skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. One nit though:

>So there have only been rich travelers for the latest 0.15% of human history

I would prefer the phrase "human existence" here because in the social sciences, prehistory ends and history begins when the society or region in question acquires people who know how to write, so for example the history of Scandinavia begins around 800 AD.
My parents fell for that, guy completely disassembled to front door and then told them that he needed to fetch a fitting lock and would be back tomorrow. They ended up paying for two round trips to the next city when they specifically asked if the company was local.
We have to be honest about what “1% better every day” fights against.

For an example, we have lots of time on a day to complete a task but we end up doing nothing on it. Instead we tell ourselves we’ll do a marathon session the next day to make up for it. Only the next day comes and we don’t feel like doing it anymore than we did the previous day. And now we’re dreading it because we set ourselves up having to pull a marathon session. So we do nothing again.
Runners with slower times, over 4 hours, seemed to be more likely to suffer. The announced qualifying times for the 2022 Boston Marathon include 3:55 for women 50 to 54 and 3:50 for men 60 to 64.
Giving safe passage for a defeated enemy is an ageold courtesy. Having an airborne brigade fighting with their backs against the wall is probably not what a militia wants.
This is great. One question I've had for a while - do founders typically get one time bonuses or sell their own shares during later funding rounds? I feel like with a lot of these businesses that are successful, there's probably opportunities along the way to sell and make a few million. Especially with unicorn founders I'm often in awe that they stick with it - I'm sure they had opportunities to pocket $100 million and walk away.
In some instances, yes. In others, not really.

If you cut out the bloat, planning meetings, etc., you can stand up an MVP pretty quickly while doing the coding yourself.

I think most of the tricks are CSS frameworks, re-using parts of old projects, no-code MVP, outsourcing non-tech things.

Many of the successful indie founders seem to be non-technical business people who give 0 cares about coding something the right way, so they just smash stuff together without a care to get it out the door.
We conventionally use artificial selection to mean only cases where we decided what we wanted. e.g. artificial selection is why chickens and cows are how they are today, likewise most types of dog but not why the type of spiders that live in my home are the way they are even though that is an adaptation forced by man-made environmental changes.

So I think it's crucial here that the goals are external, and it's just natural selection if the goal is merely "Survive and reproduce" and the selecting factors happen to be man-made.

Weeds that evolve to hide from an AI weed zapper thus aren't artificial selection. Unless there's some comic book bad guy who decides to engineer such a thing.

A crucial difference in outcome here is that Mother Nature doesn't give a shit. Where there's a natural equilibrium, Ma doesn't ensure neither side wins. The wolves could become perfect predators, kill all their prey and then starve to death wiping out both groups. Mother Nature doesn't give a shit. But because we have an actual goal, outcomes that defy our goal are unacceptable and we'll tweak the selection process. That's what happened with dog breeds where the "preferred" type characteristics were so unhealthy that they're basically a death sentence.
I started writing all the "really want to share this" items down in a diary. It was difficult at first, then got easier, then the urge grew less and less. (YMMV)
How many more dead bodies do you want to add to your tally for your Hollywood movie moment? They don't want a civil war. How is that not obvious to you?
Diary.by is a place for humans to share things with their friends, colleagues or even the world. Be it your blog, a journal, a diary or even your recipe book - anything is welcome, and it is up to you whether you want to share what you wrote with anyone.

Diary.by does not have any kind of social features, ads or tracking. It's purely a place for you to write, in peace, without any kind of noise.

I do my best to learn, together with you, what makes the best, most enjoyable, most straightforward experience when writing things.

An example of how the blog and entries look: https://diary.by/~paul/the-human-experience
The full tweet implies that the stack is ready for launch (and indeed has already been stacked once at the pad) but that the FAA's pending approval is the only bottleneck being waited on for launch.
> I would have some difficulty thinking of a more important topic.

