skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first soft landing on the moon occurred in 1966. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9

Many rockets did soft landing on earth before that point, but none of them had been in space.
LinkedIn: individual teams to decide if they ever want to work from office
Maybe the older data is stored in Glacier. Give it a few days to run the report.
AFAIK Comma.ai is the only open-source company in the self-driving cars space. It is very interesting that they are continuously launching consumer-products with a small team and in a highly competitive space where the other players are quite big.
It's only that short because they've shoved a bunch of statements onto the same line.
What if apps aren't the solution to getting more will power.
Comma claimed today:
$8.1M raised,
$9M revenue,
5000+ comma twos sold,
3500+ active users.
Pretty cool for a open source company.
That's fair, but these ecosystems are not the same. Many different shops have apps for iPhone, and Apple doesn't charge on purchases made from those shops. Amazon does, and it may choose to charge monopoly prices on certain items.
> I guess some schools of economic thought do claim such nonsense.

And what would that school of economic thought be exactly?

> Wow, who would have guessed it's in the actual definition of the word?

The definition of the word 'scarce' implies the notion of high price?
Well, maybe the actual argument, about whether he did it or not, is "open and shut". What he's presenting here, though, is irrefutable -- in the sense of "not falsifiable" -- so should also be inadmissible: His "[How] I genuinely do not know..." goes to his own state of mind, which nobody else can know or be responsible for.

I mean, it could for instance be the case that he obviously and incontrovertibly did it, but is just too utterly stupid to realise it -- then "I genuinely do not know" would still be true. But just as ignorance of the law is no defense, I don't think stupidity is either. "But your Honour, I didn't know she'd die if I cut off her head, so I can't be guilty of murder!" Too fucking bad, you should have known that.
I think presenting my views politely is better than just personally attacking the character of people talking to me and accusing them of being dupes. Clearly you see it differently, and I welcome you to engage in mud-slinging with others whose idea of a productive discussion better matches yours.
Research Vessel Found SpongeBob Look-Alikes a Mile Under the Ocean's Surface
With sqlite_zstd_vfs the data are compressed beforehand and stored that way "at rest", so web responses are directly copied to the wire controlled by HTTP range headers, similarly to the OP. They need to be decompressed by a client library sitting between SQLite and the wire.
The domain name is transmitted as a sequence of labels plus one byte for each label's length, followed by a null byte for the root label. Everything together must fit into 255 bytes.

So the domain name x.y.z (technically x.y.z. with the empty space after the last dot representing the root label) uses the following bytes:

[length of x][x][length of y][y][length of z][z][length of root label, i.e. 0]

Since we usually add dots to visually separate labels, you can imagine the dots and inner length bytes cancelling each other out, leaving the first length byte and the last null byte as the two "missing" bytes.
Any collision has a chance to knock things at orbital speeds in any direction. Anything launched away from the earth will be flung towards other orbits at something close to the 28,000km/h speeds of LEO.

Here is an article in Nature [0] discussing other risks, and mentioning that LEO is already in the early stages of Kessler Syndrome, while SpaceX alone is seeking to launch as many extra satellites as there are tracked pieces of debris already in orbit, with several other companies having similar plans. They also mention that debris in one orbit can cross to other orbits.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89909-7
I'm not a fan of the CIA's methods in general but I don't think blaming them for this lapse in vaccinations is fair. The real cause is the people spreading all these lies about vaccines.

In fact I like that they went out of their way to validate their target instead of just going in all cowboy and shooting the place up on limited intel.
V8 alone is around 40/50 Mb.
Don't get distracted by fake work
It might be that we're spending the increased productivity on temporary things rather than long-lived things. For example, spending $1M on keeping a retired cancer patient alive. That's good for them, good for their family, good for lots of people to feel like they'll have a chance of survival if they get it, but it doesn't cause a new bridge to be built, etc. The technology improves, the knowledge improves, but those things aren't visible on a skyline.

It might also be things like higher quality food, varieties of food, yachts for the rich that most of us don't ever see, or things like that, things that are either consumed and don't accumulate wealth, or things that are relatively long lived and durable but not part of most people's lives because most of the gains have gone to the top 1%.

Other ideas: paper pushing services like handling unnecessarily large volumes of litigation just to run a business, which requires work and causes GDP to go up but doesn't produce actual products.
Hey there, I'll keep that in mind, thanks!
"Let's pool 9 woman and birth a 14 foot tall baby"
Yes. That's interesting. Your grandfather could tell you what a dinner should cost by his experience. How did that happen? Did wages not increase?
Not here to defend bitcoin, but that's not true. You can buy all three of those (to varying degrees in different countries).
The kind of guy who saves The Expanse on a whim probably does have at least a hobbyist interest in space.

