skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s one of those weird paradoxical things. Yes, the chances of all that happening is astronomically small, but the chances that something happens is nearly 1.
So, while that specific person may not have existed, it’s likely his mother would have had children, etc, etc.

And it kind of ties into the general idea. Luck is favorable variance. So put yourself in situations where you can experience variance. Eventually, you will have something favorable happen to you.

There’s a post on this site that gets linked about how success is like a carnival game. And it’s about how many chances you can afford. It’s also the mentality behind “fail fast and fail often”. Increase your exposure to variance and you increase your chances of success.
matt's actions which precipitated the row were to demand that WPEngine pay 8% of their revenue to Automattic, a private-equity-associated, for-profit corporation matt runs.

Money, more and more money for matt, seems to be the matt's driving motivation here. He seems to be projecting his own greed onto others.
Every time there's a thread about models from Meta, there's a flood of comments clarifying that they aren't really open source.

So let's also set the record straight for FLUX: only one of the models released is open source -- FLUX schnell -- it's a distillation from the proprietary model that's much harder to work with.

Meta's Llama models have ironically much more permissive license for all practical intents and purposes and they are also incredibly easy to fine tune (using Meta's own open source framework, or several third party ones), while FLUX schnell isn't.

I think the open source community should rally behind OpenFLUX or a similar project, which tries to fix the artificial limitations of Schnell: https://huggingface.co/ostris/OpenFLUX.1
One could answer that question to people whose salary does not depend upon not understanding the answer.
Some googling suggests this is what causes type 2 diabetes. Pancreas wears out and stops producing insulin.
Also the AI generated images that can't get the fingers right. Have you ever tried to look at your hands while lucid dreaming and try counting fingers? There are some really interesting parallels between the dreams and diffusion models.
Anecdotally, every chronically sick person (always getting colds, coughs, sinus infections, headaches, UTIs, other symptoms) I know is overweight. This doesn't show causation, maybe having a weak immune system contributes to being hungry and overeating but all the normal weight or lean people I know seem to rarely be sick.
you'd think we'd have more "bail top" bottles around today if they were so durable.

I've got a gully that was used as a trash dump in the 1920s. We found some "rust colored areas" in the soil and some ~10mm shards of ceramics with recognizable glazing still. even the bricks were shattered and easy to mistake for rock.

I think the speed of natural recycling is vastly underestimated. There's a few rare occasions and circumstances where preservation can happen; the default state is entropy eating things as fast as they're built.
Sorry but how does it constitute a false justification? The short version of the proposal to build LHC was that

" We would like to construct a machine to reach the energy scale we can't currently reach with Tevatron. This will allow us to discover Higgs boson the last building block of standard model and in the process allow us to do other things like study b physics, Quark-Glouns interactions and maybe could find some low mass particles from SUSY and or other beyond standard model theories."

Most of the goals are either achieved (with the main on being higgs
Higgs) or being studied now (remember particle physics is not about unification only) but we failed to see some of things we said we could have seen.

Sorry I have hard time believing that sabine is not cherry picking and twisting facts to support her claims. I don't want to go into attacking personalities and I don't have something with sabine other than her constant stream of unfounded claims about particle physics.
In the vast majority of cases the answer is more money. Employers will do literally anything besides offering that, even when explicitly told by the top performing employees that they only want more money and nothing else.
Obviously it is better. The better alternative to intensive animal husbandry is not eating meat (or other animal products, but in a lesser way) than greenwashing via "organic" designation.
That is almost how Hoeijmakers explains it, but not quite, see the link in my other comment for pointers.

He thinks aging is not programmed per se, but what is programmed is the switch of modes.
Aging happens automatically as faults built up in dna over time. If an organism switches from "organism growth mode" to "repair dna mode", the chance of survival increases.

Now, how to conveniently trick the body into the latter mode is the million dollar question.
If I understand correctly the fees are only for an overleaf-type web collaborative editing experience. The typst program itself, the one you install on your computer, is free to use and open-source.
The consequence of efficiency is inflexibility.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794
They have mission goals which were achieved (booster was caught). Goals that they didn't think they could do (Starship being within the buoys). While there was flames and those could be dangerous you judge the mission based on the planned outcomes but they will try to eliminate the anomalies to improve the next mission while still achieving the goals.
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It’s not just superstition. Air conditioned air can be bad for you if you’re not maintaining it. It is also drying so it can bother your throat, eyes, and skin. It might make it easier to transmit COVID though that might just be in door air. I definitely prefer comfortable outdoor air to air conditioned air.

