skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what kind of instructor hands you the controls without first checking your level of experience?

All of them? I booked a discovery flight right after high school with zero experience and my instructor handed me the controls before takeoff. He took the controls for the first landing and did all the talking on the radio, but besides that everything else was under my control including the first takeoff and second landing.

That one line ("He thought I was going for an instrument rating") is obviously bullshit, but this is also the kinda stuff I tell my friends when I'm teaching them something new and want them to feel like they're doing great on day 1. So I'm pretty sure GP isn't making up the whole story. He's just naive enough to take the CFI's praise literally
If they are at least as knowledgeable as you, who correctly describes how messy you can expect the data to be, then you should be more concerned with effect size, because small effects are almost certainly just "noise". Instead, sensationalism about miniscule effects that vanish on replication attempts abound.

So not a cheap shot at all IMO.
start recording your thought process very detailed while solving problems, then train a model and sell the model to work as you, roll in money (likely not as you would be outcompeted by other models).
It's important if you're hiring someone to do something important and you want to verify the owners haven't been named in any other lawsuits, don't have a conflict of interest, etc.
From my first hand experience designing these algorithms at Meta and running experiments, and listening to feedback from accounts, I would guess that you are not getting reach because your followers do not interact with what you post. In almost every case people call "shadow ban", the cause was occasionally an actual bug (code doing something undesired and unexpected) or far more often people posting bad content.

The ML is good enough to know whether your followers want to engage with political content. If they don't, Facebook will show them less of it.
Given Hamas' explicit genocidal goals, I think we can expect some portion of their strikes will simply aim to maximize Jewish deaths, even as others may target specific military assets.

See for example Russia's recent Hroza strike (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hroza_missile_attack), which killed 59 at a memorial service. Hamas can't really do strikes like that today; they would just miss with overwhelming probability. I think that will change soon if they remain in power.
And your real name is... Albert Einstein.
From my perspective (DevOps/SRE) Ruby is a horrible platform. It is heavy on resources, it is difficult to run (Unicorn is a pain), maintain, monitor, debug. Many Ruby projects has silently failed (Chef? Puppet?) and the biggest Ruby tool in DevOps world which is Gitlab is incredibly difficult to run on premise and struggles with a ton of issues that I believe are caused by the platform.
If I had a choice, I would never work on a ruby project.
that would be impossible for me to answer since I already know python. Scratch is programming just no possibility of syntax errors
Ah... reminds me of this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
The way I frame this for myself is - just get the stupid solutions out of the way first. Do them so you can see how dumb they are, and move on to the better ones.

And that comes with the proviso that sometimes, the stupid solution is actually just fine, and you didn’t even need to make it so complicated.
I’m not saying simulators are useless. Neither is “chair flying.” Believing that they prepare someone to pre-flight, start, taxi and takeoff and recover from a spin entered while under a hood from training day one is entirely a different matter.
Related/dupe from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38716283
So .. they gave you a room and food, both of which have considerable value and cost others a considerable proportion of their early income?

How much additional money would your parents have were they not paying for your food? How much could they earn on AirBnB if they had that room spare?
> people now refrain from using the word "Palestine" to avoid metas algirithms

It wasn't algorithm, or glitch, or bug. It was a decision made by humans, including you know who. It's a form of crowd control. That's why it's important to have several channels for 'producers'. For others it's a good idea to have several sources. You'll see much more even if each source represents a single side (which is usually the case, 'democracies' are no different).
Fun is Dead
It is tragic that we can't seem to use ports for their intended purposes because of crude attempts to limit the utility of a connection.
You're allowed to voluntarily sacrifice your rights in private contracts. E.g. an NDA limits your the 1st amendment rights, but it's not unconstitutional to agree to one.
In case you missed it last week, a nudge in a similar direction:

SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38664729
Dupe
/Related from days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38716283
I fail to understand why the terminology matters. If you need to make a decision then there will be a threshold in the probability that will determine it. It doesn’t matter if you call it p values or anything else.
They just blanket block every port that isn't 80 or 443. I see this everywhere.
I moved to a Tacoma suburb instead. Tacoma is a very cool city in its own right! It's my main city I do stuff in.
Could you kindly list the clubs/schools these instructors are at? I want to add them to an “avoid at all costs” list.
If you're Asian, SF works out better than Manhattan or Brooklyn.

