skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Free websites, hungry for revenue, get so full of ads that free users tune out

2. Formerly free websites go paid

3. Opening up opportunities for smaller sites to underprice them but get paid for ad-free material

4. Mission. Fscking. Accomplished.

https://xkcd.com/810/
That's just an argument for why Israel should be an apartheid state.
Regular greenhouses use way more water and resources.

In 1/8 an acre I can produce in a vertical farm the same amount of animal fodder grass that a regular greenhouse would need a whole acre for, and use 99% less water.
End to End encryption means that illegal or covert surveillance is impossible without more work from the company, which makes it easier to say "we can't give you access" when spooks show up.

Obviously they can still send you to jail, but for this grey area "technically maybe kind of legal" surveillance execs at tech companies aren't going to jail for not complying if it's actually illegal.
Some really interesting food for thought, thanks!
No in vitro they are pretty much killing most of what they touch.
Sure. But 1) they need to stop moving the controls around with every update 2) there’s no tactile feedback- you have to take your eyes off the road to confirm your press worked
If only we could get a right to use uBlock for such cases added to the ADA.

(Then sue Chrome for breaking things with manifest v3.)
I've always assumed VCs take gambles like this because they know it just takes a single success to cover their lost bets.

So being first to bet on a possible winner is probably statistically better than taking the time to sift through the actual details of these startup ideas.
Nope, capacitive screens and multitouch were 30 years old tech. Sure, Apple did engineering to actually make it into the product they shipped but that wasn't what Apple invented with iPhone.
After the later rounds closed at insane valuations, the early VC investors in infarm were seen as legends. This created jealously amongst other VC investors who felt they had 'missed out' which resulted in more money being invested into infarm and other vertical farming companies e.g. Bowery/Plenty.

Decisions to invest were made on FOMO, not a first-principles analysis of the farming technique which shows very clearly that vertical farming is unfeasible.
Because in order to do this math you actually have to understand the business/product- which should tell you something - or there are is some hand waving bet that like “costs will come down with scale”
GonzoML on Mamba and S6 (+previous post on S4)
That could never happen. Too many of them and too many who hate Jews and Israel among them. Would be too much of a security threat.
That's true, although it's much less substantiated because we have no idea what form that would take and how much effort is needed to get there. So far we have no evidence that LLMs, transformers or any other NN architecture have some of the fundamental features of human intelligence. From my own perspective, one of the first features we will need to see to be on the right track is self-supervised learning (with very minimal initial conditions). This seems inherent to all mammals yet the best AI so far requires huge amounts of data to even get coherent outputs.
Why on earth would you want to take farming “footprint” and transpose it in an expensive real estate environment like a city where it would need much more intensive energy to produce anything?

There are a few products that are viable, but not very many.

Moving footprint from farmland to city is the opposite of reducing carbon footprint. It’s foolhardy.

Terracing hillsides comes before vertical farming.

Vertical farming is an “eversilly” project.
The point here is that by tightening up their guidelines, Apple has tacitly admitted that they previously handed over notification data at times when they were NOT legally required to do so. Otherwise, they wouldn't have tightened up their guidelines.

If you're Apple scale and you have an army of lawyers and a big part of your marketing is that you're the privacy-conscious choice, you shouldn't fuck this up. You should have your lawyers challenge the subpoenas or do whatever has to be done and it's bad for your brand if you don't. It's unfortunate for everyone including Apple that it took Ron Wyden being a gadfly to get them to do what they should have been doing all along (and while it may not have always been about notifications specifically, he's been at this for years).
Sure but I read it as most of us only get one chance at starting our own business (unless you already are rich).

E.g. I would rather go for 50% chance of 1 million USD than 11% chance of 1 billion USD.
Well, like most things Apple, we of course just have to take Apple’s word on it. And if ever you find out someone was able to access it, as usual, you’ll be told - “it’s not possible and we won’t be able to share audit logs” or “blah..long password..blah”.

Just like the horseshit that once an iPhone is stolen it’s bricked for a thief. A friend’s iPhone got stolen and after a week it was removed from his device list in iCloud account. Apple Support refused to even acknowledge it and then didn’t respond anymore. They shut him off.
The issue is someone is used to the way an old system operated and expects a new system to operate the same way. My mother has no clue that the spinning circle is a "system thinking" icon, but if it were an hourglass it would make immediate sense.

News at 11.
I agree. You also get 'trapped' on some screens because all of a sudden you've lost all navigation cues, even the swipe up bottom nav.
When you make promises and don't keep them while taking people's money on the back of those promises, that's fraud. When you do it for almost 10 years, that's almost 10 years of fraud.
a standard situation where the leaders of a public are dictators and control education and media access, similar to russians’ support of their own terrorist leaders
> Apple's sanctimonious attitude.

