skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Later, after the prototype for Venturestar, the X-33 was cancelled, the composite multilobe hydrogen tank technology was improved by Northrop Grumman and passed tests: https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/releases/northrop-grum...

Anyway, the architecture of Venturestar is in my opinion misguided since it's not optimized for cost. It would not have brought us cheap routine spacefligh even if it was technically possible. Hydrogen is very complicated for operations. The engine has a huge surface area and a lot of components.

Single stage vehicles only exist on paper, and have abysmally low payload even on paper. None have flown to orbit, though there are some stages that have flown operationally that had theoretical single stage capability (but not with reusable hardware penalty). On the other hand, single stage simplifies operations tremendously.

SpaceX has very good approach. Two stages with simple fuels, first stage doing propulsive landing to pad (ie not fished from the ocean, like they originally planned). The second stage is unsolved currently, but there are a lot of potential solutions to that.
Always thought that currency should equal J/K, the unit of entropy. It's the one thing we 'use up'.
And Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner that is about the history of land development and western water wars.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/323685/cadillac-des...
French here, I recently read the original description of the game from an original edition of the game when I went to a friend’s old place, and I was laughing out loud for real.
The description is brilliant! Just the right amount of self-derogatory arrogance needed to make me laugh :)

I had played it before, but it was the first time I read the original rules book.
Correct, and as an unpopular person myself (just ask around), I'm saying that the status quo is fine. The alternative is simply too dangerous to consider, particularly for queer communities that rely on the good graces of internet freedom to communicate within hostile regimes. Setting this precedent could very well encourage other countries to strongarm service providers into dropping customers, or worse yet lead to astroturfing that takes down perfectly innocent messageboards. What happens when China tries to claim that GitHub is hosting content that's highly offensive to Chinese citizens? Does Microsoft bend?

This is not the kind of war we want to fight. Cloudflare has a right to make whatever choices they want, but the ramifications of their choice are going to be felt for the next decade. My opinion is that they made the wrong decision, but only time will tell who's right here.
The web is only 20 or so years old so these online speech issues are new.
No, the censorship is not through the “proxy of corporations”, it’s directly instituted by corporations. It’s simply company leadership deciding they don’t want noxious people in their private club anymore.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. If you start talking and everyone tells you to shut up, then tough shit, you live in a society that doesn't like what you’re saying. This has always been the case, and it continues to be the case.

For many years, marginalized groups of all stripes were denied the megaphone of popular media, but they fought and convinced people they were right and built popular acceptance. If Kiwifarms wants to get the private protection and reach afforded to broader society then they need to convince the public that its actually good to harass and stalk trans people. Good luck.
Where I live we usually have that for at least two weeks during winter, and the rest of the time hovering around -10C (for two to three months). We don't have much snow though, and little wind, so it's really not that bad if you are dressed properly.
"This is not Ok!" - Google, OpenAI
Internet points is the most important currency of your heart. It defines your worth as a human being.

Also I think some HN features are gated on karma? I’d like a feature where the markup isn’t complete shit but apparently I don’t have enough karma for that.
I remember playing this as a kid! Must have been more than 25 years ago...
In wake of data breach – Samsung forcing users to accept T&CS or risk their data
Anything is possible at this point. Even the administrator of Kiwi Farms is expecting APNIC to revoke their /24, because the Twitter mob has been very vocal of who their next harassment targets are.
Velocity metrics are good when treated as a symptom of other issues. They are particularly good at detecting engineers who don't know what scope means.
This was about 2 decades ago, so not particularly surprising given that the insurance office still used text-based terminals and who knows what on the backend.
I remember COVID deaths being compared to WW2 deaths by the media a few years ago. If YLL were used instead I think (but don't know for certain) that WW2 would be much more egregious.
Similarly in California, especially for the wealthier districts. Maybe even more than in Chicago.
C++ and C# Quizzes
It's also a cultural thing. 4chan is not a place where you go obsess over one particular person with aims to ruin their life. It's, as you say, a place of chaos and inanity.
> TCP/IP and HTML became dominant because they were open standards. Should they have been proprietary, they would have floundered and something else would have emerged instead.

Anyone remember AppleTalk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk
My theory is the price will jump up on the speculation and then head to zero as the large miners dump on dumb retail.
Which is pissier: the filter, or the complaints about it?
Maybe I am biased because I've attended spacecraft & sensor engineering design reviews for much of my career.

But this does not look like engineering; looks more like statistic process control applied to software dev

Not engineering!
And if the people educated can leave for better lands, they often will. There aren’t easy ways to prevent that.
Are you any different? If I graffiti'd a slogan you hated on your garage, would you cover it up? Would you censor speech you hate?
Markets are just an abstraction that's built on strong institutions: property rights, an inclusive justice system that can settle commercial disputes and punish the antisocial, a state that can tax that commercial activity and reinvest the proceeds into infrastructure.

