skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, the fellow tasked with sorting and cataloging the dictionary collection at the Lilly Library at Indiana University is keeping a blog about the treasures he comes across: https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/02/08/unpacki...
This is absolutely correct
> I really don't understand how adding yet another layer on top of AWS's / GCP's / Azure is materially going to change the developer or user experience. It just adds cost.

Actually, AWS products (PaaS like Lambda) themselves are a layer atop AWS (IaaS like EC2) that you just said you immensely favour, and that it reduced costs (1 devops for 3 teams). Besides, Snowflake and Databricks are two examples among many of non-AWS but AWS-dependent billion dollar software shops that work just fine for the largest of enterprise businesses.

That said, don't think Fly is a layer on top of AWS (they rely on servers from NetActuate, Equinix, and others from the looks of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29162706). They couldn't have the pricing they do if they were.
If you are looking at the cells of that multicellular life. But if you look between multicellular organisms it's not so cut and dry. The lion and its prey are in cooperation only in some abstract sense of keeping their shared ecosystem alive, but are very much antagonistic in practice.
I recommend the SCRAFT channel if you want to see 3D printed mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/@SCRAFTchannel/featured

Usually they are connected to a electric motor and different speeds are tested.
Some mechanics get a nice sound.
Neither of your links (nor the source article) references zoning or 3rd/third places, let alone "methodical removal". Do you have a source for that?
It was one of these two vendors, I forget which:

https://apollomapping.com/digital-elevation-models
https://www.l3harrisgeospatial.com/Data-Imagery/Elevation-Da...

I don't wanna share the number but it was 6 figures
but between cells that have the same genome.
I know your requests for specifics is legitimate and ought to be taken in good faith but on the other hand.

> and advocates for the project that's giving you grief today either dismiss your questions as anti-$PROJECT FUD, or

How about NFS shares that need to explicitly closed lest both server and client get stuck forever when trying to shut down later leading to a laptop needing to call the server via ssh when the lid is closed to initiate this because anything else is inexplicably broken for no reason discernible?
Even these monopolies are bound to be disrupted by competition (as we‘re likely about to see in the case of google)
I will be one of them. I stopped using Digg and switched to Reddit when they redesigned their website. At least we will still have HN to be bastion of simple design. (I hope)
For all looking to play Zork, the Internet Archive has you covered and you can launch it from your browser seemingly inside DosBox within the browser.

Zork 1: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Zork_I_-_The_Great_Undergr...

Zork 2: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Zork_II_-_The_Wizard_of_Fr...
IMO, vertical space is a precious resource in software development. It shouldn't be squandered without clear and compelling reason.

I'm not saying that there's never a reason for to have extra blank lines. But your example isn't it.
Checks out. This source [0] describes the ACDL instrument as a 532 nm LIDAR, which is the correct shade of green. The NASA satellite also has a 532 nm LIDAR [1], so it also checks out that they might confuse the two.

[0] https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1485263/v1_covere... (.pdf)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICESat-2#Satellite_instruments
That's what happens when you get -10 points for answering yes to "did you study science or math in college?", for your ATC test.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/06/27/the-disastrous-initia...

https://mslegal.org/2019/02/fight-escalates-over-race-based-...
I'm sorry, but that's an absurd argument.

Your argument is that one user publishing a library in a sea of libraries which enriches the ecosystem is equivalent to directly pushing telemetry onto their users.... Because people are enticed by golang as a whole?

One library isn't going to be the deciding factor in someone choosing a language, and they'll likely have to deal with telemetry well before they get to a random library.

And that still doesn't answer the question on how that possibly means telemetry gets injected into their code.
This is not logical.

Interesting to see how the escalation works in someones thought process, but these are not valid arguements.

