skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might like Dual (2022)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(2022_film)

Not quite as heavy with the symbolism and not super-duper about dealing with terminal illness & loss like Annihilation (though… it does have more than a little of that going on). Similar feel otherwise. Also sci fi.

Maybe The High Life (2018).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Life_(2018_film)

Another sci fi. I haven’t sorted this one out as well as I have annihilation, but I’m pretty sure it’s also best read entirely figuratively.

And of course everybody who likes brooding symbolism-heavy films really must watch The Green Knight (2021)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Knight_(film)

(That one’s not sci fi)
Neither bothers me. Both work just fine on older hardware. I don't need cutting edge performance.
> do if the ions you’re using are collected from the atmosphere around you rather than coming from a tank on your vehicle

This [1] looks like a plasma propulsion engine [2]. They'd need to carry propellant. That said, they're pre-staging, so the traditional rocket equation doesn't apply.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uTfrXf_WHEY

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20161018201525/http://alfven.pri...
Sort and Reverse Sort a Selection of Text or File in Vim [video]
How does “nature” confer upon you rights? Can I observe rights via scientific techniques? I don’t think so—to nature you’re just meat.

The concept of individual “rights” that can’t be infringed by the government arose from religion—specifically Christianity. That concept makes no sense absent some supernatural order. Because otherwise, “rights” are just what society agrees not to do to individuals. Those choices can be completely arbitrary.
The Rejection Plot
This is more like the Viet Cong using tunnel networks because the US had air superiority.

The view from the Army War College on Ukraine: [1] Key points:

- This kind of warfare kills a lot more soldiers than the US has been used to since WWII.
The US military lost only 2.7% of the force that went to Vietnam. Later wars were lower.
Russia/Ukraine is far higher. Nobody publishes reliable casualty numbers, but they're huge.
The US-style all-volunteer all-pro military model won't work. Those guys get used up fast. It may be necessary to go back to a draft to get enough fresh meat for the grinder. Both Russia and Ukraine are doing that.

- Command posts, firebases, or strongpoints anywhere near the front will be found and destroyed. Command posts further back have trouble communicating with front units maintaining radio silence. If it talks, it dies.

- Helicopters are not too useful. Too easy to hit. This also implies the end of fast Medevac.

[1] https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol53/iss3/10/
This suggests what they’ve become is desirable - it’s not.
Written by people who would likely disavow the movie entirely if they did 5 minutes of research on the Wachowskis.
…and I maintain a whole list of them :D https://cheeaun.github.io/repokemon/
Not All Personal VPN Services Are Trying to Sell You Fluffy Pillows
Cultures that counted in base 12 used each finger segment (there are 12 on a hand), and used their thumb as a pointer. So we already have all the biological tools needed.
Swift is a great language. I just wish I could seriously use it outside of iOS development
I thought this was gonna be about Darger, but no, it's about another eccentric, formally untrained artist with a secret hoard of self-created outsider art.

Good. The world is a better place for having had more such people in it.
> As for 300k USD a year - outside of Silly Valley, it can be enough money to get custom linux distro developed and supported

Erm, not really. One of my portfolio firms landed a multiyear runtime security contract in the Midwest around that much. And it was a mid-market prospect.

If a runtime security contract can land for that alone, including comprehensive Linux distro support will break 7 figures (at least based on the RHEL quote the customer has)

> it's also been unspoken policy of them to somewhat tolerate software piracy so long as it didn't really impact sales - as well as offering great deals for people who could then get into track to get them more sales over time

There's a reason why every vendor is moving to a SaaS and metric driven workflow. We can attribute which customers are break their contracts and gladly extracting a pound of their flesh for breaking the contract (as they would with us)

Even MSPs are consolidating, and there's a reason vendors like working with a Presidio type firm.
Economics: Dutch Disease
Humane AI Pin: The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed for Now [video]
There's application level DDoS, which you generally stop by not doing expensive work for clients that haven't done expensive work for you. Sometimes, easier said than done.

And then there's volumetric DDoS. You can stop this by having more bandwidth than everyone else... but that's pretty hard and it makes you a potential attacker.

Innovation here is in the form of using BGP to disseminate traffic filters. Null routing is the MVP here: this IP is being attacked, so drop traffic to it as soon as possible. But I've seen there's some systems with more precision, like drop udp, drop fragments, drop packets to/from udp/tcp port X.

Most of these systems are designed so that these specialized routes don't propagate beyond immediate peers, but potentially, it might be desirable if they did.
There is a social cost to land sitting unused (especially in cities). Henry George presumably said it better than me
> he very notion of "natural rights" is fundamentally religious in nature. They don't require deities or worship etc - you can just omit that step as unnecessary, with the rights themselves being the object of faith - but if you're honest about it, it's still a (non-theistic) religion.