Effective marketing.
Lots of American drivers do exactly that. I’m guilty of it.
>That specific claim was a scam from day one.

Also that would require lending your vehicle out to random strangers all the time, so you couldn't keep anything valuable/fragile in the car and you'd need to clean it rather frequently.

Even on the face of it, it's more like owning a taxi than a car that makes you money.
I never said they did another Ford focus. They used available tech to make an electric car that didn't suck in a way all other electric cars sucked.
We don't know how it works, and the parts that we do know are very hard to implement.

In particular, our vision is very very tied to our model of the world, and is clearly an evolutionarily derived trait, not something we learn from scratch as children. We are basically born with a model that can augment the raw sensory input with basic physics (object permanence, but also we have an intuition for things like "heavy = large momentum even at slow speeds", and for "what goes up will come down", some basic optics of how objects cast shadows, and others). In addition, we learn to recognize objects and we know their actual sizes from past experience, so we typically estimate distance this way far better than relying on parallax. "Small image of car" is automatically "car far away", even if seen with one eye, because we know what size a car is.

In fact, much of our brilliant vision starts going awry immediately in an artifical setting with misleading sized objects.
Whoever types exit in REPL will never care what "repr(exit)" does.

Python has a lot excuses about the need to remain "consistent" but the reality isn't so:

>>> x = open( "/tmp/whatever123", "w" )
>>> close( x )
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'close' is not defined. Did you mean: 'cosh'?
...
>>> x.close()
>>>
>>> x = "tttt"
>>> x.len()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
...
>>> len( x )
4
This is a kind of experiment with no control. You have no idea how sick you would have been without it. I'm not taking garlic but some years I get sick, some others not. Self-experiments are usually extremely poor predictors of efficacy unfortunately.
I remember a story a HN user shared about how they lifted their businesses reporting and switched it out for an AI instead.

I guarantee that business is lighting money on fire.
This is the right answer. Just one addition though, modern sewer systems and clean water have done a vast amount for life expectancy.
Every big company out there is burning most of its operating expenses searching for the next big thing. Even if throwing a little bit of it into "AI" doesn't get any immediate returns, it's almost irresponsible not to take that gamble considering how large the upside is.
I'm a bit embarrassed to not have considered wood gas as a civilization jump starter - my wood/metalworking teacher in high school actually built a wood gas car as a side project but for some reason I hadn't really incorporated that technology into my thinking.
Why you're not getting hired as a designer and how to fix it
The navigate to charger lotion in BMW maps is just too hard to bother with. It’s almost better tk just ask siri to navigate to a charger of some kind. The jog wheel is nice, but I get away with voice for most functions. I hope it improves over time, especially the random GPS bug that displaces you by 100 meters and makes navigation useless.
Both my 2013 and 2014 cars will loudly announce the car is still in gear if you open the door at any speed, including stopped.
Love the hull eating creatures that must only be humanely killed.
Yeah, things never stand still. And those best equipt and informed to
make changes for changing times are end-users in whatever context they
find themselves, post-apocalypse or otherwise :)
That is not a given, but an assumption made from hand-waivey evidence.

From my point of view, longevity is not up and neither is quality of life due to modern medicine. Aside from some of the most fundamental medicines (penicillin, insulin, setting bones, etc.), it has yet to be proven that most forms of healthcare are not parasitic in nature. I.e. that whatever increases in longevity and quality of life are not due to modern medicine, but confounded because both have increased at the same time.

What is your evidence?
My 3rd hand experience with animal shelters in the UK was that the more appealing animals were announced privately to friends and family of people running shelters before they'd be put up on for the public to adopt.
Video says it's on autopilot, but it's not.

It's using smart summon, where a person, who can see the car because it's short range, uses their phone to move the car. They can stop it using their phone at any time by removing their finger from the touchscreen, yet weirdly didn't.

It's not autopilot, and it's not FSD, and it maxes out at 6 mph.

Also they've never updated the code for it, so it's not representative of the current tech in FSD
Funny, I run vertical farming and it works great. Perhaps those charlatans are listening to the wrong experts on the subject? I've been doing it for over two decades.

