skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paleontologists Are Fuming over AI Depictions of Prehistoric Animals
Good luck. It uses to be this clear (modulo "reasoning" abilities) but it gets dumber and more waffly with every update
This is a great story, but I became suspicious when they finally got to their source:

> The story of the Khevsurs comes from American adventurer Richard Halliburton's 1935 book, "Seven League Boots," a collection of his essays written while traveling off the beaten paths of the early 20th century. It includes an interview with the assassin of Tsar Nicholas II and a dinner conversation with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I.

Obviously, I can't know for certain which of these anecdotes is fact and which just make a great story, but this particular anecdote relies in part on a very suspect story about the ancestry of these people—a story which only outsiders ever told about them and which is of extremely dubious historicity [0].

Could a bunch of poorly armed horse-riding Khevsurs have volunteered to fight in WW1? It's plausible. But the idea that they were some sort of descendants of Western crusaders smacks of a story created for a sensational early-20th century travelogue.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers...
Is there any good resource talking about how these companies are addressing any concerns with potential command and control being in China?

I would guess they all have companies (and servers) in the EU and the US manned by citizens of these nations and outside of CCP control?

I’m not 100% sure because local governments usually don’t care about these things when purchasing products.
Open source, built in Rust – payments repo
All the Chinese dev boards, knowing that all serial is over USB now anyway, default to 2MBaud nowadays. 115200 or even 9600 gets old very quick when you accidentally put in "dmesg" or cat same huge file...
Not mine but I know a few people that have these interesting domain names:

https://ui.dev

https://earnings.report

https://data.ai

https://database.new
Make sunsets – cooling the Earth through stratospheric SO2 injection
What's damning about the pilots is they utterly failed to monitor their engine gauges, which for those who don't know are always prominently displayed on one of the big displays near the center of the instrument panel and easily visible to anyone anywhere in the cockpit.

Takeoff is by far the most stress the engines will endure during a nominal flight, it is imperative that the engines are monitored closely during takeoff in case they fail so the pilots can respond immediately. We're talking Basic Flying 101 here and these guys failed it.
>it won’t

That’s the core disagreement. It’s like when a car is driving with 200mph toward a brick wall and you say “I don’t understand why they panic, the car will stop doing that before hitting the wall”.

Sure, that’s a possibility. But I understand projecting a current trajectory in trying to prepare for the future.
For GRUB:

GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="console serial"
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0 --speed=115200"

* https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/working_with_the_serial_con...

* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialConsoleHowto

In addition / alternatively to systemD, you can also tell the kernel about the serial console (especially for kernel boot output):

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8"

Also, perhaps because I'm a bit 'old fashioned', I don't really like that a lot of distros have "splash quiet" in the options: I like seeing the output. Also not have a fan of having a GRUB timeout of zero and not having a GRUB menu.
So you have no personal connection and no knowledge of any particular reports. That doesn't make you wrong, but surely you can understand how reading this and not knowing what you know, this raises every possible red flag for unsubstantiated internet speculation.
Raspberry Pis GPIO pins include a serial port and can run at 115200. I've used that for monitoring the boot process as it can be configured to put out messages before anything goes to the screen. When the boot process halts with nothing on the screen, there may still be useful information put out to the serial port.
Isn't redshifting decrease in wavelength? The way even a mesh can reflect radio waves I always accounted to "the wave is so big it can't fit trough the holes of the mesh", so in that sense the radiation redshift equals to it spreading (even tho on interaction it manifests in a single point.
https://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/history/history.html...

Lots of mentions of sewer outfalls, pipes freezing and lift pumps being replaced. Probably an excavated hole in the ground?
The web the original algo was designed for no longer exists.
I daily drove it. Mint + Cinnamon is more stable.
Hunh, statistically, I seem to be wrong: more men than women want kids https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/15/among-you....
Kevin Scott says early previews of newer AI models surpass OpenAI GPT-4
Japan's lost decade – an economic disaster [video]
What are some other examples? Ultimate Guitar Tabs comes to mind too
Probably falling into an industrial sized fryer or getting a tennis racket wrapped around their neck, respectively.
Mircea Bailed Out OpenBSD
> I don't think offering to pay money is against TOS.

Yeah, that's why I think a bot for aggregating/suggesting financial support would be a good idea. Then again, when npm package maintainers were looking for donations and output that in the console, there was a lot of backlash, so I suspect similar opposition would happen to a bot commenting: "Hey, this project accepts financial support. If you'd like to indicate that this issue matters to you, you can optionally put money in a reward pool for this issue here: some_link. Money in the pool so far: X$."

> However, there is a large number of FOSS devs that don't give two shits about your money.

