skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ll confess that I don’t know that type of modelling FS2020 is using. But given how it feels, and how it’s the child of FSX, I’m inclined to think it’s using a lookup table

I'll note that this statement is easily disprovable through the two aerodynamics videos that MFS published on Youtube (as another poster here has pointed out).

From what I've seen and read, FS2020's aerodynamics simulation is more advanced than the one in X-Plane.

The issue with aircraft performance might be to do with the current bugs surrounding turboprop engines:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/turboprop-engine-logic-...
> When core A writes to memory location X, then core B reads from memory location X, why do we insist that core B reads what core A wrote?

Well, on many platforms we don't necessarily require this to be true immediately.
Oh, we’ve figured it out, we just don’t like it.
For others wondering about KnockON

> With Knock ON you can set the phone to turn the screen on by quickly double-tapping the screen. Double-tap an empty area in the Home screen, Status Bar, or Lock screen to turn the screen off.

-- https://www.lg.com/us/support/help-library/lg-android-knock-...
NASA’s small business picks take on automation in space
Not to mention that with the microservices fad you could have different server processes with different credentials in their connection pools for different operations.
Pay off all but the cheapest debt. So don't pay off interest free or mortgages as your investment should outstrip the interest fees
I find this constant tom-tomming of wealth increases based on increases from March 2020 to date quite disingenuous. The primary reason I find it so is because they measure the rise from the lows in March to the highs of this year (as evident in the infographics in the article).

Here's the thing, while I'm nowhere near even a millionaire, my net wealth also increased by around 50% since March of last year because I'm mostly invested in index funds. But if you make the comparison from Jan 2020 to Jan 2021, it's a much more modest (albeit decent) 14%. Most of that 50% was just the recovery from the hammering that the index took during Feb-March.

Sure, some outliers in that list have seen their investments see dramatic rises, but that's true in any given year.

What's more, I don't remember anyone shedding too many tears for 'capitalists' who saw their fortunes take a hammering in the early part of March. I used to wake up with cold sweats worrying how much the index was going to tank the next day.
Yes, standard Android, I don't care about deviations like f-droid.

Some of those issues are manageable when making use of Java APIs, naturally not all of them, and even less if one refuses to touch Java.
I am not sure about most of the good ideas. I would say it is "enough of the good parts with syntax people can relate to".

People are re-discovering lisp all the time. The nice things are still seemingly CL-exclusive; Conditions and restarts, proper macros (getting adopted in many languages NOW, about 30 years later), multiple dispatch OO.

And first and foremost: proper interactive development. Using a python repl (or even a notebook) I have the feeling I get all the frustrating bits of the repl experience without any of the good parts. With very lackluster performance to that.

I was kind of tired of not being impressed by new languages. Clojure and Erlang were the first ones in a very long time where it was the language (and not any additional libraries) that made me go "Wow. This is really cool".

Now, I still write most of my code in guile scheme and occasionally ocaml, but not without at least glancing once or twice at Erlang.
Big Meat and Dairy Companies Have Spent Millions Lobbying Against Climate Action
Yes, quite ugly full of eye burning white
> Greenwald has been posting some antimigration articles messages using language that skims very close to hard-right wording

That’s an inflammatory claim, that needs direct quotes/links to be taken seriously. But lest it be forgotten that there has long been an acceptance among traditional left-wingers (including Bernie until it became unacceptable to too many of his followers) of the need for some immigration controls in order to protect the most vulnerable workers, and historically the loudest voices for open borders are Laissez-faire/social-Darwinist libertarians, most notably the Kochs.

> Maybe he doesn't neatly fit into the (American) left/right schema

I think this is quite false: he fits into the traditional left/right spectrum as a bona-fide leftist. It’s the mainstream Democratic Party that has moved towards corporatism and militarism.

> regularly on Tucker Carlsson without ever seriously criticising them

What would it change for him to criticize them; to try to impress the people who would still hate him anyway? Carlson gives him airtime and the opportunity to express his position to an audience of people whose minds he might be able to change about a few things. Why waste that opportunity with token criticism?
Wondering if the Android phone market can be still considered a Google-led mobile "ecosystem" when Samsung is the only big player left with competitors dropping out or struggling, and the big Chinese manufacturers being forced out.

Not meant as a snark (owned HTC phones in their heyday and also Samsung S5 and S8); just wondering if Samsung shouldn't aim for a larger influence on Android or even fork, for better or worse.
If you are interested in some cool developments in the scheme world regarding string formatting, you should have a look at srfi-166:

https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-166/srfi-166.html
> The fact that the other better semiconductors require large quantities of rare elements has been a very important reason that has prevented the replacement of silicon in a large number of applications where it is an inferior solution.