Elon was probably more invested earlier and was paying more attention to what was going on is for sure though. Im not convinced Bezos personal attention is going to do much to help his space company though. Nothing about him seems like it would help other than his wealth. And he hasnt shown a willingness to throw a significant part of his fortune into his space venture. Nothing about this strikes me as anything more than what is a hobby that one of the richest persons in the world is passionate about
Yeah weird the egg based dishes consistently seem to outprice steak:

1860 The Globe, Salt Lake City: Porter House Steak (25¢), Ham & Eggs (37½¢), Bowl of Oyster Soup (1.00).

1865 The Pioneer Restaurant, Portland OR: Porter House Steak (20¢), Sirloin Steak (15¢), Ham & Eggs (25¢), Apple, Prune, or Pear Sauce (5¢), Cranberry, Apple, or Custard Pie (5¢).
When I hear CIA, I think coercion to collect information, most usually information to be used to coerce somebody else. When I hear FBI I think coercion to instigate what will be well-publicized conspiratorial crime. Actual espionage and investigation are decidedly secondary activities.

They have been that way from the start.
Omeletes are eggs with extra ingredients (ham, peppers, etc.)
Solution to the problem of dirty energy is relatively simple. Don't subsidize coal[1][2], and implement a carbon tax.

[1]https://www.gem.wiki/Federal_coal_subsidies

[2]https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...
Incorrect and unsubstantiated it may be, but perhaps not unexpected -- given how popular it is on this site in other contexts too...
The area proposed is the part south of the dumbarton bridge which accounts for only a portion of the bay area.
> And while moving from Smith Corona 1950 to Word 95 is a big improvement, moving from Word 95 to Word 365 isn’t.

This is an interesting and very important point in overall computing today as well - for the vast majority of use cases, many of the todays top patterns are actually not just a small improvement, but are worse. Keyboard shortcuts are usually (not always) faster than mouse/trackpad driven visual pointers. Many of the current UIs are resource hogs that slow things down by a lot. UI patterns have also gotten somewhat less usable - in many cases one cannot easily tell of a surface is clickable in iOS and Android.
I've been somewhat taken aback that having paid for a subscription for Eurosport (in the UK) to watch more than the
two Olympic streams that the BBC are permitted, I still have to watch adverts.
"The comma three devkit does not ship with any software. Once you have the device you will be able to install any software you choose at your own risk."
The Tokyo medals are around 500g each, so while those are nice estimates for the minimum dimensions, if the Tokyo golds were of the same weight and heft they have been made (and also 100% base metal) then you’d be looking at around $15m USD just for the golds
Has north america stopped shipping it's plastic waste to Asia now?

Otherwise, that properly disposed of American waste likely counts in Asia and Africa's mismanaged waste. Tacking somebody else's name on the problem doesn't put you in the clear
Several state governments including California stated that they wouldn't trust FDA vaccine approvals and wanted to do their own safety reviews. That didn't help with public confidence either.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/10/27/western-states-join-califo...
That aesthetic was widespread throughout the PC universe in the 90s as well. I remember having a giant clip-art library that came on a whole bunch of CDs, and actually came with a catalog book to leaf through. A lot of it looked like that. Another example is Microsoft's clipart library, (in)famous for its images of the "screen bean" guy.
> A hypothesis doesn't require evidence.

It does if you want it to be taken seriously. Especially when there are other hypothesis available with evidence.

> It really seems to me that you're eager to bicker with someone who is actually credulous of this theory and didn't find any, so you decided to lash out and distort statements

Follow the rules, please. This is pretty deep into uncivil territory.

> refine our falsification of the hypothesis a little further than just saying "I mean, come on"

This seems like a demand that I prove a negative. The purposeful detonation theory has currently no evidence put forth, while we do have evidence for the accidental detonation theory. Demanding that I refine the hypothesis further for something that is currently evidence free is to put the whole thing backwards.

If you believe that the purposeful detonation theory deserves serious consideration, provide evidence. Otherwise don’t get angry at people who are credulous about a theory that’s just been thrown out there.
We lived in New Delhi for a year in the late 70s. One of my favorite memories was a weekly trip to Faqir Chand and Sons, a bookstore. I have strong memories of walking through the stacks of books, seemingly random, and with no shelves.

It’s a very different feeling from something as organized as a library, or Powell’s here in Portland. You never knew what you’d find next, on what topic, or in what condition. It was endless exploration, pure delight.

