skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is how much of that stuff is fraudulent or at least suspect: you'll find that most scientists are skeptical of a large fraction of papers published in their field, there is a lot of crap that gets through peer review, and most will not get openly questioned because it's a lot of effort and quite high-risk, especially if it's a result that's of low importance.
The haters don't want to admit space flight is really really hard and Elon, excuse my language, fucking nailed it.

Richard Branson is a billionaire who tried to do spaceflight long before Elon and Virgin Galactic hasn't launched anything useful (before SpaceX) as far as I know. If someone thinks a suborbital flight is impressive I highly recommend them to play KSP and find out how easy that is compared to getting into orbit.

edit: they have reached orbit; I stopped following Virgin after it became clear they can't do the job https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LauncherOne

So many people want to erroneously believe Elon is some child with the mental capacity of a 3 year old with access to billions of dollars because they don't want to like him or give him credit for anything.

It takes more than a pile of money to run a successful space program and how nobody can see that by now is beyond me.
"The American public has a right to learn about..."

Reaction I: The concept/prospect of space aliens really mashes a lot of people's emotional buttons. And "having a right to learn about" is how such strong emotions are usually articulated.

Reaction II: So long as $Potential_Enemy_Nation is a bit unsure about whether you are really lying, about having a bunch of from-1000-years-in-the-future technology hidden away, that you could suddenly start using (against them) if sufficiently motivated...that's pretty cheap deterrence, eh?
That's a very specific hypothetical. How based in reality is it?
> half the station is Russian and habdles orbit raising

The orbit raising has been performed by the Progress resupply vehicles from Russia and Shuttle and other vehicles from the US. As of 2018 the Cygnus resupply vehicle from the US was capable of performing the orbit raising mission.

While the Cygnus was still docked at the space station's Unity module on Tuesday (July 10), the spacecraft fired its main engine for 50 seconds as part of a test to determine whether the cargo ship can be used to raise the space station's orbit, Frank DeMauro, Vice President of Advanced Programs at NGIS, told Space.com.

About the size of a short bus, the Cygnus may look puny compared to the ISS, which is as big as a football field. But its powerful Delta-V engine provided enough thrust to raise the space station by about 282 feet (86 meters). "The burn went extremely well," DeMauro said. "The spacecraft behaved exactly as we expected."

https://www.space.com/41172-cygnus-leaves-space-station-orbi...
When I read the headline I figured that it was the temp right at the surface (which would be bad enough), but it's at 5 ft deep:

> A buoy in the Florida Bay hit 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit at a depth of 5 feet Monday

That's really disturbing. It's one of those things where when you think about it you realize that it's probably more significant than anything else in the news right now and yet most people won't pay much (if any) attention to it and will continue on with their "happy motoring".

We're fucked.
There have been a few just recently. Bit of an ML boom in Elixir and ML is popular right now.

As an Elixir-centric blogger I can tell you that Elixir generally seems to do well on Hacker News. I think it has a lot of overlap with interests on here. Erlang is the underpinnings and Erlang is generally interesting from a comp sci standpoint. Elixir's roots in Ruby line it up nicely with SaaS, startups and that whole space.
“I’m just trolling.” Don’t do that here.
It's for an AI program director, not just some random dev.

As technology advances actors will be more under threath from 100% syntetic 'stars' than from some random meatspace origin lucky genetic draw.

I do understand the hurt and fear. Just not sure this deamon can be put back into the bottle.

Unions had coal shovelers on diesel locomotives for some time, but it did not last.
Midjourney right? Although, discord isn't a website I guess.
For my personal notes, I use Smart Connections[1] with Obsidian. Since the notes are stored in plain markdown files, I am considering devising my own solution using LlamaIndex[2] in the near future.

For coding, I use Copilot[3]. While it's been great for writing boilerplate code, it falls short in every other regard. I also had the opportunity to try the new version of Copilot as well, but it feels like a glorified ChatGPT inside VSCode.

