skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is commonly cited but there is evidence to suggest it isn't the whole picture. Ted Cruz was a vocal opponent of Ethanol subsidies and won Iowa.
Ask HN: What moonshots do you wish were being attempted?
Agreed. The ESP32 can run Windows 3.0, aside many other interesting things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDV8q9bwW7c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz9D9lpATwg

CNLohr is a genius, but that line is quite a stretch.
In attempting to calculate a total for "investment" in the ecosystem my criteria is whether or not the investor considered it an investment.

Consider Theranos as a non-crypto example. Fraud, yes, with two people convicted under those charges. Holmes was charged with defrauding investors and not convicted on those counts (IIRC). Balwani was.

I think it's relatively safe to say the parallel between people investing in what ended up being a bubble, fraud, etc (from tulips on) was considered as investment from the source of funds - the investors. It's why they call it "speculative investment". Speculative but investment nonetheless. Any early money on moonshot tech companies could be characterized the same way. Just turns out for Facebook, Google, etc it worked out because the founders and team weren't defrauding from the start, executed well, etc. It helps that the fundamental premise of these companies didn't go against human nature and demonstrated tremendous value and therefore significant user adoption from day 1.

Where it gets more complicated is going back to the original argument - money poured into the space for what ostensibly should have been work to legitimately further the ecosystem. Frankly I'm not entirely sure how to characterize it but the other issue here are situations like FTX (which I didn't include or mention). They did a lot of legitimate work for a while. How would this be accounted for in this distinction? What about companies like Coinbase that have had wildly swinging valuations? The other scary thing - what about companies/projects/etc that have taken investment but just haven't collapsed yet (due to outright fraud or otherwise)?

So... Very complex scenario but I think it's safe to say the core point remains - there's been a ton of money, effort, and time (over the course of 14 years) committed to this space with essentially nothing to show in the real world. I've spent a lot of time analyzing on chain data and at best there are MAYBE 100m crypto "users" worldwide. If we say $100b of investment that's a user acquisition cost of $1000 - and investors can't even fully capitalize on those users due to the decentralized nature of crypto. Hell, let's call if $50b of non-fraud "legit" investment. That's still $500/user which is at least one order of magnitude beyond anything you see in the non-crypto space.

If the entire crypto space was a tech startup funded by VCs they would have cut their loses, exited years ago, and crypto would essentially be back at the "investment" model of early Bitcoin (which IMO is perfectly fine and even preferred by many). Even the early web investment period (with the 2000 bubble burst) saw enough successes and returns within the span of a decade (1995-2005) to keep the money pouring in (and returning) to this day.
> I called them dorks affectionately

Never in my life have I seen that word used affectionately
To be clear, the "agenda" here is to help kids grow up healthy and happy. We can disagree on how to accomplish that, but the nefarious insinuation is a little silly, no?
Not true, i love it. Not always, kinda like beer there are times when it is more tasty
I wouldn't be remotely so quick to throw in the towel. ML research tends to operate in "jumps" and plateaus. At this point, the concepts behind the big LLMs are relatively well known and the bottleneck is cost of compute + cost of training data. Thing is, cost of compute keeps coming down.

OpenAI's "win" wasn't even so much in the research but in the design of ChatGPT as an interface. Its own model makes the same kinds of egregious mistakes as google and FB's own LLMs. Also, OpenAI was willing to just deal with the ethical fallout of releasing it into the wild with the ability to generate authoritative sounding falsehoods.

I suspect we're going to go back to a period soon where a lot of the innovation we're seeing is around interfaces and infra to make interacting with LLMs natural and applying them to product use cases where they make sense.
> In what situations is it acceptable to edit words that someone wrote?

When the author is present and engaged in the process.

Would Dahl care about these changes? We don't know. And that's the problem. It's no longer his book - it's the diluted version.