That's fair, but definitely isn't the situation for many, especially those who don't have cushy day jobs and are either financially struggling or just feeling the pressure of our current economy.

Articles like this come to mind: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html

The whole log4j debacle also comes to mind, summed up by this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/

> Some people view the need of money as the problem, and the lack of it involved in their project a very conscious decision.

That is admirable, but you can't eat praise. Either way, that is their choice.

I just feel that if there are a lot of companies extracting money from people with disposable income in the form of mobile games, gacha games and microtransactions wherever you can, as well as if there's a commonplace tipping culture for restaurants in many countries, might as well take the same principles and apply them to get some money in the hands of deserving developers.

I'm not saying that it'd necessarily decrease burnout or solve the other issues about open source, but at the very least it'd give some financial stability. If people aren't urged towards that, very few will donate of their own volition, call it psychology.
Since the Sun settled onto the Main Sequence after its formation, it has gradually brightened. It is now 30% brighter than it was then.

The brightening is caused by accumulation of helium ash in the Sun's core. This causes the core's equilibrium state to be denser and hotter, with more energy being produced.

In another billion years or so, this will drive the Earth into a runaway greenhouse effect. The oceans will evaporate and the hydrogen will be lost to space. Not long after, the Earth will be a dead planet devoid of any life, even microorganisms. You sometimes see statements about how when the Sun expands into a red giant it will destroy life on Earth, but the Earth will have long been lifeless by that time.
Google Maps AQI plot is very very good
I still think that Classic Visual Basic 6 is the best tool to make a small app with a user friendly GUI that has a few buttons and you can distribute to end users and they can just click, be happy and think you are some kind of genius.
Anyway, it's kind of dead :( , so I don't recomend to start with it now.

I'm still amazed how much I could do with a dozen of lines of PHP and Javascript, and make a simple web app, that I can deploy anywhere and my colegues be happy because I solver our problem.

(I never used Pascal (well, perhaps a hundred of LOC in total), but the old Borland Pascal compiler was extremly fast and good when it was released.)
>A similar observation I've been finding lately is that if something is highly rated by critics and lowly rated by audiences, it probably sucks

Perhaps there is less skew today given that film critics are probably less a high-brow big city newspaper thing overall. But certainly I wouldn't expect the average Friday night young cinema-goer to have the same tastes as the film critic for the New York Times.
Is it maybe because nobody owns them, because they’re all on finance, and so will be traded in for new in three years time and so it’s best that they be as generic as possible for the next buyer?

Also this: https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/automotive-history/vw-pol...
The complete link (it seems HN truncates the url?) is this: https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1799415906973479299
FWIW, this was discussed a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40376391
To yourself - the code you just merged is now yours to maintain
It depends on what you mean by “jet.” There’s no way he’d be allowed to fly a fighter jet or anything else with a turbojet engine at this point in his life. The medical waiver he was on wouldn’t allow it.
Same here, it's tons of work to collect, clean, validate data, followed by a tiny fun portion where you train models, then you do the whole loop over again.
A debut novel that's not published is not necessarily a wasted effort. It can be adapted into a screenplay, which can be submitted to a variety of outlets, and the novel might be published later if successful.
My rule of thumb is that the smaller the car, or the faster the car - the brighter the color should be. The first criteria is related to safety - being seen by larger vehicles is important to not being hit by them. And the second criteria is all about ego ;)
Not usually, sometimes. The amount of ‘usually’ depends on the amount of hormone alteration happening, naturally or unnaturally.
To think that beneath the south pole lies a metric shit ton of shit.

I think some things are better left unknown.
I definitely want to see the ability to save it as a gift so that I can reupload it and do it again. And again. And again...
Villeneuve is actively working on Rendezvous with Rama, it's likely to be one of his next projects.
Or better design ? /s
I have a Dell Precision M4800 and would like to upgrade the GPU to an Intel Ark A370M, which is available in MXM format. Does anybody know how to add this card to the BIOS whitelist?
> But like so many they turned commercial and kicked off all the hobbyists that made them big. It was a really nasty move.

Yes, their acquisition by IBM really messed things up. I went from totally loving the app to uninstalling it and never looking back.

Definitely going to feed my local data to weather.gov.
Perhaps the better question is why doesn’t ASML charge far more?
> they now expect support and maintenance for me.

In worst case you give a refund if the software doesn't work as promised for the customer. You're not forced to fix bugs or problems that are beyond your capability or interest.

Taxes are not a big deal and can be ignored until you start making decent money on the business and can afford your accountant. The taxman understands and is not going after people in the starting phase.
The trick is quickly finding the largest power of two that is less than the size of the table. It was done with two instructions: the second was the JFFO, the first was an FADD with a purposely denormalized operand. The symbol table was kept sorted on every insert.
> Note that Captura being MIT-licensed means that the authors would only have had to hide a copy of the license in some "About..." page hidden in some submenu. It's not like they have to credit the author on their front page.