The fact that you can just go downstairs and get fresh and near authentic Com Tam, Shiumai, or Tandoori for cheap is hard to beat, and the community is much stronger and better represented.

Not to say NYC is bad - it's an amazing city - but, to quote Ali Wong, SF is absolutely an Asian Wakanda
Maybe, seems like overkill to solve a relatively straight forward problemt that is about resolution to real entities with a generative model that has no entity grounding (and may introduce other problems). It's really just not solved because Alexa/Siri leadership doesn't actually care enough about that use case to solve it. Device entity resolution and disambiguation does not require an LLM to solve for a limited number of devices, it just requires people to prioritze that over other things, and smart home device owners are the kind of early adopter that would not be the current market focus for growth (my guess, haven't worked on Alexa in many years).

I know a half dozen different ways to improve that today without LLMs.
I haven’t tried asking many people that, have you? I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a noticeable population for whom that sort of example just didn’t come to mind. I don’t think they are stupid, we’re just naturally lazy about essentially meaningless questions that everybody knows the answer to already, in general.
I fail to see how the conclusion of your scenario is monopoly power. If anything, it seems like it would create a marketplace with more players because secret knowledge is no longer a barrier to entry.
Oh yeah right now - it's time to rent. If this was the economy in summer of 2020, I would've probably kept rolling with my apartment (which I did like a lot) while continuing to stash away liquid savings for when buying a house became a good deal again.

But this article is about "Forever" Renters. I highly doubt buying a house will never be worth it if you follow the above path.
They make sense for individual employees because they give an individual employee a leg up over the competition.

Ask anyone bemoaning a non-compete why they signed it. They didn't have to! The answer is always: "I wouldn't have gotten the job without it." Exactly. The job would have still been filled. No company is going to not hire a needed worker just because nobody will sign a non-compete. But the company would have hired an otherwise better candidate instead.

In other words, the person who signed the non-compete gets to screw over other workers now just by giving up a small chance of not being able to do a certain job for some duration in the future. That's a pretty good value proposition.
The thing is, one of the stages of the sales process is qualification. That's where you assess whether the prospective customer is an appropriate fit to actually become a customer. Among other things that includes finding out whether they have lots of money which they want to spend now.

The OP did a beautiful job of qualification here, he sent one message, and then the prospect revealed that they weren't in the market for spending money on a programmer, and walked away. PERFECTION. This is a moment of joy for anyone in sales because they no longer have to waste a single minute with that useless contact, and they can move on.

He should be happy! It's only programmers, artists etc. who seem to get cranky about the sales process and pen long cranky articles about how their craft doesn't get enough respect or whatever. There is clearly a huge market for programming, so there's no need for ruminating, just kick back with a beer, celebrate your newfound freetime, then get back to coding cool stuff.
Besides having your grandparents' help as mentioned in a sibling comment, there's an darker side to the this topic: discrimination against women[0], and the people who aren't young and energetic enough[1].

edit: formatting

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[0]: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/05/business/china-three-chil...

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/26/china/35-curse-unemployme...
Ask HN: Resources for learning GpgAuth, crypto-OpenPGP and Risks mitigation
Hi,
I am implementing these for a project that I am building and I would really really love not to screw any security aspects of it. Can anyone please suggest me any resources that may help me on my journey? Thanks in Advance.
https://archive.is/Cke8z
I find it incredibly obnoxious and I refuse to use parallel because of it. To me, it violates the spirit of free software and tarnishes the GNU project. As someone who has released my source to the public for free, I couldn't fathom adding such a flag.

