skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple of great examples of this playing out in "reverse" with some missions that, at pre-F9 launch costs could only afford to be on a rideshare or small launcher and thus were expecting to have to deal with all sorts of limits, only to end up being able to afford a dedicated F9.

There was IXPE, which has been the smallest dedicated payload launched by F9, which otherwise would've had to launch on a much smaller, air-launched pegasus rocket to get to the right inclination. I recall that they were able to simplify some aspects of the satellite deployment due to the roomier vehicle.

There was another mission, maybe Psyche? where the original plan would've required the risk of testing a new kind of engine to get to its deep space destination, but being able to get a dedicated ride instead, that risk was eliminated, such that it was going to be able to get there even if the engine tests failed.
Wait... so if webgpu (the API) is to allow browsers to use the underlying graphics libs... but desktop apps can access those directly... why would they want to go through the browser abstraction API instead? Better dev ex and ergonomics?
Yeah just to second this, there has been credible proof that Russia has interfered in our elections, let’s not diminish that reality.
AI PCs might solve a real problem: The friction that sees users ignore security
Nvidia passes Apple as second-most valuable company
Can someone explain why reentry must be so hellish? The energy gained during the rocket burn into orbit must be bled off during reentry, and that energy is enormous. However, why must reentry occur so quickly? It seems if the descent into the atmosphere was slower, the heat shield would be able to radiate the heat energy away more effectively, thus lowering skin temperatures, and significantly reducing the engineering challenge.
It might be a bit of both. Crime as a personal effect is a horrible thing to experience. Crime as a general statistic had the wonderful effect of keeping rent low.
which killed the ...
> It's kind of like being judged by your MBTI results.

I had to do that test a bunch of times coming out of university, so I am sure that is happening.
Drive a semi over those cobblestones daily for a year and we'll see how they are doing.
Potholes are not regression. They are a good cost effect response. We can build roads that won't have potholes, but at vastly more cost, it is better in the long run to build roads as we do and then fix potholes every year.

Cobblestones also get potholes and the like when subject to heavy car traffic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol

> Xylitol occurs naturally in small amounts in plums, strawberries, cauliflower, and pumpkin; humans and many other animals make trace amounts during metabolism of carbohydrates.
It kills a lot of animals very quickly with a low dose... I stay away from the stuff
Officers have wide discretion to ensure their safety in an encounter. While this doesn't always result in a search, it could easily do so in cases where emotions are elevated.
The Liberal Party deserves to be wiped out entirely financially and politically for this wreckless policy.

And that's coming from someone who utterly despises the Conservative party.
> I'm curious for someone to make a steelman case as to why they think this is acceptable.

Maple syrup reserves are running low and Canada will need bodies for the upcoming war over New England’s supply.
> Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that is found in small amounts in fruit and vegetables, and the human body also produces it.
The last time I was in a place that had a disposable shopping bag ban for a while, I was the only one seemingly grabbing some of the bags for sale as I was a visitor and did not have any of my own bags yet. I didn't see a single other person who actually lived there buy any bags on any of the trips I took to the grocery.
Unoccupied (for x or more months) second homes should be rented out, otherwise squatted in or burned to the ground, period. It doesn't matter if you disagree, Might Makes Right.

Be careful: Meme Magic works in both directions, and it is often difficult to detect its presence.
'Find My' is a thing for years, yet police unable to find your phone, nor mobile operator can disclose where is the SIM card now. We are going be tracked 24h but that won't affect crime rate.
Right, per my other thread below, my understanding was the "privileged" ports were mainly ones that were allowed for off machine communication by standard policy/convention long time ago. As such, using higher number ports should be just as easy in the code as using lower ports, outside of the discovery that was implied by following the other conventions. But, introducing new network addresses seems to have already side stepped the discovery affordances?

I'll offer the same caveat here, btw, I am not trying to torpedo the idea of trying this. I'm genuinely curious why you would need to do this. Not necessarily why you would want to.
> Many of the home-grown independent telcos in Canada started operating cell networks in the mid-2000s, but they were never able to win over the customers loyal to Bell and Rogers.

It has nothing to do with loyalty, the coverage of these networks is just bad. I'm on one right now. Canada is a huge sprawling country and many people venture far for camping, to cottages and so on, and they won't go with a cell provider where they lose service 10 mins outside of Toronto.

It's even worse sometimes, coverage in cities adjacent to Toronto, like Oakville, is also sometimes bad. Canada's problem with mobile is sprawl and a largely ineffective regulator.
Depends on how packed the room is ;)
I wonder if all of these 85% people simply already refuse any single use plastic item. And never use such? Like no more plastic bags for anything, or not single plastic utensil. Or no single plastic cup. No single use medical devices like syringes.
What do you think signing does to prevent against 'the cybersecurity threats of the world today'?
Canada is filled with failed companies.

