skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drones also allow for the perp to reliably get away and do it again. Suicide attacks have a natural upper limit in frequency.

And indeed the V1 and V2 were weapons of fear, not weapons of mass destruction. Except for that lucky hit if you compute the average #kills / weapon they were complete failures. This in part was due to the poor targeting capability of the time, as well as the limited payload.
Nanite and Quixel combo is a different beast. There won‘t be an „open souce“ alternative until some AI comes up with a different solution.
> Not Confident In Your English Writing Abilities?
>
> With ResumeRoo, you can input your details in your native language and we'll write an English resume for you.

who proofreads these if the customers themselves can’t?

the real market for language models - sell someone something that neither of you can make, but that the model at least appears to.
How big is the state space of the Markov chain corresponding to a LLM generating a sequence of tokens? Wouldn't it be (size of the vocabulary)^(size of the context window), i.e. ~ (100k)^(4k)? How useful is it to conceptualize LLMs as Markov chains at that point? For example, is there a result about Markov chains with interesting implications for LLMs?
It would be good if it was "dual mode", capable of capturing digitally and print out too.
There's certainly a cultural divide between industries, but I don't see frugality showing up in the discrepancies. I don't live in the Bay Area, and most people in my sphere of acquaintances who live on the middle-class+ plane aren't getting paid to write software (or trying to) let alone chasing VC money, and none of the people that I interact with most frequently are. (Anecdotally, the software people actually seem more willing to voice positions that align with frugality. Developers are notorious for not wanting to pay for tools, for example.)
That's not at all how Occam's Razor works or is applied.
> There's nothing we can do, short of war, to force other countries to stop releasing CO2

Well forcing ultimately ends in forcing violently, so this seems to be a bit tautological.

We (and other wealthy nations) can directly subsidize the replacement of carbon emitting processes to the extent possible with the agreement not to build more. This won't happen of course, but the idea that the only way forward is to force people is ridiculous.
AI technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa – with a lot of water
I have 1 full sibling and three half siblings, and sometimes like to confuse people by saying I have 2½ siblings.
I think incentives work better.

In this case, GSA used to scrape and combine and then stopped. Also GSA used to ask agencies to update their inventory and then stopped.

I think if GSA just asked, it would increase the recency and completeness of the code.jsons.

Also, what’s kind of funny is that since open source projects, by their nature, are publicly visible, GSA could probably just scrape and combine together and not rely on lots of different agencies to have their own processes.
Can I pick and choose?

I see a lot of people are going with `climb the ladder' + `have kids'. Others go for `side hustle' + `fitness`
It does not matter whether the driver generates AC or chopped DC, when passing through the gap between stator and rotor, any DC component is removed.

To provide the DC component needed by the excitation current, a rectifier is required, or at least a nonlinear impedance, but the latter would have a lower efficiency, due to higher AC components that would cause losses without providing useful torque.

A brushless synchronous motor which relies on an electric excitation current in the rotor (i.e. not on permanent magnets, hysteresis or variable reluctance) cannot generate the required excitation current when only linear circuit elements are present in the rotor.
Do you have data for your asp.net Linux claim? Feels anachronistic.
You need to combine it with Perl and a collection of other special passes, of course: https://web.archive.org/web/20180309134414/http://thewml.org...
I agree, and I like the suggestion of the Perixx keyboard. (seems like a knock-off brand though, any ideas on quality?)

MS ergo keyboard's (current mainstay) keys fail every so often, so I have to buy a new one every so often. So yes, something with mechanical keys would be great.
That’s because for a period of time they were poorly manufactured and quite literally exploded. Since there were no real brands as they were imported before they became mainstream they just blanket banned them all.

There have been other devices banned for similar reasons, like the Samsung Galaxy Note7: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/dot-bans-all-sa...
Thanks! I thought those who hadn't heard about Bowerbirds yet might find their habits interesting :) There are a few good documentaries as well.
I think it is the author doing the magical thinking.

Obviously if Huawei was constrained on capacity they would not do a mass market phone but instead concentrate on AI chips and chips for supercomputers.
40k sounds insane. I will spend around 2k for suit+shoes and around 5k for a restaurant dinner for 30 people. My fiancé spend around 2k for dress and accessories. And we didn't go cheap on anything
Ask HN: As a founder do you take one or two days off a week?
What pending legislation?
1m rise is tiny cost wise compared tk the global economy, just look at the Netherlands, who have calculated[1] they'd need to spend under 0.1% of their GDP to get new barriers and flood control in place to counteract 1m sea level rise.

The effects on agriculture are far more severe than sea level rise.

[1] http://www.deltacommissie.com/en/advies
Rabin assassination has a pretty weird conspiracy theory though
An angry neighbor rings on our “apartment turned office” door - we were an early stage startup.

The guy is red faced, shouting profusely how someone had parked at his designated spot AGAIN. This goes on a while, until I understand what’s going on - I parked at his place, as I thought we were entitled to it from the apartment, apparently in error.

Well the guy was expecting to meet resistance I guess, he was all geared up for a confrontation.

I immediately apologized said that I didn’t know (which was true) and will not happen again.

The guy relaxed like magic, just calmed down immediately. And then started apologizing to me, and telling how “its alright from time to time” etc.

It was really bizarre transformation to witness. I attributed it to balkan culture generally being confrontational, so that when I just apologized, the situation the guy ended up at was not one he expected and he had to actually rethink his position. Or something like that.

And this is a pattern I’ve used in other almost violent confrontations to dissolve them. If you’re able to convince the other party that they are actually understood, then communication can happen.
Thanks for asking! Yes, I am ok, I am just moving on a higher plane of reasoning than pretty much anyone else currently. Trying to give you access to that plane as well, hopefully soon.

If you express your programs in logic, first, your programs are not just programs anymore, they are mathematics. Mathematics is not bound to a particular CPU or chip. Sure, you can make it run on one (or not, that would depend on your program).

Now, this has a lot to do with Rust. Rust is a particularly restrictive form of expressing yourself. It basically prescribes a very particular form of mathematics, and in return, promises you certain theorems for free. Much like other type based programming languages, and even logics (although type-based logics are of course much more expressive than type-based programming languages).

Instead, it would be better to express your ideas freely in a logic, just constrained by consistency, and not much else. This is very much the idea of programming as theory building. Where can you build a theory better, than in a logic?

Then of course implementation details are important, such as speed, parallelism, memory use, etc. Rust's idea is to put these details front and center, especially memory use. That can work well, depending on your use case, but usually, it's just premature optimisation. Of course, if your thinking is restricted to Rust, you would not agree with that.
Agreed, and it has been enabled by the expectation that women are perfectly capable of earning a living.

There’s work to be done on the procreation part, though.
https://archive.ph/LnakG

On HN, linking to archive.org has traditionally been considered a user activity and some people have a bookmarklet for that purpose using this URL:

javascript:void(open('http://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(documen...))

If a submission doesn't matter enough for at least one user to do that, it probably doesn't matter enough to be on HN.

YMMV.

But this is Hacker news.
Is air conditioning making cities hotter?
Wire it up to a fitness tracker and only have enough pizza delivered to keep you at a calorie deficit so that you lose weight.
The flight/space sim community would love this.
I think you can assume OP meant 'no good options', rather than 'literally no options'.

1. 'Warming' is better then 'incinerating'. Stopping now is better than stopping later.

2. What else would it do? I can't help but feel "pump even more shit into the atmosphere" isn't a wise solution for all the shit in our atmosphere.
Second Variety (1953) by Phillip K Dick is about the consequences of using autonomous weapons in a global conflict.
Well, you learn something new everyday. Seems like the effective medication is hard to get for political rather than health reasons.
Yes of course. But that is not the picture painted by many online. How often haven't you read "Arch has been rock solid"?

This is not what the arch homepage says, which explicitly says that it is not the job of the distro to ensure compatibility between updates.
2a is the exception I was thinking of.
The shots were at 175, 240, and 270 feet[1]. It had a 4x scope[2].

[1] https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh17/h...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20110724214814/http://www.aarcli...
From an engineering perspective life is an incredibly sensitive rube goldberg machine.

We have yet to find another world that has the right combination of googly eyes and string and tape to sustain relatively stable complex life.
We struggle to understand the far reaching effects that even simple changes have on our planets systems and ecosystems.
We have evidence of the system throwing itself so far out of whack that huge portions of life have died off.
Maybe his grandkids need money for college.
What 19th century railroad wars can teach us about building a future-ready cloud
Starting from C and calling that 'from the bottom up' is just misleading.
Because he couldn't be questioned.
And sadly the list of topics for which this is an excellent description of human behaviour seems to grow steadily.
It sounds as silly as precisely identifying and numbering who killed Caesar.
Those murders changed the history. Just like those non-murders would have done.
History took its turns back then. Knowing the precise identity and number of killers won't give any extra useful detail. IMHO.
Agreed. For me personally macOS (or OS X back then) usability peaked at around ~Snow Leopard and it's been _mostly_ though not entirely downhill from there on.

Hard to pick a 'worst offender', the System Settings panel in Ventura may be a good example, it is a literal struggle every single time I need to change something, typically as a result of some setting mysteriously changing itself back to what I do not want.
Try looking for "construction site time lapse camera", I have seen some where the time lapse can be regulated between something like 0.5s and 24h time, and they are by design outdoor/rugged and with long lasting batteries.

It has to be seen which size of SD card will be needed for 24 h recording at 0.5s, and of course how long the battery will last.

