skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"falling hunger during a time of rising population"

I find it astonishing that Monbiot manages to mention China's famines in the 1950s and 1960s, but somehow fails to mention that most of the progress in the fight against hunger since the 1970s was made here: If you exclude China from the numbers, "falling hunger during a time of rising population" didn't really happen.

Old story: China bad.
I'd love to see more research on how soaking and sprouting impact contaminants and antinutrients. It's known that they reduce some antinutrients already, but an accurate map of every chemical in seeds(including the proteins we want) at each stage of sprouting would be great.
What would you do if you were the leader of Israel? They have pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Hamas goal is destruction of Israel, I doesn't want any peace talks.
The original home of the content may have more on this (but it crashes my phone browser so I can't check): https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control
If I suspect the AI is compromised, I'll turn it off or choose a different one.
For anyone interested in reading a bit more about Huh's story and some key lessons from it - I made a bit of a write up about him and his teacher which you can find here: https://photonlines.substack.com/p/lessons-from-june-huh-fro...
> In fact, it shows with compelling evidence, indigenous people for centuries had essentially gardened the landscape.

Burning down the Western forests to for more grazing lands for wildlife was NOT "gardening".

> Food forage crops selected and cared for.

Agriculture was indeed known, but it used only a tiny amount of land. Very few tribes (if any?) depended fully on agriculture.
I don't see the logic in blaming Israel for having a more competent military. Both sides are trying to kill people on the other side, palestine and Hamas are just incompetent and under resourced.
> If we don't solve attribution

It can't be solved, by design. We want LLMs to behave naturally. Humans, naturally, don't provide any attribution, unless it really matters for the conversation.

No one (except for the copyright holders) wants LLMs to be a marketing department's dream, something straight out of cyberpunk novels, spewing brand names(tm) non-stop.

> then buying the book would be a net negative

Surely this is not true. At least for the fiction, people read books instead of their short summaries, because they want to spend time enjoying the story. That's why people are so against any spoilers.

> It lets you "talk to the book". If that exists, why would anyone buy the book?

Interactive and non-interactive experiences are two different things. Although, for sure, after a good book, I'd surely enjoy a "what-if" or "explain that" chat with an LLM (here, a possible business model for rightholders). But a chat cannot replace a story.

For a non-fiction, I probably might enjoy a brief summary first. That's why science papers start with an abstract, anticipating the reader's needs. But even then, if I'm interested, I will probably need full unabridged text to get into the exact details (without LLMs hallucinating me anything).
Indeed, I think PH is a good 'forcing mechanism' to get your team out of 'product dev' mode and into 'growth mode'. A lot of the initiatives implemented during PH launch can then continue to be implemented post-launch.
If you make it top 5, there's also a nice ripple effect of your app getting coverage by newsletter etc.
Agree. Saw that as a math major undergrad, there were some people with more of an engineering bent who just crushed multivariable calc, differential equations stats and numerical methods, but then just got stuck at abstract algebra and point set topology proofs and stuff because there was no concrete application or “real world” anchor for the work.
I realize this makes me sound black-pilled, but mobile platforms (Apple included) are so user-hostile with regard to privacy I’m not even sure the battle is worth fighting.

IMO it’s better to just hold your nose, limit what you use your phone for as much as you can, and do everything important/sensitive on a computer that you have root access on.
There's a language called PARLANSE which is a parallel LISP.

http://www.semdesigns.com/products/parlanse/index.html
you gonna source that?
This author complains too much. People want to eat cheese in France because it beats eating Doritos in a tiny apartment.
>siblings can have wildly different experiences and be treated by the adults around them quite different. Not to mention there are forces which make you want to differentiate from your sibling and intentionally be different.

That's true, but is that due to all the adults and "forces" around them conspiring to treat them different, or is it due to them behaving in a way that elicits certain responses? Surely some of each, no? So then, nature may have a way of manipulating nurture in a sense.
Thank you.

