skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a bigger launch vehicle to launch everything in one go. I mean why didn't they just launch the ISS in one go? If your launch vehicle can put 1 ton into orbit, you can either have a 500kg vehicle with 500kg fuel, or you can have a 1T vehicle with an 1T fuel thing to launch separately.

In KSP you can just add more boosters and fuel to your launch vehicle, but in the real life you have to consider economics.

IIRC for a possible Mars or even moon trip, SpaceX will need to refuel in orbit as well.
> Ending this scourge on civilization is one of most important political problems facing the international community these days

What is it about this topic that always brings out the most extreme voices on either side? It seems like both proponents and detractors wildly overestimate the technology’s importance.

This particular blog post drops the above quoted bomb right at the start, and then goes on to argue the comparatively irrelevant question of innovation instead. I’d love to read a well argued post about how exactly blockchain destroys civilization (or saves it, for that matter).
The automated masking does look impressive, but you can do the same with Davinci Resolve, which charges a one off £250 for a lifetime license with free upgrades.

At $35/month Davinci works out cheaper in less than 10 months...
I read something online about it coming from a Harvard callsign. Is that nonsense?
Here is how to reproduce it in a fresh docker container, so we have the same environment:

docker run -it --rm debian:10-slim /bin/bash

apt update
apt install -y git python3-pip --no-install-recommends
pip3 install git+https://github.com/bsdz/calcengine.git#master

Result: "This package requires Rust >=1.41.0."
Yeah, this is exactly how the rest of the world feels about US-based companies harvesting dna data for years...
I want an ad-blocker which can overlay these ads with art.
Thanks! AMA if you meet problems playing with the demo.
I don't really welcome our new corporate overlords, but why does anyone give a shit what Chinese govt thinks?

They're hilariously corrupt, natavist, and frankly crazy. To the point that you can't even admit Taiwan has been an independent country for half a century without them having a mental breakdown.

And have fun if you're a Muslim minority. They're busy hitlering everyone who isn't ethnically pure enough.

Chinese govt is a joke. I guess AMD didn't bring enough cash suitcases on their last visit
To the people arguing it's "fair use" to use this for training an ML network. Where do you draw the line? What if you train an "ML network" with one or two inputs... so that they almost always "generate" exact copies of the inputs? Five inputs..? Ten? A thousand? A million?
There was a famous Greek fighter who competed in the original Olympics who's preferred tactic was to break all the fingers of his opponent first, before finishing them off. It was pretty normal for fighters to lose teeth or suffer broken bones.
> These days I spend a great deal of my time writing about and helping inform public policy on the global cryptocurrency crackdown. Ending this scourge on civilization is one of most important political problems facing the international community these days, and marks a new era of global cooperation on financial regulation that now necessarily transcends borders and nations. The fight against cryptocurrency and ransomware is now a fight for the cause of democratic norms and the continuation of the rules-based international order.

I have never met this person, but I am certain I would not enjoy a conversation with them.
51k-year-old engraved bone reveals Neanderthals’ capacity for symbolic behaviour
Sorry, Bruce Lee and static? What are you even talking about? He's one of the earliest examples of MMA I can think of in how he tried to draw from different martial arts to create jeet kune do, which was not just created for movies.

Edit: As a concrete example, he grew up with Wing Chun. But he realized that the static stance was a huge detriment in real fights, so he took the boxing footwork from Ali, which was a lot of moving around and staying mobile and not standing in one spot.
If you have public repos anywhere people can train on them just as much.
Earbuds/in-ear monitors are another one, and earplugs for people working in loud environments.
Original Publication:

Kölbach, Rehfeld, May: "Efficiency Gains for Thermally Coupled Solar Hydrogen Production in Extreme Cold", Energy & Environmental Science, 2021.

https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.14377049
> This supernova, about 31 million light-years from Earth in the galaxy NGC2146, was detected three hours after the explosion happened.

Faster Than Light communication!
We did it! Setting a new standard for EV efficiency
Append-only, log-structured datastores are useful; Merkle trees are useful; bitcoin did not invent these things though it has helped popularise them.

PoW is the one unique innovation that makes bitcoin bitcoin, and I think the last 12 years have shown that its legitimate use cases are niche at best.
Only in the same sense as mars goes around the Earth. Meaningless concept. It never crosses inside Earth orbit.

Maybe "co-orbits the Sun with the Earth using Earth's gravity"
Right that’s true. To be honest I’m not sure that always factors into recommendation. I also can’t block classes of content (like short videos). And I can’t go to a video and just set is it or the channel as blocked.

“don’t recommend” and “block” are also different concepts. I’d like the ability to block content so it doesn’t appear at all if searched for, linked etc.

