skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No it wouldn't be, because there is zero chance in hell of everyone else on Earth not realizing whats going on, if someone were suddenly busy launching all that machinery, building materials and weapons towards the Moon, not to mention hundreds of personnel with all their space suits, provisions, water, shelters, space poop collectors, etc.

We're talking about a permanent manned presence on the moon. If I have that and you don't, you can watch me launch from Earth all you like. I can build a launch facility on the side of the moon that you can't see without circumnavigating it, and I can conduct launches from it that you don't know about. To go to the extreme, I could launch nukes on ballistic trajectories that you would be blind to.

> And even so, the Moon offers ZERO advantage as a "staging ground" for Missions to Mars, because, there is nothing on the Moon to be staged. Every kg of stuff that would be "staged" there, has to be first launched from Earth, so all a Moon Base does, is add another launch to an already costly equation.

This is the kind of confidently ignorant response that is thankfully not too common on hackernews.

The moon has zero atmosphere, a trivial escape velocity, and is a huge mass that can be built on, within Earth's gravity well. Using a mass driver to launch from the moon around the Earth means you would need to carry less propellant on board your spacecraft, because in the best case scenario, you only need to carry the fuel to slow you down. Launching from Earth, you need X + Y fuel, where X gets you the delta-V to get to your destination from Earth, and Y is the fuel required to slow you down and land. Launching from the moon you need U + V, where U is the fuel that gets you to the moon, and V is the fuel you need to slow you down, because you don't need to launch from the moon using propellant. If X > U, launching from the moon is better. The faster you want to go, the more things tip in favor of launching from the moon, because you can keep adding stages and front-loading energy into your launch in a way that is impossible on Earth. Shit, if you launch around the Earth you can even regain some of the energy you put towards getting to the moon in the first place, because the Earth's gravity field accelerates you, and your propellant has potential energy as well as chemical energy (i.e. do an Oberth maneuver).

I'm well aware of the realities of the other bodies in the solar system. That doesn't mean we'll never want to go to any of them. If we do, going to the moon first makes a lot of sense.
In my experience it seems that the price floor is higher, but the ceiling is lower. Short rides (~10 min) that might cost 8-9$ (before tip) on Uber / Lyft, cost $18-20 on Waymo. If I'm going to the other side of San Francisco (say, North Beach to Stonestown), it will be $33-35. I've never seen it in the $40s-50s as I often do with Uber / Lyft for long distance trips during surge pricing. But that's just anecdotal.
I hear you, and that certainly plays a role -- but we actually did the work in that paper months before ChatGPT was released (June-July 2022), and most of the folks who participated in our study had not heard much about LLMs at the time.

(Obviously if you ran the same study today you'd get a lot more of what you describe!)
I'm curious what the main value you see in the talk pages? I almost never look at them myself.
The sooner my kid learns someone is always watching, the better.
Lol, it's just complete bullshit marketing on that page. But I do find it fascinating how they obfuscate what is actually happening behind the scenes and cannot come out and clearly say how their technology works, or that they are using google's index.

>Kagi is known for delivering a unique flavor of high-quality search results, sourced from our own web index (internally named "Teclis") and news index (internally named "TinyGem").

The marketing at least is pretty good -- I haven't seen this many committed devotees since the iPhone was announced.

But here on the ground, I can type a few queries and reveal that Kagi is the same shit as Google. Perhaps you are seeing some manually adjusted queries?

P.S. there are lots of other concerns about Kagi too, I'm just talking about the search
https://hackers.town/@lori/112255132348604770
FWIW, I truly hope 24fps never goes away entirely. Something about it is the key to making movie stars look like legends and regular people look like a stars, imo.
Should have gone with blu-rayn.
Paying you for podcasts is legitimate when it's connected. You'd be fine if you did something like "support me by getting a lossless FLAC download here" and use Stripe or by providing your Venmo for peer-to-peer money transfer. But Stripe won't work well if you want to take contributions disconnected from service. i.e. there has to be a transaction for them to accept you.

