skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
War is momentum based. If the US gets dragged in a war with Iran and is also supplying Ukraine with weapons, China might perceive this particular moment as an advantage to start their Taiwan campaign. From there, more countries will see the chaos as an advantage to settle their border disputes. And there you have it, a global world war.
a) Support tickets, sprint planning, kanban etc are all part of project management.

b) It can't manage your pipelines. It can visualise deployments and link them to work but you still need some sort of CI/CD tool like Bitbucket, Github etc.

c) It is not an anything app. I can't use it as a wiki, CRM, database, calendar etc.
The could also be incompetent, or competent enough to maintain plausible deniability while guaranteeing viruses will eventually land.

(I’m taking the original claim at face value for the sake of argument.)
> not in the sense that you were ever in any real danger

The analogy breaks down because an island isn’t space. Your default state on an island tends towards remaining alive. Your default state in space is dead.

A closer analogy is a plane in flight. It takes energy and effort to keep everyone alive. Externally-assisted recovery from peril, in that situation, is a rescue. Even if it’s convenient.
Dart is really nice to write in, with far less mental overhead than some of its would-be competitors that couldn't possess the same wisdom and foresight at the time of their creation, so an interactive shell for it is pretty cool. In general I think it's slowly trying to carve its place in the world other than Flutter's language (for which many great packages have been made), but it doesn't have any other forefront project or library, and probably still carries a bit of prejudice from the Dartium mayhem and being a language looking for some purpose that could be orphaned by a blind-sighted Google at any time, the Ads story about it still comes up often. I'd like to see it around more.
If there’s been a straight up or down referendum by the public on sweeping limits to immigration greater than already exist, I’m unaware of it. This could be my ignorance, in which case I’d thank you for educating me via citation.

And while it’s a rare tier-one politician these days that hasn’t merited the word “traitor” by selling their actual as opposed to ostensible policy to monied influence, I’m likewise unaware of any split there along lines of ostensible immigration policy proposal. I’ll likewise thank you for any correction of my ignorance there.
Sounds useful for upcoming slot machines (if they don't know this already).
To everyone saying "oh, the astronauts like having to be up there. It is an opportunity."

You get that they have no choice, right? And that for multiple reasons they are going to put the best spin on the event. For one, for their own sanity, they are going to be as positive and optimistic as possible. For two, there is likely a huge PR pressure to be as positive and optimistic as possible.

Being in space is a pretty big deal. It comes with lots of health risks, and they are isolated from their loved ones. For example, they might be missing funerals for friends or family members, they might be missing milestones of their children, etc... etc...
How much of SpaceX’s boring day to day stuff (including ~all of the F9 stuff) do you think he has a hand in anymore?

Isn’t he running Tesla, Twitter, Neuralink, The Boring Company, Starlink, and the Starship R&D, including its first-of-it’s-kind Raptor engine design which just hit major version 3? And also raising the remainder of his 12 kids (~8?) that are still speaking to him?

I’m fairly certain that most of the “boring” stuff at SpaceX happens despite Musk, not because of him. Ms. Shotwell’s (the SpaceX COO) name doesn’t come up nearly as often as his does, and I suspect she does at least an order of magnitude more work there.

Indeed, several SpaceX staff wrote an open letter complaining about him and his antics being a distraction that hinders them.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/spacex-illegally...
To the contrary!

My point was that out the lot of disorders listed, ME is the real bitch, and a bunch of others can be grouped together.
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Europe has, by proportion, significantly more trucking and significantly less rail freight than the United States. Relatedly, the average American freight train is 2-3x longer than the maximum allowed length of a European freight train.
Nice George Box paraphrasing.
Only seems like a rescue if you specify that they're alone on the island to be honest.

If you had said that they were left at an outpost with other people for six months it somewhat loses it's "rescue" vibes.
It's the standard I meet by flying any airline except Frontier or Spirit.
> It comes with lots of health risks

It also means their forward flight time is curtailed. The near future holds manned missions more exciting than the ISS. There is a real possibility someone who might have gone to the Moon or even Mars doesn’t, now, because of Boeing.
Why can't you upvote comments on HN?
I have tried Claude and I find that it is more "to the point", but still suffers from giving the wrong/unusable answers.

Both claude and chatgpt are good for rote tasks, but claude is definitely more succinct.
I would describe rescue as:

Whenever I travel to a location, the planned return transport fails AND I would eventually be dead without outside human assistance. That’s a rescue.

In your villa example that is correct: your friend helping you is not a rescue. It’s a convenient helping hand. A space station is a different beast though.

