skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus the out-of-nowhere reference to the door falling off a different plane. How is that related exactly?
I think whatever it is rated, by definition, is the appropriate rating.
This isn't a helpful metric though - even if we had a vast grid of solar on Mars - how is the power going to be stored? Batteries? How do you get them there? Who plugs it all in? Who maintains if when it fails?

Excavating earth and rock in the volume being proposed (to build underground dwelling spaces) is not trivial...
striking how closely ij good's conception of machine superintelligence is matched today http://incompleteideas.net/papers/Good65ultraintelligent.pdf
> how should we use this knowledge?

One example: in future studies of interventions at reducing child abuse, if we can use genetic factors to explain away some of the variance, then we can better identify interventions that are effective at reducing child abuse that we wouldn't be able to identify otherwise.

> Are you proposing some kind of public policy?

Not in that case that immediately comes to mind, but if we discover some interventions as mentioned above ^ it could be useful. In the case of the test scores affluence one, it might take some (although not all) strength away from some of the arguments for dropping standardized testing.
Automatic theorem provers are stuck in AI winter. Pre/post-conditions and dependent types currently need too much handholding. Once the AI firms deign to release heuristic language models for proof discovery, we can have nice things like that.
Unpoly is what Hotwire should have been
Twitter’s revenue has plummeted under Elon, as has active users according to third parties.
the most frustrating one is sometimes the model will claim it can't do something and the fix for that is to respond "yes you can, and it'll just go and do the thing it just said it can't do. that's what ever come up with technology? a practice to practice really basics social engineering techniques?
All those tools do code review, so you'll have to try them out for yourself to see which is the most helpful.

But when it comes to writing code for you, not all those tools actually run your unit tests/linter/compile/etc. Ellipsis will, and it'll use the stdout/stderr to fix it's own mistakes, meaning the commit delivered to you actually compiles/passes CI.
I am not talking about beginner level software though. We are talking millions of users, very serious software.
SpaceX built the biggest constellation to date, and is using the profits to build Falcons while designing Starships. Check out the resulting cost per kilo to orbit:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-space-launches-low-e...

That's pretty good for theory.
OpenAI is going to create models for Robotics
I like the advice to be of service.

Something that a senior dev told me early in my career after I lamented the difficulty of a feature request and suggested we water it down (honestly can't remember details since these words are always at the forefront): "That's not really an option."

I'm not sure exactly how to describe the meaning I took from it but it's something I'm reminded of all the time. It seems all too common to see developers morph a problem into something easier and then solve that problem which nobody has. Be the person who really understands the problem which needs solving and the program will almost work itself out. And that's not just in the context of building a feature; even fixing a simple bug because someone pointed it out is likely to be noticed positively.

Tying that back to the article, my takeaway is that people will take notice of the persons who actually solve their problems and then suggest them to others who need problems solved. Which is a helpful networking strategy presuming that people will likely have problems which you know how to fix.
https://docs.rs/rayon/latest/rayon/iter/index.html
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307519
It might cost money to figure out where to prioritize resources
Is anyone dedicated to working on optimization?
It's not just "any individual with a telescope" though. It's stuff like the Simonyi Survey Telescope, a set to map the southern sky down to below 27th magnitude that's in trouble.
There's no need to predict them in advance. Astronomy photos taken from the ground aren't one long exposure. They're lots - hundreds even - of short ones, which are then "stacked" to reduce noise and increase dynamic range of the final image.

It should be trivial to identify streaks in the stack and just throw out those images. I'd be surprised if they're not already doing that for the older satellites up there, and things like planes flying across the shot.
my napkin gets almost the same with existing and relatively simple tech - solar or nuclear source of energy powering ionic drive (as the one already made and tested/flown by NASA with 3500 Isp (vs. yet to be made 5000 mentioned in the article)). Solar can actually beat nuclear if it is made as very thin, ie. light, film. I think and hope that SpaceX would end up using solar+ionic combo instead of chemical for Mars (and nuclear + ionic for beyond Mars).
Product types are one kind of algebraic data type, only 5 languages from that TIOBE page don’t have them so most common langs have ADTs
An experiment being reproducible just means that if you repeat the experiment you will get the same outcome. We don't know if this experiment is reproducible or not because nobody has tried to reproduce it. I think if this paper gets citations, that will show that other people have read the paper[0] and gained something from it. So we can just wait and see if this was a useful for other people.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13217 this, not the blog
The publicly-available archives released by Stack Exchange are updated roughly quarterly and have the attribution requirements as specified by CC BY-SA + the Stack Exchange ToS.

The article makes it sound like OpenAI is using the API though, rather than the archives. The API and live sites forbid scraping within the acceptable use policy, as seen here: https://stackoverflow.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy
Fluorescence?
This is really creative video and it got me thinking is it possible to edit such videos using AI.

