skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That begs an interesting comparison in fuel usage (kJ or $ basis): supplying dV for one pound to orbit vs. the energy required to perform the work needed to overcome ~8,000 miles of marginal drag from +1lb of cargo on a ship.

Fuel usage being the limiter of terminal economics once launch systems are commodified to the degree ships are.
Once everyone has an electric car and all farts have been smelled, maybe they'll realize they don't need a new car every year or 5.
That's their public core argument.

Their real argument (to shareholders etc) is that they want that 30% rake on everything you buy, so they want you to have 900 apps on your phone instead of a web browser than visits 900 websites.
Apple pulls the plug on trying to create its own electric car after a decade
Thank god the EU (and sometimes Cali) are finally standing up to these huge tech companies. The federal legislative and executive branches of BOTH parties don't seem to have that type of spine as the stagnant wages and purchasing power of millennials and gen z continues its death spiral.
Haha! I feel you.
Ok? Damn what a negative take.
You were not right, the sibling comment similarly clearly demonstrates that the skit is satire, not an actual conversation (being inspired by a single comment from a real politician does not make something a "conversation [that] actually happened, this video is just a recreation of it"). Again, please stop trying to save face and just learn from your mistake.
General go to is pair of nvidia cards with 24gb of ram a piece. Should be enough to run stuff like Mixtral 8x7b in 8 bit precision which is good enough. That being said, single 24gb card is fine enough 4bit precision models if you are using it for basic coding assistance.

If you are interested in inference only, not training, its not really worth it to invest in cards. Use the online inference tools. And for training, even a pair of 4090s aren't going to be that good without a good CPU and lots of RAM to keep the cards fed as much as possible.
Just wanted to post a quick comment - I really appreciate your simple and elegant journalling solution. I think I want to implement something similar. Thanks!
Sorry to hear that your experience with Azure has been sub-par. I know there was a sizable wave of people that migrated over to Azure for the AI models but haven't heard too much from them since. Interesting to hear about your experience...
> It's weird. They always travel in groups of five. These programmers, there's always a tall skinny white guy, a short skinny Asian guy, fat guy with a ponytail, some guy with crazy facial hair and then an East Indian guy. It's like they trade guys until they all have the right group.
The Mac Pro comment is an unfair comparison. It's closer to a car on cinder blocks since the wheels cost extra.
For the most part it's probably reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). This incorporates humans in the training loop and its done for alignment purposes (which is overall a good idea, but it does depend on who exactly the AI is aligning with). There may also be other areas where human bias can seep in, like the massaging of the training data, but more likely the biggest factor is the direct feedback training done by a select number of people.

https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/reinforcement-learning-from-h...
Musk accused of polluting German rivers with Tesla gigafactory
Star Trek was well aware of that problem. They often encountered "ion storms", or landing parties got conked on the head and their communicators taken, or other ways of disabling communications.

That also disabled the transporter, which is a convenient way to get into stories, but also makes it easy to get out of stories.

Somebody somewhere must have done a PhD thesis on the way that cell phones have changed storytelling in TV and movies. I'd actually kinda like to read that.

A quick Google turns up:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254345825_Mobile_Ph...
Ada is mentioned surprisingly little, to be honest. I think that everyone remembers The Ada Mandate and its failure.
Pursuing Agency and Reinvention in My 30s
I couldn't see this flying in the U.S without due process (targeting a specific entity always causes challenges) but I guess this flies in the EU?

A law banning all lobbyists would be fine, but pick and choosing what lobbyists you allow just sounds like it could only lead to corruption.
> In short, the problem is that there is no universally agreed-upon definition of "problematic" content.

I got banned from my city's subreddit for making a mild criticism about crime once. Now I'm shut off from events, networking, etc.

I'm from the southeast, which is a conservative area of the country. The internet I grew up on had thicker skin, wasn't trigger happy with banning, and because of that I was exposed to ideas and perspectives that I wouldn't have ordinarily been in contact with. People didn't have a disgruntled disposition that immediately banned opposing views on sight, so I was able to soak in so much information.

Expressly because of this, I was able to change my shape from a conservative kid into a well-rounded moderate. I don't think I could replicate this experience easily on today's internet. People are divided into factions and are quick to mute and ban those they disagree with. (The rage-centric algorithms also heighten confrontational language and showdowns, but that's another issue.)

Censorship almost always leads to imbalanced power dynamics and gatekeeping. It's become a tit-for-tat tool of retaliation and playing "gotcha". People enjoy digitally flicking each other off by banning them. It's super fucked.

Filtering is important, but we should have protocols for that where individuals have complete control and discretion. I don't know how that's supposed to work on platforms that are wholly controlled by profit-seeking corporations, but maybe legislation can craft a way forward.

