skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a standard, run-of-the mill "dive and drive" style non-precision instrument approach. With the advent of commonplace GPS based approaches, they have become less common than they used to be, but they still exist and are safe to use.

Non-Precision means that you are using a simple ground-based navigation aid that does not provide vertical guidance, (a glide path indication) for example an NDB (Non-directional beacon) or VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Range) So, there are intermediate "step-down" fixes, that require you to maintain a certain minimum altitude until you reach a certain distance from the navaid. The route and altitude requirements (obstacle and terrain clearance) are selected by a well documented process called TERPS / FAA Order 8260.3F. (Edit, oops up to F now.)

There's always been debate among pilots about whether these approaches should be flow using a "Continuous Descent" method, where you select a descent rate to try to arrive at the altitude crossing restriction exactly before the next one comes into effect, or if you should descend rapidly to the altitude restriction, then level off until the next altitude restriction arrives, AKA "Dive and Drive."

There are pros and cons to each method and you can find well respected flight instructors that advocate for each. But a "Dive and Drive" approach can put you visually close to the ground when you are still pretty far from he airport. Really, modern GPS based RNAV approaches make the whole debate close to obsolete. Any podunk airport can get a satellite based precision approach with no significant investment in equipment, just a survey and some lighting improvements.
They're great, you should try it. My phone was having trouble with CarPlay recently because the port had gotten clogged with lint, I was able to fix it by very carefully cleaning out the port but I'm switching to wireless CarPlay and MagSafe charging to not have to worry about it. That's the one place I still had to use a lightning cable regularly, and a $40 wireless adapter takes care of it.
I get that you're writing stylized speculations but in my experience in the games industry, every single point is wrong. It is the most upvoted comment because it touches on a bunch of first-principles-know-nothing boogeymen, but so it goes with Hacker News nowadays. You can keep reading to find out why, or whatever, my dog in this race is (1) I use Unity (2) I don't think they're going to change anything about these terms except maybe the installs issue (3) and the vast majority of people will continue to be unaffected by these pricing changes.

If people want to spend their breath agitating for something, it's to get Unity to share the source code for a lower price. That would actually help me make better games. At the scale where Unity pricing matters, the engine costs will take away from marketing spend.

> ...the only reason Unity went this route is because they don't want to... break the promise of no revenue share/royalty pledge... too many headcounts... privately held [is good and public is bad]... says a lot.

Ultimately there's no alternative to Unity right now as an engine. You can certainly believe there is. It's a complex piece of software and target platforms and technology are always changing, so it's understandable that it is expensive to develop.
I was rickrolled on Slack last year. Not cool..
We are in violent agreement. Creating new condos will still keep the prices increasing, but it will be better than the situation where no new housing is built.

But the article specifically says "new homes reduce house prices." This is patently false.

Toronto is growing because there's no real business centers outside of Toronto for the 1 million immigrants a year that are coming in. We need to create viable options by expanding business outside of Toronto in new land, so that housing demand lessens.
If the new housing hadn't been built, that new class of buyer would've just displaced the residents of older housing, and you'd get the higher prices but for shittier housing stock. This is why a 1BR in a run-down low-rise in Silicon Valley goes for $2200/month and the Bay Area's working class lives in Sacramento or Stockton.
And don't forget the VenerealDiseaseDisclosureRecord and SexuallyTransmittedDiseaseTestResultRecord. Unfortunately, they both require a Google and a Facebook login.
>Neural Machine Translation models don't need those either. That's been the case at least since 2016.

Right. But those models still operate on parallel corpora alone.

In LLMs, translation pairs are not the only data improving translations. Context, Cultural Knowledge gleaned from other sources. Fluidity of the target language writing itself.

>But, hey, hype

It's not hype man. GPT-4 is much better for distant language pairs.
Yes, and there are other blockchains purpose-built around verifiable computation like ZCash and Mina.
oh fuck. I feel like this is going to become an interview question.
This is what I mean:

1, 1+1, 1+1+1, 1+1+1+1, 1+1+1+1+1, 1+1+1+1+1+1, 1+1+1+1+1+1+, 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1, 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1, 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1, and so on...
Vim was mostly a one man show. I doubt it will be meaningully developed apart from bugfixes and such.
My wife and I literally travel 7 months of the year flying around to different cities and staying in hotels.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966

It’s not that difficult. I have a primary and secondary airline (Delta and American) and a primary and secondary hotel brand (Hilton and Hyatt). I know the corresponding apps and loyalty programs inside and out.

I know what to expect when I travel. When we get to a city or before we go, we search for “top things to do in $City”.

Admittedly, this would be a bit harder once we start flying overseas and we will have to do more research. We are starting our second year and the only international travel we have planned right now are mostly within US time zones.
The usual word of warning, if you are going to put a collar to a cat (or dog) free to roam, make sure that it will break with a force less than the pet's weight.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32660081
Unfortunately there's a dark incentive. Providing support costs money, but an automated phone menu does not (or at least, it's negligible). So you want to chuck your customers into hold music hell and winnow out as many as you can. This also makes your staff scheduling easier.

If your customers are captive, this is all upside. And most customers will tolerate this. The ones that do churn somehow don't generate blame for the psychopaths who implement this hostile practice, those bastards cut support costs and get promoted out.
Yep, nice landing page but the component comparisons are beyond disingenuous, as should be obvious to anyone who has implemented such a thing before. If you toss out the additional features, types, accessibility, customizability and composability afforded by the use of a UI library, of course you can implement it in < 200 lines -- in any framework.
More like an advertising broker that scammed podcasters.
I think if the industry started a no-hire list of developers that cannot read the following before opening up bug reports demanding immediate fixes, much would solve itself.

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

There's a small contingent of loud and annoying stupid* people that foolishly believe they're entitled to future labor of an OSS maintainer by the grace of the code being under an open source license.

To demonstrate how literally deranged this is, imagine some kids playing sportsball after school for fun and just for fun. People around town start showing up to watch the kids play sportsball because the kids are pretty good and it's entertaining to watch them play. As time passes, more people start showing up to watch these kids play sportsball.

One day a fan asks one of the kids what the team names are. The kid, confused because they're just playing sportsball with their friends, responds with something off the cuff like the cats and dogs. To the kids, the team names don't even matter because they're just playing sportsball with their friends. Meanwhile the fans are making t-shirts, hats, and it's attracting other business into the area looking to cash in on hungry sportsball fans. A few restaurants and sportsball athletics store opens up across from where the kids play sportsball because it's so popular.

Eventually, the kids get bored and stop playing, but entitled fans and business owners feel like these kids are magically obligated to continue playing. All of the people that gathered around these kids playing sportsball are participating in a collective delusion and ought to seek psychiatric attention rather than put their energy into condemning the kids for playing sportsball for fun.

This is what it feels like as an open source maintainer.

Discussion about sponsorship, bounties, forking, fragmentation, and community are downstream from the words in all caps.

*: Yes, stupid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
USB is a private organization and you pay a fee per connector.

USB lobbying won over the EU. Nothing to celebrate indeed.
I wonder how much “many children “ is. My kids go to a charter school and learned cursive in 3rd or 4th grade. They are required to do all of their writing assignments in cursive. The public school district is we’re in also teaches cursive.
Concurrency in Go is just so easy and powerful.
Honestly it's not really "tech jobs."

Even in software, there are some kinds of SW and development and timelines that are easy to do all or mostly remote. These tend to also be the kinds of work that, if not for language barriers, kind of offshore easily. They tend to involve mastery of a framework but otherwise mostly being a lot of glue code.

This is not true for all kinds of software and I think people really underestimate how important it is for some kinds of software to be arguing in front of a whiteboard and/or with massive schematics sitting out and so on or having different people drop in, quickly establish context, and reason through things.

I think a lot of HN tends to be - like most of the industry - basically web apps. Those don't have any problems with communications bandwidth or shared context because a lot of it is on rails and is mostly not interesting to discuss outside the user flows discussions around the UI. But that isn't true for a lot of software or high-value software.
I am the lowest of the low, a junior associate. One day I aspire to be a cog but right now I’m just trying to learn without causing problems.
And iPhones from 2012 have reversible connectors, while everyone else was using fiddly Micro-B.
A small minority is a small minority whatever the absolute number and that is not 'many', which suggests something common and widespread.

Also, using a food bank at least once and 'relying' on them are not the same thing.
A chess position, not a game (still very interesting though!)
But that's just two random examples.

How about "it is cloudy so it will rain" and "it's cloudy, so sunny"? Then since we're looking at the commas for this argument, the second algorithm is paying less for comma correction even though it's much wronger.

You seem to be assuming that a less intelligent algorithm is worse at matching the original text in every way, and I don't think that assumption is warranted.

I'll rephrase the last line from my earlier post: What if wikipedia is using the incorrect word in a lot of locations, and the smart algorithm predicts the correct word? That means the smart algorithm is a better encoding of knowledge, but it gets punished for it.

In that case the last mile cost is higher for a smart algorithm.

And even when the last mile cost is roughly the same, the bigger of a percentage it becomes, the harder it is to measure anything else.

And it shuns any algorithm that's (for example) 5% better at knowledge and 2% worse at the last mile, even though such a result should be a huge win. There are lots of possible ways to encode knowledge that will drag things just a bit away from the original arbitrary wording. So even if you use the same sub-algorithm to do the last mile, it will have to spend more bits. I don't think this is an unlikely scenario.
That's why I don't read books.
Well let’s talk about what it would mean for prices to go down. We’re in agreement that not building enough to meet demand will drive prices up. So why is that so? Well we can think about what demand is, it’s people already living in the area that want to move (perhaps because they’re renters looking to buy), it’s people outside the area looking to move into the area and it’s investors/rental landlords looking to buy because they anticipate an increased demand that they will be able to profit from by selling or renting to future demanders from one of the first two categories.

So in order for prices to go down, you need to have a 0 or negative expected future demand to eliminate the incentive for the investors. But if you have negative or 0 expected future demand, then you also have no reason to build new houses at all. No one is going to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to just sit and watch the building rot away. Either they expect to sell it or rent it after it’s built, and you can only do that by either having demand outpacing supply or anticipating demand in the future that is higher than the current demand. If we had a magical perfect equilibrium between demand and new supply, at best prices would remain steady/only increase with inflation. The only mechanism by which new building can reduce the costs of housing is to build more housing than both current and all anticipated future demand.
They cannot do this because doing so would eliminate the ambiguous feedback loop on “expectations” that is intended to exist and ultimately under their credibility in the longer run.
HN posts visibility is easily manipulated by just few users flagging them.
Competing against each other but because of the lack of 1 to 1 mapping of offerings it is really hard for consumers to differentiate so there isn't real competition.
> Nah, we used and paid for Unity because the licensing structure we signed on with made sense. They’re literally changing the terms on us in a way we cannot push back against. Games made years ago are subject to this new fee structure.

and you can still do this with the software codebase released before april 3rd, you just don't get ongoing development.

this may, of course, involve rollbacks etc, you need to rebase onto the older version not the one that's been out for the last 5 months. But the license does explicitly allow you to do this.

> Unity may update these Unity Software Additional Terms at any time for any reason and without notice (the “Updated Terms”) and those Updated Terms will apply to the most recent current-year version of the Unity Software, provided that, if the Updated Terms adversely impact your rights, you may elect to continue to use any current-year versions of the Unity Software (e.g., 2018.x and 2018.y and any Long Term Supported (LTS) versions for that current-year release) according to the terms that applied just prior to the Updated Terms (the “Prior Terms”). The Updated Terms will then not apply to your use of those current-year versions unless and until you update to a subsequent year version of the Unity Software (e.g. from 2019.4 to 2020.1).
All things being equal, companies want to sell as little as possible for as much as possible. We all want to make the most amount of money with the least amount of work.

You also need to factor in the time it takes to build a home. If I can build 100 homes a year I'd rather take $3m profit each year than build the cheaper homes for $2m profit. Sure, if I can scale up infinitely, then I'll go ahead and build infinite homes for infinite profit. But in the real world there is significant risk in scaling up. If I build too many homes and the prices go down, then I'm now hurting my own profits. It can be better for me to do the lower effort thing and build less for a higher profit margin.
Good idea thanks
> This sounds basically of just asking a GPT to suggest ideas for experiments?

I think actually the second idea extends quite a bit further than that. The idea is that you enable the agent to interact with an entire collection of laboratory equipment through tool-use. The agent not only generates hypotheses and designs experiments to test them, but then also actually executes the experiments through tool-use and iterates.
No one wants to hear that the solution is to move to somewhere they can keep the windows open year long.

The most intellectually productive places in the modern world are good climates. This is one potential reason.
Ya whenever I read this framed as it’s just the basement dwelling techies wanting to stay in the basement…

Do people not have home lives they like, and don’t want the ability to build something widely robust there?

You’ll throw all that away, and the first chance available to do it for workers in idk, forever(?), so that we can all go back to… hanging with Brad and Barb at the office park more often?

Part of this is hard to grasp until you’ve got a house, partner, kids and hobbies that are home-defined (cooking, gardening), that all are worth spending time on, let alone the massive increase financial independence odds.

But also if I was 24, in an urban center, and could work from anywhere… that’s a wide wide open space to figure yourself out, like all the benefits of urban college attendance with an adult spending budget.

It’s a lack of imagination or an implication of a real sad state of affairs in your home/community like that you’d walk away from all that to hit the office park in Toledo or free cold brew in office in NYC.

