skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It wouldn't surprise me in the least bit if Clark Foams shut down as a preventative measure to avoid a huge EPA hassle for the owner; making foam is a nasty business, and it's expensive to do it by-the-book.

No, it's cheap to do it not-by-the-book, and that lets people undercut innovators and those doing things legally and/or in an environmentally sound way.

Clark was engaging in dumping to fight off anyone who dared to try to compete with him or innovate. I don't know if he was able to do so because he was cutting environmental corners, but he sure does seem like the type to not have a problem doing it.

Edit: yup, from another article, he shut down because he didn't want to comply with environmental, fire and emissions regulations. Big surprise.

And now that there isn't a massive asshole strangle-holding the entire industry? Wouldn't you know it, innovation has blossomed, including a slew of far more environmentally friendly manufacturing methods:

> Even better, experimentation was finally unfettered. In the years since Clark’s closure, a kaleidoscope of weird foams have been developed. Reclaimed foams, mushrooms, algae, and even agricultural feed stock refuse are finding their way into the blank manufacturer’s recipe book. Nothing is off the table. Blanks can be made in far less toxic a manner, and that last for far longer than anything Clark ever produced.
No, you aren’t burdened. The bulk of humanity is, though.

The compliance costs in terms of effort/time/money expended per dollar of revenue affected is probably 10x to 100x for them, as it is for you. This has been my experience, and my observation across many life stories. I taught basic finance to hundreds of mid- to low-income families in the 2000’s.

So again - a “let them eat cake” admonishion.

And FTX was just a massive, traditional fraud. Literally nothing to do with Cryptocurrency, other than as the medium of the fraud.

Random charlatans stealing money from gullible and trusting marks.

The bulk of the legitimate cryptocurrency platforms continue working. A few that were obvious mathematical impossibilities implode - much like fraudulent businesses have for ages past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvSmMUdC_nA
ChatGPT is a language model so it deals in words. Words in; words out. No images, no animations.

Perhaps there are other generative models that could make use of them but not ChatGPT.
"The raptor and the bear"
There was no excuse, they should just bring xul back
from what i understand, he was getting tons of harassment because he wasn't folding to the outrage mob and decided it wasn't worth the stress of keeping it up. i wouldnt call it a toddlers playground
Wow, that makes three of us!

I set up my own NTRIP base station at a fixed point in the middle of my roof with a hefty bracket, did a PPP survey to determine its location once, and am considering everything relative to that. This spring when I'm back at the surveying, I'll likely do another PPP run and make sure it hasn't moved too much. If it has, I guess I'll have to figure out how to reconcile that. From what I've gathered, I don't think this is too far off from how real surveying works.

I didn't see much reason to use a different unit than degrees. Although while I haven't gotten super in depth learning QGIS, it feels like there's an impedance mismatch in that it seems to be a 2D program that treats degrees as linear units (and then applies a fudge factor to degrees longitude), rather than a native 3D program. So I'm doing all of my collection, point storage, and calculation with scripts outside of QGIS, and then only pushing the cooked results to QGIS for visualization.
How do you know they fixed it shortly after the email? Did you keep sampling the distribution and performing chi square tests?
That’s the opposite of what I want.

It’s directly incentivizing clickbait headline crap based on views. If I click on something and hate it I’d be annoyed I paid them anything.

Substack’s model is better. I pay for quality writing I like that deserves my attention.
This is the only real problem, everything else is noise. If that means Medium can’t have a successful business, “Medium is Dead”
Calvin French-Owen is the founder of Segment and Baker Shogry was Head of Product at Plaid until recently.
How would an open source windows improve react? The tooling?
I don't know if this fits what you were thinking of but I love rateyourmusic.com. Great community, great content, simple website.
That would be a boneheaded maneuver for sure.
I honestly think that ML is too consistent and regular.