AFAIK, there is no API for a such thing, but I could be wrong. I'll definitely do it, if it's possible at all.

I use a couple of domains myself.
I'm trying to figure this out, or understand if this is moment to try and do something about it. This seems like such a common use-case but the offerings across frameworks are all fragmented and sad. We're at a scale now where Django Admin is creaking and the lack of extensibility is killing us - for example, we'd love to build actions that work based on specific form inputs rather than just the standard atomic bulk actions that Django Admin supports. We've tried some experiments to do this and it's rapidly looking like doing this at any kind of scale is going to turn us to mud.

While I was looking for something for us to upgrade off of Django admin to, it seems like the main presence here is something like ReTool or Airplane.dev. The common consensus in these tools seems to be that the way to build admin dashboards in a framework-agnostic way is to build drag'n'drop interfaces and then have lots of little individually deployable scripts which run SQL queries.

This seems like such a sad state of affairs. Do you know of any tools that are able to cope with data storage agnosticism in a way that feels more like software engineering?
> Disclaimer: if you haven’t figured out by now that this manuscript is satire, this manuscript is satire.
Most pedestrian result from pedestrians doing stupid things, like walking in the middle of the road at night wearing black while drunk. 77% of pedestrian deaths occur at night: https://www.vox.com/23784549/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safet...

60% of pedestrian deaths occur on high-capacity urban roads: https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/pedestrian_safety/i...

The most dangerous roads are multilane roads e.g. highways: "among 60 roads that had the most pedestrian deaths during 2001-2016, all were roads with adjacent commercial retail space, nearly all were multilane roads" https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/pedestrian_safety/i...

30% of pedestrian deaths involve a drunk pedestrian: "About one out of three (30%) involved a pedestrian with a BAC of at least 0.08 g/dL.7" https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/pedestrian_safety/i...

Men account for 70% of pedestrian deaths, because men are more inclined to have a severe disregard for their own safety: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/males...

If you simply choose to follow basic common sense, then these population-level statistics don't represent the actual risk to yourself. You're getting yourself freaked out by numbers that don't actually apply to you (or shouldn't if you have any sense.)
The local cycling advocacy group maintains a map of safe, dangerous, and risky routes based on their actual experience: https://usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=...

See all that red? That's what it's like for most people in the US, minus all the sidewalks. You might be lucky enough to live in a place like I do where there's enough green and orange and walkable shoulders to make walking and cycling viable if you live in the right neighborhood or close to a bus stop.

Also take special note of the situation on Prince Avenue. It has clearly marked, wide, dedicated bicycle lanes you can easily make out on a satellite view and it's still orange. People have died there, recently. You can at least get a bicycle across with the racks on buses. Most people don't have buses.

People still walk it and ride it. And people die often enough doing it to validate the concern.
Off topic, but I had this question for years now: why does the Unix kernel (try to) contain the drivers to every and each device?

Wouldn't it be cleaner, easier and simpler to keep those separate and add them later as "modules"?

Isn't this how we're supposed to write other types of software? Why is this case different?
It's a 3 pages paper with absurd ideas from the title on.

Imagining it was not clear enough, the author decided to name the model something 'pronounced “fictional”', and shows how it can answer questions that weren't even asked yet with perfect accuracy right on the abstract.

Accept that as an exercise of familiarizing yourself with the area's language. If you are interested on it, it's not lost time.
XRDP with H.264 codec brings immense performance boost
Related: "Samsung and other manufacturers disable phones bought on gray markets" (10/23/2023, 164 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37990528
Another neat way to combat that sort of thing is doing something like the original Spyro game on PSX would do.

https://youtu.be/4GYSeXLr5sY

After playing the game for a while, it randomly starts to delete progress, so you have to go back and redo parts of the game you already finished over and over again.

