skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the obvious answer is to consider that the ones financing this are already billionaires so all they really need to do is to spend some of that coin on a ballistic glass exterior skin that would function as a prophylactic, protecting the tower from anything swirling around in the Oklahoma City sky. The damage to the high-rise towers in the Fort Worth tornado was largely due to glass shattering causing the interiors to be open to the winds. This one practical step could be at least 87% effective against intrusion of debris from outside the protective skin and maybe up to 98% effective against dispersal of contents inside the ballistic glass prophylactic skin. That will solve the problem of lost documents, furnishings, etc that existed after the Bank One Tower in Fort Worth was hit by a tornado.

They could even, for the science, use the central spire as a high altitude mount point for a radome so that they can issue weather forecasts and alerts well before the storms arrive. A nice, round white sphere on top of that spike would really dress it up in a way that is immediately useful to people all over the region.

To take that a step further they can even use the central spire as a sensor launch point so that they can refine existing severe weather models. All they need to do is to use the central spire as a sort of skewer, grease it up with a durable, environmentally friendly lubricant, and set up a string of rounded sensor packages, like a string of pearls, that are lightly tethered so that when the inevitable tornadic winds pass nearby the updraft pulls those sensors off in a steady stream and carries them on the wind across the landscape. The tether should be light enough that the turbulent flow of the winds severs the tethers allowing them to maximize their dispersal.

To aid in recovery of the data just color those sensor packages pearlescent white with a distinctive logo and make them large enough to be easily spotted once they come to rest on the ground and offer a reward to any Okie or anyone else downwind who returns one or reports finding one and you can get some useful science data about debris transport under severe weather conditions. You could even model the central opening to function as a whistle as they disperse so that they can be tracked as they travel on the winds. Years ago when the tornado hit Wichita Falls there was a guitar shop that had a large guitar on a pole outside. That guitar was found hundreds of miles away in Broken Bow, Oklahoma I think.

As a Texan I think we should all support this, for the science.
Boeings military buisness is in for a nosedive to. It's in parts "allies" buying equipment as part of the package and another isolationist trumpel period will end that. Then there is the military, financed by lending and spending. And it doesn't lend from the American people, it lends from the we which does its trade in dollar and which will vote with its feet if the trade route protection falters and fails.
I wonder if anyone is AI for stuff like this? You could fairly easily train a model to look through a huge number of historical resources for potential visual matches to review.
Vector Databases: Databases for the AI Era
It would be interesting to know how quickly an unprotected computer would succumb to a virus these days. The only sources I found are quite old - from 2005[0] (20 minutes) and 2007[1] (8 seconds!).

[0]https://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/computer-security/

[1]https://www.informationweek.com/cyber-resilience/how-long-do...
The vast majority of AI development right now fits the solution looking for a problem mold. People are pushing hard for the adoption of LLMs in areas where the existing solutions are not only more predictable, but require equivalent or less effort to using an LLM.

At some point the hype will die down and we'll find out where these tools actually fit, but yeah right now it's madness.
In adversarial environments, this is true. In non-adversarial environments, software of a certain defined scope can at least get very close to perfection.
Whoever injures - or knock on wood kills - somebody with a truck with such a high hood should serve a mandatory prison sentence.
Buy on speculation, sell on news. Welcome to the real world, BTC.
It is a neat "it can do that" kinda thing but I also wondered when I need that.

Having said that chrome customization has always kinda bit me in the butt eventually when something changes and looks odd now and ... I just tend to avoid it altogether now.
I find it the exact opposite. Writing is joyful to me, whether I'm writing a short one-paragraph comment on HN or writing a thousand-word essay. I do not like the current crop of "Help me write" features because they take away the joy.
The Internet 3 years ago? Was that Internet that great?
Here are some better ideas from the top of my head:

- summarise an article

- find information on a given topic (free-form input text)

- full voice control ("click that link", "read that article",
"find this")

- auto-submit a captcha
Well, what are you implying in your post then?
Seriously, I was so confused by this title. Batteries are necessary for basic function of a battery-powered device, they're not bells and whistles.
Asynchronous editing on a centralized platform only infrequently causes actual conflicts in practice, like multiple users editing the same sentence at the same time. Either the editing is actually sequential in time, or independent parts of the document are being edited. With asynchronous decentralized/offline editing, conflicts become more likely.
Mine also has cameras and radars on the sides. Makes parking easier and backing out safer. The radars can see speeding cars in the parking lot before I can. :)
Vans are not better for goods as a universal rule, they are better for certain classes of goods. I do not want a yard of manure/dirt/gravel dumped in my van, but thats a common use of a pickup in my neck of the woods. Like extremely common.

