skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I periodically suffer the delusion that some of the nonsense-adjacent people may benefit from seeing that sensible answers can be found. Of course there's effectively no chance of reaching the proudly loudly ignorant, wearing their refusal of any good-faith discussion as a shibboleth, but perhaps their recruitment can be stayed.
Those are two different things, though. Both linked to emissions, but in different ways.

Also you had the wrong chart selected from that page, https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
Mozilla does plenty of really useful things! Super happy with Firefox as my primary browser. Shout-out to MDN as well for being an excellent reference on all things web: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
The data they extract is nothing sensitive and this way they can see how many hits they get. The more affected the bigger the headline for them.
One problem with your setup is that ZFS by design can't use a traditional *nix filesystem buffer cache. Instead it has to use its own ARC (adaptive replacement cache) with end-to-end checksumming, transparent compression, and copy-on-write semantics. This can lead to annoying performance problems when the two types of file system caches contest for available memory. There is a back pressure mechanism, but it effectively pauses other writes while evicting dirty cache entries to release memory.
The intuition is that smaller models are figuring out things like grammar where the whole model comes into play, but larger models, especially in the back half of training, have localized knowledge updates that can merge easier in the AllReduce
Drax uses about 12,000km^2, not 160,000km^2.

A slightly more useful land area is the United Kingdom itself, which is 243,000km^2. With this technique, it takes an area 1/19th the size of the UK to produce 4% of its energy.

This isn't a feasible approach to energy production, but it's an order of magnitude less bad than your figures have put forward.
Tencent may have to sell riot too...
I so badly wish we could change a big Windows business application to use PostgreSQL rather than Microsoft SQL Server just because of the licensing costs.
SQL Server is a fantastic product, but restricted to 128GB RAM and a few CPU cores or you have to start paying so much, that not even our biggest customers can justify it.

Migration isn't easy, as this venerable application uses ADO.NET Datasets with TableAdapters and plenty of stored procedures. The syntax is almost compatible though. But not enough unfortunately.

For our next product, we're sure to bet on PostgreSQL instead.
They seem to be struggling more to retain their quality actors and writers (nothing against Yang, he's not who I'm referring to). I can't say I can put my finger on why I've come to this belief. Either that or there are fewer funny people to hire, which strikes me as dubious.

Granted, I didn't even start watching clips of it until after college a couple decades ago, but the show seems a lot more guest celebrity driven recently rather than driven by favorite actors.

Oddly tiktok seems to have the strongest sketch game these days. I'm sure youtube is ok too but it's a depressing place to stay for more than a few minutes.
Are you seriously arguing that unhealthy air does not exist?
This bottleneck right here is why Open Source is presented with a golden plate opportunity to lead the training of cutting edge models.

Federated learning breaks the barrier to entry and expands the ecosystem allowing more participants to share compute and/or datasets for small players to train models.

DiLoCo introduced by Douillard minimizes communication overhead by averaging weight updates. What this article misses though is that despite this, each GPU in the distributed cluster still needs to have enough VRAM to load the entire copy of the model to complete the training process. That's where DisTrO comes in which even reduces further the inter-GPU communication using a decoupling technique (DeMo) that only shares the fast moving parts of the optimizer across the GPU cluster.

>And what if the costs could drop further still? The dream for developers pursuing truly decentralised ai is to drop the need for purpose-built training chips entirely. Measured in teraflops, a count of how many operations a chip can do in a second, one of Nvidia’s most capable chips is roughly as powerful as 300 or so top-end iPhones. But there are a lot more iPhones in the world than gpus. What if they (and other consumer computers) could all be put to work, churning through training runs while their owners sleep?"

This aligns with DisTrO techniques because, according to them it could also allow consumer devices like Desktop Gaming PCs to join the compute cluster and share workloads. Besides there's also an open-source implementation called exo that allows models to be split among idle local devices but it's only limited to inference.

