skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All those riches are taken back as taxes. So while it sounds like europeans are rich it’s just on paper. But they take comfort in projecting their own status on similarly poor people from parts of europe that are developing faster but are bit behind since you know they only recently became free. It’s hilarious to observe and funny in a sad way.
To be fair, you're asking them to have solved a problem in advance that nobody knew that they would have.

Nobody had ever fired a rocket that strong. Their test firings were on par with the strongest previous rockets ever launched, and neither the test firings or those previous launches suggested that something like this was possible.

And it wasn't just them. They went through over a year of environmental review and mitigation efforts. To the best of my knowledge, the issue of how to handle the launch pad being blown over the local environment didn't come up even once.

Engineering is full of things like this. You learn that a problem is possible because it happens. Then you figure out how to mitigate it. That first time really sucks. But when it happens, you have to ask, "Was this something that should have been predicted?" And in this case I'm pretty sure that the answer is no.
What exactly is supposed to have happened to that cat? Leading with that photo with no explanation is completely ridiculous.
There is some truth to what you say, but I believe incremental deployment is possible. You could roll it out to end users in phases, a VLAN at a time. Same with the server side: migrate only a specific app to V6, perhaps just starting with a front end load balancer, adding external support to make it dual stack.

IPv6 has been available much longer than IPv4 was when the Internet went mainstream in the mid 90's. Yes, it's work to deploy. You might need to even upgrade to a router built in the past 10 years. Organizations have had decades to learn about it and deploy it. People just don't like change... especially corporate IT departments.
There's no room for a trench there. They're only a couple feed above water there.
My mother took me to a lot of musicals when I was a kid and this is a pretty common way for them to lead into an intermission, as well. Except of course after that big cliffhanger musical number, the curtains drop, the house lights come up, and the bathroom lines begin.
Downwoting me on HN or any online forum, doesn't affect me a bit. I can stand the enemies even if they outnumber me by 100x. Occasionally I can outsmart them, so I can take a point.

But denying me the possibility to provide food for my two kids, my wife and me, is another thing. And there are just two possible responses: either I won't talk anything meaningful to strangers, or, having calculated my chances, I would aggressively defend my right and my children's rights to speak our minds. And by aggressively I mean very, as in revolutionary very. You threaten my very existence, and then all bets are loose and anything that will let me and my people win over you is permitted.
All true, but I say a backup plan is better than no backup plan, especially as this is one (admittedly rich) sci-fi nerd's hobby project.

As even that specific nerd is also doing a big project to reduce environmental damage, this isn't an "either/or", it's an "and".
>Also, that's not a Bobcat. Probably best if you're going to write a sensationalized article, at least spend 5 mins to try to get your facts straight.

How can you tell? Some quick google searches of Texas bobcats show similar looking cats. They do look a bit different from what I am used to in the upper midwest.
All disposable rockets are dumped in the ocean, sometimes with toxic propellants still on board. Yet I've seen no end of articles about how bad this test is for the environment. I saw it all over the place even before this launched.

SpaceX wants its rockets to be fully reusable, which means when they work they will not be dumped in the ocean. They're also using less toxic and less CO2-intensive propellants on Starship than most other rockets that burn RP-1 (kerosene) or worse solid or hypergolic fuels. What are the SLS boosters emitting and what happens when those fall in the ocean?

I'm not a fan of Elon's recent political turn, but I also know a double standard and a politically motivated pile-on when I see one. SpaceX is much more important than Elon or his politics, and their launch vehicles aim to be considerably "greener" than anyone else due to reusability.
Datomic's 'time travel' is an audit feature, not something for your application/business logic to depend on. Performance reasons make it impractical, unless you only have like 10 users and very little data.
Yeah, but you opt in, and you receive a share of it (in their altcoin) if you do.
No everyone is aware, but SpaceX mass to orbit is close to the rest of the world put together. Hey are massively reducing costs to access space. The point of the starship is to continue to reduce costs.
If only we had some sort of national leader ACTING ON THE PRINCIPAL THAT "Made in America" is good...

fixed that for you
If you work with Datomic, my little helper functions may be useful: https://github.com/avodonosov/datomic-helpers
Even a "polluted beyond help" Earth would be easier to live on than Mars. We have liquid water, a nice thick atmosphere that isn't 95% carbon dioxide, a better ionosphere, easy access to nitrogen as a synthetic fertilizer feedstock, and various other advantages. Musk knows this; he's not an idiot, nor is he a cartoon villain motivated by a desire to be Evil.

It bothers me when people just make up outlandish accusations.
Also, allegedly one of the points of the switch of a lot of Windows 10 to more of a service model was that a lot of things like security patches should in theory be shareable between Windows 11 and Windows 10 and should be updateable even without big "feature updates".

