skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The xAI bot provides a timeline of SDI (space militarization). It highlights the pivotal partnership between Musk and Mike Griffin.

In 05, Griffin is made head of NASA, creates COTS, gets 20 apps for COTS funds and awards them to SpaceX (and his own OSC corp).

In 18, Griffin is made head of Space Dev and awards SDI contracts to StarLink and L3.

timeline excerpts:

Feb. 2002: Elon Musk travels to Russia with Mike Griffin to examine refurbished Dnepr ICBMs.

Mar. 2002: SpaceX is founded and incorporated in Delaware & Elon asks Griffin to be SpaceX's Chief Engineer, who declines and continues with In-Q-Tel. (VC firm firehosing cash to CIA vendors)

Apr. 2004: Elon names his next born son Griffin Musk.

Apr. 2005: Mike Griffin sworn in as NASA Administrator by Dick Cheney.

Jun. 2005: Mike Grifin creates the NASA COTS program. (Commercial Orbital Transport Services)

Jun. 2006: SpaceX is one of twenty different companies to apply for NASA COTS program.

Aug. 2006: SpaceX is chosen before proving any launches. Splits funds with Rocketplane.

Dec. 2007: Griffin terminates Rocketplane from COTS program, and gives funds to SpaceX and his own (former President and CTO) Orbital Sciences company.

Sep. 2008: SpaceX nears banckruptcy after failed launches.

Dec. 2008: SpaceX awarded new CRS funds by NASA, saving the company.

Jan. 2009: Griffin leaves NASA with the outgoing Bush Administration.

Feb. 2018: Mike Griffin made USD(R&E) and creates the Space Development Agency (SDA).

Oct. 2020: SpaceX awarded first SDA contract

The contract from Griffin's agency was given to L3Harris and SpaceX to build Starlink military satellites.

In 2018, CIA Director Mike Pompeo called the project a “Strategic Defense Initiative for our time, the SDI II".
Things I wish someone told me before I turned 20
No explanation of why this tiny fern has such a huge genome?
Maybe they should take that 17B and invest it in AI research, then take the resulting model and ask it what particles we’ll find at higher energies. Just kidding, please don’t lambaste me.

17B is no small sum but we’re talking about investigating the fundamental nature of reality. In some ways, this is the most important research in the world as it touches on something extremely deep.

Science in general tells us “how”, but physics is the only possible field that has even a remote chance of telling us “why”. Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do I experience consciousness?

Maybe physics will never answer these, or maybe a supercollider isn’t the best way to answer these, but I like to think that $17B is a small price to pay to find out.
I never imagined being able to vomit without the nausea, so that’s pretty interesting hah
Or use something like strapdown and let the client handle rendering.

https://naereen.github.io/StrapDown.js/
My favorite 1980's Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes
New Hampshire is on the national grid. If they have more power than they can use they simply sell it to Massachusetts so they can turn down some of their natural gas generation.
Do your bike tires wear out?

Where does the material go?
Can ChatGPT solve high school math riddle?
EVs have heavy lithium batteries, leads to higher wear and tear of tires, and will make the problem worse.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electric-vehicles/ev-ti...
Yeah. So my journey's figuring out the way that works well for me. The goal of indie dev for me is to use the computer less ultimately.
Author here: my first computer was actually TI-99, followed by a Coleco ADAM and a number of 8086/80286 systems that I used for a few years beyond their service dates because they were cast off from my dad's workplace.

I put "toy" in quotes because it's pretty wild that you can effectively run a full-service, non-trivial site off 10W [¥] and ~$60 of hardware. I fully understand _why_ it's possible, but it still amazes me that this little board is doing what it would have took a 1U server in the 2000s.

[¥] According to the Unifi PoE monitor, it's consuming 9.5W under this current HN load.
Search context length and cost of all LLMs and their providers
They really do. This has been my longest tenure at any position by far and Engineer QoL is a massive part of it. Our CTO came up through the DBA/Data/Engineering Management ranks and the empathy is solidly there.

