skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greenhouse gas emissions are only a fraction of terrible things that humans are inflicting on the environment, and meat/dairy are both nutritious food that provides requirements for sustenance, and if not eaten need to be replaced by something else that will also cause greenhouse gas emissions (aka, a 10% reduction in meat consumption does not equal to a 1.45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions)

I think it's kind of crazy to place the burden of environmental destruction on individual buying habits, rather than the people in power who actually have the ability to make sweeping changes that might actually move the needle.

Let's start with not incentivizing, then disincentivizing the mass production and importation of plastic garbage waste and e-waste that not only create greenhouse gas emissions but pollute the environment in other, irreversible ways.

And if your government and leaders don't make this a priority, and regardless of who you vote in, big-name corpo donors get their way instead, then maybe it's time for a new government.
That's exiting! I would love to talk to you more if you're open to it :)
Let's here that strat.

It's amazing how spoiled we are for music production tools now days. I have a full studio in my laptop for way less than the cost of a single DX7 or my bad investment in a Roland XP-80 back in the day. I'm using Ableton on a windows box mainly because there are so many tutorials for Ableton. I don't think I could get the confidence to try out any of those collaborative tools.
This was a great read. Opinionated for sure, but I don't need to believe it entirely to enjoy it. The fact that it's now flagged and gone is regrettable.
I’m suggesting you don’t build them out of chemically treated wood that sparks into a blaze the moment a single ember lands on them.

I don’t think that’s a very hard thing to do. I’d send you the blog post I read on the topic, but I can’t find it again :(
Tech founder pledges to give away half of wealth to make American dream possible
He went MIA after joining Intel, so I'm assuming he's still there.
Just played a couple times and one thing in I noticed is that the button corresponding to my last selection was still highlighted when the next quote came up. At first it threw me off a bit, but i eventually realized what was going on.

Also, how does someone have a score of 170? The finished with zero mistakes but still only managed 100 points.
Even new slanted roof houses go for vaulted ceilings over having attics. Flat roofs are only viable in places without much snow (and were common in California in the past, so aren’t really a new thing).
Parent sort-of has a point. Pro-autonomy messaging could be promoted cynically overseas in order to stoke negative sentiment towards policy that would hurt the CCP's interests. Never assume honesty when it comes to messaging.
You can’t do estimates without specifications, which is what everyone wants. If you have a literal product to estimate, it becomes a lot easier.
> I made demands of no one.

Whatever you want to call "If it's that easy, then do it"

> LLM's [...] Does that satisfy your demand?

That's a different argument from the one above where you were trying to contradict tptacek. And that argument is flawed itself. In particular, humans don't have guarantees either.

> provably incorrect results

This gets back to the actual request from earlier, which is showing an example where the machine performs below some human standard. Just pointing out that LLMs make mistakes is not enough proof of incorrectness in this specific use case.
Wikipedia's current events selection has little to do with significance, being overly focused on events that cause multiple deaths and political events, regardless of their global significance.

Not trying to have an edgy take here, it comes from a genuine attempt to use it for this exact purpose, but it didn't work at all. A train crash killing 20, as unfortunate as it is, can't possibly be one of the 5 most significant things that happened over the last week, but Wikipedia current events considers it one.
Huge creds to the EFF for speaking truth even when it is politically inconvenient (see comments here...)

This ban is infringing of IMO fundamental rights of individuals in US to share and use the TikTok app freely. That China is doing similar things to their citizens can't be an excuse.

Yeah I hate TikTok and its effect on society too and good riddance etc but this is a first for something very bad. We have to look at the larger picture.
Wouldn't it generate more heat than is needed to heat the fuel mixture?
Voluntary conservation was only working by accident and guilt tripping never works. The grid needs to become clean so that we can have new industries.
Paris in the the spring error: should be qux quux not quux quux
Eh, I don't really agree with roncesvalles, but I think this is an inherently highly political topic. Should HN just be deleting the entire thread?
Wrong. YouTube shorts ruined the app for me. No way to disable them.
In the same way that leaving food out doesn’t create a cockroach infestation.
What exactly do you mean here by using the term “biased”? In what way is the Supreme Court “biased”?
I find the following to be a great point regarding what we ought to consider when adapting our lifestyle to reduce negative environmental impact:

> In deciding what to cut, we need to factor in both how much an activity is emitting and how useful and beneficial the activity is to our lives.

The further example with a hospital emitting more than a cruise ship is a good illustration of the issue.

Continuing this line of thought, when thinking about your use of an LLM like ChatGPT, you ought to weigh not merely its emissions and water usage, but also the larger picture as to how it benefits the human society.

