skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As time goes by the opportunities for astronomy will grow larger than what is lost

I want to be fair to both sides here, as I sort of side mentioned at the end of my post I think it'd be perfectly reasonable not to take this as a given which will happen by itself. A lot of places have long had mechanisms like universal service funds, or other ways to effectively recognize that sometimes even extreme broad societal goods might create concentrated losers and that when the good is high it's also reasonable to help ameliorate that a bit. SpaceX making access to space enormously cheaper, higher mass, and higher cadence will absolutely open up incredible new opportunities for astronomy, but that doesn't mean said opportunities will be easy to take advantage of, astronomers have had to lobby and work hard for their existing installations and funding over the decades. And some of it even is also legacy from Cold War or boom times and they could very understandably fear that losing value in existing instruments will not necessarily then get an automatic replacement with new better ones in the current environment right?

But the answer there isn't to lobby to hobble Starlink (or other constellations) somehow which is likely not happening at this point anyway, but rather to quantify what's needed, form solid plans, and figure out a reasonable all around way to pay for it. Maybe governments start taking that into account directly as part of local licensing. Maybe a 0.5% (or reasonable) "replacement space instruments" fee could be added to megaconstellation services to go into a dedicated fund that will get to work planning and building Starship class instruments. Maybe SpaceX agrees to some number of launches for astronomy per year at-cost. Maybe some combo or things I'm not thinking of at all, I won't pretend to have given this massive thought. Working to reduce albedo, emissions and so on are all good anyway, but I do think existing terrestrial instruments (some more than others) will face a degraded environment. I also think that's extremely worth it, but that's no reason to be dismissive.

But I think the broad public conversation I've seen so far hasn't done a great job of engaging with this which risks the worst of both worlds, where existing interests do manage to slow things up without really helping themselves much in the end and simultaneously poison the water so that everyone is left worse off than might have happened.
You mean the same government that caused inflation in the first place?

To be fair it was different parts of the government, but the comparison sure doesn’t favor the elected officials.
Except that in areas where people actually live, higher rates haven't done much to lower those "low rate" prices.

There is an insane supply problem and the fed's hand in the mortgage market doesn't make anything better. It's sensible for mortgages to all be ARMs, then rates will actually have a very real and unavoidable impact on home values.

We are now going to be stuck with this before covid and after covid homeowner situation. People who bought prior to 2022, and especially prior to 2020 will be death gripping their 2% mortgage, to the point that you could basically write off that parcel of land as even existing for the next 20-25 years.
Based on the pre-trained Chinese model trained by LLama
Based on the pre-trained Chinese model trained by LLama, it has excellent Chinese capabilities. Try it out with a 12GB graphics card that can run inference process.” The link is provided in parenthesis at the end of the sentence
This comment is not for or against calculus.

Doing random hard things in order to get into college or get a white-collar job is really no different than pointless test preparation that shows you can follow instructions, and it has produced strange hierarchies such as Qing-era mandarins.

Much better to find something that intrinsically motivates you to do hard things that feel less hard to you. It'll take you further. Or you can prove to the world that you are capable of a yearlong mindless grind...
Due to an excessive censorship prior to the acquisition, Twitter was a far left cesspool. All these users are still active after the acquisition, however many right-wing accounts were reinstated. Consequently, from the political perspective, Twitter is now more balanced than ever. One can be sure of this by tuning their feed – follow a politically diverse groups of people.

> Most people i know don't use it anymore.

Twitter hasn't really changed much. If you know people who no longer want to use the platform, then their decision is likely driven by the propaganda. In a way, it's not their personal decision, but the result of influence from elsewhere.
Unbearable Lightness is brilliant.

There was a plot point (and such a small part of the book) about how the government uses public life - belonging to a political party, having certain friends - against the individual to get what they want. And if they don't: they try to destroy the person's live. At the same point, the government is also changing history by taking people out of photographs, etc.

Topical(?), even for today.
I've been using it for the last two years and I think it has potential over btrfs, and zfs specifically. I used zfs on my hobby data array for 10 years prior but decided to downsize everything and use bcachefs in the hopes of it one day being in the kernel (unlike zfs).

Device management is super easy, but is still missing knobs and dials for the most part. Multi device fault tolerance also needs work as I have had to recreate a 16tb array twice now due to journal corruption on power outages.

I'll keep using it and reporting bugs, but I do feel the author is letting some bugs slide to focus on getting the fs in the kernel so that it gets more capable users that can provide patches. I am a sophisticated user, but definitely not a kernel developer.
Doesn't match how things are run in production these days. As a vendor, you need to target the customer's environment as closely as possible. Even if it's theoretically feasible to serve off a single machine, you should have a cloud-native setup ready to go.