Some of it does raise the question how much Windows 11 is an artificial compatibility break with Windows 10 (which again, is mostly brought here because this is after they once said they didn't expect to do that again) and how much they were either wrong about the service model in the early Windows 10 days versus how much they are getting paid by PC OEMs to sell new computers and "force" hardware upgrades at a "regular cadence again".
You brought out emotionally charged language in response to my post about biological sex determination, which was in response to a post filled with emotionally charged language. It has nothing to do with whether or not we disagree. It's that you haven't expressed your ideas in a way that doesn't denigrate trans people and make you sound like the victim of their existence.

I don't call it hate speech because you aren't on my side. I call it hate speech because it treats transgender people as uniformly ill and invalidates their identity. (You'll find that if we stop doing that, their mental health tends to be pretty good.) And because the rigidness of the gender binary in modern western society is not universal across time and space within human cultures and it exists in opposition to scientific understanding.

You are saying right now that you want a genuine engagement. I'm a sucker for debate obviously. This is your chance to genuinely engage, lay out your scientific reasoning why a biologically female person with XX chromosomes should be forced by their peers into accepting the gender roles that other people say they must have regardless of what makes them feel good or happy.
Earthquakes and wind damage should be next.
Really? It was a complete drag to read. Messaging was often unclear or meandering. When it did land a point it was a superficial one.
This may be surprising to people in Palo Alto but 99.9% of regular working people have nothing to say to billionaires and SV influencers, outside of maybe some profanities. There's no way a product with that as the premise would have had a future outside of its ivory tower niche.
Agreed. Every time I see a story about the Voyagers, I wonder why a follow-up hasn't been done that is much faster and more capable.
Anyone who knows anything about the history of space flight knows that you don't do really big new things without a high probability of some "RUD"s.

Nobody else is innovating. Of course SLS works. It's 1970s technology.
I'll interpret "right" as in giving correct information. I found that it depends on the type of question asked; if it's somewhat general information such as design concepts and design topologies, it impressively nails it 99% of the time for my limited testing period. The main area it gets things wrong relates to very specific information that has only one source: e.g. datasheet specs. I heard the team already has plans to mitigate hallucinations on this front.

Also, I find myself having a conversation as I would with a real person, so it's less of spitting out the right answer for any technical question I might have, but more of a design buddy to consult when you're blocked on your search through the massive electronics solution space. Of course, this is a very preliminary use case and I can't wait to see what other people use it for.
Again, <whoosh>.

The expression in popular usage definitely implies "someone to tell the auteur NO THIS IS TOO MUCH SIMPLIFY IT" or similar, which results in a tighter work.

This is a pattern we see in long-established novelists, for sure. They win awards or sell a ton, and their books get LONGER without getting BETTER. Stephen King is a great example.

The same thing is true of some filmmakers. No one is telling Marty his movies are too long. They should.
that must explain why 99.99% of tvs sold are dumb tv's because there is such a clamoring demand for them... oh wait.
The increase of natural gas has been at the expense of coal. Many existing coal plants can be converted over to run on gas, which became economically viable as the shale boom has made natural gas more plentiful and it is easier to meet emissions standards.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44636
I thought windmills brought world peace and all environmental concerns were hoaxes?
They did not have control of the blast in the way that all other commercial launches do: with flame trenches, water deluge systems, etc.

If the FAA knew that SpaceX could be throwing bus-sized pieces of concrete in the air that could potentially hit the rocket's fuel tanks, I guarantee they would not have approved the launch.
From what I gather
C2 - Borderline Native

B2 - A fluent, but not overly practiced level, An example that comes to mind, First Generation migrant that is usually surrounded by people that speak it's native language, they can clearly communicate, but might slip on word order or particularly complex information

A2 - Think about the level of someone that paid attention in 2nd language classes, simple sentences, describing yourself and your immediate enviroment
They probably implemented fail-safe relays with circuitry to disengage automatically under hazardous conditions but also controlled remotely.
The typical approach (a deep flame trench) is likely impossible due to the high water table so close to the beach. Some other novel approaches are likely possible, and I'm sure they'll now pursue one, but coming up with and building a design would probably have taken awhile, and they apparently did some testing that suggested they could get away with not doing it, at least for a bit. It's now obvious that they were wrong, but if they had been right, they would have acquired a bunch of data that would have unblocked a bunch of additional development on the vehicle itself that could have proceeded in parallel with improvements to the launch facilities (the one they're already building in Florida has a conventional flame trench) that they otherwise would have had to wait months for while more-extensive launch facilities were built, so it wasn't necessarily irrational, knowing what they knew at the time.
> The cloud-services company now expects $1.280 billion to $1.284 billion in full-year revenue, whereas Cloudflare's prior outlook was for $1.330 billion to $1.342 billion in revenue.