Without those institutions, markets cannot exist, you are just at the whim of a connected competitor, local gang leader, extractive and corrupt government official or unavoidable private monopoly that will fleece everything you create. Therefore you don't waste energy investing and creating for the market, and focus on extracting from someone else.
The last I heard CCL still didn't support Apple's new range of processors, which sounds bad for its future.
Where there is a large industry, there is a large anti-industry. To me, the point is that there is a large potential for bias in either direction so incentives to reproduce, validate, and otherwise test results need to be found and somehow added to the process. I would say that despite the size of this industry, this particular issue is the tip of the iceberg when you consider all the industries that have a significant impact on humans.
I'll look into weaviate.
Sigh. The receiver is part of the channel. Exactly. Changing the parameters of the channel means you're no longer commenting on her statement - you're now making a new discussion. Her statement wasn't wrong, technically or otherwise, just because you can think of ways to increase information by changing parameters of the channel. I can think of ways to increase information, but absolutely none of them, suggested by you or by me, can change or invalidate her statement:

"If you want to transfer more information through a channel with a fixed noise-level"

Here, since this seems tough for you:

"If you want to execute instructions more quickly in a CPU, you can increase the clock speed."

You're saying, "but if you put in a new CPU that has higher IPC"...
> could not program a reasonable performing SDK using it within the time limits

It feels like "within the time limits" has always been the problem of difficult to program for software-dependant architectures: time vs competitors.

E.g. in the time it takes to write an intelligent compiler (IA-64), your better-resourced (because they're getting revenue from the current market) competitor has surpassed your performance via brute evolution force.

There are use cases out there (early supercomputing, NVIDIA) where radical, development-heavy architectures have been successful, but they generally lack of competitor (the former) or iterate ruthlessly themselves (the latter).
...and yet I don't see paper bags in the troughs next to roads, choking turtles and washing up on beaches. There are no micropaper particles on top of Mount Everest or polluting the ocean.

This is an annoying framing of the issue. Emissions aren't the beginning and end of the story, and it's not a binary choice. When I go shopping, I keep my groceries in a trolley and then load them into heavy plastic bags in my car, which I paid for, keep there and use over and over, easily more than the 40-odd times specified. My supermarket accepts soft, pliable plastics to recycle in a special program, and when these bags fail, I put them there. I sometimes buy paper bags, and reuse these as best I can. I recycle these too. Cloth bags exist too.

The bottom line is that we need to remove cheap, flimsy, disposable plastics from our lives about as quickly as they came into them, and plastic in general should not be so ubiquitous, for our health and for the wellbeing of the environment.
Squiz Matrix CMS squashes admin account takeover bug
> Act like an asshole and you end up getting taken down. Who could have guessed?

Ah, but you see, there's a lot of right-wing HN posters here who disagree with this. They believe that acting terrible should be free from all consequences, social or legal, because ... well, I won't speculate.
I'm a free speech advocate but 100% agree with you.

Our legislators needs to make laws against targeted, anonymous, non-journalistic doxxing. It needs to include clauses that escalate the severity when revenge porn or racial, sexual, or other discrimination is being incited. If this bullying results in suicide, that should also increase the severity of the crime.

Until these laws exist, prosecutors need to use this angle and try these cases anyway.
This ability to "deplatform" is also what allows fascist nations to exist and keeps Putin in power today in Russia.
Iraq is the perfect example of being resource-cursed. So, yes.
Every PhD student should, in order to obtain PhD, not only do his original research but reproduce another published result. This will make PhD harder to get, so PhD’s will become more valuable (and more vetted), and we will have people verify published studies.
Might (in DDOS power) makes right is pretty far from a free market.
So, they pick on Russians and Islamic fundamentalists? Labor organizers? Democratically elected socialist leaders in Latin America? Or maybe Julian Assange? Oh wait, they must pick on poor people! If any of that has been the case, then good riddance. Somehow one doubts that.
I’ve done this both ways a few times, and still bounce between Europe and the US a lot. Once I got used to A4 et al I found it maddening that the other sizes are missing in the US.

A4 vs Letter is no big deal, IMO, with modern printer drivers and PDFs and so on.

But once you start making regular use of A5 and A3, it’s hard to adjust to their absence.

However, the DIN sizes are not the only standard sizes in Europe! There are also (de facto?) sizes for art paper, canvas board, and stretched canvas.

For example, 30x40cm is a standard size for painters, and A3 (almost but not quite the same) is only really used for drawing… and sometimes for prints, depending on technology.

