skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given the current trend of politics, notably in the US, its not far-fetch to draw a future where searching for things like, say, abortion, becomes illegal, and tech companies get coerced into sharing that kind of information.

This is the weakest of the privacy arguments to me. If we are in the "evil government" hypothetical future, why do they need my real searches? They can just as easily lie, make something up, use some other piece of data to persecute who they want, or do away with all of that pretense because they don't need it.
Ah, so you're being deliberately obtuse. Not interested.
Noyb urges 11 DPAs to stop Meta's abuse of personal data for AI
Browserbase launches headless browser platform that lets LLMs automate web tasks
$1.3B UK lawsuit accuses Amazon of misusing small sellers' data
Man I hate the name. Has nothing to do with aerospace, but it does seem like a fad in software to take on some stolen valor from a far more interesting field.
No, it’s nothing like German or Italian unification. That’s ahistorical nonsense.

In both of those cases there had been decades of nation wide, protests, insurrections and guerilla movements in favor of creating a sovereign nation to prevent domination by foreign powers, Austria in the case of Italy and France in the wake of napoleon for the minor German states.

In Ukraine there has been a decades of nation wide protests insurrections and guerrilla movements in favor of creating a sovereign Ukrainian nation so that they will no longer be dominated by Russia.

Putin is not garibaldi, he is not unifying a people who have shown they want to be part of some wider national project, he is an imperialist.
Correction: Gulf of Mexico for the booster. Indian Ocean for the upper stage.
AI-generated thumbnails used to promote 12 Angry Men on Amazon Prime
It's not absurd. Yes, it's immoral that I am as wealthy as I am (relatively, on a global scale), and it's immoral that I get to eat so much better than others in the same society as I am in. It doesn't mean I'm going to do anything about it, it just means on that axis, I am not a particularly moral person.
The real-time view of the re-entry through the plasma was phenomenal!
I don’t think you're wrong to be worried, and you certainly don’t have to justify yourself to me. Achieving security and privacy (not just online) is possible, but I believe it comes at a cost. How you choose to strike that balance is your right, and may be entirely justified, but it does signal something about you in the end, for better or for worse.
As it is now, bad researches get rewarded and good researches who speak up get pushed out. One of the most despicable people I've ever met is a long term "successful" academic researcher at a major university.
Did they 1000 years ago?
Would he have been out of place on any audiophile forum today?

This is just one of these things where he wants to find some deep philosophical basis for his personal preferences.
This seems like a lot of justification to say that people who enjoy changing jobs frequently are objectively better than people who don't. I'm guessing you're in that first group?
finally a sensible metric!
I would never write an unqualified "here" in a forum, which assumes that everyone will understand that I'm referring to the country where I'm sitting, which may be different from theirs.

You're effectively asking me whether I'm a complete idiot, or whether I mean here in HackerNews.
We don't know how we are different, but its pretty clear that we are fundamentally different. Modern machines calculate much faster than humans, if human thoughts and reasoning would work like LLM, we would already sit in front of general purpose hard AI.
But we don't, so obviously there is something missing. Unfortunately its quite hard to know what is missing, because we don't know how conscience and reasoning actually work and we can't formularize them.
Thats why its fair to assume we won't see general purpose AI that fast (probably not in our lifetime), which a lot of AI researchers seem to support, especially those who are not working for companies who try to sell AI.
None of that even makes any sense. Buns are kept wrapped in plastic, you know the same as every supermarket, until they're used. Whatever you think of staffing or chaos has nothing to do with the taste of the food, nor does whatever you mean by it "looking dirty". Fries sit below a heat lamp and by definition can't be cold unless you're waiting 10 minutes to eat them, which is going to be the case with all fries.

You don't know what you're talking about. It's fine if you don't like McD's, but don't just make things up to justify it.
I get the nonlinear upconversion part, but what about the optical system? Are they saying that this preserves the direction of the incident photon so that it doesn’t require optics?
I think microwave is the answer. Though you may end up with a cold heart.
They weren't even on the map until they got involved financially with places like the USA.

