skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like any good yakshaving programmer, i built/use my own note taking / TODO app. Now I want to implement a feature where I can send a SMS to my app, and it will save the text/media to my database. Seems like a lot less friction than using the UI on my phones browser if I just need to save a quick note.
Well, that seems to have been a one-off episode. Since then modern versions of at least maritime drones & possible bigger aerial drones in Ukraine are almost certainly Starlink guided, possibly via the military version of it called Starshield.
The geomsys model, featured two days ago on the front page, seems like being on the right track: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40905849

Don't try to sell software, sell your expertise. Basically variations on consulting.
It depends what you do with the rocket. Reuse isn't free, it has costs. Notably you need to carry more fuel with you in order to land, and that negatively affects overall performance. You also need to fly frequently to get the cost advantages. That's one reason SpaceX has turned to Starlink, since the demand from the market isn't enough to really get the benefits from reusable rockets.
Just like their energy system, the free market has spoken.

Welcome to Costco, I love you.
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Ask me how I know.
I've been on the hiring end of the spectrum for a while (and our teams haven't done any lay offs).

One thing I've definitely noticed as a repeating pattern is a lot of candidates who are laid off were making astronomical salaries compared to their years of experience. E.g. I recently interviewed a marketing manager candidate with 4 years of experience who was asking for a salary higher than an engineer with 10 years of experience. In today's current market, I'd expect the engineer to be earning 30-50% more due to higher market salaries in engineering and more yrs experience.

A lot of companies prior to doing lay offs had a lot of junior/mid-level employees earning what (today) would only be offered to a senior.

Companies can't go to their employees and say "Oops, we hired you at a salary that, today, is too high for the role you're in" -- I guess they could try, but that conversation wouldn't go over well with most people.

I also don't really blame companies for being in this situation. They had to offer inflated salaries because the only alternative was to hire no one during the covid boom.

So basically, by firing and re-hiring, you can reset an entire department's salary bands. Which sometimes can be healthy especially if people within the company share salary info with each other, and a newly hired person with 10 yrs experience finding out they earn 30% less than someone with 3 years experience, just because of the timing of when they were hired.

It's kind of a lose-lose situation for everyone involved. (Including the company who in many cases would prefer not to churn the staff just to reset salaries back down to market levels)
What is the point of them trying to create this? That something like this would mostly be used to create disinformation and create chaos is easily understood before making something like this.

Truly irresponsible
I’m not sure we agree on what zero sum here means, but one direct consequence of having a decent exit here is that the investors in Silo will get a capital return they can use to raise more funds.

I don’t know what the founders of Silo will do, but the investors are in the business of investing, and incrementally the viability of being an AI VC in this area has gone up (depends on the counterfactual but I think cash exit is better than some chance of IPO).
weakest link, if they dont release this, someone else will release one. every time someone noble invents another gen ai toy/weapon, they lock it down with post filters so it cant be used for evil, and then a second person forks it, pops the safeties off, and tells the world to go nuts.

social solutions take too long to use against the tech, but tech solutions are fallible. to be defeatist about it, there's going to be a golden window of time here where some really nasty scams have no impedance.
It is the motivation when the buyer tries to stimulate expansion of the supply, per the topic at hand, though.
Am I the only one who prefers to use nodejs and fetch for this these days? Especially since I need it to work in Windows (and no, I can't install WSL).
There are way too many kinds of sci-fi to sum up the genre in one convenient statement like that.

Some sci-fi seeks to lay off the most obvious and current convictions and impulses to imagine other possibilities.

Other sci-fi slightly exaggerates the flaws and assumptions of our world, and tries to logically extend them into a future in which they make even less sense, to demonstrate their absurdity.

Still other sci-fi creates a world exactly like ours except with one significant technological advance, and tries to imagine where we'd go with that.

Still other sci-fi takes what we know of how humans behave, puts them in completely unfamiliar settings, and uses those settings to explore the nature of people, rather than focusing on the technology.

And some sci-fi, arguably the most fun, if not necessarily the most educational merely starts "Wouldn't it be cool/weird/fucked up if..." and just keeps going until it runs out of steam.
Huh. Today, a college kid without even any underlying knowledge of the math can train their own GPT-2-level language model as a semester project.
Don’t European programmers make much less than Americans? I wouldn’t be surprised if they kept a pretty big footprint over there.

Big picture the US unemployment rate is quite a bit lower than the EU, so I’m sure any global company is happy to draw from the bigger pool.