I really hope we don't dive deeper into the censorship rabbit hole. It genuinely terrifies me more than any other issue facing humanity.
So they didn’t show up and their punishment is not being allowed to show up?
Anyone who has been dealing with phone scams should have a healthy sense of dread on the idea that internet services should achieve parity of quality with phone service.
I have released v0.1.2 with the destination literally minutes ago, I'll take a look at CSV as a source!

just so that I have a better understanding, do you mind explaining your usecase?
It kinda sucks that you learn much slower when you’re older though. I’ve been practicing piano an hour or two a day for 7 months and I don’t really feel like I’ve improved at all. I was intermediate when I started and I am taking professional lessons. Mid 30s here.
Yes, satire.
Can’t read the full article but it sounds kind of like they are a bloated social media company like Twitter was pre-Elon.
>You could live your whole life there and never run out of things to do.

Look, I know I'm being pedantic here, but as a rural nerd, I just gotta say that this is true of literally any habitable location on the planet if you decide to no-life the right hobby or hobbies.
Thanks, I appreciate the link to an actual Swedish site for reporting on this.
iPhone predates iPod touch, though.
That's not the point I was making. I was only stating that the Cyber Truck's design isn't boring, and that today's Apple seems incapable of designing something exciting.
You're not going to like the battery lif
That Word Salad dump sounds like something politicians will sometimes do in a media interview. In that case, I guess they want to project an image of having a response, and also hit voter emotional notes and party talking points.

In job interviews, I guess part of the problem could be that we've institutionalized "interview prep" rituals now, and people train for the rituals, including things like the "correct" answers to behavioral questions, and even the right keywords to hit.

So, people not being confident of the answer they're trying to get correct might kinda spam the Word Salad of keywords, either as panicked flailing when they think they should be talking, or because it's a conscious last-resort tactic (like the standardized test prep classes that teach you what to do when you don't know the answer but want to maximize your score anyway).

One time I remember going kinda Word Salad myself, was in a non-interview meeting, when I was escalating a serious issue through official channels, a long time ago. The official in the meeting was (unbeknownst to me, when I was going to a ton of work to get this meeting) secretly misaligned with their ostensible role, visibly very hostile to me from the start, and misunderstanding something. There was insufficient bandwidth to keep up with correcting them, and I realized that the situation had just taken a very bad turn... so I started desperately using rapid vague hand-waving generality high-level summaries. Maybe this Word Salad-ish instance has some overlap with some job interview Word Salads -- it's not necessarily always that the interviewee doesn't know the answer, but maybe the interviewer isn't getting something, or is asking a poor question, or seems negative towards the interviewee?
This sounds highly rational and also comes across to me as completely wrong.

I have maintained a fairly tight circle of friends and acquaintances for more than three decades. One of the patterns that stands out very strongly is the high variability in the perception of time. Those who have settled into a routine such as a relationship that endures and work that remains highly similar even if the company and title change tend to experience this time flying by effect strongly. Others who have had major complications to deal with like relationships coming and going, medical problems, big changes to location, fundamental changes in work situation and so on end to have a critical time slowing effect. Coming to grips with big changes and getting settled again requires a lot of attention and work and does not allow for a relaxed grip on life events. Try getting mugged, dumped, fired, sick, and then moving somewhere unfamiliar and you might find this time passing faster effect disappears, if only until adjustments are made.

This implies the whole effect may be about how humans must focus when pushed but then tend to zoom out and ease up when ongoing attempts to steady themselves are successful. Reminds me of the book Tempo by Venkatesh Rao (https://www.ribbonfarm.com/tempo/).
> Lobbyists to be banned from European parliament

This is a hand-out to the rich. Unless you plan on making individual carve-outs for every NGO and citizen group.
Do you mean because cars last 12+ years if you take care of them? Or do you mean because we really need great transit since most of what people do with a car can be done on transit (you may still have a truck to tow the boat or whatever but that is a niche)
Even if he does, I think SpaceX's success has spurred the creation of some competitors / imitators, perhaps with more sane CEOs.

..

I love "Stokes Space" design for example... https://youtu.be/EY8nbSwjtEY?feature=shared

I cant wait to see that progress.. Imo the upper stage / re-entry design so much more elegant and practical than Starship. It re-enters just like an Apollo capsule, not like the space shuttle or starship's weird bellyflop. Also it doesnt rely on ceramic tiles, which were a big problem with the space shuttle. Even forgetting about Columbia, maintaining and replacing the tiles after each mission was incredibly expensive and time consuming.
Imo re-entry is the biggest hurdle to a re-usable upper stage and Stokes Space have based their design around nailing that issue first and foremost.
The past is the past, no sense in regretting it since you cannot change it.

