skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a great point. Reminds me of how currently in the Willamette valley of Oregon, grass seed prices are terrible because there’s oversupply such that growers can’t even sell last years crop at a profit, resulting in more oversupply.

Some ground isn’t suitable for much else than annual ryegrass, which does well on the clay mud in the hills and seasonal bogs. There’s not much to switch to that can even handle the conditions.

Other grass crops like different types of fescue are a multi year investments since the first year you don’t get much from the field and it takes time to clean up the weed seeds. So flipping to another crop puts you in a big hole.

Finally there’s the generally six figure equipment to harvest any particular crop. A given harvester can only deal with a very limited selection of crops, and even then is often going to require configuration and tuning when switching to a compatible crop.

I think the grape and hop guys might also be seeing something similar, but I’m not entirely sure.

I can imagine that growers with fields configured for growing rice face similar issues. If price tanks, they don’t have the flexibility to “just” pivot to something else as needed.
> we have demonstrated before that so many things can be done to completely nullify any genetic advantage.

If the genetic advantage is nullifiable, how can it exist?

When people compare intelligence to height, they are speaking with respect to maximum potential. As far as we know, genetics do dictate how tall you can potentially become. Environmental factors may leave you shorter than your potential, but if we were able to expose all people to a perfect growing environment, they would not all end up being the exact same height. They would only grow to the limit dictated by their individual genetics.

If a supposed genetic advantage with respect to maximum intelligence potential is nullifiable, that surely implies that all humans have the capability of reaching equal intelligence? But then what genetic advantage is there to speak of?
There's nothing more frustrating than finding somebody trying to solve a problem with the same constraints you have, clearly explaining the problem and those constraints, and having the answers run along the lines of "in my opinion those constraints aren't reasonable, here's an easy way to do it ignoring what you've explained in your question without even a nod toward how to do it the "wrong" way you're being forced to do this".
Timing will play a role in how that number shakes out. AI projects often stacked huge investments and may not yet have had enough time to burn through all the cash or have it clawed back by investors.
Who designed the icons in MacOS up to Mavericks and iOS 6? Those were IMO the peak icon design on Apple devices. Would be great to hire that person for some Linux UI.
Notice the supermarket company still had a Telex number in 1990.

Even though they had likely possessed a fax machine for quite some time already.
> doesn't think people that say mean things (or things someone in particular thinks are mean) are automatically bad people.

Unless they are mean to him. Then yeah. Automatically bad.

BTW, you listed none of the serious issues the left has with Elon.
And if the asset is a farm?
James Hoffman uses science to challenge Andrew Huberman's morning coffee routine [video]
> Claude responds directly to all human messages without unnecessary affirmations or filler phrases like “Certainly!”, “Of course!”, “Absolutely!”, “Great!”, “Sure!”, etc. Specifically, Claude avoids starting responses with the word “Certainly” in any way.

Claude: ...Indubitably!
I'd be surprised if Elon's detractors know about his daughter, generally speaking. The tech conversations don't overlap with the gossip conversations very often.
Crisis inherently implies rarity. If every day for sixty years is a crisis, it's time to reevaluate bigger life choices. Feels like we're just having fun poking invented holes rather than arguing in good faith here.
That’s not accurate, there are cross-platform toolkits that achieve at least a close-to-native look&feel. This is very different from giving up on it entirely and going web-style UI.
I go in more detail in my other comment but I would imagine this is a definition most people can't get behind.

> intelligence can be reasonably defined as "knowledge and skills to be successful in life, i.e. have higher-than-average income"

I think it just crumbles under light scrutiny. People have higher income for all kinds of observable reasons that don't have to do with intelligence. I have higher income than other employees at the same level just based on where I live.

Intelligence is something that is defined by academics. Surprise surprise that it it measures how people perform in a narrow set of academic skills.
The original report is still up (linked to by a sibling) and says this:

> By some estimates, more than 80 percent of AI projects fail — twice the rate of failure for information technology projects that do not involve AI.

Also, given how early in the hype cycle we are, there are a lot of projects that haven't failed yet but will likely fail in the end.
we're not really there years into the boom though, so it could regress to that. this would be more like 80 failing so far
I was not involved in this in any way other than being an avid Linux user, but I remember it quite well. A very popular conversation among Linux nerds in the early 2000's was, "what if this thing actually takes off?"

There were quite a few Linux-related start-ups around this time that were fueled by dollars from the dot-com boom. As is the usual story, Eazel had same "hire people now and figure out how to make money later" strategy that caused the bubble to burst. There were quite a few high-publicized commercial ventures into the Linux space around this time: Ximian, Corel Linux, VA Linux. Others that I'm forgetting.