That doesn't matter. HN isn't for everything, no matter how important that thing may be. Flagging a story doesn't mean "I think it's unimportant", it means "it doesn't belong here".
Elizabeth Wong: “I had begun with an image of fishermen
Elizabeth Wong: “I had begun with an image of fishermen hauling their nets out of the sea”
A Malaysian writer on how a trip with her mother to a fishing village—and the complicated feelings it surfaced about identity, privilege, and belonging—led, thirteen years later, to her debut novel.
Wars in the last 40 years include:

- Lebanon, 1983 (Reagan)

- Persian Gulf, 1991 (Bush I)

- Afghanistan/Iraq, 2001/2003 (Bush II)

Then in the past 40 years, wars were not started under Clinton, Obama, and Trump.
How was F# for the task?
Elon time, but on this occassion, I believe that few weeks means < 10.

This is a huge development. Boca Chica is several timezones away from me, but I will be staying up in the night if the first launch happens to be in our wee hours.

I only hope that they will tell us in advance, so that we can arrange our daily schedules :-)
EverLighten: Custom Product Manufacturing Platform
> We did have a goal. The building of the nation of Afghanistan into a functioning liberal democracy.

Come on. You can't build a functioning liberal democracy in a place like that while doing zilch to promote even the basics of civil society and liberal norms. (And no, elections and ballot boxes are quite irrelevant; they're simply a red herring. Electoral processes have zero legitimacy to begin with in a non-liberal society.) The whole idea is quite simply preposterous.
I disagree, using a filesystem with snapshot support is hardly adding complexity (to the problem, sure the kernel code for btrfs might be more complex, but It's mainline since years and won't eat your data). I interpret your comment to suggest unwise practices for data management. Being able to do snapshots and send them off to wherever is important. This fills the void on your system that git fills for your source-code.
> A headline generator or optimizer?

Headlime used GPT-3 so you could write a prompt and it would produce copy for your landing page.

It may have been niche, but it would really well and helped rather than having to brainstorm my own.
Typo in title, should read Bennu not Bennui.
Reading these comments it is wild how few people understand the US political and military objectives in Afghanistan.

Few understand that the Taliban while mostly all the things we associate with a terror group, it was also a successful political party that began taking power through democratic elections, this was actually in the Clinton years (Taliban founded in 1994). Since then the military wanted to intervene, but Clinton ignored it because the embarrassing failure in Mogadishu (the Black Hawk Down incident in 1993) and reluctance to suffer another failed military campaign in his first term.

When Bush took office he was surprisingly intent on use of force in Afghanistan against the Taliban, but it was politically and legally non-viable…then 9/11 happened and the administration had the pretext it needed, it just had to move quick before anyone could question the relationship between Taliban and 9/11. But in either case the US intelligence was always ready and willing to say that OBL was operating remotely from the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan as a legal justification to use armed force in Afghanistan against a non state actor because the state was failing to bring him to justice.

Whether you are for or against the US spreading democracy around the world and their willingness to use armed force to achieve its ends…Afghanistan was not about spreading democracy, rather Afghanistan was about the US not approving of a particular democratically elected party.

Of course there is a much deeper history of US funding/training of groups to fight soviets in the 70’s in Afghanistan and these groups ultimately lead to the foundation of Taliban, but for the most part it has little to do with the US use of military force in Afghanistan post 9/11.
As I said, spectrograms are not indicative of compression quality. Codecs should be judged by ears only. What you see in a spectrogram will vastly differ between codecs and will not reflect their compression efficiency.
Same opinion, I would say "it depends".

Personally I like Gentoo on the desktop especially in relation to when I code (e.g. very handy to be able to easily switch SW-versions of some packages while always using the same repository). I use it as well on some servers as root OS (I mean the one that runs mainly just the hypervisor), if they have special needs (e.g. if for some reason I want/have to use a recent version of some SW, e.g. ZFS, Kernel, firewall, QEMU, etc...).

