skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AGPL is fully copyleft, even for SaaS. Which is fine if they want to go that route, but I think they should make the cost of a commercial license obvious on their website.

Because if you want to comply with AGPL then you can't build a product around this unless you negotiate a different license. Unless you want to release all of your own code. Which might be possible also.

But I would go with llama.cpp, ollama, candle (Rust), or whatever. Non of those are copyleft.
I can't say that I've seen any proper physics analysis of this, but my small understanding would be that incoming lasers will not be effective against ships*.

The lasers currently fielded for Navy tests require tracking a target for multiple continuous seconds - my understanding is that if the target rapidly changed heading and you lost tracking for a couple seconds, the air flow will cool the target and you'll basically have to start from scratch when the target is reacquired. This would obviously change for something hypersonic that has a plasma barrier around it :)

For a ship, the hull itself is all metal to conduct the heat (relatively) evenly, and it's sitting in the ocean which is a huge heat sink. Obviously it's possible that laser research comes a long way, but my understanding is that you would have to hit the ship with a huge amount of energy, which requires even more energy generated for the laser due to laser divergence over distance etc.

This is comparing apples to oranges, but seeing how the Navy recently stopped their Rail Gun research, I don't think it's a given that were just going to pour money into research and end up with mW lasers.

* Dazzling sensors etc is another matter. I'm mostly referring to punching a hole in the side of a ship, which is what I interpreted your question as.
You've increased the places where things can go wrong (in third party client apps) while not having any control over their quality. We'd hear "oh, IRS opened things up!", then deal with a dozen half-baked clients, and conclude "IRS sucks at something so simple!".

Agreed - public API first is the wrong place to start.
It’s definitely German.

But we also have a German train station in Switzerland, so there’s that ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Badischer_Bahnhof
Who else, from what other discipline would the shareholders want in charge?

Genuinely asking. I'd take a calculator nerd over a tech bro almost any (business) day.
This seems basically right and there is no known cure save bringing back a founder (Jobs & Apple).
I don’t believe anyone ever took them serious

I was surprised when I asked a religious person. They don't talk about it much, but they believe all of it in a literal way. Like they believe humanoid translucid creatures called Angels live with us. We think it is a metaphor when they say the word, but it is not for them.
>Ok, how does one best reason about performance and security with messy unmaintainable code?

The same way one does it with 'clean' code:
Using profiling tools.
Security is a bit less straight forward, but still.

>will feel very objective.

Keyword: Feel.
And while most people could probably agree on terrible code being terrible, the 'less terrible' the code is, the more this argument becomes a feeling.
And then we hit up point where it's no longer possible to discuss things using objective arguments - how will a senior java developer, who is used to heavy OOP style coding reason with a senior C developer for whom such OOP heavy style is the oposite of 'clean'?

Ofcourse, the example is (too) simplistic, but even in this thread You have people arguing about "big functions" vs splitting things up. And unlike the performance, which You can alaways just point to the raw numbers, here You can't rely on any sorts of 'objectivity'
Lets not the semiprofessional sports teams that are allowed/encouraged to operate under their umbrella somehow. They never seem to funnel anything tangible BACK to the university but are always taking.

I just don't get how this has been allowed to flourish. Its not healthy for anyone and has nothing to do with the academic mission of a school.
> We can do it in two!

Boeing probably.
In progress. We have access to an ARM-based supercomputer and are actively collaborating with scientists who have access to x86_64 systems. It will be a while before we have results to publish. We need to be diligent in our testing methodologies.
There's a good Mac version of Clocker too https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clocker/id1056643111?mt=12
Burger King cook buys his first home after viral fundraising campaign
After the video went viral, one of Ford’s daughters created a GoFundMe page in June 2022. The campaign’s goal, intended to help Ford retire comfortably, was reached multiple times and has continued to increase since it was created. At the time of writing, the campaign had raised $449,276 of the $450,000 goal, with over 14,000 donations.
Nice story but that has never happened. Delays are announced when >=3min are expected.
You're playing at whatever the self-help equivalent of psychobabble is and are clearly not a parent, foster or otherwise. Most kids are self-centered, duplicitous sacks of bullshit. The social aspect of relationships is easily gamed and they know it.

You don't know your child until you've seen their browser history (before they've had a chance to clear it). Take a peek sometime.

I let my kids think I trust them, but I trust them about as much as the GRU. They think I actually believe that they don't have Discord installed, but I already know what they changed the icon and app label to. They think I believe they're not uploading videos to YouTube, but they are. They have no qualms about lying to me-- and I have a good relationship with these two.
It's been a minute now, but I'm pretty sure that was on the reading list for my undergrad pragmatism course. Enjoyed it as well!

PS: Hello to another Ethan, although we seem much more common these days.
My problem with this discussion is that a lot of people just say "I'm a scientist (or I'm working with scientists) and I'm observing X so I can say 'scientists blahblahblah'".

