skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely agree.. And I don't think they needed to look very far to find flaws in that plane.. I probably shouldn't have been certified to start with. It's maybe not as bad as the MAX, but it ain't great either. Apparently they've made changes to the lightning strike protection systems in the wings, to decrease costs. And it's for the worse. Like removing insulation for lightning diffusers going straight through the fuel tanks. And let's not talk about the li-ion batteries..
What is this supposed to mean?

"Flights" is a bad metric if they don't define it. Whatever your age, gender, income, it doesn't change that it's meaningless.
This looks incredible, could see this approach revolutionizing so many industries.
You just told me more about what Accenture does than I got from poking around their content-free website when a HR person from there reached out to me unprompted. At the, I figured that if they claim to be in seemingly every industry, but can't articulate what they do, it wasn't worth replying.
No but you just gave me an idea. I could hide behind GPT-3 in the future and claim that any of my writing that upsets people was actually my AI and I should probably tweak it some more. No offense was intended.
Nice site. I'm actually in the process of building almost the exact same type of application, guess I'll have to find a new pet project.
Just change it to what you want.
Can't wait to see what we build!
There is no strong reason to assume (absent any actual statement) that the hand change has had any impact yet. It’s expected to take a while before musk is actually in charge. If any twitter leader announced new plans that aligned with his views, that’s be different.
It was a hop to a more generic/repetitive topic, which is generally to be avoided because the resulting discussions tend to be more shallow and less interesting. Doubly so when the hop is also in a more ideological or flamewar-prone direction.
This is somewhat how it works for chemicals in food and medicine in the EU. Through not exactly.
If they try to print more Bitcoin by changing the software that does NOT automatically mean that the majority of Bitcoin users will install and run that modified software.

The non-"print more money" version will reject its blocks.

So even if they throw 90% of hashpower at it then it will not be the consensus because nobody uses a version of Bitcoin which accepts the blocks it mines.
How can Canada interfere with labor laws in the US?

If, as a French, I hire a German citizen on a French contact, they will be under French law only.

If I hire them under a German contact then obviously Germans law apply.
As long as there is mass media the collective's voice is usually drowned out by the companies interests anyhow. Advertising is too effective to sway public opinion on any topic and just throwing more money works too well. Grassroots efforts are stomped before they are allowed to take flight, unfortunately. There is too much intertia to meaningfully change the status quo in a lot of ways. This is why its better to derive your happiness from other things than the state of the world.
I think that's a bad analogy that can't outweigh a study (which naturally has its own flaws and isn't proving a rule of physics, but nevertheless...)
Yes, it absolutely will. Here's a story about this:

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/os-bz-disne...
This.

It's a bit like Rust's borrow checker. Not everyone needs it, but an ecosystem where it's the default for building anything has a competitive advantage at large.

Web3 uses public key cryptography by default, which is a tremendous advantage over ecosystems that need to add it later.

In times of "fake news", this alone could be a killer feature, even without the money.
Yep. Unfortunately it is still an extremely important use case and users won’t likely choose something that doesn’t address one of their use cases unless it’s very, very compelling in other ways — e.g. Instagram.
It depends on which PoS algorithm you look at, but some of them are generally considered to be as "decentralized" as PoW in terms of the security properties they give to their network under adversarial conditions.
So how is Chilean eBay then? And who's to say I'm going to have a consistent postal address during my time there? Or that the postal/parcel system is reliable? Or that the package will even arrive in time?

And, ironically, generic parts for an Acer notebook may in fact be more available in less-developed economies, due to their relative cheapness and increased reliance on industry standard parts like hard drives and memory. Plus, in my anecdotal experience, there are a lot more people around who are able to do repairs in places where "making do" is a fact of life.
They also still use leaded fuel. As an industry they move very, very slowly.
Physical entropy is defined from the probability distribution over states. Velocities or squared-velocities are not states, they are derived quantities. Points in a phase space would describe states. Physical states are discrete anyway when you consider quantum physics :-)

As for the entropy of probability distributions in general, I think relative entropy is invariant under reparametrizations because both the probability of interest and the reference probability transform in the same way [1]. But I don't remember what does it mean exactly. [And I am not sure if that makes ogogmad wrong, I may not have understood well his comment.]

([Edit: forget this aside. You probably were talking about speeds as positive magnitudes.] By the way using an example analogue to yours discrete entropy wouldn't be invariant either: if you have a distribution {-1,1} and square it it collapses to a zero-entropy singleton {1}.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback–Leibler_divergence#Pr...
From that Twitter thread it doesn't sound like they were outright blocked, right?