As we grow, I'm ever watchful for our metamorphosis into a big-dumb-company, but no symptoms yet. :)
Wealthier neighborhoods in Boulder saw lower bee diversity
The GitHub repository has been archived
Not worth the risk, imo. The second order headache from that is having neighbors complain about your pile.

I think the best way to handle foods is to let it ferment Bokashi style, and then dump everything into the compost. It speeds up the decomposition without attracting rats. I also like to make weed tea with some EM, molasses, and water and dump that into the compost after a couple weeks.

It’s not beautiful, but it’s how the heap loves it.

My god, it’s all so satisfying. I once started a pile on top of a 3 ft stash of brush that was being an eyesore for three years, seeded with a heap of ugly smelly weeds and some earthworms. I only composted over a third of the brush to A/B test the results and within 8 months you could see a bald spot where the brush dissolved under the compost.
Was the 5-MEO from the plants or toad? I heard that the toad one is much lighter than the plant one
Very few companies run the vertically-integrated stack because it is prohibitively expensive to do so with current NWP versus what you can sell it for with only marginal forecast improvements. I know several companies have tried this with integrating their own observation sources and ended up with worse performing forecasts. Oops.

I'm very interested to see how the ML modeling revolution changes this. The ability to perform global forecasts on a single GPU should make it cost competitive for more companies. I know several companies are already deriving their own weights for the forecasting component so that they can sell them. Google appears to be working on the next piece of the puzzle too with using ML for the data assimilation step, or skipping that altogether and using observations to go directly to forecasts.
I wonder if there are ancient crystalline structures that captured/entrained photons long ago. They could be named "Silmarils"...
Clunky code. Slow growing. Makes sense.
From the ashes, the oldest controlled fire
I don't offer advice, I answered a question and platitudes like "I'm million times more productive in Phoenix than I ever was in Rails" makes my "cop-out" "a million times" better than anything you can answer.

If you're starting in 2024 and want/need to be productive right away, use what you already know.

Nobody said anything about "never learn anything new". If you have a job and other people are paying you, the expectation is to deliver, not to "learn this cool thing" and be in awe about you "journey of self discovery" while on the payroll. If you really believe you can learn a language, it's libs and frameworks "in a weekend" and forget that's just another humble brag nerds tend to tell others, then we don't even can proceed with this conversation.

Learning is good and needed, learning is hard and takes time. Respect it.
Maybe off the topic. But how does Chinese AI companies still have access to high end AI after Biden’s strictest export control? I presume they can’t train such a model without access to Nvidia chips?
Which is, frankly, probably good for the government. This was a weird suit from the beginning, targeting Google where they have the most at stake but also where they have the strongest case. The amount of damages the prosecution asked for and got is proof that no one thought at this stage that this case was going anywhere.

The search monopoly suit is the far more interesting one to me.
*high end AI chips
Lots of open source projects are run by a team of maintainers without having a company behind it
Tires are the single biggest source of micro plastics.

"Seventy-eight percent of ocean microplastics are synthetic tire rubber, according to one estimate."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...

https://nlnews.net/car-tires-are-the-largest-source-of-micro...
/x is almost always the number of network bits (so the first half). There are some Cisco ISO commands that are the opposite but those are by far the minority.

99/100 it means the first bits.
Your footnote was unnecessary, it could’ve just been a new sentence on the same paragraph.
> "Then, if the candidate seemed to be dealing in good faith, then probably talk with the employee, candidly, about the problem, and what options you're presenting."

I'm not pro-HR by any means, nor have I had to hire/fire a bunch of people, but the minute you hint that an employee could be terminated, there's a chance that they could take retaliatory measures.

Further, OP stated, "Essentially we had deficiencies in our technical interview that allowed for custom-fit preparation..." So, it doesn't seem like the candidate had "good faith" intentions from the start.

