skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as the units are correct and people understand those, I'm not too worried about "energy" vs "power".
One point about storage- it's economically driven. If there was a demand signal (say, the government dedicated a few hundred billion dollars to a single storage systems), hard drive manufacturers could deploy much more storage in a year. I've pointed this out to a number of scientists, but none of them could really think of a way to get the government to spend that much money just to store data without it curing a senator's heart disease.
> People can't get the regular changes of DST and February 29 correct, and you want them to get a one-off change right?

Leap seconds are already rare enough that people can't handle them properly. Every time one happens the bug fixes from the last one have been undone.
Is there some maximum level of development you want? And what is that level, and why?

Where do you want to draw the line? The wheel, fire, hand tools, struggling to survive in the middle ages, slow internet, fast internet?

I say there is no line.
If I understand correctly you're saying that people having a lack of free will cuts out the legs from the rationale for punishing people if they have not chosen to do something wrong. The five purposes for punishment as I understand it are generally deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, retribution and restitution.

Retribution and restitution as punishments don't seem justifiable without free will or the ability to have mens rea, but punishments for the sake of deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation still seem reasonable if free will is assumed to not exist. For example incapacitating someone who is clinically insane and dangerous is already considered reasonable, and not on the grounds that they have using free will chosen to be insane.
> The shear amount of magic boilerplate vite creates to make react app work is quite uncomprehensible.

What?

pnpm create vite

pnpm i

pnpm run dev

...you're done? Delete all files in `src` and make a single `main.tsx` with `ReactDOM.render` if you really wanna start from scratch.
Fans cool things down when those things are hotter than the air.
Interesting. I had heard that it came from the Greek όλα καλά (ola kala) which literally means "all good" (and makes more sense than it being a misspelling).
Only if you intend to stand near it while it's running. Not trying to be glib, just pointing out that at least initially, there might not be any humans near. Admittedly, radiation might be a bother for high density electronics (CPUs, RAM, etc), but maybe it'd be cheaper to shield the bot-brains. Bots could rely on the power for a few years and when the humans get there, if nothing else you could drop all the rods in and let the rad flux die down.

I know, I wouldn't want that in my back yard either, but Mars is exactly nobody's back yard at present. Bootstrapping a (necessarily!) technological civilisation on another planet is not an un-risky business.
Anyone who can't see through the 'verbal facade' is not that good. They may be very smart, but not at a bonafide genius level.
I remember reading Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman and how he described back then how the world is full of dumb smart-alec and I get reminded how that still holds true.
I'm an anesthesiologist, which curiously enough is a lacuna in pretty much every religion that has opinions about medical treatment. Oh, it's not okay to take this drug or that one, but you're totally fine with being in a medically induced coma? Whatevs, bro.
Yea but they're making money on simple things and you're not.
Has LA's waymo started accepting paid trips already? I thought they were in testing and riders were waitlisted still. I always see them around my work on the Westside, but they never have passengers. I'm kind of excited to try it once.
As a counterpoint, here's the story of how for me it wasn't TCP_NODELAY: for some reason my Nodejs TCP service was talking a few seconds to reply to my requests in localhost (Windows machine). After the connection was established everything was pretty normal but it consistently took a few seconds to establish the connection.

I even downloaded netcat for Windows to go as bare ones as possible... and the exact same thing happened.

I rewrote a POC service in Rust and... oh wow, the same thing happens.

It took me a very long time of not finding anything on the internet (and getting yelled at in Stack Overflow, or rather one of its sister sites) and painstakingly debugging (including writing my own tiny client with tons of debug statements) until I realized "localhost" was resolving first to IPv6 loopback in Windows and, only after quietly timing out there (because I was only listening on IPv4 loopback), it did try and instantly connect through IPv4.
It's just a little spark of inspiration.
> the photo illustrations used in the article are selected to make things seem worse than they really are

Exactly. I do a LOT of astrophotography and satellite trails are actually very easy to get rid of. Even the stupidest, most naive outlier rejection techniques, such as taking a stack of tracked images, finding their mean and standard deviation, throwing out any data points outside of 2 standard deviations, and then re-averaging, will get rid of the satellites very cleanly. You can go to more advanced techniques such as doing linear fits and RANSAC and whatnot, but you get the idea.

