skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean in summer, the sun delivers almost 100,000 Lumen / m² to crops for free, you'll have a hard time competing with that alone using indoor LED lighting, which has efficiencies of around 200 Lumen / Watt. Of course you don't need the full sunlight to grow crops but anyone with an aquarium can tell you that even keeping a very small number of plants thriving using artificial light and nutrients isn't cheap. So many other factors like the price of real estate in cities and the logistics seem to doom these indoor farming companies as well, I can't imagine they will ever serve anything but a niche market. There wasn't even real innovation here, Ag-focused countries like Spain and the Netherlands have the most efficient growing processes figured out for a long time, so all this vertical farming stuff was nonsensical from the beginning. Savings in transportation costs can't possibly offset the other costs either.

So really the only surprising thing is how long they managed to keep alive without producing anything of value. I guess what really killed them in the end was the end of dumb and cheap money.
Panels don’t spring from the ether. From mining the silica and other materials that go into PV, to transporting it, refining it, transporting it again, manufacturing the panel and transporting them again across the world (since this all happens in Asia). I too am surprised by the claim that nuclear outperforms its way better and I’m a strong believer that nuclear is the only thing that can get us closer to net 0 than any other.

Here’s a link comparing lifecycle co2 and it does show that nuclear is better:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-wind-nuclear-amazingly-low...
Gov.uk Cookie banner and why it "won't go away"
Reorganizing for anti-trust negotiations?
The days of looking up to SV unicorns is over. The sooner we start thinking small, building small, and ignoring the religion of hyper-growth the better.

Yeah you might only be a decamillionaire instead of a billionaire but that's okay, you can die happy with the respect of your peers and family.
AI is going to be in a different place in 5 or 10 years.
What is it about telecoms that grandfathers in customers to cell plans. Certainly it isn't the cellular provider that does it in the name of "great service".
> AI will probably eliminate most lower end content creation jobs. This doesn't improve the state of the content industry for users, but saves companies quite some money.

What does it say if your work can't be distinguished from AI clichés? Maybe it's what the industry needs.
Just open youtube in a private tab and tell me you dont immediately become depressed about other people's entertainment choices.
This would have been an epic release two years ago, but there are now many well-established models in this area (DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion). It would be great to see some comparisons or benchmarks to show Imagen 2 is a better alternative. As it stands, it's hard for me to tell if this is worth switching to.
And even you have multiple projects or products at one company, and they don't talk to each other, and they work on different aspects of the same problem, and each of them has their own designer, they all invent similar tools with different, inconsistent designs that are a nightmare to use.
As of now Bard is powered by Gemini Pro.

https://bard.google.com/updates
Google Offers Enhanced Generative AI Features for Cloud Customers
Sounds like you just made Google's case for them. They provided the service. They cancelled it. Not their problem what happens with customer data afterwards.
What are your favorite repos that are built with Django that have good practices.
This is the most compelling argument I've seen for it, so for real, kudos for that.

That said, I think in practice this opens the door to decontextualizing any work done for a shitty corporation, not just legal representation. Obviously, I do not believe anyone should be legally enjoined from representing any defendant. And I think there is not just necessity but some nobility in a zealous defense of an individual, even a terrible one. On the other hand, we live in a rhetorically stupid time, and "well how can you judge me for working for the Torment Nexus?" is already something people dare believe. This reads to me as an inevitable way to buttress that position in practice.

So while I think you and I are fully agreed on representation in a legal court, I do think the court of public opinion--being functionally the last one really left to us as individuals within the polity--is probably fair game on that front. They are not, after all, actual people, and we are, so...
That video really isn't giving me the vibe this is any more real than Mill, just better funded. I think they failed to mention how their new CPU will also fix world hunger.
"Elon the free speech warrior"...feels like I've heard this tune before.
I hate the 'unlimited' marketing too, but as a user it pays to engage your brain in these situations. Selling a service for significantly less than it costs to run is a risky business strategy, so best case you keep getting great value for some period of time and worst case it's going to change and you'll need to get outta there.
Can we stop with the crap sensationalist titles already? 'spee h recognition' is about feeding 240 patterns of activity to the organoid , and using logistic regression to classify its output. The fact that the patterns came from speech recordings is circumstantial. Yet, Nature has seemingly no issue whatsoever with clickbait science
you're only skeptical of CF now? They've been garbage for years in terms of service and support
I didn't see that, but if so, then clearly more steps (i.e., more locations, hidden) were needed in that risk scenario. Plus, he had 60 days, then 7 days notice form Google.

