skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This! To my understanding, as a dilettante in the science of fluids, turbulence is an open problem mostly only in subfields pretty far removed from everyday engineering:

The mathematicians question whether the Navier-Stokes continuum fluid model can be trusted to remain mathematically well-posed in all scenarios; but Navier-Stokes is just a second-order approximation to Boltzmann transport, and higher-order approximations are well known. If N-S were to blow up, it would merely indicate that the second-order approximation breaks down in some regime, necessarily involving shocks. But... I don’t think any experts in transport theory would be surprised by that. It would be more be like solving the mystery of rogue waves, and less like finding bigfoot.

The other group I’m aware of are those who study large-scale turbulence. The goal there is to summarize or coarse-grain the turbulence that goes on within a small computational volume, as a cost-saving measure versus using a more finely-resolved mesh in space and time. That’s valuable work with true social impact, such as in atmospheric forecasting and erosion studies. But... it’s kinda phenomenological. Not as much fun for many scientists.
Was Microsoft in the 1990s better than Apple in the 2020s?
Presumably by pricing it slightly above the existing providers they can resolve the problem of having too many customers.
If it weren't Sam Altman who published this article, it probably never would have made the HN front page. (None of my blog posts have done so, and I can say with confidence that my worst blog posts are still more fleshed out than this post.)

Sam, if you're reading this and want to challenge my hypothesis, all you need to do is make a pen name and register a domain name to go with it, then publish your next post of the same caliber under that persona and see how well it sinks/swims on HN.
Your comment about fetching led me to remember a Reddit post from the other day, where a dog (apparently also a Labrador or Lab mix) was able to fetch a single wood chip tossed a few meters away: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/h8dkjv/yogi_got_a_l...
What's reasonable about it? Those places have been explored. There's far less dangerous ways to experience nature and the wilderness too.

I also don't see how the cost is sunk, it's proportional to the number of rescues they have to carry out, plus you risk the rescuers lives.
I was on a day hike up a mountain several years back with a group of friends and acquaintances. Some of the folks had really been wanting to get to the top of this particular mountain -- it's known for its views. It was late spring, and we had beautiful weather until we got maybe 3-4 miles in, closing in on the top. At that point there was thick snow still on the ground, it started to get foggy, and (I can't remember exactly why) the trail became harder to recognize.

We were equipped for a quick afternoon hike, nothing more -- some of us I think just had t-shirts and shorts -- and some of us started to get nervous. Others really wanted to keep going to the top, especially since we knew we were close (though not how close).

We did end up turning around and heading down after just a few hundred feet of walking in the snow. I wonder about our decision from time to time -- were we smart or overly cautious? Would it have been fine or a disaster? I guess there's no easy answer -- you can't know what would have happened.
Reach out to other white males.

It doesn’t need to be awkward, complicated, or in depth. Whenever a colleague flirts with casual racism, saying “let’s keep things professional” works wonders.

Beyond that it depends on your position and abilities.
Neat idea, but it seems like abuse of the torrent protocol. If peers don't grab chunks randomly then it partially defeats the purpose of bittorrent.
You don’t have to pretend. It is quite obvious that parent is being sincere, whether you happen to agree or not.
> So education up until about age 12.

Where did you get that from?
No, not really.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23421043
Don't many (most?) private equity funds have very very long horizons, like 10 years? And perhaps that's a mitigating factor to the opaqueness?
Why will non remote Canadians get excited about high speed internet? They already have that.
could they instead offer urban canadians reasonably priced mobile phone service?
You posit two examples at pretty far poles of the risk equation. How about doing winter hiking up high peaks in the Northeast US? Or whitewater kayaking? Or rock climbing?
> and in many jurisdictions if the person getting rescued was doing something stupid, they foot the bill, not the public.

“Are liable to the public to reimburse” rather than “foot”; the distinction is critical because the rescued individual may not have the resources to actually pay or may be impossible to collect from. The more expensive the rescue is, naturally, the more likely this is to be the case.
Government-backed cryptos are coming This is truly a new era in global finance
You're not wrong, but it's like you didn't read "or valuable" in the comment you're responding to.
Here's a magical phrase "Sorry I really don't have time to help you with this". As much as it's an asshole move, the people asking for your help are being paid to work on it and you're not, so unless you're trying to garner brownie points for mentoring, you need to be clear about your boundaries.
What does the US constitution has to do with this and why should I care?

> I should be able to say whatever I want with no consequences

This is kind of the point of free speech. You are not free to do something if you are threatened with jail-time or murder or getting beaten or ... .
New is old....SSC was about the same size though only 40TeV but by now would have had a magnet upgrade to surely push close to 100TeV
To me, it feels like Gary Vee's cancerous idea of 'there is never enough content, post everywhere, all the time' has infiltrated culture - people have realized that they can stay popular and receive the many perks that come with it, from simply posting 'content' that barely has any actual content in it :)

I couldn't comprehend why anybody would watch daily videos from a guy/gal who does nothing but films him/herself filming shit (Casey Neistat being the first I believe), but I think I've figured it out.

