skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, Germans have themselves to blame for decades of horrible energy politics.

Now they are in panic mode. Can't really say I feel sorry for them.
Orcas tried metallurgy but they can't keep their forges lit. They're also not great airline pilots. So they've decided for now to stick with fishing.
I'm imagining huge Comic Sans lettering: "This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here."
https://archive.is/fSiq4
Humans aren’t software and laws were designed around humans for the benefit of other humans.

Or at least the last time I checked nobody had forked my brain on GitHub or uploaded me to Sourceforge.
From the Civil War to mattress sales now, Memorial Day is full of contradiction
These domains apply a serious bonus to spam scores, but if you do everything else right (send a normal but not too large amount of email, get your mail server from a domain with high reliability, set up SPF/DKIM/DMARC/etc.) you shouldn't fall below the spam line in most spam filters.
There are a lot of poor quality products out there, and security products are no different. They too follow a distribution. I am not sure why the parent comment uses the second person. I too find security products to be a liability sometimes, and, if an API does not deliver, will try to switch it out.
Somewhere down the line there will also be a very heavy crash when everyone becomes disillusioned with this hype-driven self-proclaimed "AI" revolution (if we can call it that..). Misleading the investors and regulators and manipulating the market. Silicon Valley being SV once again!
I appreciate the support. Been down this road too. Same result. It’s frustrating. Seems there are anomaly cases where people run into this issue.
Orcas are amazing, I still see nothing in what you wrote that indicates they'd be brighter that say 5 to 7 years old kids. Kids have culture too, use tools etc.

Evolution doesn't generally add features that aren't needed. Orcas don't have arms, don't build skyscrapers or fly to the moon. There's no need to be that bright.

But if you want to believe that they could, if they just had had arms, well why not (although I dissent).

> Humans are also some of the most if not the most violent species to ever exist. Which is more intelligent?

Those are two different dimensions. Being intelligent doesn't mean you're kind hearted or less violent. Although it can indeed be simpler to understand others (which you can use in evil ways).
"some swatting" sounds horrible enough as it is, it seems to me.
I wonder if this is what a hypothetical alien civilization may think of us: If we blow it up and build a hyperspace bypass through it, nothing of value will be lost.
I can see why you wouldn't want it running your guidance controller. But for interactivity, is there really a better choice? I would argue physical knobs and buttons are better, but if you've decided to write a software dashboard, what's a better option than Chromium + JS for interactivity? There are no formally verified GUI frameworks (AFAIK), so the only available evaluation metric is "how battle tested is it?" Surely Chromium wins just by sheer scale of deployment.

What I'd be curious about is how they handle updates. The Web platform is a moving target, and it's not like Chromium engineers are pushing features with "astronomical" failure cases in mind. Even if the SpaceX software is perfectly tested, it could break in possibly uncovered ways with each new update. So does SpaceX keep it up to date and
run the same battery of tests on each version? Or do they freeze the version and only update along with their normal SDLC?

EDIT: FWIW, it looks like the original source of the Chromium claim is a Reddit AMA [0] with more details from the SpaceX software team.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_s...
https://github.com/MineDojo/Voyager/blob/main/voyager/prompt...
Daniel, I am sorry your efforts caused you pain. I hold you in my utmost respect and hope you will master the pain your efforts have cost you.
Ask HN: How to Get Back into Working?
Hi HN: Out-of-work dev here. And I have a ton of experience working in tech as a top-level dev.

Now, after having left work due to personal reasons, I don’t feel like returning to work at smaller companies/faang due to fear of office politics and lack of challenging work.

I can work on open-source and my own projects but seem to not want to go back into work-life as it was before the pandemic struck.

Any advice you have for me will be much appreciated. I seem to have lost passion for my work but I need to be able to pay my bills.
Personally I find it hard to believe that it's simple for people to start profitable online business. Some people might be lucky and can promote themselves well, but how many fail? How often freelancers are approached with "great ideas for application", but there's zero chance to find paying clients for it.
How much can anyone do alone, in comparison to all these big corporations or even smaller companies with dozens employees dedicated to some specific niche?

