skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several comments here using the same logic, which I find to be rather...odd:

>It's a blog post not a news article or scholarly report. - The topic is a business run by people who ostensibly make decisions based on their faith to justify actions which cause various harm to others. Taking a critical view of those actions and the motivations is reasonable.

and the author shares the same view....

I am being asked to take a critical look at Hobby Lobby, the reasons are outlined in the linked Substack. However, if I have any questions or criticisms of the Substack article, please note that it is not a professional work it is just a guy with a microphone.

If I can't trust the source material, how can I trust the claims?
Lol, this is just nonsense.

This dudes whole account is just propaganda, he should be shadowbanned.
I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud
Not taking any sides other than that of conservation, do you think it's possible that the Greens have already saved many artifacts from nutty religious types like ISIS, and that their efforts will continue to do so in the future?
Maybe people are more comfortable sharing online and in less fear of being ganged up on?
I don’t think he’s stupid. I do think he doesn’t care to know, and remains ignorant.

I ask sincerely, because I would love nothing better: can you point to an interview where he demonstrates any depth or nuance to his foreign policy decisions, that would indicate he pays attention to any of the details we’re discussing?

He’s clearly a political obsessive, but that doesn’t guarantee knowledge. Rather I think he operates on a set of brutish principles that appeal to a certain sets of people.

To your example, it’s easy to espouse a simple idea like isolationism and obsessively work towards it without understanding the finer implications.
That is the unification treaty. If you accept that as a peace treaty then you need to at least accept that Germany, and as a consequence Europe, was vassal state until 1991. Thus the idea that Europe were equal partners with US is false.
The fig Newton was invented first though.

Seriously though, it’s a bit of an amusing coincidence that the Leibniz biscuit and the fig Newton were both independently invented in 1891 (at least according to Wikipedia).
To head off typical response to that passage - the idea that "the eye of a needle" was referencing a literal gate in Jerusalem (changing the meaning of the passage from "impossible" to "you might have to squeeze a little bit") is a post-hoc justification with no basis in reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Gate
There are several places you can get this data, both historical and in near-realtime.

I work on one of them: https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/catalog?filter=weath...
I always argue that the Wright Bros are the USA's greatest engineer(s).¹ Planes today still use the same design (in fact, the Flyer is even better—a twisting wing is more efficient than ailerons, but we haven't figured out how to make titanium, aluminum & carbon fiber bendy like wood (yet)).

¹–my 2nd spot goes to John Moses Browning – also, whose 120+ year designs are not only still in use, they're still in production.
The answer is no. She pushed out the first board, but the second hand-picked board still wasn't having it with these lowball offers. This is a shitshow
Does it not also run on macOS? It could be useful if you want to tweak usage of the mic array yourself, rather than relying on proprietary magic that gives you the output it deems best
https://www.boeckler.de/fpdf/HBS-006670/p_study_hbs_368.pdf
https://archive.ph/7FTtO
Thought the logic was going to go with cpu and inference related tasks will use GPU.
Access to eval and a generic recursive data type as internal structure means the language is closed on itself, can introspect, manipulate, create more through the same means it's programmed (see norvig lispy with python [lists] instead of parens)
Feel free! I've played this game a few rounds, but it didn't get any less disappointing. I'm absolutely fine with missing out this time, but if you haven't had your fill yet, don't mind me.

I'll be back in line for the iPhone 3G, thank you.
Emission reduction measured how?
Reading the post, it seems like what sucks is variables without readily accessible types.
> It's not just about avoiding the US out of anger

Definitely not the feeling I’m getting from progressive tech circles these weeks.
>Totally agree — writing about what you’ve built is a great way to both learn and stand out

Stand out? "Write about stuff" is literally generic advice nowadays. Most of the content is crap, because people are only writing because other people suggest it.
That one is a little different, as both Poland and the UK considered breaking the Enigma machine a state secret until the 1970s.

That Polish mathematicians broke the codes, and shared this information with the British, is taught in the UK.

My understanding (from school in England) is the British codebreakers' contribution was to scale up the scale of the codebreaking, by using lots of machines and their own mathematical innovations.
> I do agree that declaring the race suddenly over with a man on the moon was a case of taking the ball and going home.

See, I would characterize this differently-- after the US reached the Moon, Russia pretty much gave up-- gave up on the N1, Zond, etc.
This was such a weird news story to read. At least they used Signal? That's gotta be a plus at some level.

Unrelated, but I wonder how the gray hat market for Signal vulns is doing now?
Wouldn't the 'US did a better job with probes and unmanned spaceflight' depend on when you want to plant the flag that the space race ended? If we go with what in the US we define as a man on the moon, the Soviets I believe were putting probes all over the place. The soviets were landing probes first on bodies in the 60s. While the US focused on the moon.

