skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most pop science writers and readers don't understand the depth of factors involved in creating a habitable planet here. If they did, a simple chat with a better LLM would reveal that the possibility for life is far more rare than in the Universe than is commonly calculated estimating, say, only for "goldilocks zone" planets. Even plugging in one additional obvious factor other than distance to the star, such as planetary tilt, puts the estimation for the nearest possible planet at 2.5 million light years away (when starting with a reasonable estimation for the number of stars in the universe, which you will also need to pare down filtering for star type). And the factors involved go far beyond, including those involving other characteristics of the Star both in isolation and in relationship to those of the planet, and possibly additional solar system bodies like moons and perhaps more.

Then compare in ratio to the number of planets that don't hold life, and in general the vast absence of life in the Universe. Which is far more impressive in its commonness than the existence of Life.

Not feeling "Lucky" to be here is arguably a spiritual crime and, whether or not one is amenable to that type of guilt, perhaps also one of intellect. Sincerely, this is fully a generalized comment and I'm not trying to insult you.
I have, yes, but I’ve seen precious few projects actually follow semver.

The Linux kernel, for example, explicitly states that version numbers are meaningless.

In my experience, semver ends up just being more of a reason to never have a major release rather than a way to communicate breaking changes.

I don’t think Hugo uses semver anyway…
"Advanced Custom Fields" developer accuses Matt Mullenweg of taking over, without consent, their WordPress plugin.
"Simple English" is a language on Wikipedia
(1) Much larger than any previous rocket landing, (2) This rocket carried no landing gear (more efficient - landing gear is heavy), (3) This rocket landed right back at the place it needs to be to launch again - right on its launch tower - which in a routine situation might make it much faster to prepare it for the next relaunch. (4) It's yet another step in control prowess - impressive in itself.
The linked page mentions this:

Additionally, Optimized Charging uses machine learning to decide when the battery should be held at 80%, and when it should become fully charged.
Unbelievable value to its customers, yeah. That's often the point of a business.
In fact you are right but the text is a bit hard to interpret for me. The only thing I can get out of it “If it’s forced on you, it’s going to be a less positive experience.”

So if it is non-chosen solitude, it will be less positive than chosen solitude.

Now what is the answer to the downvoted question, i still don't know the answer and in fact i wonder as well.
That is probably because you are not a Yes-man, not because of DEI policies.
The new culture war is real vs. bogus
I take mounjaro because I have T2 diabetes and it is a lot easier to stick to a diabetes appropriate diet. I was already normal weight and I lost 50kg 10 years ago but I could never really eat cleanly even after losing all that weight. The diabetes only improved that slightly.

Now, I can easily stick to a super low carb diet
As someone who recently left an industry job to teach full-time at a community college, I have mixed feelings about the situation of this physics lecturer. I don’t want to dismiss the difficulties that many people, including academics, face in the housing market. In places like Los Angeles and Silicon Valley it’s rough for those having to pay market rates for housing unless they have extremely high incomes.

However, I feel that the lecturer, who started his position at UCLA last year, didn’t do enough homework regarding academic salaries. $70,000 for a non-tenured lecturer is normal, maybe above average, and in fact there are many tenure-track assistant professors who make about the same. To add, UCLA is in a very expensive area. He will have to compete against well-heeled people who want to live within close proximity to some of the nation’s wealthiest areas, such as Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. A physics lecturer simply can’t compete against Hollywood.

In addition, a $70,000 annual salary means that he could qualify for a rental no more than $1944 per month due to the standard 3x the rent requirement a lot of California landlords have. A cursory search on Craigslist shows plenty of one-bedroom apartments in Los Angeles County that are within this budget. Granted, they may not be the nicest complexes in the nicest neighborhoods, and they may require a commute, but the Los Angeles metro area does have extensive public transportation, and nobody goes into academia expecting a luxurious lifestyle on an academic salary. An academic who wants to make serious money needs to take advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities outside the institution.

In addition, there are plenty of grad students and postdocs making less than $70,000 who attend schools like UCLA that are in very expensive areas. Once again, I don’t want to dismiss the challenges they have. I myself lived in Santa Cruz County for over a decade and I know firsthand the challenge of being a grad student at UC Santa Cruz dealing with the area’s notoriously difficult housing market.

But I have a feeling we’re being withheld useful information about his finances. Does he have massive student loans impacting his budget? Does he have other obligations such as taking care of family members? Why wasn’t he able to take advantage of UCLA’s faculty housing?

