skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mars does indeed have liquid water, and a chance at more of it: https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-01-18/massive-d...

: In 2018, Mars Express located a large lake of liquid water under the Martian polar ice.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210902121223/https://earthsky....

: There is a chance that this dusty and dark ice might melt a few centimeters down. And any subsurface liquid water produced from melting will be protected from evaporating in Mars’ wispy atmosphere by the overlying blanket of ice.

Is it likely that Fungi would end up in the right places on Mars, and even then grow in these conditions? Probably not. But worth investigating given what is known of psychrophilic fungi.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11157-016-9395-9

: Fungi are able to grow and survive at low temperature and exist widely in polar and non-polar habitats. These cold regions are known for very low temperature, high ultra violet-B radiation, frequent freeze and thaw cycles and low water and nutrient availability.
Shameless self plug, but my GitHub handle is hellisotherpeople. I like to imagine a coding Sartre would have said “hell is other people’s code”
I suspect improvements will happen pretty quickly, with companies adapting based on looking qualitatively at user behavior, and users figuring out the evolving interfaces.

(Maybe even users rapidly learning to express themselves better and more concisely, as a more general skill. Or maybe not: maybe tools like LLMs will teach "bad" habits, like just spamming tokens at a gist of vague intent, and not caring much about the quality, or doing it in a rapid refining loop, without pausing to think and articulate clearly.)

Possible precedent: Very early in Google history (it might've still been at Stanford?) a famous HCI person came by my office, and I had Google on my screen. On a tangent, he started editorializing (with the irritation of someone who cares), on how their affordance is just a text box, and people don't know what to type there.

My thought at the time (as a mere student) was that the Web search UI was already familiar (Google's was only a bit more all-in on the text box than previously; they mostly just dispensed with the conventional noise on the page), and users and Google would both figure it out.

And both did (Google, especially, with smarter responses, based on what they'd learned of intent and information over time). That worked out pretty well for everyone, for a long time.
FWIW, I found and played a youtube sound+score of the Quodlibet. I have not figured out if it breaks the magic or increases the understanding or even intimacy with the work. Leaning to the latter.
It looks to me like the exchange was productive.

I didn't call you evil. That is, unless you are identifying yourself as one of the "guys pedaling the idea that any opposition to solar is evil."

Assuming it's not you downvoting, then I don't think this applies to you, specifically.
As soon as creativity is measurable, it becomes bland and repetitive but highly profitable.
That's an extremely low bar given many of the Americans I've met.

Even in a comparitively similar country like Australia, where I live, Australians have a hard time understanding many basic American values, particularly political ones, in my experience
Like gaming with motion controls, where you learn you can just kinda flick your wrists rather than emulate swinging a tennis racket, I've found myself often drastically reducing the number of words I type to get my prompt.

For much of the value of LLMs, prompts absolutely do not have to be well written. For some things they do; when I want it to do some programming I'm much clearer. Or if I'm trying to get it to do something it's very bad at (reasoning), but mostly I avoid that.
> We are releasing RWKV-v5 Eagle 7B, licensed as Apache 2.0 license, under the Linux Foundation, and can be used personally or commercially without restrictions

great on the team to actually set up the right incentives for testing and adoption.
I think we're talking past each other. We're both looking at the same future event - getting something of value out of a relatively isolated and unpopular human language.

I'm looking at this event and pointing out that the expected value of this bet is negative[1]. It is, in fact, so negative that there's a better chance of winning a 'let it ride' bet on roulette.

You're looking at this event and pointing out that the odds are non-zero.

I agree - the odds of a dying language making a positive contribution is indeed non-zero. I just don't think that non-zero is a good bar to base expensive decisions on.

> Again, "redundant" assumes that they are of no use to us with what we know now, but makes no promises for the future.

No, "redundant" is being used loosely - the odds of getting something of value from a dying language is nearly insignificant.

> Parenting, for example, is a topic that constantly waxes and wanes with paradigms every few years as the prevailing western model is constantly brought under question. One article mentions Inuit parenting[1],

And nothing[2] that you discover from the Inuit anger-prevention would make humanity more successful than it is right now; the majority of cultures aren't going to switch parenting styles, which, as the article points out, is cultural itself.

Cultures are resistant to change, and child-rearing is deep in every culture. In order for the Inuit method to be widespread, some other cultures have to lose some of their identity.

