skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"opens infinite number of new space exploration possibilities"

In practice, "infinite" translates mainly to a handful of hyper-competitive guys checking off "went to space" off their achievements list. There is a very good reason for that: space is very inhospitable, much more inhospitable than Antarctica. Nothing much has happened in Antarctica for 100 years beyond the occasional hyper-competitive athlete and a few research stations. Perhaps a natural resource gold rush might liven up the place for a few decades, until exhaustion and falling back to inhospitable status, dotted with the rare ghost town remains.

Something similar happens in the "creative" space: the Internet unleashed a massive tidal wave of "content", yet the vast vast majority of it is rather trite and devoid of any (spiritual) meaning. Personally, I'm much more inclined to stick with the classics than even 20 years ago, simply because it's not worth my time wading through the deluge of poor quality "content" out there. To wrap up the analogy, I'd rather inhabit a nutritionally rich environment, than getting lost in the the vast, but mostly empty, expanse of the Internet.
There was a discussion about this 2 days ago, with 282 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32628381
> If WebMD is bad, the solution isn’t government, it’s a competitor.

And how to decide who to trust? Still unsolved. The general public loves being lied to, as long as they like who is lying to them (same political party, religion, or just making impossible promises).
Not sure that holds up to strict scrutiny. It's a fine hypothesis for the armpit but makes no sense with the groin. There the hair is heaviest on skin that touches nothing else and almost indistinguishable from background on the actual sliding surfaces. Same for butt crack.
WaPo leans heavily toward fitting the news to its narratives and is generally terrible with data science.

Whether and to what extent these 5 unlikely events is an anomaly depends on the number of measurement locations and the expected year-to-year variability. If there were 5,000 reporting sites, would we be surprised by
"5 different 1-in-1000 year flooding events" in one year?

Climate change is real, but so are enthymemes and low quality news reporting.
With the important acknowledgement that divorce can be devastating to many people, especially children (myself included):

One can readily argue that divorce was created to solve the problem of entrapment in unhealthy marriages.

The possibility of divorce ought to make people more willing to marry; it is possible to escape if everything goes wrong.
I do, it really depends on the client. I like working with small businesses and most of those are just a quick conversation about what they're looking for.
Unfortunately, if we assume everyone collaborates there is no hope of privacy.
I always log in to edit, then log out.
> Using a CLI-based tool is inaccessible for most people...

CLI-based tools are perfectly accessible to most people.

They just can't be arsed to learn them, unless they need to. And most of the time, they don't, because good-enough alternatives exist.

If a CLI-based tool is the only way that an average person can get their work done, that's what they'll use.
That's how I felt about the original ipod.
How can we discuss the energy crisis when journalists are so ignorant?
I'm a back-end dev. After trying a number of back-end framework renderers and React and Vue found that a single repo with both bankend and Vue client code with hotloading was a sweet spot for me.

I also prefer to make API based apps so might not be for everyone. I also like to change up my back-end language/framework for projects so this at least makes the front-end tech a constant.
If there was no climate change but you have the world to look at, you would still be able to find several extreme weather events every year.

As we don't have a handle on _all_ weather events, we are prone to think these events are somehow exceptional, when all that is happening is that this is where the media focus is at present.

If the media decided to focus on some other topic, eg siamese twins, or accidents in the military, or whatever, we would soon think we won't get a seat on the bus for conjoined twins, or imagine that every soldier is likely to be killed by friendly fire.

It is impossible for us to faithfully discern truth from the media presentation.
> The productivity that a handful of good smalltalkers can achieve to solve complex systems is off the charts.

You could say that of any experts in any system. They will be extremely productive.

There is really nothing special about Smalltalk that makes its developers automatically more productive (especially not the IDE, which is vastly outclassed today by the likes of IDEA, XCode, and Visual Studio).
The author alludes to subscription services, and I think this is bearing out to some extent. Twitter accounts like https://twitter.com/grimhood are passionate generalist SMEs who take money from Patreon and deliver deep dives into various health topics. We're in the early days, but this guy is basically a subscription preventive health doctor knocking out topics one by one.
Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930

Feel free to update us on your progress if you participated in that thread.
This is a complete non starter for any regulated industry.

