skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Millions of people have “become an astronaut” as their childhood dream. Less than one in a thousand people who apply to astronaut selection actually become astronauts. And then they have to wait years to actually go to space. I don’t know why anybody would go through all of that if they didn’t really want to go to space. And while everyone else is either getting full ISS rotations or planned to fly to the moon, Butch and Suni have been assigned to an eight day test flight that’s been repeatedly delayed for years. It’s arguably the worst assignment you can get these days other than no assignment at all (and to be fair, it’s also not the first assignment for either of them). I’m sure they would have preferred if their six month stay on the ISS was planned as such ahead of time, but spending six months on the ISS is the normal mission that everyone else gets anyway—and it’s not like a normal ISS flight is scheduled for the personal convenience of the astronauts assigned to it, either.

Yeah, they don’t have a choice now that they’re in space, but if you’re an astronaut you can also just retire and make a lot more money in the private sector if you don’t really want to go to space again, and I think that it’s a pretty slim chance that a veteran astronaut would stick around and devote years of their career to an eight day flight test but would be really unhappy about being “stuck” on ISS for an otherwise normal rotation period.
>Microsoft have a reputation for being a pushy company that doesn't take no for an answer

Exactly, this Recall feature exists in the context of all the user-hostile crap Microsoft has been pushing for the past decade or so. Those design decisions are a direct reflection of Microsoft's values and culture. Even if Recall itself is indeed perfectly fine, I wouldn't use it because the service operator is demonstrably disrespectful of their users' agency.
I agree. The dictionary definitions mostly involve urgency or distress in the situation. This would be more like a retrieval I think.

"SpaceX capsule used to retrieve astronauts stranded on ISS by malfunctioning starliner."
If you follow dang's moderation comments closely (and I do, both to understand, and occasionally criticise, his actions), you'll note that implication and nuance actually play critical roles.
After posting I realized that the farmer bought some chicks so it could be interpreted that way. I should have modified it to say that 6 chickens hatched.

Anyways this thread is a perfect example of the chaotic datasets that are being used to train FMs. These arguments of whether it’s reasonable to assume a chick could mature into a chicken within a week are happening everyday and have been taking place for years. Safe to say a billion dollars has been spent on datasets to train FMs where everybody has a different interpretation and the datasets are not aligned.
Why would you implement the business logic there? You can still keep (most of) that in the backend.

The client just does orchestration.
Having used discord in the past. Most of the conversations were just shit posts. Nothing serious. Why even bother storing a trillion messages of garbage in the first place?
You’re basically implying that if you give everyone in the US $1,000, no matter what, inflation will happen and people are back to where they started.
Metrics are ambiguous because they are abstractions of success and miss context. If you want a pretty little number, it doesn’t come without cost/missing information.

I don’t know if this phenomenon is aptly characterized as “too much efficiency”.
America has a long history of successful integration of racial groups. Once upon a time, the Irish were extremely unwelcome in Boston, simply for being Catholics. Dozens of examples like this abound in American history. America is stronger than the countries you’ve listed because of the melting pot, not in spite of it. That’s because the selfishness you alluded to is contrary to a core American value: that a person is not defined by their ancestors’ virtues or sins, but by the content of their character. All the immigrants I know are fierce defenders of this principle.

It’s a pity some people can’t think of politics as possibly more than zero sum. A good policy should actually lift all boats. Middle America simply will not survive without more people and more economic activity, period. If native born children choose to move to the coasts, and no immigrants fill in the gaps, you’re not going to have the long-term prosperity you’re imagining.
ChatGPT redirecting me to other search engines
I have recently experienced few instances where I have asked chat GPT to provide links for some specific products, instead of giving URLs it has started directing me to other search engines. Anyone else experiencing this?
How do you differentiate shit posts vs quality ones if you’re Discord?
That’s your generation that happens once. The browser still needs to render it. Sure, rendering it on the client may cost the client a bit more, but the client generally has the computational power to spare.
Seems to me that after maybe an initial disruption in updates while they whip up a patch, WPE can distribute updates for ACF to their own customers just fine, whereas MM has basically blocked updates to every other host, including wordpress.com itself. Stable genius right here...
Good suggestion! I’ve seen federated learning come up before but have not explored it much.

This seems like a good direction for sure.
Any brand works if you hook it up to an Apple TV and don't allow the TV itself to connect to the internet (outside of first time setup for software updates I guess).
That’s also true and a HUGE problem when companies are hiring non native English speakers to work on English datasets.
It’s actually really hard, the atoms you normally dope steel with on absorbing neutrons become really quite nasty isotopes. I went to a talk on this a few years ago from a materials scientist at Culham and he was saying while the physics might be getting closer, choosing appropriate vessels is really hard and the expected life of them at the moment is under 5 years which wouldn’t be viable for a commercial reactor running full time. Helium bubbles can form within the steel along grain boundaries, causing it fracture.
I think it also applies to when managers try to overoptimize work process, in the end creative people lose interest and work becomes unbearable...little chaos is necessary in a work place/life imo...
Well no one is losing confidence in US space program. Since SpaceX has the overwhelming global lead in space engineering.