NOT doing any outlier rejection, just taking the mean of all the images will show the satellite tracks, but very dimly. The people who are trying to make noise on social media deliberately and disingenuously take the max() instead of the mean() to make the problem seem worse than it is.

That said -- in all of my imaging sessions, aircraft are a much, much, much bigger problem than satellites, and still easy to deal with. Yet nobody makes any noise about aircraft.
Performance aside, it's also really nice how a protobuf spec tells you what data structure to expect ahead of time for an API.
Pain is the main disability; most days I walk well enough that no one can tell I have issues, but the pain can make it hard to concentrate on my work. That said, some days I have little pain and so it is hard to commit to a surgery when I have a string of good days.
It’s usually quite easy to replicate your backups to another completely independent AWS account (not in the same organization, different payment method, etc).

You’re taking the backups anyway, why not at least store them somewhere that can’t be deleted by the same red button as the original data?
My favorite example of that was a while ago, "vixie-cron will read a cron stanza from a core dump written to /etc/cron.d" when you could convince it to write a core dump there. The other crons wouldn't touch that, but vixie-cron happily chomped through the core dump for "* * * * * root chmod u+s /tmp/uhoh" etc.
> I say there is no line.

I say there is one: survival. Not only of our species, but of the others, too. We're failing at that, and the vast majority of the technology that got developed in the last decades is making things worse.
If you ever visit SF, make sure to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s scenic as all hell, but also gratingly loud and unpleasant from the road noise (note the term is road noise not engine noise)

Running next to >30mph street is a mentally taxing experience. Running on a road or trail without traffic is amazing and one realizes a mental burden is removed by eliminating the noise and extra attention required for safety.
"k" is hardly neutral though, it usually sends a pretty specific message...
Sure, because that is the only alternative to fiber. /s
This is exactly how pgmq is implemented, + the usage of VT.
Would love to hear more about the scale issues you saw. How many workflows or actions was too many? which components started breaking down, what were their failure modes?
Fascinating! I wonder how different that is from the mind of a man haha
You are defining "reproducible" according to your own terms and I guess that's OK as it appears there is not a global definition right now (check [1][2][3]).

But consider that others really expect data and full transparency to call research "reproducible", so is not as simple as you make it sound. Plus, grandparent is not asking about the dataset perse, but rather the dataset summary statistics or at least metadata/information about the dataset, a bare minimum in my view.

Being this opaque only messes up research efforts from other institutions.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3383002/?ref=da...

[2] https://researchguides.uic.edu/reproducibility

[3] https://open-science-training-handbook.github.io/Open-Scienc...
Where are you getting this nonsense from, and if you're just speculating, why are you stating it with such confidence as a fact? Protobufs predate Go by more than half a decade, and there is no overlap between the authors.
Wow, that's a hilarious hot take to hear in 2024. I get that some people associate skateboarding with all that, but then again, there are some folks who just trespass and cause property damage on their feet. Almost as though there's a correlation rather than causation.
I use an iPad Pro as a teacher. I value the pencil and the screen size. Much of what I do ultimately involves A4 paper, so the screen size is a good match.

A lot of teachers now project their iPad screen wirelessly in class, sometimes almost to the exclusion of any other teaching method.

I value the high performance both for everyday ease of use and specifically for screen recordings.

It is not a laptop replacement; it is a wonderful complement.
Computation is really integrated through every scale of cellular systems. Individual proteins are capable of basic computation which are then integrated into regulatory circuits, epigenetics, and cellular behavior.

