skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that is a profoundly ignorant perspective on the truths and pragmatism of ancient wisdom.

The pagan religions were not merely created to explain the unexplainable. Pagan myths and legends imparted greater truths and wisdom, they encoded history and science, and they explained psychological human behavior and interactions with nature. These truths were conveyed very precisely, intricately, exactly as they were, from the cultural perspective, but they are nonsensical to you who will always be outsiders to that tribe, space, and time. The ancients, even illiterate peasants and slaves, had a marvelous grasp of metaphor, allegory, and allusions even to the "pop-culture" of their day! Some of us still do!

Pagan religion was a unifying force for any tribe or nation. The reason it was supplanted with monotheism was because those tribes were unable to unite, or even interact, trade, and communicate efficiently, while still worshiping multiple pagan gods. Therefore, Abrahamic religions became an even grander unifying force on global scales, while still serving the purposes of those ancient myths and legends. As popular piety and local legend was permitted and absorbed, those monotheistic religions were able to flourish and intertwine with those cultures.

To repeat the tired old canard that religion was perpetuated by ignorant benighted dullards, in order to cope or merely survive, is scurrilious, anthropologically ignorant, and shockingly arrogant. The hierarchies and rulers of the ancient world knew exactly what they were doing in every respect. YOU are afraid of spiritualities and the supernatural which you do not understand, and so you denigrate them. Likewise do President Trump and the wisdom of Qanon know what works. Just because they don't think or act the way you expect, doesn't make them stupid or inferior to your atheism/scientim.
> I think HN should add drugs/alcohol to the forbidden topics list next to politics.

There is no forbidden list, and banning politics was a short-term experiment years ago that failed miserably.

Of course, if you think a post is inappropriate given the guidelines re: intellectual curiosity, you are free to flag it individually, which happens heavily enough to bury them a lot (but not universally) for political posts despite them not being banned.
I think one of the easiest way is to buy a domain name, create a project pages and links to your real github profile and projects you've participated on. It's harder to spoof domain name.

Anyone else just need to do some due diligence. You don't trust random pages on Facebook, so why should you trust Github profiles either? And I'm not saying to trust your project page, but it's way easier to verify that way. And that's why I like when open source projects have their own website.
I think the way life frames many of its problems forces you to simply run into the jungle, cutting through the shrubbery. At least in the sense of deeply technical projects, it's difficult to utilize a Pareto front optimization system, as learning something fully requires long stretches of complete focus. You lose a lot of cached information if you're always switching between contexts. So, I guess it depends on the type of end goal you hope to achieve, but I personally wouldn't utilize Pareto front optimization (maybe I only think this because I am relatively deep into exploitation though).
I walked away after 3 minutes or so and came back half an hour later. Apparently, (if one doesn't click skip) it takes half an hour to get 9 minutes into a 17 minute video. I put it back where I left off and got 2 more ads. Writing this I seek around the video a bit more and this some how provided an excuse to show even more ads. Then he ends with 70 seconds of smurfshark. Must be hard for the poor guy to make a living?

Ill say something interesting, since it seems so much needed atm.

When making things I never bother to look at the previous art the way one should. I love figuring things out by myself and usually end up with an inferior version of something fleshed out long ago. This is where the fun begins trying to beat that what exists. It hardly ever happens but I enjoy the process. [ill mark this as section A]

When trying to forge a word and string similarity test there were a lot of approaches to consider. They all worked but nothing is the level of correct that I was looking for. FOO is like FOE but FOO is also like FOOO. If I asked you to calculate how much FOO looks like FOE you could easily slap a number on it. Same for FOOO. It is just impossible to measure likeness as it is subjective but you cant really quantify it either. We could definitely say FOO is 66.666% like FOE and FOOO is 75% like FOO. But then FOOD is also 75% alike while we know FOOO is more like FOO than FOOD.

So I pick some of these "It's nonsense but it works!" and combine them into something that seems to work even better. I had successfully polished the turn it seemed.

I finally read some about popular algos trying to build a site search. One of the hacks was to ignore frequently occurring words. It was pretty funny as the data set I'm trying to search in and the key words I want to search are all frequently occurring. Like 90% of the set is black, 80% is large, 70% is heavy and I specifically need to be able to search "black large and heavy". Something like "to be or not to be" reducing to "".

What google does (and most of the industry) is value short articles with many relevant keywords over long[er] ones. Therefore Section A must be deleted. Much of what I wrote here must be deleted. I have to effectively stop being me and turn into a bland NPC in order to get noticed. Noticed for what exactly?

Maybe I'm a really annoying person unworthy of your attention? If one keeps polishing the turd in that direction eventually your attention will go to objectively annoying people who just want your time and your money.

