skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that she was talking about roadside plantings. As in along the ditches next to highways.

There’s a scale problem.

I’m not saying roundup is the way, but you can’t scale up cardboard to that level. For one thing, most at home gardeners are recycling their pile of Amazon boxes. For the highway system, you’d need to start manufacturing cardboard for that purpose, which would have its own consequences.

Personally, I’m a fan of using those roadsides to do grazing. Intensive grazing. It has its own downsides, but using an animal system to manage a plant system can be very effective. See also the bison on the plains.

Ed: fixed missing sentence break.
The race is on to figure out a way to get LLMs to produce content to be used for training other LLMs in a satisfactory way. Eventually the dataset question will get figured out in the courts but if there’s a technique to generate more training data in an automated way then the court decision doesn’t matter.

Edit: also, I don’t believe court decisions can be enforced retroactively so existing LLMs would be safe but I’m most definitely not a lawyer.
Where did this come from? Even if assembled from multiple sources the full text for 400k books and 6M other publications would be very hard to get.

Did someone hack an e-book store? Or somehow extract data from Google books?
> The thesis is that mortgages are not primarily a service a bank provides to a homeowner.

An insightful point. And here's a related one. The worst thing the financial industry could endure is for government to run a balanced budget year after year.

In the same way that a homeowner is not the primary customer of a mortgage, the government is not the primary customer of its deficit. That debt is absolutely necessary not only to finance the services provisioned by the government, but for the successful operation of the entire financial industry.
How much of that is because the tech was better versus because it was Intel pushing for it? There were competing standards such as (off the top of my head) SCSI (isn't that what SATA basically is anyway?), Firewire and PCIx.
Well hopefully you are not just keeping the same UX as chatGPT

Because the value is in what the wrapper helps your specific customer base do.
Whether that's through prompt engineering or RAG, or some other technique, the value is in someone else spending the time to think of a UX that helps accomplish a specific job.

If you know what you want and how to do it, then likely fiddling around with prompts can get you pretty close, but people are busy and don't have time to test asking chatGPT 500 different prompts to get one that works well, or hunt around for examples to feed into context or into a RAG index.

There's an asymmetry of information and effort developing the pipeline/context/prompt construction involved.

And this is what add's value.

Not simply a chat window and passing whatever the user types in, to openAI's API.
As far as I know, typical conversion from a waitlist is below 2% and that's after you're fairly sure you're dealing with people and not bots.
Neither 100 nor 1000 emails is even remotely enough, both amount to nothing.
The Soviets accepted the independence of Finland

That's a weird way of summarizing the the Winter War.

Poland that invaded Soviet Russia in 1920

The places where they met the Red Army were not "Soviet Russia".

Let's stop this tangent, please.
I do this - I mow half and have given the rest to native plants.

Benefits:

- My lawn is prettier (native wildflowers are really nice)

- Deeper roots around my house has slowed/stopped the basement water that the previous owners had to deal with

- Biodiversity is nice, we get lots of animals that neighbors don’t get

Things I thought would be problems that aren’t:

- Kids don’t have as much space to run in the yard. We go to the park more and there are other kids there, so on the whole they’ve made more friends than if they just stayed in our yard.

- Biodiversity increases the number of critters trying to get into the house. The native plants are more attractive to the ecosystem than my house is, and now there’s enough predators of the bugs in the garden that there are less bugs to try and get into the house.

Problems:

- I have to clear brush 1x/2x a year to remove flammable material
No, I'm saying Apple will not quit the market, because Europe provides too large portion of its revenue. None of the FAANG level companies will quit. Not only that, given the fun of the Brussels effect, in a while the US market will get similar benefits to the EU rules. (After Apple gets tired of acting grumpy and announces it as a positive thing, like they did with RCS)
My last lease in California consisted of 24 documents and addendums totaling 63 pages of dense legalese. Some of those were disclosures required by California law, but most were putting obligations on me (sometimes overlapping and contradictory). I might have been the only tenant there to actually read them every year (they changed every time). If a landlord can find any breach of those terms they can give you just 3 days to fix it before they give you a notice to vacate (giving you just another 3 days to move out). For a professional with a full-time job, some problems just cannot be fixed in 3 days.

Sure, it's not "at-will" and you can fight it, but it sure does feel lopsided if you can be told at any moment to find another place to live in one week for any one of a host of reasons you "agreed" to that change constantly.
It looks like you have to hold down the production phase button for a bit
> fusion reactors the size of a rice maker

Mr Fusion is almost 10 years late, according to Back to the Future. I’m still waiting for my hoverboard.
As I understand it, Intel apparently experimented with drastically lowering power consumption. They found that x86 chips can absolutely be made to sip power like ARM chips can. The conclusion was that fetch, decode, and interconnect were the most important power consumers, and CISC vs RISC didn’t quite matter as much as the physical architecture and layout.

