skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how that's an apt analogy. Geocentrism put the Earth at the center of the universe, around which the rest of the universe rotated. But saying life on Earth originated on Earth does not in any way put the Earth at the center of anything. Nor does it in any way mean that Earth is unique.

The bottom line is that -- because we don't know how abiogenesis occurred, whether here or somewhere else -- we have no way to judge how common it is. It could be that, given enough time, life spontaneously forms on any planet or moon that offers a certain set of conditions, and Earth just happens to be one of those planets, meaning it is still not "the center" of anything.

In fact, in the extreme case, panspermia is much more geocentric, saying that life formed in just one very special place -- maybe not the Earth, but somewhere, the "center of life in the universe" -- and then spread by diffusion to all the other locations in which life existed. But that seems like an unlikely and unnecessary model; if life can spontaneously begin somewhere, why should we assume it can't begin in many places, and if that's true, why not also on Earth?
Ask HN: Easy way to issue equity if you don't have a (Delaware) C-corp
The common sense advice I've read on HN is if you are not fundraising or dealing with VCs, to get a normal LLC in the state you live in. How do you deal with issuing equity to advisors and people you want to bring on in return for equity if you have an LLC? It has tax implications and potential other issues if you make them LLC members?
Google Fi seems to prioritize T-Mobile networks in my experience, maybe monetary related, but they had terrible signal near me. I got an app on the play store to force it to US cell, but I constantly had to switch it. I wouldn't trust the Google Fi app to "automatically choose the best network" _for you_.
Scientifically the only life I can prove exists is on earth. We have found no evidence of life in any form anywhere. It’s totally reasonable to believe that may in fact be the case. The statement that it’s geocentrism makes the supposition that it’s ego that drives assumption of life only on earth. However if life only exists on earth, we would necessarily be the ones observing the empty universe.

A distinct possibility is that it takes a long time and very unique situations for life to evolve. The first life in the universe would look out at a lifeless universe. Life may later develop, and we are the first. Maybe life develops here first, and ejecta from our atmosphere seeding the space we travel through spreads it through the galaxy and the universe.

Maybe life existed everywhere during the Goldilocks period of the universe and has died out almost everywhere and we are the last ember.

But the only evidence we have for any of these theories - literally the only evidence - is that we are alone.

But I am glad we keep looking to prove that wrong.
They’ve been doing custom accelerators for Bing for a few years. See: project catapult (2012). It’s all on FPGA, but similar.

In some ways, Microsoft was 10 years ahead, but they are terrible as an organization at proliferating research projects to production across multiple orgs.
You can rig a game of monopoly, you can rig a jury. The act of something being rigged is separate from it being legal. Sometimes it is both, sometimes it is not.
At least one person here appreciates that reference.
Thanks for sharing! I'm personally a fan of the idea that life has always existed, meaning we have always existed as well. It's very cool to listen to someone like Roger Penrose expressing his thoughts on what possibly happened before the big bang. In my opinion, everything in Nature repeats, and nothing is so special that it cannot happen again when we understand the concept of infinity. People who favor the idea of believing in God might be against such a notion, but I think it's worth exploring along with all the philosophy that can emerge from it.
Yeah, exactly, and that's kind of my point; there's not really much wisdom through that comparison in my opinion. I guess I am just saying that I don't agree with the sentiment behind "software I use should never crash" or the reasoning that chairs don't "crash" or something like that.

The trouble is that there's really no 'reasonable' amount of instability. The amount of instability we tolerate is essentially arbitrary. Desktop computers can have uptimes of several months to potentially years, which when I was younger (not that long ago, but long enough) would've been completely unheard of (And yeah, I'm sure microcomputers with vastly simpler software/hardware could run for a lot longer, but I think it's fair to say that's not a very fair comparison). For me Windows XP hardly lasted longer than a few days before things started to get kind of weird, and I consider Windows XP to have been amazingly stable for its time.

