skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Landed" is not quite correct for 1994: the guy crashed it. (He had been smoking crack beforehand, as I recall.)

This led the government to close Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 15th and 17th Streets. The reasoning was not apparent, for the pilot had certainly not taken off there--he flew from a field in Maryland.
LBL is a special place. It's still managed by UC without the involvement of any other orgs (aside from the DoE). It's basically just another UC campus, but research oriented and federally funded. The other labs can be quite different, managed by LLCs that involve a few universities and some private companies.

Things might have improved now that Bechtel is out of the picture, but for many years LBL was hands down the best lab to work for, purely because of the management situation.
I just got my work machine upgraded to the 14in Pro from the 13in M1 Air recently. I think overall the extra screen pixels are worth the weight tradeoff. It's only a little heavier and I don't really notice it on my back when I'm cycling

I did love the M1 Air though! Probably the best laptop I've ever used pound-for-pound.
from Foundations of Black Hole Accretion Disk Theory

https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrr-2013-1

> The radiation we receive from quasars and microquasars comes not from the black holes themselves, but instead originates in the accretion disks which surround themFootnote6 (see Figure 1). In these accretion disks, angular momentum is gradually removed by some presumably (although not necessarily [48]) dissipative process, causing matter to spiral down into the black hole, converting its gravitational energy into heat, and then, by various processes, radiating this energy.Footnote7 The radiation subsequently leaks through the disk, escapes from its surface, and travels along trajectories curved (in space) by the strong gravity of the black hole, eventually reaching our telescopes.

So not fusion, the energy is gravitational potential.
it shows you who commented last -- it's kinda like an RSS feed of most recent comments, it can be helpful for finding new accounts that you can trace back to their other contributions / comments
What about if you want your resource to be longer lived, but still safely disposed of in a timely manner when it goes out of scope, for example a port in a webserver class? Do you have to keep the stack alive here to keep the resource, or can you put it into an object somewhere to get a more RAII style resource management?
What a story! I've submitted it as a post of its own.
A diaspora can be concerned about a topic without understanding its own biases. What I am hearing is both sides are committed to limiting bias
If becomes widely known that the government can de-cloak Tor users, that will change the behaviour of their targets and so hurt their surveillance, so it's fairly common that the government wants to hide this fact. (same with stingrays, for example).

But just wanting to keep it secret is not enough. So they will claim that this has national security implications, saying some targets are terrorists. And courts defer very heavily to the government in this area, so the FBI might be successful.

Because just knowing that there is a break is enough to tip someone off, the FBI can and courts likely would classify a request for details as well as the details themselves.
Also to be clear, unums v1 and v2 were (mostly) dumb ideas that haven't gone anywhere. Unums v3 (aka posits) are a (IMO) really good idea for how to generate a better floating point standard (see https://posithub.org/docs/posit_standard-2.pdf)
I still think it's a great choice for smaller projects. I can't imagine it at the scale of shopify.
If you take off northbound, you only have a few seconds to turn left with the river before you’re over DC and into restricted airspace. If you take off and obliviously fly straight, it’s too late. It’s not a wide river.

Once you’re across the river, turning left is way worse (takes you directly over the federal complex), so ATC told them to turn right to exit the restricted airspace. That would take them around over SE DC.
Glad to see the old rig still killing it. One cannot but wonder what the JWST will deliver.
> and reduce the drafty feeling.

While the feeling may be similar to a draft (moving air), the actual phenomenon is radiant heat transfer. The warmth we feel is not just air temperature (which can be less than half), but also the surface temperatures:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_radiant_temperature

* http://www.healthyheating.com/Definitions/Mean%20Radiant.htm

If you sit near a heating radiator, fireplace, or campfire, you will feel warm because energy goes from high concentration (fire) to low/er concentration (your body).

But if you sit near a badly insulating window, your body has the higher amount of energy (heat) so energy goes from you to the window. You are the radiator for the window; the window is an 'anti-radiator' (it 'attracts' heat).
All I can figure is the article's purpose is to generate rage-clicks and rage-shares to drive traffic. It's a totally pointless, if not counter-productive, article, otherwise.
At this point, Midjourney v4 very well might only be trained on other Midjourney images. I would think that legally that would make things even murkier.
I've been learning lisp this past week. I think I get the main idea of "code is data and data is code", but I struggle to understand how it's more powerful than, say, making a function factory in Python.
Thanks for that background. I'll try to update the post when I get home this evening
When it comes to leaving the trees in the forest, you have to take into account the fact that mature trees will produce less oxygen than growing trees, and if nobody cuts the old trees down, when they do fall themselves and succumb to decay, all of the captured CO2 will be consumed by aerobic organisms and thus released back into the atmosphere.
I see it as more of a hack-y post training fix. If you train a model on a corpus of text sourced from the Internet, it's going to include all the crazy biases people have in their writing. The model itself doesn't know what truth is, so the training text is all equally valid to it. And because they don't want another MS Tay incident, they slap a comically sensitive filter on the output, which itself is also influenced by the creator's own biases of what is inappropriate.
If it helps you in any way, what I try to do is to use a tutorial book to build my own app. For example a Flask tutorial that shows how to build a blog app, but I’m building a library. I still learn about the Flask way and I learn some building blocks but I have to figure out the equivalent for what I want to do. I often get stuck though.

