skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense to me. "Procedural precedent + metrics" versus actual legal precedent.
> Self-driving trucks were going to upend the trucking industry in ten years, ten years ago.

At the risk of going off on a tangent, we already have the technology to allow self-driving trucks for a few decades now.

The technology is so good that it can even be used to transport multiple containers in one go.

The trick is to use dedicated tracks to run these autonomous vehicles, and have a central authority monitoring and controlling traffic.

These autonomous vehicles typically go by the name railway.
Thanks a lot.

Now the tiny George Carlin in my head won't stop saying "jumbo shrimp, tiny LLM."

Good luck.
It's true though. The same transformation of the ending syllables happened with Indian becoming Injun (although that one eventually became offensive, unlike Cajun).
People would forget in a month and move to other platforms.
Afaik starship doesn't have and will not have an abort system. Lacking that, NASA will never put humans in it for takeoff from Earth.
I don't understand why people always assume upside and downside risk are symmetrical on the big issues. Consider the set of potential outcomes on a few political hot-buttons:

Global warming (incorrect): We wasted some fraction of human time and resources implementing carbon capture that wasn't necessary. Minor economic hit compared to the counterfactual situation where global warming was never considered.

Global warming (correct): We prevented the collapse of the planet's climate and the ensuing death of most living creatures.

AI will take our jobs (incorrect): We wasted time unnecessarily preparing for a paradigm shift in employment that never happened. Universal basic income was implemented which led to a small positive/negative change in worldwide economic productivity.

AI will take our jobs (correct): UBI was never implemented. A feedback loop emerged where almost all wealth siphoned quickly to a few individuals. The reward mechanism that incentivized the general population to work broke, and hasty attempts by the government to implement a "fair" system of resource distribution among the now "economically worthless" population failed and led to mass supply chain failure, worldwide mental instability, and societal collapse.

Even if you consider the probability of the latter scenarios to be something like 1%, I would argue they are still worth wasting human time and resources on.
Energy Firms Hacked in Largest Coordinated Attack on Denmark's Infrastructure
I kind of agree, the track record of people obsessed with BigO is not good in my book. The last person that valued it would still get the smallest element in a collection by... sorting it and then selecting the first element.
Having done both web and gl ux for a living, I think you might be overestimating the complexity of a gl implementation and underestimating the complexity of meeting the same specs using a web implementation.

While not quite the same thing, if you have the time, dip your toes into some immediate mode UI, for example imgui. It is enjoyable not a grind.
I've had a bunch of my blog's readers and Mastodon friends leave comments on them.

The stories aren't as popular as my normal blogging - but I was expecting that.

Looking at my logs, I've had a few hundred people read them, which is lovely.

And, frankly, it doesn't matter if I suck or you suck. The joy of creation is its own payment.
My favorite part of insider trading is that it only punishes those who take action. You buy or sell. If you have insider information that prevents you from buying or selling, that’s just fine (at least that is my understanding).
You're not technically wrong, but that's like complaining about the bad gas mileage a semi truck gets when driving it to Starbucks for a coffee. Yes, the gas mileage would be better with your Prius. But no, that's not the real use-case for this thing.
The nominal reentry and water landing is targeting the area off of Hawaii.

I believe it has to do with risk analysis of not re-entering over populated areas. The open ocean around Hawaii doesn't have people, so if it re-enters and breaks apart, there's no risk. Also, I suspect there are good military radar installations on the islands that might be able to provide additional information.
The author put this behind a paywall. How is that any different to you than Substack or the NYTimes?
quora is ccp owned by now?
NaNoWriMo, though a net positive force in the world, strikes me as a creative exercise for non-creatives. Truly not a bad thing, no offense intended. Trying to create regularly will help you become more creative.

However, if you're already someone that is able to maintain a writing schedule and hit daily targets of hundreds of words, and can see your dream works emerge through the simple act of scheduling... I'm gently skeptical of where your motivation to create comes from. Bear with me.

Before we get bogged down in it: Misery and disorder are not requisites for creativity and I'm certainly not advocating that, either.

The issue is that trying to hit some sort of material target by artificially imposing a daily grind on it forces your work into a box created by the work-a-day-world. An undeniably effective one, but for everything?

The global marketplace is what sets deadlines like "by the end of the day!" and "by the end of the month!" where as works of art and creators can both bloom like flowers and get seasoned over large segments of time like waves washing over a rock face.

Your arc as an artist or creator, starting from the discovery of that impulse inside yourself, may be one that spans decades or your entire life. If that's the case, success or failure in NanoWriMo may be a bad indicator for you:

"Oh shit, I missed my 7pm writing alarm and forgot to write ~1700 words, now I'll never be the next Charles Dickens!"

could come from the same writer as:

"After a slow walk through my city on a crisp fall morning, I can sit down and write 5000 words without so much as stopping to stretch my wrist."

and:

"I don't practice art regularly, but sometimes when I get the urge, I will be in the throes for 3 days trying to work out the specifics of an image that has flashed into my mind."

