skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went a very long time not using Adobe's products but I hit a wall when I went to do some motion-based projects. What's the After Effects alternative?
I was wondering this too. The length is about half of ISS, and the altitude is about half or lower, so it seems plausible that it could be quite visible from some places.

I wonder if the proposed flight path for these tests is published anywhere?
I like the riddle. But the framing is unfortunate. When divising riddles, you want ambiguity where it serves the riddle, but be precise elsewhere so that the solver doesn't get needlessly distracted.

Their AIW riddle is: "Alice has 4 brothers and she also has 1 sister. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?"

Now it should've been: "How many sisters do Alice's brothers have?" or "..does each of Alice's brothers have". Why single out a specific brother, when you haven't introduced this topic, and it is irrelevant to the riddle? Naturally, a human would ask "Which brother?", fully knowing that it is not important to the riddle.

Since this grammatical distraction puts an additional burden on the LLM, the authors muddled their original goal, which was to provide an easy riddle. I think it may have also muddled their data.
Sam Altman Was Bending the World to His Will Long Before OpenAI
https://archive.is/2024.06.06-090328/https://www.bloomberg.c...
Because they can, like the SSO tax.
True even for Tesla drivers. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/OhnjMdzGusc
Post-2022, what is the value proposition of crypto currency? The underlying theory of bitcoin's value being tied to scarcity has been pretty thoroughly discredited, and I have yet to see a single useful instance of decentralized programming with Ethereum. At this point, it seems like the only real explanation for its existence is as a get rich quick scheme. It's high tech gambling
What happens if we exclude games that could run in a browser canvas with no webgl support? They don't really benefit from the API choice.
I started working with Microcontrollers when 80C51s were still somewhat modern, and I remember how frustrating the toolchain and the general experience was.

When AVR came out with their ATmegas, it was a revelation. Not having to use shitty proprietary programmers and windows-only software was amazing. We could finally use Linux. PIC was one of the main competitors in our circles, but it was losing the foothold quickly, because the AVR tooling was just hands-down better.

Also, documentation was easier to read and interpret, especially compared to PIC, which is still giving me slight PTSD when I try to recall how hard it was to get non-mainstream features to work. Whenever I had to deep-dive PIC documentation I stumbled over weird behaviour or outright hardware bugs that, in some cases, could not even be worked around.

I don't actively work with microcontrollers nowadays, but I am excited to hear that AVR is still making an effort to have an objectively good product. The market is tough nowadays, with ESP32s and ESP8266s being so cheap and widespread, but I hope AVR keeps it up.
And yet when I complained about `curl | sh` on HN the other day, I got ridiculed. "Everyone" is too much, but even on a purportedly "hacker" website, people find the idea of perusing a shell script before executing it preposterous.
I'm curious why you couldn't?

And if you don't want to, that feels misguided?

Granted, my old recollection was largely that the "privileged" ports were that way because they were blessed by the routing tables, at the time. The entire point was that the lower ports were expected to be connectable to external machines. Not shocking if I am out of date there.
That's like saying that spending hours of your day stuck between two lanes of traffic in a gray highway is not bad because people went outside before cars.
Good. The only widespread uses of TPM are as user-hostile as any other DRM scheme.

Stallman was right: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html

(Last few paragraphs.)

See also: https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/29/remote-assertion-is-co...
Their AIW+ riddle is just ridiculous. It contains so many ambiguities, that there are several correct answers, even though the authors claim there be only one.

Which is really unfortunate. Because now it only shows that LLMs have problems answering ill-framed riddles.
I wonder what happens to it now. Does the USN scoop it up or do they wait for some other navy's submarine to start prying at that sweet ITAR hardware?
The best part of setting things up like that (especially with `-` having any arity) is that there's no ambiguity in the grammar between -/1 (negation) and -/2 (subtraction).
It’s historically rooted in Protestant anti-Catholicism, and the most popular version in America of it comes from Washington Irving.
Ask HN: Is Booking.com Under Attack?
I've been getting repeated emails from booking.com about signin verification for the last week. I am not sure what's going on. I don't even use it, i just had an account. Anyone else experiencing similar incidents?
Given that is deterministic, it should be possible to just run the code and record the set of types that reach every parameter and variable.

A bit expensive, perhaps. And it breaks down if the code is in an intermediate state. Like, "I just deleted a comma, where did my type annotations go?"
Amazing. Same stream on twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1798689697184764071

(attempted) reentry in 1 minute!
It's a common debate hole that privacy = hiding something bad/illegal, whether now or something deemed to be in the future. While this can be true it's only an aspect. Take benign examples where privacy would be useful and it's unrelated to that.