Really blows my mind. Get a life outside of work! You can succeed at work without being in the office, for a very long time, until you’ll hit a job that the comp makes in-office an easy trade.
> calling the hotel will get you the same (or better) outcome

Not my experience. In Europe, in low-end hotels / B&B's they will get annoyed.

Wouldn't it be possible to build a decentralized booking.com/expedia alternative based on activity pub?
Make an “Anything-Product”
How can a startup attack a big fragmented market with a single product?

The answer is to make an "anything-product" – a product that can be used for anything, by anyone, at anytime.

An example is Venmo. Their original idea was to: "Let musicians accept payments for live gigs and merchandise via SMS."

With a product that specific, the market size was incredibly tiny.

The founders therefore decided to pivot Venmo to "Let ANYONE accept payments for ANYTHING, at ANY TIME.

They made Venmo an anything-product.

And just like that, Venmo’s market size was transformed from a few million – to hundreds of billions of dollars.

I've written an essay that goes deeper into this topic. You can read it at https://www.startupbuilder.blog/p/make-an-anything-product-d....
Yeah, C now has bool natively...

I'm quite confident the compiler will optimize that test-and-move away as soon as you use the bool for something, giving you the same assembly as a last century's `typedef bool int`.
Making a Van Leeuwenhoek Microscope Lens
Original title is:

> Compressing chess positions for fun and profit

Which unlike that here is correct: you can store a board, the positions, in 26B; not an arbitrary length game!
this is the kind of question a co-pilot programming assistant AI should be able to answer with direct quotations of the relevant code
As someone in the USA I've compared GPS to an Airtag and the difference hasn't shown to be different enough to bother with GPS. Considering how cheap an airtag is and the difference in battery life - it's a no brainer to use an airtag. The density of iOS devices in the USA is such that it's very comparable to GPS in my experience.

This is a cool project, though. One thing I didn't see is, how much does it cost to make this in practice?
Each separate party is a business trying to optimize for their own bottom-line. You said it yourself, "optimized to scrape as much as they can from your wallet." The system as it exists is a relatively organic outgrowth of the competitive marketplace. Every intervention to make it more consumer-friendly (efficient by another measure) will be gamed & circumvented by the businesses.

I don't see a way to optimize it without replacing the system that measures success/survival by personal enrichment above-all.
I'm astounded that they aren't considered data brokers in the eyes of U.S. law.
> Great idea but there’s a slippery slope problem. Report on shrinkflation packaging and companies will switch to other less transparent means (ie changing ingredients) and so this adds a bit of perverse incentive.

What makes you think that they are not changing ingredients as well, at the same time? It’s just another button they can tweak to increase margins.

If we follow that kind of logic, then we never put in place any regulation because it would just push people towards worse behaviours. A bit like when people who don’t want taxes say that it would just lead to tax evasion. In reality, there is room for reasonable regulations.

> I’m a fan of just mandating price per ounce labels on everything.

There is already a law to that effect.

> Stores could show current price per ounce and last year’s, no calling out specific brands, just make that data available to consumers on each price tag.

That would be definitely interesting. At the moment they just have to put the old price during sales.
It would have saved the decade where tables were the 'bad' way to layout a webpage, but you had to figure out how to do with different combinations of block and inline block.
In any case, this wouldn't be solved by USB-C. In fact, it'd be even worse, because instead of one chunky piece of metal with some bits inside, you'll have a mess of tiny plastic and long, unprotected connector pins, both in the device and on the cable connector.

Also: Apple does not attach the lightning port to the mainboard of an iPhone, and thus it is easily replaced unlike damn near every Android phone where the connector is soldered onto the mainboard, purposefully, along with extremely fine pitch SMD components very close to the connector, to make it difficult to impossible to repair (the tiny SMD components will blow off the board if you use a hot air rework gun.)
If there's an EULA, do you really own it?
Pretty sure repairability has been getting dramatically better the last couple generations. The entire back panel is replaceable on 15s
I guess I'm just garbage
>What next, we'll legislate away selling drugs to kids?

And that worked out great; drug use among kids nowadays is way higher than it was in past, the drug industry is larger than ever, and cartel violence is killing countless more kids in the third world than drugs ever killed.
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[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37519337
I'm not talking about "all units". All purely mathematical numbers are multiples of 1. 1+1, 1+1+1 and so on. So mathematical numbers heve 1 as unit.
daily chance to inject my opinion on GA:

Almost all of the value in GA comes from the use of multivectors and the wedge product. It's very hard to find a justification for the "geometric product", and there's no real geometric interpretation of it. Therefore treating it as fundamental is a difficult-to-justify choice. "Exterior Algebra" on its own has everything you want without the objectionable parts.