skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So maybe he set it back two months. Maybe.

So you didn't follow it at all? Because multiple government agencies were considering blocking them full-stop for an extended period of time after that disaster. So "maybe 2 months" was their absolute best-case scenario.

https://www.tpr.org/environment/2023-04-27/photos-spacex-is-...

>He also came up with building it out of stainless steel

And you know he was the one who personally came up with that idea... how? You work at Space-X? Or you've just read a couple press releases where he took credit for it?

Elon has a long history of taking credit for other people's ideas. And I'm willing to bet whatever you'd like to risk that one of the engineers at Space-X suggested using stainless steel, not Elon.
A JDBC style C++ driver for Super High-performance CrossDB database
Before FM, all music stations were on AM.
In this lawsuit against you and your mother, is it you or her who is accused of sexual harassment and racism? I don’t have access to read the case details.

Is this why you’re having a meltdown?

https://unicourt.com/case/ca-sfc-asmahan-attayeb-vs-matthew-...
Some other interesting points:

- The write api is sync, but it has a hidden async await: when you do your next output with a response, if the write fails the runtime will replace the response with a http failure. This allows the runtime to auto-batch writes and optimistically assume they will succeed, without the user explicitly handling the errors or awaits.

- There are no read transactions, which would be useful to get a pointer to a snapshot at a point in time.

- Each runtime instance is limited to 128mb RAM.

- Websockets can hibernate and you do not have to pay for the time they are sleeping. This allows your clients to remain connected even when the DO is sleeping.

- They have a kind of auto RPC ability where you can talk to other DOs or workers as if they are normal JS calls, but they can actually be calling another data center. The runtime handles the serialisation and parsing.
Counterpoint. Just have a look how many times ACF is mentioned (for example) in this thread [0]. ACF is massively popular. The fact you've never used it, for as long as you've been involved, is extraordinarily rare. I'm really surprised to hear you say that (but good for you if you've got the time and chops to never resort to it! That's awesome).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1cc0aor/what_are...

I might be wrong, but as best I can tell from some quick searching, ACF is the most mentioned.
> had an S-expression syntax, but this was changed to a more Algol-like syntax due to the prevailing opinion among many that an Algol-like syntax would be easier for C/Pascal/C++ programmers to adopt.

They can be forgiven, at the time. Now we have evidence that thinking is wrong. Today we have half of everyone and their dog, as Web programmers, using a syntax originally chosen by very technical systems programmers. (Bell Labs researchers -> C -> Oak -> Java -> JavaScript.)

Almost no Web developers are systems programmers, and this is just a poor syntax for the work, and needlessly cryptic, but they can pick up even this bad syntax just fine.

Now we know that, whether you use curly braces, parentheses, whitespace, or something else is not the barrier to learning a programming language. It's one of the most absolutely trivial things about it to learn.

Knowing this, the next time I hear someone say "We can't use this syntax, because it will just totally break people's brains, even though the higher grammar, semantics, libraries, domain frameworks, and everything else are different anyway, and are orders of magnitude harder to learn, we need to make it look superficially like something it's not, because people are full of poo"... I'm ready to appropriate the Lily Allen song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUHqFhnen0U
It's not an analogy. This is precisely how it works.
Can you elaborate why? Is it being set back by 60k+?
Isn’t that difference Shotwell? It might be a bit myopic to credit a singular leader when many contributed but she feels like the obvious answer.
Interesting question! I think you should run an experiment! You could remote control a telepresence robot, call an Uber for it, ask the driver to load and unload the robot, and then continue remote controlling when you arrive wherever you wanted to go. There there will be more obstacles, especially doors, elevator buttons to be pushed, and non-ADA places, I assume. You could ask by-standers for help, or just tailgate people (esp. into elevators). I'd love to read the result of such an experiment.
Do you think that a CS degree is still worth it?
Yes, phase noise exists, but I would think that in practice amplitude noise is greater.