"If you have nothing to hide, you dont need privacy"

Perhaps there are antiquated rules and possibly dangerous flight systems approved by the FAA. Maybe these pilots need to be protected from being publicly persecuted in the interest of corporate profit and confidence in the government.
Pretty much all governments in all countries think way worse stuff. something something ultimate power ultimate corruption.
The point of an NTSB inquiry is full disclosure. It’s hard to do that on record with a Fed because some zealous prosecutor can twist statements into some sort of felony.
... except grid storage is going to get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. Sodium Ion at $40/kwhr is coming no lithium cobalt nickel needed. Hydro pumped storage will be built in mountains.

You know what people also like? Power in emergencies when the power lines go out. Home solar + storage will provide that. A functioning community when big disasters hit, like the once-in-a-centurty-that-happens-every-year we see with global warming. Floods, hurricanes, etc. That isn't dependent on the whims of politically-motivated regulators, that won't have some post-Enron sociopath call up a power plant to tell them to shut down to create artificial scarcity.

So grid storage, which will be unambiguously cheaper than any nuclear plant by the time a nuclear plant goes online, will handle, say 80%? 90%? of weather shortfalls?

Now, can nuclear beat geothermal, existing hydroelectric, or <gasp> gas turbine that will still be in abundance for several decades due to petroleum extraction and would be burned off anyway?

Unfortunately, with nuclear as it is now with gigantic pressurized domes, crappy solid rods, meltdown danger, waste rods + transport, security + antiterroristm, government regulation, etc, the answer is unequivocably no.

There is literally no reason to build new nuclear plants now. There is a good argument for keeping the existing ones running.

Let's wave a magic wand where a MSR/LFTR exists that breeds fuel, "burns" all the fuel rather than makes waste with online reprocessing, scalable down to a shipping container or two, can be mass manufactured for low cost, can simply be stacked or lined up to scale up power needs, is meltdown proof with the plug and design, AND the government starts regulating it differently and lots of other good things.

That might have potential.

But for "old nuclear" that means the same thing as no nuclear, because every incumbent economic interest and business involved in nuclear has no role in that reactor strategy. No rod reprocessing, no transport and storage of waste, building of big dome reactors.

All the pro-nuclear stories want EXISTING flawed designs and dead-end economics. They want to keep their jobs.

Somewhere out there is a safe, affordable, scalable, use-all-fuel/no waste design. The physics of nuclear power are so power dense it's ludicrous. Certainly for industrial applications there should be something, and especially in space. I fully advocate continued investment in nuclear reactor design and research.

But building a massive number of nuclear plants? That's Johnny Canal levels of idiocy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F42qmFHNM-M
You can plead 5th even in a civil case since what you say might lead to future prosecution.
Heroin, my advice would be to not use it
It is not about whether or not it is good for kids to have breakfast. It is about whether or not you want to redistribute wealth from your actual or perceived tribe to another actual or perceived tribe.
You’re doing God’s work, friend.
> So while we would have to accept that not only are criminals incapable of doing anything different, but also the police are incapable of doing anything different, and the people hiring them, etc. Turtles all the way down.

This is an oversimplification/misreading of the philosophical ideas behind the notion that free will might not exist.

Proponents of the 'no free will' camp generally understand this to mean that we are not the conscious authors of our thoughts, and that thoughts are the product of one's lifetime of experiences and the result of those experience on one's specific biology.

In such a model of the world, the police would absolutely be capable of change, since knowledge is a potent change agent.

We already society is capable of this kind of change by looking at the history of slavery. A growing understanding of the value of each human life made the abolition of slavery a moral imperative for similar reasons. Such a cultural shift didn't happen overnight, though.
It committed suicide at the altar of ad revenue.
Beach erosion: Satellites reveal how climate cycles impact coastlines
You could argue they are not refusing to cooperate. They may not bewilling to cooperate under new terms (recording instead of live note taking).
Technology is one thing. I'm wondering why the crew weren't required to hand in the CVR right after the incident.
And productivity would falter even more without Google and Apple…
Yeah in fact if you try to use graph paper to map out the areas in Zork you'll get immensely frustrated at its non-Euclidean geometry. The game designers seemed to be quite fond of having your character change compass directions between locations, so heading south and then immediately north will often leave you in a different location than you started!

