skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The fact we could inhabit the moon and eventually mars at all means we could adapt to a inhospitable earth pretty easily.

Hmm, not so fast. I don't think we've proved that at all.

We can "inhabit" those in the same way that I can "inhabit" the bottom of a pool.

In fact, as a numbers game: we've been on the moon during all the Apollo missions for ~3.5 days. Modern humanoids are about 200,000 years old. Or in other words, we've inhabited the moon for 5e-8 % of humanities' existence.

The record for holding one's breath is ~25 minutes by a guy called Budimir Šobat. Say their lifespan is 85 years. That's about 5e-7 % of their life. Or in other words, they've "inhabited" the bottom of the pool for 10x longer than humanity as a species has "inhabited" the moon.

I wouldn't feel comfortable saying his record proves we can inhabit the bottom of a pool, and I think the same has to be applied to the moon.

We have to consider self-sufficiency as a condition of whether or not we're really considered as native inhabitants of a place, or just a temporary extension of the mother planet.

In that regard, we honestly can't even really prove equilibrium with our home planet's resources, let alone an inhospitable one like mars or the moon.

I'm sure we could sustain a colony of 50 people on mars for the rest of their natural lives. Pack them enough air and snacks, and I'm sure it's doable today. However, I'm much more skeptical that we could do that without constant resupply for an indefinite period. Yeah, we might be able to conceivably generate electricity, purify water, oxygen, grow food, etc on-site, but what happens when those solar panels start to fail at 50 years, or the mechanical interlocks on the airlocks start to become excessively leaky, or the HVAC systems fail? None of that equipment can be regenerated on mars.
It's amazing what we lost moving from desktop to retrograde world of the web. I wonder what's next in the indirection game?
The PRC did exactly that to train troops for Taiwan. There's a replica town, a replica of the presidential building, replica airbases, and even a weird pseudo-Eiffel tower [0].

[0] https://thediplomat.com/2015/08/satellite-imagery-from-china...
Doesn't the Verge see they have reached their end of life, already?
They need that extra pay because private housing costs are really high.
Durable execution is an equivalent alternative.

Replication speed could be bad, I don't see a reason to expect that.

PostgreSQL can have serializable transactions though that is not the default isolation level.
That doesn't sound healthy. I didn't see a single veggie in your list besides the word veggie.
It was a software competition, whoever developed the best AI was the whole point. And we did NOT give them full course data ahead of time - they had to do this based off VIO only (visual inertial odometry).
Oh it was (I wasn't able to find the picture, might retry in weekend). The person I knew who used that avatar was a friendly guy but... some people just really hate the USA being world police. You know, Chomsky followers, for example.

I'd say in 2023 it has been pointed out by world events the USA is the best world police. Because the alternatives are far more nefarious.

Anyway, tasteless, sure I can follow that. Is it going to lead to physical aggression? Very possibly. There's other examples, too. People getting swastikas having to hide them at work or later renouncing such politics. Relationships breaking up, painful reminder. Military people getting tortured over having certain tattoos (happening in a current military conflict)

And to the person claiming I'm a bot, you should read the news guidelines about making such statement. If you want you can use some tooling for such to give your comment merit but before you put time into that see my other comments.
If your calculator breaks, it isn't hard to buy a new one, or borrow one, or revert to pen/paper.
Sorry I noticed your post too late, not sure you'll read it.

The reason it happens is that the models are far too small (parameter count-wise) and the prompt understanding part is simple, usually it's either CLIP or in the best case a small and dumb transformer. (But regardless of the current capabilities, text is just not a great tool to express artistic intent)

Generally, what you want can be done by giving the model higher-order hints like sketches and pose skeletons; see controlnets for Stable Diffusion for example. The overall idea here is to use a custom model created specifically to guide the diffusion model, based on the non-textual input. The problem is that MidJourney can't do this, you have to use SD.

