skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the only reason they didn't land people on the moon first too is because their country was falling apart and they reduced investment in their space program.

This is most definitely not the case in the late 60s. The Soviets very much wanted to land on the moon up until the Apollo landing.

The cuts to the Soviet space program came after.
I don't mean to be presumptuous but the only company out of Europe that's even comparable is Spotify and even then the majority of their employees are in the US.
Previously

[Efficient Rotary Engine Lands Million-Dollar Darpa Contract](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9431379) 76 points, 44 comments, 8 years ago

[LiquidPiston: Efficient rotary engine](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11995735) 87 points, 20 comments, 7 years ago

[LiquidPiston's “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25450477) 278 points, 130 comments, 2 years ago

[“Inside-out Wankel” rotary engine delivers 5X the power of a diesel](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35455286) 255 points, 196 comments, 24 days ago
Getting more and more buzz.
So we all are ;)
Drupal Developer Days 2023
World Champion Carlsen on 'Shocking' Ding Choice
Procedural Animation: Locomotion (Part 1)
Elon Musk answering questions about the starship launch
The behavior shouldn't be configurable; it shouldn't exist.

No administrator wants to be bothered by reports of a legitimate user who failed to type a password correctly a couple of times.
“But the argument from users is equally compelling, since advertisements prevent them from enjoying what they love. Everybody is acting rationally and I'm not sure I/we/society owes anyone the ability to make a living as a YouTube video producer.”

It’s rational for users to undercut the ability of the creators they like to make money and produce more content? Nobody is saying YouTube video producers deserve free money but if users continue consuming their content while blocking their ads/sponsorships/not supporting them on Patreon then they are the entitled ones, not the producers.

Ads suck, don’t get me wrong but blocking them on people you like is short term thinking and not fair to the producer.
> The one program truly blew my mind at the time was Netrek - the first networked multi-player realtime graphical space fighting game.

Anything like mtrek? It's still around [0], and even over telnet [1].

0: https://mtrek.com
1: telnet://mtrek.com:1701
This is exactly the kind of article that ai will not appreciate when it can read and comprehend the hype! Just kidding, but it is interesting that many people already consider this a form of sentience when it is simply matrices of info. How many matrices of info do we need before sentience can pop in via consciousness and hang out with us, here and now?
I've found that a lot of the complexity of the cloud is self imposed, the other half is because they're running a huge range of mixed-quality software that needs a lot of scaffolding to even run properly.

For example, if the clouds used IPv6, then 90% of the networking complexity would simply evaporate. But they can't, because despite two decades of warnings, nobody has working IPv6 LAN networks. Similarly, IPv4-only server software is still being written, today.

In comparison IPv4 needs a ton of infrastructure to function. Stateful subnet and IP assignments. Methods for dealing with overlapping private networks. Split DNS, private endpoints, NAT, and on and on...

I could list other examples, but you get the idea. The big clouds are pandering to their customers, and the customers can't modernise their end fast enough, so you end up with complex features to account for all the legacy software and networks.
> would not be sad to see a return to amateur folks making and uploading stuff just for fun, in their spare time.

This is where it gets complicated. I could shoot an entire video with my phone, but it would be harder to see some things with the limited camera options. I could make videos with less time spent on them, but they have less to offer and get fewer views. I spend significant amounts of time to produce the videos I make, and I see a direct correlation to videos with more time spent on them returning more back to me. So you are incentivized to do better, spend more time and resources on production.

I think some people want youtube to evoke the project blogger experience because it feels more personal. But video is just too hard and takes too much time and equipment to communicate effectively. And current social internet trends have killed the personal blog. So this is what we are left with.
I am very much anti-car but the extreme also concerns me. If you're not rich and all your options for transportations are public shared transportation and payment methods are non-cash and traceable then your freedom of movement is regulated by the state. In China for example, your movement using public transportation and even your ability to rent a bike is regulated by social score.

I need a constitutional amendement (US) that guarantees cash payments will alwayd be an option for any means of transportation, shopping for basic needs and communication methods. And that the 4th amendment's protections for search and seizure extend to public transportation and that the government must take an all or nothing approach to weapons on public transport, that is either allow all legal weapons or screen every single person using a public transport (like airports) for weapons.

