skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where did you hear that house prices are expensive because the "earth is full"? Did you notice that housing prices doubled and almost tripled in the last 4 years alone?
Covid was the litmus test for me. I happened to know a lot about a lot of topics that became wildly reported on, from virology to immunology, and I had to watch in horror as every single media presence and expert weighed in with at best non-existent data to support major changes to existing wisdom, and at worst (and most common) obvious lies that contradicted not just available science but the very nature of how viruses operate.

I can’t go back to ignorance ever again.
In a recent episode of Countryfile [1](popular UK BBC1 program on the country and farming) the resident farmer was mentioning both crop rotation and the issue of black grass invading his wheat fields.

The black grass was slowly out competing his cash crop and would difficult to remove (perhaps taking the entire field out of any production for a year or the use of chemicals).

Having a horde of little robots might greatly assist in manually keeping other plants at bay without indiscriminately affecting the field with chemicals (extra one-use expense, robots would last many years).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countryfile
There's a rail tunnel through the Pyrenees as of 2005. I wonder if insects have started routing through there as well as I assume the grade is smoother. Plenty of species use other connections we build like canals before long.
as much hate as the ceo is getting, the posturing here implies that openai branding and their marketing has been a team effort.

while i wish ssi great success, it sounds like another ai startup selling decades away dream.
The value of Gold is based on scarcity dictated by the laws of Physics, and on people believing it has value. The fascination with that yellow gleam goes as far back as recorded time. The fact that it's easy to work with (malleability, ductility, etc.) probably played a part as well.

The value of Crypto products is based on scarcity dictated by the computationally intensive nature of certain algorithms, and on people believing those products have value.
The Earth might be getting full, but the (western) US is not... lots of cheap land just waiting for settlers. Not so different from the days of the Old West. What is different is that these days, the gold rushes always seem to happen in the already-crowded places.
How did you decide that the original title is linkbait?
Ask HN: How are small tech companies adapting to remote work permanence?
Hello HN community,

As we move further away from the height of the pandemic, many companies have made remote work a permanent option. I'm curious to hear how smaller tech companies, with limited resources compared to large corporations, are adapting to this shift.

1. If you are running or working at a small tech company, how have you adjusted your operations and management strategies to accommodate remote work?

2. What challenges have you faced with maintaining team cohesion and productivity in a fully or partially remote environment?

3. What tools and practices have proven most effective in managing distributed teams, especially when budget constraints are a consideration?

4. How has the transition to remote work impacted your hiring strategies and the geographical diversity of your team?

I believe that sharing insights on these adaptations could not only help others in similar situations but also shed light on innovative practices that could benefit the broader tech community.

Thank you for sharing your experiences and thoughts!
That's a terrible idea. It's far more important to society that realtors and title lawyers get rich.
The ASUS VivoBook S 15 seems to be well reviewed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717261
They did. And if you have a newer drive it is already supported on your DVD or Blu-Ray. Can be read by all drives but requires a recent firmware to be able to write.

An example drive would be Asus BW-16D1X-U.

It is supported by the major drive manufacturers but it seem the media is only produced by CNC Magnetics or Mitsubishi Chemical. Sold by brands such as Verbatim or Ritek.

It is rated for 100+ years.

The variant is called M-Disc:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

Discs:
https://www.verbatim.com/subcat/optical-media/m-disc/
https://www.ridata.com/M-DISC/eng/index.asp

Blu-ray license list:
https://blu-raydisc.info/licensee-list/discmanuid-licenseeli...

The hard part will actually be to get hardware in 100 years which can read this. So it will not be write and forget. But reasonable shelf life should at least be available.
Why bother with giving words for something which is longer than their mathemathical definition? The word can be unknown, but if the function is unknown the word is useless?
Maddox was the originator of this style afaik. He's been at it for over 20 years.

https://maddox.xmission.com/
I think it's mostly empty, but everyone is cramming into the same few places. Eg I don't think rural Japan has this problem. But then you have to give up on high paying jobs, live standup comedy, lots of matches on tinder, or whatever else people do in cities (tbh I've never lived in one for a long time so idk)
There were times a few years ago where my estimated home value rose faster in one month than what I brought home in pay. It was wild.
it does take a non-profit effort to be able to monitor the seas. iirc most image satellites make trips on land masses and the seas and oceans are just approximated in commercial settings.
I have read only a few sentences, so it can't be the hard truths that give off this vibe. Saying you are one of the greats based on things someone inexperienced would list underlined by the very short time in the industry comes off as arogant.
> If demand continues to tick up while the slowdown in construction persists, the Harvard report warns that this will "risk sparking another period of rapid rent increases similar to the recent run-up that has contributed to the worst renter affordability conditions on record."