If OP is in the US, most states have an at-will employment clause, so a quick break isn't illegal by any measure (as long as they aren't terminating the employee for things like sex, race, religion, etc.).
Proportional to the 4th power of the axel load specially so bicycle tire wear is basically non-existent compared to a semi.
The models of BlueField DPUs I’ve worked with have no storage (aside from eMMC to boot the DPU) directly attached. They typically run SPDK, then SPDK block devices are presented to the host as NVMe namespaces or virtio-blk devices. If using NVMe-oF with RDMA, this can provide a zero copy IO path to remote storage.

For NVMe, the devices may be presented to the host as PFs or VFs. I assume but do not know that it would be the same for virtio devices.
It's about how many bits are 1, in the subnet mask.
Yes, same place as car tires. The magnitude is much smaller than car tires though.
> The idea that there's an indistinct difference between "publisher" and "common carrier"

perhaps "redefine" would have been a better word than "sharpen."

There certainly IS a distinct difference. The discussion point was "monopoly power makes you more likely to resemble a common carrier."
What do you mean there is survivorship bias? That the only image used is the one that survived? Or it survived because it was used?

Something I noticed was that all other jpgs in this site have a lager number in the filename, for example: www.hobbytownoshkosh.com/Dsc00348.jpg

So maybe the crawler that saved this webpage had a limit on how many suburls it would capture and it sorted by name and then stopped at around Dsc00161.jpg, which is the name of the image in question.
Though there is a Dsc00164 that is lost so it seems kind of unlikely...
BlendOS v4 released: Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic
OP here, not at the moment. Is this something you miss?
Figured he was going to say 'diversity' as if that has something to do with any of boeings issues, but your D words are on the nose!
I work for an environmental protection nonprofit and we have done research on which arguments work on people across the political spectrum.

People on the left are more easily convinced by scientific studies and by the idea that nature has a right to exist for more than human utility such at the values of wilderness and intact ecosystems.

People on the right are more easily convinced by fear that their environment has become toxic and impure and that they want their air, water and food to be natural and unadulterated.
How is this 17-minute old account, created just to post an anti-EV comment, not a shill for the fossil fuel industry?
landing page explains the problem and solution well! good job!
This sounds like such a cool project! Are you documenting it anywhere?
"If this does not solve all of our problems, it solves none of them" is also a widely known anti-pattern. But, hey, why worry about anything!
It's not AI, it's a random person using a pseudonym and a computer.

> Jones said her office verified that the individual running as VIC was a registered voter and that they resided in Wyoming. Then, Jones and her department sent those over to the Laramie County Clerk’s Office.
If you read my comment carefully I argue that with enough storage to run a nuclear power plant optimally, you can also run renewables, but cheaper.
You'd be amazed at what the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company became. ;)

Come for the VHB and Post-it® notes, stay for weird esoteric things like the 3M Coding and Reimbursement System.

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/health-information-systems-us/im... - in hospital IT, I dealt with this monster... and had a 3M toner vacuum next to my desk.
> It proves, for instance, that certain types of graphs that have to do with groups, called Cayley graphs, must have Hamiltonian cycles

Yes, graphs and groups.
You're not thinking more than one move ahead.

Big Tech being a publisher means that their user-generated content would drop to the level of "Letters to the Editor" in the NY Times. Thus their revenue would dry up, too, because all those teen-agers walking around staring at their phones are doing so because they or their friends or someone they admire has content on there. They're not looking at passive media.
No, never, I've never heard of a bike tire wearing out, in fact I've never even seen them sold separately.

Where does what material go? A series of microscopic turtles with canister vacuums that live on the tire ensure material never leaves.
Possibly, but most US produce comes from low-density areas. By definition, otherwise nobody could afford massive acreage.

That means the less populous parts of California, Arizona, and Florida.

