skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> lack of funding reflects the lack of interest. For-profit investors don't see the business opportunity

Not true. Launch and propulsion are amply funded. (If you have a good idea in the space, and capacity to execute, I’d love to connect.)

> Rockets are not particularly expensive, but they are also not particularly relevant

Hell of a lot more to launch than just rockets. And there is demand, today, for non-SpaceX launch providers.

Plenty of capital stands ready for this sector. And hundreds of millions are deployed every quarter. (Yes, private capital, occasionally in the billions.) SpaceX crowds out the market, yes, but Arianespace suffocates it by providing the same crowding effect with none of the utility in pay-off. And part of SpaceX’s wake comes in the form of commodification, particularly at the low-mass end. (To be clear, I think smalsat launch is overblown.)
If this really was your problem you'd lower your speed for a few seconds, gain a safe 500 meters between you and the truck, and finally arrive at your destination about a minute later than you would if you were just in front of it.
You could think of it as increasing the density of potential output for a single person, for work that can be systematized. Let's just assume many of the challenges around control and accuracy are resolved.

So certainly it can be good for indie product builders that can create things which make repeatable services into saas. And it can help them do it faster on the LLM code side.

It may indeed lower demand for swe, but those who adapt and can use the tools to produce more per person will continue to be in demand.
>Every day I think of the Homebrew creator who got rejected by the company that uses his software daily.

Why does this surprise you? Google didn’t even employ the chefs that made the food consumed by the employees daily either.

Just because you made a thing that was useful doesn’t mean you have the skills that Google is looking for.

Homebrew was very useful because Mac osx didn’t have a good package ecosystem for one-liner installs. The tech behind it though wasn’t particularly unique or groundbreaking. So the author’s skill here was finding a market with unmet demand for a free package manager. That’s not what Google was looking for.
> easily create a MQTT API

That's a bit like asking: why do we need React when we have HTML and JS? ros-tool is built on Transitive, which uses MQTTSync -- an open-source protocol we've developed for doing data sync on top of MQTT (instead of just message passing). So we are several levels up from MQTT. But yes, if people want to, they can easily write their own Transitive capabilities (see https://transitiverobotics.com/docs/develop/creating_capabil...) and, in fact, the starter-code provided by our capability init script includes example code for subscribing to ROS. So if anyone wants to write their own, I recommend starting with that. But because ros-tool is built on Transitive, a developer can specify permissions at very fine granularity in the JWT they provide to their users, including not permitting any publishing from the front-end, and/or limiting access to specific topics or services.
Except the EU paid for the hardware https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/our-supercompute...
The Science Behind the Emotions in Inside Out 2
These two are great success stories, but they’re also the only Finnish unicorn exits in the post-Nokia era.

The exits were somewhat less exciting to founders than these numbers suggest. Supercell sold 51% to SoftBank already in 2013 for 1.1B EUR. And Wolt’s purchase price was paid entirely in DoorDash stock which was down 75% by the time the lockups expired.

Startups generating low-hundreds of millions in annual revenue just aren’t unicorns anymore, unless they happen to be AI.
I've been reading about this for a while (and I didn't do a great job of collecting my sources to link here) but from what I understand as a layman, truly changing the composition of the gut involves killing the current population, transplanting a new population in from a healthy host (person, mouse, whatever species you're working with) and then suppress the immune system while the new population takes hold. It's dangerous because of the immune suppression, but the outcomes in mouse populations (and in extreme cases where they actually do it in humans) are incredible.

There are less invasive methods being practiced that just involve putting a healthy gut population into a human's gut, and from what I've read it's still in the research phase.

Evidence of curing obesity, curing IBS in mice. I haven't seen any studies that are statistically significant in humans yet, because this is still relatively new.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/25202-fecal...

There has also been some really interesting study of the brain-gut connection and the effect this microbe population has on mental health. Really interesting things where mice with aberrant gut microbiomes have "metal health conditions" (how ever you measure that in mice) and then have their vagus nerve (gut to brain, a huge nerve) cut. The outcomes were shocking, basically a curing of the condition. There is research here about humans:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9685564/
I don't think it's power generation that is the issue, but more distribution and protection of the infrastructure. As a commenter above mentioned TX produces lots of wind power (in the early 2000s the only thing governor good hair did was build the hell out of wind farms), but there's not strong regulation on the power companies to ensure the grid is working well. Case in point the cold snap a few years ago with TX govt officials and others crying "you can't make wind turbines work in the cold" despite evidence in New England and the Midwest to the contrary.

