skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one gives any credibility to the capabilities of the SU-57, lack of ability to produce them aside. Close up photos of the aircraft show that elementary features of a 5th generation aircraft are not implemented at all. It is basically a 4th gen aircraft dressed in 5th gen clothing. Its lack of stealth, for example, is well-known; it may be better than prior Soviet aircraft but orders of magnitude less stealthy than e.g. an F-35.

Someone will eventually produce an aircraft to rival the 5th gen capabilities of the US, but it hasn’t been done yet. Every competitor so far has been theater. Meanwhile, the US is actively developing and testing 6th gen combat aircraft.
IOW employees take on less risk and in general are compensated accordingly.

You can get paid in equity… and be 20-80% down on TC this year depending on where you work.
I suppose it depends what you consider efficient: I would counter that using a mere 26 letters to encode all the varying sounds of English is wonderfully parsimonious, an incredibly efficient use of those characters. Such an efficient encoding does however, as you point out, make decoding more cumbersome, as it requires memorisation of the specific pronunciations of strings of letters up to and including whole words. In that sense, however, it is very similar to the Japanese (ab)use of kanji, which - as I pointed out at the very top of this thread - has the same problem. For a given kanji, you need to see it in context to be able to have a reasonable chance of pronouncing it correctly (and sometimes even that isn’t enough).

What I’m slightly puzzled by is your apparent confusion as to what a syllabary is: as I gently tried to hint in my reply (and someone else has now more explicitly pointed out), hiragana and katakana are syllabaries; kanji is not, even if it is occasionally used that way (当て字). I’m not sure to what extent that undermines what you were trying to say.

But, to engage with the substance of your point on the efficiency of Japanese syllabaries, we first have to put aside the fact that they retain two distinct systems to encode the same sounds (a baroque inefficiency surely without peer in any other language). It is true that modern kana allow for efficient decoding - there is almost no ambiguity in the sounds, は for ha/wa excepted. That reliable decoding does, however, impose a fairly hard limit on the number of sounds they can express, so I am not sure what you mean when you say “[y]ou can use them to encode anything as well”.
A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars
Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas
The widespread use of spreadsheet environments by billions of users presents a unique opportunity for formula-authoring assistance. Although large language models, such as Codex, can assist in general-purpose languages, they are expensive to train and challenging to deploy due to their large model sizes (up to billions of parameters). Moreover, they require hundreds of gigabytes of training data. We present FLAME, a T5-based model trained on Excel formulas that leverages domain insights to achieve competitive performance with a substantially smaller model (60M parameters) and two orders of magnitude less training data. We curate a training dataset using sketch deduplication, introduce an Excel-specific formula tokenizer for our model, and use domain-specific versions of masked span prediction and noisy auto-encoding as pretraining objectives. We evaluate FLAME on formula repair, formula auto-completion, and a novel task called syntax reconstruction. FLAME (60M) can outperform much larger models, such as Codex-Davinci (175B), Codex-Cushman (12B), and CodeT5 (220M), in 6 out of 10 settings.
Interesting. We have totally different philosophies here.

1. Moving logic out of SQL can break transactionality and hurt performance (more data leaves the DB)

2. ORMs hide the SQL from you, making all sorts of other things harder

My favoured approach is to test my application against a real local database, built from a fresh snapshot each time.

I do not change my application code to make testing easier. The application code is optimised for maintainability - so simplicity and ease of reading.
PADL: Language-Directed Physics-Based Character Control
This is what drives me nuts about nearly any social media platform: Give me the stuff I follow in chronological order. If you wanna let me discover new stuff put it in small somewhere to the side.

On instagram basically every 3rd post/story is someone who I am not following, who I don't give the slightest shit about or advertisements. This seriously makes me consider leaving the platform all together, just give me one more reason and I am gone.

I really wonder if it is possible to develope a decent public platform of any kind under capitalism or if everything is just bound to turn into this.
misspelling, thanks for point out
so we send f16s and f15s as appropriate for those tasks for which the risk is there for the f35?

If there's a war in 5-10 years with china, will drones be fighting on the battlefield, maybe preventing the us' billions in fighters from doing things?
Yeah, I decided to more or less implement this myself so I could use Stripe as the main provider still.
The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13868
I got

Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk to you again
Because antiophthalmic factor vision softly creeping
Left its seeds when unit was sleeping
And the visual sensation that was planted
Still remains
Within the voice of silence

And when I fed that to chatgpt, it had no problem identifying it as the lyrics to Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" that had been scrambled.
Personal Experience with Police as a Disabled White Guy (Hint: 1 Star)
As history has show, russian tech is inferior to western by a magnitude.
Google could cut at least 30-50% more of staff and be just fine. They need to shut down their "moonshots" as none have yielded any appreciable return for shareholders. Just shut them all down, starting with Waymo. Focus back on the core business: ads. Get rid of anything and everything that doesn't directly contribute to serving ads. Do away with all the cafeterias, maker spaces and the ridiculous swimming pool and restaurant on their campus. Shut down the kitchens and replace snack areas with vending machines.

