skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joe's been an active member here with good contributions for a long time. I disagree with his opinion in this thread, but he's not some fake account trying to cause trouble.
Maybe it's that being married and having children helped them be successful.
Let me guess, you're using the grid view? :)
Not very cool to delete your comments. If you can’t handle discussion don’t respond.
Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval
In the linked video from SpaceX's twitter feeds you can see the splashes in the surf as debris scatters outward, starting at about 16 seconds. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1649097087248891904?s=20
Oh, I'm not endorsing it, was just noting the similarity.
Good point. Intuitively, if the new casual users would cover the costs of the old users' trips, then the old users would have to cover the costs of the new users' trips. To further increase the average revenue per trip after reaching this balance, you'd continue to attract more signups by casual users.

Whether this is feasible depends on the actual numbers, but at least it does work in other cities.
Voyager 2 was launched first but on a less direct trajectory out of the system which allowed it to visit Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is going much faster

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
The headline is extremely misleading.

1. SpaceX are not grounded at all. They launched a Falcon 9 today, and have a Falcon Heavy about to launch.

2. All launch providers are "grounded" when there is an anomaly, this is nothing out of the ordinary.
There's not much emotion as the core team working on the huge outages is more like an "SRE for SRE". They are all people who've been with the company for a long time and they've been in the secondary seat for at least one previous big rodeo. Not to mention that we're all running a checklist that has been exercised multiple times and there's always somebody on the call who could help if a step fails.

Personally, I wasn't part this time for the actual mitigation of the overall Paris DC recovery, as I was busy with an unfortunate[0] side effect of the outage. These generate more anxiety, as being woken up at 6am and being told that nobody understands exactly why the system is acting this way is not great. But then again, we're trained for this situation and there are always at least several ways of fixing the issue.

Finally, it's worth repeating that incident management is just a part of the SRE job and after several years I've understood that it is not the most important one. The best SREs I know are not great when it comes to a huge incident. But, they're work has avoided the other 99 outages that could have appeared on the front page of Hacker News.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35734224
Ugh. I asked if you could use consumer-grade SSDs with an HP ProLiant equipped with hardware RAID on one of the StackExchange sites, forget which. The only response I got was, "Oh, too cheap to buy the official ones? This website is for professional sysadmins, it tells you that when you sign up." Which btw it doesn't say anywhere.
You're describing freedom as in anarchy, the parent is describing freedom as in liberty.

I am more free and able to use the software I want when the government forces Apple to unlock their devices even though it makes Apple less free.

I am more free to travel when everyone follows the rules of the road even though I give up some autonomy to do so.

I am more free to use wireless networks because everyone has to stick to their assigned bands even though I give up my ability to use other bands to do so.

I am more free to live and sleep because of noise ordinances even though it means I can't play loud music late at night either.

For people who value liberty, freedom means the ability to do the things you actually want to do. Social norms get enforced everywhere, even in the state of nature.
>don't magically get a better rate when prices are high.

That's when you spend your points. Though it depends severely on the brand. Marriott and Hilton are no longer great. But Wyndham and Hyatt are pretty amazing. Starwood, used to be good until Marriott bought them out.
Borland released a Delphi compiler for Linux in the late 90s named Kylix, discontinued in 2011. However, it was not successful for a number of reasons, notably that there were better, free IDEs available, there were many compiler errors, and poor integration with GDB. For this reason, developers found it frustrating to use, and it had poor uptake. Even so, Borland had spent so much trying to make Kylix work that it contributed significantly to the company's ultimate collapse.
Reminds me a lot of sense2vec
https://spacy.io/universe/project/sense2vec
Ahem, at CHI, humans are at the center.
I don't remember why, but kylix didn't work for me.

And C++ builder was never ported.
Certainly, if the transaction takes place in a jurisdiction where it applies.
It's very nice visualisation.

The only comment I have is that concentric circles are not the most intuitive way of showing a percentage of a whole. 50% doesn't 'look' like 50%, and looks similar to 30%.

but I'm not sure how else you would do it.
Hmm $11B a lot of fabs does not buy.

That is ball-park for a cutting edge production fab but likely they will want multiple smaller more R&D focussed fabs which could blow out the cost. The important gear doesn't really scale down to smaller output right now - assuming they want to be doing EUV and associated tooling.

I imagine this needs to be coupled with some industry investment to come up with the full amount of funds because $11B isn't going to cut it.
I recently added standardb a very comprehensive linter to an old community project. https://github.com/demingfactor/calagator

The tools detected an absolute wall of code smells and security bad practices. Surprised that linters don’t have a reported quality impact. I personally was very glad for the issues it auto resolved and the issues it bought to my attention to address.
Back in 2007 I quit my job and went travelling for a year. I was pretty much out of touch with tech and didn’t have a laptop with me and smartphones did not really exist yet (I came back to the real world in time for the iPhone to launch). Honestly a year sounds like a long time, but the reality is not much really happens that quickly. It just feels like it does when you are close to it.