If your villa was on a remote isolated island without anyone else on it, it would be closer to the space station but still not exactly the same. The island, depending on its size might have bountiful food/animals you can hypothetically harvest, not to mention attempting to plant and grow some seeds from the hypothetical fruits and vegetables you already have.

Very little of this is realistically possible in a space station like the one we have.
I think it’s more that if you want to believe it’s magic future tech then it looks like it.

If you aren’t on board then it looks impressive but flawed and not even close to living up to the hype.
> If you had said that they were left at an outpost with other people for six months it somewhat loses it's "rescue" vibes

When a country pitches into instability and nations evacuate their citizens, are they not rescuing them?

I suppose I’d invert the question: why does framing the mission as a rescue bug you?
I would think that having the update server hardcoded into the application might be an implicit expectation that you're going to use that update server instead of another one.
But you can cache the whole server side page and the cost is once. Whereas if you have the client side do the render then every client wears the cost.
Well I'm shooting from the hip here and sharing only my gut intuition, so welcome to the party!

In my opinion, governments buying (or taking over) producers that are necessary for the military feels like a drastic departure to how the military industry has operated for decades.

At least in the US, though I think also in Europe, governments have been happy to keep up the status quo of writing massive checks to military contractors that, at least on face value, provide military equipment and training at a massive markup. In the US that markup also tends to be shared with those in power writing the checks through "gifts", campaign donations, and high paying jobs.

Military contractors generally don't seem to be hurting for capital to pay employees, especially the actually vital contractors. If the government takes them over, the most likely motivator I see is for the military to have full control over production, projects, and information security.
From Stat (via another submission):

The fact that the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is still finding such individuals weeks after the H5N1 patient was released from hospital is raising concerns about the rigor of the investigation that the state is running. The CDC cannot send investigators to a state unless its help is requested, and that hasn’t happened.

<https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/27/bird-flu-missouri-four-m...>

One of the factors that strongly contributed to a previous pandemic's early spread was exceedingly poor track-and-trace epidemiological surveillance. Finding that particular failure being repeated so soon afterwards is indeed distressing.
The amount of power being used to support a system that can do 5 transactions a second is disgusting.
> Quantum Leap plans to run FreeBSD on contemporary laptops as a hypervisor-like solution using Bhyve to virtualize other operating systems, including Linux and Windows.

Are they gonna sell laptops running FreeBSD with a virtualized Windows guest as "more secure" to the US government?
Extending the franchise devalues the franchise.
This is not surprising to me. There is so much effort and funding put into funneling girls into STEM there is not much leftover to help boys do anything. These things shouldn't be zero sum, but that's the unfortunate reality on the ground in some cases.

https://archive.is/N0YE7
v2 captchas are a joke. Google has enough data to determine if anyone is a bot or human with 99% accuracy before you click the checkbox. Google passes that single bit of information to the web owner, and in return the users are unpaid data annotation workers.
I've read the new "security" features they've put in place. There is an option to do X, an option to disable Y, an option to...

Look, it's all good and dandy, but when I hear "option" from Microsoft, I just _recall_ how often they are reset on every update. Do we have to list the number of "oups, that was a bug, sorry" incidents that have happened with Edge?

Microsoft did a pretty good job to ruin the little confidence we had in their name. They kind of dig their own grave.
Hope I'm not too late to the party. This is the first time I've read a link about the Wordpress spat; mostly because ... well ... HN is a firehose.

So, "What the heck is going on with WordPress?" IE, does anyone have any links that explain what happened in a neutral, unbiased (within reason) manner?

IE, I certainly respect the opinion in the linked article, but I'm so new to the story that I'm not comfortable agreeing or disagreeing with the points in the article.
Bringing in someone's personal details (such as a real name they haven't used here) is a serious violation of HN's guidelines. You can't do that here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Please don't do it again.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

I've redacted the name now. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Ahh n-gate would have had a field day with this one, sad they shut down.

Disclaimer: my opinions are that of my employer.
What a miracle drug. The salvation of the obese. Thank God this has been developed for our benefit, tested harmlessly and ethically on innocent minority children, and has no known side effects! Also cures addictions! (1984)
Golf is so hard you can’t possibly get good at it and not love it. People golf for a variety of reasons. I play with guys that are relatively terrible because they never practice because it’s just not important to them. They don’t golf because they love the game but rather because they like to get out and away from everything for a few hours and to socialize.

A lot of times people do things they don’t find too interesting because they really like the side effects. I used to play cards with friends that took it seriously and I never really won and wasn’t too into it but it was fun to hang out.
The author is a very sharp individual but is there a reason he insists on labelling overfitting as a phenomenon from machine learning instead of from classical statistics?
I remember hearing that exact phrase, word for word, back in 2008 about gay marriage. Guess what happened next?
I've scolded the other user, but you also broke the site guidelines in this thread. HN is not supposed to be a place for ideological or political battle, and when two users are going after each other like this, both are at fault.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I have been expecting that, if another world war were to kick off, theaters of war would exist both in Europe/Africa/East Asia as well as the Pacific.

