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Calling all HN pilots: An Unusual Request / Opportunity
I know that several people here on HN are pilots, or have connections in the aviation industry. So this is a shot in the dark to see if an connection can be made.

My uncle has done an award winning rebuilt of a de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk, one of only two still flying. It is believed to be the only survivor of the 56 Chipmunks sold to Egypt and the only aeroplane flying today which served in the REAF.

You can read about it here:

https://www.planecheck.com/eu/?ent=da&id=56969&cor=y

I'm not expecting any reader here to buy it! But it is for sale, and someone here might know someone who would be interested.

2018 Prize for best restoration of the year, awarded by the OSAC.

2019 Prize for best restoration, Euro Fly-In, awarded by the Fédération RSA.

2019 GIFAS Cup (First Prize) Grand Prix du Patrimoine, organised by the Aéroclub de France.

2019 Phoenix DIploma for Restoration, awarded by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
> this one volcano produced a warming effect on the planet equal to about 5.2 years worth of total global carbon emissions in one go, and it’s going to be stuck up there for over half a decade.

> If you believe that CO2 is slowly warming the planet, then the net result of this one very unusual volcano will be to fast forward global warming five years, and keep us at that fast-forward location for between five and ten years, and then will slowly abate. But because 2023 internet life is a sea of culture war, that straightforward scientific conclusion has gotten churned into the modern media culture war engine, dragging the study’s authors into the milieu.

I don't understand the point the author is trying to make. Climate-change is not that bad because without the volcano we would have had five more years? Also "believe" in climate change? What? Is this a new “enlightened centrism”-meme?

The fact that a volcano accelerated climate change by 5 years, means we have 5 fewer years to deal with the problem. It made this whole situation even worse.
Beautiful Comet Nishimura (NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day)
Some additional interesting points:

- The recent LLM are so huge that even inference cost is quite expensive. Companies which want to enrich e.g. search with AI but don't need full "chat" capabilities are already looking for alternatives which are cheaper to run even if a bit worse in capabilities (ignoring training cost).

- For the same reason specialized hardware for inference has been a thing for quite a while and is currently becoming more mainstream. E.g. google cloud edge TPUs are for mainly inference, so are many phones AI/Neural cores. I also wouldn't be surprised if the main focus for e.g. the recent AI cores in AMD graphic cards would be inference through you can use them for more then that.

- Both AMD and Intel might be less behind then it seems when it comes to training and especially inference. E.g. AMD has been selling somewhat successful GPU compute, just not to the general public. With OpenCL being semi abandoned this lead to them having close to no public mind share. Through with ROCm slowly moving to public availability and AI training being more consolidated on the internal architectures it uses this might change very well. Sure for research, especially of unusual AI architectures, Nvidea will probably still win for a long time. But for "daily" LLM training they probably soon will have serious competition, even more so for inference. Similar Intels new dedicated GPU architectures was made with AI training and inference in mind, so at least for inference I'm pretty sure they soon will be competitive, too.

- AI training has also become increasingly more professional, with increasingly more often a small number of quite high level frameworks being used. That means that instead of having to make every project work well with your GPU you now can focus on a few high level frameworks. Similar AI architectures widely used differ less extrema then in the past and have less often big changes. Putting both together it means it's today much easier to create hardware+driver which works for well most cases. Which can be good enough to compete.

Even with all that said Nvidea has massive mind share which will give them a huge boost and when it comes to bleeding edge/exotic AI research (not just the next generation of LLMs) they probably still will win out hugely. But LLMs is where the current money is, and as far as it seems generational improvements do not come with any massive conceptually architectural changes, but just better composition of the same (by now kinda old) building blocks.
I have heard from a psychologist that folks often confuse introversion with social anxiety. Introversion is having your default focus tending to be inwards, whereas social anxiety can make situations like you are describing unbearable.

Obviously there are other reasons for this too like overstimulation from sensory input. But I think there is truth to this statement.
That's what we're doing with Definite[0]. We spin up Cube[1] for all our customers and the results vs. directly generating SQL are much better. Cube has some other really nice out of the box features too (e.g. caching).

0 - https://www.definite.app/
1 - https://cube.dev/
> How in the hell can a corporation claim that it has free speech?

14th amendment.

