skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Open Source" has a specific definition, created by the Open Source Initiative:

<https://opensource.org/osd>

Certain usages may be covered by trademark protection, as an "OSI Approved License":

<https://opensource.org/trademark-guidelines>

It's based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), which were adopted by the Debian Project to determine what software does, and does not, qualify to be incorporated into the core distribution. (There is a non-free section, it is not considered part of the core distribution.)

<https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines>

Both definitions owe much to the Free Software Foundation's "Free Software" definition and the four freedoms protected by the GNU GPL:

- the freedom to use the software for any purpose,

- the freedom to change the software to suit your needs,

- the freedom to share the software with your friends and neighbors, and

- the freedom to share the changes you make.

<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3>

<https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>
But an average table saw used professionally probably cuts more than 700 USD of limbs during its lifetime. So that seems very warranted and no, we will just take care very well is not a real substitute. That is what at least 10% of our parents also thought while we were fathered.
It’s rather difficult to “break your mind” on psychedelics.

Unless you either A) already have a predisposition to something like, say, schizophrenia, or B) take stupendous amounts, you’ll be fine. And vis a vis point B, in the older days there were people who did multiple LSD hero doses, without frying their brain.
Not widely known I think - here is a neat write up on it [https://repository.geologyscience.ru/bitstream/handle/123456...]

And another [https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...]
Only the US and China have landed successfully on Mars. China achieved this in 2021. Russia/USSR tried multiple times and didn't succeed.

Other countries have sent satellites to orbit around Mars, which is not the same thing.
Somebody who just summarizes tutorials can write like 10 medium posts, in the time it takes an actual practitioner to do something legitimately interesting.
To be honest he wasn't that murderous and inhumane by the standards of that time. Back then Europe was ruled by royals who were happy to kill countless of lives in useless wars. Columbus was no better or worse than average ruler/warlord or whatever of the era.

The act of sailing over the Atlantic and discovering the new world was pretty cool, what happened after that not. There is no need to make a hero or villain out of him.
Soviet frigate Storozhevoy
There used to be a Twitter AppleTV app and I recently saw an X app for TV platforms has been brought back, but I don’t know if the AppleTV version is out yet.

Of course I’d rather they just stream to YouTube in 4K.
Very true, try doing a M-x Source Compare. Genera is backwards compatible with System 99. And any differences are trivial.
https://archive.is/fiCum
Is it possible to see the program name too?
New Glenn finally has flight hardware undergoing pre-flight testing. I think they're pretty likely to manage to fly in early/mid 2025, and they do aim to recover the booster in their first try.
I always wonder about that. Very often it seems that you need to be able to LLM that they are wrong. And then they happily correct themselves. But if you do not know that the answer is wrong how can you get correct answer?
I had an email exchange with Homer Hickam, before SpaceX existed, where I remarked that the shuttle design looked like a giant kludge, and a winged reentry vehicle was a fundamentally bad design, for various reasons which I enumerated elsewhere in this thread.

He emailed back that he agreed with my reasons and had argued that case with NASA in the early stages of the shuttle program.

So NASA was aware of this at the time.
They're necessary because cities are built around the idea that everything must be done through a car, so roads become necessary. It's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. The underlying discussion is all about urban planning and how we want societies to organize space.
This option is not new and it never really worked for me. Sometimes it would work fine for a while, then again it decides to keep the MacBook at full charge for weeks. I never really understood what Apple had in mind with this feature. Just give us a proper charge limiting option. With this tool you get exactly this, though limited to choosing 80% or off (charge to full) only. I would prefer a full charge limiter as I have in my Tesla, but for some reason that's beyond Apple.
Nobody is criticising the content that is on the site. The problem is an incredibly hostile user base that will berate you if you don't ask your question in the exact right way, or if you ask a question that implies a violation of some kind of best practice (for which you don't provide context because it's irrelevant to the question).

As for the AI, it can only erode the quality of the content on SO.
The long-term goal is becoming a multi-planet species, so in that context it's not about countries. Go Earth!

(also, while NASA has been generally helpful to SpaceX's efforts, American FAA bureaucrats have managed to inject unnecessary delays and uncertainty into the process (in addition to some necessary delays).
> was instead a social shaming that cut so deep that the message you wrote is still burned verbatim into their memory after all these years?

Maybe that was the point?
People were indeed afraid of stuff they did not understand and they imagined them to be quite different than what they really were.

Like Greeks inventing Zeus as a coping mechanism for the malevolent, all powerful and vengeful nature.