These and many other creative modes are valid and exist independently of schedules, clocks, word counts, time limits and other cops we might invite to sit by our writing desks, easels and computer terminals.
Have they evacuated the town?

Edit: I see that it looks like they have but residents will be allowed in to retrieve belongings. Is there any chance that an eruption comes in the form of a large scale collapse above the magma chamber…or is that not plausible?
> If the results were more akin to a google or stack overflow where there was a list of results with context.. sure.

I don't think the history of the usage of either shows that most people make any use of that context.
I've had bouts of battling hot laptop bags. It's almost always been software other than Microsoft or Intel causing the device to wake and start chugging away heavily. Usually some misconfigured security tool or bad drivers constantly sending wake events.

Personally I really like having my device automatically connect to the Wi-Fi when I get to the office, reconnect VPN, get chat and email synced, get ssh sessions reconnected, etc all before I even unlock the machine. It's a great feature IMO, just every now and then there's some boneheaded app that decides 9am is the time to wake the machine and scan every file modified in the last several weeks regardless of the current power state.
Shutdown of CodeCollab
Last year I made the first Stable Diffusion app [1] to redesign your interior (upload a picture of your room, and it restyles it to a different design style).

Last week, GPT-4 Vision was released [2]. It allows developers to upload a picture and ask questions about it.

I figured it would be be a compelling product to get a interior design consultation, by AI.

The feedback is surprisingly detailed and useful. It understand the layout of the room and can give actionable recommendations on how to improve the flow, overall aesthetics, etc.

For people on a budget, it might be a great starting point.

The next step will be to visualize the recommendations with AI (Stable Diffusion) so you get a better sense of what your room could look like.

Curious to get your thoughts!

[1] https://roomai.com
[2] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/vision
People are coming to realize how many rights have been taken away from children after decades of progressive policy side effects. Schools have been complicit and aren't going to be solicited for their input. They're going to be changed as well.
The prompt in the original article says:

> Answer in JSON. The JSON should be a list (length 5) of dictionaries whose keys are “Missing_Entities” and “Denser_Summary”

Also I think it doesn’t make sense to write in the prompt for gpt to iterate if it is not doing the iteration. There is not templating of the step number or recursive summary injection in the sample prompt either.
That’s Thai bud. Based on the South Indian Tamil script. It doesn’t have much to do with Nepal.
Panama Canal
SpaceX already takes people to the ISS though right?
I mean, especially in webdev we've been heading in that direction for a while now anyway. So much of the job is already just wiring up different npm packages and APIs that someone else has written. I've read substantially similar comments back in the mid 2010s about how people weren't learning the fundamentals and just pulling things like left pad off of a repo. That did cause a disruption in how people coded by abstraction away many of the problems and making the job more about integrating different things together.
Ok, thanks for the link (and the text of your post is in fact a quote for that page); but the page in question is from the UK department of justice. In the judicial system it makes sense to call all minors "children".

In an article for the general public, the use of the term is disingenuous IMHO, because people usually don't think of 17-year-old persons as "children".
Progress depends on unreasonable people who refuse to adapt themselves to the world.
2010 showed what kinds of impacts can occur when a volcano erupts in Iceland. [1]

> In response to concerns that volcanic ash ejected during the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland would damage aircraft engines, the controlled airspace of many European countries was closed to instrument flight rules traffic, resulting in what at the time was the largest air-traffic shut-down since World War II.

> On 16 April 2010, 16,000 of Europe's usual 28,000 daily scheduled passenger flights were cancelled and on the following day 16,000 of the usual 22,000 flights were cancelled. By 21 April 95,000 flights had been cancelled.

> IATA stated that the total loss for the airline industry was around US$1.7 billion (£1.1 billion, €1.3 billion).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_travel_disruption_after_th...
"John/Jane Doe" is a common placeholder name, it's twenty people they couldn't identify.
Is Blender accessible this way? Or is it, as they said, just an OpenGL surface with some widgets painted on?

My apologies for the word "just" doing a lot of work in that sentence.

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/blender-and-accessibility-for-...

> As a multi platform OpenGL app everything we draw is quite hidden from screen readers. Without cross-platform open source libraries available I can’t think of a feasible way of interacting with existing screen readers.

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/301899/blender-a...
Well National security isn't wrong considering the huge amount of data being siphoned off to the communist party.
The etymology of dialogue is from the Greek `dia` meaning `through` and `logos` meaning `words`.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/dialogue explains the common confusion with di-
the Raptor engine series is an extremely high barrier to entry. I would bet 30% of Spacex's innovation lies in that one engine. Its combination of thrust, efficiency, and small size are beyond anything else. The size blows me away, if you took the nozzle off it's about the size of a car engine.