Bonus SO post to enhance your fury:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61762189/installing-gnu-...
Meh, I landed the plane my first intro flight out, just from dicking around as a kid, on sims. There are people with thousands of hours of vr sim experience.
To add to this, I’d say as a European that I’m more concerned with the US limiting speech than our own laws. The US is good at excercising its diplomatic, trade and military power to prevent other countries from wielding free speech wrong.

Trading with Iran is one example of that. You can be effectively shut out from the financial system of the world if you decide to ignore US sanctions, even when you don’t have entities, customers, suppliers, or employees in the US. Cuba and Panama’s existence are other examples of when countries ignored the US and paid the price.

I don’t think the US is particularly evil or anything like that, but true free speech is a whole lot easier to safeguard when you’re not relying on the patronage of a superpower. And today, most countries either are a superpower in their own might or rely on one for participation in the global economy and modern world.

…and there’s some cruel irony in suggesting the dismantling of a culture to leave room for free speech. I believe any sort of sustainable freedom of speech will have to grow organically into the culture. And that unfortunately takes time.
It's frustrating if you are trying to rent a place. Prospective tenants should have the ability to easily look up that 123 Main Street LLC is partially owned by a slumlord whose other rental LLCs have accumulated hundreds of complaints.
You can play with the actual model here: http://bit-player.org/extras/limits/ltg.html (github here: https://github.com/bit-player/limits)

It appears sensitive to that "output consumed" fraction, which I don't understand.
Flying a real airplane is easier than flying a simulator, because you have so much more sensory input available. Because of this, you are likely to teach yourself bad habits in the simulator that will be expensive to unlearn in a real airplane. If you insist on doing it, read "Stick And Rudder" first: https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9780070362406

As other comments have observed, the most motivated students tend to be the ones who go to the extra trouble to use simulators: it is possible the simulators are useless, and students who would otherwise be successful just tend to seek them out.
Parent is saying that noncompetes affect more than finance companies, and other companies may not pay for them in the same way.
You're right, especially because a vehicle has to engage with a number of drivers simultaneously. I can tell where a driver is looking, and I can see that he's looking at me. While a vehicle could have some sort of indicator that say "I see you", it's somewhat harder to imagine how this would work when there are many other cars around (including a mix of AVs and human-driven vehicles).

I would guess that at some point cars will communicate directly with each other, and a light might appear on the dash to indicate that a vehicle is aware of your presence/intention. That way human drivers would know that it's safe to maneuver around the AVs whose paths he might cross. But it will probably be a decade before this sort of stuff is worked out, at the earliest.
I’m guessing you haven’t served. The front line military brings its own power, exactly portable gas/diesel generators, to run everything. If there is a usable power line with a transformer to a usable voltage and it hasn’t been yet damaged in the fighting, it’s amazing, but also fragile.

A non trivial chunk of signal corps training is learning the ins and outs of standard generators, conventions and apparatus for distributing power, equipment for converting between various voltages used by equipment 1 to 80 years old, etc.
Related:

Update to Limits to Growth: Comparing the World3 Model with Empirical Data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36089144 - May 2023 (1 comment)

The Limits to Growth (1972) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32686659 - Sept 2022 (1 comment)

50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32685777 - Sept 2022 (37 comments)

Fifty years on from The Limits to Growth what did we learn and what’s next? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32314912 - Aug 2022 (2 comments)

Yep, it’s bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world prediction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27951751 - July 2021 (9 comments)

Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27838112 - July 2021 (1 comment)

World3: Modeling Limits to Growth. A Detailed World Forecaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24049500 - Aug 2020 (1 comment)

The Limits to Growth (1972) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18516544 - Nov 2018 (1 comment)

The Limits to Growth (1972) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913420 - Dec 2017 (55 comments)

Another Look at "The Limits to Growth" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802811 - April 2012 (34 comments)
May I ask, what is this ‘furries’ thing?
The whole point of study is to break down these “obvious” conclusions and make sure we understand the exact causal chain, free of confounding variables. Extremely often something is studied that seems “obvious” and turns out to be anything but.
Related. I thought there were others but can't find them...