The reason for this is apparent if you flip roles. It's an anti-chargeback mechanism.
> modern vehicles are so complex and if something breaks it actually is cheaper to just go bet a new car

it's not.
It seems like my analogy was too difficult to follow.

The point is that the fundamental problem is a company in a monopoly position throwing their weight around and/or keeping their product stagnant “because they can”, which is also a function of power. This is the “authoritarian government”.

The police part is referring to people thinking of specific IE6 technical issues “as the problem”, when it’s just a symptom of a larger problem.

Microsoft treated web developers badly because they could. Google will abuse the whole world in the same way now that Chromium has achieved near total dominance.
How do you get cash back in those cases?
Gabb wireless and others have had this for ages, for much cheaper.
The purpose of cars is to get people from place to place. That purpose isn't hampered by wearing a seatbelt. There's not even a compromise involved. It's all upside.

The purpose of childhood is produce future adults. That purpose isn't fully served when kids get too far removed from choices, risks, and consequences. Yes, we also need to make sure they stay alive, but survival can't be the only metric parents optimize for or they'll just produce confused old kids trying to live adult lives. (`Big`, but for real and without a magical fix in act 3.)
Eh, yes and no.

Let's say I'm in a group of 6 close friends and every year we have 20 poker nights, 4 barbecues, and attend 2 sports events or concerts.

If I decide I don't like poker and I'm not going to attend the poker nights - my friends will still welcome me to the barbecues and sports events. We'd still be friends.

But they're not going to cancel poker night. And if at poker night Bob tells the other guys how proud he is his daughter Jenny has gotten accepted to the fancy college she applied to - nobody's going to summarise that in an e-mail to me.

We'll still be friends - but I'll be spending more time alone, and the social fabric won't be quite as tightly knit.
http://archive.today/0TAMD
I think that’s definitely a thoughtful approach but there is no carrot big enough. 50% increase or double my pay, maybe. That’s how big of deal WFH is to most. My work is trying to develop some in office novelties that I think most won’t care about one iota. I miss the office sometimes but then I remember all the crap that comes with it.
Waymos do the same thing in SF where the streets are much denser, traffic is weirder, hills are way steeper, and the roads aren't in perfect shape by any means. The amount of impressive navigation I've seen around delivery trucks, weird construction patterns, etc has been pretty wild. They seem way ahead of the other options on the road.
I used to listen to the Quiet Light podcast. One thing that the Quiet Light founder mentioned a couple times is they are always working on dealflow, lining up buyers and sellers sometimes years in advance of an actual sale.
At the $9.99 price point, I'd buy an Android version in an instant.

At a subscription or a significantly higher price point, I wouldn't.

Plural of anecdote isn't data, but anecdote is better than nothing, so there you have it.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by, "their goal was to overthrow the democratically elected Government"? This could mean a whole lot of things, like voting out the incumbents in the next election - and sure I'll readily believe that the protestors were calling for that.

But "overthrow" reads to me like the protestors sought to forcefully remove and replace the existing government. In other words, a coup. That is a very different statement, and one I would really like you to substantiate with evidence if that's what you're trying to claim.
“… turning an O(log N) search per segment into O(N) overall.”

Can someone explain why?
Waterstones in Picadilly in London is in a 90,000 sq ft building, but I'm not sure if all of it is used for the book store (abd even within the book store I guess it depends if you count onky public spaces, and if you include thr cafes etc.. They claim 200k titles.
I was shocked that manufacturers don’t disclose the entire ingredient list for their tear gas. This stuff is inhaled by civilians, the contents should be required to be available to the public.
You're not being very creative if you can't find someone to buy your crypto.
I'm speaking in the context of the parent conversation ("unencrypted WiFi packets"). On wireless networks, all devices share the same "wire", so to speak. Normally that traffic is useless when captured due to encryption, but that's not the case on unencrypted (i.e. public) WiFi.
So what does this mean for Apple devices? They will have to back away from pairing? If yes, then it should work everywhere? Or will they agree to pay whatever fines in CO to avoid changing this elsewhere? Is there another option I should be thinking about?
It's a way to ensure global uniqueness. In the end they're just compared byte-for-byte as strings.
The average user does not have JavaScript turned off. Plain http sites are a risk to their users.
Perhaps this is what they're going to build at Belvidere.

