skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works during the summer for annual plants and hardy species that can withstand the winter but the number of frost days really limits what you can grow. They take a few extra years to fruit but trees like avocados really change the ratio of effort to edible produce but they’re sensitive to frost. In California the double growing season takes it up another level, at the expense of growing a small number of frost loving species like blueberries.

That said I had a very productive dacha north of Moscow so there’s plenty of stuff you can grow in colder climates, you just have to more creative with your choices.
Oops. I just dashed it out without looking it up. What you said.
'Hallucinating Notepad' feels like a band name.
It takes 5 minutes of back of the envelope calculations to realize that this is a pipe dream. Starlink isn't a substitute for fiber internet, it's a substitute for no internet.
And from the article, the telecom industry receives billions in corporate welfare. A common argument against cutting it off is that telecom is capital intensive infrastructure, and if you cut their govbux you're blocking poor people from being able to communicate, we all deserve the right to communicate. But if that's your take, how can you also hate the protectionist laws? Telecom are given a monopoly because it doesn't make sense to, say, have N sets of telephone poles or power lines from each provider.
>(Disclaimer: White Stolen Generation Australian.)

For those who are reading this thread in disbelief at the magnitude of Australia's dark history, this is a compelling read:

https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/items/02ba5454-5...
Humans in this space tend to make mistakes like, "Added rent as per-square-foot instead of absolute value," or, "Missed a rent escalation for year 3."

These tend to be easy to catch, even for the same person who's reviewing the data. They would see that rent steps looked strange (Y2 and Y4, but not Y3) or there was an order-of-magnitude difference in rent from one month to another.

AI can do something like invent reasonable-looking rent steps. They're designed to create output that seems reasonable, even if it's completely made up.

When humans are wrong, they tend to misread what's there, which is much less insidious than inventing something.

And if you have a human reviewer for all the work this AI does, what's the point of the AI in the first place? The human has become the source of truth either way.
In practice, the chickens I see along the sides of roads clearly know what roads are. And don't cross them.
Why graph isomorphism algorithms seem to be so effective
So your point is:
1. The LLM revolution had no significant positive impact so far
2. A dozen areas (phishing, web search, web content, images, education, science, social media) were completely changed by LLMs for the worst

Your point 2 seems to indicate that the potential for impact is huge. People also think of positive impacts, not only negative ones, that's why they invest.
Why Podia doesn't use review apps anymore
Many commenters are telling you not to do this, but no one is answering the main question - how to launch such a network. I've actually been thinking about this idea a ton... how could you ever get a niche social media network off the ground when the incumbents are massive?

In any case, I'm working on a small project to support smaller social medias. Not trying to promote too much but it's called Soshials (soshials.com) and is basically like producthunt but for social media platforms. An additional twist is that users can actually join "cohorts" to try the new social media platforms for a month and give feedback.

I think getting feedback from real, initial users (instead of just friends/family) is a real reason why it's hard to iterate on and improve new platforms. Interested to hear if others have similar thoughts on how to actually launch a new social network.
Manufacturing jobs in the past paid much better than the sort of jobs that people in the rust belt are doing more often today.

If we assume that the manufacturing increase we would inevitably see in the presence of protectionist tariffs end up in those same places, then that would help make food and other things more affordable for those people.

Whether manufacturing ends up there or elsewhere is of course not actually guaranteed, the shipping technology and environmental laws were very different when the old manufacturing centers were established.

I don’t understand why people are so quick to conclude that others are very, very stupid in this case, as opposed to having interests that don’t align with one’s own and which are difficult to relate to absent the sorts of multi generational experiences these people have had.
As others have pointed out, this is not the right question to ask now that we know about Darwinian evolution through natural selection.

This is a reminder, however, that the questions we ask are very powerful framing devices that can constrain or liberate our thinking.
It's more sarky and negative. eg the phrase

"musk wasting some $3 billion dollars of taxpayer money"

appears (2:49)

but that's not the deal. The actual deal, from Wikipedia:

>On 16 April 2021, NASA selected only Starship HLS for crewed lunar lander development plus two lunar demonstration flights – one uncrewed and one crewed – no earlier than 2024. The contract is valued at US$2.89 billion over a number of years.

and as far as I know they are still working on that. Compared to the last moon landings:

>According to The Planetary Society, The United States spent $25.8 billion on Project Apollo between 1960 and 1973. Converting 1965 dollars to 2024 dollars, that is $255 billion

it's a bargain. It was also a fraction of what Bezos and the other bidder quoted. Starship is not just a NASA funded project. SpaceX use their own funds and it will be used for things like Starlink commercially and maybe also Mars.

