skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Aviation and JavaScript" lol.

Maybe the Boeing issues are related to the use of JavaScript in Aviation?

Not really arguing about China being a manufacturing power house but I don't think that was the point that was being made. That part might be compatible with their regime (though arguably not the current regime any more). What would be the top 10 tech/science areas, other than aviation and JavaScript where China has demonstrable leadership over the west?

During Covid we saw mRNA vaccines coming quickly from the west. Including their manufacturing. Semi-conductor manufacturing technology is still led by the west (all the way up and down the stack). Tesla is manufacturing in the west fairly successfully (ofcourse with lots of Chinese parts). In the compute world I can't think of a single technology where China clearly leads. They might be manufacturing a lot of components but they're not the ones innovating/designing. Manufacturing is about cost/scale/momentum and they're still carrying a lot of the investment forward but I don't think the derivative of that is as steep as it was 5-10 years ago.
On a toll road, so there's something like a local oligarchy of food and gas at service plazas. I figure the pricing is more akin to airport pricing, but it seems like Lee Plaza manages to beat even the airport McDs…

(Unlike the freeways elsewhere in the US, where you can easily get on/off, so there's a bit more options for food and gas.)
socialize losses, privatize profits
Could someone who disagrees with this offer their counterpoint?
Primesieve: Fast Prime Number Generator
> [Airbus] was incorporated as the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) in the year 2000 through the merger of the French Aérospatiale and the German DASA, and later acquired full ownership of Airbus, a collaboration of European aerospace companies originally incorporated in 1970 to develop and produce a wide-body aircraft to compete with American-built airliners, which would later merge together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus

Europe created Airbus by merging different companies, but the US should break up its only competitor?
I've had good luck with the Mikrotik Audience, but it is not wifi 6 yet (likely coming soon).

If you're in a country that uses steel / concrete to build, unfortunately physics is not so kind towards any signal propagation through that :(
Yeah I actually tuned off noise cancellation the other day.
Yeah I'd say if Norwegian goods (ore, in this case) can freely enter the common market, then they should be bound to the same regulations as EU mining companies, or they would have an unfair advantage. We'll see how the EU reacts to the verdict.
FPV is a system for a human operator to guide it. If it doesn’t have a human operator but it does have an autonomous system to guide it to the target, that’s just a guided missile.
Nothing has ever convinced me about the potential for array languages in practice quite like watching Aaron Hsu describe how he develops his parallel APL compiler [0] using two Notepad.exe windows side-by-side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcUWTa16Jc0&t=860s

He has also written many comments (arcfide on HN) about this stuff before, e.g. discussing "semantic density" [1]

> The compiler is designed so that I can see as much as possible with as little indirection as possible, so that when I see a piece of code I not only know how it works in complete detail, but how it connects to the world around it, and every single dependency related to it in basically one single half screen full of code (usually much less than that) without any jumps, paging, scrolling or any movement. [...] The idea of semantic density is critical to this point. The semantic density of the APL code I'm using to solve the problem is at a certain rate. I maintain a consistent density rate by choosing my variable names in such a way that they visually align with the expressivity per character of the built in primitive symbols.

And

> [...] idiomatic programming methods that are so concise, they can begin to be read as we read and chunk English phrases. By doing so, it becomes actually easier to just write out most algorithms, because the normal name for such an algorithm is basically as long as the algorithm itself written out. This means that I start to learn to chunk idioms as phrases and can read code directly, without the cost of name lookup indirection. I can get away with this because I've made reusability and abstraction less important (vastly so) because I can literally see every use case of every idiom on the screen at the same time. It literally would take more time to write the reusable abstraction than it would to just replace the idiomatic code in every place.

[0] https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571159
Ive got some unfortunate news for you....
Nuclear Effects During SAC Delivery Missions (1960) [video]
Out of curiosity, why are people storing SHA512 hashes in that format? Is there a protocol or tool that requires it? I'm going out on a limb and assuming they aren't using it to check passwords.
https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list

991 times for a total of $635B
Time and again I ran into two or three examples in different docs, and search engines sending me to the nonfunctional or ambiguous ones, complaining about it and having someone send me to a whole other doc I’ve never seen that is 3 clicks away from the overview doc while the broken ones are 0-2 clicks away.

It’s all moving too fast and yet not fast enough.
And here I’ve been paying for my fries like a sucker. I’m hesitant to call this information “helpful” as it’ll increase my consumption of French fries, but I appreciate it nonetheless.
Interested people will usually land on the homepage, though.

Not on the "project management environment". what github apparently is for this project.
It was a woman actually, so 10x that.
You could use a Python distribution that includes a lot of that stuff. I think Anaconda ships with a bunch of libraries by default.
I think people are way overthinking this. Guessing at random from the solution space converges surprisingly quickly.
My rule of thumb is to avoid using a software product/service if the business model is not self-evident or vague on first impression.