Without the engineering breakthroughs to produce something like the Raptor engine launches at this scale just aren't possible. There's other engines with thrust to match Raptor but not the efficiency nor size. For example, there's just no way you can put 33 RS25s under an airframe.

from the link below

"The SpaceX Raptor 3 was recently test fired and reached 18% more thrust than a Raptor 2. The Raptor 2 had 25% more thrust than the Raptor 1 and it was 20% lighter."

it's just crazy what that propulsion team is doing...simply crazy

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/05/spacex-raptor-3-engine...
> Eh, probably a poor example considering the iPhone 4 was hardly a flop and was still broadly considered the best smartphone out at the time. The people who thought this was a total-showstopper were, on the whole, probably wrong.

At least in Germany among tech nerds, the iPhone 4 and Steve Jobs become topics of insane ridicule because of this incident.
His main gift is amazing fundraising capabilities. And people will disagree if he’ll do that by selling a compelling vision or lying.
Person 1: I like <list of things>

Person 2: Those "features" are arbitrary stuff Apple told you to care about through their marketing.

How wildly condescending lol. “You don’t actually like those things. You just do as you’re told, puppet.”
Opal Tadpole – A webcam for laptops
Nothing – We made iMessage for Android [video]
Numerically it makes sense, but I don't have the feeling of cost at all with range restriction. If anything, it should become cheaper.

So, I'm way, way below the Olympic status of Terry Tao, but he might be abstracting a bit too much here. This may not help students understand the topic.
What is the current leader for compositing in the open source space?
Kind of like all the car commercials today, they never show people stuck in traffic.
Maybe the pricing is off?

There's lots of things I'd use at $n but wouldn't use at $10n

And the corollary of this - if open source didn't exist, the result wouldn't be me paying for lots more products - it would be using lots less products.

Certainly - the advent of paywalls has meant that I mainly don't read those sources. Even the more affordable ones come with a mental tax of deciding to subscribe/cancel, remembering to renew/cancel etc...
survivalship
The general US population considered Sputnik to be an existential threat. The original space race had all the impetus of a (cold) war effort.

China putting a woman on the moon would be a little embarrassing to the US, but people would forget about it in a week or two. It wouldn't prove China's technological superiority, just some vague sense of moral superiority. And there are a lot cheaper ways to send that message.
Thank you my brother, my physics lingo for this was kinda lacking
Or you can just not do that, which is what Blender does.

To be fair, there's not all that much use in Blender for folks who cannot see a screen clearly.
FTA:

> “‘Nothing Down’ Plan Proves Undoing of Landowner,” read one headline in The Honolulu Advertiser. Turns out those who couldn’t afford a down payment couldn’t keep up with monthly ones either.

Imagine that.
I wonder whether it's achievable to have a plugin system similar to how web extensions work where you could write a plugin and have it work across different editors. I see how getting people to move to this editor might depend on people moving over once a sufficient amount of their current editor's features are supported, some of which might be contributed by extensions.
I think your view is too strongly assuming that everyone in the market is perfectly rational and perfectly replaceable with zero transaction costs..

Especially when you start talking about a single person company, it could be as simple as the founder being sentimentally attached to the company and continuing it despite making less than they could with other opportunities, but that doesn't mean that if the founder gets hit by a bus someone else will also be willing to take a sub-optimal gig. Or a company might currently be barely worth running with $20k a month in revenue, but if there is a period of turmoil and lost customers in the process of open-sourcing/founder getting hit by a bus/whatever that now the customer base would only bring in $10k a month, it's no longer profitable, and the market fails to find someone to run the company.
I wish they would get a border deal done. That's what the GOP base wants, and quietly what a lot of Dems want too. This is just nonsense.
App stores offer refunds.

It was better when apps had a fixed price like in the early 2010s. At some point it was decided that subscription apps were where the money was at, both for devs and for Apple who took a silent cut every month.
This is one of the few cases where the "perjury rule" actually matters. The "perjury rule" says that it is considered perjury to falsely claim that your are authorized by the rights holder to make the DMCA takedown request. Contrary to popular belief, the perjury rule does not say that it's perjury to falsely identify something as the copyrighted work.
> I believe it would have happened, with or without Musk.

This is a meaningless statement. It would happen, but when? about now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now? You keep saying team effort. Do you think Blue Origin or Arianne Group have less talent than SpaceX? Why do they achieve much less?

> I don't believe in providential people, at all.

SpaceX almost went bankrupt in 2008. Without Musk gambling with his finance to rescue the company, SpaceX would have been a footnote in the space history. It wouldn't have survived long enough to have the NASA's money. The team that they’d built would have been spread to who knows what kind of companies.