I would also like to add that the federal government should be granted powers that allow it to override local governments' push back against public transport infrastructure (e.g. california!). Allow it to purchase any land for fair market prices and use eminent domain to remove people and endsure things like the cali rail project where rich localities get a stop but poor ones have little say doesn't happen.
Sure. The old one just splits the transcript into 5 minute chunks and summarizes those. The reason this sucks is because each 5 minute chunk could contain multiple topics, or the same topic could be repeated across multiple chunks.

This dumb technique is actually pretty useful for a lot of people though, and has the advantages of being super easy to parallelize and requiring only 1 pass through the data.

The more advanced technique does a pass through large chunks of the transcript to create lists of chapters in each chunk. Then it combines them to a single canonical chapter list with timestamps (it usually takes a few tries for the model to get it right). Then it does a second pass through the transcript, summarizing the content for each chapter.

The end result is a lot more useful, but is way slower and more expensive.
I'd add MusicMatters - https://www.youtube.com/@MusicMattersGB to the list.

Great analyses and teardowns of all kinds of classical music. I'm especially fond of his Bach chorale analysis.
For some alarms yes. But for one where you won't even know if it activated unless you see the response, and there's little reason for anyone to care about it most of the time... it seems pretty niche.
My family has historically been very into genealogy research, so we've got lots of family tree info. I've been working with my aunt to put together a webapp to create/edit info, see relationships, show ancestors/descendants of individuals. We've also started adding photos recently, which is really cool.

Favorite feature we've built: "are you my cousin", where you choose 2 people in our database and it calculates how they are related. First time I got to write a search function outside of a classroom!

I'm sure Ancestry does all this and more, but it's nice to have something that we built that's just for our family. We also use it all the time to verify relationships/birthdays!
out of curiosity in which state do you live
midimiddle (im picturing knobs _through and over_ the screen)
Along the same lines there’s Dijkstra’s use of the Leonardo numbers in smoothsort. I doubt that one in a hundred working computer programmers have heard of them.
For any Arrested Development fans out there, a friend sent me this link related to the iceberg today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/arresteddevelopment/comments/13309l...
Because we're not doing the things that are truly impactful and have no cost to individuals, and instead focusing on changes that are annoying and useless. Plastic bags, plastic straws, gas stoves, the list goes on and on. All the while, the Germans have turned the coal power plants back on.

That does not suggest that anyone is taking the environmental effects of their choices very seriously, and that they just want to lower peoples' standard of living and intrude on our lives. If that's what this is really about, then how about none of it?

I'm sure you understand that if people continue getting inconvenienced in the name of climate change while governments and big corporations go on pumping CO2 into the atmosphere at industrial scale, that's what's going to happen: instead of everyone making the changes they need to make, the vast majority of people will do nothing. The hypocrisy is not lost on anyone.
I don't see any reason why wasm can't just become another native format.

wasm spec is fully defined and public, and we even already have source for browsers.

What prevents developing a wrapper or shim that runs any wasm as if it were any other native executable?

You might be legally prevented from redistributing the wasm, so maybe you can't bundle it right into a .deb or.rpm, but it's trivial in that case to just download on the fly if not exist and re-use after that. You may want it to check for updates all the time anyway.
> That's just like how shampoo companies advise you to "lather, rinse, repeat". It's a great way to boost sales.

It’s no accident that they code a loop with no termination condition (except the implicit emptying of the bottle). Really boosts sales!
“ in an area of the province known as Conception Bay”

Great selection.
Nowadays /etc/passwd is world-readable and passwords are in /etc/shadow but perhaps /etc/passwd used to store the hashed passwords as well.
assuming your mass distribution is dynamicly balanced and not prone to unpredicable tumbling via the intermediate axis theorem.
A tax would also affect old homes. This proposal only affects new homes.

It's really a slow phaseout. People are getting upset over nothing. You're not all buying new homes anyway.
> cold boots are the most vital thing for us to solve ... Our goal RN is to hit 1s

Did a bit of package management and experimenting with optimizing bits over the wire for serverless scaling on NFLX's internal serverless platform.

I'm selfishly interested in learning more about what you're doing to optimize meeting an incoming request with a live instance, but also might be able to help.

Know you're busy but if you, or your engineering team, have time to connect I'd love to chat: hn@blankenship.io
> Are there people who don’t look at their bank statements?