And then if you make it all the way to the end, you don’t get to finish the game anyway. Instead it will delete all of your progress at once at that point.
Israel has majorly stepped up settlements and general Palestinian antagonization in the last year. Ben Gvir especially has been doing everything he can to spit on the west bank.
Absolutely, I’m on a Phoenician kicks those days.

I think they are vastly underestimated.
For instance their navy and how they were building ships in a industrial manner is impressive. ( sourcing ready made parts from different specialized places)

But clearly those guys were not empire builder. They would probably have been happy to keep being a Roman protectorate after the Punic wars.
They were still making tons of money via the Iberia trades.

Like they did under the Egyptian or the Assyrian.

Something I still don’t quiet grasp is why we have so little direct written account. They invented those letters ffs.
> One sentiment that’s different from when I was a teen [...] No one wants to do anything even slightly controversial, lest their peers drag them for it.

Wasn't that always teen conformity? Kids desperately aligning to one group or another, unless they were popular enough (good-looking, wealthy, good at sports) to cross multiple groups? (Even the "counterculture" groups had uniforms and approved consumer product fashion categories.)
> Rape is violation of the body without consent.

No, it isn't. It's defined in terms of penetration. Both legal definitions and dictionary definitions.

If your argument depends on a word having a different meaning from the dictionary definition, it's your argument that is wrong, not the dictionary.

> My mind is part of my body. I feel violated.

Violation is not rape.
Fast GeoSpatial Queries Using H3
Downvoting because parent is clearly referring to corp gov activities and it’s insulting to insinuate they don’t know what an asset manager is.
Urban sprawl is a feature of _suburban_ expansion at low density. It's exactly the opposite of a dense, connected urban environment. (1)

My kids spend a lot of time at the neighborhood park, as one example. It's within walking distance and we see a ton of families there. Density (with infrastructure like parks) creates opportunities for connection.

(1) from the Wikipedia article you cited, "Reid Ewing has shown that sprawl has typically been characterized as urban developments exhibiting at least one of the following characteristics: low-density or single-use development, strip development, scattered development, and/or leapfrog development (areas of development interspersed with vacant land)"
The best course of action for an individual is path dependent.

An middle class family with kids in school, saving for retirement and college, owns their home already, and decides to maintain an older home rather than build a new one.

I.e. If you already own the home, the best course of action for you in this particular year, with the money you have on hand, meets the constraints of your particular life circumstances. Global efficiency doesn't actually matter to you.
Representatives aren't magicians. If you can't do it, they probably can't. It might be terrifying, but it's true. Representatives being able to do things you can't is not the basis for a political system.
It wasn’t just burning. That wouldn’t even be that effective in most of the modern day US. Pruning and coppicing was also done to get continued productivity out of a given tree and to help keep the forest managed.
What makes you think so many people care about the license?
+1 for reading on iPad. Especially the 12.9”. Not sure it’ll replace my eInk reader for pulp fiction, but for technical materials, it’s usually more convenient than going to my shelf to grab a physical book.
I urge you to think a little more critically about the purpose of the wording "human shields"

The Israelis are dropping JDAMs, mortars and artillery into the most densely populated area in the world and Yoav Gallant's said bluntly they were going for "damage not precision"

They have refused hostage exchanges and have already killed some of them (50 I think I read on the Al Jazeera English chyron)

The number of Hamas operatives killed so far is in the low double digits range

They are calling _anyone_ who is currently in Gaza a human shield, not to emphasize their intrinsic humanity, but rather to warn they are targets too
Grokking Huffman Coding
Saleem
What third party options would you recommend? I'm aware of ReTool and Airplane.dev, but both of them feel like I'm a technician fighting an interface and not a software engineer writing functionality.
No it couldn't. Windows will continue to work even after no more updates are available.
The better way was in not starting this war, or not undermining three attempts at peace negotiations before it ever got to this point.

The US has been involved in one proxy war after another with Russia for decades. It’s just standard US foreign policy, and it simply can’t be denied - US ISR is providing actual strike targeting information.

