skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is an irrelevant metric, like battery life, when doing scientific computation.
This is definitely a big thing! Having a group of musical friends to play with is a lot of fun, really helps keep them interested, and is the only way to learn how to play music with people. I wish I/my parents put a little more effort into that, because there's a lot of musical "soft skills" that I'd like to be better at. For better or worse, the Irish Trad scene (outside of Ireland at least) is quite focused on drinking beer and playing tunes in pubs late into the night; so that was off limits to me at the time...
No, when I say e-ink I mean e-ink. I want a display that looks like a printed page, lit by reflecting whatever ambient lighting is around. Like the displays shown in the page this post is about except with a better refresh rate and better dot density. Maybe with a front light for working in the dark. I would love to stop staring into a big light panel all day long when I work. Replacing a bunch of complex filters over a big white light with a bunch of tiny lights is still staring into a light panel.
It's not still relevant because a baby and a dog are not equivalent. A baby has rights a dog doesn't. A baby might disturb people, so might an adult, but both are humans and you have to take the risk of being disturbed by humans because society is made of humans. Society is not made of or for dogs. Dogs are optional.

The OP was not talking about small pets, which are already allowed. They're talking about buying a separate seat for a large dog. It is utterly insane to expect anyone to spend a cross-country flight with an 80lb Labrador next to them slobbering all over them.
When I used to fly with my dog (~10lbs so they were allowed in the cabin) I had to pay $200 for them which is fine. But then it turns out that the dog also counted toward my carry-on! WTF!? I mean either charge me or have it count toward my carry-on, but both??
I’m curious about the following: Suppose you have an actor that is tasked to perform a long-running operation (enacted by a specific message sent to the actor). Now suppose you want to know how far the actor has already progressed with the operation, or possibly you want to pause or stop/abort the operation – basically a monitoring and controlling interface. Would that be out of scope for the actor model? Polling the progress or gracefully stopping the operation would seem to require some asynchronous responsiveness from the actor. Is that something that is commonly supported by actor frameworks? If so, how does that work? Is that a gray area where the concrete actor implementation has to deal with concurrency after all, e.g. special callback routines that will be invoked concurrently to the main operation?
Is this what DirectStorage does?
Canada doesn't allow protests anymore either. These kind of rules show how thin the veil of freedom actually was, basically the ruling class pretends to let people have freedom as long as they don't annoy anybody. There needs to be a lot more global action against our descent into authoritarianism. It will happen in the US too. Britain and it's colonies are just an easy place for a trial run.
Ultra-small water power generator
The Mini SE is readily available for $299 and I don't think even the Snap demographic is going to find that a camera with no gimbal is acceptable for the application.

I'm not predicting whether it will sell or not, I'm bad at that, but it's just not a lot of drone for the price.
Sometimes it's easier to use a shortcut:

> Cunningham is credited with the idea: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."[15]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Law
If the only thing driving your GDP is new people (and mostly immigration) you don't have a very productive economy. I think this has been the case in a lot of places for a long time, but that statistic just has to go up by the tiniest of amounts and we technically don't have recession and our leaders are doing great, right? It's a huge and disastrous example of Goodhart's Law in action.
I need something like this as I'm going to be moving internationally in a few months and got a pet to bring along but goddamn this site is janky

The flight date goes anywhere from 2021 to 2022 the call to action on mobile goes to a unreachable Dev site with a sketchy wedding/rsvp URL and there's absolutely no useful information about coverage

Also, pawsenger
> According to Passmark, the 5950X is beating Intel's 12900X.

As a 5950X owner I thought this sounded off. Looking at the link it made a lot more sense, it only beats the 12900K in multi-core but in single core it is significantly behind. Really it's behind for the first 8 cores, until the Intel CPU starts using efficiency cores. Compared to the M1 Ultra the 5950X is behind in both metrics at nearly double the power consumption.

