skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cannonical wisdom is that X-plane, being based in blade-element theory and actually simulating the plane, can be really very good but also is much less performant and may not completely capture some specific (unmodelled yet aerodynamically significant) edge cases, I think including things like the exact behaviour of sprung trim tabs in low airspeed stalls. MSFS on the other hand is one giant lookup table. In theory more accurate in the well measured region and less so farther away from reality.

I personally have spent a fair amount of time in gliders. XPlane captures their dynamics a lot better than MSFS -- but the really, really missing thing in both cases is your inner ear: the acceleration is a core part of how things feel and you really can't replicate the sensations that well (even in a full motion simulation, I think). Doing practices for failed winch launches (at 3g+!) is easy in a simulation. It isn't in real life.

Both tools have FAA/CAA/EASA approved versions for flight training. Real flight training involves a lot of stick and rudder for a reason.
Do you, or are you just failing to understand their humour?
> The key thing to understand is that if you use these flags, you opt-in to a non-standard C dialect.

Isn't all C with undefined behavior non-standard. Or is there a standard for undefined behavior (obviously not, I would think)?

I don't understand why those flags wouldn't be turned on by default. Or do they affect more than just undefined behavior?
Simply put: VFR, Visual Flight Rules, you can see outside, you must stay outside clouds, it's your job to not hit other planes and the ground. You do this primarily by looking out the window.

IFR, Instrument Flight Rules, you are in the clouds and can't see outside, it's air traffic control's job to keep you away from other airplanes and the ground. You keep the plane under control by using your instruments only. Looking out the window yields no information. :-)
I'm not affiliated or anything but The Great Courses' "Bach and the High Baroque" [0] course is a great Series on Bach (Robert Greenbert's courses are great overall).

0: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/bach-and-the-high-ba...
They key part you're missing is the "without checking prior experience." I taxiid, performed a takeoff, and most of the landing approach on my first training flight, too. The instructor briefed me thoroughly before the flight, inspected my logbook, etc. Every instructor I had after that checked my logbook and the school's internal note keeping system for notes during the pre-flight brief (I'd bet many did before then, too). It is absolutely not normal for a flight instructor to not do these things.
Changpeng Zhao, the fall of the last crypto prophet
nice little game!
Did the not shut Stadia down? This is ridiculous to not just open it up and let people to WTF they want to with it.
there are multiple trillion dollar companies in California, where non competes are banned

it has long been seen as related to the success of Silicon Valley and one of several reasons why random jurisdictions can’t compete with merely being excited about attracting tech companies
It is very sad that people believe in this. Why is growth needed to prevent a regressive dystopian society?

The weird thing is, material needs of humans don't have to rise exponentially. And I don't think that people in rich countries today are exponentially happier than say 50 years ago, because of their increased material consumption.

Neither do I think that it should be needed to allow limitless accumulation of wealth...

But well, that all might sound like radical ideas already, for whatever reason.

So merry Christmas, fellow HNers, may you enjoy growth and prosperity
Bach and the High Baroque Course
There's usually 0 redundancy on trams
Indeed.

de gustibus non est disputandum
What do you think are they using for the map?
in my company in china i only hired fresh graduates who haven't been working in other companies yet. that way i get people who are more open to learn my way of working because they haven't been broken by this system.

i remember one of my juniors who came in without any practical experience speaking english (he could read and write and passively understand me) who three months later was having a good natured argument with me about some technical question, which is a behavior practically unheard of in china. you just don't argue with your boss.
$46B wiped off Tencent's market cap after China proposes new gaming curbs
It does exist but they are not embraced by the majority of the Ruby community.

Unless type annotations are treated like first class citizen in the language, it won't be good enough. My theory is that those in the community wanting static types went to Go or Rust.
But do you think the cybertruck would do worse that other similar sized vehicles?
The api doc there says why but not fully in depth:

> The Map type is optimized for two common use cases: (1) when the entry for a given key is only ever written once but read many times, as in caches that only grow, or (2) when multiple goroutines read, write, and overwrite entries for disjoint sets of keys. In these two cases, use of a Map may significantly reduce lock contention compared to a Go map paired with a separate Mutex or RWMutex.

sync#Map works by having two maps internally, one which receives writes and then periodically copies its values to the larger map and clears itself. This works on the two workloads mentioned above. It falls rather flat under write contention. This is by design. syncMap is really intended for maps that are mostly read only.
You can still have personal growth, and scientific advancements. You can have a fulfilling life and fulfilling work without economic growth.
"my fondest memories of college are times like these, where things were done out of some inexplicable inner imperative, rather than because the work was demanded."
> ok so a large human rights group calling it apartheid isn't enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoFjbnvkmQ0&ab_channel=Amnes...