In physics, when a wave passes from one medium to another, its frequency is supposed to stay the same. Even if this isn't perfectly true in the real world, I would think amplitude is more likely to decrease due to obstacles, distance, and the medium absorbing some energy.
Not really, government and academia can't fire people. Prior to Vietnam they could relieve them temporarily, but that's not the same. They get paid regardless.

The moment you can't fire people for not meeting a base level of competence is the moment your systems start failing.
Same, I’m pretty convinced it does in fact do genuinely original reasoning in at least a few areas, after enough prompts and with enough prodding.

But it takes so long and so much prompting skill to get to that point that the use cases seem limited.
Actually, the most counterintuitive is 4-dimensional space. It is rather mathematically unique, often exhibiting properties no other dimension does.
The airport fire truck can’t control fires 250ft in the air
One possibility is a phase-locked loop. I don't know if there's anything better. It matches the frequency of a voltage controlled oscillator to the frequency of the incoming signal by detecting the phase mismatch. Then, the control voltage for the VCO becomes the audio signal.
I’ve worked in this space for 7 years and like to chat. Reach out to 03whiskey.extras on Apple’s free email service iCloud.
I worked with graphic designers who put beauty over function when designing user interphases. It was always a minus for the software since it mainly caused the software to be harder to use. Beauty is good but software that is easy to use and has good functionality will beat it every time.

Given that, look at Apple OSs they emphasized beauty over function or at least they put a lot of resources into making it look good. There's a set of people who put lots of weight on beautiful software and will pick it over other software that may have better functions.
I agree but I always thought YouTube was a great name for what it was. It was me choosing what was on (no pesky programming) and us making videos.

It’s very different now but “you”, as in me, was very central to my idea of what YouTube was. And the TV was a CRT. It was the tube. And as per GWB it was a series of tubes it came through (facetious).
Scott Manley said it was a purposeful flare off of methane to prevent over pressureization.
On starship. Believe it or not, Chuck’s comment was about both booster and starship
"Call to action" my god guy get a grip youre upset about some unicode
Thank you for sharing that link!

We all find content in ways that suit our time/resources/network etc.. I do get lots of links and recommendations from friends and co-workers (and on places like here), but I also get a lot of it from platforms, and I think that's a good thing.

I'm not anti-algorithm (not saying you are) and I believe it's one of many great ways to discover content, in this case in video form. And I think having it all in one place is a huge benefit.

Considering all the resources required to host video, I don't think it would be realistic for everyone to host their own stuff in that medium..

Not to mention how much of a creator economy exists thanks to the centralized platform that is YT. Tons of creators probably wouldn't even bother making their content if they didn't have somewhere with a built-in audience to post it to.

So I disagree with the idea that it's a negative for everyone but Google. Tons of people make a living thanks to that platform, with content they'd likely never be able to make a living from otherwise.
Get a gym membership. Learn to squat, bench press, do some pulling motions.

Drink plenty of water.

Walk. You don’t have to do cardio exercise but try to walk every single day. At least 20-30 minutes. If you take a bus, get off earlier or later so you can walk.

Floss your teeth. If you get gum disease it’s permanent. It’s not that hard to get. Once your gums are diseased, they will recede slowly (or fast), and it will be painful to eat certain foods.

Seriously, please take care of your physical/fitness health and dental health.

No matter how much you love your work, the more you put in, the more others will take advantage of you if it suits them. Draw healthy boundaries. Don’t work every night or weekend. Use that time to read, go into nature, learn about the world, travel, and so on. Anyone who tells you money isn’t everything or “we don’t want people just in it for money” can fuck off. They’re there for MONEY. You don’t need to obsess with money, but your career is a means to financial freedom. Don’t kill yourself especially if your hard work is getting others promotions and making them rich while you merely just stay employed or get meager raises.