The above video contains two parts one is bike crashing and the other is transition to shop advertisement.

The Editor can ask" Take this two videos and combine them together add the transition from bike crash to and entry into shop"

The challenge over here is to figure out what all extra frames needs to be removed from the two videos.
Figuring out what are the two frames in the respective videos that will be merged.

The first challenge is still doable. I can analyse the frames and see which frames shows the bike crashing and which frame shows the man running.

The major challenge how will I merge them so that the transition looks smooth.

What are your thoughts on that?
As u/Fire-Dragon-DoL says, you can have an exactly-once guarantee within this small system, but you can't extend it beyond that. And even then, I don't think you can have it. If the DB is full, you can't get new messages and they might get dropped, and if the threads picking up events get stuck or die then messages might go unprocessed and once again the guarantee is violated. And if processing an event requires having external side-effects that cannot be rolled back then you're violating the at-most-once part of the exactly-once guarantee.
LOL

Too bad I won't be around to hear your grandkids telling you something like that.
Tourism? That's the only thing that even approaches realistic that I can think of.
That needs some citations. The James Webb Telescope's mirror is 6.5m in diameter. It took decades and billions of dollars of overruns and a prayer to launch and work correctly. There is no hope of most hardware repairs.

That mirror size pails in comparison to what can be accomplished via ground based observatories for much, much cheaper.

And the available modes of operation are completely different between space and ground. For example, space observatories are using decades old instrumentation techniques, hardware, and software. And that's just for starters.

We cannot do astronomy via space exclusively.

For me personally, I never wanted to see something like Starlink with my bare eyes, and I have several times. It's beyond annoying to me that a company has been able to unilaterally pollute the Earth's sky.
This is earth. There are 8 billion people living on this planet. And that is Joe. He does all the work. Sucks to be Joe.
The arguments presented by the author reminds me of the saying "Incompetent dancer complained that the stage was crooked"
How to Debug a Railway Locomotive
It takes 2 minutes to fill a tank and it doesn't cost more to the user than the rental company.

In the EV case it takes a significant amount of time to charge the vehicle (nobody wants to do that before taking a flight) and it is more expensive for the user in a public charging station than it would for a rental company that invested for its own chargers within their parking spots. Also the time used to charge the EV can be mutualized with the time it is eventually checked and cleaned. Very rarely is a car returned and rented within minutes.

I guess in an ideal setup you would get a car with at least 60% of charge and when you return it the rental company expect the same. This leave you time to plan your trips and charge so you don't have to look for a crappy place to do a last charge with nothing else to do just before returning it.
You don't get more oxygen by breathing more. When you breath more the CO2 is expelled from your blood and hemoglobin cannot efficiently collect and transmit O2 in the absence of some specific amount of CO2. In fact most people overbreathe, and they should be breathing less to be optimally oxygenized.

See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30252284/

The book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art details the journey of James Nestor as he goes over all these different methods and exercises, it's the #1 book I recommend to everyone. The number one certain conclusion to take home from the book that'll literally extend your lifespan significantly: Don't mouthbreathe, never ever.
You know I can appreciate that. For some reason because it’s related to medicine, it feels insidious to keep it closed.
Getting the colors right would be difficult.
> it does prevent the same message from being consumed multiple times within the visibility timeout.

... When there is no failure of the underlying system. The expectation of any queue is that messages are only delivered once. But that's not what's interesting: what matters is what happens when there's a system failure: either the message gets delivered more than once, the message gets delivered zero times, or a little of column A and a little of column B (which is the worst of both worlds and is a bug). If you have one queue node, it can fail and lose your data. If you have multiple queue nodes, you can have a network partition. In all cases, it's possible to not know whether the message was processed or not at some point
Here's the problem with slippery slope arguments. You could substitute all medicine and your point would still stand. Do people with a limp need to be "fixed" or does it add character? You know who is the right person to decide that? The person receiving the therapy, or if they are a minor, their parents. Nobody else is well equipped to make the decision for them.

I suppose I could be wrong, and this could be the start of Gattica, but I highly doubt it. I think far more likely is that over the next few decades, millions of people will be able to hear who otherwise would not have.
can't wait to try haha
Secta Labs
I remember an awards occasion where the employees who received the recognition for actually heroically fixing a mess could not make it to the stage because they had been laid off.

Awkward silence ensued. ...
That's not going to work, because USA is exporting very little while EU is exporting quite a lot, so you would make EU exports not competitive and replaced by cheaper alternative.
And as I wrote, focusing on transportation cost subsidies like this means leaving out environmental impacts, social impacts, subsidizes for maintaining the flow of oil, and other indirect costs.

