skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just wrong use of words.

And weird accusations like we Germans did this on purpose like mafia
Greenmask. Database anonymization tool
This website has a ton of amazing examples of systems that might be useful in games. Incredibly educational and well-done.
There are absolutely scads of purported "lights in the sky" style UFO videos taken from mobile phones on the prominent UFO subreddits.

I personally put zero faith in them, because quite a few are obvious fakes, and the rest are just completely unverifiable, so they are not worth thinking about.

But there's no shortage of modern-day pictures and videos...
They aren't using Falcon Heavy because FH isn't human rated. In any case, Starliner could get by on a Falcon 9 (in terms of required performance), but it would be a big chunk of $$$. The Starliner is a pretty wide capsule, which is why they need that skirt on the Atlas V. The skirt controls the aerodynamic transition from the fatter Starliner to the skinnier Atlas underneath. The F9 is a different diameter from the Atlas, but still narrower than the Starliner, so they'd probably need a different skirt design.

The obvious other replacement vehicle is Vulcan, which is actually fatter than the Starliner. I have no idea what integration issues that'd entail.

As for why Boeing went for Atlas? Well... SpaceX is their literal competitor. Assured access also implies being willing to take a hit on cost efficiency to ensure diversity of both crew capsule as well as launch vehicle.
The theory of relativity does not in any way enable GPS. GPS is subject to (some) relativistic effects, but that is merely a source of bias, which could be corrected for with just an experience-based correction factor even if we did not understand relativity. If relativity did not exist as a physical concept, GPS would be easier, not harder or impossible. (I guess this misconception comes from xkcd in some form?)

A perhaps more relevant example: Einstein did not have the cell phone camera in mind when developing his theory of the photoelectric effect.
Ironically, most of the immigrants to Europe are from countries that have a strong sense of nationality and would never tolerate mass immigration into their own countries.
So what's the point of linear algebra, anyway?
If you bury it, you slowly leak all kinds of toxic stuff into groundwater and soil around. If you incinerate it, you recover some heat used for district heating and you have controlled circumstances - filter and monitor emissions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/climate/sweden-garbage-us...
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Did Wii U’s retail for $3499?
I mean it's hard to keeping growing 10 % every year if you're already one of the biggest companies in the world, so I think it's unavoidable that at some point you will prioritise revenue over user interest if those are misaligned, which they seem to be for search. People using search engines and companies wanting search traffic have vastly different incentives, so it's even surprising to me that the system worked so well for such a long time. Recently it just seems that the whole thing starts to come off at the seams, there's just too much pressure from all sides that squeezes against user interest. The last 10-20 years were characterised by strong growth of the web and with that revenue per user icnreased as people did more and more stuff online, but maybe now we're reaching a saturation phase were revenue per user won't increase naturally anymore, so you have to start hacking user attention to squeeze out more revenue. Seems very similar to the streaming platforms, all was great when their growth was fuelled by user growth, but as that seems to saturate companies switch gears and monetise individual users more agressively as a growth driver.
What about general anesthesia? I had a major operation during which most of my brain was definitely offline for at least 8 hours.
Americans See China Increasingly Negative
> of course

"Of course" makes it sound like it is obviously / objectively true, but it is a sentiment that is not necessarily true, either in the past, or even in the present everywhere on the planet.

> your address, phone number, income, etc should all be private just because the phone companies shared this didn't mean it's a good idea

This information was public in the past before the phone companies existed. May I introduce you to the concept of city directories:

> A city directory is a listing of residents, streets, businesses, organizations or institutions, giving their location in a city. It may be arranged alphabetically or geographically or in other ways.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_directory

> City Directories were created for salesmen, merchants, and other interested in contacting residents of an area. They are arranged alphabetically giving lists of names and addresses. These often list the adult residents of a city or area.

* https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/City_Directories

They can date back to (at least) the 1800s and continued into the twentieth century:

> City directories were published yearly. The Archives has them from 1834 to 2001 (except for a few years in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, and in 1987, when they were not published).

* https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/accountability-operat...
IO does tend to take considerable resources/power. In fact it is one of the reasons it is desirable to run ML as close to the sensor as possible. It allows to extract and transmit onwards just the information of interest (usually very low bitrate) instead of raw sensor data. Especially important on wireless and battery.

One area where very low resolution images are used is in 3d and IR sensing. For example a 8x8 depth image from a time of flight sensor like ST VL53L5CX. Could be mounted say household and detect for example human vs pet vs static object. Though the sensor is the expensive part, so one would probably afford a larger microcontroller :D
Is it really our problem that AI companies harvest forums for data they have no ownership of?
> Although this characterization does not represent a lot of the analyses, and I think it's silly to "homogenize" a group of people and misrepresent them via stereotype.