In principle you could totally run this on a single bare-metal node, but most will not be doing that in practice.
The mega-strike that could take down Hollywood
This is the reason I have never done a genetic test, even when one was offered to me for free. You'll pay for it the entire rest of your life.
Ah, I assumed it must be related to adware, since it seemed strange to call it out in your description otherwise.
The aloha shirt has many possible inventors
But that doesn't distinguish between "VC Alpha", which means early access, and "Programmer Alpha", which means basic functionality doesn't work.

(The inverse is "VC 1.0", which means pre-release but we had to meet a deadline, and "Programmer 1.0", which means it's the first stable version.)
Pixel, Google tag manager and Bluekai (?, that one from Oracle) are in a lot of sites and mobile apps.

I’m happy to see this getting visibility around a privacy use case that’ll reach normal folks and politicians more clearly.

I’m also happy to see the “this is bad” comments far outnumbering the “well why is this Metoogle’s fault” comments that many (properly RSU’d incentivized) engineers always seem to fall back on to absolve themselves of any responsibility for the social impacts of the products they build and personally profit from.
> Looking, you’re right. Those are regulated at the state level. But it does look like pretty much every state has a law.

The 1st state I checked to validate that, my own, doesn't. The state level laws much like the GINA act only cover employment and health insurance. There is a newly enacted law preventing consumer genetic testing companies from disclosing results without consumer consent, but nothing stopping an insurance company requiring consent for access or requiring their own genetic testing before issuing life or disability insurance. Based upon this I'm not comforted by the assertion that "pretty much every state has a law".
Yet it's impossible for me see my own prior tax returns from a product I already paid for. I can't contact support for help without paying additional money to turbotax.

I realize this article doesn't match turbotax specifically but the entire industry is rotten to the core and shouldn't exist in the first place.
I've seen the enthusiasm for any subject wither away when a child or teen is told a particular subject is hard, whether that be math, a programming language, or learning a musical instrument. I was this way. In their totality, yes, the subject is hard. But what they aren't taught about any difficult subject matter is that they are achievable by breaking them up into a series of small, easier to understand concepts. Their practical utility grows as the number of these small steps are achieved. And as they are achieved, mini demonstrations of their use should be performed so the student understands the importance and gets exited to continue.

Example 1: "I learned five notes in shape 1 of the minor pentatonic scale. That took a bit of practice, but now I'm able to play a bunch of cool licks. Neat! If I continue this path, who knows what other cool licks I can pull off!".

Example 2: "I learned how to import libraries. My lesson had me register a twillio account. I imported the twillio library into my python script. And I copied some code that'll instruct the library to send me a text message. I don't quite understand these python concepts, but wow, this is really cool; I just got a text message from my computer program. The fact that libraries can give me abilities like these is neat. I can already imagine how I can build some basic automation to leverage them. Who knows what else I can accomplish if I discover more libraries and understand python better to actually build something automated!"
Words do have meaning.

den· tist ˈden-təst
: one who is skilled in and licensed to practice the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases, injuries, and malformations of the teeth, jaws, and mouth and who makes and inserts false teeth

Brushing your teeth does not imply you are a dentist.

sci·ence
noun
1.
the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained.
"the world of science and technology"

A child may not be a good scientist, but they observe, experiment and explore their ideas. That sounds like science to me. Observational learning is a very common way scientist begin to understand things.
It would be easier if the tax code was simplified, oh wait the tax-prep companies are also lobbying against that. Maybe we should dismantle them, take their money away and use that to pay lawyers and tax specialists to simplify the tax code and create a nice and easy filing interface.
It’s funny: an archaeologist stumbling across movies of the mid 90s would conclude with near certainty that everyone in the mid 90s was using a Mac
This is concerning to me, but not quite for the reason the article suggests. SpaceX is doing the right thing here by maneuvering and using Very Low Earth Orbits to cap the amount of time a failed satellite can stay up before falling. What if the maneuvers stop though? Say they run into financial issues and cease operations.

25,000 1-in-100,000 collision probability events in 6 months is actually pretty high. Without actively controlling the satellites to avoid you get:

1 - (1 - 10^-5)^(50e3) = 0.39...

chance of collision per year.

SpaceX says Starlink satellites should deorbit in about 5 years if they don't keep actively boosting their orbits. That still means a 90% chance of a collision before deorbit if they stop maneuvering. Those debris would be in low orbits and also decay quickly. You could still to some real damage to any of your neighbors in that time though.

