skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SNL, All Drug Olympics (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU

Addresses the main problem with this approach.
i just trying to ask what damage are you describing ? this https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/171452559087357560... ? or some other damage ?
What's crazy is that onlyfans content creators get so much slack for sending out video and audio of their phenotype.

23andMe grabs a person by the source code and somehow that isn't considered obscene.
Ask HN: How do you deal with envy/inadequacy?
Even though my job keeps me routinely busy, and I am always "doing" things and have lots of tasks, I look back at months of work and realize it's all just bug fixes, resizing buttons, following tutorials and dealing with the headache of things randomly not working, unexpected crashes, etc. There's nothing I'm making or capable of that makes me feel any more useful than GPT-4 with the right prompting.

I look at the resumes of people like Alexandr Wang, who seems to have a Midas touch of brilliance in everything he worked on. Or Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, etc. These people are all geniuses as evidenced by their very early, unambiguous competence in highly advanced, technical fields. I did well in high school, went to a good engineering school, but when I started getting into hard classes I could feel my brain "hitting a wall". Even stuff like dynamic programming took me way longer than it seemed reasonable to fully understand.

Besides these 1/10000000 billionaires, it seems that even just most people working in FAANG really are on another level. I remember the OpenAI application question: "Please provide an example or evidence of your exceptional ability." I have no idea, even if I had unlimited time to work hard on something I found very interesting, if anything I could do could reach a level worthy of that designation.

3 years into working in software engineering and I feel very confident that I am only minorly more skilled than I was when I started. How do these people get to this sort of hypersonic level before they're even 20? Is it IQ? Spending their free time more wisely? Better organization? Being able to choose what jobs/problems to work on wisely to maximize non-trivial impact?

I feel that, entering my mid 20s, my chance to have demonstrated any sort of capability beyond the median has passed me by. It's not horrible, I have a job, some friends, I understand tech news and can "get" the things going on in AI, but it seems that for entering the realm of doing stuff that actually matters, there is a glass-ceiling of brain power that I imagine I and most software engineers won't be able to break through.

Does anyone have hope that there are ways out of this, or coping mechanisms for those who have accepted their lot in this field?
I'm building that now!
I realistically think that phrase is likely sloppy journalism, or just clickbait. The charitable judgement would be that "treating them the same" means approaching each case as a problem to be solved, with compassion for the offending party, and without hate.

Dont get me wrong, Sapolsky is very much on the side of rehabilitation and restorative justice.

I think he would argue that if we could go in and surgically fix the drunk driver so they never do it again, we should probably do it and then help them have a happy and productive life afterward.

I don't know if he thinks that setting an example isn't useful, or if that he just thinks the pendulum is so far in that direction that it is counter-productive.

My personal view is that modern punishments are way beyond the point have diminishing returns for prevention, but we also have to be careful about making perverse incentives/ rewards. You don't want someone to commit crime just so that they can get extra benefits and help afterwards.

It is a really questionable area that is being explored by some policymakers. For example, San francisco is paying criminals not to shoot people [1]. Does it save lives? probably in the short term? Does it incentivize people to become criminals so that they can get the benefit? Who knows? Does it sounds a lot like paying ransom? It does to me.

https://www.californiacitynews.org/2021/09/don%E2%80%99t-sho....
Da vinci used to stare at a wall for hours to aid his creative process. Our brains are full of information, but we don't spend enough time processing it.
Since usually longer range missiles tend to have higher payload.

Plus assuming most of the fuel is still intact since the rocket misfired it could easily generate a 2-3x bigger explosion.

And from the photos it's seems like the explosion at the hospital was about the size of 1-2 cars as well, so fairly similar imo.

And lastly, the explosion at the hospital seems to be ground level, airburst would be higher above the ground.

Anyway, so far the experts who agreed to talk claim it doesn't look like an Israeli rocket explosion

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67144061
What happens if/when your GNSS constellation operator intentionally degrades quality (ex: GPS & selective availability)? Do you fall back to a local atomic clock assuming one is available?
This is what we were building at my previous start-up, though we had a focus on outdoor sports. We had built a 3D virtual world and used GPS tracks to follow athletes (ultra-marathons, paragliders), etc.

We theorized that 2 go-pro cameras on the athlete would let us completely re-create the entire scene from all angles, and inform an AI of how to re-paint our virtual world with real-world weather environments etc.

Unfortunately, 5 years ago, everyone said I was crazy to think any of this was possible.

There is a video capture of our 3D scenes from 2017 on our old website (we were a full 3d world, not video) https://ayvri.com - the tech was acquired just over a year ago.
What a clusterfuck of branding. The inability to easily differentiate between capabilities makes everything the same as the lowest common denominator - the shittiest USB-C cable from wish.
I don't see a contradiction in that. Books are knowledge. If you want to learn how to do something better - reading a book is one way to do it. Could be a video, or a longer article, but the point is the same.

