skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some quotes:

"we did all the right things to win that project, but it was one of those times where you get wound up in winning and sometimes it's a good idea to kind of stop and think just how possible the thing that you were about to try and win really was"

"no small rocket had ever launched anything outside Earth's gravity well"

"so the first thing we needed to do is double the performance of the rocket"

"normally the approach [on radiation hardening for missions beyond LEO] is really really expensive microprocessors that are radiation hard and lots and lots of really thick shielding. Now of course we couldn't afford the the really really expensive processors and they take too long anyway and we didn't have the mass to put really really heavy shielding"

"we ended up with was an amazing super high Performance [3rd stage] Engine but it had a 40° celsus window of operation so you know at plus 40° from its nominal operating point it explodes"

"we couldn't get our FAA license through in time to make the launch window so we had to move the launch from uh America to New Zealand which doesn't sound like a big deal except for the fact that we had to build an entire facility to manage those really tricky NASA propellants ... these facilties is are like a three-year build we had nine months"

"normally when you build a spacecraft of this complexity you allow in your project plan between 1 and 3 months of commissioning time because it's a three AIS stabilized platform meaning it's got reaction wheels and star trackers and T rods and you know gimbal engines and all the rest of it so normally what you would do is you would turn the spacecraft on it goes into sun
pointing mode and that's your safe mode and your stable mode and then you would slowly bring up each system one system at a time very methodically until the whole spacecraft is is is operational. ... we had a window of around about 6 to 8 minutes before we had to turn that thing on point it in the right direction and fire the engine for the first time and get it get it out of the soup into a stable orbit"

"as I mentioned before there was a 40° C delta between the engine running running normally and the engine exploding. well it turns out that we would burn the
engine and at the end of the burn the engine temperature would be 5° higher than when it started ... on the second burn, oh we're up 10°, oh that'll stop soon, third burn up 15, uh this is keeping on going. So that means on the 8th burn the engine would explode and that would be that would be a little bit depressing"

Lots more quotes along these lines. Amazing they pulled it all off.
Income tax is example of tax not paid on profit.

And Italy has rent on gross revenue of rental properties. Which the payment processing party that is Airbnb should collect and pay.
>he was a talented actor

Was?
Your examples are useless because humans would not understand them either.
Tutanota is cheaper and allows as many custom domain email addresses as you like. Proton had some restriction like 5 or 10 or something
I believe that the 'official answer' is that SageMath is the best of the free software CASs. I personally use Maxima, because it's good enough for my use cases (which involve a lot of finite sets and not many inequalities) and I've found it simpler to understand.

Obviously, Mathematica is the leader in academia generally, as far as I can tell, but I personally haven't had good experiences with it myself, but I also have a strong preference for free software, so I haven't tried to hard to get used to it.
It was a logic error... that led to a memory safety error, which resulted in a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Just because the source is a logic error doesn't mean the end result can't be bad when combined with a lack of memory safety.
What games are not designed to be eventually winnable?
I had made one app for iOS back in 2017. What people don't get is that even if the changes on the iOS are minimally impacting YOUR app, you still need to be reviewing the iOS changes, testing, updating it constantly (every couple of months you need to make sure it's up to par). Also the time from clients' questions, getting feedback and making improvements, etc.

The fee also hurts. Especially if this is how you make a living. I pulled the app as the costs + income - time was not worth it (I put a big price-tag on my time)

> 4. Subscriptions = better software

this is the way to go, and one better has a darn good app because nobody will be paying you $1-$2-$5-$10 per month in perpetuity if it's not great
In countries with well-managed stray dog populations, people actually feed them, and they get rid of carcasses and other leftovers on the street. Their life might be harsh, but not entirely unpleasant. In countries with unmanaged populations, people will be harsh towards them and mistreat them. And they will also be more aggressive towards humans in return.
Amazon isn’t great, but they are still better than their competitors for me. They are fast, have reasonable prices, and good customer service. AFAIK, I’ve never been shipped a counterfeit item and they’ve never given me a hard time when I want to return stuff.

The Alexa stuff is a little weirder for me. It’s gone in waves of being amazing and being terrible. I just noticed that for the last six months they’ve stopped with the “by the way” bs after I ask for the time, so that’s nice. A month from now they might turn the dials and make it annoying again.

Their e-Ink Kindle hardware is very nice and they have more ebook titles than anybody, but the DRM is such a downer. I’m cheering for the DeDRM people to crack it, but so far KFX seems to be holding…

My biggest Amazon complaint is their review system. It’s so gamed it’s almost useless. I pretty much only look at 3 star reviews because 1 and 5 are rarely fair or accurate.
> This take kind of urges to revisit once again the concept of liberalism.

