skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... but do you think that they would produce such an article, funding the research into it?

From what I can tell, they would report accurately once these findings were published but would not find a researcher to dig into the claims before publishing that someone (named) said that these chips are at fault.
Bluesky is a special place, I am not surprised you will bump into the sort of activists who will critique every bucket of water that go into making a hamburger there. For those of us who avoid contact with the axe grinding hoards of short form media, meeting somebody who spends any portion of their day fretting about the water usage of language models is indeed a rarity.
That can still happen without Chinese ownership too.
There are plenty of studies exploring this that don't come from weird websites.

A recent one:

- https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.10168

Many, many more
Except that's not the point of this: the point is that humans have absolutely finite time to think about problems, and so the way you distract from a problem is by inventing a new more exciting one.

LLMs are in the news cycle, so sending all the activists after LLMs sure does a good job ensuring they're not going after anything which would be more effective doesn't it? (setting aside my thoughts for the moment of the utility of the 'direct action' type activists who I think have been useless for a good long while now - there could not possibly be more 'awareness' of climate change).
Some are significantly harder to read. I took the page below and tried to get GPT 4o to transcribe it and it basically couldn't do it. I'm not going to sit and prompt hack for ages to see if it can but it seems unable to tackle the handwritten text at the top. When I first just fed it the image and asked for a transcription it only (but successfully) read the bottom portion, prompted for a transcription of the top it dropped into more of a summary of the whole document mainly pulling some phrases from the bottom text. (Sadly can't share it but I copied it's reply out in a comment upthread) [0]

It was more successful at a few others I tried but it's still a task that requires manual processing like a lot of LLM output to check for accuracy and prompt modification to get it to output what you need for some documents.

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/54921817?objectPage=8&object...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42746490
You're missing the point. The point is, trust grows with familiarity and a track record.
Some (like the Hyundai) have their own in-built maps and speed limit data (not very accurate in Australia). They can even warn about traffic build-ups because they're "connected".
Encrypted Virtual Folder
But you can learn how to work with one.
> TikTok being banned is censorship, and presents a significant delta towards more censorship

I don't see it that way. I'm not American and I've never used TikTok.

I don't see any censorship here.

This is more of an ongoing power struggle between the US and China, tit for tat after they banned American apps.

Censorship would mean that they're banning actual content. That's not what's happening here. Any of the short form videos from TikTok can be hosted on several other video platforms, if the creators care to upload it.

Banning a platform is not censorship. It's like banning a book publishing house but allowing any other publisher to continue publishing their books.

It does appear that there is actual censorship, in the form of book banning, happening in several US states recently. But this ain't that.
You are glancing over the fact that American media platforms are not really controlled by the US government except for legal restrictions on hate speech and violence, and that there is an extremely diverse set of voices that can be heard on the 'American' (or rather non-Chinese) internet.

It is also not clear to me how TikTok is supposed to provide better "checks and balances" just because it is owned and manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party.
True, but just because fructose has a low GI doesn't make it good for you.
Most of second season of TP wasn't really Lynch.
Pretty much. Buying everything in sachets and then not having any real waste disposal; https://earth.org/philippines-plastic/
Uh, Santa is the biggest advertising campaign for consumerism the world has ever known
It doesn’t sound to me like the boat actually sank. In the article it mentioned that they heard the rescue helicopter from within. Wouldn’t that imply that the pressure inside would be one atmosphere? Am I thinking about the physics of this wrong?
I was saying the same thing when they decided to take down Silk Road /s
Sounds like a good chunk of money saved, but are you getting the same level of redundancy as you did on the cloud?
CEQA & NEPA resistance to prescribed burns deserve all the criticism heaped upon them and more. Though tt's a little unimaginative to locate the ultimate responsibility with "handful of unelected specialists in bureaucracy". Why not carry that analysis through to the outside groups (mis)use CEQA to effect their own ends?

I'm somewhat conflicted by his take on price controls . We need clearly need price signals to provision housing for 10-15k households, and the materials & labor to rebuild those homes. At the same time there's a huge potential for predatory pricing and outright scams targeting people that are, for the moment, quite vulnerable. A bit of drag to keep landlords from absorbing huge chunks of the inevitable insurance bailout in the form of ALE payouts seems appropriate, and far from 'punishment'.

There's also some outright dissonance b/w

> expedient rebuilding will be blocked at every turn

and "Newsom cut through CEQA so easily, why doesn't he do that for other projects"

Also the take on preventing unsolicited real estate offers seems remarkably unsympathetic for someone so nearly impacted by the fires.