It seems to say a permission check was added for those users, so they had to accepted as followers by people on Mastodon.social before they could interact with them or view their posts.

That's a divisive thing to do, but it doesn't seem the same as a full disconnection - if there's anybody you know on the other server who wants to talk to you, or if there's anybody you were already happily following & talking to there then everything continues working just fine.

It's just that when you try to follow new people then they get a prompt to decide if they want to let you do that first, effectively making their profiles default-private. I don't know anything about the specific objections at the time so I can't comment, but in general that seems like a fairly sensible way to deal with bad actors.
I used to share that sentiment myself, until I (finally) picked up an instrument two years ago.

It turns out, you don't get very far learning to play music without also incidentally gaining an intuitive understanding of how most songs are constructed.

For example, most modern music is based on about three or four main chords put together in a certain sequence and then repeated throughout the song. If you know song well enough to hum it, and can figure out (or look up) what those chords are, then you are 80% of the way toward being able to _play_ the song because the melody is (mostly) made of up the notes within those chords.
> Certainly there are still some people who are wealthy enough to keep their vacation homes vacant most of the time (and prefer it that way, since doing short-term rentals tends to involve quite a bit of wear-and-tear on a house and its furnishings). But many list on Airbnb now. I consider this a net positive for society.

why? Do you think the average person is renting out vacation homes for extended stays?

Yes, having cool places to stay is fun but there are better ways to accomplish that then rich people renting out their 2-nth homes.
It is a bit weird, Go had a single use-case - highly portable network servers for Google scale infra - yet people are using for stuff nothing like that (e.g. Docker).

Yes it's sort of like a "safer" C - yet how can an alternative to C not even be able to link with C libraries (easily)?

Yes it has lightweight threads in a fast compiled language, and if that kind of scalability is important to you, then Go might be interesting, but it's a narrow use case.
Even though I play multiple instruments I have pretty actively avoided even encouraging my kids to play a musical instrument I always felt like the more I pushed them into the less fun it would be for them. Honestly I probably would have gained a high level of resentment around music if my parents forced it on me.
"This video is not available on this instance. Do you want to be redirected on the origin instance: https://video.hardlimit.com..."
Exactly, and cars aren't that hacker friendly. Underneath the design isn't that bad, can-bus makes sense, most modern cars have a good sort of internal network. But there is zero documentation to allow anything aftermarket to plug in later or software to be upgraded past what the manufacturer provides.

And car manufacturers are still very much in a mindset that you make a certain model-year, release it, and then forget about it while you work on the next ones. No upgrade path on software whatsoever.
The one thing that drives me up the wall is being on a beach, or on a hike, and somebody brings out a drone. The whine of the rotors carries much farther than people would like to admit. The ambient screech makes a beautiful natural landscape feel like an anxious techno nightmare.

Now make them cheap, connect it to social media, and target them at teens.

Let's hope these don't take off (pun intended). At least they can only run for a few minutes per battery charge.
Thank you for this! Based on their quick video, I wasn’t quite sure of the control scheme. Four basic modes with a little bit of extra control seems ideal for this kind of product.
> it's really not a hard problem to ensure that time-critical runtime deallocations either rarely happen or are simply never huge chains of objects that release each other.

Sure, but now you're essentially in the same business as someone using a GC finds themselves where they are tuning the GC, using object pools, etc.

> There's no actual reason that the full deallocation needs to happen immediately in all reference counting implementations. If you have hard time or latency constraints you could queue up the actual dereferencing and ensure that you only dereference a certain number of objects per time period.

Yup, that's a common optimization. But now you have given up the property that destruction happens immediately and deterministically.

My overall point is that the benefits of ref counting are not without cost. There are trade-offs and as you make different ones to improve performance or latency, you quickly discover that your ref counting system starts to take on shades of tracing GC with both the benefits and downsides that that entails.
Before rust started being used in crypto, rust salaries weren't great - probably targeting people happy to get less money to use their favourite language
I lived by a popular park in SF and started getting annoyed by them, especially since it felt privacy invading because there was nowhere else that could look into my 3rd story window.

Don't think it should be banned or anything though.
There's a "I drank your milkshake" situation with this. Find the area with people willing to sell out, and build there.
But what about long Covid?
You can work with the later by proper ventilating, even in many hobby setups.

Dealing with lead safely is much harder, and in a hobby setup can be assumed to be infeasible to be done correctly for nearly all people
Well, it's complex and YMMV but our experience is that when people take swipes at each other or each other's points/side/identifications, discussion goes downhill fast.

