skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can improve the efficiency of cows via selective breeding. In fact, we have improved the efficiency of cows and that process is accelerating.

Manufactured meat can't and won't replace cattle farming. It still needs vast inputs of energy, water and raw ingredients compared to raising a cow.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417136
uhhh you should really look into how that works. The union playbook is to organize in secret because retaliation is in the HR playbook. All sorts of fun and completely (not)illegal retaliation like firing organizers.
No, it took place earlier this month.
Why? I mean we only need the molecules from the ingested food, so why can those chemicals only come from things that were living?

Is there any entirely artificial food that doesn't require a previously living thing?
Following acquisition, Brightcove to lay off 198 workers, 2/3 of U.S. staff
there is no doubt that the early ROSCO deals were outrageously tilted against taxpayers/passengers (they pay £1 for old BR trains the state paid for, then we pay them to rent them back)

however the newer ones are significantly better

funding the capital cost of a billion pounds of new trains isn't free (even for a government), and there is risk on that investment

they also maintain the trains (to varying levels of quality)
> "Hydrogen economy" only makes sense if you have infinite free electricity or massive overproduction.

Or when batteries are really expensive and global production and/or geopolitics prevents a global power grid.

Both were the case 15 years ago (and geopolitics still prevents a global power grid today, but metal production has increased and is now sufficient).

Hydrogen wasn't entirely stupid back then; even though PV was more expensive than today, the trends were already clear.

Now? I think hydrogen is suboptimal for most users. But I wouldn't bet against the idea of someone, somewhere, likely in the arctic or antarctic circles, deciding that they really do need multiple months of energy storage, and for those specific weird edge cases I think it's at least possible they might decide a cryogenic liquid hydrogen tank the size of the space shuttle external tank, refuelled every summer by a comically large PV array that works 24 hours in some days, is less silly than 3 gigawatt-hours of batteries.
Nothing you pasted here suggests that those attributes are required for the definition of "authoritarian regime", it is just a characterization of "the most notable authoritarian regimes" as it itself says in the text.
The pebble time round was the stylish version of the Pebble Time, you lost battery life and a smaller display but you got a significantly thinner sleeker watch.

I daily drive the pebble time, but wear my round for dates or when I want to be a bit more stylish. I still get compliments on it to this day.
Um. No. Most small business owners transport cash to their bank on a daily or weekly basis. It takes 6-7 minutes at a drive-up teller window.
Looks very interesting. Could you elaborate on why you prefer this over the .ipynb notebook interface built into VS Code? The doc you linked mentions debugging, but I have found that the VS Code debugger is already fairly well-integrated into .ipynb notebooks. Is it mainly the improved diffing and having a REPL?
Market research on ISO certified companies
Hi, I am doing some market research on companies that own a ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification.I didn't have any luck on finding a public list with companies that own this precise certification.

My interest is mostly on companies that operate in EU (the companies don't need to be based in EU, but they do need to have some activity in the European Union ex: OpenAI, Anthropic, Scale AI etc.).

I am very open to any conventional/non-conventional way of obtaining such a list.

thx.
I'm definitely not! That was a weird leap by your parent commenter that has nothing to do with what I said.
I friend of mine retired, but decided to do some consulting on the side.

Even though he didn't need the money, he charged his normal rate, because he didn't want to depress the market.

If the friends of your parents are willing to work for birdseed because they don't need the money, then it drives down the salary for those who need a job.
I believe that’s the level EU requires for long distance trains.
>not insert him self too much in the process of rocket science to cause catastrophe

The fact that many believe all these companies thrive despite the leadership is fascinating. I've heard this same take over and over.

One can't keep hiring the right people and make the right decisions without understanding how things work. Bezos is an extremely skilled manager yet his space company, which has actually been around longer than SpaceX as well, amounted to nothing like it. We could write it off to pure luck maybe, if Musk weren't a serial entrepreneur.

There must be some sort of psychological phenomenon explaining this irrational way of viewing his achievements. I feel like that often when people talk about Musk they aren't even talking about him but some sort of fictional character that seems to exist purely in the imagination of certain people. And it's never those who actually worked with him.
Play with timeanddate.com's times. It gives the total amount of civil twilight for the day (which is split in half). For example at Atlanta (https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/atlanta) there's 58 minutes per day at the summer solstice, 55 at the winter solstice, and 50 at the equinoxes. As you go poleward those numbers increase but it's always summer solstice > winter solstice > equinox. This is basically down to the angle between the sun's path and the horizon and I think I get why that would be different in summer than in winter but I can't get my head around the fall/spring bit.
I need to see what I’m signing up for before I make an account.
This also happens in German, as the key verbs usually come at the end of sentence.

