skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linguistics does draw the distinction between syntactic "tense" and semantic "time", but in that case English modal verbs wouldn't reflect "moods" at all, just "modality". They're all periphrastic. The same goes for perfect aspect, also periphrastic in English, though I don't know offhand how (or whether!) there is a terminological difference between syntactically-marked aspect and semantically-present aspect.

The same objection would theoretically apply to voice, where the English passive voice must be periphrastic too, but in that case everyone agrees that this is a distinction of voice and the difference between inflection (where grammatical meaning is expressed by changing the form of a single word) and periphrasis (where grammatical meaning is expressed by combining multiple words) isn't relevant. This is just an inconsistency in modern theory, which probably arose because voice isn't relevant to semantics at all.

Ignoring the modal auxiliaries, English would still have moods, subjunctive ("We demand that Robert be ejected from the book club") and irrealis ("If Robert were to be ejected from the book club, ..."), but neither of those is in a particularly robust state in the modern language.
I don't know who created it, or if it was part of a larger proto-Duolingo language product.
The closest thing I can think of in biology would be https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/science/21cell.html and https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.328.5981.958 (same underlying research, two popular science articles). It still depended on many different known biological components, tools, and starting points.

In non-biology, most of the work has been self-assembling, not self-replication. IE, put all the puzzle piecees in a bag, jiggle for long enough, and you get a fully assembled puzzle out.

There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenobot

Realistically, many scientists are working towards fully self-replicating machines. Generally, nobody has been able to articulate a realistic danger that is not highly implausible; we work under the assumption either nothing bad will happen, or we'll be able to stop it well before it's an issue.
You save the mass of the landing systems, you get to have all that mass on the ground and not have to lift it into space. Dramatically improves the performance of the rocket.
we should leave it for backwards compatibility and adopt U+0085 as the standard next line codepoint. and utf8 libraries could unofficially support every combination of 0A 0D as escape sequences.
It’s funny how much illegal stuff gets done by leadership. Sue to fix. Lawyers always win.
It’s impressive that with all those shenanigans going on, not more crashing scenarios where uncovered.
No need to reinvent the wheel. Just exclude from the index any websites which trigger the behaviour of uBlock Origin. Job done.
Yeah, I'm not certain that this is a real issue. It might be? Certainly, I'm read in to things like TECL desync. I get the concern, that any disagreement in parsing policies is problematic for HTTP because of middleboxes. But I think the ship may have sailed on 0ah, and that it may be the case that you simply have to build HTTP systems to be bare-0ah-tolerant if you want your system to be resilient.
LSD has somewhat the same effect but in a cleaner way. It's not really about the mushroom itself or the way you ingest it.

That being said, mushrooms are not very good regardless so you can process them in a way that makes it palatable (teas, blended smoothies, etc).
But that won't make that weird nausea feeling disappear, you just get used to it and it slowly becomes unnoticeable as you progress on the "experiment".

The nausea is a response of your body, telling you that you ingested something bad, because that basically what those things are: a poison, just a non-lethal one, and we know the positive fun effects so it makes it worth it, otherwise you would just want to throw up !
Important != superlative need. I mean, I know this is just rhetoric drivel, but I'm bored enough to reply. My post was clearly about a certain type of pain that the mind knows is a necessary path to achieving a stronger mind.

Also, about headaches and more generally physical pain that you know is only temporary and not a sign of radical bodily malfunction, I say yes: enduring a reasonable amount is important to develop a tolerance to it and willpower.

What I'm saying isn't new anyway, everybody knows some amount of struggle is needed to temper character and not fall to the most insidious poison of our times: constant comfort.
WFH has been a life saver for me. I cannot walk due to an injury and I have IBS, ADHD, and Mysophobia.
As an ME/AE, I can say this is an astounding engineering achievement. And on the first try! Well done, SpaceX!
I have one of these! I will read this article closely for guidance.
Discussion on the source article (79 points, 2 days ago, 82 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815567
Yeah in my area govt. officials can be incentivized to say no to prove they are doing the job. Adds massive amounts of delay.
> Starship is intended to be able to transport a million tonnes of cargo to the surface of Mars in just ten launch windows

Again, this is from 2021, one of those set of launches was to be last year. And it was to be 1,000 starships bound for Mars to meet that goal.

Starship is impressive but we need to be realistic about these numbers. We haven’t even technically had a launch with any payload. Additionally they claim that within 2 years of the Artemis mission we could get 1,000 people on the moon (though say this isn’t going to happen at least).