It's like having an internet friend - if they like you, it no longer matters what you do, the same way you aren't having deep conversations with your friends, you're just 'hanging out'.

Sam Altman is doing the daily video version of hanging out, except he does it in blog format because he's an 'intellectual' or maybe just camera shy and the frequency seems to be a week or two apart.

It used to be that people would actually provide some value - a blog would at least aggregate interesting news stories (Daring Fireball) and provide some insight, but people have realized that doing all that work of actually reading, thinking and providing insight, is optional - you just need others to want to consume whatever you're providing and the bar has turned out to be far lower than any intelligent person can readily comprehend.

There's also a great deal of 'ignorance is bliss' when it comes to people like Paul Graham. His posts on Twitter strike me as him sharing what he considers to be insightful or interesting. It's revealing that rather than actually studying people who've come before him and devoted their life to contemplation, he's perfectly content to have 'insights' about his children's latest quip. You can't fault someone for it and I don't think Paul has ever claimed to be an intellectual, so it is perfectly good that he gets to have his simple fun of re-discovering the tried and true, rather than working hard on attempting to discover the novel. It's when he generalizes his personal little joys into theories about the rest of the world without any felt need for diligence (besides editing) or response to feedback, that his simple-mindedness is revealed and catches people who haven't lived a while, off-guard. Sam Altman may fall into this category.
The application was made in May: (look for "Space Exploration Technologies Corp.")

https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/instances-proceedings/Defaul...

Western Canada only has one rural ISP of note: Xplorenet. Competition would be a welcome change here.
Yes this very good. As it the point that restating the problem in a different domain is a very common way to make a problem tractable.

Examples

Converting numbers to logs allows you to multiply and divide by mere addition and subtraction. If you wonder why RF engineers represent power in db this is why.

Mapping an equation in terms of forces integrated over a path to one using vectors and energy.
The unsettling art of death photography
What to Build MVP or Beta?
I'm naturally suspicious of this kind of reductionism, because it so easily shades into unfalsifiability.

"Everything you do is either because of X, or you believe it's for some other reason but your subconscious does it because of X anyway."
To use linear types for everything will require new libraries, no?
Dan Kennedy has a bunch of books with this theme.
Not sure of your knowledge of the Canadian Telecom market but in certain urban centers there's virtually no competition (or if there is competition its borderline collusion between our three major carriers). I know a lot of people wishing for competitive options to disconnect themselves from Rogers/Bell/Telus and would see this as something compelling.
Instagram influencers using Ethereum “social money” to interact with fans
I'm tired or ad blockers, they make the page usually slower to load. Even if they save you some downloading, they usually block the loading pipeline, so they end up costing you more time. I use a combination of "I don't care about cookies" to automatically accept all cookies, so websites are free to show the ads they want and send me the cookies they want. Then I use Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection in strict mode to delete all tracking cookies as I go. It has worked great so far. Yes, I see ads, but they're not targeted and the page loads fast.
Yeah, I certainly can't dispute that.
Commitments to Improving Our Options Offering
If this is not the correct way to use a 64-Core Processor, I don't know what is
Left and right on what axis? I remember hearing that this was regarding economic policy.
> Should we stop people climbing mountains, paddling whitewater, skydiving or even just eating bacon all in the name of "public safety"?

Probably not, but neither should we be leaving bait out for them either.

They didn't infringe on anyone's rights here. The mountains and whitewater and sky and bacon are all still there. They moved a bus.
what mbps range is "high-speed internet"
that's true for almost all human scientific or inventive activity, so the case for this has to be made in the face of opportunity costs.

21 billion could be spent on two hundred thousand(!) 100k grants to scientists. Building a giant machine to perform experiments that will likely merely confirm the existing models of particle physics while revealing very little of interest to society at large is pretty much indefensible.
That's quite true. It's not meant to be a panacea, but I hope it can be useful in situations where tree-like relationships are pervasive (like comment sections, for example).
Why are we so quick to scrutinise how low-income families spend their money?
Tesla supplies ~0% of the worlds telecom and electricity services.
What's the latency and bandwidth they'd be offering?
I think we were both talking about PG Music's (literal) "Band-in-a-Box": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-in-a-Box

