skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was epileptic throughout puberty. After it was diagnosed and i understood what was happening, i started to recognize the feeling of absence/petite mal seizures before they happened. I used to refer to it as an "aura" because i had no better way to phrase it. Medication was a silver bullet for me and it all went away by my early 20s.

I've not had a seizure since, but the closest i have come to experiencing that "aura"-like sensation since has been times of extreme auditory load: loud, frantic music mixed with hustle and bustle around me. And i'm a regular (sober) concert attendee. I've never had a seizure from these situations, but the article puts to words a sensation i've never really voiced to others.
Important addition to your partially right statement: "they’re trained to generate ‘likely’ text" is they are trained to produce most probable next word so that the current context look as "similar" to training data as possible. Where "similar" is not "equal".
The first option would mean that the law couldn’t, for example, mandate the use of ISO time formats.

The second option would mean they would still get sued by the copyright holders of the closed standards, paraphrase or not.

The better option is probably for the government to re-publish the standards as-is, with some compensation for the copyright holders.
They signed a waiver that mentioned the risk of "death" 3 times on the first page. I'd call that broadcasting.

Edit: I mean just read the waiver: https://nypost.com/2023/06/23/read-the-death-waiver-doomed-t...

It speaks for itself.
You can get lots of good information from ETW https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

There's also Dtrace https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
Even more important, if you're on batteries as opposed to grid-tied, your battery costs can go down significantly. Since the worst days of the year tend to be winter and overcast, if you can install enough capacity to still generate a significant fraction of your needs on those days (eg at 10% of summer peak) the size of the required batteries can be much smaller.

It doesn't work so well in the north east, but if weather is only bad for a few days, you might need much less backup or generator power. Batteries and generator power tends to be much less than adding excess solar.
> "We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often," he wrote. "I take this as a serious personal insult."

Surrounded by people telling him the right answer, and somehow managed to take it as an insult.
Adhesive Joining of Metal End-Caps to Composite Pressure Vessels
In what way is OpenAI an "open protocol"?
If someone steals something from you, the law doesn't allow you to break into their house in an attempt to try to steal it back.
Red tape is red with the blood of our collective lapses.
Accidentally triggered this while my phone's UI was locked up and was unable to cancel before it went through. It was slightly embarrassing and I hope I didn't waste too much of that dispatcher's time.
Time spent on interviews is time invested.

Now, it is up to you to ensure that you give an accurate filter to HR, so you can do focused investments.

And interviews investment is like financial ones. You invest in multiple promising parties and expect one to outperform the others enough to make a great overall return.

Long story short, hiring is your most important activity. As if you don't hire, or worse, hire badly, you won't have the firepower when you'll need it.

And if you won't need the firepower, why are you interviewing candidates?
A blog doesn't need a frontend framework.
The YC interviews at the time were with 4 to 6 partners. So given 10 minutes an interview, it's natural that not everyone asks questions. Jessica almost never said a thing, but would be quite attentive. So it wouldn't be unnerving that there was someone that didn't get to ask questions in the interview.
NASA doesn't need to invest in its own engines. RS-25 is just something congress forced on them. In reality the private companies are developing lots of engine, Raptor is just one example. I have documented this in my top level post.

NASA and DoD are both committed to buying rockets on commercial rockets, and all of the competitors view engine development as a majorly important.

There are at least 10 major reusable engines in development in the US. And of course Merlin is already flying and Prometheus has a very, very long way to go until to reach it.

> while Boeing continues to embarass itself with Starliner

True but that's a fixed price contract. Boeing is spending its own money to finish that program.

NASA actually has crewed spaceflight, something Europe never even came close to.

> ULA rushes full speed into using reusable engines in the least effective ways

Not sure what you mean? ULA is adopting a pretty modern engine. That engine took a while to develop but that isn't so surprising. And it isn't ULAs fault.
The submitted title broke the site guidelines badly ("A civil war in Russia has begun"). The rule is: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
While it is largely obsolete for practical purposes, learning about them is still valuable as they illustrate the natural evolution in the thought process behind the development of transformers.
yes but the consequences are decided by normal humans via the organization's normal decision-making procedures. The legal system isn't involved.
It has to do with the fact that map() passes 3 arguments to its argument function, right?
I agree some steps need clearer directions. Writing good clues is clearly not my strength and Chat GPT isn't any help either.

The game takes place on the second level. You can add a third level.
How to escape meeting hell as an engineer?
I am working for a large tech scale up - joined them 2 years ago. Pace is intense and I find myself attending 15-20 hours a week in "important" meetings. To the point where I can't find any proper focus time to do meaningful engineering work.