Alternatively - if the author is gone... when the story is no longer bound by copyright seems a sane approach. If you want to edit his words, make them compete with the original versions (or other folks edits). If the edits are genuinely better - they will win out.
I wouldn’t equate it with caviar or sports cars. It used to be a treat for the masses. My grandparents would often have a box, and were anything but luxury - sharecropping farmers retired and living on social security. I don’t think they ever bought a “luxury” item. But perhaps this is regional as it’s HQed in South SF.
So you've had Kraft singles, I see.
I've been hearing about the UK food shortage recently, so I was curious to see what the cause was. A Google Search turned up this article from over two months ago warning that the UK would face a food shortage without government assistance: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-shortages-eggs-water-m...

The direct cause of the food shortage is still unclear to me, but it was interesting to see that this issue was known about months beforehand.
AI companies seem to be in a paradoxical space where they need the optics of being open even if it goes against their business interests.
Thank you, I wasn't aware of the Ideomotor phenomenon. Very interesting!
> Otherwise, it is way too easy to automate the submission.

Automating GPG signatures is trivial. GPG is not an anti-spam mechanism.
It is disingenuous to pretend not to understand that unethical behaviour in one area is a strong predictor of unethhical behaviour in another area.
Also ensure your client does not have access to the backup server share so that ransomware can't encrypt backups on a network drive etc.

My backup solution (backuppc/other syncs + zfs + sanoid/syncoid plus offsite server with zfs) means the backup server pulls files from the clients using backuppc/rsync. The backup server volume is zfs snapshoted regularly using sanoid. The offsite server pulls these from the backup server via syncoid/zfs send.

I'm not using rsync.net since I have my own infrastructure, but would definitely choose it as the offsite server if needed.
China's Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis
They do plan to fuel it with deuterium and run it over 100 million degrees. They'll get fusion neutrons out of that. What they don't plan is deuterium-tritium fuel or a net power attempt.

https://euro-fusion.org/devices/wendelstein-7-x/
In CPU terms at least, 33x more powerful than my once-beloved Amiga 500, which was my first 'real' computer after 8-bits. Only slightly slower than my first PC in the late 90s, which ran at 266mhz.

Looks like the ESP32 costs £5, lol.
Inflation is not a new phenomenon
I find it both interesting and highly telling that people like yourself (not you personally) were nowhere to be found when statues of people like Felix Dzerzhinsky were coming down.
It used to be that official tools chains were a huge money and time expense - Not to mention requiring substantial understanding before you even got to them. Even AVRs which had an open source tool-chain still required a $50-200 programmer to get started. The PICs were more popular, but proprietary tool-chain. And the communities associated with both were great at gatekeeping and dismissive of beginners who weren't doing things "the right way'.

Arduino's added complexity opened up the space to people who had little-to-no programming experience. People who had a computer with a USB port. People who had no familiarity with binary let alone hexadecimal to set a bitmask so they could turn an LED on. Let alone figure out which bits to flip to set a timer.

Arduino is added complexity to the benefit of accessibility. The complexity of the datasheets and toolschains make most products an unassailable wall. That said, the real gem of Arduino is its community that is welcoming and helpful to beginners.
Yeah I have no idea how did OP came up with Gen Z being ubiquitous in highly technical roles like the ones people at Ericsson affected by the layoffs hold. Virtually all developer jobs today anywhere in the world are strictly limited to webdev.

But then we’re on HN, where Backend and DevOps is probably what are considered technical pinnacles.
If that's true, why is it required by law? If it was necessary, it wouldn't have to be legislated.
I check my NYC apartment website at least 2-3x per week since my renewal is coming up soon. The variance between pricing is insane. There is a 2k delta between 1br apartments on the SAME FLOOR, and the cheaper one is the better layout. They change every week though by hundreds of dollars. It makes absolutely zero sense to me.
I like kombucha but also lemon juice lol. You don't like the taste of alcohol or coffee either at first but then you love it
Just like if you try run a gasoline engine on alcohol without adjusting the fueling it'll be too lean and knock if it runs at all, you'll be too lean with sufficient ethanol in the gasoline without adjustment.

