skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're not flying it in passenger revenue service, I believe the requirements get a lot fuzzier - I would expect you'd need at a minimum a commercial multiengine cert to get rated for airliners, but I don't know that you actually need the ATP, unless you're going to fly in revenue service.

And, tbh, I don't care if the CEO of Boeing can take one around the pattern on their own. If they need a rated instructor with them to go fly one legally, so be it. Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

But I stand by my statement that the CEO should be able to understand airplanes and fly them reasonably competently, if they're the CEO of a company that builds airplanes. I don't mean "press release of them flying it straight and level on autopilot" - but to actually be able to get it competently around the sky in manual flight modes.

I consider the financialization (turning into loan servicers and financial service providers as their main stream of income) of "every company who used to build things" to be one of the worst things that's happened to American industry as a whole.
For products/services tied to real engineering, that idea that you can maximize profits without leadership that understands it at a deep level is wrong. If you want to maximize profits in that kind of company, you'd better be able to build and sustain a culture to systematically knock out catastrophic risks stemming from real world physical constraints.

A management accounting guy is great at hedging financial risks, but that is what they'll always focus on, not the real world. What we are seeing with Boeing now is what happens if leadership is adrift without a good intuition about real world physical risks and what it takes to address them. You can't maximize profits while regularly causing catastrophic events.
Let me guess, we need a fediverse solution or source code now?
Every proton would have the energy of a baseball. It's bananas. Granted, space is really empty, but it's not that empty, somewhere around a hundred atoms per cubic meter. Your ship might look like a very, very long shooting star. Probably dialing the speed down a touch would be worth it for whatever your shielding material is, but who knows? We're talking miracle engines here. I think in the "Valkyrie" ship-on-a-string concept, they had some sort of magnetic thingummy that generated more power as more stuff smacked into it, then as they decelerated they let out this sort of gas mist to go ahead of the ship and smack into things.
>The misinformation in context (Russian propaganda, probably on rt.com or something) is designed to mislead. Not inform; mislead.

As a 3rd party, I can assure you I feel the same way towards the American propaganda that dominates search results, social media, and more. No, this isn't whataboutism. No, you can't point at minute differences and use them to pretend there's a huge difference between you and Russia. No, you can't tell me America is better because you don't go to jail when you impotently complain about your government. You are, and always have been, a bigger threat to the world than Russia ever was, a bigger hypocrite, a more violent monster, and a far more effective propagandist.

It's some real 1984 shit and it's sad citizens of America and its vassal states (all of Europe, Canada, Australia) don't see it.
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Sure. Do you think that is representative of the majority of police interaction and a good basis for a universal rule?

Does it negate the utility you can get from talking to the police?
Sure, there are plenty of practical problems that would make the trip impossible. The fuel mass alone that would have to be shot out the back to make that trip would be something on the order of 800 million times the mass of the payload (you). So a 100kg person sitting in a 100kg spaceship would require something like 160 billion kg of fuel, assuming zero energy loss in burning the fuel. Relativistic rocket calculators are fun!
There have been at least a few truly decentralized efforts along the lines of GitHub. There is almost no interest. I also feel that just going with one or two other companies is better than exactly one monopoly but we can do much better.

For some reason if I say p2p on HN it's not appreciated.
But I feel the point is: None of that is a relevant concern IDs should take on.

Most functional things related to e.g. embedding the record creation time within the ID is one of those "that's cool, but I've never seen anyone do it" kind of things. If you need to sort records by when they were created, there are probably three or four happened_at fields on the record you'd use (created_at in this case). If you need the exact time; those are there for that.

Counter-argument: Well, you can save a few bytes on every record by getting rid of the created_at field and just using a UUIDv7. Maybe, but I've never seen anyone do it. What if you need to change the time the record was created? Are you planning to explain to all your integration providers the process of extracting a timestamp from a UUIDv7? What if you need to run complex SQL timestamp functions on created_at? Etc. Its cool, but it never actually happens.

