skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely the Saudis will just either outright buy nukes from Pakistan or purchase Pakistani expertise in building their own nuclear weapons program.
Yes. But if the automaton being modeled implements a non-terminating turing machine, there is never a repeated global state.
> They absolutely might nuke us.

Iran, while they do have a pretty shitty leadership, have not historically been starting hot wars. They have proxies yes, but they haven't invaded anyone to conquer territories in recent history.

While would Iran do something that results in their destruction?

You are comparing them to Hilter who had taken over almost all of Europe, and had motivated the nation to take over those other countries. Nothing of the sort is happening in Iran like that. Iran has historically been defensive in its military spending and investments -- excluding the proxies it has funded.

> History teaches we shouldn't play with such fire.

I feel you are not viewing things as they are, but are imagining things based on faulty reasoning.
This is very cool. I feel like this should be an eventual good replacement for essentially all man/help pages.
5% and shrinking is 5% and shrinking.

If you start with a gigantic number - even 0.1% of is going to still be gigantic.

It doesn't make it really matter in the grand scheme of things.
Do you have a reference, that sounds interesting and some cursory searching didn't locate anything obvious.
Weird that they remove Latin from the language but not Anglo-Saxon, even though the Latin influence was earlier.
Interesting "About" address :-)

I like your profile; you seem to be domain agnostic. Would you like to have a brief call during this week or the next?

From your post title, I thought a millionaire YC founder looking to buy a new house in SFO, so I ignored it a few times. But, I'm so glad I opened it finally.
> So why spend millions in capital expenditures on fancy stacked farms with high tech intense lighting, in order to cut a few tens of thousands of dollars in real estate costs?

and ongoing maintenace. I'd imagine harvesting crops from flat piece of land is also cheaper than from vertical stack.
> "pure" Germanic English

something there never has been?
> who wants to wear an adversarial garment? adversarial people.

I disagree.

Who wants to wear an adversarial garment? People stuck caught under the spying eyes of adversarial governments and adversarial surveillance capitalism companies.
If having sex is a right, who are you proposing they have it with. How do we ensure that someone is available for that? What about their right to not participate?

This elision speaks VOLUMES.
> a relatively recent phenomenon

I don't think it's recent, it's just done a complete 180. You could absolutely be cancelled for holding the wrong opinion in the 80's when I was a teenager, but the "wrong opinions" were anti-conservative opinions back then.
To defend and clarify, another way to "treat everything like a lie" is to be a skeptic. And being skeptical doesn't necessarily require revealing one's skepticism.

To illustrate - one can be empathetic and choose to accept that other people have perspectives which work for those others, though not for themselves.

Keeping quiet about one's skepticism doesn't require one to have a superior attitude, or be arrogant.
If we start reasoning from the secretary problem [0] then a possible theory is that when people are young, the first music they hear is the best song they've ever heard in their life. As time passes, it is more and more likely that they find their peak listening experience.

This basic effect seems like a plausible explanation for many things. It happens simultaneously across all fields of experience too, so the compound effect is pretty serious.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
Yorkshuhman here… we say “ta” (tak) for thanks. We also say “cheers” (tschuss) for goodbye.

Going a bit deeper, “dale” (daal - Dutch), “beck” (beek - Dutch).

Having learnt (not learned) in Amsterdam, it’s very, very like the dialects of the north east of Yorkshuh. So much so, it’s rather a surprise.
I mean, not wrong, but doesn't seem in the spirit of the upper post. "All that's left is a graveyard of stumps" does not sound like someone thinning out a forest. Or even preparing a lot for a house, since you will have to grind out all of the stumps.
Getting certified is unfortunately not an overnight task … SOC2 alone will likely take months and that’s not yet factoring in the security audit as well. As much as we’d like to have it done ASAP, a lot of it is dependent on the length of the process and requirements to be met - that’s why my estimate is within the next 2 quarters (sooner the better).

As an open source company, we’ve basically “launched” since the moment we open sourced the codebase - it’s a constant iteration process for us and every week we release security updates as part of our roadmap. Security certifications and audits are something we’re starting to do in parallel at the moment whilst still being early in our journey (open sourced 3 months ago roughly).
> By God’s grace, the Palestinian nation will certainly gain victory over the enemies and will witness the day when the fabricated Zionist regime will be eradicated.

Is it not a credible threat because they don't have means? 'Cause I'm not sure what you might mean otherwise.
Then you don't understand viral evolution or genomic epidemiology. "Gain of function" genomes just aren't that viable. Modifying genomes always means the virus becomes less effective in most ways - except one. It's so much not like "programming" it isn't even funny.