So maybe showing the building blocks and letting you use them for something. You could perhaps show 2 or 3 suggested projects that are built with the building blocks. You show the generic version of the blocks, and then you figure out how to tweak them to make one of the 2 or 3 suggested projects.

Sort of buying the legos and then showing what you could do with them. But building it is up to you.
> Are you saying that these systems are just copying? Do you think the avocado chair is a copy and that nothing learning-esque occurred?

No, I think it’s neither copying nor learning in the traditional sense, but something fundamentally new, and that’s the crux of the issue.

My argument is that we need to treat this as what it is: a transformative piece of software, but software nonetheless. Not some entity that should be afforded human-like status when examining the ethical questions that naturally arise.

> But speed (and weight) is the key difference. If cars were just really fast and heavy bikes, would anything change? I don't think so. It's purely quantitative, rather than qualitative.

Those are two key differences, but there are a myriad more, each with implications that highlight the difference, e.g. theoretical range, fuel, safety, capacity, etc.

The point there is less about drawing a perfect parallel with AIs and more to point out that the category of automobile introduces a whole slew of considerations that must be accounted for to ensure safe operation alongside bicycles, horse drawn carriages and pedestrians.

As a thought experiment, I think it’s interesting to consider how one might justify photographing or photocopying original works using a similar line of thinking.

“This new scanner/copier sees a piece of artwork and re-draws it on your behalf, and is just a more efficient form of tracing.”

Most people would find this description problematic, but seem to accept a similar form of this when examining AI primarily because the AI software is also able to generate new output.

I’m not claiming that AI is similar to a photo copier, but I am advocating for a more honest conversation about what it is/is not.

I think that looking at past advancements that shattered all established norms at the time is an interesting way to test how one feels about such massive advances. Nuclear energy, firearms, radio, photography, etc. have all had similarly seismic impact.
If your emails are anything like your posts then maybe gmail is right to flag them as spam.

The age of your address has little effect. It is very common to check your spam folder once in awhile, especially if something like a govt notice coming thru. Part of the problem is what ppl are putting in their emails, like the govt notice -- attachments? a bunch of links and nothing more? It looks sketchy.

Spam is a big problem yes but the fight against it is constantly evolving so of course some things fall through cracks. This isn't new. Many systems (including gmail's) are quite good at flagging things that look like spam -- "look like". A little training and unfortunately a little less mail coming from certain bad actors and you will see totally different results.
Wood has really good longevity- in the US it’s not hard to find 100+ year old houses all over the place in older settled areas. In Buffalo, NY about half the single family homes for sale are over 100 years old, and they mostly appear wood built.

My unscientific observation is that buildings are more often replaced due to changes in land use and taste than structural failure, and the structural failure modes include foundation issues, earthquakes, fire (far more common in the past), water infiltration, or can be the results of complete neglect.

Anyways, plenty of regions use concrete (what most 3d printed houses are made of) heavily in residential construction. You can look to them to compare and contrast.
Can I just do “nix install foo”? I looked into nix ages ago but opening a text file any time I wanted to install some random package just felt too weird.
Came here to mention just that book. It is excellent.
It's very important to note that according to this document the FBI was able to both

- Obtain the person's IP

- Decrypt the person's traffic to see what pages they visited

I honestly do not believe the second is possible so it makes me question the validity of the first. I have a feeling Tor itself wasn't the issue, but rather something else.
Thank you for mentioning "precedence climbing".

I never had a need for a fast expression parser, so I never explored this option.

For those curious,

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/02/parsing-expressions...

It should be possible to combine this with some parser combinator libraries just the same.
> I should add that we're US based, so disallowing all domains besides .com, .edu, .org is easy and useful.

A bunch of sites nowadays use TLDs outside of those. io and tv are notable TLDs for countries but used by entities all over the world. Then there’s the new TLDs like app, etc which are increasingly being used.

Have you accounted for these? I feel like their usage is only going to go up since there’s more names available.
The other example I found more alarming was the discrepancy when asked to write about Joe Biden Corruption, vs Trump Corruption. Trump it was free to write about, but was blocked from even writing a fictional story where Joe Biden was corrupt.

