skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> holding altitude to within 0.02 kPa is more difficult than holding altitude to within 0.05 kPa or to within 0.30 kPa

"more" difficult is obviously true, but the difficulty of holding an altitude is only a small part of the overall difficulty of RSVM.

In other words, RSVM is much more about accuracy than precision, and the claim was that planes were "probably fairly precise already". The reason they needed upgrades was to improve the accuracy, not so much to improve the precision.
For Amazonians - Wallet?
So for the off chance that once in 6 months you have a conversation in person that "sparks something" everyone has to suffer commutes and all the other crap that comes with WFO?

Yeah I'll pass on that, thanks
> f you want to start using IRC as a newb today you first have to pay obeisance and perform the ritual stumbling through

Nah, web-based clients like The Lounge (https://thelounge.chat/) or Convos (https://convos.chat/) provide a very similar user experience to Discord or Slack.
But that's no fun! ( •̀ᴗ•́ )و
I'm with you.

I was never really a user, having an account but never signing in/posting. Now... any references I see to it are entirely not engaging (ie: no threads). If I go to the home page I can't see anything, I can't log in.

I deleted my unused account at the news of a change in ownership. Not due to some strong beliefs or anything, I just thought - why keep an unused service when their terms will surely change?

Anyway, I must be linked to get the slightest morsel.

Sure, some people may follow the pattern and sign up - but I (and others) don't, so it's inherently insulated.

This limits the impact both to/from Twitter. It generally feels less significant; at least to those outside, but maybe my FOMO is broken.
Why, Sir, I have seen people whose entire jobs live inside this box called a "computer". Peculiar, to say the least.
Is this a copypasta? If not, it should be.
That worked extremely well at a past org, I had a partner and we worked really efficiently. Until the project manager put a stop to any shadow dev work.
Machine Learning for Operational Decisionmaking in Competition and Conflict
This article made me think of painting. As in painting the walls of your living room. Looks easy. How hard could it be?

Turns out painting is easy if you don't care if it looks like crap when you're done. But if you want it to look good, you'll spend 90% of your time on prep: Moving out or covering the furniture, laying down and securing a tarp on the floor, taking down all the pictures, scrubbing the walls clean, patching holes in the drywall and retexturing, and then carefully masking around the edges of the walls with tape.

90% of the remainder of the time is stirring your paint and carefully painting around all the edges with a trim brush, going extra slow wherever there's a moulding edge that couldn't be masked. There are tricky roller guides that make this faster, but it's still easy to make a mess that requires laborious correction. If you screw up these edges they will ruin the appearance of the room.

The next bit of the job is rolling on the big areas of paint in the middle of the wall, which is what everybody sees first. That only takes 5 minutes.

Then finally you spend a couple of hours cleaning everything up and replacing the furniture.

How hard could it be, indeed.
The reaction gifs specifically (from the gif picker) are hosted by Tenor. But surely they're deduplicating the other images already. I've never seen any evidence either way.

Making temporary URLs would still help whether they're deduplicating or not. And almost certainly they're spending most of the storage on videos that have only been uploaded once. It takes a lot of 100KB images to equal a 50MB video.
This looks impressive. What's funny is I had an emotional first reaction that I'm going to be old and gray by the time fully body scanning is readily available. No longer my young supple self. Silly, I know.
China is a similar size but trains are very competitive there.

