skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Lifting body, or more particularly blended wing.)

The two best wikimedia images are probably:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ia_37_II.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMA-I.A.37-planeador...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:FMA_I.Ae._37
It would be helpful to be more specific because there are many challenges in remote work, such as:

* communication between the team, managers, customers, etc.

* Avoid distractions and interruptions.

* Misunderstood communication.

* Data security

* Maintaining a sense of teamwork

etc.
It's about 110 miles between DC and Wilmington DE. Biden was a Senator for 36 years. the Senate is in session an average of 164 days a year (this is 2001-2021, which only overlaps with Biden's tenure for 5 years).[1]

110 * 2 * 164 * 36 ~ 1.3 million miles.

My hypothesis is that an Amtrak conductor gave Biden this calculation, but his brain associated the story with a different, more colorful conductor.

[https://ballotpedia.org/117th_Congress_legislative_calendar]
Will you make everybody that believes you and that may end up holding the bag in case you are wrong whole? If not then this is content free.

Agreed on the regulation front though, that may well - and should - happen.
I see substack gaining ground as a highbrow twitter replacement for literary, academic and journalist types of people. Possibly for tech people as well but they tend to make their own circles. It won't take off as much among the general populace because of the 'read? ew' reaction that is unfortunately too common nowadays.

They need to put in some kind of proper microblogging service though rather than just the chat feature.
Really what we need to do is take a good hard look at how education system works and whether or not it is aligned with our goals. Sadly, that's a pretty massive undertaking and no one can be arsed to support doing difficult things on a societal level any more.
can you elaborate on the scope ? how many sites and unique pages ?
The guy who won the Nobel for ancient DNA (Svante Pääbo) literally runs the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, so I'd say ancient DNA is very much part of anthropology.
Why use the future tense when you can use the past and the present?
And unfortunately they severely curtailed the potential for mass strikes in 1947:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act
Almost any other standard database would be a better choice: Postgres, MySQL, even Redis.

Most companies avoid using MongoDb and lack the staff needed to administer it properly. It’s also hard to find a managed solution for Mongo in most cloud providers.
Show HN: Yahtzee and Poker and Cosmic Horror = Pine Tar Poker
I'm excited to launch today! Pine Tar Poker is a yahtzee-inspired poker game with just a touch of cosmic horror for iOS and Android.

I started working on this idea last January by making a paper prototype: a simple printed score sheet I could use with a real deck of cards. I had some fun with that, so I brought it into Unity and kept expanding on it over the last 11 months during nights and weekends. It's tough for me to stay motivated on side projects and see them through to release, but the act of shipping something is so fulfilling that it's usually worth the pain. For Pine Tar, I stretched myself in the narrative department by adding a bit of a Lovecraftian tone to what would otherwise be a Western saloon setting.

One thing that kept me motivated during development was seeing my dad get hooked on the card game. He'd text me when he got his first royal flush and when he prestiged the score sheet -- he got every hand type in one game! He has amassed so much in-game cash, I think I need to expand the number of digits I show there!

If you get a chance to try it, let me know what you think! If you can't afford it and want to try it, I have a few codes for both platforms, my email is in my profile.
I think there are some differences that are key.

1. The fediverse doesn't necessarily need to scale to 100 million or more people, and if it were to hypothetically hit a hard limit at 10 million, that would still be fine. Anecdotally, many people are reporting similar levels of engagement--and more positive engagement--with even a small percentage of their twitter audience.

2. Usenet failed largely because it was overrun with spam. While Fediverse moderation is distributed and therefore inefficient, it's still done, so spam doesn't seem likely to overrun anything. In theory, each server moderator moderates their own server, and any servers that don't end up blocked.

3. At least at this point in time, people seem to be willing to pay for their own servers. Many servers are running patreon accounts or similar, and most I'm aware of are running a surplus of funds. Of course, that might not always be true. Smaller server are very cheap to run.

4. I wouldn't think of torrents as an example, but rather the web itself. So so so many individual websites are out there being paid for out of pocket, and nobody seems to be worried about them all failing at once.
It was Matt Crump’s saga about his cheating students at crump lab.com. It was taken down, but it was a great read.
Which means testing student under supervision and letting them us AI for assignments is probably going to work fine.
The Secret History: A murder mystery that thrills 30 years on
Sometimes "Best-funded" means pays lots of overtime. Many departments determine retirement benefits based on hours worked in your final year(s). Was not uncommon for officers to work 80hr weeks, doubling the amount they get in retirement.

