skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding some references

Shell Is Looking Forward. The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change. I went to a private planning meeting and took notes: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change...

Out of the 27 commercially operational CCS projects worldwide, 21 inject carbon dioxide into oil reservoirs to force out petroleum: https://www.landclimate.org/what-is-happening-with-carbon-ca...

Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reached $7 Trillion in 2022, an All-Time High: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022

67% to 75% of energy is wasted. See Rejected energy:https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/2023-10/U...

Exxon bets carbon will be the new oil: https://www.semafor.com/article/07/21/2023/exxon-carbon-denb...

27 DAC plants have been commissioned to date worldwide, capturing almost 0.01 Mt CO2/year: https://www.iea.org/energy-system/carbon-capture-utilisation...

A ton of {coal,petroleum,natural gas} emits {2.6,2.75,3.2} tons of CO2. 8.5 billion tons of coal burnt every year. 4000 billion cubic meters of Natural gas/year (~3000 billion tons - gemini), Global oil production is 4.5 billion metric tons/year. We'll need tens of millions of DAC plants!

Electrification is efficiency: The world will need less energy after the transition: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/electrification-en...
In the town where I grew up, the city code required every house to have a disposal in the kitchen. The code stated that the rule was intended to help control rats. Every house I've lived in had one, but coverage is spotty in cheap rental units. I've never had to throw food waste in the trash.
> young crypto-loving woman

Your alarm bells didn’t ring here?
ohhhh shit I did NOT get that
Hard to say that isn't the "right way" when they are making money with it.

If we're talking hypothetical right ways, I think what "social" media gets wrong is to envision an anarchy for its users. People are never equal in a society. A teenager isn't the same thing as an elder, nor is a doctor the same thing as a nurse.

I think I've read before that anarchy doesn't work because eventually people find someone who is reliable and naturally that person becomes their authority on the subject, creating an hierarchy.

Social media tries to put all users in the same bucket even when it's well-known that most users belong in the "never posts anything" bucket while very few users belong in the "power user" bucket. There are passive users and active users.

While hierarchies can become ugly fast, I don't think resigning on implementing them in any form is the right answer, specially now that everyone is on the Internet.
WinMTR is a thing, but you have to install it, ofcourse.
> There's nothing categorical about EVs that make them eat tires

Apart from the increased weight and torque
“Advocate for improved quality and access to services”

The “services” here is gender affirming care. What does it mean to “advocate”? Why are my tax dollars being used for this?

Yes it is vague, the vagueness just helps to strengthen the argument that this is probably a waste of taxpayer dollars.

> just $350,000

“ONLY 350k”

Dude 350k is a lot of money, and yeah, by canceling the contract we actually saved the American tax payers the remainder of the money. This is great news and we can use that money towards paying down the national debt or returning it to the hardworking American people.

I want none of my tax dollars to go towards any part of the description.

Your argument seems to be “it’s not very much money”. And you’re not understanding that we the American people do not want any of our tax money being wasted on this. This is why you lost the election, and in the long term you will continue to lose future elections if you don’t change the attitude towards this stuff.

Answer the question honestly, if a politician campaigned on promising to send taxpayer money for gender affirming care in foreign countries, do you think that they would get more or less votes on net because of it?

> so spending 0.0000002% of the federal budget

The only acceptable % of my tax dollars that should go to a foreign nation for trans care is 0%.

I pay a lot of taxes, and the signaling from the left is always that I need to “pay my fair share” and that taxes are so good because they are used to pay for roads and bridges and schools etc.

But when we actually start examining where the dollars are going we get into weird arguments about soft power and gender affirming care in foreign nations. And your arguments for paying our fair share don’t hold up at all anymore because these dollars are not even going to help Americans, this is basically charity for foreign countries. It’s easy to be charitable when you’re spending other people’s money. I bet you are not donating your own personal money to “advocate” for gender affirming care in Guatemala.
I guess but with elogind I have no problem running DEs without systemd. I have just never really come across systemd, having mostly used distros like alpine and gentoo
Oh good, this will influence all the rational policymakers in the government who are introducing common-sense legislation based on science.

OH WAIT
Your post reads like Debian is available with multiple licenses including BSD3
This is not true.

The page you posted is a list of licenses various software in the Debian distribution are released with.

Of course the parent's idea that Tesla using Debian means they have to release the source of anything is incorrect.
>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.

That's just not true. While the conclusion may be correct (about it not being feasible), it's something that would depend on more that just this first-principles analysis. Remember, the goal is only that the output is "not atmospheric CO2". So that means it could be CO2 somewhere else, or some lower energy state of the carbon, or even a higher energy state that isn't as high as the fuel that was burned to produce it.

