skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I practice them a lot and the dynamics of a real x-wind landing is not reproducible in a home sim. You can practice where to put the controls. But in a trainer like a 172 or DA20 you can’t practice the forces you feel pushing back at you and the other seat-of-pants aspects.

One of the drills I do is to descend to 50ft over the runway and then hold the plane on centerline in a eg 20kt crosswind. The sim just can’t even come close to how dynamic and effective that exercise is. Also the feeling of putting down one wheel first, feeling the bump, then the other. The slight skid and side g forces of you mess it up slightly. Those kinds of things.

There are many things that sims can’t reproduce that don’t matter that much when it comes to productive learning. But with cross wind landings, these things matter a lot.

I’m specifically referring to home simulators and MSFS and X-plane specifically. I have no experience in full motion commercial jet or military sims.
DiffMorpher – Using Diffusion Models for Image Morphing
I read this as GTA6...
Most of the city is definitely an exaggeration. Chicago is absolutely a car-first city, and it's pretty obvious having moved here 20 years ago.

You can very easily live in areas of the city without a car and I have done so. Plenty of places on the Northside - but those places will be somewhat expensive compared to the city average. The good news of course is that Chicago is generally far cheaper than other large cities, so most folks posting on HN can probably find something that fits the bill.

Vast swaths of residential neighborhoods are simply not well serviced by public transit. Especially on the south and west sides where to be blunt, most folks on HN will never visit. These areas look much like the post-WWII suburbs I grew up in elsewhere in the midwest, just slightly more density due to lot lines being closer together.

It really is a tale of two cities here. If you can afford to, you can easily live in one of the most walkable and transit friendly cities in the nation. I posit it's only behind NYC for that. However, if you live just 5 miles away in the "wrong" neighborhood your options will be car or relatively poor bus service.

Of course your definition may be different than mine. My father considers places like St. Louis livable without a car - but I totally disagree. Sure you can make it work, but at ridiculous expense to your time and lifestyle.

I personally bought a place specifically in relation to how close it was to functional rapid transit. I'm privileged enough to do so, but many friends and family simply couldn't afford to live in such areas of the city - if they moved here they would certainly be daily car drivers.
> EDIT: for IFR flying, the simulator is very useful, but I would recommend using it under the guidance of an instrument instructor. It's easy to pick up bad habits otherwise.

I am not an airline pilot or instructor, but I am an instrument rated private pilot and I agree especially about using a home simulator for IFR training. What my instructor suggested when I was getting my IR was learn first in a real plane, then use the sim at home to practice what I learned. That helped avoid learning bad habits since I learned the "real" way first. I'd definitely recommend that approach (no pun intended) to others doing IR training, as long as your instructor is also on board.
My barber was complaining just yesterday that her aunt spent $5000 on some mobile game and is in big trouble with her husband.

These Gatchapon games are supposed to be just a bit of spending for a bit of fun. But it seems like there is a real gambling problem in their design.

Many people cannot help themselves and turn into 'whales'. Then again, the sole purpose of these games is to extract money from their customer base, 'whaling' by design.

Why make a game that gets $60 or $70 from every customer when there are so many people out there willing to spend $5000, $10,000 or $20,000 on this crappier, user-hostile model?
Different models are taught in different countries. Like with many things, if you never left your country, you are highly unlikely to find out.
> 100M in subscription revenue? 100B is going to look cheap in a few years

I'd say that's a hot take. 100M in revenue is absolutely nothing for a company valued at 100B. What about net income? Also, what about net income, if there's no AGI or at least significant advances in coming years?
I think Stanislaw Lem might trump Mr Ellison's Legal minions at least..
Why bring this up? It's the current state of affairs without AI. I don't understand what you want.
Indeed. Most computers of the last 10 years are just objectively powerful and certainly powerful enough for most office tasks.
The SSL negotiation part happens before any other communication. Once the encrypted connection is established, how do you analize the protocol?

Edit: I tested that time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38753897

And to save roundtrips: I believe it must be possible to analyze encrypted traffic to find out which protocol is used. But I doubt that the hospital admins are so motivated or sophisticated.
It's really awkward and hard to see in IOS, even on iPad. I think the Suno devs said they're working on it.
Huh, I just finished playing a game that features a similar cult:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/whispers_of_a_machine
I'm trying to think of what those might be. Assuming you already have employees and a payroll system, I think maybe only worker's comp insurance would be considered a fixed cost. Maybe the cost of a notebook computer or other device, if required. Employees who are less than half time usually don't have to be offered retirement plan options or mandated sick leave/vacation (although here in California, it might apply at all levels, I haven't checked).

Maybe the cost of a notebook computer or other device, if required. And business cards, if anyone still uses those. What else?

edit: possibly some training costs, depending a lot on the type of job and the previous experience of the worker
God I love maps, real or otherwise. In fact, I recently re bought The Lord of the Rings for the cartography!

