skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The aerodynamic benefit of flying in ground effect is fairly small

It's small compared to regular flight, but it's far more efficient than a regular boat hull pushing the water. A lot of that efficiency is achieved in hydrofoil mode, but lifting into ground effect mode should be even more efficient than hydrofoil (albeit as you say at some loss of stability).

There are already several electric hydrofoil pleasure boats available that have remarkable range, i.e. Navier and Candela.
So she needed someone to change a light fixture. QED.

That being said, this probably borderline falls into what I mentioned. Not uncommon for people to manage themselves as it's just a light screwdriver job. But that's very different from the point, which is opening devices and appliances...
Do you have a cite for this? Not because I don't believe you, I just think this is super interesting and would like to learn more, especially if there are illustrations etc of what it would've been like?

Not a history buff, wouldn't know where to start looking...
I've been looking for a good and ideally very simple place to host an Uptime Kuma container with persistent storage. Any suggestions?
PC gaming had tons of shovelware since the beginning and even got both good propietary and libre software games with great quality.

So did the Game Boy, which the NIntendo seal of quality was almost given for free because lots of games were junk even under the GBC era.
Still, doing a lot of things is not an excuse for the individual components to be bigger. Not unless you can justify it with interaction between components, stuff like TCP and UDP being aware of what goes on in the IP stack below and having to special case v4 and v6 (made up example, I don’t know if that’s true).

And now I’m wondering how much it would take to implement a full network stack with a nice C API.
The way the BEAM scheduler works you get max runtime per process before it switches over to another, which lets you run potentially millions of concurrent processes without having to worry about 1 taking it over because it was heavier. Your big stuff takes longer, but your response times across the board will remain very consistent.

If you wanted to make it truly fair you could spin up a GenServer per tenant and you would have a max concurrency per tenant of 1, but still all executing equally in parallel without 1 tenant stealing CPU time from the others. Contention is a non-issue. Fairness is built in.

You get the fault tolerance, isolation and observability as a by product too.

That's just my first reaction on reading it.
My take is that we need a straightforward application of anti-trust principles to stop this bundling of hardware products with cloud hosting with user-facing control software. All three of those things should be required to be three separate products, only communicating over generic protocols. Then if companies offer the cloud hosting for free or even too low cost and then decide it's untenable (or go out of business, or stop maintaining their app, etc), users can switch elsewhere and all the previously manufactured, bought, and installed devices don't turn into trash overnight.
This comment was interesting until it's weirdly specific anti-executive rant at the end. Is there a specific executive you'd like to name? Do non-executives care more or do they also have full bellies?
Fairlife is the major brand at grocery stores and convenience stores; but there are now store brands as well.
I also have a Jarvis. The largest model (180x80cm), I don't even think they make them this large anymore.

No wobbliness. My monitor is on an adjustable arm, so if I forcibly jolt the desk I can see the monitor wobbling a little but otherwise it's just fine.
I think a good example of this is the Django Software Foundation. They have a Django Fellow they employ who is responsible for helping guide the community and take care of the bug tracker and other tasks. They maintain a list of begginer friendly tasks. Release notes specifically call out first time contributors and credit them, no matter how small the first contribution may be. These callouts serve as both a thank you/welcome, and a message to the community reminding them that contributions are welcome. Every project is unique,.sounds like you guys are making a serious effort- keep up the good work!
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> There's a few people choosing to be obtuse in the comments ("the only person 'allowed' to cover for you is another union member": correct, because otherwise it's an ersatz way to break a union)

I will take a bite.

How is it being obtuse? Sure, you can call it as a way to break union. That doesn’t change the fact that this sounds like a ridiculous and inefficient setup, because it is.

If your defense for a silly workplace setup is “that silly setup is to avoid union-breaking, because if we didn’t have that silly setup, that would be union-breaking”, it isn’t as strong of a defense as you think.

If anything, it is pretty much the perfect ammo for anti-union sentiments. Because you are essentially saying that those inefficiencies and silly setups are required for unionized workplaces (similar to the one in the OP, not talking about film or athlete or police unions) to continue existing.
> I guess the real mystery is why so many tech types speak like a infant having a tantrum, about some esoteric trivia, and then have hordes of their kind come and vigorously head-knod it, and all involved think virtue is being done.

