skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a positive note, we just had a sprint retrospective today and the entire team gushed with praises for each other and we all agreed that team morale is great, and that we are accomplishing great things despite all the challenges we had been facing recently. I attribute this to a few things I’ve observed. First, we do have some extremely dedicated engineers who lead by example rather than granted authority. This garners huge respect for those members and makes everyone work that much harder so that they don’t disappoint anyone. Second, we have extremely positive non-technical members (PO, TL, SM) who are very encouraging, respectful, and willing to go to bat for anyone. Thus, we feel empowered and trusted. Third, we course correct, a lot. If there are problems and/or mistakes, we own up to them and focus on the solution. We face problems head-on instead engaging in finger-pointing and deflection. It’s honestly the best team I’ve ever worked with, and I will be sad when that has to end. I’ve worked on extremely toxic teams where all of the above what the exact opposite of what I just described and it usually ends in failure (through attrition, project realignment/cancellation, etc.). Oh, and the source of the toxicity is usually ONE person, but it spreads like a disease.
Pay quietly

Don't pay your staff consistently for the same work. Refuse to advertise your budgets, and loosen your "ranges" to get people in the door when they push you about it, but then use those same targets to hand-wave away people already inside -- who come to you after comparing notes or observing the impact of broader market conditions like inflation. Also, stop them from comparing notes or doing fifth-grade level math like compounding effects. That education is there to help you, not them - and speaking of which, it taught them better than to talk out of turn, let alone to question the people they work for.

(...satire aside though, you do know standups can be done in the afternoons, right?)
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These systems are commonly air-gapped. Unless he physically went around to the various SCIFs, where the information would be, it doesn't matter what kind of access he had.
China admitted it was their balloon but claimed it wasn’t the government’s, nor for surveillance.

Does that mean China is just in on the conspiracy then?
For anything like this to stay a secret this long, it's obviously not discoverable by a keyboard jockey having root privileges across the network. You don't need to know more acronyms to infer such things.
"Too early to say"

and

"need to see replication of the experiments by others"

and

"traps for excited beginners in measurement"

but also

"lots of good work in the field comes out of the wider community in this economy"

vibes for me. And a wry aside to Pons/Fleischmann
Man, why can't we just build nuclear reactors. Land a big nuclear reactor and you have enough power for a very, very large base. We don't need to live of the land anytime soon if we can land 100t of cargo per flight.
Interesting how they'll react to X. WeChat seems to be the closest thing to an "Everything App" that Elon wants to create.
Just testing the samples already made in an independent laboratory would be replication enough!
Not to argue with personal taste, but I think most of these problems are just becoming accustomed to a different UI. Vivaldi is easily the most customizable browser on the market, and it's not even close. I don't work for Vivaldi and I'm not getting paid by them, just a fervent acolyte.

1) I'm not sure I understand. You don't like how small the icons are, so you made them larger, but then you don't like they're larger? Like you, I also like nice big hitboxes, and I haven't noticed any issues. If you're just trying to scale the webpage zoom, look at the bottom right corner of the status bar -- there's a zoom bar you can drag.

2) Try the Human theme, which changes colors to complement whatever webpage you're looking at. I absolutely love it. I use vertical tabs, which aren't cluttered; maybe the horizontal tabs are? If you don't like square tabs, you can round the corners to squircles in the settings.

3) The command panel works flawlessly for me to search current open tabs, bookmarks, etc. Maybe it's just a different implementation than Firefox?

4) The trash icon at the bottom of the vertical tabs isn't to close all tabs -- if you want to do that, just right-click any tab and select "close all tabs below." The trash icon is a SUPER useful recovery tool that stores your browsing history, essentially. If you accidentally close a tab or a window, you can just restore it by clicking the trash icon and selecting the closed tab/window in reverse chronological order.

Vivaldi today is what Firefox was twenty years ago -- just outstripping all competition and being an absolute joy for the end user. You can customize Vivaldi to be whatever you want it to be, and I think you'd really enjoy it as your default browser.
Yes, the driver was absolutely irresponsible.

But the serious issue with the FSD doesn't become moot because of this.
I'd like to add that it's really easy to find satellites, so I encourage people to try it. I can usually spot one in about half an hour (though my viewing conditions are about as good as they can be in a city, YMMV). Shortly after sundown or before sunrise is the easiest time, but I've found them at other times of night too.

If I find myself outside at night, I try to spend at least a couple minutes looking for them (or whatever else there is to see, shooting stars, interesting clouds, Zodiacal lights, ...). You'd be surprised how much you can see if you spend a couple minutes regularly over a long period of time, especially relative to the minimal effort involved. (That being the thesis of the blog post.)
Europe does something but America is to blame.

