skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you.

For what it's worth, I don't think there's a right or wrong answer here. Different authors have different writing styles, and different readers have their own preferences.

For context, I was an environmental science undergrad, and we read a lot of nature writing like this with very descriptive prose. Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver, The Overstory, etc. have similar passages. Many/most of my classmates loved those kinds of books. I tried, but could not.

In particular, The Overstory is the only book I've ever (tried) to read that was recommended to me by an environmental lawyer, a college teen, an old lady, a grocery store clerk, and a cop – all in the same week or so. It clearly won a place in many people's hearts. But I couldn't read past the third or fourth chapter because it just got so long-winded with descriptions about a chestnut tree. I could see the beauty in it, but I still couldn't bring myself to finish it. (In contrast, I'm now reading a book about AI spaceships... lol. Not exactly Pulitzer material, but a fun read.)

There are other nature-adventure writers with different writing styles, like Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, etc.), who uses grade-school language to rapidly advance the plot page by page. Where setup is important, he centers nature scenes from the perspective of a person experiencing it, instead of the Haiku-like out-of-body experience found in most nature writing. I find that much more relatable, personally. Other books, like The Klamath Knot, center nature in the context of mythology juxtaposed with science, using comparisons and contrast to paint an interesting picture, rather than verbose, painterly descriptions.

It's fine if people prefer one writing style over another. I loved The Road, but watched the movie first and then read the book. I preferred the movie, personally, but the book was fine too (if depressing). He's not one of my favorite authors, but so what? I have nothing against the man.

> Does this matter?

I think it's great that there are authors with distinctive styles, even if they're not for me. It's so awesome -- and rare -- when a book can really grab someone's imagination like that, even if that someone isn't me.
Ahhh...memories of PixelPlanes[1][2] and SLAM[3].

This has always seemed like such a good idea, I wonder what the factors are that keep it from being successful, and when/if its benefits ever overcome those factors.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/74333.74341

[2] http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fuchs/publications/PixelPlanes4.pdf

[3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/13358
It’s hard to make government services efficient when you have people in power who want to prove that government services are always bad.
WinRAR 7.0
Here's a dumb question: is it possible to culture stem cells? Or make more of them? Or does every stem cell have to be donated?
surveillance for me but not for thee
A potential flaw in operating room ventilation may increase Covid infection risk
Do you work in this industry?
I’m assuming you mean that purely on semantic grounds. Due to plasticity, regeneration or periodic cycles, in biology there is seldom irreversible change in the absolute sense; some kind of cut off point is implied. Another example is “irreversible enzyme inhibition” [0] - which is relative to the rate at which the protein is expressed and therefore could refer to a period of a couple of weeks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme_inhibitor#Irreversible_...
I believe for entry from LEO, and particularly for small RVs like this one, convective heating is orders of magnitude higher than radiative heating.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20140012475/downloads/20... (see slide 7)
NASA Exoplanet Catalog
We'd be better off if we untangled religion from all debates. Let people believe whatever fairy tales they want and have gatherings based on them, but stop giving preferred tax status and leave it out of informed debates.
At the very least, it would increase the risk by expanding usage. I think there’s an additional angle, however: the better an automated system like this gets, the more people assume it’ll always work. Tesla drivers get in FSD crashes they’d never get in with a basic cruise control because it’s good enough to handle enough road situations that they assume it can handle all of them, despite periodic fatal reminders that it isn’t.
The $25B Kroger-Albertsons Merger Is Going to Fail
I often think back to a scene in BoJack Horseman, when he starts jogging and collapses at the top of a hill. A veteran runner sees him and says:

"It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier".

The gym, self-care, flossing.The list goes on, but that scene really clicked for me.
Link to study: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/3/313
> That's exactly the spirit, right. The West will invent the rules, according to which it does not have to do anything (and be praised if it does something), whereas some other countries have to preserve nature on their own budget.