A big risk for Taiwan, at least in my amateur view, is China feeling emboldened both by seeing an anemic response to other major conflicts and a West that is already distracted by said major conflicts.

I grew up with the story that Hong Kong was just as off limits to China as Taiwan was. No one came to Hong Kong's defence though, even the British who should be on the hook for that situation just sat by in silence while the Chinese took complete control of HK and installed their own puppet government to manage the transition.
Obsidian needs to officially embed SQLite.
Definitely going to try this out!!

I’ve been using the `vitest bench` command; being able to slap a `.bench.ts` file next to a module and go to town is convenient: https://vitest.dev/guide/features.html#benchmarking
As much as I love giving the middle finger to a company as awful as HP, people need to stop supporting garbage companies like this and then this wouldn't be necessary.
It’s still an opportunity. You can have more kids, but most people probably only get maximum one chance in their life to spend half a year in space, even if they are extremely lucky.

It’s also not like they didn’t know that death or delay or anomalous/inconvenient conditions weren’t possibly on the table. They’re test pilots, after all. Any landing you can walk away from is a good one, even if it takes a year.

Sunita Williams (one of the two stranded) is up there for her fifth(!) trip to the ISS. I can’t speak for her but if I had to guess I don’t think she minds being in space, even if it’s unplanned.
Drone flight controllers can use 3 axis magnetic field sensors combined with their 3 axis gyros and accelerometers, and use various sensor fusion algorithms to produce higher accuracy compass headings which shouldn't have _any_ long term drift, since the magnetometer readings can compensate over time for any short term gyro drift.

I'm not sure how accurate the magnetometers are, and how accurate the calculated compass heading can be, but I recall a project where I used a pair 6DOF accelerometer/magnetometer breakout boards to measure the angle change between the body and the grind setting adjustment ring to datalog my coffee grinder, and I was getting 10bit resolution degrees which all _seemed_ to accurately track the small sub 1 degree adjustments when dialing in the grind. Although I'll admit to not taking the time to understand all the math involved to get from the raw 3 axis acceleration and microTesla magnetic measurements to compass heading, I just copy/pasted sample Arduino code which gave me 1 decimal place degrees. But my grinder has 100 "notches" around the 360 degrees of the grind adjustment ring, and my data logger at least looked like it was accurately/repeatably showing changes down in the quarter to half a notch range.

So while I don't think $50 worth of stuff from Adafruit will get you <0.01deg/hour gyro drift rate, with magnetic calibrations and sensor fusion you could probably hit at least 0.1deg long term precision/accuracy, so over 10 or more hours you'd have "navigation grade" accuracy. Which is probably "good enough" for anything traveling at less that a couple of hundred MPH. 0.1deg error is about 1km every 600km - so if you were sailing from Sydney to San Francisco (with no GPS or astro nav equipment) which is ~12,000km, you'd be within 20km or so when you got there. Which seems "close enough" for anything except delivering nukes.
Mars??? That’s more than a bit of a stretch. The astronauts in the ISS right now weren’t up there for a significantly longer period of time compared to their peers. Absolutely no way it would disqualify them from a mission happening a decade from now which is an absolute best case scenario for mars and frankly even the moon the way the current political climate is in the US.
My take was that initially the metric is appropriate, but then with overfitting, it’s not enough.

It eventually becomes a bad proxy metric.
Interesting. I found that GPT-4 gets this wrong quite consistently, and o1-preview gets it right. It takes a moment to think it through and so isn't tripped up by relying on heuristics.
This reminds me of Eli Goldratt's quote: "Tell me how you measure me, I will tell you how I behave."
You are commenting on the HN thread for this very blog post. Do you think the person you're replying to doesn't know that you offered a "reprieve"? Why are you not actually answering any questions asked here?
I was curious how this thing did video. As you might expect, it's done by bit-banging the VGA RGB output pin from an IRQ. A time honored tradition. Here's the code in the Tetris demo: https://github.com/OLIMEX/RVPC/blob/main/SOFTWARE/Demo-Tetri...

With only 2kB RAM, the tetris demo implements what seems to be a 18 or 36-line screen with 21 characters per line. The bitmap for the next line is generated after blasting the bits out for the previous line.

Like some classic game consoles, this leaves most of the "vertical blanking period" for running your main game-or-whatever logic.

