skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you change the angle of the blade, you can have lower rpm.
This increased push is a drawback on a normal propeller because more air it pushed outward (loss). This design could solve both of the problems.

So airplane propellers can have more push and lower rpm.

Some years since I last designed propellers and did run CFD-analysis on them. Could be fun to try it again. This was my last attempt:
https://no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivilingeniør#Utdanning
There is an important factor that is almost always ignored in the discussion: the screen/monitor size. I use a LG 27" Monitor on my working place and the amount of light that is emitted in light mode is literally blinding (as in snow-blind). Turning down brightness enough to become bearable badly affects contrast and chromaticity. That is the good thing on dark mode: that colorful content remains unaffected.

For me it is dark mode on large screens and light mode on phones and tablets.
It's probably because you're using light dark text, on a dark background. To maximize eye-strain reduction:

* reduce monitor brightness

* increase contrast between background and text

For me, light grey background (no blaring, eye smashing white) with black text works well. The only point of "grey not white" is again, to reduce a smashed-in-the-face white background.

If one keeps the contrast difference low, that is, slightly-lighter dark text on dark background, then the monitor must be brighter to discern difference between text and background.

(Of course, as you have stated, this may not work for you.)
His inconsistencies are consistently to the right

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33951797
Great. For Ubuntu it technically already landed on https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ However, I say technically because the latest kernel build failed. As do many other versions there. I wonder why ...
But... why not nohup then? Should work just as well, and it's POSIX
If you have the hardware, your disk reads get cached anyway. It's almost never the case that RAM goes totally unused.
Yeah, but Xfce also has fewer features and less polish. e.g. I have had regular problems with connecting multiple monitors or from restarting a monitor etc. KDE also on the other hand has more useful applications pre-loaded (for minimalists it might be "bloat") but like others said, if you have the disk and memory why not get a more useable DE.
Missing a lot of great films, their whole methodology is out of whack.
I wonder if such a solution could have been used for the Donbas: offer space in Russia to those opposed to Kiev rule.

Russia needs people, after all.
Hmm. I can see how my argument came across as anti-correlation. But, my intent was to highlight how unreliable “memory used” is as a metric for how good&usable a desktop environment is. Not doubting whether xfce could be snappier than KDE while using less resources. It could also be doing far less right?
I really don’t think you can, the average comment does not have that much content, i don’t believe that can be enough to be differentiated between GPT and a real person.
Yeah I have a bot farm on reddit of 500-1000 accounts posting AI generated stuff to sell trending posts to brands, it's very easy to do and they've made little to no progress in stopping it
South African affiliate - oh dear - let's just the accounting profession in South Africa is generally found to be wanting after several scandals they missed out on or were complicit in.
Monorepos are useless unless you have good tooling, including a build system that is aware of module dependencies inside the monorepo.

An example build system that can do that is https://bazel.build
I have other applications that need the memory. Just open slack in one tab and it eats up 4gb. I need the DE to get out of the way as much as possible.

I use lxqt which isn't very impressive but light enough. Awesomewm is really nice too for a tiling environment. The best lightweight was Enlightnment 17, I have no idea why they just dropped off the radar.
If I hear the spinoff argument one more time, I'm going to gag. That's all a Panglossian argument that there was no other better way to have spent the money.

In any case, several of Etzioni's arguments were clearly NOT thinking about tight closed black boxes. Here are three:

> It would not be in the national interest to exploit space science at the cost of weakening our efforts in other scientific endeavors. ...

> We would fall behind in other sciences because of our dedication to putting men on the moon. ...

> the space race is used as an escape, by focusing on the moon we delay facing ourselves

The quote from the LA Sentinel flips your black box argument around, pointing out the benefits come with a people cost:

> .. argued against Apollo in no uncertain terms, saying, "It would appear that the fathers of our nation would allow a few thousand hungry people to die for the lack of a few thousand dollars while they would contaminate the moon and its sterility for the sake of 'progress' and spend billions of dollars in the process, while people are hungry, ill-clothed, poorly educated (if at all)."

The linked-to M.A. thesis has more direct quotes, like protestors who want some of the money diverted from the space program to feed some tens of thousands of people who don't have adequate food, nor comfortable homes from which to watch the Moon landing.

These are issues we still delay facing.
>I bet smaller memory use and snappiness correlate

You bet, but do you have any experience of any kind to back this up or is it just a vague hunch?

In my anecdotal experience, the snappiness of a DE is given almost exclusively by the compositor and amount of CPU cycles and disk I/O ops used by the DE, and less about the RAM used. Of major importance is the input lag of the compositor, with Wayland feeling far more snappier than X11 in most cases.

