skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you'll find I said it that it enhances existing power structures, and suggested some alternative power structures it could enhance to act contrary to a given power structure, rather than saying it was "impossible." I also acknowledged that it does sometimes buck this general observation.
Ukrainians won't do the capitulation, submission, or subjugation you want from them. They do not share your nihilism.

You need to recalibrate your sloppy thinking.
Other than having nukes, Russia is no superpower. Nukes are useless in this war.
Every time I have an issue on Xfce, it's always due to GNOME, and always due to bad coding practices. In this post I dig deep into my last issue, how I fixed it, and why it's still not solved upstream after three years.
To me it's kind of scary. Like they know they're sitting on a bomb, so they're trying to tell us the safest way they plan to detonate it.
Are they required to go to office? Or is working allowed remotely?
>> Nobody reads or interacts with emails anymore, they use threads.

> Not remotely true. Perhaps you're thinking about Gmail webmail users?

Speaking for myself - I have threaded / conversation view in outlook on desktop and Android - and Gmail on Android.

>> and requires a thread-first view of the inbox.

> Seeing how Sent messages, which aren't in the inbox, are typically part of threads - even that would not be enough...

Both Gmail and Outlook show the whole thread / conversation regardless if only one mail (eg: latest reply) is "in" the inbox (and rest is "archived" for example).

This is via propiatary communication with the servers (Gmail / o365).

This is the work flow to replicate one way or another.
ordinary commercially available terrestrial solar panels (which are heavy when built into glass front panel and backing sheet + aluminum frame), made from high efficiency monocrystalline si cells are commonly maxing out like:

60 x 6W 156mm cells = 360W STC rating

72 x 6W 156mm cells = 430W STC rating or around there.

If they used triple junction GaAs cells or something exotic like you'd see on a satellite it could be something very different.

The same mono Si cells could be used in something built to be fragile and light weight for attaching to a giant balloon.

If it's something thin film the efficiency is probably less.
> The question is whether Russia will violate 80 years of superpower precedent

No need to ask that question. Putin has made Russia weaker, poorer, and a pariah with fewer friends:

https://fortune.com/2023/02/20/russia-economy-self-immolated...

Russia has become a lesser state run by a sad little man. If Russia wants to rebuild itself then its best option is to remove Putin and withdraw entirely from Ukraine.
Always willing to pay, hey?
> surely a satellite does what this does but better? China has no shortage of high quality spy satellites.

Maybe not. Satellites are highly predictable and things can be tucked neatly away when they’re known to be overhead.
> I find his post-Cryptonomicon stuff more focused (or at least more cohesive? Structurally cogent?) on a conceptual level.

Are you looking to be delighted by words rather than ideas? Perhaps I'm extrapolating a bit here, but you seem you like your complex language constructs, so to speak?

English is a second language to me. I wonder if this isn't also a factor.

The ideas in Snow Crash where really the most important things.. next to brilliant writing style (the deliverator...).
Seems to alternate nowadays between a sci-fi-tinted-page-turner that goes to some really weird places, and an intellectual sci-fi (that also goes some weird places, but that's pretty common for sci-fi).
> seems to peak at 800,000

I said peak, which was 2 years ago. the traffic quickly went to clones, which I also pointed out. there are plenty of other dashboards to find as well. Dune Analytics is a service for creating these dashboards, and sharing them.

I know, you don't have enough interest to look. But it comes across as a bad faith effort, no different than the kind of person I pointed out earlier.

The difference is that there were people that said "hey lets create this tool within 'useless crypto land' that could attract a million users", while over the last 15 years you were like "this is useless there's nothing with a million users", someone else said "hey lets make this better so an additional several hundred thousand more people can use it", while you were like "this is useless because there's nothing with a million users"

anyway, now its here and you don't even want to count it

there are plenty of people building, it is very lucrative to do so, primarily by taking small basis points of the volume flowing through the application you deploy, just like in the non-crypto financial services world.
I agree with this in principle. In reality, these grocers have been caught fixing bread prices[0] and not a single person has gone to jail. The dairy industry is also a cartel. Of course, they can keep doing this because the government is in bed with these corporations, and so we come full circle to bad policies.

[0] - https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/still-no-answers-on-yearslon...
Clickbait title because arstechnica is a garbage publication.

Employees are expected to work 2 days a week out of the office, and will swap the desk with another employee. They will not sit at the same desk at the same time.

Doing anything less is wasteful, and if Google was doing this before it was robbing investors.
Thought exercise: a law is passed personally charging the CEO of your phone company $20. How many hours would it take before they’d magically announce that it is in fact technically feasible to block spoofed phone numbers and de-peer the shady VoIP providers who originate most spam?

