skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're responding to a comment no one wrote, the point wasn't to state about how those representations are formed: it was that you integrate many many environments to do anything useful. If someone were kept isolated enough from birth, regardless of inate intelligence they wouldn't be able to take that exam even if we gave them a year and make it open book: Genie took half a decade to reach a 2 year old's language skills.

But there's also a certain irony in your dig on engineers mis-explaining while trying to paint the links between "sensory motor adaptations [sic]" and statisticalism as a response to recent engineering successes...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16807063/
Seems to be a trend. Not sure if someone's already coined a term for it, but I've noticed that with each revision, each model of car tends to get a little bigger, a little roomier, etc. Over time they grow - after all, nobody wants to say that last year's model had more legroom and whatnot. Soon, there's no such thing as a small car in the lineup, and a new model is introduced at the bottom, repeating the process.
Yes, there are a lot of projects using RDF-adjacent technologies and graph databases. But most of them are not very hyped up, so you won't know it unless you know where to look. Amazon has graph database: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Neptune which suggests somebody is using it (besides that I know for a fact people use it)
Their authority is restricted to interpretation of situations where the meaning of federal laws or regulations is unclear. The problem is that, ultimately, pretty much any law can be challenged and appealed all the way to SCOTUS - and if they choose to take the case and issue a ruling, there's no recourse within the system. That is an immense amount of power no matter how one looks into it - it's basically a non-overridable veto on anything the government does, not even necessarily just passed legislation, and not just on the federal level (as any action by the state government can also be challenged on the grounds of being unconstitutional wrt the federal constitution).
If you're going to look for counter-evidence it's important first to accept just how blatant and widespread lying about climate is. Academics - assisted by the media - are willing to lie continuously, brazenly and effectively. They very much want to cover up these sorts of things and will do whatever it takes.

Consider the Wikipedia quote you just provided. You say it provides the full story. Please, think about the things you are reading.

It starts by admitting that in 1971 Schneider published a paper arguing for global cooling, but then claims he realized he made a maths error and by 1974 had published a retraction and accepted global warming. The NY Times article where he promotes his book on global cooling, and where the public is being told that he's representing The Scientific Consensus, was published in 1976. Two whole years after supposedly converting to global warming, there he is, asserting with complete confidence the reality of global cooling!

This claim about Schneider is a lie, like almost everything else about the history of climatology. Wikipedia even provides a citation for their claim of a retraction, but it isn't actually pointing to any retraction, it's to a book published by The Guardian in 2010.

Remember also that in the NY Times article it's stated as 100% fact that temperatures peaked in the 1940s and were falling ever since. That's not a mistake or distortion by the journalist. That's exactly what temperature graphs of the USA showed right up until around the start of the millennium. At that point the historical record was altered to remove this long period of cooling. If you look at modern temperature graphs that period of history shows a flat trend.
They say it's a wide beam. Is that a misinterpretation of the spectrum used or did they mean physically a wide beam, as opposed to a thin maser? That would be extremely inefficient compared to a pinpoint accurate defense, wouldn't it? I assume military drones are difficult to spot, so maybe they need a shotgun pellet approach.
I think feral humans that create wild training content or prompt the generation of it are more of a concern than a piece of software. The internet, before the internet and ai we had and will have the same issue. Ai is just resurfacing an issue that will be ignored again and again.
Unix-like sounds unreasonable if there isn’t leeway for optionally reporting progress on stderr (--quiet/--non-quiet or similar).
> Also Control/Command C, X, and V are impossible to do with one hand

One of the motivations behind Colemak was to make an efficient layout that didn't move C, X, or V.

Mr. Dvorak back in 1936 couldn't have known about cut / copy / paste ;-)
“Idlewords” indeed. No one with actual deep knowledge of the space industry thinks Starship is vaporware. SpaceX has been launching more stuff to orbit on Falcon than the rest of the planet combined, and virtually all on a mostly-reusable orbital rocket, the only one that is in operation today. They also have been the sole domestic provider for orbital crew launch in the US since Shuttle retired. This is not “empty promises.” Compare that to New Glenn, for instance, which is years behind schedule. The first orbital rocket from a company that was started before SpaceX.
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In most enterprise settings yes. You can make personal projects in Java fast if you don't use any of the build systems and call javac/jar directly with shell scripts, but then again, why would you ever chose Java in the first place.

The reason for Java building being slow is that for whatever reason, the community that develops Java has been inundated with people who are more concerned with flexing their theoretical computer science knowledge than actually making the language spec adaptable. As such, the core language is extremely lacking in features.

For this reason, people built systems on top of the language, such as build systems, dependency injection systems, testing systems, and so on. But again, for someone to dedicate time to building on top of the crap that is core Java requires a certain mindset, which lends itself to extremely bloated code, or things like making a log statement have code that can fetch code from the internet and execute it.

