skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't Germany have an extremely large social safety net?

Yes, but people will still be greedy and complain about every little thing.

> Who are these poor people that don't have 49€ for a month of transportation, and how are they possibly surviving without that much money - given the cost of everything else in Germany?

Germany can actually be quite cheap on the basic goods. I mean, it's the country who invented the concept of discount-market and is now spreading Aldi&Lidl to the world. There are also many shops and programs for supporting poor people, selling stuff for lower prices or second hand, and such things. And of course this includes offering a lower price for the ticket.
That other comment on alcohol is by the same guy that made the comment that I responded to here. The same issue there is that result reliability can be influenced by the effect size of the variables being tested, but this still is far from a guarantee that the results will generalize, which is more likely to be an issue with a smaller sample.

An issue with the comment I previously responded to, as I mentioned above, is that they made it out as if a small sample size could be reliable to determine a reliable statistical significance irrespective of the variables under study and tried to prove this by using an absurd analogy between statistical significance and the birthday paradox. The problem with their attempted point was that it didn't even respond to the comment above it, which pointed out that a high statistical significance is not a guarantee of reproducibility, especially with a low sample size.
It took months to more than a year to repair shuttle’s heatshield in some cases. SpaceX replaced the entirety of the heatshield with a new design and a new ablative underlayment in a matter of weeks. I suspect they will be able to do it even quicker with design and process improvements. Small scale repairs of the heatshield between flights probably wont be all that big of a deal.
They put it in places the heat and debris don’t go.
The human body knows how to cope with food scarcity: that's what it's used to since we appeared as a species on Earth. But it does not know how to cope with the abundance of food and energy.
It’s not servicing so much as parts. A friend recently had a 4 year old car written off by insurance after a minor front end shunt. He was incredulous so bought the car back from the insurer as part of his settlement BUT the car is still off the road because the laserlight headlights are just over £5000 each from BMW and there’s no second hand ones of the right type available in the UK currently.

It’s quite a lot cheaper to rewire the car for the more common and cheaper Xenon HID headlight (it’s only £300 2nd hand) but a fairly big job with ZERO support from BMW for the conversion.
Theoretically. In practice, that's not clear. As you add more training data you have to ask yourself what the point is. we already have a pretty good simulation of Counter Strike.
> Will we start to constantly question human advice or responses and what does that do to the human condition.

I'm surprised when people don't already engage in questioning like that.

I've had to be doing it for decades at this point.

Much of the worst advice and information I've ever received has come from expensive human so-called "professionals" and "experts" like doctors, accountants, lawyers, financial advisors, professors, journalists, mechanics, and so on.

I now assume that anything such "experts" tell me is wrong, and too often that ends up being true.

Sourcing information and advice from a larger pool of online knowledge, even if the sources may be deemed "amateur" or "hobbyist" or "unreliable", has generally provided me with far better results and outcomes.

If an LLM is built upon a wide base of source information, I'm inclined to trust what it generates more than what a single human "professional" or "expert" says.
It's an unmanned X-20/MiG-105, very different.
Even better: never use process.exit(). Set process.exitCode instead.

https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#processexitcode
If I were rewriting Emacs, I would not replace its language with Python, Lua, or Cobol.

I don't like those languages, and I have just as much right to say that as the people who don't like Lisp.
https://x.com/marionawfal/status/1845351598874120662

I dug into it, found this clip. Elon says that it’s those two tiny knubs! Saw a few pictures and yes, I confirm, it’s not the grid fins.
Interesting content about Django + HTMX!
Yes, immature people are everywhere, but SO took it to a new level before they had to implement a code of conduct. I remember asking questions and getting "this is is common misconception, maybe you're looking for X instead" type of actually helpful and kind answers.

After some point it came to a point that if you're not asking a complete problem which can't be modeled as a logic statement, you're labeled as stupid for not knowing better. The thing is, if I knew better or already found the answer, I'd not be asking to SO in the first place.

After a couple of incidents, I left the place for the better. I can do my own research, and share my knowledge elsewhere.

Now they're training their and others models with that corpus, I'll never add a single dot to their dataset.
If I had to bet, I would bet against it. Boston Dynamics for example, for the longest time, didn't use anything other than Model-Predictive Control. Only recently have they started using RL
Same here. I actually enjoy the UI change. No performance issues tho.
> I almost had a heart attack when it looked like the booster was about to slowly careen into the tower

Same but it looks more dramatic on the feed we all got: on other vids the angle is different and although close it doesn't look it's going to crash into the tower.

Still: feels pretty close.
Well it was obviously an ad for "x-ray glasses," not x-ray glasses.
In reading Musk's biography,

"Hollman also found that creativity got him a long way. He discovered, for example, that changing the seals on some readily available car wash valves
made them good enough to be used with rocket fuel."

