skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it baffling that anyone would take these benchmarks seriously. The methodology is not transparent, and some of the tests completely unfair, like those in German or about specific niche German topics. The author readily acknowledges that these tests are his personal interests, which is totally fair. But that it would rise to the top of that subreddit and now HN as a general measure of quality of any kind is indicative of the lack of reliable benchmarks out there.
At the Costco where I get my car's tires swapped out (summer/winter tire swap) or rotated, the technician always tightens all the wheel nuts with a torque wrench.

Then another, different technician comes by and checks all the nuts again with his own torque wrench.

When all is done and I get the sign off paperwork, they strongly encourage me to stop by next time I'm there so they can quickly check the wheel nuts again with a torque wrench.

So please, don't "do it by feel". That's how you Boeing. I know I would never patronize your shop again if I saw you being so callous.

A true craftsman double and triple checks his work objectively with other craftsmen, not be proud he can do it blindfolded with one arm behind his back.
The problem is the combination of the two, although the former is discouraged most everywhere. Being a pest is not a matter of culture, but an individual choice.
My repo suggestions :

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite
https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
https://gitlab.inria.fr/mpfr/mpfr
Fond memories here of watching Babylon 5 on a Performa 5300 with an Apple TV Tuner Card. There was no antenna to the room with the computer, but I found that I was able to get an acceptable picture by holding the coax cable attached to the antenna input in the right way while keeping one hand attached to the central heating radiator...
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Im making a new car sales platform where its free for both dealers and users to sell and buy cars.
Beside that there will not display ads.
How can I grow the user base here in Denmark?
So creating a database that contains copyrighted text is fine as long as you say "please don't execute the queries that extract the copyrighted text I stored for you"?

Not sure that line of argumentation is going to get you very far.

Particularly since those texts that are not precise verbatim copies of the copyrighted text that you do store appear to be derivative works of that copyrighted text.

And thus also fall under copyright.
Big parts of the article are pretty generic concepts and only mention other products as an example. Haven't heard of Neon yet. What does Neon do differently? Is there a good introduction/overview?

Good, fair and reproducible benchmarks are a rarity. Do you have any (independent) benchmarks that compare different distributed PostgreSQL-based solutions?
> No good can come of it ever.

Now that is trivially untrue, see the good work Bill Gates has done on Polio.

Of course it's plausible for the existence of people with that level of power to be a detriment on average, but it never being positive seems obviously wrong.
>We wouldn't be able to detect them optically or electromagnetically.

We can have have radio (electromagnetic) communication between the Earth and the Moon just fine.
Yeah you are right, my current project I’m building the landing page first with a minimal demo to collect emails before a full build
I simply don't understand this dense sneering snark.

The real world is analogue and not a binary on/off setting you click in a config file. "Make this thing indestructable"

There is an infinite sliding scale from normal air humidity to the corrosive wetness of a tropical rainforest near a saltwater ocean or the difference being splashed with a few raindrops to being submerged for 100 years at the Mariana Trench.
To be clear - the conceptual space the software is built around isn't an implementation detail. It's the way you reach your goal; it necessarily imposes a burden on the user. A good conceptual space presses less heavily against the user, but you can't obscure the notion that there are containers in a file system but not a relational database.
In this context they probably mean browser permissions, like notifications or camera/mic access.
In The Design of Everyday Things Donald Norman mentions the swiss-cheese model, whereby multiple layers in a process need to align correctly for a mistake to lead all the way to an incident: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
That's a fair bit closer.
As a seed VC, I still see a majority of Excel cap tables over Carta. (Pulley / Shareworks is even rarer).
I heard a similar story regarding Boeing’s North Charleston factory due to that push, it leads to some Boeing customers request the last inspection done in the Everett factoryinstead before delivery. My bigger worry is 787 as apparently it is moving to SC.
In case anyone else was wondering if this was an acronym for an aphorism (like YAGNI), this is an error code (error text busy). And 'text' refers to the executable
Actually we chose not to use it after talked to the developers about some of their approaches at the time. They had weird views on GC and made it impossible to tune their stack to have lower latency. It was not really an option to operate ES for a larger enterprise with decent SREs.
Bottled water contains hundreds of thousands of nanoplastics: study
Reminded me of discovering this when I was a kid and thought I was magic. I had forgotten about that.
> during the days of Gaddafi

Well, although a rather harsh dictatorship, Libya was at the time one (bit.ly was registered in 2008) of the more stable and prosperous countries of the region, and had been normalizing its international relations for some time. That was just after he had been received in France, erecting his tent on the lawn of the state guesthouse next to the French presidential palace.

I don't think many people expected the dramatical events that occurred soon after.