So until the very last word many interpretations might be possible, depending on the sentence construction.
Funny how all the replies to me are pure defensiveness about the word "authoritarian", rather than the point of my post (the chilling effects on speech).
Only growing 5-7% a year *after taking millions in investment.
I don't think you or a bunch of us small time devs have any hope of beating the multinational megacorps. Probably the best chance we have is the E.U. slapping them on the wrist enough times that they open up a tiny little bit, but I don't have my hopes up.

If you want the reach of the app stores, playing in their walled gardens and paying their fees is all you can do :( Sure you can make a web app, but you probably lose half your audience or more right off the bat. It's on purpose and neither Google nor Apple are going to make that easier to avoid unless forced to.
Reinforcement Learning Accelerates Humanoid Behavior Production
I wonder if people who say LLMs are a smart junior programmer have ever used LLMs for coding or actually worked with a junior programmer before. Because for me the two are not even remotely comparable.

If I ask Claude to do a basic operation on all files in my codebase it won't do it. Half way through it will get distracted and do something else or simply change the operation. No junior programmer will ever do this. And similar for the other examples in the blog.
Pierogi are that delicate size balance where you would eat them in two bites but could eat them in one.
> The bottleneck then becomes how to self-host the finetuned model in a way that's cost-effective and scalable

It's not actually that expensive and hard. For narrow usecases, you can produce 4-bit quantized fine-tunes that perform as well as the full model. Hosting the 4-bit quantized version can be done on relatively low cost. You can use A40 or RTX 3090 on Runpod for ~$300/month.
Maybe I don’t understand the purpose of this fully, what format do models typically generate for animation? I am not familiar with SWF files, and google says its a defunct format.
It should also be noted that housing is super local. Building a bunch of new supply in the mid-west isn't going to lower the prices along the southeast coast. And for a less extreme case, adding a new house across town from me isn't likely to impact my house's price at all.

What would impact pricing is if people left an area (look at the 1 euro houses in Italy in towns where everyone has left). The mass migration to the US coasts and south doesn't seem like it's stopping anytime soon which will continue to put pressure on the local housing supplies.
In California, at least at the time, Realtors called the Appraisers they knew could be a little generous with the numbers to make the clients happy. Speed-dial. Inflated numbers were easy to make plausible, and as time went on, the cycle became self fulfilling.

Appraisers knew this, they got lots of easy business for an afternoon's worth of work, and grew their businesses. Realtors would shrug and say "That's what it appraised at." Banks were happy. Sellers were happy. Lots of money. There was no natural regulation or push-back stopping any of this.

Source: friend made lots of money doing this at the time. They probably made out better than the Realtors.
C++. Only half-joking, this is exactly how C++ started
Or stop defending individually and start attacking collectively ? This is an issue on scrapers side, they have to fix it

> make following robots.txt a legal requirement

Even better: make them publish their IP addresses so we know what to block, just like robocallers. Every scrape made from another IP is crime.
This lady is sketchy as hell. First, the U.S. revoked her visa:

> He revoked my visa, and told me I could still work for the company from Canada, but if I wanted to return to the US, I would need to reapply.

She's Canadian and lives in Canada, so she returned to Canada. But instead of applying for a visa again, she apparently flew to Mexico and tried to get in through the southern border:

> I restarted the visa process and returned to the same immigration office at the San Diego border, since they had processed my visa before and I was familiar with it.

Last I checked San Diego doesn't share a border with Canada. Why is a Canadian with a revoked Visa flying to Mexico to try and enter the U.S. through the southern border?
"Nordic Larp" and the Knutepunkt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knutepunkt) conference is close to you. I worked with a guy who organized an earlier battlestar galactica larp: https://petterkarlsson.se/2013/03/19/the-monitor-celestra-ba... and they do things like - rent a medieval castle and larp courtly drama, etc.

I'm in the US and they don't do this kind of thing often, but if you're interested by Odyssesus then nordic larp scene will totally be your jam, and honestly I'm jealous.

If there's anyone in Seattle doing this kind of thing, say something!
It's expensive for irregular users.

If I want to visit friends in Derby, coming from London, that's £81. For no good reason, a return ticket is £84.

If I need to travel at peak times, that's £123.

Booked months in advance it might be £20, roughly what a bus ticket costs.
2 isn't a "fair point". It's... basically just correct. With respect, you just don't want to hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQizdUn5Z1k

"Reinforcement learning is used to speed the production of behavior for the Atlas humanoid robot. At the heart of the learning process is a physics-based simulator that generates training data for a variety of maneuvers. The control policy tracks and controls retargeted human motion data. Each maneuver is created with data from about 150 million runs of the simulator and transferred zero-shot to the hardware. This work is part of a collaboration between the RAI Institute and Boston Dynamics."
Why not just use SQL? With LLMs evolving to do sophisticated text-to-SQL, the case for a custom language for the sake of simplicity is diminishing.