Natural languages inevitably build in a lot of redundancy that can seem irrational but that serves a very important purpose in decreasing confusion and increasing the rate of comprehension. The redundancy makes the language harder to describe, but it reduces cognitive load once you've learned it because it's easier to distinguish between different elements, even in less-than-ideal conditions.

I think this is where both Lisp and ML fall short and why they consistently lose to the more convoluted syntaxes: what seems like a flaw is actually an important feature that makes comprehension easier. Sure, you can go overboard (looking at you, Perl), but the irregularities present in C-style languages are valuable extra information channels that increase cognitive bandwidth.
Interesting combo of disgusting and boring. Glad mayo-based sauces are getting the shellacking they deserve.
> People seem to love Python syntax.

I sure don't. I'll take explicitly-delimited blocks over having to slap a ruler to my screen to know what scope I'm in any day. It's a prime example of why form over function is a horrible tradeoff.

I use Python in spite of how much I hate its syntax (and myriad other aspects of it) because it's often the path of least resistance.

> ML syntax is just more regular, consistent, and typed.

My sample size is "Elm and Haskell", and of that sample size, my impression is the precise opposite. I encountered enough cases of whitespace that shouldn't have mattered but does anyway that it put me entirely off both languages.

Lisp? Tcl? Forth? Now those are regular and consistent (though admittedly rarely typed).
Ah I read the parent comment incorrectly, replace posts with comments. I'm not if anyone can downvote posts either.
'The Last Of Us' made us wonder: Could a deadly fungus cause a pandemic?
The funny thing is that it will be impossible to know, unless you are at Microsoft.

In the event that an artificial intelligence does get released into the wild that people lose control over, we will never know what is hallucination, and what is real when interacting with it.
Which FAANG uses slack? Because I'd like to avoid them. Microsoft and Google sure don't, but then they have their own thing going on, so I'm not sure that's any better.
Wow, these are gorgeous! Can I ask where you get your DEM data and at what resolution? I’ve been wanting to play around with some relief maps of various bioregions (eg the Great Lakes watershed, Cascadia, etc), but I’ve had trouble figuring out where to find data at the right resolution
Which part of you thinks this?
What about a monkey in a superman suit shooting lasers?
Hi. I'm Australian.

When Australian companies offer shareholder deals (like capital raises, offering shareholders a chance to get in first on favourable terms) there is usually a neatly printed prospectus that has a couple of pages in very explicit language saying "this is NOT FOR AMERICANS. Please do not show this to a US citizen. If you are a US citizen, you must disregard this booklet!".

It always strikes me as unfortunate just how badly the US is locking themselves out of otherwise quite good investment opportunities. I always assumed that these service refusals were due to AML laws using logic similar to what you describe. It is always the US. We're ok with Europeans, Asians, Africans and South Americans.
This is slightly misleading,

Apple relies a lot on contractors. Those 2 IR folks likely have 2-3 comms firms on retainer. Those 7 treasury folks likely have an entire team staffed at a major bank.

Some companies decide to source labor in house, others don’t.
What is the differentiation of DuckDB compared to previous OLAP databases such as Snowflake or Singlestore?
I've done this a few times, just an electrolytic capacitor across the battery pins often works.
Mitsubishi Hyperheat…. Works at 100% capacity to -5f
QGIS is great, used it to cut out laser cut maps as presents for my neighbors. Has a steep learning curve but ton of online help.
Java is even worse to be honest, you basically need an IDE for it, so much that VSCode literally ships a build with Java preconfigured.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/java#_install-v...
Oh wow, I thought OCP used crun at least. Surprising!

I do think the revenue from OpenShift and friends funds Podman/buildah/crun/etc.
I worked on this project - Web Components had a lot to do with it. It's true they weren't feature complete in Firefox when we started the project (notably missing Shadow DOM) - but the first migration from late 2017 was XBL->Custom Element (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500626), and we used the migration project to inform performance and feature work for Web Components within Firefox.

