skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hinduism is Vedic + IVC + other indigenous belief systems
When I was involved in a motorcycle accident (oncoming car made a left turn which resulted in me flying over the bonnet of the car, luckily at ~50km/h and fully equipped), I did try to come up with additional proof that I was not speeding, based on basic physics equations (the classic exercise of "where does an X kg projectile being thrown at an angle of Y degrees and initial velocity of Z m/s land").

By varying estimates of input data (mainly, "takeoff" angle) I could "prove" whatever was needed. An insurance expert also told me that usually the inputs to such equations are so fuzzy that another expert can easily refute the conclusion.
I guess github is kind of bound to git for hosting :-)
The same happened with the Romans where I live, in present-day Romania and the former province of Dacia. Back when they were here, around 100-200 AD, they used to have villas with heated floors.

Once they left for good, in the late 200s - early 300s, no-one around these parts of the world had houses with heated floors for at least 1500 years. I'd say that in the early 1700s a local ruler was the first one who had such a system installed in its Bucharest court, meaning the first one after the Romans.
Yes they have announced they will start doing contract production. That being said, that is a very big change organizationally and culturally. I don’t know if they will manage to balance the demands of the mothership vs the external clients. Who gets preference ?
Fast Text-Conditional Discrete Denoising on Vector-Quantized Latent Spaces
Hopefully everyone's noticed there's a ton of Borland manuals at Bitsavers, not just TASM v5. You could probably even pick up the software itself if you wanted maybe off of archive.org?

[edit]..and run it on dosbox-x or 86box, of course.
The Billionaires Fucked Up
Get the book by David Reich from 2018. He basically has solved the question of Indian genetic origins.

In a nutshell, IVC is original inhabitants of India + Iranian pastoralists, today called dravidians.

Aryans came in to this mix about 2000 years later.
Does sapling support hooks like pre and post commit? My workflow leans on pre-commit (the framework) heavily and it would be hard to give that up. I’d still be keen to take this for a drive though, nice work!
It's a hail mary that will result in more than just QA being union.
I know, that's why I mentioned it.
The http site worked fine for me, so I figured parent post already has a HSTS entry in his browser
An undersea art gallery that ensnares illegal trawlers
The main NASA stream (which I watched the launch on) lacked a lot of things I'd prefer.

While they did have a time-graph line, it wasn't relatively spaced just integer ticks along the line.

No list of upcoming steps (1-3 next events) with associated -T+ timestamps they should happen at.

Most glaringly, while they did have a T clock up at some points, there was not a single, always in the same spot, T-clock, and they had a like 90 min hold at T-00:10:00 which is absolutely useless for viewers. It was tough peeking in every so often to tell what they were even waiting for with so many 'ad's / filler segments of videos that should be on the website / youtube in a press kit.
Cronyism is a good word too! It's telling that the article didn't refer to it. Nor did it explain its harmful consequences, or strategies on how to contain it.

I think if the author was direct instead of elliptical, his article would have antagonized half of the audience he seeks to gain clout with. A clear delineation between good hires and cronies would probably rankle the manager types (of which I'm one) that perceive any negativity as cutting criticism.
Raptor is a breakthrough engine. If NASA with nation state resources and 23B is 6 years late, let’s cut SpaceX some slack for building a profitable launch business with multiple successful vehicles while also being very close with Starship.

> As of 2019, only three full-flow staged combustion rocket engines had ever progressed sufficiently to be tested on test stands; the Soviet Energomash RD-270 project in the 1960s, the US government-funded Aerojet Rocketdyne Integrated powerhead demonstration project in the mid-2000s,[6] and SpaceX's flight capable Raptor engine first test-fired in February 2019.

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

If you want to learn more

https://youtu.be/LbH1ZDImaI8
> Nobody is tracking what big non-profits and charitable funds ask (or demand) others to do, and they get to market themselves as doing good for the world.

Well, if there are no written agreements - take the money and do your thing anyway, then?
I'm actually surprised how little space there is in general. Maybe I'm missing something, or they've spent a little too much space on Villas.
I would be more concerned about the ease of mistyping `ls` as `sl`, especially if you tried to list a directory whose name is a destructive Sapling command.
> 1922 that R D Banerji, an ASI officer, believed he saw a buried stupa, a mound-like structure where Buddhists typically meditate. This led to large-scale excavations –...

The officer initially believed it to be a Buddhist stupa. Excavation revealed the true historicity. A platform is easy to be mistaken with a stupa, without more context.
It depends on the size of the company. The Linux kernel has about 1500 active developers. This is a lot, but many companies also exist that reach this size.