And probably they won't be as cheap as dashcams or trail cameras.
Manufacturer installed "drivers" are much more than just drivers. They are designed to lock in users and collect data while constantly upselling.
If one person talks it could help others to talk.
On my Mac I use a combination of floating windows (I use Spectacle to snap them around), Cmd+Tab to scroll through open applications, and Spotlight search to open new applications. Hands never leave the keyboard to find/open the window I want and it feels very comfortable to me.

The main drawback is that I absolutely never see my desktop background, but that’s about it.
you're completely right. but most italians will never admit it, shunning all of the alternatives.

the strange thing is, we are used to different grapes varieties that are used to produce different wines, and everyone knows which tomato goes in a sandwich, which ones are better in a caprese, which for tomato sauce. but we are all fine with not knowing which kind of coffee we drink, and not knowing how it was treated...

that's why in Italy it's really rare to find someone that drinks coffee as it is, usually we add either sugar (or honey) or milk in order to mask the fact that coffee here tastes too burnt and bitter.

only in the past few years specialty coffee is starting to appear in the bigger cities, and I'm finally getting used to drink coffee after a whole life of tea with milk and the occasional macchiato caldo (espresso with a dash of hot milk), unless when abroad
I completely agree with you that it was Oswald but the weird parts of this story are:

1. Oswald defection from the army and time in the Soviet Union

2. Oswald going to the Cuban and Soviet embassies before the murder (possibly starting a third world war)

3. The subsequent assassination of Oswald

This can be mostly explained by a mental disorder but it is still a messed up story
The summary is (as far as i understand) :

* They have shown that magnetic surfaces can prefererentially crystalise one handed form of an RNA precursor

* The mechanism involves electron spin interacting with the chirality of the molecule

What was not clear to me was whether they have shown that one of the handed forms would be more frequent than the other.
At the dawn of the age of PHP, I created a user management system (registration, verification, admin interface, …) that was based on well-established ideas (how login worked at Yahoo, Amazon, and every other process major site) but got no traction at all as a open source project. In any language that wasn’t PHP it would be necessary to write an “authentication module” which as about 50lines of cookie handling code. Multiple times I managed to out several existing apps together and make an advanced web site.

About 10 years ago the idea suddenly got traction once it was legitimized by the SAAS fad, I would tell people “don’t you know they’re going to end the free tier or go out of business or both?” and sure enough they did.

Anyhow, I bring it up because the system used M4 to interpolate variables into PHP, other languages, shell scripts, SQL scripts, etc.
That's what I meant by "if you're using some API you have no control over, anything could happen." OpenAI could offer access to a fully deterministic version at a higher price point, but they choose not to and there's nothing you can do about that.

FYI, your source is medium-walled blog spam of https://152334h.github.io/blog/non-determinism-in-gpt-4/
Flexport has 3k employees. They're rescinding 55 offers. That's a lot of bad PR for a very small % on payroll
I'm not sure why you are downvoted, this is correct on the thermodynamics. It will always take more energy to remove a ton of CO2 than the amount energy you get from a coal or gas power plant producing a ton of CO2.

So to run a DAC plant from a grid that has a decent proportion of electricity generation from fossil fuels, you are making it worse overall (producing more carbon to power the plant than it is removing), and conversely, if you are running a DAC plant from 100% clean energy, you'd get better bang for your buck if you used that clean energy to displace fossil fuel use (because every kilowatt hour of fossil fuel energy you can replace with clean energy prevents a larger amount of carbon being emitted than the DAC plant could remove with the same amount of energy).

From a thermodynamic point of view would only make sense to run a DAC plant somewhere that already had a 100% clean grid, and only when it happened to be producing a surplus of clean energy.
> Warren Buffet still lives in the same smallish house he bought in the 60s.

50s, not 60s. And it's a bad counterexample. Warren Buffett is 93 years old. (Or to put it another way, Warren Buffett is old enough to have bought a house in the 50s. I'm discussing the differences between then and now: people who _might_ be 50, but definitely weren't alive in the 50s, let alone buying a house.)
>My going theory is that the Lambda had terminated processing as soon as the final form.submit()

Kinda odd behaviour
What a fascinating idea! Never considered the idea that what hemisphere-of-the-earth life started-in could have influenced our molecular chirality!

Does anyone else reckon that homo-chiral life could have some advantages? Ie life in-which either-molecular-chirality still works with all the biomechanics somehow.. If that is even possible?! I'm not saying it definitely is! Just a sci-fi-ish idea that I thought was interesting.

Maybe this would be such a complex (and outside-the-attractor) problem that it would've taken a fair-few more billions of years for evolution to have a chance of finding? This might make it mostly off-the table for us (or even similar beings elsewhere-in-the-universe?) Our sun (and most stars) will most-likely have some crazy stuff going on by then?! I'm hoping we can explore something like this synthetically somehow if/when humans become space-faring, and that it can harden-without-fundamentally-changing the underlying organism (and is also something that can be inherited by their children too, assuming that it works well!).
> Probably if you're about to comment on this post, you've got some motivated reasoning behind it that has nothing to do with finding out what really happened.

