skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it not you that is the most entrenched in the culture wars here? I see language about celebrities; politics; toxic modern discourse; corporate value.

In other comments, I see discussions about the event; its impacts; how to weigh those relative impacts - positive or negative; questions about why the engineering choices that were made, as they appear quite sloppy in hindsight.

Indeed, I might say someone who wishes to detach from the political side of things could easily comment that SpaceX might not be treated as a "cool" entity in this situation because they have made a failure, which might not be bad in itself, but a failure from quite a disappointing mistake. This will naturally color the discussion, don't you think? The emotional state of the audience isn't "interested in what went wrong", because that's obvious! Instead the tone is more related to the nature of mistakes - incredibly though, I don't even see a suggestion that mistakes are the new culture of Elon companies. So why are you whining?
> I can't ignore the feeling that Google Cloud is sub par compared to AWS.

That goes without saying at this point. More importantly, it’s proven worse than Azure.
So Apple pumps more than a billion dollars into developing and marketing a virtual assistant which fails the vast majority of the time and you’re proud of it because it can set a timer by voice?

I’m just going to say - i’m underwhelmed
Maury is more well-known for it, but Jerry did it as well.

The big difference is that on Jerry Springer, the father is more likely to be the mother's brother.
That jives with my intuition. I had forgotten about the connection between Gaussian elimination and xor sat. That does sound like a good direction to reason from.

How do you prevent an exponential increase in linear terms though?

Good luck!
Some times you hit the puck so hard the hockey stick cracks. Not sure it’s fair to call it incompetence but they’re being decent in the acknowledgment of it.
Even assuming an absolute worst-case scenario climate-wise (no mitigations whatsoever, massive sea-level rise, etc.), Earth will still be dramatically more hospitable to human life than Mars for the entirety of Musk's lifetime, and very likely his children's and grandchildren's lifetimes as well, barring some mass-extinction event like a nuclear war. Even if a colonization effort begins soon, living on Mars is likely to be extremely difficult for centuries -- we can't breathe the air or grow anything in the soil, our biology is likely ill-adapted to the gravity, there is no liquid surface water, etc. -- and the idea that there will come a point in the foreseeable future where it makes sense to escape there because it's easier than being here (because of pollution or whatever other reason) is difficult to fathom.
On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse [pdf]
UC Davis Professor Phil Rogaway's transcript essay of a seminar to CS undergrads. It is a discussion of the role computer science plays in today's society.
If this were necessary? Sure. But instead, it's because they got really cheap and lazy.
"Thoughts and Prayers" type comments don't make for particularly interesting reading.

I think it's safe to assume that most people feel empathy for others struggling, whether or not they type it out regularly. Then again, some AI evangelists have had me questioning that assumption lately.
I wonder if this could assist with rebuilding damaged lung tissue from people who have dealt with smoke inhalation from fires, industrial work, drug abuse etc.
Unconventional platforms usually get SSH years before browser supporting QUIC.
The minimum level of pollution where Mars looks good on that basis is:

1. killed literally, not metaphorically, everything

2. and literally boiled off all the oceans, rivers, and lakes, top the bottom

3. and strip mined literally, not metaphorically, everywhere to a depth of 3,000 km

4. and removed almost everything from the atmosphere except the current level of CO2/m^3
I don't think the OP was saying what you think they were saying.

They were merely pointing out that the US and Russia are too "distracted" with Ukraine to provide arms to the warring parties in Sudan, and so hopefully the Sudanese conflict will fizzle out sooner than if the Ukraine war was not going on.

I don't believe OP was making any kind of judgment on whether or not the West supplying weapons to Ukraine is a good or bad thing, or is morally right or wrong. Just observing a possible effect on their own situation.
There are a lot of Linux distributions, but one of the things I bumped into with the early SteamOS version is it was really, really hard to get the command prompt. It was bugged and would fail until you got some environment settings, if I remember right. Games and the video drivers worked, however. Too funny.