Although this is a common perception, just the fact a human rights group declares something doesn't make it so. I have to remind you that you live in a world where the UN Human Rights council chair is a country where they publicly hang gay people on cranes and rapes women in prisons.

Case in point, Lebanon is a country where you cannot become president by law if you're not born from a specific Christian sect. This is a country where ethnic discrimination is codified into laws (and of course Palestinians don't have voting rights). This is closer to what you deem apartheid, yet Amnesty did not make a fancy video about that.

> or the case where a 13 year oldboy was raped in prison and the IDF labelle dthe group trying to document and report it a terrorist organization?

I'm sorry, I completely believe you it happened, however this is missing tons of context. Raped by whom? Was this case brought to a court? Do you believe the rape was state sanctioned? What were the charges which caused the IDF to declare it a terrorist organization? For example there were many situations where these organizations were money laundering fronts for Hamas.

And if the answers to all these questions is 'because Israel only does evil things and nothing is ever rational or a mistake or an individual wrong', what are you trying to prove and how does that relate to being an apartheid state

> I'm not talking about you specifically. I'm stating that the israeli position requires being absolutely obtuse and deflective for every shred of evidence that comes their way.

I don't think this is the case any more than criticizing one side for not being compatible with your values while completely ignoring the different side of the coin.

> case in point, they shot the three shirtless israeli hostages because they thought they were palestinians? so its perfectly fine to shoot unarmed people basicly?

It's an obvious blunder, but I think to be fair you have to know a lot more about the situation than we both know. One explanation is these soldiers were trigger happy and wanting revenge, and another explanation is that they misidentified them as armed or there was a failure of communication. There's a reason why it's called 'the fog of war'
I guess you need a valid SSL certificate to do this? So it may not work well if you SSH into an IP instead of a domain -- it is not always possible to get an SSL certificate for an IP address ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2043617/is-it-possible-t... ).

It is probably trivial for people here to get a domain and then point it to the IP, but still, this seems a minor limitation.
Oh definitely!

But of someone things that how app store is administered is more important function in modern society than say food production then it is not looking well though out.

(I would prefer catastrophic breakdown or malicious takeover to happen with app store rather than food supply if I would need to choose between these two, and there are still many more important functions of modern society before you get to app stores. If food supply collapses I and my family and my friends will be likely dead within month. If app store collapses there are bad consequences but far from "everyone I love dies from starvation".)

(but yes, app store ARE important function of modern society and Beeper Mini seems to illustrate some of ways how current situation is broken)
I do have Xcode installed, and for me it's just Python

$ /usr/bin/python3
[ 12:18:42 ]
Python 3.9.6 (default, Nov 10 2023, 13:38:27)
[Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.1.0.2.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>>

So I guess it depends on whether Xcode and developer tools are installed or not. Too bad it's not installed by default any more anyway.
Or just use reader mode in your browser and see the pay wall disappear
had exactly this feature. They provided ssh access via port 80.

OP is describing something different:

- different port (443, not 80)

- different protocol used on that port (https, not ssh)
OP/Author is Dutch, not Chinese.
>Do you think they've forgotten safety for the cybertruck?

Didn't Musk literally say "and if you're ever in an argument with another car, you will win" at an event, emphasising how the Cybertruck is terribly unsafe for everyone else on the road?
Disagree button

Hoping to get the federal one invalidated as soon as 2024 starts, easier to establish standing in the courts once that law starts.

State level ones may be able to pass muster and be evaluated independently, but NY was already unattractive place to form LLC’s and not seeing the difference here. The states compete with each other for business so it just makes other states more attractive.

Maybe certain industries need beneficial owner information. But all LLC’s by mere nature of existing? No
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Having traveled extensively throughout the East Coast and Latin America this map does a great job of capturing a lot of the feel of each place.

I've tried to do this same thing with Mexico, but this is 100x better.

It's a real triumph.
But those sequential IDs are often just not suitable due to security reasons.
> And please refrain from personal attacks.

You are right. I had already edited my post before you posted your response.

> I referenced the three Palestinian flags, not the heart emojis

> members of Hamas can be deceased too. Maybe the girl is also fully-clothed

These sound highly nitpicky and like hypotheses that are hard to justify (a Hamas terrorist raping and killing a woman, then getting killed himself and taken a picture of, while the woman is still in his arms, naked? Really?).

I think we are missing the semantics here. My points were:

- Instagram/Facebook/etc can censor comments as simple as emojis, even though they were posted as comments to pro-Palestinian stories.

