skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a member of the canine family myself[0], I would like to point out that there are a few dog breeds that can at least come close to 225 lbs. [1]

That said, yikes! Regular hyenas are scary, but add another 100 lbs on one, and we're talking nightmare fuel.

IIRC, modern hyenas tend not to attack people, generally. The way they mention the skeletons having been found at different sedimentary layers makes me think these guys are similar in that respect, which kinda dampens the whole "nightmare fuel" thing. At least, I hope so.

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[0]: Not actually a novelty account. I just thought it was a funny username.

[1]: https://topdogtips.com/worlds-largest-dog-breeds/
“Minimize the integral of thrust probably would do ok as a proxy for “minimize the amount of fuel required”
Michael Fumento author of "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS: How a Tragedy Has Been Distorted by the Media and Partisan Politics"

He's been wrong about a lot of things and its usually most evident after the fact but I'm sure THIS time he is prescient instead of completely full of it unlike with every other major issue he's taken a stand on.
Rent, as a percentage of income spent, has increased more for American's than almost all other expenses in the past sixty years. By 2015, more 38% of renter households were spending 50% or more of their income on rent. That sounds horribly unproductive to me.
So far the only new note taking app that I found polished enough[1] and worth the time is Bear and sadly it’s very very much a closed walled garden and with its subscription model it makes me very uncomfortable.

Tried FSNotes - extremely immature and it doesn’t seem to have any direction at all - it’s all over, Standard Notes - visibly none native and offers no exportable local storage (by design). Decided to stay away.

Hope to see some solid and simple new native apps around Notion API.

[1] Fast enough, not cluttered, and have native apps (I’ve realised after years of trial and use that my note taking app has to be native and that’s non-negotiable)
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> Hyenas are super cruel. It seems from many videos they take down beasts by biting off balls.

Chimps rip balls off, gouge eyes, etc. Snakes use venom. Some plants drown and dissolve their prey in acid. It's not a matter of "cruelty", it's a matter of the tools available to these animals.

> In yet other cases they just start eating the animal from before it's even dead.

There are animals/plants that eat their prey whole and dissolve them in acid. Ultimate goal of these animals is to eat, not to kill. What do you want the hyena to do?

> Very different from many cat family predators that usually kill their prey first.

Not because of some moral code. Because they don't want the prey attracting other predators. There are videos of cats eating live prey when it is convenient for them. A particular gruesome one is a pride of lions eating a live baby elephant.

There is no "cruelty" in nature. Only efficiency. These animals want to eat and do what they can with what they have.

Is it cruel for wasps to parasitically control insects, bugs, etc and lay eggs in them so that their eggs/larvae could feed on these hosts? A hyena is no more "cruel" than an earthquake is "cruel" for unleashing a tsunami that drowns thousands of people.

Only humans are cruel. Nature is simply nature.
This one made me laugh really really hard:

"This study presents the phylogenetic characterization of the beak and beak of beak whales; it is suggested that the beak and beak-toed beaks share common cranial bones, providing support for the idea that beaks are a new species of eutriconodont mammal."
Polar bear walked 1k km south from Arctic habitat
Preferred shares were explained to me once this way:

Imagine I give you $1M for 10% of your business. You now own 90% of a business that has $1M in assets. You easily sell the whole business for $900k (giving away $100k to the buyer, basically), give me back my 10% * $900k = $90k, and keep the remaining $810k for yourself.

Preferred shares are a mechanism for preventing you from immediately liquidating my capital. An investment of time can't be liquidated as easily, so preferred shares are generally only for those making liquid investments.

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It seems there are probably other mechanisms for dealing with this problem, but this explanation makes _some_ sense.
Tested on Windows and got two different identifiers. Firefox detected Postman, Chrome did not.
> This isn't true, look at for example the nineteenth amendment (men giving up power).

That wasn’t giving up power, it was trying to regain power by no longer claiming power through the abstraction of law that there was insufficient support to practically exercise and which claiming, as a result, merely diminished the general power of the State, because it reinforced in the public eye the gulf between law and power, reducing willingness to defer t9 the former in general.
> interesting, so 2D would be a "matrix language" somewhat similar to Matlab/Octave?

Not only are the data structures 2D/3D, but the language itself is homoiconic.

I'm thinking of things like 2D+ spreadsheets.

Like this from Alan Kay in 1984 (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1UAukcUYAAI9lS?format=png&name=...).

A more recent things along these lines that I worked on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2QWH-iV3k
Spreadsheets are a specialized spatial DSL. They are phenomenally successful, and have been around for more than 40 years.
I wouldn't even want to be surrounded by a pissed off pack of Airedales, forget hyenas.
Well, the underclass always gets the shit jobs, and habitat.

