skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> minimum distance to Mars is 33.9 million miles. The maximum distance to Mars is 225 million miles

Two identical spacecraft could travel the same distance between Earth and Mars and arrive at wildly different times. You’re never taking a linear path; it’s like talking about the diameter of the Earth when comparing two steamboats.
That's bay area price. Non-peak. Peak prices are 60c+ for TUI or if you're over the baseline.
Isn't the context of what you're quoting to do with the label "NSFW"? That label certainly has issues, but to be fair it's more of a "I don't want this on my screen at work" thing than a "this is dirty" thing. And from what I understand, that attitude isn't limited to America.
No Datadome Javascript:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=3675526860418&w=NaVLru25dt...
Agreed but there is a big energetic difference between a future ceo personality working long hours vs a supporting staffer who is just sacrificing themselves inefficiently thinking someone will care. People care about results and the appearance of some effort. Long hours are a basic requirement but healthy emotional boundaries are what get someone to the top.
i pay roughly the same in NYC
With PlayReady, as with any other DRM scheme really, there are different tiers. There is SL2000, which is done completely in software (whitebox crypto), and there is SL3000, which does require a TEE. Which tier is requried for which type of content is driven by streaming provider or studio requirements. I think it is pretty common to allow content up to 1080p to be used with whitebox crypto, whereas 4k+ content will require hardware DRM.
I wonder what does device register when he is asleep. If he dreams gaming - does it accidentally try to control virtual mouse.
Good point, we'll fix this in the next update.

p.s. fan of the work on replicache and of course chrome
Growing Meat In Gatorade [video]
"hopefully the price of this rocket to get stuff off of earth is dirt cheap"

This is not a launch technology.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply.

I follow your thoughts towards ET, and offer that Spielberg has already realized an epic treatment of the theme: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which he develops the idea of corporate society and daytime TV being indistinguishable from an extraterrestrial incursion. That he invited the founder of Auteur Theory and savant of the French New Wave, Francios Truffaut to emcee projects the high awareness Spielberg had of his conceits. To my mind ET merely revisited the scenario of CE3K as something that could be cross-marketed in Happy Meals, exploiting the success of Lucas' Star Wars licensing.

Ridley Scott's Alien is also trenchant commentary on the corporate/TV zeitgeist with an attack by an unstoppable libidinal force of life (Zizek referred to this idea as "lamella") that lives beneath all the levitating signifiers of the "capitalist real" (Mark Fisher).

All of these movies are first and foremost entertainment products, which so happen to code a surprising amount of reflection on the part of their auteur creators on US/UK corporatism and existential angst.

Recognizing the power of the movies on the collective mind, I'll repeat my thesis that the central consideration for PKD is "why do you think you're human?", not "how do humans distinguish androids from themselves?"

PKD created his works un-beholden to the idioms of popular culture, and I regard his oeuvre as profoundly more intellectually free than any Hollywood adaptation can be. The arrow of artist progress goes from books to movies, not the other way around, so beware of reading the movie's themes into the books. He helped carve out a place for science fiction in literature, and the popularity of cinematic adaptations of his work reveals the resonance of his themes, so read the story then look for how the movies hew to the writing.

There's a strange reversal of books adapted from movies, but even in the case of Arthur Clarke's 2001 (vs. The Sentinel) these read as fan fiction.
The common/trade name for this is chain fall or chain hoist, and widely used by tradesmen to lift heavy objects when a Lull (material handling forklift) isn’t an option.
the top 1% is people we all know.

the interesting groups are the top .1% and .01%. there isn't that much fluctuation at that layer.
Well, for mental math 1000 inches ~ 1200 inches (100 ft).

Or converting to meters: 100 ft / 3 = 33 yards ~ 33 meters.

Since we added 20% in the first place (1200 vs 1000), 33 - 20% = 27m is better estimate (actual = 25m).
this news cycle already came and went, it wasn't the big story people tried to make it sound like
>Wealth sitting in cash loses half its value every 20 years.

