skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I claim that this asymmetry in my prophetic abilities (100% ability to predict what will be seen on the video vs 50% for re-flipping the actual coin) is a result of the asymmetry between the past and future.

No, this and other similar memory-induced asymmetries have much more prosaic reason. It is more successful to predict systems we have enough knowledge and control of (video playback) than those we don't (coin flip).

Predicting and retrodicting systems we understand and have memory of is successful, and predicting and retrodicting systems we don't understand and don't have memory of is not. This has nothing to do with universal asymmetry of past vs future.

Your memory of what has happened (e.g. some system had lower entropy in past) does not explain why your original argument does not apply now to retrodiction of past macrostates; the memory only contradicts the result of that argument.

> If I can reliably predict the outcome of any experiment, that means I know everything that is going to happen before it happens, including my own actions.

That would in no way prevent validity of 2nd law.
> it seems those on the right are playing this better

I'm sure many would disagree with this, personally I find the idea of the right dominating (English) wikipedia laughable.

But that's a pointless discussion. I think the takeaway should be there is no such thing as neutral media - one man's "neutral" perspective is another's far $political_direction. It's similar to "fact checking". Reality outside of the hard sciences (and even then) is subjective. It's much better to communicate the perspective from which reporting is done, or at least to not pretend to be neutral. And interested people necessarily need to seek a broad range of perspectives and not take any one platform as truth, no matter how neutral
Wow that’s a pretty interesting (and scary) challenge.

I know that the coordinate systems get revised every few years. In Australia we used to use AGD83 then it was revised to GDA94 and more recently to GDA2020 — and this was to account for tectonic shifts. And there’s calculations for transforming from one to the other.

That’s the only clues I have on that side of things and I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve known.
US Army officer reply-all E-mail chain causes pandemonium
my favorite street layout in Seattle is that a part of it got named "Tangletown" (there's a rip in the fabric of the continuum of the big grid right there)
All of eBay's customer service problems boil down to the point that they have very little control over the process. The seller ships directly to the buyer. The money has already been exchanged. Dispute resolution is labour intensive and often requires a refund which are both expensive. They are unable and unwilling to do better.
> Almost all weapons production at places like Savannah River and Hanford was done with purpose specific plants that created plutonium and U-235 by design.

That's as may be. But Wikipedia says that the "civilian" Magnox reactors were indeed used to manufacture Plutonium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnox
Great reply. It's rare to get such straightforward, measured responses from anyone representing anything.
Most other metered paywalls move the paywall much lower in the page. That would be a simple way--let you get 1/3 of the way so you are more confident in what you are getting. Or move the location of the paywall.

In general though, we love being subscription driven rather than ad driven and I don't expect that to change.
well, it depends on whether the site breaks if a browser feature is missing or not.

if it doesn't break then you have a graceful fallback which i did already suggest as an acceptable way to support new features in case they are not supported.

but if the site breaks in some way, it may prevent me to complete the objective on the site. if i wanted to buy something, and the site doesn't work because of that missing browser feature, then i will have to go buy somewhere else. it doesn't matter how much leverage the site has if i can't use it.
[I deleted a part of this comment where I incorrectly attempted to correct the OP]

I have no good ideas about how to solve this problem, I’m guessing that the smaller audience a wiki has, the more likely it is that an ideological faction will have influence on the content.

The first thing that came to mind for me was making all of the other non-English wikis read-only machine translations of the English version since it has the most eyeballs on it. The problem with that is, then you miss out on things that are notable (by Wikipedia standards) in other languages that don’t have sources in English, which isn’t fair to non-English speaking countries that have their own notable culture and history.

Enforcing an NPOV across all of the wikis across many different languages (or even just the English wiki) seems like an intractable problem. And that’s without opening the ‘what is a neutral point of view’ can of worms.
The only difference between using pull quotes on the web and on paper is that if your web article doesn't catch attention, the reader is a click away from never seeing your site again. If your magazine article doesn't catch attention, it's probably going to be read later because it's already paid for.

> On a web page they just give you a spoiler.

I don't understand why people want to experience their nonfiction as if it were fiction.
That looks awesome, kudos! I've been looking for a way to do local-first high-quality FTS.
And the smoke is fully of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are strong carcinogens.
Wikipedia seems like a weird exception to this rule.
Where can I enter? I want a cyber truck
Is there a good calculator where I can enter my cost for units of electricity and gas and it will tell me how much operating a heat pump will save me over a gas furnace
I'm not sure if you're serious, but some friends and I launched weather balloons with a payload (aprs broadcasting location) twice. Tons of fun, and there is a bunch of software out there you can use to estimate the crash location.