Once we enter the domain of "using the node id or timestamp or something to reduce the probability of ID collision", that's a totally reasonable responsibility within an ID's set of concerns. But, that's a very different need.

> You don't have to write your own validation functions

Why are we validating IDs?

> but something more full-featured like Postgres, I prefer these conveniences.

Agreed. I am a vocal UUID hyper-hater. UUIDs should be destroyed, and humanity would be (oh so slightly) better off if they had never existed. But, they're still a thing, and I think its cool that databases have hyper-specific types like this.

My wish is Postgres would have other more sane automatic ID types and gen capability, in addition to uuid & autoincrement.
Web 3.0 for code.

Not your keys, not your repo!
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> always wondered why there wasn’t a nocode for hardware that outputs a gerber.

Because hardware tends to be informed by messy physical factors which are hard to represent programmatically.

Think along the lines of "the cables are coming from this side of the board", or "buttons need to be reachable by fingers", or "if you're building a weather station, the temperature sensor should be far away from components that generate heat".
I love the scripted filler words, that’s smart
I created one too a while ago: https://github.com/ketancmaheshwari/randhn
I'm building a weight-loss app that leverages LLM to do 2 things:

1. Analyze calories/macronutrients from a text description or photo

2. Provide onboarding/feedback/conversations like you'd get from a nutritionist

https://www.fatgpt.ai/

My stack is Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, OpenAI APIs. I chose Rails because I'm very fast in it, but I've found the combination of Rails+Sidekiq+ActionCable is really nice for building conversational experiences on the web. If I stick with this, I'll probably need a native iOS app though.

Vendor stack is: GitHub, Heroku (compute), Neon (DB), Loops.so (email), PostHog (analytics), Honeybadger (errors), and Linear.
Maybe not, but this is a decent time to remind everyone to local-cache all your dependencies.
Git is already a distributed VCS. Just host someplace other than Github, honestly.
I don't know if anyone who worked on this project is going to read this but if you are: good job! This looked like it was really hard.
No need for a CD reader if you have a CT scanner and software that converts those ridges into bits. The bigger question is how well preserved those CDs will be.
"co-founder of Cygnus back in '89"
I agree. She's really great for hobbyists and for prototyping. She's done a ton to help beginners. And Adafruit is a very interesting company. I seriously admire her. But as to the original claim that she's "one of the industries greatest hardware designers", when you look at the electronics industry on a whole (an industry where people design incredibly complex things that are used by millions/billions of people), her _designs_ are nothing special.
> It's completely uncensorable and unstoppable.

This claim is what needs something to back it up. Otherwise it's hard to believe.
> They're left holding shares that are illiquid

More specifically, how much is a SAFE for 7% of a small business worth? If there are no liquidity events it will be impossible for investors to even get their money back let alone outperform SPX
Straight to the "Build" page: http://454.bio/docs/build/
Excited to hear it! Our language already captures tolerances and the solver we are building does proper tolerances stackups. You specify the desired output with a tolerance, eg my_regulator.power_out.voltage = 4.75V to 5.25V and we will solve the stack up to get you there.

Hang tight, its coming soon!
I agree! I'm very pleased to see the return of the Deno dino.
i18n has been around for ever and makes sense since in code it’s a bit long. Then k8s, which never made sense to me. I don’t know if it’s appropriate to call it a trend, but I’ve seen people doing it more frequently.

The irony with this example is people with screen readers will hear something like “aEleveny” and it looks like “ally”.
Are you a trained fighter? I think you're probably joking but he's been training for a while now with some of the best fighters on the planet.

I wouldn't want to fight him and I'm like two weight classes above lol.
Unless you could somehow make an Alcubierre warp drive.

