skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true with current space vehicles, but there’s no fundamental reason that two or more SVs can’t form a distributed phased array (for MIMO a la WiFi). At least from a physics / spectrum perspective. The engineering might be tricky.

With SVs separated by hundreds of km, the beam width would be absolutely tiny, and channel reuse would be effectively infinite.
Oral and rectal blood goes directly to the greater circulation without going through the liver (that metabolizes most toxins) first.
Having syntactic affordances for every nuance of semantics is what led to the current state of zoo. What is wrong with having trivial syntax and distinguishing semantics by labeling parts of the syntax tree with symbols?
I honestly think OP is right, it's just called that because Eddie was the most famous person in the movie at the time as his career was on fire, and he's most closely associated with it. The movie doesn't really show whose idea it was.

But now you got me thinking about another question -- who actually delivered the crop report to the USDA? Beeks was locked in the cage, so someone had to actually deliver the real report. Who did that?
Real-World Tesla Semi Range Data Is In, and It’s Not Bad
Self-modifying code is the most exciting type of user preference!
One thing I would like to understand is what limitations of set theory made it necessary to invent/discover category theory. Can someone enlighten me? What do categories let us do that we can’t do with sets?
Additionally, holy crap has a lot changed in that time. Falcon 9 didn't complete its first landing until the very end of 2015 with Flight 20. What's now routine and key to their costs is a feat less than a decade old. SpaceX was still talking about the Mars transport/BFR at that, which were very different in a variety of ways from the Starship SS/SH system we see now. What they've got now feels a lot more practical and sustainable long term, moving to steel for example was a great change.

So as far as long term forward looking plans go I'd agree that execution here was pretty darn good, and they've got a very clear roadmap for the next 5 years as well with full size v2 sats waiting in the wings and Starship proceeding along at a solid clip. It was a curiously negative feeling piece particularly for the WSJ. How many companies execute ambitious highly capital intensive global scale infrastructure rollouts using never been done combos of tech at never been done price points and pull it off like that?
Paying your credit card off fully every month ensures you don’t pay any interest (use it like a debit card). Wrt the earning interest point, consider that with a credit card you still get interest on the money you don’t spend, and you can also collect interest on the money you do spend (eg I buy something for $100 on the 15th, I can collect interest on the $100 until I have to actually pay the bill on the 1st of next month). Not to mention that you also pay 1-1.5% less for everything you use a card for due to cashback schemes. I definitely see why it might seem weird the way Americans use credit cards but it is mostly rational.
Phased arrays aren't magic. The sharpness of the aperture depends on the physical extent of the antenna and very sharp mainlobes come with additional sidelobes.
Ductile to Brittle Transition
TIL PC Pro Magazine is too cheap to get a pro Slack subscription
Full disclosure:

I (too) designed this pedal. I’m the other guy in Fjord Fuzz (or Fjord Pedals whatev), here to take questions and accusations of flagrant misrepresentation.
Depends on the malware. Not all of them aim to steal, some may want to turn your PC into a botnet node, or a remote proxy for illegal activities.
So let me get this straight...

They went through a phase of, "Let's rewrite it in Rust (from Go)!" but it got complicated, because reasons. One of their reasons is Cargo's cross compilation is bad so they decide to use Zig's toolchain to compensate for Cargo's inferior tool chain.

Seems like they should have just stuck with Go.
I don't think Proton is _based_ on Vulkan. From a quick search: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/sgn36x/how_...
It's design patterns for functional programming.

You can quickly recognize common patterns, e.g. monads, functors, bijections.
It doesn't matter whether NSO are genius hackers or their freelancers are. They are still outsmarting Apple all day long.
I like the diagram of "the set containing itself". It illustrates non-well-foundedness niceley.
Yeah, my immediate thought is "wow, that really shows the dangers of depending on a proprietary platform; maybe people will start going FOSS to escape". Because honestly, using a proprietary platform is an understandable move if it's useful and you think it won't do a rugpull, but a major vendor deciding to do exactly that feels like it shifts the analysis.