https://www.wifr.com/2023/11/03/stellantis-commits-nearly-5b...

https://www.wifr.com/2024/05/07/stellantis-reassures-belvide...
> using a phone, a water bottle, or both as a pacifier

I slowly put my phone down in shame after reading this. But I really love this sentence because of how true it is. Why is it always a phone and a water bottle?
Number of physician group practices by state
> For better or for worse the ship has definitely sailed on the laissez-faire "be home before sunset" parenting of past generations.

It's only "sailed" because (some) parents demand to know where their kid is at all times. While I think it's difficult for any individual parent to, say, forbid social media for too long lest they ostracize their kid, saying "I won't track my kids" is a choice any parent can make.

I just pity the kids of these helicopter parents. The youth mental health crisis is no accident.
> What's the obvious loophole for the companies here.

As with all things under California’s broken political system: the ballot initiative process. Get people to vote for a law that in effect repeals this one, and put repealing the repeal out of reach for the legislature.
Some cities have untapped potential for more suburban sprawl. It's unlikely that any such place capable of attracting tech investment has enough commutable land to make a difference before succumbing to the same problems.

Every area that's a candidate for urban density and public or active transportation has people living in it already. Those people are not any different from San Franciscans in terms of their concerns about gentrification, traffic, parking, shadows, or change.
It was not a "concession" it was stopped by a judge issuing an injunction because the truckers were sued by locals. That lawsuit is still ongoing.
No need to wait... https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/11/24069251/waymo-driverless...
Don't forget tax.
They’re not so interesting for mundane topics, but for anything remotely controversial, they are essential for understanding what perspectives aren’t included in the article.
People can sound alike, but if you hire someone because they sound like someone famous hoping people believe you hired the famous person, that's bad.
As a weatherman, David Letterman once described hail stones from a storm as being "the size of canned hams".
> I trust cities and their people far less than wild animals.

Is this based on statistical reasoning?

Would you really rather leave your kid with say, a wild boar, than with a person randomly chosen out of a city's population?
Tell her to look at the travel system. At least when I was there a decade ago, they gameified it so that we needed to come in below the average cost for a flight, otherwise we needed VP approval. But if we came in under the average, you could bank the savings and use it to upgrade to first class, etc.

This sounds great on paper: incentivizing employees to reduce travel costs and rewarding them for it! But in reality, you'd have engineers payed substantial fractions of a million dollars in total comp wasting hours booking travel, hoping to bank savings to use on later upgrades.
As far back as 2015 I tried to build an all-IPv6 network for a lab environment. It very nearly worked and the few remaining issues would have been quick fixes for vendors.

We’re closer than most people assume.
I am not an engineer at Google but this is I would say if I was.

We don't know who you are, you are just a number in a database, and we don't even know what number, we just get the total number of visits for each website, not who visited it. It is like counting cars on a highway, not following your car. Plus, it serves the useful purpose of providing you with better search results, the terms and conditions allow it, and it can be disabled.
People who have parents/relatives with cognitive problems might want this for tracking purposes.
RSUs aren't really a big deal due to the way it vests.

But you're right that the TC of the average Google (or even FAANG) job has become somewhat mythical on the internet lately. I'm in a Slack where people have been asking about offers and TC for a long time. There are a lot of disappointed people who think they're walking into $500-600K job offers only to realize that they're "only" getting $300K from multiple companies.