They're still Communists but gold never did them any good until they dabbled in Free Enterprise.

Now after all these years greed has a well-worn path to accumulation.

I would imagine lots of deposits have been untapped until recent decades.
But everyone knows how long a mile is, and can imagine a cube one mile long one mile wide and one mile high. Though we can't truly grasp the scale, we can at least understand the magnitude of a value of ~ten million.

But quoting a value of 4.4 x 10^19 liters is meaningless for most people.

"Of course, that's 22,000,000,000,000,000,000 two-liter soda bottles!"

So cubic miles seems like a reasonable unit for this pop-science article, despite the fact that you likely wouldn't use it in a published journal article.
Fair, although that shows the gross margin has declined. So why would gross margin fall, but net margin rise? I posit that it is likely that they can operate more efficiently when the customers buy more groceries.

But if people had an issue with Loblaw, why would they buy more groceries from them?
She is, and mentally very sharp too. That is a great idea, will do that.
A Measure of Intelligence
I was considering buying a house in Spain to spend half a year in. Okupas was one of the reason I am not doing it. Instead I will be paying professional landlords to rent a house to live in for half a year.

A real win for squatters' "ideology". If it continues the only people who own property will be professionals with private armies and organized security systems.
Buying a car and purposefully not using it 24 hours a day as an Uber is immoral. I'll take yours when you leave it parked, okay? You can have it back when I'm done with it, probably when it needs major repairs because I'm not putting any money into it. As the owner of record, that's your problem.
How many other cathedrals/shrines are not "on" this line? If the surrounding countryside is peppered with shrines to St. Michael, then any line you choose to draw would pass through/close to a number of them.

That is: TFA seems to be ignoring the null hypothesis.
The ability to go in and grab your own data (which you have to do using some app or another), and do whatever you like with it, such as back it up, move it, inspect it, or try to get the data into a new app because the old app no longer runs for some reason.
How did Boeing fall so far behind?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon

A man on a bike beats a horse over almost all distances, especially long distances. The only interesting competitive distance might be a flying 400m.
Vector DB Retrieval: To chunk or not to chunk
> it would massively devalue the "do LeetCode hards on a whiteboard" style of coding interview

My bet would be that the whiteboard interviews become even more important, except it'd have to be done on site to ensure the interviewee cannot use LLM aids. Basically, everything between submitting the CV and onsite would be binned, the CV filtering becomes a lot more stringent.
Speed cube robots are great for several reasons:

* They move really fast

* They necessarily look like science fiction reactors

* if they jam the cube explodes
You are literally comparing a bunch of gambling apps to a library of desktop gaming experiences.

"It is still Metal, regardless" you say, with your mind scrolling full of Zynga dice-rolling games and Supercell micro-transaction machines.
What I meant is that the multi-stage Moon rocket, the capsule and command module, and the lander and ascent module, were just barely within the realm of the possible as dictated by the rocket equation. And, as you mention, the risks were just barely acceptable.
I do this in Denver, where bike theft is supposedly rampant. Never had an issue, and I live in one of the worse areas and will leave my bike parked and unattended for hours at a time.

I also sticker bombed one of my bikes so that if someone were to steal it, it would be very easily identifiable.
> Maybe Germany should investigate who blew up their critical infrastructure

That's not how friendships function. /s
That is the tiniest problem imaginable. If that's half the problem then is it even worth the gossip on HN?
So why does almost every US landlord use credit scores to screen renters?
> Life expectancy

Life expectancy is a bad measure because infant mortality was pretty high. This skewed the averages down considerably. Humans don't live 50 years longer but only 10 year or so.
I also think the laws need to change with changing technology.

