skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got interesting in Starship mainly because, like Cybertruck but much much bigger, it's a chaotic project driven by an idiosyncratic leader. That's a common and usually unpleasant experience in tech It often leads to the pathology of fake Agile in which the leader treats an iterative approach as a license to make it up as he goes. So, an agile-ish rocket project? Cool.

The chopsticks catch was a big gamble that paid off. Had it failed, it would have taken multiple iterations and tests to overcome that failure, much as the upper stage fins are still iterating toward, they hope, a design that survives and eventually becomes robust enough for rapid reusability. Failing the catch would have been a bigger problem than the burnt fins. It would probably have damaged the launch tower which does not yet have a finished companion tower.

The devil is in a thousand details as usual. Are there any less-visible structural failures in the booster or the tower? Is re-entry proofing the fins on the upper stage on the critical path to trying an upper stage catch? Will Elon set a crazy goal for the next launch?
Also how many hours you save compared to truck/van? You still have to load it to one to drive it to where ever airship is moored, and then unload it, load to airship. Fly that to destination(weather depending). And same. Or you could drive from start to end. At certain distances it might make sense, but I think those might be somewhat limited.
While I really like the color, and IMHO the back-light works quite well in my eyes, there are a couple of shortcomings of the RMPP and reMarkable in general which are barely mentioned, but which you should know if you consider buying one:

- while the total resolution is slightly higher on the RMPP (229 PPI) compared to RM 1/2 (226 PPI), the effective resolution is lower, especially for ebooks/PDFs. When you have text on say grey background you can barely read the text on the RMPP while there is no problem on RM 1/2.

- starting with RMPP there is coil whining (not loud but you hear it in quite settings)

- while the advertising sais "Can render 20,000 colors", you have actually a very limited number of colors when it comes to one pixel. Colorful images or highlighted text is being rendered quite coarsly as on those cheap 7-color e-ink devices (but faster and with higher resolution)

- you can't use the (quiet expensive) pen which works for RM 1/2

- the software feels quite unfinished in a lot of aspects. This is hard to summarize of course but includes very slow processing of and poor interaction with ebooks/pdfs or the close to non-existing integration of typed text.

- without the cloud it's hard to get documents on your device. The web interface is fiddly and for some documents it simply doesn't work.

On the plus side you get root access on a relatively native Linux system and there is a community providing cool stuff [0]

[0]: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
Taiwan to have satellite internet service as protection in case of Chinese attac
Absurdist humour, Hitchhiker's is full of it, as is Discworld. Aggressive Britishisms as well (like conkers and tea references), like in the Cornetto trilogy.
Adding my name to the list of people greatly impacted by BBSs in the 80's and forward.
I became good friends with some locals that ran a WWIV board. I'm still friends with them, and a few others that used their BBS, to this day.
My favorite though was TProBBS that incorporated a D&D style game. I remember there was an option to buy and upgrade a ship, too. Then you could explore the ocean looking for treasure and sea monsters and sometimes battle others.
You could upgrade your "bank" for better security, which hardly anyone did. I played a rogue character and was able to steal a lot of money from others before they realized how important it was to upgrade your security systems.
Fun times. Good memories.
What could possibly go wrong... :)
It's almost like people upvoted it or it's quiet. Commenting on it won't help; downvote it if you want, upvote things you do want to see.

I for one am here for the random things that pop up on occasion. I have zero interest in LLMs and crypto-bollocks (mainly because I'm not earning money off of it)
Starbucks? I prefer a coffee shop.
As another brit, I have better food available to me than I've encountered anywhere else, having travelled plenty in Europe, USA and Asia.
Actually,you could use javascript as your backend instead of rust to develop the application of tauri.
Every business in a competitive market is "barely profitable", that's how capitalism works. If a company is raking in massive profits that's a sign that the market is distorted somehow -- a monopoly, collusion, regulation, etc..
Outside the field, but generally acquainted with scientific studies of things much closer and easier to study: I wonder how much guesswork really goes into astrophysics vs other areas?
Do they ever do something like the following scenario?:

1. LLM is trained on everything
2. LLM classifies everything in training corpus as high / low quality
3. New (or same) LLM (re)trains on only high quality documents

I've read most web data is somewhat to absolutely useless, e.g. pages of stock quotes, and it seems easy for something like GPT-3 to classify that, and classifying it would take what... one extra epoch's worth of computation? And save much more computation downstream by shrinking the size of the training set.
Oh wow! Thank you! Completely forgot about that!
Not sure how realistic, but could the inspectors go to the airship instead? They are not planes: Not only can they "park" while airborne, but at least there were concepts of boarding/unboarding in the air as well: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/realestate/26scapes.html
> some other predictable disaster coming down the pike

I mean, we have one of those right now (that we've known about since at least the 1980s) and ...

