skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A former sausage maker here. I (used to) design these engagement/recommendation engines for a large corp, did academic research in the field, went to conferences, etc.

In general, I wholehearted support the freedom of speech, and if it were any other case, I would agree with the EFF statement here. However, knowing how the sausages are made, I am reluctantly agreeing with the ban, at least for now.

People underestimate how powerful these tools can be. Based on simple, readily available "anonymous" data, we can already impute your demographics data -- age, gender, family relations, occupation, income, etc -- using a decade-old ML techniques. In some cases, we can detect which stage of your emotional journey you are in and nudge you towards our target state. What surprised me about Cambridge Analytica was its ineffectiveness, at least as reported. There are plenty of teams out there that use these techniques to greatly further their gains, whatever those may be.

In Primakov doctrine, information warfare through sowing discontent and/or eroding psychological well-being is very much real and actualizable. I am not claiming that a foreign government is currently single-handedly controlling TikTok to brainwash the American youth; we do not have conclusive proof of that. However, the fact that such a tool is in a foreign country's arsenal is itself a massive danger to America's national security.
No foreign party's should have any say in how US businesses operate. If they do wish to use the US internet, they should opt not to do so and build their own technology eco-system
"The world" is only becoming "uninsurable" because insurance companies want to have their cake and eat it too: they want your insurance premiums every month, but they don't want to pay out, so they'll find every excuse under the sun to do the former and not do the latter. This applies to more than just houses, of course - as anyone who's been denied coverage for healthcare can attest (and then the executives of these corporations wonder why people might want to kill them...).

If insurers were publicly-owned and publicly-operated, instead of being profit-driven corporations, then maybe being "uninsurable" wouldn't be such a common phenomenon.
>Imagine this happening for a serious criminal issue, with the years long back log on some courts, this could ruin someones life.

It can be much scarier.

There was a case in Russia when a scientist was accused in a murder that happened 20 years ago based on 70% face recognition match and fake identification as an accomplice by a criminal. [0] He spent 10 months in jail during "investigation" despite being incredibly lucky to have an alibi -- archival records of the institute where he worked, proving he was in an expedition far away from Moscow at that time. He was eventually freed but I'm afraid that police investigators that used very weak face recognition match as a way to improve their work performance stats are still working in the police.

[0] https://lenta.ru/articles/2024/04/03/scientist/
not sure what you find misleading?
You are talking about hypocrites.

What about the people who take the protection of the environment seriously?

They got now a setback because not only didn’t we reach our previous goals on lowering energy consumption but know we put new consumption on top of that. Just because the existing one ate worse doesn’t make it good.

There is a reason why MS missed its CO2 targets and why everyone is kn search for more energy sources.

They all create more CO2.
they busted it with a 9 ton boat but now I’m unconvinced because they did demonstrate the effect with a large weight dropping straight down in a pool, so what effect was that?! They were testing Titanic myths and didn’t touch on the fact that Titanic famously dropped like a stone!

https://youtu.be/rvU_dkKdZ0U
Tell us more about the market that is carrying out mass shootings/carjackings with intent to sell the imagery of it. This is the first I've heard of it. In fact, when mass shootings do occur they are usually explained away for some other reason (e.g. a troubled teen who went off the rails), not that it is the day-to-day operation of a videography business.
It makes no sense that a mammal that needs to keep 150 pounds of tissue at 98.6 degrees could do so on so many fewer calories than dogs and chimps. I think you're restricting to the point your body is cutting its calorie expenditure, not finding an equilibrium for a healthy human.
Finally someone who speaks this out. What we do is more or less fly poop ... good four own well being but with almost zero impact.
I'll go on doing some things because I think that some of that are the better ways to handle this or that or it's better for my health but with no expectation that I'll change anything.
> 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.

That's how it's supposed to work in the US. For example, "hate speech" isn't actually one of the things the government is allowed to prohibit under the First Amendment.

But then the government passed a whole bunch of laws they don't actually enforce, and then instead of actually enforcing them, they started threatening to enforce them if platforms didn't start censoring the stuff the government wanted them to, i.e. "take that stuff down or we'll charge you with the antitrust violations you're already committing".

This is basically an end-run around the constitution for free speech in the same way as parallel construction is for illegal searches and the courts should put a stop to it, but they haven't yet and it's not clear if or when they will, so it's still a problem.

> 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.

Suppose you have one platform that censors criticism of the current US administration and another platform that censors videos of Tienanmen. This is better than only having one of those things, because you can then get the first one from the second one and vice versa.
The natural resources that haven't been exploited
"personal carbon footprint" is a term invented by BP and is the single hack that derailed the environment discussion by making people personally responsible and removing the actual polluters from the discussion.
> It's just that the US has decided that it's okay with its own plutocrats manipulating voters while it's not okay with the CCP doing so.

