skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking about boost-phase interceptors, not mid-course interceptors. Starship to replace GMD (as suggested by credit_guy) doesn't make much sense, but Starship does have the technical ability to launch a massive constellation of space-based interceptors for quite cheap. With Starship, it should be possible to put tens of thousands of interceptors into LEO, and to rapidly replenish the constellation.

As for the "general consensus that weapons in space are bad", there's also a general consensus that war is bad, so we should all breath easy! Wait no.
That's how sensory processing work in general, not just hallucinations.
The biggest advantage of zero-terminated to me is simplicity, next would be efficiency for really small strings - although this is a fringe concern. Strings with explicit length should at least have a 32-bit length field (maybe 64) IMO - for example, it's common to read files (and store them in contiguous memory) that are larger than 64K.
I hate to spell out the obvious but this isn't a bug, it's an incomplete feature.

GPT5 will generate the rest of the text and upload it to the arxiv, then submit it to the relevant peer reviewed publications.

The reviewers will also be GPT5 trained for accuracy. They will suggest a few edits to avoid obvious lies, plus will suggest the author cite the reviewer's friends to preserve mimesis. Accept with revision.

The papers will come out, h-indices will increase, the authors will get tenure, and all will be well. This niche of humanity can retire to a well deserved rest and relaxation -- kind of a backdoor to universal basic income.
Wow!

Brilliant, Excelsior! ("Ever Upward!")

Roly Drower / Hugh Duncan -- is onto something big mathematically here!

I have never, repeat, never -- seen Pascal's Triangle mapped to attributes of various geometric shapes in different dimensions -- but what I'm (now!) seeing is absolutely amazing!

There is definitely a (previously!) hidden, beautiful mathematical correspondence there!

This article has to be in my favorite Top 10 math articles of all time!

Thank you, JNRowe, for submitting this excellent article to Hacker News!
Then add sight and sensation ... who said you couldn't do that?
Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?(2012) [pdf]
Really? When did we stop?
Though it may look amazing it is not really thinking. It is simply capable of using a placeholder word. For HN’s sake AI does not understand anything, it’s just leveraging patterns, patterns that are sometimes complicated for us and that does make a great tool. But it’s just a tool for now.
It’s crazy. In the old days they were cheaper than eBay.
Most people have something they would protest.
For sake of simplicity, and for efficiency with really small strings, with a length-prefixed string representation you really want to keep the string length field fixed-size. In general.
I love this content! I love his wisdom! But my goodness, it's like some of these websites go out of their way to not be readable at all.
> The DoD already had something like Starlink.

The NDSA doesn't actually exist yet, and SpaceX is presently the only company that could launch the larger versions of it.
While we've all heard the theory that poor spelling can be a tactic used to make their communication seem less credible and make it easier for them to trick people, I'm skeptical.

Many scammers may not be native English speakers and may not have a strong grasp of the language. Another possibility is that scammers simply don't put a lot of effort into their spelling and grammar because their primary focus is on making money, rather than creating well-written communications.
YouTube is censoring videos critical of the China Communist Party
YouTube is not allowing posts that contain words that may be critical of the China Communist Party (CCP).

It seems that YouTube runs some AI mechanism to detect certain Chinese words, and will ban potentially critical videos from being published. (I am not the video creator, nor related)

Alphabet / YouTube is an American company, and I am disappointed at this apparent censorship.
That’s not the point. It could have been left out. But it was not and catapulted the author to the SCOTUS.
This statement is basically true. I always enjoyed Taibbi at least in part because he was pretty hard to pin down politically. But lately his substack has been nonstop Trump apologia. I just couldn't take it anymore and unsubscribed.

My suspicion is that his grey-tribeism is genuine, but the red-tribe content is what pays the bills at substack.
I heard VimConf was above standard.

ducks
During the 2016 election I knew some people who shared nude photos of Melania Trump (taken consensually) on Facebook. These photos were swiftly taken down.
I’m going to try this, I just don’t feel comfortable with Obsidian being closed source.
Wow! How is this legal. It feels like manipulation and fraud.
I wonder if GPT models can get super precise or if there’s a fundamental limitation.
there are some interesting things which it is very adamant about....but it lies lol.

so it needs work. the researchers have over trained it....
I think Egypt had been controlled by a foreign overclass since at least the Sea Peoples. Perhaps longer. The Nile is incredibly valuable but also very difficult to defend from invasion.
In addition to gaining a strong foundation in math and computer science, there are a few other things you can do to get started in the field of AI. One is to start building your own projects and experimenting with AI technologies. This can be a great way to gain practical experience and develop a deeper understanding of how AI works. There are also many online resources, such as tutorials and courses, that can help you learn about AI and get started with building your own projects. Finally, networking with others in the field and staying up-to-date with the latest developments in AI can also be incredibly valuable. Participating in online communities, attending conferences and workshops, and even collaborating with others on AI projects can all be great ways to learn and grow in the field.
yup, here is the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788208
Target is closest but you need to drive.

