skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a feedback loop and moral hazard, so you need some fixed punishment as deterrent.

If a unique situation not likely to reoccur is an defense for criminal behavior, Then this rule provides the unique situation.

Imagine a rule that rehabilitation is the punishment for a first murder. For a rational person, this is a free pass to commit exactly one murder, because as soon as they do, they have every reason to avoid the 2nd and require no rehabilitation for compliance.
AI #63: Introducing Alpha Fold 3
There's some good movies based around deafness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODA_(2021_film)

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

And a bad video game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Man_(video_game)
Compilers are really smart. It's easy enough in the modern world to demand that a "type" field be checked against all enumerants, preserving the "semantic win". A plain old C switch statement with gcc -Wall will do this today, in fact.
TSLA is still #13 in the S&P500. Regardless of any judgements against Elon the market still is placing a value on the company.
So why can't you get sentenced for trespassing and agricultural interference if you trespassed into a facility and recorded animals? I didn't see anything in UT laws preventing concurrent sentences for those. Why do you think those can't be sentenced together?
I love it when Nagle's algorithm comes up on HN. Inevitably someone, not knowing "Animats" is John Nagle, responds a comment from Animats with a "knowing better" tone. >smile<

(I also really like Animats' comments, too.)
The CEOs Who Just Won't Quit
https://archive.is/X9pIq
That is really unfortunate, because it removes the only advantage of using the web to begin with. Hopefully you guys are able to find a solution.
RIP Paleo
It's a Medicare requirement that hospitals provide stabilizing care.
Once Arm and battery life shift occurs with Linux and Windows, they'll (ie. Apple) be on the front foot again with something new, that's the beauty of competition.
Theres no smoothing involved, it's three distinct domains with different function definitions. Top part is log(x) from [a,\infty), bottom part is -log(-x) from (-\infty,-a] and the middle part is cx from (-a,a). With c chosen to ensure continuity in the transform.

In the example from matplotlib I linked in the earlier comment they call out that the symlog transform has a discontinous gradient at the a's, and that the asinh transform can be used instead if that's a problem.

Edit: On reflection it's probably not entirely correct to talk about it as choosing an appropriate c. Since that transform seems to kinda break apart around a=1. Simpler to consider it a matter of plotting on a logarithmic scale down to some value. Then continuing the plot on a linear scale until you reach the negative value on the other side and then plotting on a negative logarithmic scale (-log(|x|)).
Finally a chance to ask a developer directly about this infuriating password restriction I occasionally see on websites

Spaces are not allowed

Why not?
I wonder how much of this will be leaking i to the API or maybe you'll have a price point which includes certain "data sources" and another where these are filtered out?
I'm sure it's inconvenient, but it's hard for me to believe that this isn't a solvable problem.

Satellites have extremely predictable paths and are very well-tracked by every government with a space program. If you can know a source of noise is there, you can trim the noise out of the signal. Sure, this impacts the fidelity of your signal for the three-dimensional coordinates of image where the noise was present, but "We're getting less science per day" isn't a reason to stop the low-orbit satellite boom.

What am I missing here? Can we not do the signal-subtraction? Is the problem unsolved or unsolvable? And if it's unsolved... Where are the grants to solve it?
configuration profiles you need to create the configuration files, send to the device, import.

And if you need to make some changes you need to do it all again..

with this tool you have an interface to configure everything, it only make make the process easier..
But doesn’t the problem only occur when these safeguards fail?

I mean - I get that you’re saying Google has fewer checks and balances than AWS, but at some point it must be possible for the customer contact process to go wrong.

It’s an extra slice of Swiss cheese, but it only makes it less likely, not impossible.
Forget satellites; you can't do raw long-exposure for "serious" terrestrial-based astronomy anymore because you'll get planes in the way.
> What is wrong with launching a water-cooled reactor to Mars?

Water is heavy and difficult to replace if lost for whatever reason.
I know a lady whose entire job was literally replaced by an Excel spreadsheet that I created in a few nights of intense VB programming. It wasn't my intention to "eliminate jobs". Anyways, I got basically nothing "extra" from the company for that extra-credit work. Moral of the story is that there are plenty of problems to be solved but our compensation is only based on what we can negotiate.
WSL has been able to open graphical Linux apps for a while. They use Wayland (with FreeRDP to the Windows Host) and XWayland for X11 apps.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wslg-architecture...
It'd be so cool if we can put up a huge antenna / scope on the far side of the moon. You'd be completely shielded from all human noise
> It should be something that an engineer needs to be forced to set while creating a socket, instead of letting the OS choose a default.