But it's true, I personally think one should never use the TLD of a dictatorship or unstable country for obvious ethical reasons and for future-proofing a business.
Darpa is testing a completely novel type of flight control and all these HN comments are just nitpicking irrelevant things, missing the forest through the trees, and saying "it won't work on propeller drones".

The quality of discussion on this website is abysmal.
Im my humble view age is not absolute.A 22 years old in west will have better outlook on life as he can make more mistakes on average as compared to a 22 years old in Pakistan(my home country).
Similarly,A teenager in west has a better future ahead than on average compared to their counterparts in other parts of the world creating a non-linear discrepcy in social/technical skills over time.
Matplotlib is MATLAB inspired, but otherwise your point stands.
I think that as the author notes, we have gone. And I think it’s because we grew up. We don’t have the spare time like we used to, which, inevitably means we don’t access same sites, depriving them of visitors and relevant revenue.

We’ve gone.
Yeah one thing that helps a bit is that they try to encourage that you post your questions to stack overflow and they'll answer it.
I'd venture to say that most of the airline transport is goods, not people. So an unmanned plane would be OK...
> hundreds of light years

that is next to nothing, observable universe is 93 billion light-years
around 0.1 stars per cubic light-year (Google response)
universe is humongous and very very sparse, our current limit is light speed.

> advanced alien technology

that goes against my second claim, lol, they (if they exist) are capable of observing and understanding us, we can't observe them and, quite likely, we are unable to understand them.

every other civ that is as primitive as we are is bound by the same light speed constraint
More likely than what? SE comments provide at least three distinct theories. IMO this one (also provided in the comments) seems fairly conclusive https://www.remcom.com/examples/keyless-entry.html
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You can double license software and have a non-AGPL license for customers. AGPL is a must nowadays to avoid Amazon and other giant companies like it to "steal" your project and start offering the same thing initially (2-3) cheaper while you are going out of business.
We don't have to eat everything that barks.
The information technology equivalent of popping pimples.
Extending to 25 hours is a lot different than extending it forever. Using “cheap” and “easy” recording devices is frankly reckless. Look around this comment section at the ignoramuses willing to throw SD cards at commercial airliners. Everyone’s an expert.

Yes, voice recorders should last long enough to capture everything that happens on a flight. But at the same time pilots should have protections to make them feel safe from retaliation.

Aviation safety is an incredible achievement that we as technologists should learn from. It’s not fertile ground for self-proclaimed “engineers” to piss their pet theories upon.
> Do we have strong political will to create something like that here?

Gorgive my cynicism, but I wonder if there is any strong political will to do anything good and proper at all? The way I see it since the privatization/neoliberal wave politicians in most nations realized that there is more money for them in it if instead of one state owned entity you give things to 10 private ones, 8 of which you have ties to, 2 of which you will "work" at after your political career.

Sure, I could imagine a national state doing what is needed, just not under the current political climate when it comes to economics. There are still many people out there who believe these things need to be solved by guiding the invisible hand of the market, when everywhere you look it has made things shittier, except the bank account of the few lucky ones.

I am not saying people shouldn't be allowed to earn money. What I say that anything that isn't about extracting money from the system needs another form of incentive structure.
Short term perhaps, but long term having a non-indexed community is inconvenient for newcomers.
What!! You gotta be kidding me
This post also reminded me of Nielsens' Heuristics. I can still recall them by heart and never heard of Shneiderman.

I can't shake the feeling that Nielsen (& Norman) simply marketed and productized their principles way better.
Website is great if you want to publish a document. Collect information in one place. Most of the daily stuff is just human communication better served by forums, tweets, images, news, e-mails, chats, tik toks etc. These natively work better in apps or app like sites where the information comes and goes gets lost or never even gets discovered. If we worry about the information siloing up we should build communication web thats not owned by big corps. It’s like the open source side stopped building the protocol after web 1.0 was finished and left all the emergent use cases for start ups to solve.
The website doesn't seem to load for me. (Android Firefox/Chrome)
No, the bug is not in Windows. scanf can not cache string length as it can't guarantee x, and x + offset are the same thing, nor can it guarantee the string was unmodified since the last call.

Windows provides _snscanf_s if you want to keep track of the string length yourself instead of having it recompute it each time.
Even if it's cargo and unmanned, you can't let massive objects full of fuel that become uncontrollable if the engine fails fly over populated areas.
Not only has the content become fairly centralized, many of the sites that you might go to find things like...recipes, or guides, or direction on something...are absolutely littered with ads. It is no trivial task to scroll through these metaphorical garbage cans looking for that one tidbit of information that will help you, mobile especially. And to some degree, I get it. The incentives that got is to today are all pointed towards an ad based world, so part of me just laments the feeling of seeing more of these kinds of blogs.

