skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For very expensive projects like mars landers, it's imperative that everything is very reliable. If the mission plan is 5 flights, that means the systems need to be reliable enough that there's a 99.9% chance that it will successfully complete those five flights. But that also means that there's, say, a 98% chance that it can successfully complete 20 flights and maybe a 80% chance that it could complete over 50 flights. So these extended missions are really a consequence of building things to complete the primary mission as effectively as possible.
Most union contracts still allow for KPI's and bonuses, which can be customized and based on personal goals you set with your employer. So not sure what you mean?
I use it to power a flutter mobile app and a web app. It's just so easy to extend and deploy that I can't think of using anything else.
I believe that the movie industry is just before a major disruption.

1. Big movie studios have been overproducing content with reduced returns.

2. Business model change to direct-to-consumer (streaming).

3. Regulatory changes (DEI minority interests - Oscars).

4. Technological changes (generative AI).

5. Customer preferences (watch the review on Youtube).
I wonder about this -- as I've been gently encouraged to not use "lame" (I was using it to mean poorly made, crappy, shitty). The argument at the time iirc was "it used to mean disabled so we shouldn't use it to mean poor". I said sure, because pushing back would be wasteful of both our times, and it's an easy thing to do.

I often feel like these kinds of vocabulary updates don't really bring about "respect and inclusion", though, because everyone knows given context that I wasn't saying or implying that disabled people are lesser: the word has changed meaning. Similarly in this case I'd only ever known dork to mean nerd, and never that it was penis specific, or that it was somehow male exclusive.

I guess i think there's a case to be made for not making words "curse words", and instead understanding that usage changes, and it's needless to to encourage people (maybe enlighten people is still cool). I guess i feel like, why cage ourselves in restrictions when intent is what matters.

In this case, I do think it's a terrible name for this feature, where "search operators" is much more descriptive.
It apparently was the whole time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39075315
>You don't understand the issues and you refuse to believe that such issues exist.

I do, people are fucking hard to deal with an the entire field of cryptography is a technical solution to that. If you were at the helm it wouldn’t exist.

>There is no way to design an app outside of the British Postal Office that will fulfill their needs and then drop it inside of the British Postal Office and expect to work.

Yet it does every day and you just take it for granted. What voltage electricity do they use? Do they use phones? Do they use email? Do they use TLS? Do they use standard plumbing?

>These are not technological problems. They are human problems.

Human problems are for technology to solve. Keyword exchanges for ensuring Diffie Hellman secrecy are completely to deal with humans and the problem space it’s meant to address.

>Technology cannot solve this simply because technology can always be discarded or misconfigured, despite the technology's design.

Again, this is wrong. If the organization interacts with the public they are forced to interact with interfaces defined by browser manufacturers. It’s getting extremely difficult to run an insecure website that takes passwords without being flagged as such by systems outside of the organization’s control (e.g. chrome).

You can’t just refuse to implement smtp authentication, DKIM, and SPF anymore and expect to be able to email the rest of the world.

Your view is of the world as it existed during the 2000s. A giant buffet of technological choices, some good and some bad. That world is gone.

We now (for better or worse) have minimum bars set by a cabal of large internet companies if you intend to interact with the general public. Safari will not lower the bar for accessing the postal service, no matter how bristled the mustache of the politician who requests it.

The entire field of research you purport to not exist and not matter is what drives this cabal forward. They remove various footguns every day and take the reins out of incompetent operators hands further with every release.

Your argument seems to be “I’ve thought of a case where humans can screw up so therefore the entire field of taking the ability for them to screw up away is invalid”. It’s completely ridiculous and I’m pointing out that it is both active and making major differences.

If you don’t want to participate that’s fine. But telling yourself it’s because it’s an unsolvable problem is just a lie.
>That's just a question of character voice.

Fair, but I do feel that removing it is removing a social dynamic that can not simply be mapped just to the voice of a character.

>Most language learning material.

It happens in anime too, so that material is wrong and off topic from what was being discussed.
It really depends on how you define "computer".
Robot grows like a vine, could help navigate disaster zones
I think that was reasonable thing to bet over a decade ago. But these days there are very few Big time movie star who can carry a movie on their back. The Last big movie star would be Tom Cruise and he also isn't a surefire way to success by how the latest Mission impossible Performed. The more reasonable thing to bet on these days is Recognizable IP which is what the Big studios have been milking for years. And that also gives more power to the Studio since people don't go to theater for Robert Pattison, they go there for Batman.
It's a little negative don't you think to say not much of a hero? For sure, following the advice -- but it might be hard for you to assess the story without reading it, by your own admission! Hahaha! :)

I don't use Anki, do you? -- But anyway that gal was on the phone to first responders as she was watching the other people perish. She was following your advice to a tee, it seems. I don't think that makes her any less of a hero, but I get if you want to be a little ungenerous in your praise -- that might just be you, tho! hahaha! :)

But maybe you were just making a provocative contrarian point to look for a fight because that's what you feel like doing -- sorry! I'm having a good day :) Please find something else to take it out on! Hahah :)
The naive idea of wanting to protect artists is actually protecting the monopoly of big companies.