And while, again, those methods might not be feasible, it depends on much more than the (false) premise that the only way involves completely reversing whatever process was originally used to extract the energy.
The creator of the knowledge argument, frank jackson, has since embraced materialism and therefore does not believe the knowledge argument is an impediment for unembodied AI.
Small children and 2 weeks of groceries for a family of 4-5? For 10ish miles one way? On the low end?

The healthcare point is because it means that a lot of elderly Americans have medical conditions that are unattended to, injuries that never healed properly, etc. It's common, particularly in the working class, to have your body be functionally wrecked by the time you're 55 (particularly for men). If we want the elderly to be active, we need the infrastructure to allow that rather than declaring that any health condition that won't kill you in the next two weeks is fine for the poor to deal with, actually. Heart conditions are really common, diabetes, COPD, poorly healed injuries for those who at one time worked blue collar professions, etc. Someone who lost their foot to diabetes isn't going to be cycling and sure, if they'd been more active 30 years ago that might not have happened, but it's the reality now.

I support public transit and biking infrastructure and totally agree it's great for disabled people as well - one thing I found interesting when I lived in a city with decent transit + universal healthcare is how many more physically disabled/elderly people I saw out and about going about their business.

I just find that the idea that we can just get rid of cars/that everybody who uses them just doesn't know any better overlooks a substantial amount of the population and their needs, and you need to address the needs first if you actually want to move away from the car. It has big 'everybody is a single, able bodied 25 year old man without dependents who lives in CA or the PNW' energy to assume those of us in cars are just not educated enough to know better. Like now even when I travel I don't like taking public transit because I'm immunocompromised and being jammed in with that many people is a health hazard. I'm not stupid. Neither is the exhausted mom with 2-3 kids and one hour to get across town to buy food for the week.
The rest of east Asia is currently developing at a faster pace (e.g. Vietnam), with increasing demand for goods and services. China provides, therefore their output is increasing.
An interesting peculiarity of the speedrunning community is that there is also a large component of "the community vs the game" mattering more than than "runner vs runner".
Looks like this patent is for capturing a virtual creature with a throwable item. The whole concept is obviously comical, but for additional laughs, this is an opportunity to check out how software patents are written. To quote:

> A non-limiting example of a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a game program of the present non-limiting example is executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus. The game program causes the computer to perform operations comprising: switching between at least a first and a second mode, based on a first operation input; and in the first mode, determining an aiming direction in a virtual space, based on a second operation input, and causing a player character to launch, in the aiming direction, an item that affects a field character disposed on a field in the virtual space, based on a third operation input, and when the item is launched at a place where the field character is disposed, giving an effect associated with the item to the field character, and in the second mode, determining the aiming direction, based on the second operation input, and causing the player character to launch, in the aiming direction, a fighting character that fights, based on the third operation input, and when the fighting character is launched at a place where the field character is disposed, causing the field character and the fighting character to start fighting against each other on the field.
smokeping is one of the best of these bunch, if not significantly more effort to setup.
Memory capacity in itself doesn't help so long as the model+context fits in memory (and and 8B parameter Q4 model should fit in a single 8 GB Pi).
I rarely use the brakes on my 6600lb CT because I'm usually using regenerative braking. I assume it's similar for the 7100lb Rivian. Now, if you're constantly launching at traffic lights, that's going to be some extra tire dust compared to slower ICEs.
And as soon as China annexes Taiwan...
It's not a long list, and among them is pumping sulfur in the stratosphere. It stops sounding so absurd compared to what's viable, nevermind politically.
I’m guessing it didn’t have much in front of it because the management endpoints were accessible from the public Internet. I think you mentioning the “well configured CDN” is key here. If there was a CDN in front of it, it wasn’t well configured.

BTW, I spent a lot of my career configuring load balancing, caches, proxies, sharding, and CDNs for Plone (a CMS that’s popular with governments) websites.
This is insane... we should not be throwing away good tech because of planned obsolescence and relying on groveling to customer service to use tech that we bought...
Sheesh people here are so negative. This is really fucking cool in my opinion. Sports leagues are suffering from declining viewership; it’s great to see them take risks and actually produce content that’s, you know, fun.
This was intuitively obvious already, but there's still great value is having proper research prove this too. Anyone building an argument on "carbon capture is more costly" so far had the burden of proving this, even if it is intuitively obvious. Now they can cite existing research and move on with their point.
Is there a back-of-the-napkin way to calculate how much memory a given model will take? Or what parameter/quantization model will fit in a given memory size?
OK but the alternative if you think Kubernetes is too much magic when you want to operate hundreds of clusters with tens of thousands of nodes is?

