skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Modern farmers have college degrees, millions in equipment, and a vast amount of knowledge and experience you do not have.

Are we talking industrial scale? Because not every farming venture needs to reach that, and most smaller farmers don't have "college degress and millions in equipment".

And you can pick up a lot in a couple of years, I've had friends who made the switch (and extended family who worked on farming).

Not in the US though, but judging from the decent sized subculture of "living off the grid" (or close), it's probably even easier there.
> No one holds a press conference and cuts a big ribbon at the end of a bridge inspection or structural retrofit.

maybe they should. maybe we could celebrate repair like we do new construction. there’s a comfort in knowing we’ve been put good again that’s worth signifying.
I encourage you to provide examples where a business has 100% profit margin
Thanks! Some of the early videos are not great. But hopefully they’ve improved over time.
At the center of the black hole, time has relatively stopped with respect to us. So, yes.
>If you actually care so much about PWAs then stop writing PWAs that your users hate using and go be a full time advocate for that instead.

I do care about PWAs, and so I am advocating, right now. I don't know why you come across as so angry about people who advocate for PWAs. Pushing companies to adhere to open web standards is a good thing, otherwise we'd still be stuck in IE6 world.
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My reading of this is that the examination was a subset of the full set they manually examined.

From the source:

> It’s so compelling that we at Slack decided to convert more than 15,000 of our frontend unit and integration Enzyme tests to RTL, as part of the update to React 18.

and

> Our benchmark for quality was set by the standards achieved by the frontend developers based on our quality rubric that covers imports, rendering methods, JavaScript/TypeScript logic, and Jest assertions. We aimed to match their level of quality. The evaluation revealed that 80% of the content within these files was accurately converted, while the remaining 20% required manual intervention.

There is a diagram that mentions 22% of the subset of manually inspected files that were 100% converted. But Slack is manually checking all converted test cases anyway so they don't seem to consider this the success rate.

https://slack.engineering/balancing-old-tricks-with-new-feat...
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I wonder what the difference is between what people will claim on surveys vs actual behavior.

Here's a study that says the opposite (unless you make >100k/yr)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cutting-edge-leaders...
original:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-18/documents...

archive https://archive.ph/M3aMT
Citation? I flipped through a few articles on Wikipedia but didn't see anything
Never give up - all three of salary, savings, and country can change dramatically for the better.
I'm thinking it's bilateral symmetry.
You don't need a degree, but if you want to make a good living while farming you need to compete with people who have both a degree and millions in capital invested.

Farmers can make a lot of money, or at least somebody does. A single family Saskatchewan dryland wheat farm is typically worth $10M in land and equipment so either the farmer makes enough money to pay the interest on a multi-million dollar bank loan or enough money so that continuing to farm is preferable to retiring and living on the interest.

The problem is of course the variability due to weather and wild swings in commodity prices. A farm can produce a high six figure income one year and lose six figures the next.

But as you noted, if you're not looking to pull six figures per year from your farm, then it does become quite a bit simpler.
Another mind-blowing perspective is from that of a single photon; since time slows when approaching c, from its perspective it's eternal, and, since distance shrinks when approaching c, from its perspective it's also omnipresent.
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As a regular civilian, I concur.
Most people are unable to accurately diagnose a bridge structure other than "yeah looks rusty". And if that were the case, they wouldn't be driving much of anywhere in that part of the country, which is called the "rust belt" for a reason. Pittsburgh has a very high number of bridges, if you go anywhere in that city and you don't want to cross a rusty bridge, you can't go very far.
I want to be Terrance Tao when I grow up
Great question! Love reading what others are doing.

This is how we do it:

We have a joint checking account, a joint savings account, and two individual checking accounts. There is a shared credit card, and both of our individual checking accounts have a card attached.

* Both our paychecks go directly into the joint checking account

* On the 14th and 28th, an automatic transfer moves an equal amount to both our individual checking accounts

* On the same cadence, an automatic transfer moves money from joint checking to our joint savings account

I used to keep track of everything in a spreadsheet that had all expected paycheck deposits and bill expenses plotted out for the year. It was great being able to see at a glance if the checking account was in danger of going in the red. Ultimately I moved to a double-entry system using hledger. It's a little less convenient for seeing future balances, but a whole lot more flexible.

