skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that nutrients like trace minerals have to come from somewhere. And if they are lacking in the soil, they will be lacking in the plant.

Molecules that would be synthesized by the plant from trace compounds or pathways that require trace compounds would be lacking in the plant if it's lacking in the soil.

So if the soil is lacking in those trace compounds, there will be a gap in the output nutrients when we consume the plant or vegetable as food. This goes up the chain and is a reason why grass fed livestock is higher in Omega 3 fatty acids due to the differences in the feedstock.

Same as how farmed salmon don't have orange flesh because they do not consume the same food sources as wild salmon. So their flesh lacks the molecular compounds that result in the natural pigmentation that results from consuming organisms that consume krill.

Commercial fertilizers replenish the compounds that are required for the rapid cellular growth of the plant, but do not sufficiently replenish the trace compounds that would be in the soil from natural cycles of growth, decay, and recovery. There is also the factor of biodiversity as different plants, animals, and fungi will enrich the soil composition in different ways through their natural lifecycle which does not occur in monoculture industrial farming.

(Not critiquing modern monoculture industrial farming as its efficiency has allowed for huge growth in the human population, but it's clear why it would result in less nutrients in the output over time as the soil itself becomes depleted)
“Just wait long enough, I will be cool again.” —Tux
Infinite Inference Power for AI [video]
If there was an honest —albeit mistaken— belief that fat was worse for health than carbohydrates, the introduction of fat-free biscuits would be an ostensibly positive first order consequence, regardless of their high sugar content. It is only when the knowledge of the health effects of dietary fat and sugar, as well as their proportions, is revised that we know that this first order consequence was obviously negative.
I've been using Jupyter to teach Python and Pandas to a lot of companies over the years, and Noteable made it so much nicer and easier. I'm very sad to see them shutting down, but I have to assume they would have kept going if they could.
millenials are broke; genZ will use earbuds anyway; Id rather something functional than something rpetty and useless
I can see what B&O is getting at. It's well known that "luxury products" are largely bought by those tying to "look rich" rather than the super wealthy. Unlike say Gucci or LV that sell goods directly to consumers, a large part of B&O's business is being a supplier to things that the super rich actually do buy. I hardly ever see a standalone B&O product but where I see them the most is in high end cars. Someone that's middle class and is just trying to "look rich" is going to be buying at $400 Gucci belt or hat but the real rich folks are buying high end cars, something the middle class individual buying stuff from Gucci doesn't have the money to do. I suspect that B&O thinks that while the market for the "$400 luxury product" (ie something the middle class individual could afford) will drop off while demand for high end cars/boats and other places where they are a supplier won't be affected as much because those are inherently different customer segments.
Using something like stgit[1] makes it trivial to break changes into small commits, pushing and popping your way up and down a stack of commits. I don't know why it's not more popular, it makes anyone reading your commit history think you must be some sort of genius who almost never makes mistakes.

1. https://stacked-git.github.io/
Ah, the nitpicking contest. I know it well :( My solution is to bluntly and quickly ask for a likelihood estimation. If the nitpicker can't tell, they have to find out for the next discussion. Until then it is shelved. If it is below 80% it is shelved until it becomes more salient.

That led to a few interesting developments. 1) participants say their edge case and immediatly shelf it themselves. 2) Or, they come prepared with good reasoning why case X is important and must be treated now. Discussion itself became more constructive, too. In any case a win!
> I think part of this is that a lot of “scientists say” advice that makes it to the mainstream is mostly a media creation.

The article here points out this was not just a case where a paper was released that the media then ran with. According to the article, this guy had "dozens" of interviews making his point, and heck, he was science advisor for the "United Nations’ Trillion Trees Campaign". He himself fanned the flames of this media narrative.
They should have called it SSHTTP3
It can only become a sensible rule if you add an equivalent one for erecting the fence.

Since nobody proposing it ever comes with a complete version, the only valid conclusion is that it's a sabotage practice.

