skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colonization will entail a pretty large population of people across all fields of expertise. You will also have all supplies and materials necessary for any sort of contingencies. You're not going to have the electrician trying to improv as a doctor. I think it's highly probable that many people will die, but not in particularly grueling ways, but far more mundane. Around 600 people have gone to space (which I'll define as at least LEO). During this (including training), about 30 people have died. A death ratio of 5% is ridiculously high, and most of the incidents have been far from remarkable. Fire in a capsule, oxygen valve failure, heat shield failure, don't use solid rocket boosters, and so on.

It'll be the same stuff with Mars, except the death ratio will likely be substantially higher. It'll again be from just incidents that will look stupid in hindsight. And they will have been, but when you're working to prevent a billion bad outcomes, a few will always manage to wiggle through the cracks. All things considered I think Mars colonization will probably be far easier than the guys who were engaging in civilization building in the past. Settlers in times past were dealing with hostile natives, hostile waters, unknown diseases, unpredictable weather, even mundane things like rats getting into your rations, and had very little ability to measure or adapt to what they were dealing with. For instance Vasco de Gama (Europe to India guy) took 3 weeks to cross the Indian ocean the first time. On his way back, it took 3 months. By the time he returned, about 70% of his crew was dead.

Colonizing Mars will be absolutely brutal but we will have quite far fewer unknowns. Of course the issues will will have to deal with will be far harsher than anything anybody else ever had to manage, but they are known - and so that really simplifies the process.
It's an easily falsifiable statement, it's easy to prove me wrong if I am wrong.
Lena has publically stated: “But I retired from modeling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too.”

But that aside, the rest of your argument is just the fallacy of relative privation.
You made an incorrect assessment of a basic calculation in algebraic topology and claimed that it was correct. You didn't even look at what it was computing and simply looked at the final answer which lined up with the answer on Wikipedia. Simplicial calculations for projective planes are not simple. The usual calculations are done with cellular decomposition and that's why the LLM gives the wrong answer, the actual answer is not in the dataset and requires reasoning.
I find them shallow because the conversations are purely based on how they want to be perceived and lack any ideas into how things ought to be. Which I imagine the founding fathers correspondence was rich with.
The whole dynamic of this discussion is weird. There's a bunch of people coming up with long winded arguments, not-really-relevant examples and other guff.
And there's a bunch of us repeatedly saying "why not just be decent?"
But I don’t want full screen, I want it to take up the full window that I have allocated to the browser, while still allowing me to multitask in other windows.
Hunga Tonga Volcano: cause for recent increase in temperatures?
I couldn’t pick Lionel Messi out of a lineup if you put a gun to my head, and I’m only 80% sure he’s a soccer player.

So… yes?
Yes! Now, we just have to run this inside a browser, which will run inside a container, which will run inside a VM, which will run on an emulation layer...
It can be a chicken/egg problem. If you run a meetup, you need to meet regularly to create a community and keep members engaged. If you want to meet relatively regularly then you need something to meet about. Sometimes it's hard to get someone to present, so you have to fallback to people who need more incentive to present.

In a perfect world, a great sponsor would provide a free space for everyone to meet and great community members would spend hours preparing amazing content to teach the community something without gaining much for themselves. But, that combination is pretty rare these days unfortunately.
I hope the hilarity of Thiel's comments is not lost on Zuck, Thiel being just 3 years from Boomer-age himself
Amusingly, "the baby boom" used to be counted from 1946 to 1965. I believe the largest annual cohort was born in 1960 or 1961.

Looks like "Gen X" has subsumed what used to be late baby boom.
made using groq apis and Rettiwt-API to scrape tweets
Ah, this has nothing to do with the security package of the same name, commonly installed on Unix computers.
Agreed. Any complex ideas (not that these ideas are that) are done a service by fleshing out completely in long form writing. Video also works well, but has significant overhead.

Conversations are good for exploration of ideas and aligning perspectives between two people quickly.
Trump (1946) is 9 years older than the average boomer (1946—1964.)

