skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s not a collision estimation tool.

It’s a comment about how full it is, not about how likely things are to collide and a reply to a previous comment.

> Now keep rolling those dice every day for hundreds of years. Thousands of dice, for thousands of objects.

Still low.

Orbits between 700km and 800km are mostly lost after the past two decade antisatellites tests. Lower orbits clean fast especially the ones used by the recent large satellites fleet and space above 800km is mostly empty apart from the band with large USSR boosters which is easy to avoid.

Risk is not very high. It is managed adequately and the legislation is properly anticipating current developments.

It’s important to remember that space is extremely large and we are talking about thousands of things. Having too much debris clustered in a small range of altitude makes it not economically viable to operate there but it doesn’t prevent us from going through at all.
The fear was that Germany could occupy a South American country and use that to launch attacks on the U.S. this never happens obviously, but one could imagine it if the wars in Europe and Russia had gone differently.
Python is Destroying the Planet. The most significant damage caused by Python
While this is too bad, maybe it will push people toward effective alternatives.

Monoamine oxidase inhibitors help me more than ADHD stimulants ever did, and they aren’t known to be neurotoxic like Adderall.
Not OP, but to me, software that requires installing multiple plugins and extensions on top of it and requires much configuration in order to be useable is basically "unfinished software". It's 2022. Software not just has to work out of the box (or out of the download), it has to be packaged with everything needed to actually use it. It has to come fully configured for the most common use cases, or be able to fully configure/adapt itself at runtime. The days of sitting there installing plugins and tweaking settings and looking up how to configure it to do Common Use Case Xyz should be long behind us.

For example browsers. Whenever there is a Must Have extension that basically everyone downloads and installs, we should not be saying "See! It's great that software has plugins and extensions!" We should be saying "The development team totally missed this."
>Do you have this same feeling against Medicare, even though you aren't benefitting from the program directly? Against disability pay? Against food stamps? Against Earned Income Tax Credits? Against Low Income Housing Tax Credits? Homeowner tax rebates? Business tax credits? Half of your property taxes going to schools when you don't have children.

All of those things are available to me if I get down on my luck so they make sense. And I don’t have to have children — I was a child once and benefited from public schools. If you didn’t, you had it available to you and your parents chose not to.

How is this the same thing? When might I in my life directly benefit from this loan forgiveness like all of those things you listed?
I mean there are rules but the corruption is rampant.

I know folks who set up companies who export. They get an invoice from a US company for $1M in goods, then cancel after sending “the company” money.
post-apocalyptic horrible scenarios aside, there are plenty of therapeutic reasons why it would be nice to have neuron-level control of brain tissue.
I didn't say you needed flexibility. What I said was that inflexibility is a negative in a power source. It makes the output from the source less valuable per unit of energy than if the source could economically operate at lower capacity factor.
"Nobody ever taught me about a B tree. I had heard of it. When I went to write my own B tree, on the bookshelf behind me, I’ve got Don Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming, so I just pulled that down, I flipped to the chapter on searching and looked up B trees and he described the algorithm. That’s what I did.

"Funny thing, Don gives us details on the algorithm for searching a B tree and for inserting into a B tree. He does not provide an algorithm for deleting from the B tree. That’s an exercise at the end of the chapter, so before I wrote my own B tree I had to solve the exercise at the end. Thanks, Don. I really appreciate it.

"Adam: That’s awesome. Did you pull anything else from that book?

"Richard: Well, it’s an amazing volume. I can’t give you a specific example, but from my era, everybody has to have read or at least skimmed through, at least browsed through The Art of Computer Programming, and know that algorithms that are there, maybe not Don’s exact implementation. I mean, I never took the time to learn MIX, which is his assembly language, but it’s useful to flip through and look at all the algorithms he talks about. I think that just a year or two ago I needed a pseudorandom number generator, and I was, “Let’s see what Don recommends.” You pull it off. You see what he does."

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
I made a point about the lack of philosophical consensus on this issue. And yes, the hard problem and also qualia depend on thought experiments like Mary's Room. When I dig past all the baroque philosophising all I find is philosophers not thinking objectively and instead being too misguided by their own experience.

Stop pretending the hard problem being a problem is some cut and dry thing. It simply is not.

And I'll generally side with the philosopher who understands more about how actual brains work, which is clearly Dennett.

Mary's room, The Chinese Room and friends seem designed around fundamental misunderstandings of how the brain, psychology and computation actually work.

They're designed to evoke a sort of visceral reaction. "Of course Mary won't understand what it's like to see red". But once you dig into the details of it, the logic breaks down.
This how I feel about vim too. I’m sure there are editors I would like more but I work on remote servers every day, some of them lightweight, and vim is already going to be on all 500+ of them as part of the OS install.
Fantastic movie!!