Maybe, but silicon is also damn good because of the adherence and dielectric nature of its oxide. Not to mention that several of the so-called superior semiconductors, even if you can get them in large quantities, are more difficult than silicon to crystallize without many defects. And silicon also conducts heat relatively well, meaning that it draws thermal energy away from hotspots within a chip better than some of the more expensive semiconductors.

Not disputing the larger point about rare metals. Just asking you to put some respect on the name of my boy Si.
Ask HN: No-code computer science books
What are your favourite no-code computer science books?

I have always enjoyed reading these kinds of books where various topics are handled from a high-level perspective instead of the ones where the author implements them in concrete code. The main reason for this has often been that these kinds of code related books are often outdated, inadequate and full of errors, which is why I often enjoy reading design-related books more. So I'm interested in what books might HN recommend in this field?
I see, it looks to me like you've replaced one false dilemma with another false dilemma.

Why would a war with China be inevitable?
The anecdote data of everyone I know that keeps buying devices like Samsung, Huawei and Xiomi.
Backend: Rails API, redis. Sometimes Hasura with keycloak.
Frontend: React, material UI and/or bootstrap for styling
I think the whole success of the Hollywood is based on their ability to create films that cut across all the cultures. They tend to be simplistic and yet in a way can actually go very deep, probably because of tapping on the human nature instead of the culture. On the other hand, locally produced films usually tap on the local culture which leads to amazing German/Finnish/Italian/Turkish/French etc. shows making sense only in that culture, thus not gaining traction outside of their locality.

At some point we had Brazilian soap operas, now we have Turkish soap operas gaining large traction on TV and probably will be followed why some other ecole.

However with Netflix, something different is happening in my opinion. I'm sure that Netflix looks into statistics when doing new shows, EU pushing for a single market on these services could mean that the Netflix shows are indeed optimised for common European consumption instead of local one.

Saying that Netflix is the new Eurovision is comedy gold :) I mean, Eurovision is definitely a spectacle but no one(maybe with the exception of Lars Erickssong of Iceland) in EU actually takes it seriously and definitely it's not the cultural event that brings nations together. Eurovision is the show where we accept to be vulnerable for a day, get out there and remember our favourite neighbours by voting for them.

If it was a serious thing, the Brits would have won most, sharing it with the Spanish summer hits occasionally. UK is a music and culture powerhouse with extremely poor Eurovision track record.
There is GPT-Neo although it doesn't have as many parameters as GPT-3. You can also check out this awesome resource → https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/mj5nn0/gpl_prompts_re...

Also see → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26696735
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth
This might seem like useless criticism but oh well.

In "straight and curly quotes" it says:

"By replacing the curly opening and closing quotes with ambidextrous straight quotes, two slots became available for other characters."

But surely one slot became available. If two were used for curly quotes and then one for the straight ones, only one would become available.
Ok, I saw your twitter links, I just took the SA study regarding prior infection or AZ vaccination as a contrary proof, perhaps the fact that they didn't include any severe cases mean that both findings can be reconciled and that vaccines won't eradicate COVID-19 but rather it will become less severe over time.
>assuming you can get a jailbroken iPhone.

And the security tradeoffs therein.

>But I’m sure you’ve not used an iPhone enough to realize that.

Was that ad hominem necessary? I've used iOS devices regularly w/o Jailbreak since 2010 until last year. I've spent several thousand dollars personally and my business money on Apple products. My comment was purely regarding the technical nature of the OS and was not directed against any brand. I know people are religious about brands, but private businesses don't deserve such dedication and I feel it's unhealthy overall.
On the other hand, that means I don't have to do an annoying verification dance to look up my pwnages, and can help others look up their breach information without having to explain to them over the phone how to click a link in an e-mail.
You probably shouldn't have started the sentence with "No" then, but never mind. Let's hope that space travel will be safer in the future.

Anyway, I really just wanted to point out that 50 years ago it was apparently possible to develop spaceships in less time without a "move fast and break things" approach.
https://expo.io does things in a similar vein.
Isn't lossy compression pretty much the same thing as extracting some amount of useful information?
Shit like this is why I need to quit HN. Balanced discussion of real problems seems impossible. It's a race to be the biggest doomsday preacher. Whatever happened to technologists fixing problems with technology?
It only require one person to come up with something that transforms society completely

I hear this a lot, in the context of, we must keep growing the global population on the off chance that someone may be born who comes up with a way to live on an over-populated, polluted, resource-depleted planet. It's nonsense.
They should hire at least one UX-Designer and listen occasionally to it.
macOS seems to have the healthiest ecosystem today. Small developers are still supporting themselves by selling software. Even there though, I'm not sure how sustainable it is these days.
That a 250,000x performance difference is a very large gap. It’s the difference between walking 1 foot or 48 miles.
Solar electric propulsion and solar thermal propulsion seem to work just fine.
True for me. I enjoy walking in the evening and late at night. The only unpleasant encounter I've ever had in Romania was with a bear not a person. Quietly backtracking I got away with it.
Aren't subtitles and closed captions the same thing?
My guess is it is a self fulfilling prophecy. If a lot of people have older devices, application developers have to support the older API levels.

