skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any half baked ecologist knows that monoculture farming is the single most damaging thing to the ecosystem that humans have developed. Let’s destroy MASSIVE amounts of land to farm, and the displaced animals will now go to areas they don’t belong, ruin that land, displace those animals, etc.

I heard once in one of my classes that every 1 acre of farmland disrupts 24 acres of adjacent land, not just the surrounding acres but the ones surrounding that!

Meanwhile, global warming is terrible but the world being even 5 degrees hotter doesn’t kill most stuff, but 10b acres of farming can destroy entire continents
Proof that we are living through an AI hype cycle.
http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf
It doesn't take more to write a systemd unit file than figuring out the api request or navigating the gui of your favorite cloud service.

Nowadays all linux distros offer an unattended way to do packages security updates and reboot the node.
The timeline of this vulnerability might just be the best argument I've ever seen for full disclosure:

2019-09-26 Reported to vendor with POC
2020-01-14 Followed up with vendor
2022-01-24 Publicly disclosed (still no fix over 2 years later!)
2022-01-28 Fix released by vendor

I wonder if the same will happen with this RIGOL oscilloscope vulnerability.
network effects
My original comment was in response to a suggestion of banning an entire category of already regulated e-bikes purely for the sake of children, hence the "somebody think of the children"

If we are going to ban a category of vehicle for the sake of children based on injuries to children, then the logical vehicle to ban is the one that isn’t already speed and power limited.

My position is that it doesn’t matter if the kid is driving cars or not, if large, multi ton, unlimited speed, unlimited power vehicles (cars) are what is killing kids by the thousands, then why are we suggesting banning something which just isn’t as dangerous in an absolute sense.

If you want to compare motor vehicles to bicycles, then let’s add in trains, planes and ferries. And why miles driven and not time spent traveling. There’s a million ways to slice this, but there is no getting around the fact that if your kid dies in a vehicle accident, it’s almost always going to be a car.

By those measures we should get rid of bikes AND cars and stick to public transportation options.

I already think that e-bikes are over-regulated so I push back hard on reactive arguments like the GP. To ride legally I have to limit myself to 2/3 HP (500 watts) regardless of vehicle and rider weight, go no faster than 32kph, ride on road lanes where the other vehicles travel at 2x-3x my speed, wear PPE, have government approved lighting and reflectors, etc.

These things are already massively regulated in ways that limit their actual utility without necessarily helping safety. We don’t need to ban them outright because parents allow their children to do stupid shit on them, or adults are riding them without the proper skills. We don't suggest banning things like downhill mountain bikes even though children ride them, and they are far more dangerous to use as intended than e-bikes.
Not in an organized/commercially funded way. Interests/corps that don't get to vote shouldn't get to lobby. Beyond that, lobbying should only happen ar capitol hill with no paid lunches, fundraisers,etc... involved.
To me GA144 looks less like a state-of-the-art CPU or DSP replacement and more like an FPGA replacement—and that would actually be lovely to see, given how inefficient and expensive FPGAs are nowadays compared to doing the same thing with a custom chip (if you only overlook the design cost for the latter). The “computer” marketing makes little sense to me.

Unfortunately, GA don’t seem to have gotten the memo about cheap entry-level dev tools that the microcontroller world has been circulating since 2010 or so. At the prices they charge for their devboards, you wouldn’t really get one just to play with, even if the chips themselves are actually somewhat cheap compared to getting the same amount of compute on an FPGA.

(It’s $500 per devboard and $20 per chip, with each chip capable of 2e9 16-bit multiplies/sec. Somebody[1] is selling a breakout board with only the chip for a much more reasonable price of $35, but you’ll need to figure out how to wire up the thing yourself.)

Charles Moore is known for aggressively patenting his hardware, though. (Well, he and every other modern chip designer.) So we might not get to see anybody else do this stuff for a long, long time. Adapteva’s Epiphany/Parallella design used a broadly similar idea with an explicit grid interconnect and also aimed for a piece of the FPGA/ASIC pie, but they had much beefier, synchronous cores with separate message routers attached to them.