Different scientific research fields are using widely different computer software environment, and have their own habits and traditions. The way a biologist uses programming has no reason to be similar to the way an astrophysicist does: they have not at all experienced the same software environment. It may even be useless to talk about "scientist" in the same field as two different labs working in the same field may have very different approaches (but it's more difficult if there are shared framework).

So, I'm not at all surprised that you observe opposite experience. The same way I'm not surprised to see someone saying they had the opposite experience if someone says "European people are using a lot of 'g' and 'k' in their words" just because they observed what happened in Germany.
It is bloody pricey though. Especially for those without a Swisspass.
I'm just going to leave you with this frightening quote: "They said there was a kid in that row who had his shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane and his mother was holding onto him to make sure he didn't go with it."

Shirt sucked off him. Mother was holding onto him. Oh hello, a thousand nightmares of my youth.
Self Encrypting Drives Utility
https://github.com/caronc/apprise
This is very helpful! Often I need to coordinate meeting times across multiple timezones and this will safe me a lot of headache.

It would be nice if it was day light savings aware. Even just having a tooltip per timezone block which lists the changeover dates would be huge
No comments, few comments, irrelevant and/or unhelpful comments, confusing comments.
An aerospace engineer?
Yes: the running joke is/was that McD bought Boeing with Boeing's money.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...

* https://archive.is/q5pQV

* https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg...

* https://simpleflying.com/mcdonnel-douglas-boeing-merger/

B was pressured to buy McD for 'national security' reasons. What would have been a better idea would have been, instead of doing an 'total' acquisition, is to wait for McD to go bankrupt, and then buy the parts that didn't suck.

When they did the acquisition, they also got the management folks… who ran McD into the ground in the first place.
Counterpoint: while universities have tons of issues, they were and are doing relatively fine except in the minds of those moved by “anti-elite” politico-conspirational rhetoric.
No, I believe people would like to know precise details of what you're referring to as "left woke agenda".
The public wants it to be an aerospace engineer.
The level of abstraction doesn't change when stepping down through levels of indirection.

ManagedHttpService calls HttpService which calls HttpManager which calls HttpClient. None of the above actually speaks 'http'; all of the actual http code lives in an apache dependency referred to inside HttpClient.
A single explosive decompression event, comprising the spontaneous loss of an assembly the size of an entire exit door, two months off the factory floor?

I should certainly hope they’d take a gander at the others before I’d sit next to one.

Especially with the memory of the last time they chose to keep flying 737 MAXes instead of fixing the defect in the rest of the fleet, at the cost of 157 lives, not even 5 years ago.
> Use that to subsidize the free version of the browser.

Google and Microsoft, and to some extent Apple, already offer an enterprise-capable browser for $0; so I don’t agree that enterprise support is a viable funding model here. I can’t find any traces remaining of the Enterprise paid support plan that the Firefox team launched in 2019, so I suspect they reached the same conclusion and shut it down.

> use that money for something useful.

Such as?

> converting into a company making an actual paid product

To clarify, do you mean converting the Firefox browser into shareware/IAP, or free-trial/paywalled, or do you mean another product in the style of Pocket or Relay; or..?
Just as a data point that ultimately reinforces your main point, one of the reasons I am disillusioned with the higher education corporate complex is that as someone on the political left, I dislike it for being too left.

It's not the what, it's the why. (Though as a result, a lot of the what is bullshit these days too.)
Portableapps.com asking for donations (to keep site going?)
I just redownloaded PortableApps launcher after a long time and noticed their appeal for donations. I used PA a lot during school, college and my first jobs. Does anyone have some background on how they are doing?
No, my assumption is it's a metaphor.

Loins makes much more sense as the metaphor, as that's an area of the body that can get you in real trouble if you don't think first.
The way you phrased it, I figured that "don't give a shit" was a Stonecipher catch phrase or something. Sort of like Zuckerberg's "move fast and break things".
I have a hard time understanding why the IRS doesn't at least have a basic web portal for individuals and businesses to do simple things like update addresses, send secure correspondence, check on the status of correspondence, file forms electronically, etc. A lot of paper forms and letters, human resources and time could be saved with such a system, even if it doesn't actually provide for any tax computations itself.
"FAA Statement on Temporary Grounding of Certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 Aircraft" - https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-statement-temporary-groundi...
So the argument is no longer that presenting an intact heterosexual nuclear family is worthy of positive note, but that instead presenting exclusively intact monoracial nuclear families is worthy of positive note?

With the former, I would agree, except that its so common that while it may be positive its hardly noteworthy; with the latter... just no.
I found the perfect solution for me with https://www.moderncsv.com. Starts fast, focused GUI, fully featured, no bullshit!
It seems to have ripped the shirt off the person in the middle seat.
> In 2009 the car sold in 96 units, and only seven cars were sold in the full 2010 fiscal year. Production has now ceased. In all, the car sold in only 103 units

This is like saying we should ignore Tesla because the only car they sold in 2009 was a rip-off Lotus.