I do not think they even have to do that, do they?

All that is required is "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." which sounds like the file with the license text has to be somewhere in the distributed software.
Wow, this entire article is completely off the mark.

0 is a special value in the POSIX kill function. It denotes every process in the process group of the caller.

That's it.

(OK, so because of that, a given OS based on POSIX can internally get away with using the value in some ways, to denote some process that nothing in user space would ever know about, let alone try to send a signal to.)

Don't get nerd-sniped! Know the 15 second answer and move on.
> I think the main issue is people releasing their software under a license which they don't necessarily agree with beyond a certain point.

It's a ego thing then. Anybody doing free/open source software should make peace with the fact that their work is given for free. Imagine Linus Torvalds complaining that people are selling his work.
I thought fake news was mostly a right wing thing until I saw fake news about Musk and Tesla perpetuate among allegedly smarter liberals, the whole emerald mine thing being a great example. It changed how I was going to vote because I cannot stand fake news based on agendas.
People love this kind of story, cf https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/polish-cav...
I really like the popup text on that:

"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."
How so? If you have a pile of explanations, you now have a way of dividing up the pile into ones you may want to keep and ones you should discard. That way is by asking whether an expert would understand what you're talking about.

Occam's Razor takes a pile of explanations and discards all those with extra assumptions or components. Feynman's discards all those that don't convey anything to an expert. I once told my son that any good story involves surprise, a relatable character, and some mention of a giant talking carrot. All of those are razors. (Some razors might be more useful than others...)
Preventing the Naomi Wolf Problem
For one it's neither the official story, nor true.
How it’s related, to answer your question, is that it’s more evidence the company has horrible leadership. The more visibility of that the better, this CEO shouldn’t be rewarded with customers.
Don’t know why you got downvoted.

The article linked by one of your commenters is super interesting (assuming it is correct).
That's cool of you to share, particularly in a data drought area. I recently upgraded my sprinkler controller to a Rachio because it could use aggregated weather data, then during setup found out it could use individual weather stations, and not only that, but apparently my neighborhood HOA runs one already. Many weather apps can pull from personal weather stations, like CARROT Weather (my favorite), and it's really nice to know the actual temperature as of roughly 100 yards from my door when I take my dog for a walk.
Yes exactly. It's classic mis-selling.
> Not to be confused with today's "Serial Link Interface"

Scalable Link Interface.

And it's not available today either. The last cards that used it was the 1000 series. The 2000 and 3000 cards used NVLink, but that's disappeared from the 4000 series, too.
It is in the public interest to have both weather and forecasts. Maybe you are like me and look out the window to see the weather for that day, but millions need accurate weather and forecasts. They include farmers, those that run power grids, air traffic controllers, and more.
I agree. Like I said, most of these "sublicense[...]third parties[...]publish" things end with "for the sole purpose of providing the service you asked for".

This license doesn't seem to do that. And that's a problem. Because then they can abuse it.

I thought the third paragraph in my previous comment made it clear that I'm not excusing Adobe, here. Your reply seems to assume that I'm on Adobe's side.
> The fundamental truth of creative work is that if you make something genuinely great, you'll probably have a smooth path to success. I see a lot of anxiety among indie game developers about the sheer quantity of games being released, and yes bluntly, if you make a merely average game nobody will care. Make something great.

Not necessarily, I've seen plenty of good or great works go unnoticed. In movies and gaming that's often a timing thing (releasing too near popular works, releasing at a bad time of year, releasing on a console that's on its last legs, etc), but for other types of works it can simply be a failure to market said work at all, or the subject not immediately catching people's attention.
There's no evidence, physical or theoretical, of negative mass. (Yet.)

But yes. If there's a negative mass we learn to control, possibility of FTL drive goes from "Absolutely not" to "Umm, maybe?".
Yes, the article does seem a little sketchy:

> Even by the standards of 1914, Russia was a backward country. Most of its citizens were serfs, often tied to the land they worked, like serfs in the Middle Ages.

Russian serfdom was abolished in 1861, more than 50 years before the start of the First World War.
Internet ads will need to disclose typical download speeds, not just their best
90% of the time it's figuring out what data to feed into neural networks, 2% of the time figure out stuff about neural networks and the other 8% of the time figure out why on earth the recall rate is 100%.
I have a few people around me who are angry that HP updated their printer's firmware and after that they stopped to work. I told them, yeah.. search YouTube. There's a video of how to downgrade. Your guess, did they watch the video? .. yes.. did they understand what to do? Hell, no! Instead they went to local market and just have bought another printer of another producer. There it goes.. if one asks me what printer to buy, I tell them not to buy HP. No matter what. They can buy HPs superb Z-books - whatever they want - but never ever should they buy a printer made by HP. Even they're not bad - but this politics with breaking a working printer, not allowing any other tints to be used - of course, it's fully HPs right and up to their decision. But no, thank you.