Take something like speeding. We have speed limits and fines set based on the idea that cops won't catch most speeders and that cops can give leeway based on the situation (driving 10 mph over the speed limit on an empty straight highway is different than driving 10 mph over the speed limit weaving in heavy traffic).

We set a relatively low max speed and a high penalty, because you are only going to be pulled over a fraction of the time.

Then we roll out speed cameras which can catch people EVERY time they speed. It doesn't make sense to have the limits as low and the fines as high when every single person that goes over the limit can be fined. We have to tune the laws for perfect enforcement.

This is true for a lot of laws... most are designed based on the enforcement capabilities of the time. We need to adjust for technology.
Yup I am actually using AngelScript in my current project since it’s currently the least worst option for me! Having the smoothest experience binding with my C++ engine so far.

I also started a side project making a strongly-typed scripting language compiler / VM a few months ago, but it’s currently on hold since I’m trying to not do too much yak shaving. But maybe someday…
I just stumbled onto these recently. The big hang up for me is that the programmer is proprietary. I was hoping there would be a bootloader onboard like the CH552. No dice. In waiting a bit more than a week to get one shipped. They’re not expensive, but I’m annoyed that I can’t just load some software on an Arduino and flash the chip.

(Note you can debug open source, just not program afaict)
> are associated with an appearance of the Burger King himself explicitly asking for a shrine in the location

...According to the guy trying to sell you a big mac or whatever they are called there.
Booster executed a successful landing burn and had a soft splashdown. Starship survived reentry, did the flip and landing burn, and splashed down. There was visible damage to the flaps.
this is quite nice.
are you considering making a bookmarklet version? I'm guessing most of the functionality comes from the content script, and background script stuff for handling extension/"button" click could probably be migrated to a sticky that lives as long as the session it was spawned in but I don't mean to minimize the trade offs involved ...
again, this is very awesome
Talk about a sweeping conclusion based on n=1! Very unscientific ;)
But `curl | sh` is no less secure. Download this file and execute it. Functionally the same outcome. Tell me how doing that is materially different than `apt get`. Both employ signing and checksums (just with different PKI). One delegates trust to a package maintainer while the other trusts the author directly. I truly don’t understand the paranoia and consider it tinfoil hat security theater.
Seems like it could be done with mode-locked fiber. It’s just easier to get high-Q with a tabletop setup. I’m bullish on hollow core to solve that too.
> Then why doesn’t Canada have a huge network of ethnic grocery stores tailored to more frugal immigrant communities? I assume it does and the issue is one of consumer education.

Two quick web searches reveal that Canada has about 1/10th the USA population at ~37m people as of 2021. Canada also has roughly 1.6% more landmass than the USA. I don’t think there’s the density to support your theory.
For most of our history humans did not have to pay for a piece of land to put up some yurt or hut and live there.

How is the current system not strong taking whatever they can? Private property is just a legitimized theft, because it leaves some people without access to land or natural resources that is required for survival.

It's not true that without private property you get state slavery or a strongman situation, you may check Zapatistas, they are rebels that created a stateless society of 300 000 in Chiapas, Mexico without private property with structure that is based on decentralized, horizontal, federated institutions.

Anarchism is not a misguided ideology, it's a product of highest levels of freethought that inspired many people to fight for liberation from oppression and for a world where every human can develop the the heights of one's potential.
Its not any different than what happens in mainland US too. Rich people buying huge tracts of land they seldom visit is nothing new.
The government contracting scam is to agree to a set percentage of the total cost as profit, so the contractor has an incentive to increase the total cost in order to maximize the dollar amount of profit they can extract. And that’s without using subcontractors to transfer even more wealth.

The business is:

If profit is % of X
Then maximum X
Well, yeah. Complete representation is likely impossible.

Tiny bones of infants often get absorbed entirely over centuries, erasing the very last trace of their short life.