If the intention is mostly to fix applications with bad `write`-behavior, this would make setting TCP_DELAY a pretty exotic option - you would need a software engineer to be both smart enough to know to set this option, but not smart enough to distribute their write-calls well and/or not go for writing their own (probably better fitted) application-specific version of Nagles.
This is also how movie trailers work in general, they make multiple that emphasise different elements of the film for different audiences.
That reduces expected consequences, but I don’t see how that changes the problem.
Plaintext, works where archive.is is blocked:

x=http://www.wired.com/story/ethereums-co-founder-says-sec-is-gaslighting-us-about-crypto/
tnftp -o/dev/stdout $x \
|busybox grep -o articleBody\":\".*\"isBasedOn \
|busybox sed 's/.\{14\}//;s/.\{12\}$//;s/\\n/@@/g' \
|busybox tr @@ '\n' \
|busybox fold -s > 1.txt

less 1.txt
They were also very clearly labeled, unlike other search engines of the time.

I have no expectation that OpenAI will make it clear what content is part of a placement deal and what content isn't.
I count 13 on wikipedia's list of the largest telescopes. There are 3 more currently under construction. The evocatively named "Extremely Large Telescope" is estimated to cost about $1 billion USD. Who knows how much it will actually cost, but for comparison, that's about $400 million less (adjusted for inflation) than the budgeted cost of the Webb telescope, which is about 1/6 the planned size (and therefore 1/36 the light collecting capability).

edit: italicized above. The Webb ended up costing $10 billion, so the savings could be even larger
Including, notably, better astronomy.

Imagine a radio telescope as a satellite constellation, with an aperture the diameter of the orbit if you can synchronize the incoming signal with the right math...
Why would you assemble it at L2 instead of assembling it in LEO and then sending it out on its own?
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> you can have an exactly-once guarantee within this small system

It's actually harder to do this in a small system. I submit a message to the queue, and it's saved and acknowledged. Then the hard drive fails before the message is requested by a consumer. It's gone. Zero deliveries, or "at most once".

> If the DB is full, you can't get new messages and they might get dropped

In this case, I'd expect the producer to receive a failure, so technically there's nothing to deliver.

> if the threads picking up events get stuck or die

While this obviously affects delivery, this is a concurrency bug and not a fundamental design choice. The failures folks usually refer to in this context are ones that are outside of your control, like hardware failures or power outages.
Did you factor in the fuel to get to where it needs to be?
Maybe lisp is so niche that even a rather small interest makes HN relatively lispy?
Surprised not seeing a reference to the book "Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food" by "Chris van Tulleken". The article looks like it comes straight from the book.
I see this as an extremely negative market signal. Basically all of what could have been collapses to a search competitor. It's not a sign of a bright future for real advances. Is there any other way to look at it?
If you paid attention, "this time" and also the "other hundred million times" are true, not false.

We're massively more connected than ever before.

Homeless people in the third world have phones now. They should be able to get on the internet too.
> Two identical spacecraft could travel the same distance between Earth and Mars and arrive at wildly different times.

Okay, but this is one spacecraft with a single stated time.

So, does that mean it takes the same time regardless of when it was launched in the cycle? Or, does the two month figure only apply to launches at or near the minimum distance?
There's not a lot of difference between the algorithm interview and the leetcode interview--leetcode is just a story problem around some kind of basic algorithmic problem.

I've done multiple interviews where they use some site and you're expected to plow through 10 questions or whatever in 60 minutes. You can subscribe to the site to practice. Gazillions of employers use this site or one like it.
Madoka is heavily inspired by Goethe's Faust [0]! Walpurgisnacht is a (rather irrelevant) scene in the latter, iirc one episode had random quotes on the wall, and the thematic similarities are very hard to not notice.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust
your account still has 99.99999% durability, stop complaining
Funny because I feel the opposite. Health care is so broken with all the politics, insurance, bureaucracy, financialization, etc that the vast majority of people are not able to reap the rewards of progress. Even the science is perverted because of bad incentives and only potentially lucrative research is funded.
Until we put satellites around the Moon.
Indeed. The big obstacle for kids is when the entire sky is washed out with sodium vapor light and maybe you can see Vega.
> I have doubts about how easy it is to build an extensive shelter with air conditioning in areas that don't even have an electricity supply.

Picking on this as the best example of the thinking; the problem here is that people are living in terrible conditions. The urgency of the situation ... almost doesn't change if they are about to be hit by a new crisis in 20 years. It is urgent, right now, to set up an electrical plant, grid and other infrastructure. Conditions are already bad enough that they should mass-migrate.

I agree the west is probably going to leave Africa to their own devices; but the Africans have agency too. They should copy the successful parts of what China did as a matter of life-and-death urgency.

> I think you're treating climate change as a single event that can be dealt with, but the truth is closer to a fast changing series of events that will overwhelm governments as they'll still be reacting to the first catastrophe when the next one comes and then the next one and so on.

Governments don't provide food, build shelter or keep people cool in summer (well, I suppose public housing is an exception but it isn't the norm). Them being overwhelmed doesn't have that much bearing on the important stuff.