So when you stack all of these on top of one another, thats where you get long compile times from. You have gradle build system, which is Groovy, which then gets compiled to run on the jvm, which then compiles the annotation processors which often write code to a file on a disk, which then gets included along with the rest of the code, which then gets compiled into class files and then jar files.

Also, during execution, because the common guidance is to use extremely bloated and poorly organized 3d party libraries for basic things, all of these libraries have a startup time associated with it.
No; maybe you're thinking of how the LM had to be extracted from the fairing and docked to the CM in space?
That's interesting, but it's not clear whether there is any cultivated dandelion species that is substantially different from the wild dandelion.
It's a conscious choice the citizens made every day for the last century, just like America chose freedom.

What's the other countries excuses?
Unlikely. Apple management has been awful about this space in regards to Siri. Zero accountability at the Vp level. This should be a cakewalk for Apple, and yet here we are. Their implementation should be leveraging their hardware and Johny Srouji can implement enhancements to the neural engine & GPU to drive their LLM and establish a personal, privacy focused AI assistant.
Exactly, just see the brainwashed masses who believe in Qanon conspiracy, which Trump and Musk both amplify. It's an alternate reality.
Communication with families on the outside are a critical part of avoiding recidivism once the inmate is released. This is a mechanism the prison industrial complex uses to ensure that the inmates are not rehabilitated and are highly likely to return.

Likewise, if you take someone as a prisoner, you take then into _your_ custody. You are responsible for that person. You are literally their custodian now. You have an obligation to ensure that their rights are being protected. How we expect for profit institutions to do this on behalf of the state is entirely beyond me.
> Also Control/Command C, X, and V are impossible to do with one hand while holding your mouse unless you remap keys or create macros.

I took the, uh, hard way on this one: For every OS I have used in the last 20 years I have figured out how to write a program that intercepts keystrokes and rewrites them so that when I am holding ctrl or alt, my keyboard temporarily reverts to Qwerty. (I type Dvorak.)

My current iteration involves using systemtap to, uh, monkey-patch the Linux kernel. Which works... surprisingly well?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-monkey-patch-the-linux-ke...

Code and older version here: https://github.com/kentonv/dvorak-qwerty

Though these days I'm starting to think this guy's version based on /dev/input might be a better way to go: https://github.com/tbocek/dvorak (This even works on Chrome OS.)

MacOS has this keyboard layout built-in, but in multiple attempts I have never been able to get myself to like MacOS, so...
That does sound pretty bad, especially from Apple that always talk about how safe their store is.
Ask HN: How do you deal with all the cables at home?
There are a few spots in my home where multiple cables are enmeshed with one another. Just behind my WFH desk, there is a laptop charger, two power cables for the dual monitors, and another cable for a desk lamp, plus a few USB cables for the keyboard and other accessories. And behind my gaming area are a few more cables. These areas aren't easy to clean.

How do you deal with all the cables in your home? Any creative solutions?
Not necessarily. It provides for all sorts of encryption schemes, including none.

That and they're likely LMR not P25 being in the part of Europe they're in.
Excellent, I'm looking forward to future installments! I can't tell whether the series will be related to the book of the same title, but I would personally love a Lispy / SICP style exploration into that.
Utopia: Fluid Responsive Design Without Breakpoints
I'm reminded of Bedrock Linux hanging during sleep because Linux sleeps the FUSE daemon while a process is waiting on FUSE and unable to be suspended for sleep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34583495
Hard to say what's already known to be known by foreign intelligence. Doesn't hurt to publicize it if you already know that major potential adversaries know about it.

Also hard to say exactly how cutting-edge anything we get to see is.
Colemak-DH is the true way https://colemakmods.github.io/mod-dh/
Serious question, what if instead of pointing it to drones it was pointed to organic flesh? Wouldn't that microwave burst the water contained in someone's body?
Apparently wild asparagus and cultivated asparagus are different, although there seem to be also escapees of the cultivated form.
there is an opportunity to test this right now in real world battles and save a lot of lives. Just saying…
That is definitely another method, but there's no guarantee that Apple or Google has my credit card.
Well local jurisdictions are funded by sales taxes they themselves set. You live in a tourist town? Well higher sales tax results in more funding for local services and possibly lower property taxes and you could just drive to the next town if you want to save the 1-2%. What's not to like?
Yes, I consider attestation a bit of a poison pill, personally. I'm very ambivalent about passkeys as it is, if attestation throws a monkey wrench into the works, my ambivalence would become active resistance.
The lunar mission did not yield any kind of advanced military capabilities, though. We had cooperative space missions with the Soviets as early as 1975, when the Apollo program was still ongoing. See Apollo–Soyuz:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%E2%80%93Soyuz
What? In SF? Where construction costs alone are easily several hundred million dollars for a modern office skyscraper?
How much do the direction/location of the antenna and incoming pulse matter?