It'd be interesting to do an upstream drainage trace though, as many rivers do flow through urban areas. Although less so in California? Given they're mostly mountains-to-sea, so would hit fields before major coastal population centers?
Auto complete directly inline inside the editor is pretty magical feeling. Sometimes you'll pause for a moment and it will suggest the exact next 3-4 lines you were about to type. You press tab and move on.
I'm not sure to what degree I'd trust a student or random online gig worker to give a really useful editorial option. Copy-editing or maybe technical edit? Possibly. I used an intern who worked for a magazine editor I knew to copyedit a book once and that worked fine. But I wasn't looking for substantive structural work. In fairness, I didn't really get that when I went through a publisher either. The second edition was IMO a lot better but that was because I personally came to see where the first edition was stronger and weaker.
of course, let me know how can I help you
The importance of picking your neighborhood
We should not bend over backwards for people not following the standard.

Build tools that follow the standard/best practices by default, maybe build in an exception list/mechanism.

IPv6 space is plentiful and easy to obtain, people who are allocating it incorrectly should feel the pain of that decision.
Yep. Reading "the current thing some imbecile said" instead of "the best that has been thought and said."
Here's a YouTube video covering the discovery process. Ultimately, one person found it, but they were part of a wider team piecing together many parts of a puzzle, including outdated phone image numbering schema. I found it to be a worthwhile summary that doesn't really assume the viewer has much previous knowledge.

https://youtu.be/-1EKIIM3ShI
Really remarkable, congratulations.
Is this in USD? I'm seeing $269
Interesting, I can see those 2 issues.
Silas: I didn’t see in the docs how to configure for Emacs. Link, please.
Thanks for your work! Always useful to meet people where they are, however they are.

Tailoring which presentation one highlights isn't lying: it's simply making the most effective argument.
Blogging Ruined the Web [video]
I quite like the fragility of it, it makes it more apparent that everything is transient. In a way I wish the IA had a half life on content, that it would decay over time, pages and images would be randomly deleted. Little by little it would rot and become nothing, a reflection of humanity.

I suppose that's the internet itself...
At least they should have mentioned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_DNA
It’s probably important to differentiate NN-DMT and 5-MEO-DMT. I’ve heard that 5-MEO is much more intense than NN-DMT.

I’m assuming that you’re talking about NN-DMT. It can definitely shake up the foundations of your world view, especially if not taken with the right set and setting.

I don’t think it’s as common with the pure form, but there is a slight possibility of it revealing some underlying emotional issues. There are plenty of functional professionals who carry some significant childhood traumas and issues that may bubble up to the surface through these experiences.
It’s hard currently to get normies to use a password manager so I think this is very good. It will make it much more accessible for them.

Personally I plan to continue using BitWarden because it’s cross platform.
As described, that seems to miss out on files that are far away through imports, and if not similar to existing code, such as when writing unique code.

My main thoughts behind this are that

1. The LLMs tend to hallucinate library functions

2. I don't want to have to copy and paste a schema
He was flying a vintage T-34 Mentor, a pretty bad-ass craft.

https://wingsmuseum.org/exhibits/beechcraft-t-34-mentor/
> you'd only get back your own deleted data

That depends: if the operation was on a floppy you got from someone else, that data might very well be theirs.

> NTFS has a "zero fill" flag

True, but irrelevant: the Windows API guarantees the "seeking to an offset greater than the file length and then writing anything, including nothing, will fill the intervening bytes with zeroes" behavior. How this translates to the underlying file system (which may very well not be NTFS) is an implementation detail.
You could make the same argument about Google search, which is a decidedly more user-driven algorithm determining what you're seeing.

Google can't and shouldn't be responsible for the factual accuracy of sites that it indexes and shows to users.

Consider e.g. what happens when libelous content is indexed.

AI generated content is a different story, and I would not expect a court to lean towards Section 230 protections for such content. But user generated content, or content index, scraped, or otherwise reproduced verbatim from real humans is a different story.