The usual memes (CA's 14.4% tax rate, $770 FEMA checks, $950 petty-theft, ...) feel a bit trite and out of place for an otherwise thoughtful
Most of the world isn’t white so even if you’re not being upset about white people being oppressed or whatever this just makes sense from an equity perspective.
The Air Force was studying RTLS as part of the ARES (Affordable REsponsive Spacelift) program in 2005 (Which was the result of 1992/1994-era discussions on "spacecast 2020"):

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2005-6682

Lars and Beschet wrote their groundbreaking paper on lossless convexification of the powered descent problem at JPL before Lars went to SpaceX:

http://www.larsblackmore.com/CarsonAcikmeseBlackmoreACC11.pd...
Then again, if you can stall a nascent polluter before it becomes entrenched, maybe that's the right time to intervene. Getting people to not eat meat is hard, we've been eating meat forever. Getting people to not use LLMs? That's where most of us were up until very recently.
Not the OP, but I think I get the "sad and scary" part. It seems as though there is some vilification going on and that's happened before with very sad outcome.
Is Tiktok genuinely manipulated by the CCP? I could never quite tell if that was merely scaremongering and hypothesising by American politicians, or based on evidence of past transgressions.
Hyundai has a "camera speed limit recognition" system, which can identify road signs and recognise what speed they indicate. That's all well and good, except when it picks up a sign for an off-ramp and thinks it applies to you, or when you pass a large truck/bus with a speed limit sign on the back of it and thinks that's the new speed limit.

On every journey of over 2km, it gets something wrong and sounds a warning tone at you that can't be turned off.

It also reads car park speed signs, which are typically "5", so you often hear a "bong bong bong bong" warning from the car in a car park.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_wit...
> I would agree with you, but Americans intentionally reinforce car dependence whenever it's discussed.

They do, because their experience is that transit and biking really do suck and are useless. Which is accurate, for where they've lived.

The problem is that you have to convince people that things could be better, when their lived experience is that it's always terrible.
Show HN: DataTig, crowd source a data set in a Git repository
Hello HN!

DataTig is an Open Source tool for when a community of people want to crowd source a data set and they use a git repository to store the data.

Lots of people do this combined with a static site builder. This results in a nice website with easy ways to manage and contribute data.

With DataTig you add a config file then the tool can provide web forms, data exports, data information, quality checks, history information ... it also works with MarkDown files with YAML headers so you can use it with a static site blogging tool like Jekyll.

More info on the website: https://www.datatig.com/

I recently wrote up a talk that lists some people doing this and goes into the question of whether this is a good idea to do or not: https://www.datatig.com/2024/12/24/talk.html

Have a look, and please say if you know of a project that does this.

Thanks,
James
I’d love to see that happen as much as you but it really is irrelevant for this case. The truth is that this case is about which government gets to brainwash the masses. By far and away the greatest threat Tiktok poses to the US is a foreign government having that ability to control public opinion en masse.
How much of Americans driving to work is because they choose too though? Amazon's 5 day RTO policy is a good example. How many of the people now going to an office 5 days a week would've done so without the mandate? I see the traffic every day, and saw the same area before the mandate, so I can tell you with confidence that there's many more cars on the road as a result of this commute. this all funnels back to the corporate decision to mandate 5 days in office.
International tax agreements are crucial if any progress is to be made on preventing climate disaster.

Which major parties support it? Who is even talking about it?

It’s such an obviously needed mechanism, but hard to get anyone enthused about it.

This group have some proposals on the topic —

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_the_Taxation...
The idea here is simple: get users to commit to clicking twice, but the pop up page only accepts a single click before closing. Their second click goes to the page underneath the pop up, which is e.g. an authentication button.
And this is exactly what the new agreement b/w the insurance commissioner and providers does. Which went into effect ... Jan 1, unfortunately.
Adult Engineer Over-Optimization as the Motie Problem (2019)
I mean I’m not an expert but I think the general sentiment among Americans about meat is “yeah I hear meat production is gross/polluting/inhumane but I like meat and don’t want to think about that”. Charitably I think we have a lot of things we can care about and most people want to ignore this, plus there’s a lot of cultural baggage tied to diet people don’t want to leave. I think actual solutions will mostly involve the idea that reduction is good instead of throwing up your hands because you’re unable to commit to being vegan, and adding options to people’s diet that they actually enjoy. I think we have a very hard time solving “I can’t completely solve this and also it requires changes I don’t like so doing nothing at all is fine”.
if taken in aggregate, will have a significant impact

This is a good sentiment. But, in context, it is a fallacy. A harmful one.

Consumer action on transport and whatnot, assuming a massive and persistent global awareness effort... has the potential of adding up to a rounding error.

Housing policy, transport policy, urban planning... these are what affects transport emissions. Not individual choices.

