skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've reviewed this kind of Dune background material and I still don't quite get how the Zensunnis and others managed to get to other star systems before the advent of FTL. I've seen no mention of (for example) generation ships.
From what I've heard, that specific issue has more to do with farming than with housing. In the US specifically, 4% of land area is urban, 21% is farmland; worldwide it's 33% agricultural and 0.5% urban.

Parking lots are awful, even in their own right, in that we agree.
> I understand that Dune is too big of a masterpiece for a simple 2 part movie (it should be a 6-8 session series at least)

I am a massive Dune fan as well and share this sentiment. Same for Lord of the Rings. On some level those books are simply unadaptable if the goal is to be totally true to the original text.

For myself, I am always happy to see adaptations since it will always lead someone to the books who would otherwise not have been exposed to them. And if some folks don't like the books and only enjoy the movies, that's fine too. Better to have any exposure than none. :)
ah okay yeah no idea
>Nobody expects highways to make money or break even.

Where I'm from, in New Zealand, roads are paid for from a budget that is funded primarily by fuel taxes and road user charges. So what you've said is not a universal truth.
Maybe good for social skills (maybe) but do you maintain lasting connections with people you meet like this?
>The White House said threats could arise because vehicles “collect large amounts of sensitive data on their drivers and passengers"...[and] also said vehicles could “be piloted or disabled remotely” and added the investigation will also look at autonomous vehicles.

Why do vehicles have to collect large amounts of sensitive data and be remotely controllable?
Meetup is a great way to find people with similar interest. Also, take some local walking tours (often free or very low cost). Local service clubs like Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, etc are also very welcoming and they offer opportunities to get invested in your local community.
That's not plausible, IMO. Plastic may become somewhat more expensive, but it doesn't require fossil fuels. Overall secular increase in societal wealth should overcome any transient increase in price.
> includes keyboard shortcut documentation

You seem to have omitted a word.

> Plus keyboard shortcuts still exist with the ribbon system.

So this objection is completely manufactured?

> The ribbon only annoys power users which is a number much much smaller than 50% of all users.

It's 0% of the users who are new to the software, and 90% of the users who have used the software for some time. The UI shouldn't be optimized for people who are only going to use the software a few times unless the software is only meant to be used a few times.

But in the case of office software, what you want is affordances that can be eliminated at the user's own pace while they get to know the software over years or decades. Things like indicating the keyboard shortcut next to the menu entry, which is standard for most UI toolkits. Or things like allowing the "ribbon" to be disabled, which I would be really surprised if you could come up with a reasonable opposition to.
Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation;Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI
That's a lot of bucks.
Google say it can't guarantee its Gemini GenAI tool won't be biased
I disagree, I loved Dune. Messiah was a little hard to follow, but Dune was ace. It felt like part one sanded off all the interesting bits and gave us a really generic brutalist aesthetic scifi.
OLPC XO-1: The $100 Laptop (Which Cost $200) [video]
It's still just one old server. Which itself is impressive, but with the search indexing changes maybe not enough anymore?
pls, around where do you mean? Ukrain?
Too bad it's still a closed-source dominated industry :( There's not even any low level documentation of their programming bitstreams
Have you ever considered that nothing is wrong with you because nothing is wrong with you, and not that nothing is wrong with you because you are some stoic or heroic figure who managed to simply resist temptation?

I've been drunk plenty of times. I've also not consumed enough alcohol to be in a drunken state in almost 8 years despite having a collection of bourbon worth thousands. A good friend of mine, who drank no more than I did for a long while, could not stop. He kept going until he wrecked his liver and died from organ failure.

