skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you plant enough new olives from seed then you can eventually find and develop a variety that grows well in your particular climate.

Yeh, "Mission" olives. One of the cuttings is that. Allegedly one of the most cold-hardy cultivars. It might survive outside with our winters (yay global warming) if I get the trunk to about 4" before it has to make its own way outdoors. Hoping anyway.

>No offense mate but I bet if we accounted for the cost of your grow light setup your eventual harvest might could be some of the most expensive olives in the world.

Oh, for sure. These are my end-of-the-world olive trees. Mostly keeping them inside now because it's winter. Starting in March, they should be able to go outside until Halloween or so. I should be able to get more cuttings off of each (Mission, Pendolino, Arbequina), and make several dozen trees. But some will always be indoors as mother trees for more cuttings.

And yeh pineapples are absurd. But my daughter just finally nailed getting the tops to root... putting them in a jar of water just rots the crown here (air quality, humidity? dunno). She dried one out until it looked dead, then trimmed the bottom a bit more, and there was nice living tissue, a pretty yellow. That was able to be put to moisture, and it rooted in a few weeks. The greenhouse square footage for something like "one pineapple a month" would be on the order of 350sqft, and we're unclear if they can be staggered. Sometimes these plants decide to all bloom at once, even if some are overdue and others premature.

We have a list of "things we can't live without if the rest of you monkeys shit the bed and and can't sell it to us anymore".

If anyone knows anybody at Foundation Plant Services at UCB and would like to do me a favor, private message me? Just need someone to put in a word for me.
There is no reason not to buy an original battery if your worried. I know to little about the implications of 3rd party ones.
This code is so easy to read.
tenƒe (have faith)
OpenCyc is the remaining evolution of Cyc, which was based on the idea that symbolic AI (knowledge graphs/Semanic Networks) would lead to AGI through scaling the knowledge base. You formalize the world so you can use logic to reason about it.

Later approaches of the same idea coning out of the academic Databases community reinvented this particular wheel with far better PR and branded it the Semantic Web with 'Ontologies' and RDF, OWL and its ilk.

While reasonable (pun intended) for small vertical domains, the approach has never made inroads in more broad general intelligence as IMHO it does not deal well with ambiguities, contradictions, multi level or perspective modeling and circular referential meaning in 'real world' reasoning and also tends to ignore agentive, transformative and temporal situatedness.

Its ideal seems to be a single thruth never changing model of the universe that is simply accepted by all.
Z = \f. (\x. f (\v. x x v)) (\x. f (\v. x x v)) can be much simpler, namely
S (S (K (S S (K (S (S K K) (S K K))))) K) (S (K (S S (K (S (S K K) (S K K))))) K)
A combinator is just a term without free variables. All the rules can be put as combinators, it’s just that they don’t have common names like SKICB(…).
Exactly this! This is common. Corporations are afraid only and exclusively of lawsuits from other corporations or the government. They would literally prefer to do something unethical or even break the law (including constitutional law) as long as they avoid lawsuits from major players. The customer and the well-being of individuals do not matter
Any idea how this team reverse engineered Apple's imessages?
show's their backed by YC. Really intrigued by how they've achieved to send blue messages via IOS as I know apple doesn't release any messaging api's for obvious reasons.

I imagine it's a server farm somewhere out of iOS devices, perhaps jailbroken devices? Any genius know how to replicate?
I wonder if the real obstacle here is the music industry’s obsession with efficiency
Another option is to flee and shortly after turn yourself in into a police station unarmed
Microsoft published quite a bit on the notion of graph RAG which is about enhancing regular RAG (retrieval augmented search) with graph databases. The idea is that instead of just pulling semantically related information to the query, it also pulls in information about things connected to those things. This gives the LLM more contextual information to work with.

Sounds like it would probably have. If you combine that with entity recognition and automated graph construction from unstructured data, you might get something that is vaguely useful.
The amusing thing is that there never was such a computer-readable text font.