Does this really warrant a ~21% drop?
VNC is built in to GNOME. You just enable it in the control panel. It certainly isn’t RDP though.
But living a life in fear, distrust and disgust is worth it? Is not worth fighting for an alternative?
Coinbase warns SEC it will 'exhaust all avenues' if sued
The bobcat photo seems to be a bit misleading here, as there don't seem to be any power lines like that anywhere near the launch site.
Yeah, but even the sun getting too hot for complex life on Earth in particular is something like 2 billion years before that.
I tried the other approach, buying some websites. It can be good but can change quickly. I’d invest money in boring business now that generate cash flow, but yes it can be pricey. Maybe there is some middle ground like renting a car, airbnb etc
I’ve been interested in learning how to design PCBs, I wonder if this tech helps constrain the set of things one ought to focus on learning, with the assumption that AI can fill in other areas.
True!

(Am I correct that you, too, find the "yup, they're not in mordor, and they're increasingly miserable" scenes tedious?)
My understanding is the XTDB is either a fork of Datomic, or was inspired by it? I suppose it's timely, given the top story on HN right now is "Datomic is Free" [0]

Is there anyone who's familiar with both and would like to share their thoughts on the two?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35727967
Also I assume there isn't a web service running there with a "enable/disable" endpoint to control stuff. Wonder what the control stack looks like.

Turned up this from https://voyager.gsfc.nasa.gov/Library/DeepCommo_Chapter3--14...:

> The signal consists of 16-bps, Manchesterencoded commands, biphase modulated onto a squarewave subcarrier frequency of 512 hertz (Hz).

There are references to fuller descriptions of the command set but I haven't found them yet.
Exactly, generative AI, like the camera, is just a fancy way of transforming ideas from the real-world into a digital representation, but with a lot more parameters.
Perfect time to use a pin nailer.
The IPv4 knowledge already exists. For people who aren't network engineers, the fact that they have to learn an entirely new, complex, networking protocol and associated services is a huge pain point. I think a lot of actual experts really underestimate how much friction that presents. And that level of pain means that those people are very resistant to moving to IPv6.

That was the only point I was making.
Tokenization use one-hot encodings, so that matrix will always be n^2 the number of tokens. This has an impact on all the subsequent layers and final number of parameters. You want to use as information dense tokens as possible, while being able to represent weird or unseen tokens, but discrete enough to allow differentiation of concepts.
Coal has been on the decline for quite a while now, mostly because it's been outcompeted by natural gas as a fuel source for conventional burn-a-thing-to-boil-water power plants.

However, despite coal's decline, let's not discount the impressiveness of this achievement. Renewable sources have made huge strides over the past few years, and the growth of renewables is accelerating year-over-year. It feels like we've hit an inflection point WRT to renewable adoption, where it's simultaneously economical, politically popular, and proven to be practical.
This post (in french) has some more details:

https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72320.html
> Sarajevo War Stove was a large 1-2l tin can, conducts heat directly and doesn't absorb much itself, lets you boil water or make some small soup.

Efficient stoves can indeed be fairly simple, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverage-can_stove, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo_stove or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove.

A hightech variant has a battery-operated fan. I find that a weird combination, but apparently, it works well (https://www.techxlab.org/solutions/zz-manufacturing-sierra-z...)
Agreed. This is just ludicrous. People just keep saying "but think of the benefits!" and then you repeatedly start seeing things like this and you have to ask yourself... when it's all said and done are you going to like the world you wind up with?
> There's plenty wrong with the literal concentration camp they set up in Brasília too. People imprisoned without any charges. Only recently did they vote to turn some of them into actual defendants.

Welcome to the life of anyone accused of any charge in Brazil. The Criminal Process Code (Código de Processo Penal) allows for up to 81 days of jail without a charge. After that time ends they can just release you without a charge and you can't do anything about it.

If at any time before that period ends, if the prosecutor's office has started any form of case you can still be held for at least more 102 days before your trial, up to 180 if anything that delays any part of the process happens.

This happens every single day in this country to many persons and the media is only making a fuss because now it happened to a bunch of rich white people with a charge that doesn't allow for bail / habeas corpus. I am totally in favor of changing it, but I don't think my reasons are the same as yours, sadly.

> There's videos of him literally saying his objective is to install socialism in Brazil.

Lula is just like Joe Biden. Makes for nice strawman arguments, but anyone who stops and thinks on what they can realistically accomplish will see they're more of the same, except with a rainbow flag coating.

Words are empty without action, and Congress is set to stop any action; Just like for the previous 10 years PT was in power, where they at best passed a few stopgap measures that did nothing to stop the long term destruction of the middle class that started in the 80s, further throwing Brazil into inequality.
Honestly, I can't see how GNU-Linux is going to ever replace something like Windows.

