skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m downvoting the comment because I think it’s misleading and potentially encouraging dangerous behavior.

How dangerous is it to hire a CFI to give you flight lessons? They'll take you up with 0 hours of experience. They'll take you up to do your ATP cert.

If the guy was like "I just found an airplane laying around in my garage and I started flying towards Japan and dropped the bomb the won WWII", that's probably dangerous and fabricated. If you know how to do a preflight inspection before, then you probably watched someone on YouTube do it before, which is basically flight training minus the FAA certification. The big idea is that if you do something wrong, your instructor is there to correct it. If you have that, you aren't being unsafe.
(2013)

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
It's not most employees, its the employees that an employer would even bother with a non-compete for. And many (most?) of this group would have the leverage to turn down an undesirable offer.
If property owners want to turn their buildings into businesses, they need to be smart businesspeople and plan for those situations. If they fail then that's the market dynamics at play!
I believe that'll be a minority opinion.

I'm a fan of both languages.
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The article mentions sslh which works like httpssh. It also possible to achieve this with haproxy like this:

frontend https
bind *:443
mode tcp
tcp-request inspect-delay 2s
use_backend https_loopback if { req.ssl_ver gt 0 }
default_backend ssh

Another option is to use TLS SNI (Server Name Indication) like a virtualhost-style ssh server (https://www.haproxy.com/blog/route-ssh-connections-with-hapr...). You can use the 'openssl' command in your ProxyCommand which is pretty readily available.
They're doing that right now in Gaza. With full support from the Fourth Reich sitting in the White house.
I just built one of those today, the Wirsa v2 (its on github) and it's great for getting older devices "online". You can telnet, or playback text files, or download files from sd card all via a DB9 serial - you can use a DB9-DB25 converter if you want. I got it so I can get my TRS-80 Model 100 online, and maybe even an Epson HX-20, but I still need to build a cable for it.
IOCCC is "test cases for free", so if C compilers haven't added these code to their testing suite they really should.
>Before Rust existed, it was seen as an inevitable issue that one must work with, not as a problem to solve.

There were many memory safe languages before Rust, Java and C# evangelized this a lot, though at that time the accent was on memory leaks not on safety. Rust offers an alternative for low level programming and might be faster in soem scenarios then managed languages.
The Majorana particle stuff has a long history where the paper was retracted not due to a simple scientific error, but alleged intentional misrepresentation or negligence.

- "Data manipulation and omission in 'Quantized Majorana conductance', Zhang et al, Nature 2018" https://zenodo.org/records/4587841

The wormhole stuff has plenty of references in its inappropriate handling. These are accessible to a broad audience:

- https://www.quantamagazine.org/wormhole-experiment-called-in...

- https://youtu.be/czjisEGe5Cw
How does syntax highlight work, or how to activate it for each block? What are the supported languages?

edit: now I get it. Suggestion, change the explanation of CTRL+L to "Change syntax highlight language for the current block"
This cuts right to the crux of the problem. I love the way that you phrased it.

I do not think that a single light can portray the complexity that we look for in the current situation.
Most Americans refer to this as the “Confederate Flag” these days. I’m currently living in the south, though, and you’ll hear it referred to as the rebel flag in this region by liberals and conservatives alike. Regardless I appreciate your acknowledgment of the cultural aspect, and people like the Allman Brothers and Tom Petty certainly did fly the flag back in the day
But we know that humans actually have some kind of non obvious feedback mechanism we don’t know how to model whereby too many males in a society cause women to be more likely to be born and vice versa. Stands to reason that the same is true for childbirth (I believe this has been observed in other species quite a lot although not directly in humans yet) - when resources are tight, reproduction slows down until there’s available resources at which point reproduction increases again. These feedback mechanisms would seem to make sense from an evolutionary perspective in terms of making sure the species has a higher chance of survival through various societal and environmental changes. It’s possible we’ve disrupted it of course through technology via birth control but hard to say given that birth control isn’t that new (“new” for women and more effective than ever, but not new).

I don’t think a population collapse would mean the end of humanity. Just a prolonged adjustment period to society but we have more people than ever in the world. If the concern is the stability (economic or social) of a given country / power structure then sure - no guarantee any of that survives that but that’s also something we’ve weathered many times in the past (often more violently than what we’ve seen in recent history in the West).
If social media platforms all provided the same service, there would be only one. The way it is today, each of them makes a very specific set of editorial decisions, which is why we have Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Gab, etc. If every network put all the power in the users' hands, the dynamics of network effects would take over and we would be left with one social network.

