skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't abstract claims. You just reject and adjust what you think is relevant. You can say "requested and received significant grants and subsidies specifically for them" all you want, but that doesn't mean it's the only relevant piece in this comparison and Musk's intentional mislabeling of NPR. It is not the only relevant piece. I don't even know if the thing you've quoted even exists. Almost all, if not every single one of, government contracts, grants, subsidies, are open to bidders, applicants, etc. and are often required to be so. That being said, several times contracts, grants, etc. can be "open" to others while basically written such that only the intended party is the only one that can match the requirements. But it doesn't even matter whether SpaceX received these mythical things you feel like only matters, because the point is that Musk used false claims against NPR. And if you make the same claims as he did to SpaceX and Tesla, then you have "U.S. state-affiliated companies". Furthermore, the small amount of money NPR receives are from funds that aren't specifically for NPR. In fact, NPR has even received loans from the government that they paid back.

The entire point being that NPR operates just as much as many entities do with respect to receiving government support and is probably the least state mouthpiece of any news organization. Yet, Musk applies bizarro logic because NPR doesn't fit into his fringe political ideology. He creates chaos in the vain of Vladislav Surkov and Trump to suit whatever thing he is trying to promote at the moment. This whole situation is hypocritical, misleading, full of false information, and childish. We're wasting time here talking about it.

Summary: NPR receives a modicum amount of government support. SpaceX and Tesla receive billions in government support. Read support as grants, subsidies, loans, contracts, etc. CEO of SpaceX and Tesla calls NPR "U.S. state-affiliated media", which has very strong and negative connotations for a new organization that are ultimately not correct from any vantage point. Elon Musk, said CEO, consistently rants about government "handouts", bailouts, support, etc. despite simultaneously being the beneficiary of these programs.
You think the researchers who created transformers are going to become a commercial product team and be good at execution?

Google is great at research, one of the best companies in the world. They are also not very good at product. It will not be possible for Google to research their way out of the business problems they’re facing. They may win, but if so it will be because they get good at product, not because the transformers research team comes up with something even more amazing.
I have done work for NASA on this problem through SBIRs. The risks have been known for a long time, and to my team the extent of the damage was not surprising. NASA/SpaceX just don't have the computational tools to assess these types of risks at this time.
Having switched from RWD to FWD (Mercedes-Benz to Volvo), I'm not sure about this. Climbing up hills in the winter definitely felt worse in FWD, since all of the weight is going into the back and even with studded tyres, it felt like my front tyres were constantly slipping.

If I got to choose my drivetrain, I'd go AWD > RWD > FWD.
Good info, but just double checking... HGST is different than Seagate drives right? Or did Seagate buy HGST and now they are crap too?
Schools in my area get rid of chromebooks every 2 years. 15-30 devices per classroom, 30 classrooms minimum per school, 40 elementary schools alone.
Compressing a whole song down to the equivalent of two or three bytes and playing it back in an entirely different form should be considered fair use.
How do you even start writing counterpoint? What's the actual theory there?
Um... No? Parallel (though hierarchical/recursive would be more fitting term) states are literally designed to fight combinatorial explosion of transitions. Qt docs provide nice, concise summary: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/statemachine-api.html#using-parallel-...

Instead of transitioning on multiple parameters you decompose states into respective nested state machines to avoid this explosion
Strong 'How To With John Wilson' energy - it works well for this type of presentation, nice one
He’s gained immortality through his work.
Even 80000k CQP HEVC at 2160x2160 looks pretty janky.

Yeah, catastrophic is a good descriptor.
Perhaps you'd like to explain some of those considerations rather then just waving at them.

Modern jet turbines are running within a few % of maximum thermodynamic efficiency. So what consequences other then CO2 emissions are worse then anything else?

And for that matter, how would biofuels possibly be worse fossil fuels, given that the whole point is to not emit net CO2 into the atmosphere. Obviously it's "efficient" because all the energy we put in has to come from the sun, rather then obtained for free but that's the point.
> Meanwhile Motor Vehicle Deaths have not changed significantly in 40+ years

That's a massive failure, in other developed countries, motor vehicle deaths have drastically declined in 40 years.
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> I barely ever use commands other than the basic ones - git pull, git commit, git add/remove, git push, git merge

I routinely use checkout / switch, rebase, diff, cherry-pick, stash, revert, git status (on CLI). They are very useful. I don't know where "5 commands" meme comes from.
Or just a List_of_ article or even just a category on Wikipedia. There are mentions, sometimes articles dedicated to, other cases but not organized across the topic that I can see, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#History
> “how did they build this?”

