skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The modern version of "The horses are no longer frightened by the uncivilized attempts to introduce motorized vehicles to the roadways".
That would massively slow the economy and the people at the top will never do that.
Your takeaway, from me living in multiple nations and cultures... Is that I lack consideration for other nations?

Thankyou for clarifying that you're not interested in conversation, only antagonism.
That's despite how hard it is to start a business there, not because of it. Try and start a factory and see how far you get before regulations and environmental studies bankrupt you.

Try building anything and die on the permitting table, or skip the permits and try and bribe the regulatory commision. Either way that's overhead. The Bay Area's housing crisis is a problem of its own making. NIMBYs everywhere. They even tried to develop Solano county and got shit all over. It could be a global industrial epicenter like Shenzhen, except for that one tree frog.

Businesses are moving to Austin and elsewhere because of how hard it is to do business in California. Whatever you think of Elon, he moved a shitton of Tesla jobs out of state because of the obstacles in creating them.
Great to hear! Right now just feed and reels. Everything on the influencer profile page.
I ran into this problem yesterday trying to calculate changes in federal spending over time. One user claimed that inflation-adjusted spending had sharply declined between 2000 and 2010 - which was true. But I had already calculated that spending had sharply increased from 1990 to 2023. I couldn't understand how we had reached such different conclusions until I looked at the IRS data book and saw that there was a slump in 2010 (presumably due to the effects of the Great Recession) and a huge spike starting in 2020.

"Lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Penrose-Lucas Argument
I would also recommend "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow. It explores "the roots" of inequality. A lot of interesting insights there.
There are new web features being adopted by browsers other than Chrome all the time.
Probably closer to 100%, in the sense that everything you read is being pushed by someone, but accurate nonetheless.
You're right that that nuance got lost and I'm sorry I overlooked it.

Insofar as it relates to the commenter I'm replying to, they also seem not to be making a distinction about deep geothermal, but insisting that the difference between Iceland and the rest of the globe is an indictment of geothermal's viability deep or otherwise. Which doesn't follow.
Wait until he hears about yolo mode and 'vibe' coding.

Then the biggest mistake it could make is running `gh repo delete`
So because people oppose some specific change that is causing documented problems for them, they're automatically anti-progress? It should be incumbent on Amazon to resolve the problems their neighbors are having with their drones.

Also I don't understand what "government surveyors" have to do with anything. Do you realize that satellite images of your roofline and property are detailed enough and cheap enough that people use them for roofing estimates?
Nah it's a pain in the ass if I'm writing a C program to consume your API and I need to pull in MPFR because you used bignums.
Maybe it’s more of a Futurama-style future.
About 1, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound seems

You are right that we don't have a theory of everything. However, we can go pretty far with what we have and some clever reasoning. Eg when you have two different gases, like hydrogen and helium, in separate containers and mix them, you can build a relatively simple engine to extract work from that mixing.

That engine also works when your gasses are almost but not quite the same, eg when you have deuterium and hydrogen.

But it doesn't work, when you have the same gas, like hydrogen in both sides.

That gives a pretty strong hint that hydrogen atoms 'have no hair', ie they are all the same.
How Ukraine's new tech foils Russian aerial attacks: acoustic detection
My impression was that stratospheric aerosol injection has been kept out of the public consciousness deliberately. If the public discussed it now, they’d learn quickly about things like termination shock, and the calculable consequences to weather systems depending on where the sulphur is injected (eg Inject over Norway and mess up el Nino), and come to the conclusion that it’s a pretty undesirable option. If, however, it’s left to the last minute, fossil fuels can continue, and then use this as a “last resort” card.
> These old websites from the 90s that are still alive carry such a powerful dose of nostalgia.

There's a subreddit dedicated to these kinds of sites: https://reddit.com/r/forgottenwebsites/
I like the article, and the message it's trying to get across.

This is one of those problems that a lot of organizations have, and that has a straightforward solution... but people don't apply!

I've found it one of easiest ways to boost productivity in any environment: eliminate decisions that don't produce artifacts.

If it wasn't written down, it might as well not have happened. Informal discussions and watercooler brainstorming is all fine and dandy, and I'm the first one who's not letting it go... but any practical work has to have outputs down - and in creating that hurdle, you're already more than halfways towards removing most inane arguments (what bike-shedding usually is).

The cost of participation needs to always be just a tad too high for knee-jerk reactions to be worth it :)
Anna Bågenholm
Ukraine is desperate. It's (currently) a war of attrition, it keeps going until one side suffers too much and can't replace stuff. Each side has constantly shifting limiting factors.