That may be true in certain areas, but I don't think it applies where I live. Prices of existing homes just simply chase the cost to build a new home. The older the neighborhood, the less authoritarian the covenants are. The new development down the road start out at about $150k more for smaller lots, less house, and an HOA primed with rules ready to ream you a new one for simply breathing wrong. I poked around and some of the other recent developments have the same or similar covenants.
Were any of these big achievements side effects of creating nuclear weapons? If not, then they're not relevant to the issue.

I'm not saying nothing else good happened in the past 70 years, but rather that the invention of atomic weapons has permanently placed humanity in a position in which it had never been before: the possibility of wiping out much of the planet, averted only thanks to treaties, Stanislav Petrov[0], and likely other cool heads.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Your freedom is not the least impacted by the MIT or BSD licences. The software distributed is and remains free and open source.
No they are not.

Not unless you connect a machine gun to your neural net.

Otherwise - we are talking about a chat bot - yes if there is no safety - it will say something racist - or implement a virus for you that you would have had to search 4chan for or something.

None of this is any more dangerous than what you can find on the far corners of the internet.

And it will not bring the end of the world.
Yeah, Manhattan sounds crazy. I was reading this whole article about this platform for NYC restaurant reservations, where people who book reservations at a restaurant can turn around and sell those reservations on the platform.
Rust excels in AI for its laser focus on performance and safety. Memory management and zero-cost abstractions unlock optimized code for AI's heavy computations. Rust's ownership system also ensures rock-solid reliability, making it a strong choice for building robust AI applications.

/s
I have no idea how people can afford buying a house/apartment and having kids in big cities. Feels as feasible as a space travel to Mars x)
Especially with partners that are frequently so spoiled they expect you to pay for everything.
What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022)
Check out this app for video meetings. It allows you to hide behind a virtual frosted glass to comfortably stay in the meeting for a long time.

I don't think it can be used as a portal, but it's a cool app to use when you're working on a laptop and want your family or a friend with you on the video.

MeetingGlass - Video Meetings Through Virtual Frosted Glass:

https://meetingglass.com/
That's not true. First, many operations the US military engages in are with partner nations who only have access to commercial drones. The US military is behind them in effectively utilizing these drones (commonly DJI, which the US military can't even practice with due to the ban). Second, there's a huge push to shorten the drone procurement process, and reduce the cost of drones. This allows them to be used in harsh EW environments as one-offs, and allows the operator to be safer (the more expensive the drone, the more likely a unit will be sent to recover it if it's downed). It also allows for faster adaptation to EW and changing circumstances. The US military drones of tomorrow will look a lot like Skydio drones today, if the US can get it together and update their procurement process to the 21st century.

Interesting listen to on the topic: https://irregularwarfare.org/podcasts/drones-automation-and-...
Amen. But if you do, you'll still be attacked by apologists. Per the norm for any Internet forum... this one being a prime example.
Vulnerability-lookup – open-source vulnerability database
> Instead of modifying all the packages that depend on GNU coreutils (known as the package sys-apps/coreutils in Gentoo), I modified the GNU coreutils package to instead install uutils coreutils.

That's not the way to do it (in Gentoo). He should have added coreutils to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. Portage would then assume the package is installed even if it's not. This is used to install self-built binaries or packages from other distributions instead of packages provided by portage.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/profile/package.pr...
Family money, it's the only way anymore
I decided it by spontaneous reflex. But we can unpack it reflectively like this:

> I Will

Ok in principle but already pattern matches to dodginess

> Fucking

That's a noise amplifier—can be ok if the rest of the title is whimsical, but in most cases it's just ponderous

> Piledrive

Wtf? that's extremely aggressive. "I will do to you what professional wrestlers do to those whom they are violently defeating, except without the training not be terminally injured by it"

Hot language like that may be ok if it gets balanced by other things (but in this case there are no other things)

> You

"You" is a linkbait trope. In this case it doubles down on the aggression—not just "i will piledrive" but "I will piledrive you". What did you have to do with it?

> If You Mention

The superfluous you again, plus the word "mention"—what's wrong with mentioning things? This is a rhetorical trcik to drive up the menace: "don't you dare mention $thing you piece of shit"

> AI

The commonest hot topic du jour. Ok, but there'd better be something substantive to balance the buzzword. Is there?

> Again

Rhetorical escalation. You are mentioning Ai AGAIN? I will fucking piledrive you.

Conclusion: not a word in that title isn't linkbait. Take it all out and you end up with the empty string.
Reassuring words for the displaced 20% ...
Glancing at your comment history I can't help but notice that most of your comments are related to defending Apple, even at points where the consensus on HN is that Apple is obviously in the wrong. I applaud you, sir.
It's just too easy, all we had to say is that housing developers are evil capitalists and all the plebs bought it hook line and sinker.

