skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because we've reached an especially toxic phase in the history of AI. A lot of companies have ploughed billions of dollars into the dream of being able to replace human workers with machines, and they are desperate to make us believe it's going to work - if only so they can cash out their investments while the stocks are still high."

Over its short history so far we have learned that Silicon Valley's only viable "business model" is data collection, surveillance and online ad services. "AI", i.e., next generation autocomplete, can work for this in the same way that a "web browser" or a "search engine" did. In the end, no one pays for a license to use it. But it serves a middleman surveillance "business model" that solicits ad spend and operates in secrecy. When this "business model" falters, for example because computer use and ad spend stagnates or shrinks, then Silicon Valley's human workers are not "needed". Large numbers of these human workers are paid from investment capital or ad spend, not from fees for services or the sale of products.

Perhaps the question is not whether "AI" can "replace" Silicon Valley's human workers. Perhaps the question is whether the online ads "industry" is sustainable.
Regenerative braking FTW!
You can plant trees (or any plant really as long as they grow fast) and then bury it so that the carbon won't get released or at least very slowly. There's an older thread discussing this idea [1].

CCS would dispose the CO2 deep underground, like where natural gas is usually stored or extracted from. Given the cost of developing natural gas storage facilities, my hunch is that CCS is more of way of not having to deal with carbon emissions today.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32794424
Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5
> It's not a particularly complex or surprising "ethics" though

Yes, you are mostly right, but it’s still interesting (and positive!) that the community landed on an “anything goes so long as you are honest” set of norms.

As someone without much (well, any) interaction with speedrunning communities, it’s still fun to see how other internet communities have codified or tacitly established their operating procedures, expectations, norms etc.
New Holistic Apple Health Study
Maybe, but that still isn’t solving the root of the problem. There are a ton of ways in which cars harm us — exhaust, brake dust, tire dust, etc. The only actual solution is to reduce car usage.
> what the fuck did we forget?

That our sector of people is likely now the minority on Reddit, and the dynamics required to replicate the e.g Digg migration today might not exist.
$15.99 for 1984? Lol, talk about over priced.

In UK and EU book is already in public domain.
I don't understand how people don't realize memecoins are a Ponzi scheme
You wouldn’t but many of the largest users of these frameworks are actually e-commerce sites, not applications.
I'm trying to wrap my head around your logic. So, I'll go step by step to make sure I get it.

If you were able to perfectly balance the ball on a perfectly constructed dome, blah blah, would the ball stay static indefinitely or would it start rolling down some arbitrary path?
Could someone please explain how could carbon capture ever work? To me it looks as if it is a mathematically impossible thing: if you produce energy by releasing carbon, you would need to expend even more energy to capture the same carbon back, so it is impossible — there’s no way to produce required energy to do so. And if you had such an huge and cheap energy source for carbon capture, you wouldn’t burn carbon in the first place — you’d use that energy source instead.

What am I missing? Am I stupid, or the people who talk about carbon capture are ridiculously dishonest?
Which kind of content would get people to pay? Certainly not memes and random youtube links.

An obvious one would be porn, but then why would one pay for it on reddit as opposed to one of the existing platforms?
As you add more trees (and the globe continues to get hotter), the risk of forest fires increases. In theory you are correct that we could just keep increasing tree amount, but in practice that will be difficult in a lot of the world as it gets hotter. Trees (and algae) are great capture tech, but horrible long term storage tech. There are currently interesting proposals on how to long term store wood and other biomass for sequestration but I'm unsure if any company is doing them at scale yet. Off the top of my head there is burying the biomass in mines, and putting biomass in a chemical bath that turns it's CO2 into some form of storable liquid and then storing that. I can only find a link for one of the two after quick googling.

https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1750-0...
Distributed-Llama: Connect home devices into a cluster for LLM inference
That is only because the authors chose the amazon exclusive option. From what I've read, this is declining in popularity anyway. If there are more good alternatives, self-publishing authors will change their preference.
I wonder how much more. And if the increase is offset by the reduced exhaust, brake dust, oil leaks, and pollution from oil and gas production and distribution.
This is kind of a silly analysis. Solar power is already the cheapest source of electricity ever created by man per kwh. The problem is geography, storage capacity, and load planning.

If we're talking purely about future hypotheticals, who's to know if carbon scrubbers are less cost effective than city-sized lithium storage facilities.
Hey fellow k8s+ceph on bare metaler! We only have a 13 machine rack and 350tb of raw storage. No major issues with ceph after 16.x and all nvme storage though.
Too many people high on their own supply.