Much of TX energy infrastructure is above ground poles running along the highways. I don't know what the lifespan is of those but I wouldn't be surprised if many of them could be classified as antiques. If they aren't being regular inspected/replaced, they are likely to go down

Also, the energy companies can sell electricity to other states, and I won't be easily convinced that during this event they stopped doing that (because profits). Lastly, see previous winter event and direct recorded quotes from energy companies about how much money they were making by increased prices and I think there are several reasons why this keeps happening in TX.
Cancer that takes someone’s voice.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414932
I actually like saving stuff on Telegram but the only downside is the absence of markdown.

But it's not actually that big of a deal. Telegram supports tagging messages, saving files and more.

This is why I was creating writedown.app, to have something where I can quickly post my notes like Telegram but not have it turn into another app accounting for Telegram's lack of markdown.
You are further demonstrating how the cloudy semantics of the question and of casual semi-mathematical English language makes the problem harder than it needs to be.

This is a huge problem in probability theory, as you allude to. Experts often forget how their preferred mathematical models drift away from lay language, and say things casually that don't really mean what they say.
Time, partitioning, and synchronization
Try StyleTTS2. You will still have to experiment with the settings a little to get the right level of adherence to the reference speaker’s voice and the emotion content.
Thanks for an interesting diversion. I always thought it had to do with towing barges down canals. What an interesting eggcorn.
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You've probably never been to America or shot a gun. I have been abroad to some of the most gun-free places in the world and I'm quite pleased with how we live in the US. There aren't as many shootings as the media would have you believe. The people at the top who cry about guns really just want you to be a helpless sheep. They have an imperative which is to maintain power, even if it costs you your life.
Sure, if the employee has a file of pending issues. For a squeaky clean record, though, it would be pretty easy for a lawyer to point this out and point to others who were not fired for the same thing.
Presumably Spotify has glommed all the Fingertips into one file. On the original CD release it was twenty-one separate tracks; there was a bit in the liner notes that explicitly encouraged you to put it on shuffle. https://tmbw.net/wiki/Fingertips

I could not tell you what brand the all-in-one turntable/radio/tape deck/cd player I had at the time was. There was a big tray with room for five CDs and I have absolutely no memory of how much noise it made when switching from one disc to another, and every physical object involved in this affair is long gone in a hurricane.

I suspect both CDs should be easy to find used copies of, if you have the appropriate hardware and want to experience the tension of not knowing if the next song you hear is going to be Trent bitching, a brief moment of silence, a Fingertip, or whatever else you put in the player. Given my tastes at the time this would have probably been Skinny Puppy, Ozric Tentacles, and Björk, but do whatever feels like the most interesting possible choice; I have a disc lying around now that’s nothing but forty iterations of Satie’s Vexations and that would have certainly been a prime choice for this little game.
We don’t even have robots that can fold clothes /s
Yet another excuse for me to write my own e-reader friendly webapp
https://archive.ph/owhhT
Sure, advertising, worst thing ever.
Many farm animals are not disposable. The right bull or horses seman is worth more than your house.
Have you looked at who created these things by and large? For the most part, you have:
- aristocrats that were wealthy that didn't need to "work" to survive and put food on the table
- crafts people supported through the patronage of a rich person (or religious order) who deign to support your art
- (kinda modern world) national governments who want to support their national art often as a fear that other larger nations cultural influences will dwarf their

Are you implying that these three pillars will be able to produce anywhere near the current amount of content we produce?

How in the world where digital copies are effectively free to copy and infinitum would a creator reap any benefits from that network effect?

A modern equivalent would be famous YouTubers who all they do all day is "watch" other people's hard earned videos. The super lazy ones will not direct people to the original, don't provide meaningful commentary, just consumes the video as 'content' to feed their own audience and provides no value to the original creator. The position to kill copyright entirely would amplify this "just bypass the original source" to lower value of the original creator to zero.
I definitely want to try this! When it's not hugged to death I'll try to come back.

nit: The tab title still just says 'React App'.
And it's even more plausible this is just a marketing play to build hype. Take, for example, you just made some new super-pathogen in your basement lab. It could kill everyone on the planet. This is obviously pretty dangerous, so do you:

A) silently dispose of it and hope nobody else ever makes the mistake of creating it.

or

B) keep it in the freezer and hold a press release about how you made it but it's too dangerous to share any details.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.05370

The model in question is Microsoft Vall-E2 without the click bait headline.
> It looks like 300 “AI experts” employed. So I guess they have paid $2M a pop.

What was the per employee acquisition cost of WhatsApp (who had 50 employees, IIRC)?
Related:

Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Operated AI Bot Farm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919421
Why else would a buyer invest heavily in increasing the supply?
> ...what are they going to do? Fire them all?