I didn't have the strength to overcome alcoholism. I was simply never an alcoholic. He was.
There is no sustainable or recyclable. If you want to reduce pollution and trash, you should reduce consumption first. Heinz and grocery store could move to allowing users to re-fill bottles, but instead they waste our time on stuff like this.
I hope the charging stations aren't shocking people
But then again there is the Mentat language that we hear Thufir Hawat use in the Lynch version. Has anyone bothered to analyze this and maybe expand upon it ?
I'm so excited to see this tomorrow! I'm so pleasantly surprised it seems to be popular. I expected the first movie to flop massively but at least weirdos like me would get to enjoy it. Here's hoping it keeps staying popular and they can even make it to the super weird later books!
They can totally say that, there are plenty of people who have experience that would agree with it.

It’s not “facts on the ground” when you’re literally courting diverse opinions. That law just covers the average. ;P
Good, at least the execs didn't go with some awful AI inspired name. This way, all the old datasheets they never reformatted are still correct.

Intel missed the boat on low end stuff completely with Altera. Very recently since 2021 they have started to change that. Last year they were soliciting use cases and market research for the agilex 3. From my talks with them they have a pretty good handle on what they need to do for low end.

The presentation today was just fluff mostly about AI which has die space in their agilex 5. They have a use case where AI is run in the chip of a cell station to detect traffic patterns and manage QoS better.

I'm not sure the AI bet is worth all the marketing though. FPGAs almost always are used in hard realtime, embedded applications where the behavior must be deterministic in many ways. How is AI gonna help then?
> If money was the objective, they would have vending machines and unskippable ads on superchargers.

Perhaps. Or maybe they decided that having ads would cheapen their brand and hurt sales in the long term.
Then it was extremely true to the books.
Now all we need is a Markdown to roff converter… which apparently already exists.

https://github.com/postmodern/kramdown-man

https://rtomayko.github.io/ronn/ronn.1.html

https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/
I live in the mountains of Colorado, on a dirt road. Living there does not mean paving everything. My home's presence does not "threaten the natural world" as evidenced by the moose, the birds, the bobcat, the ermine, and countless other wildlife that we share the environment with.

I understand you might think everything humanity does is destructive, but it just doesn't comport with my experience.

I would encourage you to find some wilderness, and see for yourself whether the "natural world is threatened". I'm not denying that it doesn't happen, it's just not as widespread or universal as you seem to suggest.

Visit the US west and tell me "most of the natural world is threatened". In many parts it's wilderness as far as the eye can see.
Nice! Thank you for the links!
> I'm advocating for periodically reading the docs of your most commonly used tools, as if you were a new user. You'll pickup something new nearly every time you do that.

Strongly agree.
never heard about this before! thanks for the tip will check this out
I mean the alternative is to go when the chicks are alive and watching them get swallowed whole by skuas. Antarctica is no petting zoo, but maybe some less serious tour operators make it out to be one and this is the result of that.
I’m not an anti-car person but I think you have a few misconceptions:

- A lot of well off people who could flag a taxi or Uber still take the NYC subway because it is very convenient and has incredible coverage. All sorts of New Yorkers use it. Also, you can get from the airport to Manhattan just as fast if not faster on the LIRR, and at a fraction of the cost. (In the SF Bay Area on the other hand, the trains are pretty bad for getting to the airport!)

- Public transit is almost never intended to operate at a profit. They intentionally subsidize it, both for people with low income, and to make routes to suburbs where the route might not have the ridership to really justify it, but the planners think it is still important for political reasons (like if a district is paying for some transit service, everyone in the district should get some stations).
Taco Bell has its own wiki
Reminded me of this recent observation of fractals in nn training https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2024/02/12/fractal.html
Faarlund's argument for classifying English as a North Germanic language is based on syntactic evidence and historical contact between Old Norse and Old English. He suggests that the extensive Viking presence in the British Isles during the Viking Age led to significant linguistic influence that shaped the development of English. This influence, according to Faarlund, is profound enough to warrant reclassifying English away from its traditional West Germanic grouping into the North Germanic category. He points to structural similarities between English and the Scandinavian languages that are not found in other West Germanic languages, arguing these are the result of Old Norse influence rather than shared Germanic heritage.
> We can spend those $15 to improve public transport?

