skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, that sucks. I've been using Maxar as a default for many years now. About ten years ago we had much higher resolution imagery from Bing. I know because I mapped things that are not visible on current imagery like fences and poles.
I have to guess that a lot of the sales are things like "please look at this specific plot of land once a week" or something way cheaper than having someone go take pics or something.

Like if your job is to make a bunch of money predicting crop futures you could probably justify spending.... $10k/year on pictures I bet? Though you gotta be careful with this kind of reasoning and not double-count your profits. And like all of this kind of stuff I bet that Maxar lives off of people with inflated budgets being able to ask for stuff.
Wait she was a witch??
May I ask, how did you find out and how old were you?
The more you use GPT, the more you will understand that it's not the replacement for your attention to the work. And without the attention to the work, you can't spot bugs, blatant inefficiencies, or better design choices - in other words, if you don't take care, you won't even know what you are missing.

I write code with GPT every day for almost a year now, and it helped me greatly to kickstart code that was hard in the past, namely, audio synthesis, vulkan rendering, and other things that were hard to approach. But it's very clear at this point that it shall not be trusted, because it's like a coat of a nice paint put on top of all the clever or dumb stuff that exists on the internet. You never know which one you get, but sure it will be worded convincingly.
In my day to day life Google as a search engine has completely failed. What once was a place to find informations is now a jungle full of traps. DDG is my default, but GPT on Bing is the future. The alternatives are there, even doing better for some tasks.
This sounds like another nail in the coffin of indie devs.

I have 2-3 apps. I’ve started with Android with eclipse.

Back then I was really enjoying how I could make a small utility and get it on devices quickly.

After my 3rd nexus just died I’ve switched to Apple walled garden and.. got back to developing for Apple eco-system some indie apps.

Since then,
The amount of resources I’ve spent on just maintaining an existing app on Google play was so time consuming.

Let alone API and depreciation, the play store required me after all those years sooo much documents and procedures just to keep my account.

I’m not sure how Google got the play store experience to be so worse than Apple.
How come we don't see other countries attempting launches at this scale yet?
A lot of it is like that if you stay outside downtown.
I was on a team developing a critical public safety system on a tight deadline a few years ago, and i had to translate some wireframes for the admin back-end into CSS. I did a passable job but it wasn’t a perfect match. I was asked to redo it by the team-lead. It had zero business value, but such was the state of our team…being pixel perfect was a source of pride.

It was one of the incidents that made me to stop front-end development.

As an exercise, I recently asked ChatGPT to produce similar CSS and it did so flawlessly.

I’m certainly a middling programmer when it comes to CSS. But with ChatGPT I can produce stuff close to the quality of what the CSS masters do. The article points this out: middling generalists can now compete with specialists.
Those good enough results in the cloud world are going to cost them arm and leg. I for one would much prefer to spend my time on optimization of already established routines than on the damn ping-pong between product, design and "external stakeholders". It's actually what I was trained for.
Right. First thing will be bright billboards in space illuminating our night sky.
Great video. Thank you.
Faster Docker builds for Arm without emulation
Not likely. Both mobile platforms have app stores, windows has winget/chocolatey/..., macs are trying/have brew and linux has package managers since the 90s. It seems very much that this approach is winning over "side-loading" and for good reason.

Your complaint is somewhat orthogonal to this. It would be perfectly possible to just have multiple repositories/sources backing the same app store with different values of curation/censorship. Tick a box once to enable the sources and it is completely seamless. Of course, the store owners have little incentive to do that, since they earn a cut if you buy from their repo, but that is why you have to force "gatekeepers" (in the EU terminology). If they make it non-seamless, fine them and fine them again until they do.
> The Panama Canal Authority (Spanish: Autoridad del Canal de Panamá (ACP)) is the agency of the government of Panama responsible for the operation and management of the Panama Canal. The ACP took over the administration of the canal from the Panama Canal Commission, the joint US–Panama agency that managed the canal, on December 31, 1999, when the canal was handed over from the United States to Panama as per the Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

> The Panama Canal Authority is established under Title XIV of the National Constitution, and has exclusive responsibility for the operation, administration, management, preservation, maintenance, and modernization of the canal. It is responsible for the operation of the canal in a safe, continuous, efficient, and profitable manner.[1]

Emphasis mine
Wait before product-gen AI emerges. No, seriously. Do folks here not see it's possible even today with a complex system based on LLMs? It's a matter of time.
Generally something is legal until there’s a law saying it isn’t. That’s kind of how it just works in America, and it not just here either.

When that Google-AOl deal Google wasn’t even close to as popular as it is now. It was a simple distribution deal. People are tunneled in on the iPhone because that’s Apple’s juggernaut now but this deal with Apple also goes back to like 2002 when I was still convincing people to switch off Yahoo and MSN to Google. They also made a similar deal with Mozilla which is still basically how Mozilla is still able to operate at all.