On the other hand for VMs I usually just use Debian or Mint, as maintenance/upgrade effort is a lot lower & quicker. In some cases I still have to use PPAs but they're usually exceptions (e.g. Postgres 13 & kernel 5.10 & Clickhouse for Debian 10).
And which ones initiated it? The ones that sent the troops, the ones that armed the Afghans to fight against the soviets decades ago? Or the foreign officials that helped the Taliban with money and logistics? All the NATO officials?

It's particularly hard when you want executions but the only one you can name is Mussolini.
It was a compelling read up to the end, then It left me wanting. I think its because it reads like an article, which should make a point or conclusion but was infact more like a Quora entry.
Assuming it’s using some sort of ML to detect the bugs, that’s a matter of just inputting a new set of data. Easier to update a set of training images than find new poisons that don’t kill absolutely everything.
Tell me exactly how any large-scale user-generated content platform can eliminate it especially if you consider user report "unpaid labor"?

What about you just reply to my other comment directly to you with some rationale instead bad-mouthing somewhere else like a coward?
Google Chrome does too, as anyone who has ever seen the "This file is not commonly downloaded and may be dangerous" message can attest.
Stripe is incredibly good. And then there's stuff like Laravel Spark which handles all the common stuff like accounts and invoicing.
Fair point, though I'll point out that we can also argue there's no point in capturing asteroids until there is machinery available to work with them.

I was also just thinking about "boring things" like coffee machines, laundry machines and space beds for the space station hotels that the Bigelow people are designing. Surely you'd want to design those well up front so you can iterate the design a few times before the first guests arrive?
I did. So many times for so many years.
As an Afghan I grew up with this question. I kept hearing this from our elders in their conversations.
All of us keep thinking if we can see choosing bedfellows like Mujahedin in 80's and the later to be rebranded Taliban in 90's is akin to nourishing a viper in one's bosom. We the simpletons could see and predict any effort of nation building, establishing freedom, democracy and modern human rights is doomed to fail if your partners are the most corrupt murderous warlords Afghanistan had to offer. How could Pentagon, CIA and all the think tanks with their thousands of smart annalists and experts keep missing this? Year after year. For almost half a decade.
So brother you're asking the right question, the only question that matters IMO.
OpenAI can translate English into code
I had similar trying to get quotes for a plumber to fit a boiler in London. After phoning the first person in the Yellow Pages and booking an appointment for them to come and quote, I moved down the list. 8 of the first 10 I called admitted to just being the same company, using different names - they obvs only wanted to book in to quote once! When they came they were lovely but there quote was very low and also low on detail for what they'd do. I found someone local in the end.
Old school spam!
> minimalism: Marie Kondo says that we should remove all the things that "don't spark joy"

> maximalism: our homes should be places full of stuff that sparks joy!

I'm no expert on interior design but that seems to be the same thing. Minimalism was co-opted by the very consumerism it initially criticized, with corporations telling us that we need more (white, square, lifeless) stuff. If your room only has a ornamental bed your inherited from your great-grandparents and a thrifted wardrobe in it, i would still consider that minimalist
Newly discovered startups because no one discovered
> 3. The US Military-Industrial Complex was happy for all this stuff to be lost, so it could be reordered

... and if some group (Talibans?) fetches it then become a foe, he will be a serious one, and therefore the Complex will sell more stuff.

4. Profit!
Very interesting article, but title isn't super accurate. From the article, JVS is an I/O (or just input?) standard, not video standard.
Anyone can add a fake business so that is not surprising... I added a walmart before where I wanted one... and it got built a year or so later. (to tell you the truth, they were voting on it in city council at the time and the anti-walmart crowd didn't like to see it on the map yet)
Germany ‘set for biggest rise in greenhouse gases for 30 years’
Open Source DIY Drones on a Mission to Boost Reforestation
No idea why they dont want to fight ? Have a look at

https://observers.france24.com/en/20200218-afghanistan-corru...
> In fact, I would have to look up how to even "reopen" an Emacs bug, it is not very clear to users, and this makes it especially frustrating if issues are closed without solution.