- They also censor pictures for nudity, even though they are not. Note that even though the reports is ambiguous about one of such photos, it clearly says that the man and his daughter, both deceased, are fully clothed.
I do not know of other hosting providers that offer a REST API for Upload/Delete
Human Rights are not at all what you think they are...
Google already has a solution for this: they just ignore any and all customer support queries.
I don't think it's peculiar to China: parents towards young children naturally act authoritatively, in part because of the nature of young children. This nature somehow perseveres in adulthood, albeit altered: consider for example Asch's experiments[0], or this antique idea of assimilating rulers to shepherds.

(I'm using "authoritative" in a neutral sense here, free from its usual negative undertone)

Edit: Hm, I was incidentally opening the San Zi Jing[1] a few moments ago. It's a historically important educational Chinese book, and it opens with: "Men at their birth are naturally good."

The character used for "good" is "善" (shàn), which contains in part "羊" (yáng), meaning "goat/sheep".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Character_Classic
They're talking about flying VFR. You can't get the leans or somatogravic illusion flying in daytime VMC.

An attitude indicator is not required for VFR-only aircraft.
The chess.com article (https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/hans-niemann-report) is much more throughout, and a better source of information.

In the article: "Despite the public speculation on these questions, in our view, there is no direct evidence that proves Hans cheated at the September 4, 2022 game with Magnus, or proves that he has cheated in other OTB games
in the past."

Personally, I find Niemann's mannerisms during interviews highly suspect, as unscientific as that may be.
No but obviously everyone is persuadable fundamentally. Our beliefs are just patterns of neurons firing and some type and vector of information will cause them to fire a different way.

We’ve never had the technical ability to have interactive, 1:1 personalized messaging at scale. Now we do.
I'm fairly certain it just opens a TCP connection on the clients behalf and proxies the clients data over it. No knowledge of SSH required.
I feel like I have to channel my old math teacher.

It was Euler.

He also lived without electricity, and went blind too. And yet he figured out a huge amount of interesting stuff, roughly corresponding with high school math. Euler also moved across countries.
RISC-Y Business: Raging against the reduced machine
This works only for drm-free ebooks and audiobooks?
Yeah, I don't blame him for not wanting to make this kind of content at all. His answer to why kinda sums it up perfectly:

> It’s something I’ve always wanted to avoid doing because people are immediately rewarded for it, and then you have a very strong incentive to make worse videos that make your life sadder, because of the income and attention it can bring you.

Drama videos are like culture war videos in that they draw a certain audience in quickly and in large numbers. So once you make one, it can become very tempting to look at the stats of the video and how quickly your audience is seemingly growing, and pivot entirely to that type of content.

We see that all the time with tech and gaming channels for example. They start off talking about Linux operating systems and new game releases, then end up either going down the "oh my god [YouTuber name] is such a scumbag!" or [latest movie] is SJW written woke trash!" route, sacrificing all that made their work interesting in the process.

So it makes sense he was hesitant to make such a video here. The topic tends to bring in the kind of audience you don't want as a creator, and can end up incentivising you to change from talking about varied, interesting things to talking about the same reality TV level trash that floods much of the platform.
There's also a question of timescales.

* Cookie-cutter designs mean better safety and reliability in the short-term. We learn a lot about those designs, have volume to optimize them, etc. However, innovation stagnates.

* Diverse design means we try new things. 95% will be bad ideas, but 5% will be good ideas which can then disseminate. We make much more rapid progress, and learn more.

As much as I'm convinced the Cybertruck (and cars like it) will result in more deaths in the short term than if we all drove sedans, I'm not sure that it won't result in fewer deaths in the timespan of a few decades, simply by virtue of seeing what works and what doesn't. I'm not sure it's a fundamentally worse design, so much as one which hasn't had 50 years of safety (and other) optimizations like the current cookie cutter ones.
I think dang is right and his moderation is what keeps this place worth visiting. YMMV.
The analogy would be that if your friend Bob asks you for a $1k loan, you could tell him "done, I am loaning you $1k and for now I am keeping it safe for you; just tell me when you need it".

Now you have all the money you had before, and you friend "has" an extra $1k, so you have "created" money.

If Bob then tells you hey, I need the $1k to give it to John, you say no worries, and you go to John and says hey, here is $1k from Bob, and for now I am keeping it safe for you; just tell me when you need it. And so on.

If at some point John actually wants the $1k in cash then you actually give him the money, you cannot create it. Maybe at some point you have just $1k of real cash with you, other people owe you $9k, and yet other people have $10k of "created" money that you are keeping for them. If all of the latter want their money in cash, you are going to be in trouble.

