skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious why you end with "i'm just concerned"?

so what if Google slowly implodes?
Others are working hard to out compete them. All is well in the Universe.
Vacuum bags and 2% salt by weight are the easiest way to get it done, for sure. It doesn't get much simpler.

I've had pepper ferments that got a little carried away and tightly filled the bag with CO2.

There's a lot of ways to deal with this problem, but I just poke a tiny hole in the bag, let the bug farts out, and cover the hole with a strip of clear tape.

(A lazier method is to plan better and use a bigger bag to begin with.
And for those who aren't familiar, vacuum bags can be huge: They're available as continuous uncut rolls.)
Interesting that this is a place that is 10 minutes drive from a nearby town and yet requires all year round maintenance.
At least in Alaska the government gives citizens tax incentives for simply living there but looks like owning a rural property in US nowadays is very far from homesteading of yesteryear- you have to pay taxes and pretty much need some additional source of income just to get by.
Camden’s a nice town but yeah this is rich people acting like rich people.

There’s not much left of the Maine coast that’s owned by actual maine locals. Most of it is million dollar homes owned by people from out of state who just show up one week out of the year. It’s sad. But the real insult is when they block off access to beaches that locals have been going to for generations. It’s a common story though, it’s just another case of gentrification.
Is Anthropic even making money? Seems to me the only current winners in the AI game are OpenAI and established giants like Google.

Also I don't think you can dismiss AI as pure hype like you can with e.g. web3. Clearly there have been and continue to be amazing and useful advances.
Yep. They also did partial reconstuction work of the great wall in modern times and passed it off as ancient. Similarly, Stonehenge in the UK was also partially reconstructed in the 20th century.

Sensoji temple in Tokyo was also rebuilt to its original design in the 1950s.

The giant stone Buddhas of Afganistan could do with reconstructing IMHO as well.
Starts with a Bang #108 – A Future Particle Collider [audio]
That's understandable after all. It's an advertising company, not a tech company. Small details like vacation aren't really something they can account for.
Years, and a special kind of myopia in leadership to not see the seeds sprouting. It doesn’t happen quickly, but once established is very, very expensive to fix.
There are fields where age (read: experience) is a benefit and not a liability. These are areas in which making mistakes is VERY expensive and taking the time to do things "the right way" and getting it right the first time is worth the extra investment.

These are fields such as: research, biotech, pharma, cyber security, medical, utilities, oil/gas, space (NASA), air (Boeing), defense, ...

If you don't have skills immediately pertinent to domains such as these, you may have skills that are tangentially related and allow you to get in the door and then become indispensable and branch/learn.

Also, you may have skills that are huge benefits and don't even know it. Examples: applied probability, databases, big data, ETL pipelining, business continuity, encryption, 3D visualizations + animation.

I'm in biotech/pharma (48 y.o.), and know several programmers who started as web developers and ended up making front-end UIs (e.g. Streamlit apps) that were of immense benefit to the researchers. Over time they pick up some genetics, move over to help other teams, etc.
Theres a lot of incest with capital and property ownerahip. Id bet plenty of VCs park money in real estate and consequentially lease it back. Similar to how movie productions "lose" money
> Seeing a heavy Apple user try switching to Linux on their laptop was a real eye opener for me.

I’ve been using Linux since 1996 and Linux on the desktop has been and continues to be a disaster. It’s only good for two things, opening a terminal or a web browser.
I agree, SF’s homeless are from all over the country, they can’t afford to house everyone. I would imagine the tide could be stemmed to some small degree if colder states had free housing with heat.
I remember the real tomatoes, they were larger and juicier, but lasted much less.
This article completely glosses over what is presumably the first step of making this work, which is getting a shell on the Kindle. The only resource is some random forum bulletin board post? Huh?
> Presumably those young people forced to work their asses off 6 days/week will be even less inclined to become parents, further compounding the problem.

That's not a problem, that's the purpose of the current economical and political order in industrialized nations, whether they are capitalist, communist or mixed.

