skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth to whom? Greenland has about 44,000 inhabitants over age 17. I would imagine a majority would be willing to sell their citizenship to the US for quite a bit less than a million dollars each....
> Can't you just google a little bit more?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] is extremely vague wrt hard details, in summary it's a dispute between Brazilian standard conditions and Chinese standard with hints of "slave like conditions" but nothing concrete.

[2] is about Chinese workers striking to demand longer hours:

According to reports, the main reason for the employees’ discontent was the implementation of a four-shift system and a five-day, eight-hour work schedule. This would result in the loss of overtime pay, leading to a significant reduction in their income.

The pay scale can be debated but it doesn't support your claim above that the company forces long hours upon the workers.

[3] references workers striking for better pay, safer conditions, et al but doesn't mention slave like conditons etc. that you claimed
Agree on it, good analysis
It’s funny how they’re shutting down TikTok because it’s “manipulative and anti-democratic” while that’s a core trait of every algorithmic/engagement social media. Twitter and Threads should be banned as well then.
How could 3 adults, even lying perfectly still, not use up all the oxygen in that air pocket within 35 hours?

I thought human beings needed several cubic meters of fresh oxygen (at 1 atm) per hour…
rss2vec
There is also a technique where they ask you to press: [Win + R] + [CRTL + V] + [ENTER] to verify that you are human.

This will install malware code that was put in the clipboard by using javascript.
The article’s headline says it’s a new technique. The article’s body does not really say this.
I'll agree with you that the conflict, as well as the Ukraine war, has shown that the UN is largely irrelevant for conflicts of this proportion.

I don't think that's good news for Palestine however - it just means that, in certain contexts, the maxim of "might makes right" is much more openly acknowledged, which favours Israel because they're a nuclear power. You'd have to get Iran (or some even bigger power) involved for the balance to shift and the war clearly showed that this wasn't happening (fwiw, I think Russia and China don't care one bit about Palestine, they just like it if the conflict is ongoing and creates division in the West).

We don't know what history books are gonna write 100 or 200 years into the future and even if we did, it will be irrelevant. We don't today condone the way in which Caesar slaughtered the Gauls, but they still lost the war. In any case, I don't think the war, or history books, will care about Twitter likes in some far-off country.
Don't most of those suffer from serious ongoing humidity problems? I've looked into that style of housing in the past, and it seems like it's always having issues with mold, mildew, and ohter "issues of running 90-100% interior humidity for long periods of time" sort of problems. I think they're okay in drier climates - IIRC they were developed in New Mexico, which is "bone dry nine months of the year, and somewhat drier the other three."
>Nothing else like it exists

Have you used Instagram Reels? It's nearly the exact same thing.
Yeah, there are lots of things worse than LLMs. But, at least, they are useful and profitable.
There are two claims. The main one is that all of these documents are easy to individually transcribe by machine. The other is that a whole lot can be OCR'd, which is pretty simple to check.

That's not a claim that processing the entire archive would be trivial. And even if it was, whether that would make someone the "hero they want" is part of what's being called into question.

So your silly demand going unmet proves nothing.

Also, "give me an example please" is not a strawman!

If you actually want to prove something, you need to show at least one document in the set that a human can do but not a machine, or to really make a good point you need to show that a non-neglibile fraction fit that description.
This comment is representative of something like a mass psychogenic illness prevalent in the hacker news community.

Which could be roughly summarized as: an absurd and distorted perception of application development for the web, the goals people in that domain are trying to achieve and the history of how we got here.

The real true legacy of react will be bringing functional reactive programming to the masses. Packaging it in a way that a common junior dev could build an intuition around.
Isn't this comment just meta-quarterbacking?
In the same way that the Japanese reactor incident was self inflicted, sure. Life is unsurprisingly more complicated. And a large portion of what made this possible is growth always tends to build things that are not resistant to problems not constantly faced. Is why many trees in my yard have to be aggressively pruned or they will fall under their own weight.

Like, I get it. Much of this could have gone differently. As much as it annoys folks to say, much likely could have still gone the same way, given conditions that actually existed. Arm chairing this is a fun private exercise. Casting blame, though, jumps over to something else.
Okay. Just confusing because my example was about Korean companies. They were very much open to trade and less focused on secrets, which I suppose led to exactly the situation described. Once Apple switched to BOE for cheaper OLED panels (allegedly resulting in a higher rate of defects in iPad screens), LG was forced to shut down an entire plant IIRC.
Can you imagine, holding public servants (a president for example) accountable for their statements… practically unheard of in the last decade…
what does "water used by data center" even mean? Does it consume the water somehow? What does it turn into? Steam? So uploading a 1GB file boils away nearly 1 liter of water? Or is it turned into bits somehow in some kind of mass to energy conversion? I sorta doubt that. Also this means data centers would have cooling towers like some power stations. Are we talking about the cooling towers of power stations?