Regardless, it’s just more of the same. See: Vietnam, Ethiopia/Somalia, Afghanistan, and half a dozen others.

Proxy wars are just the way that wars are going to be fought between peer/near-peer powers, because a full blown confrontation risks global catastrophe.

Ukraine was just foolish enough to sign up for the role of “US’s cannon fodder” in the never ending US-Russia war.

When - not if - when, China ends up getting involved, we will likely see a shift from a unipolar world to a multipolar world and the end of US hegemony and European colonialism.

I’m sure I’ll get flagged for going against the Russia bad US good narrative though.
You are aware those "fireworks" kill civilians. Yes, they are "toys" by comparison to "proper" missiles but they do explode, maim and kill.
The best way to pressure them to come up with alternative business models is to completely invalidate their current business model.

They're virtuous capitalists who got to where they are via pure genius and will to power, right? Adapt or die. And they better not cry about it or beg the government for intervention.
> Also, aren’t grapes bad for dogs?

Yeah, it's the tartaric acid and cream of tartar (which can be used to make homemade playdough) that is toxic to dogs, grape juice won't harm a dog but whole grapes will cause kidney damage. Tamarinds apparently also high in tartaric acid. Article on it: https://avmajournals.avma.org/view/journals/javma/258/7/javm...
It's an Israeli made defensive system, not a weapon.
As a researcher I've been interested in developing a RAG pipeline populated with research articles on my topic of study. Does it fit easily in the RAG approach to also return excerpts from the actual documents as to help me verify, at a glance the source and veracity of LLM outputs?
Makes sense that Jupiter would also have jet streams.
The costs of not using Cloudflare :)
As I understand it, the point is that these models while they are _trained_ on identifying cats or cars, because they have soon so much variation during training have internalised very different concepts to help come up with "its a cat". The idea then is to take all of these pre-trained weights that let you build this classifier, but then add your own custom head on the front of this network. This saves you doing a huge amount of training for what is essentially feature extraction - that part is already done. All you need to do is just add a bit more training that works out how to use these learnt features. I could be way off the mark, but that's how I understand it.
No, the best way to kill a drone is with a cheaper better drone that you can make more of.
I don't think the comment you're replying to is saying Uplink and Papers, Please are the same kind of game.

I think it's addressing the fact both could be described as "boring" and "not fun" due to their somewhat dry UIs but also their subject matter ("hacking and networking" and "borders admission & stamping passports", respectively), but in practice they are both innovative and very engrossing games, rightly lauded as gems by gamers.
Like António Guterres strongly implied, the cycle of violence has been amplified by the Israeli government.
WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound
Not only odd because of that but because it's less than a year since they got updated to M2 Pro/Max
Is it scaleable from modern higher resolution google street view images now?
Modified source engine (2017) developed by valve and leaked in 2020
Yes, but what if there was? A safer alternative would be to simply do the annotation and leave k8s to do the deletes on timeout as usual.
I love this write up. Thank you ! I’m looking for more resources like this - clear examples of composing LLMs into useful systems. Some of the cookbook examples in langchain, chainlit , etc have been useful too.
Remember that toxicity is relative. You can (and do) eat arsenic and cyanide in your everyday life. You will only die if you eat n amount of it.

Lots of plants are apparently toxic for dogs. Garlic, onions, etc. But whereas your poodle might die from one bite, my fat seal of a husky would have to eat an entire clove, or a bag of them. I freaked out when she ate a chocolate bar but she was fine...no incident at all.

Small dogs are most at risk for obvious reasons.
The name of their website struck me as ironic enough.
I use leetcode as my way of learning new programming languages, since if you already know the concepts then you can just focus on language ergonomics (how does this language look like when solving a problem I've seen before?). In general my naive Rust code is 2x faster and also leaner on memory than my Go code, and my Go code has the same relationship to Node.