Maybe I'm overthinking, but I can't see how single person can do this, without really good idea.
Financial Times: Letter from the Editor on Generative AI and the FT
https://archive.is/OLQIo
Those sans-serif spaces tho...
That's a great idea! Having a "show map" button will be very helpful. What I mean by that is to browse activities close to where I live, but in a map format.

I'm not too sure, but maybe in the future, Twkids could evolve into "Groupon for family activities." In addition to being a search tool, businesses can offer exclusive deals to people searching for family activities.
I see where you're coming from, but (in my opinion) you're over indexing on the issue. If someone gets bent because you said some video game has bad pathfinding, so what? Seems like their problem. It isn't a mean spirited or unreasonable thing to say.
I wish there was a summary of how this worked. I see the abstract and lots of figures and movies, but I still don't get a good sense of what exactly the algorithm is. I even skimmed the whole paper.
There's a lot of variable typefaces that let you set the x-height, which can be controlled via CSS.
100 million users for ChatGPT plus GPT4 with plugins seems like a pretty good starting moat.
You are not allowed to touch the walls.
Russia to Build Village for Americans Tired of Liberals
Probably good. The culture at the company used to be very tech and engineering focused, but it got heavily managerified in the last 5-7 years. Perhaps they're trying to return to that.
There's a popular security website called thehackernews, i used to read it in school(-10y). occasionally I'd get results from hn in searches, I mostly skipped the site entirely because meh what would a site that's designed like that would even have.

around the same time, i randomly visited some startupfair here locally and made friends w some folks, then one guy asked if i read hackernews, i said yea yea ofc. (not the one he was asking about)

later that night, i was wondering why that guy asked me about hackernews he was not even into security. So i looked up hn, and since that night, this site keeps on giving.
I'm maintaining the following list of freely available books and articles about computer science, programming, math, and physics:
https://github.com/bobeff/programming-math-science
Came here to add that. I saw it as kind of a joke (and there is a Star Trekky 90's techno-optimism to the whole thing that I miss now) due to the Pauly Shore parody of it, and so I went on a whim when I was in town. It's actually an impressive work of engineering in its way, and used to study ecosystems to this day although it is no longer sealed. I'd recommend a visit to anyone.
I was thinking “Responsive CSS, why so difficult?”
One seldom-mentioned aspect of copyright - for better or worse - is that it helps to keep old works (especially popular ones) off the shelves. If anyone could distribute old works, at lower or no cost, they'd be strong competition for new works (with living creators, publishing staff, and servers to pay).

Agreed that 'current state' is excessive. It's a shame that long out-of-print works (which are direct evidence of little or no commercial value to authors/publishers) have not become freely available since digitization came along. (Paying $35 for a digital copy of an ancient, but important science paper, for example.) OOP-status is pretty damned easy to verify today.
He has used some warhammer references. It's funny that the title god emperor was also from there and some ppl know it was a joke, but some are indeed treating it seriously
Veganism is not the same as low emission. There are plenty of vegan food that has unsustainable levels of emissions if all of earth was to eat it.

The top thing is for people to consider emissions and allow emissions to become part of the decision process. In terms of diet that could be to introduce and consider food outside of the cultural limits, like shell fish and sea weed. A related issue are that a large number (majority?) of Europe and northern American lakes has major issues with eutrophication with mostly fish that people refuse to eat because of culture. Eating those kind of fish would solve two problems at the same time, feeding people and removing uncontrolled overgrowth caused by artificial fertilizers.

Right now it is also cheaper to operate heavy machinery that run on fossil fuels to control plant growth in nature reservation and around power lines, rather than raising animals that would do the same job and create food. Same thing with Lawn mowers. One of the most ecological method to keep grass cut is (real) free range hobby scale chickens. Produce food, cuts grass and keeps pests away.