The MTA, which administers our public transportation, is collecting the fee.
Maybe in the general case, but in this specific case? Inability to look past islamaphobic 'connotations' and prejudices to enjoy something like Dune seems like a affliction of idiots to me.
I do think it's inevitable that a film adaptation will let down any major fan of the original book. There's simply a barrier between media that cannot be reconciled, certainly not for any story as complex and expansive as Dune.

(Sounds like this movie is at least three parts, for what it's worth.)
It is a single one-core server, and I believe it's pretty old.
I'm sure it seemed even less like fiction during the OPEC oil crisis in the 70s. Or the Libya Khadaffi thing in the 80s. Or the Kuwait invasion in the 90s. You get the idea :-)
Your #1 cup of hot cocoa gives you winter warmth, yet more medical advantages as well! Figure out more.
With two Starlink dishes with hacked firmware you can go 10 ghz line of site (19,6 km grand level, 40-50 km max), much more bandwidth than Wifi.

You can hang a fiber in the trees or trow in water (irrigation). Can be decades before it is detected.
Eh, have you tried vscode lately?

Some of the official extensions install code from random places like that.
Learning to be managed
Hi HN,

First time sharing anything I have written.

Lately I have been wondering about how to be managed properly. I feel like I have not gotten what I wanted out of my career.

This is my attempt at learning more about the subject, and sharing with people that are going through a similar struggle.

Hope that it is useful. :)
It does sound like a meme.

I can tell you as an extremely socially anxious person I’ve actually done it myself. There’s power in clichés.
The same is true for DSSS only within a relatively narrow frequency band, originally of at most a few tens of MHz, now up to a few hundred MHz.

For UWB, the energy of the signal is spread over a much wider frequency band, of at least a few GHz and up to tens of GHz. Therefore UWB behaves like a white noise with a much greater bandwidth than DSSS.

It is not difficult to jam the entire band that can be used by certain kinds of DSSS signals or to receive all of it and process it digitally to search for signals within it.

Such operations are much more difficult for the much greater bandwidth used by an UWB signal.
A better Excel sounds nice, but the problem is Excel is already on my computer and used by everyone. It's a universal format for most people in the business world. If your product is really that superior, I wish Microsoft would just buy y'all out and rewrite Excel from scratch using your product. I guess they can't do to infinite backwards capability needs as half the world prob runs off Excel spreadsheets.
My issue is more with framing it as a lobotomy analogue when in reality the similarity ends at them both being brain procedures. My read is that this is more akin to something like rehabilitation in that previously damaged tissue is being worked on to improve function.

With regards to the body horror thing, that is legitimate and there is the possibility that we look back on this in 20 years like we do with lobotomy. I personally think it's unlikely considering the differences in how research is regulated compared to the past.

In general I think we need to reframe how we look at medical treatments. Changing the brain is literally the point - it's dysfunctional. Whether that be through physical manipulation like this or via pharmacology, something HAS to change functionally or there will be no difference. Until the point that we have nano robots carrying out bodily processes for us it's on our brain and body to adapt to whatever environmental stress it's exposed to, for better (exercising improving health for example) and for worse(trauma causing increased likelihood of addiction etc). This treatment is no different from anything else, all that matters is the positive or negative reaction.
Polestar 2 (looks enough like a volvo that volvo fans will come up and ask about it, partly because the only branding is the + logo.)
Thrust/weight ratio of a Merlin engine: 184 (sea level), 214 (vacuum)

Thrust/weight ratio of a military jet engines: ~9

Thrust/weight ratio of a commercial turbofan: ~6

Merlin also has a much lower cost per unit thrust, 200x lower than a military jet engine, 400x lower than current commercial high bypass turbofan engines.
No. In n dimensions a cross product of n-1 n-vectors is the determinant with the top row being the basis elements (e_1, e_2, ..., e_n) and the next n-1 rows being the n-1 vectors. The result is a n-vector orthogonal to the n-1 vectors.