> Hong Kong

Hot take: The Americas just aren't developed to the level of Eurasia, and we should stop pretending like they are.
The Arc browser I use has that feature on hover.
So, then, why buy Gold?
Interesting that the CFO and CTO also got the boot, but the positions weren’t eliminated. Is this a power grab? Or am I misreading?
I don't see a problem waiting for alpha- and beta-testing to finish first before the new code is distributed to actual normal users.

Note, the "normal users" you describe are involuntary testers who got forced into the role because keeping testers on the payroll is so last century.
How are you supposed to extract value from and control the user??
Thanks. That doesn't work for me (for some reason _nothing_ is reported even though I know there's dead code) but it at least gives me a lead.
One of those things is not like the others, and is actually very much different, so much that I have to wonder if it's not some kind of cheap knock-off that isn't actually fit for purpose, whatever the purpose was.
This is obviously not how things generally work in the real world. Prices for personal computers have been deflating for years. The computing power in a $1000 laptop today would have probably cost at least $3000 a decade ago. And yet customers keep buying them instead of putting off spending because they want to have stuff today.
Recommend reading along with order out of chaos and anything from Prigogine in the 80s (not his last book).
(2021) - this is part of a broader attempt at arbitrage in horse racing by front-running broadcast delays to give an edge on "in-play" (real time) betting. Drones are cheaper and more efficient than sending staff to sit trackside at every event ("court siding") and don't come with as much risk of getting banned from the event.
I hope the Arc Browser team makes their Chromium based project as cross-platform as Chromium itself.
Boeing's management and engineering problems, and the oversight issues in the US with their "cozy" FAA relationship, have been reported on for years now. It's not sabotage. They just fucked up, repeatedly, and have been negligent in their quality control and engineering responsibilities.

That they're getting so much bad press now is not surprising given the spectacular failure with the door plug flying off on a 3-month in service aircraft.
Scaling up would be hard. I think the E2 is a 4 seat across aircraft. It's maximum capacity configuration is already quite long (42m) with ~120-150 seats. A320 is like 38m long with ~200 seats (6 seat across).

Scaling into the A320/737 range would need a brand new design with wider fuselage probably. I'm not saying that Embraer could not do that, but sticking with the E2/A220 size range seems to be a winning combo - until recently (A220), they had no real competition from the big two. Maybe with the more recent weakness from Boeing, Embraer might want to consider a 737/A320 class design, but these things take time.

Also, as much as BRICs is a thing, I don't think Brazil would be too fond of selling Embraer to China.
Exactly. The whole idea that end users are responsible for their stolen "identity" is absurd.

It was a successful tactic used by banks and credit bureaus to shed their responsibility of proper verification when opening lines of credit or other accounts.
This can be done through a shared database file that syncs however you want- e.g. stored in a shared cloud, etc. The app itself then needs to have very robust conflict resolution code, but it can be done. I think some of the more security focused open source password manager apps already use an approach like this.
What if the schema / view has breaking changes ?
Gmail already has content-based autocomplete. The feature is called Smart Compose: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9116836?hl=en

I also find the UX much better than typical LLMs that require you to write a prompt first; it simply suggests continuations of your sentences that you can accept or ignore, without requiring you to switch your mind between writing for your intended email recipient and writing a prompt for the LLM.
Brother. Laser. Dumb and reliable. HP is the Ubisoft of printers… blargh
I think I am being fair. The numbers $500k/$500k were picked arbitrarily to demonstrate how it would kill a business. If you were at $500k/$400k you would be similarly dead. "back then", $500k/$500k was enough to stay afloat. Now you "just" need to be at $500k/$600k, that's all. ie, your revenue needs to be somewhat higher (20% I guess? too lazy to math it) to pay the taxes. Assuming the business stays afloat, you'll eventually break even on the taxes, it's not forever lost like paying AMT for stock options that never become liquid, or RSUs that go well underwater before a lockup expires.

It does suck that a quirk in accounting means you were profitable on the books, no question there. But it "just" means you can't run so close to the bone. I don't think it's the world ender everyone is making it out to be. It means you need more operating capital up front.
I like that they shared publicly the severance package (I missed that in a company before, the severance package was only available to the ones laid off, and you wouldn't even know if you got the same as your colleagues).

And the package itself seems alright too (and sensible, for example: the laid off can keep their laptops. What would company do with almost 300 extra laptops?). Time of the lay off also not too bad (firing people in November/December is really uncool).

All in all, not TOO bad from what I can see in the public post.

Oh, and they also said how many people first, not how many percent, which suggest they think about their human resources as actual individuals.
RHEL and many other companies offer that. It's called long term support, extended long term support and so on. And costs a fortune. Most people wouldn't want to buy it.
A programming language, pdf was published in 2005.
> You did! You brought up the thing you're disparaging discussing!