I'm not saying I don't feel bad for the guy, but can you really say that it was smart to rely on even a paid Google account, considering how often Google randomly drop entire product lines, or nuke individual accounts for random reasons with zero recourse (e.g., the screw-up of a 7-year-old kid described in the same article)?
Is anything about the chip actually 2nm? I thought it was all just a marketing number these days.
I'd rather the federal government just roll out fiber and not put Starlink and Elon in a position of power. That fiber will always be in the ground and available. Elon has shown himself to be unworthy of any position where trust and good judgement is required. If it costs more, that is a premium worth paying. Fool me once.

https://www.internetforall.gov/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

https://spacenews.com/senate-armed-services-committee-to-pro...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/30/elon-musk...

https://www.cnas.org/press/in-the-news/elon-musks-control-of...

https://babel.ua/en/news/98461-elon-musk-partially-transferr...

(disclosure: starlink customer)
> company that can't be relied on for anything

Any cloud service can't be relied on for anything. There is no law for mandatory backing up cloud content and no guarantees your data will not be lost. Buy HDDs while they still are available and do the back up yourself.
> Normally the response to this is, yes, it sucks, but you're not paying Google to host your data.

You are not paying the competition either; so you somewhat paying Google.
It's not a direct payment but indirect support
> It appears every time

Would be consistent.

> It appears every time [long list of qualifications]

Is inconsistent.
I see no evidence that the average user on HN needed an explanation. I think a small minority needed one.

Here is Tesla's recall page: https://www.tesla.com/support/annual-and-recall-service

Several of these were fixed with OTA updates. Tesla doesn't seem to be confused on the meaning of the word. This very site has had these exact OTA recall submissions for years.
Life would be miserable if every restaurant had to parcel out individual sugar packets just because 1/100 people decided to abuse it and take them all home.

Why do you want everything to be financialized? The world works better when people can use small conveniences non-abusively.
> innovation needs will

feedback

Innovation needs feedback, otherwise all ML papers would not run evaluations. Humans come up with 100 stupid ideas that fail at eval before stumbling onto a good one.

Improving innovation is a matter of putting the AI inside a system that can provide feedback. Remember AlphaGo move 37? The model created feedback by self-play games, and beat all humans at Go - feedback made it really more creative than expert human players. It upturned centuries of strategy.

Feedback is also similar to the scientific method. We come up with theories and then test them out. That's how science advances, by validation, not by will. Humans are not magically more capable, we just have better feedback.

A few days ago there was a story "Earliest Carpenters: 476k-year-old log structure discovered in Zambia". It took so many years of feedback for humans to evolve from log cabins to LLMs. We had to discover or invent everything in the meantime, it's a slow, cultural process of feedback assimilation into language.

And now that same language experiential data is being learned by LLMs, and used contextually to solve problems. Most of our intelligence is either in language or feedback. Language is just our reservoir of past feedback. When AIs will generate their own experience and feedback, which will be targeted to their weak points, they will improve and even surpass humans. Learning from your own mistakes is better than learning from other people's mistakes which might be unrelated to your issues.
I think it's hilarious that anyone smart & hardworking enough to build a tool this neat would bother cheating on an exam in the first place, haha.
It's not about lacking physical space to grow crops, it's about what you have to destroy to claim that land for Ag.
In brazil 80%+ of the deforestation of the Amazon is caused by cattle ranching or soybeans cultivation.

In Europe most of the land used today for Ag was once forest. But they have all been cut down so long ago that we forget.

This has an obvious massive impact on CO2 emission, habitat loss etc.
Also haven't seen it before. MAGMA would be a pretty sweet abbreviation!
And iOS is all that plus the ambiguity of the existence, location, and look of the button/action itself.
There has been a ton of optimization around whisper with regards to apple silicon, whisper.cpp is a good example that takes advantage of this - also this article is specifically referencing the new apple MLX framework which I’m guessing your tests with llama and stable diffusion weren’t utilizing.
MedLM: Generative AI fine-tuned for the healthcare industry
Sorry, you're probably right. I have a hard time keeping track of their confusing names.
I'm in the States right now. It's ridiculous. Most of the places I go to I do everything. Order the coffee, wait for it to be made, go to the sugar station to add some sugar... yet they still want 18 to 25 percent tip, which is already selected on the tablet that they turn to you.

We have tips in Brazil as well, but it's on places that the waiter almost carry you on their back. They sit you do, talk to you about the menu, take your order, bring you your food, there's almost always free coffee after a meal that the waiter brings to you...
Why is "stiffing the staff" bad but surprise pricing to customers is tolerable?

If the pricing practices are disclosed up front, yeah that's clearly stiffing the staff, but that's simply not the case here.

I'm referring to the game where you're lured into a service with an ambiguous ruleset for pricing.

The pricing rules aren't disclosed until it is time to pay. When it is time to pay, you're now given an increasingly difficult puzzle to solve in order to tip what you intend to, without manipulation.