Also prioritize family and having a kid earlier than later. You won’t understand until you have a kid, but your children are your most valuable treasure. Once you have child, you’ll do anything for him or her. Bring that joy sooner than later.
We don't understand intelligence.

But we do understand vision and hearing. We have for over 50 years. We've implemented them classically and described them with physics. Game engines, graphics pipelines, synthesizers, codecs, compression, digital image processing, ... the field is vast and productive.

Our mastery over signals is why I'm so bullish on diffusion and AI for images, video, and audio regardless with whatever happens with LLMs.

And if this tech cycle only improves our audio-visual experience and makes games and film more accessible, it'll still be revolutionary and a step function improvement over what came before.
it's amazon right?
Conversely, I'd argue most brilliant people tend to have more dumb ideas than others, usually on oddly specific topics which most people would find inconsequential.
I'd view the split here along the axes of debuggability/introspection.

There are many services that just don't require performance tuning or deep introspection, things like internal tools. This is where I think serverless frameworks do well, because they avoid a lot of time spent on deployment. It's nice if these are fast, but that's rarely a key requirement. Usually the key requirement is that they are fast to build and low maintenance. It's possible that Cloudflare have got a good story for developer experience here that gets things working quickly, but that's not their pitch, and there are a lot of services competing to make this sort of development fast.

However where I don't think these services work well is when you have high debuggability and introspection requirements. What metrics do I get out of this? What happens if some Durable Objects are just slow, do we have the information to understand why? Can we rectify it if they are? What's the logging story, and how much does it cost?

I think these sorts of services may be a good idea for a startup on day 1 to build some clever distributed system in order to put off thinking about scaling, but I can't help but think that scale-up sized companies would be wanting to move off this onto something they can get into the details more with, and that transition would be a hard one.
>Do you think people should alter their life plans because of predictions around climate change?

Such should reasonably affect plans based on purchasing property in areas prone to negative effects due to climate change, like hazardous weather or water scarcity.

>The second coming of Jesus?

That is different than AGI timelines since there is no scientific or independently corroborated evidence pointing to this being a reasonable probability.
> I was under the impression Python virtually doesn't have lexical scoping at all and that's why `nonlocal` exists

Python has had lexical scoping since version 2.2. PEP 227 [0] "describes the addition of statically nested scoping (lexical scoping)" - allowing access to (but not assignment to) names in outer scopes.

`nonlocal` was introduced later, in Python 3.0 [1], specifically to allow assignment to names in outer scopes.

[0] https://peps.python.org/pep-0227/

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-3104/
My initial experience with Thumb-1 was like stepping on a series of rakes. Can't use ADD? Why not? Oh, it turns out you have to use ADDS. Wait, why am I getting an error when I try to use ADDS? Turns out that inside an ITTE (etc.) block, you can't use ADDS; you have to use ADD. And the various other irregular restrictions on what you can express are similarly unpredictable. Maybe my gripe isn't really with Thumb-1 but with GAS, but even when you learn the restrictions, it still takes extra mental effort to program under them. I did have some similar experiences with 8086 code (it took me a certain amount of trial and error to learn which registers I could use as base registers and index registers, as I recall) but never 80386 code, where all of its registers are just as general-purpose as on Thumb-1, unless you're looking for sizecoding hacks to get your demo down under 64 bytes or whatever.