Speaking as an American, I'd love to see what the presence of low-end (say, $10k range) autos would do to traffic laws and city planning.
He links to his book "GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time, and Why Does it Matter?" which is freely available online, it contains several mentions of Marx. An example:

"My first standard is how an economist analyzes a more or less new problem shown to him, and thus how well that economist can think. That sounds simple, but as we’ll see it rules out many folks right off the bat, most notably Karl Marx."

Sounds like it might not be the most appropriate course for Marx fans.

Spoiler alert: he doesn't come out and say that Milton Friedman is the GOAT, but he pretty much says that Milton Friedman is the GOAT.
It seems like they grounded all of their 737 Max 9 fleet immediately after the incident. But apparently they have begun inspections and returned some of the fleet to service - https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/1743668287106678866 and https://twitter.com/AlaskaAir/status/1743677307644944797
Extremely anecdotally, I saw their vehicles on display at a mall in Costa Rica.
Already working on it as of yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38882358
I’m on a lease. There are currently tax incentives for EVs in my country for this so it’s currently comparable.

There’s lots of FUD about battery life, but there are already 10 year old Teslas out there. There are Teslas with 250k miles on the clock with 15% degradation. The car would have to degrade 50% for it to affect my usage pattern.
I can only assume major hubs have already completed inspection, because a buddy of mine flew out of Seattle on a 737 Max9 this morning. Guess I assumed inspections took longer than half a day
Optimizing the unoptimizable: a journey to faster C++ compile times
> intentionally on minimal life support

Key word: "intentionally".
That's handy, because I am looking for a fast Linux with small memory footprint, but reliable. I've been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for almost a year, in order to play Minecraft on my old computer (i5 3gen but lots of ram) and I managed to achieve +(10-14) FPS for the game Vs Windows. Also I have a spyware detector installed (a noisy fan) and it goes off constantly on my windows 10, while Linux leaving it mostly silent. Lifetime is also twice. I wonder what does the Windows 10 do to make my computer so noisy and slow. However Linux Mint Cinnamon is failing on standard tasks like configuring WiFi, built-in modem or changing system settings
Direct-Cut vinyl is definitely better. But hard to find and expensive.
So is any exclusion.
The risks of space flight are just so much actuarial work until real humans become involved. At that point three nine's is no longer acceptable and everything takes way longer and is way more expensive.
It wasn't always this way though. When I was first using a computer my parents had Firefox. Not for any particular reason as they aren't savy at all.
Big recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38649554
I’d also worry about how well the car’s bottom deals with underwater obstructions. And of course that people who own this car would engage in the same sort of shenanigans that we see with Tesla Autopilot.

The car’s interior is a welcome bit of originality compared to the styling in the usual high-end offerings.
I hate to say this but this attitude of "it's 2023, inheritance is so 2008" is telling. How do you know the attitudes regarding best practices today are not going to be as bad as 20 layers of inheritance?
West Australia bans commercial native logging
This kind of car pretty important for China. They are still way behind on drainage in major cities, it isn’t uncommon to see under road passes flooded during heavy spring rains. Japan would have the same problem, but they’ve sunk billions into drainage, the Tokyo drainage system is a world wonder at this point.
or, it's like a document reader with a far lower amount and chance of security issues.
I would be cautious believing these stats...
How much of those sales are real ones?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEfwoqKRU8

Their hybrid cars has serious problems, including catching fire on their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXrsmYQvK8E

It's not like Tesla didn't have issues, but not so serious and numerous ones.
>wins races

With how many round trips that are happening due to serving clients a static page, I wouldn't call that winning a race, but I can see how tortoise may be accurate in that case.
Indeed, it uses the Duktape engine: https://duktape.org/
Cats Filled the Prison. Then the Inmates Fell in Love.
> Why Choose NetSurf

It's not malware, we promise.
Weird things engineers believe about Web development
The Everything NPM Package
https://archive.is/AMsDd

This is a pretty great story. I'm reading it over lunch, at home, with my two kitties taking a nap on my bed.

I can't imagine what it is like to be in prison, but I am glad that these inmates also get to enjoy relationships with the Big House Cats.
They should break the civil aviation business off into a new company.
At what point does Boeing just scrap the 9s? Completely, for good?

It’s all starting to feel like the galaxy note, where you pass a tipping point of no return with public perception.
Does BYD use a dealership model in sweden like they do in China? If so, they would just outsource all of those issues to local parties.
That is how it works in many (most?) countries already - the US is an outlier in requiring every citizen to handle their own taxes.
You can do that kind of thing in html today.