As with everything else, everything change if people allow emissions to be part of the decision process.
I've competed in Micromouse for years and my mouse and I appear in snippets in this video.

Happy to answer questions.
There's a mistake in the drop-downs in describing Jesus Christ, Mark, or Luke as part of the Torah. Jews and Christians disagree about their role, but both readily agree that they're part of the Christian gospels, not of the Torah.
Cool could you extend this to cello finger board?
Fair Point! I'll go ahead and make that change, I appreciate the feedback.
That said, docker does have support for running "rootless"
The web based graphic nobel cited at the bottom of the Wikipedia page was discussed here a few times before, in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30846451 (157 points | on March 29, 2022 | 58 comments) [warning: definitively not for the faint heart!] [warning: it's quite long]
Immigration is the easy fix for this.
Uhm wow. I was just talking about my feelings on the topic. I'm guessing he has way more data (and knowledge).

Better lucky than good!

(also, man he's awesome. How does he have such a strong grasp on all of the topics in the field?)
If there was oil, it probably would not be for sale…and there are few if any oil wells along that stretch of US90.

I don’t think it’s over the Permian Basin.
Where is the code being executed?
The Metaverse Is Dead, and We Have Killed It
How about this one? https://imgur.com/a/yIY13pe
Any better?
> There’s simply no chance I’m giving a copy of my passport

why?
Every year myself and a group of friends go on a long weekend trip to a new place following the letters of the alphabet. There are certain rules (must be a city or town not a country and long haul is ruled out due to cost). But every year we get to go to places that we would have never considered if we didn't have the rigidity of the selection criteria. Quite a lot of fun!
See also "What if we'd had better html-in-js syntax all along?" https://leontrolski.github.io/dom-syntax.html
I found the EV6 dark and claustrophobic on the inside, and uglier than the Model Y from the rear. Really dislike those weird droopy/saggy lines on the EV6 rear end.

Aside from that, if you want range, the Y beats the EV6, although the EV6 charges faster (theoretically - if you can find a 350 kW charger, and if the rate can be sustained)
I visited this and thought it was very cool. A few random comments:

- It’s underlaid by a dense sprawl of machinery the size of a football field, which is constantly working to create and maintain the above biomes.

- The “lungs” are auditorium-sized rooms with a ceiling that’s free to rise and fall as air pressure changes due to temperature, reducing stress on the structure. You can walk up inside it, with air rushing past you in the connecting tunnel.

- There’s a library at the top of a short tower, maybe two stories. We were told the crew didn’t use it because food and oxygen deprivation kept them too weak to climb the stairs.

- Golf cart sized air vents create what really gets subconsciously recognized as natural wind, not artificial blowing. It was so pleasant that I’ve become determined to replicate it in my home someday.

- There wasn’t a predecessor, “biosphere 1” refers to Earth.
This is like its writing a bot to play minecraft?

I'd like to see a visual/language model/AI that learns to play minecraft as an actual inhabitant of the game. i.e. processing visual input, recognising objects, working out whats going on, learning how to move around. Learning how to make food and avoid monsters. It would be an 'Embodied AI' within the world of Minecraft.

The language part would allow us to talk to this being. You could ask it things like:

"Do you prefer to make a house, or dig a cave?"

"What are your hopes for the future?"

"Is there a recent achievement you are particularly proud of?"

etc
By god, what have you done.
The problem with web components and Ajax (2019)
I work in one of those pesky HIPPO companies. For us, all of our AWS infrastructure up to including nifty shit like Cognito is HITRUST certified. For us, we get to offload an ass of compliance headache which is worth our 2-4x multiple as the server overhead is far less than a team of compliance and security wonks.
This sounds accurate, yeah. Take appreciated.
The problem with your request is there's a million ways to do that, some much less secure than others - I could satisfy your request by putting service B's security group wide open to 0.0.0.0/0, but then every other possible service could also reach it.
Transpersonal Ecodelia: Surveying Psychedelically Induced Biophilia
Thanks. That explains it. See that it was added to deno in jan. I guess the last version on deno made it ready to be used on deno deploy.
Then the opposite would be true? Less money we would have got the same outcome. Slightly nonsensical.

