skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's necessarily what the author is trying to communicate.

First of all, "If I am looking for a co-founder, who that person and their very unique combination of skills, perspectives, etc, matters a ton." Is that not just a well defined slot by another name? It sounds like your whole process is slots from conception to death.

"Obviously the person can do that in their own way to an extent", can they? This feels like a platitude. I can't speak to the SRE roll but most places I've worked you might get to choose from a list of pre-written algorithms and a few small UX details. And when you talk about collaborating on larger problems most individuals don't usually even get a choice of code style.

At a mature company I will agree that no, you shouldn't be hiring SRE's for product insight. Unless they fit into an insanely small bucket insight into your product is well outside of their scope. A contracting firm like McKinsey & Company would be a better fit for that kind of guidance. But tech insight? yes, you should be getting that from your SREs.

Also your example "insight" just feels... bad faith.

It's very possible I read into your comment to much and you were just saying "it is what it is". And I agree, it's just that I also think... https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/b097417f-9a28-4369-af3a-6739f1d361...
> If they continue to think they did the right thing, sure. That’s incapacitation. But prioritising retribution isn’t helpful when restitution and deterrence are unfulfilled.

Firing would be a deterrent. Given qualified immunity, the consequences for this kind of abuse of power are small, and that's a factor in why so much of it happens.
People are wrong about Taiwan scenario
This, I think this IS the real problem. In a capitalist society, there are markets that need to be heavily regulated. Health is one of them and aviation is another.

Private companies are going to do what they are supposed to do: Maximize shareholder value. So they are going to cut corners, minimize spending and maximize returns by EVERY MEAN. It is the job of the regulator to establish strict regulations and ensure that they are followed; otherwise, to REALLY execute punishments.

The fact that the FAA has been lax with Boeing is what has enabled them to cut corners to this point.
Mass exploitation of Ivanti VPNs is infecting networks around the globe
I never use cash myself, but I do see "Doesn't accept new ¥500 coins" signs on tons of vending machines, parking payment machines, etc.
One thing that hadn't occurred to me before, in light of some other threads arguing that it all comes down to maximizing entropy, which sounds reasonable, is that consciousness implies the ability to make mistakes, and mistakes imply missing the maximum. How to reconcile with consciousness maximizing entropy?

Maybe Blindsight is right; maybe there's a future life that has no consciousness and thus is always maximally entropic.

Or maybe it's a zero-sum game of simultaneous moves between entropy and some other force, or spatially-separated moves such that relativity cannot order them, making nondeterminism the optimal strategy. But now I'm making stuff up.
Your setup is identical to mine. We tested bringing them in for business use. On one, the graphics would randomly glitch. We replaced every part of the system except the screen and it would still glitch, so I replaced with Thinkpad. Just need a solid system.

After two years of sporadic use, our engineer with Fedora+Framework gave it up as it started burning him (2nd degree)!

Overall, I liked the experience and the mission, but was sad we've had the experience of glitch+burning.
Bingo. Trying to map the flow of water is like trying to map the flow of time.
I mean, it's definitely better - at least the hands have the right number of fingers. However, these don't quite strike me as realistic photos, but rather as high-quality renderings. Also, in the lawyer picture, the foreground looks inappropriately blurred - it looks like it has a narrow depth of field, but the hands would almost never be out of focus in a photo like this. The background looks more like a stylized image of our of focus library shelves than what actual out of focus shelves would look. For filler stock photos, these might do, but I believe they would make your website look cheap
Easy: mandate a maximum size for parking spaces, and use a physical barrier to prevent double-parking. Have fun driving your oversized SUV when have to do parkour every time you get into your vehicle.
Can someone contextualize this link? On its face, I'm seeing the equivalent of someone posting a big-tech expose on this HN, only for PG himself to reply saying "pls email me at pg@ycombinator.com"; and then another reply suggesting how to avoid being outed just like Journalist X's source was, only for Journalist X to reply with "if you know how my source was outed, please text me at <cell>"

