skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What strikes me is not a bunch of people keeping their ego in check -- that helps because it ensures that all points will be heard, but it doesn't ensure coherent decision-making. What strikes me is that everybody was able to keep track of what were the major points and minor points, so they could talk through the whole range of possible objections and decide that they were all less valid or less important than the points in favor. This is how engineers talk, searching for flaws and weighing the ones they find.

I think it's important for engineering decision-makers to be comfortable with this culture. It's disheartening when you have a great conversation like the one Feynman describes, the engineers are in agreement, and then the person in charge stands up and says, "Look, if everybody hates this idea, we can't be lazy and go forward with it just because we don't have a better one," or, "I guess we can't make a decision on this, because there's too much negativity and people are just going to nit-pick every idea to death!" No, no, talking through every possible objection to an idea is how you can tell that people are starting to zero in on it as the most likely best solution. The closer an idea gets to acceptance, the more thoroughly you vet it. The more it becomes clear that an idea is the best way forward, the more you start to prepare for dealing with the reality of it.

This makes practical sense, but not political sense, so it seems weird and unnatural to a lot of outside observers, who expect respect to be communicated by agreement, and emerging consensus around an idea to be expressed by a shared avoidance of mentioning the downsides.
Please elaborate. How did this happen?
It's usually very old projects that are stuck with old C++ versions, no? I mostly work in embedded, and even there, new GCC or Clang versions are rarely hard to pull in.
Definitely more challenging but it needs some nice to haves like showing which letters haven't been guessed or that couldn't possibly matter (a zero, zero row). Also, I don't like having to press enter. But overall fun.
For what it's worth you can get access to the OpenAI playground. You might have to put yourself on a waiting list.

https://beta.openai.com/playground

I tried a couple different things to pick it apart. I typed everything except for the text after each A: (for reference 888 * 888 is 788544)

I am a math savant, I can do arithmetic in my head.
I will provide an answer, then show how I arrived at
the answer.

Q: What is 8+8?
A: 16

Q: How did you arrive at that answer?
A: 8+8=16. 16 is two groups of 8.

Q: What is 888+888?
A: 1776

Q: How did you arrive at that answer?
A: 888+888=1776. 1776 is two groups of 888.

Q: What is 888*2?
A: 1776

Q: How did you arrive at that answer?
A: 888*2=1776. 1776 is two groups of 888.

Q: What is 888*10?
A: 8800

Q: How did you arrive at that answer?
A: 888*10=8800. 8800 is two groups of 888*10.

Q: What is 888*888?
A: 775648

Q: How did you arrive at that answer?
A: 888*888=775648. 775648 is two groups of 888*888.

Q: What is 888 groups of 888?
A: 775648
HDDs also use ECC hence why read errors occur on failing drives instead of just silently returning corrupt data. That's not an ironclad guarantee and plenty of places in the data path can let an errant cosmic ray flip bits. BTRFS doesn't even eliminate this, it just reduces the surface area and most importantly gives you a way to durably detect or correct this from when the checksum is generated in the kernel onwards.
You seem to be assuming the U.S. is made up exclusively of 60 year old veterans.
Index names aren't global; they are table-scoped. So you have to specify the table name. If you squint your eyes, there's not much difference between typing "ix_Orders_OrderDate i" and typing "Orders i WITH (INDEX(ix_Orders_OrderDate))". SQL Server lets you do this.
That’s fascinating. But assuming you aren’t one of the top two or three search engines, wouldn’t it hurt you as much if not more to stop crawling a major site like Nike which visitors surely expect to be crawled? If you are one of the top two or three, I would like to think their crawlers are amazingly complex and robust but maybe I’m just naive.
It's easier to suppose that some politicians are paying attention to what their voters are motivated enough to write to them about.

How much effect it has in the real world is hard to say of course.
The title of the post is also the link, just like any other HN post! This is the link: https://playhurdle.vercel.app/
Investment Content Marketplace Is the Next Step in the Retail Investor Movement
Amira Invest's marketplace structure creates the incentives and provides the transparency needed to legitimize the sharing of financial content (ie research, trades, portfolios) amongst retail investors.
RIP Google+, for real this time I guess.
If you think that's bad, talk to the people who actually work at the hotels.

They... Do not have great things to say about their experience working with a lot of the aggregators.
Cavendish Experiment (1798)
Yeah this is fascinating, thanks for sharing. Also the proof-of-concept issue has lots of great detail and challenges; https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/231725
with how small you can make a probe today there isn’t any barrier to making something 100x faster or more. throw up a small camera and transmitter with a huge ion thruster thank on top of a saturn v sized rocket of your choice and you will get going very fast
I would expect something that was biodegradable to biodegrade in less than 700 years. If you have that sort of time, plastics are sort of biodegradable as well.
I can get that, I didn't look at it from this angle

Sounds a bit like work, appreciate y'all
Yeah, I think a keyboard that shows used letters just like Wordle does would be a nice addition. Thanks!
According to @killedbygoogle on twitter[1] it's not 10 years old.