You really took it that way? I thought it was sufficiently absurd. Apparently not to you and the people in those links.
You just need a car radiator and engine.
Always wondered why Gambas never made it big. Seemed like it should have been a hit with the educational market.
If it is a solo user, latest data would be enough to sync. Asuming the blog post tackles personal need app, single user.
iCloud already supports this, and from what I gather it works decently well:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidocumentst...

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2336...

Essentially there's an OS mechanism for getting the different versions of the file, your app can detect conflicts and choose how to resolve them, including by displaying arbitrary UI to the user. IIRC This UI can even be integrated with the file open dialog. As a last resort fallback if the app doesn't resolve it Finder/Files will let you keep either version or both (as separate files)
Sounds to me like a configuration-driven interface with the password manager is the appropriate solution here, then. I used this pattern to write config files out of secrets stored in SSM, which previously was ad-hoc secret sharing. FWIW I would never use Sendenv.
If you’re short, you prefer a vehicle which elevates your view.
This goes together with the solution to "a way to export/import the database".

Export/import is a usability dead end. What we need is syncing. There should be a serverless way to sync data. On a LAN there are several ways to do it: databases, files. With possibly untrusted devices (phones) on different networks (PC on home LAN, phone on the operator network) the solution is... I don't know.
it's because they are mothers with >2 children. You cannot fit three car seats in the backseat of modern sedans, and station wagons don't meet the emissions requirements.

Large SUVs meet CAFE regulations by being large enough to be regulated as a different class of vehicle. Want smaller trucks? Complain to your Congresscritter to reign in the EPA and force them to write better regulation that does not have these unintended effects.
The paragraph titled "Tests" addresses this.

TL;DR: if your project is a library and an exported function looks like dead code, that means it isn't covered by any tests, and you should probably fix that.
Came here to say the same thing. The lack of plain English is funny if it wasn't such a sad situation. I also know it's nothing new or unique.
Yes, I've seen those though unfortunately I'm not a hardware engineer and would have a hard time reproducing them. Even if I could figure out how to get a PCB made from a KiCAD file I wouldn't be able to do the surface-mount soldering without botching everything.

I'd love to be able to just pay for them and buy them and then get rolling with software :)
But are these planes built to very rigorous aerospace engineering standards??
I don't want any AI features in anything. Yet another reason to avoid Chrome. I have Chrome installed solely to watch netflix on Linux.
Do you mean “Forth” perhaps?
Here's an interesting house:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/336-N-Bridge-St-Gettysbur...
Not to mention what if I spill my coffee all over my laptop or otherwise lose access
Huh? Its a warning, not an error.

https://go.dev/play/p/8GazBQv5xAb
EV charging startup Electra secures $330M
Previously:

Brex, valued at $12.3B earlier this year, lays off 11% of staff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33167302 (October 11, 2022 — 14 points, 1 comments)
Side projects or working on other people's side projects. The most important things is to connect with the community and learn the technical language to speak with them. This is a relatively small community and you need bunch of different stuff to get started, some ML, coding for sure, some knowledge about how modern accelerators work, some skills to read and understand papers in this direction.
Open Source Paper Airplane Designs
I was already using the ~mozillateam PPA, because fuck Snap, but it'll be great to have an offical Firefox repository.

Ubuntu, if you're listening: fuck Snap. I'm never going to use it. I stripped from all my Ubuntu machines. If you try and force it upon me, I'm moving to Debian, no matter how much hurt that causes me.
Love the textarea integration. I wish Chrome could do a better job of saving "drafts" and/or backing up text somehow. Adding long content is a constant worry for me to lose it somehow to an error or accidentally closed tab.
Very patiently, and to be honest, I think it’s kind of a gamble. I shoot my CV and the kinds of jobs I’m looking for to recruiter agencies and let them sort it out.

Some call me a year later with a job opening and I take those as just an opportunity to de-rust my interviewing skills, and maybe a bit of catharsis, no expectation of moving forward. On the more selfish side, I just enjoy the chat, recruiters are pretty and they make introspective questions I don’t get to answer often.

Some offers move forward, some don’t, I got my last 2 jobs that way (8 years). Not a programmer btw, I’m in IT.
There's an agglomeration area around Berlin(-Brandenburg) which is similar to a sibling commenter's "DC area" example (of course smaller). The Gigafactory is just outside this imaginary dotted line; Nennhausen is way over to the West.
All true.

_everybody_ drives huge SUVs. A few rugged men(TM) driving a large truck isn't the problem, they're couleur locale. It'd be adorable, like people wearing cowboy hats in Texas.

The web of interwoven incentive structures - reptile brains, cafe standards, cheap gas, safety arms race, ... - pushing _everybody_ towards larger vehicles is the problem. System and id are completely misaligned, killing thousands in the process.
We would probably live in a better world, if it did.
Company was burning $17m per month with less than $300m in revenue... while growing at a slower rate than ramp.com . simply unsustainable.
Same here,

Every single product or service I pay for, needs to work on Linux and on Android.