Posing "Gain Of Function" experiments as the origin of Sars-Cov-2 also forgets to answer the question of what exactly the starting genome was. At the very least it was completely unknown outside that mystery lab. And there is zero signature anything has been done to it despite natural selection. And when we're talking evolutionary experiments, now you need to explain a couple thousands of hosts (and mice don't really cut it, ferrets and upwards more probably...) at the very minimum, if not hundreds of thousands, which are a lot harder to hide.

Biology is really hard. That's why it took millions of hosts to finetune Sars-Cov-2 to the menace it eventually became. That's not going to happen in a lab any time soon because we don't have the tools. We have tools to assemble and modify some genes, but the chance of actually creating a pandemic that way, accidentally or intentionally is next to zero. Yes, it is out of the question that Wuhan researchers created Sars-Cov-2 through "Gain Of Function research, especially related to those "papers" that are often cited to spread this misinformation.
A rather subtle feature of Tolkien's style is that he often favours words or expressions of Germanic over such with Romanic roots. He does not overdo it, but the low frequency of "Romanic" words seems deliberate.
Yeah, I haven't seen anyone do this firsthand, but all my social intuition tells me that you can't challenge the social reality being presented. You can yell at one manager, call his team incompetent, so on (all deeply inadvisable), but in my heart, I don't think anything would get you strategically blackballed and removed faster than saying "So... what do we all produce, exactly? Oh? You realize that's absolutely worthless, right?"
We Spaniards use ordenador and before that we used "computadora".

The Spanish speakers across the pond use "computadora" or "computador".

To us computador make us think on something like an old ancient device from the 60-70's.
I don't see how what man can do away from everything and everyone should have any relevance to what man should be allowed to do in a society

What's the logic there?
Trussworks https://guide.truss.works/

We're a remote-first consultancy, and that link includes our handbook, onboarding guide, and guidelines for open-sourcing our work.
I too whistled at the Aurora Borealis to encourage them. It was legend that if you were overzealous, then the lights could become agitated and come down and cut off your head.

I am from Interior Alaska. Later in life, I heard this same story from someone from Gambell, Alaska in the Bering Sea. That is when it dawned on me, that if you are outside whistling for too long, someone/something might come and cut off your head. Interior Alaskans and Coastal Alaskans used to kidnap each other with enough regularity to give precedence to such legends.
Sure, but the point is that Topps isn't posting pictures of baseball cards with a rocketship and a link to buy cards.

The article is discussing how Dapper Labs who sells Moments (NFTs) was clearly promoting the NFTs as a way to make money by buying them now, selling them later for more, and that Drapper Labs was funding itself (at least partially) through the sale of those NFTs.

> Where do you draw the line?

As discussed in the article it's drawn at the Howey test. https://www.google.com/search?q=Howey+Test

Of which your comment didn't attempt to show baseball cards as violating.
The word "when" indicates a future tense. This is limited, as you can hear from the other responses ridiculing this comment. However, it should probably be expected that this will happen in the future more broadly.
This x1000

Especially in the DevOps space, I find one CLI’s “update” will be another’s “apply”, one “delete” will be another “remove“, add/create, etc. It adds excessive cognitive load.
businesses fail, government programs are forever.
As an aside, I'm interested in the impact music platforms on exploration and collection.

Once Upon a Time I loved having curated CD and record collections. Even more so when MP3s came out. With the transition to streaming music, I have basically given up on the idea of a curated collection. This is reduced my interest in Exploration and music in general. I mostly listen to what I'm fed and find it marginally satisfying.

For those of you that continue to explore and collect music in the streaming world, how do you do it? Any tips or tools?
I use the app PictureThis (https://www.picturethisai.com/) and then supplement it by researching the online on various sites. I don't have any particular sites to offer offhand, as I'm still figuring everything out myself. Another thing I have considered is buying some books from local native plant societies and organizations. They publish books that contain pictures and information of regionally native plants. They also have plant sales every year, where they sell native plants that have been grown by themselves or by known third-parties.

In general, I have tried taking an additive approach. I have only removed plants that I knew for a fact, through the app and subsequent research, were non-native and particularly damaging.
In this case it more depends on what Intel does. If Intel somehow beats this before Zen 5 is ready I don't see why not. AMD has these all cores with v-cache parts available on its EPYC lineup so it is technically possible. (not yet with Zen 4 but Zen 3 parts do exist)
See https://woboq.com/blog/verdigris-qt-without-moc.html for detailed breakdown
Northern English is significantly influenced by Scandinavian words today- for example the “-by” suffixes on town names is a direct use of the modern Danish word for town, Kirkby meaning Church Town in a direct translation
Because Cory Doctorow is paying attention!
you can't skulk through a crowd worrying about surveillance cameras without... worrying. I'm saying that selecting the word adversarial to describe this garment is not a coincidence, it's an attitude, and I'm linking it to the emotional life of people who would be interested in the garment.

worrying is stressful anxiety that your friends (who can see your face) can't completely erase for you. adversarial essentially means "looking for anxiety". I'm saying step back, it's not the only way to live.

downvoting btw is also adversarial so have at it, you'll feel better... not :)
These principles sound good, but finding basis in reality for their implementation continues to be lacking. We are faced with substantial technological risk and the best well thought out paradigm for going forward just tends to be we will figure it out.

