skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a neural network trained on self-play games (many of them lifted from Leela Zero). I get that it's a different shape of network, but people really seem touchy about crediting Google with the kick up the bum that led us here. AlphaZero had a massive effect on chess globally, whatever people think about its press releases. My main point is that people should update the heuristic that wastes energy arguing about bold claims when clearly something amazing has happened that everyone in the industry will react to and learn from.
Hospitals track uncompensated care, it's a substantial amount but also obviously not the whole problem.

https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2023-09-20-blog-uncompensa...
For one thing, before this decade is out we will have the lift capacity to get an ELT-worth of mass to L2. And the lack of need to correct for atmospheric distortion would simplify the design considerably.

But it's beside the point. Such a singular mega-telescope would no longer be the only way to do astronomy in space. A world of radically lower launch costs gives more possibilities. We could have a fleet of thousands of independent small/medium sized space telescopes. That way, we wouldn't have to carefully ration imaging time between competing astronomy projects anymore. High quality data would become cheap and abundant, procured on-demand.
It doesn't really matter what log base you use, visually speaking. All log bases are just multiplicative differences from one another: it's like asking whether it matters if you plot height using feet or meters. It just affects where your ticks go.
How Melting Ice Has Altered Time-Keeping
For some people, this is all you need (sorry, couldn’t resist)!
1) Most research is performed on the thousands of smaller telescopes (0.5-2 m.) scattered worldwide at private and public institutions. Even with the multitude of telescopes in the size range, there is still significant contention for scope time.

2) Space telescopes will never be disposable and will always require some form of service, even with high-reliability construction.

3) low Earth orbit is a limited resource and should be managed as a worldwide Commons. Allowing private corporations to occupy space is another way to privatize profit and push losses onto the public purse. Do you think any of these private companies will clean up the orbital messes they create, or will they act like they have to date?

4) Satellite Internet solves the billionaire's problem of extracting more money from users. Terrestrial methods for Internet access are good enough in all but the most remote communities. The main problem with terrestrial Internet is funding buildout Via private companies in a natural monopoly environment.
Great to hear!
I remember skate boarding to my office downtown, 35? Years ago. Dressed in suit and tie, just waiting to be pulled over for "public" skateboarding. I went to work with various early morning bikers(bicycles), on the empty city streets, and returning in crazy afternoon rush hour traffic. Never did get stopped. But was ready with various arguments!
When you have natural numbers and a multiplication operation (product) would you say that those form an algebra? (ADT means algebraic data type)
I'm a happy unpoly user! I prefer it from other similar solutions (ie htmx) because of the layers/modals functionality.
If they stay static. But maybe they feel so much better after losing weight that they get more active?
From the main unpoly page:

> Get powerful new HTML attributes to build dynamic UI on the server. Works with any language. Gracefully degrades without JavaScript.

I wouldn't call being completely dependent on the server "graceful degradation". App server and web server should not be conflated. A degradation should imply the site is still up but some interactions don't work or work intermittently.

You can trivially achieve that with a static web server in front of an app server that only has to concern itself with providing a data-only API. Frontend is frontend and backend is backend. Separation of concerns is important in real world production environments. Client-server paradigm is the last thing I would ever question about web apps or any apps really.

Also, please don't invent arbitrary standards and create lock-in. This isn't 2010 anymore. Htmx and Hotwire are just as terrible as this. No point in comparing when they're all fundamentally flawed.
If I had a few billion dollars to spare, I'd buy the rights to Tolkien's work.

I'd then spend a bit more collecting all copies of 21st century video versions - and incinerate them in a volcano. I'd end all current licensing deals, pay a team of lawyers, IT staff, and some hackers to destroy every moment of footage on video platforms, in torrents, on obscure FTP sites. I'd pay Peter Jackson to sign an agreement never to discuss Tolkien again.

And then what? I'd find someone with the highest artistic merit, who understood Tolkien's vision of fairy tales and fantasy and mythology. Live action, computer-assisted or not, brings the supernatural Tolkienian settings -- his greatest power as a writer, as vivid today as when I read them: Moria, Lothlorien, Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul, Mordor, Orthanc, Fangorn, the Paths of the Dead, etc. -- to the mundane level of what we can see. The new film(s) would have to be hand-drawn animation, which can imply and leave room for so much more in our imaginations.

But who? Old Pixar, the ones who made Ratatouille and Wall-E, might have been an excellent choice. Miyazaki is much admired; I don't see that style fitting the material, but on the other hand they might have their own vision that, let loose, would set the world on fire. Similarly, the creators of Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse did something uniquely visionary, and possibly could make their own vision of Tolkien.

So to my point: Who? Maybe there's a video game artist? Maybe a different artist for each setting? But whatever we do, it must be art first and formost, without compromise.
Test clocks: How we made it easier to test Stripe Billing integrations
I always find it odd when people track down the invention of something to one source when multiple people were using the same phrase around the same time.

