skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminded of a joke by Ron White in the context of a person choosing to remain behind in a hurricane because they believe they can withstand the wind and rain: “It’s not that the wind is blowin’, it’s what the wind is blowin’.”

On topic, it makes me wonder if the wind cutoffs have to do with what can be additionally picked up by the increase in energy. I’d honestly assume not but I would still hesitate to assume that it’s arbitrary. Not really sure but the phrasing of the joke made me wonder.
Email with outlook is fine. I imagine slack is also fine.
I think it's like a good survival tactic as well. Known by the old saying Бери деньги и беги
i want to be smarter and longer memory please
Correct, it is only you who looks that beautiful
> Even present-day chemical rockets could be pretty destructive. Get something massive that won't burn up (like a rod of tungsten) up to interplanetary velocities and you can approach the yield of a small tactical nuke from just kinetic energy.

Of course, that energy didn't come for free: if the rod came from earth, your rockets have to provide the energy.
Other than Facebook, no. Nobody else has tried that with me.

(Am that dmitry)
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Photons have mass, but no rest mass. (Or something like that.)
Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks
Another 'CEO' with "Everything was going AWESOME! Our numbers were great and getting BETTER! Our customers LOVED us! Buuut...we're closing shop, today. Totes sorry, bro.". Not a single mention of "because we managed cash like a drunken sailor and bet the farm on a singular exit event". The spin is making me a tad dizzy.
I just don't remember any of those attempts. Which year was that? I remember the disastrous Obama's great reset which caused these relations to deteriorate at greatly accelerated rate.

I also remember how bad they were during COVID time, etc.
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Under $20 ea. And SD card is easier to image than eMMC. But if it is not professional enough for you, I’ll be sure to not give you one :)
Carter, I can see my house /s
No, a halving means miners get half of the Bitcoin rewards given the same amount of mining time and effort. The network emits 6.25 bitcoins every 10 minutes and that revenue will decrease to 3.25 bitcoin every 10 minutes. The purpose of this is (essentially) to reduce inflation.

This will decrease the incentives for mining drastically making it sharply unprofitable for many older mining rigs. The cost of electricity will be more than the value of the predicted Bitcoin rewards many mining rigs could ever generate.

Exceptions are low-cost power near remote hydroelectric/geothermal power plants and free electricity that people risk their lives in 3rd world counties to steal (since high-voltage kills). Some households produce extra solar electricity (perhaps incase new tech such as an Apple Vision Pro 2 comes out). Due to backwards lobbying efforts in most states by the local electric monopoly, solar/wind electricity can’t be sold back to the grid anymore so some solar households plug in a Bitcoin miner to burn off the otherwise worthless additional electricity. Some enterprising people use Bitcoin miners to heat pools such as one guy with a spa business. The electricity would’ve been wasted on heating them anyways.

Despite these uncommon exceptions, the bulk of mining is elastically centered around the cost of electricity. Think Riot Mining or Marathon Digital Holdings as massive miner companies, whose hashing power is absolutely massive. They will certainly be affected.

The price of Bitcoin would have to double from today’s price just for miners to earn the same amount as today. Nowadays, Bitcoin has to contend with Ethereum which uses over 99% less electricity.
> As long as defense attorneys are involved, what is the harm in this?

How about because defense attorneys are very expensive?
>how gig workers struggle to actually turn a profit thanks to all the costs that get offloaded onto them,

Well, OK, I guess they could not do that then? McDonalds is hiring in NYC and paying a minimum of $16 an hour.

I do feel for people in that situation, but they're just getting greased in the collision between, on the one side, techno-utopian companies that want to bring in automation ASAP to eliminate their jobs and, on the other, big labor that is threatened by the gig-economy model and believes the better outcome is just for the jobs not to exist.

I'm pretty sure that the participants in the gig economy just wanted it to pay a bit better, rather than for it to get annihilated. I guess you find out who your friends really are.
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I'm not saying it is a bad idea, but CEOs face the same problem as politicians - while they are responsible for whatever happens (good and bad) they are not actually in control of very much.

A bad CEO can destroy a company in a few years. A good one can set up years of profits. But the "can" there does some heavy lifting - sometimes a CEO will walk in to a company and there just won't be any opportunities. Eg, you take over a restaurant chain then the COVID overreaction happens. Not much the CEO can do.

