skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're putting words in my mouth because that is probably not how people would start out.

I'm making concrete your vague handwaving, feel free to provide a more complete explanation of how you think this goes.

> But the literal incorrectness of that statement is so wrong it is puzzling. The shipbuilding industry, which builds nuclear submarines, started with some extremely modest boats. The path we followed to get to where we are was precisely starting with little fishing boats and evolving to where we are now. There is obviously a path from small boats to large boats. To suggest otherwise is absurd.

No it didn't. And certainly not the military shipyards discussed in this article. While a couple (Newport News, Brooklyn Navy Yard) have origins as more modest shipbuilding sites, the vast majority were purpose-built sites for military construction built with US government dollars. Like the Manhattan Project or the Hoover Dam, there wasn't a smaller initiative that gradually developed into a massive industry. Massive industry was the go word.

These types of projects, continental railroads, interstate highways systems, and military naval shipyards, they can have private-public partnerships but they do not grow organically from more modest roots without public dollars.

> You might be about to make the argument that government funding is necessary or something, but the big problem here is unusually simple - the US is not globally competitive at manufacturing, a startup would be expected to fail if left to compete in the market and that is why nobody is going to try (or succeed).

This is irrelevant, pick your foreign military shipyard and you will find that the story is the same. Bohai, Zelenodolsk, Cherbourg, any of them. The government recognized a need for a new, larger, more powerful class of ships and either built or expanded the logistics necessary to construct the vessels.
It's been awhile since I've laughed so hard. Thanks to all in this thread.
I've wondered this as well. For all my faults, I can quite easily focus on a single task for an extended period of time.

In fact, if I've got a project that I'm actually interested in, it'll consume weeks or even months of my time, to the point where I have to make an extra effort to break my focus on spend time doing other things (like going outside).
From the author's profile on Forbes[0]: "David Blackmon is an energy-related public policy analyst/consultant based in Mansfield, TX. David enjoyed a 40-year career in the oil and gas industry, the last 23 years of which were spent in the public policy arena, managing regulatory and legislative issues for various companies."

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/?sh=639575f74b04
Another factor which I don't see mentioned is that the tech audio signal is not always directly going to your ear. Is it possible for the sound bouncing around the room to break such assumptions?
The variance component, implied volatility, is more often than not treated as the _output_ of the equation. By looking at the prices of options you can determine what the market currently, implicitly, estimates the future variance of underlying to be.

Lots of options trading involves taking a position on whether you think that implicit estimate is too high or too low. Generally, a long options position encodes belief that volatility is cheap and visa versa. Options are also a very specific kind of instrument and can be used to craft very specific bets on volatility. For instance, you might feel that the options at a $200 strike are pricing too high of an implied volatility compared to those at the $195 and $205 strikes.

Traders build an intuition around the model instead of treating it as in and of itself predictive. They instead try to price or take bets on certain derived quantities from it (the "greeks").

The saying goes that implied volatility is "the wrong quantity put into the wrong model in order to make the right decision".
> There was definitely a point where PCs left the Amiga in the dust

Yes but by that time you had other home computing platforms like the Acorn Archimedes, arguably the next evolutionary step in the home computing niche. x86 hardware would've been very expensive at the time and mostly used for business purposes, not in the home.
Right, but I wonder if developments in the rest of weaponry have changed the calculus around that. It's pretty likely that a fleet carrier or other purpose-built warship also has zero survivability in the face of a barrage of anti-ship cruise missiles too. That's what recent wargames have shown, and also has been born out by Russian experience in Ukraine. The strategy for survivability is "don't let hostiles get within your air defense bubble, and shoot as many missiles down with your CIWS as you can if they do."

An escort drone carrier could follow that strategy as well, and much more cheaply. The point is to make them expendable and cheap. Yes, if they get hit they're gone - that was always the case in WW2 as well - but there are now so many more options for blowing everything else out of the water that might get close.
For those looking for an alternative to Quarto, check out the recently released Living Papers for authoring reactive/static documents from a single source:

[0]: https://living-papers.vercel.app/
You need a local business license, but most people doing stuff on the internet don't know or bother.