Starship will make Starlink V2 feasible and dozens if not hundreds of missions that would otherwise never be possible. But getting 1 million people to Mars (or even 1,000 people to the Moon) is just fantasy. I will gladly eat crow but none of these capabilities that exist on paper have actually been demonstrated that are necessary to meet these goals. SapceX is the best there is and likely will get to Mars. Just not how Musk describes it.
I bet you're talking about Mac. I hate coming back to Mac after using Emacs in Linux. It feels so sluggish. Even on my Android tablet Emacs works faster than on a M1 Mac.
in the construction I saw, there were several big groups of electricians.. a) ratty, self-employed often with serious baggage or obvious deficits.. can be paid well or very badly.. insurance is a problem; b) big company that hires and fires frequently.. wears a uniform, clean tools and trucks.. do not expect anything different than the work order, and sometimes a pawn in some kind of low-ethics moves between developers and service company; c) career, union electricians.. involved in very large, slow moving, multi-part works.. by the book, can do industrial installation in large teams; all manner of insurance, and also health care and retirement benefits. Modern times? probably add non-English speaking versions of (a) and (b). The pay varies quite a lot between those situations.
My biggest beef with this is: why humanly shaped? Our shape is the outcome of evolutionary survival in an environment that is very much different from... a household?
I have an uncle that works as one and he's introduced me to friends that also do. From what they've said I do think I would be interested in it.

I understand it's less salary and there's less chance of remote work but I'm just thinking about long term job prospects. I'm also okay with sticking with software engineering, but I worry about not having a job and also not having a degree. But I figure if I'm getting a degree, it might as well be in a field I'm interested.
Sure. As a human he's (at best) a deeply-flawed agent of chaos (aren't we all to some degree?)... but at the same time we DO need a lot more people like him to put blinders on and act as undeniable agents of change.

For better or worse, he's single-handedly facilitated watershed progress in more areas than just about any individual we can name from recent times. All the "cringe" and human shit he does that we hate and clown on will be erased by history and forgotten when the stuff that -other people- create, as a byproduct of him starting and funding these companies, pushes us forward and eclipses the clickbait and/or questionable personal behavior of the man himself.

Teamwork makes the dream work, and I believe sometimes we need gigantic egos to set the ball firmly in motion.
No, you’re absolutely right! It makes sense that every alternate path leads to failure.

The message is very clear, I was just poking some fun.
The letters after the dot in my filename don't map 1 to 1 with the file format.
> Academia is exploitative.

As another commenter noted, this person could likely easily go into the private sector and earn multiples of their salary. Also $70k is smack on for median salaries in LA. This person chooses to work in academia. He is not being exploited. Presumably he finds it more fulfilling to do what he does currently. And good for him. But that’s a luxury. Nothing in life guarantees your dream job and your dream salary.
> The intersection of people who can run a 15-minute two mile and dissect a Windows kernel memory dump is vanishingly small.

When I was doing consulting computer stuff for aviation safety[1], I used to joke to myself that I had The Right Stuff... for sitting on my butt, typing on a computer.

But I never voiced that joke in the presence of clients or partner organizations. Where some of the personnel were actual fighter pilots, and who knows what else.

[1] Incidentally, that might be the work I'm most proud of being a part of. I'm not disrespecting government work at all. I only pivoted from Federal technical consulting, back to tech industry startups, because of performing like a FAANG ~L7 for years, yet still not being able to afford a condo in my HCOLA. (And, just when I'd finally verbally negotiated a big chunk of work that would've fixed the money problem, a perfect storm of bad luck ruined that.)
Are you sarcastically describing VSCode, I don't get it?
Maybe, but what caused the depravity?
> Being Jewish, and having some Jewish DNA: are they the same thing?

Judaism is based on matrilineal descent, so depending on where the DNA comes from, yes.
There have been several recreations of Emacs in Common Lisp over the years, including Hemlock, CEDAR, and Climacs. They never catch on, because they’re not compatible enough with the existing base of emacs lisp software. This also applies to Scheme, although it did get closer to compatibility once or twice.
This is also closely tied to why emacs hasn’t been made much more parallelized - fundamentally, the design of emacs is too close to “a giant ball of global state”, mirroring an early Lisp Machine. It’s a high hill to design around, and it will violate basic assumptions made by most medium-plus interesting elisp code.
Do not let this dissuade you from trying! It would be a great if difficult accomplishment!
100% false headline. Where's the integrity, Verge?
Do you use Prolog in Academia or you have moved to Industry?
Suggest you research (and follow) the Mediterranean diet, people who do so tend to live long healthy lives. Also restrict your consumption of sugar and get plenty of regular physical exercise. I speak from experience.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/04/health/mediterranean-diet...
https://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/tips/a2471/suga...
Try BackRest if you want a nice frontend to Restic. You can configure Restic from the command line but it's pretty awkward. BackRest has a nice simple web GUI and makes basic automation very easy. https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

I'm surprised no one is selling Restic hosting as a straight up service. BackBlaze works well with Restic but the configuration is a little manual and clumsy. A packaged solution would be a nice thing.