If you want publishers penalized for revenue generation that comes from illegal content, then it seems appropriate to draft a law that requires attribution of said revenue to specific pieces of content, and the ability to use this in discovery.
Building a SaaS product with Htmx – Are you sure you need all the complexity?
That's fine for your purposes as you just need the correlation and don't need to find the true cause. But in reality it doesn't tell you much about what the true nature of these people are. It just allows you to label them into groups. There could be plenty of confounding factors.
> It wasn't just the NYT, it was almost all mainstream media

And it was prolonged coverage too.
"Vibes"

Seriously. The only way that works for me is to spend a bunch of time messing around with a model trying out different things.

I really want to have a more repeatable process for this. I've been tinkering with a way of setting up my own automated evals to run against different models but I'm a fair way off having something usable there.

For programming libraries I find that my assumptions usually hold: if a live set is widely used and has been around for a few years it's likely to get good results.

I picked the WTForm Python library recently for this reason.
That thinking strikes me as "clear, simple, and wrong". (I appreciate that 230's bright-line rule may also be clear, simple and wrong)

Consider defamation. Often, the difference between a defamatory and non-defamatory statement is truth. Expecting websites to distinguish true statements from false ones is a non-starter.

Let's say my family has a horrible experience with a youth pastor. I post about it on facebook to warn people in my community. If my claims are false, they're almost certainly actionable defamation. If my claims are true, disallowing them to mitigate Facebook's potential liability is also bad, but not in a way that affects Facebook.
The thing is that there is a lot of variation in ink composition, so it's hard to say universally. That being said, fungi tend to sequester heavy metals in their mycelium, see https://krishisanskriti.org/vol_image/03Jul201502072615.pdf
Damn, I've talked about this many times at my last job (startup that went from 100k patients to ~2.5M in 5 years). I love the name Dead Privacy Theory
> enough to remember real toy computers

Definition of ”toy” changes with time. Don’t live in the past.
Many other things we consider as toys were state of the art tech decades ago.

What about physical Turing machine? Defenitely a toy these days. But ground breaking back then.

Raspberry is defenitely a toy if you compare to real modern server hardware. Not to mention LLM processing power.
Sid Meier's Civilization VII – Official Teaser Trailer
This is no longer copyleft, it's copyjustified.
One of the problems I want to solve during my lifetime is sustainable organic agriculture that anybody can grow in their backyards and basements. We’re so disconnected from the costs of poor health and nutrition that nobody seems interested in throwing gobs of money at the problem. Yet. Glad these studies reveal what is already assumed.
It can also be good to get input from people that do not have any stakes, worries or agenda. Plus that have a wider ser of experience (collectively). Of course one should also discuss it inside the company.
Doesn't encompass radar (and no home weather station will) but NetAtmo sells one with ultrasonic wind, smart rain gauge, and has a full RESTful API available: https://www.netatmo.com/smart-weather-station

I use this and love it.
"We" can all be opposed to swimming in our own poop, but that doesn't mean "we" have any ability to change it. The problem IMO is that individuals do care about the environment, but corporations and governments really don't, and they are the ones in a position to make a difference.

Drilling further down, the individuals at companies and in government are in a position to make a difference, but they are not paid to help the environment; they're paid (or paid off in the case of government) to boost company profits. Until individuals are unwilling to help companies save money and boost profits by fucking the environment, fucking over consumers, etc., nothing is going to change.

It's about the same situation as lobbyists working for corporations to make sure corporations' interests are heard, whatever the costs. Do these lobbyists care about the environment? Maybe. Do they care enough to turn down the kind of money they're making? Nope. Let somebody else fix the environment, make sure consumers have rights, etc.

And before someone raises the vote card, IMO voting doesn't work at all. People are just voting for the most convincing / charismatic liar. Nothing says they have to actually do what they think you want them to, and what they say is important to them. And clearly, they don't, and it isn't.
If the candidate was dealing in good faith, then company should too.

The whole corporate-think "this person might do something evil, though we have no reason to suspect that, so we should do evil first" is wrong.

(I said talk with management and HR first; they might counsel or instruct differently, but you should make an effort to stand up for employee while you have the chance, before you potentially have to disagree and commit.)

If the candidate wasn't dealing in good faith, then, like I said, terminate.