skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine we saw the mother of all asteroids incoming. It was large enough that it would almost certainly extinguish all life on Earth, and even throwing every nuke we had at it would barely scratch it. Yet we also saw this from relatively far away - let's say about 10 years. It seems exceptionally probable that by the time it got here we'd have established colonies on both the Moon and Mars.

The main issues are not technological in nature anymore - but economic. We put a man on the Moon more than half a century ago. The fundamental requirements to convert a short-term stay to a perpetual one are really not that great: food, home, maintenance. Water, which both the Moon and Mars have - in abundance, can be used to generate oxygen and fuel - taking care of near to all essentials. So what you really need is the infrastructure - housing, agriculture/ranching, industry, and recreation.

And that's all entirely viable, but has a very high price tag. SpaceX is trying to tackle this problem by bringing the price of space launches as close to $0 as possible, but even once that is achieved - the actual materials necessary to achieve this, even at cost, will be very substantial. And without some imminent danger, there will be people claiming that we shouldn't colonize another planet because everything here isn't perfect, which it never will be.
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politics is how you convince people above you to do things
Another sustainability crisis playing out is in the field of software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39085704
Back around ...2007 or so I had papabupple make a 'google (heart emoji) open source" hard candy, they were absolutely terrific. People loved those things. Papabubble had a shop in SF in those days. Expensing 600 lbs of candy was a first for google accounting I think.
I think the foreshadowing aspect comes with better understanding and more practice, so I'm not sure it can be replicated without testing the learner on a new problem set crafted for that. As for refreshers, I currently use a combination of Brilliant and Khan Academy lectures.
But one we have a lot of access to lol

> Fortunately for us, helium also gets into the natural gas that oil and gas drillers extract from the ground for use as fuel [source: University of Pittsburgh]. That gives us a supply that we can use for blowing up balloons, as well as for a wide variety of other industrial processes, ranging from arc welding to MRIs to manufacturing silicon chips for computers. There has to be a certain amount of helium in the natural gas — at least 0.3 percent by volume – to justify all the trouble of separating it from natural gas.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/question12.htm
Whatever storage format they have, they are writing boilerplate to transform it into REST . Regardless, it will be cheaper to just ingest into BigQuery
With knife and fork obviously.
> I have never heard a person complain about this in real life.

This is all real life. I'm real. What you appear to be saying is that you're judging entirely by the ancedotal experience of the small number of people who you happen to know personally. How many of them have actually requested an App Store refund?

What I can say, as an App Store developer, is that a lot of consumers are totally ignorant of how the App Store works. They email me about problems with transactions, despite the fact that I have no access to customer transactions. I can't even grant refunds. They email me about problems with App Store downloads, despite the fact that I no control whatsoever over downloads. They even email me to "cancel my subscription", despite the fact that my app doesn't even have a subscription.
Requiring use of a private party to access public data is usually something we discourage.
I didn't say anything about living here. See "investment real estate"
I remember back in that time that a lot of apps had convoluted code to do this https only at login dance. All in the name of performance (because https was slower despite it being a premature optimization really).
Switching to https only actually mostly helped simplify codebases...
If the provider is bearing the costs (like here) then they always need some kind of authorization, or they have no way to shut off abusers or people with misbehaving clients.

An API key is about the simplest possible way to achieve that, and appears to be perfectly adequate in this case.

What do you suggest? SAML?
> Incidentally, that tweet was in response to my demo of AI-generated Pokemon. I've had a hard weekend.

Wow, kudos for both your experiment and the traction! I don't envy all of the AI hate you must be getting. I'm sorry that some people choose to misdirect their feelings of discomfort and angst.

> Support for AI doesn't mean it's used it in a product, and Pokemon similarity doesn't require AI to copy it.

Absolutely. And I hope this isn't the point that people latch onto. The interesting thing about Palworld and the thing people should pay attention to is the closeness of the IP and the art. It doesn't really matter what technique the team used arrive at that; it's still close enough to cause confusion and probably rile up Nintendo's lawyers.
These look like watercolor. You can tell they're not realistic but they have a nice design on their own.
This site has developed a lot of content without seeming to directly address the major concerns anyone coming from git flow will have. For example, their code review page does not really address how github and gitlab are both set up to support branch based review, and trunk based review is a lot harder when using those tools. Similarly, I poked around and figured out what they recommend for hotfixes, which is just fix it on trunk and cherry-pick the commit. That works sometimes, but anywhere with infrequent releases (like regulated environments or shipped software) may find that pretty painful. I suspect I could raise more issues if I put more energy into it, but it's hard to want to, given how the content is presented.

