skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want the concept of launching from altitude to work because it seems like the heavy atmosphere part has different requirements and so having another vehicle to help with that seems intuitive.

This is essentially what multi-stage rockets are. Only the lowest stage is optimized for heavy atmosphere.

The "dropping from a plane" thing is theoretically a good idea. Wings and jets save lots of fuel. But in practice one needs a hilariously large plane to carry a modest rocket, and it needs to be hypersonic to really give the dropped rocket a good orbital kick, and the linkage between the rocket/plane needs to not blow up. Historically... You mind as well build a massive vertical first stage.

You could strap jets to a first stage and try to reuse it. Hello KSP!
>I want the concept of launching from altitude to work because it seems like the heavy atmosphere part has different requirements and so having another vehicle to help with that seems intuitive.

This is what they tried and failed with Virgin Orbit. The economics of plane launch just don't work out versus the logistical hassle of it.
I get the feeling Sixto Rodriguez preferred somewhat of an ascetic lifestyle. He seemed totally unfazed by the prospect of stardom. He also seems not to have really made an attempt to capitalize on his modest success. He must have known he had some level of success since he toured in Australia in the late '70s.

I get the feeling he is the type of person who chose a modest lifestyle of hard work as a more honest way to live.
I'm pretty sure a good part of the increase is just the average quality of durable goods sold new is far worse than it used to be. And for many people, there's a resistance to tossing into the trash something which is nearly brand new. Good money was spent on that thing, and not everyone is ready to accept they've been fleeced by a new reality of everything sold is now TRASH ON ARRIVAL. So it stays under their roof. Even if it's broken, at least it's not in the landfill, and maybe it still looks like a new thing as it collects dust and wastes precious indoor space.

For those cases it's not the hoarders to blame IMO. It's the flood of cheap Chinesium garbage sold new on the shelves of big box stores like Walmart and Amazon. The moment this crap enters the US it belongs in a landfill, you might get a single use of it first.
It was 2 minutes of adding RPMForge to your repos to fix, however.

From a technical users' perspective, super easy...if you already knew what to do, or what to search for to figure out what to do.

The point was that with Ubuntu, you didn't even need to do that, so non-technical users could use it without hassle, and this was the entire point of Ubuntu.
I've seen this happen with planned bypasses of small towns, either through individuals fighting CPOs for their land, or people in the town opposing planning permission notices. (there's a few I can think of where the council's current plan involves waiting for certain people to die, since that's less effort overall)

Usually such bypasses are great for these towns, as it removes most of the articulated road shipping that needs to pass through there, and generally makes it a nicer place to be.
> Nobody born in the last 50 years would ask that question about computers,

Working in enterprise with lots of contact with management of the business units that are the customers for the software we develop and maintain, like about 1/4 of the questions I get are different versions of that one underneath various thin disguises.

EDIT: to be fair, a number of the people I work with were not (as I myself, just barely, was not) born in the last 50 years. But if anything, the question of the form at issue are more common from the younger non-technical folks, not the older ones. Intuitive understanding of what computers do seems, IME, to have peaked around the “Xennial” border sub-generation, but even then not be that high in the general public.
> 100KB and 1MB down/up load tests show unrealistically low values, perhaps due to a high latency (ping).

That's related to TCP congestion control. TCP starts slow and ramps up speed as download progresses.

But you're right that latency also has an impact on smaller downloads, and that's why latency is a critical measurement of connection quality for everyone, not just gamers.
In chrome: Right click on the body, "inspect element" to open the debugger thingy, and see the terrible font as "font family" in the bottom right.

Uncheck the box next to "font-family".

There, now it's readable. You can close the chrome debugger thingy.
> Why should be excited about or support a mental health startup, who stands to make money when people have poor mental health

I used to think this way about therapy. After all, they stop getting paid from you when you stop seeing them. But then I realized I love programming. It's my favorite thing to do, and I love getting paid for it too.

