skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You sound fairly confident in all of your responses, but as soon as the question leads to anything less convenient, you bail. I encourage you to spend less time watching/reading the mass media news.
This is an important thing to talk about but falls under "sex, politics, and religion" so I can see things going awry here.

It is important because there's a lot of people who believe the United States should be a Christian Nation, and that would not be a good thing.

Edit: The current Speaker of the House (3rd in succession to the presidency) believes otherwise: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4308643-speaker-johnson-s...
> On 12 December 2023 at about 01:09–01:27 UT, Leona will occult Betelgeuse as seen from southern Europe, Turkey, Greece and Sicily.[14] The 14th magnitude asteroid will occult Betelgeuse (block or reduce the light) for about 12 seconds. Betelgeuse is expected to dim by about 3 magnitudes.[16] Light curve studies of the event may help understand the distribution of brightness over the disk of Betelgeuse.

Betelgeuse is the 10th brightest star. It's dimming by a factor of ~16, but will still be visible, which surprises me. Does anyone know whether this is because (a) Betelgeuse's diffuse disc is wider than the asteroid's, (b) Betelgeuse will refract around the asteroid, or (c) something else? I'm guessing (b) but don't know much about this.
Yes, this is effectively what 4DVar data assimilation is [1]. But it's very, very expensive to continually run new forecasts with re-assimilated state estimates. Actually, one of the _biggest_ impacts that models like GraphCast might have is providing a way to do exactly this - rapidly re-running the forecast in response to updated initial conditions. By tracking changes in the model evolution over subsequent re-initializations like this, one could might be able to better quantify expected forecast uncertainty, even moreso than just by running large ensembles.

Expect lots of R&D in this area over the next two years...

[1]: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2022/25-yea...
> why I do not think that Christ was the best and wisest of men, although I grant Him a very high degree of moral goodness.

No Bertie. He did not leave that option open to us and never meant to. To call him a great moral teacher is to entirely miss the point. He was either insane or lying or telling the truth.
Was very interested to see what Amazon could do with healthcare, looking at the page the first thing that popped in my head: https://scifiinterfaces.com/2018/10/12/st-gods-intake/
Lots of zeroes my guy
Is it fixable if they simply make the debt dischargeable and impose a tuition ceiling or is that one act sufficient to rein-in the prices without affecting access to what all students basically are: low income future worker citizens just starting out
Pretty sure SMS is pretty expensive fines per message in the US especially if there’s no unsubscribe feature, let alone one that doesn’t work.
Literally none of them are going to fight this. In a case like this you're going to be found bogus enough to have to pay Google's legal fees on top of your own. You'll be half a million in the hole before you blink.

99% of them either won't accept service on the Complaint or will fail to attend court. Google will win by default judgment on most of the Complaints.
Might this help? I wrote it: https://azdavis.net/posts/define-pl-01/
This is pretty anecdotal. We'd have to come up with ways to quantify it.

The story of the failing company taking a moonshot or making risky bets is pretty common.

This sounds like something that there'd be an HBS logo on, it likely already exists. It's a fairly easy thesis project.

There's an LLM that does conceptual searching of scholarly literature https://consensus.app/search/ but it looks like just a classic IDF/bag of words style approach labeled "ML"
Am I missing something or is "smallest webcam" a provably false statement? My laptop has an integrated camera that fits in the bezel, I own several Raspberry Pi cameras that are much smaller than this, and the word "tad" is doing a lot in the phrase "just a tad taller than a gummy bear".

Don't get me wrong, I don't particularly care seeing as the camera is suitably small and the other webcams are not fit for the same purpose, but my point is that if all I have to go on is the marketing, it doesn't inspire confidence.

Edit: The average height of a gummy bear is 2cm and the Tadpole is 3.5cm tall. A gummy bear is nearly half as tall (57%) as a this camera. I really dislike this copy.
Google's primary customers are rights-holders: particularly giant media corporations and very-popular youtubers.
Same reason why the attempt to change the name French fries to "freedom fries" was dumb.
Def value a good camera and mic with laptop.

Especially for extended work sessions or presentations.

Appearing clearer and sounding clearer can go a long way to being better received.
see you in 4 years...

