skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've sometimes wondered whether arid parts of the American Southwest could, through the right kind of permaculture interventions, support more biological carbon sequestration, more plant life, drive development of richer soil etc. But I suspect if you said "we're gonna use this big section of BLM land to incrementally try to keep water in the landscape, and introduce a sequence of plant species that can increase carbon storage and soil cover" the immediate American political response would be "government overreach!" on one side and "what about threatened species X that thrives in the sparse desert?" on the other. And if you did get such a project approved, some elaborate supply chain would arise to provide plant seedlings at 10x the normal price and a consulting firm would be brought in for k million for a plan to administer the project, and the ratio of humans getting paid for the project to acres worked would be inexplicably high.
Sear without oil. The steak itself should have enough fat (if it doesn’t your cut of steak might have too little marbling). Also searing for 2 minutes produces very little oil. Run your range hood fan.

The reverse sear technique produces little oil splatter. My air quality monitor barely spikes.
Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's
Anyone familiar with autobase.tech?
I'm a stay at home dad and have some thoughts.

By staying at home, my children receive a bespoke education and my family bespoke consumer products (e.g. food and entertainment) that far exceed anything my family can access through the market economy.

Just because I don't directly participate in the entrepreneurial system through taxable wages doesn't mean that I only marginally participate in it. My role is simply that of competing with business (in terms of efficiency and quality)--I find areas where I can do it better and more efficiently, then acquire capital and raw materials, use the capital to add value to the raw resources, provide those resources to the singular market that is my family, and then pocket the profit, which will inevitably be reintroduced back to the broader economy as investment and additional outlays, all of which are taxable.

The ultra-wealthy are afforded the right and ability to have exclusive access to personal assistants, au-pairs, tutors, professional chefs, gardeners, housecleaners, etc. I do all of these and more for my family (at well below market rate), using the same methods, tools, and products that they do, but the wages I receive and any profit (or losses) generated remain within my household such that it can be used for further consumption and investment. I still pay sales taxes on the capital and raw materials, but try to lower my tax burden and vertically integrate like any other business.

That I am free to choose to engage in this mutual exchange with my wife is the bedrock foundation of liberal capitalism and a free society. Frank Hyneman Knight, one of the forgotten architects of the Chicago School of Economics and the teacher of Milton Friedman frequently stated in his works that the individualism of liberalism should be more accurately called familism, because the basic effective economic unit is not the individual, but the family.

And he's absolutely right.
But you have a cable modem. You either have one provided directly by Comcast or you have one that adheres to their standards.

It used to be that you had to get a cable or DSL modem from your ISP. Now, cable and DSL networks are standardized enough that there's a good chance you can get a third-party one to work. It will be the same with PON in time.

I think it's fine to be required to use your ISP modem, since different ISPs have different physical layer networks. It starts to suck when they try to force you to use their router. I think in the EU it's actually a legal requirement that if they do, it has to support bridge mode (a.k.a. behave as only a modem).
This is some major myth. Crack open your insurance policy — it’s not going to say “UL listed appliances only” or anything like that. Insurance also covers mistakes.

But you should get a good power supply anyway because the hassle is not worth it.
So AI crap is free but 2FA is not?
> But doctors' associations and many Americans with decent health insurance from their employers are against it too.

Why? And why?
Maximilian Bircher-Benner
The 3D printer market isn't based on selling $20 cables for $3k based on some bullshit pseudo-science marketing.
It's common to provide subsidized-health insurance as part of employment. Never worked anywhere that is was all covered. Where I used to work people had private health insurance in the UK as well as their NHS coverage.
I need your help to create brain-rot dataset
Currently the dataset contains around 35 examples of instruction-output pair which is no way close for an effective fine tuning. So I am looking for contributers to the dataset who has got some 'ohio skibidi rizz'
> why

offline. anywhere.

separately, if you purchase anything from Dell to Framework, you quickly learn there's no "apple tax", there's a cost for a type of engineering to a given spec (for oranges to oranges "TCO" you should spec all the things, including screen, energy, and resale value), and it's comparable from any manufacture, with the Apple resale value dropping their TCO lower than the others.
OutRun specifically was influenced by the artwork and music of Naoya Matsuoka & Wesing’s 1982 album The September Wind.
https://youtu.be/TxEf4OKheNc
A fixed monthly subscription amount with unlimited usage will always carry this deficiency.
A solution that addresses this would be usage-based pricing.
AFAIK the NVFBC patch is no longer required for new Sunshine versions thanks to https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/pull/2471.

However, NVIDIA say that "The NvFBC desktop capture library does not have native Wayland support and does not work with Xwayland" (https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/565.77/R...), so I guess it's of no use for Wayland users.
No, the risk pools should not be "trying to move towards large and average". The insurers should be utilizing their market position to incentivize both employers and employees to adopt practices that reduce healthcare needs.