The fact is, YouTube could easily provide much of this functionality. Particularly the ability to block short content. But they’re interested in pushing this content on users.
The patent says “aluminum alloy honeycomb”. Sounds expensive!

I wonder if the patentholder actually got this thing working in real life. There’s probably a lot of money in the idea if it’s feasible.
>> A full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C-extension!

> I mean, I've can't even begin to imagine how insecure that awful combination of insecure by default languages is.

What is inherently insecure about PHP? Or Phalcon? Do they have vulnerabilities that other C programs don't have?
Limited capacity, logistics to slow Chinese Bitcoin miners' global shift
Beauty is in the eye of the shareholder.
Whether you agree about the relative scale of cold and heat deaths doesn't matter. I say that all lives matter, so lives lost due to heat and lives saved due to heat should BOTH be included in the calculation. And, yes, I'm serious that a life saved due to heat matters just like a life lost due to heat. Are you arguing that lives lost due to warmer temperatures matter, but lives saved by warmer temperatures don't? Or just that the latter problem, say homeless and poor people dying of the cold, is too trivial in your opinion to matter in public policy discussions?
This assumes that the AI knows what respect is, has desires, has a desire for respect, and I could go on. Of course we might get such an AI at some point, but any catastrophes can happen on the entire way until getting there because AI is neither a black/white situation nor a single big event.
Any suggestions for an alternative? One thing I like about github is that it 'seems' to be a defacto standard for portfolios & public works. It also has excellent integration into AWS and alike
How do they extract the players when the ads are constantly changing? I know tech like this has existed for decades for adding graphics over the actual grass, because they can just key out the green. But I never realised they could do it on ads like that.
I take you are responding to the “unschool” thing. What I was thinking of still have people acting as resources, and a curated learning environment. Maybe I was using the wrong term there.
I can imagine a requirement of the sort 'generated code needs to match at most X% to snippets of the training data as shown over Y amount of sampling' but I am not sure if you can get a much better requirement than that.

Forbidding the training of AI on public code would definitely be a step too far though.

Edit: I'd also like if they provide a tool for checking if your code matches copyrighted code too close so you can confirm if you are violating anything or not when you use copilot.
I’ve been a customer for 5+ years and I still love it. Their support escalations can take a little time, but keep in mind you’re (we’re) paying something like $50-$100/year, and a typical escalated support ticket (ie, a problem that requires account-specific troubleshooting) can cost $10-$25 of labor.

Of course, it needs to be reliable and send mail. Maybe see how their response and the second month goes, then decide.
Like it happened with LibreOffice, I trust that a community fork will prevail.
> but there is no train conductor because the train is wired into the stoplight system and slows down/stops/accelerates appropriately.

???

If you literally mean a conductor, i.e. as per the Wikipedia "a train crew member responsible for operational and safety duties that do not involve actual operation of the train/locomotive" then yes, but then again that's nothing special as local public transport has mostly got rid of conductors for decades already and only a few systems still retain them (like apparently most older North American subway systems). Also it doesn't really have to do anything with how the traffic lights are wired or not.

If on the other hand you do in fact mean a driver, then that would very much surprise me, as automatic operation of light rail systems running in mixed street traffic is still very uncommon to non-existant (as compared to fully segregated subways and subway-like systems, where new systems are commonly automated and older systems are slowly and occasionally being converted to automatic operation), and a cursory search seems to indicate that Minneapolis is no different in that regard, i.e. the trains are in fact still driver-operated.
Yes, and interestingly there is a single gene mutation which determines which type you have. This is as far as I know the only non-disease phenotype determined by a single DNA base change.
Camera pixels are not like screen pixels, more like screen subpixels. Each one has a color filter in front in a Bayer pattern, meaning a 2MP screen more closely corresponds to a 6MP camera sensor than a 2MP sensor. Respectively a 4K display already goes to 24MP camera sensor equivalency, which is quite a lot - many of the modern full-frame cameras have 24MP and more than that is considered high-resolution.
(Sorry, I must've turned off the notifications in HN, because I never know when someone replies to a comment I've made.)

Rather than recommending films, which can turn into a long list since I'd find it difficult to decide which deserves more attention, I've shorlisted a number of highly respected and influential directors that I've closely followed (not in a social media kind of way)

* Majid Majidi

* Abbas Kiarostami

* The Makhmalbaf family (https://www.makhmalbaf.com)

* Dariush Mehrjui

* Bahman Ghobadi

* Jafar Panahi

* Bahram Beizai

* Asghar Farhadi

Most of these managed to create amazing films despite being closely watched and heavily censored by the authorities.
HTTP/1.1 pipelining example: retrieving 100s of small files
A simple demonstration of HTTP/1.1 pipelining with netcat.

Retrieving 100s of small JPEG files with a single TCP connection. Here, 2 TCP connections for 141 files.

