skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I wonder how long it will take to recreate civilization in the event of a global catastrophe that wipes out enough people with the knowledge to make stuff. There will be generations that hear about all these wonders but will never have seen many of the things we take for granted.
> the sum total of human knowledge required to make it all happen.

A couple weeks ago, some idiot wandered into /r/farming with a question and immediately pissed off everyone by referring to "the simple process of growing food."

It really is unfortunate that most people don't think about where food comes from beyond it somehow showing up at the grocery store.
"evidence piles up" well of course it does. Who is paying for studies to show the benefits of processed foods?

The time individuals don't have to spend preparing their meals, the energy they don't buy and the fuel they don't burn to cook these items; surely those social and environmental factors should be added to the balance, when we weigh the costs and benefits?

Imagine someone does start studies to publicize the benefits of industrial foods. Imagine the NPR headlines about "Science for Sale" and how the industry is buying propaganda.
You can go to the “next” story at the bottom of the post, and then the author has some links to an online implementation.
Oh, I assumed he still did -O2, and did not do anything else. Is that bad to assume?

PS: I do not use C beyond reading some of its code for inspiration, so kinda unaware
I run u-block origin on my iPhone with Kagi Orion. What's your point?
The article said they cost $500,000 (each), which was probably the least believable part of the article. If they actually cost $100,000, that might be close to reasonable.

Somebody can probably do 5-6 rides a day at $50 a ride for a $100,000 tag. That's pretty believable for an average over a year. Even $200,000 might be. I have difficultly believing they're all making money needing 30 rides at ~$50 every day all year long for a $500,000 tag.

> value of his three taxi licence plates – worth about $500,000 each.
> Everyone should dislike Elon Musk. He's a horrible person and needlessly rich. The man has sociopathic tendencies. We just have to listen to his ethos to determine that.

Thanks for telling me what to think.

> But it is not designed for "depression-like symptoms". It is designed for acute depressive mood disorders and suicide ideation which cannot be treated by other means, similar to electroshock therapy or TMS.

That's literally not true. Spend a few mins reading a survey paper on it perhaps? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28249076/
From one Gen Z to another, I'm glad one of our own claimed that username.
If the government starts buying land (creating more demand and reducing the supply), prices will get even worse for people that don't want to live in socialized housing.

The government can do many things, but one thing it should not do is take away homes from the middle class.
Either there is some nuance going on or this person disagrees with Wikipedia on when cultures and civilizations around the old world developed steel.

If they are sloppy about the history, I have to wonder what else they are sloppy about.
I take it you have never used the healthcare system in the US?
Oof. Just because you did it yourself does not mean it wasn’t extremely dangerous, or that the average home owner should attempt it. There’s an incredible amount of energy stored in those springs when wound up
I'm assuming this is the kind of side-project that gets you hired on the spot in the VR teams at Apple/Meta/Snap without the LC bullshit?
Logarithm: A logging engine for AI training workflows and services
> (Of course, I edited the code to output the results, otherwise, it just optimized out everything.)

O(1) :)
I guarantee the industrial-food-complex is paying scientists to identify potential benefits of ultra-processed food.
Learned so many new things from your comments itself.
Thank you
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It depends on who you're optimizing for, insurance companies or individual drivers.
I did not, but I confirmed with objdump that my compiler was not removing the code.

(But to be sure, I just ran it again with an output and got the same value.)
Stripping down has massive 'corner' cases. If you are alone, good luck find one on your back, between ass cheeks and few other places. Also if you do full day activity (or god forbid multiday out in the wild), not so good.

Once they reach your hair (unless you shave clean), even good luck may not be enough, very hard to spot and almost impossible alone
I was hoping this was going to be a new technology making these springs obsolete.
That's a fun thought exercise!

I'd opt for saturation. Publish the message in as many places as possible, so that removing it from everywhere will be impossible. Automatically broadcast it to anything that remotely resembles a platform. Share it as podcasts, reddit comments, github repos, Huggingface models, pypi packages, Pinterest photos, Telegram messages, Tiktok videos. Spread it across multiple countries that ignore each other's takedown requests. Make sure it's picked up, cached and rebroadcast by everything from spammy content farms to web crawlers to The Internet Archive. Then spread it across protocols from IPFS to Tor and bittorent and Gemini. Make so many copies that you lose track of them.

Make sure to sign every copy, to prevent the other side from introducing fakes and fighting saturation with saturation.
I only recently found out that Andrew Tate was doing romance / pig-butchering scams. I don't pay particular attention Andrew Tate and already disliked him for other reasons - but I thought it was weird that those who are going after him do so on the basis of exploitation of women and as far as I can tell elided his subsequent exploitation of men. Andrew Tate is on video openly admitting to this and the only reason I found out from a recent Coffeezilla video. Where is the rest of the news media on this, why is this left to some YouTuber. Maybe it was there and I just didn't see it.