I left my toolkit in my wife’s car and needed a pair of pliers. Ordered from
Target, and a person handed it to me in my car in my way home from work about 90 minutes later.
Do Ardern’s political opponents feel the same way?
The will of the people, are you kidding?

Many of DeSantis’ politically motivated actions target counties/municipalities that overwhelmingly voted for a different candidate. The majority of “South Florida” is made up of diverse, densely populated, areas that lean slightly left of center. “North Florida” by comparison is sparsely populated and leans heavily right. Yet, for some reason the state government feels the need to consistently subvert the will of the people by preempting local governments and municipalities. Repeatedly overriding the will of the people in those areas.
Those numbers sound more like spammers than "Twitter power users", whatever that could be.
I like that summary better than the actual article. The article read as floaty and artificial. ChatGPT's sickly sweet tone peeks through a bit here, but the pacing is much better.
Based on my personal experience with racism. There are different type of racism. Some are extreme, some are conscious and some are unconscious. Some are in denial.
Other social media, western news, etc also show different things from country to Based on my personal experience with racism. There are different type of racism: some are extreme, some are conscious, some are unconscious, and some are in denial. Just

YouTube recommends different things from one country to another. It is the same for news and other entertainment site. For some content I have to use VPN. I think it is either due to legal issue or recommendation algorithm not brainwashing.

I was recommended porn-related stuff maybe it is because of my usage pattern or my geo locations , and maybe it is the same things with Tiktok, American like to see stupid things.
This argument fails in the same way that “I’ve got nothing to hide” arguments against privacy fail. Even if someone is not currently running afoul of the current government’s current definition of a particular illegal act, we still might not want to grant them absolute power to enforce. These definitons of illegality tend to change (read: expand) over time, and when governments change they tend not to give back powers they’ve been granted.
What an odd comment to make. His central thesis about "cleverness" allowed him to tie together a number of disparate elements. It is what writers do strive to do. If this was in the New Yorker would that confer legitimacy? That feels very elitist.

The flow of the writing reminded me a lot of Paul Graham's essays.
Well I’m on 3 and have no problem accessing archive.org. This seems to be an adult content filter which you can turn off.
Posted this on our Slack. If OP needs a company database or something, I can ask my team. I heard that we collaborated with Wikipedia on a project like this before.
Hoping someone can educate me, what are the advantages of having the last member of strbuf_t be a variable length array (char cstr[]) instead of just a char*?
More context can be found here: https://docs.puter.com/

I'm truly skeptical as well
Check out Polestar. Also a Geely brand, as it happens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polestar
Employers offering paycheck in BTC: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/11/04/bitwage-now-lets...

https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/041-22/mayor-ad...

Landlords offering payment in BTC: https://www.american-apartment-owners-association.org/proper...

U.S. government allowing you to pay taxes in BTC: you can take your btc and turn it into usd and pay taxes that way - and would need to on your capital gains.

Lots of reading for you to do!
> I understand that emacs is a big ask for someone to learn

Developing a PWA for it (basically bikeshedding) is much more painful than learning Emacs. Right now, any vim user can jump into emacs with very little friction -- Doom Emacs comes fully configured with evil-mode ootb, and is easily customizable.

I think the reason for the glut of personal kb apps is the relatively high interest of most "tech" people in these things. Unfortunately, most people bow out of their systems very often -- they either don't handle enough data or they give up on old data (or have it ineffectively categorized).

This app (aka "this week's personal knowledge manager") is the same as every other one out there. There's some trying to use GPT-3, but honestly, I don't want my apps parsed by an internet-slurry model. When (if, really) it gets good enough, one wouldn't need to take notes in the first place.
I use Notion for general docs and it's... fine. It has basically everything I want from a general document manager without getting in the way.

Agreed though, code docs should be in the code. With the code or in well placed READMEs.
Guess what, actual school essays also tend to have a bunch of errors and poor reasoning... especially those by kids who would be inclined to cheat rather than write their own essay.

Sure, you can nitpick for errors, but do you really think something like this wouldn't cut it at school? We are not talking about writing technical papers or laws, but about writing at a relatively novice level...

> Write a school essay on why you should never order pizza with pineapple.

> Pizza is a beloved food enjoyed by people all over the world, but one topping that has been the subject of much debate is pineapple. While some people argue that pineapple adds a sweet and tropical flavor to the pizza, others believe that it is a misguided and unacceptable topping that ruins the inherent goodness of the pizza. In this essay, I will argue that pineapple should never be ordered on a pizza, and explain why it is an abomination in the eyes of true pizza lovers.