Bills are paid from the joint checking (and the joint credit card). The money that trickles in to our individual checking accounts are ours to do with as we please (although we've agreed to maintain a minimum $1000 balance for emergencies and to avoid bank fees).

This works out great because we get autonomy over personal purchases, but also responsibility: If I want to buy a new laptop, I can do so without feeling guilty, but I also have to save for it -- just like when I was a kid. We can also fudge it using shared money when we want to, but we have to communicate and agree on it. And of course, any large shared purchases we talk about first.

Another reason we arrived at this arrangement was for security against identity theft and fraud. Early in our marriage, we did everything out of a single joint checking account that had a debit card attached. Inevitably, the card became compromised. We caught the issue quickly and alerted the bank, but there was about a week where our account was frozen and we couldn't touch our own money. Lesson learned: NEVER use a debit card with your main checking account.

In the current arrangement, our joint checking has no debit card attached. Our inididual accounts do have debit cards, but I made sure to tell the bank not to give those cards any access to the joint checking or savings accounts. If a card gets compromised, there's a limited amount of damage they can do, and it won't affect our paychecks coming in or bills going out.

Overall, I feel like we arrived at an elegant solution for our situation (no kids, neither of us are contractors). It doesn't matter who makes more, we both get the same allowance based on our combined efforts. Whatever arrangement you end up with, however, communication should be a key element.
Do you believe someone who uses Windows, chats on Discord and posts on Instagram cares about surveillance?

I think there are only two groups of people who still care about this:

- Tech people who are willing to give up QoL to cling to privacy-respecting alternatives. (People like us.) These people are a tiny minority which would be irrelevant in any democratic system.

- Old people who haven't yet arrived in the digital age. These are also a minority, and keep becoming fewer.

I think the vast majority of people have fully accepted constant surveillance of their digital activity by companies (and therefore governments) as simply the way things are.

To these people, this law is a benefit to security with zero tradeoff.

Normal people have no online privacy whatsoever anyway.

And only evil people would use encryption and anonymization, right?

(Tangent 1: Goverments could educate people in a representative democracy, too. People could also use the educational material readily available. But I think most people don't want to be educated on the majority of topics.)

(Tangent 2: I don't think direct democracy is a good system. I think that the vast majority of people (including me) are incapable of making good laws. I believe only a trained professional, aka a politician, is capable of understanding and predicting all the possible long term effects a law, such as e.g. a trade deal, can have. I certainly cannot.)

(ETA: I would go so far as to say that this law being controversially debated is the result of representative democracy working well. I'd claim that in a direct democracy it could easily get passed without much scrutiny.)
I think there are some questions to ask that can help drive your system design here. Does each node in the DAG represent an event at which some complex automated logic would happen? If so, then I think the above would be recommended, since most of your logic isn’t the DAG itself, and the DAG is just the means of contextually triggering it.

However, if each node is more of a data check/wait (e.g. we’re on this step until you tell me you completed some task in the real world), then it would seem rather than your DAG orchestrating nodes of logic, the DAG itself is the logic. In this case, i think you have a few options, though Airflow itself is probably not something I would recommend for such a system.

In the case of the latter, there are a lot of specifics to consider in how it’s used. Is this a universal task list, where there is exactly one run of this DAG (e.g. tracking tasks at a company level), or would you have many independent runs of this (e.g. many users use it), are runs of it regularly scheduled (e.g. users run it daily, or as needed).

Without knowing a ton about your specifics, a pattern I might consider could be isolating your logic from your state, such that you have your logical DAG code, baked into a library of reusable components (a la the above), and then allowing those to accept configuration/state inputs that allow them to route logic appropriately. As a task is completed, update your database with the state as it relates to the world, not its place in the DAG. This will keep your state isolated from the logic of the DAG itself, which may or may not be desirable, depending on your objectives and design parameters.
Absolutely.

We have machines that can crank out true theorems, rigorously proven, all day. It takes a mathematician to know what is worth working on. And that is fundamentally an intuitive decision. Computers don't care whether a proof is interesting or not.
As somebody who lives in a multi-million city, every second person I talk to wants to move to the country, and it definitely much stronger tendency after around 30-35+.

It doesn't matter if the parent's assumptions are "quite a few" or don't match you, what matters is if they match a big segment of the population to be statistically useful. There are always outliers who love to grow old in a big city and have their ashes scaterred in the middle of Manhattan.
The colour silk screening is gorgeous! Such a cool looking bit of hardware.
The "Moving Van" is just fantastic. Vrooom and then a break screech when you let it go.
Lol he fell for the data science meme
It's the two extremes of work. One is hard physical work directly associated with producing the things you need to stay alive, the other is purely intellectual work which is 20 levels of abstraction away from your necessities.

