skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incredible.

I would love to have a good high-speed intercity train network in the United States connecting the major cities in each State.

I just looked up an Amtrak from Atlanta to Dallas: 3 legs around 64 hours. Cries in American. (there's no connection in New Orleans, so the trip planner routes to Chicago)
Interfaces are not currently defined in the language but socially if you are lucky the package whose abstract type you subtype has a generic test you can call with your new implementation but that is not the standard.
Link to the direct feed: https://youtu.be/watch?v=tMHhXzpwupU

(Posted by many others, but this is what made the front page)

Update 1: Successful booster touchdown (admittedly, they probably had a lot larger fuel budget than orbital launches)

Update 2: Successful touchdown of capsule

Congrats to Blue Origin for success in tossing people through space!
(This is also what D does.)
I think by journey they mean the travel time including security.
People have way too much junk here. I'm more of the mind "will I get my dollars worth out of this?" before I buy. I prefer the liquidity of cash over having to deal with owning, monitoring, moving, or selling another asset. I assume best case I can get half of what I paid for it. If it's super niche, I'll be lucky to even find a buyer. If it's expensive, I just assume I'm gonna take a huge loss. That's why I don't like buying too many things. Stuff is great...until you have to move.
That's not what I'm talking about. Floating point computations happen when doing risk calculations, for example computing risk numbers in a Black-Sholes calculation.

A difference in the 15'th decimal has no impact on the risk number.
I think they're referring to the Transrapid, which essentially got scrapped. The only non-test track ever built is in Shanghai.
They have monetised incels.
And if you want a guided tour, the Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annotated_Turing
It’s definitely fuzzy and uncertain, that’s absolutely for sure. I’m confident both cases exist, but not at all about their relative prevalence.
>everything has got to have a K

No longer true. But nobody wants to rename well known apps like Konsole to Terminal , Kate to "Text Editor".
I wholeheartedly agree with you, but unfortunately onlyfans is certainly not unique when it comes to whales. Mobile gaming is the classic example, and that is arguably worse in that it often targets children.

It is really a symptom of a wider problem where years of sophisticated A/B testing and social manipulation in businesses has been honed to such an extent that small pockets of the population find it impossible to resist the dopamine hit, be that some porn or an item in a game.

I really don't know what the solution is, regulation I guess? I'm not sure in what form that would look like though.
About forty years ago, I did a weekend consulting gig at a lab in San Diego where they had a massive N^2 connection problem of data processing code vs. data formats. I wrote a FORTRAN program to enumerate all combinations and generate a lot of very baroque code. My customer was not happy with the solution until I showed them how simple it was to modify the generating code and regenerate the glue code. Then they liked the approach. If I had written this a few years later, I would have used Lisp, and things would have been even simpler.
>>This is why we need to deal harshly with such hatred/disinfo campaigns, ruthlessly deplatforming fringe elements and denying them the chance to drag the Overton window their way.

I can't help but to smile the smile of mild horror that calls to overreaching and overzealous censorship of wrongthink ( hate is sufficiently innocuous and broad to cover just about any kind of wrongthink - just the fact that it has been accepted by mainstream as a good enough reason is horrifying ) is so common that is used with adjectives like ruthlessly without any feel for the irony.

I can certainly feel the hate.
I love reform so much that I'd make Martin Luther look like a Catholic apologist!
The average life in UK is to be a drunkard with bad teeth. Don’t take it bad, I love such friends and you may face difficulties with life, but while some find it poetic and party-prone, what does it tell about the country’s care of its citizen? Which other nation has a higher quantity of middle classes who drink themselves to near-death experience every second evening? What does it mean when the middleclass experience is to use pills at every high-school party since 1980?

No matter how you look at it, you cannot possibly tell me that the UK-born Englishman has been well taken care of. Especially when the representative TV show of the country is Top Gear, which, besides being awesome and fun to watch, is also stuck in the pollution and selfish age (apart from James May, who timidly looks to the electric future), and shows those drunkards-with-bad-teeth are not at all the lowerclasses or the unlucky, but the normal life up to the top of the society. The crib of Rock’n’roll is now a nation that is desperate for illusions right from the bottom to the top.
Can you explain what "energy availability" means in this context? My family lives in the UK and the lights work and the gad flows. Prices increase over time (above inflation, IIRC) but it still works, so I assume you're referring to some other meaning I don't yet know about.
This is a good list. It’s interesting to me that it emphasizes historic papers that were quite novel when they were published. These papers were impactful, and are thus good on some absolute scale. But they were not written to be introductions to their topic, and they do not reflect more modern thinking on the topic.