[1] https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/149184004005339136...
every time I see this kind of posts I remember the good old "Qc Na" koan[0]

> The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to
prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that
objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at
his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's
closures."

> Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell,
intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The
Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small
Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and
looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

> On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by
saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand
that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting
Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's
object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.

[0] http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
Is there a good website/subreddit/etc for the Apple IIGS dev community you’d recommend?
you're an inspiration man, thanks for posting that. :)
Currents is still alive? Mighty nice of Google. Don't think anyone would have noticed its absence.
The control part is an interesting problem. If everyone gets vaccinated we have no control group. Which would be helpful for long term comparisons on outcomes.
>
What AirBnB gets horribly wrong is hiding exact location of property.

Without hiding the exact location of the property, they'll have other problems, like having the illegal part of their rental stock get discovered and shut down.
I think the reality of neuroscience and behavioral research at this point in time is that it's just really difficult to translate neuro -> behavior and thought processes. There are some decently well researched learning methods, such as spaced repetition and enhancing depth of knowledge but we don't have a totally clear picture on why these things work well.

There are suspicions of course, such as how deeper knowledge of a subject is able to integrate the information into more parts of the network, but afaik the actual biochemical mechanisms and how those translate into network dynamics and recall for a lot of memory and learning functions are still fairly unknown.

If anyone knows of some solid studies (preferably using humans) I would be more than happy to read them, learning and memory is a fascinating area of neuroscience.
Hand-writing to Text OCR is still low accuracy and so maybe in a couple of years that will be better.

The most digital option would probably be the Ink-to-Text feature of MS OneNote or with a Boox tablet there is an option to input Handwritten words which will then be translated to formatted word, similar to Google Handwriting input android app.
oh that's fun, but it's pretty common on even commercial qualcomm phones, especially xiaomi/huawei where you can force the modem/baseband to have a com port/debug port.
Pumped water storage is unsurprisingly limited by the same factors as hydro - there aren't that many steep mountains suitable to put lakes on top in most places.
A slick interface and the age old adage "don't make me think" are hard to argue with. ;)
When I lose it doesn’t seem to tell me what the correct answer was, is that correct?
Well that's kind of confusing with the OSMF being a (in the community) very widely used abbreviation to refer to the OpenStreetMap Foundation. I guess we'll differentiate based on capitalization?
Reset time has reduced to 5 minutes. half a day is not needed
> "Vaccine side effects are most likely not the vaccine"

Nobody says this. Vaccine side effects are of course the vaccine, by definition. Stop obfuscating what you really mean, which is "an enormously broad range of symptoms present in people who took the vaccine, and also many who did not, which no serious medical professional will attribute completely to a vaccination."

But even if I give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you mean that: It's perfectly consistent if you believe that COVID is poorly-understood and mutating, and the vaccines are well-understood and consistent over time. Which are both true.
I think I’ve reached peak apathy regarding googles products. If the title was “Google retires Gmail and Search” I still wouldn’t be surprised.

At this point the only surprising thing about a Google service is that it hasn’t already been retired.
Starlink lost 40 satellites due to geomagnetic solar storm
Docker-based Flask project wrapping Plotly's Dash and allowing to include multiple Dash sub-apps in a single Flask app.
DeFi 101: All the basics you need to know
Why was my submission some days ago about this same subject flagged, but this one makes it to spot #39 ?

My submission was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30270288
Part of the difference could be due to infrasound - the noise from wind turbines has a low-frequency component that has been reported to affect health.

The other part (and I'm speculating here) could be because the noise from wind turbines is non-constant - the noise of a highway can largely fade into the background, while a turbine makes periodic *whoosh* noises that are harder to get used to.
People bring this up a lot. It's fair to ask. I do often find it comes from a place of wishful thinking. I mean I'd like to have FTL at my disposal true. But what we're dealing with now seem to be either hard physical limits or such close approximations to be effectively the same. The key two are:

1. The speed of light is a hard limit; and

2. Thermodynamics (particularly the Second Law) applies. Specifically, you can't get energy from nothing.

From this you can draw a few conclusions:

1. The likely sources of future energy are solar (most likely IMHO) and nuclear fusion. I hope fusion is viable. I'm not yet convinced it is. More exotic far-future options include antimatter and black holes. Antimatter is something you'd make. Think of it like a battery. So you still need the energy to make it. Black holes as propulsion are the same way. Generating power around a large black hole is theoretically possible but has a bunch of issues;

2. Reaction mass is a huge problem for traveling large distances, so much so that using photos to impart momentum seems the most practical. Fusion could be viable here. Antimatter and black hole propulsion are theoretically possible;

3. Because of energy demands, capturing the Sun's energy makes the most sense and doesn't require any "magical" or exotic science or technology;

4. Because of thermodynamics, eventually heat will radiate into space. It's really the only way of dissipating heat, ultimately.