Long and short, I can see why a good CEO might go for guaranteed compensation rather than big payoffs for good results. They can't guarantee good results. Nobody can make that sort of promise.
A well placed tree can make any storm deadly, it's perfectly fine to separate the size of the storm from the potential impact. You need to draw a line somewhere. Drawing it at the part you can measure/predict is pragmatic and sensible.
I wonder if they also expect new EU rules to go after their new DMA.
It’s niche in its current form yes, but I don’t think the AVP is Apple’s endgame for visionOS. It exists merely so a robust platform and ecosystem can be developed and will be there from day one for more broadly appealing products in the future.
Hmmm... I looked through the Oct 7, 8, 9th 2023 top stories as a community we apparently missed the entire Gaza conflict.
> because interrogations are videotaped

The FBI doesn't do audio recordings, let alone video.
Hi-Complete Problems?
Is there a name for problems requiring human intelligence reasoning - e.g. car driving, clothes folding, chat, coding and many others?

like when scammers try to raise billions they could be told off right away like "this is human intelligence complete problem", go away?
Dude wrote a CPU emulator with all the fixin's to emulate a particular ancient computer. That emulator is compiled then flashed on a microcontroller and then uses that emulator to run linux and ultrix which target this particular emulated environment. Also seemingly includes exposing a serial console via USB to allow interacting with the system. It is all a bit inception-y, but no doubt a master work.

The images of the PCB have silk screen explaining what happens when you plug it in.
If you’re willing to move to a flyover state you could probably reach out to recruiters in the morning and have an offer in hand by lunch. Even the hybrid openings in the midwest/south are bait-and-switch and will be fully onsite soon.

Alternatively there are a lot of positions open at national labs which are onsite, and many work on interesting problems.
Do the sims include functioning VOR instruments these days? That would be quite helpful during the night :D
Uhh ... that's entirely what business is about. Some shady methods maybe, but also some pretty good customer acquisition methods
anyone know a good guide to getting started with these kind of projects? such as say I have an idea any general guide to:

- development env with simulator
- development board
- production hardware
How many G's of deceleration are we talking here? I imagine even 2Gs of force wouldn't be tolerable for humans for more than an hour
> You want to look at measures like variance / std. div. -- the second moment and not the first.

That's what I mean by driving more extreme changes - more variations per unit time and greater variance in those variations.

I did a little math once, it backed a few decades in global exploration geophysics for energy and mineral exploration.

>> as water vapor and methane levels rise

> Respectfully, you don't know that.

I'll defer to NASA and many many others then: https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3143/steam...

AGU: Global Changes in Water Vapor 1979–2020 (2022) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...

> Respectfully, the level of imprecision and propaganda here is a root cause of scepticism.

There is great certainty in the knowledge that a train will derail given certain conditions.

There is immense imprecision and a fundemental inability to predict where the cut glass vase in the dining car will come to rest.

This is baked into the nonlinear dynamics at play and seen as a simplest example in the Dzhanibekov effect | Tennis Racket Theorem where the centre of mass trajectory arc of a simple body is predictable whereas the tumblings about that projected arc are chaotic and unpredictable.

Those that demand certainty wrt small details fail to understand the physics of the big picture.
Naming != compatibility. Nobody should be looking at my code except for me and it helps me remember it better so I'm not sorry 8)
I use a local LLM too for my Japanese grammar and sentence improvements to make thme more native.

Sadly, every time I tried the fix my japanese page it just says the text I inputted wasn't Japanese. Maybe next time it'll work for me.
> They do.

Fair enough. But absence of french options for ALL TITLES in that region pointed to a blanket decision.
As an undergraduate a number of years ago, in physics, I also experimented with taking notes in LateX. My approach, rather than making writing faster through editor wizardry, was to extensively use \def and \newcommand to abbreviate everything. The resulting sources were not easily readable by others, but could be written very quickly.

These went beyond consistent, global abbreviations, or even course-level abbreviations: both were easy (and I can remember a few I used, like \beq/\eeq and \bea/\eea for beginning and ending an equation or eqnarray, etc, and \lt and \rt for \left and \right), but I could also quickly add definitions while taking notes, so if frequent symbols, or even whole expressions, showed up in a lecture I could \def them when it became likely they'd be used again. I could sometimes outpace the lecturer, working through equations on a board, because I could see where they were going to repeat expressions and just use the abbreviation I had made previously.

The larger problem I had, as an undergraduate at a time when many students had laptops but I was often the only one who would use one in class, is that I would worry about the typing being annoyingly loud. My use of Dvorak today is largely as a result of my exploring ways of trying to make my typing quieter: comparing typing on the same keyboard and around the same speed, I do seem to be able to type with considerably less noise with Dvorak than with QWERTY.
Prepare to learn something new - sometimes people don’t make the wisest financial decisions for themselves. Poor people seem even more affected by this sort of irrational behavior.
Well, Southwest was a successful well-run regional carrier that grew as large as the big mega-airlines, while trying to keep running the business the same way.