Owkwa beltalowda.
Seeing how much the author flashes the AWS acronym, surely he knows how fundamental ML, statistics, and optimization are to Amazon's core business model.
This is a Marxist labor theory of value argument, disregarding market forces. For a different supply-demand function, labor could get paid far more than investors (imagine a 0 interest rate environment while inflation is happening.)
I don't really understand this. I tried going at this as described with treating it as a natural language processor. I tried every iteration of 'calculate every prime number between 1 and 1000' i could think of. It was an error every time. I looked through the examples after and it seems to be a mix of natural language and formal programming constructs.

I don't really understand how to use this properly. It reminds me a bit of inform7 except less clear as to what's actually acceptable syntax.
(Post author here)

I don't think most people need to read everything they receive, but in my role as the project leader of a large open source community, essentially every conversation in chat.zulip.org is potentially relevant for me, so skimming every conversation is useful.

The critical thing here, both in my daily work and coming back from time away, is that Zulip makes skimming really cheap (`n` to jump to next topic, then read a moment and then hit `End` if it seems likely that the thread is resolved to check the conclusion, and then repeat). So a 150-message thread debugging something takes like 30 seconds -- read the first post (maybe a bug report), note who was helping investigate, jump to send and see that the topic ends with a PR link or other resolution.

At the same time, Zulip's organization means I could find the dozen of threads that might be a short thread presenting a question or problem that I'm our main expert on. In these cases, I can read the thread carefully, and send a reply resurrecting the thread (2 months later) with answer that was missing, some added context/background, or a link to a PR I made to put the answer in our documentation (my preferred solution to unanswered questions).

This has the effect of unblocking a bunch of useful work that had been waiting for me to return, and also giving me good context on everything I missed.

It's also pretty fun to see all the great that folks did while I was away :)
Yup. The most successful PL by pretty much 2 OOMs (1B spreadsheet users vs 20M JS programmers). I think the future will be the best ideas from traditional 1D programming languages merged into a spatial hybrid like spreadsheets.
ML for improving business seems to be an overkill. As in, if you are a regular business, the best I can guess is developing better pattern matching systems, say credit card fraud. Most businesses I see, are using AL/ML for improving their current processes.

However, AI/ML is definitely opening up new areas of business, such as autonomous robots (A roomba is much better at its job with a ML component in it, without which, it would have been difficult to come up with such a device), Social media, face recognition, etc.

All in all, most of AI/ML needs are centered around pattern matching in one form or the other. There is much less AI, a lot more Pattern Matching.
The conflict of interests by both parties here (short seller and lemonade) and lack of any real details makes it hard to form a conclusive opinion on this one.
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And other companies aren’t willing to sacrifice what Tesla is for range. It’s not like an egg is the best shape for an SUV and other companies just haven’t figured it out yet.
While I'm not directly trying to claim that this hack was the result of a nation-state actor, there's also no reason to assume such an entity wouldn't test the waters with small scale, targeted interference either.
Yes, that also means they had backups since the original outage but they were also going slow. My read of the situation is that the situation was urgent, backups were too slow, so they paid to try to have a quick fix only to have that also be very slow. I could be wrong about that, but as I said originally, they lacked rapid recovery capabilities.
Crime pays.
Lol as if majority of those hacks aren’t just some misconfigured s3 permissions or creds that got submitted to Github or an unpatched windows machine. Those are essentially script kiddie hacks 2.0 except they now can get payed thanks to crypto (at least it’s useful for something)
Last math I saw suggested 100,000 years, but if we're still on Mars for that long and dealing with atmospheric bleed-off, we done fucked up already.
> NB: Some journal websites find it difficult to display the asterisk and so they replace it with a w - so HLA-Cw04 and HLA-C*04 both mean the same thing.

Ironically, this comes right after the line where his own website rendered the text between the asterisks as italic.
It actually calls aurochs bovine, so I think the parenthetical was supposed to be a separate list item

"rhinoceroses, wild horses, an extinct wild bovine called aurochs, and people."
Not to detract from your sarcasm but the conservation of energy only holds true in flat spacetime. So I guess you don't 'believe' in curved spacetime? That makes you a flat spacetimer I guess...
Non mining nodes do diddly squat.
Looks like ransomware is good business.
I'm going to hang this bit of trivia here ..

Robert Forster (of "Jackie Brown", "Breaking Bad" and much earlier "Medium Cool") was a member of the high-IQ Triple Nine Society.
Or a Windows Kernel which is also (mostly) C.
Pile of trash like most of psychology today.

It just interleaves some obvious things with pure conjecture.

The "wiping away their sins" inferred by offering them a pencil or a cleansing wipe was just icing on the cake.
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Take a look at the major DI frameworks for Go, Wire [0] and FX [1]. They just plumb the gaps between methods that return types and methods that want them. Although technically they work for concrete types, 99% of the time it's going to be an interface, so that you can substitute a mock for testing.

