skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dumb question. A heavier aircraft should be slower to accelerate. Given that these planes were at least 13% heavier than was thought and the force applied during takeoff is known, shouldn’t there have been some kind of alarm? “We think you should be going 120 mph but you’re actually going 100 mph”.

And based on the inferred mass, can’t you directly calculate what the takeoff velocity should be?
Also Stable Diffusion is made by a German organization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion
It’s funny that the leftists simultaneously believe EU is based on a religion of liberal capitalism and big corporations.

Maybe the reality of a 27-nation collaboration is richer and more complicated than either of these extremes.
If you were up for a job against someone with equal skills/experience and whose social media presence demonstrated communication skills and a knowledge of the field and yours was filled with posts like the one you just made, who do you think would get the job? While you and I may be old enough that having a good social media presence does not matter much when it comes to job interviews and socialization in general it has a fairly large impact on the lives of the younger generations and it is far more complicated than their being addicted to their phones. In the article "essential" was clearly used in the context of being an important and fundamental part of modern life, not suggesting it was the equivalent of food.
Remains to be seen how the German economy evolves and if they are going to pay for it, because other EU countries probably won't.
"A German start-up developed a working mRNA vaccine the same time"

True, but not very relevant. A continent with 25 per cent of humanity's wealth is expected to produce at least something sometimes.

But just look at the brain drains. How many Nobelists or other important scientists moved from the US to Europe and vice versa? We are losing our most talented people to a better research environment.

There is no shortage of European workers in Google or SpaceX, where the main limiting factor is actually ITAR laws, not lack of interest. How many Americans moved to Germany to work in SAP or to France to work in Arianespace?
Thats not a great comparison given Wirecard.
Queues should have an ideal size based on your latency requirements.

Say, you have 100 requests coming in per second. Each consumer of your queue requires 0.3 seconds per request. Now, you can optimise for the number of consumers. Would you choose 40 consumers, then the probability of serving the request with an empty queue in 0.3 seconds would be 17% (and > 0.3 seconds would be 84%). However, the total waiting time per request would be 0.1 second.

With 80 consumers, the probability of an empty queue would be higher at 58%. However, most of those consumers are doing nothing, while your waiting time is only reduced by 0.1 second! Only a 30% improvement.

(edit: probability of empty queue in second example is higher, not lower)
> Satellite internet isn’t great for speed.

It's great for speed, but not for latency.

> notice that an entire continent has less ambitious goals and merely tries to keep up with one guy

This doesn't have to fully compete with starlink. A working secondary provider is a great goal in itself if the network is independent. Currently the critical military communication in Ukraine depends on how he feels today for example.

On a policy level, there are likely also issues with using a private US company for critical EU communication.

Having a single global provider is never a great idea. It's even worse when it relies on someone like Musk.
It’s a nice NLP-generated text, so now, what is scientific correct about it, given that ChatGPT is not configured for reasonings or for citing sources?

There is a reason why HN guidelines forbids robot-generated answers.
While some people believe that consciousness cannot be reduced to probabilistic pattern recognition, I strongly disagree. In my view, the AIXI model is an excellent model of intelligence, as it can mathematically define a notion of Pareto optimal behavior across all possible environments. This model relies on compression at its core, specifically the minimum description length principle.

Moreover, large language models (LLMs), like GPT-3, are designed to learn how to predict, and prediction is the dual of compression. As explained in this StackExchange post (https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/130655/is-prediction-...), prediction can be used to compress data, and compression can be used to make predictions. Given that LLMs are trained on vast amounts of data and can predict patterns within that data, I believe that they contain all the necessary components to be considered an intelligent system.

Therefore, I firmly believe that consciousness can indeed be reduced to probabilistic pattern recognition, and that LLMs provide a compelling example of this phenomenon in action.
I use Weller stations at work, and have a Pinecil V2 at home. Have to admit haven't use it so heavily, nor attempted to solder SMTs with it, but it seems good enough for through hole devices.
I think this could be better described as "queues should be heading in the direction of empty"
Atomic Heart Leaked. No, Not the Gameplay, Maybe the Entire Game
That is just not the case.

Look at companies like AMSL which no one comes even close. It is likely that every device you own has a microchip made with a machine by AMSL. Is it sexy? Is there a narcissistic tweeting CEO? No, but there is inovasion at the highest level.

The mRNA vaccine also came out of the "EU".

What the EU has little off and what you are probably complaining about it throwing money at a hundred things to see what sticks. Those methods cause things like
Theranos to spawn.

Rampent capitalism causes people to suffer and die. You may get a few unicorns with some inovation but you can get there without the suffering as well.
It's up and running, and like any project like this it's then constantly updated and maintained so "finished" makes no sense
OMG! I run in either text mode or very minimal graphics mode. This is a very appreciated comment. Now I am going to reconfigure my home machines to steal back that otherwise unused VRAM for swap.

Thank You!!
I'm from the US originally and emigrated about 10 years ago; I think you're conflating different aspects of technology. The boom of US tech isn't superior infrastructure, it's that tech is a very lucrative investment vehicle so it gets a ton of attention. (Well, it was anyways, not sure what 2023 is going to do to this)

While I understand what you're saying, I think what you're observing and commenting on is the huge amount of money that is thrown at technologies developed in the US compared to similar technologies developed by an EU nation which don't get the same attention. US tech infrastructure is by no means exceptional. It's good in many places, don't get me wrong, but it's an extremely similar or lesser experience compared to many EU nations (including the ones you mentioned), and a lot more costly for end users.

Even when I lived in Russia for a time, the infrastructure/costs were amazingly better in Russian cities (outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg even) than in many US cities.

This is not to say everything US == bad everything EU == good; far from it. Instead just try to understand that the main difference between the tech you read about in US that gets millions or billions and the tech in the EU which just stumbles on like any other business is simply the high attention from investors looking for investment vehicles.

Beat for beat, the day to day technology that I used in the US has either an acceptable or better EU-accessible version, and the EU version is often even a bit cheaper.

The big projects like Starlink are extremely subsidized by the US government; it's the US residents paying person like Elon Musk to let him sell them something right back, without having any real control or input over the way that money is spent by Musk and other similar corporations, or even ensuring that everyone has a chance to use the stuff that billions of dollars of their tax dollars are going to. It's an oligarchy that's been fully legalized and approved.

I really don't think that's the direction we want any nation to be taking, as it does _not_ provide good results long term for the people. US broadband is a perfect example for this with the incumbent providers doing everything in their power to offer as little as possible while still technically qualifying for the subsidies so they can pocket the remainder after the bare minimum requirements are met.

Don't misunderstand the high investor attention that US tech companies get as always being great innovation; investors want a good investment vehicle, and that doesn't always mean the vehicle is a worthy and innovative product. It just means it's something that has a way of providing good returns on investments, including short term fads.
Serving the inside of a big city via satellite internet is ridiculous. Cell towers and fiber are what you want in all cities and towns.
Depends on whether you are facing a disinformation campaign on a social network or whether you need to crush Russian armor rolling over the border.

Technology is notoriously two-faced. Or zero-faced if you can't produce it. The medieval people didn't have to worry about Facebook memes influencing the clergy and triggering heresies.
I have little doubt that its difficult, but the point remains that you cant change your lifestyle to become “less ugly” (where ugly is a stand-in for unconventional features, like a crooked nose, yellow/wonky teeth, hunchback or what have you).
One step away from downloading more RAM
> Germany's problem is German, not European.

I'm not sure if you've noticed who's calling the shots in the EU. Germany's problem is the EU's problem.

I often feel like there's a fundamental misunderstanding in German politics which then spreads to EU politics. They make the same basic mistake the Soviets made: believing that people are perfectly rational, don't react to incentives, and will do what's best for everyone if given the chance. Why have competition, you'll just waste resources. If someone says they're not able to work, surely that's true, so just give them money. If we just give billions to academics, surely they'll spend it wisely and get us a first class satellite internet. If we elect someone, it's always wise to give them plenty of power so they can make their job efficiently, there's no way they'd abuse that power. If we establish a bureaucracy, surely they'll focus on being efficient and nobody will try to grow their department beyond necessary just to increase their status.
I'm european and dont like thousands of satelites swirrling around in the sky as well but I'd rather have government-founded satelites for the public benefit than from some way-too-rich sociopath's private company.

Of course - this project would probably not exist without Starlink, so credit where credit is due.

Personally I find it quite sad that we're destroying the night sky in the sense that before these projects people could look in the sky and know that all humans before them had more or less the same sight.
Now there are just so many satellites swirling around in your sight. I find that quite sad.
Carmack's was very much a part-time venture. It was interesting to read their blog and watch their videos. It was clear that they were very good at certain things (code + welding) and not very good at others (electronics, fire-proofing, planning, testing, finite element analysis, any kind of simulation that Carmack didn't write).

An interesting fact is that they did very well as long as they could conduct cheap tests very often. As their rockets got bigger, they could no longer do that and then they floundered.
If you have to compare the UK and France on free market vs "protectionist and bureacratic" (i disagree, there are but notes of protectionism sometimes - e.g. Alsthom power was sold to GE without the most important bits, but it was sold nonetheless), which is better for the everyday humans? A couple of examples spring to mind, all of which are extremely disfavourable towards the UK, so please help me have a more nuanced argument:

* The privatisation of UK railways has been an unmitigated disaster

* The privatisation and selling off of various UK heavy industries (like steel, automobiles, trains, aeroplanes, shipbuilding) has been somewhat of a disaster with the majority of it closing, and the rest being foreign owned. Where the UK were a leader in many areas, they no longer are, with a drastic impact on the people who used to work there. As a counterpoint, France has managed to maintain shipbuilding, airplane, train construction at a pretty good level.

* Where the UK is "better" is financial services - IMO in part due to the English language, in part due to money laundering with the help of the various crown tax havens; and the startup scene - again the English language surely helped, but so did less rigorous labour laws (and that has been slightly relaxed in France).

Anything else come to mind?
A crowd that is ideological resistant to reality in quite a entertaining fashion. Just remember the Boing 737 Max, which was never explored under this focus. Why does European airbus thrive, while us aircraft industry declined? Both are heavily state subsidized, so it is not that. There is something dysfunctional in us business culture, that extracts value first, and then runs without creating something for the value extracted.

It sometimes is almost reminiscent of the eastern European oligarchs that emerged at the end of the coldwar.
A good analogy, for those more familiar with mechanics / engineering / physics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_surface_effect
Those thousands won't get blamed personally if it fails. But Musk will be.
I was hoping that the OP would address a related idea that I find rather weird: it’s sometimes said that “this excess liquidity has to go somewhere” and that “the excess liquidity has gone into [housing/stocks/commodities/other asset class]”.

But I don’t get this: It might seem plausible that if stock prices go up they absorb liquidity from the system. But (ignoring new stock issues / newly build houses) in every transaction there’s both a buyer and a seller. Sure, the buyer parts ways with cash when they buy a share, but that cash goes to the seller. So there should be just as much liquidity as before, just in different hands.

If anything a rising stock or housing market should just put more excess liquidity into the system because it’s possible to borrow against those assets.

What am I getting wrong? Or is this just an often repeated falsehood?
Funny, I do similar [1] though my solution is very basic compared to yours.
The script allows me to quickly move the current tab from Firefox or Safari to Arc Browser [2] (which uses Chrome under the hood).

I use the following key-bindings ⌥⌘F or ⌥⌘S in Raycast [3] to activate a tab move to Arc from Firefox or Safari, respectively.

1: https://github.com/ayewo/raycast-script-commands/tree/main/b...

2: https://arc.net

3: https://www.raycast.com/
Hmm saw article on c60 pills on lab mice it's effects on increasing life expectancy and bought bottles of it based on that scientific research... Just won't ever really know just got to try it on faith
I think the comment should be read in the terms of:

"Some activists of some part have initiated a specific revision (within the set of all attempted revisions): the sensible in the the same part should be more vocal to make the "extremists" reasonable".
> Starlink’s 100 Mbps [1] is faster than many European countries fixed averages and most’s mobile medians [2].

But Starlink also doesn’t deliver those 100 Mbps reliably. Starlink is an awesome choice if you are in an underserved region but in most EU countries most people have better alternatives.

The capacity of Starlink is very low for many countries in the EU. If people were to actually use it at scale it wouldn’t work.
In the world of Fahrenheit 451, Captain Beatty explains to Montag why books were banned. He says that before books were banned, they caused many societal problems. Beatty claimed that because there were so many different types of people in society, almost any book could be seen as offensive to any particular group of people. For this reason, authors began to water down their content so it was innocuous, and offended no one. Over time, it slowly evolved to censorship and eventually their firemen started regular book burnings.

When I was younger, I found Bradbury’s book to be boring and mundane. I thought it was ridiculous to mainly blame political correctness for censorship. Yet, years later here we are now seeing Dahl’s work being slowly being destroyed. Ray was very prescient. We live in interesting times.

The only thing Bradbury didn’t see was that one of the incentives of this type of censorship is to help maintain copyright.
There's a similar situation between Czechia and Poland currently. Folks from .cz travel to .pl to buy food, cigarettes, medicine and even coal. I have no comparison of goods quality, but Poland is cheaper for Czechs.
"Insulting to companies such as Doctolib (revolutionised health appointments, a single platform to book one, send your documents if needed, have ones online, etc.), Back Market, fintechs such as Qonto and Swile, Ornikar, etc. etc."

Do you realize that even here on HN, the percentage of people who know at least one of those names is likely to be in low single digits?

Compared to Google or Meta or Apple or Microsoft, these are not successes. And yet, France with its relatively big population and relatively good schools, should theoretically produce at least one or two comparable companies.
> I'm not sure if you've noticed who's calling the shots in the EU.

Yeah, the EU.

> Germany's problem is the EU's problem.

Certainly not with regards to infrastructure. All countries around Germany are strictly better for mobile and broadband infrastructure.
And the infamous history of Ian Bell's website: http://www.ntk.net/1999/09/17/
While good as a cynical or satirical answer, our younger readers might want to learn the correct answer first...
Well it depends on the business model. I don't see ChatGPT making lending decisions at this point. Firstly, because all of this information will be shared back into the model and secondly, from a compliance perspective credit decisions must be explainable. The summary functionality looks interesting though. How would one go about in measuring its accuracy?
I don’t fully understand the point the author is trying to make. I appreciate that there are boom and bust cycles for some sorts of assetes

I would have liked to author to talk more about wording. What is actually liquidity? Today’s money appears in many gradual forms of moneyness.

Also is there anything like "excessive money"? Where does it come from? Central banks don’t just print money. They trade it for usually governmental bonds.

If other than central banks have excessive liquidity they may trade it for other assets. This means they need to find a counter party that has the reverse situation. So overall the economy cannot have excessive money.
There is demand for good satellite internet.

There is no demand for something more expensive than starlink, aside from government stuff and you need consumers to support it and not be money pit
Jessica Hische Brings New Life to an Old Logo
Voice.ai Stole Open-Source Code, Banned Developer Who Informed Them About This
Hyx – Resiliency Toolkit for Python-based microservice systems
Despite having many separate libraries in PyPi that try to implement some of the listed patterns, few would be considered production-ready and practically useful. Most are missing important features, configurations and limits that make them inconvenient or dangerous to use in production under the scale.

This is the problem that Hyx is trying to solve.

Hyx is a slim resiliency toolkit for asyncio-based Python microservices. The idea is to implement all industry-proven stability patterns in a safe production-ready way by incorporating experience shared by industry leaders like Google, Amazon, Neflix, Microsoft. So you don't think twice what library to install to improve your resiliency situation.

It's pretty much like Hystrix, resilience4j or Polly, but for Python.

At this point, the project has been inited with the basic implementations and docs for the following components:

- retries (with several backoff and jitter strategies)

- consecutive circuit breaker

- timeouts

- bulkhead (concurrency limiter)

- Token Bucket-based Rate limiter

- fallback

On the way to make it production ready, I plan to add support for metrics dispatching (via OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, StatsD), implement more variants of circuit breakers, rate limiters, etc, make existing components more ready-to-use and tailored to the common use cases, provide examples and integrations with popular frameworks (like FastAPI/Starlette, Flask, etc)

If the idea sounds useful, feel free to give it star.
If you would like some functionality to be supported, drop me a message here or in the Github Discussions. That will help me to prioritise the work.

Links:

- Github: https://github.com/roma-glushko/hyx

- Docs: https://hyx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

- Roadmap: https://hyx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/roadmap/
If I may add :)

In the '80s, Elite was magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254763 - Nov 2021 (6 comments)
Is it really a moonshot project ?

ESA has plenty of experience in delivering projects like this e.g. Copernicus, Sentinel, EDRS.
Liquidity means capacity to buy, essentially. Not cash per se.

If you reduce the required deposit on a house from 20% to 10%, that increases the liquidity in the market. Suddenly more people ‘have’ the money to buy that $500k property and the market will typically rise until it’s absorbed that added financial capacity

This is why low interest rates had such a dramatic impact.

Monthly repayments are much lower on a low interest loan, so the average person could ‘afford’ to borrow way more.

Note; this is just Real Estate. Lots of other borrowing also occurred.

But when Real Estate markets suddenly go up by 20%, now it’s the owners of these houses that are worth a whole lot more. And they often decide to cash in, in some way (selling their J
There’s an observation in environmental economics about mining for resources acting similar to a banking instrument. As more resources are devoted to a scarce resource like cobalt more mines become economically viable. Most easily seen with oil where whole fields will shut or open with the movement of the price of oil. Forget the name of it, buts it’s yet another case of economic actors reacting to market incentives.

Just remember this the next time someone says something can’t be done because of the immediate inflexibility of supply to meet demand in a market. There’s almost always a lag time between start of production and demand for it. They might be uninformed or trying to misinform.

I suspect similar will hold true for charging infrastructure, solar panels, and other grid infrastructure. Wiring up new power plugs is not fundamentally new technology. Good time to be an electrician I suspect.
OK, noted, sorry for my post.
> going backwards ever since the British were forced out.

It was already going badly for years before UK left. Galileo was scheduled to be finished in 2021, shortly after Brexit and around the same time UK parted from the project.
There is also the legendary "unofficial website of the paid public toilet on Grabin's street of the city of Korolev" that has been around since 2001.

http://arch.ksys.ru/tualet.html

Translated: https://arch-ksys-ru.translate.goog/tualet.html?_x_tr_sch=ht...
Suggested backlight sources for scanning film with DSLR (2019)
Introduction to Ido Mode