We could have converted the bindings to JS modules (and we did plenty of that too), but Web Components were key because they allowed us to migrate in-place with near API compatibility rather than rewriting the UI. I have a post at https://briangrinstead.com/blog/firefox-webcomponents/ with more detail on that point.
You have a laughable over estimation of executives ability to value risk/reward ratios.

I’m half expecting you start quoting atlas shrugged here.
For thunderbird there is tbkeys which is the spiritual successor. I use it to implement mutt like keybindings.
> the holes create slow leaks that can take days or weeks to deflate the balloon

I've seen this claim often, but I'm still finding it hard to picture. I realize it's not going to "pop like a balloon", but days or weeks seems incredibly long. The weight of the payload causes at least some pressure on at least the top of the balloon, right?

Is the issue just the size of the hole versus total volume? Or maybe it's that the bouyancy increases as it starts to descend? Do you have a link that would make this clearer? I searched a little, but what I found were just assertions of fact.

I did find the 1998 story of the failed Canadian attempt to shoot down a balloon with fighter jets firing bullets (https://apnews.com/article/268893fddde785d029d5a51b136951eb). This makes me inclined to believe the conclusion, but it's still not intuitive to me.
I'd say the Soviets absolutely shot down that U2 in large part to prove that they could, and that to some degree at least, the US was flying those planes over to prove that they could.

There's a school of thought that says the US won the cold war by convincing the Soviets to bankrupt themselves trying to keep up with the arms race. Now I don't necessarily think that fully explains things, but I do think there's a lot more politics to a "spy" device than the actual photographs, especially outside the context of a hot war.
What specific hardware acceleration is possible? I think TPUs are already as good as you can get for accelerating large MLPs (half of what a LLM is). Is there that much overhead for the attention blocks?
It's guaranteed for any values that are comptime-known.
(Matasano / Monsanto confusion intensifies)
Alfred Camera – Simple Security at Your Fingertips
AGM-88 HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile)
Sharing feedback on 10 years of OSS on OpenMVG
10 years ago I released the first version of OpenMVG Feb 8, 2013 and I thought it would be nice to summarize my learning on 10 years of OpenMVG to celebrate these milestones.

𝑇𝐿;𝐷𝑅
OpenMVG is my attempt to create a project that allows individuals to learn 3D reconstruction from images. Through working on the project, I have gained valuable knowledge on various fronts and have greatly enjoyed the experience. Sharing this journey with others, discussing and collaborating has been extremely rewarding and helped me being a better developer, scientist and better person.

In this note I reflect on 4 points that matters when creating an open source project and share a take home message for each :
- Build the necessary code and start from scratch
- Make the entire toolchain open and usable freely
- Maintain and contribute to the project in a long term manner
- Getting contributions
A lot of people use Docker

A lot of people also don't pay for Docker
I would most definitely sleep better at night with a system like that watching the skies.
first of all i appreciate your willingness to own the issue, thats what i would hope any CEO would do.

my main issue as a reader (im the guy who frequently campaigns to just ban all medium.com links on HN) is the authwall that is thrown in our faces before we've had a chance to even read the article. its against the open web and not something i would encourage on HN. i understand youve changed your defaults but i still encounter these walls enough that there is just overall brand damage to Medium as a whole. mr stubblebine, please tear down that wall.
Is it easy to set up indexing for html / xml? Can you extract metadata from the file, etc?
So you think it's justified to have a petulant attitude when you're expected to follow employment, fire safety, and environmental regulations?

If he was happy to drop his prices to dump his product to force out competitors, than he should have been happy to accept the additional costs of complying with workplace, fire safety, and environmental regulations everyone else has to comply with. Oh wait...he wasn'.

Or he could have raised his prices. But then, he would have actually had to compete on product quality, and it's clear the only thing he really had going for him was that shapers were used to his product and it was cheap.