I didn't understand where Andrew Tate made his money, while exploitation of women can certainly be profitable, romance scams / pig-butchering where he can net $1M from a single man makes much more sense.
>after more curve fitting

What do you mean "more"? There are no new additional parameters and the curve literally fits, unlike for MOND (which doesn't fit at all unless you also introduce some form of DM).

>This was always the case

Then why would you trust any paper like this that explicitly doesn't use DM? Even if by mere chance it got a correct fit to one of the observations, you'll know immediately it could only have been a fluke since it didn't account for any DM.
Global ocean heat has hit a new record every single day for the last year
Well, I, for one, am trying really hard. My attention has lately turned to the possibilities offered by ‘new’ materials, especially ceramics. I have a hunch that 40% of everything the industry produces with steel could be built with oxides and rare earths.

We’re making experiments with ceramics, with interesting results[0]. Different forms different demands, different textures.

(*)This links to my blog, so I’m breaking the url so as not to be accused of spamming the board.

[0]h\\ps://voxleone.com/2024/03/05/3d-printing-im-making-a-500c-ceramic-hot-end/

Edited for clarity
I recently had mine serviced and the spring I have is original (~30 years old) and looking a little old. I asked the installer if I should replace it and he said “no. They don’t make them like they used to. They don’t last nearly as long. Wait until this one gives up”
Seems so. Those friends did have to contend with the enjoyable part of their job disappearing. Whether they called it cheating or not is doesn't diminish their loss.
My correlation vs causation sense is kicking in here - people eating "ultra processed food" (whatever that means) in the U.S. are usually going to be lower income people who can't afford a fancy Whole Foods diet, or don't have the time to prepare those foods. People who are poor and short on time are probably also more likely to have stress/anxiety and poor health. Skimming through the article there's no mention of controlling for those factors.

Lastly, Amazon sponsors NPR and owns Whole Foods. No footnote mentioning the conflict of interest in this article? :)
Leonard Read had the same feeling when he wrote "I, Pencil". Here [1] you have it narrated by Milton Friedman.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws
gmail for government / bank / "official" stuff that I can't loose

fastmail for a mailing list / sports team thing that I help run. local hockey league stuff. someone else set it up but it works fine and we keep using it.

protonmail for personal email, previously tutanota before that
Yeah, and black swan is going to happen only once in a while if you do this for five years, maybe once you loose more than 15%, but other times you'll make money
I'm not sure that there is an endpoint, only a continuation of the transitions we've always been making.

What we've seen as we transitioned to higher and higher level languages (e.g., machine code → macro assembly → C → Java → Python) on unimaginably more powerful machines (and clusters of machines) is that we took on more complex applications and got much more work done faster. The complexity we manage shifts from the language and optimizing for machine constraints (speed, memory, etc.) to the application domain and optimizing for broader constraints (profit, user happiness, etc.).

I think LLMs also revive hope that natural languages (e.g., English) are the future of software development (COBOL's dream finally be realized!). But a core problem with that has always been that natural languages are too ambiguous. To the extent we're just writing prompts and the models are the implementers, I suspect we'll come up with more precise "prompt languages". At that point, it's just the next generation of even higher level languages.

So, I think you're right that we'll spend more of our time thinking like product managers. But also more of our time thinking about higher level, hard, technical problems (e.g., how do we use math to build a system that dynamically optimizes itself for whatever metric we care about?). I don't think these are new trends, but continuing (maybe accelerating?) ones.
Elon Musk's Grok AI has now been open sourced, code available on GitHub
For the SQL interface, both sources and sinks are treated as tables. Sources you SELECT FROM, while sinks you INSERT INTO. Right now it is incumbent on the user to correctly specify the types of a source for deserialization. How getting this wrong behaves is a little source-dependent, as some data formats are stricter. Parquet will fail hard at read-time, while JSON will coerce as best as it is able, optionally dropping the data instead of failing the job depending on the bad_data parameter: https://doc.arroyo.dev/connectors/overview#bad-data.

Currently we don't support much in the way of changing configuration in external systems, instead focusing on defining long-running pipelines.

What did you have in mind for an HTTP source? We have a polling HTTP source, as well as a WebSocket source:

https://doc.arroyo.dev/connectors/polling-http
https://doc.arroyo.dev/connectors/websocket
Transact-SQL support (both queries and stored procedures) for PostgreSQL is implemented in Babelfish extensions [1]. It is implemented from the ground up as a "pl/tsql" language for Postgres [2], without using SQL-to-SQL transpilation like JOOQ.