At the top of your bug report, it says:

To add a comment to this bug, you must first unarchive it, by sending
a message to control AT debbugs.gnu.org, with unarchive 21526 in the body.
You can then email your comments to 21526 AT debbugs.gnu.org in the normal way.
I've been in the field for a nearly two decades now, and it's highly recommendable. There's a game-like element that appeals to a certain type of person.

As for doing good in the world, there's an awful lot of businesses that really only contribute via tax. They do something where the entire benefit, sometimes more, is captured between the business and its customers.

But to say it specifically, you need market makers, because if they weren't there you'd have to wait a long time for someone with the opposite intention to you to show up, and that has a huge cost. And keep in mind MMs are only one part of the capital apparatus that we need in the world. This isn't just fluff, I literally had a friend phone me last week looking for money for his African startup that has had to turn down business for lack of capital.

The how of it is a long story as well, but quite an interesting one that spans a number of fields. Coding, economics, finance, and so on.
> he does show some other tendencies that could be considered racist

Could you elaborate what these were? I am curious. (I am talking about things other than the commit and the cpan thing)
Which leads to my question; With all the vastness of thousands of square miles of water, how is it that ships manage to strike whales of a few square metres? And when you factor in sonar and radar... how? I'm not knowledgeable in maritime routes, but even if you say that both whales and ships prefer ocean currents (maybe, just a wild guess) or the like it still seems hard. Even if the routes are congested
That's where you're wrong. The US never went to kill civilians, the terrorists did.
> as well as red-squiggle-style linting tools like flymake, flycheck, and LSP-related tools.
Youtuber “everydayastronaut” has a series of 3 videos where he talks with Elon while walking around starbase. I really love the third one, where he meets up with the starbase operations lead “taylor” a seemingmly 20 year old woman, a hyped up Sam, and a Mexican guy who gives Elon a big hug. They are all so psyched in the middle of the night moving all this huge shit around gettin ready to go to Mars. Makes me want to dump my job drive down there and just start helping out.

link to thid vid:https://youtu.be/9Zlnbs-NBUI
So? MeiliSearch is open source, so all the better.
Thanks for the detailed answer. Would you mind talking a little bit more about the dependencies? What do you mean by a dependency? Is that like another task that needs to be finished before the current one? What is the relation with priority?
In this specific case, the Emacs maintainers took a mode which already shipped with Emacs (in fact it was the mentioned third-party Prolog mode that was already bundled with Emacs with slight modifications) and changed it so that it no longer worked as previously and also not as expected.

It is definitely nice that the Emacs maintainers corrected some of these regressions which I explained in this issue with steps to reproduce them. However, the information from 23 Nov 2015 that 2 out of several regressions I had reported in this issue are now believed to be corrected does not solve the other issues I reported in the course of the discussion and which still remain. It is easy to reproduce them with the instructions I posted in case someone is still interested in correcting them. Alternatively, one can simply use the third-party mode which does not have these issues also because I had previously already contributed changes to specifically address some of these issues in that original version of the mode.

The key reason for the divergence between these two versions of the same original mode is that Emacs maintainers prefer to use SMIE-based indentation for the mode, and switching the mode to SMIE in the Emacs trunk introduced the reported regressions. SMIE is an indentation and navigation engine that the Emacs maintainers provide. My impression from the discussion in the cited issue is that SMIE is lacking some of the features that are needed to implement the desired and previously supported indentation and navigation for this particular mode. There may be a way to improve SMIE to support these use cases, it may be quite hard though: I expect that if it were easy, these changes would have been made by the Emacs maintainers to solve the remaining issues too in the last few years.
And "Google" is just "Go ogle" without the space.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9b4315d7-4a89-4bdb-8e78-cdbb273...
> My first time doing a Debian upgrade and it’s not a great experience compared to CentOS

My understanding was that CentOS does not even support upgrades between major versions, is that not true?