Biden (1942) isn't even boomer anymore, he's Silent Generation (1928—1945)
Salesforce does this with a combination of web components, with a patched up ShadowRoot so that code with a reference to the shadow root can't walk into the rest of the document, and a secure evaluator function related to SES (Secure EcmaScript) to limit the globals the untrusted script has access too.

The secure evaluator is wild. I think this is the heart of it: https://github.com/Agoric/realms-shim/blob/v1.1.0/src/evalua...

There's also an idea for isolated web components to solve this in the platform: https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/1002
Leaves maybe, the seeds are certainly used? And the leaves at least in dolmades comes to mind (not the vine leaf wrap obviously, but in the rice inside)?
> They have Android, they don't need the web to exist.

If not for apple, I'd agree.
I haven’t been to one yet, but from afar I hear great things about the London Future of Coding meetups.
Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane
Nobody else exists to him
Yes, I think he is. And I don’t think his claim is unreasonable. I have heard of Lebron and Messi, but haven’t seen either of them play. Ever. Lebron is Basketball, and I’m pretty sure Messi is soccer, but I only know that because the latter came up in conversations about Apple buying sports rights. I would say there are more people engaging with Instagram and Facebook than there are with basketball.

I get what you’re saying, but I think it’s a limited viewpoint, just as mine is.
It's interesting to see Thiel and Zuckerberg be so oblivious to the problems of millennials. Boomers are a problem because they control capital and have lobbying power. The same kind of capital and political power now rests with the tech billionaires. People like Thiel are the new boomers who are destroying the younger generation.
Brazilian hot-dog:

Sausage, mashed potatoes, peas, corn, vinagrete (tomatos and onions cut and mixed together), shredded chicken breast, catupiry (a kind of creamed cheese), bacon, covered with string potatos, mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard, and bread.
It’s not unreasonable. I like Messi as a better suggestion though.
2 slices is considered to be a meal. Calorie wise, it likely is. Typical large pizza has 8 slices. The vagueness is intentional. From the Amazon concept, it is intended to replace a meal and not be a random snack. (Former amazon employee here)
Toronto's Tech Pizza Mondays
https://social.linux.pizza/@Techpizzamondays

If you're here, you belong and you are invited and welcome
That's an interesting idea.

I look at hard to understand code pretty often. Maybe ChatGPT can be helpful there too.
Does MongoDB have serious market share compared to DynamoDB (and similar clones from Azure, GCP) at this point?
Did you even try the example? Obviously not. It's closer to 4 seconds difference, PLENTY of time for me and a lot of people to click away.

It doesn't help a discussion to ignore the topic at hand, create a straw man just to easily vanquish him. Who are you even talking to here, just yourself?
> I remember when the old youtube player would just load and buffer the entire video, making replay ability very easy since you didnt need to redownload it. Somehow we regressed.

When did that change? I already considered youtube's UX to be so hostile I'll go for (literal, not metaphorical) years between intentionally watching 2 videos off there. It's also possible i just didn't notice as the data transfer from there is impressively fast via google fiber (likely not coincidental).

> Google takes everything that works PERFECTLY FINE and turns it into a steaming pile of … I am gonna stop right there.

Google's SDLC in 4 steps:
1) "Acquire" software idea (invent/buy/steal/kill/etc).
2) Dev to critical mass (unlimited money cheat).
3) Enshittify (Ads team trounces Dev team because capitalism).
4) Sunset before mob descends with fire and pitchforks.
Among those three, I think there's no competition, Zuckerberg is easily the most well-known.
The funny part of this exchange was how Thiel and Zuckerberg are at such a remove from the daily functioning of Facebook that they can write long, polished, bloviating emails with vague ideas in them. Meanwhile, Nick Clegg, who works for them, writes business-style emails with short sentences and bullet points, and seems to just want to know what specific actions they are telling him to take so he can keep his job.
I like your take here quite a bit. Thank you for sharing!
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Latent Homer is THE home for learning about vector embeddings with The Simpsons
I for one think, it’s almost refreshing to see Billionaires acknowledge the problems truthfully, even if it is to protect their own interests.