Again might still be relevant since in the article it mentions that DiLoCo was able to make the model respond better when faced with instruction prompts or reasoning questions never encountered during pre-training. And Arthur seems to think test-time training will make his approach become the norm.

sources:
DisTrO: https://github.com/NousResearch/DisTrO
DeMo: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.19870
Exo: https://github.com/exo-explore/exo
Microsoft knows about this. Its why they included the option in the command line. The fact that Massgavel's activation scripts still work on windows is telling of how much they'll care.
Yeah, high bandwidth requirements still remaining. Over the past year, more research has looked from fully async to restrained cases that allow for geographically distributed compute. Async Local-SGD goes for a more standard training objective comparable with a lockstep training, https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09135. imo technique is looking better.
Side effects, random intolerances with other medicine (ex. Pain killers) and a very long stopping period. From all the natural remedies that get ignored usually this is one of the more complicated ones.
A lot of people did a MOOC for the CV points.
I have definitely looked back. And also gotten to a stable state with Firefox for most things and Vivaldi for most things needing Chrome since web standards when Chrome is around is not a respected thing.

Unfortunately, companies treat chrome like they treated IE. Hard to get rid of.
Just being aware disinformation is - and will be for the foreseeable future - everywhere around you is a good start.
Are there not any lessons from Protein Folding that could be used here?

There was a distributed Protein Folding project a couple decades ago.

I remember there was even Protein folding apps that could run on game consoles when not playing games.

But maybe Protein Folding code is more Parallelizable across machines, than AI models.
There weren’t even trillion dollar companies at all back then
FYI: the main reason I gave up on bcachefs is that I can't use devices with native 16K blocks.

Hope that's coming this year. I have a bunch of old HDDs and SSDs and I could very easily assemble a spare storage server with about 4TB capacity. Already tested bcachefs with most of the drives and it performed very well.

Also lack of ability to reconstruct seems like another worrying omission.
Seems like this is targeted at removing homeless people more than it is at improving sales. Lots of locations have stripped out seating already. There tend to be more delivery drivers inside the store than actual customers. I wouldn't be surprised if they switch to a fully drive-through system to maximize the assembly-line nature of its operations.
The timing makes me think that its just another rich guy re-aligning himself with Trump.

If this is the case it's interesting to see how each different tech figure expresses this fealty.
Thank you, looking forward to it!
Using coding skills to make passive income
Another Chinese spyware.
This feels like a good opportunity to break away from using a short video app in your day to day life, instead of finding yet another one. Similar to how post Twitter becoming X, it has become clear the actual need for people to have a micro blogging service is quite limited.
Surely it also matters "how much" they do it. Anything is possible with enough spending and sacrifice in other areas.
I don't know that getting more trees than you lost is a useful or effective measure against climate change. It's a good thing, certainly, but I imagine the amount of carbon we're pumping into the atmosphere requires more than a steady state of trees. I wonder how much of the world we'd need to cover with trees in order to offset our carbon production, certainly more than we've had during modern civilization.
There's a term for lying with carefully selected truths: Paltering.

> Paltering is when a communicator says truthful things and in the process knowingly leads the listener to a false conclusion. It has the same effect as lying, but it allows the communicator to say truthful things and, some of our studies suggest, feel like they're not being as deceptive as liars.
I don't need a computer.

— The Guy I Almost Was <http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/>
I hope they do better than Google. Gemini feels like AI could have been 10 years ago. No context, no smartness, no fun.

Put it in a specific role and you'll see that it acts like a badly 'trained' AIML bot.
That's not the opposite. It's different context.
Another option is to go without swap. I avoid swap on my machines unless I want hibernation support.
ctrl+f 'overpopulation' - nothing.