After all the horrors of the 20th century, including both world wars, it is not as easy anymore to trick the youth of the world to die on the battlefields, so the rulers have to device other means to get rid of the younger generations.
I get maybe 50 or so tomato plants in about 1 square meter in my garden, just from the seeds that are left in the ground from last year's tomatoes. (Of course I don't let all 50 grow and instead give most away.)
Just so. Code written in Python has always had the virtue of being _incredibly boring_, which is a virtue that, at the time of its inception, was criminally undervalued; this was, after all, the heyday of C++, and if you weren't bringing operator overloading and multiple inheritance and generics to the table, the hipsters sniffed.

For example, no one complained that Python had multiple inheritance; instead, we thought this was _a point in its favour_, over and against Java. (I imagine Guido added it grudgingly as a vox-populi.)

Thus, the Pythonic mindset emerged as a sort of 'refusal of the call', sort of like Indiana Jones shooting the sword guy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKrmDLvijo). You could be against the hermetic complexity of Perl, but do it better than Java! Neat!

These days, however, I suspect that Python, while still boring, is boring in the _wrong_ way, leaving opportunities for concision, clarity and performance on the table -- now-basic stuff like immutable datatypes, monads, tail recursion, concatenative programming, and so on.

Python is the hobbit that stayed in Hobbiton.
I assume that’s still cheaper than jail though right? Not to mention more humane.
“One of the jobs of a membrane is to exclude material from the outside," Caparon said. "We know that within five to ten minutes of treatment with GmPcide, the membranes start to become permeable and allow things that normally should be excluded to enter into the bacteria, which suggests that those membranes have been damaged."

I wonder if this is a mechanism that won’t easily be adapted around. It also sounds like a cool technique to deliver other molecules to kill pathogens more broadly.
Look up value creation vs value extraction.

It explains why every tech product is eventually doomed to shittification and opens the doors to competition

Value creation is when you have a new thing and people are adopting. You grow by more people using. Think Google photos offering free unlimited photo storage.

As some point you saturate the market. Then to keep growing you shift to value extraction. Going back to example above, now photos/videos count toward your 15 GB Google limit.

Sundar appears to be an excellent extractor, hence why Google has never done better financially but completely missed the boat on AI. AI is now the new wave of value creation.
there is unfortunately absolutely nothing that get nearly close to the rp2040 price/performance/features...
I don't think you understand the point. You're taking about poor decisions that those companies made several years after Apple and Google entered the market, but ignoring the years long head start that they had and squandered. Why weren't Symbian, BlackBerry OS PalmOS, or Windows Mobile good enough in 2007 to not get obliterated by two brand new platforms?

At some point we have to admit that one of the main reasons for the duopoly is that the rest of the competition wasn't that good.
> 15 minutes out of my day to dump my profile on your website with information that was public anyway.

Yeah, I agree it's not ideal.

> As long as I'm not getting spammed by you [...]

No, we don't spam. No marketing emails of any sort. Only thing we ask is that you confirm monthly that your profile is still valid. It's one click from the email. You can opt out with one click too.

> [...] good balance between risk and payoff.

That's the idea. Once your profile is set up, there is nothing else you need to do. For many people on Candix, those few minutes spent on onboarding have well converted.
> downward pressure on software engineering salaries in the US

And hopefully an upward pressure elsewhere!

I think it's not too bleak for you guys tbh - a lot of remote US jobs aren't really available to most of the world because they have timezone restrictions. You'd just better hope South America doesn't get its shit together!
Hot take about fermentation in these recipes.

> Lacto-ferment chillis with your choice of veg and/or fruit in a brine solution for a couple of weeks at room temperature.

Room temperature is no kind of standard. Optimal fermentation is up to about 75f max. I live in the south and most of the year room temp for me is at least 76. I've ruined several batches of lacto-fermented experiments before making that connection.