Not that the 5950X is a bad CPU, particularly if you need x86 support, it's just not really the topper it used to be against these 1 year newer chips. It'll be interesting if all 3 (AMD, Apple, and Intel) manage to get the next major iterations out by the end of the year and we get a fresh comparison on more even ground.
> But if you just want to churn out code quickly, Python is probably not the best language.

This person (bot??) has never used Python.
Fair points! That said, I think I'd personally pay a small premium to sit next to someone's (well behaved) dog lol
As a long time Ubuntu user that's not anymore, I'd suggest you find an alternative distro. I understand adding things to your OS, but if you are at the point you are removing things by default, that's usually an indication it's not the best distro for you. RHEL family is a pretty good choice. Also Manjaro.

Edit: Another poster suggested PopOS - that's probably a less radical change.
This is all about Jeff’s feud with Elon right?
The people who have to deal with your software when it's bad are more than willing to talk to you. However, if you make it super hard or ignore them when it's not flattering or doesn't match up with your plan.. you get what you deserve.
I had this idea on how to stop prior art being patented. Require the patenting entity put some money in escrow for say one year and if anyone in the public supplies prior art to invalidate that patent, they get the money as a reward.
You can modify your car anyway you want and it won’t void the warranty for unaffected parts, but the bumper warranty would be void and that’s like $2000 from the quote a colleague got from Tesla for a replacement bumper and paint.
I’ve removed snap and had absolutely no issues. My Ubuntu install now upgrades software in the same way as before snap became the default install method. This script seems comprehensive https://github.com/grobo021/snap-nuke
FWIW I’ve had success just DMing tons of people on Discord. Asking people as a group might be tough.
There's so much white noise outdoors that removing the dominant harmonics that make drones, well, drone,† would make a huge difference in the palatability of being around them.

†The noise quadcopters make has nothing to do with why they're called drones, but is the perfect description nonetheless for the noise they emit
You sound like a slightly older version of me. And then I read your profile and you work in precisely the same field. I honestly feel that robotics is one of the few domains in which this kind of play can yield a sustaining and continually interesting career. I'm currently building an autonomous wheelchair for about half my usual rates just because it sounded fun. :-)
Horses on a plane. Sounds like a sequel.

https://blog.privatefly.com/air-horse-one-a-private-jet-for-...
I posted this recently

https://greggman.github.io/rockfall/

It's a kind of clone of the early 80s game, "Boulderdash". My friend, John Alvarado, wrote the original clone in Action! on the Atari 800 in the early 80s when we were in high school.

Because the core code is pretty small I've ported it multiple times (PC, Gameboy, some 2004 java based feature phone)

So recently I ported it to JavaScript and I found it fun to play for a while. I added level import via Tiled, and made a few levels.

So far its more playable on laptops/desktops with keyboard or joypad. I'm not sure if it can be made playable on mobile as it requires relatively precise movements so it's much more difficult with touch controls but it can still be a fun challenge on mobile
ABA and SBA Letter to the Senate Support Safe Banking in America Competes Act [pdf]
Its pretty easy, just pick an instance of mastodon to make an account on and off you go
A replacement bumper from Tesla is upwards of $2000 and would be considered felony theft.
> Those who have pushed this type of behavior will quickly fold when forced to go toe-to-toe in actual conflict.

“toe-to-toe in actual combat”? WTF does this refer to? Rolling up on Twitter HQ in F150s with pintle-mounted machine guns?

I mean, I think—irrespective of whether the particular policy is “passive-aggressive” or not—most people involved in deciding content policies are, yes, not particularly interested in defending them “toe-to-toe in actual combat”. I am not sure why you think that's surprising; if someone offered to escalate a dispute about my coding decisions to actual combat, I’d choose not to engage if practical, too.
To Cull, or Not to Cull, Bat Is the Question
> The biggest lie we tell ourselves is “I dont need to write this down because I will remember it.”

