skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are good points, but I still think it's technically feasible to make non-aluminum satellites, and reasonably economical even if it costs somewhat more. If the only alternatives are giving up on large satellite networks or destroying the ozone layer, then switching away from aluminum seems like the way to go.

I'm not claiming steel is the best option though. Other metals, or even non-metal materials as mentioned in other comments might be better.

I don't think needing new components is really a downside except in the very short term. With much cheaper launch at much higher volume, we're going to be doing a lot of that anyway. We're going to have all sorts of new applications that weren't economically feasible before.
There is a deal under way to make sure that they will still use the USD and loosen their ties with China.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-saudi-arabia-close-finalizi...
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> very few Chinese natives like the emojis offered by western countries (and I guess vice versa)

As a Westerner, the Tencent smileys are mostly better. On QQ they animate, which I don't like, but on Wechat they're static and they provide much better options than the Western set. I don't think there's ever been a good "looking skeptical" smiley anywhere, though.

For some reason, Tencent semi-recently redid all their smileys in a much uglier style. I wish that hadn't happened.
Yeah, but it isn't clear whether they ever considered a metallic heat shield. At some point in the past it was considered an improvement over ceramic tiles, since the VentureStar was planned as a Space Shuttle successor that fixed its shortcomings.
I have masses of admiration and respect for Jeremy Howard and tried using this to build a bunch of fastapi endpoints.

I still have masses of admiration and respect for him, but no longer so much when it comes to software engineering - due to this, among other things. It seems like a great idea, but is clunky, hard to refactor and to integrate with other things, in my practice.

Wrapping production code in jupyter cruft doesn't work for me.
Or, any code, really, that doesn't stay very small and stand alone.
Nothing to add, just wanted to say your post is super insightful and really resonates with me.
And yet, in the late '80s or early '90s, the future was supposed to be made-to-order cars that were delivered to your door. If anything, we've regressed from the level of customization that was available decades ago.
Related: https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY
This article predates Apple's visionOS. I wonder what the author's take on it would be.
A Virtual Rodent Predicts the Structure of Neural Activity Across Behaviors
What we actually implement is often more constrained by what we can prototype and experiment on than how fast or how well we can define formal requirements and implement them.

So much good stuff in software is down to a mix of serendipity and 'what if' and anything that reduces friction (improves ergonomics) has my vote.
I don't think it's popular media, I think it's the boomer generation (not the whole generation but those in positions of power). In my estimation and experience, there has been a severe lack of training the next generation and handing off the reins of power. Be it a middle management position, a leadership position in local government, or leadership positions in political parties. We have had a generation of leaders who took the reins and then either never trained their replacement or they did but held onto the reins for so long that replacement has aged out or left for another opportunity/path.

So here we stand, with our leaders entering the high positions of power well after they should have retired. In the president's case, his first run for the presidency was 32 years before he eventually won it in 2020. That spacing is the bulk of most people's working life.
Why Even Bother with Project Management?
3-4 Apple Fans downvoted me... LOL Sorry if I hurt your feelings.

BTW I'm an iPhone13 owner and I still stand for what I said.
> In a statement, Wells Fargo said it “holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behaviour”.

Given the things Wells Fargo has been guilty of in the rather recent past, this reads like a punchline.
>> Good AI image generators handle those details well already. Even if you don't get it 100%, you can inpaint fix very quickly.

>But that should not be the case.

What is your point here? Good AI should not make mistakes? Or good AI should not handle those details?

Go ahead and ask some human artist how difficult it is to draw hands.
It took a decade and it’s still not 100% accurate. By now PS5 is powerful enough, but Sony would rather sell you a remaster or remake.
The Scarcity Principle: How Limited Availability Influences Our Decisions
Your comment (and several others in this discussion) really resonated with me.

I'd like to add onto this particular comment, the mantra "think small".

The process of focusing on the smaller-scale things that are within your sphere of influence (your neighborhood, your family, yourself) are slower, less instant-gratification, but they also deliver much higher ROI in long-term satisfaction.
This is exactly correct (I worked in AAC and BCI for years, and still collaborate with the group that I used to work closely with). To elaborate a little bit on your excelelnt answer: In addition to being enormously expensive and requiring heavy customization and personalization, assistive technology has other issues that go well beyond the core technical functionality. It also often requires significant up-front investment in configuration and training for the user, which needs to be done by a professional in the field, and then --- crucially --- also requires ongoing maintenance and re-training by skilled practitioners, which means there are ongoing operational expenses.