Some bash and Ansible and EC2? That is usually what Kubernetes haters suggest one does to simplify.
"Goku®" is a registered trademark of Toei Animation. [0]

They might want to consider changing the name or else they will risk a trademark complaint that GitHub will respond to from a Japanese company (Toei Animation) if it gets too popular.

[0] https://trademarks.justia.com/750/16/goku-75016440.html
I got some solar panels. Did the math and was impressed that they would pay for themselves in around just 2 years.

It's a bit sad that to make money you need money, but I do recommend anyone who can afford it to just install them.
Breaking News: Rear Admiral Patrick Gelsinger Removed From Post, Mere Hours Ahead Of Pacific Conflict
> The Vought/Musk group has fired 200,000 employees already

Were those full-time employees or contractors of some type?

Normally I would just look this up myself, but things have been moving so quickly that the info I find is all over the place and I haven't found a short list of sources to trust.

My understanding was that they "offered" early retirement, not sure how much of an option it was versus a demand. I had also heard they cancelled a lot of contract work, I wouldn't consider that being fired but yeah it does still impact people similarly.
The old "we can sell you the solution to the problem we sold you" trick.
Microsoft Excel Championship
Actually its implication: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implication
No, not even close. Nintendo is not a VC funded startup fighting for their survival. The Nintendo switch 2 is right around the corner and looks like it is going to sell extremely well, after the massive success of the switch 1

Patents are not that expensive to file. They are not diverting any meaningful amount of cash flow to this. This is a side activity of a few employees
EM is probably just mad that he wasn't rich early enough in the life of the computer to have a dedicated IRS machine for his taxes [1].

In all seriousness, of all the things happening at the moment, this seems the most expected. Under-staffing the IRS was part of the first term [2], and a general move of right leaning executive administrations. Honestly, I would even be against it, just as long as they also made the tax code more straightforward and more bulletproof. But that second step never seems to happen.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/2006/02/02/gates-irs-microsoft-cx_po_...

[2]: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
This also solves nothing. Just switching the rubber supply from one plant to another. And recycling some old tires in the process.

The heavy metals and other particles that pollute from tires are all still there.
haven’t measured but the 70b runs fine on an m1 macbook pro with 64gb of ram, although you can’t do much until it has finished
>You need extra energy to power the CCS, and to store the captured CO2.

>That's not practical on any airliner. One kilo of jet fuel produces about 3.5x its weight in CO2.

Carbon capture includes direct air capture, which doesn't come with any weight constraints.

>The solution to aviation is "fly less", also "don't air-ship fresh produce which can be moved by sea or road" (and if it can't, don't ship it).

Any solution that's predicated on "do it less" is going to be DOA politically. The options available voters aren't "electric planes" or "don't fly", they're "do something" or "do nothing". Telling people they're going to have to make upfront sacrifices for vague future benefits is going to be a losing proposition politically. Any solution to climate change is going to have to come from technological advances, not getting people to consume less. US emissions per capita has dropped more than 25% since 1990[1]. That's not because people ate 25% less meat or drove 25% less.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_th...
Blame the government. You shouldn't be allowed to patent game mechanics IMO.

Nitnendo has (had) a patent on ghost cars (showing a ghost of your former performance in Mario Kart)

Sega has (had) a patent on zooming between camera positions from Virtua Racing 1

Wizards of the Coast has a patent on card games similar to Magic the Gathering. I don't know what their actual patent is but I do know lots of companies paid them $$$$$$$$ for it to have a their own similar card game

these shouldn't be allowed imo
> CO2 is being (as in right now, yes) stored as a supercritical fluid inside saline aquifers deep under the seabed. These reservoirs are known to be leakproof since they've already been holding pressurized fluids for millions of years.

I simplified it a bit too much. CSS has been in use since the 1980s by the oil industry to push out more oil and natural gas from their wells. However, it is relatively small scale. I've seen proposals and demonstrations of saline aquifer projects, but I know of no currently operational such facility (and can not find it from light googling)

That the chambers could store methane or oil for 100k years is promising, sure, but it doesn't end there. Co2 is a smaller atom that has an easier time moving through small cracks. CO2 mixed with water is also a mild acid that can corrode different rock types.

Even if we had enough stable underground chambers, even if capturing the carbon and compressing it was free. How much could we even offset? We need a green grid first, not instead.
I like Gofundme for healthcare because it attaches a layer of meritocracy on top of the fight for survival. You need to be popular/pretty/hot enough to get traction. If you are not, you die.