You certainly aren't being serious. The term UFO has been so abused by crackpots and conspiracy loons that it managed to be synonymous with unbelievable reports of aliens.
> outperforms the competition.

I've been using chromium and firefox side by side at work and play all day for abt 3 years now. Indistinguishable except chromium uses more memory and crashes and hangs. I get hundreds of tabs open in firefox for weeks and months. I reach about 50 before chromium gets lethargic.

I used to do this under ubuntu 18 and 20 with 32GB ram, now under win11 w 64.

I don't understand the Chrome reality distortion field.
I would think this tool is useful for students or journalists. Grammarly and other writing tools would be relevant. Obviously, people who are interested in government or politics, so political ads are hugely relevant.
Can someone help me understand - besides batteries, why does extreme cold negatively impact other electronics?
Because JavaScript is the last thing you need to serve a blog post
consisting of plain text and a couple of images. Forcing more powerful
technology than necessary on readers is the polar opposite of what a
luddite would do.

It's almost as ironic as the author of an "anticapitalist tech blog"
complaining about the hoops they must jump through to sell their users'
attention to one of the largest corporations on Earth.

(FWIW, you can find the real post here:
https://theluddite.org/posts/google-ads.html

But you will have to override the encoding if your browser doesn't
default to UTF-8.)
> Anyway, the question of whether computers can think is as interesting as the question whether submarines can swim.

Given the amount of ink spilled on the question, gotta disagree with you there.
People have written very nice books on this e.g.

https://linear.axler.net/
If the orbit of the earth were slightly smaller then the enlistment age would be lower. That's not arbitrary?
The official Z-Library blog https://z-library.se/blog/50 doesn't mention removal of any books or that they're blocking Mainland Chinese users/donations on their end.

I guess the "Zlibrary Official" WeChat account is run by people who were operating an unofficial mirror site (there's lots of these, many quite shady) and collected donations for their own use via Chinese payment methods, which has now gotten them into hot water.

It seems like they think they can continue operating as long as they remove a handful of books from the mirror, but I somewhat doubt it. The manual effort required for censorship compliance is likely to be substantial.

EDIT: the Internet Archive has a snapshot of the donations page http://web.archive.org/web/20240403051246/https://z-library.... with Alipay and WeChat Pay listed, so there must've been a money trail to someone in China. Maybe the WeChat Official Account is more official than I thought.
At least long term obesity management is a self solving problem.
I know, right? Of course, the American Electorate was quick to rectify its accidental moment of sanity by promptly voting him out after he installed Volcker and hiked rates to the moon (and then rewriting history to say that Carter was a bad president and Reagan tamed inflation).

He was not the president we deserved, but he was the president we needed.
Cheers! I'll have a look :)
> But there is also variation in study quality, which ipso facto implies that some studies might just even be good.

The fact that there's variation doesn't at all imply that any of it is any good. It could vary from "embarrassingly flat-earth-theory-in-2024" bad, to "unable to produce a falsifiable hypothesis" bad.

And even when some of it is good (controls, reproducability, etc), it gets completely ignored by practitioners[1]. Imagine if doctors prescribed eye of newt even when there's studies proving the efficacy of paracetemol.

[1] By practitioners I mean therapy and therapists. You could send 100 random people to 100 different therapists and all of them would report that a followup visit has been recommended. As far as therapists are concerned, there is no such thing as "You're perfectly normal. Congratulations and come back only when you have a problem"
That Leonardo was a great individual because he did what he did
BitTorrent client and an autonomous repack scraper
This is imho wrong approach. Wordpress gives you extremely flexible possibilities but its hard to maintain. Like you really need to keep it updated or you will get hacked (every wp security hole gets hyper targeted). That means trust plugin authors they will keep up to date. WP is suited for smaller/mid businesses that keep it maintained but its not hands off.

Coding php/symfony form by hand (if you can do it) might be security through obscurity but realistically it will probably just work for a decade without issues or maintenance.
pip-tools[0] is all most things need IMO. It’s a great balance of simplicity and utility.

[0] https://pip-tools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

As for Poetry, it is constantly improving and has gotten very popular. It should not be dismissed, especially for larger projects since its dependency management is so much better than pipenv. This is a good primer: https://diegoquintanav.github.io/poetry-primer.html
Not to rain on your conspiracy, but air traffic is getting cheaper, not more expensive.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/airfare-infl...
Can we say that `mise` is just a wrapper over `pyenv`, `asdf` and `kerl`?
I had architect roles in a place with IT below 300 people.

