skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man doesn't everything generic... there's just a safe tone to HR correct writing that LLMs have?

I think this is from a couple of years ago so probably not, but things are getting meta.
Do stackoverslow publish traffic stats? I'd be curious to know if they're seeing an impact yet.
Even in 2019 this was pretty much standard, but of course the training corpus includes over a decade of people saying to use xhr, so that's the issue
Cache-as-Ram has been apparently been removed from AMD Zen processors.

https://git.furworks.de/coreboot-mirror/coreboot/commit/a245...
I wonder if the novelty effect is gone.
It was an enticing game. Simple yet interesting to any casual player standing in a queue or solving a number 2 issue.

I tend to believe that now we have the luxury of heavier data plans, lots of social network options and a whole ecosystem of games that was not explored when angry birds started.

I am not sure if I would feel compelled to play it again as I think I had my share of it.

As a counter argument for myself. Candy crush seems to keep going. How that can be?

What do you think?
> So what you paid for as an investor was a bunch of R&D research on how to replace natural and free sunlight with LEDs. (The fact that there are investor decks out there pitching that energy costs could be offset by investments in solar panels is laughably hilarious.).

Some of those already existing greenhouses are using LEDs to augment natural sunlight. [0]

So it doesn't seem too far fetched to me. The gamble wasn't to replace (free) sunlight with (paid) LEDs. The core idea is stacking farms on top each other, hoping the reduced land (area) requirement vs increased energy cost might pay off.

Turns out land isn't that short, transportation not too expensive and energy not that cheap.

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/glowing-dutch-greenhou...
I celebrate these news with a bit of unease. I've heard a lot of criticism regarding Qt 6 licensing policy. And personally I'd rather prefer more stability.
kOpenRay, a free Sun Ray session server
That's pretty glib, because when they built large greenhouses, people probably said "the market already solved this for high value goods like tomatoes: buy them from Italy and use a fast clipper to get them here in time".

Vertical farms probably indeed don't work out in the current day where we have sunlight, enough land to use it, and transport. Probably most careful analysis would have shown that, but, for things where the analysis has wide-enough error bars, when money is cheap enough, "the market" shows things don't work by incinerating gobs of investor cash and falling over. In the cheap-money era we just had, it was apparently a worthwhile gamble for some.

And if you're worth billions and get suckered by a chancer with a flashy pitch deck to invest in something that could have trivially been shown to be economically doomed by some random internet-commenter grousing, then honestly you deserved to lose the money.
It’s not perfect but it’s better than the alternatives. Last four of CC are often used for identity verification, but if I use a unique card number for every site, losing or leaking my Visa card won’t be as harmful.
Ask HN: How did Mira Murati rise to OpenAI's CTO role?
Based on her LinkedIn profile she doesn't seem to have much experience in ML/AI and barely any experience in programming. She seems to have played the role of product manager most of the time. How does someone like her rise to CTO? Genuinely curious. I've aspired to be CTO but have been repeatedly told that the position needs a mix of business, technical and management acumen. How did she acquire all of this so fast? Is she wicket smart?
In that discussion the author references that Apple only starting implementing this circa 2014/2016 - which happens to line up perfectly with when the patent was working it's way through the USPTO and granted. Generally speaking you can get early confidence on whether or not the patent is likely to be granted. Lexis Nexus and others actually offer specialized services to IP firms where they have the background and historical performance (office actions, grant rates, etc) of the random patent reviewer human at the USPTO that was assigned to review your application.

This data, in conjunction with any early "office actions" sent by your reviewer, can give you a really good idea of whether or not the patent will be issued pretty early on in the process.
I agree some of the comments against this person are overly harsh, and that I have seen people that take great pride in their work for its own sake and are willing to go that extra mile to do good work. That said:

1. The need to even sleep at the office in the first place was solely as a result of Musk's "chaos management". He dug the hole, and it is true that at the end of the day the only folks benefitting from her going the extra mile are Musk and Twitter investors/shareholders.

2. Wanting to do great work is one thing - sleeping at the office, though, clearly means that you are sacrificing other parts of your life, like your family, friends, health and hobbies, and putting work above all else.

As someone who used to be a workaholic, I can sympathize with Ms. Crawford. I can certainly look back at my work history and be proud of the times I worked hard to get a good result. But I also have plenty of regrets about working just for the sake of working/my identity, without really thinking critically about where I was spending my time.
>From the Chuska Mountains, they would need to be brought to the Chaco River then floated/moved upstream. From the other mountains, it's a lot further, and a lot more upriver transport. Which is not easy

If you look at the terrain that route is easy to do by water. You have the steep drop out of the mountains where the current helps you. The rest of the journey is over flat terrain so "upstream" isn't very hard when you have the right conditions. This article has a good picture:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/wa...

