skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"He can see far; further than in fact his strength allows him to travel. He conceives of brilliant ambitious projects requiring great resources, and he embarks on them only to run out of steam. It's not that he's lazy; its just that his resources are insufficient."

This speaks to me. As I get older, I am tempted to start curating a list of my "failed" (or abandoned) projects.

I have been fortunate enough to launch an open-source 3D graphics Lisp project late in life which has managed to keep my interest. Early on, I made a number of conscious decisions about how I would view this project and avoid some mistakes of my past.

- No comparing to existing 3D packages. It's evident that I can't compete with commercial packages with decades of programmer effort.

- No hunting for a "better" language (though this hasn't really been a problem). A goal of the project is to develop a system where I can bring the power of Common Lisp to bear on 3D graphics. In some ways this is a throwback of work I did developing 3D graphics on Symbolics Lisp Machines back at the MIT Media Lab [0]. Returning to my youth?

- Keep it simple. Or, does it need to be more complicated? Understandable code is a benefit, as is code you can (mostly) keep in your head. Avoid excessively clever code, which I have been guilty of in the past (macros, anyone?). Also (more controversially) avoid dependencies where possible; keep it in house.

- Build a community. Having others involved is the best way I have found for not running out of steam. My other projects have invariably been solo efforts. Now I am interested in creating something which will outlast me. Hence the decision to put the project on Github [1].

- This "thing" has value in and of itself, and doesn't need to be "better" than what is out there. By virtue of being different enough, it is a worthwhile project to bring into existence. The world probably doesn't need another browser-based JavaScript package.

- Keep the momentum going by working on whatever interests me at the time. Avoiding tedious development and yak shaving keeps me from losing motivation. I do realize the article touches on this as a weakness of the Lisp developer mindset, and I admit to not being motivated to build an industrial-strength system. E.g. my half-baked GUI built on top of raw OpenGL.

- Finally (have to stop sometime), don't overthink things. Enjoy the journey. I am enjoying enhancing the system while not fretting over who will use it or for what purpose. The journey is the destination.

[0] https://medium.com/@kaveh808/late-night-lisp-machine-hacking...

[1] https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9
>Can you imagine the outrage if Trumps' AG

You mean like how at least a few of the judges involved in Trumps many cases were directly appointed by him?
Have you watched _Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery_ ? Is it possible SBF is actually quite stupid, except perhaps for some cleverness with math?
The order is here, issued yesterday (August 10): https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/081023zr1_98...

The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, and stayed the lower court order pending their own decision. What they agreed to hear:

> The parties are directed to brief and argue the
> following question: Whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a
> court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under
> Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extinguishes
> claims held by nondebtors against nondebtor third parties,
> without the claimants’ consent.

I think you can fairly describe this as the Supreme Court agreeing to scrutinize the Sackler bankruptcy deal, and it's possible they will end up throwing it out. But it's also possible they'll decide the opposite.
I've watched the Twitter InfoSec crowd slowly turn from:

supportive -> ambivalent -> hostile.

Guess exposing XKeyScore, PRISM, TEMPORA really pissed off the hypocrites in the US.

The intersection in the Venn diagram between Intel and Infosec community is substantial. And quite a number of accounts directly linked to US IC influence decisions of who is allowed to have a voice at DefCon and BlackHat.

The same happened with public support for Assange.

Nobody talks about the retaliation by proxy against Ola Bini. They should.

If you stand up for them better prep yourself to either get labeled a tankie or get character assassinated¹ by some nutjob with pink hair and overly strong feelings about pronouns. Which is an odd hostile spectrum to find oneself in. Jacob Applebaum was especially torn down hard using manufactured content of blog posts of "rape victimes" coming forward. And until today he remains so:

¹ > In May 2013, Snowden was permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy.[10] In mid-May, Snowden gave an electronic interview to Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum which was published weeks later by Der Spiegel.[119] -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation – Dan Slimmon
Usually there's a tacit assumption of how the system works, how the users are using the system, or something else about the system or the environment that causes that - it's not that the answer wasn't known, it's that it was assumed to be something it wasn't and nobody realized that was an assumption and not a fact.
I think this would be more of an "affluenza" case.
I think the harm of porn is heavily theoretical, while that of tobacco is not.

Also, unless already addicted, people aren't programmed to impulsively seek out tobacco as a core physiological drive.
i was curious b/c we're building a lot of this inhouse for louie.ai just out of need

using the current seems unclear for us:

* we need to own the data & database, and align with our regular+vector infra -- where do they live here?