I mean 2002 Yahoo probably could have outspent 2002 Google. 2002 Microsoft definitely could have and it’s not like MSN was a juggernaut, but they were complacent. I’ll just say it: Google wanted it more. Search and Advertising was basically all they were at the time, no Gmail, no Google Maps, no YouTube or any of that other stuff we associate with them now, and they went out and took the opportunities they could. They developed a toolbar for IE users, setup distribution deals for the toolbar, put it in the Firefox directory, and sought out new avenues of information to index like when they acquired Deja News and Blogger, and subsequently launched Froogle, Google Blog Search, Google News, Alerts, Images, Patents, GOOG-411, etc. Even acquiring and developing Android was a play that ensured even if their relationships went south and Microsoft came to dominate Mobile in a way that was beginning to look a lot more possible in 2006 (and not so much in 2011) they would never be entirely locked out of Mobile if that ever became a thing (which uh, spoiler alert, it did).

And when did Google really start to look like the juggernaut in the room? Well in Jan 2005 they had 35.1% of the search market to Yahoo’s 31.8% and a year later Google was at 41.4% to Yahoo’s 28.7%.[1] So probably you could say sometime about 2004 around when they IPO’d, maybe, is the soonest you could say they were really a juggernaut. That’s dominance but that sure isn’t anything close to a monopoly, and they were just outcompeting in both quality and distribution and in their search and ad product offerings. Acquiring DoubleClick even after Microsoft bid up the price was also a pretty good hat trick that was like a rocket booster for their ad business, putting Microsoft in a position where they had to spend almost twice as much for aQuantive only to write it down 5 years later.

This is why antitrust law is so scuffed. The DOJ just ends up re-litigating old contracts and continuations of them hoping that in the current political climate they can find an angle for the headshot in front of a friendly judge. They’re going to lose hard while playing up whatever small victories they can get along the way while wasting a lot of money in court and then the administration is going to change again which might continue any cases in progress but is still going to have its political priorities shift.

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/search-engine-market-shares-in...
Not enough eccentric billionaires that own their own orbital launch companies, I guess.
Starlink satellites are designed to not cause this problem, and are on a low enough orbit that the problem would solve itself naturally in a few years anyway.
Put a headphone on that.
This makes no sense whatsoever. What possible mechanism do you propose for the fungi to detect and act on such low-power microwave emissions?
I've heard "drop" used as a noun meaning release far more often. Plus the phrasing is usually slightly different when used as a verb.

"Let's table this" I've heard used both ways, extremely ambiguous.
> We're currently in a zero sum ideological war with them in which they have meddled in at least two of our last elections

Oh come on stop with this.

People need to chill.
China just did their own return-to-base rocket test, they're not that far behind SpaceX and are rapidly closing the gap.
Can you explain how better? A link to an example maybe
I would guess that "they" are "the capitalists" as a class. It's very common to use personal pronouns for such abstract entities, and describe them in behaving in a goal-driven matter. It doesn't really matter who "they" are as individuals (or even if they are individuals).

More accurate would be something like "reducing labor costs increases return on capital investment, so labor costs will be reduced in a system where economy organizes to maximize return on capital investment". But our language/vocabulary isn't great at describing processes.
ffs, Starlink isn’t high enough
A problem I faced recently with web components using shadow dom is styling nested components within custom element:

From <user-avatar> we can give styles to <img>

<user-avatar>
<img src="https://example.com/path/to/img.jpg" alt="..." />
</user-avatar>

but not anymore when its below <picture>

<user-avatar>
<picture>
<img src="https://example.com/path/to/img.jpg" alt="..." />
</picture>
</user-avatar>
Kenneth Ballenegger of Oyster Ventures removed due to his remarks
it's one of those things that will probably work most of the time

PPAs are built against Ubuntu packages as dependencies - which usually but not always match Debian ones. Easy way to get subtly broken programs
It's impressive because it worked. Nobody would know if it hadn't because the shot wouldn't have been used then. Yeah, that makes it kind a trivial but it's still a good shot because it worked.

What makes this one the "best" is that this shot needed to be done right or it couldn't have been done again for years to come (at least if the launch itself was meant to be somewhat meaningful). A myriad of things could have gone wrong but didn't. Of course it's also easy to see they had some tolerances to work with (turning away from the camera to say "that" while standing motionless to make sped up or dropped frames less obvious if they had been necessary).

It's a lot like videos of trick (ball) shots: if you saw them together with all the ones that didn't work, the ones that did wouldn't really stand out much. But when the stars align and everything just "flows" like it should, that gives many people a fuzzy feeling and that's what this TV shot does. It's like a choreographed dance routine.
I've referred to that clip in past conversations about future moon missions revisiting relics like the Apollo 11's flag and the first footprints.

