skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I talk very fast, shortly, and pack my sentences with information.

As a listener, I find the people easiest to listen to are those who speak slowly and concisely.

Fast speech is harder to understand than slow speech, especially depending on the speaker's accent and vocabulary. In particular, speaking slowly is a skill that people who hope to be intellectual must learn.

Short speech is not the same as concise speech, because short speech might be missing critical information that the speaker would know but the listener would not without conveyance. Concise speech, by contrast, is speech that is short by virtue of removing all unnecessary expressions.

"Packed" speech is the opposite of concise speech, because the listener must break down your speech in order to understand it. A proper paragraph of 1 to 3 sentences in large type is easier to grasp than a "packed" paragraph of 10 to 20 sentences in small type, to put it in literary terms.

Effective communication is about conveying information in a way the listener will understand. If your listeners interrupt you in general, that might mean you need to step back and adjust how you speak.
I recommend reading this guys books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman

You're in a cult, and you dont know it. I was raised in this cult too, now I see the light (so to speak)
This isn't really the tool for that. With FatFS, you provide a way to interact with the storage medium (disk read/write and so forth) and FatFS handles everything at the filesystem level (file open, directory listing, etc.) It would be much easier to emulate a filesystem (perhaps even copying parts of FatFS' API) than it would be to emulate a virtual disk and and access it at arm's length with FatFS.
Let's say I have a 3-of-5 multisig. That means there are 5 hardware wallets. I put a hardware wallet in my safe in my house, one in a bank deposit box, and 3 with 3 friends or relatives.

Now a thief needs to steal 3 of these to steal the coins. That's going to be hard for a thief to do. If a fire or natural disaster happens, it needs to destroy 3 wallets before I lose my money.
It's not true of any two professionals. Ask two biologists about the behavior of a given animal they are experts about and you will get more often than not the same response ("is it diurnal? Does it feed on insects? Can you find it in Africa?").

Ask two carpenters about which tool to use to cut a given piece of wood, and you'll get answers within a given subset of tools.

Ask two poker players about which hand is better (for the same variant of poker) and you'll get the same answer.

Ask two Feng Shui practitioners about how to best position your furniture and you'll get wildly different answers. And it's even worse with Tarot psychics.

That's because, unlike carpentry or biology, there's no rhyme or reason to Tarot, Feng Shui or palm reading: there's no real system to them for their practitioners to draw answers from, they are bullshit. You cannot grab the Big Book of Feng Shui and tell one of the two experts "nope, here it states very clearly that, according to the Laws of Feng Shui, what you are advising is wrong."

In fact, it's the sine qua non of that kind of fringe stuff: the ability to make shit up on the spot to best suit their customer/audience is a perk of their trade, but of course it harms reproducibility.

The person reading your future in coffee stains needs to creatively make shit up as they go, which means a different coffee future reader will give you a completely different answer. Or Feng Shui expert, or Tarot reader. And you cannot even tell them they are wrong, because there's no right or wrong, because everything is made up.

TL;DR: nothing they claim is falsifiable.
Side note: twitter really sucks now. I have to click 200 times on "view the replies" to unroll the thread comments. I gave up in the end
Humanity has not demonstrated the ability to effectively sanitize spacecraft. The risk of intentionally bringing life to Mars is that we tromp all over evidence of extraterrestrial love.

The absolute most valuable science to be done on Mars is to determine how unique Earth is.
Indonesia was a large landmass less than 20k years ago, so it’s not typical of many islands.
A vehicle fire with an EV is much more dangerous than an ICE. They burn hotter, re-ignite, and take a massive amount of water to put out (like, a pools worth of water)
U.S. pending home sales sag more than expected in November
After reading your comment, I tried to setup a CudaText + LSP Plugin + Intelephense as I mainly develop in PHP. Unfortunately, my experience of LSP on CudaText is not as good as Lite XL.