Some projects against this behavior:

https://github.com/syncblob/Obey-AI-Luddites
"Lots and lots" sounds like a guess.
Still, no one buy a car to only use it for its guarantee period.

Unlike with software, where they call that "support" and try to scare you into their next version immediately after that ends.

Unfortunately, the automakers are slowly picking up those practices from software.
Consider a LEFT JOIN b RIGHT JOIN c. You'll get all the records from c.

Now consider b LEFT JOIN a LEFT JOIN c. The result is not the same at all.
That’s not necessary. The broader system of society, communication, and the encouragement of development of open solutions to this problem means your team of incompetents just doesn’t even need to solve them.
I live in one of the leafiest subtropical cities in Australia

For designers and planners interested in these ideas, please remember to account for increases in frequency in natural disasters over the coming century

It wasn’t that long ago that our nation’s capital, Canberra, almost burnt down from bush fires

Ideas like ground level parklands with high rises over the top do make me concerned about potential mass casualty events from a metropolitan bushfire

Fire fighting resources (like all) are finite

Black summer and the previous Canadian summer bushfires really should drill home the need to consider worst case scenario performance for buildings and urban planning design patterns
If your console runs SteamOS, you have to compete with Valve and Steam Deck, on a platform maintained by Valve developers.

If your console runs Windows, you can differentiate yourself from Steam Deck by supporting a larger library of games, on a relatively neutral platform. "like 5 games" is an underestimate, and they're major ones. Just on https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed I see:

- PUBG

- Apex Legends

- Call of Duty

- GTA5

- The Finals

- War Thunder

- Destiny 2

Not to mention off-Steam games like LoL, Valorant, Fortnite, etc.

Yes, people play competitive games on Steam Deck. You can plug a mouse, keyboard and display into them. In fact, they're really popular at the big LAN party conventions- your rig can fit into a backpack.
Cool, yeah. Do you have experience with Pascal? Does it hold up well in those cats you mention (fast/robust/error tolerant?)
They have probably earned 1000s of dollars in fees from me alone because of the feature.
I don't agree that Graeber's interpretation was incorrect.

However, regardless of implementation details and nuances, there is one critique which is irrefutable about reserve banking; it is far too complicated to be understood by the majority who rely on it. This complexity obscures the functioning of the most important force in economics and society. It is unacceptable on that basis alone.

People should not be coerced to participate in a system which they cannot understand on the basis of trust alone. Especially when it involves trusting people they've never met and who may have conflicting interests.
Is there data to support this? Is there data that says in-office workers are attached to their jobs, exhibit passion and creativity? Or is it all just vibes?
I'm on the Ingenuity team, but info needs to come through offical channels, so I'll just point out the announcement:

https://x.com/NASAJPL/status/1748883252604236281?s=20

For those who would rather not go to x.com, the text is:

Good news today: We've reestablished contact with the #MarsHelicopter after instructing
@NASAPersevere
to perform long-duration listening sessions for Ingenuity’s signal.

The team is reviewing the new data to better understand the unexpected comms dropout during Flight 72.
I'm obviously not saying they are the same. I'd still take the american system 100% of the time, no hesitation. My point is that said system becomes much more similar to say, the Kremlin when it comes to foreign wars since they both basically have full support at home so democracy isn't especially relevant. Sure, that support then dies down usually but Americans and Russians seem to have a history of supporting wars with no hesitation. That makes the usual massive advantages of an American system based on separation of powers much less important.

So my point is that at the end of the day, for the people on the receiving end of those wars, they don't really see the difference and aren't protected by an American style system. If anything, it gives the veneer of "good intentions", whereas the Russian Kremlin doesn't. So it makes stuff like Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, wars based on lies etc go unpunished. No one sanctions the US for example.
To be clear, I'm not saying they are wasting resources, I'm saying they just underestimate.
Typls: Cross-platform app that expands user defined abbreviations into any text
> Companies will find a way to make things work even if labour costs more.