For example: Was this tech built with ethically sound methods[0]? What are its the foreseeable long-term effects on human flourishing? Does it cause a detriment to livelihoods of the many people while increasing the wealth gap with the tech elites? Does it negatively impact open information sharing (willingness to run self-hosted original content websites or communities open to public, or even the feasibility of doing so[1][2]), motivation and capability to learn, creativity? And so forth.

[0] I’m not going to debate utilitarianism vs. deontology here, will just say that “the ends justify the means” does not strike me as a great principle to live by.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42486481

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549624
That was already done years ago and people are predicting that the grid will be maxed out soon.
I hadn't seen this comment and just wrote pretty much a mirror one - Wikipedia overly focuses on one-off accidents and events, rather than news with long-term implications.

Does your service do a good job at thinking longer term? Would you have an example of this?
Which big US social media company operates without some form of involvement with the ADL?

This isn't a conspiracy, the ADL openly admits and is proud of their involvement in censorship.

Here they are bragging about their role in youtube censorship:

https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-applauds-goo...

Google search results censorship:

https://www.adl.org/resources/news/can-google-search-be-used...

X may be the one exception, though I note that the "advertiser boycott" was ended when Musk made trips to Israel, was photographed next Netanyahu's atrocity propaganda prop pieces, next to Ben Shapiro, etc.
The problem is that good journalism doesn't have funding. Otherwise this shit would never have made it into a newspaper, maybe outside of a really shitty yellow rag.
Why not both like Merchant Marines.

Dual use sealift is just common sense. Too many years of stupid western analysis that PRC would waste $$$ to build dedicated TW amphib fleet, and point the absence of one as PRC not ready to invade TW. Reality is every $$$ PLAN spends on sealift is one not spent on weapons shooting back at US+co.

PRC RO/ROs (and a lot of other commercial shipping) are indeed build to military standards for TW scenario. Used for shipping cars like they're suppose to during peacetime to let that capex work, and armor vehicles during war.

Comparable RO/ROs have been actively involved in invasion TW training/exercises. PRC RO/RO numbers a couple years ago was enough to land 7 full PLA group armies (300k + equipment) on TW in about 10 days, or every US Army Brigade Combat team in 5 days. They'll probably have enough RO/RO sealift to cut that down to 2-3 days in a few more years.
SpaceX Lander Game
iOS game that simulates landing a Falcon 9 rocket
I am sure that’s intentional, because this article is the same thing we see from e/acc personalities any time the environmental impact is brought up.

Deflection away from what actually uses power and pretending the entire system is just an API like anything else.
I know this isn't related to potassium directly, but anecdotally I have had success using magnesium supplements for insomnia/improving general sleep quality. I have also been consuming electrolyte mixes containing potassium to help with muscle recovery from training, and have found them to help with physical soreness & general well-being.
> My guess is because it’s the Smithsonian, they’re just not willing to trust an LLM’s transcription enough to put their name on it. I imagine they’re rather conservative

I expect thats a common theme from companies like that, yet I don't think they understand the issue they think they have there.

Why not have the LLMs do as much work as possible and have humans review and put
their own name on it? Do you think they need to just trust and publish the output of the LLM wholeheartedly?

I think too many people saw what a few idiot lawyers did last year and closed the book on LLM usage.
think about it this way: could any law ever stop any publisher from doing anything and still respect the 1st amendemnt?
>Never expected to see the EFF siding with a big tech company, and fighting for its right to profit from its users.

The EFF routinely sides with big tech companies. See their work on copyrights, patents, etc. Tech figures fund them. See https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine
Cynically, I think most people know this in this kind of situation, but like clockwork media sources will suddenly dramatize things for clicks, money, lawsuits, or politics, and people will nod their heads not because they agree with the accusations, but because they have preconceived bias against the defendant company.
I don't think we really disagree in general. I specifically said that I would favor a broader ban. Just that if you're going to be paternalistic you need a good reason. In the case of smoking, "it's literal poison" is a pretty good reason to ban it (which we haven't done, lol).

My point is that I don't think "access to this information services will stoke negative sentiment towards the US government" is a good reason to ban access to said service in a liberal democracy. It would be a good reason to ban the service in an autocracy of some sort, but standards for individual freedoms are higher (though not infinitely high) here. At least, they ought to be higher. That's where the disagreement comes from: I do not care that access to TikTok threatens the US Government. I care about US citizens generally. The interests of these two parties are increasingly disconnected, a sign of a decaying democracy.
Actually, both of those examples might be legal (assuming the form is applying for a permit for some specific event/location). Time, place, and manner restrictions have long been upheld by the courts. What isn’t legal, or at least what requires strict scrutiny, are content restrictions.
> Can you provide more information about that?

Sure, I looked it up and it was a security advisory: https://github.com/bf/security-advisories/blob/main/2025-01-...

