skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building a new Falcon 9 is trivial - spacex as built a lot already and knows how (or so we assume). However that is only true if you use the existing design as is. Change anything about the design (which we can assume spacex is doing from time to time) makes it non-trivial.
> Israel seems to only extend that sort of courtesy to a part of its citizenry

There have been over 100 Arabs in the Israeli parliament:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_members_of_the_Kn...
Because all the aid for Israel comes back to arms dealers and other wealthy creeps in the US, and they own our politics.

Israelis are just doing what their version of Judaism is telling them to do, it's the neocon Zionists in the US that finance it that are the real danger. It isn't just that they don't care about Palestinian lives, they don't care about Israeli lives, either. They care about Israeli contracts.
> Now quarter pounders are made from fresh beef

Yes, i also noticed a beef farm near every McDonald. /s
It's faster and more efficient, I think. You don't need a fleet of ships to go out to the sea.
That’s pretty neat.

Is this guys a well known YouTuber or something? He seemed shockingly successful at getting companies to send him really high quality components.
of the top 10, I count 3:

Counter Strike 2
Dota 2
Stardew Valley

How are you getting 7/10 unless you're also counting games that happen to run under Proton, which aren't native? And regardless, that's a really small sample size to extrapolate from, when it's easy to get a more extensive list that is around ~250 games total.

https://www.vulkan.org/made-with-vulkan
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Vulkan_games

Of which, a massive percentage are based on engines that have Metal support as well.
(You know, I humbly accept the downvotes and all, but ...

... I really meant it in good faith: If he is tackling these sort of problems from his bedroom ...

... what can we expect of him futher down the road?)
Would be great name for a device that just sang your praises all day.
I was really unimpressed with Boeing's feed and its lack of telemetry. No indications of altitude, speed, distance down range, etc. Even their timeline jumped rather than progressed. It was worse than some of those old Windows progress bars of old.
> Oh, but you paid your rent a day late? Sorry, you're now a "squatter", so we're cooking you alive until you leave.

That seems far-fetched as a risk. Why would a company offering rentals push out someone who paid rent (even if late) and lose out on revenue/maintenance costs trying to get another renter?
Will you guys ever just do Python -> WASM? I think the next "Big break" for front-end web dev is literally this. I've been using Microsoft's Blazor (C#) which is this, with a mix of back-end and front-end capabilities, and I just don't see any reason to ever use JS or React again.
> It's impossible to plan without an internal monologue

I once had a teacher claim that people who claimed to have aphantasia were lying, because those people have read books and it is impossible to read a book without picture the scene in your mind's eye. Are you citing the same source that she was?
Small-Machine Warfare
This is a bit of a tangential rant, so I apologize. But I recently tried to update Death Stranding, the flagship AAA game that Apple landed on macOS and in the App Store. The game itself is 77.5 GB; it had required a little over 150 GB to install. I shrugged that off at the time; they haven't figured out how to decompress on the fly, whatever.

I had about 50GB free on my (1 TB M1 Max) machine at the time of the update, and the App Store told me I didn't have enough free space to update. I balked and looked at the update description, which was just "Various minor bug fixes." The update size was...75 GB. They expect me to re-download the entire game for various minor bug fixes.

(I would "just blame the developer" here, but Apple clearly invested a lot into having this game available on macOS, in the App Store, and got Hideo Kojima to show up at WWDC (a full year ago, remember) and brag about how nice the entire experience is. Some of Apple's engineers probably worked directly on this port.)

It then sunk in that I didn't just need 75 GB of free space. I needed 150 GB. The App Store will completely download and completely decompress the entire game before replacing it. That is the patching process for the game. You need 231 GB free at all times on your machine to have and update a 77GB game.

This is completely insulting given Apple's storage prices, and the fact that the App Store does not let you install apps on an external drive.

Apple clearly doesn't get it. They act like they're nominally putting in the effort, but then it's still just completely half-assed even when things are played exactly like they want.
Impressive but I did find a few issues using my Intel Mac:

1) Being a Jar there’s no easy way to add it to the Applications folder and launch it “naturally”.

2) The colors I selected for each connection didn’t seem to stick.

3) I can’t find a way to have a connection go against multiple Sql Server databases.

4) Cloning a connection keeps the highlight in the source server in the Server Tree.

5) The Console isn’t easy to view table results on due to it using simple pipe (|) separation.
Worse, when I tried to subscribe it then informed me I was already subscribed, and when I tried to reset the password... couldn't get it to work. I eventually gave up.

It is very user-hostile.
For your own devices and use (provided you can configure your devices to all use your local nameserver) you really don't need to care (unless you, at some point, want to make use of whatever the true owner is offering at "home.com").

