skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If dry weight is 85 tons, with ~11 tons of engines, that leaves 74 tons of scrap. At 15 cents a pound, that's worth $22k. Maybe more as souvenirs.

The flaps & actuators might be worth taking, but the top ones are inconveniently high up unless you tip it over. Probably the electronics is worth shipping home if it's easy enough to strip off.

I don't know why the thrust plate isn't titanium. A 30 ft diameter thrust plate would in any case be inconvenient to ship home, from most places.
This seems to be about autocomplete /github co-pilot rather than IDE's which is more of a plugin which I'm sure nearly every editor will get. I actually really like copilot, I've been using it for a while and it often ends up generating a lot of the code I need. It's not perfect, but definitely speeds things up a lot.
What’s the Alternative to Firefox?
We absolutely covered constitutional rights, covered civil rights, and several shitty parts of America's and the worlds history. I don't know how you could possibly believe that teachers just show up for coffee club and free money. Many people even most want to do a good job at whatever it is they are doing because they are intrinsically motivated. Those who choose education are doing a job that requires substantial investment in education and ultimately in working time to earn a modicum of money. In general people interested in those terms have a greater than average chance of being there because of giving a damn. Your analysis is shallow in the extreme.
> The problem with this filesystem is that it doesn't actually protect against power fails. Mostly you are OK, but not always.

Power failure is a tough problem in embedded file systems (aka--too small for Linux).

Effectively--you need to be "append-only with checksums at checkpoints".

Every one of those words is anathema to making your flash small and cheap.
Dr. Herbert Benson, Who Saw the Mind as Medicinal, Dies at 86
This brings back memories for me when I was travelling from Schiphol to Edinburg. It was very early morning winter and snowing heavily. There was a storm outside. About 10-15 mins before landing, the plane was hit by a lightning bolt! The plane shook, the lights dimmed, the oxygen masks were released and all the flight attendants rushed to their seats. It was like being in a Hollywood movie, except for real. After a minute or so things stabilised, you could see the relief of faces of all crew members. While walking out of the plane at Edinburgh, I heard one of the pilots ask the flight members "Did you see that? We were lucky!". The lightning had hit one of the wings of the plane and it was snowing heavily so it was even more difficult for the pilots to control the plane.
I think we need a few more dots between "my birth certificate is in the county courthouse" and "everything I do is tracked in real time" to make the connection.
I think the issue is that, as an adult we can (sorta, financial necessities might make this infeasible) always choose to remove ourselves from a situation. In school yall folks are stuck with each other - and some of the kids literally can walk all other the others.

Teaching bargaining will pay off dividends in these children's lives.
Most of my work life has been focused on Microsoft products, so I've been using Windows for a long time as my primary OS. I upgraded to Windows 11 as soon as I could and despite me creating a local account initially, I then linked it to a Microsoft Account which has caused me no end of pain. There have been lots of other niggly issues with Windows 11 that I've been living with, e.g. I prefer having my taskbar on the right-hand side of the screen but that feature went away with Windows 11; and the start menu search has been playing up recently where I couldn't just start typing after the menu coming up - although it seems to be better at the moment.

I switched my laptop over to PopOS a while back and have really been enjoying that, although I miss not having the Office desktop apps available. I also purchased a OneDrive sync app for Linux which works very well.
Basically the exact same thing in my household. But for their iPads I do have screen time to be off over night after I happened to find out if my kids woke up early (like 3/4am) they would just go hop on a device. I used to have all kinds of time limits but then I was having to always adjust for exceptions.
Back in the day everyone was concerned with the number of bit their gaming console had. The Nintendo 64 was the last to use bits as a primary marketing feature.
It's depressing to think that companies have normalized passing "mechanical turks" (exploiting workers from an impoverished country) as AI.
Who is the "tech community"? I was unaware of this, but it's not really relevant to my work as a software engineer.
The problem with this take is that what is alive today is not adapted to the atmospheric carbon levels of the Cretaceous. Biodiversity is a better measure of planet-wide health than the amount of free carbon, and we are about to witness mass extinction on a scale not seen since the dinosaurs disappeared. There will be a lot more carbon and a lot less of it in unique living things.

Besides, carbon is not the limiting factor for organic growth in most places (nitrogen and iron tend to be more scarce).
> Since he didn’t have suggestions to guide him, he read the docs and by simply perusing them, was aware of methods and other features that the IDE did not suggest.

This post reminded me of the story of Mel.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

So Mel, not only did not use IDEs, he did not use compilers, or even an assembler because they got in his way of deep knowledge of the instruction set of the computer as well as the performance characteristics of the hardware he was programming.

Because of that, he was able to achieve program efficiency in both space and time that others could only dream of.

The "real programmers" don't do X, trope has been going of since before most of the people of this forum were even born.

