skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article was fine, until the Rationalism shout-out at the end (the link to LessWrong was a major red flag). That community is Very Concerned with race and eugenics and genetic determinism and are Just Asking Questions and is largely convinced it knows better than all the experts. There’s a reason Scott Alexander deleted his blog rather than let the light of the NYT shine on it. It would’ve painted him in a very unflattering light, so he decided to “become the story” instead., and his surprise gambit was a massive success at the time. Here at HN the pitchforks were out for the New York Times, and I confess I was even carrying one of those pitchforks.

The rationalist community operates at its best in the semi-dark where its ideas and culture aren’t subject to heavy scrutiny. Would be nice if an intrepid and famous journalist would dig deep but there are dragons lurking there and the operating individuals are exceedingly clever and good at camouflage.

Anyway the rationalist community is a bit of siren song for nerds. I fell for it once and took the bait, so I’m here trying to be more than a mere rock and warning other individuals to be skeptical as they read SA’s seductive prose. Don’t drink the epistemological poison of the rationalist community.
As an Tesla driver in the Northeast, I have always felt Tesla AP/FSD dev has a sunny mild/hot weather California bias, and fails to account for the vagaries of driving in the rest of the world.

The Northeast has high density, old infrastructure (narrow bridges, tunnels and highways, lack of medians and breakdown lanes, etc which are out of spec to modern standards), fewer sunshine hours, cold weather (and the resulting pot hole & lane line degradation of the streets)..

On the other hand, I keep seeing a lot of crazy FDS videos from the Bay Area so clearly they don't even have their home turf covered.

I still don't see how local road FSD is going to happen on current hardware - camera resolution, placement, and CPU inability to handle high frame rates.. We are perpetually 5 years away.
They can't XD. Someone in public radio zero dayed the Mazda infotainment by sending an image in the RDS feed.
I always liked this description because it is so similar to the descriptions of untouched cultures in West New Guinea when they were first discovered in the middle of last century.

These cultures were entirely untouched and it gave anthropologists a look into what life was like before before civilization.

The island was divided into tiny tribes which lead an incredibly brutal way of life. One of the interesting features that anthropologists remarked upon was the fact that when two people met each other out and about, if they didn't know each other, the first thing they would do is immediately start trying to kill each other.

If you take a cultural evolutionary point of view, then it is clear that these practices evolved because it was the best way to guarantee their own survival, and those tribes and people who behaved this way had a better chance of having offspring and passing on their way of life to the next generation.

Anyway, I don't see any reason to believe that the dark forest of our universe would be any different to the dark forests of West New Guinea.
We didn't hand them anything. SpaceX took the risk of being a first mover in a very difficult field and looks to have had their bet pay off.

There's room for more satellites. Space is pretty big, and with some careful automated coordination we can avoid collisions. But someone else needs to first figure out how to cheaply launch a competing fleet, and I doubt anyone will come close for years.
So…we have the Space Weather Prediction Center [0] and raw data from NOAA for this exact purpose. Does SpaceX not review the data / warnings before launch?

There was a G1 warning posted until 21:00 UTC on the launch date:

Space Weather Message Code: WARK05

Serial Number: 1635

Issue Time: 2022 Feb 03 1428 UTC

EXTENDED WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 expected

Extension to Serial Number: 1634

Valid From: 2022 Feb 03 0555 UTC

Now Valid Until: 2022 Feb 03 2100 UTC

Warning Condition: Persistence

[0]: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/homepage

(Warning citation: search for the serial on the warnings and watches page: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnin...)
About 15,000 tonnes of material enter the Earth's atmosphere each year from meteors. I know the makeup of satellites vs. random meteors isn't exactly the same, but it's probably not concerning in terms of pollution sources, and it's really hard for me to imagine it getting there.
Analysis of what, exactly? The physics of the orbits they are in are pretty well understood. You can track the orbital altitudes (and failures/disposals) here: https://planet4589.org/space/stats/star/starstats.html
But thanks to the App Store, there won't be rogue apps that can be downloaded and installed. Not to mention, the developer would have to have operating system entitlements that are only available to paid-up developers in good standing with Apple.
There is a building in San Jose just north of 280 near 17 that was built this way. I traveled along there regularly when it was being constructed and got to watch the floors being hung from the top.

If memory serves, it is this building at 3031 Tisch Way:

https://goo.gl/maps/DGUxh4ijxchgukQD8
> “At this point I think it’s almost a safety issue. I don’t have my backup camera or my navigation system. It’s just weird.”

This seems like a pretty serious issue. Not just the radio.

https://www.geekwire.com/2022/youre-listening-to-kuow-like-i...
There is plenty of room for additional constellations.

