skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even without capitalism, even without money at all, if you want your day job to continue to be "making movies" then there is an incentive to cheat the numbers.

One probably shouldn't be 'making movies' if fake sales are necessary because nobody wants to watch.

> And it's not really 'tax payers' that pay the bill here, it's 'stock owners'. There's no reason to bail out a movie company.

I don't know how it works in China, but often in the U.S., when people put their life savings into junk bonds (or an overly risky house mortgage) that inevitably go bust, they declare banckruptcy and ultimately tax debt is forgiven or severely cut, or tex revenues are funneled to them in the form of wellfare to help them stay afloat. So, yes, when a commercial entity fails for whatever reason (even criminally bad decisions), the tax payers are the ones left paying for the social safety net to keep the afloat.
I wonder how NRA prepares to defend guns as anti-dictatorship constitutional tool against government that has thumb size drones that can inject lethal dose of botox in your left butt cheek on demand.
> you’ll understand them by osmosis even without having read them.

Depends on your goal. Reading a classic by "osmosis" may be enough to make one a dilettante, but doesn't bring about the enlightenment you would experience from reading the original book. Just like reading popular science books doesn't make one a scientist.
CPU and 3D capabilities were late 1999 early 2000 gamer PC level.
Interesting discovery, but why does it seem like scientists are always "astonished", "stunned", "baffled", or "shocked" in the popular press? (OK, articles about Kenneth Catania's study of electric eels can legitimately used "shocked" in the headlines. :-) )
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Configuration-by-full-language-by-default is IME a relatively big red flag for things like this. Much rather have a limited configuration language, possibly with the option of going full bore if needed.

Case in point, qbs is much more workable. Declarative-glue-predefined-stuff-together most of the way, JavaScript capability if needed.
Hello, Rust – Go vs. Rust: Concurrency and Race Conditions
For anyone else that wonders as I did, --download-archive downloaded.txt

downloaded.txt will be used to store a list of video IDs. Any ID listed will not be re-downloaded
In regards to question a, I think that Go's compile time checking makes it better than Python when each deploy to your robot takes a long time, or when the robot moves and you have to physically reset its position for each run (it sucks to have to restart a long physical action because you misspelled a variable). If your timing requirements allow for Go's GC, then you can avoid C++'s lack of safety and manual memory management. Some people also just like using Go.
> "For educational purposes only"

Hahahaha...

"Yeah, yeah, I agree to the Terms of Service."
Actually RDBMS queries are quite fast. But those systems weren't designed for use patterns which serverless applications typically have. Like MySQL will limit you on connection count and each new connection puts extra overhead on the server. So if every function negotiates its own connection you might eat away DB resources just on negotiating connections even though the DB queries were fast.
In unsupervised translation, to be specific.
The hypocrisy behind internet freedom and privacy advocates
Oh right, I missed the last sentence where OP suggested proxying to third parties.
Or you just build the cable out beyond geosynchronous orbit. The further out your counterweight mass is, the more force it exerts, so, AIUI, the most mass-efficient way to do it is an extension of the cable.
Yeah... I just saw the components to build one.

If you want to go from PD to QC3, someone has a USB PD sink board that asks for the most power from the PD source and outputs that as a DC voltage.

Then, aliexpress sell the QC3 boards that take an input voltage.
I think copyright won't apply after the first half hour.
Yeah, I'm saying maintaining infrastructure is not a political priority, because it doesn't win elections.

Not that the people working in infrastructure maintenance waste the money.
They’re not going to ISS, they’re going somewhere in geosynchronous orbit.
Per device salt is the usual way. See https://docs.cumulusnetworks.com/plugins/servlet/mobile#cont... for some example documentation (ctrlf hash seed). Or you can change the inputs to the hash function (eg, one tier hashes on source is and the other doesn't) but that's more troublesome.
No, because it didnt happen, commodity hardware got there ~7 years later. You were buying a window into the future, allowing your researchers to do things mere mortals could only read about in science fiction books.
to my knowledge, not a single self-driving car company is using RL in production. it is a more theoretic methodology than anything else.
Well to be honest, iflscience is not any better in general.
That explains a recent conversation from work.