The antenna could point up and communicate with satellites. Meanwhile the pulse will be coming from underneath. Maybe it could be diffused off to the side?
> I increasingly do not recognise our government as one that is in any kind of alignment with my values as a UK citizen or even as just a decent human being.

Why not simply vote with your feet and move to SV. There are a lot of Brits here, and a lot looking to move here. It's the only way it will change.
"...in-person exams, hand-written, with no access to devices..."

Maybe for math and subjects of that nature, but do you think your average college student could write out a 1000 word essay, or longer, without their hand falling off?

I have been typing for so long that it is physically difficult for me to do that while trying to think of what to write. Maybe I am too basic...well, probably...but I would assume the same for many other keyboard jockeys...
I really hope the earth gets obliterated before any of that happens.
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Unless iCloud only lets you download it in a form only the secure enclave can decrypt.
> We need to decide as a society that the physical and mental health of all citizens is more important than maximum economic output and enact laws that enforce these limits.

And how does AI fit into that equation? Will we regulate the use of all kinds of technology that doesn't clearly improve "all citizens' physical and mental health"? Surely the expiration date for that initiative passed eons ago...

I can't think of a single example where the adoption of AI does not involve diminishing a cost, like a avoiding a threat to human health or life. What's the role of AI if not to increase reward to the owner of the 'bot?
I dream about the death of stroads and banning suvs, making more towns walkable and friendly to people so kids can play outside without dying to cars. I really hope the US gets better at this soon.
Chatgpt makes this fun and rewarding. How about:
Mobile Integrated Countermeasure Radiating Overwhelming Waves Against Virtual Enemies (MICROWAVE)
Ask HN: Resources to learn about early startups engineering decision?
I am familiar with engineering at scale blogs like AirBnB, Meta, or Netflix.

I am looking for something a scrappy team of 4 people pull together within 2 years of company inception.
ie question like
1) what early day database schema looks like
2) what do we use for simple product analytics
...
Contrived case. Such a storage solution would still not be something that ahci(4) on OpenBSD - a basic SATA controller driver - could wrangle, no matter how many seconds it patiently waited.
They’ll work in a pinch against a drone idling below your kitchen window.
“non-kinetic, speed-of-light microwave pulses”

Presumably the version that uses kinetic faster-than-light microwave pulses is still classified.
Adobe Firefly already did it https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html
Xfennec here, thank you so much for this message. ManiaDrive was a small game made with a bunch of friends, I'm so glad it had an impact on you. I'm now a dad, and it makes me very emotional to read this. Thanks again.
Monasticization of Daily Life
It would probably also need GPS. I think it should be possible to harden a camera. Light can go e.g. though an arbitrarily small honeycomb mesh, while microwave cant. But it might be limiting in terms of what a ln autonomous drone would need to see. Lidar might be harder
For those thinking of switching to Colemak, you might consider using the Tarmak method: [0]

It's a series of 5 intermediate keyboard layouts that each change just a few keys from QWERTY. So, instead of one big transition that takes weeks to learn, you have 5 smaller transitions, each of which you can learn in a weekend.

[0]: https://forum.colemak.com/topic/1858-learn-colemak-in-steps-...
I love Steve Krouse!!!
I don't know, I was offered to design and implement military cockpits UI and tracking systems for the biggest weapon exporter in Italy for a very good salary, a 60% raise of what I earned at the time and I was like "no thanks, I want to go sleep without thinking I'm helping writing software to kill people".

Since then I have a very clear clause in my contracts that I don't work in projects involving law enforcement, military and some other business.
I think any software (and possibly product) development process where the starting point is a designer creating mocks / flows in isolation and then handing them over to others to build is doomed to fail.

The initial designs, created in isolation from real data, users, what the tech can actually do, etc..., are 99% of the time completely wrong.

A better way is to build a minimal working prototype, with whatever actual real data you can get your hands on. Put it in front of actual users and listen to their feedback. Iterate. Once it has settled into its final shape, worry about making it look nice.
Anything that can be done regarding this? Imagine if Paul Graham was defending a white supremacist murderer or spread anti-Semitic rhetoric or saying things were psyops conspiracies, would that be quickly outlawed and flagged here?
Both way, I did some projects with military and they care much about these acronyms for some reason.
I doubt that GTA Online released the game with 60K+ items in their online store.

The runtime for the release day store inventory count may have been okay, but I don't think that Rockstar kept profiling their game every time that they modified their store inventory.

The amount of pain Rockstar inflicted on their 90K+ users shows that Rockstar didn't care that their game took more than 3 mins to startup for the majority of their users.
If I take a look around at the populace...eating more things doesn't seem like the direction we should be taking...
My favorite Linux distro; it's basically a user-friendly Arch with goodies like a GUI kernel switcher thrown in.
> THOR engaged the targets and knocked them out of the sky using its non-kinetic, speed-of-light microwave pulses.