Expecting anyone to solve this puzzle is unreasonable.
Quarter-Comma Meantone (Part 1)
It’s very mildly confusing but it would be more confusing to change the name. There are systems in place to ensure recall fixes are performed and consumers take recalls very seriously, so they will take action to ensure it’s updated (OTA isn’t infallible). Overreacting is better than under-reacting.
I would say on HN you're far more likely to get some "whell ahcktuwally" comments in the most counterproductive way, particularly because there are so many Tesla and Musk fans that immediately become defensive vs any negative news or criticism of each and engage in semantic quibbling to deflect.

Recall is the correct word to use for this sort of NTSC action. Most people understand what it means and don't care about OTA vs plugging in an ODB port.
Okay, from my end, I am still seeing Palm (EU).
it happily chugs along at 1gbit for me, that's the max I can test.

I'd be surprised if it doesnt support it. Its google after all. Despite their shitty customer support, their engineers dont mess around
>It's embedded deeply in Google's culture that they not only don't provide support, but they'll insult and gaslight the people asking for it.

Also to the users of their open source software, as many people who used Tensorflow 1.x can attest to.
No, because most of that fiasco was just garbage journalism. SpaceX has had a publicly stated policy of not allowing use of Starlink in that manner and the US government has not opposed that stance (hell, it's likely because of technology export regulations that the use of Starlink to directly control drones is not allowed).

The initial story claiming shutdowns was actually just about terminals that the UK was paying for being deactivated with full knowledge of Ukraine because there were far more terminals available being directly supported by SpaceX. Ukraine had rotated out the terminals appropriately. The other intermittent outages were just general system instability as many early users around the world also experienced.

The more recent story was retracted because it turned out to be completely false. SpaceX hadn't turned off the cells over Crimea as an act of sabotage, they had always been off (to prevent Russia from using captured terminals) and they had just refused to turn them on hours before a drone attack. IIRC since then the cells have been turned on after having more time to discuss with relevant authorities.
As a journeyman gardener, I have really been interested in how to scale up no/low-till, no/low herbicide and pesticide, regenerative soil practices.

From what I have seen so far, I think the market forces (e.g. most food people eat is unconscious, taken for granted, is a total commodity) are a major driver of the status quo.

Why improve your negative externality industrial practices when you can get organic certified, get your product in Amazon Whole Foods, and outcompete more “ethical” growers?
It's the difference between raising your hands in the air, vs keeping them in the air indefinitely.
"pw" a simple perl script that prints a random password. default length is 16 chars but if I do "pw 8" it will return an 8 char password

I use it all the time, at least a few times a week.

I wrote it because the secure passwords generated by iOS and various password managers are overkill for most purposes and extremely hard to type out by hand to an airgapped destination
I don’t understand how tech companies aren’t being sued for reneging on their promises, it seems like an announcement like “unlimited storage forever” is a unilateral contract that has been broken.

If someone puts up a reward sign for a lost dog and a stranger finds and returns your dog, you can’t just say “actually the terms have changed”.
I appreciate the clarification here. I read this headline this morning and it made me think they had to "(physically) recall 2M vehicles" as-in take them off the road completely.

With a cup of coffee it feels a bit more like "take them into a service center to fix them" but even that is far larger than the truth.
"found to Excel"

on a positive note: at least HN didn't use an LLM on that headline
But how do we use it?

Yet another documentation release by googling, promising impressive things that we cannot actually use, while the competition is readily available.
It has fluctuated over time, but has almost always been over the minimum limits (25/3) IMO. It is also vastly more reliable than our only WISP option in the area.

What I have seen is that the cell will start to fill up, speeds slow down a little (still better than our WISP and other Satellite providers), then the cell closes. More satellites launch, speeds go up, and the cell opens again. It's my experience, so take it with a grain of salt. I've had it since the original beta / before 100% coverage.

Most of the complaints I see are from people with existing cable options. It is not as good as cable/fiber, but a complete game changer for those of us who have had flakey connections.
It’s far more than reasonable, it might be Google’s saving grace.

I wasn’t going to bother even testing Google’s AI products unless everyone started gushing about how much better they are than GPT4 but with 60 free queries per minute? That’s worth exploring even if only to find out shortly that it’s not worth paying for.
Get rid of the silent back-button capture.

Remove the buttons that show more content. (1) You're scrolling down anyway, which already limits the amount of content people can see and (2) most of the buttons don't show much additional content anyway.
As per the article, he hasn't been paying for the service for like six months.

And he was never paying "a lot of money" for this. He was paying like 1% the going rate, and for every month that he paid that he did get the promised unlimited storage.
I 100% agree that simply not tipping, and not doing additional avenues of change (such as intentionally patronizing restaurants which are no-tip / living wage), then really the root might actually be greed/selfishness.
Yeah, but it is plainly obvious that “recall” is a loaded term here. Yes, it is strictly true that it is the name for the thing that regulators are saying— But nothing is getting “recalled” in the literal meaning of the word. “Tesla ships mandatory software update OTA to address bug” is much more accurate to how this affects real people.
> unlimited, should the typical person really expect that to be taken away?

