skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those cloud seeding programs are expensive and require dedicated hardware.

They are not installed on commercial passenger airlines. If they were, that would mean a huge number of aircraft maintenance workers and ground crew know about it, and are keeping it secret from the public - a conspiracy. Where are the chemicals stored at the airport? Are the fire/safety teams also in on the conspiracy?

If not on commercial passenger airlines, then which ones? Are there fleets of planes which are not on publicly available flight trackers? Or are a lot of those flights lying about their cargo and mission? If so, that's a conspiracy.

Those weather modification programs are not done in clear skies. The video you linked to earlier makes that very explicit. All cloud seeding does it change the timing of where rain falls. It doesn't work without a lot of water already in the air.

For rains to not fall, when it would have without active intervention, means the water had to be forced out before reaching Spain - doing it over Spain would be worthless. So pictures of clear-sky "chemtrails" over Spain can't be weather modification keeping rain out of Spain. Where are these flights based? Where do they travel? What conspiracy keeps us from knowing this about Europe, when we know about China's efforts?

That's why these are called 'conspiracy theories'. They require a large number of people to conspire to keep something secret, and have at best only weak circumstantial evidence to support it. ("People can modify the weather, so the droughts in Spain must be caused by people modifying the weather" needs a few more underpants gnomes worked out.)

Thing is, we know that contrails modify the climate, without a doubt. 9/11's flight shutdown made that analysis possible. "9/11 study: Air traffic affects climate" at https://edition.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/07/contrails.cl... or https://www.nature.com/articles/418601a if you want the publication. It helped reduce the daily range in daytime highs and nighttime lows.

Which makes continued flights a form of weather modification right there, just like dumping massive amounts of CO2 in the air is another form of global weather modification.

But notice that those are both side-effects of a much more profitable business.

Who benefits in keeping the rain out of Spain, and how do they keep those activities hidden so well? Oh, right - a global conspiracy.

What is the right solution if people are extremely anxious for strongly illegitimate reasons?
So it’s easy to take later. And these trillion dollar came from where exactly?
For the longest time, I thought this was the only kind of paper airplane and that other designs were just for kids who didn’t know how to fold.
Why are relationships holy and have to be salvaged at any cost? Just let go and move along
Indeed, the "killer app" is the no app situation, it's all about the default UX

> I think if Apple made a sleek headset or glasses to stream the display from Macs, iPhones, etc., with best-in-class display quality and tight ecosystem integration, they would make a killing–even if serving as a big "personal display" was all it could do.

That's not AR anymore, you are now asking for VR

AR = augmented reality

Glasses = apparel for most people, it shouldn't look big or overly techy

I said it many months ago, if the iGlasses can't replace your traditional glasses or your favorite Ray Ban or if it's situational and impractical for your daily life, including driving, then it'll flop, it's Apple, whatever they will announce should be positioned as "the natural evolution of glasses", just like they did with their smartphone, earbuds and watches

Is the industry ready to miniaturize every component needed for an iGlasses? I don't think so, so I doubt Apple will announce something anytime soon, too early..
One of my fundamental rules is that if a rule involves a simple binary, it's probably wrong.

Many of the responses in this thread are highlighting that the analysis here is useful but oversimplified: if people are "doing it wrong" it's an opportunity to reflect on our approach to UX/DX, but accepting populism for its own sake is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

It's also been pointed out by numerous commenters that the central qualifier - that everyone uses string templates - isn't even true. The most popular front-end systems in modern stacks are structured html. It's in common use today.
That’s not even saturating a Gb/s line. Many places offer dedicated with that kind of bandwidth.
I don't think there ever was PRMan for FreeBSD, but who knows at that scale they might've got Pixar to do it for them or somehow emulated? I also don't remember BMRT ever run without PRMan in the chain (trace() heh). Mental Ray was all over the place, but not FreeBSD. It was MOST LIKELY PRMan.
Exactly this. They just fed more data into it and suddenly it’s “emergent” behavior, even though there’s no scientific basis behind why it would be emergent (and the fact that the human cognition does not appear to operate like this).

I’m frankly horrified by all of science (including physics) jumping on the bandwagon of unscientific methods, simply because we are out of better ideas. It’s basically pseudoscience, at this point.
IIRC they were:
* Often Windows-only.
* Infrequently updated, with bugs bad enough to crash the app, sometimes the system
* Dependent on the user to install new versions
* Able to access everything on your computer
* Non-collaborative
* Dependent on you for data backups

These are non-trivial things.

Now that I’m thinking about it, I still don’t have convenient sandboxing of desktop apps.
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Their pricing was good enough that I just stored a spacer file with them to qualify for higher bandwidth transfer.
>I would love to see an approach to build AI programmatically.

