skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not terribly useful ones, though. The available metals on the moon are largely just silicon, aluminum, iron, magnesium, and titanium -- much like on Earth. https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/the-chemical-com...

Asteroids are more interesting because they contain high concentrations of slightly denser metals of considerably more interest -- nickel, cobalt, etc. They can also contain much higher than normal concentrations of very heavy metals -- iridium, platinum, etc. -- that are rare in the Earth's crust because they're so heavy they tended to migrate to the core!
“Get yourself permanently inducted into the medical & pharmaceutical pipeline.”

No thanks.
> "below average people think they're above average, and above average people assume they're below average"

There’s no way to know if you’re wrong, but when I see it used it seems to be pointing out - “some (not all) under qualified people tend to defer to their own beliefs rather than the views/statements from experts, even when that is demonstrably silly.”

^ Referring to the pop-sci interpretation, not in disagreement with the general point.
Also, biological “architecture” is so different compared to silicon design, that it might just the case that different algorithms perform best for the respective design. Biological systems are effectively huge distributed computing systems, where each unit is very weak. Backpropagation probably can’t easily be implemented for that.
Can you be more specific? Is it recruiting or advancement in-role?

Obviously having kids is hard, but I haven't experienced discrimination that I know of. Sure, my career hasn't grown as quickly, but it has continued to grow. I work at Meta, which I think has great child benefits (I think thanks to Sheryl): 4 months paid leave per child, baby cash (a cash bonus per child), a child care FSA, and another annual cash pool benefit that can be used for more child care.

I'm 2 kids in, and I do not feel discriminated against at all. Culturally, there are tons of parents here. It wasn't like this 10 years ago though, when we were all so much younger... Maybe there is more discrimination outside the large companies?
"Most of us" probably not, but a lot of us. NoScript is one of the most popular Firefox extensions in nerd circles. Also makes a huge difference when browsing on old hardware or from a connection where data is pricey.
Ballistic broadcasting?
It's important to distinguish between Brexit and voting for Brexit.

The question on the referendum was:

> Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

and the options were:

> Remain a member of the European Union

and

> Leave the European Union

Let's assume for the sake of argument that the UK could in fact do better outside the EU.

Let's also assume that most economists, trade experts, business groups, politicians, etc from all across the political spectrum agreed with this.

Let's even assume that the consensus among all those experts was so strong that you'd pretty much have to be an idiot to think the the UK should remain in the EU.

It would still be dumb to vote "leave" on that particular referendum because it doesn't say anything about how Brexit is to be implemented.

For things like this whose implementation is very complicated and there are many ways to get it wrong and negate many or even most of the benefits you were hoping to get from it there needs to be at least two separate referendums.

The first referendum directs the government to work out how it will be implemented--writing all necessary legislation, negotiating all necessary treaties and trade agreements, and so on.

The second referendum would be on whether or not to accept that implementation.
One of the key principles quoted is "questioning whether artists can substantiate copyright infringement in the absence of identical material created by the AI tools". Or to paraphrase "how can it be copyright infringement if the output is different?".

I'm not here to make or dispute that argument, but it is interesting to ponder the notion that, should a future AI become able to similarly digest and remix existing content in order to create viable new content - say, absorb Game of Thrones and Star Trek and etc-etc, and spin out a whole new engrossing series where everything is at-once very familiar and slightly-changed - and in the process "launder" (to borrow a concept from finance) the copyright, then that could indeed vastly change the future outlook for some existing areas of art and entertainment industries.
>Don't talk down to strangers on the Internet so arrogantly, you only end up embarrassing yourself

hoisted by your own petard there, gramps
It’s been unsuccessful at building high-quality, user-facing products. Which is where I was going with the analogy. The US makes plenty of money too, but falls short in building things you can point to.
>The concept/idea is not what is patented. The patent is (or should be) for the specific execution of the idea.

Have you ever seen patents? They rarely cover the implementation details, or at most they're intentionally super vague about that, most of the time it's just the general idea on how the widget would work and what it does, but not how to implement it technically.
Good find :)

I find it interesting how this ties in to the "productivity paradox."[0] The idea the author seems to be getting at--that software accelerates the creation of ever more elaborate solutions (often to problems created by prior iterations of software), and in the process leaves a wake of complexity that frustrates and baffles the society it was supposed to serve--is something I'd like to read more about.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
why is ulid the uuidv7 of tomorrow?
> However, there is a delightful irony to the circumstances of their blunder.