And, that's even assuming that the Inuit tradition of child-rearing is more successful, and many would argue that if it was, the resulting population of adults would have successfully competed with other cultures over centuries and yet this did not happen.[2]

[1] Because the effort needed to prevent a dying language from dying is high - see the Hebrew example.

[2] Once again, using "nothing" as "the odds of it happening are so low we may as well ignore it"

[3] Maybe there are confounding factors, but I don't care - I'm anticipating what arguments may come, not making them.
I am aware of that, but the metric I have been talking about this the entire time is neither of those.
I got the exact same comment on one of my repos as well
TBH NetBeui (pronounced net boo-ey) brings back horrific memories.
That barely scratches the surface of how much society and life on earth will change.

Religion, life's meaning, our place in the universe -- everyone will face an immediate reckoning here and have to reconcile their previous notions.

But even more impactful is that we'll start to be able to make much better approximations of Fermi's Paradox. It might suggest that the universe is teeming with life. Then questions about how it evolves and reaches sentience will move to the forefront. We'll have much better ideas.

We might start to get a little anxious about what's lurking out there, and we will probably start spending massively on space telescopes.

Society will start looking up.
My thoughts and experience with this.

Business side: for stuff like graphics design, research and data entry, building simple websites or apps, video editing or creatives, I've had good luck finding talent on freelance sites.

Finance: this is something I would be leery about outsourcing, until you grow big enough. Even though, I would outsource this to a well qualified CPA / CFA or company specialized in this, not to a random freelancer online.

Food: you can purchase food at your local restaurant or even have it delivered through Doordash, Uber Eats etc. Yes, not quite as good as home-cooked food, but you are asking about tradeoffs to save time.

Shopping: similar to food, purchase online and have it delivered to your home.

Home / car repairs: this is a tough one. You can save a lot of money on DIY here, BUT it is fraught with peril, one wrong step could mean a lot more in costs than you could have saved with an expert. As of now, I'm just letting the experts handle this.
Yeah, if I were someone working at a company having gone through the "normal" hiring process and then someone new joined my team and I found out they didn't have to go through it because they thought it was a waste of time and they were friends with the founder, that would feel pretty shitty.
Ruby is a good gateway to programming, better than C, C++, Java, Python,...
First: don't conflate NRE and tooling with the cost of something. Plastic spoons are close to free, but making a plastic spoon factory would be expensive.

Second: you don't need most of that stuff. Dev boards that are a few bucks and debug probes for under $20 are credible and usable; fairly good compilers are free.

> But too bad that's not really the standard for old technology and resources laying around the planet, isn't it? You have to basically be uncanny like MacGyver or inhumanly intelligent like Tony Stark to reprogram the apparently free teeny computers laying around the world.

USB DFU is pretty dang common. It's not the absolutely lowest end stuff, but still pretty dang close to free.

Compare to doing all of this ages ago, where you'd have an 8051 with an expensive, crummy compiler and need a lot more tooling to do anything.
I own six sets of Evie lights and they are the best I have ever seen. Three light sets with an induction charger sell for $75.

Here is a pre-release writeup from Product Creation Studios in Seattle about the development of Evie lights.

https://www.productcreationstudio.com/product-creation-glass...

And, here is a short video clip of Evies “burning.”

https://www.facebook.com/glassybaby/videos/2723369747740357/
Isn’t a lot of the “compensation” in company shares though?
Is there an SRS app or Anki feature that takes into account your reaction time when answering a card? I've wanted to use Anki for things like speeding up mental arithmetic but Anki doesn't seem to have a feature for measuring and plotting progress on response times.
I was just wondering how to apply anki for learning guitar tabs.
Can you please share a sample of one of your piano cards?
Hi, Condointernet/WaveG/Astound user. I've used their network before, and from experience, they put you on the same L2 segment as your neighbors. There's ARP/DHCP/etc filtering in place on the switch to prevent most kinds of shenanigans, but your neighbors can still send packets with a RFC1918 dst IP to your Ethernet address.

To ping your internal hosts, I'd need to gain access to your building or one sharing the same L2 segment ("dfsea"?), then configure a static route for 10/8 / 192.168/16 / etc pointing at you. I would not need any control over the ISP.
> You avoid the two usual mistakes I see with current AI, either thinking it's already game over for us or that it's a nothing-burger.

