skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a decent start. Might aspire to be something like a GroundNews of Reddit comments.

* I asked "Did Mark Carney intervene in central bank policy for political reasons?"

Either it simply reacts to the name and ignores the rest of the question, or it doesn't handle relevance well over recency: the answers I got were not about his interventions as central bank governor at either Bank of England (2013-2020) or previously Bank of Canada (2008-2013); they weren't about central bank policy or intervening in central bank policy. They were simply recent (2020-current) Reddit threads about him in private equity and recent political comments and interview in the Liberal Party leadership challenge.

* So to test relevance I asked "Did Mark Carney publish a recipe for green jelly?"
0 of the answers were about Mark Carney, they were all taken from a recent AmA
by Mark Hamill about Star Wars stuff. (I'm guessing this it what happens when all search results have very low relevance - it tries to guess which are the least bad instead of saying "No discussions found for X")

* Then I asked "Who is Mark Carney?" and the comments were relevant enough, although basic, and didn't find answers that were longer, more authoritative or had citations (although that's probably outside its scope; all comments valued equally).

* As a stretch goal I asked "Did most fire hydrants in the recent Los Angeles fires run dry?" (note the key word 'most') and got comments from r/environment:

"78% believe that Low water pressure, not empty hydrants, was the main issue. |
12% believe that Inadequate infrastructure caused low water pressure. |
0% believe that Power outages caused low water pressure" (there's a missing 10% somewhere).

* Then I asked "Qui va gagner l'election canadienne?" expecting answers to the (as-yet-uncalled, but imminent, 2025 Canadian federal election), but because I asked in French I only got answers from r/Quebec to "Intentions de vote au fédéral 2024-09-15" which was apparently an obscure by-election in 9/2024 in the Riding of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun

So: has potential, show us your next iteration to play with...
That could definitely be it. They might also be trying to play it cool, and not appear to gloat before the corpse is even cold. Instagram is running a lot of ads on TikTok now though.
It's a really interesting project. But boy do they make it hard to participate.

* Article doesn't provide a direct link to the topic mission

* Signup is pretty easy. Well organized and even gently requires you to have two forms of 2FA.

* Sign up complete. Go back to the primary page and try to find the mission. A little buried but not too deep.

* Notice I'm not signed in. Ok, let's do that. Now I'm back on the main page and navigate back. Find the first document and open it. Really interesting to scan through the doc and to read. People back then generally had really nice handwriting.

* Ok, what next, how do I transcribe? ... ? Oh it says I'm not logged in again. Fine, click the link and...

* I'm logged in and directed back to the main page, again.

Look, this is an interesting project and I'd love to spend my spare cycles to help out. But they really need to clean up this process.

Volunteers shouldn't have to jump through kinda poorly designed interfaces to help out.
> Tactically speaking, I’m halfway convinced the folks who came up with Defund The Police and think everyone supports Mangione have architected the pro-Palestinian movement in the West. It started as a solid expression of sympathy.

The pro-Palestine movement has a much longer (and varied) history, but the main links between parts of the (especially radical) left and the movement were established in the cold war, see e.g. the German RAF going to PLO terrorist camps or the famous 1976 hijacking of a passenger plane by pro-Palestine activists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entebbe_raid

That wasn't always the case, though, one of the first countries to recognise Israel was the USSR.

In any case it's weird whenever somebody pretends that what's going on now is in any sort of way a completely novel development, these fault lines have existed for decades.
We've just seen an example of the US blocking a sale on national security grounds -- we can block sales to China, too: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/us/politics/us-steel-nipp...
Most doctor visits are for benign matters...
> I did in fact do it, and what I got was much, much easier than the samples in the article, which 4o did fine with.

Awesome.

Can you guarantee its results are completely accurate every time, with every document, and need no human review?

> I'm sorry, but I declare the burden of proof here to be switched.

If you are referencing my stating:

If it's that easy, then do it and be the hero they want.

Then I don't really know how to respond. Otherwise, if you are referencing my statement:

> Perhaps "random humans" can perform tasks which could reshape your belief:

>> OCR is VERY good

To which I again ask, can you guarantee the correctness of OCR results will exceed what "random humans" can generally provide? What about "non-random motivated humans"?

My point is that automated approaches to tasks such as what the National Archives have outlined here almost always require human review/approval, as accuracy is paramount.

> (I don't think you need to Wikipedia-cite "straw man" on HN).

I do so for two purposes. First, if I misuse a cited term someone here will quickly correct me. Second, there is always a probability of someone new here which is unaware of the cited term(s).
Support will give you access to [2] if you raise a case and complain.
Amusing.