Most folks are using a PC for games, surfing, and gmail. Linux works surprisingly well for those use cases and I really did not need to use a terminal for any of the normal setup. Ironically, cleaning up the crapware on my Windows 10 start menu... required powershell.

It is quickly hitting that good enough stage.
In a world of fast and loose cash, people find justifications for spending fast and loose. I don't think it requires too much more than that. Crypto firms running on good will and hype managed to get billions of $ (in crypo-bucks) to dump their money, much of which is completely gone. You could argue overvalued, but in the world of pets.com, this is far from the worst example of outsized speculation.
10 years is the timespan for one technology transformation (yes, using Javascript Framework of the Day is not new technology). So it's not bad but also far from good or anything special to realize.
The parent wasn't suggesting a rental pilot, but a salaried, on call pilot. As in, "You. I have fully vetted you. I have spoken with you. I will pay you hundreds of thousands of dollars to live near the airport just to fly me where/when I want you to. I have two others just like you, so that all of you can still have lives as I rotate between you. Because the 1.2 million it costs me per year as a multi-billionaire is not even perceptible to me, being like a normal person paying 100 bucks a year, and the convenience to me is huge".
The transit option between SeaTac and Downtown Seattle is superb. I admit it can be improved (e.g. you have to walk through the parking garage to the station, and it is a bit slow going through Rainier valley) but for 2.50 USD it is the best option going from SeaTac to Downtown.
If live editing of cells is possible I would like to see enhancements. Say, increase VO2 capacity in our blood or something that processes lactic acid to make muscle recovery a faster process. That'd be nice.
I don't know.... I would imagine they have a lot of control. After all, the engines nozzels rotate. The entire areas was empty of people and they were aware of the high probability of an explosion - potentially before lift off. There was a ton of assumed/acknowledged risk, all of which was eventually signed off on by Nasa(?) and the FAA.
>because they were evidently lazy as shit at estimating the effects of the launch (they tore up their own pad, because they got the forces and effects involved way wrong—that's why they blasted chunks of concrete everywhere

Is there an interview or a blog post or something that says this? My understanding (don't have a link or anything) was that outfitting the launch pad to be to the standard of 39A would've taken years, and getting flight data from the vehicle was more important than likely blowing up the hastily designed/built launch pad.
No idea how many jobs. Places that use it extensively usually have apprenticeships and/or training. $DAYJOB does (big financial firm). There are even some mainframe/COBOL college programs.
I guess it's always worth having a Plan B, but Nate Hagens and Kim Stanley Robinson (sci-fi writer of the Mars Trilogy) discuss this and don't necessarily agree, obviously depending on what definition of "polluted beyond help" you're using etc. [1]

Nate Hagens (00:43:15):

"And to me it's very smart and famous people, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk among
them say, "We're screwing up Earth. Climate is going to be bad. We need to colonize outer space and head to Mars." And that makes just zero sense to me, because on the worst thermonuclear runaway-climate scenario, Earth is still going to be a paradise next to Mars. I mean-"

Kim Stanley Robinson (00:43:43):

"I agree with you completely. That is a case that has to be made. And the thing about people like Hawkings, the thing about people like Elon Musk is they're smart, they aren't that smart. They aren't wise, they aren't philosophers, and they're not ecologists. Very often physicists will assume that ecology is just physics in action, and that they've got it all sussed out because they know the rules of physics and they can do rocketry. But you can't do plant biology just knowing rocketry. It's more complex, it's more interconnected, it's a more-complex science. And many physicists will arrogantly say that, "Because I know the laws of physics, I know everything." But they don't know how a marsh works. They haven't studied biology enough to understand their own ignorance. So how smart are you if you don't know how ignorant you are?"

[1] - https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/66-kim-stanle...
I think, in this specific case, SpaceX should be held to a higher standard than one normally would be. Normally you don't claim that you intend for your rocket to blow up when you launch it. If they're going to go around saying this wasn't an accident, then they should have had a much, much better plan for cleaning up the mess they made.

