skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they be here?

I'm just physically incapable of the superhuman levels of narcissism that are required to think that if intelligent aliens were aware of us that they'd spend the effort to bother to come here.

Either that effort is itself measured at godlike superhuman levels, or it's effortless for them (or any point along that spectrum). As if becomes less effort for them, we become less interesting. As it becomes more effort.

There isn't even any happy medium for this. If there is some middle ground that would have them visit other civilizations... then why ours? Someone's closer to them. Someone looks like they might be worth meeting. We're the ugly guy on Galactic Tindr, and by virtue of their ability to do interstellar travel, they're the hot 9.8s. They're not going to swipe right on us, they'll pick someone else.

Maybe some flying saucer stopped by because it was along the way and they like doing quick surveys... but we've been more or less the same level of interesting for the last 4 billion years. That it just happened during the 20th century instead of 400 million years ago seems improbable.

Superhumanly narcissistic.
UTF8 is an extremely simple and lightweight text encoding. Check out Plan 9's man page on UTF, it would fit on a t-shirt: https://plan9.io/magic/man2html/6/utf

Unicode is also just a representation for text, and a handful of common operations - you work with arrays of characters, rather than arrays of bytes. It was worth its cost on 1992 hardware; Nintendo DS is over a decade more recent.

I recommend studying libutf in sbase[0]. It's not a single header file solution (although utf.h[1] is an excellent place to start reading), but it does provide a fairly comprehensive implementation. There's also a good introduction to Unicode in Plan 9's C programming guide[2]. Even if you choose to only support runes that fit in a single byte, you gain the ability to tell byte blobs apart from text, which is useful both for reasoning about your program, and for future-proofing it, in case you needed to put places like Łódź or Πάτρα on your map.

[0]: http://git.suckless.org/sbase

[1]: http://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/utf.h.html

[2]: https://plan9.io/sys/doc/comp.html
As someone who lives in an old house on a fair bit of land, I sort of agree. A sedan wouldn't really work for me but an SUV with a roof rack is mostly just as good as a truck. (And I suppose I could always buy a trailer if it were really an issue.) The enclosed space is more generally useful than a truck bed.
Yeah, this is an interesting project, but the author's belief that society is going to completely collapse by 2030 is... odd.
In which case, I'm sure you can give some examples.
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I too was losing sleep over the tought that we would only have TempleOS after a catastrophic collapse of civilzation.
sir, i must respectfully disagree - bell labs is still a thing

disclaimer - i work there as a senior researcher and we still do world class research, so pls don't portrait us as a thing of the past just yet, thx :)
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Good article. Should have at least mentioned Claude 2 which has 100k context.

This is an example of why "mastering" a high technology doesn't have the same value as doing so for an old-fashioned skill in an area that changes less rapidly.
I've gotten myself fired for doing this. I kid you not, but they took it as a sign of disinterest and somejow never thought to bring up "yo Martin, what's up with that?" 100% ridiculous childish twattery, but just sayin' ... you can end up in trouble. This was literally the only thing they brought up as "evidence" for my alleged "attitude problem".

(I can foresee "dodged a bullet" responses, so just to pre-empt that: I didn't. I actually enjoyed working there, and being fired led to significant financial troubles, and even greater mental health problems. I got hit by a bullet and didn't dodge anything.)
I think that’s why big shared fleets will never really take off. People don’t seem to mind spending a lot more on their vehicle than what they really need to.

People spend $50k because they want that truck, not because they need it.
> It's entirely their own fault that people now view all Google news as temporary and fleeting. People don't want to put time into things that'll get thrown away in a year.

Most of research don’t become their own products, from Google or anyone else. As a research project they still have values, unless you are saying Google research is garbage because they get into the habit of canceling their products.

> or save yourself the trouble and find alternatives to big-G

Totally valid point. No need to complain about it in a post about Google research though. It’s tiresome.
Very weird to see this, I went to an exhibition about Knossos in Oxford only today.

Good episode here that covers a bit about the language and translation efforts. The translation of Linear B is a very cool story too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01292ts
People like to song along though.
I see 3 main reasons:

1. Students are on school break and they account for a large part of the usage.

2. The novelty of it has worn off and people are using LLMs as the tools they are rather than the shiny new toy.

3. ChatGPT specifically seems to be getting worse, maybe not the quality of the answers themselves, but how sanitized they are to any topic that is even remotely controversial or adult.
Unfortunately, many AMEs are not quite correct in the guidance they offer (hence the AME Guide), especially as the guidance updates and improves regularly. Vasovagal syncope is not necessarily disqualifying unless a cause cannot be determined (and therefore, risk of recurrence cannot be determined). There are plenty of commercial and private pilots flying who've experienced vasovagal syncope.