Indeed. And I find the tendency of people in this comment section to defend the flawed theory is further confirmation of another scientific finding: that we decide based on emotion and then justify our decision using rationality.
Investing in new vector database development vs enhancing existing databases
I've seen the opposite too. People with kids are assumed to be busy outside of work hours, people without assumed to have nothing to do and get work piled on. Which is of course why the discrimination against parents happens in the first place, because they want people they can pile work on.
The accelerating rate of species going extinct doesn't look like "opposite" to me.
A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much
Building Groups on Nostr
Doesn't work when I look at a printout of the page either.
As a very satisfied long time Git user who also ends up being its biggest advocate and trainer at any organization I end up at... no, it's not easy.

It's easy from the perspective of someone who already understands its conceptual model, which is wonderfully elegant. It's not at all easy for beginners.

The happy path is fine for the most part. There are several conceptual hurdles to developing basic competence with add, commit, push, and pull, but usually people are able to push past them and get to the point of using those commands even if their purpose and mechanism of action remain mysterious.

But things immediately go to hell if something deviates from the happy path. Have you ever seen a beginner try to wrap their head around a merge conflict? Have you ever seen someone try to puzzle through the man pages and Stackoverflow to figure out how to recover from a situation when they can't push, due to remote changes? It often ends in disaster, as they stumble through increasingly opaque and arcane commands, as they mess up the state of their local repository ever further with every copied and pasted snippet.

This is not a case of newbies trying to do advanced things they shouldn't be doing. These are "advanced beginner" tasks that arise naturally at some point in just about any workflow.

Of course, a lot of this can be ascribed to general lack of competence in doing computer stuff. But Git seems especially disorienting even to people with high general intelligence and years of experience solving difficult technical problems. There's something about its combination of commands that do not map cleanly to the underlying data model, complicated layers of automatic behavior that are only revealed deep within chatty jargon filled reference manual pages (or can only be found in the source code), broadly inconsistent terminology and UI elements, and CLI that tends to be either too verbose or too quiet by default.

It's hard to learn and hard to teach. That, in my opinion, makes it hard to use.
Some food. Turns out it's a pretty good day to go food shopping because most people aren't thinking about buying food the day after Thanksgiving. No crowds at all at the Grocery Outlet.
Isn't that just to illustrate that it isn't just transparency?
Maybe not but so what? If you want some debugging tools add the debugging tools. Who cares if it is "distroless" anymore. I think the main point of "distroless" images is bringing only what you need, if you need debugging tools then bring them.
ah, yeah. I’ve run into social media marketers for products that told me they can do the same for NGOs, politicians, they named India, Russia, states within countries I never heard of, US

domestic propaganda is huge, definitely flies under the radar
No more than I would be afraid that a person I’m having a conversation with could be wrong.
It’s a fun idea! Sadly, I found it to be trivial with relative pitch.

Could I suggest adding some extra challenges? Maybe define notes in terms of intervals to the root. Or maybe removing the sample tune and give us more guesses? I don’t even know if that would work TBH, I’m just spitballing.
Assumptions are usually wrong unless verified.
I thought it was going to do something really weird and clever like use some other available measurement or input as a proxy for battery level. Like measuring CPU performance over time or temperature changes or something.
Agreed, this is a big risk made worse that the default word list can change over time.

https://sqids.org/faq#future-blocklist
I'm pretty sure my external modem had a firmware update that took it from 53kbps to 56k flex
The fingerprinting potential may well be limited, but it's the principle of the thing: The browser should not provide unnecessary information about its surroundings.

It would be another matter if this was a very useful feature, but I don't think that it is.

Here's one use for it: Ads could sense that they are off-screen and withhold content until the ad is moved back in view. I could easily see screenX/Y being used for that. I mean, I hope not, but how am I going to stop it?
I think one clear difference is that they are just so focused on shipping compared to the others, and they gain many of the benefits that comes with that.

I think it is reflected in both Greg and Sam that they really want to ship, and this have made a positive feedback loop into the team and what talent they have been able to acquire but also build up.

Another point might be that AI chatbots are a first-movers market. Even if Grok turned out to be much better I would still miss some of the UI features that ChatGPT provide along with my chat-history.

In regards to their fast shipping I think it is also reflected in their tech-stack. I suspect from reading their job posts (I might be very wrong here)
that they started just coding everything in Python and the tooling/ecosystem that goes along like FastAPI/Django etc. maybe a bit C++/CUDA for the training.
Then when they needed to scale they migrated from Python to Rust in the more critical areas of the codebase. They clearly also have a monorepo mentioned from [1].

if you look through the their career-page the job description of a software engineer for developer-productivity [1] mentions "Our current environment relies heavily on Python, Rust, and C++" also "Are a proficient Python programmer, with experience using Rust in production" I found an earlier one where they mentioned that their backend was written in Python.
"Proficiency with some backend language (we use Python)" [2]:

1:https://openai.com/careers/software-engineer-developer-produ...

