skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric motors are more compact, need less cooling, work well at all altitudes, have likely more mounting options, can spin fast, offer different power curve, probably easier to service and diagnose.

I think there's enough of differentiating factors that could move the "sweet spot" when compared to ICE motors.
Dropbox's pricing is in line with Google One storage pricing, without any corresponding discount in the Google store. It's hard to picture a scenario where they are in a position to offer free unlimited photo backup. But it will be great for a subset of consumers if they do! I would be happy to see it. Amazon also offers free photo storage for prime users, although their video storage quotas are even more limited than Google's -- and, at least for me, as a light video user, those comprise the majority of my storage needs.
I always feel like the counts for Christian branches provide an extremely skewed view. Since it's faily common for people to count themselves as Catholic or Orthodox simply due to their upbringing (even when they don't believe there is a God) on the other hand people who consider themselves Protestant almost exclusively don't just believe in God and the authority of the Bible but usually wont consider themselves Protestant without having made a formal choice to follow Jesus and join a church (whatever that means from within their denomination).

I think that if you only count Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants who believe in God, the authority of the Bible Protestants suddenly become a majority possibly a very large majority.

I might be wrong in this; I grew up in the Netherlands where officially we have 20% Catholics and 15% Protestants but although I live in one of the most "Catholic" places of the country I havent encountered a single Catholic that goes to church exept for on eastern and chrismas (and then they usually do it to please family, and yes I thought for a while if it is really not a single one). On the other hand everyone I encountered who calls himself a Protestant meets that more strict definition I talked about above. And Ive heard similar stories from international students in my university.

But again I might be very wrong and am definitely open to data that proves me otherwise.
I think you're confused. This is money before Iraq ever came into the picture (post 9/11). This is money that was reported "unaccounted for" 1 day prior to 9/11.
There are few technical reasons, to be sure, but there are plenty of economic and business reasons. The most popular engines in general aviation are Continental/Lycoming ones, and these are based on what, 50+ years old basic designs? Automotive industry have developed significantly better piston engines in last few decades, in terms of power to weight ratio, fuel efficiency, MTBF and service interval. However, the nature of the field, its relative niche quality, and regulatory framework make it difficult to adapt and adopt them in general aviation. There has been recent attempt to do it, with diesel engines from German automotive industry, but they are facing a lot of very real problems, for example, lack of maintenance infrastructure.
Using a 'JMP SHORT' was pretty much reflexive; a good reason to do it was it not being in range was sort of a code smell back in the day.

But chips were simpler back then, and a programmer could often leave compiler code in the dust with small bits of assembler (esp. where Fortran was involved).

Nowadays, X86 has become so hard to reason about from a performance point of view that for critical code I just assume that GCC will emit something acceptable given a bit of sensibly-written C, and that to get a big boost beyond that is going to involves GPUs or custom silicon (depending on the application).
Just because certain subgroups of people have valid reasons does not mean it applies to the general populace.
I can only wish that more people realized that we didn’t have to start with something so destructive before we could “get better eventually”.
I prefer the question, “why can’t light go faster?”
Right. But that still isn't enough for minesweeper, where a cell can be: covered, marked, uncovered with no mines next to it, uncovered with one mine next to it, uncovered with two mines next to it… etc until uncovered with eight mines next to it.

So except if you limit the game to having no cells with more then one neighbors with a mine, it won't work.
Note quite. See [1]

[1] https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/PortManipulation
BakaBT still has the three torrents uploaded in december 2003 that the article mentions, and they are still up and well. 25 more between Jan.1 and Apr.30 of 2004, all alive as well.

Though I don't know if it is a good indicator. Even though, at the time, BakaBT was semi-private and not private, lessening the incentives to seed as one could download without limit by logging out, it still has a system that rewards seeding torrents with no/few seders.
> "Liberal democracies" are conflated with being part of the global upper class. Which major wealthy liberal democracy hasn't participated in colonialism or invasion in the last 200-300 years?

There are a few. Switzerland, Norway, Sweden (depending on how far back you go), Iceland, Ireland.

And, if you're going back 200 years and thinking about Great Britain, well, sure, they had colonies. They also arguably were not a liberal democracy. They had parliament, but they also had the king. Who controlled international policy (which determined whether they had colonies)? I don't know enough to answer that, but I'm not sure they should automatically be put in the "liberal democracy" bucket.
Too bad OpenAI doesn't allow free use of technology. Otherwise bots like above can be developed more easily.
That's the current net cash-wealth, though. If you considered their potential, you might come to a different result.