Faqir Chand is still in business. They don’t have a website, but the photos on their Twitter look just as I remember: https://twitter.com/faqirchandbooks
Interestingly, this has been pushing me to watch quite a bit of international content on Netflix -- Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and some European series.
> How many developers do you think a browser engine needs? How much do they cost?

Browser: ~20

Web rendering engine: ~100

Worldwide average senior C/C++ developer salary: $100k/year

So $12M/year should do it. Let's say $20M to allow for management and overhead.

Disclaimer: founder of a browser company
‘The assignment made me gulp’: Could talking to strangers change my life?
relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n3WgiMftaU
Why limit your analysis to the cost of production, rather than a full lifecycle?
Right, but if we go too far on this, you end up with the USSR's problem of having large investment in infrastructure but no investment in consumer goods.

Although it might be true that we're over-investing in a sort of ultra-sugary sort of consumer goods that are not healthy for society in the long term.
That's the whole point of IOCCC. The way code is formatted is as important as the way it functions.
SQL injection my method -1 OR 3*2*1=6 AND 000159=000159
maybe in the 60s, current NASA is living off past accomplishments
It really is. The stuff facebook serves to me is just so badly wrong it's hilarious that they are taken someone's money to show me an add which if anything is going to result in me even less likely to buy the product
I think you're misunderstanding Kuhn slightly. He invented the term paradigm shift. What he means by normal science with intertwined spurts of revolution is more provocative. He means that in order to observe periods of revolution, the "dogma" of normal science must be cast aside and new normal must move in to replace it. Normal science hits a wall, gets stuck in a "rut" as Kuhn describes it.

I think, in a way, Doctorow is making that same argument for the current state of ML: "I don't think that we're remotely close or even on the right path in any way". In other words, general thinking that ML will lead to AGI is stuck in a rut and needs a new approach and no amount of progressive improvement on ML will lead to AGI. I don't think Doctorow's opinion here is especially insightful, he's just a writer so he commits thoughts to words and has an audience. I don't even know wether I agree or not. But I do think this piece comes off as more in the spirit of Kuhn than you're suggesting.

And of course you can interpret Kuhn however you want. I don't think Kuhn was saying you shouldn't use/apply the tools built by normal science to everyday life. But he, subtly, argues that some level of casting off entrenched dogmatic theories, in the academic domain, is a requirement for revolutionary progress. Kuhn agrees that rationalism is a good framework for approaching reality, but also equates phases of normal science to phases of religious domination that predated it. Essentially truly free thought is really really hard because society invents normals (dogma) and makes it hard to deviate. Academia is no exception. Science, during periods of normals, is (or can become) essentially over-calibrated and over-dependent on its own contemporary zeitgeist. If some contemporary theory that everyone bases progressive research off of is not quite right, it kinda spoils the derivative research. Not always true because sometimes the theories are correct.
I'm entirely clueless as to how to measure productivity at scale in a standardised manner.

For example, washing machines create a lot of extra leisure, because it makes humans productive. A washing-machine assisted human can was 100x as much clothing in a given minute of operation time. But I have no clue where such a productivity improvement would show up in the data.

Of course I can study things like 'how many hours do you spend maintaining your household', and you'd see that dropping decade after decade, despite living in ever larger homes with more functionality (and thus, a larger 'maintenance load'). That's productivity, and stand-alone it can be analysed and concluded as such.

But fitting that into the same productivity data as say, the construction of homes per worker in an elegant way? I don't know how you would do that.

Nor do I know how you account for completely different units across time and sectors. For example, how do we measure productivity of the pharmaceutical industry? Patents per person? Medicines launched? Number of lives saved by vaccines?

A GDP per worked hour is of course a great start. But it leaves a lot out, too. For example, technology that sequences a genome for a penny in a short timespan may indirectly lead to gdp growth, perhaps, but in and of itself that massive cheap boost to a researchers' insight into a genome will not show up as a direct boost to GDP, in fact the opposite.

Curious to understand from economists how such challenges are typically handled and what the data says.
This was one of the best screen savers ever to have saved screens. One of the rare ones that people set off on purpose just to see the different skits.

