skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When KSP becomes reality, 275 tons falling from space caught by some metal struts…
Do you find that the entities committing fraud are using generative AI tools to facilitate the crimes?
X has proven time and time again that it just cannot handle live feeds well.
A simplified heuristic[0] for this for those interested in personal applications: it works out that you should exploit the best opportunity you come across once you’ve explored about 37% of the search space.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
I watched it on Twitter. Two idiots sent me the crypto scam link separately.
The whole purpose of academia is literally to nerd out on cool, impractical things, which will ocasionally turn out to have some real-life relevance years or decades later. This (hallucinated CS) is still more relevant to real world than 99% of what happens in academic research.
Given the proliferation of ballistic missiles that’s not a bad thing…
I imagine when books became available, there were people who complained that people no longer take the time to just contemplate anymore, they always have an excuse for having a book in their hands.

> For the purposes of public policy (where schools are concerned), or even holding a meeting at work, what should be the best recourse?

teach them to use it. it's a tool. teach them how marketing works. teach them how susceptible to misinformation the human mind is. teach them how companies behave as if they are only beholden to shareholder profit and how said companies sell them fast food, sugar, porn and yes, engagement for profit.

the psychological weaknesses of the human mind have been well documented for over a hundred years, and yet the only people we teach that stuff to is marketing students. why is that?
Sounds great. But the focus on the competition with in-house sequencing is odd. When i was doing a PhD twenty years ago, we never even considered doing it in-house - i would just post tubes to a commercial sequencing service and get results back a few days later (or, in one case, take tubes to their office myself to save some time).

So, Plasmidsaurus are actually winning against those services. It would be more useful to focus on why that is. It sounds like the two distinguishing factors are fast turnaround, and long reads.

But there are other players offering basically the same service now, and faster or cheaper:

https://eurofinsgenomics.com/en/products/nanopore-sequencing...

https://plasmidsng.com/

So we'll see how that pans out.
I'm already very suspicious, we just got the same room number in the third hotel in a row. Someone got lazy with the details :)
Speed and nice error messages in (La)TeX, and to some extent ease of programming, are entirely doomed because of fundamental design choices. Being based on unhygienic macro expansion means that there is only one way to evaluate (the slow way), there will never be incremental compilation (everything can possibly be stateful in horrible ways), there will never be good error messages because there's basically no AST information anywhere (begin/end is a joke).

Regarding ecosystem: tons of undecipherable LaTeX packages are basically one-liners (ok, 10 liners) in typst. I know it from experience: I've written my PhD manuscript in typst. So perhaps one reason why there are so many (basically frozen) packages in LaTeX is because they are so hard to write and maintain.

edit: of course, being only a few years old, typst is nowhere near as solid as TeX, but you can already use it for a lot of things and its a breeze to use.
Methane is about 900-1500$ / ton. About 1000 tons is used for the launch in addition to 3600 tons of lox. That should be a bit cheaper than methane per ton. Ballpark, the propellant might cost around 2M$.

A modern airliner on a long flight might burn around 80 tons of kerosene. It's slightly cheaper than methane. Call it 75-80K$.
Maybe I am ignorant but: why is that on hackernews ? Is there some hidden subtext I just don’t get? Apart from the fact that my butter chicken is more yellowish.

Are those ai rendered images of food?
I the poster some genius I have overlooked?
Is this a canary in case someone gets subpoenaed?
Right, sorry, I see what you mean. You mean “if you believe that the issue is truly as he describes it publicly and not in fact something else” rather than the literal interpretation of “if you believe that this is his issue”.

My answer was based on the fact that I’ve seen several people who are unaware of what Mullen’s said that precipitated the row.
Stackoverflow mods and power users being arseholes reduces the use of Stackoverflow. ChatGPT is just the first viable alternative.
So, reusable is supposed to reduce the cost. But the space shuttle was reusable and it has been shutdown because it was too expensive. What is the differences between the two?
Ryan Hansen had an incredible (although unofficial) 3d modeling video of the mechanism. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ub6HdADut50
Absolutely incredible achievement, I'm still shaking!
I agree.
I still have to rely on my car for basically everything because the same government also fucked up the rail system so severely that it barely works in my region.
When I moved from a small village to the city, I sold my car and wanted to use public transportation for everything.
I'm not fond of driving, especially in cities, so this looked like a no-brainer.
I had my first bad experiences quickly when I learned that public transportation wasn't anywhere as reliable as I previously thought.

I had to choose between going to work 45 minutes earlier (of course, unpaid and without the possibility of leaving earlier) or risking being too late half the time.
I had to travel further for my next job, but I thought it would be better because it was another connection.
I was wrong.
It was usually better in the mornings, but my way home usually took between 1,5 and 3 hours instead of the planned 45 minutes.