There are many problems to fix.
Aren’t you better off doing arbitration for small stuff? The company eats a bunch of the arbitration costs
Somehow I knew this was going to be Alabama Power before I clicked the link

This is just scratching the surface. To any normal person this sounds like a massive scandal on its own but this is just what they've allowed to get out. The corruption in state and local government in the states served by Southern Company's electric utilities would make Putin blush

For example, Alabama Power's former CEO is on the board of directors of Regions Financial Corporation, based in Alabama, and a top 25 bank in the US
You’re either a burger flipper or a con man? That’s your binary state on mankind?
I don’t think any of googles other bets, even when combined, make anyth8ng close to their ad revenue, they are 100% dependent just like Facebook. As I understand it, their advantage over meta is that lots of search is browser based and also they get intent from user keywords
GitHub Now Offers Secrets Scanning for Free
I suspect that key to the future of the fediverse is likely to be a more efficient piece of software than mastodon.
Respectfully, I think it's you who are missing the point. There is value in teaching humans to communicate and synthesize information. It's possible that in the future the best thinkers and philosophers and historians and political analysts will be AI, but 1/ we are very very far from that, and 2/ it's important for civilisation that we don't leave thinking to the machines.
Thank you. Very helpful.

I'm interested in how you consider Ford Motor Company became so successful; did Mr Ford play to jew-haters, was he socially adept, was he a puppet, was her just lucky? What do you think? (Give your instinct if you like.)

Implicit is my search for an explanation for why Mr Ford prospered so much compared to others. Any thoughts there?

Thanks in advance.
The utility is to identify criminal activity
This was only offered as an illustration of the hypothesis, and it's really up to the reader to decide, from their own knowledge and intuition about human nature, whether your explanation is the whole story. Would you argue that the cases of 'air rage' that we see are due to people not knowing what planes are, or not having a general understanding of how airplanes or air travel work?

It is also the case that people involuntarily placed in close confinement for long periods quite often do not start fighting among themselves even when they have no clear understanding of what is going on or what the future holds.
Why Silicon Valley is applauding Elon Musk’s brutal crackdown at Twitter
In the fight between the rich and poor, voting is not very effective when both parties have been captured by the wealthy.

However there are effective non-violent means of change, like organizing labor power, mutual aid, and supporting legal funds to help get the laws changed.
i run it on my NAS at home, one of the reasons is that it does not have a PUBLIC IP of one of the providers that is blocked on my scraping target.
Yeah, I saw a reference to HCF cold, and was like wait - that can't be a reference to the assembly mnemonic! But it was, and a good show. Brought back memories from the 1980s-90s for sure.
That model was not learning from language, it was learning from a simulation. When you can use a simulation to produce training data it is possible to have a model discover new abilities all on its own, like AlphaGo.
Sounds disgusting and unhealthy. May as well drink stomach acid. There is something about freshness of food not just sterility.
That's a good convention for people taught typing on a typewriter but pretty bad for younger folks.
seems about right actually.
Do you know what the current maintenance story for Pants is following Twitter's move to Bazel?
Sort of related - the price of chimps has gone up 10x during COVID from $2k to $20k. Multiple factors, there was a corruption scandal in Cambodia (see ticker NOTV that is being investigated) that caused those exports to stop and China has stopped exporting chimps because their own pharma industry is booming
I mean, it kind of is..

I think there's an unofficial understanding that if someone puts out a way to access Spotify Free that removes or bypasses the limitations and constraints that Spotify imposes on free accounts, they would summon the lawyers.
That's really conflating two distinct things. Therapy is by definition the treatment of a pathology. A particular area of psychology doesn't necessarily have anything to do with pathology or malfunction.

> It’s about growth and self actualization.

I don't think the majority of people seeking therapy are doing so merely because they want to self actualize. Self actualization and growth may be a part of therapy, or be a next step as roadblocks are overcome, but implying that therapy isn't about addressing problems seems naive or disingenuous. Performance optimization really has little to do with what people actually mean when they're suggesting "therapy."
> Public services are not expected to be 'economically viable' on their own.

They inherently are. If these neighborhoods have fire coverage equivalent to that of a metropolis, but they would be paid for via taxation at the rate of $50K per year per household, that's not economically viable.
Since we are at the topic, what the best way to schedule production grade tasks on a Windows server? I joined a new company and they are using Task Scheduler and it is just awful!
But here's the thing: no group but gamers is excited enough about VR to even be a candidate for a market right now. The only people who want to strap goggles to their face are those looking for gaming experiences. Why try to dodge that reality?
Does that imply that your CLI is directly connecting to MongoDB without some sort of backend service running?
I had a beta unit before they released the first AI powered model and my beta unit was set to upload to photos. The original goal was to use AI to recognize and avoid things that the vacuum can get caught up in, such as cords under desks and dog poop.
Can’t edit my post, but the term I was trying to remember was “conceptual integrity”, coined by Fred Brooks in a The Mythical Man-Month.

