skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Metabolically, animals are pretty inefficient, and each trophic level (layer of the food web) only keeps about 10% of its caloric intake as edible flesh for the next layer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...).

So if algae feed smaller fish, the smaller fish feed salmon, and the salmon feed humans, to double our salmon, we'd need 20 units of smaller fish and 200 units of algae (edit: oops, math is hard).

That's a lot. Climate change can increase algae productivity, but not by that much unless we want to barbecue the world. Of course there are other avenues (like simply harvesting more of it, or growing crops in areas of land/ocean not suitable for other uses). But there are always knock-on effects too, like algae blooms can be poisonous or deplete nutrients in an area.

The on-land agricultural revolution and improved/modified genetics gave us access to much more edible food, but a lot of that is only 1-2 trophic levels (we eat grains directly or feed grains to livestock that we then eat). The ocean tends to have a lot more layers, and is also not as easy for us to till and fertilize, and not all of it is equal... much of the edible parts are concentrated in certain areas, with a lot of empty water in between.

In general we probably shouldn't be hunting apex predators in the ocean anymore than we hunt them on land. It took 'em millions of years of evolution to reach a relatively stable carrying capacity, but we can drive them to extinction in a few years.

But, hell, realistically there's probably no stopping any of this. One day our kids will read about whales alongside dodos in the history books =/
The watch isn't "adding" anything, and that's the point. It's taking away unnecessary capabilities and only giving me what's important.

If I get a message in the middle of a meeting, I can figure out if it's just my mechanic saying my car is ready to be picked up. Or if it's a severe medical emergency. All this without bothering anyone else with audible alerts or getting distracted by any number of things on my phone.

If you have your own system, that's fine. I'm not saying this solution is for everyone. All I'm saying is that it's a useful solution for at least one person in this world.
In my personal experience I’ve found stand ups are incredibly easy to sidetrack. One dev starts going into too much detail about a troublesome aspect of their ticket instead of simply stating what the problem is and then organizing a time after the standup to meet with the colleague best suited to assist.

Standups shouldn’t be a rubber duck session with the entire team.
What does this have to do with naming things
Type The Alphabet – Typing game to see how fast you type
Imagine running a company. That's hard enough.

Now imagine your market share is down a ton (and decreasing), and there's no clear way to change that trajectory.

Then imagine that despite being CEO, you're owned by a non-profit. So, you have a boss, and your boss has different goals than you do.

Then imagine attracting and retaining top talent, while not being able to give out equity.

Then imagine that your product is free. You can't charge more for it; you give (almost) everything away for free and there's no clear path to monetization.

And then imagine that almost all of your money comes from your biggest competitor, and your only lever is to negotiate (from a position of weakness, because they're much bigger) a deal every 3 years in order to keep paying your employees.
Is this for one store or all stores? It's commendable that you posted your code, but a minimal README would be appreciated.

Looking through your code, I see that the default store is Chicago South Loop (701). This would be helpful information to include on the website displaying the results.
Also the non plant parts of it could be fairly efficient too. e.g see black soldier fly farming for fish feed. Not that that is a 100% answer for all feed for seafood farming, but interesting options abound.

Personally though, Octopi are too smart for me to eat. I'll always pass on it now.
If you can understand the nature of the simulation and then make and confirm different otherwise surprising and unexplainable experimental predictions consistent with it, this is a good as evidence gets scientifically. Sure there could always be some more complex or unimagined explanation for the same results, but that is reasonable to dismiss with Occam’s razor. If you can’t accept this, you would need to reject all past scientific discoveries as well, as this is how they were all confirmed.

“Weird rules” to me just sounds like observing unexplainable things. It’s very different from being able to say before hand “if the universe is simulated using x bit floating point computation, we will get result 1 in this experiment, and if it has infinite precision as we’d expect from a non heuristic physical universe, we would get result 2.”
People have different preferences when it comes to online identity. Personally, I believe that for me it’s easier to behave reasonably and hold myself accountable when not being anonymous.
People try to, but are imperfect at doing so. For example, most people do not closely track what is happening 2 lanes away. But someone can move from your blind spot 2 lanes away into your blind spot right next to you.

Also, if something potentially dangerous/important is happening to your left, you will focus your attention there and not be aware of things happening to your right, even if you normally would have seen those things had you been looking straight ahead.

I try to know what is going on around me, for the reason you describe (exit strategies), but I'm aware that sometimes I simply do not know what is to my left — and would not want to swerve there.

