skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those like me that don't know what AMOC is [1]:

> The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. It is a component of Earth's ocean circulation system and plays an important role in the climate system. The AMOC includes Atlantic currents at the surface and at great depths that are driven by changes in weather, temperature and salinity. Those currents comprise half of the global thermohaline circulation that includes the flow of major ocean currents, the other half being the Southern Ocean overturning circulation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...
See also:

(Classical) Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas: https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-...

Original HN Submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22357374

PS: I am the primary author.
Plausible accusation, but I don't think those are mutually-exclusive. I think there is a non-zero-sum space where both sides benefit. But yeah, "The Social Dilemma (2020)" is a perfect example of suggesting that things may have gone too far.
It seems like we’re hitting all the projected points early. For example, aren’t we already at 1.5C of warming by some metrics, which was supposed to not happen for another decade or two? If anything, I think the scientific community has been too conservative in its predictions, which in turn has caused a massive under-reaction to climate change globally. Seems to me AMOC collapse is probably a foregone conclusion.
Brazil did that, so why not.
Cambridge analytica had all data associated with real names, and it included all your likes and even some people's private messaging.

Yes, anonymized research data is very different.
It's probably less than this due to recent political reversals.

I think fusion is our last and only real chance at this point. Everything else is stuck in a political hellscape.
Similar thing happened at my previous hot AI tech startup. Once valued at $850MM (despite /no/ recurring revenue), it crashed when the market turned down. Eventually, product pivot to Gen AI, round of layoffs of 15% of the company, including at least two excellent software engineers, with no cut to exec comp (high enough for a 29 year old CTO to buy a $2.5MM house).

Eventually, the startup got acquihired. Common stock was worthless, deep underwater compared to strike price for those who exercised (and some who exercised early had to pay tons of taxes on a low basis and overinflated valuation). Investors got their money back. Execs got between $1MM and $10MM in cash.
This is cool but I don't think it fits my use case..

Seems like I have to pick criteria that have exact venues.. I want to pick abstract things like "walking distance from grocery", "biking distance from climbing gym" "1 hour drive to national park"
Aha - good question - it is using ai to summarize what people are discussing - not generating comments
This ruling doesn't have the government as a party. It has nothing to do with the German government. The German judiciary, yes. German plaintiff, yes. But not the government. The law in question is an EU law: https://algorithmic-transparency.ec.europa.eu/news/faqs-dsa-...
It's worth mentioning 60Hz vs 50Hz distinction has ended up having a knock-on effect on framerate standards because of early TVs using it for timing, not to mention market segmentation because different products had to be manufactured for the US vs European markets.

here is a well animated video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyqjTZHRdRs&t=49s
People here aren't criticizing the policy, but the very idea that Germany is allowed to make said policy. Americans in this thread are absolutely getting thin skin about the idea that a US company has to follow German laws.
Impulse Labs has built an induction range that has super high power; their trick is that they have a battery that they recharge from the mains. Might be expensive but the same technique could work for a toaster (or for a water kettle) to basically keep a whole bunch of energy in reserve and deliver it when needed.
> Likely the company in question does not want to share what their internal proprietary data that was leaked was.

If they want us to use it to evaluate his character, some hint would be needed. Was it a legitimate trade secret, or was it trivial and only an excuse to fire him. Companies claiming everything under the sun is a "trade secret" is nothing new - Microsoft famously claimed their extensions to Kerberos were a trade secret, despite releasing their spec to everyone, guarded only by a clickthrough license: https://slashdot.org/story/00/05/02/158204/kerberos-pacs-and...

But if they say what we like to hear, corporations turn into saints incapable of even slightly bending the truth.

> Either way, that, along with the brags from the ex-employee about still having access to the company's machines after termination, speaks to his character.

They neglected to change passwords, and yet "I never exploited it because it's just not me." were his words. Yeah, what vile character.
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Modern dryiers are generaly run on a phase converter so while the motor is ac the frequency is controlled by a computer.
See: https://algorithmic-transparency.ec.europa.eu/news/faqs-dsa-...
Exactly, the thing that is "universal" about "universal power laws" is that the evidence is weak for them, not because people did a bad experiment, but because they pulled a data analysis method out of their ass.

My one regret of my scientific career was this paper

https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9512055

where my coauthor asked me "you want to be a theoretician, do you have an explanation?" but I didn't. (I did have some ideas that would have involved knowing more about the structure of the balls, doing more experiments, to give any real answer)

Actually I had reservations about the analysis method (got different answers trying two reasonable things that I saw other people to do), it would have been a good paper had I actually addressed the tension but the coworker didn't want to go there.