Look at our environmental history. Consumer choice has no wins.

It's propaganda. Role reversal. Something for certain organizations to do. It is not an actual effort to achieve environmental benefit.

We should be demanding governments clean up. Governments and NGOs should not be demanding that we clean up.
Meat and dairy are bad for GHG, but they are also terrible for most of the other bad things we do to the planet. Eutrophication, species extinction, habitat loss, water use.

And the people in power do what the people want, that's why they are in power. Imagine telling people they couldn't eat as much meat. Would be political suicide.

That's why individual buying habits are important. If many individuals change, we might change as a society. And at some point there might be a tipping point where the people in charge can make a change.

Also, blaming other people for all the problems is not a great way to solve a problem. Take some responsibility.
Academic terminology tends to be inconsistent, vary from person to person, and evolve from year to year. The usual expectation is that you should define the terms you use if their exact meaning is important. Otherwise people will misinterpret them.

"Abjad" seems to be a more specific term than "alphabet". Sometimes it is used as a subcategory of "alphabet" (as in "abjad alphabet") and sometimes the terms are mutually exclusive.
> I feel like the world would be a better place if people would tone down the ad-hominem in their day-to-day discourse just a little bit.

PRAGMA sarcasm = ON;

No, fuck you, I'm going to call you names and shit all over you over a mild disagreement!

PRAGMA sarcasm = OFF;

But yes, one of the refreshing things about HN is that even when conversations get heated, the participants tend to at least keep to the topic and respect one another / assume good faith. There will of course always be slip-ups on that (I'd be lying if I said I wasn't guilty of that on occasion), but they've managed to be pretty rare (and/or quickly caught by the admins) even as HN has grown in popularity.
You got me wondering and I thought maybe there was some kind of gas diffusion where carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean water instead of building up in the enclosed space, and finding the most closely related stack exchange question I think I’m satisfied with this answer:

probably that four-foot bubble communicated with a larger volume or air under the hull of the boat - and that's the most reasonable explanation of this miraculous survival.

When picturing it we might assume the rest of the boat is flooded and this pocket of air is all that remained but that may not be the case.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/67970/surviving-...
The use of ChatGPT doesn’t replace the others it comes on top of that.

MS is missing its CO2 targets because of AI not because of burgers.

The whole argument is, it’s not bad because other things are worse.

We are racing towards the abyss but don’t worry AI only accelerates a little more.
I think many Americans driving to work would be happy to work from home if not RTO mandates (encouraged by the government at least on a local level).
A Woman Has Restored Dry Desert Rivers into Green Oasis Flowing with Water [video]
If ChatGPT somehow makes you eat more burgers it could make it makes water consumption worse.
Exactly. IMO, any politician who's serious about saving the environment or reducing the number of cars should be proposing bills to heavily tax employers for every unnecessary commute they require of their employees (maybe $100-$500 per employee per unnecessary day required in the office).
I was reading another web page (I don't have the link unfortunately) several days ago where another reader pointed out to the author the same type of attack mentioned in this article. To address that attack the author came up with the same solution you proposed and I do believe that is sufficient for preventing the type of attack mentioned in this article. There still are other types of attacks (cold boot attack, sniffing TPM traffic, etc...) that can be done though so it still is a good idea to use a PIN/password, network bound disk encryption, etc... in addition to the the TPM.

I'm currently working on setting up disk encryption for a new home server and as an additional precaution I'm also working on getting the initrd to do a few additional sanity checks prior to decrypting a LUKS partition and prior to mounting the root file system within. One check which I think will be highly effective is that prior to decrypting the LUKS partition I have the initrd hash the entire LUKS header and make sure it has the expected value before allowing the boot to continue. So far it seems to be working OK but hashing the entire LUKS header is overkill which will require some care to make sure the expected hash value is kept updated if the LUKS header changes for some reason (like changing encryption passwords). I can not recommend this idea for everyone consequently.
Laws like this impede everyone while providing little tangible benefit for actual children. It's silly to imply that generating an image with a model hurts anyone.

In general I don't like legislation that tries to criminalize abstract depictions of something that would otherwise be a crime. It's too intangible, and opens the opportunity for abusing the legal system to persecute undesirables. We have to be really careful about what spiders we swallow to catch small (or sometimes imaginary) flies.
Do we talk about pollution or emmissions?
>>> 2/3 of the global population doesn’t speak English.

...

> there’s only 380 million native English speakers.

So? Having only 1/3 of the planet speak English natively is not the same as 2/3 of the planet not speaking English at all.
> That's definitely not true. Let's take Americans, for example, driving their cars to work.