Having seen friends driving Teslas, I can see how the surround-view could be useful for situations like this. However, I have also seen that cars appear/vanish for no reason, and it is clearly not reliable at this point.
you're really not missing out; social media has its benefits but I'm not sure they outweigh its detriments

I deleted my FB account ~8 years ago and twitter ~1 year ago and have not regretted it one bit. IG is the only one I have left and use that to share/keep up with family/friends' photos.
Apple watch with ECG? released 2018
U.S. VCs Funded Blacklisted Chinese Companies, House Committee Says
https://archive.is/5beIE
Also, about the "regardless of where your friends go" part, I'd say most people meet their friends in school. I guess if they moved and had to change schools that would suck but I can't think of anyone that happened to personally (other than friends who moved far away, like to another state). And the school district is often a very key factor when people with kids are looking for housing.
how about a ZFS snapshot of a million files, is that any different than a single file database?
Yep, just like I wrote about my experience in my age of distractions post back during the COVID-times… It stayed on the front page for quite a while here on HN: https://www.lostbookofsales.com/age-of-distractions/

I also mentioned the greyscale screen trick people bring up here, haha. Phones are huge contributor to this whole problem.
Interesting paper. I focus more on the latency than bandwidth. The paper gets a few things wrong, DDR5 is not a single 64bit channel, but 2 x 32 bit channels. So the normal Xeon is 16 x 32 bit channels, not 8x64 bit.

He talks about cache misses as 60ns, which glosses over that approximately half of that is missing through L1/L2/L3, then you enter the queue for the memory controller, for the memory channel you need. As a result you only get half the bandwidth if you only have a single request pending per channel.
> Climate denial, for example, is not about carefully planted false evidences

The mountain of carefully planted false evidence sure ain't helping things though.
The reference is to Superman, who was often described in Golden Age comics as "faster than a speeding bullet".
at least in the uk, the kerbside isn't your property
Didn’t the CEO literally fire the entire rust team, not start the team?

I guess that’s a surplus good if you meant for all these highly skilled engineers taking their talents to other companies.
Hit movies don’t really seem to matter to Disney in the grand scheme of things. It’s more about selling merchandise of their already established brands.
You don't look crazy, but it's definitely harming your social standing.
Well in tech you can actually be an expert IC with in demand skills that match the comp. This is vs some "strategy" head or "chief of staff" which are glorified admins that are often created when execs are empire building.

The question to ask is "am I building the product that is being sold, and is the value I add a 10x in terms of revenue?"

I hesitate to give a comp number as I've never been inside FAANG, but more inside large corp. But anything over $500k you definitely are always being looked at there.
I am German, so I am familiar with our system, which is why I asked specifically about high schools ;)
The video increases stress so that you can employ the explained destressing techniques in seconds immediately afterwards.

Note: this doesn't mean the technique takes a few seconds, just that the technique will be useful in seconds
Sites like leetcode overindexes on the rote abilities that you can stamp out. Actually building something is exploring in a creative way which builds a deeper understanding.

If you want to be "optimal, neat, or best practiced" read a book, and get stuck in tutorial hell. If you actually want to learn how to do something, literally go do it. Nobody has ever built anything of value (whether that is financial, intellectual, or emotional) by leetcoding.
> they marked up the price of roses ahead of Valentine's Day!

Simple supply/demand.
They've been dropping long enough that a pay package almost entirely based on increasing market share would have gotten a lot less objection from me at least.
IN Pakistan army decides and is the real ruler. Elections are only a face to appear as a democratic sate. In fact Pakistan elite (including army higher ranks) just is there to milk the country and build estates outside (West/UAE/etc).
The thing is that it isn't a conclusion at all -- it's more of a suspension of arriving at a conclusion due to a lack of evidence supporting one.
The H1-B program and its system of internationally sourced indentured captives.
The amazing thing about emergent behavior in LLMs is that they are able to answer questions like these. I don't think it is completely understood how exactly they do this, but there's little doubt that they do.
Negative facial expressions whilst eating a vegetable decreases liking of it
Every thread about Firefox there's a comment like this and I truly don't know if we're using the same browsers. Firefox keeps getting better and faster, while chrome is getting more bloated and aggravating.
Why is it funny prices rose as demand increases? That’s Econ 101 expected behavior
> No innovation

Except for Rust.
The food grown in NL is mostly exported because it's so cheap to operate here thanks to subsidies.
Yes, you make a good point. Although I suspect there may be regional differences in price, I haven't yet run the diff on that. Should be simple enough for me to allow the user to select their regional store location.
The Blues and the Greens
Yeah stooping culture blew up during covid. My apartment is furnished with two couches that I picked up for free (both within my building actually). I'm going to estimate having stooped up to 10K worth of stuff since 2020 (almost all of it in astonishingly good shape), including plants, kitchen appliances, kitchen table and chairs, dressers, coat racks, a door sized painting (it might actually be a door as a canvas), etc. I have also given away things like my TV and living room console, one of those couches, medium fridge, plants, etc.

It's a pleasure to give and receive. It prevents perfectly good, clean, functioning things from meeting an early end at the landfill simply because selling it ends up being more of a challenge than expected.