Eg: was reading recently in WSJ how various insurers are using satellite and drone imagery of customer's roof conditions and using it to deny them coverage. However this has been abused where even brand new roofs have been marked as bad even despite evidence provided and push-back. The insurers were collecting imagery and making decisions but not providing evidence on their end. According to someone working for an insurer they're expecting soon to take images daily for such purposes.

Here various incorrectly affected parties have done nothing illegal/bad/wrong but they're losing control and insight into processes that are affecting them in real ways. These aspects are part of what Daniel Solove outlined in their privacy taxonomy, where they broke down privacy into different things that comprise it (where information collection is distinguished from processing, etc).

> much of the data gathered in computer databases is not particularly sensitive [...] Frequently, though not always, people’s activities would not be inhibited if others knew this information. I suggested a different metaphor to capture the problems – Franz Kafka’s The Trial, which depicts a bureaucracy with inscrutable purposes that uses people’s information to make important decisions about them, yet denies the people the ability to participate in how their information is used.
>clearly

You are being disingenuous and setting up a false dichotomy
Sad but not surprising. [Private] property is theft, as they say.
Part 1 is at https://exograph.dev/blog/wasm-pg-explorations-1
Thank you. The up-front complexity is still there and it might take quite a few days to see your first triangle. But I promise, everything will get much easier from that point. :)
It kinda reads like someone used chatGPT.
So I'm excited to see this tech develop but I wonder how much of a market there really is for super-heavy lifters. I can't wait to see a future version where they land the various stages rather than just dumping them into the sea. The first Falcon Heavy launch was super impressive.

SpaceX already has the Falcon Heavy and there have only been a handful of launches, primarily military.

I guess the argument is it'll open up new opportunities but will this really replace the Falcon 9 workhorse, which at this point is I believe the most successful launch system in history?

Won't someone make a fully reusable smaller launch vehicle that'll suit commercial needs?
I know, not the most headline friendly country

We are working on it
A better picture would be to do away with switch entirely. It's unnecessary with the options I mention above and code folding.

It's should go the way of goto, which also happens coincidentally to be a way of using labels (fun off topic fact goto is a keyword in Java as pre 1.0 it was represented in bytecode).

Nb arguing that it also prevents excess code is somewhat moot, the Java community for better or worse favours anemic models full of empty setters and getters, that is probably a more important area to address than just introduce a new record type to avoid these.
Japanese learning materials for Japanese 5 and younger are hiragana only, and I remember finding it annoying.
Technology makes possible things cheaper and impossible things possible, which is a form of wealth. At any rate, both money and technology can make us materially comfortable. But the reason “money can’t buy happiness” is that a large part of happiness comes from connections with people, to society, and perhaps even to nature. Another large part comes from one’s meaning or purpose. Neither of those can be bought or technologied.
That proper shift technique never clicked with me. I developed a technique whereby I use only the left pinky for shift, and only the right thumb for the spacebar. Thus, for text not requiring shifting, I'm using nine fingers including the right thumb. Yet, I can touch type just about as fast if I lose the left pinky by keeping it planted on the left shift key! FOR INSTANCE, I TYPED THIS SENTENCE WITHOUT LIFTING MY PINKY FROM THE SHIFT KEY.

My technique is efficient in circumstances where I have to type several upper case letters in a row, which happens quite regularly in C programming. Using "proper" shifting for an identifier like UINT_MAX is nonstarter, and using CapsLock before and after is likewise inefficient.

I think the double Shift key design and the related proper technique is a holdover from mechanical typewriters. You need to put a good amount of strength into the shift. It's not as easy to type with your left hand while its pinky is anchored to the Shift key.
A quibble:

A 1983 Webster's Collegiate gives the definition of problematic as "1: a. difficult to settle or decide b. not definite or settled c. open to question or debate 2: expressing or supporting a possibility".

(Bold type, proffered synonyms, and examples omitted.)

The sense of "problematic" as in "you've got a problem" developed after 1968, perhaps after 1990.
Starship Plasma Blanket Near Peak Heat
Unbabel TowerLLM is first Generative AI to beat GPT-4o and lead MT market
Designed, trained, and optimized on high quality multilingual data, TowerLLM provides best-in-class performance in translation and on a wide variety of translation tasks

Unbabel results show Unbabel beating GPT-4o, GPT 3.5, DeepL and Google across domains like finance, medical, legal and tech and in 14 language pairs based on COMET-22 benchmarks.
>be me

>"Google wants to know your location"

>fuck off you already know it anyway

>"Do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device? PiratedGameFromRussianTorrents.exe"

>ok

The biggest problem with piracy is the entry barrier. You need to know what sites are safe, what aren't. Also, Google hides results from torrent sites, so yeah, it's kind of an underground club. If you're a newbie you're going to get ransomware, if you know the basics it's trivial. Piracy isn't as popular as 10 years ago, but it's still there, mostly powered by poor countries.
If they're like me (I'm weird, but I think in this case it's likely), then they may be both confident and wrong at the same time.