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/ss/slideshow-what-ac-doe...

https://time.com/3942050/air-conditioner-healthy/
> Spacex might be a private company, but this project is funded by NASA, meaning the American taxpayer.

So was the space shuttle, so that's not a difference between the launch costs of the two vehicles.
> Behind the scenes, Firepad uses the Firebase Realtime Database for cloud data storage and synchronization.

I have no judgement for folks who choose to use Firebase, but I would never add it as even an indirect dependency in something I’m building.
Subway: A collection of color schemes based on subway maps from around the world
After the next elections, I fully expect it (and cannabis) to be reversed by the CDU, who will win without a doubt.
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I think the point is that playing whack a mole is an effective practical strategy to shore up individual weaknesses (or even classes of weaknesses) but that doesn’t get you to general reasoning unless you think that intelligence evolved this way. Given the adaptability of intelligence across the animal kingdom to novel environments never seen before, I don’t think that can be anything other than a short term strategy for AGI.
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I always thought the liquid sloshing would be one of the hardest to simulate (considering how chaotic fluid mechanics is). Interestingly, I think this caused the 2nd Falcon launch to fail (the LOX sloshing).
Starship is supposed to be fully & rapidly reusable. Neither adjective applies to the space shuttle.
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Maybe in UK local roads are funded differently? If you counted only national roads in Poland it would seem that Poland takes more in revenue than spends on roads, which isn't true if you count expenses on all the local roads that aren't in national budget.
GitHub page: https://github.com/idleberg/vscode-subway
It probably depends on what you see. As long as you have a broad view over a part of the map, you should stay in that region, but I guess that if you look at a mono-color wall, you probably find yourself in a very different part of the map when you look around yourself again.

But I am just guessing, and I haven't tried it yet.
Second stage reuse seems the far more challenging problem. Other companies should have reusable boosters soon but if significant amounts of Starship continue to ablate on the way down they could be faced with a disposable Starship competing with smaller and cheaper second stages that are well sized for typical payloads. We already knew boosters can be flown back to launch sites reliably with high accuracy. We don't know if it is possible to make rapidly reusable thermal protection systems that can operate on an orbital vehicle of Starship's size until it is demonstrated.
What does Starship reusability mean for $/kg to LEO? I know there are longer term targets of $10/kg but that supposes efficiencies that aren’t here yet. Would be helpful to understand before Starship reusability where the state of the art was in terms of $/kg to LEO and where we would be with impending Starship reusability.
This entity you're describing clearly isn't "right wing" if it uses left-wing practices like taxation, public debt, and government-funded "cultural institutions" (whatever that actually means).

Taxation is inherently a left-wing concept. Under right-wing ideologies, there would not be any taxpayer money to give "cronies" because such funds never would be collected from taxpayers in the first place.

Public debt is inherently a left-wing concept. Under right-wing ideologies, there wouldn't even be any government entity capable of incurring debt.

"Cultural institutions" involving the government are inherently a left-wing concept. Under right-wing ideologies, the government simply wouldn't have the resources to create "cultural institutions" and any such entities that did exist would be created, funded, and operated by the private sector alone.

If you're truly upset about the things you just described, then it's because you dislike left-wing ideologies, even if you don't recognize it.
At this point I am finding it hard to hate Elon Musk.

For everything he does that has annoyed me (like Gloating at people being bombed in the middle east) — his business acumen has completely unlocked for people what they we thought was impossible.
The supreme court has said that partisan gerrymandering is a-okay, making it totally viable for states with 50-50 populations to end up with supermajorities in their state legislatures and house delegations.

The federal senate is not allocated according to the population and does not directly reflect the will of the majority.

Efforts to limit access to the franchise have been upheld by the courts and key protections from federal legislation like the voting rights act have been undone.

Even when the federal government does pass laws or regulations, the courts step in to strike them down through increasingly spurious reasoning.
That's pretty funny. It reminds me of if you grew up watching movies with the standard 24 fps - trying to watch films at 60fps later felt unnatural and fake.

I'll say I'm okay with DOF - it just feels (subjectively to me) like its incredibly exaggerated in Flux. The workarounds have mostly been prompt based adding everything from "gopro capture" to "on flickr in 2007" but this approach feels like borderline alchemy in terms of how reliable it is.
They're a long way from having a reusable super heavy booster. It's still copping a lot of damage on the landing.
That happened before the election, though? Like, Greenwald quit in October 2020. How could you say it was the administration when he wasn't in office?