I think it's more likely that it's able to pass muster when the threat is a foreign state. The US may be more limited in what it can do with it's own entities (I don't know for sure) and would probably receive far more push back from the courts if they tried heavy handed measures before going through the proper legislation regulation (as states are doing) or the FBI route(if it were in their realm of bad). The threat that is more concerning than US owned and operated companies getting US citizens to vote for their prefered US president, is a foreign state slowly radicalizing US citizens(without their knowledge it's happening) against themselves (the US), more than voter manipulation.
ChatGPT is probably adequate to provide a slightly more user-friendly but also slight-less-reliable replacement for a reliable consumer-oriented medical reference book or website for the task of determining whether self-care without seeing a doctor or seeing a doctor is appropriate for symptoms not obviously posing an immediate emergency.
Maybe because we didn’t make real progress in the existing pollution and have a greater chance stopping a new polluter.

How long are climate change and its reasons known?

In the end people vote climate change deniers because they don’t like the inconvenient truth
The line at Moynihan has appreciably slowed down Amtrak boarding. Pre-Moynihan, Amtrak boarding at Penn was faster.
It produces water mist. Steam. Particulate in the air. Airborne combustion product. AKA "Smoke".
Banned from Ent, Why?
Practical Guide to Data Encryption in PostgreSQL
Sound does carry remarkably well through water - but you're right. The ship capsized, but the hull held enough air that it stayed afloat.
I see thanks a ton for feedback. yeah narrowing down searches either by date or subreddits is definitely something we will be looking to implement
It was floating upside down.

There is a picture towards the end of the story.
A lot of conversations regarding the environment feel so frustrating because they are either qualitative or use aggregate high level data or are like we'll be dead in 50 years (lol my personal favorite)

Why not start capturing waste/energy data for all human made items like nutritional data on food? It won't add much overhead or stifle economies as people fear

That way when I log in to use any online service or when I buy/drive a car or when I buy an item I can see how much energy was consumed and how much waste I produced exactly
Hmm great idea
Why do you belive this? Datacenter uses just a 1-1.3 percent of electricity from grid and even if you suppose AI increased the usage by 2x(which I really doubt), the number would still be tiny.

Also AI training is easiest workload to regulate, as you can only train when you have cheaper green energy.
We built an office building would be the analogy.
Mechanical watch:

https://monochrome-watches.com/the-elegant-mixture-of-time-a...

Prague’s astronomical clock does that too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_astronomical_clock#Moon

More about spherical moonphases:

https://www.the1916company.com/blog/variations-on-the-moonph...

A smartwatch complication:

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2019/09/26/moon-plus-plus/

> Geneva Moon seeks to provide a highly accurate, visually pleasing indication of what the moon looks like right now, right where you are. My goal was to make it so that if you look down at your wrist and then up into the sky the images you see should match.
>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.

Think Binney, Snowden, Assange would probably disagree with you.
Rivian stock rises as Volkswagen plans to expand $5.8 billion EV partnership
You nailed it. Content separated from the structure. As it should be.
We need strong and comprehensive regulations. Some places have enacted partial solutions but none anywhere near as complete as needed. EU has GDPR and some early AI laws, India has the IT Act that requires companies to provide direct end-user support.
Similar vibes to https://userinyerface.com/

Also, for some reason, hogs 100% CPU recursing like hell between two methods:

o0 [https://games.productartistry.com/_next/static/chunks/4bd1b696-98e9308c101e0794.js:1:90345]
o2 [https://games.productartistry.com/_next/static/chunks/4bd1b696-98e9308c101e0794.js:1:90778]
SpaceX requests exemption from $15 broadband law
Build a Clone of ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode Using Next.js [video]
If you took a bath in hot water, that has its own effects on the body, as it will lower your blood pressure, it can also relax your muscles, so you need to try it out without the magnesium to see if it did anything.
I can't speak for Tiktok, but the CCP did explicitly shut down Bytedance's very popular Neihuan Duanzi humor app, and put pressure on them to change the Toutiao algorithm because it was promoting inappropriate content. It's not much of a leap to think that by the time Douyin started getting popular Bytedance had learned their lesson and would proactively moderate their platforms to stay well within the party lines. In theory Tiktok should be independent of that since it targets foreign users, but in practice any media product coming out of a Chinese-owned company is going to be influenced whether explicitly or incidentally by CCP policy.

