skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great question, but the physics is still the same. The aircraft still generates lift by direction air in a downwards direction. For some aircrafts (based on the wing geometry), you can achieve this upside down, within a certain range of angle-of-attack of the wing. Obviously, the aerodynamic efficiency is not the same. Airfoil sections are anti-symmetric across this direction because these designs achieve higher L/D (lift to drag) ratios.
I think the GP mostly answered it, but usually it's so that they are self-consistent with a set of design rules, and known to work. Every place I've done professional PCB work has had their own library.

I think this trend comes from exposure to really poor standard libraries - for example, I found Altium's libraries being especially inconsistent and weird (though it's been a few years since I've last used Altium).

I've personally found the KiCAD standard libraries to be very consistent and high quality in comparison (both the symbols and footprints), and have no problem using them on my own designs - in fact, if I have to make my own schematic symbol, I often reference the standard libraries' design rules when making it.
Absurd that there are lawsuits from 2015 about 110 year old books.
Especially when he runs into battle with a doggie in his shirt!
I don't know about the standard, but both GCC and Clang accept ZWSP characters in the middle of variable names.

Clang logs a warning about potentially invisible characters every time you use them. g++ just compiles the code without warning, even with -Wall and -Wpedantic.

What clang _doesn't_ warn for, is the use of the left-to-right override character. This can be used to confuse the victims of your code even more.
There is an analogy between this and infeasibility of "Explainable AI".

For the Lift Theory we have Navier-Stokes equations that give you the lift if you solve them numerically or, maybe, figure an analytical solution. But most people won't accept it as an "explanation" - they want a simpler description in more coarse-grained concepts and relationships. And, it seems, that there is no such satisfactory reduction for the Lift Theory - there are just too many interrelated things happening at the same time.

Same thing goes for some decision-making AI. One might like to have an "explanation" for why AlphaZero decided to make a particular move. And sometimes there could be a general high-level pattern rule, that one could extract from the model. But, it seems, that in most cases no simple rule can be expected.
It might not be an alternative drug but it's certainly an alternative narrative. The momentum for the jab is all but unstoppable at this point. The continued talk of jab passports, and such. Once a narrative becomes normalized it's difficult to change.

Note: This isn't a political statement or criticism. It's Human Comms and Human Behaviour 101.
I am not at all confident (but I wish and pray for it) that any face to face old-school big conferences where the real stuff happens in the corridors and the bars with handshakes and hugs will take place next year. Maybe in 2025.
Perhaps, but use of TK as a placeholder is fairly common. I've been using it for years, and I learned it from a jounalism handbook, IIRC.

It's quite embarassing when you forget to replace them before you publish though, so I have a section in my Markdown to docx/pdf/whatever Pandoc build scripts that errors if there are any remaining TKs.
They are limited to 28nm process nodes - of which I think they don't have a very large capacity and they hope to be able to use 14nm the next year.

They are also trying to somehow implement EUV but they have missing pieces.
I agree it's good news that the project complied with the original court order from 2018, which was to block the works on German IP addresses that are still under German copyright law. Why would American copyright law apply in Germany? It's a bit disingenous of Project G that, instead of blocking access to just these books in Germany, they blocked access to the all the books. That was project G's, and not the German court's, decision. I'm glad they've changed their minds.
There is nobody making editorial decisions about what goes on the front page, beyond extreme cases.

HN is more actively moderated than this, you can find piles of moderator comments about it.
Yes very true. It is just one among many things that needs to be explained by a theory though. Things like why do stalls happen, why are there deltas on the ends of commercial airliners, and so on.

Point is it's one of the more complicated everyday phenomena to explain.
The signal vs. noise ratio must become much worse by so many new papers.
and I thought dang was a bot!
New memcapacitor devices for neuromorphic computing applications
But those CPUs still need to be manufactured somewhere. And it isn't efficient do build up a super computer using CPUs fabbed on an old process node.
You need a higher level of karma to downvote.
> this requires tech companies to either change their business model or take editorial responsibility

So youre for the end of Youtube, et al.?
This is a massive problem for large windows hypervisors. We have to shutdown around 20 vms for about 40 minutes for the host to reboot after updates.

We are looking to move to a Linux host instead but that is a big up-front cost to get the same size machine, move the VMs across and remove the old host.
Pixar’s Lightyear turns Buzz into a non-toy astronaut–with new voice
i think this is not far fetched

what linux distro do you recommend?
The state is legally allowed to spy, in fact it is their duty to spy both inside and outside the country.

I do not think a court has any say in it.
> What specifically is an 'emotional injury'?

I think it’s also important to think about what it’s not. It’s not something that can happen to a company, so no one with deep pockets will be able to go after big tech. It’ll open up the potential for people to sue, but that’s just a matter of throwing a tiny amount of money around around if anyone is dumb enough to think they can win a lawsuit against a big tech company.
> Whether I'm promoting you, firing you, reporting up on progress or problems, "best" always works.