On the first balloon we failed to acquire enough helium, and ended up "floating" the balloon in the upper atmosphere overnight. Our prediction system kept indicating it was going to land in Africa.
There's a fantastic book about the entire natural, social, and economic ecosystem around Matsutake foraging - "The Mushroom at the End of the World" - https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780691220550
Author went from Extinction Rebellion (deeply suspicious in its own right, but neither here nor there) to working for Michael Shellenberger, a lifelong PR flack for the nuclear and fossil fuel industries. Now is the public face of a “group” called Emergency Reactor — spend twenty seconds looking at its website and Twitter and it’s clear the entire purpose is to derail renewables — spun up by Daniel Aegerter, who through his private VC fund, Armada AG, is invested in a number of nuclear startups including Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Last Energy, and Oklo.
If the linked post is truthful, the issue here is the absolute opacity of the process and the fact that this "assessment" by the credit card network (I notice you used the passive voice "been assessed" - why?) seems very questionable.

I would certainly not trust stripe to effectively "dispute the issue on behalf of their client", based on experiences some of my friends have had with stripe. More likely, stripe just folded instantly upon receiving some automated nastygram from the CC issuer.
There are alternatives to both extremes
sure, it's not in this proposal.
But if telemetry gets added to the compiler, the logical next step is to push it to the next level.
And before you downvote me let me state this: the question is not wether this will happen, but when this will happen.
These smarmy toldyouso comments always appear on these kinds of issues but the "third party software" here is... the global financial system. Stripe booted them because the credit card networks booted them because the US legal system booted them for dealing in illegal transactions. There isn't really an alternative to the root cause here. (Unless you're a bitcoin zealot in which case spare me.)
the EU regulates the speed at which you are allowed to vacuum clean your house. until 2009 there was regulation about how curved cucumbers are allowed to be(amongst other vegetables). Its blindingly obvious that the system has run so amok that it ought to be criminal
> This is the main difference... and the reason why there is so little crossover

It's definitely _a_ reason, but not the only reason, and I personally wouldn't consider it the main reason. I used to be a mechanical engineer and now I work in software. Every day that I fire up solidworks for personal projects, I wish for exactly the kind of tool you described in GP. But the thing is, I wouldn't say that the choice of modeling kernel technology is the crucial point here. Frankly I think that the most fundamental problem is a complete lack of understanding between the two worlds.

In the MechE world, once you start talking about fabrication, manufacturing drawings and tolerances are really your bread and butter. This is such a profoundly basic thing for mechanical engineering, and yet completely absent from the kinds of modeling tools you see in video games and VFX. This is just a tiny example, but the real point, again, is a lack of shared understanding between the two domains. I mean... how would you go about capturing _design intent_ in one of these script-based tools? Even for something as trivial as drilling a hole in a rectangle, how am I going to know which corner to use for locating the hole?

As a MechE, your "source code" isn't the geometry you design, it's the history tree that lead to that design. It's the constraints and relations that you used to build the whole of the part. And I don't think that most people that work on software projects in this space have an appreciation for what that really means.

Don't get me wrong, CAD kernels are a hot mess. At every step, it's like you're basing the next function's source code on the compiled binary of everything you've written up to that point. It makes absolutely no sense. But it is, as of today, the closest analogue to how most MechE's I've talked to actually think about building parts. But I think that starts to get at the fundamental disconnect: people with a software background look at that and think, "surely something like CSG would be better; it makes things so much easier to compose". Whereas people with a MechE background look at these kinds of tools and think "ain't nobody got time for that." They're both right and they're both wrong.
An additional factor here is that now chatbots like ChatGPT are trained on Wikipedia as well, in addition to search engines' knowledge graph panels and voice assistants bringing up Wikipedia texts in response to queries.

It does make you wonder sometimes whether technological progress really does make things work better than before ...
The NYTimes does it. And that's the thing think we got wrong: the pay off for what is behind the paywall has to be higher.
Developer of Hacki - a Hacker News client: https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki

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I watch Laura Farms on the YouTubes and she goes into great depth on growing seedcorn as her family’s farm does it under contract.

The de-tasseling is mostly automated these days with a sprayer attachment chopping off the tops and the legions of kids coming behind to get the ones missed.

Then they come along with another specialized attachment to ‘destroy’ the males. Basically just chop them up and leave in the rows which later on gets eaten by the cows. The outside border rows of males gets harvested and turned into winter feed for the cows.

Eventually the remaining corn gets harvested by a crew hired by the seed company because they want the full heads of corn to do their evil deeds to.