> But when 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist, we need to do better than simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and understand why

> Beyond how we talk, there's also a question of which issues we focus on and try to provide solutions for. For example, we work a lot on housing, but perhaps there are specific things we could do to make housing more affordable with an emphasis on younger people who don't have large families yet. Or given that so many people graduate college today burdened with crazy amounts of debt, perhaps we should have a larger program for hiring people who didn't go to college to help show that that's a reasonable path as well.

That is far more than any politician, media organization or even a significant portion of boomers, even the ones in your family, are willing to do.
see also https://ourworldindata.org/trust
Nope. Abuse should never be accepted. The right solution for actual abuse of a policy like this as opposed to an error is to immediately fire the person conducting the abuse. The inability or unwillingness to make decisions like this fast is the root cause of a lot of nonsense that goes on at businesses.

If it's an error, you correct and accept errors as the cost of doing business.
Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June

We stood beneath an amber moon

And softly murmured "Someday soon"

We kissed and clung together

...

Recalling thrills of our love

There's one thing I'm certain of

Return, I will, to old Brazil
A modern smartphone is a mishmash of proprietary, closed-source, burn-before-reading secret wireless stacks, and unsurprisingly they all suck.

I can’t really speak about the cellular parts. (Although the fact that your SIM—including your eSIM—is a standalone computer with over-the-air installable applications, arbitrary access to the cellular network, and zero end-user ways to inspect it fills me with dread simply on general grounds. Oh and on all networks pre 4G the base station is not authenticated. And the auth implementations on 4G are often completely broken, especially once roaming enters the picture.)

But the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stacks are wide open to everybody within 10s to 100s of metres of you who wants to grope them, every minute of your life. And given there’ve been pretty spectacular exploits by (smart and knowledgeable) randos even with the difficulty of reverse-engineering them as a rando, I feel fairly confident in expecting them to be a horror show internally.
Ask HN: Browser-Based LLM Models?
Does anyone know if there are there any plans for browsers to natively integrate LLMs, LLM APIs, or LLM models like Llama for local use by web applications?

I feel there's a large opportunity here for a more privacy-friendly, on-device solution that doesn't send the user's data to OpenAI.

Is RAM the current main limitation?
That is because Thiel is a dead eyed psychopath.
Have seen both play, haven't seen Zuckerberg lead...
>I can conceive of a world where the center of the sun is made of chocolate, but it is not logically possible.

How do you know its logically impossible if you can conceive of it? If there's some fact you are aware of that makes it logically impossible, then that means its not conceivable, by the philosophically relevant meaning of the term.
Of course it’s possible. Just buy SC Remastered and get online.
I suspect, at least in part, that Peter says this (along with using "we" with respect to Mark's actions) as a way to subtly gain influence over him.
The Geography of Interpersonal Trust [pdf]
Hard to see what they want to say. I would imagine yeah current market practices are a failure when it comes to properly supporting libre and opensource software. So we need to surpass failures of the market system and come up with something better that has better support for FOSS.
I think that SpaceX just spends a lot more effort on PR and marketing (a good thing, not a bad thing), and they have a rather boisterous leader (Elon) which generates more awareness and excitement.

In contrast, Blue Origin is spending very little, leading to people questioning whether they are still alive. Blue Origin is certainly out there doing stuff, as other commenters have mentioned.
Securing Your Self-Hosted Open Source AI Application
Why not just go with the flow and use/develop a downloader browser extension?
It is one large pizza, 8 slices, that is 3 to 4 people.