Ha, great line. And you caught me mid-tantrum and mid-head nod. :)
We can't share anything about future product plans, but in general, as few as possible. We want to avoid splitting out into too many different ecosystems of parts, and instead maximize the size of the install base within a cross-compatible ecosystem.
MIT allows that. LGPL would in theory but you would need to release the potential changes you did to the game engine. GPL woudn't in any way.
> Wasm doesn't make any memory safety guarantees about the usage of memory within the Wasm runtime

fyi, that was true for Wasm 1.0, but WasmGC defines managed memory structures (structs with typed fields, arrays with bounds checking, isorecursive subtyping, immutability, etc.) which provide fully verified memory safety.
Are there any plans to offer larger batteries and/or improve battery efficiency? From what I've read battery life is still an issue many seem to be having.

With the greatest respect it's 2024, a laptop should be capable of 8 hours at the very minimum for a mid range model but I'm seeing a lot of people getting sub 2 hours.

The 16 ticks all the boxes for me but I've held off for now as having the possibility of worse battery life than my old 2015 mac isn't as you can imagine making for a compelling upgrade.
I really wish an approach like clojure's with core.logic was more common. It's been fairly often in my career that I run across small semi-contained problems within a larger codebase that would be very well suited to prolog, but nowhere near worth using a separate language and toolchain for.

Having that in the standard library of more languages would be so useful. I know minikanren exists, but the page kind of touches on this: it has usually been implemented as an exercise. Minikanren libs in languages where I've wanted them have been incompletely documented, and lacking some of the practical additions.
What is your favorite and why? Also, could you provide suggestions from someone not mentioned in the list and explain the reasons behind the recommendations?
Thank you!
As with most things in vim, it is definitely manageable in settings such as tw=2 (tab width) and sts=2 (soft tab stop). This is why a lot of older Python files, in particular, are littered with vim modelines with settings like these.

The nice modern twist is .editorconfig files and the plugins that support them including for vim. You can use those to set such standard language-specific config concerns in a general way for an entire "workspace" for every editor that supports or has a plugin that supports .editorconfig.
If need anything more complicated than simple $var substitution, it's time to use a general purpose scripting language with appropriate libraries to generate your data structure. A half-baked template DSL will never work.
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One area of frustration I've had when trying to get minikanren to actually "do" stuff is that the interleaving search, while "complete" is extremely sensitive to the specific way one declares relations. The order in which one introduces variables and relations between them can meaningfully change how long it must search before it finds a first returned value. While I understand the complaint by Byrd and colleagues that in Prolog, you end up writing to the implementation specifics of the search procedure (in a way which isn't 'logical'), I think you effectively still do this in minikanren, but the tools you have to do it are less explicit.
A perspective on the definition of consciousness. Sorry I didn’t respond in line to the comments I am actually addressing. I thought it overall relevant.

By all this I am saying consciousness is our echo chamber, something grounded in the quantum cloister of objective reality, not directly related to intelligence.
Not sure why the Boeing 929 was a failure in so many places, but you can still ride them in Japan and Hong Kong. The experience is fun --they are fast, security is light and the vessels are retro-futuristic. I rode one from Tokyo to Izu-Oshima and it was 1:45 vs 6:00 for the normal ferry.
How long does your battery last?
But in biology, any single feature is just a random mutation + not enough evolutionary pressure to weed it out. ('Crucial to survival' is a stretch.)

How can the evolutionary explanation be overused? It literally applies in case of and explains any single feature, no?
Reduced protocol overhead allowing for greater throughput. It is native PCIe.
In my country, carriers are allowed to cancel your SIM card if you don't use it for a couple of months, then give the number to some other, new customer.

It's a nightmare since you can lose your accounts and even the debit card is tied to a phone number to make online payments.

I wanted to swap providers but I had to keep the old SIM active in a phasing-out stage...
People seem to forget that when you vote for a party, you are not just voting for their one, potentially-sensible position on an issue--you're voting for the entire basket of "other stuff" that comes with that party. And chances are, once elected, they'd rather work on that other stuff than the issue you care about.
Normally I would agree if an engineer directly knew what they were doing was bad and didn't say no but in the case of MCAS: pilots had no idea it was there. Yes, it also wasn't properly redundant and that is bad but had the pilots known it had existed in the first place and understood it was operating off a single data source they would have acted accordingly and a lot of people would still be alive. Door plug I can't speak to.

Hiding MCAS to avoid recertification was well above the paygrade of an engineer at a bench poking a circuit.

Also, if you want a short version of how this stuff goes very wrong even when engineers do say something, the challenger disaster[1] movie is great. Chase it with the NASA documents[2] for the long version.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvv2-7iOD_8

[2]: https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/genindex.htm

Edit: typo
> Apple doesn't have a monopoly on software distribution.

This is just literally wrong, by-definition.

You can claim that Apple's monopoly isn't illegal or harmful, but the monopoly itself is self-evident. You cannot distribute software without Apple; their system is designed with monopolistic capability.