Reflections on Trusting Trust is seminal. In the age of networked computing and open source (and decades of apparently no one mounting a meaningful exploit along these lines) one is asking the reader to do a lot of work to generalize from the concepts in the paper to ideas of security and trust that align with their experience. I could imagine (and did) reading this paper in a class with a moderated discussion. But without the discussion I suspect it would fall flat for many readers.

In the comments people suggest the original Paxos paper. It is cute, but incredibly difficult to understand IMO. For people already aware of network programming primitives, Lamport doesn’t use any of them instead inventing his own metaphors. I tend to think Raft was so successful when it came out because it was described more clearly, not that it was a better algorithm.

It would be interesting to find better more accessible ways of learning the same material. Or maybe the best would be an edited volume, like a textbook, interleaving these classic papers with modern analysis, reflection, and commentary.
Well cited in the book I referenced (It's amusing to me how many people attempted to call me out on 'psuedoscience' and how I'm at -1 on the original post, despite the book I cited being a well-known, well-respected, and blisteringly well-cited authoritative work that covers both biochemistry and neuroscience. The dogma here and lack of scientific knowledge is incredible).

Pages 199 - 136 covers it and the root problem of "how do you divide up the brain in the first place, in an accurate and meaningful way" which turns out to not be as easy as it sounds (obviously) and is certainly not as easy as neuroscientists apparently treat it. You can find the original papers from the 1800s and 1980s in the bibilography.
I remember some paper looking at this question, and if you took into account the train infrastructure, planes were not too far off. But train has other advantages such as reduced noise pollution, being able to bring you right to your destination, and not being hijackable into buildings.
Accusations are not proved unfounded, he was freed from prison because of a mix of politics, procedural errors from judges that imprisoned him, and changes on how the judiciary works.

And many people rightly saw that the prosperity that happened during Lula's time was because of booming commodities market and exports booming, not because anything he did in particular.

Brazillians voted for Bolsonaro not because he is right wing, but because he promised he would end corruption, and the workers party IS corrupt.

Now that Bolsonaro has proven that he won't end corruption either (starting with him protecting his son), I doubt he will be re-elected, instead whoever else promises to end corruption and is not corrupted that has a good shot.
I can imagine that in some circumstances, it's possible if an evil insider downloads some random large random data files, it may trigger alarms. If they download a large Neural Network Model, that would be expected for whatever work they do - they could legitimately ask for it to be whitelisted by their firewall. They'd then have to write a small python script from memory to extract the malware, but it's pretty unlikely.
AFAIK antivirus systems do (did?) not scan RAM, only persistent memory. So decrypting/decoding the malware in-memory and jumping into the code should avoid detection. That's how "runtime crypters" work or used to work a few years ago.
Oh, I know that. I just meant that if your goal is for the website to be easily archivable, rather than publishing the website as PDF you could use simple HTML which wouldn't suck when printed to PDF.
> their idea will be stolen

I have this thought sometimes with regard to software used to store/execute ideas. For example doing a zoom meeting on something. Or using Trello to log concepts/tasks (encrypted at rest). I mean work uses Jira you know... Also emailing. Code on GitHub. But everything goes through an ISP and data centers that aren't yours, encryption that can have backdoors. Yeah I know stupid thinking. I know it's paranoid and more than likely what I would work on is worthless anyway.

Yeah the zero users thing is real, it's so easy for people to say "this idea is amazing, revolutionary" and the promise of equity. At least I get my hourly up front.
Kind of correct. E.g. you may eliminate national parliaments and have only EU parliament. Yes, it has problems, but it feels something like that will happen eventually in EU. I am OK that this happens slowly.
Your explanation is stop on for Julia.
CO2/(passenger*km), not CO2.
Modi is a disgrace to India;

He never earned a rupee on his own; He has been living on alms/donations through out his life;
If I remember correctly according to Jim Collins (author of the classic From Good To Great), there is no such thing as a first mover advantage. They looked at lateral data.

I will try to find the quote.

EDIT: found it in “Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0”, great book btw. Highly recommended

> Where does this leave us with respect to a market pioneer strategy versus a market follower strategy? It’s clear that there are advantages to being a market leader. You can lock up customers. You can build early market share and gain a dominant trade name. You can get down the learning curve. You can sometimes gain patent protection. You can benefit from high margins, and use the resulting cash flow to fund further product development and marketing.

But—and this is key—taking a market pioneer strategy is not, in itself, enough. Being first will not protect you forever; you also have to execute well.

Of course, the ideal position—and the one pursued by many great companies—is to strive for being both first and best.
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> A random person from Bulgaria is going to have a very different culture from a random person from Netherlands.

And somehow me, a person from Denmark, has more cultural overlap with a hacker hipster from Mexico than most of my childhood classmates. And somehow I still coexist peacefully with my neighbors.