Elephant in the room continued to be ignored.
World population doubled in ~50 yeas while simultaneously consumes more.
Go back 13 or so years when I bought in -

Speakers with decent sound (sure, your separates system is going to sound better, but pretty decent).
They have some really fancy wireless mesh tech in an era where that's unheard of. They pick up your local music collection and have a controller application on most OS's that allows you to build stereo pairs or tv surround systems wirelessly, arbitrarily group together rooms in your house, stream music from wherever to wherever and generally just have music in the places you want it with little hassle. I still have some Sonos play:1 speakers I got in 2012 that are going strong, even though they live mostly outdoors now.

Now, if those aren't your use-cases, and you really do care about high fidelity sound (I don't), then it's probably not for you. But it has been great for me and I've built up quite a lot of speakers.

Unfortunately (and here's the subject of TFA) - in the middle of last year they screwed the pooch, and half the time their app doesn't even load any more :/
Remember kids, recharging your battery reduces traffic.
Cursor asks researchers to report vulnerabilities to their GitHub security page.

The same incentive to show impact applies even without a paid bounty.
I could never leave it — even in its worst times of version 4 onwards — for a simple reason of how autoscrolling works (i.e. scroll on middle click). The acceleration curve used by Chromium is awkward, and scrolling in nested containers causes the outer container to start scrolling when you run to the end of the nested one (which makes nested scrolling pretty much unusable if you value efficient interaction with the machine). Pretty minor thing overall, but has been surprisingly important for me.
I isn’t a cohesive coalition. I think leaders and activists in the left think there is one. Because the leading DNC chair candidate says stuff like this: https://x.com/benwikler/status/1878205257789960435 (“As DNC Chair, our leadership team will lift up our full coalition—with Black, Latino, Native, AANHPI, LGBTQ, Youth, Interfaith, Ethnic, Rural, Veteran, and Disability representation.”).
Show HN: Better prompt
I got frustrated watching everyone focus on fancy AI frameworks while basic prompts were failing.

After spending months writing prompts, I realized that many of them were ineffective—often due to unclear instructions, missing edge cases, and ambiguous language.

Built this tool that transforms vague prompts into clearer, more effective prompts, leading to better results from large language models (LLMs).

Just input your original prompt, and the tool will give you an improved prompt version.
It all depends on how it's managed. If things are REALLY REALLY poorly managed, the entire Earth will be uninhabitable for anyone; with good management we could have >10x as many people as we do now.
From the guys at Mozilla Foundation, who made a $25 million margin in 2023 (!), have $118 millions in assets, invested $35 millions in AI bullshit, but still fired 30% of the Foundation workers in 2024. And now they want more money to decentralize a private company, while Mastodon, a non-profit initiative only has $0.5 millions in funding a year. Is this a joke?

Mozilla could easily give $5 millions a year to various Fediverse projects, greatly improving things, on a project that is already decentralized today.
That first map makes it seem like we had gains pretty much all over the world, but it's not showing net gain, most of the countries of the world had a net tree cover loss. I wish it had a map showing net losses per country too – and it'd be interesting to see it going back in time, many countries had periods of very extensive logging during the 1800's and 1900's.
Singapore is addicted to cheap foreign labor so this seems like the natural progression. It does make one wonder the kind of data required for such models to have a chance of success. Most Singaporeans live in public housing with police surveillance right up to the elevators, coupled with a lack of privacy protections against the state, perhaps health initiatives using behavioural monitoring from surveillance cameras is next? It’s all for the benefit of the public needless to say.
Codestral 25.01 – new SOTA coding model
FOSDEM and DMA updates and 2025 YH4F and Our visions for 2048
I actually really like Safari… sometimes tabs sync across devices is buggy, reloads a lot. But other than that I’m quite content.
When the Simplest Concurrent Program Goes Against All Intuition
Let's talk about the Italian-speaking people in Italy and neighboring countries peddling utilities with bills 2-3x the cheapest, or scamming people altogether.

When phone companies agree not to take bribes from criminals, and publish the real phone number instead of fakes - well it would be a great day.
Depends on where the carbon goes. Into a home? Locked up for a long time. Under a cooking stove? Released.
>The Nordics say "hello, this isn't enough".

