skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, though he does seem to have the self awareness to get other people to help him.
Your ultimate sentence contradicts the use of 'fact' in the penultimate.

How about "We are coming to understand that beliefs are just consensus of the people who observe a thing"?

cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
> They only have to hold animals that at best weight a few hundred pounds.

Uhm. I think there is some misunderstanding here. These wildlife crossings are more than just a plank going over the road. They are basically a bridge with a small patch of forest on them (or whatever vegetation matches the surrounding area).

> To encourage use by wildlife, the bridge will have lush but drought-tolerant vegetation with matte materials to deflect bright headlights and insulation to quiet the roar of cars. Fencing at each end will help funnel them onto the crossing.

I don’t know what is the fair price of a 165-foot-wide (50 m) and 200-foot-long (61 m) overpass holding up a small forest, but I know that the additional weight of the animals crossing is not a significant factor in it at all.

Now obviously if we could convince wildlife to use something much narrower and simpler built like a pedestrian bridge maybe we could drive down the costs, i’m not sure if that has been tested or not.
> it fosters a culture of doing just barely enough to meet minimum requirements and no adherence or even ambition to achieving excellence and craftsmanship

This criticism can be raised against Agile as well, but I think this attitude ultimately comes from utilitarian (or MBA) perspective, which puts monetary profits above human or engineering excellence.
This maybe true. I agree skepticism should be warranted and pursued. I just don’t know if this person is who should be trusted in making judgements about the entire field from one of their field reports to one conference.

For someone who complained about lack of rigor (a mom wrote a paper based on her experience) she wrote a long tirade based on just her experience with no indication of objectivity either.
> This author seems to [...] insist that all appropriation of samples and artifacts from communities is justified by the studies

I did not get that from the article.

> Also some kind of weird conspiracy theory that there was no systematic problem in children murdered in those orphanages and schools in Canada.

The talk did not present any evidence for the particular school that was the topic of the talk.

> But to give this individual any place in the discussion seems like asking Kanye West to come and talk in a round table about Zionism or something.

That conclusion is totally unwarranted. It's precisely the kind of attack I was expecting to hit her, just not so soon, and not here. The author is worried about the state of her field, because so many of the conference talks were highly subjective, and you almost make a Godwin by comparing her to an unhinged individual who made racist remarks to a large audience.
Martin Brundle said if he’d realised earlier in his driving career how vital fitness was, he would have achieved much more.
Noticed that too. Nice. He probably registers on nearly every tech related website to save his username at the very least.
Strongly disagree regarding 1Password, their client is continually improving and it is IMHO by far the best password managing service now, I have tried most of the other ones before it. Really have no issues with their Electron switch, I didn't even notice it, still fast!
They certainly seem to have a rather impractical ideology:

Leischner, who described herself as a “white settler” from a “multigeneration of settlers [and] ancestor-farmers,” noted that captured audio (even when the indigenous sold these recordings) evinces an “extraction mindset” akin to mining resources from the land. In her work with the Nuxalk, Leischner decided not to record any of the interviews, so as not to continue the legacy of extraction.
Most of the delay is I/O bound. Handshaking happens over the Display Data Channel (DDC) which is a protocol over I²C (a two-wire comunication bus). HDMI/DP/DVI have 2 dedicated wires inside the cable for this, USB-C has to switch over to use differential signaling on pins A8 and B8, and then switch back after communication is done.

The bandwidth of that bus is small indeed, but most of the latency comes from artificial delays and error recovery in code: monitor is sending a message to host then sleeping 30ms to make sure the reply is ready, host doing the same thing, and this happens multiple times to negotiate pixel clock, signal timing, colors, resolution, additional features like suspend/reset/HDR/overscan etc.)

You can see how in the MCCS specification [1] both host and display entrypoints for communication start with a delay: https://shots.panaitiu.com/e8D7tQ

You can also see how that looks in Lunar's DDC code [2] [3].

For now, it's incredible that we actually have such a standard as DDC and most monitors work with most devices. A coordinated effort between monitor vendors and laptop/PC/GPU manufacturers into creating another faster standard with modern technology seems out of the question. But maybe with the advent of Thunderbolt this may change in the future.