Absolutely. The word "unlimited" has been misused by so many companies (especially ISP and mobile) that anyone who has their eyes open should expect it to mean limited.

Also if there is a deal that is exceeding better than other options, don't be surprised when the rules change later.

Remus says it better in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628966
It was an update forced by the NHTSA after an investigation and negotiation.
Same; I use FSD Beta all the damn time and it's amazing. Sometimes it does wild shit, but most times it beats driving hands down.
Are you a new Tesla owner?

> I got a software update that seemed to add auto steer to my non-autopilot model y.

All (edit: new since 2019) Teslas come with autopilot. “Full self driving” is an add on.

> I tried it a few times on the highway but it seemed erratic (switching off randomly and dangerously engaging regenerative brakes in the fast lane)

“Switching off” usually means that it can’t identify the lane it’s supposed to be in. Was this some sort of a rural highway, a highway under construction, and/or a poorly maintained road?

The braking is called “phantom braking”, and (since a very good update in spring 2022) usually only occurs when there is some sort of substantial deceptive visual issue like oil lines, asphalt sealant, a reflection of the sun, or visual mirages (when the road looks shiny/reflective due to temp diffs).

For me personally, phantom braking only happens on a couple of (crappy) roads at certain spots for me, so I just don’t use AP at those spots.

In general, AP is super consistent. Other than an overdone name, it works really well. If it was just called “advanced cruise control”, people wouldn’t be shitting themselves over the feature. It’s just adaptive cruise control with lane assist, two features that many cars have, and Teslas happens to have implemented quite well (imho).
That is what a company like this calls "budget dust"
I hope this is in jest, and I’m assuming it is. The fact that this is even allowed to happen is bewildering to me. The fact that the car can perform totally different from one day to the next because of an OTA update you knew nothing about is insane. Even if there are UI notifications on the 65” TV in the console, NOBODY reads them. They just scroll through and click accept/okay as quickly as possible. They are already late for work, and still have to drop off the ankle biters at daycare. “Sorry boss, but I would have been here on time if I hadn’t been forced to read a new EULA on my car”
Land usage for food production isn't a big deal for me. I would rather see less suburban sprawl and more farms. There is a lot of good fertile land that has been cut up over the last 50 years and had the farms replaced with housing developments.
Put a fourth way, every second the operator works can feed about 4 people for a day.
Let me share a Chinese Firewall (according to rumours) algorithm for detecting cryptography: count number of 0 and 1 bits. If the number is almost equal, it is likely encrypted content.
if you're open to a suggestion you never asked for -- consider reading the book "When I say no I feel guilty" It really really helped me, personally. I hope it's a good suggestion for you too.
1. Every time one of these articles comes out, the investigation concludes 10 months later that the driver was at fault.

2. The hero metric is what is the rate of crashes _compared to the general population not using Autopilot_.

Tesla make it abundantly clear that the driver is still responsible for monitoring. This is analogous to a dev just deploying copy-pasted code from ChatGPT without checking it. You still supervise/monitor the result.
I was curious about that:

44 tonnes of meteorite per day falls into the atmosphere! [1]

There are 8000 satellites in orbit (including dead ones). Seems like most are under 1 tonne. That's 8000 tonnes maximum so if it all comes down in 1 year (somehow), it's less than the mass of meteorites for that year.

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/
Even 25% more, as they also add a tax of 10%.
It is likely uncompressed video, so that really means just picking and choosing what to keep. Most of it is likely trash anyway.
yeah some freemen could kill some Sardukars.. Some Atreides could too, Duncan and Gurney for example are know to be capable of doing it..

But neither the fremen nor the Atreides alone could win an all out war against the imperial forces..

It took the freemen that already were great warriors plus Paul training and special techniques to make then into the fighting force that allowed Paul take over the imperium..

I would say the Freemen pre-paul were in average almost at Sardukar level with some surpassing then, but the Sardukar had more resources available that gave then the edge over the Freemen. But Paul teaching then took then to the next level and closed the gap and then unifying the Freemen turned then into an superior army compared to the Sardukars.
beta test of GPT6
While they had unlimited they didn’t have a problem. But at a certain point someone is going to do the maths and realise the 1% who fully take advantage and go massive in an unlimited offer cost more than you make from the others.
That ... didn't even refactor the code. It just returned some generic Python concurrency methods which vaguely fit the posted code.
I'm not defending surprise pricing or tipping at all. But up until you pay you have the option to not pay. If this is a big concern of yours you should take that option.
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