Isn't housing there also very expensive?
Well, I do try to grab pages using it here and there when reader mode fails. But now most of the time the amount of garbage around the text is so high that command line browser just can’t display anything.
> Or how many storeys of a building?

19, but only if you start with a ground floor
A side note, but I had no idea raw milk was a right political signaling in the US. Coming from a Swedish perspective, raw milk is a question about how tight the health control is in the dairy industry. I have always find it an "interesting" approach that in Sweden we have a very much scorched earth approach to dealing with any case where farm animals has any human-transmittable problems. If a test fail you kill all the cows in that farm, possible his neighbors farm stock too if they are too close, and the farmers get "just enough" money to restart the farm. Raw milk does still carry a bit higher risk for young children, women during pregnancy, and the elderly, so there is a recommendation against drinking it for those groups. Sellers also need to register in a special registry if they sell raw milk, and they get extra attention from inspectors.

For those not in the high risk groups, it just an choice based on personal taste. It seems a bit funny that the reason why it is allowed to be sold is directly related to the heavy regulation that enforces such high amount of testing (and strict consequences), so that the product is generally safe regardless of added pasteurization.
Drones should be banned but never any effort to ban guns, huh?! It is a rather odd focus considering a satellite can garner pretty much all the information a drone would.
Leaving a permanent record of humanity on the moon – in 100B pixels
>ZFS is mostly for resilient, but not performance critical needs.

Los Alamos disagrees ;)

https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/0321-computational-storage

But yes, in general you are right, Cern for example uses Ceph:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1457076/attachments/2934445/515...
I would prefer a more permissive license, such as MIT or Apache. Zulip is similar software, produced by a commercial company, and it is MIT licensed. The primary reason for this is that it isn't always clear with copyleft licenses where the boundary is between being a new separate work that uses the GPL software API, or when it is a derivative work of the GPL software. Also, as they are shutting down, there isn't really any reason for them to worry about some one else using the code in a permissive way.

(That being said, a copyleft license is miles ahead of the CC NC license for software!)
I use Firefox 90% of the time. The other 10% is a mix of Edge, Safari, Brave and Chrome.

The good of Firefox:

* the extensions ecosystem (KeepassXc, TamperMonkey, AdBlock, Disable Javascript, Youtube Audio, etc)

* the defaults in privacy and performance are good enough for me

The bad of Firefox:

* it is a minority web client engine so a few technologies and sites have problems with it. E.g: it is easy to debug WASM in Chrome, it isn't in Firefox
I extra made an account and nothing extraordinary happened. How does this mark look? Is it a warning-message or symbol?
That's only true if you restrict the comparison to obesity rate among adult males and throw out a bunch of pacific island nations because they aren't "major countries" or something.

https://data.worldobesity.org/rankings/?age=a&sex=t
Methodology details available here [0]. They measure popularity by collecting at several flavors of online mentions, then normalizing and averaging them. Specific sources include:

- Number of mentions of the system on websites, measured as number of results in search engines queries. […]

- General interest in the system [via] Google Trends.

- Frequency of technical discussions about the system [on] Stack Overflow and DBA Stack Exchange.

- Number of job offers, in which the system is mentioned [on] Indeed and Simply Hired.

- Number of profiles [mentioning] the system [on] LinkedIn.

- Relevance in social networks [by counting] Twitter (X) tweets, in which the system is mentioned.

Seems like a reasonable approach to me. They should add more social networks now that Twitter/X is hemorrhaging marketshare. Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads should be included.

Honestly I see that all over… so many sites have Twitter integrations that haven’t even been update to X yet. Gonna take a while for the broader ecosystem to shift.