Finally, benefits can be unbalanced in favor of one entity or another without being zero sum. Even if the US benefits more from this deal, the purchasing company, AMD, still turns sand into extremely valuable electronics. That’s not a zero-sum activity.
This was my thought as well, but someone pointed out to me that regional accent identification captures a large percentage of cadence and inflection differences (specific word choices and turns of phrase obviously would still not be there).
gitawonk.com's premise is hosting your repo but charges cloners $2 to
get full commit history. We do for software what itunes did for music.
Yeah, we all know you can get the song on youtube for free, but pay us a
pittance and we'll make it more convenient.
GenSQL: Query Probabalistic Generative Models of Database Tables (MIT)
Eh, scifi has been doing politics since the beginning. Be in America, be in the Ussr, be in Europe to denounce social issues. Tarkovsky, Orwell, Bradbury, Asimov...
I understand this take, but let me present the flip side:

There are two ways of working, remote or in person. Hybrid is a swan song of bullshit where you get the worst of both worlds and few of the advantages. So organizations need to make sweeping changes one way or another: either restructure towards remote-first or return to pre-covid paradigms by not only getting people back to the office, but also teams back in the same office. Both require some pretty sweeping changes to get there, and it's understandable (if maybe not defensible) that a majority of established organizations don't want to reinvent themselves.

At the end of the day, if in-person is the final vision, yes you should be fired if you don't comply with it. Almost everyone is replaceable, including even the top levels of management. Keeping employees who are actively hostile to (remember, not just disagreeing, but actively disregarding) a core organizational standard doesn't help anything --- regardless of their performance.

All that being said, I find it amazing that companies were presented the opportunity to use a new remote paradigm on a silver platter and decided to scoff at it rather than embracing all of its advantages, but maybe that's why I'm not making those decisions.
Next time SpaceX should simply refuse to provide aid until countries requesting aid get everything approved through the US government first. Otherwise people like you will continue to act like it was unreasonable that SpaceX wouldn't allow Ukraine to do things with Starlink that were potentially in conflict with officially stated US policy.

No good deed goes unpunished.
Altered title because it was too long, instead using text from the abstract and adding association with MIT.

The paper itself: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3656409
Falcon 9 made its first landing (during an orbital mission) Dec. 2015[1]. It was very successful after that.

The Ariane 6 program was selected Dec 2014[2].

Reusable vehicles are clearly the way to go but that was a little early to say Falcon 9 was going to be the success it is today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_6
Not sure why "eat his hat" is in quotes as it's very much literal, other than maybe that he just ate part of a (probably clean) hat?

https://youtu.be/Rafa_WBFIyE?si=34h4rZWiLUSCMKQq&t=188
Prebiotics are generally sugars that are specifically chosen to not be absorbed by the gut, so that they can be food for the yeasts and microbes that live in your lower intestines.

Probiotics are doses of the yeasts and microbes - and again you don't want these to be absorbed by the gut - they need to live on the gut walls and feed on your stools.

But yes, I agree - research shows that only limited amounts of both of these will reach the lower intestine. BUT, once there they should multiply on the rich food source. With a small 5g bag of yeast, I can easily ferment a 25 litre bucket of wort to make beer (as long as no other bacteria or yeast get their first, that the wort isn't treated with something poisonous to yeast, that the temperature isn't too hot or too cold...)
GP was asking specifically about sending images and video as wpp images and video (which is why he mentioned them being re-encoded). I suspect that sending that amount of data as wpp text messages would run you into some sort of trouble, but maybe not! Somebody above posted an implementation of this idea, and they mention that using it could get you banned which is unsurprising imo
I went through a bootcamp at the end of 2014, then spent the next three years unable to get a job in tech. I didn’t have a paycheck for those three years.

Triplebyte was my last ditch effort. I failed the online test the first time I took it, came back and then failed their interview. Came back again, got five in person interviews in the Bay Area. Didn’t get offers on the first four (one place even kicked me out halfway through the set of interviews). But I managed to get an offer from the last company, which I then spent the next four years at.

Had I not gone through Triplebyte, I probably would’ve given up on working in tech. Instead, I’m an L5 at Google.
Oh yeah I vaguely recall news reports about how the PS2 was so powerful it could be used for missile guidance or some nonsense?
D*mn! ...but 100% understandable, from a liability PoV.

Though I might still be tempted to ask them if they could anti-recommend any UPS's. Saying that they heard of someone using a FooBar X2400, but it didn't end well, could still be useful. Especially if you'd tentatively decided on a FooBar X2400.
That's exactly what happened with tile damage.

The very first Shuttle flight - STS-1 experienced serious tile damage. And others (famously, the antenna mission) had similar experiences. But it wasn't until the Columbia disaster that anyone suffered for it.
This is a bit misleading since Triton is a bit higher level than CUDA. But the idea is kind of right - there’s active development of AMD and Intel backends, and Pytorch is investing into Triton as well.
Not just the engines - using different propellants between stages complicates ground infrastructure & reduces economy of scale + parts commonality.
Boeing is a good example of capitalism working.