[1] https://babelfishpg.org/
[2] https://github.com/babelfish-for-postgresql/babelfish_extens...
I love low tech magazine, but the citation for “African and Asian metallurgists developed high quality steels much earlier and this knowledge eventually allowed Europeans to do the same on a much larger scale?” Is an article in the same publication (low tech magazine) that hasn’t even been written. It makes the whole article feel fast and loose when making such a revisionist claim with a pretend citation.
People here complain, that they see these ads without joining to any special private groups.

It will be strange to complain that you see drugs ads if you join private group to buy drugs.
For anyone who thinks that may be a hand wave, there isn't a standard way to normalize email addresses. If you're building to the spec, then the local part can be processed case-sensitively, so Django lowercases the part after @ only. Others strip out stuff like gmail's +tags and really get into the weeds of how different email providers process emails.

https://pypi.org/project/email-normalize/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9807909/are-email-addres...
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What I learned building an AI language learning app
Current app: https://www.yaya.press/
Version 1: https://lang-interlacer-qhvrm2vxu-yayayomu.vercel.app/ (will keep it up for a couple months)
> Of the recent UberX's I have caught, the car was typically in need of a suspension replacement or significant servicing and around 6-7 years old or older.

This was a pet hate of mine in Australia. Order an UberXL "Fits your group of 6 riders (or extra luggage) comfortably" and most of the time someone was showing up in a Honda CRV or Passport (which has 5 seats). We had five passengers plus some luggage at times.

And when you cancel because that "XL" option won't meet your needs then the app starts hitting you for repeated cancelations, despite the fact that all of these vehicles don't actually fit the description and capacity described.
No worries! This is really dope actually! Def letting the uncles know!

They'll have a blast talking about this over Glenmorangie, Chicken 65, and Punjabi backchodi
You sound like a fun person to stop to ask if you have any dijon mustard.
If we count email, I still use an address from my employer that was established on my first day in 1997. I lost my college accounts around then, though a student group one lasted longer than official ones. Since email was also used with USENET, I didn't have any other online, public-at-large accounts until instant messaging invaded work a few years later. So I think I had AOL (AIM) and Microsoft (MSN) first, but haven't kept them active.

Close in there would be online commerce. I don't have detailed records, but probably started using Dell and Amazon quite early in the original dot-com era. Probably also B&H Photo Video and Crutchfield, since these were businesses I already knew from the mail-based catalog era.

I think I also had an online account with my bank by around the same time I started my job, though it took me a couple more years to wean myself off writing paper checks and primarily using bill pay.
Advice for the easily offended:

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.

Some people never grow up and that's not an issue that can be solved with AI.
If we assume that the Japanese government's official view married women in japan without children as a dependent family members, then it is possible that immigration of foreign husband of those are an intended feature. It might also be that husband supporting such dependent family member is assumed to fall within the skilled labor category of immigrants.
> Literally the third time you've beaten this straw man.

Second actually. Are you an LLM since you're having trouble counting?

> Holy shifting the burden of proof, Batman! It's incumbent on you to show that your fancy pattern-matching system is conscious.

No, I never claimed they were conscious, I refuted the claim that we can say with confidence they are definitely not conscious, because such a claim requires knowledge humanity simply doesn't possess. Perhaps you should reread this thread if you're unclear about what I claimed.

> I realize it's not easy for you to back up your bold claims, but all I see is a bunch of overconfident CS majors refusing to face up to the hard problem of consciousness[1]

The hard problem is an alleged problem, there is no proof that it's real. All thought experiments that purport to show its existence (Mary's Room, p-zombies), have acceptable possible answers under physicalist interpretations, and some neuroscientists are now pursuing such theories [1].

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
I still do today! (well, just the tags)
Yep, finance scams are everywhere, especially in YouTube (with fake "lecture" from celebrity like Musk), but on IG I seen these too.
Yesterday in tech-related news: “Targeting of IT Experts in Gaza”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39738469
That's one of the top things on my TODO list! Have a couple other bugfixes first, but expect this as a feature within a month or so.
Was this on a laptop or desktop? If a huge drop in power results in no meaningful drop in performance I would say that is a sign that previously you were hitting a point where heat was more of a problem than power.
Musk defends his ketamine use as beneficial for investors in new video
Interestingly, the NES had 3D glasses that go over your face like the occulus and the power glove (mentioned in the video), which has roll and flex sensors. No games combined the two, but I wonder what that could have been like with such little power. It wouldn't be true VR in any sense we think of today, but it would have been very unique gaming experience at home in the late 80s.
I often find the definition of ultra processed difficult. I put pea protein powder in my smoothies. That is certainly ultra processed however it has good macro nutrients and is not empty calories.