"Elon Musk" by Vance pg 123
> I'm speaking for myself (ADHD) and anecdotal experience from people in my life with these conditions (clinical depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD). I don't claim to speak for anyone.

Now you say that. But you made a very clear, absolute statement that these people “cannot have full control of their minds without medical intervention”.

And everyone’s lived experience is eventually respected with some back and forth in these exchanges. But making absolute statements about what people can or cannot do cuts both ways. So it’s best to make your vantage point clear from the start.[1]

I’m personally much more offended when someone says that my “type” cannot do something. Compared to assuming that I can.

Thanks for the clarification.

[1] For all we knew you could have been a medical researcher.
It feels to me, people suggesting using anything other than Lisp haven't had sufficient, heartfelt experience with Lisps. Give me a Lisp any day, sure, Elisp might not be a best of Lisps, but it's a Lisp nonetheless, there's simply nothing better for evaluating things on the fly, there's no better language for rapid prototyping, for structural editing, for metaprogramming.

One has to experience the flow, the fluidity, the functional constructs of Lisp to truly appreciate its elegance and expressiveness. Lisp's code-as-data philosophy enables seamless metaprogramming, where code can be treated as data and manipulated with the same ease as data structures. This unlocks a level of abstraction and composability that is unmatched by most other languages. The functional nature of Lisp, combined with its homoiconicity, encourages a declarative and modular programming style, promoting code reuse and maintainability. Once one immerses themselves in the Lisp way of thinking, the flow of writing code becomes a harmonious dance, where complex problems are broken down into simple, composable functions that can be effortlessly combined and transformed. It's a paradigm that fosters creativity and empowers developers to build robust and extensible systems with remarkable ease.

Sure, Python, Lua, Javascript, etc. They all may seem more familiar, and yet they lack the profound simplicity and expressiveness that lies at the heart of Lisp. While these languages have their own merits and widespread adoption, they are ultimately constrained by their rigid syntax and imperative nature. Lisp, on the other hand, transcends these limitations with its minimal yet powerful syntax, allowing code to be treated as data and data as code seamlessly. It fosters an unparalleled level of metaprogramming capabilities, enabling developers to write code that writes code, unlocking a realm of abstractions and transformations that are challenging or impossible in other languages.

Yes, very challenging, see the examples of using Hyperfiddle/Electric, here's one: [SpreadSheesh! talk by Dennis Heihoff - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEt06LLQaBY)

When you say "It's one big X REPL... and it doesn't have to be Lisp", it's already conflicting because you need Lisp to have the proper REPL experience. Those non-homoiconic languages that promise a REPL don't actually provide the "real REPL" experience. Their interactive shells are more limited in comparison to the true REPL provided by Lisp dialects, where code and data are seamlessly interchangeable.

upd: darn, I guess I didn't scroll too far, all the people complaining about Lisp are at the bottom, downvoted and I guess angry because they don't understand why. It's like someone moving from China to US and complaining why everyone refuses to even try Mandarin, after all it's the most widely spoken language in the world, why wouldn't it make sense to use it instead?
To your latter point - that’s where I think most of the value of LLMs in education is. They can explain code beyond the educational content that’s already available out there. They are pretty decent at finding and explaining code errors. Someone who’s ramping up their coding skills can make a lot of progress with those two features alone.
I am proudly not-normal, in that case.
German people have an understandable historical revulsion to the government tracking their every move.
I recommend emailing hn@ with your questions, even if you don't currently see any obvious reason to.
It feels intuitive to me. I think you need to consider gravity, if you've ever tried to balance a broom stick on one finger you get a similar effect, your finger is the thrust.
I’m in a dense apartment block in Vienna. The walls are thick enough that I barely see two WiFi’s. Automatic band selection means we end up in different frequencies.
So it'll start consuming fake AI generated video and reporting it as credulous. What could go wrong!
What art are you referring to? I only see photographs that are credited (on mobile)

Do you mean the navy cap with the Pepsi logo? It's credited as an illustration. In 2021 the Text-to-image models also weren't that good yet, or did I miss something?
> At the same time, DB also started saving significant money, because that's what private companies are doing, so they removed parts of the infrastructure

As strongly encouraged by their regulators (the Bundesnetzagentur and the Eisenbahnbundesamt), though, too, because for a long time the main political mandate regarding the railways was mainly to save money.
Keep this in mind when someone tells you again what a beautiful demonstration of capitalism the "spectrum auctions" are. Most bits move over spectrum no one paid for.
My view is that someone just went over list of industries and asked can we afford to get regional monopoly here. That is do we yet have enough money to buy out enough of certain regional markets to extract enough value to make it worthwhile. Value of jobs don't even need to have anything big coming up see vetinary clinics.
Entropixplained
You might think that would be it?