In 2 dimensions it is
i j
x y

In 3 dimensions it is

i j k
x1 y1 z1
x2 y2 z2

And so on.
(2023)

More recently lots of discussion:

.ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39194477
Exactly. I can easily recollect the first half of the first movie, but after Paul meeting the Fremen, I barely remember anything out of the movie.
Japan produces first pigs designed for organ transplants
In response to nosy, holier-than-thou paternalism, "conservative" and "liberal" probably seemed kinder than "a-hole."
I don't think frying an egg would be hard — you can do it on a car's hood on a hot day.

But would you be able to poach it?
Yeah that is my confusion.. these image generators take language input but issue image output - is the imagery considered "language" in the context of an LLM?

Are image generators transformers but not LLMs?

Something else?
It may very well mean it has seen that question answered before. It'll be hard to find a question that nobody has ever asked or discussed on the Internet, but if you can think of one, ask an LLM and see if it can figure it out correctly.
Introducing OneRepo: JS/TS monorepo toolchain for safe, strict, fast development
Those are 30 year old parts, of course they are different now. Errata exists but it is always mitigated or documented, and I've not run into any show stoppers in the past 10 years. The software though? Different story
Twitter board disagrees
I like the idea although I don’t see this product having leverage. It’s a GitHub feature away from being replaced. What would happen to this product if GitHub decides to add repo monetization?
> Once the toll system is in place, the city will realise that reduced traffic means reduced toll income and the exercise becomes to find the highest price people will pay without significantly reducing traffic

Why do you presume New York can't do what every other jurisdiction that has deployed congestion pricing has?
Just wanted to say, it's easily the best interpretation of Dune I've ever seen.

So much so that I find myself wishing I had not seen it. It makes the current Dune interpretation movies look downright juvenile. Watch the current movies first, then go back and watch Sci Fi's interpretation. If you don't, you'll be extremely disappointed in the current movies.
I was going to suggest climbing gyms, specifically the nights where they offer buy one get one free passes. Sometimes they have a signup for singles to get the deal too.
I think it has already been there for long time, but at least it allows small enough sub-communities that aren't instantly astroturfed.
your thought process is all over the place.

Gen-x was more independent because they were allowed to be, the family size doesn't have a lot of bearing on that, but more than that it's a non-sequitur that somehow gen-x is a counter-example to the idea that smaller families lead to higher value placed on child safety. child safety and independence are orthogonal ideas.
And related flipside:

Not all TLDs are Created Equal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39367540
yes, but their interest is in emulating software distributed by steam

other games are only as much of interest as it might be games which could end up on steam or games which show some issue with the emulation which could be used to improve proton

there is also the thing that proton or wine just barely count as emulation, they are a bit of emulation but mostly just providing compatible OS interfaces adaption
(through Yuzu might but be that much different given how "mainstream" (but old) the switch hardware is)
I can’t imagine trying to understand the movie if I hadn’t read the book. As you say, it would be absolutely incomprehensible.
How do you install jwm?
Great work, guys.

Really looking forward to more wasm integration and seeing what’s possible there!
I'm sorry I think I didn't explain my point clearly. I'm trying to point out there's a difference between not understanding why a model outputs a specific token, and not understand what the computer is doing under the hood. We understand very well how fed forward networks work computationally, and there's nothing really insecure about that. The insecure problem here is in the serialization format that some of these models are distributed as.

As for my "regular users" comment, I don't think it's hard to imagine a world where users have a trusted program that runs the models. This is how basically all file formats work. Excel was insecure at one point for similar reasons, you could embed malicious code in macros, but today excel spreadsheets can run computations on files downloaded from the web and it's just as secure as open a .txt file.
Same, broadcom wifi issues and 3dfx driver issues for my voodoo card but mandrake mostly just worked.