Like what is this site even?
The situation is not bad then. Can they collect more data? Can they generate more data?
Sure that ApplePay will work, unless Apple disagrees with your political views and deplatforms you, or any of the governments they answer to order them to do so.
Weapons of mass distraction

Did Bush ever find Sadam's stash of 4000?
While the CEO isn't really clear in the article about the specific technology being used for the direct route, based on the other co-founders of the company and their publication record, it's probably found in this 2020 Nature paper (see Figure 5, 'Reaction Scheme for CO2 hydrogenation to jet fuel range hydrocarbons):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20214-z

In the long run, international air travel is the most secure market for artificial photosynthesis-sourced long-chain hydrocarbons (rockets seem to be going to methane, though you can make RP-1 this way too). I do wonder how big a facility (counting all the wind turbines / solar panels / nuclear plants for the energy source) would be needed to provide all the fuel needed for a large busy international airport. (Heathrow consumes ~16,000 tons of jet fuel per day, for example).
Their help process included me taking several pictures and descriptions of wonky behavior for when graphics were glitching.

Which was fine at the time, but would have preferred to just RMA the unit so I would have a working unit (we purchased to test for business use).
Still, pay attention to context. This was people who were successfully using hearing aids and oral language before implantation. Even in this subpopulation, they did not do nearly as well as children do, even though this subpopulation was less deafened than most deaf children.

> Also, the technology dramatically improved over time so we don’t have long term data on high quality implants.

We do have enough series to know that 5 year olds receiving treatment have (on average) significantly worse outcomes than 18-24mos.
Brought to mind what I am reading in Corporate Rebels and really like the concept that Haier used.

https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/next-influential-manag...
The first ever Mac is 40 and still in use
> Like driving on snowy, icy winter roads in the northern US and all of Canada.

No. Plenty of people get by with normal-sized cars under similar conditions in countries like Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Not to mention that SUVs are actually worse in such environments due to their almost-universal terrible performance in the Moose Test.
I don’t live in an alternate universe where “Maybe schedule in some rework time to try again” ever actually happens.
We must be talking about slightly different things here. Sure the data all has to be stored somewhere, but I'm not arguing for everyone to have a local copy of all of Twitter just so they can search it.

I wasn't pushing for federalization at all, and honestly its a bad fit for anything similar to social networks IMO. Federalization doesn't work well if the goal is universal reach, why federate the network graph when you still want to access all data on the network? The fediverse won't work at scale, the sheer amount of data duplication and network traffic would be insane. Even if we could somehow find a way to handle all the traffic, it sure seems like that would fly in the face of environmental efforts so many are onboard with (storage and bandwidth aren't cheap at that scale).
Venus is perhaps a bad example but the point is true for all the other more likely places (Europa and others with subsurface oceans). We just haven’t explored them enough yet.
> results can be as fast as 10x the audio length

shouldn't this say 1/10th instead?
A while ago we would have said a computer program obviously can't guess the intent behind edits. But now we do have such programs: Language models. I wonder whether anyone has already used one to automatically solve merge conflicts.
A one in eighteen chance of error isn't really good enough to convict someone on in the absence of other evidence.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/myth-fingerpri...

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240110120225.h...
I assume that this situation is why government systems will often have a notice that says something like “absence of access controls is not authorization for access.”
Given a reply I take to be accurate,

> It's more like summary of a 30+ year research program

I'd say my comment is essentially correct. It is, indeed, a kind of blog article but summarising a massive research programme, rather than defining one.

I didnt speak to the validity or status of the content; I spoke to how odd it is in what's taken to be a journal. No journal (of science) would publish this as it is.
It looks like the Palworld developers really pissed of the customers of their previous game, Craftopia:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1307550/Craftopia/

That one was in Steam "Early Access" for several years, with people buying it at full price expecting it to be finished and released. Except the devs used the money to create Palworld instead, abandoning their Craftopia users.