* we spend a lot of time on security annotations as the data isn't just for training but feeding back live in RAG, and in both cases, need rich expressivity for partitioning for sharing&tuning between different users/teams.. this seems to assume one big pile?
I wonder if the series of events will have any precedence or influence for other notable trials going on at the moment.
They are, but ought they?
Didn’t downvote you, but having unlimited energy source is worth it and can allow us to remove heat from earth. Human-caused CO2 alone contributes 2.1W/sqm while all current human energy production is 0.04W/sqm . Removing extra CO2 alone would offset 50x energy production growth. Then you can do things like placing reflective satellites between earth and sun.
Ask HN: What software license is most appropriate to build a business on?
Source code licensing seems to be a sensitive topic, and I have my own opinions, but I'd rather just be frank and ask the group: What are the best open source licensing options to build a business on?

I benefit greatly from open source - standing on the shoulders of giants and all that - and I want to contribute useful tooling back to the community. I enjoy making my projects available for others to use freely. At the end of the day, I'm selfish - I care about feeding my kids, owning a house, putting my kids through school, etc., which is all very expensive.

I don't want to work for someone else all my life, which means starting a software business, and licensing is a key issue here.

How do I balance:
1. Sharing my work with the community in a way that benefits everyone
2. Ensure that I can profit off of my work (e.g. prevent Amazon et al from simply hosting my software as a SaaS offering, like they did with elasticsearch)

The most palatable option I see is a more restrictive license for commercial users, a more permissive license for non-commercial users. Thoughts?
No, he didn't skip trial.
It’s normal to enjoy development if you come from a less privileged country. But it sometimes happens that consumers in those countries specifically demand examples of development that are more polluting than others, purely for the sake of social status. Think being able to buy a perfectly decent modern, fuel-efficient car, but instead buying a low-gas-mileage SUV because that lets them look like a big man to their community.

Suggesting to those consumers that they avoid the mistakes that the West made, and just leapfrog straight to the modern, efficient tech, is a bit like suggesting average Americans take public transportation: “What, you want me to do something poor people do?”
Apologies, I didn't notice the commenter I replied to used "deliberate". I don't think you're being deliberately misleading or have ill intentions given that this is in fact how it works at Oxford/Cambridge.

My comment was meant to convey that I think this convention is misleading in general. If I was reviewing a stack of resumes from not otherwise noteworthy or qualified individuals I would have assumed the MA candidate had graduate level education as I'm unfamiliar with this convention, the Wikipedia article has some survey data regarding this.

I also agree it's irrelevant in your specific case, I honestly didn't even know if you had graduated or from where before this post and this detail doesn't change my opinion of your qualifications.
Not sure. Samsung, WD, SK hynix 2TB drives are regularly on sale around ~$100

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/search?sort=new&restr...
This is the closest I have found, unfortunately, devices have been out of stock in many stores: https://github.com/espressif/esp-box
I've used VMs, and they work - when you have the same computer. When you upgrade equipment and need to repro an environment, Docker proves to be the lighter lift.
Currently, AFAICT, the "rolling cipher" is not even required for unthrottled speed. I could be wrong. I am not an expert on YT. However I tested all the 30+ sample videos in youtube.py^1 outside the browser, without using "youtube-dl" or "youtube-dlp", and got only unthrottled speeds. Perhaps someone can provide an example to prove that this "rolling cipher" is actually required.

1. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/master/yt_dl...

Another point I never see discussed is that every YT video page contains download links in the source of the page. No "rolling cipher" is needed to use them. I think it's fair to call them "download" links because the speed is throttled to be too slow for "streaming".
Their distinction follows dictionaries that I've looked at, but common usage is clearly diverging from that.

It's unclear to me at what point we should stop saying that lots of people are using words incorrectly, and start saying that lots of dictionaries are sticking with outmoded definitions, but looking at the past, transitions certainly occur sometimes.
>> We can reduce division to multiplication

How? I mean sure, if taking the reciprocal is O(1) which it certainly is not.
You laugh in the face of danger; a real risk taker! (=

I love all the Backblaze drive update posts about the lifespans of storage media.
They're going to study SBF in law school some day. In the same way a computer science professor would emphasize automated testing to catch edge cases, a legal professor will emphasize that no matter how intelligent and well-connected your client seems, they may still be suffering from "edge case" delusional behavior that destroys their case.

This is the same guy who dialed into tech conferences and made provably false statements after the public collapse of FTX and after his parents (both law professors) had retained counsel. And yet, nobody thought to explain to him how easily he might get caught up on witness tampering and obstruction of justice charges if he continued making public statements.
> Is there some reason the SBFs of the world are "puzzlers" and the hundreds of thousands of other people in prison are just criminals?