“Best” is shorthand for wishing the other person well. Using it while firing someone could be seen (to use your words) as “mindless and weird”, a meaningless and reflexive dismissal which may rub the recipient the wrong way (“if you cared about what’s best for me, you wouldn’t have fired me”).
Section 230 goes back to 1996. There would have been very few websites with comments in 1996 (mainstream web browsers, insofar as there was such a thing as a mainstream web browser in 1996, had only in the last couple of years got the ability to submit HTTP forms). And there were very few users interacting with that internet; only on the order of 100 million, and most of those _very_ infrequently. The scale of the problem is entirely different now.
This was in April so it's most likely that they had already delivered the chips for this, and in fact those new sanctions are most likely a response to US intelligence on their progress.
> For starters, experimental bias isn't really an issue, here... This was an observational study, with crystal clear objective criteria for coding the dependent & independent variables.

Just a nitpick: it was not an observational study, it was a true experiment, because they controlled the treatment: it was assigned by researchers at random. It is by definition not an observational study which have a distinctive feature that it doesn't control for a treatment.
When reading mixed-language text we can't know if the "Tee" in the middle of an English sentence is German for "tea" or English slang for "t-shirt". We have to use imperfect context clues, so screen readers will have to do the same, it should be doable with today's technology. And if the software doesn't get it right every time, that's fine, because neither do humans.
Was notified from someone else about the isComposing attribute -- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve...
At least for web stuff, do you think checking for this before treating the Enter key as Submit would work in both IMEs with and without input buffers?
jesus my updates take < 30 seconds on linux though I update frequently. but even on my systems where I don't upgrade for over a years they only take about 10-15minutes.
You can have 'planes with wings that are "flat boards at an angle."

You're right that it's not "merely deflection", but the reason you give here is not conclusive.

PS: I've tried replying to you by email so we can coordinate our efforts, but I don't seem to have been able to deduce your email from your profile. If you want to contact me, my email is in my profile.

Update: A second attempt may have succeeded.
So you start by accusing him of being purposely misleading. He mentions 60 studies (which he didn't cite specifically, but at least offered a link which one could use to verify his claims).

But then you pull a bait-and-switch in your own comment, complaining about just one study, which you completely neglect to cite (so it could be made up, for all we know). You subtly outsource your opinion, trying to lend it an air of objectivity by saying that it "raised some red flags" (after you accused him of using weasel words). You couch the whole comment in an air of faux fairness by writing as if you are some judge called upon to arbitrate a dispute, who just has to rule a certain way because, of course, that's what the evidence requires. And you imply that your unsourced complaint about one study invalidates all such studies, therefore he must be wrong.

You accused him of being purposely misleading, but at least he offered a link, and he didn't try to trick people into thinking that a criticism of one thing invalidates other things, which you did.

Your whole comment is a textbook example of propaganda techniques. And then you wonder why people don't know what to believe anymore. It's like the whole Internet is a political, psychological battleground for public mindshare, and the truth doesn't matter at all.
Gravity – An Embeddable Programming Language
On the malware intelligence, it is a combination of first party threat intelligence (what we see on our own network) and third-party threat intelligence across open source intelligence, specialized malware intelligence vendors, and private threat sharing communities.
Is This a Scene from a Sci-Fi Horror Flick?
This was published on `01-April-2020`. So was it a joke or was it not?
Think the first 5 upvotes are ignored on submissions wrt karma.
Aside from being an excessively rich fashsymp who obviously wasn't bullied enough as a kid?
For me the publish date shows as April 2. They also explicitly say it’s not a joke and explain their own April tradition in the article.
> The builder says the model can handle 245.7 billion parameters (GPT-3 can deal with 175 billion) can pass a Turing test, and beat humans at an idiom reading comprehension task.

Impressive, if true.
Right but I believe that the sanctions on Phytium came after they got hose new chips, and probably as a response to them.

If those chips are in production in a new supercomputer now it means that they took delivery of them last year or early this year at the latest, IMHO.
Those planes work in a little bit different regime.

For a plane flying straight up you have (usually) two things happening:

1. It is trading kinetic energy for potential energy.

2. They have so much power that their engines can literally lift the entire plane.

These planes do not fly. They just use the air to keep the right direction but do not get meaningful lift when going straight up in a straight line.
Yeah, there is an irony that in attempting an efficient model of updates, they have something that is often dog slow and not even that small to download. If you separate things like librariy content, you could easily package most things as single archives like MacOS does and you know that you have something that works. You could probably also split c:\windows into, say, 10 different things so you wouldn't necessarily need to replace all of them at the same time.