Even an example like this that is carefully chosen to make consumers feel/act more responsible falls short. You want people to change their lives/careers to not drive? Ok, but most people already want to work from home, so even the personal “choice” about whether to drive a car is basically stuck like other issues pending government / corporate action, in this case to either improve transit or to divest from expensive commercial real estate. This is really obvious isn’t it?

Grabbing back our feeling of agency should not come at the expense of blaming the public under the ridiculous pretense of “educating” them, because after years of that it just obscures the issues and amounts to misinformation. Fwiw I’m more inclined to agree with admonishing consumers to “use gasoline responsibly!” than say, water usage arguments where cutting my shower in half is supposed to somehow fix decades of irresponsible farming, etc. But after a while, people mistrust the frame itself where consumers are blamed, and so we also need to think carefully about the way we conduct these arguments.
I unironically like public transport because someone else does the “driving” for me. I’m sure someone is going to explain how Waymo solves this but sitting on a train with my laptop and breakfast while I magically get teleported to my office is much nicer than even being in the back seat of a car.
btw here's a simple SVG animation I made while working out the code: http://virtualgeoff/demos/moonphases/
Why would something being an element mean that heating it as part of a food wouldn’t act as a catalyst for some chemical interaction?
This line of thinking is what undermines democracies and ruins the environment. Your choice might just be a drop in the ocean, but guess what the ocean is made out of.
> and purchased box fans because servers were literally catching on fire

Ah yes, or a collection of R2D2 portable air conditioners, with the tails draped out through the window.

Or a coolant leak that no one noticed until the sub-floor was completely full and the floor panels started to float!
> You know, they weren't the one to bring it up and their point seems to have consistently been that the majority of the global population does not speak English.

While that has consistently been their point, it's also wrong.

Their bar for "speaking English" is "Native Language". Absolutely no one uses that as a bar when talking about how many people can consume content in $LANGUAGE.
Nat Turner: a sideshow of American history. Also, armed only with muskets, not missiles explosives and automatic assault rifles, and not able to travel the world and enact terrorism.

50% Arab voting rights: let me get this straight, you admit Israel will never allow Arabs to gain majority voting, an ethnic racial hierarchy, but are arguing that Israel... Can stop apply a racial hierarchy for West bank and Gaza? So you're admitting that your "just do this" is impossible.

The IRA (I'm assuming you mean the Irish) were white vs white, and Christian. Palestinian "problem" is both ethnic and religious divide.

South Africa was probably related to the death of imperialism and the fall of British empire in particular. The whites were way outnumbered and required implicit world support to maintain that long term. The whites either relented or eventually would get the guillotine. Blacks had implicit power in numbers and surrounding countries. That's a totally different power dynamic.

Palestinian population problem isn't laying blame. It's the facts of the situation to highlight how precarious and vulnerable they are, and how little actual power they have. They can't sustain their population without aid, and that aid is implicitly dependent on them being a thorn in Israels side. No thorn, no food. So peace no food, war ... Blockade no food.

I respect your idealism, but I'm in my fifties (not Israeli, Arab, or religious, I have no skin in this game) and ... Look, the Palestinians have worked the moral argument for 74 years. During a time when geopolitics was reasonably quiet between the cold war and the post cold war unipower system. When there was still attempts at the UN, court of international justice, and other idealism internationally.

That era is coming to an end worldwide. Free trade is ending, America is turning insular/isolationist, global warming is in the rise, China is saber rattling, Xi is nuts, Russia is threatening NATO, the EU and NATO are fraying, right wing nationalism is on the rise.

The world is going to abandon the Palestinians. Egypt won't save them, Israel sure as hell won't. You call for impossible idealism, and I call for impossible realism.
If you look at a model with a diverse competitive provider set like llama 3 the latency is 1/4 second, and it will definitely improve at a minimum incrementally if quality is held constant: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/llama-3-3-instruct-70b/... Remember that as long as you experience the response linearly (very much the case for audio output for eg) then the first-chunk latency is your actual latency, not to stream the entire response.
Thanks, I missed that 60 GWh figure. I got confused because the quotes around the statement, so I looked it up and couldn't find a quote. I realize now that he's quoting himself making that statement (and it's quite accurate)

I am surprised that, somehow, the statistic didn't change from GPT-2-era to GPT-4. Did GPUs really get that much more efficient? Or that study must have some problems
> Qt

That's EGLFS, it's used quite a bit in automotive AFAIK. It's slowly getting replaced by Wayland and Weston though.
There is good evidence that topics the CCP does not like are significantly underrepresented compared to other social media platforms.

I would add that if you know the CCP you would be extremely surprised if they did not take such an opportunity for information warfare.