skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! This is a consequence of empirical risk minimization via maximum likelihood estimation. To have a model not reproduce the density of data it trained on would be like trying to get a horse and buggy to work well at speed, "now just without the wheels this time". It would generally not necessarily go all that well, I think! :'D
Note that defunkt's GH profile is still viewable. All the repos are still there. So the portfolio didn't go anywhere.
Isn’t that the plot of Skyrim?
I don’t see why you can bundle a YAML parser but not a Javascript parser

> Config shouldn't be difficult to write

Couldn’t agree more! In fact, it doesn’t matter if it’s hard to parse. Because that’s what computers are good for. What a human does is write and read configs. Whatever we can do to make that easier we should do.

Using a known programming language, rather than a dedicated confit language, means the user is already familiar with the language and uses it day to day. That’s easy. What’s hard is learning a totally separate language with its own rules, syntax, tool chain, and capabilities.
Or perhaps the first time it was posted here in 2012 (508 points, 64 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709438
The problem is that, as the dominant browser vendor, it doesn’t hurt them to not support it.

For their own bandwidth efficiency, they can use AVIF, which is supported in Chromium; about everybody else’s they don’t need to care.
> You want to look at measures like variance / std. div. -- the second moment and not the first.

Possible concrete impacts of climate are discussed in detail in IPCC reports [1, 2]. For instance,

> Climate change will make some current food production areas
unsuitable (high confidence). Current global crop and livestock
areas will increasingly become climatically unsuitable under a high-
emission scenario (high confidence) (e.g., 10% by 2050, over 30%
by 2100 under SSP-8.5 versus below 8% by 2100 under SSP1-2.6).
Increased, potentially concurrent climate extremes will periodically
increase simultaneous losses in major food-producing regions.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/

[2] Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/
I don't care so much about the physics side, it's just so bloody pretty. Is there anything like this that will play infinitely, with similar sliders to tweak the visuals? It'll look so good on an OLED.
IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS
Not necessarily. Speaking for myself, I like the convenience of SSO, and I generally trust Google to keep my account secured more than a random web site (if they even offer OTP!). As long as I know there's an escape hatch.
Is that because as soon as you become a so-called security product you are now selling to the CISO org?

My experience with the CISO org is that they love buying expensive B2B enterprise products that have very limited real-life use-cases but are really good at checking boxes. That whole cloud-native security industry is full of FUD and fear-based selling to non technical organizations
The old Bussard ramjet concept was to capture these high velocity protons (with some kind of magnetic field), cause them to fuse, and use the fusion energy for propulsion.

There are a few engineering difficulties with the idea but it makes for some good SF stories...
There's lots of money in commodities, though.
Ironically, when trying to view your picture of errors, I myself get an error on Imgur itself:

{"data":{"error":"Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."},"success":false,"status":403}
Is it not still that?

The only problem is the government has foisted the costs of the lender’s due diligence onto the general public. If a lender wants to collect on debts, they should need more proof than an SSN/DOB combo, and no one should have to spend time correcting their credit report from no fault of their own.
The ships cruise anywhere from 0.3 to 1G, the lower end mainly for comfort of people who grew up in space. But, the fictional drive is so efficient it could sustain 10s of G for extended periods (weeks, months).
Excellent (and shocking) research!

Rather a shame that page with the abstract has excessively large & linespaced body text which makes it hard to actually read on mobile... that the chat feature assumes you must be a student not anyone else... and the Contact Us is buried many levels deep in the nav... hence me giving up and telling you about the above here.
Different operating systems also have subtle differences in enumeration - I don’t think there is a great way to mitigate that.
I'm not sure what's wrong with socialist Czech or DDR. They've got the Communism lite try before you buy inoculated package and now they squeal like a pig being butchered. Russians saw many orders of magnitude worse things than any of the stuff DDR or Soviet Czech was up to. The way Eastern Europeans are trying to show how they require special treatment is a disgrace to any Russian. They literally complain how Soviets curbed their access to white privilege they were entitled to.

XX century was a disaster, you had to grind your teeth and survive through it. Holodomor is a pathetic Ukrainian attempt to privatize a much greater Communist hunger and frame it on its victims. They do so because they believe that they should get a specific, better treatment than everybody east of them. Rings any bells?

Needless to say Russians did not invent Communism and you can find a huge number of fans for it in any HN thread. Russians sincerely believed they have a traumatic experience of struggle to share with the rest of "socialist camp" only to discover that the whole 500 million strong camp frames it on their small ethnic fraction.

Belarus is a paradise now compared to Ukraine (and to extent Russia). You can do whatever you like and there is no fear of draft. There are also jobs and industry intact. You can cross the border if you are male but is not economically obliged to do so.
Perhaps the >35% increase in the cost of a Big Mac (UK) over the last 3 years has started to show up in sales metrics.
I wonder if anyone realizes that selects and joins in every database are implemented literally with for loops written in c.