(And yeah, the previous paragraph is hyperbolic, but just by a bit.)
Yeah I experienced this firsthand. My roommate in college was a physics genius. He would grok concepts without really studying very intensely— often after a single reading or lecture.

He would intuit solutions to problems based on extrapolating from the textbook. The undergraduate stuff all clicked right away for him.

Even when we scored the same on an exam, the difference in effort expended was dramatic
The big brain maneuver, as a lot of my European friends do, is to spend your career in the States stacking up cash then go back to the country of your origination upon retirement to enjoy the nice social safety net
How can the poorest buy their luxury goods?
as our cloud devices will eventually trump smartphones.

Was with you until this. Cloud? That's year 2000 talk. The "cloud" has already happened, and there's a move towards reversing this trend.

With austerity measures at many companies, they're bringing stuff home. Or refusing to migrate. Cloud is stupid expensive, with very questionable value.

Meanwhile, the whole node+composer+npm+etc trend is now eyed with immense wariness by many, many businesses and especially high security businesses. One dev needing a 10 line function, pulling in 2000 packages of "who knows who wrote this" and "what is the actual license here" and "my god was this repo sold to hacker $x yesterday?" and "damn, this is backdoored? how do we even audit all this stuff?" is being replaced with "just write a 100 lines of code, and don't use 1M lines of node instead!"

And with the reversal and soon end of Pii as a profitable method of doing business, all those free frees are going to go away! No Pii, means no profit, means you have nothing worth value to give!

And so many people I talk to, are annoyed that shows they buy, or books, or games, just vanish. People want things they can touch! They're mad at their internet connected TVs showing them ads, and spying on them. They hate online ovens and fridges and washing machines. They hate that their car sells info to the insurance company.

Most people I know have had it.

The cloud will always exist to some extent. But its hayday is over.
That's what MS does with .net and DirectX for example.

Apple only needs to do this because they are charging a pornographic premium for storage.
Newspaper Publishers' Obsession with Link and Snippet Taxes Is Bad for Society
Right tool for the job. I think XML is too much tool for most jobs, but there's a huge gap between JSON/YAML and XML, so in 99% of cases I'd rather err on the "too much" side.
> where there haven’t been any real advancements in the last 30 years.

Really? In the last 30 years, we have highly efficient, essentially perfect class D amplifiers. DACs and ADCs that are essentially perfect are cheap. We have essentially perfect audio codecs, if only we could get people to use them. We have enough bandwidth to stream lossless and near-lossless audio. We can combine cheap, excellent DSP with cheap, excellent amplifiers to make active speakers with excellent frequency response and appropriate limiting logic to avoid damaging the drivers.
Which Words Does ChatGPT Use the Most?
There is a clear advancement. You used to need an amp and large speakers with long cables to have any kind of fidelity. Now you have decent sound with really small speakers. You can even listen to music on a laptop and it doesn't suck too much.
We have tiny earbuds with no cable that isolate us from the outside sounds and also have a pretty incredible sound quality compared to what we had even 20 years ago in the same form factor.
Yeah because we all know how important a logo is for an operating system...
To be clearer, I'm talking about explicit integrative pictures like the one I linked. I know simple ones like this exist

https://www.build-electronic-circuits.com/wp-content/uploads...

but I'm _surprised_ that complex metaphorical images like the one in the parent haven't spread to other domains. As you said, we often make verbal metaphors when teaching, but explicit visual metaphors are _relatively_ rare. I'm talking about literal political cartoon as mnemonic device. How often do you see visual metaphors in textbooks? They're usually more interested in correctness.

Perhaps AI will make generating these images easier, if the difficulty in creating the graphics was the sticking point. Or maybe the problem is in sharing them, which is a problem that I'm working on.
>The purchase of a Rolex or Ferrari - or an incredibly overpriced sound system - is an attempt to buy a signal to others that you have taste. In fact you’re signaling how much your lack of taste is costing you.