For everything else, I use a tiny tool I made[4] which enables me to invoke my own prompts in basically any application that allows me to select text.

[1] https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections

[2] https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/s...

[3] https://github.com/features/copilot

[4] https://github.com/overflowy/chat-key
Wow. I never knew. Thanks!
Security people hate features and creativity. There is never any tradeoff allowed. It's always more lockdown, more power for them over you.
How to build toxic software teams
> All arguments of the form "where is the evidence" are moot at this point, as there is a mountain of evidence.

We haven't seen a single clear evidence yet. The objects captured from fighter jet IR cameras discussed in the past have also had explanation of lens flares and focal aberrations. True color image corresponding of the same event do not exist. No two accounts of unidentified activities are also same with inconsistencies one observes when people extend stories based on tenuous observation/experience
Sure, instead of blaming the people who added the feature, blame the people who don't like it.
Probably Midjourney, but I like Dreamstudio better.
The edit window is still open.
Not an encouraging analogy, because despite the unprecedented impact of Covid, surprisingly little has changed in our everyday lifestyles.
I had one but it got flagged, ah well:

- “I don't know why this enrages folks so much.” Googler re Chrome anti-feature https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36868888

I think that just meant some users with sufficient karma flagged it, but I was a bit confused because for a while it didn't say "[flagged]" but didn't show up in the first several pages or continue to get upvotes. Is there a delay in saying "[flagged]"?
> I never claimed that _no_ fish populations are unsustainably fished

Warning, another wall of text ahead:

Virtually empty oceans by 2048 (https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts#bgMedia_comp-kmm1uv52)

> that commercial fishing everywhere is unsustainable. That's my entire point.

I never said that ALL fisheries are unsustainable. Your might be the one that isn't. One of many.

> freshwater fishes and whales ... they also have nothing to do with marine commercial fishing

Over 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises are killed as bycatch every year (seaspiracy.org/facts)

> If you think that eating meat is immoral ... But say that

I believe it's immoral to overlook the fact that our population has now reached 8 billion and to insist on consuming the same, or greater, amounts of meat in the face of environmental degradation and the very real threat of massive extinctions happening soon, especially when it isn't necessary. We're currently experiencing a massive, sixth extinction event, affecting 75% of all species, unless I'm mistaken. This process would typically take around 2.8 million years, but we're on track to accomplish it in about 100 years. And commercial fishing is imho a big part of the problem.

> Don't misrepresent the sustainability of commercial fishing.

"2.7 trillion fish are caught every year, 5 million every minute, studies estimate that up to 40% of all marine life caught is thrown overboard as bycatch, etc. etc."

"Six out of seven species of sea turtles (i know, not fish) are either threatened or facing extinction. In the USA, 250,000 sea turtles are captured, injured or killed every year by fishing, estimated 500,000 worldwide" (see seaspiracy for sources)

Your fishery practicies might be sustainable. Maybe. Time will tell. Maybe it won't matter at all.
I genuinely am not understanding why you think WEI would make this easier. You have one central place that you log in to set up this payment system, I guess Google in this case, and then other sites check with the central authority to see if you're a paying user. They can use this attestation or a cookie or a Log In With Google button, what's the difference? Either way when you browse from a new device you'll have to log into the payment system again.
She spoke truth to power.

With the benefit of hindsight, how is there any doubt she was on the right side of history for bringing attention to the issue?
Can you elaborate what you mean with zero sum?
Not sure if I want this to be real or be horrified that it might be real...

Does it say "I love you, $BABY_NAME."? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRPPdm09xZ8
Reasons to be skeptical of that room-temperature superconductor claim
I couldn't get around for nearly 15 years without a wheelchair, and in my recovery, I've been using a bicycle quite a bit. But wall squats are the hardest thing I do all day.

It also hurts more when I fall off my bike than it does to lean forward exhausted after 30 seconds of wall squatting. It's brutal on the tops of my thighs, which are still pretty deflated from disuse, despite the bike riding.