Essential time piece for everyone who lived through 9/11

Make sure to watch it if there is a screening nearby
https://archive.ph/eweJT
I might use this just for convenience if I need to test something away from my home network.
I think existing nuclear plants can remain operating in many cases. But building new plants? I don't see that making sense anywhere.
oh man, that mud crab video is wild!

Looked into this more.

"in aquaculture farms, post-nursery crabs reach marketable size and maturity in 6–7 months compared with 18–24 months under natural conditions"
The U.S. fails to build a bridge for pedestrians across a river in three years. The money is there. The workers are there. They have the time. But the effort fails continuously.
Are you European?
Do you even read what you write? You make no sense.
I'm fairly sure that anthropological evidence shows, pretty conclusively, that early society was a good deal more violent (on account of violence inflicted by people) than what we have today. (I may well be mistaken about this, but I have a recollection of hearing something to the effect that all pre-columbian adult skeletal remains found in the Americas show evidence of violence (not that Columbus improved things, of course.))
Meh, it seems like his negative worldview was colored by his own mental state.

Personally I think tourism is fine, it’s a fun break from normal life, and it can broaden your views sometimes. It’s neither “existentially loathsome” nor does it make you somehow superior to the people that can’t afford it.
Anne Frank's Diary
It’s Time to Wake Up - The Currently Known Global Mineral Reserves Will Not Be Sufficient to Supply Enough Metals to Manufacture the Planned Non-fossil Fuel Industrial Systems

https://www.gtk.fi/en/research/time-to-wake-up/

"No matter what minerals will be needed, we will need large quantities of them as the renewable power sources like wind and solar, require extensive mineral resources to manufacture the infrastructure for fossil-free energy.

And there is a challenge. Given the estimated required number of Electric Vehicles (EV’s) of different vehicle class, it is clear that there are not enough minerals in the currently reported global reserves to build just one generation of batteries for all EV’s and stationary power storage, in the global industrial ecosystem as it is today."
Tesla has lost more market cap in 30 days than any other company in history
I'm a neophyte on the topic, at least as far as reading "serious" literature on it, but:

We can trivially imagine an electronic circuit
that registers different current levels when
exposed to red or blue light. Nobody (that I'm
aware of) suggests that there is an experience
within the electronic circuit

...yeah, I'd like to here this addressed by those who claim consciousness is a non-hard problem.

If we are to claim that consciousness is a series of inputs and outputs, then even a simple device like the one you described is "conscious."

A moderately more complex device (say, a Roomba) might even be said to experience "qualia" because it clearly makes decisions and considers some things good and other things bad.

And by this logic a blade of grass is almost certainly conscious.

That's fine, I guess, but it feels awfully lazy. If we expand the definition of consciousness to include Roombas and blades of grass, that's cool, but we still have the challenging problem of defining what makes human consciousness different from grass consciousness. If we decide that the difference is purely quantitative, then we have some uncomfortable things to think about.

If we value human life more than grass or Roombas, because we have "more" consciousness, then are some humans more valuable than others because they have more neurons, or perhaps simply more active neurons?
Most of it unvested stock and not enough to retire at 33.

Thanks to the great people running the economy, if you get to survive all layoffs taking place and vest that money, you'll be able to buy an avocado toast made of soylent green in the metaverse of the future. You will own nothing and be happy.
Hawaii and the Philippines were only territories.

The mainland US was not in any danger.

What I mean by this is that the average US citizen was completely safe (well, until drafts)
Communism is at least theoretically for the benefit of the working class. This is even worse. Government cheese for the bourgeoise.
Yeah we don’t care about some because they aren’t us or our loved ones
How much of a pay gap is there between the quants and swe at these firms?
Why UTC instead of TAI?
Marketing channels.

B2C apps want to upsell, especially the freemium ones, so they hire more UX designers to get people to click the right buttons and get engaged. Game companies sell by their looks, so they hire more UI designers.

Companies like Atlassian hire more tech people, because only another tech person can sell a technical product.

Crypto tends to have very niche uses. Sometimes so niche that even the founders don't understand it. So a good writer is needed to explain the value proposition to a layman.
I didn't, I was at a liberal arts school, realized an economics BS was basically distilled bullshit, decided to study math and comp sci instead, went to Maryland the next semester (maryland.edu)

My father and mother graciously picked up the tab for my studies and he is 76, and should be given a break from indefinite indentured servitude because its too expensive to send your kids to school. My sister went to VT which was more expensive, but at least my family tried to do what they could for their kids.

