skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You left out the most relevant comparison:

- nuclear fission, which provides an abundant source of environmentally friendly energy, but allows people to make bombs capable of wiping out whole cities at once (and potentially causing nuclear winter)

But even in that case, I believe that it's a good thing that we have access to nuclear power, and I certainly want us to use more nuclear power. At the same time, I'm very glad that a bomb is hard enough to make that ISIS couldn't do it, let alone any number of lone wolf terrorists. So I think I would apply the same logic to biotechnology; speeding up medical progress seems extremely valuable and I'm excited about how AF and other AI systems can help with this, but we should mitigate the ability for bad actors to use the same tools for evil.

An aspect that's unique about biotechnology that's different in comparison to the examples you gave is that most of those technologies help good and bad people approximately equally, and since there's many more reasonable than crazy people they're not super dangerous.

There's a concern that technologies that make bioengineering easier could make it easier to produce and proliferated novel pathogens, much more so than they make it easier to prevent pandemics; in other words, it favors "offense" more than "defense". The only one example you listed that has a similar dynamic in my mind is the bosch-haber process, but that has large positive downstream effects separate from its use for ammunition. Again, this is not to say we should stop medical progress, but that we should act to mitigate the dangers, and keep this concept in mind as the technology progresses.

That said, I'm not certain how much the current tools are dangerous in this way. My understanding is that there is lower hanging fruit in mitigating these issues right now; for example, better controls at labs studying viruses, and better vetting of people who order pathogens online.
Very funny to me how much everyone went away from the db to achieve idempotent behavior, and now we're back to just using a db as a complicated queue with state.
Manifold [0] has markets on this sort of thing, but it primarily uses fake money. (They're working on a real-money "sweepstakes" thing, which I'm not super familiar with.) If you're outside the US and looking for a real-money market, Polymarket [1] is probably your best bet. In the US, real-money prediction market contracts are regulated by the CFTC in the US, so availability of contracts is pretty limited; Kalshi [2] would be the most likely option, but I doubt they have anything on this topic.

[0] https://manifold.markets

[1] https://polymarket.com

[2] https://kalshi.com/
Oh lord this made up story again. Your entire posting history is about this. There's no basis in reality for any of it.

You're even citing a grok post from an AI bot as proof.

Griffin was not a CIA agent and was not founded with Griffin's support. Griffin was asked to join the company but he refused. Griffin had no part in getting any funding to SpaceX. Your link is him lying (backed up by zero other sources) to raise his own status and rewrite history in his own favor (he's been on the talk circuit extensively after leaving government).

Mars Society is absolutely about Mars.
For the first claim, 50 hours at 40 students would be 2000 hours. One year to complete the prerequisites for self teaching for those 40 students. Instead of 12 years full time lecturing, so that's 1/12th the cost.

I have volunteered at a school that allows students to become self-teachers and it is very effective. They follow the Sudbury model, and students entirely teach themselves everything from reading to mathematics. They graduate from college at higher rates than traditional school students, make more, and have very high levels of self reported happiness. It's a really cool model, I wish it was more common. The school I helped at had no teachers, only 3 adults for 120 young people. They could all come and go throughout the day as long as they signed in and out. It's been up and running for decades, so it's not just a flash in the pan.

See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school
they learned about jsonb support from postgres so they migrated from mongodb to postgres
Having one of the "creases" be exposed while the phone is "closed" makes me nervous. Traditionally folding screens have been exceptionally fragile especially in comparison to regular phone screens, having the most fragile part of one permanently exposed to the world doesn't seem like a wise move to me. Hopefully they have some new kind of panel that's tough enough to handle it.
I’m not sure I see the point with disposable razor blades. The handles are essentially given away.
Honestly I’ve never asked him, this was me listening as a 12 year old at the dinner table as he ranted about another search as he went into work. Now I have questions haha.
It was, but it's fallen off at this point. Now most of the front page and editorial is about the US presidential debate that is about to happen, the coverage of which looks like any other mainstream establishment news publication in the US.