The better way to map Zork is to treat it like a non-planar graph and use graph paper to build an adjacency matrix [1]. Since Z-machine is a bytecode VM that often ran on 8-bit computers it's a pretty safe assumption that the game likely has 256 or fewer vertices in the graph. So if you give every area you visit a 2-digit hex ID you can make the matrix small enough to be manageable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacency_matrix
It has been 14 years tomorrow since the last catastrophic incident (Colgan Air Flight 3407) from a major US airline.

I am worried people are starting to get sloppy.
If that were the case, wouldn’t they be interested in the truth being public record?
It’s news article titles like “Reckless American 777 Pilots Refuse Recorded NTSB Interviews” that fuel this sort of pushback that the pilots are giving about interviews.

NTSB investigative materials are not ‘privileged’ in the same way accident investigations in the US DOD are (https://medium.com/code-for-america/john-allspaw-getting-the...) but perhaps they ought to be.
The upfront costs are pretty expensive.

For every new location you do the process looks like:
1. Get the data and prep it for print (fixed)
2. 3D print it (fixed)
3. Rubber Mold (fixed)
4. Wax Model (variable)
5. Bronze (variable)

Steps 1-3 are 40-60% of the costs. So I haven't put the money out of pocket yet to put up new locations. I've let customer's ask first and then do them.

Surprisingly, most of our orders have been custom

Here's my info packet on the custom process
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IkiHG_Z5JS03mWYHv-KNAhi8...
That’s not really accurate relative to the jurisprudence of the fifth amendment.

Generally, it’s held that you cannot be compelled to testify if there’s a reasonable likelihood that the response may tend to implicate someone. So you often can invoke 5A in civil contexts (which is why you’ll see people invoke it before Congress, or in civil trials).

One main difference is that in a criminal context we typically can’t draw an adverse inference against someone for invoking their fifth amendment rights. Whereas in a civil context we can. That doesn’t help us here much, though, because to my knowledge the NTSB is mostly interested in getting to the truth of the matter and not assigning liability or penalties.

One option to pierce 5A is to grant immunity for all testimony covered. So if the NTSB was pretty sure that the pilots aren’t going to be criminally charged for the incident (which they likely wouldn’t be), they could work with the DOJ to immunize the pilots for their testimony. That eliminates the risk of criminal prosecution for their responses, and nullifies the fifth amendment.
Shfmt – format shell programs
shfmt is like gofmt, rustfmt, ..., but for shell programs.

Supports bash, posix, mksh, bats.
Underhanded? As a response to the incident they have made it so you can explicitly turn it off, sure. But people trust the phone to make a thousand other decisions on a moment-to-moment basis about the tradeoff between CPU and battery, is it reasonable to call it being "underhanded" when singling out a specific one of them retrospectively? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I know a single person who would choose to trade an hour or two's battery for a 5% CPU bump.

Much like the iPhone 4 reception fiasco. Nothing actually changed reception-wise, except they changed the way they calculated and displayed the signal. But people were now seeing _different_ signal profiles than they expected, and apparently Apple decided (eventually) that changing it back and giving everyone a free case was better marketing that continuing to try and persuade people of that.
Investigation of the speed-up of a dual microcontroller parallel operation(2012)
Here's the process on custom orders. I'll put the link right on the site to try and avoid confusion.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IkiHG_Z5JS03mWYHv-KNAhi8...

edit: whoops added link
For throwaway space-filling verbiage that sounds like it might be close to right, sure.
> By supporting bad pilots they're making them all look bad.

Airlines in particular have a long and pervasive history of blaming "pilot error" for any and all safety issues. Until and unless it is conclusively proven that some maintenance, instructions, or mechanical system was faulty, pilots are in the cross-hairs. Remember the first 737MAX crash?

