skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The leftovers of Wagners on the outskirts of Bakhmut opened fire on the regular roads of the Russian Federation.

Our assault brigades see everything, systematic strikes are now being carried out on the positions of the Russians.

You would hear the radio broadcast of these ** now.

The impression is that part of the Russian regular troops are killing their own, and it seems that part of the military is supporting Prigozhin. While it is not clear what is finally happening, it is a bloodbath"

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672329674729373696
I thought the deepest it had gone was 3000 meters and there's no evidence of it even having been tested to 4k.
Actually, I've figured it out. You just need to think about other kinds of levels.
What a profoundly stupid take by a profoundly irresponsible company. This is a great example of why you should consider anything a company says about itself to be marketing, and treat it with commensurate skepticism.

"We're so innovative we don't have time for safety regulations" - An idiot, destined to harm someone unless pure dumb luck causes their company to fail first
I've heard the same argument against unit testing and strong typing.
Leftists can be authoritarian too
By building dedicated lines you free up space on regional lines.
Related reading - "Vigor's Black Box Theory" [1]

[1]: https://www.usps.org/durham/Bullhorns/vigor.htm
prove?
is there any example vals for bluesky feeds or chatgpt plugins? really curious to play with those and val town seems like an ideal host
IMHO the secrecy is more because they don't want people realising how incredibly unreliable NAND flash is becoming. 20 years of retention after 1M cycles? Advertise that proudly to everyone. 10 years after 100K cycles? Not too bad. 5 years after 10K cycles? OK. 3 months after 1K cycles? No, don't tell anyone. The very few leaked TLC/QLC flash datasheets out there don't even have any clear endurance numbers anymore.
100%

I recently completed a take home challenge for a full-stack engineer role. Given a week and told I could request more time if necessary. Instructions specifically said "We're not looking for a pretty UI, we prioritize component structure and functionality." and "Use any framework you'd like." The challenge was to build a back end with four endpoints for CRUD operations on a resource representing an application for car insurance. The front end was a single form for updating and submitting the application.

So naturally I whipped up a solution in less than 24 hours with simple pre-built components that both looked great and were functional (Mantine UI + Firebase)

I submit the challenge and check the logs every day to see if they'd run the application. A week passes before I hear anything back from them, logs still showing that the front end was never visited, none of the CRUD endpoints ever submitted to. "We reviewed your submission, thank you for your time, best of luck in your search"

Naturally, I respond confused about the claim to have reviewed my submission, wondering how they managed to test the functionality without visiting the site or making any submissions. I asked if I had misunderstood the challenge, asked if there was any feedback about how my submission fell short of their expectations.

"We reviewed your submission based on the code you submitted and came to the conclusion not to move forward."

...yea long story short, I'm never spending time or money on a take-home challenge ever again.
If you think that's responsive you haven't seen my XFCE setup.
Why go on the shuttle when you can go on the dragon?
Meta stock is so strong
Any else notice how strong meta has been this year?

The chart is strait up, a prefect line . Even when the Nasdaq was down 1.5 percent this week, Meta was still up, closing at 288, a new year high. I bought FBL, which is a 1.5x leveraged etf (a rather obscure one at that) that tracks Meta, and up a lot.

Maybe it is doing so well due to the realization that Meta completely dominates much of the web, owning Instagram + Facebook + WhatsApp, and TikTok is fading from relevance, maybe.

It's just crazy how well it has done over the past year when there was so much pessimism in 2022. afik, the best performing stock on the S&P 500 I think, and $700 billion dollar company.
But i will be 60 when my father hit 80, and my child would be 30 (actually 29).

The life expectancy of men is 79.4 yo, and while he's a woodworker, he actually is healthy for someone in his 50 (and he's doing a lot more painting and tapestry now, which is easier on the body), so i hope he won't die until his late 80s, but let's say he only last until 80.

At 60 year old, i would expect to retire two years later (might be 4, but let's wait and see). Anything that he leaves me, i wouldn't really need. I would rent his house (maybe, i think i would just lend it to a non-market housing coop), but hopefully i would have one at that age. My child at 30 would hopefully have found his path, since i have enough resources for him to fail a dozen time.

Even if i die at 60, i really hope my child doesn't need my money, because that would mean i had failed him a dozen time over, don't you agree?

But let's say we just put a small limit, let's say 20k in 1970s dollars (to adjust for inflation), that would still remove the need for income and housing taxes in my country. tax collection would be more efficient, that would pay for the most basic social nets + free education (and police, and military), and the only taxes you would pay on income wouldn't be taxes but cotisations (health, unemployment).

Also, not only education basically free, i have family that is nice and helpful, and even if i die tomorrow i don't care if all my money had to go to the state.

And for those who do not have this family, i would hope that if inheritance tax is the only tax, each orphan would get the same treatment as nations'pupils (orphan from military or police, i worked with them 3 summers a lifetime ago) and taken care of better than they are right now.

[edit] And because i don't want to be too obtuse (i honestly didn't understand you until now): of course if you live in a low-trust society, it's a bad idea. If i were Indian or from an emmerging country, i wouldn't think this. To me, capitalism and the pursuit of individual wealth is the best vessel to reach a high-trust society (basically what marx said), and once we're there, we can shed id, we do not need it anymore. That also mean that, unlike Marx's Internationale, i do not believe each society can get there at the same time, and high-trust societies have to enforce immigration quotas from low-trust ones (to respond to your "no border" comment).
We are talking about C++ ;-)
Sure, but I think the point here is the degree.

Presumably if it takes a lot of unsafe rust lines to build something, it won’t matter if it’s 30% safe or whatever.

I just see the point of “unsafe is fine” a lot when the whole point of rust is that memory safety issues are never worth the cost.
Try the mirror.

https://archive.is/jWcb8
I believe the stresses of the hull going through changing pressures is relevant.
How does SpaceX pollute?
Pipelines of liquid or gaseous fuels is pretty much always going to be the cheapest solution for energy transmission. This fact will inevitably lead to people investing in some kind of green chemical. If not hydrogen, then likely something made from hydrogen like ammonia or methanol.

It's not actually clear if transmission lines are cheaper. Ships and trains can carry a lot of mass. For an energy dense fuel, this can be cheaper. Then again, this idea needs you to carry things in both directions, both the iron and the iron oxide. That may doom this idea to being too expensive.
> Well it's more than you may think

Currently, no its not.

> don't take only the fuel for the flight, but consider the whole construction of the thing

Making them reusable is a huge gain in efficiency.

> What? I very strongly disagree. But I won't elaborate more than you did.

Earth observation sat measure climate change. We measure the atmosphere with sats. We conduct planetary science. Sat imagery is vital when looking at ecosystems like the Amazon. Space based monitoring is valuable for all kinds of application and can increase efficiency of farming, mining, infrastructure and so on. Weather satellites are vital in many way, including preventing harm people. GPS is a vital technology for so many industries. Space based communication brings modernity to many people who don't live close to major infrastructure.

You simply can't separate modern humanity from space.

Granted space isn't anywhere close to the most important, but it does play an important role. Generally energy production, heating, transport and steel/cement are the real issues. And where the overwhelming focus should be.

> If SpaceX hits their target of 10M per flight... rich people will go have lunch in space.

Just like with aviation we need to consider what regulation we want to apply to these things. I am not against regulating these things.

Your attitude of nobody is allowed to show any pride in anything related to fossil fuels and its general bad and shouldn't be done is simply no way to go forward.
Intel Releases x86-SIMD-sort 2.0 With Faster AVX-512 Sorting, New Algorithms
James Cameron slams OceanGate safety, regrets not speaking up more
Well this isn't as fun as a narrative, so I'm not listening!

/s
Sometimes volume is more important than mass (e.g. on a ship).
Apparently it's at least 13 dives since 2021:
https://www.geekwire.com/2022/beyond-the-titanic-oceangates-...
ChatGPT Plugins: Visit a website and have your company's source code stolen
According to themselves, they are wealthy because they are patient and not they other way around. In Buffett’s own words: "The stock market is a device to transfer money from the 'impatient' to the 'patient'." Being patient requires keeping your emotions under control, including stress. Also, keeping a calm mindset is a common topic under value investors such as Monish Pabrai and Guy Spier.
That was a great interview IMO, thanks for posting. I think some people might find it hard to both convey sympathy and compassion for the deceased and their families as well as being adamant that the submersible design was nuts (especially since the man primarily responsible died), but I think Cameron in particular did that very well.
Online meetings, yes, in person though, more polite to say you have another meeting to go to, but you're available online if anything urgent.
1. Are you a manager? You will be limited in success

2. Use something like clockwise to compress meeting times

3. Block your time so people literally can't schedule you

4. Ask for an agenda

5. Actively challenge status update meetings which serve no one. Use tools where you can pull the data. Or ask to have the data pushed to you (email). If this can't be done, work to fix that problem instead.

My biggest piece of advice? Say no to 30 minute meetings. Ask for longer meetings. This is counter intuitive I think, but I feel like 30 meetings give people enough time to get started talking about something and then no ability to finish the discussion. They become filled with "let's circle back" or "let's not get into the weeds" type chatter. No, let's get into the damn weeds and as a result on the same page. For certain things, I demand 2 hour meetings so we can actually hash stuff out.
That could be done under URxvt and a 486 or a Pentium with 100x less resources.
Having read enough plain crash stories, first thing I though of was material fatigue. Like in the early days fan blades snapping off jet engines causing catastrophic failure after so many takeoffs. Now they have to inspect these closely in manufacturing and during maintenance cycles. Wouldn’t surprise me if they use ML now as it seemed a difficult human observation task.