Sure it's popularisation may have been fueled by a particular person or group but did they really invent it? Or did they refit an existing abbreviation to fit their purpose? Or was it just invented in parallel?

One explanation I have heard about "OK" is that it was an abbreviation invented by Greek migrant dock workers in the USA. Apparently they used to write the abbreviation "OK" on boxes that contained what they were supposed to contain. "ola kala" is a Greek phrase that basically means "everything good".
All of the other issues still exist. How do you setup a solar farm on a remote planet without any humans being involved (the OP was discussing tunneling before any humans arrived). Who plugs it all in? Who dusts it off after a storm? How long are the cables that power this excavator? What happens if they get tangled or damaged?

It's just a non-starter of an idea...
Just wanted to add to your list, electric dozers have been on the market for some time. Even more impressive given the weight.

https://www.cat.com/en_US/products/new/equipment/dozers/medi...
If the promises made for new launch systems like SpaceX' Starship (and maybe even, one day, in some unknown future, Bezos' Blue Origin manages to launch something larger than a phallic pond hopper?) it should become radically less expensive to launch larger telescopes into orbit and/or to e.g. the moon.
The Two Generals Problem is a great thought experiment that describes how distributed consensus is impossible when communication between nodes has the possibility of failing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
Factorio is a massive success and only made $123M. For a company funding a lot of things, you are going to be putting out mostly flops that lose money, and then hoping to get it back on the successes. But it doesn't look like the successes are good enough to fund all the failures. Unless you mostly take super boring safe options.
Mirage: A Multi-Level Superoptimizer for Tensor Programs [pdf]
Because telecoms keep pocketing the money instead of actually building out broadband. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
The GP said Crimea.
That's an interesting approach, but not without pitfalls. You can't just subtract two timestamps to get a time difference, since there may have been one with 2 billion nanoseconds somewhere in between.
Or you can download one from NextDNS.io since you do need another end of the connection.
But that's exactly what's happening. AI is likely going to change society at every level, in innumerable ways. It's going to be the foundation of our economy. It's going to publish science. It's going to create art and culture. It's going to make legal and medical decisions. It's going to be the primary means by which humans communicate with each other, and with software. It's going to shape people's subjective reality. Maybe. If it has even half of the impact that people expect it to, it seems like a reasonable thing to regulate.
Absolutely! Prototypes are great
The distance you’re referencing doesn’t matter. You’re never travelling the straight-line path the distance measures.
Methinks safety sensors shouldn't be designed to be so easily fooled.
LG UltraFine 5K, the same panel that was in the 5K retina iMacs.
I hope at least a few of the copyright lawsuits against OpenAI succeed. What they’re doing is not good for the digital ecosystem.
even AGI has its limits.
Related:

How 'OK' took over the world (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14533098 - June 2017 (99 comments)

I think there have been other threads as well?
pedantically, 250 kW of power
Yes, it will calm down, but:

a) AI (formerly known as ML) was still a lucrative sector for hardware before LLMs were a big thing (nVidia has been well positioned for many years).

b) It will continue to be a big deal after the bubble pops. The Internet still ended up being a massively profitable sector even though the late-90's dot-com boom made it look stupid for a while; the same will happen with the AI boom.

c) Cryptocurrency was mostly useless, while AI/ML is very much not. ML has been important for a decade, it's just making more noise now.
Does it support touch-sensitivity and polyphony?
I was curious whether I had to change anything in my applications after reading that so did a bit of research.

Both Node.js and Curl use TCP_NODELAY by default from a long time.
The brains were in “the real” in the Matrix or did I not watch it closely enough :-)
This was true, but the new Rails Turbo Page Morphing in Turbo 8 changes the game entirely.

I've been using it. The experience is amazing!

Some highlights:

* In 7 lines of code, with no javascript, I had my index and view pages live-updating whenever a model changed on the server! It is spooky good. Nothing against JavaScript, but now I only maintain one ERB view and no SPA. This is a large dev speed multiplier.

* If you have a page with a parent object where you add/delete child items, you make your actions delete/add the child on the server, and once the object is updated, the page just re-renders with no visible redirect/reload.

https://dev.37signals.com/turbo-8-released/

A diff with comments:
https://github.com/basecamp/turbo-8-morphing-demo/pull/4/fil...
And how do we get a 51,333 lb bulldozer to Mars?

Not to mention this bulldozer still burns hydrocarbons. It uses electric drive for it's tracks - and the electricity is generated by hydrocarbons!
Perhaps the way to look at this was that "ok" came not from the events that created it, but from the niche it filled. There must have been a need for the term or it would not have thrived and spread.
If you want to go a more analog route, this series of synth DIY videos by Moritz Klein is really great: https://www.youtube.com/@MoritzKlein0
> cut the sample into around 5,000 slices — each just 34 nanometres thick — that could be imaged using electron microscopes.