By wealth, people tend to mean assets, not petty cash sitting in checking accounts. If you're sitting on inherited assets you're accumulating more wealth by just sitting on your ass without doing anything.

Just see the post-2009 monetary polices: from housing to stocks, everything went up like crazy, especially during COvid. You didn't have to be financially literate, all you had to do was sit on your inherited assets and not touch them and the government's money printer did the work for you in the last 10+ years.

So forgive me but I still see no proof that 72% people loose their wealth between generations, when everything went up up up in the last decades, especially housing. Unless that wealth we're talking about was an old carpet and $600 bucks in a checking account.

>Physical assets require upkeep and property taxes.

N'ah bruh. Stocks or empty land in desirable areas requires no upkeep and wealth taxes in some EU countries range from laughable to zero, while income taxes in those same countries hover around 50%. Go ahead, tell me more how income is the same thing with wealth.
You can tell CSS to use GPU by adding `transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0);`

Explanation of slow CSS filter performance is in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oie6KqSPPlE
To add to this, you must try to do something beyond being a software engineer to encounter more low hanging fruit.

Most of the easy “I wish I could” problems that are directly related to what a typical software engineer does on a day to day basis are indeed well solved, because that’s the lowest of the low hanging fruit.

Even going to mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, whatever, you’d immediately be like “wow there’s really no software to do X for you?” Not being an expert in the field will make it easy to underestimate the complexity of ideas, so be weary of that, but there are definitely still low hanging fruit ideas once you get off the beaten software engineer path.
Lots of buildings across the country have actually been torn down to become parking, I'm not an expert on St. Louis urban development but it seems like many buildings were torn down there and replaced with parking lots that make the area worse. Then there's fewer people, and the cycle of dilapidation and abandonment continues.

https://www.stlmag.com/history/looking-back-over-a-decade-at...

https://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/comments/ipjho8/save_histor...
It's a virus that adds a bit of genetic code to cells in the ear. The new genetic code is the instructions for the protein that is broken in the the little girl (and other similar patients). The cell can then use the newly introduced DNA to make a protein. This protein restores the link between the auditory sensory cells and the auditory nerve cells.

Regarding the word "infused", the viral particles are carried in an aqueous solution into the inner ear. The viral particles then do their work on the cells that the solution flows over. So it is literally infused, although that sort of elides the bit about the virus actually delivering the active bit of the treatment: the new gene.
Wow, I didn't expect so much good feedback. You guys had some really good questions and comments that got me thinking in more detail about this.
There is some work I should do to better explain on the website how this works, what I can do etc.

Thank you all!
What is stopping low income people from growing weed with subsidies for power and selling it illegally and not reporting the income to stay under the limit?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40223769
Not sure why you're putting these here. These are not relevant to discussion we're having. We're talking about the sentencing phase and the rules determining concurrent sentences.
Genuinely, I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine my electric bill being 5x let alone 15x. Do y'all just have to conserve like crazy or is your electric bill like a $1000+/mo and that's just normal.
Exactly. The reason that they stopped using the dataset and the reason they deleted it are likely the same - legal liability.

Obviously not in their interests to state that but when this is the best alternative explanation they can offer they might as well have.

Personally I support the use of these books for training AI but I think this needs to be decided in court and/or with legislation, not hidden under the carpet.
Another viable future tech for this might be neural implants similar to Neuralink. Not sure how viable it would be.
And given a rural located home, one wouldn't charge in town at all.

Leaving the car plugged in overnight, while you sleep, leaves it with full range in the morning.

I think this is one of the biggest advantages of EVs, that is least touted: you never have to go to a gas station ever again.

