skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cheap enough?

> Some of the biggest success stories have been implementations in $-poor environments.

So why is it not the dominant method of agriculture yet?

> broadacre cereal crops are definitely NOT on the menu.

And yet, they're a basic part of most humans' diet. How many people actually get _all_ their food from permaculture?

Anyway one of the things Monbiot talks about in his book are new perennial versions of wheat and rice that have decent yields, so maybe they can become part of permaculture.
Similarly I've seen drivers that are registered as using a bicycle, but actually use a car. I imagine this is to swerve the insurance etc checks.
It appears to ask users to rate if the response is better or worse than the first, in other cases, it seems to be A/B testing the response. Lastly, I for instance, will correct it and then confirm it is correct to continue with the next task, which likely creates a footprint pattern.
Maybe CSAM = 12 year olds posting videos of themselves dancing?
Considering the harsh but obvious Truth that everyone involved in that burning dumpster fire of a social media network is a huge grifter, a Rat King's nest of grifters grifting grifters grifting grifters is incredibly expensive to run. When Trump calls his enemies "vermin", it's not just literal Nazi propoganda, it's also textbook psychological projection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king

>A rat king is a collection of rats whose tails are intertwined and bound together in some way. This could be a result of an entangling material like hair, a sticky substance such as sap or gum, or the tails being tied together.

>A similar phenomenon with squirrels has been observed, which has had modern documented examples.

>Etymology

>The original German term, Rattenkönig, was calqued into English as rat king, and into French as roi des rats. The term was not originally used in reference to actual rats, but for persons who lived off others. Conrad Gesner in Historia animalium (1551–58) stated: "Some would have it that the rat waxes mighty in its old age and is fed by its young: this is called the rat king." Martin Luther stated: "finally, there is the Pope, the king of rats right at the top." Later, the term referred to a king sitting on a throne of knotted tails.[1]

>An alternative theory states that the name in French was rouet de rats (or a spinning wheel of rats, the knotted tails being wheel spokes), with the term transforming over time into roi des rats,[1] because formerly French oi was pronounced [we] or similar; nowadays it is pronounced [wa].
I'm one of those annoying people that keep BT, data and location services off to save power. WiFi I mostly keep on, so in theory you could collect data this way too.

Regarding the ESP32's reliability, it's likely power supply related. I've seen exactly this before. I run ESP32 devices with a 1A 3v3 linear regulator with a little smoothing, and zero issues.
I don't think that's the case here, but yeah min and max can be a bit confusing to read. If your language allows adding methods or infix operators without performance overhead, I like to make something like this:

x.atLeast(10).atMost(100)

Very easy to read in my opinion
I don't think this is a major problem (currently). I've had > 500 deliveries via Deliveroo. And I haven't noticed one who looked underaged.
Thank you so much for that link! Also in the X230 club and my battery died not long ago. Will give that battery a shot. I think the display needs to be changed as well and also unsure if purchase a replacement. Do you have any idea about a good screen replacement?
x230 can take 16GB RAM. only some x220s will.

slightly different keyboard layouts also, wrt pgup pgdown
What happens is that the min_slice stops scaling up above 8 cores. The article misrepresents that as “limit to 8 cores”, but my admittedly shallow understanding is that min_slice is a preemption protection: if the kernel has tasks to schedule and no free core, it will try to preempt an existing task, a process within its min_slice is protected from that preemption.

So this is only relevant for an overloaded system, and furthermore just means that processes may be preempted after 3ms (instead of that protection delay keeping on increasing), ignoring all other tunables e.g. priority and stuff.

Not only that but it’s a log2, so if this was relaxed on a 128 cores system you’d have a preemption delay of 7ms instead. I don’t think that would save you if you’re overloading a 128 cores system honestly, although it does beg the question as to why the kernel devs felt the need to cap the scaling. Even assuming it scales per thread, and you have a dual socket epyc, log2(512) = 9.
afaik not for my use case. i need low latency with no variability. you only get that staying within a single cpu cluster.
A train can never move at the speed of light (as it has mass) ^_^
That is just patent nonsense.

There is a very, very, very big gap between a operational heavy and super heavy rocket that has proven re-usability up to 20 times.

What 'China' ie iSpace did was build a tiny hopper, did a mini-hop and demonstrated landing. Those things are totally different dimensions.

SpaceX has done test like that in 2012, and that was with far more advanced engine technology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_prototypes

China official reusable rocket are even further away.

And in fact its not that China is closing the gap, its actually that SpaceX is INCREASING the gap. SpaceX is not standing still, going from landing to doing it 100+ times successful and 20+ times with a single rocket.