I'm not quite as old you but close, and I already feel what you're feeling about the time left. That there isn't a lot of it, or that it will be gone quickly. Everyone has things they will not get a chance to try or experience. No lifetime offers everything, and every path taken means many, many others will be never explored.

Like money, you can't take memories with you. So try not to dwell on things you didn't do or that didn't work out the way you imagined. Half or more of people who get married end up divorced. Probably many more are less than happy. Kids can be a joy but they can also be a heartache. Every criminal is somebody's kid. Nothing comes with any guarantees.

Make life interesting today, as today is the only thing you really experience.
They shouldn’t be allowed to pick and choose what to show up for. If they don’t want to attend hearings, then they shouldn’t get to lobby (meet with) MEPs.
For anyone interested here are the Lens protocol docs.

https://docs.lens.xyz/docs/what-is-lens
The biggest limitation and expense for most players looking to get in on the generative AI land-grab is hardware, which Apple already has completely solved. If anything, they’re already ahead of everyone else in the game. The “me too” thing is nothing new. They’re just following the classic Apple playbook and biding their time to wait for the market to solidify before unleashing the best user experience in it.
Sorry I don't mean it as insult or to stir up any political arguments. I guess I could have said "personality", but I was motivated to understand this from the Google Gemini controversy.
He has also recorded two videos on youtube demonstrating some of emacs' features that I really like.

- A guided tour of Emacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkIicfzPBys

- Emergency Emacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZWp05OW1c0
Well in defense of the GP, the "planes can observably fly upside down" point (and its close cousin the "flat wing cross sections can fly too" point) is a good one, this pokes holes in the usual two-dimensional "the air goes faster on top" themed explanation that omits any discussion of vortex shedding/third-dimensional effects.
I do hope you differentiate between greener on average for the whole planet and a local phenomenon.
The Earth had the richest flora and fauna when it was the warmest. Why would I believe your scary speculations instead of proven scientific data?
Not quite "full access to all bases". More like "meaningful access to many bases".

It would be rather silly to join an alliance and not at all allow your allies to store/access/manage equipment and house troops/suppliers at your bases.
I strongly suspect they'll achieve at least partial re-usability if not full by 9 launches. If not SpaceX will at least have a very clear understanding of the engineering problem by that point. I'm most worried about the final landing which I would not want to be anywhere close to until they've had a solid string of successes without any issues.
> 0$ to get started, then pay as you go” reads to me: “0$ to get started, and then you can order add-ons and extra features as you need them

I think I disagree with this, but maybe I'm misunderstanding you.

Pay as you go sounds strongly to me that you pay based on your actual usage, not that it's free except for add-ons. A pay as you go phone, for example, does not imply you need to buy a telephony add-on, an SMS add-on, etc.

PAYG phones, however, were always prepaid, so I think I would expect PAYG hosting to be similar. That said, if my site was publicly accessible without my prepayment, I think it would be clear that it works the way it apparently does.

It's potentially misleading, but I don't think it's intentionally dishonest.
The first part was responding to the idea that the internet hasn’t really gotten better for the consumer in the last decade, despite technological advancements. And I see the reason for that being the regulatory capture of the American government, which allows a few massive conglomerates to monopolize and organize cartels in various internet-adjacent domains. Any reasonable version of America would have invoked antitrust a long, long time ago.

The second part is referencing the specific problems most HNers see with the modern internet: giant SPAs with huge packet sizes and questionable, non-accessible, hand-rolled functionality. And I think the reason for that is that our system is barely functioning right now: we made stock buybacks legal again for some reason, and executive pay and shareholder dividends were already absurdly high. Big SPAs that supposedly do everything, and the mobile apps that they mimic, have become a way to lower expenses rather than an additive new medium for business. When was the last time you talked to a business on the phone?

Long story short, capitalism makes bad websites by underpaying, underhiring, and overspeccing.
Amazon is just treating it like a cost of doing business.

Until fines reach levels that actually impact the pay of the CEO, they will continue to be ignored.
Think of any one plugin you have for another editor - and you probably have it in emacs.

The one that I think makes most change is treemacs - this gives you a tree view at the side of the window of files.
Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
Lots of countries have freight forwarding services were you buy from the US Amazon site and have it forwarded to your country. This avoids the hasle to Amazon of dealing with the country directly. Florida has special zip codes with 0% sales tax with the understanding that such goods are going overseas. In my current country you can basically buy whatever you want from Amazon US cheaper and easier than you can locally.
SuperTuxKart runs well on Android, and it will let you use the accelerometers to steer (so you just tilt the whole device like a steering wheel) which gives it a feeling a little like the Wii version of Mario Kart.
Can someone help me understand the licensing of this?

https://github.com/sdv-dev/SDV/blob/main/LICENSE

It was MIT licensed up until 2022 where it was changed to what it is now, where they say that it will become MIT again 4 years after release... but is that from when the license was changed or the first release of the software in GitHub?
The Apple watch was only incrementally better than the existing options. The original one was probably worse than the Pebble in some aspects.
I think I'd agree if the circumstances are the same, and on request a libel was not taken down for you when it was for other people. The same circumstances including being on the same subreddit, being caught by the same auto-filter, being notified in the same way, at least.

