skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wikipedia article is pure gold!

> The Bailey Ball was an Alpine Center attraction developed and tested, but never opened to the public, as a result of those tests. It consisted of a large foam sphere in which a rider could be secured, and then rolled downward. The plan was to do it on a track with PVC pipe as its outer rails, and one was built alongside a ski trail.[11]: 16:25

> The designers neglected to take into account the tendency of PVC pipe to expand in heat. During the first test, with a state inspector present on a hot summer day, the ball, with a man inside testing it, went off the track as a result of the pipe expanding and bounded down the adjacent ski slope. It continued through the parking lot, across Route 94, and came to rest in a swamp. After it came to a natural stop at the bottom, the inspector left without saying anything and park management abandoned the project.[11]: 16:25 [43]
What is the argument for basing policies on race, rather than actual need? Also, how do you verify race?
Maybe they can bootstrap their own crypto? Or just open Monero wallets. If we're at the point where they can imitate voices and human behaviour, they might even pass KYC checks after stealing someones information.

As soon as AI gets out of hand and starts randomly hacking things we're probably out of luck anyways.

“If the rise of an all-powerful artificial intelligence is inevitable, well it stands to reason that when they take power, our digital overlords will punish those of us who did not help them get there. [...]” - Bertram Gilfoyle
Anything you can think of that's made of plastics was, prior to the mid 20th century, made of metal, ceramics, glass, fabric, or wood.

You'll realise these materials are usually much less suited to the task. In aggregate, the polymer industry was a huge benefit for humanity.

To take just one random example, I think electical wiring was insulated with fabrics in the early 20th century, which must have been expensive to make, and perhaps no too durable.

But really, plastics improved the manufacturability and performance of literally everything.
> There are no legitimate uses for this technology.

I mean this kindly: your lack of imagination is not an adequate replacement for actual facts
What limits are those? The "I shouldn't have fallen off the monkey bars" lesson isn't applicable to the wilderness, is it? What's the carry over? "Broken arms hurt"? I don't think people are unaware of that. Also, what will break your arm at 10 is different than what will break your arm at 20.
Don't take this as anything other than speculation: I wonder if wasm3 is using musttail with opaque function calls in the instruction handlers. It will demolish performance, which is why I am only using computed gotos in mine (when available). Even switch-case is faster than musttail when you have to leave the tco-jumps. Which is (as an example) why one should not measure performance by fibonacci number generation. :)
Easy integration between the two. I pass config from the system config to home config for some things and it’s quite seamless. Also one command to apply config for system and home is nice.
"Classic government overreach."

Lol, the other side of this political football is republican states banning cities from banning gas stoves.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/politics/natural-gas-ban-pree...
Crypto has some real use cases... have you ever tried to transfer money to another country? That's just one of many.
What about Apple Mail made it so great? Was it only the speed?

I've found it kind of anemic and prefer the Linux mail clients (Kmail, Evolution, Thunderbird) and their plugins.
I acknowledged the DMCA. The DMCA and other legal restrictions are indeed problems. Another one is likely emissions requirements, which at the very least discourage tractor owners from replacing the computers wholesale.

But even if these legal restrictions were to vanish tomorrow, we'd still be stuck with a similar landscape - most manufacturer control comes from technical restrictions combined with a high rate of churn so even if someone invests the time to figure something out, it quickly becomes yesterday's model. Fundamentally, understanding is more difficult than creation.

The calculus could be different on tractors, which are meant to last a real long time. Except the topic here too is focused on getting companies to positively supply things to help, rather than removing laws that hinder (FTA: "The agreement creates a mechanism to address farmers’ concerns and give them access to resources needed to repair their own equipment, such as diagnostic and repair codes, manuals and product guides.")

So my ultimate point is that you need to move past thinking that a Constitutional "right to repair" law would address these problems. Such a thing would be as ineffectual as the Constitutional "freedom of speech" has been in addressing the social media oligopoly.
Seems to be financial letters subscription 'grift' remastered in podcast.

Pass.
I hope they clarify, because "legislate away any possible source of danger" doesn't seem related to "frequency of mountain climbing" to me.
In Terminator 1, yes. He loads up on guns at the shop and Muir sees the owners there. That is the firepower he uses to take out the police station.
Bladerunner 2049
Nix to replace / supplement docker
I disagree that's in the opposite direction. Hawking didn't want to change his voice - he'd had this for years at that point, and the option was also to just change to a different arbitrary voice rather than restoring what he had before.

Something like this could let someone keep their "original" voice. Hawking may have preferred to have something that sounded like his voice before he lost it than a completely new voice.
Ask HN: How good does a B2B SaaS need to be?
I understand an MVP should be built simply and quickly to get idea validation and feedback. But how polished / what features need to be there to realistically get an initial b2b customer? For example do I need SSO? Specific security protocols?
Ridiculous but "Panasonic", "Lexus", "Sony", "Pentax" and so on are made-up names intended to sound meaningful in western ears.