People in Los Angeles get a shock when they find out the city wants it percent of global sales.
Average humans are much smarter than average internet comments, since comments are written without much thought put into them. So you can't judge an AI vs humans by the comments humans make. I'd argue that this AI is better than humans at making comments, but not better than humans at solving problems when the human sits down to think about it.
Internet anonymity was destroyed decades ago. That horse is not going back into the barn.
Wrong map.
Looks like just another example of https://xkcd.com/927/
Got a LG C2 last year, set up the country to some one-weird-trick that I found out on Reddit and it gives me exactly zero BS. 10/10 so far.
Why Was Apple Car Canceled? The Hubris in Apple Thinking It Could Outdo Tesla
30 years ago maybe.
I’m not sure why container ships couldn’t be piloted remote if drones are. It’s just that it is cheap to hire a bunch of sailors from the Philippines so automation isn’t really necessary.
Yes, though on a laptop it's unlikely the entire file is being cached in dram. Also ssd's with multiple GiB/sec bandwidths are indeed common, which was my basic point in comparison vs how much slower sed/awk style processing is.
People should prefer 48k over 44.1 but not for fidelity. It would just make the world a better place if 44.1k audio files died out. The reasons it was chosen are invalid today and we're stuck with it, and now every audio stack needs to be able to convert between 44.1/88.2 and 48/96 which is a solved problem, but has a tradeoff between fidelity and performance that makes resampling algorithms a critical design feature of those stacks.

All because Sony and Philips wanted 80 minutes of stereo audio on CDs decades ago.
Side question: Does NYT have any anti-abuse measures that will kill off a gift link if too many different people click it?
> Right, but I wonder if developments in the rest of weaponry have changed the calculus around that. It's pretty likely that a fleet carrier or other purpose-built warship also has zero survivability in the face of a barrage of anti-ship cruise missiles too

This is incorrect.

> been born out by Russian experience in Ukraine

Defending your assumption with the Russian fleet is certainly a thing you are doing right now
That wasn't my experience at all. Everyone knew what caused flicker and how to work around it. For example, that's why Workbench 2.0 had a much lower contrast black on grey default color scheme, instead of Workbench 1's more garish white on blue. (Supposedly those were picked to look more readable on cheap monitors.)
Some community members have made available resources for converting Observable flavoured JS to vanilla (it mostly involves rewriting top-level cell definitions):

[0]: https://observablehq.com/@bumbeishvili/convert-observable-co...
Free up to 100 items, then $59.98/year ($4.99/mo billed annually).
One Thomas Jefferson seems to have shared.
I remember reading this through HN a long time ago, and finding that it made solid points, and sharing it with several people over the years. However, I have wisened over the years and feel that I better understand what is worthwhile being pedantic about. Visual cultural representations of things don't have to look like the thing they are showing (the heart symbol doesn't look like a real heart, emoji don't look like real people or things).

That only dead butterflies have their wings in the orientation most commonly represented is a fun piece of trivia, but IMO not worth caring about beyond that.
> I think the association is so strong due to it playing through the iconic overdose scene in Trainspotting

See now that is interesting because I've never seen that movie, but I guess it's not just me who can see the connection after all.

I agree with you though, it definitely fits into Lou's general theme, so it could just be a coincidence after all.
K so we've decided any level of oversight into who might be using iaas to (for example) train belligerent ai models is evil? On what grounds?
In 1993, at the end of the Cold War, Secretary of Defense William Perry [0] summoned contractors to a dinner meeting, now called 'The Last Supper'. Unlike the original Last Supper, this one was the last (or the beginning of the end) for most of the guests: Perry told them that, having no more peer enemies, the US didn't need most of them. They would have to consolidate dramatically. At the end of the 1990s, 107 defense contractors had consolidated to five.

That was efficient and a good choice for the situation. Against a peer foe like the Soviet Union, you need lots of extra capacity to supply needs during a war when everything is consumed quickly, from ships to bullets. From the end of the Cold War until recently, that was unnecessary. The Taliban, Iraq, Serbia, Libya, etc. were not going to require so many munitions that there would be a crisis; they weren't going to sink any destroyers or shoot down any planes.

China is a 'near-peer' threat. As Russia's invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated, the capability of all of NATO - with combined economies maybe 30x Russia's - to manufacture supplies for Ukraine is insufficient. A war with China could be much larger; the US needs far more capacity.

Another, more critical reason is that some weaknesses are escalatory - they encourage escalation by the enemy. Chinese leaders, seeing the US lacks that capacity, are incentivised to escalate peace to conflict, conflict to war, a small war to a large war. Escalation is the bane of international relations - it is systemic and often cannot be controlled, leading to catastrophes that nobody wants but nobody can stop. Any professional foreign policy carefully constructs situations that are systemically de-escalatory.

(As an example, the US Space Force is changing from using a few expensive super-satellites to using very many cheap ones, in large part because having a few super-satellites is escalatory - it incentivizes an enemy to conduct a surprise attack, because they can knock out a large amount of capability at once.)

[0] OT: also a mathematics Ph.D. Do such people still rise to leadership in government? Or are they all maximizing click-thru for SV companies?
Good for them!

So many cities in America "pledged" Vision Zero and then did very little in support of that vision. It's so common for basic improvements like dedicated bus lanes or protected bike lanes or crosswalk islands to be treated as weird or overly demanding, so you only get extremely slow incremental progress.
Um, GraalVM (JIT) has both GC and memory safety. It's a drop-in replacement for HotSpot. It takes literally five seconds to change JAVA_HOME and you're done.