A lot of the latter is caused by the former. It is a nothing burger compared to the shocking amount of hysteria on HN about AI putting programmers out of a job. You'd expect a programmer to know what his job is, but alas, apparently even programmers think of themselves as glorified typewriters.
laid off in September- 20 years in tech and I have never seen as cold a job market as this one
i have difficulty seeing the hierarchy.
to me self transcendence is closely linked to belonging. i can't have family, friends or a community unless i care about them and not only about myself.

moreso, caring about others is what creates that belonging in the first place.

so while basic needs are kind of a foundation, it seems that the other needs are more or less in parallel on top of that.

also, another thought is to look at needs not from an individual perspective, but from a community perspective.

once you have achived belonging, it is the belonging and the community that ensures your basic needs.

when i am homeless and hungry, i don't automatically ignore the needs of my family and community in order to get food and shelter.

in fact losing family and community is part of what causes me to be homeless and hungry in the first place.

so i can't have food, shelter and protection unless i transcend and care about my community, or, in reverse i care about family and community because they provide food and shelter
Is it possible to try this out on something like llama.cpp? Does the different architecture make a difference there?
Ah damn. Until I worked at Nest just down the hill from Xerox PARC, I had never felt that feeling of import that came with a location. The building in particular is absolutely one of my favorites in terms of architecture and design, but also, I truly felt special… chosen, even, to have been able to inhabit a place so central to an ethos.

And I was just down the hill! I can’t even imagine if I had a chance to work in the buildings proper.
The red of a stop light makes a lot more sense in relation to the red of a fire mode on a gun when you think of red being "caution, unsafe" instead of just "stop". Just like the red of a STOP sign is to caution you into paying attention of the danger of the cross traffic, not necessarily just stopping.

Red lights on top of towers isn't trying to tell planes and helicopters to stop, its telling planes to exercise caution around the tower.
OK now do investor Elon
Was Hamas genocidal on October 7th?
> You really have no way of knowing if your friends still think of you the same post-employment even if you’re still acquainted.

I don't know about that. Sure, they might not have been totally happy with it, but if they're still friends with them, clearly they didn't hold any grudged. I think it's reasonable to give someone the benefit of the doubt that they aren't just being oblivious to the fact that they've been ghosted or something unless you have evidence to the contrary.
You are completely correct. For a level 3 person.

Level 1 : I don't know what I'm doing, so I'll invent stuff only I know in the expectation that'll be enough. This person is told (with good reason) that security by obscurity is no security at all.

Level 2. They got the above message, so do everything right. Setups, firewalls, permissions, and so on. They are proud of their expertise and lecture level 1s all day long.

Level 3. Understand that all the fundamentals need to be done right. Add addional obscurity onto that because it doesn't hurt, and can filter out some useless traffic. (These folk should also lecture level 1 with the simplified message, but can explain the benefits to level 2.)

The problem with HN threads like these is that I don't know who's giving the advice. Level 1 2 or 3. Equally readers could be any level. Which might be dangerous if they are level 1.

IF you ARE level 1, learn the correct way to secure things first. THEN feel free to add obscurity onto that if you like.
Many of the responses are about the relationship and how that turned out. Instead, the decision to join or not join that startup should come, assuming you both are strangers. Is the opportunity good, does it progress your career, pays you well, and is the equity fair?

Given the answer to that is yes, the job may or may not work out well, that risk remains the same. The decision to leave that startup again should not be based on friendship but on personal situations and aspirations.

I personally feel its better to be working with friends than with strangers. The hierarchy equation is simply a matter of circumstances.
Yes -- sorry, I meant exactly the above.
I don't know enough about that to open my mouth much on it, but I'd say civil wars are a special case given they are often fought over specific principles, ergo, have a certain natural selection.

Further, you're talking about a time in America's history where standing armies were dispreferred, which is not what modern American militarism looks like at all.

Finally, as far as "foreign born" people go, as I said, I support the idea of military service being a route for them toward citizenship, I just don't think going down to the border and signing people up there is a good idea.

I think one interesting idea, although you might only be able to do it as a once off without creating too many bad incentives, would be to offer amnesty and a route to citizenship this way.

I don't have a dog in the fight though, I'm not American. The risks of making joining the armed forces a direct route to citizenship in one of the most desirable countries to immigrate to in the world is not negligible though, you need to be careful, lest your armed forces turn into green card mercenaries, with no value base.
There is much about China that I don't understand, but I'm curious about the ownership in the "ghost cities".