> It's like an insurance company hedging money against a once-in-a-hundred years event, but when those events happen every couple of years, the company will find itself bankrupt.

That seems unlikely, actually. They'd adjust their coverage and premiums to remain profitable. Insurance companies hire some of the best actuaries and forecasters. Your positing that they're going to be caught completely by surprise from things that are common knowledge problems - always possible I suppose, but not really the baseline expectation.

> when the big problem is that we're seeing unprecedented weather events - it's not going to be like anything that we've encountered previously

Yes and no. They will be unprecedented, but we're not talking magnitudes that are that outside the human experience. The pitch I'm seeing seems to be there will be week-long (maybe month-long in some areas) periods where humans can't survive without shelter. Some of the most prosperous regions of the earth already have that problem.

And you've convinced me that people currently so poor as to be at risk of famine are probably going to be hit by famines; but not that anyone else is. So it seems quite likely that the status quo will be preserved. And the solution is for the poorer countries to build up their industry, not for anyone else to shrink theirs.
This is an extraordinary amount of magic. I think I'll just stick to Vite/React, thanks.
In many cases, the issue isn't cost to run but cost to maintain.

Consider South Africa, where the largest threat to installation deployment is inability to police the entire deployment coupled with massive wealth inequality... People just dig the cables out of the ground for the copper. Cellular radio has ameliorated the issue some (harder to steal the repeater antenna out of the back yard of a shotgun-owning resident), but Internet can still be a challenge.
I have always avoided this DNS library in favour of alternatives. It is one of the reasons I dislike curl/libcurl.
I expected to read that and find it was a fluke accident. Instead, it reads like the scientists shrugged before the injection and said, “What’s the worst that could happen?”

That’s unreal. It killed monkeys under similar circumstances and the kid wasn’t at his healthiest at the time of treatment either. Did they not care or was there some reason to believe that outcome was virtually improbable?
Does the table of contents work if the pdf doesn't come with a table of contents? (That's something I always wished my pdf reader could do)
Propellant is very cheap.
The Kiswa: The story behind the covering of the holy Kaaba
The world has probably passed peak pollution
The interactive visualization is pretty great. Try zooming in on the slices and then scrolling up or down through the layers. Also try zooming in on the 3D model. Notice how hovering over any part of a neuron highlights all parts of that neuron:

http://h01-dot-neuroglancer-demo.appspot.com/#!gs://h01-rele...
You stop them using it for meat they’ll use it for palm oil you stop them using it for that they’ll use it for something else. It’s just so naive to expect it just to switch to something they can sell. Like they own it they can do what they want with it, if you want it to be trees pay them for it to be trees. Just because some NGO likely scam failed to do it under a climate banner doesn’t mean it’s impossible, someone pays them to use the land for meat right? So pay for it to be trees in the same channels.
I strongly endorse both of the mentioned movies. They're both excellent.
Anecdotally, I know of one hearing person raised by deaf parents, and he's fluent in sign language. There's no isolation between them.
I highly recommend Harmonious.ai written by the folks at AI2 Incubator who are brilliant and reputable.
And—more important and scarce for some of us—attention.
Super hard.

You have to dig a trench or span the wire. Either way you need to clear it with numerous property owners over a vast distance, get approval from dozens of authorities along the way, coordinate work crews, and then do maintenance on the whole thing for decades.

And then you discover that the wire used 50 years ago contained lead and we don't like that anymore, so now you have to pay for massive lawsuits (look up AT&T & Verizon) and rip up all that wire. More coordinating work crews and property owners!

And then they invent a new kind of wire and you have to do it all again.

Launching 1000's of satellites isn't easy but I can see wanting to do that rather than wire up the whole planet.
I'm not even going to discuss whether or not things are actually slowing down since I disagree with that.

But I do feel confident that an AI winter is not on the horizon solely due to the overhead of implementation that we currently have. Just with currently existing AI, it would take years for the economy to fully leverage the abilities that are available. I'm confident we have transformative AI. So it won't feel like a winter for several years as we actually succeed in optimizing, implementing, and productizing current technology in other industries.
> Startup Perplexity, which has a valuation of $1 billion, was founded by a former OpenAI researcher, and has gained traction through providing an AI-native search interface that shows citations in results and images as well as text in its responses. It has 10 million monthly active users, according to a January blog post from the startup.

Who can tell me how and why is Perplexity.ai is worth $1BN? How much revenue are they making vs the amount of money they are burning? What is the justification of this valuation?

Since those 'citations' and 'search results' are all from (guess where) Google Search! So Perplexity's sources are no better than Google. Additionally, I do not know anyone outside of this AI tech bubble that knows about 'Perplexity' and they only have heard of Google, Bing and ChatGPT.

The hype around Perplexity seems to be another co-ordinated VC vehicle for another company to acquire them at an inflated valuation and it looks like it is going to be no-one else but Amazon Inc.

