skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- "When NASA built the SLS, a F-1 based Saturn V like rocket was considered. And in fact, such a rocket did actually score better then the Shuttle based pre-SLS when they did the evaluation around 2011."

I think you've mixed up engines: the one SLS was evaluating around 2011 was J-2X, a derivative of Saturn's hydrogen engine J-2. Not the main stage kerosene F-1. The upper stage J-2X was intended for was cancelled and downgraded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-2X

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8755403 ("NASA’s $349M monument to its drift", 87 comments)
Will We Still Need Programmers?
Biden is simplifying things though by letting the majority of US jobs go, whether its Ai or outsourcing, you look at what is available now its part time, minimum wage work so would not be surprised to see these numbers change. This reflects how big the tech employment got, the majority of these startups themselves did not last more than 3 years so I think this really distorts the view, and the loss is nothing like 100 billion because these companies are all gone, its not a recurring expense just a massive burn through of investor monies.
Beautiful website! Would love to learn more about the stack
What a business card
http://jauntlabs.com/ seems to be down/not loading
Reading https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html right now

Shall I take each point and explain why they are bullshit ? Probably not, but do tell me. This kind of post is a perfect example of the bullshit I spoke about.

Just a quote to illustrate:

The Linux kernel's size grows exponentially across each release, and it can be thought of as equivalent to running all user space code as root in PID 1, if not even more dangerous.

What the fuck.
You're making a distinction without a difference there.
Do Not Buy a Rear-Facing Third Row for Your Jeep Wrangler for the Love of God
More and more Americans are becoming 'ALICEs
I’m in France and I get CGNAT.
I don't think GP is saying he clogs the toilet, but rather that a single flush does not clear it. We have very low-flow toilets, and sometimes my little kids have to double-flush. It's not about diet or anything — the toilets are just very low-flow (assuming you only have to flush once).
If you have the physical device, you can do anything you want with it, Apple can not know what you do and cannot do anything about what you do. Are they obliged to provide you with free systems and technologies to program against the bare metal ?
I can't, because none of them have a public point of presence on the internet. That's rather part of the point of doing it -- to keep the internet at arm's length. They're all, effectively, invite-only since they serve groups of people who are already known to each other.

Some do this on a small scale, like operating a VPN and a series of services accessible over the VPN. Others on a larger scale, like running what amounts to a small ISP and communal servers.

If you're into the idea, it isn't be that hard to get things going on the technical side, if you use the internet itself as your "dumb pipe communications channel". You just need some friends who are interested in joining you.
I'm not sure I understand the segue you've made here. But, it would be absurd to suggest that Google is entitled to charge a fee for every app installed installed from F-Droid.

Your original claim was that a device owner downloading an application from elsewhere somehow means that Apple could not afford to provide basic development tools. This is demonstrably false.

In any case, most of these outside apps have tended to be free, so if anything sideloading should reduce burden on their servers, which seemed to have been part of your concern.
At least 25,000 people in the US are starting weight-loss drug Wegovy each week
Why do you find self-awareness to be the more fascinating area of study? It makes complete sense that something could be self-aware if it could be aware of anything at all. What more do you need to research/understand about self-awareness?

It is far more interesting to me that there is “awakeness” to experience than that we can be aware of our selves (in the same way we can be aware of anything else).

A complete understanding of sentience including its causes would be a far more satisfying and ethically impactful body of knowledge than a complete understanding of self-awareness (assuming they are not inextricably linked somehow).
Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms from sounding
The podcast integration is remarkably bad.
USA's FDA is notorious for not finding therapeutical effect in plant medicines. The same plants which have been in use for 100s years in ex-USSR and Germany. USSR's pharma was relatively prudent and would not peddle non-working solutions for New Age reasons.
Right, you said it's the solution. In your mind, what drives the measured disparity? What is the issue?
> that's because someone involved in that decision decided it was worth paying more for or not worth paying what they were currently paying, taking into account what factors will make people change their mind about eating there.

Evidently not really taking the factors into account.
Would the limited partners eat there? More than once?
It's like an aggregation of the worst parts of scientism manifest in one single human...I have trouble believing this is actually real, it's too far beyond what my absurdity meter can measure.

I see you too were present for the former clinic he put on in the philosophy thread, that was something to see.
The the author is at fault for one's own misunderstanding? That's pretty egregious on it's own reading.
Im planning a RAG and this seems to implement the "autocontext" i was expectong to do.

For the library i have, its not just the file name but multiple folder names are descriptive, especially if i build a data dictionary.