Given the ability of the CCP to significantly control major industries and movement of people, is it not possible that someone might buy an apartment in a "ghost city" while living in a rural area or renting in another city, expecting that people and jobs would flow to the city once it was completed?

Basically I don't really understand all the details, nuance and different corporate and governmental players involved in the "ghost city" phenomenon, but I'd almost expect that the government could make a "ghost city" into a "real city" in no time, by shutting down factories in one city and opening them there, or by changing internal migration restrictions.
Kirei is a work-in-progress keyboard library written in Zig
Someone hacked that too!

Hacking the Esquire e-ink cover

https://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-09/hacking-esquire-e...
A fine opinion if you can afford it. I'll take a wage any day of the week, equity is nice to have once I know I can eat this week.
That’s just consignment sales, the problem is that most people selling a car need the cash now or quickly - often because they just bought a new one (hence selling it to the dealer for the down payment) or otherwise need to liquidate.

If you have time to sell you can list and wait.
For the modern world: 822 MPH = 1322.881 km/h
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It's interesting how all focus is now primarily on decoder-only next-token-prediction models. Encoders (BERT, encoder of T5) are still useful for generating embedding for tasks like retrieval or classification. While there is a lot of work on fine-tuning BERT and T5 for such tasks, it would be nice to see more research on better pre-training architectures for embedding use cases.
Real question: Are there any touchscreens that provide the equivalent of hover with your finger?
Think of three things .... and then combine them. Chances are you just invented something new that hasn't been thought off. Go write software for it.
Or if you like challenges, learn how to make games and make a game from it.
Specially in terms of available resources. Given that there is not much demand for it, there are also not that many developers for it…
How do you scale that?
I didn't really fully get the advantages of columnar stores until I read this (which won't load for me right now but it's on wayback machine): https://web.archive.org/web/20230603123119/https://www.the-p...
In Starship Troopers (the book), I'm pretty sure the ptoagonist (was it still Rico?) was Phillipino. Almost wonder if Heinlein might have drawn on this episode as inspiration for his ideas around service for citizenship.
What are you talking about? I did not say everyone likes to haggle. I did not say that haggle free places don't exist; in fact they even exist for cars. Sure people groan about bidding wars but who is asking for fixed price homes? I did not say anything about anyone's negotiation skills.

Maybe I was a little too strong by saying no one complains since I have not discussed haggling with the entire population. Put simply, I hear people complain about car haggling but not haggling for other things.

As far as you thinking not any of what I said is true; I think you read a whole lot more than I wrote.
> So you're saying that the law should force people to stay in a business relationship?

If the school receives public funding? Absolutely.

How many of the parents whining about the teacher actually had students in her class? Normally, in cases like this, you'll have something like one parent with a student in the class and a bunch of the Fox News pearl-clutcher brigade who don't even have children in the school.

> Like let's say this wasn't a teacher employed by a school district, but an independent tutor directly employed by parents.

That's a tougher problem. I still don't like it, but there's probably not a lot that can be done in that case. However, the mob mentality is also a bit dampened since the interactions are both individual and unforced.
Oh yeah, I guess it's better to limit the use of that. But I actually don't count using those as metaprogramming. It's just part of the framework, and you have to know about those features. Rails has a lot of magic and I think a lot of it is annoying and unnecessary. Using those features is one thing, but defining your own is too far imo, unless you're making a library.
Iirc casinos often have weird financing akin to movies where they almost intentionally go bankrupt to squeeze out the smaller investors/get better terms.

The trick is to be the main lenders so that it reverts to you on foreclose, or so I’ve gathered. It’s not something I’d invest in personally.
There are well trodden schemes for offering both over time in worker owned cooperative structures without sticking to a wage that is kept as low as the market will bear for your role (and may leave you finding you can’t afford the wage either for many)

Regardless it is possible and common to be taken advantage of even with your basic survival needs covered for you
Because kubernetes is much easier to operate than dozens of scripts and docker composes thrown around servers. We have like 5 sites, each site operated by like 5-10 services thrown around 4 servers without any redundancy, autoscaling and even consistency. It's truly is a mess.
Is it difficult to migrate to other distros in your case? I would argue the binaries should be similar…