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Very cool project!

QQ for users: How is the UX compared with ArchiveBox?

This. It's incredibly beneficial for public health. See also: enriched wheat flour.

This is dangrous, as I've long held that inscrutible cloud billing was one of the greatest protections we had against a runaway superintelligent AI.

Now we only have poor IAM UX to fall back on.

/s

There is one link that mentions knitting wool prices have increased 56% in recent years (based on one source in Australia).

Nowhere does the author speculate that possibly, this is because the hobbies have gotten more popular and possibly more people are knitting or perhaps they're generally more interested in higher quality/more sustainable wool....

Related critcism of the book and the authors of this site: https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/07/why-academics-...

I guess you could say that lazy thoughtpieces harming HN users on a cottage-industry scale, then.

I'm still surprised no billionaire has latched onto this as their passion project.

This book outlined a whole space colonization effort from soup to nuts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project

This is the issue. A lot of hydocarbons can still be produced without extracting them from rocks miles under the ground, poisoning the water supply, or any of the externalities of runaway global warming.

The trick is leveraging insanely cheap solar electricity to do everything else.

One reason so many people are amenable to the copyright argument is at least partly because of these counterarguments that posit that every writer must be an elitist or fabulously wealthy vs. instead of someone who spent X years toiling away at their craft or skill while working menial/multiple jobs.

Yes, but the piece is specifically composed to be played "as slowly as possible" fwiw.

I am so happy that this is in my HN feed today.

I wish there was more stuff like this, both in my feed and in the world.

Being American right now makes this whole episode feel like a 1950s McCarthyism/Qian Xuesen-type situation.

Maybe another xenophobic red scare-type U.S. gov't overreaction will inadvertently export top talent to China a second time.

Most obvious tell of the former/current Stripe employee, imho.

This is the kind of twee, midwestern robotics research that we all need today.

If walking down to the corner shop is considered a "journey" then 2% of all journeys being made by train is a massive number.

There are mostly end-runs around regulations or taxes for small groups of people, so putting them into a small geographic area makes sense (at least for the folks who will benefit).

I'd also bet that in many cases, it's easier for a politican to carve out a small area and say "our usual laws don't apply in this city for X special reason" than it is for them to actually dismantle money laundry laws, kill revenue generating tax programs, end enivornmental regs or whatever at a national level.

Yeah, I thought it'd be a cold day in hell before I saw the FBI going after Habitat for Humanity and the United Way.

Link to the CNN segment that this story was based on:https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/us/video/hartford-school-dist...

I think there obviously would be a large scale effort to taint the AI. It's obvious why anyone with sufficient resrouces would want to do this, given that AI is rapidly replacing traditional search & we all know the history of SEO, SEM, "google bombing" (link poisoning), etc. in the past.

Also interesting to see that parts of the training infrastructure to create frontier models is itself being monetized.

LOL.

https://lobste.rs/s/eluli7/botfly_test_characterizing_parasi...

I don't go in for most conspiracy theories, but there is this: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-ba...

(second half of the article)

Fundamentally, just one update to the protocol (becuase code kind of is actually law, insofar that code is overseen by a group of humans capable of collective action and coordination around documentation and if-then statements) will circumvent any concerns about that particular bugaboo.

User "timewizard" should note that the date of reporting for this law was still in the future when the law was effectively killed.

We can also just build more solar, and then the need for 90% of this just goes away.

Why not just use the DEEP ideas and tech for pumped solar energy storage?

Correct arguments all around re: utility scale solar, but the incentives for an individual farmer to immediately adopt are huge: local generation makes power cheap, shading makes water use more efficient, etc. Obviously there is a capital cost for the system and costs for maintenance, etc., but given the trend of increasing global energy costs and the resulting burden on households (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-023-01209-8), it seems like a very nice idea.

Why wouldn't this remote cabin be better off with wind or solar?

I was wondering what the training dataset looked like, and I'm very surprised that they're not using BIM data... although after living with an architect for 20 years, I think there's a joke in here somewhere about contractors and planning.

I know people hate electric-ICE combos, but charging at home for next to nothing, running 90% of local trips on battery only, and not having any charging downtime if we go somewhere that hasn't caught up with EV charging is pretty nice.

100%. The CPUC is a government entity and can technically dictate power prices. Unfortunately, state engergy conglomerates are very good at regulatory capture.