I bookmarked the page and yet I will have forgotten about it tomorrow.
I wasn't prepared for such harsh truth today.
And these are totally edible! I've popped a bunch in my mouth.
In your absurd hypothetical, how could MegaCompetitor block further use without a lawsuit (which could result in an injunction)?

You are now advocating for only MegaCorps to own patents. Pretty wild to see HN users say that startups should not be allowed to compete with incumbents.
> The language is complicated

Not that it isn't complicated, but how much experience have you had with Ruby before trying Crystal?
There are some studies I believe that show even attractive african american women can have trouble with low click through / match / rating on dating sites.

So if the model was trained on who folks wanted to date (as a measure of attractiveness) the model could still be somewhat accurate, even though not accurately measuring attractiveness.

How would models work on rating who would be a good NBA player / runner etc. I wonder if just being white would get me downrated.
aren't we already post scarcity? it's more of an distribution issue at this point I think
I'm a java guy mostly, so I might be biased, but in that language, the vast majority of overengineered, arcane and plain "black magic" code was involving reflection - whereas I almost never had a problem with generics.

So I'm surprised that Go considers generics more harmful than reflection.
Why not hardcode the js into the php file?
How could a new computer be so different that it can’t be shown? Aren’t the results plain text? This makes no sense
One of the things I love most about the fediverse/mastodon is that most of the tech people who I think are jerks think it is a failure and don't bother to join. The resulting tech community is way more progressive and kind than most tech communities.
I mean no offense, but this is insane. I have a cat that I love like it's my child, so I sympathize with where you're coming from, but come on. You're basically saying that people with legitimate medical conditions caused by your pet's presence should just suck it up because at least they aren't going to die. All so you can travel with your pet. Talk about a lack of empathy...
> That's nice. State schools now cost a minimum of $10,000 in state tuition per year excluding room and board. That's the cheapest you can get. Out of state tuition is $16,000-$20,000. It's not that cheap anymore.

People under-estimate the total cost of school: housing is going to be the biggest expense in CA.

It's insane to think that only a few decades prior, the CSU/UC system was almost entirely covered with pell-grants and student aid if you were from CA, a UC you could cover with just a PT job, or working FT in the Summer.

Now it's entirely impossible to walk out without high 5 to low 6 digits worth of debt even if you live with your parents.

We took the envy of the University system in the US and turned it over to the administrative cronies that came from banks and hedge-funds who monetized it 20 ways from Sunday in order to bleed the students dry and wasted it on bloarted salaries form themselves and more needless things to attract foreign money into the the campuses while gutting the academic programs where ever possible--we used such crappy lab equipment in most of my undergrad it was astonishing where all the money went in student and lab fees.

I went to several CSUs, as well as did summer school or took extra elective at Community colleges to expedite my graduation date and to make up for a lost semester due to a severe car accident, and the level of BS I went through only to see how these leeches operated still makes my blood boil.

I was in an impacted major, Biology, in one of the major 'party schools' in the CSU system and these bastards prioritized admission into the department based on out of state and non-US based tuition rates.

They didn't even hide it, either: they only offered a class you needed to graduate once a year and instead of opening up the section for more students they capped it unless you were from out-of state or out of US and could ten petetion for it based on an 'urgency' basis.

I'm glad they went to Zoom school model, because it shows just how unnecessary 99% of the expenses are and we're re-thinking how we actually educate and accredit degrees.

I got into a well-known University in Europe with a strong AI and ML CompSci program after having founded a fintech startup and my work experience working for a megacorp.

And to be honest, I now realize that my actual worth was way higher even back then (an honors student with letters of recommendation) but I put up with a lot of it because of the 2008 financial crisis that hit me/my family really hard economically as well as the CSUs particularly bad (they cut the budgets hard) and made us all scramble for the doors in order to graduate and try to get into the horrible job market for the few jobs left over.