I felt terrified. I was/am quite an introvert and very shy. And my plan was to go backpacking by myself. A lot of my friends and colleagues thought I would be back within a week or so.

At times it was hard - but most of the time it was great and if you’re staying in hostels and you’re on one of the common routes then you are very rarely lonely.

There are some amazing places out there and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune to visit them.
"Extensive environmental damage" lol. Dug a hole and threw some scraps around. Building the suburb I live in did much more extensive environmental damage than anything SpaceX has done.
MIT 6.1420: Fine-Grained Algorithms and Complexity (Fall 2022)
For the most part, John de Lancies' young Q in Star Trek Picard was very convincing. We're fast approaching where this tech gets over the uncanny valley.
> Datomic Cloud is slow, expensive, resource intensive, designed in the baroque style of massively over-complicated CloudFormation astronautics. Hard to diagnose performance issues. Impossible to backup.

You should give TerminusDB a go (https://terminusdb.com/), it's really OSS, the cloud version is cheap, fast, there are not tons of baroque settings, and it's easy to backup using clone.

TermiusDB is a graph database with a git-like model with push/pull/clone semantics as well as a datalog.
The funniest thing about „kolesław” is that the suffix makes it sound like a traditional Slavic first name: Bogusław, Jarosław, Mirosław, Stanisław, Władysław…

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imiona_słowiańskie#Imiona_złoż...
Luckily there is a large secondary market.
Ideas that are silly thought experiments have a way of actually getting implemented once too many people start paying attention to them.
The fundamentals of defect density have been known for a long time [1]. The factors that explain the vast majority of problems fit on a single slide. They're worded generically to apply across domains and it's very simple to evaluate whatever your process is against them.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/AnnMarieNeufelder/the-top-ten-thi...
Why something like a piece of furniture for this example?

Why not the infamous Nike logo? Designed for $35 by student Carolyn Davidson.

She was later compensated heavily, and so she should have been. It was the morally right thing to do, regardless of how "simple" or "meh" you think the logo may be, there's no denying how effective and recognizable it is.

Would it have been "rentseeking behaviour" for her to ask to be compensated? No. It'd have been reasonable. At $35 and a student, that would have otherwise been exploitation.

Artists and artisans are exploited constantly. I don't think laws like these are unreasonable. If the object still commands value, and there's only one of it, why shouldn't the artist be compensated? They can only create x works in their lifetime, at some point they must retire.
Yeah, the one time I used go it was pretty good. The big question is always whether your stuff spends more time waiting or more time processing. For the former, it's node. For the latter, it's go.
You have my permission. Just as long as it's Not In My Back Yard.
Summarization is much more expensive than vector db's. Assume you have 1m tokens of context. You could run all through GPT-4 and summarize the information, but it would cost $60 (based on current prices) and take 10's of minutes of GPU time to do the inference.

Disclaimer: I work for a16z and on the infra team, so consider me biassed.
> "small-ish backoffice systems that never has to be web scale".
Doesn't production use of Datomic by Nubank and Netflix (to mention just two examples) belie this assertion?
NASA tweaks Voyager 2's power settings
Same here, where probably less than 0.001% of the population know who he was. I can't imagine what's the logic behind blocking something that doesn't consume measurable bandwidth.
I would be more than happy to offer my services as a behavioral therapist for theoretical children in hypothetical situations.
I'm not sure about cost comparison between 4G tower and 5G tower, but from consumer standpoint it feels like doing expenses for the sake of saving carrier's money.

As consumer I get to pay for a compatible device, frequently pay more for the compatible plan, and realistically, get nothing in return to show for it.
It looks like this will happen in time:

"Between now and February 2026, FERC anticipates 17,690 megawatts (MW) of “high probability” net capacity additions by wind and 77,791 MW of “high probability” solar. FERC also reports that there may actually be as much as 66,322 MW of wind and 213,969 MW of solar in the three-year pipeline.

In contrast, it anticipates no new coal capacity additions, and total installed coal capacity may actually shrink by 28,507 MW. The net “high probability” capacities of both oil and natural gas are also seen as declining – by 1,572 MW and 574 MW, respectively – while that of nuclear power may fall by 123 MW."
https://www.tpr.org/environment/2023-04-27/photos-spacex-is-...
I've tried to do this for years and ultimately been disappointed. Even on my latest hotel booking, the direct quote was 20% more than Expedia and that's not an isolated incident.

I suspect this is partly predatory pricing on behalf of Expedia (charge the hotel 30%, discount the price 20%, get all the bookings and take the difference.) Yet I really can't justify spending the extra $400 to stand the moral high ground. Seems like something the hotels need to work out.

