skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They never actually had that surplus, it was projected revenue. The projections were wrong - they extrapolated, then planned spending around that. Source: https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/10/california-budget-...
According to this 2020 paper, "resuspended" particulate matter may be a major, previously unaccounted-for contributor to pollution from roads.

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/8/2851

>Traffic-related resuspended dust is particulate matter, previously deposited on the surface of roadways that becomes resuspended into the air by the movement of traffic.

>Results show that the inclusion of resuspended dust in the emission and dispersion modeling chain increases prediction of near-road PM2.5 concentrations by up to 74%.

The weight, speed, and volume of traffic, are therefore considerable factors even beyond the pollutants the vehicles leave behind.
Aluminium and glass. But wow is it expensive.
> 99% of websites don't need to be "highly interactive apps" like Figma or Google Docs.

That's highly conservative; of all the react apps I have come across professionally exactly zero needed React.
this looks dope, I'm going to have to take a closer look now that I've heard of it. Does seem the project is in danger of being sunset unless new support comes in the way of the developer:

> TLDR: I am looking for new developers and maintainers for Takahē who want to help in exchange for my mentorship, or I'll have to sunset the project.

https://aeracode.org/2023/11/06/life-critical-side-projects/

The repo is still being updated so it doesn't look like it's in too much danger:

https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe/commits/main/
> as soon as you get to about 25-30mph you need impact protection, and the design constraints quickly escalate to "absolutely no smaller than a Fiat 500".

The real problem here is that as soon as you need impact protection, you get four wheels, and then it's classified as a car instead of a motorcycle and the government safety standards for cars de facto require "absolutely no smaller than a Fiat 500".

What would be interesting is to change the definition of "motorcycle" from "has fewer than 4 wheels" to "has fewer than 3 seats" and see what happens.
The former have the mentality of being independent, at the cost of their ability to produce a result as quickly. The latter are happy to be dependent, because the result is more important than the means. Obviously this is a spectrum.
This is more informative:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24155545/bird-flu-vaccine...

>> But, Cardona explained, the industry no longer relies on diagnosing sick poultry based on visible signs and symptoms but on strict protocols that utilize molecular testing.

>> “Markets have been negotiated based on not using vaccination ... based on, frankly, older data [that] there could be a chance that you would import the virus in an animal or in a product that has vaccine in it,” Cardona said.

Seems like vaccination is more of a cost or negotiation issue:

>> The National Turkey Federation says unilateral vaccination “would have a severe impact on exports” but that it has urged — and continues to urge — the federal government to “move as rapidly as possible to try to develop new agreements” with trading partners.

And it seems we already vaccinate chickens?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9890037/#:~:text=Active%20im...
That's why I prefer gameplays on Nethack/Slashem, they are pretty hard to either fake or cheat in.

You can replay these online, or with TTYREC. Also, the fanbase has values, the gameplay has conducts to reflect what kind of behaviour did you follow ingame.

You can play as a vegetarian, or as a pacifist, letting your pet bash and bite everyone.

OFC locally they can hack the game, but these are mostly done from developers to test the game, not for "serious" gameplays.
? Alexander is not Aristotle?!
I'd like to take a dig into this notion of "purpose" and "primary goal." To me, LLMs are a phenomenon. They have not intrinsic purpose or goal -- they just are.

Purposes and goals come from you and me. An LLM is a tool, and we get to decide what the tool is good for or how to use it.

If you want "a smart creative," there's nothing wrong with that. It's as good a purpose or goal as any.

However for me I don't want an LLM to try to be "a smart creative." I instead want it to give me cold, hard facts in precisely the format I want them, in precisely the context I am interested in, and with precisely the conciseness that I require to make a specific decision or learn a specific thing. Traditional web search can eventually get me what I want, but I have to sift through the cruft and make associations among a plethora of content to get to the meat of what I want.

I've found that using a good web search (Kagi) together with an LLM processing the results has given me information I needed and then pointed to the sources so I can validate those statements. I wouldn't exactly characterize those results as a "simple" summary. They're usually synthesizing a variety of sources to generate something that no one source had, exactly.
The ability to reason isn't lost, it's replaced with motivated reasoning.

They are tangentially pursing <some political goal I agree with>, thereby I will latch onto <whatever implausible deniability they have for what they are doing>.
you cannot be serious. disease among husbanded animal populations has been a problem since mankind began keeping animals. before vaccines, the only options available were cleanliness, inoculation, and culling, to include killing entire herds when even a single individual was found to carry a disease.

https://ourworldindata.org/how-rinderpest-was-eradicated
I must be missing something, but FAIR is an insurer of last resort backstopped by the insurance companies who refused to sell risky policies in the first place?
I'm not bullish on humanoid robots because people are biological organisms who like moving their bodies and interacting with other people.