The main issue is, NASA for political reasons, has to keep the delusion of the 'have 2 suppliers'. Boeing is clearly nonviable anymore, but as you said, it has tremendous influence in US congress, so NASA pays them billions.

NASA's programs would be simpler if they simply just dumped all the money to SpaceX, but that could cause longer term issues. The other solution would be partnering with Airbus as the backup supplier, but that would cause political earthquake.
I’m remembering reading once that cities are incredibly efficient in how they use resources (compared to the suburbs and rural areas, I guess), and, in light of your comment about waiting time, I’m realizing why now why they’re so unpleasant: constant resource contention.
So you want to make pixel art for an Apple II
Well the rightful answer is "it's complicated"
DNA wise yes there are 3 billion bases and they sample about a million of them, so 1/3000 bases.

THing is about the bases

1. most of them are the same in everyone

2. the ones that are different tend to be correlated with each other locally and thus captured by their 1Mb assay

so

3. you can infer all the stuff they didn't sequence with pretty high confidence. Not a "in theory" but more like "has been a typical thing to do in the statistical genetics field for at least a decade"

4. outside of the genome there is the epigenome which may or may not be relevant, it undergoes very specific resets short after fertilization

also worth noting

5. bioinformatics is an imperfect and algorithm based science. Reads are aligned according to error and difference profiles (i.e. string mismatches and the most and least types of mismatches). So unless things are finely calibrated, a level of analysis most bioinformatics don't do, deeply study their read alignment penalties for particular data sets, even a robust bug-free read aligner correctly applying penalties will have bad alignments, false positives, false negatives

anyways I for one hope the futurepopele will clone me from the bytestream
I don't think there was any trickery or anything. I kept getting this nagging feeling as I read the article that the kids are a little spoiled. The parents appear to be wealthy, and the kids appear to be comfortable, albeit miserable. My impression is that they have not been really pushed, and maybe still are a bit immature and perhaps coddled.

In my humble opinion, I think a lot of the younger generation is waiting for someone to give them something. To give them a job, give them money, and lost the drive and ambition to go out and seize it for themselves.
In terms of code it would be great to have integrated tools that show a visual representation "map" of the functions usage and data flow.

I agree, though there is a lot of subtlety in this problem. I tried, with very modest success, to write a tool that would overlay some graphics showing these kinds of information on top of a regular code listing.

The results were rather satisfying when the structure to be illustrated was relatively simple, as it often is in well-written code. However, trying to use those visuals to help analyse and understand less well-written code with complicated, tangled flows felt like looking at spaghetti code in a very literal sense.

Qualitatively it made it obvious when code could benefit from some cleaning up, but that isn’t very useful information unless it also provides useful insight into how to clean the code up, and I never really found a style/format for the visuals that conveyed enough information to provide actionable insights but didn’t become so busy in bad cases that it became was hard to follow.

I know some editors specialize in novels by having wiki like features of linking characters to storyline and research work. I'm not sure how much of those are used by real world authors though…

I’ve only had this discussion with one author recently, but FWIW, they swear by that kind of structured story planning software. I’m not sure how many of the concepts or presentation details in those applications would translate readily to tools for working with code, though.
Other? ChatGPT is not a search engine.
> You can have more kids, but most people probably only get maximum one chance in their life to spend half a year in space

That's not generally how having kids works haha. As you mentioned Sunita Williams has been to space five times. She's also 59 and the only information I found on kids is that she was looking to adopt a kid in 2012. It doesn't sound like she'll be having any more kids.

> Sunita Williams (one of the two stranded) is up there for her fifth(!) trip to the ISS [...] I don’t think she minds being in space, even if it’s unplanned.

Personally, I've been many times to New York. It's a very fun city. But if I booked a weeklong trip that against my will it became a yearlong one, I'd mind it.

I also can't speak for Sunita Williams, just for me in this hypothetical NYC stranding. It could be a very fun year, for sure. I'd certainly try to make the most of it. But I'd mind it.

[1] https://archive.ph/20130126165056/http://articles.timesofind...
The humans were prompted to read the AI responses very carefully because their hallucinations are very good at convincing you with words. It takes a certain skillset to question every word that comes out of a language model because most people will go “hmm yeah that logic seems right”. So hiring “smart” people is insufficient, you need very paranoid people who question every assumption.
> it shouldn't be too hard to build a stripped down version of Google Sheets.