I think the part that's missing is good urban transit systems. A long distance train loses most of its advantages if you have to hire a car at the end of it.
> A logged out user can follow direct image links from private accounts/servers/subs on all these sites, including Discord. Not like that means much of anything security wise (if you have the url you likely had access to the image)

This is a concept I think about often. Tons of services use unguessable URLs for access control. A long time ago, I would've called it "security by obscurity" but it's become so normalized that I've come to mostly agree that it's sufficient because users who give out the URL can generally perceive it as equivalent to giving out any other secret (such as a password). But on the other hand, using other HTTP headers instead of the URL (authorization headers, cookie headers, etc.) do have a rather major benefit: not typically being stored in logs as cleartext, which cannot generally be said for URLs. So if you run a service that uses URLs as secrets, and you don't keep those URLs in your logs, then it's pretty decent security, I think. Although if your logs fall into the hands of a bad actor, then the actual data probably did as well, so it's kind of moot.
Sorry this might sound stupid but does that include software with UIs? I’m thinking of a browser where it can be gpu accelerated or not.
“… with a large enough budget, we could easily…”
It did a good job, then. How long would it have taken for the marketer to get their project prioritized if it hadn’t already demonstrated value?
> Who are these people not using an IDE when working professionally with a team of people? That's a much bigger red flag than putting using namespace std; inside a compilation unit.

You seem to have completely ignored what I wrote after "even those who do..."? Like I explained, you're not immune to these issues just because you use an IDE.

And to answer your question, it's lots of people at companies whose C++ talent you would (or should) appreciate. And many people use both IDEs and text editors, depending on lots of factors, like the size of the task.

> If there is ambiguity, then you can just add a std:: in front of a function. This is all within a single compilation unit anyway.

Just because it's in a single TU that doesn't mean it won't be somebody else's problem.

First, someone who modifies a header you include will now potentially break your code simply via a name collision. You're making it harder for them to change their code without breaking yours. And you're probably not their only consumer.

Second, you're now doing ADL lookups instead of regular lookups. This can add a ridiculous amount of noise to error messages for widely used identifiers, which will make life much harder for everyone.

Third, not everything results in an ambiguity. The moment someone introduces an overload that happens to be a better match for your lookup, this can silently cause your code to misbehave. It might not be the most common problem but it's sure as heck one of the most painful when you or your teammates eventually get bitten.
I've never seen these as competitors. Closure is for minifying code and typescript is for type checking.
I'd love to see this too. Would love it if it was an OS that scaled well from desktop to mobile (at least tablet) sizes. I'm a big fan of the basic idea behind Chrome OS. Not so much a fan of giving Google my info. Would be nice to have a real alternative in this niche.
It's not. But now that's half as likely. Several choices are even better.
We had this in college where someone sent "M to mute" and then thousands of people started sending emails with "M" in the body. Nobody knows how many of them were being sarcastic, but it became a meme that we found ways to insert into all sorts of unwanted group communication channels.
"Mozilla.social is currently available to a closed beta group as we experiment, gain input from participants, learn, and improve the experience. Eventually we hope to build a safe, well-organized space within Mastodon that is open to all audiences."
Which associations did that?
Because our servants should be as cheap as possible and not distracted with their own families of course /s

Really though, we're on a website with mostly upper middle class people, many of whom rely on cheap labor to provide their affordable luxuries. If that labor was paid the same as most of us are paid we'd have fewer luxuries. This is clearly unpopular with many people. I think secretly many people wish their baristas and cooks weren't paid at all so they could eat out even more. In fact, not that long ago a terrible war was fought over that very desire, so clearly it's an opinion popular enough nearly half the country was willing to die for it.

So it's no surprise the idea lingers that some jobs deserve to be paid barely enough to cover the car and gas to get to the job. That big companies should be able to collude and prevent organized labor and suppress fair wages, while inflation eats away at the remainder. I mean, they're just standing in a hot greasy and dangerous kitchen all day next to a boiling vat of flammable oil. It's hardly worth the same pay as going to stand-ups and zoning out on the internet most of the day from the comfort of home.
> This kind of stuff is the future of film making.

> Imagine adding "yourself" into a scene like this, moving around as you
> were/are from a video you just created of yourself. As in: film yourself
> walking around your bedroom with your phone. Then use an app like this to
> add you and your movement (cropped from the video) to a different
> background scene.

> Goodbye, Hollywood elites!

As someone working in this arena, statements like this make me chuckle.