We need time and more people looking at the issue = money.
> The cloud is renting someone else's computer at a way higher price than it would cost you to use your own.

economy of scale says hello
That's funny. You now have the AMA lobbying against the caps they originally lobbied for.
Yeah, its just that I have to pareto-prioritize. The more time I spend on more niche market features, it takes away time from features that 80% of the people want. I'd rather come back around once I have a fully functional product for guitar players and then start serving the custom tunings, the alternate instruments and so on..
https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1662117785487704067

You just scroll down a tiny bit on the twitter page and get this nice video and summary from the author.

> Voyager has 3 key components:

> 1) An iterative prompting mechanism that incorporates game feedback, execution errors, and self-verification to refine programs;

> 2) A skill library of code to store & retrieve complex behaviors;

> 3) An automatic curriculum to maximize exploration.
Best game. My kids play it every weekend - when they are allowed to consume medias other than books. They love to play historical battles, go through the history of the civilizations. I still beat them, but it's such fun to have some "LAN-parties" with them.. said that, we noticed that quite often, the network game gets aborted. Is that something that just happen to me (Linux, Mac, Windows, doesnt matter) or the network part of the code is not so robust as the rest?
I remember reading about LISA as a kid, around 25 years ago. Currently it is planned to launch in 2037. I somewhat doubt it will ever become a reality.
> Is your intrinsic value as a person due to what someone else thinks of the quality of your work?

Absolutely, but:

1) not all of that value, just the value as someone who does that work. I mean, it would be crazy to think that you have no value as a dad to your three-year-old because you made some crap code design.

2) not for all possible values of "someone else". Just those someone else who have a clue about the work, and make specific, objective criticisms that are verifiably true, and who understand the context of the work: what are its requirements and non-requirements, including constraints.

3) I don't necessarily want someone else to think everything I make is of high quality; however, the right somebodies should more or less agree with me about the quality. If I make something and think it is of medium quality (for some justifiable economic reasons), then if someone thinks it is of great quality, I will regard him as a fool; but if someone thinks it is of garbage quality, I will wonder whether I might not be a fool. Ideally, we should be of one mind with everyone who understands the problem and the work. If the work is mediocre, everyone (including the author) should find it so based on some objective criteria. Everyone who understands the economic reasons for why it was made mediocre should ideally agree with that also. "Ah, I see; I would have done it the same with regard to that purpose and those requirements."
But after they're dead Roko's Basilisk will restore their digital doppelgängers and place them in a paradise run by superintelligences embodied within the quantum spin states of carbon atoms in a diamond lattice that will continue to exist until the heat death of the universe.
It'd be convenient for launching expeditions to the clock
Building a Matrix-style Bullet Time Video Booth
Steam is going to be heavily skewed Nvidia since many games either need it or run poorly without it. Gamers seem to tolerate an otherwise nearly unusable computer for Nvidia graphics acceleration where most users won't.
Tailscale [1] can do this. I've always had a limit of how much networking I can grok, and Taiscale basically let's me run a 90s style LAN across clouds and my local network like they're all connected to the same switch and VLAN. No port forwarding, firewall rules, or subnet management.

It can be made even more secure with some relatively incompatible ACLs sprinkled in too.

1. https://tailscale.com/
Hugging Face is a niche business at best, and OpenAI is pure hype, no real substance. I know you'll find someone saying (maybe even in this thread) "I use ChatGPT daily to make my job 10x easier" but these anecdotes are dubious at best.