"I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I was personally affected. "

could have said

" I may write about events 'in the moment' if I am personally affected, ensuring I have neither the emotional nor temporal distance beneficial to insightful reflection"
> given that title, it becomes somewhat obvious that the article itself doesn't need to exist.

Why? I regularly hear people trying to argue that LLMs are an environmental distaster.
I got the opportunity to get to know Kevin in the mid 1990's. He was visiting Vancouver and created a play for some local artists and writers to perform in, me being one of them. He was a generous, brilliant man and sorely missed. Thanks for posting this.
The article needs to exist because the idea that ChatGPT usage is environmentally disastrous really has started to make its way into the human hive mind.

I'm glad someone is trying to push back against that - I see it every day.
Perhaps to get you traction, post a top-10 frontpage list of important current Reddit discussions where your site does well? It might focus feedback.
Yeah the reasonable privacy and transparency rule here is "don't be an arm of the PRC." It applies to all social media platforms.
How to tell a grizzly bear from a brown bear in the wild is similar. Climb a tree to try to escape the bear. Then:

If it climbs the tree you are on to kill you, it's a brown bear.

If it knocks the tree over to kill you, it's a grizzly bear.
You probably wouldn’t use a ship like this in an initial landing, but once you’d secured a beachhead you could easily use it to deliver reinforcements and supplies. A major part of the value of a RORO ship is that you need little to no port infrastructure to unload it. Once you’ve secured a beachhead and built some minimal infrastructure on it you could land tanks and other armored vehicles, or you could also land trucks filled with fuel, ammunition, supplies, infantry, and so forth. This is, in practice, most of the work that LST’s did as well.

And it’s very common to requisition merchant RORO ships for amphibious operations. The British did so during the Falklands War (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Atlantic_Conveyor).
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> If you are referencing my stating:

> > If it's that easy, then do it and be the hero they want.

> Then I don't really know how to respond.

If someone says a thing is easy, and you respond by demanding they do it a million times to prove that it's easy, you are the one that has screwed up the burden of proof.
> Governments and Mega-Corporations are chewing through GPU hours on god-knows-what.

The "I don't know so it must be huge" argument?
They are useful, but relatively bad: you realize there can be book-width worth of pages within a single letter in a dictionary? So all you've done is produced a regular book without any thumb navigation, so none of the physical virtues will help you find the specific word fast

Besides, these are impossible to implement for anything dynamic, so they aren't even useful at all in most of the cases
The question this is addressing concerns personal use. Is it ethical to use ChatGPT on a personal basis? A surprising number of people will say that it isn't because of the energy and water usage of those prompts.
> However articles like this must link to references.

There are links to sources for every piece of data in the article.
The point of the doctorate is for them to make that determination.
It's less bad faith, more a meme that has become so prevalent that it's impossible to dispell as it's something too nuanced for social media. I've seen more than a few social media posts asking "do they really cut down a rainforest every time someone generates an AI image?"
The fact that only one app is being banned makes it pretty obvious that privacy concerns are orthogonal to the political shift this represents. The law was originally passed before the Gaza ceasefire, and the activism on the app relating to that issue was the specific example that was blamed on Chinese influence. The hypothesis was that teenagers would not know or care about US policy towards the conflict if a foreign communication service was not facilitating the spread of relevant information.
Early days, but not as crazy as it sounds: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

"The LLM alone scored 16 percentage points (95% CI, 2-30 percentage points; P = .03) higher than the conventional resources group."
> Twitter could've made a big video push.

They tried that with Vine and it was a tremendous flop. Launched 2013, finally killed off around 2017.
That sounds like the opposite of data compression (inflation?) where the data size is increased before sending, then on receiving it is compressed back to a smaller form.
Would it make a difference if the example is a single-page application?
It is important to distinguish concepts here.

One concept is a single firm selling a branded product in multiple markets. Novo Nordisk sells at different prices in different markets, but the product is all of equal quality, and usually comes off of the same manufacturing line globally, or one of a few.

The other is usually generics made by entirely different companies. These can vary greatly in quality, from identical to deadly. It is a bit of a stereotype, but you usually see higher quality control and less fraud in US and western European manufacturing than say India, China, or SEA.

Having worked for US drug manufacturers, they deeply desire to move manufacturing to Asia where they can, but dont because of frequent quality issues when they do.
Helpful. I skipped reading. Thanks.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/
Building the Brain Simulator at Neuralink
> That's why root access is explicitly forbidden.

Can't you root GrapheneOS with Magisk, just like you would the OEM version of Android?
I like the author’s viewpoints in some respects, but their belief in the power of the market to solve all problems is excessive. The market is captive to private landowners, coastal wealth, and lobby-tainted politics at every level now, and deferring housing policies to the forces of supply and demand is blatantly broken in California and will not be restored by simple deregulation alone. He states clear requirements for rebuilding after fires that ought to be enforced by the government — densification, fire control plans for neighboring regions, and even earthworks to impede fire — but these things will require the exact regulations decried, that may constrain supply but are also critical to increasing it.