My favorite by a country mile, though, is the Japanese scroll map detailing (and I do mean detailing) the road to Kyoto:

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2022/07/the-road-to-kyoto/
Googler, opinions are my own.

Every thing deployed at Google has all kinds of frameworks and shared libraries and tooling. There are many policies in place to get insure they get newer versions of shared code, such as:

https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/thirdparty...

And to maintain these kinds of things, it isn't uncommon for unfunded mandates to be pushed on people that own various tools, such as this one.

Meaning, even to keep a website up at Google, there will be some maintenance burden. Also, I could imagine Chrome pushing some update that would make all of the usb pairing stuff that they do here break at some point, and they will have to do work to keep it working.
I agree on the sentiment - We live beyond our means and that doesn't even make sense. But I find the prediction that we would perish in the near future neither well founded nor sensible. The motivation behind it is also bizarre: so that we can make our peace.
To put it polemically: When will we go down so that I can tell my mom? And if we're certain to perish, then why bother with suffering and morality? If death is so certain, who would want to suffer again before it?
Is it a true belief that those who have made peace with life suddenly become 'moral'?
I'm saying this, because I think some people need the apocalypse to feel unity and belonging. They seem to have such a strong desire for community and unity that they would summon hell and devils just to bring people together.
It will be hard, for many places on Earth it will be catastrophic.

Civilization won't end tho.

Some of these estimates are absurd, which only makes the case for fighting climate change harder to make - same as overblown estimates of the COVID epidemic and of the effectiveness of the vaccine made it harder to handle future pandemics effectively.

The most important wrong estimate is the growth of population and associated growth of consumption of everything. Population will start to decline globally if it already hasn't started to go down. This is inconsistent with increasing consumption.
I worked with/beside the team that worked on the firmware for this controller, and they poured a lot of heart and soul into it, all good people working in a rather trying situation, and the engineering behind it is solid. I think a lot of them are working on Matter now (https://developers.home.google.com/matter/overview)

Stadia itself seemed doomed to me from day one, and I pushed back multiple times to avoid getting involved working on it because I didn't want to get dragged in. (I did work for a bit on the component that did the video receiving for Stadia streams inside the Chromecast; taking what another team did and heavily optimizing it and refactoring it etc.)

In any case, my cynicism was confirmed and the project killed -- but the worst thing is that in the round of layoffs last year they seemed to let go many (most?) of the people still working on it or heavily associated with it, instead of transferring them off to other teams like Google normally would. Kind of nasty.
The orange light on the toothbrush comes on after three months to remind you to change it - it's only slightly annoying but this worked perfectly to reset it.
Ask HN: How can I keep my Engineers properly fed with quality work?
Hi HN, I’ve been struggling with keeping my Software Engineering teams properly fed with good specs and enough work for them. I could use a little advice on what you all truly think is the right way to build software. This is an issue I’ve had for years and at multiple companies. I typically work in areas with high compliance burden like Healthcare or Fintech.
If I have my product teams use lightweight tools like user stories and scrum/kanban, I get terrible products that haven’t been thought through. We miss subtleties, test scenarios, and getting my Engineers to fill in those details doesn’t seem to work. Maybe eventually you get a few Senior Engineers who learn to do it, but mostly they end up helping everyone else. If I go more heavyweight, and write large specs with use cases, state diagrams, sequence diagrams, gherkin BDD scenarios, we tend to get much better software but my org is really top heavy. I would end up needing more product people than developers, and training people to be able to do all that is really hard.
So in the end, I personally always work 70hour weeks to fill in all the gaps from a product and engineering perspective, just to keep the process moving in the right direction.
I recognize this is my failure in org design, and training, but what does good look like in your opinion?
Thanks in advance.
Massive mosquito factory in Brazil aims to halt dengue
Neat design. More than one tiny photo would have been nice!

I guess the difficulty with 3D printed concrete is adding reinforcement, and it sounds from this like they haven't solved that, they've just used a geometry that is entirely in compression?
Today, a strong cold wave penetrated into southern China
Amidst all these great discussions, I would like to point out that this article really helped me get my head around a B tree and why its a great optimization on top of the Binary Search Tree. Thanks to the author!
The sun is a virtually infinite supply of energy. Solar power is self sustaining at this point, very much so at $0.25/watt.

Those panels should be cheaper to manufacture in zero-G (or lunar-G) and capable of providing 24 hours of output at a much higher level.

Nitrogen fertilizer can be obtained from the air, using this cheap electricity. We have an ancient method of fixating it called the Berkeland Eyde process, but there is room for this to be greatly improved, there just isn’t any incentive to do it. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see it make a comeback in the near future. (In fact, this is a big opportunity.)