I don't think the boars vs orangutan distinction is very controversial; one of those is critically endangered, the other is basically an invasive species in Norway, and not even close to threatened.

If you make an effort to preserve biodiversity, spending money on the pigs seems very hard to justify, not matter what kind of rules you make up...

> I guess you could set up an entity in Indonesia with accordance with local laws and just pay for the privilege.

This is being done already (mostly by private entities), but it is quite ineffective/impossible on a government scale, and the goal is not to keep a bunch of zoos or animal sanctuaries, but to preserve species/habitat altogether.

I believe you underestimate how much e.g. the EU already pays or does for preserving biodiversity (like 20 billion € per year), so painting their efforts as purely "asking others to do the hard part/pay" is very disingenuous.

I think you are being flagged because your comments came across as somewhat pro-genocidal (paying perpetrators to not/stop commit genocide is a bit... out there).
How exactly is Russia going to get 10000 H100? I was under the impression that even legit companies in the US are fighting over them

On China - feels like the tech sanctions are an own goal. Short term delay sure but long term puts China into a much stronger position thanks to independence. Plus more risky that they just grab it from here and run away with it like with EVs and solar. If I were American I’d really be wondering whether this is the correct strategic play
Is dart currently down?
> getting the compiler to prove for you that every bounds check can be safely elided?

I'd prefer to delegate that where compiler if it can do that for that piece of code at hand. I've written about a case where it'd be very hard for a compiler to eliminate a bounds check because the guarantees are made elsewhere in the code.

On the other hand, I'd rather add my bounds check voluntarily (it's very simple in C++ vectors for example. use ".at()" instead of "[]", that's all), because I generally design my code in a way which doesn't need bounds checks by failing hard and early at places where I build/fill the arrays/vectors and prone to malformation. So, you need to be well-formed to pass these checks, and these data structures are not modified ever down the pipe. If they are modified, they'll be bound checked of course.

What I'm saying is, I'm not naive enough to believe that I'm perfect, but I'm not naive enough to believe that compiler is perfect, either. So, I do my part, and leave the parts I can't be sure to the compiler.

I'm not an hard-liner. I just want finer control on my code, and take full responsibility if it crashes and burns in a way it shouldn't, so plan and implement accordingly.
"AI Twitter" (whereby I mean, a few major AI celebrities and the AI-interested non-researcher community, which is largely concerned with AI risk) seems to be one of the few communities that robustly stuck with Twitter, maybe correlated with the fact that Elon Musk purports to take their concerns seriously. Lots of other scientific communities have vanished or thinned out. Even cryptocurrency Twitter seems to have lost a lot of the technical folks.
it's water because the humans are mostly made of water. rumor has it that on 𐍨𐍓𐍰𐍚𐍠 they use the triple point of what the humans call 'phosphoric acid' (it's a toasty place) and in 𓃾𓂃𓂌𓀩 they use the triple point of the ammonia-methane eutectic
"usb condoms" that only allow the passage of power exist, but i dont think one way data transfer would work...

I feel like what really needs to be done, is when a usb device is connected it prompts the user for a bunch of permissions. like "this device wants to be a keyboard, allow it?" Half the exploits with usb are things pretending to be keyboards...
I suppose the Iranian nuclear deal wasn't a treaty.

Under international law lots of things aren't supposed to happen. Remember Iraq? Oops. How did the US's allies respond to leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban? "Because he felt like it"? Where are you getting this nonsense?

If you were active military, and you were there, Afghanistan sucked. Sorry you got drawn into that.
If you can describe it that just means the next version can avoid it. But what you describe sounds like modern soap operas which are plastic surgery expositions.

The last mona lisa doing shakespeare and the last ai girl doing multiple voices are extremely convincing, I think you over estimate just how intensely we look at things normally after we accept them. This is great for many things right now and will be greater once they can perfect all the subtle movements that make video worth watching over audio (easier information absorption and recall).
Fast thinkers will always win in an environment where "knowing the answer" is the criteria for success. The result is that lots of stupid decisions get made. Really stupid decisions. There are corporations where knowing the answer is much more important than thinking and the correct answer.