Pretty much. Which is why some of the biggest growing markets for these dusty luxury brands have been Middle East, Russia and China where a lot of newly minted millionaires (through means of questionable legality) come from, and is why so many brands, like BMW, have made their designs so opulent, ghastly and hideous, because that's what sells in China and the Chinese are buying more BMWs than Germans so their market gets to decide what a luxury car should look like.
My father gathers his own seeds from his favorite examples, or ofshoots of plants when appropriate.

His tomatoes, dill, pomegranates, lemons, oranges, grapefruit and grapes are better than you can buy in any store, no matter how organic, special, artisan you try to get. There is definitely something to quality soil, and no chemicals rushing the process.
I disagree that it's "blatantly misleading as a concept". Just as it is, as a concept, it's essential to being able to argue any conclusion. Which, in turn, is essential to science. There can't be fences. Even if your notes on practical process hold true most of the time.

Though it's a shame to use the climate science example, given the immense anti-science pressure that looks to bury dissenting theories and data instead of engaging them as a means of continuously proving itself in the context of the divisive politics. Which are inevitable given that this particular science seeks to make world altering prescriptions. The failed hope is to make such prescriptions in an environment of no allowable argument. The result is widely percieved corruption of science for political ends. That was never supposed to be an outcome of science, should its principles be followed in spirit and otherwise.

Conclusions have to defend themselves, forever. Ridiculous theories can be marginalized due to lack of evidence, but nothing should be silenced as a matter of working principle. In turn, we can operate based on consensus conclusions but these conclusions have to be able to defend themselves, forever, only on merit.
yeah it's medium members only but it was interesting anyway, an analysis of what words ChatGPT uses the most with interest methodology for determining the metric.
The problem I see with the US is that companies have been allowed to influence almost all sections of society. I'm pretty sure the scientist that time knew that fat on its own is not the issue(wet to getting more fat) when calories are controlled. That bit of nuance seems to be lost over time. I remember reading about how the sugar industry went on a PR campaign talking about how fat is bad and sugar is fine. If they was some pushback to this things might have been different
jcastro has a demo here: https://youtu.be/qeUH1_fFSUs
Completely agree. No 3rd party code on my sites.
Oh this is priceless: “ All API customers must adhere to our usage policies to ensure that our technology is used for good.”

Not violating terms. Not abiding by terms of use. But good vs evil.

It screeches “we occupy the moral high ground and are the arbiters of what is ethical and what is evil.”

The entire brand game plan around “Open”AI is to position themselves as first doing no evil, just like google did in the early days, to enable doing a lot of evil.
It's a reference back to where they stated that they used to recommend Bluetooth wireless keyboards. These attacks only involve keyboards to the extent that Apple devices have to be paired with a keyboard for them to work.
> Won't matter once the world gets warmer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem will get these frozen black soil zones. If Ukraine joins the EU the whole of Europe will lose their farming competition and nobody will be able to grow against Ukraine.

That's a strange argument to make. Once these fertile soils become usable it is preferrable to have these resources inside the EU, not outside of it. And if you're worried about competition in the agricultural sector inside the of EU, then you could as well be concerned about a few other countries in the EU right now.
By being bad with their money.
You’re in one buddy
"just" is there to distinguish a gold rush from a singularity
I hadn't seen that tokenizer and it's really great that they open sourced it because not supporting CJK languages out of the box is one of the major issues with sqlite fts.

I think this also shows why a standard third party distribution of sqlite is needed so that extensions like this can be included with the sqlite binaries provided with bindings for other languages
I'm upvoting this because learning these devices can be wildly useful when prompting LLMs for content generation. More so, if you use these devices in stylometric analysis of your own writing, as it makes "style transfer" a lot more effective.