Thunderf00t on youtube goes on and on slagging Musk. I thought I'd count how many videos he's done slagging him but got bored counting at 37. There are better things to spend time on.
I think you have a very special definition of reasoning only you can understand.
Lol whenever you can so casually say that a great scientist is wrong, that might be a good heuristic to know you misunderstood the question. It's a philosophical paradox stemming from our conception of species, not an empirical question about fossil records :)
I think that's on purpose/by design, so that users are nudged into exploring.
Things like these were pretty common in adventure games back in the days, which I probably spent too much time on playing...
There's a gradient of chickenness.
We garden a lot too. And it does produce excellent produce. But deep down inside I recognize that the farmers market has consistently better produce for -dramatically- lower prices, everything considered.

Gardening really is a hobby more than a practical life-hack. Although we did just get a hydroponic setup for greens in the house, and hopefully that can supply greens that are better and actually much cheaper.
Introduction: Hi, I am Avisha, a seasoned Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in building and scaling enterprise applications utilized by more than 100,000 users. My expertise includes developing products from scratch, making critical design decisions, architecting comprehensive solutions, managing infrastructure, delegating tasks to a team of junior developers and managing them for seamless deliveries. Throughout my career, I have collaborated with both early-stage startups (YC S'24, YC S'20, YC W'19) and multinational corporations, working with teams across various time zones. Like working in a fast-paced environment with a growth mindset where people are proactive and love to take ownership of their components.

Location: Chhattisgarh, India (Have been working remote roles in different time zones - US/Europe/India)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but can travel once or twice a quarter for meet-ups and discussions.

Technologies: Backend + Infrastructure
Backend: Python, Flask, Django, Postgres, MongoDB, REST APIs, Redis, RQ, Kafka, Git
Infra: AWS EC2, ECS, ECR | DigitalOcean | GCP | Docker, Jenkins, Linux servers

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GO-lvmLKlEHBN-hJjeMIYEAHzBV...

Email: jaiswal.avisha08@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avisha-jaiswal-65b4b7148/
>Lawns are functional

Here in DFW where we didn't see a drop of rain for 3-4 months and +100 heat, it was around $600 a month in water to keep it green. I also never see anyone outside playing on their lawn. I see landscape maintenance once a week at a minimum cost of $45 per visit. Can't forget all the poison laid down 6 times a year at 100 + to kill the weeds and fertilize. The costs are enormous and the environmental damage is insane.
And yet, weirdly, MS have chosen to just make it their entire personality at this point.

There has, for a number of years, been a move away from Windows to macOS and Linux for devs. I suspect this will start to accelerate because people don't want tools that are obnoxiously omnipresent.

Carpenters have various ways to keep their most used tools at hand, but you don't see them wearing a charm bracelet of every tool they need.
On the one hand - sure.

On the other - the whole appeal of notepad was that it was a barebones text editor with none of that fluff (aka - it's a text editor, not a word processor or IDE).

MS has a large number of alternatives for the folks who wanted them.

When I opened Notepad - it's explicitly because I don't want the machine trying to tell me what I entered is wrong, or fix it. I just want a big dumb textbox for my file.

---

Basically - If you wanted those features you're looking for MS Word or Wordpad.

But MS discontinued Wordpad, and now they seem intent on trying to turn Notepad into Wordpad 2.0.

My prediction is this will not work well, since it directly competes with Office, and is not what the legacy users of notepad want.

But hey... a text editor is an easy place to shove text based AI, and cool shiny new thing of the year means some exec can claim to be shoving novel solutions into prod and bump up AI usage.
> doing all development work in English.

You need to do some development work in English. Programing language keywords are all English?

Like there isn't really a python in Japanese?
Centurylink mentioned in the same ballpark as a "community network" is hilarious to me, having grown up in Minnesota.

It's literally the incumbent Bell provider - back in the day being AT&T and then USWest after the antitrust breakup.

Times certainly have changed for someone to even have this thought, much less write it down!
It's unfair to dismiss and simplify this technology when it only just started reaching critical mass ~2 years ago. Looking at history, transformative technologies rarely show immediate productivity gains. The internet took nearly a decade from the early 1990s before we saw clear economic impact. Electricity needed 30 years (1890s-1920s) to significantly transform industrial productivity, as factories had to completely redesign their operations. Personal computers were around since the late 1970s, but their productivity impact wasn't measurable until the late 1980s/early 1990s. Major technological shifts require time for society to develop optimal use cases, build supporting infrastructure, and adapt workflows
I assume they're trying to make a joke, as it's too obviously illogical if not. (Admittedly it also seems fairly obviously not funny to me, but that's more subjective than believing that an animal can't "do" anything that it doesn't have a conscious understanding of.)
AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation
They’re almost* entirely harmless too. They’re not very photogenic but the most they do is hiss and show their teeth, and if that doesn’t work they… play dead.