As to the software, when it was new, Nautilus was absolute garbage. It was memory-hungry, slow, and crashed often while doing perfectly normal things. Eazel had ambitious plans for it, but it didn't really stabilize into something useful until several years later after the community removed most of the bloat and it just became a regular file manager.
> They need to be publicly traded securities to be taxed as I understand it

In that case, this is the end of public companies as we know it.
Gotta love the scientific method.
Automate Extraction and Explanation of Python Code from Videos
I didn't see a lot of people banned for questioning. Most people were banned for authoritatively affirming things.

(But then, that "a lot" is there for a reason. There has been some bad behavior from the platform too.)
That would make more sense! I was misreading this article: https://architecturetoday.co.uk/learning-from-venturi-scott-...

Thanks for the correction!
> And on top of that, this idea that the settings app doesn’t contain all the same options is kind of ridiculous to me.

So I just chose a random example, because I found this statement to be, in your words, kind of ridiculous.

> The Control Panel doesn't even have many items left, I don't know why it's so hard to imagine it going away.

I can't speak for others, only myself. My problem is not so much that MS wants to move things to the new settings app. It's how they are going about it, which is reflective of a lot of their products these days. I actually like some of the features in Windows 11 and think overall, it has improved on 10. However, I also feel like a beta user, and sometimes things just change for no apparent reason, or in a user-hostile way.

As you stated, the disk partition application is separate and control panel is largely a collection of links. Why then, did MS release the new settings app without bothering to simply add a link to the disk partition application? This would not require some large build out of features. And here we are, years later, without a simple link.

I know that I can type "disk partition" into the start menu and it will probably (though not always) bring up the program I want to use. When I type that in today, it reveals "Create and format hard disk partitions (Control panel)". Is this the experience MS is trying to offer for Windows 11? As you noted, Windows 10 is nearing end of life. Why does it still feel like Windows 11 is a release candidate?
Show HN: Repo2Vec – Open-Source Library for Chatting with Your Codebase
repo2vec is a simple-to-use, modular library enabling you to chat with any public or private codebase.

We built this because sometimes you just want to learn how a codebase works and how to integrate it, without spending hours sifting through the code itself.

repo2vec is like Github Copilot but with the most up-to-date information about your repo.

With two scripts, you can index your repository and spin up a UI with a functional chat interface.

We would love your feedback!
You seem to have read that backwards. A greater percentage of woman were accepted.
Okay, but those use cases and the related systems are codified: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A...

AFAIK there is not a similar legal basis for requiring a social media company to participate in the rebroadcasting of a specific individual's speech just because of their current elected position.
> Every message board and chatroom (bbs, forums, irc, icq, aol, et all) on the young internet was virtually uncensored and a 100% free for all

This statement is hysterically ahistorical. Each thing you listed had active moderation. Sysops didn't just allow anything on a board, if you posted stuff off topic or offensive (to the Sysop) it was removed with prejudice. IRC networks all had long lists of k-lines of people kicked off the network. Individual channels had their own mods with ban lists. Forums either moderated or were deluged with spam. AOL and ICQ were both highly moderated.

Just like today small networks might be uncensored free-for-alls. Even then they are/were rarely actually uncensored, it's just you might have not been censored because you aligned with the views of the owners/operators.

The only really uncensored free-for-all was Usenet and that state only existed for its first decade or so when it was limited to professionals and academics. The Eternal September turned Usenet into an unusable mess. It's corpse limps along today as a vehicle for piracy and not much else.
Let's not discuss the vast successes of the restaurant business.
I'd be shocked if less than 99% of non-shitcoin Blockchain projects crash and burn.
I'm not clear why you think that's closer?

The very first thing that happens in most LLMs is that information getting deleted by the letters getting converted into a token stream.
The actual loophole is the step-up basis for inheritance. This allows you to never realize gains, living off loans against them. Then, when you die, your heirs inherit the appeciated assets, and the liabilities. But, their cost basis for the assets is stepped up to the then-current fair value. So, they can sell off assets to pay the loans off, but have no realized gains.
what schumpeter called capitalism's creative destruction. move along.

ai is still incredible tho.
While the example-notebooks repo you've mentioned is not actively maintained it looks like the IRuby kernel used by Jupyter still is maintained: https://github.com/SciRuby/iruby
This calls out for a Triangle Test! There are a lot of Japanese where I live, and grocery stores that cater to them. It would be easy to test whether people really can tell the difference.
yep theres a lot more to the prompt that they haven't shared here. artifacts is a big one, and they also inject prompts at the end of your queries that further drive response.
Is anyone else finding their company is asking teams to “insert ai everywhere any way you can”?