The original Magnetic Ink Character Recognition digits still seen on paper checks are from a set that only has numbers and some delimiters. There are no letters in MICR. Anything that looks like that font with letters is a dated attempt to look futuristic.

MICR digits are really a kind of bar code. They were originally read by a one-track magnetic head.[1] The waveform out represents only how much ink is present. But it doesn't matter to the magnetic reader where the ink is placed vertically within the read track. That's why the digit forms are so weird, with those varying-width lines.

Bank of America had the first MICR readers and check sorters custom built. This was so successful that it powered BofA to become the biggest bank in the world at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Recording_Machine,_...
But he has a pretty well off family from what the news is reporting. Hard to see this as financially triggered.
And that gets really, really complicated when you have 1 teacher and 200 students to teach that week, each with a different hardware configuration, differing skill levels, devices in various states of repair, etc.

RPi is pretty much the cheapest way to get a brand new, standardized device into the hands of each of 200 students, then give the same curriculum to each student that will work the same, with predictable errors the teacher is going to be more ready to troubleshoot, instead of trying to figure out why some kid's PC segfaults because of an error on a Broadcom device that was only available on devices manufactured in May of 2014 (but sold in September of 2017, the ones manufactured 05/2014 but sold before 9/2017 are perfectly fine) when he tries to use any function using sin in Python (but the libc one works just fine).

Schools have historically paid a premium for this, like the Basic Stamp, which was really just a PIC microcontroller preflashed with some other stuff on the PCB to help it run, and sold at a crazy markup, but was well integrated into a standard curriculum that gave every student the same starting point and something that a teacher could easily help hundreds of students with. It's also kind of why Arduino became so popular -- did the same thing, but a fraction of the cost.
Lambda calculus consists pretty much just of function compositions, which in principle have a tree structure. Is this just lambda calculus in a dress?
Yes, how do you know the whereabouts of a CEO?
I've never been good at that. Knowing exactly how much to trim, and when, is some sort of psychic power. My plant telepathy's just weak.

That said, olives would probably work well for it, considering their growth habit. Only as art, mind you, my wife and I'd fight over the one olive per year for the celebratory dinner salad.
Yeah, the way I read it, it was some elderly customer at the McDonald's who tipped off the cops.
Of course they are crawling through people's family trees. They have no idea who talks to who, but see formal relationships.
Not I, but I upvoted you for telling it how it is.
Cyc apparently addresses this issue with what are termed "microtheories" - in one theory something can be so, and in a different theory it can be not so:

https://cyc.com/archives/glossary/microtheory/
Close, but not quite; it's combinatory logic plus introspection in a tree dress.
surprises me a bit about increasing speed.

I would have thought that people who constantly rush it when walking suffer more from stress.

But then maybe the study was more focused on people who did walking as a sort of sport activity than a way of just getting outside?
> I do eat my own pudding, though.

I made my living for a decade off of FOSS I originally authored, and was highly active in FOSS circles for much of that time. Being well acquainted with the economics of open source I am thus inoculated against the laughable notion that FOSS is analogous to music. Selling software != selling documents.
Build something that a lot of people are going to want or speak about
Unsure specifically, but there's a long-standing movement to combine GOFAI symbolic approaches, and modern neurally-influence systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-symbolic_AI
I don't get it. Why would an American need to make the gun himself? Just go to Walmart. Was he on psychopharmaca maybe.
Darnit, I upvoted. Guilty
I have this question as well. I drink hi-carb beverages during exercise (had 200g of carb on the bike yesterday). I replace calories at or below parity.

I suspect the benefits of cardio outweigh the issues introduced by sugar, but I don't have the knowledge base to do anything more than speculate.
Fun fact: makepkg isn't that big. IIRC it's <5k SLOC (I guess a bit bigger than some of the smaller ones on this list though).
AI is still not obviously useful enough
that people are willing to pay the compute
cost for what it produces.