The recent Steam reviews for Craftopia don't paint a pretty picture at all.
The iPad was initially just a bigger iPod. It wasn't that much of a leap.
The government should create digital money instead of just physical money.
> you don't often know if your data or model selection can produce the results you want.

Like, not knowing if your data set actually contains anything predictive of what you're trying to predict?
Efficiency has nothing to do with it. One doesn't get a free pass to make fun of, say, pedestrians just because they're less energy efficient than bicyclists.

Nobody is suggesting that humorous comments are an "attack". The point of the article was to differentiate between the joking comments made by men and the more benign comments made by women. Making light of someone's activity is still belittling, even if not a direct insult. Even if not said directly, the implication is "you're doing something I find funny."

> people go "huh that's weird I have to say something let's try gentle humor"

That seems to be the crux of the matter: people who a) believe they need to say something at all, b) decide that it must be something "funny", and then c) actually say it out loud. Have those people ever stopped to consider that their opinion isn't wanted?
This analogy fails to mention the axe-weilding megacorp working in the canopy overhead :P
The third party doctrine is disgustingly unjust.
> If I normally deal with data in the multi-GB range, limiting my uploads to 250MB seems woefully insufficient.

I think you're on to something here, which is that bytes stored isn't a great price discriminator for this class of software. The SaaS business model for Sentry or Notion succeeds because bigger teams store more content and have a higher willingness to pay.

For mapping applications, the county government GIS analyst might work daily with a 10GB aerial raster or parcel footprint dataset and be willing to pay $100 for a slicker solution, while a boutique real estate sales office stores a couple hundred dots (kilobytes of data) and is willing to pay $XXXX for the same solution!
Overpass Turbo: A Web Based Data Mining Tool for OpenStreetMap
> It’s also annoying to clean, and you need to cool it down before making a second pot. If you cool it down too fast, you’ll create a vacuum, and you won’t be able to unscrew the thing.

I've always rinsed my moka pot immediately in cold tap water and had no issues unscrewing it during the rinse.

One of these days I do want to get a Alessi 9090 moka pot because there is no unscrewing to begin with.
Rumors (aka Bloomberg) have it that Apple spent about $1bil per year on the headset: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/apple-bid-fuel-vr-landsc...

Admittedly, some of the tech was used in other projects too, such as spatial audio or LIDAR, and I'm not sure where that's counted.
The government could create a payment network that is subsidized by taxes.
There seem to be no alternatives other than buying them back, and it's not surprising since they were a core part of Boeing.

Even if there were alternatives, it might irk them to acknowledge that outsourcing most (all?) of their manufacturing didn't end well.

As for buying them back, see [1].

Doing so would reduce their return on net assets.....

[1] https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/boeing-rules-out-buying-t...
Plausibly, you could set up huge arrays of solar panels in sun-drenched regions bordering oceans, and just steadily fill up oil tankers with fuel as the process ran. The only material inputs are atmospheric CO2 and water, (plus catalysts, maintenance, etc.) and any electricity source - sunlight, wind, nuclear - could drive the process.
What's the "FG scale"? Nothing useful comes up when googling it.

Edit: It's from the article. "F***s given" scale.
What are the chances that:

a) You can operate it without talking to it

b) It has dedicated knobs/levers/switches for primary essential controls.

c) It doesn't require internet connectivity, continual tracking/telemetry etc.
this matches my perception, the patriotism looks the same
Honest attempt at humor perhaps. Recognition of the absurdity of the act. Camaraderie done poorly.
Five eyes governments like having the power to shut the finances of dissidents (see Canada seizing trucker bank accounts, FBI-partnered NGOs getting Trump supporters deplatformed from financial services). Any digital currencies created by governments will still have this same mode of failure by design.
>why does it always have to be a religious object if an object doesn't have a clear and distinct purpose attached to it.