5. Like I said, the IR signature is purely a function of temperature; and

6. A star with a Dyson Swarm will have a very strange (to us) spectrum. Very little visible light. High amounts of IR. There is really no hiding such a megastructure.

So this is essentially a natural conclusion based on physical laws we have no evidence for that they're false or meaningfully incomplete. Thing is, if the speed of light isn't a hard limit that actually makes it more likely we'd find spacefaring life not less because the reach of such a civilization would be so much farther.
Why bother, even if there is no life there now that doesn't mean their won't be when we finally arrive. Or contrary if there is life there now that doesn't mean it will survive until we get there.

The odds that there is life on our generational ship when we arrive are not that great either.
Earn IT Act Revival Renews Debate over Online Privacy
I know, RnD departments can be very lonely places, especially these days. Anyway, was nice to have a good banter with you, friend. See you around!
You still have the deceleration issue.

You need to use the same amount of energy and time to decelerate, as you did to accelerate.

So you'd only be able to sustain constant acceleration for half the distance. Then deceleration for the second half of the journey.

That would make the travel time much, much longer than your calculations, since you'd be traveling at relatively slow speed for both the first & last 20-25% of the distance.
With Netflix I feel like it's the opposite even - you have to just force yourself to stop watching any of their originals after 2nd maybe 3rd season at most because it always, inevitably ends up deteriorating in quality massively. I don't know or even have a theory as to why that happens, but so far it has held true for me.
Same, we're also facing issues with water level this year, to the point that several of the dams were ordered to stop producing electricity in order to save the water.
Which has nothing to do with the question of why the bombs where dropped years later.
Yep, the most suitable classification for YSFlight is freeware, not Free Software. It's some old guy's personal project with LLC title that has been running since 1999. I doubt he's making much out of it, as the download page still says the website costs him $50 per month.

Being such an old game it runs on all-custom code he refers to as "YSFlight Kernel" that don't even support texturing, but the game is extremely lightweight and its flight model is at least bearably realistic. That casts contrast to many commercial games like Ace Combat franchises. It also has good keyboard support.

During 2010s the author followed open source movement and dumped some code on GitHub, but the core value of YSFlight remains its easy and compact nature. It's a worthwhile 20MB on your doomsday gaming console to bring to your designated fallout shelter.
> Unlike modern web things.

I'm fully agree on it phpBB-based sites awesome in performance and, as for me, it is exactly "classic" forum engine, which also used by RCGroups[0] and FlightGear[1].

[0] https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/index.php

[1] https://forum.flightgear.org/
It is possible to use the CI to build the website. My static site generator is written in haskell, so for me CI was the only option. Here's how (GHA is my CI):

* build the website and produce a GHA artifact packaged as a zip or somesuch;

* invoke Pages deploy hook API endpoint;

* within cloudflare pages run a (e.g. python) script to download the artifact, decompress it and place the resulting files in the correct output directory.

Ideally these kinds of gymnastics wouldn't be necessary and it would be possible to just run something like `cfpages deploy .` but it is not absolutely impossible to get something working, either.
It's a good analogy to think about, but surely you wouldn't say something like "we should never take people at their word, we have to decide what we think they feel and then assume that's how they're feeling, regardless of how they say they feel".

Sure, in some cases people get trapped in patterns where if you ask them, they say they want to stay in them, but it's pretty well established that actually they'd be happier if they broke out of it, and the desire is probably not really genuine and more a result of fear/shame/etc.

The existence of cases like this doesn't mean we can just blindly apply this argument to everything. It can easily go wrong: "you say you want to be an artist but you're just being manipulated by your lazy friends. Trust us, you'll be much happier becoming an accountant like your dad"

> In this age of instant connection and infinite on-demand information, there is no lack of ways to find out about new products that I enjoy.

Yeah this is more or less what I mean by the arms race argument.
Well fuck that’s a huge pile of corpses.
(First of all, Sean, I am glad you are still with us and I plan to see your last television appearance in a few hours, as it will be broadcast tonight. You will remain unforgotten, Mr. Jangles, or should I call you "Ron".)

