skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" Typical speeds for hypersonic aircraft are greater than 3000 mph and Mach number M greater than five, M > 5. We are going to define a high hypersonic regime at M > 10 to account for re-entry aerodynamics. The chief characteristic of hypersonic aerodynamics is that the temperature of the flow is so great that the chemistry of the diatomic molecules of the air must be considered. At low hypersonic speeds, the molecular bonds vibrate, which changes the magnitude of the forces generated by the air on the aircraft. At high hypersonic speeds, the molecules break apart producing an electrically charged plasma around the aircraft. Large variations in air density and pressure occur because of shock waves, and expansions. "

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/lowhyper.html
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NAND and NOR gates are sufficient for any computation, so you can invalidate any software saying it's form of emulation of hardware?
When dealing with web clients in our python projects, we tend to have functions that download and extract files. Below are a few lines of code that can help us create such functions.
It's going to be spent elsewhere.

You're just wrong end to end
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Any plan to make it available to public, MOOC, lecture series etc?
I mean stronger impact on loss or benchmark results.
> Google is not known for respecting user privacy.

As a Googler, I’m always confused by this sentiment. We live in times where car manufacturers reserve the right to collect and sell any data the car can sense, up to and including your sex life. But somehow Google does not sell or share any of your data with anyone, makes it public how it fights a lot of law enforcement overreach, even outright exits markets and sunsets features and products due to privacy concerns… And is everyone’s top focus when it comes to privacy.
There were different court cases in different states that ruled it did have to be handed over. As for whether or not someone genuinely lost it, I guess it would be up to the particulars of that case if they were believed or not.

The UK has a rather scary law where even if you do genuinely lose it they just assume you are lying.
I had an RCA Lyra RD1021, it was almost the size of a matchbox. I’m still tempted to use it while running instead of a phone.
Dane here, our situation is similar to yours. Post Nord certainly needed competition, because they are completely inept at delivering packages, to the point that I refuse to shop at any retailer that don't offer alternatives. Sadly, whenever I order things from outside the country, Post Nord is the default carrier and literally every time I've used them in the past, there has been some minor or major issue with the delivery, up to and including the parcel being returned to sender for no reason at all. Twice.
China's ban on Apple's iPhone accelerates
I'll have to keep an eye on that list, one of these might actually be a solid RPi alternative eventually if they can get good long term OS support this way. All I'm seeing on it right now are somewhat obsolete boards though, 2 or 4 GB of memory at most, LPDDR3 and 4, no wifi chip.
One question is that is there any financial upside for you if you stay through the raise?

If there isn’t then you can leave anytime. No one will bother you.
> On the other hand, on GNU/Linux desktops it's perfectly feasible to "finish" an application and leave it unmaintained for 15 years, people will still be able to use it.

Oh no, only if it buildable from source. Binary compitability in Desktop Linux is non-existant, even Linus Tovarldis has ranted about this in the past. Even source is not immune to rot, if no maintainer steps up, nobody will package it, and god forbid the application uses something like QT4, while the distro decides to drop QT4 altogether...
we've come a long way from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsM30MAHLg

(incidentally research into automated tidal calculation was sponsored by the Royal Navy, because they didn't want their ships to get stuck off somebody's coast, in plain sight for hours after having rendezvoused, just because they missed a suitable tide for landing marines...)
in my city at least, this PCP concept hasnt really taken off because companies arent offering it.

what the people have done informally is something similar.

1. person "buys" a car and Hypothecates the same to a bank for paying the car dealer. usually 80-90-100% of the car value can be paid by bank meaning 0-10-20% of the car value can be given as deposit.

2. now that the new "owner" has taken the car, they start making monthly EMI payments to bank.

3. 1 year or 2 years from purchase, the owner wants to "sell" the car so what they do is, find a buyer willing to accept the outstanding loan amount.

4. the first "owner" has paid 2 things. 1 deposit and say 12 months of EMI.

5. first "owner" tells the buyer that "here, take hold of these future EMI entries and give me a portion of the amount i have paid till now as in #4"

6. the first "owner" takes cheques each dated monthly in future with the amount from the buyer which the first "owner" will deposit every month and if there is any failure, claim default in payment of cheque.

7. car remains in title of the first owner and Hypothecated by bank until last EMI is paid at which point the first owner "transfers" the car to new owner
The raisons d'être between the CLR (and C#) and Swift are entirely different.

Apple has explicitly set out to adopt Swift as a successor language to C, Objective-C, C++, and Objective-C++[0][1]. This stands in stark contrast to Microsoft's vision for the CLR, which was… to be a better Java, more or less? (Does anyone actually know what the .NET initiative was all about? Microsoft went absolutely ham on it in their branding, but the momentum unceremoniously fizzled out before Server 2003 went RTM.)