And in addition SpaceX is already moving on to Raptor engines and Starship, further increasing the gap.

So lets be clear about the fact, China is not closing the gap, they are falling further behind.
> we just don't have many for some reason.

If you're referring to futurists and visionaries, we do have many I'm sure, but most weren't lucky enough to stumble across a pile of cash they could convert into an infinite pile of cash.

Musk still has a fairly problematic views on sustainability, I'd rather have more powerful people who are convinced that public transports, healthcare and education are essential to our prosperity.
Building a business around a software is no simple task. You need a lot of 20$ customer to make a leaving and despite the low marginal cost for a user, it's very hard to make people to open their wallet to buy software whereas those same people will go buy expensive servers all the time and won't blink an eye for hardware.

Any chance you could give more info on the size of enterprise customer you were looking at? I've had many people coming to me and only very rarely the rate per hour once you consider everything is more interesting than getting a 9to5 anywhere else.

source: 20% of my income come from sales that relates to my OSS software and I hope one day to get to 100% so I can focus 100% of my time on it
... so?

I was working at Pizza Hut when I was 14, kids in the UK have paper-rounds, does it really matter if a 17-year-old is doing this?

The account-lending scheme is weird though.
This reminds me of the usual argument with the deniers: they ask you for proof, for scientific proof, for better scientific proof, refuse them all, and when you are fed up and ask them in turn for their proof, they come up with a youtube video of some sarcastic guy.
So one of your solutions to a service aimed at randomly match anonymous people is to get rid of anonymity?

I asked you how do you solve the problem without defeating the purpose of Omegle. Your solution is the equivalent to someone asking how to solve world hunger and you responding with "Just feed them. Duh."
That home in the last picture is a lot prettier than the McMansions that gets built these days.

If only all modern houses in US were designed as well as this.
The thing is, in orbit you don’t really need to walk around to see the pieces of debris because they come blasting at you from all directions at 7km/s.
My two cents having used AI in programming. It is merely a tool to create. It is not the creator yet, at least in its current iteration.

AI is to programming what electric drill were to wood working before they were invented. It made life easy; it sped up the process and may be it did a job a bit finer. But you still need to understand where to drill and how to create the thing. There are a number of analogies like this you can find.
Data structure questions heavily favors previous use. For example in the past I've used a multi-dictionary for certain problems, so it would have been an easy reach for me; but maybe not for someone from a different coding history.

Personally I prefer something like fizzbuzz which is a pure code question, it applies to candidates of all levels and tells you if they can reason through problems.
China's Xi, in need of a win, appears ready to engage with Biden
$73m is less than 10% of Trump’s 2020 campaign spend. Depending on how many fans the platform managed to keep engaged, the cost could be worth it.
Another application you discover from reading necrolog.
I can give two personal examples:

1) I needed to display a very high resolution image to a user. I have experience in GIS and imagery, so I knew I should use an image pyramid in some way, and from previous experience assumed I needed some server to cleverly serve the tiles. But I didn't want to implement it myself, and googling 'map server' led to rabbit holes. I consulted with chatGPT, and while it gave me several fake solutions, eventually it suggested using gdal2tiles.py to create the pyramid and then serve it directly with a CDN. This never occurred to me, and is a much better fit to this problem. This saved a LOT of time (on either building my own server or fudging with other solutions)
2) I have a streamlit service, and needed to use some of my infra inside, infra that was written using async-await. Unfortunately, streamlit and asyncio don't play nice together (boo streamlit). I went to chatGPT hoping it would find me a way to make it work anyway, and after trying everything it suggested (which failed), I tried googling myself, and spent several days without a solution. Eventually, I went back to chatGPT and it suggested building a small HTTP service that would serve the results, and access it in streamlit using requests, no async-await required. It's a hacky solution, but significantly faster than reimplementing my streamlit dashboard in another framework or rewriting my infra without async-await. It saved loads of time.

I think you'd agree these aren't junior level issues. ChatGPT definitely didn't solve every problem I came to it with, probably not even most, and even when it did I had to intervene signficantly. I feel the more experienced you are as a developer, the less valuable it is. But when you need to tinker in a field you're not proficient at, or if you need to brainstorm a solution to a tricky problem, it can be a great tool. I understand why many swear by it. It takes a while to learn what sort of issues are good to turn to chatGPT with and which aren't, and also how to phrase those issues
Yeah... everything is way too complex and interconnected for any of these "let's just do X to solve everything at once" plans to work.

I don't get how people can still be so guilible after we basically shown over and over again that we don't have much control on what's happening, virtually every breakthrough we had brought more issues we have no idea how to fix in the long run.
Push comes to shove, it always tends to come down to short term cost.
If it gets the job done, and it's wildly cheaper than the status quo (Net Present Value savings). they'll opt for it.

