skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of those other experimenters identified 3-axis control as a critical problem to be solved, none of them knew about adverse yaw, none of them built a series of prototypes aimed at solving each problem, and none of them built a controllable powered airplane.

Keep in mind that the Wrights built a series of gliders, each one was to test a particular aspect of the flight problem.

Pilcher's designs were not capable of flight:

"Cranfield built a full-sized working replica of Pilcher's aircraft, but, based on wind tunnel tests with a scale model, they made several alterations to Pilcher's original designs, which they speculated Pilcher would have made, including filling in cut-away sections of the wings to increase the wing area, and therefore lift, and adding a swinging seat to aid control of the aircraft through shifting body weight; a refinement developed by Octave Chanute, which they believed Pilcher would have been aware of. They also added the Wright brothers' innovation of wing-warping as a safety backup for roll control. Pilcher's original design did not include aerodynamic controls such as ailerons or elevators."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Pilcher

and he left no lasting contribution to aeronautical advancement.

It is interesting, however, how many people assert that Wright's rivals designs would have / could have flown, and they set out to "prove" it by modifying those designs by incorporating the Wright innovations.

Besides that, the fundamental reason these competitors could not get into the air is pretty simple. The Wrights had a propeller design that was double the efficiency of everyone elses' propellers. This means the Wrights doubled the effective engine power. Still, the Wrights could not find an existing engine with the needed power/weight ratio, and so they designed and built the very first lightweight aero engine. The Wrights also were the first to create an efficient wing cross section. It still required a much bigger wing than the Wrights originally anticipated.

I.e. even tossing aside the lack of control the rival machines had, there is SIMPLY NO WAY they had the power/weight to get it off the ground. They didn't have the engine, the propeller, or the wing section.

P.S. Even a brick shithouse will fly if you attach a powerful enough engine.
I turn on some white noise over virtual meetings to attenuate sudden volume changes and it makes it much more bearable. At times Im all ears but most of the time the meeting should have included 2-3 people instead of 12-14.
I was thinking about this recently... let me see if I can sensibly phrase this.

A human designer would figure out a workable process for, say, neural networking, and optimize that. They would select one or a limited number of potential solutions, and construct a model using those. Natural selection, though, works with every aspect of a mechanism. It can't not; nobody is controlling evolution and saying 'just use electrical signaling for building the nervous system; disregard the chemistry'.

Every environmental aspect of physics, biology, chemistry, quantum mechanics, and more, is participating in natural selection to the degree that it has any impact on survival. There are no guardrails keeping complexity within manageable limits.
An Executive Briefing Paper on the Creative Economy
> The immense hardware complexity of modern computers, both mobile phones and datacenter servers, is a seemingly endless source of bugs and vulnerabilities in system software.

I'm a bit torn here. On one side, I'd really love to have equipment that can be proven to be bug free in theory or in practice. On the other side, often enough the only thing allowing me as an user to actually use a computing device for things that have not been intended by the manufacturer - everything from running my own software over running pirated games to using ad and tracking blockers - are (serious) security bugs, or when one uses the manufacturer-provided options to load their own software, the device irrevocably bricks parts of itself like Samsung's Knox environment does after rooting your phone, which breaks a ton of stuff - most notably Netflix DRM or Google Pay.
Linus Torvalds uses Fedora for his personal dev environment which alone speaks volumes about it. I tend to bounce around and mix up my personal dev machine distro every few months but have enjoyed Fedora when I've used it. Arch is great for AUR.
Isn’t this often just the Barnum effect, especially when ground truth is established by asking people if you are right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
> If you don’t think it should be fair use the solution is getting governments to amend copyright law to clarify fair use

True, assuming that GitHub/MSFT/OpenAI's stance is correct. Just because they have that stance doesn't mean it is[1].

In the end, these gray areas will be decided in court.

[1] I personally think it probably is, which is why I removed all of my stuff from the open web and these sorts of services -- I see no other way to prevent this use of my data.
I think this entire action is done BECAUSE of Oracle and Alma is just betting that Oracle is invested enough to take on the fight that Alma can't and will use them as a wedge.

While IBM/RH is unlikely to outright name Oracle as the reason I think it's clear they are the basically the only big player selling support contracts for what is essentially RHEL and undercutting them.
> Either nothing is significant or everything is

Alternatively: some things are significant and other things aren’t? As a matter of living in reality, I choose that middle option :P
The problem is that the people signed up as crew for a dangerous job. Anybody with a working sense of self preservation wouldn't have needed a regulation.
I've always found the Red Hat way to be less intuitive than the Debian way, and I got my start on Slackware then Red Hat (before it was Fedora, included with a book around 1998). I see a lot of people complain about using apt for package management, but I've never had any issues. I've run game servers, database servers, and web servers, all on Debian without issue. I've done light administration to CentOS and RHEL servers, and I've always been confused because I reach for the Debian way. I realize that is my lack of knowledge, and as a software developer I have to adapt constantly, so I'm not really sure why it never "clicked" with me.
In most countries of Europe, the capitals _are_ major economic and cultural centers of their respective countries.

Actually I can't really think of a country where that's not the case - only countries with a very strong second city.
Why Haidt and Schmidt’s Proposed Social Media Reforms Are Insufficient
not to mention unnecessary car trips even in just normal cars! Do I really need to go from point A to point B? I could just stay point A and that's safer.
The way things work, I remember reading it as a kid, that is what kickstarted my drive to learn things from first principles.
> The policy says human eyes will never see the contents of your private repositories.

I love how they say that as if it's a meaningful distinction in some way.
THIS!

Listening to their experts on what add-one to buy is like listening to car salesman on what add-one you should purchase for your vehicles. The incentives just aren’t aligned. Of course cloud-neutral vendors like Mongo are no better.
Anyone still using Winmerge? Been using it for 10-15 years and it’s just been absolutley fantastic for my use
just tried it, gives nasty looking black bars around the outside of firefox.

latency is still there. e.g. pressing super has about a 100ms wait before the application launcher appears, same as with compositing on.
Your approach worked rather well for the Germans getting over the economic crisis in the 1930s. The events of the early 1940s, however, gave them cause to reconsider this course of action.
Real time means that there is a requirement on maximum time (end-to-end latency, photon to motion, whatever), and that the worst case behavior of the system meets the requirement.
Hijacking Your Bandwidth: How Proxyware Apps Open You Up to Risk
More like, EVE is real life espionage and power politics… except what's at stake is just pixels. The important stuff is so real you need spreadsheets to keep tabs on it all, but the consequences are pixels and video game numbers going up or down.
I’ve been using a command interpreter other than cmd for over 20 years.
I remember differently, I remember visual studio 6 bringing my PC to is knees (although to be fair I was a broke student and my PC was a potato).
Watts per hour are not a unit of power or energy. Watts are power. Watt hours are energy.
Russia stepping up security at Black Sea base with spy dolphins
In times like this Fark[1] is a great resources for tracking all the latest happenings

[1] https://www.fark.com/comments/12902150
There are more people doing deep dives that you probably suspect. Safety regulations involving things like ships, subs, and airplanes are quite literally written in blood.

Is it too onerous to require a ship have navigation lights and life jackets?

Subs should have at least some basic safety minimums.
Perhaps they should, telemundo has very deep pockets
TLDR: "The entire shipping industry is doing it wrong, so we're doing it differently."

Also:

> OceanGate’s submersibles are the only known vessels to use real-time (RTM) hull health monitoring. With this RTM system, we can determine if the hull is compromised well before situations become life-threatening, and safely return to the surface. This innovative safety system is not currently covered by any classing agency.

So I guess that system didn't work? All the accounts I've heard suggest that the hull collapsed instantly.
> The shuttle did something nobody had done before

Put spy satellites into orbit and then later retrieve them? That's not to be critical, but we could have done much of the scientific and space station work with a different platform and likely had a much lower mission failure rate. The design of the shuttle wasn't solely about this criteria, though.
1. No. You must communicate before hand if you intend to not attend. To not show up when you are expected is disrespectful to everyone.
You learn linked lists in comp sci yet rarely if ever use them. Still, they are a basic concept required to understand trees, DAGs, etc later…
Here’s an out of the box thought. Can we wrap the globe in undersea cables or does transmission losses kill the idea? Reason being that time zones and hemispheres make the “renewable is not always on” problem go away. It’s always on somewhere, so if there was a global grid you don’t really need storage?
Lot of words, not a lot of meaning.

> A great experience should find a balance between creating friendly spaces and over-policing each other. The impulse to protect can sometimes degrade into nitpicking. We should drive towards norms that feel natural and easy to observe.

Like what does this mean? Why haven't previous social networks tried this?
I hope he doesn't beat himself up too much. There are probably hundreds of people at least who had enough deep sea experience to have spoken out against OceanGate before this happened, it wasn't James Cameron's sole responsibility. Hopefully somebody close to him can talk to him about survivor guilt. He shouldn't blame himself for this.
Knock and brush
Russia doesn't lie to deceive, they lie to insult.
I think they are. Though while being a bit strong, they’re not entirely wrong.

Henry VIII’s England was a major world power, not as huge as it would become under his daughter Elizabeth, but in the list of world powers.

Italy… was not, tho it still held significant cultural sway. It was midway through the renaissance at that time. That is likely what the original poster was referring to (and is right, if a bit over enthusiastic).

The big guns were really Spain & France, and then England & the Netherlands challenging from behind.

It wouldn’t be until Elizabeth that the “British Empire” would really start to be a dominant power, and she laid the foundation for the expansion to come.
In that case I'm curious what it is about GROUP BY and HAVING that you recently learned - everyone I know that groks division knows their RDBMS-of-choice's SQL dialect inside out - it's like it's impossible to learn one without the other.
How can we know why the popular thread was flagged?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452290

I can't vouch for it, there is no button
The controller isn't the problem. It's the electronics it's communicating with. I'd bet dollars to donuts it was loaded with hobbyist grade SBCs and an over reliance on whatever the laptop was being used for.
if you went to any software forum some years ago, most people hosted their own servers or did their own projects just for the sake of it.

Now it's a lot of making some project to get into company A or solving some leetcode problems. Or learning AWS/Heroku/Azure or taking the certificates to getting more employable

On the other hand I had friends in like 2005 running their own clusters of Sun Sparc servers just for fun and try it out. This type of nerdiness I didn't see in a while
Reddit became a cesspool because the real world became more argumentative, divisive and particularly, more ideolised. That's reflected in a rise in inflammatory conversation.

That's why old forums had rules for 'no politics, no religion.' There's probably a few more categories to add now...
I thought that a key value of a RHEL subscription is the support.

E.g. that if you hit a bug with the kernel, GNOME, Ceph, OpenShift, libvirt, or any such software, you get priority (and phone) support from the company that employs many developers of said software, and they are paid to fix your bugs more quickly.

Since I have not had a RHEL subscription myself: Is this accurate in practice?
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1672293903486074880
It was a cesspool, with subs like jailbait and fatpeoplehate running rampant, turning platform into nothing but a hate-obsessed one with lots of porn (mind you, not the type that reddit became famous for around ~2018, but revenge and gif reuploads to imgur). I certainly would not consider any of those "what made reddit great".

What made reddit great was the era after this, when many subs were then removed for promoting hate, users could also start avoiding subs so they won't show up, and everything else left up to user choice. This was the time when more people started to trust reddit more, and thanks to the likes of tumblr struggling, people felt comfortable enough to post more valuable and personal content.

Until of course they started messing with things again and then started allowing a lot of violence on the front page and filling feeds with recommendations.
Ongoing discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452290
I don't think this necessarily entirely applies here, since the CEO was in the submarine that failed. Did they put others at risk? Yes. But it's not like they weren't also at risk, not that that makes it ok.
Contamination of watersheds is easy - depending on which source you believe, a single drop can contaminate 100 to 600 liters of water. A single cigarette butt can contaminate 500 liters.

And once the stuff is in the watershed/groundwater, it can be really really hard to get out of there, especially if the watershed is enclosed or doesn't have much outflow.
“Car owners are arseholes” is not transport policy
I just listened for the first time, and yeah, it's well presented for a general audience, but I was completely unable to believe that they thought that the steps they took in their search made logical sense. It's like the reality TV version of a lost media search. You don't need experts to find a lost pop song, you just need the internet!
Ecoflow and others do battery and invertors with solar connectors for such a system. Much of their range allows up to 800W of solar panels and all in would be about $1500 total with 2 panels and that gives you 2KWh or so of battery storage. Your typical usage for a high end monitor is maybe 130W and laptops vary but almost certainly below 100W typically.
The fact they scored $23m from claiming the rights to a measly ~50,000 songs is pretty mind-boggling (though that was over a period of 5yrs apparently).
> this is why white collar crime doesn't pay as well as people assume

This is a sample size of 1 (or whatever count of successfully prosecuted cases of fraud) compared to the amount of fraud there is out there. This guy just had bad luck.

There are countless instances of white-collar crime that do indeed pay very well. Some of them even operate at an industrial scale and don't even try to hide - see countless examples of massive companies routinely committing fraud - from Comcast often misbilling customers, to Airbnb reneging on their various promises and conspiring with scammers using their platform, to Amazon willingly commingling inventory and allowing counterfeiters to defraud not only end-customers but also honest sellers who often foot the bill for the returns, etc.
Extremely amusing to see that the war of the currents is back on, between cheap solar panels and the advent of high-voltage DC power transmission. Edison might still get the last laugh.
Humans’ experience and understanding of the world around them isn’t limited to a symbolic representation.

It remains to be seen whether you can truly be an effective intelligence with understanding of the world if all you have are symbols that you have to manipulate.
Sure, that's totally fine and I guess you are the type of person I mean i miss :) You have a strong opinion about something and is open for debate. But the "new" programmers just take the easy path and accept what some random influencer is saying

I just gave Docker as an example, could be anything you like from CUDA clusters to having some cool iptables scripts

"But the AI stuff also didn't interest me much since it's black box tech leveraging how much spaghetti modern GPUs can throw at the wall, which no one understands, made and controlled by giant corporations. More proprietary magic than democratic science"

Exactly How I feel!
If they have the most advanced rockets and satellites, then surely they can sell those products? The profit from the sales would fund research into their next big product.

Apple didn't keep raising money to pay for the development of their next iPhone. They made sufficient cash from the sale of current generation to fund the development of the next generation.

So if SpaceX needs to continue raising cash, they're selling the product at a loss, meaning that they're not in fact significantly cheaper than the competition. They're just dishonest about their pricing.
> We have seen that they’re capable of carrying out extraterritorial assassinations

These took months if not years to prepare, even with domestic ones.
A senior American intelligence official tells me for both Ukraine and U.S. intelligence, it’s a “watch and see if they destroy themselves sort of situation.” They said it was going to be a long night of watching how this develops. Said Wagner is preparing* to mobilize—it’s believed they want to head towards Moscow. Edited original tweet for better context.

https://twitter.com/JimLaPorta/status/1672377846524772353
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you know more than others, that's great—please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn something, or else don't post. Sneers and putdowns only make everything worse.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Doesn't read like a good source. Citing the loose cannon does not make a civil war.

But yea, Prigozhin has been hinting that he considers civil war an option when he commented on the retreat from Bakhmut: “we will leave on the 10th of May, and we will wait until the Russian people need us, which we believe is going to happen really soon if you look at how our leaders are acting.”[0]

From my armchair, it doesn't look like a bunch of mercenaries could meaningfully operate within Russia. They'd need decisive support from branches of the regular army. So the question is whether he has alliances. As long as they haven't revealed themselves, this will stay cold. Or Prigozhin will die real quick.

[0] https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-clans-war-russia-interview-suc...
One thing I fear is RHEL starting to add in code that is not GPL'd, but starts to become necessary to properly run the system. Then if you have the full source, you will still be required to strip out their proprietary software and patch the GPL source to get it to work properly. They could also add specific files to the source that contains your "customer ID", based on needing to be logged in to download the source. I know that starts to get into aluminum hat territory, but stranger things have been done to maintain a business.
Those two are othogonal. I've been to the Grand Canyon a couple dozen times in my life. Does that make me a geologist?
That sounds good but it is not true. The distribution of income is not uniform on the face of Earth and that is not due to sheer choice. The places where people with lower incomes live are not always the places where they would prefer to live.

Location still matters for many reasons, infrastructure, safety, public health, climate, and industry-specific agglomeration effects being among them.
The Address of the Mt. Gox Hacker
This is an extremely weird thing to say, since Jessica is legitimately a cofounder of YC…
> If you don’t read websites about Apple features, how are users supposed to intuit these changes?

See Tips notification after system update. Don't delete Tips notification. Check Tips notification during boring downtime.
Ask HN: Rails vs. Next.js vs. other JavaScript/TS back end in 2023
Hi everyone!

I'm working on a web app that's starting to grow. It's currently written in Next.js, both frontend and backend (database is PostgreSQL), but as complexity of new features increases, I'm starting to hit the limitations of Next.js framework. I love Ruby on Rails and would love to rewrite the backend part of Next.js (and keep React frontend) to Ruby on Rails. Currently there are only two developers actively working on the project: me and another external developer that doesn't know Ruby/Rails, but has pretty good experience building web apps in Next.js.
He's not a fan of switching to Rails for obvious reasons.
I'm thinking of adding Rails backend to build the features that I need: bg processing, db changes/versioning, authorization, etc. and slowly replace Next.js backend with Rails, while keeping the Next.js frontend code mostly intact.
The external developer will be able to query Rails API and continue working on frontend, and I'll take care of any backend in Rails.
Any opinions why I should or shouldn't do this are highly appreciated! :)
Thanks!
Reddit already had this, it's called Moderation. Forums of old had it, and a set of rules to read.

It's really not that hard, people just want to have their cake (free for all conversation) and eat it too (profitable and somehow magically making everyone nice without moderation/rules)
Pressing command+k, attempting to find a solution to an issue- but the solution is for app routes not pages route.

Having them separate was better for documentation satisfaction.