/rant
Distance from Earth to Alpha Centauri is about 110 million times the distance to moon. And then remember inverse-square law. Which makes things quite a bit worse.
I come from a poor first gen immigrant family and got all my jobs + conventional success from referrals. I don’t even think I’m that good at networking (introvert, feel very shy in groups of strangers), but I do have strong bias for action.
We’ve gone, but replacement never came. They got stuck on twitter, discord, tiktok, twitch, snapchat.

Websites are difficult to build for the average Joe. Having a personal website doesn’t seem to be cool anymore. The number of followers on platform xyz seems to be the thing today. Lets hope the trend dies out and personal websites become cool again.
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We need to move software engineering towards another direction. Any other direction.

Of course this is satire, but it is less funny if you see implementations of patterns without reflection. Yes, I am also guilty of that and yes it often is a waste of time for everyone.
Thank you, I will take note of this for the future.
I disagree. Disabling an action that is not feasible in the current context IS helpful, but ONLY if you provide an explanation on WHY.

UIs that simply disable certain actions without telling me why always infuriate me :(
For mixed integer programming solvers, this thesis is a good reference:

https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-zib/frontdoor/deliver/index/docI...
We have no idea whether the bytes that were copied into that object are a valid representation.
I have been feeling this quite acutely for several years now, but it does seem like it’s been accelerating. In my head I’ve been blaming LLMs—appification was already driving content into silos, but the locks came out quickly this past year as the silos realized they were giving away very valuable data for free. I guess the sad part for me is that the internet mostly feels like a waste of time at this point—everything is designed and optimized to maximize “engagement” (ie monopolizing your attention) and that’s not well-aligned with being _useful_. Cookie banners, paywalls, spam—everywhere. Mobile sites are practically unusable—half page banner ad at the top, video ad auto playing underneath it, ad network drawer sliding up from the bottom, interstitial ads in the content itself, a popup over the page asking you to sign up for an account, a chat bot in the corner, and a “continue reading” fold mid page. It’s just…not fun anymore.
This stuff is just unavoidable:

"In what the researchers called an ironic finding, they also found plastic compounds in the water that matched the primary material in reverse-osmosis filters — suggesting that the plastics had leached into the water by the very process of filtration, co-author Naixin Qian of Columbia University told The Hill.

But the more dangerous particles like PVC and polystyrene seemed to have entered the plastic bottles with the “source water” that filled them, Qian said."
Not in the know, but would seem plausible that some of ships have itinerary China->Eu->Us->Eu (i.e. ship being late to EU will make it also late to US )
Because that's extra work and risk for a small return, plus local ordinances might not even allow it, or would make it difficult. Being a commercial landlord isn't that easy. And there might be "demand", but not at the prices being offered.
I think it’s literally the purpose of the thing like this.
Thanks I work in IT, I'm a dev, and based my comment on both my own and experience and the dozens of peers I know very well in many companies of the world.

And I reiterate, a large parte of our sector does very little practical work.
> Presumably bleed air from the jet engine compressor.

We don't know that and this is the very first prototype so it could absolutely evolve over time.

> Which means this design won't work for piston engine propeller drones

In its current, nascent configuration where we are prototyping a new technology using a testbed platform, maybe. Again, this is not a commercial-ready product it's a prototype.

> Which is the usual configuration for small non-stealth drones

So this prototype doesn't fit on a $10 quad copter so it's... Flawed?

> I wonder where in the copyediting process this got left out

Prototype.

> Because otherwise this design would be bonkers.

More or less bonkers than dismissing a completely novel aviation technology before it's even gotten off the ground? More or less bonkers than dismissing a completely novel technology because it doesn't work for your one specific hypothetical use case?
At it's best, software QA and related methods should be equal to airline manufacture.

Think of railway signalling systems, control-by-wire bits of modern cars, medical equipment, etc. Where the design of the software is formally proven, and the implementation verified to ensure it fits the design.
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This doesn't even work on mobile, so much for better UX
What do you expect them to do instead? Carry two bags? Keep the bottle in their hand at all times? I think both are highly inconvenient.

There are backpacks with bottle holders on the outside, but in my experience, those aren’t very good at holding a bottle.

Not bringing a bottle probably is the best option, but that may not be a good option in very hot climates.
For sure. And those kaizo block/fish snipes that barb uses so masterfully. Good stuff.
Do you compile to substrait or to SQL strings?
I understand why intelligent aliens would not want to communicate with us. If they know anything about us and how corrupt our leaders are, it would be stupid to make contact.