That’s a sign of a problem imho. The hype is so high the directives are to use ai everywhere regardless of fit. I’m a believer of ai but shoehorning it into everything as that currently boosts stock prices seems insane.
Test your theory by using distilled or soft water to make your rice.
which was the case for internet related companies
The secret sauce was not having five monopolistic megacorporations running all our communications. The toxic assholes have always been here, but Facebook and Twitter is extremely good at platforming them and profiting off of them. This is why Facebook and Twitter had "world leaders policies" intended to keep Trump on their platforms - because Trump's fascist rhetoric made them money.

As for the standard pop-feminist take, I should point out that it's not so much a matter of gender or victimhood, it's a matter of how people are conditioned to respond to hostility. If your culture socializes boys[0] to respond to toxicity with more toxicity, then they will naturally push everyone else not so socialized out of the space. This creates "male spaces" that are just where the most toxic people happen to concentrate. The interests they concentrate around do not matter aside from them happening to be the color of the tile on the floor being stepped on.

[0] Or just some subset of boys
The best rice I've had is in far northeastern China (Heilongjiang or Jilin province). Which seems weird to me given the geography, but I guess I don't know shit about rice farming.
Apple's m1 chips are 8 wide. and AMD and Intel's newest chips are also doing more fancy things than 4 wide
Good Lord. I'd never get into any of these schools these days. (Three people from my 59 person high school class got into MIT and we weren't a high-powered school.) Though I guess if it's any consolation a bunch of the great professors would never get tenure either because they were more tinkerers than theoreticians.
What is a project?

A startup?

Integrating chat bot into your support page?

What is AI?

Titles like this are often click bait - but since the site is down can't tell.
The problem is not if the 80% of them fail, but if of the remaining 20% you get several black swans that make profit skyrocket for the whole investment set.

The problem is if none of them, even the surviving ones, don't worth too much anyway. In that case those billions would had been wasted. But if you invested everything to just one player, and that player failed, then your whole bet failed.
Ask HN: Caught in a platform rewrite civil war, what to expect?
Long story short, the enterprise I work with has been undergoing a large platform rewrite to a new monolith. The project started over 2 and a half years ago with new leadership who basically hired a bunch of new people who do the same jobs as the existing engineers but for the new platform and with new titles.

Fast forward today and the platform "works" but it doesn't scale. Developer productivity is slow, it's hard to make changes, and everything seems over abstracted. The company put a pause on working on the old platform except for exceptional bug fixes, but they recently just launched new projects on the old platform using only parts of the new platform (whereas the original goal was to have everything new).

So this seems like a typical two systems story. Does anyone have any stories to share in the trenches of being in similar situations? I'd like some high level visibility from shared experiences in terms of what to expect, timeline, etc.
if you can guarantee that layouts don't change during interactions, i guess it _might_ save some time for the browser (and thus battery, for low power devices).

If layouts change during interaction (e.g., orientation swap), then you will have a roundtrip to the server to recalculate. I assume this would cost more time than letting the browser css engine do their thing.
it's a pain if you want children to reference their parents while their parents reference them

Similarly getting a mutable reference to a leaf while parents have references to children is awkward
For years I'd go back between Windows and Linux, but sometime after 2018 or so I stopped even "going back" altogether. I've been able to daily Linux, my bar is high too. If it doesnt work OOTB I go back to Windows or to a distro that does. I'm not wasting any time fighting a broken OS.

I think the era of Linux on the Desktop is already here, just wish BestBuy would sell System76 towers, might push it further along.
Nvidia has become 'most important stock,' adding pressure
So, voxels, then...?
> How do you know you have over 100m in assets?

If your bank determines that assets you post for collateral are worth 100mn or more, that's a pretty good indication.
What’s the link?
> In the same way the Viper is fundamentally superior to the F-15C, the 35 is fundamentally superior to the 22.

Fundamentally, though? The Viper is a neat platform but I don't think it could ever do the F-15C's role. Later the F-15 would be adapted to the Viper's role with the F-15E block, but the Viper never really reached the F-15's mach rating or payload capacity. It feels silly to say either one is fundamentally better than the other, even though I generally agree that F-35 >>> F-22.
It's not the GOP that is loudly and proudly calling for the court to be packed with sychophants because it ruled against their preferred policy platform...

The Dem leadership has been splitting the baby for years by allowing the ever-increasing radical wing of the party to bloviate about this without ever letting meaning legislation to the floor to enact the changes this group wants, so credit where credit is due, I guess.
// if you've found this comment oh god i'm so sorry
russian oligarchs are a lower threat to me than US equivelants
Cerebras reaches 1800 tokens/s for 8B Llama3.1
I agree with other posters that this is overly nitpicky.

Take as an example playing a musical instrument. Perhaps you play cello in a community orchestra, and you're presented with a piece that has a passage that you can't reliably or consistently play at performance tempo - maybe it has an awkward fingering or shift, or maybe requires a bow technique that you struggle with. But, maybe if you reduce the tempo to 80% of performance speed, you can hit it more-or-less consistently.