I feel like this is the absolute distilled essence of this site and its visitors.
I was out of country for 9 years, and when I moved to California from China, they didn’t make me take the driving test since I had a California license before (7 years out date), but I was surprised.
Why not just not have a dog? Even kids aren't this much of a difficulty. Why do people want such an inconvenient and expensive pet? It seems like either virtue signaling or wealth signaling to me.
Wow, what a great campervan. I've seen some of the egg-like old japanese campervans but not one like yours. Very cool!
It's like that in America because it has to be. If you required real driving skill from American drivers just to get a license, most of them would fail. It works in some other countries because people there are able to live without a car, and having a car is a luxury. In America, it's a requirement for basic survival in most places because America decided decades ago that it wanted things to be that way, and built everything with that basic assumption.

You can't expect good competency in something like driving from 99% of the public; you're just not going to get it, no matter what it is.
Not very relevant to the main topic here, but the site www.havok.com seems to have a SSL cert problem.
And yet if you took any significant time period that doesn't include the Breivik shooting Norway's results are just fine. I'd even think if you looked at the last 50 or 75 years (assuming we have good enough data) they'd be better than the US's. And certainly if you included Norway along with other countries with similar policies on dealing with violent criminals.
Which I don't even really think necessarily proves anything much on its own, but at least it's a meaningful data point.
SpaceX rocket explosion illustrates Elon Musk's 'successful failure' formula
Shouldn’t the policy response be really-actually-your-natural-life-without-parole sentences instead?
No. That was still based on DIGITAL recording, and the lie that "perfect digital copies" would cause an explosion of piracy. And of course our "representatives" toadied up to the corporations and abetted them in screwing consumers. And, by levying an asinine "tax" on blank media, it actually AUTHORIZED home copying by presuming guilt.

Anybody, yes ANYBODY based in reality knew that essentially all "piracy" took place in dorm rooms and bedrooms on double-cassette boom boxes... FAR from "perfect" copies. People who could afford DAT recorders were not going to be sapping record-company profits.

And we all know what happened next: The "perfect digital copies" lie was further debunked with the ascendancy of MP3... another lossy and imperfect reproduction.
Asynchronous Programming in Python with Asyncio
It is a good idea with and incredibly misleading name.
They're really not exaggerating, terrible performance makes this unusable on mobile.
It is very cool!
Congrats on this launch! I don't (yet) have to monitor my blood glucose but I have family who does, and I'll be sending them a link. I like how it puts a usable face on all the data squirreled away in HealthKit. I use a similar approach for weight measurements, where one (ugly, annoying, locked-in) app that came with my scale adds measurements to HealthKit, but I use Happy Scale to view and interpret the measurements.

Have you considered making an Android version of Glucomate? I haven't looked into HealthKit itself but I'm working on another app that has privacy-sensitive concerns. When considering whether to make an Android version of my app, I realize that as little as I know about building privacy-respecting apps for ios devices, Android seems like at least an order of magnitude harder.
The US doesn't use imperial units: it uses "US customary" units. Some of them are the same, but others are not. For instance, a gallon in the UK is very different from a gallon in the US, which causes miles-per-gallon ratings to be quite different between the two countries. The UK's gallon is properly called an "imperial unit" since the British actually had an Empire; the US did not.
The Nord Stream Explosion Remains an Unsolved Mystery Gripping Europe
America's really big. The part I'm in, ebikes are en vogue, with people giving up cars to get ebikes, and car drivers give them right of way. I'm sure elsewhere in the US it's different yet again.
I’ve built an open source tool where you can use ChatGPT to build react components and instantly see the results via a preview Sandbox. Like codepen + ChatGPT for react components. Might be useful for use case.

https://webpilot.sh
https://github.com/sudonymously/webpilot
I've also run Linux on the desktop for over 20 years. Knowing everything in the system is probably nearly impossible unless you're a professional sysadm, like people who specialize in what's called devops now. I agree; I don't want to memorize systemd commands or configure WiFi from the command line; there's convenient GUI tools for things now and it's easy to just work on other things. Even as a developer in a Linux-only environment, I let the devops/infrastructure people deal with most problems if I have them, though of course the corporate computing environment is a lot more complex than my home setup.

