skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if anyone is following this, right now it appears that not many Kanye stories are bubbling to the top. It's simply not in the top 100 of the top 100. For the full 30 day index, checking just on Kanye in story titles, this is all I have in my index.

Kanye West - Gold Digger
Kanye wants Billie Eilish to say sorry or he'll pull out of Coachella
Kanye West: ‘Stop Asking Me to Do NFTs... Ask Me Later’
Kanye West Does Not Want to Get Involved With NFTs
Kanye West Rejects NFTs, Tells Fans To Stop Asking: 'I Make Music In The Real World'

So long story short, I think I may need to consider increasing my pull. Going from the top 100 of the top 100 to maybe the top 1000 of the top 100 or the top 100 of the top 1000. I'll have to do some research and also validate my crawl can support it.
Yep, and untill then, i'll keep buying beachfront properties, like they do.

..oh wait, i'm not that rich.
You raise a good point: taking multiple payloads could help bridge this gap. But I still believe it'll take quite awhile to match the economics of an F9 launch (assuming that payload is within the launch parameters).

Falcon Heavy is again evidence of this. We're not seeing ride-sharing on FH. We're seeing large (primarily military) payloads that F9 just can't do.
Original info here: https://www.schmidtfutures.com/schmidt-futures-launches-ai20...

Looks like more to come on this re application, nomination, etc.
I'm not going to argue that the shuttle wasn't a boondoggle. The same reasons it was are the same reasons it's not a great comparison. Very different mission scope/requirements, having to conform to multiple masters (DoD and NASA) regarding the design, etc. The shuttle was required to do things F9 is not.
I tend to go by how much anxiety a piece of code might give me once it goes to production. If I expect the level of anxiety to breach a certain threshold (usually when there’s too many logic branching than I can keep in my head), then I write the tests first.

The above assumes though that I’ve done enough previous discovery to have a relatively robust model of the problem domain. If not, I prototype first and during this stage I won’t be using TDD. Prototypes produced are throwaway, of course.
I’ve been developing in WebGL for the last year on a Mac and can’t help but notice that Firefox and Chrome have much better performance (fps) than Safari. I would’ve thought Safari on Mac hardware would work best.

Does anyone know where these performance differences stem from?
What it allows is to have the experience at all, and that is a huge change. Before the Quest, VR was out of reach unless you had 4 figures to burn on a top of the range gaming PC and an entire room to dedicate to VR, not to mention the huge hassle of installing drivers, setting up sensors, etc. It was solidly in "enthusiast" territory because the experience, while novel, just wasn't worth the effort.

Now, though? You buy a cheap piece of hardware. You charge it. You put it on. Boom, you're teleported to another world. Saying that's no different from wading through making an HTC Vive work is like saying Dropbox is no different than rsync, except rsync also costs a thousand bucks.

The Ford Model T wasn't revolutionary tech either. The Quest (series) is the Model T of VR headsets. It's the one that everyone's gonna buy, just for fun, because it's finally worth it.
> Go and play the 5th harmonic and then the 7th harmonic on a string.

You're using "harmonic" here in a way this is disconnected from a lot of the rest of the discussion here. We are not talking about scale degrees or anything like that, but the physical harmonic series. The 5th and 7th partial of the harmonic series has nothing to do with the 11th, which the basis for the ratio that normally is identified as the tritone, modulo some culture-specific tweaks to fit in with other musical practice (eg. definining it as 64:45 or 7:5 or sqrt(2) in various tuning systems).

> There's no references needed.

There's plenty of existing references that make it clear that the tritone is based on the 11th harmonic of the harmonic series, folded down into the octave as a ratio of 11:8. The "tritone is 3 whole steps" is a tuning-specific simplification of this.

And yeah, I know the xen site, and have a learned a lot from it. I still see some fairly clear impositions of "worldviews" on some of the material there, maybe not as bad as it would be at a music school, but not quite as context-free as some people would prefer.