This is just another manifestation of this trope.
You do these tools for yourself and to scratch your own itch. As long as it fulfills its function, you get value. The fact that someone else may want to use it or the big vendor would like to adopt it should be secondary at best.

If you yourself don’t need such a tool and you also don’t want to do it as an exercise of the art, then don’t do it. Spend your time on something that’s gonna bring value to you instead.
Its the problem with these kinds of interviews, its basically filtering for one kind of candidate which is why all the big tech places lack diversity.
> a link to further literature

See above.
I think the best pattern for this is Change Data Capture (CDC). Checkout out something like Debezium.

In short, IIRC, it looks into the RDBMSs redo log, and turns it into a message stream. You can then stream this into some kind of messaging platform (Kakfa is typical) and then process the data any way you want. Log it, aggregate it, archive it, stick it in another database, or object store, etc...
> The solution was simple: Every month we take everything apart. Sort the pieces into boxes. And cleanup. Then, we start the new month inventing new things.

You're right, we should redistribute wealth!
I generally object to the use of the word "accident" for "car crash", but in this case, it seems particularly inapplicable.
You're not going to convince hardcore Office users (like me) that LibreOffice is good enough. I try it occasionally on my Linux laptop, and I have nothing good to say about it.
> For one thing, it makes it harder for me to understand when it will be necessary for new processors to use exotic materials.

If you have a need to understand this, shouldn't you be close enough to the field to discern marketing speak from the underlying technical details?
It's a fine idea. Too bad it always results in collapse or starvation and then collapse.
That, and a few other things that would prime them to a decision like that:

* This came after the "points" game. Deciding to be collectivist makes sense, after a game that's designed to result in obviously unfair distribution of ownership. These kids are probably used to these kinds of object lessons: it sounds like this is the program's preferred method of teaching.

* They still wanted to make one huge LEGO Town. Thus, they need to come up with a plan for resolving conflicts, and it can't just be "I own it."
It's easy to use a camera as evidence in, say, a robbery. The camera will show you actually committing the crime.

If you're speeding, something's measuring your speed based on camera images. The method used to determine speed is not described in detail, just "trust us, they were going the speed we say". It's not generally the city who is doing this, but a third-party private company which sometimes is paid per ticket issued.

You can face the city in court, and the city will just say "Our contractor says you did this." The contractor will say "we totally think you did this. No, we will not show you our proprietary software that says you did it." In my opinion, that last statement violates the rights of the accused.

There have been numerous cases in the last decade of red light and speed camera companies issuing hundreds of illegitimate tickets. The system is ripe for abuse, and gets abused all the times. Happy to pull up some examples of this if you're curious.
> But isn't this about the teachers intervening? How are kids to fight against the teachers?

The teachers intervened in the situation (essentially issued an injunction) while organizing a forum to mediate a solution.

Also, just to be clear, adults must be tyrants where children are concerned - you can't logically bargain with emotionally immature humans. Occasionally somebody is going to get sent to the car or a time out.
And for what it's worth, apparently he was in fact a scientist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Akeley

Everyone in that era including scientists killed too many animals imo. Glad he helped get a park going though!
The problem as I can see it is that the "solutions" don't really work either. Here's your options, in order of viability:

- AppImage. Basically the idea of "Apps" ripped straight out of MacOS and injected right into Linux. Works fine, but clutters your home directory with Another Folder and doesn't integrate with your desktop like a native package.

- Snap. Works on any system that can install snapd, is owned by Canonical (a pro or a con depending on who you ask), but also auto-updates and has occasional performance problems. Plus, snapd is generally kinda fussy.

- Flatpak. Sandboxing taken to it's (il)logical extremes. If you like random data loss, confusing package manifests, low-performance and generally broken software, this is the way to go. Of course, most people like it when their compositor doesn't break when installing third-party programs, so they avoid it like the plauge. It's a uniquely bad format, almost worth spinning up a Linux VM to try it for a laugh. Just make sure to use GNOME, it's useless anywhere else. That's the true hallmark of a cross-distro packaging solution!

So yeah, we're probably due in for Another Competing Standard. At this point though, I think most developers are contented to just ship an RPM and an Arch package and let everyone else figure stuff out for themselves. Honestly, I prefer that approach when compared to the blasted wasteland that is cross-distro package management.
NLP applications are increasingly built using fine-tuned pre-trained transformer models (such as those from the HuggingFace Library). These transformer models have been shown to lack robustness to input perturbations, such as errors (typos) or malicious inputs (adversarial attacks).

I created vcNLP using a Task-Model-TestType hierarchy that is different from other robustness testing approaches published in the research literature. The advantage of this hierarchy is that the NLP models and the various robustness tests are specific to each NLP task. Examples of NLP tasks include intent classification (for chatbots) or sentiment classification. For each task, there are fine-tuned transformer models specific to that task. The tests are targeted to each task-specific model.

