skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Catapults have almost always been used to minimize takeoff space, or eliminate it entirely (drone launches). The tradeoffs in using a catapult are stress on the airframe, heavier planes due to hardening the airframe to mitigate this stress, as well as an uncomfortable experience for the passengers. There's also the risk of cold cats as I mentioned. You seem to be ignoring these issues entirely.

Airbus's "Eco Climb" was greenwashing at its finest, and despite them touting it in 2012, here we are over a decade later without ANYONE doing something this dumb. The comment above misses out on some basic aircraft fundamentals. One, most of the energy used by an aircraft is in flight, not in rolling off a runway. So the amount of energy saved compared to the added complexity makes it a dumb idea.

Sure, you could make the catapult the length of a runway, mitigating the G force etc. Then you have a Rube Goldberg device that needs to accommodate every aircraft that uses the runway. And this device can't interfere with landing or taxiing either. Then you need to get this device adopted by most airports, otherwise you've immediately gimped your airliner when it lands somewhere that lacks this device.

This idea reminds me of crap I used to read in Popular Mechanics and Popular Science (RIP) that had great ideas that were never developed because their underlying assumptions didn't match with the real world.

You might as well off up the idea of using a blimp/dirigible to lift the airliner up to altitude then drop it off...

Oh and I believe referring to the Airbus quote is an appeal to authority? Considering that Airbus design flaws killed a lot of people, maybe reconsider?
> We have a complexity crisis, and few people see it

I’m not saying memorize this stuff - put it in a big proxmox.readme.md file. Then you can incorporate the actual command into your script. Otherwise you end up incorporating this wrapper into other stuff, ad infinitum, and that’s how you get a complexity crisis.
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As a chemist, I would guess that the guy tapping of the plastic on his teeth was a real assessment of the plastic. There are so many physical properties that are hard to describe, but still recognizable, and I do stuff like that all the time.
Well, but to mention that once, at least at amazon, you enter the pip processs. You are no longer able to move teams. And if you get removed. Not able to apply to return.
Check out https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer if you're using Hammerspoon.
>If you allow AI to skirt copyright law but humans have to live by it

Huh? At least from the argument you're presenting you're attempting to create "The Right to Read" world by RMS. Copyright is about output, not input. If I output something too close to your copyrighted content, that's the violation. Not me getting a book and reading it and sharing it with every one of my friends. Not looking by your art and being influenced by in in my artworks.

> then human labour becomes meaningless

You're 150 years late for the storyline of John Henry.

The problem here isn't machines can do everything and make us meaningless, where you're breaking is thinking that capitalism can even begin to work under this paradigm shift.
All the best! I will surely check it out.
I think that it should be possible to distribute clock lines to at least a 16 channel engine using Tayloe polyphase detectors, which have really good noise characteristics, image rejection, and incredible dynamic range, they also make efficient use of the received signal. One 8 phase clock to feed it all, and coherent downconversion is guaranteed.

Parts cost would be $100 or less via Digikey.
Yes, the made-up holiday from a 1997 episode of Seinfeld.
> So… Twitter is shutting down?

One can only hope!
I know nothing about the actually physics, but all those polygonal, angled surfaces remind me of the chapter in Ben Rich’s skunkworks book about how a lot of the radar-defeating properties of the F-117 was due to the similar-looking geometry of the plane. I wonder if cops will discover it’s weirdly hard to speed check these :P
The point is to instill fear through humiliation. Bonus if you quit on your own, so they don't have to pay severance.
As a child I read anything I could get my hands on. That ended as I grew through high school, college, and the first few years of my career. But recently a few of my friends and I started a book club and I'm on track to read more books this year (start to finish, for fun, not like "you have to read this section for class") than I have in probably a decade.

The first few months were truly challenging, we found we struggled to read more than a few pages at a time. But it got easier.
2008ish things were much closer.

In 2008, US GDP per capita was comparable to many large western European countries with the US at $48k, UK $47k, France $45k, Germany $45k, Italy $41k, Sweden $56k.

In 2022, the US was at $76k, UK $46k, France $41k, Germany $48k, Italy $34k, Sweden $56k.
FYI, these substitutions are POSIX:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

Also a couple mnemonic hints:

% vs #. On US keyboards, # is shift-3 and is to the left of % which is shift-5. So # matches on the start (left) and % matches on the end (right).