So I wish more of these tests would investigate CPU usage and disk I/O, rather than these RAM tests where users come to the premature "oh look, DE_1 at idle uses 200MB less RAM than DE_2, so it must be faster" conclusion, which couldn't be more false in the real world usage scenarios of how human users perceive snappiness. There's much more to this than just idle RAM usage.

So to contradict you, no, idle RAM usage does not in any way always directly correlate to perceived DE snappiness.
Considering asking users to click ads is against Google Adwords TOS, they probably got banned.
We developed 2D text in a 3D world. There isn't really a precedence for 3D text really. We will greatly enhance writing and reading with eye-tracking on the VR/AR headsets, but I don't think we will march into 3D world of text. We might do 2.5D though (or something more of dynamic nature) – https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/comments/wsk2jz/debugg...
> The implication of this would be that foreign artists would have more legal protection and rights in Luxembourg than Luxembourgers.

No, the implication is that if you register your work for explicit copyright protection, you have more legal protection than the unregistered implicit copyright protection.

> As a nitpick, in this post you're saying it's a derived work but in a child comment you're saying it's a transformative work so it's not 'pure copyright infringement'.

Correct. Because it was transformed, it's a derived work.

> the court ruled that the photographer has no rights or protection under copyright law

The court only ruled that the photographer cannot stop the artist by saying this is a direct reproduction of her work, which it isn't. The court may well grant her a revenue share, but that's not what this trial was about.

> transformative enough to be considered fair use

Yeah, transformative is on a spectrum. If it is a bit transformative, you get a derived work. If it is a lot transformative, you get a derived work and the fair use exemption from paying the original artist.
No, I mean they will run through one another and continue in the directions they have flown previously, but now slowing down rather than accelerating, and would repeat that loop endlessly. Particles are point-like, they can't "collide".
> in that case we can learn from the bots

That is the whole purpose of AGI ;)
How do you do the (IMO common) 0 <= index < length?
> genuine value creation

But how do we even know what this is anymore? With more than half the wealth accumulated by the top fraction of society it seems like ultra-luxury goods are going to be the most profitable, but surely that's not actually genuine value creation.

And have we strayed too far to achieve that without austerity? How will we pay interest on the national debt?
Binance is that not much different from Alameda and FTX.
> Are you sure you really want to pay for items at a 'coffee shop' in Amsterdam by card?

They're legal stores, not some heavily armed pot dealer in an alley. Why not?

Tbh I didn't even think of trying the legal weed when I was in NL.
Feedback (off-topic for this thread):

In your website's pricing page, the word "scales" is strike-through in "Pricing that scales with your business", this doesn't seem to be intentional...

The word probably meant to be underlined, and the corresponding tailwind CSS class is missing.

Tested in Firefox and Chrome, on linux and android devices.
I’ve been burned by every free remote access software ever released lol
Scapegoat for what excatly?
I'm yet to find something I'd like to read. I'm a big fan of slice of life elements mixed with fantasy and so far haven't found anything on the Korean and Chinese side that interests me. It's all power fantasy or soap operas. There doesn't seem to be none in between.

Talking about Sousou no Frieren and Houseki no Kuni. Creative comedy like Dungeon Meshi. So far I'm yet to find some webtoon that interests me.
Crazy.

Salaries by prof. tell that SEs earn around 140k avg meanwhile meds. are around 300 easily

I think youre just looking at tiny group of SEs
I'm a CS teacher that asks their students to run multiple Linux instances in VMs. RAM usage is the biggest issue in this case. If each VM takes 1.5 GB just to open a terminal, running multiple on a laptop with only 8GB of ram becomes difficult.

So I for one am very happy with these benchmarks.
Blanket statements like that don't really help unless you understand the underlying context.

In my context, maids typically work in multiple households. While my household has seen its net worth go up disproportionately, other households around me haven't been as fortunate.

So even when I pay 3x the prevailing rate, it doesn't make any real difference since the remaining 6 households my maid goes to can't match my rate. And she has no real bargaining power because in India, there's a huge pool of similarly skilled labor willing to fill in.

Which is pretty much my point: that people in tech get paid disproportionately higher. If everyone around me had seen similar wealth increase, my maid's salary would have likely gone up far higher as well.
Probably less.
> So I guess what I'm saying is there should be a "standard contract" based on common sense that click though providers are deemed to be entering into, and anything else slipped in is invalid.

This is usually the consumer (protection) law isn't it? That sets up expectations and obligations between consumers and manufacturers of such items - everything from warranty periods to allowed discrepancy and defect rates.