Please visit http://vcrsoft.com for detailed documentation pertaining to the demo at http://vcnlp.vcrsoft.com. Note that the demo site doesn't actually run the tests in real-time. It shows canned test reports for each task and model. However, these reports have been obtained by running these models, and the resulting graphs provide insights into model robustness.

Your NLP model should be exposed through an API that supports an HTTP POST request. vcNLP will use this HTTP POST request to upload a text file with statements corresponding to various robustness tests. Your model will respond with a list object that contains the corresponding predictions. vcNLP will then provide robustness test reports such as those shown in the demo site.

Based on the reports provided by vcNLP, you can improve your NLP model by augmenting the training using additional examples that cover deficiencies identified by the tests. In other words, the test examples can themselves be used as additional training inputs to improve the model.

I look forward to your feedback.
For devops engineers and system administrators, yes.

For the rest of us, Nix is still missing friendlier face and a gentler learning curve.
If these companies think they can get away with unlicensed use, they will. It’s you going broke because of a lawsuit, not them even if they lose.
What are you missing out the most on Linux? For me, it's really just the Office apps, everything else I've found works just as well on Linux.
Nix is indeed a great idea. I do hope that idea’s time has come. But, oh, man, that config syntax. I’d love to see some alternative, human-friendlier interface; am thinking here of how Elixir really induced a significant pickup in usage of the BEAM owing largely to being perceived as friendlier to newcomers than Erlang.
So your point isn't that it's a good solution to any problem, but that it's ubiquitous. Unfortunately, I think you're right. Hopefully we solve that library-conference-room problem soon!
I'd be curious to see what exactly you object to about the "indoctrination", given that the actual process here (if you avoid panicking at the mere presence of words like "privilege" in the narration) amounted to good critical thinking lessons around topics like "what does it mean to own something" and "what does it mean to be powerful", then getting the children to talk to each other and work out what they all felt were fair rules about sharing use of the Legos.
You've said why you don't like it but not why it wouldn't work.
Well, we can't look forward to "Year Of The Linux Phone," because that's been around for a while now in the form of Android. Maybe "Year Of The Actual, Like, Real Linux Phone, Ugh, You Know What I Mean," though?
I immediately recognized this article. I was surprised that parts of this were considered good ideas:

SUPPORT STUDENTS TO RECLAIM THEIR MATHEMATICAL ANCESTRY
• Intentionally include mathematicians of color.
• Expose students to mathematicians of color, particularly women of color and queer mathematicians of color, both through historical examples and by inviting community guest speakers.
• Teach students of color about their mathematical legacy and ancestral connection and mastery of math.
• Honor and acknowledge the mathematical knowledge of students of color, even if it shows up unconventionally.
• Give rightful credit to the discovery of math concepts by mathematicians of color. Reclaim concepts attributed to white mathematicians that should be attributed to mathematicians of color.

Maybe I'm behind the times, but in pre-University math, there was zero discussion of actual mathematicians. Trigonometry, algebra, geometry -- these were concepts unattached to individual people or cultures. I strongly object to the notion that math should be personified in an effort to "dismantle white supremacy in math" (as this curriculum aims to do).

Would love to hear opinions. If the idea is to encourage non-White kids to go into or connect with math, especially in districts with a large non-White student population, then great. But if the idea is that math curriculums today somehow teach kids that straight white men are superior, that's a bizarre implication.
I really don't agree with this. I feel like we have to get pretty heavyweight in terms of data structure complexity before a GC is paying off enough that I'm glad I'm not in Rust productivity-wise.

That's across Java, Go, C#, Python. Maybe there's a GC language I should be using where all this feels easier, but if so I don't know what it is.
Let’s call them “Project Secretary”, that should tune them down a bit…
By their own text in what you linked:

> OSTree only supports only system-level images, and doesn't do dependency management.

I think that makes it....not really like Nix at all.

Dependency management is Nix's core functionality. Everything I would happily delegate to other layers.
This is mind boggling once you start to dig into it!! A lot of information from two reddit threads the last time I looked into this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/jwgdld/what_is_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ECE/comments/jxb806/how_big_are_tra...
It would be one change of train, in Copenhagen, to get from Malmö to Hamburg. The faster train used to go on the ferry, but it's diverted through Jutland while they're upgrading the tracks for this tunnel.