From a regulatory perspective, I sincerely hope the FCC and others are thinking about what contingency plans need to be in place if SpaceX became financially unstable. They've basically guaranteed themselves a government bailout at this point. The UK did that to OneWeb for purely economic reasons. If SpaceX goes under, they're taking LEO with them.
That requires some pretty specific prerequisites to be vulunerable: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/65625/current-s...

Just set same-site cookies and enable compression, but of course honor requests for uncompressed responses for compatibility.
Was it? It continues to be one of the most annoying "features" and everything has to be padded with &nbsp; instead to get proper alignment.
You kid, but this is the primary way I cope with mortality.
The yield curve would be one [1]. Markets have materially increased their long-term rate expectations in the last month and year.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...
Long term (>9 months), yes. Medium term (3-6 months) predictions of medium precision is entirely reasonable given the size of the economy (like steering/stopping a container ship) as long as your cite your assumption that no black swan event will occur.
As someone who's studied economics, predicting interest rates in the long run is fairly straight forward. It's the short term movements that are impossible. I base my statements on historical fed moves in a similar environment, but I'm not paul volcker
> Either take my code without a contract or live with the bugs

The less simplistic view of the situation is that major maintainers (corporate or otherwise) pay the price of keeping the project up for the long run, under the defined license, in all senses including the legal one. So the CLA is the way to integrate contributions without strings that remain legally attached to the author of these contributions. So the CLA is, ironically, the way for these major maintainers to say "no strings attached or wait until we fix the bugs" back to you.
> Predicting interest rates accurately in the long run is impossible, you have no basis for these statements.

Define "long run". Because over a few centuries the trend has been down:

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2020/eight-cen...

* https://www.visualcapitalist.com/700-year-decline-of-interes...
I wrote up a little tutorial on how to do the last two with elasticsearch and my kotlin kt-search library here a while ago:

https://jillesvangurp.github.io/kt-search/manual/KnnSearch.h...

You index into an index with a dense vector field

And when you query, you generate embeddings for your query and run a knn vector similarity search.

It uses some embeddings I generated with openai. You could use something like easybert or one of the many OSS embeddings models instead. Basically you need some code that converts your text/images/whatever into lists of numbers using such a model.

So:

1) use some magical tool that given a thing returns embeddings. You use this to extract embeddings at index time from your content and at query time for your queries.

2) put your embeddings along with your things in an Elasticsearch index (or vector db of your choice, Opensearch works similar to Elasticsearch for this)

3) when querying, create embeddings for your queries and find the nearest match.

I built this tutorial as a quick POC to figure out how easy it is with my own library. I'm not an expert. Mission accomplished and it only took me a few hours. The results are not impressive as this model is probably not very appropriate for the demo content. But it vaguely works. There are a bunch of people that are smarter than me that suggest that most oss models struggle to outperform bm25, which is just doing simple text searches.

Btw. the embeddings are the hard part. The rest is just plumbing. And of course world + dog just glosses over that. There's an interesting article that I came across recently that goes a bit more in depth on this: https://blog.metarank.ai/from-zero-to-semantic-search-embedd...
Taxi, Uber and Lyft Drivers Join Forces Against Robotaxis
> any professionally designed book published for the last hundred years on the shelves of anyone reading this

With respect, that's an incorrect assertion. I have books on my shelf published up through the eighties with wider spacing between sentences. A more accurate comment might be that in the modern design era, and I'd guess this is approximately post-WW2 onwards, sentence spacing became less common and it is now common or standard not to. That clarification is true.

How do I know? I like wider sentence spacing (see my comment above on this thread) and have kept an eye out for it in books when I buy them.

I suspect it was computers that killed wide sentence spacing: the web, as seen in the linked discussion thread, combined with word processors that weren't as capable as TeX and didn't support it. Here we are thirty years later and it's become the absolute norm, so much we can barely imagine an alternative. But I regret that technical decisions and limitations have left us in this position.
Especially if you willingfully used data that they shouldn't have shared to you in the first place.
The language is the least relevant thing about learning mathematics. It is arbitrary and rooted in historical circumstance.

Saying math is about the language is like saying programming is about learning syntax. It is entirely irrelevant, the meaning is what is important.
Oh cool! I missed that development.
I read "The Road" after becoming a parent, and it broke me.
That was closer to a nuclear massacre than a war.

It still shocks me how people seem to think that killing all those civilians has any honour at all - the U.S. should have been disbarred from holding nuclear weapons after that.

Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to watching Oppenheimer.
It’s not about particular zip codes. It’s about funny numbers and bailing out the rich.
Oddly enough - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/12/...

