skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No astronaut has died on ISS in 30 years. Claiming they are in significant danger simply isn't accurate

Nobody claimed as much. A jet liner is safer than the ISS. The analogy is conservative.

> Saying 'the default state in space is dead' when historically basically nobody has died in space

Our default state at cruising altitude is dead.

Note: I’m not suggesting anyone would have died. Just that they were in a perilous place where things were going wrong. Being relieved from that position is a rescue.
I'm in the process of moving all (~2000) of my Apple Notes to Logseq. I still think Apple Notes is excellent, and I'll still be using it for Inbox-style notes.

But it just needs to be a bit more open and extendable. Give me good tables, proper linking between notes and a graph view (or at least an API so I can build that myself) and I'll be back forever.
Your last sentence could literally be pulled from some terrorist "Why we attacked you" screed if you just swapped out "Americans" for some other group.
Calling it rescue or not doesn't matter. The primary objective was test flight for Starliner. Mission is a success, in that it proved Starliner is not safe. Now they're coming down using Dragon, which is the very expensive backup plan, and which is absolutely not what was planned.

Whether you want to call it a rescue or not and play semantics or metaphors all night is your absolute right, but it doesn't change the failure of Starliner in this case.
Yes, just-in-time supply chain systems often become over-efficient and brittle... usually because each link in the chain assumes that someone else is taking on the burden of inefficiency by having excess inventory in order to absorb shocks to the system.
Context-Dependent Interactable UI Element Detection for Spatial Computing
Fred wants a word: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month>

Piling devs onto a project is counterproductive for fundamental communications reasons.

The three chief alternatives are:

- Highly modularise the project and treat those modules as independent projects.

- Launch multiple projects which compete against one another for ultimate launch. Again, treat those as independent projects.

- Buy competing projects. This is a variant of the second option. The competing projects are inherently independent.

Both approaches reduce communications overhead. The result isn't faster production, but rather risk mitigation and diversification over a larger set of investments. Both approaches also work best for an organisation which already has a large engineering capacity.
Right, but that's not the point. A 10th-gen i9 is still a very capable processor (ignoring the thermal issues).
While not as fast as a purely client cached page, the server can selectively cache content, even when some bits of the page are dynamic.
> when it was the preferred option over sticking seats in Crew-8

It was the preferred option before it failed. Between first failure and return it was not the preferred option as it was. It was preferred assuming it worked. But the assumption couldn’t be proven, in part due to Boeing’s shoddy ground sims.
> Boys that want to participate in STEM aren't any more impeded today than they were prior.

You're making my point for me. This is the line that was said about girls 30 years ago. They were not impeded from entering STEM either, but they also weren't encouraged like the boys were at the time. Boys are no longer encouraged or nurtured to do anything by our public schools (STEM or otherwise). The lucky ones have examples in their lives they can model after.
It depends - parts of Europe allow you to knock down and change the part of the house that is not visible from the street. So the facade (“Frontend”) from the street is maintained, but the “backend” is renewed.
Addendum - limp mode once you are behind your yearly mechanical inspection.
> “You can remove it completely, never be turned on in future,” Weston said.

That should be the headline, if true.
Those are great points! Another related law is from queuing theory: waiting time goes to infinity when utilization approaches 100%. You need your processes/machines/engineers to have some slack otherwise some tasks will wait forever.
People are conflating two things.

One is contributing back, which is not required by any license and second is rate limits
You should've recorded the advisor on audio. It is why I record all meetings, as is legal in my state. It's reason enough to get the advisor fired and also to sue.
Unlike marriage, voting is a zero-sum game.
the last 1% of a project takes as much time as the first 99% of a project
Meta blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier over election interference concerns
They don't say "classical statistics," but I don't see any implication that the phenomenon was born from machine learning, even if they say it's a common problem within machine learning. Maybe I missed it? They do mention modelling their conception of overfitting around Goodhart's Law, noting its origin in economics.
from OED:

the modern sense of "meme"

> 2. An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations. Also with modifying word, as internet meme, etc.

> 1998

> The next thing you know, his friends have forwarded it [sc. an animation of a dancing baby] on and it's become a net meme.

> Sci. & Technol. Week (transcript of CNN TV programme) (Nexis) 24 January

the modern sense of "viral"

> Chiefly Marketing. Of, designating, or involving the rapid spread of information (esp. about a product or service) amongst customers by word of mouth, e-mail, etc. to go viral: to propagate in such a manner; to (be) spread widely and rapidly.

> 1989

> The staff almost unanimously voted with their feet as long waiting lists developed for use of the Macintoshes... ‘It's viral marketing. You get one or two in and they spread throughout the company.’