Of course I have other considerations but I save myself a lot of effort in selecting software to use this way. If a product/service passes this rule of thumb then I dig deeper to see if it good to use (doesn't violate freedom or privacy, isn't manipulative etc.)
If you ever been married you'll know an aspect of this is true. You can't be fully honest and open with your partner.

A simple example demonstrates the case. It's unlikely for your partner to be your top choice. It's just a statistical given... But you can never reveal that. That's where the dishonesty and "pretend" comes in. And this is just one example of many.

There is always going to be an aspect of "pretend" in every relationship.

Sure Incels are extreme in one end of the spectrum. But the status quo is also a bit extreme in the sense that its description of relationships is a little too idealistic.
Every country wants to have power, so in the end acts in its own intrest.

We as civilians have to choose if we want to live in a democracy or serve a dictator. It's clear dictators like to invade democracies, as is the case with both Russia and China.

Economic advancement of a dictatorship is asking for problems.
This is mostly where I am. Syncthing is a great replacement for something like Dropbox for me to share things between my own computers and not have to care about file size or the like. It's not really a reasonable P2P file sharing option unless the other person already uses Syncthing for their own use case, or you can just get it set up for them and then hope it never breaks. Even then, it's only really reasonable if it's someone you plan to regularly need to send larger files to. For smaller files or one-time sends, there's better options.
There very often are easy solutions for very niche problems, simply because nobody has bothered with it before.

I don't see how a search result with 7 pages is supposed to demonstrate that this idea wouldn't work? I'm not saying whether it would be particularly helpful, but a human can review this entire list in a handful of minutes.
>Adobe Firefly is an example of an ethical

For many people Adobe Firefly is almost as ethical as Stable Diffusion or Midjourney, as the authors of the images were not let to decide.
I didn't enjoy Lynch's Dune much as a Dune adaption, but I commend them for incredible creativity in the characters, costume, and sets. Most of the cast are not what I ever imagined in the books, but that does make it interesting and the characters are convincing.
I can’t be bothered to look back up the convo tree. But I remember you saying or implying all commercial activity is unethical and refusing to discuss alternatives among other comments with similar thrust. Other people are trying to do comparative ethics and you’re not playing the same game so makes me wonder what you’re trying to accomplish with short comment bombs.

It’s like you’re walking onto a baseball field trying to play football. You should either surrender the field or undertake a much more in depth education session on the rules of the game you want to switch to. Else it’s just madness.
The Air Force was not a separate branch before the Department of Defense was formed; it was part of the Army. And the Marine Corps was (and is) governed by the Department of the Navy (which is currently a sub-department of Defense).
> creep forward into the intersection
> Use your mirrors, and use your turn signals.

I would add this: turn your head, not only your eyes, always control the blind spot by turning your head.
Agreed. I love the weirdness of the Lynch film, but it's not a great Dune adaptation. The SciFi miniseries has the lowest production quality (desert scenes shot in real deserts are a lot better looking than desert scenes shot on a very low budget soundstage), but it's the most faithful adaptation, covers the first three books, and still has its own weird Dune charm.

Villeneuve's Dune is sterile and devoid of charm or personality. I love Dune, and I was bored to tears watching that movie.
from a psychology point of view, a "warning" with scary words just adds fuel to crisis-mentality, the last thing that anyone wants in a general population. Literally, since the one-third plus one-third plus one-third equals "everyone" .. the quote instills fear. Though it may be insightful in an ugly way, repeating this kind of thing with emphasis is how to start fires IMHO
For sure!

We make software for very busy people (clinical and analytical laboratories) and two things we need to always keep in mind:

- our users are not (always) technically literate but will quickly learn very specific workflows (eg click there, then click there, then do that, done). If the workflow is always the same, eventually they won't always pay attention to what the UI says. They rely on muscle memory to get things done.

- If workflows end up being too complicated (too many clicks, or screens) we get told that it gets in the way. But because of #1 they quickly adapt.

So we need to keep a balance between too easy to make mistakes, and too complicated to make it quick.
Exploring Habit Formation: My Coding Project Turned Startup Experiment
Hello HN community!

I'm embarking on a project that's part personal challenge, part learning experiment. As someone who has taken up coding in the past couple years and curious about the startup world, I've decided to develop a mobile app focused on helping people maintain daily habits. My primary goal here is to practice and enhance my coding skills (and build something that helps reinforce my habit of coding everyday for a few hours), but as the project evolves, I'm also treating this as learning the ropes of potentially launching a startup.

This app aims to address the common struggle of sticking to good habits, something I believe many of us can relate to. I've built a couple of basic apps, but want to go back to the beginning to understand real-world needs and challenges is crucial, and I’d genuinely appreciate your insights. I've created a short survey to gather feedback on habit formation challenges and desired app features. Your input would be incredibly valuable and will directly influence the development of this project.