I'm the author of a cross-platform DAW, and one of my goals for the next few years it to get support for arbitrary tuning systems deeply embedded into the software.
Lead needs be eliminated from wheel balancing weights as well as shotguns, bullets, and fishing weights.. Billions of these are used and they all end up as dust or landfill. Used to save weight, iron weights would be a little larger, but iron has far lower toxicity.
This is a bit off-topic, but can anyone here explain the expected economic advantages of fusion power over fission? My understanding is that fusion plants would also use heat-driven turbines, and be pretty capital intensive. Would they fill a different niche, or are they expected to be fundamentally more cost-effective?
I work there currently and I agree - I can imagine frustration for a while after leaving and not having a good place to make a bunch of posts.

Posts and work groups are actually a generally good way for scalable work communication - and leaving a public and searchable record. This doesn't replace Google docs and wikis, but serve as another layer to organize them. (I promise this doesn't lead to needless bureaucracy, that still happens but not because of Workplace).
Honestly, suspending civil liberties is a ridiculously unmatched response to loud horns. It mainly just shows how sheltered the people of ottawa are.

And the rest of your post is made up.
Is there a way to have this async communication presented in a better way?
I am on Discord, Telegram, and Slack sometimes with thousands of members.
Yet, I mostly don't read posts anymore because it's just a full marketplace talking and finding that needle in a haystack of good information is impossible.
So unless I am in sync I can't read.
In fact it seems backwards, if the glowing gene makes fish with it more visible to predators, shouldn't that select against it and make it less likely to gain a foothold in the environment? I would think local, camouflaged fish would benefit if their usual predators switched to the easier meal.
I'm not all that familiar with orbital transfers and costs. Given the 20 year time frame and launch quantities needed, is a favorable transfer window always needed (I'm probably asking if it is always cheapest)? Seems like there's going to be stuff being sent up that would be totally fine slowly cruising to Mars in three years instead of one. Receiving a thousand shipments from space sounds approximately as hard as sending them and spacing them out over a longer period might be desired (and given that quantity, let's face it, we're going to crater a few of them into Mars and replacements will need to be sent).
Yeah I admire all of the efforts people are proposing, but they are bailing out a sinking ship with a spoon.

Let's say we claw back /8 networks somehow and let's say we can free up one of those /8 networks per year. Pretty optimistic.

The allocation rate for /8 networks from IANA after conservation measures were put in place was still 5 /8 networks per year. Even if we conserved IP addresses five times better than that, this would still merely freeze the current situation for a few until we run out once again.

There is just no amount of crumb picking that can fix the fact that 32 bits are woefully inadequate.
Just so. With 30y home loans being the standard here in AU, that induces property buyers to consider a roughly 25y longer horizon than our local politicians trouble themselves with.

We've had some famous instances of coastal housing collapses here recently (eg. [0])

It's not clear how much is attributable to sea level rise - probably not much - but these types of stories demonstrate the thinking involved from the various involved parties.

The hubris of the purchaser (often there are associated stories of fights with local councils to get permission to build that close to the shore - also complicated in Australia by a standing 30-metre water front is public property), followed by even more hubris of the purchaser (demanding that same council to build a sea-wall). Lending institutions don't care either way, at least yet, because their capital / revenue is assured. Local councils don't have the budget, inclination, or obligation to allocate huge resources to such a tiny demographic. Our national administration is populated by pro-coal climate-deniers or sceptics, so we're not expecting good leadership outcomes at that level either.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/23/again...
Why? I mean, if the Starship is reusable, and they're producing enough engines to build 2-4 a month, that seems like overkill. How many Starships are even needed?
Technology Trends to Watch in Education
Here's an example of what I am talking about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706391

A particular user is aggressively confrontational towards every queer/POC person who makes a negative comment about the Midwest possibly not being safe for certain groups. In a conversation about a technical topic, this type of behavior wouldn't be tolerated. In this case, it was, and possibly valuable discourse was derailed.