In short, I will laugh on the grave of traditional academia, which cannot come soon enough.
Gotcha… they should play that up “has almost all the same issues as doing it yourself” or something.
When things like this happen it is a wake-up call to diversify which companies you patronize. But the sheer scale of some like Amazon makes that difficult. For instance, if you buy groceries from Amazon-owned Whole Foods, to order for pickup or delivery, you need to do so through your Amazon account. So if something happens to that account, you would have to scramble and find a new solution for a basic necessity like groceries. Back in the days of the corner store merchant, they weren't going to just ban you arbitrarily from the store. And if even they did, you could just go to the next corner. What we're dealing with today is a much different reality.
Can you TL;DR the reason that snap is so terrible? I'm a casual Ubuntu user and never really had any issue with it (that I know of). The disdain for snap is fairly pervasive here on HN, so I'm genuinely curious.
The downwards camera for stabilization and landing is a cool idea. Did they come up with that, or has that been done before?
> not paid RPI or Leigh Rothschild for this settlement

That statement still leaves a lot of people that they could have paid for that settlement (or paid RPI/Leigh for a different settlement).
Well you are in luck because neither of the types of patents you cited can be patented at all.
WGU is awesome. They have excellent support and follow up. And very few real crap classes.
Interesting to read this, as I have some experience sailing - and that sometimes involves people changing control of the tiller/wheel. The procedure that was drilled into my head at an early stage was this:

A: B, take the helm
B: I have the helm

or for tacking:

Skipper: Prepare to tack
Crew: Ready to tack
Skipper: Helm's a lee
Skipper tacks, crew does their stuff

If you don't get a response at any point don't continue. Communicate.
Somehow the car park and road alongside the beach arent a problem
Though??
Height as well. We instinctively think tall people make better leaders.
The scaling curve is different from the other cpus which implies the performance bottleneck is not in matrix multiplication (which would be nearly linear on the older cpus because it is embarrassingly parallel).
Large firms can actually be very efficient in select cases. So public control of them should only extend to genuine antitrust concerns, and then mostly by vertically separating any of the inherently monopolistic and non-contestable "platform" components from the remaining firm, that can remain lightly regulated being inherently open to prospective competition from lower-cost entrants.
That's pretty interesting. I haven't worked with Elixir in many years, I'll take a look.
Now I'm mildly curious how viable this would be.
Exactly, that’s why I posted it.
I agree with you on that slide, but now that we have the full source, here's a random file from it:

https://github.com/ganelson/inform/blob/master/inform7/imper...

This comment style seems pretty reasonable and informative.
Saying nothing in so many words.

> “If a CPU doesn't run the OS and software I need to run, it might as well be a GPU or …”

> So this entire thread is kind of pointless with regard to many real-world use cases.

Does this kind of reasoning apply to everything that doesn’t suit your unique personal needs?

Personally I think this is an interesting thread, but I don’t use the qualifier of “is it useful to me” to determine whether something is interesting.
Company Now Owns Enough Single-Family Homes to House the Country of Iceland
Performance per watt is a pretty big metric.

Personally the fact they didn’t produce Linux drivers for these things is baffling. It would just make more people buy them. So what if they don’t run macOS? I would buy a M1 air tomorrow if they published Linux drivers for the full stack.
Years ago, removed the filter for searching only for items shipped and sold by Amazon, and the only reason I can think of is because they would rather sell other retailers stuff because they earn a bigger profit margin from platform fees than directly selling to the consumer.
I’ve been a hiring manager in England for around 10 years and I can’t recall a single CV with a photo. I don’t know where these CVs were coming from that you received but it’s definitely not standard practice to send a CV with a photo here.
> online payments is still not a fully solved problem

It's solved, they just don't care about you. Amazon is the most consumer hostile company (other than possibly uber) in recent memory. I've given up on them too for their nonstop attempts to screw me with dark patterns. They actually have an awesome distribution system, but instead of using it to their advantage, they'd rather spend their time scamming people. Just buy your stuff elsewhere and move on.
> The best way to get a correct answer on the internet is to post an obviously wrong answer and wait for someone to correct you.