Another good way to develop a healthier relationship with our content consumption habits is to meditate. It's not contradictory to suggest to read a book on the benefits of meditation.
> Spoken like a true "I've never seen Gradle beyond copy pastes from Stackoverflow".

Which is what the majority of legacy, grown Gradle scripts are in my experience among multiple government and private companies' projects. The older the project, the worse state the build scripts tend to be. The worst I ever encountered was a project that was mainly done with Maven, but that called out to Gradle and Ant for weird manipulations to get the build artifact to the formats required... gives me nightmares to this day.
you can observe that there is a radiation source, but if what it's emitting is nearly isotropic white noise, the most likely explanation is that it's just hot

historical forms of signal modulation like ook and fm don't look very much like white noise, because they're designed to be demodulated by circuits with 1-10 vacuum tubes, but more modern modulations can look pretty white. they'd look a lot whiter if they weren't constrained by regulation to strongly attenuate bands used by obsolete forms of signal modulation
I watched a five minute Loom video, I still don't understand... can you make an example of how a business would use this? imagine I'm five years old
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 181
Feynman explains degenerate matter [video]
By your example, 5 was marked as deleted, so it would just be [1, <new element>].

Most likely this would be implemented with a single mutator for each element. But if you implemented a "range delete", then it would depend on what the order of arrival was. Notably, the server has to sequence actions somehow, so there isn't going to be an issue of "all actions arriving at the same time". If C arrived last in that case, the new element would be there. But if C arrived first, you'd just be left with [1].
wow, didn't realise tiktok is 50x youtube... should I sign up and catch up on any things I've been missing on that platform

> The sheer volume of content is overwhelming

> The mental effort required to evaluate and choose between many options can be exhausting

> Saving these links in a digital vault where they’ll most likely be forgotten forever

The diagnosis seems correct. We all experience this digital overabundance. Abundance is in principle a good thing. But obviously there is gross mismatch with the tools we have to manage this flow. You can overwater your plants and drown them.

But I am underwhelmed by the remedies proposed. My gut feeling is that nothing less than a ground-up reworking of the personal computing infrastructure will be required to restore an equilibrium that accomodates the nature of our information processing capacities.

We need to go back to the Engelbartian concepts of augmentation but drastically updated for the vast knowledge we have acquired in the meantime.

And of course this has to be done in a context that is seriously human centric. The people that will build this infrastructure need to somehow have their incentives and interests aligned with the average person. They should not see the dazed and confused online masses as product to be trapped and exploited.
I've seen the links you listed - the range in this tests is given without the cargo weight - it's totally meaningless for a truck.
For all we know, the truck could be almost empty, or almost fully loaded with extra batteries. We just don't know.

Don't you think that it should be easy to find the 'price was listed somewhere' ? We are talking about a product that was supposedly released 1 year ago. Where are independent reviews of it ?
There are none.
Fair question: if the world is already overloaded with compelling content, do we still need to be creative?
Maybe the core issue is not (directly, at least) the creativity loss, but rather the struggle against FOMO.
The first sentence «Nearly all of our electricity is generated from heat powering a steam turbine» just explains why nuclear cannot scale: thermal power (including nuclear fission) needs huge amounts of water to cool down the turbine. The thermodynamic cycle needs a hot source and cold source.
This is already a limitation, and France has to stop reactors in summer due to this problem.
Cutler is against simply committing the code and letting the testers figure out where the defects are; he says that you should do the best you possibly can before giving it to the testers.

Not surprisingly, that's exactly what Steve Maguire, who worked at Microsoft during the same period as Cutler, says in his book Writing Solid Code. In the late 80s and early 90s, a lot of programmers at Microsoft apparently didn't test their code much or at all, and both expected testers to identify their defects, and got mad at them when they did so, even though they were just shooting the messenger for reporting bugs that they caused.

However, I was under the impression that software development doesn't really have a dedicated "testing" division anymore. They just expect the programmers to write tests and find their bugs, and ideally, they'll be automated when possible.

I'm actually still in college, never having worked as a professional software developer, so I wouldn't know except secondhand.
Zero CVEs? Don't Compromise Quality for Easy Compliance
As practical advice (not addressing your enjoyment), learn how to use a CAS effectively. That will have a ton more bang for the buck in studying physics than being able to occasionally impress yourself with a Feynman trick or obscure application of the King property.
The burden of proof is on those making extraordinary claims, not on those refuting them.
I don't see the benefit.

VB forms were something that was very easy to get started with, and then took forever to actually polish. If you wanted to make things pretty you'd spend ages adjusting positions by hand.