For purposes of comparison, there's a critical discussion about MS Teams today with a hundred comments. I wouldn't expect posters who respond "what are you, some kind of Slack shill???" in such a thread to last long here without moderator action.

Seen this double standard consistently over the years and it's one reason myself and others keep their distance from this site.
And the bouncy castles! Will someone just get rid of the bouncy castles?
> That makes you wonder what other stuff engineered in labs could establish itself in our environments.

Factcheckers and experts say lab origin is a myth.
While I don't agree that reuse will bring the price down further, I can 100% get behind the other points.

Even the argument that demand isn't there because launch costs are high doesn't hold - the bigger the sat, the more expensive it is and the trend goes towards smaller and cheaper sats.

Building commercial space stations (plural!) could be done using all-up launches and that would be like what - one launch every couple of years?

It's still early days, but it's not as if 100t to LEO is novel or anything - the Energia rocket could do that 35 years ago. The Soviets and later Roskosmos abandoned the vehicle, because they couldn't find a use for it either (after Buran was axed).
There are still documents on the internet that use ASCII encoding, and while English speaking users doesn't have this problem, in some countries there were several different encoding systems used back in the past. While most believe that web content is resilient and we will still be able to browse old websites forever, recent web browser developments show otherwise. Please do not remove working features, especially if they have no effect on security or privacy.
It's always regulation bad, big corporation good, and don't you dare questioning why the supply chain is so fragile while shareholders and executives are making bank.

It's fragile because corporations make money, but they don't invest it back into their workers or production. They buy their own stock back, which reduces the number of shares, which increases it's value. They manipulate the stock, and when there is a crisis they also accept bailouts, because keeping your company at the edge of disaster for profit is fun.

Nobody invests into sustainability. It all goes into a few pockets. 70% of the people are heavily disenfranchised. The supply chain is held together with spit and glue. But this is normal. It's normal for a few people to hoard money like a dragon hoarding it's treasure, while the rest of the society can't function. It's normal for our air, food and water to be poison. It's normal that people can't afford to live, to work. It's normal for everything to fall apart.
It's worth noting that Eric Schmidt was the chair of the (US) National Security Commission on AI and their recommendation was that we give them[0] hundreds of billions of dollars or so[1], as soon as possible. to ensure the USA doesn't lose an AI arms race.

Full report is here: https://www.nscai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Full-Report...

[0] They don't come out and say "Give DeepMind billions of dollars", but in practice a huge amount of the funding will go to the big players with deep ties to the government. This report helps to justify spending all that money. Also, I don't actually disagree that this is a terrible idea, just that it helps to be aware that this whole thing is a massive funding grab in addition to also probably being a reasonable idea.

[1] "The $40 billion we recommend to expand and
democratize federal AI research and development (R&D) is a modest down payment on
future breakthroughs. We will also need to build secure digital infrastructure across the
nation, shared cloud computing access, and smart cities to truly leverage AI for the benefit
of all Americans. We envision hundreds of billions in federal spending in the coming years."
> runs the company

Schmidt doesn’t run Google by any definition of the word run. He also has a great track record of funding basic science (Schmidt Science Fellows).
I particularly enjoyed this link from the article to a site from 2001 which, at least in safari for me, comes up with encoding issues: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/intl/universalchars...
Is there a ternary operator yet?
> It is short and lacking detail

This, if you're not familiar, is Axios's entire value prop: short and sweet.

Not saying it's good or bad, just pointing out that I would consider this article standard if not verbose by Axios's own standards.
E2EE is irrelevant imo as it solves one specific problem, and many people have a tunnel vision beyond it.

Everyone has a smartphone. I can guarantee that at any scale, there is some nut recording their entire day. I’ve worked at places where that’s a real threat that is difficult to manage.
Gas generator cycle engines are definitely still in use, but a lot of next generation engines use a staged-combustion cycle.

The effiency improvements seem to be good enough to be worth the engineering challenges, especially for larger rockets.
The value of such an exploit likely exceeds their valuation.
Why doesn't someone sue them then?
Some things are just really painful to do in Go: merging maps, drilling into a JSON structure, checking if an element exist in a slice.

