skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related. Others?

The $5000 Compression Challenge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163782 - March 2015 (168 comments)

The $5000 Compression Challenge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5025211 - Jan 2013 (61 comments)

The $5000 Compression Challenge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4616704 - Oct 2012 (119 comments)
I don’t know! I’m currently trying a strong bayesian prior for the RL action planner, which has good tradeoffs with enforcement but poor tradeoffs with legibility and ingestion. Aside from Spain, there’s not a lot of computer-legible law to transpile; llm support always needs to be checked and some of the larger submodels reach the limits of the explainability framework I’m using.

There’s also still the HF step that needs to be incorporated, which is expensive! But the alternative is Waymo, which keeps the law perfectly even when “everybody knows” it needs to be broken sometimes for traffic(society) to function acceptably. So the above strong prior needs to be coordinated with HF and the appropriate penalties assigned…

In other words. It’s a mess! But assumptions of “AGI” don’t really help anyone.
Probably because networking itself is arcane. If you're used to everything around it, wireguard itself is really simple. If you're not, all the rest of it is going to drag you down.
> ENGINEERED BY SPACEX

It would be very interesting to see some kind of diagram depicting all of the corporate entities Musk is involved in and how each entity does business with one another.

xAI just raised billions to help Tesla build out FSD (or at least that was part of the pitch).

His empire is divided into so many corporate entities, but they all cross-pollinate and are clearly under his direct control for the most part.

The closest comparison I can think of is Berkshire Hathaway (one person/group controlling multiple wide ranging private and public companies).
> but most people seem to have giant trucks for the occasional times they go camping or carry something large.

This is the reality in United States, but not in most of the world.
Define "the west". There was an interesting article here in HN the other day [0] "Almost 10% of South Korea's Workforce Is Now a Robot". China now surpasses all the west-aligned nations in terms of total industrial robots [1], however the west still has the upper-hand in terms of robot to population density ratio.

I think it is a matter of strategy and it seems China's strategy is innovation, science and productivity. We on the west seem to like consumption before everything else and IMHO we are doing it wrong.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42225091

1 - https://www.statista.com/chart/31337/new-installations-of-in...
> This is great for regions that need to be connected

That's at least a billion people. I don't know what the intersection of that with the affordability is, though.

I'm writing this from an Ayahuasca center in rural Peru connected with Starlink. Before, internet was a ten minute drive into town away. We're now connected when at one side of the center. It would be nice to have it all the way into the jungle. And when you want to be disconnected, just turn your phone off or leave it behind.
Compared to leveraging the existing cellular networks and using satellites for rare edge cases. ~8$/minute or say 1$/minute averages out to a more reasonable number when less than 5% of calls use it.
Using seedballs, you could conceivably plant 1B trees in just a couple months by dropping the seedballs from airplanes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBbU4MQftc8
I really wonder if anyone is going to be able to catch up to SpaceX anytime soon. Kuiper seems dead in the water, the legacy operators seem unwilling to expand into LEO constellations.
Kubernetes biggest competitor isn’t a pile of bash scripts and docker running on a server, it’s something like ECS which comes with a lot of the benefits but a hell of a lot less complexity
Thing is, we have plenty of evidence of writing connected to other activities from later periods.

As for the effort, the most would be expanded on preserving monumental projects glorifying the rulers etc. But, again, in the historical record, this shows up later than accounting records.
Pushing AMD's Infinity Fabric to Its Limits
Project Sapphire 20th Anniversary (2014)
How can it be that a LTE smartphone, costing ~$100 and doing all the things a smart phone can do, and being designed to connect to a cell network via a tower a few miles away, can somehow also function as the pizza sized $500 Starlink dish?
> a worse version of Anki but for the web

This is actually a remarkably common failure pattern for a lot of language learning apps. Devs see Anki and think "I'm gonna do it better! I'm gonna build Anki, but for a specific language and make it a web app." ... I've lost count how many of these I've seen over the years!