Yes, some people can eat more or less. If you had 10 people, you could order 2 larges but that is going to be a treat or a snack, not something that will be welcome if that is a lunch meeting.
Why does it need Google login? Can I use it without it?
Yes, I'm using MongoDB API in Pongo to keep the muscle memory. So, it's a library that translates the MongoDB syntax to native PostgreSQL JSONB queries.
What about the other film, The Beast of the Gévaudan, is it good? I thought it was more famous. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352224/
I don’t have an account and can’t read the article - but this is obvious to anyone with decent ML experience. Models are good with data they have seen. New unseen data is hit or miss. Most laypeople using AI these days could benefit greatly from this one piece of knowledge. If it’s never seen the kind of data you’re throwing at it, the likelihood of error goes up.
They just love sniffing each other's gases.
I 100% agree that it is. Which is why democratic institutions must be protected at all costs. Imagine if these kinds of people had unilateral control over something even remotely more powerful than they already do.
I’d ask why but I can already guess at the plausible technical answer (ai probably helps process/sift through lots of signals and we love sigint in the US) and a political answer (lucrative contracts). Sure hope the longstanding conversations about our underinvestment in humint don’t take on a new dimension.
And secondly, do not need to fill out an elaborate expense report for buying lunch. At the time of two pizzas, Anazon circa 2008, that would have been a sub $50 order.
Ask HN: Anyone daily driving Asahi Linux for work?
How is the support, stability and daily task performance? Battery? GPU Support for video playback or still in CPU?

I always look back at my old acer laptop with arch and i3 as my most productive environment but couldn't daily run it at work as every now and then screen sharing or video wouldnt work due to driver update and stall a meeting.
Count me in on organizing as well. And not just for systems but ml/llm adjacent infra and databases as well. Things like arrow and lancedb for example
You were wrong. MacOS has advertisements, that's the long-and-short of it.

I correct people when they make this mistake because Hacker News has a habit of giving corporations undue lip-service. You can be mad at me if it makes you feel better, but the problem is that Apple doesn't respect your attention. MacOS today literally violates it's own Human Interface Guidelines to serve you advertisements; think on that for a moment.
Programming languages are tools; I would use Go for a web server, typescript for a web site, C++ for a computer game or high performance desktop app... you have not given enough details for anyone to give you a recommendation on what languages might be good to use.

Zig doesn't offer much in terms of high level abstractions and is very manual (I'd consider it far too much pain here unless for the embedded realm) - it's a better C at best, no rival for C++'s power and software design capabilities...

Rust has serious pain points when you consider the borrow checker and want to do complex stuff asynchronously, there's a big learning curve here, also not in every realm is it crucial to have memory safety (a desktop computer game is not flight control software... which btw you could also use C++ for, and it is used here, albeit w/ care). On a one man project it's also much simpler to simply write good modern C++ code than it would be on a large scale project w/ hundreds of programmers. I've also read that Rust's build system (nice as it is) has still limitations w/ very complex build setups...

And whether it's good to use C++ in 2024 for a new project... C++ will be around for DECADES at this point, it has a swath of libraries and tooling, good compilers producing optimized output targeting everything under the sun... yep, it's not part of the "hype around town" languages on Reddit or other boards, but C++ is used every single day in almost every industry down the line by millions of programmers!

What exactly is your worry? That you can't compile your code from 2024 in 3 years? Relax about the online hype... there are areas where EOL languages are still used... C++ isn't dead yet, won't be for a long time. It won't pick up steam any time soon it seems, but for what it can do (including its tooling and libraries) it's hard to beat, and it's not obvious to me that Rust and Zig are obvious "successors".

Zig isn't even at a 1.0 version yet w/ no clear roadmap to get there... I'd be much more worried using it for a serious project than C++... and C++ knowledge will be better on your CV than "Zig knowledge" (which most people won't even have heard of).
With GPS its not so much the location but thr change in time commitment. The new location is never 5 min from the preious but 30-45 min difference. People in these groups often have busy lives so if your 3hrs suddenly becomes 4hrs its simply less of a headache to cut the unnecessary thing rather than change 50 other things in your schedule. Eventually this scheduking effect shakes off all thr people in the group with other time commitments.
The number of users of Meta products is one thing, Zuckerberg’s personal fame is another.

