skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In nature, you don't necessarily have the needed genetic diversity or controlled conditions, in the right combinations, the way you can obtain them in the lab. And "several decades" is probably not enough time in evolutionary terms to adjust, if I had to guess.
But then wouldn't the limiting factor for launch be the maximum allowed wind for landing?
Have you tried reader mode? Firefox' works perfect for this website.
You probably can. I never used OBS, but it's probably a bit more than a 20kb binary though ;-)
Hairballs Shed Light on Man-Eating Lions' Menu
That finds the start of the loop, but not occurrences of that index inside the loop.
Why does it require international agreement? This seems like the kind of thing even a private entity like SpaceX could just declare, and everyone else would fall in line naturally out of convenience and not-really-caring.
:point_up: this…

The article is purely a marketing piece. As we know with all tech, it’s how you hold it. Yes, you can certainly graph all the entities, activities & relationships - but there is the human tendency towards laziness, least path of resistance and the desire to show “look what I can do” that inevitably leads towards using using weak/garbage data without verification - often in the form of purchases/collected metadata.

Concrete example with a less scary outcome; I was involved in a project for real-estate marketing that used “quality” metadata to infer potential buyers/sellers/properties to target for a given marketing campaign and/or what marketing techniques/campaigns might influence a targeted entity. It was cool. For sure. But, due to the lack of integrity in the data, even with well known & trusted data (direct from the MLS) the result was a graph that made many very weak/inaccurate connections and resulted in a great deal of wasted marketing efforts/cost, targeting the wrong message to the wrong entity at the wrong time. Because it was still a major improvement over other tools in the space, it became the preferred path even with inaccuracies galore.

Now, imagine if the cost of inaccuracies is human freedom - vs wasted cents. Scary stuff.
Indeed. Erbsenzähler comment: "eine" is the singular "a" for a feminine object, "zwei" is actually just "two". "Ein" is "one".
Those first three are the same big tech company. But fair enough, it might be a slightly larger handful of services.
It does cover people interrupting you to ask “ok but how long will you be busy?” :) unless you want to replace your taped clip art every minute or so.
Go Struct Generator from PostgreSQL/SqlServer
> FM has strong noise immunity advantages -- notably AM rejection and the capture effect -- but they don't provide additional sound quality by themselves. That's where the bandwidth helps. An FM channel that is only as wide as an AM channel would sound pretty awful.

Comparing such low-modulation factor FM with traditional AM would be an interesting experiment.

It certainly wouldn't sound good, but I'm not sure it would sound worse than traditional AM at the same SNR. The NFM use-cases I'm familiar with tend to cap audio bandwidth, so they're not fair comparisons.
On the other hand, a decade or so ago my wife made me get rid of most of my collection of antique computers (from the late '60s forward). At the time, there was little monetary value to most of that.

Now, however, almost everything in it is worth pretty serious money. I estimate that if I still had that stuff and sold it all today, it would be worth around $150k.

The underlying problem is that it's essentially impossible to know what will and won't be worth anything in the future. Cheap tat can become wildly valuable, and expensive high-end stuff can become worthless.
> There's the concept of permittivity

> You require material equations to model interactions of EM with media

> Quantum electrodynamics (QED) which can model interactions of EM and matter.

It's amazing how condescending some people on here are; how could you possibly have missed literally in the first sentence of my response

> ... my physics degree
> I like to watch the movement of my attention

I've never really liked the present-tense expression of this idea. If you are watching your attention, is that you directing your attention at your attention? Can you step back again and watch yourself watching yourself watch yourself?

Or is it really a past-tense thing where you notice that your attention has drifted?
F-35 still carries bombs as well. And the USA recently revealed the B21 stealth bomber.
If you can't trust your locally installed software, everything is lost. I understand where this new threat model comes from for some people but I'd rather continue to avoid bad software sources than hamstring my OS in the hopes of avoiding malware I installed on purpose.
Sorry, but forcing cookies upon user and not providing service otherwise is against the law, at least in EU. Why not boot all EU users to some random website too?
To be honest FSD is way harder. The platform doesn't occasionally have a road closure sign or a new traffic light or a guy unloading his van or an emergency vehicle with its hazards on.