* Possums spread fleas like nobody’s business
No. Satellite (except when they use lasers, but nobody is proposing space lasers) is a broadcast medium and wire is point to point. Wires will almost always be cheaper and more reliable and faster on a per-customer basis and have less interference.
Grocery stores more reliable than sushi restaurants in labeling salmon properly
> for like-minded individuals who want to bounce ideas off each other

Hey! I don’t know of good meet-ups, but I’m in London and would love to chat. Email in bio (happy to reach out to you myself if you put an email in your bio too).
You seem to mostly be listing ways in which using windows is an active liability rather than anything consumers asked for.

Granted, the drivers point is a good one.
How about a small fine and a short ban? Similar to driving underage.
It somehow feels like the serious tone of first and last paragraphs is masking the sarcasm in the middle.
Parsebox | Parser Combinators in the TypeScript Type System
ChatBLT would’ve been more honest.
>A vessel to cross the street.

I literally cannot source this pun, and my ego refuses to believe you can had been this clever.

"Ogres are like onions! They have layers, just like onions. You get it? We both have layers"

We are all just recursive instances of magnitudes of complexity, and the "automata" we dissuade ourselves into denying we are not is just an ironic emergent property of being able to "think".

"Delineation" between these automata is only possible with edges - a membrane, an egg, of sorts.
Before that you have to have the one where they have the “Disable” flag, but they “accidentally” ignored it.
Many choanoflagellates are colonial, so they exhibit a primitive form of multicellularity that differs from true multicellularity by the lack of differentiation between cells.

It is likely that the ancestor of all choanoflagellates was already colonial.

The fact that Chromosphaera is also multicellular for the initial part of its life and it also shows differentiation in at least 2 kinds of cells does not imply that it is more closely related to the animals than the choanoflagellates.

Also in some choanoflagellates, differentiation in 2 kinds of cells has been observed and it has been verified that the same genes are involved in multicellularity, both in animals and in choanoflagellates.

See e.g. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/452185v1

So this new discovery just pushes back the origin of the mulicellularity of the animal type, from the common ancestor of animals and choanoflagellates to the ancestor of all opisthokonts more closely related to humans than to mushrooms.

(Opisthokonts are a group of living beings composed of animals, fungi and their relatives, which are characterized by cells that swim using one posterior flagellum, like the human sperm cells.)

It is likely that the split between the opisthokonts related to animals and the opisthokonts related to fungi has arisen because the former have remained in marine environments while the latter have adapted to continental environments, so in order to survive desiccation the ancestors of fungi have acquired a cell wall made of chitin that has protected their cells but which has caused the loss of their mobility, leading to the difference in lifestyles, where animals move around finding and eating their food, while the fungal spores are spread passively by wind and then they grow into their food.
Aaaand I'm still stuck on the anachronistic idea of hierarchical menus with text that explains what you're about to do, along with keyboard shortcuts and - in the non-mac world - "mnemonics" (sequential keyboard shortcuts).

High-efficiency symbolic communication, in other words.
The Four main color schemes used in design
One option would be to reply with "out plans are measured in centuries, keep electing us and things will get better, eventually". But this would probably require to have such plans.
Haha, no.

But I know the feeling. I've seen videos about people who have special physical filing cabinets for notecards that take up an entire tabletop. They have to figure out how to number these things, which can open up a can of worms and lots of differing opinions.

This can seem farcical at times. Sometimes the knowledge-management world can seem like a manifestation of OCD or perfectionism.

But to be clear, I don't want to discount in any way that such approaches could work for many people on many projects. My general take is that if a person is being mindful about the _effort in_ versus _benefit out_, they'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

For YouTubers in a niche of a niche, sometimes there is a positive feedback loop to just go deeper down the rabbit hole. For example, once a content creator has "committed" to a paper-only Zettelkasten system, what are the chances they are going to "mellow out" and move to a hybrid paper+digital system?
Nitpick about history: the LM was definitely not one of the easiest parts of Apollo. It was the long pole in the schedule for a good while; part of why Apollo 8 was flown as a lunar orbit mission was because the LM wasn't going to be ready for testing in Earth orbit until at least early '69, and NASA wanted to test the CSM beyond LEO anyways.
The economy is about to become the only 2020-era talking point left. The only Congressional action will be a national abortion ban, which is simply and anticlimactically saying that abortions will be moved to Canada. And the popular vote in this election proves no widespread Democratic party vote tampering. So there will be a day, sometime in 2025, when a critical mass of Trump supporters need to ask, "Who is this Elon Musk guy who I didn't vote for?"
It doesn't scale that well because integers are their own, opaque thing in Prolog, and the is predicate is unidirectional. However, there's no inherent reason this has to be the case: you can construct your own representation of the integers from the Peano axioms, and recover bidirectionality of addition. (You'll want to be using some typed variant of Prolog with the "unary tree of units" optimisation, otherwise integers take O(n) space in memory, but it's possible in the language.) Prolog works how it does, because it's (mostly) backwards-compatible with a facts database used for symbolic AI research, where all atoms were opaque.
> WWAN did leap-frog WLAN with 5G and especially with ultra-wideband

> Until I installed 6GHz Wi-Fi

So after you upgraded your WLAN it was faster than your WAN until you bothered upgrading your WLAN.