I'm not sure that's true in this case. I remember 9/11, but I wasn't even born yet when the Kennedy assassination happened. I doubt that many people under age 70 remember that personally. It doesn't really have emotional salience for most people now. For me, it's merely a curiosity, and I can't say that the truth of the matter is important to me either way.

Even if there was a conspiracy to kill JFK, I don't see how it's relevant to current politics, and the possible players involved are no longer relevant either. Joe Biden himself, old as he is, was only 21 at the time and still in college.
Companies are staffed by hundreds of people whose entire job, day and and day out, is to influence how you think about their products. You are not immune to advertising, and thinking that you are is naive. If your goal is reduce how influenced you are by people who sell things, understanding how they influence you and why is a better strategy.
I agree. I don't think this way either. And I wouldn't be bothered with someone telling me X or Y has the main marketshare on the web.
I just don't like when figures are thrown at me and the methodology is questionable. Would be the case for any topic.
It was so good that Google incorporated this idea in Material Design
Make is excellent for tasks where you have a file that needs to exist and steps that reliably cause it to exist.

Excellent too for building a tree of things that depend on prior stages; in your example needing java to run a java applet which generates a file.

the syntax takes some getting used to, but in those cases there is little better.

But I do find people using it as a glorified task runner and it works but it’s quite possibly the least ergonomic tool available. - especially for things like making docker images, which I see extremely often
Ppl pressuring on natural diamonds are, uh...
Very much seconded.

I have an Ergodox and a Moonlander (and a bunch of other keyboards), but I've already decided I'm not getting anything new until it's available in a wireless option.
I do this too! But my make-fu isn’t as good. I’ll use what I learned from here to make it better.
Extra grease? The breakfast pizza is the best err, usually after a night of drinking busch lights.
I stand corrected: IEC. It's still very petty. And the species isn't doomed. It just has to be patient until the old guard fades away.
I disagree. As someone who doesn't own jewelry, I must admit nothing blings like diamond.

Go to the London tower and look at the crown jewels. It's jaw dropping.

It's of course a way of displaying your wealth, but it also reflects and scatters light in an incredible way.
You could probably say the same about a certain brand of personal computer too.
It costs an absolute fortune, then misses some of the basic features "computers do". Upgrade the RAM? No. "people don't want that". Play video games? Nah (or maybe). Have an all around dumbed down garbage UX that literally does things opposite "just because"? Yep.
Dowry is paid by the wife’s family. It’s the precise opposite of (as another commenter wrote) buying a wife.
> what makes anybody think it would be different with robots and AI?

Someone else programmed the AI, and if it causes an accident, then the company that programmed it might be held liable instead of (or in addition to) the driver. It's similar to installing defective brakes, or a component whose failure causes sudden unintended acceleration (SUI) -- sure SUI is often operator error, but not always.
> it was taken quickly and without a fight in 2014.

That is the same thing they tried to do to Kiev more recently. Take it quickly and without a fight.

If that had succeeded, would we say Ukrainians have no right to "escalate the conflict" by trying to throw Russians out of Kiev? Would Musk help Russians in that case too?
Could it really? The biggest CO2 producer in the world is China (who emits more CO2 than the USA, EU and India combined), a big chunk of that on building buildings, are they massively overconsuming?

I don't see how modern productive agriculture (without which the supportable world population without completely destroying the remaining natural areas of the world goes down to 2-3 billion) would work in a carbon neutral world without using giant solar or wind farms to essentially produce artificial fossil fuels from atmospheric CO2... which sounds like carbon capture tbh.
Raccoons are incredible. Both the smarts and the agility are off the scale and they are so good in planning ahead that they tend to succeed just because they are able to pull off feats that you only realize in retrospect were within their abilities. They have the cuteness factor but underneath that is a ferocious and cunning little predator that makes a cat look like a bumbling fool. Fortunately we do not have raccoons here so the opposition is manageable.
> Instead of relying solely on government intervention, promoting media literacy, fact-checking, and responsible journalism can be more effective in combating misinformation while preserving essential democratic values.

Sure I agree in principal, but what is to be done when mentioned advocacy largely falls on deaf ears and ultimately fails? It doesn’t seem like there’s any last line of defense in this situation, making a “game over” frighteningly easy.
The fading is a feature, not a bug, if you are the type of person that relates to what I described above, but in all seriousness, I don't remember.
Don't bet against nostalgia though. There are loads of 30-somethings that grew up with this, have a family of their own now, and can afford this.
We won't know until we try.

Cheap reusable rockets seemed hard until SpaceX came along and made them routine.