There were about 26 billion reasons for that, at one point.

e: to be clear, I am pointing out a fact of how the world works here, not condoning it
I think the standard way our justice system treats defending yourself publicly as witness intimidation is faulty. In the previous instance, his talking to journalists should be protected first amendment activities. And then later, with the diary, I don't think his intent was to intimidate her or to change her testimony, but rather to defend himself to the public. I don't think those two things are the same.

On the other hand, I'm very open to the idea that stealing someone's diary and publishing it is itself illegal. I'd want to know more there. Also, what I personally believe to be an overly-expansive definition of witness intimidation is pretty standard and he should be held to the same rules as others. So while I think the justice system generally needs to change on this, I think the judge is correctly applying the normal practice here as they would to anybody else.
Just drawing a 3D slanted plane to match the front of my printer made my head hurt: https://www.printables.com/model/526981-ender-3-s1-quad-z-br...
Sam Bankman-Fried headed to jail after bail revoked
What is age heaping and what use is it?
"Last season crops grew better on that field after the cows were allowed to grazed on it, but the field where we kept out the cows was as bad as always. Let's try letting cows graze on both fields."

"What did we say about magical thinking?"

"Sorry dad. Let's keep the cows off the field like we always did."
Gerrymandering is just one mechanism to rig elections. Voting laws can be changed to disproportionately affect certain demographics, and districts can even be targeted with special unnecessary "oversight."

This is happening all across the country, and it reeks of a political and ruling class who is unwilling to cede power to fresh faces.
Even with all these advancements, 120GB for a game is still and always will be a lot!
In moral terms, money is apparently more evil than lust. :p
To be (sadly) honest this is exactly what I was thinking when I wrote the comment at the top, but suspected it would have been buried for being so direct. It is gratifying to see some people here with guts to say what they think.

As a society we have now a possibly exaggerated tendency to ascribe any positive contributions by an individual to their environmental circumstances (this is definitely more true where I am in Canada, but it is becoming more true over time in the US), while we have a tendency to assume all the bad things can be blamed on a single leader to absolve everyone else of all responsibility for their supporting roles. A slight correction is in order imo.
The only way you really can is with hardware in the loop, in my opinion.

People try with mocks and stubs, but hardware in the loop is the only way you can know your firmware works as expected on device.
Or it's a way to humble brag about yourself - hey! Look at me! I submitted a fix for Microsoft's calculator! Why haven't they accepted it yet?!
I’d argue media storage usage is starting to level off somewhat because we’re approaching the limits of human perception. For movie content people with average to good eyesight can’t tell the difference between 4K and 8K.

Environmental regulations also bite, an 8K tv that’s “green” is going to have to use very aggressive auto dimming. Storage capacity growth to me looks like it’s outstripping media size growth pretty handily.

Now this isn’t to say I can’t think of a few ways to use a few yottabytes of data but I don’t think there is a real need for this for media consumption. You might see media sizes increase anyways because why not store your movies as 16K RAW files if you have the storage, but such things will become increasingly frivolous.
NOAA completes upgrade to weather and climate supercomputer system
What hypothetical firm would say, "she pleaded guilty to multiple felony fraud charges, but hey, let's give her a chance anyway. Wait, what's this? She wrote in her diary that she has doubts about her leadership ability? Never mind!"
"I would make the slow query faster" seems too obvious an answer for an interview question.
The commentary I've heard from prosecutors in the media, I believe from the Lawfare podcast but I can't swear to it, is that this gun charge is so minor it wouldn't normally be charged unless it was in combination with something worth prosecutor's time. (He lied on a piece of paperwork to get the gun about doing drugs. There's no evidence afaik that the gun was used in a crime. It's a federal crime, sure, but that is just not a huge deal.)

Engaging in consensual commercial sex is generally not viewed as being worth the time of a federal prosecutor. Same for using drugs. Hunter Biden's influence pedaling business was sketchy and gross, but as far as anyone can tell - not illegal. (Not an endorsement, he seems like a piece of shit.)

If I did those things, I would anticipate being in hot water with my local PD. I don't think the federal government would be impressed enough to even pass it on to the local PD. I wouldn't be surprised if I could take a plea deal and do community service, but I'm not a lawyer, who knows.

The tax evasion is probably the most serious crime. Maybe you think someone should go to prison for that, I don't really see the value in punishing them over and above getting the taxes paid and maybe banning him from running a company for 5 years or whatever.
Indeed. Who'd have thought I was being too subtle?
I'd love to see this clown destroyed
But for the saves the structure is visible?
It's not irony, most of the cases NY started were pretty unreasonable and more than a stretch, and have not gone very far, while the current stuff took this long for all the legal machines to get through, because it's really obnoxious to read through mountains of boxes of classified documents to figure out how bad it is, and attempting to claw back some partially destroyed evidence and flip important witnesses.

This is how long a trial of an important person takes.