Overall, this site reads like someone who's so convinced they're right that they don't bother to take other viewpoints seriously enough to actually refute them.
> If anything this feels like a cost issue not a pure technology issue...

It IS a technology issue. High-TC superconductors are basically ceramics, meaning that they are brittle. And a good simulation of MRI experience is being inside a trash can that other people hit with baseball bats.

We are only now starting to get high-TC superconductors in the form of tape, but it's not yet ready to replace low-TC superconductors.

BTW, it's also the reason we're hearing about so many new fusion startups trying to utilize it. It _should_ provide an order of magnitude cost decreases compared to liquid-helium. But it's still something that only startups are using.
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> And I hope this isn't the point that people latch onto.

Too late!

Design-wise, the popular examples of overly-similar-Pokemon are distinct enough legally.
I mean yes, it’s not a causation. But it’s pretty difficult to argue that an extremely strong correlation doesn’t exist.
Medications are not optional too.

All the "players" I know are on medication, period. I suspect cancer is following (just my view I have no source). So thanks but no thanks.

For me the next benchmark after perceived happiness is wether or not you're on medication (with rare exceptions). It you're on medication (rare exceptions apply), you can be driving the most beautiful of cars, your life is shit. Rare exceptions apply like you're working on something great or you have inherited your condition. You get the idea.

You think your job and you politics and your thoughts are not responsible for your condition? You think it's the cat? You havent read the manual.
> Therefore examining individual beliefs doesn’t necessarily accomplish anything

I think some beliefs are more foundational than others. Foundational beliefs include beliefs about the ultimate nature of reality (e.g. materialisms vs dualisms vs idealisms), the nature of logic and rationality, the nature of knowledge (epistemology), metaethics (is ethics objective or subjective? and if objective, how so?), the basic principles of normative ethics (such as consequentialism vs non-consequentialism), etc.

If one changes one's foundational beliefs, very often the rest of one's belief system must change, like falling dominoes. However, a lot of people don't seem very interested in even examining their foundational beliefs, or aware that they even have them – things are so "obvious" to them that they are unaware anyone disagrees, or else they write off disagreement as "backward"/"superstitious"/etc without ever seriously intellectually engaging with it.
It seems like you have the concept down pat. I don't see what's wrong with it?

Like lots of languages use positionally-dependent symbols. In both Perl and VB various characters in the variable name implied things about its type. With C/C++ the position of * tells you lots of important things. How is this anything less than yet another random language quirk?
Sadly it was not just the GC, there were plenty of problems in Mono itself that adversely affected GC performance.

A significant one was a problem in the way that the Mono C# compiler generated foreach loops, which caused it to allocate an object for the enumerator that the regular .NET compiler was able to avoid. This caused foreach() to produce unnecessary garbage and resulted in a lot of Unity developers writing manual for() indexing loops instead of a more straightforward foreach() loop.

Another problem was a bug in the Mono standard library where one of the array containers -- I forget whether it was ArrayList or List<T> -- would fail to clear elements at the end on removals. This was innocuous for arithmetic types, but for reference types it would result in hidden entries in unused capacity holding onto stale references. In some cases this caused rather large trees of objects to persist unnecessarily, pinned invisibly by containers that had already been deleted from or were even empty.
This is ignorant.

He won a Turing award for his work on deep learning.

Lots of people reasonably disagree with him about the future of AI/ML, but he's the opposite of ignorant.
Are you suggesting the government put their public access API behind a paywall?
Researchers explain that the markers cannot be of the microbial origin because they were chosen to only stain DNA in dead cells, and that those markers were highly concentrated at where DNAs would originally have been before the death. So assuming no other obvious mistakes, there may be short (6+ bp) but still readable DNA strands in the fossil.
In California rent control is established by a referendum so it requires either another referendum to repeal or a some large majority in the legislature (which is unlikely to pass since the legislators understand that it's likely to be their last legislation). You cannot take away free/cheap stuff from people in a democracy, nobody is going to vote for that.
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Epstein's crimes were heinous, but if someone were to make a reasonable attempt to rank the villains of the past century by harm caused I think he'd be pretty far down the list. He's also a poor example in the context of this discussion because he did not die of anything related to old age.
People who are constantly asserting their own value are definitely looked down upon by a whole lot of their peers. If that's what you mean by "comfortable with self-promotion," it's a double-edged sword.
Yes, and the flip side of that is you require people to have and use Google accounts to access public data? That’s not exactly ideal.
I feel dumb but can you be more specific? Are you talking about antidepressants or amphetamines? I’m guessing you aren’t talking about insulin.
Slightly different calculus if a celebrity magician is offering a McGuffin. I would assume that was the lead in to a bit.
All the major smart speaker manufacturers have plans to eventually back their services using LLM's.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/20/23880764/amazon-ai-alexa-...