Conflating the two would imply that, for example, Phil Knight is one of the best known people in the world because of the ubiquity of his company, Nike. That’s obviously not the case.

Based on this email, Zuckerberg seems to have an exaggerated sense of just how well-known he personally is.
Very cool! It will be interesting to see if you can get clay to do that kind of knot!

I do somewhat more conventional stuff, but still taking advantage of full control of gcode generation: https://www.instagram.com/23lumens
People arguing in favour of mars colonisation always kind of skip the time between now and a future in which we’re able to ship an entire populace to another planet.

We will need to send smaller crews first. Not just to do the science and validation necessary, but also because it would be plain unethical to send a large group of people without knowing what effect that kind of travel will have on them. And all of that in spite of knowing how that venture would even be technologically feasible.

If you haven’t, I can highly recommend reading A city on mars by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith.
Yes, I'm using JSONB underneath and translating the MongoDB syntax to native queries. As they're not super pleasant to deal with, then I thought that it'd be nice to use some familiar to many MongoDB API.

Regarding IDs, you can use any UUID-compliant format.
Interesting and intelligent but limited scope by the bubble in which all of the participants live. The major dichotomy is NOT boomer’s vs millennials or other generations. At best this is a heuristic associated with crude generalizations.

And of course the entire not-so-tacit motivation for this conversation in 2019 was on how to keep millennials glued to FB.

Completely left undisturbed is the ugly and true dichotomy caused by ever more extreme wealth imbalance across most of the world. Zuckerberg at one point seems to bemoan that even his very well paid employees cannot afford housing in San Francisco, as if this were the crux of a major problem.

Smart, ridiculously rich people living in a cloud.
On Mac, the only thing that looks and feels native is the actual native Objective-C or Swift framework.

Everything else has subtle differences, and yes, your users will notice. You may as well just ship a janky Electron app like Teams. But if you want to impress your users with a native feel, it's the Apple toolkits or nothing.
Easylang: An easy online programming language and development environment
makes sense since the correct solutions need a little time to bubble to the top so they can be parroted correctly

it rubs the lotion on its skin, ... now it places the lotion in the basket
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/3/chrome-prompt-playgroun...

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in
Not to be confused with Linux app armor (lsm) https://apparmor.net/

Instead this is a mobile app/ physical security thingy originating on uni campuses
I did not, but I'm not using any fancy syntax so far besides JSONB operators. If it won't work, then I'm happy to adjust it to make it compliant.
It does feel a bit unsustainable, but I'm not willing to write it off... blockchains manage a much more extreme version of the same proposition (every node stores your data forever). It'll just come down to whether the price stabilizes to a point that's low enough to be useful.
The referenced AppArmor is (quoting the article):

> David and his brother Chris created a mobile app that allows students to alert campus security by pressing a single button on their phones.

And not the AppArmor Linux kernel security module.
Thanks, I'll try to cover that, good call!
Arxiv preprint version:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04838
Depends on where you live, in Europe Messi is very well known for example, Lebron I've never heard of, Zuckerberg is known by people in tech and maybe some others.

I'd bet on some singer or actor / actress being the most well known globally.

There's always a possibility that it's some Chinese / Indian person that is completely unknown outside their own country, but because of that country's size still ends up "the most well-known"
Am I wrong, or is "stop putting politics in _____" just people saying "I will politicize _____"?
Make your service names easy to remember: adopt the convention that they should be Hamming-distance 1 away from swears.
The hubris of thinking you're representative of the world.

I think there's a better chance of Messi being known because there's more people in Europe and Latin America that are fans of football than corporations. Even Africa, soccer is quite a popular sport.

Now, for Asia, I'm not sure. That's where the game would be played.

In a lot of ways when these people say "the world" they mean the subset of people they actually care about. Mostly, US Americans and perhaps Canadians.