But they're still higher octane fuels. E85 is specifically sought out for this purpose in the gearhead scene, so they can run high boost getting something alcohol-like at the pump.
I'm confused about why my personal values wouldn't be reflected in my recommendations for how to publish and write stories.
How to meet compliance needs without slowing down agility
Ethanol also is used as an octane booster. I'd rather take Ethanol than MTBE or TEL.
Yeah, but you also wouldn't see 200% YOY headcount growth in larger companies.

The companies that actually grew responsibly (aka not FAANG) are generally doing less/smaller layoffs/none at all.
> I can't parse that sentence. Are there typos in it?

Yes, couldnt edit anymore. took->room
Have you actually tried this, or are you just assuming that ChatGPT is just a hyped-up autocomplete, simply doing statisitcal next-token prediction with no internal representation of concepts and relationships?

Prompt: "Write a three-paragraph story about someone who cannot see."

Response:

Maria was born without the ability to see. Growing up, she always felt like she was missing out on something that everyone else took for granted. She would hear her friends describe colors and the beauty of nature, and while she could imagine what they were talking about, she knew she could never truly experience it for herself. Despite this, Maria never let her blindness hold her back. She learned to read Braille and used her heightened sense of hearing and touch to navigate the world around her. She even took up piano and became an accomplished musician, playing by ear.

One day, Maria met a man named Alex who was fascinated by her ability to navigate the world without sight. He would often accompany her on walks and describe the beauty of the world around them, pointing out flowers and trees and the changing colors of the sky. Maria found herself falling in love with Alex, and although she knew that their lives would be different because of her blindness, she was willing to take the risk. Alex was patient and understanding, and he took the time to learn how to communicate with Maria in a way that she could understand. He even started taking piano lessons so that he could play duets with her.

Years went by, and Maria and Alex built a life together filled with love and happiness. While Maria never regained her sight, she realized that she didn't need it to experience the beauty of the world. Through her other senses and the love of those around her, she had everything she needed to live a full and meaningful life.
There are actually some nice robot arms painting pictures and doing calligraphy:

https://www.pinterest.de/pin/brobot-desktop-robot-arm-is-pra...
.NET NanoFramework on Azure RTOS
Interested in UI feedback if you'd like to weigh in.
The parking lots owned by an entertainment company in the large city near where I live (Detroit) prices all their parking lots dynamically. There's a TV at each unmanned lot with a different price dependent on the distance from the event (different venues at different distances) and depending on event and time. Seems made to extract as much as absolutely possible.
Under perfect competition there aren't any profit margins: everything sells at marginal cost.

True, but that includes the cost of capital, so liquidity theoretically remains adequate and capital provision/replacement is just a business function rather than the business function.

The problem with capitalism is that it's totalizing; the idea that the whole point of society should be making more and more wealth forever is kind of ridiculous when you think about it, like deciding that it'd be great for your social body to get diabetes. It's ridiculous in the same way that pure laborism would be (everyone should work hard, never mind at what) or pure consumerism (everyone should have all the stuff they want, all the time).
I spoke about "revenue" and then I said "profit". I was inconsistent. "Profit" would have been cancelled out. "Revenue" would have had to be backed out.
It is part of a much larger trend with AI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34928179
Yes.
I’m surprised you’d say the issues are simple. The criticisms explain the problems better than I do, which is why I suggested reading them. Have you read them?
The subset of codepoints that are included in NFKD make probably a decent starting point for such standard, maybe if you want to be even more restrictive then limit to BMP.
Where does this number come from? Is this just a made up number, or is this a real statistic?
Actually I think the metaverse in snow crash has a pretty positive connotation. The real world is the dystopian hell hole but the metaverse is somewhere where individuals can succeed based on the merits of their ability.