Also a rural location offers the easiest installation of solar/batteries, which means that not only do you never go to the gas station again, but your transportation fuel is now provided onsite. Providing a huge increase in independence/autonomy.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Explains the Company's Layoff Strategy
Your linked article claims it was not a lab leak.

re: BSL-2 vs BSL-4 ... Assuming it WAS a lab leak, was there an a-priori reason to believe that among the many different naturally occurring viruses under study that SARS-CoV-2 would cause a worldwide pandemic? Bats are known to have hundreds of different viruses. Ebola and HIV seem to have been spread widely without a lab connection.

As for gain-of-function studies, they might be beneficial. One might, for example, modify a DNA-modifying virus to add a gene for expressing insulin, providing a cure for diabetes. A DNA-modifying virus provides an ideal whole-body carrier for genetic disorder correction. Indeed this hackernews post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307138) today shows a deaf girl cured through genetic manipulation. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786910/
Get a collection of data which is small enough to have humans annotate as being either low quality or high quality. Train a model to predict this annotation.
Then on a larger disjoint collection of data, use this model to estimate whether the data points would be considered low quality or high quality, and use this to filter it.

This seems doable, and, I think something like it is already done?
Just be sure HTTP Compression is off though, or you're still half-wasting the pipe.

Better to just dump randomized uncompressible data into html comments.
Is this a bit of a temporary problem, in the the very technology causing the issue - substantially cheaper access to space - will presumable ultimately put a frikkin massive telescope, or many massive telescopes into orbit where they’ll also not have to deal with the many other issues ground telescopes have to deal with.

I get that this still sucks for any individual with a Telescope though.
Yes, the future of astronomy is in space.

If the satellites don't disrupt it, light pollution will anyway, or best case, it will be disrupted by atmospheric pollution.

There's no lack of clear skies in space.
Maybe, maybe some other galaxy is already colonized and died or their light still not reached us. Or we can't detect it with our toys. Our time to look for real things in universe is like literally nothing compared to billion years.
Presenting a familiar syntax certainly makes it easier to follow.
you could try ebpf and hook on the socket syscall. might be harder than LD_PRELOAD as suggested by other commenters though
Theres some in-depth breakdowns for the PO 12,14,16 here(http://hackingthepo.weebly.com/) if you're interested!
I have no idea about the po33 and if the juice is worth the squeeze, but they're cheap enough to tear apart so go for it.
Even the most successful companies have had more than one expensive misfire. As long as things that work make more money than the things that don't work lose money, you're doing OK. A large and well-off company can afford to act like a VC for internal, experimental projects.
You could say the same for plastic surgery in general. Techniques developed to restore injured faces (e.g. of soldiers) are now used for cosmetic purposes.
Yeah, I’m not sure why trenching is so expensive, I think PG&E was quoting something silly like millions per kilometer. I’m planning on doing like a tenth of a kilometer in a day with a $400 trencher rental pretty soon. I’m sure it’s not apples to apples, but the delta there seems pretty baffling.

For me, the biggest hang up has just been that I’m required by the state to get it inspected before I put in the conduit, and that ramps up the complexity of coordinating things quite a bit, because I’d rather not leave it open too long. If they have to deal with a bunch of bureaucratic coordination, then I could see the actual labor becoming a relatively tiny part of the difficulty/cost.
Not a generator but I love this crochet simulator!
https://github.com/timhutton/crochet-simulator
Where is the incentive for everyone to not mine bitcoins?
I am finally starting to understand some of these OpenOffice/LibreOffice commit messages like https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/commit/a0b6744d3d77
Love to see a hack week project get this far. The timeline and signals features look awesome, and I can't wait to give this a try. Hope you also have thoughts (and a business model) for more private, ephemeral spaces - enabling short term collaboration, e.g. for freelance/remote/hack work.
Is it cheaper to run a gas generator at some point?
If you are equating porn brained zombies to sober states of mind, I don’t even want to know your view of the world.
No, you cannot. You are still dramatically underestimating the density of hydrocarbon energy. Solar, electric, batteries, etc do not even remotely come close.