First and foremost, pineapple does not belong on pizza because it goes against the fundamental principles of pizza making. Pizza is a delicate balance of flavors, with the savory and slightly tangy sauce, the rich and salty cheese, and the crisp and chewy crust all coming together to create a perfect symphony of flavor. Adding pineapple to the mix disrupts this balance, and the sweetness of the fruit clashes with the other flavors in an unpleasant and unappetizing way.

Furthermore, pineapple does not have the same texture as the other toppings commonly found on pizza. The traditional pizza toppings, such as pepperoni, mushrooms, and olives, have a firm and slightly chewy texture that complements the crust and the sauce. Pineapple, on the other hand, is soft and mushy, and it can make the pizza soggy and unappealing. The different textures of the pineapple and the other toppings can also be off-putting, and can make the pizza difficult to eat.

In addition to the flavor and texture issues, pineapple on pizza is simply a gross and unappetizing concept. The combination of pineapple and pizza is unnatural and bizarre, and it goes against everything that pizza stands for. Pizza is a savory and satisfying food, meant to be enjoyed with friends and family, and adding pineapple to it just makes it weird and unappealing.

In conclusion, pineapple should never be ordered on a pizza. It goes against the fundamental principles of pizza making, it has a texture that does not complement the other toppings, and it is simply gross and unappetizing.
I dont know if Reddit has always been like this, but it is now. Essentially 90% of all top level comments are some dumbass joke, or some pop culture reference, or some winking cutesie reply. It makes me sick just thinking about it. I'm not saying it all has to be high minded essays for every comment, but what you have now is the equivalent of elementary school playground talk. Grow the fuck up.
Fake review checkers are vulnerable to the same problems real reviews are. People run the software. People can be bought. For me, nothing beats sorting reviews by "new" and doing a sniff test of the most glowing reviews. If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's probably cheap Chinese bullshit.
Re: Anker chargers, a few perform pretty well but many are kind of middling. A friend has been doing a lot of reviews of these on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/c/AllThingsOnePlace) and we started compiling test data- focusing on power conversion metrics such as efficiency and power factor, summarized into a single "power quality score" on a 0-200 scale- in a database at https://pqs.app.

For example, for the Anker power adapters we've tested: https://pqs.app/devices?categoryId=1&search=anker. We're also trying to turn it into a business.
You see them in some MENA with loose import laws. They’re ugly as sin but they’re the cheapest new cars you can buy.
AMZN has no comprehension that the obvious fraud listings cause some people to think there must be other fraud listings too and make people less inclined to buy from AMZN.
Polestar is still Volvo-style engineering. On the other hand, most Chinese-style engineered cars are pretty shite (Geely, GAC, Hong Qi, etc).

Edit:- shite, not white
>that patient is not qualified (doesn't have education and training) to distinguish good medical service from bad one!

This statement seems true for the vast majority of patients (although not the part where government prevents people from sharing their thoughts).
This actually makes sense. A leaker is someone you've specifically disclosed info to, not just a random adversary. If you can't keep your own team from leaking, greater chance the info you're hiding is in the public interest.

A hacker doesn't even know what the information is before the attack and is likely an adversary who will use any information to damage, regardless of public interest.
As a kid I saved up for a used laptop so I could play Halo LAN games with my mates. The computer didn't meet the required specs for the game, but it mostly worked if you turned the all the graphics settings down to low.

Except for invisibility: invisible players are normally rendered as, well, invisible, except for a slight rippling of the air that's only perceptible if you're a few metres away. But on my underpowered machine, invisible players were rendered as an opaque explosion of colourful glitchy noise!

We agreed to just not use the invisibility powerups after I got in some epic cross-map shots of supposedly invisible players.
This is assuming you have a competent infrastructure and networking team, which is expensive. Lots of middle managers don't like hiring engineers that earn more than they do. It defies the pecking order.
I don't understand why this is a story to begin with. Twitter is a private company that does what it wants. It can boot or block whoever or whatever story they want to for whatever reason. Obviously if the people running the site lean towards one political direction, that's going to affect their moderation policies. Why don't we analyze Fox News's decision to run or not run certain stories.

People's first mistake is getting their news from Twitter, or Fox News for that matter. This is not a free speech issue. If you are interested in the Hunter Biden story there are about 300 other sources you could find information about it within about 1/2 a second, it was one of the most widely reported stories in 2020 if I remember correctly.

I guess the story is that the people that ran Twitter were left leaning? Which we already knew going into it?
A web front-end is overkill -- Emacs users can use any completion framework (ivy, icomplete, vertico) with fdfind / ripgrep to get extremely powerful instantaneous search.