They don’t do this now because it’s more work and they aren’t legally required to do so. The money they get from the spam outfits is greater than the cost, so the phone companies didn’t have an incentive to stop it. Make it uneconomical and that can change very quickly.
We've made it highly customizable [1]. For some folks, a package that has not been updated for a while could be classified as abandonware. You can turn off the alerts that do not apply to you by commenting out in .packj.yaml file.

We're working on making it similar to email spam. Will post more soon. Meanwhile, we welcome changes that can make it less noisy for the community.

[Edit:] one can specify Github API token to get around rate limiting. We'd deeply appreciate if could create an issue for this on the repo.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj#customization
John and I were in graduate school together (computer science, U Wisconsin - Madison). He was indeed a remarkable person. He was blind and deaf. He carried around a little mechanical Braille typewriter. To talk with John, you would type, and he would extend his hand into the device and feel the Braille impressions of what you were typing. He was not qualified for a normal seeing eye dog program because of the extent of his disabilities. So, he got a dog on his own and trained her. Her name was Sugar, and I can still hear John talking with and giving instructions to her. He was a living demonstration of the stunning heights that people achieve from time to time. I believe his PhD advisor was Marvin Solomon who was (is) also a remarkable and admirable person.
Since Bun is a runtime for JavaScript, wouldn't Vite benefit from being run on top of it? My experience with Vite is that as the number of files in a project grow, it can slow down quite noticeably.

And following up on that, has anyone tried a Bun/Vite combo?
And Buproprion is used (among other things!) both as a weight loss drug and smoking cessation aide.
Well, you could have started a legitimate conversation here about commitment or gender roles or whatever it is "blackpilled" means. With a genuinely diplomatic attitude and some nuance in your presentation you can broach most topics on here without getting too many downvotes.
Ask HN: What's with Wikipedia's excessive banners?
Is it just me or do those banners appear much more often than before? I know you can dismiss them, but it's getting annoying.
This is not some kind of lawyer golf. Google employees with functions far outside legal wrote things like:

> “Let’s not talk about markets and market share via email.”

> “[W]e should chat live so you can get the history; best to not put in email.”

> “Since it’s a sensitive topic, I prefer to discuss offline or over hangout.”

This is of course not, in fact, some cute way around legal custodial requirements, no matter what the people who passed leetcode preached in trainings.
ChatGPT Clone in Google Sheets
Well, if you don't treat your workers with respect you won't get loyalty. This isn't regulation's fault, nor is it the worker's fault. Back when corporations would keep people for their whole career (with suitable pay increases and promotions) and allow them to retire with a pension, then they would get people who would use their training and not take off afterwards.

Second order effects, indeed. More like third or fourth order effects.
ex-Loon engineer reporting in. Can confirm, I'm having a good chuckle.
"capitalism" != "free market" != "fair market with competition".
Hmm, sorry for that. The story is there, I guess they just changed the URL for some reason:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-pas...

(or maybe it was me with a typo, again apologies)
Cyrus is a system like dovecot?
whoo hoo! Finally! Congrats!!!!

I'm super excited to see this version out.
The Economist - I don't know what their actual thinking is behind this, but as usual they should probably rename themselves to The Marxist. On this occasion though, most comments seem to be in agreement against The Economist.
The study literally concludes that regardless of what party is in power, it's the interests of the oligarchs that take precedence. Whenever there is a difference of the opinion between the masses and the oligarchs then the oligarchs typically win. That's whose interests the parties represent.

And, if you think that's what a democracy is then what else is there to tell you.
Thank you for sharing this lovely tribute
Soul?

Part of the ideology of Microsoft is that it is a ‘safe space’ for those not on the cluetrain. How is it that Steam can make a successful game store for Windows but Microsoft can’t. How it is that OneDrive shreds your files but Dropbox works OK?
Maybe they weren't just surveilling, but actually attacking cell networks and/or mobile phones through a vulnerability that requires line-of-sight. Just speculation though.

Could also just be a distraction from something else they were up to at the same time.
I’m quite certain it will come out that nobody loses their jobs over this.
I've played Super Metroid all the way through annually since it came out. It's still great IMO. Also still enjoying playing Skyrim now and then.
but you'll recover that time by not touching your mouse... ;o)
I don't know. Back in the 80s the goal posts for AI was always a machine that understands. We've not even come close to building that.

Instead, for-profit companies seem to have let their marketing departments move the goal-posts to the 40-yard line. "We can't build real machine intelligence, so we'll call this AI."

For me, I always thought R2D2 or R. Daneel Olivaw were what AI was supposed to be. Not "playing Go is hard, so a computer program that can do that is AI." It's the AI label that has been misapplied.