Worth looking at how the Romans themselves thought. They were incredibly superstitious, overbearingly and obsessively religious (this is Roman Catholicism's roots), they believed in magic and spirits, constantly consulted oracles, augury, and other signs to make important decisions, and key roles in the Roman government was run by people who were also priests, in the Republic and early Empire most civic functions were also religious, and after Caesar they regularly deified their leaders.

Given that this object was clearly precious to its owners (found in treasure hoards/graves), wasn't used as a tool where it would receive any wear, and no one discussed it at all, a cult object would make a great deal of sense. Perhaps Gallic Rome had a regional cult these are tied to. There's a massive number of other Roman ritual objects, magic tablet, amulets, curse tablets, and other religious ephemera, the Romans really loved their cults and rites, if you have an unknown Roman object that's conspicuously not spoken about like these things, that itself is a fair reason to suspect the object might be used in secret religious/cult rites.
Definitely a case of malicious non-compliance. The police love to ignore their oath when they face no repercussions.
Cool idea. Implement it! and test out with Dieharder :) -- Haha :)
Probably got cancelled after 2 months after they realized it was going to take 6 more months.
After test drive countless of frameworks...I've settled for a very boring stack

Ruby on rails is the only framework I use for SaaS applications.

Plain ES6 for a lot of things that are not as big as a SaaS. React when I need frontend stuff.

Python lives mostly in notebooks for all my thinkering.
OMP_NUM_THREADS=n is pretty standard in HPC workloads
> Culturally it is best to train developers to just do something, then provide non-judgemental feedback when what they do isn't what you want.

My preferred method of development is tell me what you think you want, then be available for the stream of questions I'll be asking you to make sure what you need is accomplished.

I've found that it's almost always a bad idea, for everyone involved, to implement what someone says they want, unless they're assholes or competent developers.
You're describing early watchOS, but that's not how visionOS works. The app is running, on the thing.

I believe the author is a degree beyond wishing the apps were more powerful on limited hardware, c.f. references to "iPad-ization" and Swift playgrounds.

Succinctly, I believe they'd nod along to an example of "It. Blew. My. Mind. as a 6 year old to get bored, click around, and find image files that appeared in Civilization II."
this might be the away-from-homepod
Exactly, "in USA". That's where the "only popular in a single region of the world" part comes in.

Trucks, especially the variety seen in the US, are practically unheard of anywhere else in the world. When a specific style of vehicle is that popular in a single country it probably has more to do with legislation than driver preference. There is almost certainly a decent portion of people driving trucks who would prefer an alternative form factor - if only it were available. It'd make sense to distinguish "truck drivers" from "people driving trucks".
Is it just me or does this post have zero substance?
I wonder how this compares to engineered microbe based (synthetic biology) approaches. For example LanzaJet, a LanzaTech spinoff, produces Synthetic Aviation Fuel (SAF) that way.

Would be great if someone with inside knowledge could chime in.
Arguably Palm, but Microsoft popularized the name tablets as a category in 2000 even having “Windows XP Tablet PC Edition” in 2002.

However, various products gained traction as the hardware was able to hit a better price point.

2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet
2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800
Pretty striking how different these two reviews are.
For apple, that would be china (and korea and india and ...)
> Yeah I'd never buy a car that will only be good for 7 years

But a lot of people would. There are many people who trade their car after 4-5 years, or turn it back in at the end of the lease.
It's a nice idea but not really appropriate to have people jet up trails at 1000W for minutes while having none of the handling skills to go with it. Stuff is designed for human abilities, keep the motorcycles out of it. If the things were limited to something sane like 250W, sure, but with the wild-west in the US it's hopeless.
Another counterpoint, I have that same not-suspending-thus-cooking-in-my-bag issue often with a thinkpad P14s running windows 10 (intel i7-1270p) .

