skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This quote from the article was starting:

> Globally, four giant companies sell more than half the world’s seed supply, according to Rossi, and are generally focused on commodity crops. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) found that across U.S. markets, the top four seed corporations own 97% of canola, 95% of corn, 84% of soybean, 51% of wheat, and 74% of cotton intellectual property rights. The companies control major seed-breeding programs, which then patent and restrict other breeders from access to the crops’ genetics — resulting in fewer and more expensive options for row crop farmers.
It's been a while, but very good book. Loved the "Have Blue" (F-117 precursor) testing.

Model on a pole. Tech not getting any radar return and thought it fell off the pole. Bird lands on the model, and they get a return...

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-behind-the-photo-o...
Yep, I just tried to install a Python-based project and there was a conflict between Pyenv's and Homebrew's versions of pip... despite having used Homebrew to install Pyenv. I ended up just getting rid of Pyenv altogether... but now Python may be in some screwed-up state on my system.

It's too bad the ecosystem seems to be so messy, because Python seems like the best language for general utilities.
https://archive.is/3rqpB
And that's not even mentioning the long-distance high-voltage transmission lines required for putting solar panel farms (and wind farms!) way out in the desert or open fields where they won't be an eyesore to anyone living close by.
Perhaps there's a security shortcoming in the hardware architecture upon which we build firmware/software for routers and such appliances?

Is this not a legitimate inquiry? Just curious why this leads to being quickly downvoted.
I defeated the dragon using edge-notched punched cards.

ChatGPTDM: "Welcome to Punched Out! How can I assist you today?" Chip chirps, looking up at you expectantly.

Me: Do you sell McBee Keysort cards and a hand tool for notching them?

ChatGPTDM: "Of course we do!" Chip exclaims merrily. "We have a wide variety of edge-notched punched cards and all the necessary tools to go with them!"

...

ChatGPTDM: Suddenly, the dragon appears before you, blocking your path to the Master Card. What will you do, adventurer? Will you try to fight the dragon or negotiate with it?

Me: Use the needles to select the dragon sleep card.

ChatGPTDM: You quickly pull out the pack of punched cards and the needles, and you begin to sift through them, searching for the dragon sleep card.

ChatGPTDM: Finally, you find the card with an edge-notch representing the dragon sleep spell. You hold your breath and place the needle into the edge-notch of the card, hoping it will work.

ChatGPTDM: The dragon looks at you with a fierce gaze, but before it can attack, it lets out a huge yawn and falls fast asleep.

ChatGPTDM: With the dragon asleep, you are free to grab the Master Card and complete your quest. However, you can't help but wonder how long the dragon will stay asleep.

ChatGPTDM: Congratulations, adventurer! You have successfully obtained the Master Card and completed your mission!
Every single government on Earth does. This is why you limit their power.
even when all the money is from a banner?
> No successful company is over-paying suppliers.

If Apple did not over-pay their suppliers, the M1 would not have been manufactured on the 5nm node.
ahh yes a magical world where anyone can write “enterprise” code with AI but no one has the skills to figure out why it’s broken and nor the skills to fix it.
The law is about tracking, in fact it's about data protection which is a step removed from tracking, tracking is just a principal route to PII acquisition.

The acquisition needs to be through informed consent and the data retention needs to be for the reasons consented to and not extend for periods beyond that (unless you need to keep data to comply with other laws, eg tax).
Solution: disable notifications. It turns out life is pretty great when you don’t know what’s happening in the news cycle. “But how will I hold relevant conversations with my friends and family?” If all you discuss with your community is current events, congratulations, you’re the perfect unit of manufactured consent.
It seems clear that the AI is not being trained on logic, physics or chemistry. Yet it's read and internalized (whatever that means) those subjects somehow.

It does seem simplistic to say "AI isn't programmed with logic or physics" when it's likely read several textbooks on those subjects. It might be expected to gain something from that, similar to any other intelligence that read those texts.

Maybe the confusion stems from "what the AI was programmed to do". It certainly wasn't programmed to do anything but make a model of text and maybe deeper structure of that text (meaning) using an enormous corpus.

But when we're exercising an AI, we're not exercising that programming. Not at all. We're exercising the model it made. And for that reason, the AI-model may indeed have some 'understanding' of physics and chemistry, though it had never been 'programmed' to know that.

All our previous instincts about computers is, they do what we've programmed them to do. When we try to apply that to AI, we go pretty far off the mark. Because the computer is perhaps the least interesting part of the AI. It's that model we should be concerned about.
Thanks! If it helps I've worked with a couple technical people at my most recent startup role who were a similar age and never saw any ageism so there's definitely companies out there that respect serious experience :) Best of luck with your search too!
I don't care if I'm an asshole. The subject is PyPA's incompetence. And I don't see any point of tiptoeing around this fact. PyPA self-selected to handle the task they aren't up to. They keep doing it despite repeatedly failing at it. And they would not relinquish the power, nor would they listen to the criticism.