> Farming is hard work. Modern farmers have college degrees, millions in equipment, and a vast amount of knowledge and experience you do not have.

It depends on the scale, I know 80+ years old people living in the countryside, still splitting their own wood, growing their own garden/orchard, manually removing potatoe bugs from their decently sized potatoe field, cutting grass with a scythe, taking care of their chickens/goats/sheeps... they're 100% self sustained and use tools from the 19th century they inherited from their parents. They're in better physical and mental shape than most code monkeys I know while being 50+ years older
I suspect SiFive wouldn't be too interesting in doing that. First off, OR1K is a lot bigger than an E31. And it's only a core, not an SoC. You're probably looking at a several million dollar job for that.

Plus SiFive divested their chipmaking division, OpenFive (formerly Open-Silicon) in 2022. That would be who you'd want to talk to.
Yeah, the break up of Bell Labs means it probably wasn’t worth breaking up AT&T all things considered.
tl;dr as an acolyte is that sometimes the bug can be fixed by adding extra data (e.g. number of minus signs, or method to compute minus signs) to your declaration of equality.

Concrete example from Kev Buzzard's "Lean proof of Fermat's Last Theorem" from yesterday (2024-06-19 UT)

p34:
"It is impossible to say which of the two canonical isomorphisms is “the most canonical”;
people working in different areas make different choices in order to locally minimise the
number of minus signs in their results."

https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/FLT/blueprint.pdf

A lot of the subtleties seem to come from the pecularities of what is meant by "canonical" rather than by "isomorphic"
gemini for now, im planning to finetune a model for sql. I will add a paid version in the future. For now I have tokens setup so the thing doesnt get spammed
Is there ever a higher order derivative that is a constant in the real world? And is every real world signal continuous in every higher order derivative?
Q: What's the best way to become a millionaire?

A: Be a billionaire and then start farming.
Scot-free
Yeah my idea was people need a positiv or a negative vote. Honestly I would mostly vote negative also against a Candidate.
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Anything to read on fundamental ontologies in physics?
If you're reading this, you may be interested in my other work on "Exploring Llama-3 MLP Neurons" as well.

https://neuralblog.github.io/llama3-neurons/
I really like Goldshaw Farm[1]. He does yearly breakdowns how is farm performed and the reality is he could not live at all if that was his only income stream.
And I think his scale is most realistic what a developer could achieve when he quit and just wanted to try to farm.

YouTube pays his bills mostly, not the farm.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD4VW0lLYjE
Probably the 95% of the rest of the US that is not as densely populated as NYC and Chicago.

If the park is not sufficiently used by sufficient numbers of “normal” people, then it can quickly get taken over by sketchy people.
A woman with just one breast over the breast plate would also be bilaterally symmetric. Although, the heart, the lungs, the liver, the stomach, the intestines, and probably more, are all bilaterally asymmetric, so it would seem there are no rules that demand symmetry.
I do not know what it means to "flip a bottle beyond the neck".

Tetrapack milk packages have some sort of a "roof" on top. The opening is on one of the sides of the roof. It is hard to drink from that anyway, now additionally the cap is pressing against the lips.

You don't have to "deep throat" a water bottle either to feel the effect. The cap always disturbs.

It is also ugly of you have water bottles on a dinner table with the cap hanging on the side.

It is also harder to screw the cap back on.

But like in the EU, criticism here can just be flagged and then it never happened.
You left out "In the spirit of lighthearted development" and "As the project matures, implementing a comprehensive suite of automated tests is definitely on our roadmap."
I’m a programmer with a degree in Agricultural Science so my opinion is oddly relevant to this subject. Please shut up and stop shitting on people’s dreams. Not everything is about profit and scaling. Anyone can and should learn to farm regardless of their background or education.
Everyone else's grass is always greener it seems.
> No reasonable reading of that makes it a "22% success rate".

Well, 500/2300 is 22%, so calling it 22% seems pretty reasonable.

From what I get from the rest, the 78% remaining tests (the ones that failed to convert) were "80% accurately converted", I guess they had some metric for measuring that.