Shame. Mermaid works almost okay and often looks like garbage. I wish there was an open source effort somewhere to do better, or even a paid locally runnable tool that has no service connections.
The first thing I look for in a new CPU arch announcement is always ECC support. Usually disappointed.
When I started the process years ago, I only saw bad things about Toptal. Went through anyways and have only good things to say. The most vocal are always the negative, and a lot of them were people who never got through the selection process. YMMV, but my experience is positive.
> they only got even that far because because an eccentric billionaire has staked his reputation on the problem and thrown a huge amount of money at it

That's what Bezos did with its Blue Origin. If you check where is Blue Origin in space race, you'll quickly realize it's not enough

Edit: ah, and is space still expensive? If one of universities in my middle-sized country with no space engineering background could afford to launch cubesat via SpaceX, then yes, I think it became cheap.
Raptor Lake is rumoured to go to 24C/32T. 16 of 24 the cores are efficiency cores though, we'll see how that compares to the all performance core design of Ryzen 7000.
I am not familiar with this space but it seems like twitch has had a remarkable staying power. After all these years they are still the only name and barely has competition. Wonder what they are doing right and why no one is able to encroach on their turf?
It doesn't bring anything new, just enhanced on top of what already exists, not even close to photography or film.
Could be users farming reputation. Interesting observation.
That said, I do think it does better with less realistic images right now, like

https://imgur.com/mcJsg0n and https://imgur.com/41eENUO

It also took a number of much worse images to get those ones.
Yes, it is Discord's fault.

Clicking on a channel name normally shows you the content of that channel. But clicking on some channel names automatically start an audio connection, and if you're on several Discord servers with many dozens of channels each, it's easy to miss which are which. Once the audio connection is started, assuming you realize what happened, the method for dropping the connection is a single unintuitive (for me, and apparently others) icon. If you instead switch away from the channel, thinking that just as the text for a channel disappears when you switch away from it, perhaps so does the audio, then you'll remain connected.

If you're focused on what you're doing, it's relatively easy to see what's happening and undo it. The icon is a monochromatic old-school phone handset with a tiny X in the corner, and recent versions of the Discord desktop client now include a reasonably large message on the lower-left telling you that you're part of an audio call. But if you're treating Discord like another chat app, then it is easy to accidentally end up broadcasting audio without realizing it, and I think Discord's design is to blame.
I decided to set up a local instance yesterday with my 3070 TI 8GB and had similar success, about 10 seconds per image at the default settings. Like you I also opted for a different repo [0] which emphasized adding a GUI but I think also opts out of the watermark addition/other checks. Sounds like it reduces memory usage from what others have said. Had more trouble coming up with creative prompts then getting set up surprisingly (to me anyway).

[0] https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion
I think it's because professionals and expert users know what good content looks like, which feeds back into the algorithm. The average gardener using the web (not books or other local knowledge) for advice doesn't.

Google says "democracy on the web works" which means that what wins is what looks good to the average person among the population who uses that search term.
The GeForce driver EULA doesn't allow it to be used in servers or something like that, so clouds all have to use the more expensive professional cards.
Did Bezos stake his reputation on Blue Origin? I think it'd be a lot less embarrassing for him if Blue Origin folded than it would be for Musk if SpaceX folded.
> When I changed 'my-awesome-program' to 'ubahnchen' or something else when creating the hafas-client, it stopped getting valid responses.

Please report this as an Issue in the hafas-client repo, so we can discuss this further.

> So I thought I should wait for VBB to give me an ID that works.

This is not how it works:
- The official VBB API is an entirely different API, which they give you an auth token for when you ask.
- hafas-client uses the "mobile" API, which has a static universal auth token. But it sends a (slightly randomised) User-Agent in order to communicate who/what is making requests. It might be that some User-Agents are blocked.
They give you a project that's supposed to take 8 hours, with a loose definition so you can take your own approach to it. Having been through the process, the project is definitely not something they'd take and use for themselves, it's a really basic test of aptitude.
It's hitting loganalytics. That's not really a service for which customers deal with VMS directly.
According to wikipedia, that left 300,000 people internally displaced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Pakistan_Floods

33 million are currently being impacted by the floods. I'm not sure how comparable those two statistics are. However, it seems unlikely that there will only be 300,000 displaced people once the water recedes.

Also, the map you linked shows districts that were hit by flooding in red or orange, and about 33% of the map is colored. I assume that they colored a district if any significant fraction was under water.

That's very different than the current situation, where 33% of the land is under water.
Definitely true. Hopefully the folks who have the skillset to build a large OSS project, and build a network of fake traffic, would find other ways to spend their time with a higher return on investment than a 30% increment of their revenue.

But it will certainly happen, and hopefully we can continue to minimize it. We've generally seen fraud that looks like a site with no real traffic, and trying to generate 1000% returns, which is a much easier pattern to catch.

If you have any suggestions for ways we might improve our fraud tracking, definitely happy to hear them at eric@ our domain.
Europe =|= France, there is no united Europe when it comes to defense.

And yes, those powerlines have to be underground because above ground is not feasible for political and public opinion reasons. And they are orders of magnitude more expensive. Connecting power grids is no trivial task, the powerlines are actually among easier things.
Interesting.