> The only people who would benefit from forcing Apple to allow alternative stores are the unscrupulous middlemen who would run them.

Source? You're inventing hypothetical claims to support your rhetoric.
It sounds like this is the origin story of Python. Whoever worked with this person made it their life’s mission to enforce proper indentation.
My M2 air will outlast the workday. Obscene battery life. I can’t imagine using a Linux notebook after this level of performance.
There's an "awesome status pages" list GitHub repo that lists a bunch of these. One thing I was wondering if anyone has a manual one? I could use one of these but I don't want any automation. Just a manual status page updater. Could even be a static site generator with helper scripts.
Sure, but rich people love to gamble. Rich Romans even more so. And we all know how much rich people love blowing their money on meaningless status symbols. This is honestly the highest probability IMO.
I'm pretty sure most of the "spaces" people have their editor set up to convert the 'tab' key into multiple spaces.

Now excuse me while I duck under this table.
> nuclear will be utterly unsuitable for the wildly unsteady residual demand.

What’s the planned energy source that will be handling that unsteady residual demand? Sounds like in most cases that would mean there’s a blackout or fossil fuels no?

Also I think it’s telling that China, the center of PV and battery manufacturing is investing heavily in nuclear tech. The costs of nuclear are disproportionately high vs where they should be and they’ve already started building meltdown-proof gen iv reactors while we’re docking around with smr.
I understand that a given domain's nuances are often lost to those with no domain knowledge, yes.
> Woke is way beyond equality to the point that it brings anti-equality policies.

How? Give an example.

> Wanting to control your borders and reduce migration is not a „privilege“. Nor it has anything to do with racism.

You can support reducing migration. That's nothing to do with being against woke or the point above.
Scrolled through this longplay and the closest one I could find was Golem, which bears some similarity to James Turner's design for Golurk from Gen V, I suppose (in that they are both stone bipeds). Is that what you're referring to? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmzHrNVelL0
I have not used a Windows laptop outside of Razer and maybe Surface in many years.

How do those Thinkpad keyboards compare to new Macbook Pro keyboards?

I've always found the Macbook Pro keyboards to be "fine," but I'm curious if I am actually missing out on a better experience.
I believe you're right, but the first part didn't work. The Switch eShop has an incredible amount of shovelware.
> it *only* involves falsifiable theories and attempts to falsify them.

Your view is needlessly narrow. Coming up with new theories, collecting new data, verifying how theories fit that data is also part of the process even if it doesn't falsify them. To quote wikipedia it's on going process:

"The process in the scientific method involves making conjectures (hypothetical explanations), deriving predictions from the hypotheses as logical consequences, and then carrying out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions."
If mobile internet carriers get a specific IPv6 address slice and do what they already do with phone numbers, you could have a mobile non-changing IPv6 routed roughly efficiently, that globally.

Actually, this should be a base service of mobile internet. The various carrier peerings will define how "efficiently" your traffic is routed (realtime audio/video...).

The blocker is the billing scheme I guess (as usual...).
In the beginning, was the word.
Yeah that “law” makes absolutely zero sense to me. It’s like “be nice” but in a self-sacrificial way which then indirectly sacrifices other people in the long run.
I would really like to switch from my M1 MacBook to a Framework Laptop, but the battery life difference being almost an order of magnitude makes it a complete non-starter. I like Framework, but this needs to be at the absolute top of their priority list to the exclusion of almost everything else.
As a user of the PPA packages (https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa), now I'm confused. Are these the same packages? Should I switch? I'd have appreciated at least a mention in the article.
> sendenv also writes to "~/.bash_profile", "~/.zshrc"

Is there at least a prompt? I dislike and distrust tools which write to those files on their own. My shell’s startup files are organised how I want, with different sections depending on what’s relevant. It’s the entry point to every terminal session so I know what every line does. I don’t appreciate when a tool decides it’s OK to latch itself to every terminal session in a disorganised manner without permission, especially since those additions are seldom removed when the tool is uninstalled.
Nintendo doesn't owe you a cheap way to deploy your custom binaries to devices.

Buy a Steam Deck if you want that. Build it for Web GL or Android. Plenty of options exist.

I'm not sure what OP actually wants here. Even if you can get your game running on your own Switch, it's not easy to get it up on the store.
He was also fired for violating several sexual harassment and other policies and has fled to Europe for employment.

https://www.science.org/content/article/despite-sexual-haras...
This would be very divergent from Apple's past practice. Assuming its a bug at this point in the authorization steps.
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Note that if you want a Framework laptop and order it today, it won't ship to you until between early April or late June.