The reason people use a relational database is because it has loops that are faster, safer, and more efficient than anything you can write.
What does the latency for optical look like vs. copper?
> Are you kidding? All the investors in this space are taking an absolute bath. You can look this up if you want, but I don't think GrubHub, PostMates, DoorDash or Uber Eats have ever made any money.

They never made any money, the same way Titanic, Avengers, Lord of the Rings never made a cent. Those poor studio execs.....

Its a mixture of Hollywood accounting, and an intentional plan to dump all profits back into growing the business all the while undercharging to gain monopoly status. Then, of course once the "gig" is up, they're the only players and can charge high rates and pay pennies cause they're the only mega-delivery place around.

And it doesnt hurt when all the locals fired their drivers and rely on said gig companies.
Related:

My business card runs Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32077823 - July 2022 (133 comments)

My business card runs Linux, yours can too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071593 - July 2022 (3 comments)

Similar but different:

A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36176198 - June 2023 (58 comments)

My Business Card Runs Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871026 - Dec 2019 (397 comments)
Even if you managed to avoid matter, at some point, photons will start to become a problem. As you continue to accelerate, eventually, the cosmic microwave background itself will become deadly X-rays.
I get the feeling you may not have read the paper as closely as you could have! Section 8 followed by Section 2 may look a tiny bit different if you consider it from this particular perspective.... ;)
The US has id.me for accessing government services and for myself getting registered involved having a live video call with a government employee.

Such a site/AI might put pressure on widespread usage for the same or a similar service but there will be political and ideological pushback - for sure.

So no I don't think this is an example of the US failing whatever it is this week. Even if it may be quicker or easier to push through such changes in wildly different political and cultural environments.
Me! Since about 2019 I started designing and selling circuit boards among other things. I came from nothing,no funding support, just investing a few hundred dollars here and there and applying my own beliefs. I am forever grateful and won't take it for granted. I get to work from home, be my own boss, oversse everything, turn a good profit, build my savings, have my food delivered to my door, and workout using peloton. Everything is beautiful and I don't complain. I am able to offer support and advice to others in a much more positive manner and inspire people who want to give it a shot.Things which have changed perspective to me include reading job postings and realising how different i was towards them to how i am now, how upset people become when i discuss with them that i am successfully working for myself at home, how i feel knowing i can buy expensive things if i want to but i dont wish to - the feeling alone is often enough, i don't travel as much both in daily life or holidays because i am low stress and comfortable - my life is a holiday everyday. I have to remind myself recently to look ahead to new ideas and not to rest on what i do forever but maybe if im lucky i could.
To create wealth, you must identify and educate the most capable students.

The only way to pay for a large and generous welfare state is to educate the most capable to the highest level of ability. The tech industry was built by highly ambitious, competitive, risk-taking individuals.

"California collected almost $1 billion in personal income tax revenue from Palo Alto’s 94301 zip code in 2016. That was the most of any zip code in the state, according to a new LA Times analysis, which found that California’s top 1 percent of filers paid nearly 46 percent of income tax for that same year. "

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101867426/californias-top-1-p....
('CU' = Citizens United ruling (2010) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC)
There's a lot of workflows that are hampered or impaired on an iPad beyond programming. Yeah, with kludges you can kinda get most or even all of it done but usually in a less efficient manner. Missing or limited programs, limitations on using peripherals, and moving data/files between apps drags things down.

Here's an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gosW702fFg4
The tech industry has a very strong belief that if they have to explain anything they do with rule enforcement, it will permit bad people to manipulate the process to avoid being punished for being bad people (as defined by the tech industry). The solution is to put everyone in constant fear of somehow angering something in a tech company (human or algorithm) so they'll reduce themselves down to a very narrow set of behaviors that probably won't (but aren't guaranteed not to) upset the enforcers (human or algorithm) of secret rules. Don't like it? Go build your own tech industry.
The PCB business card is about 0.5% of what’s interesting about this. The artistry is what the business card is running, and that’s also the remaining 99.5% of the links content.
Iirc to get to Proxima Centauri at a constant 1g would require a fairly impressive mass of antimatter, to continue to the edge of the observable universe would be so many more orders of magnitude more energy than that it's barely worth discussing. Even though we can't reach c, as we start to approach it the energy requirements rise catastrophically, along with the risk of colliding with some random mote of Hydrogen and remembering that your relative velocity is .99999c, in the moment before you and your ship are atomized.
> Climate change will make some current food production areas unsuitable (high confidence). Current global crop and livestock areas will increasingly become climatically unsuitable under a high- emission scenario (high confidence) (e.g., 10% by 2050, over 30% by 2100 under SSP-8.5 versus below 8% by 2100 under SSP1-2.6). Increased, potentially concurrent climate extremes will periodically increase simultaneous losses in major food-producing regions.