I think the state that we're at now is actually a result of software engineering and computers getting better. The software has gotten immeasurably more complex than say, the Windows 9x days, and yet stability has improved in many dimensions. If we were still making software with the same complexity and cardinality I can only imagine it would be significantly more stable, but it's always hard for the theoretical part of something to keep up with the practical part.
You could try adopting a less hyperbolic attitude. The job market is garbage right now, you wouldn't get a call back if you had Barack Obama and 50 cabaret dancers on the line. Employers are being stingy, waiting out the recession and seeing if anything is going to happen.

If you want to go be a subsistence farmer, go do it. The only thing stopping you right now is a lack of motivation, you don't even have to quit your academic pursuits. My advice is to dust yourself off, and either avoid AI if you really hate it or leverage it to turn a quick buck. Either way, the sky has not fallen and I've seen no indication that a single developer's work can be replaced with AI.
The converse is that many people including me have experienced issues with X11. I've been using X11 on BSD/Linux for 25 years and it's been a poor experience involving researching how to get a specific GPU to work correctly every time I installed BSD/Linux. This was especially frustrating when Windows/MacOS always just worked fine out of the box on the same hardware. When Debian switched to Wayland a few years back it was literally the first time in over 20 years that I had a working Linux desktop out of the box that didn't have basic issues like screen tearing. I appreciate the legacy X11 has left us but Wayland literally just works with no trouble across several machines I own.
This will probably have zero traction, yet:

1.ADHD is often misdiagnosed in women

2. The drop in estrogen around perimenopause/menopause worsens symptoms. It leads to late-life diagnoses as women's coping strategies no longer work as well.

3. Perimenopause starts 10-20 years before menopause; women in their 30's can suffer from perimenopausal symptoms.
Right now Intel is hamstrung because there is no separation between the fab and design sides. Nobody is going to trust Intel to fab their latest and greatest while the two sides are joined at the hip.

The sooner Intel spins out the fab side into its own entity the better positioned it will be to pick up the business that TSMC doesn't have capacity for.
You are exposing your ignorance here.

In general you would be right, but in this case you are likely wrong.

This civilization was specifically known for this, evidenced by their flexible religion that added and mutated the nature of Gods to bring diverse regions into the fold.
> Nothing stops spammers from spamming on HAM right now

Except the existing regulations, which is why spamming is relatively rare on Amateur radio.

Occasional infringement does occur, but it is relatively easy to track down and deal with.

And of course this is is the whole point of this thread.
Besides the ones drowned in beer I collected about half a bucket every morning.

The solution would be for everyone in the neighborhood to grow food and get rid of their car so that the hedgehog population can grow to match the food supply.
In particular, the icons are really bad. I get that modern flat icons can be a little abstract, but they’re at least visually distinct at a glance. Here you have three icons in a row that feature tiny text (11pt? 10pt) text above equally tiny icons.

It’s weird, because in the abstract I agree with a lot of the criticisms and principles in the post, but this example is so bad.
> In discussions like these, there's usually at least one person who shows up to demand data or research, but curiously never presents anything to back up their own claims about modern UI superiority.

It's easy to make fun of particularly bad modern examples, but I personally think people really take for granted that the baseline of usability for many areas has hugely increased over the last 20 years.

My recollection of some things that made older GUIs less usable, especially for non-techy people: vital functionality had to hunted for in menus or (much worse) right-click context menus, annoying modals everywhere, scary technical language, having to read the manual, lack of undo/redo/autosave, complex install processes, information overload sometimes, confusing file systems (like c:\ and weird file extensions), sharing and collaborating on files was cumbersome.

This is really obvious if you've ever had to help friends/family use something over the phone, as you realise how much knowledge you have to build up to confidently use some software.