I know, this is where I get the lecture about words meaning different things over time. It's why the technical term for the stuff we've been talking about is Machine Learning systems, not "AI." The "AI" phrase is marketing fluff.
It changed circa 2015-2016.
Google (at least circa 2014 when I graduated) has slowly taken on the image of a “retirement home” (i.e. where you go to turn your brain off and clock in to get paid) in elite STEM undergrad programs. Oracle had solidified their spot, but at least at Google it used to be easy to find interesting teams if you knew people there to navigate the team matching process. Now it’s decline is in full swing, its sad but seems inevitable for behemoths of human capital.
Humans communicating with animals (in cases where that's possible) is only interesting or worthwhile because of how similar our brains are to theirs. We don't spend a lot of effort trying to communicate with more primitive animals. I'm not sure why an AGI would necessarily regard us more like chimpanzees than lungfish. If we could talk to a lungfish... what would it say? Is its perception of the world even sophisticated enough for it to matter?

And to be clear, I'm actually not an AI catastrophist. I just don't think any sufficiently advanced AI is going to be very motivated to help us with our puny problems. I think it's more likely they'll just fuck off somewhere far away where we can't bother them.
Meta Notches Win as FTC Drops Challenge to Virtual-Reality Deal
Wow didn't know they took a loan of $7 million dollars. That is an insane amount for a runtime without market adoption. Another one of those 2021 VC play I guess.
Show me an economist that uses the word hysteresis. Their models are quite primitive IMHO and not because they're powerful like the ones used in thermodynamics, but they act like they are.
> also doesn't really make that much sense... surely a satellite does what this does but better? China has no shortage of high quality spy satellites. I don't think it's obvious what the purpose is.

Don't believe the spy angle that much.. maybe this is not about what its purpose is right now, but what it might quickly need to be at some point.. imagine nations start shooting their satellites, orbit becomes unhabitable, and you still want to go spying.. or just replace your satellite based comms network!
Upvoted but I actually have more fondness for HOMM2.
Nice, thanks. Saved me time. Lol
I'm sorry, but any society that has 60% living below the poverty line, and is ran by a totalitarian regime with minimal respect for basic human rights is absolutely backwards. South Korea, one of the most advanced societies in the world, is basically what North Korea could be if not for its brutal dictatorship.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0417-4
For RF SIGINT anything the ionosphere absorbs, scatters or reflects isn’t observable by satellites but may be from this balloon.
Right, make a clever decision in a bright moment. Don't rely on willpower day-to-day. General life strategy :)

Not buying the bag of chips is an obvious example, as is buying a used car vs. leasing a new one.

Picking a diet that doesn't make you overeat is another one, and I'm in the process of figuring out what that means for me :)
You make some good points! Thanks for your insight :)
What are they claiming regarding the correctness of the responses?
If I recall details of this story as it was breaking - there was an emphasis that the US tried repeatedly to communicate with counterparts in China to discern the nature of the balloon and cool the situation. From memory, the Chinese side refused to engage on any level... which ultimately led to the balloon being shot down.

The Chinese are advanced - there's no chance they couldn't/didn't monitor a balloon of this size launching into their airspace. There's no chance they do not know the true origin and owner of the balloon.

If it were civilian/private and/or university - this would have been easy to explain and prove. The balloon may have still ultimately been downed (it was violating airspace regardless of who owns it) - but the situation would have gone rather differently.
That is really cool! With the size of mini LCD displays these days, it might even possible to make one with a working screen. Ironically, microcontrollers are so powerful today, a tiny embedded board could actually be more powerful than the original.
How could I argue it better?
On AI hard takeoff/alignment risk (the stuff that talk was about) I feel exactly the same. I am very surprised at the unreasonable effectiveness of large language models at doing... whatever it is they're doing, but I stand behind everything I said in that talk.
> I find it funny that there’s a group of people who say “20-30 hour work weeks result in major productivity gains” meanwhile others say “I want to work 2x 40 hour jobs!”

You find it funny that different people have different needs and wants?

> In other words, should an employer require you to have work life balance by not having more than 8 hours of work obligation per day?

An employer should get what they pay for -- which is the value of the labor and time of the employee. No more and no less.
Haven't noticed much of a lack of any of them other than jalapeños specifically. There's no shortage of cruciferous vegetables, lettuce, or gourds. I've a bunch of sweet peppers sitting on my fridge. We grow plenty of all those, except peppers and tomatoes.
No, and if anything South Korea is proof of their potential. What's evil is the dictatorship holding back North Koreans.
1) I'm an asperger and my ability to build social links is severely impaired

2) I'm not in touch with these people anymore though I've tried to reach everyone I was able to and get their opinions. My conclusion is: the propaganda is extremely effective. People there easily pronounce self-contradictive statements and easily turn to aggression.
The history of the U-2 is actually pretty wild, they flew out of Peshawar Pakistan with full cooperation of the Pakistani military for a long time.