Another thing is photobashing/compositing. Avoid fitting the entire composition into one generation, it will make the model lose track of your scene. Using multiple passes helps a lot. It's best to inpaint the objects or img2img them based on non-textual guidance to add objects and details in the specific spot.

Check my other comment for an example of a complex scene workflow. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37140233
HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 Review a Leadership Ampere Altra Max Arm Server
I just had a cyberpunk vision of illegal optical film manufacturing labs that exist so people can take pictures that can't be AI-censored by camera-chip firmware, web browser code, hard drive controllers, or USB chipsets.

Whoever controls the present controls the past...
Oh no, the EU is forcing companies to respect my rights? Truly, these are the darkest of times.

On a more serious note, the GDPR isn't being enforced too strictly, normally websites ought to make it as easy to opt out of tracking cookies as it is to opt in, but good luck finding a site which abides by that standard. Usually what you get is the choice between "I accept all cookies" (oh sorry, "recommended" cookies) or "I will click off every single category of cookie one at a time".

I sincerely can't tell whether or not this is Poe's Law in action, comparing the EU to China because of the GDPR is like comparing Universal Suffrage to Apartheid.
MG is a Chinese native brand in my eyes and a lot of European consumers - it's widely known it's a Chinese product even if consumers don't know of SAIC. This isn't like they bought 51% of some European car company and kept the same management, workers and factories; none of the cars are made in Europe, they are largely made in China and sold around the world with the logo of a failed UK car manufacturer SAIC acquired decades ago etc.

Certainly very few customers think they are buying a British product! It also hasn't prevented the MG4 from picking up a lot of critical acclaim/car of the year awards in Europe too, and virtually every review of the car mentions its Chinese origin, usually in the context of it offering more EV for less money in several regards than a European ID3 etc.
I've heard people mention this, but as someone born in Karachi who moved to US as a toddler, I can confidently say I've only ever seen Muslim caste systems mentioned on places like Reddit and HN discussions about caste. It's never come up in visits to Pakistan or when hanging out with Pakistani friends in CA, TX, NJ, NY, or WA.

That's not to say this interfaith caste constructs don't exist, but I've never heard an in-person mention of them in all my life. I'm genuinely curious how widespread they actually are. Were they something that had more weight back in the 16th century, maybe? Conversely, I have heard Indian friends discuss caste discrimination in places like Microsoft.
China promised climate action. Its emissions topped US, EU, India combined
Ha, I clearly remember when natural language queries were encouraged for searching. I understood that it was the path to Assistant.

Still, I agree that keyword search remains practical.
My point is: if there was a search field I could confirm the airfield’s absence. If CA was more hierarchical or clearly organized I could see whether or not the airfield is present or absent. Also, it’s for little used airfields too, which this one probably qualifies.
I thought about using a keylogger as a data source, but then I'd have to wait another 6 months to have 6 months worth of data :)
The original Netscape Navigator circa 1994ish saved it's bookmarks in bookmarks.html.
aside: i always hear about cool events like this after the fact.

i have tried to find sites that have listings of hacker/engineering/conference type events, but most of them are very spammy, or low signal. is there a good resource for finding these?
It was funny when forever the first thing everyone does on any windows system is open Edge, type "download chrome", and watch the effort Microsoft tries to convince you, even now coerce you into NOT escaping their products.

I had this exact situation last week on a Windows 10 VM I normally never browse from, and literally Microsoft was trying to add that same banner pointed out here over it! It literally disgusted me, and I couldn't close Edge fast enough, disgusted I had to see what Microsoft has once again become.

This is why I use Linux, windows only lives here to run Visio on in VM.
The world champion level results were achieved when using external motion tracking, not onboard camera. So, not as impressive as the title made it look.

Here's the video (from 2022) btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_o6H7Xlv2A&t=1s
Cars are getting uniformly heavier for safety crash testing regulations. Larger crumple zones, reinforced side impact bars, etc.

