skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 years isn't long enough, but with the "starting over" theme my biggest change would be to not take on the debt loan that I did; I'm fortunate that I've been able to support the payments and still live comfortably but it (among other decisions) has made it difficult to invest in things like a family and housing.

Education wise I likely would not have done grad school right away, at the time a 5th year masters was appealing but the shiny paper didn't really end up doing anything for my career. I enjoyed the work but I would rather have had an employer pay for it. On the flip side a PhD would appealing since I do enjoy the research process, and there are some areas in the aerospace field I would love to explore more deeply. I would likely do CS instead of AE/ME, I originally picked this field because I love aviation, but career wise I've found myself enjoying CS work much more.

I would more strongly consider ROTC; I rejections from military academies and decided to go to the university route instead (aviation generally requires a degree). I still greatly enjoy aviation but I'm not in a place financially to pursue it.
I personally refuse to use them on principle. I've worked those kinds of jobs, and I know that for some people it's either a starting point or a lifeline that keeps food on the table.

I do not want to encourage stores to remove such jobs for an automated solution.
JAXA – Palm-Sized Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2(Lev-2）
I don't think that's going to change the fact that every time I search for some basic thing there is a GitHub repository for it somewhere and Google almost always shows me two to three pages of blog spam garbage and stack Overflow copy sites before I can get to it.
I could be wrong, but I sort of think when I learned Oracle back when I was in school (mid-2000s) supported dropping a database on a raw block device. So it's been around a long time, but would be uncommon in some tech circles.
What was the biggest art theft in history?
The AI system that they produced.

“Our” doesn’t always imply ownership/title. I do not own my dad.
Solving the Dining Philosophers Problem with Systemd – Part 1
Wow, how crazy is this? This guy:

* Designed a 32-bit ISA with vector instructions [0]

* Implemented it on an FPGA

* Wrote a gcc backend for his ISA [1]

* Ported Quake, and it seems to run pretty well (Quake required a high-end Pentium back in the day)

Now this is a full-stack developer.

[0] https://www.bitsnbites.eu/the-mrisc32-a-vector-first-cpu-des...

[1] https://gitlab.com/mrisc32/mrisc32-gnu-toolchain
Can get 8% plus easy in yield on a diversified set of relatively safe REITs and corporate bonds nowadays.

Absolutely would not recommend putting funds in large cap indices if you're planning to retire off portfolio cashflow.

You get close to 4.5% cashflow (interest plus imputed income) on 20y treasury bonds alone, for example.

Why take pricing risk to your income when you can get it directly in dividends/distributions that are very secure?
To be fair, this is much more approachable than a dense 16 page white paper.
> delivery robots are easier to accommodate to the point of actually becoming economical

Delivery robot co-founder here (Robby.io, YC S16). The economics are actually really, really hard.

1. A Honda Civic costs $24K. It's actually surprisingly difficult to build a sidewalk-sized robot for less than $15K if you include labor for assembly and if you don't have scale. And it isn't compute and sensors. It's everything else -- plastic, metal, structural stuff, crimping wires, motor mounts, gaskets, all of that. The form factor isn't something that is mass-produced already.

2. They can only deliver MAXIMUM 2km, anything beyond that the food gets cold. Even 2km is a stretch, customers complain of cold pizza. A lot of the existing human-driven delivery market comes from further deliveries, because you know, if you can walk to the restaurant you might actually be willing to take that walk.

3. Real estate for robot storage is a HUGE cost issue in the bay area. Rental warehouses are not cheap in Mountain View. And in places where rent is cheap, people tend to also be less busy and not need food delivered.

4. Teleoperation is also a huge cost. Full autonomy on sidewalks is not difficult, but dealing with human issues at stop signs and intersections is a very difficult issue to solve.

5. Getting restaurant staff to be willing to walk outside the restaurant and drop food into a robot is an issue. The current state of many restaurants is that they just put orders on a shelf and delivery drivers walk in and pick them up without intervention. They just don't have the staff to deal with a robot that can't come inside. Requiring staff to find the food, walk outside, find the right robot, and drop it in would be a regression from their point of view.