People tend to forget every manned moon landing site is also a launch site. Sure, there's no atmosphere to disturb the dust since we left, but the liftoff exhaust didn't care much about that.

A launch that knocked over the flag over eight meters away[1] almost certainly also left a smoothly blown-out depression where most of the first footprints were, no matter how inert the site has been since then.

And beside that, between the two of them there was enough traffic in and out of the module that the first footprints were probably stepped on over and over again.

[1] https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html
If you’re earning 5 times median wages it might work out - America looks after it’s rich.

If you’re on less then not likely

But remember it’s not just your bank balance. Do you really want to live in a society where your neighbour can’t afford treatment for cancer? Or where your nephew gets weekly “active shooter” drills? Where you get two weeks a year holiday if you’re lucky?
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/tiktok-challenge-boy-h...
I’d need to see it.

I can’t get ChatGPT to outperform a novice. And now I’m having candidates argue that they don’t need to learn the fundamentals because LLMs can do it for them.. Good luck HTML/CSS expert who couldn’t produce a valid HTML5 skeleton. Reminds me of the pre-LLM guy who said he was having trouble because usually uses React.. So I told him he could use React. I don’t mean to rag on novices but these guys really seemed to think the question was beneath them.

If you want to get back into front-end read “CSS: The Definitive Guide”. Great book, gives you a complete understanding of CSS by the end.
I hope that you are testing this on GPT-4/ChatGPT Plus. The free ChatGPT is completely not representative of the capabilities or the accuracy of the paid model.
Yea his gift is assembling teams to solve technical problems - things that people already want but can't do yet.

He sucks at solving social problems where it's unclear what people want.
Why owning a car no longer adds up for drivers
That's what it sounds like to me. Thinking about a line of code before writing it down, or knowing what the code will do instead of trial and error (which... is what I often do, lol)
Here are other non-paywalled articles reporting on the news, but some say The Information was the first to report.

https://nypost.com/2023/11/13/business/openai-reportedly-try...

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-recruiters-luring-goo...

That said, the headline says the most of it: OpenAI-Google poaching wars similar to Facebook-Google now about 10 years ago, though the pay packages are about double today.

Note that the creator of Kubernetes almost took a poach to Facebook, but Google countered and he stayed to create Kubernetes. So the astute HN reader will look at the article headline and then look beyond, as often the article doesn’t tell the whole story.

Also context: YC has vested interests in OpenAI and HN moderation is part of YC. It is beyond me why HN moderation here decides to target my submission with needless references (one of those links is over 7 years old now) and have that appear at the top of the comments. Instead of hey maybe linking to non-paywalled articles. Which would be in the spirit of making HN a place about conversation and learning. And which would be much more aligned with how YC compensates HN moderation. Given there are many hard walled / paywalled articles posted to HN and do not receive such attention from HN mods as has done here, I hope the HN readers are able to weigh how HN mods target certain people in these forums.
Once we are able to send a Starship to Psyche 16, and start building new Starships, humanity is in for a huge leap. And this isn't even unrealistic - it could be that in 5 - 10 years the next major rush for humanity is to establish a permanent industrial presence on Psyche 16 and start making things...
Reading this using a 2010 MBP, the first generation of retina ones without optical disk drive. I no longer use it for work for continuity reasons, but I could, it runs all my applications without breaking a sweat (back then this was the maxed out i7 option with 16GB ram)

- Display was replaced under warranty after 2 years due to ghosting

- Upgraded the 256GB SSD to a 1TB model after ~5 years

- Had the battery replaced by Apple store after ~7 years

- Mainboard was damaged by Apple store (USB no longer worked after battery replacement), after a lot of back-and-forth they replaced it under warranty

So I'll admit, not much of the laptop is still original, but the fact that I can still daily it for my development workflow is impressive. This thing just won't die.

For work I replaced the MBP with a Lenovo X1 Extreme, partially due to the praise of Lenovo here on HN. The total investment of the Lenovo was higher than the MBP, but I was planning on doing another 10 years with the Lenovo. Though the build quality is OK-ish, but I have never been satisfied with the it. Linux support (the main reason I bought Lenovo) is rather bad, the laptop gets very hot, fan noise and coil whine make it annoying to use. The battery completely died after just 2 years, and Lenovo could not supply a replacement (they actually recommended searching on Amazon for a aftermarket replacement!). SSD died after 3 years, luckily they are replaceable. One fan died after 4 years, had to source a used one from ebay since Lenovo no longer offers replacement fans. Had to replace the thermal compound on the heatsinks twice due to the laptop starting to overheat and shut down.