[1] https://files.lunar.fyi/mccs.pdf

[2] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/blob/master/Lunar/DDC/DDC.c#... : Delay on requesting data from monitor

[3] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/blob/master/Lunar/DDC/DDC.c#... : Delay on communication error before retry
> How many 100 hour work weeks has Elon logged at the Boring company this month?

Yes but they aren’t ‘extremely hardcore’ over there.
But he doesn't publicly (where the correct people can hear him, not his propaganda rags these people don't ever lay their marxist eyes upon) say mean things about the current insanity, therefore he must be good!
In a similar position. In a recent stressful situation I needed distraction and dug out what I had. Happily playing Tomb Raider 2 from CD on an old Windows machine!
Please, share your logo. As professional artist, I'm curious.
There’s a kernel of a good idea (treat people with respect, study the nature of power, re-examine received wisdom with a critical eye), which some take too far and fail to apply reflexively to their own ideas.

Much of the issue is semantic, where a newfound freedom to redefine words (like “violence”) to mean whatever someone thinks they should mean, has weakened our shared epistemological foundations, making it much harder to escape polarization traps and hold reasoned discourse. The result is the de-emphasis of reason and the ascent of pure power struggle between competing tribes who are losing the ability to talk to each other.
Less earnings sure, but not having a mortgage to pay off any longer helps, as does not having kids to tow around and find accommodation for etc. etc.
At any rate there doesn't seem to be convincing evidence that people engage in less international travel over the age of 70 (certainly not for the U.S.) - they may travel less often, but typically for longer periods (but yes, as you say, more often in groups incl. packaged tours).
Show HN: Using GPT-3 to select holiday gifts
A ton of people, myself included, have issues with figuring out what gift to buy for people. The problem is often I have no idea how to go about figuring out what to but. So I used GPT to help me select gifts.

I used this as an opportunity to explore Chat UIs, beyond the ChatGPT/messaging ones we are used to. I think that having "state" shown on the side can help enhance the UI. I'm really interested in using LLMs as reasoning agents, so trying to get a language model to reason about what gift to get is a good starting point. I'd love tips on how to make the UI better and where to go from here!
I don‘t think it‘s as trivial. I‘m definitely no wildlife expert, but the wildlife crossing that are built over here are wide bridges with a lot of greenery growing on it, so that it feels more like a small hill with a tunnel through it. And I‘d assume that there‘s reasons to build them that way - other than „all wildlife experts agree that it‘s more beautiful.“ I can imagine that some species of wildlife just don‘t crawl through culverts - or even may not fit. Can you imagine a deer getting on it‘s knees and squeeze through, antlers and all? I can‘t.
Thank you! my username is "nogajun".
If you take that approach, don't mind if everybody starts ignoring everything that might be related to an organization pushing an agenda. You're basically advocating that everyone stays in their own echo chamber, an anti-scientific attitude if there ever was one.
You complain about cherry-picking and belittling individuals and then go on doing the same thing.
Real Engineering published a video about Helion Energy company.
I don't have the tools to filter out commercial BS, still it seems to me to be most promising effort. The idea to get electricity directly from magnetic fields instead of boiling water is very intriguing.
As an aside: does anyone know the deal with Rextron, Extron, and Crestron? What’s going on with the names there?
"The narrative must be preserved! We can't have any wrongthink hit the front page!"
This specific marker is a breakthrough. We did not know until three weeks ago if laser ignited fusion reactions could be created that released more energy than was transmitted into the fuel.

Now we know it is possible, it has been done.

The next question is, can we create enough industrial efficiency to create a working motor generator set.

A hard problem to be sure, but proving that it is a problem that we have is itself a breakthrough.
There's a major difference between the data-plane (the lanes where frames go from the signal source to the display) and the control-plane (the command and control channel that is bidirectional and used to discover a peer and negotiate settings).