I guess that depends on what you define as the bounds of the space race. If we go to the fall of the Soviet Union, yea, I completely agree with your last statement. After we landed on the moon, we did start getting serious about probes and had a bunch of wins there with voyager and such.
Is it wild that a 3rd party app like Signal is used for this type of communication? I feel like that's crazy.
Research into chimpanzee 'engineers' implications for technological evolution
I mean, I'll gladly take most of your savings, to the point you're back to struggling and feeling like every small win is life or death.. :-)
Staggering display of incompetence and carelessness. And unfortunately, one that we’re unlikely to get much transparency about, in terms of how such an operational screwup was allowed to happen.

> At 11:44 a.m., the account labeled “Pete Hegseth” posted in Signal a “TEAM UPDATE.” I will not quote from this update, or from certain other subsequent texts. The information contained in them, if they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel, particularly in the broader Middle East, Central Command’s area of responsibility. What I will say, in order to illustrate the shocking recklessness of this Signal conversation, is that the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.

> …The Signal chat group, I concluded, was almost certainly real. Having come to this realization, one that seemed nearly impossible only hours before, I removed myself from the Signal group, understanding that this would trigger an automatic notification to the group’s creator, “Michael Waltz,” that I had left. No one in the chat had seemed to notice that I was there. And I received no subsequent questions about why I left—or, more to the point, who I was
It ironically fits in with the article :)
Haha great implementation! I also have a similar one on my blog called: Useless Button[1]. This one is implemented with CF Workers as the backend.

This button has been clicked 2475 times for no reason.

[1]https://rishikeshs.com/button/
So which event make you change your approach
No, they say end-to-end, meaning they use raw obsevations. Most or all other medium-range models start with ERA5.

There's a paper from Norway that tried end-to-end, but their results were not spectacular. That's the aim of many though, including ECMWF. Note that ECMWF already has their AIFS in production, so AI weather prediction is pretty mainstream nowadays.

Google has a local nowcast model that uses raw observations, in production, but that's a different genre of forecasting than the medium-range models of Aardvark.
I have an engineering background, and was even gifted The Knack.

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.

For example, there is the idea of Theistic Evolution.

I definitely like evidence-based reasoning, but it doesn't answer everything.
The most significant US regulations in the area aren't even mentioned in this article: the prohibitively high tariffs on Chinese solar modules and electric vehicles, which at least double the cost of solar panels and EVs in the US compared to much of the rest of the world.

Current US elites grew up in the energy crisis that started with the Arab oil embargo of 01973 cutting off US energy imports, and they seem determined to perpetuate that crisis, if necessary by cutting off US imports of energy production infrastructure themselves now that the foreigners won't do it for them anymore.

The article vastly understates the rapidity of the change. It projects 3 TW of new renewable generation capacity in China over the next decade (02026-02036, I suppose), attributing that to an unpublished report from a consultancy that seems to protect its projections from criticism with an NDA. Given that the PRC installed 373 GW in renewable generation capacity last year (https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202501/28/cont...) this seems like an implausibly low figure; linear extrapolation of installing that same amount every year would give us 3.7 TW installed over that period. But in fact it has been growing exponentially, so 20 TW of added capacity over the next decade seems like a more likely ballpark.

That's nameplate capacity, so it's closer to 4 TW of actual energy generation.
Not to be confused with the already existing "mappy.com".
Did anyone ever put a plasma screen behind an LCD? It would've been a monstrosity, but could do true black.
There is a customer who has deployed beamforming microphones for decades. They do however have a somewhat different goal and medium.
China burns more coal than the rest of the world combined.
What CERN does next matters for science and for international cooperation
Paul Graham argued that if you act like the average startup, you'll get the same results as the average startup. And the average startup fails.

It follows that if you want to have success, you need to do something new which hasn't been done before.

> LLMs know more about every domain than any non-expert

As soon as you're creating something new, or working in a niche field, LLMs struggle.

So do junior developers. But they learn and get better with time. While onboarding a junior developer requires more effort than doing the work yourself, it's worth it in the long run.

IMHO, that's the largest issues LLMs have today. They can't really adapt and learn "in the field". We build a lot of workarounds with memory to circumvent that, but that too only works until the memory exceeds the context.

I've tried using ChatGPT, Copilot, custom GPT 4o models and Cursor. The task they did best at was generating a simple landing page (though they struggled with tailwind 4, cursor spent almost 8 hours debugging that issue).

With tasks that require more niche domain knowledge, it went much worse. Cursor finished some of the tasks I gave it, but it took over 10x more time than a junior developer would've spent, and I had to constantly babysit it the entire time, providing context, prompting, writing cursor rules, prompting again, etc. The others failed entirely.