But I wouldn't say this is a special quality of Rust. I'd expect similar winnings had I chosen any other non-GC compiled language like, say, Zig. Just saying that the well known tiering of languages has held true for me.
China was plagued by famine for centuries, including one in 1906 larger than the one a decade after the PRC was established. China's victory over malnutrition was won over the past 60 years, but none of this is convenient to his narrative.
Amazing that this is so common people would affix their number on the car at all times instead of maybe putting a note on the wiper the few times they have to screw someone double parking
The 70 Hour Discourse
I see a lot of ZTE phones in the stores here in Cancún. I’ve not seen that brand before coming here.

Some of them are pretty cheap even.

I thought about buying one so that I could leave my iPhone in the hotel room some days and only carry a cheap phone when I am outside walking in some parts of the city.

We are leaving Cancún soon, so now there is not so much point in doing that anyways. But I was thinking that I could do so when we get to Panama in a few days, or the next time I come back to South America.

After your comment I am rethinking buying a ZTE phone ever. However, I didn’t hear ZTE mentioned in the video. Is ZTE somehow connected to Samsung?
This is a great README! It clearly breaks down some approaches to RAG. I also approciate how you strive to de-mystify what’s going on under the hood, which is in many ways VERY simple.

This seems very similar to LangSmith’s trace monitoring, which I have been leaning on heavily for observability. You also mention LlamaIndex— how do you see your project fitting into the ecosystem?

I don’t think I would able to use this yet because it is serial. Is it possible to non-serially issue independent sub-question queries?

In my experimental agent system, waggledance.ai[1], I have been working on a pre-agent step of picking and synthesizing the right context and tools[2] for a given subtask of a larger goal, and it seems to be boosting results. It looks like now I have to try sub-question answering in the mix as well.

[1] demo - https://waggledance.ai

[2] relevant code sample - https://github.com/agi-merge/waggle-dance/blob/1b14163c24fd2...
> even more so when Amazon just invested $1.5B in Anthropic a few weeks ago.

Amazon invested not $1.5B but $4B in Anthropic one month ago [0].

[0] https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/amazon-steps-up-ai-rac...
Mistake is overbought, at some degree of habit it's malice.

So, in the example of "beeing convinced that bicycles", yes it's corruption. The traffic engineer could discharge their office faithfully WHILE advocating and showing up at city councils. At a council, (1) in one intervention - as a citizen - promote bicycling while (2) in another intervention - as traffic engineer - promote a balanced response which serves all constituents (who mostly drive and have an equal right to have their time not wasted). You can be convinced of a proper long term course while serving your office diligently - that much is demanded by this thing called "honesty". It's not okay to ignore the facts on the ground when you are supposed to do your job. That's not mistake, it's willing blindness. Which currently makes a great defense when all else fails: "I was carried away by my enthusiasm; I apologize" - and gets a pass far too easily. Discharging one's office, doing one's job, demands a little more - at least when it's a job of responsibility.

> no governmental form will be perfect

We should still strive to do better because our current pace of progress is shameful. As for democracy, humanity runs many different forms of claimed democracy. The bar is not very high. The choice is not between democracy and autocracy - it's more subtle than that. And I'll agree that autocracies that succeed do it through blind luck - which is not good. Not good either, that is.

You throw in education: Yes! And here again we (humanity) don't do very well. For example in not giving much weight to civics, practical life skills, logic, ethics.
The precentage of woman and children in the population is known but that is only relevant if you assume Israel is bombing randomly

Some civilians evict themselves from these areas (north and central gaza mainly)

Some of the bombed areas would have less civilians in them even before the war since they are used by hamas for war (but obviously not 0)

Israel publishes the high ranking Hamas members that are confirmed dead but don't report civ/"grunts"

Not that I am saying we should take the health ministry word as fact (they lied before, Al-Ahli Hospital is just an example) but I don't think their numbers would be orders of magnitude off