[1] https://schmartboard.com/schmartboard-ez-qfn-88-pins-0-4mm-p...
Oh great! Yeah as you can probably tell from the script I'm using it as a (locally built) container in my own setup. Feel free to pretend it's BSD licensed if that helps :)
> 2) this is a solved problem as it relates to other professional service firm (law firms, investment banks (back in the day)).

How was it solved?
How is judicial review different from what naturally follows from a combination of constitutional supremacy and precedent?
Exactly! I believe the legal term is "beyond reproach".
I dunno, the reason that we have such long patent periods is supposedly to pay for all the losses in Phase 1/2/3. However, if we merely let scientists do clinical research, as per usual, and license the right to conduct these studies to contract research labs, and then license the production rights for the successful trials to contract manufacturers, we could probably cut out a huge amount of the waste and marketing spend by Pfizer/Novartis et al and still achieve the better goals.

In fact, because the people in this chain would be less incentivised to focus on diseases of rich people, then humanity might overall be better off.
Aviation isn’t always as extravagant as you may have been led to believe. Of course, private jets, turbine helicopters and similar toys of the .01% tend to be obscenely consumptive of planetary resources for the utility extracted by society at large, but in some cases even those can make sense (aero ambulances etc).

My plane gets about 23 miles to the gallon, and produces far, far less carbon than other ways of getting to where I take it (boat or snow machines being the other motorised options).

Plus, at 23mpg , weighing 870lbs empty and having been made in 1946, having flown around a million miles, and not using any highway infrastructure, I’d be surprised if it’s overall carbon footprint per mile wasn’t much, much smaller than a modern electric or hybrid car. Certainly it’s other environmental impact is negligible in comparison.

Some planes (mostly experimental category) can get better than 30mpg while flying over 140mph.

Flying doesn’t have to be wasteful, and the infrastructure impacts are tiny when you operate from grass or gravel airstrips.

As for the responsibility of society to prevent people from doing great harm, I agree with you there 100 percent. That doesn’t mean we should treat employees of Academi or Wagner with the same moral regard as employees of the local sanitation company, even though they are all allowed to exist under the laws of society.

There are activities, while legal, that a person should reasonably choose not to participate in, and if they do it speaks volumes about their moral character and courage of conviction.

I’m saying to judge people on their actions, and participation in an industry that has chosen, in the face of better options, to continue to betray the best interests of the species is questionable at best.

I say this as a person who has worked on the oilfields in Alaska and chose to do something different.
Here's the actual paper that was summarized in the OP:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.01850.pdf

The paper is quite approachable and worth a quick scan. In essence, reusing output from previous generations results in rather wonky results which are clearly separable from the original training data.
This is now Bell Works:
https://bell.works/new-jersey/explore/
There is no such beast as 1Mb cat5. Do you mean 1gb? Assuming the cables are in conduit you may be able to use the existing cables to pull new cables. This usually works.
A cheap toaster these days will use a toaster ASIC rather than a general purpose microcontroller or timer. PT8A2514 [1] is one example. Another surprising type of ASICs I've come across are vape ASICS [2].

[1]: https://www.diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/PT8A2514A.pdf
[2]: http://robruark.com/other/Teardowns/Vape_ASIC/vape_asic.html
Senator Schumer Pushes Measure to Declassify UFO Records
The extremely obvious compromise is that you need to have a high-PSI air tank on hand as well as a donor bike. The donor bike can probably be gotten for very cheap or free, but the tank...

I looked at the prices of 80-gal 200 PSI rated tanks online, and the conclusion is...not great.

It's going to run you roughly $1000, for which you can realistically buy a whole set of cordless battery powered tools AND an outlet-powered air compressor on top of that.
I think you mean pullnoodles /s
640Mbps ought to be enough for everyone.
I'm adjacent to the space and I'd disagree with this statement: "fleecing pension funds run by financiers who aren’t smart enough to get into PE."

