skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with this at all. It is possible to both be in the wrong _and_ not be the villain. If I am dressed to the 9s, wearing expensive jewelry, carrying a lot of money.... and then I want down dark alleys.... and I get mugged; I am not the bad guy, the mugger is. But I'm also partially to blame, because I knowingly took actions that increased the likelihood of me being mugged.

Our society has elements that will harm us. It is up to us to take action to reduce the likelihood of that happening.
Bots spamming misinformation isn't spam, gotcha. Really moving the goalposts there
I'm not a power-user though. I use a 3-generation-old Oculus Quest 1 that doesn't get first-party official updates anymore. Am I really supposed to expect Meta to push an update to a depreciated platform to disable a feature?
China's 'Wukong' Hit Sells 10M Copies in Three Days
Wildly optimistic when there is no known material that can be used to build it.
I dunno, Dragon's return capacity is 3000kg which is about $240m... I think if there was a giant sack of pure gold bars up there it would be economically viable. The problem is there isn't. No way are you going to be able to refine it in space either.
You don't need a developer account to sideload on the Quest.
They don't make readers like they used to
I would reframe this to be if its your first time, don’t obsess

But if you’re already familiar with how to optimize, implement that obsessively
Decision Making and Preventing Regret
If you get compensation for being on-call then why not? Unless it’s on Holiday eve
> I've opened another business account and a personal travel credit card with Chase, both of which were shut down within weeks

This pattern repeats itself frequently here on HN. My questions / advice are always the same. Did you send written letters to Chase to ask for an explanation? In parallel, CC the same letter (yeah, by snail mail, and tell Chase you are doing it) to your local and national banking regulators. I cannot believe you will get zero response.

What exactly is a "personal travel credit card"? I never heard that term before.
Besides the literal constant torrent of evidence?
Western economies have incredible amounts of capital to invest in industrial capacity should they decide to do so.
Unknowingly you made the perfect argument against the Vision Pro. What you described is a VR experience which is precisely what apple set out not to do. They wanted an MR device and MR experiences. So if an immersive experience is what you want a cheap device will deliver it over time as the hardware catches up
Do you use gpt4 to summarize YC news?
Recently I found myself using gpt to extract main points from articles writteten in storytelling style. Who else finds it useful or not?
The US and Germany both made number portability a thing in 1998. In the US you can port numbers between land lines and mobile. In Germany you cannot.
curious roughly what was your structure?
I use Bash scripts as a customizable user interface to other tools. Sometimes that's better than Make (like when I want a customizable deployment frontend for both my laptop and ci/cd, I write a deploy.sh script). But sometimes Make is much better for what I want to do.

Make's weirdness exists for a useful purpose. Using Bash to avoid learning Make's useful features not only abandons useful functionality, but then runs into the weirdness of Bash (which also exists for a useful purpose).

Kids today are so impatient they never take the time to skill themselves up, and end up wasting more time in the long run. The most efficient use of anybody's time is to learn valuable skills once that save them time and frustration later. Read the manuals for tools like Make, learn how to use them, and you will reap the rewards for your entire career. Avoid learning Make and you will have a long career being frustrated by how everything is hard, complicated and time-consuming.
That doesn't turn Bluetooth off. It's deceptive. It simply "disconnects" it, but it'll still connect at a random point in the future. It also doesn't really disconnect it since it'll still detect devices and burn away your battery life. And I experimented with it countless times over a couple years.

That's why I said you need to do it through settings directly. Otherwise it won't do anything.
This could be attractive to people like my brother and his girlfriend. His job is remote and she's going to school for an art degree, mostly into ceramics and wood turning. They love the outdoors and this would be a good spot for them.
On a recent holiday I'd just checked in to my hotel, went to unpack a bit and couldn't find my AirPods.

I went to look at Find My to see where they were, but unfortunately I was in South Korea, and little did I know the location function in Find My doesn't work there.

I thought it must have fallen out of my pocket while I was in the taxi, as I remembered having them as I got off the plane, and I have a bit of history with my earphones falling out of my pockets.

I took a taxi from the taxi rank at the airport, so there was no record of who drove me like with Uber, but luckily I paid by card, and I could see what taxi company I used.

I asked the staff at the hotel if they could help me call the taxi company to see if they could find out which driver dropped me off. They somehow managed to contact the driver, but he had not seen my AirPods.

I went about the rest of my day while trying to convince myself that I didn't need a new pair. But while the location doesn't work with Find My, I could still play a sound through the case. So I would randomly hit it a few times hoping it was actually hidden away in my things.

After losing all hope, later when I returned to my hotel room I found a note had been left for me saying the taxi driver had found my AirPods and turned them in to a local police station!