I agree that RVC is similar in theory, but being able to mix 4-byte instructions into your RVC code largely eliminates the stepping-on-rakes problem, even on Graham Smecher's redoubtable Minimax which Jecel Assumpção mentioned. I still prefer ARM assembly over RISC-V, but both definitely have their merits.
You're right. Biden and Harris never lie. I'll support them.
Have you worked on any examples of projects that started on PostgreSQL and ended up needing to migrate to something specialized?
It's hard to understand how Apple, one of the most valuable companies in the world who employs top-tier chip designers, hardware and software integrators, is unable to do something (measure HRV all day/night long) that its competitors do, in a device whose battery lasts a fraction of Whoop and Garmin.
Wow how secretive, very cool, I wanna be part of your secret club
Death pact? Jeez. Standards simply prevent people from having to waste time debugging dumb issues that rightfully could have been avoided.
Basic Newtonian physics is pretty efficient to compute, but afaik some more complex physics like fluids is faster with network inference. There are probably a lot of cases where network inference physics is faster.
Care to expand on that? Wikipedia image has the Greeks ahead of Jupiter and the Trojans behind Jupiter. Doesn't that clearly show it is an image of a moment in time? And the only attributes of an asteroid this code[1] seems to use are the eccentricity, semi-major axis, and perihelion. Although I'm no expert in either Python or astrophysics so I may be missing something.

[1] - https://github.com/DarkStar1982/Orbidium/blob/536afc2e12e9a2...
Well those are a lot of details you've added now.

Before it was just a "good friend". Now they've also become the "trip sitter" who is "experienced"?

Sure, that's going to help. But empathy isn't everything. Just because you've personally experienced of a bunch of trips, doesn't mean you have the knowledge of how to handle things when a trip goes south for someone else, in a way that you've never experienced.

That's why there's genuine training in these things, the kinds of training psychotherapists in this area learn. That draws on many thousands of peoples' experiences, and the knowledge of what has worked and what hasn't.

Your "good friend" probably doesn't have this training, I'm guessing. And if they do, then what counts most isn't that they're your friend -- it's the training they've learned.
Does liquid fuel protect as well as water? Suspend the computers in the center of the fuel tank.
More and more of Minecraft is moving into data packs, which is pretty neat. So many things that required .jar java mods are now first-class citizens for customisation, automatically ‘downloaded’ when you connect to a server. Pretty neat.
It definitely is also that. The whole Starliner thing is afaict totally ridiculous. Crazy how much money is being wasted, and how much would be wasted even if everything was working on schedule when compared to spacex.
> I credit Musk for a lot of the vision behind SpaceX

For sure. Outstanding vision. I'll give him credit. But vision doesn't launch a rocket or finance a business. There are probably thousands of people out there with sufficient "vision" to build a space program, but only one of them is a billionaire willing to finance it. Musk is not some one of a kind unique person. He just happens to be one of the few who have the means ($$) to hire people who can actually bring his vision to life.
We have had software making healthcare decisions for decades in areas like ECG pattern analysis, clinical decision support, medication administration, insurance claims processing, etc. Occasionally software defects or usability flaws lead to patient harm but mostly they work pretty well. There's no evidence that using AI to supplement existing deterministic algorithms will make things worse, it's just a lot of uninformed and unscientific fearmongering.
Define "lightweight".
https://where.durableobjects.live is a good website that shows you where they live. Only about 10-11% of Cloudflare PoPs host durable objects. Requests to another PoP to create a DO will get forward to one of the nearby PoPs which do host them.
Google is choosing the dark side, as that's the only way to show the 25% YoY growth.
"UPS says drivers to make $170,000 in pay and benefits following union deal":

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ups-drivers-170000-pay-benefits...
We see them for smaller transaction extracts, but most vendors here are too expensive for most teams at the scale you are likely thinking. Instead, we see log, kv, dwh, etc systems -- think elastic, Clickhouse, databricks, and the like. Some teams will stage daily batches into a graph DB, but having an expensive second system of records masquerading as a compute engine gets frustrating.