The former is indeed very high speed, in the order of gigabits per second (up to 48gbps in later iterations), whereas the latter can seem ancient in comparison - 500bps to 115.2kbps - several orders of magnitude slower. The reason is that while the high data rate bus is handled by powerful, dedicated hardware (GPUs and ASICs/FPGAs), the control plane is usually done by micro-controllers (or otherwise lower-power devices) that are responsible for general management of the display. Sure, it would be nice if they had more powerful hardware and a faster bus, but those changes usually aren't what people are shopping for and so the standards committees aren't pushing makers to make these changes...
> I can’t understand it. Can anyone?

Sciences are ruled by their real-world applications.

The main real-world application of anthropology is justifying or condemning racism, nationalism, colonialism etc. So that's what it delivers most of the time (which one depends on the demand).

This isn't new BTW - for most of our history the conclusion was given (for example "god made it so") and scientists were only tasked with getting to the conclusion in a persuasive and flavorful manner.

Everything but the few "hard" sciences is going back to the scholastic ways step by step.
why shouldn't we do everything in our power, for any cost, to replenish and improve habitat for them so they can survive for our descendants to see

you don't really mean what you've said, everything in our power? for any cost?... If we literally spent every bit of cash we had to do as you say and maximize biodiversity, our descendents would survey the biodiversity while wearing animal skins and hunter gathering and striving to someday reinvent agriculture, fertilizers, pesticides, and internal combustion engines.

yes, i'm not being serious. neither were you.
The proliferation of streaming on demand video services that you have to subscribe for as well as things like this, feels like they want customers to go back to the pirating days of the internet.

I legitimately think the reason most people paid for streaming, was that they wanted to support the shows they liked. But the moment services get greedy, it feels that much easier to cut them loose.
My theory that TikTok is being run by hordes of poor Chinese people, handpicking and catering most feeds by hand
James Bond villain or the Noah of our times?
Show HN: Tunll – secure tunnels to localhost for all developers
With Tunll you can easily serve local HTTP(S) and TCP apps on the public internet. Build webhooks, share in-progress work, tunnel into Docker and Kubernetes containers, access IoT devices in the field, and more.

Single binary for all OS includes both the agent and the optional self-hosted server.

$ tunll http 8080
$ tunll tcp 22
No, if TikTok would be banned.
The thing is, the context of such arguments may be an attempt by some pipeline-laying, mining or real-estate company to put their hands on ancestral native american lands. A lot of incentive to claim "we science-d it up and it's all fine and we can take your land."
And then you feel it's not a waste of time to write a comment on an article you took 3sec to understand and skip?
#!/bin/sh

ttml2srt()
{
x=$(echo x|tr x '\34');
tr -d '\34' \
|sed -n "/<p begin/{
s/<p begin=\"//;
s/\" end=\"/ --> /;
s/\" style=\"s2\">/$x/;
s#</p>##p;}" \
|sed = \
|sed "/$x/!s/^/$x/" \
|tr '\34' '\12' \
|sed '/[ ]-->[ ]/s/\./,/g'
}

read x;
case $x in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=??????????\
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=???????????\
|https://youtu.be/???????????\
|https://youtu.be/??????????)
f=${x##*=};f=${f##*/};case ${#f} in 10|11)
curl -4o $f.mp4 $x
video=$(tr \{ '\12' < $f.mp4|sed -n "/itag=22/{s/u0026/\&/g;s/%3D/=/g;s/%2C/,/g;s/%26/\&/g;s/.*url\":\"//;s/\".*//p;}"|tr -d '\134')
test $video||exit
ttml=$(tr \{ '\12' < $f.mp4 |sed -n '/timedtext/{s/u0026/\&/g;s/.*:\"//;s/\".*//;s/$/\&fmt=ttml/p;q;}'|tr -d '\134')
test $ttml||exit
curl -s4 $ttml|ttml2srt > $f.srt
exec ffmpeg -v quiet -y -i $video -vf subtitles=$f.srt $f.mp4
esac
esac

exit

The script above, "1.sh", can be used as follows.

echo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeWyp2vXxqA | 1.sh

It will download the captions as .srt and then "hardsub" them into the video as it dowloads the .mp4. NB. This is slow YouTube downloading without using yt-dl/yt-dlp. Obviously, it will not work with commercial videos.