But I'm not a game dev, so take this with a whole helping of salt grains.
I would think it would be weird for a game engine business to try to curate what type of creative talent utilizes their game engine product. It would seem to me from monetizing installs that you'd want anybody and everybody using your game engine product to generate _anything_ to get installed one or more times by a consumer.

To make your case, I think it would be more relevant if Unity decided to charge game publishers extra for publishing games that were only installed for some short amount of time on a device before going uninstalled. That is not the case here.

Anyway, I see where your mind is at, but I think the conclusion you came to is not correct. I don't see what incentive Unity would have to keep low quality games off of their product, they actively would want them to succeed to hit the thresholds for monetization. And besides, everybody already knows to judge the tool based on its potential, rather than judge it based on some mediocre games that came out and flopped, because that happens with any engine.
Temporian is a new open source Python library built specifically for time series data manipulation. It leverages a custom data structure and C++ operations to achieve up to 1000x speedups versus NumPy for temporal data tasks.
The Biden Administration Misleads Public on Expanses of Land Needed for Net Zero
Full Title:"The Biden Administration Misleads the Public on the Vast Expanses of Land Needed for 'Net Zero"

"This could ultimately require utility-scale solar projects that cover the size of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut combined, and wind farms that span an area equal to that of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee."
-Jesse Jenkins, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton University
Didnt thinkpads do the same at some point?
I made a game with Phaser a long time ago, playable online here: https://bravebunny.github.io/curvatron/

I even released it on Steam with some extra features. I made it free there too since it was selling barely anything after the first few months: https://store.steampowered.com/app/404700/Curvatron/

I will not share the source code since it's embarrassingly bad (was basically how I learned JavaScript), but you can easily find it if you really want to.
I didn't try to build anything with Phaser, but I evaluated it a bit when trying to pick a game engine for a 2D web game.

The tech didn't impress me that much, but it also seemed like the most mature 2D game engine available in JS.

Notably, Phaser 4 was announced ~four years ago and was an attempt to get the project written natively in TypeScript. It looks pretty dead in the water - https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser and having a "best effort" TypeScript experience layered onto Phaser 3 via DefinitelyTyped didn't excite me.

Additionally, with browsers gaining support for WebGPU, I expect any game engine worth their snuff to begin rapidly adopting support for WebGPU. As best I can tell, any hope of Phaser supporting WebGPU is lumped into Phaser 4, so... not much to say there.

Overall, it was a little tough for me to tell if I was being overly critical and viewing a mature product as a ghost town, but that's the impression I took away from it.

As far as I can tell, BabylonJS is king in town for a TypeScript game engine, but its focus is 3D experiences. I didn't find an especially compelling 2D game engine. I ended up making a prototype using React + PixiJS + React-Pixi, but that was hardly an engine and had significant performance issues due to React's reconciler and GC.

Now I am building in Rust -> WASM with Bevy (https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants). It's slow going, creating UI elements sucks right now, but the underlying tech is super solid and I feel good about what I write and what I learn even if I'm dismayed at the pace in which I am creating.

Realistically, if I started over, I would likely take my prototype as far as I could with PixiJS or Phaser. I'd write non-idiomatic TypeScript to appease GC and would avoid asking too much of React when working with <canvas />. Once I had a functioning game I'd consider rewriting it in a more performant language. It's been challenging to be 100% supportive of writing in Rust due to how much slower iterations are compared to JS/TS.
Marvel made their fans watching all credits because of a teaser of a next movie at the very end, so I did it a few times: it actually feels like VFX is consuming now the biggest part of the credits with several production units and at least a few hundred people.
It did exist before the Younger Drias period, though.

