skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dog walking website story is remarkable. They only wanted $75M and bought back Softbanks shares a year and a half later at a discounted valuation - effectively getting the $75M for free.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-10/the-do...
If we ever have some spare marketing budget we will try and discover a moon for you.
The EU thinks in the same way GPT-4 does. In a way we really don't have a good way to describe, but it does do something close.
Wiki is sceptical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunung_Padang
Such frequent interventions means you need very reliable cell service. In times of heavy congestion (concerts, etc) that doesn't seem feasible.
The US can supply whatever amount of money is necessary to service any conceivable amount of debt. The US absolutely will debase its currency into toilet paper, but default is not a certitude.

And it's not theater. When these debates occur the legislature is forcing the executive to face taking extraordinary steps. That's leverage used to negotiate budget deals.
The problem is the voltage drop. The bigger voltage difference it has to handle, the hotter it gets as its the loss from "internal loss current x voltage drop" is converted into hat.
It's an interesting pattern to be sure. It's not all negative though (e.g. this thread has a few moments of positivity mixed in with all the folks jumping to the conclusion that we're trying to pull a Hashicorp). I have a few theories as to why it happens:

1. Communication is an intensely personal and social (even intimate) thing, and people get irrationally attached to how they do it - and so end up defending their favourite system, attacking ones which threaten it, or attacking their ex-favourite if they feel let down and/or betrayed.

2. I think this effect gets amplified in a feedback loop if you use the platform to build the platform itself. This is true of course for operating systems, desktop environments, programming languages etc. too - but it seems to be particularly the case for chat systems. Perhaps this is because it's intrinsically accelerated by the higher emotional/dramatic/intense characteristics of realtime chat - it's effectively mixing the intensity realtime interactive social interaction with programming. So if you spend all your life sitting in a chat system talking about and building that chat system, then spirits can run disproportionately high. You see the same levels of jingoism in IRC and XMPP too.

3. Culturally I think Matrix has picked up both good and bad cultural vibes from IRC - and for better or worse, one of the things that defines IRC is a somewhat elitist vibe: it's a fringe subcommunity for folks who are smart and informed enough to navigate the by-geeks-for-geeks interface. As a result, folks get tribal about it - both Matrix (although I pray that we eventually get mainstream), IRC and XMPP.

4. Matrix has been going for over 9 years now, and it's still not as good from a plain UX perspective as a centralised system like WhatsApp (although I'd hope that we've improved a lot recently, especially with Matrix 2.0 and Element X). As a result, there's been a lot of expectation and hype over the years, which hasn't always materialised as rapidly as you'd hope. So there are certainly those who feel let down.

5. Matrix wouldn't exist if previous projects had not hit a plateau and got stuck, and so folks who are still working away on previous projects are understandably irate.

6. I talk too much on HN and it pisses people off.

anyway, thanks for the words of support :)
> The whole act of remotely operating automobiles on public streets strikes me as extremely dangerous, unaccountable, and that it'd be obviously prohibited by law.

I Googled it and that doesn't seem to be the case; in fact it is mandated by law:

> The "Driverless AV Passenger Service" pilot program allows for the provision of passenger service in test AVs without a driver in the vehicle. Under this pilot program, a communication link between passengers and "remote operators" of the vehicle must be available and maintained at all times during passenger service.

https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/regulatory-services/licensing/transp...
JetBlue also has pretty limited landing slots on the west coast, and missed out on purchasing Virgin Atlantic to Alaska a few years ago, which would have allowed them to diversify more outside the eastern US.

Spirit isn't a perfect match (different market segments), but otherwise they use the same model of aircraft and have some operational efficiencies. I'd hazard a guess Spirit's branding and low cost model will be tossed out in favor of JetBlue's operating model, and that segment of the market will be left to Frontier.
I blew the whistle on Meta, now I won't work again
You can use both though. Keep the ORM for the easy stuff to save yourself the boilerplate, and drop down to raw SQL when needed or when it's easier than figuring out how to do the same with the ORM.
Maybe the police reported themselves. Either way they could just not be there, causing accidents and unsafe road behavior.
Matrix shifts to less-permissive AGPL open source license
Yes they are buying up all the sports, they have bought UK but UK is poor and easy to buy anyway. Now they are entering the US through universities and VCs like marc andreessen who is out there begging for Saudi money without thinking of the repurcussions of this kind of activity.
Good find, I was looking for a similar (or maybe that) image for illustration. It's a good description and illustration of Lagrange orbits.
I suppose the whole concept of FIRE is a bit hard to pin down. I believe most peoples' goal is indeed to retire eventually, so who's to say when the appropriate age for them is? If someone takes 50 years to generate enough value to live out their remaining days while someone else only takes 5, then isn't that determined by the labor market and their desired lifestyle? I'm all for a more collectivist "we're all in it together" type of society where retirement is a bit more of a managed concept (I get the impression France is like that where private retirements are rare and that's why Macron raising the retirement age was such a bitter pill), but that is not exactly the way that the US works.
> Over the years 2011 to 2015, they studied the structure using seismic tomography, electrical resistivity tomography and ground-penetrating radar. They also drilled down into the hill and collected core samples that allowed them to use radiocarbon dating techniques to learn the ages of the layers that make up the hill.