They used to at least offer the same price and add in little things like "free wifi" and breakfast. I haven't seen that offer since the pre-covid years.
If you use a cross platform framework, sure, but if you only have resources for one platform (or where cross platform is not suitable for whatever reason), I'd pick launching on iOS first any day of the week.
Is there a solution for training models to detect CSAM images? I'm imagining some kind of cooperation with the FBI, who I assume have an extensive dataset, where there models could be trained off FBI data without ever sharing the images.

Or, is there some kind one way mask that could be applied to the image such that the FBI could mask their CSAM dataset and release it and people could train detection models on the masked data, then just mask inputs during inference?

I feel like being extremely aggressive about detection and removal is scalable solution here.
Chair of US Fed prank-called by Russians pretending to be Zelenskiy
How do LLMs help for sequential data modeling for manufacturing and operations?
This was my first thought too as I grew up with the game.

On the subject, for a little blast from the past...the Marathon's Story website is still around-

https://marathon.bungie.org/story/

28 years old, a little noteworthy!
Wow, I've always wondered if I was the only one or how to even describe it in one word. Thanks for this. I dont have much creativity because I can't imagine in my mind, I have to put it down on paper. I can't draw from my mind, can't put a tune together. But I can copy patterns well.
Yeah, exactly, like... we're doing microsecond-precise high-bandwidth imaging and processing it real-time (not in the Hard Real-Time sense, but in the "we don't have enough RAM to buffer more than a couple of seconds worth of frames and we don't post-process it after the fact" real-time sense) with a team of... 3-5 or so dedicated to the end-to-end flow from photons to ML engine to disk. The ML models themselves are a different team that we just have to bonk once in a while if they do something that hurts throughput too badly.

I'm sure we'd be bored as hell working on UI performance optimization, but if we could gamify it somehow... :D
Script to convert pg essays into epub for your kindle
xPrize on the Cultured Meat and Future Food Podcast
Whoever manufactured that mini split system attached to the c-container should use that picture for advertising lol.

Seriously though, I think it’s a Mr. Slim or an LG, and it’s really the only recognizable object in that picture of the launchpad.

I’ve seen many Mr. Slims used for climate control in high heat situations before. They are pretty standard in big buildings for telecom rooms, small server rooms, and any rooms that control critical equipment with sensitive electronics. Pretty much all fire alarm control rooms and elevator control rooms use them for temp and humidity control.

I’ve never considered a mini split being used next to a rocket pad though!

I wonder what equipment was in that container that needed to be that close, but cool.
Why is the battery alone not appropriate for the ESP8266? It runs just fine off a lithium battery.
You're being downvoted, presumably because bird man bad, but this is 100% correct.
It's crazy how good AI generation is. I got 11 right, but still got 4 wrong.
XTDB is also worth mentioning, especially since they’re on the HN front page with a v2 early access announcement. There are differences in how they do things. I can’t meaningfully comment on business usage of either or what the trade-offs between them are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35733515
Then do human artists also owe money to the countless artists who influenced them?
I'm failing to see how the stock market is taking this as a signal that Meta will no longer pour money down the VR hole.

We live in a weird world!
People generally don't go to living facilities for cigarettes, nor sell themselves or everything they own or end up on the street jacking off strangers because of cigarettes though.
The word "firming" is important. Wind and solar cannot produce base load electricity.
I imagine influencers are far more parasocial than social.

Acting involves attunement with fellow actors and being part of a larger creative process and work. It's a lot of showing up in person and figuring out how to work with others.

Influencers need only stay at home, work a camera, and manage parasocial fan conversations. There's no inherent in-person physicality of relationships and all the socializing that entails, nor even the need for peer relationships or any connection to a larger work that the influencer is a part of. At its core it's only a streamer and some people they probably don't know watching.
Build a new team, start over, add in LLM & go for it.
How can you connect the results from the LLM into the planner? Do you build a parser? Do you fine-tune the LLM to adhere to a format that the planner understands?
Btw, you can see the occasional communication with Voyager at https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

As I write this, one of the dishes at Madrid just went to "Setup" for communication with VGR1.

(late edit - some of the stats from the 'more info' at the bottom of the spacecraft panel)

DATA RATE 160.0 b/sec
POWER RECEIVED -160 dBm (1.0 x 10-22 kW)
Is your suburb surrounded by state and federally protected lands? And induce pollution and damage over 113 square miles?
Github link: https://github.com/Barqawiz/IntelliNode
According to that page, BAE systems et al were using kevlar soaked in a solution of polyethylene glycol and silica nanoparticles.

All readily available online, if you can afford something like $200 per 2ml of silica nanoparticles. It would be amazing to see one of the YouTube channels that has tried making their own, just make the real thing.