One of the reasons for this last bit is that many users of assistive technologies have very dynamic situations. For example, if they have a progressive condition like ALS, their mobility and other capabilities and needs will change over time; even if the user doesn't have a progressive condition, their living situation very likely will change over time, which may involve needing to re-work their setup. This might involve something as major as moving from one care facility to another, or having to adjust to the presence of a new pump or something that causes EM interference with your device.

Even for somebody with a very static medical condition and very stable living situation, their computing setup won't be static, so will need ongoing maintenance; or, alternatively, their computing setup will become static if they end up dependent on a particular piece of assistive technology, which can lead to a whole other set of issues (which is how you get people running ancient versions of Windows for years and years and years, because it's what their eye-tracker works on, and the vendor is long out of business and so never got it working on Windows 10).

The other piece to the puzzle is that, speaking as a gross generalization, users of assistive technologies tend not to be wealthy people (many speech and motor disabilities make it challenging to work). So, you've got an expensive product, often involving ongoing operational costs, with zero economy of scale, for a small and relatively poor customer base; this all adds up to what may fairly be described as "a very challenging business". Adding another layer of complexity, the economics of commercial assistive tech in the US have a lot to do with insurance Medicaid rules; the only reason there is any commercial activity at all in assistive technology and AAC is because under some circumstances Medicaid will pay for a device, within certain very rigid and complicated boundaries. So now your business also is going to have to juggle that problem in order to keep the lights on, which will add another layer of constraint to what is already a complicated situation.

On the other hand, when the right technology is paired with the right user and the right support, the impact on the quality of life for the user and their family can be truly enormous. Which is what keeps people working in the space...
Another doomerism that will fail to materialize, I suspect. Sometimes too many people are almost eager for the other shoe to drop. But if America is too big and powerful to bail out, then maybe they won't need to get bailed out on...wait for it...debt denominated in their own currency. Fiat is powerful that way.

No, I think the way to continued prosperity are the old principles: Free Markets, Liberal governance, Property Rights, Fighting corruption, and Ensuring robust multilevel competition in the marketplace.
Coming from Norway - on of the testing grounds of EVs, I remember when Model S hit the market back in 2012, or 2013? In either case, they were more or less the only EV you'd see around the time. And they were everywhere.

Fast-forward 10 years, and their presence has been seriously diluted. They're just another EV. If anything, they feel and look flimsy as hell - my coworker got a brand new last year, and I was shocked how...cheap it feels? My other coworker got a Toyota, which feels rock solid. Doesn't help that the Tesla has been in the repair shop twice.

So if I was going to judge Tesla, based on their cars alone, no way in hell would I value them like they've been for the past 5 years. Their market cap is twice the size of Toyota, and around 10-15 times the other traditional car brands (all whom are catching up in the EV market)

But, Tesla as a company does have some advantages. Their sales model, their charging system, etc.

Did Musk hit his goals? Sure thing. But I honestly don't think it was his strategy that alone that got him there - I believe a lot of the price increase came due to the world finally catching up with EV vehicles (and seeing the general trend of moving away from ICE vehicles to EV), and Tesla being at well-positioned. Then the meme-stock effect.
multi-trillion dollar AI market
Toyota has been producing and selling ultra compact BEV car for examples COMS and C+pod for some times now [1][2].

However there are not that popular outside Japan, and inside Japan many are being used for food and home delivery.

Not only they're small and lightweight for urban commuting, the fact that for countries with frequent raining and hot climates they're much better proposition compared to the more accident prone motorcycles and EV bikes.

For normal and sub-compact EV car, BYD Seagull is a game changer and without country and state protections, they will sell by truck loads of them, and at less than USD10K selling price in China now it's a steal [4].

I think Seagull is the main reason US, Europe and many countries around the world suddenly have the new tariffs for EV cars. Most of the tariffs were announced just several months Seagull was announced to the world, and they're not a coincident. When EV cars are dirt cheap to buy, operate and maintain you can say good bye to the local car manufacturers (even the EV ones) if there's no protection. Apparently and obviously the much touted free trades policy only works when it's for you but not against you, c'est la vie [5][6].

[1] Toyota C+pod:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_C%2Bpod

[2] Toyota COMS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_COMS

[3] BYD Seagull:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Seagull

[4] Why a small China-made EV has global auto execs and politicians on edge:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/22/byd-seagull-ev-puts-global-a...