"The number of U.S. email accounts believed to be affected so far is limited, and the attack appeared targeted, though an FBI investigation is ongoing, said a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. Pentagon, intelligence community and military email accounts did not appear to be affected, the person said."

So what did they manage to breach exactly?
It's not the case that a family-owned self-contained company had to cease trading -- someone higher up in the ownership of the business decided to pull the plug. Although the inputs and outputs might arguably be the same, these are two quite different scenarios and decision-making processes.
It doesn't look like Rings has any content. I tried to "Explore" and all I found were a few test posts.
Powell has said the Fed plans to hold rates. We’ll likely see one last increase this month, before a flat-lining and then an eventual cut. I wouldn’t expect the cut(s) to be substantial unless demand falls off a cliff.

Powell goes with what the market is pricing in, if you want to know what that is look at “fed funds rate” odds: https://m.investing.com/central-banks/fed-rate-monitor

I’ve been using that tool for over a year now and it absolutely will show what Powell will do. The odds will change as information enters the market but in general it’s spot on.
If the market thought interest rates were never going back down, then the 30-year rate would be higher than the 1-year rate.

The bond market isn't always right, but it's usually closer to the truth than some random speculator on the Internet (wisdom of the crowd, and all).

A simple bit of reasoning with the Federal government being in debt $33T - means that if rates were to forever stay this high - their interest burden would be AT LEAST $1.75T per year.

Current Federal tax receipts (minus payroll taxes) is $1.93T.

Either Federal Tax rates are going to ~75%, the government stops doing anything beside servicing debt, we default on our debt, or short-term Interest Rates eventually go back to ~0%.

Gee, I wonder which one people will vote for.
At this point I’d love a bill introducing max terms. Term limits. You can get re-elected but only so many times before you’re done. Do away with salaries for life “as compensation for your service”. They don’t need it if they are pulling in millions from enterprises, endorsements, book deals, merch, speaking fees in excess of $50,000.

Senate, you get 4 max terms. Reps, you get 6. SCOTUS, 4 and term limits of 6 years per term. Something to fix this professional career politicians we see like McConnell, Biden, Kennedy, Cruz, etc. The world moves too fast for one lifetime spent legislatively eliminating rights of people or bringing back “the good ol days”.
There's literally no way to do this. 23andMe won't just fucking provide identifiable genetics records to anyone with money. Lol.
There was a time when I was pushing my emotions to the limit (looking back I would say it was a flowering of the "false self" that Kohut talks about) and had to absolutely manage my anger (my project would have certainly failed had it ever come out to the wrong people) and found I could do so by "sadness flooding" which could mean going to the war memorial and reading the names, thinking about my own losses, etc.

The first mention I could find of this technique turned up in a pubmed search which revealed an article in a Chinese psychology journal that revealed that the technique was well known in China 1000+ years ago.
The next few months will show low CPI on a MoM basis due to "base effects" of pandemic spending starting to ebb. Prices swung too far too fast on the upside, especially in rents. We see concurrent rent data declining over the past few months, but it has started to rebound more recently.

However, structurally inflation is likely to resurge on a MoM basis later in the year. The labor market is tighter than ever before and wages are rising at 5-6% annualized. Oil looks set to rebound, as a lot of the decline was due to recession betting and US SPR releases distorting supply (which are still happening, but obviously can't go on forever).

Inflation will only go away structurally once a recession ultimately hits. Very unlikely that it stays around 2% with markets, bonds, commodities rallying alongside 6%+ wage gains. The cycle length depends on whether the Fed decides to see through nominally lower numbers. If not, will be similar to the 70s/80s false troughs and re-steepening in inflation.
Here in Europe over the last two years the main contributor for inflation are corporate profits (approx. half of inflation) followed by import prices (one third) and labour cost (one quarter) according to an IMF paper [0] published three weeks ago. A historical turning point so far:

>Compared with historical averages, the rising import prices and profit parts replaced labor cost as the main counterpart to inflation over the past two years.

The paper is optimistic that labor costs will "catch up" as it always reacts more slowly but I honestly don't see much left in terms of negotiation power anymore and I think this new reality is seen as a rare opportunity to be cemented.

[Political dimension:
Paradoxically, more votes will the go to (extreme) right wing parties which historically always endorsed "authoritarian corporatism" like in the case of Melloni in Italy, now.
A more "socialist"/"solidarity"/"union" push would be understandable instead the sentiment is hijacked in a spectacular fashion by the "right" and the "left" is successfully discredited as upper middle class obsessing over "identity politics" and depicted as exuding an all permeating suspicion of the worker's class/lower classes in being susceptible to subliminal racism.]

[0]https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inf...
I thought this was useful context that changed my interpretation of what was going on.