This is also why we've seen multiple headlines about Russia running out of stuff: they did run out of some things, then shifted to other stuff and ran out of that, then shifted to other stuff… — Ukraine has a shortage of both guns and young people right now.
Just start an "awesome AI courses" repo on GitHub and invite PRs. Or update these:

https://github.com/luspr/awesome-ml-courses

https://github.com/owainlewis/awesome-artificial-intelligenc...
Yes; not only does he speak extremely poor English (which, well, ok, why not) but he clearly doesn't understand what the interviewee is saying, and keeps pushing the same ridiculous hypotheses about new machines in the future and magical black boxes. Very cringe.
For apps, static analysis and reverse engineering can be a good alternative (or complement) to the proxy-in-the-middle technique.
Lots of glass brains?
In fairness, a lot of people here and elsewhere do use NIMBY broadly to mean anyone opposed to things they personally want to exist--at least in principle.
To make things even more complicated, service workers can intercept requests and change the request mode.
Is it possible that "speed of opening a factory" is not equivalent to "best conditions for businesses in general"
International research team decodes how to safely incinerate 'forever chemicals'
Google/Alphabet's Wing operates in Texas too, but I haven't read about any noise complaints there.

There were some complaints years ago in Texas: https://evtolinsights.com/2022/09/wing-drone-delivery-noise-...
Multicomponent Glass Fertilizer for Nutrient Delivery in Precision Agriculture
Except this man’s contribution was the fact he had a rare antibody and rather than shy away from donations he gave as much as he could, providing a larger more direct impact to those pregnant mothers that needed his antibody.
Slightest pushback on free market capitalism == soviet union, how very republican of you.
Drone delivery is a fundamentally bad idea. That is, except for the exceptional cases where it matters (like a medical emergency).

Drones won't replace trucks; they are aiming at the last mile. There is already a perfect way to deliver a small payload over a mile: take a bike. That's healthy, that's economical, that's ecological, that's quiet. Why isn't Amazon working on that? Because it doesn't bring them profit.
> Have been having the same thoughts lately, and always find myself asking that am I turning into a sour conservative who doesn't like progress.

Unless progress involves some positive change for all parties involved, is it really progress?

Change oftentimes isn't progress.
Earth-Moon-Earth Communication
First off, switching to Cycles is probably quite a bit of work. While the renderers are supposed to be interchangeable, since AFAIK Cycles supports more features than Evee, options that previously did not matter with Evee rendering now have to be set for Cycles.

Also, having seen the film, I found the "unrealistic", cartoonish look very much to be a creative choice. Evee can produce much more "realistic" renders than what you see in the movie, but this requires also much more investment into things like assets and textures, otherwise you quickly land in the uncanny valley. So I think switching to Cycles probably would not matter much, unless the creators would also change their creative choices, which would result in a different movie, but not necessarily a better one.
Outside China and not in US, thats still most of the world. Europe doesn't have a reason to go nuclear on China and its products (maybe apart from cars), especially with current US politics.

Worst case scenario you may borrow some compute power on some Hetzner cloud or similar :)
3 Ways to Time Kubernetes Job Duration for Better DevOps
I dont want my Amazon packages sooner, if it means creating more noise polution, air traffic, energy use, broken plastic waste etc..

> Halfway houses and low income housing doesn't need to exist any more than an Amazon warehouse does.

This must be a joke, right?

EDIT: I guess this is what the opinions of Amazon execs must be. We all question how people can be so blind that they make decisions which lead to huge amounts of suffering and mass destruction of the earths resources, well here it is in black and white.
Yes, we know. That was made abundantly clear during the election.

Apparently, a large number of Americans also coincide with the Kremlin's vision.
I'm surprised that you would compare drones loudly delivering cookies and toothpaste, which are arguably "convenient," with halfway houses and power plants. These people sound entirely reasonable in their opposition to the former, and I don't think you would find many of them opposing the latter in their neighborhood provided the new neighbor followed the norms of the community. That's really what this is about. Amazon installed a bunch of equipment that was so loud in operation that it scared wildlife away and ruined peoples' quiet enjoyment of their property.

I could see the community having the same reaction if the halfway house decided to have loud parties in the evening or the power plant was constantly emitting exhaust noise into the neighborhood. But it also strikes me that they're entirely reasonable people who just want some peace and quiet.
Microsoft unveils finalized EU Data Boundary as European doubt over US grows
Never wholesale, but largely because there was a long tradition of resisting Federal government services.

So, very many government services were and still are at more local government levels.

Still, there are things ripe for privatization, such as commercial rockets, as another poster pointed out.

Then there are complete failures like privatized state and local prisons which are nonsense—what does it even mean to have a competitive market for prisons?—or our monopoly-by-design internet services held hostage by the large ISPs.

These should be largely government run.

But then the monstrosity of US healthcare is a design-by-committee. A pure private system with regulation AND mandated 100% price transparency of services; OR a Japanese/South Korean style national healthcare would still be better than what we have today.