I've already put one together for personal usage using the ESP32-S3. The advantage of using something like this instead of a raw raspberry PI is that you've got a basic far field microphone, screen, wake word support, etc. and then it's just a matter of wiring up the voice to go to deep whisper for recognition, pass it on to a large language model (in my case I'm using mistral.), generate TTS using Mycroft, and sending it back.

Biggest annoyance is having to have a dedicated server, since the ESP is simply not powerful enough to do real time voice recognition and LLM inference.

It's relatively easy to do - I had a workable prototype within a weekend.
It’s Apache Solr. Most of the data is static, but alerts and events get frequent updates.
> phones no longer have IR blasters

Plently of phones still do [0]. I've configured mine to operate all my devices at home.

[0] https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2023&chkInfra...
From the site:

The NPS Data API is open and accessible to all developers
who wish to use NPS data in their projects.

From their "API Guides":

Limits are placed on the number of API requests you may
make using your API key. Rate limits may vary by service,
but the defaults are:

Hourly Limit: 1,000 requests per hour

For each API key, these limits are applied across all
developer.nps.gov API requests. Exceeding these limits
will lead to your API key being temporarily blocked from
making further requests. The block will automatically be
lifted by waiting an hour.

That, along with their ToS[0], hardly seems to qualify as a "cargo-culting scourge."

0 - https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm
In my experience (two decades) you don’t have to play politics or participate, BUT - you do have to understand what’s happening and how it affects you.
The laundry list of problems that can land in one's lap going down the road of XML publishing is considerable. Many are non-negotiable, particularly on git-based version control or on modern computing environments with locked down Java versions. It would be boorish of me to cite all of them, one after the other, so try this exercise instead:

Using an XML specification of your choice, working from a simple desktop computer, and with no money for fifty thousand dollar "end-to-end publishing solutions", perform the following: publish a document that uses conditional processing to show two different outputs for two different audiences while using a shared set of document components.

<kitchen_timer/>

What did you end up using? Anything neat?

I'm going to bet you don't find anything at all.

The tooling in XML publishing is weird, locked down, horrible, or all three plus some. Plus a lot. So, even if we pretend XML publishing is the bee's knees, it loses the speed test, it can't work on vanilla computers/requires admin rights constantly, and new writers train up on Asciidoc, from zero, in four hours. At a glacial, defense-industry-standard-for-fifty-year-old pace. Git probably provokes more existential crises in training than the markup does. Nothing compared to the business side, of course, but this is the defense business, and it's all madness.
> If the provider is bearing the costs (like here) then they always need some kind of authorization, or they have no way to shut off abusers or people with misbehaving clients.

HTTP is an "API" that has no API keys and all the public web servers in the world seem to manage this without any trouble.

> What do you suggest? SAML?

No authentication required by default -- it's public data. Just impose a reasonable rate limit by IP address and require registration only if someone has a legitimate reason to exceed that.
Instead of a 50 cent boost converter chip, now we have to pay $2 for an extra NiMH battery and double the size of the device!
They’re hosting on AWS . So either taxpayer pays for hosting, or the customer pays .
Fine host it as CSV as a backup for the luddites.
Nice and all to make Fujitsu the (well deserved) fall guy, but it shouldn’t stop there. Everyone involved, from the Government top down to asinine middle management that just blindly followed stupid software accusations without, you know, actually counting cash, should go to jail.
You have all the names being identified here, with all emails and documentation being shown. It is simply unbelievable, the collective amnesia that comes up, when you show to somebody the email, where they recommended to hide evidence...

https://www.youtube.com/@postofficehorizonitinquiry947
Same concern about unnecessary code and compute stands.
The headline is an accurate reflection of the body of the article.

It's been a while since I worked in cancer, but being able to target MYC is a significant achievement, as it has generally been quite difficult to target transcription factors like MYC.

Nothing in the article seems vaguely or concretely "made up" to me, but I'm curious if you can point to some particular sentences that you think are made up.
And at what cost. Why are we paying for customers to query this data in realtime?

So someone can host a ripoff NPS app on the App Store and taxpayers now pay for content hosting?
Does anyone have a good explanation of why the Federal Reserve isn’t able to have lower interest rates for supply creation activities? It appears that would be a useful tool that would work in favor of their inflation and employment mandate.
Right. Even the top commenter right now about just being interested in coding and learning is playing. They are playing the “engaged IC”. You can bet the political people know how to use and abuse that role just like any other.
Looking at the data made available by this API, I think it's safe to say this is fine.
The tape is good enough for fusion reactors but not MRIs?
Did you forget to bring the red and blue pills?
How can you tell it’s a commercial bit? The part with writing on it looks like it’s an adapter, the bit itself does not seem to have any visible markings.
Earning equity just means I own it, that not a benefit that's the definition of ownership. Do you not view your government as the acting lord demanding recurring money to continue owning the thing you own?

