skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This infographic is a bit off on a few of them. On Neptune and Saturn "surface" gravity is only modestly higher than on earth and atmospheric density is fairly modest too along the cloudy layer that we could call the surface of these planets.You'd either freeze to death or suffocate well before being crushed by falling deeper down on any of them.

As for Pluto, average surface temperature sits at -394 Fahrenheit, so damn cold that you'd flash-freeze nearly solid in seconds, well before you'd suffocate. This applies even if we take into account a near total lack of atmospheric pressure (mainly because most of its atmosphere is goddam frozen to the surface because of the same deep cold)..

And why petrification for Mars, but not Pluto? If it's because of the cold, then that applies to Pluto, not Mars. On Mars you'd asphyxiate well before freezing. Even at its coldest, the red planet is nowhere near as truly deep space cold enough to flash freeze you in the way that Pluto or the outer gas giants could. Hell, in many places on the Mars surface during the day time, temperatures reach up to 20 degrees Celsius, almost earth-like, except for the suffocating 1% atmospheric density, which is, as I argued above, what would really kill you.

Venus, Mercury and the Sun seem legit though. Especially Venus with its atmospheric density being the same as a sudden trip 1km below the earth's oceans.

As another person here said about Earth, most likely drowning, so the visual even got that wrong.
I don't get your distinction: copyright infringement is illegal, so "infringing" implies "illegal"
You're speaking a language that has some rules with almost no exceptions.

But almost means one can easily list the remaining special cases.
In the particular case of Siemens, they already did that for you.

(Migrating from S7-300 PLCs to the current S7-1500 range, I found the complete documentation package for the 1500 universe in one whopper of a pdf. Just north of 11,000 pages IIRC.)

I shared the OPs frustration when working on the S7-300, though. The docs are excellent, there's just so many of them...
Tinfoil hat type of retorts is not what I expect to read on HN
No, you’re conflating System 1 thinking and System 2 thinking.
Any links for this? The evidence I saw a while ago showed that they had 0 deaths and the staff had in fact saved many people from ODs already.
It's only tyranny (in both cases) if there is no mechanism for you to join the board, run for office, or form a coalition with your neighbors to affect desired change.
I don’t know much about Korea or Korean work culture but it sounds germane on your reference to some of the monoculture issues that plague SV.

Can you suggest any resources that would help me compare and contrast in an enlightening way?
> it's a tiny vocal minority from each side. Probably in the <0.01% range

It's important to keep this rule in mind for all public discussions. Unfortunately, no one, including politicians and policymakers, does.
Centralizing stuff in another VC-backed startup is… kind risky[1]?

[1] https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2022/substack-centralization/
ECMAScript Proposal: Set Methods
Ask HN: Where to watch the World Cup Final live for free online?
Any sites that work globally? I could probably use a VPN.
This workload seems IO bound so python 3.11 shouldn't add too many speedups here, it adds mostly cpu-bound improvements. Surprised you are getting speedsup - any idea which parts?
Ask HN: Can I make an entire web with web assembly and rust at this point?
Even if I could would I want to do this or is it still advised you only use WASM for more of the heavy lifting calculations type stuff?
> The more right and really really difficult solution would be to give the original copyright holders partial rights to the output.

That is impossible (assigning credit to training images from the output is arbitrary, not deterministic) and wouldn't help anyone (imagine Spotify except it pays you even less).

> It really feels like the textile factory worker problem all over again. We can't let the big players be the benefactors every time.

Industrialization is better for society because it produces more customer surplus. Even Marx thought the Luddites were wrong.
Could be, but there is no proof of deals in Elon’s Twitter files. Just Hunter’s naked pics
Just make a service that easily ports (or reverse proxies) content from Medium and Substack into a static site hosted on Netlify for free with a custom domain.

Users can continue authoring on those platforms but can begin promoting their own-domain version and gradually move their users off.
I got the pangs back in 2003 and managed to snag a SPARCserver 1000E with full disk array. After spending 2 days getting it up and then a 3 months using it as a workstation, I got the electricity bill.

That ended my interest in running vintage kit...
(Farce alert) I only upvote in the most selfish way possible : I upvote myself with my other accounts, I upvote all replies and I downvote all other concurrent replies.

I'm kidding...what's the point ? [1]

Seriously, I'm always interested on how MICRO level disparate motives like these here aggregate on the MACRO level (in every area). I sometimes only view the monthly top HN, and I'm often like : "hum, why is this one so popular while this one is not ?"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
Maintain a clean architecture in Python with dependency rules
Tools happen, folks get automated away and need to retool to make themselves useful. It will happen in computing, as a matter of fact, it has happened in computing.

What do you think cloud computing did? A lot of sysadmins, networking, backups, ops went the way of dinosaurs. A lot of programmers have also fallen on the side by being replaced with tech and need to catch up.