The fact that "near misses" are too frequent is largely a result of inaccurate tracking and poor communication. (Next gen space traffic control will allow vastly higher densities.) And the fact that actual collisions are occuring too frequently is due to old uncontrolled junk, not a literal lack of room or inability to maneuver by modern sats.
I'm not sure what people think is so terrible about Teams. Is your communication software causing you to transcend space and time? Teams works, I can chat the person or group I want instantly, call them, see my calendar. All with keyboard shortcuts, no mouse required.

Is using Teams more painful than the positive side of this gig, proportional to its importance to your life?
It would be very cool to replace the stock radio with a software-defined radio receiver. I really doubt vehicle manufacturers would be interested in offering that, though.
You're really ignorant. Gopher exists. Scalajs exists. It's okay to not know but then watch your tone. Or just always
> More generally it seems like when industries are growing, there is competition in this kind of area, but later on this dies off. I wonder if there's a structural reason for this?

This is the natural end result of a totally free market.

Step 1: Competion, therefore consumers are looked after

Step 2: Some companies are "winning" the competition more than others, some of them buy the "losing" companies.

Repeat until there's just one big player and they can charge whatever they want for whatever they can be bothered making available to people.

You have to hope the FTC steps in and stops one company just buying all of its competition forever.
> I feel like the invisible degradation of responsiveness in TV and radio is an un-noticed contributor to their decline. Most of the time I don't bother even scannig the airwaves when I get to a new town cause it's too annoying.

I don't think that's much of a contributor. It's just really easy now to bring your own music (or podcast, or audiobook, or...) to the car with you via your phone, and I suspect people generally prefer to listen to their own curated music (or music a streaming service has curated for them) rather than putting up with radio ads, songs they don't like, etc. Just about the only benefit to listening to the radio would be to stumble upon new music, but you can do that with streaming services too. I guess some people like to listen to talk radio (NPR and the like), but most of that stuff is also available online.

I still have a fairly old car with an analog radio, and I haven't used it in at least 5 (but probably closer to 10) years.

Ditto for TV: the on-demand experience via Netflix (etc.) is just so much better than watching regular network or cable TV. Why would I subject myself to having to be in front of the TV at a particular time on a particular day to watch what I want to watch? Honestly, it baffles me that the standard cable TV model still even exists. Obviously the Comcasts of the world still make enough money off of it to make it worthwhile to sell, but it just seems like an entirely poor experience no matter how you look at it.
The search term "Gabbard diagram" should tell you all you need to know. Especially if you find some animated ones. Here's a particularly nice one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ijKirDjwOU

The Gabbard diagram is a way of expressing the orbital locations and decay of the particles produced as a result of an orbital collision. Note how higher objects tend to stay high for a long time, but low objects (below about 600km) drift lower at an appreciable timescale, and once they're below about 500km they fall the rest of the way very very quickly.

Starlink satellites deploy to 550-km orbits.

Edit: Oh, these were launched into a 210-km orbit, which combined with the higher atmospheric density due to the geomagnetic storm, basically dragged them back down before they could raise to their normal orbit. Oof.
Yes, as there is no other way to prove it’s safe. Aka your suggesting an impossible standard for any company to meet.

Further the only reasonable standard is roughly average human competency. As soon as a tired driver can turn on self driving and be safer on the road then banning that technology has a real cost.
> Sure and covid only kills a miniscule proportion of the people who contract it.

A 1 out of 100 to 1 out of 1,000 fatality rate for COVID depending on demographics is quite literally several orders of magnitude higher than a 1 out of 100,000,000 fatality rate for driving. You're comparing apples to atoms.
SETI scientist Paul Davies says his belief is that "all biological life is transitory". Essentially a temporary blip on the road to something greater. I assume he just means intelligent life.
We live in the future for quite some time now.
As someone with not a lot of income who would prefer to maximize their return where are theses free e-filing options?
This is why I read HN. You just can’t find experts like these anywhere else.
I'm still waiting for you to define "climate denialism" as well as the scientific evidence that supports your view, because from where I sit, it was entirely based on the major climate models which have all been proven laughably inaccurate.

Please point to a single climate model that has accurately predicted the future climate. They can't even predict past climate accurately. They don't take into account all energy from the sun and they don't model clouds and the oceans properly.