I eventually learned enough to install debian-netinst and get everything working, probably within about a year.
Sure, why not? Not everyone will be looking for those lasting connections, but that's true of everywhere you go.
> It adds significant fiscal burden supporting essential services infrastructure such as water and sewerage, as you lose the economies of scale that more dense/compact cities have.

I grew up in rural America. It is not at all obvious to me that cities are more economic. If anything it’s the opposite. Doing any kind of infrastructure work is expensive, slow, and disruptive.

> Housing is a false equivalency in this equation, and there are other levers that need to be pulled to address construction costs, etc.

Maybe. Cost of housing is arguably our biggest and most important problem – and it’s increasingly wide spread.

But at no point in recent history have dense cities had cheaper housing. Building tall is expensive.
I meet a ton of people at the gym
The ineffectives of recycling is one thing, but the person above posited that the paid industry were up to no good as well.
A friend of mine (also very SA) became a bartender and became very outgoing (and “met” a lot of girls). It’s a very nice hack (part time).
The LOTR movies are masterpieces in their own right, IMO. I can't say the same for Dune (part 1, at least).
I would like to see the average age of people who prefer the new Dune movie to the old David Lynch one. Are you all Millennials and younger?
It suffers partially from contrived exposition. It seems whenever a Dune film is made, the filmmakers tend to try to include as much of the lore as tolerably possible. They could've just started off the first film with Paul entering a room to encounter Gaius Helen Mohiam and the audience being introduced to the box.
a poor person will purchase a rundown $2k escalade before they purchase a $20k+ new civic.

A poor person won't be purchasing a newer vehicle but that has no bearing on the make and model they end up driving.
Spelling of receive: i before e, except after c
This still doesn’t work for me on macOS, perhaps a difference in how /dev/stdin is implemented?

Fortunately, macOS has ZSH as the default shell so the following does work:

man =(curl -sL -H "Accept: text/roff" https://jamesg.blog/2024/02/28/programming-projects/)
This sort of news reminds me of that scene in The Big Short.
Do we think it's going to meaningfully enrich the data?
I get that, but there's definitely a time and place for lawsuits for negligent design.

Like, a two story jungle gym probably shouldn't exist. But a "normal" shoulder height version? Sure, I have no problem with that.

But I also let my son skateboard several miles across town to get to middle school, so I'm obviously crazy and a terrible parent. /s
It's a zero sum game. More lanes/roads for commuters means less land for other productive uses. And given the geometry and passenger density of cars (how many traffic jams are moving 1 person per X cubic feet/meters?) Adding another lane doesn't give you much for the amount of land it uses compared to alternatives.

It's unfortunate that low-density areas and the highways they depend on are subsidized by more productive uses of land. It's a tragedy that the people benefiting from that subsidy feel entitled to it and prevent society from developing the land in more sustainable ways.

Part of it is a chicken-and-egg problem though... even my city where I live is not immune. Those who live in less developed areas vote against public transportation solutions and stymie progress at every turn while voting for more roads/lanes. It appears rational: they can't get to the public transportation where they are since every amenity is incredibly far (due to cars and road infrastructure, wah wah). So who has to suffer more while we figure out the solution?

From a larger ecological perspective, we need to reduce car infrastructure. It's a significant contributor to climate change, air pollution, and unnecessary deaths every year and there are ways to avoid a good deal of those problems (or at least reduce them).
I'm aware of how much plastic is recycled. I'm not convinced that the plastic industry conspired to pull the wool over the publics eyes about it.
I hear this so often and while the guy has plenty of bad takes he only seems to be saying who pays for the content you enjoy if you’re blocking a significant form of revenue for the people making it.
Mercedes-Benz Hearses Look Like Cars from a Pixar Movie
> meetup.com

How long ago was this?
Considering the reusable Falcon 9 costs more than twice as much as launching a Soyuz despite the reusable components. It's a bit of a boondoggle, but I am so glad we have national capacity for launching payloads.