Don't get me started on vague salt measurements like "seawater" taste.
What amazes me is how modern javascript engines are able to optimize for a "hot execution path".
There seems to be quite a business with small businesses being sued for violating the ADA. They can pay about $10,000 to make the lawsuit go away.
Saying something like rain serves a purpose is backwards. Plants have evolved to survive in conditions that include rain, rain has not been deployed to serve a purpose for plants. There may be other conditions that are easier for plants to thrive in.
It could be worse.

What if they know that the results aren't as great as they used to be, but can't do much about it, getting overwhelmed by AI blogspam stuff?
> Do you think that NVidia is happy to not have an online ecosystem to tie to its GPUs, for added (sales) value?

I think nvidia is ecstatic about having commoditised their complement, and having the only ML acceleration option that's available from every cloud provider and on-prem.

Why have Amazon, Google and Microsoft as competitors when you can have them as customers instead?
the problem with comparing these things by their ticket prices is that markets don’t consider externalities. making and fueling a plane might allow me to sell tickets cheaper than a train, but only if we ignore the cost of the carbon output (since neither the flyer nor the airline pay for this, but society at large does)

i wonder how this comparison would shake out if you included a carbon tax that effectively measured the cost of these trips on the globe.
If you get a lot of reports you'll probably be paying attention least one person 50k/yr to manage it
Solid-state batteries are finally making their way out of the lab
Botulism is invisible and odorless and deadly.

Please do not do people the disservice of conflating botulism with mold. They are not even close to being the same fucking thing.
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They still do, but it's typically heavier and foot level rather than eye level
If Google's search results had gotten comparatively worse people would have switched and Google's revenue and market-share doesn't seem to indicate that this is the case, neither does my personal experience. Everything is full of spam, people keep clicking on it and if they didn't search engines would probably serve other content. That's not really a Google specific issue, that's just the internet today.
After all, reading is mostly thinking with someone else’s brain.
Exactly. Detecting patterns that are typical for human coders and replacing them with stuff that uses the machine efficiently is what most compilers do, even for low-level languages like C. You write a typical `for` loop, the compiler recognizes it and unrolls it, and / or replaces it with a SIMD-based version with many iterations run per clock.
I love all hot sauces, and my GF brings me random hot sauces often. Most recently gave me a bottle of https://i.imgur.com/f7o1FT9.png TRUFF -- and my goodness, its my favorite one yet. Its amazing - and it pairs well with Wasabe Mayo...

I rally need to make my own, but I mix raosted paprika into a lot of cooking I do with hotsauces...
Definitely not. Even a simple multiply is extra hardware on the SNES, and the fast multiply is part of the PPU such that you can't use it while mode 7 is active. That is why Mario Kart and Pilotwings in particular are using the DSP.

You could get away with it by reducing freedom of motion and achieving something akin to f-zero.

Also, trig tables were very common. Near discovered that the the entire CX4 processor's hardware ROM was just a lookup table.
As far as I understand, greenhouse tomatoes, such as those from the Netherlands, lack flavour which the sun gives. Best tomatoes I ever had were In Cádiz in south of Spain, they were from the nearby town of Conil and had so much fullness and deliciousness, the plate was offered only as tomatoes and olive oil and we were satisfied. If you're in the area, ask for these tomatoes by name and you'll not be disappointed.

In Mexico I've seen hectares and hectares of tomatoes left to rot on the vine because the price fell so low it wasn't worth to pick them. I'm still mourning all that unmade pizza sauce.
In areas with higher population density, land values are driven by recreation and are thousands of dollars an acre. Not expensive compared to urban land, but a far cry from working the land to earn it.
I've won arguments against ChatGPT where it told me that it would remember the info for next time, but ultimately reset to the models last state unless I repeated the conversation
I'm absolutely sure Sundar browses this site. Hope he sees this.
It's less an adaptation, more just loosely inspired by journey to the west (disclaimer: I have not read journey to the west)
If the goal was to create an artificial neural network that better approximated the biological human brain, yes the perceptron model is insufficient.