It is only natural for pilots to be concerned about being scapegoats, or that their on-the-record remarks implicating their airline could end their careers.
I honestly thought that people had stopped believing in that at this point. It was always kind of baffling that they did.

Like, you can sell some people, and even some important people (it came out recently that two UK water boards are using _dowsing_, and then there was the CIA telekinetic research) of any old nonsense, but there certainly seems to have been a _mainstream_ belief in robotaxis any day now, and it’s really odd that people bought it.
Well, I guess we will find out the outcome pretty quick as they have now been subpoenaed and will probably be found in contempt of court if they don’t do it now.
Let's play a game: Deepfake news anchor or a real person?
> Working with analytic algorithms is like playing around with synthesizers whereas ML is more like using a sampler.

Amazing analogy that really helps me understand these algorithms better. Thanks for that.
I would probably do the same and if I was a lawyer I would probably advise it too. They have already ended their careers, there is nothing to be gained for them from being questioned. And the less videos the better for whatever they will be trying to do in their future careers. Let the justice run its course.

> Is their refusal to be interviewed illegal? No, not as of now. Is it unethical? Absolutely, in my opinion.

Except nobody who means anything in this case cares about your opinion. Neither the pilots nor the judge who will take the case. Ethical or unethical in your opinion, any person in so much trouble has right to make decisions to defend themselves. If you believe in Constitution you have to believe in peoples' right to not incriminate themselves and you have to believe it is not unethical to use what Constitution affords to everybody.
GitHub experiences outages pretty regularly, for example on 12 separate days last month: https://www.githubstatus.com/history
Please never read about the MLB player's union. I don't think you'll like watching professional sports after.

Unions are there to protect their members. End of story.

If there is no rule mandating it, I don't get why people are upset at the pilots for not cooperating with an investigation that could be career ending.

This article focuses on the pilots, but the outrage should be focused at the people who made the rules the pilots follow.
Inhaled powder that coats airways can block coronavirus infection
The blogpost manages to not explain what they actually intend to do, but I assume it means WebAuthn PRF. The general idea is nice and it works, but it's hindered by the fact that sync fabrics aren't interoperable or pluggable.

Let's say you have an iPad, a Windows PC, and an Android phone, and you set up your 1Password account using a Passkey (0Password?) in your iPad, and now you want to set it up on your Windows PC... except there's no way to sync your Passkey from the Apple sync fabric to the Microsoft sync fabric, so you need some sort of shareable secret between those from which an encryption key can be derived -- a password + secret key. After that set up the encryption key you just derived can be wrapped with a key generated from the Microsoft sync fabric prf and the process starts again with Android. You've managed to unlock all your devices using WebAuthn, but you didn't manage to get rid of the password, and if you decide to change it, then you're in for the whole ride again.

The blogpost also reads Use your phone to unlock 1Password on your Mac, PC, and in the browser, so I assume the way to get around the sync fabric problem they envision using is relying on your phone's sync fabric, and relaying the encryption key through hybrid transport, then prompting you to store a Passkey in that new device, which is still a hassle but you don't need a master password for.

It is critical for the health of the ecosystem that OS vendors adopt APIs so that third-party vendors can plug-in TPM-backed sync fabrics that work across manufacturers. Several third-party vendors have joined the FIDO alliance, so I'm hopeful.
What about tables without primary keys?
Hacker News needs meta moderation for situations like this.
> why would the union have any problem with the NTSB interviewing them?

They don't. You sometimes have to read more than just the HN headline to understand what the issues are.
"They" refers to the pilots.

And, while a complicated technical problem is likely to not be the pilot's fault, after a certain degree of refusing to cooperate with the investigation, it becomes their fault.