$ node -e "process.stdout.write('@'.repeat(128 * 1024)); process.stdout.write(''); setTimeout(()=>{ process.exit(0); }, 0);" | wc -c
131072

Sure. But not so fast! You're still just racing and have no guarantees. Increase the pressure and it snaps back:

$ node -e "process.stdout.write('@'.repeat(1280 * 1024)); process.stdout.write(''); setTimeout(()=>{ process.exit(0); }, 0);" | wc -c
65536

Meanwhile:

$ node -e "const { Stream } = require('stream'); s = process.stdout; s.write('@'.repeat(1280 * 1024)); Stream.finished(s, () => { process.exit(0); })" | wc -c
1310720
> root mean square standard deviation, RMSSD

This is incorrect. RMSSD means root mean square successive differences. Interestingly, if you actually compute what you wrote ie root mean square standard deviation, you will get the same result as sdnn.
SpaceX couldn’t manage the first Falcon 9 landing until 2015. The first Falcon 9 reuse wasn’t until 2018, so 3 years to achieve reusability. The Chinese prototype hasn’t yet succeeded at sub-orbital landing. I wouldn’t be surprise if it’d take them longer than 3 years to have a reusable rocket. Starship would have been routine at that time.

Blue Origin plans to launch New Glenn in a month, with landing planned. They are a wild card.
> I don't know the first thing about this thing, help me get to where I know the first thing. This is not allowed any more.

This may have been allowed in like the first year while figuring out what kind of moderation worked, but it hasn't been as least since I started using it in like 2011. They just kept slipping through the cracks because so many questions are constantly being posted.
If the computation is too difficult, another approach is build a test stand and try methods until it works.

Which is why we use wind tunnels, for example.
It’s certainly worth it, I agree. But I literally spent my entire 20’s getting financially ready to do so, and unfortunately suffered the consequences due to that.
I have always assumed that as service (or products) get worse consumers will start looking for alternatives. This does not seam to be happening. It might be the alternatives are run out of business and are doing something else now. Maybe consumers have a hard time finding alternatives, as in independent contractors do not show up at the top of the search or are not in the app. Maybe it just cost to much and pays to little to be an alternative. I do not see a lot of open doors.
You are legion, it used to be pulp SF novels for me, now all the fascinating content from youtube/audio books and the many educational streams of this and that also consume too many of my daily hours. How to solve? - that is the problem...
Restic: Backups done right
What’s the difference between information entropy and physical entropy?
The majority of damage to shuttle's TPS apparently came from foam strikes from the external fuel tank. Superheavy's optimized profile certainly helps here, since there are no large cryogenic tanks hanging ominously over the TPS while being shaken violently by solid rocket boosters.
I can recommend the Waking Up app. It has a well paced and well done introduction to mindfulness in a very similar style to the linked article. If interested, I can share a link for a free 30-day trial.

I have no affiliation and get no kickback. It has simply been quite useful for me.
Sapphire glass windows: they're good for up to 2000 C, mechanically strong and chemically resistant, and remarkably cheap.
Artemis by Andy Weir dwells a lot on this kind of infrastructure, but I never could understand the orbital mechanics described in the book.
That’s a lot of words, where is the code to reproduce?
None of the broad ai agent tools seem to work.

Perplexity is my favorite narrow ai agent tool, kind of like an ai agent as an alternative to google search
Tl;dr - "plant based" is a (poorly named) vegan-compatible diet and fits better; veganism is a broader brush where "cheating" implies moral failure instead of a lapse of discipline.
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Vegetarianism is a diet - choices about food for whatever reason. Many of those reasons have plenty of room for imperfection and still hold - the concept of a "cheat day" is common and often even useful for people trying to change their lives through food choices. In almost every case for a diet, craving a treat is normal and healthy and not a personal failure. "Perfect is the enemy of progress".

Veganism, on the other hand, is a moral philosophy specifically about right or wrong AND it isn't internally motivated/facing/impactful. It isn't a diet or guidelines for personal change and a "slip" or "cheat" is very different (craving and then doing something you think is objectively wrong) than occasionally choosing to miss your calorie or macro target.

Of course there are overlaps since choosing to be vegan requires a massive diet change in the US AND because, like vegetarianism, people choose that diet for many reasons, not all of which are the moral philosophy. People use the term "plant based" to describe the diet only (not a good name but it seems to be out there for better or worse) which is on the same footing as any other diet.

As a thought experiment for why the diet vs moral distinction might matter, pick something you're comfortable deciding is morally wrong (lying? Shoplifting? Infidelity? Sexual harassment? Domestic violence? Rape? Murder? Slavery?) and then think about what a "cheat day" for that would be. To me it invalidates the whole idea. As an example, someone cutting down their violent crime to only one "cheat day" a week might objectively be progress but it doesnt earn my respect - the only correct amount of that behavior is zero in my mind and the worse the "indulgence" or "craving" the more clear that is for me when I think about it.

I hope this doesn't put your back up or come off as "holier than thou" - I'm trying to talk about the shape of the difference without taking a side on the specific moral arguments.

For what it's worth this is a common way I see vegans and non-vegans accidentally offended each other and get into a negative spiral so I really appreciate you asking the genuine question.
We already knew a way - a shockwave
It's more that Discord is replacing Slack as the place where community happens. Less about about indexing, which still sucks even in Discord search. Slack/Salesforce threw a lot of small projects under the bus, post-acquisition, with the reductions to history from message count to 90 days
During/before the water landing of Ship, the telemetry indication for the rocket motors stayed off.

Does that mean the landing burn was unsuccessful? Or was that just a glitch in the telemetry?
The joy on the faces of all the employees is infectious, congrats!
Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world
They dropped transpiration cooling, at least for now.
They might not have a choice but to do so.

UN Regulation 155 and ISO/SAE 21434 are going to require that intra-car communications require some sort of authentication system between computers. It's regulations attempting to get ahead of potential hacks for Vehicle to Everything (V2X) infrastructure.

Unfortunately this likely also means the ability to replace failed ECU's on a car will be only limited to car manufacturers willingness to explicitly authorize a part to be installed into a car, even genuinely OEM parts straight from the manufacturer. Don't know when it comes into force but it's on the way.
This general topic about trade workers pops up on HN periodically and there is always some discussion about high-earning people working in the trades. But I can't find any data that actually supports this statement - the BLS numbers tell a story that plumbers and electricians make almost exactly the median income that full-time, year-round workers in the US earn.

I don't doubt that someone who is running a business is earning more, this article in the WSJ says:

"At the time that they sold the company, it had 18 employees and was bringing in about $3 million in revenue a year. "

This was a plumbing business with two founders, founded in 2012. The article goes on to say that PE buys smaller businesses like the one above for:

"smaller outfits (such as Rice’s), which Redwood says it buys outright for an average of $1 million..."

The Occupational Outlook handbook says:

"The median annual wage for electricians was $61,590 in May 2023. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $38,470, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $104,180." The mean annual wage for all occupations in that resource is $65,470.
lol fair enough! I'll give you overbearing but not passive aggressive on this one.
There is a big lie about this mythical low demand.

No, people will demand more of what they really know, if you feed them with better things they will demand more better things.

But the point is, the cheap news are related to junky ads and this is the point where it gets spoiled: selling shit is easier when is tied to spreading shit.

Fix the greed behind the news distribution and you will have better content plus a demand for a better content.
I will note that you are not responding to what you have quoted, but to an extreme re-interpretation.

The OP says "exert some mastery over", which is a far cry from the "full control" you say some people cannot have.
Your one liner doesn’t do the same thing as the code I posted. You missed passing a callback to stream.write and waiting for the callback before exiting the process.

Once we await that callback to resolve, then the buffered data from before that point is known to be flushed. I don’t want to wait for a “finished” event because I want my program to terminate once my main() function and a flush after main() is complete. If I wait for finish, a background “thread” can extend the process lifetime by continuing to log.

This is also why we don’t set process.exitCode and wait for the event loop to drain and Node to auto-exit. That might be the “right way”, but if someone leaves a lingering setTimeout(…, 10_MINUTES) you’ll have a bad time.

It’s also more clear to reason about. Our rule: if you want the process to wait for your async work to complete, then `await` it.
> If you're not interested in dense textual content you would have closed the tab within 1 second.

And your theory is that all commenters have read those posts in their entirety? I'd suspect far far more readers jump to discussion rather than fixating on the post, as is evidenced by the amount of people that comment on and respond to topics irrelevant to the posts in question.

> And what data is that?

The slow death of academic and long form text medium in general? And the boom in mixed media aggregation happening? Or just the last 20 years of long form text as a whole?

But also, the work that's gone into building my company and its product.

> I don't think I'm elitist or sexy.

That's good. But I again think that your perception of this topic does not match society. Which isn't bad! But I think it's important to note our own biases and perceptions.

> I don't tend to consume textual content in a start to end sequential manner. But I jump around. Because some stuff I already know, some i really want to deeper dive on, some I need to refer back to later. This is much harder with video.

Yes, one might suggest that mixed media suffers from a lack of tooling for these types of challenges (aforementioned company)
A small but contributing factor may be how that same height-of-view affects how people perceive speeds and distances.

When I had a very small car, family and friends--used to other vehicles--seemed to be concerned I was speeding even when at the posted limit.