I just feel that this guy didn’t do enough homework about the realities of being an academic, especially one living in a very expensive area. I’m an academic in Silicon Valley and I’m fully aware of the tradeoffs of choosing this lifestyle over industry. Yes, I’d like a bigger home closer to work, and I have no idea how I’d raise a family (though I’m single now so I don’t need to worry). But at the same time I enjoy the freedom I have in academia; I have far more research freedom as a community college instructor than I did as an industry researcher. I also love teaching and guiding students.
I don’t understand why, given that Germans are generally quite precise - German engineering and manufacturing is world-famous for a reason, why DBahn can’t get the trains to run on time. This isn’t Italy after all. The Swiss and Japanese manage to do it. Can someone explain?
Yeah the right word is refurbishable, plus the main tank was not reused and the solid boosters got a salt water bath each launch.
The crazy thing is, and forgive me if you've heard this before, this insane situation is the result of a deliberate domestic propaganda campaign:

"The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM

"Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street", Peter D. Norton
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40061474
A plop is quite different than tinkling: Why are we afraid to poo at work? 2019
VoIP reinvented?
The hidden danger that kills search products
Imitating science fiction is great marketing for a space company.

Brand association with familiar depictions of “the future” is the goal, not realism.
The extreme here is underpaying the professors and researchers so much in comparison with others (Like University and labs administrators)
> That became a thing because he felt like they didn't contribute to WordPress. Like, that's the entire reason behind that (very weird imo) request for a royalty.

I think it's the other way around: the (false) claims about WPEngine not contributing became a thing because they refused his demands to direct 8% of their revenue into matt's private-equity-backed pockets.

It would make no sense otherwise: "you aren't contributing to the community, so contribute to my for-profit corporation instead"? If matt really cared about the community*, wouldn't the appropriate demand be for WPEngine to contribute 8% to the community, instead of to matt?

*: yes, I recognize that, in reality, matt's repeated actions harming the community in service of himself have made clear that he cares more about himself than the community.
Really interesting to hear!

I was quite hooked to Prolog in a previous life.
Then the limiting factor was the tooling, for really practical use.

Could you tell a bit about your Prolog environment?
SO is what it is, they have made the choices they made as to what questions are appropriate on their platform.

I don't know why SO questions are declining -- perhaps people find SO frustrating, as you seem to, and they give up. I myself have never posted a question on SO as I generally have found that my questions had already been asked and answered. And lately, perhaps LLMs are providing better avenues for the sorts of questions you describe. That seems very plausible to me.
> I don't understand why we haven't more frequency bands available for it

Do we really need more frequency? At this point it does not seem like the challenge for Wifi quality is actually the available frequency spectrum. In fact, I have a lot of devices still in this household that cannot connect to more than 2.4GHz and that is not a question of available spectrum but that supporting all those frequency bands apparently is too costly for some chips on the market.
Suppose you have a node with two children A and B, each of which has infinitely many children. If you performed an ordinary BFS, you could get trapped in A's children forever, before ever reaching any of B's children.

Or, suppose that a node has infinitely many children, but the first child has its own child. A BFS would get stuck going through all the first-level children and never reach the second-level child.

A BFS-like approach could work for completeness, but you'd have to put lower-level children on the same footing as newly-discovered higher-level children. E.g., by breaking up each list of children into additional nodes so that it has branching factor 2 (and possibly infinite depth).
> There's nowhere $70k shouldn't enable you to afford rent

You can afford to rent a 1 bedroom on a $70k salary in Los Angeles - not in Westwood (the bougie neighborhood that UCLA is located in), but take the 405 and commute from the Valley.
Has it been considered to spin the fuel via some centrifuge mechanism as a way to remove sloshing from the equation, or is that more complex/expensive/error-prone than just predicting it via simulation?
No, launching big heavy explosive things into space shouldn’t have fewer regulations. That’s insane to think they should be able to just do it without much oversight.
Useful? Yes.

But then you need some way to provide the exact indentation/spacing in some cases. And the easiest is to provide them verbatim.
The shuttle was not even reusable by any modern metric, the main tank was always expended, the boosters had to be recovered, fully disassembled and cleaned.
It's the same cognitive error as thinking nuclear energy must be cheap because the fuel is cheap.
Shouldn't it be "forth love if honk then"? Or am I not getting the joke.
The problem is eventually what are LLMs going’s to draw from? They’re not creating new information, just regurgitating and combining existing info. That’s why they perform so poorly on code for which there aren’t many many publicly available samples, SO/reddit answers etc.
A car is an incredibly complex and incredibly useful machine. In a non-feudal banker run economy, a car would cost 5 times as much as a house. Or rather the house would be 5 times cheaper than the car.
There is utility in knowing that event a comes before event b in the same local system even if both are generated at the same millisecond. I have found this useful eg when ui latency gets so low that you can have a user interaction and a menu opening in the same millisecond. Being able to plot them on a timeline without any kind of joins is nice.

Anyway, as I said, it was dropped from the spec
When was "confined to trained developers" true? Heck, part of the internal to Bell Labs pitch for Unix was that everyone could shell script.