I witness the exact opposite. Example: Programmers with $100/hour salary who send a query for $0.01 to an LLM which saves them an hour of work to figure out how to use an API and integrate it into their application.
The Death of the Stubborn Developer
With big enough cohorts we can AB test by quantifying outcomes? Treatment group A has AI-generated texts and Treatment group B has the originals. We can have a questionnaire for how the group felt about the material etc, but we can also perhaps measure life outcomes over a bigger period e.g. performance at school or in the market place?

As I write this it feels naive and reminds me of a thousand ill-thought-out AB website tests etc. But still :D
Author here, I forgot to mention the project is written using Svelte 5 and daisyUI, because I wanted to try the tech stack out.

I have to say I quite like it for more complex interactive components like this one, but still much prefer django with some htmx + Stimulus JS sprinkled in for the rest of the website.
If it doesn't have mandatory parentheses around and indentation sensitivity, that's already a huge plus for people with my taste.

It's fine other people have different tastes really. I'm just sad that homoiconicity is mostly trapped within lisp dialects.
1) SEO texts. Try phrasing like "alternative to {competitor}" for free-riding off your competitors back.

2) Get backlinks. Make sure other websites have links to yours. This will increase your ranking in search machines.

3) Do social media
Not available in France yet, I'd we interested to know if it's a matter of progressive rollout, or some form of legislation (EU or otherwise ?) that's making OpenAI cautious ? Something like the EU AI Act [1] ?

In a sane world, any video produced by Sora would be required to have a form of watermarking that's on par with what intellectual property owners require.

We've put people in jail for sharing copyrighted movies, and don't see why we would refrain from mandating that AI generated videos have some caption that says, I don't know, "This video was generated with AI" ?

People would not respect the mandate, and we would consider that illegal, and use the monopoly on force to take money out of their bank account.

I know, it sounds mad and soooo 20th century - maybe that's why OpenAI overlords are not deeming peasants in France worthy of "a cat in a suit drinking coffee in an office" and "you'll never believe what the other candidate is doing to your kids".

[1] https://www.imatag.com/blog/ai-act-legal-requirement-to-labe...

EDIT: apparently some form of watermarking is built in (but it's not obvious in the examples, for some reason.)

> While imperfect, we’ve added safeguards like visible watermarks by default, and built an internal search tool that uses technical attributes of generations to help verify if content came from Sora.

[2] https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/
> break each instruction into a function call

With values falling into just the right registers magically?

> each single-instruction function

So the RET is also implicit?

Well, in this case taking a non-minimal function and replacing its body with function calls to single-instruction functions would indeed reduce (or leave the same) the code size because some instructions are probably repeated, and now this duplication will be removed. What's the contradiction?
That sounds pretty close to right. House fires don't necessarily burn down the whole house with flames to the sky. My home had 2 pretty serious fires growing up (over 20 years): 1/ car fire from grease/oil/gas leaking from our diesel car engine after driving in very heavy rain, 2/ unattended hair dryer overheated (don't know if it was on or off but it was plugged in).
This is incredible. I uploaded a picture of a cable with plug and it generated a mesh with individual wires and a plug with proper holes
Yeah, it's unfortunate that video compression already introduces artifacts into real videos, so minor genAI artifacts don't stand out.

It also took me a while to find any truly unambiguous signs of AI generation. For example, the reflection on the inside of the windows is wonky, but in real life warped glass can also produce weird reflections.
I finally found a dark rectangle inside the door window, which at first stays fixed like a sign on the glass. However it then begins to move like part of the reflection, which really broke the illusion for me.
Could be 10 hours and more in real life. But in a work environment, 8 hours, 5 days a week I am happy for 4 productive hours a day basically wasting the other 4 plus meal time.
I am French, so GDPR exist in France.
But AFIC has some rules for the domain names you can, or can't buy: https://www.afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/documents-...

Maybe your domains are affected buy a new or old policy?
There was a lawsuit a few years ago by Walmart about panels installed by SolarCity in the early 10s. During this time the company was facing financial issues (their model was leasing panels), so did a lot of cost cutting.

