skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems unsurprising, right? Probably all physics we experience - light-surface interactions, surfaces at the atomic scale, and waves in air and water - are all made entirely of only small perturbations, but enough of them the result is statistically stable.

The popular idea of the butterfly effect in weather has always seemed suspect to me, due to the fact that air is a naturally damped system; a butterfly’s influence on air drops over distance, and likely falls off fast enough that the probability it can affect something even a few miles away is below atomic or quantum thresholds. The analogy between weather and simple mathematical chaotic systems seems specious.

Looking around a little it seems like some physicists are starting to agree, and believe Lorenz’ observations based on his weather modeling has more to do with the modeling and limited numerics than reality: “the limited predictability within the Lorenz 1969 model is explained by scale interactions in one article[22] and by system ill-conditioning in another more recent study.[25]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect#Recent_debate...
We don’t know what will happen over the following centuries, so I wouldn’t make any predictions beyond the current one.
> My belief is that the fact that they're publicly "considering" the SpaceX plan means that they've probably already decided to do that and what we're seeing in the media right now is NASA just letting everyone get used to the idea before they formally commit to it.

The messaging from NASA has slowly shifted from "They're returning on Starliner" to "They're returning on Starliner, and we're considering contingencies" to "We'll make a decision whether they return on Starliner or Crew Dragon".

It does kind of seem like NASA is giving Boeing as much time as they can to try to pull a rabbit out of a hat, with the understanding that if they don't deliver, that the Astronauts are going back on Crew Dragon.
> providing solutions for unstructured information management, including data analytics, archiving, and e-discovery.

It is interesting to think that this, then the scope of multinationals, is now squarely within reach of your average (IT competent) SMB - in this AI age.-
Why the antagonism? Programmable editors don't work for you, fine.

Why make personal attacks on me, like this:

> you pretend that

I'm not pretending anything.

> Thing is, you don't remember "fewer things" with Emacs/Vim. You end up remembering about the same, or greater number of things

Not true. Like I said, I use an IDE daily, and there's much more to remember to get the same functionality that I get out of (for example) Vim. It's easier for me to remember (for example) 10 nouns that can be combined with 10 verbs than to memorise 100 shortcuts.

You may find it easier to memorise 100 shortcuts rather than 10 verbs and 10 nouns, but I am certainly not pretending when I tell you that I find it easier to remember 20 things rather than 100 things.
I guess that there are lots of people who have yet to learn that popularity and quality are not tightly correlated.
> just gifting a game to the friends would be creepy

lol well this certainly depends on how it's done. Walking up to them in a trench coat and handing them a disc? Probably creepy. But you could also just, like, send them a gift key on Steam...
I am confused. I wrote: "many more men say they would be happy living in a smaller place". Are you saying that in your reply? It is unclear to me.
> GPT-3 was terrible at jokes. Many LLMs are because it's hard to model puns in a stochastic parrot

GPT-3 was great at jokes. The Navy Seals were hilarious (https://gwern.net/gpt-3#navy-seals).

And the difficulty of modeling puns has nothing to do with 'stochastic parrots' and has everything to do with tokenization (https://gwern.net/gpt-3#bpes), in the same way that all those hyberbolic takes about how image-generation models were 'fundamentally flawed' because they couldn't do good text in images turned out to be BS and solely a matter of tokenization - drop in a character-tokenized LLM instead, even an obsolete & dumb one, and it instantly works (https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13626#google).
The officer "smelling alcohol on your breath" is infamously applied to any situation where the officer lacks probable cause. It cannot be verified in a criminal case or in litigation, the officer is simply presumed to be telling the truth, and if proven to be lying is never, ever imprisoned for perjury.

It may as well be "The officer saw you drinking in a vision"
This person should’ve tried adjusting the temperature to their LLM before making this pronouncement
Show HN: Instantly Turn Images into Detailed AI Descriptions
If you are having nostalgia or anemoia for payphones, looking at those images brought back a memory of having to use a payphone in Manhattan in 1992. I picked it up and put it to my face and realized somehow, someone had managed to both pee on and in the transmitter AND receiver.

N.B. I just learned the term "anemoia" after asking ChatGPT if there was a word for nostalgia of things you have never personally experienced.
I don't ever go to their website and just assumed that was part of the joke.
Donahue was on in our house almost every afternoon in the 1980s. I loved seeing Ralph Nader come on and talk about which breakfast cereals were the best deal, etc.
Don't assume the best of European countries. If and when they decay, you won't find out about it. The US is different because US people are loud. I submit this discussion as proof.

By the way, Japan is always different. As the saying goes, they are just like us, only more so. So, eventually, they will also decay and when they do, they will decay just like us, only more so.
The BBC article avoids taking sides where it shouldn't. Stockholm Syndrome is bullshit, not merely "controversial".

https://www.stadafa.com/2020/12/stockholm-syndrome-discredit...