Maybe they should "lean into" Japanese words like like how Denso (car electronics) and densha (train) are derived from denki (~electricity~). Basically, any good sounding name would be accepted worldwide and the story behind it would allow nerds to look smart when they explained it.
To me that is excellent. I hate emails and I’m admittedly not good at writing them.

I now type “write an email that says it was was nice meeting and getting to know the team. Send me the scope docs which I’ll fill out and return. Let’s schedule a status in two weeks”

It gives me a great email which I proofread and send in less than 2mins.
“Allow”
Uggh, yea, trailers in general include a scene from every part of the movie. Why???
> Someone who climbs mountains every week is less likely to be hurt in a given mountain climb

On any given mountain climb, maybe. But overall? I don't know. A coworker of mine who liked mountaineering made lots of acquaintances in that lifestyle, and he told me they are often missing limbs and show lots of ugly scars, and have lots of near-death anecdotes about themselves. I'm talking about people who do this either for a living or as an all-consuming lifestyle, not casuals.

He told me of a girl, a pro mountaineer, who was missing several fingers and had plenty of teeth knocked out. Her skin looked terrible, too. And he told me this is common. Her boyfriend was also a mountaineer, because that's yet another common fact: mountaineers band together, it's difficult to be in a couple with one if you don't find that lifestyle fascinating.

Another friend who does parachuting (from airplanes) told me he knows lots of people who do BASE jumping (or even worse, those senseless "wingsuit" jumpers) and they tend to die young. They do a lot of it, always chasing a more extreme high, until one day they simply don't make it.
The reaction to that comment was ... interesting.
I didn't see any way to use it...
Most content creators are moving to video because they can monetize the information.
Tried again now, but it still says it's not available in my country :-(
Most people don’t understand how woefully unprepared modern humans are for nature.

I’ve lost friends to drowning in calm looking waters where they got trapped in hidden potholes in river bed.

Water bodies are no joke.
Thanks for the kind comments!

I was thinking of doing a synchronous release of 1.0 along with the new Nest: the current one has a cool architecture (replicated over 3 datacenters, using Pijul repos as CRDTs), but doesn't scale well, I'm working on a serverless version. The hard bit is convincing Pijul that it's talking two a real Pijul repo, whereas it's actually talking to a serverless cloud (that's already solved btw).

EDIT: I also don't think there's a "right" way to use Pijul. The magic of algebra means that you can't possibly break the associativity and commutativity properties of Pijul patches, so you can do whatever you want, I'm sure it's fine.
https://futurism.com/bitcoin-mining-company-buys-entire-coal... sums it up for me.
Sorry, 20 years was an arbitrary number. What I meant was before the internet. :D
Don't forget the multiple minutes long part about "This podcast is sponsored by X". Bonus points if there are multiple ad-breaks.
https://www.weather.gov/lmk/LowHeadDamPublicSafetyAwarenessM...

Low head dams are the drowning machine, and they can look very safe and simple.
I watched it, it was ok. I did like the first season better.
How does it compare to Wasmtime? Do you have a list of supported wasm features?
I grew up cooking on gas stove. The house I'm in now came with an ancient coil electric range (1979 harvest gold color model). I can't wait to redo the kitchen to put back in a gas stove again.

I also looked into induction, but only my cast iron skillet would work -- the stainless steel cookware I have apparently is the non-magnetic type (a magnet doesn't stick to them) so they won't work with induction.
This is awesome.

I have following 2 domains, which are a popular misspellings :)

1. https://geethub.com/

2. https://geetlab.com/

Both of them get non-trivial amount of traffic.
Both X (AMD) and K (Intel) lean heavily towards "gib last 5 % perf" in order to win benchmarks in reviews across their line-ups. The non-K 13th gen SKUs aren't out yet, but in the largely similar 12th gen they also enjoyed substantially lower power consumption.
I have been in a recent period of intense non-fiction book reading recently (6 / month for past 3 months) and I realized a couple of things:

1. High-quality writing relaxes me to the point that I can enjoy learning at a much deeper level

2. It’s extremely arduous to keep my BS filter constantly deployed, which it is 95% of the time I'm reading unfiltered content (blogs, Twitter, news etc)

A well-written book is a large lake of high-quality information, and so I can generally develop some trust for the author and can relax and think about things I don't know well.