Bill Watterson's Speech – Kenyon College, 1990 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5587976 - April 2013 (58 comments)

Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3412165 - Dec 2011 (14 comments)
Yeah for sure. I mean those areas are pretty far from each other (from SJ), but I get your point.

Personally I find the peninsula to be the best in terms of opportunities/quality of life/cost.
Of course this is a contributing factor but it can’t be a full explanation. There were times when many other places had low environmental standards and cheap labor. There are plenty of countries now, too. Andrew Carnegie used this to his advantage before the EPA was even a glimmer in anyone’s eye. But even Carnegie’s steel corp was never as dominant.
Google Voice does not handle on-device SMS/MMS messages on iOS. Most phone users expect to use the phone number that comes with their cell phone plan, not a separate VoIP service like Google Voice that uses a different phone number. Special pleading is arguing that Apple is exempt from the same FTC regulations that bind other U.S. companies.
Certainly, by the time you are piloting for Air France, you'll have had so much training and experience that whether you used a flight simulator before getting your first pilot's license is irrelevant.
Recensione del Tablet Yicty per Bambini: Educazione e Intrattenimento

Il mercato dei tablet per bambini continua a evolversi, offrendo soluzioni sempre più complete per l'apprendimento e il divertimento dei più piccoli. Il Yicty Tablet Bambini 10,1 Pollici con Android 13 è uno dei dispositivi di punta di questa categoria.
Caratteristiche Tecniche

Dotato di un sistema operativo Android 13.0 aggiornato, un potente processore quad-core da 1,6 GHz e una spaziosa memoria di 64 GB ROM espandibile fino a 128 GB tramite microSD, questo tablet offre un'esperienza fluida e veloce. I 2 GB di RAM assicurano una gestione agevole delle applicazioni.
Protezione per gli Occhi e Accesso a Contenuti Educativi

Il display IPS da 10,1 pollici con risoluzione HD 1280x800 offre una visione chiara e protezione dagli effetti dannosi della luce blu, riducendo l'affaticamento visivo dei bambini durante l'uso prolungato.

La certificazione GMS e l'accesso a Google Play consentono ai genitori di scaricare app educative di qualità, mentre l'app Kidoz preinstallata offre un'ampia gamma di contenuti filtrati e personalizzabili, garantendo un ambiente sicuro e adatto all'età.
Apprendimento e Intrattenimento

Il tablet è progettato per offrire contenuti stimolanti e adatti all'apprendimento, come app educative, giochi interattivi e strumenti creativi, promuovendo lo sviluppo delle capacità cognitive, la creatività e il pensiero critico dei bambini.
Design Protettivo e Accessori

La custodia antiurto inclusa offre una protezione efficace al dispositivo in caso di cadute o urti accidentali. Il supporto regolabile a 360° garantisce una visualizzazione ottimale da qualsiasi angolazione.

Con un peso leggero e una costruzione robusta, il tablet Yicty è un compagno affidabile e portatile per i bambini.
Conclusione

Il Yicty Tablet Bambini 10,1 Pollici Android 13 unisce intrattenimento e apprendimento in un unico dispositivo, offrendo un ambiente sicuro e stimolante per i più piccoli. Con le sue caratteristiche tecniche avanzate e la progettazione pensata per la sicurezza e l'educazione, rappresenta una scelta ideale per genitori attenti all'evoluzione digitale dei loro figli.
If this is a spaceship then my car is a fighter jet.
What sort of bad habits?
Does anybody know the year for this? I put 2018 above because of https://web.archive.org/web/20190513173414/https://gist.gith....
I don't want engines or transmissions. I don't want to deal with all the maintenance requirements.
Yep - the question is how close we are to what a "normal" projection from pre-2020 to now would be.

iirc, inflation actually matched that after a while.
I noticed that taller parents have taller kids, which is similar. I wonder if there's some kind of mechanism underneath both correlations.
Aldi is German, and “grocery packing” is the unsung national sport, everybody is at it, all the time.

You have not know humiliation if you have not experienced a line of slightly elderly shoppers mildly frowning and tutting as you hurl your items into a bag, whilst the cashier looks at you with overt disapproval. The only accepted bagging speed is “Superhuman” and the best day of my life was when the cashier at my regular Edeka nodded approvingly at the fact that I was practically ripping the groceries out of their hand as soon as the cash register beeped.

Supermarket staff here in Italy, where I now reside, think I am insane, and I work hard to contain my impatience with those lesser-trained people in front of me at the cash register.
I was just thinking back to my childhood homelab days. We would go to the regional recycling center and back our car up to the E-Waste trailer. One of us would pretend to move empty cases from the car to the dumpster, while another would crawl around and pull out treasures. I could field-strip a Dell Optiplex in 15 seconds, and pocket the RAM and CPU. I'm not sure we ever really made much profit, but we had fun doing it. I wonder if the waste contractor ever wondered where the high-value items were going?
What’s happening in Gaza right now? Who is dropping the bombs? Whose army is in Gaza? What is also happening in the West Bank? What about the border in Lebanon.

True there was a terroristic raid into Israel in which 1200 people lost their lives but the scale of power does not compare AT ALL
Hi, I made this repo.
I'm here to drop my opinions as below.

[1]

- golang-fifo provides also SIEVE algorithm which is more effieicnt than S3-FIFO under web cache workloads(follows zipf's distribution)

[2]

- I added otter to my cache benchmark. It shows less efficiency than mine. I'm not sure why this happens.

See results here: https://github.com/scalalang2/go-cache-benchmark

[3]

- If the behavior of the two algorithms is the same, they should produce similar results. but they shows different results.

- Otter is faster with more concurrency, but misses more stuff (shows less hit/rate).
What's the "literally" here? Try:
They mention that they built on top of llava, which was released half a year ago.
I have no problem taking down "From the river to the sea" type content so long as we also take down Greater Israel type content.
Please don't be a jerk in response to someone else's work. This poisons the community, which hurts everyone.

That goes double for Show HNs, which have special rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> we plan to provide official APIs and relevant documentation to help libraries and applications extend IRB

Bravo Ruby team!
I hope their food taste is better than their website taste cos that site is an abomination.
The rent is frontloaded. It averages out over the long run, but landlords charge more at the beginning of the lease to make up some of the difference caused by rent controls by the time the lease ends.
See also Hollywood accounting. Return of the Jedi, for example, has never gone into profit.
But those aren’t intractable issues and society will adapt. I think that’s key critique - extrapolation is a problem when you have feedback systems to adjust to changing environmental conditions. Like even if no one has kids for 10 years, we still have new ones being born. If it’s super critical to society you’ll see all sorts of programs and support spring up to encourage people to have larger than today normal families (eg offering free childcare etc). Also, you seem to have dismissed geriatric pregnancies out of hand (not to mention limiting counting pregnancies to specific subgroups for some reason because you view other types of kids as undesirable?) but I don’t see why that’s the case - children born during this time are still children. Fertility levels may be reduced but they still happen.

The point is that the claim that we’ll have a species-wide population collapse seems unreal when we have more people on earth than ever and we have lots of children at every age group giving us lots of shots to adjusts to problems. Not to mention tech that extends the fertility age well beyond the limited window you’ve said.

There’s a lot of baked in stereotyping it seems like on your end of what “acceptable” children look like that may be worth unpacking more than there being any serious concern about a population collapse.