It's really amazing what non-techy people can easily do on their phones and computers now, like real-time collaborative editing of a document (with automatic saving and unlimited undo) over a video call. Things like this used to be a nightmare to setup and use, and now it's taken for granted.
Single what out, all of them? ,'Electron-the-platform' does then, via which all 'Electron apps' (single thing or not) do, which is what GP's saying? It works this way for Electron-the-platform... And therefore every Electron app that uses it?
What were the merits judged by the competition?

No need for goal posts if we dont know what they were
> the difference between a space rocket and ICBM is the payload

If it was true, nobody would get nervous about the FOBS at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment...
Like all the other food, along with energy expenditures, and housing?

Yeah those are all up too. Thankfully, those don't count either. TV's are cheap though!
Might have been me. I’ve said that for years. I doubt I’m the first though.

I thought of that after seeing this:

https://phys.org/news/2013-04-law-life-began-earth.html

Doesn’t prove anything but fascinating.

Maybe life began early in the universe and is everywhere, but only in some environments has it been able to achieve high levels of complexity.

This is ultimately testable. If this is true we should find life in the subsurface oceans of moons, some comets, etc. and it should be at least somewhat biochemically similar or show other evidence of very ancient common descent.

If it’s false then ET life should be very alien with no evidence of common descent and also probably very rare. Rarity is likely because this would suggest that abiogenesis must hop up a very high complexity cliff, which is a highly improbable event.
I did technically work in the dotcom bubble, but I was paid minimum wage writing HTML and SQL while I was a young teenager. So, not a typical experience.

Fast forward 5 years though, and one of my first full time jobs was being a contractor for a small e-commerce company that (barely) survived the dotcom bubble.

They had a lease for a full floor on a high rise, but were down to a skeleton crew when I was brought in. I got to pick any office I wanted, since there were so few workers, so naturally I picked a corner office with an ocean view.

I thought life was great since I was getting paid decent money, I was in my young twenties, and the company was pretty chill about me just adding some features here and there and keeping things running.

The other folks though would speak about the 'good times' when they'd throw lavish parties, when the boss would hand out $100 bills to all the employees, etc. Sounded wild.
This is a really nice project. I built one on a RPi 3b+ a couple years ago when the project started. I got to chat with Randi Rossi about attaching a C64 keyboard to it via his adapter. He is a really cool and talented guy. Very down to earth (for such a genius).

It’s too bad that there isn’t someone else who could take up the project. I have a dream of seeing his Kawarii extensions to the VicII implemented in the emulator. Wow what a blast that would be!
I think you'll find very few buyers who don't plan to build anything substantive who are willing to pay multiples of what you purchased the undeveloped land for. If you bought a plot of land for $100K and sell it for $250K thirty years later...you've barely beaten inflation.
I've seen at least half a dozen websites do a redesign with these horrible features....I really do wish for the web the way it was 15 years ago.
„Ewiges Leben - ein Verleugnen der ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen.“

―Friedrich Nietzsche
Yes, they usually are.

Some offer premium data which is prioritized but whether or not that’s the same priority as post-paid traffic is not clear.

Even on post-paid, the plan you’re on can determine network priority. I usually carry two phones and sometimes the MVNO SIM data is completely unusable.
> He got so proficient with signs that it delayed talking; he preferred signaling and grunting :/

Please don't blame this on the signs! This doesn't mean that he would have learned to speak earlier if not for the signs. I'd be glad that he could communicate proficiently at all.
> I don't think the economics of this work because an Ethernet network is probably much more expensive than SAS

Well, iSCSI has been around for ages, and because people got fed up with Fibre Channel requiring dedicated switches and transceiver components, first came FCoE that allowed using regular network transceivers and switches and then FCIP/iFCP that added regular IP routing to the mix but never saw much uptake.
Absolutely hilarious that we have reached a point where the most stable API for Linux apps is win32.
The prime has to be at least... three times bigger than this!
It came from the warez or cracking scene, often just called "the scene" [1]. I don't know where the name came from, but the demoscene is definitely a (legal) spinoff of the (illegal) warez scene.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

> Demos in the demoscene sense began as software crackers' "signatures", that is, crack screens and crack intros attached to software whose copy protection was removed.