Also, looking at its repository, CudaText currently only has 1 active contributor, which is a little worrying if I want to use it as my main text editor. I hope the community around CudaText become bigger because I think the concept is good, and I really hope CudaText can be on par with Sublime Text.
I find the (mobile) site difficult to follow. It took me awhile to realize that the “Become an Expert in Linux” was actually a clickable link and not just a slogan banner. That link brings you to an explanation of the phased learning approach. I would argue that nothing on the homepage informs the end user of what ArcoLinux is.

What’s the difference between just doing a core Arch install and going through the wiki to learn how to install all the components that you need? Maybe there’s more to this, but on its face that’s all I could glean. I think I learned more about Linux on the arch wiki and forums than anywhere else.
Part of article’s argument, can be summarised as “US Congress spends over $10 billion a year on grandiose and unachievable Martian vision-imagine what we could achieve if they gave that to JPL for robotic missions instead”. But that isn’t how Congress works. If they cancelled all expenditure on human space flight, they’d be unlikely to redirect any more than a fraction of that to robotic science missions. Instead, it will probably go to a new weapons system, or Medicare, or farm subsidies, or whatever. Spending it on human spaceflight likely even has indirect benefits for the robotic program-some NASA resources are shared by both programs, and taking away the human spaceflight component of their funding may threaten their overall viability, and hence their ability to serve the robotic programs
I don't want to downplay the importance of diverse academic backgrounds, but representation of immutable characteristics (gender identity, race, disability, etc) usually get the most attention because they are essentially always the things that have impact on kids. Your little girl or your autistic child is going to pursue paths they maybe wouldn't otherwise take because of representation. The earlier you get a child to engage with something, the better their outcomes with pursuing it.

Representation is literally about people seeing themselves. If you can't nail down what "people like me" look like when it comes to representation, it might be that representation isn't quite the right way to frame the problem. It's only one aspect of diversity.
Chinese is well-represented among ML researchers.
Funny indeed, because I long for conversations in a social setting which is not a pre-formatted superficial bs and someone actually wanted to share their thoughts and wanted to know mine.
> When Elon changed his political opinions

Has he changed his political opinions?

His downfall to me started when he called an actual hero a pedo for no reason at all, except to salve his damaged ego.
The README states:

>"Smalltalk-80 for Raspberry Pi version 0.2 This is a bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi."

I was curious what "bare metal" means in this context. Does this just mean that the Small Talk VM itself was ported to ARM?
This is such a common statement from people who don't own winter tires.
It would be a bummer if the sterilization techniques used on the unmanned landers hadn't worked, but if they didn't, then life is already multi-planetary.
Could be Vanadium redox batteries.
The evolving business of virtual second opinions
LastPass, which can’t be spelled without a-l-a-s.
There is the False Claims Act[1] and it has been used to fight corruption in the hospice care industry but it does not seem to have really stopped it[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/how-hospice-be...
Great article. I wish it would answer this question though. If we don't someone else will. How do we prevent that. Getting to Mars seems to be a political goal not a scientific one (for most). If the USA doesn't then China will.
I've used all kinds of traction tires in real world conditions over the years and say otherwise. Yes, brand new snow tires are far better than all seasons on ice. But after a few months the soft rubber on them will deteriorate and they're just the same as all season, but now with the added 'benefit' that you have no idea this has happened until you try to brake on ice and it doesnt grip as well anymore. I honestly think snow tires on ice do more harm by making people without winter driving experience overconfident in their abilities (same problem with AWD).

That said snow tires are still spectacular and necessary in snow. I buy and use snow tires every winter season. They are invaluable. I just am saying don't drive with them on ice and expect to have any better traction.

In real ice events/situations the tire chains come out or you just stay off the road, it's that simple. No amount of perceived driver skill, AWD techno buzzwords, etc. will save you on ice--you need hardened steel cutting into the ice.
There’s a group in Australia that looks promising.
> I would take it even farther and claim that very little in experimental psychology / sociology has any value whatsoever.

Oh no they definitely have value, in the same way that metaphysics has value
Do efficient 30 GHz masers exist?

If not, how narrow can be made a beam by using a beam-forming phased array 10-20 m wide? The diffraction limit at 30 GHz (10 cm) should be reasonably small.
For me, it’s the determinism of nature. The clear hard fact that nothing I can do will impact the pre-determined outcomes. This is cold physics as we know of today.
Also, the ‘present’ feeling different from past is just a trick our mind plays on us.
This realisation has had profound impact on me - but this dawned on me quite late despite reading a lot on this topic for years.
Sure that’s great man. I like that too, but you don’t have to deride people who don’t want that all the goddamn time. Not sure how egging someone to talk about why they moved somewhere is more than superficial BS though. I promise you there’s much more interesting things to talk about.
When your life’s work and income rely on believing something, and you are surrounded by a tower of lies, it’s easy to avoid asking very hard questions. The replication crisis and recent situations of glowing NYT articles and mainstream acceptance of “scientific discoveries” like Power Posing never, ever would have happened in a hard science like math, physics, or chemistry. The “science” (I use the term as loosely as possible) is barely there and the entire facade is designed to extract ever more tax dollars in NIH and NSF grants. It is a mass delusion.
This article is dancing around the issue; making fast progress has been made systemically illegal. Now we have evidence of exactly how damaging the regulatory state is in the the medical world.

1) Turns out those heartless capitalists could be producing vaccines in ~2 years. The tech is there, the regulators aren't ready for the level of risk in the COVID response as a routine thing.

2) Turns out that people aren't going to inject themselves with uncertain technologies, to the point of irrationality. Contrast this to one of the usual response to "we need less medical regulation" which is that people are stupid and will hurt themselves with unproven products. My suspicion is that over the long term this irrational looking swarming behaviour actually turns out to be pretty good at managing risk no matter how crazy the individuals in it are behaving.

The problem in building, construction, technology and mining is pretty consistent. We see the strategies that work in Asia and maybe eventually in Africa - if you let capitalism happen it has powerful enough results at a such speed vs. central planning that it can be rightly called a miracle.
> Is there a way to have current AI tools maintain consistency when generating multiple images of a specific creature or object?

...but, all of these can't maintain consistency.

All they can do is generate the same 'concept'. For example, 'pictures of batman' will always generate pictures that are recognizably batman.

However, good luck generating comic cells; there is nothing (that I'm aware of) that will let you generate consistency across images; every cell will have a subtly different batman, with a different background, different props, different lighting, etc.

The image-to-image (and depth-to-image) pipelines will let you generate structurally consistent outputs (eg. here is a bed, here is a building), but they will still be completely distinct in detail, and lack consistency.

This is why all animations using this tech have that 'hand drawn jitter' to them, because it's basically not possible (currently) to say: "an image of batman in a new pose, but that is like this previous frame".

So... to the OP's question:

Recognizable outputs? Yes sure, you've already been able to generate 'a picture of a dog'.

New outputs? Yeah! You can train it for something like 'a picture of 'Renata Glasc the Chem-Baroness' now.

Consistency across outputs? No, not really. Not at all.
I own winter tires and he’s right. They’re not a marked improvement on just ice. You’re normally not on just ice a lot though thankfully.
Tesla had a single station somewhere in California I think that would drop your battery and replace it with a spare on your trip. One your way back, you were required to swap out for your old one again or be charged a major fee. I think it was a stunt more than anything but I always liked the idea. Seemed really cool.
Gasoline fires are different than a battery fire. Battery fires are class 2 or self oxidizing. They require substantially more resources to mitigate. A gasoline fire can be extinguished with traditional fire fighting methods. Battery fires basically need to be babysat for a day while they cook off.

