skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be posting a full response to this, which I think you'll find very interesting (from the opposite point of view). Stay tuned.
> Because I at least hold the ideal that we should judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

Sure, we shouldn't judge people by their skin color. That isn’t what I asked.

Lots of important elements of character are pretty immutable, too.
wow this is delightful! Is there anything you can share about how you made the page? Are the graphics in webgl? What did you use to embed the code?
Oh, this is fuel we're talking about. I was imagining lead somehow involved in lifting gas, like a leaded zeppelin or somesuch.
I think you might’ve overlooked the part of my comment that attributes that definition to Apple.
I disagree. I find it humorous and endering.

Meatspace, to me, is a term that encapsulates the authenticity of being a blood and bone human being and all of the foibles that come with it. Cyberspace, at least so far as social media is concerned, is a perpetual performance where what matters is how strangers feel about you and how they feel about you is often indepedant of what you actually do in meatspace.

To me cyberspace shines with a much stronger contempt for humanity than meatspace. Meatspace simply demands you be the lump of meat that you are while cyberspace demands that you please a judgemental and often quarrelsome mob.
I don't agree, even a human chef with decades of experience in all the tools and ingredients they're using is not going to get every recipe right on the first try. I'm not saying an AI recipe will never be good, but it is going to make mistakes sometimes.

If you're wondering whether a task is theoretically possible for an AI, I think a good rule of thumb is to ask "could a human domain expert do this given a few days and as much research material as they need". If the task here is "develop a novel recipe without trying it", the answer is no. You can't predict the interactions of every possible combination of ingredients and processes no matter how much time and experience you have.
I'm in the car hobby and considering how many people just think stuff like noise regulation and air quality measures is just nonsense solely on the basis of "I do what I want, bitch", I'm not hopeful.
Since there's already a non-ZFS system disk, it's a little weird to not put a swap partition on it.

But I wouldn't say it's questionable. On a NAS I doubt you'd ever use even one full gigabyte of swap space. Keeping it simple is fine.
Hackers and Painters and Pixels
> that's already had 55 seconds of controlled flight

Good. And once it makes the trip to Mars and lands successfully, with 100t of payload, then I will accept it as an argument.

> Parachutes, aerobraking, skycranes

We are not talking about a 1025 kg science vehicle here, we are talking about 100t of cargo, that has to land in the same place, preferably intact. Good luck making a parachute that carries that weight in a 610 pascal atmosphere.

And latest the colonists will have to land a ship there, or they are stuck. So no, without ships being able to land on Mars, intact, Mars Colony is not happening.

And btw. since you mentioned Spaceship: I'm pretty sure landing the thing on mars and letting it take off from there, is what it says on their own website: https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/ (scroll down to the "TO MARS AND BACK" diagram)

> they just need to set up enough that the arriving humans can do it relatively quickly (days).

> We send pre-emptive missions to set things up (dig holes, set up solar panels, gather basic resources)

Good, then show me that the robots can do that, under the conditions pointed out above.

> I think we're just deeply divided on what we think ten thousand focused engineers with hundreds of billions of dollars in budget can accomplish in 10 years.

No I don't think we are. I am well aware that nothing about a Mars colony is physically impossible, or outside the reach of contemporary human technology, if we really want to do it. I think it would take somewhat longer than 10 years, given the technological difficulties, but I don't think it is impossible.

The thing where I think we disagree is, given all the problems I pointed out, whether or not it is worth it jumping through all those hoops just for...yeah, for what? For science? We have robots doing that on Mars, and they don't require habitats, or food, or water. Resources? Mars doesn't have any Earth doesn't already have in abundance. Land? The entire planet is an airless, freeze dried, irradiated, toxic wasteland. As a backup plan? Even after a thermonuclear war, Earth would still be more inhabitable than Mars.

Wanna invest the time and effort of 10000 engineers and hundreds of billions of dollars working in international cooperation into space programs? Fine by me! Here are a few suggestions:

- The DART test was a huge success, we should develop that, because defending earth from asteroids could come in handy at some point
- A moon base sounds awesome. btw. the Moon might actually have a valuable resource we don't easily get on Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Moon
- Please build more deep space telescopes
- ISS is getting old
- There is lots of garbage in LEO that we need a solution for
- Eventually we will need much better propulsion systems

All of these activities sound way better to me, than wasting resources trying to set up shop on a worthless ball of dust for no good reason.
> The same could be said of Airbnb or Etsy, where the original vision of individual, personal inventory was displaced by more profitable, professionally managed, mass produced entities.

