flora and fauna populations, etc etc, isn't reversible like that. Extinct species don't just bounce back, sadly.
Good question but I have a fever at the moment so unfortunately my brain is not fully functioning :/
> About half of CO2 emissions are electricity, heating and transport. Not beef.

Methane is between 30 and 200 times more dangerous than CO2 and a single cow produces 200 pounds of it per year.

Another fun fact: the mass of all cattle on the planet is higher than all other animals combined. All of them from cats to rhinos and wild horses.

> Telling folks to stop eating beef now is compounding the problem by making people just give up.

That's exactly my point: the real issues aren't related to government policies related to just focusing on CO2 emissions from energy but how much and what we consume.

What we eat, by far, is the element that most impacts the planet. By far. The others, besides using more public transport are very small.

But nobody wants to hear or face it because it implies how we live and eat.

Hell a single cotton shirt requires 2000 liters of fresh water, a scarce resource, I don't see as much arguments about how we consume but plenty of neverending EV and electricity gaslighting.

It's much simpler to point at vague problems
I manage ~3000 customized websites based on the same template code. Sometimes we make changes to the template code that could affect the customizations - it is practically impossible to predict what might cause a problem due to the nature of the customizations. We'll take before and after screenshots of every page on every site, so it can get into the 100s of thousands of screenshots. We'll then run a diff on the screenshots to see what changed, reviewing the screenshots with the most significant changes. Then we'll address the problems we find and deploy the fixed release.

When we do these large screenshot operations, the EC2 instances are running for maybe 15 or 20 minutes total. It's not exactly cheap, but losing clients because we broke their site is something we want to avoid. The sites are hosted on a 3rd party service, and we're rate-limited by IP address, so to get this done in a reasonable amount of time we need to spin up 10,000 EC2 instances to distribute the work. We have our own software to manage the EC2 instances. It's honestly pretty simple, but effective.
Speed run hacking
Which bias is that? English proficiency is extremely relevant to a country’s ongoing development for all sorts of reasons I would think are obvious.

Read the report. It’s really well put together. https://www.ef.com/assetscdn/WIBIwq6RdJvcD9bc8RMd/cefcom-epi...
This has to come with an asterisk, which is that participants had approximately 90 minutes to work on each problem while AlphaProof computed for three days for each of the ones it solved. Looking at this problem specifically, I think that many participants could have solved P6 without the time limit.

(I think you should be very skeptical of anyone who hypes AlphaProof without mentioning this - which is not to suggest that there's nothing there to hype)
The perceived risk of dramatic unexpected effects is too great for people to consider this before things start getting really bad.

We’ll see how people feel in 50 years.
Bad actors were willing to pay for whatever Twitter's premium thingie was called at the time, shortly after Musk started changing what the blue tick meant.
I'll take your word for it that he would use the military to deport illegal immigrants. Why is that bad? The police already do that but the military has more resources so it could do more. Deporting illegal immigrants is perfectly normal, look how many were done per term of each previous president:

Obama: 1.5 million

Trump: 1.4 million

Biden: 1.1 million+ (still ongoing)

Where's the threshold from acceptable to "clean out the US"? Is it at 1.6 million so Trump will be doing the most in history? That's certainly not terrible by the standards of his predecessors.

How is that for him to "retain power"?

I just looked up Project 2025 and all its aims are reasonable compared to recent history in America and other western countries today. What exactly is too terrible to mention? Dissolving the department of education? So what? That just means decentralizing that part of education funding and control to states rather than the federal government. Just like pretty much every state (typically country) in the world funds its own education. Who's afraid to mention that?

You've been fooled by the "you won't need to vote anymore" misinformation where he was talking about fixing something for Christians which would remain in place - maybe it was the abortion law which actually happened through the proper process.
>Six seconds on the Google

I see 68.7 million people, not households. There's my 6 seconds.

Maybe 10 minutes would give me a better truth.

>You make the tech bubble mistake of believing that high speed internet is as ubiquitous as coax.