Feeling excited I wouldn't have to go on the rest of my holiday without earphones, I happily made an hour long trip across the city to collect my AirPods, arriving just as the station was closing.
you misunderstand how software systems are built. These days, they are "assembled" out of building blocks which have clean interfaces.

similar to how houses are built from prefabricated components. Imagine that the AI is producing these pre-fab parts to order. But the design of the interfaces and assembly is still an art.

if you think of your job as a mason assembling bricks to build components, you are mistaken. you need to think of your job as an artist creating systems that work well built out of pre-fab components.

there is a story of how woz wrote the entire software for the early apple in assembly. nobody does that anymore. because, we have tools that produce assembly like compilers and such. that didnt take away the jobs of software engineers, because, someone had to now produce code at a different layer of abstraction.

imagine you ranting at the compiler 50 years back because it took away your job producing assembly code.
WDYM, but it is two knobs and a button?
All of them. Google Photos/Drive because of AI-search. Dropbox because easy integration with local filesystems. Onedrive because sometimes one just has to use Windows.
Carbon nanotube is an existing material, manufacturing it at scale is one of the challenges.
“Lately I’ve been thinking totalitarianism isn’t so bad”
Attack Vectors in Bicycles with Shimano Di2 Wireless Gear-Shifting System
These are criticisms that are leveraged against stack overflow all the time. I'm more lenient on SO's stance because it at least wants (or claims to) to be a repository for truth, rather then filtering out questions because of "lol noob"
Ownership has no place in the noetic realm. Please, can we stop the encroachment of legal constructs beyond the physical world? It's too much. Authorship is like virginity, some people care about it way too much. Stop obsessing over it.
>"Software engineers like optimizing things. It’s easy to nerd snipe them with something that looks like a well defined optimization problem with a few variables and is actually a big complicated mess of badly defined and contradictory almost-facts."

"almost-facts".

I did a Google search for this term and I didn't find many results, and none of them seemed to be using this combination of two words as its own term...

In other words, the author of this article -- may have coined a catchy new two-word phrase here...

"Almost-facts".

As a phrase, I love it!

That term is going into my 2024 lexicon! :-)

It might find some application alongside such recent terms as "Fake News"...

For example, to use this new term in a sentence:

"The Fake News reports Almost-Facts..."

:-)

Anyway, interesting article!
If any of these asteroids have water ice buried that might be a good start. Easier to refine water and carbon into methane for fuel depots in space than other applications. Also drinking water, splitting for hydrogen or just use the ice as a radiation shield all are near term applications that don’t require lots of supporting infrastructure.

I suspect that near term they might make some decent money just returning small samples for labs to analyze. If they can figure out how to do that economically they can likely survive off of grant money from various government entities. Contracting their asteroid lander for various science missions is also a good opportunity.
That down down down scroll affect was really cool, thanks for pointing to it
Note: SAR = Suspicious Activity Reports

Roughly, if you deposit more than 10K USD in cash, they will need to file this form with the OCC. And, a bunch of other activities qualify. There is no guarantee that this will result in account closure, not does it directly indicate illegal activity. This seems to be a myth online. In the industry, the SAR is regarded as a "get of jail free card" for poorly staffed compliance departments. "When in doubt, file a SAR!", then the bank cannot be so easily sanctioned for allowing illicit activities.
Yes, something like changing the power levels normally require pressing of multiple buttons. Many menus and options are also hidden that way. Unfortunately, the true potential of a microwave is locked away. Pretty much everyone I know just hits the 30 second button and is content with super hot or unevenly heated food.
What kind of slowdown would you expect on equivalent hardware?
There was another article/blog on hackernews some time ago along the lines of 'I'm an editor, here is how I edit my friends texts' with some really good advice.

Unfortunately I can't find it anymore -- if someone knows which post I mean, I'd appreciate sharing it with me again.
"Do not obsess over tax and legal until you are at least marginally successful" is a perfectly reasonable approach for a traditional US startup that borrows (usually more than once) to build the product, get users and eventually reach the profitability. In this mode, startups are most likely to fail by not building the product that can be monetized and grown to profitability. This is what they should focus on. Once a company is profitable, early missteps in tax and legal can be corrected with money, and usually not that much money.

But for anyone building a lifestyle business, starting with a wrong legal or tax framework is much more likely to be a major pain and potentially doom the business altogether. My 2c.
My microwaves have no knobs
manufacturing and building anything out of them in the required scale
Porn can't make the big ticket sales needed to prop up VR. It's hard enough to get a payment processor because of how often charges get disputed and fears about touching the money for illegal and abusive material.

You can't be discreet about VR porning because it leaves you oblivious to your surroundings. You gotta plan ahead and really commit to the time and place.

Aren't all of them propped up by being tethered to some FAANG? I highly doubt they are interested in hiring the best and brightest to build VR porn devices.