2:https://openai.com/careers/software-engineer-leverage-engine...
This is a (very old) browser API:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-battery-status-20141209/

It was once implemented in Firefox too and then disabled outside internal pages. It's from an era of trying to standardize all the APIs needed for Firefox OS apps:
https://caniuse.com/battery-status

Both iOS and Android apps have this capability, ex.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidevice/162...

Since the entropy is coarse over the entire population you could debate the privacy implications (ex. Time zone is more specific and stable). Restricting it to only saved PWAs to match the privacy model of native apps seems reasonable though. Someone should propose the change to Chrome.
what are other two genes for?
There's no difference in taxation between the two and not much difference in how easily the government can see how you used them.
I've used LLMs chat for finding statistics references many times; the important part is often surfacing the missing keyword or jargon needed to find the actual literature on a topic. If there's actual literature, you find it, and if it's a hallucination then you get a sense that the idea is at least very obscure, if not entirely unstudied. Though I have found some very obscure topics by this method...
Well, at the same time, you can get yourself into funny situations that are hard to get out of without knowing the intricacies of Git (e.g. what is "detached HEAD"?). And rebasing is absolutely not easy to understand.
Human overpopulation seems to hyperfocus on subsistence ie we aren't overpopulated until people start dying due to no more food or water.

I would like to see more models around first world overpopulation. ie what growth rate etc is good for keeping a first world standard of living without changing the way of live of the current population.
“For efficiency's sake, an intelligent system should be willing and
able to add new facts, but should be {\it eager} to add surprising new facts.
Surprises can only be noticed by contrast with {\it expectations}, so an intelligent
system should maintain a context of expectations and filter incoming observations
against that. Furthermore, expectations and surprises can aid an intelligent
system in comparing its model and processing of the domain to the real world.
Through such monitoring, discrepencies may be found and diagnosed, leading to
changes in the model making it more consistent with observed behavior. Our
discussion here centers on the importance of using such expectations
to focus and filter intelligent processing.}

\yskip

The world bombards our senses with data, much more than we can process
in detail in real time; yet we can't live in a hundred times real time.
We survive by ignoring most of that data, or, more precisely, by knowing
(almost immediately deciding)
what can be ignored. We maintain a set of expectations, against
which the incoming torrent is matched. Almost all of it will match those
expectations, and we then need merely process the unexpected inputs, the
surprising observations. We reserve our computing for those opportunities
which promise us genuine new facts, rather than reconfirmation of known ones.” -- COG3. listed under https://www.saildart.org/[AM,DBL]/
Firefox and Safari obviously see the finger printing capabilities of this API and thus block.
> Crypto tumblers are a thing, and they make the public history unreadable.

That simply means they're illegal, not that we have to put up with them. Cf Tornado Cash, anyone who's running one is a money launderer.
every domain of expertise has two "elo" systems, the niche one and the broader one.

e.g. you can learn basic juggling in 30 minutes that you are top 10% of your friends/colleagues etc...

however within the juggling community itself this is known as the "3 ball cascade" a really simple trick relative to the ones that requires years to master. an outsider may not be able to tell the difference between the 1 year expert and the 10 year master.

a lot dunning-kruger can be explained by people in one or the other not understanding the other system
I don't think everyone should have bunch of kids. However, if you are in a good relationship and both like having kids, think about having 5 instead of 2. My personal experience of having 5+ kids is that the difficulty mostly scales logarithmically, meaning kid 1 is a lot of work, kid 2 is a lot more work, but kid 3 more (but less more) work.

The social dynamics can really work well. Kids can be less work when they can entertain each other. Add some homeschooling, work from home, and creative projects and it makes life really fulfilling.

YMMMV, but it's a valid and reasonable way to live for some.
I feel a bit dense sussing out the relevance of this post to the content of the article. It seems apropos to the title, but the focus on novel-reading cuts orthogonally to the actual content.

[Full disclosure: driveby quoteposting with no extra content or contextualization is one of my most deeply felt pet peeves]
The converse of this actually exists. There's a fan award called the Prometheus Award given by the "Libertarian Futurists" which is often jokingly called the "Scottish Socialist Award", given how many times they've awarded it to works that are perhaps equally anti-extant-state but with virtually all other politics at odds. (And in some cases, IMO, strong misreadings of the awarded work.)
Not an article, but still highly recommend Why Can't We Make Simple Software? [0] by Peter van Hardenberg (head of Ink & Switch [1]).

Disclosure: it was given at my tech conference.

