skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why would anybody want to support a bookshop? The only interest would be to support authors.
Or a way to take money from green investment funds: you're never finished, but you're always only two years away. Both directly from governments and from mandates on the oil companies to do green investments.
once there's a monopoly, this is what happens
> Now we mostly fixed it

Only in developed countries. The age of a typical car in my region is over 15 years. Basically, most of what you bought in 2005-2010, drove for a decade or more, and then sold for scrap eventually ends up in countries like mine. Moreover, most people take catalytic converters off their cars and sell them for $80-100 for platinum recycling.

I think most "developing" countries have the same problem. So the world at large hasn't really solved it and won't solve it any time soon.
I'm not saying they are related, just saying that the committee committeing is going to take half a decade at least for both.
> Elon is literally closing agencies

Is he? I mean this as an honest question, things have moved quickly enough that its hard to keep up.

My understanding that they have been temporarily closing offices or stopping work. I wouldn't consider that as "literally closing agencies" though, at least for me that reads as closing them down permanently rather than temporarily closing the doors.

I don't ask this to defend what they're doing at all. I think we could be much worse off if they're only gutting the agencies without closing them completely.

The executive branch has been given an immense amount of authority over the last half century or so, if that is used to rebuild different agencies technically still fulfilling congressional mandates for USAID or CFPB we could be in for a rude awakening.

Authority is fine when you agree with it, but as soon as the wrong person has that same power you may find you wish it was never granted in the first place.
I wasn’t clear, even if American middle class would make a change, by that time, developing countries would be at the stage where they could and would have our luxury lifestyle. And that population outside US/EU is much much larger.
This. Personally, I’d want a GPU to self host whatever model, because I think that’s fun, plain and simple. Probably many people do too. But the business is not making money from people who are just thinking about fun.
I've been playing with it for the past hour this morning. It looks like it does everything I want it to do and more.
Just to add a bit more context.

For a given game there are often multiple categories. With rules for each. Some forbid some exploits, some complete game as fast as possible some 100% it.

When a new tech gets discovered there might be a debate if it belongs to certain categories or not.
Nitpick: Indicate it can. Not that it will.
> Blame the government. You shouldn't be allowed to patent game mechanics IMO.

Much of the current patent laws are international law regulated by the WTO. Our current agreement was signed by Clinton.

I think it needs an overhaul. Cut the strict 20 year expiration time in half at least, and implement other reforms as needed. Delegate more regulatory authority to nations and maybe more or less depending on industry or application. Patents should also require that you use it or lose it.
The scale of carbon capture required to make a meaningful difference implies vast industrial infrastructure and natural resource extraction that currently doesn’t exist. The carbon footprint of developing that would be enormous and require many decades to construct at a minimum.

There is a good argument that the ROI and environmental destruction is not worth it.
When can I "apt-get install" all this fancy new AI stuff?
> But the Newtonian laws of physics indicate it will.

Pedantically: they indicate it can. The situation where the ball spontaneously starts rolling[1] at any specific moment in time, without any application of force or interaction with any other part of the system, are perfectly legal and well-defined by the laws of motion. They just can't be predicted determinically.

[1] FWIW it's not even a ball in this case, as the rotational mechanics of a sphere with non-zero moment of inertia would destroy the very carefully constructed function required for the potential energy field.
To my information, and following searches only days ago, the NNs encoding LLMs are said to be static.

Whereas (for clarity) everytime one thinks he learns something and hones some skill.
> However, if we get as many people to use e-bikes or e-scooters, then the size and weight issues pretty much disappear.

I still don't understand how they expect to solve the occupant safety issue though. Cars travel at high speeds but have crumple zones and airbags. E-bikes travel at the same speeds but if you crash, you die. And 2-wheeled vehicles are easier to crash.

The fatality rate for motorcycles is astonishingly bad and changing the propulsion type wouldn't really affect that.
That wouldn't necessarily be true. Congress could better, more clearly define what they require of these departments and services.

Most of them were pretty weakly defined and they were given legal precedent to define what their own authority was (unless specifically defined by Congress). The departments could be kept with more clear definitions of what they need to do and what success looks like.
Chatting with AI bots.

I agree that this mentality of works being “too long so don’t ingest it”, is not a healthy way to go about life and thinking in general.
IANAL, I expect it would depend on how you represented them and any negligence or malicious intent.