Never imagined such a communal barter system to spring up in the modern day.
small LLM? Small Large Language Model lol
> S and X

The S naming has been consistent since the 360: it's the small one.

It's not a stretch of anyone's imagination that the other one is the bigger one (I mean that's t-shirt sizing), nor that it exists in the same generation as the S and therefore is not bigger just for the sake of taking more real estate under the TV.

The one they nailed though is Xbox One X, which is recursive.
Even in the US, I'd bet that few entities bid into the ancillary services markets at only 100kW because the economics don't add up when you are using batteries (due to high fixed costs).

However, having the lower minimum has the advantage of allowing smaller firms to participate (i.e. companies controlling 100s of electric water heaters), instead of just massive utilities.
Most systems are "distributed" actually, even your CRUD apps and CLI tools that write to disk. The better question is "how do you learn to deal with distributed systems intricacies in places where it matters (such as finance)?", the answer for which is super simple;

1. Write any stateful program
2. Now look at every single LOC and imagine what happens to the system if the service crashes before executing the next LOC. Then modify the system to deal with those scenarios.
IE didn't gain share because it was free (Netscape was, as well). It gained share because, with Windows 95 OSR 2.5, it because integrated into the operating system and no longer had to be downloaded separately.
State Bank of India is obviously the biggest with 50% or close rest are mostly private banks.

Nothing huge technological change in this side yet.
Glasskube is now part of the CNCF Landscape
Better = more efficient.

People in aggregate don't have any preferences actually. They just want to get to their destination in the cheapest/most convenient way, which is mostly dictated by what has been designed to be that way. If you design everything around the car, then obviously choosing the car will be the most convenient; it's hardly a choice at that point.

There is only one country that isn't completely drunk on cars that I know of - the Netherlands - and even then it's only barely so. The bar is on the floor.
Google releases 'Gemini' in new effort to cash in on generative AI
The older I get, the more I have the sense (both intuitively and through evidence) that I'm far more like the animals I've eaten than I am unlike them. That sense has become more and more attuned, and it has gotten to the point that I don't see animals as food anymore. They're just a different kind of people trying to survive. Since I don't actually need to eat them to survive, it seems akin to murder to consume them purely out of pleasure. That would have sounded crazy to me once, but not at all these days.
I had to read the sentence twice. Getting strong Windows Mobile Second Edition Live Professional SE vibes here...
Did you just say Microsoft doesn't have a popular email service?
Oil does not come from dinosaurs (2022)
This only reinforces the opinion of it being a bad naming choice (on top of the confusing product vs technology part)
Isn’t that what ZFS is trying to solve? Such that storing a couple billion “ records of a couple Megabytes to Terabytes each” become feasible?
Hmm, I tried to follow but that seemed a little elaborate. I think if
someone tried to pull-off what you described (declaring a candidate
disqualified within a week of an election) you'd have civil unrest or
worse on your hands regardless any information flows.
Or just keep using Apple Music?
Good catch. These prices are hard coded to my local store in Chicago. Soon I will add support for selecting your local store.
Why Crypto
It would be shocking if it was.
At least where I live you change the school you go to at least once and I just assumed it was the same in the US considering that there are middle and high school. So when you switch from middle to high school, I would have assumed not all of your friends end up at the same school...
Spiral-Shaped Contact Lens Uses 'Optical Vortex' to Correct Vision
And with Haskell and Nix at that!
It's mostly still bad but I made a GPT called 'covert advertiser' that lets you tinker with embedding covert advertisements into GPT responses. The results are usually either undetectable (no adversing) or way too on the nose, but every now and then it manages to sneak something in there that's interesting.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-juO9gDE6l-covert-advertiser
Might be human nature.

Fee. People will pay huge 'fees' for some feature or access, or privilege.

Fine. People will riot in the streets if the exact same value was applied as a fine or a tax. 'what a huge fine, that is totally un-fair'.

A fee makes it seem like a choice.

A fine, everyone is mad, even people that it wont ever apply too.
Twitter borrowed the # convention from IRC channel names, not telephone keypads.
Trader Joe's prices are famously the same across all stores.

