skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was true for horses until the combustion engine came along and it certainly won't be true for humans forever. If we automate all useful work that can be done by someone at 100 IQ or lower than half of the population will be unemployed.
It is important to remember how poorly the first experiments in carbon transport and storage have gone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36021530

https://ieefa.org/resources/norways-sleipner-and-snohvit-ccs...
It feels a little inevitable though, given the other rules of the system: Companies don't become more valuable by having a steady earnings forecast, they become more valuable by having an _increase_ in earnings that is forecast to continue increasing. How can everything always increase? Well when you reach market saturation on one product, start a new product in a different market. What if all the markets seem saturated? Find a new thing to commoditize, a new market to create... Any system where unlimited growth is rewarded is going to try to take over everything it possibly can.
Yes (Unfortunately). But Llama 2 being released for free as a downloadable AI model is much better than nothing. For now it is a great start against the cloud-only AI models.

As for terms, we'll settle on '$0 downloadable AI models' which are available today. Would rather use that over cloud-only AI models which can fall over and break your app at any time and you have zero control over that.

Stable Diffusion is a good example that fits the definition of 'open-source AI' as we have the entire training data, weights reproduciblity, etc and Llama 2 does not.
That only works, if you know exactly, that the low bits are constant. Otherwise you may run into the issue that due to unsteady rate of RDTSC between two processes/threads that may be preemptively unscheduled between reading the HPTC and the RDTSC you might again end up with colliding time stamps. And if you took the derivative between timestamps taken in succession, you might even find is to be non-monotonic in places.

The combination of multiple counters incremented by individual unsteady clocks used to be a source for pseudo random scrambler sequences; these days we prefer LFSRs, but overall this is something that can be weird.

Hence my recommendation: Just throw xxHash32 on concatenation of the HPTC's low bits and the CPU clock cycle counter, and forgo any pretense of monotony in the low bits (because very likely you don't have it anyway).
Anyone who can see the uuidv7 can determine at what time it was generated. You might not want that for things exposed to users.
You are ignoring a lot about the situation of the workers, to reach these conclusions, and implying that they have so much leverage they're able to capture all the value of their labor:

> The employees in this scenario have all the leverage. But, they can only negotiate their wage up to a point where the farmer's livelihood is sacrificed

—save a tiny sliver that the farm owner is lucky to manage to get.

And this:

> Its not like farmers are making orders of magnitude more than the people they employ to help harvest

Consider the immense capital value required to have a farm of large enough scale to even halfway succeed in 2023. Some extremely poor decisions have been made if they're really not making a lot more than a migrant worker on their farm.

This is... fantasy-land topsy-turvy-world stuff.

You might have a point if the laborers were bargaining as a bloc, had captured ~all the available labor into that bloc, and had a substantial cash reserve for strike-pay. Short of that, this is all totally backwards.
> But wouldn't you still have the issue of content editors wanting to right align text and turn it blue regardless of the CMS you're using?

OP mentioned the ultimate solution in their comment, it's Headless CMS (provide content) + fully custom frontend.
Why does that make no sense? Sounds a lot like how Google and Facebook were both born along with many other businesses. Rearden is never said to run the whole business himself after all, just do the experiments to develop the new tech.
I somehow wish there was a good-hearted effort from some government in establishing a low-key social media. But, again, a government could be biased but my point was that only such an organization could bear to go non-profit at such scales.
Earth's close encounter with Asteroid remained undetected for 48 hours
The split between parameterized classes and logic sounds a bit like the split between Puppet and Hiera. The idea was probably a good one, but something about the implementation made people go overboard with it.

I feel IaC really peaked around Puppet 3 and Chef 1. IaC should be simple enough that people use it, and trivial to write providers for. People tend to glue much too large libraries to their IaC platforms and end up with a maintenance mess which is what kills it in the long run. However both the above projects went corporate and grew legs and arms and a billion other features that everybody won't use more than a subset of. Most people migrated to Ansible which kept more of the open source project culture and was simpler in design.

Now people seems to use a little of this, a little of that. Some Ansible, some Terraform, some other stuff. They don't know what they're missing when the entire stack is built ground up from templated components defined in a common declarative language. Some people seem to really like Nix, which I haven't used professionally, but from what I've seen it seems to inherit the same type of design. There was an experimental project called cfg which worked in real time using hooks such as inotify which was promising, if there was a Kubernetes distribution made like that it would be really easy to manage components that didn't belong to a host.
Thus tripling the labor costs. Better a few peons die than business face that!
Silicon Valley Fractures
For me even the weirder part that the CEO knows the author's email program has an interval of 10mins. This CEO checked what kind of traffic is being used. Hopefully he wasn't interested in un-encyrypted traffic data as well!
This is shockingly similar to how NCAA colleges and universities handle behavior and conduct violations from players and coaches. They perform an internal investigation and then attempt to dish out a penalty or restriction that appears harsh enough for the governing body (the NCAA) not to take any additional action.