There are people that love what they do, and they should get paid for it just like anyone else. That being said, getting paid as a therapist is different than targeting infinite growth and profit. So hopefully this app is made by someone who likes the idea and wants to be paid, not someone just looking for a profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-orbital_spaceflight
I think that's a really narrow view of what librarians do. It's not just having stock of all the books, it's knowing the books that are relevant to particular fields of study, it's having a mastery of research and source-finding, and so much more.
Don't forget the drug war. Miami wasn't built up just for local Floridians.
i am getting a warning from chrome about this site certificate , or is it just me
Just curious, which 8TB portable HDD are you using? Was just looking for something like this
"We've been diligently working to improve the results" was the response to the question of "Are the employees at Google working on Search aware of how bad search results have become in the past year or two?" I thought that was a clear response.

To be more explicit, yes, we're aware that there are complaints about the quality of search results. That's why we've been working in a variety of ways, as I indicated, to improve those.

We have continued to build our spam fighting systems, our core ranking systems, our systems to reward helpful content. We expanded our product reviews system to cover all types of reviews, as this explains: https://status.search.google.com/incidents/5XRfC46rorevFt8yN...

We regularly improve these systems, which we share about on this page:
https://status.search.google.com/products/rGHU1u87FJnkP6W2Gw...

The work isn't stopping. You'll continue to see us revise these systems to address some of the concerns people have raised.
I park this way cause I'm daily driving a sports car that is really low and I don't want to risk hitting my front splitter on the curb or the wall. Backwards camera allows you to get close enough without hitting anything.
> There's that sales pitch again.

It's not a sales pitch, it's a very practical application for a TPM. Easy-to-use LUKS is nothing to scoff at for example. If you can't use it, that's your fault.

> Why do Linux bootloaders have to get a blessing from Microsoft?

Nothing to do with TPMs. The rest of the paragraph is nearly as misguided.

> They graciously, most of the time, allow you to also store some keys of your own in their vault they caused to be placed on your machine even if you didn't want it? How magnanimous and generous of them!

Yeah, it's so bad when you have extra hardware that you can utilize for your own purposes. It really is like blaming AES-NI being used for doing public key encryption with someone else's public key. Nobody should ever have anything they should want securely stored because some other technology out there is used in restrictive ways, sure. Obviously that's not true, you're simply pointing your finger at the wrong thing.
Might be this building:

https://stelladoradus.com/case-study/mobile-signal-solution-...
> The university was a place of learning, education, and becoming a better person.

Religious studies in other words. That was the purpose of the first universities, to educate religious brass.
New coronavirus subvariant Eris is gaining dominance
>A new coronavirus subvariant, nicknamed Eris, has rapidly risen to prominence nationwide and is now thought to account for more U.S. cases than any of its counterparts at a time when transmission has been creeping upward.
That doesn't say anything about CVE's and the issues on being not so performant against the new iterations of C# or even PHP >7.

I know that if you were to work in any company, Java would ve everywhere, but today the times changes. Even the Crustacean lang it's preferable againt Java on big backends.
On the ligther workloads, Golang works great and it solves the multiplatform issue by crosscompiling from anywhere to anywhere.
I think that the prevailing view of parenting vs individual actualization isn't particularly accurate.

Having children is also an opportunity for personal development and growth, just of a different flavor and different direction.

Of course there isnt a single answer, but I think people should question the implicit assumption that the "best ride", most fun, ect is the childfree one.
During a period of overload, which I interpret to mean the demand exceeding both traditional supply and micro grid supply, there has to be some kind of disconnection to protect the grid. When that disconnection happens, micro grids can at least still power limited number of appliances.

