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"specialized craft able to withstand the gravity field"

I've been noticing an uptick in this in the past few years, where a "gravity field" is treated as just another scifi technobabble word that the authors don't understand at all. Which is weird, because gravity is a plain English word, not particularly hoity-toity or "fancy", so it is really becoming another touchstone to me of bad writing.

"Oh no! We're experiencing high amounts of gravitometric interference!"

You mean you're currently pinned to the floor because you now weigh thousands of pounds and you're struggling to draw breath, if not simply turned to jelly by all the forces?

"No, I mean our screens are flickering on and off and there's some flashy sparks shooting out of the walls! We're totally fine, though. It's just our mission at stake!"

My dear sir, are you sure you don't perhaps have electromagnetic interference there? Can I interest you in perhaps some technobabble word with no real world referent, like "high degree of subspace inelasticity" or "the ansible field is experiencing a random stellar burst" or "the baryons are inebriated again"?

"Oh no! It's definitely a gravity field! Says so right here in the script."

Well, then, scrape your fellow adventure's jellified remains off of the floor and carry on, I guess.
A large part of the experience comes from the actual sound. GPUs don't matter. Mozart has some very good physically modeled pianos that respond very naturally. But to get that to sound like a real piano in a real space is a greater challenge than reproducing the feel of Fazioli.
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One of the first friends I made in college was a friend with CF. I didn't know what CF was. He was very mature for our age and generally a very nice, happy, caring person. Got internships, studied with us. Went to bars with us but never drank because he couldn't. He had stories about how Make-a-Wish foundation has been dragging their feet not to give him his wish since his childhood.

He would take his enzymes, do the vibrating jacket treatment. He graduated and got a full time offer from a nice company. As he was relocating, he picked up some infection and passed away in a few weeks. None of us expected it. This was months before I heard of the approval of Trikafta.
>if we attend to them we notice that they primarily arise, or are felt, in the gut

Some emotions are experienced in the gut, for reasons we now understand quite well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut%E2%80%93brain_axis
That's literally "most"

And why is The Guardian writing puff pieces for a secretive spying agency at all? Aren't they the natural predators of journalists?

> Guardian Media Group is a global news organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism - giving a voice to the powerless and holding power to account.

> Our independent ownership structure means we are entirely free from political and commercial influence. Only our values determine the stories we choose to cover – relentlessly and courageously.

"Our values" of gushing for spooks?
So no matter who owns the property, they are full. The problem is still too much demand for the supply. Indeed in the UK you're more likely to have a higher population density in rented houses (2 or 3 people rent a single apartment, if they all bought they would need 3 apartments)

Why does it matter who owns the property. If the market worked well there would be no gains from asset inflation, and income from renting would be pushed towards the cost of providing renting, like it does with well functioning markets.

The problem is the lack of supply, not who owns them. Now you could argue that short-term-rents are not "valid" demand, but again with UK stats outside of very specific areas the number of short-term rentals is a tiny portion of the housing market.
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Yeah it matters. It's the reason why e.g. postgres offers data consistency and still operates in parallel on the disk.

If it were the same doing this over a network, then we could have a distributed, consistent postgres. What would I give for that. :-)
You should do a quick scan of the file, it's filled with graphs in the comments, not just one.
Another interesting example is public art exhibitions. Posting photos to social media without a license has been problematic. Search for Hamburg Blue Port as an example.
Sure, erasure coding is a form of error correcting codes that can be applied to data such that you can lose some n number of codes before you can successfully reconstruct the input data. For example, take k input symbols, and put it into an erasure code algorithm to get k+n symbols, where any n of the output symbols can be lost before you fail to be able to reconstruct the data. Symbols in this case can be some number of bits/bytes.

This is a really important property in situations where there can be big giant bursts of errors, because you can still reconstruct the data regardless. IIRC, CDs/DVDs/BDs all use two concatenated Reed Solomon (a type of erasure coding) coded symbols that are then interleaved with each other, which provides the disk protection against things like accidental scratches.
It’s enough to do well, but certain we all grow for quite a while after that. The improvement typically springs from discipline at that point rather than calculative ability however.
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I start with support for CSV files, so you can just drop a file with your data and after a minute you get a Python script together with your trained model's parameters as Pickle file, ready to run

In the next releases, more data types and more models will be supported

In quite a rush for last 3 weeks I have been building this platform and without waiting, there's a first public release, sorry for not being as good as it could be!

With coupon "HACKERNEWS" -75% off on credits purchase, so hopefully everyone can give it a try and give an initial feedback

Thanks HN
ASCII means more than just characters from the ASCII character standard today, for better or worse. The "modern" translation would be something like "text".