It’s hard for me to give a cohesive answer because it’s such a mixed bag.
> Please note that in late 2013, the City of Chicago launched a publically available Data

did they really say "publically" in their response? :)
That doesn't guarantee that the new leadership will be any better. A good first step would be cutting down leadership compensation to sane levels.
It reminds me of the glory days when “hypertext” was a term uttered with a straight face to great stroking of beards—HyperCard, exercises in nonlinear narrative, VRML-based “navigation,” Apple eWorld [0] and the like.

> Would you like to bring a touch of adventurous spirit to your contents?

I personally would not, but I’m really glad people more adventurous than I are still exploring the periphery of UI design!

[0] https://www.macworld.com/article/223467/remembering-eworld-a...
I wonder what the convenience does to our strategic planning skills. I spend a decent amount of effort building up kids’ impulse control, and they’ll need it in a world of marshmallow tests.
I got my own domain maybe 15 years ago when Google gave out free workspace accounts for personal use.

Saturday marked the second or third year I had to pay for Google workspace because they did an about face and got rid of there for personal use program.

Do I feel duped and resentful? 100% Could I move elsewhere since it’s my own domain? 100% But am I hooked since I like Google’s tools better then anything else out there? 100%

But honestly, I could see the day someone comes out with competition to Google mail, sheets, docs, and calendar that is good enough to convince me to switch. Wouldn’t be that hard and since I own my domain I can do it.

In summation, even if Google totally pulled the rug out from under me, guess it could be worse
Saw the name "comtrya" and was immediately reminded of that episode of Stargate, but figured it had to be a coincidence. Cannot tell you how happy I was to see the gif in the readme :)
> I learned ~10 commands 15 years ago

Same here - I've been using it for a long time without any real deep understanding of it and still no issues. I _do_ believe that there's a "hidden" layer of collaborative functionality that I'm missing out on, but since everybody I work with uses git the same way I do, I suspect that if I did know what I was missing out on, I'd just be frustrated that I wasn't able to take advantage of it.
It's about altitude and mass.

A very small drone (call it 500g AUW) can deliver a pill bottle at maybe 30 meters altitude without you hearing them. Delivering a can of soda (5kg AUW), we're talking a bigger, heavier drone and maybe a hundred meters. Delivering a bag of dogfood (50kg AUW), you need to keep the rotors maybe 300m in the air. If you want to keep this quiet in closely space residences you'll need to dangle the package on a wire down from a hover, like a Mars Rover skycrane.

In trench warfare, you don't need the wire, you can just drop munitions from altitude, limited only by accuracy.

Every domestic drone program is operating under imposed limits on altitude and airspace.

A suburban neighborhood has a significant tolerance for noise; We operate leafblowers, lawnmowers, cars and trucks. But only intermittently. If it's right next door to a droneport, the skycrane strategy doesn't help and your house is going to hear that nonstop. It seems like if they were operating from a better more remote facility, and the noise was only intermittent, people in the article might have tolerated even these ~100 pound class drones which have no skycrane and employ full descent almost to the ground (where they unceremoniously drop their contents the last ten feet).

Example landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcxfcMmdRCM
I don't even get why I'm downvoted or why you linked this. The number is in the millions obviously so what is the point?
Indeed, proof-checking tools like Lean can reason about their own logical systems and prove their own incompleteness, but I doubt Penrose would conclude that they are not formal systems as a result.

I like to think people can still make progress on questions of intelligence and consciousness though. Michael Levin's work comes to mind, for instance. Science is just at very early stages of understanding =)
> What triggered us getting out, in fact, was hostile policy enacted by Seattle that frequently poisoned the relationships with our tenants. That is, with the same behaviors we began being treated very poorly.

What policies are you referring to? What kinds of things happened?
I've spent my career ping ponging between writing fast low level code for games, and online systems. If you want to talk about high performance code, benchmarks are a requirement. There's no numbers here. It only talks about "Robust", which OP defines as:

> By robust I mean no undefined behavior for any input, valid or invalid; no out of bounds accesses, no signed overflows. Input is otherwise not validated. Invalid input may load as valid by chance, which will render as either garbage or nothing.

Robust is a baseline for high performance programming.
I agree that Space Shuttle is not relevant (as a peer poster mentioned it simply lacks the delta v to even get to the Moon), but do not agree that this capability has readily existed for decades. You needed (1) private industry (2) affordable (3) moon capable and (4) civilian availability. We were failing on various points at various times, but now a days none of those really pose an issue anymore.

Now that we've clearly nailed all 4 of those points, we're starting to see lots more interesting things in space from tourists visiting the ISS, people sending their ashes to space, to doing private space walks and going further into space than any human has since the 70s [1], and now even things like this with a private company landing a payload on the Moon. Many of these things are done with no return beyond doing them.