"The psychiatrist who invented it, Nils Bejerot, never spoke to the woman he based it on, never bothered to ask her why she trusted her captors more than the authorities. More to the point, during the Swedish bank heist that inspired the syndrome, Bejerot was the psychiatrist leading the police response. He was the authority that Kristin Enmark – the first woman diagnosed with Stockholm syndrome – distrusted."

"On the radio, Enmark criticized the police, and singled out Bejerot. In response, and without once speaking to her, Bejerot dismissed her comments as the product of a syndrome he made up: ‘Norrmalmstorg syndrome’ (later renamed Stockholm syndrome). The fear Enmark felt towards the police was irrational, Bejerot explained, caused by the emotional or sexual attachment she had with her captors. Bejerot’s snap diagnosis suited the Swedish media; they were suspicious of Enmark, who ‘did not appear as traumatized as she ought to be.’ "
How it works and how it should be used are different.

Say “no” to import side‐effects in Python:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7536246

https://chrismorgan.info/blog/say-no-to-import-side-effects-...

>I must be able to import your module— any module— at any time without anything breaking.

Or even the beneficial side effect of some other module running 10% faster. ;)

What side-effects, if any, are okay when importing a python module?

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4540...

>Q: Is this a better design pattern or does it just kick the issue down the road?

>A: Kicking the issue down the road is the basic idea of the "functional core, imperative shell" design pattern.

Functional Core, Imperative Shell (2012):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34860164

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
More than half of Russia's space history is Soviet space history. Russia just happens to be the country that inherited most of the stuff after the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
This was my plan too, until I realized I'd start at 40 and finish at like 45 or 46. Would any company/engineering firm hire a mid-life intern with no engineering experience?
I think it’s safe to assume that for something with the scale and complexity of Stripe, it would be a tall order to run all the necessary services on your laptop, even stubs of them. They may not even do that on the dev boxes, I’d be a little surprised if they didn’t actually use prod services in some cases, or a canary at any rate, to avoid the hassles of having to maintain on-call for what is essentially a test environment.
Sorry – I didn't mean to imply that using a Snoo is bad! Many cultures have used different forms of rocking cribs for ages, I'm sure it's absolutely fine if used with a bit of discretion.

Contact deprivation in infants is a thing though.
Interesting considering GM's announcement to move away from Apple Carplay to a proprietary tech system. Looking for updates I found a few articles that smell like submarines [0], even though the contents don't necessarily match the headlines IMO [1] [2].

Headline: GM’s New Car Software Is Good Even Without Apple’s CarPlay

Details: A GM representative initially guided me through the process of syncing my iPhone over Bluetooth to handle calls and texts, and it requires about 16 clicks to grant the necessary privacy permissions. My wife, accustomed to one-click CarPlay access in our Subaru, later went through this on-boarding herself and found it annoying and complicated without the guidance I had.

Logging into apps is done via QR codes, similar to how you’d sign in to streaming services on a modern TV. Once all that’s set up, though, the experience is pretty smooth.

I'm also reminded of Ha Phan, a thoughtful designer who I'm familiar with via Twitter. She went to Ford for a brief stint a few years ago and left when seeing their tech rhetoric didn't match up with their BigCo bureaucracy [3]. Ford is obviously not GM, but I wouldn't expect any different from a legacy automaker.

[0] https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-06/gm-s-n...
[2] https://insideevs.com/reviews/726471/gm-carplay-cadillac-lyr...
[3] https://x.com/hpdailyrant/status/1699191645709930841
The only risk returning the capsule unmanned is to their reputation. This is an easy decision.
The Royal Observatory: Pioneering GMT, Timekeeping, and Navigation
Note that your original comment made no acknowledgement of the number of launches by each country. But now when it suites you, it's all important.
>Because I'm fed up with changing smartphone for the sole reason that there are no more software updates!

There are android phones out there (namely Samsung and Google) that have long time span security updates. S24 for example should be updated for 7 years, which is about the same time as any Apple Phone

Even then, this is a very very niche thing to be concerned about. The vast majority of security "flaws" require an insane amount of frontload work to exploit to the point if you are ever hit with one of those, you are most likely are targeted by a government agency.
> That’s not necessarily reflective of a companies income stream

It is. Anything MS or Apple ever charged for SDKs and development tools was just peanuts compared to their other income streams.

At the end of the day open consumer platforms benefit much, much more from maximizing the amount of 3rd party software that’s available on them than from anything else.

> Then what does steam offer for 30% that isn’t just distribution?

Discoverability, consumer protection, relatively very good UX etc. of course that is much more valuable to smaller/medium developers than to companies like Epic/EA/etc.

Even the App Store and the 30% cut was a great deal for developers and consumers when it came out initially compared to all the alternatives available at the time.