Don't get me wrong the engineering and physics are crazy ugly, but it's at least consistent within a range. Humans are messy, unpredictable, unreliable and chaotic.
Yes, i&32 is more readable.
For Windows and Linux, and still grossed around $2 billion according to various reports and sources
was going to ask if any of the prefab vendors have pre-certification for their models. gov picking designs vs. setting standards firms can build to and pre-certify seems a bit soviet even for canada. I'd be surprised if there weren't a certification fast-track for pre-fab building firms.
At the ONE BBSCON 1994 keynote and conference opening, there was an exercise where all sysops stood, and those running a BBS for less than a year sat down, then less than 2, and so on - until only Ward Christensen was left standing. I recall briefly meeting him, that he was humble, yet very proud of what BBSes had become. May he rest in peace.
There are many differences that explain why one can be better. All else being equal:

- bandwidth of modulated signal: it is better to spread the signal over a large bandwidth => Nlog(1+snr) > log(1+Nsnr). the bandwidth used by the FM signal is larger

- wasted energy on the DC signal: AM signal is A + s(t) where A > abs(s(t)) to make sure the sent signal is always positive. A (DC) does not carry information so the effective signal to noise ratio of a DC-less signal should be higher (phase/frequency modulation, signalling that can detect the negative part...)

- filtering of baseband signal => if you filter too much the original signal, you lose information even before transmission. Voice is usually filtered and 4KHz, but music needs more. FM has more margin (more allocated bandwidth) so can have less stringent filters

- tolerance to fading: the wireless channel is not AWGN, it is frequency dependent due to multipath. While radio signals are relatively narrow, signal modulated in frequency are more robust to fading (OFDM...)
FEMA contractors on reddit are saying that one of the rumors (lies) is that if you accept assistance from FEMA, they will later take your home.
It doesn't get much better if you translate that paragraph from corpo speak to normal language: "We did the upgrade step by step. We did each step in batches. After we already decided how we were going to upgrade the clusters but before actually doing it we asked the teams responsible for keeping the clusters running for their opinion. This helped create an environment where we work together and helped monitoring the process"

I'm sure there are people who write like that. LLMs have to get it from somewhere. But that part especially is mostly empty phrases, and the meaning that is there isn't all that flattering
Beyond Opponent and Self: Martial Arts as a Gateway to Nonduality
I have had RM2 for almost 4 years and I am using it as a scratchpad every day. But I won't be jumping to RMPP, it moves in the wrong direction. I needed decent text recognition and search, better scrolling, better sync. Not larger size and colors.

When I bought the RM2 it was without subscription. I dislike their cloud pricing and the lack of any features in the web UI.

Ideally I would like to have LLM integration, they can send a screenshot of the scratchpad to the model as context, it would be able to parse text and mind-maps from image.
Buddy I started using Emacs at version 1.8, and no display-buffer-alist is not "sane". Just maintaining a stable window arrangement in the frame is not something easily possible.
Hm but there's nothing streaming about it? You need the entire numeric string in memory
I might buy this to use as follows.

I want a work-time tracker that lights a bright LED every 5 minutes or so, and as long as I'm there and working I smash a button and the light goes off for another 5 minutes. Some algorithm tracks the times I have hit the button and displays how long I have been working on said task.

I'm picturing something fairly cheap, like a stop watch or 3 button kitchen timer. A LED, a few buttons, a LCD display, a AAA battery slot, and an internal timing circuit is all that's needed (and a case to hold it together).

This would basically be a stop watch that stops on its own if neglected, and I can imagine a few uses for it.
They do if you insist on molding them, but for small runs 3D printing ought to provide a baseline maximum cost.
Not to mention solving the landing algorithm using work done for the Mars rovers.
Yup.

And unless the project is something that nobody’s ever succeeded at in the past due to technical limitations, businesses tend to survive and thrive if they spend their innovation tokens on product instead of tech/infrastructure.
The UN has also been unable to prevent terrorists from infiltrating it's agencies.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152841
It would be nice if people responded to you instead of downvoting silently. Thank you for the information.

It's also worth noting the Great Barrier Reef is fairly new (6-8k years old). It came to be from the sea rise of the Last Glacial Maximum 20k years ago.
This was recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41801124

While it is true that Rust is a strictly superior option for highly concurrent systems code, it still leaves areas where you can make a mistake regarding lock management and other advanced forms of synchronization.

In addition to that, .NET as platform is fairly tolerant to misuse and calling the code that is not thread-safe from multiple threads concurrently usually leads to logic bugs or "stop modifying this collection concurrently, please" exceptions but not to catastrophic memory safety issues like it happens in C/C++.

You can read more on its low-level memory model here: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/spec...

> The same is true for async, which in C# is also a problem.

Now, this one is strictly not true. Async primitives are thread-safe. In Rust, you must synchronize because at the very least you must deterministically deallocate memory used by shared state between the tasks. In C#, this complexity is handled for you by a GC (ironically, you get negative sentiment towards async from people having experienced Python's async or Rust's async complexity, assuming the same applies to C#). In some scenarios, it is also a throughput optimization since it reduces memory contention by not modifying the cachelines shared between the cores, lending itself into better performance on many-core systems - the memory is modified/reclaimed when it's no longer in use, while the actively shared data is placed elsewhere.
Do you actually think China has fairer courts, more open financial markets, and better business environment than the EU or US? For the longest time Hong Kong had to fill those gaps for China in order for the country to attract capital.