Fascinating stuff this modern farming.
It is so weird to see multiple typos in form emails sent to Stripe customers.

https://flurly.com/images/stripe-email-1.png

Seriously, does anyone proof read this stuff?
Well Lemmino's video on the topic had a source for an interview with a specialist for the pod optics who disputes it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fefUZAGtCO4&t=310s

Regardless I think the simplest counter argument is that if that were really the case, you'd see these damn things on every flight facing the sun and people would know to ignore them. Lens flares also don't show up on radar and on pilot's eyes. No crazy analysis needed.
Slight offtopic, I didn’t even realize that medium has a frontpage and recommendations. Like in, you can sign up not only to pay money for views. Also, the average post quality itself is irrelevant when you read it occasionally only through shared links (e.g. on HN). But what’s annoying is that low-quality medium articles dominate SERPs. “I see it, I skip it” is common in my circle. Brand damage done. But it’s not the worst offender, tbh. A whole horde of blogs like “I apt-installed foo and tried to run it with some arguments, voila” is also there.

edit: I mean if it wasn’t there in SERPs, I wouldn’t even associate it with low-quality posts.
Thanks for the detailed clarification!
Naturally dying is unpalatable to the individual living brain, evolved for survival and reproduction!

Doesn't it seem to be that death and life are mind-made abstractions of an unfathomable process of eternal continuity and change?

In our minds it's all very binary because of evolution, and we conflate our evolved perception with true reality.

If we peel back those layers then what is remaining?
The approach I take with quotes is more subjective than it is with almost all of my other cards, since it would pointless to really judge whether or not I know some piece of maybe abstruse wisdom, I just rate it on a subjective grading of, how well am I living my life relative to this statement, and if it feels like it's something I'm really lacking I'll fail it or mark it hard. The card has no back, something that I also do for more axiomatic pieces of CS theory as well, where it's too difficult to meaningfully capture the whole idea in many different question-answers.
I always dislike the way articles do pull-quotes anyway. I end up reading it inline and get the repetition just like in this article.
You are probably right. The Linux hacker in me still kind of prefers having a bit of style to names. Maybe over time this will change.
Great service. It's our stagnation that created any confusion or sense of competition. Our sweet spot is completely different than theirs.
I think you might be off by an order of magnitude.
If it's really just a "hardcoded whitelist" that causes trouble, said fork would truly be easy to maintain.
> "Also, engineering managers absolutely have endless work to assign to new hires. So given the headcount, they will definitely make use of it."

This seems like the crux of the problem. Of course engineering managers always want more headcount - I am one and I would be very happy to get more headcount. My backlog is ten miles long and keeps growing.

But I also understand that if I head enough engineers to actually take care of all the things I want, I will have likely overhired, and am chasing increasingly marginal returns on investment. Some things should not make it off the backlog, because honestly the ROI likely isn't worth it.

"Optimal" staffing at the team level is almost certainly not optimal for either the company or the product. A team that doesn't have to constantly drop things because of lack of resources is likely building a lot of stuff that is poorly-justified.

In a healthy company the desire to do everything is tempered by financial reality and sound judgment - it sounds like both got tossed out the airlock at many companies.
> What exactly do you think the alternative is?

crypto?

I was able to send the USDC stablecoin to a business accepting crypto with Coinbase Commerce just fine and transaction was very quick.

I can see that even Stripe is getting involved in crypto as well.
Getty Images sues Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement
TLDR: Use Stripe Connect if you build a marketplace.
Stripe strikes back and shuts down yet another startup.

Let this be a lesson to all about why you should not rely on one payment gateway. Stripe is certainly not your friend and never has been and this should be a wake up call to use more than one gateway.

This won't be the last and no-one should be surprised to see Stripe do this. As usual, we now wait for Stripe support to respond here on Hacker News.
More like concerns
Agreed. It makes me suspect something fishy about the whole thing.
This is incorrect. The paper is about Polish editors editing the English Wikipedia.
The former affects blacks, which are a recognized political constituency. The latter allows you to debank your political opponents (cf Operation Chokehold), which is useful.
Even worse, 99% of people who use chatGPT won't do due diligence, and will try to pass stuff like this off as something that they wrote.
Thanks you are correct and I will fact check my posts a bit more next time.

I thought our last 15 years of politicians were massively unaccountable and corrupted by self-created taxpayer slush funds plus lobbyist megabucks, corporate kickbacks and post-politics directorships.

I suppose politicians everywhere are essentially driven by the same human frailties, yet mostly worse than what I am seeing locally!
I suspect we're actually talking about the same thing here, but misunderstanding each other. It happens.
Absolutely. The value of F-22s actually launching some $400k AIM-9Xs not at training targets with a 100% success rate would be far, far greater than those unit costs.

It's a crying shame the F-22 production line was shut down, so it's great to see it performing well.

(Speaking as a DCS sim pilot with a long time interest in military aviation).
It’s not theory, it’s actually military practice.

Adversaries spend 100k for a military grade drone. What do shoot it down with? A 1M dollar Patriot? Whatever you choose will be orders of magnitude more expensive than the drone.