I use this embedded SVG for the logo on a page:

<img id="logo" src='data:image/svg+xml;utf8,%3Csvg%20width%3D%22100%25%22%20height%3D%22100%25%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2054%2050%22%20version%3D%221

I think I recall using a base64 encoded png at one point for a different project in the same way.

Minimizing bytes was not the reason for this. It was to tidy up the directory listing as this html was used as a self contained local file. I didn’t want a separate logo file hanging around and risk getting lost.
> This is like saying we should ignore Tesla because the only car they sold in 2009 was a rip-off Lotus.

No it's not like saying that. Lotus had a deal with Tesla.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/lotus-position
>You are assuming that the only things that matter are those that can be objectively measured.

No. Feelings do matter. But the problem is, what do You do when You have 2 people with conficliting feelings?

>Also, of course, there are at least some fairly well-accepted standards of clean code.

Are there though?

>even if some aspects of those aren't entirely agreed on by everyone, and painting them as completely arbitrary, subjective things is just wrong

Even if I grant You that there are some guidelines that are respected by overwhelming majority, that still doesn't prevent them from being arbitrary.
I enjoyed working through "Theorem Proving in Lean 4", although it doesn't go deep into the mathematics side of things. I intend to work through "Mathematics in Lean"[2] to get more detail on that, but I want to finish "Programming Language Foundations in Agda" first.

[1]: https://lean-lang.org/theorem_proving_in_lean4/

[2]: https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathematics_in_lean

Edit: Oh, also the "Natural Number Game" is a nice, short intro to the theorem proving that gets straight to the point: https://adam.math.hhu.de/
The answer is a combination of industry lobbying (see elsewhere in this thread) and partisan politics that result in deliberately under-funding the IRS (for a general notion, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast, and for more directly relevant events see https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted)
Building a list of good, reliable service people that one can go to in the future takes effort. Some want the minimum, some like a little give-and-take. Getting that balance is tricky. Becoming known as a good customer can help in some cases both for later work and referrals to other specialists.
Let’s just make our own. I’ve always thought we should come up with a new religion around quantum immortality.

Some basic thoughts could be:

Since you are the only immortal one from your point of view, all of your loved ones will die before you, so don’t worry too much about meddling in their affairs or changing them, just love them unconditionally. Your time with them is brief, so you may as well enjoy it.

Make good memories together, you will carry them along eternally (meanwhile, from others’ point of view, you will die at some point, but they will go on forever, so give them some good memories of you).

Work toward the world and society you want to live in forever.

Hold yourself to unusually high standards, because you will have to deal with the consequences of your actions for an unusually long time. Also someday you will probably be noticed as one of the earliest immortals, so try to live a life that stands up to some scrutiny.

To avoid the stress of being incompatible with modern values, you’ll have to keep updating your moral framework. Big jumps in your moral framework will be unpleasant to deal with mentally, so keep up with where society is going. You don’t have the benefit of dying and becoming a product of your time at some point.
I think the heart of the issue that explains why both the left and right are souring on academia is because academia is a gateway to power and prestige and people now mostly seem to go in not for seeking truth but for seeking power and status. People are publishing things that help them acquire more status, not seeking the truth. I would apply this analysis to what Claudine Gay wrote about in her research and how it bore out tenure and a Harvard presidency for her.
I was thinking as I was scrolling, is it a film they want to create?

Interesting anyway — I kind of dig it.
These stories of justifying great expenses amuse me, because I can't help but compare them to Warren Buffet's office (which is mostly sports memorabilia, loose papers, a telephone [1]).

>That said, in most cases day trading is basically just high end gambling and a mechanism of turning a large fortune into a small one.

Poignant! There are plenty of people and businesses happy to pry off a chunk along the way. :)

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/take-a-candid-and-personal-t...
But remember that * and + don't short-circuit. This won't work:

found = (p != NULL) * (*p ! = 0);
A380s were scheduled to end production in 2021 even before COVID.

Airbus may have mistimed the A380 versus industry trends - though this is certainly up to debate and is still up in the air.

The first A380 deliveries were back in 2007, so the also had to eat the impact of the 09 financial crisis.
It's great to see that spam will drop on the few text-based newsgroups I'm still subscribed to. I detest what Google has done to newsgroups, and I'd love for there to be another credible archive.
When you look at the "monster" that is ROOT-CERN, which is a C/C++ interpreter* with very efficient statistics and plot tools (it can digest tons of data), it is completely logic that Python is a good language for daily lab tasks and analysis.
But I'm not sure if it is really used beyond this daily lab task or intern project where performance is not critical. Big simulations I participated were made in C/C++.

Nowaday, it seems that at least physics particle community looks enthusiastic regarding Julia development.

*: it mimics most of core python features such as no strict typing, data structures that can store different types, on-the-fly coding, graphic interface for representation, no compilation needed.