I'm not saying this would be worse for the users, because I agree that "allow all content + powerful filtering tools" would suit me just fine. But it's worth noting that there would be a real serious monopoly problem if there were no conscious choices to differentiate. This would conflict with your main point of friction here: that a bunch of SV nerds shouldn't get to define our Overton window. If one platform provided free speech + filters, and became the only game in town, it wouldn't be long before we were back in the situation we're in today, except the group of toxic SV billionaires running the show would be even smaller.
Baby Fat May Not Be So Cute After All (2010)
If we are really going to get technical we’d need to determine how much over provisioning the card is designed with.
I thought loopback could pass an application's audio back to itself even in 2017, maybe I'm misremembering
What about HTTPS client certificate?

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/iis-support-blog/clie...

I don't know enough about this to know if it meets your need but I've used them to authenticate to servers in college.
The CA law that bans noncompetes actually says "every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void." [1]

OpenAI's noncompete is unenforceable if you live in California. However, in eight days (1/1/2024) SB 699 [2] goes into effect, extending that protection to everyone outside the state too and AB 1076 [3] amends the section to read “shall be read broadly," broadening the application of the law even further.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

[2] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

[3] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Answering popular questions like the "contrarian question" Thiel poses is a good exercise. Flesh out the answers to a degree you would feel good presenting it in an interview.
From the wiki entry:

>Passell found the study's simulation to be simplistic while assigning little value to the role of technological progress in solving the problems of resource depletion, pollution, and food production. They charged that all LTG simulations ended in collapse, predicting the imminent end of irreplaceable resources. Passell also charged that the entire endeavour was motivated by a hidden agenda: to halt growth in its tracks.
>everyone will switch to other algos very quickly

Yeah. If by everyone we mean open source repos.

Big companies outside of the tech top 10 have just finished the meeting phase to plan a transition from RC4 to triple DES

It will take decades. And all the smart IoT crap will stay frozen in time, keeping botnets fed and healthy
Would you be able to spot a Ramanujan from the dross?

yes, because math has a logical flow and rules, and most errors would be noticed
I think this is partly an exercise in defining what "real world" means. To many, solving number theory problems, especially factorization, is real world enough. It's just not Silicon Valley monetizable.
If only ssh://google.com was thing in browsers
Oh I got that, I was referring to the original solution.

And I can kind of agree with the CAPTCHA being the final solution, a question though, you can't implement the Cloudflare style "CAPTCHA" which is heuristics based and not "please click the bus" type?
There's something missing from this narrative that GM is not disclosing. It's very rare for a manufacturer to pause sales of a product that works well, is well received and in demand. GM has hyped their EV strategy and the Bolt is the one thing that's real and good.

Automakers redesign cars all the time without pausing sales. Automakers work on the new design in parallel, then switch over and call it a new model year.

Maybe a supplier raised prices and GM's gross margin tanked, or maybe they were always losing money on every car made and they need to stop the bleeding.
Some of the modalities in multimodal are non-linguistic. For example, image or video input. In those cases, is it still a language model?
We also live in the Mission district and just had a kid. We love the walkability but are not sure about staying here long term. Obviously house prices are a factor, but I also know people ferrying their kids across the city to school (as school allocation is not based on location in SF) and that sounds completely hellish to me.
The problem is that the rules aren't applied fairly or evenly. See this example from twitter: https://twitter.com/PalestineNW/status/1738711045265392028
People can die of exposure!
Oh

I didn't read beyond the README and I thought it's using the sphagetti as a fiber optic cable with an LED on one side and a photoresistor on the other
In this universe these games are closed source and there's no guarantee that, if someone for example uses them for training to crash airliners, a red flag isn't raised somewhere.
FYI, the article is written by science-fiction author Charles Stross, author of, among other things, Accelerando, which he made available for free as an ebook and online[0].

[0] https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
I get what you’re saying but I don’t think there was snark. Just the fact that a 4090 without a computer attached won’t work. It’s not like you can buy apple silicon without a Mac attached.
My former partner is a pilot and would train new routes on flight simulator. I thought it was amazing the level of detail could be that helpful.
Kalai and Dyakonov are popular in sharing their opinions and speculations on this matter, but they haven't managed to make a convincing scientific argument that controlling a large scale quantum system is intractable or infeasible. That doesn't mean they're wrong, but that they too would need to engage in quantum computing as researchers doing science to be convincing.
I can yes, and we should advance simulations, both AR and VR to be even better.