Compare that to an actual leftist publication like The Nation, where the second most popular article is literally about the enduring legacy of Marx's Capital (lol): https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wendy-brown-marx-c...

Or over at Jacobin where this is the top story: https://jacobin.com/2024/09/ruwa-romman-dnc-speech-palestine
> To bring this point home, for years there was hubub in the industry that Nintendo would bring out some kind of Switch Pro with 4k output and faster guts, rumors swirled around and around until Nintendo finally brought out? The Switch Light.

Switch Lite is not the console people were referring to in that context. And oddly enough, Nintendo themselves have pseudo-confirmed the launch will occur in Q1 next year via various official statements:

https://x.com/NintendoCoLtd/status/1787736518762881197

(and then they later confirmed that they won't discuss it this year... so it's going to be Q1 next year.)

And again, to underline this point: the hardware itself has literally been ready to go since 2022 or before (prominently, there was an enormous amount of stuff in the hacked nvidia data dump and it's all essentially confirmed accurate at this point) and the delay has frankly baffled industry-watchers. It’s not even just Nintendo being nintendo and favoring older cheaper hardware, they seem to have internally had some pullback or change of heart back a year or two ago such that they decided not to release it.

And obviously at some point the hardware will be relatively weaker than the original switch was at its launch, so at this point they may have to update the hardware again.

But yeah switch is a bad example of “see, rumors are sometimes wrong!” when Nintendo literally had a console generation ready to go, as confirmed by multiple sources, and then just inexplicably decided to pull the plug or delay it for 2 years for inscrutable Nintendo reasons. That’s the Nintendo being Nintendo part - and we have their confirmed-in-financials timeline for release now.
Do you really believe Apple-Ireland is the only cosy tax-based incentive that any EU member state has offered to any international company to invest and operate locally in the past 30 years?

What's next? All the member states that offered attractive VAT rates when the regime was different years ago and doing so was advantageous retrospectively get reset to some baseline rate around the bloc's average and every company that ever paid VAT at lower rates in those member states gets a bill?
I'm using EFJ 5100's and have a full KVL, and software that can make Christmas Tree radios.

P25 Encryption is pretty good, in terms of quality.
But the math on that looks like this.

The "really bad" people have no conscience. No qualms about compromising the device of some innocent victim and then using that as their "exit node" if Tor wasn't available. So if Tor doesn't exist, that's what they do, and that's worse. Because not only do the bad guys still get to be anonymous, now the owner of the compromised system takes the blame. Which is more likely to be someone less able than you to articulate what happened, and who has to claim they were hacked with perhaps scant evidence rather than being able to point to their IP address on the public list of Tor exit nodes. They also might not be in a country with due process. So what you're doing there isn't helping the bad guys, it's saving some of their innocent victims from being unjustly punished.

Meanwhile the "good guys" who use Tor do have a conscience, so they wouldn't do that to an innocent third party, and then without Tor they have nothing. So you'd be helping them too.
This is pretty slick. I like that you have Umami support. It would be nice to wrap all of this up in a Dockerfile but that wouldn't be too hard to do for my own purposes.

It's been a while since I've used Stripe outside of the subscription features but how hard would it be to support coupon codes or sales? Is there a plan to support this?

Great work!
> 1,2,3,4,5,6 is a terrible selection, for example. Not because it is somehow “less random”, but because you’re guaranteed to be splitting that jackpot with a 1,000 other nerds who were trying to prove a point!

Uh... so at first I saw your point, but if your odds of winning never actually change, how is not winning better than splitting a jackpot?
DRM is legally considered a legitimate use case.
Europeans, what are your governments doing?

I am sorry for what your governments are about to do you, bc you will likely go through a very difficult time in the near future. Now, its Tor and Telegram - soon, every opinion you have shared will likely be scrutinized and used against you.