“”” They want their pound of flesh. That’s from Shakespeare or something. Macbeth I think.

Me: headdesk. Merchant of Venice.
“””
I use an old Sony Vaio, an old MacBook Air, and RaspberryPies. I am an Ex-Apple employee, developer, and owner. I'd never buy another Apple product until they fix their awful buggy crap.
Oh no, you're not at all alone. I've actually used CMake as a "how not to do docs" antiexample in the past. More than once, actually.
Its going to be very interesting when carbon nanotubes are combined with cloth.

Ripstop cloth is a mix of plastics and line giving a fexible cloth that is very very strong. Its also airtight so you can inflate it (for a time - its not 100% without a bladder)

Inflatables wings. Hulls.

https://youtu.be/WgABFvqE8lY
Did you set it up right? ;)

But yeah, that's kind of the point of running a cluster. One thing to look after. What would you rather be running?
Seems to be the entire purpose of that account, as well.
Actually, if anything, that means everything that happens next matters now more than ever.

Put another way, if we think of 1960's era ICBM technology as entry level autonomous warfare, it's the least effective example of this kind of technology. That alone should give a bit of pause.

That is how potent this technology is, and it should be regarded with no lighter wariness.

It is more precise, more durable, more accurate, and worst of all, requires fewer people per intervention, indicating that it can be operated with a hair trigger, leaving the capacity to react with force more prone to emotional decisions.

If it seems that ordinary guns make it easier for ordinary civilian citizens to lash out at tens of victims, this technology will expand that ability even further. But, put in the hands of unrestrained organizations and institutions, operating with the capacity and constraints of nation-state authority, no less than World War III is on the table.
The Pepys I’m working on at the moment is stuffed full of footnotes (check the Gutenberg source); I’m currently nearing the 700th. These are being converted to a standard ePub endnote format, so compatible readers, i.e. most of them, will get popup modals with the annotation when you click on the note number.
Surely friction is an issue at much faster speeds? I guess the fastest trains go 400+ KPH, with the fastest being maglev. I assume, though can't tell from the article, that the space elevator has physical contact with the cable, and I can't think of how one could reproduce maglev tech when going vertically.

So, there's surely a safe speed limit built into the materials being used? It's probably faster than the speed they're starting out with, but I kinda assume it can't be fast enough to shorten the trip to hours from days.

As an aside, moving people is probably not the most profitable use of the thing for the foreseeable future, as cool as that sounds. Getting a satellite into orbit for a tenth the cost is revolutionary (though they mention the cost compared to the shuttle, which is much more expensive than rocket transport...so they may be cherry-picking numbers to make this seem more revolutionary than it is).

Anyway, I can't think of how they could accelerate much beyond the fastest non-maglev train speeds without tearing apart the cable and car, but I may be underestimating the strength of carbon nanotubes, and whatever other component materials they're using. Perhaps there's a materials nerd here who knows.
New Podcast on Artificial Intelligence from MIT
I admit being confused about this one. Composition or inheritance isn't harder or more work, and neither provides velocity or maintainability benefits. The argument is about how to model complex behavior -- they have tradeoffs in duplication and statefulness. And you can mix both in the same code base with ease.

Here's another one though. We need to use Promises despite callbacks being trivially understandable and supported everywhere in arbitrary JavaScript versions because in 5 years everyone will probably always use Promises for everything.
Not sure if this would work, but how about using a wire with evenly-spaced metal beads, then using a magnet (a large one like used in MRI machines) to pull up the cart? You'll probably have to turn the magnet on/off at a specific frequency, depending on the momentum of the cart, which could be a challenge.
My father worked in sales for sgi through most of the 90s; what started as him bringing me to the office a few times on weekends turned into me asking to go to the office most weekends. ("don't you have any work you need to finish up?")