For example, a store called Safeway decided to cut out an older version of Android. However, they reversed less than a month later.

Speaking of marketing, I think LG does market quite a bit inside the Republic of Korea. I saw a show called oh my ghost and everyone had an LG phone in the show.
Ten Solid Motivations to add Feta to your Eating regimen
Melatonin does (reasonably) well against placebo in the time-to-sleep studies I've read. If you want to read up, Gwern has the most accessible collection out there:

https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin
> But surely one slot became available.

Two is correct.

> If two were used for curly quotes and then one for the straight ones, only one would become available.

Yes, but in fact four slots would have been required for curlies, while two were used for straights. Single and double quotes are two different characters when straight, and two different pairs when curly.
Is there a meaningful / well defined difference? One could say that lossy compression is extraction of useful information. You need to identify unnecessary information to know what to discard safely.
> So it's a simple mmap database like early versions of MongoDB?

Even simpler. I use mmap only for things that I build offline and that never change during the runtime. Everything else is just kept as your garden variety objects in memory.

(Well, although I guess you could say it is an mmap database, it's just that the mmaped file is the swap, and the OS manages it for me.)

> I like using atomic commands, but I imagine it would become tedious fast to do the extra work of doing the accounting of the transaction manually every time you want to do a non atomic transaction.

In my case it's not really tedious at all. Usually when I want to mutate something it looks something like this:

let user_ref = state.require_login()?;
let user = user_ref.write();
user.set_field(value);
drop(user);

Of course this depends on your requirements. If you'd have 20 different objects of 10 different types that you'd have to lock separately and you'd want to update all of them atomically it might become hairy (SQL would definitely be better in such a case), but I don't have such cases.
I haven't said a word about Bright. So I'm not sure what you meant by this. I merely find it hilarious that the same people who complain about insanely biased sources cite insanely biased sources.
Not by the metric of intentional homicides.
The US even has a higher rate than North Africa with the the only exception of Sudan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti...
Amen. Best phone I've had, because it flawlessly hits the only things I care about in a phone: Stock Android, an SD card slot for my music library, a screen big enough to read shit on, a biggass battery, and cheap enough that I don't feel too bad when I inevitably lose or break it.
> Focusing on mathematical abstracta completely misses the problem...

I don’t think it does.

We’ve been studying these networks for a long time now, and “common sense” interpretations are largely “completely bs” when examined closely.

These investigations have a tangible impact on how to prune and design networks.

High level hand waving about measuring the measuring device may seem profound, but I fail to see any meaningful application.

You can reconstruct 3D images from a few samples; see neural radiance fields. The observer is irrelevant.
> 1. Member States shall ensure that on-demand audiovisual media services provided by media service providers under their jurisdiction promote, where practicable and by appropriate means, the production of and access to European works. Such promotion could relate, inter alia, to the financial contribution made by such services to the production and rights acquisition of European works or to the share and/or prominence of European works in the catalogue of programmes offered by the on-demand audiovisual media service.

I would assume that falls under inpracticable. Stuff like crunchyroll is exists in the EU aswell.

Article 13: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
This is an interesting subject and I would love to read more on it!

Can anyone point me to other publications on the same issue? Preferably something with some real-world examples?
9gag largely plagiarizes content from creator-focused community forums such as SA, newgrounds, ytmnd, and the more tame parts of 4chan; later also reddit and IG.
> Germany, England, etc., become more like the US every time I visit.

As a German: In what ways?
Sadly depending on which country you're in, some shows on Netflix won't have all the audio/subtitles available. No idea if this is Netflix's fault or yet another unfortunate result of copyright hell.
> Whatever happened to technologists fixing problems with technology?

That ended when they got into politics.
In this leak every entry has a phone number and a name. But only a few have an email address connected.

So it would be nice to have a service where you put in a phone number and it will list what information is available for it. Like this:

[X] Phone Number
[X] Name
[X] Current location
[ ] Previous location
[ ] Current employer
[ ] Email address
[X] Birthday
[ ] Full date of birth (with year)
Yeah, that's a shortcut for not having to say «Hey Siri» - not a dedicated button for starting Siri.
Maybe a game of Global Thermonuclear War?
There are two types of subtitles: for the hearing impaired and normal subtitles. English subtitles are usually for the hearing impaired, which means that they also add information about the sounds of the scene, like the phone is ringing or the music is playing.
isn'it a bit of an exaggeration to claim that Netflix is creating a common European culture?

First of all Netflix productions are not great in general, there are a few very good ones, the rest is just mediocre.