Am I remembering that correctly? Does anyone have a link?
Sigh. That was the main thing I was interested in.
I'm going to assume you're joking, but you're doing a good job of keeping me guessing.
What is “good moderation” to you is bad moderation to someone else. It’s entirely subjective.

“Bad moderation” complaints vary widely. Without elaboration, a person complaining about it gets lumped in with people also complaining about:

- “I was banned” (and the community didn’t like the behavior)

- “I used language that should be allowed” (that offended the community and automod removed it)
I recall my ISP doing the same eventually around the same time. At first, they stopped carrying binary groups and, later, all of Usenet.
I haven't read all the replies to see if this has been posted yet, but one of the consequences is erosion of trust in reality itself: we're starting to see the comments "are you a bot?/is this real? I can't tell if you're serious or if this was from ChatGPT".

It's quite possible that soon the majority of comments online will be with bots, or people will just avoid discourse more and more because they don't know/believe they are talking to a human.
After reading the article, a fun thought popped into my head.
Who has the right to determine if a project like this is dead or EOL'd? Is it the original author to make that declaration or when it is under BSD license, wide community-use, and support -- when does a project like this truly become dead or EOL'd?
Government != people. Russia has a population of >140 million and not a democracy, you can’t accurately assume anything about a random civilian’s stance on Ukraine.
That’s some really nice intellectual property they have there.

Be a shame if someone thought about it.
People seem to imagine it like plugging a cable or getting an EEG cap and then they can't imagine the next step. Gradual replacement is a very radical idea to most people - a friend of mine recently described is as a horror movie.
I wish this was a joke...
On some days I'm 8-10 times a day coffee drinker and on the same days I turn out to be 4-5 times a day pooper. I suspect there is some connection.
This would have been less concerning a couple decades ago, but after Virgina Tech, more than 1 or 2 people suddenly running past me would cause me to make assumptions. Some "Capture the Flag Game in Progress" signs would be comforting in that situation.
Some fighters flying today are only capable of exceeding human limits under very limited conditions: low altitude and limited stores. That is increasingly irrelevant. Navy tactical aircraft like the F-35C are only stressed to 7.5G.

Aircraft carriers don't solve the problem, and you have some of the basic facts wrong. The Navy is planning for an A2/AD environment where shore based missiles force carriers to stand off at longer ranges. The F-35C actually has a wider combat radius than the legacy F/A-18C but it's still not enough. Hence the focus on larger, less maneuverable designs for the next generation (plus low observable tankers).

The Navy has only 11 real carriers with catapults that can launch heavy aircraft with large fuel loads; the other amphibious ships can only operate V/STOL aircraft like the F-35B which is much shorter ranged due to limited fuel.
Well, mostly because, while an extremely entertaining idea, it's pretty clearly bogus science.
I don't know if that's a concession so much as an evolved understanding of what is fun in an adventure game.

Pixel hunting and moon logic puzzles where you're more or less expected to brute force the puzzle and groan at the answer (e.g. the infamous monkey wrench); that shit was never fun. It ended up in games because the genre was still immature and game designers didn't know better.

Modern adventure games are much better at ensuring that the key is never far from the lock... for the simple reason that softlocking because you didn't pick up a single pixel that was an important rock 4 hours ago isn't fun, and neither is backtracking across the entire game to talk to the pigeon you missed because it only briefly flies past in the background once every 4 minutes.
You’re going to need at least calculus for derivatives and probably also some linear algebra which is rare to get in high school. Most high school students never get to calculus and of the ones that do there or in college, a lot of them struggle with derivatives, never mind integrals.

Derivatives are already motivated by geometry, physics, and optimization. Aren’t neural nets just another form of optimization?
It’s most useful for searching Reddit. For anything else is pretty comparable to all the other shit out there so Ddg is good enough
I don't really see a difference in quality between the two. There is bottom feeding trash in both.
Difference of eat portions is important
Hey man as someone who appreciates modern medicine this sucks. You can try to empty out the cities though!
Ah that movie brings back good childhood memories for me. According to my mom I was addicted to watching Back to The Future when I was like 4-5.
> At VirusTotal, we have been running YARA-X alongside YARA for a while, scanning millions of files with tens of thousands of rules, and addressing discrepancies between the two.

This is pretty encouraging as far as compatibility. I hope they keep doing this.
We actually didn’t even run in the dark! We played from 4:45-6:30pm, where the sun was very much still shining. Maybe next time I host I’ll do it at night.
YARA-X is dead, long love the next fad
This is only true if you reject the pink elephant argument as straw man in the first place.

As long as you consider it a figure of speech (a charitable interpretation indeed), then existence of pink elephants (or ghosts, or what have you) is exactly the implication of the theory in context of scientific method.
Lockheed Martin's Compact Fusion Reactor was announced in 2013. It's still up on their website[0] but the project seems to have been cancelled a few years ago, without any concluding remarks.