If you want to make a fixed layout you still can with modern tools. The difference is that instead of painfully adjusting everything by hand because something is longer in Spanish and doesn't fit, you can just resize the window in the IDE and be done in 10 seconds.
don’t. speak to the audience and focus on relevant topics, which is likely their current stack and your engineering expertise.
In that case, there's not much that can be done, and also I think there's a stronger assumption of those numbers being disposable (at least for calling US family members and whatnot, plus just not being used as much to make legit international calls). But as far as US companies, I think the FCC stepping in would be appropriate if the FCC authorizes blocking their traffic.
Brand yourself as "the first" or "the only" in a certain niche. I don't know anything about project management tools, so I cannot give you examples, but this is the method Dan Kennedy uses.

Focus on the niche market first and expand from there.
Tesla is one of the few companies that does not allow lease buyouts.
It's pretty hard to have an industry with the weight of current regulation - not just in terms of how much scrutiny fission receives compared to technologies we _know kill people at an alarming rate_, such as fossil fuel combustion, but also in regulating something that was still relatively new technology the same way that we regulated other energy generation.

At least with smaller reactors it's more feasible to get operating data and be on a path to economies of scale. The US now has a second chance to get it right, and the US can always be counted on to do the right thing, after exhausting every other alternative.
I'm a First Amendment absolutist who doesn't like what is going on. Winston & Strawn and Davis, Polk & Wardell had decided that the law students qualified for job offers. That the firms decided that the students no longer qualified because of something, not violating the law, that the students are associated with is alarming.

That also goes for calls for a "nationwide boycott", however informal, by employers of students associated with the unpopular cause of the day, or demands by large donors for the resignations of university leaders that did not insufficiently condemn pro-Hamas words by others associated with the universities.

(And yes, despite the large-scale infiltration of leftist anti-Semitism into academia and politics in recent decades that has now hugely backfired on the Jews that were among its aiders and abetters, support of Hamas is still the unpopular cause, relatively speaking. But not as unpopular as it ought to be.)
That's odd. Previously Pepsico reported they were only getting decent range when hauling potato chips, i.e. air, and were limited to 100-odd miles delivering beverages (obviously going empty about half the way too).
Just reinforcing what you say, spectroscopy offers an exquisitely precise test of our laws of physics in remote places.
I’m aware of your app. Seems pretty brilliant to me.

My mother accidentally turned on our computer (Mac IIsi) when cleaning while I was a kid. I successfully turned that into the justification for why we needed the After Dark screensaver. Flying toasters soon graced my screen. Ah, nostalgia…
> they put most of the blame on regulation, but the main reason why nuclear is costly today is because there's barely an industry around it and there's no mass production.

Isn't that because of regulation (which was put in place in part because the population demanded it)?
These posts pop up every now and then. Too much rationalism in this approach for sense. But I get it, it's difficult to sell letters when you're warning people against reading letters.

As a lay student of Buddhism, there's a much more simple and effective route.

Meditate.

A clean, crisp, quiet break into your own internal fortress of solitude. Curating as a means of establishing a creative sandbox makes sense to me, when the creative process opens. But concentration and focus is a skill and it can be developed. Trying to develop it through consumption is very difficult and counter-intuitive.

Your own internal world can surpass any notebook. Have you heard of the Method of Loci? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci It's applied meditational creative construction, it's been used by Grand Master memory champions, and it's all inside. Even if you do not apply the projector in your mind to such purposes, simply meditating can make much of this process subconscious. You do less, think less and yet remember and "receive" more.
For Linux users, Junction is a FOSS browser picker that works just like Choosy does on macOS. These browser pickers are more flexible than selecting just one default browser, and being able to inspect URLs before opening them is a nice security feature.

https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction
Nvidia and Epic were built with gaming money. Now they are almost vital technologies with all sorts of useful non-gaming applications
I think white noise is entirely different than a podcast. Good white noise shouldn't have anything that should be too distracting.
In 2023, I've written a LOT of useless software. I've built 1 feature complete product [0], 2 kinda-feature complete products [1], and a bunch of half-finished stuff.

Unfortunate for me, none of them generated any revenue.

But it's been a fantastic experience refining a lot of the rough edges on how to build faster. Biggest gain for me has been speed; each project, I get a bit faster because I've ironed out some unknown along the way. It's crazy looking back how much I built in 6-ish months.