That’s an apt way to put it. We started with “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” And then we silently dropped the “Creator” but maintained the framework of “rights” as if they’re God-granted.

Ironically, “rights” are an area where liberals sound more theistic than conservatives. For conservatives, rights are rooted in social tradition and practice. Aliens could deduce them from observation. For liberals, rights are something that exist in the aether until humans discover them.
I've done something similar in the past with Spanish, but I found it difficult since I wasn't at the appropriate level for what I was consuming. You really need content that is at your level, or maybe just a massive amount of patience and time.

What the author is basically describing is a poor approximation of an Assimil course -- listening to the audio while hoping some ML translations give them the gist of what's going on. It's probably fine, but it just seems like a lot of wasted effort. With Assimil I've gotten to B1 reading/listening (but not speaking) in a little over 3 months with 30-40 minutes a day, and that's because it's designed to build you up from complete beginner. I'd be curious to know where they're at after 50 days and how many hours they've put in for comparison.
> anti-scientific

What the hell does science have to do with this? Please stop conflating regression analysis of the results of a questionnaire with "science".
We'll get a token level RAG , something similar to routing mechanisms in MoE
I dislike bwrap because it is built around a CLI-arg based approached for sandboxing. Even the wrappers that allow config-based sandboxes just end up transcribing a file to CLI args. I'd prefer it actually have an API of sorts. Instead, it seems like it was never meant to be nothing more than a quick and dirty tool for basic sandboxing in a pinch.
Doesn’t a doctor tend to have deliverables in a timeline of minutes or hours, on the order of dozens such deliverables a day, often with health- or life-critical stakes attached?

It seems like only yesterday that this counterpoint made the rounds here:

“The darker side of being a doctor” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025261
Please address support for vanilla js/framework agnostic and what differentiates from Supabase and supertokens on ur site
Shift the liability or the agreements.

If you want to ship out of the Montreal port you agree that the port authority has the right to open the container.

If the container is found to have stolen goods the fine is 5x the value of the stolen goods. If it is a bogus entity that showed up with the container the liability goes to the logistic company or the ship itself. Trust me, things will get real efficient in making sure all goods are legal and checked beforehand.
I didn't calculate how many hours are in a quarter of a day. I mentioned 100 hour days, and then mentioned how it's nicer when 1 Foo divided by 4 equals 3 Bars, instead of dealing with 1 Baz divided by 4 equaling 25 Qux.

It was a very short comment.
We don’t have very many earthquakes in Kansas… but I remember the first/only one I felt.

I was sound asleep when my Siamese woke me up by pawing my face… he then went and sat on the edge of the bed and growled aggressively (very out of character)… Not 30s later, things started shaking.

No idea how he knew, but it was pretty wild. He passed away in 2020, still miss him.
I've aspired to become a doctor since I was a boy, I have managed to carve out a unique career out of medicine and I get to work at home and I have a lot of support, I spend hours working on what I love. I work with doctors who tell me I would make a great doctor. I think there is just too much resistance to getting into medical school.
> > you have a function that takes a general type, and you can pass multiple specific types and it will do the right thing
>
> What does this have to do with inheritance? This is just a generic function.

It's a generic function with compile-time compatibility checks.
I'm assuming there is a reason for the 1/3 meter request, such as the board needs to fit in a specific spot. So you are saying that it is better to hand the worker a yard stick, so he can measure out 13.12322835 (approx) inches?

In reality, I would cut the board either 33.4 mm, or 13 1/8 inches (a bit long) then pound it in place (wood has a bit of give to it).
All hard technology problems end up being people problems.

The hard part about modern data which this article doesn't really get at (but also isn't directly addressing) is that you have tight coupling of the destination and the application database API (Database schema), and by conventional standards absolutely massive response payloads (GB instead of kb).

Any web API can quickly get to the same point if you're trying to get very specific data on the entirety of the backing data store.
I’m happy someone mentioned this movie. I am constantly thinking about this quote:

> Vincent: You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.
Thermoelectric Cooling
science behind thermoelectric cooling
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
Construction on “the world’s largest wildlife crossing” will close a portion of the Los Angeles County’s 101 Freeway overnight on weekdays for several weeks starting Monday.
Good question... Flatpak seems !~/.ssh & !home as two different things... so !home will not block access to an app configured to access ~/.ssh.
Why Software Is Late
But Arnold looks like some smeared painting. Look at it in black and white, it still looks like shit.
Some thoughts and reasons from the Zero MQ developer:

https://250bpm.com/blog:4/

https://250bpm.com/blog:8/
> because the ability to take risks is simply missing in the country.

Never heard of this before, interesting! Can you direct me to some sources or YouTube video about this? I'd love to learn more.
What would be a better word for what I'm describing, then? India still has a caste system even with their government driven programs of mobility and hiring quotas, and more people moving upwards through marriage. It's not literally the same but it seems analogous enough to me.
Don't know whether the Air Force ever tosses money at long shots, but this would appear to be one.