For how long have you done vertical farming?
It's not working. They are having the time of their lives right now.
The people who are said it wouldn't work lost credibility as these startups raised rounds at progressively higher valuations. After all, money talks, so clearly the naysayers were missing something...
I usually have to commit large changes in Active Directory in production environments, to accommodate merges, splits or acquisitions. I created a tool to monitor in real time the changes happening in AD so I can see if there is anything wrong or unexpected happening. For that I created this tool for personal use and I open sourced it:

https://github.com/mihemihe/myADMonitor
The takeaway I got from this post was you only see positive effects in countries where lots of people had stomach worms and the ivermectin was probably actually just helping with that: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-y...
They distributed phi1.5 to huggingface but I believe for phi-2 Microsoft is only adding it to Azure AI Studio in the hopes that it will make developers sign up for it.

https://huggingface.co/microsoft

I wonder why Microsoft is choosing not to go where rest of OS folks hang out.

huggingface is the github of ML and I was under impression Microsoft was going to eventually acquire huggingface since it's right up their alley.
That doesn't mean they can't become less effective from Covid. The article mentions that deaths among the elderly are below pre-pandemic levels, which suggests that any such immune weakening is not the reason for excess deaths.
Interaction to Next Paint Whitepaper
I wonder if this can be optimized by letting GPT provide multiple instructions per screenshot instead of just one.

For example in the twitter screenshot, it could use just the one image.
I cynically fear that once "they" successfully ban Glyphosate from store shelves something worse will come along and take its place. And by "worse" I mean less studied, perhaps more harmful in the long run.
I built a dotfiles manager because I didn't like how any of the newer ones worked. I just wanted a newer, nicer version of GNU stow that doesn't require perl.
Human learning and machine learning aren't even close to similar and pretending like they are is very stupid.
Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors
FYI, multiple articles from this medium page have been flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=medium.com/chrisjeffr...
> As with all of the other information these companies store for or about their users, because Apple and Google deliver push notification data, they can be secretly compelled by governments to hand over this information.

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_smartphone_...
I'm a subscriber with UBlock and I still get a "Give a gift" footer. And when they deliver the print magazine, there's ads (including on the back cover) AND a flyer "give a gift." Which is annoying because the flyer always drops out.

Subscribing merely turns the "Please subscribe yourself" ads into "Give the gift of knowledge to a friend."
I created a language learning app (Macedonian to English).
https://www.picowords.com/
Engineers work to debug issue with Voyager 1 Flight Data System
I created a Postman/Insomnia and a note app for my own use because I do not trust third-party cloud solutions.

I also created a music player because I dislike the shuffle algorithm in Spotify.

And I have created a travel app for my family to provide public transport route suggestions, offline maps and reminders.

My Postman/Insomnia alternative is open-source for the public now: https://github.com/sunny-chung/hello-http
I’m not at all interested in chatting. I’ve already given enough of my limited lifetime to the ag tech space, and I never want to go back - even via a phone call.

The main problem isn’t growing the fruit - it’s selling and distributing it.

Mastronardi has a monopoly on North American distribution in all but name. (For tomatoes, at least. ) You can grow as much produce as you want, but they’re going to figure out a way to capture any consumer surplus produced by the growers as part of the distribution chain.

That didn’t really matter so much for AppHarvest because they couldn’t profitably produce fruit at Mastronardi’s market rate. But if they did, Mastronardi would figure out a way to shift the market pricing they negotiated with them. Since they control most of the foodservice and retail grocery supply, and have those contracts pretty sewn up, Mastronardi is basically the only way to get fruit into store shelves. That gives them a ton of power negotiating with greenhouses that are otherwise commodities - water and sun go in, tomatoes come on.
Since when is COVID behind us? We are all living with a novel virus that is deadly in many mammals except bats. We are seeing people developing long covid with each new infection. We’re seeing vaccines cause similar syndrome for an unfortunate few where antibodies created causes autoimmune issues.

The science is not perfect. Vaccines aren’t sterilizing, current treatments aren’t effective enough to prevent disease progression, and we are only approaching the 5 year mortality mark.

When we develop more effective vaccines and treatments, perhaps we will see this start to settle alongside all the other challenges that continue to get worse.
Or, they simply left the door unlocked when they left, allowing unknown third parties to also access.
I made my own reverse proxy server that is auto configured by clients calling the API instead of editing a config file. I guess I didn't feel like learning nginx configs.

It's cool I've been using it a couple years now and one of my friends uses it too https://github.com/fsmv/daemon
Yes this is how new developments occur. First it’s prohibitively expensive and then we figure out ways to reduce the costs/waste/etc.

This is in its infancy and I’m sure it’ll make more sense as it develops more.
How much higher are drug overdoses in 2023 compared to 2019?
They claim.
People absolutely do get erratic for no reason
I would like to see Mr Musk removed from decision-making positions at Tesla and SpaceX. He is making both companies, which have much to be proud of, look bad.