Calling things stupid may improve your experience (or feel like it does) but I don't think it improves the threads overall, which is what we're trying to optimize for.
You can just use an engine specially built for that

https://gemrb.org/Features.html
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The large costs and paper work involved in buying a house are a product of:

* getting a mortgage

* getting the mortgage provide funds for and title company to create the escrow

* a few other random bits?

If you say no escrow, all cash, you can generally walk into the title company with a [bank] check. If you want escrow you have two checks some amount of time apart.

A lot of the costs are realtor fees, I like to imagine those are avoidable, but I do not know how (as an industry they do a lot to make things opaque)
A lot of people use it as a safety device so they don’t get hit by a car that “didn’t see them”
The default flight is 30 seconds.
Sure! I connected them with a usb adapter with external power source. The power source of the Raspberry Pi alone is not enough to run four disks at the same time (at least not for me). For the hard drives I bought a couple of 2.5" disks that I connected to the usb adapter together with my Raspberry Pi. The board runs Debian, and I've setup a RAID 5 system. Then, each of the logical volumes are encrypted with (as?) LUKS. Quite some fun to setup the system, but don't expect any miracles. During a good day I get a read and write speed of roughly 30 mb/s over the home network. Enough for me as a backup system for home usage.
Hearsay, but I've read in the past that these were tailored specifically to the display, so difficult to actually collaborate since each display is a little different.
Firefox 99 on Windows slows down but eventually gets to the next page. Except for a quick interstitial image of a current time, the next page is here if you want to pick up the story: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1
Theodolite is an awesome app (that I hardly ever need to use).

This guy def knows his math (and working with Apple apps).
Yes. This first happened to me in 2008, when Bank of America sold my auto loan. I was sending payments to Citizens thereafter.
> Do you think the average person is renting out vacation homes for extended stays?

Why do the stays have to be extended? I consider simply making more nice real estate in desirable locations accessible to more people a good thing. Doesn't matter if it's for a long weekend or several months.

> Yes, having cool places to stay is fun but there are better ways to accomplish that then rich people renting out their 2-nth homes.

Such as? Hotels are the primary existing option, and they're fine, but not always what I'm looking for (especially if I want to cook; hotel rooms with full kitchens are rare and expensive). Hostels are meh; I'm not a broke college student anymore. Actual bed and breakfasts are nice, but aren't for everyone. If I want to stay in something that feels like an actual home for a short duration, is there a better way than something like Airbnb?

To be clear, I agree with the top-level poster's bit about us not needing people hoarding homes just so they can rent them out as Airbnbs. That's exclusionary, (literally) rent-seeking behavior. But is there no middle ground where people like that don't get to satisfy their greed, but we still get to have nice things?
Specs are a three-edged sword: the spec, the intent, and the implementation.

And "The user is wrong even though they did exactly what was in the spec" is pretty much the rule, not the exception.
Got it, didn’t know that!
Their target market measures the value of this thing in number of Snapchat Stories it can create so really the flights does make more sense. Their target market isn't going to want to divide 3 minutes by 20 seconds.
I would be surprised if "millions" actually handle their keys themselves.

None of the crypto 'investors' I know personally do that, instead just use a trading platform, functionally identical to any traditional trading platform.
Engineering is the art of compromise.

The compromises I make to work in Go are easily paid off in what Go allows me to do and for the amount of effort it requires. Language wars are silly.
They're not yet updated to use the new open-source version.
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Well, it wouldn't be any fun if I told you that.

So, I'll let the engineers tell you: https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/46229/CL%2317...

COTS components abound!

In short:

"[The Snapdragon] processor implements visual navigation via a velocity estimate derived from
features tracked in the VGA camera, filter propagation for use in flight control, data management, command processing,
telemetry generation, and radio communication.
The SnapdragonTM processor is connected to two flight-control (FC) Microcontroller Units (MCU) via a Universal
Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART). These MCU processor units operate redundantly, receiving and processing
identical sensor data to perform the flight-control functions necessary to keep the vehicle flying in the air."

They also use Zigbee radios to communicate with the rover.
> enabling things in a way that they are otherwise unlikely to be enabled

Why were these things unlikely to be enabled in the first place? Maybe it wasn't worth the hassle (even though it is free)? Maybe people couldn't agree on one solution (even though there are a 1000 blockchains with their mutually incompatible systems)?