Pdf: “Protein molecules as computational elements in living cells - Dennis Bray”
https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~basu/Papers/Bray-Protein%20Computing...
Ozempic Is Repairing a Hole in Our Diets Created by Processed Foods
I appreciate you're running the numbers to extrapolate this approach, but just wanted to note that this particular figure isn't an upper bound nor a longer bound for actually storing the "state of a single human brain". Assuming the intent would be to store the amount of information needed to essentially "upload" the mind onto a computer emulation, we might not yet have all the details we need in this kind of scanning, but once we do, we may likely discover that a huge portion of it is redundant.

In any case, it seems likely that we're on track to have both the computational ability and the actual neurological data needed to create an "uploaded intelligences" sometime over the next decade. Lena [0] tells of the first successfully uploaded scan taking place in 2031, and I'm concerned that reality won't be far off.

[0] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
Ozempic or Bust
How's OpenWorm coming along?
Just because they advertise "liquid-cooled cable" doesn't mean that the primary intended beneficiary of the cooling effect is the wire-bits. It could instead be the handle-bits.

Both of these bits are constituent parts of the greater assembly commonly called a "charging cable," which includes [at least] both wire and connectors, and sometimes a handle.
Is Google UX Design Certificate Worth It?
I am hoping to move from a mostly backend role into a frontend role that has to interact with design teams. Basically I'm hoping to land a frontend role where the design matters, like a user-facing website. Eventually, I would like to move into something like a UX developer role which actually takes part in the UX design process while still being (at least partially) a programming job.

My background includes 5 years experience with both backend and frontend work, but is heavily skewed towards the backend. I am working on this also by trying to position myself for any frontend work that comes up, but that's a work-in-progress for sure.

Without a lot of frontend work to put on a resume, I'm looking for alternative ways to signal that I am motivated and capable of working in these kinds of roles. I was hoping that going through the UX Design certificate (on Coursera), and implementing the design projects that I would have to create as part of the program, would give me a resume filler and also some interesting projects to add to my portfolio site. My question is, given my background would this be worth my time, or is there a better way to signal that I am a strong candidate for the roles I'm going for?
Lighten up, old thing. Miri Webs says its all gravy.

You bother with your shift key and putting quotes around pertinent terms in HN comments. Hence, I'll deduce that you do care about grammar and presentation when random strangers from another country get to read it and comment. However, I'm also sure that you (and so do I) prefer a more relaxed presentation when dealing with your mates.

If the recipients know you then they know you! If not: who gives a shit?

Now, do tell what is wrong with boomers? ... 8)
What's the end goal of modern medicine though? Immortality? You can perhaps reduce suffering to nil, but you can't cheat death.
Interesting. Most of the time the sentences in your prompts don't even contain a predicate.

I tried that with the two examples from before. Mixed results.

Still had one comment telling me to finish it myself in the SNES PPU example, but that's a lot fewer than before. Unfortunately, when I told it to do the work, it gave me a more complete, but not totally complete header without mentioning that it was incomplete. It also took a few tries and I had to regenerate a response that started generating garbage code and then error'd out.

I checked to make sure that ChatGPT had no memory of previous conversations related to the SNES PPU. So I suspect this has more to do with the task given than the prompting style.

https://chat.openai.com/share/8703a48a-af72-4a9f-976e-688a26...

The parser was more interesting. I didn't remove the details of our toy language discussion from ChatGPT's memory, but I also didn't specify much in the way of what I wanted. It created some funky parser code, and I didn't try to compile it to see if it was correct, but it didn't appear to display the lazy behavior I saw before. It also titled the conversation in Spanish, even though I've never chatted in Spanish with it and I'm not fluent.

I suspect I could have gotten more correct output by giving a more detailed description of what I wanted, but I was trying to keep it simple to match your prompting style.

https://chat.openai.com/share/ccc23d98-6d4f-4be5-b9b6-b4464f...
UI Design and Prototyping Tool
Nothing in the commenter's take was skeptical of anything. It is literally a baseless accusation of conspiracy that even if true ignores the value of human life.