I also think Google could get away with paying employees a lot less. You don't need to be a genius rock star to serve ads. They don't need the top of the market, and in fact it has been shown that strategy has failed them as a business. Shut down anything & everything that isn't making money TODAY.
I assume gates et al weren't foreseeing the rapid rise of china then. That plus the seemingly rapid advance of drones must make it difficult to plan the last few years.
The Success of Streaming Has Been Great for Some, but Is There a Better Way?
Is 'sun table' a particular concept here? A typo?
That's...the entire point of the comment you completely missed. LCOS + LCOE is much smaller with a LiIon battery, and there are many better options for 95% of the storage needed.
Named after a delivery company that can’t keep track of anything?
Where are Ada and Rust mentioned in that link? The top listed down to Ruby in that link by general failure seem to be: Scala, Perl, Clojure/PHP (tied), Haskell/Go (tied), TypeScript, Ruby.
Someone posted this:
https://www.advgauging.com/product/berthold-7440-d-cr-500-mc...

on the discussion when it went missing:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34560399

By measuring how much radiation is absorbed through some material you can determine how much metal it contains
Here I am getting my hopes up of actualising 'Night of the Living Dead' off the title alone.

Granted this is not a Venusian capsule so there is that...
There are plenty of resources on search engine results , what did you find in particular those books stays top of the others?
Okay smartypants, I'm sure they meant a minimal amount of fuel.
A New Analog and CRT Neck Board for the Macintosh SE
When this is an app I can use like Siri or Okay Google with an ElevenLab or equivalent voice, I will subscribe. Looking forward to this!
I'd say roads that need less maintenance are a win long term, otherwise we go back to original argument about breaking all the windows.

The rest... pure speculation from poster's own limited view, the world is more complex than 'I stay home so just order more stuff from China', definitely not true for me. I can chip in mine - ie during travel restrictions forced to buy in more expensive smaller local shops for whole family. One heck of help for local economy. Spending vacations much closer, meaning tons of money flow back to local economy. Having time to plan and do some home repairs with local workforce.

And so on, random tiny examples have little significance in hyper complex situation that is called reality.
C++ types are structs and unions if you get down to the bottom of things. This is possibly not guaranteed by the standard, but AFAIK, extern "C" doesn’t ever affect the calling convention or memory layout for the parameters, only the name mangling for the linker. So in theory, if you manage to construct a valid std::string in C code (which is hard, given its invariants, and would be absolutely nonportable), then you could pass it to an extern "C" function that’s written in C++.
I was frantic code commenter in my youth because I wanted to give as much information to other people as possible but as I became SR developer I dropped them altogether. Especially after I moved into Go. Nowadays, I comment only in two situations:

1. if it is important to explain WHY something is done in a way it is done

2. if there is some related or directly connected code far away that the person might miss or cannot know about and how this code influences it. Writing self-explanatory code nowadays is a standard. An era of newbie spaghetti code is long gone so no need to explain the code itself.
As I understand it, analog computing is entirely impractical simply from a Information Theoretic viewpoint.

For a signal to convey 8-bits worth of information, it will need to have 256 distinct levels. It we want the signal to range from, lets say, 0 to 5v (which is already quite high), each level only has about 2mV range. This much can easily come from cross-talk, EMI and power supply noise. So all your logic/calculation will be wrong.

Once you start talking about 16 bits, it becomes entirely ridiculous: we now can only have 75uV range for each level. This is getting into RF interference territory - just receiving a phone call close to such an analog signal would disrupt it.

The way I understand it, there is simply not enough SNR available in our electronics (on die traces or PCB traces) for analog computing to work. Thats why we restrict the number of level we use in our signal: digital being just two level, but even with higher level-counts, we typically use 4 levels or 8. This is somewhat analog, but not really.

I am not an EE, so I am entirely open to being corrected on this.
Is it common at all for people who happen to hit gold with one app to actually come back and have other hit apps? I see it all the time that things are advertised as being the next hit app from this or that person and, as far as I remember, it almost never works.
>Contact Bitrex

Head Office, Macfarlan Smith, 10 Wheatfield Road, Edinburgh, EH11 2QA, Scotland, United Kingdom

Well it would be the Scots that sell the bitterest substance in the world...
>> Fear of losing people and equipment

Everyone knows russia doesn't fear to lose people.

They haven't been flying to Ukraine because their pilots and "advanced" planes can be easily shot down with a regular Stinger system that costs like $40k.
Absolutely. Japanese Twitter is another great example.