Every employee had an an Indy or Indigo2 in their office and most (us included) had one at home too. Very few of the machines at the office had passwords. I never really got very far past playing with the 3d tech demos or surfing the web on Mosaic and Netscape, but it was a pretty formative part of my career in technology.
> Rarely do human actors have any discretion in the field

It's precisely because people do have discretion that we have the concept of the strategic corporal [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Block_War
the hackers you really should be following are not indexed on any search engine, since ANI trunking on PSTN took off the BBS scene has come back and is thriving.
use a fax machine and do a PBX number walk and you will be propelled into a new world.

BTW what does anybody else here think about the concept that shadowbanning leads to creation of an egregious number of throwaway sock puppet accounts on HN?
Afghanistan combat veteran here. You've seen WAY too many movies.

Discretion is everything. Any time we'd hit a compound, we would pore over the intelligence, assess whether this was a likely badguy, whether they were a key player or just a low level radical, etc.

Equally important, are the people around said badguy likely also bad or innocent bystanders? If they're probably bad we want to capture them all together. If they're probably innocent we want to wait until the dude wanders off to minimize the risk to civilian life and property, even if that means greater risk to us.

Once you actually get to the target location, it starts all over again, only with less time and information. Is that a shovel or an RPG? I can't quite tell from here. Looks like an RPG -- what if I'm wrong? There's a house behind him, what's the risk if I wait 30 seconds...?

It's a real profession that takes real expertise by people with real emotions.
Well that is a great story indeed! With two happy endings :)
Massive wealth creation in a very small geography creates inflation. I don't see how this is controversial in any way.

Ask the citizens of Portland why they are so angry at Californians moving into the area. It's because a small number of Californians are moving into the area, and they are considerably richer than Portlandians, so they drive up the housing prices for everyone. The exact same phenomenon is happening right now there, and Seattle where rents and house prices are skyrocketing because of wealth.
Nope, France. My grandparents grew up during the nazi occupation though (and one of them fought in the resistance) and raised my parents as such, so perhaps that had an impact.
Rotating sails and wind turbines have historically been extremely high maintenance due to the forces the long moment arm puts on the rotational coupling at the base.
If this is true, then the linked Wikipedia article needs to be changed where it says “pioneered in 1997 by rock and roll investment banker David Pullman through his $55 million David Bowie bond deal.”
homeless.co.uk is a domain squatter. Did you mean to link to https://www.homeless.org.uk/facts/homelessness-in-numbers/ro... ?
yup, coming here and the top comment actually being something insightful or some point worthy of discussion instead of some sarcastic comment or joke like elsewhere is what makes this place.
The syntax... `list(GET mylist 4 val)` - oh, you mean `val = mylist[4]`. And the strange `function(ARGUMENTNAME argument1 OTHERARG arg2)` function syntax, and that out value names are always passed into a function as this language does not know `=` assignment, and the semicolon separated lists. And worst of all, the weak to absent typing, reading from a nonsense variable never fails.

I hope this is all abstracted enough so one day cmake can become saner to read and write. For now you just have to carry this otherwise useless syntax knowledge with you, or switch to meson or waf. Most IDEs seem to prefer cmake though, especially with the new cmake server mode it might be here to stay.

And a big thanks to all the saints who want to make cmake understandable for the rest of us.
The medical technology for human stasis doesn't seem particularly unattainable, when compared against building a carbon nanotube tether into orbit. Some mammals are able to hibernate for months.
I believe the expectation regarding carbon nanotubes in the sphere of space elevators is that they would be woven and layered into a sheet of human scale; these sheets would be used to construct a curved ribbon for the gondola to climb.

You could apply the same principle and weave a bootlace from them, but the limits of current technology would render that an exceedingly expensive bootlace.
Oops, meant can't use the whole JVM ecosystem with JS or Native.
The only problem with the framebuffer is that it adds a perceptible delay vs using a "raw" TTY. It's a small delay, perhaps a few ms, and I guess most people can't notice it, but it can be distracting if you live on the terminal.