Institutional Investment Funds (pensions, endowments, sovereign funds, etc) need returns well beyond inflation to ensure long term stability.

To do this, they will mix and match various different investment vehicles to minimize risk.

This means a fund will have a varying percentage of funds invested in stocks+ETFs, commodities+futures, cash in hand, real estate assets, IP assets, and greenfield opportunities.

Essentially, you are dealing with dozens of different financial instruments, and while you may have an above average understanding of how all these work, you won't have the resources, staffing, or ability to optimize returns on all these instruments.

This is why Funds end up having VC firms make VC investment decisions, PE firms (itself a loaded term because PEs specialize in different markets and sectors) making equity investment decisions, etc.

If you are able to specialize in one specific sector (aka have both the domain experience and the network of founders, operators, and managers) then at that point you may as well open your own firm and manage investments on the behalf of other institutional investors.

It's all about specialization.

Also, fund operating costs cannot exceed more that 2%. This means you can only really charge AT MOST 2% YoY on the entire value of the fund. That 2% will have to cover your entire expenses (salary, insurance, office space). This means most operations have to be extremely lean as there isn't much money to spread around.
Their lobbyists shouldn't fight oil and gas lobbyists. This is not an oligarchy. Billionaires should have the exact same amount of influence over congress as does a broke homeless guy on the streets of SF.
This title could not be more click-baity. AI does not have a mind, stop perpetuating this falsehood
Yeah, but does it have to be?

Like, definitely there's costs associated with Phase 1/2/3 etc, but right now the actors in the chain have absolutely no incentives to limit these costs, as they help to justify the huge profits gained from the temporary monopoly of patents.

Also, it's worth noting that all the big Pharma companies spend much, much more on marketing than they do on research.
Very interesting reference, thanks.
I had a strong "no thanks" reaction to the first example because of the potential for hard to debug hallucinations that Look Good. Sometimes being forced to think is a good thing.

For my DNS (e.g. Cloudflare) - Allow me to copy in a poorly formatted block of text containing the DNS records I need, and then extract all the records and say “here are the records, ready to be added, click this one button to add them all at once”

(But some of the other ones make more sense.)
> At fukushima disposing of the contaminated water is still a big problem now,

That tritium is a huge nothingburger. They could dump it into the ocean now or store it for a century then dump it; either way it causes no real harm. The amount of tritium they're wringing themselves into knots over is a nonissue.
Behold; the bed modern society made. Enjoy.
We must stop constantly lowering the bar. Let them learn to write, or don't hire them in the first place. Communication skill is a good hiring criterion.
I wrote something similar a couple of years ago - https://github.com/adamisntdead/QuSimPy

Happy to answer any questions people have, including on other simulation methods other than state vector!
Something like this recently happened in one of my university classes. We had a remote class in the evening on Teams.
One of my buddies felt very tired so he thought he'll zone out for a bit and mute the call.
After he proceeded to mute the call he realized that he'd actually muted the teacher for the whole class. It was hilarious, especially when he told me after. :)
You pay a premium pretty much everywhere else too, it's just much less of a premium than Apple in most cases.
That's awful. Maybe I was wrong, and 'the reason' is security and policy tooling where user experience is an afterthought. :\\

I think there's a lot of room for improvement in this area but I don't see a lot of interest on the part of implementers or vendors. I think it's probably the usual incentives problem with enterprise software, which is tough.
A definition of "mind" would help settle this.
That can be very productive and clever, but be - and stay - aware that such polyglot solutions tend to be maintenance headaches in the longer run.

There is a really nice open source project out there that allows you to train your hearing and your sightreading, but it's written in the authors own language which in turn compiles to JavaScript and the headache to set up their toolchain is such that I haven't bothered fixing any of the bugs that I'm aware of (and there are plenty).

https://sightreading.training/

https://github.com/leafo/sightreading.training

It's written in a language called 'Moonscript':

https://github.com/leafo/moonscript

Which compiles to Lua. Which compiles to JS.