> It seems like the ETA before enshittification begins is about 2~3 years

It's funny, I actually learned the term "enshittification" specifically from friends of mine who were Memrise users. It's honestly a textbook example of the phenomena.

Negativity aside though, I'm actually pretty optimistic about this space despite all that I've seen so far. I think that there's genuinely room to build great language learning software that people will really benefit from. I'm just really pessimistic about most of the people working in the space. Without trying to exagerrate, I'd estimate that probably less than 10% of people working in the language learning industry are actual language learners (at best, they might've learned English as a kid). When you're not actively, seriously learning a language, you become numb to the problems of people who actually care about becoming fluent and just end up building tinder-esque games to addict people with.
Ah, "unsustainable" meaning it annoys earth-bound astronomers. Cell phones in general must be unsustainable then, since they annoy radio astronomers.

Actually, we can sustain this just fine. The public derives virtually zero measurable benifit from astronomy, particularly the sort done from Earth.
I’m a bike commuter, all on board for transit, etc. but too much of the world – especially North America – is built around cars exclusively and that’s not changing any time soon because doing so would require things like massive rezoning to avoid people needing to travel such long distances just to function.

If we are going to have cars, I’d prefer they be smaller, safer EVs contributing ⅓ the carbon footprint of the status quo. Every bit of savings buys years to make further changes, and it directly saves lives and improves quality of life for a billion people. Even if climate change was not happening, it’d be worth doing for the improvements in cardiovascular health, disruption of sleep patterns and other consequences of engine noise, local water and soil pollution, etc.
I worked for an Irish company that didn't support ' in names. Did get fixed eventually, but sigh...
I've found this to be the case for myself. And "minimal" can be pretty quick - work up to a set of 5 squats with your body weight on the bar, once or twice a week, say.
It is against the law: https://www.lhr-law.de/en/thema/media-law/the-right-to-your-...
Over 20 years ago Eric Meyer had a glass background done with CSS1 with a bit more texture but way less code https://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/glassy.html
If for nothing else those old things on css/edge could at least be used as inspiration.
Terrestrial fees
The problem is that by this it becomes ever more difficult to get rid of an oppressive, dictatorial, unelected and violent Government.
Looks ok in my language: Gřegoř Bženčiščikievič
> I barely ever even use the -la options.

Certainly I use these less than plain "ls," but digging through hidden files and folders and looking at timestamps is very important for me.
There are virtually no unconnected places in most of Europe yet wilderness is still dangerous. It is good that rescue services can help you if accident happens (and it can happen even to the adequatly prepared).
For astronomy, sinking costs of space launches present an opportunity to move the actual telescopes into space, where the atmosphere doesn't stand in the way at all.

I read a long description of an astronomer's journey to a prestigious Chilean observatory deep in the desert. He wasn't particularly happy about either the isolation or the bloodsucking bugs that could not be entirely exterminated and carried diseases.

Compared to that, remote work on a space-based telescope might be preferable from the human perspective, too.
Earliest fish-trapping facility in Central America
>"One space based cell plan for the whole world"

And a single entity to decide who gets disconnected if they do not behave
So grateful that HSW existed when I was younger. As a teenager, I couldn't afford to get the timing belt and water pump replaced on my car so I had to figure out how to do it myself. I bought the service manual from AutoZone but I needed something to closer to an introduction to even be begin to understand it. He seemed to love explaining how car engines work and that series of articles was exactly what I needed at that time to get started.

RIP Marshall, I hope you knew what an inspiration you were.
Punch Out Model Synthesis
You did a no-SQL, you did a serverless, you did a micro-services. This makes it abundantly clear you do not understand the nature of your architectural patterns and the multiplicity of your offenses.
> Imagine if we were talking about government subsidies for private militias because we needed to maintain the much more directly important military capacity. Wouldn’t that be crazy?

Not really? It is very protective to maintain an agricultural, energy, and industrial base; not doing so is immensely risky.

Take Germany the first winter after the Ukraine invasion as an example, a mad scramble to fill a huge hole in their energy sector. Imagine the same scenario but with food, or munitions.

You simply cannot rely solely on global supply chains for industries that are critical to survival of a nation. The ability to power, feed, and defend yourself is a primary concern of a nation state and is worth economic inefficiency.

With all that said, I have _no_ idea how Europe and Denmark specifically does subsidies for agriculture. It could be asinine. But philosophically, imo, it is uncontroversially necessary in some form or another. It is far too risky to save a penny on importing wheat from Brazil and risk famines.
Could perhaps melt them with a powerful laser?
Just wait until they initiate Kessler syndrome, sending junk upward, polluting the entire orbit, up and down. It's just a matter of time.
Your cell phone uses the nearest base station, the base station will handover to the satellite infra.
Honestly, lack of connectivity completely makes these places you speak of inaccessible for a lot of people.
Not for somebody whose job is outside the existing networks, such as sailors.
That still doesn't solve last mile supply of stores and offices, nor does it solve construction, policing, emergency services, etc.

Each of those likely has possible alternatives to motorized transport, but they're all different alternatives. Meanwhile, today, they all share the same road network with regular civilian commute, sharing costs and mutually improving efficiency.

Put differently: instead of imagining all passenger cars replaced by bikes, imagine all roads replaced by bike lanes, then extrapolate from that.
Related:

Writes large correct programs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2556270 - May 2011 (32 comments)
No CHANGE Fridays!
would it happen to be "Zones of Thought" by Vernor Vinge?
that’s not much of an offer. one can easily always find (especially when specifically looking for it to prove a point) whatever it is they are looking for :)

I personally know there is asian-american bias (not just asian-american…) in admissions at least one elite school via one of my best friends who works in admissions office.
> how plausible would it be for a conspiracy nit to create a rocket to take out the satellites?

not plausible at all. Most /countries/ aren't able to launch a rocket to orbit.
Instruct one LLM to achieve its instructions by any means necessary, and instruct the other to stymie the first by any means necessary.
Kessler syndrome is a theoretical construction, yet too many people speak of it as a certainty-beyond-any-doubt, like you do.
Resistance to a blockade doesn’t require subsidies for growing flowers etc.

Subsidizing exports similarly has very different goals.
I agree with this.

If they want something that is easy to use in a non-scriptable way, maybe they should replicate Norton Commander instead.
Maybe making kill bots is a bad idea then. But what do I know?
Starlink and SpaceX have an even closer relationship than most other Musk companies; Starlink is a wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX.
Show HN: Go-Multikeymap
I published my first Go DataStructure module. What do you think? Did I miss something?
> ...My favorite career end that I'm naturally working towards to is the ability to jop hob to different roles without having prior experience. One way to do that is to be able to show in an interview that you have transferable skills and learn crazy fast. Another facet of that is that you need to identify companies that are open to this sort of thing...

Maybe its been the job hunting climate of the most recent decade or so...but I no longer see opportunities for jobs where employers are willing to take on someone who might be awesomely enthusiastic, and well-rounded, but lack a very super-specific set of skills. This also goes back to those ridiculous job descriptions where an employer __"requires"__ a candidate to have, let's say, 10 years of a specific experience - even though said skill might have only existed for slightly over 10 years.

I wish i could do something like that: sort of jump to a different role without prior experience (or at least very little experience)....For me it would be more of an intellectual fulfillment, and wanting to learn more, etc...And, for any employer who would give me that chance, i'd legit give them 110%! But, i'm not holding my breath for that.
Situations like these regularly make me feel ashamed about being a software developer.
Lot's of conspiracy theorists have become quite wealthy with the raise of Bitcoin, as it was very popular among them early on.