That said, apropos .NET fitting into Windows, the work on Singularity[2] by MSR had a lasting impact. I'm told that there is in use a System C# dialect that generates native object code via a more production grade version of Bartok[3].

0: https://youtu.be/lgivCGdmFrw

1: https://developer.apple.com/swift/#:~:text=Swift%20is%20a%20....

2: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartok_(compiler)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38663156

the paper in your link is pretty interesting, thanks.
> It is of no surprise to me these Apple or Apple-like systems tend to be better overall

This might have been true in the past, but it's been getting worse over the last decade.

For instance: The new parts in macOS that are written in Swift seem to be mostly inferior to the parts they replaced (see for instance the new settings window written in SwiftUI, which UX wise is a joke compared to the old one, even though the old settings windows wasn't all that great either - case in point: try adding two DNS servers, searching for 'DNS server' only allows adding one item, then the DNS server panel closes and cannot be opened again without repeating the entire search, no idea how this mess made it through QA).

If Swift is so much better than ObjC, then we should start seeing improvements as users, but that doesn't seem to happen, instead things are getting worse in new OS versions. Why is that?
Plenty of people find retargeting ads objectionable and a violation of user privacy for which Google is handsomely rewarded financially.
When we can buy second hand electric cars _with reliable batteries that aren’t near end of life_ for 2k, we can have a discussion. Arguments of affordability before that point will rely on cherry picking, and I call bullshit on every one of them.

I know many people pay way more for cars, even buying ones they can’t afford with loans, but most of the people I know aren’t in that group.
I'd argue that it also:

* Worsens the experience of dealing with typos (which are not uncommon) as you've already zoomed away from the field you want to edit

* Risks confusing, increasing anxiety, and possibly generating errors for people that aren't tech-savvy, and for whom spotting the (often very subtle, these days) signs of which field is in focus isn't easy or instinctive.
My Fedi account gets more spam than my email does at this point (thanks to all the brutal postfix milters I've got on). And if we broaden it to not just unsolicited commercial email but also include outright jerks, then it's even more.

Email has spent a lot of effort on trying to implement a world-writable inbox and I'm really impressed with what they've got, with DMARC, DKIM, SPF and such.

But just to devil's advocate for Fedi for three seconds: one of the main drivers of spam was spoofing (and unsecured SMTP relays) and that's something the HTTP signatures in ActivityPub curbs.

The big fear I have with Fedi is a "domain mill", a harassment (or unsolicited commercial promotion) site that can automatically register thousands of domains and use those to set up an overwhelming amount of spamming and harassing instances.
Adobe darkened pantone pallete of patterns (2022)
How Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract using dark patterns.
Popper recognizes that on any knowledge, there may be an unfalsified basis. After all, science is not the basis of our assumptions, science must begin from philosophical assumptions (like materialism, empirism, none of them can be falsified). If not mistaken, he calls these things metaphisics.
Can I ask what your use-case is for logical replication on something like neon?
It’s impossible to permanently disable Bluetooth on iOS. Every iOS update re-enables it.
Sansa AFAIK is still non-Android.
They should fire CEO and become open or rename itself to ClosedAI.

It's like if Monsanto was called Organic Cooperative.
I don't know why you've been downvoted, I've given you an upvote for linking to an interesting project (even if it's linked in some way to Google). I'd also like to link to the updated GH link: <https://github.com/schism-lang/schism>.
As a solo developer, I haven't found any use for Xcode Cloud. I just build my app on my laptop and submit to App Store. It just takes few minutes. How would Xcode Cloud make things easier?

Of course, it could automatically build and test my app after every commit to VCS, but I build and test the app on my laptop anyway to see how it works, so I don't see any benefit.
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I think this is a great way to slow down unconditional hype based adoption of new technologies imo, it gives time to make training materials. It’s probably why apple don’t feel the need to make good tutorials, bc they make an artificial delay between new features and actual practical use of them
A few features requests:

I'd like to add a symbol after the number. I can show 100, $100, but I can't show 100%.

If I use 30000, then only the first two digits change and the last three are always zero. Something like ??000. Add some randomness so all the digits change.

Countdown? (I'm not sure if someone would want this.)
I usually write ClosedAi (OpenAi) whenever I mention them, just to clarify.
In the time since this article was published, a new feature was introduced in Swift 5.8 that addresses the issue: @backDeployed [1] allows Apple to include a default implementation for a new API method that will be used when running on an older version of macOS.