Here’s a c2 wiki page on the subject: https://wiki.c2.com/?ConceptualIntegrity
Good question, my guess is that you can't distill chain-of-thought or zero shot prompting in small models, they got to be 15-20B parameters or larger. Maybe someone has a link to a related paper?
Fair enough.

In that case, you can do it by selecting your home server. That's a search drop-down. Something like mastodon.social is there by default, and for historians.social, you might need to type in 'his' <click>.

I don't feel too bad about that either. It's like oauth, only instead of just having two options (Google and Facebook, typically), you have an unlimited options if you're willing to type a little bit more.

Or like SSO on many Microsoft web sites, where I type in my work domain or email, and it redirects through my work.
How do you explain The Times being vehemently Remain?
It has worked though, I had just taken a break from that at the moment.

Out of personal experience here in Sweden I'd say out of 5 women I met on dating sites, 1 seemed like a keeper. That is after chatting for a while, the number is probably 5 times that for how many I've had contact with through dating sites.

So I'm not very active, because I just think it's so soul crushing.
OP here, first I'd like to apologize as our point has never been to be manipulative, but I understand from your comment that it can be perceived that way.

I'll ask the moderator to replace the link.

For the sake of sharing our thought process, not to justify ourselves:

a/ About Github links, we thought we'd start segmenting content to different audiences: via Github and via our website. Our company has several audiences (founders, engineers, product managers, finance and revenue people) and we've been willing to create interesting content for each of them. It's still in the works (as you can see, there are fewer articles on Github vs on our website, some content is duplicated, which is actually bad for our own SEO, it's far from being a very polished strategy).
In no case, did we think people would think "because it's posted via github, the content would be perceived to have more authority", or "because it's a github link, with such a title, people would expect a repo". I understand it's what happened, though, hence the apologies.

b/ We did post several times.
We read from [1] that is was ok to do so, and we've also seen that amazing posts which interested the community sometimes were not visible on the first attempt (example [2]). I'm fully aware from the comments that it wasn't something we should have done, I just want to share our thought process.

c/ We did invest a lot of time writing in my company, and I genuinely love writing.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what would be useful and impactful to the tech community in general.
Sometimes it voluntarily points out to Lago, sometimes it's indirect, sometimes it has no link to Lago (examples 3 or 4), but I just think it might help or resonate with people.
Once again, HN is a community, so I just want to abide by the rules.I thought we did. We have not been shadow banned or contacted by the mods. From the comments I understand it has been perceived as "too much" at times.
I just wanted to say I genuinely do love writing and sharing, it's a mean for me to connect with people, and hopefully help a tiny bit if people resonate with it.
So I'm grateful because HN has helped us connect with people who resonated with our content, and I apologize for the rest.

Will email the mods about the link just after hitting "reply"!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24170546
2: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33882590
4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33641019
1) don't worry about the things out of your control

You cannot control many things in life, and trying to is a fruitless waste of time.

2) work on the things you CAN control

the main one is you. work on yourself. improve your health - aerobic exercise 6 days a week, keep your weight healthy. eat well, not junk. sleep enough, not too little, not too much. exercise your mind, professionally and creatively. put stuff on your calendar (including downtime) and do it.

3) make some goals.

you can meet someone. I have several friends in their late 50's and 60's who have met someone and married. There are lots of ladies around your age that want marriage and/or kids.
They have had some good shows, but I can buy entire seasons on Amazon Prime. I suppose they could shut that channel off or delay it, but that would not make me subscribe to AMC+. Rather, I'd just do without, or wait until the end of the season.
> The whole point of exceptions is to propagate.

I thought the point of exceptions was what we're now calling observability.

If somehow wrapping them in your own goo because you, the dev of that code, can help diagnose problems, more power to you.

But most of the time that doesn't really help so letting them bubble up and not obscuring root causes is better.

So . . . Use judgement. If you don't have judgement, ask a friend. If you don't have a friend, just let the exceptions propagate on their own.
Home deeds, loans, mortgages are not accounting concepts, but more in the ... contract(?) land.

When a loan is made, a loan document exists; and accounting entries exist somewhat separately. A contract can be entered without writing, a contract can result in complex accounting treatment which may be investigated, rules clarified, decided, corrected when methodology errors were made.

Do you mean that the blockchain is supposed to help with the accounting side, or with the contract side, or both?
You really don't need docker for this.
Oh yeah. My rule of thumb is that the first couple of months in a new job can feel miserable just as you describe above. Don't worry about it, you'll get through it and suddenly you'll find yourself being productive and happier.

I've been working for decades in multiple jobs, and it's always the same. Sure as you progress you know more, but you also lift your personal standards as well to compensate.