> PC User (Nexis) 27 September 31

Edit: format
They were by implication.
If your car dies at night in the middle of a desert. Is the tow truck rescuing you?
Just add some measure of robustness to your optimization criterion. That includes having some slack for unforeseen circumstances.
We can also cache some of the dynamic JavaScript, depending on the scenario but your point stands.
Boys don't need to be told by their school what their aptitude is, and neither do women. Getting women into STEM isn't about diverting potential dentists and heart surgeons to be white-collar desk jockeys - it's about stopping them from the same fate you're so afraid of men ending up at!
> Is it a rescue mission? No. It's a normal crew rotation mission that has happened to (arguably) rescue a few people on the way

I like this.

Nit: it’s not a normal mission. Normal missions don’t leave two seats for folks trained on a different spacecraft. It’s a scheduled mission.
Page title: What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?
What if NASAs decision was largely influenced by social media hysteria and not objective engineering?

Of course NASA would never give into outside pressures - cough, Challenger, cough. And what I read on the internets is so massively factual.
It sounds like you are very heavily paraphrasing here, with the placement of your quotes.
I can buy a 16TB refurbished enterprise drive with warranty for less than a hundred.
I am an outsider to WordPress ecosystem but what really annoys me is that even here on HN people can’t tell the difference between OpenSource software and using another’s services without authorization. They can’t tell the difference between “free as in speech” and “free as in beer”. I am utterly disappointed by that and wish the community will educate itself. Surely releasing the software under open source license does not give commercial entities the right to leach off of the foundation’s infrastructure in perpetuity. That being said, certainly Matt could have taken a different approach. Just that he sounds like a nice guy and didn’t do it. The right thing to do would be to put a statement in the terms of service saying “by accessing Wordpress.org for commercial purposes through automated means you agree to the charge of $1000/MB downloaded using your IP address”. Then sends multi-billion dollar invoices to WPEngine like Oracle would do. File lawsuits. Replace the updates and plugins when requested through WPEngine IPs with ones showing a “Cease and Desist” notice and notifying end users that access to their site is denied due to outstanding invoice of their hosting provider. Boom. Checkmate.
The author is an academic, it is important to give proper credit for ideas within reason. Same reason I call F = ma the law of Newton and now the law of my high school physics teacher, even though I learned it first from him.

The reason I have this quibble is because the author says things like

>you should consider building formal (mathematical) bridges between results on overfitting in machine learning, and problems in economics, political science, management science, operations research, and elsewhere

If we are appropriately modest and acknowledge the fact that overfitting is well-studied by statisticians (although, obviously not in the context of deep neural networks), it seems kind of ridiculous to make statements like, economists and political scientists should consider using statistics?
It sounds like everyone in this thread is in complete agreement about the complex parameters and details and yet we are arguing on the scope of the label.
Men who are talented still have tons of options, like in finance, sports, writing, STEM subjects, politics, social media etc. They can go the social media influencer route, or the 6-figure-tech route, or the consultant or other white collar route. But those in the middle or worse in the 'talent distribution' have far fewer options, typically limited to the low-paying service sector or the injury-prone blue collar route. So these men are also probably more inclined to drop out of society by living with friends and family instead of slaving away forever for mediocre pay. The value proposition does not justify the extra work of putting in 100% if you're not making much money and there is little hope of advancement.
You can add a measure of robustness to your optimization criteria. You can explicitly optimise for having enough slack in your utilisation to handle these unforeseen circumstances.

For example, you can assign priorities to the loads on your systems, so that you can shed lower priority loads to create some slack for emergencies, without having to run your system idle under during lulls.

I get what the article is trying to say, but they shouldn't write off optimisation as easily as that.
Thanks Zoe. Yes, I do not want this as a replacement to human therapist but a gap fill. Thanks for your encouragement.
My derision is not only warranted, it's practically charitable given the absurdity on display. The fundamental misunderstanding paraded here isn't just embarrassing; it's symptomatic of the broader intellectual decay that now passes for discourse in tech circles.

Let's cut through the nonsense: the speed at which an LLM processes text is neither remarkable nor revolutionary—it's a brute-force algorithm churning through data with all the grace of a sledgehammer. By current standards, it's laughably inefficient, and your fixation on it reveals a stunning lack of depth. If you attempted to peddle these claims in a serious computer science department, you’d be met with the kind of laughter reserved for first-year undergraduates who haven’t yet grasped the basics.

And as for your response—how utterly pathetic. If my comparison of LLM efficiency to non-deterministic polynomial time were truly as off-base as you'd like to pretend, you'd have taken the time to refute it properly, to demonstrate where I’ve gone wrong. But instead, you've chosen the coward's path: declaring your supposed superiority while sidestepping any actual argument. You didn't refute my point because you couldn't, and now you resort to some vague, self-righteous posturing, suggesting that I should feel embarrassed. The only embarrassment here is yours—for thinking such a shallow tactic could pass for a real rebuttal.