The way is to move / outsource to where it costs less. There is a reason that iPhones are mostly made in China.
No, you’re assuming a counterfactual that isn’t necessarily true. If the virus hadn’t come along, humanity as it stands today may not exist but whatever animal was infected could potentially have kept reproducing / another virus would accomplish what happened anyway. Those are far more likely scenarios.

You’re taking an impossible to prove hypothetical that would require omniscient level reasoning and predictive powers to prove or disprove - it’s not a productive line of reasoning and you’re falling into the exact same trap you’re accusing others of doing. The WWII example is also highly flawed because that one was experts making strategically reasonable calls. Worrying about some hypothetical virus that in the distant future is critical is not strategically reasonable - it’s science fantasy.
I suspect a lot of the "woe, things are way harder for Millennials than past generations, I'm too poor to have a family" zeitgeist is actually this phenomena + literal survivorship bias. Every single person alive today came from parents that successfully reproduced. When you're a kid, it's very natural to think that having kids and a family of your own is the default state of being. After all, all of your friends have parents who successfully reproduced too.

But that's because you tend to have much closer relationships with your family and peers than with childless adults. When I change my sample from "my friends growing up" to "my parent's friends when they were growing up", a lot of them never had children. By the numbers, the percentage of households that are families with children has gone down, but it's gone from about 55% in 1970 to 40% in 2022, which is a much less drastic fall than most people would suspect. Being childless is far more normal than children believe.
If it was someone with an IBM PC XT, running MS-DOS and no hard disk, you'd lose every time.

The ONLY hardware attack that worked that I'm aware of caused their monochrome monitor to fail, due to a design flaw. There wasn't anywhere you could tuck in a virus.

We write protected our boot disks and important programs. We made copies and tested them.

We knew what each program sounded like when it was working normally, and could hear each and every disk seek.

We had capability based security, in a crude form... you don't.
Is anyone else just going numb to the constant expulsion of garbage from CEOs? I mean, when was "attachment" seriously considered in the last 20 years as a value by any western megacorp?
I think it should be a personal decision. As a skull on a bookshelf I feel my remains would have far more impact than if I only had a plot somewhere that was infrequently visited. It's also more of a conversation starter. Also, there is nothing to say you can't have both - the body could be in a plot, the skull left in a creepy library in the ancient mahogany library I left my children. You know, the usual.
The animators themselves are saying they hate their working conditions and their dream job has become a nightmare.
this sentence sounds like British humor (or is it humour?)
In Asia this is quickly becoming the norm.
Since when did economics become a science?
> “If I give stimulants to the average person, they’ll say their mood, their thinking, and their energy are better,” Goodman said.

Why shouldn't healthy people have access to long-acting stimulants under the supervision of their doctor? Why limit healthcare to interventions that restore health to a minimal baseline? If as Dr. Goodman says, a pill can make the average adult happier, sharper, and more productive, why shouldn't everyone have access to it?
varying levels of incompetency can be solved by using safer but slower languages. Malicious is harder in the face of multiple colluding actors. Automated flagging of suspect code by AI to wider groups for review and sign off would drastically raise the bar (but obviously not solve the sneakiest of cases).
NATO doesn't "expand". Free, independent, and sovereign countries join NATO because Russia keeps trying to kill them when they don't join NATO.

Usually it takes quite a few years of hand-wringing from the NATO side to even agree to consider letting them in.
The context windows of LLMs are now significantly larger than 2048 tokens, and there are clever ways to autopopulate context window to remind it of things.
Yes, it's very apparent that it was trained on specific images, e.g. pointing camera at a window insect screen will assume "insect", and a pile of dry leaves is either "mammals" or "tinamous". My orange cat who lays with front paws crossed is a domestic dog (because dogs lay like that). But an aphid colony and specific lichens are identified almost immediately.

In my experience, it's best for small static things, like fungi, lichens, some plants and insects.

Merlin sound ID, too, can produce false identifications (e.g: my relative fooling around was a marsh wren), and I've seen birders frown upon "Identified by Merlin" rare birds posted to eBird.
The article discusses many different techniques, applied to several different materials:

>The people inhabiting the region had a remarkably advanced tool kit, with a range of innovative tools from the Upper Paleolithic, including end-scrapers, awls, and tools of former times, including Middle Paleolithic Levallois points, various tanged tools, denticulates, and borers.

Sounds noteworthy not necessarily for being the oldest example of any particular tool/technique so much as using all of them together, as well as making use of graphite and collecting toolmaking materials from hundreds of kilometers away. Apparently this diverse toolkit allowed them to thrive by specializing in hunting horses.
Additionally, the tech level will eventually allow us to discover and implement any/all available superpowers.
Think about it.