The stress/unstress cycle of a vessel going that deep must be immense.
They had two successful trips to Titanic, and other tests in the Bahamas.
Read this and you will understand why consensus often doesn't make sense in hiring: https://erikbern.com/2020/01/13/how-to-hire-smarter-than-the....
--- clarification and details of my initial point ---

The starting point of this exchange is me saying that I can see Le Pen or Zemmour as a potentiel threat to the current French democracy, but not Melenchon.

Le Pen is from a political party that has a long history of wanting less counter power (ending the "republic of the judge" for example") and more "authority'. And in places where her party got power, there're been some issues with NGOs or political opponent.

Zemmour clearly said that he wants less counter power, and want to care less about human rights for example.

A big part of the conservative right (they need them to get the power) agree with them on those topic. They can have the support of some influential billionaires and medias.

Melenchon and his party clearly said for several years that he wants more democracy with a concrete proposal... In his party there are a strong minority that don't want a less authoritative French state (some used to like Chevenement..) but they are a minority, and they don't want a more authoritative state. None of his allies (he needs them to access and keep power) want a more authoritative state, and some allies want a more democratic state. There is no know authoritative leftist billionaire of influential media.
> I don't think controlled burns are it.

it's not being upset about controlled burns, but the "you're racist yet again and you didn't even know it!"
> The government needs to take your document to make it part of the law to build a building code.

This part doesn't follow.

Why doesn't the government make their own document? Eminent domain exists for land because it's not possible to make more land in the same place.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Enerlites-Dual-Tech-Humidity-Sensor...

$60, no wifi, it'll do lights and fan, and it'll trigger on humidity as well as person in room.

I'll take that any day over something that needs to rely on MQTT and home assistant.
I wonder what's really going on. How can you not criticize Putin, on whom you rely for support, but on the other hand condemn the entire war?

Is this an exit option being prepared, where if things really go south, Prigozhin and Putin frame Shoigu, saying "we were lied to, it's all his fault"? Maybe kill two birds with one stone if Shoigu is a threat for other reasons.

Or, is Prigozhin telling the truth?

Or, is this really the beginning of a coup?

Or none of the above?
Was using carbon fiber cutting corners? It seems like it is a more exotic and expensive construction than just using steel. It was innovation for innovation's sake.
And manufacturers have gotten really good at spreading the most popular features among multiple upgrade packages. You want heated seats and blind-spot monitoring? That's going to be two separate packages that include tons of features you don't really want.

There might be an option to only add the two specific features but that means a custom order that will take months to arrive and probably won't end up saving you much money anyway.
«We're on our way to Moscow, and anyone who entered our centres will answer for it» - Prigozhin

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/16723584970679705...
U.S. Seeks 70-Month Prison Sentence for YouTube Content ID Scammer
"[F]or example, in the case of many of OceanGate’s innovations, such as carbon fiber pressure vessels"

This ain't the innovative win they thought it was. In fact, it's a self-own.

I recently saw a material scientist that specializes in carbon say there wasn't enough money in the world to get her to ride inside a carbon fiber submarine. Why? Carbon fiber has a very high tensile (i.e. stretching) strength. However, it's quite weak when under compression.

Guess which strength is important when operating in a high pressure environment?

Submarines, including deep submersibles, are kind of a solved problem. That doesn't mean there aren't risks involved, but when was the last time a submarine imploded above it's intended operating depth? The 1950s?
Or two:

> Array.prototype.map passes the element's index as the second argument to the callback, and parseInt accepts an optional second argument as the radix (base).

> Using the index as the radix yields a nonsensical result.
shrug - still sounds like something that could just be HTML + CSS. Nothing against FE developers messing with it for fun or learning, personal sites are a great place for that, but for you it seems to be a chore, so why bother with complex JS stuff if you don't enjoy it?
Honestly, the "real time health monitoring" felt like almost every tech "innovation" over the last decade or so - a half-baked excuse not to do things correctly. And when you can't switch your lights on because the cloud is down, it's inconvenient, but clearly the results of applying this thinking to critical safety are self-evident.
It probably still is if you fired a competent person for saying it is too dangerous.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230623115746/https://ohwr.org/...
It's so strange when a government agency seems to actually advocate for people rather than for special interests.
Prigozhin gaining power, potentially even over Putin, would be horrible for Russians, but stabilizing for Europe. (See: North Korea.)
> Although, couldn't they just leave it at the bottom for a month and see if it implodes?

No, cyclic stresses are a different animal altogether.

But considering it's just a matter of attaching ballast to sink it, dropping ballast to raise it, there's nothing preventing cyclic testing vs. static @ max depth over the same duration.