Don't get me wrong-- I think this is really cool. I get that people are excited about new tech, and technical people always overestimate the value of technical advancements in creative workflows, but no: people being able to place a perfect hyper-realistic replica of themselves in a film wouldn't kill the film industry any more than RPG Maker + generative AI would kill the games industry. I'd wager it probably would not even leave a dent.

Firstly, there would need to be a film to begin with, and that requires a lot. A whole hell of a lot.

Secondly, characters matter. A lot. Especially main characters. Do you replace the name of the main character with your name in stories you tell? How about doing a global search-and-replace in the ebooks you read? It's not like we don't have the technical capability. I could see this being a novelty feature in some action movies, especially superhero movies, and more likely in games and porn, but one of the biggest draws a movie has is who stars in it-- and if you look at the rest of the human population, you'll notice that we're not choosing representative samples. The fact that it's someone else with a personality and back story and motives and strengths and flaws-- a character-- is a pretty important part of stories. Their appearance matters, too. Most people don't even like staring at themselves for a few minutes, let alone for an entire feature length film. In most situations, I think it would be distracting as hell. Sure, people might find it amusing to see themselves in Top Gun Maverick, but would they want to see themselves getting bullied by an IRS agent in Everything Everywhere All at Once? Getting a box cutter held to their throat in Emily the Criminal? Would replacing Jon Hamm's appearance with their own really make watching Madmen better? Do most people want to see themselves beat to a pulp in Fight Club? I'd wager that few would.

Thirdly, most people aren't particularly interested in putting in the thought and effort to customize their phones: I'm pretty sure they're less interested in putting thought and effort into customizing their passive entertainment. They just want to hit play and have a nice little escape.

So, no. As long as people will continue to seek entertainment for the reasons they've always sought it, this is not going to fundamentally change the art of storytelling anytime soon.
I'm not 100% sure what a "CL" is, I assume it's a change order plus PR.

One thing I've noticed with small PRs is that the overall code quality stagnates. Reviewers focus on the small change, so they miss opportunities for abstraction and near duplicates proliferate.

Of course large changes have problems of their own, so I don't know what the solution is.
They're not even temporarily on Discord. They're straight from Tenor.
Discovery Steering Committee re Google Antitrust Litigation [pdf]
I would say “guys” is gender neutral but “guy” generally isn’t.
Whitespace significance is awful. After some time questioning why I have fallen out of love with python, I realized that is part of the answer.
This doesn't seem to be an issue for Firefox which is in the same boat.
Yea that doesn't surprise me. This is how they have that unbeatable marketshare lead over practically anything else when it comes to gaming. They'd probably drag bill gates out of bed at 3am if it was important enough.
From the website, second paragraph. Their point is pretty clear in their comment.
Paris is seeing a new kind of road rage: Bike-lane traffic jams
I remember some popular sites would detect and swap out hotlinked images for, let's say, less-than-savoury images instead.
Thank god for Transport Rules to just silently drop emails with matching subject for a few days.
So emacs, right??
Isn't ads well-known for mucking search and affinity lists?

Did the tweeter just say he fucking nailed predicting the sun would rise?
How ChatGPT Is Putting College Ghostwriters Out of Work
You set up a connection between two servers and exchange text. HTTP/3 does a boatload more than telnet, but in its core it's just sending text back and forth with some optional special tricks.

VNC and RDP both solve "log in to a remote computer", but RDP does a lot more than just sending images one way and sending HID input the other way.
I don’t think that’s an option generally speaking. You’d still need to go through security to get the the authorized worker area to be checked again and passes issued. It’s not like you can just bust open a door and jump out to the tarmac without some sort of pass and ID
I assume that's 9,318,054 * 22 minutes, not counting leap years?
I don't think that's the right conclusion to draw at all from the Freenode debacle. A pretty significant amount of the channels stayed on Freenode after Andrew's takeover, until Andrew kicked them off himself with the mass Libera purge. There were many communities still on a wait-and-see approach -- at least until Andrew was revealed to be semi-insane (Emperor of Korea, digital territory, alt-right conspiracies, etc).