I believe that's simply expanding on my list of things in the "care about" bucket in my original post.

Also, notice the first two words in your quote: "climate change." Not "global warming." Global warming doesn't show up there.

The fixation on degrees C is making everyone miss the forest from the trees.
Brutal. Well, best of luck to you all
You are right that the time since the industrial revolution (or perhaps since the start of the scientific revolution) was especially fast and things might not continue at this blistering pace. However we are already on edge of being able to settle the solar system; or to transform it with unmanned probes. Not much more progress is necessary. (Especially no new science. Engineering advances are welcome, of course.)

> Why? What is there beyond the gravity well that isn't on earth? Maybe there are some substances, such as deuterium, that we can exploit remotely but this idea of "space habitats" is just romantic science fiction. Maybe someone will make it happen but only because we humans are in love with space, not because it makes rational sense.

My argument does not require space exploration (or even life in general) to make any 'rational sense'. It just requires that some fraction of people are interested in it.

> There is this flawed idea that we already have detected and interpreted everything that there is.

Huh? Who has that idea?

> If the aren't building (arguably pointless) mega structures, we won't see them.

The Fermi Paradox does not require that mega structures have a point that you can understand. You talk a big game about being careful about our assumptions, but you can't even understand that some of your fellow humans might do 'pointless' things?

> If they all are doing mega engineering we wouldn't recognize it.

I don't buy your argument. Aliens can't magically escape thermodynamics, even if they were super quirky and 'alien'.

We don't see these 'infrared stars'.
The enhanced fujita scale for tornadoes takes into account an assessment of damage after the fact to make a guess of the wind speeds that were produced. An after-the-fact assessment of hurricanes could be useful in creating a categorization that better communicates risk to persons than just windspeed.
How does a single pilot flight allow the only pilot to visit the lav?

Putting a cabin crewmember alone in the cockpit seems like a terrible bet that no emergency (or even abnormal) will occur over the thousands of such occurrences.
> Very often there is an implicit discretization

Not just on the temporal dimension. I find that what is called "pitch bend" is highly relevant to the "quality" of most music (even western popular music).
What do you expect them to do? Throw up their arms and let Hamas continue to lob bombs into Israel for the next 500 years? I think they are trying to balance casualty minimization vs the troops dying on the ground. I know which one that any country will likely do. The Gazans could speed up the demise of Hamas by helping the Israel troops root out the terrorists but at least 75% still continue to support Hamas being Hamas.
Related:

The little ssh that sometimes couldn't (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9865698 - July 2015 (8 comments)

The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709438 - Oct 2012 (63 comments)
which seems weird when you consider the building materials and styles that different regions use.
> then you have the power of Linux to interrogate the device with and spot suspicious behavior

Ideally, you’d find the malicious payload. It’s probably not hidden so well that it can’t be found by a security researcher.
Excellent, free test prep is available online. School districts will give you free chromebooks. They will give you free internet access points.

Education is free and freely available.

"Maximize your score with free Official Digital SAT® Prep"

https://www.khanacademy.org/digital-sat
The 25% of SQL that covers everything in 99% of applications is a subset of the 76.5% of SQL that the LLM got right.
Everyone has complaints. I’d rather be working retail than in the fields 500 years ago, the mill 200 years ago, or as a manual human calculator 100 years ago. Or maybe some would disagree! Labor needs to be done. There is no utopia - in a socialist economy there are very few who get to hold the clipboards, everyone else works the fields or the factories.
Ida/Kanogawa was 245 mph/213 knot peak.

https://ncics.org/ibtracs/index.php?name=v04r00-1958263N1314...
Yes, that's a well-known fact of reality.
Oh, I missed that! Seems like those drives ought to have been more carefully regulated then.
I worked 80 hour weeks to deliver a platform for a hedge fund,then they fired me
Oh, loyalties? Do you know Russia is committed to defend Armenia thru the CSTO, but apparently just said meh and now Armenia is on their own?
Who’s going to purge them? They’re the idiot execs in charge everywhere now! Jack Welch was a good name in business management circles, and still is to this day, even though his theories and work have not withstood the test of time to regular folks like us.
Nuclear fusion reaction releases almost twice the energy put in
what about for the period of time that you're travelling sideways with a largely unshielded broadside facing not exactly empty space?
Sometimes, it is stupid.

Other times, its cause the costs are well hidden UNTIL its time to pay them. And the "gig" seems to pay quite well, until it doesn't. The company side has actuaries to assess risk and understand accurate costs, all the way down to the make/model/year/mileage of your car. You, well, dont. Its all about information asymmetry.