I absolutely empathize with the significant cost associated with getting endless tests and deferral limbo (in part due to a shortage of AMEs). Pilots who have the benefit of really good aeromedical teams (e.g., through their labor representation) are better informed and more successful. We really have to weigh the cost and effort associated with the tests against the information gained around safety. Too many pilots are deciding they don't want to deal with the hassle, and ultimately that results in _less_ data about the true safety risk!
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So, by hype, I'm talking about "omg, this is going to change the world, throw all the VC money at it immediately". _That_ died away, progress continued, a new hype cycle started, at some point it will die away, progress will continue, repeat ad infinitum. Arguably, for AI in particular, this has been going on for about 50 years; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

It does feel like they're getting closer together, in that there've been at least three AI-ish hype cycles in the last decade (self-driving cars/computer vision stuff more generally, Microsoft Tay era, current one). Read into that what you will. I do find it interesting that people are actually using the _term_ AI more with this one; for a long time there was a certain squeamishness about that.
My only close call involved a faulty washing machine (Bauknecht brand) together with an outdated, incorrecty landlord-renovated electricity cabling.

When the washing machine short-circuited (metal housing, standing water in metallic tumbler...), the fuse did not cut off the residual current, which now ran from the washing machine along the water supply and therefore the metallic water tap.

So suspecting nothing, as usual I wanted to cut off the water supply by closing the water tap valve.

The moment I grap the valve I notice some stroboscopic vibrations, following the realization that it's an electric current making my hand cramp tightly on the water tap.

It was really challenging to take off my hand.

I'm sure it was only a small fraction of the full, possible current / energy that eventually went through my body / hand. But it was already enough to keep me stuck — and give my heart rate extra systolic beats.

Living alone back then, I went on the street and called an ambulance.

After half an hour, my heart rhythm normalized, and on my written confirmation, I left the hospital, as I would not able to sleep that night in an unknown hospital.

After I left the hospital, I figured out at which hospital and part of town the ambulance car brought me.

Having no cash with me, I walked the 45 minutes back home at night, rationalizing and taking it as a test for my heart.

The next day, I went to work as usual. My colleagues asked me why I didn't take a day off. I let them know that if my heart started making weird beats again, I'd rather prefer to be with them than being home alone.
Monarchy begets Democracy begets Oligarchy.
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I love the esoteric-ness of owning a Kei truck, but they are in no way a replacement for a regular pickup truck. You really need a separate car for dailying, unless you never drive anywhere other than around your farm.
These are jobs where you want to be good enough to autopilot through the work quickly then fuck off and do whatever for the remaining 80% of the sprint. It's absolutely a dead end for anyone who wants to experience the 'craft' spirit of software.

If you're feeling particularly bold, you can hold two of these jobs and do something unheard of in recent times: actually being able to save for a decent retirement.
Show HN: Git-identity CLI tool to easily manage/switch/use different Git aliases
I have a long wheelbase van with room racks, plus a trailer.

But pick up the overwhelm majority of items in the Celica, a two door hatch.

Anyways, suppliers deliver.
Mutable containers, what could go wrong?
The UK does have an uncodified Constitution, though I don't know if their judges have ever invalidated a law passed by their Parliament because it conflicted with it.
This.

People are starting to not trust it, blindly and realized they have to double, triple and quadruple check its output since it is a confident sophist to the untrained user.

Another signal that the LLM hype is already running out of snake oil to fuel the grift.
> this writing is so clear and good
> Today, IUSS automatically detects and classifies both submarines and wales.

Do the British know ?
> I read somewhere once that a sensor, sonar or hydrophone, in UK waters could detect the sounds come from a New York harbour, which gives an insight into the distance sounds can travel underwater, but considering all the noises that can be detected, having sound processing abilities, a little bit better than something like Dolby Noise Reduction, is the key part of the underwater arms race.

I didn't really get into this in the article but there's a phenomenon called SOFAR (I think this does stand for something but the acronym is sort of a joke). It's basically a specific static water pressure (and thus depth) in which sound "ducts" sort of like how HF radio can duct in the ionosphere. As I understand it, it's not at all unreasonable for a sound in the SOFAR channel to go clear around the world. I know there are cases where hydrophones have recorded a particularly loud sound multiple times because of it coming "the long way around" as well as echo effects. Some of these sounds have been things like "perhaps the loudest sound ever produced" and are attributed to seismic phenomenon, but there are a lot of strange things going on in the ocean and hydrophones continue to provide plenty of questions for marine researchers to answer. And, of course, at least some of the IUSS sensors are very intentionally placed within the SOFAR channel to capitalize on this effect.
> Dusk OS doesn't have users, but operators. What's the difference? Control. You use a phone, you use a coffee machine, hell you even use a car these days. But you operate a bulldozer, you operate a crane, you operate a plane. You use Linux, you use Windows. You operate Dusk OS.

