skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is your basis for this claim?

Well you answered your own question: It is true that the biggest funders (NSF, NIH) are not market-focused. A lot of research is funded by taxes. That's an exclusion from market mechanisms. They don't have to convince the actual consumers of the research to buy it, we are all collectively forced to buy it by law.

> No field I know of out-right tolerates fraud

I know quite a few such fields, so we might have a different definition of "tolerate". After all this story contains the following paragraph:

“It’s unfortunate that it has taken 2 years to make the decision to retract,” says Donna Wilcock, an Indiana University neuroscientist and editor of the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia. “The evidence of manipulation was overwhelming.”

We're talking about a retraction here, which is the weakest response possible. So ... it took two years of "investigation" to do nearly nothing, after other people did all the investigative work for free, and one of the authors continues to be employed with no consequences whatsoever even though his co-author admitted the figures were tampered with. I'd argue this is what institutional tolerance of fraud looks like.
> Every agile coach always tells me that agile is whatever works for the team.

Most so called agile coaches are scrum prescriptivists in my experience.
help me understand something.

> we’d need a way for the TCP packets to get from the operating system back into Coder for encryption.

yes, this is commonly done via OpenSSL for example.

> This is called a TUN device in unix-style operating systems and creating one requires elevated permissions

waitasec, wut? sure you could use a TUN device I guess, but assuming some kind of multi-tenant separation is an underlying assumption they didn't mention in their intro, couldn't you also use cgroup'd containers? sorry if I'm not fluent in the terminology.

i'm struggling to understand the constraints that push them towards gVisor. simply needing to do encryption doesn't seem like justification. i'm sure they have very good reasons, but needing to satisfy a financial regulator seems orthogonal at best. i would just like to understand those reasons.
In China, weight-loss drugs are becoming big business
Is there any documentation for very beginners on how a regular workflow would be? Like, if I have 7 windows opened, how do I start organizing them with just shortkeys? I've found option+/ to put all of them horizontally or vertically (alternating when pressing twice), but not sure how to quickly make 1 of them bigger or select just 2.
Not taking any action is also a decision, and it has to be justified like anything else that will affect the health and lives of millions of people.

You don't need to collect evidence for everything you choose not to be doing, all you need is evidence that the status quo is not worse than any other (known) alternative.

In any case, my point was that you can't make decisions based on evidence when you are faced with a new situation for which there is no (reliable) evidence. In these cases some other approach is needed.
> We are so incredibly far from being able to build a sustainable colony on Mars, especially at a realistic cost, that it makes no sense as a product goal.

"Dying on Mars, just not on impact" is Musk's final bucket list item. Almost everything else he does is to enable that vision, either directly by creating the tech, or indirectly because he knows this is expensive.

He may well fail, nobody's ever done this and we don't know how many surprises there will be.

But the ship working well enough for $200k tickets is plausible.

(The idea that banks will give people loans for that, not so much: without multi-planetary trade, nothing that happens on Mars can repay a debt on Earth, and I don't see Mars as having any special economic benefits to make such trade worthwhile).
> This attitude was so short sighted.

Reminds me of Kodak.
19th-century An Enemy of the People speaks to science communication challenges
Are you really arguing that men in ww2 aren't talked about? I'm didn't bother to count how many entries there are on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_films, but at a glance it looks like it's >95% about men
Calling people you disagree with extremists is just an insult and it's not nice. It's rude. There is nothing extremists about fighting for a world where no one is oppressed and everyone can develop to the heights of one's potential.
One consistent theme you get from business history is:

There is very little penalty for being wrong. There is often a huge penalty for being right, if the powers-that-be opposed you.
When I was in elementary school, we would do charity walks every year to raise money for the poor. They were 20 miles.

It took us all day, but if a bunch of kids between fourth and eighth grades and their nun teachers can do it, I'm surprised how many adults on this web site think it's too far.
> Real estate is expensive to maintain. You don’t let real estate appreciate in value by letting it “rot”.