> they'll be a mass effort to take giant steps

That isn't happening. And climate change is an easy thing to deal with compared with the colonisation of Mars.
Apple Unveils New iPad Mini with A17 Pro Chip and Apple Intelligence
Seems indirect and I don’t really care if they use my usage data.
Can you also post a list of what dark matter models fail to explain or are inconsistent about?
Dying young six months after diagnosis might be cheaper for society than a long malaise during old age.
I don't agree; find better places to eat. I for one loved the steak & kidney pie with a guiness I had after hiking a mountain. Don't take sad Wetherspoons food as an indicator of British food.
I mean… I think Apple hasn’t totally missed VR, and is still the only company that seems to have much of a chance of making it work…

But, a good hockey player doesn’t skate in the direction that absolutely nobody else is heading, somewhere that might even be outside the rink (in the sense that we haven’t really shown if a good UI for VR can actually be created, yet, so it might not even be a possible “part of the game,” so to speak).
it is possible to get google captchas as verification on some nodes however it is rare and was easier in the past.

I'm disappointed that they haven't used there own captchas but maybe they will in the future.
if you're "parsing" structured or even semi structured data with a LLM.... sigh.

an true scotch engineer know tagged data goes into the other end. but I guess that doesn't align with openai target audience and business goals.

i guess that would be fine to clean the new training data... but then you risk extrapolating hallucinations
People often ask me questions because they realize that I'm so good in tech and have everything figures out. They actually never realize that everything and every knowledge i have is sourced from the internet and achievable if they research too. Sometimes researching and finding what you're searching for is hard especially when you don't know how to go about it. Maybe that's not exactly why I built CMTA (Creative Minds Think Alike) but i think of it as a resource centre that will give people access to tools to help them achieve exactly what they want.
I believe in Creativity and i believe with a little push, we can get things done. Here's my gift to the world. Let's make this happen
I've seen enough clips of kids playing with their phone to drop them in the water to know that they probably would.
In NixOS, you can use system.replaceDependencies to create a new derivation that performs a search and replace on references to dynamically linked libraries in the old derivation, recursively swapping them out for the new library without recompiling.
I’ll give it a go if I ever get sick of Brave. What makes it more functional? I love how polished and robust Chromium-based browsers are.
Interesting. How do we explain the missing mass in the galaxies then (the observed rotation curve of galaxies needs a bigger mass than that of the stars that it is made of)?
Could hit double digits next time
In this tutorial, you'll learn what syntactic sugar is and how Python uses it to help you create more readable, descriptive, clean, and Pythonic code. You'll also learn how to replace a given piece of syntactic sugar with another syntax construct
> A good hockey player don't skate to where the puck is.

I'm not a hockey player.

> He skates to where it will be.

The time scale for hockey players is seconds, not years.

This is such a useless cliché.

Most developers have very limited resources. Apple can afford to invest in pipe dreams (reportedly they spent $billions working on the now cancelled car project), but I certainly can't.
I’m still confused what the distinction is. What is “self contained” mean?
Funny comment, but it either fails JTB or is JTB: a) nobody thinks backgrounds on Zoom have to represent your actual background, eg. they don't think it's justified to assert this conclusion, and b) that the background corresponds 1:1 the real background means even if you had some other justification for thinking it was the background, the proposition is true so you would have a JTB.
Replying to myself: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/china_quantum_attack/

This doesn't sound as dramatic as the original article might have implied, but a pretty significant advancement nonetheless.
I've got another one for you.

"Spacetime" also does not exist. Time doesn't exist as a force of nature or tangible entity, it's nothing more than a subjective measurement. It exists like your height measurement exists, or the measurement of four meters of distance from you to the wall exists. The matter contained in the space of distance being measured exists, and the events between (subjective) time measurements existed, time itself does not exist. You can measure your height from the ceiling to your head (impractical but you can do it). You can measure time based on Mars going around the Sun. Neither entity exists (your height, nor time; both are subjective based on the anchor chosen). It would be silly to think height measurements are a tangible force of nature, we'll call it HeightSpace, now we must discover how it rules over the universe and seek to observe its magic principles.

The bogus nature of "spacetime" has held back multiple fields for many decades. It has wasted a generation of brains that fell for it.
They are where I live, both elementary and secondary schools. The first results are promising; kids have more concentration, interact socially with each other more, etc.

I mean if it's a school where they also have to carry laptops and use digital schedules I don't think it makes a difference, but it's a good first step.

One issue was that each phone also has a camera, so people would seek out / make trouble on purpose, spy on people and post it online, etc.
Abstract Machines of Systems Biology [pdf]
The original name of Genius was RapExegesis, which only confirms the main point of the article: that Genius' founders were mostly pedantic Yale grads. /s
Are you making an economic argument [pace HRV] that wit is better than distinction for avoiding underproduction of science, if it were to be monetarily compensated solely by its [near-zero] marginal unit returns?

