skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, tens of billions of dollar (equivalent) have been spent on the Long March rocket program, as with any major rocket. If you spent that much on normal construction, you'd see a lot more than 6 deaths, and indeed I'm sure more rocketry workers were killed than random outsiders.

For reference, there's of order 1 death per billion dollars spent in construction in the US per year. The statistical value of life in the US is roughly $10M, so it's only 1% of cost. I presume in China the statistical value is lower by a factor of 3-10, so it wouldn't be surprising that many dozens or even hundred of workers had been killed since the program started.
MagicEarth (which seems to be a MagicLane product; https://www.magicearth.com/) is my daily driver navigation app. I prefer it over Google maps for everything routing related. The only thing Google is better at is showing me relevant metainformation about places (when is this restaurant open? What is this doctor's telephone number and website?), and that's the only reason I'm keeping maps on my phone.
Maybe it would be, but only in your head. It's not just single data point that I base my opinion on.

The average SUV can cost significantly more than a typical car. The manufacturer tends to build SUVS with larger wheels, and sturdier components. Very often SUVs will be built on a Truck body for example. The larger wheels, sturdier frame are much better going over potholes, and clearing snow.

Just curious, do you live anywhere with snow/winter weather?
What would you say the answer to your question is? Do you think such exceptions should simply not be made?
Ideally it should throw exception I guess.
Licklider 1960
Indeed. We are now at a stage where new generations of Web Developers have absolutely no idea what CGI is.
Both ULID and UUID v7 have a time code component which can be extracted.

It would be best for indexing to store the actual value in binary, though not strictly necessary as these later UUID standards (unlike conventional UUIDs) use time code prefixes (so indexing clusters.)

https://uuid7.com/

https://github.com/ulid/spec
The merge vs. rebase debate
Coal is less than 20% and is continuously going down. Coal will be negligible in a decade or so. Renewables is more than 20% and growing!

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Domainim: A fast and comprehensive tool for organizational network scanning
I switched from Hyundai to Tesla , and will never go back. It’s an absolute gimmick. With Hyundai even basic things work bad , like heating during winter
U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes
Materializing the attention matrix has you slower than FlashAttention much of the time, just because you get severely memory bandwidth bound and are worse off than mild extra computations resulting from streaming it (and especially re-computing the attention for the backwards pass, though that won't need extra memory bandwidth, just minor compute.).
“Expert” is a bit strong. FDA reviewers aren’t exactly Nature editors. It’s kind of a coast job. Outside of biologics I think you just need a bachelor’s.
I am a huge fan of simplicity when it comes to software development (although I must admit I'm not always great at achieving it), but I wonder whether the BCHS stack really offers anything that couldn't be achieved with a more "modern" stack.

httpd would be one of the things I'd look at, it's absolutely great software, but I wonder whether it really achieves the most simplicity from a developer point of view. For instance, in simpler deployments I would generally reach for Caddy [0], which does things such as certificate renewal automatically for me.

However, the part of the stack that really irks me is C. I'm a huge fan of C in an ideal world (where developers are perfect), and I respect the language for its role in the history of software development, and in the context of UNIX, however I just don't understand why use it in 2023 for something such as a web service. A web service is going to handle untrusted user input, deal with network boundaries, and is security-critical. A memory-unsafe language, where undefined behavior is easy to create but hard to find, which doesn't provide a lot of (useful) abstraction primitives other languages would provide, seems like the wrong choice. That's even before we start talking about how cumbersome it is to handle "strings" in C.

I'd wager Golang or Rust are always going to be better alternatives to C when it comes to developing web services. Golang makes deployment specially easy, while Rust provides similar or better performance than C, but provides more safety (memory and UB) and better abstraction primitives.

I believe I understand the purpose of this stack, and roughly who is going to enjoy it, just wondering whether I'm overlooking something, as I must admit I have never actually built a production service using CGI/C/httpd. I see this stack as something that's more philosophical rather than pragmatic towards development, if that makes sense, which is something I respect but wouldn't use (other than if I'm doing it just for fun).

[0]: https://caddyserver.com/
How homes in the hottest places on Earth keep cool without AC
"Education about psyops" is impossible. Until recently this amounted to "don't trust the media, and verify everything the government says [using media sources]."

Reddit is currently being used to poison future training data for LLMs while laundering the source of the beliefs, to make it look like "everyone" believes a single narrative. Whoever "controls" the content on Reddit (and the media, while it lasts) controls what will be the Truth in the future as it's all absorbed into a attributionless knowledge pool.

So Joe Sixpack thinks he's smart, puts on his anti-media tinfoil hat and just asks WhateverGPT his question, which has been tainted by...poisoned Reddit data and media sources that draw from it. Fuck pipe bombs and meth-- this is the real danger of local LLMs. They challenge the monopoly on knowledge itself. There is no dissent.