I imagine a suit made of dripping wet Kevlar wouldn't be too comfortable though. John Wick would experience some chafing.
But it's intelligent and can learn and create totally new things, remember?
Do protected endangered species nest in your suburb?
One less explosion before they figure out how to fly and reuse the rocket. You understand how learning works, right?
The film's OK. The books are up there with Mantel's Wolf Hall series or Renault's Alexander novels. Well worth a read. ETA: This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson is another excellent nautical novel.
(Hey - I wrote this.)

> It is far more likely to be learned behavior from culture, media, and just regular social dynamics.

Agreed that I should do more research here. I can't prove for certain this is the case. Thanks for the feedback. Though I do not think it is cultural: the fear exists in every country I've ever visited.

> Real relationships are rarely being formed through Tinder.

Stanford puts it at 39% for couples meeting online: https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/21/online-dating-popular-w...

> This person really read a poem to his fling? That reads so bizarre. The fact that the person thought he "would be taller" when they first met up was already a red flag.

It's funny (to many other people) because of how ridiculous it is. Go on a Tinder date, go back, hook up, and then go through the Wasteland and she couldn't be less interested. It's also a clear example of where we are at as a culture: sex, alienation, not a care in the world for substance.

> Doing something as strange as that in 2023 on top of it...

What happened in 2023? No one reads poems anymore?
God forbid if a quails nest is disturbed or charred as we attempt to reach the stars.

I'll contemplate the moral dilemma as I head to the grocery store to buy some quail eggs.
Augusta National’s pimento cheese sandwich remains the ultimate tradition
Can it support hugging face models?
Yikes! You can't post like that to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do.

I'm not going to ban you right now because it doesn't look like we've warned you before. But you've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and quite badly for quite a while - here are some examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35670744

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34774919

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33867446

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836914

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33817273

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules? We'd appreciate it. Among other things, that means no more snark, name-calling, or flamewar.
I understand cannibalism and killing, but how exactly would pederasty applied to everything lead to human extinction?

Die-off from lack of breeding? Sexually transmissible diseases? In both cases you could also construct homosexuality as immoral
Funnily enough, your response fits exactly these two memes:
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/201/090/208...

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/222/974/b91...

Especially given the context of the thread, where your reply barely makes sense. There is a difference between criticizing extreme industrialism and rabid growth and villifying the very thing we all depend on. Which is totally different from just wanting to improve society somewhat ;)

But westerners are so detached from everything that goes into sustaining their lives so there is oddly little awareness of the massive industry needed since it is all outsource over seas. Makes it very easy to dislike it from far away, especially when memes can be used to rationalize away the hypocrisy and pretend the privilege they enjoy doesn't exist

(the meme basically amounts to "yes I'm privileged, but stop pointing it out! There's nothing I can do about my own privilege, I HAVE to own that iPhone too bad for the workers lol" and is the ultimate witty retort from privileged, usually white liberal people. Which is funny since those are the people who usually like to speak about privilege, but obviously not when they are called out on it themselves.)
This document seems to have been written before the toolformer paper[0], which fine tunes the model to use tools (e.g search) to retrieve information.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761
They sure did before it was a suburb!
I am guessing it is going to have huge impact on corporate fraud detection.
It’s “only” every 176 years ;)
AGREED. I could barely get through it and I wrote the thing.
IMO, if their work is visible, they did it wrong.
https://archive.ph/Hji9U
AWS growth slowing.
No, I don't think you quite understand the implication. Something like 60% of the bioavailable nitrogen in the biosphere, including that in your human body, is created industrially via the haber-bosch process. Over half of all human beings and land biomass would be dead without it. Human beings and this industrial process produce more bioavailable nitrogen than all the nitrogen fixing microbes in the world combined. This process is a very important part of the earth's biosphere now with human presence taken into account, bioavailable nitrogen production is the bottleneck to biomass production. It is probably our only viable tool to actually reduce carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere.
Show HN: An Android app to gamify exercise tracking
Hey HN! Over the last few months I've been working on a mobile app written in React Native with a C# backend. The app is supposed to be a simple and minimal exercise tracker with components of gamification and social interaction.

The idea behind creating this was to learn a bit more of the fullstack development flow and pick up some skills regarding product and design (which I thought would be hard, and it turns out it was still much harder than I'd expected haha).

The app is currently only on the Android store due to it being cheaper to license than the Apple store. There are still definitely bugs within the app, however I thought it would be good to get user feedback earlier in the apps life cycle!

Feel free to leave any feedback here or on the play store page. Happy to hear any sort of feedback, thanks for reading and have a good day all :)
When was it determined that access to orbit was a requirement? And a requirement to what?

I feel like many are living in a world of sci fi.

Our orbit is already littered with orbital trash, we are worried we wont be able to leave orbit if it keeps going.

I don't see how this is justifiable in any way. There are very few worthwile things to do in space.