The recommendation that is ingrained with all classical musicians in this scenario is to practice the challenging passage at this comfortable tempo with utter dedication to precision and execution. And when you can reliably and consistently execute at this tempo, notch up the speed a tiny bit - as little as 4 beats per minute. Repeat until you hit the consistency milestone, ad nauseam until you get to performance tempo (and then a bit on top for good measure).

Per the article and per the top comment - there's a reason this is SOP for musicians. Deliberate practice right at the frontier of your capabilities expands that frontier, and lets you push further.

By the way, "consistency" here might be, "play 100 times in a row without a single mistake." I've absolutely had lessons where we do this exercise with a gnarly passage, and when I make a mistake at repetition 79, we start the counter back at 0. It's tedious, laborious, and exhausting - but it works.
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Lilypond is for music typesetting (they call it "engraving").

Finale, Sibelius, Dorico, MuseScore are primarily for composing (though they have each made their own strides on the engraving front too).
If a major government agency repeatedly requests you follow certain guidelines and gets frustrated when you don’t, it might be reasonable to feel pressured or threatened, even if they’re your own guidelines. I know I’d be, even by what was revealed in the Twitter files.
Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Customer Support Lead
You said "Let others say the wrong thing on your platform, be it advocating against a narrative or revealing evidence of war crimes, and you can be tortured." The "you" refers to the owner of the platform. Which platform owners got tortured for things others said on their platform?
This movie is familiar…most of this summary in the Rand report applies/applied to any overhyped new technology. E.g., try substituting “NoSQL” for “AI” and see how well most of it reads.
Trump's not going to be able to run for a third term.

He says he won the last election, so he's already running for a third term.
A few years back it started showing me obvious political ragebait. I ignored it and then it started showing me pictures of women whose nipples were obviously showing through their clothing, which was an improvement, but still not the reason I signed up for Facebook. I've always understood it as the algorithm is looking for engagement and will try some lowest common denominator tactics to engage in it. As someone who just wanted to see the odd picture of a friend or relative, I don't have much use for Facebook these days.
> That's like saying I don't understand what vanilla flavour means just because I can't tell you how many hydrogen atoms vanillin contains

You're right that there are different kinds of tasks, but there's an important difference here: We probably didn't just have an exchange where you quoted a whole bunch of organic-chemistry details, answered "Yes" when I asked if you were capable of counting the hydrogen atoms, and then confidently answered "Exactly eight hundred and eighty three."

In that scenario, it would be totally normal for us to conclude that a major failure in understanding exists somewhere... even when you know the other party is a bona-fide human.
That will only be temporary won’t it, hold your shares or buy more at a discount.
> research and development.

I think that is the question, how much legitimate R&D is really going on here vs trying to shove an LLM into some random hardware and ship it?

Or shove an LLM in some app trying to solve a problem that it isn't capable of.

No doubt that creating these models are hard, having the data is hard. But how much of the AI startups is actually that vs just shoving the OpenAI API in something.
Reprioritization of direct experimental searches for dark matter is already happening. WIMPs are by no means being abandoned, but because we are closing in on the neutrino fog background (which is mentioned in another comment), it's been recognized that to myopically cling to the same kind of experiment which dominated the 2000s and 2010s is not a strategic move (both from the "we expect to see something" and the "responsible use of tax dollars" perspectives).

For example: axions, an alternative DM candidate mentioned in another comment, have seen a significant growth in attention in recent years, and the usual detector technology for axion searches is currently being refined and scaled up, from benchtop-scale, dedicated experiments to lab-scale, wide searches.

At the same time, different groups which have developed past WIMP detectors are merging to collaborate on the larger, next-generation detectors. And there is R&D and prototyping happening to create detectors which, although looking for WIMPs, are sensitive in entirely different mass ranges than those of yesteryear.
I'm bullish on AI but it was clear to even me that most projects were simple ChatGPT wrappers.
In that vein, there is no hardware either. It too is just an abstraction. However, that is not particularly meaningful. We draw lines around those abstractions and are able to compartmentalize them when discussing them.
The best part about studying radioactivity is how predictable it is and how easy it is to detect. It's part of how we are able to date the age of earth using Uranium isotope ratios. Decay occurs at predictable rates. The entire earth's crust is contaminated with nuclear byproducts which allow us to learn a great deal about it's formation even a couple billion years later.

Fossil reactors are just an example of the nuclear world we live on. There are also countless other nuclear materials in the earth's crust. It's part of why we have to test for nuclear contamination of our wells.

The destruction of one of these reactors a mile deep would be a blip on the radioactive material being unearthed. We would have to be careful not to place them next to existing aquifers, but they would be way more safe than surface plants which already have an amazing track record.