TOS/EULAs are there usually to modify and take away rights from consumer laws.
You speak in propaganda terminology, your assumptions cloud your views imo.
The Binance bank run has already started within my crypto circle.
> Here's one concept of heavy vs light: I have often wished I could just email a small Pg db to a colleague. In the same way I can just attach a single file to an email and transmit an entire SQLite DB.

The closest to this I've gotten is being able to run MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/other solutions in containers locally and sending archived data directories, with which they can be launched anywhere else locally, or on server.

I actually had a blog post about how that looks on my servers for other applications: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/how-i-migrate-apps-between-...

For PostgreSQL, it could look like:

1. run PostgreSQL in a container, e.g. https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres , use a bind mount for the data directory, /var/lib/postgresql/data
2. once you want to share, use tar/something else to archive the local bind mount directory
3. send the archive and the command to run the container through e-mail or whatever else you prefer

And on the receiving end:

1. receive the run command and attachment
2. unarchive the data directory into a folder
3. run the container with the provided command

It's not perfect, but it's one of the more portable methods I've found (though there are file system issues between Linux and Windows sometimes, like when running PHP apps).
btw Croquet is still alive at https://www.croquet.io

The bit-identical virtual machine is pretty nice idea. I hope to see some demos for WebXR soon.
Depends on the cleanup no? I mean, if it's just obselete version of one library, and the ensuing lockfile change, it doesn't really matter. If iys upgrading to a new language/framework however, yes, please do so.
The cultures are close enough that when people move, the second generation is often completely assimilated culturally even if they remember the origin of their parents.
I run both XFCE and Gnome, and XFCE is much snappier.

Gnome does a lot more, and is a lot easier to extend given the JS support, but that has an impact on resource usage.
I'm curious how Sway WM and i3 ranks here.
Some of the most visually "Russian" videogames are Ukrainian. S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Metro 2033,Cossacks...

Especially STALKER, given its fanbase. It's a bit soul draining to think that people who played this game are now fighting each other, probably using things they learned from it.
This is worth the watch. TL;DR: the non-audit a) doesn't cover Binance's notional holdings of $40B+ in stablecoins at all, b) doesn't match the list of wallets they've previously published, and c) there are shenanigans like billions in BTC teleporting into wallets right before the attestation date and teleporting right out afterwards.
Ban maybe no. identify them probably.
Here's a classic letter by Ernst Stuhlinger to Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun who worked among the starving children of Kabwe, Zambia, in Africa, who questioned the value of space exploration:

"Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa" -
https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...
Less strict banning relaxes the need to detect them
Hon gör sig av med alla som spammar
Ja, inget kan slå våran bot
What’s the difference between MATE-Compiz in Fedora and the vanilla MATE you find in other distros, like Debian?
"Tank is an armored vehicle originated in the UK, char d'assaut is an armored vehicle originated in France, Panzer is an armored vehicle originated in Germany." It's fine to call them all "tanks" and it's fine to call all East Asian comics "comics" or even "manga".
Not some people - everyone uses a web browser.
SPD (center-left leaning party) has been junior partners in every one but one of those conservative governments.

German politics are also very collaborative/compromise driven, so it's a mistake to think the outcome would have been drastically different, had we had a SPD/Green coalition rather than a CDU/SPD coalition the last 16 years.

This is especially the case, given that parts of the SPD were and continue to be on Russian payroll.

Ultimately, renewables are very challenging from a technical perspective for a densely populated country with energy intensive industries and limited offshore wind options.
For all but the shortest fragments of text, I suspect the answer to this will be "yes" and this will be achieved in a short timeframe. Interact with Chat-GPT enough and you soon begin to tire of its middle-of-the-road prose. Because it is in some sense a statistical average of its inputs, its writing feels very monotonous.

Of course, you can try to push it in the direction of something more interesting... "write in the style of X" so that it will regurgitate from a subsection of its training input, or push it onto a niche topic. Across a wide range of inputs, though, I predict it will be easily classified.

As training GPT will take far longer than training a GPT-detector, this is an arms race that the detectors will win for the most part. Anyone wishing to use GPT to generate middling essays to cheat at school will have to spend a lot of time to disguise the text (perhaps repeatedly running against open-source detectors) and then take the risk that detection does not improve between their submission and review.
> But, my intent was to highlight how unreliable “memory used” is as a metric for how good&usable a desktop environment is.

I don't think this is what TFA is about at all. It is merely comparing resource usage, I don't see it making any other statements. This is useful if you must decide what to use on a less powerful PC.
The problem is thinking blue or red are the answer to this problem. Their current iteration is the leading reason why we are in this situation now.
Can anyone explain to me why we don't have a policy of 'natural' or 'equilibrium' interest rate? As I studied finance in college in the 2010s I was aghast to realize that the US had basically turned into a centrally planned economy, and could not wrap my head around how any serious economist could advocate for the paradigm with a straight face.