Stick to it and you'll get there!
A database is great for one entity. A blockchain is useful for situations with multiple actors with an inherent lack of trust, but with a need for a shared truth
Tofy and mycoprotein are very low on footprint, and have the best protein profile.

Chicken is mostly factory farmed, pretty horremdous even if it beats beef and pork in terms of global warming byproduct footprint. Furthermore, it's largely pumped full of hormones, and contaminated feed/medecines which impart toxic heavy metals such as arsenic on the consumer. All in all, this industry takes a large chunk of blame for the obesity epidemic, as these hormones very much have an effect on the consumer.
Infisical is secure by default :)

It really depends on how you set it up. If you prefer, you can choose to split non-sensitive environment variables and sensitive secrets into different projects - and use them for different purposes / in different ways.
But they have profiles, which are designed for not a single identity.
>There are many other troubling issues with this practice.

Which? Serious question!
As someone in the VR industry, I think VR will succeed in spite of Facebook.

Meta horizons is a solution in search of a problem, and they refuse to recognize that. Meanwhile the rest of us are making money solving actual problems that actually exist today. I do industrial and cockpit simulations, things that are unsafe or expensive to train on IRL, which is basically an ideal use for VR.

Capitalism simulator VR 22 is not something that anyone wants. It doesn't fill a need or solve a problem other than "how do we extract more money from consumers?". People are starting to become resentful of their entire life being monetized, who wants to have their recreation monetized?
> managing director, Pierre van Helden, said Cape Town-based FiveWest receives a "minimal yearly license fee" from Binance to facilitate crypto derivatives trading for Binance's South African users. "How Binance operates globally is unclear to us," van Helden said. He added that Zhao's company was "cooperative" on compliance and said FiveWest has regular meetings to ensure requirements are met.

I was wondering how an audit for a company moving billions of dollars ended up in the hands of a South African branch office of an accounting firm (Mazars).
The paramount decree was rescinded 2 years ago, so movie studios can own theaters now:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/us-judge-ends-decades-old-mo...

And as far as I can tell, the only people fighting to keep car dealerships separate from car manufacturers are car dealership owners. I would like to be able to just order a new car online and have it be delivered directly from the manufacturer.
Anyone intrigued by the idea of meals and flavors evolving over time from leftovers should read An Everlasting Meal, which describes similar techniques.

https://www.amazon.com/Everlasting-Meal-Cooking-Economy-Grac...
Indeed, for me moka pot is just one tiny step above percolator coffee.
Whether this would be possible under a more sophisticated implementation of democracy seems like a useful thing to contemplate, but we shan't discuss modifying our most sacred institution, as only far right Russian trolls think of such things as we all well know from our training courses.
Question - do any of the other streaming services have better Linux support?
Going from a Qplasma of 0.9 to 1.5 for inertial confinement fusion seems like a step-change to me. For gains greater than one you have a positive feedback mechanism going for you -- the fusion you create makes more and bigger fusion. It is the difference between a tiny little bomb that works or doesn't work. It's this positive feedback that make scaling up potentially "easier". That's why it is a breakthrough, and concerns about lasers, etc. seem to be getting the cart before the horse. On the other hand, for magnetic confinement fusion, going from the same Q=0.9 to Q=1.5 is a much more "meh" event. I can see why some people are concerned about "where to draw the line" about total energy consumption, if it were MCF we were talking about. Maybe people have the expectation that ICF is further along the learning curve than it actually is? That's not to say that ICF is going to be viable for commercial fusion reactors in future. There are still many, many hurdles to cross. And maybe they will never be crossed for financial reasons.
Best of life is not behind you. 40’s are the back nine of your prime. You have the most knowledge and experience and still have energy and ability.

Be careful of the stories you tell yourself because they will eventually become true.
Fast memcpy, a system design
Language models with toys. The calculator, Python REPL, search engine, database, simulation, games, other AI's can easily blend with large language models lifting some weight off their shoulders.

For example, for a physics question the LM could write a small simulation, run the simulation and interpret results back to the user. That's possible when models can do code execution.
It's not out of the box if you need third party tools is it?
Is the problem of scale a) broadcasting the one person that millions of people want to see the tweets of or b) millions of people recieving the tweets of one person?
That rare time and place where a Google Fiber subscriber was watching YouTube Red original programming.
What is cool is that there are also lots of niche markets between now and that future that can use cheaper, shorter-lived, high efficiency panels.

High altitude drones or EVs are much easier to service than satellites: https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-type-of-unmanned-aircraft-aims...
> To some founders, Musk is simply a monstrous version of the executive they wish they could be

I wonder how many would bother to use the qualifier, "monstrous"?