I would gladly work for less money for a small company doing something valuable in the real world with realistic ideas about steady, healthy growth. They're tough to find though.
Not the original poster you're replying to, but this reads like a frustrated meta-analysis of someone's opinions, dismissed with ad-hominems, and avoidant of possibly uncomfortable counter-points.

It's more of a comparative literature analysis than a debate reply, if I am honest.

You also didn't reply to almost any of the points made against DEI above, sticking to pre-existing talking points.
Norton’s dome is a valid paradox, in the sense that the math really does admit two valid equations of motion. The link you provided doesn’t dispute that fact (other than commenters pointing out that you need a proportionality constant to make the units work out).
My favorite intuitive explanation for the presence of the paradox is well summarized by the Wikipedia article on the dome: “To see that all these equations of motion are physically possible solutions, it's helpful to use the time reversibility of Newtonian mechanics. It is possible to roll a ball up the dome in such a way that it reaches the apex in finite time and with zero energy, and stops there. By time-reversal, it is a valid solution for the ball to rest at the top for a while and then roll down in any one direction.”
so if they're good, they're books. if not, they're not _really_ books.
Yes. All of human culture is like this.

When you do something nobody did before or are faced with a moral dilemma you've no prior experience with it's often unclear whether what's "Good" and what's "Bad" in some general sense and so the reaction may be based on "vibes".

Dick Fosbury's weird jumping style? No rule against that, but equally the committee could have seen it and said "No, that's not OK" and forbidden it by the next event. They did not, Dick seems like an athlete, this is a new technique, fine by us - and today everybody serious uses this style (the "Fosbury Flop") or one based on it for jumping.

Modern Contract Law mostly comes back to "Carlill v Carbolic Smokeball Co" in the 19th century. This is about a quack medicine (Carbolic Smokeballs don't prevent Influenza) but the legal question was: If you specifically advertise that if people do a thing (use your Carbolic Smokeballs) and an event happens (a customer catches Influenza, "flu") you will pay them a lot of money (£100 in the 1890s) - well can the advertiser say they didn't mean it when asked for the money? Mrs Carlill seems like a nice lady, everybody hates people selling quack medicine, so obvious Carlill wins - but setting out explicitly why she wins forms the basis of an important part of modern civil law. That advert is an Offer, the choice to buy and use the Carbolic Smokeballs was Acceptance, she caught flu, therefore now Carbolic Smokeball Co. owe Mrs Carlill £100.

If you've ever heard about why people would buy a seemingly worthless thing for $1, or about the peppercorn rents, or wondered why you're told you "agreed" to a bunch of legal stuff you don't care about and haven't actually read - that all comes back to Carlill v Carbolic Smokeball Co. Maybe if she'd been an awful smug Karen trying to get paid for moaning and they were selling a pretty good (but not 100% effective) cure for flu, judges would have instead figured out why she does not get paid and our case law would have turned out very differently.

[Edited to fix typo]
It's wrong to compare AI to the Space Race
Is there an awesome-{}-tools list of these somewhere by chance?
Someone else pointed it out in a different way. Forrest only captures carbon as it grows. A fully grown forest is carbon neutral. Specific type of march land and oceans are the only ecosystems that properly capture and store carbon continuously.

So we need to chop the trees down again and plant new ones. Which is more feasible than technological carbon capture, but still a drop in the bucket of what is needed.
No, it's an actual military strategy, with lots of historical examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception.

Also check out the etymology of the Molotov Cocktail. While Finland was bombed by the Russians, Molotov was saying on Soviet state radio that the bombing missions over Finland were actually "airborne humanitarian food deliveries" for their "starving" neighbors.

Americans, especially some of the pro-Russian republicans should pick up a history book or two, to figure out why they're cheering for. It's a 'same shit, different assholes' type of situation, an expansionist cruel society which has evolved very little over the past centuries.
For bash, you may be able to do something like:

function set_histfile {
export HISTFILE="$HOME/.bash_history_$(pwd | tr '/' '_')"
}

PROMPT_COMMAND="set_histfile; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

There may be other ways, but probably can't do it without PROMPT_COMMAND.

Someone else mentioned "direnv", too.
I have a closed loop coding agent working here, you can try it out: https://mycoder.ai
I meant as WalterBright, and the school wasn’t in New Orleans.
100%, I was talking specifically about just tree planting. Trees are great capture tech, but horrible storage tech, so tree planting alone is not a good carbon capture solution. Biomass burial is (imo) a great and relatively simple solution at the moment because we have a bunch of empty mines to use. There is also research being done on putting biomass in a chemical bath that turns it's CO2 into some form of storable liquid and then storing that, but I can't find a link for it at the moment.
Abstract mathematical concepts can eventually be traced back to simple integers, which are traced back to an experience of things in the world (a toddler learns to count 1, 2, 3).