Regardless, even if China does today the explanation still holds considering China only transformed a few decades before the book was written.
Coming soon: Securely import and export passkeys
> AM is used for two reasons - simplicity of transceivers

That is not a factor anymore. Capable wideband transcievers like the ones in Baofengs and similar supporting multiple types of modulation cost cents.
Of course I can, and so can you!
Show HN: Those Who Die as Cattle
What if a game gave you the backstory of everyone you killed or got killed? I feel like I've heard this question asked before, but I've never seen it done. For Ludum Dare 56 (a game jam), I spent 48 hours building a prototype called Those Who Die As Cattle, a WW1 trench warfare simulation game.

I used ChatGPT 4o-mini to generate details for the 12,000 soldiers involved in the game. Notably, I had to supply names because it couldn't introduce sufficient variety. I also had to add randomly generated adjectives for the soldiers; otherwise, the prompts were too similar, even with different seeds and temperatures. Initially, I used Claude (which I usually prefer), but it made every soldier a former carpenter’s apprentice. Since this is a game and your actions should matter, instead of generating one block of text, I had it generate JSON by providing a template with cues for different things that might happen to the soldier. I used these to dynamically assemble a story for each casualty. For example:

{
"briefBio": "Tell me a little bit about the solider", // Putting this first is critical to introduce variety
…
"lastThoughtsArtilleryDead": "What are his last thoughts as he dies from an artillery strike" ,
…
"effectOnOthersShotInjured": "What are the long term impacts on the people who care about him when he is seriously injured by a bullet wound",
}

The prompt template can be found here:
https://gist.github.com/ElliotSwart/f7b5754f3b02e6c99791e365...

The underlying simulation was programmed using Unity ECS (Entity Component System) and simulated, to some degree, each soldier and artillery piece. Casualties were taken in entity order, so there's some predictability regarding when each name gets added to the list, though it isn't completely deterministic. The area where I skimped the most was the UI, but the game is in a playable state if you're willing to look at the center column and figure out what the numbers mean. A final notable learning is that Unity UI toolkit (their modern, web dev like solution) performs significantly better on the web than in the native linux build, at least on the 2022 LTS version of Unity. This suggests that they may be leveraging the rendering efficiencies built into browsers.
This design does not handle hot partitions well and they are ubiquitous to so many domains.
In what way is it streaming? It takes at least the entire numeric string as a string in memory, you can't stream in more data as needed
Tiny Glade's embrace of minor imperfections is interesting. You can quickly build beautiful things if you put aside the need for things to exactly align. The daily theme is also a nice idea, the camera options are great.

Copy & paste is one of the top desired and requested features, or perhaps a blueprint library, would take it up another notch.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TinyGlades/ to see what people are building.
Never to late to upgrade to X11 :)
I was talking about politics and our general social discussion about trade school vs university. Obviously that’s a centuries’ old discussion, but I don’t recall talk of plumbers vis a vis the benefits of college specifically before Joe the Plumber, and now it comes up all the time.

What does this sitcom episode demonstrate, exactly? Haven’t seen it, but from the description the title’s pun is based on the relationship of the characters, and not income or education. Is there a relevant storyline not described in the notes?
Terrible decision. Very bad and sloppy economics, a simplified version of what sociology and political science have been doing much better for over 40 years, as if before these crucial contributions we had no idea that institutions, forms of power and social conflict affect economic outcomes.

Branko Milanovic has aptly and rather amusingly defined Acemoglu's naive theorizing as "Wikipedia entries with regressions" https://glineq.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-take-on-acemoglu-robi... and he is right.

Acemoglu's strand of institutional social science is known to be painfully racist and clueless about realities on the ground https://africasacountry.com/2016/09/africa-why-western-econo... The narrative that you can get economic growth with "good institutions" is a fable, and cases like China are also completely outside their narrative. Not only is their narrative historically inaccurate, if not ideological, it can't explain why Western economies like the US have prospered despite being as corrupt as China is today.
Canada had Eatons Homes in the same time period, although historiography of them is quite scant. Eatons Homes were ordered from the T. Eaton catalogue and shipped by rail across Canada. They were very useful on Canada's prairies where sparse local forests were not suited to timber logging for building materials. Ironically, they were also briefly brought into some of British Columbia's lush forested towns for which local mills did not yet exist.
IMHO the best thing about the ReMarkable is that it's an "open" device rather than a locked-down uber proprietary system like Kindle. They give you the root password to the device and you can use or write third-party tools if you don't want to pay for their cloud subscription. They have a browser extension that makes it super easy to send articles/web pages to the Remarkable for later reading, and it has built-in integration with Google Drive (which doesn't require the subscription!) so it's pretty easy to get content off and on to the device. I also use rcu[1].