I know, I know, sample size of one and YMMV, but I don't think I'll buy another Lenovo laptop after this one.
iFixit
Kodama was the daughter of an Argentine mother of Swiss-German, English and Spanish descent and a Japanese father.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Kodama

Tsukimono-suji or Japanese hereditary fox witch apparently.

Or not. YMMV.

Either way, an interesting biography to read.
> At BW this would not be considered provocative. We optimized for the most direct/impactful communication. It wasn't meant to wound people's feelings per se - but using the feelings and dealing with them was part of the toolkit.

I'd love to see the psychological research which backs up this approach -- because there's a lot of research which suggests that tailoring your communication to the individual is generally a good idea, and that being confrontational can have significant negative consequences.

Furthermore, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is just a patently bad take. Being smart and being rich don't exactly have a correlation coefficient of 1. In fact, the top 1% are generally less intelligent than those just above median income[0].

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230208125113.h...
During the closing in the finance office.
I’ve tested it on both.
I prefer the original
Maybe it's just me and my bad attitude toward products today but this could explain why everything seems to be turning into low-quality garbage. I'm not a millionaire business man so I must be doing it wrong, but spending over 1/3rd of your revenue stream on customer acquisition rather than anything product-related seems like a bargain I don't want as a consumer.
Would any of it have happened without Elon Musk?

Sure, there are many people who work in the organisation that he built that help him achieve his vision, but none of that would have existed without him challenging the world to an impossible dream ("live on Mars!"). Without Elon Musk, the space industry would still have been focused on SLS-style projects: slow to develop and impossibly expensive, the domain of only one or two governments, and always at the mercy of the next administrations' priorities. Instead, if he succeeds, humanity will be transformed, from a species that barely dips its toes into space, to one that can finally begin to truly explore the solar system. It's as much the start of a new age as was the voyage of Columbus.

Giving Elon Musk credit for this is certainly not misplaced. Denying him that credit because you disagree with him politically (as another poster suggested)... I have no words for that, it's just so ridiculous. This is the pinnacle of human development right here, and you would deny it because the guy votes Republican? You know, like literally half the people in the country?
India had a military exchange with China and banned TikTok alongside several other Chinese apps in retaliation. Their official justification was "national security concerns". preciousoo is, charitably, just making things up for no reason.
Is that really a concern? It may not be super healthy but it's not like you are going to a rocket launch every day. Airports are very unhealthy with the PM 0.1 levels but i haven't heard of anyone not flying because of that.
Instagram presumably isn't controlled by an expansionist imperial power in Nepal's backyard.
It's not that I don't believe you, but without sharing the specific prompt it's hard to say if it's actually GPT4 failing, or if it's actually being poorly-prompted, or if actually the task it is being given is more complex than GPT's capabilities or you are implying.

GPT4 does fail (often!) but fails less with good prompts, simple requirements, it is better at some frameworks and languages than others, and there is a level of total complexity which when reached, it seems to fall over.
The post gives an example of how python doesn't have this feature in the section [https://blog.vero.site/post/noulith#coding-with-and-without-...]

Python fails this criteria because if you type as you think through the process, you have to move the cursor to the beginning to prefix the 'map' around the input.

For example this series of transforming the input:

puzzle_input.split("\n\n")

map(ints, puzzle_input.split("\n\n"))

map(sum, map(ints, puzzle_input.split("\n\n")))

max(map(sum, map(ints, puzzle_input.split("\n\n"))))

----------------------

Compare to this postfix syntax where you can write this incrementally as you think through the operations:

puzzle_input split "\n\n" map ints map sum then max
> So a hidden industry of third-party location-marketing firms has proliferated in response. These companies take their beacon tracking code and bundle it into a toolkit developers can use. The makers of many popular apps, such as those for news or weather updates, insert these toolkits into their apps

> Location marketing aims to understand “online-offline attribution.” If a Starbucks coffee ad is sent to your email, for example, marketers want to know if you actually went there and bought a coffee. The only way to know is to monitor your online and offline habits at all times.

> Beacons are also being used for smart cities initiatives. The location company Gimbal provided beacons for LinkNYC kiosks that provoked privacy concerns about tracking passers-by. Beacon initiatives have been started in other cities, including Amsterdam (in partnership with Google), London and Norwich.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231027211008/https://www.nytim...

It's the wild west. We're illegally surveilled every day and the government uses the same data in product that allow them to track people without warrants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Reveal

There are no "rules" against receiving a signal. All you need is a radio that can pick them up. The rules apply to those broadcasting things afaik
> Which one is easier to reacquire? You can just walk to any store, grab a phone and restore it from a cloud backup (or even a local one if you're so inclined).

Losing the phone can equally lock you out of services for good. There are a lot of overzealous and badly implemented 2FA.
Yes. There were changes. They changed their name.