Everything you've said has been less accurate than the headlines you've cribbed them from.
It'd be nice if there were a consortium of organizations that maintained a fork of Chromium, such as W3C, Brave, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi
Stupid is generally part of every personality. :-)

It's the issue of "which sets of perspectives have you basically ignored all your life, which are also relevant right here, now" that tends to make a person appear stupid in a given context.
Researchers use SPAD detector to achieve 3D quantum ghost imaging
That article was at least 20% advertisement for 'Benzinga'. This is a new low for news orgs... Well, not really, but I haven't experienced this flavor of intrusive advertising before.

It's a shame; I thought Yahoo News were one of the least offensive.
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> We removed the fence (wolves in your example) and have now discovered why the fence was there, and have now stepped in to build a new fence.

This isn’t quite accurate, though. Between removing the fence and getting fence construction inclinations, a lot of time has passed, and in the meantime, nature did lots of stuff we hardly understand.

Assuming otherwise is just repeating the same mistake again. Feral donkeys might be part of a new ecosystem now.
There's a sex scene with a bear person...
Bussard's last reactor concept, polywell, didn't work.
It's likely that `size("npm install */*")` grows faster than drive capacities.
By the way, if you're wondering if anyone has done anything useful with the method of describing numbers as prime exponents I mentioned the answer is yes, depending on your definition of "useful".

The encoding in terms of prime exponents is known as the Godel encoding, and its a fairly important step in proving things like Godel's incompleteness theorems and the undecidability of the Halting problem.

Essentially it's a one-to-one map between natural numbers and finite sequences of natural numbers (since you can encode (a,b,c,d...) as 2^a × 3^b × 5^c × 7^d etc), which turns out to be mathematically a convenient thing to have.
They were on a lot of drugs. Drugs make you say and do shut that in retrospect looks crazy. But sounded like a good idea at the time.
millionths of a meter are known as micron so most people would call this '100 micron' (or '100 micrometers') which is indeed close to 4 thou, as you calculated, and is the level of accuracy of my ~$500 3d printer.

1 thou was achievable in routine shops in the 1940s and a tenth of a thou (2.54 micron) is a common accuracy to target these days. Obviously it depends on the context and the size of the object, at some point you move away from cutting to using grinding and lapping to achieve your results, which is ultra-timeconsuming.
Can someone tell me why this won't produce commercial level fusion for 30 years so I can shut down my eternally optimistic "physics kid" portion of my brain for a while?
Mostly the format. It takes more than just people. HN is comments, you don’t get notified and it’s not a typical forum.

I love HN, but I’m looking for more suitable mediums for such discussion
Compared to a tokamak, the stellarator bring engineering efficiency while matching performance. Though ideas for the tokamak and the stellarator may have emerged together, the main reason tokamaks were built first is because they COULD be built. Without computer-assisted magnet design, stellarators simply couldn't be properly built; the magnetic geometries are just too complex.

In the long run, it's not known stellarators will be the eventual winner in the long race for a viable fusion reactor. The attributes in a winner will be net-positive operational efficiency and superior energy harvesting abilities. Perhaps multiple approaches will be viable.
This is true of the original vi but not of modern vim, where both the landing page and the message shown on ctrl+c clearly state how to exit. ctrl+c will also exit insert mode, so you don't need to know about modes or the escape key.

Of course it is possible that one might not think of using ctrl+c, but that's lacking general shell knowledge, not vim knowledge.
It can be any voice the user chooses, but by default it's the same voice as the original language - all voices speak all languages.
You can update underlying data via a materialized view.
Because the argument involves unlimited future growth in energy use. Compared to the current energy use, fusion (assuming it could be made to work practically) would indeed solve global warming.
Yes it does. Consequences are the only thing you can be free from.
they should of recused themselves too and refused to oversee the cases ... I think Jeff Sessions did actually.
They regret boiling the frog too fast
It's not anticompetitive if it's literally not competing.
> The sunk cost of unused office space has been a major factor in companies’ decisions to change their RTO approach, says Kacher.

> In New York City, office space costs, on average, about $16,000 a year per employee, the New York Times reports.

Oof.
Cult of personality and appetite for risk, legal or not
Then you'll want to look at https://mhdm.dev/posts/sb_lower_bound/#prefetching

100mb is large enough that the branchy version turns out to have a slight advantage, more due to quirks of x86 (speculative execution) rather than being better.
That's the point of the BUSL. It defaults to non-production, use, but the licensor adds an Additional Use Grant that allows production use, which typically covers everything except competing with the licensor's cloud offering.
I've thought about alternative dashboards as an option, that show rpm, piston firing stats, or other small details that, when looked at in aggregate, can diagnose a lot of consumer-serviceable issues.