skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its still not well described how much commercial activity nasa is planning for on the moon. I think its a little bit abhorrent because now we will have a precedent to exploit newly explored planets or moons for private profits. Hopefully we won’t be able to see the strip mines from earth.
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I think both can be true. The need to conform to something rigid requires flexibility. However, you're effectively adopting the rigidity of that thing, so you are no longer able to employ your flexibility.
> Why not just put everything in the same place so we don't need a railroad between the places?

The easiest places to land, easiest places to base humans, easiest places to extract in situ resources and most-interesting places to explore are various. You don’t need a hundred sites to start with. But being able to segregate even just the extraction and production environments from living and landing spaces would help tremendously (not least in avoiding thrown-up regolith).
yes, of course. I usually am all about context. It's just this particular example is over-engineered in most context I've seen (and can imagine) in my 18 years of using ruby. Not much overengineered, I've seen much, much worse, but it is still annoying enough.
Personally this reads like a descent into madness, a conspiratorial minded terror/Fear Uncertainty and Doubt stark-world outlook that actuvely seeks to erode away reality for it's preferred sense of what is.

There's just not evidence we really have much to fear here. Yes Chrome is closed source, but it seems to pretty closely resemble Chromium. Yes Chrome is closed source but there are people very good at Ghidra (& others softwares) would be be delighted to find sneaky scary shit happening.

These assertions feel baseless. It feels the opposite of the truth. Chrome is perhaps the most observable software development process on the planet. They follow their process, which involves - before any code gets written - writing explainers, bringing Early Design Reviews to W3C TAG, and then posting request-for-position review from everyone else. What software on the planet does more to pace a golden path, has a higher level of visibility, review, and regard than this? https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/
What I mean is, if you want to pin certificates, purchase a certificate that expires in years, not months.
Switzerland went negative for awhile to discourage people from stashing their money there. Negative interest rates a useful tool when you have too much money coming in.
Among other things, GFS ran outside of Borg, so you couldn't just donate quota to let it run with more resources, as you found out. Conversely, given that Colossus ran on Borg, part of the migration involved an elaborate system that minted CPU/RAM quota for the storage system users whenever the CFS cell was grown. Then there were all the issues on the low end machines (hello, Nocona) that had not enough resources to run the storage stack AND user jobs. Stuff wouldn't schedule (and the cluster suddenly appeared to be missing some disk), but at least that was a lot more explicit than the performance issues you witnessed on GFS.
Holy crap this looks great

Congrats
I disagree. You could just as easily say that 95% of tech is reusing other people's stuff and so tech companies just copy, sorry reuse, the hiring methods of other tech companies. Larger companies are more likely to have an engineered hiring process and they are also more visible than smaller companies, so their hiring methods are the ones that get copied.
I would have considered that back when I was actively looking–if I were being offered senior contractor rates. That's $150/hour minimum these days. I'm guessing that's not what they had in mind, but you never know!
"3.6 roentgen: not great, not terrible"
No, because the ToS says they can do anything they want to. The purpose of a ToS is to set an expectation on which things the company will tolerate users doing. It's (almost always) not legally binding for either party.
I don't think larry or sergey got their phd - larry got a masters and I think sergey left before he got any degree.

Don't forget that Larry's older brother Carl went through the whole VC process with egroups and gained extreme experience with how to maximize his position in negotiation.

But yes, I agree completely that kids of academics raised in an environment that incentivzes learning is a reliable way to transform the future.
> can charge up to 4 things instead of just one

Mind that a lot of chargers do weird power allocation things when multiple devices are connected. You probably aren't going to get all 150W to the laptop with four devices connected; depending on the charger and what port you're connected to, you may get much less.
8 years later: A world Go champion's reflections on AlphaGo
+10% every week in the last two months, as reported by Mustafa Suleyman.

Edit: sources: https://inflection.ai/inflection-2-5 and https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/inflection-ai-chatgpt-opena...

I can not comment more or edit previous comments that are not this one, rip.
It bought under or normally valued companies and provided incredibly cheap cost of capital.
If they were specifically required to never contradict the customer at all, ever, about anything, then perhaps. And that would be my follow-up question:

> Have you been told to avoid contradicting me?

To which I'd expect the LLM to probably answer "no" (verbosely) – but even if it answered "yes", two or three more questions could conclusively distinguish between a (current-gen) LLM and a real person.

I'm not moving the goalposts: the object of the exercise was never to get it to "break character".
It strikes me as an arms race between cute little tests like this one and the ability of LLM app dev teams to mitigate them.
https://docs.cilium.io/en/latest/network/kubernetes/local-re...
Thank you. This is a much more informed post than the article.