Am I the only one in the situation? Almost thinking to change jobs for a smaller tech firm hoping this provides a better control on my calendar... Curious to hear your thoughts.
I have returned to managing a local music library, and I enjoy the tidying up aspect of it. Feels kind of nice to go visit a folder and see the small collection of things you like.
What does it matter? California is getting hotter and dryer regardless, and this still amplifies all the previous mentioned problems of invasive species, and decades of forest mismanagement.

Also California does not exist in a vacuum. The earth is getting significantly warmer. West Coast USA will become dryer as a result, if this is the “natural state” of California (whatever that means for a dynamic climate system) than California will become hotter and dryer still.
Highly innovative! Instead of their sudden death being a complete surprise, they may have had a few awful moments of warning.
What about the "new defense" companies, who use VC money to build demos? Surely they eventually want to build moats and sell razor blades, but for now what they're doing seems different?
In France, in most of the cases you don't need police officer for it, some people are willing to donage bank or fight with the police (especially after police overreacting, or being violent for free)
I've kept a minimized macos preference window open for months now so that I can switch the mode when I'm on the go. This app takes care of that one use case pretty well and just made my life slightly better.
did you even look at their site? the last thing i would call it is a "normal website"
You don't need to turn off Windows Defender, you need to disable the file system filters entirely.

You can do that with Dev Drive [0][1] which is currently on the Win 11 dev branch.

You can't do this for your boot volume, but you can do it for a [dynamically expanding] VHDX, secondary partition, or secondary volume. It will use ReFS (oddly enough, with 4 KiB clusters by default -- though it makes sense for the target scenario, unlike past uses of ReFS).

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/06/01/dev-dr...
We could talk to his ghost in a way. If we could gather up all the text and transcripts of things he wrote and said, we could feed it to an LLM and interrogate it with questions.
It also sounded to me like dodging the question.
> I do judge that dad who convinced his teenage son to risk his life. That was absolutely evil.

Moreso, he was likely foolish in considering the actual extent of the risk, like everyone on the sub.
He has primacy in decision-making (we're not equal partners), and we'll go with whatever he decides. If he decides not to monetize and its the wrong decision, then I suppose we won't be attractive to investors and we'll have to reassess that decision. I posted this hoping to end up with either of the following outcomes:

A) a bunch of people echo my experience that investors are a lot less willing to fund a B2C SaaS that will be given away free for quite some time before the ability to monetize even presents itself, so I can show this thread to him in an attempt to be persuasive, as he has no experience in this area and seeks outside opinions in such situations; or

B) a bunch of people quell my concerns by telling me that actually, lots of investors will fund a company giving away free software that doesn't plan to monetize right away, and cite recent examples that aren't unicorns.

Because I'm good with either, and if I'm in error, then hey, why not give it away free and build a userbase first, considering that will mean we can release sooner. Well, I guess your qualm with being shown the free and only told 2-3 months down the track "here's the pay model to get the bits you need" is one reason not to do that, which I'll think about. Thank you!
With enough time off, the desire to do something will return. At least the money helps you choose what to do next. I think it'll be better for society at large if a lot of people in tech choose to do something else. We've got too many smart people locked up in one place.
Pretty much every CEO.
So just meta it, make it your programming simulator to farming simulator.

Now you can program in your program while you're programing your program to simulate programming programs against other programmers!
I can't remember another time they seemed to be so intent on breaching the trust thermocline.

If they ever do reverse their course on the API changes, the trust in it will remain burned.
I often used the touch temperature of my children tights. Somehow this matched the "fever or not" threshold shown by the thermometer when I finally got home of it.

Now that the children are teenagers/ young adults I find plenty of thermometers all over the place.
AFAIR the CPU/APU size is quite small. What takes quite a lot of space is battery. And because things are less and less optimize we need more computing power which needs more juice. What's more - bigger screens require more power as well.

Why those big phones popular? Because CPU efficiency doesn't sell well but number do, so we have a race: more storage, more ram, more MP camera... and bigger screen. Those are the most visible and easiest to adjust things. And many people associate size with being "better"...
1) locate gods.

2) observe them intensely.
Yeah I think some people with big egos get so wrapped up in their goals that they just dismiss anything or anyone that is trying to point out problems or concerns. They would deny they are lying and I'm sure genuinely believe they are right. After all he got into the contraption and it killed him. He would not have done that if he didn't believe it was safe.
It seemed pretty niche back then. I was drawn to it because it could be played in a web browser on my highschool's locked down computers and wasn't well-known enough to be blocked. Plus it looked very spreadsheety
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, they're saying the biggest problem with submersibles is operator error. Of course it is, when the classing system effectively eliminates the majority of mechanical failures. That doesn't mean the classing system is failing, on the contrary, it means its working.
you would think they could figured out that programs not directly opened by the user shouldn't be able to steal focus from the program the user is currently interacting with. seems like basic UX/UI failure
Not really.