Alas, the tech debt for MS is enormous so unless they had the ability to create a new OS with no backwards compatability (except most of the WinAPI if possible) then we have to live with the pain.
Given that we're talking about the author I would say it's tangential rather than completely OT.

I agree, I feel like James is the one that gave Numberphile its personality to me, more so than other mainstays like Matt Parker (I feel like Matt's stamps is more clearly seen in his other projects).

He adds an intrigue and an enthusiasm to Maths that reminds me of how XKCD got me into the subject circa 2006. If anyone is looking for the secret of how to make Maths 'interesting', they should definitely use James and Numberphile as a case study.
> So as long as something doesn't challenge our beliefs, values, opinions or prejudices it's OK.

You're trying way too hard to make this about bias. There are more charitable and simpler explanations, such as signal-to-noise ratio and the expectation that submissions to HN are focused on geek-oriented science and tech topics.
> I have no problem with 2/3 of the codepoints being taken up by 3 languages.

I have no problems with this either, at least not principally. But historically this was literally impossible. Someone thought of a clever hack that seemed like a good idea at the time, but turns out it doesn't work all that great after all (at least, according to some – opinions seem to differ and I can't really judge myself) and now you're stuck with it and fixing isn't so easy – I don't know if people have made concrete proposals for fixing this, but if it was easy it probably would have been done already. Sometimes sticking with a suboptimal "legacy" solution is better than replacing it with a new better solution due to the friction and issues involved.
The Japanese government is subsidizing this venture to ensure a steady supply of chips to Japanese industries.
I used to use 1.1.1.1 till the day I realized that it doesn't resolve archive.is [1]. I don't particularly care what the details are, whose fault it is, etc., but as an end user, I see this a major problem because with 1.1.1.1 if my browser is unable to resolve a domain, I wouldn't know if it's my DNS's fault or if it's the site's without an explicit check. I also don't care much for family "protection", so right now I don't see a good reason for using Cloudflare over Quad9.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21155056

[2]: https://www.quad9.net/
Sure, but even if you have continue some languages give you the GOTO so you can exit out from nested loops, useful when you need to work say with pixel colors in a big image, you need all the performance you can get.
Weren't the Chinese supposed not to be able to innovate or invent anything and to merely be able to produce low quality clones of US-made tech?
I don't believe any of the Phytium processors are fabbed with EUV.
I don't think it is hard to pick clear examples. It is harder to pick clear policies for examples that end up in some gray area.
Thanks. I'll keep it in mind for next time :)
P42 for GitHub is now P42
The German copyright law doesn't seem unnecessarily vague, simply life+70 years, which is why there are now two authors blocked (3 at the time of the link). If you have a problem with Germany's life+70 years then you shouldn't be upset with the lawyers, you should be upset with your government to change your government's copyright laws to match whatever the US does.
Oh right; I never actually used it, I just know it exists.
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Blender 3.x roadmap
Just this week I had a submission hit the front page and end up with ~80 votes, but I only got ~40 karma, so I think this is still true.
70 years after the last authors death it becomes public domain.

You cannot give up all rights voluntarily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wteiuxyqtoM
Trying to do something smart is usually the wrong approach and leads to users tangling themselves in invisible state that they do not understand and can't change. The best thing would have been for Unicode to not do Han unification. The second best would be to provide alternate glyphs now. The third best is to display the characters either in the language they're written in, when you know that for sure (usually for text that you wrote yourself), or in the user's most likely locale, when you don't. For locale I would go down this list of traits and pick the first that matches:

1) The language setting on your website if you have one and have translated it to C/J/K. You may use different TLDs for the different languages and discern that way, too.

2) The list of preferred languages from the browser. This is usually unreliable, but if someone has gone to the trouble of inputting "english=1;japanese=.9;chinese=.8", then it's a fair bet they want Japanese Kanji usually and will be understanding if you use them in place of Chinese Han characters.

3) The country to which the user's IP belongs. The least ideal option, but if you're in Korea and reading a random string of Hanzi, you probably expect them to look like Hanzi.

You will show the wrong characters to some users, but the behaviour is understandable. "Oh, the site is showing me Korean characters because I'm in Korea." is a lot easier to grasp than "The site is showing me Chinese characters because I clicked a dropdown one time that I forgot about and now I have no idea why my name is written wrong!"

You can argue about point 2) that some users might set their language preferences and forget about it, but so far I have never observed a user who doesn't know about them messing with the setting.
R. Stanley Williams talks about the discovery of the Memristor [video]
In a democracy the only thing that matters is the mandate of the people.