Or more cynically, maybe no one needed "worse SSO" in the first place and this is just attempt #245 to find a problem for our favourite solution.
Complete agreement—soup-to-nuts delivery of software for a particular ecosystem (Apple in this case) is definitely an "it" I can imagine companies hiring for.
The examples you mentioned are not purely digital since they rely heavily on the legal system. You don't consider tokens abstracted from the whole physical world.

I meant that nothing is fully embedded within a blockchain (maybe physical was the wrong word).
UE = Union Europea, or Unione Europea, or Union Européenne, or União Europeia i.e. European Union using the Romance language acronym

RoHS = Restriction of Hazardous Substances, a directive that restricts the materials that can be used in electronic devices, forbidding manufacturers from using many known toxic materials. Initially adopted in the EU but then globally due to the necessity of exporting to the EU.
if the cookies serve a technical purpose (and not a PII-tracking purpose), they don't have to ask.
My assumption is that the engine was built with a narrow goal of compatibility and execution of classic titles, with some modability/customizability of those. I'd be surprised if it's a good choice for net-new endevours.
"Nano-texture" is different from matte - matte LCDs don't have reflective glare, but they also have much lower contrast and you can see the grain if you look closely. Nanotexture doesn't have those issues, but it's expensive.
Turns out Musk's dad gave an interview and confirmed the emerald mine: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-abou...

Key quote:

'We had so much money we couldn't even close our safe'

So, as soon as somebody cites a fact that is confirmed by an authoritative source that can be googled pretty trivially, you cease to take them seriously. Honestly, this is par for the course with Musk fans and it baffles me.

As for Musk himself, um, I'll continue to go with "rich kid gets richer due to quantitative easing, some supposed business sense albeit not much actual evidence for it, and state subsidies for most of his businesses".

It is also probably worth calling this part out too: an interview with Elon Musk is not "balanced coverage" of Elon Musk.
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At the rate of about one epidemic every hundred years or so, time and money would be better spent coming up with solutions for the environment.

Cement with less of a CO2 footprint would be one example.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844
Hey, can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? You've done it repeatedly and we eventually ban such accounts—it's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please no! Drones are a public nuisance; I would really prefer for them to be banned from all public outdoor areas.
Don't get me wrong, the decentralization is important. I'd rather the network infrastructure of an expansive, public, general purpose computing network be decentralized. But to be useful in the first place you need important, interoperable applications running on it.
> That almost certainly isnt the case at first

Agreed, at first the monthly cost of ownership is likely higher than rent. But my quoted comment was about retirement age, which is at the tail end, not at first.

It doesn't take long for rent to catch up and from there on rent will forever go up while the mortgage will either stay fixed or only go down via refinances. Even if refinancing doesn't work (in a rising rate market like right now) the mortgage is effectively going down via inflation while rents keep up with inflation.

In my case the first year of ownership was fairly painful as the cost was much higher than previous rent (although for a nicer place). By the second year was able to refinance so it wasn't bad anymore. By the third year, with rents rising, my mortgage was already about par with local rents.

Ever since then, rents have gone up massively (about 4x-5x) and my mortgage has only gone down (today about 30% of the inital monthly payment in absolute dollars, or effectively only about 15% considering inflation).

Most importantly, it will be paid off before I retire so once I'm on a limited fixed income that's one monthly cost I won't have to worry about. Having seen some forever-renter extended family reach retirement age with rising rents, it's a sad and painful situation.

My advice to anyone is that unless you hate your future self, buy a house in your 30s if at all possible.
When Snap moved into hardware I had high hopes but by this point had written them off.

Think this is a great step in the right direction and seems completely obvious once you see it.
Umm, not quite.

H = 1

C = 12 (6 protons, 6 neutrons)

O = 16 (8 protons, 8 neutrons)

H2O = 18

O2 = 32

CO2 = 44

Also, the connection between atmosphere retention and gravity isn't quite so direct. If you positioned a molecule of H2O (or even H2) directly above the surface of the moon with no net velocity, it will fall to the ground. However, once it hit the ground, it would thermalize with the surface and could be ejected in any direction at a range of speeds (or react with the surface and never leave).

The simple/approximate method to compute the stability of the atmosphere is to compute the escape velocity for the body and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of speeds for the gas (which does not depend on gravity). You then integrate the probability distribution P(v) (probability of velocity v) for speeds greater than the escape velocity to infinity. This might result in a case where all gases eventually make their way away from the body, but heavier gases simply take longer.
Totally unrelated but I feel like everyone smokes weed on the beach now. I’m not a prude, I don’t care, I just don’t want to smell it and have my kids ask about it all the time.
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