skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't that they removed autonomous undocking. IIRC autonomous docking/undocking were part of the requirements for the commercial crew program. Starliner even did attempt an autonomous docking to the station.

The issue is that of fault handling. If the software detects a malfunction when a crew is onboard, the best option is to switch to manual control. But if a crew is not onboard, the craft should handle the failure on its own in the safest possible way.

So, what happened is that they loaded in software which expects the crew to be available. Now, obviously with thruster malfunctions already happening, they can't assume that a fault won't be detected after undocking, so they have to switch the software over to the configuration where it can no longer rely on the crew as a fallback.
I should also note that number is Ruby files only.
The common crawl only pulls documents less than a small limit (1MiB last I checked). Without special handling in this project, bigger documents than that would be missing.

So indeed, not representative of the whole Internet.
> now Mozilla is trying to find a way to keep ads alive but also maintain your privacy.

No, Mozilla is trying to find a way to use personal information about you to target and track advertising while not being too upsetting to users.

Just keeping ads in a privacy-preserving way is easy. It's the targeting and performance-measuring they want, and that's a very hard nut to crack.
What is an appropriate measure of (in)dependence though, if not Pearson correlation? Such that you feed a scatter plot into the formula for this measure, and if the measure returns 0 dependence, the variables are independent.
It's fairly straightforward but widely misunderstood (or misapplied), hence the level of cynicism in these comments. Every level carries with it a certain set of expectations. Once you get promoted, you're now subject to those expectations. If I, as your manager, promote you to the next level without having evidence of your ability to perform at the next level, and you then bomb, it's bad news for everyone. For you (you get a bad review after previously doing quite well presumably), for your peers (they're seeing someone promoted above their ability, potentially impacting others around), and for me (it's my failure as a manager). There's always going to be some amount of luck involved in whether a promotion is successful or not, and it's my job as your manager to derisk it as much as possible. Doing your job at your level well is only evidence of just that, there needs to be some consistency of operating at the next level to the extent reasonable.

To be clear, I'm not saying you should be working extra hours to do this. If that's required, either your manager is not reasonable or you're likely not there yet and if I were to promote you, you might burn out soon.
Interesting and fun article! I've been experimenting with various LLMs/GenAI solutions to extract tabular data from PDFs with underwhelming results. It seems like they are good at extracting strings of text and summarizing (e.g what was the total price? when was this printed?) but extracting reliably into a CSV has a decent margin of error.
Brain stimulation technique may give more relief from Parkinson's symptoms
The guy is still alive and could perhaps sue for libel if they used his full name. An earlier Swedish movie about Olof Palme was probably libelous, but got away with it since his name was never used.
Security firm KnowBe4 accidentally hires North Korean hacker
> Simpson's paradox is when more button presses lead to more purchases. But then you look at desktop vs mobile and you find out that for both desktop and mobile more clicks doesn't mean more purchases (or worse, more clicks means fewer purchases).

How could more button presses lead to increased conversion rates while hiding this data when comparing desktop and mobile? Wouldn’t you see at least one device type demonstrating higher CVR to reflect aggregate CVR increase?
Honestly, I don't think there are very many people who wash dishes for pleasure. If you have a kid who loves cleaning for fun, by all means, don't pay them to do it.
Coding Relic: The Decapitated Duck Curve
I think that would be legally iffy for the stuff like collections of old magazines that were purchased on CD/DVD and such :/
So, I ripped all of my DVDs recently to use on a HTPC, and I ran into about 3 discs that could not be read, but would play in a DVD player. I checked and they do not appear to be discs that are known to have any fancy copy protection.

I ran ddrescue on two different DVD drives and a blu-ray drive, up to the point where 48 hours would pass with no new data recovered. This left me with still several minutes of video that was unwatchable.

I solved it by spending about $12 to get used copies of all 3, which ripped fine. Any idea(s) that I could try had that option not been available?
Does it support SSI?
The Power of GitHub Profiles
As a big SpaceX fan, I appreciate the innovation and success that SpaceX has brought to space exploration. However, it's crucial that we have multiple reliable launch and crew providers to ensure the safety and sustainability of space missions. While SpaceX has been a game-changer, relying solely on one provider is risky. The ongoing issues with Boeing's Starliner highlight the importance of diversity in our space program. We need to support and develop multiple providers to maintain a robust and secure presence in space.
That seems a bit harsh. People can independently become experts without being familiar with the terminology used by existing experts. Further, if intended for a non-expert audience, it may even be deliberate to loosen definitions of terms used by experts, and being precise by leaving a note about that instead, which apparently is exactly what this author did.
True; the intent isn't to make owning guns impossible, but it takes some dedication to get into guns, and once you get one, next ones are easier to obtain.