Another interesting thing about my paper was that segmentation was a problem as it was in that Science paper, I didn't do anywhere near the level of sensitivity analysis, but I could have gotten different answers if I'd defined integration windows around the pops differently. Probably the very loud pops also had echos, oh my god that problem was so bad when I tried to do the crumpling in an ordinary room and worse when I made my own small 'soundproof' box, it was better in the anechoic chamber I took the real measurements in.

The mystery of explaining the universality is greatly diminished when you can throw out a large number of the papers though...
Buyers deserve to know how long a game will remain playable. With most games tied to a service model, the buyer is paying for entry to a timed event/experience, not ownership. As I understand, the Stop Killing Games campaign would be happy if publishers simply had to inform the buyers of their games that this is the case, at least when they know ahead of time that it is. Currently, most publishers market games as something you "buy" and it's yours forever. They will also offer their game on subscription (Xbox GamePass, PSN, etc), but what many consumers don't understand is that for most games, both options are a subscription.

And worse yet, that the publishers will go out of their way to break products that could work indefinitely to enforce that subscription model, just because they are about to launch Product 2 that they need people to "buy" again.

This lack of transparency extends beyond games. Consumers don't generally think about the useful lifespan of what they buy, whether it is software, hardware - cars, home appliances, and even homes themselves. All of these things have a shorter expected lifespan now than 30 years ago, because we consider them to be practically indefinite, and marketers know this. Very few people who buy mid-range Android phones with no planned OTA updates say "okay, this $500 phone will last about a year and a half before it becomes too insecure to use, so I'm subscribing to it for $25/month; with a cloud service it will be $35/month, and with the apps I need, it will be $40/month".

It would be in the best interest of the buyer to be informed, but I don't think anyone in the market has their best interests in mind, except for regulators put in place by elected government for that purpose. In that sense, UK has government has once again failed to do its job here, like many other governments. On the positive side, if you think about everything you buy as a subscription, you don't have to fall for bad deals. It's a shame many others will, though, and the products will continue to be enshittified for you too.

What I explained... is not hard to understand if you think about it, but it is a complex matter with many moving regulatory and consumer behavior parts. No one will spend the 20-60 minutes to understand these complex dynamics behind a basic game they buy. It is unreasonable to expect. This is why it should be clearly labelled that you aren't buying anything, it's a timed event that the publisher will end. Sometimes, very rapidly. So is your car (which you may be unable to sell or maintain yourself), cell-phone (which will get outdated), and washing machine (which has chips expected to last 6 months beyond the warranty period). But that's a bigger topic for other consumer rights advocates.
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With the move to RAG and models being open to the Internet now - results are changing more quickly. Also we ran an analysis, and for ChatGPT 4o, 51% of the sources/citations were posted in the last 90 days and 82% from the last 12 months.
First line of the abstract:

> Killer whales (Orcinus orca) have been documented to prey on white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), in some cases causing localised shark displacement and triggering ecological cascades.

This paper describes using genomic analysis to positively identify the cause of death of a specific white shark carcass. They already suspected it was killer whales due to the missing liver which is similar to past recorded cases off the coast of South Africa.
The usual things governments will do is block payments to the company and order companies that are present in that country to stop doing business with the company in question. That means they'd lose their revenue from German users and disappear from the app stores in Germany.
Now ask the question -- if Trump hadn't amplified allegations of this community as illegal immigrants eating dogs and cats, would they have been harassed and threatened?

To me, the counterfactual clearly points to no.

The Harris/Trump debate gave a set of clear accusations on film, so many that the denizens of the internet made several clever remixes to fight bullies with humor.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5llMaZ80ErY

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BrCvZmSnKA
The trend is that once ML models are able to compete with humans on a task, they perform is much faster and cheaply (although very often with a much higher error rate for now).

IMO thinking will be useful to some extent because the bottleneck will be getting instructions from the models into people to perform them. So if the model has to spend less time communicating with you (limited by human cognition, not the model), you will be more productive.

All work that can be done remotely can also be done by AI. Currently there are limitations like you having more context from communicating with your colleagues.

I suspect at some point, companies will try to mandate that all work-related communication (even face to face) has to be made accessible to AI. They will no doubt try to go two steps forward and then back off one step as a compromise so it will be a local model in the name of privacy or something like that.