In my neighborhood, there are at least 3 unoccupied homes within a 3 minute walk. We live in an area with accelerated entropy (the forest) and the homes are, by any useful metric, rotting. I will let you guess if in the past 10 years the value of the homes has gone up or down.

I would love if someone, squatters or not, lived in those properties. I understand things are different in different places, but where I live we have unoccupied homes that could house people. As it is, some private owner swings by once a year to throw another tarp on the roof and then fucks off, leaving an empty home to rot during a housing crisis. Yay, property rights.
Weight-loss drugs are forcing changes to grocery store offerings
This looks so awesome I gonna dust off my mac mini.

As a tiling wm user (Hyprland now) I always wonder how OSX users claim they're that productive with all those alt+tabbin' I meant cmd+tabbin'. Welcome to the 2010s guys!
I think we need to agree on terminology, but to me, this seems clear.

The model is open-source (or open-content, if you prefer). The input data isn't.
They might do some minor optimisation in terms of when the fly to keep some coverage but ...

> As of May 2024, there are 6,078 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 6,006 are working - https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html
The example screenshots feature a terminal with a "foo@kremvax" prompt, nice touch :D
Bringing your whole (strategic) self to work
I am living under my address, I am occupying that place, so I am not fine with providing my address. But I am fine with people living in abandoned houses.
I've noticed HBO seems to have the highest quality subtitles in terms of timing and position on screen relative to the character speaking.

Then there's other shows I watch on Netflix will do that exact thing you mentioned - spoiling the punchline because the subtitle appears before a single word is spoken.
Even what is written is kind of questionable and seems more like wanting it both ways, just look at the beginning of the wikipedia article on the topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Hamas_charter
I only live close enough to be able to see Enterprise, which didn't go to space, but I like to go there at least once a year, just because seeing the sheer size of it and knowing that all the Shuttles were like that is inspiring (the SR-71 helps too). I'm planning a trip to the space coast when family visits next year though.
Ask HN: What is your best domain name?
What is your best/coolest/rarest/most valuable/most unique domain name?

I only have one domain right now, lindsey.studio, but I think its pretty cool.
Oh for sure. In the specific case I meant, the owner was known, but lived somewhere else around the globe and did not care, but it was his property. (where stones were falling off from the roof to the street)

Those are cases where I think expropriation would be warranted.

And if it would be easier to buy obviously unused land, less properties would end up in that rotten final state, so less need to even discuss forcing something.
Bear in mind they still need to return the astronauts safely to touchdown.
Oh no … there goes my “no more money on unnecessary projects” resolution.
Beaglebones were popular for a while for GPU farms for crypto, and the shortages were way worse than raspi. I fried one in a PhD project and had to spend a few hundred dollars to get a new one. I used to swear by beaglebones, and they had some nice features, like one usb cable to provide power, expose a serial console, and bridge your internet connection to the board. And one killer feature: 2 independent microcontroller cores that can access the main CPU's memory directly. You could use them to bitbang almost anything. Over time though, most of the newer beaglebones focused on one specific feature and used several different form factors, and most lost the features I loved. BeagleV fire looks interesting but it's missing wifi.

Back in the day (like 12+ years ago) I used some intel SBCs with GPIO, i2c etc. At that time they were nice because they just worked with your favorite linux distribution and put your binaries on it. At the time it was painful to setup an environment for cross-compilation. Today that's easy.