I think litter laws should apply in this case. I'm afraid it would never get enforced because the US justice system tends to let the rich get away with anything, but dumping 200 pounds or more of commercial waste in Texas carries a minimum 180 day sentence under Texas state law (https://www.ennistx.gov/Illegal-Dumping-Violations/).

Not something I think should apply in the case of a true accident, or if you had a good plan to really go above and beyond in terms of mitigating the damage (not necessarily perfect, but very good).
Then why do they charge extra for cross-zonal traffic?
I have been searching for stuff the last few days and have come across more broken or empty Imgur links than live ones. As recent as late-2020 images are already deleted.
I never understood the hype around this app and I was surprised they still exist. This is a prime example of a low interest rate phenomenon.
> doing UPDATE in SQL feels pretty weird, as the default mode of operation of your _business data_ is to delete data, with no trace of who and why!

It's a good idea to version your schema changes using something like liquibase into git, that gets rid of at least some of those pains. Liquibase works on a wide variety of databases, even graphs like Neo4j

I got the same feeling in Erlang many times, once write operations start getting parallel you worry about atomic operations, and making an Erlang process centralize writes through its message queue always feels natural and easy to reason about.
Providing reliable power when it's dark and/or still.
You call the ChatGPT API programmatically, entirely automated. You call the API, parse the response, make a decision in code, call the API again, etc. The GPT API just becomes a natural language reasoning module in an otherwise normal codebase.
I feel like San Francisco, and in general, the Bay area, is the sort of place a billionaire could rationalize maintaining a crew.
Syncthing supports transferring data via untrusted relays (used when two nodes cannot communicate directly) and also supports storing data encrypted on untrusted nodes (those nodes cannot decrypt the data)
I dunno...I'm 55 and was laid off earlier in the year and finding a new job wasn't terribly hard. I don't have a FAANG background and don't necessarily work with the absolute latest tech, but I try to work in one or two areas that seem marketable.

Took me a about three weeks to get two offers, but ended up going with a third that paid a bit less, but would let me learn some new skills.
Updated: This used to be a long thread about two people arguing about nothing over the internet and wasting an hour and nothing gained. Very productive.
Where are you located where 2017 CR-Vs go for $7k in a presumably driveable condition? A fairly serious question as I'd probably pick up a 2017 CR-V if it were in decent condition and $7k.

A used, low-end 2017 CR-V LX (low end model) goes for about $20k here in the PNW and often higher.
100% this. Also, how he is brave and romantic, unlike most people.

We need more discussion about dating apps (e.g. I think creators of such apps are not incentivised to empower users to create long-lasting relationships, as such users would stop paying for the app), but this is not it.
> Yes, you just pay for some server space on a cloud service... oh wait...

I consider dumb storage for encrypted data to still be sufficiently under my control.
> Amazon screwed the reputation of the voice robots for everyone

I don't think amazon screwed the reputation of anyone's assistant but their own.
Plenty of people I know use voice assistants at home, none use Alexa.

Voice assistants are genuinely useful for some scenarios, especially in the smart home space.
Setting up a non trivial network requires a deep understanding of networkig whether it is v4 or v6. I don't get your point.
The sun is gonna blow up anyway and eat the whole solar system
A multiplanetary species is simply not going to happen, since there are no plans to figure out a way to not make your blood boil (literally) on the surface of Mars or the Moon.
I think you're flat-out wrong in general - and on a personal level, I'm rooting for SpaceX despite their founder's shenanigans.

If someone can back up a claim with reasonable evidence I'll hear it.

