skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wing seems to be making solid real-world progress. They regularly post updates to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Wing/videos
That doesn't sound reasonable. The figures I found say it's 2.5-30x the cost.

https://www.fixr.com/costs/build-parking-garage
While attempting to quote your post, I ended up quoting your quote of another comment, hence the "complete overhaul", not "extensive overhaul". My bad.

You're doing a lot of guesswork to reach your conclusions. You have no idea which parts of the F-22 are more fragile and require frequent changes or if the F-35 uses the same materials as the F-22. You're assuming that flaws from the F-22 haven't been fixed for the F-35. We have no idea if there's a problem with the F-35's internal bays, but you assume they need fixing before flying again. And to use your example, I'm not sure if spraying some foam can be consider "extensive overhaul".

You have conjecture, but no evidence, which is a problem as we can reach many conclusions that way. The maintenance costs for example... where you see evidence of a flawed plane, someone else sees evidence of corruption. Everyone's guessing and guessing isn't enough to change my mind.

Regarding Russia's capabilities, historically every country has been better at certain things. The Soviet Union created good SAMs and radars, but they've never been known for having the best computer chips or best stealth. It has nothing to do with feature creep, it's just that some are better than others at some things.

Military forums do a lot of guessing and assuming, which can make it a good echo chamber. Even people in the military have no idea what's being worked on at Skunk Works or the Chinese or Russian equivalent.
The full stop doesn't count. If you're successfully using 'first.last', then theirs is not 'firstlast', that is also yours, as you said yourself.

Theirs is probably 'firstlaast' or something - i.e. some typo unrelated to their decision not to separate by '.'.
Somewhat related, and with a great top comment:

The Compucolor 8001 (1976) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8391344 - Sept 2014 (6 comments)
> I wouldn't even dream of doing this on anything new enough to have an immobilizer.

It would work great on many Hyundais built as recently as last year!
Yes, this is the question. Historically, it can be very violent.
What I really want, is a small electronic device that can fool the gunshot detectors. I realize that the easiest way would be some kind of hopped up firecracker, but the use (even minute amounts) of explosives would probably be bad.

This device might only get 1 or 2 uses without recharge, that'd be ok. But I'd like for it to be light enough to be carried by drone. And if somehow they could be programmable to sound like different calibers, even better.

They could just go out on night missions, running the cops ragged.
What math can teach us about standing up to bullies
Arduino's have a lot of documentation and a great platform. The language is basically C and there are lots of libraries available so most sensors should be easy to get running.

I don't know about the RP2040, but the ATMEGAs can't multitask and have pretty low resolution ADC.

In my experience having them calibrated properly is a pain in the ass because they rely on the input voltage and that changes slightly depending on the method of power input.

A computer using USB will give you a different result than on battery power since the USB is going through a diode but no regulator and the battery is going through a regulator or straight into the 5V line. To make it work I ended up cutting the voltage lines on a USB cable and connecting a battery for power.

I'm sure there is an easy way to deal with all that stuff but I'm not good enough to have figured it out.
Elixir, elixir, and elixir?
FWIW, there's a move to transplant Framework brains into older Thinkpads [0]. The Framekenpad. I would love a Framework with a Thinkpad keyboard!

[0]: https://community.frame.work/t/thinkpad-701c-with-a-framewor...
Capacitors are the weak point, the electrolyte just goes after some time, faster if they are warm (for instance because they are in working gear). Besides that there is apparently actual wear at the sub-microscopic level from using electronics.

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

This puts an upper life-span on VLSI chips and has practical effects on the fabrication processes and materials used. The higher the integration level, the smaller the feature size the more important this becomes.

So if you want something to last a really long time use the largest feature size chips that you can still make your designs with.
Perhaps sometimes, but I doubt always: Consider a spray of photons, usually considered massless. Would they gain mass based on whether they encoded a message?
I wonder if that is less about Tokyo/Japan falling out of favor versus other Asian cities falling into favor?

Since the early 2000s, many Chinese cities, as well as other Asian cities like Seoul, rapidly developed in both scale and modernity. Tokyo sort of remained the same.
Same-Region Read Replicas to Serverless Postgres
One of my friends said he didn't want people to talk about who he was driving around with. Essentially meaning his jealous girlfriend. I don't blame him, she drew blood once in front of me.

People have crazy relationships sometimes.
I lost track of the conversation, but the developer is working on a full integration with WordPress so you can use it on a WordPress.com blog without the expensive plan that lets you use plugins.
I can't say that I have 'a thing', but one that I should have learned by now is that "being open to anything" doesn't get nearly as much done as "committing to doing something".