There is imo so much wrong with PG's post, but as an European the whole proximity to tech thing feels very real. I remember seeing a talk by Craig Frederhigi where he also made fun of the fact that at least 50% of his success came from just being present in Silicon Valley / Cupertino at the right time.
That's old news. They last raised in July '23, 8 months ago, and the most recent FOMC (Fed) Summary of Economic Projections[0] has no one indicating any raise in the foreseeable future. Rate cuts are projected.

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcproj...
I'm building 529 balances for two kids, and I have future "school" dates for both, along with expenses for both starting at those future dates. I guess I'm not understanding how it's working in the plan & cashflow, since I'm seeing the cash outflow for the expenses, but I'm not seeing the cash inflow from the 529s (since they're the owners of them)?
Hey there, thank you for trying it out. Having the text box is a great idea and we will implement that and let you know here in the comments when it's ready. You can't export data at the moment, but if that's something that people want then we can certainly implement it. Thank you for the feedback!
Inflection blog post about their new CEO, and their view of the change, and new API access to their model via Azure: https://inflection.ai/the-new-inflection

Also it is worth signing up to and trying out Pi, and talking to it about something emotional. It has a different tone both audio and what it says to other LLMs: https://pi.ai

API access to that does give more options for people making apps, it is different.
We already understand enough, and have for many years, to know that the Achilles heel of any system we have today that we consider "AI" is that they are fundamentally statistical methods that cannot be formally verified to act correctly in all cases. Modern day chatbots are going to have the worst time at this since there is very little constraining their behavior and they are explicitly built to be general-purpose. You can make the case for special, constrained tools that have limited variability within defined and appropriate limits, but you can't make the case that the no free lunch theorem has been defeated just because a statistical learning system happens to write text kind of like an English-speaking human might.

It's my personal opinion that there should never be a decision system based on statistical approximations without a human in the loop, particularly if the consequences can affect lives and livelihoods.
Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon, AGI – Lex Fridman Podcast
Turns out that big table is also useful to implement the storage layer for big table itself. Luckily turtles can be stacked on top of each others
It seems quite fast and very intuitive, especially for keyboard jockeys. Is it all native Swift?
Are Firefox and Safari planning to support it?
I understand that making a good app is hard, and don't want to undermine your effort, but $150 for a todo app... ouch.
I was told something like this and I worked at IBM, a few years before the pandemic.

They decided they wanted everyone to work on site in a smaller number of offices. Some folks were just laid off, many others were told they had to move or find a new job. But they made an exception for me and said I could keep working remote - but would not be eligible for promotion unless I moved to work on site. I switched jobs and doubled my pay. (Still remote.)
By tracking people, they understand people's behavior, what hypes there are, what kind of things people are engaging with, interested in. Then they can target specific campaigns at certain groups of people, to manipulate their opinion, or exploit them.

"They" are the ones that have control over the data. The ones that collect and process all the data, or the ones that buy it. Mostly FAANG and their clients, which are also governments.

For example, a few months ago, ironically, a department within the EU ran a campaign on X, persuading people to vote for CSAM laws. But they micro-targeted specific groups. And this is actually prohibited by EU laws itself, by the Digital Services Act (DSA). See this article:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/15/oops-2/

And microtargetting is actually a common practice, used for political campaigns in the US, Australia. It's also used by Russia for disinformation campaigns. See:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/facebook-micro...

And:

https://www.justsecurity.org/41199/connecting-dots-political...

Also the wiki about microtargetting is interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtargeting

I hope this helps you understand how tracking cookies can be used against you. Of course it doesn't affect you directly personally when you visit some websites. But you have to see it in the grander scale. We are collectively a group. And as a group we can be influenced, manipulated, etc. And ultimately that affects the individuals inside the group. And this has always happened, it just happens more automated these days. But if we, as a group, stand up against it, we can empower ourselves, and we can make life better for us as a group, which will ultimately impact our personal lives as well.
It is a conspiracy theory because the CIA spent 20 years trying to find any effects on health and failed, because medical research spent 50 years trying to find a way how non-heating, non-ionizing radiation could have ill effects on health, and because RF fields to power passive spy devices has been demonstrated many times. Anyone believing at this point that a microwave signal weaker than the leakage of a microwave oven was design to hurt people at the embassy is at the level of a conspiracy theory.