FWIW: I successfully upgraded 3 machines of mine yesterday. 2 Hetzner Cloud VMs, 1 dedicated server at Hetzner. I've never had any major issues during Debian upgrades since I've been doing them ~10 years ago. One time I hit a kernel bug [1] with my configuration, but that would also have happened without the upgrade.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931574
Vehicles already measure how many miles they travel, and we already have periodic inspections. Why not charge vehicles in proportion to the odometer delta?

This avoids the surveillance concerns, and is far cheaper to implement. It doesn't tell you how much of the traffic is on roads belonging to different entities, but it seems like sampling should be enough to get a fair decision?
Some interesting points there about User voice being head d for the scrap heap (as if it was ever really given much attention from teams at MS anyway) and that VBA isn’t the focus for programmatic extension anymore.

Seems that the closest is the recently announced Python for Excel only (and even then I remember it seemed to be online only or something equally crippled) or PowerApps which I guess might actually be a reasonable but still online only alternative.
Yes, depending on the VC and how the business is going. Here is an example:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/one-year-in-bird-fou...

This might be an extreme one, but the Bird founder appears to have cashed out $44m.

It makes sense for VCs to let founders cash out a bit -- just so you can be comfortable and focus on hyper-growth of the business rather than making short term decisions. I've heard the amounts are usually more like <3M (enough for a house and car or college for kids) and not like the example above. The more the founder cashes out, theoretically the less incentivized they are to grow the company.
> Later, Afghan forces at Bagram air base, home to a prison housing 5,000 inmates, surrendered to the Taliban, according to Bagram district chief Darwaish Raufi. The prison at the former U.S. base held both Taliban and Islamic State group fighters.

see also: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/b-52-bombers-head-to-afghani...

> American B-52H bombers are understood to be conducting an attack on the largest Afghan air force base in order to destroy the aircraft based there.
What's your underlying data store and how do you find the experience of runningly synchronising this with MeiliSearch?
We live longer and healthier now. That's in part made possible through extensive use of crude oil.
If there COVID-19 pandemic has shown us anything then that civilized humanity is unable to prevent catastrophe, but that it also will be able to mitigate the worst effects for the richest 20-30% of the population.

It is sobering, because there was always this observation that a common enemy unites people to strike effective action and we could feed our hopes that if things are just serious enough, we will be strong enough. But, the pandemic was that common enemy and yet we saw a failure to prevent it.

We shouldn’t even say it was due to egoism, greed or incompetence. It’s just impossible to coordinate on that scale.

Why would it be any different here?
"You aren’t drained because you need more sleep; you suffer because you have a broken heart."

With all due respect, what a pile of BS. I monitor closely my productivity. I have been doing it and improving for years.

I am exceptionally productive thanks to that, and one of the major contributors is sleeping well. If for some reason I can not sleep well my productivity drops a lot(because everything else is nailed down so you could easily isolate the culprit). I can even feel the difference.

There are lots of other factors as well, having social contact, friends and family, feeding well, exercising, helping others and feeling necessary.

You need all of them for filling fulfilled, and different people need different amount of each thing, but unless you are a 18 years old, sleep is something almost everybody needs.

You can sacrifice everything for a short term gain, but you must be careful that the effort is short in time as well and you can recover later.

What you call "love" is just a nominalization for a group of things that most people need.
> There are no one bedroom apartments in Queens that are $1K USD a month

The median rent for a one bedroom apartment in Queens is 1K USD - less - than a similar apartment in Manhattan
You will need a lot of pricey Helium-filled airships to replace an average container ship.

I guess the airspace will look somewhat like the Cleveland Balloonfest '86...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CT8zrw6lw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_%2786
Major construction projects, and software, always take longer and cost more than budgeted. If Pournelle’s law is iron, this one is concrete.