The new-ish night train runs direct from Malmö, but only in some months of the year. (A seats-only overnight train runs all year from Copenhagen. But that was not fun the one time I used it.)
have you ever worked with young children? the method you propose will lead to bullying and fights. there needs to be some moderation.
Very relevant point. They sure as hell don't make the "Olympic tier" pools at my gym anywhere near body temperature; I probably spent the first few minutes psyching myself up for the shock then another few minutes getting used to the temperature and recovering from that shock. I don't know for sure but based on my understanding, based on the size of the pool my body would expend energy at a tremendous rate even if I just grabbed the ladder rail and stayed still.
I think you have more faith in the government than I do. Just breaking that down:

> 1) «testify against this person, which did the crime, or state may found you guilty and seize your home and business»

This is really "testify against this person, who we say did the crime, or the state will seize your goods without charging you with a crime". Civil forfeiture doesn't require any kind of conviction against you, because they're technically charging your property.

> Unless you or/and accuser are criminals, the gap is huge. :-/

Civil forfeiture doesn't require anyone to be a criminal; innocent people have their stuff seized all the time. Also, it's incredibly easy to find something you can charge someone with to get them to cooperate. You ever not paid taxes on something you ordered on the internet? That's tax fraud, you're a criminal and have to cooperate. Ever gone more than 15 over the speed limit? That's a crime in many states, you're a criminal and have to cooperate.

Even if you know you're innocent of what they want to charge you with, your options are to either cooperate, or spend the next year or two in jail fighting your case while you spend tens or hundreds of thousands on lawyers.

Also, whether someone is a criminal or not is rather arbitrary when the state gets involved, because the state defines what a crime is, and thus who the criminals are. E.g. if I tried to compel someone to testify by threatening to steal their car, that makes me a criminal. If the state does it, it's not, because they've written the rules that way.
It is hilarious and horrifying that people will read a story about teaching kids the importance of sharing and decry it as a slippery slope towards mass genocide.
The US seems to believe that Kyiv is an imminent target: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-troops-told-to-exercise...
We’ll see.
"Purchased" being used here as a more fun term for a company hiring someone who was independent for a long time, for a large amount of money :)
Audit trails have several considerations. For example, you need to them to be immutable, ensure guaranteed delivery, and be able to support extended data retention (on the order of years).

Because audit trails record activity, I would generally recommend linking the audit trail to the API call site rather than the database, as you should include information such as the actor (who made the call/request) and context (e.g. what IP address and user agent the call came from). An additional good practice is to add the request and response of the API call being recorded. You should also redact any sensitive or PII fields.

If you're looking for a managed service that takes care of all of this, and delivering it to your customers for you, check out https://apptrail.com (Disclaimer: founder).
Does this support live updates as other users make edits (without refreshing the page)?
Are those not exceptions? How many of the unemployed young men have criminal records concerning sex offense or financial fraud?
Nothing at all - rewriting it for WebGL1 would be trivial (if you rely on OES_vertex_array_object being present). But really it was just me learning, and I naively assumed WebGL2.0 would be ready "any day now". The only non-supporting browser was Safari. That was 4+ years ago!
With synthetic data you can also generate the thing you are trying to solve with the AI in the first place, like generating a depth map, and an object classification map to go with a simulated image.

With real world data a human will have to label it.
How long does that coverage last?

Do you actively seek out infection with the disease every three months or is the period longer than that?
That's what they did; the current Alder Lake is on "7" (not 7nm, just 7).
I did read the article. Did you?

This wasn't one guided conversation - this was months of them. And the children were being recorded and their answers analyzed regularly.

Even if I accepted the diagnosis in the premise, I do not want to take their word about their own results.
> No, it's about using lego to teach teaching kids about capitalism and power structures.

There was nothing in there about teaching kids about capitalism. It was about exploring the kid's understanding of ownership and power, which are far more fundental concepts that predate capitalism by thousands of years.
It’s not caisson either. How about understanding the conversation and questions being asked before jumping in with dismissive (incorrect) answers?
Not sure what’s up with British Commonwealth countries but there is a definite split when it comes to individual rights.

Australia is creating a massive surveillance state, NZ won’t allow their own citizens into the country (2 years now!) and Canada pulls out a sledgehammer to deal with protestors on the front steps of its legislature.

Maybe Canada can adopt some of Singapore’s rules? Permits for any protest (even a one person protest), a “free speech square” where you can exercise your rights - all in the name of “stability and maintenance of harmony”.
If you're going to devise some marketing-speak, shouldn't you be able to do it in a way that doesn't just happen to be an actual lie?
Sometimes that means being beaten up for fun, or having your belongings stolen or destroyed, or being the victim of power games.

It's a great way to learn some deeply ingrained life lessons like "all of my peers are out to hurt me" and "I can't truly trust anyone who claims to be my friend".

Those are pretty difficult to root out and persist into adulthood.
Are you sure? When I talk about free markets, I usually get a strong net negative reaction here.
oh no we taught the kids to share and now they're starving and the classroom has collapsed
As long as he's protecting me from the other swords, tigers, bears, etc.