Thanks for sharing.
Since there's already an active thread with the correct link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881948, I've merged the relevant comments thither. That way we can leave the complaints about the link here and just kill this thread.
It’s a feature, not a bug - Them, probably
It sounds like after the previous 0.9 version there was some refining done:

> The refining process has produced a model that generates more vibrant and accurate colors, with better contrast, lighting, and shadows than its predecessor. The imaging process is also streamlined to deliver quicker results, yielding full 1-megapixel (1024x1024) resolution images in seconds in multiple aspect ratios.

Sounds pretty impressive, and the sample results at the bottom of the page are visually excellent.
It's extremely likely it's about both. It can be both about making it hard to skip ads on YouTube and about making it hard for somebody to replace human users with automated devices.
That's a good distinction. I think however, in the case of phone use among schoolchildren, "smartphone" and "social media" are nearly synonymous. You just can't get a lot of the negative aspects of phone usage without tying it down to social media. (I'm thinking of your Likes, public shaming, low self esteem, distraction by notifications, photo filters, narcissism, addiction, short attention spans, difficulty concentrating, etc. It's hard(er?) to pull that off without the deep pockets of social media giants.)
I agree with this, it is pretty stunning. Also ULA's inability to come up with a launch capability that is anywhere close to Falcon/Falcon Heavy in terms of cost and time to flight.

The fascinating thing is that the lack of competition allowed the space launch industry to switch from "invent" mode to "monetize" mode way too early. It is also what makes the Starship work both more credible and more interesting. There are a lot of technical problems to work through on Starship between now and it being as reliable as say Falcon is, but if (when?) they get there, the ability to put 100 tons into LEO for just the cost of the propellant and some depreciation on the vehicle? That really changes the economics of having things in space in a way that is hard for folks to imagine.
Well, no, this is because some locations now require you to list a "salary range" for a job listing. For standardized low-wage jobs this makes a lot of sense, but some tech companies don't decide the salary based on the position, they would take either a very junior or very senior person for a position and figure out salary later. So they just post huge ranges in order to obey these laws. It doesn't mean anyone would actually be hired for anything approaching this amount of money.
AWS P5 instances with H100 generally available
Only 2 hard problems in computer science: (1) cache invalidation (2) naming things (3) off-by-one errors :-D
> "early days of SMP"

This is vastly incorrect.

UNIX was ported to the Univac architecture in the late '70s. It ran as a client on EXEC 8, and was the first SMP implementation.

"The UNIVAC 1108 computer was announced in 1964 and delivered in late 1965. The first 1108 computers used Exec I and Exec II, which had been developed for the UNIVAC 1107. However, UNIVAC planned to offer symmetric multiprocessor versions of the 1108 with up to 4 processors and the earlier operating systems (really basic monitor programs) weren't designed for that, even though they supported limited multiprogramming."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_2200
"Those with power" are the voters, the vast majority of whom would gladly run them all over in order to save a few dollars. We're getting exactly what we deserve.
Housing is expensive because local politics encourages exclusionary zoning. It has nothing to do with labor rights and everything to do with NIMBYs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calutron_Girls
Standard xkcd standards cartoon inserted here.
The nice thing about the LLaMAs (despite not being open source) is that there are smaller models available making them much more practical. If openAI's focus has been on huge models, whatever they have to release right now may not be runnable for most people. Either way, they need to step up and release it under GPL and stop with this fake open-source nonsense.
This gets brought up time and time again and it is generally explained by the fact that the Darwin kernel also tracks the interface used when establishing a connection or binding a socket. It has done so for at least 20 years now. It is not new behaviour.

This means that if you open a connection over one interface and bring up another interface with a matching route, the connection is NOT interrupted as it would be on Linux or Windows. It will continue to function over the same network interface it was bound to until either that interface goes down or the connection is torn down and recreated.

