skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Step one: data formats!

A public traffic DB does sound like a great idea. How long before there's "privacy" concerns like "Elon's Jet Tracker"?
Is there a direct relation or something specific you were going to draw in mentioning the history of the Jews in England and the history and particularities of the City of London? That the Jews performed the interest loans on behalf of and/or within the City of London possibly or something like that?
RVV is not exactly in a great shape, as ISA extension itself and its support, to be competitive.
> we find fossils of dinosaurs all the time

“…for all the dinosaurs that ever lived, there are only a few thousand near-complete specimens, or equivalently only a handful of individual animals across thousands of taxa per 100,000 years. Given the rate of new discovery of taxa of this age, it is clear that species as short-lived as Homo sapiens (so far) might not be represented in the existing fossil record at all” [1].

> Wouldn’t tools and stuff also end up in the geological record

Corrode, break down, subsume into the mantle, et cetera.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...
WebSocket is over TCP, so still ordered. I think by message-based GP is talking not only about message framing (which WebSocket provides) but also reliable out-of-order delivery.
"> Want to fish the waters around Tuvalu? Radio them and offer more money.
Or I'll just go fishing because what ever Tuvalu can do to me?
"

If you can thug your way into Tuvaluan waters, so can anyone.
At that point you get into a conventional arms race with everyone else who
wants to get into a race for empire in the Pacific.

Much cheaper to agree to buy the fishing rights at auction.
I think JavaScript as a backend language was a mistake, and that Node has single-handedly caused more damage to the entire tech industry than any other aspect.

That hasn’t stopped billions of dollars of revenue from being created with it.

At least Ruby is unpopular enough (compared to Node) that people who know it are probably decent at their job.
The "Capture" trait looks very like the following proposal for a "Claim" trait, motivated by very similar pain points:

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2024/06/21/cla...
Agreed. I stated above that abstraction hell has its benefits. At the end of the day though you mainly are just slapping components together with that and not understanding how the problem truly works.

In my industry we do a lot of optimization and the standard technique is to not reinvent the wheel and to use a solver (e.g. Gurobi) where you give the silver your decision variables and constraints and have it quickly return the optimal decisions. This is great, but costs a lot of money (the best solvers are almost entirely commercial) and you treat a core part of your program entirely like a black box and you also have to fight things like the license manager and so on. Another option is not to create your own generic solver that solves all problems, but rather a solver that solves just your problem. The one company I know that does this has been enormously successful and their product is incredibly fast and lightweight with zero dependencies besides Windows (really cool). The only negative is that now the application is tightly connected to his own solver and they can't just switch it out easily with a different one like most people can. It's all a set of tradeoffs at the end of the day.
There are now positive energy soliton solutions to the warp drive[1]

Still not exactly practical, but one less fundamental problem to solve.

[1]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00652
What Would Happen If China Invaded Taiwan
What Happens If We Add Fractions Incorrectly?
A great video on Farey fractions and Diophantine approximation.
>Rather than let the system fail gradually or seek to reform it in general, politicians took the easy way out and started supplemanting it from the general budget and have been ever since.

I don’t blame the politicians, as it is impossible to get elected on a platform of reducing the biggest voting bloc’s (perceived) quality of life.

It’s just a structural weakness in democracy due to the way humans are, papered over by growth due to high fertility rates in previous generations and the resulting momentum that I think started petering out somewhere in the 1990s.
It’s a visit from asteroid 99942 Apophis.

This is notable because this asteroid may have a small but nonzero chance of striking the earth.
Could We Put Data Centers in Space?
You are as poor as if you were working on minimum wage, but you have more time since you don't need to leave for work.
I think we have all plugged v > c into 1 / sqrt (1 - v^2 / c^2) and observed that the math works but aren't clear about what it means. However, I feel our understanding of the universe is not nearly complete. There may be ways to travel > c, we may discover them or we may not.
Different categories of items. Starbucks is fine for syrupy dessert delivery mechanism. McDonalds is new category done well enough. But with pizza in Italy you need to compete with multiple similar options in same category. Dough with some toppings and even optionally cheese or not cheese and tomato or not tomato on top of it. Reasonably good products, with reasonable prices with reasonable availability.

For growing chain competing with anything is hard.
The Complex Relationship Between Load Factor and Airline Profitability
Firearms grant their owners the right to say "No".

Tyrants hate that.

Before firearms the world was mostly ruled by "nobles" (i.e., those who had extorted enough from the peasants to afford weapons and armor, and had the free time for the required years of training).

Now, it isn't. That didn't happen because the "nobles" suddenly decided to turn into nice guys.
This is “common sense” but knowing all we know about food and calories, we still eat the donut…
Both of your options have significant CO2 emissions, so they are a no-go in just a few years.