Making the grid larger and more extensively shared power decreases the probability of overload but increases the inconvenience when such overload does happen.
I thought so. Thanks. Fuck modernity. I'm 18 and my gums have already shrinked too much. I cut all mouthbreathing and sugar recently and flossing & brushing since some time, but no one warned me gum shrinkage was irreversible and this fast.
Maybe they want to get rid of the Barstool name because of stuff like this:

https://www.mediaite.com/sports/barstool-founder-dave-portno...
India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years – here are the results
> Phasing out natural gas in new construction is going to cause this passion play in slow motion. Have you priced out induction stoves? Phew.

More than two thirds of US households already have electric stoves, and normal non-induction electric stoves are about the same price as gas ones. A ban on gas stoves would only affect rich people for the most part.
It's a fair question because Virgin Galactic had played pretty fast and loose with safety in the past. It was only a matter of time before they killed someone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise_crash

Fortunately, they don't seem to have had a major incident since 2014 and the FAA has certified them for commercial flights.
A theorem is just a statement which has been proved. Proofs are logical deductions that begin with a set of assumptions (called the hypothesis of the theorem) and follow a sequence of valid steps to reach a result (called the conclusion of the theorem).

Without any assumptions at all, you have nowhere to go. There’s nothing you can conclude if you begin by assuming nothing.
Are reports of StackOverflow’s fall greatly exaggerated?
Idle, though?
I wish they went for a 501(c)3 non-profit, rather than a 501(c)6 trade organization.

The incentives between these two structures make a world of difference.
What brand do people recommend instead?
I doubt it, the Levine article lays it out quite nicely. ESPN is acquiring (partnering?) the sportsbook and is going to rebrand it. Penn sold the Barstool media/brand business back to Portnoy for $1 and preferential liquidation rights (50%) in any future sale.

They don't need it anymore. Give it back to the guy that grew the business to $500M+ and let continue to do it for 50% of any future sale. I'd be long on that bet any day of the week.
The lost women of early Analytic philosophy
No issues when I opened it on mobile Chrome.
What exactly are you bringing to the table with your label?
Leaked Yandex Code Breaks Open the Creepy Black Box of Online Advertising
Analysis of Yandex's Crypta service that collects user behavioral data.
Iirc it was also so the coffee could be kept for a longer time within the brewer before it got stale.
Ah, yes; because there's a programming skill test we all had to pass to be allowed to post here...
I'm okay with using anecdotal data to refute anecdotes. So, source: me, I've seen loads of high achievers come in, get promoted, stick around for half a year, then job hop to the next company in order to "start without baggage" but at a higher rung.

(And of course, while it should go without saying, it very much needs saying because people are very bad at logic: that doesn't mean I claimed that no high achievers stick around, and it also doesn't mean I claimed that people who do stick around are low achievers. Reading the latter would require making not just one but _two_ mistakes)
Thanks for sharing that, although it was a humorous comment :)
iirc midjourney has figured it out although its closed source if you were wondering.
Neal Stephenson isn’t giving up on the metaverse–or crypto
# (News) update #

Coincidentally (as it happens), YT just published from the "France 24" channel a piece

> Dans les Alpes-Maritimes, la ville de Tourrettes-sur-Loup expérimente des capteurs capables de détecter des départs de feux de forêt grâce à l’intelligence artificielle. Une aide précieuse pour cette commune dont le territoire est à 80% en zone rouge risque feux de forêt

So,

> AI is the automation of problem solving, focused on reliably giving good solutions to definite problems

and here we have news-just-in of an attempt to use AI (in whichever form) to detect wildfires, assumingly automating what would have been the work of experts which would have been there to recognize conditions and patterns. This seems to be a good example of proper attribution of the term "AI" (assuming the actual implementation does not sway too wildly from the expected).
Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected
If you have easy access to an arbitrarily large file (or an online random file generator) curl has timing variables that can be exposed via the -w flag.

e.g. Create a format file named curltime.txt containing:

time_namelookup: %{time_namelookup}s\n
time_connect: %{time_connect}s\n
time_redirect: %{time_redirect}s\n
time_starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer}s\n
----------\n
time_total: %{time_total}s\n

then

curl -svo /dev/null -w "@curltime.txt" https://example.com/my_arbitrary_file

Would result in something like:

time_namelookup: 0.048205s
time_connect: 0.079001s
time_redirect: 0.000000s
time_starttransfer: 0.377603s
----------
time_total: 0.412150s
Sounds like you need a serious adjustment on your world view if you currently believe you don't have anything to hope for simply because you and your 1500 SAT score didn't get into an elite school.
I have tried out Theta and it's great!

