skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I assume SpaceX Falcon 9 is the only large resuable rocket in the world.
Without reusable rockets, how could any massive array of satellites be economical? (If for military, ignore this post.) Look at all the other big satellite arrays owned by private industry. The return on investment is awful.
I don’t know what your company’s policies are, but mine would rightfully not allow me to discuss company secrets via WhatsApp
My client stopped working and I deleted an account that I'd used daily for over a decade. It would have been hard for me to break that habit on my own if I'd actively tried.

Twitter is a lame duck. Its problems and missteps are more nuanced than downtime. But just like Facebook didn't go out of business as it became irrelevant to people below a certain age, Twitter is also too big to fail quickly.
A reproduction of Elizabeth Twining’s catalog of botanical drawings from 1868
I’ve updated the Getting started guide to give examples of both client- and server-side rendering, and there are links to CodeSandbox for code you can copy.

React: https://observablehq.com/plot/getting-started#plot-in-react

Vue: https://observablehq.com/plot/getting-started#plot-in-vue
How much of the obesity epidemic comes from the energy expenditure side?
It’s an irregularity in their performance profile. Arithmetic is a known issue. How many such irregularities exist but are not measurable?
Pfft. Its existence solely and only persists through the mass of nodes run by people who utilize the network. The only control that developers exert is over their own actions and willingness to write code. The overall community consensus to run that code is cooperative, *not* coercive.

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

(edit) And you clearly never read the whitepaper: "What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party."

^^ Literally trustless right there.
It seems a bit disingenuous to omit Apollo 13, which failed on the way to the moon. The fact that it failed well before the landing attempt, speaks to the difficulty of even getting to the point where you can consider a landing.
The Governor’s city of record is pretty insignificant. The Albany powerbrokers are almost all from NYC and the surrounding communities and the moneyed interests are most certainly from the City. Given that is who she has to play ball with, it makes sense policies would reflect the biases of the city, not the Governor’s home city.
I don't think that's really fair. The replies to Elon have always been the worst of twitter.
Surpasses ChatGPT on Some Tasks
They nee to get specific about "extending the light of consciousness"

Here is the problem -
1. Networks grew. Devices/Content creation got cheap.

2. Cost of Broadcast fell to 0. Cost to spam fell to 0.

3. Info Exploded. Attention got scarce.

4. To address the Info tsunami there is an Explosion of half baked Tools (page rank,news feed, collecting personal info, like counts etc) all of which get gamed as arms races for scarce Attention begin

5. Pressure to keep the tools free causes dependency on Advertising to build.

6. Advertisers change the focus of the tools to Engagement Maximization. Attention gets fucked further.

7. Never ending side effects and unintended consequences. Hack on top of hack to address each one. Throw in crypto, mindless market capture/empire defense wars. And people are furiously 24x7 on a road to now where.

Getting back control over Attention is all that matters. Any tool that doesnt focus on that as the primary goal is worthless.
There is too quantization, you cant get to any bitness without quantizing the raw waveform at some level.

A signal that exceeds the maximum amplitude allowed by the media will behave dramatically different as digital bits vs an analog groove. There are also very subtle transformations that occur as a byproduct of the needle physically moving around and through the groove, in addition to any properties imparted on the sound by cabling, connectivity, or the preamp's response curve.

Nyquist theorem simply says we can reproduce the original waveform with enough bandwidth. But it does not take into account other properties of the medium.

Subjectively I find the bass on vinyl to be smoother and more buttery given the same recording available digitally. Maybe its the mastering. Maybe its because the music isn't clipping. But for bass music it is definitely a bit of a je ne sais quoi, its definitely there with a good needle, preamp, pressing, and speaker.
I am very skeptical that a child can learn perfect pitch merely by listening to classical music.
But the statements made by the CEO's always talk about employee trust and being a family.
My theory is the Russians blew up NS1 / NS2 to cause pain to the EU over the winter and gain an advantage to show that EU needs them. With increased gas price and inflation, they were hoping the EU citizens would protest and decrease support towards Ukraine. Fortunately, the winter was not too cold this time and gas consumption was lower than previous year usage.