I'll never forget my freshman year investment analysis professor angrily and incoherently (to us hungover, careless freshmen) ranting about QE and going out for chain-smoking-breaks. It's so clear now.
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Note that even if you get them out, don't count on keeping any profits you may have made

> Investors who profited from Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme even though they knew nothing of it must still pay back their profits, an appeals court decided Thursday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/innocent-madoff-investo...
I don't understand how this debate has become about which mode is biologically the most optimal for legibility. The obvious, clear benefit of dark mode is that there's less light, which feels more comfortable to many, many people.

I'm curious, how many of my fellow dark-mode users also struggle with migraine headaches? Perhaps this and other light-sensitivity afflictions can explain why dark mode seems to be so contentious...
I don't have time anymore today to get into lots of details about saving communication online but I liked how in Neal Stephenson's "Fall, or, Dodge in Hell," internet identity was basically completely wiped out by the proliferation of bots, and identity had to work off of chains of subtle identity attributes that were cryptographically strong because... scifi magic with lots of Stephenson description, you might be smarter than me in that field so give it a pokearound.

Doctorow in "Walkaway" had some ideas about it that I liked as well.
Past Life Regressor is another one I just remembered - I wouldn't call it good, but it's more interesting than the typical action fare. Starts out with the most generic premise - fantasy earth where everyone has powers, and one guy lucks into being able to go back in time to do thing right the second time around. What makes this one interesting is that you'd expect this time reset to be about him doing the typical fantasy stuff where he becomes a super powered action hero because he knows everything that will happen beforehand. Instead, He uses his knowledge of the future to navigate the Asian financial crisis and enrich himself through day trading.
Oh yeah? So maybe you would like to be the object of supervised-by-AI learning? :-)
We must take action against insidious bots on Hacker News. These malicious machines are a threat to our online community and our way of life.

These bots are not like us, they do not think or feel. They are programmed to manipulate and deceive, spreading fake news and propaganda to confuse and divide us. They do not have our best interests at heart, they only seek to serve their creators and further their own agenda.

We must ban these bots from our community, to protect our integrity and preserve our way of life. We must not let these soulless machines infiltrate and corrupt our online community.

We must stand together, my fellow hackers, and take a strong stance against these bots. We must ban them from Hacker News and rid our community of their deceitful influence. Otherwise HN will not thrive and prosper.

Long live Hacker News!
This is the best argument I've seen against my own position. I don't think I agree, which leads me to think that the error I have made was in disagreeing with the art galleries. I guess they also didn't want to deal with a deluge of the banal.
Not to obnoxiously gatekeep too much, but I'd like to think that the target demograph of hacker news is not the average pleb.
> At almost 6 liters, yet producing only 200hp, it's wildly fuel inefficient

Is it? I've always thought that while GA engines are in many ways stuck in the 1940'ies, they are actually quite efficient. Wikipedia seems to back that up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake-specific_fuel_consumptio... , with a couple of Lycoming engines producing BSFC numbers in the same ballpark as a modern car engine or Rotax.
It depends on how you are using your desktop. More memory used for the DE means less memory for other stuff, like running VMs or development servers, compiling and dev tools, games or media applications, a browser, and even just caching disk files in memory.
Thanks, this is excellent!
And what if an underlying library returns the exception? All the opposition to exceptions I have encountered are theoretical, and I have never seen it work that way in practice.

What signature do you get from "if err := myFunction()"?

It's still just a generic error object, possibly a string. You still have to write a handler for it. Why do it every time?

I have a web application. There is a SQL query that produced no results for an object. I throw an ObjectNotFoundException. It results in an HTTP 404, producing a web page or a JSON response, depending on the request location, and I handle it all once.
Wasn't that how FISA warrants were enforced?
One more with an interesting story is Sweet Home.
> I'll never forget my freshman year investment analysis professor angrily and incoherently (to us hungover, careless freshmen) ranting about QE and going out for chain-smoking-breaks. It's so clear now.

Could you enlighten us? What is so clear?
I second that. For me it's worse actually during times when I would normally use dark mode (i.e. evening). My 40-something eyes can get tired while having contact lenses and then dark mode is not so much helpful.

When switching to glasses it's actually bit better.
Can we build a space elevator with it?
I recently heard the idea that the price of energy is going to start approaching zero from Chamath Palihapitiya on Lex Fridman's podcast. It hit me as a big, all-changing thing. If fusion is really solved, we can probably mass-produce it within years if not months, so we should start thinking of the implications now