The end result is a small minority having multiple guns per person, the majority not having any, so citing Finland as a country with high gun ownership is misleading.
Why is it considered an "attack" if the majority wants or supports it? Sounds like it would be working as intended if the majority vote to do or change something.
social media generally bans kids under 13 in the US — there's a good amount of evidence regarding the harms it can have at this point

kids haven't been able to buy mature games from brick-and-mortar stores like Gamestop since I was a child decades ago

kids used to be able to smoke cigarettes too
>As a gamer dad, I try to show my kid better games to play, but because they aren't free, his friends can't play.

It'd be cheaper to buy games for his friends to play than to support his robux addiction.
The entire title was significantly longer than I could enter here. :)
> The design of the CPU matters for this quality criterion only in the unlikely scenario when the design team was not competent and they have made a far from optimal design.

I think this is an overstatement in a couple of ways:

> unlikely scenario

We're still less than a decade removed from the final descendants of Bulldozer. We can't directly compare it to Zen because of the process differences, but Bulldozer sucked in several ways that weren't related to its 28nm process.

> made a far from optimal design

AMD and Intel continue to release improved x86 architectures. Alder Lake introduced heterogeneous cores to x86. Zen 5's dual decode path is less visible, but an innovation in its own right. If there is a long-term local max in x86 design, we haven't found it yet.

That's not to say flagrantly bad design is impossible (again, Bulldozer) - it's only to say that there are indeed two avenues to making a CPU better. Even if one avenue (process) sets the hypothetical ceiling for the other (architecture), we haven't found that ceiling very often for any particular process node. Incremental improvements are a routine part of any uarch, even when the process remains the same.
It need not be hard. I learnt over the Christmas holidays using Kaz (https://kaz-type.com/)
From the article:

>Specifically, when Common Crawl gets to a pdf, it just stores the first megabyte of information and truncates the rest.

This is where SafeDocs or CC-MAIN-2021-31-PDF-UNTRUNCATED enters the picture. This corpus was originally created by the DARPA SafeDocs program and what it did was refetch all the different pdfs from a snapshot of Common Crawl to have untruncated versions of them.
The talking point has been that if we do this in cases where there isn’t shelter to offer, the people will come back. Let’s see how that plays out, will be informative.

I think it’s also quite possible for some people it’s a needed wake up call
I wonder sometimes whether NASA should lean into the high risk of spaceflight instead of trying to minimize it. If they could get the public to pay attention, their budgets would go up. Highlighting the risk--without exaggerating--would be a good way to get people to care. People love (maybe even crave) drama.

Astronauts accept an amazing amount of risk, even when using proven systems like Soyuz or Dragon. ISS is one unlucky micrometeoroid strike away from total catastrophe. And yet hundreds of astronaut candidates are jostling with each other (another great drama) to be next on the rocket.

Even uncrewed missions are filled with drama. Imagine devoting 20 years of your scientific career on a probe to Mars and having it blow up on take-off or smash into the Martian surface--so close, and yet so utterly useless.

I think NASA fears that highlighting risk leads to bad press. NASA doesn't want headlines like, "NASA ignores safety concerns--story at 11". But ironically, when NASA minimizes risk, they lower the threshold for how much risk the public will accept. The more they minimize risk, the less risk the public will let them take.

I don't have any good suggestions, though. Highlighting risk inevitably invites the question of "why are we taking the risk at all?" And that's also a hard conversation.
I appreciate Valve for having both an in-game skill score as well as a behavior score. Once your behavior is maxed out chat becomes an entirely different experience.

Here's a chat log from a game I played yesterday: https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/7902208511/chat

Some wholesome banter and that's about it.
Well yeah, I wouldn't hold it that way either. The number of PRs I've commented on to take side effects out from imports is like , 75% of all the PRs I've seen in my current job.

Maybe Python 4 can make anything except a function definition or import be a syntax error in a module haha.
My point is that this language could be built on a foundation of CSS. Like don't implement the flow model, just implement box. Change how all the border collapses and block formatting work, but keep CSS as the language.

I mean they should even change the order priority to make it fit with typical conventions.
Everything I've seen from Roblox just seems so rough across the board. Poor UI, poor graphics, poor gameplay. There's a sense of freedom that is quite refreshing kind of like Gary's mod. I'm just so surprised that with such high adoption, none of the money is going into make anything remotely polished.
You are severely underestimating the amount of JS and other tracker SDKs competing for traffic in the apps you mention. Browsing modern apps/websites on an unreliable 1Mbps connection is not pleasant, even more so when you're in a foreign country and rely on it to find directions/translate/etc. Not to mention if you suddenly need to download a local taxi/etc app that's 100MB.
Nah. There was plenty of pushback & rage against the previous ultra-rich & their ability to exert such massive political control over what nominally was a democracy too.