To clarify, whose liberalism is it and from which era?
Most likely not. SPADs are good for detecting single photons (I have designed electronics for this), but to quench the pixel after every detection you need significant dead-time for the pixel. Single pixel needs to be an array here, size of which defines the dynamic range of the pixel. Each element within the pixel can not be much smaller than the wavelength to be detected. That means you need significant array of arrays to do any meaningful imaging — sensor will be very large.
if it may help, I will get siter.io on SaaSHub's newsletter this week.
Latent consistency model working directly in the browser on WebGPU
Model allows image generation in 4-8 steps. 8 steps on M1 Max take 8 seconds, on RTX 3090Ti just 3 seconds. Requires latest chrome canary. Model paper here https://latent-consistency-models.github.io
I think it is possible only that those people need to want it.

Most people only say they want to do something because it is cool or earns money.

But then they fail to put in effort and without putting effort no one can really learn.
> You cannot subtract 1 directly from 100

There isn't a standard for Roman numerals; you can largely do what you want. The Eighteenth Legion used XIIX.

But MIDI is obviously invalid by any standard.
Dealing with the Helium Shortage
TU Berlin – Isis
Many things that look like coordination problems are really optimization problems.

It’s common for huge government programs like the Space Shuttle, F-35, California High-Speed Rail etc to try and satisfy a widest range of different groups and therefore be N increasingly poor solution for any one group. In such cases the root problem isn’t finding the optimal solution to make everyone happy, the root problem is picking which groups get what they want and are willing to pay for it such that a project works well.

It could easily be the correct solution is to abandon a project early rather than waste a great deal of time and money either directly or by to upsetting some groups who will block the project. The same applies inside of organizations, though it’s less obvious from the outside.
For sure the situation won't improve under the current government, but there have been improvements in the past.

TBH I just hope that honest taxpayers (which I'm sure are the majority of people, given employees can hardly avoid taxes) will realize that this system is a problem, and start pushing for a more just fiscal system.
I think that's mostly because most people are skeptical about trusting people with IP.

If there was a way to prove that the data was not being funneled into openai's next models, sure, but where is the proof of that?
A piece of paper that says you aren't allowed to do something, does not equate to proof of that thing not being done.

Personally I believe all code work should be Open Source by default, as that would ensure the lowest quality code gets filtered out and only the best code gets used for production, resulting in the most efficient solutions dominating (aka, less carbon emissions or children being abused or whatever the politicians say today).

So as long as IP exists, companies will continue to drive profit to the max at the expense of every possible resource that has not been regulated. Instead of this model, why not banish IP, make everything open all at once and have only the best, most efficient code running, thereby locating missing children faster, or emitting less carbon, or bombing terrorists better or w/e.
There are many taxes that are not paid on profit... VAT/sales taxes, property taxes and a big etc

ABNB creates externalities to the countries where it operates (increase rent prices), so it would make sense to tax them because of it.

And if they don't like the tax, they are free to stop operating in that country ;)
Are you facing the dilemma of spring vs spring boot. Java Spring framework offers customization and modularity for complex projects. Spring Boot simplifies development with conventions, perfect for microservices and faster delivery. Your choice depends on project goals: precision or speed.
H is the second most common byte in 64-bit executables
I was curious how they avoid trivial idempotent functions like f(x) = x and it turns out that when they apply the network twice to an image of random noise to check for idempotence, the first instance of the network is rewarded for producing something that isn't changed much by the second instance (encouraging idempotence) but the second instance is punished for not changing an image that was produced by the first instance instead of being sampled from the ground truth (discouraging idempotence).

This technique has a GAN-like adversarial flavor to it, complete with stability issues due to competing objectives. Still, amazing that it works at all.
What does it other than habitty
Lies! It's 82% but these liberal elites want you scared, easier to control!
We've been using it for a year, as we often had the problem that somebody would push an update after an initial publish of a branch, not stopping the first branch and then two or more deploy jobs racing each other with unpredictable results.
How Money Laundering with Spotify Works [video]
... it was announced in a public speech on March 20 that year (2013), it was all kinds of bad (very ineffective and probably extralegal, etc)... but it wasn't a secretive conspiracy. (despite what Wikipedia writes.)

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/financial-fraud-enforceme...
The problem with most habit tracking apps is that they don’t put your habits in context with the rest of the day. For example, let’s say you miss a day reading, and that becomes a pattern. Current apps may not surface the fact that you’ve taken on too many evening commitments because they can’t show you your calendar.

I’ve been using Chronicling, another iOS app by an indie dev, and it lets you track just about anything, but since you can’t get data out easily you end up having a silo of events about habits without any sense of why you may or may not be keeping habits.