I like to do things in the moment but find I waste a lot of time on random/arbitrary things. This was good when I was learning so much. Now I consume so much information with so little adding to a base of relevant knowledge: like being on HN.
Wing (Google) and a few others have it open to the public in suburbs in South East Queensland Australia atm. Have ordered a drink through door dash to try it out before and it seems to work pretty well.

It wouldn't surprise me if the kinks are being ironed out here before opening it up in bigger markets.

There were a fair few complaints about the noise for the logan ones when they first came out but apparently they are "mostly" sorted now.

- https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSBrisbane/videos/logan-is-becom...
- https://doordash.news/australia/doordash-and-wing-announce-p...
- https://www.businessnewsaustralia.com/articles/wing-s-drone-...
GPT for Discord Communities – Spark
We have been building Spark to help reducing the workload for Discord community managers. You just need to feed information about the community to Spark during the installation process and Spark will response questions from the community members autonomously. You can change the name of the bot to anything you want. We did a lot of fine-tuning to reduce the hallucination cases. It is currently free to use. Would really appreciate your feedback if you install it on your discord.
> USSR demonstrated good faith when it greenlighted reunification of Germany and got assurances that NATO won't expand to the east. Look how that worked out.

Of all the Russian propaganda you pick the one piece that was super easy to debunk, Gorbachev himself said this never happened.

The negotiations were always about NATO expanding into east Germany and not east in general.

NATO still isn’t in the former east Germany anyway.

I’m pretty sure I or others have told you this many times before though so I have to start questioning is you are posting in good faith or if your posting to push an agenda?.
The examples of Dropbox and iPod being criticized on tech sites, but going on to become very successful, seems practically a part of the mythology at this point - but it seems to be _always_ those two examples.

Are there legitimately multiple good examples of "Criticized on HN pre-launch, yet became surprisingly successful"? I'm curious if the lesson to learn from Dropbox & iPod is more of "believe in a product, despite the criticism" or "sometimes, even accurate predictions are wrong"
Fastmail by default uses @fastmail.com addresses for masked email, same as their cheapest plan, so when I used it there was never anything blocked except the occasional site that only accepts gmail addresses (yep, they exist). Personally I prefer it that way for personal use, the custom domain sacrifices anonymity, but it might be nice for business users.
Excellent work by the team on this. Excited to see this applied to the diffusers library.
> But none of that seems to be happening.

Google civil asset forfeiture.
This seems like the kind of high importance deliveries that drones could be utilized for, not brining me some munchies at 3am.
From reading it, I'm not really sure if it's eventually consistent or not.

> Replicas then update cache pages in the shared buffers. This ensures eventual consistency for read replicas within the same region as your database.

> Data Consistency: Reading data from a single source ensures data consistency. This addresses a common challenge in traditional read replicas where there might be a replication lag.

> Resource Customization: Neon allows you to allocate different CPU and memory resources for each replica.

So there is a single source of data, but can have different CPU and memory and has eventual consistency in the same region?
> I'm Dutch and I want to push back against the glorification of our infrastructure.

The same channel (Oh the Urbanity) just came out with another video yesterday explaining why we should try to use more examples than just Amsterdam and/or The Netherlands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIcwzqRlZ68

The funny thing is I think they address your point about density. Many places (in NL) are less dense and still have infrastructure, and other places are more dense (in other countries) and could support the biking infrastructure but don't.
Can I have edit permissions restored so I can rewrite it to be less inflammatory? I was harsh because I've wasted a lot of my time on this stuff which I'd rather help others avoid - I went into this in a reply to the author in the comment thread for context.

For what it's worth I would reword it as:

If you become aware that you’re scared, stressed or overactive and distracted, do some 4-4-4-4 box method breathing until your mind calms down. I believe this a better method than the one suggested in this article - it is a proven technique that’s used by military personnel in life or death scenarios. This post strikes me as a convoluted system that is going to be difficult to remember in the heat of the moment and therefore difficult to implement successfully. I am also sceptical about the effectiveness of the “ransom decision”. “10,000 learning cycles” of self discipline is also vague and doesn’t really map to the original 10,000 hours concept. I personally believe you’re far better off sticking to simple solutions for productivity and self discipline.
Thank you for submitting (CEO of Neon here). Happy to answer questions on our design decisions.
I hated how big the trackpad on my 2019 16” MBP was. I now have a 2021 14” M1 Pro and the trackpad is the perfect size. I believe they also reduced the size of the 16” M* Pro/Max machines.
It's kinda here, Zipline is delivering high value products to places that don't have good infrastructure, and has gotten some big inventions in propeller designs to get rid of noise.
IBM -> RedHat -> Ansible (https://docs.ansible.com/platform.html)

I think the new ansible docs are opaque, and the new "everything is an ansible collection" scheme makes troubleshooting any issues reported by users hundreds of times harder than "the old days"

I keep this (https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob...) bookmarked because it's the only way to match up what "ansible 8.1.0" (https://pypi.org/project/ansible/8.1.0/) even means since it for damn sure not any of this: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/releases (they used to have a 'release' pinned on that releases tab saying "these are not the droids you are looking for"). I believe I tried asking for them to update the completely erroneous pypi "source code" link to point to that repo and ... well, one can see how well that turned out
Context: expansion of London "ultra low emission zone".

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/ule...
The corporation is dead. The network can survive.

This is going to be an interesting experiment on the supposed decentralization of many of these networks. Corps that maintain some of these have folded before, but they were all either scams or barely used. LBRY is actually widely used, so we can get a real world example of how these sorts of things turn out.
Replicas are eventually consistent. Consider a replica a few ms behind.
My old (2000) Nissan Micra does this.

A few months ago it developed engine trouble where the RPMs randomly increased and decreased – so much so that the engine would often just stop when the car slowed down. Not fun on a roundabout or making a right-hand turn – across a lane (driving on the left in Ireland).

The Haynes manual detailed a procedure where I could turn on the engine and connect two terminals of the diagnostic connector (OBD-I) with a thin wire. The engine light would then flash morse code patterns corresponding to various faults that (as listed in the Haynes manual). From this, I was able to tell that the problem was the “airflow meter circuit” and the issue was resolved by replacing the throttle body with that of a similar vintage.
The “killer app” (pun intended) for drone delivery was precision delivery of high explosive munitions to their target. Increasingly, they also deliver supplies.

At these tasks, they excel and are in so much demand that both sides of the Russian invasion of Ukraine can’t produce enough quantity to meet demand.
That's Flash Attention 1, but yeah there's nothing stopping someone from submitting a PR.
Apple gets it. If I'm using a laptop I don't want to stick my fingers onto a touch screen blocking my view and leaving marks. Macbook does one thing extremely well. It is a laptop for serious people not a lap-tablet.
The touch pad is BIG. I need it to be big because it needs to fit my body. Every other brand always seems like trying to sleep on a mattress or wear a glove that is too small. Even a slight difference in size can mean the difference between completing a gesture in one fluid motion or running out of room and having to do it in multiple motions. The scrolling resolution on Mac is much finer than windows which does one line at a time. It's frustrating trying to make adjustments like zoom in windows because the scrolling is so damn janky.
I've had 3 different ThinkPads and 3 different Macbooks and I've always preferred the Macbooks for so many reasons like battery, thermals, display, non-plasticy materials.
https://archive.is/bCMTS
To do a reality check of a big large scale and expensive solution to a particular problem it often helps to observe existing solutions, and how they fair in city (or state) policy.

For parking this solution is public transit, and in many cities in USA and Europe it fairs rather badly. Bus systems are often underfunded and cities quite often settle for a minimal viable system, a system so dismal that it only marginally reduces parking proliferation.

A policy of underground parking—being infinitely more expensive—will realistically yield an even worse outcome than the public transit policies of most cities today.
Same experience here. However, I regret getting the 512GB drive option. I'm constantly monitoring my disk space as I do work and personal stuff on the same machine. Like I build Docker images as part of work and have to regularly purge out old images. Good thing macOS intelligently makes space (I have about 250GB in the Photos library) so I also get a random free 10GB from time to time.
I watched and posted a video about He-4, amazing example of what educational videos should look like. Thank you!
there are new 2022-23 cell phones available for $50-70, including the cameras, battery, display, case, gps, DAC, usb, radio, accel ...

why aren't we seeing feature-rich dev boards based on the same platforms ?
This enables V1. V2 is still yet to be integrated into xformers. The team replied saying it should happen this week.

See the relevant Github issue here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers/issues/795
I've been seeing a bit of buzz about "grounded" models. Other than setting temperature to Zero and adding better context matching (with a vector database and embeddings, for example), what other changes in methodology or implementation makes it better?
And the cost of creating the information you want should be borne by whom? Even if it isn't monetizeable IP, how to share the costs?
Caring too much about external recognition.
I also regretted giving mine away in favour of something that represented a considerable hardware upgrade, but was nowhere near as pleasant to use.
There's this insurance aggregator website in my country, where if you ever enter your phone number into their website, without any verification of that number, you get put on some list that elicits 5 calls a day from them trying to sell you insurance. It's crazy.

I would wish it on my worst enemies. And I can...
Thank you. Twitter is terrible when it comes to cherry picking stats out of context.
Not the grandparent poster, but... I don't have any linguistic insight (there were some, with the sister posts about "How do you live" sounding condescending in English?), but a practical one.