$ date -d @1800000000
Fri 15 Jan 2027 12:00:00 AM PST
>it was full of data, most of it encrypted. [...]
Encrypted or no, if that was a backblaze drive, they were disposing of drives with customer data still on them

Who cares if there was "customer data still on them" if it was encrypted? One of the nice things about encryption is that you don't have to worry about wiping drives.
Even most of science does not survive the scientific method...
I came here to say exactly that. During the 00 recession, hi-tech companies were extending job offers that mandated PhD level skills, years of pertinent experience, among other things you would normally require 2 or 3 people to satisfy. Then, the kicker was a salary range far below what similar skill sets would earn. Again, it was a phony attempt to hire US citizens with a shitty offer so that they could go crying to the labor board that they couldn't find people and needed to work the overseas market with H1B visas. They'd bring foreigners on board, fire their existing staff, and then work the shit out of the new hires. In turn, they'd be stuck because their visa depended upon them having a job. If they quit and didn't find an equivalent, they'd be sent home.
GraphCast does predict rainfall - see https://charts.ecmwf.int/products/graphcast_medium-rain-acc?... for example.
Or, they saw it coming and had no profit motive to maintain their home nation's global dominance and prestige when they could just make short term profits, with a plan to later beg for protectionism and bailouts.
> it turns out they never actually cared about ~me~; they just needed to feed on the social interaction with me to gain energy for themselves

This rings very true. I have often in the past misread a conversation as sign of friendship; whereas for many people it was just something to do to fill in time.
I have preorders in for the R1S, the Volvo EX90, and the Kia EV9. I passed once already on buying the R1S when they had one in town available for immediate purchase, simply because they refuse to adopt CarPlay.

This incident does NOT give me confidence that Rivian is likely to offer a better alternative to CarPlay, despite their statements otherwise.

I suspect the EX90 will be what I land on eventually.
Exactly. The court will have to allow you some discovery to find the defendants.
- Lewis, paraphrased (some 20-30 years later I believe).
You go grab the one SWE with an education on the whole team or contract it out.
Must-Have Devices to boost Linux skills
>Its a new English word that is widely used

No it's not.

>it may not yet have been picked up by dictionaries, which are trailing catalogs of usage, but that doesn't make it “not a word”.

It's not picked up by dictionaries because it's not a word. Its small usage by activist does not make it a word.
How does that work in terms of DWI laws usually applying to public roads rather than private?
I once heavily relied on a project called Prisma. Our business depended on it as did others.

Then suddenly one day they have decided to completely remove a few crucial feature without much warning and release a version 2, without giving any sort of alternative to those great features.

They stopped support for prisma 1, deprecated the packages, changed whole codebase and links, features and so on.

It was open source project but at a very large scale where their change impacted thousands of businesses. A lot of people wanted to sponsor or support ongoing development of prisma 1 until the similar functionalities have been developed on prisma 2. But their repo, their rules, their business decisions. Which I respect. Nothing to do there, except accepting and moving on and creating alternative solutions.

It was devastating for me personally. Took me half a year to refactor a lot of code in a lot of different projects that were purely business logic dependent on prisma 1. And I couldn’t do anything as a solo dev at that point.

What could I do? I waited and created alternative solutions until we get official ones.

...

I still use prisma. Its a great piece of tool, backed by a the awesome community and team. They are doing wonders.

But the incident taught me a different reality of open sourced projects.

I tried to connect that case with the post and thinking back, I think you are right, and at same time, you could ask for sponsorship for your time, or share your situation instead.

People have expectations. Its what keeps them connected and growing.
I remember where I was when we hit 1,000,000,000. My coworkers thought I was strange for thinking it was significant.

... two days later all hell broke loose.
> He was either insane or lying or telling the truth.

Or wrong. People can say untrue things without being insane or lying. Sometimes, we're just mistaken.
> That behaviour quite likely lands everyone involved in jail in regulated (think big name entities with licenses in Malta types) companies.

I wouldn't trust these Maltese companies either. They've been embroiled in lawsuits here in Germany for ignoring gambling laws - and after a lot of gamblers won said lawsuits and demanding their losses be repaid, Malta actually passed a law limiting asset seizure orders from other EU nations, in a move likely to be brought towards the EU court system [1].

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/malta-gluecksspiel-100....
It's not clear to what extent it's soft skills since gathering requirements often involves pushing back and negotiating what is possible on the technical level while at the same time taking into consideration organization goals and even market considerations. When it does get there, I would expect almost every other role to be completely automated. If you can just tell an AI the requirements and it just figures out the best way to implement it and release it, then I'd say we're very close to a singularity where machines will just take over civilization.
The only reason to buy bottled water is so you can re-fill that plastic bottle hundreds of times from your tap.
Ken Griffin sees Miami possibly replacing NYC as finance capital
One of the most interesting reading experiences I have ever had was my library's copy of this book, in which a previous reader had added extensive commentary in the margins from a Muslim perspective. It was a fascinating mixture of agreement and disagreement that I can only sum up as "Yes, Christianity is wrong, but for this completely different reason."
OTA on a car. What could go wrong?
We don't know any of that. He didn't write anything down, nor did anyone else at the time. The Gospels were written decades later.
For anyone following along; Reuben is that "one person" lol.

I was being a bit hyperbolic with "only bug fixes" but.. A bit.