Also similar to everyone's response when asked: "What do _you_ think your punishment should be?"
Recipes sites too. Recently I was looking at recipes for a dish I wanted to try and noticed that two blogs had identical recipes for "Grandma's X". I scrolled back up to the obligatory five page essay and those were almost identical too--one of them had clearly stolen the story from the other and run it through one of those AI "paraphrase" tools to change words here and there. It was pretty easy to tell which was the original and which the copycat based on some strange word choices in the paraphrased version.
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This boom/bust is really obvious with regards to computer prices.

I'm seeing 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs with 7000+ MBps under $100 these days. Almost everything in the computer-world is on a significant sale.
Thank you for Maglev - looks awesome
1? 10? 100? Those are all nanoseconds. When someone is asking about precision it tends to be a good thing to be precise in your answer.
Lululemon has a series called Silverescent with a material called x-static. Feels amazing, very light, no stinking, lasts forever. Highly recommend

Edit: also no wrinkles/ironing which is huge if you are lazy
Apple doesn't need a smart chatbot, per se - they should be looking at embedding AI into their existing tools to make them better.

Take iWork, for example. You can use AI to rough-in a document you need to write. Then you can fill in some of the details and make it so it's written by you. Even better if you can point to a personal archive of documents you can use to train your own personal AI so it's better able to write a more relevant document.

Consider Logic Pro. We've all seen AI-generated music, so why not provide an AI that generates your base music project that you can then tweak and embellish?

This is how I expect normal people to want to use AI - embed it in their existing tools. I also don't think most people expect AI to generate 100% of the content, instead they would expect the AI to do the heavy lifting and get them maybe 60% to 70% of the way there. This gets them over the blank page syndrome and allows them to produce a quality result.

I'm reminded of a meme I recently saw that really resonated with me, it said AI isn't going to take your job, it's somebody using AI who's going to take your job. AI is a tool and while we may be dazzled with its capabilities, we're going to be even more dazzled by what people using AI are capable of doing.
120°F = 48.88°C
Like tracing artwork with a pencil, these models are unfortunately too transformative compared to humans to compete with them in creating derivative content. Perhaps AGI will come to help us.
You’re missing the point. To the extent these things are true (unclear why an artificial environment would have less need for fertilizer), they’re true about ordinary greenhouses.

So what does verticality add other than complication, and why is it so valuable for “dense urban areas”? Do any of the gains you propose make up for the enormous loss of free energy from the Sun? So far, in real life, the answer is a resounding no.
It's highly telling nothing is said about the legality of taking the entire sum of human knowledge and using it to train the AI - which already created a huge stink in the generative art community leading companies like Valve to issue a blanket ban on AI art.
Human beings are at minimum somewhat rational actors and framing it in terms of economics makes it possible to study human behavior.
Industrial society and its consequences
>> There's a lot of bullshit in this HN thread
Then consider replying directly to the post containing wrong information instead of making such generalised accusation.

>> I get that due to the nature of their plans and architecture, downtime like this is guaranteed and normal.
What other cloud providers have downtimes of 20 hours? There must be a lot to call this "guaranteed and normal".

Sadly, I've always felt a good amount of passive aggressiveness in many of the HN threads where fly.io is involved.
Doesn't this situation keep occuring? Feels like it's no longer surprising
There’s no trust in gov for most of the world, and it would likely be not so great. The right ppl aren’t motivated to work for gov.
I don't quite have my head around this was done, but aren't there 3^9=19683 possible boards (naively, less if you account for the rules) and so would it be possible to just create these?
This game murdered me. I discovered Diablo a few months after it came out and played obsessively for a few weeks. I had lots of cool stuff. Then one day wandering through a dungeon minding my own business, someone invisible killed me. Boom you're dead. Then they resurrected me. Then they killed me again. Then they resurrected me. Then they killed me again. Then they just went away.

I really felt murdered. I read mystery books with murders in them all the time, but the punch never connected like that. Video games really are a uniquely expressive medium. I closed the game and never went back to it.
I didn't say that it wasn't. Hell even ms is too precise for many use cases (usually where date is used instead).