Most assuredly.
Thanks for the kind words. I built it on a few cross-country plane rides and now I mostly just leave it alone. The infrastructure and tooling we have these days is so incredible.
Looking for job perks? How about saving the world?
Nice! Would you please share your code?
They walked into the right place at the right time, and knew how to play that advantage.

They didn’t cause it initially, but they sure took advantage of being the thing IBM chose.
Perhaps I simply want to know where I'm headed before I spend 20 minutes of my time. Not all videos do a good job explaining the plot in the first 30 seconds. With this I can get a TL;DR instead of skipping 1/3 through the video to see what it is actually about.

Also note, youtube is directing producers to make entertainment-only content and that stuff has very little to summarize. It's viral because it's entertaining, you wouldn't TL;DR it.

I think the "Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address" is a perfect example of a link someone sends me that I want to preview before I schedule my time watching it.
Now that you have updated the code I think you have just flipped the error, it's still there, just doing the opposite (still wrong) thing: for example, if "num_steps" is 768 and "num_inputs" is 1 then K, Q, V is 1x1, okay but the the attention matrix cannot also be 1x1, it needs to be 768x768; you can also do the opposite K, Q, V being 768x768 and the attention matrix 1x1, before the error was that you made both the K, Q, V and the attention matrix 768x768 by applying the matrices on the wrong dimension, now the error is that you have made the the K, Q, V and the attention matrix 1x1.

For a simple fix just make the attention matrix W [num_steps, num_steps] instead of [num_inputs, num_inputs] then "y_i = torch.matmul(x_v_i, w_i)" would be "y_i = torch.matmul(w_i, x_v_i)" and should be correct.
So we can conclude this was etched by someone into a phallus?
When Chinese and Russian ISPs start taking abuse complaints seriously then they can be given the benefit of the doubt. But until that happens they're going to remain on most RBLs for a good reason.
As for your concerns.... they have been noted, and logged.
At this point banks shouldn't exist, just put your money with the feds.

This article discusses this and highlights how disruptive it can be for the entire Economic system.
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/svb-bank-runs-private-federal-re...
> This change is being promoted as a critical step in the fight against climate change.

27 years from now, when we're supposedly going to be "net zero", do we really want to be supporting a bunch of natural gas infrastructure?

Or should we start making that expensive infrastructure not necessary?

1. Most homes built now will be around in 27 years, and still in good shape.

2. Building and maintaining natural gas infrastructure to homes is expensive.

3. Gas heating is easily replaced by heat pumps, even in cold climates. It should be difficult to justify any gas heat installs in new homes. (Though, more support should be provided in terms of power redundancy in very cold climates.)

4. It's just not worth it to support gas infrastructure just for gas stoves.

If you look at the big picture, and the medium to long term is just doesn't make sense to build out gas-dependent housing. And it really doesn't make sense to build out all of that infrastructure just for gas stoves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines in 1863:

> Our opinion is that war to the death should be instantly proclaimed
against them. Every machine of every sort should be destroyed by the
well-wisher of his species. Let there be no exceptions made, no quarter
shown; let us at once go back to the primeval condition of the race. If
it be urged that this is impossible under the present condition of human
affairs, this at once proves that the mischief is already done, that our
servitude has commenced in good earnest, that we have raised a race of
beings whom it is beyond our power to destroy, and that we are not only
enslaved but are absolutely acquiescent in our bondage.
An advanced sand dam that can provide water in times of drought
> What prevents developing a wrapper or shim that runs any wasm as if it were any other native executable?

That definitely exists and is used on server-side - Wasmtime, Wasmer and others.
lol, love this. Yeah, high bypass turbofan was what I was thinking about, and yes those are "jet" engines. Model airplanes use something called an electric ducted fan or EDF[1], and it has the nice properties in that you can run it over a wide range of speeds if desired. The recent Black Sea MQ-9 incident would, in my opinion, turned out differently if that drone used a shrouded engines for propulsion.

[1] https://www.rc-airplane-world.com/rc-jets.html
>baby man

Resorting to cheap personal insults is both unneeded and inappropriate for HN.

If you have a point to make, make it.
Your post resonated with me a lot.

I'm jealous! Experiencing the world with all the garbage filtered out.
Sure, if you are into buying extra appliances when you already paid for one.

And what about when you want to bake or broil something?

& yes, fume hoods do help, with "help" doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. They also need to be turned on to work (not likely every time you heat a pot of tea), and are noisy, and waste even more heat, blowing out cubic meters of already heated/cooled air to exhaust milligrams of pollutants. Always better to never generate the pollutants in the first place.