There's really tiers of simulation, from just reading or watching, playing a basic flight sim, playing a realistic one with joystick and rudder, VR or AR flight sim and then a physical cockpit.

Say what about AR simulations for surgery? Or bring a mechanic. Practice, in a realistic, and most importantly, low cost environment is a marvel of today's world.
> Being curious, is way more sustainable.

Curiosity is motivation. The arguments against motivation only work if you constrain its definition to whether you "feel like doing something today", but that's a very shallow definition and motivation really runs much deeper than that.
I am starting to see a lot of brands driving social media traffic directly to Amazon as of recently.

There is definitely a problem with the cheap stuff but I wonder if they're concertedly trying to turn that around somewhat and attract proper brands.
And then later in the wiki entry:

> In 2023, the parameters of the World3 model were recalibrated using empirical data up to 2022. This improved parameter set results in a World3 simulation that shows the same overshoot and collapse mode in the coming decade as the original business-as-usual scenario of the Limits to Growth standard run.
WTF, I just finished watching this YouTube video and came to hn out of muscle memory and see the same exact restaurant

https://youtu.be/pkQ50oXPQ4A?si=w8fXbrY4w5b3lddM
In what scenario is this incredibly frustrating? I can't recall in my life ever once particularly caring who happened to own an LLC, and I think this is true of most people? I find LLC anonymity pretty useful for one important reason - there's lots of crazy people out there - probably at least loosely related to why you're Scubabear68 instead of JasonWilliamsFresno68. I also think it fits the legal and practical definition of an LLC relatively well where you're dealing with that 'entity' even if, of course, all any business is, is just a group of people.
I can't tell for the rebel flag, but the swastika never stopped to be used with its original meaning in India, and at least in Europe it's rather well known that nazis "stole" it from India cultural heritage where it doesn't have the same semantic to say the least.
I just confirmed - this book was my first purchase on Amazon. May 24th, 1999. I had just decided to go from undeclared to EECS at Cal and wanted to take a crash course in hardware. I read the book over the summer and never turned back.
Game-Changing Savings with Per-Title Encoding
That's Twitter, not owned by Meta
No, it's up to the individual company to continue paying those employees.
"Very different pollutant" is being pedantic. The point is that radioactive water is an output of nuclear reactors.
An 8GB Pi 5 costs $80. For another $20 you can get a case and power adapter. What Ryzen SFF can you get with everything but a disk for $100? And how much more power would it use?

If you know of such a product I’m very interested. It’d make a great base for a router.
Here is proof they aren't mentally all there, thus clearly their idea is probably also half baked:

"I mean there isn't that much to it, it's just a website with a database, I was hoping you could just throw it together as a favor."

OP gave an hourly rate.. if their friend really thinks there's nothing to it, it shouldnt be too hard to pay for 3 hours of time and be on your way to business success.

So either they don't even have enough money to pay for 3 hours of work, OR they think it's 30 hours of work and they expect you to just do that for free (wtf). We don't even need to go into the fact that really they're asking for 300 hours minimum realistically.
Sounds very fishy.

> The instructor let me fly for a while then put me "under the hood" so I couldn't see, said "It's my airplane", took control and flipped it all around, and then said "Your plane". The flight controls were all I could see. I could see that I was in a dive with rotation so I cut the throttle, centered the stick and kicked opposite rudder until the rotation stopped then regained level flight.

That is a weird way of explaining what happened and I find it extremely hard to believe this was written by a pilot. I would have never used the word rotation and dive. They mean very different things from what the author is trying to explain. If I was writing this, I would have said, "I was put in a spin and I did blah to recover". Also, there is a very important piece of PARE missing in that commentary, the "P". It is extremely hard, if not impossible to come out of a fully developed "spin", not "rotation", without pulling power even in training aircrafts.

I call this unadulterated bullshit.
Arby’s, Auntie Anne’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Carl’s Jr., Cinnabon, Jimmy John’s, McDonald’s, and Subway have all made low-wage workers sign non competes.
How would you tell without reading each bill?
JSON Constructors
Other commenters are pointing out that MS flight sim alone can't prepare you for flying, and I'm thinking... what kind of instructor hands you the controls without first checking your level of experience? Surely they would've known that it was your first lesson and you had no real-life flying experience? I can't imagine them just guessing what you were there for based on your ability to taxi and take off.
That'd probably need to be a 1mil+ offer
> Good luck getting that in the constitution when all the leaders who'd vote on the amendment would be directly burdened by its passing, and trying to educate your average voter on how it works.