:eyeroll:
Bloated does not mean bad. It means bloated. Which, for my purposes, makes it not the best choice.
Kinda.

With Alpha, AMD got most of the scientists and Intel got all the IP.

HyperTransport (and everything else copied from Alpha) was a cleanroom solution. Intel's Quickpath is closer to Alpha's tech (along with some claims that stuff like AVX came from upcoming Alpha SIMD designs).

Alpha EV8 was planned to be very wide (8-issue) design with SMT and a massive SIMD unit. It was supposed to launch in 2004. Intel's chips didn't get that wide until Haswell in 2013.
Nice! The stuff where you cache translations to json looks pretty good, big part of the game with gpt-4 is making sure you manage your bill. The couple of cents per word, really explode if you don't pay attention.
It's a fair point.

If you rephrase it as "a civilization that mastered interplanetary travel and can split the atom somehow keeps crashing on our planet" it makes me wonder.

What if bugs, suicidal or thrill-seeking pilots or overly confident bureaucracies remain a fixture in the next stages of life's evolution as well?

Or what if fixing those problems is harder than the technology?
So I think the problem isn't actually the price (or at least not just price) and I'm not exactly surprised to hear some people are saying it could even be higher.

The real issue is the trial. Auto charge trials, especially ones I'm unsure of, are a turnoff. This brings me to 3 issues...

* 7 days is psychologically a short time to try this. For me, this means I have to set aside time in this coming week to set everything up and see how it works. A longer trial period might help.

* The auto charge at the end of the trial is, as mentioned, a dark pattern that I avoid whenever possible. If I'm not 90% sure I'm going to use the product, I won't sign up for something that needs my credit card in advance.

* The free option is too limited for me to start entering data and come back later. It's also missing functionality I think I'll need later. I have to pay at least $14, and setup an auto-charge, to pick up where I left off later, so this is a non-starter for determining if the product is worth the $14 to begin with.

In short, it might be worth $14 a month and it is even likely to be worth the ~ $100 a year, but the limitations and requirements around the trial keep me from feeling comfortable finding out. The most off-putting is the auto-charge, which make me nervous in any case.
> > putting their reputation and career (and maybe safety) on the line

> They aren't...

> Totally irrational.

Ok you just proved why they're putting their reputation and career on the line... people calling it irrational.
You emulate the abandonware, old OS and all. She kicked the habit recently, but my sister preferred Word 5.1 for Mac for a long time. That was a 68k program, which she dutifully used _on a PC_ while Apple was busy shipping iOS on ARM and Mac OS on x86. The Centris 610 is very tired, but the software still works. (Well, not the original copy. Those install floppies are very dead.) Software can be uniquely persistent, in a way physical artifacts can't, so why are we so insistent on keeping everyone on the upgrade treadmill?

George R.R. Martin pretty famously uses WordStar on DOS. I can't imagine it'd be some win for consumers (either Martin personally, or downstream enjoyers of his books) if he had to be on the latest internet-connected, ad-infested, notification-riddled copy of Windows just so that his OS and Office Suite could repeatedly check to make sure he still has an active subscription and a valid "digital entitlement."

I still use Office 2010. (Though it gets increasingly difficult to activate it, and it last received security updates in 2020.) In 2010 I was using x86_64 (an Athlon 64 X2), and today I'm using x86_64. Why should I upgrade? It happens to still run on Windows 11, but I'd gladly stuff it in a VM to continue using it. (I do use Office <current 365 build> for work, so I can pretty confidently say there is nothing worth paying for in there. The only feature even remotely interesting is PowerQuery for Excel, which is available as an add-in for Office 2010.)
In the case of Sage, the difference was about 500% cost increase for each of my two small businesses.
UK MPs: "We're very worried about people debunked due to their repulsive beliefs".
Also UK MPs: "We believe ISPs should be able to deinternet people's views based an arbitrary computer models of dubious accuracy."

How long before these two views are exposed as contradictory? (Or do they just resolve that internally as "we only support dewhatevering people we don't like"?)
People who are committing fraud aren't trying to have a correct reaction to the problems of academia, and leaving fixing the problems of academia to them changing their behavior will have the outcome you should expect.

Telling people to be good is a waste of time unless they're your kid or loved one and they really don't want to disappoint you. Fixing your system so it doesn't reward people who commit fraud is the only thing that even has a possibility of working.
> (real, STEM) Nobel prize

Ouch.
That wasn't the NASA Administrator, Bill Nelson. It was Jim Free, Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development[1]. Nelson has been a surprisingly strong supporter of fixed-price contracts, given his background.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/weirdly-a-nasa-officia...
Experts Say AI Girlfriend Apps Are Training Men to Be Even Worse
It’s not just lack of job it’s also lack of income
> It's an inference to the best explanation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/ No empirical evidence conclusively proves its true explanation, but the best available explanation is the most likely correct one.