And it is precisely because higher mathematics is so far abstracted away from physical experience is the reason why many people struggle with it.

Besides, many great mathematicians have explained their knowledge as an "experience" even "spiritual experience". Not all experiences are physical. Ramanujan described his experience of mathematics as lights and sounds and patterns, and this is common among geniuses.

> you need some basic concepts

Agreed. All basic concepts are an experience.
Oh, sorry. Didn’t realize you meant your kindle library. I thought you were talking about borrowing ebooks from your public library.
For books from small and specialty presses, I like to buy the ebook from the publisher because they'll often sell you a copy without DRM. Mind you, this has been true for tech presses and small companies but not for university presses and imprints attached to big publishing houses.

Humble Bundles (if you get lucky and find a good one) are also usually just DRM-free files in a zip archive. I've seen more sci-fi bundles lately (e.g., they had bundles of the complete works of John Scalzi, V.E. Schwab, and Ursula K LeGuin last year), and I think they usually have some anime bundle on offer.

Kobo is also a pretty complete bookstore, and they tend to match a lot of the "1.99 ebook today only!" sales that Amazon runs. I do most of my reading on one of their devices becaus you can sync PDFs/ePubs (via a USB cable or Dropbox) and log in directly to Pocket (for web pages) and OverDrive (for library books).

I saw Bookshop.org also sells ebooks, but their marketing copy ("read right in your web browser, or download our iPhone or Android apps for the full reading experience") makes it sound like they built a closed platform and don't sell files.
Tried Andrej Karpathy's latest video -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI

It said "too long video"

Exactly, duh ;D
> I couldn’t tell if the study found that car brakes are more harmful than exhausts, or that car brake chemicals are more harmful than exhaust fumes

None of these.

The actual linked study found that the presence of specific metal particulates (copper, zinc and iron), which are found in modern brake dust, correlates with increase risk of asthma and allergy in kids.

I'm personally wondering if the article linked the wrong article? Because the article describes the study as "researchers grew human lung cells in a lab and exposed them to dust from car brakes and from diesel tailpipes", but the linked study is a cohort study of correlation, that doesn't involve any experimental manipulation.
The carbon dioxide is captured and stored, the actual carbon isn't returned to whatever form it was before burning. So theoretically it _can_ work (but, as it turns out, it still doesn't make sense).
Would it be possible to provide software under a license which is only valid if the manufacturer cannot be held liable for defects? That is, just turn the problematic scenario into copyright infringement.

Seems to me this would be perfectly enforceable in the US, but EU laws often feel like they'd rather force software authors to take on liability and not be able to opt out of the whole problem. I'm unfamiliar with this area of law.

I'm unsure if this modification would still qualify as Free software (as defined by FSF)... It would seem to interfere with Freedom 0 in a way that isn't really obvious. The legal environment would constrain what the software could be used for, because the license would terminate in case the author would be liable for defects.
It's definitely a problem for tennis players.

For society, which kind of sport people play on those courts doesn't matter.
> (VC as an asset class has poor returns, VC funds make their fees throwing darts pretending to be thought leaders when it’s mostly luck, etc)

It's like the world declaring someone World's Greatest Coin Flipper after and not before that person flips a coin 12 heads in a row.
E-bikes are unusable at this time of year. It needs to stand stably on it's own to not kill me the instant some ice appears (so, four wheels) and have an enclosed cabin to stop frostbite.
personal related example: my 12 year old son is a terrible speller; whenever I've tried to encourage him to improve in it, he's like "why do I need to know how to spell, I just use grammarly".

And so we raise a next generation who grow up with AI and see no more value in learning a host of knowledge skills.
> Astros didn’t break the agreed upon rules.

They did. Using electronic devices to communicate during a game (I guess besides the dugout phone) is banned. They were watching the video feed in the clubhouse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Astros_sign_stealing...
MSX peeps know what onechipmsx is and who would buy this if not a fan of that ancient machine?
They need to feel the pain first. If there is a major economic issue, folks will sit up and take notice. I don't wish that, but it is unfortunately the only thing that might prevent this calamity.

When Andrew Jackson defied the supreme court, it took congress to eventually rein him in, but that did not stop the Trail of Tears from happening.
This is a profoundly powerful statement to me. “But it was never going to be me”.

This guy is clearly one of our best, brightest and bravest given his history of service. What a loss for this country.
My Kobo Libra Colour combined with Kavita (a much saner organization than the mess that is calibre), Tailscale (OPDS access to Kavita from anywhere) , and KoReader (power user reader for the perfect reading experience that supports every format I have tried) has transformed my reading. I only use Calibre now for initially adding the metadata.