[0]https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion...
Speed Up Your CI/CD Pipeline with Change-Based Testing in a Yarn-Based Monorepo
Some thoughts on AI image generation
I apologize for my above comment. I should have been more thoughtful. You are absolutely not a parasite and do have value.
Welcome screen was a popover on iPhone (only available on iPads, should be a sheet on iPhone), with rounded non standard button and non standard horizontal lines.

“Signed in as” toast wasn’t designed for iOS rounded bottom and “swipe up” bar leaving ugly stripe.

Sheet easing is off, and FPS stutter.

No swipe from left to go back support.

Non standard animations all over. Visible FPS issues (on newest HW)

I could go on and on. Feels like an android app running in an emulator.
Bad guys loved slavery so much they enshrined it in the document they value the most. Maybe if they got rid of the entire thing I might trust them even tiny bit...

And about prisoners weren't there just post in HN how organs got harvested as well from prisoners? Some that end up dead by "suicide" if they might have something against people in power. Or how some whistle-blowers about to criticize important part of their terrorism-complex end up dead... One makes wonder just how good and moral the citizenry are if people behind that sort of stuff keep getting elected...
It's a good point as i'm sure what she was saying is she belives consciousness requires specific neural properties. I am aware of the the ideas around neural chauvanists, but that paper is now almost 40 years old. We know a lot more about the brain since it was written. The idea that the homunculi can perfectly replicate the relevant causal powers of neurons is... questionable at best. It would says distinctive biochemical properties of neurons enable consciousness, which homunculi would lack, and then homunculized, I also don't like the idea that we must attribute consciousness to the homunculized brain unless we accept an implausible cut-off point? Consciousness could be requiring a critical mass of neurons, which could be reached later without each replacement causing incremental fading. The implausibility of a single neuron replacement eliminating consciousness is not a good reason to consider it conscious. imo It's probably still more likley that experiences like an LSD trip require specifically neural underpinnings.
Whoa, didn’t expect to make it here. Thanks, OP!

This has been a fun (and rather long) project. I craved for a simple city builder that a toddler could play and understand. You might want to start from the first devlog entry to see where Liikennematto came from.

You can play Liikennematto in your browser on itch.io[1] (the link is buried at the end of the article).

[1] https://yourmagicisworking.itch.io/liikennematto
The argument is "An artist getting inspired by a work and creating something similar is allowed, but photocopying, photographing a painting or statue, or using samples in music-making can be fraught with legal problems.

One of the major dividing lines between legal and illegal is whether it's a purely mechanical process, or done by human hands. The training of LLMs and diffusion models is a purely mechanical process, more like photocopying or photographing than an artist gaining inspiration"
Another wild speculation: is a super heavy fission star even possible? Or one with both fission and fusion happening?
We already have a worse form of what you are talking about with #2. Youtube is already overwhelmed with convincing bullshit videos put out by humans in order to make money, truth and reality be damned.

The best thing that can happen is we get so many AI videos that the entire bullshit video ecosystem collapses.

The greatest danger we face are all these delusional, ubiquitous, central planning ideas of "what could be done".

Luckily for everyone, what we will actually do in this area is absolutely nothing because that is what we always do.

AI safety is good for twitter content and nothing more. Anyone who believes we are going to do more than nothing and the chips will fall as they may is a complete fool.
From all the e-books available on the webs...
Check annas-archive.org for example.
The five-year journey to make an adventure game out of ink and paper
LLMs do reason. We already have AGI.

Sometimes they mess up when reasoning. Still reasoning.
Laws exist that ban practices that are - according to those who set and enforce the laws - excessively cruel to pigs. That’s all this discussion is about.

That pigs are still treated with cruelty is a terrible thing, and I’d happily see more done to protect all animals against cruelty. But it’s a separate argument to what’s relevant here.
The problem with the landlord tenant power dynamic is that an unscrupulous party on either side can easily do great damage to the other.

Look at eviction laws in New York and California. Look at the recent headlines about squatting.

The landlord is actually the party with the greater financial risk by far, but the tenant has the emotional and social vulnerability of having no control over their home.
> Better superconductors means better magnets, which means cheaper fusion.

Notably, what is required for this is superconductors with a higher critical field strength. A higher critical temperature eases cooling requirements somewhat but does not in itself make fusion easier.

Also, quite a few other advances are required before home appliance-sized fusion reactors become feasible. After all, the largest part of most fission plants has to do with generating power from steam, not so much the nuclear reaction itself.

> If anyone could get highly detailed MRI scans whenever they wanted, a huge amount of disease could be prevented.