The internet and global travel are breaking down the national cultural barriers (largely induced/imposed by mass media). Meanwhile, power imbalance and widening gaps in the social fabric are increasing issues globally, even in monocultures and regardless of immigrants.

I think the points you raise are orthogonal. Except that you're most likely right that most people don't want this - because the illusion of the shared nation-culture and history has been so deeply imprinted in us by propaganda from the education system, the government, advertising, and media.
I HAD TO USE NECESSARY FORCE!
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> There is nothing inherently evil about this stuff so why is it terrible that it is becoming more accepted/common?

They specifically talk about their kids being targeted with porn. Targeting kids with porn is grooming behaviour it results in a lot of evil, not something we want to normalise.
interesting comment until "magic AI" !! there is no Magic AI, thank you! and in the same breathe as "not enough study of humans" ..

augmented human intelligence ++

authority blankets with massive data backing -1000
You take out a loan from the CO2 bank with CO2 bring charged as interest, and then slowly pay it back over the course of a few decades. How much you pay back is something the atom counters figure out, I'm naught but a humble Oxygen farmer.
>So the lead devs picked up the trend and all our classes' names also started with V. Basically everything was named as something following the same letter.

That can be usefull, you know by looking at a class name , if it starts with Q is a native Qt stuff, and if it starts with V is your own custom stuff. As an example if you would see a VDropDown you will know that some of the developer in the company was asked to "improve" the native dropdown , you should check if there are bugs there.
We outsourced generation of high quality training data, resulting in Wikipedia being one of the few (and quite messy) people can play around with... garbage in, garbage out.

And to be fair, most people who lovingly curated special knowledge databases only to see them get used to train machines (without any acknowledgement) discouraged them to continue and resulted in a drop of good training sources (at least in my field and non-english language)...
Black boxes of computing magic good...

Please install 30GB+ of "trustworthy" tools to run a magical analysis over 100MB of data that was cleaned by hand to optimise signal over noise without selection bias...

Don't get me wrong GPUs and FPGAs are amazing.
But why people implicitly trust huge stacks of code to do all their work for them without at least verifying it works properly is beyond me.

I've seen papers that should have been retracted due to "minor" numerical bugs in upstream code.
(minor here because it's a "rare" side effect of using a tool that doesn't cause a security problem)

Fine if you're working in sales or computing or an insurance company, crappy when you're trying to do science or healthcare with the same tools imo.
By "Elsevier" you mean "research journal publishers". There's more than one, and many have the same policies, depending on the publication. Elsevier doesn't even publish the biggest journals.

What's weird to me is that nobody has to submit their standard or paper to ISO or a journal, they could just put them on a blog post somewhere. But people still complain that these organizations, who people voluntarily submitted their papers to, are actually charging people for what they said they would charge for, or take the rights they said they would take. It's not like somebody was tricked. This is like a manufacturer giving their jeans to Wal-Mart to sell and complaining that Wal-Mart is taking a cut. Yeah..... they're selling it. That's how that works. The manufacturer could always sell them out of the back of a truck... but they don't want to.
Why did they open source it? Wouldn’t this model be very valuable to the pharma industry?
They'd probably solve most of their problems by simply recognizing that a single term with a - isn't an exclusion, because it returns no results. That's like... a 10 minute regex fix
Thanks for your work on this! It's a critical piece of software to have on a mobile device these days, I hope this project gains traction!
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by your own logic then we should just skip electric and go full on hydrogen. thanks for confirming what I said
Hey guys, congrats on the Launch. Is there any API to get the metrics you guys calculate on SEC Filings?

I recently launched https://quantale.io which is a web-based Bloomberg Terminal alternative and we monitor SEC filings in real-time to show them to users[1].

It would be great to show additional data related to the SEC filings if there was an API.

[1] https://quantale.io/dashboard/sec-filings
Not directly relevant: what's annoying are the fake live streams. Then there are blatant crypto scams on top lol ugh.
Yes, I don't believe in an unrestricted right of business association.

(Neither does the US, when it comes to discrimination on protected categories.)

> If I open a store and let people purchase things, I'm offering a service to the general public. But I'm certainly not "part of the state". One of the primary concerns about the state is that it (usually) has a monopoly on the things that it does, so that if it provides a service, it's the only provider of that service.

> But "speech" isn't a service that one can monopolize. Preventing speech can be done via force, but "facilitating speech" isn't monopolizable.

Sure it is, by controlling the platform. In any case, I have a much more expansive view of monopoly as a spectrum. Network effects, for instance, can also contribute to a monopolizing service. In any case, I believe the primary reason why monopoly is a moral risk is because a monopoly prevents you from switching providers to escape a restrictive corporate environment. My approach is instead to outlaw restrictive corporate environments.