Raspberry Pis are never the best SBC available, and have some very closed aspects but they are usually available, have good community and corporate support and are supported for a long time. I've bought a lot of the other SBCs out there and after a couple of years you find that you're almost the only user left, and the vendor has 30 new products and don't support yours. Then one day you're trying to update your linux kernel for feature y but it breaks feature x, and searching for help yields workarounds and patches, or even OS images for the same issue... for rasberry pi. After a few times, you learn to stick to raspi, or maybe Jetson if you need more.
Slowing down from Mach 20-something takes a huge amount of energy in its own right.
Mid level engineers make like 40k more and are twice as efficient
It reminds me of the old photos of builders eating their lunch atop half-finished skyscrapers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper
https://archive.org/details/b29827553
(1) give up the arrogance that leads you to think you can perceive, much less judge the state of "humanity" as a whole, and

(2) look to your local world, your friends and family, where you have at least some hope of being informed enough to actually be helpful.

"We can't have kids now, not with the market the way it is"
VGG Specs: specifications for the next generation of vector graphics
Sudden spike in elective surgery to have completely messed up hands and ears
Those stories have been told, and will continue to be told, long after we’re gone.
> "Once upon a time, there were four little angels who went to the police academy and they were each assigned very hazardous duties. But I took them away from all that and now they work for me. My name is YHWH." —not Aaron Spelling
Elon Musk's xAI to build US' most advanced supercomputer in Memphis
The reality is that Google, AMD and Intel have more than enough time since 2009, to provide a developer experience, and drivers, that would make people actually use OpenCL instead of CUDA.

Instead, Google created the proprietary Renderscript for Android, while AMD and Intel kept delivering broken drivers, partial implementations of OpenCL, never delivered a proper OpenCL 2.x implemenation with mature C++ support, IDE and GPGPU graphical debuggers.
> The mayor of Jerome, AZ seeded them to help stop erosion in Jerome

Kudzu, cheatgrass, knotweed, tree of heaven, saltcedar, crown vetch, english ivy, giant reeds, iceplant... the list goes on and on. It's absolutely ridiculous how many invasive plants have been spread intentionally to control erosion. I found out later in life that most of the iconic plants I associate with the places I grew up are invasive.
I did that more in a "let's take this as read and focus on the other things" way i.e. I knew I was going to give Musk a sort of backhanded compliment, and didn't want a bunch of replies from people who hate him, explaining to me carefully and in great detail why they hate him (even though I probably agree with them, it doesn't seem like an interesting discussion to have).

Alas, my efforts were in vain.
Mars launch window is every two years. It is very inefficient to launch at other times.

As for moon, I'm surprised with the estimate you have provided. Apollo needed just one launch for each mission. Even if SpaceX will do orbital re-fueling, it's just two-three launches, why would you need more?

BTW, the idea of getting heavy Starship to the moon and back is interesting, but at the end flying the vehicle optimized for re-entry far away and back is suboptimal. My prediction that they quickly will go to specialized LEO-LMO vehicles with LEO re-fueling.
I like this terminology, I'm going to start using it.
The UK has the best system for speeding prevention I've seen.

The cameras are established to clock you at position X1 at time Y1. Then the next cameras a handful or more miles down the road clock you at position X2 at time Y2. You get a ticket if (X2 - X1) / (Y2 - Y1) > Limit + e.

You can speed all you'd like between those cameras, but unless you're exiting before the next set, you'll have to pull over and wait the amount of time necessary to bring you back to the speed limit for that area, achieving zero reduction in total trip time.
I mean, I own an Nvidia GPU and I'd rather CUDA get replaced too. Very few people besides Nvidia shareholders truly love the status-quo here.

But really, the blame has to be put on the rest of the industry. If you want to kill CUDA, you have to attack it where Nvidia won't defend; make something Open Source and cross-platform. The problem is getting everyone to sit at the same discussion table. Microsoft has a half-dozen accelerator programs in the work and benefits from the ecosystem fracture. AMD is desperate for anyone but themselves to do their work for them. Apple is hedging their bet on piecemeal acceleration while trying their hardest not to fall behind. Google is trying their hardest to distance themselves from hardware and focuses mostly on software. And Nvidia could care less what everyone does, because they're shipping the largest servers out of everyone mentioned.

> Microsoft is truly unstoppable no matter which way this whole AI race goes.