What's great about this board is the built in connectors & software to use it. And the fact you can build it yourself if you know how to wield a soldering iron. And it's a 32-bit microcontroller. On the other hand, its capabilities are limited by the small flash & SRAM: it has less RAM than an Apple I did! (but more flash than the Apple I had ROM, and RISC-V code density probably trumps 6502 code)
Not sure why you are triggered by this (do you work on Flutter?) but this "weird" story is backed by https://killedbygoogle.com/ - we are not talking about a company without a track record here. Peace out.
Do new scams create value? No, even though they make money for some people. The same with speculative ventures that don't pan out. You can only say something's added value when it's been positive sum overall, not just allowed some people to take a profit at the expense of others.
> Absolutely no way it would disqualify them from a mission happening a decade from now

Astronauts have lifetime radiation limits. Crewed Mars missions already push the envelope; the margins are especially meaningful.
Yes. I use Notion (or Logseq or any other Electron-based note-taking apps) as a filing cabinet. I cannot type in it. The typing latency is too much.
Indeed, the more efficient you become the more brittle you will be. You must depend upon the present being static and the future being perfectly predictable based on the events of the past. The present and the future don't merely need to be dependable within your own domain but also in the entire world.

The flexibility necessary to succeed in a real world requires a certain level of inefficiency.
You usually can't because of users who are signed in needing slightly different pages etc.
> I get it for sports

It actually makes no sense at all for sports beyond billionaire owners trying to make fans feel like we’re all one, big, happy family. What on earth does the National anthem have to do with grown men playing baseball or football? Do they sing the National anthem before you sit down and start coding every day?
I hear that some Amish sects permit the use of technology that's older and proven not to be too worldly, like washing machines, chainsaws, and Java 11. Have you considered converting?
Accusing these examples of involving "bad proxy metric" is identical to the no true scotsman fallacy.
They're far from unbiased, but you can gain a lot of context by reading tweets from Matt (@photomatt) and WP Engine.
It was the first time I've used e-id to sign and it felt like sci-fi.
I don’t think the geopolitical issues directly affect ISS operational stuff whatsoever. The missions of the Roscosmos and NASA (and ESA and JAXA and CSA) teams have nothing to do with nationalism or geopolitics and I assume everyone managing them and participating in them is smart enough to realize that.

They didn’t fuck with NASA when Dubya invaded a country, after all. Every spacefaring superpower has its fingers in a bunch of mass murder pies somewhere.

There is no geopolitical upside to Russia or geopolitical downside to the US for NASA to contract Roscosmos to rescue some Americans from space. I imagine SpaceX was just faster and cheaper and already had a mission scheduled.
Good news, ASCII has always had record and group separator characters that for some reason we have all forgotten they exist and nobody would ever use in non-binary data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Field_...
Neither Sunita, nor Butch are candidates for Artemis missions. They are both very experienced senior astronauts in their early 60s (kind of why they were chosen to be test pilots). This was likely to be one of their last trips to space as NASA astronauts regardless.
The blog is mainly about ML - I don’t think the author alluded to overfitting having originated in that space; they just said it’s used extensively.
Overfitting may be a special case of Goodhart's Law, but I don't think Goodhart's Law in general is the same as overfitting, so I don't think the conclusion is well-supported supported in general; there may be plenty of instances of proxy measures that do not have issues.

I'll also quibble with the example
of obesity: the proxy isn't nutrient-rich good, but rather the evaluation function of human taste buds (e.g. sugar detection). The problem is the abundance of food that is very nutrient-poor but stimulating to taste buds. If the food that's widely available were nutrient-rich, it's questionable whether we would have an obesity epidemic.
It might simply be that he didn't trace the etymology back that far.

If it turned out that the term actually started in tailoring before statistics really got it's feet under it (which I absolutely cannot say that it did, just that trying to extrapolate backwards that sounds like a reasonable guess) then it wouldn't speak poorly of you if you hadn't also known that.
This was the opening salvo in the battle. I guess it escalated:

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/
As a white male in California when I was 18 my UC advisor advised me to "save the world" by killing myself as if I was an extra object to be destroyed.
Its kind of funny that you'd list four features of notion, three of which people absolutely do regularly and normally use Jira for (e.g. https://support.atlassian.com/jira-work-management/docs/use-...).

The 4th, a Wiki, is of course more-so just Confluence, but I have seen echoes of a wiki make their way into Jira; e.g. in one place I worked, every release was a ticket that was duplicated from a previous ticket, and that ticket had step-by-step instructions on how to run different parts of the release.

You're just wrong on this, bro. Notion tries to be everything to everyone. Jira is everything to everyone, it doesn't matter what it tries to be.