And it still lacked dedicated solution architecture and at least some dedicated Enterprise Architecture.

These titles are just... titles. No meaning until you know what the particular team does.
> a few cars a day

That's not a fair analogy because the article describes the site like this:

> For years now, the site is consistently the top Google search result for "apportionment calculator," and gets a steady stream of traffic.

Sure, we could do with more specific info, but it sounds very far from "a few cars a day" to me.
lot of manual labour is what I feel happening in the SERP's , the messier the algorithm , the better for google's business (paid ads)
Sorry buy Reagan was pretty awful during most of his time in office cognitively and reportedly would just turn his hearing aid off during meetings he found boring and zone out. Biden is way more engaged than he was.
Reddit could've been it. This is my default search engine at the moment:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Areddit.com&tbs=qdr...
I wonder if there is a market for search engine where sites pay to be listed. Not a substantial amount like they would for ads. But a small compute fee for the spider plus a contribution for being indexed.
This makes me even more confused by the other post that was made by this account, asking why an earlier submission was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40178265

If you are a straight plagiarizer, it seems rather brazen to call attention to the flagging. Are you able to find an original for that one as well? I wasn't.
I'm curious. Why do you use Google if you don't like their results?
A highly performant C++ & Web implementation of Langton's ant
You don’t need a camera to prove the su stopped. The consequences of the sun stopping, or rather the Earth ceasing its rotation, would be detectable by an extraordinary number of sources and means worldwide. And yet, no one seems to have ever noticed such an anomaly.
Ther are plenty of well documented uses for quantum computers, the hardware is just too nascent to fully accommodate them. The most powerful quantum computers today still only have just over 1,000 qbits.
Yep, phone camera technology has been deliberately held back by Majestic 12 to prevent evidence of their activities being collected.
Obviously the solution is to create a centralized system to electronically ID every human on the planet, and track what they post, talk, think, which medications and food they consume, who they are friends with, who they fuck, how much of this decade's evil chemicals they exhale, where they spend their money, and their real-time location.

Or, you know, just make your own open-source search engine, with blackjack and hookers.
I don't see what the difference between "continuous during that period" and "active when called" is. When an AI runs inference, that calculation takes time. It is active during the entire interval during which it is responding to the prompt. It is then inactive until the next prompt. I don't see why a system can't be considered intelligent merely because its activity is intermittent.
It works when the phone is out of battery? This is the use case that makes it difficult for me (for the record, I don't have an Apple phone either)
Image classification is a good demo/test case. However image sensors still cost multiple dollars, so one would likely spent a bit more in the microcontroller in that case. Accelerometer or microphone on the other hand adds just 30 cents to the BOM, and can be processed on similar cheap microcontroller. That is at least what I have found so far, trying to build a sub 1 dollar ML-powered system
https://hackaday.io/project/194511-1-dollar-tinyml
I’ve never met a conservative teacher.

Here’s some (probably low quality) data that confirms that idea: https://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/

Here’s an article about how college professors used to be much more Republican: https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-disappea...

Here’s one about Russian infiltration of a Western uni: https://www.propublica.org/article/why-russian-spies-really-...

Admittedly that last one does not describe an infiltration on the scale I’m talking about. But my thing happened around the 1920’s - 1930’s. Just look at all the Confucian Institutes on campuses and academics getting into trouble for illegal ties to China.

If you’re an ideological enemy of the West and seek to undermine it in the long term, this slow infiltration of the teaching institutions is exactly what you would do.
Definitely don't move to Singapore or Switzerland, then. You're going to want to look at places like Eritrea and Bolivia
https://nring.info/
There's been a relatively comprehensive take-down on autoconf (1), that boils down to:

It's an old piece of software, with basically no maintainers, which is fantastically difficult to make any changes to.

Not... stable because it "just works"; unchanging because it's so enormously complex to make and coordinate even trivial changes, that it is effectively the peak of the software lifecycle, where something has accumulated so much technical debt you can no longer make changes to it.

...so; in that context, being a fan of some features that autoconf supports is interesting, but, makes absolutely no difference to the reality; that it needs to die in a fire and be replaced.

Software, that you cannot change, is dead. Especially a build tool, that has failed to be maintained to changing needs of developers.

If autoconf wants to live, people need a comprehensive plan to maintain it, not to sing praises of its current, clearly bad, state.

> it has been popular to suggest that Autoconf should go away.

Yes.

...because no one has a plan to maintain it or fix it.