The July 23 picture is when you would transport the logs. It's deep enough to float them and there's barely a current.

>Hence this research.

My point is that it's a bizarre thing to research. Obviously you can carry heavy things. But like every single culture in the history of humanity has figured out doing so on water is way easier.
Reminds me of the pre-nuclear age steel that is required for some purposes.

It is sometimes recovered from sunken WWII ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
Where I work is not hard to find from my posting history on HN and under my same user name on Reddit.

It’s a company I know you have heard of

Where’s the lie in my statement? Do you fly? Use credit cards? Use a cell phone? Have a bank account? Ever applied for credit? Go to a doctor?

I’ve worked with both payment processors and integrated with EMR/EHR systems. I’m well aware of the information captured. No one cares about your Reddit history.
Thanks! The end result is not quite the same. For example, we turn on flakes, nix-command, and make a couple other minor tweaks to the Nix configuration to make what we think are user-friendly improvements. For example: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/blob/mai...

Our installer also supports some environments that the upstream installer has a harder time with.

The new installer can't _yet_ uninstall a Nix installed from the upstream installer, but our upcoming work on "curing" will bring that.
If you are going to use land for mirrors. Couldn't you build well horizontally? And it would probably be quite a bit cheaper option.
I think the current sleep implementation in Windows flushes the key from memory before entering sleep, and re-fetches it on-wake. That's one reason for those "BitLocker PC doesn't wake from sleep" bugs in quirky setups.
This is what bothers me with diode comparisons in general. The forward voltage is obviously the leading factor in the clipping but is actually the easiest to adjust through biasing the diode. It would be far more interesting to bias them all at the same forward voltage and then see how the other characteristics (leakage, capacitance, recover time, etc.) impact the waveform.
Wow, what a quick jump to Hitler.

I'm curious which military strike to since 1945 has, in your opinion, worked as planned.
Cloudflare put me in a never-ending loop when trying to access SourceForge from Edge with default settings, on my home network, with no VPN or anything. Maybe because it was my infrequently used laptop that probably doesn’t have all the latest updates yet?

I have no idea what the problem was, but the “verify you’re human” thing never worked. Pretty annoying…
The whole thing with SD is extremely interesting and difficult to keep up with as there are so many new things coming in almost daily.

Just last week I saw ControlNet[1] which ads a lot more control.

Today I saw what corridor crew[2] did to stabilize the randomness when you want to make videos. Very exciting.

[1] https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9LX9HSQkWo
I'm the founder of https://WorkOS.com ("Stripe for SSO") and I can definitely say it takes a lot of eng work to build and maintain. The complexity is fractal as you scale to more and more enterprise users with esoteric systems.
It feels, to me anyway, that until the incentives are less about making a (short-term and relatively immediate) profit for a select and limited number of people/eintities and more about the long term health of the planet and its inhabitants, these endeavours will ultimately fail. Which is possibly a shame as we should pursue technical solutions to our challenges, along with economic and behavioural. It comes down to what we value - we, being the human population and independent of what we are instructed, coerced or manipulated to value.
Your analogy is backwards. It’s more like the author said “This is good for all mammals” and you are the one that inserted “but there exists a smaller subset of mammals”, which is entirely orthogonal to the point.
It really just needs to be a necklace.
I would think INN2 (https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/) is the most widely used - it is still maintained and readily available in eg Debian.

I don't know if you would define it as "modern".

I like Gnus so much that I try to put an nntp interface on most things, but the servers that come out of that are specialized, like Feedbase or my little blog-engine, Lantern.
I commented elsewhere in the thread, but we have an open issue for SELinux support: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/issues/1.... Hopefully we can get that rolling soon.
6 months every year, at the South Pole Station.

Or 12 months per year...until you run out of gullible VC's.
DM2: Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Distribution Matching
For me at least, that means calling support and giving them the new MAC address.
When your employer is contracting people out against hourly rate you generally have to be accurate with the hours. When customers pay by the hour I find it quite reasonable. Also in some countries keeping track of hours worked is required by law for the employees benefit.
That headline made me laugh out loud - in a restaurant!
Any project that "reuses" shipping containers is a big red flag for me. Used shipping containers are not actually particularly cheap and already have plenty of demand. And for the purpose of building or construction projects they provide next to no value.
I am using hugo for several years now, so quite thankful for what it offers but I am slowly coming to the conclusion that i) you need to learn go to get the most out of it and ii) a "semi-dynamic" site that uses a simple sqlite backend might be a sweeter spot (for my needs) in terms of balancing simplicity, features and practicality.