The benchmark literally uses Graal, something from Java, for Ruby and Python, but inexplicably doesn't use it for Java itself.
It is closer than that. Arguable, we are regrowing lost bits and pieces already (skin graft, moving blood vessels around).

>> World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials

https://globalnews.ca/news/9984605/tooth-regrowth-drug/
No perfect solutions exist so nothing should be done. Gotcha.
China and Russia haven’t fought a border clash since the 1990s. But they are mire frenemies than friends, both fear each other because they share such a huge border and don’t have a very peaceful past, but they can be friends when both are threatened by the USA.
> Real Estate is a free money machine, and it won’t stop until we adopt realistic government controlled system.

On the contrary, the skyrocketing homelessness rates around the country are showing that demand for housing is more elastic than people thought.
They are run by contractors because the US government does not have riveting or hull welding in its core competencies.

They are operated by those contractors for a profit, profiting from the US government. The US government does not choose to establish and/or invest in yards, and grant operating contracts to those contractors, for the purpose of making a profit.

The US government does so in order to have a reliable source of naval construction and repair services in case of a military conflict.
Seen in comments [0], new to me. Looks neat, figured I'd share.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39585989
Sergey Brin on Gemini 1.5 Pro (03/02/2024) [video]
Yet space now seems more accessable. The pressures in the ocean are no joke.
The penalties for violating that are also not very high at the scale of small internet businesses. Violations of the proposed rule are treated as violations of IEEPA which is far more serious.
This was a key plot point in the 1990s video game: Midwinter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwinter_(video_game)
Lots of good advice in this thread. Get checked out medically. Sleep apnea, ADHD, other things could be causing this.

If not, stop looking at productivity blogs and videos!

It's simple when you step back and think about it: You had a problem (productivity/organization not as good as you want), you tried a solution (reading/watching for productivity tips) and you noticed the outcome (your productivity didn't change).

It isn't working for you, so try something different! Try it, measure it, reflect on the result. Keep doing this forever.

There's no magic method, no magic pill, no organizational system that will just make everything work and be easy. But watching videos and reading articles feels good. It feels like you're just one step away from being totally organized and never having to stress about work again. Of course, that isn't true.
Chinese arms and tech dealers are pretty open about who they trade with. Although I can’t imagine that they are trading without at least tacit approval from the CPC.
The biggest one I have run into is that the bandwith doesn't need to be contiguous. If you know the the important bits of the signal are contained in certain frequency bands then you can get much lower sampling rates. Basically why things like l1 reconstruction work.
No - if it was activated under your Apple ID, you're good to go.
First thing that came to mind: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060581

Of course that information would be redundant.
To clarify, this wasn't even a spat over unionized labor at the factory, this was about who gets to build the factory.

TSMC wanted to bring some highly specialized labor from Taiwan (who presumably have experience with building this type of facilities) and Arizona Building and Construction Trades Council insisting their local dudes would do the job just fine.
Yes, I was just thinking it was probably in large part influence from Jules Verne.
Maybe a startup can focus on making maritime drones, just like the Ukrainians do. I bet there's probably a lot of demand nowadays for that kind of thing. I checked and Anduril appears to be making something they call AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles).
The problem with running Workbench in interlaced mode is that it just gave you tiny text and icons: the ROM only had a single bitmap font in 8 and 9 pixel height size, and adding custom fonts to your boot disk would've taken up a whole lot of space.

(Similar to running unscaled High-DPI today on systems that weren't designed for it out of the box.)
If you're not writing with a quill and ink, is it really writing?
I think some people have an ear for listening to books and others don’t. My wife is the same as you, but I can totally synchronize my mind with an audiobook and enter a flow state. I also really appreciate the task stacking the author describes it helps me stay on task with monotonous chores.

I think the most surprising thing for me is that I see/imagine the same images and have the same feelings when reading a book and when listening to that same book.
Many people in the US only walk between a school, business, office or home they're visiting and its parking lot, and they certainly never cycle anywhere. I really wish they did because you'd quickly understand just how hostile 99% of the US is to pedestrians and cyclists. Let me rattle off a few problems:

1. Turning right on red is a disaster for pedstrian and cyclist safety;

2. Street parking takes up a lot of space and typically opens up cyclists to the risks of getting "doored" by an unobservant driver;

3. Bike lanes are rare and even when they exist, they're often just used as extra parking. In some cases, I'm sympathetic (eg UPS drivers) but I also see Uber/Lyft drivers who don't want to go to an available pull-in space 30 feet up the road thus forcing cyclists back onto the road or, worse yet, people just parking there.