Here, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-W76C0kkwc
Gravitational lensing could give us a few more chances if they were in just the right place, but the event would have to be really massive (supernova level) for light echoes from interstellar material
What does "normal" prices man? After everything is said and done, what is your normal effective per-kWh rate? Most people I've seen with these plans only really get a good deal with a plan like that with a good solar or battery install, or are truly never at home except for those free hours.
How significant are those? 2x 777 flights worth? 10? There are thousands of airplane flights every day, but only a couple of these per month.
The West already monopolized scientific publishing. Covid made it worse
Yes, there is a wallet on macOS. If your macbook or keyboard has Touch ID, then you don't need your phone/watch to confirm that you are you.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-wallet-apple-pa...
I recently started researching into Starlink as my next (cheap) internet solution and stumbled upon these 2 videos below. The worst part for me is that once this becomes more popular the bandwidth will die down to crumble. I don't buy they will be able to upkeep with bandwidth sharing it from satellite to satellite using a.. laser beam (is that even possible to sync 2 satellites and send signal thru laser beam that has radius of 10 nm at distance of 1,000 km from one object to another traveling at 20,000km/s ?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaUCDZ9d09Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuMzGhc1cg
I'm confused. You say it's a bad caricature, then provide an anecdotal example that seems to closely match the caricature.
Hi, I made Timelight, a personal planner with the features I wanted but couldn't find elsewhere. It's free to use right now while in beta.

I'm a software dev but this is my first experience with mobile. It's made with Flutter, but only on Android for now. I started building it for myself after quitting my job in 2020, mostly to keep busy but it grew into a full-time thing. I don't feel it's done yet but I'm finally happy enough with it to share with others. It's not for everyone but I think it has some cool features for people who like to keep detailed schedules.

Thanks for reading.
That's because you have to pay an extra licensing fee for clear and concise visual design. Besides, that would add complexity - imagine if there was something that needed to be changed after the article was published! /s
This is my main theory. Humans will eventually abandon their own bodies and live in a VR world. I think you'd still have massive energy requirements in the real world to deal with of course.
You wouldn't, as that's not a valid python line.
"also, as time goes on, the proportion of btc that are "dirty" approaches 1"

I don't follow what you're saying here. Nothing stops something from being dirty multiple times, does it? So nobody might care that it could be traced back to something sketchy 5 years ago, if more immediately it's traced back to last month's crime.
It's a mistake of large consequences to imagine other people think the way you do.
dang is going to ban me if I share how this take makes me feel. so let me just say that the proliferation of evidence-resistant memes such as this one concerns me greatly, and I feel even more unsafe as a pedestrian and cyclist on the street than I did before knowing that there are people who think that this is reasonable.
For the sake of argument, let's assume this is intentional. What would be the point of doing this? Capturing millions of random people's background sound, in the hopes of landing some "big fish", to provide/sell that audio to the Chinese government?
I maintain an archive of nightly builds that the metaslab table is so large that it doesn't stay in ARC without me forcing metaslab_debug on.

Workload is roughly

Every night write a lot of files

6/7 nights delete a lot of files (i.e. keep weekly snapshots).

It took about 3-5 years of doing this to get to the point where write-performance dropped off the clif and enabling metaslab_debug brought it back.
The possibility of a pandemic caused by a coronavirus was well recognized before it happened.
What’s the alternative? Not run software? Run it all in the browser? FOSS only?
If there’s so little atmosphere that a Starlink doesn’t burn up before it hits your car, the ICE engine would have trouble running anyway.
Yes, I have two runs from 23 and me one of the version four chip in one of the version five chip. I’m also waiting for my full genome that should be coming in about 5 to 6 weeks. I’m well aware of my genetics and how they helped cause my mood disorder and my various sensitivities. I spent the last 12 years teaching myself genetics and nutritional genetics as well as neuropsychology so I could figure out what was happening to my family.

Turns out we have Sami heritage we never knew we had which I think is part of the disconnect.
> Isn't this then good that this kind of condition gets more attention?

Of course. Helping people and easing the symptoms of illness is a great thing.

I don't know where you live, but some areas are more scared of Covid than others. My primary concern is getting back to normal, and I think some peoples' overblown concerns around things like Long Covid is leaving some people to have an inability ever let go of their Covid security blankets. Don't get me wrong, I don't care if anybody wants to go around wearing a mask or getting weekly or daily booster shots for the rest of their lives. I care that their fear is leading them to force their choices on all of society with no end in sight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm
emergent oscillations from partial information seems interesting, does this have a name ?
Not SPP. FERC.
Winterization is required for any gear that's on an AC grid that crosses state lines. SPP is on the Eastern Interconnection. So all the players in SPP are required to winterize. ERCOT is entirely inside Texas, so they had a choice.

And they chose.... poorly.
Source? That sounds like a really cool hack if it’s true
Also, you're not trying to just limit falling debris on yourself, but anyone in your party since you'd hate to lose a friend that way.
"radio station in the Seattle area sent image files"

If that's not a sign that people are making the simplest things Way More Complicated Than Necessary(tm) I don't know what is.
It would be tricky and expensive to insure so many of their own launches so I'd guess no.
"geomagnetic storm"
Americans pay quite low taxes relative to other countries.

There's clearly plenty of waste and poor spending in the federal budget, though there's wide-ranging disagreement on which parts are the wasteful ones.
> Limiting physics. It is very hard to continue to make devices smaller at historical rates. Nobody is keeping up with the historical 2-year node cadence any longer. And the "nodes" now are marketing smoke and mirrors, anyway; they don't actually mean that device density has doubled.