I disagree about cars though. Back when I had a car, I did my own work, because it took less time and would be done properly. Unless you have a chauffeur or something (or take Uber I guess, but that costs more money), it takes a lot of time to have someone else service your car: you have to drive it to the shop, then sit there for a while until they can get to it, then sit there while they do the work, then sit around a while longer until they can finally check you out (while also trying to upsell you a bunch of crap), then drive home. Then you find out later they messed something up, got grease on your carpet, etc. Even if they fix that, that's even more time you have to spend. It was a lot easier for me to just do it myself. Someone will probably say something about "loaners" here, but that's usually for larger jobs, not just oil changes.
buyout bingo!

i'm thinking:

- Lotus

- Macromedia

- CA

edit: i take it all back! my memory is not as good as i thought it was re: software companies. i will leave up my sorry list as penance for my crappy recent tech history skills.
Turing initially distinguishes between ‘automatic machines’ which do not receive input, and ‘choice machines’, which do. It then describes the latter in terms of the former.

It only talks about binary choices, but keyboards are just methods for sending a few of those at once.

If you don’t abstract away that kind of stuff, it’s not obvious why you’re doing any generalisation at all.

Tetris.app on my phone cannot read from a game boy cartridge, or speak to a joystick or arcade cabinet CRT screen - is it Tetris complete?
https://archive.is/fBpcN
I'm wary of anyone claiming to be the arbiter of ethics in general. It always sounds like just authoritarianism in disguise.
My issue with this take is that companies have used leverage and lobbying to get to define when a company isn't a single entity and when it is not, always in their advantage. For example, a company is involved in a human death: the company is suddenly not a single entity and is instead simply part of this complex system of moving parts out of which emerged a human death. As another example, a corporation wants to donate to politicians (for "reasons"): the company is suddenly a single entity and even individual (!) who has constitutional rights to political donations.

Companies flip flop back and forth between them being a collective and individual at will and to their singular benefit.
I only had one driving test when I was 15 in Mississippi. Drive around the court house block, no parallel parking. I moved to Washington the next year and only had to take the written test, and I’ve seen to be able to miss driver tests ever since even though my license has lapsed twice, the last time for 7 years.

I’m now back in Washington (Seattle), and I’m shocked at how often people run stop signs here.
I remember 20 years ago that half of Linux GUI apps were Tcl/Tk. Yes, people made fun of them for not being "native", but I'd much prefer a Tcl/Tk app over a modern Electron one.
> If everyone has one, it's not a status symbol

iPhones somehow manage to be a status symbol even with 50% of the US population owning one
In India, DEI is nothing but an initiative getting more ~posh~ Affluent urban women into IT jobs.

Whereas someone like me, from humble background and acquired much better skills by my own effort and sacrifice, is denied the same opportunities.
So what was that? Was Starship’s launch a failure or a success?
At inference time, a human being has access to 5 to 9 variables at most an average human can hold in their head at any given time. But I can feed pages and pages to an LLM and it has a perfect representation of every single word and letter in its working memory. It also has access to a look up table of billions of statistical correlations for what the next word or block of words in any sentence should be given the perfect priors.

If I'm talking to you, especially in person, I won't be able to tell you what the second word of three sentences ago was. In fact, I might not have even been paying attention, because I'm already thinking at a higher level about what you're communicating to me and the word wasn't all that important. But a LLM certainly uses this information to guide its responses (along with its ginormous lookup table).
When people talk about biofuel as a replacement for oil (which needs to be replaced) I think of the scenes from Horizon Forbidden West where the AI killbot just sucks in all the life around it and leaves the landscape dead.
https://melonjs.org/

https://github.com/melonjs/melonJS
I can't speak for the person you reply to, but for me, I get a certain easy, comfortable feeling when I see something that looks like a GOOD basic 90s site. I don't mean the stereotypical spinning GIFs and whatever -- but if I see thoughtfully-presented content using nothing more than the default font, blue links (purple if I cliked it!), maybe some <hr> tags to help with organization a bit, and I see "Last Updated: 2023-xx-xx", I feel like I'm in very good company.

(but I do appreciate some effort to constrain the page margins. :) )
That's right. You receive an email at the end with more details and the full methodology.
this article is missing one of the main points for not going much larger. The larger you go, the more data you have to resend on a retransmit. Ethernet doesn't have fragmentation, so you can't simply resend a piece of it. in other words, if you had a 1MB frame that was lost, you would have to retransmit the entire thing again.
The FDA would like to remind you not to put amniotic fluid in your eyes
I think you'll find that Hacker News can be quite hostile to something viewed as "alternative" information, especially if it relates to certain companies. I found the article quite interesting and actually quite informative and evidence driven.
Np! Although there may still be some special WebGPU features in v113 that make v94-112 less ideal.
How would that work for an EV that doesn’t have an engine? I guess that’s a point in the article, however.
Soreness becomes something to expect post-surgery for Kenta Maeda
Yes, most large data centers use bigger frames internally. it's only when you get past the cgnat router that they go back to the compatible sizes.
Perhaps this is one of the greatest paradigm shifts for traditional software engineers as “AI” becomes more commonly integrated: maybe we will have to use anthropomorphic language and maybe it will be considered the most technically correct way of talking about these systems due not only to their non-deterministic nature but also their emergent properties.