Madness. Nice madness, but still, it stopped me from being a contributor.
Or Scrum "stand-ups" reciting the Scrum updates in a Word document.
"..instead of having wifi that someone can tap into.." so, use Ethernet cable?
You can hover any message and press "Create Thread" which creates a separate threading for that specific message where people can participate.
There's a widespread perception that we get in the way of traffic, take frivolous risks, and demand infrastructure changes to be made on our behalf.
I too have seen great agile. However, it required the team to be in control of its own destiny. Namely, we didn’t have deadlines and the goals we reported against were impact. That meant we could run no-weekly sprints while safely fitting delivery into the goal reporting timetable.

In most companies, it seems management is incapable of measuring progress other than “will X be done before Y date”.
> the person paying for healthcare isn't the one receiving it, so it is no wonder patients receive poor care.

This works fine in fields like the restaurant business or the haircutting business, where people can decide for themselves what they want to eat or how they want their hair, and they can decide for themselves whether their food or their haircut is satisfying.

The sector where it is least applicable is healthcare. You don't know what disease you've got, you don't know what can be done, and you don't know what the incentives of the people who do know are. This makes it hard to take advantage of the feedback loop from the other industries mentioned.
I agree with what you say, but would still replace the word "bike" with "moped". If it has a throttle, it is not a bike.
> The gameplan is simple: lend your buddy the money to buy the business. Now you have a line to the person who has the most access to data about, if not control over, the direction of the business. Wherever it happens to go, you can be ahead of the market. Long if it's going to survive and grow; short if it's doomed. He's happy because the decision to be lenient or aggressive about repayment lies with his own contact - you.

But if the business is privately held (because the borrower used the loan to buy the business), then what market is the lender going long/short against in this hypothetical conspiracy? Other (public) businesses in the market? Potential investors when the PE firm sells and takes the business public?
Hah. I wouldn't say that it is creepy but I get a bit uneasy thinking about it. Ok so I judge people on what they have in their basket in the store. I am not a greater person.
Octopuses are molluscs, and there are lots of land living molluscs, right?
The iOS Weather app from Apple does tell you if its going to rain in the next hour. Even down to the minute and for how long.
On the last point, interest rates aren't the only thing that matters to loans. The default rate also matters. If I borrow a billion dollars from you to pay myself and I have no good plan to pay you back, it doesn't matter how low interest rates are, you'll still be out a billion dollars.
What happens when photocopying comes to mind. Keep making copies of copies and it becomes more and more distorted.
If you were wondering that, why don’t you tell us?

We can’t read your mind (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise)

I think even “is there a Bayesian (probabilistic) way to frame the problem?” isn’t precise enough. Firstly, what is the problem?

Also, even assuming you mean state, not frame I wouldn’t know how to state a problem in a Bayesian way.
Paste into Powerpoint instead, and (sometimes) use Text Box to caption images. I almost never go back to them, but it feels handy to have.

This approach might be slightly faster, with an emphasis on context--without a caption, sometimes just the screenshot makes sense.

You can annotate the pasted image too, with colored rectangles and arrows.

If the first slide is blank, New Slide automatically makes the same type.
Of course that is the whole point of just, to be simpler and more focused tool because a task runner is what people commonly want and the bloat/complexity of make is more of hindrance. This is clearly mentioned in the readme too

> just has a ton of useful features, and many improvements over make:

> • just is a command runner, not a build system, so it avoids much of make's complexity and idiosyncrasies. No need for .PHONY recipes!
There's supersets and siblings like scss, sass, less, there's different modes entirely like utility classes (Tailwind) and css-in-js.

I don't think any of those make CSS much easier, though. Quicker to use, easier to write certain things, sure. But you still need to know your way around CSS atleast somewhat before you jump in to some augmentation or replacement.
Thank you, I had a brain fart and meant Gbit.
The problem with these types of assassinations is that the provably incompetent commander may get replaced by someone who is reasonably competent.
It's about the same level of relevance as your critique, don't you think?
Here is my silly alternative. You just write bash, with preconditions and annotations to describe what can run in parallel.

https://github.com/adamgordonbell/job-runner/blob/main/tests...
> Probably not.