That's a personal deployment decision not necessarily a matter of what was or wasn't' available at the time. >1G WiFi existed years before ultra-wideband was a thing.
Take a look on https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#prominent-features and https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/quickstart
Upbound Elevates Platforming with new developer tooling for Crossplane
Kinda wish the coffee mug left a coffee ring when you set it on the napkin.
And if real-life meetings are an option then users could verify each other's credentials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party
I've been confused by that law, because I'm pretty sure Bemidji has an internet coop (which is quite good, especially for a small town like it).
The egg.

But it looks like phylotypic animal body plans may have originated in cell aggregates before the development of the egg:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jez.b.21417
All it needed was a way to work with other newline formats cleanly. Adding much more than that (even tabs) makes it into a different thing that leaves a gap in the niche it used to fill.
Source: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/06/new-ai-...
The question is asking if the first chicken hatched from a chicken egg (the egg came first) or if the first chicken hatched from an egg of the animal that laid the egg (the chicken came first). Of course, it is just a thought experiment that is ultimately unanswerable. There is no such thing as a distinct chicken or distinct chicken egg.
I think it matters when the owner wants to do something different but feels obligated to maintain the status quo by neighbors, and often even laws and regulations.
'Not medically necessary': Helping health insurers deny coverage
We don't even need space based broadband for this. Terrestrial radio (5G and LTE) already will gradually drink the milkshake of most cable and fiber based ISPs.
I hated the tabs already. When I open Notepad I expect a clean slate.
This sounds nice in theory, but would incentivize people to introduce unnecessarily expensive things initially and optimize them later to claim some of the savings. We would like to think that nobody would do something like that, but the sad reality is that there are plenty, especially as the potential reward goes up high enough.
Please give Clippy your consent for his neural interface integration. All advertising preference signals are masked before being sent.
It's purely a convention to use terms of the form "key - value" for 2-tuples here (or '-'(key, value) in funtional/canonical notation which can be used as well). minus is just used because it's already predeclared as an infix operator, and indeed ','(key, value) could be used as well but comma is also used as argument separator and for conjunctions in clause bodies and thus tends to be avoided. You also can see '=' being used for the same thing eg.

[ key = value, ...]

(for example, as used for representing attributes by SGML/XML parsing libs for SWI, Quintus/SICStus, and others), not to be confused with '=' being interpreted as unification operation in goals/clause bodies.

If you think about it, the simplest convention in Prolog to represent "assignment" of a value to a symbol (not a variable) would be

key(value).

That is, to use the "key" atom as functor itself, rather than use functors/operators in ad-hoc ways. This is exactly what Quantum Prolog can do (optionally, and in addition to ISO Prolog's conventions).

Specifically, if you have a list of fact-like terms

L = [ p(1), q(2), r(what(ever)) ]

then Quantum Prolog can answer queries against such term list, just like answering against the global default database eg.

call(L ?- q(X))

binds

X = 2

and would also bind additional values for q(X) on backtracking if the term list contained any. This is a natural extension to regular querying in Prolog because a term list [a, b] in Prolog's square bracket notation is just syntactic sugar for using the dot operator

'.'(a, '.'(b, []))

and a Prolog program is syntactically just a list of clause terms.

In the container planning demo on the Quantum Prolog site [1], this feature is used for backtracking over (un)loading and travelling actions which would normally change state via destructive assert and retract calls and hence not allow backtracking to search for optimal sequences of actions.

[1]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/container-planning-demo/part2...
As much as I feel that HN's tone policing is de facto defence of status quoism, guidelines here are that direct personal attacks aren't permitted.

However you may be pleased to know that ideological battle isn't either.

If you can't find a suitably witty or effective response, none is often better. You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to.

You can also email mods at hn@ycombinator.com with issues. I do this frequently on all manner of points, most often title or URL issues, but other guidelines violations as well, and often that results in accounts being banned.

As dang has said many times, you can't attack others no matter how wrong they are (<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>), and provocation itself isn't a justification to violatue guidelines yourself (<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>) and <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>).

Trust me that this can be sorely aggrevating and crossing the lines tempting, but you'll ultimately be a more persuasive and effective advocate working within the rules here.
I'm going to call a non-chicken a chocken from now on. :)
(points to nose)