Honestly quite frustrating, given that $300K with excellent benefits is an incredible job offer, but these people have been primed for disappointment due to unrealistic expectations.
Text of the law and votes here: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1121

Direct link to the text as signed (pdf): https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_1121_sign...
NATO has just 5% of air defences needed to protect eastern flank
Great Products Are Born Out of Thinking
Laws like this that can be selectively enforced are loved by power hungry people.
ESP32-S3 or ARM Cortex M7, probably.
I am fairly sure you meant highwire act.
Making your own ISA that works is easy. Making a GOOD one is hard -- most of the ones engineers in some company just made up on the spot (because they needed a small CPU but didn't want to pay Arm or Cadence or Synopsys for one) are awful.

A prime example is FTDI's Vinculum-II (VNC2), which presumably was invisibly used internally in their chips, but then they made a chip designed to be customer-programmed. It is just AWFUL. You can debate whether RISC-V is better or worse than ARMv7 or ARMv8-A but at least it's close. VNX2 is not.

Getting all the world's software (or even just GCC, LLVM, Linux) ported to your ISA is the hardest of all.

A point often not noted is that RISC-V is very easy to emulate in software, whether interpretively or JIT, with minimal slowdown compared to native code. Not having condition codes and PC not being a GPR are major advantages here. This makes it also useful in WASM / JVM / CIL territory.
Thanks!

>Why do you think hardware doesn't generally have the same level of 'respect' as software? From what I can see, it should be held in much higher regard with a correspondingly higher level of compensation. Is it literally just the current ability for hardware to be reverse-engineered and undercut?

Oh, my perception of hardware engineers is that they are held in similar regard to software developers.

If they do get less prestige, my guess is that it just comes down to money. The margins on pure software products are so high, so software businesses can afford to pay their software engineers really well. I've heard that typically hardware products sell for about 3-4x their bill of materials, so that eats up a huge chunk of your profits. And then there are all the other costs like storage, shipping, fulfillment that are nearly zero for a software business but significant for a hardware business.

I think for similar reasons, we don't see a lot of successful hardware startups. The VC money is probably flowing much more heavily toward software, so we hear of fewer hardware unicorn companies.
Generalized Optimization Modulo Theories
In principle I agree we don’t need to track our kids. But when I was I a free range kid in the 80s, there were pay phones at every corner, I carried coins and a calling card so could reach my parents.

Now they have to interact with an adult somewhere to use their personal phone. And the adult has to trust this isn’t a ruffian looking to swipe his phone for kicks.

But a cell capable watch for $200 is pretty compelling; the Apple SE is sync only right, so equivalent apple watch is $350+?
I doubt Amazon builds the Fedora images. So if they’re pointed to the wrong place, that’s not AWS’s fault.
I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if this is relevant or not, but it's not really Scarlett Johansson's voice we're talking about, it's "the character in Her that Scarlett Johansson voiced". I'd be surprised if Scarlett's natural voice matches the one in Her - I assume she would have changed her pitch and/or cadence for the movie to match the director's requirements. Samantha's voice in Her has a subtle, 'not-quite-natural' sound to it, which would make sense for a computer-generated voice.

Can the movie studio that produced Her claim copyright over Samantha's voice? If they release "Her 2" without Scarlett Johansson, could the movie studio hire someone who sounds like Scarlett to play Samantha's character?

I don't think this case is as simple as people make it out to be. Even Sam Altman's tweet: "Her", seems to confirm they took inspiration from the movie Her, so is it wrong to hire a voice actor that sounds like the character in the movie? If Sam had tweeted, "Scarlett", then it would be very different.
I think this law is terrible but I'm happy about it from the perspective of being able to have a state self-destruct so gloriously that it can serve as an example for everyone else.

Are Facebook AI researchers going to continue working in California when they can be put in jail? What about all the researchers in the UC system and Stanford?
Yeah this is the main truth in the fine article.
Crucible – A community for those looking to acquire SaaS businesses
Over the last year I have acquired several cash flowing SaaS businesses and realized it's an exciting space to be in but there's no "YC" for the world of SaaS - no great, free community for folks to discuss deals, growth strategies, and meet each other.