It's currently impossible for outsiders to launch a psyops campaign on Reddit. VPNs are blocked. Those that took control of the treehouse quickly moved to pull the ladder up. The party line and public perception of it is now meticulously groomed (pun intended).
No you're right. The reply I made concerns the logic itself especially if this justification is used to ward off regulation in the future. For the suit in question, culpability in fact central.
https://archive.ph/8fnqg
S and 5 are identical, as are Z and 2, and O and 0 (edit: and Q and 9). No punctuation either; semicolon vs. colon vs. exclamation mark needs creativity. There's no hope for $ or *.
My kid sounds like ChatGPT, and soon yours might, too
What does a "car for commuters" imply?

Most of the previous comments take it to mean a small car that doesn't need to travel very fast or far, perhaps in a city where parking is scarce.

But some of my commutes have been very long, or very far, or very fast. If I'm going to spend three hours, or 100 miles, or average 80+ mph on it every single day, I'm not going to get a small econobox.

We all know commuting is an awful, awful experience; but when people spend a lot of time in their car, it's no surprise that they're spending more money to make that experience slightly less awful.
It is below 20k in Europe and below 10k in China.

https://insideevs.com/news/601060/dongfeng-nano-box-ev-dacia...
For this like me who were unaware, Moonbirds is an NFT collection - I believe.
as opposed to...
Always great to see people point out Weird Al, cause he's the shining beacon of an example of what OpenAI et al. should be doing. He explicitly gets permission from the original authors before doing any of his parodies, and he's even been turned down a few times as well, famously Prince rejected him a bunch of times and he subsequently has never made a Prince parody.

Not only does he get permission from the original authors, he also pays royalties to the authors despite legally not having to do so.
"Metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of EM waves" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38658967 :

> "Electrons turn piece of wire into laser-like light source" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33490730 :

> "Coherent Surface Plasmon Polariton Amplification via Free Electron Pumping" (2023) https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1572967/v1

^^ FWIU this transmits laser and Thz wavelengths?
Can you prove it mathematically?
Feel free to build your own browser engine that stays up to date with the current web, supports nearly a hundred languages, and runs on basically every computer with a shoestring budget. It must be easy, that's why there are so many hobby projects that manage it.
Show HN: KernelConfig – Your Guide to Linux Kernel Modules Configuration
Wonderful! To me, this is the smallest usable (vs. novelty) bitmapped font. [EDIT: Deleted “2-bit” silliness.]
>Backprop doesn't happen in us, but I think our neurones still do gradient descent – synapses that fire together, wire together.

No! Hebbian learning is categorically NOT gradient based learning. Hebbian update rules are local and not the gradient of any function.

Cortical learning is so vastly different from how artificial neural networks “learn” they cannot even begin to be meaningfully compared mathematically. Hebbian learning is not optimization and backprop is not local learning.

Part of the problem of these discussions is a bunch of clueless people talking with authority.
Big focus for the next year to smoothen an experience. Thank you for being with us. I’ll check about this annoying bug on Ios.
As Ukraine has no fleet, it was just cheap PR media distraction from Ukraine ground disaster...
It's fully enclosed, has 4 wheels and a steering wheel.

In (some) cities it's a faster commuter than any two-seat convertible, as it can legally get away with straddling the line between a car and a bicycle.

It doesn't appeal to me personally, but I regularly see it used as a city commuter in Amsterdam.

The Canta is more common, but those are traditionally powered by petrol, although they've got electric options now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canta_(vehicle)
Archivebox and its companion browser plugin can also accomplish the capability of archiving everything you visit and may be of interest
https://archivebox.io/
Did you get it to make cheese sauce with?
If you look at his screenshots you might think you were limited to 80x25 but with EGA and VGA you could pick a different screen size and get more vertical lines.
Id go further than that. A car with 62 mph max speed should not be highway legal.
They do launch from Hainan as well.
The entire System 7 UI was really a thing of beauty.
Oh yeah , and what happened to Europe , when they pray to share more money to Ukraine because EU was eating cheese , drinking beer and not thinking about defense , maybe except Poland . And meanwhile also let corrupt themself and give away their energy market to Russia . Oh well Russia bought lots of weapons on this money to start attacking EU
I would disagree. Conventional desktop GUI toolkits offer much more fine-handling of events and complex event/data dependencies. Web front ends are now approaching those levels, though from a different direction.
iRacing has you disassemble, modify, and reassemble Pakistani-made truck brakes in VR? Nice!
The correct answer to “do you know why I pulled you over?” is “no sir.”