If your goal is to produce a useful model on real hardware and it works...no

Remember the constraints of ANNs being universal approximaters (in theory)

1) The function you are learning needs to be continuous
2) Your model is over a closed, bounded subset of R^n
3) The activation function is bounded and monodial

Obviously that is the theoretical UAT constraints. For gradient decent typically used in real ML models, the constraint of finding only smooth approximations of continuous functions can be problematic depending on your needs.

But people leveraged phlogiston theory for beer brewing with great success and obviously Newtonian Mechanics is good enough for many tasks.

SNNs in theory should be able to solve problems that are challenging for perceptron models, but as I said, features like riddled basins are problematic so far.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02160
There's also the macro expansion/amplification issue (explained at the end of the page you reference). _Generic seems a dead end, it doesn't even work in practice for <tgmath.h>.
Unpaywalled

https://archive.is/2024.08.02-162144/https://fortune.com/202...
Isn't it better to mist plants, especially if you can't delay watering due to full sun?

IIUC that's what big box gardening centers do; with fixed retractable hoses for misting and watering.

A robot could make and refill clay irrigation Ollas with or without microsprinkler inlets and level sensing with backscatter RF, but do Ollas scale?

Why have a moving part there at all? Could just modulate spec valves to high and low or better fixed height sprayers

FWIU newer solar weeding robots - which minimize pesticide use by direct substitution and minimize herbicide by vigilant crop monitoring - have fixed arrays instead of moving part lasers

An agricultural robot spec:

Large wheels, light frame, can right itself when terrain topology is misestimated, Tensor operations per second (TOPS), Computer Vision (OpenCV, NeRF,), modular sensor and utility mounts, Open CAD model with material density for mass centroid and ground contact outer hull rollover estimation,
A story about scaling my one-person music project
The grid display of instructions makes this one of my top bookmarks for SIMD development. Then switch over to the intel guide for depth.
What’s everyone’s coding LLM setup like these days? I’m still paying for Copilot through an open source Xcode extension and truthfully it’s a lot worse than when I started using it.
poettering was fun

> If "systemd" is your magnum opus, we need to have a serious talk about your personal taste in software architecture. A project that’s more controversial than pineapple on pizza? Bravo, Lennart, you’ve truly made a mark in the realm of infamy.
Have fun sitting next to my unattended 5yo for eight hours.
Is the concept of NIMBY even possible in China considering the state owns the land?
I get most of my meat from a local livestock farm. While I love the pork, and generally prefer the beef (took a while to get used to the more natural grass fed flavor), the thing that was real eye opening was the poultry. The chicken & turkey I get from them tastes ... well, it actually tastes like something.
Already a dead link
TL;DR: yes + "He's not a tinkerer, he's a bureaucrat." leads to paralysis. Nothing gets off the ground long enough to matter. Too scared.

Here's some random lore I saw repeated recently on Blind, left Google a year ago, didn't work on search, not sure how true it is.

The old head, Benedict Gomes, was somewhat against using "the ML algo said so" in the "make a change, test it, see if it has positive impact, deploy" cycle. Thesis was, after N deployed algos you never understood in the first place, you've lost control of the whole thing and can't go back.

The new head, Prabhakar, is widely derided as a leader in the mold of Sundar: don't rock the boat, platitudes, and when moved in as the head, he was all on board with "lets go full bore on ML!!!"

The idea is the guy who built a substantial part of Google-as-we-know-it was pushed out for the guy who "built" Yahoo, and only because he was a yes man (note this was pre-ChatGPT, so it wasn't slavishly AI-for-AIs-sake). Now they've reached the scenario Gomes was afraid of, and there's nothing you can do.

This is such a compelling and easy narrative I wonder how true it is. But there's also ~0 more evidence I can ask for, these are people who definitely work on it discussing it amongst themselves, without outside influence, without any incentive to lie or exaggerate about it.