If he wants to kill Twitter, that's fine by me. I prefer a more decentralized internet anyway.
Never trust an ag startup that's not near UC Davis, Salinas, Waginenigen NL, UIUC, Cornell, or Iowa State. I grew up on a farm, my parents still farm, and if anyone wants to be an ag-tech VC feel free to hire me but I'll give you one piece of advice gratis: never invest in an ag-tech company with HQ in a big city. Any farm boy could tell you this nonsense would never pencil out.

Half of this ag-tech shit is so stupid I wonder if it's not just straight-up money laundering.
>Of all people you should read the article or Tesla's actual claims instead of opining on something they didn't claim.

Just because you don't agree with what someone has written does not mean that they didn't read the article.
Nice work, I was looking for this for a while and no time to do it myself. I would say it's probably a good idea to make it ai-assisted ; many things you can do faster yourself by saying 'click h2' , fill in text 'hello world' etc instead of having the LLM figure it out. So a combination of things basically. But very good start!

Edit; also probably good to, in case it is not sure, to open the browser and try there.
I'd say game emulation is currently the most prevalent heavyweight archaeology.

In the more common case, it's simply archiving -- we still have hardware it can run on (e.g. x86).

The GPGPU and ML stuff is likely going to age poorer, although at least we had the sense to funnel most high level code through standardized APIs and libraries.
i very recently started working on it https://tools.sayana.pk/. ideal is to keep on adding tools that i or other need here that anyone can use for free, without having to sell their soul for it
The major problem I have with software is that there's no commitment to maintaining it once it's sold, and no additional money is there to be made. The old boring button-based radios lasted forever without software updates, and they could also be swapped out for newer devices later on if need be. Now cars are being made with very specific parts that are not easily replaced, and with systems that aren't infinitely upgradeable, even as we've somewhat reached a plateau of hardware performance that can handle most application demands. Now hardware is being bogged down by resource-eating ads and limited/ spotty Internet bandwidth more than by processing power.

As we progress into the future, there needs to be a major pushback on the software upsell practices of companies, especially for cars. Cars need to be reliable, and dependable. My desktop PC has been running for 11 years now, with the power on (with only minor hardware & OS updates), the only thing that has been a constant threat to it's reliability is the drive by software makers to milk me out of my money for updates.... They often push updates under the premise that they are for security, but now most updates are to insert ads and up-sell schemes into the apps and OS.

I miss the old days, because even though you could buy new hardware, you rarely needed to... Now, with each update, I'm worried about my PC being bricked and heavy downtime without any real technical support available, because there are so many different greedy brands of companies making tons of devices that they regularly drop updates for. Something has to change about the software-driven economy, or I'm planning to just go entirely "off grid" for the most part in my retirement from being a developer and consumer myself.
Which is equally balanced with the anti-fanbois that don't have a Tesla but still flock to any thread about Musk to voice their opinions.

Look, I don't have a Tesla, never owned one. I don't use Twitter. I think Musk has major flaws. There is definitely a growing trend of anti-Musk vs Musk fanboi flame wars. This thread seems to be no better.
Note that the $400 death star (set 10188) was released in 2008, and $400 in 2008 dollars is worth $570 in 2023 dollars.

https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/10188_Death_Star

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2008?amount=400
Land farming isn't financially viable either under market prices, that's why there's huge farming subsidies to ensure crops remain affordable to the average citizen. I don't know if vertical farming receives less or more subsidies than regular farming, but "financially viable" in the food industry is an entire field of study, not something that can be determined in a single HN post.
While I use ublock and ad blocking DNS, this particular ad-free Internet isn’t sustainable.

For better or worse, the business model behind many of these sites rely on the ad revenue to continue existing, and ad blocking only works as long as most people still aren’t doing it.
Beyond Data Privacy: Data "Ownership" and Regulation of Data-Driven Business
This is a ringing endorsement for his integrity. He wasn't afraid of saying the truth.
It would seem quite predictable that AI is going to follow the same trend as all disruptive technologies:

* First hundreds of companies rush into the new space
* Then market leaders do emerge
* Then the market consolidates

And in the end, only a few of those hundreds will remain - and most will go under, and in many cases the founders of those that did went under will then - with the power of hindsight - admit, that they never had a plausible shot at becoming market leader in the first place.

Isn't that just how it always goes?
Glyphosate is studied a lot. That you can find 10 studies that state any position is not a statistical surprise. I know chemicals bad supports a message some people want to spread, but we need to demand more proof than that. Cherry picking studies that support your position is not proof.
How on earth do you go from “companies probably shouldn’t be allowed to lie to consumers about product details”

To

“We should restrict speech against the government”

?
Sometimes the best shows are the ones with just two seasons. Great stuff, no filler, no suffering from trying to extend the run.

I really enjoyed Men of a Certain Age. Highly recommend it. Rest in peace Andre Braugher.