It only works for functions/methods, but it will allow devs to use new APIs sooner!

[1]: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/swift/5.8/function-back-dep...
They do! See https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/LibraryEvoluti...

You can also see an example of what a .NET integration with Swift ABI looks like here: https://github.com/dotnet/designs/blob/main/proposed/swift-i...
>> Thief is a thief ... unless they are a Lord.

So he wasnt a thief. The laws of the time ebbed and flowed based on the social standing of the alleged perpetrators. That was the then accepted rule. It is less true today but not absolutely. Who are we to ignore the actions of a past select committee? Are we to revisit every not-guilty decisison on the basis that a modern investigation would have acted differently? By way of example, women were in the past treated very badly. Revisiting every historic legal determination that stripped a woman of her propery would render all modern property rights suspect.
I dont know what this is supposed to imply, they misplaced the money, they couldnt pass audit and decades later they still fail every audit. The implications being, widespread waste fraud and abuse could have taken place and we have no records to hold those responsoble to account. In reality, of course there was widespread waste fraud and abuse, it seems all of our guns keep ending up in the hands of nazis and islamic extremists so this one isnt hard to figure out.
> What about flatpaks? Do flatpaks actually work like containers?

From what I found[0] Flatpak can run OCI images.

[0]: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/under-the-hood.html
> OpenAI would be claiming that anyone using their model outputs to distill i.e. train a smaller model on their model is a violation of copyright

OpenAI haven’t claimed this. They are refusing to generate new data for ByteDance by suspending their account.
Even though it's way more powerful than my first computer, it uses only a fraction of the energy. So yes, in a way maybe you're abusing a pretty powerful computer to do some silly gadget thing, but there's no real negative impact. I know what you mean though. I've only recently gotten into microcontrollers, and because of the time of year I've been thinking of Christmas lights too, and felt the same thing. Then again: I'm also using my M1 Macbook to write a comment on HN, which is only a fraction of what it can do.
The UK case is always what I assumed the main point of the right to remain silent was about. How can you compell someone to reveal something that you can't prove they know? Memory is fallible and it seems wrong to be incriminated since you forgot something or just never knew it in the first place.

The extension of that is you can just always say "I don't know". So the right to remain silent is basically a shortcut to avoid this issue.
To play devils advocate, there are a few reasons off the top of my head:

1. More people have phones than cars

2. Cars take someone to a general location (i.e a shopping mall carpark) but phones are precise enough to say which section of a store (or hospital) you are in

3. Car manufacturers can't inherently link the passengers of the car to the driver, or to each other

4. Manufacturers of cars don't have ads as a core business model

That's not to say what car manufacturers are doing isn't scummy -- it deserves more light. But what Google does affects more people in a much more complex way. Google doing this essentially takes attention away from these smaller cases of privacy violations -- if the Google issue is solved (and I'm using Google here as a supplement for "phone tracking") then the world would turn their focus to the smaller issues like car tracking.
I agree that many of the drives out in the countryside should be bike rides, but not all.

I’ve seen people driving their car to the supermarket <1km away for a handful of shopping, which is obviously bonkers. Then again, you sometimes need to drive somewhere or be cut off, which leads to poor mental health and quality of life.
Island gigantism
I recently did, mostly for learning purposes. I hand coded pure-todo[1] (the latest state has not been pushed yet, I'm ironing out some things) with the intention of having a single minimal PHP file (including styles, fonts and JavaScript).

Went pretty good so far, maintenance might be a nightmare but deployment is easy ;)

What I learned so far:

- PHP 8 features (Enums, better Type-Hinting, etc.)

- Inner workings of JWT and how to build them yourself

- JavaScript native event handling (e.g. element.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('click')); )

- JavaScript Drag & Drop even for safari on iOS

- How to build my own custom Icon font with the icomoon app[2]

- CSS Grid basics

I think it has turned out to be a pretty good idea to do something by hand from time to time :-)

[1]: https://github.com/sandreas/pure-todo
[2]: https://icomoon.io/app/
The one “downside” compared to regular databases is that CRDTs use optimistic concurrency. If you want transaction support, or want multiple writers to block each other, CRDTs are a bad fit. They move conflict resolution to the point when reads happen rather than make writers fetch and retry.

Still fine for a lot of use cases though.
Because have been doing so in the last 25 years and it is less fuss to continue than to convert.
BTW, Monsanto got rid of their infamous name by being bought and rebranded by Bayer.
No, China seems to have issues with transitting through the Suez canal all on their own.
Different projects, different times... I'm not using multiple logging libraries in one project.
No not really. There's a known problem with the atmosphere starting to retain too much heat (as opposed to radiating it out into space) due to the amount of CO2 (and other gasses) that people are dumping into the atmosphere. Far from being useful, it's likely to collapse our current civilisation.
Yes, we've known for a long time that they don't shy away from taking any old code on GitHub and regurgitating it without explicit permission. They don't have benefit of the doubt anymore.
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I really hope that the new version of the settings app causes enough backlash that Apple starts fixing SwiftUI on the Mac...
one day of charge seems kind of paltry for a purpose-built device
So if I implement a software version of the ANN with one small change, my software version is not an emulation of the hardware ANN, so the patent does not apply?
Nope. OpenAI is bearing all the associated legal risk, not ByteDance.
> Do they mean that even after the upgrade you need to manually change a setting?

Yes, that’s what “the fix was left disabled by default” would mean.

It’s good that it’s fixed by default now, but now is not 2020.
Polish Cipher Bureau had been also using leading mathematicians for breaking Soviet ciphers before WW2…

During Polish-Soviet War 1920 Polish HQ had such a complete knowledge of Soviet movements that they had to stage a deception. Polish cavalary division had been sent behind enemy lines to attack Soviet divisional HQ taking all code books and machines to give Soviets credible explanation for Polish ability to read Soviet ciphers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher_Bureau_(Poland)
Really? Which ones?

Even if I get an e-visa, I get an in and out stamp. Not having these would invalidate the whole reason for having a passport.
If you want a more GUI-oriented way of doing BLE packet sniffing, try the nRF Connect app. Not sure about iPhone, but if you let it sit in the background on Android, you can pick up BLE activity from a nice little GUI on your phone. I use it every day.
Thanks for linking my post. I really need to write a followup at some point - we’ve gotten another 2-10x speed up from when I ran those benchmarks, depending on how you measure it.

I still stand by what I wrote in that blog post. Using lists rather than trees is still a good approach. And it’s super simple to implement too. You can have a working crdt in a few dozen lines of code.

I’m happy to answer questions if anyone is curious about this stuff. Ive been working to implement and optimise CRDTs for years at this point. Increasingly I’m seeing it as a solved problem.
I believe you that you feel that way. Your phrasing however is awfully close to a "no true scotsman" argument, because you seem to be talking about the USA, which by all means and measures still has a functioning legal system -- despite attacks from all sides, inlcuding major political parties. It produces predictable outcomes according to law and fundamental rights are respected.

According to the World Justice Project [1] the USA is in spot 26 of 150+ examined nations. Worse than most European countries, but far better than most of the world. And while the general "rule of law" trend for the USA is declining for the last decade, checks on government power have actually improved in recent years.

If you don't believe me or WJP numbers, I invite you to travel abroad and spend some time in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Egypt, or even Hungary. If that's too much to ask, just try doing business there. I was involved in projects in some of the above mentioned countries and I tell you, the contrast is startling.

[1] https://worldjusticeproject.org/rule-of-law-index/downloads/...
If someone told me this I would quit
The issue has got nothing to do with programming languages or UI toolkits, it's just that before there were more people with more attention to details, or now the management is so broken that there is no QA and no time to fix things.
I kinda wonder if maybe it's at least partially due to openai hitting a kind of hyperparameter lottery. When each experiment costs millions it might be that (aside from good/ unique data) they just have a good set of hyperparameters used in training and it's too expensive for a competitor to find equal or better settings
> The new parts in macOS that are written in Swift seem to be mostly inferior to the parts they replaced (see for instance the new settings windows written in SwiftUI, which UX wise is a joke compared to the old one

Swift is a programming language. SwiftUI is a UI framework. The programming language doesn’t dictate UX. The new Settings application doesn’t have worse UX because of its programming language.

> If Swift is so much better than ObjC, then we should start seeing improvements as users, but that doesn't seem to happen, instead things are getting worse in new OS versions. Why is that?

Because Apple are institutionally incapable of writing software at a sustainable pace and things gradually get worse and worse until somebody high up enough at Apple gets fed up and halts development to catch up with all the quality issues. This isn’t anything new to Swift; they took two years off from feature development to release Snow Leopard with “zero new features” because things had gotten too bad, which happened years before Swift. They are just far enough along in the current cycle that these problems are mounting up again.
Not age of the star but experiance of the material that formed the star, how many past stars was it baked in. There may be some pocket of virgin bigbang hydrogen out there that could theoretically form a new low-metal star.

A low-metal/high-mass star could be a technosignature of a very advanced civilization. Nobody would dare mess with anyone capable of building themselves a new star out of only hydrogen: the ultimate keep off my lawn sign.