It seems obvious to me that you'd want to burn through a few test hulls characterizing the fatigue limits and verifying they are at least consistent hull-to-hull with a deterministic failure point you can plan for retiring before approaching.

You just need resources to burn on destroying enough hulls for the data.

And there's a rub there; as you inform the process via destructive iteration, odds are you'll first find the manufacturing process isn't even controlled/consistent enough to make progress on answering the "so how many cycles before go boom boom?" question until you've gone through a good chunk of runway figuring out how to even make it properly multiple times.
> Do we even know why AIs "hallucinate"?

It's because, just like human memory, they aren't databases or search engines.
Generative transformer models are basically next-word-prediction machines on steroids. They take the input and try to "guess" the most likely reply based on their training data.

These machines have no way to distinguish facts from fiction, only probabilities
of combinations of words that would make the most plausible reply.

> Is it possible to prevent it?

There are methods to prevent this by incorporating specialised knowledge databases into the training material of these models. This, however, only works with models that have been finetuned on very specific tasks and topics [1].

Other approaches use AI to transform human questions ("bag of words" inputs) to queries into structured knowledge bases, match the results (e.g. tree-like structures of context and facts) to the question and turn them back into human language [2]. The downside of these methods is that they're currently limited to simple QA formats and won't feel as "natural" as talking to chatbot and requires carefully prepared and curated knowledge databases.

[1] http://jens-lehmann.org/files/2019/iswc_bert_simple_question...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13284
> China IS in a Great Depression.

You can't have either the US or China in a great depression without it taking everyone down with them. If china is in a great depression, then so is the rest of the world. If china is in a great depression, apple stock would have cratered as would most indices around the world. Go read about the 1929 stock crash. Money front runs economic depressions. Meaning wall street will let us know.

The anti-china nonsense hasn't changed since the early 2000s with gordon chang. China was supposed to collapse decades ago according to the anti-china "experts". Today it's the like of peter zeihan and youtube grifters like serpentza, et al. Same old nonsense - economic collapse, falun gong genocide, organ harvesting, environmental devastation, end of "da ccp". All of that turned out to be outright lies in the 2000s.

My advice is stop watching silly youtube videos by silly grifters and silly news from silly media organizations. Watch the money. If one day, the dow or s&p drops 10% ( even with circuit breakers ), then we may have something. If it continues to drop and stay down, then we may have something. Can't believe the amount of nonsense people believe when it comes to china. Especially when it's the same old debunked nonsense.

At this point I don't know whether people like gordon chang or peter zeihan work for "da USA" or "da CCP". Cause their outlandish bullshit always end up being wrong and making china look good in the end.
I saw someone on Twitter suggest that this was probably WHY it failed this time. Each dive would weaken it.
> Though if China reaches Romania's level

Population
• 2023 estimate
Neutral decrease 1,411,750,000[7]

Population
• 2021 census
Neutral decrease 19,053,815[3]

I can bet my pumpkin latte what there are more people in China living better than Romanians, all Romanians.
It was both too late and not early enough. I 'member back in the VB6 era that you could easily embed Internet Explorer as an ActiveX (or was it OLE?) element right inside your application - a very early sort of WebView, just with absolutely no way to inspect what was going on there. I think Firefox never achieved a 1:1 compatible match for that... despite Microsoft keeping that utter shit around for ages for compatibility reasons as a lot of apps used it under the hood (e.g. HTML Help).

And yes you could absolutely do a Matroshka with it: a VB6 app embedding Internet Explorer and the site embedding an ActiveX element written in VB6. Or inline Java applets.

Funny times... an era in which security was barely a concern. Instead, you had open-ish, usually well documented interfaces for everything.

What killed the idea though until Electron came along was simple: Browsers didn't even come close to feature parity. You had to write your own API layer to communicate between the website and the host application for everything going beyond XHR calls and file selector uploads. Electron took off once Chrome got enough native bridges that you could actually write capable web apps.
This has to be one of my favorite sentences in the whole page:

> However, this does not mean that OceanGate does meet standards where they apply, but it does mean that innovation often falls outside of the existing industry paradigm.

in particular:

> ... this does not mean that OceanGate does meet standards where they apply ...
Yeah, and I don't complain we should be informed of everything and anything and what a scandal it is that we're not. What's your point?
And in both cases, unless you are much better connected than the other person, the person doing the taking will de facto come out on top, by design.
In a lot of ways, the first two years of US undergrad are "remedial high school". This also explains how, e.g. American undergrads typically declare their majors until mid to late into their second years.
The epoxy in carbon fiber makes it stiff. Stiffness helps reduce buckling loads.
Your manager should be doing this for you. Complain to them and start saying you are unavailable.

CC each rejected meeting to your management including the cost in scheduling overhead, loss of flow, and actual hours.

If your direct management is inept, go to senior.