# vs ## (or % vs %%). Doubling the character makes the match greedy. It's twice a wide so it needs to eat more.

Bash also supports ${parameter/pattern/string} and ${parameter//pattern/string} (and a bunch others besides) which are not POSIX:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Par...
Telescope is cool, but last I checked it was neovim only or recommended and I’m a regular-Vim holdout.
Magnet rocks. Very worth paying for. I hate using Macs without it
If I had the resources I would. Not /s
That blew my mind. I've used fzf a couple time here and there, but now I Get It. Thanks!
Management. Chew up the grinders and spit them out when there is no flavor left. There's an endless supply; they extoll the virtues of the grind to the next generation, all the way until they've been spit out. But nobody listens to them once that's happened.
>Isn't that because poor people can't buy even new cheap cars these days?

What is your definition of cheap?

The best-selling EV in France is the Dacia Spring and it is around €16k after government subsidy. The cheapest ICE vehicle is probably the Dacia Sandero, and it is around €10k.

I don't know if fuel prices would eat up the savings of an ICE car but I do know that electricity is very affordable in France.
Pure go?
Joon (YC W22) is hiring a founder growth hacker
soon this page will be cited on wikipedia on the qwerty layout article, and reality will never be the same
It's up to the pkg maintainer that's being used as the source.

The default PKGs, located at: https://github.com/metis-os/hysp-pkgs, are automated via GitHub actions. You can look at the workflow codes.

As to answer the signing question:

$BIN.TOML must contain either blake3sum or sha256sum of the binary specified as source.
And once hysp downloads them, it checks if they match exactly as specified in the $BIN.TOML
We prevent MITM or any other shenanigans by trusting whoever is hosting the pkg, isn't tampering both the binary and the checksums.
So yes, not completely foolproof (an attacker could, in theory, tamper both the binary and the checksum), but that's why we have the self-hosting option for people who want to trust only themselves and their servers.
The config allows you to specify different URL/Host for the TOML files and the actual binaries.

So unless, both the TOML files and source binaries are being hosted on an HTTP site, MITM is not possible.

And as already specified, the default source that ships with hysp, doesn't use HTTP anywhere.
Obviously this depends on the company, but after 15 years at multiple FAANG, I'm leaning towards no. It might have been true at 2010-era Microsoft but the painful transition where they fired all the SDETs got rid of most of the people who "made it through" and after that I never felt this to be the case.

Google, for instance, has a slow tedious hiring process with a lot of false negatives, but in my experience those who made it through were absolutely qualified and great to work with. There certainly wasn't 30% to cull. In my opinion there wasn't even enough people to fill the percentage quota that need to be given ratings lower than satisfactory - before the layoffs. After them, the fact that they're still enforcing these quotas on teams is absurd cruelty that kills morale.
it's clojure/clojurescript, which is pretty cool!
"They shouldn't be audited because they're obviously not legit"? That doesn't make sense. If KPMG steps up and says "hey CC buyers, show me your operations and books", either

1) they refuse, and KPMG says "Green-n-Co refuses to be audited", and demand for CC (by your presumption, bullshit) goes down.

2) they get audited, KPMG reports "Green-n-Co is bullshit", and demand for BS goes down. or...

3) audited, report says "Green-n-Co met 93% of their stated goals, we found X areas for improvement", and (presumably) GnC only gets better, and demand for working CC services increase.

So you're either against (reduced demand for bullshit), or against reducing CO2? Help me understand.
Except that reciting pi is evidence of life and this system isn't.
Not all FAANG are like this. Google and Apple are known for being easy going. This of course depends on the team.
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Might be wrong but this shortcut corrupts the lower bits with garbage from the higher byte.

The lookup table can detect some, but not all errors, so yeah, it relies on valid input.
The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101M award
Is that before or after the milk drinking habit kicks in?
> interpreted language

There is no such thing as interpreted language. A language implementation can be called an interpreter to emphasize the reliance on rich existing library, but there's no real line here that can divide languages into two non-ambiguous categories. So... is C an "interpreted language"? -- well, under certain light it is, since it calls into libc for a lot of functionality, therefor libc can be thought of as its interpreter. Similarly, machine code is often said to be interpreted by the CPU, when it translates it to microcode and so on.

> prioritizes convenience over performance

This has nothing to do with scripting. When the word "scripting" is used, it's about the ability to automate another program, and record this automation as a "script". Again, this is not an absolute metric that can divide all languages or their implementations into scripting and not-scripting. When the word "scripting" is used properly it is used to emphasize the fact that a particular program is amenable to automation by means of writing other programs, possibly in another language.

Here are some fun examples to consider. For example, MSBuild, a program written in C# AFAIK, can be scripted in C# to compile C# programs! qBittorrent, a program written in Python can be scripted using any language that has Selenium bindings because qBittorrent uses Qt for the GUI stuff and Qt can be automated using Selenium. Adobe Photoshop (used to be, not sure about now) can be scripted in JavaScript.

To give you some examples which make your claim ridiculously wrong: Forth used to be used in Solaris bootloader to automate kernel loading progress, i.e. it was used as a scripting language for that purpose, however most mature Forth implementations are aiming for the same performance bracket as C. You'd be also hard-pressed to find a lot of people who think that Forth is a very convenient language... (I do believe it's fine, but there may be another five or so people who believe it too).

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Basically, your ideas about programming language taxonomies are all wrong and broken... sorry. Not only you misapplied the labels, you don't even have any good labels to begin with.

Anyways,

> What are you trying to prove here?

Where's here? Do you mean the original comment or the one that mentions std::map?

If the former: I'm trying to prove that CPython is a dumpster fire of a program. That is based on many years of working with it and quite extensive knowledge of its internals of which I already provided examples of.

If it is the later: parent claimed something about how optimized Python's dictionary is, I showed that it has a very long way to go to be in the category of good performers. I.e. optimizing something, no matter how much, doesn't mean that it works well.

I don't know what do you mean by Python's VM dispatch in this context. I already explained that I used Python C API for dictionaries, namely this: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/dict.html . It's very easy to find equivalent functionality in std::map.
> Valve also announced that its upcoming gaming console, Steam Machine, will by default run SteamOS, an operating system based on the Linux kernel.

You can tell this is a very recently written article :)
Yeah, I guess so. I keep waffling between thinking it's some 4d chess thing, and thinking it's just normal human fallibility, where the board just made a massive mistake in predicting how it would go. But I just struggle so much to imagine that, because everyone I know in the industry, regardless of their level of expertise or distance from OpenAI, immediately knew how big a deal it was going to be, when we heard he was hired. But supposedly the people on the board had no idea? I think this might be the right conclusion, but I nevertheless struggle to fathom it.
In some days whatsapp will do the same thing I guess
X/twitter recently hired her son too. Seems like the whole family is out for the smash-n-grab.

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/19/2023/twitter-bets-big-...
Ah yes spurning the "creative" finance of today is equivalent to getting rid of finance altogether yes yes.
Nissan has been the General Motors (i.e. a manufacturer of mediocre cars) of Japan for a long time. Its low ranking doesn't surprise me. Likewise Volkswagen has been the GM of Germany for a while too. No surprise there either.

But Mercedes coming in 29/30? That surprises me. I've never owned a Mercedes but I thought they had a reputation for reliability.
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Rectangle and Spectacle before it are really great for managing window placement and sizing. I wouldn't use a mac without it.

But I don't use a mac anymore. I use linux desktops and there's just nothing quite like Rectangle. For a long while, I used a tweaked fork of pygrid. These days I use wayland compositors and don't have a good option. I've been meaning to hack something together to work with floating windows on Hyprland but I never get around to it.

Someday I'd like to write something that does placement and sizing like Rectangle but snaps adjacent window edges together. Like if I have a bottom left window that's 1/3rd screen width and assign a new window to bottom right 1/3rd width, the bottom left would get resized to 2/3rd wide to fill the void. If I place a new window at bottom middle 1/3rd, the bottom left would get resized back to 1/3rd. If I resized bottom middle to 1/2 width, then the bottom left and right would each be resized to 1/4 width.

Hyprland has a plugin system that I believe would let me do this (someone has created an i3-like tiling plugin) but I don't have the skills or motivation to learn c++.
>Flipping a relay is easy, doing in flight with one of most safety critical systems not so much

This system assumes an aircraft that is already battery powered and requires routinely detaching a very heavy piece of equipment in flight without causing undue risk to the aircraft and then autonomously flying that heavy battery pack over populated areas in airspace shared with other aircraft. The power control system for detaching battery pack is the least complicated part of this system.
Hospitals and schools that are used by Hamas.
I tried running it on MacOS Sonoma on Intel using UTM but it always loads to a black screen, regardless of the video settings I use. Did anyone have better luck with UTM?
That’s because the model 3 is about as unique as a ford Taurus
If it happens, I'm skeptical it will lead anywhere good. I don't want Starcraft with season passes and loot boxes.
If I may hazard a guess (I don't know why the original code used it), Python dictionaries are also ordered (and there's no option in Python's library to have them not ordered). Maybe they wanted to match Python's behavior.
On a 27” monitor running at 2560x1440 1x/2x tiling is better than on a small screen, but it still winds up awkwardly sizing windows from time to time. In most cases I find it easier to just let windows overlap, which results in the same information visibility but lets windows retain proper sizing.

