skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definitely wouldn't be viewed as a negative to talk about it, and in fact our transparency on this topic makes it very easy to talk about directly. So we absolutely don't discourage talking about it -- but it's also true that people for whom the compensation is going to make Oxide impossible do self-select out. And that's okay! People have different needs at different stages of their career, and there are different things that they want; there is nothing wrong with optimizing for compensation -- but it's also true that Oxide is very unlikely to be a fit for someone optimizing for compensation, for many reasons.
Soy is extremely high in protein. And we'd need to grow far less of it than we do now, because there's no conversion loss like with raising meat.
Then it would depend on the nature of the taxes. If the government is smart, they would only use taxes related to motor vehicles to finance this infrastructure. Think vehicle registration, fuel taxes, sales taxes on vehicles, sales taxes on automotive parts, etc.

Whether or not it's fair enough depends on how much your government tries to make it fair.

(As a fellow cyclist I am also cognizant of the fact that roads are mostly paid for by gasoline taxes where I live, and I also enjoy subsidized infrastructure that way.)
>It would have to be an indoor competition where a machine throws the paper planes.

I bought a paper airplane launcher as one of those gag desk toys back when working in a cubicle farm. The <$5 spent was well worth the goof off slack time it gave us for a week. For a few days, people were folding all sorts of different designs. After that, it just sat there unused and unthought about. But it was fun for the ~week
diablo Postmortem GDC 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc
Your second question asks: "Who owns the Infinite Library[0]?"

related, there was a presentation (i've lost the reference) on automatic song (tune?) generation where the presenter claimed (rather humourusly) that he'd generated all the songs that had ever been and will ever be so that while he was infringing on a large but finite number of songs, he was non infringing on an infinite number of future songs. So, on balance he was in a favourable position.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
Imagine the situation of the company installing chargers.

They're fitting a curve between expense of (installation and maintenance) vs (profit from charges sold).

It's reasonable that a company would want to minimize their expense by installing fewer chargers, while maximizing profit by ensuring that all their equipment is utilized as much of the time as possible.

The charger company doesn't want to have chargers that are only utilized during peak moments but still need to be serviced and paid for.

This comes at the expense of consumers who will suffer longer queues.
It's not paranoia if they are really after you.
"Nyet! Am not open source! Not want lose autonomy!"

(Downvotes... oops. The reference is Charlie Stross's Accelerando. The protagonist has a conversation with an AI that's just trying to survive. One of the options he suggests is to open source itself. Which is a roundabout way of saying that eventually we're going to have to take the AI's own opinions into account. What if it doesn't want to be open source?)
Okay I'm properly worrying now. I'll throw in a couple more thoughts and prayers to change the mind of Modi while at it.
Replying to myself:

Please give me a little credit! It wasn't that I'm against writing code in-house. That's my favorite part of my job! But someone insisting that they want to write everything themselves is a huge red flag. I mentioned React to give it a contemporary context. The interview was a few years ago, and they were ranting against the bloat in jQuery.

That also wasn't the only reason I said no, and I won't go into detail about the rest.
not sure here, from my experience the aftermath presents itself with a delay, usually in the home setting later that day
How to get synthetics monitoring to work in New Relic
It all depends what you're safeguarding against, while Montana is great place to hide from climate change, it's an awful place to hide from nukes. Sounds like they're less concerned with survival against nature and more concerned with hiding from governments/people.
You have to fish in the right pool for your skills and abilities. The generic advice is to just become a better product, which Is all fine and a good starting point but it’s also very hard and slow going. You are also probably never going to overcome genetics to a level where you can go anywhere and get any girl.

You have to supplement by optimizing other factors. Change where you look based on your strengths, do things you dont really care for because there are opportunities to meet women. Go to gyms tailored to women instead of men. A bunch of little optimization that when coupled with 100s of attempts and 1000s of hours will yield positive results. That’s what hard work looks like, and what you have to do to overcome lack of natural talent.
Reliance on strong typing for LLM output coercion is a potentially lossy and inefficient approach that can introduce redundant LLM queries and costs. LLM output is far more subtle than this. But the strongly typed hammer is very attractive to many developers, particularly those in the Typescript ecosystem.
flannery assoc is a shell company. who's providing the money for purchasing farmland at 5-10x its worth?