No need to fire everybody. They just laid off some of the workers and called it a market adjustment. Now the job market is flooded with desperate unemployed. Current employees will be more likely to adopt corporate policy, so they don't have to compete with the masses of job seekers. Job seekers will accept whatever terms they can get, because it's rough out there.
This is exactly how the JVM CMS works, then what happens is the old gen becomes too fragmented to allocate, you end up with a GC failure and the JVM will rewrite the entire old heap.

When hadoop depended on a single namenode, a 64gb+ heap would take 5+ minutes to collect on these failure modes. Quite painful.
We do have a minor space race between the Artemis program and the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.

It's not as high-profile as the race to the first moon landing, but America's new ambitions to returning to the Moon are at least in part fueled by not wanting to be upstaged by the Chinese. Now both are aiming for putting humans on the moon again before 2030, and both have plans for at least one moon base (that each originally announced to happen before 2030)
Yeah but the whole experience of using WhatsApp is kinda sub-par compared to Telegram.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40905323
Even then, your content is encrypted, but not any of the metadata.
Oh yeah of course its sound, but this is not how you write C code, because all it takes is for someone else in 10 years to, somewhere between 51000 and 53000 introduce an early return statement and forget to unlock that mutex, or other little things.

This is solved in C usually with a goto to a cleanup routine, and avoiding early returns.
The issue with the la streetcar network was that it was designed specifically to sell Henry Huntington’s land tracts. Once he sold that off he didn’t much care if the remaining transit network could actually stand on its own two legs. Some lines were frequent like downtown lines but these days there are a lot of interlining busses going downtown where you really could have multiple busses a minute coming in on a street. Other lines were a lot worse than today like the line that connected santa monica to LA, which eventually only ran once a day in contrast to todays expo line running every 8 minutes or so.
These samples are terrible when compared to commercially released models like from eleven labs or playht. This is an extension of an interesting architecture but currently those more traditionally based models are way more convincing.
Blender and Godot both show one possible way to putting food on the table and spending your time contributing to open source projects that you love. Other companies provide consulting and related services. Business is hard, you can't just write some code, throw it over a wall with an open source license, and expect the money to start pouring in.

You can get a job at a company like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, or hundreds of others where they pay folks to write open source code, too.
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I prefer it. When I go to other people's houses their tv looks worse to me. The motion looks jittery and stulted to me.
My siblings and I were avid swimmers and enjoyed diving to the bottoms of lakes and swimming around. The deepest I ever dove unassisted was 47 feet (in the ocean). Starting when I was 8 or so, we'd practice holding our breath in the bathtub as we floated face down and motionless. My record was about 2.5 minutes. I think my brother made it to 3.5 minutes. It must have been terrifying to my mom. She was clearly keeping a close eye on us, as she'd periodically tap us on our shoulders when we'd been under for an appreciable amount of time and we'd gently wave at her with our hand to let her know we were alright.

I'm going to be a parent in a few months. I hope my kid takes to the water like I did, but would prefer their interests in water activities aren't quite as nerve wracking.
But they are built on top of nvidia tooling and you can use nvidia tools to do more extensive profiling than other players offer.
This is unique, love this
I can't wait until the free base models get better. The floods on tiktok, shorts and stories with the standard eleven labs voice is getting nauseating.
I have never lacked for work cleaning up other people's code that almost works. I don't think that market is going away.
I wonder how many of these stories were funded by the effort in Singapore. I've heard some stories that there was a funded PR campaign to boost the industry.

For Singapore, it's actually a national security issue and not an environmental one. There were (are?) several programs to the city state functioning if a war in the region broke out. Insect farming was one of the projects to harden the food supply chain with local farms supplying Singapore if food imports are restricted.

It sounds gross, but better than starving due to a blockade I guess.
https://www.pbr-book.org/

>A method known as literate programming combines human-readable documentation and source code into a single reference that is specifically designed to aid comprehension.

Where are these C++ files which are not included in the text?
I've only done lower (6K meter) peaks. Yes. Sherpas/porters carry a lot up to base camp and beyond. But you're still carrying a lot of gear. There's a certain narrative that clients basically get carried up the mountain and it really isn't true.
SpaceX is the only medium-heavy lift provider in the West with free space on their manifest right now. Sure they're constantly launching Starlink, but their entire offering is that if someone else needs to launch a payload, they'll just repurpose a launch that would otherwise be carrying Starlink (since external launches come with a profit, while Starlink launches are at internal cost).