You certainly cant hand out poison apples for free without liability.
> All you need is napkin maths. We gain energy by turning carbon into carbon dioxide. Now, we need the same energy to reverse it, but with a loss factor.

Hmm. Actually. I don’t think this is quite “back of the napkin math,” which usually involves some figures, if just only very rough ones with lots of rounding.

This seems more like an argument from basic principle in the style of “I’ll reject any proposal of a perpetual motion machine because, however clever, it fundamentally can’t produce power.” And I don’t think your fundamental principle here really is correct actually.

Some ideas around carbon capture are basically to do a chemical process that releases some energy, and then make sure the byproducts don’t escape, and bury them underground, right? There’s no fundamental reason that this should be impossible. I mean it’s obviously possible to take a log, burn it in a very big airtight metal box (very big, so there’s enough oxygen in there to fully burn the thing), the box will heat up, and then the byproducts will all be in the box, so you just don’t open it. This is a silly contraption but there’s obviously no fundamental law of physics being violated, so it must not be physically impossible.

I’m unhappy to write this because I agree with your conclusion. Carbon capture is mostly bullshit. But it is bullshit for complicated reasons, not simple or fundamental ones, I think.
I miss darcs very much. Easily my favorite VCS ever.

I did not love building the binary from Haskell sources. The ghc compiler was awkward and slow at the time.

I did not love the exponential time explosion for complicated (in practice, just "large") patch histories.

Both of those problems were 20 years ago though. Is the world a better place now?
We're almost 100 devs in a few teams - works well. There's a bunch of companies of our size even in the same city.

What's a bit different is we're creating own products, not renting people to others, so having uniform hosting platform is actual benefit.
The changes to their whatsits are likely certificate expiration related.

For the longest time the rumor was that backward compatibility was mandated (through certificate gymnastics) by Jeff because Mackenzie had a 1st gen Kindle that she adored. I reckon nobody any longer gives a shit about that.
> The author keeps referring to the font as ugly, but I really enjoy it.

“Beauty”, as they say, “is in the eye of the beholder”. It is not a value judgement to call something ugly, but a subjective opinion. And the author does mention they came to appreciate it:

> My first thought was: What a mess. Is this how “grotesque” fonts got their name?

> Then, the second thought: I kind of like it.
Has someone actually measured that tradeoff (weight versus regenerative braking) to determine where it is an even tradeoff? And surely regenerative braking has its own shedding of particles from all the moving parts.
There is the small possibility they graduate from a memecoin to a full fledged crypto coin. Hell if you're lucky enough an entire governmental agency will be named after your coin and the value will skyrocket. [1]

If you want to learn more about meme coins, I highly recommend the QAA episode on it. [2]

1. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/

2. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-qaa-podcast-30956096/epis...
I'd assume it's an FPGA, as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1chipMSX

Unless the FPGA is very limited, at least MSX2+ compatibility should be available. I would not be surprised if it could do Turbo R as well.

BTW, I wonder if there are easily available notebook shells for sensible prices that could fit a small ARM board and a reasonable screen. An RPi 5 or some of its competitors can power a lot of interesting emulators, not only for games, but for historical research and preservation.
It's actually way cheaper as long as you imagine that some magic technology gets invented in the next few years that makes it cheaper. Then you just have to hold of until that is created and if it isn't, it won't cost you anything! Even more savings!
LLM context windows are quite large now. This is very likely a simple matter of including NRQL docs or specification in the prompt.
It says "Page not found". Is it open to the public?

THanks!
Of course the increase in rat numbers in cities is caused by climate change. As the ice melts due to the seething heat caused by global warming, the melted ice-water from the arctic chills the air throughout the entire planet and so the rats get cold and they have to move closer to the cities to warm up on the hot bitumen. Also, they have to huddle up together to stay warm and thus they breed more.

The heat causes cooling which creates a feedback cycle thus releasing more heat which melts everything which causes yet more cooling. This makes sense. The science is settled. Trust the science.
Yeah, but you know it's not going to the get the coverage it deserves, since it's not a problem in the US, where we use tires instead.
>CO2 sequestered is much greater than the CO2 released by burning the oil.