On the US side, 9x12in is a standard size for both drawing and watercolor. And it fits exactly zero frames you can buy off the shelf in Europe. But at least 16x20in is almost 40x50cm! That’s been a lifesaver.

Just today I was pleased to realize that my “weird” sized Chinese watercolor paper — Baohong, good stuff - is within a few mm of A5. Because I’ll take any standard at this point.
>Maybe it's the concentration of wealth and political power in fewer locations, i.e. some regions of the West and East Coasts?

Well here in Boston our transit infrastructure is falling apart . . . and we don't lack for political influence especially among elites.

I am not certain of the cause, but cost disease seems to be a related phenomenon.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/23/663395064/the-u-k-economy-is-... - The U.K. Economy Is Growing — But Its Energy Use Is Shrinking
Who had outlawed wind-farms and where? There are offshore installations and I see wind turbines everywhere in the UK.
>I for one never voted to have CF and DDoS-Guard as censors of the internet.

Great, they aren't. There are hundreds of other providers to choose from.
I happened to see someone else post KF's response while it was protected by DDoS guard and read it.

Their story, which doesn't seem to appear in the responses in that Twitter thread, was that a 2 year old account that only posted once previously in its history suddenly activated, posted a picture of someone holding a threatening letter of some type outside of someone's home, then this was screencapped on Twitter a short time later (~15 minutes). The post was removed 2 minutes after it hit Twitter by the submitter (they originally thought their mods did it, but corrected this, saying it was removed with the note "retarded").

I don't ever read that site other than to look at stuff like this when it hits the news, so I don't claim to know anything more than that, but you were for a time able to look at the forum threads and see the posts they mentioned, etc.
I understand your point, the features are useful and they do save lives. It's just... where do you draw the line? You can't practically prioritize life infinitely above every other concern. If you did, the solution would be to not drive at all.

Like, maybe we can defray the costs of safety in a different way, such that cars, which are unfortunately a need for a lot of Americans, aren't outpacing inflation so badly. Such as increase licensing restrictions and make drivers' tests more comprehensive. Or lowering speed limits and enforcing them more strictly. These solutions do not have the effect of adding $10k to the cost of cars, which harms poorer Americans much more than wealthier Americans.
Q: how long will this take?

A: what is your budget? What other work will you sacrifice?
I've gotten into the habit of adding comments for what the code _should_ do in high level terms, as abstracted from the implementation as makes sense, so that the implementation can change to fit whatever may be needed by a neighbouring piece of code. When reading through, I'm more often that not concerned with what the code is trying to do than how it does it, and having the former makes understanding the latter much more clear. Technical prose that describes functions, arguments, and return values rather than variables and the operations done with them is best IMO.
This exact example made me wonder how the 'bias' situation will ever be worked around (besides training the model to an individuals preexisting biases).

What should the picture of a 'woman' on wikipedia be? Should they be clothed? In western clothing? What skin color? Age? Surely everyone imagines something slightly different when they think 'woman'.
It all being about IQ is truley the archetypical HN comment.
If I was a journal, and I was promising to publish a study once it is completed, I'd ask for exclusivity rights.

Which goes to show the whole issue with this idea.
This is nimby logic. It’s indirect. There is clear damage caused by kiwi farms. I don’t care if we can come up with a philosophically coherent rule that captures kiwi farms and not other websites, it is still good that they are banned.
I just used this reference to make my chip-8 python interpreter a few months back. As others have said, there are some ambiguities that caused a few headaches for me. Add to that some broken roms, and the process ended up a lot harder than it needed to be.

https://github.com/dreary-dugong/emu8
From the threads I have seen, these are generally the type of people they make threads out of.
You seem to have misunderstood the logic.

I'm not an expert in KiwiFarms, but I think the difference between the goverment putting you to death and what KiwiFarms does is they don't put you to death. My understanding is they basically talk shit about people and talk to each other about how to let the person they dislike know how much they dislike them. It's a nasty and horrible version of protesting.

Say you dislike Donald Trump and you want to talk shit about Donald Trump and you want to organise a protest againist Donald Trump, you want to hurt his interests by organising a boycott of his companies, or say random things like you wish he was blown up, etc. This would be roughly the same as what I understand KiwiFarms do. Big difference is, KiwiFarms do this to random people for no other reason that for laughs from people they call lolcows.

These are trolls. Nasty horrible people. However, my understanding is they don't put people to death or even commit acts of violence. They are the internet version of the Phelps family.
Both of those problems sound language-agnostic. Wouldn't Python/Perl enable the same vulnerabilities if unsanitized inputs are provided?
Somehow I don't think they'll find much sympathy anywhere.
Thanks so much for this brilliant comment. Indeed, this is statistical process control. What I meant by “engineering” was that it applies to software engineering teams.