At that point, AI will have the same work-related knowledge you have. In fact it will be able to cross reference knowledge from all workers in the company. So why would you work from home if it can do everything you could but faster and cheaper?
Fans because a furnace only needs two speeds at most.
I really hope they are wrong or I'll be underwater. AMOC models are based on close-to-surface temperatures so there is so some dissent about how accurate they are. It's probably just a matter of time though. Personally I think panic will eventually set in and we'll be forced to watch governments attempt geo-engineering. I am not optimistic.
You agree. You did mention plastic.
Touché. I should've said free and independent states, which is the along the lines of the typical verbiage used by US states. It was also in the context of who controls universities, which in the context of Nazi Germany, was likely Germany.
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There is always a conflict, but only with access to the data you can uncover CA-style usage of the data.
The key difference being that it is perfectly legal for the US to request data on income and gains received by US taxpayers while it is illegal for the US to spy (in certain ways) on US residents.

It is completely routine for countries to exchange data on financial accounts [1]. The only aspect that makes FATCA somewhat unusual is that the US taxes US persons even when they are residents of other countries.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/international-excha...
I believe the most famous cases in the US have only gone after the people sharing or seeding or uploading content. My ISP could care less what I download from use net but they will definitely care when I start seating.
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If AI actually starts replacing jobs, society is going to collapse/restructure to the point that risk management no longer applies.
An annoyance for me is that I've yet to see any address validator get my current home address right. They all insist my address is on the road that leads to my road rather than my actual road. It's understandable that they can't be 100% accurate given the scale / complexity of addresses.

Most sites/apps will let me override the validator, but a few won't. The most common ones that insist on using the wrong address are financial institutions that say the law requires them to have my proper physical address and therefore they go with the (incorrectly) validated version.

USPS does not do home delivery in our area, and UPS/FedEx/etc. usually figure it out given that street numbers alone uniquely identify properties in our town.
"We're going to sue you to make you stop" is exactly where you deploy the semilegal sound bite. You then use that as the public justification to stall, deny, countersue, delay, appeal, defend, depose and do everything you can to avoid a decision happening one way or the other until you've already gotten and done what you wanted to get and do.
There are also countries that have a constitution that cannot be overturned like a regular legislation. It's not like the US is the only place that has it that way.
Some libraries will insist that my address is in a different city because my zip code spans the border. I mean if my mail has the other city it still gets to me, but for anything other than mail, they now have the wrong city for me.
Sure, though you can do commented regexp in Perl and Ruby and probably others, using x flag if my memory serve well, though in practice for maintenability you'll probably better avoid this kind of "clever" tricks.

Just skimming through the readme, I'm also in doubt that the paradigm shift would really be any better than folk regexp.

That doesn't make the existence of the project any less cooler, of course. Congratulation to the author, and don't let such a comment narrow down your motivation, as it's really not the point. If you enjoy do it, great. If you learn something in the process, awesome. If it can lead to something that I can't envision, how marvelous. But it doesn't, that was still a great epic and you can be proud.
unfortunately this site is just as prone to thought bubbles, media bias, and disinformation campaigns, just like X...
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I suspect you’re comparing apples and oranges.

Personal data is not the same thing as anonymised aggregate data.
The US can get away with this through its immense power and economic influence (for the moment, at least). The UK is a small market of middling relevance, and their government's belief that they're a global power is an anachronism. I hope these decisions cause enough companies to break ties that they're forced to realize their position.
This isn't the ironclad defense you think it is. The company confirmed this is why they were fired, this all took place before he was even in the political spotlight and his response being to brag about it isn't exactly a stellar mark on his character.
Thanks for the clarification, totally on me to set expectations inappropriately based on only a headline. Take care.
Thanks for the kind words! The prototype was launched in 2013, you'd think the world would have caught up since :D. The platform underneath allows far more advanced functionality, so stick around, there will be many more usable (and useful) features in the near term.
Can you reproduce lumen?
"Book of the New Sun" will always be my favorite unreliable narrator story.
Combination of giving back and trying to give insight into myself as an engineer.

On giving back - Throughout my career I've read tons of blog posts that have given me the information I needed to get started or un-stuck on a task. I hope when I write about things that someone out there may wonder 'how do I X?' and my blog post shows up when googling.

On giving insight into myself - I've had people reach out while I was doing a job search that said they looked over my blog posts and that gave them a positive signal which led them to reach out to me for a position.
> Why does the executive branch exist at all if it's simply to enforce written law?

Someone has to be in charge of enforcing things.

> Why do we elect the executive at all if they are merely to enforce written law?

Do you have a suggestion of another way to do it that doesn't put congress in charge?