> Je défie qu’on me montre une république ancienne ou moderne dans laquelle il n’y ait pas eu de distinctions. On appelle cela des hochets ! Eh bien ! c’est avec des hochets que l’on mène les hommes. —NB, 18 Floréal X

("Can anyone show me a republic, ancient or modern, without any achievements? They call them swag! OK — swag is how men are led.")
Because bayesian conditioning doesn't resolve the direction of causation, and gives no way of getting 'certain' data which is an assumption of the method (, as well as assuming relevance).

In bayesian approaches it's assumed we have some implicity metatheory which gives us how the data relates to the model, so really all bayesian formulae should have an implicit 'Theory' condition which provides, eg., the actual probability value:

P(Model|Evidence, Theory(Model, Evidence))

The problem is there's no way of building such a theory using bayesianism, it ends in a kind of obvious regress: P(P(P(M|E, T1)|T2)|T3,...)

What theory provides the meaning of 'the most basic data'? ie., how it relates to the model? (and eg., how we compute such a probability).

The answer to all these problems is: the body. The body resolves the direction of causation, it also bootstraps reasoning.

In order to compute P(ShapeOfCup|GraspOnCup, Theory(Grasp, Shape)), I first (in early childhood) build such a theory by computing P(ShapeSensaton|do(GraspMovemnt), BasicTheory(BasicMotorActions, BasicSensations).

Were 'do' is non-bayesian conditioning, ie., it denotes the probability distribution which arises specifically from causal intervention. And "BasicTheory" has to be in-built.

In philosophical terms, the "BasicTheory" is something like Kant's synthetic a priori -- though there's many views on it. Most philosophers have realised, long before contemporary stats, that you cannot resolve the under-determination of theory by evidence without a prior theory.
Who Was the Leatherman, the Mysterious Nomad of the 1800s?
I was being glib and using this as basically a way of illustrating how this isn't really a practical solution. I know when I'm working hard on a difficult the "endless googling bizarre behavior" is when I'm least ready to help field ad hoc requests.
In Wang BASIC, there was the "RETURN CLEAR" statement which cleared the stack up to and including the most recent GOSUB call frame. This includes any FOR loop frames that were push on the stack in the subroutine before the GOSUB. This was intended to be used for handling error conditions.

https://www.wang2200.org/basic_comparison.html#retclear
In order to think, we move.
I am blind. What typo?
Awesome idea, but as you say, seems more like a sort of "last mile delivery vehicle" than cargo transport.

You could imagine some sort of futuristic flying Amazon warehouse/drone carrier: It would be pre-stocked at a distribution center, with packets already arranged in a way that they can be picked up by drones individually. Then it floats over a neighborhood while the drones deliver the individual packets to the homes below.
Yup! Change the `handler` and `start` command:

```
handler = "localhost:5000"
...
start = "poetry run flask --app flask_poetry run -p 12345"
```
> You left out the part of that quote where I explained my assumption very clearly: A decently designed system.

That's one possible reason. Sometimes software is designed badly from the ground up, sometimes it accumulates a lot of accidental complexity over years or decades. Solving that problem is usually out of your control in those cases, and only sometimes there's a business driver to fix it.

But there are many other cases. You have software with millions of lines of code, decades of commit history. Even if the design is reasonable, there will be a significant amount of both accidental and essential complexity - from certain size/age you simply won't find any pristine, perfectly clean project. Implementing a relatively simple feature might mean you will need to learn the interacting features you've never dealt with so far, study documentation, talk to people you've never met (no one has a complete understanding either). Your acceptance testing suite runs for 10 hours on a cluster of machines, and you might need several iterations to get them right. You have projects where the trade-off between velocity and tolerance for risk is different from yours, and the processes designed around it are more strict and formal than you're used to.
Anyone can, but existing property owners do.
That is true of some of them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point#Stability - but famously not others - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrange_po...
There's nothing like competition to get an industry to shape up. 15 years ago, taxis in Pittsburgh were definitely more like GP described.
Last time I thought about that was in conjunction of MSRs which will need a whole lot of li7.
There's an autoreleasepool around the per-frame code - which seems to be standard procedure for Metal code - so any object within a render frame that has been created with autorelease will be released at the end of a frame.

Metal has a couple of 'frame transient' objects (like MTLRenderPassDescriptor and MTLRenderCommandEncoder) which have a new instance created in each frame, and I guess the main job of the autoreleasepool is to clean up those transient objects (along with any other 'short-lived-junk' that might be returned from Metal API methods).