> > Yes. Nobody can be compelled to offer a service.

> But you are compelling me to offer a service!

No, you always have the choice to not offer the service at all. I am not compelling you to offer any specific service, I am preventing you from offering a service with certain restrictive parameters.

> And you say no no! You are additionally compelled to offer the service to paint X.

No, you are compelled to offer the service to paint X, contingent on your decision to offer the service at all. You always have the option to cease offering the service entirely. And you could, I guess, close your company whenever someone requests a service you don't like. However considering fees, that may be impractical.

> I mean if that's the case, why is it moral for me to ban them as long as I ban everyone else too? These particular people can't be happy either way.

I don't have an opinion on the morality of the matter. Or rather, I don't think my morality should affect the decision. That's why I have focused this conversation specifically on the mechanism by which the morality is arbitrated, which should be the same mechanism by which state decisions are arbitrated, ie. civil rights, representative democracy etc, inasmuch as the service is of the class of "service offering to the general public" shared with some state services.
It takes time, good systems move slow :)
You guesstimate how much CO2 was released during construction, and divide by the expected lifetime of the structure and add a guesstimate for the CO2 used for maintenance.
The articles really write themselves with the shape of that rocket…
I feel like you're missing a few key points that have also changed. I think almost everything is different from 30 years ago, not just the west and EU.
The article is about intentional error; however, I have found this to be very approachable and entertaining primer on (probably) unintentional error in research:

https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/

Research that has been further filtered onto your favorite infotainment coffee-table-science column further suffers from the 'eigonvalue' problem. I think assuming intentional fraud is excessive for a default position, but complete trust of any document formatted with Latex because "it's science" is probably worse.
I agree. It looks like bad translations.

Here in Argentina we use a lot of loaned words from English for technical terms, sometimes I don't know which is the official translation to Spanish. But in Spain, they like to translate everything, so sometimes reading technical stuff in es-es is difficult. And if you blindly translate from es-es to English, you may get surprising results.

I sometimes write an early draft of a paragraph in es-ar, and then autotranslate it to English. The autotranlation handles the easy part, like word for word substitution and reorder noun-adjective to adjective-noun, but it needs a lot of further fixes to get a good translation. Technical words are sometimes messed, so it's important to double check them. Also, errors that are small typos in Spanish sometimes are translated to very things, that also cause weird results. (For example "cOsa"->"thing", but "cAsa"->"house".)
A PS/2 mouse would work, but who has those anymore?
Incredible, congrats to the crew and team who have worked on this!
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"Unwin’s and Eberstadt’s research provides strong rational justification for the inference that God’s moral laws pertaining to our sexuality, although they may restrain us from some immediate pleasure, protect us from enormous long-term suffering while maximizing our long term flourishing."

I came to a similar conclusion. I went from thinking sex was no different than a sport to a more "conservative" view of it now. And I also think it can be applied to more than sex. Our societies would be better with less hedonism, I'm sure of that. The constant need for shots of dopamine are very, very detrimental to individuals and hence to society.
If his grandpa really drives this poorly he will lose his ability to drive well before it expires either directly from accidents, from losing his license after accidents, or from his insurance becoming too expensive. I'm always amazed at how badly die-hard FSD supporters think humans drive
For what it's worth, this has been in the works for a long time, the news is that a prototype finally rolled out of the factory.

China is hell-bent on making trains that can compete with air travel. I don't think they will give up until it's actually done, there is a huge need for an alternative to air travel in China for many, many reasons.
You might want to look up the American Civil War. It lasted from 1861 to 1865 and some 600K people died. That's what happened the last time any states threatened to secede from the Union in the US of A. It's also a pretty well-known bit of history.
If I could upvote this more than once I would. When people hear that I'm a hobbyist game developer (video and board), a significant number of them will say (paraphrased) "I've got this great idea for a game, would you make it for me?" I've learned to just say "maybe someday when I'm not so busy," because the truth of the article offends too many of them.
I remember a recollection here on HN from a developer : he thought the idea was great and they were totally on to something completely new.

The sales guy said : yeah, but I don't know where the market is, how big it is or how much I can charge.

Disclaimer : these are my words.
I seem to recall the UK Brexit and that freewill argument was almost immediately challenged by calls for next rounds of referenda ( presumably until the right decision is reached by the population ). As always, it is democracy and free will as long as it is exercised in a way the conforms to rather specific view of what the outcome should be.
I'd add Theorems for Free!: https://ecee.colorado.edu/ecen5533/fall11/reading/free.pdf

There are more that I've found interesting over the years but that paper really helped me shift how I think about programming and the design of programs. It lead me to many others and to appreciate type theory.