(NS1 & 2 = Nord Stream 1 & 2)

[Video] Russian gas giant Gazprom is purportedly taunting Europe with a cold and dark winter as it cuts supplies: https://youtu.be/n6GTKgVJrIo?t=29

Classic Russian playbook. Lame propaganda.
Because you can throw in a dirt cheap gas stove in a new build pretty easily.
Good writeup. Were queuing people before the open really waiting for Steam Deck? I suspect that they are scalper for Pokemon, Gunpla or something. It's already sold on website so I don't expect that many people wait for them.
Because it was about C++
The p Factor: An under-studied hypothesis about mental disorders
I don't think you need K8S for that. Any decent load balancer (LB) is going to have some concept of origin configuration that weights routing with various algorithms and health checks. You would just update the config in the LB when you bring a new origin online.
I don't really agree with the opening paragraph here. We have seen numerous examples of GPT4 "reasoning" by what is essentially dumb metacognition. For example, when querying wolfram-alpha using the new plugin. GPT4 will correct itself if the query gave an inappropriate response or if the generated wolfram language code did not yield the desired output. And if the code doesn't work GPT4 will acknowledge this. Whether or not this "reflection" or "internal monologue" is intelligence is a different question. It's like the old meme about moving the goalpost of AI each time we accomplish something new.
The models used by the rating agencies were open and available to investors. The number of low doc/no doc loans as well as no appraisal loans were tracked and specified. Given the number of loans in a particular category, the rating agencies required certain levels of protection via credit tranching, over collateralization and insurance. These models proved to be poor. But no one was hoodwinked.

Now you may argue that banks accepted fraudulent applications that a prudent man would not have and then sold securities based on those, and all the big banks paid out multibillion dollar settlements over that.

Why no criminal prosecution? Two reasons. IANAL, but I believe the standard for criminal fraud is higher than imprudent decisions. Second, and more importantly if you start charging bank employees criminally, you really need to start charging the fraudulent borrowers who by many accounts number in tens of thousands. No one made them commit fraud. They were not victims of fraud, they were literally beneficiaries, though ultimately foolish as well.
They could at least have the option to report it to Santa
Interesting, I started going through Lisp In Small Pieces a while ago, and I enjoyed
the first chapter, but put it on the shelf for a while.

I've been meaning to pick it back up, but was considering going through Crafting Interpreters first (and started reading it but since I don't know Java I spent
more time trying to figure out a good setup with Java and Emacs).

How is Nils Holm's "LISP from nothing?" I discovered it a while ago, but probably judged
it by its cover (and the typesetting).

Any other recs in the PL/compilers world would be appreciated. I'm probably the only
person that did not like EOPL. I bought the 3rd edition, went back to the 2nd edition,
and at some point early on the eval did not work. Which is a shame since I enjoyed Friedman's Little/Seasoned Schemer and Scheme and the Art of Programming
sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety
An electricity-free technology to cool an area by reflecting all sunlight energy and simultaneously emitting black body radiation in the atmospheric mid IR window (unlike metals, which have low emissivity) is useful here.

They are an existing emerging technology. White paint helps somewhat but doesn’t work well in the IR. The current best performing film is made by 3M: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/energy-conservation-us/applicati...
That's a great thought! But, how does it decides the score for watchability or how interesting the games are?
Why can't I report all those idiots posting the letter "F" in github comments? ;)
First Molecular Images of Olfaction Open Door to Creating Novel Smells
Hi unixhero! We forward all calls to our home number to a Twilio number. We then use Twilio studio to forward calls from my grandmother to a web-based call handler that we created, and all other calls are forwarded to my dad's cell phone. I pasted an image of the twilio flow in another comment if you are curious!
Personal computers are on their (slow) way out. Phones provide good enough connectivity and communications for a lot of people. If you can only afford one, most people would choose a phone rather than a computer.