I did't not find yet a replacement though. One reason is that I would love to continue having markdown as the main format for creating content but somehow that is orthogonal to having that markup stored in a db backend instead of the filesystem.
Which milkweed did you plant? I find that our Monarchs love narrow-leaf milkweed but HATE showy milkweed. They have to be absolutely desperate to nibble on it. Both are technically native, but clearly one of them is tastier.
You need a lot of area for that - incident sunlight is proportional to land area. To get the same amount of sunlight, you'd need to cover around the same square footage of land as there is area in the vertical farm with mirrors, and then cleverly redirect that back into the vertical farm - kind of like a solar power tower.

What would be even cleverer is to just plant the crops where the sun falls in the first place, and just do one layer of crops directly in the soil already present in that location. This would obviate the need for the multi-story tower, mirrors, soil transportation, etc. A "non-vertical farm," if you will. I think it could be a real money spinner!
Re your last point: The article focuses on lettuce, but I'd associated these vertical farms with microgreens. I've never eaten one, but my understanding was the intent is to sell microgreens to high end restaurants at a high price, as you said. Otherwise, the lighting costs (compared to the sun) would make these unviable.
Living in the Bay Area, I adore the tall grasses growing on the eastern foothills - you get a nice close-up taking e.g. I-680 to Livermore - and would love to replace much of my yard with the native grasses, but I don't even know where to begin in identifying what species they are, and where to get seed.
Most of GCP’s customers can’t, but independent regions are one of the benefits that a well architected cloud provider can give you to build on.
> Someone going backpacking a few weeks every year is not going to have the same specific training.

In fact, the paper goes into details about the specific strength training program carried out for this Chaco Canyon research. From https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103876 :

"Author JC, a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS), designed the training protocol. Subjects trained 6 or 7 days per week for 10 to 60 + minutes per day. Subjects initially alternated daily between training for a short duration (15–30 min) versus a longer duration (30–60 + min of carriage). For approximately the first half of the training program, the longer duration training sessions used lighter loads and the shorter duration training sessions used heavier loads. This allowed for subjects to become accustomed to both heavier loads and longer duration carries separately. By ∼Day 45 of training, subjects had become comfortable with heavier loads (∼25 kg) and henceforth kept the loads fairly constant while increasing session durations. By varying the loads and durations, subjects progressed in their training program with minimal soreness and no pain. Note that for safety, when donning and doffing the tumpline, the training logs were supported by a bench or table, at the approximate height of the lower back. By the end of the training phase, subjects JW and RK were able to comfortably carry 30 kg for 60 min solo without pain."
Someone does something that society does not benefit from and earns a paycheck.

They then buy food, housing, medical, transportation, fuel, entertainment, (optionally) raise kids, by things kids want, take vacations, have hobbies

They're still most likely a net positive to the economy.
I need a new phone and I just realized: I'm doing the exact same things on my phone as I was doing 4 years ago.
So I don't really care if the latest mobile SOCs are 10 times better.
Smartphone specs have become irrelevant.
Sounds like a lot of effort for very minimal gains. Is there anything that important about you that you have to go these extremes?

And you don't have a cellphone? Kudos to you but I, for one, do not envy you.
city gardens things make no sense (when it comes to eating said items). Soil in cities can become contaminated by various pollutants such as heavy metals, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and automobile exhaust. These contaminants can have harmful effects on human health and the environment.

I'm in favor of gardens, but eating the food? gosh that's a bad idea
In the US common law, that is the thing that you need to say in case you face any court case whatsoever in the future. Any objective details that you give about the situation may be used as evidence against you in a court case by the prosecutors. Therefore you always need to start from 'nothing ever happened' and then negotiate down the responsibility as much as you can.

Immediately in that period the retirement homes in the area and later the state, started experiencing 'mystery pnemonia cases' in which a lot of elderly have died.

This is without the fact that the US govt. fighting the Army in the court to shut down a bioweapons lab should already signal the severity of the affair.

For anyone who follows the US corporate & regulatory space in regard to public interest lawsuits, that article at NYT not only being up today, but also having been branded 'published in 2019' to attract attention says a lot:

That article basically says that there was a leak in a bioweapons lab in the US due to failure of security measures, but the government has properly acted and even took the army to the court to shut it down. It basically exonerates the US admn. legally by hooking up the army, and actually the administration that very specific lab with all the responsibility, meanwhile signaling to all international observers including the decision makers in countries around the world that it was not the US govt. who did it. Therefore the US govt. cannot be sued for that even inside the US.

So the very article is a legal precaution per US law itself.

...

"Whataboutism"

Any claim/proposition has to be made on an objective framework. Otherwise they become hollow smears.
Damn I thought you were answering for the view of my cat. Appreciate the explanation that your view is your own view.

>"organic" but it matches their intended meaning.