You can actually see it if you cat a big file to the screen.
Haha right, it's still the case that the type definitions for Redux are very much usable though :)
Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones (2015)
Five Eyes' Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption
Stairway to Heaven is about 8 minutes long, so they better work hard on speeding the elevator up to match that.
After one month of keto diet (less than 20g of carbs and less than 15g of sugar, 75-80% fat), I started IF very easily for 18-20h. I break mostly for social reasons as I'm never very hungry.

With the keto diet you loose the cravings, and you are not very hungry, I think it should be achieved before starting IF.

I'm also in a deficit and I keep lifting and rowing. Never felt better in my life, I am motivated to the journey for a 10% bodyfat body.

I recommend eatthismuch.com to help with meal planning.

Just give it a try, the first week is hard and after it's a new life. I feel always good with a very clear mind (I dropped alcohol as well)
Bright flight.
I’ve heard it used in many places around the globe, but almost entirely always by folks 70+ years of age.
Now we get a decade or two of learning why that chip firmware needs to have open-source mechanisms that enforce separately defined policy.
Is it just me, or are we seeing yet another impressive leap in Computer Vision that's soon going to be hyped as an incremental step into Skynet?
Egypt says village found in Nile Delta predated pharaohs
I think the safety/ease of sleep makes people think anesthesia is about as easy to manage. In reality, it requires a highly trained professional to be monitoring 24/7, and even that involves very significant risks.
They also went the cmake route of not trying to be the build system, but the meta buildsystem which just writes out ninjafiles, or makefiles and lots of other obscure formats in case of cmake. This is probably also the reason why cmake 'won' so far.
My source is a whole bunch of comments on Mastodon that I read as the whole thing was going down, plus a bunch of more comments on Twitter talking about what happened after it was all over. I don't have specific links as I didn't save any, but there were a lot of independent sources on this at the time.

Edit: found a new tweet that summarizes this: https://twitter.com/eiwbm_cat/status/1035716245914624003?s=2...
Well said. That's about as succinct a sum-up as I've heard. This might actually belong in the FAQ as it might save some folks a bit of confusing cultural acclimation upon arriving at HN from parts distant such as reddit or slashdot (is that still a thing?).

At any rate, way better than "harumph! HN hates fun!"
They have written them, as toots on Mastodon and tweets on Twitter.
Only if they want this to be a fancy burial service where we slingshot your corpse into space for kicks.
I find using Docker (or any container) actually simpler than maintaining a pet server, even if you never need a cluster or Kubernetes. Just the ability to develop & test in an environment identical to production is a huge benefit on its own.
Sure, doesn't change anything for me.
Some adults have unusually high hearing range too. I’m almost 40 and yet can easily detect sounds up to 25khz, sometimes higher depending on the strength.
I think the argument was that we don't have materials that are stong enough and light enough and cheap enough at the same time.
AIUI it's even worse than that. According to a tweet thread I read, he actually ran his own personal blocklist that imported Randi Harper's blocklist, but also included pretty much anybody that annoyed him, for such tiny infractions as making a star trek reference at him on Twitter, or just being "rude". He personally blocked a bunch of trans artists whose Patreon and SoundCloud incomes subsequently dropped to zero.
Once you have a space elevator, it’s relatively easy to send up some rockets and demolition explosives that just sit on the cables at appropriate locations and stay there waiting for a disaster; should the cable be broken by malice, accident, or natural causes, the explosives can cut the falling cable into pieces small enough that the rockets can safely guide to the ocean (or orbit, whichever has the lowest delta-v).

The travel pods, likewise, can always have rockets on them whose sole purpose is to get the passengers to safely. Yes, it means you’re taking up more mass than you strictly need to, but the great thing about a space elevator is that the mass is no longer a hyper-critical parameter.