Selective rigor this is not. Nor should it be; it's all gross as hell & a horrible perversion of democratic interests.

And the stridency with which these folks work against democracy has only intensified. The article cites what books/influences these people have spoken for, and this is worthy coverage to consider.

> ...The Sovereign Individual, by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg. The text unironically likens the ultrarich to "the gods in Greek myth," and assures readers that they deserve no less than world domination: "Commanding vastly greater resources and beyond the reach of many forms of compulsion, the Sovereign Individual will redesign governments and reconfigure economies.

Democracy should remain vigilant to enemies within and without. It's hard for me to read something like this & not form a belief that these people are working against our democracy in ever more direct conflict. Perhaps even more vigor is needed, given the magnitude of the conflict.
> The truth is that if you're having issues with default overcommit configuration your application probably sucks and you have to actually diagnose it and fix it.

An alternative interpretation of the issue would be that if your OS allows a single process to overcommit more than the sum of total RAM+SWAP on the system, then maybe it is it who sucks.
I mean you don’t have to play the game, as much as your company leadership would want you to believe otherwise.

Learning to say no, compartmentalize your job from your personal life, setting boundaries, and just accepting that the Sun will rise tomorrow regardless of what you do; these are all skills that are extremely hard to learn. It only seems that once you get burned by a business do you understand what these things mean, what they are.
If you want to start from scratch Spotify is great.
Else get a ghost blog with Podcast theme over a custom domain and grow your network.
If you want to try out with Ghost see shedtheshade.com, I built it. If you want any support send mail to support@shedtheshade.com
On all platforms except iPhone, you can install Firefox and uBlock Origin and enable its Annoyances and Cookie Notices filters: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Another option, or addition, is to set up a Kill Sticky bookmark, which also gets rid of those awful sticky headers & footers: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...
Atlanta hospital sued for allegedly losing part of a patient's skull
its amazing how long the corruption festered before planes started falling out of the sky.
The question that will shape the answer the most is:

What is the business and what is her audience?

The strategy for a local business that has a storefront is wildly different from an e-commerce business shipping to customers all around the country/world.
this is, frankly, some pretty generous editorializing.

Komarov was selected to command the Soyuz 1, in 1967, with Yuri Gagarin as his backup cosmonaut. refusing to fly has the same consequence for every space program: the backup flies.

as for the "died screaming" claim, thats some malarkey.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a...

What we've learned: American historian Asif Siddiqi has a transcript of Komarov's final moments in the Soyuz. He got it from the Russian State Archive. It goes like this:

Komarov: Activated, activated, don't worry, everything is in order.

Ground: Understood, we're also not worried. How do you feel, how's everything? Zarya, over.

Komarov: I feel excellent, everything's in order.

Ground: Understood, our comrades here recommend that you take a deep breath. We're waiting for the landing. This is Zarya, over.

Komarov: Thank you for transmitting all of that. [Separation] occurred. [garbled]

Ground: Rubin, this is Zarya. Understood, separation occurred. Let's work during the break [pause]. Rubin, this is Zarya, how do you hear me? Over. Rubin, this is Zarya, how do you hear me? Over. This is Zarya, how do you hear me? Over ...
Nobody will trust that the AI said the thing, or that the people hosting the AI didn't influence the decisions.

Even if the people wanted this, that is.
There might be. Examples please though.
I can assure you that the esame exact problem still exists in tightly knit communities. It's just that the burden is put on the grandparents or siblings. Even in those communities (I'm from one), it sucks to take care of a baby and anything that helps is used and there are tons of "oral knowledge" sort of tricks to calm down a baby or an infant. So this would still be incredibly useful regardless of how communal your life and social network is.

Do you think that those communities haven't adopted the modern diaper just because hey, the community takes care of their babies together? Because that's absolutely not the case (if they can afford to).
This seems like a questionable idea for all the obvious reasons, but I don’t really get the argument that it should be illegal. I don’t really understand how you would craft such a law. Someone can run for office and declare that they will make decisions based on horoscopes, tarot cards, oomancy etc. All bad ideas but obviously legal.
yes. [1]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/sec-scores-big-win-in-lawsui... [1]
Very cool and wishing you all the best of luck.

One question that came to mind, and this applies to all weather baloons not yours specifically, with the large number of weather balloons launched daily, how is it That more aren’t sucked into airplane engines causing potential disaster for the airplane?
Thanks
At the bottom, the author mentions that by "correlation" they don't mean "linear correlation", but all their diagrams show the presence or absence of a clear linear correlation, and code examples use linear functions of random variables.