Since he's closed up, the market has undergone substantial innovation and improvement, including

Literally nothing stopped him from pursuing partnerships to develop and produce more environmentally friendly products, but that's a lot less fun than simply being yet another whiny, entitled boomer.
See also: WS-Deathstar
Sure but everyone would expect that in New York but people on here tend to miss that suburbs can be walkable too. I live in the most suburban neighborhood 25 miles away from central Phoenix that you could possibly imagine and have a 15 minute walk to 2 full size grocery stores, several bars, a wide variety of restaurants, plenty (an understatement) of medical offices, coffee shops etc. 20 minutes gets me to Walmart, a movie theater, and tons more. Having been to New York many times I strongly prefer the walk through tree lined, low traffic and noise streets that I have here.
I like this idea. I've kept all my old phones. Part of it is for nostalgia. But yeah be nice to plug them in and use them even if it's not efficient.
This is delusional, the best of Medium isn’t exclusive to Medium. The New York Times has over 150 years of reputation built on quality, and its content is available no where else. Medium has a loose collective of bloggers who can easily migrate to a different platform with no requirements on the quality of the content they produce. If you want to compare yourself to the NYT it’s not enough to have a few good articles, every article has to be held to the highest standards of trust and the vast majority must be exclusive.
AGM-88 HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM
“Traction” book is possibly the best book on the subject that is more or less recent and relevant to a wide range of businesses. It’s also very practical
That's much much worse. You need that separation
I imagine most stores would not change prices during business hours. For 24-hr stores, just do it at like 3am or something, those handful of customers won’t mind.
It's just a pretty ordinary Linux computer with a touchscreen and joysticks attached. I wouldn't do much serious dev on it myself because of the smallish screen but I've seen Real Hackers do more with less. Could be worth a shot!
They ran it through a database at Sandia Labs. ;)
You're still trying to frame a declining rate of increase as acceleration.
no, because on demand printing is garbage.
Presumably, GP is referring to a HARM[0] or similar anti-radiation missile[1]. I believe the targeting automatically, but presumably the pilot still had to pull the trigger.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-radiation_missile
Also fwiw, for healthy adults, the Department of Health and Human Services recommends 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity a week, or a bit over 10 mins a day, and dancing, especially with other people, is a fun way of getting those 10 mins in.
...which utter nonsense. Terms of sale include zero liability. Done, solved.

No, this man was just petulant that after decades of not following employment/environmental/fire regulations, he was finally being held to them...and his answer was to burn everything to the ground out of petulance.
Commenting on you and j_crick:

> That’s probably a chicken/egg problem, and I don’t know how I would even begin to untangle it if I were you.

Paywall half of the article so the reader gets an idea on whether or not they want to pay to read more. This would also encourage impulse purchases.

> Most of their job to start would be to build a regex list of article title structures which are overly cliched, so that those articles get de-merited by the recommender algorithm

Categorize articles. There's no need to make cliched articles impossible to find for the cliche-interested reader.
This might be the right thread to ask for help with a 3d problem I've been working on for a year or so.

I have a resin 3D printer, and I want to make handles for it. Specifically, ultra lightweight handles using an irregular lattice.

OpenSCAD chokes on trying to union 100s of cylinders. Real tools cost $1,000s. Right now it looks like I'll have to write something to do the union in voxel space
Unsub-squirrel
Atleast Fashion runs on yearly cycles, we run on 3-week cycle.
It sounds like you're entirely missing GP's point.
The pipeline is 80m underwater - a ship could be sailing right over and not even realize an explosion happened under it.
All characters would have been affected. If they had picked any 3 characters, and put them in a room with monsters repeatedly, they would have observed that the same character was attacked most times.
Yes, concentrate decentralised platforms on an increasingly dangerously centralised service, sounds like a good idea
This won't work because the conditionally-compiled platform-specific code is expected to not typecheck (or to use fields that do not exist, etc.)

The same feature is also used for specializing generic containers to specific types (an idea that became famous after the resounding success of std::vector<bool>) so that for example arraylists of u8 expose a Writer but arraylists of f64 do not. Most code that is conditional on T == u8 won't typecheck if T != u8.