But, for any visitors, if they have their devices configured to use their providers name servers, or if they have configured them to use one of the public name servers, if you direct them to "home.com" for something on your local lan, their device will instead resolve "home.com" to the IP assigned by the actual owner, and they will not be able to access your lan local "home.com" services.
I think you're conflating the way SpaceX is developing Starship with the way the rest of their business operates (and has operated). Their Falcon rockets (i.e. the ones they actually sell launches on) have an outstanding reliability record, and the Dragon 2 development program (the direct analogue to Starliner) didn't lose any test missions. IIRC the only major hardware loss was during a static fire test of the abort motors on the capsule, which is unfortunate, but not so far out of the ordinary.
The more famous Venetian coin was probably the gold ducat, the name of which is also derived from the Latin “dux” (whence also the title “Duke”).
> The first CPR in this case becomes identical to your surrogate key - it's an opaque ID that you use to reference other tables in the DB - but with the added benefit that for the common case, you don't need any additional lookups. You only need to lookup CPR changes if you don't find the CPR that the user gave you.

I'm not buying that this is a meaningful gain in either performance or code complexity.

In the world of synthetic keys I look up the CPR in the CPR table and join it to the user table using the synthetic ID. If I find a record for the CPR+user join then I'm set, if I don't then the customer doesn't exist.

In the world of natural keys, you're advocating that I first query the user table directly by CPR. Then if I turn nothing up I run a separate query with a join on the original CPR. Then if I still don't turn something up the customer doesn't exist.

The code in the second instance is obviously more complicated than the code in the first instance. It has increased risk of someone writing a bug because now there's a very tempting CPR field that will be right most of the time but wrong in some edge cases. Depending on the database and usage patterns, indexing on the CPR may be much less efficient than indexing on an autoincrementing integer.

The only thing it has going for it is that I might be able to avoid a single join on a very specific path where a user is looking up a customer by typing in the CPR. That seems like the wrong thing to optimize for in the face of all the downsides.
This makes no sense to me. Apple does nothing to prevent AAA games on the App Store also being released on Steam. I think it’s more likely that the GPTK license is to encourage developers to make high quality native ports rather than devs checking a box to make their game available on Mac.
Quick, without cheating, can you name the second human being to run a mile in less than four minutes? Can you name the current world record holder?

I guess that most people in my small town don't know who Roger Bannister is. A lot more of them can tell you the name of the first local to officially run a mile in less than four minutes. They couldn't tell you if anybody from my state has done it since.

I guess that's just a long way to say, "That's natural."
Their shaders contain a peculiar construction:

if (condition) {
while (true) { }
}

condition is always false, but the compiler doesn’t know that.

What is the purpose of this other than to be a poison pill for people writing compliant shader compilers?
Helping my parents in their mid-70s is a constant uphill battle with these things. I simply tell her to ignore *everything* and if she needs confirmation to get in contact with me.
Because of the 535 politicians we have, 45 of them have received donations just during the 2024 election cycle. Big names like Ted Cruz, Marsha Blackburn, Rick Scott, Mitt Romney, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, etc.

It's bipartisan enough that I don't believe the parties will be able to come to an agreement to enact any meaningful change. This goes beyond the Republican vs. Democrat issues so it's much more difficult to make this a partisan issue to rally mass support from either party.
Yes, this GP's comment is very misleading in that it only listed the recent scrubs. I almost felt sorry for the astronauts.
Community notes seems to get stalemated as soon as any demagogue starts saying things that aren't true. The demagogues followers make it so the community note never appears.(Just look at all the false stuff elon musk has tweeted.)

Our entire current system of spreading information seems to allow liars who get popular on basically false outrage bait to have a huge megaphone. I'm not sure how to stop this without a centralized authority shutting it down.
I'm sorting by playercount, which seems to be corroberated here: https://steamcharts.com/top

I am counting Proton games because they very explicitly are supported by sufficient Vulkan coverage. In case you weren't paying attention that's kinda the only reason anyone cares about Apple Silicon getting Vulkan 1.3 coverage in the first place.

> when it's easy to get a more extensive list that is around ~250 games total.

You're right, when we push it out to 1000 titles it gets closer to 80% playable: https://www.protondb.com/dashboard

> Of which, a massive percentage are based on engines that have Metal support as well.

...yeah, you keep telling yourself that. One day, they'll definitely flip the switch on MacOS support. Certainly.
Inebriation simulation: AI's next frontier.-
It's a mere convention: "a querystring of this type is an array of parameters, the order of which is irrelevant" - this is one of the tautological "valid except when it's not" non-rules (a surprising number of cases).