These words have great lexical density, and can dramatically influence text generation.
> my guess is sufficient people may survive on a largely dead planet regardless, kept alive by hyperexploitation albeit at reduced population and living standards...

Yeah, a scenario of "humans surviving long-term, but in greatly reduced numbers" is entirely possible.

It's my fear that this may happen, but (as you point out) our planet's ecosystems are destroyed in the process. Not to mention human suffering.

We're rapidly running out of time to prevent such a scenario though.
Pretty simple:

Human waste never makes it back into the ecosystem

So we only extract minerals, consume them, then bury them (landfill) or put them into the ocean (wastewater)

Modern humans halt the natural cycle of life in every region we inhabit
People are being perhaps a little too over dramatic here.

Yes, this is not SSHv3 as defined by a standards body. It is very much SSHv2 over HTTP/3. (Which sorta sounds like how HTTP/3 is actually HTTP/2 over QUIC)

But there is lots of SSH servers and clients, such as Dropbear SSH, OpenSSH, libssh, libssh2 (which is very different from libssh which also supports sshv2), and more. So I don't blame the creators from putting SSH in the name.

The code itself looks like mostly glue code to other more well established libraries. I'm not saying that they didn't introduce new flaws, just that they did not roll their own crypto here.

Their paper on their work is pretty interesting: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.08396.pdf

I kinda hope this succeeds. The faster connection time is nice, but really OpenSSH is so change adverse that it's painful.

IE, I have to have a pretty large patch sets to open SSH, one of them being HPN ssh for getting any kind of reasonable throughput over high latency links. This patch set is decades old and the problems well known, but OpenSSH maintainers do not care. Replacing the transport layer would force things like having reasonable window scaling.

Another is loadbalancing and routing SSH connections. You cannot know where a client wants to connect to till after they done a full hand shake. This is pretty painful. If we had something like SNI we could route clients to the correct servers using only a single IP and port.

I fully welcome these ideas and am glad a group is working on testing these concepts.

Please don't dismiss things too hard too soon.
Wow, what a whirlwind couple of days! I'm thrilled and humbled by the response to Django Ninja CRUD on HN. Seeing it climb to the top 30 and witnessing the community's engagement, not to mention the spike in GitHub stars (now over 250!), has been beyond my expectations... Your support and interest mean the world to me!

My apologies for not responding sooner to your lively discussions. Balancing my role at Picsellia with the unexpected but wonderful excitement here meant I couldn't engage as quickly as I would have liked. But I'm here now, eager to dive into your comments and feedback. Thank you all for making this such an incredible experience. Let's get the conversation going!
> The Benin Bronzes and other related artifacts were straight up targeted theft as a by product of war

"Looted". Make no bones about it, the word is looted. But they were created off the back of slavery, so... choose your poison.

This is an interesting link that pulls aside the curtain a little on trade, art and Africa: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/benin-bronzes-...

Personally I think we should focus on the repatriation of human remains. Once we've got that sorted out, we can start worrying about mere stuff.
King-man+woman=queen
This is what springs to mind whenever somebody says or implies that there's a threshold wherein people will "rise up" - e.g. pre-French Revolution levels of inequality.

I don't see a middle class as becoming resurgent again until we have something similar to the battle of blair mountain (a labor uprising that presaged a new labor movement, where the brutality of the strikebreakers was off the charts) or elites who are once again living in mortal fear of domestic and foreign communists like they were in the 1950s.
Every successful open source project needs at least one participant that is willing to tirelessly point out why things are the way they are when others enthusiastically propose that they will change everything. Understanding an existing system is much harder than starting a new project.

I have observed that this also applies to open standards as well...
Will Audio Books Survive Spotify?
I mean the vast majority of book donations to my town library presumably end up at the annual book sale along with culls from the library itself. And, based on how many books are left near the end of the sale, I assume the majority probably ends up pulped.
> This doesn't seem that human: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/01/chatgpt_poetry_ai/

Agreed; that’s why I was very careful to say “one approach.” I suspect that technique exploits a feature of the LLM’s sampler that penalizes repetition. This simple rule is effective at stopping the model from going into linguistic loops, but appears to go wrong in the edge case where the only “correct” output is a loop.