This is called capitalism. The issue is a bit different here, because Twitter is a social media, not Airbnb nor Etsy.
FWIW You can do a C4 model using plantUML diagrams [1] imported directly into RST markdown (or inline, fwiw, but that makes live preview harder)

That way in an editor like VS Code (e.g. where you have/make plugins to support) you can live preview the diagram in your editor while editing the related text - both get syntax highlighting etc. Using a tool like sphinx to tie everything together helps, as you can easily (enough) write extensions to handle quirks of your own setup reasonable if needed.

I've seen this work pretty well, in a /doc folder in the git repo with some autogenerated reference links as well, from the same repo. You either need the plantUML jar file local (and java, obv) or to point it at a rendering instance "local enough".

[1] https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML
In the 90s I sort of attended two universities at the same time in Hungary (given the time and the place it's not as big a deal as it sounds) and I said to the second one, hey I know the basic stuff, let me attend the more advanced one and they said, sure, no skin off my back, do whatever you want, if you fail, that's a you problem but if you pass the more advanced tests we will credit you the basic stuff.
Ms?
(from experience)

Most local chocolatiers (e.g. truffle makers, etc) use bulk chocolate already produced from companies like Valrhona, so it may have the same issues.

Most local chocolate makers use distributors to source their cacao beans, and those distributors test the batches. The regions with high Cd/Pb levels tend to be regions that those distributors avoid.

You should always ask, though.
It’s sort of amusing to me how you feel your analysis is more correct than sentence-transformers or whichever embedding algorithm was used.

I think to most people it’s pretty obvious you are trying to make the algorithm fit your bias/preconceived ideas.
The admin has always served me as a great bootstrap for my applications. Thanks for yout work!
What we really need is desktop monitors to have similar light following properties as tablets and phones and if that can be calibrated a bit they will follow the lighting of the room as it changes through the day. We don't need completely new monitors we just need desktop computers to copy something phones and tablets have been doing for 15 years now and all for the cost of a simple light sensor.

Desktop monitors have not made it possible to adjust their brightness from the PC and that is a big problem in all this or we would have solved this years ago.
> many people (through either laziness or lack of understanding) misunderstood the point of the Django admin, thinking it's meant to be for end users. It is not and never was.

This just confuses me. It's called "admin" for a reason...
Sure - waste to energy is fantastic, but it is not scalable to everybody either. There are different niches to be occupied - talking about one uniform "way to live" doesn't really make sense.

Which is why when trying to create scalars like energy consumption to make comparisons, framing is critical. And I don't see how articles that fail at basic things like attributing industrial production to whom it's actually supporting do anything besides create some feel good narrative.
X celebrates 60% savings from cloud exit
Your comment made me curious to look up their leadership page. As of this post, Katalin Karikó is featured very prominently on the president's page, above even the president herself. That's a pretty big mea culpa.

https://president.upenn.edu/
Always better to have a choice. Why needlessly snatch away the user's freedom to install and use whatever app he wants?
Academia does not value quality, but quantity. It selects for scientists who are the best at marketing and networking, not necessarily doing quality science, though they can also be.

I have no idea how to fix this, but competition needs to be reduced, probably by more guaranteed funding for positions, not just projects, as grants are. This latest military aid package is 2x the entire NIH budget, so surely there is more money for science out there.
Our 4y/o named ours Circle Cat
Was he a good teacher?
Can you expand on that? my use case is pretty simple and I haven't been able to find something on it that really bothers me.

Also, about PG: I run each project in a different port. Not defaulting to PG's default 5432 makes it able to easily run several projects at once without clashing, just like you would with several SQLite files. I don't really see any drawbacks in using a little docker compose for your local dev set-up.
Apple laptops do this too. Probably possible to rig up on Linux
I think the parent has a point.

We talk a lot about peak brightness, which is useful in some scenarios like you mentioned.

But you know whats more interesting?

Brightness stepping, min brightness and ambient light sensors; which are never talked about by reviewers, which is then a weird cycle because manufacturers seem to care a lot about what reviewers focus on.
I don't understand this comment. If it's that easy to reproduce (and I don't necessarily disagree), go ahead and do it, and users can use that instead.