Example: ?a=1&b=2&a=3 - will the server treat this to be equivalent as ?a=3&b=2&a=1 , or ?b=2&a=1 , ?b=2&a=3 , or something else entirely? You'd need to check the serverside parsing implementation to be sure - those could even be valid (and distinct) filenames FWIW.

(And that's before you get to caching - "?b=2&a=1 is not to be served as a cached version of ?a=1&b=2")
I ebb and flow. Sometimes the failed test consumes me and I end up staying up late after the family goes to bed to solve it. :)

It kind of flows into the author's other point, "if I’ve got it, use it."
Do you think they are? We haven't had a case of individuals without training in like 10 000 years.
Depending on where you live the selection of albums by most artists is different.

You can buy the album on Discogs and rip the CD and have the version you want.

https://www.discogs.com/master/32923-Megadeth-Peace-Sells-Bu...
This is a cool one, but I know of other such "failures".

For example, try to ask (better in Russian), how many letters "а" are there in Russian word "банан". It seems all models answer with "3". Playing with it reveals that apparently LLMs confuse Russian "банан" with English "banana" (same meaning). Trying to get LLMs to produce a correct answer results is some hilarity.

I wonder if each "failure" of this kind deserves an academic article, though.
Well, perhaps it does, when different models exhibit the same behaviour...
WaPo, "reasonable". Ha. Or cut to WSJ and NYT on Theranos, SBF, and the other huxters they've shilled for with zero journalism lately. All US news is completely biased garbage in various ways.

I caught NPR recently cutting and pasting a white house press release with zero journalism or commentary. Or their health blog which now routinely has stories like "measurements of height have historically been uses to marginalize short people, should doctors even measure it anymore?"

I literally only get my news from what I randomly hear off forums like this. And I guarantee I'll beat anyone on a quiz of actual facts about world news. (e.g. after SBF was convicted, not before.)
Yeah, as someone with an education background I suspect GPT-4 is relatively close to the general public's performance on this problem. Many people would miss AIW, and almost all would miss AIW+. I'm about as good at this kind of thing as anyone and I'd need a minute with pencil and paper to handle AIW+; it's on par with the most difficult problems found on tests like the GRE.

I wonder if these models, trained on data from across the internet, are in some ethereal way capturing the cognitive approaches of the average person (and not picking the best approaches). If the average person does not think in these sorts of symbolic-manipulative terms, and therefore does not write in those terms, and you train a model on that writing...?
You might want to ask a few old politicians about what effects "being perceived as insufficiently pro-Israel" has historically had, on Election Day.
> asking it to execute this type of program in order to come up with a solution

I may be showing my ignorance about this tech here, but I believe the LLM doesn't even try to solve a problem; they try to generate a discourse that could pass as a solution or answer to the problem; that's more or less what the abstract states if I understand it correctly. But in no way does it try to apply some sort of mechanical reasoning like inference engines do.

To me the solution to this is to associate LLM with mechanical computations, that is an inference engine or an equation solver, rather than recombining the millions of solutions for similar problems it has seen in its training set. I believe I remember reading about teams attempting this approach. I can imagine for instance that if the LLM is in some way able to ask questions and use the answer, maybe it could just generate a prompt for an equation solver and include the result in its answmer.
Starliner's competitor from SpaceX is Dragon, not Starship.
Does anyone knows if there are any instructions on how do you configure the money bot?
When I grow up I want to be half as competent as her at programming. Holy smokes. Bravo.
> As any one who’s read snopes or fact check, while the fact checks often point out actually incorrect information, some of the time, they reframe the question/narrative, assume an inaccurate scope or apply semantics in a convenient way and label something that isn’t necessarily false as not false that reflects the bias of the author.

Do you have an example of this, on Snopes or another fact checking website?
If you use foreign keys in PostgreSQL, it is actually possible to update natural keys with little trouble via the “ON UPDATE CASCADE” mechanism on such keys.
> Israel seems to only extend that sort of courtesy to a part of its citizenry, but when you remember that the "stable" countries in the region are all more-or-less absolute monarchies, it becomes obvious why the US is willing to at least work with Israel.

More directly: apartheid "democracy" > monarchy?
> This is fueled by a complex blend of socio-economic factors. There are a bunch of poor people, scarce affordable housing, and also a bunch of empty houses owned by banks.

That doesn't seem very complex.
This is a really good point and something I hadn't considered. Thanks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17509988 ("Internally, NASA believes Boeing ahead of SpaceX in commercial crew" (2018))
>For reasoning of any complexity, some sort of internal monologue and iteration is needed.

From a formal perspective you're entirely correct. Transformers with chain-of-thought are strictly more powerful than transformers without it, and can efficiently solve classes of problems that would otherwise require exponentially increasing model depth: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07923
Not the point here: Israel is our "greatest ally" and the target is our lawmakers.
Scaling neural machine translation to 200 languages
Its like Beetlejuice.