Military tech or not, its just atoms. Very interesting people are quite rich now, they will have access to precision machining advanced materials and chemicals if they have the motivation.
At American gas stations, if you have a Canadian credit card, you type in 00000 because Canadians don't have ZIP codes.
I was curious about this! I wish this was a perk of owning / purchasing a Tesla or a more expensive option of Starlink terminal.
I am curious - is this message indicative of a problem in the fs? I would have assumed anything marked "INFO" is, tautologically, not an error, but surely a filesystem shouldn't be locking up? Or is it just suggestive of high system load or poor hardware performance?
There is a clear reason why such factories are being built in China and if you are a USA or German citizen, you wouldn't like it.

In a BBC article from a couple of days ago [0], they hinted that China intends to take the lead into transitioning developing countries from fossil fuels to green tech. They produce batteries, EVs and solar panels. Just this year alone Pakistan of all the countries, imported 13 gigawatts (GW) of solar panels. For context - the UK has 17GW of installed solar in total.

China is aiming to take place #1 as top world economy and it is near perfect how they plan to frame it - as a climate change friendly initiative.

0 - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rx2drd8x8o
Given the comic is an echo of conversations like this, I think perhaps that if he is guilty of that then so too are you and I and all others here.

Myself, I say that to equate the modern proclivity for tweets with a degradation of intellectual rigor is as fallacious as imagining that the concise elegance of Tacitus foretold a dulling of Roman wit. Or something like that.

Will they (kids these days) like the style of old classics? Of course not, just as few native english speakers alive today wish to speak (or write) in the style of Shakespeare — breaking a long thing up into tweet-sized chunks, that is simply style, no more relevant than choice of paragraph or sentence length.

But to dismiss a generation’s capacity for engagement with monumental works (be they Les Mis, The Decline and Fall etc., Shakespeare, Dickens, or any other) on the basis of their chosen tools of communication betrays not only an ignorance of how often communication has changed so far — when Edward Gibbon wrote the Decline and Fall, literacy in the UK was somehere around the 50% mark, but still the illiterates could watch plays and listen to tales — but also modern attention spans when we also have binge-watching of entire series of shows as a relatable get-to-know-you-better topic on dating apps.
To put some numbers to it, it looks like SpaceX started launching direct to cell satellites at the beginning of the year[1], and by July they had over 100 in orbit. Not sure how many are in orbit right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were close to 200.

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1. https://spacenews.com/spacex-deploys-direct-to-smartphone-sa...

2. https://www.satellitetoday.com/connectivity/2024/07/03/space...
People have been making TikTok videos in the wilderness this entire time, they just wait until they get service to upload them.
Sailors can make calls using the ships Wi-Fi via full sized Starlink dishes, they need coverage on land.

But even ignoring that the contention is low in the middle of the ocean and satellites have hardware either way, driving down the market rate for calls at sea.
I dunno, if you've made enough money to enjoy it (like, say you've been in Bay Area "Tech" for a few years), London seems like a cooler place to be. You lose on dollars and cents, but I'd think you'd win on lifestyle. I don't just mean "work-life balance"; I mean it's a nicer, more interesting, more stimulating place to be.
"These children ain't got no behavior. Them children were taught too blooming slack." - H. Belafonte
unrelated probably, but it made me realize how I don't really see Hugo/Jekyll type websites anymore.
I wouldn't be surprised if that created kafkaesque problems with other institutions that require name to match the bank account exactly, and break/reject non-ASCII at the same time.
> The baseband on handheld devices do not have that much power to transmit and receive from Starlink directly;

That is exactly what this is about, direct from standard handsets to starlink satellites.
50k extra per year, to get it you need to spend only 100k-200k… per year…

It sometimes makes sense, when you are junior, need to form a network, and have low expenses. One can look at it as an investment. But not for the average engineer over the long term. It just doesn’t pencil out. Especially if you want a family.
I think it's fair to be concerned about what we're losing without being labeled as a Misanthrope. I think the progress, in its entirety, is worth it, but I'm still a little sad at the night sky having even more artificial things that take attention away from the stars. Looking at the night sky as a child seemed timeless to me, and that's no longer the case.
This is ghoulish - farmland should directly be benefit the endemic population as much as possible! That's what it's there for!