I'm also eager to make this a learning journey for others - I am making a career transition from a government technology sector policy role to stepping onto the field of entrepreneurship and this is my first step, so happy to share my experiences. Let me know if you're interested, I'm happy to share my progress, the hurdles I encounter, and the lessons I learn along the way.

I’m open to any advice or insights this community can offer, as I know I have a lot to learn!

Here's the link to the survey: https://forms.gle/wNAcrT9T638g8coZA

Thank you for your time and for helping a fellow learner on their coding and entrepreneurial journey!
Stellarium is also scriptable, so I was able to write a cronjob that would launch Stellaris in an invisible background window, set my latitude and longitude, set a bunch of display options, save an image of the rendered sky to a file, and then update my desktop wallpaper to that file.

But then I ended up not using it, because I use a tiling WM so I rarely see my desktop anyway lol. It's at https://github.com/Arnavion/sway-wallpaper-stellarium if anyone wants to use it.
> But why not? Why can't they fail?

Also see big banks. Some companies aren’t allowed to fail.
Just did at 40 as well.

If anything I found it a lot easier (I had taken driving lessons when I was 16 and didn’t perceive speed and danger like I do now).

I passed really easily, and have been driving about 50000 miles since (I moved from big city to the countryside which is why I needed the license).
I was JUST looking at that location because it's about the closest to me. I'm between EPA, University Ave, Menlo Park, and Stanford locations: 6.59, 6.69, 6.09. Meanwhile, Foster City is only $4.99!
Yeah, 60 was likely used because it divides by 2,3,4,5,6 and 10, 12 and 15. I imagine it makes dealing with fractions much easier.
Where is my M3 Ultra MacBook Pro? I’m okay with reduced battery if I can have 256GB of ram and the processing power.
You're right that it's not new. But now that women are getting tons of degrees for degrees sake, without even taking into account the school, it's creating pressure on men to do the same.

I have an BS in Mechanical Engineering from Berkeley, and I've had women from no name schools with a masters in marketing try to talk down my education.
You're right on. For example, the 757 and 767 share a common type rating.
Yes, I'm aware of the point of price discrimination, I was responding to "they have a "regular" price that almost no one is expected to pay"
Between this and the telnetlib removal, a significant amount of code I have written is going to need to be pinned to a specific version, or vendor in those features.

A lot of that is code to interact with weird old shit, so I guess I can’t expect upstream to maintain old shit forever.

I do wish Python came with a solid cryptography library “out of the box” instead of having to use PyCrypto/Cryptodome/Cryptography/Whatever - and I also wish the way it’s ssl sockets module worked didn’t have weird unexpected things to do with how it handles file descriptors - you can’t just dup2 a ssl wrapped socket for example, unlike a normal socket
That means remote work is not actually a problem and we can drop the RTO mandates once the economy picks up.
When I test-drove my 1980 Datsun, the owner had just been working on the brakes. As I drove with him through the neighborhood, I kept hearing a clunk. I thought it was the transmission. Then at about 40mph, the rear driver's side wheel detached and went flying past my door. The rear of the car skidded on the axle until I managed to get it to a stop.

Turns out the guy's family had come over right as he was tightening the lugnuts and he forgot to finish them. Maybe only one was properly tightened.

He'd wanted $5k for it, but I offered him $2800 as we retrieved the wheel and he accepted.
So basically you already have an arbitrary list of 1000 numbers.

That may or may not be prime? And you want to know how many are prime? (Let me know if I am wrong)

1. Pick the highest number, H in the arbitrary list of 1000 numbers.

2. Generate all prime numbers up to the highest number, H.

3. Use e., Verb also known as member of to check for prime numbers present in arbitrary list. +/(all prime numbers up to H e. arbitrary list of 1000 numbers) will give you the number of items in the arbitrary list that are prime.

> will J cleverly optimize away the i.1000 array?

The primitives & verbs in array languages are designed to be as fast and efficient as possible.

So even if your code is mediocre, it will perform better that any mediocre imperative code.
To an outsider shocked by the NYC garbage situation, that's what all of the street views look like :)
Several people here are questioning the utility and/or the comprehensibility of this. I'm no expert on array languages -- I've played with J and solved maybe a few dozen project Euler problems with it, but here's my take:

1. Array languages aren't well suited to *every* problem.
2. They *are* ridiculously capable for many types of problem.
3. The people using array languages are generally insanely smart.
4. Learning how array languages work is a steep challenge. As shown in the linked article, it's possible to write "procedural" code in an array language, and that is a Very Bad Thing. It's like using a screwdriver as a hammer.
5. In particular, understanding how tacit programming works is an awesome mind-expander
6. Likewise when you internalize verb trains
7. Likewise when you realize how array-based languages handle *any* dimension array.
8. Likewise when you comprehend how "under" works
9. Likewise when you understand how function exponents work

There are many other awesome aspects of array languages; the above are just a few.
Memchr: Optimized string search routines for Rust
Kill you with what? A butter knife? The far left has crazies. The far right has crazies with guns.
>> It's my understanding that Psilocybin and LSD do not produce hallucinations (e.g. seeing something which does not exist. I'm aware of the difficulty of qualifying the previous sentence) versus changing your perception of phenomena.