Here's the full paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912
> Avoiding implementation-defined types like `int` _every_where

Well that is the correct thing to do. I guess you can't really complain to MISRA about C being crazy.
Mythic Quest, comedy show about a game studio that is developing a mmorpg. Was pretty good in my opinion
It looks like all 7 of their C14 dated samples were simply "organic soil", no artifacts or charcoal. If you're going to build a pyramid by piling soil and rocks, then the soil will be older than the pyramid.

The authors don't mention having done any core samples away from the pyramid as a control group.

It seems like they have, at best, proved that Gunung Padang contains old soil, without proving anything about the age of the pyramid itself.
Ok, so can I now redeem the BTC that you sent me earlier please, so that I can spend them in the first layer (or the second one)? Given that nobody else seems to want to use your third layer.

The fact that I even have to ask you already demonstrates how shitty your third layer is compared to Lightning, not to mention all the other obvious ways in which it's infinitely worse.
> ...Router designer ... to design their product such that it will work with any power supply from 5V to 12V...

I am one of those who often makes purchase decisions around the internal power circuitry.

I'm not at my lab desk at the moment (so I cannot report on that stuff), but I'm dragging around an old laptop, a small SBC (used as a general-purpose computer) and a monitor that I was employing earlier in cramped quarters for 40 minutes or so. The laptop is happy with 11.5V but doesn't have problems with 11-18V (9V 600mA will still charge the battery, slowly, during very mild use). The SBC has an NB679 buck converter so it's good for 5.5-28V. The monitor (2200 nits baby!) will accept 7-24V. These are older kit I use for crawling around with, but most of my "normal" equipment likewise has large input tolerances.

Non-normal equipment (used for areas at home where tool loss/damage may occur) mentioned: OLPC XO-1 (great screen, kinda tough, freakin' old), FriendlyElec NanoPC-T4 SBC, FeelGood P7 field monitor (compact with a thick aluminum chassis).
I don't think it's clear whether or not extrapolation in a sense that'd clear that bar is of much relevance to becoming smart at all.
Is this an imputed rent tax? That sounds like a good thing to me, not a bad thing. It has a similar effect to land value taxes or government-owned land leases, which are some of the most effective ways to reduce rampant property speculation and property value inflation.
Lots of classic movies about or that came roughly around the 2008 financial crisis:)

Wolf of Wall Street

Margin Call

The Big Short
The exact same thing happened in QC with Ebox, whom Bell purchased.
So I had no idea who she was and looked up her background....

She seems wildly inexperienced.... Clearly smart and motivated, but wildly out of her depth. No wonder they failed to prevent the Microsoft + Activision Blizzard merger. Lawyers with decades of experience on her ran around her in circles

How did she get that job? Who did she know? Was she set up to fail? What the actual hell is this?

I am incredibly disappointed in this corrupt bs. Like this can't be all just because she wrote that thesis on Amazon. No way that justifies her position.

I don't care about her ideological positions or wtv, but has she actually succeeded in any anti trust case? I have been rage clicking through her history, and while her academic record is impressive, I see nothing successful during her tenure at the ftc.
If there’s anything I’ve learned in the past decade is that way, way too much of our government relies on people in power being rational actors with good intentions.

If they wanted to raise hell they could simply make the worst decision and there’s nothing that can be done about it.
My dude, In Europe elevators with capacity half a ton say they can lift 7 people.
Property doesn't stop existing when the owner dies. When the owner dies, the property is probably sold soon after, then loan is paid.
I think that one challenge is that the proper incentive structure changes as the company grows and matures.