VPNs were not designed with being a catch-all privacy guard in mind. We should stop trying to pretend they were.
Another lofty comment about honesty in academia. No research job lets you spend 6 months redoing stuff just to make sure it’s 100%. It’s about publish what you have with enough disclaimers. It’s about convincing the reviewers to get the paper in. Rest will be resolved later.

Classic cases are the Bell labs guy finding organic semiconductors and fermi lab guy finding new elements. They both were just making up stuff which they believed existed but just needed work to be found and published. They would make up experimental data to support existence of theoretical things. The assumption was just publish this first, get the accolades then use it to get money to get someone to eventually do this properly. But they just predicted stuff which weren’t true. Nobody knows the amount of bullshit that was made up that eventually turned out to be true.

All of this because scientists these days are not expected to work on things. They are expected to produce results. Nobody is giving passionate people time and space to explore things. It’s all about results now.

The irony is that the reward for running the rat race is freedom from rat race. Postdocs publish random crap to boost numbers for their tenure which they think will relieve them of this stupidity and let them focus on pure research. but once they catch the tigers tail they gotta keep running.
I'm guessing the people who actually love Elm left.

You really do have to love a paradigm to work with it, because paradigm shifts have a cost. Elm's paradigm shift is "do everything declaratively/immutably/non-side-effecty" and the massive (IMHO) benefit of going about things that way is "no runtime errors" (!!!) in addition to quite performant code.

But yes, the cost is there, and it is that you sometimes just want a side-effect to get something done, you sometimes just want to call into another library to get something done, etc.

The thing is, if Elm allowed this, or made it easier, you'd lose the Elm guarantee of "no runtime errors". Which, frankly, is a pretty big one- just inspect any popular domain's web page and you're likely to see dozens of JS errors that are simply hidden from most users, contributing to a "janky" web experience.

I literally just inspected this very page I'm typing this comment on and I see:

This page is in Quirks Mode. Page layout may be impacted. For Standards Mode use “<!DOCTYPE html>”.
Error: Promised response from onMessage listener went out of scope

The cost of perfection is high. You really have to love the ideal.

But yes, if no one does, then Elm is a boondoggle.

I'm dealing with something similar with NixOS. NixOS's big guarantee (which is also big) is basically "no build or runtime failures that are due to misconfigured dependencies". But there's a steep learning curve and scattered documentation. The core idea is amazing, though, and that's what I love. The rest I tolerate while climbing the mountain.
I mostly remember that one specific album cover that everyone seemed to use as their AIM and MSN Messenger profile photo back in the day.
Your insurance carrier isn’t going to cancel your policy because of smoke
>I've spent more than a little bit of my career dealing with bots and I'm not really sure that a cryptographically signed blob proving that the request came from $thisSpecificVersion of firefox running on $thisExactVersion of osx is really going to help me.

It'll end DDOS by botnet. Compromised computers would (presumably) have to run a full browser. That's much more computationally expensive and (presumably) the user would see it running.

And the flaw here is that the proposal doesn't do enough. If that signed blob allowed you to uniquely ID the device it would help solve a lot more problems. That would end DDOS for the most part and make managing abuse a lot easier.
Do you not think your comment would have been better without the final sentence?
Does this mean the water is boiling…?
It doesn't have to be engineered for aggressive growth to be engineered for greater carbon capture.
This will probably be implemented by every streaming service very quickly to try to prevent piracy (which won't work), and will only end up harming people who just want to watch on more freedom-respecting browsers or operating systems
They were only different in how expensive they were to conduct. NASA, SpaceX, and Boeing all expected these tests to have a significant risks, which is why they where unmanned.

The entire point of spending that much money was to discover problems. As to your “sure” if admit Boeings delays are less than half of total delays, that sounds like you agree with me.