Haven't seen anything around workflows but will check it out and the structured storage stuff. Interested in running my own workflow engine on Orleans and reminders v2 looked like the perfect Quartz.Net replacement for my needs.

Thanks for replying; hoping you would. Someone asked about the future of Orleans 8 on GH a couple weeks back but nobody from the project chimed in last I looked. Know how it is with PMs and BAs and other work though.
Can you force them to undergo treatment? Do most drug users want to get clean but they don't have the resources?
I watch a lot of youtube interviews with homeless people (so I am an expert lol), but a common occurrence is a persons community, friends, family and entire way of life revolve around homelessness and drugs. It is way more complicated than just assuming they all want to be clean but society isn't willing to help them. How can the government provide an entire new lifestyle complete with work/friends/etc. for someone.

"Just imagine if our society put half the effort we put into getting people to drink Coca-Cola into getting people healthcare."

Healthcare is our #1 expense and growing bigger every year. We 100% put way more effort and money into it than any other problem our society faces.
It's often useful to be able to view people as more complex, across more dimensions, than you do here.
>> incredibly difficult or even nearly impossible

This is pure hyperbole. Changing (default) search engines is incredibly easy.
Using a different one is as easy as typing bing.com instead of Google.com in the address bar. Ta da.
It’s funny how relevant this niche fact is for me. When I started my last job it was at 1.3 and I remember seeing it go through 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 since I debugged a lot of data with timestamps. I remember commenting to my team about the 1.5 change and got some “so what” faces so I’m glad someone else looks at these changes as a sort of long term metronome like I did.
There’s no incentive for users to self report that. Especially the ones that will start bulk uploading content for views.
Obituary. necrolog is coming from French and is used in some languages, Russian for example.
I remember you remembering that when we celebrated 1500000000!
> Maintain what?

Okay, you're kidding me right? Have you actually used Webrings?

Lets say I click on a webring, and the "next" button goes to a 404 error. Now what? How do I access all the other links?

Answer: you can't. Its basically lost information. Webrings require ALL the web-administrators in the ring to keep their previous-and-next links up-to-date, otherwise the whole ring collapses.

There's a __reason__ why we stopped doing Webrings when Geocities stopped being popular. I've lived Geocities -> Homestead -> Xenga -> Myspace -> Facebook. At no point did anyone ever care to go back to webrings.

And suddenly here we are like 20+ years later, where people who clearly never used them are suddenly pretending that it was webrings that made the early internet great. Erm, no. I guess they were a sign of the times... but they weren't good or great by any means. We have better means of sharing links with each other today.

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Links die. Alarmingly quickly. Even today where people try to have long-lived links for SEO purposes and have specifically programmed scripts to help make links live longer... links still die and thus webrings break.

We didn't know how bad link-rot was at the time of webrings.

> You’ll be surprised what an untouched document from 5 or 15 or 25 years ago might reveal to you, once you can actually find them again.

Good luck. Geocities literally died. Yes, there's an entire archival process was undertaken to try to save Geocities, but I'm sure we missed some info.

Any webring pointing to a Geocities site today will absolutely 404 error out. You've already got to change all the links to point to the various archives (ex: Neocities IIRC has at least the most popular pages archived).

Now I ask: were you really around for the time of webrings?
Weather models are routinely run at resolutions as fine as 1-3 km - fine enough that we do not parameterize things like convection and allow the model to resolve these motions on its native grid. We typically do this over limited areas (e.g. domain the size of a continent), but plenty of groups have such simulations globally. It's just not practical (cost for compute and resulting data) to do this regularly, and it offers little by way of direct improvement in forecast quality.

Furthermore, we don't have to necessarily measure the whole atmosphere in 3D; physical constraints arising from Navier-Stokes still apply, and we use them in conjunction with the data we _do_ have to estimate a full 3D atmospheric state complete with uncertainties.
> open your secure port as root, then daemonize as an untrusted user.

That works for server applications. Well - so long as bad things don’t happen in a static initializer before the process drops privileges. But I also want it to work for other kinds of applications. I want to be able to fearlessly depend on a library and not need to worry about that library attacking my computer. Then we can have our cake and eat it too with big dependency trees made up of lots of small libraries written by untrusted contributors.

Another nice thing about this is it doesn’t depend on OS level capability support. Once implemented in a language, it should be pretty easy to make it work on every OS.

Interestingly, this is something wasm provides out of the box. And Firefox’s weird “compile deps with wasm as convert the result back to C” also achieves this end.
Even without the flight risk, a 5 year resume gap is difficult, especially mid-career. Accurate or not, your hiring managers are pretty much going to assume nothing you learned in those 5 years applies, so you are awkward to place. Especially if your salary expectations have grown.
You're comparing living in a car dependant city vs living in car dependant suburbs. It's not going to be meaningfully different. You mention the constant noise, but what do you think causes it?