Hopefully generics alleviates some of this boilerplate.
It's all about the proximity of the planets. Not about the size of the ship.
It seems to be a lame argument saying somehow high energy prices no longer affect US consumers.

Nonsense. And it grossly simplifies trade flows of refined products and crude flow in and out of the USA.
I believe that expendable upper stage alone costs 10 million. It can't cost them less than that.
I think this might miss the point. Is the $70MM/launch tag including the R&D? Does it include the R&D that is essentially given to SpaceX through their SpaceAct agreement?

Imagine if Tesla gave me all their R&D and manufacturing know-how and offered to help me out whenever I hit a snag, wouldn't I look great by showing everyone how much cheaper I can build an EV? That's why I think it's a bit of a faulty comparison. Still great, but some of these comparison border on the edge of hype
There are multiple legacy encodings for text in Latin script - the only subset where encoding might not matter all that much is ISO 646, which is a subset of 7-bit US-ASCII. Even then EBCDIC, while relatively uncommon, is totally incompatible with even the ISO 646 subset.
It is worse than this, sometimes it does, sometimes it does not.
Argh.. GitHub is broken again
The Journey That Led Me to Analog Zettelkästen
Take a course at a community college and your ID card will likely provide for download of all kinds of software at no additional charge.
Show HN: UIOnboarding, an Apple-inspired, configurable welcome screen for iOS
Octordle directly stole Dordle's code, so, yeah, not a fan.
which book is this? There are so many SpaceX/Musk books, would love to read a good/definitive one
OpEx > CapEx

Yes, fusion is considerably more capital intensive than fission power, but the fuel is just water. You don’t need to worry about digging the fuel out of the earth, maintaining a costly disposal scheme for hazardous waste, etc.
They’re citing oil consumption numbers during the pandemic which I’m sure will not be sustained.
Consumer Reports Dropped Tesla in Its Rankings and It's Because of the Yoke
> For the next five years I operated in “Slack culture”, the communication paradigm that I suspect is in use by many companies these days. Email inboxes were more or less reserved for broadcasts from exec and HR along with JIRA spam. Everything else happens on Slack.

This is the real problem, IMO.

Slack shouldn't be replacing e-mail or meetings or phone calls. It's great for impromptu discussions with a lot of back-and-forth, but once it becomes a serious conversation with multiple parties you need to escalate to a call or meeting or e-mail. Casual, asynchronous chat is great for low-importance conversations that aren't time sensitive. It's terrible for coordinating and making important decisions in a timely manner, though. Don't be afraid to schedule a synchronous communication session in whatever flavor you prefer.

Once you start making Slack the center of communication, you stop making deliberate decisions about who is included in e-mails/meetings. Now everyone in the channel has to skim everything to make sure they're not missing out on anything important. Busybodies love it because they can be a fly on the wall for everything. Heads-down workers hate it because they have to choose between focusing on their work or checking into Slack all of the time. It optimizes for the wrong kind of engagement.

Trying to enforce a lot of rules around threading is a band-aid, IMO. The real solution should be to create a culture where people aren't trying to force every interaction into Slack or avoid meetings at all costs. Excessive meetings are a problem, but going out of your way to avoid all meetings will waste more time than it frees up.
Those two aren't 'transgenic' in the sense meant here (which is synonymous with 'genetically modified' not just 'hybrid'). But of course there are plenty of GM/GE plants that already escape from one field to another[1]. Animals are more novel, partly because we haven't been engineering them for as long.

1: https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2010.393
No and there likely never will be:

https://go.dev/doc/faq#Does_Go_have_a_ternary_form
Twitter Launches “Automated” Label for Bots
Does it show completely different posts each time you reload the page, like it does on Facebook.com?
> But "dirt cheap" is probably an Elon-ism, closer to "full self driving by 2018."