There are exceptions, but as a general rule being honest, polite, and not volunteering additional information is the way to go. After all even if you were going 90 in a 35 you don’t know why he pulled you over. You’re not a mind reader.
Hebbian learning and backprop are not comparable and they don’t have a similar effect in any meaningful sense.
The argument is that non-programmers like his wife don't understand e.g. `!`.
It identifies objects in a 3d scene. Where in this case the 3d scene is captured using a technique called 3d Gaussian splatting.
0 and O is same.
Hugged to death?

https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fathe...
It seems like everything in tech is in the learn as you go phase. Everything is changing so rapidly that there can’t be experts. Just people that are able to adapt quickly.

I only see this phenomenon speeding up. Strange times.
Can you please stop posting like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38776618 to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We've had to ask you this a couple times already.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Well I've done that before and the results were no better than using inheritance. What's the point?
I've seen a pretty usable 3x5 font. I'm sure those have been done multiple times.
There are economics papers about ‘the vanishing middle’ that explain why products go bimodal. (I can’t find them right now; google-foo is failing me.)

The gist I remember is that people lock onto a single differentiator: normally cost or quality. This moves most of producers to those outside points. Companies ‘trying’ to stay in the middle end up being more expensive (on a cost/quality measure) because they can’t reach mass production as easily as either the cheap or fancy.
I got a 504
> I don’t trust FAANG with that either.

That's fine. But they NEED to ban people using their service from spam else they would dominate. That is what people don't understand.

> but having a government provided email for secure recovery purposes would feel reassuring.

It depends on the country and the region, but I have faced issues multiple times with not able to make any progress with the government. It happened in much more important cases like passport, for which if something fails on their system, you are screwed.

Nobody provides support in government services as well unless it is required by law, and I have been locked out of government services. In countries like China, you could be locked out of government service if your credit score is low. In Sweden you could be locked out of it if you don't allow unions.
Maybe she likes the way eating raw salt makes her feel.
Screenshoted it for the team. We’ll fix these. Thank you!
> at API boundaries only

Well, yes, at API boundaries, as you say, or in public methods, as I say. We agree!
While we have models from geologists and geo-physicists, I think it’s very difficult to work out the best course of action in each case without a lot of prior examples (typically trial and error as you point out).

In modelling oil wells, oil industry engineers typically have lots of variables but far fewer data points (well head pressures, flow rates and hopefully some downhole pressures/temperatures) which makes building a good physics based mathematical model tough. The structure and permeability of the rock matrix is difficult to characterise both before the fracking and after. All situations are different and once you start operations which are expensive, you can’t go back and start again if you make mistakes.

There have been considerable improvements in model theory, sensors/instrumentation and computer power in the past decades. Hopefully this can be harnessed to provide cheaper geothermal power for the future as well as managing oil fields more effectively.
That’s not the point. The problem is the nut job who is dedicated to tracking you down.
Verified as gov site.
Fair point. I had a friend with a rear wheel drive BMW sports car. Great looking car, but he kept it in the garage in winter, after he spun out a few times on icy roads. Also the car had a hard time clearing even a modest snow fall.
Can cars be made to outperform SUVs in winter driving? Probably.

But I wrote in reference to the market average car vs the average suv. There's probably at least $10k price difference there. The observation I have made owning both cars and SUVs, is that the SUV is more rugged and durable, and drives better in Winter. The larger price tag, also means that the manufacturer doesn't have to skimp on every component as much, to come in under $25k. A real challenge at the bottom of the market, where the largest share of car consumers tended to be.

If I was living in Hawaii, I honestly would not give a shit what kind of car I drive. I would just be happy to have a car in Hawaii.

What this discussion misses is the context of how a car gets used. And that largely depends on where the car is driven.
With subpixel rendering you could get down to 1x3 (or at least 2x3). ;)
How is that ironic? Neither accepting nor rejecting "the social order" requires one to be smart. As always in politics the question isn't simply "what do you want" but "why do you want that".
I sincerely urge you to check out macro-economic books and lectures.

Imo your narrative amounts is simply not grounded in reality.
USSR sponsored Nazi gave them all kind of goods and attacked Poland and Finland in the begging of war . After that occupied half of the Europe , and when anyone tried to escape communism they kill them violently. What a liberators. Oh and US was sponsoring USSR during the war as well , once they switch from being a Nazi ally
Global mergers, acquisitions hit lowest level in a decade
This is a pretentiously described but generally pretty good list of undergrad-level CS and math books.
ITT: the perfect storm of people who dont know how LLMs work, dont know how the brain works and dont know how the law works.
If you ask for a bereavement fare, you can easily find a flight within a day for a reasonable price.
i believe we need an strategic reserve of these, Biden need to step in
Could have been worse, hehe. Finland had a (in)famous nuclear power plant project which went years and billions over budget only to be effectively terminated after the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Rosatom was a major investor)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanhikivi_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
No one has ever stated any other reason (even on the very, very few occasions when someone even bothers to make an excuse).
Having hostile neighbors you either need to spend real % of GDP to protect yourself or have a powerful ally , any other way of thinking is delusional. So yes, your medicine goods are at least partially sponsored by US
Every form of memory storage I was exposed to worked well except for the delay line storage unit in the controller for 2260 CRTs. IT WAS VERY TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE and required a lot of maintenance. THANKFULLY it was not around very long.
I was originally thinking of some new card previously leaked [1], but then they said this is about AI. And considering this is in CES with consumer focus. I assume it could be gaming related? May be DLSS 4.0?

