skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hondas and Subarus are not popular in the Netherlands. They exist but are very expensive, even for older models. Go spec a new Honda on their NL site; it’s insane.

Toyota is popular with the Yaris being highly rated and reliable as measured by ANWB (Dutch AAA). Anecdotally I see a lot of Hyundais around where I live; the EV6/Ionic is a popular eclectic model.
It really depends on the environmental conditions. In the case of a deep sea submersible you might expect that the controller will always be in controlled indoor conditions, depending on when/where they open the hatch. In normal operation it's going to be dry, and if there's a leak the controller probably isn't going to be of much use anyway. (same goes with the rest of the electronics).

A car is of course much different, most components have to operate for years without maintenance in a very uncontrolled, varied set of environments.
Agreed. At my undergraduate we didn't have an equivalent, and a common complaint amongst the TA's was how little concrete devops skills the students had. One of my friends TAing a second year course even went so far as to say almost all of his time in office hours was (watching students fail to do, and then) showing students the basics.
I think it’s obvious to non experts that they cut corners.
Another reason we need a better alternative to AWS: they will go as far as to shutdown your AWS infrastructure if you are somehow labeled as a racist or a racist sympathizer by their system.
If by black projects you mean "Cayman bank accounts controlled by a shell company owned by a few Magnates and Government higher-ups", yes, sure they are.
Django + HTMX. Can go from nothing to a deployed web app in a week. zero complexity, unmatched stability, and every boilerplate thing is written for you.
How about you ask me what I think instead of telling me what I think.

Because what I think is not what you claim.
That's very interesting, how often do you have text conversations with your doctor?
You're the best person in this thread.

Of course you have to clarify that you mean white racists, because you'd be the most racist person in this thread if you meant the 33% of blacks who want miscegenation to be banned again: https://i.redd.it/fwgz4oyty85b1.png

I guess we should burn your house down just in case.
What kind of mileage do you get? I have around 4,000 miles on the car now and I have 39 MPG average. I just took a longer trip (1,600 miles total) and averaged 27.5 mpg for the trip. A good deal of my other driving is shorter regional trips which are too far for a bike to be practical. I average around 60 MPG, having the 42 miles of range on the battery helps.

Agree with you on the cargo space. My previous car is an Outback and has just as much usable space as this car, which is a larger vehicle. The main reason I got this car is I wanted a plug-in hybrid and it was the one that met my requirements and was available.

A station wagon is a great form factor for me. Plenty of room inside the vehicle and lower to the ground so it's easy to put stuff on the roof rack. Unfortunate that no one is really making them.
Same is true in the presence of law; there's just more bureaucracy.
Short answer: obsolescence. The article hints at that, prices increased once the 707 was no longer considered a commercial product. I guess here, but the initial contract stipulated prize stability for a certain period after the last 707 delivery and them something about retirement of the 707 fleet.

Getting small quatities for obsolete aircraft parts, even in the civilian world, costs fortunes.

And yes, if it was (speculation) a new production run, all the manufacturing most likely needed re-certification: new production site, new production tech and so on. Maybe even certification to whatever standard was used for the original 707 / E-3, which might even be impossible (surface treatment that is now illegal due to EHS reasons, material norms being obsolete requiring new certification of the part using e.g. plastics with another norm...).

Plus the obligatory surcharge for the endless pockets of the litteral Pentagon.
At least in Germany, this means you will pay more taxes that you wouldn't otherwise, not that you would go to prison. I think it happens if more than 80% of your yearly revenue comes from a single client. You can always start a company and this is not a problem anymore.
That is the default map in Japan, just search google images for 世界地図
Yea I remember reading similarly. I was just thinking about how the Mueller report lead to the indictments of dozens of Russian agents and a couple trump advisers. Shortly after the whole RNC and DNC hacks.
Svelte Stores and connect api are a simpler and more powerful solution to this than any library I’ve ever used. I’m curious what you would recommend.
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Inspired by the Cicada 3301 phenomenon and others, I created an internet scavenger hunt to test your web development knowledge and wit. It has 20 steps, getting more challenging the further you get. Time estimate: 1 hour(?)

Fun fact: I created a spreadsheet with ideas for this back in July 2014. I think as far as side projects go this one didn't take me too long.
> humans

There is intelligent thought and action, and there is unintelligent thought and action. Intelligent is that "which checked" (intus-legere); the other, the """impulsive""", is not.
Thanks, that's what this article reminded me of.
The Army.

A lot of studies are done on high-level, competitive NCAA / college athletes. Both cuz they're, like, already at a university, but also NCAA has mandatory physicals, and high level athletics lends itself to controlled lifestyles.

Both tend to rule out most health issues as well; in theory you can be diabetic and play NCAA Div 1 ball, but selection bias tends to weed them out, while the Army explicitly does so.
This entire paper is written as a disproof of the distributional hypothesis. If you want to understand why it's a profoundly unhelpful pseudoscientific idea, this paper is a good start.

The test for a capacity C in a system1 has nothing to do with proxy measures of that capacity in system2.

The capacity for an oven to cook food may be measured by how much smoke it lets of when burning -- but no amount of "smoke" establishes that a dry ice machine can cook.

This type of "engineering thinking" is pseudoscience.
It’s unclear to me what the “63 years without a fatality” track record refers to. Private submarines?
That’s all well and good, but as soon as the mass manufacturing of the item halts, it’s no time at all before the assembly machinery is dismantled, the people reskilled, software updated, supply chains cut, etc.

So when they’re approached to make some more, what are they going to do? The easy answer is turn down the request, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. Then they’d have said something like “the person who made these retired three years ago, the machinery is now scrap metal, the software for that machinery is on a floppy disk in a recycling centre somewhere, I don’t even know how who sold us the materials, and whatever we can do to replicate it would be considered a new product that has to go through testing again. So if you want this it’d take a lot of resources, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

To which the response would have been: “get it done.”

I’m sure there was some added on to sweeten the deal, mind, but that isn’t the outrageous thing, nor would it be as dramatic as it sounds. The outrageous thing is that Boeing would have specifically outlined the end of production of components years in advance, and that would have been opportunity to buy and stockpile while the price was reasonable. Of course, some middle manager would have said “lol no it’s just a bin, we will just get one from Walmart”, and the complications would have only been realised when it was too late.
> were you there for the Old Times?

Do you even lift, bruh?

Come on, you said you were in middle school in 2004ish. "Old Times", indeed.
Even wireless doesn't seem that much of an issue. There isn't going to be any external interference down there, so as long as they've tested all the systems it should be OK. Also it's not going to be dusty, and it's not humid (if anything the humidity is going to be very low as the water outside is cold, any moisture in the air will condense on the hull)
RubyMotion?

http://www.rubymotion.com/
Oh wow I didn't know that.. thanks I will have a look at this!
> Yeah, how horrifying that you’ve expressed a preference for society to be made of the able bodied and sound of mind.

I can think of a few world leaders who have expressed that preference, according to very particular definitions, and in fact took concrete steps to make their preference a reality. Is that the sort of leader you want for yourself?
>"solely by reading text".

Of course, that does leave the door Open, that when these models are put in a physical real body, a robot, and have to interact with the world, then maybe they can gain that "common sense".

This doesn't mean a silicon based AI can't become conscious of skills that are hard to verbalize. Just that they don't yet have all the same inputs that we have. And when they do, and they have internal thoughts, they will have the same difficulty verbalizing them that we do.
Will it be paving the way of replacing French government with a sixth form of republic or a 25th form of a government?

I mean, we all know that president dissolving the parliment/congress/house is an unworkable mechanism for a sustainable government.

A government that is afraid of its citizens is the right kind of governance: it keeps them within their expected functions: "expected" is the operative word.
No judgement of OceanGate either way, but the Monday morning quarterbacking is pointless.

Doing dangerous things is dangerous. If we had infinite time and infinite money no corners would be cut for anything, all risk would be subdued, and we'd still be waiting on the first person to climb Everest or go into space. Cameron himself has taken risks in subs, and if one of them imploded I'm sure you could find some cheap or untested component to blame.
The article goes on in the next paragraph to say that they were being charged $300 for the same trash cans only a few years ago.

Presumably all the sunk costs were already sunk
That statement will age like beautiful, fine wine when your LLMs keep training on LLM generated data and get influenced by the very same creators putting in clickbait images, leading the LLM to believe it is the most appropriate part, etc.
any learning material recommendations on this?
If you haven't worked in the government it can be hard to appreciate how many rules there are around procurement and how complex and sometimes crazy they are. At one project I worked on we used Red Hat enterprise Linux because the rules prohibited "freeware" and Red Hat was nice enough to charge us money for the CDs the operating system came on. It was going on a classified machine so taking advantage of the features that differentiated it from the free Fedora version was out of the question but rules are rules. But generally the rules that applied to me working at an FFRDC were much less burdensome than some of those my friends who have worked at defense contractors have had to deal with.

All of which is to say that while it's absurd for a trash can to have a price of $50,000, we can't be sure that this doesn't actually reflect changes in the actual cost structure of providing it. The rules are different for providing commercial off the shelf (COTS) goods versus specially procured goods. There are a lot of rules and regulations that would apply to the later but not the former. What if the old version was made in Mexico, for instance? Then you might have to go to a US company and get them to analyze the old version to figure out what composition the plastic is, create new molds to the exact specifications as the old shape, and have your new parts certified as identical to the old parts while being produced 100% in the US by US people.

Which isn't to say that defense or other contractors can't be huge sleazeballs who try to gouge the government sometimes. And sometimes this is outright corruption like the time that one guy in the DoD who was leaving for a job at LabView soon said another group where I worked was going to have to redo our work in LabView and we should get in bed with a corporation too. But this was on a recorded meeting so we were able to get that decision reversed. But often the way it works is that defense contractors working on cost-plus contracts do their best to interpret regulations in such a way as to maximize their costs so that they maximize their profits.

Preventing outright corruption like with the LabView guy is really important but the complicated rules we write to try to prevent that sometimes end up producing requirements documents that let a defense contractor claim with a straight face that the $47,000 they spent producing the trash was all legally mandated expenses and then they get to sell it to the government for $52,000 and pocket the standard 10% of the $5,000 difference.

I don't have a good solution for how to fix this in defense specifically, but Alon Levy's work on why transit costs are ten times larger in the US than in Spain or Italy seems like a good starting point. Or I'm currently reading ReCoding America which promises to give some insight on government software porcurement.
This comment is so incorrect, it almost feels like a joke. Prior to 2019, Cameron was one of only 3 humans who had ever descended to the deepest part of earth. Cameron is essentially as qualified as you can get in the submarine community.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_descended...
Open Modular Construction System
This is a false dichotomy. It's not the case that models are truly capable of reasoning if and only if they are insensitive to irrelevant perturbations to input. In other words, the mere fact that sensitivity to names sometimes causes significant degradations in model performance doesn't mean that we've observed models are incapable of anything we might call "reasoning"—leaving aside the matter of how we'd define that.
Other than homomorphic encryption of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Often you can't get the original part, so you have to hire someone to take standard rubber and mold it into what you need, which can be more or less expensive depending on the use.
>right now a used Panda year 2021 with low mileage (10-20,000 km) is around 12,000-13,000 Euro

Fuck me, 13,000 Euros is what the original owner of my used Panda paid for it back in 2013, while I got it in 2017 for 6000 Euros with full kit and an extra winter tire + wheel set. I'm guessing it was cheap because it hasn't got much demand for it on the used market so users wanting to get rid of it need to lower the price.

It's definitely not a 13000 car used.
True he hasn't built submarines. But he's an investor in Triton Submersibles.

https://www.curbed.com/2022/12/ray-dalio-james-cameron-trito...

Also:

> And in 2012, Cameron was the first person to conduct a solo expedition to the deepest known part of the ocean floor, the Pacific's 10,994-meter-deep Mariana Trench.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z434n5/meet-ron-allum-engine...
Back to dTrace would be the obvious solution. Only OracleLinux has that.

Seemless probes across the kernel, libs and user-facing app.

No arrays.

Works for decades, but linux devs thought it they could do better.
Posting to Instagram really isn't the same as posting a photo to the internet in general though. That for-profit business is running the software, hosting the servers, and writing their own terms of service, they can block what they want at that point.

The real fundamental change after the dot om bubble was that the open web effectively died and was replaced with a handful of walled gardens. If you have your own site and post pictures to it there are very few that can stop you, posting to Instagram and you're effectively politely requesting a company to take rights to your photo and host or online if they would be so kind.
>It (OceanGate) added that the classification agencies "slowed down innovation… bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation".

As a private pilot who is considering building a kit aircraft, this is certainly true. It can be exceedingly expensive to prove safety standards have been met for new designs, which is why so few new certified aircraft are on the market and old designs are so expensive. This leads to the whole industry slowing to a crawl. But that absolutely doesn't mean safety standards haven't been met with new designs.

However, if I build a kit plane, the FAA will require it be emblazoned "Experimental" and commercial activity - such as paying passengers - is forbidden.

I hope the paying customers of this sub were well aware of the level of risk they were taking.

All that being said, I'm supportive of anyone's right to go and build a contraption that may end their life, so long as they don't take anybody or anyone else's property with them.
I think you've touched on it in regards to ecosystem maturity. When ever I traipse through this topic I do find mostly research projects. I know there are startups in this space, but I think it'd be hard to show a $$ value proposition for them, so I can understand why most things look quite research focused instead.

I think it's likely that instead of a generic unikernel ecosystem and companies built around that, we could instead see very specifically targeted unikernel applications as SaaS offerings. And as consumers of such a service we might not even know (or care) they are unikernel hosted at all, just that they're faster. E.g. my comment below about DB unikernels.

If, say, e.g. Snowflake were to run bare on the hypervisor for extra oomph... it wouldn't impact their customers beyond some rather transparent performance improvements. And such a thing would be done only if there was profit in it that would exceed the R&D costs -- put another way, if you're a company considering this, you could either buy more and bigger hardware, or invest in unikernel... former is far less risk.

Which is why I think where we'd see action in this space would be from very specific performance oriented spaces. E.g. super low latency transaction processing for e.g. telecomes, finance / high-frequency-trading, ad-tech RTB, games ... rather than say large scale analytic workloads.
I was being sarcastic, I thought it was obvious. I'm not sarcastic on the fact that it is plain corruption though, it is.

You defending corruption and fraud is just so far fetched it's hard to take your OP seriously.
> I can throw my macbook into a bag and pull out a week later with just a small battery draw down

Hmm, I can't with a Macbook Air M1. I lose maybe up to 10% a day.

When suspended, I see it appearing on the network a few times each hour. I can leave a process running in the background and see that it's getting a few seconds of cpu time each time this "suspended" mac wakes up to do whatever it is doing. There are no settings I can see for a deeper sleep and to stop it doing whatever it is doing. I think they check for updates and such.
Saw the movie, but don’t remember that being part of the plot.
If it were anyone else in Hollywood, I'd agree. However, James Cameron is kind of a unique individual. I know someone who worked with him for several years on Avatar, and the stories I've heard are intriguing. Cameron has extreme attention to detail, which is why his films tend to take much longer to produce than other features. What I've heard is that Cameron wanted to look at Avatar fully rendered frame by frame before approving it.

He also, by all accounts, has developed genuine expertise in deep sea diving by having the same attention to detail. This isn't to say he's doing the design all by himself. Rather, he worked with engineers and designers to build subs, and is meticulous on every detail with them, the same process he uses on his films.

His expertise speaks for itself: his sub has dived into the Challenger Deep successfully, because it was solidly & competently engineered.
They don't "read" emails for ad targeting anymore (according to them). But they certainly do for search and spam filtering, which are features that users expect.
-a is a good example for opening with the non-default app (tip: leave out the file argument to simply launch the app), but to open specifically with TextEdit there is -e:

open -e example.csv

And -t opens with the default text editor.

Other useful options include -j to launch the app hidden, -R to reveal the file in the Finder, -W to stop execution until the app exits (useful for scripts), and -n to launch a new instance of the app (new icon will show up in the Dock). You can connect multiple flags for more complex effects.

For example, I have a script which opens iA Writer and waits until I close it before continuing. If I already have it open and editing other stuff, -W will wait for that instance of the app to close, which is a bother. So instead I do:

open -Wna 'iA Writer' example.txt

Which opens a new instance of the app and waits until that one is closed, thus avoiding interfering with previous work.

Highly recommend taking a look at man open. It isn’t long but it is quite useful.
If you analyze how much the product and all associated processes can actually cost and then find a discrepancy (or find some pointless regulation that drives up the cost so much and explain how it was designed for profit and not purpose) then you can claim corruption. But simply saying "if prices look high to me it must mean corruption" is very naive.

If US gov bought cheap plastic stuff from another country instead there can well still be corruption expressed in their choice of suppliers etc.
I have stopped using paper towels after discovering those "flour sack" towels at Menards. I bought a lot of them so there is always a stack in the kitchen. They are a joy to use and easily replace paper towels for 99% of their functions. We still keep paper towels but the roll lasts forever now.
They do, but what they owe differs by what part of the government one is dealing with. You’ll find that, with regards to the military, one thing they do not owe to citizens is real-time, unfettered access to intelligence.
And now imagine that the person doing that work has to be certified according to aerospace standards... And believe me, that happens all the time...
This doesn’t add up to 50k. Maybe 300. Probably not even
Sota Bi/Multilingual LLMs with good enough representation of the languages (takes much less data than you'd think) are human level translators. Hallucinations on tasks like Summaries, translations etc are near non-existent.
Beyond designing, tooling, and maintaining, there is an amazing time and cost savings to being able to continue to procure existing items.

The amount of paperwork/documentation that has to change, logistics and inventory tracking, plus the battery of tests to check that a new item maintains the same mil standard qualifications as the old.
feels like the requirements of precision over time (clockdrift) put limits on the usefulness of this method
Just think what the private sector could have accomplished if the military didn't waste its time developing ARPANET and early internet standards. Lot of good those ever did us.
You're right that LLMs can produce new knowledge, but you're misinterpreting the quote. The claim in the article is that LLMs won't produce anything new when asked for "a paper about Middlemarch". The rest of the article goes on to demonstrate how language models can create new knowledge.
Exactly.

You expect him to read the address not the content.

Maybe you don't mind if he reads the content sometimes but if he reads every postcard every time you would be pissed.