Same with a bank, if a lot of depositors want their money back, the bank has to give it out of its reserves, it cannot "create" it to give it to them, hence the phenomenon of "runs on the bank" (because at any given time, the sum of all depositor balances in a bank is a lot more than the actual reserves) and why we need a federal insurance program to protect depositors.
Poll: Choice of App Hosting
Curious to know what the preferred choice of app hosting is here
Self hosted
Japan is an empirical disproof of that claim, isn’t it?
Maybe screenshot + canvas with pointer-events none to fake live. Since it would be a perfect overlay no one should be able to tell the difference
This is pretty interesting...

I once wrote a similar thing for building a custom LJSPEECH dataset out of ebook/audiobook combinations to synthesize my favorite narrator voices using coqui-tts and the VITS model and make them "publish" books that never came out as audiobook.

It was able to synchronize the book contents to timestamps, split the spoken word in to sentences and create a LJSPEECH datasets out of the combinations. I used aeneas[1], it was a bit finicky to set up, but after a while it even was able to map non-english languages (in my case german) with more than 80% accuracy. Worked out pretty well, the LJSPEECH datasets were good (I still have them here), but the TTS tech was not there yet :-) Maybe it's time to revive this project using newer modelling approaches like XTTS or something...

[1]: https://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/
One difference between lawyers/doctors and software "engineers" is that often it's okay to just hack something together in software. It's still work to hack something together though, so if I'm hacking something together for someone else they'll have to pay for my work.
Ask HN: What's the fastest programming language with a large standard library?
An example of a language that does not fit the bill: rust
Renewable Energy Purchasing and the Market-Based (Scope 2) Method
How's the saying go, everything that wasn't invented by Euler was invented by Gauss?
Enlightenment 0.26
Children are probably better in language-as-communication than current LLMs at relatively young age.

Verbal (and bodily) communication is quite different from written text and its largely artificially imposed structure. Spoken language is very ungrammatical and directly litterated conversational speech is a total mess on writing standards (and a lot of information is lost in litteration).

Even though e.g. Chomskian linguistics make the claim that human language is somehow a special innate syntactic construct (recursive language in the Chomsky hierarchy), I find the empirically stronger view is that the more formal grammars and vocabularies that sometimes are thought of as "language" are very far from how language is actually used when this structure is not imposed.

This quite rigid structure of "correct" written language is also likely a major factor to why LLMs are so good at it.
AIUI corkscrew works for a specific use case:

1. you're behind an HTTP proxy, and

2. the HTTP proxy support the CONNECT method

Around 20 years ago I did a short contract which had #1 but not #2. Thankfully, there's a tool for this, too. Of course it requires some set up on the server side:

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/httptunnel
Not ready to throw 300usd on audio. Is there any good podcast with the history of music?
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This just made me think of something - would it be accurate to say that the speed of light is getting slower over time, when measured over insterstellar distances?

Speed is distance over time, and distance is measured by a landmark in this case.
In a hypothetical world where an observer has only a distant pointlike object as reference, and he measures that the time it takes for light to arrive from the object, would it not be equally valid for them to assume that the distance is increasing, or the speed of light is decreasing?

Would it be possible to say that light suffers from 'drag' over large distances thereby further objects appearing to take even longer to get to than it would be proportional?
Of course anything can be done with RBS, but I think it came wayyy too late. Python type system is already given time to evolve and survive in the wild.

A second point is IDE support. It is so hard to get started with ruby auto-format, code completion, ctrl-click to follow code and debug. Python is readily usable in pycharm community edition.
Around the year 2000, amongst the other things that were going on, it was also the 250th anniversary of Bach's death. Someone at the record label Teldec got the bright idea to release the entirely of Bach's work, and so a 153-disc box set was produced:

* https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/the-complete-b...

* https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/Apr13/B...

* https://www.amazon.com/Bach-2000-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B00001I...

A few years later they released a digital copy, with all the music made MP3s on a USB stick, with PDFs of the booklets:

* https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/17/complete-bach-...

Edit: Somewhat related, is the All of Bach project:

> All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free. With the finest recordings, performed at special locations and with great attention to image and sound. Don't want to miss a recording of All of Bach? Then subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you would like to help us complete All of Bach, please consider a donation.

* https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach

* https://www.youtube.com/@bach

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Bach_Society
That’s called learning
To be pedantic: writes may also make use of indices, if you have constraints (like foreign keys) the db needs to check for every write.
China to increase curbs on video gaming industry
And who knows why I always have to search for the login link? Sure, new accounts are cool, but existing members should be treated better
Practicality over purity. How are we to divide a meter into whole number thirds?

Easily done with yards.

Get stuffed, Talleyrand.