I think at least that graph is complete non-sense. I will try and have chatGPT explain it to me.
Such a stupid post, I know people on HN don’t like absolute descriptors like that and sorry for that.

Obviously the LLMs and ChatGPT don’t use the most energy when answering your question, they churn through insane amounts of water and energy when training them, so much so that big tech companies do not disclose and try to obscure those amounts as much as possible.

You aren’t destroying the environment by using it RIGHT NOW, but you are telling the corresponding company that owns the LLM you use “there is interest in this product”, en masse. With these interest indicators they will plan for the future and plan for even more environmental destruction.
If were comparing Devin to image generation, then Devin would be a version of Midjourney where you have no prompting skills, you only get one image and if you want something different you can only use the remix feature to make changes, oh and with each change the image resolution goes up and you get more jpeg artifacts.
Try to do with apple using qorvo uwb.
Sort of off-topic, but it does make one think about usage of compute (and the backing energy / resources required for that)...

i.e. it doesn't seem too much of an exaggeration to say that we might be getting closer and closer to a situation where LLMs (or any other ML inference) is being run so much for so many different reasons / requests, that the usage does become significant in the future.

Similarly, going into detail on what the compute is being used for: i.e. no doubt there are situations currently going on where Person A uses a LLM to expand something like "make a long detailed report about our sales figures", which produces a 20 page report and delivers it to Person B. Person B then says "I haven't time to read all this, LLM please summarise it for me".

So you'd basically have LLM inference compute being used as a very inefficient method of data/request transfer, with the sender expanding a short amount of information to deliver to the recipient, and then the said recipient using an LLM on the other side to reduce it back again to something more manage-able.
Eh? Unless otherwise specified, corporations satisfy the definition of a person across all federal laws per 1 USC §1, which reads: "the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals"

That 1 USC §1 is not a typo: this copy appears in the first section of the first title of US code, on disambiguating common terms used in law.
How much does that potato weigh? The size of potatoes varies quite a bit
It was a 50 year old house. Land probably worth more than the house itself.
The comment was to help those who don't want to get five pages in before realizing it's just a collection of technolibertarian talking points instead of any actual analysis.
Maybe having houses so expensive nobody can afford to buy them and the people how already own them can't afford insurance on them was a bad idea.
It's also unlike most addictions, you have to eat few times a day if you don't want to die... alcohol, drugs, gambling are not required to survive, eating is.
if your use of chatgpt saves you from a trip to the doctor I would be very concerned
Working in a slaughterhouse is the one job I really wouldn't want. Doesn't it mess with you psychologically, cutting up dead animals all day?
Metasyntactic variable beyond foo, bar, baz: quux, quux, corge, grault, garply
> It is extremely bad to distract the climate movement with debates about inconsequential levels of emission

This. So we should focus on optimizing transport, heating, energy and food.
Of course it's a chance to rethink the internet. COVID was also a chance to rethink our responses to pandemics. Cambridge Analytica was a chance to rethink data privacy as it relates to private companies. Edward Snowden was a chance to rethink data privacy as it relates to governments. Climate Change is a chance to rethink how we live our lives, build our cities, and produce our food. In my hometown, an earthquake was a chance to rethink how the city worked.

Life is full of these chances, but we seldom take them. Whatever happens with TikTok, it'll be business as usual in no time.
oxygen works and might be worth it for a stationary application like a powerplant for an AI data center. but NOx breaks down exothermically. so our approach if you hold the flame at >1300 C for less than a second or so you can destroy most of the NOx. This doesn't happen in a Diesel because the pulse stays that hot for only a short time, locking in the NOX that is produced. this is a matter of sizing the heat exchanger / flow rates correctly. we have to validate all this though. good question
James Clear talks about connecting "knowledge trees"—linking ideas across books to spark new insights. That idea stuck with me. Books like Zero to One and The Innovator’s Dilemma often feel like separate worlds, but what if we explored how they connect?

I built a web game where you combine two books, and it generates a podcast exploring their overlap. It’s like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance—mixing science, art, and unexpected ideas.

Check it out: https://www.befreed.ai/game. What book pairings would you add? The wilder, the better.
well observed
Recommendation algorithms never worked for me. I still prefer good old search and sort.
It's discomforting to me when people compare resource usage of ChatGPT, a computer, to the resource usage of a human being.