Imo, the real winners here will be Nvidia and Apple, which provide software/hardware coupling for these AI features. And most of these are features, not products. Midjourney is a rare example of a real product, but the quality of generative art if you don't include copyrighted art in the training set is pretty bad, so there's a lot of complications there.
HoMM 3 is on Gog and it works fine on Windows 10. Gog is great at retrofitting old games to work on modern machines. Quest for Glory IV is less buggy in its current form on Gog than it was on original CD!
Note that those $20B were not for research but for production and rollout. The research costs (for BioNTech) were in the order of only $1B or two. Source (in German): https://archive.is/L5oFm

Though, obviously, no research lives in a vacuum. Companies profit from universities and the larger educational system, from other researchers laying the groundwork over the years etc.
Every time I think of freebsd and how cool it was and is I wondering what caused linux to overtake it. I like linux as well, but I just don't understand the mechanics behind freebsd not gaining traction.
If the brain is like a computer, how do humans even solve the halting problem? Maybe it's because humans feel anxiety at the unproductive passing of time while computers will just do what they're doing forever.
They are addressing reflection rather aggressively actually, using source generators mostly.

Even if I have no direct need for AOT I’m eager for the added type safety and sanity gained by getting rid of reflection, not least for serialisers!
Free time is great when traveling alone and less useful when traveling with friends IMHO. Alone I'd pick 1 activity and 1 restaurant per day and have a loose idea of other options.

I've gotten a lot of mileage (pun intended) out of walking from activity to activity. Relatively random walking is a surprisingly high return on investment, but only traveling alone.

Google Maps "Attractions" is surprisingly good. CultureTrip, Reddit (frequently location based subreddits will have a sticky thread about highlights), AtlasObscura, and google were also great for research. "Unique things to do in ..." is a great search term, "unique foods in ..." is also great. There are also several activity websites which are good to page through.

Hostels are pretty great and incredibly easy to manage. Hostelworld is a great app.

Rome2Rio is a fantastic app for route planning.

I try to make a list of things like the best bakery, a top tier restaurant, a trendy restaurant, the best dessert, a trip through a grocery store, a trip through a fruit stand, and things like that.

I think when booking travel hostels are immensely helpful for figuring out what to do. It's most important to pre-plan super popular or limited quantity activities ahead of time, but other than that, often times you can just show up at a hostel with nothing planned and page through the hostels activity book/ask the staff what's cool.
It’s not gatekeeping, it’s being able to contribute by having foundational knowledge.

Anyone can (and people often do) make big contributions in health, but it’s hard without deep knowledge.

Not everyone who does software engineering needs a computer science degree.

Meanwhile if I head out to the pub on the weekend I hear people post cancer diagnosis waxing lyrical about how they’re beating their breast cancer with surgery+chemo/radiotherapy with a diet high in antioxidants, ignorant of the fact that one of the ways radiotherapy and chemotherapy works is by sctually causing oxidative damage, so they’re working against it.
One of the many ways that doing your own research is counterproductive
If only Germany had invested in a long-lasting, baseload power generation system that produces no CO₂ emissions and involves splitting atoms…
A virus whose only payload is to replace times new Roman with this
This font looks like it wants to sell me some organic Cialis.
When I write shitty code, there is nothing to learn any more. I already know it's shitty and would have called it out if someone else wrote it. If that still happens by now, there is nothing that can be done; that's why we have that review process, thank you. Alone you and I will write shitty code and merge it into the trunk. With mutual cross-checking, far less so. That's the main content of the learning.
I remember discovering 0AD from it being installable from package managers in various distros maybe 12-13 years ago.
no, it isnt. VW was quiet weak in US, BMW and Mercedes have a different niche. Dear Americans, you arent the middle of the world.

VW does have problems in China (and Tesla is quiet strong there)
Insights from the Nix thesis in short form
insights from the Nix thesis in short form
OpenBSD always seems to have the sanity you would normally expect from GNU/Linux. I already run their WM, I might switch entirely to their OS.