Happy to read that it's still being updated.
People may misinterpret what 'remote' means and just how bad the internet situation is. My father lives 45 minutes away from Toronto and until he spent a ton of money on a line-of-sight antenna a year ago, he basically had dial-up internet.
How the Extinction of Ice Age Mammals May Have Forced Us to Invent Civilization
:| Appears to be follow-up on previous reporting of the customer's note. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23568200
Neither you nor he are operating in good faith. This is HN everyone knows how to use google. He is asking me to prove institutional racism exists. As though if he were to google "Institutional Racism America" nothing would come up. Ben and Jerry's has a page on it for crying out loud. His claim that institutional racism in America is hard to find beggars belief. Neither of you is acting in good faith. I refuse to waste my time.
not sure about collusion between the big 3, but for both my mobile and internet provider (2 different ones), i've successfully pitted them against each other by calling to say i'm switching over to their competitor and repeatedly got discounts for it. i'm currently paying $45/mth for 20gb from Fido Pulse BYOD plan with unlimited talk and text, and for home internet i'm paying $55/mth for 750mbps fibre from Telus.
I may be falling victim to Braun's non-existing aura, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of his buddies capitalizing on his trust.

It was repeatedly bemoaned that in the case of WDI, a blue chip prime standard stock, worth more than any German bank (as of yesterday morning) was managed like a Mittelstand family business.

It is really weird that WDI's management board was almost completely staffed with former fellow students (or people who are affilliated with people he knew) from Austria, people who often outside of WDI had no job experience.

In the best case this is just due to unicorn-growth. In the worst case, they are all in this together. Probably, it is something in between, that they we're unfit for the big game and one/some of them took advantage of it.
Different Levels of Interconnects
Impressive!
It's interesting for me if such grade CSS developers get same compensation as their JavaScript counterparts.
> Creating a hostile environment for people

Ironically in my experience this is exactly what anti-free speech people do.

> Most people complaining about free speech are essentially campaigning for their right to be cruel and impolite in polite society.

If politeness is defined by what the majority of the mob believes in, sure. I guess 80 years back you would be impolite to talk about gay rights.
> people have realized that they can stay popular and receive the many perks that come with it, from simply posting 'content' that barely has any actual content in it :)

Mark Twain I think said: That man can pack the smallest ideas into the most words of any man I know.

Personal Hate: Essays that follow the NPR style of layering vast amounts of extraneous sub-anecdotes before getting to the point.
>"I live in rural Ontario where there are no providers that can provide internet at a fast and affordable price," said Mahdi Hossinzehi, a resident of Cedar Valley, Ont., about 30 kilometres north of Toronto. "With fast, reliable and affordable internet, rural areas will benefit immensely economically, and a lot of younger people won't end up leaving for the city."

>Carol Jobity of Adjala-Tosorontio, just west of Barrie, Ont., is similarly supportive.

>"Please approve this," Jobity wrote to the regulator. "We're in support 100 per cent."

>Iqaluit resident Brandt Chu said he's in favour of the proposal because of how remote life can be in Nunavut.

I find it a bit amusing that 2/3 of the people complaining live in municipalities within commuting distance of Toronto. Surely CBC could have found comments from more than one Canadian who actually lives in a remote rural area, Barrie and Cedar Valley do not count. Those two areas would be better served by a wireless ISP, unlike truly remote areas which make up large swaths of the province.
Reeder on iPhone + MiniFlux, like many people here.
Now, posts full of emojis that use gradient descent for a classical problem with an efficient analytical solution (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_least_squares) that you learn of in any ML class make it to front page...
i wonder if they have any concrete plans to prevent abuse of their platform, a la https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/03/news-genius-wants-t...
No point. There's far easier ways to withdraw tax-deferred money before full retirement age without penalties. Waiting 5 years after a Roth conversion or a 72(t) election are far easier.

There's also self-dealing restrictions on IRAs and presumably self-directed 401(k)s as well.

Besides which, if you're fucking with the IRS, there's far better things to do than merely avoid a 10% early withdrawal penalty. Eg - have your Roth account own some company, then figure out a way to smuggle a gigantic pile of cash into said company. That money then never ends up getting taxed.
The point I was making is that your argument seems to be inconsistently applied. It would seem that it’s equally wrong to adjust anyone’s time just because one person felt cheated for forgetting to remove a 20lbs weight from their own neck.
People ask me what do they need to be good at to work at Google. I jokingly (but kind of seriously) tell them it's just like grade school - reading and writing. 80% of the job is reading, editing and commenting on docs people wrote or writing docs people will read.
They might struggle to make a service that's worse than Rogers/Shaw. It's a pretty high bar.
Up to some point in not so distant (around Newton's time in Europe) past you can read "ritual purposes" as "scientific purposes"
The things you cite as missing in C# can be found in F# on .NET Core. Have you ever tried it? I find it hard to stomach C# after delving deeply into F#, and you still get to use Dapper! Swagger though... not sure if anyone ever got that working well with Giraffe or any other more functional web framework. When I say "working" I mean automatically generating the Swagger docs for you.
That would be so wonderful, it is stupid how things are run currently and it so expensive for no good reason. I wish we had nationalized the internet providers a while ago. That would have allowed us to just write in the law that everybody should have access to the internet. Pretty much like electricity is run in Quebec. It works great, it's cheap and the government even makes money.
I'll be interested to see how SpaceX tries to get the word out to rural Canadians once it launches. None of Elon's current companies have had to do any traditional marketing yet, but I suspect that they'll have to for this.
The farmers I know use a cell phone modem. I'm sure they'd love to switch if Starlink lives up to the hype.
I think there's a certain part of the population (generally on the left from what I've seen) that is so deep in an ideological bubble that they cannot believe that reasonable and legitimate alternate perspectives exist. When countered with fair and legitimate points, they unfortunately wish to exit conversations.