I don't agree or disagree with it, so don't argue with me, just trying to explain how people use it today.
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Without human input, yes.
I mean who doesn’t just love some animal abuse!
A different biological analogy occurred to me which I've mentioned
before in a security context. It isn't model degeneration but the
amplification of invisible nasties that don't become a problem until
way down the line.

Natural examples are prions such as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
[0] or sheep scrapie. This seems to really become a problem in systems
with a strong and fast positive feedback loop with some selector. In
the case of cattle it was feeding rendered bonemeal from dead cattle
back to livestock. Prions are immune to high temperature removal so
are selected for and concentrated by the feedback process.

To really feel the horror of this, read Ken Thompson's "Reflections on
Trusting Trust" [1] and ponder the ways that a trojan can be replicated
iteratively (like a worm) but undetectably.

It isn't loss functions we should worry about. It's gain functions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat...

[1] https://tebibyte.media/blog/reflections-on-trusting-trust/
Just an anecdotal experience so doesn't necessarily mean anything but the only person I knew that had CF had absolutely no anxiety from his condition.

If anything he was a very mature guy for his age, having realized he has limited time but of course I wouldn't know the internal struggles he might have kept from us.
I tried sending to a non iMessage number, it failed to send, but there may be a way.
In mobile chatgpt you can tap the headphones and it’ll interactively chat with you via audio - voice recognition and generation. GPT4 Turbo streams tokens fast enough to be at a cadence with spoken words.
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...and that search engine is....
It is not quite as simple. The ONT also maps services to ports. Take for instance an ONT with 4 ethernet ports and 1 FXO port. The FXO port can be mapped to a SIP service, and each ethernet port can be mapped to a different network service. They can even have multiple tagged VLANs. Multi-port ONT's are often used to deliver services to multiple businesses sharing a premesis, or those that want an equivalent to a leased line in combination with an internet service.
Going up one year isn't something you should make a trend from, especially given the long term price declines.

Here's another graph of the same thing, but updated with the actual rather than predicted value for one year after your link was published — and the price decline is back: https://www.statista.com/statistics/883118/global-lithium-io...

> The allegedly low cost of solar energy comes from ignoring battery cost.

Can also solve the same issues with other storage options, hedge with other renewables that are also cheap, and electricity transport is a political issue rather than an economic or engineering problem.

> And the relatively high cost of fission comes largely from overregulation.

The low cost of fission is it being subsidised by the military value.

The regulations exist because even though the mean cost of accidents per TWh is tiny, the upper bound of the damage when they do happen is sufficient to bankrupt superpowers.
Doesn’t matter - you can go and check a cybertruck review or something to see what that looks like. It’s no easier to screw up than a traditional shifter of any kind. I wonder what the toxicology report will say. I could see how someone under influence would not recognize in which direction they’re moving
It reminds me of the special red marker you could buy. You would mark the edge of the CD carefully to avoid stray laser beams distorting the sound. Or the technique of putting CDs in the freezer, because it gives a crisper sound. And don't get me started on Monster cables.

I wish I was making this up, but here's discussion: https://www.audio-forums.com/threads/freezing-cds.104232/
That's far from unique to instagram. I loathe Stable Diffiusion and co solely because they've utterly FLOODED every cool art-adjacent website with endless mediocre derivative shit. Like there was always low-effort content of course, but holy fuck, there is SO MUCH MORE now. And some of these people are trying to CHARGE for this uninspired junk!!!
I was slightly disappointed by this article. Rather than being directly about the speed of loading a csv which is what I was expecting, it more like comparing the speed of execution of column oriented math on streamed reads, vs pandas.

The article seemed thorough enough just not what I was expecting. I also feel like any comparison like this should also look at memory use.

Anyways, there should be no surprises here, pandas is great at column wise math.
What could possibly go wrong with this approach to drug distribution? It seems perfect from a policy perspective.
Love seeing a project's profiler trace like the one in the conclusion. It feels honest. There's no magic here, just understanding.
I'm very new to BSD in general, but I find it very fun and interesting!

However, I need pointers to get started.

> You won't be spoon-fed, and are expected to have read the manuals and other documentations...

I read a lot of FreeBSD and NetBSD documentation to get to the point of compiling my own kernels, but I don't think I ever read about the equivalent concept of Linux cpio/initramfs for BSD. My minimal images use a UFS filesystem.

Here, after checking https://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ and https://github.com/mmatuska/mfsbsd/blob/master/scripts/mdini... I think mfsbsd is just a using tmpfs so it may not exactly the same thing as initramfs, that allows booting linux from a bzImage + initrd

I'll keep searching, it's not super high priority at the moment, but it's something I'd like to do with (Free|Net)BSD.
I understand your concerns about open-sourcing the codebase and won’t try to convince you otherwise. It’s your code.