Business computers are still needed for office workers, for now.
Then that’s just representative democracy at work?

If the majority of people in New York are from NYC, then that’s who she must consider.

I guess the trade is orchard park gets a new stadium.
The closest option is probably the GPD MicroPC. It's 6", but pretty damn close to the ideal of a truly tiny PC. I think they're making a successor to this finally, dunno what the status is.

https://www.gpd.hk/gpdmicropc
I think there is something to finding creative technological solutions. It seems unkind and impractical to ask people to avoid such regions or not live there. People have histories, communities and culture. It can be abandoned in a time of need, but displacement can create trauma, which may have multigenerational effects. I don't study climate science or climate justice, but my bet is that those who can take these environmental threats and instead turn them into a boon, e.g. a new manufacturing technique that reduces carbon emissions or optimizes carbon sequestering for energy production, will have something everyone will want.
Backed into the runtime is probably what your parent meant.
My Tesla Model 3 cut my commute down from 50 minutes to 40 minutes. And I'm not driving any faster, in fact I'm one of the few drivers who do not exceed the legal speed limit.

But the Model 3, with 498 horsepower, lets me overtake lumbering trucks on the narrow, winding, hilly, one-lane-in-each-direction road that makes up my commute. In my previous vehicle I could not overtake safely. With the Model 3 I can be in and out of the opposing land quickly without endangering myself or other motorists.
It is a common claim that the way to fight misinformation and propaganda is with better ideas, clear and rational and calm explanation. At age 44 I only see evidence that the opposite is true. This is problematic of course, to accomplish something important or good, you have to be somewhat of a bad person at times, perhaps.

Or perhaps there is some other way, but the completely disingenuous fear uncertainty and doubt generated by the likes of big oil, the koch brothers, the heritage foundation, absolutely 100% worked. The calm rational approach lost. My children will suffer for it.

So at times I wonder if actually I should be encouraging the good causes to do what works. What do you think?
>I really hate these sinophiles' attempts to elevate China into some super-awesome, super-intelligent master race.

Please don't do this. You are seeing things in the text that isn't there and you seem to do the same just the other way around. It reads anti-chinese / racist.
> inhabitable

Minor typo: but uninhabitable. Relevant simpsons clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mD2hsxrhQ
Did the same with Google Hangouts which wouldn't end the call if someone dropped, and when their internet came back up they would automatically be back in the call. I think that's how it worked.
“The only way to prevent this scary thing is regime change.”

This narrative sounds familiar.
Great example of the echo chamber/filter bubble effect: this is the first time I've heard about this, and it's been going on since 2021. Wow.
Indeed HLA-B27 only has a partial correlation with diseases such as AxSpa.

"... about 7 percent of Americans are positive for HLA-B27 but only 5 to 10 percent of people with a positive HLA-B27 will have AS"
https://creakyjoints.org/about-arthritis/axial-spondyloarthr...
> fairly active in the self hosting scene

Though that is probably why - Traefik is popular for self-hosting, while Caddy is more generally mainstream.
I'm curious, how would something like Nostr (https://nostr.com/) fit in with the Fediverse? Does it generally enhance federation or would it compete?

My understanding is that many federated services use ActivityPub protocol.
Tech industry is the last of their worries. They killed their own future in multiple verticals and industries.
So no one checks these reports?

No wonder we've had so many high profile breaches.

Maybe this is what all those layoffs are about.
What are those funny symbols by the authors' names?
I’m in CA and the funny thing is that my gas furnace would not work without power that is used to run fans pushing heated air through the house.
It’s a safety feature
As my brother said, this is a really tricky area for us to explore for non-technical reasons. We go back and fourth on this, as I do believe my grandmother's quality of life would improve dramatically if this could be done well. For now, we've decided not to explore this, but I think it makes more sense to build personalized AI assistants for people who do not yet have dementia but who are concerned they may in the future
Possibly Player Piano?