Secondly, Netflix is not the only streaming service offering the same content.

Last, but not least, in Europe we have been watching European shows since forever on national and private television networks.

Two of the most popular shows ever in Italy are Fantomas, which is French, and Derrick, a German crime series started in 1974 that lasted ~~14~~ (TYPO! it was 24!) seasons. We've always translated and dubbed foreign content, Netflix hasn't really changed anything in that regard. We also watch a lot of national productions, like for example in Italy Gomorra is very popular and highly rated (there are many others)

European movies in theaters have also been quite popular over the years, it used to be more popular until the 80s, but French cinema for example is still producing great movies (I think everybody knows who Luc Besson is).

The Italian actor Carlo Pedersoli (Bud Spencer) was so popular in Germany that when he died German Post offices released a series of ten stamps as a sign of gratitude and respect.

Besides, some popular American productions are remakes of European content:

Forbydelsen (Danish) -> The killing

~~Humans (Sweden) -> Real humans~~ (not American)

The Returned (France) -> The Returned
If you maximize gains, you will also maximize losses if the coin drops the other way.

My strategy for investing is: pay into an index tracker, don’t look at the balance more than twice a year, don’t withdraw funds even in bad years, don’t touch it in general, just let it sit for 30 years.

Compound interest will do the work for you.
Sure, but if all you want is an existence proof, it’s still possibly better because it removes the requirement that whoever made the noise needs to still be there (FSVO “still” given how simultaneity behaves in relatively).

OTOH, also worse because it’s unlikely to be directional, so the output would have to be powerful even compared to the galaxy it’s part of for an intergalactic detection.
Well it is not the first time the idea of dimensionality reduction have been used in the field. It is for example the idea behind latent semantic methods (LSI and LSA).
Kubernetes Supports Nine Pillars of SRE
Perhaps. Hard to say. The dev team was large by necessity, but the GTM was far too large because we hadn't come to terms with giving up on enterprise and individual sales. Had we focused exclusively on public sector and hunkered down we MAY have been able to be profitable on an operational basis. But we would have had to recap and get existing investors to write it off at a time when the board had two offers on the table that returned some value to investors. Not straightforward.

Today it could almost certainly be built MUCH more economically - likely on the not-dissimilar and rich/mature matrix.org infra at the bottom, and using Electron on top.

And I would sell not to enterprises nor to decentralization zealots: I'd build a small focused GTM org focused on public sector and those who will need to collaborate when trying to deal with an APT.
O’Leary will only buy Bitcoin mined with clean energy, and none mined in China
> assuming you can get a jailbroken iPhone

This is a massive assumption.
No, because lossy compression has the goal of preserving elements for replay. At the extreme you could turn a movie into subtitles, but not a costume from the movie alone. The costume might contain more information from the movie, but you can meaningfully recreate the movie from a single costume.
The people I know who read so early did so in English as far as I can tell.
Yes but social activities involve risk taking, feelings of rejection, effort and a lot of time, which will at times, generate anxiety and depression.
What is "high-bro sphere"? I googled and didn't find anything.
I could perhaps see a charitable interpretation if the author of the blog post (Guzey) did not accuse the author of the book (Walker) of "deliberate data manipulation", gave the opportunity to the target of the accusation to explain himself, did not misrepresent himself as a "researcher" (pointing to his blog posts as examples of his "research"), did not link to a friend's blog post for "UC Berkeley’s official response", etc, etc.

The author of the blog post is not leaving a lot of room for charitable interpretations.

But in any case, what charitable interpretation do you propose?
Best put your phone number into this site then, so you can find out if you need to change it.
So, the thing that I think is most important about the article (which was wonderful, btw) is the double descent loss curve. Originally demonstrated for boosting in 1989, it seems to have made a comeback since 2016.

That being said, this kind of stuff is gonna mostly be in the papers, so I suggest following the interesting references from the article, and repeating until you feel you understand :)
And surveillance advertising...
Somehow related: I find Snappy Snippet extension (for Chrome) very interesting. It's supposed to let you make a "live" screenshot of a DOM element. Unfortunately, I've not tried it much as I only rely on Firefox in day to day browsing.

https://github.com/kdzwinel/SnappySnippet
Could the difficulty be around the duopoly? We mostly have laws about monopolies, there can be some push-back against monopolies, but with a duopoly everything "seems" right.

I see so many discussions on the internet, also on HN, following the same ritual. Apple does something bad, and people say "Just choose something from the competition, like Google". Then Google does something bad and people say "Just choose something from the competition, like Apple".

Even intelligent people get fooled by this.
I think he means highbrow as in opera, Dante etc.

I quite like the article and found it interesting. I'm a Brit and you have to realize British publications like the Economist tend to take the piss out of Europe a bit, especially the Eurovision song contest.