The real world is dominated by corporate domination, Regulatory capture, and stagnation. In the metaverse, it doesn't matter if you are a pizza delivery boy. You have power and agency if you have skills and determination, at least in comparison to the default world
> Musk did not specifically address the reasoning for returning Tesla’s headquarters to Silicon Valley. It’s unclear if the state offered any incentives for the company to return, or if Musk simply wanted to be closer to the Twitter headquarters, which is located in San Francisco.
I think one of the problems is that people will treat these as the same. They follow Buffet's lead because the end goal is money. Everything else is a number on a spreadsheet
The article mentions

> High temperatures and a lack of rain, followed by a period of cold weather, are being blamed for creating the “most difficult season ever,” Tim Casey, chairman of the Leek Growers Association, said.

> Suppliers have warned that shortages could last weeks as a combination of bad weather and transport problems in Africa and Europe has left some fruit and vegetables out of stock.
Capping housing prices will cause less houses to be built, which is the opposite of your stated goal.

Look, if you want more housing we have to let developers build more housing. Many areas in the country put in restrictions like limiting the height of new buildings because it's 'nice' not to have the views of the sky by blocked by a new building.

Well nice costs something, and in this case it's housing scarcity.
Yes that is my argument. Until Nazis try to invade your country. However, you are free to stop providing seevices entirely in that country if you disagree with their laws.
Yes, including sugar beets, sorghum, and even cattails.

As far as whether we will or should use other crops, I doubt it. The whole thing with corn mostly came from the US having a large surplus of corn and needing something to do with it. Since we're operating on the false belief that the carbon cycle itself is a bad thing, and because we're trying to move to electric (theoretically), I don't think society is going to invest itself into more ethanol.
real page isnt the only prop management software corp doing this, i know first hand(and quitting that job was a great feeling).
Yes, OPEC is the prime and foremost example of a cartel, but what does your comment add to this discussion? What's the connection?
> What I'd like is a "mail reverse proxy" that does all the work to manage DNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, etc and handles sending and receiving emails, but doesn't do any storage or user management.

spf, dkim and dmarc are all dns related. Running nameserver and mail servers on the same system doesn't sound like a good idea, nor does having a mailserver with write access to dns-records. using a central administration for both however sounds beneficial. but then why stop there and not add all kinds of other useful features and voila, you have a full blown control panel far away from being a simple solution for mail.

I think dns for mail needs to be complicated, otherwise people lightly just set their spf records incorrectly which gets their mailservers blacklisted. or they just will never know why their mails get blocked. if they even find out about that.
This doesn't break down anything. If a grapheme cluster is double width and you treat it as 5x because there's 5 code points in it, then you've still gotten the layout wrong. You can enforce text storage length limitations to prevent infinite zalgo, but text display length limitations should always deal in extended grapheme clusters.
I've seen a lot of these studies and the problem is always the same: the real-world spread on the inputs and outputs is always so much larger than what the report concludes. Since they're comparing ethanol and gasoline, you have two spreads to consider. As an example:

Worst-case for standard gasoline vs Best-case for corn ethanol:

A) Gasoline produced from Alberta tar sands syncrude (which has to be melted and partially hydrogenated using natural gas piped in from Northern Canada/Alaska) shipped by oil tanker (burning dirty bunker fuel) to California refineries for conversion to gasoline by distillation/cracking (with high CO2 emissions related to use of fuel to drive the require heating of the heavy crude oil);

B) Ethanol produced from corn grown with ammonia fertilizer made by splitting water with sun/wind energy, planted and harvested with renewable-powered electric equipment, and fermented and distilled into 95% pure ethanol (the eutectic limit of distillation) using only solar and wind power and in facilities right next to the farmer's fields;

And, conversely, the best case for gasoline and the worst case for ethanol:

C) Gasoline produced from regionally-produced light sweet crude with a minimal need for transport, hydrogenation or extensive processing, meaning much lower emissions from transportation and refining (we could even have electrolytic hydrogenation from water using sunlight to produce the hydrogen);

D) Corn produced in Kansas with large amounts of natural-gas-manufactured ammonia fertilizer, lots of natural-gas-derived synthetic pesticides and herbicides, planted and managed with diesel-powered equipment, then shipped overseas to China for fermentation and conversion to ethanol in a coal-fired ethanol distillery.