It's deeply misleading for you to write that because it implies he was abusing governmental power when he was just a regular private citizen.
https://archive.is/dwUWk
With a payload volume of 8m diameter by 22m height you could fit a James Webb size telescope inside with minimal folding. The sunshield (21.2 m by 14.2m) would only need to fold along one axis and the mirror (6.6 m) could be monolithic instead of having to fold, probably only requiring the mounting points for the primary and secondary to be hinged. This shouldn't be discounted because it makes telescope design much simpler and less expensive.

It also allows for launching individual space station modules that have almost the same volume as the entire ISS in one launch.

Their plans for refuelling on orbit with tanker versions of the starship open up the entire solar system to unmanned missions with much shorter timelines and much higher payload size and weight.

The fact the entire system is re-usable will make it both cheaper and faster to use than any other launch system.

All of this combined mean that it won't just be countries and space programs bidding for space on launches, it puts space within reach of many corporations and some private individuals. This isn't conjecture, it's already happening with the Falcon 9. Starship will make it even more accessible.
I find that LLMs are precisely that: marvelous engines to explore "what you don't know that you don't know", about anything.
> Cost of launch is the only recognized limitation

That’s how you read “in principle” and “in theory”? The cost of launch is used, in the third bullet, to justify not analysing the idea further. Not as the “only…limitation.”

As your source says, even a working space-based boost-phase interceptor is trivially defeat-able with “primitive” ASAT capabilities.

Brilliant pebbles are a fucked concept. You’re citing a no-math NAS paper for good reason—it’s good to speculate about it in case we learn something new about how gravity works. Barring that, it’s well-recognised nonsense.
Sorry, too busy selling ads.
Is the $1000/ton a law a physics, or could that ever possibly scale up and come down an order of magnitude?
All tissue in organs are under stress and cells die of. That is normal, also for young people. The body produces new cell by making copies of dna.

What is problematic however is that after some time, there is a built up of errors in the dna. If those errors do not get corrected, that is when you see a decline in organ quality, what we call aging.

If interested, see my other posts for more pointers.
I think there are areas today, where you can rapidly grow and in 60 years we will look back and think to ourselves how that was possible.
> but this project is funded by NASA

About 10% funded by NASA. Starship is a >$10B program; SpaceX is getting $3B for Artemis of which >2/3 is for operational tasks and moon-specific stuff that SpaceX aren't relevant for SpaceX's goals of LEO and Mars.
For myself I can sleep at any reasonable temperature. But between 60-65 F, I sleep extremely well. I do it with a relatively simple set up called an air conditioner, but I have fantasized about having a pillow that is always cool to the touch.
Once you put something big in the LEO, you'll have to be able to boost its orbit indefinitely, because the orbit will otherwise slowly decay.
I wonder how much of that difference is because the space shuttle was human rated from the start: F9 eventually got there, but only after plenty of "testing in production" with disposable payloads.

The other big difference, an elephant in the room grade difference I think, is that SpaceX reliability was developed with memories of a reusable vehicle failing mostly due to turnaround costs and risks on everyone's minds. That clearly wasn't the case when the space shuttle was designed, they were the first and enjoyed the privilege of making all the beginner mistakes.
> they train on the code itself, the unit tests for that code

If understanding the code was enough, we wouldn't have any bugs or counterintuitive behaviors.

> and - for popular projects - thousands of examples of that library being used (and unit tested) "in the wild".

If people stopped contributing to forums, we won't have any such data for new things that are being made.
> People simply watch more than they read most of the time.

This sounded like a wild statement, until I remembered how many people still watched TV for hours every day.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-024-01911-3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-024-00716-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00470-5

https://www.science.org/content/article/long-covid-trials-ai...

https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=54970

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00871-6

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01274-3

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/news-events-human-drugs/fda-approv...

Immunotherapy is entering the golden age and we're about to find out what and what doesn't work.
It's not great for gaming, but I remember when I had an old Toshiba laptop from 2011 at my mom's house running Windows 10, it was painfully slow and practically unusable. I installed Ubuntu, and the performance improved significantly. It became usable for web browsing and light tasks.