Yes, and no. Given that the top US cities contain about 8% of the population, you can cover a surprising amount of large country with a surprisingly small amount of area coverage. So it's not as straightforward as "people in SF are in a bubble".
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” — Phil Karlton (cf. https://www.Karlton.org/2017/12/naming-things-hard/ or https://MartinFowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html)

;-)
It wasn't just a lucky break, it was the result of furious efforts by scientists to lobby years in advance to take advantage of the alignment, as well as engineers who repurposed two Mariner probes to save money, as well as canny NASA bureaucrats who sneakily downplayed the possibility of a full Grand Tour in order to reduce estimated costs (with the full intent to underpromise and overdeliver, which Voyager 2 successfully did by "coincidentally" being on course to visit Neptune and Uranus after completing its primary mission to Jupiter and Saturn (to this day, Voyager 2 remains the only visitor to Uranus and Neptune)).
We've cut our emissions down massively, our electricity is pure solar, our meat consumption is 30% of what it was and we've flown once in 5 years (and then a fairly short flight). Home heating is still gas but we've halved usage by dropping the temp to 18c (from 21c) and better insulation.

Cars are still petrol but we've gone from 50k km / year to 10k km / year most made in a tiny 1 litre car (the other is a Prius). We don't have enough solar to cover that and the electric mix here is carbon intensive enough that we're better off using the petrol car until it needs replacing before switching to electric.

Hopefully at some point America will start taking their emissions seriously; it's crazy that you guys are so inefficient.
I agree with you. No one seems to remember the Quit India movement during WW2 which was led by Gandhi which was violent. Or that Gandhi was not the only Freedom Fighter and others like Subhas Chandra Bose were working with the Axis powers to fight against the British.

Or that the soldiers that actually fought for the British in WW2 western theater came back with the ideas of democracy that didn’t really exist in India because of the various puppet governments that people actually interacted with.

This is also true in the USA where you have figures like MLK who had complementary aggressive forces like Malcom X.

It is interesting also because India has turned from Gandhi in a lot of ways. A lot of my own family now think that Gandhi was a useful idiot. Useful at the time, but long past his due and that there needs to be a refocus on a more assertive Hindu identity like Bose.
The amount of CO2 yet to be released depends on the amount of fossil fuel yet to be extracted. Current oil discoveries, wells, and coal mines will all be exploited as long as they are profitable.

It will be necessary to lower demand for fossil fuel enough that new prospecting becomes unprofitable. This will happen eventually due to the physics of oil drilling.

If you consider the amount of energy contributed to the world economy from fossil fuels, there is no clear path how to market alternatives in quantities that can make fossil fuels obsolete.

A more realistic scenario for around 2050 is that coal-power increases while oil for personal transportation is replaced by batteries due to high oil price.
Humans can be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.
We are all in agreement here. This entire comment section is just about the coefficients for the objective function.
Well, I've had dozens of signups every day for ThumbnailGenius depsite 0 marketing. Whatever I'm doing, people seem to like it. I had way more data on it about thumbnails (including an index of 100k thumbnails) but had to remove that because YouTube didn't like it.

I can't see why any of these would seem like "scams" because I'm not asking for money for any of them except for ThumbnailGenius. Not sure how a free product can be a scam or a cashgrab?

And I don't know how familiar you are with YouTube, but most serious creators typically take multiple pictures of themselves, then get multiple thumbnail variants created by an editor. A good creator will typically spend hundreds of dollars just testing out variations to see how they "look". AI just makes it easy to create the variations and visualize different ideas.

Most of the users end up visualizing 20-30 ideas, then picking 1-2 and actually creating them in real life. It's a massive time and money saver
Aka the big grift
There's a movie "Corporation" (2003) that makes an argument that the corporations behave like psychopaths (in a medical sense i.e. the diagnostic criteria).
The models may be perfect or imperfect, either way the temperature is still going up.
> You - as a citizen - don't need to reduce your consumption, but we as a society must manage that all activities are priced properly.

Oh, I agree, I'm not against eliminating anything, but a pollution sort of tax I would be perfectly fine with.

Like eggs taxed more than tomatoes, poultry more than eggs, pig more than poultry, etc, etc.