In general, the problem I saw at Google was it was a powder-keg of high achievers that was shifting mix evermore towards "Ivy League who took the job because its a high paying job", and what I perceived as a rich person thing that it is gauche to care, much less care and raise issues you're not responsible for.

There was an extreme, absurd, aversion to any conflict that let sociopaths and yesmen thrive. In retrospect, I'm not sure this is any different than any other corporation. Before I encountered my resident sociopath, I would have said it was all whiner talk, blaming things on other people. Then I saw it, and started doing peer counselling, and the stories I heard...phew.
We already found the inspiration. That’s how we invented neural networks. Now we need to focus on what works.
Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
Oral traditions are fragile. Writing is more durable, but only as durable as the medium it uses. We're lucky we know as much about the past as we do.
I think this is a bit of an oversimplification that does not help to understand the problem at hand.

What exactly is "the product" here? Google is constantly innovating and its search engine is in no way comparable to the one from 1997. Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, all have their place in the vast portfolio that circles around ads and search.
You're assuming cooperating mindsets.
Classic new englander entitlement. After living in that part of the country for 5 years I loathe the wasps that inhabit that part of America.
Can you elaborate on why these are violations of GDPR? I presume Google handles the data for EU customers in a manner compliant with GDPR (one would think).
I gave up with autocomplete pretty quickly. The UX just wasn't there yet (though, to be fair, I was using some third party adapter with sublime).

It's just me asking questions/pasting code into a ChatGPT browser window.
The subsection “Failure Rates in Context” struck me as the most interesting.
This is indeed so. But if NVidia could have some recurring revenue from the GPUs, maybe in the form of leasing GPU farms it runs in a proprietary way, it would also be nice. In that alternative universe, it would still have Google and MS as customers, the way AWS has many large-scale companies as customers.
How can nature be perfect when it is constantly changing? We alter our environment out of necessity, we would only be able to survive in a very small number of climates on Earth if we did nothing to change our surroundings. Lucky you if you happen to be somewhere with year round fruit to pluck from the vine and temperate climate in the winters but that leaves the other 8 billion people to die of starvation and exposure.
Well that is some “the journey is the reward” thinking.

We designed, funded and built the thing to do something specific. It didn’t really do that.

A goal is not a meaningless prediction. Outcomes matter.
Brazilian government to spend 23Billion in Infrastructure and A.I
Sounds mostly like a regular job board, except the hard work of describing the job/vacancy is left to the candidate rather than the employer.

I somewhat dislike the idea that you're still essentially stuck with the recruiter in the middle. And I fear that like any other directory it quickly turns into a spam platform. Candidates bugged by unwanted phone calls, startups digging through piles of recommendations...
There's not much left worth searching.

LLM's are choking the web with slop and were you insane enough to actually write something useful and publish it you'd just be feeding the LLM's to directly compete against you with your own regurgitated work.

The web's dead in the format we've all known it, its corpse just hasn't hit the floor yet.
Why don’t you like either option (I mean, the one about 6 days week I think I understand why)?
What? You're claiming the US should support manufacture of drugs in Mexico, for the sake of Mexico? It wouldn't change cartels in Mexico, just volume sold.
When it came to space matters, the soviets felt they could be comparable in capabilities to the Americans. So when they first saw the shuttle, they felt they had to have similar capabilities. And they were hella scared of the possibility of a shuttle just stealing one of their satellite. That fear was theoretical. The realistic fear was a couple of shuttles loitering in orbit ready to drop nuclear payloads on Russia with very little warning. A new leg on the nuclear triad was a real risk. So they had to come up with a spaceplane of similar capabilities, including single orbit return of a satellite. Those very specific capabilities limits your options severely.

Buran is not a copy of the Space Shuttle. I mean, the most important element of the shuttle, its reusable engines, is not even present on Buran.
Another croatian chiming in, I get most of my vegetables from my mother's garden, I think that's true for a lot of croats who live in the cities but have parents in the countryside.