The species that is now Mitochondria was an entirely different species.

We carry Mitochondrial DNA, while the human side is Nuclear DNA…nucleus of every cell.

Birth as we know it wouldn’t have happened without a third species invading our cells. We know it as placenta.

Profound that we fight microbes, but without two (that we know about), our species literally (accurate use) would not exist.

At all.

Just, wow.
Not in the same decade, but I attribute a non-zero part of my robotics obsession to a friend's cybot (http://lpilsley.co.uk/cybot/). I remember being amazed at it following a line, and always wanted the magazines. Tragically, it was long discontinued by the time I discovered it.

Every now and then I think about trying to get my hands on a collection and following along. I'd love to find out if there is anything in there that I haven't yet learned, despite working with robots professionally...
https://www.freepascal.org/

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

Free Pascal and Lazarus are FOSS development tools to cross compile Pascal code. It is semi-Delphi compatible.

In 1985 I discovered Turbo Pascal for DOS in High School on IBM PC-XT systems. Pascal has a large library of code you can borrow from or use in your code. I think it is a good language for cross compiling.
I wouldn't trust any study in concert with a cosmetics company to be impartial/sensible science. They're aiming for a result that increases revenue for their products (or leads to products that can generate revenue for them), and this would drive how the study is constructed.
> Sometimes, unfortunately, we have to legislate the superior alternative into existence.

There is nothing we have to do. And are there no animators currently making a decent living? Legislating a minimum wage does not give the animators extra leverage. The higher it is, the more employers will invest into technology to replace them. There are all kinds of ways to improve the lot of the disadvantaged. The minimum wage is one of the worst ways to do so.
Jazelle: Direct Java bytecod execution for ARM
topologically speaking don't both your gut and skin microbiomes inhabit the same surface?
Could you elaborate on the Iraq war conspiracy theory?
Hey you know what might not be AI generated post-2021? Almost everything run through Nightshade. So given it's defeated, which is pretty likely, artists have effectively tagged their own work for inclusion.
I like ISO, on the Windows PC you can rename DMG files to ISO and might be able to look at them using a third party virtual CD/DVD tool. Depending on which tool you use.
Anime is a $25B industry in terms of revenue, but that doesn't actually imply anything in particular about whether there's any profit in it. I see people make this sort of mistake all the time, and it bugs me. In this particular case, I think the appropriate reaction is very different if the anime industry is wildly profitable vs losing money as a whole, but the article is happy to throw revenue numbers around in the headline without engaging with that distinction.

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My question is: what are the downsides to unionizing? Whenever someone presents something as having no downside, it’s particularly important to try to examine that.

Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39074679 are making me think twice, but there must be some catch with unions, or else everyone would do it.
n^n^n^n^n^n is an upper bound for general n, but the special case of only 2 people can be done with just 1 query.

the algorithm is just to have person A cut into two equal slices and then person B choose their favorite slice. it takes just 1 second, which is quite a speedup over the upper bound...
The Associated Press published more details about the people involved and how the rescuer approached the baby (by moving at a low crouch to avoid slipping into the wire): https://apnews.com/article/power-line-car-three-electrocuted...
The link literally says that:

> For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure.
These are not "wild speculations", they are all widely know facts. It is more common in the earth's crust than lead, tin, uranium, etc which we mine magnitudes more per year [1], and there are significantly more reserves in seawater [2], where extraction is mostly limited by how much energy we need to use to extract it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...
[2] https://www.science.org/content/article/seawater-could-provi...
Get them to unionize so they become less competitive?
Gotta find someone with a WinSock disk and a browser for your Windows 3.11 for Workgroups install first. Fortunately I was in college at the time, so there were plenty.
Care to elaborate, or was your goal just to be insulting for the sake of it? What specifically did I say that was "uninformed nonsense"? What are the facts that contradict what I said?

If you can't provide something more substantial than vague insults then you're never going to persuade anyone of anything.
Even if no new images are being scraped to train the foundation text-to-image models, you can be certain that there is a small horde of folk still scraping to create datasets for training fine-tuned models, LoRAs, Textual Inversions, and all the new hotness training methods still being created each day.
That is the old SteamOS from back when Valve tried to make Steam Machines a thing. It's based on Debian 8 which has been EOL for 4 years. The latest SteamOS is based on Arch and isn't officially packaged for installation anywhere other than the Steam Deck.
> it can be a cost-effective way to isolate

This never occurred to me, thanks.
Nitpick - there shouldn't be a way to be non-fatally electrocuted. However, the language has been vandalised to the extent that electrocution (literally execution by electricity) now means the same as electric shock.