I don’t have the time to re-read it now so if I am misremembering and it is a training-time effect rather than query-time effect then my bad, though the point largely stands.
Not encouraging population growth everywhere but particularly in the highest per-capita consuming and polluting countries, but rather allow them to naturally level off and even gradually decline would go a much longer way. It would enable significant emissions reductions and reduction in all other environmental impacts of consumption without impacting quality of life.

Eating bugs and living in pods sounds great and all, but if the end result is just allowing the ruling class to pack more drones and consumers in like sardines then it's not really solving anything.
I'm somewhat sympathetic to that argument. However, it doesn't stop there.

Violent video games prove contribution to market demand for FPS-style videos of mass shootings or carjackings, so can/should we ban Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto now?

(Note that the "market demand" argument is subtly different from the argument that the games directly cause people to become more violent, either in general or by encouraging specific copycat violence. Studies on [lack of] direct violence causation are weak and disputed.)
And may just come back once some subset of the population only interacts with touch screen devices.
This doesn't make any technical sense. The key part of what is at issue with TikTok and other social media companies is editorial control over the ranking algorithm. The ranking algorithm is not done on the client, and I don't see how it can be.

And even if you could do it somehow, that is in direct conflict with the other main complaint people have about social media apps ("selling your data"). FB had an API that they opened up to some degree, then Cambridge Analytica happened.
I think they're too naive wrt to "good guys always follow the rules" stuff

It's the kind of naivety that gets your lunch money taken at school
Interesting that they call out the extortionate egress fees from the majors as a motivation, but are nevertheless also charging customers $0.10 per GB themselves.
I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
They load in the background. Look at the second video attempting to attack Slack. Look closely at the first tab in the top left corner, you can see that it is loading and eventually settles on Slack before the victim clicks the button. The attacker website has a delay on the click button to allow it to finish.
Build new data centers near sources of power, and grid capacity isn’t going to be a problem. Heck, American industry used to follow that (building garment factories on fast moving rivers before electricity was much of a thing, Boeing grew up in the northwest due to cheap aluminum helped out by hydro). Why is AI somehow different from an airplane?
Regular voting is usually what affects things such as the transportation infrastructure in your country or city. It’s a slow proceed though.

Here in Oslo there has been a lot of investment in bike lanes, but just because one part of the local government builds more bike lanes doesn’t mean that other parts of the government will follow suit. Police still doesn’t care about cars illegally blocking the bike lanes. The people ploughing snow see bike lanes as the last thing that should need ploughing, preferably no earlier than 2 weeks after it snowed. A dedicated bike path I use to work is supposed to be ploughed within 2 hours of snow, but it took a week before anything was done and now three weeks later it’s still not to the standard that the government has set.
The "Run" app appears right after pressing Win+R, so this wouldn't work.
But how do you distribute the certificates? It's cold-starting peer to peer distributed systems that's hard.
It was the fourth Zelda, Link’s Awakening (1993), that was inspired by Lynch and Twin Peaks. If you’ve played it, the influence in that one is apparent — it’s about Link discovering an isolated community of eccentrics hiding a secret, and dreams play a major role. The game’s director, Takashi Tezuka, specifically wanted to emulate the mood of Dale Cooper discovering the town of Twin Peaks, meeting its oddball inhabitants, and trying to figure out what they’re hiding.
Edibles can sometimes be effective
Baking tik tok isn't a first amendment issue. As much of an advocate for free speech and the first amendment, I think Congress has the right to regulate trade and prevent a foreign company from doing business on American soil.
Love this. I’ve had the same thought for years and I’m glad to hear there’s a name for it.
Yeah its a weird format for a paper ngl
For most of US history people's access to information was controlled by a few powerful news/media corporations and the Supreme Court did nothing to stop that. It's no surprise that when we finally get a decentralised information transmission system not beholden to the elites, the Supreme Court doesn't want to lend it a hand.
Who is this person you’re constructing? Being concerned about plane emissions and travel is an incredibly common thing and people are adjusting their lifestyles accordingly - lots of overnight sleeper train lines are reopening due to demand.
It does say

> It’s protected with the new key which is controlled solely by the user’s trusted devices

I think main thing they’re avoiding is an explicit guarantee that the key cannot be retrieved from your phone by a third party.
As far as I can tell, there's no hang up about 'cheese' at the higher levels of competition even among westerners. But that might just be from the extreme Korean influence at that level?

The attitude seems to be that throwing in the occasional cheese is not so much meant to win the game, as it is meant to make sure your opponent wastes resources on defending against a potential cheese at all the other times.

This is very similar to the function of a bluff in a theoretical analysis of poker. Very simplified, the optimal frequency of bluffing is when bluffing just about breaks even against optimal play from your opponents. But throwing the bluffing in masks when you actually have good cards.
I suspect the link is with playing cards and gambling?
When you ask people online for advice, keep an ear to the ground and an eye to the door.