The next job I chose only because there, at least, I could take the S-Bahn instead of the Deutsche Bahn Trains, and it was a direct connection, which was way more reliable.
But it was very loud, very smelly, cold in winter, and very hot in summer (I remember having a working AC twice in the four years that I traveled that line), and there were (not always empty) beer bottles rolling around the floor almost all the time.
I always paid for the entire year in advance, so the 90-minute daily drive did cost a little more than 220 Euros monthly.
Otherwise, it would have been even more expensive.
So, the current ticket would have improved that, at least financially.
Now, I barely take the train anymore.

I broke my ankle so badly in my youth that the doctors told me that they had to completely cut it open from both sides to see if they could improve it in any way. They also said that there was a strong possibility that I would wake up with a fused ankle after the operation.
They recommended I only do that when the pain becomes unbearable, which I am now waiting for.
So, I am permanently in pain, and walking is terrible for me.
Still, when I have to go to the nearby city center, I prefer walking for 45 minutes instead of taking the 10-minute trip by train.
That is what relying on German public transportation for more than ten years did to me.
I tried that train connection multiple times before and stopped after it took me over an hour twice (after about five trips total).

Disclaimer: It is not that bad everywhere in Germany. That's why I wrote "in my region" in the beginning.
Within Berlin, for example, I had good experiences with public transportation.
Well, at least regarding its availability.
There were still junkies in there.
And homeless people who smelled like they were living on that train for at least a few weeks.
But well, that's another topic.
While not exactly the same wording, this was my also first thought.

There have been two places that I remember where arrogance of the esoterati drive two feedback cycles:

1. People leave after seeking help for an issue they believed needed the input of masters.

2. Because of gruff treatment, the masters receive complaints and indignation, triggering a backfire effect feedback loop, often under the guise of said masters not wanting to be overwhelmed by common problems and issues.

There is a few practical things that can help with this (clear guides to point to, etc.), but the missing element is kindness / non-judgmental responsiveness.
What exactly would be the benefit of that? We already have Counter Strike working far more smooth than this, without wasting tons of compute.
Why a vote? Voting != Verification.
I feel that 'burn out' in many cases is realizing the futility in 'working hard and giving your best' for someone else without being compensated for it.

Note that I am not denying pathalogical burn out is a thing.
This might be true sometimes, but it hardly addresses the real problem: WHY are (some) devs like that?

From experience I'd say that there are at least three (usually overlapping) reasons:

- There are often valid technical reasons to rewrite at least parts of the codebase. Most companies tend towards a "don't fix it if it isn't broken" policy, which tends to lead to most components being in a "not far from broken due to poor maintenance" state. It is reasonable to want to fix those up before they cause an outage. An ounce of prevention saves a pound of cure and all that.

- Making new things is more "fun" in one way or another, even if it is just because trying to grok the spaghetti code of another is "not fun".

- The dev in question has (usually correctly) identified that the way to get more of what they want, be it money or power or fun colleagues or interesting projects, is to be involved in building new things. It's no secret that humans often ascribe more value to those who make new things even if it's not justified.

Unless the environment becomes such that these three get mitigated, devs will always want to rewrite things as they are heavily incentivized to do so.
I wonder what will happen when they get to 99% reliability? They clean up and rebuild the Mechazilla every once a hundred catches, on that occasion that one fails?
> You're one out of 8 billion people, the only known humans inhabiting an incredible vast cosmos with billions of galaxies and billions of years of timespan. That you are sitting here reading these typed words is nothing short of incredible,

There's nothing incredible about being the only kind of human known to humans. Classic anthropic principle, making every kind of human special as long as they haven't met any other kind.
Because someone thought it was interesting, and at least six upvoters felt the same.
> Although its a regulatory nightmare I think this is what Drones as a First Responder will look like in 5-10 years. Officers have on-demand air support they can talk to like a police helicopter.

Hey, what you're talking about does have regulatory difficulties but they can be overcome with connections. You also need a different roadmap to success that is not just police and fire as there might not be enough money, and if you could you could compete with DJI's pricing and polish you'd have a different roadmap anyway. Also, early success in the US could help you push into opportunities with international customers.

Are you experienced in building relationships with police and fire? I'd start there as it's quite doable. They will help you cut through some FAA red tape but you'll also have to do some of the lifting for them too.

While the situation with DJI and Skydio may look very difficult to surmount, there are some directions you can take your drone that makes it more fit for fire and police use cases as well as beyond, you just have to focus on capability differentiation and not price and polish (DJI's Dock 2 pricing is amazing). For example, collision avoidance or high wind resistance. DJI is also facing uncertain political climate as Florida recently banned them for the use case you're talking about.