I think another thing that matters is how you store branches/code under review. In Linux, each team/person has their own repo. The main "Linus" repo has mostly the finished code. In a company it is much more common for everyone to store their unfinished code centrally. Perhaps this also accounts for some increase in size.
Yeah I would have to agree, by their nature most of these outfits rely on VC funding + underpaid workers or tipping.

Some kind of Co-op arrangement where delivery drivers band together and offer a platform that companies can subscribe too could also work (assuming a simple enough backend system).
Public property requires permissions for you to act upon. Do you, or the person in question have those permissions?

No.

Can I go and randomly fix potholes on public roads? Also, no. For anything public you also require permissions.Two wrongs dont make a right. Please, inform your self before these comments. Thank you.
The monarchs also bring in huge tourist income - apparently enough to easily cover their taxation costs. Not sure about the land ownership though... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32819367
Starship is very real and did an 11 engine static fire last week.

I have a hard time understanding the stance of “if it’s not ready exactly when SLS launches then it’s not comparable.” We are talking about decade spanning technologies and investments here

https://youtu.be/7x1-W7k9V-s
Many countries have their own digital archives, generally as part of their government's archives (so not just digital), I have worked on tools for sending data to the Danish Digital archive and was interviewing for a job there one time but I messed up the interview because I'm a dork.
Oh I missed that fine print, I thought those brands were at least loosely engaged. That was actually the only thing adding credibility for me, oh well.
1.Uber switched to delivering multiple orders per driver trip and then charging extra if you wanted priority.

Sure they charge extra, but they still don't give you priority.. or even complete your order mostly. I get like 95% reliable delivery with deliveroo, but not more than 50% with uber.
Good idea. I've been looking for something like this for a bit. Nice to see the Star64 already included.

One big problem I ran into while using the Pi a few years ago is that the USB bus was shared with Ethernet bus and it caused massive problems for anyone doing anything intensive with either of those. I wish I could filter out issues like that without having to do a deep-dive on each SBC before purchasing (I noticed at least one more SBC on the list I've had hardware issues with).
Longtermism and QALY do not seem compatible.
Adobe Creative Suite
> The view implicitly underpinning "Venice for the Venetians" is "One of this handful of sophisticated upper-middle-class Europeans is morally worth far more than dozens or hundreds of boorish tourists"

Not at all, this is an oversimplification trying to equate and analyse a social issue in purely economical terms, which is inhumane and unempathetic.

A place like Venice, or Lisbon, or Barcelona, so on and so forth, are only desirable exactly due to generations of people who lived there and built them up. You are trying to force a pure economical view on this issue which I completely disagree with. It's not that morally the residents of Venice are worth far more than tourists, it's that these places only became somewhere tourists would go due to the collective effort of generations of people who are now being forced out so some tourists can pass by, consume and part away with their money after a week. Leaving nothing else in its wake.

Also, the people being pushed out are not the "upper-middle-class Europeans", those have the means to afford living in the city for longer than the poorer ones who are pushed out first, those poorer ones might be elderly, or low-income workers (such as is in Lisbon the past 5-8 years, and Barcelona maybe for longer) who might have been born and lived in those places until a rich landlord purchased a bunch of flats to rent out for 3-5 months of the year on AirBnB and make a buck. You destroy local communities to allow what? Some economical activity due to tourism and enrichment of a wealthy class.

Yes, morally I believe that's wrong, you are min-maxing the return in purely economical terms to a class of people who in large part had no hand in creating what they are profiting from, indiscriminately hollowing out cities for pure profit-seeking motive with no regards for the social issues that will be created in 10-20 years for those people who are forced out just due to a lack of regulation of AirBnBs.

The issue is not boorish tourists, the issue is allowing the rental market be completely distorted in favour of short-term rentals for a tourism industry that exists solely due to the generational work of whomever built those communities and cities, and who actually live there, day in and day out.

If you don't believe this is fucked up I feel we have very different moral compasses...
It's definitely useful - especially for yt-dlp - but I eventually had to turn it off due to the clipping being a bit wayward[1]. Often got videos where it'd clip 15-20s before the sponsor and 30s after which leads to horrible glitchy cuts. Or sometimes it would only cut out the middle 2m of a sponsor segment leading to, again, horrible glitchy cuts but with sponsorship. etc.etc.