If I start working on an unfamiliar task, I read all the docs, write some notes for myself, maybe build some sample projects to test my understanding of the edge cases. Similarly, if faced with a new task, I build some small prototypes before committing to a strategy for the actual task.

Maybe ML agents would fare better with that approach, instead of today's approach of just creating a mess in the codebase like an intern.
Vaguely related: Julio Cortázar’s “Instructions on How to Climb a Staircase” – https://doarchstairs2016.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
Yes: "I've been creating a free to download edition of my classic "Mastering Delphi 5" with footnotes indicating what is different today"
Thanks for pointing out that ambiguity, I hopefully edited for better clarity!

The other problem in California is that most heating is done via natural gas, and though heating needs are fairly low if houses had any sort of insulation, there's basically zero insulation in all homes. Which means that every winter, people experience massive natural gas bills that should be close to zero, making it very problematic to switch some of the utility cost burdens from the electricity side to natural gas side. Meanwhile, PG&E profits are at the very top of the utility stock list for its profit margins...
From the story:

I have never seen a breach quite like this. It is not uncommon for national-security officials to communicate on Signal. But the app is used primarily for meeting planning and other logistical matters—not for detailed and highly confidential discussions of a pending military action. And, of course, I’ve never heard of an instance in which a journalist has been invited to such a discussion.

Conceivably, Waltz, by coordinating a national-security-related action over Signal, may have violated several provisions of the Espionage Act, which governs the handling of “national defense” information, according to several national-security lawyers interviewed by my colleague Shane Harris for this story. Harris asked them to consider a hypothetical scenario in which a senior U.S. official creates a Signal thread for the express purpose of sharing information with Cabinet officials about an active military operation. He did not show them the actual Signal messages or tell them specifically what had occurred.

All of these lawyers said that a U.S. official should not establish a Signal thread in the first place. Information about an active operation would presumably fit the law’s definition of “national defense” information. The Signal app is not approved by the government for sharing classified information.
I mean, Apple uses high quality speakers to begin with, as far as laptops go. I'm sure they're not making 40 dB corrections, that would be ginormous.

Yes, I would be very surprised if they weren't using specific calibrations for each model. That's pretty basic.
I understand all of this; what i meant to ask, i think, is: How do these detrimental gut flora get in to our systems, and how do we prevent that, or get rid of them? Is taking more bacteria helpful, in that it can out-compete the fungus? My experience with lacto and yeast is that both of those are well-equipped to outcompete nearly everything, especially if you give them lots of pure sugar.
It was the race that moon the US one. The USSR was the first into space both with a spacecraft orbiting and living beings.

Maybe people interpret what they learned differently but I don’t think they were taught the US won the space race. Of course the goalposts will be moved to claim the glory.

I wasn’t taught that it was Yuri who won but rather Sputnik.
I hope you do not take notes or brush dust off the macbook whilst in a video call.
Glaciers are not just ice blocks – plans to save mustn't overlook hidden life
It wouldn't be surprising that de-regulation is good for innovation in the US, because "regulation" in the US almost always means corporate capture of a market through political bribery.

Regulation in territories where it is harder for corporations to buy politicians seems to be far more successful at driving improvements.
So you're saying your view is biased based on your work.
Forecasting isn't fine grained enough to get your backyard temp within 2 degrees. What your asking for is silly. The temp across your city is going to vary by more than 2 degrees every single day.
Yes, just like it does with the EU.

And yes we didn't spend so much on defense as Trump says, but(!) America never really wanted us to be too powerful. They were really happy to play top dog, obviously the more powerful we are as EU, the more viable a geopolitical opponent we are. The US have never really been too happy with nuclear capabilities in Europe and this is the main thing that deters agressors like Russia. Even the UK's is largely built by the US like the Polaris missiles.
> That is the unification treaty.

Yes, among other things. It is the "Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany", and thing it finally settles is WW2 and the subsequent temporary arrangements.

> If you accept that as a peace treaty

The ~1955 treaties between the respective occupying powers and West and East Germany separately, which ended most of the powers of occupation but could not formally end the Potsdam arrangement because the Western allies weren't going to formalize the situation with East Germany and the USSR wasn't going to do the same for West Germany, effectively (but not completely formally) ended the occupation and were essentially peace treaties (but obviously neither addressed the whole of Germany or the whole of the belligerents against Germany in WW2.) Between 1955 and reunification, each of the Germanies was technically occupied as a consequence of the Cold War. But West Germany was generally treated as as much of an equal partner as other major Western nations with the US.

I only pointed to the 1991 treaty because it is simple and irrefutable and the most straightforward, uncomplicated way to rebut your originally clearly-wrong claim that Germany was currently occupied without any peace treaty.
The kind of people who become billionaires don't become billionaires by doing the right thing with no kickbacks.