Restic is very very good. My only nervousness is the backup format is so opaque, you need a working copy of Restic to restore from it. The format is documented though and of course the code is open source, so I think it's probably fine in practice.
maybe because the issue is not about apple's dns records, so the vulnerability is in scope. One could argue the issue is in zendesk's feature of adding people with an email.
Yes that's my point, it is very telling that nobody talks about it because it is a sign that alcohol is mostly a negative thing and has negative impact on people's life. If it wasn't we would be hearing far more from ex-teetotalers how much more their life improved after taking up alcohol the way you hear from people who get sober.
I haven't seen the event, so I don't know how Musk presented them, and whether he was misleading or just vague in describing them. But imho the headline goes to far in calling them "humans in disguise". The headline makes it sound like they were literal humans in robot costumes like those in the Chinese World Robot Conference last month.

I guess we can haggle over the definition of "robot". But they are humanoid machines that happen to be mostly remote-controlled - with some automation for functions like walking. If these aren't robots then neither are Boston Dynamic's dogs, and I have never seen anyone complain about people describing them as robots
I didn't bother acknowledging your bet because a) it feels like a bad faith proposition and b) it's a goalpost shift from my first comment which was about batteries getting cheaper, not more efficient.

I'd also argue we're seeing battery improvements in cars pretty consistently, which is one of the reasons I can now buy an EV with 350km range for AUD$30k.
>The world is BIG, bullets are small and- there's lots of room to run and/or hide.

You're talking about an object moving at least 1000 feet per second, one with many friends, in most cases, and aimed by someone who probably has a basic understanding of how to hit a human-sized target.

>Few can shoot a firearm,
>- fewer can shoot accurately,
>- fewer still can shoot moving objects,
>- fewer still can shoot a fleeing person and
>- next to none can kill/disable a fleeing person.

You truly don't know what you're talking about. Handguns are not the only threat, and they are not so hard to use. Rifles and shotguns are far easier to aim.

>The average police officer can expect to serve out his entire career w/o having to draw his service revolver in self defense.

Again you prove your ignorance. Almost no police carry revolvers due to the fact that technology has improved. A revolver typically holds 5 or 6 rounds and is difficult to reload. There are many inexpensive handguns that can fire 3x as many rounds minimum.

>I am fairly certain that few police officers/veterans understand probability in the real world. But they are good men (mostly) and women and a (somewhat selected) cross-section of society. They, for the most part, pay attention to where they are directed.

Yeah you're gonna go lecture combat veterans to tell them how their lame af EV is good, and they don't have to worry about getting hit by one of 10 to 50 bullets fired at them because probability is on their side. Get your head out of your backside man.
One reason the most minor of collisions are so expensive to repair is that car designs no longer include bumpers.
By dictating when the drivers can and can't work, it seems the rideshare companies convert the drivers to employees. Contractors get to choose when they work.

Side note: the lying message provided to drivers is particularly scummy: "TLC rules force us to limit access". No they don't. A desire for more money convinces them to limit access.
This is a real problem with permissive licensing. Large corporations effectively brainwashed large swaths of developers into working for free. Not working for the commons for free, as in AGPL, but working for corporations for free.
What’s satirical about it? Why would people want a world where they are forced to live on top of each other in small places if they don’t have to due to plentiful energy and vast material wealth?

If some new age Protestant needs to live worse to fulfill some spiritual hole then they can do it. But everyone else wants a large yard, comfortable home with many rooms, nice cars, and well maintained infrastructure to drive and park.
The whole article is about trades business owners selling for seven figures. When employees are discussed it’s to say they see a 20% pay bump after acquisition but that some owners worry about the fate of the workers post sale. What makes it seem to be conflating owners and non-owners to you?
The article seems pretty clear; it talks mainly about the two business owners, one is Aaron Rice and the other is Dana Spears, as well as the relationship with private equity over time.
This reminds me of a Soviet joke.

An American and a Russian were discussing their two countries.

The American said: "In my country, we have free speech. I can go to the White House, stand in front of the president, yell 'Down with Eisenhower', and no one will arrest me".

The Russian said: "In my country, we have free speech too! I can go to the Kremlin, stand in front of Stalin, yell 'Down with Eisenhower', and no one will arrest me".
There's a number of reasons for that; although I'm not based in the US so it vary. The business/self employed earn significantly more than someone working under someone else where I live. There are also a number of benefits particularly tax wise which means you normally need to discount a white-collar wage significantly to compare blue-collar wages like for like (somewhat like 30-40% at least). Official statistics you quote are usually employment and/or tax statistics - none which are reflective of the actual money available to spend for the trade worker.

Talking to them the common threads are:

- Cash based jobs. e.g. I charge my materials to the business (tax expense) and give the customer a small discount (say 10%) if they pay in cash. Assuming a 30% tax rate it means I can make for tax purposes my income less and my expenses more. In the end however I'm significantly ahead - any savings I've given to the customer are more than offset by tax savings.