But it has to be taxed enough to make some dent in it.
In rough chronological arrangement:

- The Balfour declaration, announced by a colonial power without permission or proofreading from the natives or landowners

- The consequential Arab-Israeli war

- Operation Cast Thy Bread and the introduction of ethnically targeted chemical warfare funded by the government

- The 70 collective civilian casualties from Qibya being raided by IDF

- The 400 collective civilian casualties from Rafah and Khan Yunis being raided by IDF

- Israel's routine violations of the 1949 Armistice Agreements throughout the 1950s

- The Six Day War's extended annexations and territorial reparations

- The passing of the Golan Heights law and the consequential defense of it despite international outcry

- The decades-long occupation of Lebanon and (entirely accidental) formation of Hezbollah

- The Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque bombing and other effects of "Dahieh Doctrine" as applied to civilian populations

- The "Blue Line" and subsequent disagreements concerning it crossing territory Israel does not possess

- The continued government support of the illegal and internationally disavowed settlement of northern Israel

Unfortunately, my family has lived too close to this conflict for a comfortable accounting. Israel' history is colonial, from the moment they were issued land by Britain (anyone remember the Raj?), to the modern day where they deploy the IDF to defend illegal settlements. Except for the US and Israel's own objections, those settled areas are unanimously not acknowledged as Israeli territory by the UN and EU.

Therefore, Israel is a colonial power. You can argue that they're one of the good colonizers if you want, but you'll need some pretty convincing evidence to justify 70 years of nationalism-fueled bloodshed concerning territories that were never part of their nation in the first place. Most Americans with internet access have started to realize that they can only support this occupation because it inherently necessitates Israel relying on American imported weapons. It's becoming a second "Pakistan situation" very quickly, and politicians are starting to realize it.
AI Slop Is Eating the World
Not in our lifetimes
> at much faster speed

As others have pointed out, the speeds for Voyager 1 were because of gravity assist of Jupiter and Saturn while Voyager 2 was a gravity assist of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Jupiter & Saturn line up relatively often enough so we could try to outdo Voyager 1 speeds a bit with a lighter air craft due to various advancements. But it's unclear we'd learn anything really new from having sensors that reached further out and our technology for propulsion really hasn't meaningfully advanced to outdo gravity assists from Jupiter + Saturn. There's some proposals to use nuclear explosions behind a probe to achieve speeds of ~10k km/s which would be substantially faster but there's numerous obstacles (cost + international treaties banning the use of nuclear in space).
I don't see the problem with low-effort. It's clear and concise, while also having more character when just an un-styled word mark. This is a technology used by people who already know what it is, I would be far more annoyed with adding more complexity.
> But it also isn't hurting because we'd be doing exactly the same nothing if they were cheerful.

Of course it is hurting. If we really want people to change then we need to understand human psychology.

We need to create hope and not fear. Ask Kamala how fearmongering worked for her.
Well we know he could not run a Python script: https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/06/01/elon-musk-crikey-dogeco...
Oh, certainly, if we are to make a serious effort, it requires dealocating a bit of resources from other areas.

Energy investments are some 3% of the GDP, diverting those is an almost complete non-brainier. But we'd need to get about as much from other places.
Also shipping interruptions and lockdowns. Giving people money to not work is goin to have a much larger inflationary effect than giving people money to build things we want.
Supposedly it is easy to go from lucid dreaming to astral travel.
No, it's called Sponsor Slice. I'm debating even putting it on the chrome store, it was a fun little side project for me, but I think it will be expensive to run (using gpt-4.0-mini). Also I don't think people will like the idea of sending me the ID's of the videos they are watching, but who knows, maybe if they dislike sponsored segments as much as I do they would be willing.

https://www.sponsorslice.com/
I wonder if there should be some scaling for extreme hot/cold countries. Most of our output here in Canada must be related to heating during our 6 months of cold climate.
I love that little nugget of info at the end. You could originally run excel standalone without an OS and it came with windows 2.1 bundled
Buddhist Retreat: Why I gave up on finding my religion (2003)
One feels a terrible disappointment Sagan didn't live to see the future mission projects he talks about in the book get finished and most of them succeeded IIRC. By happenstance the 2024 Solar System BBC series mostly uses animation but has some real photos and videos to document a lot of happened since the book was published.
> falsify the hypothesis that climate change isn't influenced at all by human activity. Establish a causal relationship. Show me the studies. I'll wait.