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/316842/nvidia-geforce-rtx-40-ser...
That's a funny coincidence, I recently made something similar: https://webgl-particle-life.netlify.app/ (source: https://github.com/ath92/particle-life)

This version does everything in webgl shaders and keeps all state for the simulation in textures / uniforms. This allows it to simulate and draw more particles. Unfortunately it may not run on all devices because it uses some less supported webgl extensions.
Donald Knuth Annual Christmas Lectures
It's vague in an inclusive direction. Even a shopping list would violate it, so almost any part of a revenue-generating business would too.

I couldn't see any paid option (I did look), and still can't.
I grew up watching the Smothers Brothers because my dad was a huge fan. So yeah, now what with your middle school I know you are but what am I level retort.

Bill Hicks was my favorite subversive with his not just making marijuana legal but mandatory and suggesting that everyone should have at least one psychedelic experience (large unspoken asterisk stipulating of those that can). Squeegee that third eye clean!
There was nothing for him to apologize for and his donation was not wrong.
And selling data on people engaging in actions likely to cause a baby to people who sell baby stuff.
might want to rethink the logo if they don't want people to think it's a microsoft project
I think it was Larry Niven who pointed out that if you think of conventional writing as consisting of something like some combination of plot, prose, and characters, that the science fiction author labors under the additional constraint of also having to establish setting. (IIRC he broke it into five categories, but the total number and exactly what they are isn't important.) And given how few authors ever reach the level of firing on all cylinders in a non-science-fiction setting on those metrics, a science fiction fan must extend the science fiction authors some grace on the other fronts of good writing if they're going to enjoy it at all. I don't think I've ever seen a science fiction story that establishes a truly different setting that also gets a 5 out of 5 across the board on all the other metrics, and it's debatable whether such a thing is even possible. If such a story hypothetically existed it would probably be too verbose to count as good writing.

You can get all sorts of combinations of various attributes, but you just can't get them all. Certainly Egan is in the Silver Age Asimov/Clarke tradition of sacrificing characters to fit the rest in, but what he does is so good I can't complain. For all the crazy science fiction I've read, Egan has, just to name one example, the only story set in a serious attempt at an alternative space-time geometry in which there are two space and two time dimensions, and not in some vague what-if "parallel dimension" sense, but by actually working out the consequences of what two spatial and two temporal dimensions looks like when you feed that into the equations of general relativity: https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/00/DPDM.html

(I find this one particularly interesting because many of us have imagined "what if there were two time dimensions"; Egan shows that what came to most of our imaginations was so laughably wrong as to not even be in the ballpark, and that in fact you can perfectly sensible discuss the topic grounded in real physics.)

Even in the field of science fiction writers there's only a certain percentage of writers who could even properly follow that page, let alone generate it themselves.
> there is a large ideological rift where significant parts of the non-blockchain decentralization community see the crypto world as a distraction, and not as a kindred spirit and a powerful ally

This line stood out to me and is sad to see.
He's slower and will have to schedule debates around being in court and doing his rallies. I think he'll skip it.
> drivers abandon their chosen path and believe a twisting side road will make things better, if only because they keep moving forward.

I actually wish it was a more widely accepted and recognized feeling. I've seen many drivers consciously choose a suboptimal, smaller route to drive with less people around, more pleasantly, even if they'd arrive later at destination.

But that means the GPS becomes either useless or adversarial. It will always point to an optimized route, and even asking to avoid congestion will only be for the biggest blocks. There's no "choose the path with the absolute fewest people" option, you have to set bullshit waypoints that have a high probability of being traffic free.
The alternative was MPW which was awful! Long Live Code Warrior! Its debugging was probably a decade ahead of its time.
Curious how this came to pass. Does author think kid is using ChatGPT to help walk through situations?
This is the only EV that might make me reconsider my EV skepticism but I think price point will stop me from doing that.

And of course, repairability. How much do I have to pay for battery replacement after a decade of usage.
Old (70s?) Citroens used to have a "braking distance" bar on the speedo that grew quadratically, attempting to keep this point in the drivers' minds?
Usual meta questions when it comes to research: the authors do seem reputable going by citation counts, however, and open access journal is strange for such a potentially high impact article.
Ya you can tell a govt site when it falls over from a finger flick