Plus, there's no way any org features other than the baseline few are supported.
Rage against it all you want, people are judged by the company they keep. Ideally not in court rooms, but in everyday life? Abso-fucking-lutely. You don't have to like it but that's how life works.
I'm not sure what the confusion is here. Capitalism is not anarchism. Capitalists generally recognize the value of contracts, do they not?
One of France's oldest butter producers makes 380 tons per year [video]
Only just reading this now and wondering if you've any reference regarding its usage in Ireland. The only non-Nazi usage that I'm aware of is the Swastika Laundry (I used to work nearby and unforunately, the swastika is now gone from its chimney stack). When I researched it, it turns out that the founder was inspired by an ornament he saw at the 1910 Great Industrial Exhibition in London: https://www.nationalarchives.ie/article/behind-scenes-swasti...

With a layman's interest in history, religion, iconography (and a multitude of other areas that I don't have enough time for), I'd be interested in learning about other or older examples of swastika usage in Ireland. So far, I've found this wonderful blog post: https://rmchapple.blogspot.com/2017/10/always-remember-to-dr...
You do not have to respond to everything. Some writing is an opertunity for reflection. If you respond without some reflection, you become more of an NPC.
But you're not accounting for the latency added by the many satellite hops needed to get there :)

Every sat will need to do queueing and signal processing.
We're all capitalists here, I suspect - I mean does anyone in this message thread - a single person - advocate for state ownership of all means of production and then centralised controlled distribution of goods and services? I didn't think so. I think the term you're looking for is laissez-faire capitalists, of which there could be a few. Most people support some degree of regulatory control.

We should stop with "you're either an X or a Y". That might be true on TV or on Twitter. It is not true in real life.
One of the few countries with an actual carbon tax, Canada, rebates 90% of the tax to individuals and the other 10% to schools and hospitals.
Alternative hypothesis: US is a developed country, China is a developing country ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You should try logseq, then. Although I'd recommend Emacs.
They are rather popular in Russia, especially trucks. And their market share will only increase now.
Poor analogy
+1

Taboo is a UK stable food, and it goes hand in hand with censorship.

In fact, with the current political and economical situation, I'm surprised it's not getting worse. The Finger would be tempting to create in a time of crisis.
Unlike eg Huawei, Volvo is not exactly a strategic target for anybody though.
This sounds like a ChatGPT response.
I think the article, and many of the comments here, miss the point badly. No manager of a team doing technically complex and creative work can for very long remain capable of doing all the work themselves. Modern projects and processes simply require too much specialized knowledge to function for that to work. What managers need that (probably) comes from having been a strong individual contributor is sufficient knowledge of the fields involved in what they're managing to be able to understand the critical elements in the project or process in the context of the overall goal, and to be able to evaluate well the value of ideas for improvement or problem solution that come out of their team. But they also need leadership and management skills. The latter are not the same as, and are not developed by, stellar individual contributor skills. Furthermore, it's important to understand that management and leadership are not the same thing.

My personal experience has been that I was a very able individual contributor, and that I was able to learn leadership skills (that is, how to inspire people; how to recognize their strengths and weaknesses and assign work that played to the former, and created opportunities to ameliorate the latter; how to point individuals and teams in fruitful directions without having (or often being able to) do all the hard work of pushing in that direction myself) by diligent study of people and myself. But I was never able to become more than a barely competent manager - I always had, by design, an "administrative partner" on my team who brought those abilities to the table - and I always paid attention to what they had to say. That combination (technical knowledge, leadership skills, and sub-contracted management skills) carried me from individual contributor to team lead, to product line lead, to CTO of highly successful $10B billion medical and technology organization in 20 years.
A bit snide. The guardian also carries opinion pieces from multiple viewpoints.
For sure. You can also cut heat and AC a lot in a robot warehouse. Meaning even if it was 50% more square feet for the same stuff, it should be a lot cheaper to operate,
The argument with "" as suffix sounds quite absurd.

Why do you believe POSIX would never approve a str_t type? Nobody likes raw char arrays, perhaps a future revision of POSIX may decide to make the lives of C programmers easier and implement their own sane string type.
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The solution is for us Kiwis to decide. You can worry about your own government.
Don't know where you are from but in the UK MG are outselling a whole bunch of the big car makers. I think possibly even the 3rd biggest by sales volume at the moment.

The age of the Chinese car is coming. I think in the transition to electric cars they are going to take a big chunk of the lower end of the market. I get a feeling this is why a lot of mid market brands like Mazda and Volvo are trying to push into the upper end of the market.

Cars like the MG4 are getting rave reviews for example.
On Culture-Games
1. Sync with other apps I already use. MyFitnessPal is the biggest example. Todo list apps or workout apps are another. I'm already entering data in these apps, so entering it again in a habit tracker is extra work.

2. Tracking negative habits. I want to tracker whether I refrained from doing something bad as frequently as I want to track doing something good.

3. As automated as possible. The biggest problem with habit trackers is if I'm too lazy to do the habit, I'm also too lazy to enter that in the tracker, so I end up with skewed data.
Polestar and MG are two very popular Chinese brands in Europe.