I can forsee one way they get crushed. If OpenAI keeps dealing in risky business with celebrities and intellectual property, Microsoft might be forced to divest one way or another. Without their OpenAI deal, Microsoft is in a much worse position more similar to Google. If everyone else is willing to ante-up on an Open Source CUDA alternative, then Microsoft's window closes to exploit the demand for a solution. Slim chance that everyone buries their hatchets though.
all new models claim to be better than the top SOTA model. Since llama3 dropped, every new model released has claimed to be better than it.
Right. Got it, love it.

But it won’t work with AeroSpace.

I mean, it will work, but it won’t work with all windows from _visible spaces_.

Because ever window from _every space_ will be in the current space (tucked in the lower right corner).
Hooray for containerized models, but a game changing feature for such containers could be K-V/prefix caching.

Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40034972#40036309
I guess to me, extortion or threat imply taking or degrading something you are entitled to. It doesn't seem like you think you are entitled to the work of the employee, so I'm honestly confused by the reaction.

At first I thought it was simply because it is presented as an ultimatum, but it seems like you have no problem being given conditions. Saying I want X to keep working here is acceptable, but the same exact statement with an offer weaponizes it.

If they have an offer they don't tell you about but have an otherwise identical request, is that less of a threat?
There is nothing stopping you from storing just strings or bytes having safe representations.
Lansweeper finds a lot of CentOS Linux out there
The Houston center is amazing as well! They have a tour where you get to sit in the guest theater/gallery of the original command room and watch a shortened version of the moon landing with all the controls, monitors, projectors, etc all automated to show what was presented during the original landing.
I honestly don't care a lot about nvidia, it's the Apples, Googles, Facebooks, Microsofts, Comcasts, that literally make my daily life a PITA.
that benchmark is by then, the community has to evaluate and report back. I never believe self reported benchmarks.
Notes on Chapter 5
I am comparing what brings money home, big boys club money, versus hippie feel good complaints.
I'm going to be using their service for another year and then cancelling (my "annual" plan starts on march).
They had a plane flying in the area shortly after landing, probably to drop some marker for a group to come around and recover the black box. I think they've stopped bothering with preserving the test articles though, in the process of test driven development, they're going to have so many "historic" test articles, that it's kind of pointless.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593275
U.S. clears way for antitrust inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI (nytimes.com)

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Yeah, I am no longer a junior engineer.

When I WAS the bane of my existence was senior and staff engineers hoarding all the fun, new work for themselves and forcing me into "bitch work" where I'm just cleaning up old, broken code and handling bugs. I finally got promoted because I explicitly ignored my manager to deploy changes that were needed for my company, and that was what finally got me promoted. Of course, at that point, I had been looking for a new job and just left instead of taking the shitty, bottom-of-band promo increase.

It's awful for promotion chances, and it forced me to quit.
Why couldn't they put in restrictions such as a having worked in California for x years or lived there for y years.
I love Arkanoid and other pong-alikes, so also I'm curious about seeing how deflection angles on paddle location hit would play. Great design, music and play!
I find it quite nice. Everyone has their own tastes I suppose.
As so called "Individual Contributor", my interviewing skills have little impact on people 2 or more rungs of hierarchy above me.

Because that's who pushes "bad agile" so much, who is targeted by all the SAFe propaganda, who tells you to shut up or be fired when you tell them their brilliant ideas about how SCRUM is to be done across the company result in unnecessary friction with no benefits. (I nearly quit there and then because of that talk)

And due to geographical constraints I can't exactly shop around as much as if I lived, let's say, on west coast of USA.