That said, I would like to share my perspective on the subject, having given some thought to if/how I should open source my code. I don’t feel that I have any ground to stand on if I were to choose not to open source my code. That same code would be uploaded to the internet using a web browser or other tool that is open source. That code is probably compiled or interpreted by a tool that’s open source. For me, it all runs on an operating system that’s open source. Nearly everything that I am able to do as a software developer is built on the shoulders of giants who, out of kindness and conviction in their beliefs, chose to make an entire ecosystem of software available to the world, with source code available, free of charge. I feel that I owe it to the world to pay that legacy forward.
A fundamental missing focus in there is that science and technology are chaotic processes. There are organized funders and efforts of course (NIH, Manhattan Project, Plan Calcul...) but most people "go into" tech or science merely because of their own interests or curiosity, or because "it's what they happen to be good at". And much progress is more or less dumb luck: "they were looking for something else and they noticed this". Much of a researcher's or engineer's work is about keeping their eyes open and being there.

So that most likely there are already AGI efforts in every direction. And these directions themselves do not say all that much about what will emerge as most important. And AGIs aimed at scientific research better be trained on noticing the unexpected (deliberately so). So that some will follow human obsessions, and some will not. Some will align with population level concerns and some will serve individual masters and concerns. And we better be ready and understand that some will not (and how they might not) - follow "human-ish" concerns. Quite possibly usefully so, from a science advancement point of view. All the while understanding that they all will still happen.
Correct. We live in a democracy. TikTok just demonstrated it is an existential threat to that democracy by conducting a DDoS directly against Congress at the behest of a very non-democratic Chinese government.

TikTok should be shut down. Immediately.
Chronic illness forums are almost universally terrible. I try to navigate the online communities for a family member’s disease to keep up with new developments. A decade ago I found some value in the way they presented news and research and anecdotes.

Now, the forums are overrun by small numbers of constantly
online members who feel the need to dominate every conversation. The content has become almost entirely venting and memes, with an unreasonable amount of alternative medicine being pushed as fact. It’s understandable that they’re frustrated, to say the least, but the way their frustration gives way to a communal rage against doctors has weirdly opened doors to alternative medicine peddlers. It’s disgusting to me to see how the alternative medicine pushers have arrived with open arms and comforting smiles for vulnerable communities, which slowly becomes a sales pitch for their products.

I’ve seen everting from people peddling custom diet consulting based on your 23andMe results to invitations to private, paid Telegram channels where they supposedly share their secret cures, to doctors from Eastern Europe who claim to have cured the condition (which has eluded many researchers and pharmaceutical companies) with a custom treatment made from the patients’ own urine. The way these communities set themselves up to rage together at modern medicine opens the door for friendly alternative medicine scams.

It’s depressing.
Interesting, I like minimalist sites with no need to js and I submitted my personal one because why not, but I also like very well done js/three.js one, the other day I stumbled upon some very nice ones like https://chartogne-taillet.com and another one with a lego world when you scroll down, but can’t find the link.
If you feel the need to embed giant ASCII diagrams into a source file, I think you should just use a picture. Like a .png or .svg or something and write the documentation in another file. Or even maybe try out rich text source code.
Having seen more than a few bipping videos, I am inclined to think that there are extremely 'effective' ways to shatter car glass. It's possible this trick doesn't work on laminated glass used in Teslas and other higher-end vehicles, but I've heard of Teslas getting hit — especially the rear corner windows, which give access to the trunk.
Claude 3 does use publically available data. Not everything is synthetically generated. Look at the section for training data in the below link. It has an quote from the paper which states that it uses a mix of public data, data from labelers and synthetic data

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JbE7KynwshwkXPJAJ/anthropic-...

I can't find a link to the actual clause paper to verify the above link but a few other places mention the same thing about the training data. We don't know if this improved performance is because of synthetic data or something else. I'm guessing even antropic might not be knowing this too.
I dunno. Do they? How does it cope when there’s no reception?
Plasmonics may solve this problem. The interaction of light at an interface can lead to what essentially amounts to photon confinement. This allows for what's called near field optics which overcomes the limitations of wavelength and unlocks nanometer scale optoelectronics. For examples, see the solar sail for the "starshot" project.
I have one of these. The fun part is, you can actually put stuff, or a liquid, in there. The entertainment begins when you try getting it out again. It's not as simple as it may seem.
My favorite, and what I still think is the best Benjamin essay, is On the Concept of History[0], but that one is a bit tough as a first essay, perhaps a better starting place (and where most people start with him) is Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction[1]. There's a pretty big gap between those two essays, not intellectually but theoretically, as in it will take you a while, probably, before you understand how they're related.