The manufacture of robots that do tasks for us is grade school logic, the same type of thinking that tried to bring us VR headsets the year after everybody spent two years in isolation, not talking to anyone. Have these decision makers ever read a book? Are they getting their business ideas from sci-fi, and not a tangible understanding of reality?

They're trying to upend millions of years of physiology so we can sit on a couch while we let an ugly robot into our home so it can dust. Beyond a joke.
SF had private shuttles for mass transit a few years ago! I'm not sure if it was a pandemic casualty or something else made them go away.

And to this day large employers in the Bay Area run private shuttles for their employees, to get around the terrible balkanization of transit systems in the US.

I would definitely like to see more. But the biggest impediment to that are the cultural and legal status quo of car-dependent urban design, which mightily resists change. At the state and local levels I'm advocating for massive change to planning laws to make density possible, which makes mass transit possible, but it's a long slog and slow and not making much progress.
Yeah, I think this is in large part due to TwoSetViolin, a classical music YouTuber duo who did a hilarious roast of this performance, as well as the whole concept of "fastest performance". See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsvaCU6i1M for the original video.
For the most part, no. They just don’t want to be treated like some sort of lesser human being.

It’s a difficult problem. People get sick of being told 300x “why don’t you just do x”
In the US at least, I'm not sure what "regular liability insurance" means. Might be something on a homeowner's policy and something on auto insurance but it's probably not something the average person necessarily has.
Thank you. That said, CFR’s denominator is those who show up to a hospital in bad enough shape to be tested for H5N1. All we can conclude is this appears more deadly than the flu. That’s concerning, but not what I’d consider “very deadly.”
Lighters cars, electric bikes, more trains on steel tracks...
P8GO - TikTok-Like App for Playing PICO-8 Games
"foods with low nutritional value but high energy density" is not the definition of UPFs that I've seen most often. The definition I most see is the NOVA classification. NOVA doesn't require a UPF food to be of low nutritional value or high energy density.

Also the GOP opposed mere taxes on sugary drinks but now they want to ban UPFs? I don't believe it.
FWIW, I completely misinterpreted their comment too. I thought they were talking about actual young people and the intersection of innocence and ethics or something. Never would have connected it to "child comments."
I’m not sure what you’re actually trying to ask here.

Are ai advancements being OVERLY hyped? Yes. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to them, though.

Are ai advancements being hyped by paid ai hype shills? My guess would be yes. Again, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to them.

Will the max usage end up being as high as current hypers are hyping? Unknowable. There is SOME amount of false hype, but also SOME amount of meat to the hype, and SOME amount of continued improvement in ai abilities. If ai abilities (not just underlying model strength, but also the ability to harness models in real use cases) stopped increasing today, then the total realized gain from AI would fall short of existing hype. If ai abilities continue to increase, then who knows when the hype bubble will pop.

Either way, when the hype bubble DOES pop, it will fail to reach the usefulness of peak hype, but that “when” could be tomorrow or could be after 10x improvement in actual usefulness.
"But really it doesn't matter. Air transport is 2.5% of global CO2."

Because most people still cannot afford flying. If the world gets richer, more people want the privilege of flying. And it is not like we have an excess budget of CO2. Everything we reduce helps, so a carbon tax on jet fuel might be a good start. That is a low hanging fruit.

Spreading nuclear reactors worldwide really is not. That would be a very hard fruit, with lots of potential side effects. Or do you think bangladesh will build to standards you think are safe?
Some of us also worry about energy consumption
Or leave a PET water bottle in the car.
The bamboo will be glued together with something like polyurethane though. That makes up a smaller percentage of the board of course.
> Nping mean NB Ping

What does NB Ping mean?
Not only that, measurably improves coding ability too (according to our tests finetuning llama 2).

Back in 2023 we sold a training dataset (~500B tokens but we could have gen more) with exactly this kind of data. The dataset was a bunch of ~1-3KB text file examples with a code snippet, then we would show some variable values when the program was at line X, then ask the LLM to predict some more print statements at line Y.

If you wanted to train on stack traces or control flow graphs we offered that too.

Our mvp used rr to attach to large programs like Excel and Chrome, then used a heuristic to filter samples for more "interesting" examples. The theory at the time was sure LLMs can learn a few information theory bits from many noisy examples, but why not spend a little intelligence on our end and knock out a couple low hanging "noise" sources. We used a prolog engine to find traces where all the information required to predict the final memory address was present in the initial program description. This turned out not to matter too much because the LLM would learn from non deterministic examples too (shrug). Eventually we ended up with a monkey patched chromium browser wandering around the internet to collect javascript examples.

We sold datasets, and we also offered an on-prem agent where you could generate training examples on demand using the spare CPU cycles on GPU nodes.