E.g. Bill & Hillary Clinton leaving the White House was, according to him, $16m in debt. His net worth was negative.

Two decades later, they made over $200m. But it's obviously not like that money didn't come from the power and influence they've had when they left the White House. Nobody would have paid tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for a speech of the wife of the former governor of Arkansas and failed presidential candidate.

Some have $10m and that's it, and I'd agree, they're not elite. Others have much more, but little of it in cash, and they are elite. Influence can typically be transformed into cash, as the Clintons have shown.
Well consider what EPA managers are up to in terms of suppressing science about newly introduced chemical and their risks based on science.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/attacks-on-science/epa-lead...
Peter Österlund just outlined his tools and methodology for constructing proof games, which use similar ideas, at

http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=77685&p=9051...
It's weird, all my coming of age I believed that 9/11 had something fishy going for it. I fell for the popularized conspiracy theories. There were videos propagated through Google Videos. I don't hold them much anymore.

Still to this day, I'm extremely skeptical of some of the official stories. I don't get the point of classified documents in this case. And there are still many open questions like e.g. why WTC 5 collapsed without an airplane impact.

Dunno, I guess eventually with more years passing we'll start to learn more diverging stories and potentially the truth?
A bit all over the place, the author assumes "It is even less well-known that the rule “nothing moves faster than the speed of light” is a consequence of the laws of electricity and magnetism" but at the same time "This is also a well-known property of electricity and magnetism" and then drops some equations.

Most people for whom this property of electricity and magnetism is well known, also know that the speed limit from general relativity comes from Maxwell's equations (which are on themselves a compilation of other previous rules).

I also dug deep into this problem a while back, but without proper physics background couldn't get too far. The speed of light comes directly from the Vacuum permeability and Vacuum permittivity, since light is an electromagnetic wave. If these were different, then the speed of light would be different. Both of these seem to be values of the behavior of vacuum in our universe (and possibly electron's [1]).

It is Maxwell's equations gives us that the speed of electromagnetic radiation needs to be c ^ 2 = 1 / (e * u) [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_wave_equation#...
A Tesla battery weighs as much as a Cessna 172. I don't know how practical a battery powered GA aircraft with competitive range would be.
Ask HN: How does a compiler handle differences in instructions sets?
AMD and Intel each have instruction extension that are exclusive to each company.

How does a modern compiler deal with those?
The easiest would be to ignore them entirely.

Or can you say "turn on AMD extensions" (or Intels) and it uses those, then what happens
if you run it on Intel?

Does it insert logic to check which cpu?

Or does the compiler include code for both
where it is advantageous and simply branch
to the right instruction set after querying
the CPU?
And this is why certain events are considered catalysts on a slippery slope...
> Several hundred thousand people could have been saved in the US if these measures had been taken seriously

That is baseless speculation.

> Social distancing, closing schools, etc. were proven methods that showed the difference between cities with horrible losses and much better outcomes for the Spanish Flu.

Where is the source? And that was a completely different disease, which had the worst outcomes for young people, so maybe taking pre-cautions for them made sense.

> Because of people like you, who call proven measures against COVID ‘safety-isms’ we lose that many people every other day.

You should take your dogmatism & personal attacks to another forum, where it is welcome.

> we lose that many people every other day.

Tragic, but they are elderly, chronically sick and had a life expectancy of less than 5 years. Also tragically under accepted normal & non idealogical circumstances, we loose around 8,000 people a day in the US.
They disappeared into their own fantasy land long ago. They announced that investors will have profit caps because their magical AGI will learn how to achieve infinite profit one day.

Statements like this must be remembered so that in the future we can point to this era's most ridiculous companies and the people behind them.
salaries for professional/college-req. jobs have really swelled in the past decade.
If turning off cookies is a time-wasting chore, you are more likely to accept them next time, which will allow them to benefit from tracking you. It's a net win as long as the benefit they extract from the people that get tired and accept tracking is bigger than the loss from the people that bounce.

The "beauty" of it is that so many websites in the internet are doing it, that even if it's your first time going to a website, when you see the cookie popup you already know the drill and are primed to just accept everything.
I'm mostly referring to what comments like this[1] one sound like. They may be lies or they may be isolated cases in specific states or counties, but it's not at all the first time I've read such accounts. Grain of salt since it's the internet of course.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28497547
I feel like half of these comments were written by chatbots.
From another article[0]:

>The email then laid out multiple conditions Rohrer would have to meet if he wanted to continue using the language model's API. First, he would have to scrap the ability for people to train their own open-ended chatbots, as per OpenAI's rules-of-use for GPT-3.