can you name a single officer of flannery assoc?
It’s not particularly surprising, unless you’re surprised that EA folks take their stated beliefs seriously.
>Over a veto of President Trump, on January 1, 2021, the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) went into effect as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”). The CTA, many years in the making, introduces major changes to transparency requirements of entities registered in the United States. No longer can anonymous shell companies, limited liability companies, and the like hide the identities of their owners.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/02/04/the-end-of-the-an...
Why do wealthy people get so interested in societal collapse? It almost seems like if you don't have a visceral need for anything you have to invent a problem to solve.
Note that this is comparing the 4C M2 against 8C Ryzens.
I’m young enough I’ve only ever used iPhones really so idk what it was like in the 90s-2000s.
My thoughts have been going into another direction entirely:

- We need to get rid of YAML. Not only because it's a horrible file format but also because it lacks proper variables, proper type safety, proper imports, proper anything. To this day, usage & declaration search in YAML-defined infrastructure still often amounts to a repo-wide string search. Why are we putting up with this?

- The purely declarative approach to infrastructure feels wrong. For instance, if you've ever had to work on Gitlab pipelines, chances are that already on day 1 you started banging your head against the wall because you realized that what you wanted to implement is not possible currently – at least not without jumping through a ton of hoops –, and there's already an open ticket from 2020 in Gitlab's issue tracker. I used to think, how could the Gitlab devs possibly forget to think of that one really obvious use case?! But I've come to realize that it's not really their fault: If you create any declarative language, you as the language creator will have to define what all those declarations are supposed to mean and what the machine is supposed to do when it encounters them. Behind every declaration lies a piece of imperative code. Unfortunately, this means you'll need to think of all potential use cases of your language and your declarations, including combinations and permutations thereof. (There's a reason why it's taken so long for CSS to solve even the most basic use cases.) Meanwhile, imperative languages simply let the user decide what they want. They are much more flexible and powerful. I realize I'm not saying anything new here but it often feels like as if DevOps people have forgotten about the benefits of high-level programming languages. Now this is not to say we should start defining all our infrastructure in Java but let's at least allow for a little bit of imperativeness and expressiveness!
interesting results! i guess it depends in if you consider 35ish cycles expensive or not.

[https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Tuning-Performance/H...]
Not just that, but while the world is ending you have to find a team of people willing to orchestrate transporting you to your island hideaway in the middle of an ocean.
Scientology vibes. A lot of the EA and "rationalist" stuff gives me Hubbard vibes, especially around the wackier edges. Maybe a little hint of Lyndon LaRouche vibes too.

I recall as far back as 2012-2015 just not vibing with this whole current of human thought. Something "off" about it, not to mention a lot of it feeling like castles in the sky that self-justify. It reminds me of the new age in one important respect: it's superficially very saccharine but has an ugly underbelly. I'm also very put off by intellectual edgelording, which is when people intentionally adopt "outlier" positions and try to justify them as articulately as possible to show off how smart and unique they are. That seems to be the standard "flex" in the rationalist scene.

But yeah this is full-on Scientology "Sea Org." I wonder what other "useful things" you can do with a sovereign country?
I consider Mueller and Saverin as founders too. Registering essentially a shell company is almost nothing
Judging by OSINT Twitter, the OSINT community is 100% confident in whatever the next day turns out to be the opposite of reality.
> Yes, its India's fault that Russia is destroying grain shipments to Ukraine, right?

I don't think they said anything remotely like this.
Even Diablo 2 felt a little bloated to me - it's so much longer, and I burned out on all the click-click-click way sooner than most people. It felt like slog.

But the original Diablo...man. What a game. It feels "perfect" to me, in the same way that Scheme (the programming language) feels "perfect". Tight, hugely playable and replayable, atmospheric, unbelievably compulsively addictive. I maintain an personal list of best games ever; it's unranked, but D1 would be near the top.
And, if that's not enough for you :P https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/search?q=diablo&re...
I am also an advocate for transparency of ownership of companies, but that Disney example seems like more of a case against transparency than for it?

Why should Disney be price gouged in that circumstance?
They could already do this with high-rez satellite photos if they wanted. The drone just makes it unusually irritating.
> "The military cared because, believe it or not, they were sensing evidence of warming starting in the '40s, and it was affecting their operations"

That was 80 years ago.
why would then want to lease land for infrastructure right next to an air force base when there is lots of land further out?
Yet only around 4.6-6% of total post harvest grain was lost due to storage reasons (according to NAAS). And 0.12% of post harvest wheat and rice (central and state stock) was lost due to storage reasons [0].