Canadians are risk averse, too afraid to stand out and too eager to put down America and claim to be better than them for any significant change to happen.

Maybe the worst out of the developed countries across all metrics.
Only the V2 is a rocket, the V1 is a flying bomb. They're both terror weapons, as actual products they have no direct military value, they exist solely in order to scare the shit out of enemy civilians, but liquid fuelled rockets are an invention with a whole lot of interesting practical applications - the V1 is just a bad idea (unless you have unlimited resources, which the Germans did not, and your goal is to terrify enemy civilians, which is not a legitimate military strategy).
Are we allowed to hold ideals? Are we allowed to take steps toward enacting those ideals?
What does the total population graph look like?
The secret D-Day scientists and engineers
> It also doesn't support things like moving windows between workspaces

It's been a while since I used Amethyst as the Mac is now on complete corporate lockdown, but I remember that being the biggest feature I used on Amethyst. MacOS doesn't support it, but Amethyst did.
"Xylitol is found naturally in fruits and vegetables like strawberries, raspberries, mushrooms and cauliflower"

https://foodinsight.org/what-is-xylitol/#:~:text=Xylitol%20i....
Xylitol gum stopped chronic ear pain for me. It'd be hard to give up, but I do like having a heart.
There is a subreddit for complaining about Loblaws.

https://old.reddit.com/r/loblawsisoutofcontrol/
Okay, sure, but there's colloquial definitions which in a culinary context mean "industrially-synthesized compound meant to mimic the culinary properties of a commonly consumed chemical", here trying to mimic sugar.

Xylitol may exist in nature and be produced by our bodies, but per this article foods with it added contain 1000x the amount we would ordinarily produce.

Perhaps a better rule of thumb would be "for a given chemical, keep your exposure/consumption within an order of magnitude of what would have been typical for a human pre-1850".
This is brilliant work, OP! A great use case for machine learning.

Why does the arXiv non-exclusive license preclude the inclusion of arXiv figures in the published data set? I don't see how the conditions set by the license imply that:

I grant arXiv.org a perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article.
I certify that I have the right to grant this license.
I understand that submissions cannot be completely removed once accepted.
I understand that arXiv.org reserves the right to reclassify or reject any submission.

https://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/license....
The door is a major issue to using super heavy to deliver other payloads which is a goal long term and the need for a heat shield on the bottom makes it hard to make it fully open towards the front. Kind of need to have this fairly well sorted from the beginning because new designs mean new testing and certification which are expensive.
So drones will be taking on tax fraud next?
I started reading the different sections of the paper and —- wait, no, this is still the Abstract!
Sugar alcohols have other benefits like not dramatically raising blood sugar levels.

also:

> Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that is found in small amounts in fruit and vegetables, and the human body also produces it.
Get rid of the pathetic scarcity mindset.

Just build more houses and then nobody will care.
This 5+ hour podcast on Aspartame is as fascinating as a podcast on the topic could be: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/podcast-episode-116/
A significant fraction of those people would be dead if they didn't immigrate.
>The city mostly flies above the people living west of Interstate 805. “There’s less crime out here and higher incomes, so that’s why there are fewer drone flights.” The manager at a golf course on the east side was even more explicit. “Right now we’re sneaking up on chaos in a lot of areas,” he says, “and if drones are what’s needed to take care of the criminals,” so be it. “Buzz that son of a gun all you want to,” he says.

Same as it ever was. Wealthy suburban voters imposing a police state on the poorer disenfranchised half of their city.
I understand that they are delicious but 3 pounds a day is a lot, throwup238.
Blaming 'corporate greed' is a easy thing for politicians to do. It's then not their actions that are causing prices to go up.

Easy to point at things like 'record profits' of Loblaws, without looking at if their margins have changed (they haven't). If you keep the same margins and have the amount of business with inflation then of course there are 'record profits'.
> It has nothing to do with loyalty, the coverage of these networks is just bad.

They had nationwide agreements. They still do, technically, but no longer operate any cell sites, now essentially being a Bell reseller. Even as a reseller, their customer base hasn't grown in any meaningful way, certainly not beyond the wired customer audience. In fact, I bet you don't even know their names. Nobody in Canada cares to look beyond their loyalty.
It is extremely long-term maintainable and readable (self-documenting code), supports development in large teams, and once it compiles, the program tends to be correct. Packages work forever, which ironically irritates newcomers when they think packages are out of date. In my experience, Ada enforces clarity of thinking and YAGNI more than any other language.
As usual the dose makes the poison
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In human competitions, all hands must start and end on the timer for the score to be valid. Also, the human is limited to one point of view, which can not analyze the entire cube in one glance.