Say paperclips 3 times and someone will link to Universal paperclips.....Or clippy will appear and murder you.
Microsoft would never allow them to use the trademark.
Undoubtedly several different factors in the BioPsychoSocial model contribute to epigenetic changes like those described in the article.
Thank you dang. Doing the lords work.
MacBook M1 Pro 2021 model 16 inch. Not working. For me nothing works and yes it anyway doesn't handle the notch. In case of Ice it didn't work in first 2 goes and then I gave up because I kind of felt weird that it uses accessibility permission workaround, kinda.

No idea what I changed. When I install back Dozer it starts working fine (with Shortcut not working). Then if I have to uninstall the Dozer I clear all files related to it using AppCleaner. So I guess that doesn't interfere either.

I will maybe debug it one of these days when I have some time.
I believe Apple does it completely locally on the device, whereas Google searches in the cloud.
What do we do as Apple users stuck in this ecosystem whose main goal is to extract more money from our pockets? I hate Windows with all my gut but at least I had a sense of freedom about the software I wanted to install on Windows, including games.

On Mac, I'm constantly reminded that beyond this facade of user-friendly UI and nice visuals, there's a greedy company whose market cap is $3T but doesn't give a flying f* about the end-user because it wants to make even more money.
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Okay, so you're counting non-native games when the discussion is AGAIN clearly about native games. If we're talking about translation layers, then it's irrelevant because Whisky/Crossover can run them as well.

This is just you being completely disingenuous now and purposefully avoiding the actual point of the discussion.
Ah, fair. This is a startup site so my mind was on organization that have the freedom to pivot.

It is supposed to be that new requirements come from the customer though, working closely in conjunction with engineering team reps. So it’s more like “deliver MVP control system software, test it out with actual users, then incorporate their requested changes into the next sprint.”

I’m not surprised if most so-called agile teams didn’t do that though.
JWST was about 15 years late and 20x over budget; would you apply a similar criteria, in which case that would probably be "a total failure"?
Unfortunately it was mostly "I was lied to, but I agree with it anyway because of X" where X is some loose justification to absolve themselves of the self-inflicted mess they got themselves into.

My father was a fine one. His staff fucked off back to Europe, he couldn't hire anyone else and had to fold his company and retire. Then he found out he got cancer and that the NHS had staffing problems due to Brexit.

Me, I am better off for it as I fill a niche demand, but I voted against it because it was generally bad for society and I do not always vote in self-interest.
Is this how shaders "panic"?
Ex150-10 review: Only lost .4lb fat, gained 4.5lbs lean mass
> The team have found drugs that already exist seem to reverse the disease in laboratory experiments and are now aiming for human trials.

I know someone with suspected IBD/Crones and I’m excited on their behalf. Approximately ten years from now scientists might even consider the possibility of discussing the idea of actually beginning real trials.

Just like every other wonder drug, “world changing battery”, and tooth regrow medicine the media seems to occasionally cycle through when bored.
>> It's impossible to plan without an internal monologue

That's quite the claim.
> the US is willing to at least work with Israel

What do you mean at least work with Israel? The US is propping up Israel and without that ally Israel would probably implode. What’s messed up is how disrespectful Israel and some of their politicians are to US and their citizens. One thing I like about Israel is that they have a variety of oppinions and schools of thought. What we’re currently seeing is coming from the radical right wing and those atrocities will unfortunately stain Israelis of all types. Hope they do at the next elections.
Accusations against MDPI, Frontiers and such take this form

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_publishing

the claim is that they are ripping off the scientists. Note

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Beall

was forced to retract his claim that MDPI was predatory.
OSS AI agents with ease. Just add language.
Seems like the opposite is true. If their primary motivation was more App Store sales why not allow GPTK games only through the App Store?
Even in the old days, if your operation was caught, you could always claim that it was an enemy false flag. (And if it was your false flag and you were caught, you could always claim that it was an enemy provocation.)
Image search for “foosball table” shows lots of tables with 3 goalies. The one I played on as a kid had 3 goalies as well.
Loads perfectly with Librewolf, no ads and no GDPR annoying pop-ups

just ublock with Easylist, adguard and ublock annoyances enabled

proper interweb surfing going on as it should be
Yeah, IMHO that’s one of the funniest and best computer games ever. For those who haven’t played it, I can warmly recommend it.
My point being is if you're using email as a key you "have to" treat it as case sensitive even though for most it's not. And yes, I agree it will be a recipe for disaster.
> biggest pride parades in the world

Do you mean NYC Pride or Sao Paolo Gay Pride Parade?
This seems like it might give investors flexibility as well. What does it mean for long-term investments if people start paying their mortgages early?