The issue is that at this point Valve/Steam has to actually provide real value to consumers/developers and innovate. Apple can just do nothing and collect free money (consequently the App Store itself sucks immensely as an app/platform) since they don’t have to compete with anyone anymore. What are you going to do? Buy an Android? : D
From the article:

> But of course, are we thinking about making a quick buck, or are we thinking about making quality games for the next 30 years?

I’m not in the games industry, but I don’t see this as a viable mindset anywhere in the consumer software industry. The half-life of the software I work with is maybe 3-4 years, and during major projects many things get rewritten or replaced.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41290795
They're still doing it though. They stopped whatever specific part got them in trouble but in the broad strokes they're still exploiting customers because the law says they can.

Everything that a business of that size does is legal because if the authorities actually wanted it stopped, it would be stopped.
Fascinating. I honestly thought blogging was a dead end these days, but I like this approach. Do you think that social media achieves the same or is worse due to differences in indexing? Is it one or the other, or very much both?
At the time, React was much faster than the competition (Angular 1).
>They also LARP as a computer company.

Oxide has a one of a kind product that they're delivered to dozens of customers. They are not "LARP[ing]" by any means.
I’m using Kate to write posts on https://oilshell.org! After a detour through many other tools, it’s great to find something open source and high quality.

I use vim to edit code, but I like copying and pasting paragraphs of prose with a mouse. I didn’t realize that until doing a lot of writing.
What I’m suggesting more than asking is, when you say that open source has lifted their development burden, it makes it sound like it’s a unidirectional taking.

And sure, some might be freeloading. But they also do contribute quite a bit to open source. https://opensource.apple.com/

I know your response was more to correct the “developed from scratch” but I still think it’s important to note that it’s not unidirectional. Even in the development of their own platforms, you can find old Usenet discussions of how they were feeding things back. I think they could have gone their own route but Unix compatibility was important.

The history of Next, Apple, and the open source community is very intertwined and unfortunately cannot be reduced so easily.
If the cop wants to throw you against the car that's going to happen and no amount of negotiation or "Am I being detained?" is going to prevent that. It's also not going to help against the sizable percentage of cops who just don't know they can't do something. This isn't for either of them, this is for the lower grade abuses of power where the cop will make you "wait" 2 hours for a K9 (but never call them in the first place) to try to get you to consent to make things go faster. If they know that you're going to be filing complaints and suing them they're much more likely to just send you on your way. YouTube has literally thousands of these videos which induce various levels of rage depending on how egregious the cops act.
> The truth is we do not know if AI will keep growing, or stagnate, in the same way we dont know if moores law will keep going or die each year.

> The only way AI stops getting better is if computers stop getting higher compute per kwh.

You do not know that any more than you know "if moores law will keep going or die each year." It's a reasonable possibility that AI stops getting better because the current techniques hit a wall that can't be solved with more/cheaper compute and better techniques aren't forthcoming.

I suspect you "believe" in AI, and so are applying double standards to support it.
it's almost like someone made tech salaries not immediately 100% tax deductible or something
both should be regulated, this type of predatory gambling-like behavior shouldn't be allowed for kids under a certain age
I believe it's a cultural difference. It was a Swedish production and he's a lot more famous there. I can't say whether he'd be the first thing to come to mind when a Swedish person heard the name, but he'd be a lot higher on the list than in the US.
They have special jackets on the fiber with 2 metal wires on each side. You would pull the metal wires not the fiber directly. Then you would polish the fiber and connect to the ont and turn it into an electrical signal (cat6 Ethernet). They say the max bend radius is a little larger than a coke can.
> I bet the total number of PDFs is close to a petabyte if not more.

That's a safe bet. I'v seen PDF's in the GBs from users treating it like a container format (which it is).
I wonder if we'll ever see the current-gen Raspberry Pi return to the $35 price?

I suppose there's still room for a 1GB model, but I doubt that cutting the RAM down by 1GB will knock $15 off the BOM, and it sounds like they're already scrimping elsewhere on the $50 2GB model.
not sure i'm following? i was referring exactly to those "few" language features, e.g.: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support
Total compensation means $700K, some of it being cash, some of it being stock. Company cars are pretty rare in the US, since basically everyone has a car already.
That’s a different cash flow than what the article is talking about.

Cash flow and the discounted cash flow model for valuation are different things.

Cash flow over a period is simply cash in-cash out, and having cash on hand for business operations. It ignores profitability. You can be cash flow positive and be running a business that loses money as long as money comes in faster than it leaves. Or if you get an external source of cash like investments.

The discounted cash flow valuation defines cash flow as “investor returns”. So in the case of a business you’d be looking at EBIDTA or net revenue, not cash flow itself.