The section about the patchwork of fiefdoms should be critical reading for college-level US politics courses. Let a hundred thousand students study and learn about their local fiefs, write about them and interview them and shine a naive spotlight into that nest of dark corners. They would leave school with a clear understanding of how local power can be used and misused, and how to investigate it and document it. We may not have journalism much these days but there is a master’s thesis opportunity here to document the specific offices of every branch of government and lobbying responsible for fire management (and its failure) for a single coordinate on the map.
> what does "water used by data center" even mean?

This doesn't clarify what exactly it includes, but there are two main things that generally are included:

(1) Direct water use for cooling, (which, yes, ends up as steam rom cooling towers), and

(2) Water used in generating electricity consumed by data centers, which, yeah, is again evaporated in cooling towers.
Fill your GitHub calendar with fake commits to confuse recruiters
That's definitely not true. Let's take Americans, for example, driving their cars to work. Americans are about 15% of the world's emissions, of which 25% or so is transportation, of which well over half is cars. So you not driving to work is making direct impact on 2-3% of the world's overall emissions. Likewise, your decisions on all the other things, if taken in aggregate, will have a significant impact on overall emissions.
I don't use any of these services, but it's interesting seeing your comment and some of the replies.

Just this past week I met a friend who uses TikTok and he said the same: Really good algorithm. He said when he watches "intelligent" stuff in it, the recommendations tend to be as "intelligent" or even more so. Whereas his experience with Instagram was that it quickly starts suggesting brain dead content.
In fact, a huge loss, which it plans to subsidize by... billing any insurers remaining in the state.

> As of last Friday, the FAIR Plan had just $377 million available to pay claims, according to the office of Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California. It’s not yet known how much in claims the plan will face but the total insured losses from the fires so far has been estimated at as much as $30 billion.

> If the FAIR Plan doesn’t have enough money to pay all its claims, it can rely on something called reinsurance — effectively, insurance for insurers in case their losses exceed a certain amount.

> Senator Padilla’s staff said the plan has $5.75 billion in reinsurance available.

Notably, $5.75B is less than $30B.

> If the FAIR Plan can’t make up its losses from reinsurance alone, it can demand money from California’s insurance companies to make up the difference.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/climate/californias-insur... / https://archive.is/Xg6s9

California couldn't set up a more broken insurance market if it tried.
this comment was to help those who still think the government is capable of solving basic problems (even during its utmost failures)
It's not the "exact same thing" since it's legal spending. If you and your friends want to pool money together and put up billboards promoting carbon free energy solutions, congrats you've formed a political PAC.

This is distinct from a foreign entity, without registering as a foreign entity, directly participating in electioneering. While it's true that the Russian involvement in 2016 was overblown let's not pretend it's the same as legal political spending.
> 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

Water consumption in all contexts is mostly fresh water returned from immediately usable form to either evaporation or the ocean. It is not "extremely misleading", because when it returns to immediately usable form by, e.g., precipitation, that's when new water is considered to be made available. The normal definitions are internally consistent and useful.
I agree.

Staying up to date is important but not urgent.

What you really don't want is that you don't do it, and one day it becomes urgent (usually for some external reason.)

You don't want to upgrade your networking the day after TLS 1.0 is rejected by that server you interact with. That seldom ends well.

When things are important to do, you should schedule them I as part of the routine. So you might have a twice-yearly event of "get everything up to date". Doing it regularly keeps it manageable, plus you get better at it. The longer the gap, the more work it is, and the more work it will cause.

It is 99% easier to do when your system is working than when it's broken. The phrase "don't fix it if its not broken" is literally the dumbest thing any programmer can tell you. preventing it from breaking is a gazillion times easier than fixing it after it's broken, while everyone around you is screaming.
Not knowing what it's being spent on is separate to knowing whether it's being spent
Not at 1atm. The air was pressurized.
It's also not necessarily the case that we can reinstate old burn practices successfully. Zero-fire policies and climate change have made it harder to run prescription burns. And when we do, these fires today burn hotter, larger, and more completely than historical fires once did. How quickly our ecosystems can recover from large scale prescription burns is an open question, nevertheless whether we are able to run enough to make a difference. There is some evidence to suggest they don't recover as easily as they once did.

It's a thorny problem. There's good reason to believe we could have been in a better situation today, but we should be skeptical of overly simplistic approaches to correction.
Not being rude was also an option, one you chose not to take for some reason. Seriously, all it would've taken was for you to say something like "there have been a lot of advancements so it's probably different than you remember". This conversation would've gone much smoother for you if you had.