I would submit the entire concept hinges on a paradox that I as of yet have not heard a convincing answer as to the nature of contradiction.

For example - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
At least the DDR5 memory I have been tracking in recent months has come down like ~40%
Well, it' niche (you don't have that many customers compared to normal software) that is also highly specialized, and that is never cheap.

And it's not "a piece of software for 60k" but likely "a bunch of specialized pieces of software"
> only a quarter to a third of modern English vocabulary can be legitimately described as having purely English

does that make sense? are we dealing with recursive definitions of english here?
The milkweed that I planted is common milkweed and swamp milkweed. I find swamp milkweed to be prettier, but they both seem extremely popular and they seemed to bloom at different times, which is a nice benefit. (I'm not certain about the bloom times as I'm going only on a year's experience.)
> They've been in business for years. All the founders or investors had to do was drive a few hours to go visit them. Or pick up the phone.

The aim for venture capitalists is necessarily to make risky, long-tail bets that have little chance of paying off; and that incumbents find too risky.

Sure, this bubble has popped, but what success in this case might have looked like is grocery stores selling mass-produced microgreen salads (that can't be reasonably transported without bruising) which were grown upstairs.

It's a reasonable criticism that VCs don't understand agriculture well enough to estimate the risk of "moonshot" style initiatives in that area. But criticizing them for "not picking up the phone and talking to existing operations" is kind of missing the point. Of course the existing operators are going to say it won't work.
Yeah, it's one of those markets where you really do have to have the numbers when the treads hit the mud, if your thing costs a million bucks a year but results in even a small amount of profit that covers the cost, they'll be all there. But even if it's cheap, if it doesn't have that ROI you ain't gonna be selling it.

I feel a lot of software/Silicon Valley types do NOT expect that at all, given how hard it is to measure ROI normally.
How much do you have to worry about high-intensity IR damaging eyesight?
Not only that, but this Ryzen 7950X3D costs $110 more than the Ryzen 7950X and is slower in nearly all cases. The exception being Red Dead Redemption 2 @1080p or 1440p, and even then for the bottom 5% slowest generated frames it loses handily to most of the chips measured, including last year's 5950X3D Ryzen. Yuck.

It will likely remain a very niche product, only clueless gamers might fall for the marketing and spend the extra money for a part which actually performs worse in most real world scenarios.

I wonder how many will actually sell for a higher price than the 7950X in the end. Perhaps AMD will only make very limited production batches.
You turn it on when you don't want to be identified by cameras.
Ah, gotcha. Makes sense.
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No matter what you think about Jeremy Clarkson as a person, Clarkson's Farm on Prime is a pretty eye-opening view to British farming.
That looks cool, though I'd be very concerned about the possibility about ChatGPT "hallucinating" a `rm -rf /` or equivalent.
Snapchat plans AI-powered conversation bot: “My AI”
The README there doesn't seem too coherent... how does one actually get that running? The Quick Start section isn't very helpful.
Exactly my observation as a southerner who has lived in the north and Scandinavia
> People often ask if microcode could be updated on the 8086. Microcode was hardcoded into the ROM, so it could not be changed. This became a big problem for Intel with the famous Pentium floating-point division bug. The Pentium chip turned out to have a bug that resulted in rare but serious errors when dividing.

Do we really know whether fixing the Pentium FDIV bug would have actually been in the reach of microcode patching capabilities? Based on googling the FDIV bug is due to errors in some sort of PLA which presumably couldn't have been patched.
Depends massively on the company! I am indeed one of the nerds that goes to bat for fixing data quality issues, but it takes long enough that I frequently look at these projects and think:

"It might take the majority of my working life to help this one company migrate this terrible enterprise system to a much better enterprise system. All my time will be spent in meetings, and educating hostile people who just want to do the work faster. Is that something I'd be proud of at the end of my career?"

And the answer is, to some degree! But I think we'd all like to work with people who get it or our friends, and if we're not there yet, it's really a question of whether we're at a position in our lives where we can search or prioritize other life improvements.
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I'm not aware of any natural or constructed English/Scandinavian pidgins/creoles, but that sure would be fun. The conventional wisdom is that it's easier for an English speaker to learn Swedish than it is to learn German.

Regarding if that would arise in the Scandinavian countries in the future - it actually seems more likely in German speaking countries. There is actually a word for it now - Denglisch (Deutsch Englisch), similar to e.g. Hinglish (Hindi English). Basically using German grammar with large amounts of English vocabulary. I hear so many English words in German lately for which there exists a perfectly good German word already.