Skepticism is fine. Killing people because you "doubt the other party" has no place in society.

That kind of decision making, that ignores safety, should more rightly be met with jail time, not leadership in a democracy.

Thankfully for the rest of us, both parties can see that.
It's one thing to "interact with a brand" by directly using their products, it's another thing to "interact with a brand" by receiving unsolicited advertisements which get in the way of whatever you were trying to accomplish.
I didn't make you say anything. It looks like you replied to the wrong person, and in a unconstructive way. Seems you should have replied to the person about stacking penalties. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310758

You could have been constructive and said that criminal trespass was a lesser included offense under section 2d. Or should I just reply to you using a few semirandom words? Relevant search terms include: conversation, context, sentences, convey complete ideas
Not if they are heavy SUVs, because tire wear -> abrasion -> particular matter.

Not if they are accellerating faster, because 'whee! high torque, let's burn some rubber' -> even more abrasion.

Also all that shit IS NOT growing on trees, and I havn't seen even one sankey-diagram accounting for all the externalities, be they ecological or economical.

It's just one big money grab.

Churn, Churn, Churn! The wheels must turn, ever faster and hotter, until they burn. Then comes another plotter along, and tells how our ways were wrong. Here is the next solution, everything else has been a delusion!
CNN-Based Equalization for Communications: Gigabit Throughput with FPGA
to me that ad screams “i will squish all your humanly creativity into this faceless slate”.
> "“richer brand expression” in chat conversations"

When combined with their lobbying to mislead governments internationally this company makes me sick.
That's because Go is intentionally clunky and awkward in the name of "simplicity". IMO it's charming to some degree, but it's far from perfect and I think you'd need some pretty serious threats to get me to describe it as "elegant" in any way.

Rust somehow has more elegance than Go, if only in small parts. Nothing compares to Scheme in the elegance category IMO :)
Depends on what tools you give the average user.

A simple GUI wrapper around something like yt-dlp or ffmpeg would suffice for downloading DRM-free HLS videos.

As a concrete example, try

yt-dlp --format english_192-English+bestvideo https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2020/10655/3/45C0E27F-A3BA-416D-B037-9BEE7466C11F/master.m3u8

Note that --format is only required (to get the best available version) because yt-dlp appears to rely only on metadata present in the supplied .m3u8 file to determine which stream is "best", and no such metadata appears for the audio streams in this example.

For details on what yt-dlp knows about each candidate stream when attempting to choose the best, see

yt-dlp --list-formats https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2020/10655/3/45C0E27F-A3BA-416D-B037-9BEE7466C11F/master.m3u8

This would presumably not be a problem for our hypothetical "Netflix DLP.app", which could rely on whatever convention Netflix uses to indicate stream quality to its own clients when choosing streams, rather than falling back to sensible defaults for arbitrary HLS input.
So a country of 28 million wants to tell the 8+ billion people what to see ? Good luck with that.

If X (twitter) shuts their doors in Australia, it would be just a blip on its bottom line, but people in Australia will probably toss the existing Gov out of the country :)

Will be interesting to watch.
Every helicopter gets a trophy
> 15 months ago, general-purpose LLMs that have not been specifically trained on legal reasoning could score better than 90% of humans on the multistate bar exam

The claims of similar performance on coding problems were shown to be due to contamination of the training data on the tested problems. It did abysmal on problems made public after the model training cutoff.

I don’t think anyone has tested contamination for the MBE claims, but I would lean toward assuming the same issue exists for that assessment until proven otherwise.
Microsoft to Launch Mobile Game Store, Vying with Apple, Google
+1 for launch times & build sizes for web. Browser game bounce rates skyrocket after 5 seconds of loading, most Unity games exceed this. (I've worked on several of the large multiplayer web games.)