As if EVs needed more negative externalities
You can use a pin to secure the device, FWIW. And back the encrypted seed phrase up. It's really not that hard.
I can give you a concrete counterexample to that. The Perserverance rover is carrying an entire experiment (MOXIE, which makes oxygen from CO2) whose only purpose is to serve a future human mission. NASA is encouraging more of this stuff, and it means automated Mars rovers will go to the boring sites that we need to prep rather than look at the phenomena of highest scientific interest on Mars.

That said, I'd love to hear what people who work at JPL and NASA have to say to your point.
Some time ago I posted exactly about that : https://zeptobars.com/en/read/how-to-open-microchip-asic-wha...

My latest microscope is this one, but Casio photo was made by temporary microscope I assembled from Thorlabs & Olympus parts: https://3.14.by/en/read/olympus-bx60-fluorescence-metallurgi...
> The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon.

The thing that troubles me about these takes is the "we." There is no singular "we" in the world. Using the singular "we" deceives people into thinking that it is binary choice. In actuality, there are potentially many nations, many companies, and many people who can pursue resources and make a choice without impacting others.

It has no more impact on you than your neighbor deciding whether to buy an insurance policy or not.

Humanity is not a single mass of protoplasm, thank goodness.
China doesn't seem to go for the big ticket science projects, although anything can change in the future.
Perfect......
For someone who doesn't care one way or the other you're being a just a little insulting.

> It doesn’t lend it any credence.

NLP doesn't need "credence". It works. Believe or not, it's no skin off my teeth.

Here's the thing: I pretend to be a crass cranky curmudgeon but I'm actually a bleedin' heart soft-touch kind of a fellow. I care about my fellow humans beings and I wish them well, more-or-less. I know NLP works, because I've worked with it myself, and because I was cured of serious clinical depression by Richard Bandler himself. This stuff really is a turning point in human history.

So, on the one hand, I got my cure and went on with a new normal life, so it doesn't matter to me personally what you or anybody in particular thinks of NLP.

On the other hand, what kind of monster would I be if I kept my mouth shut when some ignorant person calls it "pseudoscience" and warns people away from it? To me it's like I'm one of the first people to hear about and benefit from penicillin, yeah? And some dude is like "penicillin is generally considered a pseudoscience". I'm going to speak up, ya feel me? There's a feeling of obligation, to truth and to the other people out there who are suffering like I was, and who may well find relief in this new not-yet-science of human psychology.

> Why would the “evil scientists” be so against your ideology, specifically?

I never said "evil scientists", and NLP is not an ideology. (Nor a cult for that matter.)

As for why NLP is shunned by researchers, who have a hard time replicating even the simplest discoveries, even though normal everyday people learn and use this stuff successfully every day all over the world, like I said, it's strange.

I have no answer for you.

The obvious answer: "NLP is BS", is a non-starter for the reasons outlined above. (To reiterate: it does work.)

In any event, although it's a puzzle, it's not my problem. My depression was cured.

In sum, check out NLP. Or not, what do I care? (But really, do. It's the real deal.)
Just an anecdote, but my friend's dad's jaguar spontaneously combusted one night and they had to call the fire department. He swore off jaguars after that lol
This is very accurate. I used to work with a steel distributor, and it's not just cheaper to ship to China, refine and ship back, it's significantly cheaper than refining on shore.
There are already a lot of those studies, and they all say that radiation is very bad for you and that you need gravity to maintain a healthy bone density.
Ford had some fire-related recalls recently[1]. Interestingly one of them was for hybrids, but not due to the battery. It was due to the heat shielding placement and that there was a decent chance of fire in the event of an engine failure from combustible fluids hitting hot parts.

Also I wouldn't say the car being in motion is a convenient time to have a fire. You're often not just standing there with a fire extinguisher handy.

1. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-i...
I don't know exactly from what angle you're looking at this, so let me explain through trigonometry.

We know that triangles may be displaced, rotated, flipped and scaled while still looking the same. We have a word for this: we say two triangles are congruent when they are the same up to these operations.