I guess, it works :)
They're not "accepting damages as claimed" part of the criteria for the check is that Google is not admitting fault or wrongdoing
Running a company (that is a team of maintainers) is wildly different from writing code.

Questions raised like how do you find these people, are they paid? Legalities and how to make money. Now you have to organise and lead a group of people. All of that isn't why most people want to write code.
Note that Jack Churchill didn’t use claymore as in “late medieval two-handed sword”, but a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword[1], which is more modern; it was still in use in 18th century and especially in Scotland[2].

The story about a confirmed longbow kill is also uncertain[1]:

> A common story is that Churchill killed a German with a longbow in that action. However, Churchill later said that his bows had been crushed by a lorry earlier in the campaign.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket-hilted_sword
Show HN: AI Homework Helper Chrome extension for homework and quizzes
It's always fun seeing these posts, it's a look into such a strange way of living and supporting life. And there's something subtly terrifying about the whole operation too, seemingly teetering on a knife's edge between the ever-forward marching of entropy and all of the energy they need to put in to keep that in check, even more so with it being so cold. How fast it could collapse if, say, there was a generator problem and how diesel fuel is the only thing that's keeping it afloat.

I'd love to see a post, maybe there is, about maintenance of all of this, perhaps a story or two about an issue that maybe had some existential threat to the station and how it was overcome. I look at the majority of the infrastructure there and just keep in the back of my mind how fragile it all seems. And yes, obviously there are redundancies, but even with redundancy, things can still fail, they exist in the physical world after all.
It would make a big difference if it was GPL. If they did not make the source available you can sue them. You can issue the store that distributes it with a DMCA notice or a cease and desist.

In this case it appears that the same could have been done, but the author says he "reached out" but did he actually use the right legal threats?
> also no one really chooses their offspring's 'half of the lottery', it's an accident of nature -- we only get to choose whether or not we try to propagate our own skew into the lottery roll

In modern societies, most people choose their mating partner. That’s the lottery half that I am referring to.

Of course no one chooses specifically which half of each mate goes into the child. That would be absurd.

> and to be very real here for a second, 99% of sexual interaction has nothing to do with genetic time-traveling bottle-messages, and just as few people really give a thought about the genetic combinations resulting from their actions.

For the individual sure “it’s just deliberate sex” but for the genome, transmission of the message into the distant future is all there is.

Just look around you, you will likely see and hear more evidence of those billion year long message transmissions than anything else.
> Don't forget parents making their kids eat everything on their plate so they don't waste food. It was so normal and common in the 90s (and maybe earlier) it became a stereotype.

Normal much earlier than the 90s. In the 80s this was “there are starving kids in Africa so you can’t waste your food”.

In the late 70s I went to a primary school where children were not allowed to go out to play at lunchtime if they didn’t clear their plates and eat the pudding/dessert/whatever. Compelled eating, with almost no choice in meal.

They had been doing that since the 1940s, when state-provided school dinners became law, and all through rationing, when really only children got “more than enough” food.

In the UK, rationing lasted so long after the war that many first time parents in the 70s and into the eighties had experienced life under rationing during their childhood.

In my parents’ case, they both had memories of rationing starting, and my father was in his mid twenties when it finally ended.

During the rationing era, food waste and getting more food than you were entitled to were crimes punishable by imprisonment, and wasting food remained a major social faux pas until the 90s.
58 faults on the ECAM. Source: https://youtu.be/a-4FBN8OTkk

Props to Airbus for proper UX and information prioritization.
I've long had a theory that aggregating these weather sources to provide higher and more accurate models could create serious alpha for commodities and energy trading. Especially in nodal and ancillary markets.

I'm sure there are people here working at funds that leverage weather data to do exactly that. It would be a really cool job.
In a sense, the data _is_ the model (inductive bias) so splitting « data work » and « model work » like you do is arbitrary.
Ageism is not inherently wrong. This also deals with a public space, where idealism and liberties are already restricted. If you make individual exceptions based on close examination, then fine. But I think it's fair for observers to assume that this individual flying was a mistake.
but don't have any ability to adjust the title of a post as you can.

I can't find the specific dang comment out of the zillions but you can just email hn@ycombinator.com if you are lusting after the power to fix the years in titles.