I've seen charts like this before that compare resource usage of people to corporations, implying corporations are the bigger problem. The implication here seems to be the opposite, and that tone feels just a little eugenicist.
The Supreme Court ruled already that there does not need to be a victim, or even any real people at all in its justification to permit refusal of service to lgbt people.

So I’m unsure why even if there were no victims that would be relevant.

To me the problem here is they might identify someone with a problem, but then send them to jail with essentially the same label as an actual pedofile or rapist, and prisons in the US exist as a source of slave labor and future criminals rather than any kind of rehab. So person goes in who is already clearly fucked up (not necessarily this case, assume some case where it’s clearly be demonstrated guilt or whatever) and then comes out with a pile of trauma and no employment prospects and it seems like a sure fire way to create an actual dangerous pedo/abuser.

I think a better equivalence would be the treatment of alcohol - alcoholics don’t go to jail immediately, not even when driving, it requires them failing to get the alcoholism treated, or actually harming people for them to end up in jail.
Yes the article hits most of the marks - feral pigs are a nightmare for pristine areas and areas people would prefer not disturbed / uprooted resulting in a damaged landscape, water run off issues ... as well as outing the presence of people who don't make it easy for controlling the problem, motivated in protecting and aiding the spread of pigs, for their own reasons.

I've seen the same in my locale, though the removal of the bounty based on weight has certainly eased things considerably, IMO. Yes we had idiots that had this brilliant idea of taking small often drought afflicted pigs they'd caught alive a couple hundred miles inland, to the fertile lush coast to live in the thick vegetation on the various hills but would fatten up on local farm crops for a few months so they were good money at the box - a place paying a bounty based on weight as the carcass was on-sold, to be turned into pet meat. I also see the people who don't like baiting due to more often casually placed baits too close or near other people with pets, most end up making any unchained dogs sick / dead as the poison is very effective. (However the sodium nitrite method - in a pig carcass I would think is quite safe for dogs though they don't tend to eat that much of a carcass.) More often I saw the main problem of feral pig removal may way, came down to the sport of hunting the pigs with their hunting dogs - and those involved tend to only get a smaller percentage of the local feral pig mob, since 100% reduction means they would have to find new hunting grounds every week or two if that was their weekend's hobby activity.

Edit for better clarity.
There's a bigger picture in the question of precedent and risks created by the infrastructure to ban a platform like this.

Unfortunately it seems the powers that be are dead set on pursuing destruction of not just specific competitors but, eventually, the entire notion of constructive competition and its win-win outcomes provided the right safety nets.
I've always wondered about this, turns out there's a wikipedia entry for it

> To protect the South Korean culture industry, the South Korean Ministry of Culture received a substantial budget increase, allowing for the creation of hundreds of culture industry departments in universities nationwide.[21] It has justified its financial support for Hallyu, estimated to be worth US$83.2 billion in 2012, by linking it to South Korea's export-driven economy.[22]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Wave
But they aren't representative to some degree.

You definitely won't get 'Southern Charm' or small town feel in NYC. Of course, trying to nail down what exactly is American is gonna be hard to do.

I would definitely not say that if you go to Tokyo you can get the Japanese experience. You get some of it, of course but to say you can get a grasp or even a handful of understanding without ever seeing rice fields and gardens interspersed with houses, beaches with people fishing and immediately turning the catch into sashimi, towns where nothing new has been built since the bubble...

You can't see and feel that in the hustle and bustle, where everyone moves to get away from having neighbors who know all about you, where night is erased by the neon glow.
We should all live in caves and eat grass.
Yes, datacenters have cooling towers. There are lots of good articles about this topic. A good starting point is "water usage effectiveness" (WUE) which is one way this is tracked.
Not sure I agree with housing insurance as a public service… we do want to expose some risk to drive behavioral changes. People really shouldn’t be building houses in low lying areas near the shoreline in Florida. But if there’s no risk because it’s covered by other tax payers, then they will.
> Afterall, it is possible to place an endless thicket of regulations on deliberate human activities, but one can’t simply outlaw wildfires and horrific destruction and loss of life.

Great read, learned a lot.

Also, the web's gotten to where making it a few scrolls down a high signal page without being bombarded by ads makes me start feeling really nice. Maybe point me to a charity at the end as a way to show support & thanks for the work.
you can most definitely change the levels of components in a fried food.

the oil gets 'dirty' from extended use in frying. Why is it dirty? It's not dirt, and it's not oil breakdown (in most cases).

The oil is drawing components from the food into itself.

Forget the frying for a second; most fries are parboiled or blanched -- this also leeches material away from the vegetable, this time it leaves with the water used for blanching.