Actually, NYC is the largest jurisdiction in the country with ranked choice voting.

The problem is that governor is a statewide race, and there are no statewide ballot initiatives in NY. Any ballot initiatives on the state ballot are for issues that the legislature has already approved, as opposed to initiatives that can be brought independently of the legislature.
Article is from 2019. Could the haziness in the skies be possibly attributed to the dispersal of nanobots? Think chemtrails. Think Starlink.
I think most companies will naturally align a certain way and there won’t be a big deal compared to the actual war.

The Western companies: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon will all align with the US

The European companies will align with the US as well

The Chinese companies Huwaei, ByteDance, Alibaba will align with China.
That makes no sense. If all you had were unguided rockets, where else could you possibly aim them? There is no other target where they would have any effect at all, because all high value targets are too small to be hit a +/- 500m weapon.

If your goal was just to hit a population center, I fail to understand the point of guided rockets. Seems much more effective to just make more dumb rockets. Even compared to targets like hospitals, you'd still do more damage with more dumb rockets, especially due to saturation.
Storyteller: Self-hosted platform to automatically sync ebooks and audiobooks
Using loaded language like refugee to refer to venezuela in itself gives away your biases.
The Roman Empire split was relatively friendly. Theodosius split it between his two sons.
Yeah, looks like mostly AI generated comments.
How's the actual quality, diversity, and alignment though. I'm away from my GPU for a few days. It's always hard to judge generative papers without getting hands on because you write to the reviewers which means you gotta cherry pick (I think this is bad, but it's where we're at). They're using tiny autoencoder? Artspew did that too and was getting higher FPS (but weren't using TensorRT but were using triton) but the quality was garbage (still cool). Regardless, these are impressive even if the quality isn't anywhere near whats shown, but it's hard to tell.
No, that was 2022.

I'm talking about this one: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3603269.3604821
Isn’t it well known they had major issues with the battery design and 2 or 3 recalls related to it. If i remember correctly one of them include a warning not to park inside due to the risk of a fire.
Nothing right at all? From the wiki entry:

> In 2015, a calibration of the updated World3-03 model using historical data from 1995 to 2012 to better understand the dynamics of today's economic and resource system was undertaken. The results showed that human society has invested more to abate persistent pollution, increase food productivity and have a more productive service sector however the broad trends within Limits to Growth still held true.
One of the irritating things about simulators (barring FFS) is the amount of lag and lack of feel of air on the controls. MS Flight simulator will probably help you with non flying procedures and communication. Also, it is useful (partially in my books) when doing instrument training.

Otherwise you are better served with a Cessna 1x2 (where x = 5, 7 or if really pushing it 8) and a competent CFI.

Keep the rubber side down.
That's a shame. When I interviewed with them four years ago there was hope it would turn out better.
Piss on "reflexive conservatism", the inferiority is pervasive and trivial to discern. Given HDTV made it's debut in 1998, unless making ultra-high-def media has a steeper learning curve than the Manhattan project I'd say your argument that this is down to directors and not the technology itself seems flawed.
> I will be payed without spending any time actually working,

> This is how this all will play out in the end right?

Somebody is gonna tell him right? I don't want to be the one to crush such innocence.
> The transistor or vaccine argument is a poor argument because no one during Victorian era was able to purchase that.

Yes, in other words they were all miserably poor and nothing they invented was capable of changing that. If you can't purchase a $1 2023 product with your colony that's an enormous opportunity cost that could've been spent staying home and inventing it.

> In this case, England was an absolute super power at the height of having India as a colony.

And they were all poorer than the poorest modern person alive.

> You cannot eat gold, but you can reliably exchange it for goods and services.

If you discover more gold you can't reliably exchange it; you may just get inflation because its value relies on there being a fixed amount of it.

England got a little rich through trade networks, but it's the ability to trade that makes you rich, and notably going to another country and taking all their gold and leaving is not trading with them and doesn't develop your economy.

Funny enough, the reason Scotland is part of the UK is that they bankrupted themselves doing colonialism and sold themselves to England. And now neither of them are richer than countries that never tried it.
In business, I have four "bad words": just, only, simply, and obviously.

Used in a work context, they are nearly always used in an attempt to diminish the perceived effort of something, so I get very sketched out when anyone (even/especially other programmers) starts throwing them around.
> FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm a programmer, I have a vested interest in this not being true.

Not necessarily; if you're a rare and expensive interchangeable pluggable component, you're okay. :)
So much ads on that blog ....