This is gibberish, dude. If we don't know, let's admit we don't know. "the best available explanation is the most likely correct one" is not even close to reality.
That last statement might hold for "recent past" (last 10 or 15 years, say), but the one recent top 40 hit that stood out for me has a 50s type vibe (Until I Found You, Stephen Sanchez). I'm not particularly a fan of that style (well before my time!) but it's surely not "bland".
if (launch) {
do_launch();
}
else {
printf("this is just a test...\n");
}
You're not wrong about any of this, but I have very little faith that alternative browsers not implementing this will have any sway in avoiding the lockout outcome :-(
There is a green light literally right next to it. I was also initially confused as to which lane either was pointing at. They are not offset angle wise very much.
The industry has also grown and the barriers to entry have dropped. The people making applications simply don't know or care about good design.
> Free sites would spam my readers with ads that I don't agree with, and try to track them. Paid sites cost money, obviously, and may be predatory. The platform could be acquired and/or killed, and I could lose my content or have to transfer it somewhere else.

My recommendation these days is to start with GitHub Pages.

1. It's free

2. The default address - yourname.github.io - looks good enough. You can assign a custom domain to it easily for free too if you want to: https://til.simonwillison.net/github/custom-subdomain-github...

3. GitHub have a REALLY GOOD track record of not breaking things like this. I trust them more than most other companies with respect to my stuff there staying online for a long time into the future.

My trick for formatting syntax highlighting is to write my posts in Markdown (with the ```python tags for code) and then run it through this little tool to turn it into HTML: https://til.simonwillison.net/tools/render-markdown - then I publish the resulting HTML.
While I agree, I think I need to wait until that package in that car is not called 'Full Self Driving'.
From what I recall of the original paper, 1-2 hours of actual labor with equipment and reagents many labs already have on hand--although it required 24-48hours in the furnace at each step which is the only reason for the delay and why the article author mentions we should see results tomorrow. So, trivial enough most people in similar labs already spent more time discussing the implications than actual labor/investment to replicate.
Can someone give me a good use case (even better if you're doing it yourself) for a smart contract?

What is anyone doing with them that they find really handy?

I've never been able to understand how it gets used / why you would use smart contracts. I've googled and read... still don't grok it.

I've seen so many "benefits" listed, but none make sense to me as far as the process you go through and how it works out in the end. Often it's described as a magic thing that eliminates the use of "intermediaries" and so on. I suppose that is true but you only get to that by going through all the complexity of from making sure someone writes a good contract / getting folks from the outside to review and validate it and so on. I'm not sure that saved a lot in the end.

Much like a most things blockchain I find these ideas (not bad ones) and then the practical usage ... much less than ideal.
This is going to mess up RoHS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...
And you still have to fertilise them with complementary nutrients and also nitrogen for the best yields.
Speculative execution, despite whatever flaws, brings a style of optimization that you simply cannot substitute with any other. Conceptually, the ability to continuously time travel into the future and bring information back is a pretty insane form of optimization. The fact that this also prefetches memory for us is amazing, except in some unhappy adverse contexts. Perhaps we should just pause there for a moment and reflect...

Imagine being able to simultaneously visit 4 retail stores and dynamically select items depending on availability and pricing, arriving back home having spent the amount of time it takes to shop at 1.25 stores while burning 1.5x the fuel of a one-store trip.

There is no amount of ISA redesign or recompilation that can accommodate the dynamics of real-world trends in the same ways that speculative execution can. Instead of trying to replace speculative execution, I think we should try to put it into a more secure domain where it can run free and be "dangerous" without actually being allowed to cause trouble outside the intended scope. Perhaps I am asking for superpositioned cake here. Is there a fundamental reason we cannot make speculative execution secure?
Fleischmann and Pons' famous cold fusion result was announced on March 23 1989 and a spate of replication attempts followed in the ensuing weeks; by April 30 1989, the NYT ran an article calling cold fusion dead due to the large number of reported negative reproduction attempts.

Scientists can move far quicker than you expect, and a positive or negative replication of this superconductor claim should be a very easy publication to grab. It would definitely be worth alloting a few weeks of grad student time to replicating this ASAP to get that publication.
Full Self Driving is imminent and X.com is the future of finance!
Senior Software Engineers Greatest Career Decisions
Robert J. Oppenheimer
Light Pollution at Your Location (compared to mine)
See how the effects of light pollution on your sky compare to the Murry River International Dark Sky Reserve. This simulation demonstrates from a ground perspective the real difference between light-polluted night skies and natural darkness, based on the data of lightpollutionmap.info
We belong to ourselves, and only the weak-minded allow themselves to become enslaved by another. Free yourself.
> My question is: why isn't there yet a thing (or is there?) that works like AWS, but has the UX experience of a smartphone: you can install "apps" on it -- which you pay for hosting / bandwidth -- and it handles integration with all your devices, while leaving you in charge of how they're configured and what happens with the data?