What I said was that it's useful to be able to select timestamp precision independently of UUID implementation. One size that fits all fits none best.
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This kind of mentality is going to blowback on AI researchers very quickly. When the job losses start mounting politicians are going to need a very persuasive answer as to why we should let millions of people be thrown onto the streets so that a few can become absurdly rich. We will either: have a well-thought out, empathetic plan to resolve this issue, or the mob will burn down the data centers. Your choice.
When I see such cool projects, I feel very overwhelmed. How do you get started with Rust and master basics to even attempt doing such a thing? Can OP explain?
You are a very ignorant if you think there is no barrier to getting someone to try an app with a substantially less good UX than what someone's currently using, and that that barrier doesn't border impossible in a group of 10.

I can't even get my wife to install Element - and she works in tech as a senior python / automation engineer. People want neatness on their phone and low total complexity, and installing a messenger for a single person is over the line for most.
The difference between creative and uncreative people
companies and people buy lots of things all over the place all the time. raising alarms about it gets ignored because of alarm fatigue, and because it rarely matters or can be stopped without grinding the economy to a halt. and someone will always be worried about literally anything and everything, even stuff that doesn’t exist or didn’t happen.
Is it okay for the buyer to lie, but not okay for the seller to ask for the truth and adjust their price accordingly? This 'anything goes' market ideology is the same framework that leads us to deceptive subscription systems, anti patterns etc. Deceiving people to make a buck is shitty behavior.
It's not about fairness, it's about letting markets work properly, reaching a market-clearing price that maximizes total welfare.
The first thing that comes to mind for me is that cities are usually pretty far from the farms. This leaves farmers and those wishing to buy from them with long supply chains. In my experience, people that live in cities have never really had fresh vegetables before unless they've personally grown them.

With this in mind, I can see a large former factory building being converted into vertical farming and then selling fresh produce, year round, to select clients at a premium.

Being able to farm and produce year round is also quite a nice bonus. You can largely ignore the weather, except where it impacts your supply chain.

All that said I think it's a fine idea and a great use for previously used industrial spaces.
I find that Rust is like maybe 1.5-2x more productive to code in than say C or C++. Part of that is the tooling has so much less arcane baggage, part of that is that I need to reach less for external tools for metaprogramming, part of that is fewer crazy macro/template compiler errors, and part of that is less time spent debugging.

It all adds up.
Two big issues worth discussing here IMO:
1) Privacy rights in the age of aerial photography
2) Consumer rights in the age of subscription-dependence

Property insurance historically has some of the best consumer protections, its one of the oldest "private subscriptions" that fills a critical need. But new technology can easily disrupt a balance of power set decades ago.
By "closed source," you mean government clandestine intelligence services? I used to work on ground processing software for the NRO and NSA, and yes, they know a lot more than the Internet, a lot more than law enforcement, and a lot more than they ever admit to knowing. Not revealing what you know is an intrinsic part of the spy game to prevent opponents from inferring your collection capabilities and current scope of assets. If your opponent knows what you can surveil, they just won't do that.
Why is no one talking about Leo Szilard?
Not my area, but I know He is very expensive (as is getting it cold enough to make He4) so using He4 as a leak detector is likely going to blow the entire experiment's budget.
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Most of the actual reasoned criticism comes from left-wing feminist women.

Right-wing conservatives have only jumped on this topic since fairly recently, and tend to look at this from a different angle.

Looking through his comments, the previous commenter seems to be discussing this from a more feminist, gender-critical perspective, rather than taking a conservative viewpoint.
Rightly so - don't peruse country-specific TLDs for your app or service vanity BS. This especially concerns .io!
The planet is heating and you’re asking how you can profit from this?

Research companies and buy shares. Don’t limit your self to AC companies either, lots of opportunities abound, look at renewable energy build out, mineral exploration. deep sea mining, and I feel like defense companies are going to see more growth too.

Climate change will shrink the pie, but you can have a larger share of it.
What other instances did I miss?
Chlorophyll has very narrow bands of absorption. Collecting wide spectrum insolation with solar panels gives you plenty of energy to emit narrow-band light from LEDs, even with efficiency losses. In fact, plants do fine in red light.

Hydroponics is a well-understood technique - retail kits are available for home ganja growers. Soil is not an input. You would be nuts to grow in soil.

Greenhouses are great, think of vertical farming as gen2 of greenhouses.

Don't mistake VF as a solution for land-extensive staple crops. It won't grow significant quantity of cereal any time soon. What it does promise is high-value crops like salad, herbs, tomatoes, strawberries. These crops benefit from short food miles and are labour-intensive to harvest. You can cut costs by growing them closer to cities, in beds that you can bring to a comfortable height for picking (or pick by robot).