Prior to DI frameworks we used global variables, often initialized in a package's init() method.

>The desire to do this reflects a misunderstanding of interfaces.

Generally you have a few layers: gRPC/HTTP/Kafka handler, business logic, and database or external service access. Layers are unit tested individually against mocks of the layers below. Because you're going to inject a mock, you can't depend on a concrete type, so you depend on an interface. Often when you're developing you want to know what the concrete implementation of a lower layer does, so it's useful to have "go-to-definition" see through the interface declaration to its implementations.

I think the implicit satisfaction of interfaces is very cool and I wish I had it in every language. I wouldn't give it up just to simplify the IDE's job. But the IDE having this functionality does matter.

[0] https://github.com/google/wire

[1] https://github.com/uber-go/fx
Or use AWS where services aren't switched off, they just no longer get promoted, and then eventually you cannot start new things on them, but can still run your existing stuff for the next 10 years.
I feel like you only need to read into this a _tiny_ bit to see how weird it sounds:

> It sucks that people might want to leave a company but won't because of how well they pay, so we decided to stop paying so well! Problem solved!

It'd be one thing if the comp was adjusted somehow to make up for the loss of extra upside. (Some companies switching to 1-year grants seem to be saying they're going down this route). But just cutting the grant length is literally just a comp decrease. (Which, of course, makes it easier to leave).
It doesn't matter if they're all criminals using the mixer-- we want to track these particular ransomware hackers, and that's made extremely difficult when all we see is their lump sum enter the mixer with countless other transactions, and countless disaggregated transactions come out the other end no longer tied to the hackers, making it much harder to track down the people that brought down most of the East Coast's pipeline infrastructure. Anything like that stunt is pretty difficult to accomplish using traditional banking institutions when we know where the money is going and can track it each step of the way, or just freeze it.
Honestly while I agree, I do think that Tesla did advance the adoption, purely by forcing it into the market so boldly with the model S. Other manufacturers were receiving government bailouts and messing around with smaller displacement city cars around 2010-2011, and brands like Karma started popping up along side Tesla and made a bit of disruptive noise to the big players.

I honestly don't think we'd have seen the same level of EV adoption by now if not for Tesla. But then I don't really know how to quantify it for arguments sake.
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It's all essentially asteroid redirect stuff, so the trick is finding something with what we want, on a close enough orbit, with some reasonable timeframes (i.e. it'd be preferable to do an impact with a 20 year arrival time so the people planning it can live to see it).

So either gravity-tug with ion thrusters do a minor correction, or more likely a solar reflector to turn part of the bodies mass into it's own propellant. Or a nuclear charge on the right side of it.

I suspect if we were committed to this as a thing we were doing, then once you turned more resources to it the actual calculus would get more complicated: you'd want to map out and characterize everything in orbit, and then start looking for second or even third order redirect candidates - i.e. use a smaller body on a more useful orbit to collide into a larger one for a redirect.

The technological criteria are much more reasonable for all of this though: we need to be able to get to what we're going to redirect reasonably quickly, several times so we can characterize and put the gear in place to do the mission. At this point you'd hopefully be using a bunch of Starships running on autopilot.

If you take some near-future tech into account, then if end up building the laser array for the Breakthrough Starshot project, a decent use of that most of the time would be lasing the surface of redirect candidates from Earth.

EDIT: Just realized I didn't answer your question very well - changing an orbit is much cheaper then escaping a gravity well. To go to the Moon from Low Earth Orbit takes maybe 1000ms-1 of delta-V (weak-boundary transfer and such - I'm probably a little off on that) under the right conditions.

To get into Low Earth Orbit through you need to blow through at 8km/s of Delta-V and then a lot more to overcome atmospheric drag.

But to return form a Near-Earth Object (say an asteroid) back into the Earth's atmosphere can be done with as little as 60 ms-1 of delta-V in some cases (a little more if you're aiming to hit the ground and not just plough through the atmosphere).

Basically with the right timing, orbital adjustments can be incredibly cheap.

EDIT 2: Basically it's quite likely there's more then a few comets out there which are going to make close passes to Mars already, where for the cost of an impactor, we could ensure they hit Mars instead if we found them early enough.
1. You are competing with other dating products with no discernible advantage.

2. You are competing with other feedback platforms like Yelp with no clear advantage.

3. You are combining two unrelated markets. Like having a funeral one and child care facility in one.

4. There are no clear revenue channels or models.

It’s not about trying or quitting. Find a known business model and offer a product that exploits the weaknesses of of the competition.
No, high performance gpus/fpgas/asics are made at bleeding edge fabs, whereas stm32 and the like are made at slightly older fabs.

Currently for the highest end cortex-m micros you're looking at 28 or 32nm ICs (10 year old nodes) up to 180nm for the older, cheaper micros (20 year old nodes).