Good luck, European people. I am hoping the best for you.
That doesn’t address why anyone would specifically care if someone needed AirPods as hearing aids.

People wearing AirPods bother you? I would have more concern about the malfunctioning elevators.

You can’t change what other people do, probably not even in your hazardous environment. You might have some influence on fixing the dangerous elevators.
Bookman Old Style (my favorite font) seems to do this.
> So all the administration’s policies are actually favorable to Tesla,

Not for lack of trying. They tried to make the subsidy exclusive to UAW companies and exclude Tesla.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2021/08/05/biden-wa...
>The negative comment tells me that I knew this was slow code, looked into the alternatives, and decided against optimizing.

I admire the honesty, but will continue to phrase these "why not" comments as insincere TODOs.
Ooh. That's a nice utility funtion that I will write soon. We tend to look at requirements as something we hope the package manager gets right, and then we ignore at runtime, but there are a bunch of errors we could avoid if we verified at runtime. Sometimes when writing a library you have to have different code paths for different versions.

Something like
`if check_versions(pandas__gt="2.0.0", pandas__lt="3.0.0"):`
The solution to this nonsense is and has always been s-expressions. XML reinvented s-expressions but they made a bad job of it and made them much too verbose.

I always use s-exprs for problem-free config files but sadly everybody else takes one look and says "but all those parentheses! I'd rather have my strings interpreted as very large numbers, thank you."
In my experience, it really does come down to the ergonomics: the cursor, the casing, the forward slashes, whatever key combo is required to paste (shift+insert?).

I'm sure PowerShell and friends are great but it's enough of a shift to not be worth the learning curve if it's an environment you're just dipping into to do the bare minimum required to make something work.
I'm not telling you this is the wrong site. I'm suggesting that maybe if you're looking for news on mature, production-ready game development software, with no hobby project tangents, there's probably better places to find it.

And I'm not offended by your 'brutal honestly'. I'm just mystified. You could comment "this is neither production-ready nor industry standard!" on half the posts on this site. Personally, I like being exposed to quirky new ideas, even if they don't always pay off. If I found them actively offensive, I'd have to question why I was wasting my time here.
PowerShell should be taught in university as example of how poorly designed system devoid of taste and aesthetic looks like. It's an ugly monstrosity that makes me puke every time I try to use it. The only reason some people might like it is because they have been tortured by Windows defaults for many years and finally they got used to this utter mediocracy.
Interestingly enough, this particular question has been tested by Rtings [1] They found that during their tests, inverters which continuously varied the power did not necessarily lead to more even heating, but they do note that small quantities of food (like the butter you mentioned) that need to be heated for very short periods show some differences between inverter and non-inverter models.

Overall, they found that the improvement was much smaller than I'd originally anticipated.

[1] https://www.rtings.com/microwave/learn/research/microwave-in...
Is there an actual EASY guide to dealing with itinerant licensing? The FCC paperwork is beyond confusing to try to get a single itinerant freq.
It does serve SpaceX well if it reveals the boulder-esque bureaucracy and change occurs. The current federal system gave us Boeing rates of progress.

Thankfully they have shown us a new way.
I'm not sure I understand your point regarding having to look at the output of commands to know how to use them. At least with Powershell you have tab-completion suggesting your object members; you have to at least look at whatever flavor of semi-parsable text is coming from your command in bash to use cut or awk or whatever on it (and the semantics of what you're looking at are not discoverable, so you're likely to have to some API digging of your own). 'cut' and the like is sadly fragile for a number of reasons, and you generally won't discover them in advance (e.g. when the date "field" starts containing a year, sizes overflow or start being indicated with human-readable abbreviations after a threshold, which is exactly the sort of thing you can't tell by inspection). And bash's failure modes are really sharp.