Wallowing in pity is not going to make help, we saw a glimpse of this with github-copilot. Some people built the hardware, the software behind these AIs, some others are constructing the models, applying it to distinct domains. There's work to be done for those who wish to find their place in the new world.
How does Medium link what some person does as a project to some person who puts content on Medium? What's their authentication mechanism for doing this linking? Maybe he just said "Yeah, that's me."?
> I might argue that the more you disagree with a given comment, the more you should be willing to debate it

I think this can only be taken to a point before you realise you'll be wasting your time. The most common thing I can think of is someone who glibly speaks from a position of pure ignorance on topics that require real study and knowledge. You could provide a 3 year university course over HN, or you could downvote and try to stop their idiocy infecting more naive minds.
Yeah, those pictures sure make it look like one. But there is a slice of bread underneath there, otherwise it is a salad!

Also, no I don't this is a good way to provoke a flame war with Swedes. I can barely register an emotion after seeing this.
Agreed. I haven't come across a store/library system in any ecosystem that I'd prefer. In fact, I feel like Steam is a model for other places like e-books, movies & tv streaming, etc.

Is Steam perfect? No. But Amazon Prime gives me the shivers after they arbitrarily pulled movies from libraries after purchase intentionally and without refund. Audible/Kindle tries selling me while I'm in my library, etc.
That's probably why there are specific lanes referenced through the show and how that may cause long term problems (re: S7E9 - Force of Nature)
Except that it doesn’t fix the technology, it gives the appearance of augmentation via a bunch of JavaScript. Seems more like the jQuery and Bootstrap of your examples.

Sure, you don’t have to look at it, you just program against the interface. Just like you don’t have to look at the internals of jQuery - you just program against its interface.
Away from my desk?
There are indeed more characters but the entire class of additions can be boiled down to "check for characters from mixed scripts in the same token" not "compare n^2/2 characters for similarities" at which point you're back to the original homograph/homoglyph problem.

Regarding the millions of pre-unicode devices the exact same can be said about public machines running DOS, industrial machines with basic keyboards, aircraft avionics systems, etc of non-English countries too. After all the rest of the world didn't just use latin text or avoid computers until Unicode finally appeared and was supported. Many did, many didn't - the systems and encodings being so painful is what resulted in Unicode.

The whole point of using Unicode for base things like programming languages, domains, etc is so everyone from all languages (including English) can take advantage of the 10s of billions of devices that do support unicode instead of being limited to the long tail of a millions of devices until every last one is turned off. The support of these use legacy use cases was designed into Unicode and is why ASCII maps to the first 8 bytes, Unicode is just smart enough to not require everyone do that for every device because some 30 year old machine in a warehouse needs it.
Agreed. We have lived in an HOA neighborhood for +20 yrs and very much enjoy the "insurance" the HOA rules provide. We don't have broken/junk cars on the street or yard, neighbors with a large collection of hunting dogs, or houses that have been encased with shrubbery because the owner cannot/will not do lawn maintenance. Also, our HOA dues provide for a neighborhood pool, pond, walking trails, etc. All cleaned and maintained by our HOA funds.

Take a trip 15mins away to a non-HOA neighborhood and you will quickly see all the above (other than the pool, pond, etc). It is my belief most people will take the least path of resistance, and without some sort of community rules in place, nice neighborhoods will end up like the wild-wild-west.
I'm thinking the same way, plein air painting is a nice activity. You get something nothing can take away from you, any kind of mark you make with your own body is yours. At least at the moment, using prompt- or inpainting-based tools feels like talking through Microsoft Sam (voice synth).
I think what these generative models reveal is that the vast majority of art is just interpolation.
Not everyone is motivated by money. And if these are Oxbridge kids they may not need the cash anyway.
This. Sitting several feet away with the radium behind glass, you're down near background [1], but any contact with the dust is a risk. If you must to open the case, I would suggest doing it outside with mask, gloves, and eye pro: blow the case out with some compressed air to dispel any lose dust. Don't grind or disturb the markings otherwise. You can also replace the hands with non-luminous ones.

Also consider leaning in! Radioactive antiques and minerals is a whole fun hobby by itself; start with a cheap Geiger counter and move up to a scintillator for more fun. There are many artifacts like uranium glass, ceramic glazes, and watches to look for in antique shops.

https://www.kensclockclinic.com/vintage-clocks-and-radium-ri...
Ah, you’re right, I forgot that Biden would need his Harry Potter wand to get Manchin and Sinema to agree to ditch the filibuster.
It seems like we are living in an era of the Wild West filled with authoritarianism and self rule and sheriff style enforcement. Except it doesn’t just date to the Wild West. It goes back to feudalism. The same cunningness and framework of authority is being put forward.

In those days, there was no super world power America. There was no UN. There was no successful secret fraternity that espoused ideals like freedom of expression. There were just kings deeply seated in self interests.