Have you looked into some simple tagging/conversion dictionary that preproccess the context?
So what are some issues when working with async/await?
Nvidia has published a competitive llama3-70B QA/RAG fine tune
Lest any need ask "Where GGUF?":

https://huggingface.co/bartowski/ChatQA-1.5-8B-GGUF
I just made it public: https://github.com/danielchasehooper/ShapeUp-public
There is no source since it's not true. The product manager of Flutter/Dart said on Twitter that there was no change in team size, only some DevOps roles moving to other (likely cheaper) locations.
What makes you think that PE equity owners have any different incentives to any other chain restaurant owners to cut costs and improve margins??

Why would you think that private equity owners would ever make things worse to improve margins without giving careful consideration to whether or not the changes will make people less likely to spend money at their restaurants??
I've been at 2 companies acquired by private equity firms. In one case, the company was totally healthy in the niche market of software for libraries. The company was sold because the owner wanted to retire.

The vampire capitalists did the standard playbook:

leveraged buyout.
transfer debt to the once healthy company.
extract yearly management fees.
fire and/or encourage many employees to leave.
shift maintenance to low cost foreign outsourcing company.
skimp on R&D and customer support.

In the short term, profits go up. Long term, the once healthy company slowly dies, as customers get pissed to the point they are willing to incur the cost of transitioning to a new vendor.

Not only was this company once healthy, it had astonishing employee retention. We are talking many programmers and support people with 20+ years of specialized knowledge. People seem to forget how much productivity is lost with high turnover.
That was also a thing yes.

You can look various talks and papers from back then. NASA made a lot of 'studies' back then. One of the SLS engineers in a talk basically said 'I can not do another vehicle study, I have done to many'.

They were evaluating a RP1 based first stage with a large gas-generator kerlox engine. In these studies they often don't use engine names directly. That of course is F-1, see F-1B on wikipedia to get some links.

Somewhere I have some reddit post that have 100s of links to all the different studies and videos on this topic. I can check tomorrow if I can find those posts.

A modern J-2 and F-1 would basically make a modern Saturn V.

Of course from my perspective all these studies are not gone have the right outcome because they aren't actually asking the right question in the first place, but that's another matter. But the results of the study didn't actually matter because congress basically mostly just decides it anyway.
You’re kind of splitting hairs there, aren’t ya?
This theory seems to ignore the possibility of people voting, or calling their representatives (neither of which require prison sentences or death).
> constantly having to provide ID to everyone

I live in WA and for the past 5+ years I've only ever presented my driver's license to TSA agents at the airport.

...unless getting carded at the store for buying beer counts?
Is it the catching or the imprisoning NYC and many other cities are struggling with in current year?
On the other hand, NIMH says 31.1% of U.S. adults have anxiety https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/any-anxiety-disor...
Did you read the article? The rot extends much further than the surface area covered by Ublock Origin.
Yeah, Pink Trombone is awesome[0]. :D

Thanks for the link to the programmable version--I don't think I'd been aware of that previously...

[0] And, from personal experience, also rather difficult to "safely" search for if you don't quite remember its name exactly. :D
Home gardeners seem like a pretty good option here. For more regular vegetables, this is already a thing that exists with seed libraries and exchanges, and programs that preserve heirloom varietals and sell the seeds to gardeners. Buying these seeds is basically just a way to help pay for the continued cultivation by the breeder (unfortunately, unless you really know what you are doing and are quite careful, preserving a specific variety on your own in a home garden is difficult-verging-on-impossible, despite what 1000 online guides to "seed saving" will tell you).

The harder thing is the grains, since those typically require so much more work to get from the plant to the plate. I've looked into growing my own wheat before (I already have a large garden and have enough space that I could theoretically grow enough wheat to cover a substantial portion of my annual flour use), but the small scale/DIY options for threshing, sorting, grinding, and sifting are just not quite practical (for the level of effort I'm willing to put in, which I'm quite sure is higher than most home gardeners).

If a small scale solution to harvesting and processing wheat can be made relatively cheap and simple, I'd bet you could get home gardeners to support the continued cultivation of these varieties in the same way that they frequently support heirloom tomatoes etc.

Again, to be very clear, the gardeners themselves are (mostly) not doing the preserving. The plants home gardeners grow are a dead-end genetically (usually not being preserved at all, and even when they are, almost certainly representing mixes of several different varieties), but buy purchasing seeds from the larger scale growers, they are paying to support the continued cultivation of those varieties.
Of all the things that could be considered a public utility, Azure OpenAI Service ranks somewhere between Cabbage Patch dolls and Crystal Pepsi. Not only can everyone live without it, almost everyone on the planet does live without it.
> why they gave that a green light

After they came out with the Car Thing[1], I realized there may be a loose cannon over there at Spotify, and not in a fun, creative way, but in a "greenlights harebrained nonsense" way, like Netflix's "Qwikster" near-debacle.