Atlantians used it to power their space ships.
I have never used Ion so I cannot speak to its use in practice, but I haven't really had too much of an issue with msgpack. It's faster than JSON, more compressed than JSON, without being any more difficult than any JSON library I've used. It's an almost-universal good for me; the only thing you lose is the ability to easily introspect the messages if there's an issue.
We’re going to see this more and more. Here in Vancouver there is a push from the VFX artists and there is some sort of local band-but-not-union that seems to stick together.

I won’t be surprised to see VFX, in IATSE in the near future but then it will be the 3D Artists who are being shafted. So much filmmaking requires unreal engine work these days and those guys are being shit on in the industry at the moment.
I'm just another datapoint but I like TOML way more - even in the complicated example

I can look at any TOML file and I can see exactly which incredibly nested value am I looking at.

Is my configuration file twice as large as an equivalent YAML?
Great, I'll pay 0.000001 more on R2 but I'll retain the ability to easily understand what nightmare configuration I am looking at

I agree with you the "3.14" vs 3.14 difference is not easy on some users, albeit that could be fixed in the business logic. Casting to int is not the end of the world.

I also hate indentation based anything (I hate Python with a passion - especially now when I'm forced to use it because AI people are fond of it)
According to the Yakov Smirnoff principle, whistle blower is one of the best professions in Russia.
When you say "there aren't insider trading rules like there are for equities" Do you mean there aren't any at all or that they are different?

I could see there being different rules like "primary" players are allowed but "secondary" players aren't allowed. That way McDonalds could buy pork futures before the McRib comes back, but the CEO can't use insider info to front run pork futures before the McRib comes back.
They should put the MGM Grand's front desk staff in charge.. Their car park machine ate one of my room keys so I popped to the desk on the way to the pool. As I wasn't carrying ID (just my other room key) they gave me a very thorough interrogation of the exact layout of the room, how much my upgrades cost, and other details before they'd issue a second key.

Then they flat out refused to put parking charges onto my tab without ID. Yet if I had gone back to the room and merely pulled a single drink out of the minibar, I could have run up a $60 charge no problem!
Agreed. Using flat 1.5% cashback cards with autopay + setting the cashback balance to auto apply to each statement is the convenience compromise I have found
Not remotely unique to Ford and unfortunately common.
Looking back, I see that university gives a chance to direct your own study. It's there to develop your own approach to knowledge acquisition.

Of course, there's curriculum to chart the courses. Yet it's still up to you to explore the tangents, see the common sides, map your existing knowledge onto another domain.

I wish I could see more beyond course requirements and homeworks. It helps when professors could also draw such parallels, especially in applied sciences.
Two men are taking a piss in a public restroom. One finishes first and with a smug look strolls over to the sinks. "My father was a surgeon," he says, "He taught me the proper way to wash my hands. You see, most people just get a quick lather with soap then carelessly rinse it off, but most people are fools. I know better. First I wait for the water to get hot and take off all my rings and watch. Then with lathered soap I scrub under each individual fingernail. I then watch the clock to time washing each individual finger on each side. This takes no less than two minutes. Then, with hands raised above my elbows so that dirty water doesn't slide down them, I scrub each of my arms. After I am fully scrubbed to within an inch of my elbows, I rinse. But I don't rinse carelessly of course. First I rinse my fingertips, making sure to keep them above my elbows when I do so. I then rinse down my hands and arms, never backtracking and being careful to never let water run down my arms towards my hands, for that would soil my hands and I would have to start from the beginning again. With this technique, I can be sure my hands are truly clean." The other man zips, smirks, and walks out of the room. "My father taught me not to piss on my hands."

Jokes aside, do you wash your hands normally like 99% of the public, or do you do the full surgeon scrub each time? Still wearing a mask in late 2023 is like the full surgeon scrub, most people don't bother with that.
Reminds me of the old joke: what's the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer?

Answer: the taste
Why does every single language landing page not have example code? I don't want to read justifications. The code should speak for itself.