Sorry if you don't approve but I will literally send him a check for $10K for being such a champ throughout my life right after getting this debt forgiven because I care more about my family and all the hard work that was done to enable me to sit where I am in life, with the freedoms and happiness that have come with having a highly technical education, which lead
to several roles at Goldman Sachs and other very significant and impactful developments in my life.

It's not relevant but I made my parents a big chunk of change last year via trading and it makes me happy that they are getting a break.

Fuck the current system.

To answer your questions:

> Why the latter should be paying for the former?

I pay for current Social Security beneficiaries every 2 weeks, how is this different? I pay into my 401k for future Arthur, but he will be happier in 20 years for my contributions. And honestly? going to college probably makes anyone a little bit less of a dumbass than if they hadn't gone. Is that really that hard to fathom? It is worth it in the aggregate. Why bail out banks as opposed to bailing out humans from contracts creating via guilt and literal academic/skillset "FOMO" ?

> when you got your degree, did you go to a community college first to pick up some credits and transferred to save some costs?

I went to a state school, is that better? How much better would it have been if I did do 2 years at CC before going to Maryland? I think that it is crazy that I'm even answering. The first 2 year curriculum at Maryland is much more challenging than the equivalent ar Montgomery College, so I got more out of whatever the equivalent would have been?

No offense but... yes, I got a ton out of my time at Maryland and I am happy that my outcome was positive. Telling people to spend less if they get debt forgiveness is just silly, the outcomes vis-a-vis what you spend are less relevant than your economic impact after leaving school

P.S. I think I had 17 AP credits transfer over from high school if that makes you feel better. Even cheaper than paying for CC!

I also agree that tertiery education should be free, so glad we agree on that more fundamental point. I am biased on this topic but seriously, its super fucking awesome Biden + administration is following through with this. Even if its just for primaries, this is so great for me and I support this.

Next step, make college affordable for all!
The use of organised crime happened on multiple sides of the issues that erupted in 2019. One has to ask why far right Ukrainians were spotted at the protests (sorry - not the best example perhaps given the current situation) it seems unlikely they flew here out of the goodness of their hearts to support democracy.
> but can my laptop's USB-C port support PD in both directions (charging and powering a peripheral)?.

Two of the USB-C ports of my Dell XPS 13 9380 provide 5A/3A over PD, and the third one provides 5A/1.5A. All of them can negotiate both sink and source PD contracts.

If your laptop can be charged via USB-C port and you can attach peripherals to the same port, it's almost certain that it can negotiate a source PD contract as well. That doesn't automatically mean you'll get more than 5V though, so such PD port may still be useless for powering a disk drive enclosure without additional voltage regulation.
Yup, we in most places of Europe live in total bondage due to free education.

> When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.
The point of subsidies and incentives is to plan an economy.

There are many different levels of panned economies. With say US food subsides and tariffs as a less extreme than Maoist China or the USSR, but they still have huge and well known problems. Messing with Food production has resulted in inefficiency, waste, pollution, corruption, etc but also overconsumption with it’s extremely negative health impacts.

It’s just really hard to improve on the feedback loops of market economies without running into diminishing returns.
I believe right now the VSCode extension just passes along the entire file up to your cursor [1] rather than trying to figure out how much will fit into the context limit – it's definitely still very early stages :)

It would be pretty simple to run the contents through the tokenizer using e.g. this JS lib that wraps Huggingface Tokenizers [2] and then keep only the last (2048-requested_tokens) tokens in the prompt. If they don't get to it first I may try to throw this together soon.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-vscode-extension/-/blob...

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/tokenizers
how did people build nuclear reactors in the 50s then?

Calder Hall was run for 50 years, well past its 20 year expected lifespan. they shut it down because they thought coal, oil and gas would be cheap forever.

the gen2 reactors were even better and more efficient.

gen2 reactors like the rbmk are still running today and producing economical and safe power.

why would nuclear power today be more expensive, take longer to build, and be less safe than technology from the 1960s?

someone's not telling the truth in this story.
I wish we had an extension like ZomboDB but using a lighter search engine like https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit, https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi and https://github.com/mosuka/bayard

Here I'm listing engines based on https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy - tantivy is comparable to Lucene in its scope - but I'm sure there are other engines that could tackle ElasticSearch.

Another thing that could happen is maybe directly embed tantivy in Postgres using an extension, perhaps this could be an option too.
Ask HN: How to become good at Emacs/Vim?
I've tried switching from IDEs like VSCode to Emacs (with evil mode) a few times now, but I always gave up after a while because my productivity decreases. Even after 1-2 weeks it's still not close to what it was with VScode. That's frustrating. But when I watch proficient people using these editors I'm always amazed at what they can do, and they appear more productive than I am with VSCode. So with enough effort it should be a worthwhile investment.