Or even if you did use cash flow, you’d need to look at cash flow over the life of the investment, not 1 or 2 years. Accounting tricks like deferring expenses or accelerating revenue increases cash flow over the short term, but eventually it gets accounted for.

Selling $1M of product, at a $1.1M cost that you don’t pay until next year is $1M of positive cash flow this year, but nobody is giving that a positive valuation.
We limit our kid's Roblox and Fortnite in-app spending to Christmas and birthday, and she clearly understands she needs to stretch those game-bucks through the whole year. Four years in, it's worked out pretty well so far.
They also may have to consider for all of the issues that Starliner might have the only way to have competition in the space is to have more than one company that can create spacecraft. But, I agree that this debacle never made any sense and it started to be obvious to have to use another service .
investors and board piqued him. to babysit Larry and Sergei (that's a literal quote from the announcement)
I am pointing out that the WP explicitly says here that Harvard and others were using race-based admissions as opposed to a more center-left friendly phrasing that schools couldn't use race as a factor for admissions or that the Supreme court struck down affirmative action.

This is all very coded normally.
it's popular because it's addicting
We were supposed to have an aggressive internal affairs department, federal investigations, and federal prosecutors to address the possibility of local/state police corruption, since the prospect of that corruption was raised in the 1970's (or, depending on your perspective, the 1900's to 1930's).

The problem is that since the rise of the 1980's white conservative 'crime and punishment' voter we don't have executive-branch leaders who are willing to regard police overreach as a form of police corruption; In the bootlicker's mind, everything is an honest mistake as long as the police are hurting the right people.
Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free
AWS CloudQuarry: Digging for Secrets in Public Amis
We did that for tobacco, though? It was a huge public health win?
The Soviet Union is included in the Russian Federation's history, but not the other way around. Had they said Russia, then sure.
https://andrewrondeau.com/blog/2016/07/deconstructing-lossy-...

Years ago, I did a study. I wrote a program to compare the original to the encoded version of a file. I used high-resolution DVD-A rips, to try to avoid artifacts introduced by downsampling the master to CD resolution.

The source code that I used for the above article is at: https://github.com/GWBasic/MeasureDegredation
Micro libraries are ok - TFA even says you can use self-contained blocks as direct source.

Mirco dependencies are a god damn nuisance, especially with all the transitive micro-dependencies that come along, often with different versions, alternative implementations, etc.
DRM media is inherently fragile. Like written works printed on nitrocellulose paper.

See also:

Microsoft turns off PlaysForSure DRM servers.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/04/drm-s...

HBO Max stops working on GNU/Linux
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/hbo-max-cranks-up-th...

Web Environment Integrity API (DRM for web)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit...
Routers from China-based TP-Link a national security threat, US lawmakers claim
Doesn't inhibit them but makes the activity not pleasant because your mind is attaching the work itself to external motivation. You don't do it because you want to (for the pleasure of it), but for a paycheck and humans don't enjoy activities like that if they're not starving.
Did MS ever make any significant amounts of money from selling VS/MSDN compared to how much the availability f 3rd part software benefited Windows sales/increasing market share?

Also you didn’t actually necessarily need it to publish software on Windows.

While if you want to develop for iOS (and even macOS these days) you still need to pay the $100/300 yearly fee (which is there entirely for gatekeeping and not an actual income stream).
Added and pushed!
This idea cuts my workflow way down. You've also showed me that it needs the ability to paste an image from clipboard to the canvas. Adding as an issue.
Selling SaaS to developers with Brian Pontarelli [video]
For-Profit Ownership of Mental Health Centers Rises, Raising Concerns About Care
> For now, this limit is only being lifted for the command-line formatting tools in Windows. The disk formatting UI ... still has the arbitrary 32GB capacity restriction.

The important part.
I get your point, and whether I agree or not is besides the point.

I would suggest that the best place for interesting artistic conversations is lower budget films, which are often horror films (but any lower budget film is going to have lower expectations, and thus be less risk averse, and more creatively free).
I think you mean wealth, not academic performance
I am not the author of the book!

As far as the wiki: It's not hosted. It's just on my local machine. You basically just drop the minified JS library in a tiddler and then create a custom widget type and a ViewTemplate to automatically display the widget when the content-type is the correct one.

I used http://whatfettle.com/2008/05/TiddlyProcessing/ as the basis (although it's old) and the main docs on creating a custom widget (https://tiddlywiki.com/dev/#Javascript%20Widget%20Tutorial)
it's funny how both threads here on hn, the top comments focus on his quote badmouthing work life balance.

when anyone with half a brain can see that work life balance has much less impact on a tech company than replacing the tech founders with the likes of him and a sea of business major middle Managers...
As the issues tend to build up at contractor interfaces, I would favor NASA to do more vertical integration, but, then, it'd need more funding, which won't happen if contractors such as Boeing and their own subcontractors don't drop the ball so much and if the press doesn't blame NASA for those.