I think this might have been one-of-a-kind. I don't recall any other screen saver that had so many mini stories built into it.
At least in the fields I've published in, first author does the work (or at least most of it, almost always including writing the paper) and last author secured the funding. Sometimes authors are listed in alphabetical order, in which case one or two are usually listed as "corresponding author". The less-senior corresponding author usually did the work, and the more-senior corresponding author is usually either the one who secured the funding, or a long-term member of the research group who is likely to actually be around to answer correspondence in the future (and who also probably helped out enough to be worth corresponding with).
Does this really effect anything?
If it did you figure the economic statistics would show drastic changes starting round then.
Testing Web-Based Notebooks
Love quirky projects like this
Can you please name them? This is my dream. I would like to learn more.
All of the vaccines used in the US received funding through Operation Warp Speed. J&J and Moderna got R&D money and production orders. Pfizer only got production orders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed?wprov=sfl...
The memo starts with something like "123-0000000-1234567 Amazon.de". The corresponding link would be https://www.amazon.de/gp/css/summary/edit.html?orderID=123-0...
I witnessed what you are describing first-hand. Some years ago, in a job far away, the overall account manager for my region managed everything through a single budget spreadsheet. Decisions were made entirely based on cost without any actual thought to the outcome of the decision. While in the middle of cutting cost, the company failed to deliver some important contracts that led to the company being penalized (to the tune of tens of millions of dollars). The irony, if they'd just spent a fraction of the penalty amount hiring people, they would have been able to deliver on the contracts and avoided the penalty.
Sequestration only works if the carbon stays locked up.

If you dispose of the bag, and it decomposes to methane in the landfill and is then burned, you've barely done any sequestration
I was wondering why hckrnews.com was rendering poorly on Safari (iOS). Your comment helped connect the dots.

Funny side effect!
I think it's pretty field specific. In a lot of CS for example the first author did most of the work and the last author got the funding. The people in the middle may have done varying degrees of work ranging from helping substantially with the implementation, evaluation or writing of the paper to once having read the paper abstract :)
> The point is not to use paper bag, but to use durable/persistent bag from any material (even plastic) as long as you can.

Of course. I was referring/responding to the parent comment.
Pretty fun write up but the most impressive thing to me was the scale of it. What a big commitment! Was everything hosted locally or did it cost money to host it remotely?

From a technical perspective, quite cool. I’m always amazed what people can do when sufficiently motivated.
I never agreed to any union. Show me the paperwork where I agrees to be united with inbred rednecks who would happily slit my throat for being gay.
Thank you, I will!

Just out of curiosity, do you, personally, agree with his thesis, and do you expose yourself online without self-censorship?
This I think is the same thing as someone saying at the gym, don't stop until it hurts. People get injured and then never go to the gym again.

How about look at the solution, understand the parts. Solve the problem. Revisit, revisit, revisit.

This helped me breeze through engineering and also helped me professionally.
Moderna Reports 237x Increase in Revenue over This Time Last Year
So you took an undergrad ML course and you're using this as the basis for your conclusions about how ML can scale? You understand modern neural networks as large matrix operations and then attack that idea leading to intelligence as a joke?

I also find it improbable that intelligence will emerge from modern ML without some major leap. But you have added nothing to the discussion, beyond some impressions from undergrad, when we are talking about something that is a very active and evolving research area. It's insulting to researchers and practitioners who have devoted years to studying ML to just dismiss broad areas of applicability because you took a course once.
Need to watch the presentation still but I’d be more interested in how many km/miles it has collectively driven.
I think the term you're looking for might be "postdoc" (postdoctoral researcher)?
I've seen "recent PhD" a few times as well, seems pretty clear.
Make significantly less cement could be an answer though.

If we design structures to last much longer, we don't need to keep replacing them
>So why is the lead crime hypothesis treated so negatively by our elites?

It's not just treated negatively by elites, but I think that's very straightforward. Because a biological or chemical explanation for behaviour, especially such a simple one, throws a pretty big wrench into the moralistic and individualistic worldview that underpins our Western societies, in particular in regards to crime or intellect.

If you accept the, from a scientific point, very obvious observation that a bunch of chemicals in your drinking water can turn you into an idiot or a criminal you just about undermine most stories of self-earned merit or responsibility we are being fed in our mother's milk and that justify bringing the hammer down on said inner city youth.
I have found similar results in my time tracking.

At best 2 flow hours before lunch. 2 flow hours after lunch. Sometimes bonus 1.5 flow hours after ‘tea time’ (not sustainable). Sometimes bonus 1 flow hour after dinner (completely unsustainable). Basically 4hrs is sutainable. 5.5 is pushing it.

Also I’ve found if you don’t take at least a whole day off (hobbies that look like work don’t quite count as time off) then daily concentration with quickly deteriorates as well.

edit: I should note that these are high concentration hours, my data isn’t as good for non heads down work.
Oh, goody. Last time I tried QuickJS it didn't have support for asynchronous generators and proxies.

Thank you, Mr. Bellard and whoever is working on this runtime. Your work is appreciated
drug cartels "touch" the lives of millions of people and make billions in revenue and I'd say they are a net negative for society

most consumer apps are net negatives that sell digital dopamine hits and studies have shown make people more depressed the more they use them