I’ll consider adapting the title, but not sure whether folks would grasp my intent as quickly
Well if you ask for just a woman you're going to get just the woman!
If that was true there would not be any need to declare funding.
Let's be real, everyone is funding their own agenda. If some scientist finds some effect that helps a corp or an activist group further their own mission, they get funding.

The finding might still be totally valid, but the visibility of the science and in particular the visibility of the science to the right people (legislators) can still be influenced by agenda driven entities.
wow i changed the "baby's expression is happy" and it refused to dream because its NSFW?

so I changed it to man and it generated something totally random and unrelated.

I'm not sure that this stable diffusion tool can replace illustrators in this current state but more of a tool they can utilize or not.
>in Italy

JFYI (but check with your accountant), it could be allowable a 50% of "bonus fiscale" (bonus sicurezza).
Unnecessary precision is a disadvantage. That's why speed limits are 60 mph not 316800 feet per hour.
They are already late to the party. Remember, we have faceswap, so you wont surprise anyone with celebrity porn pictures.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low...
Great idea! Reproducing is also a great way to understand the field, and can actually help you a lot with your own research and techniques.

This also ensures the most famous results are the most replicated. Hugely valuable to society since the most famous results also drive the most thinking / decisions / policies.
The interesting thing isn't even your assesment of "west", but what values you assign to russia. They are absolutely wrong. It's (for someone, paradoxically) extremely individualistic slave nation with very deep hierarchies of power.
When I was in 7th grade I used ResEdit to do a total conversion of the Macintosh version of Mille Bornes for a French class project. The provided theme was “La Vie Est (Et?) Belle.”

My French teacher really had no clue how to receive it. He didn’t really understand how I made an entire computer card game. My more tech aware home room teacher went to bat for me and eventually I won a school award and got to eat lunch with the principal.

This was definitely a formative moment in my computer programming career.
I played it about 50 years ago. Did one occasionally have a chance to exclaim "au secours"?
It's 10% or less for solar, wind, nuclear, etc...
But once Tesla is designing chips for their in-vehicle inference needs, they need to keep those people interested and the large-scale training side is arguably more interesting to DIY.
I suspect it makes a big difference in range at higher speeds that Germans and Americans drive at on the highway. One of the most disappointing things about the Model3 is how quickly the range starts to dip at left lane traffic speeds here in the Northeast. There’s large stretches of the drive between NYC and Boston that have middle and left lane traffic moving at 80 MPH and what’s an easy task for a gas car means adding a recharge stop for anything except the Model3 Long Range.
It’s kind of silly to argue the “intelligence” difference between someone who can build a nuclear power plant given a society with supply chains available and someone who with fifty or a thousand men can go into the wilderness and build a functioning city with little or no foreign input for years. They’re entirely different skill sets.

Each year brings our “current” technology level further and further from “if you have some hand tools you can restart”.

And it’s not clear to me that importing everything into a country is a better method than letting them build their own infrastructure using what they have locally (eg only import knowledge). See the “clothing and food dumping” problems in Africa.
Nit: NFSv3 is stateless, V4 isn't (sessionid and clientid permit stateful handling of locks and shares).

I would assume this person is just doing an in-memory "NFS server" that would keep all of that state around. So it's more like a FUSE-compatible layer that speaks NFSv4 as a "front end" (since NFS clients are better than "ha ha, surprise! This FUSE backend is networked and can fail on weird ways").

I'm not sure how they chose to translate things like DELEGATE, SEQUENCE, and so on (probably just reply with an error). But for basic OPEN, READ, WRITE, etc. it's all fairly straightforward.

I had hoped they used nfs-ganesha for the NFS server / frontend, but the attributions file suggests they probably rolled their own (and thus is going to be full of bugs and immature for quite some time).
We need far cheaper solar panels and batteries as a starting point.
how they make the difference between click farms and AI robots?

Actually, how they detect click farms in the first place??????
>> usually

> is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence!

You can safely replace it with "the majority".

> If i generate my wealth by being being born to a rich person. In what way have i contributed

In no way. You have not generated any wealth, you've inherited it.

Andrew Carnegie generated wealth. "Colonel" Sanders generated wealth. Hell, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk generated wealth, as did any guy who runs a profitable pizza joint of a food truck. Interestingly, their contribution to the society, if not adequately measurable, is undeniably visible.
I think it’s still a useful input into planning and decision making if it is understood to be lower quality data that can’t account for all variables in software projects. Unfortunately, MBA-types refuse to interpret estimates this way and can’t keep their grubby paws off using them as bad performance measures.
Branch coverage just means you’ve taken every branch, not every combination of every branch, for starters.

Then there’s branchless boundary conditions e.g. your software might fuck up on overflow, but there’s no branching, at least not in your code. Just things which get incoherent in ways you had not anticipated.