This is just a fun little an online message board and I do not wish to criticize the poster who accused me of being in bad faith (whatever that means). However, I don't believe I said anything improper, even if it was jarring to their world view.
A VR headset can also give you a single good display on demand. What about reading a 100” mural scale comic book while laying down in bed?
Ask HN: Language agnostic linter / converter for oppressive language?
Our company, much like other companies, are thinking of renaming our master branch to main, like Github suggests, and renaming master/slave, renaming blacklist/whitelist, etc.

Is there a language agnostic linter / converter for this? Unsure if Uber's NEAL or Github's super-linter supports this.

References:

* https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-01.html

* https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references/
Even if the ranger were referring only to the bus, does two search and rescue operations per year not prove the point?
Right, thanks, it's been too long.
This blog focuses more on computer gaming than console gaming, which tilts the balance more toward those genres. There is a bit of a tendency to overlook sports games in most "gaming" discussion, I'd say, despite their significant popularity, but they've also never been as much of a force on the PC as on consoles or arcade.

If you read the blog, you'll also note that that the author makes no secret of his fondness for graphical and text adventures, and the blog has covered both extensively, including their declines.

Interestingly, particularly since you brought up 1998, the Old Man Murray article you linked to was written by Erik Wolpaw, a well-known game writer who later worked with Double Fine (founded by Tim Schafer of LucasArts fame, the designer of 1998's Grim Fandango, basically the swan song of the LucasArts adventures) and Valve, purveyor of 1998's acclaimed FPS Half-Life.
Is that how it works in the US? In the UK, your debit card is effectively your bank account. Maxing it would imply your account is empty, and overdrawn to the point where the bank will not lend you more. No lag.
OK. Undisputed is an overstatement, unfair even. There's actually quite a lot of action in this space, and the publications/excavations are recent.

You do see my point though, no? I think many/most history teachers don't really know much about alternative "how it all began" history, and those old narratives are still certainly the history 101 interpretation. If high school teaches neolithic history, they probably teach a historical materialism version.

As the evidence stands currently, that's no longer evidence based.
Perhaps I misunderstood your position. Reading your original comment, it is not as I remembered it -- either I misunderstood, or the comment has evolved.

Regarding this:

> And all I am arguing is that social media should be held to the same standards as traditional media

If I were to slander someone on HN, HN should be held responsible? It seems unworkable in practice, since HN is an automated system, more akin to the post office or a public bulletin than a traditional publisher.

(Though, obviously, it's sort of in the middle, since they will moderate particularly obnoxious comments.)

But if you hold them liable, it would be unreasonable legal risk to assume to allow the comment section to continue to exist, no?
It would be more interesting to break these down. Example, "Travelling 6 miles (9.7 km) by motorbike (accident) = 1 micromort"

That can be broken down to motorcycle on the freeway (light traffic) vs congested city vs N traffic lights vs curvy mountain roads, riding around sunset, etc.

Knowing how dangerous something is in aggregate is not as useful as the specifics.
> do TLDs really matter?

When you have to enunciate them down a phone line or in person then yes, they do. Especially when they're not .com or .co.uk

Several times I've responded to someone's request for my email address with "I'll send you a WhatsApp to click " instead of trying to spell it out.
By “coplex” do you mean complex? Or is this a different word?
Guess and “suck it and see” as old professor of mine in control theory would tell the class.
This also happens in credit card merchant contracts (from what I've read) and it seems like the kind of thing that I prefer governments regulate (rather than try to disrupt all app stores altogether).

I just want to know that my license to use an app purchased in 1 store means that the license follows me (or my account or my estate, etc), not limited to that one app store. If I buy a game on Steam, and later move to a PS and later move to XBox, I don't want the loss of value associated with losing all copies of my legally purchased/licensed content (or worse, if my account is closed/banned on one platform).

This is also what is destroying any potential value to electronic health records (although doctors seem to hate transcribing their notes, so the value may be limited anyway).
Do they store data forever, or does it eventually cycle out for cost reasons?