There's also A Logic Named Joe, but that's more about ChatGPT sans RLHF.
Those guys must have known each other. They were contemporaries. Paisley b. 1923, Szulc b. 1927. They traveled in the same circles. They were both really good at their jobs. The Paisley article had some deep CIA sourcing, and Szulc's sources trusted him enough to share.
> The power of Capitalism, on the other hand, comes from its hard-nosed acceptance of humanity at its worst.

I had to stop here because that is such a superficial and erroneous summary of Rand's views (she explicitly argued the opposite) that it indicates he never understood her or is intentionally misrepresenting her ideas or smearing her.

In any case, Rand is not going away and if anyone is interested in why you need to read her books for yourself. She was crystal clear in her writing and you may disagree with her but she will definitely challenge your own beliefs. I recommend starting with The Virtue of Selfishness and Philosophy: Who needs it.
Yeah, the article certainly goes a bit over the top. As far as drm goes though, the lock analogy doesn't hold. You can't lockpick a house and then distribute unlimited unlocked free copies of it. DRM only needs to be broken once and can be widely distributed, but makes the experience worse for regular customers. There are tons of examples of this all over. Netflix only streams in 720p to browsers (except for edge). Video games with drm can be impossible to run on computers with unusual setups (Sure, I get cheating can be a problem, but this even happens for some single player games). Sometimes software will refuse to work because it is trying to "phone home" to verify a license while some servers are down.

But yeah, generally I think this article isn't the best on the subject. Just hadn't been posted on this site, so I thought it would be good to discuss.
Twitter was profitable as recently as 2019. A simple round of layoffs to fix the pandemic overhiring could have brought them back to that, or close enough that they wouldn't have had to blow up the service in bigger ways.

Although this is an avenue that would have been open to the prior leadership. The extra debt and baggage introduced by Musk may have taken a solution that simple away.
Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
Yeah, I kind of lament them removing this warning if I'm going to be honest. It feels like something such as that should be more common best practice.

Of course decent log collection/monitoring should also be able to catch authlog stuff and alert accordingly and I'm sure most organizations rely on solutions like that instead of letting things get lost in email
>Which is good. That's a desirable property

Is it? That's Cloudflare's whole selling point - keep the bots out. I can understand from a hacker perspective wanting bots to be able to roam the Internet as freely as people but that causes massive headaches for sysadmins, SREs, and DevOps. robots.txt is no good because it's opt-in.
It took 12 attempts to land a robot on the moon for the USSR. Their heavy booster program was in shambles. They literally never developed anything close to as powerful as Saturn V (5m pounds of thrust). They would be lucky not to crash 12 human vehicles on the moon. Leading for the first 5 miles of a marathon doesn't make you the winner!
You should read her for yourself. See my comment above.
What is absolute pitch?
You haven’t noticed major differences in search results? I used to see reputable sources like Reuters and AP in the top few tweets when you search for a news story. Now it’s people like that catturd guy.
Microsoft data centre in a 40-foot container
lol, you know what's funny is that I actually used to have a script like that for windows 10.

I volunteered to help a local nonprofit image a bunch of laptops and they'd bought win 10 home licenses for something like 30 laptops. The whole thing was kind of a nightmare but got most of the adware stripped out, I think, but not all of it. been awhile, so hard to remember
Not the goal of Deno, but right now it’s my favorite way to write single-file CLI scripts paired with zx. All the dependencies are defined at the top of the file and auto installed, TS for static type checking and familiarity, good ESM support, easy to shell out when things are easier with Bash, colors and arg parsing. Not sure I would pick it for anything in production but pretty close to my ideal for quick and dirty things.
> The purpose of news is not to inform. It’s to generate fear based on biases and use that to generate clicks and more fear. If done well, it’s designed to create an unvirtuous circle of fear and clicks.

Ding ding ding ding ding
What if you kick up a bunch of dust?
They are just paying their respects.
You don’t know anything about NY politics. Thats irrelevant.