However, my (5+ yrs old?) T480s running linuxmint never does it (i5-8250u). YMMV
As a man, I have never done this, and I very rarely find myself in a situation where other men are like this towards me. If your experience is different, you are just surrounded by assholes and need to reflect on the people and places you spend your time with. It’s also worth noting that being an asshole is not a gendered phenomenon.
Yes that is all true, but much of it is CCP propaganda as well. https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-internet-trolls-go-global https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/19/meet-the-chinese-intern...
> Regulators are inefficient.

What do you mean by that?
In play betting for a horse race is the stupidest idea ever. It's a good idea for various other sports but in horse racing it just lends itself to bad behavior.
This is often due to legal requirements: in both India and China (and many other countries), it's literally illegal to display a map of the country that does not show the "right" borders.
> In part out of frustration with Spotify, and in part to hedge against streaming disappearing one day, I'm in the process of ripping my exiting CD collection to FLAC, and buying either digital or physical copies of my favourite albums.

This is bizarre to me. So to punish the record industry for ruining Spotify you're... giving them even more money?
The Quest and the Vision Pro are competitors in the same way that a Porsche competes with my '98 Nissan Pulsar.
NSA is in the Department of Defense, commanded by a uniformed officer, employing many (how many?) members of the military.
more to the point, it's useful to be able to do it via soft pressure on private banks rather than hard power
General purpose computers are app launchers. People buy computers to run apps on them.

Writing an app gives you the ability to write code that targets a general purpose cpu. People can tinker to their hearts desire within their app.
The Value of Open Source Software - a 2024 paper from Harvard
Was it a full capture of the page?

Sometimes the various archive places gets it wrong, with the page not being the full content.
The "View from the Wing" site that is the main link here has a relatively modest number of ads once I turn off my ad blocker. Not that much compared to many "proper" news sources. They do seem a little click-baity, and are loaded with tracking scripts, but I doubt they're making enough money for even one person to make a living. I wouldn't trust them that much, but they're not the actual source anyways, they're just republishing a comment from another page.

The linked page that the comment that is the source of all this is actually on is "Leeham News and Analysis", which looks like a professional-quality aerospace news site. I don't see any ads or tracker scripts on them at all. The author and the bulk of the commenters sound pretty professional and knowledgeable. It looks like they sell subscriptions at substantial cost, which explains a lot. That's enough for me to presume they're much more trustworthy about the aviation industry than any legacy media source.

When was the last time the legacy media did a real investigative report about something that wasn't super hip or somebody had a grudge against already? You may not necessarily agree, but I think it's at least reasonable that an actual whistleblower like this wouldn't bother with them. Or maybe they already did, and got ignored, because they thought the article would cost too much to put together and not get enough clicks to bother. On Leeham's site, the author did ask the commenter to contact them - perhaps something will come from that, or maybe not.
Now do deepfake music and art.
This is also an argument that didn't sit well with me when I heard Guillaume Verdon / Beff Jezos on his recent Lex podcast state that the universe wants to produce more entropy, and that life evolved the way it has because it's more efficient at producing heat and entropy than, say, a rock.

Perhaps he said that loosely as a figure of speech, because it should be obvious (religious beliefs aside) that the universe does not "want" anything. The remaining question is whether the emergence of life as an efficient entropy generator is coincidental to the laws of thermodynamics, or incentivized (in an evolutionary pressure sense) by them.

Of relevance, the tendency of matter to organize optimally into energy-absorbing and heat-dissipating structures is a whole theory of its own - see MIT Jeremy England's theory https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...
In the case of Google, it wasn't entirely privately funded. Look into the history of Keyhole, Inc. and Google Earth / Google Maps - lots of taxpayer dollars went into this.
Absolutely. It no longer appears to make any effort to avoid playing me the same set of songs in every algorithmic playlist.

I can choose pretty much any "song radio" and the same set of artists shows up. I mean, I like Alice in Chains, but not in every play list.