It seemed like a beautiful idea at the time but sputtered out because every serious outfit we talked to would ask a bunch of questions and seemed to come to the conclusion that they would rather do it in house.

I would bet dollars to donuts that most of the AI scraping load that people are complaining about has nothing to do with grabbing the text content of their forum and more to do with executing their javascript.

Speaking from experience: we didn't really understand V8 internals so we relied on continuous navigation and reloading the page to drive more execution rather than something smarter: snapshotting or other more fine grained manipulation of VM state. Our training data harvesting bot would reload web pages over and over to take more samples rather than do something more efficient with isolate snapshots.

Edit: email in my profile if anyone wants to talk about this. I'm feeling a wave of nostalgia thinking about this project again. Despite commercial failure, it was arrestingly/dangerously interesting.
It didn't work out well...

"FAIR Plan has about $300 billion in total exposure, meaning how much they actually insure, and about $200 million in the bank,"
- March 2024

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-fair-pl...
> Everything that goes into our bodies gets filtered through our livers and kidneys, so maybe it’s not a big surprise that bits of plastic find their way into those organs. Same with our hearts; microplastics end up in our blood and can get stuck in our clogged arteries.

> But our brains are designed to keep things out ... researchers behind the brain plastics study think the tiny shards of plastic hitch a ride on fat molecules to get [past the blood-brain barrier] inside brain cells ... The researchers estimated that the average brain studied had about seven grams of microplastics in it.

Having 7g of _anything_ foreign inside my brain seems like cause for concern to me.
he gets it on that call.... then he gets pissed off about it all over the next few months after he's forgotten our call about it. then he complains about it on the phone to me. then i remind him, then he remembers or i explain it again.

repeat.
Is this similar to, using nixos-rebuild and target a second machine?

I use my laptop's nixos-rebuild and push a new generation to another device. The 2nd device doesn't have the config, so it won't be able to build it.
For these devices, I don't want the config to be on the 2nd device.
I refer you to BMJ 2018;363:k5094, "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"

Conclusion: "Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention."

It's hard to scientifically prove some things!
> Why did you change the subject?

I didn’t. You cited pharmaceutical profit motive as a reason to suspect vaccines. I’m pointing out that there is a similar motivation in pushing antivax material. The unregulated industry ruthlessly exploiting the masses is more one than the other.
The missing Duke Nukem xpack
Firing an employee and then begging them to come back because of how essential they are? Art of the deal.
I keep waiting for people in less risky parts of California ask why they're paying more for insurance and power so that people can live in risky, fire-prone hills and mountains, but it doesn't seem to be happening.
True in the most trivial sense, but no, not really.

Eating cotton for breakfast is being considered on HN at the moment.
Being able to merge code is important, distributed repositories is nice but nobody switched to get that.

Apart from making merging much much less painful, the huge selling point was that SVN was extremely slow. Changing branches required chatting with the server in most cases, and could take a minute or two. You couldn't just switch back and forth between branches.
That will be a fun set of experiments.

As far as I'm aware, we currently have no evidence to suggest whether the appropriate model for this protein accumulation is more "it's like a cancer growing on your organ" or "it's like a scab growing over an open wound".

Are scabs markers of injury? Of course.

Could we reduce injuries by preventing the development of scabs? No, that's a new horrifying medical condition called hemophilia. In the general case, it's rapidly fatal.

This is something that really bothers me about the current craze for suppressing inflammation. In that case, we already know that inflammation is like scabs, a defensive reaction against some other problem. For Alzheimer's, we don't know anything.
To OP who got insta flagged for harmless snark in their reply:

I'm not saying that you need need to accredited to make good critiques or understand a field, also I'm not saying that science communicators are "bad" or that academia doesn't have rot to critique.

My distrust comes from daily uploads with Mr. Beast tier thumbnails and titles like the one being discussed or 'What is “gravitic propulsion” and could the US government hide it?', jumping the bandwagon on AI news, etc. She's acts like a Youtuber, so I judge her like I would a Youtuber. The whole email is fishy, and is a perfect fit to make a clickbait video in no time for the daily schedule, so I don't trust the email. This isn't some academic making dry in-depth blogposts when they have free time and posting an anonymized email from a colleague.
Her job is to make viral videos constantly, her income depends on this, so my skepticism is higher.
Geez, it's almost like Russia handed them a priority checklist of organizations that needed to go toothless as soon as possible. CIA influence in Europe, aid to Ukraine, nuclear strike capability...
> wind (which froze up, albeit not as much as the natgas)

Just a note about how much wind froze up in Texas: wind outperformed projected supply for the cold snap.
I think the parent is talking about banning them specifically in pedestrians and cycling lanes. We currently ban motorcycles and cars from using them, presumably because it’s dangerous to pedestrians.
"Kubernetes is etcd, apiserver, and controllers....Sure it's a lot of YAML but I don't understand the rep."