Overshadowing all that is a century of deliberate planning decisions to promote car transit over all other forms - something an "antiplanner" should certainly be aware of and against - resulting in a system of land use and transportation policy which is locally optimized for vehicles, and which cannot be easily changed without substantial cost, even if there is a better option.

Do I know the answers? No. What I can say is I much prefer taking the train to taking the bus.
F# defines a parallel map with the same type signature as sequential map, but you have to ask for Array.Parallel.map rather than Array.map or whatever, because of the possibility of side effects. Only in a pure language like Haskell could you safely parallelize automatically. I'm not sure why Haskell doesn't - maybe overhead?
This is an interesting thing that points out why abstraction layers can be bad without proper message passing mechanisms.

This could be fixed if there was a way for the application at L7 to tell the TCP stack at L4 "hey, I'm an interactive shell so I expect to have a lot of tiny packets, you should leave TCP_NODELAY on for these packets" so that it can be off by default but on for that application to reduce overhead.

Of course nowadays it's probably an unnecessary optimization anyway, but back in '84 it would have been super handy.
Most operating systems already offer this. At some point only native apps will be supported instead of the web if browsers don't also provide it.
Google auth is good to have, but local auth should always be an option. It's not really good practice to exclude those who don't wish to cede control of their online life to Google.
The theoretical part is whether that's actually useful for not. Cost per kilo to orbit doesn't magically solve astronomical observation problems.
To clarify and define the time period: beta as in Beta Max video cassette tapes.
Can't speak for everyone but I definitely don't mentally form complete sentences before talking. Sometimes I grammatically talk myself into a corner in the middle of a sentence and need to use some awkward words/phrases to finish my thought, or simply pause and restart the phrase from the beginning.
Indeed, Glassdoor, LinkedIn. After I apply, I reach out to a either a connection (LinkedIn) in the company, or the tech recruiter.
And battery research goal is to make them behave more capacitor-like, eventually they will cross their paths.
I think it's the engineering mindset. You're always trying to figure out what's wrong with an idea, because you might be the poor bastard that ends up having to build it. Less costly all round if you can identify the flaw now, not halfway through sprint 7. After a while it bleeds into everything you do.
Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account
> That needs some citations. The James Webb Telescope's mirror is 6.5m in diameter. It took decades and billions of dollars of overruns and a prayer to launch and work correctly. There is no hope of most hardware repairs.

Because it had to get launched folded up, because the launch vehicles were so space- and mass-constrained. The unfolding mechanism was enormously complicated and added to much of the cost.

Now we can send up bigger, heavier objects for much less money. The 6.5m mirror fits comfortably inside Starship's cargo bay, unfolded. JWST is a one-off clockwork masterpiece; future space telescopes will come off an assembly line. There will be thousands in orbit, pointed at every part of the heavens simultaneously.
yeah i even had walnut ones made for my 100m because i didn't like the fake veneer
At least in computing, the 70s-80s era was long gone. You either have to have a shitload of money or have a very good brain just to start.

It's indeed easier to be early than being smart, and of course those people are both.
Scientists create vaccine with potential to protect against future coronaviruses
Why use a service that comes with lock-in and poor developer experience when I can use the database I already have?
I was under the impression that the US already had plenty of empty wasteland for this type of fantasy project.
Drugs of abuse hijack a mesolimbic pathway that processes homeostatic need
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307454#40311843
James Gleick's "The information" is also a great read on the history of information and society.
Edge has shared browser "workspaces", I use them solo to have different browsers for different roles. Like a workspace for project A, another for intranet, another for project B, ... the main thing about it is all your tabs are where you leave them and it's a bit more visually manageable than TST which I use at home. Basically means you can have lots of tabs open, but now in different windows (with different colours!).

That feature is supposed to be about 'multiplayer' and has been so good it actually makes me want to see Muddy just because of how positive that 'multiplayer' has been. Weird, huh.

Aside, I'm still mourning Opera Unite.
Nuclear saltwater rockets seem pretty feasible to me. There won't be any Star Trekking going on, but hitting the next stars 4-5ly out doesn't seem completely out of the realm of possibility. Our biology's a little screwed, but even on Earth there are organisms with the correct lifespan/fertility that they could colonize such worlds as they found habitable.

> LLMs are pathetic.

Perhaps. But is there anyone here who believes that if we do eventually come up with an artificial mind, that LLMs won't be at the very least, a component of such an achievement? Insufficient on their own, but likely necessary.
Hacker ethos is about freedom to control what you own and put it to the purposes that you, its owner, want. DRM takes away that freedom, so it is obviously incompatible.