To be honest, something like

$titled = gci *.md| ?{ (gc $_)[0] -like '# *' }

seems short and less error-prone than the bash equivalent. Not sure what it would be. Something like

titled=(); for file in *.md; do if head -1 "${file}" | grep -sq '^# .*'; then titled+=("${file}"); fi; done

I think there's a lot of little gotchas in there, and not a little "API digging" for options, though it's simple in concept.
I think it would be pretty natural for a distro to run it's own crates.io/PyPI/NPM mirror to build packages against, and have a unified set of library versions for the entire OS that way. Maybe not even a server, maybe just a giant Git repo or whatever, filtered down to the set of packages they actually use. Have any of them tried this?
Location: Route 66

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Naïve Bayes, HMMs, PGMs, CRFs, ConvNets, ResNets, GANs, RNNs, seq2seq, T5, BERTs, GPTs, NLTK, scikit-learn, UIMA, DKPro, Gensim, spaCy, PyTorch, TensorFlow 1, TensorFlow 2, FAISS, multi-tenant architectures, AWS, EC2, ECS, ECR, Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, Amplify, Linux, Perl, Prolog, Python, Java, Scala, React, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://freight.cargo.site/m/O196368327906894677756304995878...

Email: first name at first name last name dot net

Name: Sean Bethard

Summary: I develop software for speech and text processing applications, combining a strong foundation in linguistics and computer science with expertise in software development and machine learning techniques and frameworks. My area of specialization is natural language semantics. I studied computational linguistics in the linguistics department at UMass and the computer science department at Brandeis. I have received training in logic, formal semantics, lexical semantics and statistical learning.

I've been developing text processing applications for twelve years, frequently on product teams. I've worked with the intelligence community (IARPA, IBM) and have delivered solutions in the public sector, healthcare, cybersecurity, aftermarket auto repair and other industries. I can help you leverage NLP and ML technologies to powerful effect.

It has often been my task to capture some aspect of the meaning of an utterance or document—an area sometimes referred to as natural language understanding—such as with a lexical resource or hierarchical taxonomy, a syntactic or semantic parse, a meaning representation or sometimes just a single label. In my current work I explore the potential of expressive grammar formalisms as a practical application of Curry-Howard-Lambek and an alternative to distributional semantics and the vector space model of meaning that is foundational to large language models and pervasive in almost all current NLP research.
Did you have car mounted external antennas? I'm totally new to the hobby so I might be wrong here, but I believe the handheld units are kinda trapped in a Faraday cage if you use them inside the car. If you have the 20W+ mobile (not handheld) kind and mount it to an external antenna though, there should be enough range even just with GMRS as long as you're not on the other side of the mountain or something?

Edit: Sorry, it's GMRS, not GPRS (facepalm)
> Just as an example, depending on which side of the Israel/Palestine conflict you are on, either side using your node for military intelligence might be an use worth fighting for or terrible abuse.

The problem is when you choose to involve yourself in nation-state conflicts they’re just not going to care about your protestations of neutrality and freedom. They’re just going to see you aiding their enemy.
The EV party where Tesla wasn’t invited because of union hardball.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/opinion/kamala-harris-dem...

This was on the front page a couple of weeks ago
Another issue is that jupyter, pandas, and polars don't take displaying tabular data seriously. Just have a better default table display widget. Look at ipydatagrid, perspective, or buckaroo (my project) for examples of how it could be done better.
Actually the politicians are doing nothing which is forcing the agencies to try to act which is inevitably going to be struck down by a Texas judge with stock in the big 3 auto makers.
Which business leaders besides Musk should Americans look up to?
Psychedelic Drugs May Give a Glimpse into Near-Death Experiences
https://archive.ph/alZtq
The people who do live in those countries could, however, be using an exit node in Germany. It isn't the exit node operator who chooses who uses it.
I’m surprised DO allows Tor exit nodes. No wonder their IP reputation is trash the time I tried to set up my mail server there.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/details/poli...:

> We do not specifically disallow Tor exit nodes, but as the account holder, you are responsible for all the traffic going through your Droplet (including traffic that an exit node may generate), and we do prohibit some of the traffic types that may go through a typical Tor exit node.