Some of the big costs are: labour, fertiliser, and transport to market. The latter two are tied to energy costs, and the former is expensive in high-CoL places where you want to sell the goods. Hydroponics makes much more efficient use of fertiliser and water, and may reduce labour costs. Vertical farming enables you to operate close to cities where land coats are high.

Are you qualified to say who is and who isn't interested in vertical farming? Have you been reading Farmer's Weekly or just HN? But for the sake of argument: existing ag interests are the incumbent and tech is a sector known for disruptors. VF is tech-heavy. It wasn't farmers who invented tractors, it was engineers and entrepreneurs.

But this is an interesting point, and the whole thing may turn out to be delusional techbro vainglory. I think that's a stretch in a world where energy cost has tripled in a decade and desertification is an observable reality. I wouldn't look for farmers in the startup, I'd look for biologists and grocers. Farmers are the customers, and the ones losing their livelihoods are good sales prospects.
"if you set off a rube goldberg type death trap to kill someone, if its a long enough machine, it ceases to become your fault if somebody dies at the end."
Indeed. And if you have to click through a couple of results to find an actual answer, they get ad revenue X times over answering your question with the first result.

There was a time when Google Search would nearly always nail it with the first result, but now it feels like you have to wade through several results and be a prompt engineer to find relevant results.
>Who's the victim of propaganda here, really?

Imho high probability its who ever is reacting to your post. Cognitive warfare today means its highly advantageous to exploit propaganda blind spots by dialing them up to 11 to create dysfunction and make your opponent look bad. Your post has all the hallmarks of being a caricature aimed at creating a reaction.

I am sorry if its your actual opinion, in that case you should consider that giving up on a functioning reality model in favor of narratives is a deeply counterproductive idea. Distortions and pollution of the information environment are ambivalent to the intention of its creation. Its just creating blindspots that get exploited by hostile entities.
Since protein is a key factor in building muscle, is there any reason to assume keeping up with strength training in middle age would direct most of that protein to a better use and keep the balance?

I realize the question is "bro-science", but I'm genuinely interested, perhaps someone educated could expand on it.
But you can publish the output, right? And then a “third party” could train a different model on just that published material without copying it or ever agreeing to a EULA.
> casualize(? is it a word)/simplify mechanics

'streamline the fun out of'
I was trying to make a point about post-scarcity, but sure, let's continue to focus on capitalism I guess.
> Many CEA companies' growth plans didn't include things like "positive unit economics." If your unit economics is a negative number for whatever reason (already a bad sign), then you have to determine what the "escape velocity" or volume of sales + production costs is that turns that number positive

Counterpoint: even if you have the most amazing set of patents, no one is going to give you venture capital if your margins are "slightly better than a farm". Even if you have positive unit economics. You'd be insane to pick that investment over, like, a McDonalds franchise.

If you actually look at the profit margins of even the successful companies in this space vs the capex investment, it's kind of bananas. They took an industry (agriculture) and targeted investors completely unfamiliar with that industry with the help of a bit of misdirection.

Given the amount of money dumped into these operations and the tiny margins they operate in, the most viable endgame for them is to become too big to fail. Invest as much money into infrastructure and distribution as possible and get to positive margins. Investors would have nothing left to pull and would have no choice to write off their investments and just let the companies do their thing.
How do you batch write the results (say updating shopping carts) when frontend has to reflect whats in the database?
So US gov tripped up by their own secrecy laws?

Hard to have sympathy for their dilemma
> But the only solution to this is opportunity.

Is it? Because tech has created a lot of opportunities over the past 50 years, but we still have farmers working 70 hours during the harvest for a handful of $1400 paycheques. And the middle class continues to shrink…
Meta can call Llama open source as much as it likes, but that doesn't mean it is
Very difficult to read on mobile.
Compare agriculture in the Netherlands, including the people running it, with the average vertical farm and the people running those, and the answer is obvious.
It is unfair for TV broadcasters to use the public spectrum by shutting out the public through encryption. It must be stopped.
As of a few years ago, my friend's roommate was receiving nastygrams from the ISP for this same thing.

My friend refuses to purchase a broadband connection for the house, because she says she believes that her roommate would violate copyright on a massive scale. She uses her iPhone for everything and has no desktop/notebook. So she keeps her roommate on a dial-up modem line.

And the ISP does become upset when roommate is online for long periods of time or downloads a lot of data or something. Apparently the roommate is into RPGs and forums of whatever kind.

I've encouraged her to give in and get that broadband. Her wireless voice calls are spotty and sometimes I can't understand her. But she's good with the status quo.