Plastics… ah yes. Plastics. I don’t know what the solution to that looks like. They’re useful, no doubt, but I don’t think we need to use so much of them. It’s a useful byproduct of oil that is cheap and plentiful, and perhaps equilibrium is wildly offset by that at the moment. Those cheap synthetic fabrics may be expensive as silk someday.

In summary, I see the path forward and it doesn’t look all that bad to me.
Is using a screen capture software expensive or difficult to do? In 2023, why would someone not use one instead of hand holding a phone to record so that every time they look away, the phone bounces and makes whatever they are showing on the screen impossible to read?
You shouldn't, one of the other 3 will almost always be a better choice.
Code is at https://github.com/Kevin-thu/DiffMorpher and github page is https://kevin-thu.github.io/DiffMorpher_page/. I think the github page shows more examples, so if it's possible to edit the link to that, it might be more helpful.
>> History is written by the victors

> No it isn't, history is written by people looking at old documents.

Perhaps in very recent history but the old documents have been written by contemporary and there are many clear cases when the history has been rewritten by a tyrants e.g. politicians. I even know at least one large country based on multiple historical lies they tell to themselves and try to force upon others.

Defacing old sculptures and paintings to erase people from the history is another clearest example of this practice.
It has feet, inches, yards, and other less-used(?) units like chains and rods. What units are missing? https://docs.rs/uom/latest/uom/si/length/index.html
We all benefit from the existence of good public education, even if our own children do not use it. Cutting funding to government programs that are important to society because those programs clearly need help and reform also isn't the way to fix them.
I remember the previous version of Enlightenment (E16?) and, from a design standpoint, it was really cool and productive for the small resolution CRTs of old.

The current version doesn't give me those vibes. And I haven't checked out the code of either, so I'm unaware if it's something atrocious :)
> ABBA, whose members are now in their 70s, worked with an 850-strong team from Industrial Light & Magic, founded by "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, for the project.

Not really what I'd call passive income.
Here is another story: https://saskatoonsymphony.org/the-nearly-lost-brandenburg-co...

The Brandenburg Concerti were ignored until around 1849 and nearly lost again during WWII. How ridiculous is that?
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38739357

(60 points/1 day ago/80 comments)
You’re dismissing the harmful effects that these arrangements have on the vast majority of employees at such firms.

There are only a handful of traders and PM’s at successful firms that make such high comps.

The compensation of rank and file employees are quite similar to working in tech but are encumbered with huge risks following termination of employment. The firms I have worked at apply non-competes down to administrative employees who aren’t even involved in the business and have no valuable proprietary knowledge.

For employees whose residency status is tied to employment, these non-competes can result in having to leave the country.

For those with families, they are unable to pursue their primary profession and lose healthcare coverage or pay massively increased premiums.

You don’t understand the population these agreements harm or understand the effects they have.
There's nothing wrong with leading a life of quiet desperation. What's wrong is cheating yourself out of happiness by not being grateful for what you have. So you're one of the unwashed masses in the garage waiting for the clock. Does that mean you have to be unhappy? Not if you can be grateful for what that affords you in the rest of your life, not to mention grateful the work isn't worse. You can always choose to change things. But don't change just because you don't think you're happy enough.
> Life expectancy has only been increasing because child mortality has decreased to almost zero. The upper end has not shifted much at all.

A change of five to eight years makes a material difference in actuarial terms when you have to plan for retirement:

> In 1920–1922, Canadian men who had lived to age 65 could expect to live for 13 more years, and women could expect to live for 13.5 more years (to age 78.0 and 78.5 respectively). The expected total life span of 65-year-olds was substantially higher than life expectancy at birth: 19.2 years higher for men and 18.0 years higher for women.

> In 2009–2011, 65-year-old men were expected to live until they were 83.8, while 65-year-old women were expected to live until the age of 86.7. This means that from 1920–1922 to 2009–2011, the life expectancies of 65-year-olds increased by 5.8 years for men and 8.2 years for women. This is a much smaller gain than the 20-year increase in life expectancy for newborns during this same period.

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2016002...

Starting at 65, the odds of hitting an age of 90 are worth considering when doing planning:

> Assume we have 1,000 relatively healthy 65-year-old men. The chances of their staying alive at least until their 80s are quite good. More difficult, however, is avoiding critical illness – very serious conditions such as heart attacks, life-threatening cancers, stroke and Alzheimer’s. (There are 14 classifications in all.) While more than 500 of these men will survive until age 90, only 39 of them are expected to avoid a critical illness by that age. Of the 41 survivors at age 100, none is expected to be free of critical illness.

* https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/r...
The Effects of a Short VR Training Program on Dynamic Balance in Tennis Players
Reminds me of the project where someone got a big eInk display to show the front page of every newspaper in the morning.