This whole thing of asking people technical questions in interviews is IMHO just stupid. In an interview if you want to know if someone is technically good, have them ask you questions and test your knowledge. Or give them a problem without an easy answer. Why and when would you prefer to use Rust vs JavaScript. Why don't people use 'C' anymore?

My advice is: if you find yourself in a "who knows the answer" environment to run like crazy. Corporations use goofy signals. I worked long ago at significant DB company that used the number of hours you worked as a signal for how good you were. Work 9 hours = bad, Work 15 = good. Then they went out of business because it turns out that no one got anything done.

I've been thinking about Cargo Cultism quite a bit. Agile used to be an effective way to do things. Now not so much. Did the technique change? No. What happened is that it because the "right answer". People are going through the motions for something they do not understand. Just silliness.

Do a start up, consult, anything. If you can think well you have lots of options, but will have to work for them.
No, Universal Postal Union was revised to combat this. This did give a temporary minor price hike on AliExpress, but it's effect in terms of limiting packages send seems like nothing now.
I have to re-learn this each year for Advent of Code, when inevitable my something % anything goes into the negative when searching downwards.
"Nightfall" by Asimov is a great short story related to solar eclipses.

https://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall....
Awesome link. Reminds me that one of my biggest gripes with movies is that when they show meteors (or whatever) entering Earth, it's never at realistic speeds. They're always super slow and floaty, hovering in the sky to menacing effect. Great, that's the artist's choice. But the real thing is so much scarier, like this footage! And it's still a fraction of the speed of an interstellar object.
An nvidia shield is a networked computer just like any other, with cybersecurity risks and dangers.
In circumstances where I’ve seemed this way it’s just that I’ve been thinking about the problem quite a bit and so know the shape of it. In some sense, the quick response is more retrieval than computation.

In times when I haven’t appeared like this, I haven’t thought about the problem much. L
> That's not how modulo arithmetic works.

We should be a bit careful with what one means by "modulo arithmetic" here. If we are talking about arithmetic in Z/nZ (read "integers modulo n"), then the objects being acted upon are no longer integers, but equivalence classes of integers. That is, the set of all integers that satisfy the equivalence relation "~" where "a ~ b" means a - b = k*n for some integer k. For example, one of the equivalence classes in Z/3Z would be the set {..., -4, -1, 2, 5, ...}.

Since every element of the set is equivalent under that relation, we typically will choose a representative of that equivalence class, e.g., [2] for the previous class. If we view the "mod" or "modulo" operator to be a mapping from the integers to a particular representative of its equivalence class, there's no reason that negative values should be excluded. [-1] refers to the same equivalence class as [2], [32], and [-7]. The details of how integers are mapped to a chosen representative seem to vary from language to language, but modular arithmetic works all the same between them.
One of the smartest and most respected people I know is someone who hardly says anything. He can sit in a meeting with 15 people, 5 of whom are highly opinionated architects blasting out opinions, and just listening for moments where he can actually add something. If the end of the discussion is getting near and nobody has made his observations and points, he speaks up. Everyone stops and listens.

This has made me more confident in my quiet style. It’s very helpful to know in your gut that you are respected and don’t need to hurry to be the first person to say something. You have nothing to prove. When you wait and only say something that truly advances the discussion, you become mysteriously wise.
I used to work with an old Sun Microsystems dude, he was an executive at the company I was at. We used to have these meetings every week and he ended up attending one. We had been trying to come to a conclusion for weeks on a specific piece of tech. He stopped the meeting dead in its tracks and said we're going to make a decision right now, if it's wrong, we'll learn from it, if it's right, awesome. Not making this decision is more costly than making the wrong decision.