All this stuff adds up, quickly.
And, of course, if you go the other way and get closer where databases and functions are different enough to be considered different things, the filesystem is still a database. It is meant to be a database in every sense of the word.
curious - can you share what you were searching for?
SF Symbols are copyrighted. You should be careful about your usage of them in a non-Apple-approved manner.
It's specifically advised NOT to use ObjectId for distribution. This data type has a notion of time embedded in it which results in monotonically increasing ObjectIds. Use UUID or a hashed version of the ObjectId
everyone already has computers that can "run AI". would be pretty ridiculous if some law was passed and everyone's computers were confiscated. that would be like a lobotomization of society. a very stupid and short-sited move i think.
> A pros vs cops debate

Typo, or deliberate? Either way, it's beautifully apt.
It's upsetting and troubling how appending "reddit" to a search is your only hope of getting honest information, especially about products.

Everything else is ridden with SEO spam and faux reviews with referral links.
> It's hard to believe we've come this far, and it's only going to keep climbing in capability.

Or we hit the top of the sigmoid curve and just have fancy autocomplete.
This is not a 737 Max 9, it's an older 737 - technically a Boeing C40, which is a military variant derived from the older 737NG line. These have historically been extremely reliable.

Aircraft frequently have to be grounded for maintenance. This is normal operations in aviation, and is nothing to be concerned with. You either keep spare aircraft around to swap out in a fleet, or accept that sometimes you're not flying.
Current Scala compile times really aren't that bad. Yeah, Go will be 10x faster, but then you have to use Go...

For a typical micro service, I never think about compile time, thanks to incremental compilation. Even a full compile is not bad. Tooling is also fine, although Scala 3 set things back. IntelliJ now supports Scala 3 adequately.
Minimizing or eliminating wasted time (scrolling, etc) is success for me. That means I spent time on something productive or relaxing or enjoyable -- all of which are wins in life.
Interesting, I'm able to repro this locally: https://gist.github.com/oconnor663/57ece045df23fe977228aae0c...

input bytes: b'hello world'
average SHA-256 iteration time: 284 ns
average SHA-512 iteration time: 470 ns
average BLAKE2s iteration time: 231 ns
average BLAKE3 iteration time: 355 ns

For comparison, in short-input Rust benchmarks on the same machine, one block of BLAKE2s (SSE41) is 77 ns and one block of BLAKE3 (AVX512VL) is 43 ns. So whatever's happening here, I think it's dominated by Python overhead.
Doesn't it seem like search quality everywhere has gone down? Above the fold it is usually only "sponsored" results (ads). Not just Google or the web. Amazon results are garbage now in exactly the same way. Either ad results, or the 'organic' results are heavily SEO'd/gamed.

And as much as I love ChatGPT/GPT4, what Bing is doing with GPT4 is an abomination. Feels like Clippy "Looks like you are writing a document" chiming in when you didn't ask, only not as cute as Clippy even. It is a terrible experience for GPT4, and makes using their site for just web search way worse.
It's peculiar, because traffic engineers long ago found several ways to automatically detect when a car is waiting at a red light and trigger the signal change, but they just can't seem to figure out how to detect bicycles or pedestrians who are waiting for the same event.
I didn't look further into their method, but it seems to me that symbolic reasoning is only important insofar as it makes the solution verifiable. That still is a glorious capability, but a very narrow one.
Alton Brown (celebrity chef, TV host, etc), was the cinematographer for the video for R.E.M.s “The One I Love”.

Gary Fisher (Fisher Mountain Bikes) had worked light shows for the Grateful Dead and went on to make an officially sanctioned Grateful Dead bicycle[0][1] with proper artwork.

[0] https://www.dead.net/fanphotos/gd-bike-poster

[1] https://forums.bikeride.com/thread-8750.html
Ask HN: Why would you ever build a cloud division?
When looking for jobs I have come realise that at least some organisations are building what they call a cloud division/cloud team/cloud *.