There is a torrent of knowledge, but panning for wisdom is exhausting. So I think for me, rather than the form factor (blog vs book vs podcast), it really comes down to the level of refinement of the information. There are some authors that blog / write newsletters that I have developed a sense of trust for, so I can also enjoy their without the BS filter fully engaged. (Matt Levine, Ben Hunt, Scott Alexander etc)
> there's this weird thing about management - "you're good at your job, let's give you a completely different job to do."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Flip it around and it works too. Anyone who wants to could potentially set all of the text-to-speech systems they use (their phone/house's voice interaction, listening to audiobooks, warning messages from their car/plane, etc.) to whichever voice profile they like best. Basically what TTS has been trying to do since the 70s or 80s, but with an infinite number of natural-sounding voices.

Maybe pick a couple of different ones for context-aware messages. Something familiar/reassuring for most messages, something less comfortable for "terrain!"-type alerts. If the model supports it, it could even morph between the two as the criticality of the message escalates.
Lead developer should not be about management. It seems your company confuses your role with project management?

My role as lead dev is picking tech for solutions, maintaining in-house software and only sometimes I get to talk to a client. I only get invited to interviews but don't have to set them up.
Anyone else (mis)read the title as "Walker's Manly Excuses"?

As it stands, the actual book disappoints me.
Great questions and discussion, thanks!

Answering the last bit: "What about those ideas ... which carry a significant risk, but also could yield a significant reward?"

This is perhaps the key question for developing any strategy. This dilemma is not limited to this one exercise! It's the classic "risk/reward" question.

There's a lot of literature on this, some of which is conflicting (of course!). One common example is "Three Horizon Planning," which (I'm bastardizing it for the sake of simplicity) asks you to separate work/projects/ideas into three "future horizons": H1=running the business, zero-risk stuff you know is useful, selling the same product to the same customers; H2=new products sold to the same customers and market, so more risk but more reward; H3=new products sold into new markets, new customers, so maximum risk but also maximum reward, potentially entirely new business units. So for example, Google optimizing search is H1, Google adding "Diagrams" to the suite that already contains "Docs and Sheets" is H2, and Google launching GCP or buying YouTube is H3. Then the idea is that you should have proportional investment in these areas; for example 70/20/10 on H1/H2/H3. Finally, you want different processes and expectations for each thing, since "stuff we should be able to predict" should not carry the same expectations as "stuff with high variance that we cannot predict."

Another rule of thumb I like is to find bets that are very asymmetric, i.e. the potential upsides are orders of magnitude larger than the potential downsides. The stock market or VC works like this, because the most an investor can lose by buying stock is 100% of the investment, but there is no limit to the upside. If possible, you'd multiply those by the probability that they occur, but in my experience, we're all very bad at knowing the probability. :-) So, maybe not so much about the specific numbers, but the broad notion that one should be _orders of magnitude_ larger, not just a little larger -- that's something which should be apparent even without a lot of analysis.

In any event, this is a great question, and it's important for any strategic thinking, not specifically connected to this exercise.
My favorite scenes where they used a body double was with Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop. Pause at about the 0:34 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWjZM780lw
Just a note, this doesn't seem to create an isomorphism between _actively_playing_ with randomised figures, tetris. It just explains how one could create a turing machine based on controlled positioning of the figures. So essentially this is boring.
From what I understand, the proxy also helps people make sure that an upstream deleting their GitHub repos doesn't result in builds breaking on new machines that don't have it cached locally. Imagine the problems that could happen if someone new joins your team, runs `go build` and then one of the vital dependencies 404s.

The other problem is that it's Google so their perception of "not much traffic" is "biblical floods" to other people.
Claude: The first ChatGPT competitor has arrived
Talk to your target customers. In the beginning it's mostly about "does it solve the problem" in my experience.

B2B is a large field as well. Small businesses have completely different expectations than enterprise customers.
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And of exactly zero interest.

The original topic, so cleverly but pointlessly derailed, was the viability of planets we can just barely detect in extremely close orbit around a dim star, in 1:1 tidal lock, with permanently hot and a cold sides, and, likely, no magnetic field. That merited discussion.
You are right that people won't pay attention to anything that isn't already of interest to them, but the medium of exchange makes no difference there.

In fact, there was once advocacy towards a style of meeting (oft called a "standup") where you explicitly called upon participants to give their status update because it was recognized that they wouldn't be paying attention and needed prompting to snap them back, although this has largely fallen out of favour as we realized that only kept their attention for the length of their update and didn't achieve the desired effect.
I don't understand your point. In capability based security nothing prevents people from making up fake data if they don't have the capability for something.
I don't understand why they have to do a fresh clone every time.
Funny, I read the link as 'Gmail' and didn't realize it was 'Gail' until entering the site.
I now NEVER watch any trailers at all. I watched Terminator Genisys and while it wasn't a brilliant movie I did gasp a little at the reveal part way through the movie.

I asked my brother what his reaction was and he said he already knew going in as the trailer had revealed it.

I don't get the point of trailers any more. Most of them just show you the whole movie in 2 minutes.