- Income splitting: Wife "does the books" after hours, I split the income two ways. This way I don't pay as much tax in a regressive tax system as I can push myself to a lower tax band. If you want a single income family, better to own a trade business than be a professional. NOTE: Some countries/places support this more than others, if a country has good income splitting laws this diminishes this advantage.

- Favors: A lot of money is earned by mutual favors rather than monetary transfers especially in renovations/etc. e.g. I will do the plumbing for your house, and mine, you can do the concrete slab for both houses and we will call it square. Trades people typically know other trades people and a lot of the property can be built that way. No money exchanged, no tax paid. But the capital gains from renovations can be substantial - and tax of them can be deferred till sale. I've seen people earn millions this way, completely dwarfing their business income. Capital gains in most countries is also taxed at a lower rate and there's a lot of exemptions (i.e. if you live in it, etc). The benefits of this over many renovations can add to millions in extra wealth, none of it reported as income and under taxed.

- Asset Depreciation/Write Off: Want that big pick up truck? But want to pay the same after tax price as a small hatch? Claim it on your business, write it off, and expense it. May not apply as strongly in the US, but I've seen workers with very expensive cars here for the same after tax price as I could buy a simple sedan for. This applies to other things like tools for the house, etc.

All of the above reduces the official statistics substantially as under reporting, and makes blue collar a lot more appealing than it may seem on the surface. I would argue a self employed blue collar worker on say $120k would be as good as a white collar worker on $200k where I live, maybe even more. If you have a family and are a single income earner in some countries it makes sense to jump straight into blue collar.
But we then made houses
In Denmark where I am from mindfulness is actually a rather big part of ADHD mastering (or whatever they call learning to live with it these days). Exercise and medicine are also part of it, but learning skills to help you function are bigger. I think breathwork as you point out is individual. Here they tend to have you try out various ways of gaining focus through mindfulness though. The one which worked best for me is holding hands under water, like washing hands, others meditate, others again so the whole breath focus thing and so on.

I do think this article plays a little light on what you can do, and how much of it you’ll need to do, to actually tame your attention. I do a lot of things. I don’t keep my mobile phone near me when I don’t want to use it. I do mindfulness. I plan to head out at 9:00 if I’m really supposed to head out at 9:15 because that means I’ll get out at 9:13-9:17 and not stress about it leaving more energy to focus my attention. I do the drugs, in my case Lisdexamfetamin is the least shitty. I ride my bike everywhere. I walk in the woods. I do a lot of things like that and it helps, but it’s not like it’s quite as simple as this article might make it sound. Even if you do it in small steps.

I think the biggest difference between how we deal with ADHD and attention here and the article is that we don’t focus on attention. We view ADHD as an “energy deficiency”. This is because you pay attention to too many things with ADHD, which means you run out of energy sooner than regular people. At which point you can’t pay attention to things that aren’t interesting to you. What is worse is that you’ll hyperfocus on things that, are, interesting and that will drain your energy as well. You’ll probably also forget to eat because you don’t really feel hunger, again draining you. Anyway, to live with ADHD in Denmark is in large parts about managing a fuel tank which is simply much smaller than everyone else’s. Because you need the fuel to pay attention.
The new disclaimer at the beginning of the broadcast was doing some heavy lifting throughout the entire presentation.
I wonder if the humans, in whatever control rig they had, have to act 'robotic', or if the rig is just some sort of pose interpolator which naturally adds the robotic characteristics by way of literally being a robot
<< Why would those things go away?

I think that is because, overall, the human nature does not change that much.

<< Open source is no different, here. Or are you suggesting that non-open-source copyrighted material (code or otherwise) is protected by keeping the "source" (or equivalent) secret? Good luck making money on that blockbuster movie if you don't dare show it to anyone, or that novel if you don't dare let people read it.

You may be conflating several different media types and we don't even know what the lawsuit tea leaves will tell us about that kind of visual/audio IP. As far as code goes, I think most companies have already shown how they protect themselves from 'open' source code.
> The inspection / maintenance would have to be truly minimal (think airliner) to keep it right there on its own relaunch tower.

That's what they are aiming for, eventually.
Stack Overflow won't even let me delete my own content now that they're violating the license to it.
Not defending the producer, just making pragmatic choices!
That's just two systems that happen to agree on garbage.
I can speculate ...

I think the primary reason would be that landing legs are heavy, and it wastes performance to carry them. If your landing mechanism is mostly on the ground, you get that performance back.

Secondary reasons might include that it's simpler to get the booster right back to the pad. Once things have settled into an operational cadence, it's likely feasible to lower and lock the booster onto the stool, stack a ship on top, refuel, and relaunch -- no more messing around with barges, transport, weather issues, etc.