I have wondered why on earth anyone would do this?

It seems that those divisions simply share the same heuristics as the former IT/admin/infrastructure divisions.

Tell me what these divisions add that a development team could not obtains by themselves by utilising a cloud provider by themselves.

In my mind a development team should be able to view the cloud provider as the actual cloud team and not building an abstraction on top of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Commissioner#I...
Tell that to my joints!
At one moment, WorkingCopy (on iOS) was considered a valid option for syncing Obsidian vaults.
Spotlight search is a live web search. It displays results as you type.
Modern cards aren't always embossed anymore. Most payment networks still have offline and eccentric ways to make a transaction, but it all comes down to one thing: If you don't do the most modern, 100% online method of credit card processing, you will be on the hook for any and all fraud, including fraud you can prove was fraud, and it usually costs more.

It's just cheaper to say "Sorry nothing we can do"
Do you have specific criticisms you'd like to lay out, or are you just going to post ad hominem attacks? You should know that won't go over well here on HN.
Cultural thing.

If it's communal, it doesn't belong to anybody, so we don't bother to take care of it. Or we trash it because 'It's not mine so who cares?'

Other countries have different cultures: If it's communal it belongs to all of us, me included, so I'll take care of it.

New York Train Station: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/F9Y3KY/new-york-city-subway-statio...

Moscow Train Station: https://media.gettyimages.com/id/616625206/photo/mayakovskay...
I'd have associated it with youth more than whether people are het / cis certainly. The "U-Haul Lesbian" cliche isn't about cishet folks, but you can bet the hypothetical "Lesbian on a second date" in the joke is not a 49 year old with kids from a previous marriage.
I ultimately just didn't end up missing it as much as enjoying what I gained. I do miss how in OneNote I could keep a list of study questions next to the notes, but it's okay that I don't have it in the end, because I'm taking better notes in Obsidian.
Sure, but laws around publicly funded research allow for that specifically in the context of peer-reviewed periodical publication (preventing folks from publishing in many different periodicals) while at the same time mandating that the research data and results should be freely available to the public. Because those two contexts are worlds apart.
Were you looking for the stupider you are, the stupider you are?

Total incomprehension of the driving force behind society for decades is not an indicator of intelligence.
True, but the fun is currently derived from humans going up against humans as a sport. Machines are tools (for learning or cheating) but we are not interested in competition with them.

How will it work for math, where humans do useful work right now? I can not see battle math becoming a big thing, but maybe when some of the tedious stuff goes away math will be philosophy and poking the smarter system is where entertainment can be had?
"what kind of (productive) gatekeeping the society brings to the table that is not and cannot be fulfilled by a peer review process"

I don't think "cannot" should be the standard. If the same or better standard of peer review isn't provided (empirically) by some other system, then that's a legitimate criticism of the other system.
Living mortgage free, 170k post-tax is pretty lavish annual spending almost anywhere in the world.
The male-female longevity gap is shrinking
Pretty rude to dismiss a project without reading any of its documentation.
Had a similar scrapped idea a few years ago: https://benoror.github.io/laystack-landing/
> the men I talk to struggle to articulate a benefit, let alone a benefit that would warrant the risk

I'm always confused when I see people saying things like this, given what I've seen among my peers.

The benefit to marriage is having children. You've decided to have children, an irreversible decision that will bind you and your partner together forever, cost a six-figure sum, and have a huge impact on your lifestyle and finances. You may have to deal with substantial adversity - perhaps your child will be born with a severe disability - and you'll literally have to wipe someone else's ass. It may cost (you or) your partner her career, or even her life if things go wrong.

Given that, the decision to get married - which is very much reversible, and only costs a four- or low-five-figure sum - is trivial in comparison.
Every machine I've seen can be built and configured to accept cash, but they're always "broken down" and "can't accept cash"
I mean, you can prewarm them outside too lol. Teslas are always connected
I spent 8 months telling people this before I got laid off while the CEO continues to chase LLM money with no new ideas or even the talent to solve the problem.