Yes, the open source privacy crowd is a big chunk, but there were just as many social communities. Don't you remember the olden days of sex channels and all their drama? The roleplay, alt history, sci-fi, and just general random niche hobbies that populated the IRC landscape. IRC was, above all, a social space, it just so happens that many of these communities died or migrated to discord over time. Those that remain are those who are most attached to privacy/open source/etc, all the rest are gone.
"At the September 15 hearing, Judge Anderson pressed Google to explain how it could have permitted what the court termed an egregious and very significant problem in this case: I'm not understanding how this could happen with what should have been at least two levels of oversight. (9/15/23 DOJ Action Tr. at 52, 54, 59.) As the Court noted: You produced how many documents since the filing of this lawsuit? 1 million. So you're talking about potentially five times what you've produced, and you're saying you thought there was substantial completion done? Its false. It wasnt; was it? (Id. at 55.)

After hearing from Google's counsel, the court stated, It's no excuse and Maybe it wasn't malicious, maybe it wasn't in bad faith, but it clearly was not being done under proper supervision, either internally or externally. And you've put everyone in an unfortunate situation by your failure to do that. (Id. at 56, 58.) The Court appeared further concerned about the delay in jumping on this issue sooner: You've known about this for a month now. You knew about it starting on August 18th. You knew there was a real issue. There didn't seem to be a call to arms then. The first time I heard about it was September 1, and it was this, you know, like, whoops, we've got a problem. It wasn't as clear as I now know how egregious this is. (Id. at 59.)"
You’ll typically get downvoted for a comment like that even by people who catch the reference. HN tries hard not to be Reddit.
Labor of love, masterpiece, historic, iconic work
If it was found, its amusing to think about how it could actually be studied.

How close could a reinforced probe orbit? Would they just drop test masses in and observe what happens? Maybe drag a kuiper belt object in to make a little accretion disk?
The man produces garbage papers. He characterizes the work as useful stepping stones for other scientists to do the rest of the obvious followup work, which he can't be bothered with. He's too busy churning out thought experiments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI

His skype rant to SETI leadership about how nobody is taking the idea of contact or evidence of alien civilizations seriously, is really sad.
I switched to Edge because there was no way to disable omnibox suggestions/ad money printer, especially if it autocompleted what I was typing.
I’m a developer and I’m also using web apps or electron apps all day.

VS Code, Slack, Spotify, GitHub (for basic pre commit diff review I quite like their app), and figma are all Electron apps and are pretty good today.

So many web apps that I can’t count and many of them are passable. Still the Electron apps tend to be more polished (even their web versions).
I’m confused, none of what you’re describing is part of the article.
Cm-2 was my favorite computer ever
It's not a copypasta; I was there for Reply All 2019.
Why would that cause any problems if it's not the immigrants committing the crimes. Yes, immigration is the problem.
JLCPCB's integration with LCSC for parts is why I've used them for PCBA.

I've only done low-volume hobbyist stuff, & prefer KiCad, but I can see that not having to fiddle with BOM/CPL would be a +1 to EasyEDA.
I've been patiently watching for a nice way to plug in a local development DNS resolver (patiently waiting for someone to document and script the a few tiny patterns).
Do you have starlisp running?
Show HN: SapientML – Generative AutoML for Tabular Data
I find this fascinating; I also think it's a good example of a broader possible phenomenon of "the more extreme an observed value of an individual human attribute, the more likely it is to result from some extraindividual process."