To be clear, I'm not anywhere near the aerospace industry, and have no actual knowledge other than what the media gives me -- but the pictures on their web site look like someone's garage rather than a professional aerospace lab.

BTW, it looks like that contract was (a) very short lived, and (b) not aimed at the orbital stuff. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP_Aerospace#Airships
It's not guaranteed, because McDonald's has to stop serving breakfast sometime. Whatever they choose becomes the defacto local time zone. And so, what have you saved over just using UTC when you need to talk to someone on the other side of the world?
> SSTO doesn't rely on aerodynamic lift, it can fly higher than a lift-based vehicle can to avoid air resistance/heating

The only reason to do SSTO is so you can use an air-breathing engine. That's why practically every recent SSTO draft looks like an airplane.

This team appears to be using a reaction engine for thrust, so I'm not sure how they're planning on dividing the work between buoyancy, lift and reaction. But the whole point of using an airship and making it massive is so it can generate lift in air too thin to keep a metal tube flying.

> don't see how you reach that as a conclusion by analogy to single stage to orbit rockets

Because SSTO has been extensively studied, this is a problem SSTO would have to deal with, and in no case was it a dealbreaker.
For me the equivalent is provisioning Gentoo workstations without systemd.
Why can’t a model explore its environment (given access) and find and use those tools? Why can’t a model fire up a query (sql, http, or whatever) to do the retrieval if it determines it needs more information?
Dark City (1998), Alex Proyas. This is an unmarketable movie. I consider knowing its genre to be a spoiler. It is one of those movies where the less you know about it, the better you're viewing experience. If you watch it you must watch the Directors Cut as the theatrical release was dumbed down by the studio execs.
I think Ilya gets credit for that example — I’ve heard him use it in his interview with Jensen Huang.
The "enhanced" image looks a lot like those retouched Russian photos from the Stalinist era
Base c.
Futexes allow low-latency signalling to other processes, and FUTEX_SWAP [1, 2] promises to decrease the cost even further.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200722234538.166697-1-posk@po...

[2]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-User-Thread-Futex-Swap
> Burning up as you accelerate is also an engineering problem that is not 100% solved for hypersonics. Almost solved, but not risk free.

Totally agree it's a difficult engineering concern. But it's being thrown around like a physics limit when it simply is not.
Step foot into Miami or LA and you'll see the gaudy extremes of wealth accumulation. I live in Fort Lauderdale for a long time, and it blew me away how miserable a vast majority of the wealthy truly were. Meeting a lot of them in my younger 20's, believing they must be "living the dream", only to later find out it was a facade most of the time, completely changed my mind on "getting rich". Living modestly with no attachment to material things is the way to be.
To clarify: I had read that passage, and I was definitely aware that the name could be interpreted as a reference.

Trademark conflicts in open store sometimes start that way. For example, “CouchBase” was a reference to “CouchDB” — it was originally a complementary effort, but later became a competitor. By the time the CouchDB folks realized that they should’ve been enforcing their trademark, it was too late.
> Most programmers are $90k/year code monkeys.

And this is the condescending attitude that makes the 99.4% of us who aren't overpaid Silicon Valley types resent the valley.

According to the BLS stats above the median salary for a software engineer is $130k, which is nearly double the median household income in the USA and more than enough to enjoy a very comfortable lifestyle in most areas of the US.

But sure, feel free to look down on those of us who choose to stop optimizing for wealth after realizing we already are earning in the top 10%.
If you want to ship out of the Montreal port you agree that the port authority has the right to open the container.

How does that help you when the workers at the port authority are actively involved?

It's an open secret that organized crime runs Canada's ports.
I use Phanpy. It is well designed.
One perspective:

'Film buff' responses are common to every major change in technology and society. People highly invested in the old way have an understandably conservative reaction - wait! slow down! what happens to all these old values?! They look for and find flaws, confirming their fears (a confirmation bias) and supporting their argument to slow down.

They are right that some values will be lost; hopefully much more will be gained. The existance of flaws in beta / first generation applications doesn't correlate with future success.

Also, they unknowingly mislead by reasoning with what is also an old sales disinformation technique: List the positive values of Option A, compare them to Option B; B, being a different product, inevitably will differ from A's design and strengths and lose the comparison. The comparision misleads us because it omits B's concept and its strengths that are superior to A's; with a new technology, those strengths aren't even all known - in this case, we can see B's far superior resolution and cleaner image. We also don't know what creative, artistic uses people will come up with - for example, maybe it can be used to blend two very different kinds of films together.

These things happen with political and social issues too. It's just another way of saying the second step in what every innovator experiences: 'first they laugh at you, then they tell you it violates the orthodoxy, then they say they knew it all along'.
Cats and dogs have been known to feel/sense earthquakes before we can!