But they've been trying to do that since (at least) the 1950s! And indeed moving the goalposts further and further as our own ideology of "what is intelligence" evolves. The evolution of programming languages and programmed systems goes hand in hand with that.

Until we get to the present situation where someone invented a program so generic and all-encompassing (a language model, ffs!) that it turns out all "meaning" and "reasoning" is just a moderately illusory effect induced by correlations between morphological tokens: to a large language model, things that "rhyme" (more like "appear in proximity within a corpus of text" - but that's a criterion of similar complexity to "sound alike or have similar morphological origin") are the things that make sense. And a lot of people can't tell the difference.

> Instead of training NN, why not use the analytical foundations of the philosophers to create it? A language like Self, or its relative Javascript, could be the tool to create a self in a machine.

You could imagine Human Language alike to a cellular automaton of virtually infinite complexity, serving as the substrate for all thought; programming languages, and indeed any formal language, such as mathematics and its subsets used in different sciences, are abstractions over that infinite field of possible patterns: they hide the messy details and provide idioms of varying (but not infinite) complexity, for achieving particular goals (such as making webpages dance). While a neural network could be said to "see everything simultaneously", in JavaScript you can't even be sure what the keyword "this" refers to (from context - you gotta trust the docs or look under the hood). Vastly different scopes aside, AFAIK you can't beat the notion of "selfhood" into neither a program nor a NN, because neither actually has to fend for itself in order to keep thinking.

>When beauty is truth, how is it distinct from reasoning?

One of those is a subset of another, and for many people the need for "intelligence" and "reasoning" never went any further than knowing how to operate the right machine. (There exist unimaginably many beautiful and useful things that each one of us fails to grasp, because we're busy parroting the opinions of whoever reached the opinion-parroting machine first.) But it inevitably turns out that when beauty does not figure into the equation, there remains very little in this world worth reasoning about - other than ensuring adequate caloric intake and that sort of thing.

It would be interesting to see what GPT has to say to your question though. Anyone feel like asking it? I dropped my barge pole in the swamp
Seeing stuff like this is always a bit bitter-sweet. Ignoring the fact that obviously this is a far way from a "cure" in adults, as this is an early stage study, I always feel like seeing how far and how fast we're progressing on these types of diseases just makes me more anxious about being a bit too early. While I think FOMO is a bit of a poor way to put it, since there has been significant advancement within our time, I can't help but think how awful it'd be to get a disease of this caliber in current year knowing that given an extra 10-20 years, you'd like have a much better prognosis. Maybe I'm just over-thinking it here, but even with a less severe and more common cancer, I think the thing I'd struggle the most with would be the unfortunate timing. Perhaps this is insensitive or moronic, but it's been something I've always thought about when I've read about these advancements in the field of cancer treatments. Would be curious to hear how others feel about it, and whether anybody else has this FOMO feeling (for lack of a better description)?
AI Is Becoming the Stock Market’s Answer to Everything
Or just use GET since it already works. I don't see any problems with large query params. You can also split the search into a POST request and a GET request for the result.
Fear and fury as the last spotted owl in Canada fights for survival
What you describe looks like cube-and-conquer technique [1].

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~marijn/publications/cube.pdf

The thing is much more deeper than what you described. You need to choose which variables you will assign, that's first. Then you have to assign them, and it is important to do as carefully because assignment may produce inbalanced search space.

Splitting on one variable when there are hundredths of thousands of them is very, very inefficient.
My comments are about the sad state of credible information sources, not the actual topic being discussed. No need to apologize, it's easy to go down the paranoia rabbit hole and label anyone who questions your rigid beliefs.
Your average home invader is not going to do the necessary preparation especially if they are addicted to O.P.M. (other people's money).
There are some allusions here I think. The opening line of part 2, "All Standard ML is divided into two parts."

is a very strange English sentence to write. It actually sounds like the very famous opening line of Julius Caesar's "Commentary on the Gallic War" (which is prescribed as a model of Latin composition)

"All Gaul is divided into three parts..."

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Gallic_Wa...
Sure. So do that across the whole of government.
Yeah, I just wanted to point out that it's possible in ebpf.
Google removed this from their software many years ago.

They eventually cancelled chromecast audio altogether, probably at least partly due to this.
Super Typhoon Mawar strengthens into most powerful storm on Earth
Depends on what exactly you want to do with it. Hetzner has very cheap Storage boxes (10TB for $20/month with unlimited traffic) but those are closer to FTP boxes with a 10 connection limit. They are also down semi-regularly for maintenance.

For rock-solid public hosting Cloudflare is probably a much better bet, but you're also paying 7 times the price. More than a dedicated server to host the files, but you get more on other metrics.
Sorry to hear that. Yeah, they probably thought about how some people would never follow through with the police report and their scheme will keep on going for some time. But they’ll get caught eventually
> I don't see any problems with large query params.

