skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ESA announced Wandt's selection in November 2022. Now he's in orbit, less than 15 months later! This is the fastest time between selection and orbit in history that I know of. No doubt there are full-time ESA astronauts announced with Wandt who are now dumbfounded that a backup is flying before them, not to mention those in earlier batches.

This sort of thing has happened in the US, too. When NASA began flying payload specialists <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payload_specialist> on the shuttle, that program included people who had been turned down by the NASA astronaut program, like Charles Walker and Byron Lichtenberg. They got to fly before many who had been selected in the same intakes they themselves had been rejected from! Walker flew three times (!) in fifteen months, and Lichtenberg flew twice. (Walker was selected for his first shuttle flight in May 1983 and the first attempt to launch was in June 1984, so he would have been the record holder had that happened; he went up in August.)
That's not really the founders, it's our ubiquitous PM Culture (for lack of a better word) at work. Look at the Goog or MS, always arbitrarily changing UIs to "increase engagement" or simply to show the PMs are hard at work.
Anecdotal evidence can be misleading. I went to India and saw a literal pile, 7 ft high and maybe 10 ft in diameter of emeralds casually “stored” in a corner of a room but I don’t think India produces all that many emeralds (it’s primarily a cutting hub).
Obviously this is more true to actual Lisp machines than Emacs, but in practice how different of a UX would this be? Ignoring the huge ecosystem around Emacs, it seems like the main difference is being able to save the application state and restore it at a later time. Are there any other major differences?
If you like that speed, you would love Mixtral running at >500 tokens/s @ Groq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fJyOVtOk4Y

In full disclosure, I have worked on getting this up @ Groq.

PS: Experience the speed for yourself, LLama2-70B, at https://chat.groq.com/
> That fiasco was followed by a head-scratching town hall in December led by Bhargava with SI and other Arena employees that spanned more than 90 minutes and during which Bhargava said, “No one is important. I am not important. … The amount of useless stuff you guys do is staggering.”

What a weird thing to say at an all-hands meeting. If individual contributors are doing things that are "useless" it's because someone in management put them on that course.
This sounds like a terrible way to run a lisp emulator. One shell command after another which assume one has the apt(1) package manager available on their system.

Maybe the title of the article is poorly done.

The easiest way to run a lisp machine is just to start emacs (there are ports for various operating systems) or try something like racket where you have a REPL with graphics and other goodies installed.

I know HN loves lisp, but putting this article on the front page is a good way to deter lisp adoption.
To this day, it's the most watched program in terms of raw numbers, not even percentage!
I had that working very briefly for a short period of time circa 2010.

Linux -> kexec grub -> NTLDR

Windows -> Winkexec[1] grub -> linux kernel

It was extremely fiddly, and the majority of hardware I threw it at really didn't like complying with what I was trying to do, in spite of the fact that it ought to work, at least on paper.

1: https://github.com/stump/winkexec
Copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI
> unending layoffs

Sounds like a frog in the well mentality, big tech is a very small part of the economy, even if you add companies like CitiGroup it's still tiny compared to everythign else where hiring is still strong. A good chunk of the laid off folks have savings from high salaries so they will keep on spending like normal so even those don't affect the larger economy too much.
Thank you for your kind words, I agree that he was such a beautiful child.

I've been reflecting on all the good things about him this week, and one thing I realized today is that because he was so small, I would still pick him up and carry him around as a 10 to 12 year old sometimes. That's something other parents could only do with their children for a much shorter time, and I appreciate now that that was something special about our time together.
That is good to hear! Framework has not been helpful on either minor or major issues when I've tried working with them, even the forums comingle AMD and Intel laptops without clear distinction muddying the waters as to what issues are relevant to a given user.
Did I read the article? You mean the tweet? If you're saying it supports your claim that fine-tuning a model is equivalent to caching, you are mistaken.

> If I own something, I can do whatever I want with it

BRB digitizing my entire media collection and uploading it to the public internet.
Christianity gave us a world without heroism and virtue?

Christianity stopped us from destroying the weak and the other?

It's weird then how the western Christian world has retained all of those negative traits for almost two millennia.
> Even worse is what the lawsuit calls "regurgitation," which is when OpenAI spits out text that matches Times articles verbatim. The Times provides 100 examples of such "regurgitation" in the lawsuit. In its rebuttal, OpenAI said that regurgitation is a "rare bug" that the company is "working to drive to zero." It also claims that the Times "intentionally manipulated prompts" to get this to happen and "cherry-picked their examples from many attempts."

So long as an LLM is trained on unlicensed content, this risk can never be driven to zero, because LLMs are not provably correct against regurgitation. OpenAI's rebuttal is marketing that counts on persuading the audience they its engineers can write bug-free software.