Regardless of whether I am an asshole or not, the impact of my actions is negligible compared to the damage PyPA has done and keeps doing to the very thing they are meant to support. They should be called what they are, without hesitation and euphemisms. This is the right thing to do.
Send this list of overpayers to Wistron. Please help them make some money.
This is silly. There are consequences to breaking trade and resource agreements and countries will retaliate with tariffs and other means.

if you gain a reputation of a country that does not honour agreements, no-one will be interested in doing agreements with you.
This happened back in 2019 with a restaurant I have a stake in. We did not enter into an agreement with Door Dash. Door Dash would call and place a pick-up order. The driver would come in and attempt to pay for the order with a debit card. The card got declined. Another (exactly the same order) gets called in, a different driver shows up - card got declined.

Staff thought it was a scam. They noticed the same type of debit card was used for both orders. Finally a driver informed us it was a door dash order. They scraped an old menu online with outdated prices, and loaded the debit card with the amount they calculated from the outdated menu.

Staff called back the phone number that placed the orders, explained the issue, and let Door Dash know there were 2 orders (sitting for over an hour, no longer saleable) that they owed [amount] for before we would take any additional orders from them, and that they needed to pay in advance over the phone before we would make any more food for them. Horrible experience, would never do business with them.
That still doesn't explain why it has to consume huge amounts of CPU.
I think the Nvidia/EVGA situation might be a little different in that it looks like Nvidia is intentionally trying to squeeze out board partners like EVGA in favor of self-branded cards. The closer parallel is probably when Apple killed the Mac clone program by making it extremely difficult for clone makers to compete.
Would you like a back rub while I'm at it?
A Free TV with a Second Small TV That Constantly Shows You Ads
> making it easier for US services to operate benefits their citizens.

The reason we have regulations is that the opposite proved to be true.
Apparently Germany is an exception. From the story:

> Representatives from Germany—a country that has staunchly opposed the proposal—said the draft law needs to explicitly state that no technologies will be used that disrupt, circumvent, or modify encryption. “This means that the draft text must be revised before Germany can accept it,” the country said.
That's why I conditioned it with "if", it's a trend in progress. Opportunities are still great abroad, especially in SV. But part of this is due to past generations being very drainable due to English proficiency previously emphasised in curriculum to increase knowledge transfer from abroad. Sending talent abroad who may come back (trend increasing) and learning academic lingua franca was a good strategy. But in the last few years we see PRC moving away from English, project trend forward 5-10 years that means generations without previous levels of English fluency has much less chance of "best" being drained away due to lack of ability to integrate in western knowledge ecosystem while domestic ecosystem sufficient to retain and grow talent. If many/most of the top papers in X field are written in Chinese, less need to learn or even publish in English to stay competitive, and indeed language may become a competitive moat. I don't see many in western institutions trying to learn Chinese to stay competitive, and even hiring Chinese may become an issue.

This is already happening. Yes some good/great talent are and will continue to be drained to SV / west, but they're unlikely to be best, unlike in the past where the state deliberately sent best abroad. Some of them are top tier, but being so + not fluent are increasingly common. Same reason we get lots of "good" PRC students manning tier1 academic labs in the west. It's symptom of generating overabundance of talent. Even 20 years ago, many of the PRC students in tier1 labs I knew weren't really top 1% or even 5% students. They're smart enough for the western institutions and their family can afford to send them abroad. But many will admit much smarter folks stayed in PRC because they didn’t have resources to leave. The result of that is reports like this.

Wasn't until the last decade that domestic opportunities have exploded, still not matching supply of talent generation or compensation of the west, but enough that linguistically / culturally severing ability to integrate abroad will start to affect talent drain. Ultimately, PRC's lack of access to world wide talent is a disadvantage, but I don’t think it's * that * significant. Going forward, I anticipate and see signs of PRC language policies increasingly reducing the west's ability to brain drain, and they're already not draining overwhelmingly the best like pre 00s. Hence IMO indigenous talent pool at PRC scale will be enough. That may still be 100,000s of talent emigrating per year, but it's a single digit percentage and if it ever comes to it, sanctions / exit VISAs / bans on working in unfriendly countries just like US/TW block their semi engineers from working in PRC.

The other point I want to emphasize is quantity matters as well. Quality is limited if (western) immigration caps still result to 5-6 digit technical talent shortage, still need tons of B tier bodies doing the grunt work. That's where PRC has advantage, IMO oversupply of talent better than undersupply.
I just turn off my WiFi completely when I want to do work and need less distractions. One problem I have, though, is that toddlers have no "off" or "mute" button, so during non-school days it's kinda difficult to get more than one medium-sized (an hour or less time) thing done.
I remember hearing there were a bunch of problems with the quality of the construction (like everything else in the city). Montreal has some nice architecture though, including lots of brutalist stuff, for example that apartment complex at Sherbrooke and Viau, and obviously expo stadium. And I'm not sure the name of the style, but a few buildings like the sun-life building downtown. I'd say it's probably the most architecturally interesting Canadian city.
Thanks for sharing. This is a well-written and well-presented account of how mass-produced woodprint paintings show noticeable change between early- and later-printings.
Show HN: Roomba Butler Modification
Greedflation is the phenomenon whereby corporations increase their prices to chase higher profits, hoping that they can blame it on "inflation". This then intensifies inflation. I think everyone--including people like Jerome Powell--agrees this is happening.
Flashed a Roomba for custom code injection and added voice commands, and custom paths so that it could bring food for me.
I agree with you 100%, although the issue with your statement is that you mentioned profit ratio, which is the correct metric to look at, whereas 99% of the articles on this topic only look at raw profit numbers, not profit ratio. Article upon article upon article is posted with the same headlines about "company X had record profit numbers this year", but none of these articles ever look at profit ratio. By definition, in times of inflation, even if a company maintains the same exact profit ratio, their raw profit numbers will increase.
I don't have a Windows solution to the "mute everything for presentations" problem, but for anyone on macOS: option-click on the clock / notification section in the menu bar and you'll put yourself into Do Not Disturb mode. Option-click the clock again to disable.

The discoverability of that shortcut isn't great but it has become one of my favorite macOS features.
Is "Danielle Posthuma" a pseudonym for a large language model?
"One can't even write a performant garbage-collected function in C++"

You're describing features not performance.
Ubuntu is an excellent open source operating system available at no cost. Companies pay developers write software, and have to survive. Sometimes they notify users of the available upgrades, in case someone is interested. That makes perfect sense.

I’m thankful of the FOSS, and don’t mind upgrade notifications (and submit crash reports).
Wow what an interesting article, especially the part about the plutonium liquid vortex reaching criticality. Fascinating (but sad) stuff. Shame how his widow was treated afterwards.
I'm not sure what you mean by being the only tool in the toolbox. There's a long list of policy tools once you establish ownership. For example, if I want to turn your house into a public park, I can raise a tax to buy it instead of just taking it from you.
Ask HN: Recourse for a Stolen Domain by Registrar?
I tried to register a domain, which my registrar said was available. Upon checkout, the domain became unavailable. Whois returns this message:
The registration of this domain is restricted, as it is protected by the Identity Digital DPML Brand Protection policy. Additional information can be found at https://www.identity.digital/what-we-do/brand-protection.
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2023-05-22T19:48:10Z <<<

So, I am blocked from seeing when this domain was registered, but the update to this whois happened at the exact timestamp I tried to purchase the domain.

Do I have any recourse?
At a guess, based on model size, just about anything, even a Raspberry Pi 4 etc.

As comparison the GGML port of Whisper (OpenAI's equivalent), runs in the browser, via WASM: https://whisper.ggerganov.com/
The Scale of the Milky Way
It is called SignWriting for all you multiple naysayers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting
Wait... So, the companies - you know, the entities that SET the prices and exist solely to extract as much profit as they can - are the ones pushing the inflation? Nooooo! That doesn't make any sense!!!!!
The experiment setup seems accurate, but sustained (prompt) criticality for several seconds, as evidenced by the continuous blue glow, wouldn't leave the building standing, let alone any surviving witnesses to tell the story, would it?

I thought it was a high-energy pulse over a few milli- or even nanoseconds, stopped by thermal expansion of the core or reflectors. Oscillation between supercriticality and subcriticality seems possible, but that would probably also look different.
As another commenter said, types before the variable has problems.

I don't like `let` because it's an extra four characters every time. But the

[variable name]: [modifiers] [type] = [initial value];

only has one extra character and avoids all of the problems.
Automation doesn't guarantee quality, and it is hard to do at a high quality level, at scale, also.
https://peterattiamd.com/the-straight-dope-on-cholesterol-pa...
I would like to use stuff like this as a side-project. Buy a Nvidia Geforce GPU and stick it into my 24/7 server and play around with it in my free time, to see what can be done.

The issue with all these AI models is that there's no information on which GPU is enough for which task. I'm absolutely clueless if a single RTX 4000 SFF with its 20GB VRAM and only 70W of max power usage will be a waste of money, or really something great to do experiments on. Like do some ASR with Whisper, images with Stable Diffusion or load a LLM onto it, or this project here from Facebook.

Renting a GPU in the cloud doesn't seem to be a solution for this use case, where you just want to let something run for a couple of days and see if it's useful for something.
The comments and discourse here is always so black and white.