And they are getting more aerodynamic for the gas mileage requirements regulations….
I get the impression that GPLv2 is (perhaps unintentionally) in the spirit of open source, whereas GPLv3 is in the spirit of Free Software. Thus Linus's famous "I just want the code" rant.
OBC is indeed a completely made up category and has no relation to any kind of historic "atrocities".

OBCs are > 50% of India's population my some measure which tells you they are extremely powerful in an democracy. They engage in this race to bottom where they want more legal discrimination that favors them at the expense of another.

One can easily see that the most powerful politicians everywhere in India are mostly OBC. India's current PM is an OBC, so is the CMs of some of the richest states like Maharahstra, Tamilnadu or the most populous states like Uttar Pradesh. Making a claim that this group is somehow "oppressed" is like claiming Teachers Unions or NRA being politically oppressed. It is other way around.
The entire premise of the video is not what is possible right now, but what could be possible in the not to distant future. I.e. that these drones do become available to anyone. Easy to acquire, maintain, operate and keep hidden.

It's also not about warring states, but instead very targeted assassinations, where the perpetrators doesn't have to be anywhere near the target, allowing very little risk of punishment, retaliation, or even identification.
Love espanso, I use it in Mac, Linux, and Windows!

The creator is also incredibly nice, one of those rare open source devs that seems to go out of his way to validate concerns and make PRs truly feel welcome.

Great project.
How so?

If I want to pay for and book a flight and hotel.....

You have to implement distributed transactions. (Either that or YOLO.)
AFAIK the vast majority of ML training/inference on the GPU runs on CUDA, and has done so for many years, while other vendor-specific GPU backends are slowly gaining support.

It doesn't help that AMD's equivalent open toolchain, ROCm, is barely even supported by their own GPU lineup.
Sourcegraph: Incident involving unauthorized admin access
Then there's Hogan's Alley, the FBI training facility that is, in the current era, an elaborate fake town populated by actors and used to simulate a wide variety of scenarios from terrorism or hostage situations to processing evidence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan%27s_Alley_%28FBI%29
RTO all by itself didn't make me quit. But it does eat up a whole lot of headroom in terms of how much other nonsense I'll put up with before quitting.
My main motivation was very fast slack conversations (Can you post a screenshot?) and a bunch of email responses that are pretty formulaic (sending my calendly link, etc).

For longer writing I'm often frustrated that I can think faster than I can type, so it does help with that too!
Simpsons did it! https://youtu.be/xSVqLHghLpw
Hello and thank you for the neat article. I have not finished it yet (I'm still partway through the ML bit), so ignore me if this is explained somewhere, but as far as I can see you only considered "generate and test for solvability" approaches. But isn't there a direct way to generate puzzles by solving the board "backwards"? Start with a single white piece on the board. Then, pick a random predecessor of that state; either the piece moved there normally or it was a capture. In the first case just move the white piece back, in the second replace it with a matching black piece and place a new white piece in a spot that could have captured it. Do this a few times until you are satisfied with the number of black pieces.

The biggest issue I can see right now is matching up the starting piece with the previous puzzle's ending piece, but I feel that should be manageable with some heuristics and brute force. And one would have to test whether the puzzles generated like this are actually "random-looking" enough.
Oh Google...

if you don't use your analytics account, they just delete the data.

if you don't log in into your account for X period of time they will remove it.

if you god forbid forgot to check your mail account for an alert about this, well, then, so sorry, your data was deleted.

I'm fantasizing when this will reach Youtube users who will notice that their videos disappeared?
zerotier cli url to shell

also npm packages that can be executed with npx
One thing I find interesting is that there is a greater then 50% chance that a viable SaaS business will grow to $1M ARR in less then 3 years (Time to $1M ARR chart) since the median is 3 years. So half the surviving companies are above the median, right?