There are still 20 smaller regional airlines in the U.S. and hundreds around the world. The vast majority of those fly just one or two types of planes.
No, what makes you think so?

If you can apply small force over a long time, that will get you up to speed, too.

Someone did the math in the thread, and suggested that a constant 1g of acceleration would get you to the centre of the galaxy in 20 years (as measured by the clocks traveling on your spaceships). 1g of acceleration for 200kg is about 1962 Newton.

(This back of the envelope calculation assumes you have eg someone fire a laser at your ship to give you the energy you need. If you need to bring your own fuel, the rocket equation increases the total mass needed. But the same principle still applies: something like an ion drive has very little force, even if the top speed it can reach can be enormous.)
> At one end of that continuum, you have thrillers and action novels where characters are little more than a bullet list of personality archetypes, but a bunch of cool shit happens and the pacing is perfectly dialed in. At the other end, you have literary fiction where you feel like you're getting a window into the minds of actual people, but nothing really happens.

Part 1 of Dostoevsky's The Idiot is maybe the best example I know that works from both perspectives. It's full of interesting characters with different motives, and it escalates to a incredible firework involving all these characters and motives all acting at the same time.

The ending of The Great Gatsby is also like that. A big tragic thing happens, but not because of some evil dragon - it happens because the characters are what they are.

And then you have something like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or On the Road, or Breakfast at Tiffany's. Where things happen because the characters are basically chaotic assholes, the kind of people to whom things happen and you want to read about these things.
That was a the catchiest part so far but I am waiting for the Marshmello remix, which he’s releasing promptly on the 2640 Ryan Seacrest New Year’s show
That is not the idea. It's having full autonomy but still having one pilot because going from two to zero would be considered too much of a jump right now. The reason Airbus is pushing for one pilot is because they can do the full autonomy.

Next will be Traffic Controllers - "Airbus Unmanned Traffic Management" - https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/autonomous-connected/ai...
I think sanitizer usefulness for defined behaviors is going to depend a lot on how frequently those behaviors are intentionally used and how easy/hard it would be to suppress false positives.

There might be some behaviors that sanitizers don't currently catch but are used for optimizations as well, and boringcc/friendly C might be useful for those? Not entirely sure what those might be, if they even exist, though; IIRC sanitizers don't currently flag strict aliasing violations, but -fno-strict-aliasing exists so there's no need for a new compiler/dialect (for GCC/Clang?)
Farnham Street is a part of The Economist.

I didn’t write it.
Yes. And that's not the only way to make this work.

Btw, the sun is also an extremely inefficient engine. With a bit of extra engineering we could probably scoop up hydrogen from the sun, and 'burn' it much more efficiently.
> PE type of engineering

What is PE?
Well that's easy. The meteorologists can remember that category number = 10 v' / c, where v' is the maximum median windspeed over a one hundred acre convex region, and all anyone else needs to know is that every storm is cat 0.
Emulate a system well enough to be usable in realtime on a low budget small form factor board of my design. Result: success.
Why are you people still talking about this Web3 stuff?
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so you've been traveling at some large speed for quite some time, and you are now proposing to come to a near stop to come into orbit around some far away planet? and what magical tech have you forgotten to tell us about that allows that sudden deceleration to not liquefy the bags of meat inside the ship?
If you are going really, really fast, you wouldn't just want gas giant planets. You'd want the outer layers of red giant stars.
How many years will it take to accelerate from normal speed to that speed and decelerate back?
We all after 30 more or less in your position, if don't have some spare capital, like father's house (as in Ghost busters, btw, old good cinema).

Unfortunately, this is not good position, because from $600/mo to something considerable for family life in US, may be long path, and not cheap, and not predictable.

I don't think you consider moving away to some cheap place, so answer is simple - keep your day job.

America is country of freedom, so you could continue your side business, and continue grow slowly, but until it will grow much more (I think about 10x at least), it will not become attractive for much investments, and you should not consider it as your main priority - now your main priority family and day job.

BTW, $600/mo is considerable amount for 3rd world countries, and this could be real solution, but it could be not easy, to hire people abroad.

Sorry, life is hard. I believe, if you will see old good cinema, this could make things looking softer and warmer, to accept.

And tell me, if you want to talk more.

Thank you and good luck!
What's even easier than torrenting? (I refuse to call it "piracy" since that's a life-threatening activity for physical goods subject to totally different economics which would never apply in the post-scarcity utopia that is cyberspace (which businessmen attempt to inflict meatspace's scarcity back onto for money).)