So, I’m building my own activity tracking now with a grist database since they have a nice API and in the end you end up with SQLite files which are highly portable. I am integrating a bunch of iOS shortcuts and also using n8n to auto populate as much as possible into the tracker so that I can correlate habits with other daily activities.
> You're acting as if Java is just reacting to what people are demanding - but I think that Java has been actively shaping how people learn programming for several decades now, and so should take responsibility for it.

Obviously it's a combination of both, but education about programming paradigms is not the ultimate goal. All features are there to serve the goal of producing working software. Of course, we add new features to serve that goal and to use them requires education but there's only so much you can educate your market to change their habits. You have to do it slowly, as we're doing now with ADTs. Also, PL fans tend to overestimate the actual impact of language paradigms. For example, for years Haskell fans have said that their paradigm leads to significantly more correct programs, but research hasn't found much evidence to support that. For various theoretical and practical reasons (some of which were predicted long ago), programming languages now see diminishing returns, and productivity differences between languages in similar domains are not that big.

The other languages in Java's very small club of super-popular languages are JS and Python (and to a lesser degree C and C++). They're not very innovative language-wise, either, because you can't be unfamiliar and popular. The under-20-year-old languages that are doing very well are TypeScript (which does innovate in the language but in the field of how to add gradual typing to JS) and Go (which is less innovative than Java).

Trying out novel language approaches and seeing how much of an impact they actually make (which is growing ever smaller) is the job for less popular languages. We try to pick ideas that have proven themselves after years of practice.

> Why does it take Java 10 years to fix something that other languages have done correctly from day 1?

Sometimes it's because they haven't done it correctly enough and the problem is harder than it seems, and sometimes we just have more urgent things to do.

> Swift has "rethrows", what's wrong with just adopting a similar approach?

Maybe nothing; maybe the fact that it doesn't work with streams (where exceptions thrown by lambdas aren't thrown by the intermediate operators but by the terminal operation). But whether its something like this or something completely different, we have more urgent things to work on.
what i find stupid is that you can represent yourself, but you cant have your non lawywr friend represent you. Despite one being better than the other.
Indeed, it seems that if you don't run your own kubernetes you're not cool enough.

Products should just work the way they are intended to be. Apple built an empire on this simple concept.

But hey, "open source all things" have decided I must use 4 products from 4 different providers to send an receive emails so that I am "safe".
As time goes on I can only agree with you. Also I find it kinda funny how there's a whole boutique industry propped up by silver-tongued people convincing business customers with poorly defined problems what those problems "ACTUALLY ARE" and oh boy it just so happens that they have a solution for it. In a way some people are stuck with a solution in search of a problem, I suppose.

But sometimes the customer doesn't want the alternative solution for various reasons, some ridiculous, a few valid.

Anyway my 2 cents and YMMV, it's not all doom and gloom.
Tutanota is one of the uglier and at the same time pretentious projects. As far as I'm concerned, this crap can't be called e-mail at all. This is some crookedly made homemade work. They don't support the usual protocols for receiving mail, the search is just terrible, all kinds of freaks use them for their dark business, so these left-handed idiots have even started to be added to ban lists. I recently spent half a month persuading the bank because I stopped receiving notifications. And I would also like to see the "engineer" who invented encrypting letters to other providers using a "password". Well, that is, this whole team of developers, managers - they were not upset by such an idea at all. Implement PGP? Let everyone post public keys and write to each other? No! What nonsense! It's better to go somewhere through a browser and enter some crappy password. And should I trust these bastards with my mail? I would spit in their face. I think this row should be filed for bankruptcy.
Just a few days ago added a "notes" page to my personal website on the same vein

https://marcospereira.me/notes/
> often I think that I have a job that any person could do with a few months of training

I occasionally think that too, but then I remember trying to introduce programming to people who couldn't even figure out how to save a text file.
https://habitica.com/static/home

A gamified approach for both Android and iOS.
> Every single point in the commit history represents an actual state of a repository at a specific point of time, along with the information of which point or points were next before it. This is all part of the true history.

Committers always have a choice of which of the changes present in their working tree they stage and then commit. The commit history is always a flat approximation of the real evolution of the files in the repo.
It suowed me something thet I was torrenting, a pretty niche video game. So I doubt that its making stuff up.
I've just checked our code, and we use `oldest_first`, not `newest_first`.
For me results are plausible. Some random videogames for my home dynamic IP, which could be downloaded by someone around me and no downloads for my VPS IP.
Can you cite a different model that demonstrates this or are you assuming that it comes out ahead simply because it gets built?

Coz there is a very good reason why it gets built even when it is not economic.
Need help with Div settings causing display issue
I'm just starting to learn, but it's much easier now with ChatGPT and other AI big models.

https://genphonenumber.com

I set the background and border for the entire page's div, then added a JS script to generate some numbers. The place to display the generated numbers also uses a div with an id element, but the result is that the right side of the number display bulges out.