However only 17% of businesses will reach $1M ARR within 3 years (Milestone Success Rate chart). I'm not sure what to make of those numbers. It feels like there is something missing here. Is one of those numbers accounting for failed businesses?
Real-world ranges for Teslas 50-60% of EPA Range
They have been so careful not to leak anything that there is very little interest on it. I completely forgot about them and, if they never launch, I doubt anyone would notice.
Everything regarding encryption keys, certificates, passwords, etc is really only as effective as how quickly you can replace them. Sure a HSM is really secure and powerful, but if it will take you a year to replace everything it generated after a breach, it's not an effective solution IMO. Build and implement this stuff with change and iteration in mind.
Nuclear weapons testing cause of radioactivity in wild boars, study says
I tried for a bit using abbreviations while coding as well, but I kept running into variable names that I wanted to use
Direct link to the full map: https://kumu.io/sobeyharker/vpn-relationships#vpn-company-re...

Also, does anyone know of a privacy conscious VPN provider that currently supports port forwarding? One of the only provider's I know of right now is ovpn.com and I cannot vouch for their privacy practices.
Also cost is a factor, databases are usually attached to expensive disk and their storage layer is tuned for iops, and blobs will be using gigs of that for just sitting there being sequentially scanned.
This looks very cool! Trying it out now.

Question: Is https://open-procedures.replit.app/ absolutely needed for OI to work?
That’s a severe bit of historical revisionism from Europeans who tried to analogize it to the Protestant reformation. If anything Buddhists were probably more concertedly discriminatory towards lower castes and Hindu Brahmins were more likely to be socially reformist.

Groups like the Veerashaivas were concertedly anti-caste discrimination but the Buddhists were decidedly not. They’d be more like a Kshatriya revolt against Brahmins but that’s just upper-caste infighting, not anti-caste. Similarly with Muslim and Christian converts, the first ones were predominantly, if not almost entirely, Brahmin.
The problem with 100 years time. Imagine someone like you set up something like this in 1923, and that someone is now dead, and their kids had no interest in keeping it going, infact they had financial problems so sold the site for $50 to someone who let it lapse. You see you need to coordinate people from beyond the grave... a bit like the US Constitution. Hell even countries (in their political form) often don't last 100 years. I am not saying it is impossible, but it is hard, so you need to convince people you are serious. Which might mean, for example working for the internet archive, or a large museum with digital presence for a few years in a senior position, etc. then coming and saying "I am starting this and I know all about keeping stuff around for decades"
It's used because it doesn't require a page of backstory
this is my favourite.

it just works. this is the utopian world i am living in.

ignorance is bliss. it really is.
In the Socratic/Platonic/Aristotelian most high God paradigm this is trivially simple. Good is logically equivalent to that which God approves of (see Euthyphro). Thus by the definition of free will it’s a logical consequence that it’s possible for creatures to do things that God doesn’t approve of, which is to say do evil. God permits but does not approve.
Context matters, though. Being punched hard in the face in your martial arts class is very different than being sucker punched in public by a stranger. Cops tasering each other on gym mats are definitely not having the experience a citizen would.
law !== enforcement
It does seem to level off eventually though, not a linear decline at that rate.
ooh love it! I also have a HUGE bash aliases file, but that's all manually constructed, not automatic. some favs:

cm = git commit -m
st = git status
inst = sudo apt get install -y
fucking = sudo
I'll be honest, 120db was an exaggeration because it was VERY loud, I would not have had a way to measure it in combat gear. Additionally, earplugs are part of a military uniform at a lot of bases so you are required to carry them and the onus would be on you. At that point in time, I was not required to have hearing protection however.

You're not a civilian while enlisted, suing for any reason is not an option in most cases. It's more likely you would file to collect disability in the event of hearing damage after you get out.
css-tricks has good stuff:

https://css-tricks.com/

And I like this Principles of Object-Oriented Javascript book by Nicholas Zakas even though it's a little dated (example: its claim that there are no classes in JavaScript)

https://nostarch.com/oojs

And I love everything by Kevin Powell:

https://www.youtube.com/@KevinPowell

edit* I want to add the The Odin Project has a ton of good material:

https://www.theodinproject.com
Which sucks because there is tremendous value in anonymized collections of health records, yet we can’t use these health records for research at all. I realize it was out of scope for the bill, but damned if it didn’t stymie medical research to a ridiculous degree.
El Niño and La Niña multi-year events could become more common
guilty as charged. People trying to type on my computer is even worse though haha
You forgot batons. Has batons really gone out of fashion that much?