That said, I've met & work with _a lot_ of developers who shipped Unity for web solely because (a) they already knew Unity, (b) they could easily hire for Unity, (c) their art pipeline only worked with Unity, or (d) they aim to ship to mobile later. Built-in physics + better rendering + networking are usually just a bonus.
using "missed the mark" should have a prison sentence
I've already opined my thoughts on the video, no need to redo here.

Strictly speaking about the article, it feels more like 'go away' lip-service, especially seeing as the bottom contains the ad - still up on Apple's official YouTube. If they really felt it 'missed the mark' and were sorry about it, they'd have probably taken it down.
US bigcorps are already making such decisions for the rest of the world constantly.
This would fall under the deterrence category no? Assuming free will does not exist the only types of punishment that seem by and large unjustifiable without the capacity to be at fault or culpability are retributive and restitutive punishment, for the same reasons we wouldn't consider it justifiable for someone not of sound mind.
This is incredible, 5 years of not giving up, kudos. How big is your team and how did you make your money go this long?
I'm both a doctor and a SWE.
Because I'm willing to pay for it?
It really exemplifies the culture change from Steve's obsession with the INTERSECTION of humanities and science.

Silicon Valley on a mission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...
Why can't you cheat death? Excluding accidents and the like.
This isn't open source software, it's source available. I don't see any claim on that page that it's open source, the page only says "source available" instead.
I have moderate to severe hearing loss mostly in the low frequency region from otosclerosis...I use Widex Moment 440s BTE with custom ear moulds. They sound fantastic. My only complaint is that require a necklace pendant to get Bluetooth connectivity but other than that I love them. They're expensive but worth every penny IMO.
Yes - it’s a bit ironic that I have an extremely rare condition (Perthes disease) that ultimately may be resolved by a very common surgery. And it is known as one of the best as far as outcomes - the Lancet called it the surgery of the century, so I do at least have some hope there.

Good to hear you were able to mostly resolve your issue. Given your name I’m assuming you have ankylosing spondylitis - I certainly see that in joint replacement forums from time to time, often people younger than I at this point who are facing more joint issues than myself.
Did you know people had achieved manpowered flight before the Wright brothers? Can you name any of them? If you aren’t the wellspring of popularity then nobody cares.
AI-powered fighter jet takes Air Force leader for a historic ride
The number of APIs with a single JSON example as the only documentation is... unfortunate. Especially if you want to know if a field is nullable.
An FBI agent was victim of a Havana Syndrome 'attack' in Key West
Another day, another stupid "controversy" where a few Twits complain on social media simply to get attention and publications pick it up as if it's a real issue. Why waste our time?

Here's the ad:

https://youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc
>they could do more. Presumably the know the precise location and orientation of each sat. Surely that can be packaged into a data stream

SpaceX already does that.

https://youtu.be/MNc5yCYth5E?t=1717

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11123
So you're only pessimistic about the deployment of germline modifications rather than therapies like this?
I’m not religious but it’s as close to a spiritual experience as I’ll ever have. It’s the feeling of being confronted with something very immediate but absolutely larger than I’ll ever be able to comprehend
Yep, the whole article was infuriating, yet I kept expecting a big windfall for the team in the end to justify it all, but instead we got:

"But you also want to feel like a rock star when all your hard work hits real users for the first time and you feel that thrill of I did that. People like what I did. I overcame the impossible."

Y'all got rewarded with an attaboy and a 'rock star thrill' while the CTO probably blasts off in his career and collects his $millions. Well done!
In this instance, this is such an elegant, concise and multilayered response.

Simultaneously:

- "Let's be done with this statement."

- "What's the interesting point here?"

- "We chose a civil approach here, going with indifference to these string of words"

- "Look how great the word 'OK' is. Two letters to express all this."
lol your dreaming.
Accountability seems impossible sending money alone. There have to be officials with guns enforcing the preservation. People who cannot be paid off.