Yeah the fact they used cultural revolution which you say is not organic pretty much shatters the notion they were presenting things the way you say. The fact you thought they meant whatever dubious notion of 'organic' you have doesn't mean that they represent anyone's views except they own, or that they should answer for your perception of implied organic-ness.
A bit surprising that they don't mention Israel's ongoing assassination campaign targeting Iranian nuclear scientists, which is another component of this "shadow war".

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuc...
If I said I want to kill all jews is that wrongthink?
That's 300 dollars per acre in SaaS fees, and assuming it's standard apples, that runs out to a cent per apple tree (edit)
Also was a key plot device in Luther season 5
I think it's ok to have horizontal monitors even for "top-to-bottom" scripts. That's simply because it's less taxing for us to use. Plus, mouse scrollwheels work just as well so it's not problem to navigate.
Any nntp client that renders HTML. Most obvious choices are Gnus, if you like Emacs, and Thunderbird.

You can use more old school clients such as slrn, tin, and nn - but usually displaying HTML takes some work.

Pan is another GUI client, I don't remember if it renders HTML.
Reminds me of the time I was looking at my uncle's AV setup. Back then, you had multiple ways of delivering video between components: RCA, Composite and a variety of others.

The tech person had every possible path wired up with Monster video cables. A waste of probably $500!

For your gated community, it seems like a detection for the video feed going haywire that calls the cops might be useful.
Pretty sure this is what DRY is supposed to be. Should be renamed really. If something needs to stay in sync it should be defined once.

Things that looks sort of similar, don't necessarily need to be defined only once because its okay for them to diverge or desync and they probably eventually will.
The licensing policy in Qt 6 isn't really changed vs. 5 -- the change that upset the community was the commercial-only LTS releases, which started with 5.15.

KDE has been maintaining Qt 5.15 by itself with the "KDE Qt Patch Collection" since then, as the 5.15.y bugfix releases are commercial-only for a year before they get released as open source.

In Qt 6 the situation is theoretically better as you get a new 6.x feature release faster than that one-year wait period, whereas 5.15 was the end of the line for Qt 5. The commercial-only also only happens after the first two bugfix releases, so there should be no significant waiting periods without releases. If the general quality of Qt releases is sufficiently high, the Patch Collection effort may no longer be needed.

That said, The Qt Company remains a topic of concern, publishing (also on LinkedIn by employees, with lame/thin "does not necessarily represent my employer's opinion" disclaimers) lots of "why open source software is scary" content lately, apparently unaware that the only reason anyone cares about their product is its open source pedigree and credibility: https://www.qt.io/blog/is-open-source-really-free

This is probably a reaction to competition by the BSD-licensed Flutter which has seen a lot of interest from their traditional commercial audience. Doubling down on "we're less open source" as a differentiator vs. _Google_ of all companies is quite a mind-bender. Also considering licensing/open source is why Flutter is getting that attention in the first place, and that Qt could tell a fantastic story here if it wanted to.
> Why anyone would prefer manual testing for anything is beyond me,

Formal software testing is great, particularly if you're working on a hard problem with clear goals like building some hypothetical API to do some financial calculations or transactions where an error might cost tens of thousands of dollars or more.

But there's some cases where literal manual testing is the best business decision, even if it's not the best software engineering decision.

To give one example: have you ever worked in an agency environment?

What do clients do when you hand them off any scale of project? Some people within their organization will then go over every inch of the software and see if it works as they expected. They will literally never ask once what your test coverage is. But they will notice if some test data they input themselves doesn't give the right answer, or if some minor UI element they never really thought through doesn't seem to work the way they like.

Writing tests in this environment is 99% intellectual masturbation.
The biggest argument for vertical farms is that you'd be able to bring high-quality year around produce to more places. We do have most produce year around, but the quality of it varies wildly depending on the time of year. Most produce shipped from California and Mexico during growing off seasons is quite subpar.

But this is an argument for quality, of which people would have to be willing to pay a premium for. I could see high-end restaurants and others wiling to pay for this.

Greenhouses already extend the growing season. This would ideally be able to do that further.
To add to this, it can still have a similar meaning in regular Dutch. I would usually associate the yard-like meaning with the diminutive form 'hofje', and the the (royal) court meaning with an included article: 'het hof' (_the_ court).
This is currently how I manage my dot files + app installs on my different hosts.

Nix is interesting for me from an immutable point of view though (mainly NixOS).
Yes, but this also makes it seem like nuclear waste is a major problem which it isn't.

Existing solutions work well, highly radioactive material is kept in carefully monitored cooling pools. Once it decays sufficiently, it can be put in more permanent storage, but at that point you should really compare the relative danger to that of natural uranium ore (which we dug out of relatively shallow mines in the first place).