One instance of this is smoking. Insurers charge more towards groups with smokers, and groups signing up based upon smoking policies of the employer (prohibition on smoking) can result in significant discounts to the group.

Ultimately, we are a rather unhealthy country. We really need to figure out effective ways to utilize financial incentives to either (1) get people healthier or (2) defray the increased costs due to characteristics which may be addressed through habit changes, such as smoking and obesity.
Time to let the Streisand Effect do its fine job on that company.
Isn't one third for 10 years actually quite good success rate? I would have expected lower. 10 years is long time even for not failing new businesses. And not failing here means generated more than spend over lifetime.
They critically lack the manpower in the economy, and have to replace all the imports that closed due to sanction. And inflation is already running rampant.

They maybe can do the good old Goebbels "total war" and stop producing consumer goods, but not sure if that's something they want to do.
If you maintain data records manually in Excel sheets, you tend to not “normalize” the data into several tables, because having to chase foreign-key references means you quickly lose track and don’t see everything related to a single entity in one place anymore. That’s because Excel doesn’t provide you with “joined” views. When inspecting a database interactively with a database GUI/TUI, this is very similar, unless you start building queries that lets you join the data together again (which is harder and less intuitive than just browsing tables and filtering/searching in them).

Of course, not normalizing the data makes it more laborious and error-prone to keep things consistent, the more non-1:1 data associations there are. When databases are not presented as an interactive table-browsing tool, but as an application’s data store, where the application can join data as needed, then the benefits of having everything related to an entity “in one place” (in a single table) are outweighed by the drawbacks of non-normalized data. However, this is not obvious when you start out in the table-browsing paradigm. People naively tend to structure the data the way they would for manual organization.
One report from early in the first Trump administration (possibly apocryphal) was when Trump was being briefed about NATO commitments to defend all member countries. Trump supposedly was surprised that the US was committed to going to war with Russia if they invaded Latvia. The Baltic countries are very exposed and could be reached by land only through a narrow gap with Poland.
Just one mutation can make H5N1 bird flu a threat to humans, CA researchers say
It’s been shown that sesquiterpenes released by plants can induce cloud formation: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi5297

I now wonder if they use the sound to communicate with other plants to try to get clouds to form faster
Maybe i can piggyback onto this question:
Are there timer switches that can change the times depending on the calendar?
I want to turn on some lights shortly after sunset but they don't have a brightness sensor. So i'd like to do it by time of day.
Does still need "show multiple pages in the same window" functionality though. If I can segment emacs, I should be able to segment my hacker browser.
Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
this is really interesting and well done. First associative thought is that the Tibetans also use this kind of dense symbolic drawing for theology topics (Thangkas). The books of Robert Beer (a westerner) are great for the Tibetan content.
it’s a colorful descriptive and the NYT isn’t a scientific journal; calm down
Many European countries were able to implement universal healthcare without much of a fight because their economies were utterly devastated after WW2, along with their health care systems. (An exception that proves the rule: France nationalized its private insurance companies that survived the war.) So there weren't really any stakeholders arguing for the old system - notably this is not just hospitals and insurers, patients are also stakeholders. One problem with the US is that "universal healthcare" is popular in the abstract, but "we're gonna take away your BCBS plan and put you on Medicaid" is extremely unpopular.[1]

The US is actually closer to the Canadian example, though Canada started earlier and doesn't have a Big Pharma burden. But like the US, Canada is a hybrid private-public system with a lot of provincial variation. There wasn't a Canadian federal health law until the 80s, after 20 years of patchwork provincial laws, and Canada continues to have big gaps and inequities (e.g. mental health coverage is quite a bit worse in Canada than the US, dental isn't covered, and people on work visas get screwed). A large majority of Canadians have supplementary private insurance. So I think the US will get close to the Canadian system via slowly pushing up the Medicaid eligibility line and eating away at private insurance, and not a big sweeping law.

[1] "Medicare for all" is dishonest, it has to be Medicaid for all. But for classist political reasons nobody wants to say that.
> It is so utterly deranged and insane that NYT says plants are making "mournful cries" when the source paper doesn't support that. When I'm hungry the sounds my stomach makes on its own isn't me weeping and wailing. When I'm flatulent that sound is not a joyful scream.

Nytimes has never been reliable
Stop reading russian propaganda. There's zero truth in that word salad.
It’s always you are running too fast. Slow it down, walk more, figure it out. You simply shouldn’t feel bad or even breathe hard unless you want to when doing 2 walk/2 run. If you are: too fast! Slow down!