Of course Americans have the freedom to access thousands of other media outlets not influenced by the CCP, so it seems pretty silly to just restrict this one.
Mr Nimbus gave them gills to save them and wiped their memory :)
A place for things I can't talk to anyone about
I have been feeling down lately but had no idea why. I decided to write down the answer I came to in a few paragraphs. If that sounds like something you care to read, read on.
Realistically you can design a runtime-checked interface that uses option types instead of nulls, thereby guaranteeing static correctness and preventing common pitfalls at the cost of making the usage pattern a bit more verbose.
Brother I Desire Speed
I do this too! Reception is wonderful.

I also include a short description of rss, which parts to support with an example and a description of how one could make an rss feed: you take whatever code produces the index html, remove everything except the part that outputs for each item the title, introduction text, the link and the publication date.

Followed by one more short example rss with $title

Not that any developer would really need this but it puts everything they need to know and do on a single page. You don't have to think, just do it.
Can they be sure even if they wrote it theirself?
He didn't try to educate. He sensationalized for profit. Supersize Me was a grift. He drank himself fat and fabricated his numbers.
It can thwart a local keylogger from getting your password. But of course if you have a local keylogger, you're probably quite fucked already.

But there's at least some "security in layers" benefit there.
> It just makes everything harder in the long term.

Opinions. I'd gladly refactor a C# legacy monster because I can follow the compiler errors and reason about the shape of the types and how they interact in an abstract, codeless way. I can modify 200+ files and not lose track of what I'm doing. I can apply the latest language features to make the code more concise and expressive while preserving the semantics. I can use my IDE to modify every single reference to some type or object across the entire solution in a couple of keystrokes without worrying that my search and replace regex will match something it shouldn't. I can simplify and generalize redundancies. I can transform everything in my head and make sure it's internally consistent. I can even use reflection to do advanced metaprogramming and make sure that it, too, is consistent (with a couple of tests). If it compiles, chances are it's going to work.

The more static typing, the better, because that means that most of the logic is baked in the abstractions and I don't have to run the debugger.

I would never refactor a legacy Javascript application because I'm not a masochist. There are many juniors who don't yet know what a pain it is to work on large dynamic projects so I'll let them have all the fun while I use my time productively. I haven't done a null check in years (in my personal projects; at my workplace they don't even know what an option type is).

But I'll take Prolog. It's dynamic, but unification is basically type theory anyway. You can declare all your constraints and reason about them clearly. As God intended for us applied mathematicians.

So your claim that static typing makes things harder in the long term is alien to me. The real issue is that companies are afraid of refactoring because the client doesn't see the immediate benefit, so they simply don't do it, and then 10 years later they just redo the project from scratch in the latest shiny language (while reinventing the whole domain mapping layer because the old engineers were probably idiots since they wrote such unmaintanable code -- let's ignore the fact that they, too, never had time to refactor and dogfood).
Your last statement is a pretty silly generalization, and I don't think you need to bring in left/right extremes into this. For a lot of folks this is more about precedent on being able to ban anything the current establishment disagrees with, which has its own merits, even if you want to say that it's strictly being done because China controls it, which is not 100% of the reason why.

I despise communism myself, as my country went through 45 years of it. I agree with TikTok being forced to sell, and I'd like to see all social media sites offer more transparency mechanisms to NGOs and government agencies to show how their algorithms really work to have some watchdog be able to check if what we're seeing is heavily manipulated, especially during election years.
> Treating their rulings as the best or canonical interpretation of a case doesn't make much sense.

It does, because the Supreme Court's ruling is the legally binding interpretation.

The EFF are just some people with an non-legally binding opinions.
Furniture moving to one side on the top deck sounds most plausible to me.
I absolutely do not trust it, but AFAIK the military doesn't feed much intelligence to law enforcement on US soil. (We'll see if that's still the case in the near future.)
I live in place known for its rainy weather, 15 km from work (because of the housing crisis). Being overweight, biking to work never crossed my mind for two years. Once I tried to commute during weekend, as a challenge. I realized a few things:
- same duration as the train
- it give me the exercise I needed
- it relaxes me
- it is free since I already have a bike

Yes, it still take me 50 min to commute, but now I enjoy it and even volunteerly go to the office more often. It have been 6 months.

My point is: those who complain about biking being terrible or impractical should give it a real try. It may fit you.
Indeed, it doesn't solve the problem that people will misinterpret data and spread misinformation to justify their bad feeling about AI with invalid arguments.
Would you be horrified at drug that made heroin addicts not want to do heroin anymore?
I published this as a comment as well, but it's probably worth nothing that the ChatGPT water/power numbers cited (the one that is most widely cited in these discussions) comes from an April 2023 paper (Li et al, arXiv:2304.03271) that estimates water/power usage based off of GPT-3 (175B dense model) numbers published from OpenAI's original GPT-3 2021 paper. From Section 3.3.2 Inference:

> As a representative usage scenario for an LLM, we consider a conversation task, which typically includes a CPU-intensive prompt phase that processes the user’s input (a.k.a., prompt) and a memory-intensive token phase that produces outputs [37]. More specifically, we consider a medium-sized request, each with approximately ≤800 words of input and 150 – 300 words of output [37]. The official estimate shows that GPT-3 consumes an order of 0.4 kWh electricity to generate 100 pages of content (e.g., roughly 0.004 kWh per page) [18]. Thus, we consider 0.004 kWh as the per-request server energy consumption for our conversation task. The PUE, WUE, and EWIF are the same as those used for estimating the training water consumption.