Does anyone have any insight into how this is done without damaging the sample?
A deep knowledge of etymology, if nothing else, is useful for answering a 5 year old's infamous chain of "why?"s

Disregarding potential inaccuracies, I love stories like these. Not particularly sure why, but I'm sure someone has a post somewhere about why we're so obsessed with the history of _our_ mundane.
yep, this was a fun aspect i discovered when doing the implementation as well. the log base just affects the tick/grid selection and where you might want to "nicely" snap the min and max to.
You can’t negotiate if you’re unconscious.
I have something similar but it's mostly just tended to mean that I socialise with others who don't take themselves too seriously.

Life's too short to waste on those who don't appreciate you. :)
It's interesting that they're probably still on GCP and spending credit; changing the cloud provider would take time and getting back online would take priority. Although I guess they received some free GCP credit.
Don't post tabloid trash articles here. YOu can surely find some more serious reporting than the Sun.
1.4 PB/mm^3 (petabytes per millimeter cubed)×1260 cm^3 (cubic centimeters, large human brain) = 1.76×10^21 bytes = 1.76 ZB (zetabytes)
That’s an excellent Darwin Award acceptance speech! Short and to the point.
The article makes it sound like this sensor is only to avoid the handle itself heating up to the point that it would burn the user.
Useful for anything? Starlink useful to its 2.7 million subscribers. And it's already profitable. As of last year, SpaceX makes more in subscription fees than it costs to build and launch the satellites. The economics will only become more favorable when SpaceX improves their launch capabilities with Starship.
Not a great point of view when the cities don't grow all that much food.
Not everything needs to be an SPA. Separation of concerns is important but not always required.
Is there any implication here?

Because murder rate has fallen in magnitude of orders faster than that.
yes.

it was always a money grab, and now it is more transparent. this was just a startup selling a dream for a payday. it just hurts more because everyone is excited by the dream. this isn’t simply the loss of a better slap chop.

other money grabs involve open source, the model isn’t the money grab, it supports it. those will provide more fun. more progress. some can afford to even do so quickly. more will change.

something will arise as a search competitor for openai, sama will have already squeezed enough juice out of it for something, the cycle will continue anew.

or someone will build something that invalidates the lot of it and we can move forward a bit more quickly.
And remember how the pins were a little too wide, so as to ensure tension against the socket, so you had to put one side in and apply pressure to get the other side? How many chips did I just fold over or bend even just inserting? Many.
>They don't want the highest quality to be available on devices where the DRM can easily be broken.

they don't want to admit you can get L3 keymaterial from androids super easily. They just are obnoxious assholes.
I can't really evaluate your comment on relevance -- some things do seem to inexplicably bog down, but on others they move usefully and quickly. And the conservatism of compatibility really is incredibly important, which I say as someone who'd be happy (and relieved!) to blow away API compatibility (actually to use the API step capabilities already available behind the scenes, at least for ELF).

But the part about "numerous groups to create a successor" doesn't really make your case: one of the best ways for things to get into any standard is to have multiple efforts that can be used as experience and starting points for the evolution of a standard. This has already happened a lot in the history of C++
If the point of the sensor is to keep the handle cool, and the wet towel cools the handle, does it really count as tricking it?
No, number of clicks isnt a _bad_ metric, but it isn't the most important. But when it comes to _UX_, user experience is important. If there are a lot of people complaining that it takes too many clicks, then it's quite possible that the workflow can be reduced somehow. And it's not just this one guy that has issues with Blackboard. There's been numerous end users complaining about usability for a long time. Regardless if how you feel about the number of clicks, it still is something to examine. Do some searches about it. Many, many websites will say clicks aren't the most important thing, but it is something to think about. Immediately dismissing someone because you don't feel it's important (even though other UX designers do) is a fault of yours, not the end user.
I have used MarginNote and Notability in the past. Take a quick look to see if they do what you want with PDF's.
We provide IT support for small businesses, and it's almost impossible for them to understand that their 'cloud' data isn't backed up.

It takes a lot of education combined with making the backups not cost too much.
Wow, this is exactly how I feel! I'm a software engineer and I also started knitting last year. I'm really enjoying it for all the reasons you listed.
Why AI hasn't discovered a time machine?
> They're wide field of view, long-duration exposures. That used to be the way astronomers imaged space,

Sorry, but one of the two example images (https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw1946a/) is a single 333-second exposure with a modern survey camera, the Dark Energy Camera. This is not particularly long nor does it represent some outmoded observational strategy. Large, wide-field imaging sky surveys (such as the upcoming Rubin Observatory) are among the highest-profile ground-based astronomy projects today.