Most folks don’t slow down because they think they feel fine at the beginning of a run and feel that they should be going faster AND feel ridiculous running that slowly or…

Slow down. Solved.
I'm trying to figure this comment out. What point are you trying to make?
Yeah, I also saw that sign and thought - 'yeah, this is bullshit.'
It's got exactly the same placement in the frame - which would requires some next-level beamforming capability - and also has the same color, which is impossible. There's some serious data leakage going on here.

[edit] The bottom right image is even more suspect. There's a vertical green sign in the same place on the right side of the image, but also some curious red striping in the distance in both images. One could argue 'street signs are green' but the red striping seems pretty unique, and not something where one would just guess the right color.
I can't tell if you're serious or sarcastic, but you can get private health insurance in all European countries, and an important thing the "redundant bureaucracy" does is negotiate and/or control pricing, which keeps the overal healthcare cost down.

One of the issues with healthcare in the US is that every actor other than the patient benefits from higher cost and worse service. It increases revenue and decreases cost for healthcare providers, for pharma, and, importantly, also for insurance companies. There is no competition to improve service and decrease costs.
You could try doing a search for the Pantheon vs the Church of St Mary and the Martyrs to see which is alive in the general consciousness and which isn't. Ultimately, the Pantheon is not a temple to the Roman gods, it's a particular building in Rome. It used to be a temple, now it's a church, maybe 100 years from now it will be an exhibition space. It will still be the same building. And the building is far more culturally important then the current parish inhabiting it.
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That’s the one I’m using. So far it’s quite good, and when I gave it and Claude the same programming problem not only did Llama give a better result, when I showed that result to Claude it also said the Llama approach was better.

Claude is already better than GPT on average at coding, so yeah, bad news for OpenAI as Llama is now potentially better at coding.

Of course Meta has a propriety training set of extremely high quality code, so if they are using that, I’d expect them to have vastly superior performance as FAANG production code is better training data than dogshit stack overflow questions to CS homework problems.

I really think whatever boost OpenAI get from their shadow CoT loop is nominal at best, but with 2x+ the amount of compute forcing them to increase prices an absurd amount.

It’s business 101, they just won’t make the revenue to cover those extra tokens and they are now competing against free. The economics do not suggest OpenAI has a path to survival without major breakthroughs in performance AND efficiency.
Apple sued for abandoning on-device CSAM monitoring tech in 2021
And I need this in my twitter workflow for....? Generating share images instead of bringing them with my content to post? Searching something instead of the search box? It just seems like no incentive for me to go over there and use it for anything.
This and also I don't want a tumor on the back of my phone. Can we go back to flat bodies at the expense of camera quality? For some of us phone cameras are really not _that_ important.
Before that observation (and importing that event into your application!), is it not semi-arbitrary, as far as the code is concerned? A fully defined point in the future (currently) corresponds 1:1 to a unix time, or a timestamp from this RFC, almost by definition.

If you can't calculate a delta from $now, or "are $X and $Y the same moment in time" , I don't think "timestamps" are the tool. Seems beyond the scope of RFCs like this, at least to me.

Without guaranteed internet access, how would you set an alarm for "this day next year"? Timezones changing already cause problems there, but those were least correct at one point - not a "quantum timestamp" of sorts.
I'm guessing they were worried someone might die
Analyzing 424 Hallmark and Lifetime Holiday Movies
"basic" is "take paracetamol and stop drinking/smoking". Anything else requires insurance so you need to work.
This applies to code as well. I worked on an internal PostgreSQL protocol driver for work and I've been focusing on understanding the binary message format inside and out, then the server state machine and query behaviour, and only then building a driver.

Don't underestimate the value of time spent grinding the low levels for code that is fundamentally important to what you are doing. You come away with a much stronger understanding than if you just hack a solution, cargo culting some existing code and just shipping it.
My bad on perpetuating the myth regarding homeowner’s insurance and UL listing, I appreciate the correction.

You’d need to read what the policy has to say about uninspected electrical work performed by or at the direction of the homeowner. If you use a hardwired power supply, non-UL/cUL equipment won’t pass an inspection [0]. You can bypass the inspection by using a cord and plug 120V rectifier which wouldn’t need to be UL listed since it wouldn’t need an inspection.

[0] NEC Section 110.3(c): https://up.codes/s/examination-identification-installation-u...

> 110.3 (C) Listing
Product testing, evaluation, and listing (product certification) shall be performed by recognized qualified electrical testing laboratories and shall be in accordance with applicable product standards recognized as achieving equivalent and effective safety for equipment installed [1] to comply with this Code.

[1] ‘Equipment installed’ means hardwired.
> I don't get the hype of keyboard == hacker mentality

There's no (or extremely little...) hype, it's just the sort of thing which starts to appear prominent in a world where conversations are driven more and more by the titles on videos and articles, rather than the other way around.