There are certainly other approaches that work on an LLM that wouldn’t work on a human. Similar to how you might be able to get an autonomous car’s vision network to detect “stop sign” by showing it a field of what looks to us like random noise. This can be exploited for productive reasons too; I’ve seen LLM prompts that look like densely packed nonsense to me but have very helpful results.
Why can’t Canada do a US-style defense production act for a major housing build effort? Let existing homeowners lock the value of their homes and tax assessments so they can’t whine the country out of it. The birth rates are low, immigrants can’t afford to stay, and there’s more land and lumber than nearly any other place on earth. History will look back confused at that and scratch their heads. At least the USA has excuses for the really expensive places, we are running out of space in quite a few HCOL areas
https://archive.ph/UMNkC
so when you give the cops this passphrase and the can't type it in correctly what is the admissibility in court then?
For truly wealthy people their time is incredibly valuable so spending time learning about a field they are not expert in is going to be more costlier than just going out and buying a well established brand. In some cases with Rolex or Ferrari or Porsche these items can even appreciate in value.
It is both a thought terminating cliche and a reminder to think more deeply. Clearly the original intent was the latter.

But many people who invoke Chesterson’s fence do so with the intent to lobby against changing something. It’s raised not as a caution, but as a barrier. The concept gets the most airtime in political circles, and I think this has led many people to misunderstand the original point.

This is not a straw man as far as I’m concerned, and while I agree that the original intent was about careful reflection, this is often not how people engage with it.
The best strategy I have seen is to clone a cloud product and offer an on prem/private cloud version.

The market is already established plus you don’t need to demonstrate value. The only thing you need to do is make it compatible with corporate IT policy

Zulip, mattermost, outline wiki all follow this pattern
> find nothing or a list of contradictory or nonsensical reasons

Then you look at implementing process changes in the company at a higher level, there is 100% something absolutely wrong, but it may not be a problem with a physical system, but a human interaction one.
Our tax system is broken, we don’t have enough taxes on the top end and too much on the bottom end. Compared to the “golden age” (if you were a white man) of the middle class, the 1950s, the effective tax rate for corporations has dropped massively while income taxes have grown.
I don't know. How do they?
I'd love to hop in if there's a way to join in Matrix (via a bridge?).
They don't sort... in your language, or how you call them. So what?
The hollow zero vs slashed or dotted zero thing is often done in fonts with an extra variant; basically the font can contain both and will display what the application requests. So you should assume that the font really does have the slashed zero, but the font viewer you looked at it with didn't ask for it.

For web, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian...
there were commercial class D amplifiers in the 1970s, Sony iirc.

but back then Philips had a very cool amplifier, not class D, which fed a signal from the loudspeaker cone back into the negative feedback loop to correct any error!
> One is sodium (Na), which is overabundant in modern diets.

Sodium consumption per capita has remained rock-steady in the face of an intense demonization campaign. It doesn't really go up (as you might expect, if people develop food to satisfy cravings for it) or down (as you might expect if people pay attention to public messaging).

(See e.g. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7042a4.htm :

> Mean usual energy intake–adjusted sodium intake among U.S. adults aged ≥19 years was lowest (3,333 mg/day) during 2003–2004, and was 3,464 mg/day during 2015–2016.
)

This tends to suggest that it is not in fact overabundant in modern diets.
Many treatment plants are producing a fertilizer product now.
> There's no way to go back and pick the "correct" one.

Yes, exactly. All that’s left is politics: we have to make a choice, or a negotiation on how to proceed.

My point is that pretending it’s all just “history” is just putting your head in the sand.
Also https://github.com/nnathan/monopiped. Just plugging my own project.