If you sit in a completely dark room on LSD, you will see something other than a completely dark room. Do those things that you see exist? Maybe there's some technical definition of hallucination that isn't being met, but turning a complete lack of visual stimulus into something sounds like a hallucination to me.

I was always aware at some level that what I was experiencing was due to the drugs I took, so maybe that has something to do with whether it was a hallucination or not?
You can find the pay by role for any of the big tech companies online -- it's all open.

Obviously the range I gave goes all the way from junior engineer to CTO, is in USD, and reflects pay at top institutions.
In short, yes. See 4(e):

> Provide Installation Information, but only if you would otherwise be required to provide such information under section 6 of the GNU GPL, and only to the extent that such information is necessary to install and execute a modified version of the Combined Work produced by recombining or relinking the Application with a modified version of the Linked Version.

And from GPLv2:

> For an executable work, complete source
code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
control compilation and installation of the executable.
I called customer service today and they told me that the location should have given me a new SIM card without hesitation. That the employee shouldn’t have broken my SIM card.

I don’t care what backwards opinion or legalese Verizon believes they have a right to break my card in half. I pay them $80/mo at some point I’ve given them enough money to where I own the card. If I cancel my plan they are not going to seek the card from me will they. So I guess I own it. I trust that an employee for your company won’t ignore my request and break physical product in front of me to force me onto a controlled plan.

I don’t like that people are adherent to a company and take their bs as “well technically they control you”. No I am going to raise my standards and get off this lock-in Iphone and get off this lock-in phone service that both want nothing more than to try and tell me how to live my life.

Thank you for the reply and hopefully I did not come off antagonistic but I do not like this “sit back and take it” attitude the world wants me to have just because they have more money than me and can abuse the placation of the general public.
The substances needed to efficiently extract the materials of interest and separate them from the remaining ore can be a toxic.
You guys don't seem to care about the extreme market differences that may prevail in a culture where nobody is even supposed to be drinking.

Certainly a binge-abuser can get a hold of alcohol on the black market at a certain price, but in general, if Islam is established somewhere such that the corner liquor stores don't carry liquor at all, how many people will be alcoholics on the D.L. anyway?

If alcohol can't be had on the market under normal circumstances, is it not reasonable and rational to presume that most subjects would not be clandestine binge-alcoholics who hide it so well that weekly testing won't catch it? I mean, really.
Nobody is even around in Nov/Dec to approve any sales. Sales don't pick up until mid Jan.
They might just be doing it to be competitive.
The person you quote was mistaken; I cited nameplate capacity, not production output, for both hydro and wind. (My wording could have been clearer.) Furthermore, capacity factors are almost identical: US wind production in 2022 was 35.9% of capacity, while the corresponding figure for hydro was 36.3%.
Those practices are what make those open source projects possible.

No money, no open source projects.
Interesting. I have a high resting heart rate and I vape, maybe it’s time to switch to lozenges and patches. Thanks for the info!
I would think anyone trying to put an OTEL source on an embedded device (IoT) was out of his goddamned mind. OTEL assumes data sources have ample hardware and particularly memory. It periodically summarizes all traffic since startup instead of streaming things as they happen.
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> Crypt is particularly painful, since removing it will effectively cryptoshred user password databases.

What do you mean by that? Anyone interacting with passwords on Linux, macOS, etc. has needed to use PAM anyway for decades. If you are building some kind of network app and just tossing passwords through crypt() you are going to have a much worse time on a security audit than you will installing a single python module.
Taiwan election: Vice President Lai wins vote, defying China
Loop Fission and Fusion
But it's all part of the cost of delivery. I'm not sure anyone who points out that "delivering things costs lots of money" is missing your point. You're merely assuming that the prices you see broken down the way they break them down is actually an honest accounting.
Is there good evidence behind this view? I don’t mean to be rude, but I’ve only seen it from reactionary commentators and right-leaning news outlets.
Not use anything created by Facebook money, would be a first step, for those that hate them.
> some ancient peoples counted on their knuckles, using their thumb to point to each one.

I don’t know how “ancient” you’re talking about: my mother (b. 1937) used such a system and taught it to us as kids. FWIW she grew up in south east Asia.