I love using my Remarkable as an e-reader. I've never been one to "write in the margins" because I like to keep my books clean, but this has been a surprising great feature of the Remarkable to me. I can write all over the PDF or epub and it saves as a copy (instead of overwriting the original).

If you're only going to read on it, and only white and black text, I'd recommend a Remarkable 2 instead as it's much cheaper.

An important caveat: I refuse to buy DRMed media, so all my e-books work on any device. They are almost entirely epubs or PDFs. If you buy stuff from the Kindle store then you won't be able to read them on the ReMarkable unless you strip the DRM.

[1]: https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
Are you 100% sure you're "not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise"? Silver Lake has its hands in a lot of companies. Odds are someone you work with in the WordPress world is connected, or one of the companies you work with.

That's the problem with a vague checkbox like that where the guidance is "talk to your lawyer." What happens when he decides he has a problem with you and uses your clicking that checkbox against you? Are you sure you can fend that off from every angle someone with his resources can attack? Can the lawyer you can afford?
https://fastcompanyme.com/technology/this-startup-has-a-plan...
We're launching the second issue of This Week in #devs, a section of our blog that highlights discussions and articles from the #devs Slack channel.
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We hope you find it useful!
In order to land not just the first stage but also the second stage more fuel will have to be carried on the ascent phase just to enable the recovery phase. This then necessitates weight savings elsewhere to avoid payload to orbit being cut way back. SpaceX chose to remove the landing system from both, the first and second stages (both because, after all if you can eliminate the landing system from one stage then you can eliminate it from the other).

This and other weight savings will enable high payload to orbit in a fully reusable launch platform.

Landing without legs requires something like this catch system -- something never done before, and clearly very difficult to do.
I have some graduated resistance hand exercise balls and bands for various exercise (different variations on squeezing, mobility, and extending fingers). I stare out the window at things far away while doing hand exercises.

I did pick the times because of the symmetry of the numbers (:
It’s called cross-range capability, and yes Shuttle was able to do this (albeit for different reasons).
People not realizing you can tune autovacuum on a per-table basis is the big one. Autovacuum can get a lot done if you have enough workers and enough spare RAM to throw at them.

For indices, as you mentioned, doing either a REINDEX CONCURRENTLY (requires >= PG12), or a INDEX CONCURRENTLY / DROP CONCURRENTLY (and a rename if you’d like) is the way to go.

In general, there is a lot more manual maintenance needed to keep Postgres running well at scale compared to MySQL, which is why I’m forever upset that Postgres is touted as the default to people who haven’t the slightest clue nor the inclination to do DB maintenance. RDS doesn’t help you here, nor Aurora – maintenance is still on you.
AFAIK Go has one of, if not the easiest cross compilation stories.

This is all it takes to build a linux arm64 binary:

env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 go build your_program

You can even run that from Windows and it will just work.

This is how you list all possible targets:

go tool dist list

If you want to generate binaries for many linux distros, you can even use a simple bash script:

#!/usr/bin/bash
archs=(amd64 arm64 ppc64le ppc64 s390x)

for arch in ${archs[@]}
do
env GOOS=linux GOARCH=${arch} go build -o your_program_${arch}
done
SQLite is written in C. And the most commonly used SQLite driver interfaces to that compiled C code directly via JNI.
The PostgreSQL client driver is written in pure Java on the other hand.
Has nothing to do with language used.
You can wrap anything in a jar (it’s just a zip file).

You could certainly embed PostgreSQL in a jar and you can do something similar to this

https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite

I don’t think there’s that much interest, but it is doable.

EDIT: https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres
The kind of punishment authoritarian regimes dish out is much more severe in ways that you couldn’t do in the US (imprisonment, seizure of assets, death). In fact I’d argue it’s the only kind that matters. Authoritarian regimes rarely go after normal people unless they speak out actively against the government (which China does) and instead focus on controlling and censoring anyone in a position of power and let the implicit censoring of the entire population flow downstream from that.
Isn't "watching the movement of my attention" another way of saying "being in the present"? To include body scans, etc.
Shopify is a brittle, inflexible, poorly performing, expensive pile of hacks. If it happens to serve your needs, that's fine, but now levels of competition in the space have made them super complacent
Have you gone down the rabbit hole of why the y coordinate is inverted in many computer graphics? :D
If we cannot agree that the mind is materialistic then there is no way forward for us, except to note that since you earlier stated that you think basic neuroscience has a chance, then the mind body problem is not that important after all.
LinkedIn: Opt-out of using personal data for AI
LinkedIn has updated its User Agreement to allow it and its affiliates to use personal data for training its generative AI. If you are outside of the EU, you are opted-in by default.

LinkedIn FAQ: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a5538339

LinkedIn Opt-Out link: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-a...