> No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Corporations are "persons"
Unless I'm mistaken, switching to a single threaded tokio runtime made Send requirements go away for me.
i think he's just an engineer who wants a platform where people don't get banned for having right-wing opinions. engineers tend to be like this. he's got bigger things where he focuses his attention.

the "musk is an evil extreme nazi" conspiracy theorists are out in full force in this thread
I know next to nothing about geopolitics, but I always figured the the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan had something Iran since it's sandwiched between them.
Most of them are "think tanks," which is a fancy word for "lobbyist."
I like Njalla so far, which really is just a proxy for Namecheap or whatever other registrar they use. I'm not really sure how much sense it makes to use them though.
If these "laws" are deemed valid under protection from the first amendment, then why are the laws necessary anyways? Why not just go after the offender for violating the first amendment?
What philosophical, moral, or economical principle are you basing this off of? Because the free market principle does not reign here; it suggests that prices can be discovered on an open market between rational buyers and rational sellers of roughly equal standing. Thats it.
Yeah, but do you really think any of that applies to things like the Linux kernel? You think with thousands of talented developers they have problems as simple as duplicate code?
This is about OpenAPI, not OpenAI.
Thank you for submitting this. Very insightful!
This was my grad school commencement. One thing that really stuck out was how many folks I knew where either themselves or their families complained about the Car Talk guys giving commencement instead of some head of state or what have you. Ray and Tom’s speech was thoroughly entertaining and humble.
And as an EU citizen: Good

1. Corporations having "free speech" is a fucking perversion of the original purpose of that law. Corporations are not people. Governments protecting corporate rights more than individual rights is the root of a good chunk of all problems the US is having right now.

2. I expect my government to scrutinize the hell out of corporations and protect the rights of individuals. Article 1 of the European Charter of Human Rights states: the dignity of man is inviolable. People having to be at the receiving end of discrimination, racism, sexism etc. is a violation of their dignity — their rights. Rights I expect them to protect.

Now I always thought of people in the US to be adamant about individual freedoms, but maybe I have been wrong and it is more about shilling for corporations and letting them divide you into small, easy to manage camps with the help of corporate media and lobbied politicians that get surprisingly rich when they are in office.

Government + Corporations = Fascism

And there is 99% chance you won't profit from it
Leave it to Google to find a “responsible” AI
Would it? Imagine every private company of a certain size just ceasing to exist as soon as its owner reaches a set net worth. What happens to all of the millions of jobs that exist at those companies? Companies would essentially go public and then all leadership would quit immediately. Why work for free?
I agree with you

But it really depends on the type of product.

i.e. think about customer support live chats, or similar products. your support agents need to receive mobile notifications, and they are probably more keen to install a third-party app.
Yes they are, more or less. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/corporations-people-doct...
65 additional comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37442998 ("X challenges California’s new transparency law as unconstitutional (techcrunch.com)")
Your other responses have correctly explained why you're wrong but I just want to add a little bit more context: "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" was a euphemism by Justice Holmes to describe the act of protesting the draft.

It did not come from a case about a theater and a human stampede as many naturally assume. It came from a case about a war protestor being arrested for telling people they should resist the draft (decidedly political speech.)
The latest Google Pixel with GrapheneOS installed.

https://grapheneos.org/
Your comment caused me to compare gaming (which I haven't done since I was 16) to doomscrolling. It's a dissociative activity, requiring near zero physical presence or mindfulness. Passive entertainment which I do to take a timeout from the world and avoid the frustration of doing things I don't want to do, like work. But it always leaves me groggy and only begets more behavior of the same type.
SABRE is pretty good compared to the card file it replaced.
Weak home construction was hurting the economy last year—not anymore!
My preferred mechanism is the basic text registry file [1] followed by cmd-f or grep.

1. https://standards-oui.ieee.org/
Prompt Flow for VSCode
How does the 4% rule work if you are invested in index funds that yield a dividend? Let's say you have a 2% dividend. Do you let the dividend reinvest and then trigger a sale for 1% of your portfolio quarterly (4 quarters * 1 % = 4% a year) or do you make the dividends not reinvest, they pay you 0.5% a quarter, you need to pull the other 0.5% a quarter by selling off?

Does it really matter from a tax perspective?
Seems pretty simple to me. He likes airing other people’s dirty laundry, not his own.
The difference between the most efficient machine vs. hand-washing methodologies are really too small to matter. A gallon or so of water either, way, most especially if cold, isn't worth worrying about.

There are other sources of inefficiencies in using a dishwasher as I've noted above.

My point isn't to browbeat people into hand-washing dishes. Rather, it's to point out that there are real advantages to doing so, and if that's what you prefer you shouldn't beat yourself up over it on account of efficiency arguments.

A few years back I'd looked up the actual research on hand-washing vs. machine washing. The most-quoted study (where any study is quoted at all, rather than vague hand-waving) is from the University of Bonn, Germany:

"A European Comparison of Cleaning Dishes by Hand", Rainer STAMMINGER, Ricarda BADURA, Gereon BROIL, Susanne DÖRR, Anja ELSCHENBROICH. University of Bonn, Germany.

<https://web.archive.org/web/20150701173343/www.landtechnik-a...>

The upshot:

- Practices for hand-washing vary widely. Some are exceedingly efficient. Some are stupendously wasteful.