I am not saying this robot isn't impressive. What I'm saying is: lets see the time if the clock is running while the robot operator loads and unloads the cube from the robot. I doubt it competes with the current human world record:

Max Park 3.134 seconds [1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/x1x4NATOutM?si=EoIQ1PvEw2Jn_zdd
What do you consider a utopia?
There are tons of small-to-medium sized grocery stores with a strong ethnic focus and a focus on prices. You don't hear about them because they one-offs and not a national chain.
Personalized Spatial Audio Coming to Cyberpunk 2077 with Immerse Gamepack
Some examples of automatic layout in this style:

- M. Nöllenburg: Automated Drawings of Metro Maps, 2005. We've used that a while ago to render a few pretty images with our graph visualization library, but runtime is prohibitive (along with the requirement of a fast ILP solver).

- LOOM: https://github.com/ad-freiburg/loom and https://loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de/global
Watch a video on roman road construction methods. It seems they prided themselves on building for the long term.
Retrieval augmented generation from incomplete archive:
The foundation of the road consists of 3’ of gravel covered with 2’ of sand forming an extremely stable base.
I seem to also recall that builders got paid half upon completion and half if the construction was still in good condition fifty years later. (Though this is probably apocryphal for the obvious reasons)
You have to be careful how much wisdom you glean from fiction.

The sheer hostility of space kind of precludes the "she's a good ol' ship" trope. When your door doesn't shut on your pickup, you can bang on it a bit. When your door doesn't shut on your spacecraft, you've got a ship full of corpses that look like a blob fish brought up from the Marianas Trench.
I've seen it discussed in reviews of sugar-free Haribo gummy bears: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2JGNJ5ZPJT4YC
People already do this.

Heck, I remember a decade or so ago in the town I was living at two cops killed each other this way. One was parked sideways in the middle of the road with his lights off at the top of a hill, waiting for speeders down the hill and another cop crashed into him, lights off, also looking for speeders on the same road. All at around 3am or so...
Controlling population growth is out of picture, so humanity stands no chance.
I'm here for it. Drones don't lose their temper or confuse a flashlight for a gun. And maybe we'll finally have the surveillance power to enforce traffic safety rules for real.
It's rare that a tech story brings me to tears, but I couldn't help feel one swelling up when reading the final paragraphs.

> Eventually, it was Wilkie who made the first move. Overwhelmed with emotion, his eyes red and swollen with grief, he stepped forward and detached the red rosette from the lapel of his suit jacket. It was the same one Don had given him years before. Leaning down, he gently placed the rosette on the casket.

It feels like there should be a movie made about this story...
> Sometimes I wonder if we've regressed in terms of attention to quality.

In a way we have, yes! In our modern society we optimize for profit. Always, everywhere. The reasons our roads won't last thousands of years is precisely that it would be less profitable.
Isn't this basically giving up on the 2% inflation target? EU inflation rate stands at 2.6% and they're already cutting rates.
Interestingly, the NeilMed sinus rinse I use has a "xylitol added" version. But you can also buy the regular saline-bicarb powder on Amazon, thank God.

Xylitol! Who TF wants that up their nose?
Firefox "Bug" Leaked Saved Logins Across Profiles and Caused Break Up (2005)
UK imposes mysterious ban on quantum computer exports (newscientist.com)
The UK government has set limits on the capabilities of quantum computers that can be exported — starting with those above 34 qubits, and rising as long as error rates are also higher — and has declined to explain these limits on the grounds of national security. Experts say this make no sense and that it could harm the nascent UK quantum computer industry. Clearly 34 qubits is seen as an important milestone for some military or intelligence reason, but the rationale behind that belief is being kept behind closed doors.
Sounds like Crystal https://www.crystalknows.com/
The City Scanners and Manhacks of Half Life 2 don’t seem too sci-fi anymore
Doesn't Google live and breath domains? They index the internet and have Google Cloud Platform so surely Domains should be part of Google's core businesses?
are you familiar with the concept of location location location? :)

vacancy rates are historically low in cities where people want to live
> Qualcomm chief Cristiano Amon went further, saying the PC industry was being reborn, with the AI PC the most important development since Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system.

I can see the potential for this to be a sea change. Everybody had to go buy a Windows 95 PC, it was that much better than Windows 3.1.

Everybody had to go buy a computer with WiFi - it was a completely new capability for the vast majority of the computer population.

AI PCs are IMO not yet to their Windows 95 moment. They are at like Windows 286, where they exist, they kind of do their thing, but they have not yet reached the industry-defining paradigm that means everybody has to have one yet.