Can anyone more informed than myself comment on whether this is accurate, or whether it's crackpot?
There seems to be a smug moral superiority among Canadians that they are somehow better than the Americans. Having lived in both countries and many other places in the world, I have not come across a more mediocre, conservative, lethargic, non innovative, risk averse culture than modern day Canada. It wasn't always like that but the last 50 years have been a disgrace. They are only getting by because of their small population which will change soon because tax payers need to be brought in and only the bottom of the barrel will immigrate there due to a lack of exceptional skills / industries in the country. Places like the US and UK are where you can really flourish if you want to push humanity forward. When Canada's only industry is real estate you know it is a country filled with risk averse people sitting on their bums on top of a house like a lazy dragon and waiting for it to appreciate. Also if you have been there recently, nothing works there anymore especially their healthcare and airports.
You quoted but didn’t reply to the rest of the owl:

> Most people who use anything for iOS tend to use

OP cited U-Block Origin and Firefox, so I’m replying to them as a persona, the sort of person that would use something, with things that can help them.

The broader point is to share a clue.
I get your point (and there is something to it).

But still there are "international" versions of content and some "special versions" for some countries—and not an ultimately "pre-censored" version that would "please everybody" (or better said, all boards of censors at once regardless country).

For US audience you need for example to censor nipples. In Germany we make jokes about that. But here a swastika is a very big problem, US people would not mind OTOH. Making a Mohamed joke will get you banned elsewhere; and so forth.

So I don't really see an acute danger of "pre-censoring".

The actual scandal is that the content industry just obeys all that madness. Of course, because they're only interested in the money. The actual messages are completely irrelevant and get changed fundamentally at a whim without remorse. That's the part that makes me think.
The best way to ask questions is being wrong on the internet. :D

No estimate is ever perfect but it'd be good to get within a ballpark of the price. That'd be enough to start to compare to what we pay for the existing service and how many years of status quo payments would be required to replace them.
Mississippi is not in drought. At least not drought of water.
> You might think that life in a three-dimensional torus

The author is talking about toroidal space which is confusing because a normal torus is a three dimensional thing with normal Euclidean geometry.
In both IRC and Slack, DMs are per-server, so if you are focused on Server A, you can see DMs from Server A, and to see DMs from Server B, you have to focus on Server B.

In Discord, DMs are outside of servers, or rather they're on your server, which has the appearance of being outside any server. So all DMs are together, unrelated to any of the servers you may know someone from.
Its kinda bonkers that golf courses and grass lawns are things allowed to thrive in areas of the US where they are not naturally occurring.

I also think its kinda crazy that humans have brought agriculture to a desert via irrigation and think that's sustainable. This is the type of thing where Federal laws/rulings are needed because there are like 4 states over consuming the water.
15% of the people in the country have been evacuated.
> Maybe you should restructure your energy market so it is not so "profit driven" to avoid shock pricing?

Well, it's a long story, but in short, Germany insisted on gas from Russia for two reasons: 1) it was cheaper than from other sources, 2) politicians hoped that they can somehow civilize Putin in this way. It didn't work well, and Mrs Merkel is embarrassed by it (I don't even mention previous chancellors).
I'd say all in all I put maybe 10 hours into it, which is far less than I do for a typical job interview prep. Given that this has brought me numerous clients, it was worth it for me.
> antitrust action was for show.

People often forget the US underwent an administrative change between the judgement and enforcement. Microsoft spent a lot of "think tank" money on influencing the new regimes enforcement mentality, not only on their own issue, but on monopolies in general.

It was, from my recollection, definitely not for show.
Azure is down across all regions
Including AKS
World war is a necessary evil. A one world government sounds like an incredible way to have an inescapable totalitarian regime. If it isn't in the beginning, it will be in the end. All nations trend towards totalitarianism, almost like clockwork.
FT article related to the blog post: https://archive.ph/kb4ev
Cached Thoughts
The workshop repo has detailed instructions you can follow: https://github.com/lambdaisland/witchcraft-workshop :)
We could work those flaws out after we figure out what people getting put out of work are going to eat. Or do.
If I want information on medically related things, Wikipedia is my go-to. I skip Google (actually, DuckDuckGo) altogether and just start my search on the Wikipedia home page.
Thanks! Just fixed.
Yeah handymen want to impress you so locals hire them. Mail order shops want to scam you into making one bad purchase.
Everyone I’ve ever hired for a side gig has been a recommendation from someone I know, so I assume it must be something to do with networking.
Well, of those 40,000, how many of them actually work? You don't know. The AI thinks they work; is the AI correct?

How many of them can be manufactured? How many of them can be deployed without killing friendly troops?

There's a whole lot more that goes into creating an actual, usable weapon than finding chemicals that are deadly.
Agreed! Interesting idea, but charging for this is not going to get them very far.