And my guess for why this is still needed in the age of ARC: I guess that ARC has a 'autorelease-blindness', e.g. it cannot figure out at compile time what objects are registered with autorelease pools (especially when the objects are passed across DLL boundaries) - it can only add retain/release calls on top. Just speculation on my part though.
Same here.
I have Safari and Chrome only for cross browser testing.
I assume the word "cracked"?
this can be mitigated by using a browser addon to calculate and verify the web js content is matching the hash in a public code repo. That is how CTemplar Mail does it.

I'm disappointed they haven't implemented something like this.
I would say education is a more appealing solution to this problem than universal health care.

People similarly get unnecessary work done on their car to boost dealership profits.

Do you want to create a government agency to budget how much we can all spend on car repairs and then take it out of our taxes?
Same. And I only finally switched away when Zen had Vertical tabs. So I'm now on Zen because it jas vertical tabs.

Zen doesn't have tab groups yet, but vertical tabs are a far more important feature for me.
This is the root of 'pigeon religions'. Someone sees a string of events and infers a causal link between them and an outcome. Confirmation bias kicks in and they notice when this string of events occurs again, which is made more likely by the fact that the events in the string are largely the person's own actions which they believe the events will produce the desired outcome. They tell their friends and soon a whole group of people believe that doing those things is necessary to produce that outcome.

That's how you get things like equipment operators insisting that you have to adjust the seat before the boot will open.
... uh, that is (sort of) the common place view since a couple centuries.
Why I Brought My Toddler to Watch SpaceX's Flying Skyscraper
From their FAQ:

> Furi is pronounced “Fury”. FuriOS is pronounced “Furious”. We simply couldn’t afford the Fury part of the domain names.
That extremely large and competent legal departments is going to tell you this:

"Taking this to court will cost you a bajillion dollars. And you'll lose. Cut the antics and pay them off."
It is indeed a hackneyed term.
Not quite how it works. (At least, not in the US).

Firstly, not just any FBO is a point of entry.

Which brings us to the second point, the entire reason for designated points of entry is so that the customs officials can be on site already. As in, assigned to that FBO. Now at times specialists have to be sent out. (Think exotic or rare animals or biological/agricultural products.) But if that happens, your freight, and maybe even you, are quarantined and your freight isn't going anywhere any time soon. Believe me.

Most important, and relevant in this context is the third issue. Which is the fact that arrivals are met by customs officials and passengers and cargo are always subject to the same inspections/regulations as they are at any commercial airport.

So the original question is valid, how are they handling customs at the scale they're hoping to achieve in a fashion any faster than anyone else?
That's a neat feature, too bad I moved to Wezterm just so that I can sync my config between multiple OSs and devices easily.
Apple introduces new iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
Alas, there is no law of nature that says that the universe must be simple, elegant, and understandable.
Same problem here,last payment was for May revenue. And other companies have Same problem

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maja-te%C5%A1i%C4%87-8435509b...
This seems obvious and is how I have always understood it. How is this not the case? Where is time treated like a tangible entity?
Can you explain what in this particular explanation is clickbait?
Very cool idea but very pricey for what it is. I build a LED 3-4 times bigger with power supply and Rasb Pi for less (and its programmable). However, this is more convenient as a single unit. I could see myself maybe buying this for $30, probably not more.
I'm not sure about how they solve customs, but the picture shows an airship dropping cargo directly off at a warehouse (avoiding trucks).
GP is exaggerating (response below); at the same time many would argue that their overall argument that the Vision Pro is most probably a flop is in the ballpark. There's been much to say about price, the utility of VR, and most recently, the news that companies simply aren't bringing their apps to Vision Pro[1].

> On track to having sold less than 15% of their Y1 target (400,000 vs 3 MM)

All the reports online reflect actual vs. expected more around 450-500k vs. 800k - 1M, not 3 million.

> the reported shareholder near-revolts

The stock market's reaction to the Vision Pro announcement saw Apple's shares dip by 3%, indicating a mix of investor optimism and concern, not revolt.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/apple-vision-pro-soft...
It is a pretty straightforward wave shooter game. I had fun with it, but it isn’t high art or anything. I enjoy games like Hades or Dark Souls where the fact that you keep losing is an interesting part of the narrative and builds the overall ambiance. Helldivers (2, at least) is not really that sort of game, the plot is more like fun, even sillier Starship Troopers.

I played it properly, but I think is somebody decided to fast-forward through some bits they wouldn’t be denying themselves too much.
+1 Exactly what we are experiencing ourselves but we made the mistake to wait till the beginning of October to switch: even if we didn't like the payment term changes, we had no reasons to suspect that we wouldn't receive any moneys at the end of September / beginning of October.
They now owe us tens of thousands of dollars. And with the massive exodus, I do not have high hopes to get any of that money at all.
We've been with this company since 2001 (previously called Element5 / Share-It!) without any problems. I can't understand or imagine what could have made them believe like this: as of today, they are still processing payments from end users!
Hopefully, raising awareness on this issue will give us at least answers...