So, for example if libel against you wasn't caught by a particular filter then that's not bias against you, and so they are not party to the libel (unless you can show the filter was specifically designed to fail to catch libels against you).
Not as good though. Case in point: https://github.com/traefik/traefik/issues/5472#issuecomment-... (that's just from this morning)

I'm speak objectively here. Of course, any built-in auto HTTPS that works (more or less) is better than none. Traefik uses an ACME library that was originally written for Caddy. After the original author left that project, Traefik team started maintaining it. Caddy's users' requirements exceeded what the library was capable of, but unfortunately there was friction in getting it to achieve our requirements. So I ended up writing a new ACME client library in Go and, together with upgrades in CertMagic (Caddy's auto-TLS lib), Caddy has the more flexible, robust, and capable auto-HTTPS functionality.

That is to say, not all auto-HTTPS functionalities are the same.
You mean besides drinking and dining and spending outrageous amounts of money on 13$ beer and overpriced bland food? As a european I dont like the city at all. The only thing going for it is the vibe and the energy of the people. If it werent for the high salaries, people wouldnt be moving here.

It needs serious clean up, from the mentally-sick homeless domesticating the subway, to the stench and the rats, from the grime, to the zero outdoor culture besides the monotonous central park which after dark gets swarmed with rats which my dog loves to chase. They need to narrow the avenues and start building outdoor areas the same way Barcelona is doing. In the winter you put heating mushrooms and you are good to go. NYC has a long way to start looking like a decent city that europeans would like to move to. Americans find it great because its the only thing resembling a city and not an airport where you dont need a car to move around.
Different strokes I guess. How long have you been…working? The vast vast vast majority of people want a little more variety in lives as opposed to more more more of the stuff they spend 40+ hours a week doing as it is. The exceptions to this rule are almost always unhealthy workaholics / people that’ll learn about the benefits of work / life balance the hard way. It doesn’t make them some higher tier of world-class engineer like some (often including themselves) expect.
Time Variability Causes Gravity, Not the Other Way Around
It definitely was and I had this in mind when writing it. Personalized pricing is arguably the worst of both worlds - no consistency and inability to haggle(enforced by the tech).
Ask HN: Has Apple lost it's way?
what happened to Apple? what happened to "We'll just build it first and fast and get feedback later. Customers don't know what they want anyway." This is how we go all the awesome prodcuts from them. It seems now they are just chasing their competitors.
That's not CloudFlare's fault.
> never run out of things to do.

Unless the thing is "afford housing"
Yeah, magnetic tape is almost as old as the programmable computer, with the UNIVAC notably featuring magnetic tape drives. The main downside was that paper tape could be hand-punched using commodity equipment (often teletypes), while magnetic tape couldn't. Magnetic tape was also more expensive initially but I think that cost gap narrowed as paper tape fell out of use. Paper tape was probably becoming uncommon in most mainframe environments by the mid-1960s as the programming modality mostly became punched card source to magnetic tape object. Most IBM mainframes for example could IPL from any input channel, so while a paper tape reader was still a standard option on the 360 series in the mid-'60s, it probably only would have been used by more cash-strapped users. I think IBM generally stopped using paper tape as an exclusive or main I/O format by the end of the '50s. They were ahead of some of their competitors on that, though, probably due to their considerable expertise in both punched cards and magnetic tape.

Some minicomputers continued to use paper tape for initial program loading well into the '70s though, including the PDPs used for Unix development. A number of these computers couldn't "boot" from the tape drives because they were I/O peripherals, while the console and its attendant paper tape punch/reader interacted directly with memory. This arrangement was sometimes called an "autoloader," where you could set a switch and a starting address and everything coming from the console keyboard/reader were put directly into memory sequentially. I have also seen videos of PDP users hand-toggling a program to read from a tape drive into memory; I think that's mostly a flourish for modern demonstrations and contemporary operators would have used the tape reader, but it's not a long enough program to be infeasible.
What do you think programming languages/libraries/tools could do to make floats less scary for the common people? I feel there is lot of superstition around floats, some of it more well deserved than others, but it leads people to approach fp with great distrust.

Of course herbie is already good step here, but it is still somewhat niche.