Also the president has some other very important roles.

> Why do executives have the power to pardon someone when a court of law finds a person guilty of breaking law?

That one is definitely subjective by its nature, but also the average number of pardons is around two thousand, a very small fraction of cases.
I took a ~20 minute 12km taxi ride just last Monday, and it was about €22. That's in Ireland. Considering fuel, the drive back for the driver, and that taxis have a lot of downtime, that seems like a reasonable price.

You live in Netherlands according to a recent comment; I can't believe taxis are almost 4x more expensive, unless you're stuck in traffic for a long time, but then your burger can't arrive in 30 mins?

And free delivery on €6 food item is almost certainly netting them a loss.
Never heard of PocketFlow before. Very cool. I had to have someone explain it to me like I'm 5:

Chat: Like playing catch with a ball - it goes back and forth

RAG (Reading Helper): Like having a helper that:

Reads your books. Remembers what they read. Answers questions about them.

Map-Reduce: Like having many friends help you clean your room:

Split the room into sections. Each friend cleans their section. Put everything back together at the end.
Can be explained with fewer assumptions.
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It's previously unseen and we don't fully understand it, that's good enough for me to call it mysterious. I don't really care what connotations others may or may not attach to the word.
oh wow, 25 Hz was supplied to homes? I know New Orleans still has some pumps that run on some oddball frequency. It's part of the reason why they never work during the storms (when you need them). The "grid" is just a set of colocated generation sets
> If you just landed at the airport, you rely on police enforcement keeping bad actors from having medallions.

Well that's not going to work. You now have people from outside the jurisdiction having a government they didn't elect cast in the role of their protectors. Instead what happens is the local government protects the incumbents, which is what we've seen in practice.

> Many cities required taxis to have their medallion number painted on the outside, and there were phone numbers you could quickly call (in the days of payphones even) to get quick information about a medallion or to report a complaint/problem with one.

As opposed to the license plates already on all cars?

> The history of taxi companies say that they are only as open as they are forced to be.

People keep trying to regard Uber as a taxi company. They keep claiming to be an app, because... they are. So replace the app with an open source one. Create an independent non-profit to handle payments and maintain a server to hold the driver ratings and take a small cut of the payments to cover its costs. Operate it as a live auction where drivers list how much they'll charge per mile and riders pick a driver based on their rating and price. Publish all the data.

If you do it well, people will use it voluntarily. If you do it poorly, you haven't demonstrated enough competence to be trusted making regulations that people would have to follow even if they're dumb.

> Competition is not the problem; destroying public safety regulations in the name of competition is the problem.

The problem is that incumbents call the things they use to destroy competition "public safety regulations".

> Neither would want to do that because their rating systems are secret sauce and "competitive advantage", they would need to be coerced by regulations.

Not when you can "coerce" them through competition. If people like the ratings system which is more open or the one that extracts lower margins and the app is otherwise fungible with theirs, they don't even exist unless they can be better than the competing system you created to do better, which implies that you failed to actually do better and then they're supposed to win. Which in turn applies pressure on the public system to do better itself, instead of getting captured, because if it gets captured then it becomes uncompetitive and actually has competition.
> US has about 20 Nvidias

No, only 3 above 3 trillion in market cap: Apple, Google, NVIDIA

US is also 3x the population of Germany.
If that is the case, having researchers perform analysis makes it possible to identify that risk and that is yet another reason to make sure that public data is not obscured.

In a way, this research would either prove or disprove your theory.
I absolutely would. I feel like the text editing ecosystem is slowly inching towards this anyway with incremental improvements:

- Thanks to formatters like gofmt and prettier when I edit code I can do so with exactly zero concern for spacing, new lines, alignment, indent, etc. Close to structure editors where, in my understanding, the way code is stored and the way it is presented may be completely independent.

- Mass-renaming like what is provided by LSPs and other refactoring tools also go in this direction of thinking about symbols and their identity, rather than their text name.

- Tree-sitter lets traditionally text-oriented tools be re-created to be structure-aware, for example difftastic for diffs or ast-grep for structured search-and-replace.

I didn’t quite understand how the structure editor shown here works with types though, and though I’d love to edit my Typescript in a structure editor that just couldn’t work if my inputs got delayed by the Typescript type system figuring things out. I would take enforced type correctness if it can be instant, but I’d still use structure editing without type awareness.
Why would a nation allow a private US company to run roughshod over their laws to the detriment of their society? Just because some other nations are so abused by corporations that do allow it? What’s the logic behind this?