The core issue is that Linux wasn't designed around regular consumers but rather around pros/techies

This is why Android or even ChromeOS were able to penetrate consumer markets far more while being based on the same Linux kernel

Google prioritized easy, intuitive UI that any person can pick up easily without any prior knowledge

no terminal commands,
no need to understand file-systems,
no config-changes,
no debugging errors

Apple has proved this is as crucial as the quality of the kernel/OS itself
I think you are talking about the styling API during the 3.10 - 3.16 years.
Yes they did but the styling was never an official API. If you can't find the documentation in Devhelp, then it's nothing you should use.

For people who thought they are smart its of course a fuckery.

The most painfull came from breaking the drawing code: Gtk2 moved to Pango/Cairo, Gtk4 moved to GPU Textures. Gtk5 will now break ageing view models. And i hope Gtk6 will break the single threading of the whole Gui.
Hmm, a slippery fish, interesting.

Sure the actors aren't good/bad but are acting out of their interest.

But the whole "Imagine if Russia staged a coup in Mexico and installed their guy" sounds like you're saying the whole situation got started because some actors' interest was to expand their sphere of influence and squeeze Russia. Let's say that this is the case; sure, I would then agree, the only logical move for the actor Putin was to sooner or later confront this with a war.

I'm arguing, how do you know there was a Western-engineered coup? Got any links? To me it looks more like a population that didn't want to live under the corrupt Putin/Yanukovich regimes, an actual people's movement. Maybe there aren't any bad actors, but it sounds like you're absolving Putin from any blame, with the whole Mexico-line of thinking, you're saying (I'll assume) "he was forced to defend his country because Nato was going to crush him".

Why did Putin attack? I can imagine he deluded himself[1] into thinking that Nato/"the West" wants to conquer Russia, and engineered Ukraine into falling into Nato's sphere of influence (so Western propaganda lying to the Ukranian public, who then forced Yanukovich out). But I imagine for Putin this explanation is easier to believe than the thought that people in the Baltics and even Russia itself don't like thieving bastards, because to do that he'd have to admit his corruption is something unsavory.

And you're sort of arguing the installation of weapons means Nato was going to attack Russia, but WTF, how about Putin look at himself if he's been behaving threateningly to justify a neighbor to install weapons? Who's the one who was the aggressor who annexed Crimea? (oh no, that's another can of worms, "Putin had to do that because the West was going to cut off the Black Sea access!", right?)

[1] The legend is that he was isolating so much due to Covid, he started to develop these theories.
If they really want to be "green" then the don't just have to beat NG, they have to lap it several times.

The issue is steel, which is a cornerstone of "green" energy. That steel must be made with metallurgical coal and while there are alternative processes, they require hydrogen.

Hydrogen is currently impossible to generate efficiently (from an energy perspective), much less a cost-effective manner. Hydrogen will also need to be generated without fossil fuels, which is how most hydrogen today is generated.

I see prices going up in the "green" future.
The US did force [1] cars to be bigger, and everyone started buying bigger immediately.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-lo...

If lanes are smaller, then people buy smaller cars. If parking spaces for compact cars are differently priced than that for huge cars, then people buy smaller cars. Set insurance minimums for liability by vehicle class. (scale it to liability damage statistics)

There are a lot of ways to strongly disincentivize big vehicles. If we merely start making them pay for the space they occupy, they immediately become too expensive.
You can bypass the TPM requirement and it works fine. Of course who knows about future updates.
I guess that depends on what you count as a breakthrough. From my perspective, HiC is a small detail, and even AlphaFold is just the latest improvement to an existing process. A true breakthrough would be something like ancient DNA, which gave the humanity a new tool for studying the past.

Pretty much everything in genomics depends on shotgun sequencing, which in turn depends on CS. The algorithms used for assembling something useful out of the sequence reads are highly non-obvious. In fact, most developments in string algorithms since the 80s have been driven by the needs of DNA sequencing. (Information retrieval used to be another contender, but word tokens turned out to be a better tool for that field.)
I have a really hard time imagine a system that does not have those problems and provides the larger address space IPv6 provides. What would be your solution thats orders of magnitude easier to implement?
> reliable (enough)

This is the key thing, and the formula's different for everyone. I know that my strategy of "look at the clock and remember" will work until I'm senile, as will "panic-check the mail every day until my last tax form arrives and file that night"
similiar t-SNE visualisation, just for papers:

https://static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html

running on their deepscatter visualization engine:

https://github.com/nomic-ai/deepscatter

that keeps things dynamic for rendering
Electricity generated by coal also requires power lines.
Nope. The problem is that Elan, recently, has very much been leaning to Delusional Management PHBism. HN very much leans to the sorts of competent workers who have to suffer under that kind of management, while busting our asses to make it look like their screw-loose "pedal-powered supersonic time machine cars will start shipping soon!" promises have some basis in reality.
remember dropbox "Paper"... what was that?
And inside the registry. The apparently correct way to distinguish them is using the build ID:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/824c74574893...