1 https://carthing.spotify.com/
3Blue1Brown has a fantastic video on GPT that I'd highly recommend called "But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers" [1]. You'll need to have some background in mathematical reasoning, but not too much. He does a great job of drawing pictures to show the mathematical transformations that happen under the hood.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
thanks! that was titus :)
I'm updating to bookworm on my daily driver laptop today - testing the full system backup now.

I've had minimal issues recently with debian but decades of debacles (not just debian, everything from RSX-11 to windows server) have made me cautious. So exhausted with wasted time.
Quite far. Not only do you need to synthesize the proper genomic sequence (barely possible), but it needs to be packed into a valid chromosome structure with a valid epigenome.

Then that needs to be placed into a cell with valid RNAs, compatible chloroplasts and mitochondria, compatible proteins in a compatible configuration, etc.

Creating all of that de novo for a plant is well beyond current capabilities.

This is why when we clone e.g. a sheep, we transfer a nucleus from the cell of one individual into the cell of a different individual. It is much easier to mix and match pieces of different cells from the same species, than to create those pieces from raw materials.
I’m surprised to learn that one rotation every 2.6 seconds is the fastest we’ve ever seen. That actually seems kind of slow. I can think of lots of things that rotate faster than that, including me if I want to. Is this mainly because the solar system is old and energy has dissipated over time?
> Electron is becoming synonymous to shoddily built apps

Isn't that just because Electron makes it so easy to build cross-platform apps? That's a reason to use it!
Maybe your standards are refined now that you're older?

My kids love crap food, and I sometimes have to sigh and go to places I'd rather not go because my kids think it's the best thing since sliced bread.

Granted, my only experience with LJS are stories from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Coyne (2nd paragraph, "Early Life" section.)
The UCSD P-System is the ancestor of many later byte-code VMs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal
If anxiety is a “mental health issue” then 100% of people have mental health issues. Show me a person who’s not anxious about at least something in their life. But it’s especially prominent for entrepreneurs who take on a lot more risk than a normal person
So is the path to create an extension and hope that someone with a deeper understanding can pull the main features into postgres major_version+1?
Creating artificial seeds, from scratch, based on a stored DNA sequence? Pretty far - that's still SciFi at this point.
The catch-22 is that being data-driven means being driven by what data you can measure. And that is an absolutely gobsmackingly fatal flaw.

For a 1000+ page exposition on why this is such a fatal flaw see James C. Scott's 1990s tome "Seeing Like a State" which addresses precisely this issue with receipts brought from fields ranging from agriculture, urban planning, politics, family naming systems, and more across at least 4 or 5 continents and a century.

It's an essential non-partisan read that manages to piss everyone off by being a peon to left anarchism in many ways while saying "actually yes Hayek was right about sensitivity to local conditions" and "actually the NHS and NWS are good and sometimes centralized planning isn't the worst solution".

I've not seen any direct link between them but I feel like you can draw a very firm line between it and Piketty's Capital and Ideology. You might think "wait isn't Piketty the guy who's completely data driven and publishes stupidly large amounts of xlsx files as appendices" and you'd be right except in his second book he's leaning far more heavily on sociology and just using financial data (much imputed from tax records) as support for sociological arguments that align very closely in many respects.
As I understand the gross summarization of Chinese culture is that they're extremely family oriented. Anecdotally I've heard of grandmas acting like their homeless to earn a little money to give to a grandson which drives a Ferrari. They do it because they love and maximize for the next generation.
Not really. It depends more on how you interpret the phrase "the dumb ones." It's clear that if the IQ distribution of prisoners skews lower than the general population, then we only catch "the dumb ones" with respect to the general population. What isn't necessarily clear is that we only catch "the dumb ones" with respect to the IQ distribution of all criminals. (I don't think we even know or have any good way of determining what the IQ distribution of all criminals even is, do we?) It's just another instance where plain language can fail to be precise.
I have good experience with https://wails.io. It uses a Go backend and a JavaScript frontend with Go functions exposed to the JavaScript side, and events with senders and listeners on both sides. All without the enormous bloat of Electron.

On the JavaScript side you can use whatever you like: plain JavaScript, react, vue, svelte, … whatever you’re familiar with.

And it can cross compile to Windows, Mac and Linux, so all major platforms covered.
That's some impressive development speed. Really enjoyed the explainer video too!
Because PE equity owners DO have different incentives. It's reasonable to think things that are true.

PE is incentivised to squeeze the business and extract the value built up over time, to get large, quick returns, even if it destroys the business (they can sell the corpse after). A restaurant which delivers regular, single-digit restaurant margins indefinitely would be considered a PE investment failure.

So, the answer your 2nd question is also "because it's true". I'm happy to be convinced otherwise on either count, if you think differently.
I'd guess it's more because Google's search is heavily pressured by the AI-generated sites, and Google is trying to depress anything which might be described as "a small superset of the AI-generated sites".
Afaik (not my field, but well-docunented) prop shops like Jane Street don't take outside money.