I'm only slightly intelligent but if I had access to all the resources I needed on my own planet, I wouldn't want talk to any of our leaders either.
Noted. Do you share your learnings/stories anywhere?
Turns out it's impossible to prove what state those water tabs were in before the device was opened by a technitian in the back room ;)
When I think about it, you never see water come in a can. I guess cause people want to see the water.
If you have enough budget, go for proprietary databases. StackOverflow runs on a single Sql Sever instance with a hot standby. The tooling is just much better and easy to use. The save on maintenance solely is worthy.

The free alternative would be Mysql/Mariadb + Galera Cluster. Not as solid as proprietary ones, but far easier to use and less buggy than Postgres + tons of tools.
As other users said, copilot learns from the rest of your files too.

Thus it works even for relatively obscure stuff like this https://github.com/ts-plus
I just don't think the idea that we don't have spare time is true. People prove that they have time to spend ample amounts of time on the big social apps. The truth is that it is much easier to check out and scroll mindlessly for an hour or two, versus finding meaningful creations on the web.
Obviously an imperfect analogy - but the article reminded me of an older acquaintance, describing how the world he lived in became so shriveled and monotonous, as he descended into alcoholism.
iPhones run iOS and, honestly, I can't stand it for a variety of reasons regardless of how nice the hardware is. Main one being that apps can only be installed from the app store. I can see myself using a jailbroken iPhone, but jailbreaks are hard to come by these days.

Vast majority doesn't know what they want. They would convince themselves that whatever is currently sold must be good. But then I know at least 10 people who truly want a small phone. I'm not the only one. There's clearly a demand for phones for people for whom their computer is still their primary device.

The world would've been a better place if every single phone manufacturer didn't copy the others. It's a vicious circle.
How does that relate to the topic?
I agree with you. But here's how it goes:

The universe is quite old. Civilizations could have arisen billions of years ago. It stands to reason that one or more of them would expand aggressively and attain a very high level of technological development, with Dyson Spheres and other artificial megastructures. This could include unnatural-looking star arrangements, technosignatures in stars, etc.

The people who make these assumptions also assume, generally, that humanity will one day attain such a state. And in the not terribly distant future, at that. (Thousands rather than millions or billions of years.)

Yet we don't see ANY evidence for any of this sort of thing. It's not that there are no civilizations at all, it's that, as far as we can tell, there are zero great star-faring civilizations -- no Rulers of the Cosmos.

So why not? They've had billions of years. And any explanation (like "they're just not interested") has to apply universally, to ALL such civilizations.

The most parsimonious explanations are:

The Zoo ("they, being unfathomably more advanced than us, don't want us to see them,")

The Great Filter ("something makes such life extraordinarily unlikely. This something -- the filter -- might be in our future.")

The notion that ALL such civilizations are too wise to expand at this stage of the evolution of the cosmos ("the vacuum is too warm and it makes life/computation less efficient, so let's hibernate a few billion/trillion years until things cool down," or "we have attained enlightenment and don't need Dyson Spheres".)

New Physics. ("We wouldn't even know them if we saw them. They might be able to convert waste heat to matter, etc.")
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"Our present technology is entirely adequate for both transmitting and receiving messages across immense interstellar distances. For example, if the 1,000-foot radio telescope at the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico were to transmit information at the rate of one it (binary digit) per second with a bandwidth of one hertz, the signal could be received by an identical radio telescope anywhere in the galaxy. By the same token, the Arecibo telescope could detect a similar signal transmitted from a distance hundreds of times greater than our estimate of 300 light-years to the nearest extraterrestrial civilization."

- Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-search-for-ex...

(Of course, one could make the counterargument that we don't have Arecibo anymore...)
Apps themselves have undergone a similar transformation. It's OK to have an app for everything but instead today we sort of have a more common format: "login and we let you download the For You page in what looks like an app".

For some reason, websites are also trying to be apps, instead of being websites and it feels like both are a side effect of of what the OP describes as the need for the few to maximise revenue on their content.
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You do see it in cartons, though. But these are also (partially) embedded with plastics so not that much better.
I believe that there are still a lot of interesting, non-commercial websites out there. I just can‘t find them anymore. SEO dominates literally every search I try. I also tried Bing, DuckDuckGo, you.com and many more - same result.
I think a search engine that excludes every website with google analytics, ad networks and amazon affiliate links would be great. Anyone know of such a thing?
Stealth and aerodynamics.

The idea isn't novel, but the degree of detail in simulations* and the onboard computational power make it possible now.

*Still, actual physical testing remains a must in aeronautics.

https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/features/is-ac...
Honestly, the quality is only lowered by this comment. You already replied to the drones thing. Writing a second, ranting, comment at the top level scaling up that comment to represent all of HN discussion of all time is just a bit silly.