I’ve often liked to describe kanji as a form of compression: the problem is the encoding and decoding are done in your head rather than by a computer.
Those non-standards are aggressively pushed by Chrome, and shipped by default by Chrome first.

Calling it Chromium makes it sound like they somehow originate in the "open-source" version. They don't. We have to call them what they are.
>The A-10 is obsolete. Its airframe literally can’t hold the power systems required to support modern defensive and offensive capabilities. It would get wrecked against any modern air defense environment. It was designed for the threat environment from half a century ago with no upgrade path.

Yet we keep flying it in the face of repeated attempts to retire it, with the USAF even going on the record that the A-10 will be kept in inventory "indefinitely"[1]. The A-10 is clearly not obsolete and continues to proudly serve the USA and its friends and allies, and enjoys much adoration from its pilots, mechanics, infantrymen, and civilian fans.

>F-15 and F-18 are not better at air superiority. The latest flavor of F-15 can still hold its own against other 4th gen aircraft but it will struggle against 5th gen aircraft. This has been demonstrated many times.

The F-15 has suffered no airframe loss to enemy combat action in its entire service history, that is a feat not easily met. The USAF even went as far as to procure new F-15s, the -EX model, because F-35 production wasn't keeping up.

As for the F/A-18, the Hornet boasts superior flight range and payload capacity besides being significantly cheaper, to say nothing of its proven air superiority and multirole capabilities.

>The F-35 can carry much more weapons payload than any of the 4th gen aircraft you mention and has more range. That on its own is a huge win, stealth and sensors notwithstanding.

That is patently false. The F-35 must sacrifice what little stealth it has to carry more payload, otherwise it can only carry a small handful within its internal weapon bays. Even accounting for carrying payload on its wing pylons, it still can't hold a candle to the other fighters; the F-15EX in particular can carry patently ridiculous payloads.

As for range, it pales in comparison to air superiority fighters (eg: F-15C/D/E/EX, F-22) or 4th gen naval fighters (the F/A-18C/D/E/F).

[1]: https://archive.ph/20170912212105/http://www.theaustralian.c...
I think it is more about an exploration-exploitation problem. I think you're focusing on the exploitation aspect too much. Algorithms like TikTok's do well with respect to exploration because there is a low cost for a bad recommendation. The quick content allows the algorithm to update quickly to the users current mood. This isn't going to be true for articles, where you are going to have spend more time and energy on the content being provided. This means that you have to more quickly model a person's mood/energy levels when they are using the app (you can determine this faster with quick content because you are iterating faster). Exploration is an important part of the overall reinforcement strategy because as humans our cost function is constantly changing, we do crave novelty (just in different levels). If you don't have the exploration side, and only have exploitation, then you just end up in a bubble (a bit can be good, but life needs spice). Worse, you'll end up bored.
It was Michael Saylor, it's all public information.

Bitcoin is a volatile instrument, so any change under a few years doesn't have much information content.
$15 USD for a meal at a business in the business of selling food? Your local cost of living must be insane! I think you'd be hard-pressed to spend much more than $5 USD for a meal at a food business around here.

In these parts, I can go to a restaurant in the business of selling an experience, with nice ambiance, a server who will wait on you hand and foot like you are some kind of king, etc. and can have nearly anything on the menu for $15 USD. At that price you're paying to get to act like a king for an hour or two, not for food.

If your local cost of living is that high, what's the housing market like? High CoL and high rent often to go hand in hand. If you sold your appliances and offered your kitchen space as a bedroom rental, what kind of income are we talking here?
Almost certainly not, and in fact I'd expect to see more tech layoffs in 2023.
This seems to be not just false, but the opposite of reality. Marko renders static multi-pages sites by default, and JS is generated for components that need reactivity. In fact, Marko even lacks built-in client-side routing.
It's not the condensation of content I'm complaining about, it's the fact that when you try to unfold a post the entire website scrolls and puts you somewhere else. That's just bad UI.
We're using it at $Work and search is an absolute nightmare.
I can never find what I want with it.

SharePoint had better search than Nuxeo, for instance.
I am not surprised the found the capsule, I am surprised by the very professional way the company handled the case.

If you look at the timeline of events (see link from dang comment), they reacted extremely quickly and professionally, from the contractor doing the transport to Rio Tinto informing the authorities.

For me Rio Tinto was the company not taking care of our environment[0] in its operations, so for once, I am positively surprised.

[0]: Oil & gas are pretty good at it where there is no regulatory pressure.
AKA: people are tired of working endless overtime that is not legally required but employers have squeezed out while diminishing perks, benefits, etc.

What utter bollocks.
Appeal to the mods to overturn the flags on constitutional grounds. We do do that, perhaps a quarter of the time.