Saying that, probably the best trailer of recent times was for one of the Godzilla films, which actually gave away very little and just gave you enough of a vibe to make you want to watch it.
About 15 years ago, my family watched a movie without seeing the trailers. Then, we happened to see the trailers, and the trailer revealed *the* major plot twist in the movie (it was a thriller). We all loudly agreed that we were grateful we didn't see the trailer.

As a result, for any movie that I really care about watching, I now actively avoid almost all trailers. YouTube and TikTok make avoiding spoilers quite difficult, though.

Thankfully, some movies have started to recognize the importance of hiding details, and don't reveal everything in the trailers anymore. Specific examples include Marvel changing the contents of the scenes to hide important details, like which Infinity Stones Thanos had at a given point.
Is the inference so heavy for this that it cannot run as part of the game? I want to play planescape torment with the text read to me, I don't know who I'll cast though. I suspect I actually like text dialogue in games better.
Yea, I spent ages getting warez copy of 3dsmax so I could start playing around with making maps for Rogue Spear.
This movie is about this phenomena :D.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/
Logging practices I follow
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> It'll write lectures

Because higher education needed more shitty materials for students to parse. Truly a Visionary.
>so perhaps with the full vocal range in person it would have been different.

I think there might have been other giveaways in person where the T-800 is concerned.
> Do your research before getting into rivers

What's amazing from this article, and from others like it, is that even being reasonably knowledgeable is not a guarantee of anything. I mean, better be knowledgeable, of course -- but even people who should know better die and get caught in freak accidents. Or simply, one day they let their guard down. After plenty of near death experiences, the author of this article was still doing some dumb shit, she hadn't learned the lesson by her own admission.

This isn't an argument against research; of course you should know the dangers and treat the environment carefully. But even this isn't a guarantee of survival.
The first thing to learn is to have respect for the harsh reality of the environment. You’d be surprised how many people get killed because they don’t (looking at you Christopher McCandless). So your awareness itself is already a good start.
Yeah, I just love the ingenuity and sometimes brazenness of 90s effects and stunts. They look way better than today's green screen atrocities.

Just yesterday I learned that in Cliffhanger (also aged amazingly well), they paid one million dollars to a stuntman to actually travel the harness between the two planes while airborne. Not bad for a day's work.
But the low income housing is also typically more drafty too, isn't it? So that would lead me to believe that there would be less indoor pollution built up from the range. Unless it is turned on for heating purposes (i.e., boiling a pot of water to get humidity in the air, etc).
Well, for a hobby project, you definitely should consider the first and not the second!

Indeed, even for a company, it's wise to be in "Explore" mode sometimes / somewhere, in which case again the constraint might hamper ideas.

So I'd agree with you, removing that constraint could be a great idea!
the claim is that this is theoretically possible in stock tetris with only one modification: an infinite board (with a floor).

the infinite board solves piece randomization, because you can have a "junkyard" where you dump pieces until you get the one you want. it also solves the time pressure, because blocks spawned at row inifinity will never reach the canvas until you hard-drop them. finally, it prevents rows from clearing because they have infinite width (so the game won't interfere with your construction).

their concept for gates is that if you nudge a block at a certain row as it's falling, it will either shift one column over or be blocked. this page is a good visualization:

https://meatfighter.com/tetromino-computer/inverter-not.html

except... once you hard-drop a block in tetris, you can't nudge it. and if you don't hard-drop it, it will never reach your canvas.

they kind-of hand-wave this in the section "infinite playfield". after describing the mechanics of a hard drop, they say:

> A more generalized version, the semihard drop, attempts to vertically translate the piece from “row infinity” to a specified, finite row.

if the fall timer can't get the block into a finite row, how would a player (without hard-dropping)?

loved reading through this, though. the animations were perfect for describing the mechanism! very high-quality documentation for a fun project.
Good point and that's why I recently came to an interpretation that search engines return some kind of "tables" for us (but not in the tabular form). List of links are rows, and for every link we have properties ("columns"): the title of the page, the date, the snippet with phrases containing our terms. The same is true for stackexchange.com/stackoverflow.com pages, the answers are rows, the text, score, comments are properties of this row. We are used to scanning this "tables" either for finding best answers or exploring multiple variants of answers. But single answer for everything is too limiting.
I’m not surprised in the least bit. I keep my credit locked constantly since I’ve had my SSN leaked multiple times (by US government agencies). Every time I go to unfreeze it when I apply for credit at least one of the big 3 credit reporting agencies lets me unfreeze it without specifying the PIN I had to create when freezing.

If there was any justice these companies would get the corporate death penalty.
I'm talking about in T2, Arnold doesn't kill anyone in the entire movie. In T1 he kills several people while Kyle Reese doesn't kill anyone, even when he has the opportunity.