In theory it is good to have a middle ground between batons and pistols for handling e.g. knife wielding mental patients or whatever. But I don't think these kind of special weapons like papper spray or tazers should be given to anything but designated units specialized in handling insane people. Ordinary cops are just too stupid to be given ways to "safely" hurt people. They will use it too much.
I hear OSHA also frowns on being fired upon at work
It's definitely less tokens at least in my contrived case. Looking at the compressed text, I can make out what is what, and see that it's just minimizing words to their root parts.

Typescript (22 tokens):

export type IAssist = { id: string; prompt: string; promptResult: string[]; };

Story (26 tokens):

IAssist contains: id which is a string; prompt which is a string; promptResult which is an array of strings.

Compressed (13 tokens):

IAsst{id,prompt,promptR}

And again I'll just call this interesting, because is it really going to know promptResult is a string array in most cases? Definitely not unless it gets some help in the component description, maybe.
>Every tattoo is going to lead to regret at some point. Or situations where your tattoo is inappropriate

What odd, and false, blanket generalizations.
Ok that's more clear, this is fine then we know we disagree (also why i called it a bit of a religion). Have a great day!

PS: if the test was flaky, you already had an untested feature
Polaris Spaceplanes Begins Testing Its MIRA-Light Vehicle
Well sort of, their title is 'Representative' and their job is to represent their constituency.

Calling them "legislators", or "lawmakers" is misleading. Those are just one way they can do their job. Yes, they are uniquely empowered to write laws, but blocking laws their constituents don't want, or even better, repealing laws their constituents don't want are also things that they should be doing. Everything should be secondary at best to representing their constituency's interests.
Sorry, what is the connection between US housing regulation and the cost of daycare?
Very money motivated.
what about vaporizing concentrates with concentrated sunlight, or lasers?
Why? Obviously less degradation is better, but I have done a couple Northern Oregon to Central California trips in an EV. The total charge time for the trip was ~2 hours (on top of ~10 hours of driving), and I have a relatively low end, slower charging vehicle (<100 kW). If I lose 10% of my range, I'll add about about 15 minutes of charging time to the trip. That's doesn't really seem like that big a deal. And slightly higher end cars (and likely all cars sold a few years from now), will have even less.
I have a windows computer as well (mainly for EE tools and gaming) and have been thinking about extending this to also generate configs for AutoHotkey
In the medical field, the academics who "snoop" your data are doing so to conduct analyses and build models to improve your care.
Is it not typical for the military to have hearing protection? My highschool gun club had earmuffs with active noise suppression that would dampen sound above a certain DB level.
New giant planet shows evidence of possible planetary collisions
So I'm saying that a course of action that led a country towards becoming fractured, empoverished and in a hot war with its larger neighbour was wrong course.

To the contrary, you are saying this course of action was right and should be taken as a guidance, because it averted even larger catastrophe (which I have trouble contemplating) and because it will all pay off at the end (are they gambling?)

That's not even grey area, that's bungee jumping.

Another piece of discussion where a person suggested self-immolation to other parties.

Reminds me of 3 reasons why one would consider sitting on a hedgehog.
well with regards to exercise: I absolutely love gardening. It's not something I do "for excerise".

as for eating healthy. It's all about finding some recipes you like: finding that over on the ven diagram between healthy eating and love to eat. of course if you grew up on a completely fast food diet you're body will be way too addicted. I suppose it's like asking a heroin addict to not do heroin everyday: that may feel like torture too.
It's not significantly different imo than some of the ideological stuff workplaces are pushing these days (diversity equity, blabla). Any work that has to be something more than work is a problem imo.
Who actually pays that bill? Since MS owns half of openai, and openai is using MS compute...