[0] https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_definition
I think you misunderstand the debates happening around open source. They exist, but not for what you mean.
Aside from the fact that it shouldn’t take hundreds of MB to launch the simplest of apps, and that it’s incredibly wasteful on its face? Memory. Where do you think those bytes end up when you launch it?
Basically we need to grow trees as fast as possible, cut them down and bury them deep, exactly the opposite of what we’re doing when mining fossil fuels. No wonder there’s exactly zero people doing that.
Not exactly. The headline is a bit misleading imho: the article doesn't say that CO2 uptake by plants is up by 31%, rather that new estimates of the CO2 uptake by plants is 31% higher than previous estimates. That doesn't preclude a temporary collapse of carbon absorption (related mostly to forest fires as far as I can tell).
I suppose this was tongue in cheek, and I don't live in NYC - but where I live, a single ticket is 4 EUR, so that's 8 EUR there and back. So right now, parking up to a couple hours is already cheaper (if we ignore the wear and tear of driving 20km) per day in the city. If I manage to optimize for the parking price (or can do it for free) - the 9$ would still be a maybe 10% increase, not 'for the wealthy'. And I can imagine several of such scenarios, I guess you are only looking at "person commuting to work 20 days a month and thus paying 180$ extra"

Yes, monthly tickets exist but I've not used one for years because I usually cycle all the time.
You do pay "up front" for Fortnite. For every season. It's constantly being updated and getting new content.

You can continue playing for free with your old skins and enjoy the game. You don't need to pay more. But you can also choose to get the new stuff, and you know what it'll be before you pay.

In a world where toys in cereal boxes are considered "exploitative", I'm not going to argue that live service games aren't. But there's a world of difference between what Fortnite does and what Genshin Impact does.
Something pg native would be fantastic.
This is all good but no country in the world managed to turn the tide, even great policies in a rich Scandinavia.
> I still like Vagrant. But I believe it's yet another victim of the Hashicorp license change debacle from a year or two ago.

The license change is irrelevant - from the licensing page:

> All non-production uses are permitted.

Devs who use Vagrant in a development environment can do it as they used to do it before.

> The latest open source version is still available on the Ubuntu repo, but who knows who long it will work until somefor of bit rot occurs.

Hashicorp products have always been intended to be downloaded from the website, since they're statically linked binaries (I don't like that they're huge, but matter of factually, they make distribution trivial).
Same.

I use Firefox on all my devices. Actually, I am now experimenting with Zen Browser (FF-based fork prettier than Firefox, and even more privacy-focused). My wife and my kids get no say in it: it's Firefox in the whole household.
Can patroni replicate across mixed versions of Postgres? (i.e. can it do logical replication? [and handle DDL replication?])

I thought patroni only did physical replication (only replicates across the same version of Postgres). But maybe I'm mistaken.
I think like most people I'm conflicted on this:

- for me personally cashless is fine and way more convenient

- I can totally see why a minority of other people don't find that

- some people are excluded from the system for bad reasons

- some people are excluded from the system for ""good"" reasons, or at least reasons that get deep into unpopular public policy (should you be allowed to use the cashless system for crime/drugs/terrorism/funding hostile countries/taking bribes from hostile countries?)

- cash handling is NOT free, ask any small business

- as a Scot, I'm used to the idea that paper money isn't quite as universal as you might expect
More like "we'll complain all the time regardless of what they do by repeating the same talking points over and over again".

> How much do they pay the CEO? Why aren't they exploring other funding options? At the same time, why are they "wasting resoures" working on other things!? They should exclusively work on Firefox!

> ...and that's why I stick to this Chromium fork with its own digital advertising service and its own cryptocurrency, but you can easily switch it off!
I love the sikhs and their passion to serve. It is amazing to watch the richest sikhs serving alongside the poorest in the kitchens preparing the langar and then serving it
Interesting. I am not sure whether there are any 'normal' compression techniques that actually create algorithms. That might be an interesting approach to normally compress data as well.
MinMo: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Seamless Voice Interaction
This seems like one of those discussions where people pull numbers out of their butts and then insist they are true.