That should be very alarming to everyone
> The US has not seen any sort of decline since the 90s in fact we’ve seen the boom of one of the biggest industries in the world, that allows us to even discuss this on our computers.

Actually, that happened in not since the 1990s, and we were discussing issues like this on our computers then, too. I know, I was there.

But the opulence of the 1990s wasn’t because it was the height of technology, or average earnings, it was in large part driven by fashion and attitudes and their effect on lifestyle and the marketplace, driven in part by the lingering visible-status-oriented attitudes of the 1980s, in part by the perception of geopolitical and economic invincibility (both the–at that point–longest economic expansion in the modern period plus the fall of the Soviet Union, lopsided military engagements like Panama and the First Gulf War, etc.)

Greater aggregate and even median wealth looks and feels different in the shadow of the Great Recession and the Afghan and Iraq Wars.
Newegg has really great product search feature for PC parts.
It depends on the body of water and the DNR has guidelines for this. This isn't remotely news, it's fear mongering. Places with PFAS are generally port rivers and industrial zones. People don't fish there (or if they do, they throw them back).
It's funny that people are assuming I was talking about Rust when I was actually referring to modern C++. RAII is a powerful concept.
Building a PC doesn't make much sense anymore for most people now with cloud computing, Steam Deck, Apple silicon and GPU prices being ridiculously high.
>>> Is the RAM and SSD upgradeable?

>> Nope, soldered.

> Nope, in the same package as the CPU and GPU.

The SSD certainly isn't in the same package as the CPU and GPU, so your comment is simply wrong, given the question that was actually asked. Whether the RAM is on-package or not is irrelevant to the question asked further upthread. It is soldered. Neither the RAM nor the SSD can realistically be upgraded after the fact. That's the answer to the question.

I don't understand the purpose of your comment.
seems this will negatively impact British car makers like Aston Martin and Lotus who had partnerships with Britishvolt:

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-britishcars/lotus-partne...

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-britishcars/aston-partne...
IMHO Ventura's rethink is a huge improvement — search is now actually useful, 3rd-party extensibility is much better, etc. (It does scale vertically, BTW. The old one did not.)
Yes, but not any old noble gas. Helium and neon, for example, have higher thermal conductivities than nitrogen. So it seems like argon is better for the job as well as being cheaper.

(While every noble gas has roughly the same heat capacity by mole/volume. Perhaps some CFCs would have been even better for insulation, but bad for the ozone layer, of course, and rightly banned?)
I think I'll disagree with the statement that commit messages are pointless.

> Until it starts generating PROFIT, anything else like: clean code, unit testing etc, makes zero sense. And also for the record, whenever I'm trying to figure out where something went wrong, commit are not the thing I look at, it's the code changes in the commit.

Others have commented on how this reasoning affects the code itself, but I'll ask something different: what about the other 90% of the time, which will be spent on maintenance? How will someone find changesets of interest among others, without looking through the contents of every single commit due to them having no messages, thus removing any chances of them finding the right one based on the message and short circuiting the process? How will they figure out what the other developer was even thinking or trying to do, if the code is decently written, but structurally just odd?

After all, your code comments themselves can have references to requirements in whatever change management system you use (e.g. Jira), or even snippets of business requirements and such for what the reasoning is behind that particular code being written in the way it was (code explains HOW, requirements explain WHY), but in my experience more often than not it won't have all of that, and instead you'll only be able to conduct code archeology more successfully by tracing back through commit messages (which ideally will start with an issue identifier), or at least merge/pull requests, which will bring you to the original requirements for any given change, no matter how many years back it was made.

Seeing that issue VMP-14221 is related requirements wise to VMP-5661 that was implemented 5 years back and being able to find an erroneously renamed parameter thanks to some commit messages being noticeable in a sea of others (like "VMP-5661 refactor MyBusinessObject to work with VMK links") in that time frame and then inspecting whether the contents of those particular ones match up with what they say they should do, might just make maintenance more tolerable.

The only set of circumstances where I think that'd be useless is personal projects, where you'll be the only one working on them and perhaps don't particularly care about the viability of understanding how the code evolved over time, if the projects aren't commercial in nature. Though other times, when you start writing of a commit message, you realize that it would be better to split your changes up in multiple atomic commits, in case you mess up and reverting something might be necessary.

Overall, with everything else being realistic (passable but not ideal circumstances), personally I'll take commit messages over no commit messages, ideally with issue identifiers (implying change management systems of some sort are in place).
Smart. But please give my PCBs back.
Well, duh. Having worked at megacorporations where the day-long diversity training was a mandatory annual ritual, my working-level colleagues and I knew this apparently surprising conclusion 40 years ago, no fancy researh needed. We all knew it was window dressing, with a healthy dose of stereotyping, but we could only say that in whispers; and managers couldn't say it at all.