They offhandedly say that "correlation" means "association" or "mutual information", so why not just do the whole post in terms of mutual information? I think the main issue with that is just that some of these points become tautologies -- e.g. the first point, "independent variables have zero mutual information" ends up being just one implication of the definition of mutual information.
> The more they smoke, the more the state gets.

The state "gets" tobacco tax revenue to help pay for the burden of medical treatment for those with smoking related illnesses. Lung cancer isn't free to treat.
You can also put one together with an ESP32 and a gps receiver for maybe $15

There are plenty of examples online, but this is my "cool clock" https://github.com/DavidVentura/esp-ntp
Having been to Cheyenne, I’d have to say ChatGPT >= 2.5 could probably significantly outthink both the local electorate and their locally elected.

Now, if we were talking about Casper, maybe not.
Ollama provides an API endpoint that now supports the ability for an LLM to use tools/functions. Ollama is not a framework itself.

Agent Zero already can use Ollama and alternatives to run the LLMs, and this new feature should enable it to more accurately call tools that is getting built into the models that support it.
The stratosphere is having a renaissance: https://youtu.be/u1rivUSi8p8?t=519
NASA's real issue is, and has been for decades, not getting their funding taken away. Not embarrassing themselves is a big part of that.
Quinn Slack: Sourcegraph, AI Coding, and Cody [video]
You know, after watching enough stargate, I'm fairly convinced we probably shouldn't do that.
Part of the problem is they don't know whether they can jettison Starliner. The software that's intended to undock without crew aboard was removed.
I use kate a lot when I need to inspect a huge file. Love the built-in rainbow rendering of columns for a CSV. Definitely a solid editor considering it is free and open source. I haven't done any serious dev with it though.
Show HN: I created an application to schedule messages on WhatsApp
Hey HN,
I need a feature to schedule messages on WhatsApp in a delivery service I have, so I came up with the idea of transforming this feature into a micro-SAAS. With WhatsApp, you connect your cell phone to the application and import your contacts. You can easily schedule recurring messages for as many contacts as you want. It currently only accepts text messages, but in the near future it will also accept sending files.

I believe this application can help you, and I would appreciate any feedback.
A Lifetime of Solutions to Uncover with Ian Glazer, Co-Founder of IDPro [video]
Effects on underwater life ?
It's true, but IME people don't label it.
I'm doing some work for a company that handles scanned documents (PDFs which are purely images) and they accumulate about 15 TB / year. Of course the actual amount of information is relatively small, just inflated by being scanned. Probably 80% of them were typed up, printed, and then scanned or faxed, and of course the first thing we do is OCR them to try to recover the original text and formatting...
Additional citation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41292113 ("HN: North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory")

https://electrek.co/2024/08/16/north-carolina-sodium-ion-bat... ("electrek: North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory")
They have the craziest most difficult interview process I've ever seen, like beyond quant level. But I don't know why. My kids play it and it feels like the jankiest most busted-ass 3D engine that ever existed. I'm sure all the secret sauce is doing all this stuff at scale, but what do Leetcode hards in 20 minutes have to do with that?
Ask HN: Has anyone worked with the eBay affiliate program internationally?
I'm looking to use it for products that are better bought used, hence not amazon.

Has anyone signed up for it outside the US/UK?
it's a tough problem.

there are various schemes for estimating mutual information from samples. if you do that and mutual information is very close to zero, then I guess you can claim the two rvs are independent. But these estimators are pretty noisy and also often computationally frustrating (the ones I'm familiar with require doing a bunch of nearest-neighbor search between all the points).

I agree with the OP that it's better to say "non-independence" and avoid confusion, at the same time, I disagree that linear correlation is actually the standard definition. In many fields, especially those where nobody ever expects linear relationships, it is not and everybody uses "correlated" to mean "not independent".
You sent me down an interesting rabbit hole researching far left disinformation. What I've learned is the far left tends to exaggerate rather than outright lie, there's usually a kernel of truth in what's being said. The deplorable conditions that have arisen to handle the influx of immigrants are "concentration camps." The ill effects of global warming are often exaggerated, which doesn't help because global warming is an actual problem we need to solve. Exaggerated claims just feed fuel to the deniers and now both sides have their heels dug in, going nowhere. Claiming US police are engaging in "genocide" against African Americans, which isn't true, but there are injustices and pervasive, systemic racism that we need to resolve. Again, the lying is preventing any progress being made on effective policy.

So, as of now in 2024, it appears the far right is more likely to just make stuff up, and the far left is more likely to make exaggerated claims. I'm not saying one form of lying is better or worse than the other, in fact I think we'd all agree on this pervasive lying by both sides is another root cause of the problems we face today, but both sides do appear to have different strategies with their lies.

That's interesting! Thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole!