skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a current student pilot in FAA-land, soon to be a private pilot.

I actually really don’t think the training requirements are very draconian. 40 hours, a few maneuvers, some knowledge about some stuff. Less than driving in some states. The DPE system is mildly corrupt, but that could be fixed by just adding a bunch more of them.

What is driving prices up (and normal people out of flying Cessna-cars) is certification and maintenance requirements. You can’t change the sunshade in your Cessna without an STC. It’s nearly impossible to certify a new engine for a plane, so all those 172’s are using engines designed in the 60s.

There was a story posted here a while back about a company who figured out automotive-marine engines work just fine for GA. Much better, even - more power, plenty reliable, better fuel economy. And the FAA just wouldn’t let them certify it. As in, they had investors who would pay certification costs and the FAA just wouldn’t tell them how, other than that everything they tried was wrong. We’re talking “you can’t put an experimental engine in a certified airplane, but certification of an engine must be done in a certified airplane” levels of bureaucracy.

If you want GA to get more accessible, focus on making engine certification possible and a generally more accessible R&D cert process.
Mosiac. Works great: https://lightpillar.com/mosaic.html
What is with the hyperbole? "surrender your identity" "monetizing your privacy"

Tell me where Apple Pay does that and how I surrendered my identity.
Read it, you're probably wrong, and it will change your views once again.

All his books are superb.

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021) analyzes our civilization from another angle - how we have apparently "got stuck" on a single trajectory of development, and how violence and domination became normalised within this dominant system. Not finished yet, but it's also a candidate for aggressive recommendations :)
Thanks for the link. It makes sense.

Hopefully I will never need to put my newly acquired knowledge to a test.
> and He used wine without additives

He used a specific bottle. But catholics were pragmatic enough to say "well, surely he didn't mean that bottle specifically." And they don't latch on to the vintage, either- doesn't have to be the same grapes grown in the same region. They don't latch on to the age of the wine, or its alcohol content. But those variations don't matter! Because.... I guess because, uh.... oh heavens me-oh-my-oh, this is a pickle. Turns out it's all subjective.
Magic mouse has one physical clicker. To imitate “right click” you have to lift fingers from the left side and click. They can’t make a mouse with two physical clickers.
“I’m not entitled you’re entitled!”

Yeah OK. I think the reason we are all arguing with heat here is that it’s about different things. I’m angry at lazy people at work.

I think you, and others in these comments, are angry at inequality.

I’m angry about that too! I just don’t think it justifies slacking off at work.
Why does git need to be any more simplified? Makes no sense
The Devil You Know
also, in some countries having HR above a very small size (25 people or so) is a requirement because of the addition of work councils. workers have legal representation with the company above a certain size, and HR is required as a counter party for a lot of the stuff worker councils co-decide on.
Yes, the integration was not handled by a library though. I coded it myself (because it was a novel method). Used Eigen for matrix related stuff because it was fast and fun to use. Not to mention how feature packed it is.
Well, the protests managed to get spez to shove his foot in his mouth over and over. It may not have made a change for Reddit users, but it certainly gave many people a clear red flag signal to avoid Reddit.
https://bruceediger.com/nws/

That was one of them.
This was not a total ban, but might be a beginning of one. Not all apps were included.
Shewchuk’s Triangle code for Delaunay mesh generation is some of the most elegant C-code I’ve ever seen [1]. It even won the SIAM Wilkinson Prize for numerical software at the time it was written.
It’s written in a literate style, and builds up from the most fundamental arithmetic operations and data structures, all the way to one of the most efficient mesh generators of its kind.
He has a few other codebases written in a similar style [2, 3]. It’s very different from what you see in the wild, but it’s been great for understanding what’s happening under the hood for complex algorithms like mesh generation.

1. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html

2. https://github.com/ctlee/Stellar

3. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/robust.html
I have one anecdotal piece of evidence: me :)

I picked up English very easily despite all the "oh it's all just exceptions". It feels natural even.

Latin on the other hand took much more effort.

French I never could quite get through. Reading sorta works sometimes given Latin, English and German knowledge. The whole language sorta always feels weird though. Can't bring myself to even try any longer.
I came across this recently which is a fun way of demonstrating how performance can change via using optimised code.

It is about running a rebuild if Minecraft on late 90s early 2000s Macs and showing the huge performance differences.

Yes Minecraft is not a great example but it is visually striking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awGVUxl0T0Y
Some of the criticism starts with "security was an after thought". I first heard that line of criticism in 1999 about completely unrelated code. Yet, in 2020, the wizards of the Kernel make the same "mistakes" I was making 20+ years ago? (IMO, no chance).

Engineers learn from mistakes...how is this industry not? Or, is "security after thought" just a lazy jab when any security issue is discovered? Or do we all still get so excited about the new-new that we keep skipping this part with the "it should be easy to fix later" BS we tell ourselves (about nearly everything)?
VSCode has a long list of me-too features and extensions but in my experience, not many are of great quality.
They can’t fix anything in SF because then it would ruin the aesthetic of ticky tacky faded pastel colored wall-to-wall vinyl sided two story houses with those single-car-garages-with-uselessly-steep-driveway-angles. At least the people who bought those for $60k back in the 60s get to pay about 1/20th of what the next owner would in property taxes so they can stay to witness the city crumble around them. Don’t want to mess up the feel of the neighborhood, you know.
It looks slimy and gives off the impression that you don't respect your users.
Where I live roses grow wild and always have. They smell as good as cultivated roses.
I would be curious to hear others’ experience. Some of this seems unlikely to be true (prisms doesn’t support joins??). We are considering prisms for a new project at work and I would love to know whether and how it’s working out for y’all.
Not going to click through a link to Reddit, so I don't know what's mentioned in there, but here are a couple examples and related discussions...

r/steam: https://lemmy.world/post/239075

r/piracy: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555

r/antiwork: https://infosec.exchange/@vertana/110557520854046992

r/pics: https://lemmy.world/post/206930
Often we just want "totally adhoc result set, but constrained using some common where or join." We keep on with the orm, but it's basically a slow and complicated form of a view at this point
Then they invent a new hardware paradigm.
I know I am a bit late but I wrote a short blog post about .zip domains which I thought explained the issue in pretty simple terms! Thought you all might appreciate it
C.S. Lewis Novel Helps Explain the Weirdness of 2023
It's weird being an old-school desktop computer user who never jumped on the mobile bandwagon. Not just because it makes me somewhat a dinosaur, but also because anecdotes about the average users internet experience these days sound like tales from some slightly-dystopic parallel universe.
Good, there's no reason why a handful of moderators should ruin things for all the users in each subreddit. It's nothing more than vandalism.
Many real estate salesperson agents who are not brokers can become Realtors. The broker license requires more hours of study and some states require a salesperson to complete a certain number of hours or transaction before they can become a broker. All salespersons must hang their license with a broker so there are no salespersons wandering around if they are practicing. If they are between brokers or inactive they may not need a broker in some state. According to ARELLO [1] there are over 3 million real estate brokers and salespersons in the US. About half are Realtors. I hope this information helps.[1] https://www.arello.org/
I really wish git bisect understood merges better, so that you didn't have to fake it with squash.
Hmmm.. hopefully between the two of them most can read it. The archive works for me.
One take I’ve heard on the certification mess is that the FAA wants small plane aviation to stay small and niche and maybe even die off for any purpose other than training pilots for commercial.

Basically the argument is that the FAA sees it as a hassle and a cost center and really only cares about commercial and government aviation.
I like whatever this is haha
Replacing nutrition science with some quackery is not any better - even quackery supported by one of the fathers of modern medicine.

The metabolism of vitamin C in particular is pretty well understood, and no magical benefits of getting huge doses has ever been proven to have any of the claimed positive effects (despite many prominent supporters' efforts, including Mr Pauling).
As far as I know, Firefox still allows this for any expired certificate which at least has correct domain details and authority (e.g. it once worked, which some dev should validate).

SSL version or cipher mismatch can be from other causes. For example, the server might be responding with a html page that your browser is interpreting as https or vice versa, such as if the developers run http for local dev and https for prod and something gets confused.
> Spending 20+ hours learning emacs or vim is quite literally a waste, it's time we all admit it.

For me, with my ability to learn at the rate that I do, Emacs provides the best solutions for Git (Magit), email (mu4e), calendar (Org), to-do lists (Org), note taking (Org) and more.

And I don't use software like mu4e because I already use Emacs; I use it because I have installed and evaluated dozens of email clients over the years and concluded that mu4e is the best for me given my requirements.

For people who aren't as particular about the software they use, Emacs may very well be "quite literally a waste".
Correct. Thanks for pitching in.
I wish the browser would just load the page without cookies whenever that happens. (ie. automatically switch to incognito mode for just that tab whenever security can't be guaranteed).

Also, perhaps disable keyboard entry so you can't type a password in without acknowledging that you probably aren't visiting the site you think you are.
Would it be alright with you if an economist weighed in on the Fed’s decision to hold interest rates, or are they not qualified to do so because they’ve never sat on the Fed’s board of governors?
What about radical new compute-in-memory paradigms based on memristors or something? We really need more performance for running transformers. Not for general purpose CPUs.
Reddit communities are the property of reddit, so this is not too much of a surprise. Admins > mods / users.
Well... some have speculated differently.
https://gamerant.com/star-trek-ferengi-anti-semitic-stereoty...
Help a guy out here, wouldya — which one isn't?
Found the sad story: https://airfactsjournal.com/2022/10/the-20-hour-cessna-172-e...
Tragic Origins of Father's Day (2022)
I would HATE if my phone kept on informing me of missed calls or messages when I’ve put it down somewhere. I’ll check it in my terms; that’s why it’s not in my hand
The question is what is the impact of lack of attention, it is hard to keep attention when the job is boring and if 5 minutes of lack of attention are critical than it might be a good idea to make the job less boring by gamifying it. Taking an action even simple as pressing a button makes people more alert, that's why Japanese train drivers for example must do some hand movement of sometimes say some word when they see a signal, apparently it keeps them more aware. I am not saying keeping those people pressing buttons in the lift was for security reasons but it could be a desired outcome which was later observed as useful and therefore the position was kept as is.
For his prediction to last as long as it has is an achievement on its own. Anyone that can predict 20 years out and be within 50% of a target on whatever field is a win to me. Moore should be chuffed it stood so long.
I don’t get why people are acting so surprised that remote work is winding down. The reality is that productivity falls off the rails after 12 months or so working remotely for most people.
I remember thinking back at the beginning of the pandemic how stupid is for people to make rash decisions that impact the future to deal with a short term problem (Covid pandemic)
It’s an ad hominem attack: Richard here asserts the author is incompetent, instead of putting forth an actual counter argument. It’s lazy at best.
If the elevator man doesn't think his job is bullshit, it doesn't not fall under the definition of the author.
I thought Twitter user numbers had dropped at least some. I mean even Elon acknowledged that ad revenue was down and user numbers have to affect ad revenue.
The amount of most vitamins and minerals you need are easily found in virtually any diet, including eating every day at McDonald's.
this is a point that massively gets overlooked in economic academic circles. especially since the fall of the berlin wall and dismantling of the USSR/eastern block.

neoliberal economics tends to disregards any other basics of economics as an afterthought, and the philosophical debate about how a country's goals (and thus economy) should be build hasn't been held since.
I recently found out that it's a custom font designed by a "Herrn Buser" known as "Buser BöV Schrift". It was specifically made to be readable by visually impaired persons from a larger distance.
This is pretty much my take too. I think the FAA knows that if GA becomes accessible, people will start using it, and they aren’t ready for an influx. Which is… understandable, kind of.
Thanks for pointing that out. Classification is half-baked at the moment. It should ultimately be restricting output to only appropriate labels, but right now it is simply sampling.
In 2020 it would have made sense as it was the mods sub.

In 2023 it doesn't make sense as the mods are free labour to Reddit Inc.
No need to eat bugs, eat vegetables, fruits, legumes, grains, nuts and seeds, comrade, and you'll help save the environment for your children.
Subversion's CLI is actually sane and much easier compared to the abomination provided by Git. Additionally, Subversion can be used entirely locally, without the need to deploy and configure any server application.

It seems that you are comparing apples to oranges. Building your own SVN server from the ground up can indeed require some effort. Doing the same for Git demands more or less the same level of effort on your part. So, I believe you are comparing building an SVN server from the ground up to something like installing Gitea or GitLab, or using Git locally.

Again, you don’t have to install an SVN server. Just run `svnadmin create REPONAME` and use the `svn` client to import your data into the repository.
Let us raise the banner of Reddit ever higher, under the tutelage of comrade Spez!
Claritin D and Zyrtec D are sold for allergy relief, and contain pseudoephedrine.
Next you say they should move to a 4-day workweek. Non-profit is a non-starter for the same reason; some admittedly dumb people with a lot of money (for one reason or another) want that money to become even more money come hell or high water.
Didn't these benchmarks used to have box plots for every comparison? Or am I thinking of another site?
I keep my browser fullscreen because websites usually break (read: horizontal scrollbars, or ridiculously narrow columns for content) or go into a mobile view if I don't.

I keep my terminal (read: text editor) fullscreen because then I have enough horizontal space to have two panes open next to each other (sometimes with an additional directory viewer to the left).

99% of the time, I'm in the terminal or the web browser. I don't understand what I would gain from not maximizing them, but I do understand what I would lose.
This answer is honestly very different from what I would have expected from a language afficionado. If I had this purely utilitarian view on learning, then I most likely wouldn't even consider Pascal in 2023.
Have you ever been accused of murder?
I’m an orphan of the spatial Finder, to be honest. macOS got features from NeXT and some of its own, but it lost cohesion. Though I’m not entirely sure how it would fit with the terabytes and Spotlight of today.

Off the top of my head:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/amp/

The after show of this podcast:
https://atp.fm/96
Send email using Cloudflare Workers with MailChannels
Neil posted the paper in our fraternity's ML group chat (MIT things lol), and I expressed some skepticism at the results.

Initially we started looking into it more for curiosity's sake, but as we started digging we kept finding more and more ridiculous stuff to the point where we decided to start working on blog post. Then David joined in on the action and helped a ton with the research and writeup.

No professor was involved. The paper was released yesterday, so we just documented as we went along in the investigation process. It only took like 8 hours of work to compile the doc. We finished it last night and posted to Twitter in the morning.
>What's happening here is that the government is saying to people that they're not allowed to be express themselves.

The ban only extends to flags on city property.
There's an enormous stack of SW in the HW that's enabling "cheap" ASIC development at the cost of chip performance. There's probably as much room to optimize on any given node as there are optimization opportunities for the SW on that part.

Both SW and HW have been leaning on Moore's law a long time.
And live a good life!
Yes this definitely happens. I'd say the flipside though is Chesterton's fence, where there's a good reason some things are the way that they are, but people with limited perspective say they're pointless. Both things happen and it's hard to tell which is which.
Did you sign a contract that said you would work “X” number of hours minimum? If you did, you’re in violation of said contract and being dishonest.

It’s not black and white, I get it, but the proper thing to do would be to negotiate a new contract that actually reflects your working relationship to your employer.
This smells of bad science journalism.

There is no way to manufacture a 2D item in 3D space.
also, i hope this is a good thing. Hopefully people will spend their resources on actual tangible problems compared to the massive, absolutely insane money burning machine that is the VC based startup environment.
Starbucks' revenue in 2022 was $33B. Their profit was $22B. That is an incredibly high margin for retail. These jobs wouldn't evaporate if Starbucks was paying a living wage.
>1st Bob: What you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers?

>Tom: Yes, yes that's right.

>2nd Bob: Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers take them directly to the software people?

>Tom: Well, I'll tell you why... because... engineers are not good at dealing with customers...

>1st Bob: So you physically take the specs from the customer?

>Tom: Well... No. My secretary does that... or they're faxed.

>2nd Bob: So then you must physically bring them to the software people?

>Tom: Well... No. ah sometimes.

>1st Bob: What would you say you do here?

>Tom: Look I already told you, I deal with the @#$% customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
Ace of Spades is one. I usually play with the OpenSpades client[1], but there is also Betterspades[2], and probably many other clients I don't know of yet. There are usually about 10-50 players online on the public servers listed on BuildAndShoot[3], variable depending on the time of day and mostly from Latin America it seems.

One can host the game with piqueserver[4]. I'm not sure if one can still host with the original Ace of Spades server, but the game was 'shut down' in 2019 so maybe not.

It's well worth a go - there is intense satisfaction in digging a tunnel undetected all the way through to the opposing team's base! Playing with friends enhances the enjoyment for me as one can be a little more strategic when in direct communication.

[1]: https://openspades.yvt.jp/

[2]: https://github.com/xtreme8000/BetterSpades

[3]: https://www.buildandshoot.com/servers/

[4]: https://www.piqueserver.org/
I believe you can type "thisisunsafe" on the SSL error page in Chrome to bypass any warnings.
I recently got to see the official documentation on the departure sign and it refers to what I called the "tic" as "Hochkomma" which would be a "quote" symbol.
You forgot wage suppression
That WAS true, until Scalia et al eviscerated the protections of the 5th Amendment if you invoke it after you start talking. Then (according to the majority opinion of the Court), your subsequent invocation of the 5th Amendment CAN be used as evidence against you.
There's probably heightened risk of having an unpatched vulnerability exploited if you keep processing the payload past the point where you suspect a bad actor is on the other end.
What boggles my mind is that for many many people this is their lived experience. They experience an internet inundated by ads. It's in equal parts incredible, sad and depressing.

Shakes fist at sky.

Saying that as someone who has always used ad blockers but is also paying for the youtube premium family plan.
The owners of reddit control the platform, but the users of reddit control the content. Reddit has nothing if people refuse to provide them with free content. That's the real power, but unless people are prepared to use that power, they're allowing reddit to control them. If everyone in the subreddits which were forcibly reopened simply agreed to not post or comment on anything in them the effect of the protest would be about as damaging as when they were locked.

I'm so sick of reddit's bullshit and it's clear that the platform is going to get worse from here on out. I honestly hope that people do move on and find and popularize new platforms. Even if reddit calms down and starts working with their users, the competition would be healthy and otherwise, I'm fine with reddit suffering the same fate as digg and myspace.
I do plan on self-hosting all (the very select few i use) JS and CSS. It's part of the binary for dead simple self-hosting. I'm going to attempt to be very privacy friendly, as much as possible, which will be an interesting adventure because it's ActivityPub related.

Regardless this is all just an exercise for me because, frankly, i hate most websites lol. The ones that look good also tend to be slow. The ones that are fast look like they're from 1990. There has to be a middleground, right?

I love that feeling of visiting some (very few) sites and they load so fast you have to double-take. I want to be that site. I want accessibility to be forefront. etc

We'll see how far i can get. I'm just a humble backend dev hah. But the site being 95% plain HTML is a good start, at the very least.
You're probably thinking of this one:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...