Could be awesome to apply here to get a Calvin and Hobbes a day on the wall.
Have a look at a population pyramid, especially for countries without mass immigration. There isn’t much of a next generation. When people retire they become dependents. Each worker will need to support an increasing number of retirees.
You are going to die and cease to cohere information forward in time. This will happen in a random instant. Imagine suddenly discovering this, how would you choose to live accordingly?

This revelation actually happened to me once, and personally, I now avoid people who affect concern for it as a way to take my stuff.
The OP is infected with what I call the "doom-and-gloom mind-virus." Like all mind-viruses, this one too prevents those infected from seeing reality as it truly is, as complex as it is. I routinely come across people who believe "there is nothing we can do at this point," even in those cases when there is evidence suggesting otherwise.

Yes, greater civilizational complexity is correlated with greater energy flows.[a] But our planet is only a tiny little speck of dust in relation to the size of our galaxy, which has between 100 and 400 billion stars, most significantly larger than our sun.[b] And our galaxy is only a speck of dust in relation to the size of the known universe, which is estimated to have 100 to 200 billion galaxies.[c] We're far from running out of expansion possibilities.

Moreover, it's very difficult, if not impossible, to predict in advance how human ingenuity (and eventually, perhaps, AI ingenuity) might be able to address some of the challenges ahead of us.

Let us not be doomers. Instead, let us be dreamers, problem-solvers, doers.

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[a] https://bhp-public.oerproject.com/

[b] https://www.space.com/25959-how-many-stars-are-in-the-milky-...

[c] https://www.space.com/25303-how-many-galaxies-are-in-the-uni...
This has been my primary concern the whole time.

I see all these thought leaders talking about AI safety and the end of humanity but the real problem is one that already exists. How these systems are implemented is to me the real concern and one that already exists today. What about the company that identifies drug traffickers based on street video cameras. They use the type of car along with license plates and who knows what else to tell law enforcement which cars to pull. That is concerning to me but again, I never see these thought leaders talk about. Maybe it’s too small of a problem.

Maybe I am wrong and humanity will lose the fight in the next decade. I am still not so sure we will be unable to just pull the plug.
yes! that's not the "google way"
>Humans don't trade only because of their self interest.

Rational self interest is an economic term, and yes they do, even if psychic profit is the only one they aquire, they still value that over whatever they traded away, otherwise they wouldnt have willingly traded.

>There is no natural order of the market.

So, if we dont coax the market along it will just be chaos? What do you mean? Companies develop a product people are willing to pay for, so they purchase resources and hire employees to create and sell it. Thats order, sometimes another company comes along and outcompetes them, thats still order.

>There are already rules in every society restricting freedom of individual, even in places we consider free

I am well aware, I wouldnt consider them free.

>Most people savings aren't tied to the stock market.

Most people dont have savings at all, most people cant save for a $500 emergency. Whats your point?
I don't work for Suno, I just Chirp and Bark a lot. You'll have to contact Suno via email, or reply to one of the Suno team that popped up in the comments here.
Yes, I have been. There’s a difference between being car-independent and having an environment that connects you with other pedestrians.
The obscure Baroque composer Christoph Graupner possibly has more compositions surviving to the present day than his contemporary Bach, though admittedly a lot of Bach's work is now lost. Another notable composer from the same period was Georg Philip Telemann.
How fast did they go from 0 to 100M, and what proportion of their efforts was on product and marketing vs pure research?
> Human Rights Watch published a call for evidence of online censorship…from the main Human Rights Watch accounts on Instagram, X (formerly known as Twitter), and TikTok.

I don’t see how HRW can post this in good conscience without acknowledging the huge potential for voluntary response bias in this survey. Pro-Israel voices have been skeptical of HRW’s perceived Anti-Israel bias[1] for over a decade. They are not going to be following or engaging with HRW accounts, and their voices are most likely fewer in number overall[2]. The fact that 1,049 of the 1,050 comments submitted for HRW’s review were Pro-Palestine should be a red flag, not the core piece of evidence.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204619004574318...

[2] https://wpde.com/amp/news/nation-world/support-for-palestine...
Same on Firefox on Android, but reader mode gets past the popup

The plant the article is talking about is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquila which can apparently mimic nearby plants of different species, and can mimic several at the same time. It's not understood how yet.

One experiment showed that it could mimic fake plastic plants, which would be mind blowing as it would require something approaching vision, but the study apparently has flaws.
It could be, and that’s a good answer to the question of why we haven’t seen it. It would be nice though, if we made it possible.
Dpi has been around for a very long time.
This is unlikely to happen to the extent necessary, because it would take away from the cost savings that motivate AI adoption.
Double-edge sword effect: Wolbachia deployment in dengue endemic settings [pdf]