You may notice that many demoscene groups have the same name as warez groups, this is not a coincidence as they were originally the same people. All part of "the scene".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene
This sort of reminds me of the grumps who complain that the masses haven’t embraced Vim, RSS feeds, arch linux, fediverse, etc. Like it’s fine that you like them, but I’m surprised you’re surprised other people don’t quite get the appeal.
> I don't know many people who would claim that with a straight face. But it is your right to have that opinion.

I think you're taking the opinion out-of-context. The question was: "What are good places to get cheap college credit with a quality education?" The question was not: "Where should I send my kid to college?"

The context of the discussion was about finding ways to not pay $60k for freshman year, but to come in with credit.

The answer I'd give to that question is UMass. The tuition is $15k. The educational quality is very high. If MIT allowed it, the best-case option would be to _defer_ MIT admissions, do two years there, and then switch back to MIT. Sadly, MIT wants those dollars, and if you defer, you can't collect credits while deferred:

https://mitadmissions.org/help/faq/deferred-enrollment/

And no, MIT is not a meritocracy. Look at the new learning initiatives it launched, and look at the qualifications of anyone involved in senior positions. Or the heads of many labs, for that matter. It's 100% about connections at the top.

Admissions is _somewhat_ more meritocratic than Harvard, where >40% of the white students are admitted are ALDC admissions (athletics, donor, legacy, and children of faculty), but the days when MIT was a meritocracy faded in the days of yesteryear. I miss that MIT, but it's dead.
Interesting, I didn't know that. The real question is, if someone adds me by username, will they still be able to see my phone number after that?
In our timeline, we still have billions if not trillions of years of potential technological life and -evolution ahead of us, until the last (dwarf) stars cease existing, if not longer through other means, so I wouldn't rule anything out.

Also, even if life did not causally begin in this universe through "external" influence like this, transmitted signals may potentially influence the future of life greatly nonetheless.
Audacity 3.4.1
I love the attention to atmosphere, and light physics

Choosing to focus on the sounds and depth of field, other details of the world like the TV
Humans come on pre-trained hardware. An LLM embodied with senses would have all the data it ever needs starting from a similar pre-training.
Is it possible to force wayland to not use EGL on a card that ostensibly supports it? That would fix so many of my issues.
They made an emergency landing at the neighboring airport
Mostly has to do with SEC rules. % ownership of an LLC can work but has risks.
You could try https://slicingpie.com/, but in practice I found it burdensome.
Humans can’t automate and industrialise the process in the same way that AI can. That is to say, if I spend years learning how to write music and being influenced by a suite of prior artists, I can’t then package myself up and arbitrarily clone my capability such that an infinite number of people can ask me to spit out new music drawing inspiration from those prior artists.

Human capacity is rate-limited, and that’s an important distinction.

Another point: humans exist for a finite time. If I learn how to write music per the above, I’ve only got a set period of time wherein I’m collecting from the talents given to me by the shoulders upon which I’m standing. Sooner or later I retire/die and someone else must become the cultural torchbearer. If you consider some finite amount of capacity in the world to gainfully support all artists, I’m only drawing from that for a finite period of time.

Contrast that with AI, where, theoretically, in 50 years a model will still be just as able to create outputs as it is today.

Having said all that, I don’t have enough skin in the game to decide whether that builds an argument for regulating input vs output. I’m certainly sympathetic to the idea that it might, though. It’s a complex topic and saying “humans work this way, computers are fine to as well” doesn’t IMO capture the nuance of the debate.
I was with you until you said Tesla has a killer software team.

This is going to be a test for them. They’re always on, digital, networked, touchscreen-powered ethos is going to fall apart with the truck and off road. Stuff is physical in a truck because you’re often wearing gloves and operating in rough environments.