The main causes of PV fires are arcing due to poor installation, e.g. loose connections or damaged components. PV is not like household mains power where you have high current for a few minutes (e.g. turning on a kettle), it's like that for hours at a time. You need to be much more careful.

On a residential PV install, each 'string' from the panels to inverter could easily be 10 or more amps at peak output.
It seems like they went from lighting a candle to firing off some fireworks. Impressive, but there's still a long way to go until they can land a human on the moon - let alone travel to Alpha Centauri like some people are claiming.
if You go into Bobiverse, "please" do yourself a favor and give the audiobooks a try. Ray Porter is a wonderful narrator and Bobiverse (and to an extent probably also Project Hail Mary) is one of the best showcases of how the audio version adds to the original text
Depends on the thing you're replicating and the technology you use.
If you're replicating a database you get a bunch of 'log' files containing all the changes in chronological order. While you could throw those away after filling a single replica database you also can keep them and use them to recover a database snapshot from a while ago.
You're not going to get data that recent with only full backups.
> If I try to call a third party library method in a language with a sane type system (like C# or Rust) that returns a string and attempt to assign that value to an int, it won't even compile.

You're assuming that for instance the library is correctly setup and won't crapout because a system requirement is not met. Or that no other external factor will interfere with the result (e.g. your library is hooked to an API)

Compile time checks will be against a declared interfaces, not the actual library built outside your project.

To me that's the kind of issues where having a test coverage really helps, a lot more than just checking that mocks and interfaces match each other (to show my hand, I prefer dynamic languages, so interfaces will rarely fail and many edge cases can be simply be coerced into a generic path, so the real scary stuff is when the rubber meets the road and expectations meet reality)
> You don’t get structural change by extreme singular events.

The word _singular_ is doing a lot of work there.

Historically 'propagande par le fait' has had a massive effect on policy.

The implication that you have to not only focus on EBITDA but also on social responsibility (in a real non-PR way) is ever lasting if this propagates to more than a single occurrence.

Which is why mainstream media and authorities are so worried about controlling the narrative of the events (depicting Brian as a loving father etc.)
The idea might be nice but the syntax is so easy to mess up for humans that in the spec itself the author gets the translation of `not true` wrong (maybe a copy-paste from `not false`?).

Should be "t (t (t t) (t t t)) t (t t)".
Whats webdump?
I'm getting a little bit of anxiety just reading about this. I hate typing on phone especially if the text haa symbols mixed in. I mistype a lot more often on phone and often somehow skip entire words. (Don't know what the cause of this is.)

I am guessing they using some specialised keyboard that makes it easier to type symbols etc.
We ARE on YCombinator here, after all. And there are lambdas there. Good enough?
> The vast majority of them were kitchen fires

Without any personal or professional reason, I've seen many of them as a casual onlooker. I remain terrified of open pot deep frying over a stove.

But the insurance assessors I've talked to recently do mention a new trend in battery fires - though usually caused by a combination of bad quality, excessive quantity stored and sloppy practices bordering on the abusive.
I always get confused with `const` so I avoid using it hah. But If I had to, I'd either use `const char * foo`, `char * const foo` or `const char * const foo`.
wouldn't be surprised if ecdhe isn't quantum resistant.
It's not as if "he was mistreated by an insurer" is a defence, is it? That should be entirely irrelevant to the jury's finding, although sentencing might take it into account. The jury just needs to decide if he did it, so not having been mistreated by an insurer shouldn't preclude someone from making that decision.
Parallel Construction
Iterations are the missing link.

With ChatGPT, you can iteratively improve text (e.g., "make it shorter," "mention xyz"). However, for pictures (and video), this functionality is not yet available. If you could prompt iteratively (e.g., "generate a red car in the sunset," "make it a muscle car," "place it on a hill," "show it from the side so the sun shines through the windshield"), the tools would become exponentially more useful.
Cyc apparently addresses this issue with what are termed "microtheories" - in one theory something can be so, and in a different theory it can be not so:
https://cyc.com/archives/glossary/microtheory/
Face the sin, save the E.G.O.
Right, down with the Romans, really bad civilization, let's all make fun of them. I am glad they're all dead or turned into stone (I think?), am I right?