It's not just Microsoft and OpenAI that are vulnerable to lawsuits when an LLM generates content that may be assessed as a "derivative work" in a court of law — it's any OpenAI user who republishes the derivative work.
But, similarly, if you're setting up a data lake, a co-located collection of Parquet files that share the same schema is often colloquially referred to as a "Parquet table". And it's common put some extra layers beyond just squirreling some files away on a disk somewhere to manage and govern these logical units that people call Parquet tables.

I think that the people elsewhere in this thread who are trying to be pedantic about this are maybe more familiar with some of the individual open source technologies that are used in data lake applications than they are with conventions around how these technologies get assembled into a full-fledged data management system in a business setting?

In other words, it seems like people who are trying to talk about the forest are getting downvoted and picked on by a bunch of folks who seem to maintain that there is no forest, only trees.
Audible Cuts 5% of Its Staff
>If the intent of Congress is clear Congress can simply pass a law to clarify that. Congress does exist. If an agency is acting against the will of Congress Congress can immediately stop it.

Congress is different every year. The totality of congress members that negotiated and passed the law is likely no longer seated. Also this suggestion completely circumvents presidential veto power. It's also highly prone to abuse.

>You don’t need courts to come in and tell the agency what Congress means when Congress is right there and meets far more often than the courts and has a much quicker process than the courts, where decisions may go up the court chain all the way up to the supreme court.

That's literally what the SCOTUS is for, to interpret laws.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-governm....

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/flash-car...
Leia is building a 3D empire on the back of the worst phone we've ever reviewed
> Their successful products are vertically-integrated to provide a walled "convenient" experience to users

Isn't that a selling point of Apple ecosystem as well? Everything just works
Its not trying to be a contender for games. The price alone should make that obvious. This is a productivity device.
> Firing it for 10 seconds is the cost equivalent of using a regular heater for just an hour. Therefore, it has the potential to be a long-term low-cost alternative to certain tasks missiles currently carry out. The cost of operating the laser is typically less than £10 per shot.

I wonder how much damage one shot could do. Sounds like a good price point at £10. Also curious what kind of batteries they have behind these things.
In the same vein, having a dedicated type for natural (or even Peano) numbers can be quite nice. I've seen some clever use-cases in Haskell and Rust such as statically enforcing bounds checks. Can't have a negative length list!
> how did the scammer know that the guy ordered the stuff in the first place?!

The idea is the scammer is the seller on Amazon. So the guy orders from Amazon Marketplace, the Marketplace seller uses a hacked Wal-Mart account to fulfill the order and pockets the cash from Amazon.
i wonder how many people will actually try to use ctrl-alt-delete to recover. i did just to see if it would do anything, but i don't use windows so I wasn't going be rick rolled by it.

like it would be funny if it launched a full screen window of the start up screen for win98 or something.
I was watching the live stream and they mentioned they couldn’t make contact and were waiting for 30 mins. Their telemetry also showed the craft upside down. But it looks like I’m wrong!
Their govt should be all over that before they get leeched
Local vector database for analyzing ArXiv papers and RAG
I can mirror what gpm said, I’ve never had a problem with the proprietary nvidia driver. The only annoyance is the requirement to reboot after an update, but that’s pretty standard everywhere.
This neomodern take where everything has to be distilled into some black and white political view is not very applicable to reality in general, and even less so here. Stoicism a philosophical and worldview, not a political one. There were, and are, Stoics in all walks of life.

Various individuals, in modern Western history, that have held Aurelius' meditations in extremely high esteem range from the person who coined the term collective bargaining, to Bill Clinton, to an Army general. [1] Among countless others. Of course holding that book in high esteem is not the same as being a Stoic, but on the other hand I don't think it's terribly far from it. The book would be quite a pointless source of inspiration for one who wasn't endeavoring to integrate Stoic ideals into their life. Stoicism is what one makes of it - it's not like you get a member card, and manuscript of dogma and taboo.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations#Reception
And decreasing EROI.

Maybe you meant that, but it’s worth stating outright, as no amount of money can fix that.
> Dr. Iyer says they believe the increase in heart attacks during COVID-19 was because of increased clotting caused by the virus.

> As for the vaccine:

> “I think this myth that the COVID vaccine is somehow related to increased heart attacks certainly is not borne out by the data,” said Iyer. “What we have seen with the COVID vaccine is a slight increase in myocarditis, or an increase in inflammation of the heart. Whether that has any substantive impact on sudden cardiac death has yet to be proven, but there is certainly no evidence at this point that the COVID vaccine has led to increased heart attacks per say.”