But yes, no rails here.
i remember lots of engineering issues around the cable due to waves and twists..
I'm sure it wasn't technically a bond—it just fits in the same bucket in my head. I'll change "one of these" to "something like that" above.
No, Modula-2 did not had channels as such.

However you should look into Active Oberon, where active objects are similar to co-routines. Messages are passed around active objects via message handlers.

https://oberoncore.ru/_media/wiki/lang/reali_p.active_oberon...

http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Front
My local YIMBY group had significant disagreements on it, so it decided to stay out of the issue. Instead, it is keeping with the focus of saying "yes" to housing in planning committees to counter the loud minority of "no"s.
Any recommendation for filling, low-carb foods?

I like fried eggs personally. Anything similar?
One is reminded of Derek Freeman's "The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead", in that the theory seemed so good no one had the heart to challenge it. But then, Freeman's analysis is itself still controversial, so who knows. It will be interesting to see a response from Rachel Maines.
Perhaps unless you decide to detach the cable at the earth end? You might be able to react to a break faster than the cable can fall.
there are a couple other things to throw into the mix, housing doesnt just appear if we will it, you have to make it cheaper to build in the first place, and have some type of land value tax to encourage density.

density is the answer though, demand will always be there and is harder to control
Oh absolutely. And if you really want to appreciate modern literature you need some grounding in cannpnical works.

They establish our common tropes amd metaphors. You'll get a lot more out of most modern works having that background. Hell, you'll get more out of the Simpsons

I still have a reading list of cannonical works. It's just shorter and I pursue it less aggressively. One thing I'd say too is that college lit classes and our popular notion of "classical" works both over index on books. You can get a lot more bang for the buck imo out of essays.
An increase in long term interest rates will also bring house prices down. That won't make an 80% mortgage more affordable, but it'll make saving for a 20% deposit easier (and will make houses cheaper for people who pay a larger fraction in cash.)

Long term interest rates have been pretty stagnant recently even as the Fed has been raising the short term rate steadily, but they've only just begun winding down their QE assets so if there isn't a recession in the next few years we should see house prices ease off.
This is so brilliant, I'm considering completely switching the type of software/hardware work I've been doing for the last decade.
No, really, you have to leave.

If you don't switch, are you going to use only Apple products your entire life from now? Seriously?

There are many, many devs right now who is switching from MacBooks to Linux machines because Linux on the desktop is really nice (just not perfect), and you suddenly feel very much alive again when you don't sit and wait for Apple to fix your problems. You fix them yourself, and you no longer care for the next version of IOS or the next MacBook etc.

t's freedom, honestly, truly. You are single again. You have left the bad relationship. You are free and happy. So much choice all of a sudden. It's great!
I think the real takeaway is that composition is much more likely to model the semantics you have, even though inheritance feels like it gives you better code re-use.
Because it preserves the power of those who are already familiar with them.
> good facial recognition exists

Does it? I would guess if you're going to blow someone's head off with an autonomous drone you'd want to be pretty darn sure it's them. Though, on second thought, governements don't really care about civilian casualties anyway... Perhaps this is a pragmatic solution to lowering those counts....
https://github.com/wmchris/DellXPS15-9550-OSX
They have a very expensive, hard to replace, and high maintenance bearing at the base of the tower that carries the full force of the sail leveraged by a long moment arm. This bearing (along with lack of height = low wind) has been the reason that Flettner sails and wind turbines haven't been economical in the past.
JavaScript has been a victim of its own success in many ways. It's so popular that other languages just transpile to js. In the end it runs js, but it doesn't matter much.

OTOH good libraries have bindings for the source language (eg react has wrappers in scalajs, clojurescript, etc)
You'd need to accelerate at 68 G's[0] (foreward for the first four minutes, backward for the last four). Not neccesarily unsurvivable, but your passengers (and most cargo) are likely to be unpleasantly pastelike.

We should probably treat it more like commercial air travel than compressive-structure elevator rides.

0: 200kph*8day/8min/2min => 67.981081 gravity