I think there's a problem with the div settings, so I'll make some changes.
Time and new life experiences will mend some of your wounds. I had to give up my life's work and its mission. People often talk about regret of not trying, and there's a less-discussed painful experience of not accomplishing a mission.

If you'd like to connect, please reach out.
Seems right to me. That's why it's good to build with extendability in mind to allow switching easily in the future if needed.
Cool shameless plug AND a very nice interface.. I really like the look of it!
Euro Trip (Movie): Berlin? Yes, I know it well. I stabbed a woman in a bar in Berlin. But I am going nowhere near Berlin.
btdig.com is different and more useful indexer.
If you pay the delivery they will pay the full VAT of the total amount, but will get refunded on the VAT they pay for the restaurant goods. Thus every business only pays the tax on the value added. Not sure if this is how food delivery actually gets paid, but if you pay them and they pass the money to the restaurant then yes. If they pass the full amount to the restaurant their VAT paid us effectively zero.

But this case is not about VAT, but a rental tax. If Airbnb collects the money then I don't see why they wouldn't just pay the tax. I mean I know why - they don't want to include it in the price and make their product artificially cheaper by ignoring regulation, but tough luck.
Do you consider it lying when a commit doesn't include all changes in the working tree at the time it was committed? How about when a committer adds a file to .gitignore?
You’re completely missing the point. If they said “rolling out over the next week” it’d be one thing but they almost always say “available now” and it’s not. That’s not ok, that’s what we call a lie.
Airbnb already collects (and i presume pays) VAT so it's not like they can pretend they don't know where they are operating.
Yes, v1.1.1 comes with API changes related to DevDay announcements: https://github.com/openai/openai-python/commit/baa9f07f5b503... and small improvements/fixes
Hard to understand why something this simple would need iOS 17? Seems potentially worth it to digging into ehy you can't do a slight refactor to support ios 15,16
Then you didn't have an easy problem to begin with, you had a hard one ("summing too many numbers fast enough") [1].

Also I think that the parent didn't mean "as quickly as possible" in the execution speed or algorithm sense, he meant in the clock time sense: getting it solved quickly and moving on.

So in their (and mine) formulation, the problem is easy by definition. It's not an "easy problem turned had because it has to be optimized for speed".

I thought that your objection was that finding a simple solution would be hard itself (which wouldn't be the case if the problem is easy as in "easy to solve").

[1] not that coming with a basic series summation formula is "hard" (except you're Gauss, and you're the first mathematician doing it, the rest just need to know how to search for it), but I'll accept it as hard for the sake of argument.
>What did you base your storage cost calculation on?

Check the link above.

>LCOE doesn't account for nuclear running much longer than 20-40

I can assure you that LCOE does not assume a nuclear power station lasts 20 years. It assumes a normal lifetime - neither too short nor a lifetime that would induce catastrophic risks (e.g. 100 years).

I've seen no evidence that standard LCOE models under or overestimate solar/wind/nuclear power lifetimes at different rates and it would be presumptuous to assume that they do without evidence.
At least here in Australia, (about 2 decades ago) they seriously stopped having free coffee - or any other drink except tap water - for their employees.

Yep, it's as brain damaged an idea as it seems, and yep it's also an accurate depiction of how little they think of their employee productivity.
I will only pay for chat servers with all public code. If they go proprietary they lose my money and support.

I would find/fork a LibreMatrix and direct myself and all my clients to use that instead.

Openness and accountability is why I use matrix, and expect many others feel the same.

It is in the best interest of Element to stay open. After all, end to end encryption is impossible to trust if a central party controls both ends.
Contraceptive pills might impair fear-regulating regions in women's brains
> you cannot build scaling technology that inherits the self-custodial, permissionless, and censorship resistance qualities of the underlying ledger

Correct, and yet you seem to still miss the point. There are tradeoffs. You can't scale AND maintain those properties. This is why Bitcoin scales with layer 2 solutions like Lightning (and more ideas like Enigma, Ark, Cashu etc.), or things like RGB or Taro for expressiveness. Separation of concerns.

The best attempts to have their cake and eat it too have failed in crypto.

There is very little innovation to be had in the core function of what a blockchain was designed to achieve. There's plenty of innovation ahead of us for the layers that are built on top of it.
No reputable email service will allow you to use it to commit crimes. If the activity is against their ToS, and they get a legal warrant to provide information to the authorities, then this goes beyond any reasonable expectation of privacy.

Mailfence is pretty open about this[1]. Their privacy policy[2] also seems reasonable. Their only obligation is complying with Belgian law, and I'll take that any day over a service within the Five Eyes jurisdiction.

[1]: https://blog.mailfence.com/transparency-report-and-warrant-c...

[2]: https://mailfence.com/en/privacy.jsp