Want to build housing? Good luck with the five environmental reviews you need to submit before breaking ground. And that make sure you have enough below-market rate units, and parking, and you only use union labor. oh does all that make the economics difficult? Such a shame, maybe it's just not a fit to build around here.
I enjoyed reading this book. It inspired me to simplify some things in the app I currently work on - and from which I earn my income.
The earth is far from full. It just needs more houses.
Once upon a time there was a technology called dHTML.

Waaaay before Web 2.0 and full interactivity on the client.
My favorite style to dislike is "Fed sees inflation as astronauts are trapped on ISS." They really want to make it sound like a causal relationship, using "as" as "and [with unspoken implications; nudge, wink]" instead of simply posting two articles.
One step from layoffs and one step from bankruptcy if I get hit with some big medical bill YOLo :)
It feels like entire western world is putting all their money into local real estate and magnificient seven US stocks.
> “i am genius and you are an idiot” syndrome

which is a weird thing, since I think in fields where most people can be assumed to be smart, there's usually not that much differentiation in cognitive ability.

Just for reference, if we take IQ as a proxy measure for intelligence, an average group of people (say, a high school class, a council meeting), the worst 10% will have an IQ of <80 with the best 10% will have an IQ of >120.

That's the difference of 40 points, and its a common enough scenario for most people to get a feel of what it's like.

In contrast, lets say you have a room of professionals, who have been screened to be in the top 10% of the population (not a huge stretch) as a cutoff. In this scenario, you'd need 100k people in this hypothetical room to get a similarly large IQ gap.

While I think the author might be a sharp guy, and probably studied his field deeper than most, to say there's an insurmountable chasm between him and the rest of his readers might be a bit of a stretch.

But hey, if you want to sell your unique genius as your upscale consulting brand, I guess this is how you market yourself.
FLAC or MQA? "Yes " says HDTracks and Lenbrook's new streaming service
Sounds like a movie plot.
Given the sandboxing and the security architecture of iOS, my conjecture is that apps could be perfectly safe even in light of the use of undocumented APIs (calls to which can be and are obfuscated even in today's setup) and accidental security flaws (which can and still do exist even in today's setup).
>Modern cars are designed on GUI simulation software like MATLAB

MATLAB is the programming language. You are talking about Simulink. But there are also dedicated software packages for car multi body dynamics.

>you can't make coffee cup rides not sickening by software.

Plainly false.
Should SBF be given the chance to make FTX legitimate too?
This is why I think it’s more important we give AI agents the ability to use human surrogates. Arms and legs win but can be controlled with the right incentives
It works for me? That's normal behavior if you aren't signed into Twitter :(

Summary of thread: Society doesn't handle 2nd order consequences well. NK cryptolocker attack on healthcare-involved systems in British hospitals disrupted treatment to the extent that hundreds of people died who probably wouldn't have.

Expanding on that: Organized crime groups located in and sometimes tasked by RU SVR & GRU (not to mention NK state groups) have caused sufficient disruption to US healthcare systems to have indirectly caused more US Citizen deaths than the Sept 11 attacks. Right now cyber that does not directly cause destruction such as making buildings blow up or poisoning water supply is treated as just an annoying white collar crime.

I don't think anyone wants the US Government to be in a position where their options are to admit powerlessness or get proportional against nuclear armed states.

Somewhat related: https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2023/10/04/8-rules-civ...
Exactly, you can pick up a rural house in France 4 hours from Paris for €100k. 2 hours away it's a different story, and obviously within Paris itself the same affordability issues are evident as in the article.
At first I was thinking that "AI" is the "HD" or "digital quality" of this decade. But it's a broader fraud than that. It reminds me of this IBM commercial, which made me laugh out loud at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvDCk3pY4qo
Great example. People will say, “oh that’s just how the word is used now,” but its misuse betrays a real lack of rigorous thought about the subject. And as you point out, it leads one to make false assumptions about the nature of the data’s origin.
How were the 180nm chips packaged? Thanks.
I was expecting it to be Roland’s Breach

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roland%27s_Brea...
That’s not a reason to downvote. Downvoting is a censorship tool.
What are the various connotations of gods, ghosts, spirits, and spectres in Chinese?

(Continue the series: 天 大 人 小 ??)

Come to think of it, "God is Dead" is true for both christians and Nietzsche's madman: as Gautama's charioteer explains, living things are subject to age, disease, and death; the christian god is subject to none of these, therefore He –not being quick— is dead.
> There are tons of more interesting problems to solve than replacing an stable solution with a new one just because you don't like GPL.

I think the argument is usually memory safety rather than licensing.
I keep my KeepassXC vault stored at my home, on a Nextcloud instance.
What the world needs very badly in the generative spam world is a healthy dose of skepticism.

What qualifies as skepticism versus cynicism is often in the eye of the beholder.
I remember the hype around BigData. I was in those meetings where vendors pitched their product. Our director would asked "Do you do Big Data?" Any vendor who said no was immediately dismissed.

I still don't know what the answer to that question was supposed to be. We scraped coupons from our competitors then displayed them on our websites.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.13 is here
Wikipedia summary:

> In a vastly overpopulated world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge trans-national corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and by far the best-paid profession. Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that the quality of life is improved by all the products placed on the market. Some of the products contain addictive substances designed to make consumers dependent on them.

Hmmm…
It seems this site was picked primarily because an historical study was done at the same location in the 1950's.
> Why would all of these systems be connected to a single ai?

because someone decides to connect them either unintentionally, or intentionally for personal gain, or, more likely, for corporate purposes which seem "reasonable" or "profitable" at the time, but the unintended consequences were not thought through.

Look at that recent article linked to HN about how MSFT allowed a huge security flaw in AD for years in order to not "rock the boat" and gain a large government contract. AI will be no different.
Over here 20% of apartments in capital city stay unoccupied. The owners don't even need to rent, prices increase alone is ridiculous. The earth is neither full nor we need more houses.
A lot of units are straight empty, but large landlords just refuse to lower rent prices.
When my friends talked about how AGI is just creating huge enough neural network & feeding it enough data, I have always compared it to: imagine locking a mouse in a library with all the knowledge in the world & expecting it to come out super intelligent.
GPL software needn’t have anything to do with GNU - having alternative projects is healthy for many reasons.

I just think that trying to make a permissive drop-in replacement for software that emphasises the very freedoms that have allowed the creation of the replacement in the first place is unfortunate and short-sighted. It’s a good thing that the authors have every right to do it all the same though.
Translations! It enables a lot of immigrants to communicate efficiently and not expose themselves as immigrants when dealing with government offices. Appearing as a native speaker makes you seem more professional and more likely to get what you need. It emboldens people to operate in a different language.

Deepl Write is a perfect language learning tool as it corrects everything you write. I made so much progress in German with that tool.
Then get the Pioneer, fully built system or bare motherboard, your choice.

https://www.mouser.com/c/embedded-solutions/computing/?m=Mil...

If you don't care about Vector then it's a fine machine. Or if you don't mind writing either vector asm by hand, or using the C intrinsics interface with GCC 14 (identical C code can target either RVV draft 0.7.1 aka XTHeadVector or RVV 1.0).

If, of course, you have code that can actually use all 64 cores.
The main reason is a fear - which as far as I know is unsubstantiated - that China's got backdoors in tech sold in the west. But with so many hackers and national security agencies disassembling and analyzing these things, surely they'd have found it by now?

Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised if it's more about market protection. Which doesn't make much sense to me because is there a major US drone manufacturer that can't compete with DJI right now?
Agreed. The U.S. has a horrible history (as do many countries), and many things I dislike, but its current iteration is much, much better than China's totalitarianism and censorship.
Couldn't agree more. We are seeing gradual degradation of the term AI. LLMs have stolen attention of the media and the general population and I notice that people equate ChatGPT with all of AI. It is not, but an average person doesn't know the difference. In a way, genAI is the worst thing that happened to AI. The ML part is amazing, it allows us to understand the world we live in, which is what we have evolved to seek and value, because there is an evolutionary benefit to it--survival; the generative side is not even a solution to any particular problem, it is a problem that we are forced to pay to make bigger. I wrote "forced", because companies like Adobe use their dominant position to override legal frameworks developed to protect intellectual property and client-creator contracts in order to grab content that is not theirs to train models they resell back to the people they stole content from and to subject ourselves to unsupervised, unaccountable policing of content.
The social media companies are in reality advertising media. The more you pay, the more prominent placements are promised. Unlike print media, there are no effective means of auditing. Anecdotally lots of businesses have failed to see a correlation between their spending and revenue growth. As always: YMMV.
I tried to get all of my kids interested in programming. All three of them had their own computers growing up (they all grew up and moved out some time ago). They all did things we might call programming, mainly in the context of games (my son especially played a lot of Minecraft and ran his own server for a while). My oldest daughter learned advanced Excel to do her job better (and survive layoffs). But none of them caught the programming bug like I did (it happened to me at age 14). None of them went into programming or IT.

You can put tools and information in front of kids but you can't control what they will develop deep interests in. I think parents should show their kids skills and how to use tools, whether that means programming or carpentry, but not hold their breath that kids will follow in their footsteps.
How about harvest? Machines are quite specialized, how do you see that working out?