In general, if you want an actual "start" to studying any modern philosophy, you've got to go with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (go with the NK Smith or Guyer-Woods translations, though I prefer the former). Then you can start reading forward, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, then, of course, Marx's Capital, vol 1. Then from there, I think you would do well to read Nietzsche's Geneaology of Morals and/or Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and after that really you should read Freud, at the very least the Interpretation of Dreams, and Heidegger, either the Origin of the Work of Art or The Question Concerning Technology. And from there, you can basically just read whatever you want and you'll understand it.

My only further advice is to study all those texts first, before trying anything else, otherwise you'll end up like the people in this comments section.

[0]https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/CONCEPT2.html
[1]https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf
I just assume they've discovered some things we don't know yet. I mean, they usually have gravity-creating and gravity-neutralizing devices, so they must have learned some stuff about it that we don't know. Maybe we haven't even figured out how to "see" the sort of field they're talking about. How would it, perhaps, interact with equipment that may include gravity-manipulating components for all sorts of purposes?

> electromagnetic interference

"Electromagnetic? LOL. You mean you're being struck by lightning? Or some little bits of rock are doing kinda funny things? Because that's what electricity and magnetism are, and only those things, and they're separate."
Panoramafreiheit also covers picture containing people as long as they aren't the focus or reason of the image, but things get more complicated there (and individual cases could override things). The blurring of people, name plates, license plates and the like (which already existed, that wasn't driven by German concerns) helps a lot in that regard.

Blurring entire buildings was the compromise made specifically for Germany[1], but that was used so much that further bring-up of Street View probably wasn't worth their while. And that was to some degree due to the media frenzy back in the day. I mean, some people actually thought it would be live video of every location! (yes, Germany has its share of tech-illiterate hillbillies, and wow, are they vocal...)

So now Google tries again and crossed all the t's and dotted all the i's and this article has the following to say about this: "In a somewhat transparent attempt to avoid the same issues as in 2010 and 2011, Google is working alongside a German privacy commission this time", as if working with the DPAs is something sinister. "somewhat transparent attempt", really?

You just can't please some people...

[1] Side note: France doesn't have an equivalent to the freedom of panorama, and stuff like the illumination pattern of the Eiffel tower falls under copyright, with cases prosecuted for that. Yet it was pretty much fully visible on Street View from early on.
make a trivial spreadsheet to do it then, or fifty lines of javascript. it's an excellent tool for sharpening thinking early on, as long as people don't come to think of it as anything more than a rule of thumb.
Wow, looks great! We currently happily use graphile-worker, and have two questions:

> full transactional enqueueing

Do you mean transactional within the same transaction as the application's own state?

My guess is no (from looking at the docs, where enqueuing in the SDK looks a lot like a wire call and not issuing a SQL command over our application's existing connection pool), and that you mean transactionality between steps within the Hatchet jobs...

I get that, but fwiw transactionality of "perform business logic against entities + job enqueue" (both for queuing the job itself, as well as work performed by workers) is the primary reason we're using a PG-based job queue, as then we avoid transactional outboxes for each queue/work step.

So, dunno, loosing that would be a big deal/kinda defeat the purpose (for us) of a PG-based queue.

2nd question, not to be a downer, but I'm just genuinely curious as a wanna-be dev infra/tooling engineer, but a) why take funding to build this (it seems bootstrappable? maybe that's naive), and b) why would YC keeping putting money into these "look really neat but ...surely?... will never be the 100x returns/billion dollar companies" dev infra startups? Or maybe I'm over-estimating the size of the return/exit necessary to make it worth their while.
I'm not familiar with zbackup, but from a google search appears to be a tool to deduplicate and encrypt data. The process envisioned while making this was to use a series of pipes unix style to make the backup, e.g.

tar c dir | zstd | gpg -e | bef -c -o backup.tar.zst.gpg.bef

and then to get back that file with the terribly long filename

bef -d -i backup.tar.zst.gpg.bef | unzstd | gpg -d | tar x
What's it like in Turkmenistan? I never hear good things about it [1] (crazy dictator obsessed with personality cult, no freedom, high poverty & unemployment, etc)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9QYu8LtH2E
If we believe this, there it’s wrong to align AI, then “the AI” might share similar respect for us?
Similar in Malayalam. Lots of romantic songs translated literally would have "my liver" (കരൾ, karal), instead of "my heart" for example.
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