Israel’s Iron Dome has the same issue. It costs massively more for defense than attack.
Do you mean KYC now, or what passed for KYC in the 20s?

Before he got busted by the Feds, he went to baseball games and posed for pictures, and "respectable" people might be seen with him. I don't think he'd ever have been invited to the White House, though.

As someone else here said: no, the "reputational risk" would doom him now.
It prompts me to login before I can read an article, which I solve by pressing back and not reading that content. In my mind it’s garbage indistinguishable from Quora at this point.
As a subscriber I find it particularly odd that the recommendations got so bad

You can understand the kind of service which lives on ad revenue giving in to conflicts of interest leading to them recommending against the reader's interests, but there's no obvious conflict when you're a subscription service. It ends up being endless formulaic articles of the "5 packages your next project must use" ilk, with questionable grammar and a number of clichéd folksy writing habits common in certain circles.
You objection to "patenting life" seems utterly spurious and would effectively end GMO seeds (as the effort expended creating them could not be recouped.) But perhaps that's your ulterior motive. I see no legitimate motivation for your position.
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Blogger here.

Quite a bit. I would say my blog has been successful, but it only happened after I had written a lot, which was about 100 posts and about 150 posts in a blog that now doesn't exist.

To be successful, your need to get an audience. To get an audience, you have to either build one over time or go viral at least once. I've done both.

To build an audience over time, you need to give them a lot to read so that they won't forget you and will keep coming back.

Going viral is a luck thing, but you sure do get better chances of going viral the more you post.

My first viral post was posted on Hacker News at a time when I thought it wouldn't go viral for sure: on Saturday night (my time). I didn't want that one to go viral, but I thought I would post it anyway to attract some readers.

Oh boy.

I woke up the next morning to a headache.

Since then, when I want to make an impact, I post during my nighttime. Turns out, posting that on a Saturday night was perfect because my most viral posts have been, with one or two exceptions.

But I wouldn't have been able to sample that enough to know if I didn't have 50-100 (tech-oriented) blog posts to try with.

So yeah, it's true.
32 cores and 128GB RAM are now desktop-class specs. Latest generation commodity servers can supply you with hundreds of cores and TBs of RAM. Note: "commodity" != "cheap", at least not necessarily.

Ninja edit before anyone misconstrues this. I am not saying that the typical desktop has these specs. I am saying that the class of hardware that is most commonly run on desktops includes SKUs that can meet this spec. Desktop-class means the same motherboard socket and processor architecture.
How hard could it be to spin an anonymous fork though.
why does every debunking focus on the footage and ignore the fact the objects were also confirmed on radar? Do they just assume the Navy is filled with morons who decided to report this through the chain of command based on nothing but footage and didn't consider a lens flare?
Governments are influenced by what other governments are doing in a variety of ways.

At a basic level, governments are full of people who have an interest in public policy, and they read publications that cover public policy matters from around the world. If the EU brings in a policy that encourages an expansion in heat pump usage, it'll probably get written up in The Economist (and a bunch of more specialised publications), and, guess what, bureaucrats and political staffers in the UK, the US, Canada and so on will read it.

There are also institutions specifically devoted to developing policy advice for national governments, and in the renewable energy space the big one is IRENA. And guess what, they're telling their member governments that, hey, if you want to screw over the Russians, meet your greenhouse targets, and save your citizens a bunch of money, heat pumps are the way to go. And as those things happen to be basically true, national governments are falling over themselves to implement policies to encourage it to happen.
For sure I would accept a PR! One of the goals I have here is to try and make it approachable to expand for others. If you have an idea on how to make this work please feel free to work on it.

To save time up front I would suggest doing a bit of design work. Feel free to make an issue and post things like example code snippets of how you would like to see this work. We can work together to make this feature a reality.
Does anyone have experience using client-side DuckDB with WASM? It looks really compelling to ship analytics to the browser by running DuckDB over parquet files.
Every field has its own “occupational hazards” - I found that with maps and mapping the maps themselves were so fascinating, you could get drawn in and lose a lot of time just… exploring I guess.

QGis is great, lots of tools are nice. Generally ESRI sucks up all the oxygen and leaves not enough for innovation and implementations from anyone else. There are a lot of features and capabilities needed in the Geospatial world that do not have reliable, rock-solid open source implementations. (I could’ve provided examples a few years ago but now I’ve forgotten the important details and only have opinions left)
Made an account to specifically say that I'll give your service a chance again because you actually admitted fault and how to fix it.
Why does reply all even exist on email? Crazy how in 2023 we are still relying on email etiquette a.k.a 'common sense' to prevent hugely disruptive interrupts like this. Can it even be disabled by admin?