> If you are unable to stop prohibited traffic like torrents, spam, SSH probes, botnets, and DDoS attacks, running a Tor exit node may lead to us suspending or terminating your account. We send you an email in the event of a violation of our Terms of Service, and you must address these issues as soon as possible.

Running Tor exit node without abuse? How is that possible? Since they didn’t shut you down after three abuses serious enough to get law enforcement involved, I guess they don’t really give a shit about abuse after all.
I agree, this is a place where the desired features are in tension. I will say that it took me a while to find it, and I don't find it limiting now that I understand it, but it was a real gotcha when I encountered it.
Sure but the taxes are only part of the equation. Native english speakers familiar to US tech giants common law system. Large number of skilled workers. Flexible immigration system.
I think you overestimate the difficulty of discovering bioweapons. There is a reason toxicology is the dead end for tons of drug molecules. It is very easy already to design molecules that will kill someone.
Have you explored building with Bazel? What you describe as a problem is roughly what Bazel solves: Polyglot complex builds from fully vendored deps.

Just pointing this out because I had a fair share of issues with Cargo and ultimately moved to Bazel and a bit later to BuildBuddy as CI. Since then my builds are reliable, run a lot faster and even stuff like cross compilation in a cluster works flawlessly.

Obviously there is some complexity implied when moving to Bazel, but the bigger question is whether the capabilities of your current build solution keep up with the complexity of your requirements?
I read this article when it was originally released.

It's even more ridiculous right now.

No one should have until all have kinda thinking
> They could keep logs, but they choose not to. They are intentionally unhelpful.

Some tech companies have extremely sophisticated observability which dumps huge volumes data about the internal state of a program. Some companies have very limited observability beyond maybe logging "we just served a request". Your argument suggests that companies who don't have the extensive logs of the former are being intentionally unhelpful?

There are lots of reasons to not keep logs – lack of storage space, additional economic cost of doing so, slower response times due to overhead of observability, etc.
There doesn't seem to be much of a network effect to propel any given proprietary 'standard' to prominence, and so the only solution to this will be state enforcement. The EU is doing a decent job here IMHO, eg with mandatory USB phone charging.
Netflix should have plenty? Anime seems like a weird choice.

I would suggest the German public broadcast channels on Youtube with subtitles instead of Anime.

https://www.youtube.com/@Handwerkskunst/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@ARDRoomTour
The people running the scans installed starlink
The two can coexist. store libraries in python code that is versioned and deployed properly. Notebooks with their data ingest, code, then output should read cleanly. Making the ingest and code readable is the job of library writers. A clean and elegantly coded notebook with inline outputs is a substantively different experience than searching all over the place for the correct browser window that corresponds to the output from a given piece of code.
TEMPEST met Funtenna and had a baby!
We (Graphite) love Jujutsu – comes up in conversation all the time here.

A prior version of the CLI is open source, the core data model (using git refs to store some extra data about what a branch's parent is) is still the same. https://github.com/withgraphite/graphite-cli

We've talked about supporting other clients, but don't currently have the bandwidth to build something like that – definitely something I am personally passionate about making sure happens at some point.
Morse, ASCII and military phonetic transcribed literally (just to cite a non-machine one) all look like repetitive gibberish if you don't know what to look for.
I am skeptical to this actually happening. But I would love to see this along with other rules:

* headlights same height as all cars

* bumpers all being the same height too
What's funny is America has some of the longest paths to a Green Card (for Indians and Chinese at least), but is very very happy to tax them as a resident the moment they spend a year in the country.

Indians effectively pay taxes as residents without any permanent residency benefits for decades
Already been studied at length. There are citations at that link and more a search away.

Tone-policing makes for a boring discussion as well.