And yes for inheritance because I don't consider inheritance to be a transfer of property in any meaningful sense. The person who inherits my house didn't buy it, they don't have to get a new mortgage, and they deserve to continue having the property on the same terms I did. I don't think any inheritance should be taxed outside the regular taxes on income. And more broadly people should be able to and actively encouraged to build generational wealth. It's silly that the typical experience is kids starting new families from near nothing.
Its got to get to orbit first, you have to launch enough of them to refuel the first one. I have no doubt they will get them to work, but its not an option yet.
Ceph Cluster Hits 1 TiB/S Using AMD EPYC Genoa and NVMe Drives
I really wonder how many “players” are on a stimulant. It really opened my eyes.
As an individual, it's very hard to avoid incompetent managers. There are so many different ways a manager can fall short, and it's often very difficult to assess before joining a team. Even if you have a personal connection to someone on the manager's team, they may not be very observant or may not even realize something could be better. Also, there's a practical limit to how many times you can change managers. This means it's important to learn certain communication skills even if you wouldn't need them with an ideal manager.
Epstein is a saint compared to a truly evil person. What did he even do? Him and his buddies slept with some 16 year olds from what I know. That’s not even a crime in most countries.
Personally, I don't think that "you're doing it wrong" by calling the behaviour previously expected to be a bug is a good excuse, and in fact is an example of being user-hostile. Imagine being on the receiving end. When the documentation says one thing but the actual behaviour is different, people will sensibly follow reality.
I think what I am disagreeing with is the idea that India has to learn the lessons the hard way which other places learned 100 years ago. With good administration a lot of those lessons could be learned through research, not deaths. This reduces the need to follow the same path in the same way. But it requires a will people are saying is not there.
When I was company founder and had multiple people working for me, I thought there was no office politics. My right hand man (who was always happy to tell me exactly what he thought) laughed.
There are two sides to the transaction. The lender is offering a fixed rate loan for 30 years, with no option to call for early repayment. However, the borrower does have the option to repay early at their discretion. In exchange for this massive assymetry, the borrower pays a premium of about 60 basis points over an adjustable rate with 5 year initial rate lock.

Broadly speaking, this product makes no sense. If interest rates go up, the value of the loan goes down. If interest rates go down, the value of the loan goes up ... until the borrower unilaterally refinances and pays of the loan at face value.

Indeed, no bank actually holds fixed rate loans. Instead they immediately sell it to Fannie May/Freddie Mac, which were created by the government specifically to allow for a product as absurd as the 30 year fixed rate mortgage to exist.
The merchants have a right to know what they sell; it is the same data.

You can (and should) always pay cash anyway. Then they know what is sold, but not to whom.
Please don't do this.

I've known a number of great people who have at one point in their life had a string of bad luck due to bad people, and do you know what's the worst, most assholish thing you can say to someone who's in such a fragile state? "Could the problem be you?"

Tech is one of those places that have an unstable enough common culture as to attract every yabo with a theory of management. So you end up with many shitty cultures, where shitty people thrive (and the odd gem).

"Management" is a dirty word in this industry, and the answer most people give is "Oh, we're a flat organization" or "Oh, we run like a family" etc, which just hides the hierarchies and fosters dysfunction. The industry really has a big problem, and strings of bad employment experiences are a symptom.
The relevant quote:

> In the 1990s, a big part of Sega’s arcade business was selling cabinets like the Astro City that didn’t come with game boards included. Dottori-kun seems to exist primarily to provide a simple game that could be used for assessment in line with [Japan’s Electrical Appliance and Material Control Law]. It was included with the cabinet as sold (likely because the cabinet had to be in the same state as assessed for it to be valid), but was not usable for an arcade operator beyond basic testing that the game board worked, it would just be thrown away or maybe saved to be scavenged for parts.

A bit more detail here: https://www.vgfacts.com/game/dottorikun/
A specific but satisfying use case, my apt building was being stingy* with handing out RFID tokens so I used it to copy and program a cheap RFID token for lending to a trusted visitor.

* Stingy => security protocols that I agree with in sentiment but unfortunately I need to let my pet sitter in and it's nice to allow them to keep the keys as I travel frequently and key exchanges are less than optimal for my spouse and I