[5] How will new EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles work?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/12/how...

[6] Biden hits Chinese electric cars and solar cells with higher tariffs:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-69004520
You can definitely use it in production, it is deployed internally at Google and we have a bunch of users. It doesn’t currently work on MacOS, but one of my colleagues is currently working on a port to Mac.
“Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.”
Heh, the only reason I complain about my phone is because I can't do enough things with it. Or at least not comfortably (and without requiring root, which is easier said than done depending on model). It just annoys me how bad the UX is compared to a proper computer with a keyboard and window management. I was once hospitalized and unable to move, with only my phone to pass time, and the experience was SO frustrating!

I don't use my phone a lot, all I got for entertainment is Retroarch, Lichess and a generic sudoku app I got from F-Droid, so obviously my opinion is highly subjective, but it feels like having a supercomputer that can only run MSDOS. One thing at a time in fullscreen with maybe a few passive resident processes. I know some phones let you split things in two or so, but not all of them and the implementation is never flawless or limits what apps can be split.

If you mean hating the phone as a social thing, I am a bit self-conscious about being seen using it too much or taking it out in front of someone unless warranted. I wouldn't do stuff like crossing the street or driving with my eyes glued to it. But that's a people problem and not a phone problem, I think.
I'm very hesitant to extrapolate from those numbers. Often times they will use that as "per exposure" number. Such that it will often be far higher than you'd take from a naive reading. Sadly, I don't remember where I saw that number, so can't check up on it.

That said, feels very in the weeds here. My stance is largely to have as much patience with folks as can be. I don't personally go through as much effort as many do, but I see no reason for that to be something to get upset over, either.
It's not a forest because that kind of growth isn't native, but San Diego has one of the nation's largest urban parks in Mission Trails Regional Park.
I want to see artists create works by selectively removing concepts or elements from AI models. There have been many great works created by neuro-atypical artists or those with disabilities. Would it be similar?
Your license is very weird: https://github.com/ask-fini/paramount/blob/main/LICENSE

This file is part of paramount project, licensed under the GNU General
Public License (GPL) for companies with fewer than 100 employees or
fewer than 1000 invocations/month. For larger companies or higher
volume, a commercial license is required. For more information,
contact hello@usefini.com.

I'm fine with companies not using open source licenses, but this is a very odd way to do it. Licensing something under the GPL doesn't work like this.

You should look at one of the existing non-open-source licenses like the Business Source License or https://fsl.software/ rather than modifying the GPL by adding an extra paragraph at the top: https://github.com/ask-fini/paramount/commit/8345edd8f776572...

Also, with a license like this it's not accurate to say "Paramount - an Open Source package..." - that's a misuse of the term.
So how humans are supposed to distinguish what silly comments are real?
+1-911 isn't a valid E164. 911 and similar numbers can't be represented in global form, they are only represented in local form.

I discovered that the tel: URL supports local numbers with context. So the bigint scheme can't represent valid tel: URLs.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my encodings, it disgusted me.
I bought an encyclopedia
Are you sure those same things aren't happening across Europe? sounds a lot like Canada too
There is no fundamental difference between Chess and Tic-Tac-Toe other than the computational complexity. It is not feasible to compute all of the game states in Chess, and so we cannot determine (at this time) a single optimal strategy the same way we can for Tic-Tac-Toe. But that does not imply that it doesn't exist. From a pure game theoretical perspective, they are the same category of game.

If there are more than 3 strategies, the same argument stands. IF there are multiple "optimal" strategies, AND these strategies create different "optimal" moves on the same board state, the opponent can just play the optimal counter-strategy after you make your move, because your move is enough information to give away your strategy. If your opponent cannot determine your strategy after you make your move, that implies the different strategies have the same "optimal" move.
Marketing is just dominoes falling. The first domino is reach, then attention, then it hits interest, then research, then desire, then purchase, then onboarding, then retention, then advocacy. Fill in these blanks depending on your biz model.

Ads, sadly, do work. You might live your life never thinking about Brazil nuts. I hit you with an ad for DeezBrazilNuts™. Whether you wanted to store this information in your head rent free or not doesn’t matter. Right now you are indeed familiar with the DeezBrazilNuts brand. If I showed you 10 Brazil Nut brands on a sheet of paper, mine would stand out and be familiar.

Sadly, the ad worked. I don’t need you to go out and buy the nuts right away. But the marketing dominoes are now falling.