Show me an echo server. Show me how you open a file and read data. Show me SOMETHING. Right on the landing page. How are we still doing this?

EDIT: I stand corrected - this is but a subpage. The actual landing page apparently DOES have code.
Oh, very much so. Because of vision issues, I need to plug my Steam Deck into a monitor to play comfortably, but the USB-C connection isn't reliable enough while actually using the Deck as a controller. I need an external controller for my deck, but one that's as good as the Deck (non-negotiable requirements: gyro, back buttons). I wish I could just order a Steam Controller v2 (with two sticks, just like on the Deck).
this was my first Apple laptop. i even had an orinoco gold wifi pcmcia card, a pringles can, a bit of all-thread, and an antenna cable, and away my friend and i went on wardriving expeditions. back then, wifi wasn't nearly as established yet, and it was fun to a couple of knuckleheads to map out locations. if only we could have known how mapping would evolve.
Carls Jr. on a couple of different occasions. I stopped using their drive-ins.
Friend in a developing country has Starlink, he says the dish is about $100 cheaper there and service is just under $50 per month.
The go-compiled wasm is also extremely slow compared to tinygo's wasm. Doing simple things like `fmt.Printf()` degraded performance significantly.
I feel like this is some stupid question but aren't exexutables and their libraries loaded to RAM? If yes then why can't it just delete itself (from disk)?
It doesn't have to be for everything. Disclose whenever and disallow action on the information for a period of time. This is why company earnings are disclosed after the market closes for the day - everyone has several hours to receive the information and decide what to do.
Only the people of the business and owner class would think they're entitled to forced workers.

Strikes and unionization are ways that individuals can become in parity with the owner class. Each side has something the other needs.
Climate dissent muffled by society's top institutions
They mention one box every six months, which is entirely reasonable.
> But those numbers account for just the physical space required by each turbine – the stake in the ground, which is small – and not the broader area required by turbines, which must be spaced far apart from one other and require huge bases made from 2,500 tons of concrete.

Well yes, as that land could continue to be used as is for things like ranching and farming. The land between wind turbines is not useless.
Hadn't heard of that concept before, sounds pretty interesting! Will have to read up on it more.
Pgvector builds a vector index.

Our extension, similarly, builds an index but also extends SQL in more ways.

For example,

- Generating embeddings to augment plain relational data

- Using data from local proprietary embedding models or third-party model APIs in queries.

We have more things planned like vector versioning, data retention policies and recall regression tracking.

> What does "without leaving your database" mean in this context?

You can work with embeddings with just SQL. For instance, a table of academic papers can be augmented with CLIP model embeddings produced locally. This entire process - creating, storing, and querying - happens using just SQL."

SELECT abstract,
introduction,
figure1,
clip_text(abstract) AS abstract_ai,
clip_text(introduction) AS introduction_ai,
clip_image(figure1) AS figure1_ai
INTO papers_augmented
FROM papers;

SELECT
abstract,
introduction
FROM papers_augmented
ORDER BY abstract_ai <-> clip_text("The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity")
LIMIT 10;
IBM famously equipped the Nazi's to be able to operate their concentration camp infrastructure with ruthless, industrial-scale efficiency.

Chemical manufacturers knowingly shipped Zyklon B to the Nazi's and to concentration camps as direct buyers as well.

Unfortunately, my new acquaintence, you are laboring under the presumption that militaries/governments build, manufacture, and operate "government owned infra" to do what they do that can be cleanly seperated from "civillian infra". This is not the case. It's why arguments that "private companies working on behalf of the government to do things the government wouldn't be able to do" should be seen as what they are. A bunch of bullocks.

The Government is Us, and We are the Government. "It's a private company" style arguments only hold validity to specifically if you put on blinders to the fact a "Company" is a construct granted legitimacy by it's host State. Break the rules, or make things overly problematic to your host state, and watch how fast the landscape changes.
This is not about "unwilling to pay for quality tools", but completely changing the way they charge for the tools, which gets applied to all legacy software that ever used their tools, despite their previous (now deleted) clauses that new TOS won't apply unless you use the new version, is just ridiculous to me.