This means that there is something intrinsically invariant about triangles. Can we find it? Actually yes! If the sides of a triangle have lengths A, B, C, then the ratios A/B, B/C, etc. are invariant. That is, if you make a triangle twice as big, all sides will multiply by 2, so A/B becomes (2A/2B)=A/B -- it's the same!

So, we can come up with names for these invariant ratios. They're most useful for right triangles. To give names, we need to pick any of the two smaller angles as a reference, call it "a". Now, let C be the largest side, A be the side opposite to the angle and B the adjacent side. Then, the ratio A/C can be called sin(a), B/C can be called cos(a) and A/B can be called tan(a).

Since sin(a), cos(a) and tan(a) are ratios, they only depend on the angle, not how big your triangle is. But if you know some side of the triangle, then you can know all of the other using these values. So sin, cos and than really capture the uniqueness I was talking about!

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Now the applications. I memorized these as the "divide by C" rule.

The Pythagorean theorem says thar A^2 + B^2 = C^2.

Divide by C^2, and you get sin(a)^2 + cos(a)^2 = 1.

Divide by cos(a)^2, and you get tan(a)^2 + 1 = sec(a)^2.

These are all the Pythagorean theorem on disguise.
He's not but he bought the company before they produced a single car so its hard to say whether it would've went where it has without him
Something I’ve wondered…why not colonize the moon first? Why straight to Mars?

Seems like a moon base would make some sense, right?
Why would they claim breach and source code stolen instead of simply and silently hanging over vaults then?
>"Smalltalk is a programming language (+runtime, GUI, development environment) that originated at the Xerox PARC research center in the early 1970s ..."

I'm curious was it used as a standalone OO language outside of GUI development as well or was its primary focus for building graphical UIs?
Nice work and thanks for the writeup. Ted Fried has a variety of microsequencer based CPU cores based on FPGA (and ARM) and I think they are quite good.

https://microcorelabs.wordpress.com/2021/04/19/mcl64-worlds-...

https://github.com/MicroCoreLabs/Projects
You've never been to a pro rodeo, have you?
If you made $200k/year and then were told you had to pay $20 to settle a lawsuit with the state of Indiana, because of some questionable charge, would you pay it or fight it? That's the scale of this if Google were a person.

Because the state of Indiana is so anti-tax that it can no longer fund their own government through taxes alone, lawsuits like this become important sources of revenue.
Sample return missions would also be robotic.
FYI there is a new category of tire called "all weather", which have the little mountain-snowflake symbol used for snow tires. They're basically all-seasons rated for snow. I haven't seen a comparison against pure snow tires, but they do perform much better than all-seasons in snow.
Having China divert hundreds of billions of dollars over several decades to a Mars mission would be a real win for the US and Taiwan.
I'm not sure that even remotely tracks if you're trying to imply that the American left claims that everyone that agrees with them is the only smart people. If anything a lot of their narrative is that they're oppressed by people who are smart and better at politics and business than they are.

Did Elon ever really change his political opinions? Or just become more clear about them? Either way, I think a lot of it was the Twitter takeover just going full "he's either taking this 0% seriously, or doing the most insane maneuver ever" and I'm not sure the evidence has come down on the side of him being all that serious about it.

You can debate if it'll ultimately work out better for him/Tesla/Twitter, but it certainly seems like he's playing pretty loose with his money, Tesla's future, and a lot of other things.

There's a lot of articles about how he maybe is doing something dumb because he may be doing something dumb. It's not the first time he's done it, and most of the things I've seen have included a caveat that this could very well work out.
In case anyone wonders about the resolution:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786723/London-skys...
Yeah, he's kind of went down the Q-anon route if you watch his increasingly deranged tweets. He's always been a troll but he's increasingly spouting dangerous thoughts. I knew something was up when my family from the southeast US started supporting him.
There is no goal our species can undertake that is more important than getting some of our eggs the heck out of this way too fragile basket of a planet. Learning to survive on Mars is one of the most practical ways to approach that goal. Mars is just a little less horrible than the other reachable potential incubators.