I think this is oversold. Regular MRI screening without any indication is generally regarded as unproductive not because of the cost of the scan, but because of the high number of false positives. Any normal human body is bound to contain some number of benign growths.
At the lowest levels, with quantum weirdness (to our way of thinking), yes, we can only create metaphors to try and don't really understand it. Same at the extreme other end where relativistic effects can't be ignored.

But we don't live at those levels. That low-level unpredictability usually is statistically predictable at the macro level where we live. "Coloric" doesn't exist, but it is a perfectly usable concept. There is no need to actually measure the position and velocity of every molecule of gas an a balloon to understand its temperature.

So, to us, the world is 99% magic at the extremes, but <1% where we actually live; we can understand this regime fairly well.
They aren't opposed, I may not have been clear enough there.

I raised DEI as an example of a system that, in my opinion, is further down the path that I see AI safety going down. They both started with strong intentions to help guide or redirect an industry but, again in my opinion, both fields have ended up playing a role of PR and "cover your ass" more than anything else.
The Article That Introduced America to Girlie Magazines, 1903
might want to check the status page [1]. As of writing this, it has a 27% uptime calculation. I realize this is probably a young upstart and it could be something simple as changing something on the API backend that is causing the status page to fail, but something to consider.

1. https://ntfy.statuspage.io
Hi there,

Thank you for the kind words, you understood the product very well.
Your suggestions got me thinking, I didn't realize Auth0 was popular among indie hackers, as to me it was more like a large enterprise solution. I also decided to release second version of FasterNode, this time utilising PostgreSQL as the DB.

You are also right about the fact that I should mention which pages are already built, so thank you very much for your suggestions, this helps me make a better copy and understand what direction I should take with the project.
ISP Router Design Mistakes
My "Whys" for Emacs
Create partial anonymized dumps of your database using your app model relations
> Not sure I agree with the 99% of planet. Even if a single member of the Australian parliament could command all of Australia, it would still only amount to commanding 0.3% the global population (or maybe 2% of NATO plus Japan). Maybe within Australia the individual member's power is more than 99% of population?

I think that's the wrong way to calculate the value?

OK, so, how to phrase this…

Imagine we were talking about money rather than power (because money can be quantified more easily, and is an imperfect token of power).

I believe the base salary for Australian MPs is AU$211,250/year, which is ~ USD 140,700/year. This means they earn more than 99% of the world precisely because:

> Most individuals just don't hold much power.

Still works when substituting in "money" for "power".

Saying that each random MP has more power than 99% of the world population, is very different than saying that each of them individually controls 99% of the power, which would be tautologically impossible.
iSIM will hasten the end of SIM cards
If you’re interested in stuff like this, take a look at the looking-glass project.

It uses shared memory to display frames from a VM running under a Linux host.

I’m sure there’s a way to transmit those frames over a network if one was clever enough
You can rate limit your scrapper, to match the designed limit of the target website.
You learned some great lessons there, but I would challenge one item early in the "script":

> 2. Verify if it’s a problem from search volume.

It contextually depends, but correlating a problem-to-be-solved with search analytics can be really tenuous. I'd suggest a different phrasing:

Verify it it's a problem by speaking with customers.

You can still use all the tools, but in the end you want to talk to those who you intend to serve. At that point, you'll have zeroed in on the actual problem they may have and are willing to pay you to solve.

Do it better the next time!
I got 4TB of TLC for $230 (Silicon Power UD90). It even has SLC caching (can use parts of the flash in SLC mode for short periods of time).
libstc2.jsonl.zst 231 GB
Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups
I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.
I don't think anyone would consider a paper catalog as a candidate for any form of intelligence.

It is a good example of how poor the OpenAI definition is, but confusing any human invention with intelligence is a bit of a stretch.
Investors are scooping up 1 in 5 homes sold and making more money than before
The way I think about it is that no neuron is conscious; it is the network that is conscious. That is why the "mystery" of Searle's Room doesn't seem mysterious at all. Of course the human following the directions in the room doing thinking in Chinese doesn't understand the language any better than ATP (which is what the human is in that thought experiment -- an energy source) knows English in my brain.
I can drink as much coffee as I want and I experience no laxative effects. But if I eat some chilli peppers next morning I feel like I am going to explode.
The AI apocalypse isn't about killing you. It's about leaving you to die. Subtle difference.
Indeed. I can plainly know that the Earth is flat just by looking out the window.
European Alternatives
https://archive.ph/TBz4y
Wait, where did I say that immortality would be mandated!? Of course you'd get to choose when you want to shuffle off the mortal coil.

For me, personally, I don't see that being the case for many hundreds or even many thousands of years at least. I'm nearly 30 and I feel like I've barely lived a blink of an eye.
interesting, i was thinking of sharping my maths skill by programming. Have you tried something like lean, agda etc if so how do they fair against apl or j for doing maths

I honestly thought apl was extinct