>Second, he would also have to implement a content filter to stop Samantha from talking about sensitive topics. This is not too dissimilar from the situation with the GPT-3-powered AI Dungeon game, the developers of which were told by OpenAI to install a content filter after the software demonstrated a habit of acting out sexual encounters with not just fictional adults but also children.

>Third, Rohrer would have to put in automated monitoring tools to snoop through people’s conversations to detect if they are misusing GPT-3 to generate unsavory or toxic language.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/08/project_december_open...
> See what gross inconsistency is tolerated. I have heard some of my townsmen say, “I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico;—see if I would go”; and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute. The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war; is applauded by those whose own act and authority he disregards and sets at naught; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it differed one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a moment. Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.

-- Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
From Pro Audio perspective, it's even easier than on Windows. Not sure about Mac OS, never tried it.
If it is only the tone that bothers you, maybe you should abstain from programming C. ;-)
They said:

> If it’s not a PhD in biochemistry or something similar, then it’s not relevant to their decision making abilities

In my opinion, that is much closer to "if you don't have a PhD in biochemistry, you can't don't deserve to make a decision (i.e. stupid)" than "listen to experts".
Finally, consider that recently I went into clear expert mode to release a formal preprint on grabby aliens, which induced almost no (< 10) comments on this blog or Twitter, in contrast to far more comments when arguable-elites discuss it in panelist/elite mode: Scott Aaronson (205), Scott Alexander (108), and Hacker News (110). People are far more interested in talking with elites in elite mode on most topics, than in talking with the clear relevant experts in expert mode.

This can obviously be explained by them having bigger audiences/platforms.
The mental acuity issue is real. I can usually tell which ones of my friends are big consumers. They're usually a bit bright-eyed with poor memories. They tend to be bad partners at trivia night.
IMO it is at minimum grey area when company introduces “free unlimited/little limits” while having clear understanding that it is not sustainable and then start charging people after they have moved all their archives to gDrive.

it is legal, but not good either.
This is called "span of control", and it's a well-studied subject.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Span_of_control
Adding transparent support for HD floppies
Command line can work, there's even escript for shorter tasks: "escript provides support for running short Erlang programs without having to compile them first, and an easy way to retrieve the command-line arguments."

GUIs are a challenge, I think there might be some change since this thread in 2017 [1], but the most supported way is wxWidgets and the interface is most unErlanglike. I gather it's similar to GUI programming in c++/mfc style which I never could understand. I do have an erlang program with a small gui (just a fixed sized bitmap output window, no controls, no inputs, no text other than titlebar), and I made it work with wx, but it felt a lot nicer with ex11.

ex11 is ancient, was an academic thesis project/proof of concept and is pretty much raw x11. Erlang and x11 work well together, Erlang is built for distributed systems and x11 is a distributed systems protocol. On the other hand, x11 doesn't include a widget library, the client has to bring one, ex11 has some widgets, but they're very basic. It also relies on x11 font rendering which is not very common anymore. If you wanted to build a mainstreamish GUI on ex11, you'd need to spend a lot of time on building a modern looking toolkit. (And make sure people have an X server)

Games are outside of my ability, but while it's certainly possible, I think the confines of immutable data and lack of shared state would tend to make things cumbersome. Screen output would also be a challenge. It might make netcode easier, though, because of the general need to do explicit communication may mean you're already thinking about how things interact and can avoid some of the pitfalls of synchronization.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/erlang-programming/c/-0uH3DfnYvM...
In France, Google Video also failed to Dailymotion. Dailymotion failed dramatically a bit later for many reasons, some are political but also because of YouTube. It's still online but in a very sad state and it doesn't reflect what it used to be.

I mention Dailymotion because it wasn't as good as YouTube in terms of user experience and content, but it also won against Google Video, which was simply bad and unused in France, to be honest.
If you were to experience a novel or rare problem with PulseAudio, you would be in the same boat. The likelihood of a user encountering a problem is more apt than assuming as a given that you're dealing with a problem.
I don't really participate in scientific literature or journals, but I see a lot of notes in HN around papers that appear to be overblowing the significance of their findings.

Is there a way for researchers to publish 'interesting observations' as just that, something that they measured that may or may not be noteworthy but felt worth sharing with the broader community?
Transliteration schemes from one language/alphabet to another are not always consistent.

If I'd have to guess, Mehmood is what is used in Pakistan, reflecting local pronunciation, whereas Mahmoud is the more traditional Arabic translation of the name (which is Arabic).
It is subscription based and you get access to all of the courses for a single price. To gain maximum value, you will need to use the platform regularly. For me it is worth it as the content is good qquality content and it suits my learning style. Work through problem solving and developing intuition, often through visual aids and everyday experience.