For example, I'm not sure I even care about the level of damage documented here, but I applaud the author for doing the research and presenting facts (other than the extraneous dead cat in the first photo).
There's something deeply ironic about a person commenting from a highly-engineered device, operating on a highly-engineered network, sitting inside of a highly-engineered building, in a highly-engineered city debating the merits of progress.
> Temperature could also slow oxidation down

Gonna have to guess that you've never had to replace a car exhaust :-)
I would WANT to get laid off if I could get that deal
If you click through the link in that sentence to https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/ or read the study itself, you'll see that the paper doesn't support the claims made in the abstract at all.

It used automatic classification that's obviously wrong. Table 1 gives a list of "top" projects for each language and many of them are simply misclassified.

> ... the "top three" TypeScript projects are bitcoin, litecoin, and qBittorrent). These are C++ projects. So the intermediate result appears to not be that TypeScript is reliable, but that projects mis-identified as TypeScript are reliable. Those projects are reliable because Qt translation files are identified as TypeScript and it turns out that, per line of code, giant dumps of config files from another project don't cause a lot of bugs. It's like saying that a project has few bugs per line of code because it has a giant README. This is the most blatant classification error, but it's far from the only one.

> For example, of what they call the "top three" perl projects, one is showdown, a javascript project, and one is rails-dev-box, a shell script and a vagrant file used to launch a Rails dev environment. Without knowing anything about the latter project, one might expect it's not a perl project from its name, rails-dev-box, which correctly indicates that it's a rails related project.

There are other major problems with the study, but that one is sufficient to make the results invalid.
Well to be faaaaaair, they were properly "primed" to applaud and call it a success, no matter what happened. But yeah, infinite money does that to you: you can operate in "fail fast" mode and obtain results you could not otherwise.
Imagine Best Buy is the John Deer of power cables, and the farmers just want to buy them off Amazon.
Coal generated electricity peaked in the United States in 2007. Since then it has dramatically declined both percentage-wise and absolutely:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

In 2022 coal generated electricity was down to 854 terawatt hours from 2,016 terawatt hours in 2007. It's declining even more this year:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=55960

In our March Short-Term Energy Outlook, we forecast the wind share of the U.S. generation mix will increase from 11% last year to 12% this year. We forecast that the solar share will grow to 5% in 2023, up from 4% last year. The natural gas share of generation is forecast to remain unchanged from last year (39%); the coal share of generation is forecast to decline from 20% last year to 17% in 2023.
Context constraint is a cheap way to keep the model on-topic. So rather than relying on an ever-growing context window to stuff/mapreduce more undifferentiated “context” (the entire chat history), interposing a vector search engine that only returns relevant context tends to get you better overall model performance, in addition to being scalable in a way that increasing context window size is not.
I think everyone agrees that SpaceX launched too early and messed up in terms of unsafe destruction to their pad, rocket, and surroundings (above pics included).

However I think we should keep some context & perspective on exactly where we're more and less OK with certain kinds of environmental destruction.

I think when you look closely at any part of this planet, every action you take causes disruption. This is part of the miracle of life on earth, it's everywhere. Paving a square yard of road causes destruction to the soil habitat, surface and deeper insects and bacteria, the birds and other animals eating those insects, plant and fungal life in the are, etc. Does that mean we shouldn't make roads at all? Probably not. Does that mean we should make fewer roads? Probably! Does that mean we should rely on trains instead of highways where possible? Absolutely!

But we can do this same exercise for a rail! The same soil is under the bits of rail and railroad ties too. Railways also divide up landscapes, causing the deaths of various grazing animals. Should we not make railways...?

I think the extreme is the Jainist perspective of sweeping the ground ahead of your feet before taking a single step. I don't think that view is a reasonable idea for all of us.
I don't have links to back this up, but I believe the following two statements are true in US markets, based on my anecdotal industry experiences:

- The majority of mobile apps that only launch on one native platform (but are eventually available on both Android and iOS) launch on iOS first.

- The majority of mobile apps that are only available on one native platform are only available on iOS.
Cal professor explains foundation models
Thank you very much for the info!
> Phone carriers are responsible for a lot because they had nowhere near enough IPv4 capacity

Precisely so.