There are quite a few people working in your space, as you know, and drones as part of the first responder story are already becoming real in some cities.

Would very much love to chat and exchange ideas, shoot me an email at vroom@vars.io.
If possible, don't use Hugo directly. Use docsy. I've been using docsy for many years and it really simplifies a lot of things while retaining the options for you to dive deep as needed.

https://www.docsy.dev/
In the near future, I'll have to program the document generation part of an invoicing system.

In the past, I've done generated PDF documents through latex, and didn't really like the process (for one, escaping is just so weird in latex, \ to \textbackslash for example).

I've thought about generating HTML and using a headless browser that can produce PDFs for me, but I don't know how well you can e.g. control page breaks with CSS these days.

Maybe typst is actually a good alternative here? Does anybody have experience with typst and multi-page tables?
This is amazing. What an incredible technological feat!
There were multiple streams on youtube who rebroadcast that you can use.
This got me as excited as the original Falcon 9 landing in 2016! Now I got to share this with my kids! So incredible...
One of the biggest steps forward in the space industry since the first landing of Falcon 9.

Great success!!
I bought 1 hour additional math study work from my child today)
SRB and tank were not re-usable. That’s the equivalent of the first stage you just saw getting caught
The claim is they spent over a year trying to convince WP Engine to pay up. But based on what I've seen, it was probably increasingly pouty complaints and demands leading up to the threat to go nuclear at WCUS 2024.

I wouldn't take how this played out as evidence that WP Engine was opposed to making more significant contributions like sponsoring a real, independent foundation or even putting a significant portion of its revenue toward the project.
i thought about this also but then there is this recent science that the body of a office worker uses the same calories as someone doing body work. saw it on kurzgesagt. so by this theory humans should be very energetic even with only the baseline
This not being a coincidence is the Altaic Family Hypothesis, which posits that Turkic, Mongolic and often also Japonic and/or Korean languages form a superfamily, sharing a common ancestor. The hypothesis is mostly discredited by present-day linguistics.
Youtube simply doesn't care about their platform being used for scams. There are very simply very basic things they could do, but they simply don't.
This is 1.4rc1, not a stable release. Lots of new content and fixes so worth checking out if you're an Inkscape user.
Oops.

There go the big Columbus Day celebrations, sponsored by Italian-American societies.
Good! I'm glad for any alternatives to 8sleep. I have two of their beds, and love them, but bought them before they starting requiring a yearly subscription, which I HATE. Unfortunately, they are the best product available as far as I can tell. Though definitely expensive.
The article continues beyond that sentence!

> But you can be alone and not feel lonely, or you can be with others and feel lonely. “Loneliness really refers to perceived social inadequacy of relationships

> “One of the clearest findings on solitude is if it’s chosen for the value that it has, it’s going to be a more positive experience,” says Netta Weinstein, a professor of psychology at the University of Reading in England and a co-author of “Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone.” “If it’s forced on you, it’s going to be a less positive experience.”
Their "existential luck looks no different from the "circumstantial luck" to me - an asteroid hitting the earth is indeed in the matter of being "at the wrong place at the wrong time".

But as someone said here, it's all about probability distributions and trying to minimize/maximize your chances.

I like to believe that there is not such a thing as "chance", that it is all about hidden variables, but I've been told right here before that the quantum theory says otherwise.
Bringing up mortally obese 450lb people (a tiny fraction of the population) is not a good faith argument against my position that it's a travesty Ozempic and other "weight loss drugs" are being prescribed to people en masse when most of them actually are very capable of just eating more healthy diets and exercising more. What we actually need to do is un-fuck our food supply and encourage healthier lifestyles... not give big pharma yet another chokehold over the population.
And yet, there is something, therefore the odds cannot be zero, revealing a flaw in this line of reasoning.
How can it be an alternative if it needs the data from Stackoverflow?
basically they transfer equipment from the rocket to the landing tower so that the rocket can be lighter which is why they have to catch the rocket instead of the rocket landing by itself.
Taking it off YouTube and not having their main YT account at least show a “redirect” video is strange.
The bonus take away for myself in this article was a nice windows 11 debloat and setup tips utility and video:

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UQZ5oQg8XA

Not to extreme with the knife, but it takes away all the advertorial ad-ons and shows how to disable more (including Edge and defaulting to Edge from system links).
It does look like venting, but on the Everyday Astronaut video feed it also looked like a COPV inside one of the strakes looked like it exploded as well.
Brenda Milner
It's always fascinating to explore HN's history, especially when you discover that there's been little to no previous discussion about someone as influential as Brenda Milner [1]. Given her pioneering contributions to neuroscience, particularly her work on memory and the brain, I would have expected more engagement here. Perhaps it's a sign of how certain fields or figures don't get the recognition they deserve within certain communities.