The only reason the trucks aren't out there gathering their best data, that's real world data, is regulation.

Businesses will hire consultants at a later stage to do risk assessment and fix their code base.
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That's interesting, I haven't come across this.
No idea about the others, I do grade Elon as harsh as I'd grade everyone else who does the same things. I only know about his attics the other peoples because of his public profile.

The danger I see, because already happened more than once, is that once certain opinions are publicly acceptable, those opinions risk becoming policy. And once those policies get enacted, as history showed, a lot of inncent people suffer.

And with Musks outsized crowd of fanboys, he is even more dangerous than he would be simply controlling Twitter.
Based on what? The middle class in Europe is worse off than the middle class in the US. So mobility from poor to middle class in Europe is a low bar.
Another InterDigital patent in SISVEL AV1 pool appears not essential
> The comparison between Musk and Jobs is kind of absurd.

No it is not. You're just blinded by Musk derangement syndrome and grasping at any straws that might dismiss his accomplishments.
There’s probably nothing to patch: from my understanding this does not actually affect the scaling of the OS, it affects the throughput on heavily loaded systems, as min_slice is the delay before which a task can’t be preempted.

So it’s only relevant if the system has more tasks than cores, and if you ignore priorities and pinning. I assume these are the sort of mistakes people working with supercomputers would not be making, and residency would be a very carefully monitored to ensure the system is not thrashing.
Its a different thing, but not entirely. Having your choices restricted, by a government of all things, is something most Western people especially Americans find obscene. But it can also lead to good outcomes at considerable less effort.

In a sense every government does this. It restricts the ability of its citizens to violently harm each other for example. Or of companies to poison the land. Or even of drivers to not wear seat belts, something which doesn't even harm others. All those are relatively uncontroversial restrictions on personal liberty.
It's not wrong, the cap is 8, if it was max() it would use 8 on a single core system.
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Among bootstrapped “barely technical” founders, its already replacing freelancers for developing initial prototypes

HN’s takes are honestly way too boomer-tier about LLMs.
We've been finding Lenovo is not great lately. We've had multiple X390 and now T14gen3 need to be sent back under warranty, some multiple times.

Could be a batch of lemons coincidentally hit the UK with both models, or it could be that Lenovo's quality is not up the mark lately.
Wildfire damage has very little to do with global warming. Spain and Greece have very similar, extremely fire-prone climates yet Greece spectacularly burns every year whilst Spain just manages its forests with regular controlled burns and artificial clearings.
>Though it’s obvious that the customer does not have these permissions in probably 95% of cases, maybe 100%. Because if both people agree, then you might as well just take a photo of them together. No need for AI then.

That's not true if they cannot meet in person.

The legal aspects here are very interesting but I think they miss the point. This tech can be used to create photos with celebrities, but not only.
They're not wrong that it is rooted in misogyny, considering that you don't really use 'whore' or 'ho' with positive connotations. Not to mention that terms like thot are more likely to be found in incel communities these days, which is hardly a glowing endorsement of the term being used with good intentions.

As someone else said, at least 'thirst trap' doesn't lay it squarely at the feet of women, as if men aren't capable of doing the same.
I cannot kill my x220. It keeps going. I use it a lot as it's a magical machine even though it's that old.
It seems you have good intentions with this system and want to do something positive for children, but I am currently listening to this podcast. I think it would be wise to explicitly distance yourself from the scams around AI children's books: https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-ai-is-com...
In the US you pay an annual deductible of like $2k for a good health insurance plan. Just take that off of your salary that is $50k greater than your European counter part and you’re good to go.

Like GP said, the Internet is very misleading about this. Healthcare is OK for the middle class and that’s why there isn’t enough pressure to change it.
We already throw like 1/3rd of what we grow, and most of it is a fraction of the quality it used to be. I don't think making more of that faster is a problem to solve
I'm also curious about the impact. Perhaps we'll see a meaningful Phoronix test on this one?
Here we see the most classic interviewing error: not understanding that there's a difference between a test and what's being tested.

Will the data fit in memory? Well, of course it will, it's an interview... oh you expected me to ask you anyway?

I should obviously load both files into the hashmap, that way it works for an arbitrary amount of files instead of just two... oh, you expected me to write a solution for literally the exact problem you stated without considering its practicality? Even though before you wanted the opposite, when you asked about the algorithmic complexity?