Home computers in the 80s democratized programming 40 years ago. Human readable HTML and HTTP 0.9 - 1.1 are widely created with the WWW explosion.
When the jobs side of SO was active, it effectively did this. Strong answers and scoring were compensated with prospective employer attention. For a few years, this was actually where the majority of my new job leads came from. It was a pretty rewarding ecosystem, though not without its problems.

Not sure why they shut down jobs; they recently brought back a poorer version of it.
Or you compute variations ahead of time and do a situation based lookup, hoing through loops if a situation ressembles another one.
If you count Pd and SC, then yes :-D

In the future, I want to add a client plugin and standalone, probably with JUCE.

I'm not sure how useful a GUI would be for the server, though, because it typically runs as a service/daemon.
Serious question, how do you deal with typos in functors? And is your techniques specific to the implementation of Prolog you use?
Recently I had a maddening experience chasing this down:

result(World0, move(robot(R), Dir), World) :-
dissoc(World0, at(robot(R), X0), World1),
direction_modifier(Dir, Modifier),
X #= X0+Modifier,
conj(World1, at(robot(R), X), World).
result(World0, drop_rock(robot(R), Place), World) :-
dissoc(World0, capacity(Place, Capacity0), World1),
dissoc(World1, carring_rock(robot(R)), World2),
Capacity #= Capacity0 + 1,
conj(World2, capacity(Place, Capacity), World).
result(World0, pickup_rock(robot(R), Place), World) :-
dissoc(World0, capacity(Place, Capacity0), World1),
Capacity #= Capacity0 - 1,
conj(World1, capacity(Place, Capacity), World2),
conj(World2, carrying_rock(robot(R)), World).

See if you can spot the bug.

...

...

...

carrying_rock vs carring_rock

Because the typo was in a functor (not predicate or singleton variable) there was no IDE or language support, Prolog assumed that I wanted an reported the wrong answer.
of course the snippet I showed was part of a larger example.
In other languages it would've taken me 5 minutes to bisect the program or debug and find the error but it took me 3-4 hours.
I ended up needing to write a lot of error correcting code, basically a half-assed type system, and that code ended up being more substantial than the actual program logic.
Is this common? Am I "doing it wring"?

Right now this seems to have all the downsides of programming exclusively with "magic strings", and I haven't been able to find any cure for it or even seen this problem discussed elsewhere.

*Edit:*

I even rewrote it for SICStus and downloaded their IDE and taught myself Eclipse just to use their IDE plugin, and found that setting breakpoints didn't help the problem, because naturally due to the fact that the functor is in the predicate signature, the predicate is never stepped into in the first place!

I could linearize the arguments and include them in the body but this destroys the indexing and can put me into "defaulty representation" territory.
Helpful post nonetheless!
He should get the message that they don't need him there. He should quit and get a real job in industry that pays 100-200k. It may require him to move, but not be homeless.
Wait, isn't Attia a big advocate of periodic fasting?
My hacky variation of this would have been to create a git repository inside the generated html folder. Commit the legacy output. Build the new release and then you can use git to inspect the changes. Even commit away the irrelevant differences so only the broken deltas are highlighted. Iteratively edit the markdown until git reports no changes.
Nurses and doctors wear masks to protect the patient from their own moisture droplets which may contain contaminants when breathing or talking. Same with dentists.

Do note they don’t wear N95 masks so they can’t filter smaller particles like viruses. It’s just to protect you from their saliva and breath droplets and spreading larger bacteria.

N95 masks are fairly effective if worn precisely and close fitting, but barely anyone used those because they are harder to breathe in.

A cloth mask or thin medical mask does practically nothing except protect others from larger droplets.
> Another interesting thing SpaceX is doing is to use consumer-grade chips in triple redundancy configurations instead of using $100,000+ radiation-hardened aerospace/defense grade chips.

This has been known in the high availability and safety systems industry for a while and a good book to learn these reliability engineering techniques is "Reliability Evaluation of Engineering Systems".

The book is available on amazon: https://a.co/d/1nH824K
Wouldn't it burn most of the fuel to mitigate the effect?
No. Colorblindness does not mean that one does not see any colors. There is only a tiny fraction of colorblind people who really cannot see any colors, and even they can still spot different luminances.
I wouldn't convince a recovering alcoholic to drink, because I am neither the food industry nor an a-hole. However, I insist on blaming them if they do, because thats their body and their decision. We can talk about legislation, like, finally, treating alcohol like the drug it is, and stop pretending it is some sort of exception. But I insist on people being responsible for their own choices. I don't want to life in a world where adults are treated like children.
> Considering the safety and prosperity that can be brought online from 1,000 launches / 150,000 tons in orbit, that’s the deal of the century.