This online world feels much like it is the same.
For AAC/M4A there's also https://github.com/nu774/m4acut, which can split MPEG-4 based AAC audio and preserves gapless playback. (While mp3DirectCut can read AAC in MPEG-4 containers, it only ever spits back out the raw AAC stream, which lacks the necessary tagging for gapless playback.)

I've found handy for splitting up the occasional concert regording off Youtube back into individual tracks, and things like that…
You don't need practice for that, all the signs are in English and you just use Jorudan for route planning. Or Google Maps if you must, though it's gotten worse over time.

nb: you may need practice to navigate Shinjuku station
He has a jet because, honestly, he is traveling constantly for his work. Call it a tax on running multiple large operations. Given his long work days I can see how the jet pays for itself many times over.

And renting a yacht for $7k is actually super cheap. I know people who spend more on champagne in a club in a single evening, and no, they are not billionaires.

Even if this yacht was rented 365 days a year, which I do not believe, this would be $2.5M / year.

Even if this absolutely worst case (I don't believe for a second that Elon is partying on the yacht for large part of the year) you could still rent it for literally hundreds of years and still not match the cost of just buying your own large yacht. Forget about insurance, maintenance and staffing costs.

If you want to pass judgment on what is and what is not frugality when it comes to billionaires, you need to expand your views a bit and stop thinking like a poor person.
That's why I play games, which are running on private servers for years.
Like ultima online.
A lot of these blogging platforms have accessibility issues, either with reading or writing articles, and don't even support Markdown! Thank God for write.as.
But you can already make mickey mouse models, and people do it all the time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqVXoGCTfuk&ab_channel=Ashle...
Doesn't need to be an HOA, but some organization or company where there is pressure to ensure that unsustainable properties aren't built
Exactly! Didn't the rise of abstract art coincide with the ubiquity of photography? Realism in painting was no longer needed by the populace to the previous extent.

Artists will survive through innovation.
What about an AI that can write unit tests for any codebase… seems like the overall benefit of that would be huge.
"Smart cutting" does some re-encoding work, so you couldn't throw out those parts of FFMPEG after all.
This has been a line of argument from every Luddite since the start of the industrial revolution. But it is not true. Almost all the productivity gains of the last 250 years have been dispersed into the population. A few early movers have managed to capture some fraction of the value created by new technology, the vast majority has gone to improve people's quality of life, which is why we live longer and richer lives than any generation before us. Some will lose their jobs and that is fine because human demand for goods and services is infinite, there will always be jobs to do.

I really doubt that AI will somehow be our successors. Machines and AI need microprocessors so complex that it took us 70 years of exponential growth and multiple trillion-dollar tech companies to train even these frankly quite unimpressive models. These AI are entirely dependent on our globalized value chains with capital costs so high that there are multiple points of failure.

A human needs just food, clean water, a warm environment and some books to carry civilization forward.
What definition of learning are you using that makes humans not parrots and a deep learning system not learning?

I know current AI is very different from an organic brain at many levels, but I don't know if any of those differences really matters.
https://archive.vn/NscmB
Technically, yes. But the thread of the ban will have a great effect on the process. Also, appeals court technically can make it's decision before the election AFAIK.
Man, I bought a dozen songs for Rock Band just a year ago because I brought it out to play with friends. Guess I'll never get to play those again :/

I know it's not reasonable to expect companies to keep their online infrastructure up forever, but I wonder what the actual operating costs of most of these servers are. I can't imagine most of them are operating at a scale much larger than my personal home server at this point.
Your sarcastically make a good point - we couls have globally accessible sanitation and basic education for pennies, and lift like a billion people out of poverty.
Ego.

China wants to be world hegemon by 2049. That's no secret. They've been very clear about it. They picked 2049 because that will be the 100th anniversary of the CCP's rule of China. Everything China does is aimed at that.

And what kind of hegemon would China be if it allowed Taiwan to defy its will. China's ego is too fragile to tolerate that.

Xi Jinping wants to be the one what got Taiwan (just as Putin wanted to be the one what got Ukraine). He is 69 years old. As he gets older he will agitate to get it done. He will lose patience with the long term effort at destabilization of Taiwan and he will go to war.
From my experience just playing between friends, when we talk about our hands or moves after a game, we would already bullshit each other, to avoid revealing our thoughts for the next game and keep ourselves unpredictable.
Well, the heavy lifting is usually done by the Perl backend. So you cannot directly compare the performance between Perl and JS/TS services in this case. From my web dev experience so far I believe the language's execution environment rarely matters at all unless you're doing something stupid. That's because most webapps wait for their DB most of the time anyway. Native compilation like in golang or rust does not pay off unless you're writing a streaming service delivering videos.
Ask HN: Why aim for reducing climate change?
For a long time, I thought preserving the environment through reducing greenhouse gas emissions would improve human wealth as a result - via ecosystem services, not having to move agriculture and populations when rain patterns change and so on.