This line of thinking also dramatically underestimates the energy requirement to excavate dirt and rock...

Then, figure it's on another planet with dust storms that have already killed solar-powered rovers, etc.
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Exactly my thoughts. Scientists drool at the few telescopes we have in orbit. If we could launch more of them for less money at the expense of a busier night sky I don't think they would want to miss on that
> (solar noon is never at exactly 12:00 PM on any given day except at one particular line of longitude per time zone)

According to the 20. amendment the term of an US president starts at Noon, 20 Januar. Simply noon. The USA seems to interpret it as 12:00 ET and makes it ceremonial inauguration for that time, possibly also the transfer of powers. But solar noon on the steps of the Capitol seems to be at 12:18 ET, I researched back at the last inauguration.

This discrepancy seems to be a great premise for a legal thriller, a political thriller, or sadly for a conspiracy theory. The latter definitely has some fertile ground.

The americans should start using the Washington Monument as a solar clock for this ceremony, imo.
Are you ready for Assange's extradition 11 days from now?
It is common knowledge. Kids play the choking game, people die from autoerotic asphyxiation, and folks who fly or dive are trained to recognize the symptoms as well.

The burning feeling that you get when your hold your breath is a build up of CO2, not a lack of O2.

PDF warning: https://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media...
Want a free AI tool that aims to eliminate technical debt?
As much as I sympathize this feels like a necessary evil to me in a sense vaguely accerlationism like.

I do think starlink can do more to help the situation though. Sure they tweaked some of the satellites to minimise it, but they could do more. Presumably the know the precise location and orientation of each sat. Surely that can be packaged into a data stream that helps unfk the images? Maybe with a sprinkling of that AI musk has going? Astronomers is a pretty small crowd...can't be that hard for someone like musk to throw them a bone that acknowledges that they're getting the short end here
OK, great, then I'll add that pattern matching on struct types is built-in and good enough for my purposes.

Haven't used the LSP-server in a while, but I think it runs the Dialyzer-checking by default too, so that layer of checking will likely be there without adding project dependencies.
Is this something we have evidence for, or is this just in theory?
You said we don't know but claim to know. Which is it?
> My impression is that it's difficult to learn about these topics without real hands-on experience (something that seems hard to replicate in small/solo projects).

Maybe. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a cheat code there. Often the single best thing you can do is to put yourself near people who know what you want to know.

> Would you mind expanding on that last point? I'd be curious to learn more about these knowledge gaps that you observed, as well as any recommendations for "leveling up" past them, whether it be projects that one could build to learn more, books to read, etc.

Related to my response above, as an example of something I observed, we were able to teach people who had little Elixir experience about simple GenServers pretty quickly. They learned the API fine, understood the client/server metaphor, started making contributions to the product/codebase, great, product managers are happy. The gaps became apparent when we'd hear stuff like "the thing I wrote is crashing, in the logs I'm seeing things like `exit: genserver timeout`. What does this mean? Where do I even start?"

The issue here isn't really "Elixir" per se. The issue is that Elixir was sold to them as this quick, pragmatic functional programming language (and it is), but what they got along with Elixir-the-language was a production OTP application that was actually a concurrent distributed system that they didn't realize was a concurrent distributed system and now they have to figure out how to debug that, which might have been more than they were bargaining for. Now OTP starts to dominate the conversation.

You say you have a pretty good grasp on OTP so this might not apply to you specifically, but if I could recommend a single thing to Elixir developers, it would without question be to read as much of the Erlang stdlib documentation and source code as you can. They're really, really good and highly readable. Don't be grossed out by Erlang. Read up on genserver, supervisor, sys, dbg, monitors, links. Understand what is actually happening when a genserver boots. Understand what actually happens when a genserver crashes, and how this appears to the supervisor. Understand when to use a supervisor vs. a dynamic supervisor. Understand when you might want to use the process Registry.