Liquid methane is essentially the same as LNG, which is rapidly becoming the most popular fuel for newbuild ships today. But it's about as environmentally friendly as building natural gas powerplant to replace coal - a temporary solution at best.

Future solutions need a carbon-free fuel, period.
I don't think that many calls indulging in food or bodily needs "play". Those are just core rewards, play is an active activity that is fun without being directly related to your survival, like eating is.
You might want some form of encryption or message signing to prevent spoofed packet injection. Just because the data might not have value to a third party, knowing that the data is legitimate has value to you.
So? That things "normally" should move positive to negative or vice versa is also a convention.
That's usually not possible. If they are not listed in the cert SAN (often you'd just have a wildcard for subdomains there) you'd need to enumerate them all which is not feasible.
Only according to some epistemologies.
If you want quantititive information it's better to use a table anyway - precisely because it doesn't mislead you about the internal distribution.
Romanian village set to become NATO's biggest airbase in Europe
Is NB-IoT actually being used these days? I remember it was hyped up but then the buzz disappeared.
I have a vivid imagination. My stop sign visualized as looking up to your right at a stop sign a few feet above your head, so a proportionally distorted octagon. The coating is metallic red and near-white and has a mild flaky look to it as some colored metal has, with a hint of rainbow from the sun that lights it from my back. There is a standard metal post with holes in it. There is a mostly blue sky as background framed with small leaved, large trees. I know that if I paned down, I'd see grass with small, yellow flowers.

When I lose my wife at the store, I often realize I would be useless in describing what she was wearing if I had to. If friends were over, I wont recall their attire unless it specifically came up, then I might remember it for years.
Some of the comparisons here in the comments between LLMs and the human brain go into the territory of deep naval gazing and abstract justification. To use a phrase mentioned below, by Sagan "You can make an apple pie from scratch, but you'd have to invent the universe first". Sure, to the deepest level this may be somewhat true, but the apple pie would still just be an apple pie, and not a condensed version of all that the universe contains.

The same applies to LLMs in a way. If you calculate their capabilities to some arbitrary extreme of back--end inputs and ability based on the humans building them and all that they can do, you can arrive at a whole range of results for how capable and energy-efficient they are, but it wouldn't change the fact that the human brain as its own device does enormously more with much less energy than any LLM currently in existence. Our evolutionary path to that ability is secondary to it, since it's not a direct part of the brain's material resources in any given context.

The contortions by some to give equivalency between human brains and LLMs are absurd when the very blatantly obvious reality is that our brains are absurdly more powerful. They're also of course capable of self-directed, self-aware cognition, which by now nobody in their rational mind should be ascribing to any LLM.
It sounds like you should check Julia lang.
(13 April 2029)
Not just for that reason. A long time ago my home country had memes about people not being hired as a bus driver because they only had one PhD. The degree inflation is a separate issue and the tips won't happen unless people are paid really poorly. Instead in the us, the wages are too low and the social part of tipping works in employers' favour. Servers don't have high expectations - they want to afford a to live and food. In most places in the us that's not possible without tips.
If that just a nominal change, such as just switching the color convention it uses for montains vs valleys, then it would be fine.

And that's the case with positive/negative.
If you remove those who are too young to be in employment (i.e. children and minors) and those who are beyond retirement age and those who are too ill or disabled to work, the lion's share of the social security system exists to subsidize companies unwilling to pay their workers a living wage.

Are you saying the government should drastically raise the minimum wage in order to cut back on social security expenses?
Relevance? I haven't said whether I'm talking about the City of London's government or its financial institutions (as if there's a difference). None of which has to do with "secrecy" which is arguably the relevant topic. On that subject, whether it's the government or the financial institutions or both, if they're engaged in money laundering, which is more likely: They keep those matters secret, or they don't keep those matters secret?
such a great idea, i have not seen this before. back in my solaris admin days, we used to keep config stuff version controlled locally like this with rcs; found it super useful for quickly answering "what changed, and how" during incidents (whereas just looking for modified files and fetching backups was a slow ordeal)
Group actions and hashing unordered multisets (2021)
The example provided is not hyperscript.
> Not even 100 years ago computers could do a few operations per second, today you can put a 100,000,000,000,000 operations per seconds computer in you pocket.