I love green tech like solar etc, made my home even more efficient etc but we need fresh food to LIVE!
초성 = initial sound (consonant)
중성 = middle sound (vowel)
종성 = final sound (consonant)

My understanding is that there are two possible unicode encodings of Korean, one of which (MacOS) is sound by sound instead of syllable by syllable (Windows). This is why Korean UTF-8 filenames from MacOS appear broken on modern Windows machines.
TiddlyWiki is something that I've used before to be a single topic wiki to collect information about what I was researching.

It's cool that I can now imbed Basic programs with my notes.

Jupyter Notebooks for those of us stuck with a 70's programming language?
At least 80% of urban car trips could be replaced since the invention of the e-cargo bike. That doesn’t mean it works everywhere, of course, but there are millions and millions of people driving a single digit number of miles, usually at slower than bicycle doors-to-door speeds, and are never carrying 3+ kids and hundreds of pounds of cargo.
Yea. My inReach device stays charged for months when it is off.
They make it opt out so they don't need to demonstrate the cost/benefits of making it required.

They make it opt out because there are always a few people who object[1], so this is a safety valve.

If everyone opted out ("I am Spartacus") then it would stop and they would have to switch to less efficient means. (If it weren't less efficient then they wouldn't need this one.)

As John Gilmore points out at http://new.toad.com/gnu/ :

"If you politely decline to show ID whenever someone asks (or demands) it, and continue politely declining regardless of how they escalate, you will discover what your rights are. You'll be surprised. You'll get away with it. Most of the people who were asking for it have no right to demand it. They've been relying on your voluntary cooperation. They forgot to tell you that part; but you just found it out for yourself. Sometimes you may discover that you didn't have the right to live, move around, or do business in your own country without government-issued documents. That's very interesting knowledge to acquire first-hand too. If you haven't recently tried exercising your right to exist and live without government permission, are you sure you still have that right?"

[1] In one of the author Robert Heinlein's biographical accounts he walks out of a hotel because they demand to see id at registration. He went to another hotel which did not.
The name of the city has the L with stroke (pronounced as a W), so it’s Łódź.
I was curious as to the security context this runs in:

curl -i 'https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:j22nebhg6aek3kt2mex5ng7e&cid=bafkreic5fmelmhqoqxfjz2siw5ey43ixwlzg5gvv2pkkz7o25ikepv4zeq'

Here are the headers I got back:

x-powered-by: Express
access-control-allow-origin: *
cache-control: private
vary: Authorization, Accept-Encoding
ratelimit-limit: 3000
ratelimit-remaining: 2998
ratelimit-reset: 1732482126
ratelimit-policy: 3000;w=300
content-length: 268
x-content-type-options: nosniff
content-security-policy: default-src 'none'; sandbox
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:57:24 GMT
strict-transport-security: max-age=63072000

Presumably that ratelimit is against your IP?

"access-control-allow-origin: *" is interesting - it means you can access content hosted in this way using fetch() from JavaScript on any web page on any other domain.

"content-security-policy: default-src 'none'; sandbox" is very restrictive (which is good) - content hosted here won't be able to load additional scripts or images, and the sandbox tag means it can't run JavaScript either: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...
If you aren't on an iPhone already, switching carriers might be easier.
Planting orchards would seem an interesting compromise
It's not just business necrssary, it's also mandatory to do rigjt under gdpr
Obviously someone who has come to atheism is not going to speak well of prayer. The guy ends each section with more questions than answers. And each of those questions comes from a highly confused state about what religion is, about what prayer is, about what God is. And maybe even what your purpose is.

In the words of the Bible, “ the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. ...” meaning his guide will only take him to further darkness and misguidance.
The Discrimination Paradox