If I can recommend more than one thing, it would be to just build toys and provide your own hands-on experience. Elixir, being so dynamic, lends itself to discovery-through-play better than almost anything. Build a 3 node cluster on your laptop and play with rpc to distribute work. Build a little worker pool and randomly crash the tasks. Build something that dispatches work with Registry. Build a little network server that listens for new tcp connections. Kill random processes and see how things react. Use dbg or sys or observer or the other tracing stuff to see live state. Build a release and figure out how to remote shell into it. The only difference is that a real app would have a real domain, which you'd have to learn regardless. Anyway, I hope this is useful.
In the case where you're running an Operating System that provides a libc and is OK with removing older syscalls, there's a beginning and an end to support.

Looking at FreeBSD under /usr/include/sys/syscall.h, there's a good number of retired syscalls.

On Linux under /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/asm/unistd_32.h I see a fair number of missing numbers --- not sure what those are about, but 222, 223, 251, 285, and 387-392 are missing. (on Debian 12.1 with linux-image-6.1.0-12-amd64 version 6.1.52-1, if it matters)
If "children of child abusers are more likely to abuse children" were to be found undeniably true, how should we use this knowledge? Are you proposing some kind of public policy?
Thank you everyone. I've been contacted by some great people, and for the time being I'm no longer available for freelance. However, if you'd like to establish a contact for possible collaboration at a later date, please feel free to reach out and let's have a talk.
If we start at 1936 (when the conflict in Palestine began in earnest), bucket by country (consistent with the fact that Israel's myriad wars up until the current one have been lumped together in a single "conflict"); and divide by net population -- then Israel's per-capita ranking does seem to take place 5 or so out of the 17 countries involved, in terms of the Arab/Muslim killing business.

In terms of immediate neighbors - just behind (and much closer to) Lebanon and Syria, but much greater numerically than Jordan / Egypt / Saudi.
Dangerous Protocols
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversal_film

I'm not in tears.
Indeed, I mentioned even more free plugins for Obsidian Canvas in my comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40301465
a gallon of gas produces about 33 kWh. A meter of solar panels (which has a similar weight without glass) produces about 1000 kWh / year. (It's about the same on Earth and Mars since a Mars year is almost twice as long)
I don't care about people harming people incidentally. I also don't want to shut down knowledge. But there is "knowledge" and there are "materials" that everyone agrees must be controlled and limited, like high explosives and bioweapons. Then the question is if large AI weights are a kind of "knowledge" or a kind of "material", and IMO they're much closer to material despite being data.

> I’d rather explore the bounds of this world than mindlessly collect my drip of Soma and live comatose. To me that sounds more harmful.

This only once again demonstrates that winning a debate is entirely about getting to define the choice under consideration. To me, it's not about Soma, it's about "humanity survives" and "humanity goes extinct due to out-of-control superintelligence." I don't want to die, so I'm for AI regulation.
> The new California charge will be $24 for most customers, but lower income households, who already qualify for discounted electric rates, will see fees of either $6 or $12.

This will never go down. It will only go up.

And the real idea here is to get a min fixed amount from net zero customers with their own generation (ie solar).
To each their own, but I'd accept a $30m check to move to a different town in a heartbeat. With that amount of money I wouldn't have to worry about commuting distances...
I find Temporal itself to be effectively a clone of Amazon's Simple Workflow (SWF)
Text-only, no Javascript:

tnftp -o 1.htm https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1lTRqz
links ./1.htm # then press '\' key
Hard enough that some people are putting up satellites instead.

EDIT: Say there's some way to put in fiber at $10k per km. Even then, ten million users at 1km per user makes $100 billion.
If you're feeling any less interested, I hope you reconsider and still give it a shot. There are issues, but there are issues with every technology. I promise you'll learn something.
For number-crunching there's Nx. As far as I can tell it's a solved problem, with easy handling of things like batching over clusters of GPU:s and things like that as a bonus.