And for the societal-level goals of reducing climate change and improving public health, it is best to do it at a societal scale, not making every individual go and spend resources to redo and workaround the work that has already been done. Far better to just not install the polluting infrastructure in the first place.
I wish I had this, with data sourced from Slack (pic, title, name) and Salesforce (for sales staff, what accounts do they manage) and maybe for developers, GitHub (what areas of code do they contribute to)
> SD isn't creation imo. I have used it + followed stuff made with it, and I don't care how much people rebrand it as prompt engineering. Its consumption. Just because some imagination is involved in the query doesn't make it creation.

No, the fact that something is made with it makes it creation. Imagination makes it creative, on top of being creation.

The problem I see here is you are trying to insert your moral/aesthetic judgement of the quality/value of the mechanism/process of creation into the objective description of whether creation is happening, probably because you have subscribed to a worldview which valorizes creation and denigrates consumption so accepting something you don’t want valorized as “creation” is incompatible with that worldview.

You can just say you don't like Generative AI and wish people wouldn’t use it. You don’t need to declare that creating things with it isn’t creation to try to mask your (valid as any other) aesthetic preference in a very silly circumlocution designed to resemble an objective description, albeit a patently self-contradictory one.
Why add more buildings that will eventually leak?

You have to stop leaks from being made in the first place.
Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices
R1 universities (at least) have another category of non-faculty staff, which is research scientists (and lab techs and the like as well). Research scientists aren’t faculty, don’t have to teach, but, you know, do research, write grants, etc.
It looks like making videos became your profession, since you expect monetization of your video views.

And I, as a viewer, simply don't want... professional content.

I want to watch videos made by hobbyists for the sake of fun and to inform/debate/educate.

So by installing adblockers and shill-skipping scripts I simply vote for my interests.
Well, and to me this syntax makes sense intuitively. And to most beginner programmers, all code looks very hard to understand. I'm really bad at understanding pgsql, I dont't like it at all. People just have different experiences.

Ruby still has algol-like structure, like most common languages. And basic lisp syntax is "normal" function calls with the parens moved around.

Of course, some things are objectivly more complex than others, but making that argument here requires a bit more evidence.
It sounds like you were able to successfully run sudo, just with a somewhat longer latency.
For the person who writes this article, is it the highlight of their month of the bane of their existence?
MLC LLM
I don't know why some people on hackernews have such a bias for deriding physicians. If you don't like the care you get, go somewhere else and get another opinion. Of course the bell curve of probabilities exist in medicine...just like it exists in every other field or more broadly the universe.

This article is about the potential downsides of radical transparency...not just the default level of transparency. For many years/decades, records have always been available to patients upon request. This new immediate availability is something entirely different and brings about another set of problems.

Imagine having 15 minutes to see a patient, document on the chart, order labs/imaging, and provide disposition to a patient. Then, they have free reign to message you regarding some irrelevant piece of data in the chart or labwork that you need to respond to. Too much patient access does have problems, and I can provide you some mundane examples. I documented about an excoriation in one of my charts, and the patient calls back complaining that I called them a skin picker and wanted me to change my documentation. If you google excoriation, you do not get the medical definition or understanding of the word but a link to excoriation disorder. Another patient wonders why their eosinophil percentage is 0.1% above the upper limit of normal.

To me, the chart serves more as a note to colleagues who have the relevant understanding to piece together what happened during the visit. Giving patients immediate access to their charts will have very little benefit in my opinion given the high prevalence of EMRs and easy access to charts for anyone that actually cares.

To say that most doctors are terrible is one of the worst takes I've read. Most doctors are probably average, and their average medical knowledge is likely a standard deviation or two above the average patient.

The whole death by medical error thing is also of uncertain evidence. See: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health/m...
Surprisingly not. Code Search is excellent and supports all of the power user features you could possibly want.
I wanted to make something like this, but I think youtube is going to send them a notice sooner or later, correct me if I am wrong, there is no official way to download a video from youtube https://stackoverflow.com/a/8081778

The site is super fast, wrt generating transcript and even the summary is super fast. I am very impressed with this.

If I want to generate a summary on bunch of text? do i have to use embeddings? anyone has done something similar?
It somewhat works but let's not exaggerate how well it works.