But seriously - we need to all ack here that this is not a truck. It looks like a truck, yes, but it does not walk or quack like one. Do a lot of current truck owners use them as a fashion statement? Yes. But on the flip side a lot of truck owners do truck things and the cyber truck won’t compete there. As a fashion accessory/commuter/bulletproof SF tenderloin machine yes it will and I actually think it looks pretty cool.
Why in the world would you care about that, when there are already millions of people who don't even know you who hate you because of things outside of your control?
SwiftUI is just it's own distinct nightmare, and only supported on one platform. MAUI is meant to be cross platform so it makes perfect sense to use a neutral language that isn't tied to a specific programming language.
Funny thing is that Apple could export this dominance across the world if only they would produce ever cheaper iPhones.

There's genuine Android fans, but also a lot of people buying them for the sole reason of them being cheaper.

Similarly, if they put their mind to it, Apple could conquer vastly more of the PC world.
I have AT&T, my partner has Cricket.

I've never been in a situation where my partner didn't have signal but I did.
Multiculturalism has been a winning recipe for empire-building since at least Roman times. If it was a feature of the Hittite empire, would it really be that surprising? Perhaps it would, as you seem to believe that pants (of all things) were a necessary precursor, and the historical record for those only goes back to around 500BC.

Sorry, I'm being coy. Your "pantsuit" dig is clearly an attempt to associate multiculturalism with femininity, and therefore weakness. Does that make you feel superior?

Oh, and as I'm reading about this empire (history really isn't my forté), it seems that the claim you find "preposterous" is extremely well documented. Ho hum.

The cool new discovery is that this well-known ancient multicultural society managed to preserve historical records of a language that was previously unkown. And who knows, maybe their women wore pants.
You are twisting my words, or you have a serious problem with reading comprehension. Getting morally angry while reading can have that effect, I suppose.

I asserted that a, b and c are true. I am 100% sure about that. I have not asserted anything beyond those in this thread (or elsewhere). If you can rebut a, b, or c I would be very interested, since I prefer to become more right over time.

In order to make a stronger claim than I am making, I would need to do more work. Where that work isn't "looking things up on the internet", it's "performing professional level legal analysis".
Enter? Companies are trying to keep up.

Just few years ago was four companies doing the bleeding edge: Intel, GlobalFoundries, Samsung and TSMC. Intel was the best. First Global Foundries could not keep up. Then Intel fumbled ant TSMC became the best. Samsung is the only one keeping up with TSMC but they come slightly behind. Intel tries to catch up the two. No companies have "exited" they just can't compete.

The bleeding edge semiconductor node design is like doing Apollo moon program every 4-5 years. Only one can be the best.
Yeah ... injured and forgot to tell the marshals that she did not want the trophy. Totally believable.
When the bull hippos wake up from surgery, if they have residual pain they will not be pleasant.
Yeah just need larger motors that can put out more torque which adds more cost and weight. Or you can have a way to connect each side with a locker or a single larger motor with brake locker control like dual motor vs quad motor Rivian's. Again the quad motor Rivian can be stalled on rock crawling due to lack of torque when multiple wheels lose traction.

Electric motors have a lot of torque but EV drive trains are usually single speed so it must not have too much gear reduction for highway speed. A modern ICE offroad vehicle has a multispeed transmission with torque converter that greatly amplifies stall torque along with a transfer case that has a low range that multiplies even further. I would imagine when jeep does an electric production Wrangler it will probably have dual motors with lockers and may even have a 2 speed transmission for low range. Maybe they will even do like their Magento prototype and run a single large electric motor through a traditional transfer case and driveline.
Talk to your radio supplier, there are many encryption devices routinely used on VHF and UHF.

Of course encryption is not impossible on HF, just a bit more difficult.

Whatever, both commercial and military uses are using encryption on HF.