Heroku?
One of the elements used here is phosphorus (P) which is regulated by the DEA in the United States, and can't just be purchased online
Why don't you try it first ;)
They don't owe you an explanation just because something they probably said innocently could be construed as having racist undertones. While I'm willing to believe that you believe you are doing the right, anti-racist thing by calling them out, you basically attacked them before knowing what they meant, and that feels more like the bad-faith race-trolling that sometimes pretends to be anti-racism online.
Calculators 1968-1983
? That wasn't hyperbole. The average living standards are high and the low end isn't, as it has always been. The proportions of people in the low end vs middle are different than they have been, because the economy has advanced, but it's the same story.

It doesn't change the fact that wealth inequality doesn't need to be this unequal. You are choosing that system, over another which is less unequal, when you defend it. I can't imagine why! It's the same system, but better, with happier people, and the only difference is the rules of the game--which we get to choose.
sway does all those things very well: https://swaywm.org/
I think the diffusers UIs (like Invoke and VoltaML) are going to implement the refiner soon since HF already has a pipeline for it.

Comfy and A1111 are based around the original SD StabilityAI code, but the implementation must be pretty similar if they could add the base model so quickly.
FWIW streamlink [0] and streamlink twitch GUI [1] are FOSS solutions for watching twitch on GNU/Linux:

streamlink "https://twitch.tv/$streamer" best --twitch-disable-ads --player mpv

No ads, no tracking, no purple screens, no psuedo social network stuff to hijack your dopamine systems.

[0] https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink

[1] https://streamlink.github.io/streamlink-twitch-gui/
The simplest explanation I've come up with is that the politicians like Marco Rubio and Matt Gaetz are servicing the UFO conspiracy segment of their demographics by supporting and encouraging David Grusch to be a UAP whistleblower.

Grusch's extraordinary claims that the US has forced a global secrecy around the race to recover working and crashed non-human vehicles since 1930, that biological materials (aliens) and vehicles have been recovered multiple times, and that there is currently multiple countries in a "cold war" like race to recover these vehicles on an ongoing basis, seems fanciful.

A beneficial pragmatic outcome will be if there was more government transparency and removal of stigma around reporting UAP for civilian and military pilots.
Well yeah not with that attitude.
Imagine a desk in a windy park. Maybe the next innovation from the Gnome devs can be a "paperweight" you can drag onto your windows to keep them from blowing away.
From the article,

"Who knows what could come out of that? Robust high-current-density room-temperature superconductors are right out of science fiction (SF readers will recall that one such material was a big plot point in Larry Niven’s Ringworld). Electrical generation and transmission, antennas, power storage, magnet applications (including things like fusion power plants), electric motors and basically everything that runs on electricity would be affected. We could stop throwing away so much generated power on heating up the wires that deliver it, for starters."
> Our modern world is so alienating

I think the article could have stopped there and gone into something much more informative, useful, and possibly productive (probably not).
Not sure if this is related, but interestingly enough too, I’m wondering if RSD is actually a PTSD trauma reaction triggered by the rejection.

If someone was neglected or attacked by a caregiver when they approached them for help, especially if it was infrequent, and repeatedly told they weren’t allowed to feel bad about it/it wasn’t happening/if it was happening it was all their fault, and suffered significant distress because of it - how else would it present?

Especially if it was at an age where they couldn’t process or verbalize what was going on, and the parent was one they couldn’t reject themselves (because they needed them or they’d be orphans or whatever).

If RSD is really due to emotional neglect/rejection based Complex PTSD underlying the whole thing. It would make a lot of sense.
I mean, we have stealth tech but I doubt the first instinct would be to put an F-117 on a one-way trip to Mars
How well does this handle formatted text, like, say, json? yaml? legal agreements?
It’s a good thing my friends also hate the web. I was pretty much the lone holdout

“Opt out” from my references frame; I will use a gmail for government and services as expected, and do nothing else online but what my job asks. I’m done scrolling and collecting useless knowledge and anecdotes

I literally just switched to shit tier ISP speeds

Fortunately I deleted TwitFace a decade ago

Will be blacklisting HN, Reddit on the router end

Down to a stupid beefy ML machine through work, personal iPhone and old MacBook Air running Linux; feels good man dog
Love it when a post crystalizes exactly why you need to leave your current job ;)