I guess more generally these features are used for implementing fmt, json encoders and decoders, etc. None of these thing would work if code conditional on the type had to typecheck for all types.
My brother actually abandoned 50€ 10+ years ago because he refused to do that verification ... I wonder if he could actually get that money back in any way still ...
Phonk – Self-contained Creative scripting toolbox for Android devices
A few of the things I hate about ML syntax:

* Infix semicolons instead of paired delimiters to denote code blocks. These cause shift-reduce errors and make indentation unintuitive.

* Implicit currying turning what should be obvious argument count errors into type errors on unrelated lines.

* Implicit currying making parameter order overly significant. This drives languages to introduce infix pipe operators with unintuitive precedence and to bikeshed forward vs backward piping. This could all be done away with by having a dedicated partial application syntax.

* Postfix, of all things, for type constructors. Except for the ones that are, sigh, infix again.

* Inscrutable type signatures on higher-order functions, largely as a result of the above and of the convention of single-letter type variables.
Yep. And the core team has that "happy cult" vibe where they think that if they're (passive-aggressively) polite enough, they don't have to worry about anyone's opinion outside their insular little group. I tried to use it for a little project about a year ago, ran into some problems, and, searching around, found my problems were 1. not unique to me, and 2. were definitely not going to be solved by the language designers, despite a lot of people having the same suggestions. Their attitude is "either you design your app how we'd prefer you to or you don't use Elm at all." This doesn't work in any other technical project, but they think it's going to work for them for some reason.
That’s due to US securities laws, not AML.
The real reach through for Australia EY al. is FACTA, where any person with US citizenship invokes extra and onerous reporting requirements.
I'm sorry this just isn't an honest description of what's happened. Destigmatizing reporting UFOs is good. What factually happened is a handful of wackos from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Stars_(company) funded by the front man of Blink 182. They befriended billionaire Robert Bigelow that pulled influence for them in congress and hence they got their little scam project a veneer of legitimacy it frankly does not deserve.

These are the same clowns that have claimed to have extant physical samples of extraterrestrial materials, but only offered them to independent examination once, which didn't go well supporting their claims, and have paraded an endless number of excuses since while doubling down on claims it offers incontrovertible proof.

There's no big mystery here, these are relatively unsophisticated conspiracy nuts that got above average traction. That's it.
For some reason I always assume Go is faster than Javascript+V8. Is that actually true?
Those times were all about XML and application servers like ATG Dynamo, Coldfusion, BEA, JBoss, and WebSphere, with very delicate installation procedures that probably also involved XML.
I second everyone saying the paywall is the actual problem. I used to write on Medium a lot because it was a simple way to blog and share essays with a minimalist UI. Now it just feels like a clown product because you have a paywall between users and reading. I would never subject my writing to an ugly paywall and wouldn't want the experience my readers have with my content to be ugly and broken like that.
Yeah, converting it to gpkg sped it up a lot, thanks!

I assumed that since geojson is completely unsuitable for querying directly, it would load the whole thing into a native in-memory format, but perhaps not.
Do you become an ace after 5 ballons or do the ballons need to shoot back?
Show HN: Google Colab 1-click deploy LLM Apps
Get a shareable web app + production-ready endpoint in 1-click, straight from Google Colab.
It has none, mastodon is not mature or functional enough to be useful for most people.
I remember a few years ago I started to realize that if I somehow see the link pointed to "medium.com" I would just... nope. Not willing to take the gamble if I can read the page or not.
I think there is one pattern missing here. I've been working on a framework that has a server side virtual DOM, so all rendering happens on the server and updates are streamed to the browser. Kinda feels like React, but it's 100% server side. https://github.com/mayu-live/framework
I don’t have a good sense for how far one needs to be from one’s NTRIP base station, but I’m pretty happy with the UNAVCO data I’m getting. The nearest station is operated by Serious Professionals, and it won’t move if I mess around with my roof. :)
I've always thought that the "shadowban" meme was more about misunderstanding how big Twitter and The Internet are than anything else.