Google's biggest problem c. 2004 was that the suite of opportunities available to it on the Internet was far more than it had skilled employees to capitalize on. So they enshrined "leadership" and "influence" into their performance review system. You got promoted first for showing that you had the independence to tackle complex problems on your own; then that you could lead a team of people to tackle an even more complex problem; then that you could train others on how to lead teams of people; then that you identify the next set of complex new problems worth tackling; and so on. Worked great as long as the Internet was a big growth opportunity with lots of virgin undiscovered territory. But then when all the basic problems users care about are solved, how do you get promoted? Well, first you have to cancel a product that's working well. Now you have a big glaring complex problem that needs to be solved, so all your people can get promoted, move off the project, and then it can be canceled for the next cohort of promotions. And so on, until the only skillsets that company leaders have are "canceling products" and "creating technical debt".

Google basically built a pyramid scheme into their performance management system.

The thing is, this incentive system works on the level of the whole economy itself. There were plenty of companies (and open-source projects!) that did not build a pyramid scheme into their incentives. LiveJournal. OpenID. Semantic Web. RSS. PubSubHubbub. Bittorrent. Freenode. Where are they now? Well, they didn't build a pyramid scheme into their incentives, so they got out-grown by companies like Google and Meta that did. And this pattern extends back at least to the Industrial Revolution. Why do we have unsustainable car-centric suburbs based on polluting fossil fuels? Well, that technology grew faster than alternatives and then used their newfound wealth and customer base to convince cities to dismantle their trolley lines.
The rendering is really impressive. Character animation is not great. It's really an area where video games need to improve. Hopefully AI will help...
banks literally operate in a fascist framework, the goverment control literally everything on how they can operate, usually under political logics above sound economics (paper growth by debt creation). By being a sector which consolidate naturally overtime in few conglomerates it becomes quite ripe to corruption and backdealings
I'm on a https://universal-blue.org/ -based "custom image" of Fedora Silverblue and I love it. In my image, I ship some essentials software and other things that are just easy to have in there like fonts, plus a script for installing gnome extensions. Then I have a Nix home-manager -based shell configuration containing some common developer tools as well. The bulk of the (GUI) software I use comes as Flatpaks, and my development environment is a distrobox arch container.

I've set all updates to be automatic and almost never have to worry about them. I am on the :latest tag and my computer updates between major versions automatically, and I haven't had any breakage yet. I feel pretty confident in the stability of my system and feel like were the disk to corrupt, I could get back up and running with the exact same setup very quickly.
Cryptocurrencies had two main goals

- Let individuals freely transact. Which as you rightly point out, has failed for good reasons.

- Prevent state institutions from controlling monetary policy. This has not failed yet - mainly because crypto is not even remotely big enough that the state has tried to control how much cryptocurrency is printed. If cryptocurrency ever gets big enough, we will find out whether it can withstand the pressure. While cryptography to secure your communications has withstood state pressure for 30 years now to not allow backdoors, I think the pressure on cryptocurrency will be higher.
Be nice to just have a "default" that's just names, rounds and scores, which would cover like 1000 card games.
Notes on Time
LLM's can, of course, synthesize data which is not in their training set.

Of course they can't create new facts, other than in principle, ones that can be derived from the training data.
Or, as has happened more times than I can count, someone picks up and then the line goes dead?
Yeah, I think they’ve mixed up linear regulators and buck converters. Buck converters are often more efficient with a larger voltage drop because the switch can run with a lower duty cycle.
When I first opened emacs many years ago I wanted to punch my monitor because ctrl-c and ctrl-v didn't work. I HATED it. However every person is different. Today Im a heavy user of emacs and I don't have any of the issues you mentioned. In fact I now hate being forced to use any other tool to edit text. Where possible, I use emacs key bindings in non-emacs applications (terminal, browser, window manager). My emacs setup is almost vanila. That said, I'm comfortable to customize emacs keybindings to my own preferences. For example, I hated pressing S-9 to initiate parens so I bound that to something more ergonomic for me.

If your problem with emacs is only due to key bindings my advice to you is stick to emacs for at least editing your lisp code. In my opinion Emacs+SLIME (or SLY) is an unrivaled experience, not just when it comes to writing common lisp code, but compared to writing any other code in any other IDE. Instead look at increasing your lisp writing ergonomics in emacs. First recommendation I have is to use a structural editor like paredit. Look at few videos at emacsrocks to see how this works. This is one of the things that now makes me dread editing code that doesn't use s-expressions.

My other suggestion is to look into spacemacs or doom emacs. These are emacs distributions with vim (or hybrid) keybindings that go well beyond what you can do in vim itself. When I decided to give emacs another go it was largely thanks to spacemacs that I am now a heavy emacs user. It wasn't because of vim bindings (I don't care for these to be honnest) but because it demonstrated the things emacs can do.