He thought it was safer than it was.

But I don't think he thought it was close to a 0% chance of death.

It's clear that he knew it was somewhat risky.

It failed after like 25 dives which means around a ~4% failure rate.

I'd hope he thought it had less than a 1% failure rate.

Who knows what the true failure rate is. Maybe they got really lucky, and it actually had a higher failure rate. Maybe they got extra unlucky. Who knows.

I just can't fathom people would pay $250k for a miserable time and a decent shot at death.
Tbh, this is a weird hill for you to die on.

The PRC is absolutely in a recession. No one is arguing against that, but to say a recession will lead to a 50% collapse in GDP is absolutely ludicrous.

The only middle income countries that have seen such a dramatic collapse in GDP are those in an active state of war like Ukraine, Syria, or Lebanon.
The fact is you don't know how will end up protest... And even when a protest end up damaging 1 mac donalds and 2 banks, most people are pacific protester... The question is how do you handle this in a democracy ?
There are a whole host of issues with the idea that ESA could do things like NASA does them now. Politics is one issue, but there are many others.

> But I suspect this wouldn't work well with EU funding

Just FYI, while EU funds some of ESA. ESA is independent and most of its budget is directly from member states.
I mean, if we're talking about the things Cromwell did wrong in life I'd put this pretty far down the list below all the mass murder.
This is called criminal negligence
It is exactly survivorship bias: its taking the population produced by a selection filter (to wit, classing/certification) and assuming that the traits of that population are representive of what would exist without the filter.
Isn’t this kind of what the RHEL clones were doing? Taking a snapshot of RHEL and then repackaging it, and in the case of Rocky Linux selling support. All without actually making any contributions back to the community. Almalinux actually contributes patches so I feel they will end up coming to an agreement with Red Hat but the likes of Rocky Linux seemed to be largely exploitive. Red Hat seems to be saying “hey you can have the code but we aren’t going to make the distribution for you. Here is a link to Stream feel free to make your own distribution”
> Because dogs and children get backed over with regularity. That's why. No other reason.

In general or in those stupid, oversized trucks/SUVs with utterly poor visibility?

Which popularity is due to Corporate Average Fuel Economy?
Ends up is the keyword here. Virtual machine takes time to start and warm up. There is an indirection layer between CPU commands and c# bytecode. Of course programmers stronger than me and you (maybe not you? But me for sure) are working constantly on how to improve this, how to make just in time translations etc. But These things take time. Native is faster on startup. Later java/c# wins unless the native code is done by a very skillful programmer. we're speaking on app startup time, right?
Notably as well, this is more equivalent to a former housemate taking something of yours as they leave, instead of a burglary. The phrase "hacking back" in the title implied to me that an outsider hacked their servers. Not that hacking back would be ethical either way, but I felt misled.
Start with "what do I want out of today?" and grow bigger timelines from there.
Either this is informational warfare and untrue, or Prigozhin has outlived his usefulness to Putin indicating that the calculus on the Russian side is changing.
I think you're mixing up the categories now. The animal originally in question for the factor was the slaughter animal, and the N factor applied only to those.

Otherwise, the discussion falls apart because a human is an animal is an animal. But no one is slaughtering humans with such an enthusiasm as cows or chickens. Equating all animals is a fringe belief not supported by the population at large, and one I don't feel like spending time to discuss, especially as it's not required for this discussion to have been valid.
I've heard of many kinds of things. You've never heard of someone being wrong?
Your Lisp program will be entirely usable once you have experimented and found the right way to do it. Lisp compilers are really good, and they support gradual typing: you can write your program with no explicit type information, and then speed it up by adding type information in the hot spots. You can deploy that to production and it will serve you well.

At some point your Lisp program will be mature, you will have implemented most of the features you know you will need, and you will know that any new features you add in the future will not alter the architecture. Once you understand the problem and have established the best architecture for the program, you can consider rewriting it in Rust. Lisp’s GC does have a run–time cost, and you can measure it to figure out how much money you will save by eliminating it. If you will save more money than the cost of the rewrite, then go for it. Otherwise you can go on to work on something more cost–effective.

Note that you might not need to rewrite the whole program; it might be more effective to rewrite the most performance–critical portion in Rust, and then call it from your existing Lisp program. This can give you the best of both worlds.
The Elite War on Free Thought
Is it unethical if you don't know you're incompetent?
The engineer who worked on it said it would provide only milliseconds of warning before the hull collapsed. He was promptly fired.
Try some static generator:

https://jamstack.org/generators/
I'm from Europe, so probably that's my surprise. Most of the cars around here are still (I hope we will never reach what's in the US) mostly city-compact cars (VW golf size) so visibility is quite OK and rear mirror + sensor is more than enough.