If that freedom makes e.g. Disney business model unsustainable, then that business model is itself incompatible with the ethos.
So you're saying a conscious Universe could still be Newton's "clockwork universe"? Well, Einstein did say "God does not play dice with the universe" but I think the quantum direction is where the riddle of consciousness may be be found. The beauty and terror of our own minds is the uncertainty that lies in the choices we make and the outcomes we get from those choices.
Five lessons for building AI apps
I agree. But it can be useful to have a guarantee, even for a specified period of time, that the message will only be seen once. For example, if the processing of that message is very expensive, such as if that message results in API requests to a very expensive SaaS service. It may be idempotent to process that message more times than necessary, but doing so may be cost prohibitive if you are billed per request. I think this is a case where using the VT to help you only process that message one time could help out quite a bit.
This is a very interesting usecase
To me, these are capitalistic solutions looking for problems. It's the whole startup mentality. Let's just throw a bunch of shit in space and see if it ends up being useful for anything. This idea of connecting the world is as false as the other hundred millions times that's been sold.
https://grabbyaliens.com/ is a solution to this.

Basically "if they did already, we wouldn't be here, so we exist before the universe gets colonized." (Also they colonize fast, ~0.3c, so you don't see it coming.)
Cubic millimetre of brain mapped at nanoscale resolution
it seems like a lot of people retain an obligate negative reaction to any business decision OpenAI makes. If they avoid partnerships they’re criticized for scraping the web and “stealing” people’s content. If they secure partnerships, they’re criticized for prioritizing the viewpoints of their partners, over what is implied as an unbiased “web corpus” that is invariably a composite of the “stolen” data they were held to the fire for scraping in the first place.
> that turns into a linear scale around zero

how does this actually work? afaik, there is no log() fn that you can run which "becomes linear". i guess you can wrap a call to log() in another fn that simply does linear scaling below the defined threshold, but it's not a smooth transition without a bunch of extra [possibly slow] smoothing code.

what you're describing is exactly how a straight call to Math.asinh() behaves, and what i have implemented in the above demo.
Shouldn't QUIC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC) solve the TCP issues like latency?
Congrats on your first NPM lib! Just briefly looked through.

Really good job on providing unit tests and you have documented all your code as well!

You should consolidate the README.md in the lib folder to the main README.md in root so that it's all up front and in one place.

Consider using changesets to manage your commit and publish workflow:

https://github.com/changesets/changesets

(An example changeset is like "chore: update packages" along with a wider description of the update)

I use changesets with some of my other projects if you want to see examples:

- https://github.com/theogravity/loglayer

- https://github.com/theogravity/datadog-transports (monorepo example)

What I like about it is it does all the work of creating the release / changelogs and also consolidating multiple changes into a single release as well. Also makes it easier for people to contribute to your project since it's a known standard.
Simple question: Why is Ethereum refusing to register ETH as a security?
The 4th example at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit
that uses a class template makes the feature a bit nicer, but still not as ergonomic as something like Rust.
Ironic since Nagle's Algorithm (which TCP_NODELAY disables) was invented for interactive sessions.

It's hard to imagine interactive sessions making more than the tiniest of blips on a modern network.
Depending on the specifics, you might be able to add socat in the middle.

Instead of:
your_app —> server

you’d have:
your_app -> localhost_socat -> server

socat has command line options for setting tcp_nodelay. You’d need to convince your closed source app to connect to localhost, though. But if it’s doing a dns lookup, you could probably convince it to connect to localhost with an /etc/hosts entry

Since your app would be talking to socat over a local socket, the app’s tcp_nodelay wouldn’t have any effect.
Ya, and Unix time decided they could fool people into thinking they had all 3, and as a result, every couple of years, time "jumps backward" by one second. It's hands down the worst option to use as the basis for a computing system that needs accurate timestamps, and it's made software developers really resent leap seconds.

Now the BIPM decided to "get rid" of leap seconds in UTC a couple years ago. I hope they come to their senses before 2035 when the change takes effect. Here's what will happen:

Rather than inserting a leap second every 1-2 years to keep UTC in sync with solar time, they plan to defer the problem to once every 100 or so years, and just insert like 50 leap seconds all at once. Think about that for a second. If leap seconds are so bad, how in the hell is the world going to deal with 50 of them at once after a century of oblivious complacency? They won't. They'll just say "Look, it's not worth it to have leap seconds in UTC anymore". Then, UTC will forever be just a constant offset away from TAI.

But we already have TAI. Why not just use TAI as your "source of truth", and let UTC be UTC? We'll have to introduce a new system to take the place of UTC and be in-sync with solar time; like how UTC used to be.
I also don't understand it, but have been lectured by people many times about how unethical it is to block ads and how doing so makes one a "free rider".
I wonder if they also feel the same way if they look the other way when they notice a billboard ad on the motorway. This stockholm-syndrome w.r. to big companies goes a long way.
Starling Bank (UK) locks out GrapheneOS users due to Custom ROM policy