These computers still obey the same fundamentals though, in fact we’ll reach the Moore limit soon and it’ll take a breakthrough to advance further. Steady progress inside what’s possible is different than the argument of OP about the physics of WD being fundamentally flawed.
Sql IS an API, as in android programming, you just use sql as an API to access SQLite, literally.
I should perhaps have said "works round" rather than fixes - yes, it has to run over UDP but the quic team had an explicit goal of not allowing the network to interfere further : see sec 3.3 and 7.5 of https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3098822.3098842

This now means that innovations based on Quic can occur
Nothing says "spring detox" like drinking herbal concoction containing unknown alkaloids in unknown dosing.
> Iodine-129 has a half life of 15 million years, and would be essentially impossible to confine for that long

Seems to be running wild already [1]. Unclear if, due to it being naturally occurring, that would be a definitive signal.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15556197/
Thanks for rclone, great tool!
It's possible to recognize Stallman's accomplishments without necessarily conferring sainthood on him.
Non zero eventually, for now:

Further observations ruled out a collision in 2029, as well as in 2036 and 2068, though they will still be close encounters.

“A 2068 impact is not in the realm of possibility anymore," Davide Farnocchia of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies said of the asteroid, "and our calculations don’t show any impact risk for at least the next 100 years."
> >Social security is infrastructure.

> No? Even on the budget they are distinct items.

That's not a refutation, that's a technicality.

What is the function of social security? What would happen without it?
By themselves already.

E.g. there are 10 rock formations in this part of the desert, and 2 rocks in the other side.

There is a clustering (set) of 10 vs 2 even if we aren't there to measure them and group them.

As are other sets co-existing (like the whole desert has 12 rock formations, while some other has only sand).
Jews were historically associated with practices like moneylending largely due to the religious quirks I mentioned.

Go forward a few centuries and you have things like Shakespeare's moneylender from the Merchant of Venice, Shylock. This was no accident. It reveals both the reality of the time and attitudes towards Jews. This was such a powerful literary figure that the word "shylock" entered the lexicon.

Anyway here's another history [1]:

> The Jews came principally from Rouen - a great center of Jewish life in Northern France. It is well known that William brought them over as so called "feudal Jews" to be Royal serfs, the king's own chattels, providing him with financial services and income ...

> Though their principal function was to be money lenders, the London Jews did in reality they did follow a variety of other trades and callings

[1]: http://www.jtrails.org.uk/trails/the-city-of-london/history
> Vast lakes, smaller rivers, puddles, you know?

The same volume of water was just…higher?
This is a situation where I enjoy coding in TypeScript. You don’t need to front with interfaces, you just mock objects that map 1:1 with the expected API. So you write your code targeting the standard Fetch API then just pass in a mock when testing.
Because worse is better and if you try to be everything you (don't) get OSI. Also because everyone loves serial ports and dialup modems and TCP just emulates a serial port over packet network. And it wasn't supposed to be one-size-fits-all, rather «let us have telnet while we figuring out the rest» but then ossification happend.
Sony in 1989 bought CBS which got renamed to Sony Music Entertainment (SME) in 1991. This was the beginning of the end for Sony as an engineering pioneer. Walkman, CD -- completely gone from these markets, crushed by noname, at the time tiny rivals. But seriously, Apple in 2001 was basically nothing and yet they won the US market with the iPod, more or less. Sony was too busy DRMing its music to bring an MP3 player to the market. It was an astounding defeat.
(I understood they already had, to a point?)
This is gonna be pretty neat when it happens! Only 5 years away.

> 2029's visit will be particularly close, with the asteroid coming within 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) of the Earth's surface, closer to the Earth than some of our satellites. The asteroid should be visible from the Eastern Hemisphere without the aid of a telescope or binoculars, with the European Space Agency dubbing its flyby "one of the rarest space events of our lives".
It is amazing how different evolution trees converge on optimal configurations. It reminds me of crabs.
> evidence that humans were in North America 10,000 years before we previously thought, but there is no way we should treat that as a lower bound

Can’t we use genetic drift to bound those estimates?
Here are the preliminary round's questions:

https://damo.alibaba.com/events/32024061217181779414025598?l...

And here are the questions for the final round (if interested):

https://damo.alibaba.com/events/32024062317190737996317599?l...
That says anthropogenic (the uneven distribution in seawater shows a recent source). But it does show how highly detectable the isotope is, that it shows up even after just a few decades of use of fission. A putative pre-human civilization could have been pumping it out for much longer.
How can you argue I’m smuggling ”enjoyable” experiences into the argument when you yourself admit play is also Enjoyable. What is the actual difference? Even enjoying a cup of coffee can be considered play if I put the coffee in my mouth and play around and pay careful attention to he aromas a texture.

They’re one and the same thing. It’s a matter of language that makes them appear to be different things. Taking a dip in a pool can be considered play and it can also be pleasurable.
The article we're all commenting on is talking about the City of London in the sense of the geographic area administered by the City of London Corporation.

The article you linked to is talking about the shenanigans of the UK's financial sector (mostly concentrated in the City of London).

The UK financial sector is regulated by the FCA. Corporations headquartered in the City of London are subject to English law just like corporations headquartered in any other part of the country. So the role that the City of London Corporation plays in money laundering is relatively minor and indirect. Of course, there may well be corruption that is worth investigating and exposing.