I 'commit' my fix here.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brenda+milner
Once in a while I can and do, but the suck makes it hard to do it consistently.

I have a treadmill and a big fan in my garage and it’s usable until summertime and that’s the best I got.
If not an intended vent, probably some methane leak. Given that they have the first stage intact, they will know exactly what happened very soon. Yet another advantage of having the rocket returned instead of sinking it in the ocean.
It really is strange Automattic's lawyers haven't clamped down on any public comment. Have any of WP Engine's people been as free with commentary as Automattic employees have been?

If I were an employee at a company being sued I wouldn't say anything related to it even without an order from legal because I wouldn't want to have to risk answering for it in the trial. Why dangle yourself out there as a target for the opposition's lawyers?
> However, these are no fixes. You just introduce a new variable, that you never use, and re-assign the same contents of that new variable back to the $_REQUEST

While this whole takeover thing is completely ridiculous, it's you who displays an "inexperienced eye" here. What do you think the $original_post variable (which was already there) is doing, huh?
Hm. My cat can't even type. This smells a little like clickbait.
This is much less of a problem in large Asian cities. They're only really stressful in rush hour crowds. But in places like NY the public seems much less interested in the initial policing, maintenance, and cultural attitude shifts that would be required to make it happen. Like, you could still have the artists, street performers, and other so-called charming quirks while still making sure the problematic passengers get the help they need. What's it going to take? You could even do a trial period, like one year of safe, clean metros and see if people want to go back to the way things are now.
Economy of scale: starship can be "mass"-produced

Material: stainless steel is much cheaper

Percentage of reusability: boosters of shuttle cannot be reused, maintenance of shuttle itself is also very expensive (heat shields were pricey). whereas the starship stack has higher reuse percentage and allegedly cheaper to maintain.
That sounds great. How can I try it?
This is significantly less expensive
Wow, that’s amazing. Didn’t think something like that would be possible.
You don’t generally see figures from any jurisdiction (and I’ve seen numbers for a lot of countries and states) where those charges and taxes make much more than 50% or so of the actual costs of building and maintaining road networks, and that’s just the actual spend before even trying to quantify all the social and environmental costs!
Matt said in his keynote that he had a kidney stone a few weeks ago, which is evidently extremely painful. Perhaps that physical trauma triggered something.
You need to change your attitude if you want to lead a healthy lifestyle. Don't blame your failures and CHOICE to eat junk and not exercise on weed. You know what the healthy choices are, you know when you're not making them. You lack self control.
Would that work for multiplayer? If it's a visual effect only, I guess it would be ok. But if it affects gameplay, wouldn't different players get different results?
So given the ESP32 aspect, is there also Android support? Such that it could then be used for an interactive door bell?
It's not about falling for the crypto scam, but realizing that it is that before you already lost half the launch

It's like a rite of passage, I imagine most people looking for a SpaceX launch fell for it once
It's Official: The Real New Commodore 64 Is Finally Here [video]
> At some point it won't be necessary to train an LLM on the entirety of Reddit plus everything else ever written because there are obvious limits to statistical models like this and, as a counter point, that's not how humans learn. You may have read hundres of books in your life, maybe even thousands. You haven't read a million. You don't need to.

I agree but I think it may be privileging the human intelligence mechanism a bit too much. These LLMs are polymaths that can spit out content at a super human rate. It can generate poetry and literature similarly to code and answers about physics and car repair. It’s very rare for a human to be able to do that especially these days.

So I agree they’re transitional but only in the sense that our brains are transitional from the basal ganglia to the neocortex. In that sense I think LLMs will probably be a part of a future GAI brain with other things tracked on, but it’s not clear it will necessarily evolve to work like a human’s brain does.
What do you mean, “lost cause”? I use it just fine on the desktop.

I welcome any improvements.

Regarding your last comment with vanishing ports, it’s not something I’ve experienced with 20 years of FreeBSD usage.
> I don't want to talk to salespeople, only product designers, developers, executives, and support staff. They are the people who make the stuff and/or are left holding the bag for the product when the salesperson is jetting off to their next meeting.

Lots of people overestimate their value in the process, including buyers. You don't want to talk with sales people, but from the other side, why should the sellers (in any function) talk with you?

I've purchased products. And sold them. Lot of waste from both sides, primarily when people aren't prepared, don't understand their problems, misunderstand use-cases, don't know product, etc. The list of grievances is long.
Please can you tell me more about the daf-2 gene and it's role in lifespan for nematodes? Any explainers on this? How does insulin relate to it - the metabolic aspect?
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