Most servers will reject URLs after a certain size, 4-8KB.
Can't that still be pretty trivially faked?
Kind of makes you wonder about the process of apprenticeship from the renaissance period where kids would start in a trade at 7-12 and literally live with the masters that taught them. Is that what it takes for greatness in a craft?
Why would it be though? What is sensitive about signalling in high-level terms cyber attack is suspected? If the worry is that you might be revealing your sources to the perpetrator, then wouldn't mentioning "too sensitive to discuss" already be as revealing to the perpetrator.
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> fractures -- the mend is in fact stronger than the break.

This is also a medically incorrect statement for similar reasons to scar tissue, the resultant trabecular disorganization always results in weaker bone, even for “perfectly” healed fractures.

I think the original metaphor (and even fractures) still holds but in a different way than you described.

I highly doubt any of those couples (and from personal experience myself) wanted the turmoil however one feels after the fact, “made us stronger” is often a combination of dissonance and a statement that other areas of the relationship strengthened to compensate (in the fracture analogy: if you break your left leg your right one will strengthen from increased mechanical load to compensate).

One would not break a bone in an attempt to make it stronger, but a broken bone can heal to near full strength and other bones in the body get stronger to compensate. If you break your bone repeatedly, it heals as a deformed structure that is considerably weaker than what you started and will break from a minor injury.

If you substitute bones for relationship I think this holds.

With effort it’s possible to recover from and compensate for relationship trauma and thrive as an organism/couple, but it’s still better to avoid emotional trauma to begin with (assuming it’s possible) as with physical trauma.
I remember when Python was simple.
I've used it for a handful of personal CLI applications. Not sure if that counts as "production," though.
That doesn't work unless the price of everything else is also fixed at 2%.

This isn't a controversial point. Jerry Brown dedicated his entire career to this. The California budget is incredibly unstable because of Prop 13.
Products too! Technology projects without an end-user often become vaporware because it’s impossible to make design decisions without constraints. A real end-user adds constraints. Constraints enable good decision-making. It’s much easier to answer a specific question (“is this a good decision for a bowser rendering engine”) than an abstract question (“is this a good decision for software”).

I don’t use Rust, but appreciate how it solves clear problems. I’m really impressed about the way key issues like packaging & distribution, documentation, and coding style/safety are addressed at the language level. I bet those features emerged from the need to address issues with the open source development model. Without servo, maybe those features don’t make it.
I don't understand why pushing 16gb/s requires so much power. A fully custom ic where the data path is in silicon should be able to handle that speed no sweat.
Wouldn’t be enough to “extend” GET so that it supports a body payload as well?
and relative to actual silence, it's not silent.
Is Cybersecurity an Unsolvable Problem?
Why is this downvoted? It can't happen that you run an undecidable program, and it halts, since its running would be a proof that it halts.

Say your Turing machine is searching for a contradiction in ZFC. It enumerates all the possible proofs, and checks if they are valid and they prove 0=1. You can prove in ZFC that you can't prove that it halts, nor you can prove that it doesn't halt.

Now your Turing machine won't halt, according to ZFC. (It can halt in practice, if ZFC has a contradiction.) Same for any other undecidable programs.
More cruel than living on the streets of SF?
"Inflating a bladder to create a balloon or ball"
wow
Wow I didn't realize that submarines and the ISS had such a high level of CO2. I feel noticeably worse when CO2 is above 2000ppm in my house. I've always wanted to have an artificial CO2 scrubber for when the windows are closed, but energetically I would probably be better off opening the windows and heating or cooling the air to compensate. Do submariners and astronauts have impacts to their cognitive abilities from this elevated rate?
It’s not enough to get to zero emissions. We’re well past the point where we need to get to negative. And afaik these machines can’t scale to even a fraction of the way to net 0 unless we start building out fission/break through with fusion.

Think of it this way. It’s more energy intensive to capture carbon than it was to generate the electricity from that carbon. The amount of energy required to make this work requires you to generate roughly the same order of magnitude of energy as has been emitted through the burning of fossil fuels since the beginning.

I’m a big fission supporter but I doubt even fission could get to the cost scaling needed to generate all this energy effectively. Even fusion might struggle since we don’t actually yet know what the unit economics of it will be.

We might get lucky and figure out a way where recapturing carbon is net cheaper energy than it generated but I doubt it as that feels like it would be very close to a perpetual motion machine scenario.
Actually, this comment makes sense and is used in logic to derive true but non-provable propositions withing the current axiom system assuming it is sound.