Go and look at their financial statements. Look at their stock over the past half decade.

It's all deep in the red. They're still alive because their past achievements are significant enough to carry them through this and they will probably still be salvaged.

Otherwise they'd be long bankrupt, freeing up immense human, physical, and financial capital to go do something else.

In other words, the system is built to allocate resources to companies based on performance - of course that doesn't mean each company always works perfectly.

Pointing to a bad company as an example of capitalism failing is like pointing to a lazy civil servant and saying we should abolish all government.
I note in UK you are not supposed to use redundancy for performance management, and immediately rehiring into "redundant" positions opens you up to legal action from the people made redundant.
It's not necessarily about being better. Sometimes a competitor can beat you just by being cheaper, or by being better connected.

One example is that the Matrix project recently took a budget hit when the core team apparently lost a big bid to a "large system integrator" who seems to have used their own open source code to bid against them.
They have vacuum-cup like pads on their feet?
Hacker News isn't a single mind, so it doesn't "think" anything of its own.

Personally, I believe there are several "valid" business models that include open source contributions. Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon and even Apple all contribute to open source software. Redhat, Canonical, Suse are all companies that have open source software at the heart of their products. Blender and Godot have found viable paths as nonprofit foundations. Linux, OpenStack, Eclipse and others are all foundations that work on a different level, combining contributions from many different companies and individuals, and support multiple projects.

There are open core companies like Gitlab that are also "valid", while I personally don't prefer the open core model.

Automatic sponsors WordPress development, and makes money providing hosting and related services. Automatic competes in a very competitive market with other companies providing hosted WordPress, but they survive.

Releasing code as open source is not an automatic mint. Business is hard. Businesses that don't release a single line of open source code fail all the time. It should not surprise anyone when a company that contributes to open source fails, because companies fail all the time.
Thanks! I knew the idea was so obvious somebody else had already gone through with it
Ariane 6 has flow successfully. New Glenn is missing in action, and Starship still has a long way to go before it is ready to actually put payloads in orbit. Ariane 6 is ahead of both, given it has actually flown and delivered satellites to orbit.
NATO is purely defensive, it won't invade Russia. It only threatens Putin's empire rebuilding dreams. Without NATO he is free to rebuild and expand Russia's empire.
With direnv you can activate your shell automatically by changing your directory. This is pretty useful if you have multiple projects using devbox, or a monorepo type setup with a few devbox.json files in your subfolders
Fecal transplants or probiotic enemas are a good way to bypass the upper GI
Please cut your lobby-the-congress force so we can have good tax software for free in America -- signed, everyone
AFAIK, Google takes advantage of the signals collected using GA (or did), and you might not want to surrender this information to them. (Sure, most people use Chrome so Google gets some of these signals anyway, but that is not something that you can control.)
Note that the Challenger crew were not wearing Launch Entry Suits like those shown in the photo.

They were dressed in what amounted to nylon jumpsuits and motorcycle helmets.
Too dangerous for PR reasons at least until after November.
Of course, this technology must only stay in the hands of our trusted corporate overlords.
Yes, what I found excellent about this explanation is how the system is actually dynamic, but NASA treated it as static.

In the reference good design, the single O-Rings must dynamically seat against the outermost surface from the forces in the initial leak test, and that seating is reinforced by the actual flight pressures. This also relies upon the free path of hot gasses from the hot pressurized combustion side to apply equal pressure around the ring and compress the now-hot air against the ring and steel walls, which act as a heat sink, and achieve 1/1-million failure rates.

In contrast, it looks like NASA treated it as a static system, just adding more "sealant" and O-Rings to the system, which actually forked-up the dynamics, forcing a single-point breakthru of the O-ring. And worse yet, they magnified the problem in the "fix", and the only reason it didn't happen again is they never launched in such cold temps again.

Also particularly sad to see the failure obvious in Pic #4, with hot gasses expelling from the SRB side even before it leaves the pad. They were already doomed. And even if someone somehow saw that failure happening on the pad, could anything have been done? A way to separate them from the main structure early and abort? Separate the shuttle from the main tank and abort?
She works in a professional kitchen and is on the career path to becoming a chef and possibly a restauranteur.

which to my knowledge is a male dominated profession. so good on her!
Ah, the old "it's too dangerous to release" marketing move. Why even tell us about it?
A Simple Way to Pitch Ideas
Yeah, I think this is the only way Europe is going to get a viable reusable rocket in the end. Arianespace is a dead end.
If you try to replace your whole job with an LLM, yes you will have problem.
I work in IT, I use ChatGPT daily to spit out scripts, ask it to come up with function names, convert code from a technology to another, ask it to do minor refactoring that I don't know how to do.

I can immediately validate the output, learn from it, and even work with techs I'm not familiar with.
>That would be a concern if the plan was to move the entire team to the US.

