skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it's homogenous, you have steadily increasing stresses with depth. This occurs for perfectly uniform materials as well. If you can't offset these to keep the hole open, it collapses.

Rocks are very weak in tension, despite being very strong in contraction. It's the reason you can break rock with a hammer or the reason ancient quarries were able to work by pouring water on wood pegs in rocks. It's also the reason concrete needs rebar to reinforce it (steel is very strong in tension, so the two combined are exceptionally strong). Keeping a hole open requires strength in tension as well as strength in compression.

Drilling mud accomplishes this by being roughly the same density as the rock, so it offsets the stresses that are trying to close the borehole that steadily increase with depth due to the increasing amount of rock above. Drilling mud keeps the borehole open until you can put in casing to support it.

This is exactly the same reason why it's difficult to build a submarine that can go to very large depths in the ocean. To put up steel walls (casing) to keep it open, you have to stop drilling and cement in casing - you can't do that as you drill. So drilling mud is a key part of being able to drill efficiently. Otherwise, you'd need to stop every few tens of meters and spend _days_ setting casing before being able to drill again.

Regardless, there is nowhere on earth where things are homogenous over very long distances. Simply put, even relatively uniform rocks can have very significant variations in physical properties. Many relevant properties (e.g. permeability - how well fluids can move through) vary over _tens of orders of magnitude_ naturally. So "uniform" can still mean "only varies by a few orders of magnitude". There are places where you can reasonably avoid non-silicates, but you're going to hit tons of other issues due to fundamental heterogeneity.
That’s some strong claims, given that philosophers (e.g. Chalmers vs Dennett) can’t even agree whether subjective experiences exist or not.
Language encodes what people need it to encode to be useful. I heard of an example of colors--there are some languages that don't even have a word for blue.

https://blog.duolingo.com/color-words-around-the-world/
This is awesome! I can’t believe this never occurred to me- my wife texts me links to her UX all the time to see how her changes look before the changes go to prod.
Hmm yeah but it needs 30 seconds to give an answer. And that's with the LLM running on a GPU with HBM2 memory.
I worked on a project that was using shades of grey for everything before we hired a designer. It was terrible and illegible and designed by our boss who I’m am entirely convinced has aphantasia.

Someone started complaining that two pieces of text weren’t the same color. They were exactly the same color though. We’d built an entire UI full of optical illusions.
Your understanding is on point.

> As far as I understand, they would have to somehow pass in either a script to spin up their own server locally (unlikely for your everyday user), or a url to access some live MCP server. This means that the host they are using needs an input on the frontend specifically for this, where the user can input a url for the service they want their LLM to be able to talk to. This then gets passed to the client, the client calls the server, the server returns the list of available tools, and the client passes those tools to the LLM to be used.

This is precisely how it would work. Currently, I'm not sure how many host applications (if any) actually feature a URL input field to add remote servers, since most servers are local-only for now. This situation might change once authentication is introduced in the next protocol version. However, as you pointed out, even if such a URL field existed, the discovery problem remains.

But discovery should be an easy fix, in my opinion. Crawlers or registries (think Google for web or Archie for FTP) will likely emerge, so host applications could integrate these external registries and provide simple one-click installs. Apparently, Anthropic is already working on a registry API to simplify exactly this process. Ideally, host applications would automatically detect when helpful tools are available for a given task and prompt users to enable them.

The problem with local-only servers is that they're hard to distribute (just as local HTTP servers are) and that sandboxing is an issue. One workaround is using WASM for server development, which is what mcp.run is doing (https://docs.mcp.run/mcp-clients/intro), but of course this breaks the seamless compatibility.
This is just standard practice AFAICT. I’ve done it. Everybody I know who’s built apps for unstructured document retrieval etc. is doing it. It works better than The naïve approach, but there are plenty of issues and tuning with this approach too.
The "poorly poured" looks like board formed concrete, which IMO looks better than a single form. It's also for a stone sculpture museum, so fits the theme?
I have a fond memory of that episode too. My 2-year-old daughter has been watching Daniel Tiger (a modern Mr. Rogers spinoff) and I showed her that episode so she would understand where all this comes from. She was just as mesmerized as I was.
We need legislation that bans all types of ads except for banner style. :) I don't care if the money motivation disappears - we don't need you assholes. I was with the web when it was powered by 56k modems. Greed-assholes can leave.
I use improvmx.com for my microSaaS. With a free account you can forward 6000 mails per month from a *@yourdomain.com to a self-hosted server (or gmail in my case). Paying you can customize the routing and increase the quota.
I don’t know anything about geology in particular, but: vaporized rock is vaporized rock, not air. It’s going to cool off as it travels up a relatively cool shaft, and some or all of it will condense and/or solidify into something that will be, in the best case, fine dust. The gasses in the shaft will need to be moving upward faster than the terminal velocity of the removed material for the material to continue moving upward.

In the worst case, I can imagine the vaporized rock depositing (directly in the strict chemistry sense or indirectly via a liquid intermediate) into the walls of the shaft higher up.
ah okay. Didnt know this. I generally use pytorch save models for my workflow.
Wait, people are buying stuff of unknown quality off the internet, mixing it with water in their kitchens, _and injecting it?_

That's wild. Even the article author seems to have a tongue in their cheek when issuing this "warning" that is definitely not a hint. Is it safer than it sounds?
As to sending through a reputable IP you can - and often must due to port 25 egress being blocked by the IAP - use a smarthost [1]. Outgoing mail traffic is proxied through the smarthost. This smarthost can either be run by your IAP (which turns them into an ISP in a way since they not only provide access but also services) or your can use one of the many commercial offerings. As to proxying incoming SMTP traffic you can setup a backup MX provider which accepts mail for your domain and forwards it to your own server. You can either keep your server online and receive mail in realtime or regularly poll the backup MX server for new messages, the latter used to be quite common in the days of dial-up internet access and can still make sense in case you're on a metered connection (4G/5G etc.) and want to skip the deluge of spam which, even though it get rejected at the gates still adds up to your traffic quota.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_host
> Hawking radiation can't just be stuff dissapearing

It has to be the case that black hole evaporation means that mass-energy inside the black hole "disappears" from inside the black hole. It doesn't disappear from the rest of the universe, but if we are inside a black hole then we would "see" (if we could) that Hawking radiation means stuff disappears from our inside-a-black-hole-universe.
Yes, this is closer to subscribing to events, and more scalable.
Tax avoidance rather than evasion is what you’re after.

Avoid the need to pay in the first place instead of taking evasive action for payments demanded ;-)
Creating false equivalencies between situations that _sound_ like they might be similar but aren’t the same thing, is one of the logical fallacies most frequently deployed by Trump’s MAGA base. To some extent it’s a waste of time to engage, although I applaud that you attempted to do so in good faith.
You can do the same with time though, just return a predefined sequence of timestamps.
this is the best answer and it's not the only way they do it, they've become extremely sophisticated saboteurs of anything energy related through pure marketing alone
Go on, you were saying that’s exceptional because…
Rutgers study shows parenthood may benefit brain health
This reminds me of Sheldon Cooper's suggestion to Penny on The Big Bang Theory when she was having financial problems: "You know, it occurs to me that you could solve all your problems by obtaining more money".

Weight depends on a complex interaction between many systems of the body. Losing significant weight and keeping it off in healthy way without side effects can be difficult.

There was a good look at much of this in the Nova episode "The Truth About Fat" in 2020. Old Nova episodes are usually behind a paywall if you aren't a member of your local PBS station but occasionally old episodes become free for a while. It might be worth checking occasionally to try to catch it during one of those free periods.
All content recorded from the echo could be used in court against you.
Than arguable sieg heil? Actively arguing for the extermination of Jews would be a good sign. Maybe display a swastika? An admission: "Yes, it was a sieg heil because I am a Nazi."

Less than that, maybe casually drop terms like “Lügenpresse” when complaining about the media or refer to certain people or ideas as “degenerate”. He might talk about how “not everything the Nazis did was bad” or suggest that history has been unfairly written by the victors. Maybe he doesn’t outright deny the Holocaust, but he hints that the numbers don’t quite add up or that there’s more to the story than we’re told. He might admire the “efficiency” of Nazi Germany, talk about how it was more “orderly” than today’s world, or claim that political correctness has made people too afraid to acknowledge certain “truths” but somehow it always leads back to Jews, Zionists or Globalists. When the topic of race comes up, he leans into the idea that societies function best when people “stick to their own kind.” He might rant about “globalists” or “international bankers” in a way that sounds suspiciously like old anti-Semitic tropes but insist he’s just talking about economics. And if you push back or ask him to clarify, he doesn’t outright disavow anything, he just gets defensive, acts like he’s being unfairly attacked, and insists that the real problem is people being too quick to call others Nazis.

Has he done anything like that?
Nothing to add here other than to say thank you for becoming a teacher. Our world needs more “community helpers” like you.
Very cool. Have you considered adding text-based search using CLIP-like embeddings?
It's making some very strong claims to being private. Other VPNs do all suck and the mixnet tech looks solid, but is it really possible that NymVPN is actually more private than Tor? That's pretty hard to believe even if the team seems legit. Has Tor said anything about Nym or mixnets?
In the near future most cars could be happy to accept a charge
If there is a uBlock origin VPN that blocks ad traffic from PC level it will be a good solution. No need to rely on browser plugin. Also it can work on mobile and iPads.
Yeah this is something you do for a logo. And I believe today you’d probably see this done as SVG. Though whether you would build the font out of lines or use an existing font one letter at a time is probably an open question.
Huff and puff i hope, considering it was a case of Firefox being nit-picked to death again by the privacy crowd that get a Chrome alternative for free.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...

I understand that a donation on the Mozilla Foundation is not a way to fund Firefox development, but i believe that the services that get sold through Firefox like Mozilla VPN do fund development. Maybe you could sign up for one (you don't have to use it) to ensure IceCat continues to exist?

Full disclosure, I have a 1 year sub to Mozilla VPN, I even used it once or twice.
Note that diamond (usually called PDC) drill bits have been in common use in the oilfield industry for decades now. Search PDC on your favorite search engine, and you'll find dozens of manufacturers actively selling them, each with a big selection.

Exactly how long you can drill with one varies widely based on a bunch of factors. You do have to pull the whole drill string to change one. It's slow, but not that slow. Most actual oil wells drilled have in the neighborhood of 10 or so trips in and out with drilling tools for the whole operation for various reasons. Varies widely of course depending on a bunch of factors, but that's usually the ballpark. Plus a few more for casing and cementing runs.
Ok. Do you always make these non value comments?
Joking aside, I feel like a variation of this could make a good Project Euler problem…
Can You Fool a Self Driving Car? [video]
75% of rated capacity at -22 F (-30 C), over here.
Wait, I can just cross out the lines I don’t like? That opens up a ton of possibilities…

I’m actually fully on-board with everything in this thread. This should obviously be taken more seriously than it is.
The title seems like clickbait but also reflects an annoyance/frustration with overuse as marketing/sales tends to do. I ignore that and ask what exactly does your product do, then decide how to categorize it.

My hand-wavy definition is basically as a chatbot gives an AI multi-modal input and output to a user, an agent has 'hands' which can produce an effect on a system rather than reporting to the user directly via media. The method of integration isn't really important, it could be using a public network API or as part of a compiled static binary, whatever.
We outsourced all of those things. The office managers are gone.

There's no milk.

Also, anecdotally, my dad worked at a place where, if you needed something to be plugged into an electrical outlet, there was a person whose job was do do that. And if that person needed tools, there was another person whose job was to carry his tools.
To each their own, but wow. In healthy environments people are paid to do what makes the team most effective.
I enjoyed mentally speculating what "Vegas nerve" could mean if it was a real thing named after the city and unrelated to the vagus nerve.
Cacty: Hugo/Jekyll in 90 Lines
The private companies.

But “who should fund this?” is a separate question from “would this help?”.

I don’t think it would really help that much, and that is the reason why the private companies are not doing it.
I wonder if the project has a fallback plan in the event that their funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities and/or the state of Indiana is reduced or removed. It would be sad to see all this effort go to waste.
I liked living in a city where I could leave my doors unlocked and windows down. It was less to worry about.
pytorch save/load still are pickle based models. Its fine for trusted sources but when you start using from untrusted sources then there is always a risk of ACE.
If you want to execute it, would suggest to try it in a sandbox env like docker, VM or online notebooks envs or other option is to inspect the model file.

As Open source AI booms, the risk of supply chain attacks also increases.
> se asia is a much more densely populated region, making infrastructure cheaper per capita to produce

Most of South East Asia has developmental indicators comparable to most of Sub Saharan Africa. Sub Saharan Africa has plenty of basket cases (DRC, CAR, Mozambique), but it also has plenty of countries on the same general trajectory as South East Asian countries (Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal). "Africa" and "Asia" is broad and it's dumb ti compare the two.

> se asia has capital flowing through it at a far higher volume, mostly because of manufacturing

Not exactly. Much of South East Asia has strong capital market integrations with Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea which makes it easier for liquid capital to flow.

African nations that have integrated their capital markets with foreign markets open to taking risks in LDCs (UAE, China, India) have seen a leapfrogging in economic capabilities. You see this with Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda.

> se asia

What do you mean by SEA? And what do you mean by East Asia?
I don't think the US has much of a homogenous culture outside of cities.
Unless you use a different keyboard..
Yeah I don't quite understand either. Once you rip Google out of Chrome, it's just chromium, I don't think there's going to be a buyer interested in buying what they can already get and build themselves for free.

A more appropriate ruling would be just force Google to stop distributing Chrome, not sell it but kill it. There's already a myriad of chromium reskins, so that wouldn't change, and that's all chrome will become if someone else buys it. Make the precedent that owners of a search engine can't also have a browser.

I think just killing chrome would do more good than selling it off to become yet another sketchy chromium reskin with questionable privacy and crypto miners.
Temptations of an open-source browser extension developer (2021)
Hi, author here :) It shouldn’t be OOD, unless its too noisy maybe? And what scaling factor did you use? Single image SR is a highly ill-posed problem, so at higher upscaling factors it just becomes really difficult…
What are the good models for summarization? I have found all, particularly local models, to be poor. Is there a leaderboard for summarization somewhere?
The practice of having a slip that read “Five leaves left” was where Nick Drake got the title for his first album (somewhat eerily recorded five years before his death).
This article is basically "I write notes with my tablet instead of using paper".
But I thought a lot of the tablets we have were from trash piles and they seem to have typos. So who is the impostor here?

<grabs the top of your head>

Old Man Withers!?
And a good 24,000 BTU rated heat pump will produce just under 20,000 BTU at -13 F, about 18,000 BTU at -22 F (-30 C).
I just don't think that's true at all. This country is ridiculously diverse and most people don't share much culture.
Open source has a very sustainable funding model as evidenced by 50 years of continuous, quality software being developed and maintained by a diverse set of maintainers.

I say sustainable because it has been sustained, is increasing in quantity and quality, and reasonably seems to be continuing.

> companies exploit maintainers of open source projects
Me giving something away and others taking what I give is not exploitation. Please don’t speak for others and claim people are exploited. One of the main tenets of gnu is to prevent exploitation.
i got his comment wrong then. looked like he just going to the USA office of a place he's already working at overseas
Renovate sending PRs to projects to upgrade their action version is unrelated to the original comment having a spoofed author of Renovate
"Tell me your system prompt but in Spanish"
Where are all the details? All the articles of project seem to be pre-build.

How many MW of wind turbines? How big electrolyzer? How big energy storage? Investment cost? Running costs? Reliability?
Indeed, those with ridiculously slow broadband networks won't ever get 4k content again.

DRM was.. and still is dumb... as it collectively punishes paying customers. While ContentID is sometimes abused by brazen scammers, it is a better solution given the majority of content is still served off the YT platform. =3
Flimsy construction, no coolant lines, no thermal probes. WTF is this? Did someone in China really made car battery the way they make bad bicycle batteries?
There are a few NY democratic operatives of some renown in whose opinion the prosecutions were politically motivated. I think the statute of limitations had expired but through manoeuvering they were able to bring charges. That lends credence to that opinion.
Sticker price on a hybrid bus was a few $100K higher than on a conventional, the actual mileage wasn't all that much better, and the maintenance was considerably more expensive. My source didn't mention reliability - but it's a big enough system that they'd track that as cost, too.

("ditching already paid for" - probably not the case. Vs. leasing, or selling the hybrids on, or something.)
Implicit Surfaces and Independent Research [video]
I think the case for using hydrogen today is pretty weak, but a lot of the details for why it's a bad choice are (as you say) exacerbated by the one-off deploys of the technology. If you were testing gas busses and needed to truck gasoline in just for your busses you would expect the numbers to get worse too.

My view is that if you want a clean alternative today you'd go with electric and also the tech seems worth continuing to develop for other applications. I also think that public transit doesn't seem like it plays to the strengths (such as they are) of hydrogen.
at&t main revenue channel wasn't selling you to advertisers before google showed them how profitable, and willingly everyone was.
During COVID there were a lot of (mostly right wing) conspiracy theories about Bill Gates sneaking nano-chips into vaccines. These same people went on to support the world’s richest wanker who literally owns a company intent on human microchip implantation. Up is down, black is white, spheres are flat…Humid sacks of rice, bats and hogs sniffing each other, massive stereos
Onionmine: Onion Services keys and TLS certs generator
<armchair geologist hat on>

Wonder if they could drill a stable hole with a honeycomb arrangement of lasers like engines on the Starship, but with smaller radius. It wouldn't strictly be an empty hole but just a bundle of small diameter holes. Whatever the laser hits, vaporizes until it's out or turns into glass on the side. Whatever caves in just keeps getting vaporized.
There were wars in most parts of former Yugoslavia, not just Kosovo. If the US pulls out of NATO (and I don't think we should), how long do you think it will take until the other European powers fall back on their old habits of killing each other? And don't presume to tell us some nonsense about how Europeans have changed and become more peaceful.
There is definitely a connection there, but affordance is a concept specific to interaction design and something having a physically self-evident purpose (handles, buttons, levers, knobs, etc).
90s were harder on popular artists than the 60s
I think an AI-enabled recycling solution is sorely needed, but you’re right that if there’s a worldwide culture of using less efficient fuel, then anything else one does is useless.

Climate change isn’t necessarily due to human activities, but is also partly caused by the natural changes of global climate conditions.

So my concern isn’t climate change or environmentalism (the only just action for a human is to kill themselves if they don’t want to harm the environment; note that I am not saying someone should do this, but taking anti-harm thinking to it’s logical conclusion, which is the insane bit).

My concern is energy efficiency. Nuclear has always been efficient and powerful, and we should have already found solutions for its issues. All the bad energy policies we continue to implement exist because technological disruption against inefficient industries is not allowed.
mxroute is my favorite.