4. In many other places turning lanes are often split from going straight lanes with some kind of divider in between so you can easily tell which way someone is going. You certainly can't rely on what they do or don't indiate;

5. Speaking of dividers, a center divider you can stand on is hugely helpful, safe, convenient and costs cars basically nothing;

6. You can design intersections that facilitate all forms of transport. The Netherlands is probably the gold standard here;

7. It can be hit or miss if US drivers stop at crosswalks at all;

8. I've had police tell me to get in the bike lane when I'm in the car lane. I had to point out to them that I was turning left. What am I supposed to do?

9. Many streets in the US don't even have sidewalks; and

10. Pedestrian crossings on busy roads tend to vary from nonexistent to completely useless. For example: you have to wait to cross halfway then wait again on the other side, you might have to wait upwards of 10 minutes for a window (I"ve heard of some streets in LA being like this) and you still risk an incident with an inattentive driver turning right anyway.

The crazy one to me is Manhattan. Street parking should be completely removed in Manhattan. Loading zones only. But, as they say, a New York assemblymen is a job-for-life... until you talk about removing street parking.
Wait, you're telling me their malware-infested downloader isn't a reliable source for news, either?
Was it fundamentally wrong?

Or did we just find another model that:

1. Accurately predicts phenomena the old model predicted accurately and predicts things we hadn't expected from the previous model or from our data that we later measure to be correct.

2. Effectively describes phenomena previously thought to be unrelated to the problem of interest.

3. We appreciated the simplicity of. (i.e. We could come up with more ad-hoc silliness that makes the old model accommodate our new data, but why?)

What's interesting about Ptolemy is that in a sense there is nothing inaccurate about his model. In my reading, it could hardly be called a model so much as a technique for creating models. Extending it to account for any deviations from our empirical measurements is trivial: just add another epicycle. The modelling technique Ptolemy demonstrates in his Almagest, seems to me to just be the Fourier transformation of a periodic function.
He isn't making the claim that it can encode more bits than the information theoretic maximum you suggest _on average_. On average his method is similar or worse than optimal. But some messages are effectively compressed in this encoding, and so more plaintext bits can be encoded. These better than average messages "borrow" bits from the worse than average messages, similar to how a compression algorithm works.
Yes it has. We keep a dozen chickens. From 2020 to now, the 40lb bags of feed we buy in bulk have increased 25% in price ($16 to $20).
I listen to a lot of audiobooks at work, and it is definitely a different experience from reading a physical book, but there is a great deal of overlap.

There’s also a limitation to the books that can be put in audio format… not sure how House of Leaves would work in audio with all the footnotes.

The best audiobook I’ve ever listened to is Andy Serkis’ Lord of the Rings that came out recently. Before that the best a reader could do is make me not think about them, but this one rose to the level of a great performance.
Yeah, this guy has slid off the deep end: https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-absurdity-of-the-...
I live where wells, septic systems, and propane delivery by truck are the norm. Even the highways in the state were originally privately built and are maintained largely by tolls.

It seems like there would be a tipping range where it would be a toss-up whether it was more efficient to handle these things individually or in bulk, and I wonder how cities make the decision. Like, it would be wildly impractical to run pipes to every house at one density, but equally impractical to drill wells for every occupant at another density.

I'm now curious how places decide when it's time to make the switch, and how they do it!
OP's code still only has log2(52!) different binary strings that can be encoded, but they vary in length from 52 to 1378 bits (and are the leaves of a binary tree). This is handy for easily encoding sequences drawn from a non-uniform distribution, like strings of English letters, by giving each letter a fixed-length binary codeword. It's sort of flipped from the more common method of giving symbols a varying-length binary codeword (e.g. with Huffman coding) and encoding a fixed-length binary string in a deck of cards (or anything else).
Tuning Fork
Is Puerto Rico getting its supplies from the USA or from foreign countries? If the latter, the Jones act doesn’t apply. This much more of a problem for Hawaii, since it is much farther away from foreign ports and shipping costs are much more substantial.
You probably want at least some on-site supervision. And most of your sailors are probably cheap anyway.
I've cancelled long ago. Tried it for 2 months but was a hassle to have to use over VPN as OpenAI is too afraid of Hong Kong and banned us. So, yea no. Not going to pay money for that.
The second paragraph is the key here:

It is normally recommended ...

However, due to the high immunity rate in the community....

The weasel words being "high immunity rate in the community". What is the immunity rate in the school? 50%? 70%?

Then of course the best part is after that.

Do not abruptly visit your health care provider or DOH-Broward without contacting them ahead of time.

So going to school is fine, but don't send you kids to the clinic afterward... not without prior warning.
Yes, let's anonymously operate a datacenter.

My point is the status quo allows people for good and bad to operate networked compute anonymously, and US government organizations want to strip anonymity away from the Internet.
True, but 640x200 was an annoyingly low vertical resolution.
Netflix announces bpftop: Streamlining eBPF performance optimization
It's silly to say because it's true?