HN, never change.
Who cares? And what's the point of bikeshedding around the real issue?
Because that is literally what Discord is for
> chiefly by removing the artificial supply restrictions

Building housing without restrictions gives you slums. Nice housing has lots of surrounding support - electric, gas, water, sewage, Internet lines; schools, parks, swimming pools, transport, not to mention industry, retail, and employment. Half the reason for the restrictions is to ensure that new housing can be supported by the surrounding infrastructure. People who are comfortable living somewhere without the surrounding support are already free to purchase housing at much cheaper cost in rural areas.

The problem isn't artificial restrictions, it's a country that can't build anymore, that can't get the inherent and necessary bureaucracy streamlined, quick, and responsive; that can't raise sufficient money for public works construction which has no immediate profit potential; that can't persuade its young men to enter the construction trades instead of going to college.
EIG is not Newfold Digital.[0] Matt has specifically praised EIG hosts.[1] He even praised Godaddy, a company which he called a "parasitic company" just a few years ago.[2]

This is definitely not about subpar hosting for Matt.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group
1. https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenwegs-ecosystem-thinking-for-...
2. https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-identifies-godaddy-as-a-...
Everyone wants to be happy, and we can't all be right, right?
I was trying to remember where I remember where I heard of this author's name before.

Invented the first generative diffusion model in 2015.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03585
if he wanted people to take him seriously, he shouldn't have been racist against china earlier

speech has consequences, it's still his fault we couldn't close the border
There's no magic mechanism where investors build a lot of housing and it becomes expensive because of who owns it.

You build more of something and it becomes cheaper. Even if you only build luxury housing or whatever you fear, it becomes cheaper. Richer people will buy the new housing rather than bid up old housing, as they currently do.

Investors have "air dropped" into consumer hardware and ai. Have the prices gone up or down?
Nice. I used Claude 3.5 Sonnet to generate a word problem & false solution for my example.
> no one talks about how this hurts the from countries

It's a fairly common topic when people talk about foreign aid and assistance. The classic dilemma is that we'd like to make sure top people all over the world get as much education as they can use, but we'd also like them to stay in their home countries and do the work of development even though they might rationally view the opportunities someplace else for a highly educated person as quite attractive.
Sorry I fail to see your point. Is it that conflating chicks and chickens is good enough performance?
Oh... and only for 750$ a month. The other sponsors pay more, but have to appear alongside those.
I guess? I mean the econobox I was thinking of was an early 90s accord, my last one I retired 3 years ago since it was starting to get to the point of too much rust. Still had 4 doors, AC, crumple zones, and a stereo that was perfectly acceptable, just needed to add a $25 Bluetooth reciever. A modern corolla is safer than a 91 accord, but the accord isn't exactly a 1960s deathtrap. Definitely better airbags though, the accord just had a driver and I think that was an option.

However, I replaced the accord with a SUV since that's basically all that's available anymore, so I don't feel that much safer in my 2023 Ford since the if I end up in a ditch I'm way more likely to roll and being heavier there's way more energy to disperse in that crash.

That old Honda lasted >30 years and wasn't a great example when I bought it 10 years ago. I only did maintenance and some suspension work, I never had to touch the engine or transmission. That seems plenty reliable enough for me, even paying a shop it probably would have cost 3k for the 10 years I drove that car.
Hollywood industry in crisis after strikes, streaming wars
> These things shouldn't be zero sum, but that's the unfortunate reality on the ground in some cases.

A lot more things are zero-sum than not, especially in the short-term, which the US revels in running on (e.g. the next annual report, the next election cycle, the next super bowl. Everyone is obsessed with the short term) - land, job vacancies, potential dating mates, etc.

I'm not sure why this trope still hasn't died yet. I guess a whole generation made their careers during ZIRP era, so their worldview is extremely skewed.
Once again, Krugman said it first: we’re just 20 years behind Japan in everything.
There is no "control panel" to point. api.wordpress.org is hardwired into the source, and the implementation of that API is not open source. Matt has personally informed us that he is perfectly happy with this setup and has no plans to change it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41675671#41678014

So it's WPE's fault for not forking the ecosystem earlier?
Not really, they're very much pissed about Chinese EVs now but the EC is tooo slooow to act. The Biden administration already hit them with tariffs and they're now considering banning the software that phones home. No need for weather baloons when you have cars with cameras and microphones all over the place.
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I said the EU is not that big of a market. It’s less than 1/3 of the global GDP. We seem to have different definitions of a big market.
Absolutely. That is exactly right. That's economics. Love it or hate it, the market will always equalize. The only way to stop that is to put price controls on huge amount of commerce, and barring a complete revolution in the American system of commerce, that is never going to happen.
> the current results come from those in the 95th or higher percentile of motivation to improve their life.