It's also come to my attention that all this ridiculous AI hype marketing is having a far more sinister effect—it's causing some of the brightest young minds to give up before they even start. This is something I refuse to accept. If crushing the ignorant morons who perpetuate nonsense means I come across as mean, then so be it. I'll gladly take that role if it means clearing the path for those who actually have the potential to contribute something real to tech, rather than getting lost in the hype-fueled fog of delusion.

And if you think this is some grand breakthrough, let me assure you, those who actually know what they're talking about predicted ChatGPT's emergence just over a year before it became a buzzword to the public. These same experts, the ones who haven't overdosed on AI hype, would be the first to tell you that you’ve been duped—hook, line, and sinker.
Which is precisely what is meant by specific use cases. We don't have to throw out the first 25 years of the web and reimplement all of our business logic in a minified JS blob. Even when client side code is necessary, the trend of pushing rendered HTML rather than JSON that must be parsed and rendered keeps us as close to browser primitives as possible.
Has anyone here had success with deleting their 23 & Me data or data of a deceased relative?
From a social / emotional / spiritual/ humanistic perspective, this is what I see in the "productivity" and "wellness" spaces.

"Ahh, if only I hyperoptimize all aspects of my existence, then I will achieve inner peace. I just need to be more efficient with my time and goals. Just one more meditation. One more gratitude exercise. If only I could be consistent with my habits, then I would be happy."

I've come to see these things as a hindrance to true emotional processing, which is what I think many of us actually need. Or at least it's what I need - maybe I'm just projecting onto everyone else.
My first hand experience with how public schools treat girls vs boys nowadays (often in subtle ways) is:

Girls: You will be an astronaut stem president boss queen with less than $REPLACEMENT_RATE children!
Boys: Hey how about be a girl
Based on the SSA’s own published findings, they will need to reduce benefits by 25% starting in 2034. Unless of course something changes to collect more taxes.
I'm frankly stunned that Microsoft managed to turn this around (and so quickly). I think most of us were expecting this to quietly disappear, never to be heard from again. Time will tell whether the security features are what they're claimed to be, but things are honestly looking better.
Interestingly, the same effect shows up in communications systems. The more efficient an error correction code (ie. the closer it approaches the Shannon Bound), the more catastrophically it fails when the channel capacity is reached. The "perfect" code delivers no errors up until the Shannon bound then meaningless garble (50% error rate) beyond the Shannon Bound.

My point is that error correction codes have a precise mathematical definition and have been deeply studied. Maybe there is a general principle at work in the wider world, and it is amenable to a precise proof and analysis? (My guess is that mileage may be made by applying Information Theory, as used to analyse error correcting codes.)
I don't know if you'll see this, since it was a couple days ago, and I've been reviewing multiple posts. I think what you describe is exactly what got me into programming (beyond a hobby, which was brought on by BASIC games in the 80's), but also what really hooked me into writing code for a living.

These all seem like a huge deal, unless you don't understand business and their needs. I can easily see how all four solutions could provide enormous value. For myself, these are the types of things that I got involved in programming professionally for. I think it's impressive that you were able to take a language like Tcl (not traditionally taught in university), and able to find a useful library to implement your logic.

Beyond BASIC games in the very early 80's, Visual Basic and the "hacking" tools for AOL, were a huge inspiration for myself. I dipped my toes into some weird libraries to solve some issues, that are still used today, in companies that you would never expect to be using something so simple and crude, but sturdy. Crash out with a useful message if something is wrong, do nothing on failure. Not for regular consumers, but perfect for internal staff that load data into a database, and can understand "row X is not compatible with this data type", or "This transformation rule fails because X occurred," being some rule that can't be expressed through SQL where the data is stored (but was able to be imported).
The answer is funding.

USCIS needs to be fully self reliant on funding, a restriction not placed on any other agency from what I know.

Congress passed a bill a couple of years ago increasing the fees of several kinds of applications allowing for more funding, after a long gap. Further, they passed funding for digitizing their processes and updating computers after about 2 decades.

An additional factor is the massive backlog created by the Trump administration whose strategy was to simply add roadblocks and delays to the simplest processes. This was further exacerbated by pandemic slowdowns, so the increased capacity, combined with the removal of ideological opposition to legal and authorized immigration and a large backlog has likely resulted in the large numbers of citizenships.
It's a bit of a weird situation and there isn't an easy answer yet, but it's something that at a minimum bears garnering some research money. If the trend continues and it ends up that being a woman means you're significantly more likely to have career success across the bell curve then yeah, we'll probably need support programs for men just like we had for women in the decades prior.