Many times, its simple desperation. When there isn't anything else, you do what you can, even though you're being taken advantage of.
Do you know this from actual personal experience, or just because it seems obvious that the data is there and that it would be trivial to automate?

The employer doesn't really have any incentive, as it's the employee's responsibility to report their tips.

There are lots of places that will tip out servers in cash for card receipts and rely on reporting - of course, yes, the servers have to report it but all the incentives to do the right thing are missing on both sides.
An immortal might justify sending automated probes to the nearest few systems to eventually collect resources and send them back to you.

But collecting resources from 10,000+ light years away just doesn’t make sense. By that point you have long since turned the local star system into a black hole via excess mass.
“ Soon enough Facebook just becomes robots talking to robots..”

I’m looking forward to this.
Would a layer of water in the forward hull positions mitigate this?
this is 90% of what I use it for as well. Sometimes I'll use it to track down a meme image as well
> I’d never seen “a hundred atoms per cubic meter”, but it’s always been my intuition that, without some quite interesting shielding, you couldn’t make it anywhere near the speed of light.

It's not that bad. With currently known science, your fuel would most likely be hydrogen so you can run a fusion reactor.

The rocket equation tells you that most of your starship by mass would be fuel, if you want to go fast.

Of all the stuff on your ship that's not fuel, you'd probably need quite a bit of water for survival needs.

So you would make your spaceship relatively long and thin (to maximize internal volume for a given frontal area), and you would store your fuel (and water) in front of you to serve as exactly that shield.
But they politely arraigned me and put me in an underfunded prison with the violent failures of a hardscrabble frontier society for downloading that software!
He's an order barker. He won't move the needle one point on that culture. All GE people understand is hierarchy.
We programmers clearly seem to think we have nothing better to do than create edge case programming languages that solve incredibly niche problems in esoteric ways.
Racist policies against Asians in California have pretty deep history.

Yet Asians do well in California schools.

"The California Alien Land Law of 1913 (also known as the Webb–Haney Act) prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning agricultural land or possessing long-term leases over it, but permitted leases lasting up to three years.[1][2][3]....... The law was meant to discourage immigration from Asia, and to create an inhospitable climate for immigrants already living in California.[7][8][9]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Alien_Land_Law_of_1...
This is 100% incorrect.
Right, but this gets to the flip side of my argument: what you're saying is that it will do what the Quest does better, at a higher price point.

But... no one is buying Quests. I mean, my kids have one and claim to love it. I had a ton of fun with Google Earth on a Rift S a few years back. But the market is a tiny niche thing.

How does selling a premium version of a niche product make money? I just don't see it. And what I find striking is the number of "Apple People" out there who haven't bothered to learn the particular product niche making statements that seem not terribly informed. Most of the "wow" reviews could have been done with an original Rift.
Jenkins still does stuff that you can't do with GH Actions. Actions ate Travis / TeamCity / CircleCI, all the "more polished Jenkins for the 80% use case" products.
Are they worse than streaming? I don’t know the math, but it seems like constantly sending the same album over the network would use a lot of energy.
I can't tell the future, but you can find examples from the past. Are you trolling?
Spirit is technically not Boeing. It's Boeing.
Planets are tiny compared to the vastness of space.

So you would never accidentally warp inside a planet.
> Ion Torrent and Genapsys are barely used due to accuracy problems,

Accurancy didn't have very much to do with Ion Torrent's demise. As we're reminded in the OP, Illumina pushed the MiSeq platform, and there wasn't much reason to transition to Ion Torrent. Now, with 250 bp+ PE reads on Illumina, there really isn't much special about Ion Torrent besides its somewhat superior homopolymer performance.

> but Oxford Nanopore's considerable logistical benefits of tolerating a wide range of input DNA concentration, quick time to data, low capital cost, and long reads has kept them alive. Maybe they will grow more with higher accuracy.

This statement is reasonable in today's era, but ONT was nowhere close to being competitive with Ion Torrent and other platforms during the time where labs were considering the Ion Torrent devices vs continued spend on Illumina platforms.

The accuracy, tolerance to unusual DNA samples, and read length with clinically-relevant base qualities were unusable until 2018/2019.
You forgot the polonium pain meds
All small countries are someone's puppets. The US tried to take a puppet state away from Russia and somewhat succeeded so far.

The first move was at the end of the Cold War. The drunken President Yeltsin took the existing administrative map of the USSR and created a new state that had artificially attached Russian regions. This set up the time delay fuse. Second was the US-backed coup in 2014. And third - what we have today. The US is good at playing the long game. Only China is better.

Downvote away, it seems to make you happy. But maybe before you write this off as "Russian propaganda" go read what Solzhenitsyn had to say on the subject. Yes, that Solzhenitsyn, the dissident who wrote "Ivan Denisovich".