Splitting the output into image files and making a PDF from the images.

yy025 can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27178484

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27180125

yy056 can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769305

# std utils: split, seq, od, tr, sed, flex
# common utils: nc, xxd, imagemagick
# simple utils made with flex: yy025, yy056

(export Connection=keep-alive
x1=http://www.minimizedistraction.com/img/vrg_google_doc_final_vrs03-
x2(){ seq -f "$x1%g.jpg" $1 $2;};
x3(){ yy025|nc -vvn 173.236.175.199 80;};
x2 1 100|x3;
x2 101 200|x3;
)|exec yy056|exec od -An -tx1 -vw99999|exec tr -d '\40'|exec sed 's/ffd9ffd8/ffd9\
ffd8/g'|exec sed -n /ffd8/p|exec split -l1;
for x in x??;do xxd -p -r < $x > $x.jpg;rm $x;done;
convert x??.jpg 1.pdf 2>/dev/null;rm x??.jpg

firefox ./1.pdf

Note: The 82nd image is apparently corrupted which you will notice on page 82 of the PDF. However, this has no effect on readability of the slide.
That's absolutely no different than just installing and not re-installing. Docker adds nothing in this case.

Not re-building doesn't make your build reproducible. It just means that you're... not building. If I save the result of a single iteration of an RNG, I can't claim that the RNG always produces the same result because I saved the result somewhere...
Ah, accessibility features! Classic example of why you need to check all meta-data from PDF documents before releasing.
Nothing of what you say suggests that you have "come up with a way to allow investors to independently verify how much profit a business makes with absolute certainty without having to trust company directors or accountants".
That's also my general sentiment. I assume anyone can do virtually anything with my public repos with little recourse from me. I wouldn't even know if they are indeed breaking my license agreements. Doesn't really help the situation though.
I would point to Hicetnunc as one example[1], which provides real value for many artists on the platform.

I’m sure it’s possible to build a similar platform with a central database handling transactions and Stripe payouts, but I’m not sure it would be met with the same enthusiasm (and, despite the possibility of this with past tech, no pre-blockchain digital art marketplace has come close to meeting it in sales).

Due to the decentralization of the art tokens (via the blockchain), the community has been able to grow and evolve in a way that a centralized platform could not. For example: while the site’s contract was paused to repair a bug, artists continued to trade tokens directly peer-to-peer (no platform needed), and even build new sites and platforms that enabled trading & auctioning on the same Hicetnunc-minted tokens.

[1] https://restofworld.org/2021/inside-brazils-diy-nft-art-mark...
The Secret Life of the Electric Light – Remastered
Looks quite nice.

Maybe you already know this as background work for your plugins, but Symantec C++ was one of the first IDEs to provide this kind of tooling.

I had quite some envy not having similar feature on Borland compilers.
How much to get your $2000 in and out of a bitcoin wallet/exchange?
Tracking a Ruby memory leak in 2021
OK. For the record I believe you however I would like to clarify I'm not wrong on the facts but I was wrong on the motivations. I hope you understand that the questions aren't personal but a reaction to what is happening in the broader world. What grated me was you calling it nationalism. Calling out that Xi is committing crimes against humanity has nothing to do with nationalism unless you conflate the CCP with China which is a standard tactic of authoritarian regimes. It is quite literally a core tactic in their playbook. Every day we hear new stories about how the propaganda arm of the CCP is subjugating western institutions to do their bidding, using the weakness of the capitalist system and ideology (prioritising financial gain above all else) against us.

All in all I really meant that I appreciate the work that you do. You do an excellent job in maintaining HN as my favourite forum on the internet. I understand this is probably wearing you thin so I'm going to leave it now but I hope you can understand why I felt it necessary to clarify the above.
"This technology is only used by criminals and perverts" is a common refrain that almost always turns out to be wrong. People should relax.
Gender studies, critical race theory, climate change, environmental pollution, economics/socialism, corona, Trump...

With Trump (or maybe just the rise of social media in general) cancel culture has become rampant. The general discussion culture has become angrier and unforgiving. People feel they are fighting a war and the enemy has to be shut down at all cost.

With Corona and climate many people feel like literally their lives are at risk. With Corona, censorship of dissenting opinions has become the norm.

I don't want my kids to be taught that boys are bad by nature and have to be taught to be like girls, and girls are only good if they behave like boys.

I don't want my kids to be taught that they are inherently sexist or something-phobic if they are not gay or Trans, or merely approach somebody they are attracted to.

I don't want them to be taught that they are inherently racist and bad because they are white.

I don't want them to be taught that they are doomed because global warming will end the world in a couple of years.

I don't want them to be taught that capitalism exploits people and socialism is the only recourse.