I’m starting this community as a space for those serious about finding acquiring software businesses. My hope is that it can help people share learnings, talk strategy, and maybe even team up and buy companies together!

https://community.crucible.fund/join?invitation_token=1386ee8cce9247b9f3a4f0e13f32c155b21697f1-d6df7d99-c3f5-440f-9db2-5cc710f063fb
ColBERT gives you best of both worlds.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12832

https://thenewstack.io/overcoming-the-limits-of-rag-with-col...
From what exactly? Turkey?
https://www.marketplace.org/2024/05/28/are-we-in-the-midst-o...
Talking to AI can't cause real damage any more than talking to a person can. And talking to a person can do worse. So you'll want a license for that, which is awful.
I took one in Chandler last year, and it was amazing. Especially in combination with my Tesla and its "Full Self Driving". It kept up with traffic, turned confidently, yielded to pedestrians, etc.

The biggest (only?) complaint I had is that it would not pickup/dropoff at the curb at our hotel. So if it was raining, we'd have had to walk out in the rain to meet the car in a parking spot.
Thanks for reading and for the kind words!

And 21 years is amazing! With everything that's changed in the last two decades, it's awesome that you've continued adapting and kept competitive all these years later.
> For better or for worse the ship has definitely sailed on the laissez-faire "be home before sunset" parenting of past generations.

It was a good [entirety of human history] age. I'll miss it.
Does a business have to be widely deployed or profitable to be real? The public and private capital markets say "no". If you were to ignore any business that isn't widely available you'd miss the beginning of both Apple and Facebook.

Waymo is a real business serving 50,000 rides each week delivering paying customers to their destination. If you haven't tried it yet, the product is amazing. Private, doesn't cancel, safe, and smooth. I will never take Uber again if I have the choice.
What Ownership Is About: A Mental Model Approach
No need to test, just give me treatment.
Not just seized: seized extra-judicially, and retro-actively.

These two details are important because:

1) no laws were passed and no courts were involved.

2) activities that were perfectly legal at the time, were deemed retroactively illegal and persecuted (not prosecuted - no courts, remember?).

The only regimes in which you see this are tinpot dictatorships and Trudeau's Canada.

Just imagine how powerful those two precedents are for any future radical who seeks to follow on the footsteps of the petite tyrant Trudeau.
Doesn’t it need to be paired with a phone thought?
$230 is a bit high up-front cost for a kids watch. Compare this to something like TickTalk and it seems that TickTalk has more features. https://www.myticktalk.com/. The design of the Google kids watch does look nicer though. TickTalk is pretty bulky and the UI is not great.
Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526142/

>> the men were more likely to disregard rules and were more expedient, suspicious, jealous, and dogmatic. The personality of infected women, by contrast, showed higher warmth and higher superego strength (factors A and G on Cattell's 16PF), suggesting that they were more warm hearted, outgoing, conscientious, persistent, and moralistic. Both men and women had significantly higher apprehension (factor O) compared with the uninfected controls.
The models tested are extremely small, a few thousand parameters and the performance is of course not great, I don't think we can extrapolate much from this. I don't understand why they chose such small models when you can train much larger ones for free on Colab or Kaggle if you really need it.
I agree but that's not super actionable. There's no actual consequences. In fact, I don't think said usage has ever been even slightly important in any election for any of the government that has used it.

And since that's usually the main defense for the notwithstanding clause ("using it would lead to too much backlash so self policing is fine!"), then i don't see how it's defensible.

Not that it actually even makes sense anyways. If it won't be used, why have it? If it will be used for issues as trivial as what it has actually been used for up until now, that's super dangerous, so again why even leave it there? And for exceptional situations, we already have a government that's pretty trigger happy with the emergency act that allows for basically anything.

So it leaves us with provincial government using it in non critical situations (which would be handled by the federal government anyways). I guess that's also a "valid" option, and the one we have now, but then it's hard to argue that our constitution isn't completely worthless.