You mentioned in a tutorial video that we will be able to install it through our local. When will that be?
Thanks!
I don’t think we are. I’m talking about reversing into a parking space in a car park (parking lot). It’s generally accepted to be safer for the reasons I highlighted. That’s why I think calling it “selfish” is bizarre.
388-178 is still a bunch of cash...
Hitler literally wrote a book on his motivations. He was an insane ideologue and demagogue, based on his writings, actions, and speech.

You don't need Anne Applebaum screeds, boosted Reddit comments and a expertly-curated media bubble to determine that Hitler was insane.
Why would anyone amend the author in an open source project?
"yet our frontend code is reactjs without typescript"

I don't blame them. I hate Typescript. Worked on projects at a major gaming company, no typescript necessary.
> I have encountered other issues where a slight change in phrasing leads to totally different types of output, despite the meaning of the two phrasings being the same to a normal person.

I feel like a human might do the same thing, the words might have slightly different connotations which makes them think of different ideas. We can’t test that with a human because we can’t reset them to a previous state whereas with an LLM you can
Definitely agree it's not the only answer. As far as the grandchild goes, that's where epigenetics and generational trauma can play a very interesting part/confounding factor. There could be a straight up heritable trait that causes this, or a genetic+environment mix, or even just a straight environmental influence.

I'm fortunate that most of the people I know who have trouble with this are capable of somewhat keeping it in check, although there are certainly some garages/basements in my extended and in-law families that are going to be an absolute nightmare to deal with down the road. At least for the folks who live on farms, it has occasionally come in handy; while a ton of it is just straight up junk, they do seem to have a pretty good mental model of where things are even though it isn't really organized and can often dig up very old obscure parts for equipment (farming or electronics) relatively quickly.
> but it gets better

Parents say this, but looking at their lives and talking to them, it doesn't. I think you just get used to it, or develop a sort of stockholm syndrome.

Maybe you sleep a little better so it's easier to mentally cope with it
Slightly related 12 days ago:

TMAP – On Demand Tactile Street Map https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36901794

Only four comments including a link to https://www.instructables.com/OpenBraille-a-DIY-Braille-Embo... and PixBlaster
Makes me think, could this scenario happen in the continental US? I mean could a large earthquake or wildfire knock out cell service for SF or Seattle? Maybe a hurricane affecting a Florida city? Or are there enough cell towers outside of the area to make it unlikely? We think of this feature for wilderness rescues, but this is the first time I've heard of it used in a disaster affected urban area.
Harvard's not purely private: it receives massive structural tax advantages, & lots of government funding via many kinds of tuition & research subsidies.

Harvard's supposed "excellent reputation" is significantly maintained by the cartel of graduates from it, & its close peers, preferentially touting, publishing, hiring, and funding class-similar people – even when they are no better on objective measures than non-graduates.