Too bad the comment wasn't:

O no, Ludovicus! Captus es! Dixi tibi vestigia tua operire!

- Marius
Public key infrastructure evolution of Hopsworks ML platform
Yeah, I've always prefered crisp pixel art like what you would see on a Gameboy screen.

It's nice to have CRT filters and nonlinear scaling available as an option, but I'll never use them. If the game can't scale up perfectly, then I'd rather just have black bars on the edges than making everything blurry or adding extra pixels where they don't belong.
Tune for Performance: do more threads run faster?
Great AI revolution
Making Civ VI playable locks in the folk hero status
I literally sat at a table where the argument was made: The Intel accelerator is faster. It provides more FLOPs. But you can’t get actual users to use it outside of our LINPack runs, since it just doesn’t provide bindings to all the software actually intended to run. Granted that was in the HPC space (ie FP64 performance), but that is literally the argument.

That doesn’t mean, that ML people don’t care about some hardware specifics btw. Of course they do! Because CUDA is very, very good at exploiting the specific features of the newer cards (I’ve forgotten, what exactly this was though). But take away the simple integration into their favorite AI-SDK and it would be completely irrelevant.

The point is just that, if Intel were to build strictly better hardware, but not provide the interface to torch, then they would still loose to Nvidia. Yes, yes, this is not completely true. Given enough advantage someone else would build the IntelCUDA. But this is literally the bet that those academics make. And it’s so risky, that only academics are doing that
The Beatles gave up live performance in 1966, because they no longer enjoyed it and because they were making huge sums of money from their record sales. In fact, the following year, they released their biggest-ever selling album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
How do you make the 'spike' that sets of the primer in plastic? Does that work?

Edit: Maybe only rifles have those?
I will also try to give some explanation:

The specification says that the syntax of expressions in this thing is `E ::= t | E E`. This is a bit confusing, because it might lead you to believe that all expressions just look like `t t t t t t t`. In reality, you are supposed to keep the implied bracketing, so expressions really look like `(t t) (t ((t t) (t t)))` (note that at the top level and in each parenthesis, there always exactly two subexpressions). Essentially, the space character becomes a binary operator (similar to how we often write multiplication with no symbol).

The expressions are a bit heavy on parentheses, so we say that this binary operator is left associative. This means that an expression `a b c` should be interpreted as `(a b) c`, an expression `a b c d` should be interpreted as `((a b) c) d`, and so on. If you think about it, this means that you can always get rid of an opening parenthesis at the left edge of an expression, i.e. we can assume that an expression always start without one.

With this out of the way, we can now understand where the trees come from: As there is only one terminal symbol, `t`, after removing unnecessary parentheses, every expression will always start with `t`, which is followed by a number of other expressions. To draw this as a tree, draw a node representing the initial `t`, and a sub-tree for each of the follow-up expressions (by applying the same procedure to them).

In this view, the semantic rules at the top of the specification page now tell you how to "simplify" a tree whenever there is a node with three or more sub-trees, or alternatively, how to reduce an expression that is a `t` followed by three or more sub-expressions. (In the syntax view, you replace the `t` and the first three expressions following it by whats on the right of the arrow. In the tree view, you replace the node and its first three children by some other sub-tree, then you attach the remaining children to the root of the new sub-tree.)
Not gonna happen in EU too soon, imo. It still works with a VPN so the fence is not so protected.
keep in mind the source for "they did not reach out" is a random guy on the internet, who has to find an excuse why his service was down for 3 days.

"the hoster deleted my stuff without warning" is up there with "the dog ate my homework"
Agree but doesn't explain why he would be carrying so much incriminating stuff around with him.