Examples:

Denlisch: "Bist du ready?"
Deutsch: "Bist du bereit?"
English: "Are you ready?"

Denglisch: Joke
Deutsch: Witz
PBO also allows undervolting though: I just applied -30 all core offset on my 5950X.
People are confusing wisdom and rules. It takes wisdom and experience to understand "DRY" , but that doesn't mean people should DRY in every possible case. Following a rule blindly isn't wise. The Wisdom is in the understanding of why the rule matters along with when & how it should be applied.
I thought about fiber optics too. The thing is, the square cube law hits vertical farms(it's even worse when they only collect sunlight at their roof). There's some wasted energy in standard farms (the spaces between plants) so I guess it's not as clear cut. But as soon as you start to stack layers it starts to become a problem.
It could be quite refreshing to be in an industry where technology can give predictable improvement in profit. You increase yield by x% and that pays for the technology and generates a profit.
Some of the "most productive" times I've had were when I was sent to a customer site to diagnose some esoteric issue, and got to watch them actually using our software/hardware, realizing there were some unreported issues that made their life harder but nobody realized, and quietly fixing those (alongside the main issue, which was a configuration edge case) for the next release. Never even hit JIRA, but someone's life was made easier.
447/403 = 1.05? Maybe you should check your calculator. Not sure how Alaska is relevant.
Musk says remaining Twitter employees will receive significant stock awards
This is one of the most relevant short stories I've read on "AI contamination"

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
Ask HN: How can I be a better communicator in the workplace?
I think I struggle to communicate effectively. I've realized that most people lose track of what I'm talking about. I have miscommunications with my boss constantly. Often I notice people are not paying attention to what I'm saying and have already drawn their conclusion.

I think I communicate like a junior engineer. Too much rambling technical information and not enough actionable information. I don't know how to draw that line. I tend to give technical information of the problems I'm solving during a status update and people think I'm stuck fixing bugs all day. My peers who do the same work as me focus on their accomplishments and never speak about bugs. They are getting promoted and I'm not.

Before you go into a stand up, status update, 1:1, etc do you spend 5-10 minutes composing your thoughts? When you respond to a slack/chat message do you spend a couple minutes composing your thoughts?
> probably think it’s “some textile” and that’s all the thought they ever give it.

Even when aware it can be a challenge to find replacements. I bought https://www.patagonia.com/product/mens-pile-lined-trucker-ja... a year ago and while I put reasonable effort into finding an alternative that didn't use "pile" or "sherpa wool" (fake wool), it was hard to find any at all. The very few results I did find were a totally different style. Ordinary shirts seem to be a fair bit easier but I would love suggestions for high quality jackets made of natural materials.
> If a test never fails, is it a good test? If I have to change a test everytime I change the implementation, is it a good test? Writing good tests is really difficult.

If you don't like writing / maintaining tests or don't have the time, let the computer write them for you! [0][1]

[0] https://insta.rs/
[1] https://vitest.dev/guide/snapshot.html
One of the first jobs I was offered was for a startup in SEA, which I didn't mention in the article. It was an AI powered trading platform, and they revealed in the interview that they were going to launch without AI and just do all the trades manually. A few friends have seen similar, but less well-funded, ventures do similar things. So yes, absolutely common.
> An LLVM pointer value cannot legally contain arbitrary non-null non-pointer integers such as 0x2.

0x2 is a perfectly valid pointer value, it just happens to never be a good virtual memory address on modern systems where virtual memory is setup by the usual OSs, hence the fact that you can rely on it segfaulting.
That's suggesting vertical farming is desirable outcome where it really isn't under most constraints. "Just" moving to hydroponics gives you most of the benefits (less pesticide/water usage, higher yield per area) and with birth rates stagnating "just" converting some of current fields would free up the area for mode wild nature.
Sci-Fi Publishers Are Bracing for an AI Battle
This gave me a cool idea for worldbuilding.
…yes. Because different energy, documentation, and sometimes entire groups of people are on different phases.

It’s not always a single 100x-elite-monster-drinking coder cranking out monoliths in a silo.

I have a hard enough time with project management getting it wrong:

- testing an api’s public methods is far “faster” than testing how files are made on diff procs or fstabs..

- that translates to silly gantt charts…

You get the idea.
One of the advantages is that you can use power sources other than the sun in regions where it's not plentiful. Eg. geothermal in Iceland during winter. Or nuclear (either fission or fusion).

But sunlight is so cheap in general that those are really niche situations.
its various little annoyances: rebuilding a site can be tricky when you are on the move (say with a mobile device) and just want to add/edit a bit of content. or to give editing access to non-technical people. or the search capabilities that are more powerful with a db etc.

it feels that between the spartan austerity of an SSG and an overengineered full-blown database-backed CMS there might be some intermediate option. or maybe not :-)