So it looks like it depends on how you interpret "automatically converted 80%". If it's taken to mean "80% could be used without manual intervention", then it's clearly false. If you take it to mean "it required manual intervention on just 20% of the contents to be usable", then it's reasonable.
In Germany all new construction is reinforced concrete, I always assumed that’s because it’s cheaper than masonry, but might as well be due to the notoriously strict building codes.

Timber is seen as the innovative, climate friendly alternative, but it’s still more expensive than concrete.
ARCOM seems like an outlier to me. Independent Public Authority are typically commissioned to secure the welfare of all French citizens by overseeing French corporations (ex:AMF for markets). Arcom is the reverse of this.
Yes and the solution is the same as with email or your blog: own the domain. Domains are cheap enough that almost anyone should be able to afford one for their hobby.

If the host doesn't let you bring your own domain, find a better one or self-host.
Material durability, failure and investment – the complexity of concrete
Using LLMs to refine heuristics through pattern detection in tabular data
Yep, it's insanely easy and cheap to sustain a family if you have land, a bit of time and two brain cells, but it's insanely hard and expensive to run a successful modern large scale farm
The trash is being foisted upon them in exchange for other economic considerations. The demand is artificial.

Did you read the article?
AI Risk Management Framework by US NIST [pdf]
PhD defence: "Polymorphic type inference for dynamic languages "
That's the same line of advice I give in most disciplines:

> Student: I've struggled with math in the past, what do I need to do to be ready for your class?

> Me: Take the previous class first. You'll get easy A's in both, you'll actually understand the material when you need it, and there's no real downside since you have a minimum of 120 credits to fill to be able to graduate anyway.

In some ways it ties into the "big fish in a small pond" theory of life. People who take that sort of advice have easy, stable lives. I'll keep giving it. Likewise, most people probably shouldn't jump into farming unprepared.

That said, life is short, and a year is a long time. If you can stomach the downside risk (losing every dime you poured into farming, having to work hard at it), by all means just jump in. There are vibrant communities willing to teach you everything you need to know, and you'll learn faster working on real problems you're personally experiencing than rote memorizing the tasks a seasoned master tells you to do.

If you want to mitigate some of the risks, perhaps start with something small enough you could manage it without millions in equipment (high-margin products like mushrooms and arugula -- and if you go with those, focus on distribution as a primary concern).
As the other comment said, it's the law. And perhaps surprisingly or unsurprisingly it has not ended or significantly impacted the vitriol and antagonism passing for dialogue in the Chinese internet.
> electricity prices in France are lower than other large European countries

Allow me to repeat: the taxpayer (France is the worldwide champ when it comes to taxes) pays a hefty part of it. See the Cour des comptes report published in 2012

At Fukushima the evacuation triggered by the nuclear major accident officially killed more than 2,200 persons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa... ), moreover the cost of the cleanup is huge ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_disaster_cleanup ). One hardly sees how any renewable-based plant, even exposed to a tsunami, would have triggered such evacuation or cleanup.
Paper at https://mlaurent.ovh/assets/polymorphic_type_inference.pdf

(via https://x.com/duboc_guillaume/status/1803406402674680118)
My concern with having the LLM's write tests is that it's hard to be convinced that they've written the right tests. Coupling human TDD with a genetic algorithm of some sort that uses LLM's to generate candidate populations of solutions, one could be assured that once a solution gets far enough through the tests [assuming one ever does], it is guaranteed to have the correct behavior (as far as "correct" has been defined in the tests).
Same here in Germany. Parties need at least 5% of the vote to get elected into Parlament. That’s 2-4 million votes every year straight into the trash
I agree, and I say the very same thing about software engineering. Yet there are plenty of managers who hire unqualified people coming from a 6 week coding bootcamp into teams with highly complex requirements and very skilled, experienced devs. So from that perspective, one would propably think that a 6-week farming bootcamp also gotto be enough :)
Russia is showing restraint because they’re fighting a war of attrition, are the invading force, and believe they have something to prove with a win. Israel is removing a terrorist organization from the face of the earth.

Not the same.
It's not actually really come up fortunately, but we have an agreement that we have £X allowance a month for our own spending. We don't then need to justify what can come out of that allowance, and if we need to cut back on that spending it will be a general cut back not "spend less on beer" specifically.

Obviously join expenses like meals out would still need to be cut back too, but we're at least doing those together in the first place.
Can you recommend some good farming youtubes?