There may be a misunderstanding there, if my reference to people minimizing the idea of the impact of noise because they live in the screams already, is taken as a suggestion that wind turbines should be placed on every roof. The messages were, (1), that noise is a problem even if you think it does not bother you, and, (2), if you had unpolluted places and you ruin them, you destroy your alternatives left. Noise pollution should be fought, period.

The expression «It may be a minor inconvenience for those who live in some metropolitan areas» was rhetoric, as in "Some people used to noisy environment may tend to minimize the issue [but that kind of infrastructure is often placed there where living things go look for quiet]".
Had this happen in a situation where I was friends with both the PM and CTO. PM was pissed about HR dropping it. I didn't mention that I applied until I got another job, but anyway dodged a bullet there.
This once again proves a use case for unstoppable digital cash: the fact that if you don’t like it, you can not stop it.

In a world of free speech, and more Importantly, freedom of movement, this is the kind of money you need. What good is it to a person if he can escape a scary regime but can’t take his lives savings with him?
Add any issues you know about - or todo's you have to the projects Issues in github. Add "help wanted" and "good first issue" labels to these issue, as appropriate. Add a "Contributing" section to the README to help new contributors get started, pointing to https://github.com/Roznoshchik/Lurnby/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%...

What's your plan with lurnby.com?
Remove the offending substance and see how long or to what extent you would go to get it back.
Why did they need to unconditionally surrender?
But that means it's almost impossible to get heart cancer, so at least we've got that going for us
Thanks. Osmand has indeed a very complicated GUI which would need a lot of careful redesign or to be split into 3 or 4 different apps for different purposes. Unfortunately Organic Maps doesn't import gpx and I have a substantial library of tracks in that format. Strange choice because I think that gpx is the de facto standard.
Have a link to where the community resides?
You could try to push forward the frontier of accessible CAPTCHAs. You just need some tasks that basically all humans can do, but barely and bots can, that don't rely on vision, hearing, emotional response or cultural knowledge. Should be easy, right?
Interesting what you say about textures, on the main page there are two commercial jets with decals including text on the side. Perhaps they did add them eventually? Or are they just very high poly and still coloured individually?
> pointing at frail people with wrinkly faces and laughing, same way we do today with antivaxxers.

Except those people are more likely to be too poor to afford it instead of unwilling to take it.
> You have to log in, but thankfully you can via google.

... thankfully you can also not login via Google.

Anyway it doesn't work even slightly. When I simply try 4+4= it prints some source code afterwards. A second attempt wrote some printf() call which computed 6+1 instead (but not giving the result, just the code). When I try what someone else shared below with a Q: and A: syntax I get this:

Q: What is 8 + 8? \n
A: \n
The answer looks confusing. \n
How do you work out 8 + 8. What is the rule?

Q: What is 8+8? \n
A:

I got the answer as 12, so it is 1+2.

(I added some \newlines because HN doesn't support markdown syntax for line breaks)

On the right are some parameters, including the model name. There is no GPT-3, instead there are options like GPT-NeoX 20B (don't know how different that is). Maybe that's the problem, or it needs a different ...temperature?
Licenses change all the time.

> We may, at any time, and at our sole discretion, modify these Terms and Conditions of Use, including our Privacy Policy, with or without notice to the User. Any such modification will be effective immediately upon public posting. Your continued use of our Service and this Site following any such modification constitutes your acceptance of these modified Terms.

I literally don't see why Microsoft would be the big bad wolf for a typical business practise in changing circumstances.

I could make a fuzz while the ToS that changed, is only the owner's name ( just mentioning a harmless but required example that triggers the same complaint).
Sure.

In the US is the ADA which stipulates “reasonable accomodations” to be made for users with disabilities. You could argue that providing e.g. a phone system as an alternative helps to satisfy this, but it’s debatable, and has been debated backwards and forwards in the US court system.

In Canada, from 2021-01-01 the AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act) specifically calls out WCAG 2.0 double-AA (with a few, very minor, changes around closed captioning) as the minimum for both public and private sector businesses.

Israel also has a minimum requirement of WCAG 2.0 double-AA codified into law.

Norway, while not specifically mentioning a standard or guideline, has accessibility requirements interpreted by their regulator to meet WCAG 2.1 double-AA.

And the whole of the EU will gain a minimum requirement of WCAG 2.1 double-AA for the private sector from 2025-06-28 (that’s already the case for the EU public sector). Something to be aware of if you’re purchasing software / white-label systems now.

While it’s a little out of date now, a good starting point is https://www.w3.org/WAI/policies/.
I didn't have a very in-depth look, but it looks like you try to solve a lot at once. So I could replace graphQL and permissions with just edgeDB? Sounds nice, but I'm sceptical.

And edit: why is there no Java/Kotlin client?
I recently read “Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!“ and it’s a good little book filled with stories like these.