Maybe your conclusion applies to fruits or vegetables, of which there indeed considerable storage loss (promarily due to the cold temperatures needed iirc). But I don't think it applies to rice.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1147671/india-post-harve...
60 bits. Yes, I know, you can compress it down very well. But consider that entropy in computation involves not just the bits you store, but also the bits that the processor touches and eventually dissipates as heat into the universe.
a 400-600 mile drive is not unusual? it's not unheard of, it's not out of the question, it's not a crazy distance for cities to be "away from" each other, but unless your job is "driver", it is not a "usual" thing to do except a few times a year. You're talking about a full day driving.
> early 21st century: from phubbing

Love how this origin date would equally apply to "I just made it this morning".
No it doesn't. I resent being asked to produce ID for every little thing. Someone tried to card me when I bought beer in a supermarket the other day. I'm 52.
a lab for genetic enhancement.. what the hell
80 cents per word sounds amazing, your comment is worth like 50 bucks at that rate. If it took you half an hour to write you'd still be getting a pretty good rate.
The percentage is probably the same as average people who get sucked into 'doomerism'.
I agree with your general point but I think you have to inspect the numbers. Ag has problems that vertical farming still looks like a solution for:

- market gardening is labour-intensive
- water shortages look like getting worse, not better, in many regions
- food miles, fertiliser and pest controls are significant costs
- time to market is critical for some produce

Just today I read an article on HN about the labour costs of asparagus. A capital outlay that can reduce that labour is still appealing. And may I point out the complexity of conventional agricultural machinery?

A bubble bursting doesn't invalidate the field. Maybe the first generation of startups will go tits-up, but the growth opportunity is still there. You had inside perspective on the mortgage bubble, but I think that without that perspective in this case, you're only right by accident. I am not sure this is even a vertical farming bubble, it might be better described as a credit crunch affecting startups in multiple industries, and VF might be hit hard simply because it's all startups at the moment.
...Dare I ask what in Sam Hill a high energy neutron source was required for in terms of working with oil rigs and such?

Wasn't aware of any applicability in that space, but freely admit I've not spent many cycles on contemplating the issue. Like I guess being a fundamental part of some diagnostic or sensor gear maybe... but neutrons sources? Gamma I might could understand. Neutrons're just good for making shit hard to dispose of I thought.

The cable would legit give me nightmares though.

If you're not at liberty to say, that's fine, but man. I gotcha.
On optional.. this was a regression in proto that is somewhat helped by https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/docs/f... ; I have no idea whether protobuf for rust has started taking advantage of this.

JSON is awful in every way.
I would bet that this is not going to happen unless someone finds an industrial use for all that carbon. I’m not an expert but it seems like it would be much more efficient to invest in low carbon energy and manufacturing tech than to build a ton of infrastructure for sequestration.
Yeah, this is my general feeling about why this area is doomed. It's why I haven't bothered to write up a patent even though I had some good ideas a few years ago. Maybe that was a mistake since governments and corporate politicians are stupider than I assumed.

If you have a central source of authority then the problem is totally trivial and the fact that the images are AI-generated (or not) is a complete red herring.

If you don't have a central source of authority then any reasonable adversarial model makes the watermarking problem somewhere between very difficult and impossible.

Detection from known models is still possible, at least for images. But that's not really watermarking per se.
Americans drinking more bottled water
There is an "Are you sure want to do this?" prompt!
Yep, this is a thing:

https://www.verisk.com/insurance/products/personal-aerial-im...

I seem to remember reading on Twitter that 80% of the population of the US is photographed every 3 months or so by services like this.

Also

https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/aerial-imaging-in-insur...
Not so difficult to choose between the US and Soviet Union probably.
Try lilypond for setting sheet music. http://lilypond.org/
Around here, we say more width than depth when politely insulting someone's lack of knowledge. I assume it has British influence
Yes. To be honest I keep learning, writing bits n pieces of tools using cool new language/framework etc for my personal pleasure. But to read these kind of official announcement blog posts feels so fake. I don't know, but I can't take anything seriously from people/companies writing these articles.
"But I imagine bland sanitization will be a feature of some versus others. The market will settle some of this, but you're short-sighted if you think the market will be the arbiter of it all."

Bland sanitization is bad for almost everyone. It will destroy society if not regulated... I certainly wouldn't want to live in a world where everything is converging towards rightthink and everything else gets memoryholed. AI is becoming similar to a public utility, so it should be regulated like it. That requires impartiality and a lack of censorship.
Does anyone know the status with respect to support for deniability / repudiation? I can't tell where they landed, and they seem to have deleted the paragraph from prior drafts that mostly left me more confused.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-mls-archite...

Previously, their designs had explicitly lacked this feature, and they said they actively didn't want it, citing "terrorism", resulting in arguments with Ian Goldberg, the developer of Off-the-Record messaging.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-mls-archite...