The problem is that you dont know if the checker that you use to detect if a program halts will itself halt on your given input or continue forever. But given a sound checker with some assumption, one can find non-halting programs which wont be detected by the checker using the diagonalization trick.
This is correct, and one only needs to consider the impact of large or unlimited length urls on server memory consumption per request to see that a relatively small limit is desirable and even necessary.
The DVD commentary (for the original DVD release, not any of the re-issues or blu-rays) mentions renderman, and the person speaking (John Geta I think) even said they didn’t know why anyone would choose something other than renderman at that time given what he felt was its flexibility and quality of output.
Show HN: Experiments using GPT-4 to go from a requirements doc –> small codebase
Hey all - had fun experimenting with using GPT-4 to generate a few (small) codebases from requirements docs. Figured some folks here may find the it interesting.

Curious to what degree others have tried this out on projects of theirs and how that's gone!
Rayark fire all their artists and replaced with AI
New DoD doctrine officially defines ‘expeditionary cyberspace operations’
Read your own link again. That's just one aspect of it. Several percentages are listed for agriculture besides livestock, which are relevant, because 70% of crops are used to feed livestock. Furthermore, the page you link yourself directly encourages eating less animal products.

Here are the rolled up stats, which indeed show animal agriculture using more than transportation:

https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2022/03/15/it-may-be-uncomf...
A situational issue that I've run into a number of times with GET is various middle boxes inadvertently logging sensitive data that was in the query string of a GET. By sensitive data, I mean PII and CU information. While we have used POST to side step the issue, it'd be nice if there was a more appropriate method.
Society in general is beset with nutjobs.

The problem is not that the perps are conspiracy theorists it's that they think harassment is a reasonable behaviour.

Climate activists can be just as harassing as their counter parts.

And it's getting worse.
Linear Algebra is like a lot of math in CS; you don't necessarily see it initially, but once you get some familiarity you start seeing it everywhere.

Others have commented on computer graphics, but (as it turns out) the exact same algorithms apply for Collision Detection in 3D space. And since games already are manipulating graphics, you add on another set of Linear Algebra transforms that change the position/rotation/shear of those vertices. In a similar way, science (especially physics) use linear algebra to build simulations of all kinds of systems.

One surprising use is in Advertising (and other user preference aggregators). Turns out a preference acts like a magnitude of a one-dimensional vector. String N preference vectors together and you get an N-Dimension Vector that you can perform Linear Algebra operations upon. One common application is the Dot Product, which is a fancy way of taking two N-Dimension vectors and measuring how close those vectors point in the same direction in a [1, -1] range.

Yet another common place to find Linear Algebra is in computer science papers. Most of the time this is simply notation; a lot of common programming forms can be represented by MxN matrices. However some of those algorithms will use LA as a way of parsing and breaking down a problem. You will see this in compiler papers often, but its transferable to many other domains.

As a final and personal observation, I found that Linear Algebra helped me grasp Functional Programming. In both cases I am applying a transform to some input, and often stringing together many such transforms. Also in both cases, the transformations are sensitive to their order, and a bad ordering produces nonsense just like garbage data.
Many people seem to be unenthusiastic about it because the limitation on query strings are usually large enough.

I personally like this addition, because it no longer requires all queries be shoehorned into query strings. You can use any syntax you like, be it SQL or GraphQL etc.
Surprise Release vs. Command-Style
Maybe you need this: https://textdb.dev/
You’ve missed the point, but also helped support their point. The comment was about criminals that rape and murder - as in people that perform those actions.

Whether society accurately captures and properly deals with those people is an entirely different subject. The fact society even has to do so is a net negative
> Anecdotal data warning but for context my research is in medical informatics

Isn't Medical Informatics inherently biased against the cloud? That's my uninformed guess as an outsider.
Although, with flash memory cells nearing their physical limits in lithography, pretty soon you'll need active cooling for bigger stacks.
... and with javascript disabled I get an inaccessible error from Cloudflare (error 1020), would that also count as "barrier"?
This discussion goes nowhere if you reject the credibility of anyone you disagree with.

In that case, you also have lost all credibility. And you can say I've no credibility either.

> This is another failed example of 'trust me I'm a scientist'

No, it isn't. There's a large amount of engineering to do to make these work. How are the chemicals deployed? Who designed the deployment mechanism? Who makes the chemicals? How and where are they stored? Who transports them to the airports? Who is in charge of safety should things go wrong? If one of these flights crashes, how is evidence destroyed so it stays secret? Where are these flights based? Who are the flight crew? Why do airlines and cargo flight operators do this work? Is it more profitable than flying passengers and cargo? Or are there secret orders requiring them to work?

Somehow all of these operations must be kept secret.

"Trust me I'm a scientist" answers precisely none of these questions, any more than "trust me I'm Batman" does.

Where are the credible information sources which show theis required infrastructure exists? Because all I hear is "trust me, scientists can do it." Which carries no credibility.
Having a really hard time not reading nodb as noob.