If HN ever needs a new motto!
https://joinmastodon.org/covenant :/ (read between the lines)
Squirts is quite excellent.
God these fuckers are shady. They already boned us on the per user billing.
> I was expecting it to be a few extra keystrokes around my types, but I still ended up having to deal with the borrow checker when I would put something into an Rc or take it out to pass into some other function.

I'd be interested to hear where you experienced difficulty, specifically. `Rc<T>` is `Deref<T>`, so you should never have any problems calling borrowing APIs. Owning APIs require an explicit borrow-and-clone, but that's just two calls (`as_ref().clone()`).
> Do you actually care about power consumption in a desktop computer under very heavy workload?

yes, many people do, especially since that becomes heat in your room.

> By the way, the M1 Ultra has a 370W power supply, so really the question is do you really care about the difference between 300 and 400 watts in this use case?

Complete non-sequitur, you could put a 1.5kw power supply on an R7 5700G or an i3, that doesn't mean it pulls 1.5kw.

you also should be able to express this without using the flamebait style, that is not appropriate or welcomed on this site. Instead of "by the way...." you can simply say "the M1 Ultra pulls 370W so ...." (or you could, if that were true).
Well, they no doubt counted it as profit before, so it’s only fitting.
I went to college with David, and I remember him showing people drafts of Lugaru in at the student computer club. He was very nice, but also very quiet, and despite being in several CS classes together (there were only ~20 CS majors our year) I never got much of a sense for him.
Only in a certain sense. You can only turn the voltage so high before things melt, and you can only turn the clocks so high until you crash, and then that's basically it, you can't go any faster.

The perfect core could be dialed from fanless to water cooling with linear performance, but it doesn't quite exist today. Intel chips have top end, Apple chips have low end, but an i7 fed 3W isn't going to perform and an M1 can't take any more voltage.

The tension is figuring out how to build very large structures to perform useful work with gobs of power, yet still scale down to low power budgets. Imagine a core that can dynamically morph from P core to E core & back on the fly.
It's a purely mechanical linkage. I've been trying to read the patent (US 5782436A). The USPTO has a new single-page web app. It's awful for finding by patent number, and worse when you want a full screen image of a drawing. It's clear that if one yoke is jammed and the other is moved with enough force, a spring loaded pin is forced out of a notch and the connection between the two yokes releases.

What's not clear is how the linkage still connects to the flight controls. The idea seems to be that the one which is moving wins. What is clear is that, if your side becomes disconnected, your yoke doesn't do anything. No wonder one pilot was frantic. It seems that you get reconnected by moving the disconnected yoke to agree with the one in control. Then the pin falls into the notch and the yokes are connected again. Not sure about that. You can see the pin and notch in the patent drawings.

This is independent of the fly-by-wire system. That's downstream from these mechanical devices.

I wonder if pilot training includes knowledge that yoke disconnection is possible.
This is a pretty common view and flawed in my experience because people assume that excellence in “big role X” actually maps to “best at X.” In practice, the job of being “in charge” is often about navigating organizations, exacting meaningful change within the constraints of that environment and building trust with the other people at that level to enable your teams to have impact.

That sounds a lot like “fake” work, but that’s only because we (the society we) tend to assume that all that is required to achieve things is to put a bunch of great people together and the rest takes care of itself. In practice, this is almost never true. People have individual motivations, feelings, and goals that contradict each other - the role of people in leadership is to recognize this and help find the midpoint.

Finally, it’s worth noting that most individuals value significant autonomy over their work. So while people often hold leadership accountable to excellence in X, the thing they actually want from people is for them to get out of the way so they individually can do X the way they want. Such is the paradox of leadership.

It’s probably a feature that there are some people who are willing to do these jobs and that most people aren’t vs assuming it’s a bug and that “many” are serial fakers.