Suicides were buried like dogs, away from Christian cemeteries. Enemy soldiers fallen in battle might have been left to the carrion birds. Executed criminals were buried on the place of execution, gibbetted or dissected. People who died in plagues were buried in plague pits. Jewish people were buried in Jewish cemeteries. A lot of exceptions all around.

Still, a "normal" burial ground is by far the most comprehensive record of the local Christian non-noble population that we can hope for.
This is a complex problem, I understand that rent is a sensitive issue. But sustaining a system that criminals actively exploit is probably resulting in the worst possible outcome for everyone.

He did not rent the place out, but preferred to keep it to themselves as a pleasant place to spend a few weeks to months as they are getting old now. But after this incident he sold it quickly.
lol are you really trying to imply that it's not an interesting thing that there was a woman on the ground doing journalism?
Ford still outsells Tesla by a lot. Mercedes is eating Tesla lunch on the luxury segment and cheaper cars are arriving while Elon is distracted with Twitter. Electric hype is slowing down and resale prices are plummeting.

Count me skeptical about a 46B pay package to a part time employee thats constant bad PR.
How come the stream not cutting off during re-entry "blackout" period? Is it because the re-entry is low / slow enough so no thick plasma layer, or because it is streamed through StarLink which happens to be on the other side of the plasma layer?
I would say the next logical step is figuring out the probability that with this many points, what is the likelihood of 7 of them being this close to being on a line? We can assume a uniform random distribution on the unit circle or square for simplicity.
Weird how ideals are enforced when they align with specific interests (read: Larry Ellison). Just world fallacy in action.
Maybe. At CDC I my job title was Systems Analyst.
It wasn't only drones, it was the Hamza division flow from Syria by Turkey, it was Turkish drones, Israeli drones. This implies Georgian co-operation, since Turkey obviously didn't fly the Hamza division through Russia, Iran or India, and didn't take some kind of convoluted route through Pakistan.

The war against the Karabach-Armenians was truly multi-national project, with numerous co-belligerents, Turkey, Georgia, Russia (possibly in the later stages), even the US. Israel is not a co-belligerent since they didn't give any weapons, but sold them, but the weapons they sold were as far as I understand quite important. Georgia was a co-belligerent because of the Hamza division crossing through it. Russia was not a co-belligerent in the 2020 war, but I believe they might have been during the actual expulsion-- it's possible they just gave their approval, and then it'd be Turkey, Georgia and the US, but even if the Russians didn't do more than give that assent that assent still had worse consequences than the formal co-belligerency of the US, so one would still want to include them somehow.

I think the US tried to avoid being a formal co-belligerent by giving some military aid to Armenia, but the NKAO successor state was not Armenia, but separate, so that doesn't actually change anything with regard to co-belligerency.
>Why WOULDN'T mrguyorama hire child labor to do the plumbing around his home or to do his lawn work?!

If I had a lawn and a neighborhood with young children who were bored during the summer, I WOULD hire a child to mow it, and in fact I am hiring a child (girlfriend's younger brother) to watch our cat during a vacation!

Before child labor was significantly stamped out through aggressive labor laws, average people hired child labor all the time. Little timmy was out selling papers, little stephanie selling flowers, Paul was cleaning the chimney, and every other kid was working in the coal mine or textile mill, for absurdly low wages (even for the time!), with absurdly high injury rates, for 12 hour days.

Child labor was HUGE, and if we don't aggressively stamp it out, it WILL creep back into what we largely consider normal. Southern US states are already trying to push laws onto the books that weaken the laws against child labor.

I don't know how to make this more clear: If Youtube could get away with hiring 10k literal children and pay them peanuts to do all the moderation work, they would, conscience and honor and ethics be damned, like they always are.

I mean christ, look at Roblox!
Sounds ready to publish
Earth surface area is 197 million square miles.

So the mean water thickness is 0.053 miles or 281 feet.
Sourcing regular fresh food staples to be competitive with the big chains is hard. You have to use the big chains sub companies as a supplier more often than not unless you partner with local farmers. Even small grocers I go to have a 'foodland' section for products they can't get local, or for cheaper versions of the locally farmed items.