(though, I'm now in Chile and amount of huge cars/SUVs/trucks/pick-ups on the street is simply mind-boggling... whhhhyyyy on earth one would drive this monstrosity in the city?!)
Indeed. It sounds like he got a just result for his actions.
brb applying to the next hn batch w/ this idea

gives a whole new meaning to post-mortem
> The qualities of the founders are the best predictor of how a startup will do. And startups are in turn the most important source of growth in mature economies.

Ah yes, "growth" in our economy is all because of a select few of super special amazing people. It seems obvious to me this is a post facto rationalization.
Well, it isn't possible because humans are not deterministic, but I imagine the manager in question could possibly have a high 'hit rate'.
Names are important. If your name is Rush (as is the CEOs), you are gonna do stuff too fast and cut corners.
The American Heart Association recommends eating 2 servings of fish (particularly fatty fish) per week.

- American Heart Association

A healthy, balanced diet should include at least 2 portions of fish a week, including 1 of oily fish.

- NHS UK

You should try and include both types of fish in your usual diet. Some foods have DHA added (fortified). Human milk contains DHA and infant formulas must have this fat added. The best way of ensuring we are getting enough omega-3 is to eat foods rich in these fats.

- British Dietetic Association

Among the general adult population, consumption of fish, particularly fatty fish, lowers the risk of mortality from coronary heart disease.

- WHO
GPT-42
GitHub/MSFT/OpenAI’s stance is that training AI models is fair use and doesn’t require a license. It doesn’t matter what kind of license you slap on the code. If you don’t think it should be fair use the solution is getting governments to amend copyright law to clarify fair use, not a new software license.
Saw this today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mSq6ibKKXQ
I like this approach, speaking from a very general perspective (very uneducated regarding hardware, comparatively). Absolutely brings back memories of the 90s and arguments regarding open vs closed source and "security through obscurity".

Security through obscurity doesn't work, ultimately. When economic stakes are / were lower, it CAN have benefits. At this point, I suspect it's likely that more eyes and openness is better.

That said, I do think that the best solution is likely to be based in a mixture of approaches, much as has been pursued (to my knowledge) and developed over time already. However, personally, I'm a big fan of "formal methods" and seeing more real-world deployment of such methods.

In practice, as has been done that I've seen, you start with small & critical subsystems, trying to design for "parsimony" - making formal methods and everything else more realistic / practical (e.g., "microkernels", everyone's favorite 'solution' since the 80s, at least). But, it's all very challenging because then it has to be balanced against performance, cost, etc.

Not sure this comment adds much, here - again, not an area I have much direct knowledge or experience in - but, your comment did bring some analogous areas and work I'm more familiar with to mind.
> How does it differ from Obsidian? Out of curiosity.

I am not OP, but I am a heavy Obsidian user. Obsidian has 2 different editing modes [0]: "Live Preview" and "Source mode". Your implementation and Obsidian's Live Preview editing mode implementation are very similar at-a-glance; yours is a bit more interactive / "GUI-forward".

Here's an example of what Live Preview mode looks like [1].

I'm surprised how many people here like Live Preview editing mode in Obsidian though — it drives me insane constantly shifting the bits under / around my cursor... it's very distracting. I mostly use their Source mode editing mode for that reason.

That said, I did not see an equivalent of Reading view mode from Obsidian in Vrite in a few minutes of playing with it. It would be nice to see that added to prevent accidental edits when browsing a doc you don't edit to change (similar to Vim's modes).

[0]: https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Editing+and+...

[1]: https://help.obsidian.md/Live+preview+update
I don't think that "only old white guys could possibly have enough experience, training or other safety expertise". However, it is probably true that if you exclude that part of the labor pool that does not like your safety look, then you may end up hiring a lot of young people who don't have much experience. Needing an excuse for this, one could claim that you're just avoiding old white guys, which sounds better than avoiding workers with experience to know what a normal safety culture looks like in a submarine.

As to the racial makeup of the experienced-in-a-submarine demographic, I don't know of any data on that, but I would not be surprised if it were mostly anglo.
Wouldn't they have communicated that back if they had?

There wasn't even an "Uh-oh", as far as we know.
Lol this is fun shared with my family :)
1) Discuss w/ direct manager.

2) Start blocking off "me time" on your calendar so people can't monopolize your time.
Technically, they already did:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MW682AM/A/apple-afterburn...

Under the hood, it's a Xilinx Ultrascale+ (XCKU15P) FPGA on a card.
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