Gotta find a way to do an "open core" or similar.
A partial salve would be a search engine that only returns results from websites where the people writing cannot make money from their content.

It's quite interesting to ponder the implications of this.
I've found using Dvorak on a standard keyboard (until split keyboards became available) is quite efficient -- haven't found the need to switch to anything smaller. Back in the day built a mechanical foot pedal that would activate the control key for programs that required a lot of Control-key combinations (like WordStar), but fell out of use over time. Been using this setup for 35 years now.
Germany’s €9 train tickets scheme ‘saved 1.8m tons of CO2 emissions’
That's new — but those are still $5000 models "designed for professional fleet use", a little on the steep side. I'd give it a little longer for that to percolate downmarket towards the likes of the Navimow which is around the €1500 level.
Thanks! Why Vue, compared to React?
Is it simpler for someone not trying to do anything fancy on the front-end?
between your post, and kkwteh's, it makes a lot more sense. Thank you both.
Is there an online store for generic "stuff" that doesn't allow 3rd party sellers at this point? Genuinely looking for recommendations.
> I don't understand what the issue is with cross-compiling software, especially for different architectures.

Agreed. The cosmopolitan project is incredible hacking and I appreciate the author's ingenuity, but this has always felt a little bit to me like a solution in search of a problem. How is cosmopolitan software intended to be distributed? If the answer is on the internet, I don't see how a single fat binary helps the end user dramatically more than separate download links. For the developer, cross compilation can be automated as part of deployment. The platform specific binaries should both be smaller than the universal ape binaries and won't resort to hackery to work properly.
Isn't cost of living a pretty big piece of information that shouldn't be excluded?

You would expect those with jobs that favor degrees, and being paid higher salaries would correspond to places with higher costs of living overall. And that's a pretty important piece of this calculation if we are trying to decide who is "doing better" than others?
One wonders if the you believe the negative of this holds.

If everyone believes you're an adulterer you have a responsibility to cheat on your spouse?

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In addition, this is why cherry picking is frowned upon. Jon Stewart was responding to the ridiculousness of CNN, Fox, et al, running hit pieces on him, and they started running hit pieces on him because they were showing up in polls as less trustworthy than Jon Stewart.

What you're basically claiming here is that because he's more trustworthy than CNN, Fox, et al, he has a responsibility to trustworthiness. AT THE TIME this was happening, the general sentiment was the opposite. That the trustworthiness of CNN, Fox, et al was SO BAD, that even a comedian, whose job it is to take things out of context and stretch the truth for a laugh, was more trustworthy than CNN, Fox, et al.

This was all going on during the second Iraq war, where Bush and Cheney was giving speeches about mission accomplished atop aircraft carriers with the banner "Mission Accomplished" while we were still sending more troops.

It was clearly a political maneuver and Jon Stewart was making fun of it whilst CNN, et al, were mostly not calling them out. But people aren't _stupid_, they knew it was ingenuine. That Jon Stewart, a fricking comedian, was the only public forum really highlighting how disingenuous it was is WHY he was getting voted as more trustworthy in polls. Jon Stewart was pointing this out.

And you know what? The people were fucking right. When the 911 responders were getting dicked who was it that fought for them? It sure as shit wasn't CNN, Fox, et al.

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Without that context, what you're doing here is cherry picking, and I suspect it's because the current "social politics" surrounding joe rogan are causing younger people to let it bleed over onto Jon Stewart.
True but they are different from ad reads that hosts do during the show. From what I understand they are pre/post-recorded ads that are added in digitally. Not live reads.
I have only met two. My connection at Tao of Tea (incidentally, the original 'tea master' there), has vanished into the clouds again it seems. How astounding it would be to connect with him somehow. The other was an elderly man named Joe with an eternal smile, who was proprietor of Ten Ren in Seattle. As a gift, he gave me the teapot he had used through most of his life, which sits before me today. I suspect that he has since passed on.

Both were 'drunken masters'. When they brewed, they did it with no concentration - the mastery flowed through them. Joe, actually, was quite sloppy at the tea table, never talking, always smiling. It would be hard to describe how impossibly different tea was when brewed by these two.

I dedicated two years of my time in an adventure to possibly reach the lowest rungs of this kind of mastery. I think I may have hit it here and there, but never consistently. These were perhaps the most useful and educational years of my life.
> Katrina wasn't even that impressive of a hurricane

I guess that depends on your definition of impressive. It was a Category 5 storm and the 4th most intense hurricane on record to make landfall in the United States. At the time it was the 5th most powerful Atlantic storm on record and the most powerful ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico. That season was so crazy that it ended up getting passed by Rita and Wilma later in the year, but it's still the 7th most powerful Atlantic storm by pressure and 10th by sustained winds. Your overall point might be correct, but you're wrong about Katrina just being some run of the mill storm.