My brain doesn't seem to index many examples of my own wrongness, even though I have more than once thought "this would be a good mistake to remember", and the worst that I can remember is under an NDA (very confident and very wrong), so the only example I can give is a currently ongoing personal error:

I've spent the last 5 years improving my German substantially, but the whole time I've been trying to estimate my current skill level and gotten the same answer, B1.
I thought I said it. Its main purpose is to eliminate guesswork.
That kind of nuance is often lacking on this website and reddit.
Naa they are just using sensitive CCD/CMOS without any IRcut filters. (well they have deployed 4rd gen photomultipliers as well, but thats slightly different)
All individuals should be able to have and own their own domain names
Lon Lat or Lat Lon?
Adding Lightning to Crypto Is a Piece of Cake – Breez Technology
I'm open to being wrong but I believe the data shows, old people in the UK are living in houses that are too large and receiving pensions that rise with inflation whilst "young people" are paying huge rents, can't afford to buy and are stuck with huge student debt. Why shouldn't the old couple move to let 10x apartments be built? Or does the data show differently?
Asymptotic Burnout and Homeostatic Awakening
me too =)
It's mad how rocket landings are now more exciting than rocket launches.
I wish I could link to a great portion of the Eco book Foucault's Pendulum here - it's quite relevant to how we go trying to find meaning in things. If you haven't definitely a novel worth a read.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned From Hell here, which plays with the concept of drawing symbols using lines between landmarks. Alan Moore got a lot of his ideas for that from Iain Sinclair, whose books are well worth a read as well. Specifically, the material Moore references is from Lud Heat iirc.
Surely, before considering expropriation, we should tell people who owns a property so that they can offer to buy it. If that's too much a privacy concern, the government could simply relay the offer.
I wonder how hard it would be to abstract the intent from the particulars of the distro being used. And then implement adapters for Arch, Slackware, Fedora and arrive at the same final polished setup.
They used to be far more exciting. It's the anticipation of less excitement that is nail biting :D
Well I'll give you one I know: St Michael's mount in Cornwall (second in his list) is definitely not a cathedral. There is a stately home and smallish castle on a small tidal island on the site of an old monastery but I'm pretty sure it has never been a cathedral. It's not in or near a city for starters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael's_Mount

p.s. It's a cool place to visit btw. You can walk over to the house at low tide and then the house is on a steep hill surrounded by a lovely garden which you are compelled to enjoy until the next low tide at which point you can walk back to the mainland. Nearby is a heliport where you can get a passenger helicopter to the Scilly Isles which are also worth a visit.
Have you ever taken adhd medication?

I feel like your perspective might be different if you experienced stinulants first hand.
I've been thinking a lot about embedded scripting lately, to the extent that I've decided to roll my own language. I agree with all your points, but here are some of my own thoughts:

It should strive to be familiar for users of the host language, not invent weird new syntax. This is ultimately a personal preference, but what I want is a script-oriented rust: Dispense with some ugly stuff that makes it hard to compile or analyze (borrow checker, macros (maybe), giant core+std libs), but keep enough of the things that make it good (inferred static types, expression oriented, pattern matching).

Regarding the "no GC" point: My idea is to just not store any persistent state inside the script engine. Allocate temporary objects in arenas which only live for the duration of a top-level call. If you want persistent state, expose it through bindings. This has the added benefit of making hot reloading trivially easy -- when there's no state, there's nothing for your hot reloading system to break. There are some pretty obvious pitfalls of this. It could totally blow up in my face, so the door is open to adding optional global state and/or garbage collection down the line.

I have a very(!) minimal prototype, and I've written enough of a compiler before that I'm confident I can eventually produce something that works. Whether it lives up to my aspirations is a different story.

If you want something that actually exists now, maybe look into AngelScript. I haven't personally used it, but it's statically typed and supposedly has good C++ integration.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38481258
But if "empty living space", space that's reserved but unused, is immoral would you extend it to any such reserved but unused living space?

Is an empty room in your house immoral? Or massively oversized rooms even if you live in them? In the end you're still blocking a lot of "empty space" that someone else could use if only there were smaller but more living units. Same applies when you live in a detached house and "blocking" any potential living space that could have existed on higher floors of a tall apartment building. Zoning laws can also be an issue but the question stands.

To put in in practical terms, one person having two 50sqm/550sqft apartments is immoral. One person having one 150sqm/1500sqft apartment is fine? Where is the line and how arbitrary do you want it to be?
There’s lots of things that are just too big and heavy and need launch vehicles like that.

It might be overkill for satellites, but space stations and habitats need the payload capacity of something like this to become anything resembling economical.
Or more like: they are partnering with Taiwanese companies only.
have you seen the script? It's super intrusive and reconfigures your entire system, including personal config files.