I am certain after all the fake votes and drama that ultimately ended with storming of the capitol, I would perhaps place Indian democracy above that of the US.
> India is much more difficult to get to from Ukraine than Xinjiang is, but they have a very strong Indo-European presence

Could you elaborate? I was intriguged so I measured on google maps. Ukraine to Xinjiang is around 2500 miles. Ukraine to India is around 2400 miles. "strong Indo-European presence"? I would imagine it is easier to go south along the coasts to India than it is to cross the deserts to Xinjiang.
I bet he abuses her.
There is a simple "explanation" of wing lift, though: the wing pushes air down, it applies downward force on air masses. This is a trivial consequence of Newton's third rule and the facts that a) there's gravity, b) airplanes don't fall from the sky.

If you want to know what exactly is happening to the air around the wing you need fluid dynamics of course.

I don't know if we'll get any such "conservation of X" principle from the AI world, but that would be pretty cool.
Specifically > 500: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Oh god this is horror! :-D
> In the light of evidence that conflicts with your statement, why should we believe you?

Can you clarify what you mean? Which evidence?

>In particular, we know that fluid flows faster over the upper surface[0], so we know from Bernoulli that the pressure over the upper surface must be lower. That appears not to be included in, or covered by your statement, which suggests that your claim that "It is really that simple" is wrong.

These two perspective are in fact congruent. I decided to explain lift by reasoning about the circulation generated by the wings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation_(physics)). In this picture, the motion of the air in the wake of the wings has a net rotation (clockwise when the wind is coming from left to right) that generates an upwards resultant force on the wing. This is analogous to the pressure argument. I feel this perspective provides a clearer understanding. With the pressure argument, you have not explained why the air is faster over the top surface of the wing, you have just stated that it is.

As I stress, it really is a simple and well understood problem. Complexity with fluid dynamics arises from problems like turbulence, multi-phase flow and computational modelling.
Out of curiosity, what do you do when you put a quote in Chinese from a Chinese author inline in Japanese text? Are you expected to write it using the Chinese forms of the characters, or do you write them using the Japanese forms?

Edit: I mean what is the expected (grammatically correct) way to do it if you were writing with pen on paper.
it still puzzles me, who’s buying? how does microsoft turn my user statistics into cash?
This is an interesting idea and another rabbit hole to fall into. There are this uninteresting posts that never get any attention (no upvotes, no comments) and there are the popular posts that get a ton of upvotes and comments. That much is understood.

Occasionally, though, I have this post that gets a decent amount of upvotes but not a single comment. I never understood why. I post for the comments and not for the upvotes. It is very frustrating, especially since it is a miracle to me what distinguishes these posts from the popular ones.

Capping the points on these makes a lot of sense though. In the end they don't contribute much.
The weather patterns in the past couple of years have been very extreme across the entire southern cone of South America. Without that background information it's hard to really parse the link between weather and water levels. I do believe that is the basis for the comment.
Thanks for sharing this. From an outsiders perspective I always assumed it was a ying and yang relationship where the sum was superior to the parts and in balance. Sounds like that was fairly accurate.
Note that by "dice" they are referring to any probability distribution the natural numbers (including those of infinite support), not just 6 sided dice.
*for "dysfunctional" families.

It's not even blocking TikTok! :D
"So you want to do X" is a standard phrase which is used to introduce advice on how to do something, or why not to do it. See the poem "so you want to be a writer" by Charles Bukowski.
I am not clear about flagging, I don't want to get myself tagged because I flag-ed someone 3rd submission of his weekend Rust project, or those COVID conspiracies/magic cures, I could offend some free-speech extremist if I have the opinion that the HN is not the correct place for that.
Was there any general awareness in Germany the PG was blocked, and if so, did activism arise?

Or did PG block, and mainstream Germany not notice? Or did Germans just shrug and use proxies?

Personally I am a PG user but I’m not in Germany. And I’ve read several PG books. But I have also noticed that the download count for many of them is really really low, which is basically saying that PG doesn’t have a lot or actual users :(

Let’s fix this! Everyone reading this post should go download a nice book from PG and actually read it! ;)
Omotenashi: The subtle art of Japanese hospitality
It's adressed in the article

> However, we've made it a tradition every April 1 to launch a new consumer product that leverages our network to bring more speed, reliability, and security to every Internet user.
The message displayed when you try to access a blocked work https://block.pglaf.org/germany.shtml states:

The block applies to seven books by author Thomas Mann (until January 1, 2026) and five books by author Alfred Döblin (until January 1, 2028). No other Project Gutenberg eBooks, by any author, are blocked in Germany.

I can confirm that works by Heinrich Mann are accessible.
Experimental lyric RPGs are pushing the poetic power of roleplaying forward
Did you reply to the wrong comment?

This is a poem by Charles Bukowski, I don't know if it's the original use: https://poets.org/poem/so-you-want-be-writer
I'm not technically savvy, but I assumed my organisation retained all emails on the server even if I deleted them on my machine. I don't send anything by email that I wouldn't write on headed notepaper.