This hype is almost the same as the Clubhouse hype which that company is somehow worth $4BN when it clearly isn't. Given that Google now offers search grounding, enterprise-level generative AI features for GCP customers, Perplexity's valuation obviously looks significantly inflated for the deliberate purpose of someone else acquiring them.

The result is predictable and unsurprising. I predict that Perplexity will just get acquired by a big tech company.
Ok, who funds it? National Science Foundation doesn't allocate nearly enough money as it is, let alone enough to replace the tens to hundreds of active telescopes producing scientific data every night. And those telescopes are already oversubscribed with people waiting in line for available time. So unless we're slowing astronomy to a halt, we'd need similar numbers of telescopes.

And none of that takes into account that many of these telescopes are used specifically as experimenter telescopes where a given scientist can use their own equipment to perform unique observations that cannot be easily done with space-based telescopes.

It took over a decade to produce the Webb telescope and get it into space, and still is a massive feat of engineering not easily reproduced. We're not nearly to a point where we can just write off ground-based observatories in place of space-based ones.
I've replied to a few comments here pointing out why NZ and Canada would be considered both on the same footing as part of the Empire but also not at the same time.

Unlike, say the US, independence for the former Dominions isn't something you can pin point to one event. It is mostly a slow evolution of the legal environment and cultural separation over the course of more than a century. (In NZ's case you could argue that it took 163 years, or is not done yet because reasons.)

The actual difference between the Canadian "expedition" and the one that included Hillary is that the Canadian one was just some dude. One guy that wanted to try his luck, whereas the British one was organised (and I believe paid for) in Britain. It just happened to have a Kiwi on it.
Prometheum's Contentious Answer to Crypto Compliance Is Running Late
>Surveillance is there to consolidate power, safety is a smokescreen.

This is another vague allusion. Consolidate power for whom? How exactly does it do so? What, specifically, is this "power" and how is it used against American citizens?

>it doesn't deliver on the parroted benefits

The article referenced here is from 2014, so not exactly up-to-date. And, in multiple instances, the authors acknowledge that they don't even know whether the programs were used.

In still other cases, they acknowledge the programs' use in prosecuting terrorists, but casually cast them aside as a low percentage. OK. But, who wants to sign up for "just a few terror incidents"?

>Want a grim reality check

Another report from 2014, and additionally has nothing to do with the subject. "Someone in the government did something wrong in this completely unrelated way 10 years ago" is not a valid argument.
I think it's just an attempt to generate revenue to fund the insane cost of compute. Research will still happen. But after all, this isn't a charitable or non-profit organization (despite the complicated company structure). OpenAI basically wants to make a profit, and so their efforts will always point in that direction.
+1 for the complexity to install extensions.

I really can't remember the name sioyek so I made it an alias to xpdf.
It's getting to the point it's not even worthwhile to run power lines to remote locations.
These conversations are pointless to have because you are stating your particular preference for hardware, but those preferences are defined by a more intrinsic preference for Apple.

What is going on mentally is that you chose a product based on something else than objective metrics (usually vanity), however for whatever reason it seems shameful to admit that to yourself, so instead what you do is that you implicitly assume that all of the properties of that object is good, and that anything that doesn't have that is bad.

This is a common human bias btw, nothing wrong with that. But you should be aware of this. Because , the annoying part of it, and arguably self destructive, is when you start making crazy incorrect objective statements about the world based on those biases like "the keyboards and trackpads on a lot of the non-Apple laptops out there are very bad".

Instead, you should say "I just really like the feeling of using an Apple product, and Im ok with paying more for that even I don't get any objective advantage, and I don't care enough to explore switching cause it works for me".
It seems to me that one problem is that regular people who are interested in astronomy don't have access to space based telescopes. I'm not sure I'd want to live in a world where there's that degree of class divide between astronomers who do and do not have access to that kind of funding.
I just think it odd that you predict their "survival" rate will be lower than those born poor.

I think it goes without saying that it would be a rough transition if you swapped two people. I expect the long term outcome would be better for a rich person swapped into poverty, than if the poor person who stayed.

I think this because they statistically and experientially I think they have more of the skills necessary to escape poverty: education, trades, social coding, ect.

You see this often with immigrants to the US, and is especially pronounced in the works of Raj Chetty and Ran Abramitzky.

When you take someone successful in one country and have them start over poor in another. The immigrants do better over the course of their lives, and the children of poor immigrants do FAR better than the children of native born poor.

https://www.amazon.com/Streets-Gold-Americas-Immigrant-Succe...
My understanding (as a very amateur astrononer) is that it's an entirely different sort of scope - very wide field, with the ability to track extermely faint objects, rather than magnification of a much smaller field. I.e. we'd need to build and launch another immense scope to get the same sky-mapping ability.