That's a big assumption. eg I could have participated in hundreds of class action against the manufacturer of one of my medical devices. I don't participate in all of them, for practical reasons of time and notification. Then they fell into a selection based on other characteristics like likelihood of success (judgement or settlement), if there were shared legal costs, exclusionary criteria...like not participating in other cases or a limited number, etc. I missed out on millions of dollars, relative to my success case, by being unlucky.

There were multiple practical factors involved in the selection, beyond "you could have participated". This oversimplification is not the basis for a conclusion, imo.
> when a company that built all its value on an open-source project decides not to give anything back [...]

As far as I've been able to tell, WP Engine have contributed back. Before this spat they were noted on WordPress.org as contributing 5% of their resources to the WordPress project[0], they have their own open-source projects (e.g: [1]), and sponsor WordPress events. What WP Engine allegedly refused to do was sending tens of millions of dollars to Matt's for-profit company.

I'd like to see this at least addressed rather than just repeating that WP Engine supposedly contributed nothing. Is it that they scaled back contributions just recently? Is it that 5% (plus events/etc.) isn't sufficient?

> Look at the following list of words and try to find the intruder:

> wp-activate.php, wp-admin, wp-blog-header.php, wp_commentmeta [...] wp engine [...] wp-trackback.php, wp_usermeta, wp_users

> Well, all the ones that contain an underscore _ are names of the WordPress core database tables. All the ones that contain a dash - are WordPress core file or folder names. The one with a space is a company name…

Using "WP" in their name is branding allowed by the WordPress Foundation's trademark policy[2]. Not a lawyer, but I don't believe confusion stemming from uses that are permitted by the trademark holder count against them legally, else "WordPress.com" would be in far more trouble.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240524210250/https://wordpress...

[1]: https://github.com/wpengine/faustjs

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240901224354/https://wordpress...
Yeah, we have an active seat-trading arrangement with the Russians where they send cosmonauts to ride Dragon and we send astronauts to ride Soyuz.
It's not too bad.

Just pop up a dialog for the user. "Are you in a national park?"
Beautiful! I don't use Go anymore (moved to Rust) but this looks pristine.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892781/openai-chatgpt-l...
Excellent! People hardly know about "Etienne De La Boetie" much less read his works. Only "popular" authors are discussed many of whose works lack real depth.

Of relevance to this thread is his classic work "The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Voluntary_Servitu... and https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/kurz-the-discourse-of-vol...

One very interesting note here is that this was one of the inspirations for Mahatma Gandhi in coming up with his idea of "Satyagraha" movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha) in his struggle against British Colonialism in India - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gene-sharp-gandhi-on...
Can You Make YouTube from Scratch Using Only Bash? [video]
Separate from anything else, Automattic's messaging around this is horrendous - I've only heard their side of the dispute, and they've convinced me they're in the wrong.

Including TFA, everything I've seen from their camp is a hodge-podge of conflicting claims: they say WPE isn't obligated to contribute anything, but also they're taking action because they haven't. Then they say access to wordpress.org is something they provide free to the community, but also they took away WPE's access to it, then restored it, and the fact that customers were affected is WPE's fault. Then there's a trademark dispute involved somehow - which seems to be their only actionable claim, but has no apparent connection to the stuff they're angry about, or what they want to change.

As a disinterested observer, it looks like Automattic asked WPE to contribute more FTEs to the OSS project, but were rebuffed, and are now doing random things that are within their power to retaliate. I don't think that's their intended messaging, but it's sure how it looks.
I hope the folks driving these harcore RTO initiatives understand the big backlash that is coming their way, in terms of talent drain, loss of customer trust and reputation, and increased competition from smaller, more independent firms. This is not the 1980s and corporatocracies are no longer as influential as they once were due to the changing market, demographic, and rise of AI.
> The actual issue was that this athlete, Imane Khelif, is male.

No, she’s not, even in terms of assigned gender at birth, and she represents an Islamic country in which she would be imprisoned if she was and was living as a woman.

> despite having previously been deemed ineligible by the International Boxing Association for this reason, after a karyotype test revealed XY chromosomes.

The IBA had already been stripped of its role as a governing body with regard Olympic boxing due to the rather extraordinary and flagrant corruption in that organization (and for that to reach a level intolerable to the IOC is saying quite a bit), but even if the IBA’s claim of karyotype testing wasn’t fraudulent or carried out under unreliable conditions, a detected XY karyotype doesn't mean you are male, even in nonsocial medical terms, or phenotype without intervention terms. Swyer syndrome can result in a female phenotype with exclusively XY karyotype, and chimerism (possibly combined with Swyer) can result in a female phenotype where XY karyotype would be detected (potentially exclusively, without sampling different tissue in a way that a simple test would not).