Probably yes.
Like developer experience roles, maybe security departments need specialist 'user experience', teams or ICs. I think there's fertile middle ground here between anarchy and the received wisdom on 'best practices'.
I believe this to be the case also. In the UK we have lots of cases cropping up of PE being the bad guys, but the current owners being to blame for buying these companies in unstable positions and allowing the sellers to make fortunes. It does often seem like it is Pension funds making these poor investments. I am also really happy to see this line of questioning on HN, as it has been lacking in previous discussions.
I disagree. It is (or was, last time I tried a year or two ago) hard to upgrade postgres because you need both the old and new binary. Package manager tries its best to allow just one copy. You end up copying from one image to another, then run into tiny breaking differences.

I agree it should be explicitly invoked and not automated, for something almost everyone needs to do, it sure is a hard task.
These folks are working towards Roomba forest management, is that the general thesis you're seeing?
I am not quite sure what tipped me off, but I suspected something was off in the first paragraph or two and went to Wikipedia.

I think it just seemed out of place, like someone bringing up a topic in a forced way. Kind of “trying too hard”.
Yes, PeePee De Eff is something entirely different
By that rule the JVM is a 'subset of FORTH'.
AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway [video]
Here's a video in which Dr. Angela Collier makes a compelling set of arguments and warnings about the state of "AI" and how it is likely to interact with all of us in the real world.

I think she's pretty much right on all counts.
Bah. I often say things have “lost their mind”.

My car stereo loses its mind once a month or so and I have to reboot it. (SYNC, it sucks)

One time my garage door kept refusing to close, intermittently and at a random spot in the cycle. “Stupid thing is going crazy”. (Mental metaphor still there)

Often times I’ll notice that my golf balls “have a mind of their own”

This is not a weird use of the idiom. I think it’s a fine headline.
I do the same. OpenBSD, Go, SQLite, and rcctl.
NeurIPS 2023 Challenge: 1LLM 1GPU 1Day
What CSS needs is a refactor. Make a much smaller Strict-CSS that uses the same code paths in browsers, but provides far less options to the user, sticking to modern tools (grid, flex) with simplified naming schemes, while deprecating old ways of doing (float). That would finally allow a manageable mental model.
Create RFC system design docs more easily
Gout is definitely not limited to diabetes. I’m not overweight, no history of diabetes in the family, and I eat very clean otherwise.

It’s more related to your ability to metabolize fructose which is a rabbit hole of a topic of itself. But a good science based overview is on YouTube. Check Sugar the Bitter Truth video.
I'm deciding between Common Lisp and Mojo, so maybe I will try to implement this in Mojo and compare. Anybody have any thoughts on this, since I am a mediocre Lisper and a beginning Mojo person. I am familiar with Numpy and I also program in APL and J.
If that was actually a problem you could use geoengineering to make the planet more reflective overall, letting you use more nuclear power.
How much of that video doesn't need to be uploaded to Youtube though? If costs are distributed among hosters and viewers directly, the entire creator-viewer relationship is going to change, and a ton of useless, low quality content is going to disappear.
Uh, what about all of their paid cloud offerings?
I mean, how do you even compare that to the “subsidy” that petroleum gets from western foreign policy?
> Honestly though, I think the good times are over for PE, as most of the industry (and finance in general) has been cushioned by a low interest rate world, and as debt starts to cost real money we're gonna see a _lot_ of these bets unwind.

Maybe the current bets will unwind, but I'm not sure that means there won't be a good time era of another round of bets. After all, interest rates were very high in the 80s, and that was a heyday for PE, right?
It's fake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_tree_octopus
We are on the same boat, my ansible scripts have barely changed in the past 7 years, still, I have been wondering about getting rid of ansible for simple scripts to handle everything, the main reasons being speed and simplicity (1 file vs many files).