If you need a laptop now, you are better off getting a higher-end business-class laptop from Dell or Lenovo. (And probably a lot better price too.)
In context of RAG, the goal is not to have a pure vector DB but to have all the relevant data that we can gather for a user's prompt. This is where Cognitive Search and other existing DBs shine because they offer a combination of search strategies. Hybrid search on Cognitive Search performs both full text and vector queries in parallel and merges results which I find a better approach. Further, MS is rebranding Cognitive Search as Azure AI Search to bring it more in line with the overall Azure AI stack including Azure OpenAI.
Developers can be very adept at making money for themselves even as the project tanks. Not saying that’s what will happen here (I lack data) but it happens often.
Check out the work of Ilya Prigogine - he won a Nobel prize in the 70's for his work on self-organizing complexity. There is a selection force in the universe for increasing complexity, being driven by the dissipation of energy. When you have systems in non-equilibrium, there is a strong pressure to explore the possibility space to find ever more efficient ways to dissipate energy.

A bacteria the size of a grain of sand dissipates much, much more energy than the grain of sand, and so there is a very strong "preference" for bacteria in this regard.
you can sign w ssh key w 2 git configs set. im not sure this qualifies as pain
This is good since their adoption rates are low compared to other nearby countries (France, Germany, Austria).

Oh, for all of those that keep saying it will take forever for the USA to switch to IPv6 follow the link with your cell phone.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...
I have never heard of it either. Looks like a news aggregator. At first glance, even though I like aggregators, I think I prefer the HN style aggregators that prioritize discussion.
For reference, here is Notebookcheck's review stating 9 hours of real world battery life in web browsing (though on Windows): https://www.notebookcheck.net/Radeon-RX-7700S-performance-de...

For Linux, when following our installation guides for power optimization, power consumption with integrated graphics should be similar.

Edit: Tom's Hardware similarly reports 9 hours on Windows (with Graphics Module installed): https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/framework-laptop-16-rev....
I'm surprised to be reading that, honestly. I have a first batch framework 13 without any upgrades and I spent the summer working with it outside. Nothing super crazy, 4-6 hour stretches in the park, but I never remember cutting it close with the battery. As long as we're sharing anecdotes, I'm happy with the battery life FWIW...

Edit: I'm running linux. I don't recall doing any battery optimization but maybe I installed or configured something a few years ago? I don't change things often.

Another edit: I just checked and I do have TLP installed!
I really appreciate everything in the "Unsolicited Advice" in the AI Battlefield section [1]. It's a very realistic take on the frenetic pace of everything and the emotional tax that comes with feeling like one is always drowning in the relentlessly rapid advance of AI development.

Thanks!

[1] https://github.com/stas00/ml-engineering/blob/master/insight...
I think Next.js with Node.js for backend will be the go to stack for 2024 in Web Development.
thanks for posting the archived link.
> Should it not be okay for a business to ask any of its employees to perform a reasonable and safe task for which they’ve been trained?

Apparently, according to one of the replies in this thread, it is “self-peasantisation”. They would rather prohibit people that are already employed by the business and trained to do those tasks from doing those tasks, because they are not in a union, so the business could hire union people instead to do those tasks.
one of several examples, yeah. off the top of my head i can think of dracky, chewlip, cobra kaiser, and bubble slime, but there are lots of others.
> The clearly over complicated door plug system was designed by engineers.

It may be a little early for armchair engineering; we should probably wait for a failure analysis report. But the door plug doesn't seem overly complicated. Put the plug in, bolt it on, tada. Where's the complication? The bolts are supposed to have safety wire to keep them from loosening by vibration.
What's somewhat comical is that the federal government has a PKI system (common access cards [1]) that Login.gov supports, but SEC folks couldn't manage a Yubikey or similar secure hardware authenticator for their Twitter/X account.

[1] https://www.cac.mil/common-access-card/
> the fact remains there hasn't been a single commercial aviation fatality in the US since 2009

SWA1380 was in 2018 and resulted in a passenger fatality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380

> where they literally shoot frozen turkeys from cannons into engines to test for bird strike resilience

The bird strike testing uses thawed birds. There's a joke where the punchline is they were using frozen birds.
> ...modded X201 with updated ... motherboard...

How far are you getting with these updates? I agree the keyboards of old are legendary, but at some point your productivity is negatively affected by legacy CPUs and related.
Agree but then the same argument applies to RDBMSs and multiple vendors seem to be doing OK in that space.
I think it ultimately comes down to "stuff" (sales journey, price, support etc.) other than the technology itself. I am sure any RDBMS can meet most of the requirements of any given customers (in most cases) but we still see customers buying across vendors.
No, modeling cosmic dust backwards in time is just rolling back the expansion parameters that are well accepted and based on observation.