I claim that the following are all pretty factual, all at once:

1. meese can be faster and more convenient, in certain cases

2. keyboards can be faster and more convenient, in certain cases

3. what people (even the computer-savvy) are used to matters much more than what is "objectively" best or fastest or whatever

4. "hacker" is a polysemic term - playful creative norm-bending, technical mastery of some domain, making Ataris and Amigas do funny stuff it seems they shouldn't have been able to, getting access to a gaming console you weren't supposed to, solving a problem in a surprising manner, reverse engineering some game, etc

5. emacs is an empowering, wonderful text editor

6. so is (hyper/super/ultra/n/eo/) vi(m)

7. nyxt is about much more than keyboard shortcuts (Lisp, freedom, etc)
Unlike when God slaughtered several million bison, right? https://allthatsinteresting.com/buffalo-slaughter
Public housing didn't fail in the US. But it was sabotaged
You have to understand that after a certain point, the internal narrative has to shift for some people in a capitalist economy to one in which people who can't afford something because the price is too high means they simply don't want it enough. This allows the price setter to ignore their own part in the manufacturing of the suffering of another.

That there is such a thing as a base necessity that should be baked into the human condition is basically anathema to the theoretical worldview. This worldview tends to persist as long as one is lucky enough to never pick up one of those meddlesome chronic conditions of existence whereby one has to rely on others to merely exist.

I'm convinced the United States has attracted a type of psychopath that just thinks money is the end all be all of existence, instead of social cohesion, and we're all suffering for it.
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That's in addition to your normal healthcare, which will cover all of the essentials.
What country are you talking about? If it's the UK, this is not true.
I kinda wish you could just take a course on a specific distribution. Like, here's the Poisson class where you learn all of its interesting properties and apply it to e.g. queuing problems.
L. Ron Hubbard has entered the chat.
We're bringing it back with the latest election results.
China may well have replaced the USSR as the latest bogeyman to keep attention away from whatever war crimes the US is currently supporting or committing, but all I can think about is the ~$10T spent on and millions of lives lost to the "War on Terror" and what could've been done with the money instead.

I mean just look at the high speed rail transformation in 16 years [1].

China is not without its issues but neither is the US government and at least China is investing in long-term infrastructure for their people. Chinese foreign policy is also considerably less damaging than American foreign policy.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/xszhbm/chinese_hig...
Marvell Pivots to AI Silicon, Looks Poised to Profit
While I agree to some extent I also beg to differ. How many of us happily use Google or Whatsapp for example. But leave the software world and look at startups in the hardware space really trying to solve challenges in the environmental sector. Often either completely ignored despite breakthrough technology just because another flavor of the month like AI comes along. Most of their founders I wager did not start hoping for a big pay check. Just saying.
There's definitely a psychological component of what people are willing to pay for and what costs get hidden- if the full insurance premium was shown to be directly taken out of your paycheck every month people would complain, but if the employer-paid premium isn't factored into your salary you don't know how much wages you're missing out on. Even if 100k salary with 10k of hidden premiums is the same as 110k with 10k taken out each month.
Thank you! I clicked their profile on my phone while in bed and must've missed it.
I use nyxt browser and a lisp function to send my bookmarks to GitHub issue. my domain https://undecidability.com redirects to it. And the code for it is at https://GitHub.com/irthomasthomas/label-maker (it started as an gh issues ai manager. Bookmarks is just my main use-case for that)
The New York Times is relying on their audience's ability to understand that plants are not conscious beings. "Mournful cries" is just an evocative way of describing the auditory signals plants produce under stress—which the article makes clear. I can't understand what's so "deranged and insane" about some stylistic flair.
I would expect more than 90% of the people to spend most of what they make every month and require another paycheck to continue going.

After all, if you don't have to do that, then you might as well retire, right?

So 40% of people can skip a few paychecks and not dip into a rainy day fund, somehow, that seems pretty doggone good
Palantir, Anduril to save data from battlefield to train AI models
What that comment is describing is already here. A colleague sent an email that was obviously AI-generated (bloated, repetitive, low signal-to-noise ratio). I guess he's quite new to the team and it's a sign of formality, but I really don't mind if you send me just the bullet-point notes... Why are we going through this encoding-decoding process? I think succinctness and low-noise writing will be treasured in the age of AI.
This is the result of allies helping Ukraine I don’t think they have any interest in Ukraine, but the alternative is Russia seizing Ukraine. This would have been possible 6 months after the war started. Remember that more than half of Ukrainians are not technically supporting zelensky. This conflict like many others is over complicated yet it's simplified in the west.
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