> all browsers use Happy Eyeballs and it tends to pick IPv6 because it’s often faster.

I know. This sort of thing causes me trouble every so often. I wish I could make browsers not do that.
The gang of four design patterns book being two away from a MAGA book is funny.
How does Brave monetize this? How do they monetize their app in general? Is there a ppc ad platform they're offering?
This is what happens when your cloud condenses in the water/vapor cycle and returns to liquid form temporarily.
Why backups were impossible? Couldn't you backed up the storage resources?
> It's object pascal, dating to before there were any other object pascals.

"The language was originally developed by Apple Computer":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal
Windows 11 still reports itself as Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.xxx.xxx] in a terminal window
I'd rather take care of the one planet we have right now. Not that it has to be mutually exclusive.
Ya know...... Considering how long it takes these things to get to deep space we probably should've kept the Voyager program going. By that, I mean we should've continued iterating and launching Voyager probes. If we launched one every 2 or even 5 years we'd have between 22 and 9 additional probes heading into deep space a couple years apart. Each with slightly better tech than the previous.
Surprised there hasn't been more discussion on this on HN.

Podcast and transcript:
https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-ai-dilemma

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ

The argument against putting a potential cyber/chemical/bioweapon (etc.) in everyone's pocket is compelling, but I fear that the cat is already out of the bag.
Fedora updates the kernel mid-cycle so could be weeks to months depending on various factors. Mesa versions would be 6 months usually though.
Perhaps I'm missing something, what are the enormous environmental consequences? Are you referring to just those from the photo? I feel like a fishing trawler does more damage every day than I see in these photos.
Memory management has not changed. It's just hidden by the compiler. There are just three ways doable: RefCounting, GC or manual.

But a few things changed considerably. The background models and that now you go away from NSCell objects to child windows is the step and the required step to get stuff onto the GPU. The next one is Recycle View anything, removing the concept of NSOutlineView to NSTable View.
And going back to the surface of the moon is the NASA vanity project.
I thought the article was pretty tame. More on the side of exageration to grab eyeballs than a hit piece.
You’re saying people are weak and can’t enable change if they chose to behave a certain way and instead we need more governance and powers above us

I fundamentally don’t agree. It’s simple: prioritize dignity in yourself and the world will give it

I don’t accept interviews where i’m required to dance. My career has only gotten better since I made that choice.

Even on the individual level you can make this right. It just takes effort.
>is that it totally overlooks all the other companies just dropping all their stuff in the ocean.

You're criticizing the article for not participating in whataboutism?
You've got questions, we've got cell phones.
> ...but only for the minority of users for whom the necessity of extra security outweighs the risk of losing access entirely.

The problem is, Google can and does hand over user data to law enforcement. By handling MFA secrets without e2ee, Google is not doing any one any favours. I mean, it isn't like Signal and WhatsApp (apps with more users than Google Authenticator) haven't figured out a good UI for it for years now!
WW2 stories of diversions to enemy communications: put small needles through the cable. At first you'd think you just have to cut the cable, but that actually makes it very easy to find and fix the problem. Small needles that short the wires are very difficult to locate. Unless you have a fast device that measures return latency on the shorted circuit, but that wasn't available in the 1940s.
The South Pole Telescope
Dang, I would love to be fired at Clubhouse :). Honestly!
I wouldn't say majority, but I too find a lot of useful answers on questions that have long-ago been locked down as "off topic" or "too vague" or "too opinionated" or whatever.
I'd say HN leans engineer, which is probably where the critical perspective is coming from. What engineer sees that as a success, or even acceptable?
As someone with CF, I remember hearing about gene therapy as a kid as far back as the late 80s. Thankfully, we didn’t have to wait for it for many CF patients to have their respiratory issues much improved or even resolved with CFTR modulators.
Firezone (YC W22) is hiring Rust systems engineers (SF / US remote)