The usual argument against curl|bash scripts is that they don't respect program boundaries, may do unknown system configuration that would affect other programs, and could be impossible to remove.

And "initial system setup" scripts like this one do all those things _on purpose_.
Catch, yes. Float: not so much.
Been using Hetzner Cloud for 18 months now, for various servers. Has proven incredibly reliable. Together with a very clear and straightforward management panel and unbeatable (AFAIK) performance/pricing, I haven't found a downside. A good alternative to their dedicated servers (which are also great) if you need more flexibility or less capacity.
Only the experts of that time could have found out that this churches are all lined up according to the Meracator projection, if they had any idea of that projection at all. It seems rather as if your top-secret St. Michael's conspiracy, which, without leaving any written traces, when carrying out its secrete plan over several centuries using advanced cartographic and geodetic knowledge to determine longitudes, was aimed at the mystery-susceptible people of our times.
I don't understand one stuff, did the booster land on a drone ship or it just crashed into water ?

At the end of the video feed for the booster, it looks like there is a huge fire and everything is destroyed, but the crowd is cheering
Has to be large to be reusable due to scaling factors.

We can finally start sending useful amounts of things into space, millions of solar panels for one
I think there are 2 aspects to the anecdote about your grandma.

Firstly, no one spoke about depression, because it as a condition was not recognized. It doesn't mean people didn't feel depressed.

Secondly, this time supporting your argument, perhaps when people go through terrible things in their childhood, they grow resilient towards adversity. If you know things can get a lot worse, you don't really worry about minor things.
Leopold Aschenbrenner on 'Wordcels'
Totally off-topic: You could always write a JNI shim to a C/C++-compatible API, if you know what OS it's running on.

I know it's awful, but probably not as awful as a hardcoded passphrase.
> Ironically, the Chinese and Singapore have hefty penalty’s for drugs—and yet they thrust it onto the western sensibility. After all, it’s the WILD WEST.

One almost wants to say, revenge for the opium.
Try dearpygui or pyimgui
And do not forget the good old THC night vision enhancer.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03788...

But also see this

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81070-5

YMMV
Very few hobby designs that use more capable chips actually need more capable chips, and the added complexity - hardware and software - often bites hard.

That said, wifi is a major selling point, and you need a beefy 32-bit computer to run the protocol. This is the brilliance of ESP32: you can actually use it just as a wifi dongle for another microcontroller, but since it needs so much computing power, might as well give you some RAM and CPU to do your thing directly on the wifi chipset...
FH had the problem that it had a comparatively small fairing compared with an upper stage that's "only" okay-ish for deep space insertions, so you can neither put really huge LEO payloads on it, nor can you give a deep space probe a really big kick stage to make up for the deficits of the upper stage.

Starship solves all these issues: The upper stage is more fuel efficient, and it has more room for really big payloads and/or kickstages.

> Won't someone make a fully reusable smaller launch vehicle that'll suit commercial needs?

Half of the people tried went bankrupt already due to F9: It is already too big for most payloads, so it does a lot of rideshare missions that pool multiple smaller launches together. It's very hard to compete with that.

So even if, for some reason, commercial customers don't really want to exploit the capabilites of Starship (ignoring the fact that multiple did already), SpaceX can again offer ride shares at a larger scale for F9-class payloads.
The free pass is given by the UN.

Imagine if in the last century, the billions of refugees and descendants of refugees of the world, would all still be kept as ethernal refugees.

The nations of the world are a condescending bunch. Implying that the Palestinians are not to be treated as equals to Germans, Ukrainians, etc.,
Thank you! Yes, this is very much along the lines of what I was imagining

Now I wonder if there are other communities like that one, but around other topics
Someone asked a substitute teacher if she would make that trade, and she said she wouldn’t, not unless she could retain what she knew now. So, buy a renewed youth? Sure. But do 22 again as a 22 year old? Nope.
Now that I’m “over the hill”, I see what she meant. Being 44 is similar to the difference between 11 and 22; not as drastic, but the stuff I understand about life I would not even be able to communicate to 22 year old me. Definitely would not want to relive my 20s.
“Life starts at 40” is not just cope, there’s some truth in there, too.
The Forrrester wave for AI models for language
The original IFT-3 flight plan had them reaching orbit and then doing the in-orbit relight as a de-orbit burn. At that altitude, there's enough drag that you will de-orbit pretty quickly if you are in orbit and your de-orbit burn fails, so there was no risk of a big piece of space junk.

The disinformation I mentioned is why everyone keeps being "wrong" about SpaceX. It's incredibly difficult to be right.

Here's the original graphic that SpaceX put out before the flight happened: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi...
Wow. That was just as awesome as the last. Look at that beautiful curvature of our round Earth.
Why you need to move beyond Celery in 2024
UPDI has robust on-chip debugging capabilities.