Or, if it's not worth your time, consider paying the person who took the time to build it.
Using a fixed point representation doesn't solve your SUM() problem.

If you add 0.1 to 1000000 with an integer representation scaled by 10^6 then you are still boned.

Binary floats may actually produce a better result here.

What you really want is a decimal floating point type with a suitable amount of significant digit precision.
China has interest in curbing emissions. Regardless, the U.S. could try to reach agreements with other major countries.
> I think the point is just that more often than not, the kid is only where they are because they happen to have someone else taking care of the bigger challenges that end up being the barriers for most other would-be young innovators.

So what? If the child did nothing, nothing would have happened. He did something. It might be worthwhile. That should be celebrated.

> Eg 12 year old me could only throw together a solar powered buzzer through trial and error with electronics as I had no one who could do anything beyond resistor networks, but my kids would be able to do much more advanced things because I would be able to handle/simplify the complex stuff for them.

Which is why our emphasis on social mobility ought be at the family level. Families move socioeconomically. Individuals are just brownian motion.
> The main reason to be disappointed is the fluency with which people have taken to just outright lying. The article, to me, proves pretty conclusively that the articles were AI generated and that most (or at least some) of the authors aren't real people but the spokesman is just... lying.

Agreed. Maybe there's a proper term for it but I call it the "hitman fallacy," where people reason that they can't be accused of murder because they aren't the party that pulled the trigger.

In a way, I can see their [tortured] logic-- they did in fact pay real money to a real person to write that article. It should follow that a real person did in fact write it, otherwise it's fraud.

Gannett shies away from calling it that because it's not fraud when the other party delivers what you asked for.
> information isn't necessarily being lost, but silted over and sometimes intentionally buried.

And that kind of touches disinformation campaigns. There is a lot of noise being deliberately and maliciously added so that it out represents any information someone wants to suppress. An AI model trained on this corpus will have all the wrong ideas.
Are you experiencing the inverse problem? If your screen is darker than your surroundings, then it will likely strain your eyes.

The goal here is to match your display's brightness (the content you see, not just the backlight intensity) to your room's ambient lighting.
> How about, turn the brightness up to match the suns? Can't do that very easily either.

My phone has a setting for that.

And it's possible to do with a webcam + monitor: https://askubuntu.com/questions/23593/use-webcam-to-sense-li...

There's probably some software for that.
Go to India/China/UK/France etc and live & work for half a year and you'll see why.

Look at opportunities/salary/living condition/infrastructure and it's clear. Of course USA is not perfect and has lots of problems, and many people go back to their country after getting a degree from a US institution, for very good reasons. But still a lot of people stay for the benefits.
*demographic
25 principles often given up by content creators in order to pursue an audienece.

You won't believe number 7!
Finding the right balance of speed and security through just-in-time access
Almost everybody on HN who have been working for a few years can afford a house. You just might not be able to live in SF. Go move to Kansas and you too could afford a house.
> Methane is a strong GHG with a global warming potential 84 times greater than CO2 in a 20-year time frame. Methane is not as persistent a gas and tails off to about 28 times greater than CO2 for a 100-year time frame.

That was already discussed in the article I linked. A 100-year timeframe is not relevant for either the 2005-present timeframe or the 2050 goal, which are the benchmarks being discussed.
Why would elgooG give a gosh-darn about the amazed facial expression of some of their most popular creators? I assume they care about their metrics, and this drives engagement, especially with younger viewers. And because younger viewers have the most time, that in turn drives hours of YouTube watched, ads viewed, and on and on.

We can assume the metrics, we can see the results, and both seem to line up.
It smells like another russian "operation".
I don't agree with this at all.

There is massive variety of culture and ideology between people that share the same phenotypes. And some of that culture and ideology is incompatible with the preservation of our democratic norm of peaceful competition of ideas and peaceful transfer of power.

This is also why racial profiling is not only morally wrong, but practically problematic. It's lazy and sloppy guardianship that's targeting a perceived proxy for the threat rather than the actual threat.

The threat is not the genes, it's the memes. And if our societal defense system is targeting genes, then the memes will eventually figure out how to find different hosts that can bypass those defenses.
That's just taking undue credit.
Yeah, on classical UNIX tradition.

macOS, ChromeOS, Windows and Android are heavily multithreaded, even when there is one main application thread, the underlying OS APIs are using auxiliary threads.