I could see tiling working if I lived in minimal-chrome apps like Terminal and Sublime, but I don’t, and so floating with occasional tiling works better for me.
And why can't users vouch for it like with comments?
Cops mostly use lidar these days. The cybertruck would need to be made out of mirrors.
State your opinion of what you think instead of pretending to put words in my mouth or know what is in my head.
It sounds like you're talking more about a specific art form, collage, than art generally. Regardless, I am in the camp that "art is what artists do".

I think that a lot of the rejection about generated art comes from the fear that it would become the dominant artistic form rather than just another kind of art.

I watched a YouTube video the other day that expressed a sentiment that I share and that may apply here as well. He was talking about Photoshop rather than generative art: (Paraphrasing despite the quote marks) "As an artist, I love photoshop for the power and flexibility it gives me. As an art appreciator, though, I would never hang photoshop art in my home because the aesthetic is not appealing to me."
Engineering a Solar System
Seems like a weird way to push yourself.

Like what if it turns out you join a team that ranks you more based on politics/caste/luck than any sort of talent or motivation and you just feel trapped in a weird game?
> they have very high barriers to entry in the interview process, and then act like 30% of the company is underperforming and subject to an annual 6% cull.

There's no contradiction. No interview process can avoid low performers. There will always be unmotivated people, people who are difficult to work with and so on...

But yes, this isn't cool, but at least, people working there have very high compensation and know it's a competitive environment.
Maybe he will buy Fox News next?
Researchers describe a sustainable process to recycle biobased polycarbonates
Red lithographers tape is also good for blocking the annoying light while still leaving the status of the LED visible.
Jack Welch also mostly made his mark by juicing earnings via both financializing the whole company going into the GFC, and by doing various forms of (probably illegal then, definitely now) accounting tricks to smooth earnings to always make his number.

GE was run into the ground by his tenure.
Nothing out there quite works like i3 because they all politely ask the actual window manager to set the position/size of windows. i3 controls the position and size of windows.
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This sounds similar to BetterSnapTool, which I have been using happily for several years.
There's barely any detail in that article.
Flying my family out visit my inlaws over christmas this year would cost $5000. I'd like to avoid the time driving, and if it was me I probably would, but the additional costs of the whole family make it not affordable. Car maintenance doesn't cost that much. While flying is a day faster in the best case, I've been stuck in a city I didn't want to be at because weather caused a missed connection (the airline wouldn't have 5 empty seats on a plane for a week - lots of last minute headache trying to find a different option to get to the funeral on time - driving puts me much more in control of this)

When I'm at work my company paid for flights, but even then many will tell you if it is only 12 hours to drive, just rent a car: flying is a headache and doesn't really save enough time to be worth it. (if you are going to/from a major hub then flying is great, but we often go between minor cities, which means several hours at various airports)
> the only country you complain about is the only one with human rights in the Middle East

As a US citizen, I fund Israel and I will complain about their actions since they make me culpable in their human rights violations (of which there are many, well documented).
I just keep thinking back to the genius scene/meme from The Social Network.

"Drop the OpenAI. Just Microsoft. It's cleaner."
For me who uses it as a NAS/VM platform, it’s basically Debian with some virtualization relevant packages and an opt in kernel that are more reasonably up to date, with solid ZFS support out of the box so I don't care about the "update kernel, reboot, oops version mismatch I need to revert" nonsense.

While things like TrueNAS exist with ZFS support, in the past iX systems has made some overeager patches to ZFS, to bring in new features that weren't appropriate to include yet IMO. I hate to dig up old news, but that's why I've avoided them so far.

Basically I've got Proxmox "figured out", which lets me fuck around with the things I want, rather than the things I don’t want. This reduces my very subjective mental overhead.

All the high availability stuff is wasted on me though, and I just disable the related services.

Note to new users experimenting with proxmox
The most common "gotcha" with proxmox, is that it does NOT automatically adjust network stuff after install.
If you switch out a network card or change what physical port it's connected with, you will lose network access, and need to manually edit `/etc/network/interfaces` to make sure your using a correct port ID and/or assigned IP are valid.

iface vmbr0 inet static
...
bridge-ports <The port ID, like "enp130s0f0">
...
US does it in broad daylight with full ownership. When Canada alleged involvement of Indian Govt. in killing of their citizen, they were caught off guard and became very aggressive in their denials. Why didn't they accept it?
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