I think that expressiveness, performance and level of fluency by base language models (i.e. the amount of examples in training set) are the key differentiators for query languages in the future. SQL ticks all those boxes.
Then the comment I was replying to was incorrect.
I'm sorry man, but subsidized insurance is a subsidy! What are we even doing here?

To your second point. Sure, it's easy to say that as an ideological rando on the internet. In the real world, policymakers are going to try to figure out better solutions than "nobody can live in the western United States because the fire risk is too high everywhere".
It is 2 months to switch to a totally different database with a totally different query language. That is not easy even if you get some "help" from a company shutting down.
Thank you for using "octopodes"!
I think most of the comments in here are concerned with the experience during the period _before_ you’re ready to refactor stuff out - ie the exploratory phase. Most people refactor stuff out as soon as it makes sense to do so.
how are client apps ? i'm open to switching but my weakest link is having an easy to install and use roku or android tv app that my parents can use
Use the Android pebble app "Notification Center" and it should be able to do that for you.

(Notification Center gives you extreme amounts of control over what to send to the watch how it gets displayed, etc. It's the reason I'm still daily wearing my pebble watches)
If we're being pedantic:.

oasdi is extremely regressive (no tax at all above like 2x median household income, vs e.g. income taxes which continue ramping up until closer to 10x median income after becoming flat).

Medicare tax is not capped, and is slightly progressive in that it jumps from 2.9% to (I forget like % higher) at somewhere around 3x median household income.
As you said they're incompetent so it would be Russia more like. Imagine the bizarre situation that the US would be in while fighting a proxy war against them at the same time.

Also in that alternative timeline, I wonder what that would do to Americans psychologically. If China and Russia had already beat the US in space, the decline would be extremely obvious. To the rest of the world as well.
I'd second this. The "advanced AI" was pioneered with Halo 2's Behavior Trees. I'd not give very high props to level design to any of the 3, partly because I so easily remember all the re-used assets and geometry and moving areas, but also because Halo was responsible for what I see as a decline in overall FPS design. From reload mechanics to limited ability to carry weapons, to the level design itself that went from more abstract and branching level design to long corridors with too much linearity. There's more creativity in things like the Metroid Prime series, just because of the need for backtracking and new areas when you get new gear. (Of course the Half-Life series also contributed, though interestingly few FPS games have tried to imitate the physics puzzles.) Later on Gears of War and other cover shooters took that to its own sort of perfection. There's good level design in all these, but it's good in their contexts, not exactly phenomenal or standout especially just looking at the FPS genre. (The multiplayer Halo maps are of course pretty good, but again while it's probably just a difference in taste, I think of them as overall steps down from what was going on in Quake/Unreal and their derivatives.)

I guess I'm mostly just amused by the initial comment suggesting Halo 3 of all games as a super incredible cultural impact game. I just can't see it like that at all -- at the time it was just a capstone to what Halo 1 and 2 set up. And in modern times, Halo is so irrelevant that it's probably going to be on Sony's console.
This is hilarious. 15 years ago, every company blew up their rockets after one launch. Apparently reusability is so common now, we expect the opposite.

But also, I don't think this is unexpected. It hasn't flown any real missions or delivered any commercial payloads. It look them quite awhile to reuse a Falcon9.
Since when is “do something on every file in my codebase” considered coding?
They still do, but they used to too.
looking at the games US workers have put out... this is only gonna make 'western' games worse.

US games are in a tremendous slump of quality and seem to be slop factories rn. Add in unions, I don't know. I don't see this helping the slop factories become not slop factories.
> However this will absolutely be poisoned over time because marketing will always creep in until it dominates the HTTP source.

I often remind myself that we are in the golden age of LLMs, like the pre-enshitification days when Google would nearly always return relevant and useful results, and I felt like with access to the Internet I could learn anything.
Haven't used it in a looong time, but by 2010 it was no longer that bad.

My first install was 2002 and it took my a good 24 hours to get X to boot.

It did catch a faulty memory DIM later on because the linking kept failing intermittently.
How would you do the things mentioned in the article using Guix?

You could write your own custom package definitions, extending the default to change up compile flags and allocators, but then you need to do this for every single package (and maintain them all). I'm not sure Guix gives you much here, though maybe that's fine for one or two packages.