In the same way that the Humane AI Pin and friends could have just been android apps (which could have just been PWAs), the sorts of 'sidebar with some flavor of LLM here' integrations we are seeing are very preliminary.

Chat-based LLM output is a new and amazing capability. I look forward to future applications for local-only LLMs, operating to easily ingest my local data and transform it (WinFS style files reborn, anybody?) in new and useful ways, that will be cool.

Where we are right now is that we appear to be locking down computers to be desktop-shaped smartphones (ARM or pluton) rather than general purpose computers, and in exchange we get generative fill here and there, along with a more intrusive OS (Microsoft Recall, Edge 'copilot', every other non-github 'copilot') and otherwise feels kinda samey.

Some company exists right now, today, that none of us has heard of before, and it is going to be the Macromedia of our day, using existing technical pieces (on-device NPUs, AI algos / techniques) to do something else completely new (Stability doing Image / audio generation is amazing) and unexpected, and that killer app will be what we all go get AI PCs for.

Hopefully we won't have to give up general purpose computing (TPM, Intel Management Engine, and whatever play these companies make to force the AI to be aligned to their corporate values) in the process.
The root cause might be stagnant productivity. Faced with this, politicians can boost GDP by increasing the population. The root cause would therefore be using GDP growth as the success metric, stagnation in the said metric and an inability to facilitate its growth with anything other than increasing the amount of people in the economy.
They only reason I think these companies are thrilled is because they can con people into into replacing their perfectly fine PC with one of these new PCs.
Goldilocks and the Three Developers
On the other hand, there are plenty of success stories of foreign chains entering Canada. Target's rival Walmart has been reasonably successful in Canada, having over 400 stores. Target made a lot of mistakes entering the Canadian market, starting with leasing locations of dying Canadian chain Zellers and even still running them as Zellers for years, which didn't help building up the Target brand in Canada.
This principle is fine, but its application is the issue.

This ingredient occurs in nature frequently. Why shouldnt it be used?
It's trivial in the sense that telling people trying to lose weight to just eat fewer calories is trivial.

Simple idea, hard to execute.
Drones... may well make mistakes - I'm not sure that AI Vision is anyway 100% foolproof, but besides - Drone operators are human, and i'm under the impression they most certainly are fallible.
I use yabai pretty heavily, for the past 5 macos versions without disabling SIP on a work computer. I really like it, the tiling is flaky only maybe once every few days (I am doing yabai commands probably once a minute at least) so I bound a keystroke to `yabai --restart-service` and it always comes back immediately

So I find it really pretty reliable and pretty great. Multimonitor is hard and I don't use it much, but having stacks and fast 'full-screen' to minimize is so great

On some version upgrades, work antivirus thinks it's a virus so disables it for 24 hours, and I hate using my computer those days, it feels so clunky and sad
I think "most people in tech" have the choice to not use Big Tech spying services that keep gathering the data.

But how common is that choice?
Literal AI: multi-modal LLM app observability and evaluation
No. That's the whole point of SpaceX's development model, testing done right is absurdly cheap.
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A lot of social consensus is often made when huge threads on twitter or Instagram have a massive number of supporters behind a topic. So when bots get better at all saying the same thing in seemingly human voices, it trains us to believe that is popular, and likely that that is right
> why would they want to go through the browser abstraction API instead? Better dev ex and ergonomics?

That and portability. The ergonomics are always up for debate, but I find it a much more modern and nicer interface than OpenGL which feels...quite dated. How it compares to something like Vulkan or Metal is up for debate.

But for portability if I write my code using directx, then I can only run it on systems with directx. If I write it for vulkan, I can only target systems with vulkan. If I write for metal, I can only target systems with metal.

However, if I use wgpu and the WebGPU API, I can target any system that has directx or vulkan or metal or OpenGL. I can also target wasm and compile my application for the web.

So, I can really easily write code that will run natively on linux, on osx, on windows and the web and will use the graphics library native to that platform.
That's part of the innovation; don't just build a single reaaally expensive ship that has to be perfect. Instead, build a _ship factory_ and crank them out (relatively) cheaply and fast.
Somebody mentioned semis already, but also, I bet Roman engineers would give up immediately if they saw a snowplow.
The ESP32 is very overpowered for random home projects. But the cost is low, and they can be used with the Arduino ecosystem which is very beginner friendly.

Often the ESP32 is far cheaper than whatever sensor you're making it monitor. WiFi isn't the perfect technology to upload sensor data in the home, but anything proper Zigbee is more expensive and more complex to use. So the ESP32 ends up in all kinds of projects.
"People that didn't get seriously ill or die are fine" is a bad argument.
Xcode used to be absolutely massive, being 10GB+ a few years back. They seemed to have done a better job at making it smaller.
I've never ever had that happen with Rectangle or Magnet.