One benefit of learning emacs is that it really is a tool for life.

https://www.spacemacs.org/

https://paredit.org/
Nothing you listed is unique to the military. The private sector is also the target of hostile foreign powers. The private sector is also made to feel obligated to give away more personal information that is likely necessary.
It is computing algorithms. There's no debate here.

The question is whether it is computing the right ones.
You can buy Tannerite without an explosive license from the ATF. It's been used in past bombings. Plus, unless they outlaw anything from crude oil, alchohol and the plants used to produce it, gun powder, fireworks, and most chemicals under your kitchen sink, there are thousands of combinations that produce a material that can be used to make explosives. Access or lack of isn't the limiting factor, people's willingness to do it is and always will be the case. Air can make an explosive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannerite
Sennheiser He-1: These $60k Headphones Might Make You Cry
>you probably have them in your head as coding guidelines anyway

Ha, if only. Sure, if everyone working on the project is a skilled C dev then yeah, but not when you're piecing together code form a bunch of bodyshops as it often happens in automotive where everything is contracted out to the lowest bidder to push costs down, so MISRA is there as a minimum common denominator to make sure that your code doesn't reach rock bottom in the process.
That's so rad for The Fast and the Furious!
I run a small business, know plenty of small business owners and this isn't really the full story.

Small businesses do frequently fail, but it's more to do with the fact that anyone can start one than the fact that they are small. If you allowed random people with no experience to start billion dollar megacorps, they'd fail too.

And there are plenty that generate pretty serious profits, triple or more what you could earn in a traditional job.
Somehow the movement of the characters feels still quite uncanny to me. In the video about the "voxel-based character controller" the walking looks more like gliding. And in the first few second in "NPC locomotion" the walking just does not seem right. I think it is the fact that each step looks exactly the same and everyone uses the same step size. So the character are awkwardly tightly coordinated. One can see more variety later in the video, when the characters change individually between walking and running. That looks much more realistic. -- I wonder what makes it so difficult to generally achieve more variety in the movement details.
New treatment reverses epigenetic age of rats by 67.4%
It’s pretty normal for job seeking since there are jobs that require a clearance before any other consideration. There’s a whole job site dedicated to clearances.

https://www.clearancejobs.com
I have some bad news to tell you about water which is a flame retardant
I love the way this is written. In just a paragraph any reader no matter what level of experience gets a good understanding of assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses of (my new fav term) 'tortoise-shell security (w/vry-juicy meat inside)
The Sony phone at least is certainly not a "budget" model, it's their latest flagship and they want $1,400 for it (too much really).

Wireless headphones might be a feature that "signals" wealth, but we should be careful not to confuse that with quality or value. Features like headphone jacks and expandable storage get removed because they save/make money for the manufacturer, not because they offer better value to consumers.

Many people like not having to deal with wires, but bluetooth (in addition to being used extensively to track you and reducing your security) is inferior in several ways when it comes to headphones (audio quality, latency, pairing issues, stuttering, disconnects, battery life, expense) but thanks in large part to the power of marketing, people can be made to feel good about being forced to pay more while getting less.
I feel like I'm the only one who thought, "hey, I'll buy a modest house, pay it off, and then invest some money to hopefully retire one day". But I suppose my neighborhood is also full of those types of people (and some renters these days). Must be why they're so cool/nice.
Who's to say that it's distasteful? Humor is very subjective.

I'd also argue that most people that complain about those jokes unironically think that author is actually racist, like it doesn't even cross their mind that it could be a joke, even a "bad" one.

Ironically, the fact that some people react in this way makes these jokes even funnier
> In a country where you can buy assault rifles with minimal background checks, people worry about addresses being available because someone might be able to look up the address to kill them with a drone and a home made bomb.

Drones and IUDs may be less traceable than guns and offer even less risk to the user. Currently if you're going to use a gun, you basically have to be suicidal or care zero about the consequences.

But that also brings up a good point -- people worry about addresses being available because someone might be able to use a gun and kill them as well. Or hell, just their fists.

Doxxing is dangerous, is this not the case in Europe as well?
Delhi's toxic air pollution has left non-smokers with 'smokers lungs'
Now price in the negative non-financial aspects of renting:

* Inability to make changes to the building

* Constant fear of eviction for the flimsiest of reasons

* No tax reduction on rent payments (but often on mortgage interest - a gobsmacking reality)

* Arbitrary rules imposed on you long beyond your childhood years: Pets/no pets, smoking/no smoking, rug surface area requirements etc.
It's a great book but one sided in its analysis. I'd recommend pairing it with a book about a case where High Modernism worked great, like The Ghost Map or something.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map