The previous governor was from NYC and Westchester, and shutdown the primary source of base-load electricity for that region. The plan here is that lots of solar farms will replace actual farms, which is deeply unpopular in rural areas and will kill the tax base, as localities won’t be able to set assessments independently. The other thing is to import more electricity from Hydro Quebec. (Which is a weird environmentalist play)

I think heat pumps are great, and invested in one myself. But inflicting needless pain in millions of people is, like I said, bad public policy. And the counter reaction will roll this back and have a worse net impact on the State.
Bond Volatility Has Busted the 60/40 Portfolio’s Safety Valve
What do you mean one-shot? Hasn't ChatGPT been trained on hundreds of maths textbooks?
Wonder why CDs never came with ginormous jackets
Will it? It's merely a proposed idea. There are uncertainties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...
Or ever younger and less experienced pilots are doing more of these missions. The missions might also be viewed as part of training.
Why spend resources now? We can wait 1k years and utilize future technology to solve the asteroid problem.
(February 2022)
Amazing the amount of government, industry, and academic coordination that was put in place to fight disinformation. Why can't that same effort be put into cyber and ransomeware security?
I’m so tired of people citing $35 for a Pi. Maybe for a Pi Zero (non W). But $120 is standard at this point.
Ive always wondered if houses and buildings could be architected to absorb heat and use it for energy

Maybe even providing heat proof shelters (like bus stops etc) every x km may help immediately. Maybe.
Thanks! My brother and I are quite touched by the reaction in this thread. I will see what I can do about this - if not as a product, then by sharing a little more about what we have done and how it has worked so far
Explained in the footnotes, as expected.
Tell HN: I'm not comfortable with Google Maps showing all my reviews to everyone
Anyone can easily follow my whereabouts by looking at my Google reviews. This is a serious privacy risk that will deter users who value their privacy from leaving reviews.
Espresso Book Machine
I guess it depends on what you mean by full self driving. I shared an intersection in San Francisco just the other day with a Cruise (GM) self driving car that didn't have anybody in the car. Are there limits? Yes, but there are limits to my ability to drive in certain situations as well. Will it take over the road soon? Probably not.
That XKCD is actually mentioned directly in the commit message :)
Not completely dead. We're still no 6 in the world by GDP on the Wikipedia page "List of countries by GDP (nominal)".

Admittedly there's been a bit of a relative decline since the peak of the British Empire. And Brexit has been a bit of a hiccup. Still life goes on.
From one of the final paragraphs:

"Also, they aren’t getting more-solved over time: we’ve made little-to-no progress on any problem of this sort in the last decade, certainly not the reliable improvements of the sort we’ve seen from supervised learning. This indicates that a breakthrough is needed — and that it is unlikely to be close."

Past lack-of-progress is not an indicator of future lack-of-progress. "unlikely to be close" is unknowable, and is just the author's gut feeling.
My layout resets every time I start chromium or sometimes I when I start terminal. It’s not external keyboard. Any ideas?
> My theory is the Russians blew up NS1 / NS2 to cause pain to the EU over the winter and gain an advantage to show that EU needs them.

Neither NS1 nor NS2 were in use; the only scenario that really makes sense for Russia is that they new Europe wasn’t reversing course on Ukraine without some additional threat, and thought that blowing up NS1 & 2 would make an effective threat against Baltic Pipe.

The “Ukrainian-friendly non-state entity did it to foreclose from European states the option of resuming gas purchases from Russia” idea is not (in motivationbterns) implausible.
You were flagged, I imagine because of the tone of your comment, but I wonder why you think this is stupid for schools?

Living in a third world country I can tell you this has huge potential to improve schooling in areas with limited or no internet accessibility.
It seems to be Kiwix+OSM+Archive.org downloads which is really nice. I wonder how the interface works
is arithmetic based on language? should an LLM be expected to handle one plus one ad infinitum? Makes no sense since it's not built for it