I understand the concept of “empty calories”, but ultra processed seems like a blend of that and how the food was made.
I lived in Boston in 1990. A friend of a friend worked as a security guard at the Gardner and took the night off that night (either to party or perform in his band) and someone else took his place. My friend said the FBI was "up his ass" as a result to determine if he was part of the caper.

Regardless, everyone thought it was something related to the New England mob, which was still powerful at the time. But nobody squealed with verifiable information, which seems strange considering the feds and state police were actively targeting the mafia (thanks to help from Whitey Bulger and his pals in the FBI) and knowledge of the heist would have been an opportunity to lessen law enforcement pressure and/or reduced sentences during subsequent prosecutions.
What if we don’t hit AGI and instead the tools just get pretty good and put lots of people out of work while making the top 0.1% vastly richer? Now you’ve got no prospects, no power, and barely any money.
> I assumed were still many months away from this happening, but was proved wrong with the Devin demo - even though it can only perform simple development tasks now, there’s a chance that this will improve in future.

Doesn't Devin run using GPT-4? And as such, with all generative AI technologies, its performance is subject to the common challenges faced by these systems.

Mainly the transformer model, which is the foundation of GPT-4, is known for its linear scalability. This means that as more computational resources are allocated, its performance improves. However, this scalability is subject to diminishing returns, reaching a point where additional resources yield minimal improvements. This theoretical "intelligence" limit suggests that while continuous advancements are possible, they will eventually plateau.

The future of software development will continue to involve human software engineers until we achieve true Artificial General Intelligence. Regardless of when or if AGI becomes a reality, your skills and expertise in your niche domain will remain valuable assets. While companies may leverage AI-powered software engineering tools to augment their workforce and in effect replace you, you as a skilled professional can do the same.

If you possess a deep understanding of your core domain and a passion for building useful products, you can leverage AI software engineering tools, AI-powered design assistants, and AI-driven marketing solutions to launch new startups more efficiently and with less capital investment, especially in the realm of software-centric businesses.

So, the way I see it, it is the businesses that need to be afraid, if AI becomes capable enough to start replacing their workers, as it will also make it easier for most software engineers and product managers to build competing products in their areas of specialization.
Could they be made from under spec for other applications steel?

There's not yet an awesome-coral restoration markdown README.md; or any mentions of both "MARRS" and "Reef Cubes".

Do coral prefer steel to other materials like concrete, sargassumcrete, hempcrete, sugarcrete, formed CO2, or IDK cellulose; and can you just add iron to the mix or what do coral prefer?

Can RUVs and robots deploy coral scaffolding safely at scale underwater?

What other shapes would solve?
Try putting a pillow under the shoulder that your mouth is closest to. A slight lifting of the shoulder might relieve the neck strain.
I might just be getting curmudgeonly in middle age, but I don't like this. I want it to be harder for services to share information about me. My address and phone number are also "public" but that doesn't mean I want every site to keep a copy of them.
Interesting. While I've played with ShaderToy a bit, I've not gotten such a thing to run locally. Maybe I should revisit this..

I guess all that I'd need would be in-memory buffer of my field, then a single function to copy the buffer (or section of the buffer if I want larger than screen fields) to the video buffer.
the real plan is provisioning a farming plantation, because that army is going to starve in a few months.

it doesn't matter if you have a 1000 guns and plan on stealing what you need -- if no one can farm you're not going to last.
The market is different, and so is the supply. The market for artisanal cutlery is basically an art market. The programmer supply today is an approaching-standardization factory worker. There IS an art market for software, in the indie gaming space, so perhaps that will survive (and AI could actually really help individual creators tremendously). But the work-a-day enterprise developer's days are numbered. The great irony being that all the work we've done to standardize, framework-ize the work makes us more fungible and replaceable by AI.

The result I foresee is a further concentration of power into the hands of those with capital enough to own data-centers with AI capable hardware; the petite bourgeoisie will shrink to those able to maintain that hardware and (perhaps) as a finishing interface between the AI's output and the human controlling the capital that placed the order. It definitely harms the value proposition of people who's main talent is understanding computers well enough to make useful software with them. THAT is rapidly commoditizing.
Yeah I'm not sure that the content negotiation would work very well if you're using a plain webserver or storage service to serve static content.
Exploring the Frontier of Data Products
> You don't usually get bitten by mosquitoes on your neck though,

and how do you manage this?
Have any links or sources for tutorials on getting into those several are intersting
'GeminiPhone' Would Tie Frenemies Apple and Google Closer
Right but that would only happen if the code literally increased/decreased the channel volume instead of simply setting it to the new value. Either way it's an embarrassing bug to have for something so essential and simple, the kind of bug that reminds me of Linux desktops from 15 years ago or so
The Cost of Data Incidents
Not sure if satire. It's a terrible user experience for me. For future readers:

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com

https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com
It seems pretty based on WebFinger, which is such an example.