Your hiring observation is nearly fully driven not by Harvard providing any "educational lift", specific to its educational product, that would justify its state-granted advantages, but simply by Harvard getting "early pick" (pre-career) to place its brand on people who are already talented, ambitious, or highly-prepared before they arrive at Harvard.
And SharePoint itself is backed by the Windows Filesystem, which respects a lot of old DOS stuff for backwards compatibility.
I'm afraid that's technically not possible. Internet is inherently centralized due to the need for ISPs, and there are TLS CAs, TSMC, and many more things. Current sophistication of technology needs centralization for its manufacture and use.
For HN I think the most important work by Vinge is still his report from 1993 where he said we would have the technological means to build AGI and usher in nerd’s rapture in 30 years, which is this year.
Now imagine how much safer you’d all be if you stayed home and never went anywhere. This is a ridiculously regressive argument.
The JS world makes my head spin - can't properly keep up with best practices and tools. I've always seen iOS and Android development as being very secure and some of the hardest positions to fill.
What Affordable Housing Means
What a massive waste of the limited carbon budget we have remaining as a species. The techno-optimists who think this is bootstrapping more humanity-serving missions (like a colony on Mars or the Moon) are lying to themselves. We are squeezing every last resource that makes Earth livable to enrich a few people short-term, but we will all suffer for this in the next few decades.
Cloudflare's speed test doesn't have a graph for latency under load, but it shows those numbers while the test is running.

But you can find those graphs in Cloudflare Radar. Half of the https://radar.cloudflare.com/quality section is based on speed test data.
I work for our search quality team, directly reporting to the head of that team, to help explain how search works to people outside Google and bring concerns and feedback back into team so we can look at ways to improve. I came to the position about six years ago after retiring from writing about search engines as a journalist, explaining how they work to people from 1996 onward.
> So tired of young musicians telling me that streaming is where the audience is.

I’m only a music consumer, not a producer, but I found some of my favorite artists (small, less than 20k monthly listeners) via streaming and bought their merch and tickets to live shows. So these young artists aren’t exactly wrong in my opinion.
> Galactic 02 is a suborbital flight. However, despite VSS Unity not reaching orbit, the trajectory allows passengers to experience several minutes of weightlessness at an altitude high enough for them to see the Earth’s curvature

Glad they acknowledged that, never realized how close commercial airplane flights were to that
> You described the core of the problem as the response to a certain event (events in Crimea)

The 2014 invasion of Ukraine was not, and I did not describe it as, limited to events in Crimea.

> Having said that, could you apply the same reasoning and explain why Russia occupied Crimea

I will not pretend to explain the agressors’ reasoning, but the context was that it was immediately after the people of Ukraine drove out their former Russian-aligned leader.

> External military intervention IS a provocation.

It can’t provoke a war that starts before it occurs, and arms deliveries are not military intervention.
>No society has tried selecting random people in adulthood to put in charge.

This is a practice called 'sordition'. As evidenced by the fact it has a name and a Wikipedia article, it is not something you just invented. It was famously used in Athens and is how American juries are selected today,

I think I would support a revival of sordition. Perhaps we could start small, perhaps by selecting one representative for each state at random.
Which positions did you "hire"? Would be interested to see if that changes the robustness of the output. Same goes for "investment".
Everyone fall somewhere on the hoarding spectrum. I am guilty of keeping things that may some day be useful.

I mean, sure, but there's a pretty stark difference between "oops, this didn't turn out to be useful after all" and someone who keeps hundreds of dirty plastic takeout containers "just in case". Maybe to some extent it's a spectrum, but it feels like there's a hard line between someone who keeps things that legitimately might be useful vs someone who is literally delusional.
You can customize notifications in slack and leave only 1:1 if you want https://slack.com/help/articles/360056534254-Manage-notifica...

I find having easily accessible feed from monitoring tools pretty useful.
Wow! This just made my day, thanks so much. I don’t know why I never bothered to check if there was a Firefox version. Thank you!
Wait, the MS Teams desktop app is deprecated? Never got any message about that ... Guess I might soon be forced to use double the evil, in Chrome and Teams in Chrome? Wow, the world becomes more dystopian by the day. Perhaps I should quit my job when I am forced to use Chrome.
Well gonna use the desktop app for as long as I can. They will probably never fix their broken shit app, so that one can use it from any browser.
A quick walkthrough of the three frameworks in probability viz. classical, frequentist and Bayesian through an example.
I’m perpetually surprised this otherwise mostly legit site is OK with us sharing links to pirated material.