Separating scalable transaction storage from graph compute opens a lot. The new Google Spanner Graph launch is interesting here, and for OSS, we have been working on GFQL so you can bounce between vectorized Python dataframe mode on small graphs to 1B row GPU batches for bigger graphs.
Cool, I hope you are on your way to a healthier weight. I can see why medication could help in the short-term for someone who has dug a deep hole. My reaction of disgust is towards the premise of "how long until we're all on Ozempic?" and the current state of affairs, where far too many people in the US are being medicated for that and various other things.
GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36806970 - July 2023 (9 comments)

GradIEEEnt half decent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780921 - May 2023 (32 comments)
What is the advantage of catching the booster vs letting it touch down?
Stable diffusion is in latent space, not by pixel.
FM spends bandwidth to reduce noise.
>Counter anecdote, none of the people named Ashkenazi that I know are Sephardic. One's family is from Turkey, I'm not sure during which period they immigrated to the holy land. It is possible that they came to Turkey from Spain, though the family today does not consider themselves Sephardic. The IDF chief Gabbi Ashkenazi's father is Syrian I believe.

It's thought these people were part of the expulsions. Gabbi Ashkenazi, the former IDF chief's father was Bulgarian-- Bulgaria, of course, being Ottoman territory and right next-door to Thessaloniki, a Jewish hotspot of the time would match this model well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_(surname)#cite_note-...

I haven't been to Hebrew school in a long time but still remember a few things :)
If you believe Wikipedia’s Palestinian population figures [0] - 3.19 million in West Bank, 2.17 million in Gaza, 2.037 million in Israel proper - that adds up to 7.397 million. Wikipedia gives a total population of 14.3 million worldwide. 7.397/14.3 = 51.7%. So a majority of Palestinians still reside in Israel/Palestine today.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians
Palmyra: At the Crossroads of the Ancient World
There's nothing moronic about the argument that calorie deficits can cause weight loss. Most people using Ozempic have never tried multi-day fasting as an alternative. There are plenty of ways to lose weight that don't require taking medicine that might be fucking up your digestive system long-term.
I think Quake is enormously more difficult to get running than an Emacs. That's why it came 20 years later historically.

I agree about inspection and personalization.
Used this to boot from usb on systems that didn't support usb boot back in the day. Good stuff.
Is it just paired with his phone that he has access to on the weekends?
Asking because I've thought about this before (younger kids) but I don't think the AW operates standalone and I didn't want to pair it with my phone.
Thanks for listening! It's a touchy subject with lots of baggage but it's dear to my heart so I appreciate it when folks can chat about it without vitriol.
There are some concerns with retatrutide - it's popular among the bolder people willing to buy it as a research chemical, and both their reports and the clinical trials do show significantly higher resting heart rates as a common side effect.

Not a huge deal for people that have good heart health already, but since obesity tends to cause poor heart health...

I expect we'll still get it approved for weight loss use, but it'll be one that is going to take more observation on the patients using it
User data is the new gold, at least until AI is good enough to create that gold from iron.
I don’t fully understand this. Jewish people lived in that region long before Islam was even invented. How could Muslims now claim that it has some sort of indispensable significance to their belief system? It is a region that already had a people and holds significance to others. Isn’t this just manufacturing an artificial claim?
I don't see it as a troll comment
What it's like working at Disney Animation in 2024 [video]
He was a pioneer and a public benefactor. Our connected world would be unthinkable without him.

Maybe HN should carry a black banner today.
One thing I've always been curious about is: How many trade business owners come from the working class and actually started out as grunt-work tradesmen, somehow ending up owning their company, and how many are from the business class and have never touched a pipe wrench or wire stripper? You never get the picture from these articles. My uninformed suspicion is that the majority of actual owners are not practitioners, and instead acquired or inherited their business. Would love to be proven wrong with data.
For high-dimensional spheres, most of the volume is in the "shell", ie near the boundary [0]. This sort of makes sense to me, but I don't know how to square that with the observation in the article that most of the surface area is near the equator. (In particular, by symmetry, it's near any equator; so, one would think, in their intersection. That is near the centre, though, not the shell.)

Anyway. Never buy a high-dimensional orange, it's mostly rind.

[0] https://www.math.wustl.edu/~feres/highdim
Please refrain from gatekeeping or trying to limit what I, or anyone else, can or cannot do.

The world isn't limited by your imagination.

I don't even understand what your point is.