This is maybe not quite accurate though:

> a small number of users who don't like a post can effectively bury it even if a much larger number of users do like it

The tug of war between flags and upvotes isn't hopelessly biased against upvoters.
In the first round of simplifications, 義 became 义, which is perhaps one of the most egregious ones that has stuck.
presumably named after who the delivery company was named after, a greek god
> programmatically turning relevant sections back into text

I can't help but think, is this the voice in our heads?
Haha this was absolutely me. I thought I was the only one, but after reading several similar comment I guess that it is not an uncommon occurrence. Weird. I wonder what it tastes like to me know. Time to go lick Breath of the Wild…
This is probably true to an extent, but I do think this analysis fails to capture the very real upheaval that happened in the life of a hypothetical blacksmith or wainwright that ended up at a car factory.

A job isn't just a financial transaction. It's part of a person's identity and a social outlet. There is a career progression that they had planned on, they made choices about where to live and all kinds of other things based on this career they thought they were going to have.

So even if they are making the same money, they might be very unhappy and this unhappiness may end up being expressed in antisocial ways that end up costing society money. In the transition from wagons to cars, the increased productivity of cars papered over all these losses. Eventually everyone had to admit it was for the best.

I'm not sure remote work will do the same thing. We'll see, but in any planning it's important that we look at externalities and factors that are difficult to quantify because otherwise we risk running roughshod over what really matters to people.
We do this too for PostgreSQL: to ensure the tests are really fast:

- we create a template database using the migrations
- for *every* integration test we do `CREATE DATABASE test123 TEMPLATE test_template;`
- we tune the PostgreSQL instance inside Docker to speed up things, for exampling disabling synchronous_commit

On a successful test, we drop the test123 database. On a failed test, we keep the database around, so we can inspect it a bit.

The really great thing about this approach (IMHO), is that you can validate certain constraint violations.

For example, exclusion constraints are great for modelling certain use cases where overlapping ranges should be avoided. In our (go) code, the test cases can use the sqlstate code, or the constraint name to figure out if we hit the error we expect to hit.

This approach is pretty much as fast as our unit tests (your mileage may vary), but it prevents way more bugs from being merged into our codebase.
This is a bad take, as the code is actually executed, whereas comments are not.

As the code is, definitionally, the way the program works, it must be correct, necessarily. This is not true of the comments.

This is why comments are dangerous and bad, only to be used when you've run out of time and/or aren't smart enough to figure a problem out (happens to everyone).
Any greater risk of cancer than when bars used to allow smoking?
> You don’t seem to understand the criteria against which military aircraft are judged.

FYI your argument was going so well until you employed this fallacy. What GP does or doesn't understand is entirely irrelevant, not to mention that mind-reading is forbidden, not really, but it is also fallacy. Only what is stated is relevant. Now if you'll just accept this, I actually do not want to argue. I was hoping you would not mind answering my questions, because I do not understand.

> It would get wrecked against any modern air defense environment.

Obviously, we have a modern air defense, and the F-35 and F-22, among other elements, are a part of it. Who else does? Russia? North Korea? China? I'm just curious who threatens our 50 year old technology. IOW, besides our allies, who has 4th and/or 5th gen aircraft that we need to shore up against and not let them wreck our jalopies?

> The latest flavor of F-15 can still hold its own against other 4th gen aircraft but it will struggle against 5th gen aircraft. This has been demonstrated many times.

same question, who, other than our allies, is operating 5th gen aircraft that we should be concerned about? I'm not making any point. I really don't know. Appreciated.
What you say about children of Japanese people living outside Japan - yes, I've seen exactly that. Every day, in fact.

As for my English example.. it's grammatically a mess, the word order is wrong etc, but if you hear that sentence, how would you interpret it? There's really only one possible way of understanding it. I hear a lot of that kind of English, though not usually as messed up as that.. but sometimes pretty close. And it's still comprehensible, as in usually not ambiguous in practice. When comparing languages like this, of course it's about a low level understanding of the language. With English you can go a long way with very little knowledge of the language, with, for example, Italian you at least have to learn the verb forms because they substitute for pronouns as well.
Relax: Declaratively build and send client requests for REST APIs in Swift
What Is LDAP Server and How Its Work?
LDAP servers and clients communicate using a request-response model. The client sends a request to the server, and the server sends a response back to the client. An LDAP client can initiate different types of requests to the server, such as search, add, modify, and delete. The server must respond appropriately to each type of request.
Slate Star Codex in particular has a way of pushing the indulgence in his essays beyond what seems possible. When I read the one on Moloch, I thought "this is an idea I am extremely familiar with, expanded to 100 times the necessary word count", but now, when I consider the effects of market optimization, I think of that essay.
Just a theory, but I bet they (and Spotify) are sticking to songs that cost them less per play, when you get stuck on a group like this
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”

― Ernest Hemingway