Then you are a nuance of a trip if you can't carry the fresh food staples, especially outside a metro area.
> A lot of squatters want to abolish the possibility of someone having to pay rent to another person to have a place to live

That's exactly how you end up with no new or maintained housing, utilities and other services. How do you imagine system like that working besides a totalitarian government directly taking over all private property and rationing housing? (I assure the housing situation in Spain is not even remotely as bad as it was in the USSR).

> don't have a logical counter-argument.

Trying to form logical arguments that refute completely absurd and irrational ones is not particularly productive...
> Circadian rhythms are ubiquitous across nature as nearly every organism studied, including bacteria, algae, fungi, plants and animals, all exhibit physiological cycles that are near to 24 hours in length, even when uncoupled from the daily light/dark cycle

This seems to somewhat invalidate the hypothesis that sleep is an adaptation to survival in alternating niches: day at night.

At face value for a non-expert it's also very clear why a bacterium should need to behave differently during the day/night cycle.

Perhaps this was originally the case when life originally started on Earth and it is somehow so fundamentally "baked in" and required for cells to function that it cannot be evolved "out"? As also per:

> The day/night problem therefore created a powerful, pervasive and inescapable selection pressure. Adaptation to these two niches must therefore lie deep within our DNA, as in fact, we find a circadian clock functioning in all cells of all organisms.
This is liquid: Cans of Coke or Coors are standard units (CCC)

In this case, 1.48 * 10^20 CCC
So doubling down is your strategy? This isn't a debate, your attitude isn't being entertained here.
It's also a bummer because Terminal.app has the functionality out of the box: https://macos-defaults.com/mouse/focusfollowsmouse.html
My advice to you would be to get off your high horse and maybe learn something for once. You are also not their doctor, so I don't understand why you think you should contribute to this discussion.

If you want evidence that the carnivore diet (I don't promote the keto diet) will reduce inflammation in patients with IBD then I can point you to a dozen stories of people who have cured their IBD through a carnivore diet. But you are just going to dismiss the evidence as anecdotal (nevermind that the anecdotes are endlessly accumulating) and not credible because you already have your mind made up.

If I were you I would actually try a carnivore diet for 90 days before making any more pronouncements, because I can assure you that YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

The fact that people have been so brainwashed into thinking that eating red meat is by definition a bad thing is a severe problem in our society and it is people like you who are contributing to our epidemic of chronic disease.

I honestly find it hard to believe that you would post that comment with such confidence. Who do you think you are?
Ok then let’s not recognise her
Take a look at a real engine, something like vkquake is a good reference [1].

[1]: https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake
A 150 km orbit has enough drag to de-orbit you very quickly if you don't propulsively stay in it. The atmosphere doesn't just suddenly stop at 100 km, it gets exponentially thinner and thinner, and at 150 km there's still plenty of atmosphere to slow down a big chunk of stainless steel. Even 3x higher there's enough atmosphere that tiny satellites can essentially turn their solar panels into sails and deorbit with no propulsion within a few weeks. The ISS at ~400 km has to regularly burn their engines to stay in orbit.

Read the IFT-3 pre-flight materials, preferably from a source that comes from before the flight. They clearly intended to enter an orbital trajectory and then get out of it. SpaceX's historical revisionism muddies the waters. At the very least, they would not have announced (ie lied about) successful orbital insertion (which they didn't do) if they had no intention to get there.
I don't see the issue here--and don't feel the need to read past the opening story right now--but what is the issue? Police receive 911 call on domestic dispute and, instead of responding by sending a squad car, they send a drone to investigate and find the guy.

Wired has a problem with that?

EDIT: Now quickly scrolled down and it seems residences see a drone in the sky and think it's spying on them.

It's not but Wired wants to make a big deal of it.