Prove me please that you are able to read them not just tell some ignorant bs or I will not bother giving you that links. I'll wait for at least writing down the full set of rules by which it is possible to persuade you that the study is valid. Can it be a pdf on arxiv or Elsevier publication, or yellowpaper publication or anonymous blogpost? Do you have some requirements about who is (not) allowed to fund the scientists? What climate scientists do you respect, at least three persons? How do you understand "entropy" word in the context of climate?
The target of 5.4tCO2/person/year is assuming we take a linear path down from 2023 emissions to zero emissions in 2050. It is the halfway point on that line.

Real world reductions (or increases) won't follow a linear path. Global population is also increasing. The number is just a rough estimate to show which countries are dropping the ball.
Cool! Looks like is used dynamic loading. Which is certainly workable. One downside is that while dynamic loading is well-supported, dynamic unloading is generally not. Meaning if you are using dynamic loading and re-loading for hot updates the server process will start to accumulate memory. Not a huge issue of the server process is periodically restarted, but can potentially cause weird bugs.

You might be able to make something more robust by forking and loading the modules in a separate process. Then do something fancy with shared memory between the main process and the module processes. But I haven’t looked into this much
Breaking that down: Voyager itself couldn't have reduced velocity, it had nowhere near enough reaction mass to do that. Hypothetically a spacecraft could but you might be talking about orders of magnitude more reaction mass. (Which means multiples more of the fuel to launch and accelerate that mass itself, which could quickly escalate beyond any chemical rocket capabilities.)

It also likely wasn't possible to get to Pluto on some future Pluto orbital pass. The limiting factor is likely that Voyager's incoming trajectory to Neptune was already too far beyond solar escape velocity to get into that narrow elliptical orbit you propose. (You'd have to slingshot so close to Neptune's center that you'd hit the planet instead.)

Designing from the beginning to come in slower to Neptune and adjust to encounter Pluto on some future Pluto orbital pass was probably possible, but yeah you might be talking about time scales of Pluto's entire orbit or even multiples of that. (We do similar things for inner solar system missions, like several encounters with Venus separated by multiple Venus-years, but that's on the order of single-digit years and not hundreds.)

The common answer to a lot of these outlandish slingshot questions is usually, yes it's eventually possible by orbital mechanics, but it gets so complicated and lengthy that you may as well just build another separate spacecraft instead. We talk about Voyager's grand tour alignment because it's captivating, but realistically if that hadn't happened we would have just done separate Jupiter-Uranus and Jupiter-Neptune missions instead.

The sun's motion relative to the galaxy doesn't matter for any of this - nothing else in the galaxy is remotely close enough to affect anything, the nearest star is still over 1000x Voyager's distance.
Oil boss Chris Wright named as Donald Trump's energy secretary
> included a tremendous amount of money for scaling up clean tech manufacturing

It included a moderate amount of money as stimulus to commercial companies which manufacture clean(? clean-er?) tech.

The Biden administration has also "balanced" this by allowing for massive amounts of further drilling for fossil fuels.

And even without the "balancing" - this is not remotely like an actual plan to convert the US to near-zero-emission energy production, in the immediate future, which is what's actually necessary.
What Software Craftsmanship is about (2011)
Jim Hendricks? Oh, Jimi Hendrix
When it happens nearly every time you go to sleep, it gets rather tiresome (I’ll show myself out)

Seriously though, I wish I could turn it off. Almost every single night. No thanks.

Edit: When it gets to be that common, it really starts to mess with your memory of things.
yes, the word “never” is hyperbolic, while the words “relatable shared experience” are not

moving on
There are some AI guys like Christian Szegedy who predict that AI will be a "superhuman mathematician," solving problems like the Riemann hypothesis, by the end of 2026. I don't take it very seriously, but that kind of prognostication is definitely out there.