In the recent NYC ones there are videos of dogs howling before any of the tremors are noticeable by people. This is a common phenomena I believe.
> What would be a better word for what I'm describing

Social stratification, separation or hierarchy. Or more simply, supply and demand.

What aspect of how we separate people are you trying to home in on?
> How often do you screw up the system so much you have to reformat the disk (without losing data) to fix it?

Never. But I am curious as to what you are doing to get into this situation so often.
> the cat was either trying to save them or the cat was trying to kill them.

An inverted Schrödinger cat.
And as an added bonus, we could get that dog classified as a service dog :D

“Sir you need to leave that mutt outside!”

“He’s a service dog”

“Why? You don’t look like you have any disabilities”

“Wow. First of all – rude! Second, yeah you are right I don’t but you see he’s my DDoS dog and I need him with me at all times to protect the company servers”
Our largest debates are over such:

Eg, at present one of the most contentious is between a group who thinks we need more people and a group who thinks we need fewer people.
I guess I’m a bit confused - what would be an equivalent to a “steering wheel” in the context of a human brain as an “engine”? Or would this steering wheel be part of the brain? If so, why do we need to separate the two in the context of an LLM?
Need to balance it by taking out. Trees and algae are doing this. The solution is not green energy or going EVs. The solution already proven very effective and on mass scaleable...it is called ocean iron fertilization. Unfortunately, governments NOT interested in doing that. CO2 is a new source of laws to control masses and taxations. Iron fertilizations method is so successful that governments worldwide band together to discredit and even send in law enforcers to raid the scientists office. Majority academia (I know this first hand in 13 universities western world) have government people visiting and warning deans not to expand this method or even publish anything on it. If iron fertilizations can solve the co2 issue in a year, there is no money in it or enough issues to keep politicians stay elected. Nothing to see. Stick to your EVs, lithium batteries, carbon tax, and non-straw coffee.
Thank you for the comparison between Gemini and Mistral/CoPilot.

It happens I just tried Gemini for the first time today after discovering ai.com redirects to gemini.google.com now.

My first question to Gemini was "Hello there, what's the date today?"

It then relied, "Today is Sunday, April 14, 2024. I know this because you told me earlier."
Yes, I didn’t watch the entire hour-long video recorded from a live stream.

This is not a tight, edited, informational video. It’s not even a scripted presentation. It’s two guys reading an article and reacting to it. They spend some time talking about Three-Body Problem, and Twitch streaming.
The one clear thing is that the unnamed aids are complaining about Cantwell. The article gives no real details which one could use to determine what the criticism is about exactly, never mind who is right.

Vaguely I guess that if they had criticism that would resonate with people, they say it and so I'm vaguely skeptical of these aids. But my main reaction is "wow, here's an article about nothing that people actually read as stiff criticism"
>"Take your local taxman out for dinner"

I'll pass on that offer. Feeding poisonous snakes takes priority
I suppose its a bit of several reasons: for sure taste, but also features, performance, etc. Its a GUI-based text editor, and not a big full-fledged IDE like VSCode. In my opinion, it pretty much follows the KDE philosophy (that I'll poorly paraphrase here) in that: using it and its features in their default settings will be totally fine to use as-is, but - like KDE Plasma for example - there are plenty of features that you can also unlock way beyond the default in order to allow for lots of customization and flexibility. It also is lightweight on resources considering its number of available features; closer to VIM, and lots lighter-weight than say VSCode. Many people would categorize Kate with other text editors like Geany, Notepad++, etc...and I agree with that categorization. Not sure if that helps! Then again, you could always check out some vidoes of Kate in use on youtube, or, if so inclined, perhaps try installing it and give it a run?
Is that intended as a snide criticism? I see so often an attempt to force “controversial” commentators into answering “yes or no!” as some sort of “gotcha”. Often the argument is that simplistic reduction of a nuanced stance is the actual problem being argued against. I see no issue with refusal to engage in the game as rigged by an opponent.
> her own aides would choose a more positive phrasing if they believed she was doing good work

Because it’s not a quote in context the phrasing belongs to the journalist not the aides.
Yes, please. I think a lot of HN people have lost all sense of proportion. A 7 figure job is $1M plus--a year. That's financially life-changing, no matter how much you hate the content of the work. Grin and bear it for a couple of years, and then... do anything you like for the rest of your life. Maybe 0.1% of the population gets an opportunity like that.
Would you also accept the nose-ear-throat-trachea-lung microbiome as well?

Also nose biome interacts with the finger and fingernail biome quite often.
80 hours a week, averaged over a month. So individual weeks can still easily go over to 100+
Well, it takes a habit not to read them all the time.

One thing what helps a lot is .. turning the subtitles off. Or just make the video run at the background, where you can occasionally glimpse it, but it's not your primary activity.