I just remember thinking, finally, someone with some authority is getting this ball moving.
Why would you exclude images?
Yeah. To understand why this is quite a flex: nearly no structure survives when they are directly hit with a nuclear weapon. The way hardened structures are designed is that the designers guestimate how big of a boom they have to survive and at what distance. They do this based on your intelligence sources of course.

So let's say your spies are telling you that the enemy can deliver 60 kiloton device with 200m circular error probable (CEP). Then your engineers can calculate how likely is that your bunker/silo will survive that (and can do something like a counter attack.)

And you build the number of silos you think you need based on that calculation. You put a lot of concrete and lot of work literally in the ground based on those numbers. And then suddenly your enemy just improves their guidance system and they drop (figuratively) such a video on you. That tends to cause jitters.
Presumably gas planets have a layer dense enough that a solid would float.
If you put this all down under scare mongering because prosecutors can be found guilty you are... seeing things very far out of perspective.
Klarna, not "Klanra".
Has NIF tried mantis shrimp?
The interpolation of animations at the bottom is really neat, but I can't help but wish the models were a little less _active_ on the rest of the page. Math is plenty hard without a small elephant cheerleader.
This was incredible to me and I'm not even sure why. I was enthralled.
It obeys Kepler's laws really really well. As opposed to those mathematically imperfect orbits that sometimes get the signs wrong when they do integration by parts and end up sending the planet spinning off in the wrong direction.

But seriously others in the various threads above have explained but it's to do with the orbital periods forming precise ratios so the planets align very pleasingly every now and then.
if the author is reading this: please define the acronym PGA when first using it!
No, I confuse nothing, you have Hollywood-induced brain rot :)

The purpose of a movie is not to entertain. Or rather, that is one possible and valid and fine purpose, but it is certainly not the only such purpose. To believe that it is, THAT is the real confusion.

The difference between a documentary and a movie isn't about purpose, it's about method: how they try to get at the truth. The documentary tries to do it by looking at a specific case; the movie (and fiction in general) tries to get at truth via an imagined aggregate (although of course usually embodied in a single fictional character, like Rocky).
Why should investigate ? Why bother with evidence.

Watch this series about 9 innocent people jailed on fabricated evidence.

https://npo.nl/start/serie/de-villamoord

There are only 8 now. One of them, a young person, committed suicide in jail.
MicroZig: Unified abstraction layer and HAL for Zig on several microcontrollers
Thanks for these, I had no idea about majority of the channels and I subscribed to all.

My recommendation: Jon Gjengset - https://www.youtube.com/@jonhoo
Circle of control.

My personal ability to influence these things is so small compared to the vast swathes of the ignorant who just go with the flow of the mainstream.

Any energy I spend trying to influence things outside of my control is wasted.

Therefore, I will only endeavor to control that which I have the ability to control.

"God grant me the serenity", if you will.
Annual proxy statement. Will have details on the compensation of leadership, and (usually) a scorecard for the past year.
ZTE's Nubia Music is a crazy smartphone
My point is that the phrase "mathematically perfect" is very misleading because it makes us think of straight lines and perfect circles but this simply is not the same kind of mathematical "perfection." I suspect this is more like an unusually high-quality gemstone than it is an perfectly round rock - very rare but not particularly mysterious. In particular this is an example of the six-body problem and orbital resonance might be a steady state if all the planets have similar mass.
I knew a guy who was in charge of approving strikes in iraq. His job was assessing the second order impacts of a strike beyond whether or not it was targeting what they believed.

I'm not saying iraq wasn't a shit show, but for what it's worth, this stuff is very carefully reviewed and is not done quickly.
> leadership couldn't decide if the future of Internet delivery was wired or wireless.

Weird way to think of this problem (IMO). I'd think there would always be a mixed wired and wireless world.