- There's a considerable variation by country, or by region of the US.

- The best hand-washing methods beat dishwashers. Many of the rest come close.

Among the most efficient hand-washers are Germans, Californians, and Australians. The latter two live in areas where water is chronically limited. The least efficient: Russians.

If you fill a sink basin or small dish bucket, you've got about 2 gallons of water accounted for (the most efficient dishwashers use at least 4, many use 6 or somewhat more). Rinsing may in another basin, or under the tap in the sink.

If you live in a multi-person household and can fill a dishwasher every day or so, and hate doing dishes, the dishwasher makes sense.

If you live alone or can't fill the dishwasher, or would be washing dishes anyway, hand-washing may be more effective.

Either way, so long as you're not performing the Russian method: hot water tap full on during the full period you're washing dishes, hand-wasing can be the most efficient water- and energy-wise.

And if you hate hand-washing, and have a dishwasher, then use it.

Neither side in this discussion should be browbeating the other
> it imposes a greater cognitive requirement on the part of the developer

... because of the "monotonous" syntax? That was a reason mentioned by L Peter Deutsch in Coders at Work ...
it's quite short, but it's a fundamental right
Lets make a deal: I'll read your diversity books if you realize that meritocracies will never go away. You might be able to suppress them, but the smart people (and they're not just white people) will reorganize behind your back and be better than whatever you are doing. See INTC vs. TSMC for probably the best example since you're into references.

Pulse oximiters are another terrible example by the way. Couldn't we hire a bunch of really tanned white people since you're just talking skin color?
Why would it be unknown? The charging system could directly measure its health and confirm its within nominal specs. Plus you only need the new battery to be good for the duration of one trip. There’s always a new one around the corner.

It’s like fretting about the quality of one tank of gas. In the long term it’s meaningless because it’s a fleeting problem and will just remedy itself on the next fill up.
Our government definitely did dopey things during the pandemic. Any attempt to suppress the Great Barrington Declaration was a real mistake (in terms of allowing dissenting opinions during a crisis). I feel for the challenges that public health officials have (in terms of trying to put forward a coherent plan that works that people will follow), but ultimately, if you suppress ideas which aren't completely terrible, everybody loses.

That said I think Dr Battacharya telegraphed his political opinions in a way that brought him into direct conflict with the establishment.
IANAL, but I think it's a slippery slope that may fall too close to prior restraint. It is specifically asking a private entity to report on what it considers hate speech (which itself is still 1A protected), etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint?wprov=sfla1
I tried to move to namesilo but oh my what a terrible interface. I’m on the fence as to what to do now.
The pigeonhole principle does not say that. It can be used to show that there are two different sentences with the same hash as each other (among any collection of 2^256 + 1 sentences), but it tells you nothing about hashes that agree with the content of the sentence. The probability that a random hash function on a collection of 2^256 sentences has a fixed point is about 1 - 1/e, and it approaches 1 as you add more variations to grow the collection infinitely. But SHA-256 isn’t actually random, so the only way to know this for sure would be to find an example.
Thank you. Unlike some posters here (chatgpt?), I don't understand why my google is not giving me any meaningful results, not even on wikipedia.

I would not be surprised to see a Tawainese elite exodus towards those countries.
My employer, FullStory, just sub-leased ~75% of our office space because fewer people were coming in and they decide to "roll with it" instead of fighting that battle.

They were fairly supportive of remote folks even before 2020, but at this point, the majority of the staff work remotely, even many of the ones who live near the office.
Sponsorships via Patreon and GitHub seem to be working well for a lot of people. Ethical too.
Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom – History of FreeBSD
That's an implementation-detail. Nothing prevents the import from diving automatically into the file. But doing so would open the door for name-shadowing, as with a package you could have a separate mp.py for import, or a definition of mp in __init__.py. And this would be another confusion for people, and a performance-problem maybe.
Unless your 1070 is magically faster than a 3060Ti, you are either mistaken or acting in bad faith about the DX9 issues which are basically solved.
I’m not arguing that two wrongs make a right. I’m saying actions have consequences. And how could you possibly know those people celebrating we’re not affected by US policy and military exploits?
(It's a 1:24 miniature)
> Umm, the bill of rights is a set of restrictions on the _federal_ government.

That hasn't been the case since the ratification of the 14th Amendment way back in 1868.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Courts have repeatedly held that the Bill of Rights does apply to the states, by means of this so-called "due process clause" in the 14th Amendment.

Edit: changed "incorporation clause" to "due process clause", as that seems to be the name under which it is more generally known.
What's the problem with Send bounds? So you use Arc instead of Rc.
> Code alone can only tell you the "what." If the "why" is not obvious, comment it.