> Some of the people suggesting this have also been proposing that the replacement for Autoconf and the 'configure' scripts it generates be something simpler.

Specifically who?

Build systems are hard. No one serious, who understands what they're talking about and the context around it that I've seen is suggesting this.

...most people, seem to consistently be suggesting that the current state of autoconf is unsustainable, and as it stands, increasingly likely to be replaced by something else; for example, cmake.

...and, goooooodness me, anyone who thinks cmake is 'simpler' has not ever had to fight it.

Where is this coming from? Could it be from the author, who posts (2):

> New projects today often opt for one of the existing alternative build systems and (I believe) often find them simpler.

...

This is a weird set of interlinked self referential blog posts.

[1] - https://www.owlfolio.org/development/autoconf-swot/ discussed at least 4 times here on HN in different threads. Use the search bar.

[2] - https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/Autocon...
I would just add that I think I have encountered situations that knowing the weighted average answer from the training data for topics I didn't previously understand created better initial conditions for MY learning of the topic than not knowing the weighted average answer.

The problem to me is we are holding LLMs to a standard of usefulness from science fiction and not reality.

A new, giant set of encyclopedias has enormous utility but we wouldn't hold it against the encyclopedias that they aren't doing the thinking for us or 100% omniscient.
So by extension, there is basically no innovation currently going on right now?

New CPUs arent innovative. x86 is still the same and the rest is just better production technology. New production processes aren't innovative either. EUV is just a different light source anyways. New companies finding uses for generative AI are just OpenAI API wrappers anyways.

Your logic spun to a strict degree would mean that nothing except inventing is innovative, which is an expectation that will not hold up in the real world.
You can be mad at human nature or you can try to understand it. The peoples of the world didn't decide to start an anti software cabal and fake less willingness to pay. So if they do have less willingness to pay, how do you explain it without a useless mental crutch like "they are too cheap"?

Of course there's many costs, datacenters aren't free. The point is what a normal consumer psyche is going through during the purchasing moment.
The really obvious thing to avoid is DMOZ which got captured by spammers immediately.
Assuming by SNES you mean Super Famicom (since there’s no way a shogi game was going to be localized!) - it did release. The NES port was cancelled, though.
> I hate that Google gatekeeps the internet.

They really don't. People reach enormous audiences thorough social media.
Yuma Arizona has it's own airport.
Yuma Arizona has four Hiltons (the only brand I checked)

So if you're flying into Yuma for work and you're flying into an airport 4 hours away and staying in a hotel 45 minutes away, you are really doing something wrong.
Yes it does, it says so in the link
> There are absolutely scads of purported "lights in the sky" style UFO videos taken from mobile phones on the prominent UFO subreddits.

I don't think you got the point.

Before camera phones were ubiquitous, the bulk of reports were very elaborate and fantastic tales where the so-called witness played a central role in the story.

Once everyone started carrying a camera, all we see is questionable light shows taken from a very long distance.

Strange, isn't it?
iMessage gets the attention. In another perspective, I was reading Meta quarterly earnings and they have 3.5 billion active users on their family of apps with WhatsApp still growing.

That’s almost every internet connected person.

And Meta stock still tanked with that kind of growth.

Meta has far more reach than Apple. Only Google comes close with their Search and Ads reach.

I am wondering whether Apple is going to grow much. Vision Pro was a meh launch. Apple Car isn’t going anywhere. There is so much they can juice the App ecosystem.

Is Tim Cook going the same route is Steve Ballmer?
That's true.

For example, in the case of PostgreSQL, there is already a tool called pg_isready [0] to do this inside a healthcheck as you described.

services:
postgres-db:
image: postgres
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U postgres"]

application:
image: image
depends_on:
postgres-db:
condition: service_healthy

However, this is not the case for other databases/services.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pg-isready.html
The fix is a decentralized search network with nodes linked to people or legitimate businesses. You manually distribute trust to friends and businesses you like, and you can manually revoke that trust, with some network level trust effects occurring based on spammy/malicious behavior.
Sure, but aren't there great individuals who didn't study nature in that way?
Most materials contract when they cool down. For example, differential contraction between metal contacts and semiconductor materials can cause them to detach or break, disrupting electrical connections. Also extremely low temperatures can lead to changes in semiconductor properties such as carrier mobility, which affects how efficiently electronic signals are processed.
I can imagine it is much quicker to make a prepress PDF for a book in Indesign than LaTeX. I would have picked InDesign too (also former designer)
> Nobody has time to do this anymore

Can you say more about that?
This is true in theory but don’t think it’s ever been proven in practice
Could you explain what you're saying? It feels very aggressive.
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