Guess I'm failing.
My failure rate with Cursor’s IDE that’s familiar with my codebase is substantially lower than just GPT-4

Most people shitting on GPT-4 are not really using it in the right context.
Assuming there is a comment just above the one-liner saying "find all directories named 'bar', find all files named '*.foo' in those directories, search those files for 'baz'", this code is perfectly clear. Even without the comment, it's not hard to understand.
I tried doing this and it actually took longer due to all of the blind alleys it led me down.

There is stuff that it can do that appears magically competent at but it's almost always cribbed from the internet, tweaked with trust cues removed and often with infuriating, subtle errors.

I interviewed somebody who used it (who considered that "cheating") and the same thing happened to him.
I was at an music festival in Czech where the police used tiny FPS drones without any visible light to hover over the crowds and find whatever.

Not sure if that is legal but it was weird as f*.
As we all know, it is much easier to read and verify code you've written yourself - perhaps it is only code you've written yourself that can be properly read and verified. As ever, tests can be of only limited utility (separate discussion).
Of course the great luxury that the American lifestyle offers is complete isolation from others. If you're a home owner, you're more than likely able to afford an in-home gym, any entertainment through your TV or computer, and order any food pre-cooked or groceries.
Isn't this just going to create lots of dodgy services that offer a "test 20 apps and 20 people will test yours", that already exist for giving app 5 star reviews?
The firmware “fix” sounds suspiciously similar to their handling of a similar issue on the WD Blue SA510 SSD’s, of which I’m on my third, after the previous two failed in less than 12 months. Didn’t they start using some new 3D NAND chips? I wonder if there’s a flaw in those chips. They would be in use on many different products so may explain the similar failures?
Like Yandex Cloud.
This —- I really don’t care if my blog with no user registration or comments gets accessed over HTTP/1.1 without an SSL cert. Further, I find the way Chrome handles HSTS pretty gross, as some of us actually tinker with stuff that REALLY doesn’t need encryption, like little dev boards and projects running locally. Chrome makes those exceedingly difficult to use, thus the need for extremely convoluted workarounds like https://github.com/ip2k/I-Dont-Care-About-HSTS-For-Localhost (it’s my repo).
There is a religious angle to it . it comes from christian conversion , spread more rapid after earthquake and in the name of aid . Let's not forget the divisive angles that get exploited in the name of Caste System of Hinduism but Buddhists in far flung places are being converted as well as well as people of older,native cultures .

Tiktok made it easy to peddle a victimhood and prosecution complex to the masses . Deplore the current religion , festivals , cultural aspects etc . Send direct hate against a certain group , caste of people who are supposed to be more privileged and outsider.

As per western values , things are mostly fine . LGBTQ is protected . Nepal ranks better in all Democratic and Human rights aspects . Freedom of press and so on .Leads in women rights and labors . Gay marriage is allowed but has fell short on bureaucratic paperworks related to it .
And that's where I see the "bad faith" in the conversation.

Why make a jump from "You are reminded of this scene" to "You don't understand how the system works"?

Even if we assume that one follows from the other (it doesn't, that's more than disingenuous) - than the way this was phrased is unnecessarily combative, aggressive and derogatory.
I was using a ~2011 x220 as my personal laptop until 2021 or so, when I replaced it with an X1 carbon. This lasted almost 2 years until it stopped charging, and Lenovo wanted more than the laptop was worth to repair it.

I've since switched back to the x220. Whilst I miss the extra memory and CPU grunt, it gets the job done. When this one finally dies I'm not sure what will replace it, but it certainly won't be another Lenovo.
It is a very specialised GIS tool, isnt it? So that price doesn't look like a barrier to me. Sounds more like a smaller market with already established tools, perhaps?

I haven't checked if it was the case, but organisation type of license with a pack of users could have worked well.
TFA's point is not that «coders» won't be needed any more, it's that they will hardly spend their time «coding», that is «devot[ing themselves] to tedium, to careful thinking, and to the accumulation of obscure knowledge», «rob[bing them] of both the joy of working on puzzles and the satisfaction of being the one[s] who solved them».
I honestly think we’re entering an age where a skilled entrepreneur will be able to run a $10M/year business all by themselves with AI assisted coding, design and marketing.
> Just imagine all the stuff we can do when we are not wasting our resources finding obscure solutions to deeply buried environment bugs or any of the other pointless wastes of time!

Yeah, we can line up at the soup kitchen at 4 AM!
It's mostly Russian bots talking to Chinese bots. And journalists to use Trump's ramblings on news pieces.
For SaaS companies, 30-40% sales and marketing expense ratio is totally normal with R&D 20-40%. You need to keep up (in both) if not competitors will eat at your revenue which means even less dollars for product/R&D, running businesses is hard!