Maybe that's military jargon but in Physics photons definitely carry and deliver kinetic energy.
How much of that is a result of jurisdictions relying on pressuring plea deals out of people so they don't have to fund the court system, though?
I coil them up, using a pair of zipties or velcro strips, to keep them as short as possible, and I never let them dangle on the floor. I have zip-tied a power strip to the metal crossbar connecting the two back legs of my desk so that power cords dropping down the back of the desk need not touch the floor at all.
Let’s also not forget LEONIDAS, which is a bit more mobile but smaller.

https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/01/24/epirus-counter-dro...
this is very fair criticism. We hired a Head of Docs in March. I hope the improvements are evident since he joined, both in content and in usability.

We have a long way to go, but we're working on it.
Yes, exactly -- the responsibility to keep up with Java versions does not, unfortunately, lie with Manifold alone. The deep magic they rely on also needs to remain accessible.
Collusion?
That promo video has "suck it Iran" written all over it. Right down to the truck launches and drone shapes.

I do admit I wonder about single point of failure with this, so hopefully it's part of some layered strategy. Maybe with some flingy nets, those matrix-barrel guns with like 100 barrels in a grid, eagles trained to swoop down and pick apart the props, etc. etc.
Someone posting the audio or video from a verified identity account will still be taken seriously to some degree. Since they have real credibility at stake.
TL;DW summary -- Greenhouse Effect traps infrared (heat) at lower altitudes, so there's less outgoing radiation available for the upper layers of the atmosphere. Thus the surface gets hotter but the upper atmosphere cools.
If Colemak were available out-of-the-box on Windows, I think that would double its adoption.

Are any Microsoft people reading this? If so, please file a ticket with the appropriate team ;-)
A kinetic weapon is one that damages the target by smashing into it. Blunt projectiles like rocks, arrows, bullets, etc.

This is a non-kinetic weapon, because it does not damage the target through kinetic force.
In a push-based approach, can you bundle state changes into a transaction and recompute derived state when the transaction ends and all inputs have finished changing?
Anyone have a formula for E(x,t) and H(x,t) for the actual wave?
> Not that I wrote anywhere that it even was the cheapest way, but that voters would pay more taxes. If you think about it for a moment, you will see that these two statements aren't identical.

Why would voters pay more taxes?
Isn't this more or less just loss leading?
They can try, but it won’t go well in the US.

The future looks like decentralized identity protocols.
I'd argue it's just the stupidly large trucks and SUVs that plague the road ways.
A mid way could be self-hosting Supabase, whether you use more or less Supabase features.

I know self-hosting might be challenging, specially getting a production-ready Postgres backend for it.

That's why at StackGres we have built a Runbook [1] and companion blog post [2] to help you run Supabase on Kubernetes. All required components are fully open source, so you are more than welcome to try it and give feedback if you are looking into this alternative.

[1]: https://stackgres.io/doc/latest/runbooks/supabase-stackgres/

[2]: https://stackgres.io/blog/running-supabase-on-top-of-stackgr...

update: edit
> Lore's current startup is a premium food delivery service called Wondery

A brilliant strategy! Amazon already owns a Wondery[0] so they can't acquire his.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondery
If only there were countries that handled incarceration differently from the US that we could learn from.
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Sounds like the plot of Westworld
Is this confirmed by third parties?
Why does it need to be more authoritarian? Proof of identity can be done in a multitude of ways with existing technologies and protocols.is much rather have this federated and have to deal with an aggregator (like existing password, key, cert, TOTP, wallet), and get to choose the persona per interaction than be required to use a government issued identity for everything. If industry can figure this out, governments can keep their mitts out.

It would be great to be able to import identities from businesses, agencies, and humans and use that as a first level filter for electronic messages of any type.
I should probably bench this against fasttext, which has a pretty simple/fast/accurate lang detection model ootb.
Shhhh. Don’t want to be on THEIR naughty list.
Or, don’t take the Internet so seriously.

Edit-It’s great for things that can be verified easily/safely yourself like food recipes or certain tech stuff. It’s dangerous for things with higher stakes. That’s when you want some “meatspace” corroboration.
Lots of words but not much detail. What I'm interstates to know:

- The effective range of the system, if the range is only 100m or so then you might need a lot of these to protect a larger strategic area.

- How it neutralises the drones, does it overheat certain components or just inject sufficient noise into the system that the flight controller stops working or just disrupt any command signals.
Nice read. I run 5-6 projects on Supabase currently. I have also run into the local development / migration obstacles. It's otherwise been pretty great for our needs
Yep, less heat making it to the upper atmosphere.