Ubuntu is often a better choice for older hardware because it's less resource-intensive compared to Windows, and also you get the plus of avoid Window's nagging for Microsoft account sign in, products and ads.
The funny thing is that people were calling for protecting the future of the children - and now we've just moved the goalposts to those children's children.
While there is a thing to be said about the unethical business practices of Quora/StackOverflow, I reject the framing of “reducing your earning power.” Not everything is about transactions or self-benefit, especially when it comes to knowledge; it’s about contributing and collaboration. There is immense intrinsic value to that. I’m glad we don’t live in your world, where libre software is a pipe-dream and hackers hoard their knowledge like sickly dragons.
They are certainly very big. Rail is extremely safe so you reduce deaths and injuries from accidents. You reduce other types of pollution. You make towns and cities a lot pleasanter. You save individuals a lot of money.
Pretty sure it's not so much trust but because there's a chance the train conductor would check tickets while you are in the train.
A similar but more recent career trajectory: Elliot Hill, the incoming Nike CEO started at Nike as a store sales intern and was already head of Nike EMEA retail by around age 34 (in the year 2000)
I don’t usually say something like this on HN, but you are completely and utterly wrong. The obesity epidemic cannot be reduced to some simple moral failure. Multiple twin concordance studies have shown 70%+ inheritability. Those of us who are fortunate enough to not struggle with obesity do so not because of some skillset that we have, but because our bodies do not maintain the same homeostasis.

For those of us old enough to remember what society looked like before the obesity epidemic kicked in, it’s hard to understand how something genetic can suddenly result in a dramatic change over a period of years. Our genetics didn’t change. Our food environment did. Experts disagree on what factors are responsible for this, and any random person had their own pet beliefs.

But this flat-earth-like notion of reducing obesity to an issue of basic willpower needs to be recognized for the drivel it is, along the related notion of calories in & calories out while ignoring the overwhelming role that basal metabolic burn plays and how it dynamically responds to changes in diet and exercise.

If you want to educate yourself, read Posner’s Burn [1], which is firmly grounded in empirical measurements of doubly labeled water to measure true metabolic consumption. Look up the reporting the NYT on past contestants of The Biggest Loser.[2]

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603894/burn-by-herm...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/health/biggest-loser-weig... (gift link)

Edit: Added links to sources.
Saving up those refurbishment costs, cleaning the tower ahead of time!
Are you reading that right?

> The investigators were comparing median survival between the CR and control (CON) groups, not longevity or lifespan per se.

As I read that, it wasn’t that the study showed that caloric restriction didn’t extent lifespan. It’s that they weren’t investigating the effect of caloric restriction on lifespan, so no conclusions can be made from the study.
I also expect if something fails a test in the way down you crash in the water rather than splat your catcher
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> Offering free parking at stations

From everything I've read, that's a huge subsidy. It takes land away from people willing to live without a car, and who would pay to be in walking distance from the station.

Put subsidized parking around a station and you lose that tax base, and encourage even more car dependency.

Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts#Replacement_buse... and you'll see why you need to bribe people with cheap parking to use the trains:

> The assumption at the time[citation needed] was that car owners would drive to the nearest railhead (which was usually the junction where the closed branch line would otherwise have taken them) and continue their journey onwards by train. In practice, having left home in their cars, people used them for the whole journey. Similarly for freight: without branch lines, the railways' ability to transport goods "door to door" was dramatically reduced. As in the passenger model, it was assumed that lorries would pick up goods and transport them to the nearest railhead, where they would be taken across the country by train, unloaded onto another lorry and taken to their destination. The development of the motorway network, the advent of containerisation, improvements in lorries and the economic costs of having two break-bulk points combined to make long-distance road transport a more viable alternative.

You've built a lot of your country around car transport (and diesel trains instead of electrification). Less than we did in the US, certainly, but the fundamental problem is to reduce the severity of the greenhouse crisis. If rail subsidies reduce CO2 emissions and parking subsidized does not, then why do the latter?
php has the opposite problem where if a script hangs on io, you can be cooked (assuming other requests blocked similarly).

Different trade offs for sure, but given IO is often the bottleneck, having it force you to think about running code asynchronously can often result in code that runs more in parallel than equivalent first blush php code.

For instance, if you were writing in a function style a program that fetched entries from a web service, for each of those results, run a summarization pass using another service, and then insert summarization result in a database, a style like shown in this article might serialize the summarization / insert operations, one after the other, where you’d instead want each result to be processed in parallel.

Lots of libraries in node that make that easy and the code straightforward to reason about.
Does brave also block YouTube ads like ublock origin does?
Likely a mix of GPS, inertial guidance, vision and radio/laser beacons/ranging.
You’re spamming a twice-flagged comment [1][2] that’s already been rebutted [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828032

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828151

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828048
I really hope so, and I will start recommending typst when there is good accessible output.

However, it’s also been a “top priority” since basically the first release.
10 minutes from 3h25m of this video shows launch and catch.

Historic viewing :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC87WmFN_As&t=3h25m14s