Later on, the famous Chuck Yeager was the US military representative in Pakistan.
Sounds like a Seinfeld plot for one of Jerry's relationships. Bet this lady also goes "Sorry, I just don't see it working out. Not with your green bubbles."
In some sense satellite internet makes the rural/urban challenge of deploying internet worse. If a low orbit constellation is going to serve one person in a random location it has to cover the 70% of Earth that is ocean and probably another 50% of the land that is uninhabitable.

All else being equal satellite internet should be priced high enough that people who have a choice don’t choose satellite internet, if you feel that is unfair and too high a price for people who don’t need a choice there has to be differential pricing. Or at the very least charge people in busy grid squares more.
Nobody knows of any certain reasons to not scale, but there's plenty of speculation. Someone else posted about Gil Kalai in this subthread, so he's one high profile person that has documented his skepticism on quantum computing and explained his reasons.

For my part, I don't think quantum foundations are on a firm footing. I think the measurement problem is still unresolved to a satisfactory degree, which means our understanding of decoherence is incomplete.

Per the link I posted above, there's also a good chance that gravity is inherently decoherent, which means entanglement will naturally breakdown in various conditions around mass.

I've also developed skepticism of quantum field theories. For one, the supposedly "most precise calculation in physics" has been marred by numerous mistakes and even fraud (electron magnetic moment). Renormalization is also sketchy business.

A more fringe reason, but one I think will resolve some of those issues is a growing skepticism of continuity [1], even for classical mechanics; continuous formalisms just seem to lead to logical and physical absurdities, like Norton's Dome and singularities in GR. Discrete theories are only now getting a little attention, but they're promising [2] because they seem to eliminate some of the formal structure (gauges), and the infinities disappear.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08997
Promised by whom?
Is this something like what you guys would have built if given a mission statement as "spent a few million dollars to build a really long endurance platform, cost is no object" ?
Recent versions of Node.js implement many web APIs. The ecosystem is converging on a mix of web APIs and Node.js APIs. Excluding a few cases (like setTimeout), this won’t be a recurring tradeoff for Bun's runtime APIs (module resolution, however, is complicated).
I can’t speak for the Railway team, but I am hiring at an early stage startup myself. There is absolutely no way we’d extend offers for all of the roles we have open if a candidate arrived for all of them next week. Growing that much so quickly would be a disastrous onboarding experience for most of the new hires and potentially risk our ability to build a consistent culture with the team. So we’ll hire whichever candidate(s) successfully complete the process first and then pause the other roles until we’re ready to onboard more people.

Then there’s also the reality at this stage you need people who can wear multiple hats. And there’s a bunch of roles where your ideal candidate doesn’t have a neat pre-established label. So sometimes we’ll post the exact same role with different titles to try and make sure it gets the attention of someone who most strongly aligns with one of those job titles.

At a previous place we worked remotely, and so the same job would be posted as both remote and then also as a dozen different specific city locations too. But if we were hiring multiple of any roles you wouldn’t multiply that, you’d just post the one listing(s) and keep it open until all the positions were filled.

A jobs page is a marketing artefact for potential hires, it’s not a financial reporting/forecasting tool.

TLDR: don’t make any assumptions from a job board about how many roles a company is realistically hiring for.
Composing a song in the first Amiga Tracker (SoundTracker 1.21)
Ever wanted to see how the very first Amiga tracker worked? I am spending a chunk of my Friday (starting 10am CST) putting together a cover of Gazuzu's "Go Go Gorilla" (1983).

The system itself is an emulated Amiga 500 running WorkBench 1.2 in WinUAE, using a copy of The Ultimate Soundtracker version 1.21.

The resulting track will then be upconverted using NoiseTracker, while also updating the effect commands, to be able to save a MOD version of the song, that can be downloaded.
Please learn what ad hominem means if you're going to use it. Nowhere am I suggesting that your argument is wrong because of your character flaws. I've explained why it's wrong on its own merits.
Did Stephenson become like the Pynchon of sci-fi or something? Cryptonomicon is such a huge book.
This is quite interesting to me also. I have a neuro and inflammatory disease with elevated liver enzymes since getting sick. It seems TUDCA is fairly safe.

How does one calculate their dose?

Looks like I need to find a reputable brand and seller, that's lab made (rather than bear bile) if anyone has suggestions.

EDIT: Okay this is quite shocking to me so had to share, in searching for reliable sources of TUDCA it looks like pharmaceutical versions are now being approved in Canada and the US for treatment of ALS that cost $13,000 per month!

https://biopharma.media/amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-new-dr...
"The Standard Flying Gloves worn by American military aviators since the 1960s are also touch screen compatible."

https://gibson-barnes.com/product/apparel/flying-gloves/touc... (sorry for using a random store as a source)

Given that we often see USAF pilot selfies online, it's clearly allowed at (special?) times. But as others have said, this was probably asked specifically for PR reasons.