There’s something I adore about the aesthetic of this project and how this is written. I’ll probably never run the code myself, but I’d watch this show on Netflix in a heartbeat.
There's a bunch a vendors still alive, mainly the historic Forth, Inc. and MPE. Both publish complete systems and native compilers that apparently perform well enough.
If raw execution speed was all that matters, I can name a bunch of popular programming languages that wouldn't have survived long enough to be saved by JIT, or to become to big to fail (that is, their ecosystem).
> And in the real world, that's not a bad thing

It is a bad thing if the increased cost / pollution kills more people either directly or indirectly.
If society doesn't collapse by 2030, who's harmed by this project existing?

And if you're going to pick a date, why one over another?

+7 years seems a reasonable goal to make progress towards
I mean we already see the issues with international supply chains failing during covid, and we haven’t even really seen the significant impacts from climate change. Yeah, most people on HN aren’t going to really need this in the next 5-10 years as we’re predominantly in locations that will be maintained the longest. What about people in countries that already barely have functioning supply chains? This could be immediately useful for them.
I do actually post about other pollution like (micro)plastics. But this thread is not about that.
Back to the scope of the thread: The reason I find it so distasteful is that the pilots have a big noise footprint. One aircraft can be heard by thousands of people. That one person has a disproportionate effect compared to the neighbours lawnmower which can only be heard by a few dozen people. I understand your argument that there aren't that many aircraft but I must say those few people are punching orders of magnitudes above their weight when it comes to noise.
I still prefer scans when I can find them.

Official translations often (1) censor a ton in both the text and the art to satisfy Western Puritanical sensibilities and (2) have drastically less cultural context than scans do --- scans often will have notes about references to myths/stories that manga are referencing or influenced by like creation myths or relevant stories/concepts from Buddhism or random bits of cultural stuff like why a character might sneeze randomly after being talked about.

I've yet to read an official translation that's as good as scanlations, and the notes are often more creatively integrated into the scans in a way that are useful when encountered whenever possible.

I still subscribe to the official translations out of some sense of moral obligation to send some money back to the creators, but scans are faster and higher quality often enough.
They can not replace new pickup truck. A bicycle doesn't replace a motorcycle just because it has two wheels and you can put groceries on it.
As the article explains at great length, the idea is doomed because its promoters assume news = old media like magazines and newspapers, which is simply not the case anymore.
That kind of modern journalism is absurd. Originally the rule in journalism was, the first paragraph must contain who, when, what, where, then subsequent paragraphs fill in the details in either chronological or logical order.

Now the first paragraph must contain an emotional human-interest style “hook” to rope in the reader, then bury the lede in some random spot in the remainder of the text, in an attempt to keep the reader searching for it, like a slot machine.

As soon as I realize that’s how something is written, I take that as signal it lacks the quality to stand alone and I discard it and move on.
I said many managers, not all managers. There are some highly skilled managers (likely promoted engineers) who know exactly what their teams need to be successful and also understand the big picture and where their team’s project fits in. These are not the managers I was referring to.

The ones I’m talking about are from “the management class”, likely went to business school, and have no technical background at all, and occupy most of their days “walking a beat” around the office to look over people’s shoulders and make sure they’re busy. These are the Michael Scotts of the world, and they are the ones in crisis, not the skilled managers.
“Riding a bike is one of the few activities left to modern man that gives the experience of operating a contraption, rather than a gadget or a gizmo”

https://twitter.com/boltzmannbooty/status/142692847167091917...
Elon Musk says Twitter cashflow still negative amid 50% drop in ad revenue
If you like Airy beams, then you'll love Vessel beams.

1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_beam
Wow, they're not even trying to avoid seeming like an exact copy.
what advantages would this have over something like IDK, debian?
Pgvector 0.4.0 Performance
Not sure I follow.

0001 GOTO 0002
0002 GOTO 0001

How would that be a DAG?
> What about climbing chalk and mesothelioma?

> Is asbestos is in talc naturally, or is it contaminated during extraction, separation, and processing?

Wiki says talc deposits are "frequently" located alongside asbestos deposits, but detection and mitigation has improved : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc#Association_with_asbest...
TIL that .ooo is a TLD.
> The risk is entirely on all the other interested parties: employees and customers.

How is PE increasing their risk in any way?

Maybe you are right that PE are getting more wealth than they create value but unless you want PE to be banned because of jealousy, you haven't pointed on any negative consequence due to them.
I have the cheapest microwave offering from Ikea, it has 2 dials, no buttons. It is by far the best UI in my household.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senators-move-require-relea...

https://thedebrief.org/the-uap-disclosure-act-of-2023-what-w...