Do check your source on that. Cause I cannot find it. The number I could find is muuuch lower than the extracted oil worth of co2.
Thanks for the recommendation, it was a harrowing read. I'll have to re-visit this in 10-15 years when I'm no longer a young bachelor.

Here's a link for anyone else who wants to read it: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/03/01/chicxulub
Devenv Telemetry Warning
Have nothing but good experience using TradeOgre.
Why I'd never apply for a job online again
Good to hear there's a Kobo partnership in the works. I was so excited when I saw this announcement, only to find it was exclusively through an app. Reading books on a phone or tablet is honestly my least favorite reading method.

I've always loved that Humble Bundle books are usually either Kobo licenses or drm-free formats that can be side loaded.
> This is survivor bias. We only see the sites where it didn't leak too much, and extract from it

…those are the sites we’re pumping the CO2 into.
> Is this a serious environmental concern compared to the climate/emissions issue, or just the 'r/fuckcars mentality'?

It’s a minor issue in terms of impact. I see it over amplified because it is a tool for the anti car crowd. It’s not like we are measuring or discussing all the environmental issues from everything else people do in their lives. It’s a lopsided focus on everything related to cars, and there’s a reason why.
A good programmer husband would’ve asked “a dozen of what?”. A poor programmer assumes they understand the statement much like an LLM would do.
Again, seems reasonable. If you dont like paying them to pump the oil and dispose of the carbon, then don't consume the oil and create the emissions.
There's a pretty insane scheme called "underground coal gasification" which had been proposed for the Firth of Forth. It's the same process as town gas - partial oxidation of coal to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Bus in situ. So a controlled underground coal fire.
This doesn’t check out.

Pokémon Red was $30 in 1996 which is $62 in today’s dollars.

If you just mean there are other games you’d rather spend $70 on, well, that’s not much of a proposition.
Ricochet-Refresh and Gosling are maintained by Blueprint For Free Speech (an Australia+Germany-based non-profit), and it looks like we've a donation page here:

- https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/donate
React Native is easy to be tempted into using. It's clever in all the wrong ways, from opaquely ad hoc code transformations to a perennial flux of unfinished transitions between old and new designs for the same things; it's popular and from Facebook; it does its job well enough to convince many developers that malfunctions, bugs and general misery are either an accident or their fault, they just need to hack a little.
On some hobby projects I just do a "git add ./*" and set an exquisite commit message along the lines of

> sync
> blah
> i haven't committed this since a week, so let's do this now
> fix that bug, and 15 other things

At work, and when I push some OSS code, I do as the Romans do.
> Torque and pedal response are just choices made in software

Yes which is due to the flexibility of EVs. The problem then is that customers are going to prefer buying vehicles with greater torque and manufacturers have little incentive to not provide EVs with high torque.

A lot of it is based on driver behaviour as it's quite feasible for ICE vehicles to be driven to burn rubber or make donuts.
ah, Thanks! but what can a distributed system like this do? is this a fun to do, for the sake of doing it project or does it have practical applications? just curious about applicability thats all.
> Idea hackneyed since LLM's appeared.

It’s an idea that’s been around long before LLMs. Check out Yahoo under Marissa Mayer acquiring a news summary app. Though it is still hackneyed.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-acquires-summly-app-150...
Marcin is definitely Gen-X. His LinkedIn says he started his master's degree in 1997. Assuming a typical education that'd put his birth year around 1974. (Note he grew up in Poland, so a different Gen-X experience than from the US.)

Perhaps what you're interpreting as generational perspective is Marcin's analytical perspective as a professional designer. He's got a very keen eye for both historical design and modern. Also I read this post as a sort of fond irony, "look at this unusual and ugly font it's actually a thing of beauty, let me show you."
Obtain and spend millions in grants.
I was trying to address the incoherence of this;

> Y'all really doubling down on this whole "77 million people are white supremacists" huh?
> You understand this means that the other 75 million people are actually looking to mutilate children, destroy the concepts of sex and gender, abolish all of the police, and are aggressively racist against white people, right?

You seemed confused and upset that people assumed you believed the things in the latter statement, so I am primarily interested in getting you to understand why I (and a few others, by the looks) thought that.

It is factually true that Donald Trump campaigned on white replacement theory, surrounded himself with people who had ties to white nationalism, and continues to advance causes very important to white and christian nationalists. If you voted for him, you were either uninformed on those topics, informed but didn't care, or informed but agree. By and large, the trump voters I talk to on a daily basis seem to be in the first camp, but willing to defend trump regardless of what he is saying or doing.