So they're incentivized to allow as many of their employees to invest as possible.
It may be true in the literal sense that "the developer talent pool for C++ is much larger than Rust" in that there are more C++ developers than Rust developers, but if I can plug my own research a bit: at least for open source projects, rewriting in Rust seems to increase the number of contributors, across all experience levels.

https://cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/gradingcurve-secdev23.pdf
> It feels like we need to wait for the underlying technology to advance before we can get to the next set of interesting products.

I think it shows a lack of creativity to say this, because existing technologies can definitely be used in novel ways to create value. Perhaps we just love to imagine new technologies as engineers.

But for example, the iPhone was nothing "new" in terms of hard tech but it definitely changed the world.
> s outside now when no one else is around and without evidence to show COVID transmission can happen in these conditions, it must be a practice for non-medical reasons.

Actually, masking outdoors is fantastic for my allergies, which are one of the main triggers for my asthma. To be clear I use the 3M Aura 9210, which is a very good N95 (actually meets N99 standards based on independent tests, but no one buys those so they are labeled as N95). Very good against my broad spectrum allergies to "the outside" (dust, mold, ragweed, pollen, etc).
He gave you 5 liberal countries and you literally had to reach for North Korea for your false equivalence?
The future is bright. AI is turning out just like all the sci-fi we software engineers were inspired by.

Thanks, SV!

> “This is most evident when the content in question is extremely low-quality, comically absurd or offensive in some way,” Schoolcraft added. “Whether it's a child transforming into a water bottle cyborg, a three-armed flight attendant rescuing Tiger Jesus from a muddy plane crash, or a hybrid human-monkey baby being stung to death by giant hornets, all tend to have copy+pasted captions, reactions & comments which usually make no sense in the observed context. It's as if everything from the creation of the images, to the daily management of the accounts, to their fan base and interactions, has been automated to optimize whatever revenue stream this genre helps generate.”

What exactly is the revenue stream of bots talking to bots? I see how Facebook would make money from this, but not how all the people involved in creating these bots would benefit.
Is the website wrong? The repository for the toolkit is MIT, but the website says free for under $1million...

https://github.com/unoplatform/uno.toolkit.ui/blob/main/LICE...

https://platform.uno/uno-toolkit/

DEV FRIENDLY LICENSING

Uno Toolkit License

Uno Toolkit is available for free for individual developers and businesses with revenue of less than USD 1,000,000. If your revenue exceeds this threshold, please reach out to us to obtain a license for Uno Toolkit and access the complete suite of development accelerators.
In that sample the foreground scrolls perfectly smoothly for me, but the background looks jittery. This indicates to me that it's not a platform issue at all. That sample is just doing something weird with the background.
Capacity and Practicality are the major difference. If you do ignore those though, vinyl is a much better long-term data storage solution than CD.

A quick internet search suggest that a regular 12" record should have a capacity of around ~10-20MB. That is just enough to store one regular JPG photo.

There seem to be print shops that will press records for you at the cost of around ~$100/copy (minimum run 100 copies).

So to back up my ~1,000-ish photos per year I just need a climate controlled warehouse and 99 friend-with-warehouses to distribute backups too!
How does this work with super technical topics? I'm account-o-phobic, but I'd be curious to know how this handles something like superconductivity.
Chinampa
>quick, easy, and good value

And for many, especially perhaps people out of their twenties, they want something at a level above the traditional fast food chains.

But I basically agree. If I have to I'll go to a standard dinner chain either because there aren't other options where I am or I'm dragged there by friends. But I'd never do it around home and would try to do my best to find other options when traveling--although, on the road, some brand recognition of this isn't awful may be a trigger.
> deeper understanding can pull the main features into postgres major_version+1?

for a lot of stuff you don't need it, sometimes even don't want it
Doctor, dentist, employers, educational institutions. [edit] all financial institutions, lenders, et c

Unless you’re buying everything with cash, your purchasing history will be connected to it, too. Where you drive (license plate scanning and data-sharing is widespread). Facial recognition in stores means paying cash might not even help (seen the ones that highlight your face on a monitor when you walk in the store?)

But we have to pretend we don’t have a national ID system any time it might be convenient to a person to have that.
DOE Finalizes Efficiency Standards for Water Heaters to Save Americans over $7B
I have a system running Debian LTS for ~2 years, with Firefox ESR. No complaints, no nightmares. So far it's just working!
Amazing. I’m looking at building an app to look over the employment sections of the legal code and come back with results if things are allowed or not.

Answering questions like:

Can my employer do X?
As an employee in this country, what’s my minimum days off I can take?

And so on.

If your claims are true, then this will be exactly what I’m looking for.