People who do the right thing are usually satisfied by the time they hit only 50 million.
In EU renewable are not competitive without strong regulations and subsidies. Distributors are forced to buy renewable at 5x the cost, and keep gas power plants at hot standby in case wind stops, or cloud comes.

At the same time, long term investments into fossil fuels and atomic energy are forbidden!

Saying "deregulated" energy markets drive solar, is another level of evil. It is logic that drove dependency on Russian natural gas!
Perhaps the author meant "Apple is succeeding too hard". :-)
There is nothing wrong with markets solving basic human needs as long as the incentives are properly aligned.
To power the factories that build the products we so desperately need for a price we can afford.

If we stopped buying shit we don't need, they could easily turn off a good portion of their coal powered electricity plants if they wanted.
And in the following paragraph:

Of course it’s extremely unlikely that all of those companies are about to claim a religious exemption from providing coverage of contraception. Aaron Blake at the Washington Post points to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that found that 85 percent of large employers offered contraception coverage prior to Obamacare requiring it.

Regardless, this is nitpicking, and the grandparent claim that it blocked contraception converage for all Americans is wrong.
> This is an attempt at a beamformer armed only with first year undergrad level engineering maths and some vague idea of the principles gleaned from various webpages and PDFs

Not certain if OP is saying they are currently an undergrad, but impressive if so
My (ex-)sister-in-law would have burritos delivered from the Moe's that was a literal (in the middle-aged sense of that word) ten minute walk* from her house. She was not a wealthy person.

This was NOT the fault of DoorDash.

I rarely order food delivery, for all the obvious reasons, but if there is a market for this stupid luxury (assuming cooled fries and a soggy hamburger bun qualify), good on DoorDash.

Food delivery is not addictive, this is on the free agent spendthrifts who care not for tomorrow.

* it was uphill a bit
> there's basically zero insulation in all homes.

This is completely false.
Besides what has already been said in other comments, I think reality has already shown how it _is_ painful in C. It's painful to implement both safe and ergonomic. The amount of subtly incorrect and/or differing implementations doing easier things out there is just incredible.
He seems to be the champion of using stainless steel for the rocket, which was a game changer.
It's Kinoite, not stock Fedora, which is ideal for a mass deployment like this. It also means the actual OS doesn't really matter as it's ultimately just a tool to run Flatpak and OCI containers.
Real Agency
> Wouldn't the 'US did a better job with probes and unmanned spaceflight' depend on when you want to plant the flag that the space race ended?

I was talking about post-1970 stagnation.

Russia basically scaled everything waaaay back post 1970. You have Venera as a significant first/win, parity for a little while on Mars, and then the US unrivaled in the outer solar system.
I have a feeling that this package is for folks that want to run Linux distros on the laptops, and have access to the same capabilities as native MacOS.
It's lower than many other medium-range AI forecasts, but note that those other models get state-of-the-art with pretty coarse grids, 0.5° or so. The point is that upper atmosphere and broad patterns are smooth, so with ML/AI they don't require high resolution (while simulating them with physical models does require). And at the forecast lag of say 5-10 days, all local detail is lost anyway, so what skill remains comes from broad patterns, in all models. (Some extra skill can be gained by running local models initialized with the broad patterns, for there are clear cases like mountains where fine resolution is useful.)
The reason bootstrapping takes a while is to make sure you've got a solid foundation for your project.

If you let an LLM bootstrap your project, you get tech debt from the get go. It's costing you more time than it saves.
I do NOT think it is AI-generated (though it might be), and that belief could be part of why you are being downvoted.

I've been watching the sentiment on AI-related comments for a while. It seems to have somewhat turned back to "if it's useful, it's okay" as long as it isn't promoted as AI.
A great list although the phrase cherry-picking comes to mind. Should we add 8. "Wright biplane used ground mounted launching rails, and assistance of a catapult".

New Zealand has its own contentious "powered flight" claimant Richard Pearse: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse

Self-promotion and patriotism often are the biggest influence on what the narrative becomes (e.g. Edison, space race).
It's funny; unethical human experimentation during that period is often excused as "it was common practice at the time" (to "forget" to consult patients before enrolling them into experiments), and here we have people of the same period making sure to follow proper ethical procedures...

(The same way that even at the time slavery was common - be it XIXth century or Antique Greece - there were already quite a lot of people revulsed by it...)
Straight in front is likely to be unobstructed while straight behind is likely to be obstructed by computer hardware. Therefore, straight in front is likely to have crisp sound while straight behind is likely to be muffled and/or distorted by reflections.
From what I understand the US outnumbered the soviets in sheer number of missiles though. Early 1960s politicians fearmongered about soviet missile capacity in order to justify a huge expansion in military capabilities while the soviets lagged behind in raw numbers.