[1] This may be because I was downloading things reasonably quickly after they went up - waiting a day or two might have got better results?
Encrypted everything, keys in a password manager, backup (also encrypted) using DeDuplicati to an off-site drive weekly. Loosing access to my devices all at once means I'm not getting any data back, as I don't wish anyone but me to access it, no exception.

I use no cloud storage (except OneDrive for occasional sharing) and I move my e-mails from the server to a local mailbox after a few months to limit what an unauthorized party would see in case of a breach.
A charity organization that converts 70% of the money you give it into e.g. saved human lives is better than one that converts 5%.
EA was inspired by the observation that most people don't know where their money is going when they give it to charity.
Yeah, they're so indifferent to ad blockers that they actively find ways to detect and circumvent them, to the point people have to make ad blocker blocker blockers. Google is so indifferent that they forced everyone to use restrictive new browser extension APIs just to cripple ad blockers.
I haven't been able to figure out how to access the IPFS versions of the archive. They technically have a version of their site hosted through IPFS (https://www-dweb-cors.dev.archive.org/web), but when searching for a specific url like nytimes.com, it just redirects to the standard archive.org url.
To unlock that feature you have to buy a second phone.
The data seems to be really in a 365-day window, and on the 1st graph of the dashboard, the beginning and the end seem to be on the same level...
NASA’s Artemis – Back to the Moon
Or because I knew it was AI generated when I looked at it. Either way, that shouldn't be the differentiator.

An artwork is judged by how it exists within the totality of the context. We can consider "art" in the broadest sense, as "artifice" - and from that standpoint the algos themselves can be seen as staggering works of art in their own right. But on the other hand if we view the algos strictly as tools, and only consider individual pieces of content that are created through them, so far it's been only "meh" with a very occasional "hmm".

A similar example is the audio gear scene. There are many electromusical devices that are true works of art, worth of historical study even - then someone picks em up and starts by making bleeps and bloops that may have some novelty value but don't create a lasting impression.

I try to keep an open mind - even Facebook can be seen as AI-facilitated performance art evoking a profound feeling of dread, but that's a much broader context.
> I would not say it is not for tax prevention. How do we know for which of the two reasons users use lending platforms?

Debt is a classic way to prevent tax, but that there are also other reasons to take on debt.
> I think it's perfectly not to fixate on dubious metrics like "most fraud (found) per hour worked"

100% agreed. Financial incentives destroy honest work. Sweden has proved this multiple times by having financial incentives through the entire health care system.
Package conflict on /usr/bin/sl between sapling and sl.
I'm going to flag this for IMO sensationalist interpretation of data...
That is this post. Sapling.

GP was probably talking about a time when they used it internally but maybe it didn't have a name by then.
Orion on Its Way to the Moon
Ah, but the crew get to live in the lightless corridors underneath it all! What an opportunity for them!
You keep stating that spaceX only really does software, not hardware.

Re-linking my earlier response about Raptor engines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33620423

They are the only current player building with stainless steel.

Software alone doesn’t let you catch a rocket out of the air when it lands.

We literally just pulled out old shuttle engines from storage for today’s launch. And new ones will cost 146M a pop. And they aren’t as sophisticated as the SpaceX Raptor.
That's not Starship, it's the Super Heavy booster. The actual payload part is separate, and I don't think they've been combined in a single test so far.

It's not a flying rocket, and it may yet need significant adjustments before it gets there - especially given that SpaceX has a very iterative development model.

Also remember that the current Starship design requires a completely unproven technology (in-orbit refueling) to be able to reach the moon - it can't do so in a one-shot manner like SLS will hopefully succeed today. That piece of the mission alone may significantly alter the capabilities and costs.
I know it doesn't make sense but does anyone know where I can listen to some CUTS format audio? I'm just intensely curious about what it sounds like.
That's exactly what it is. Show me some mind-blowing AI art :-)
It's not particularly surprising that a surprising amount of infrastructure is needed to run a social network.
I’m shocked how succinctly you were able to summarize the ideas here. Bravo. Any chance you have a blog?
Further Artemis / Orion Milestones;

Orion Solar Array Deploy Complete : https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/16/orion-solar-array-...

Perigee Raise Maneuver Complete : https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/16/perigee-raise-mane...

Orion on Its Way to the Moon : https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/16/orion-on-its-way-t...
My brother in law works for a local Schnitzel chain (Schnitz) and it's hard to believe what people are ready to pay for convenience. They've a few regular customers who order fresh hot chips twice or thrice a day. Just a regular size box of hot chips that probably costs less than $5 and they're happy to pay another $4 or more for delivery!