Hope it will not be another 2000 years until some of today's inexact beliefs get forgotten.
https://github.com/ClassicPress/ClassicPress

"ClassicPress is a community-led open source content management system for creators. It is a fork of WordPress 6.2 that preserves the TinyMCE classic editor as the default option. It is half the size of WordPress, contains less bloat improving performance, and has no block editor (Gutenberg/Full Site Editing)."
Seems like a small price to pay to not dismember your employees with accidents.
That is exactly what I am charging if some client wants me to do some crap on their website that takes me 2 hours. And my only overhead is needing to invoice them and switching from another project. Because I rather make progress on some project that actually pays my bills long term
Everything (and everyone for that matter) can be and has been wrong. What matter is if it is useful. And AI as it is now is pretty decent at finding ("regurgitating") information in large bodies of data much faster than humans and with enough accuracy to be "good enough" for most uses.

Nothing will ever replace your own critical thinking and judgment.

> At least when discussing with real people after the arrows fly and the dust settles, we can figure out the truth.

You can actually do that with AI now. I have been able to correct AI many times via a Socratic approach (where I didn't know the correct answer, but I knew the answer the AI gave me was wrong).
> Strategically thinking, after setting the shredder on fire it will be harder to shred the code of the future emacs clones! :D

The most realistic future is that emacs begins shipping with a self-shredding feature. C-h s
"Error establishing a database connection". Yep, definitely a fork of wordpress /s
When you frame it like that of course it sounds bizarre.

You just ignored the context of ketogenic metabolism being more similar in humans and mice than humans and chimpanzees.
I would imagine that FPM is more common than people realize because it’s also usually faster, and running scripts as a separate user is more secure. For example, if PHP is a user with read-only access to the document root, it is far more difficult for an attacker to do file injection.
There's the rocket equation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
Regulations probably are not going to fix the rot that's inside Boeing. It's like putting water in groundhog tunnels, clamp down on one area and it will pop up somewhere else.

They need to die off and get replaced by better competition when they mess up. And their market centralization ground to a halt instead of encouraged by the gov because of jobs and total risk aversion.
His "What if?" videos have his actual voice, and it sounds nothing like a stick figure. Horrors.
Convert AWS console actions to reusable code
Well, in my particular experience with juniors, it's astonishing the so many ways they have to make any code run slower than it has to be (besides the network and database queries), just by thinking 'nah, this is a computer and it can do millions of ops by second'. And that's why I always take the "premature optimization" dogma with a grain of salt while my life's miserable enough having to accelerate some other's stuff.
I didn’t say “screw-up jeopardizing a multi-million dollar contract” shouldn’t cause stress. I totally understand that.

I’m talking about people offended just by needing to show up and function in a normal office.

If someone is offering me $120K; I’ll physically show up in a suit if you want.
That's what I've been predicting and scared of: LLMs learn from online Q&A platforms, but people already stop posting questions and receiving answers. The sole knowledge sources will get poisoned with inaccurate LLM generated data, and therefore the entropy available to LLMs will become damped by the LLMs itselves (in a negative feedback loop)
Navy sinks old concrete carriers in the Gulf of Mexico already, for this exact reason (artificial reef). i remember this happening at least 20+ years ago... it's not as new novel idea. Florida also uses shell material as aggregate in concrete already.
A well-lived life means wasting some time
I wish... Some commenters follow up with "Why do you think Y won't work for you?"
I think this is just the future though. Why ask other people if LLMs can just retrieve, read, and train on official documentations
There are around a dozen streets downtown that are multilevel, Wacker Dr. being the most famous thanks to The Dark Knight. They’re not tunnels so much as raised floors. The buildings around them are similarly laid out so that the pedestrian levels are actually dozens of feet above the ground with service entrances beneath.

You might also might be interested to know that Millennium Park is actually a massive rooftop garden covering a train station and parking garage which connects to a lot of these streets.

I’d also add that street level was raised off of the ground in the 1850’s, but that was just to help with drainage afaik.
Maybe universities should provide housing for the lower paid teaching staff. In the case of UCLA they have on-campus housing and nearby UCLA-owned apartments for about 13000 people. Let's say they expanded that by 5%. That would be housing for 650 people.

They have around 5500 faculty members and 31000 staff members (although both of these numbers vary quite a bit from source to source), but many of the faculty are in research positions not teaching positions.

UCLA is usually reports to have a student to teacher ration of around 19:1 and around 45000 students, which would suggest about 2400 teachers, so my proposed 5% housing expansion would let them offer housing to about 1/4 of the teachers.

It would probably have be high density housing, much like typical undergraduate housing, but that should be fine. All the people in it would be doing very similar jobs, likely on very similar schedules, and with similar requirements for their home environment. The more similar you are to your neighbors the higher density can go before people want to start killing each other.
I think a lot of unpaid online discussion forum moderation volunteers get psychic profit from power tripping.
What did the post(s) say?
Piracy Shield May Reduce Illegal Sports Streaming, Traffic Analysis Suggests
> - The last window is always suggested FIRST when sharing,

It most definitely isn't. (I just checked, just to humor you.)

> - Learn what to look at: Look at the appearance of your browser window before you go click Share my screen.

I'm often staring at it the window I intend to share as I'm going through the list so as to be able to find it. I don't think it's as useful as you think it is.

> Don’t pass as a boomer when you can be a Millennial!

… right …

You're probably making some assumptions about the exact OS/browser/VC SW combination that I'm using, your suggestions simply don't apply to the one I am using.
You failed to mention any of the downsides:

- competition from non-Union labor

- broken body by 50

- fewer jobs than
programming (there are multiple times as many programming jobs than plumbing, for instance)

- working conditions (no office work, expect hot/cold environments potentially far away from family)
Turnaround time is about a day, so as fast as plasmidsaurus would get back to me (I'm also using nanopore, so we're gonna essentially be the same speed, with my library prep taking time but their shipments also taking time). It is mostly cost savings.

I'm working on building a plasmid synthesis company. The price of sequence verified DNA has increased, not decreased, since 2018, even when you account for inflation. On that metric alone, we are regressing in our ability to modify the biological world. I'll be launching in a couple months with a service that costs less than half the incumbent provider, while maintaining their margin. Being able to sequence verify DNA for dirt cheap is a big part of that. Took over a year and a half to get there - it's way harder than it sounds, for a myriad of reasons (things at scale are hard!)

You could mean two things by synthesizing custom RNA - synthesizing oligos (ie, chemical synthesis) or synthesizing mRNA, which is typically from a DNA template (you can have short mRNAs be synthesized as oligos, though). The fundamental problem with oligos is the mutation rates - hence why I sequence verify so much stuff - and you're not really gonna get around that. For other mRNA from a DNA template, well, you need the DNA template in the first place (that's where I come in), and then you usually just transcribe it into RNA using an RNA polymerase. Then, there is essentially an endless rabbit-hole of optimizations for everything under the sun. But fundamentally mRNA only costs the DNA template + polymerase, which you can get for like $75 https://www.neb.com/en-us/products/m0251-t7-rna-polymerase . DNA prices are about $0.09 per base plus $35 right now, I'm aiming for $0.045 per base plus $16.
He redacted it and they still wouldn't allow it[0].

[0] = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41679742
An economic defense of the liberal arts
Ask HN: Should I Go Back to College?
I've been thinking about going back to college but I'm unsure if it's a good decision or not. I've talked to many friends and family and they also seem split on it.

I'm 32 years old and currently working as a senior fullstack developer. I have an associates degree in science but I never pursued a computer science degree, I'm self taught and started with a junior developer position and now around 8 years later, I'm here with a senior developer position.

In the past I thought about it but I always felt good about where I stood with my career. I've not something I necessarily love, but I think I'm decent at it and it's a good living. Lately however, after layoffs, the bad job market, and the uncertainty with AI, I've felt more anxious about my future and I've really been putting serious thought into going back to college.

I would like to get my electrical engineering degree and focus on power systems. However, I worry about whether it is worth the money when I could spend the money on a house or other expenses. I know I won't be making more money but I like the idea of the type of work and the employability of it.

I'm not married but I am in a serious relationship and we would like to have kids in the next two to three years. I know it would be hard now to go back to school with that plan in mind but it would be even harder after that so I feel like this is a decision I need to make now, one way or the other, and stick with it.

Any advice or stories of personal experience with this is greatly appreciated.
Are you _the_ matt?
In the video you can see the engines light (reflecting off the metal control flap and water) and the ship make a soft touchdown on the water. It then tips over and the tanks pop from the force of smacking the water sideways.

So the landing burn seems to have been a success.
I wonder when he stopped having any value at his companies ("if ever" might add some)
The “world” doesn’t consume US-produced media “in droves” anymore, there are still some locations where that probably still happens (like Denmark, probably, I’ve never been there so maybe I’m wrong), but at the same time there are also places where US media used to dominate but it doesn’t anymore. For example in Romania, where I live, the Spotify year-end charts for 2023 had the first US artist (not Taylor Swift, mind you) in about 15th or 16th place, and Spotify is a platform generally used by the more Westernized cohort, /trending on YT is absolutely dominated by Romanian-only songs and media.

I’d go even further and say that (some) Americans’ mistaken belief that their culture/media still dominates stuff at the global level, unencumbered, is a good explanation for many of the US’s geo-political missteps from the last 10-15 years or so. The age of Rocky/Rambo and Michael Jackson is long gone.
Well, what could be more “classic WordPress” than this message?
It is if you miss a connection that only runs hourly or so. (Even with a half-hourly connection it'd be annoying.)
I don't think it is possible - the autosomes recombine quite quickly, after 20 generations I think all the IBDs would be wiped away. But I might be wrong.
Usually partial blockage is worse, because you end up with a spray of secondary particles instead of a single ray.
It seems like it’s changing every year. Why can’t we just settle on one standard and let us start lowering costs again? I shouldn’t have to pay 10k to replace my AC.

(I like the idea of using propane as a refrigerant. Surprisingly efficient. Very cheap. And I don’t think there’s enough to be more dangerous than a grill?)
Why does it pain you? Musk's SpaceX has produced several enormous advancements in space technology.

SpaceX is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, private technology company in history.
The study itself is here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08026-3

It adds this interesting point:

Our findings indicate that improving health and extending lifespan are not synonymous and raise questions about which end points are the most relevant for evaluating aging interventions in preclinical models and clinical trials.
The technical term for that is 'ullage'.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullage_motor
I am not matt mullenweg if thats what you are asking. I think his account is photomatt
My meditation book (The Mind Illuminated) divides everything into stages. And the strength of one’s mindfulness is discussed.
Avoiding a Geopolitical open-source Apocalypse
Agreed. I'm going all-in on Payload from here on out. Easier to declare custom post types than WordPress and without the need to explicitly disable any legacy cruft. I built my first app on it last Winter and it's only gotten better. v3 is incredibly easy to use, plus it's all TypeScript which is a huge plus for me personally...

12 years building sites on WP... not anymore.
Which doesn't have dollars anywhere in it.
Given search is a near total monopoly, I think it's honestly miraculous that Google doesn't suck more than it does.

I can count the examples of times where non-state ran monopolies benefit the consumer on zero hands.
The problem is that SO is not a Q&A site although it calls itself that (which is admittedly misleading). It is a community edited knowledgebase, basically a wiki, where the content is Q&As. It just so happens that one method of contributing to the site is by writing questions for other people to write answers to.

If you ask a question (i.e., add content to the wiki) that is not in scope, then of course it will get removed.
The last turntable ferry has a clever design [video]
Does https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/10/10/ribbonfarm-is-retiring... imply Rao has voted with his feet (keyboard?) for the hypernormal?

> As another example, in 2020, I consciously stopped trying to write “viral hit” type posts, and even bent over backwards to try and write anti-viral posts. ...
The cozyweb zeitgeist favors a deeper, quieter sort of writerly ambition, with classier, more high-minded aspirations. ... Why can’t anyone see I’m only wearing the Substack Suit ironically!
i usually post here first, and then add to the homepage later. i'll fix that next couple of days.
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying! Also, LOL @ the error indeed...
Inspection might be easier with computer vision advances since the space shuttle.
I know MPC takes a LOT of compute power. It's not like a finely tuned PID loop or even a cascade of PID loops, computationally.

Does anyone know (or have educated speculation on) what kind of hardware is running these algorithms? Like, do they have a linux machine that's running the control loops? Are we talking megabytes, gigabytes of SRAM?

I would think no -- you would definitely need hard real time for something like this. But my only experience with real time systems is in tiny MCUs with kb of SRAM. That's definitely too small for a controller like this.

Really curious about the nuts and bolts of this.
What you're describing is a state of flow which is good for things like work but the article seems to be talking about time metaphorically.

For example, imagine you're going to your daughter's piano recital and spend the whole time thinking about work. You would be missing out on the experience of watching her perform and grow. If you become mindful of these habits and say "My mind is focusing on something that I cannot change right now, I should be present" then you'll be able to fully experience a moment in your child's life. So rather than feeling like life is passing you by, you're able to experience it in the moment. The surrounding sentences of the line you quoted don't read like the author's describing time like you are:

"But in this process, we must remember something important: life is not meant to be rushed through. It is not a race, nor is it a problem to be solved. It is an experience to be lived, and living well requires presence. ... Moments become rich, textured. Even the simplest of tasks takes on a new significance when approached with care, with attention."
Not free. This is useless for preservation. Just compare it against Medley/Interlisp.
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172801

Pretty short change for reducing O(n^2) impact with a cache.

This change includes the following scalability improvements for
documents containing extremely large paragraphs:

- Reduces the size of layout contexts to account for LF control chars.

- Due to typical access patterns while laying out paragraphs, VCL was
making O(n^2) calls to vcl::ScriptRun::next(). VCL now uses an
existing global LRU cache for script runs, avoiding much of this
overhead.
Traffic jams are also more mentally stressful than shovelling chicken shit.
And proving once again SSGs are more resilient.
It's hard to tell, I really can't believe the guy I see on TV lately has anything to do with any of this stuff, kind of makes me wonder if he is even real.

It's a really unfortunate situation in my opinion.
Archive link
https://archive.is/bDYTD
I'm looking at a Symbolics file system. Where do I find Dynamic Windows in System 99? Common Lisp? CLOS? The Document Examiner? X11? NFS?