[0] https://turas.app

[1] https://coderev.app, https://zeeq.ai

[3] e.g. https://github.com/CharlieDigital/hekaton, other contract projects
That page, unless I missed it, doesn't say who worked on the updated edition. Was it the original authors?
> Also devices that fly - so some radar can pick a plane in the sky? its Transponders? Scan the sea for large floating objects?

clouds fly, volcanoes emit radiation, icebergs float

> Having played A LOT of Starcontrol II though I can imagine that sending small crafts to the surface would help verify suspicions.

the humans didn't discover deep subsurface bacteria until the 01990s; they'd been living in small crafts on the surface for millions of years without ever noticing the kilometers of life below the top few meters

they didn't even know about archaea until the 01970s

reasoning from fictional evidence merely leads you to mistake the authors' beliefs (or even narrative tropes they know to be false) for objective fact
I can't find the script now, but my kids and I did this had the Queen Elizabeth 1st talking to a pirate about his life on the high seas. It was quite fun. I wouldn't want to read a historical novel written that way tho...
In case anyone else was wondering, the "MWh/acre" stats near the beginning are per year. Here they are converted to units that I find more meaningful:

"...a nuclear power plant can generate over 6,507 kW/acre compared to solar at 23 kW/acre, or a natural gas plant at 114 kW/acre."
Beefy HEDT/workstation with ssh running are amazing dev environments. Vscode remote ssh or even vim make it a dream.
I think the content of the article is totally orthogonal to the problem the title supposedly addresses. I was immediately excited to read this but then found no relation to what the article talks about. Content curation? Really? We're not overwhelmed with content, we're overwhelmed with noise.
Open Source vs. Enterprise Edition of Bitnami Catalog: How to Make Right Choice
What is life? What motivates structures to possess mobility and self determination and all the other definitions? When is a self sustaining process something more than a summary of recent physical interactions? There are many self organising systems why are some life and others not? Stars seem to broadly fit most definitions of life. Why are they not considered alive? What is the distinction between living and nonliving allowing our understanding of the universe?
Did the popularity of AWK demise after Perl became ubiquitous?
There are also a lot of moms out there that would give up a phone number without hesitation if not even suggesting the person should have it without being asked.
My daughter made me watch Nosferatu (1922) on a hundred year anniversary of the movie. Very interesting use of shadows.
You're citing biased samples, like how on HN itself:

- A disproportionate number of direct-replies to almost any opiniated submission are negative. (If you agree, an upvote is often enough! It's the objectors/nitpickers who are loudest in the comments – even if unrepresentative.)

- Often, also, it's sullen/underemployed people who have the most time to comment.

I disagree that the "mainstream reporting" represents "the people who need convincing". They're more of a neurotic clique than ever before. It's time to go around them, to folks doing real work.

Your arguments are still a bunch of impressionistic handwaving about appearances rather than substance: "I would bet this has pushed far, far more people away from techno-optimist than towards it."

Your emphatic belief about superficial "eww!" reactions from within your info-bubble is not much of an argument, nor does it engage with the actual ideas in the text.

For the 'manifesto' to work, it doesn't have to convince anyone who's already predisposed toward grumbling about Andreesen's tone or self-awareness, or who's fond of vague derogatory phrases like "truly off the rails".

It just has to reach the totally-separate set of people who are excited by, & eager to collaborate around, the positive vision within the text itself.

You know, those thousands of actual words written – against which you've only lodged abstract complaints about tone & emphasis, & that he didn't do enough to convince you, & the total cop-out-on-substance "but as far as I can tell most people agree with me!"
Super interesting - thanks for sharing! Glad to hear that there is so much momentum pushing this forward. I'm with the presenter: I desperately want this to happen in my.. I mean our.. lifetimes.
I don't see how this changes my point? Yes, on the chain you can send and receive any data you want. But if all you want to do is to exchange meaningless data, you don't need a blockchain for that.

An in practice, there was no hard fork, and yet Moxie's NFT was "removed" from opensea and from the metamask wallet. Sure, someone with a full client can still see the NFT and _techinically_ all the data is there.. and yet the data is value-less. Would you pay any amount of money for NFT you cannot show off to anyone nor use with any online service?

The same goes with bitcoin - sure, the chain will happily process your bitcoin transactions from the mixer and accept your gas fees. So if you are only looking on the chain, it is all fine and decentralized. But if you are actually trying to withdraw the money, then your accounts get blocked. So in practice, this may not be 100% useless, but this is still significantly less useful than "clean" bitcoin. And no hard fork or even community consensus required.
does it somehow involve having to pay middlemen that can create a permanent position?

or does it involve people investing in currently non-existent "modular" reactors?
Ungoogled Chromium is a Chromium-based browser with Google services stripped out.

- Project and source: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

- Binaries: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...
I don't understand how comparing it to the Fed's balance sheet makes any sense whatsoever. The Federal Reserve can literally invent real USD money, they can make their balance sheet whatever they want, whenever they want.
Which is arguably exactly why Linus should communicate more thoughtfully. While it might be okay for him and the culture around him, this style might NOT work for others. As such, it's better to default to a more constructive approach.
Coupling to context?