I also suspect that the "kick" from porn is a voyeuristic one; i.e. most consumers would rather watch it than be in it.
Eh.. am I misunderstanding something, or did you just suggest that Russia should have shown some balls and actually launched those nukes? Just asking.
it's fine if you can still elect your overlords every handful of years.
So you gain a bit of protection against losing them, and lose a bunch of convenience. It is a trade-off. I have precisely zero desire to ever go back to corded headphones. Between the cord noise and catching it on things, wireless headphones have been a marked improvement in the quality of my listening experience.
Presumably Duration, Power and Start/Stop. My NEF microwave has a Duration dial, 6 different power buttons (presets for 900, 600, 300, etc) and separate Start and Stop buttons. Oh, and another small button for forcing the Duration dial into a clock setting mode (to set the time-of-day display which is the default when the thing isn't heating).

Works okay, quite intuitive, entirely used to it now.

Just don't get me started on the controls for my induction hob
Low quality non technical article on a terrible webpage promoting a product.
This an Ad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Invalid_sequences_and_er...

> Many of the first UTF-8 decoders would decode these, ignoring incorrect bits and accepting overlong results. Carefully crafted invalid UTF-8 could make them either skip or create ASCII characters such as NUL, slash, or quotes. Invalid UTF-8 has been used to bypass security validations in high-profile products including Microsoft's IIS web server[26] and Apache's Tomcat servlet container.[27] RFC 3629 states "Implementations of the decoding algorithm MUST protect against decoding invalid sequences."
I thought the site was getting worse because that's the natural life cycle of image hosts and Reddit decided to become an image host.

HN is avoiding it because somebody else pays to run it and there's zero images or videos.

Also re: politics, stuff the federal government does affects me a lot whereas most local governments seem pretty similar and powerless. If the pendulum can swing so broadly ever 4 years I'd better watch it, right?
There's plenty of useless things they have always been memorizing anyway, whether they actually even try for so much of it.
For all of the complaining about banking majors in the US here on HN, why don't more people bank _intentionally_ with credit unions, or at least local banks? When you open your account, make sure that the branch manager knows who you are and what your pattern of business will be. Open your account wearing good clothes (suit, if possible), and share a business card with your account rep and branch manager. Think old school, like it is the 1950s, and it will be much harder for them to terminate your accounts.
As London developed and the city's lights illuminated the night sky, the observatory's capacity to serve as a focal point for celestial viewing declined. This resulted in a major chapter in the history of the observatory: its relocation to Herstmonceux.
#Observatory #Greenwich #GMT #Time
In regards to your question -

Credit cards typically come in two flavors: cash back and travel. Cash back is self explanatory, travel cards reward points instead (cash equivalent of 1 point is $0.01 at least for the US). These points can be transferred to other accounts to take advantage of things like reward seats on airlines.
Carbon nanotubes are not even close to strong enough to build a space elevator, that's the whole problem. We have no idea if anything that strong even exists, at this point.
We could argue about the history of hacker culture and its inclusivity, but it would most likely be just a series of proofless claims from both sides. I personally have never seen or heard of a person rejected from any hacker clique because of their sexual orientation. I've heard of a few having their contributions refused for trying to push political agenda [0], but then again it wasn't their identity that was refused, only the contributions related to advertising that identity.

I don't feel like the neo-queer-hacker culture you're discribing is particularly welcome to anyone who disagrees with them. I've heard of multiple instances of people calling for bans of people who said something they disagree with [2]. That is completely opposite of "inclusive". Inclusivity only matters when it includes people you disagree with.

> Coraline Ada Ehmke slew the meritocracy buddha in 2018

It doesn't surprise me that a person who hasn't shown much skill or merit is arguing against meritocracy. It is in her own interest to do so.

[0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

[1] https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
Sure, but the question is the scale. Is debt service 10x operating costs? 2x? 50x? .5x?

Those imply very different sorts of business.
Unless we have data that shows that people get sick from unclean microwaves I don't think you can conclude that they pose a health risk, no matter what bacteria you find inside.
Why does it need to be parked in LEO? It could be kept in an orbit at the same distance as the Moon and it would still be relatively close compared to where it is now
America has open dissent within its borders. Its record is mixed, and does not always prop up corrupt vassals.
Don’t confuse the map for the territory. Dollars are fungible.
Their point was, you can't compare to the low prices you get on bandwidth from a service like S3.

I agree though, pricing seems high. I guess a CDN could be put in front of it.
Every one I've used looks like a blown-up calculator watch from the 80s.
Starlink has a pricey new plan to stop scalpers
Mercury sounds interesting. Requires a certain scale though (gravity is a bitch).

Considering just the initial mining and construction, bodies with low gravity and proximity to the earth feel like an efficient starting point, right? I always thought the moon would be a good place to bootstrap the first few thousand space habitats.

Your point about energy will probably be the biggest deal. Wondering how complicated it would be to ship a bunch of nuclear reactors to the moon. There seems to be quite a few companies working on small, "mass produced" reactors currently.
...and at the current admin's burn rate of almost 10% GDP deficit / year via printing of money, that 10K gonna be worth more like 5k at the present clip in 5 years. Honestly, reducing gov't spending by 50% to fit within the confines of the tax base simply isn't going to happen. So, with that in mind, that 5k (in future real terms) to move to a state with terrible rental laws for landlords (if that's the long term goal) just simply doesn't make any sense at all.
This was my thought as well. Also for what it’s worth iron oxidation is slow but very exothermic.

So what you’d want is a LEO starting point/station. You launch a barge from there to snag an asteroid. You could use a mass driver using solar or nuclear and mass from a previously spent asteroid to get to the asteroid belt, then snag an asteroid and use its mass to get back. You strip the important parts of it, construct a capsule for what you mined, and nudge it so it falls someplace in say a shallow part of the ocean. Then recover from there.

Or hell why mine it up there? Simply nudge an asteroid on a collision course towards Earth to make sure it falls someplace “safe”. Sure most of it will burn up but not all. It’s free material after all.
Ask HN: What's wrong with creating a personal AI Computer
What if it can do make calls for you, nterviews candidates for your business, edit videos autonomously, remembers your life, reviews your critical think, self teaches what you give, and, there is no hallucination?
yes! mine's like that, two knobs: one for how hot and the other is for how long. it's the dumbest one I could find and I'm never buying one with WiFi, thank you very much!
It’s not just higher reasoning. Just try to buy something with cash and try to give the cashier “extra” change so you get back a whole bill and see how the cashier handles it. Total $5.17 give the cashier $10.17 and look for a $5 bill back- I often see the cashier look quite flustered and grabbing their phone but not really sure what to do.
Reducing sales of BYD in the US is a realpolitik win if the goal is to slightly increase war machine production capability in the US.
I had played UT2k4 almost exclusively for months before ever trying halo, since I didn't own a console. I eventually played at a get together at a friend's house and genuinely couldn't understand why Halo was so popular- the speed was so slow.

I eventually appreciated it a bit more, but UT will always have a special place in my heart.
I think Portlanders are generally pretty nice, too. But as it turns out, leaving a bit of cash in your wallet works anywhere in the world.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lost-wallets-are-more-li...
That’s different than being fired if you use standard English parlance.
I think we're all scared of the actual question posed or something as we've totally ignored it in everyone of these responses.

Nobody cares in sci-fi about whether something should/could be done. That's not the purview of the plot. It's also not the purview of the original comment.
Yep. He's partially wrong. Corporations who stop using small, effective teams and instead hire like mad do end up with management meeting communication facilitators who don't do anything all that essential and end up with excessive layers of management. These are the people companies need less of. What companies need more of is secretaries and people who keep things humming to free up subject matter experts from doing low-value tasks, and people who don't fit neatly in a single, narrow role but demonstrably make things better.

Another way out to avoid laying off or not giving raises to essential employees is better performance management with qualitative and quantitative recognition and characterization without creating specific KPIs falling into Goodhart's law. Peer 360 evals that feed into performance reviews for cross-functional areas to show their strengths when they're supposed to be strong in that area. Also, there should be some discretion given to managers to advocate for staff who improve performance of the team or of multiple teams.
I've often wondered about this. I'm guessing large customers can all negotiate extremely deep discounts on bandwidth from all three providers. Smaller customers may not be paying that much in bandwidth that it would be decisive. I think also that if say GCP cut its bandwidth charges by 10x they might attract customers they really don't want.
How AI could threaten democracy and divide the world
Depends on the crowd, assassination attempts induce stampedes, but not always.
I agree that being the first is important.
I have had a paper reviewed, then rejected, only to see the same idea elsewhere a while after. I cannot say the reviewer "had the same idea" nor prove, but it is known to happen. Putting into arXiv remediates that.
However, my personal issue with that is that the journal might not be that keen to want to publish your paper after knowing it was publicly available elsewhere, as they thrive "innovation" and "being the first" as well.
It's a very difficult problem, indeed.
Thanks, does that need a PHD?
Europe talks about ramping up production, not sure if that is actually happening.

> Disarming your enemy by absorbing their bullets in your troops and tanks is a really bad strategy.

Certainly, losing 1k+/day of your own men (imagine the logistics of that) and shooting women and children first is horrible. But it is a winning strategy. Russia is ramping up much much faster, they switched to a war economy. And they managed to show economic growth.

I suppose we agree, support for Ukraine is top priority and we need to turn around to achieve that.
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