The most pain-free option I can think of is the --tune flag (which is similar to applying -march=native), but packages have to be defined as tunable for it to work (and not many are).

Is there another option?
Gut feeling plus enjoy the ride.
But objective metrics matter too.
Myself being a developer I lack many marketing and sales skills.
Trying to leverage what Claude or GPT might offer to cover the skills I lack.
There are some options out there, depending on what type of task you're trying to fine tune. I think RL finetuning for DeepSeek e.g. isn't well developed yet, but you can finetune a small LLama model (~3B params) for classification or extraction tasks and it works really well. What sort of tasks were you looking at finetuning for?
M4 is going to be too weak on GPU, even an M4 pro is probably not going to get you far. If you go with an M4, 16 or 32 is fine. An M1/M2/M3/M4 Max is probably what you need minimum to run quantized 72b models, where 64GB is needed.
Where is this quoted from?
Best food in the world, period!
Another cool difference between this and Go’s ‘defer’, is that it doesn’t allocate memory on the heap. Go’s ‘defer’ does and it has a small performance cost compared to just calling the .release() or whatever yourself… shrugs

At least this was the case last I did benchmarks of my Go code. Dno if they changed that.
Wow, at that rate I'm surprised we don't see more Canadian startups. Solo SaaS could make 10x that, maybe they don't have many devs that actually ship value?
Sadly? They play all the time and aren't likely to die anytime soon. Catch them this spring or summer. And yeah, calling them prog is pretty accurate.
We've had removable lenses forever. Is it really an impossible engineering challenge to ship a phone with a low-profile swappable lens?
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I mentioned the income cap. And no, that is not true. The benefit you get some social security is reduced substantially as you contribute to the upper end of the cap. You might be taxed less proportionally once you exceed the cap but also don’t receive more benefits. The benefits you receive in retirement when drawing on social security are proportionally less.

For example (a few scenarios I ran here) with a “full retirement age” set to 2035 (when you’d be 67)

If you earned a constant wage of $50k/yr, you would be able to draw $2044/mo in SS. Tax per year would be 6.2%, or $3100/yr.

If you earned a constant wage of $150k/yr, you would be able to draw $3843/mo. Tax per year would be $9300/yr.

You receive about 88% more benefits but contribute 300% more money. How is that not progressive taxation?
Is this just a proxy measurement for wealth?

A food insecure developing country might be overtly reliant on staple carbs like rice and grains. Easy access to protein sources like meat could also just mean easy access to excess calories, regardless of whether a carb heavy diet would otherwise be more predictive of obesity.
> I see a whole lot of talk about how to force the consumers to pat for it.

I don't see a whole lot of talk about how consumers are being forced to pay for solar and wind. For instance, Hornsea is attracting £194.31/MWh = $252.70/MWh. https://register.lowcarboncontracts.uk/INV-HOR-001/

> It will simply become a race where everyone tries to the utmost degree to decouple themselves from your nuclear grid and you leave the poor to shoulder the cost.

Strangely that is the game being played with solar panels on houses. Self consume and then feed into the grid as much as possible on sunny days to try and offset the expense of long winter nights. Let the poor who don't own their own house or can not afford panels shoulder the cost.

> we need cheap power to decarbonize society

Agreed, but where is the evidence that wind and solar leads to cheap power in the winter? When times are easy prices may be low, but when wind and solar don't produce the system falls back on natural gas.
So you are proposing… social security?
No problem in particular.

What we use it for:
- vulnerability assessments for containers and VMs (they give a list of vulnerable or outdated packages)
- initial access vulnerabilities: what happens if an internet facing component is compromised because you have a vulnerable package and to what kind of data it has access to (it has some regexes and what not to figure out if in your database you have PII data, HIPAA etc.), what lateral movement is possible etc.
- provides information on what you can do to fix a finding
- IAM checks for overly broad permissions
- Service account age and overdue key rotations

Take your pick.
>Asians have an ERG.

Google doesn't exist in a vacuum, but in a broader culture (e.g. America). If you're coming from an Asian country, you might still feel alienated or simply want to connect with people who intrinsically understand your culture.

That said, the Asian makeup of Google has increased significantly over the years. I wonder how that has impacted the participation rate in its ERG versus when it was originally established.

>* What is special about Whites that they must be prevented from doing the thing that literally all others have done?*

The dominant culture is essentially the "default" and is somewhat "self-reinforcing", so generally has no need of an identity-based support group. Thus, when the dominant culture does establish an identity-based group, it tends to take on a different meaning.
Yes. You put it more eloquently.
British train drivers are the best paid in Europe by a staggering amount.

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/12/23/train-strikes-the...