The issue is that all that Finnish labor now fuels a US tech giant who's profit center is in the US, not in EU, therefore mostly boosting the US economy in the process.

Then there's also the trade barriers that come with now becoming a US tech company instead of a Finnish one. You can't sell to China, and other countries on the US's shit list without Uncle Sam's approval.
When I look around my peers, not a lot has changed in the last 10 years for woman in tech
Show HN: Hoop is a Golang access gateway with packet manipulation
Hi everyone,

We've been building an access gateway for the past few years. The first version was built in Clojure, and we rewrote it in Golang. But that's a whole other story.

The gateway has a new type of architecture that allows packet manipulation (one of the reasons for Golang), which basically means you can programmatically change contents of connections in real-time.

Therefore it enables a whole set of problems to be consolidated at the access gateway layer, like data access policies (DLP), review of critical operations before they run (Change Management), automate repeat operations (Runbooks) and more. And this is how we monetize the solution.

Because of that we're open-sourcing the core of the gateway under MIT license. And we're including enterprise features from other gateways and some unique and new options enabled by our architecture.

Our vision for the project is to do what nginx did for HTTP to the protocols we interact with infrastructure.

It is early days and there's lots to do on the documentation side and making it easier to get started. We're working on these, but I'm super excited to share it with you.

Would love to hear any feedback, comments, critics, anything: https://github.com/hoophq/hoop
I gave the source and positioning of this post a lot more thought than i usually do; it's a weird one.

bookofjoe harvests content and posts from many sources, he's one of the many people contributing to the inbound firehose of links and stories.

Not sure how or why this got bumped to the top ten; maybe people see "sci fi" and/or "ivory tower" and a piece of content will get engagement? TBH it reads a little like a publisher's fluff piece, or a writing assignment given to a high schooler.

Some of the commentary is enlightening - she says "Writing fiction is about telling stories and it’s about people and human interaction" This is something you learn when Shakespeare is brought out in elementary school. This is something you should learn if you pay the slightest bit of attention to the stories you read, if the authors are N. K. Jemisin, Ursula K. Le Guin and Becky Chambers, Dan Simmons, and Ray Bradbury, who she mentions in the article.

Any good author writes stories about people; the great ones tap into our expectations and take us for a ride, bringing us to unexpected insight, or opening our eyes to a new constellation of human variables. The authors she mentions are almost universally well known for insight into what makes people tick.

This seems like an aspirational fluff piece intended to market the non-fiction book and land the author an advance so she can write fiction. This isn't intended as a criticism; god knows we can all use whatever we can get. She's apparently in a position with connections that allowed her to get such an article published about her; maybe one of her friends is a publisher or editor, or author? Whatever it is, she hasn't written her fiction book yet, so maybe she needs a breakout of some sort.

This is one of the weirdest pieces of content I've seen land on the front page, almost like a personal blog leak or something. I hope she gets a huge boost and gets to chase her dream.
Isnt the root that "AI" has come to be equated with "generative AI" in the public (and investor) mind? And since genAI shows great promise but is still in its early days, there is a rush to throw more at it in an attempt to stave off the collapse of the inflated expectations bubble.

The risk then is that genAI implodes and takes down all of the other AI disciplines with it.

Ultimately buyers pay for outcomes, and they are much more important than investors, who pay for the promise of buyers and therefore are susceptible to hype (Sequoia fawning over SBF being a juicy example). Therefore, as a seller, I would be drilling down into how my product solves a problem for the buyer, and not leading with how it gets there (AI). "Contract review in 60 seconds means you save $300 an hour on legal fees, and we have a $100M indemnity clause if we get it wrong" rather than "our AI model blah blah".
It's not conjecture, you can see the minions of certain rich people talking about it. Of course these people aren't afraid of police. They have top police protection as well as private armed security. There are many ways to make money from destabilization of cities or countries. For example, you could play real estate in "distressed" areas, bet against businesses that can't possibly stay open in the face of crime, and also fund politicians that claim to have a solution to the problem you are creating.
There's literally an American Association of Men In Nursing. Just googling "male teachers" gives me a ton of articles about the importance of hiring more men in teaching. Apparently NYC recently announced a huge investment into hiring more black/latino men in teaching or something?

I'm always suspicious of "you don't see much of x" in spaces where x isn't the demographic being catered to. This isn't Nursing News or Teacher News, not to say that Nurses and Teachers can't also be hackers, technologists, etc. but this is clearly not a space oriented towards all things teaching or nursing, so questioning community advocacy within their communities strikes me as the wrong place.
I think that Computational Complexity has the worst language (for defining and communicating ideas) of any mathematical discipline.

It's ironic, since it's a mathematical study of languages.
Don't forget `nil` for when you need something in your collections more naught than "not"