But isn't that the common view? I think most programmers would agree that the "why" deserves documenting. The problem is that in the heat of the moment, most forget.
Yes, some speech is totally illegal, under 1st amendment.

Telling a bank teller “give me all the money, now!” is illegal. Telling a hit man “go kill that person who owes me money” is also illegal.
That's a pretty weak response. "Yeah he's playing favorites and oppressing one political side, but you're on that side so you're biased when you call it out"
> Local TCP sockets can also bypass the kernel if you have a user-space TCP stack. I don't know if you can do this with unix domain sockets (I've never tried).

Kernel bypass exists because hardware can handle more packets than the kernel can read or write, and all the tricks employed are clever workarounds (read: kinda hacks) to get the packets managed in user space.

This is kind of an orthogonal problem to IPC, and there's already a well defined interface for multiple processes to communicate without buffering through the kernel - and that's shared memory. You could employ some of the tricks (like LD_PRELOAD to hijack socket/accept/bind/send/recv) and implement it in terms of shared memory, but at that point why not just use it directly?

If speed is your concern, shared memory is always the fastest IPC. The tradeoff is that you now have to manage the messaging across that channel.
Of course they blamed the French ^^
For Google Domains customers being dumped onto Squarespace (like me):

https://domains.squarespace.com/google-domains

"Squarespace will honor all existing Google Domains customers’ renewal prices for at least 12 months after closing the acquisition, ensuring that domain hosting and management remains hassle-free."

It seems like there's no hurry to consider migrating yet.

If I do migrate:

- might consider Namecheap
- GoDaddy's renewal pricing I can't figure out
- Porkbun sounds too hipster for my tastes though I do like pork
- Cloudflare sounds altruistic but they want to get up all inside my domain's stuff with their proxying; I'm not sure if that could cause any issues with my Letsencrypt or other TXT records.
with all the inbred anti-immigrant bigots that make up a large percentage of american society, in this scenario, america's fate is sealed.
Gosh - imagine that place!

I wonder how old this world is, and how stable its enviroment is/has been. Complex animal life took 3.5 bn years to emerge on Earth, of course that's a meaningless data point by itself but intuitively for this place to have an ecosystem or complex life it needs to be old.

Still, even without this what a wonderful and weird environment.
Seems to be down. This page seems to work: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2...
404 not found, did they maybe remove the article for some reason?
California just requires transparency of the policies. They just need to put in writing that free speech absolutist Musk is responsible for all the moderation of policies like censuring the account that tracked his plane with public data.
So it means you'll drink less coffee, and it's not good for productivity reason.
The states don't have the time and money to go after millions of individuals, so they try to curtail it at the provider side instead. Also to send a message. A lot of it is just political virtue signaling.

(edit: sorry, I misread the parent. Individuals cannot violate the 1A, only governments can)
> If a programming language can tell when a variable goes out of scope, or its lifetime ends

Whether a variable goes out of scope is trivial in many languages. The problem is with determining whether the lifetime of a value ends.

For example:

func foo(items, moreItems) {
b = new bar()
if coinflip() {
items.append(b)
}
if coinflip() {
moreItems.append(b)
}
// ‘b’ goes out of scope here, but its value
// may live on inside ‘items’ and/or moreItems
// and will have to be destroyed when it’s no
// longer stored in either.
}

In general, once you allow for dynamic allocation and references that can be copied (so that multiple objects ‘know’ of the allocated object), it can be very difficult to determine exactly when the last reference to such an object ceases to exist.
I'd love to see a handheld game console with a M2/M3

Apple being stubborn missed an opportunity to work with Nintendo for their Switch 2

There are rumors about Apple working on a console, so maybe that'll happen some day

Game Porting Toolkit is a hint

https://developer.apple.com/games/
At my job we recently implemented OpenAPI and it's been painful hearing people call it OpenAI on zoom calls but it makes sense, they're so darn close.
> The classic Macintosh desktop is also very well done

Two things, in my opinion: trying to be whimsical and "fun" for such a grave topic is disrespectful, and I don't understand what value appropriating Apple's logo and the "finder face" in the corner add to the 9/11 retrospective experience

So, fine, maybe I'm just not happy-go-lucky enough to appreciate why this needs to be a classic Macintosh theme, but I am 100% positive that this experience doesn't need those branding elements to reenact 9/11 anythings
I read the full post. It meanders quite a bit. Would have been more effective to just announce the new tool without the provocative title or the detour into HTTP basics. Sending this comment in the spirit of friendly, respectful, constructive criticism.
So by your definition of creativity, the LLM is always being creative because it's always using probability to determine the next word (it's not just spitting out facts from a database). Hallucination is just when that prediction, or creativity as you call it, is wrong.
I have a feeling some security researcher is going to come out of the woodwork with a A.I security flaw in Nvidia Drivers or Hardware.