So, "working on my interview skills" doesn't change anything, except maybe grinding leetcode so I can tasteore of the fecal rainbow of corporate agile.
Hi, one probably really wants to use libvirt rather than qemu directly. That way you can create your VMs remotely with a GUI (virt-manager) using a ssh-based libvirt url, or a CLI (virsh) and it will handle all the right parameters for qemu, the required networking setup, etc. Check it out !
OK, so you dont buy the plot and just build two houses on them. How does that change your logic.
It's Safe to Take GLP-1 Weight Loss Meds Before Surgery: Study
I guess this explains that Top 100 albums list :P
The way the booster comes down is nuts. 90km to 1km in 100 seconds, it reaches maximum velocity under gravity at a bit over 20km, then air resistance acts as a brake, and they only fire the engines to slow it down the rest of the way at 1km. Bonkers.
> Israel exists because the West wanted a seat of military power in the Middle East

I think this is mixing up time periods. This doesn't make sense in the context of the 1940's/early 1950s.

Later on, sure. USA wanted a military base to counter soviets becoming buddy buddy with several of the Arab countries... typical cold war stuff. But i don't think that is historically accurate in the immediate post-war period. If for no other reason than at that point in time Israel would make a shitty military base.
Saved terminal state. Multiple tabs. Can log off and come back and everything’s there. tmux and mosh are game changers, especially while tethering/roaming and switching networks.
It's not its extreme
Reminds me of tramp-mode, but without being stuck in emacs. Nice!
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6662934

> It is noteworthy that the article of the Administrative Offenses Code (KoAP) on discrediting [army] was most actively applied in 2022: that year, courts reviewed 5,662 protocols and fined 4,440 people a total of 151.3 million rubles. [1.7 mil USD]

> Last year, the number of protocols almost halved to 3,053, as did the number of those punished — only 2,361 people were held accountable, and the total amount of fines imposed was 76.6 million rubles. [858,721 USD]

> The number of people convicted for spreading knowingly false information about the activities of the armed forces (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) increased from 14 to 65 (almost fivefold) last year. Of these, 30 people were sentenced to imprisonment: most often, sentences under this article ranged from five to eight years, but two sentences fell into the category of eight to ten years. For comparison: in 2022, only two of the 14 people convicted for fakes received actual imprisonment, with the harshest sentence falling into the "5 to 8 years" category.

> The number of people convicted for justifying terrorism continues to grow: from 318 in 2022 to 345 in 2023. However, the number of sentences for public calls for violent change of the constitutional order in the media or on the internet has decreased from 334 to 281. [...]
git commit -m "adding YOLO mitigations"
I thought we are talking about Android, and which APIs makes business sense, when AAA actually want to get paid, instead of having to pay back store returns.
You do realize Project 2025 is a political subgroup of about 80 people/orgs, right? This is not official policy documents of the entire political party. Even Trump's policies are not fully aligned to the party, but you can look at those under the Agenda 47 project. This would be like me saying Brand New Congress or Our Revolution are official policies of the Democrat party. There may be overlap, but they're political subgroups.

Yes, I see 100 environmental rules rolled back. Many of which make little difference in people's lives as I said before. Most of those rules have state level rules that provide similar protections anyways. I don't see the Paris Climate Agreement as a big deal. It's a voluntary pact that we had no chance at meeting anyways. It's mostly just symbolic and both sides make a big deal about it for riling people up. I'd they really wanted to make a big deal with it, the countries would have pooled funding and worked together on a research org that could have created new technologies free to license. Many of the rules probably would have been better off left on the books, but in effect not much changed. I get that your view might differ. I'm sure you there are (non-environmental) rules that I could say are a big deal that you would argue are not.
Discussion [0] (47 points, yesterday, 39 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40582566
6 of 28. Looks good to me.
The Distortions of Joan Donovan
Japanese bacteria, fungi, and lava. It's nearly defenseless against the microorganisms in its ecosystem because it spent all its evolution points on growing on the sides of mountains.
the lower end of the price range has advanced by almost three orders of magnitude since 12 dollars: https://jlcpcb.com/partdetail/NyquestTech-NY8A051H/C5143390

those are 1.6¢