It is factually false to suggest that Democrats want to "Mutilate children", or any of the examples you gave. Even the most harsh critic of the police that the democrats have, AOC, unequivocally said that she was against abolishing the police and preferred defunding them and moving their responsibilities to other social services. "Mutilating children" and "Abolish sex and gender" are thought-terminating cliches meant to mis-represent support for trans folk, and "Racist against white people" is a clownshoes bananapants nothing of a racist dogwhistle.

Republicans love to twist and exaggerate, but none of these reflect the policies - either stated or implied through policy - the nature of democratic support. What's more, the democrats have not universally adopted a single person to be the arbiter of their policy, as the GOP has at their last conventions, nor do democrats typically gather with such gusto around a single individual. (as a bernie supporter, I feel like I probably got as much of that as I was going to get, and it was not anywhere near as embarrassingly fawning as what trump receives.)

So, no, they are not equal in the slightest.

If you are prepared to argue that supporting trans kids is mutilating children, or actually saying "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work." or extending the olive branch to fucking apartheid is not an inherently white supremacist thing to say or do (or that it's not 'all that bad'), then I was misguided, and am comfortable ending the conversation here.

Now, if you want critiques of the democrats? Well, my friend, I have them in store. Perhaps a less absurd, more fitting diss would have been "the other 75 million people are actually looking to ethnically cleanse gaza?" (The republicans want to do that as well, but at least it's a fair diss on the democrats and their actual positions!)
How happy are you with the NIH cuts, US withdrawal from Climate Agreement, vaccine sceptic being made secretary of health, US alienating Europe, proposed ethnic cleansing of Gaza, etc.? Maybe you have to deal with fewer trans kids, DEI and other such bullshit, but when you look at the big picture was it worth the trade off?
This reminds me of how Sco [0] started going after everybody as they became less and less relevant eventually leading to their demise.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes?use...
I think I'm missing something; I tried to find a deeply nested thread[1] in order to see how that would work, but when clicking on the "view on bluesky"[2] it did take me to the ... comment? post? ... but there was no further context. Is this just a view on top of some specially curated comments on Bluesky?

1: https://threadsky.app/post?uri=at%3A%2F%2Fdid%3Aplc%3Ahu2obe...

2: https://bsky.app/profile/tmarsland.bsky.social/post/3kl47lio...
I turned off the flags on it yesterday, but that wasn't enough to make it go back onto the front page. Whether that made it "hidden" depends on what you mean by that word. Frontpage space is the scarcest resource on HN [1] - there are only 30 slots. Does everything not in those 30 count as hidden? I wouldn't say so.

Why did I not restore this particular thread to the front page? The short answer is repetition. There have been many other recent major discussions on this topic—not about this specific detail about a paper on category theory, of course, but that alone is not enough information to constitute a new topic that can support a substantive new conversation. In HN jargon this is called SNI (Significant New Information), and it was lacking here.

Here are two other recent posts that explain this in more depth:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389

That a paper on category theory got caught in the ongoing funding purge is absurd, of course, but it's not a different topic in the sense that there's a substantively new discussion to be had about it, relative to the other recent threads about the funding purge.

Internet discussion has the tendency, as the same divisive topic gets worked over and over, to become more repetitive, more snarky, more shallow. All that is what we're trying to avoid here. It also gets a lot more meta, meaning you get comments about other comments, other users, the site, the community, the process, the mods, etc., rather than about the actual topic. It is a sure sign of a deteriorating discussion when even the people who most want to have the discussion can't find anything new to say.

When the juice has all been squeezed out of the lemon, nothing but rind is left. Making up for a lack of new information with a surplus of indignation is the opposite of what we want on HN.

Threads like this are a variant of the old joke about a group of people who know all the jokes by heart so they can just mention them by number and everybody laughs—except in this case the response is not laughter but anger, the list is not of jokes but outrages, and what gets mentioned is not numbers but catchphrases and talking points.

That showed up in the current thread very clearly, so this is actually a good example for people who want to understand this aspect of how we moderate HN.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Have you tried looking up videos from Germany in the 1930s? There r plenty of politicians and even normal citizens giving the same salute.