I think my problem is the lack of a structured guide/tutorial focused on real-world project usage. I can do all basic operations, but I'm probably doing them in an inefficient way, which ends up being slower than a GUI. But I don't know what I don't know, so I don't know what commands and keybindings I should use instead or what my options are.

How did you become good at using these editors? Just using them doesn't really work because by myself I'd never discover most of the features and keybindings.
could you teach me
>It’s a comment about how full it is

Why is that "scary," though?

It's not like "running out of room" is a plausible risk. Kessler Syndrome limits you long before that.

>Risk is not very high. It is managed adequately and the legislation is properly anticipating current developments

See my edit to parent, and watch the video (especially the future simulations). The situation is far from "managed adequately" IMO.

This has been fun, and I sense we're starting to go in circles (no pun intended). My upvotes, for being such a good sport. Cheers!
Generating personalized cold emails at scale using AI
Jetbrains IDEs have refactorings that are light-years ahead of any LSP functionality. I can use nvim for simple or small code bases, but for any real work project I've had to use IntelliJ.

For example, I had a VSCode coworker who was asking to switch all typescript string union types to enums so they could be refactored, but IntelliJ is able to refactor (in this case rename) the string union types
Sounds like a lost Cheech & Chong movie, right?
It is still unofficial

>This is an unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram App for Android.
> I don't believe we should be attempting to stifle that with drugs.

Even if society placed zero demands on me whatsoever and I never had to worry about being anywhere at a specific date/time, or never had to sit still for any length of time if I didn't feel like it, I still wouldn't be happy suffering from ADHD.

ADHD is not some perfectly normal but uncommon personality quirk that our narrow minded society has cruelly chosen to punish, it's a neurodevelopmental disorder impacting executive function making it difficult for people to accomplish the things they want to even entirely on their own terms.

Some people can find coping strategies that let them get by with only minor difficulty, but for others there is no amount of skill development or accommodation that is going to make up for their malfunctioning brains.

Medication isn't for everyone. It's not effective for everyone, and isn't necessary for everyone, but it'd be wrong to think that without the expectations imposed on us by society medication would never be necessary or that ADHD isn't really a problem because it's just a different way of doing things or looking at the world. It's mental illness, and one way or another symptoms will typically need to be treated or it will cause the mentally ill person needless suffering.
Depending on the definition of "mind", panpsychism sounds rather reasonable: "the view that the mind or a mindlike aspect is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism

It could be that a rock, an ant, a computer, and a human being are all experiencing its existence at varying levels of awareness. And that this "experience" isn't necessarily exclusive to living things - though it may be impossible to prove or understand how a computer experiences itself, if at all.

It's also amusing to entertain the opposite, the perspective of people who deny the existence of "experience and qualia" altogether, who argue there is no "hard problem of consciousness" in the first place. Maybe people experience consciousness so differently, for some it's "invisible", and for others it's undeniable and obvious that it exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
PHP-FPM has a ton of debugging, logging, and performance-tuning options, but in most popular distros most of them are disabled by default. If you get a Dockerfile from somewhere and just tweak pm.max_children, you're likely to end up with all the helpful stuff commented out.
Ask HN: Agency/Adv partner recommendation for B2B display ads?
I guess not everyone realizes that /s means sarcasm?

I don’t disagree that oil and use of oil has caused a negative impact on Earth lol.

I don’t think we could’ve done anything in the last fourty years nor do I think we can do anything to stop. It’s too late.

There’s no way we can stop the use of oil and cars now. Sure we can switch to electric, but I don’t think that will stop the snowball.

It’s too entrenched and part of our life now. Sure we can be altruistic and ban the sale of non-EVs but what about all the millions of cars that are already in the streets?

The oil pockets are too deep for government to just ban existing vehicles. In fact the governments have caused wars to protect their oil assets…
The 11 volume set “The Story of Civilization” by Will and Ariel Durant

You can find it on audiobook.

This will bring you up to speed from the dawn of pre-civilization through the era of Napoleon.
Understood - thanks again. (plus note to self; have individual source files with less in them ;)
Nothing like the smell of sweet sweet jet fuel in the morning
Thanks. You're right, those sources do not mention Hudson Bay, despite my Google search including the words. I should know better.

I've recently started enjoying oysters and other shellfish so I'll add the book to my reading list. Looks very interesting!

edit: "New York mounds" -- is this about Hudson Bay (the one in Canada) or the Hudson River estuary, in New York?

The first source I linked doesn't mention the river either, but second source does claim no prehistoric declines of oyster sizes in the Hudson River estuary. Still going to read the book and then make my up my mind
At this point why not compare it to grep on an SSD?
I use old reddit but I could not bear the loud ads on mobile. Someone on HN mentioned i.reddit.com and I've been using it since. Reddit is bearable again.