There is no scientific basis for the theory, there are decades of research failing to find either a theoretical or empirical basis, while there are other plausible and precedented hypotheses. Every single example you provided however, was immediately technically plausible at the very least. So yes, the theory it was somehow detrimental to the health of the embassy staff is essentially a conspiracy theory. There is nothing behind it beyond motivated reasoning.
They aquihired 3 people who didn’t do any technical work. Nadella miscalculated big time here.
Many a time I wanted to just write up changes I wanted in the teams in anonymous blog posts and provide links to team members. Would have saved me a lot of time.
I would agree -- but this is not one of them. This is someone gratuitously patting themselves on the back at every turn. It feels like the kind of NPC dialogue you might find in an RPG
That open source can replace corporate centralization? Since centralized platforms started extracting more profits (including manipulation) things like Fediverse are on the rise. For mindless browsing, centralized is still king for now (Fediverse also works to an extent) but if your site has something better than what's on the centralized corporate platform, people will go there once they learn about it. We're on Hacker News instead of Reddit because?
One design iteration already has a working, implemented branch available, it’s just one of the hardest designs to get right, to remain backwards compatible, to have it work nice with generics and all the other features, etc.

So once they actually settle on a design (which they seem to have closed on quite a lot in the last couple of years), it might not take that long to happen.
> I don't really see many gaps

isn't that the "works on my machine" of this discussion? What's the Apache Tika for .net then? I don't mean, pdf parsing, I don't mean .docx parsing, I mean a framework for interacting with all their supported types <https://tika.apache.org/2.9.1/formats.html> with one surface area?
Pi is nice to talk to because unlike other chatbots, it always, always, always asks a follow-up question. I'd love to see the system prompt. That's what's driving their claim of high engagement—the bot just keeps drilling you with questions, and for some people, the bait is irresistible.
The heat index – how hot it feels – is rising faster than temperature
The mobile app is linked on the page: https://godspeedapp.com/ios
I wonder if this could be done using only regolith. A recent study showed that laser sintering of regolith might be a viable way to pave pathways. The resulting material had a compressive strength in the range of 8k to 30k PSI. Considering the reduced gravity, I could see this being strong enough to use as the rails.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42008-1
Reason I mentioned empirical evidence is for people who would not accept abolishing IP and copyright laws on philosophical grounds. Otherwise, for me its illegitimacy does not require evidence.
Pinning your CA's certificate protects against two things:

1. All-powerful NSA types who've managed to steal a CA's private key or get a certificate mis-issued. It's a nigh-irreplaceable attack opportunity, but the moment they use it it'll be revoked within hours, so naturally it's reserved for the absolute highest value target. For example, [1]

2. Users trying to reverse-engineer your app.

You can imagine which of these is the most common - perhaps you don't want the user to be able to bypass the pin, even intentionally.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/iranian-man-middle-att...
Somebody linked a study showing an effect. For a bit of intuition:

A lot of the negative effects of covid are from our immune response and general long-term swelling and inflammation. Pepcid is a pretty safe histamine blocker, suppressing some of that initial broad-spectrum inflammatory response.

Recently I had a pretty bad poison oak problem, and in addition to the normal things (steroids, antibiotics, ...), the doctor strongly suggested allegra+pepcid for a similar reason.

Related, my gut instinct would be that benadryl would have similar effects on long-covid patients (though that might be hard to test given the induced drowsiness from the drug).
The irony of this particular situation is that measles basically clears your immune system's memory, so any "my body will learn how to fight it" arguments are going to be painfully and probably fatally disproven.

If you're just going to get one vaccine, it should probably be the MMR.
The author goes on to state that the problems are with their cables, which for many Apple users is well known. The plastic coating they used that was engineered to be be more supple and "bendable" than other cables was prone to deterioration and breaking down, causing fraying and exposed wires. Apple has since moved on to braided cables since then.

The actual bricks themselves have been pretty reliable.
> Do we want people to have to gamble or lose their assets?

Yes. 0-velocity money isn't good for economic activity.
> much higher value land

getting a building permits for a car wash is much much much easier than for something higher value, and in absence of LVT ...
Love it. I've been increasingly dissatisfied with Things.

Specific things I'm looking for in a Todo manager:

1. iPhone <=> Mac apps and syncing

2. Hotkeys + Speed

3. Shared lists (you don't even mention this until I get into Guides, but I love it)

4. Smart lists

5. Nesting

6. Pasting images

7. Projects + subtasks

8. An inbox

9. Snoozing to the future

10. Focus mode (gets rid of everything else EXCEPT for the current task... really nice as a reminder when I start a task, hop into a meeting, and flip back to the todo list to see what I'm meant to be working on and it's staring me in the face vs. seeing a long list of items). Don't think you support this - first saw it in Amazing Marvin.