There has been a you shortage for a quite while in large part due to crypto. The microcontroller shortage only started happening after car companies shot themselves in the foot and decided to screw everyone else over.
Again, I really think we're having some fundamental disagreements about what "DDD" is. Maybe that term is just doomed and what I'll say from now on is "hexagonal infrastructure".

For now, this is where I'm drawing my definition (that I use in this thread) of what DDD is, and what makes me think ORMs are indeed DDD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design#Building_...
NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has found some mysterious rocks
If that was your point, you did a poor job of making it.
There's 7 billion human brains on earth. We can spare a couple to focus on making our species multi-planetary while the rest deal with cleaning up the mess at home. It's unreasonable to expect the entire human race to stop what they're doing and focus on one issue.
> It seems silly tho that we need to pass a law to uphold what's already written into the constitution.

What makes you think that they will respect new laws?
“Solved” in the way that a mathematician views a bucket of water and a hotel room fire as “solved”.
Do Roombas include any ML component? I thought they followed a rather straightforward heuristic along the lines of a random walk, with turns when they hit an obstacle.
So of course it takes some time for the Mars colony to be at an appreciable enough size to be viable as an Earth backup. But once it is there, the colony would be have the incentive to start Earth back on the path to being support for Mars.
Yeah that's the core idea with all code notebooks like Observable or Jupyter, etc. You get instant feedback and results right in the notebook. So you type some code, usually press a button to run, and instantly see the results right next to the code. It would be kind of like if your traditional IDE had a run button that compiled, ran, and dumped the output of your in development program as comments right below the lines you're editing.
Tag yourself.
IMO epic is still majorily at fault for that, due to offering the incentive in the first place, either due to incompetence or malice, while also saying that valve is engaging in monopolistic tactics.
>Use the online IDE Replit instead of showing students how to set up Python on Windows (a point where many aspiring programmers give up).

What a burn.
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I'm confused, my comment you replied to was the opposite of free market religion. Also kind of the opposite of "mysterious ways."
He probably just had an amazing editor. They are unsung heros in publishing.
Maybe he should have put that front & center in his blog post. Instead, the tone of most of it was "Hey I worked the system to get this cool free thing!"
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All of your points about government budget bloat only seem to support

>SpaceX proved government budgets aren't scrutinized enough.
> The Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood relies on Web Authentication (WebAuthn) Attestation. This is an API that has been standardized at the W3C and is already implemented in most modern web browsers and operating systems.

That's because it is WebAuthn.
So many scandals with Lambda School, not sure how anyone trusts it anymore.
The paper is here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04619
This map shows all the local stops for each city's commuter rail system. Intercity trains skip over many of these. The Acela leaves Boston, stops a the Route 128 suburban ring station (which has a large parking structure), and then hits 150mph on its way to Providence. Local MBTA service hits all of those intermediate stops.

https://www.amtrak.com/routes/acela-train.html
This. A million times this. I can’t tell you how many netsec roles are staffed by people that are content being a butt in a seat and have zero effect on the overall security of a corporation.
pwning libertarians is ok in my books!

(ooooh, was there lead in your hamburger? just the price of freedom, I guess! if you don't like it, you can go eat fiat hamburgers like the plebes.)
That does not change anything about my comment. As I said in it, it did seem they were probably willing to donate if called upon. The real problem is what I said about the overall tone in my comment above.

Heck, just look at the title of the post. It was not "Helping to Save Lives can Get You Free Genotyping!"

No, instead it was just about how he got free genotyping, which just reinforced my impression of where the tone of the post's real focus was-- the free data, not helping people.

I will fully give the author the benefit of the doubt that it was not their intention to set that tone. But that was nonetheless the tone I saw, and clearly others did as well.
> Does that look like just a simple turbo charger?

It doesn't look like a turbocharger, it looks like a system diagram of a fuel cell attached to a turbocharger.

::facepalm::

> You are the one redefining what a heat recovery turbine is, no one calls a turbo charger a heat recovery turbine, and no devices called heat recovery turbines are just a turbo charger at minimum they drive a generator or are mechanically coupled to an engines output.

::doublefacepalm::
Well, sort of. There's an argument to be made that people should realize how much better a deal VCs are getting and stop settling for worse ROI. Part of the problem is exactly that supply is high, possibly because of a lack of knowledge/negotiation leverage.
>Centralised monitoring and harsh punishments aren’t the only way to make people comply with beneficial guidelines. When people are told the scientific facts, and when people trust public authorities to tell them these facts, citizens can do the right thing even without a Big Brother watching over their shoulders. A self-motivated and well-informed population is usually far more powerful and effective than a policed, ignorant population.

Of all Harari's predictions, this one was the most depressing when we found out it was false.
It is when you do it for the purposes of market manipulation.

Intent matters, which also makes market manipulation so difficult to prove.