Regardless of the (in)accuracy of ChatGPT, you're assuming a lot can be accomplished with those flights. I strongly suspect 600K cars getting people where they need to go has far more utility than 1K flights of anything into / out of NEO.

> Debris is an absolutely non-issue.

Astronomers probably don't want 1000x (or even 10x) as many satelites obstructing their view.

> There is zero environmental downside, only Luddite foot stomping.

Name calling isn't going to help your cause. And the luddites had a good point, they didn't mind innovation. They minded being cut out of the benefits of innovation without any say in the matter.
Hugo might have the worst documentation I have ever encountered in the wild.
Which, if you think about it, is the height of irony. Hugo, the thing so many people use to make documentation, has terrible, terrible documentation. It is impenetrable.

This is coming from a Go dev who understands Hugo's internals quite well and uses it in production.

Had I known what my journey with Hugo would be like, however, I would have never touched it. In all that time, with all the headaches it caused, I could have just built my own SSG.
What you're describing is "open slop", and yes, there will be a lot of it.

Open source as we know it today, not so much.
Productionizing and scaling nanopore sequencing is definitely an achievement. With that operational obstacle out of the way, you get to think about sequencing in terms of “streams” of data rather than “batches” of huge amounts of data (illumina). That confers a huge operational and commercial benefit.
This might be the best time to get into cubesat development as a hobby, lol.
Beyond the fact that they eventually did quit, the shuttle program was the public face of the US space program, and part of having more than one way to launch military stuff.
Awesome. Incredible. Inspiring. Words fail me.

Heartfelt congratulations to the folks at SpaceX!
Solving Database Changes Across Parallel Versions
Yeah, I think this article does a massive disservice to the issue of low pay for contract faculty and postdocs by highlighting the relative out-of-touchness of McKeown while ignoring how a lot of lecturers and post-docs (at UCs like UCLA as well as other institutions) earn well below $70k depending on the field.

> Why wasn’t he able to take advantage of UCLA’s faculty housing

Lecturers are at the lowest priority for UCLA Faculty Housing.

That said, you can afford a 1bdrm on $70k in LA, just not in Westwood. He'd have to commute from the Valley if he wants to pay less than $2500/mo.
I'll bite: yes.

I see a multitude of cases where jumping out of the plane without parachute won't kill me. From the plane being on the ground, to me being equipped with anything other than a parachute that lets me fly enough, jumping from a plane to another etc.

And I'm not just being facetious, that's exactly the issue we have with pathology related diets, there's a myriad of variables and circumstances to take into account, which makes vague common sense dogmas innaplicable.

Think about it: we have very thorough studies of people dying from hitting static surfaces at high velocity. Why don't we have the same level of evidence for long term obesity treatment if it's a obvious as you say it is ?
It’s not always easy living with roommates (I don’t like it myself), but we all have to make choices. Unless we’re wealthy, we can’t have it all. For many people it’s either roommates or a long commute, and I know people who have roommates and a long commute since that’s all they can afford. It still beats homelessness.
Confusing UI for who? Martians? It literally unites many cores under one simple control scheme. Couldn't get any easier than that.
$50 is a number for LEO (Low-earth orbit). $/kg to a Moon orbit (or flyby) might be significantly more expensive. Not only that, because it is further so it needs more fuel, but also it is a few days trip which would need a bunch more kilos in provisioning food, water and other things. So yeah, unfortunately not that cheap to have a honeyMoon in the moon (heh)

There is a lot of possibilities to make a trip to the moon cheaper though. If we make LEO that cheap, we can build a lot of infrastructure in the space that would make the tourism to moon more affordable. Like keeping a few starships always in orbit as some kind of space-hotel-metro system.

This will probably take a few more decades, though.
The database says you have zero money, in fact you are not even a customer and never were, good day sir.
Note that most of the responses you're receiving, while accurate, are in terms of units of dried cubensis mushrooms, not pure psilocybin. A fresh cubensis mushroom weighs about one-tenth its original weight once it's fully dried, and when dried they usually contain about 0.7-1.0% psilocybin by weight. So 2.5 grams of dried mushrooms will contain about 25mg of psilocybin, which is the "25-mg oral dose[] of psilocybin" given in the study under discussion.

A practical approach is to take about 1.25 grams of dried cubensis, wait about an hour to see how you feel, then try another 0.5 grams if you're up for it, and then another 0.5 in half an hour. By that point you'll have ingested enough to notice effects for sure, and you'll have confidence what your personal right dose is.

Beware of tryptamine tolerance: wait 2 weeks between doses to reset your sensitivity.

Each mushroom contains a different amount of psilocybin. You can calibrate a batch by grinding them all up at once in a coffee grinder and trying a sample. (Always be careful taking powdered mushrooms that someone else has ground up, because you don't know whether anything else has been mixed in.)

Also look up "lemon tek" to prevent tummy upset.