They spent so much time on the UI and basically left the actual search to the last minute, and it was a hilarious failure on launch.
The outrage as packaged by the media really does mirror the anger against Napster from 25 years ago. I seem to recall the small-time musicians were more excited about Napster, though.
Cancel maybe better than that because the confused user doesn't know what the current state of the system is. Cancel means "don't do anything". "Keep" implies the same thing, but I think cancel would confuse less grandparents.
The company I work at is using step functions heavily and I hate it. Instead of an if statement they make it a new step with the conditional in json, so following the code required you to jump around between files.

It has also been built by contractors who have no incentives to make it run locally or be easy to manage in production, but that isn't specific to step functions, and more due to poor leadership.
At some point I guess Apple will have to give up the 30% and instead charge more directly for their costs associated with running the App Store, namely hosting costs (probably very small) and the cost of testing and reviews (probably larger). If there are competitive App Store's, that where all of the free software will wind up.
Show HN: Add auth/billing to GPTs with a TypeScript template
Solar Chimneys: Viable Energy Solution or a Lot of Hot Air?
Most of the ways that things can get out of hand can be handled by a normal security team. For huge events like NFL, it makes sense to have cops at the ready for the extremely unlikely event of a terrorist attack. But there are orders of magnitude more events with far fewer people that do not need unaccountable armed security.
"contributors" is essentially me. what needs to be clarified?

it is by arthur whitney.

anything else?
The point of having laws is to resolve the problem: not everyone in society has ethics, let alone the same ethics, or ethics that are compatible with each other.
It's 100% for the cutouts and 80% for the "emotional" motifs. We still shoot but mainly for images with human interactions.
Leaving aside the semantics of what is "real" - yes, that is the point, that is why the article exists. "Is A.I. The Death of Gravity" is a nonsense question, "Is A.I. the Death of I.P." is not, precisely because humans get to decide the answer. We have developed certain norms and institutions over hundreds of years and now we must decide whether to scrap them in the name of technological progress. How we decide the question will have huge implications for how wealth and power are distributed in our society.
Interestingly, that doesn't matter for copyright.

A six-year-old filmmaker has as much claim to copyright protection as Spielberg and Tarantino. Just because one uploads to YouTube and one is paid millions of dollars by a major movie studio, it doesn't mean that they're different in the eyes of the law.

From what I understand, once a work is created, copyright is assigned to that work's creator. That creator may then license that work however they want. Quality doesn't factor in.
> This is one of the reasons for the whole "just put ~ at the end of the search" comes from.

shushhhh!!!!! you're giving spammers ideas!!!!!

next thing we know, we'll have spammers creating fake subs with bots for this spam
Very fair. I posted because (1) HN guidelines¹, and (2) because there was lots of discussion about it yesterday that may or may not happen again today.

¹ "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."
you must have seen a lot of code.
Most Americans are city dwellers. It's not even close. And the trend has been consistently towards increased urbanization since the country's founding.

I'm not arguing we should ignore rural communities, just that we shouldn't rule out ideas that work in cities because they don't work outside cities.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/news/irish-...
Long Island (where I live), is likely just as bad, but probably from the water (as opposed to the air).

But we have a lot of billionaires, and developers, with significant investment in local real estate.

I'm sure that has nothing to do with how quiet things are, about it.
Google DeepMind keeps publishing these things while having missed the AI-for-the-people train, that I'm getting more and more the feeling that they have such a huge arsenal of AI-tech piling up in their secret rooms, as if they're already simulating entire AI-based societies.

As if they're stuck in a loop of "let's improve this a bit more until it is even better", while AGI is already a solved problem for them.

Or they're just an uncoordinated, chaotic bunch of AI teams without a leader who unifies them. With leader I don't mean Demis Hassabis, but rather someone like Sundar Pichai.
I use this. If you're familiar with command line git then it's fairly easy to learn as it's basically a wrapper for that with a few use case specific tweaks on top.
It's not the only study done on this topic.
> I have never heard a story where a police officer intervened to stop the event.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the police have no duty to protect the public[0]. Worse, in that same decision, they ruled that states cannot impose a duty to protect the public on the police through legislation.

Since this case is about NYPD, it's worth mentioning the case of Lozito vs. NYC. There was a serial killer who went on 28-hour killing spree (four people died in total). The police were dispatched to a subway station in order to catch the suspect. When they arrived, the killer began stabbing Joseph Lozito. Instead of intervening to catch the serial killer that they had been specifically dispatched to apprehend, the police hid in a booth and let him stab Lozito. Lozito managed to disarm and incapacitate the killer, at which point the police decided to emerge from the booth and arrest the killer.

Lozito sued the NYPD. He lost because the SCOTUS ruling created binding precedent that police have no duty to protect the public.

> Now of course I'm sure that police presence has stopped many muggings

This is a common refrain, but research has consistently shown an extremely weak-to-nonexistent correlation between police presence and violent crime.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...
Remove copywriter protections and small time authors have the potential to earn EVEN LESS.

Why write books or any creative text based content when the second it's available it will be hoovered into the next AI training cycle and can be reproduced in part or in whole by users who almost definitely do not know who you are in the first place.
I wonder if the rise and fall of social media is just the way we as a market escape SEO blog spam hell.

I stopped using FB when the time line became 1% about the people I cared, and 99% about click bait. Market dynamics and the attention arms race seem to push every platform in that direction. Google is facing this.

So the response is to move our presence elsewhere, another forum another search, just another platform that hasn't yet been terminally infested by the attention arms race. But with our move, we also sooner or later bring the infestation with us.

We are digital nomads, trying to escape plagues that we ourselves bring.
Really confused to see your comment flagged.

The parent comment basically says "copyright is not a physical good or law, therefore we may disregard it".

As if the same couldn't be said for any verbal agreement, sexual consent, property rights, whatever.

They ought to be arguing why this _particular_ verbal agreement/social contract is not worth enforcing or practicing, rather than dismissing the entire category.
733 pages with the same cover image but without any calendaring line art comes in at 2049 KB. Opening that PDF back up in Chrome and using print "save as pdf" results in 1760 KB so there is some compression happening the second time around.

Overall this looks very promising!
Nafion byproduct 2 found in blood of well users near Fayetteville, N.C
Astronomers detect oldest black hole ever observed
Thanks, but I'd rather take the one without the GPLv2 license one commit earlier.
> it can form and maintain an objective;

Yes and yes.

> it can identify plausible steps to achieve that objective;

It can predict.

> it can accurately predict human responses to its actions;

It can predict.

> it can decently model the environment, as we can;

It can predict.

> it can hide its objectives from interrogators, and convince them that its actions are in their interests;

It can predict.

> it can deliver enough value to be capable of earning money through its actions;

It can predict.

> it can propose ideas that can convince investors to part with $100 billion;

It can predict.

> it can design a chemical plant...

It can predict.
But AI models are not limited to specific countries, they can be downloaded and run anywhere. Train in Japan (unrestrictive rules), then use in US.
Look at a graph of the use of the term "Technitium" on various social media over the last week and you get a glimpse onto what is an obvious concerted influencer campaign.
> Whitney is an unrealized IOCCC champion.

no, that'd be fabrice bellard, who is actually a "realized" ioccc champ.

atw doesn't do obfuscated c. you are led astray.
Contracts are not a real thing. It's a fiction. Subverting contract law is not like subverting the laws of physics. What happens when you subvert contract law is some guys with guns, in either an overt way or a subtle one, force a trade of your imaginary resource (a contract) for the real resource (money), through licensing or fines.
What benefits does this confer, in practice, over the license it already had? The source code has been up there for years. The assets are still proprietary, right?