Vulcan's capacity for a year or so is already booked, and Ariane 6 is also fully booked for several years out. Others in the class are approaching first flight, but still lacking enough information to book a launch on.
of course, I don't try to replace my whole job out of it.
ChatGPT is 'good' at doing statistical analysis with python on a given dataset, that can help in the harder task you quoted "distinguishing between ideas that are correct, and ideas that are plausible-sounding but wrong".
The job itself cannot be easily verified, but you can use LLM on a subset of theses tasks.
https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8?t=188

in this video here sabine hossenfelder explains the problem. the statement could be applied to any other marginalized group

"I am against programs or positions that are exclusively for women.I think that treating women differently just reinforces the prejudice that women are less capable than men"
Thanks! btw, y'all should definitely go on Developer Voices and talk about BufStream!
Multi-LLM autonomous daily code website
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They don't until they compete with some big US company which has direct contacts into government. Then it suddenly matter.
If it's a culture problem and the C-suite is aware of it, then one reason to buy a company with a working software stack is to percolate their culture into your company so you can be successful.
I agree that that would be fair, but we should also acknowledge that usually an IC doesn't actually have any leverage in this situation, although this depends on your location and particular employment situation. Typically (and maybe this is changing) a US software developer is employed overtime-exempt at-will, right? So, you can ask for this, but as per your employment agreement, they can absolutely demand this of you and let you go if you don't agree. I'm not arguing that is the way that it _should_ be, just that to my knowledge that's the way it usually is.

Edit - you say you're willing to quit if they don't agree, so I guess you're up for this possibility. More power to you!
tried to help, effect was minimal, motivation matters.

It's not that complicated. No need to be blown away. Most cases around competition law are significantly more complex.
But a segmented display will also get its input from an analog source, right? Or are there some applications that I'm overlooking?
Exhausted by swiping through dating apps? You might be experiencing burnout
Thank you, your kind words are very encouraging. Your perspective closely aligns with the issues I was trying to address.
Unlike this inaccurate summary article, students are forced to swap any smart phone, not just iPhones.

Source article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eton-college-uk-poshest-private...
I wish OSM would build and provide native mobile apps that are at parity with Apple and Google Maps; I would pay for them to vertically integrate.
Why "page.goto()" is slowing down your Playwright tests
Oh wow, I was 6 months old when that happened. (36y/o now)

Pretty decent track record if that's the most recent example!

Upping the ante: how much worse would that have been if there were trains following closer than braking distance in both directions.

Special note that the train derailed so severely in this incident after colliding with a train stopped in front of it.

I'm even less of a fan of OP's "braking distance shmaking distance" proposal with this example of why it's a bad idea!
Something that you'll only learn after clicking the link, hence the need to update the title.
Dog whistles are dog whistles buddy.
That's not actually true. There's nothing stopping you from producing derivative works. Publishing and/or profiting from other people's work does have some restrictions though.

There's actually a huge and thriving community of people publishing derivative works, in a not-for-profit basis, on Archive of Our Own. (Among other places.)
Which is why ATO (automatic train operation) is most often found in subways where the platforms can be equipped with gates to keep passengers out until a train has stopped safely. Suicide by train and level crossings are a nightmare in risk management for railway safety, hence also (new) high speed tracks are usually planned without any intersections with roads or paths, at respective additional costs.
> US tech giant who's profit center is in the US, not in EU, therefore mostly boosting the US economy in the process

More of a matter of accounting than reality. For years, Apple were deliberately not repatriating their profits to avoid tax, keeping them out of the US economy. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/17/it-looks-like-apple-is-bring...

The question of where a profit is actually made for a multinational company can be very unclear.
funnily enough the ps3 was literally a super computer, at least if you hooked up enough of them

https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...
How quick are the stores to marking their status as Closed? It's manual I'm assuming and not some service that's not getting a pingback because the store is offline.
If you asked a job candidate the same question, does their wrong response make them a bad candidate for the job ?
Exactly, it's "just" extracting the AWS IAM data from the publicly available documentation, stores it in multiple formats and publishes a NPM package containing the data with some wrappers/accessors, so that people can theoretically leverage it to build their own tools.
I don't mean to come off as ignorant (so please correct me if I am wrong) but could it be that the so-called "two-party system" in the US is to blame for some of the polarization implied in your message?

As someone living in the Netherlands and being used to dozens of political parties with various ideologies and convictions, the two-party system of the US has always surprised me as being extremely limiting (e.g. if you don't naturally identify with Democratic ideologies you vote Republican or vice versa).

Edit: None of this is to imply that Western Europe or the Netherlands doesn't have major political issues, for example I'm quite disillusioned about the uptick in popularity of populist political parties (throughout Western Europe but also specifically in the Netherlands).
Pretty much. They said it was overgrown brains last week.