I don't want them to be taught that they should listen to "experts" and believe the scientists. They should be taught critical thinking and doing science.
Selling pickaxes for companies building engagement human traps? :)

How far are you not afraid to look?
Dev tool to build a Low-code REST API
I'll bite the bullet and assume that you're asking a legitimate question in good faith:

1) Imagine I have 100 USD and 100 EUR and I want to provide liquidity to a USD-EUR pair to get a cut of exchange fees. Which automated market maker do I need to contact in the space of "conventional financial technologies" to do so?

2) Imagine I have 1 BTC and I want to lend it (in a secure way) to get some return (in BTC). Who should I contact in the space of "conventional financial technologies" to do so?

3) Imagine I want to borrow 100 USD using BTC as collateral. Who should I contact in the space of "conventional financial technologies" to do so?

Do you consider any of the previously-mentioned use-cases to constitute crime and/or speculation? If yes, why?
I've been hearing about upcoming cures to horrible diseases two or three times a month for several decades and the number that pan out is a rounding error. The only noteworthy development I can think of over the past decade is a 'cure' for peanut allergies (and when I looked into it closer, it turns out it's not even a complete cure). There's apparently neither any incentive nor stomach for humanity to be realistic about how much progress we really make, which, though considerable, is not breathtaking.
It's slightly worrying from a security perspective that their servers are written in JavaScript.
I generally think along your lines, but I think there is an actually a fundamental question here: do we care about privacy?

My feeling is that surveillance states are more or less the norm, and it tends to become controversial as a sort of stand-in for other issues. So, for instance, the DDR's extreme surveillance apparatus becomes a sort of explanation for why this relatively bland state was actually a historic example of evil.

In england, there's a (very mild) controversy about the use of secret police to surveil activists - it became controversial because several of them had sexual relationships, and even children, while in their undercover role. One of the curious features of all this was who merited attention. One group of vegan restaurant connoisseurs, who met on fridays to review welsh vegan diners, discovered that one of their members was a police officer, for example.

This surveillance, which really had no bounds, including the surveillance of sitting government ministers (always labour, fwiw), is actually very typical, historically speaking.

So, while I'm broadly in agreement with you when it comes to the dangers of surveillance, I think we've all had and lost this argument in the past, and the fact is, if the state historically wanted to destroy or persecute a specific group, paper records were always enough. That means that if you want to make meaningful progress in the face of this information asymmetry, you have to find wedge issues.
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Or just the costs of doing business.
You say countries change but the only part of Afghanistan that's changed at all is the cities. Once you get out of the cities you're turning the clock back a thousand years.
It was never anything like a "liberal democracy". The fundamental political unit is the tribe and any analysis that does not use the word tribe is misinformed. It's very difficult for someone from the west to understand that a society so different from their own can exist today. It's a pastoral society centuries removed. There is no print media, no radio, no cell phones. Travel is difficult, and only possible some times of year. Most people in Afghanistan have never heard of 9/11 and do not understand the war(s).
https://www.pbs.org/video/pbs-newshour-what-does-911-mean-to...

edit: The comparison to Germany and Japan shows just how out of context Afghanistan is to western eyes. In european terms Afghanistan is pre roman europe. No roads, no laws, no central government, no news, no standing army. By contrast germany was a western country and japan was westernizing very quickly post Meiji.
At least to some first approximation irrelevant because reading code is not subject to any license. What if a human reads some restrictively licensed code and years later uses some idea he noticed in that code, maybe even no longer being aware from where this idea comes?

But what if the system memorizes entire functions? What if a human does so? What if you change all the variable names? What if you rearrange the control flow a bit? What if you just change the spacing? What if two humans write the exact same code independently? Is every for loop with i from 0 to n a license violation?

I am not picking any side, but the problem is certainly much more nuanced then either side of the argument wants to paint it.
> That’s actually the WiFi Supplicant for Rockchip RK3399, based on Linux!

> Are they really the same code?

> We compared the decompiled BL602 WiFi Supplicant code with the Rockchip RK3399 source code… They are nearly 100% identical!

Isn't that a GPL violation? Code should be available!
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True, as I said, nevertheless they seem to have a huge tradition and catalogue of non-predatory games.
Thank you. I took a quick look, and the article at least mentions something along the lines of my "object level vs. meta level" concerns :-)
The oceans on Europa cover a smaller area than Earth's oceans, but they contain a larger volume of water as they're much deeper.
Out of curiosity, how do we define license violation in that case? I, as a human being, have trained by reading code, much of which is covered by licenses that are somehow not compatible with code I'm writing. Am I violating licenses?

Asking seriously. It's really unclear to me where law and/or ethics put the boundaries. Also, I'd guess it's probably country dependent.
Reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7JDTlixb8
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