I just saw the film last Sunday. The title "How do you live" has hardly any strong connection to the contents of the film. The film doesn't pose that question to the audience. The film doesn't much seem to explore the theme. (A little? Maybe, but not to the extent one would expect from the title.) The titular book by Yoshino Genzaburo (whose plot has no overt resemblance to the movie's plot) appears on the screen briefly, and one could guess that it'll prove a "Chekhov's gun" kind of an item, but this trope is entirely averted.

I think that it is only through a "meta" lense that sees the film as an autobiographical work, with a Miyazaki self-insert as two different characters (Mahito and the great uncle), that the title starts to make sense. It is Miyazaki's attempt to _answer_ the question – in the scope and perspective of his own life and work.

I doubt that this perspective would be readily available for an American viewer. They are unlikely to know the book and they are unlikely to be aware what kind of a person Miyazaki is, what is his connection to Ghibli, his movies and to his son Goro, something a Japanese viewer is much more likely to be aware through various interviews, documentaries and news coverage. Miyazaki has called this movie his "testament" to his grandson, and this certainly makes you consider these things.

If anything, the title "How do you live" would be misleading and disappointing to an American viewer. It makes the film sound more philosophical than what they are going to walk away with.
There's a trial near me of ground-based autonomous delivery robots (though it doesn't cover my area) which seems to have been pretty successful. People are using it and it seems to work pretty well from what my friends in the area have said. There have of course been a few hiccups but nothing major (it helps that the delivery robots are cute and will ask for help if they are stuck or need something like a button pushing to use a pedestrian crossing). The main limitation is that their range is only about 2 miles so they basically are only really saving you a quick trip to a nearby shop.
It's hard to fake food insecurity !
I have this exact issue too. Let me know if you ever fix it!
I live in an area with Wing drone delivery. On a typical day I hear approximately zero drones flying, and we have only personally used it 5-6 times in 3 years (mostly as a novelty to impress kids that are visiting).

There isn't that great a selection of stuff that you can get, and some stores have come and gone from the app.

It's just not that useful. We live in the suburbs, and a weekly trip to the grocery store or big box store (5-10 min drives) can get so much more and at a better price than buying things individually. It's kind of like milk delivery - it made sense before refrigeration but after that, you would buy weekly and just store it.

And right now delivery is free, but it would be even worse if/when it isn't.

One area where it could work is coffee/tea delivery (Starbucks, etc). These are things you buy individually and typically everyday. But AFAIK we don't have that and its not on the horizon.
Programming languages usually have arrays, not matrices, and I think row-ordered array data has been a natural way to think in many fields (e.g., databases, finance, etc.), especially when you consider that adding a row ought to be less burdensome than adding a column in these contexts.
Wikipedia says he was using "pulses" instead of "continuous wave" which we now use. So maybe the question about "frequency" doesn't even apply? idk
Dog alerts are about as objective as UFO witnesses. Having trained multiple working dogs of multiple breeds, nonverbal communication between dog and human is very easy to establish.
From the article:

> It is a Peer-to-Peer Web-Like Network that cannot be censored or taken down, thanks to its decentralized nature.

That's - wrong. A suitably motivated attacker can or will take down your network, figure out the involved ISPs, find your precious server and your basement and shut it down.

Let's not kid ourselves. These networks are tolerated...until they become inconvenient.

Consider bot networks: They are taken down routinely.
(just google https://www.google.com/search?q=which+bot+networks+have+been... )

Instead of basing a user-space network on these impossible ideals, find a economic incentive to operate them - centralized or not, federated or not. Someone has to pay for the Ramen.

And now downvote me for pooping all over "open, free, and uncensored
network and communication."
And they are priced like that because there is a limited supply... because they are illegal to build in the USA...
That sort of thing absolutely kills me - like, maybe it’s intentionally avant garde, but I don’t think so, and I’m agog that at no point in that project was that caught and corrected. I know there was probably nobody involved there with the right combination of time, agency, or investment permitted to stop or fix it, but it actually hurts me a bit to see things like that.
Just couple of days ago had a discussion about measuring information in units of area. Perhaps spacetime has rest mass after all?
What are the non-Espressif targets for an Xtensa compiler? Could be there's some other fun embedded chips to use with it
The replication problems of the marshmallow test are certainly interesting, but I'm not sure how they are relevant to the point being made by Robert Sapolsky in the quoted passage.

His point has nothing to do with the predictive powers of the test. Instead it's that the children who succeeded in deferring gratification succeeded by means of effective strategies rather than by stoicism or genetics.
How did it change your career and your life?
I would recommend Walter Mischel's 2014 book "The Marshmallow Test." He argues that the power of the marshmallow test is not in demonstrating that some children innately have more self-control than others, but in revealing how this skill can be cultivated and improved with practice and the right strategies.

I think the critiques are completely valid, Mischel did not account for many variables like socioeconomic status, family environment, etc. However, I do not believe it necessarily disproves his conclusion of being able to cultivate skills like self-control.