Masking and stacking can mitigate the problem but it does not of course compensate for the lost area and sensitivity. And the brightest satellites (like BlueWalker) saturate the readout electronics and spoil the whole exposure.

Narrow field instruments (such as spectrographs) have less geometric chance of seeing a satellite but tend to take longer exposures (tens of minutes), so there is a greater loss of telescope time when a streak does happen.

Even space telescopes are affected by streaks (https://www.space.com/hubble-images-spoiled-starlink-satelli...).

> It takes a bit more work and software

Equivalently, it takes more money and time. That just means less science, given flat to declining funding from Congress.
The shear amount of magic boilerplate vite creates to make react app work is quite uncomprehensible. I'm not a senior frontend dev by any means but it's always a damned job to do migration of existing project to a next magic bundler.
> Arbaugh praised the implant during a demonstration in March and said that it had “already changed his life”, while also stating that it had not been perfect and they “have run into some issues”.

This should be the headline.
Do you have significant pain?
I can assure you that regeneron pays very well, including significant equity and has absolutely fantastic benefits. Software developers probably get more at door dash (it isn't bad by any means, but they aren't "the talent" at regeneron after all), but folks involved in the science and trials are doing very well.
Using a Microtome (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtome).
Honestly, these are some of my favorite stories and I think more ML people need to learn more about mythology (I say this as a ML researcher btw). Because once you go down this path you start to understand how "Rino" == "Unicorn". You have to really think about how to explain things when you're working with a limited language. Yeah, we have the word "rino" now, but how would you describe one to someone who has no concept of this? Maybe a cow with one big horn? Is "like a big fat tough skin horse with a big horn coming out of its head" accurate? And then apply your classic game of telephone[0]. It is also how you get things like how in Chinese a giraffe is "long neck deer"[1] (that doesn't work for all things in Chinese and there's another game of telephone (lol, maybe I was too harsh on the British in [0]) and well... you can imagine things get warped like crazy).

There's so many rabbit holes to go down when trying to understand language, vision, reasoning, and all that stuff.

[0] (Jesus England... this is what you call this game?!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

[1] https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=zh-CN&text=giraffe&op... ----> https://translate.google.com/?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&text=%E9%95%BF%...
Sorry for the offtopicness:

I can't reply to the emails you've been sending because the replies keep bouncing. Can you try emailing hn@ycombinator.com from a different address?
I suppose this is a genuine dichotomy, but I feel like it’s missing a more critical difference: ADTs cleanly represent data, even when nothing can be, or needs to be, extended from outside.

For example, a result is a success value or an error. A stock order is a market order or a limit order, and nothing else, at least until someone updates the spec and recompiles the code. Situations like this happen all the time. I don’t want to extend a result to include gizmos in addition to success value or errors, nor do I generally want to extend the set of functions that operate on a certain sort of result. But I very, very frequently want to represent values with a specific, simple schema, and ADTs fit the bill. A bunch of structs/classes, interfaces/traits and getters/setters can do this, but the result would look like the worst stereotypes of enterprise Java code to accomplish what a language with nice ADTs can do with basically no boilerplate.
Briefcase (Microsoft Windows)
I suppose I'll need to check my full stack privilege, but I just know starting a project like this eventually becomes someone else's tech debt nightmare.

If it wasn't already difficult enough to bootstrap a project especially these days. To any entrepreneurs reading, if this is the junk your devs come up with run away as fast as you can.
On your website, do some very basic SEO (tags and other menial <head> content) (or something like medium? I self host everything)

You can then share links to posts at appropriate times and in appropriate context (like answering someone's question and giving them a place to learn more through a link, don't spam it around, always be genuinely helpful first)

keep in mind you are in a crowded market, lots of people try to build stock market tools, very few ever get used

My advice works better when you have a specialty or niche (generally specialties and niches do better)
I've spent literally hundreds of hours thinking about this, and I've landed on the opinion that TAI should always be the source of truth. It's usually not, because most systems ultimately get their source of truth from the GPS system, which uses something that looks kind-of like UTC (but is actually more similar to TAI, but people prefer to dress it up as UTC). This was a reasonable mistake that has caused so many problems due to the leap seconds.

If you're using TAI, it's more obvious that you have to account for leap seconds in order to convert to a human-readable civil time format (year, month, day, hour, minute, second). You know that you have to incorporate the official leap second list from IANA or some other authority. UTC makes it seem simpler than it actually is, and that's why there are so many problems.

You can always convert from TAI to civil time. You cannot always go the other way.
You can go with firebase for version N of your application when you have all relations between entities defined. If version N+1 redefines what your documents are, you're looking to write a migration script. That's not so different from SQL with all the joins. But there are people who can't design a data schema for neither a SQL database nor a document store.
The Air Force wants to divest most of its aircraft in order to spend on advanced aircraft R&D. I wonder if anyone has published a good analysis of this strategy, because it sounds crazy to me.