A french fry is delicious, but it's different than a potato -- even if it's made from one.
Right? Hard to be mad about the outcome.
The tarpit is made for LLM crawlers who don't respect robots.txt. Do you love LLMs so much that you wish that they wouldn't have to respect this stupid, anticorporate AI-doomer robots.txt convention so they can pry out of the greedy hands of the webserver one more URL?

Maybe you just had a knee-jerk reaction.
You were claiming non-US markets were:

> less pure ingredients, less stringent QC

Why don't you link to a paper or source showing that to be true? If you want to discuss credibility.
> Who is they?

Whoever runs the platform. That's the value they see in their platforms: the ability to control what you see, when you see it, and how you see it. You might only want to see what your friends and family have been up to, and in chronological order, but they are going to make sure you have to constantly scroll past shit you couldn't care less about to get to it, especially when that shit is advertising.

Not only do they do this for marketers, they actually think that making their users regularly disappointed and frustrated is a good thing. They think that forcing you to hunt for what you want makes finding it more rewarding and while you're scrolling past garbage/ads or searching for something you just saw, and cursing the obnoxious algorithm for hiding what you actually want they call it "engagement".

TikTok is also guilty of influencing what you see but they stay out of your way as much as possible. They bombard you with what you came for every minute you spend there. TikTok is massively popular and addictive because of that. US platforms could do that too, but their customers are advertisers - people who want nothing except to take your attention away from what you want to see.

You can go to twitter and get offended by bots, or you can go on TikTok and get bathed in dopamine. There's room enough on the internet for both experiences, but don't be surprised when people feel frustrated and annoyed by one of them and not the other.
It doesn't occur to you that they may be relieved because they know they're addicted and are glad that someone is going to step in and give them the help they can't give themselves?
~90% of the plastic debris in the ocean comes from ten rivers [0]. eight are in china/SEA. millions and billions of single-use items are sitting in warehouses and on store shelves wrapped in plastic. even before the plastic is discarded, the factories these items are produced in dump metric tons of waste into the oceans/soil with little repercussion.

point is, none of our "personal lifestyle decisions" - not eating meat, not mining bitcoin, not using chatgpt, not driving cars - are a drop in the bucket compared to standard practice overseas manufacturing.

us privileged folks could "just boycott", "buy renewable", "vote with your wallet", etc, but sales will move to a less developed area and the pollution will continue. this is not to say that the environment isn't important - it's critically important. it's just to say that until corporations are forced to do things the right way, it's ludicrous to point fingers at each other and worry that what we do day-to-day is destroying the planet.

[0] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b02368
Similar feelings about the repeated references to the apparently agreed consensus that individual action is pointless vs systematic change like switching to a renewable energy system. Jevons Paradox would like a word.
Plenty of companies have revealed exactly how much energy and CO2 they have used training a model. Just off the top of my head, I've seen those numbers are available for Meta's Llama models, Microsoft's Phi series and DeepSeek's models - including their impressive DeepSeek v3 which trained for less than $6m in cost - a huge reduction compared to other similar models, and a useful illustration of how much more effect this stuff can get on the training side of things.
Immediate deaths. How many suicides happened after the fact as an indirect cause?
This guy must work at Microsoft.
Tik tok seemed to push a lot of obviously mildly retarded or fetal alcohol syndrome people at me. Felt like it was normalizing things we shouldn’t aspire to.
That's even better. Disaggregate those functions into separate services. Don't like "the algorithm", pick a different one.
What sort of an interleaving would produce 1? Seems provably impossible to me, assuming atomic assignments.
this cart look easier to use https://wayfar.net/0xf00000_overview.php
The one near here just has heat exchanges. But even if all the others use evaporators then potential water usage is extremely misleading because its not like the water is consumed - its just temporarily unavailable.

Also why doesn't uploading a 1GB file to my NAS boil a liter of water? are maybe all the switches and routers used between me and the datacenter water-cooled? I mean I can see such switches existing but I don't see them be the norm. Why doesn't the DSLAM on the Street outside emit steam. Is there maybe one bad switch somewhere that just spews steam?

What I am saying is that at least that graph is without further explanation... bad.
> The English-language product brief implies that “SR” stands for “Supereal”; that brand name comes up in the context of counterfeit FTDI FT232RL chips that plagued the industry some time ago.

This wording is misleading because it implies the fake chips were the plague. The fake chips worked fine, and it was FTDI's official driver that intentionally ruined peoples' working hardware when they detected the fakes and changed their PID to 0000 so they would no longer be recognized: http://www.rei-labs.net/changing-ftdi-pid/