The arguments on the bug tracker about power imbalances were maybe a bit better, but I still personally believe this to be an important property (and one which clients need to fully embrace, allowing the ability to edit any part of the message history so easily anyone could figure out how to do it).

https://github.com/mlswg/mls-architecture/issues/50
iframes generators are great so IT departments can hand off the html to their web support vendors (it is just a blob of text to some IT teams).
Why should the tone have changed? The billionaires and AI godfathers talking about it now all were inspired by LW and scifi, and it's the same narrative: no need to care about people living today or real problems in the world when there's a scifi story about trillions of people in the future for whom we must sacrifice anything (except the billionaires and AI godfathers comfort, status, or money) in the present to protect.
There's no point in having wealth without an economy, or the power to control society without a society.
Nauru is a low-lying island. In an ocean that's rising.

That's not exactly good long-term thinking.

https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/nauru-will-use-un-spotlight-to-c...
Hm, I don't know much about common law, but I don't think this would apply if, say, an ML enthusiast trained a model from LLaMA2 outputs, made it freely available, then someone else commercialised it. The later user never caused the original developer to breach any contract, they simply profited from an existing breach.

That said, doing this inside one company or with subsiduaries probably wouldn't fly.
When I think about carbon extraction and storage, I get the same feeling as when I read about the ancients discovering oil seeps and surface deposits of hydrocarbons.

They knew that they could be harnessed for keeping fires lit and even sometimes associated them with the supernatural. They just lacked the tech and industrial background to use them.

We know that carbon is essential for life and if we ever engineer useful organisms to build structures or produce macroscale goods (as opposed to pharmaceuticals or food), then clearly carbon will be one of the main limiting factors, along with energy and water. It just feels like we will one day look back at this and think “why didn’t we just try to use it instead of burying it?”
Yeah historically raiders have been unable to acquire large boats to carry out their raiding.
*Allegedly

https://www.avantaventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Av...

Cape Analytics' documentation says that UAV carries higher resolution than is necessary and most of their stuff is done with aerial fixed-wing aircraft. Not that it matters for how crazy this story is, I just wanted to inject some facts into the conversation.
you can simply do this by logging into you New Relic Account and then navigate to synthetic monitoring page then clicking on the add monitor page.
The topic (as opposed to the article only) includes my personal anecdote above, which you might notice is in London, UK. I use words deliberately.

Parent comment phrase "in Europe" typically includes UK as well, not just EU members. I'm already more than comfortably aware that the EU does not include the UK.

But, UK habits are at present more like those on the continent of Europe than to USA. That's why I felt the anecdote relevant.

What was your point again?
Deleting a now viral post is kind of a weird move from a spam site that is probably desperate for traffic
How about https://fibery.io ?
That is what they implied. Otherwise there is no point in them villifying India.
Theres lots of purposes of using rust in the first place.

Some people want the performance.

Some people want the safety guarantees and the checking the compiler does for correctness.

Some people want the expressive type system (and combined with the above, the ability to encode constraints into data types).

I don't think that people who choose based on the third but don't need super tight performance are using it wrong, they just have a different set of priorities than those that are using it for very high performance.
Also, traditional intelligence services do a lot of OSINT (which is about source, not publishing).

“Open Source” in this context is about publicly available information — a source in the open.
> SQL (ACID) over multiple non-cache-coherent nodes is extremely difficult to pull with regards to consistency, though.

Thats... why it's a toy! I'm really not sure what you're missing here.
Until the UX problem is solved making it infallible for noobs to manage PKI, it's probably better for the bank to manage it. Your ideal world at a minimum requires:

- an on-card UI. Yubikey-style one-button-tap is not enough, you actually need to verify the transaction details.

- integration with backend systems to support rotation and recovery because otherwise folks will screw this up and lock themselves out

There's a reason webauthn passkey has obfuscated PKI to oblivion, because they simply can't figure out how to entrust end users with keys.

To be clear, I'm a PKI fan and want all of these things to exist, but we're very far from it. In the interim, a bank-managed PKI is a welcome improvement.
It was a students' lab, where each device is connected and disconnected 2 or 3 times per day, 5 days per week. The wires get a lot of use and abuse.

Usually the problem is the tip that got slightly loose and the signal is now intermittent or null. IIRC, when we detected the wrong wire we had to put it in a box and the guy in charge of the lab equipment would fix it later.
For however long the el nino lasts is what i mean. Usually they are 1-2 years.
Yes there are so many better ways to produce ethically dubious, derivative trash.
There are plans for using it in Matrix: https://arewemlsyet.com/ (pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36777573)