Just to be clear, I’m being sarcastic.
Meh? I think there’s a good amount of 2021 unicorns with poor fundamentals raising on hype and froth over growth numbers but burning cash, but there’s also plenty of 2021 unicorns with good business fundamentals with very long runways. I don’t think any of the figures in the article are an indictment of software as a business model. The unit economics & distribution potential remains very strong. But what’s the point of doing an IPO in a market that’s clearly down on tech? You’d only want to do it for legitimacy or you need the cash and can’t get good terms from private investors. Much better move to chill and wait for the vibes to improve.

Note my perspective is colored by working at 2 SF unicorns that had (Airbnb) / have (Notion) a long duration from founding to IPO or from unicorn to IPO. Airbnb seems to be doing okay, so does Notion… neither business ever went off the deep end burning cash for quick growth numbers to wow speculative investors.
It seems based on OneChipMSX, that is from 2006. Just with that I wouldn't really know what I'm buying.
I was genuinely surprised that k8s turned out to actually be pretty straightforward and very sensible after years of never having anything to do with it and just hearing about it on the net. Turns out opinions are just like after all.

That being said, what people tend to build on top of that foundation is a somewhat different story.
> Edit: children have helped point out the precise notion of ethics - no exploit is unethical on its face, so long as it is disclosed

(Edit: I know I goofed here) Calling people children for correcting your assumptions breaks HN guidelines, please review: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Whether video game exploits are ethical was never a question.
Only interactive uses cases need high tps, if you just want a process running somewhere ingesting and synthesizing data it’s fine. It’s done when it’s done.
Uber Claims Transparency Law Complicates Rides and Takes Away Driver Perks
Planting trees is also a form of carbon capture. They literally capture carbon from the environment and release oxygen. It's as if they natural evolved to counterbalance animals.

Sadly, when people talk about "carbon capture" techniques, they're never talking about planting trees.
q4=4bits per weight

So Q4 8B would be ~4GB.
Don't exercise your body, become fat.

Don't exercise your brain, become stupid.

LLMs give us another excuse not to exercise our brains.
It still will work itself out. I have no sympathy for people or their families who get exactly what they voted for.

See also: Arab Americans who voted for Trump and now regret it because of his stated policy in Gaza.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/google-lays-off-staff-from...

Google did a major cut to its flutter team last year. It's a great framework, I've used it for several projects. But I doubt it's future...
Idk why anyone would find this surprising...
Here is a comment thread on HN from a while back with more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37727040

It really doesn’t sound all that infeasible, just would require some investment to build momentum.
How to think computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything
I get that Diplomacy feeling where if you pull off cheating, good, it's part of the game. Like insider trading, or when I'd play the banker in monopoly and sleight-of-hand. Ledgerdemain, if you will
I'm not sure if this will make you feel any better, but there's an interesting mathematical corner case at work with Norton's Dome that's responsible for the breakdown in the intuition you're expressing in (1).

You could formalize this intuition as the statement that, if I'm trying to describe a function f(t) and I know (a) the value of f and its derivative at t=0 along with (b) a second-order differential equation that f has to satisfy, this should be enough to nail down the entire function.

A big theorem, which many people just call something like "existence and uniqueness of solutions of ordinary differential equations", says that in most ordinary situations this is indeed true, and basically for the reason you probably intuitively think: you can imagine using the differential equation to make tiny "updates" to the value of f to move a little bit forward in time, and take the limit as the size of your time increment goes to zero. (You can read more about it in this somewhat technical Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard%E2%80%93Lindel%C3%B6f_t....)

But there is a condition on the theorem which limits its scope: the right side of the differential equation has to be something called "Lipschitz continuous". The vast majority of differential equations that appear in Newtonian physics satisfy this condition, but the equation you get in the Norton's Dome example doesn't, and this is what's responsible for the lack of uniqueness in the solution. It turns out that there are many different trajectories for the particle that satisfy both the initial condition and the differential equation.

What relevance does this have to the actual universe? Personally, I think very little; it's a fact about a model of physics, not a fact about the actual universe. There are all sorts of reasons why you can't literally build Norton's Dome: matter is not actually continuous because it's made of atoms, and classical physics isn't an exact model of the universe anyway. But it's interesting to see that a feature of Newtonian physics that we usually take for granted isn't actually always true.
It would be interesting if government moved toward some kind of open source contributor model where any engineer could just pick up some issue and solve it.
I wonder how many Roblox games might exist as prior art. Pet Simulator and Fishing simulator come to mind, as do many thousands of other hatching / catching games on Roblox.
Are you telling me that you're against good clean American coal?! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/trump-war-on...

(BTW I agree with you, but the current political climate - and not only in the US - seems to go in the entirely wrong direction)