So if you break those spreads down you get a ridiculously wide range of estimates. Hence any specific number presented ('at least 25%' in this case) doesn't really tell you that much, other than if you dig through the specific methods used (which are generally hard to find, sometimes they'll put the methods in another paper hidden behind a paywall) you can tell what interest was backing this particular study. Some will even include things like the carbon emissions needed to feed the workers who grow the crops, or who work in the refinery, and so on, which is just nonsense. (The emissions of the restaurant workers who feed the oil refinery workers and the field hands have to be accounted for...?)

Personally, I think artificial photosynthesis is the vastly superior solution relative to either corn ethanol or crude oil gasoline, as you could plausibly run it anywhere with access to seawater and sunlight, saving agricultural land for food production (and conserving ever-scarcer potable water as well). It does however make sense to be able to convert excess agricultural production into useful products, although just composting it back into the soil might be wiser in the long run.
All their competitors realize they can do this and begin raising their prices too
This is nothing more than a back door farming subsidy which is also why it's so hard to kill.
All of this just to stay relevant among the competition, and yet, none of these AI giants has introduced something that just works.
If you can't learn from your parents then the more you can figure out on your own, the better your chances of survival. And intelligence allows each individual to figure out things on their own and adapt to new situations even better than if they just repeated whatever they learned from their parents.
You can just use whatever store bought Kombucha to get going. Of course if you find any scoby on Craigslist it's guaranteed to be an interesting encounter
in my personal experience this happens to me most of the time, but not all the time.
Well, cartels aren't capitalism.

Capitalism would be someone coming in and realizing the prices are inflated and undercut the rent prices while still being profitable.
I suspect this entire story is probably down to one shop running out of turnips and someone tweeting a photo of it.
Known as trial by combat and not just in England

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_combat
First seen on Babylon 5.
Seems better presented and quite adjacent to my own photography project: https://everythingcanbe.art/gallery although the intent is clearly different as the statement made by me is a very pro-AI stance towards what "art" is.

The angle I was coming from was not only the aesthetics/purpose behind the art but more so about the "effort" put into it by removing any effort from the creation. "Effort" being thinking about good composition or finding an interesting subject matter or waiting for the perfect time of day for the lighting to be just right. Instead I show up, press a button, and because I call it art it is even if I agree it isn't very good art (and that's also kind of the point - I would argue the act of curation is in and of itself an art form...)

Also - you should make thumbnails of the art and link out to the larger pictures. Currently you're loading 2000~ px width images as 300~ px thumbnails and it is very slow to load due to that at the gallery near the bottom. This being HN I'm actually shocked nobody has mentioned the completely bloated and unnecessary file size of the images.
> Basically, it boils down to, "do as I say, not as I do."

I think it's more accurate to say it boils down to "our sole underlying principle is our own advantage, and the privilege of not even having our advantages challenged or negotiated."

But otherwise, I quite agree.
If absolute fairness were the reason for change ALL parties that primary would do so by some algorithm that's transparent.

E.G. 5 Primary waves (Tuesdays/weeks/months) sorted by the 10 states with the least population to the most population.

Why? It's a better rough approximation for a representative sample over an increasingly large window of voters than the current process, and still keeps any benefit of ramping up from smaller to larger populations to narrow overall selection in the field. Plus the algorithm is so simple that it can be outlined in a sentence.
Oh, don't let that get in the way of a good anti-Brexit story! Come on, man!