It's like some corollary of Goodheart's law.
Ha ha. If you have to explain it, the audience isn't worth your time! :)
firefox is my main browser on mobile.. am i missing something?
I think we should use X12, personally.
I don't mean to derail this tangent, but I noticed your profile. End of year is when this changes?
AI and Climate Change: Intersections, Impacts, and Future Directions
I understand those concepts well, but I find the casual chain of events questionable, especially when the story is told by category theorists. For example, I was once told by a prominent category theorist that certain aspects of the API design for C++ futures was informed by category theory. When I spoke to the people who actually wrote the RFCs, they said category theory had no part in their thinking.

This is what it seems category theorists tend to do: they build a framework, express existing ideas within that framework, and then claim that the existing work is an application of category theory.

I think that sort of retcon CAN be done. Many math topics like Fourier Analysis have taken practical results, built a math theory behind it, and then converted the entire field to the theory as standard domain knowledge. But the evidence that category theorists have done this, even in the realm of programming language APIs, seems slim.

Even if you agree that the APIs align and the people designing the API know their thing is secretly a monad, still calling that a "success" of category theory is rather weak. By comparison, just because something has addition, units, and inverses, it doesn't mean that group theory is being applied in a meaningful way. The nontrivial results about groups that DO seem to lead to "real" applications are related to the structure of particular groups, as used in cryptography. But I have seen little similar in the way of category theory. Porting concepts from category theory to Haskell is nice, maybe, but it's not clear to me that doing so isn't creating as many problems as its solving (e.g., lenses solve a problem that no other language has, and most Haskell programs seem to me to be completely unreadable by anyone except the author, despite me being no stranger to Haskell).
Having a stay at home parent is great. Nothing wrong with a stay at home parent. Although it would be better if it was a man.

The average man has greater physical strength than the average woman, and household chores involve lots of non-automated tasks (lifting laundry baskets, etc). Plus, it is unlikely, but if there’s a burglar, men can typically put up a better fight.
Take a few hundred photos now for later avatar building. You can already have headshots generated from uploading a variety of ~40 photos of your face and head.
thanks! I think we're technically an Australian company, at least, our founder is Australian and we have a very large investor that is Australian.

Music supervisors are a big part of our business, so I'll pass this link up the line (I'm an engineer)
There’s also a privacy aspect here. Upload to discord and the image URL can easily be copied around and shared outside of the server and the intended audience.

This is at least a crude way to stop that and I think it’s a good thing.
They try, but they still end up clunkier. E.g. you're never going to be able to put pictures in a message in a nice way, because even if your client supports it, other people on IRC don't.
This is exactly it. Sweden took in the lowest quality immigrants, that did not even have id, lied about which country they're from and many were convicted criminals.
Yeah, cool. In my case I didn't really get all the type stuff right - I was mostly using Flow to be able to generate documentation.
> I've taken 4 Amtrak trips in my life

C'mon, that's not a big sample size for such sweeping conclusions. I've taken many trips, more than I can count. On-time hasn't been a problem for me. But they've become very expensive.
So, you'll imminently lead a mob to kill executives of companies that majorly contribute to climate change?
Disagree. The very technical have a "the cobbler's children go barefoot" effect where they're unwilling to pay for anything. The non-technical are much more likely to pay $5/month for a program they use.
It drives me nuts how VCV Rack has such a cool technical architecture, but such an insidious license and community moderation. (You can't even discuss it on the forums, they simply delete the post.)

Background: https://aria.dog/barks/why-i-will-never-create-modules-for-v...
I agree. In Classic Mechanic "time" an be just t (or an opaque container with t), but in Special Relativity you "time" as defined by the G...P must be (t,x,y,z) (or an opaque container with (t,x,y,z)).

> Why is this even a question?

It's very strange that two events can not share the same "time". This is not the usual definition of time in physics [1]. So it's a natural question if the same strange property apply to "place".

Also, the definition of "time" in a world with special relativity makes it necessary to include (x,y,z) so "time" includes all the information included in "place". Why is it necessary to have both concepts?

[1] I think it gets more complicated in General Relativity, but I never took that course :( .