I haven't read and completed so many books since I was a kid with unlimited free time. The color is perfectly fine for books that are mostly text with the occasional image. Sadly I just feel like I'd be missing out if I started putting color manga, books with a focus on photography, etc. Those still go to my iPad pro but I find it a lot less convenient to read on there.
When trees die, they’re consumed by fungi, and the carbon is sequestered in humus (soil). That’s totally fine, and in fact is an important reason to ensure that planted forests have a fungal culture so this decomposition process occurs properly.

You’re right about fire releasing carbon. But even after devastating fires, forests don’t burn completely and plenty of plant matter remains. Even ash and soot is still sequestered carbon, not to mention charred wood even if the tree doesn’t survive.
Though frankly at a beginner level it feels like you're constantly chasing the ball, which is the same complaint I have with learning tennis.
As they should, provided the consumer is paying and using the carbon.

Pay an airline to take you somewhere and produce carbon, pay someone to remove that carbon.
We need to have a battery checklist equivalent for carbon capture:

[ ] how much carbon is captured by KW?

[ ] are there expected improvement in the technology in the future 30 years?

[ ] and what do physicists say about it?

[ ] is it more efficient than photosynthesis?

[ ] how mature is the technology compared to other methods?

[ ] who funds it?
Actual library that lends me ebooks (Austin). The library uses Overdrive (Libby) and anything provided in the Kindle format can't be downloaded directly from the Library's interface. You have to click a "Read now with Kindle" button which redirects you to Amazon, where you have to click "Get Library Book" directly from Amazon.com.

Epub can be downloaded directly from the library, but these have to be converted into a Kindle compatible format. I'm also unsure if every digital book copy has Epub as a format, since there are some digital copies that don't have Kindle format.

This has been true of all public digital libraries I've used in the past 10 years (Houston, Arlington, Fort Worth)
It's an entirely nonsense argument. Akin to arguing that algebra is nondeterministic with "zero divided by zero is a random number, because any number times zero is zero".

In the case of classical physics, we come to a singularity in which there are several solutions for how the system resolves. This doesn't make classical physics nondeterministic, this simply means if you come to such a solution, then classical physics have no answer for what happens next.
Interesting, I have the opposite experience: most folks I know who gamble think they will win. I’m pretty sure some even think they are winning while actively losing.

Edit: I looked for more information online and this resonates, those who don’t know if they will win at least think it is their only shot at a better life.
That's a great idea. And since it'll be limited to in town use, something narrower might be useful - maybe give it two wheels instead of four? That'd be huge for reducing weight and increasing range. And for suitable geographic areas, it might even be possible to make one light enough that it could be powered by the rider, no external power source required!

Then, with the reduction in width required for these futuristic two wheeled eco-machines, we could utilize some of the road space freed up for an even more efficient way to move people around a semi densely populated area. If only we could invent a way to allow multiple people traveling on similar routes to share a common vehicle, then we'd be able to split the capital and ongoing usage costs among many different people, reducing costs for everyone.

It's a shame, really. If only we had the technology...
That's only true under certain circumstances. Sometimes the biomass accumulation is permanent.

My house was built in the 60's. The basement recently started flooding. While digging a drain to fix the problem I uncovered evidence that ground level used to be 18 inches lower than it is now. 60 years of deciduous tree action created enough new soil to change how the water flows... Instead of going around my house now it goes through.

Trees are not seen as a solution because they don't represent a market opportunity. You can make millions selling EV's, how are you going to make money with trees?

If we actually wanted to fix this, rather than using it as marketing spin, I figure we'd be working on ways to replace deserts with forests and then on ways to ensure that whatever soil accumulation trick my tree is doing is also happening in those forests. (And golly I wish we would, I've been taking biology classes in this direction and recent political events have me thinking that the I've got some significant headwinds here).
NASA's Webb Just Found Something Unexpected Beyond Neptune
Is it possible to just pump a slurry of corn and various pulp products into dead oil wells?
Who's going to pay for carbon capture? Definitely not the current polluters who benefit from fossil fuel prices that don't include the cost to clean that up. This is like a fossil fuel subsidy from a debt left to someone else to pay.
I love the casual "If that didn’t bother you before, it will bother you through the rest of this article" thrown in there
"Fastest completion of an RPG videogame?" You can beat Pokémon Blue in ~1 minute, and I'm sure there are countless other similar examples.

Guinness being in this area at all is bizarre to me, but it probably sells books.
I was! Responded in a comment below. The public library serves the digital books directly through Amazon.

Either I'm missing something more obvious or the system I've seen libraries use for digital books over the past 10 years is more uncommon than I realized.
Thank you and yeah this is something I also have on mind