skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that might just be how he speaks, he seems to do a fair amount of non-mandatory PR engagements if he really didn't like doing them. I read his mood as more "excited energy" from an unpolished public speaker rather than distinctly unhappy to be performing, he came up from the scientist track rather than the pilot/military track for astronauts which can also explain it somewhat maybe.
> We had people bragging about spending a year or more trying to get an AI model to do simple tasks that were easily solved deterministically with simple math, for example.

Fad-chasing often leads to silly technical decisions. Same thing happened with blockchains when they were at the peak of the famous hype cycle. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
Any athlete has known this for ages.
Biden takes credit for easing inflation, strong job market
Yes it does happen, search for r&d tax rebates, all Tech and Pharma companies apply for it, even though the work is not necessarily research one. I have worked in 3 MNCs and they all asked us to present our work as research instead of production
Anyone got a screenshot of this feature?
The Low-Quality Image Placeholder Technique
> Configuration needs to have cascading levels to make life easiest in dev, test and production without enormous setup time.

The backdrop of when the 12factor app was written is that you can toggle modes like that with RAILS_ENV=test (an environment variable).

One way I think of the config section is “does your config strategy play well with containers?” Once you build an image you have a static disk state that doesn’t persist changes unless you make a new image. If your config is file based (only), then to toggle between test and production behavior you would have to build a whole new image.

By allowing config to change without the underlying disk, it helps to isolate changes. Did the app break because something in the deploy (image generation) broke? Or is it a bad config? If you decouple image generation from configuration changes it eliminates that question.
Yes, getting rid of the various savings time is important too.

All the people pointing out the (genuine) problems with decimal time seem to be weirdly tolerant of the problems with our current system, which has much worse problems.

If you imagine the reverse situation, where society uses a decimal time, and some people are arguing we should switch to this system because despite all the things it makes worse and harder, it divides better and the numbers map somewhat (although imperfectly) to the actual time-of-day in various locales and (even less perfectly) to the kinds of things people might be doing at that time, everyone would think they were crazy.
How so? Solar panel efficiency is only getting better and cheaper faster, while battery storage and technology is also improving. If anything, this utility is planning for the future so that they aren't left in the dust by "grid defectors" who get fed up with their utility companies.
Show HN: Kali – Scheduling Assistant for iOS
Hey HN! Launching Kali today and I'm super excited to iterate on this.

I hate scheduling and my gf got sick of managing my calendar for me, so I made an AI do it instead. :)

Please let me know what you think!
> this would be considered a huge intrusion into people's privacy.

It _would be_ a huge intrusion into people's privacy.
Larry Page wants to 'set aside a part of the world' for experimentation (2013)
It’s almost like there are improvements in PL design.

Also, at better places the language itself is a tool - someone will be a senior in any other language as well.
> You shouldn't set a goal to exercise daily if doing so makes you feel bad.

Daily is probably excessive, but regular exercise will very likely be a bit unpleasant for most people, and that's not really a reason to avoid it.

My comment was not about avoiding unpleasure. My comment was about learning to listen to yourself, instead of tricking and forcing yourself as the default mode of behavior. Unpleasure is a very interesting and helpful thing when you're learning to understand yourself, by the way. But only if you pay attention, rather than "Use every motivation strategy you know, every trick in the book".

What scares me is that such a method might end up just overriding any kind of long-term-goal adjustment from the inside. If you force yourself to write daily (and god forbid, publish what you wrote!), do you know how to make this forced writing actually attentive to yourself? Or do you just do it because you promised yourself, and ignore any inner protest? Could it end up a daily article about, say... forcing oneself to write?
Or somebody should sell pants made out of the same material to these patrons.
The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part I
Try eliminating all background noise, especially white noise sources like fans. Give it a few days.

I have some degree of tinnitus (I'm sure it's damage from that Metallica concert..), but I mostly don't notice it unless triggered. White noise triggers it. One office I worked in had white noise generators which made it worse and worse. New office does not have them, now no problem.
As opposed to blowing the glass from scratch and then transporting it? Definitely.
Just add a mandatory binding arbitration clause and it’s up to date.
> 1. One app - one repo.

There is a U-shaped utility to monorepos. Most projects fall in the middle somewhere, largely ones managed by independent engineering teams that have no centralized platform/devops/whatever-we-are-calling-it-these-days team.
Yeah, most people in the world can't afford most of entry level things in life. Since for you it is just no longer, I surmise, so far it is pretty good life for you.
> will be an exact point at which a certain molecule has interacted with another molecule marking the exact point of perfect sleep

Just because the best current theory suggests a smallest observable time span does not mean as a consequence that time is discrete.
It’s really not though, you just can’t have a 4000sq foot house here, you get a 1000sq ft apartment or you commute in. 200k income won’t buy you a nice house in Austin or Miami without a commute either.
Lasers have been in prod for months.
macweb.com is also a solution :-)
Yes it is. Microsoft routes a lot of its business through the Dublin and Belfast offices. At least now they have an actual office and a DC there. Previously, it was literally just a routing office. Apple and Google do the same as well.
Why can't this be US "residents" (with disabilities) and not just citizens? Residents also pay taxes no?
Submitting the same every day, multiple times per day will only get the domain blocked.

It looks like a sign-up page and Kickstarter campaign hasn't even started, not something that can be tried out. That would be off-topic for 'Show HN' https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

"As seen on" is less impressive, I checked and it seems to be all the same paid press release.
Which is why my system doesn't address year length. In practice I'd stick with the same leap day concept we currently use, so some years would have 36th quadday as their last day and some would have 36th pentday as their last day.
I think this overcomplicates the flaw, a very simple way of looking at it is that muscle has approx 5x the density of fat.

So if you take someone (or two people) slim, small frame, and compare them piling on muscle vs. fat, the former is obviously healthier, and yet will see them be 'overweight' per BMI far sooner.

I don't have any clinical experience, IANAD, so take with mountains of salt etc., but I'd have thought a simple change that would go a long way would be to have say three BMI ranges instead of one (well, for a given country anyway!) categorised by eye-balling or self-reporting.
Duodecimal time units

Base unit: hour

Submultiples: dh (5 minutes), ch (25 seconds), mh (~2 seconds), ssecond (shorthand for half a mh)

Multiples: dah (12 hours), day (shorthand for 2 dah)

08:20:14 can be written as 08.411 or 08.41:2

Pros:

* Easy pseudo-metric conversions

* Easily divided by 2/3/4/6/12

* Clock is read as is, quarter past 8 is 8.3h , half past 8 is 8.6h

Cons:

* Sseconds are slightly longer than seconds (1 ss = 1.041666... s)

* No clean way to refer to minute-like units (2 ch or 3 ch?)

* Requires two more symbols (X and E)
I never understand why people are so obsessed crying about Starlink and Kessler Syndrome when any rational thought about it instantly suggest that this is practically impossible to happen.

Do you also worry Supervolcano anytime anybody digs a hole?
This is very cool! You're right that not exactly what I'm looking for, but great to see nonetheless. I did see on the product Q&A page[0] that one of the questions was about plugging in a keyboard. The answer was:

"You can connect a wired keyboard to the Palma via a USB-C to USB-A OTG Adapter. After that, you can type in the Notes app and third-party word processor apps. "

Which sounds promising!

[0] https://shop.boox.com/products/palma
It's an American company that owes American taxes. What does this have to do with Europe fining American tech companies because it can't compete?
It was more of a gimmick with pretty subpar results anyways.
Near-earth space is not that big, especially when it contains 50,000 objects whizzing around at 25,000 km/hour. Starlink had to make 25,000 collision avoidance maneuvers in just 6 months [0] -- and that's just Starlink. If you're a satellite operator, collision avoidance is a full-time job. And the likelihood of collisions increases exponentially with the number of satellites.

[0] https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-conjunction-increas...
> The weirdest trend was all of the people who had done large AI projects on things that didn’t need AI at all.

This is how people get experience with ML though. I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

It sounds like you’re looking for a candidate with current ML experience. But I’ve seen so many people go from zero knowledge to capable devs that this seems like a mistake. You’ll end up overpaying.

Just try to find someone with a burning ambition to learn. That seems like the key to get someone capable in the long run. If they point out something beyond Kaggle that makes you think, pay attention to that feeling — it means they’re in it for more than the money.
"Metric time" should mean the time it takes for light to go 10e8m, which is ~3 seconds. If that's 1 chrono, then 1 kilochrono is 55 minutes and there are around 25 kilochronos / day. 1 megachrono is 386 days. It would be a very good measurement unit for a solar system based space faring society.
Surely those are the qualities Atlassian will want to change as quickly as possible, though.
It's not referring to the XML formats.. it was a feature of Word specifically which allowed you to embed a user-defined xml schema in your Word document, and use XML data that fits the schema in your document.

See https://www.zdnet.com/article/custom-xml-the-key-to-patent-s...

(edit: grammar)
> Companies with massive valuations that have no product to sell or aren't making any profit

That's not enough to demonstrate that AI is just hype. Every technological breakthrough has opportunists trying to make a buck riding along the hype. In the 90s, Pets.com and webvan didn't prove that the internet was just hype.

I am one of the people who is completely bought in to the idea that AI in general (and LLMs in particular) are going to lead to products that are extremely useful to the world. I absolutely think that most of the gen AI startups will fail and that valuations are too high, but I still believe that massively impactful/useful products will also be born.
So long as you are systemically protecting against someone spinning up a QA instance against some Prod resource then it’s probably alright to ship most config with the app. You don’t want to allow a (entirely predictable) human error to cause 100k auth denied retries against a prod job submission queue from QA for example. Much config isn’t about infra though, it’s often what kind of ResolverStrategy (made up but plausible sounding name) bean do I want to wire in each env for example.
This is always the response, and it is true, but it is a vanishingly small point compared to the accusation. The conversation often goes:

We should tax billionaires to pay for everything

But they don't have billions - they have equity!

Well they can take out loans!

So... what're we going to tax?
- any sub process has full unlimited access to env variables

- env variables are prone to be dumped in various contexts and might leak secrets to e.g. logs

- env variables might leak, e.g. in context of docker build stages etc. (but then using building a docker image to build both the image and the software is often anyway not a good idea)

- env variables are often easily accessible by other processes

the method you mentioned of ad-hoc injecting a secret as env by some form of security manager for containers avoid many such problems
We will veto. The end.
A New Way to Erase Quantum Computer Errors
"depends on how you define "step". Engineer a 10x/100x version of what we have in terms of LLM (either by being more efficient and/or more/specialized hardware) and let this thing build novel attempts for AGI algorithms 24/7 in a evolutionary setting."

The current LLM's get stuck in loops when a problem is too hard for it. They just keep doing the wrong thing over and over. It's not obvious this sort of ai can "build novel attempts" at hard problems.
If they started selling a lot of them their value would dip massively anyway.
Because politics are rigged.

People on HN come here for tech news, not to discuss politics.

It's pointless: everyone in politics is either corrupt, or about to become corrupt.
They give you an illusion of choice creating fake controversies and putting people against each others.

Then you vote and nothing changes.

Obama didn't achieve anything but warmongering.
Trump didn't reduce spending.

They were both puppets put there to give different people a bit of hope that the systems is not rigged.

But it is. Nobody will save you. You're doomed to be forever slaves and give more than half of what you produce to the government.

Sure, country hopping to avoid taxes will work for a bit, but soon a new Global Tax will pray on all of you and soon after they'll come up with a Global Government BS in the name of peace, climate change or something else equally vapious.

So yeah, I don't need HN to think about this crap, I want to see the latest cool tech thingies.
I love to see electric car options of all types, but would be more interested to see BYD cars in the US. https://www.byd.com/us/car/han
> Q: Will ChatGPT reduce the amount of toil associated with software engineering?

> A: Yes. Significantly.

I think the article misses the point. It starts by suggesting that many programmers suffer from burnout, but it builds from the hypothesis that the activity of programming itself is the cause.

I may be wrong, but in my experience, developers suffer burnout because of managerial decisions and bureaucratic stuff piled upon them. Most are happier when they just, well, are writing code.

So will ChatGPT increase the joy of programming? I don't know. But it for sure will not get rid of the annoyances mentioned.
So while I won't quibble with the assertion that Tesla's network is better (it's most definitely larger), I think that the assertion that other networks (particularly EA since it's the next largest) are so bad is, I'm pretty sure, overblown. The bad experiences are real, but I think we get the same issue with many reviews where the people who have bad experiences are the only ones who say anything. I've done multiple 10+ hours road trips using the EA network and run into an issue exactly one time. Now, yes, one time is certainly less than ideal. But the solution was that I just went to a nearby charging station (non EA) and charged there.

Again, to be clear, being unable to charge once out of 50ish times is pretty bad relative to gas stations and probably Teslas network, and it's something that needs to get better, but I'm not sure I agree with characterizing it as horrible either. It caused me about 15 minutes delay. And of course, the fact that nearly every manufacturer is going to be supporting NACS soon renders these differences moot in the mid-term anyway. Which brings me to my second thing:

I'm curious about your assertion that a Lucid would cap out at 50kW at a Tesla supecharger. My understanding is that some Superchargers go up to 250, and that, other than the connector being a different shape, that Teslas network is already using the same charging specs as the other networks, which is part of why the migration to NACS seems to be happening so fast. My understanding is that once Tesla actually opens their network up, that it will basically work identically to other chargers with just the addition of basically a plug adapter. I believe it's even already using the same communication protocol.

Am I misunderstanding something, or why should the Lucid be capped at such a slow charging rate?
It might be worth you reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In particular:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
SpaceX, not Starlink? Starlink is basically privately owned by Musk afaik, where-as SpaceX has much more diverse ownership, yes?
> The wonderful part about AI is that the whole world’s problems are up for grabs.

Most of the world's problems aren't technological, unfortunately for us in tech. There's little it can do against the momentum of capital tearing this globe apart.
Double Irish isn't possible as of 2018:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
> If you want secure config storage on Kubernetes, you end up using Secrets, which ends up being key-value like env vars anyway.

You can load the secret file directly into the app, no need to load it as env vars or keep it strictly as key-value pairs.

> If you want similar security with Git you need a layer of encryption, which breaks diffs and requires additional tooling. This all leads back to why high-level deployment tools like Heroku were created.

You can use tools like ejson[1] or sops[2] to get encrypted files checked into Git that have key level granularity on diffs.

There is definitely a place for higher level abstractions than Kubernetes. Mostly it gives operators a standard platform to build from when teams outgrow the PaaS sandbox.

[1] https://github.com/Shopify/ejson
[2] https://github.com/getsops/sops
They have their own, it's just to unlock shared products/purchases.
As far as I understand, the timing advance only matters to compensate for differences in distance/latency between different devices (i.e. to avoid uplink transmissions to talk over each other on the same frequency).

The satellites can correct for "global" latency themselves (unless there are higher-level parts of the LTE/E-UTRA radio protocol that can't tolerate such long latencies, e.g. ARQ timers).

For GSM as a half-duplex technology, there's also the matter of devices not being able to transmit and receive at the same time, but I believe the same principle applies: As long as the timing differences between different devices in the same spot beam isn't too large, that's something the satellites could globally correct for.

The same probably applies for doppler corrections.
Article progressively fades out. That's a new one. My frustration was slightly higher than other article-cutoff-moneybegs I've seen. Technology marches on.
I've been contributing to open source projects since the late 90s. I never found the mailing list workflow awful. I also don't find merging/rebasing/resolving conflicts to be much of an issue, and I say this as someone who spent a couple years keeping my company's fork of Chromium rebased on-top of Chromium. Okay, that was a bit of a pain, especially when a new engineer joined Chromium and decided they just had to refactor an entire subsystem.
> who is building a product that is profitable?

Just my experience from being on the job market, but a lot of places I've interviewed at have traditional ML models (network security, ecommerce, image tagging) that are now rebranding as AI, without much of an actual change.
I'm not trying to be "clever" when I say that I thought it was common knowledge among professionals or the large audience of Nature that BMI is only valid at the population level.
Quite. Maybe the Star Trek utopia is everyone gets their own Holodeck, and then no one can ever do anything better than you?
Are You a Time Optimist?
if you have a short commute a used Leaf with 70mi of range is around $6k-7k, i know a few that bought some with really degraded batteries for $4k but still get them on their 20mi round trip daily commute and its cheaper than gas.

i'm on year 7 with a used Leaf and still have 90% battery capacity at 78k miles. It paid for itself in gas savings alone in 2 years was spending $300/mo on Gas for commuting, no one knew what used electric cars were when i got it and there was no Model 3 for sale yet so $11k for the car.

All i want is a ability to replace the battery without a long wait and to up the range. I'd even spend $7k to do so.
1000sq ft is nice for young people without a family. But, it’s a tale as old as time; those are primarily the group that power Silicon Valley.

200k/yr for 1000sq ft is pretty comical though.
It says right there in the article - costs went up for turbines operators, and the government didn't change the amount they'd pay. It's hard to miss.

Worth seeing contracts for onshore wind went fast though.
The best way to determine the validity of a paper is to give it to a team of grad students in a journal club.

They will immediately find large numbers of flaws (in any paper), some of which may invalidate the conclusion.

Papers which survive multiple rounds of attempts to invalidate the conclusion, are less likely to be incorrect.

You can't just naively go in and ask "did they follow the scientific method" or "does the data make sense", etc, unless you understand the field in enough detail to not repeat the copious mistakes of past generations.

For example, this study is retrospective, while the RECOVERY study was designed to be prospective (if I read their study design correctly; I'm not an epidemiologist, my phd is in biophysics). In general, retrospective studies produce less convincing evidence and so if yuou asked me to compare the results of the two studies, I would place more weight on RECOVERY. IIUC it also has a larger sample size. But all these things pale in comparison to complex, detailed analysis of the study plans to identify any major mistakes.
You're missing the whole point of the free market system. Musk didn't start a billionaire, he got there by founding companies that created a lot of value, then he reinvested and did it again. The system is somewhat self regulating in that regard and it makes me pretty happy to see him getting richer and richer when he's doing it by taking things others thought too hard and making them reality (online payments, then electric cars, now, most spectacularly decimating launch costs and increasing launch capacity to space.) Spacex is building the factory now that will make all sorts of things possible in space just by the sheer volume of gear they will be able to pump up there, it's going to be amazing, we may actually end up a multiplanet species because of this guy (or my hope is he figures out planets are probably stupid and goes for whatever the latest, most feasible version of o'neill cylinders ends up being.)
> It's how to take a vector of utilities, and turn it into a single utility.

Not just "how", but whether doing such a thing is even possible at all. And even that doesn't push the problem back far enough: first the utilitarian has to assume that utilities, treated as real numbers, are even measurable or well-defined at all.