The .srt file is saved as [YouTube ID].srt and the video as [YouTube ID].mp4, where [YouTube ID] is a 10 or 11 ASCII character string.

The video format is itag=22, i.e., mp4/720p. Not all videos will have 22 of course. I usually try itag=18, mp4/360p, if 22 is not available. Change the format to whatever is preferred.

Looking around for a .ttml/.vtt/.srv[1-3] to srt converter I found solutions that required installing Python or some other large scripting language. On GitHub I found a project called "astisub" that will convert from ttml or vtt to srt. It is a 3.8M Go binary. I wrote a shell function instead.
> Just because you get wet seeing pictures of mummies

Seriously?
I get what you're saying but I'd like to highlight an example of the opposite business model. For 25 years, Image Line have been shipping the FLStudio DAW as a one-off purchase with free lifetime updates, and since I've been receiving those updates for a significant chunk of those 25 years since I bought the Producer Edition, it seems pretty sustainable.

In their words "Why? Because we believe you should get the program you paid for, bug-fixed and updated for as long as we develop FL Studio." [1]

[1] https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio/lifetime-free-updates/
Still using it though https://twitter.com/tpope/status/1453620225153409026
Ignition doesn't have to be net positive.

It just needs to enter into state of self sustained reaction that is net positive.

Ignition itself can be horribly inefficient.

Nobody is designing fussion where ignition's output is directly used for the whole system to reignite again.

It would be equivalent to moving hand with match that fires a match, where energy from ignition is used to trigger another hand to move another match.
A favorite related to talk is Roscoe's keynote titled "It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware" [1] in which he discusses some of the outcomes/consequences of kernels (like Linux) largely sticking their heads in the sand on the issue of these massively heterogeneous SoCs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo
It certainly sounds a lot like gambiarra.
The pain, for me at least, was in organizing all that music. I ended up with a mess of files and folders, people didn't use ID3 tags consistently (if at all) and if you need to add them yourself manually then yeah, it's a pain...
Here are my “back of a napkin” odds. Please correct!

Let’s consider a perfect sphere the size of the earth (500 trillion m^2). On that sphere, there are 10 racecars (each 10 m^2) going lethally fast. What are the chances they will hit each other?

Well, this depends a lot on initial conditions, but if we simply randomize their placement, it should be something on the order of the area of all the cars divided by the area of the sphere. Safe!

Now, let’s assume there are 10000 lethally fast racecars zooming around this earth-sized sphere. Now it is a bit more nerve wracking, but earth is big. And, we can assume they have good initial conditions— all in different lanes (and, IRL, mostly on different spheres!).

So, let’s make things harder. Say I have a gun that shoots 100,000 bullets in all directions on this empty earth, and those bullets keep flying around forever—how long will it take before they hit one of my 10,000 racecars? This is harder to estimate, but it should still be on the order of a 1 in 10 billion chance per orbital cycle (say, of 1 hour each?). So, in 10000 hours (~400 days), you have a chance of 1 in 1 million chance that one of the racecars will be hit by the bullets. So, it will be about a thousand years before you get to a 1 in 1000 chance. Is that about right? Don’t trust my math.

In contrast, the lifetime odds of dying in a car crash are about 1 in 100 (See cite)
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-o...
Never seen that before. Apparently it’s not all of the SAFEs but some(?) of the crowdfunded ones. Not illegal but definitely not acting in good faith.

This might cause them such a legal headache that VCs may think twice about investing in future rounds.

Might be in their interest to just update the language and convert the shares at the next round.
I don't think so. You can be doing the wrong (unsustainable thing), even if you could afford to do the right thing.
the only knowledge I have of Fortran not being dead is that its use in scientific computing is brought up in EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE PL CONVERSATIONS I've been in dating back to the 1970s. (It was the first language I learned if you you don't count HP calculators)

COBOL too.