To see what everyone means by car dependency, you'd need to see the few places that aren't.

Here's what a 100% car-free island looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWDFgzAjr1k

Here are some progressive European cities that have started to undo the damage that's been done by cars:

• Freiburg, Germany: https://youtu.be/6Vil5KC7Bl0?t=36

• Haarlem, Netherlands: https://youtu.be/ztpcWUqVpIg?t=90

• Paris, France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSQSBoHmG8s

Check out these background noise levels:

• A very busy mixed-use street in Amsterdam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8

• Exiting the train station in Delft, Netherlands: https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8?t=289

• Cycling streets in the Netherlands: https://youtu.be/bMJaMy-0ChA?t=242. You can even hear birds chirping at 4:29.
Related post "Inko Programming Language" which might get some interesting comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38270265

https://inko-lang.org/
This guy must be fun at new year parties.
I find the crime part of black markets pretty interesting. When you are selling legal products, if someone rips you off the system will generally help you, and the police may use violence as part of helping you. When you are selling illegal products, the system won’t help you and you have to be your own police. The big difference is that police violence is not considered “crime” while your violence is, even if they are achieving similar goals.
I thought Spirited Away (made in 2001) was awful, so much so that I didn't watch anything Miyazaki made after that for years.

I tried The Wind Rises (made in 2013), also found it terrible.

However, before those two films, I had seen several Studio Ghibli's earlier movies and found them pretty good. I thought Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (pre-Ghibli but the same group of people, with director Miyazaki) was absolutely amazing. So my impression is that their earlier films are much better than their newer works.
I recognise the source of this sentiment, but it‘s absolutely a false trilema.
This is such an interesting read, right in the league of "Smashing the stack" and "row hammer". As someone with very little knowledge of security I wonder if CPU designers do any kind of formal verification of the microcode architecture?
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” ~C.S. Lewis
It's 1080p. From the specs

> Resolution 48MP binned to 1080P
In a formal sense, anything you can compute on a computer is O(1) since there's only a finite number of states. But we tend to hand-wave that away.

Hash table lookup is absolutely bounded by a constant, but going from L1 to L2 to L3 to RAM with anywhere between 0 and 5 TLB misses is far from constant.
People will accuse AI of interfering with the USA presidential election.

Someone will try to marry an AI.

Something more obnoxious NFTs will be a huge fad, then collapse.

Someone will try to convince people that their AI can predict the stock market.

Somewhere, an author of an image generator will be arrested for "creating CSAM" after the model is used by someone else for that purpose.
My solution is to only watch videos from my subscriptions. High quality content curated by myself. I wish Youtube itself had a way to group subscriptions by theme, I mostly use NewPipe for that reason.
You can watch the live cams on RÚV.is or the tv channel ruv2 that streams from there. That way you also get RÚV radio sound, with their great music choices that now clash with the night images…
One of these days we will start treating fraud as seriously as we do copyright.
That video is a joke. Read the description.
Unfortunately, perjury only applies in court. DMCA is extrajudicial.
Wow. This is interesting. It used to be everything had to be on die... then on package... and with recent architectures, multiple dies, multiple processes... things are again exploding.
Yeah. I did see that. The phone has to be locked. I kept unlocking and losing the feature. I was confused first haha. But it is pretty darn good.
I don't think that counts when you're claiming to be God.
I'm calling it now: Google is going remove a ton of parody and satire that should have been protected speech and well-meaning people will struggle against poorly designed and frequently abused trigger happy automated systems.

The best we can hope for is a lawsuit that will result in a slap on the wrist for Google and lots of money gifted to lawyers while never making whole the people who were negatively impacted by Google's failure to invest in reasonable review practices.
Just take the L, bruh.
I like it, and certainly much more than java which I just can't. I have trouble committing to clojure fully for larger projects because it's still a bit niche in terms of the size of the community but nice that it interfaces with java, and for smaller one-off things I just use scheme.

oh, clojure also is a little bit weird being a sort of grab-bag collection of data structures that it inherits from java and then turns lisp-ish. doesn't make it bad, each thing they add is nice, just feels a little motley

also, i refuse to call it "closure", i pronounce the j
So far it is mostly presenting the science and facts in a pretty simple way to understand for the many (instead of the few) with a healthy encouragement to decide what works for you.

For me, I’ve just discovered we may not hear from enough neurologists in life when specialists can only explain their area, the perspective of the brain is sometimes what I was after all along.

Valuing brain health alone has been beneficial. You may find brain health either by him or someone else is a really beneficial area to spend more time around. I certainly wouldn’t if that information wasn’t reaching me how it currently is.