There will be a public congressional hearing on this aired within the next two weeks.
And those are all valid reasons to delay release. My point is that they are not mutually exclusive with declassification, or verification that the information is OK to release publicly from a security standpoint. I'm not sure why secrecy automatically means "conspiracy theory".
HN discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647
One thing people need to stop is having office hours where people just join the meeting and do their work. Anyone interested will be looking at it
https://archive.is/bY633
Finding Bike Parking [video]
For completely unstyled sites, reader view should be the only view. What guidelines or rules should the other/s view/s be following? I say definitely not "nostalgic" view!
The Horn antenna is at Crowford hill not Holmdel (confusing because they are both in the Holmdel township).
Given an exajoule and a quad are close in value, you’d get roughly the same result with exajoules instead.

Also, the fact that total US energy consumption is currently roughly 100 quads is only a passing coincidence - it would not have been true in the past and will not be true in the future. It is weird to justify choice of unit on the basis of a temporary coincidence in the data
Aside: If you are writing stuff this good (and this niche) I would say ditch the ads. They really will turn off the audience you want to attract. Or at least use one of the developer-focused ad networks that just inline ads not pop them up.
>> Without Western help this would have happened within weeks or months and would have spared so many.

Genocide won't spare anyone.
The only reason given is that they are not manufactured for US highways. Which may be a roundabout way of saying they aren't capable of going highway speeds.
Hmmm… I wonder where that org gets their funding.
International Negotiators Just Missed a Deadline to Regulate Deep-Sea Mining
Leak hints that Xiaomi’s first EV platform may be 800V and over 100 kWh
Lovely capitalism.
Very true, this can be a nuisance. Most of the times I plop it in my backpack (which I always carry). When at a bar or restaurant this is fine, but walking with it is certainly not ideal.
You make a good point and we seem to agree that sharing content on the internet seems to be better discovered via tubes or toks than google.

I think there are plenty of great reasons to blog, and there will be more in the future.

Google really kneecapped the written word with a few sites as exceptions. Wordpress has struggled to make blogging better, along with the other publishing options..

However the written words are often a better way to communication certain things as you can have easy to follow links and more formatting that makes things sink in well.

Although 2023 is a perfect time to sing the 'video killed the radio (and written word) star' ... some things are aligning where that could shift.

Now that mobile theme styling is getting better, all it's going to take is a few changes like 'nofollow' links by default, easy to moderate web ring additions, animated talking heads and AI pics to include and we will see a re-emergence of great story sharing again, and google won't be needed for them to have impact far and wide.

I see activity pub helping with this in the future, and a few other things that are starting to get traction.
I was reminded of the initiative for Cascadian secession...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_movement

which, when I first read about it, I questioned as a potential hoax. But - no, if you're not from the US, you should know that it's a very real thing, and apparently, a full third (!) of people 18-34 years old support it, according to relatively recent polling mentioned at the link.
This is not my assertion and has been covered in discussions on this web site for a long time.

>Rooftop solar photovoltaic installations on residential buildings have the highest unsubsidized levelized costs of energy generation in the United States. If not for federal and state subsidies, rooftop solar PV would come with a price tag between 147 and 221 U.S. dollars per megawatt hour.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/493797/estimated-leveliz...

The latest report from Lazard on LCOE also gives similar numbers:

https://www.lazard.com/media/typdgxmm/lazards-lcoeplus-april...

It would be extraordinary if these one-off rooftop solar photovoltaic installations would be low cost. They are more dangerous to install than ground based solar farms and much more costly - the real question is why are they so heavily subsidized? It really is sort of a reverse Robinhood scenario where less well off consumers subsidize their wealthier neighbors.
I can't make this any clearer: we agree!

The goal isn't maximum safety at all costs. It is finding that appropriate balance.
I think that in the old days people read newspapers and magazines because there was no other way to spend time in a bus/subway/train/waiting_room without engaging with other people.

So newspapers were entertainment (and status signals) to a much higher degree than journalists wants to admit.

Being informed was only a small part of the job that reading a newspaper did.

This is why Facebook could take over such a large amount of ad spending while it is still correct that only a very small part of time on Facebook is reading "real news".

https://cdn.baekdal.com/_img/2017/spotify4.png
Nuclear radiation is much harder to hide compared to other forms of contamination.
In the past, if you believed something just because it was on the internet you were seen as foolish.
That's a little short-sighted. Wouldn't that pose a danger to the grubs?

> Why won't anyone think of the GRUBS!!
Well, we can also return to feudalism.