Easily observable in any system debugger.
US trade tribunal issues potential Apple Watch import ban in Masimo patent fight
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of Christianity. I would suggest that you read the book of Luke and see if you get any insight out of it
As complex as it might be, the "intelligence" would probably be the easy part. Aggregating that data in a way that didn't become a burden for the user--either because its tedious, or because they don't trust you--would be quite a trick.
I wonder if a sophisticated enough LLM is able to function as a techno-god for the masses.

Like the Femputer in Futurama’s universe.
If you want a dead simple writing app, I think this is a better option for mac users: simpletext.app

Costs 9 bucks for a lifetime license.
This is exactly what China does today. How is it not in a country's best interest to deny a visa to aliens that hate the country?
Interesting concept/research-project, but the results to just about every query I tried seem inaccurate and perplexing. Assuming the "similarity score" is meaningful, you may want to raise the cutoff or add an indicator (different color, fade, etc) for passages that get surfaced with a low match.
It's not a mea culpa if there is no sign at all of them admitting that they f*cked up.
Damn... see any patterns, in lifestyle, diet etc?
I see so much being cited from Wikipedia, and that is not a reliable source.

One only has to look at an article in different languages, clearly authored by different sets of people. For example, if you look up "Kosovo", the English version states "Kosovo ... is a country in Southeast Europe with partial diplomatic recognition" whereas the one in Serbian states (which I will translate):

"Република Косово је званични назив једнострано проглашене државе на територији Републике Србије, противно Уставу Србије.[5] Према Резолуцији 1244 Савета безбедности УН цела територија Косова и Метохије, правно гледано, налази се у саставу Србије док не буде постигнуто коначно решење"

translated as:

"Kosovo is a formal name for a one-sidedly declared country on the territory of Republic of Serbia, to the objection of Serbia. According to the resolution 1244 from the Security Council of the UN, the entire territory of Kosovo and Metohija, in terms of the law, belongs to Serbia until a final resolution is reached."

Wikipedia is essentially a he-said/she-said website on politically charged matters, and I really wish people would stop treating it as the source of truth.
I think even 2021 is late for such a critical feature. It should have been thought of and implemented even earlier. If Twitter can maintain an army of bluecheck mark verifiers, reversing bad community notes could be handed over to them or similar group of people, especially when Twitter's aim was to be goto source of quality information.
It's possible to do on non-Apple Silicon Macs, just more annoying. There are a few generative AI implementations which use raw Metal but not sure what the most popular one is.
SBF likewise claimed he had investors lined up to save FTX and depositors, right when he was forced to declare bankruptcy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/technology/sam-bankman-fr...

Earlier comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33984977
It's not complicated at all. On one hand we have a mostly recreational activity. On the other hand we have a massive public health and environmental issue.

It should have been banned long ago.
Maybe that should play a role for getting university "teaching" positions but it doesn't. Neither did it play a role for Einstein.
There's a number of difficult engineering tradeoffs. Engines that can run on diesel typically need to be heavier.
Exactly this, you should be viewing a monitor in the same lighting environment that you would read a book or magazine. The catch is physical media forces you to address a deficiency by changing your environment, where an illuminated screen allows you to adjust the media.

Maybe I should wire the monitor controls on my computer to adjust the lights in my room..?
FTA: "Once the device rebooted, all the suspicious activity stopped."
You're very right, "the Django Admin is so useful that we use it for everything" seems like key context that's being under-discussed in this thread. Most all of the user-complaints in the linked sources seem to focus on how people are using the Django Admin for many many things and "just want to make small changes" or "they just want validation to be better" or they "want it to look nicer for our customers (!!!)", and they want that because the Django Admin is so useful and ubiquitous that they seem to be trying to use it for everything.
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Diesel engines operate at higher pressures and must be considerably heavier to achieve the same performance & efficiency. Not a huge issue for ships, trains, or cars. Huge issue for flying stuff.
I wonder when will the NSA also get its own drone program to shoot at Middle East weddings. They must be feeling down seeing how the intelligence gatherers from the CIA are now in the business of waging aerial war, while they, the NSA, are left with the boring office work.
Some level of uniformity that the issue is about as universal as it sounds across brands based off the description in the article. It is, and that kind of sucks.

I mentioned this to a friend earlier and he said something along the lines of “yeah I thought this was pretty well known” so… I didn’t get the memo anyway and I am a somewhat frequent consumer of very dark chocolate.