With this in mind, it’s all funnels and dominoes. Mass reach wins and gets the dominoes tipping. Media is the perfect way to get that first domino: mass reach. You have people sitting with attention clued in. You have their eyes and ears. It’s too perfect.

I would say the one remedy to this is a substack model. Subscriptions are the antidote. This is obviously already happening with Netflix, Max, and all the ad-free streaming services. Same with Spotify, etc. News is the last industry, and will occur with X, Substack, and the like.
REPL stands for Read–eval–print loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93prin...

A REPL, by its name, is a very narrow version of the broader paradigm of interactive computer programming environments. But Notebooks are not REPLs, unless you use REPL to mean "interactive programming environment" and not REPL. Notebooks are much broader than a REPL! In a notebook, you can go back and edit and run individual lines of the notebook without re-running the whole notebook from the start and without re-computing everything that depends on what you just edited. Behavior like this makes it super hard to track the actual state, and super easy to lose track of how things are how they are. That's pretty terrible!

The parent article links this great talk that goes into more detail than the parent post and is much easier to understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U
Israeli troops use medieval-style trebuchet weapon in fighting at Lebanon border
> I'd be surprised if there wasn't a significant number of people who will reliably buy a game console, but won't buy two consoles.

As, what, an ornament? People buy games consoles to play games on (or occasionally for movies or some such), and I think very few of the games that people are buying a Switch to play are even available on Xbox/PS, nor vice versa (or at least, the Switch ports of the games that people buy Xbox/PS to play are not on a level where those people would buy a Switch to play them).
Yeah I think because the series was written so far apart, there were sacrifices made in the plot integrity (imo). I’m a big fan of Asimov mainly because of the concepts he explored but I would never compare the foundation series to the lord of the rings for example, which had a much more well thought out universe.
My prediction: a country which has the political and technical ability to do so and is located somewhere where global warming starts being a major threat to it. Likely candidates: India and neighbors (wet bulb events depopulating large area) or China (inundation of the biggest population centres). This country eventually says "fuck it" and just does it, international opinion be damned. Everyone else in the world will proceed to performatively freak the fuck out. But, they'll all be watching closely and if it works, they'll all be doing it fairly soon. Again, if it works, in the eventual biopic, it'll be mentioned as an aside that they weren't 100% sure if the atmosphere would be destroyed or not, but they forged ahead.

The good news, since an internet forum's commentariat opinion isn't relevant to whether it happens or not, is that humanity is a couple of teratonnes into a 200-year experiment of many kinds of atmospheric modification and nothing critically non-linear has happened yet. Though we certainly don't have many sigmas of confidence that it isn't going to go non linear (but in the "hot" direction) at some point!

We're even doing a cute little cross-over trial specifically on atmospheric sulphur dioxide injection (just entered the second placebo phase)
What on Earth Was Macron Thinking?
If you’re running a long process that spits a lot of text, it can make a difference. For me, I don’t really care that much about throughput. I care about latency. I want to see my keystrokes as fast as possible. Hardware acceleration doesn’t necessarily help that much there.
As a lifelong addict, I literally cannot live without my regular dihydrogen oxide. Even a day without is painful.
The title sounded like a crypto thing, so I assumed it was some web3 term like Auction House
The same problem exists in other games, like Ultima Online and FFXIV. There's a solution for this, which was used in EVE Online: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/digital-real-estate-a...

It works in real life too: https://gameofrent.com/
As always, fiat currency is an inflation scam. People get tricked and on the occasion they realize, the scam is reprinted with the face of a different scamster.
That is exactly the problem. Debian prefers the dynamic linking approach, where libraries can be updated individually. The problem usually comes down to having all the cargo dependencies packaged inside the debian repo. Which is doable, a similar thing happens for pip and other tools. But still kinda messy
My partner has anxiety problems and did not entirely appreciate when I told her where a raw sample of the mushrooms I planted, harvested and positively IDed (stropharia) were in the fridge before I ate a small piece of them. And then the next day when I re-iterated it before eating a bowl of soup containing the mushrooms.

I think I need to sit her down and explain the Precautionary Principle again. I'm 99.999% sure but who knows what happens if I'm wrong so here's the sample for the toxicologist.

I understand now why mushroom hunters have their favorite spots. If you've seen chantrelles in the same spot for years and have never seen any doppelgangers in the area, you're a little more sure that what you have is actually chantrelles.