But apparently, the IPCC estimates that the best scenario by far in terms of GDP per capita is the fossil-fueled development.[1] I was shocked to discover this.

Why is this the case? Did the IPCC not correctly factor how quality of life would deteriorate in case of climate change?

In light of this, why should we aim to reduce emissions at a significant detriment to human life? Is it because of unknown unknowns? Or solely to preserve endangered species?

[1] - https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/ipcc-scenarios?facet=no...
World War II British bomb disposal
The first devops teams.

Imagine a scenario where your best choice is to soak an explosive in liquid oxygen.
Source: originally from Hungary, lived in London for 6 years, moved to San Francisco 9 years ago. Have worked for US corps from London (as consultant); have been sitting in hiring positions for last 3 corps in US. Things which aren't salient from outside the US, but play major role in hiring non-specialist/non-contractor full-time employees:

* Cultural integration to generally to the US, and specifically to the US way of doing business. Except for a few rare cases, software is ubiquitously embedded in the culture that requires such solution. This has a _lot_ of non-salient culture-domain-specific parts that nonetheless comes as second nature to peeps growing up here. For example -I'm implementing a module that requires accounting for eg income tax brackets. A person from the EU would fire an email to product asking what these are. Here we come to the "US way of doing business", moving fast: a senior US sw engineer at a startup is enabled, and expected to do whatever it takes to drive things forward. So, the right move is to go to IRS website, look up the table, write an implementation, and note to product to double-check it.

* Related to this, "extremely remote" (different timezone + different country) requires a degree of autonomy, requires a level of trust, that is very difficult to build over videoconferences alone. Most successful "extreme remote" I've seen always added at least a weekend of flying peeps into retreats, doing mindmelt.

* The issue of trust: US is a high-trust country; it is default expected that everything you say is true, and you're not omitting materially relevant facts; and there are severe (but only country-wide) consequences of getting caught. For international peeps, trust level is highly varied, with very limited ability to enforce.

These are the top-level bits on making hiring decisions, and the root causes why none of the items on your list are being addressed.
Bad argument. Being allowed to see art and being allowed to copy art are two different things. Being allowed to _copy_ is a reserved _right_, that's the root of the word copyright.
Certainly it's his perogative and he's free to do what he wants. If I had as many businesses as he does, I would think a teleconference would be a more efficient use of my time, rather than the time spent physically traveling somewhere.
Yeah I started to play with mojojs after your comment. Looks cool, thanks!
So it's a bit like Mach number in that respect.
Both can be bad, and both are bad.

But it looks like a lot of people assume they are just as bad without any quantitate or qualitative assessment.

Lithium mining is way less bad than oil extraction in both dimensions. If that lithium can offset oil consumption it looks particular good.
Your example is like saying we should have empathy for people who can whittle when a 3D printer can now extrude the same design in bulk. Or like empathy for London cabbies having to learn roads when "anyone" can A-to-B now with a phone.

Code should not need to be done by humans at all. There's no reason coding as it exists today should exist as a job in the future.

Any time I or a colleague are "debugging" something, I'm just sad we are so "dark ages" that the IDE isn't saying "THERE, humans, the bug is THERE!" in flashing red. The IDE has the potential to have perfect information, so where is the bug is solvable.

The job of coding today should continue to rise up the stack tomorrow to where modules and libraries and frameworks are just things machines generate in response to a dialog about “the job to be done”.

The primary problem space of software is in the business domain, today requiring people who speak barely abstracted machine language to implement -- still such painfully early days.

We're cavemen chipping at rocks to make fire still amazed at the trick. No empathy, just, self-awareness sufficient to provoke us into researching fusion.
Star Office! Fun times!
I think putting restrictions on what kinds of rules there are has potential to hamstring future generations in novel predicaments. Better, I think, to make all rules decay and require periodic re-affirmation to remain in effect. The temporal stickiness of laws is perhaps the greatest barrier to truly representative democracy.
A 1941 book explains Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
I find it weird how I don’t see any mention of the TDM exceptions (“Text and Data Mining”) that already explicitly allows AI companies to train on copyrighted data, in some cases even allowing them to ignore opt-outs (such as in research institutions). This is already implemented in the UK, EU, Japan and Singapore.

It seems to me that the online discourse is very US-centric, thinking that the AI regulatory battles are in the future, when in some other countries it’s already over.
Or the admin banned people that killed the admin.

Or people that were too good.

Or people that weren't good enough.

Or people that were trying too hard.

Or people that didn't give up when they were the last one on the team alive, making the admin wait longer for the next round to start.

Or people they just plainly didn't like.

Some of the hosted server admins were the og "powerhungry moderators" of today. Many seemed to be okay though.