Even if customers don't end up using wired connections to their homes, you'd still need wired connection to the antennas servicing a home, neighborhood, apartment building. That's where a lot of Telcos today are making their money. Not to the customer, but to Tmobile or At&t as the put in a fiber line directly to the antenna towers.

And even if google wanted to be the end to end ISP for someone, they'd benefit from a vast fiber network even if they later decided it wireless was the best, because they already have the fiber wherever they'd need their wireless antenna.
The hype-to-reality gap is going to keep getting much bigger every generation of announcements due to Dennard scaling and the end of Moore's Law. I was fortunate enough to be an active computer technologist through the "golden age" from 1980 to ~2010. Every three to four years things got about twice as fast for around half the cost. And not just some features or aspects but almost the entire system in almost every way. We had no idea back then just how extraordinary that period was.

Today, the industry has regressed to hyping tiny incremental gains in narrow sub-metrics which only rarely have a material impact on overall performance across an entire system or most applications and usually at higher cost. Those that entered the industry in the last 15 years don't really appreciate just how much progress has slowed to a crawl.

Sadly, looking at the ten year roadmap projections from the likes of IMEC, there aren't any big leaps on the horizon. Progress will come mostly in single-digit percentages and most gains will be increasingly conditional (eg limited to one logic type or only in certain contexts). And the costs are going to keep skyrocketing. I hope we'll "get lucky" with some unexpected breakthrough but there's no reason to expect that.
At least right note we can still question the thought police.
Kindles usually have a very nice backlight that you can turn on. It works quite well and doesn't seem to diminish the screen's paper like characteristics.
Ah, mixup on my end. You're correct.
You're saying consent isn't transitive.

That's why they always ask for (or more frequently just take) "a paid
up, non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license"
Come on LOL.

Falcon 9 is an orbital booster that's landed dozens of times on US soil. Suggesting this spacecraft has achieved some kind of world first is totally ridiculous and diminishes the actual achievement.
The era of artisanal internet is upon us! Everything AI and a couple of folks still doing it like on the good old days haha
It's fascinating seeing the "problems" that humans can invent
Wendy's says 'dynamic' pricing won't tack surge pricing onto your nuggets
Natural Gas Demand Will Surge 50% in Next Decade, Woodside CEO Says
Can anyone using WinRar discuss why they prefer it over 7-Zip? In any case, I'm happy to see such ubiquitous software continue to be updated.

https://www.rarlab.com/

https://7-zip.org/
Does VATSIM offer flight following? It's kind of like VFR but with some flight plans and similar from IFR, including controller hand-off.
Ironically, I own more than one Switch and all the games I play using an emulator. After the Steam Deck came out, I just preferred using the emulator on the Steam Deck because it allowed me to backup and share save files, so I had the convenience of a handheld with the ability to play on my gaming PC at home and in both cases have performance unrestricted. When the Switch OLED came out I was hoping it would be a performance boost also, but unfortunately that wasn't the case so I didn't buy one.

I /really/ really like the Switch hardware. I think the Switch is arguably one of the best consoles ever made, especially for it's ergonomics and UX. The detachable joycons, the subtle integration of motion control, and it's light weight with good battery life made it an exceptionally good gaming product. I truly love my Switch(es), but they are very long in the tooth in 2024, running off what is basically a 2017 smartphone hardware. If Nintendo releases a Switch 2 with full games backwards compatibility, I'd prefer to play on first-party hardware vs using an emulator, but from my perspective I just want the best gaming experience, I don't care about their greedy interpretation of the law. Software is software and hardware is hardware, it makes no sense to restrict emulation in any way as long as you legally own the games.
“Woke” has no clear definition, so this question is entirely pointless. You can narrowly identify a set of ideological priors, their relationship to polled public sentiments, and evaluate its responses relative to that, but that’s about it. Decrying things as “woke” otherwise is just a new form of McCarthyism.
That's an excuse. The real reason is to avoid drama by withdrawing Internet points. Some people can be very salty about this.