And BugsJustFindMe can't downvote you, because it was a reply to him. So don't bite his head off over it. You got downvoted because you were a jerk, plain and simple.
Can I ask, did you sign up and look at what they're actually looking for? Show of good faith: can you give 3 of the headers for the top-level "missions" they have for transcriptions?
The format is the same but not the algorithm or what people are putting on it. I’m not a tok tok user but the few times I’ve been on it they felt surprisingly different. Meta reels are less substantial in content.
> Just because AI is able to translate English to code doesn't mean the 100s of decisions that need to be made go away. Someone still needs to write very detailed instructions even if they are in English and it sure isn't going to be the people sitting in meetings all day.

What makes you think it will be you? The machines seem increasingly capable of converting English into different English, and if we take it as a given that they can convert English into code.. what are you there for? The people sitting in meetings might as well talk to the machine, to the extent they're willing to talk to you.

To be clear, the professional "meeting participants" are as much on the chopping block as we are, although that's not commonly pointed out.
It's America. At-will/cause, few paths to complain but not none, termination payments and exit interviews need to be run.. better hire some temporary HR. Who hires them?
It's not like they are mixing that water with oil and pumping into the aquifer. Water evaporate, turn into clouds, that precipitate into rain that fall on the ground and water bodies, where it can be used again. So what's the problem, with datacenter water usage? Has the water cycle has stopped and I was not informed?
Show HN: Periodic Table and Wordle = Elemendle
Hey HN, I've been working on a little side project - a daily guessing game called Elemendle. It's similar to Wordle, but instead of guessing a word, you guess a chemical element. You get hints based on various properties like its place on the periodic table (Period, Group, Block), Type (e.g., Transition Metal, Noble Gas), Phase (Solid, Liquid, Gas), atomic number and mass.

I'm sharing it here because I'm curious what you think of it. Let me know if you enjoy it or have ideas for improvements.
Yet we also see that hyperscale cloud emissions targets have been reversed due to AI investment, Datacenter growth is hitting grid capacity limits in many regions, and peaker plant and other non-renewable resources on the grid are being deployed more to handle this specific growth from AI. I think the author, by qualifying on "chatgpt" maybe can make the claims they are making but I don't believe the larger argument would hold for AI as a whole or when you convert the electricity use to emissions.

I'm personally on the side that the ROI will probably work out in the long run but not by minimizing the potential impact and keeping the focus on how we can make this technology (currently in its infancy) more efficient.
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Come to think of it, you’re right. It was when he showed up with a big ol’ bag full of potatoes that we knew it was gonna be a serious party.
> I don't think OP is talking about Chinese people in Xhiaohongshu, but at American people that left Tiktok for it

You are right, I was wrong, skimming reading

And this is yet another example to explain how I was haunted by my historical view and you're haunted by yours

Let's say, The first time mordern Chinese people learnt about genecide, is from Gaza, before this, fews knew what's it meaning

> I think we are talking about different things

For example, when American talk about bad of China, it's always about what the US (or 'white') did or experienced, colonization, genocide, force labor, biological weapons, it's in your history

and when Chinese people think about bad of the US, it's mostly about imperialism and drugs, because we suffered these, we can not think of the genocide of Native Americans, because it's not in our history

so called genocide and colonialism in China, only exists in western narrative, the narrative even only works in Western countries for white people, very few of people in EastAsia/MidEast/African/SouthAmerica would buy this

Even in US, some people start to question the narrative after they realize what's the real genocide like in Gaza
Interesting that they're negotiating semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) but not tirzepatide (Zepbound/Mounjaro). Cynically, maybe a ploy to bolster a US pharma (Lily) as opposed to Danish Novo? I don't know anything about how this program selects drugs to negotiate.
Frequency of datapoints is the main difference between Netflix and TikTok.

If TikTok can infer something about a person, then Netflix can also infer it.
https://archive.is/20250118032034/https://www.newyorker.com/...
Just build nuclear.
Vine was a massive hit at first. The stewards screwed it up.
Seems like it, but I wasn't aware of it!
Just do keto diet. Assuming T2D. Its the easiest disease it fixes.

Some people cant have it all in life. You gotta sacrifice. The carbs in our case.

Source: I do it for other reasons.
Tokyo and much of Japan have huge expensive drainage systems to prevent their cities from flooding during the storms they have. China is in the same region and doesn’t have that infrastructure yet, so you’ll still see cities like Wuhan flood every few years. It’s a good bet that China will eventually invest in these systems like Japan has, as it matches their development model fairly well.

I’m not sure how Florida or Louisiana would deal with flooding though, they simply have nowhere for the water to go. They would have to basically pump and store it above ground somehow. It might make sense to re-level their cities with an artificial ground level a few stories above sea level.