(This was a great post btw - highly recommend if you’re just perusing the comments)
Neat. I was just in Nelson BC a week ago and had no idea that "kootenay bucks" was a thing.
Hard to get the equivalent depth perception I imagine.
I really wanted to use GPT-4 but still just waiting in line :(
I should add in your tip, would save me a retry call every now and then I’m sure.
For me, this crashed at about a minute in with a sad error screen.
A Caribbean island's quest to become the first climate-resilient nation
In Korea, there's a truck called the "Bongo" which is more of platform for cabover small trucks -- which includes box trucks, pickup-style utility trucks, flatbeds, etc. But all designed to be small and work well in tight urban environments.

The stock Bongo sort of vaguely represents an American pickup truck if it was built by somebody who had only ever heard of one described. However, they're ubiquitous, and the boxtruck versions handle a lot of what we in the U.S. would use semi trucks for.

In Korea they tend to be made by Kia, and I think in Japan there's a near identical variant by Mazda.

They can be had pretty cheap, a friend of mine has one for some farmland he has outside of Seoul and he says he bought it for ~$5k.
https://github.com/aolserver/aolserver

“AOLserver is the backbone of the largest and busiest production environments in the world.”

: )

That title must go to Nginx or Envoy these days.
this is not true at all. All modern routers use a combination of ASICs and CPUs. some of the data plane even runs through the CPU, depending on the protocol. also, TCP segmentation offload does not mean that the entire TCP protocol is offloaded onto the NIC. only a small part of it is and the rest of it still goes through CPU.
right? like, as a top 500 user, do i get a say in this?
I have CenturyLink business internet with a static IP. It has 1492 MTU. So technically 1500 isn't always true, sometimes it's smaller :)
Not sure if you're subtly being critical of my use of the word. However I do have something to add to your thought. Richard Feynman has a really interesting quote, I'm paraphrasing, but he says it's hard to learn some things initially because everything is named slightly wrong. At the time I was also reading some Wittgenstein and that got me thinking about words and what they correspond to. I really do think they simply just correspond to the multitude of contexts they exist in now. For instance, if you look up the definition of words, you get more words, and then for those words, other words. It's turtles all the way down, it's all circular. The only grounding is the situation where the noises are made and then consequences follow, that's what I think characterizes them, and so atomic words are meaningless, they only have any discernible meaning in time and place in configuration with certain other words and with certain people.

I think using a word like the matrix in a strict sense when it comes from a movie about just about all the evocative ideas in Western thought is ludicrous. It's pedanticism on steroids.
So this is the right's famed commitment to freeze peach.
The 20th Century 'Sun engine'
Does it work with more than 4 faces while keeping 90 degree turns?
> BPF programs are written in C, and compiled into BPF bytecode. Like other bytecode instruction sets, BPF programs are platform-independent and just-in-time (JIT) compiled.

That sounds similar to what Inferno was doing. Though I'm unaware whether Inferno did it in kernel space, but PhantomOS definitely did - their argument was that, since you can't run native code directly, only through the bytecode, memory safety can be achieved by simply not giving a program any reference to a memory address it's not supposed to access. Apparently, this approach achieves memory protection without using an MMU.

Would be cool to see if Linux eventually goes down that path.
A 10x-100x increase in sound beyond approved levels, intentionally skipping or lobbying to skip approvals, ignoring environmental impact, and using designs as if they were approved when it was really earlier, much different versions are not examples of gray areas.
> From a morality perspective, how is the death penalty materially different than using lethal force in a war?

Very few of the moral arguments in favor of killing people in war time have anything to do with killing people for punishment.

If you have a captured criminal, they pose no threat to ~anyone and no threat to your society at large.
i don't think SO is going to compensate its contributors who actually provided the answers though
I see what you mean: an engine leans a truck forward, particularly because the truck's engine is usually farther in front of the wheels than it would be in a car.

I imagine that's exasperated by the fact that everything behind the cabin is built to be as minimal and lightweight as possible, but the overall design is made to support a heavy maximum load filling the bed. Without significant weight in the bed, the truck will naturally lean forward.

Unfortunately this all applies to trucks, and does nothing to help my FWD Civic accelerate up a snowy hill.
2023 study: Practices of Euro VCs (incl. terms, valuations, IRR)
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Andrew Odlyzko's website is much in this style: <https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/>

Hal Varian's UC Berkeley pages as well: <https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/papers.h...>

Both of those are highly info-dense to boot, and load near-instantly.