Do the people maintaining these libraries get harangued on a weekly basis about how Fortran has undefined behavior and the PDP-11 and IBM 360 ISAs are not appropriate for modern multi level cached pipelined speculatively executed CPUs? How can their matrix multiplication libraries be as fast as they can be if they are assuming/relying on memory allocation layouts that don't exist any more in the hardware?
You might want to look at figure 26.10 of Scenario F. We still hit mineral constraints.

The author says outright the report is not an attempt at simulating a realistic transition because it's asking first order questions: along the lines of "do we even have enough stuff to try this?". There's no attempt to ask if this is economical or logistically possible because it is not.

The author is convinced that we're all about to be much poorer because the IV drip of cheap energy that the world has enjoyed for at least 50 years is about to be ripped out. Personally, I think what's most likely to happen is that we will fail to get the world's nations to stop using fossil fuels and we will suffer the environmental consequences of that. Plus all the consequences of the resource wars that will follow. It's a shame.

I think our best chance to avoid this is to rush research on mass manufacturable gen 4 nuclear reactors. We need a factory that spits these things out so we can ship them to developing nations because otherwise, they build coal plants. I have high hopes for Thorcon. They plan to use shipyards to build annually up to 200 GW of modular shippable reactors.
To be honest I'm not sure, since I removed Google Analytics from my blog a few months ago and didn't bother replacing it with anything else. I do link to my blog from my few social media profiles, but in general I kind of just go with the "post and let it be discovered" thing. This is mostly because I use it as a public journal of sorts rather than something I want to drive a big audience for.
Yes! I remember running my finger down the column of electrical contact switches and changing the channel at 60 fps. "brrrrrrip!"
> and refused to share the maintainer burden with anyone (including refusing features he disliked).

I realize gogs is MIT license which is subject to easy fork. To avoid a fork when using such license, you have few options. One is fully feature your product, the other is expect your product to require domain specific skills that makes fork less trivial to move on; file format, data manipulation, etc.

So I wondered if original maintainer really wanted to avoid the fork, or simply don't care. It would be interesting to hear.
Brilliant! YOur semantics have solved the wolrd food crisis. Advance to next stagel
Strawman. Not what I'm suggesting. Next!
Ahahaha. Brilliant rebuttal.
Energy production has always been an enormously capital intensive venture.

R&D labs aren't known for their industrial optimization unless that's their research goal. They proved this from the perspective of the fuel pellet - now they have to increase energy yield (larger fuel?) , reduce total system power, etc.

That said, they doubled energy yield in less than a year. The early exponential function on emerging technologies is always fun.
I think there is a substantial fear that any result based on genetics can lead to a result of "therefore these genes are better", at least when taken at the most surface level (the level a typical headline and widely circulated article might take). Nobody wants to be associated with such an article and so anyone involved is extremely zealous in filtering out topics that might lead in that direction.

There is still a shadow of eugenics over any field studying human genetics, anthropology perhaps more than others. Personally I think its because the concepts of race and genetic ability were rejected primarily on moral grounds, rather than a scientific ones.
I truly believe that a blog post recapping my personal experience and a paper submitted to a conference have different standards of rigor.

At least my blog posts have little less rigor than my scientific publications. But that might just be me.
Well, if that garage has electricity, the electric car could charge and pre-heat there easily. Which would largely eliminate range-loss.
I hope this process can also be used in non-industrial settings like an african village or on a boat.
Sure, it's complex interaction. But where should our focus priorities be, what task should we do first...what should we publish most about??? Maybe my priorities are wrong...what are you saying?
Maybe your employer is lowballing you. 200 disposable income as senior dev is too low.
It might guarantee clean fusion power, but there's no guarantee it would be in any way economic.

Edward Teller proposed something along these lines with conventional two-stage nuclear explosives back in the 1970s, but it was rapidly abandoned as horribly inefficient and costly:

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

I know this stuff is fun to speculate about but the boring and unsexy option of more solar panels, wind turbines, and transmission lines is likely to be both cheaper and more politically saleable.
In the EU they did near-shoring to Ukraine... it's a shit show.