Even if one stopped using Unity to develop new things before this change, they are still on the hook for product installs (even if they are free games), which are by the way tracked by Unity "proprietary data model".

Example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/16hgmqm/unity_want...

A few quotes from the FAQ:

Q: If a user reinstalls/redownloads a game / changes their hardware, will that count as multiple installs?

A: Yes. The creator will need to pay for all future installs. The reason is that Unity doesn’t receive end-player information, just aggregate data.

Q: Are these fees going to apply to games which have been out for years already? If you met the threshold 2 years ago, you'll start owing for any installs monthly from January, no? (in theory). It says they'll use previous installs to determine threshold eligibility & then you'll start owing them for the new ones.

A: Yes, assuming the game is eligible and distributing the Unity Runtime then runtime fees will apply. We look at a game's lifetime installs to determine eligibility for the runtime fee. Then we bill the runtime fee based on all new installs that occur after January 1, 2024.
Yoneda Lemma, an object is entirely determined by its relationships to other objects.
Not sure extras have any bargaining power unfortunately, they might not even exist in 5 to 10 years with the rate of technological advancement. See this video by Corridor Digital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62-aWHGKeMo
Poorer, rural countries like 20% of the US. In rural NC, my brother was paying over $100/mo for 2mbps down cable Internet as 2021.

Starlink's customer acquisition cost has dropped $600 (or whatever they were losing on each antenna), so they can afford to advertise way more than before. If they can pick up a decent portion of the 60,000,000 rural Americans, that's a huge revenue stream (and huge market power, for whatever that's worth).
Recently I compared the pelting of musical performers with soda cans and various items of clothing to a strip tease- and to infidels being pelted with rocks in the Coliseum of Rome. Ancient Rome sometimes makes a good analogue with modern times, so it's not really surprising people thing about it often.
> The #1 tip though is that you're writing a game, or an engine, not both.

Not sure I agree. I have always done both.

Ostensibly I am writing a game but not using someone's engine. And then my own "engine" comes out of the effort.

Then I write a second game and pull over the rendering-sound-etc-code from the first game. This "engine" gets further refined as a result of being pressed into service for the new game.

Often it improves with each iteration and I move the newer version back to older games and refactor them as required.
I'd figured they were substandard parts to begin with, but it's notable they were already going wrong by then. Still, it seemed that they did a good job when they were new(er), at least. There were many positive reports from schools.
Do you have a source for that? The numbers I’ve seen show about a third of homeless being drug addicted, and about a quarter with chronic mental health problems. I would assume there is quite a bit of overlap between those two groups.
'or beats them to it'

Basically they got the report before the dukes and changed it.

Louis showed the need to get back at them.
Billy showed the way to properly get back at them with no possible actionable item.
Ophelia showed what the dukes were doing and a possible thing to get at them with.
Coleman showed that they need to get that report first and find out which way it went.

They all played a part. They all even helped finance it.

It was a very nicely written piece with each character playing in character to help solve the problem proposed by the main character.
I worry this is often the case. I like the idea of learning maths for maths sake. And I would love the time to do that.

But knowing I have a limited amount of time, I often suspect a lot of people extolling the benefits of understanding the mathematical underpinning of concepts are more showing off and in love with their own understanding than offering real benefits to programmers.
Humans are much better at inferring rules from examples than at deducing an example from a concisely stated rule. The official python docs are the latter.
Check out Whittier, Alaska. A port town of 272 people, almost all of whom live in a single building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier,_Alaska#/media/File:W...

(Another oddity; the only way to drive into that down is through a 2.5 mile tunnel with a single lane shared by trains and cars. You drive on the train tracks.)