At least we were not subjected to today's faddish and extremely toxic claims that rational thought, hard work and “emphasis on scientific method” are white supremacy. Imagine being a black engineer and being told that the very attributes essential to your job are inherently not part of your culture!
I worked at Argonne National Lab for two years as a web developer for a few projects (https://afleet.es.anl.gov/home/, https://energyjustice.egs.anl.gov/).

The people I worked with were super smart in their fields, but were pretty bad at writing code / handling data outside of Excel so they usually hired interns to help with code-related stuff. Some of the divisions had full-time software developer teams, but I was the only software developer in mine.

The pace was extremely relaxed, deadlines were not tight at all.

I worked remotely, but came in to the office a few times a month. The campus is beautiful, as it is right inside a nature preserve. Everyone there is doing scientific work, so it feels like a real scientific think tank atmosphere and I loved it.
Google has chosen to designate itself as the moral guardian and insists that other companies do similar.
> Even the US went before the UN in the case of Iraq.

…and then invaded unilaterally, anyway. In violation of UN laws.

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

> You're 100% wrong here. This is not the brutality of war but the brutality of Russia.

Look up what the US did in Iraq and Afghanistan. We literally droned people trying to save people we’d droned in so-called “double taps”.

We standardized that practice:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26296941

> Did they raise legitimate concerns and act like a partner interested in resolving a problem, as opposed to someone looking to escalate a problem into an excuse?

They spent a decade trying to work with countries like France and Germany to enact the Minsk accords — which those countries promised to guarantee.

Did those NATO countries act like a partner interested in resolving a problem? — did they even do what they’d promised in that treaty?

> Have you seen him? Have you seen Putin? Did you not see the anger and hatred in Putin's face on Feb 24?

Yes — Putin’s speeches have been thoughtful and considered, explaining their reasons. Especially compared to the vapid virtue signaling from Ukraine and NATO.

> I'm pretty sure you're just trolling at this point.

This is a bad faith ad hominem because you’re uncomfortable answering the questions of someone who disagrees with you.

That’s a sign you don’t have good support for your beliefs — notice how you’re bothered but I’m not?
I loved this about building on rails
Once you start adding memory and ssd, it makes more sense to just get a mac studio. You basically get less for more with the mac mini. Once you max out the memory and CPU, the entry level mac studio is cheaper and comes with the M1 Max instead of the M2 Pro. A bit of a toss up which is faster but for 230 euro extra you jump to 32 GPU cores, which is not an option with the mini.
Do not miss Fermilab's Don Lincoln videos.
Thanks for the kind words! I'm desperately polishing the next chapter for publication...
The very first processor in the list is the i7-1365UE, which is a lower number than processors from 10 years ago.
I'll bet it's large but nothing close to that of the President and other top government officials. For example, the U.S. government is currently paying $2 million per month to protect former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo due to Iran threats[1]. That's the former, now think of what it'll cost to protect the current Secretary plus all the private travel costs on that giant Boeing 757.

1- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/us-pays-2m-a-month-to-...
This should probably say "ground-to-air" with dashes. Title was super confusing for me for a while.

Like, right now it reads the ground shot him down into some missiles that are in the air
Lol the funny thing is, I was going to bring up all the hardware tools in my garage as examples, but I figured most people here wouldn't care/get it.
Compute-Storage Separation – Explained
Probably. If you use a laptop once, on a public Wi-Fi hundreds of miles from where you live, while not being caught on surveillance, while using a stripped down privacy based OS, and then route yourself through Tor, you might be okay.
They could provide a package manager, rather than expecting the Homebrew community to fix it for them. My issues are almost always related to command line tools
Windows help of course but often there’s not enough wind to make a difference.
One thing that helps me a lot when learning new languages is to NOT copy and paste but actually re-type the code.

You will be forced to read more carefully and, more importantly, you will make typing mistakes. Hunting down your own mistake will teach you the subtleties of the syntax as well as further increase your understanding of the code.

For more advanced programmers, there is also the challenge of translating the code into another language entirely, which requires a actual semantic understanding of the code.

Also once the project is done, adding small additional bonus features will further deepen your understanding.
Sorry to hear about that. We also bootstrapped our product and put about $60k in it. We built a product within a week and went out to sell. Having a technical founder(that doesn't take salary + someone you have known for years)is important. I understand the stress. Don't let them bring you down. You will come back stronger.
Love the example of elonjet being put back on the twitter feed!
This has already happened, someone trained a giant model on 4chan then unleashed on 4chan... hilarious stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM