skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people would be surprised. The western US between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains inclusive is one of the largest and richest mineral fields in the world. It is also so sparsely populated and difficult to traverse in many areas that much of it has never really been walked over in modern times. If you have some basic geology and mineral knowledge, it is surprisingly easy to find incredible mineral deposits simply by wandering around the outback off the beaten path.

I used to do a lot of overlanding in remote parts of Nevada, just to see what was out there (not prospecting). Gold, silver, and copper are ubiquitous in that State and easy to find. We discovered crude oil while exploring an abandoned gold prospect (there is now a company developing that oil field). We found opals and turquoise in abundant quantities.

Last year while hiking around the Cascades, I found the most concentrated copper deposit I have found anywhere in the US. In the same area, I found molybdenite of a scale and quality such that I can’t find pictures of anything comparable on the Internet (I did not know what it was when I found it). Both of these finds, while difficult to get to, were within line of sight of a popular hiking trail.

It is important to understand that economic viability of mineral deposits is a function of scale and value per ton. Concentrated deposits that are not large enough cannot offset the capital overhead of developing the deposit. Big mining operators tend to prospect in areas where the geology is conducive to scale, but small operators occasionally find excellent deposits in unexpected areas that big companies won’t waste their time on.

I am not a prospector and I have never disclosed the locations of where some great mineral samples I possess were collected. It is really just a fun and geeky adjunct to my other outdoorsy activities. The US mountain west is one of the world’s best places to go prospecting for minerals. If you are out there and keep your eyes open, you will find some eventually.
You would be surprised. I know of Creo people that worked in the call center that bought million dollar homes with their compensation from Creo.
Alvin Toffler was right.
That combined with the scheduling layers... on the CI service the company I'm working for uses it takes like 2 minutes to just start the job.
This is a wonderful channel — thanks for the share — but also so impressed at how good the Japanese TTS is, easily the best I’ve ever heard!
Reminds me I registered the domain incompetent.mangement a few years back during a tedious meeting when I discovered the joys of word games with gTLDs.
How is that pattern useful for replacing memorization of the multiplication table? 7*8 = 6*8 + 8 - fine. I still need to memorize what 6*8 is, or go through the extraordinarily slow process of expanding this recursively: definitely not an option in school.
Yes, that’s true, but they aren’t constitutional rights, and the Ninth Amendment doesn’t say which rights those are, either. We had a dramatic example recently of how an unenumerated right can become insecure in practice against restrictions by state governments.

One interpretion of the Ninth Amendment is that it allows (but doesn’t require) the states and the judiciary system to protect additional rights.
This is just a symptom of bad management.
I'd argue the opposite: it's the technically-savvy people who got promoted to management/leadership positions, while lacking the people skills, the strategy chops, and the basic understanding of business realities - these are the truly incompetent managers.
I was kind of surprised he was gay
Kivy led to one of my first open source contributions in 2014. I submitted Kivy file support to Vim. It was done via patch diffs over email with Bram Moolenaar. It's still in Vim today[1].

RIP Bram.

[1]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/syntax/kivy.v...
No problem. I am not sure what we are disagreeing about.

The company was amazing. No offense but it is not important to convince you of that. And you are certainly not going to convince me that my experience or the stories told by hundreds of others are false.

You could be trying to convince me that management does not matter, as my core claim is that it does. If that is what we are disagreeing about, I would like to know more. Great ideas can come from anywhere but I want to stay evidence driven. It is the only way I know how after working at Creo.
They like doing that more than whatever other jobs are available. So offering that option does improve their lives.
Another article of not really independent interest:
"Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable"
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/investing-unknown-a...

PS: Since these are articles penned by academic economists rather than pro scientists, it'd be nice to hear criticism from an economic (or finance) angle..
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That seems to be the case even today: https://flet.dev/roadmap.

As I see, you can use pure python packages, but not Flutter packages or Python packages with some other languages in the mix.
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I'm torn about this article.

On the one hand, he's right: Writing helps refine your thoughts.

On the other hand, if your goal is to probe the validity of your thoughts, this is painfully inefficient. You'll get much further if you do one or two simple passes on your writing, and then pass what you've written around and ask for feedback.

I think I learned this in one of Haidt's books, and it has jived with my experience: If your brain has a bias or a blind spot, it's fairly unlikely you'll uncover it by pure thought alone. Perhaps if you put in as much effort as this author has, you'll uncover 20-50% more than the average person, which still leaves you with a lot of gaping holes. But outside feedback will uncover them very quickly!

I had a friend who thought like this person, and it was rarely hard to find flaws in his thoughts that he had not considered. He's as smart as I am, so it wasn't an intelligence flaw.
I completely disagree. First of all, at the time children learn the multiplication table, they definitely don't know the concept of exponentiation. Secondly, 7*2*2*2 is not some immediately obvious shortcut.

Also, learning multiplication with numbers higher than 10 still relies on knowing the multiplication table. 17*8 is 7*8=56, hold the 5, 1*8 + 5 = 13, so 136.
symbols are intermediaries. disintermediate!
> Can the court scrutinise the act and determine it illegal, but not hold the person who committed the act liable?

We do it all the time.

Suppose that an agency writes a regulation. Someone sues and a court finds that said regulation is not supported by any regulation, that the regulation is illegal.

We don't throw he person who wrote the regulation in jail.
I'm glad to see MaidSAFE on here!

Over the years, I have been in touch with two great founders of decentralized networks, both of them in Scotland:

Ian Clarke (founded Freenet in 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWrRqUkJpMQ ... recently relaunched it)

David Irvine (founded MaidSAFE in 2004).

(I also briefly met Bram Cohen of BitTorrent in SF once, but didn't really keep in touch).

Anyway, Ian Clarke uses a different routing system which he refers to as a "small world topology". BitTorrent uses "mainline DHT" based on Kademlia, by Petar Maymounkov (who I also met 6 years ago, when I started Intercoin.org ... he had been a lecturer at NYU so it was easy).

MaidSafe (now called Autonomi) is slightly different, it uses its own Kademlia DHT, but with at least one major improvement: it removes the IP addresses after one hop. So you can't DDOS the network, for example, or discover all the nodes easily.

I'm big into decentralized systems. I've met pretty much everyone in the space, from Tim Berners-Lee in 2014 when he was doing SoLiD (who left and started Inrupt) to Stefan Thomas and David Schwartz from Ripple. I even emailed back and forth with Leslie Lamport for a while, about the "Buridan's Principle", which helped me a lot to understand how to properly do scalable consensus across large distributed systems.

Anyway, here is their forum in case anyone is interested... they are finally going to market with Autonomi soon: https://forum.autonomi.community/u/gregmagarshak/summary
I have gotten migraines (a visual aura followed by a horrible headache) on and off for years. Some years I’d have a couple, some years I’d have none at all. I have always tried to trace it back to a common theme. For the longest time I thought that common theme was caffeine.. to the point that I quit caffeine for like a year. Unfortunately, I still ended up with a migraine! One day I realized something, maybe my migraines had nothing to do with caffeine but everything to do with electrolyte balance. I recalled the many days I’ve had migraines and besides caffeine, the other common theme was that I had drank a significant amount of water. Sparkling water especially, I can pretty much just guzzle all day because I never get bored or sick of it. Sense then, I’ve made sure that if I drink a lot of water I also throw in some LMNT or similar electrolyte powder in there. I’ve been able to enjoy coffee again without the migraine. YMMV!
The article suggests that you ship typescript so the app would compile down to esm or cjs.

Node 22 has an experimental flag that supports requiring esm as long as there's no top-level await
So you're saying because 1 Million children die every year is due to Vitamin A you believe the answer is genetically modify rice rather than actually feed the children a balanced diet of Vitamin A enriched foods (carrots, sweet potatoes, spinach, kale...?) or even supplements?

I suppose in theory we can put every nutrient needed known to man in a grain of rice one day.

But just because you could, does it mean you should? I suppose this opens up a much more broader discussion of morals, ethics and potentially alogical topics of conversation.
Computing simplicial homology is basic arithmetic. It's the same goal post.
All these types of frameworks, ones that have code to make their own UI are fine, but what I really want is to have a declarative UI, like HTML or XAML, bound with some user interaction event engine and access to the underlying OS.

Hopefully, we can have that someday, without the likes of Electron or whatnot.

I would like to write a react app, with all its progress in UI/UX and thousands of libraries, package them into a Python app and distribute it as a desktop application.
I mean I think as with many broad groups of people, different individuals likely want each of those things, as well as many wanting both or neither. My comment referred specifically to a subset that wants to assimilate, as they were more likely blindsided than activists who fight for acceptance, but we're nitpicking here

Regardless, the way in which surveillance harms them, as well as other minorities, whether political, racial, ethnic, sexual, or religious, isn't that their "secret" is revealed, it's that they are monitored and can be targeted. Their status can be used to aggregate and group them, but other information can be used to harm or target them. My point in bringing up minorities that suddenly become more prominent targets isn't that they need to hide their minority status and thus are uniquely harmed by surveillance. My point is that surveillance is a weapon, and you only feel the harms of it when it is used on you, not when it's being built

Again, the issue isn't that particular information is especially dangerous. It's that information is power, and there are lots of very concentrated and unaccountable powerbases being built through mass-surveillance, which can be deployed to harm people in all manner of different ways for all manner of different reasons. People feel violated when their privacy is invaded because it is an incursion of power that violates their autonomy, and power is quite versatile in the harms it can do
The LLM is a calculator. Think about it.
Gnu Radio can easily handle audio I/O as well as it does IQ signals from SDR front ends. It's cross platform and you just build flow graphs, which then can be executed.
Where do these clueless managers come from?
If you are already on AWS, then it's better to run llama3 using AWS Bedrook. With Bedrock, you only pay for what you use instead of paying for an always-on EC2 instance.
This is perfect, I've been wanting something like this forever.
The GPKG files https://github.com/marklit/osm_split produces are SQLite files under the hood and come with an R-Tree Spatial index so they'll load into QGIS and other GIS software quickly.
I write TypeScript projects in TypeScript from the start. If I have an existing JS project that needs to port to TypeScript then I will rewrite it entirely in TypeScript. Yes, that takes some small amount of time, but it’s never a complete rewrite. It’s mostly just minor syntax updates as the actual runtime should remain the same as validated by test automation.

I type everything I declare whether a primitive or not. My complex types like data structures, objects, and modules get typed as interfaces. I write them as I need them. I also have lint rules that check for missing type declarations.

Don’t over think any of this. None of this exists as an exercise in code masturbation. There are two immediate values to TS: warning on unintended type coercion and predictive rapid refactoring. So, just keep plan your software appropriately and keep everything simple.
Sure, good luck with this AGI business. I'm sure it will work out great for everyone in the end.
Nice and clean. I would love a collapsed view of the habits. How does the offline mode works? Any monetization plans?
Sorry. Speaking precisely, the rejection of the third amendment claim was appalling. Heavily armed government agents whose main function is to perform escalating violence are clearly a type of soldier.

> Police taking over your home to setup base for observing and taking out a neighbour with no warrent or permission is something that should be illegal and not require casting local police officers as Federal soldiers to whom the quartering restriction applies.

I wholeheartedly agree. I'm certainly not some constitutional fundamentalist who thinks that it is a holy text. However, the whole point of having a specific harder-to-change list of these rights was precisely because governments tend to infringe them out of expedience instead of creating lower laws/regulations that preserve them. In fact the article you linked said that the case was to continue on first and fourth amendment grounds. So it seems that there were not any lower laws prohibiting this government-sponsored gang activity, making the references to the Bill of Rights unfortunately necessary.
Id love it of npm added support for additional artifacts — separate tarballs for source, code, binaries, source maps, docs etc
Speaking of investments, a follow-up to IEI forked here for posterity and refuge (within an Anarrean wall? Sanatorium?) from the A-Io/Oceanic tribalists

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40894962

But going back to your point, efficient energy pricing--fossil as well as renewable -- are maybe another (contemporary) example of innovation-reducing, uh, habits (/grooves)

Personally, you might be excited by the parallel prospect of LLMs as nonsolutions to the perennial problem of academic wage depression
If they don’t - they should
Every Chinese should invest all their money in the mainline by buying two condos. Anything else is treason !!
>We are in a period of widespread outright institutional collapse

who is "we"? This thesis is easily tested by zooming away from the US for a second (I know, very hard exercise). The burden of knowledge is visible everywhere even in countries that have drastically improved their governance. Lee Kuan Yew used to lament the increased levels of education at the expense of family formation, experts are getting older everywhere from India to China, to Indonesia and South Korea, making the same gains in computing performance is harder and harder regardless if you're in Taiwan or Arizona. Capital required for economic growth, or drug discovery cost or any other reasonable proxy for the cost of new ideas also increases everywhere.

Institutional collapse is completely coincidental to the basic mechanism that is perfectly well laid out in the article. To build better knowledge you need to account for the old knowledge and then some, so pretty much by definition it's an information theoretical necessity that better ideas get more expensive.

Try to imagine a world where the theory is actually true that there is no burden of knowledge and the reason is institutional collapse. Then you'd have countries where the life expectancy grew faster than when we invented soap and antibiotics. You'd have places that make advances in computing as we did in the 80s and 90s. You'd have places where VC's invest less money every year but get more returns every year. It'd be a completely bizarre world compared to the one we're in.
Basically the answer comes down to the technical term “ensembles of agents”. All these frameworks dance around it in different ways, but ultimately everyone’s trying to recreate this basic AI structure because it’s known to work well. I mean, they even implemented it on a sub-human level with GPT’s mixture of experts!

If you haven’t had the chance yet, I highly recommend skimming Russel and Norvig’s textbook on symbolic AI. Really good stuff that is only made more useful by the advent of intuitive algorithms
If we are talking “founders”, the two Creo founders made hundreds of millions of dollars when the company sold. Long before that though, they gave away a third of the company to a guy they named as second CEO. Then the original CEO biked around China for a year while that guy made him that fortune. The two founders pooled their shares and then split it three ways with the new guy ( second CEO ). Many rank-and-file employees made millions as well. It was a different set of folks.

I am not sure how many hundreds of millions you have made but their way seemed to work.
And yet in Germany you have to put your name and address on your website.
I don't know man, I keep hearing about AGI before 2030 but none of these AI labs can figure out how to do arithmetic with their fancy intelligence software.
Yes we most certainly can