There isn’t, and will never be, a substitute for thinking for yourself.
Price to build quality/package ratio. For AUD 36ks you can get a BYD Dolphin Premium with blade LFP battery, which will give you around 450 to 500ks of range.Why would you buy a Tesla?
There are different keto diets.

The epilepsy version is indeed hard to maintain, but can be life changing (increase life quality in epilepsy, bipolar, schizophrenia etc)

The T2D version is way easier. If you studdy it or get a coach, you will know all the pitfalls. But its like therapy, you need to want it yourself. Cant be forced into it.
If the government can’t ban a business entity then doesn’t that say something about control? We have an app controlled by a communist dictatorship. They can keep the app running by selling it, but they won’t.

What’s perplexing to me is leftists love how companies in America can be forced to sell and broken if they are declared monopolies. But if an app is declared an agent of foreign powers suddenly forcing a sale is wrong? It makes me feel even more certain that HN is astroturfed by Chinese bots because who cares
It's like the early demo for DALL-E where you could get "an armchair in the shape of an avocado", which presumably wasn't in the training set, but enough was in it to generalize the "armchair" and "avocado" concepts and combine them.
<< The justices too are human, but I'm comforted that they even mentioned that they wouldn't use the secret evidence because that is a signal to future administrations that they shouldn't bother trying to use secret evidence.

I had some time to think about this. I think you convinced me on that.
error_logic was referring to the "Voting system" meaning the way we elect politicians: plurality voting vs. ranked choice/approval voting. Not an algorithm in the social media feed sense.

Other voting systems do promote less negativity, among many other benefits such as giving us real choice and a true multiparty system.
There are mechanisms for such coordination. Diets have shifted around the world to more McD's, more western cuisine. Wild catch changes all the time as we overfish stocks to endangerment.
> I would be surprised if many people said it is unethical to use LLMs like ChatGPT for environmental reasons, as opposed to ethical principles such as encouraging unfair use of IP and copyright violation.

Usually they complain about both.
This is just a variation of a trick that is as old as the internet. Most old attacks were using timing instead of double-clicking, usually by tricking the user to click on a bouncing monkey to win a price, instead hitting what was behind.

The real question is, how have browser vendors still not learned. Don't allow any clicks the first moments after a focus change.
Holy hell, I’ve used it for months now and had no idea.
>In short, these platforms are places for manufacturing consent

These platforms are much less subject to manufactured consent than the traditional news media, which was controlled by a small number of entities aligned with the elites of the day. Decentralised information transmission is fundamentally better for the people than centralised information transmission controlled by a few gatekeepers who suppress anything not in their interests.

Look at how homogenous in views the baby boomers are relatively to the younger generations, as evidence of how much more effective at manufacturing consent the traditional media are.
When you setup the robots you could load them with the PKI and then load each other robot joining with a signed certificate. Not ideal, I admit.

Another way would be to somehow prove that you belong.
China still has an amphib fleet, and there are reasons to use amphibs for at least the initial forced entry operation, but once you have a beachhead the dual use ROROs are a good way to sustain and reinforce the landing force without needing to capture or build a port facility.

And it’s not like the amphibs are only useful for Taiwan; there are plenty of disputed islands in the South China Sea worth fighting over.
Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net/) supports the Direct Rendering Manager on Linux for graphics without X11 or Wayland:

https://avaloniaui.net/blog/unleashing-net-on-embedded-linux

https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/guides/platforms/rpi/runnin...
What about training it?
Unfortunately the Midines is basically vaporware. I don't think he has actually built and delivered a cart in more than 15 years. He took my money for one about 18 years ago and never delivered.

They do occasionally show up on eBay and Reverb though.
> Social media platforms have the potential to be incredibly democratic.

> Now it seems like most platforms seem to be thinly veiled psyops hoping to trade quick dopamine for mindshare.

It's a matter of incentives. The profit motive is fundamentally opposed to a low-intervention platform for democratic communication. For a brief period we had some social media platforms that made gestures in the direction of free communication. Then the investor capital came rolling in, and they were expected to increase revenue. How do you increase revenue of your free communication platform? You sell the messaging. Call it promotion, advertising, whatever. The only thing of value you have at your disposal are people's eyeball, you're going to sell what they see. You could ask your users to pay for the service... but then 80% of them will flake to a rival service that's still free. If there's a way to marry the profit motive and a truly democratic social media platform then our best and brightest have yet to find it. I suspect it doesn't exist.
Link to the study itself: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17010148
> The United States’ foreign foes easily can steal, scrape, or buy Americans’ data by countless other means.

Yes, all they have to do is sign up for the usual services advertisers use.