Also, onemileatatime is a long-standing news website that reports on the aviation industry; the NTSB "released their side of the story" in press releases.
Huh, the last time I've done a "fresh install" was for the amd64 switch in 2008, my image has been rolling forward since then. I guess I am extremely lucky?
Thanks for the correction. We sure could use a term for such software, though.
The motto of Bluetooth is "It's going to work great ...next year!".
I've had so many challenges working with it in my past projects (even writing my own firmware) that I now try to avoid it and go directly to wifi.
Exercising the right not to talk to government agents isn’t inherently a cover-up.

We already know from the ATC recordings who’s likely to be at fault. They haven’t much to gain by participating voluntarily.
Ideally you'd use `if len(x) == 0`, which handles lists but also list-like things like tuples, while not letting None and False through.
Lecun @ Meta has been doing the same thing on Twitter lol. Re-tweeting all these papers with no actual public information.
There have been many attempts. And many of them have proven successful at the ~42 person trial level that failed in this particular study with a common adenovirus as the DNA delivery agent. The one I linked did work in large scale clinical trials which is why it is now being given to the public.

Plus intranasal influenza a vaccines have been around since the 1960s. I alternate getting intramuscular and intranasal influenza vaccines for best protection of myself and others.

I'm very hopeful for this full scale intranasal roll out of a proven intranasal vaccine for sars-cov-2. I am seriously considering a trip to India to get it as a booster to my 4x mRNA intramusculars from Moderna and BioNTech(Pfizer). I just wish they'd use nebulizers instead of a simple spray. Simple sprays work for the fluid dynamics scales involved in small animal models but as large humans we need nebulizers to get the most complete upper respiratory protection.
TPU is a pretty conservative design, there are 2x...5x speedups available with full-stack optimization, and then some.
I'll try to explain with an example: If you have an object at position (x1,y1,z1), at some time t1, and you want to move this object to a different position so that at time t2, it's at position (x2,y2,z2), you must have t2>t1. If t2==t1 then (x1,y1,z1)==(x2,y2,z2).

So when time stops, everything else stops. It is tautological when you think about it, but I find that it's an easy way to explain why logical clocks work.

Am I wrong to reason this way?
Crippling any "make money not war" faction that might build in Moscow. No path to money, no threat. An all-in commitment forced on the unwilling, and on the perhaps unwilling who might change their minds. And with a generous side of doubt and distrust in the West, particularly after that Biden remark. The list of possible universes we live in even includes one where Russia did it, but would not have done without that invitation.
I'm sure his science is bunk. But I'll note that no less a person than E O Wilson argues that humans are eusocial: https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/human-eusociality/
Everyday I am thankful I am not an engineer working with a product owner that pushes these annoying design patterns.
Who would’ve been shocked to hear that governments (including the US) make requests of private companies?

Even Third Party Doctrine, which is a way more direct attack on people’s rights, is so well established that it has a name with capital letters and its own Wikipedia article and whatnot.
It is considered "woke" to admit that the federal government always had preferred racial tribes and is only now trying to rectify that.
Fintech without Internet: How India is enabling payments for feature phones
A more generous interpretation would be the assumption that primary keys are (as they frequently are) synthetic data, and perhaps not the most commonly queried field aside from direct get-that-resource queries.
Interesting to note that very similar concerns have been raised by staff at the GIDS youth clinic in the UK.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51806962

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56539466
>That is nothing compared to the costs of crime in high-crime/high-corruption societies.

Is it really though? How much was the US (or any other equally developed country) losing to crime and corruption prior to all this KYC/AML BS? Not that much. Letting a mobster have a bank account doesn't magically turn your country into Nigeria. If anything it makes your country better because the mobster doesn't have to store that value another way and then protect it (with violence).
>Criminal enterprises work through violence and add risk throughout the economy

So like government but with less abstraction?

> But unlike criminal gangs, they don't settle them with shooting wars in the streets.

Only because they don't have to. Being an above the table enterprise they can just go to the government court system and get their (credible threat of) violence that way.

All this violence you're complaining about w.r.t. organized crime is just their (low buck, because due process and diffusion of responsibility sufficient to dissuade revenge are expensive) way of settling business disputes.