> the current state of manufacturing technology : we can automate a lot of operations that were done by hand in the 70's, we can iterate prototype much faster)

So why did SLS take that long? Arianne 6? New Glenn? What about a plethora of small launchers that are still not yet widely available?

> a lot of essential hardware is now much cheaper, reducing the initial investment cost

Essential hardware is only a small part of a rocket program. Arianne 6 was supposed to be Europe's answer to Falcon 9, 50% cheaper than Arianne 5. Supposed to debut in 2020, it still has yet to launch. So it costs Europe tax payers est. 5b euros for a rocket that is technologically inferior to Falcon 9, lower cadence, yet more expensive to build and operate. - [1]

> the market ie. there's a market to send many tons of hardware into orbit, money can flow into such projects

That market didn't exist. Looks at the chart in this article about the number of objects (satellites) sent to space - [0]:

The number skyrocketed after 2016, once Falcon 9 has become established. SpaceX has enabled the market, not the other way around. SpaceX just launched 1,000 tonnes of payload in 2023, four times larger than the second place (China the country).

> it's now possible to test some rocketry ideas in your garage, it's not a closely garden anymore. The pool of very experienced rocketry engineers is increasing

SpaceX was built 20 years ago with nothing but a vision of Mars colony. There was no pool of experienced engineers readily available back then. They are now a powerhouse and they can hire whoever they want. The question is, why there hasn’t been another Starship?

[0] - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-...

[1] - https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/oops-it-looks-like-the...
Afaik the linked case of the melting of statue of Lee is more complicated than that.

After US civil war north attempted to demolish and rebuild the institutions in the secenniost southern states

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era

In a way the melting of the statue can be viewed as a continuation of the northern purges of southern institutions.

Twitter/X is crap for nuanced discussion, but a facet of the US history is the tendency of the east coast to crusade over the sensibilities of the other states in a form perceived (rightly or not) as puritan zeal.

And as I understand it, not all of the cases are hardly as obvious as the abolishment of slavery.

I’m not from US so I might be completely off base though! I don’t follow the white supremacist scene so this might very well be a dog whistle from all I know.
I think most of Elon's stuff is low enough that it deorbits fairly rapidly due to air resistance.
Ask HN: Anyone get notified of GCP ending support for older versions of Node.js?
While viewing one of my cloud functions in the Google Cloud console, I noticed a banner at the top saying:

> Node.js 14 will be deprecated on Jan 30, 2024. Please update this function using the latest runtime version available.

I searched through my email to make sure, but I received zero notifications about this. It's not a huge deal, but it's pretty annoying. I also couldn't easily find what the supported versions were on any of the Google Cloud Functions documentation pages. The cloud functions page lists all of them going back to node.js 10[0]. However, I found the app engine support schedule listed the actual dates[1].

Just wondering if I was the only one who didn't get notified. It really feels like another straw on the GCP camel's back.

Edit: found the functions runtime support page: https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/runtime-support

[0] https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/concepts/nodejs-runtime

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/lifecycle/support-schedule#nodejs
It seems to me that the world would be an objectively better place without any of the current generation of social media where you get force-fed content.

Anything with a “feed” of anything other than what you specifically seek out to follow should be constrained at least by persistent warnings like cigarette labels and prevented from being used for advertising (subscription or freemium model).

Advertising should be banned on media that is proven to promote social harm.

MySpace, blogs, newsgroups, IRC were the socially optimal form, even if not the commercially optimal implementation.

Everything else creates ragebait, doomscrolling, self reinforcing insecurity loops, rabbit holing, and other negative social consequences.

If anyone has a counterpoint, I’m actually really interested in other, more positive, models for online social interaction.
Intertwined economies are part of it but I think people underestimate the importance of norms. EU leaders and ministers are regularly in meetings together. When there is a crisis now the reaction of all EU leaders is to hold a conference for them to hash out how to deal with the situation. This establishment of the norm of talking whenever there's an issue is very powerful.
Doesn't that mean that they should just raise the price? Flippers mean there's uncaptured value.
Don't try to find that needle in the haystack of a million-app Play Store. F-droid is all you need.
They want to move Twitter from 4chan/LiveLeak/9gag style culture to TikTok/Insta like environment because pretty faces selling cheap stuff is more preferable(?), and doing so without a shutdown/relaunch. That was the direction even before the acquisition that never worked.

Last month they were trying to move it few inches towards direction of Reddit, but the culture didn't budge so they're recalculating plans. I bet it's going to help Bluesky a bit and that will be it.
> I feel that Apple protects us from bad programmers for the most part, because if you look at Android and the lower quality of many of their apps

been using Android for over a decade now, not once did I feel a particular need to be extra-protected by the Big Brother. I'm all for competition, enjoy your devices, Android is far from perfect, but I will not let Jobs or anyone else living or dead dictate what I can or can't install on my expensive-ass phone. I know, data point of one, but so is this "i feel" comment.