"Dirt cheap" is from the article, not Elon.
So how are they doing it ?
TIL that this must be in the main app somewhere, but not Follow. (and yeah, the arrows are all over the place, sometimes different between Follow and the main app... the data points is the best, for sure.)
I'm guessing almost all of it will be going into deep learning. On an interview with Sean Carroll, Gary Marcus said that >99% of AI funding gets awarded to DL-based projects [0].

Has anyone has tried searching for new basic operations, below the level of neural networks? We've been using these methods for years, and I doubt the first major breakthrough in ML is the most optimal method possible.

Consider the extreme case of searching over all mathematical operations to see if something really novel can be discovered.

How feasible would this be?

[0] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/02/14/184-...
Notably Falcon 9 launch prices have dropped to ~60M. That means that at this point, SpaceX is about twice as cost efficient per kg to LEO as the shuttle was.
First of all, you can't assume "all else being equal". People are different, and this is especially true for star performers.

If I'm a manager and I notice someone is consistently underperforming (compared to his peers) - it does not matter if the rest of the team is working overtime, or is smarter, or more experienced - I don't care. I will ask the underperformer to step it up (again, don't care if this means working harder, or smarter), and if no improvement after a set period, I will be looking for a replacement. I'm paying top dollar for top performance.

This situation is normal and expected in professional sports. I don't remember hearing about "bad work/life balance", or "being pressured into doing overtime" in conversations about elite athletes' performance. Should we treat elite SWEs differently?
FYI: Qt is rather ancient C++ by now.
> Simply signing a phone contract or registering on a website these days eliminates your constitutional rights, like to trial by jury.

The right to trial by jury is only for criminal cases. The ninth amendment hasn't been incorporated to the States.
But a person doesn't have the natural right to take from others and call it theirs. There are legal and illegal ways of earning money, and the possession of said money can be used as evidence of crime.

Money Laundering is specifically the process of taking money that was acquired through illegal means and obfuscating how that money was acquired so that it can no longer be used as evidence of wrongdoing.

It's a fancy way of saying "tampering with evidence".
Exactly this. Investors aren’t buying up housing for fun, it’s because their investment thesis tells them they’ll make a lot of money.

As soon as the prospect of housing appreciation disappears so will the investors. But then we’ll have sad stories about people being underwater on their mortgages.
That's what they said about generics, and yet here we are.

edit: Wrong, see below
one of my favorites:

- The room doesn't even need to be completely locked, people just need to think that it was
Yep. Microsoft hardware. Microsoft OS. Microsoft app.

Still runs like shit. Quite a feat
I generally wait for the their thought to be completed, to see where they are going with it. I do this on the assumption that I could be wrong and they might know more than me.
> What's the source for the 1%?

Toilet research.
Thanks for correcting me (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_principle).

BTW, your parenthetical 3rd paragraph is a fairly deep question and fast approximations to it would be useful beyond just rendering scenes realistically. I assume you're familiar with the use of lenses to implement FTs long before they were computationally tractable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_optics)?
Are there any good resources for learning how to render dichroic thin films with multiple internal reflections and refraction indexes? Basically, I would love to render something like this[1] in real time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVQ34NlTi-E?mute=1
Furthermore, the folding behavior can be adjusted. From the second link that I posted:

In addition to the reduction of VPs, you can consider setting the schedo tunable
“vpm_throughput_mode” to a value of 2. By default, running in raw throughput
mode (i.e. vpm_throughput_mode=0) AIX spreads all available work across as
many VPs as available, dispatching work first to the primary SMT thread of each
VP, then the secondary SMT threads, and so on, thus providing the best
performance in most workloads. This configuration, however, can lead to a
higher PC (processor capacity) utilized by the LPAR. Depending the workload,
you can reduce the PC by setting the vpm_throughput_mode tunable to 2, thus
having AIX to schedule work to the primary and secondary threads equally.
> It's time for that conversation.

The idea of taxing rich people is an ongoing conversation. I hear it discussed literally every day.