Like Spotify. I love that the music plays on Linux with the big speakers, but I am choosing the songs on the Android pocket device.
The project name is a bad start. Visual Basic made very clear what it was about. Gambas? sounds weird.
the current pavement princess trends have left me doubting that any more regulation of any kind will happen in the US.
Huh. I just migrated off of the Flatpak to the .tar.bz2 version because I ran into the fact that the Flatpak version has no functioning mDNS resolution. The impact of that is all the stuff that expects .local to work.. doesn't. Can ping etc from shell, but Firefox just goes "Nope, no idea, doesn't exist, give up now". Lots of discussion on multi-year old bugs, but no fix that I could find. I generally solved it by doing everything on .home.arpa (and run step-ca to have TLS), but there are some things that just default to mDNS announcements and produce URLs referring to .local.
1. This is misleading because the number of people flying on airplane is significantly lower than those who have a chance for heart disease because they have a heartbeat.

2. Not flying on Boeing aircraft is much, much easier to do than avoiding heart disease.
A similar game is The Expression Amrilato, a love story where you gradually learn the language Esperanto. After beating the game, you've learned a real language, and can now speak with people from around the world. You also learn, however, an idiosyncratic writing system which is only useful within the game.
https://github.com/nickelpack/nck

I wanted to use Nickel, but it turns out that it can't do everything you'd need it to do to completely replace NixLang. So right now I'm bikeshedding on what to use instead (and desperately trying not to invent something), in other words it's definitely being renamed. Either way there's a bash script in the `test` dir that shows the general concept.
> I almost hate to say it because it's antithetical to the Internet and Hacker News ethos, but it's a testament to how well networked applications could work with a central authority and no anonymity. You don't need passwords. Accounts are provisioned automatically. SSO is global to the entire network. You only need one identity. But no, your office can't have Alexa.

I don't think it's necessarily a dealbreaker if you consider this: from a purely technical standpoint, there's nothing really stopping anyone from setting up a certificate authority- the only issue is getting service providers to trust it enough to accept those client certs as sufficient identification. I could easily imagine a world where I receive an "official" client cert from a government (which I can use to thoroughly prove my identity if needed) as well as several "pseudonymous" certs from various other CAs that I may use from time to time.

The main difference between CAs would be the kind of attestations they provide for a given certificate holder. For example, I could imagine a CA which (for example) is set up to attest that any holder of a certificate signed by them is a medical doctor, but will not (by policy) divulge any additional information.

Or perhaps a CA which acts as a judge of good character- they may issue pseudonymous or anonymous certs, but provide a way for application owners to complain about the behavior of a user presenting that cert.

I'm sure there are plenty of holes that can be poked in this model but I don't think it'd be completely out of the question?
economy is weakening globally, it affects everyone, including both the US and the EU, so your argument falls flat

any positive comment about China gets downvoted to oblivion, further emphasizing the theory of an organized FUD against China
It's really disappointing to see the trajectory that Brex is on. I was extremely enthusiastic about their product, they had the best business banking/credit/expense tracking in the industry. I was a very happy customer, until they decided they would only chase SV startup unicorns as their customers, and terminated my account. Brex is very much a cautionary tale for other startups.
Plus B757 stopped being manufactured in 2004 so whatever problem this is, is unrelated to recent boeing manufacturing problems.
Some good points in here about designing the payment portion of a business. I've bookmarked this for future reference.

I also like the mention of Edge Case Poisoning. Definitely going to be using that term in the future.
> lol

Racists always have such a way with words.
Last I looked, reflection was missing a lot of things like looking up a function by name.
Actually PR and USVI use the IRS tax code, and for USVI add +10%. There are some local tax breaks in both place for international, non continental us business activity. PR does have some kind of tax break on 'investments' but I don't know if that is only for passive investments, as opposed to your own business. But this is a good suggestion as it is in the USA and is often a great tax deal, with the catch you have to spend less than 180 days per year in the actual states, and spend at least 6 weeks per year in those two US territories. I think you have to spend New Year's Eve there too!
National Park Service Data Is Now Available on Big Query Public Datasets
The startups making robots a reality
NPS REST API has some great data, and migrating it to Google Big Query Public Datasets makes it much more usable for querying and exploring the data. It can easily be used in Jupiter notebooks without additional transforms or resources.

See also this post about the REST API
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39085830
Tldr: Ship the entire app in the browser.

This may sound a bit snarky, but here is a serverfree app for your enjoyment as well:

<html><p>serverfree</p></html>
Cliffhanger! Plot twist the mac was a knock off dell
That's highly unusual. How do their cars move?
Nope. There are many weird things about snap, but it actually handles Firefox updates very smoothly.
I thought it was a tool to make fingers for gloves.
IMO tree-shaking and similar stuff must be not an afterthought, but instead built into language and tooling from the day one.