There is a slightly newer paper (Oct 2023) that directly measured power usage on a Llama 65B (on V100/A100 hardware) that showed a 14X better efficiency. [2] Ethan Mollick linked to it recently and got me curious since I've recently been running my own inference (performance) testing and it'd be easy enough to just calculate power usage. My results [3] on the latest stable vLLM from last week on a standard H100 node w/ Llama 3.3 70B FP8 was almost a 10X better token/joule than the 2023 V100/A100 testing, which seems about right to me. This is without fancy look-ahead, speculative decode, prefix caching taken into account, just raw token generation. This is 120X more efficient than the commonly cited "ChatGPT" numbers and 250X more efficient than the Llama-3-70B numbers cited in the latest version (v4, 2025-01-15) of that same paper.

For those interested in a full analysis/table with all the citations (including my full testing results) see this o1 chat that calculated the relative efficiency differences and made a nice results table for me: https://chatgpt.com/share/678b55bb-336c-8012-97cc-b94f70919d...

(It's worth point out that that used 45s of TTC, which is a point that is not lost on me!)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03003

[3] https://gist.github.com/lhl/bf81a9c7dfc4244c974335e1605dcf22
The grid being clean means not having any fossil power. We can only get there by shutting down all fossil fuel power plants.

We can not get there by adding new power generation.
> obviously the US government has a say in what gets published and promoted

That's not at all obvious to me. On what grounds, moral or legal, should the US government tell anyone what to publish or promote?
Using it, sure, now do operating it and building it.
No. Math considers -7 = 3 modulo 5. it's a ring that repeats every 5 units. -7 + 5 + 5 = 3.

Think of a clock which is a ring of size 12. In a clock, going backwards 15 hours (-15) is the same as going backwards 3 hours (-3) which is the same as going forwards 9 hours.

-15 = -3 = 9 modulo 12
For moving argument order and removing parameter is already doable by a mature IDE and they are more predictable than AI (Jetbrains IDEs support them well. In VSCode it may need extensions.)

But adding parameter is not well supported by IDE as it requires knowing which value to pass. This is where Cursor can shine.
Yep. 20 years ago a Prius cost more then that new. Currently my next car will absolutely be a BYD.
If the booyancy of the trapped air was a significant factor in the boat not sinking, then the air would have been at pressures over 1atm.

Put a barometer in an empty, upside-down cup. Force the upside down cup 1/2 way down into the water, trapping the air inside.

The barometer will be at the sea pressure of the bottom of the cup.
The Washington Post has changed considerably in the last few months, specifically from being fiercely free to being bought.

> couldn't

Hypothetically, almost anything could happen.
> if an app is declared an agent of foreign powers

I suspect that people pattern-match this declaration to McCarthyism.

Additionally, the US has been invoking national security for a series of extremely dubious moves recently as well -- e.g. Biden's latest decision to block the sale of US Steel to Nippon on shaky grounds of national security, and his administration's recent policy to introduce export limits on GPUs to all countries except 18 (most US allies, NATO or otherwise, are now unjustly being restricted in how many GPUs they can import). Coupled with the incoming Trump administration's threats of trade war and expansionist designs on Greenland, people -- especially non-Americans, also in countries that have historically been friends of the US -- are very quickly running out of goodwill for the US, and in light of these events naturally the TikTok ban is seen as just another draconian attempt by the US to practise (economic) imperialism.
RSS is great. Most blog engines support RSS by default. Podcasts typically use RSS (even if the app goes to great length to hide it).

I sometimes wonder why there is so much push for "federation" and so few for... well just simple interoperable solutions that just require a client to connect to whatever server it wants with a well-known protocol.
Meaning making through the lenses of the Free Energy Principle
This reads like an attempt to pass the blame to others. Per capita CO₂ emissions in the US are one of the highest in the world, and significantly higher than those in China or SEA. This is despite the US/Europe moving some of our dirtiest/cheapest manufacturing to that region.

Personal choices matter. See the amount of energy used on air conditioning in the US compared to areas of Europe with comparable weather for a banal example. If we want to significantly reduce emissions it will happen through a combination of personal choices, corporate action and government policy.