The math and science subjects I'd say is most mature, and has the most content. thereafter one can practice more from textbooks or alike to really go into the depth and expand on the mastery.
False dichotomy.

Much more useful to think about most things (esp. societal and behavioral) as a spectrum.

Very few things are completely black and white.
Running docker and docker-compose commands isn’t difficult. What IS difficult and (time-consuming) is sifting through a bunch of articles about how to set up Docker properly on macOS and/or Windows without relying on Docker Desktop.

Maybe it’s not represented on HN, but a lot of developers just want to get their work done and not get sucked into the complexity of the myriad ways they can set up their development machines, so a “one-click” installer works well for them even with some downsides (that may not even become issues for them).
Same as you. The language looks nice but despite having tried Elixir multiple times this past 4 years, the tooling and lack of Jetbrains support always makes me stop and run back to Ruby.
Text mode replacements for GUI Linux software
Younhi ranghat nhe urrai-urdu-sad-poetry
I got the J language working on OpenBSD
The spellings reflect different transliteration schemes that can be used for Arabic.
Thank you for the advice and the optimism.

I’ve decided to stick it out and casually apply for jobs for the next few months. If something comes up that’s right great. If not well the real search can happen in the new year.
"Nothing can go faster than light" is just a convention and is not experimentally confirmed.

IIRC there are a few things that go faster than speed of light (e.g. universe expanding).

"Spooky action at a distance" is also not known very well. That could also break the speed of causality law. While Bell's theorem hints that this is not the case, there are some exceptions to Bell's theorem.

Right now a lot in physics are just convention like energy conservation and symmetry.

We need another paradigm upgrade to understand these things.
Wtc 5 didnt collapse it was demolished. Wtc 7 did. Which do you think is worse getting hit by an airplane or getting hit by another massive building as it collapses?
It’s telling that you’ve completely ignored the million innocent people you’ve killed using this event as an excuse.
I’m the creator of thatDot Connect [1], a distributed asynchronous streaming graph interpreter, where we’ve been working on exactly this problem for about 7 years now. Scalable distributed graph processing has so many applications! We were fortunate enough to be funded by DARPA for a while working on automated APT detection for cyber-security. Some of our recent work has shown linear scalability of this approach on large clusters at high throughput. For example, we got to half a million complex graph events ingested per second on a combined read/write workload and could have just kept scaling. We’re in the process of writing up this work and sharing all the details.

[1] https://www.thatdot.com/technology/
I'm not so wise, my friend, but I do have some tips from hard experience:

1. Most people don't understand the importance of ontologies. It is an uphill battle to convince them. Build your ontologies quietly. They are a superpower.

2. A real ontology must extend far beyond the confines of the data store. You must think of it as also including the workers that bring data into the ontology, the workers which verify the consistency of the ontology, and the query engines through which users get data out of the ontology.

3. Start simple. Your ontologies should be as dumb as possible to start out with but they should support extension.

4. Learn one datastore really well and build your ontologies there. Chances are you don't need to know anything about OWL or neo4j or Spark or anything hyped. I use Postgres.

5. Idempotency is very important. This means, for example, that if you run a data collection worker twice with the same arguments, it should not create duplicate data in your ontology.

6. Build for a specific use case. Don't try to build a general purpose ontology. The kind of data you will be storing and the access patterns will determine a lot about the structure of your ontology and you should be accounting for these things.

7. Avoid event-drive architectures (e.g. IFTTT, AWS Lambda, etc.). Put your faith in idempotence and cron (actually, I use systemd but you get the picture).

Do you have an idea what kind of information you would want to build an ontology for?
It’s UL94, so lower octane (94 octane, as the name suggests). However, this is still fine for lower performance aircraft that make up the majority of the GA fleet.

There’s been a lot of interest in it, especially in light of the recent discussions to close RHV in San Jose. I know one of the flight schools here just switched all their aircraft over to UL94.

Higher performance aircraft will need UL100, which is still not available, but is expected soon. There’s been significant progress in getting it approved over the last year.

Swift Fuels sells the supplemental type certificate aircraft owners need to use UL94. They are offering a free upgrade to the UL100 STC once it’s offered, so aircraft owners don’t have to pay twice to start using UL94 today.
Is it just me or are Java Modules hard to create and use?

I found it pretty confusing to get them to 'work', especially with libraries that are not module enabled.

Also, there is not support for Java Modules for Scala nor Kotlin. May be we need more tooling and IDE support.

Use case: JavaFX