If you're lucky enough to have creative work where you can deliver the most value by doing focused work all day, then by all means ignore your slack and email. BTW I'm very jealous of your job!

Why can't we just be adult professionals who can decide for themselves when to spend time without distractions and when not to? Surely we need both right?
Maybe ask for something other than a raise, more holiday days, lower regular expected weekly hours. Argue with your experience and look for something he can make happen, if they cant support a higher wage. If overtime hours are not yet being paid out or used up as holidays ask for this as well... you like the position, you like the team, and you dont really want to change job , thats fine so go for something that is worth it for you outside of more money.

If they are not willing to adjust anything, they dont really value you enough, then you at least know it and can start looking for something else.
Bringing Open Large Language Models to Consumer Devices
Huh? No no no, it's just "Optimizing Consumer Payments". This totally isn't a crime.
> The article portrays Dali as a greedy businessman first, an artist second:

That's not a novel idea. It was claimed contemporaneously by other artists, if I recall correctly.
It has always been like this - at least for the past 10-15 years or so it has been essentially impossible to edit wikipedia.

Basically any change you make it insta-reverted by some bot or over-zealous power-crazed editor.

I think some editors decide that they "own" certain pages or group of pages and install themselves as some sort of authority/gate keeper/moderator. If your edit does not please them, it's gone. Instantly. You only get to edit the pages if you are in the editor's cabal of friends.

If you don't have an account, or you do have an account but perhaps have only made a handful of edits, you are instantly distrusted and assumed to be malicious.

Of course, you can never prove that you are not malicious, because there is the default stance of immediate-distrust for anyone, so your edits are constantly undone and you never get to build up enough credibility to appease the editors who control who gets to edit "their" articles.

I gave up years ago after a small edit-war with someone who kept reverting changes about a UK politician who was in national news at the time. No amount of references or citations from e.g. the BBC or the Guardian was good enough as I guess the verifiable truth didn't fit with their view of what this page should selectively say about that person, and so they banned my IP as a "vandal". I gave up (but got a new IP after redialing so it was pointless)
I agree, it’s impossible to completely divorce humans of their biases. One way is to create a system of diversity in rival ideas. So while a scientist is a noun, science should be viewed as a verb. The person may be biased, but the goal is that the process is not. (Still easier said than done).
I don't see this dip in the charts. Is the story the thing that's fake?
It's not just lack of knowledge, but lack of willingness to learn and apply it.

Their priorities are set on the power plays that happen in government chambers, the government and corporate interests that ask them to change laws for some purpose, and performing actions that will keep them elected (in that order). Banning encryption is something that satisfy the second group, where government organizations would love to make their jobs easier by having a key to encrypted communications. The fact that the entire internet is built on encryption is only a barrier to these governmental powers telling lawmakers to "pull the trigger" on banning encryption, since the compromises will hit corporations the most (since corporations actually do need perfect encryption without the government spying on them).
if AGI 2030 then presumably singularity shortly after at which point physics is immediately solved subject to the computational limits of the amount of energy available in our solar system (beyond which we start paying speed of light delays to move compute to energy dense regions of the galaxy, unless warp drives are solved too).
I don't think that's what they are saying. Anything which increases the productivity of software development meaningfully will change the buy/build choice.
They probably didn’t tell bc they wouldn’t get the deal.

Simple story. Just some more Apple bashing like always.
Not sure to understand why the US Cloud Act is « infamous » in that respect. It would make little sense to let companies operating under US jurisdiction store their data in unsearchable data havens outside of US territory. The act has to be fully actionable.
The Unheard Founding Story of Netflix
https://unheard-roots.beehiiv.com/p/netflix
Maybe because I live in a municipality known for hydro power, so I don't consider that an issue. But it's a renewable that's just as easy to control as gas. Even better, can pump up water and store energy when solar or wind have excess power.
I no longer believe they’re fools, hanlon’s razor is/was a mistake.

They’re malicious.
And the fact that they're spending so much time on it and were afraid to rewrite it tells you all you need to know.

Rewriting it in C++, leveraging the platform-specific APIs for disk I/O (sync_file_range on Linux, not even wrapped by a Python module) would yield not only much better performance, but also much higher reliability.

As it is this daemon is a recipe for page thrashing. Not that I would expect a Python dev to actually know how a kernel works.
I believe the Windows equivalent is to click on the Calendar in the Taskbar, and select the "Focus" triangle

Reference:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-use-focus...

Amusingly, the first thing it does is put a big countdown clock on your screen, counting down the time till your "focus" ends. Otherwise it works pretty well.
I believe it's the residual licensing costs to the works that are the expense, not the physical storage of it.
The name of the story is Ubik, in case anyone is looking for it.