Anyway, Dragon 2 as an iteration of an existing platform was by far the lower risk option. But, that’s a completely separate question.
Another important subject are confusables. "A" looks same for Latin A, Greek Alpha and Cyrillic A. If you need users to identify names by sight, you need to do something about confusables. It is even a security problem, for example for hostnames, imagine a hacker build your bank's website with a similar looking URL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32497414
So one Lambda execution per tile?
Right, billionaire space tourism is a thing.
Nothing is indefinitely sustainable, and businesses are no exception. When the people involved don't want to do it any more, you have the same problem, whether it's volunteers volunteering, or professionals professionaling.
Yup, filling the bucket could be worth hundreds of billions though. Maybe even trillions, seems like a sensible punt.
This looks great. Even using regular ole Maseca, the jump in quality is huge compared to plain store bought.
Awesome! Been looking forward for this release!
Maybe unsubstantive, but it's the closest analogy everyone can understand.
I think his last sentence doesn't go far enough - I'm not sure how far I'd need to go to describe someone who covered up systemic child abuse on a global scale
Amazing that their examples at the bottom of the page still show really messed up human hands.
More like a 4:30 mile. Decent college athletic level
How does this latest release compare to lld? Can it run on alpine/musl?
Nothing Compares 2 U reliably induces frisson/goosebumps in me. Rare that a cover can match a Prince original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Compares_2_U
The Genesis and Gestation of Functoriality [pdf]
There are plenty of opportunities for older people in boring tech. I’m in my 40’s working for my local government and the majority of my coworkers are in their 50s and 60s. Great benefits but of course our salaries are not competitive.
He testified to not seeing the bodies of the "pilots" and being able to talk about the spacecraft "behind closed doors".

How people believe this shit will always be amazing to me.
I don’t think the rejection reason matters in this context, though. GP’s point is that it’s better to filter out fundamental mismatches before a protracted interview process that ultimately results in a rejection anyway (or, worse, an acceptance that results in quitting or being fired).
In my experience it depends on the user's workflow and preferences. Whenever I'm using a tiling-first desktop I find myself micromanaging my windows a lot more because inevitably, some windows tile in a way that's not usable or limits usability. It feels like I'm fighting it constantly, and the only way to fix it is to opt out of tiling, at which point I have to wonder why I'm using a tiling WM.
I think you have this backwards, Capitalism loves scarcity. Scarcity is what allows for supply and demand curves and profit-making opportunities, even better if you can control the scarcity. Capitalist entities are constantly attempting to use laws, technology, and market power to add scarcity to places where it didn't previously exist.
GCP has graciously begun to roll out its internal AI suite: vertex model garden, lookerbi, simpleml for sheets & notebookml. Wizardcat (palm api codesynth) is nutty! You use your lifetime stash of GDrive txt files as "Personal AI" training set so it can basically finish your thoughts, refresh your memories, summarize your research, answer complex queries & brainstorm ;)
Protect Against CI/CD Attacks That Poison GitHub Actions Workflows
I overspoke. FID is a fine metrics to observe the training progress of your own model. And it correlates well with some coherency issues of generative models. But for cross model comparisons, especially for models that generally do well under FID, it is not discriminative enough to separate better / good.
Good idea, we just throw out all the security mechanisms to avoid "corporate control" and even worse anti virus software "inspecting end users' computers".
I'm sure people will be very happy about all the mal- and ransomware they receive. Imagine the utopia we would live in.
This is a fine position to hold, while excluding more-useful ones as "condoning bad behavior" or "excusing bad behavior" or whatever, if you want to judge people but not solve any problems.

It's true, and also entirely unhelpful.
The atomic bomb was very important, so it must have been done by women.

But it was also bad -- so they must have been tricked into creating it!

Let's now reason backward to support this obviously true conclusion.
The default option is dangerous and vulnerable being incorrect unless you explicitly use it in a different way. This is a symptom of it being a library and not a language feature.

As another example, imagine if span was a language feature. A compiler could bounds check at compile time, and fully elide the checks at runtime in many scenarios (like in a loop over the span).