[0] https://vimeo.com/780013486

[1] https://inkandswitch.com
Related:

Why it is important that software projects fail (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24390855 - Sept 2020 (72 comments)

Why It Is Important That Software Projects Fail (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20109316 - June 2019 (18 comments)

Why it is Important that Software Projects Fail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=932956 - Nov 2009 (26 comments)
> Others say they have nowhere to return to, having sold or rented out their homes in anticipation of the round-the-world voyage, as well as jettisoning their possessions.

Sounds like they're ready for vanlife. Park it down by the river, pretend you're on the cruise!
So hey guys, I'm one of the two authors of this project.

Because we haven't really advertised the project anywhere, I was a little surprised to wake up and see the 86 stars we have now. This project is still very much in its infancy. While we have a working setup internally, I wouldn't say it's quite ready for external use.

Getting docs and a (comprehensible and non-ChatGPT written) readme is on our list of things to do. We're still in the process of some major refactors right now, and are mostly focused on improving the reliability of the streaming from ffmpeg/gstreamer to our application. We're dropping far more packets over UDP on loopback than I would have thought, so we're rethinking how we get the frames.

We also haven't actually had any kind of official release or anything and only shared the repository with a handful of people in the Games on Whales community (including WanjohiRyan), but that was only to share some implementation details around the udev stuff with them for their own projects.

The basic premise of the Pod-Arcade is this:

You load up a webpage, and can share that URL with a bunch of your friends. It's like Steam's Remote Play together, but using web-browsers instead.

There's a "Server" application that runs an MQTT server and hosts a web frontend. "Desktops" are basically just docker containers hosting Wayland desktops that run applications and can be streamed over WebRTC to the web frontend. Both the client's web browser, and the desktop connect to the server application and use MQTT to exchange SDPs and liveness information. From there, most of the communication between the desktop and the web client (for things like mouse and gamepad) happens over WebRTC Data Channels.

The "Kubernetes-Native" is part of our roadmap. We want to have an operator that dynamically spins up pods as you need them. You and three of your friends all want to play separate instances of retro-arch at the same time? The operator can handle spinning up and managing those pods. Ideally there will eventually be some catalog of applications that you can one-click deploy through the web frontend.
As of 2023, the real linchpin for many remote workers thinking of working from a cruise is internet speed and reliability.

I’ve worked from locations with patchy internet but enough to push a commit every few hours. But as soon as you need to reliably attend video meetings is where cruise ships fail at the present time.

Other than that, the ability to work consistently while at sea but take a few hours to explore a new city when the ship pulls into port without needing to pack bags and check in and out of a new room is incredibly appealing
I read a paper 'What If We Don’t Pop the Stack? The Return of
2nd-Class Values' where they discuss their research into delaying popping the stack to allow functions to return data allocated on the stack. As a small brained embedded primate that doesn't use malloc that sort of thing would make C vastly easier to use.

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rompf/papers/xhebraj-ecoop22...

Also would be super if C had first class types.
Some bullies make people feel shameful for getting an `A' in highschool. The humiliation and self-esteem happens. If someone succeeds at a high level others try to bring them down.

The answer isn't to make getting an 'A' illegal.

The answer is to challenge the bullying and to not to allow it to gain power.
anyone have a copy pasta for the widest possible alphabet (i.e. extended unicode safe chars)
It doesn't on Edge. On my desktop machine. Which doesn't have a battery.
> Also Google and Anthropic are basically deliberately holding back their strongest models because they are too expensive and/or they are worried about safety or something.

Any place I can read about this?
> If you are guaranteed by law to buy it for less than you can sell it, you can price it mighty low to attract customers and still make money.

That's not a price floor, it would be a price ceiling on the second level supplier, and they could just choose not to sell. There's no way this scenario could happen except for subsidies and mandated production like the Defense Production Act.

> It's funny, your comment reads like a business has some kind of right to make a profit, rather than letting the free market figure out if it should exist or not.

You seem very confused.
On desktop Chrome it gives me a "Charging 100%" blue animation, which I suppose is technically correct.
On the other hand, if that cash suddenly fails to appear, your physical dollars most likely won't work anymore, either (it might fail to appear for you for various reasons, but in that case, whether there was physical backing at any point is quite irrelevant).
The main criticism I heard of Visual SourceSafe was that if your repository got bigger than 2GB it would be irretrievably corrupted.

I understand it used the same storage engine as a number of other Microsoft products, including Exchange, which had the same bug.
Like many human habitual bullshitters, they do not even know when they're doing it.
Back in the day LPB was someone with low pings (remember dial up was 150 to 300ms sometimes) and they'd have an upper hand on games before they were "unlagged" with prediction code.
Train connections are a wonderful thing. They really shrink the space between two locations like no other transportation type. Just hop in, read a book or newspaper and suddenly you are somewhere else.

For me it’s a one hour car ride to the next major city (in southern Germany). With the train it takes 25 minutes.