Then, gradually, day by day, you spend enough time with these fckrs to start thinking it is normal and then, if you are not careful, you become one of them.
You don't have to assume malice, he is a strong believer in liberalism so naturally he would argue whatever leads to less regulation. Even if he thought AI was dangerous he would still believe that corporations are better suited to combat that threat than any government.

Its similar to how the WSJ journalist would never ask him what he thinks about the larger effects of the "deindustrialization" of knowledge-based jobs caused by AI. Not because the journalist is malicious, its just the shared, subconscious ideology.

People don't need a reason to protect capital interests, even poor people on the very bottom will protect it.
The bacteria in dirt don't do what I want, though. that's the great value of man-made machines, they (typically) do what I want (except cars)
If it got tested and verified, wasn't their WiFi Alliance certification supposed to be revoked?
What kind of work do you do that you're able to understand this stuff? Genuinely curious. I'm way beyond my depth trying to follow
It’s justified. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-11/la-me-sp...
POS, Not Posse
Im sure plenty of people feel that way, but they have no reason to go around telling everyone that, especially when many other people will argue against them and admonish them for it.
> control system also has to compensate for the fuel moving inside their rockets

My stepfather worked as a programmer on the Apollo program, and the thing he always talked about as his biggest accomplishment was working on the "slosh problem" -- so yeah, props to the SpaceX team for managing that landing. And props to my stepdad for managing it on hardware that was... a billion times less capable? :-)
I thought that was satire, but they actually asked for suggestions…
> just that existential fears like Skynet scenarios don't strike me as plausible.

What's the most plausible (even if you find it implausible) disaster scenario you came across in your research? It's a little surprising to see someone who has seriously looked into these ideas describe the bundle of them as "like Skynet."
There's no laws about it. It's mostly a "handshake agreement" enforced via the WiFi Alliance. You go through the WFA certification process to get the "WiFi Certified" sticker. https://www.wi-fi.org/certification

Usually large vendors try to do the right thing.
Based on this conversation, how many of y'all are actual rocket scientists? I'm blown away by the expertise in some of these comments
Bad news for sensitive wetlands
MAD has a pretty good track record so far.
They don't support that, forgot to clarify that in my comment. Thanks!
2018, FWIW. I'd be curious to hear how (if) things are different now.
Shuttle was a jobs program just like the SLS is.
> So if I “discover” a house down the street I’ve never seen before, I “achieved” the title of “discoverer” as well!

No, but if you find a house nobody else in the city, country and even the content you live in have ever seen or aware of then yes you can yourself a “discoverer”.

e.g. if humans somehow found sentient aliens somewhere in the galaxy you wouldn't consider that a discovery either? Whether or not they later enslave or murder them doesn't really change that...
That's amazing footage, and you're right about the perspective: from the official feed the distances seem compressed compared to what we see in this footage.
As with ambiguous terms like fast, slow and moderate, it’s all relative
> but it does save weight by not needing legs for landing

That was the exact reason they went this way.
let it burn
This happened to me the other day. I had framed a question in the ordinal case, and since I was trying to offload thinking anyways, I forgot that my use case was rotated, and failed to apply the rotation when testing the LLM answer. I corrected it twice before it wrapped around to the same (correct) previous answer, and that’s when I noticed my error. I apologized, added the rotation piece to my question, and it happily gave me a verifiably correct answer.
But how do you know that this is (more) accurate?
Even when you had a networked forum like FidoNet's Echomail (or Usenet, for that matter), it would take time for messages to propagate through the network - and they could sometimes fail to be delivered.
There is no path to it? That's a bold claim. Are brains imbued with special brain-magic that makes them more than, at rock bottom, a bunch of bog-standard chemical and electrical and thermal reactions?

It seems very obviously fundamentally solvable, though I agree it is nowhere in the near future.
> It's referring to the fact that cats are able to do tasks like multistage planning, which he asserts current AIs are unable to do.

I don't understand this criticism at all. If I go over to ChatGPT and say "From the perspective of a cat, create a multistage plan to push a houseplant off a shelf" it will satisfy my request perfectly.
I have tested all of these also, and settled on borg + borgmatic. It has been absolutely rock solid. Borgmatic just rounds everything together in such a nice way. The documentation is great.

I'm pushing it all to a Hetzner storage box, as well as a local NAS. Super affordable!
Oysters used to be so abundant they were a poor people's food. It's hard to understand how overfishing, overhunting, and habitat destruction have destroyed ecosystems.

Some people think we can just pretend we're not part of an ecosystem if we pour enough concrete. It doesn't work, it just makes everything worse. A damaged ecosystem is not just unpleasant but physically dangerous to us. A flooded coastal base will soon be the least of our concerns. We need to fix damaged ecosystems and replace destroyed ones
I see this with Oreos

"Made with real cocoa"

There is no such thing as fake cocoa, that's why. I don't give a shit what's "real" I know I'm eating sugar and palm oil
Nice. I think that's the most energized I've seen Richard Hipp on a topic.
That career path is still possible today, but it never was commonplace as the example makes one think.
UseAPI AI APIs
The aim for the launch price of the entire rocket is to be around 5 million (once it's fully re-usable and in production). Basically the price of fuel and maintenance.

So something might be off with your assumption of 1500 usd / kg.
> And to make it so cheaply and quickly? Pure science fiction.

Don't scientists out there very explicitly avoid building self-replicating systems at any significant scale to avoid the associated risks?

I think they already can create artificial/synthetic lifeforms in a lab - it's just that there are not a lot of use cases that make building a factory worth it, at least so far.

[Upd: I stand corrected - I thought they can, but turns out they can't. Thank y'all.]
It’s pure bliss compared to just about any Python library. Oh, you want to know what arguments this function takes? Well, a kwargs dict, duh! Why not just read the full example section to hopefully find some of them?
This post already paid itself for me since I learned a new word (teetotaller - a person who never drinks alcohol).
> various protocols (HTTP, SMTP, CSV) still "require" CRLF at the end of each line

What would be the benefit to updating legacy protocols to just use NL? You save a handful of bits at the expense of a lot of potential bugs. HTTP/1(.1) is mostly replaced by HTTP/2 and later by now anyway.

Sure, it makes sense not to require CRLF with any new protocols, but it doesn't seem worth updating legacy things.

> Even if an established protocol (HTTP, SMTP, CSV, FTP) technically requires CRLF as a line ending, do not comply.

I'm hoping this is satire. Why intentionally introduce potential bugs for the sake of making a point?
Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor
I use interactive rebase quite often, and particularly like the editor bundled with IntelliJ. But I do not always work with IntelliJ, and am not 'fluent' with Vim, so I tried to replicate roughly the same rebase experience within a TUI. I used a small TUI OCaml project i made last year.

The notable features are:
- Move commits up and down, fixup, drop
- Rename commits from the editor (without having to stop for a reword during the rebase run)
- Visualize modified files along commits
- 'Explode' a commit ,creating a commit for each modified file (a thing I found myself doing quite often)

Feedbacks (both on the tool and the code) and contributions welcome, hope it could fit other people needs too !
Stealing doesn't imply anything. It is taking someone else's posession.

In the case of gpl software, copying, and posessing a copy, and redistributing a copy of the code itself is not theft. The license grants those actions explicitly.

But the fact that the license grants those particular rights does not mean there is no license, and violating that license is exactly theft, which is what Mullenweg has done.

For someone persuing this whole pogrom under the banner of championing open source and being a good community member and challenging others integrity, this is about as hipocrytical and low as you can go. It would be a joke if it wasn't a fact.

I would not admit in public that you think that since a license does not require money, that means it has no owner or copyright and that it's impossible to steal it. Or that laws are the only thing that defines right and wrong and stealing. Money is just one of many terms in any agreement or contract or license.
Do you have a reason why you're pretty sure plenty of people feel that way? The causal mechanism you're proposing for their silence—chiming in and getting admonished for it—would lead evidence that I don't see. Unless you're suggesting that people just assume they'll get chided?
That's madness. And unconstitutional.
> This is a sentence that includes the word "Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon" in it.
> How should it be wrapped semantically?

This is a psychological case to demonstrate how semantic wrapping does not by itself solve the "hard vs soft" wrapping question. If the answer is that the word should remain as a single word, then you are using soft wraps (or no wraps at all). If the answer is that the word should be split into 80 character chunks, then you're using hard wraps.
Imagine, linking that video into a 360° virtual cockpit As if you were inside a booster made from glass.
SpaceX successfully catches returning Starship rocket
The primary purpose of having those cameras is to gather test data, not provide entertainment.
Should be compensated by the lack of alcohol intake
Museum Workers Rescued from Trash Artworks Mechanic Mistook for Garbage
I am currently seeking funding for my research into the longevity effects of wearing funny hats. Previous research on organ-grinder monkeys has been ambiguous and it's hard to get IRB approval. My lab is currently developing tiny hats for fruit flies and investigating what a fruit fly finds funny.
I think this is where the author's analysis falls flat at. The fact that these mediums are in any shape barometers of or agents for culture constitute more of a problem than their decay does.
wow. just wow. And Bezos wonders why Nasa keeps Musk on speeddial.
Me I get headaches, though not consistently and mostly from beer, not wine.
The regional trains (which the ticket applies to) are much better than the long-distance trains: https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen...
It is expected to land astronauts on the Moon as well this decade, which will certainly require legs.
The Paris metro is amongst the most frequented in the world and operates near peak capacity. You absolutely can’t compare it to anything in Germany. Germany doesn’t really have a city which can be compared to Paris. Berlin has the most populated urban area and it has less than half the population of the Paris one. The only similar city in Europe is London.

Plus there is no bed bugs and pickpockets are an oddity outside of the most touristy stations.

Anyway, considering how awful it is to drive and park in Paris, you would have to be crazy to use a car instead of taking the train which is why nearly everyone does. Plus, with the mandatory employer subvention, it’s incredibly cheap at 44€ a month. The only credible alternative is biking which is indeed more and more popular.
> I am not sure why the Free Tibet movement died out in America and Europe

The US could have conditioned most favored nation trade status for China on improving its behavior in Tibet, could have kept them out of the WTO, etc. That would have cost the wrong people money.
As an implementation detail, I assume many programs simply ignore the CR character already? Whilst of course many windows programs (and protocols as mentioned) still require CRLF, surely the most efficient way to make something cross-platform if to simply act on the LF part of CRLF, that way it works for both CRLF and LF line ends.

The fact that both CRLF and LF used the same control character in my eyes in a huge bonus for this type of action to actually work. Simply make everything cross platform and start ignoring CR completely. I’m surprised this isn’t mentioned explicitly as a course of action in the article, instead it focuses on making people change their understanding of LF in to NL which is as unnecessary complication that will cause inevitable bikeshedding around this idea.
That still seems pretty remarkable to me that they're able to do such complex things via remote control (wireless, with multiple robots in the room). I'd love to see what sort of setup the operators were using, and how much the robot did on its own.
> their history is as bad or worse than Columbus

Really? That seems like an absurd statement.
I think you could use https://sonobus.net/ for this purpose. It is based on AOO and has a very nice and easy-to-use UI. You could run the SonoBus plugin in your DAW and your clients could listen with the standalone. Just like AOO, SonoBus supports both Opus and raw PCM. Opus at 128 kbps/channel is pretty much transparent. With PCM you might run into packet loss issues.

(AOO has an option for resending lost packets which can be used to create very stable PCM streams. However, I'm not sure if SonoBus actually supports this option...)

That being said, Listeto looks very neat and the pricing seems reasonable. Is there a particular reason why you want to move away?
Precious few? The entire PHP, JS/TS, and parts of the Python ecosystems are built around Semver. That’s millions of projects. Maybe you’ve just looked in the wrong place?
I’m not sure how to take you comment, but I feel the same(?) way. I love that I can use LLMs to explore topics that I don’t know well enough to find the right language to get hits on. I used to be able to do this with google, after a few queries, and skimming to page 5 hits, I’d eventually find the one phrase that cracks open the topic. I haven’t been able to do that with google for at least 10 years. I do it regularly with LLMs today.
OP works for Fastly, they're pushing a lot of "demos" like this in the hopes that one of them goes viral because nobody is using their serverless platform. Don't waste your time adding engagement to it, all they want is a few threads mentioning Fastly that don't mention the June 8th incident from 2021.
The ticket achieves most of its goal even if you keep your car for the more annoying edge cases but move a significant fraction of your trips from car to rail.
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> Earth and its biosphere is a marvel of technology.

Our world is exceedingly rare and beautiful.

We lucked into an incredible solar system configuration, and evolution has done some seriously heavy lifting.

The molecular biology of DNA alone -- its biochemistry and enzymatic machinery -- is enough to be its own field.

> Shame we don't seem to appreciate it enough.

The domain experts do. This complexity is very difficult to teach to laypeople and those not interested in science communication. It's so easy to take it all for granted. You have to develop an understanding first in order to appreciate the marvel of biology.

Communication is getting easier, though. I'm sure we'll get there.
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Poster is clearly not suggesting ubiquity of alcohol is conspiracy. There are also alcohol-related phenomena that has never been ubiquitous as they are now, such as binge drinking by large section of the population especially underaged people.

Also same applies to tobacco and oil though ubiquitous and used for a long time in all kinds of society, it does not contradict the fact that Big Oil and Tobacco firm has "influenced" research to suit their purposes.
I think the risk is much higher with regards to how people use it and much less that it becomes some sudden super intelligent monster. AI doesn’t have to be rational or intelligent to cause massive amounts of damage it just has to be put in charge of dangerous enough systems. Or more pernicious you give it the power to make health care or employment decisions.

It seems silly to me the idea of risk is all concentrated around the runaway intelligence scenario. While that might be possible there is real risk today in how we use these systems.
It is important to learn from one's own mistakes, but if an institution is too big to fail, then does it ever really learn?
If you're specifically studying something that is a stark difference between other monkeys and apes on one side and humans on the other, studying monkeys and apes is obviously not a smart thing to do.