I have theories about the underlying issues though and I suspect you do too. It's less of an opportunity issue and more of a culture one. Women are being taught they need to fight and men are being taught they need to just exist. So they're doing just that.
I don’t disagree with your overall point, but I don’t think it’s a matter of “education.” Average people don’t vote/act according to formally reasoning things out. They act based on intuition and socialization.

And the socialization of immigrants is completely different than of the people who founded the country. I know a bunch of New England Congregationalists. These are people whose families came over on the Mayflower. And from my perspective as a Bangladeshi they’re like some alien civilization. Like, they find it vaguely unseemly to have food with too much flavor. But they have a crazy high conscientiousness and process-focus, high social trust, and a reflexive aversion to waste. When you put people like that in charge of a country, it turns out a certain way.

If those people still comprised the majority of voters, we probably wouldn’t have a $35 trillion debt today. At a G7 meeting after the global financial crisis, Angela Merkel, daughter of a Lutheran pastor, started crying because the other countries insisted Germany engage in deficit spending. Bangladeshis wouldn’t act like that.
Regarding AI and distributed systems, this might not be what you have in mind, but take a look at federated learning. I'm currently a computer science PhD candidate at a small school, and a couple of our graduates in the past year worked on the fundamentals and applications of federated learning.

I came into this PhD program thinking that I wanted to work on stuff like the distributed databases that you listed, or the stuff they're built on like clock synchronization. I did my master's degree in 2017-2018 and I was fascinated by an "advanced databases" class that covered these things. Unfortunately, nobody in my department works on such things, and I agree with you that I don't hear much about that area anymore.
If he lied when he swore the oath, is he still a doctor?

BTW, I like this game: 'endlessly avoid making a point'. The winner is the person who gets the other one to end up questioning something that is required for a shared reality -- thus effectively admitting they might as well be arguing with themselves.
How is this even a discussion?

There is no requirement for companies like WP Engine to contribute to Wordpress. Zero. Mullenweg and his side admit as much.

And let's be real -- it's about the money. How many times have Mullenweg and co mentioned WPE's revenue in a discussion that's ostensibly about open source contributions? Otherwise, the Automattic rhetoric would be structured around "if WP Engine just contributes x hours a year of work then we'd drop the dispute." But we all know that's not true.

It's just sour grapes from Automattic, which is getting beaten by a competitor.

Until there's some legal obligation for WPE to contribute back to Wordpress, this is all nonsense.

This is making Automattic look thin-skinned and inept. They're going to lose a lot of credibility with their partners, if they haven't already. Anyone who actually watched Matt's talk knows it was disastrous. Someone in his circle needs to intervene and get him to drop this awkward, ill-advised and ultimately ineffective strategy.
That's how the terrorists phrase it so yes. But that's taking them at their words rather than taking them at their actions.

The biggest difference is: in this case the terrorists get the payback. The people who are actually guilty/related to that. Organizations like Hezbollah target civilians and fire blindly at entire regions.

There are quite a lot of other differences, I suggest avoiding false equivalencies of this sort.
Noone uses passkeys
Strictly speaking this is not the contrapositive and therefore the proof is yet to be seen. A sound corollary: "If I do not behave, it is because you did not measure me."
Can't agree with you more my friend. Another point on a philosophical level is efficiency or optimization in life, which always focuses on tangible aspects and ignores the greater intangible aspects of life.
> if you’re not in danger, you’re not being rescued. You’re just being transported

The ISS isn’t Treasure Island. There is always an elevated degree of peril. Particularly in an emergency condition.
Which becomes a far more important issue when dealing with bandwidth or CPU constrained devices, or artificially imposed constraints due to data usage costs.
> yet we are arguing on the scope of the label

It’s Saturday, can’t we have a semantic punt?
The other commenter answering you is, I think, trying to point out that the Arrow plasma store is deprecated (and no longer present in the arrow project).

I think it's worth being a little more clear here - Arrow IPC is _not_ deprecated, and has massive momentum - so much so that it's more or less already become the default IPC format for many libraries.

To me it remains unclear what the benefits of Iceoryx2 over the Arrow ecosystem is, and what the level of interoperability is, and what the tradeoffs of either are relative to eachother. Within a single machine, you can mmap the IPC file. You can use Arrow Flight for inter-node or inter-process communication. You can use Arrow with Ray, which is where Plasma went.

I love anything new in this space though, if/when I have time I'll check this out - would love it if somebody could actually eloborate on the differences though.
So you would support naturalization of immigrants who agree with your views, then?
Is there a good link for the unexpected science these two have been doing and will do?
Crystal is beautiful. I wish I had a use case for it.