More specifically though, this is also literally why SpaceX was created. Elon was researching NASA's plans for getting men to Mars. They literally did not exist. He wanted to get society more interested in space and so his idea was to launch a greenhouse to Mars and live-stream it. The capability for that simply did not exist in America, and in Russia the costs were far too high. So SpaceX was born.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Dawn
Amazon isn't working on that because they have a bunch of software developers and they need to justify their existence with something other than making AWS better or fixing the bugs with their shopping website. Drone delivery is probably a "sexy" project some EVP or C-level is pushing because they want to add it to their resume.
It's completely self-evident that lots of manufacturing has left the US due to trade agreements. This has resulted in certain classes of cheap goods but also made the US vulnerable in key goods (like electronics), and inhibited automation.

It's also not at all obvious that the US has been more secure in its role as world police. Arguably, it led directly to 9/11 and decades of pointless death in the Middle East.

All of the arguments that the status quo was more secure and better economically are weak, at best, given the complexities of the counterfactuals.
[Show HN]: Deploy AI agents that can browse the web for you
As an european, I host all my services on european companies. That way I can get customers that have very specific data storage requirements.
re: try keyword in Rust - this is actually a thing on nightly, although instead of bubbling up errors directly, it creates a scope (within which ? is usable) that evaluates to a Result.
Human Service Is Luxury
I am expressing long held frustration that software engineering as a culture is trying to eat its cake and still have it. Wanting to be called an engineer, demanding a high salary and running the largest sections of the economy and disrupting society in highly impactful ways, yet whenever someone asks them to take responsibility for any damage caused they downplay their role and anyone else's in the industry. It is time to grow up. If you make a decision to make more money or do less work, knowing that it has a risk to cause major problems for infrastructure, economy, or other people, then there should be something more on the line for you than a 'oopsie' at the end of it if you lose that bet.
> Who doesn't want their Amazon packages delivered sooner? If I could get my packages today, instead of two days later

What if you could, but it was 10x more expensive? Obviously you wouldn't want it. Now take a step back and realise that for many people, having drones flying over the city all day long is enough of a reason to not want it.
> A parent said their teenage daughter
> feared using the swimming pool because
> of the drone’s camera.

A clear failure of parenting in the modern world. They should be encouraging their daughter to bathe topless whenever a drone flies overhead. Just imagine the size of the settlement if the photos ever leaked.
People want the service-y features, though. Immediately getting access to all your passwords, bookmarks, history, and extensions when you log in is a major selling point of both Firefox and Chrome, and people want features like that more than they want local-only software that’s fully under their control.
I don't know what they've been up to after Tears of Steel but the primary mission of the older Blender Foundation movies was to further the tech, e.g. motion tracking.
I think if I could work in an environment like this I could be really and truly happy.

Unfortunately situations where I've advocated for mentorship or team growth have always resulted in negative career consequences. "Wasting time" on things that weren't billable hours.

I'm not sure how to advocate for this teaching / learning style of development to people who are openly hostile to it for reasons they are unwilling to articulate. Sometimes it's because they are genuinely technically incompetent, other time's it's machiavellian obfuscation because they KNOW what they have promised, and are unwilling to explain to you because they think they can drip feed you details and trick you into doing things you otherwise would not.

I think the real problem is not totally what I describe above. It's also that I'm now very fearful of reasonable situations devolving into that, and it causes me to be reflexively defensive at times where I guess it's not helpful or effective for getting my point(s) across.

> You can see something bad about to happen, your instinct shouldn't be to do nothing to teach the person a lesson. You owe them the professional courtesy of offering a guiding hand.

You provide a helping hand. Your boss is now upset. Your action to provide help to others has materially harmed your career.

What now? Not trying to be rude but this is literally one of the things that has absolutely destroyed my professional development. I try to help others the way I was helped. Some organizations are outright hostile to this.
The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect
There is nothing wrong with expressing one's concerns. Problems arise when governments allow the concerns of NIMBYs to override the greater social good, allow NIMBYs to stall the decision making process, or fail to cerify the legitimacy of the claims being made.

In a case like this, yes it is NIMBYism. On the other hand, having high frequency flights over an existing residential are, for the primary benefit of one party (i.e. Amazon) would seem to support the groundings.
Interview with TSMC founder Morris Chang [video]
I've spent my entire career working in C++ writing low level code for video games (and a decent chunk of it writing backend services for said games, and the glue between the two).

If you want to talk about performance, you better come armed with numbers. If you don't, you're not writing "high performance" code.
Just a word on 2, I think that the axioms have to be finite right? (Given that they exist at all) Nothing in the physical universe can require an infinite description.