Some of them order just a can of soft drink. If they went to the grocery store and bought a pack of six cans, it'd cost them the same as just one can from the restaurant. Not to mention another $4 delivery fee!

It's not a bad business to be in. Personally, I dislike them all as I like getting my own food and mostly eat at home. But there are heaps of people who're happy to pay exorbitant prices to have things delivered to them. I can't imagine how much it adds to our carbon footprint!
Not to take away from Blue origin, but orbital class rocket booster landing is different and much harder than going up, hovering and going down.
Troy's reaction to the story: https://nitter.net/troyhunt/status/1592606998469971970

Though the article mentions the name of the hacker group and some claimed affiliation. That's not visible from the screenshot Troy shared on Twitter.
Plus the journalist wrote lots of fluff to scare people. Even mentioning some "news update" as a source.

Makes me wonder if the author just did excruciatingly poor research on a bad fur day, or got a mail "hey, we're team whatever, here is a list of sites we hacked and we will release their databases".

Especially considering that some thread actors are known to use/pay journalist to apply pressure on victims. But at least in this instance this seems unlikely (the extortion amount seems too low to be able to afford this).
Peter Singer, one of the "founders" of effective altruism, argues pretty vehemently in his book "Effective Altruism" that the ends do NOT justify the means. Like you've said, doing that has lead some people to go off the deep end and do some horrifying stuff, so just because you think you can improve the world better than the guy next to you doesn't mean you should take the guy's money.

(Although, I've googled a bit and found a "counter"-example, where Singer argues that in a case where six innocent people could be wrongly accused of murder and killed, you should point at one as the perpetrator if it means only they get killed and the other five ones get let go, therefore saving five lives: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/866768837)

So yes, killing is morally wrong and should never be the mean to your end, but the rest is really muddy. Is stealing from the rich in order to feed the poor a justified mean? Is donating most of your money you make trading off the stock market, where other people have lost that money, a justified mean? Is lobbying against climate-unfriendly companies a justified mean?
I've come to the same realization a while ago, but I've also come to terms with it :-)

Of course most companies are messed up, the same way that every organization of sufficient size is. The reason is simply human nature.

I used to get really angry about lots of things, but I'm relatively calm nowadays. The trick is to look at all these antipatterns, political, inefficient, toxic behavior that you see in companies as some kind of force of nature.

Sales organizations building their own IT department. Product orgas caring about the process of building a product more than the actual product. HR guarding "people and culture", but talking shit behind employees backs.

Oh well.

You can either get angry, fight pointless fights and shorten your life. Or you make your peace and try to navigate the mess.
> Efficiency is important if the input (energy) is not free.

This is the point - with some solar/wind farms the energy is free (ie, the grid price is negative).
Great, you managed to find two questions weird enough that the language model detects them as nonsense and says so (although on the first question the denial goes a bit too far). More often the model seems to just fabricate something that sounds like an answer, regardless of whether the question or answer is sensible.
It's interesting that the article notes the similarity of EA to a religion. I don't just mean the 'cultist' element of people afraid to speak out, message control,... but on a more fundamental level: the sort of practical ethics where elite university professors tell you they've figured out what you ought to do with seemingly impenetrable analytical rigour, honed in countless seminars. It really struck me about Peter Singer already, who seems to be the spiritual ancestor to EA and all of this.
TLI successful and orion is away.
Found the link to the whole talk here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNHl1Eqjsv0
Maybe this? This isn't THE biggest cruise ship ever built though.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/world-news/one-worlds-lar...
Or just having two sdr's.
I am not sure. At FAANG in europe you can make 200k. you need to make 400keuros (maybe 350k if you really good with tax and deducting costs) but you wont get any day off, sick day, any health insurance (even in europe it helps) , no 401k.

tbh I am not sure it is better money wise. for sure you get the freedom tho but also the stress of finding new customers
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/cruise-...

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/9000-passenger-cr...
The UI sounds much better than git. (but what can be worse than git in the first place?!) It's solving (or trying to solve) many common griefs of git. I don't like Meta, but I find myself enjoying the design itself.

I especially like the idea of stack. It's not something git can't do, but someone should've spent quite some time on tons of trial-and-error to nail the workflow. It's certainly a well aged project - a decade old! Kudos to that.
yeah, rationality and science are already here, but they're not evenly distributed yet. Starting to think that they might not ever be evenly distributed.
I have an M1 pro MacBook now... Moved from fedora.

I miss fedora.