Concerns:

1. How painful will it be to import from Things?

2. What if the app goes away? I don't want to lose my stuff or switch again, it's a pain. How big is your company? Are you a going concern with real customers or is this a side project that will fall by the wayside?

3. I do love not paying a subscription for Things. I like the $150 one-off fee for 18m. Would consider that.

Regardless, going to play with it today. Seems very promising!
Yeah, a small GM tube (which is probably all you would want in a high field) would weigh very little, and could be read with a relatively simple circuit.

However, reading the associated reference, apparently they're using a "relay snake-like robot" to provide communications to the drone - and it is equipped with the ability to take dose measurements.
Ironically, AI will probably help to provide this.

Could probably do it now with a browser plugin and the right llm prompt. Perhaps call it the un-BSifier.
Can I have it only sync through iCloud? I'm just concerned that I buy the lifetime version and then the Godspeed API disappears after a couple of years.
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One unexpected component is a tiny circuit board with a microcontroller... roughly as powerful as the processor inside the original Macintosh

That's a great little factoid that I'm going to use at every opportunity.
But like stealing from people just because you don't like them doesn't really change the moral calculus. I'd imagine most people that steal anything don't like the victim very much. Do what you want (or what you can get away with) but the "moral" thing would be abstain from consuming the products entirely or buy them according the terms of the seller.
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Is the "AI developer"a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?
With no guarantee about future pricing models
You can suck up to the suits and managers, you can't suck up to the LLM, especially since you're not the one running it.
Thanks. This stat from the section on Diskless is interesting:

On shared machines, spinning disk reliability decreased compute reliability; 25%–30% of production task deaths were attributable to disk failure.
Wasn't Mustafa kicked out of deepmind/Google due to harassment allegations? Seems like a pretty pathetic move from MSFT.
They're two completely unrelated topics. Rail infrastructure in the US has nothing to do with rail infrastructure on the moon.
Yes, they use vehicles on rails in both cases. That's where the similarities end.
> When the price of hemp collapsed in 2018, which was after weed had been legalized, hemp farms started being used as cover for illegal weed farms, because legalization had created such a huge market for weed.

To be clear, you are saying that, not the article. I'm asking for evidence for your opinion.

> That was the opinion of a single anonymous weed grower.

Well, sure, I didn't say the evidence was strong either way, but it remains true that all the evidence you've presented contradicts your opinion that there's a causal relationship between legalization and illegal cartel farms.

> These farms didn't exist prior to Maine legalizing sale of recreational weed in 2020, and the more lax laws about possessing weed mean it's harder to get a warrant to search these residential grow houses.

The first claim is correlation, not causation.

Any citation for the latter claim? In the absence of evidence, one might equally argue that not prosecuting now-legal operations frees up resources to go after these larger illegal operations.

To be clear, I'm not arguing there isn't a connection; I don't know whether there is or not. But so far I'm hearing your claim that there is a connection with no evidence.
The best advice to give children is that they should be born to rich, influential and well-connected parents. That will give them a huge advantage in all walks of life including if they want to start a startup. Larry and Sergei had the benefit of rich, influential and well-connected parents, as did Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Paul Graham himself.
> Their success story is imo one of the most blatant examples on how privilege really does give you a boost in life. I am not arguing that anyone could have done it, but I do wonder how the world would look like if we were all kids of academics with a successful career, with a relatively safe, secure and stable childhood home and a family background that really incentivizes learning and academic success over succumbing to the pressure of, you know, having an income at some point.

I recently read something that played out a thought experiment about "imagine the world could only hold 10,000 people". It may have been a comment somewhere on HN honestly. The idea was that if the world could only hold 10,000 people, there never would have been enough division of basic duties for any one individual to dive so deep that they could invent semi-conductors (insert any modern tech really). I mean we likely wouldn't even have mastered locomotion by now if that was the case.

Lets assume we're "all kids of academics with a successful career, with a relatively safe, secure and stable childhood home and a family background that really incentivizes learning and academic success over succumbing to the pressure of, you know, having an income at some point." Most of us will still just be working on the basic societal problems of producing food and taking out the trash.
I think mainstream views would deserve attention if they're directly answering these criticisms. If such point by point responses exist, and if they're compelling, then that's what we should be talking about right now.
The scientific method doesn't. But Academia certainly does and its foolish to think otherwise.
Right like an editor and text is mouse free too and I can grep it with regex or sync it anywhere and have it on any device too.