Selling movies and shows DRM-free, like Amazon does with music (but no other software goods for some reason).
So, I too was a young 20something in a previously bad job market many many years ago, and I coped by having very low living expenses.

If you know you can support your bare minimum expenses by getting a job tending bar or waiting tables, that should relieve quite a lot of stress.

I did this by renting a room in a house, instead of paying 3x or more to have my own apartment.

No one cares if you rent a room in your 20s. I was able to save a lot since most of the time I was making good money and kept my expenses low. It was financially prudent and I slept soundly, despite having a lack of job security.
It's like saying it's possible to get rid of all the predators and parasites in Nature. But for some mysterious reason Nature seems to keep them around.

I think it's more about using them(and their seemingly infinite yet mindless energies) to push things in a certain direction and reigning them in when they push everyone around.

Sort of like domestication of dangerous animals.
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My (previously unexamined) assumption was that the slower time exactly offsets the lower acceleration in terms of speed gained, such that in the reference frame of the accelerating ship, experiments would continue to show 1G acceleration.
the top of this thread is filled with a discussion of the almost unimaginably catastrophic consequences of a ship moving at 0.9C hitting atoms in interstellar space.

trying to decelerate by "braking" anywhere close to a gravitionally significant mass sounds like a guarantee to total destruction from the impact of "stuff" (even individual photons).
You're absolutely right! We've been thinking very similar ways about "dipole" components and how to best do this; and I think you've nailed it.
What about using dunder __in__ and __out__ attributes? Easy enough to implement for us and overload for folks in the future.
RISC-V is inevitable.

For legal reasons, not technical reasons.

This is despite having the technical chops, providing highest code density in 32 and 64 bit with highly competitive path length[0], all while remaining a much simpler ISA relative to the competition.

What actually matters is that it is an open ISA with huge traction that everybody gets a free license to. There's no need to ask for permission to use/implement it.

RISC-V is rapidly building the strongest ecosystem.

0. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3624062.3624233
Not every processor is a full fledged PC or server. Don't forget about the various microcontrollers and other smaller processors across all other product categories, like components for cars, hvac systems, IoT devices and so much more.
I think the deal is that it only takes once to ruin your life. The chances are low, but if you win the lottery the risk is personally devastating. if they try to pin a felony on you and even if it all comes up as bunkem, you'll forever be on the internet as someone charged with a felony without a conviction, the same will come up in your criminal background search.
Have you read Tao Zero?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zero

Classic hard sci-fi. A colony ship’s Bussard ramjet has a glitch, and it cannot stop accelerating—and basically forever, given time dilation.
> How did people in the 1930s understand this and pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, and yet highly-educated techies fail to grasp this simple concept?

Because the "highly-educated techies" think of themselves as the next potential big founder over a tech company taking lumps of money from each transaction and making it big.

Closing that form of exploitation closes down all of those techies' wet dream of exploiting millions to be the next (pee-bottle) Bezos.
It's definitely fine with no problems. We used to do this too.

But, it optimizes for something that only matters if you're in a space constrained setup. Turns out for "almost-all" web setups, a few extra hundreds of MBs don't matter even a few GB possibly.

Even in AWS Lambda where cold-start is king, size doesn't matter[0] - I am the top answer. As long as you have fast starts and that's determined by code paths, libraries etc.

So as long as your program readies itself quickly, having gcc and a few other std libs don't impact any key metric.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69512271/will-the-cold-s...
The punchline here is that the book is full of the author's own copy-edit notes for a hypothetical 3rd edition of the human anatomy book.

I didn't get a clear indication from the story whether anyone thought it would be worth pursuing finishing that project and publishing a new edition.
You are right. One addendum: many humans would be bothered by one-way trips, but humanity is large, and in absolute numbers there are still plenty of volunteers for one-way trips to the planets and stars.
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Ask HN: Can a LLM trained on two languages in isolation translate them?
When training data does not contain any mixup / translation between the two at all. Will it still be able to do translation between those two languages? From my very layman understanding it shouldn't at all, specially if the character set is totally different because the relation between the tokens between those two languages will be zero.

For example, if training data was English and Chinese books and none of the texts used other language in its own context, will the translation ability of such LLM be zero? Or will it learn to convey the meaning and gain translation ability?
I think mercenary is a very apt word to use here. I think I’ll have to use it more often
> Because that is what startups do

Feels like a ZIRP truism that we may be seeing challenged in real time.

The next wave of successful tech companies might be the ones who explore new business models that better fit the new circumstances.
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