Sir, I upvoted you for your wonderful sense of humour.
Don't. Stop normalizing and/or making simple these groups actions. Look. Not all things need be made. In point of fact, some should pointedly not. Systems that don't respect the sovereignty of the user are exactly the types of things we should not be enabling.
Which comes out 200lb lighter than a Toyota Highlander hybrid.
The vaccine causes your type of health problem with probability p, and someone who didn't take the vaccine during the pandemic would've developed health problems of similar severity with probability q. The vast evidence shows that p is orders of magnitude smaller than q. And you're saying that you would've preferred not to take the vaccine?
Cheap branches are important. Git is no worse and in most cases far better than any other VCS when it comes to conflicts.

If you are getting conflicts over and over you should change your pattern of use to stop causing them, it's quite possible to do.
people are asking, but can't do anything without major power shift in state government.
And this has what to to with variants?
Thanks, WinMTR seems like exactly the sort of thing I was looking for back then, not sure why it didn't come up in our searches at the time.
https://archive.ph/kMBm1
I used Darcs a long time ago and what I remember was that because it reordered patches, it was actually quite difficult to do a bisect to find a patch that broke a build. Unlike git where you can completely characterize a build with the HEAD sha, darcs didn’t really have that concept and it was very tricky to figure out what actually went into a particular build.

It didn’t really seem to me at the time like this was an appropriate VCS for a team of developers using CI.
My path was cvs -> svn -> arch -> darcs -> hg -> git

I liked arch. I loved darcs, but it blew up on me.

I liked hg, but it was clear that git was going to win, so I capitulated.

Honestly, the worst thing I can say about git is that it's always good enough.

Yes, the CLUI has historically been a dog's breakfast. It seems like some slow improvements are being made, which is great, probably -- I haven't learned them.

But once you get past that mostly-psychological barrier, or if you bypass it completely with a GUI etc, the underlying technology is solid and reliable.

I postulate that VCS is "finished" and that any new tool will need to use git underneath for wide adoption. I hope I'm wrong and someone more creative than I can make me love a VCS again. :)
do you have an air filter with an ionizer by chance? those will also do that
The weren’t allowed to - not even the fair plan was charging sound actuarial rates. Cali put price controls on insurance, making this debacle inevitable.
You might want to read about the process of plasma harvesting and how plasma gets used before commenting.
Feel free to call propaganda a bias if you like. But if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, ...
But that wasn't my point? You picked a sentence and then went on a tangent. My point is that people seem to be somehow holding the competing views I mentioned without any issue.

I agree the supplement industry is a massive grift. It seems you assumed I didn't think that? Either way, you did change the subject, and I still have no idea why, other than to just put up a talking point.
Isn't the 3 Body Problem non-deterministic in classical physics? or am I misunderstanding it?

example of a possible misunderstanding might be (don't know if the follow statement is true), its only non deterministic due to our inability to calculate the initial conditions exactly, but if we could calculate the initial conditions exactly, it would no longer be non-deterministic. It's only from modern physics (i.e. not classical), that we understand that its impossible to measure the initial conditions exactly, classical physics might have expected that its simply due to lack of ability, vs impossibility.
Agreed so far, but in the US that clause is enforceable and doesn't affect the ability to use or run the software, only the ability to receive support for it. My understanding is that any such disclaimer by businesses in the EU is not enforceable due to this new law. As someone who wouldn't want to accidentally be on the hook, I'd want a license which precludes uses where the law would kick in - but that is a restriction on use.
Extremely cool! Nand2Tetris actually got me in to CS. I had very minimal programming experience but wanted to know how a computer worked. I took the Nand2Tetris course in 2018 and have been hooked ever since. Been programming professionally for 5 years now.
vultr has fractional GPUs you can get as a VPS. I think I was paying about $55/month to test one out.
Perhaps ;-) I'm the "Tim" in "timsort". The name was an inside joke. I'm not a self-promoter, and never have been. As the so-called "Zen of Python" author, I thought it would be funny to pick a name I'd never pick ;-)

CPython had a unique (in my experience) combination of cheap data movement (only pointer swaps) and very expensive comparisons. That's what I was aiming at. I never publicized it, never wrote about it outside the CPython repo, and never thought I'd hear about it again.

Of course I'm pleased it found wider use, but that took my wholly by surprise. If I had it to do over again, I would probably have named it, say, gallopsort.

If this new sort catches on, Jesse should rename it before it's too late ;-)
Also, completely expected: it all happened already at Twitter. I’d have hoped that they would be a bit more careful with nuclear safety, though.
Need for organisation to capture value in continuous cycles
The probability of working software resulting from this operation is approximately 0.