The key point given the raging misinformation around this. I know a lot of "get over it, long covid is a myth" types are online, and I can understand the psychological pressure that turns people into that. Sadly it's been clear for a while now that Covid is far more than a respiratory illness, it has wide-ranging impacts that may not be obvious at first.
this might be how they want it though. The industry knows there is a steady stream of newly licensed, but completely inexperienced drivers. If some companies are willing to take the risk on them, but pay less, this could be a good introductory job for them. both parties know the employee will quit once he has enough hours to get hired by a better firm. the better firm has a different risk model, where they only hire drivers with X-month employment with no accidents. In return, they are willing to pay a premium.
It's hard to find a payment processor for pornographic providers. Existing payment processors are likely to stop supporting you if you become a porn provider. Additionally, there are branding risks in being associated with adult content. There's also more legal scrutiny involved, and it's outright illegal in some jurisdictions.

A simple Google search on the topic should be educational.
I do not really understand why we are obsessed with energy independence. It only matters if we were to ban exports which is an absurd thing to do.
>But most people would agree that recording everything on every street corner 24/7 is not acceptable in a free society.

Uk government joins the chat.
Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for Firefox
Dang, should this be merged with? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39056403

Good discussion over there
All of Plato's extant works are available in English (and it's not a particularly large amount of text), and I assure you this is not something he's ever said. The quote is entirely apocryphal, and there is no evidence of it prior to 1967[1].

I'm omitting the other charge, because I'm focusing on the charge of corrupting the youth, and the fact that he (according to Plato) associated with the youth much more frequently than he did with the adults. The youths of Athens make appearances in almost every platonic dialogue, and they're almost always shown in a neutral to positive light (unlike the leaders, generals, politicians, poets, etc.) He's portrayed as the opposite of a stodgy old man opposed to new ideas; if any thing he's spearheading an ideological assault on the status quo of Athens!

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/12/13/riot/
Seriously, if stoicism is so good for mental health why did so many of them suicide? And why was Marcus Aurelius specifically such a poor father? Seems like a bad track record to me. I'd rather party with the Nietzscheans.
I believe just this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endpoint_security
I mean, I can see the comparison!

But on the other hand, they took the feedback this time and created a different strap to address it (and early reviews seem to indicate it does help quite a bit).

So - lols aside - I don’t think it’s quite the same thing. I think they realize it’s a real issue for some people and they’re trying to address that earnestly.
Yah, I still see help wanted signs in every restaurant window. OTOH, we're hiring and we're getting some fabulous resumes. win-win from my perspective, but if I was the one applying rather than interviewing, I know I'd have a different perspective.
(TIME) What will be the 10 hottest jobs of the future? (2000) [pdf]
> You have gone on like... three different wild tangents here, none of which contradict anything I've said.

You posted an article, I responded to it. Standard fare.
I found Seneca's letters to be much more approachable than Meditations.
If they are paying you to do X and outside of work you are doing something that directly conflicts with X, don't you thimk that might fall within the realms of 'their business'? Wouldn't they be better off employing someone who wasn't attempting to bring the business down after hours?
What? These are denominated in tons, not dollars.
1. There was no convenient "just-so" story to push onto consumers to justify the prices. Now there suddenly was (COVID + Supply bottlenecks, which media gladly regurgitated every week for 3 years)

2. Barriers to entry, high startup capital costs (due to high prices of everything), having to compete against implicitly colluding incumbent market players.

3. Under capitalism, ALL industries have conditions that favor monopoly. It arises from regulatory capture and economies of scale naturally. It is the end state of any industry.

4. They aren't. More & smaller firms are a market with perfect competition, but perfect competition also means there's no profit, because revenue = costs. Under this scenario, there will be very little innovation.

All these questions are trivially answered by any Econ undergrad who was actually paying attention during lectures.
See also https://simulator.money/play for a Windows XP nostalgia trip
Oh snap, I forgot about Tom. Good to see he's still 30 and hanging out in Santa Monica.
I do like the idea of using container registries for VM images
Biomedical engineering has been quite the hot ticket for a while in the Medical device industry. It is an interesting field. There is a lot of engineering going on, but the hierarchy is business.
I think you have to have a separate entity(ies) that is strictly eggheads trying new shit. They need a big budget and have to keep the bean counters away, otherwise they will steal all the soul out of the enterprise. That's why so many thing come out of places like universities and NASA, you don't have bean counters killing the soul of the engineers/scientists. I'm not saying that situation is always possible, just putting out a theory. Also a lot of the low hanging fruit in science and math has already been discovered/invented, so it gets harder. This is where I hope AGI comes in, even if it's risky.
Build Autonomous Assistants using LLM function calling
But they also kind of lock you into that classic DB-like interface. Which works great for many people - hence their overwhelming popularity - but not necessarily everyone.
The paper is open-access: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727992
An EV doesn't have 50 kg of lithium. The 70 kWh battery in my Tesla S has about 12 kg of lithium.
Does that even work in Canada? The article is about a Canadian issue.
> Also, Home Assistant is a locally focused platform, and when it uses cloud APIs it creates HUGE amounts of traffic for the amount of users that use it.

Yeah right.
Does anyone know where to find some really good, high fidelity, stereo recordings of cicadas? I've tried making recordings but just cannot capture the sonic experience very well at all.
No, I think Botswana or DRC does
I was researching whether there's legal precedent making such uses legal, and ChatGPT pointed out that "Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.," where it was decided that developing a VCR where users can record Universal's content is legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....

I think this applies here as well. Curious how this will play out.
Asset managers would like fewer shareholder resolutions
I can agree with a lot of this, depending on the user. I’m pretty similar to you. I got it and used it, because it was new and novel, but over time the usage faded. I tried going back to the iPad mini, since I liked that form factor best, but it’s sitting a few feet from me, powered off, and hasn’t been used in months.

My dad on the other hand, who is one of the people who bought and iPad after seeing mine, uses it all the time. He actually has 2 of them, a 10” and a 12.9”, and he uses both of them regularly enough that he feels they are both justified for his use cases. He still does use his Mac as well, but his iPads get a ton of use for reading the news, email, photography related things, and maybe some other stuff. He’s retired now, so that might be part of it.

Maybe if didn’t work in IT and simply consumed whatever the apps allowed me to consume, I could get by with an iPad as my computer, but I want to do stuff an iPad can’t do. I also pretty much always want a keyboard and mouse, and when that’s always bolted on to an iPad, it might as well be a MacBook. I never found the appeal of touch screen laptops.
The Turkish one is essentially for propaganda, being "the first Turk in space" right before the elections(although he is supposed to run some experiments for the Turkish Universities). It's still nice though, maybe will inspire some kids to pursue careers in science but there's an ongoing debate in Turkey if he is just a space tourist(it's complicated).

A fun thing is, He is from the secular demographic and his firsts words were to commemorate Ataturk and the islamists and seculars instantly switched place; Now the pro-government people say He is a space tourist and the secular opposition says he is a hero :)
This is interesting in the context of Meta blowing billions of dollars just now on compute in order to buy their way into competitiveness. It seems so far like raw $ is only very loosely correlated with the ability to come out with leading models. See also UAE and the Falcons. I wonder if there's any sign of that changing and big money making more of a difference, or if we'll see compute revert back to purely a commodity and "fecundity" becoming the ruling factor.

Edit: finally archived https://archive.md/RrXWo
my thinking on not doing the IR blaster remote or dealing with the TV receiver, is the mechanical hand approach could work on non-television options (like a projector where your chromecasting a tv stream)
That's exactly what Haier is doing, just via legal means than technical ones.

We actually have a public self-serve API. In some cases, if I've tried the diplomatic approach, I've had to actually shut off API access to get someone to even respond to me.

In this case, it appears they've taken the same access/creds as the mobile app maybe?

Another one of our platforms we cert-pinned the API to prevent this as well.

Yes there are ways, the other part we don't know is if they went straight to the legal route or not.
Nowadays the closest you can get to this is either Smalltalk (using squeak for example) or, going to the other side of the spectrum, Forth (using gforth for example).
I had great success using Anki cards during my undergrad to fully internalize important definitions (i.e. trig identities, etc.) for utilization within practice problems.

Sometimes, you just know a thing or don't, and for me, spaced repetition cards helped a ton with the static things you just have to memorize (or derive). Knowing definitions is important—you're absolutely right that it's just one piece of the puzzle though.
Fair point.

I finished the season 2 finale this evening and it just ... ended. Still entertaining but whilst there was a final set-piece showdown and things were wrapped up okay, it felt like loads of episodes of digging around followed by a highly compressed surge of closure in the final episode. Similar to season one, though again I enjoyed both.
> The article says they’re paying their way but also that they’ll be doing experiments?

When I worked at Apple we "hired" the ISS. Astronauts were trained and scheduled and would work for us. The work was not anything science related. I'm not sure how common this is, though.
For probably nostalgic reason, this put a big smile on my face.

But for those who are under 30s, or may be under 25s. What do you think of it? Ugly? Interesting? Boring? or what? Interested to know.
It’s very likely to go the way of oil. EV demand has slowed down recently (honestly I don’t believe the world is ready for mass adoption and EVs themselves are not ready also), so we’ll keep finding more and more and always beyond the consumption.
I have data to back this up (at least for our products), do you?
Windows 11 is now officially supported on M3 Macs
I think the best description of the kind of thing the lisp machines (the Symbolics ones, at least) supported is described in this thread mostly carried by Kent Pitman [1]. I'd at least read all of the comments he wrote as well as whatever else you need for the context he is posting in.

Edit: this thread too [2]

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/QzKZCbf-S6g/m/K...

[2] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/XpvUwF2xKbk/m/X...