There are plenty of process improvements to be made at the trailing edge of development, where the majority of manufactured chips actually are. The leading, most expensive device nodes which are most clearly bumping into physical constraints, will gradually be less and less representative of the industry as a whole.
This is like the problem with astrology, since there are actually 13 sidereal months. You can even see that in the charts that show the star and planet locations on any given day, but somehow they are ignored by "psychics" everywhere.
Yeah, and the reason Elon is reaching for aggregate statistics is because he can't argue that his platform is fundamentally sound. I mean, the primary directive of any driverless car is: don't run into anything. That's it, that's all it has to do. Yet Teslas routinely run into stationary objects, and not because those objects are somehow particularly pathological and would generally fool most anyone. No, they are specifically confounding to the way Tesla does things, in a way that practitioners in the field aware of and know how to solve, but which Elon Musk stubbornly refuses to recognize.

I keep harping on it but the decapitation incident in 2016 is just so illustrative of what kind of culture Tesla is fostering. Here's a situation where reckless engineering choices by Tesla literally caused a customer to lose his head. The solution which would fix this problem would be to add more orthogonal sensor modalities, so that any blind spot in one sensor can be compensated for by another (e.g. LIDAR will not see a glass wall, but SONOR will).

But what did Tesla do? They actually doubled down! They removed existing orthogonal sensors and they made everything worse! Now basically the entire thing is driven by vision, and it's still predictably exhibiting the same failure mode of running into broad and stationary objects as it did 5 years ago (which by the way was approximately the amount of time Elon Musk predicted it would take for them to get to level 5 autonomous driving. Instead they've bumbled around for half a decade and failed to make any significant progress).
Yes. But they're designed to burn up on entry. I think it's been mentioned on HN that the delay in their laser link network was due to the need to redesign the laser component to ensure it would break up.
"sent image files" is an HD Radio function, and HD Radio is also known as NRSC-5, the standards document that describes it.

There's an NRSC-5 encoder floating around on Github, if you want to try your hand at it. Notably, it was implemented by an infosec firm, presumably because more garbage code like this is lurking everywhere, and it never gets proper testing because HD Radio is proprietary and its creators never intended an open-source encoder to exist. (To the point of hiding all sorts of details about the codec, but some educated guesses and comparison to similar codecs seem to have paid off.)

So, in this case it just crashes the radios so they boot-loop, but how long until someone figures out a payload that can do more damage?
Yes, maybe the caffeine, theobromine and PEA all together effect me. But I know my phenylalanine is high from blood tests.
I think you missed the point. The idea here is that there were people that said before any results were in that hydroxychloroquine was not gonna work, operating with a heuristic that almost always works. And in this case they were correct, which the article doesn't seem to disagree with. The point is that at some point the heuristic will fail, not that it did in the case of hydroxychloroquine.
Facebook became the anti-Facebook.
I am inquisitive about what kind of enterprise communication software you think is good.

MS Teams is not perfect but it's not that bad either. I have used Teams, Slack, even Discord a little bit. I don't think anyone of them is above average.
Small satellites like Starlink burn up in athmosphere. But if you're curious about liability laws for falling satellites, here's the relevant UN convention: http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gares/ARES_26_2777E.pdf
What you're arguing against, then, isn't "rugged individualism", it's "the sanctity of human life". The difference is that the one says "individual human freedom is paramount" while the other says "each individual human life is paramount".

Neither ethic would approve of systematically killing people for the greater good, but they're two very different ethics in most other respects. For example, I could arrive at "vaccination should be mandated" from a sanctity-of-life perspective, but I never could from a rugged individualism perspective.
Probably? But I imagine that won't/can't happen because the satellite is likely designed to burn upon reentry. It would seriously surprise me if no regulatory body thought of this before they sent thousands into LEO.
>they’re wanting champagne work output on a horse piss beer salary

Permission to steal this line?
It blows my mind how annoying it is to watch TV nowadays
In Massachusetts, the minimum wage for tipped service staff is $6.15--appalling for 2022 with inflation hitting 30-year highs.
lol, man, just let the guy talk. We're just here hanging out. He probably thought it was neat that he knew someone who was attached to something this crazy. This is how a lot of humans operate.

Am I talking to a bot?
I don't think RDS/RBDS can do images, can it? I'm pretty sure that's an HD Radio/NRSC-5 function.
When you got to a new town, I seem to recall pulling a booklet out of the glove compartment, finding the right page, finding the right frequency for the station you're after, and tuning manually to that frequency.

"Punch a button" was only an option once you'd already saved that preset - no difference to the later digital version.
It's not even that they sent an image, it's that they didn't put an extension on the filename of the image.
Where is the professional in the video above (the one in the tweet)?

Just two passengers in the back seat.