Unfortunately, the idea of the City of London as some kind of extraterritorial legal island within the UK is catnip to conspiracy theorists of various stripes. It is complete nonsense. However, that is not to say that the City of London Corporation is not in need of reform.
been in love with violin plots
Climate scientists can't agree on how warm it is[video]
Cloning that servo seems like it would be much more difficult than just buying them through a 3rd party, which is something that Iran and now Russia are practiced at.

If they were built in Iran or Russia, they would likely need to import components in any case. Why not just import the completed product?
From the point of view of the company, it is indeed a very serious crime - "it" being admitting publicly that the company had retaliated.

Generally they are careful not to admit anything that can be used against them, or which can cause the stock's shares to slide. There must have been such serious and well documented retaliations, that he felt he could not deny it.

I know I a being cynical, but looking at the fast and loose the way they have played with people's lives invites such an attitude.
Amusingly, the author does not appear to fully understand the meaning of "axiom".

While practice, axioms are often statements that we all agree on and accept as true, that isn't necessarily true and isn't the core of it's meaning.

Axioms are something we postulate as true, without providing an argument for its truth, for the purposes of making an argument.

In this case, the assertion isn't really used as part of a argument, but to bootstrap an explanation of how words are represented in LLMs.

Edit: I find this so amusing because it is an example of learning a word without understanding it.
> The amount of energy to reach even our nearest stellar neighbour is mind-bogglingly large. Some estimates I've seen for various warp drive concepts involve things like 1 Solar mass of energy.

Nothing a couple Dilithium crystals can't solve.
Oh please, enough with the semantics. It reminds me of a post modernist asking me to define what "is" is. The LLM does not understand words in the way a human understands them and that's obvious. Even the creators of LLMs implicitly take this as a given and would rarely openly say they think otherwise no matter how strong the urge to create a more interesting narrative.

Yes, we attach meaning to certain words based on previous experience, but we do so in the context of a conscious awareness of the world around us and our experiences within it. An LLm doesn't even have a notion of self, much less a mechanism for attaching meaning to words and phrases based on conscious reasoning.

Computers can imitate understanding "pretty well" but they have nothing resembling a pretty good or bad or any kind of notion of comprehension about what they're saying.
DOSBox is fine for playing MS-DOS games as they were back in the day, but not if you're looking for a modern, streamlined experience.

DOS means joysticks with 4 axis and 4 buttons max, short 8.3 filenames, obsolete network protocols, SVGA graphics mode, stereo SoundBlaster 16, three button mice, basically no integration with the host system... Also, terrible SDKs and 16-bit real mode nonsense if you're the developper.

Technology has progressed over the past 30 years and DOS is firmly stuck in the 1990s. If you're decompiling a video game with the eventual objective of making improvements and bugfixes to it, you might as well port it to modern systems too. Some of these like high-definition resolutions for example will require it anyway.
Sorry, wrong link from the rabbit hole. Iodine-129 is “naturally produced in small quantities” [1].

The paper restricted itself to transuranic radioisotopes, but it’s unclear why. The operant question would be, if we found 129I on Mars, would that be evidence of technological civilisation?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine-129
TL;DR - use QUIC (should have just looked at the domain name)
https://archive.ph/cMQCX
This is confidently incorrect. If you're making observations of very short-lived processes your margin of error will be in micro-, nano-, atto-seconds etc.
If you're looking at processes that take billions of years, naturally the margin will be wider, especially that it's very hard to make accurate observations about stuff that took place a very long time ago. It's not that hard to grasp.
All these people didn't make a prediction based on physics. Of course, it also doesn't help if you misunderstand physics.

Physics will determine a lot of what's actually possible and not possible to build, and there's a lot of things we could build even without FTL. FTL is understood as mostly impossible because it violates causality.
The original idea wasn't batteries, so they probably started out with humans as cpus but then went with batteries to make it easier to understand for people.
That's a very good price. My guess is that is heavily subsidized by other taxes and the transit agency is not profitable on fares alone.
On HN, comments meant to stimulate optimism and willpower don't tend to get encouraged. Cynicism, skepticism, figuring out how things will fail -- as they inevitably will, of course -- or how if they succeed, they're corrupt or broken in some way...that is increasingly the coin of the realm here. :)

In reality, your sentiment is correct. Sure, there are laws of physics. But they are also unknown, as the ones humans understand don't describe all observed phenomena by a long shot. There are still restrictions even so, but incredible unknowns await us. As they always have.

What engineering-minded folks frequently don't understand is the need to apply sheer old willpower, after using all that intellect. Ending with a positive, with the notion that it can be done; we just have to figure out how.