So that shouldn't be an issue.
Advanced RAG techniques – let's collect refs in thread
My recent medium post on advanced RAG went kinda viral, but I'd like to see if there are some new techniques or setups to check out.
Link to my medium post https://pub.towardsai.net/advanced-rag-techniques-an-illustr...
Show HN: Brickgenerator.com – AI Text to Lego Models Generator
As a developer and Lego enthusiast, I wanted a way to come up with lego designs quickly and what better way then using AI! I decided to take a stab at it and created BrickGenerator.com. This is a novel tool that turns text into Lego models. This proof of concept uses generative AI to create Ldraw code-based Lego designs from your descriptions. It's early days, and the results are intriguingly varied – perfect for those who want to experiment with me. Try it out with simple object descriptions and let me know your thoughts. How can I make this even better going forward?
…I don't understand? VX2758-2KP-MHD is a fairly commonly used word in the Polish language.
I recommend the book Tender is the Flesh, I think you’ll love it
Yeah I’m being dumb. I was thinking of MCTS with infinite depth where the path through time that’s taken (wave function collapse) is the optimal path for some reward function (maybe complexity?).
This is exactly why I don't want to eat them. As an animal, yes, I can identify that they are in fact like other animals; they are like me, for instance. I don't want to eat things like me, because I don't want to be eaten. That's why it's not possible to put a cat on my plate. That logic goes both ways, and the variables in the equation are values-based.
As long as you don't overspend on weird. Being weird is great until it isn't.
No, and tbh, I don't want us to expand our horizons of what sentient animals we find ok to eat.

(I say this as someone who is not a vegan, or vegetarian)
They mean that 20 years ago I was really into music blogs and videos and tagging and getting videos onto my iPod to the point it's literally what got me into programming: step by step, shitty AppleScript to set up auto convert + add to iTunes flows, compiling C to get the latest HandBrake that could do non-DVDs...

Now it's too easy: I have the absolutely fantastic experience of having infinite music in my hand on demand without any of the work. I've completely lost touch with music over the last decade. I am always vaguely frustrated because it's not _that_ good, it panders to my taste too much, and there's no value to any of it.

The foraging made it a hobby and intellectually stimulating, the "please tap this! or this! or this! or this!" makes it boring and all the same.
HN isn't technically social media, but it's close. The little vote buttons, the karma, the constant feed of "hot" articles, are designed to fuel the dopamine push that creates addictive engagement.

What it lacks to be true "social media" is engagement around a social network. There are certainly "social networks" at work on HN, but most of the users don't know each other and aren't focused on each other's statuses, pictures, videos, relationship statuses. Instead they're mostly focused on intellectual competition via comments. (when you're not allowed to compete for jokes, like folks do on Reddit, you compete for whatever else defines your identity, which on HN is intelligence).

Ironically, HN's always wanted to be a social network, in that they want to build "a community of users" where the users all recognize each other (they claim that's necessary in order to build a community). Once HN introduces personal blogs or tweet-like status updates, it will 100% be a social network, with all the same health concerns.
More like this story on the same site, maybe? https://aloneonahill.com/blog/the-disney-princess-desk-proje...
i expect you would find such insightful perspectives from american undergrads as well
That sounds really hard!

But I don't see why it needs particularly rare skills.

And lots of people do really hard jobs for much much much less money.
Dot-product attention learns positional and semantic attention
That makes sense. It could be seen as a ideological filter, but I suspect it's just testing the candidate's survival skills. Same thing, I suppose.
This is definitively not expected. You could also try setting the CPU/Mem configuration via VBoxManage. Maybe you get a good error message then.

`VBoxManage modifyvm <vm_name> --cpus <number of cpus>`

`VBoxManage modifyvm <vm_name> --memory <amout of memory in MB>`
The old comments are associated forever. I'm choosing to be more careful of my comments at the moment, but I may need to create a new account at some point to discuss things anonymously.
>Mind you Ukraine could have prevented all of this if

Whatever comes after the if, unless it's "surrender sovereignty unconditionally", it's wrong. Putin's goal was, and is now, to incorporate Ukraine into his empire as a client state, similar to Belarus. And eventually to take even that decorative residual bit of sovereignty. Of course at this point, taking over Ukraine will mean mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people and an erasure of Ukrainian identity and language.

Just want you to be clear about what outcome you're defending.
I heard that a long time ago as well. It's a successor to QUEL, so obviously the successor to quel is sequel.
Thank you for making the world a bit worse. /s
bingo. Google has long been reduced to ship their org chart. Visible every single time - hangouts to chat to whateverthe hell
That’s an interesting point, in terms of shrink wrapped software its easily 100x more software that will accept a file input.
I simply left room for error.
Are they smarter than pigs?
Chinese breach U.S. infra targets
FBI, NSA and CISA officials warn that Volt Typhoon actors are "pre-positioning themselves on IT networks to enable lateral movement to OT assets to disrupt functions."
I just had to look that up. It’s another name for a wall sit. Brutal!
The north remembers,and the internet never forgets.
I also tried it with a bunch of my previous got4 requests and it didn’t even understand. A few of them that gpt4 was very helpful with
The book that Dominik Tornow is writing “Thinking in Distributed Systems” has been an excellent next read after DDIA for me (it’s not yet finished I believe).

Really shows the experience of someone who understands this stuff inside and out (was one of the main people behind Temporal).
Some countries do eat cat and dog yes. I'm on South Korea, and I could try dog meat if I wanted as there are some places cooking it.
It is the case. It's kind of a famous quirk about their stores, that prices are identical nationwide.