Of course…even if that was possible, it’s conjectured that the colonists already at your destination won’t appreciate you boiling the atmosphere when you hit them with blue shifted radiation.

https://www.universetoday.com/93882/warp-drives-may-come-wit...
He didn't drink 4-5 Liters at the hospital, just a few (two or three) small cups per day. We'd asked about alcohol and drug consumption, but didn't think to ask about his normal food and drink consumption beyond asking for possible sources of infection (asking about any potential spoiled food or exotic meats he might have consumed.) In retrospect, certainly a big oversight in this case!
The final part of the demo shows the output of the automatic build as something you can upload directly to a PCB manufacturer. How does this work given the output of the compiler is a netlist, not a PCB layout or Gerber file?
Now you can turn this into an AI sales cold caller based on the data you could collect from how the AI reacts to your selling. That is to say, the entire system becomes a generative adversarial network.
Also first gen iPad was basically slow as a crippled sloth. It was quickly abandoned by both consumers and Apple.

First gen iPhone wasn't too fast either. The next iterations of iPad and iPhone greatly improved features and performance.

It's a good idea to avoid first gen Apple products unless you're minted.
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This would be nice, but the biggest pain I had with C++ is you can't use C++ types as values, e.g. as described here:

https://cxx.rs/binding/cxxstring.html

It's because Rust doesn't have move constructors. I doubt they're going to add move constructors to Rust so that seems kind of unsolvable which is a shame.
I’m almost certain it is impossible to actually do what I said. But then again, I bet anybody 2000 years ago would say the same of reading scrolls that have been consumed by a volcano!
The issue is more that p2p is always touted as the solution and yet there's been almost zero actually useful solutions developed. There's some fundamental issues preventing the decentralized network to be a generic solution and until that's sorted out, it doesn't seem to add to a conversation to bring up p2p as a solution.
Responses vary by individual, and can vary by long term exposure too.

I was hospitalized for a long time because of a very serious, bad case of mumps as an adult and in the hospital I was treated they were very serious about controlling my diet so I couldn't drink coffee for a long while.

When I recovered and went back home, I started drinking the same amount of coffee I was used to, which normally wouldn't make me feel anything out of the ordinary, but because I had not been exposed to caffeine for a while, I ended up with a severe feeling of tingling in my limbs, the level of stimulation really shocked me. After a month and half (possibly a little more, I'm fuzzy on the passing of days during those times) of not drinking coffee, it was as if I had been a new coffee drinker again and my body forgot caffeine. Habitual, daily exposure can /strongly/ affect the amount of caffeine it will take for you to feel its presence at a symptomatic level, and abstaining from caffeine for a long enough period can also completely throw you back to the beginning stage.
The video seemed pretty straightforward that the VCs are there to take advantage of the founders need for more capital than they have access to in order to cross a funding gap of high initial costs.

"We give you money, you give us much more back"

My father in law had an agriculture business (pollen). They had customers and a product but they needed a three month loan to pay laborers to harvest the product so that they could use it for customers and then invoice and collect. The labor was well paid due to urgency dynamics, the farms they serviced had yields paying more (or avoid loss greater) than the cost of services, and there was profit left over for the banker's share plus his own business. As a side effect the food supply was both more stable and abundant. Without the capital less excess (or greater losses) would have existed.

This is effectively what VCs are hoping to find except at a far higher level of scale.
I do agree with you but I find it odd we are 20 paragraphs into this conversation and not a single mention of any other woman pilot besides Earhart. Who are the woman and shouldn't we be talking about them instead of spilling even more ink for Earhart?
The chairs are the same, the song is different.
My grandfather invented / designed the bullets for the Phalanx. The dumbed-down idea is that smaller bullets with high kinetic energy can be more devastating to armored targets than larger, slower bullets releasing chemical energy. He used to take my mother out to the CA desert to help him test his latest designs on thick armored plates (they now decorate her front yard - metal!).

Reflecting on the Phalanx brings mixed emotion, given that the US Navy avoided paying patents on his designs and buried him in legal fees so that he never saw a dime (at least that's what I've been told). He was older at the time, and this absolutely took several years off his life. That said, I know he'd be proud to see his ideas still being relevant today, from implementation to video games.
Do you decelerate in both axes?
It has if you worked for NASA...
>And this is how you again discriminate based on race in a post-Affirmative Action world. The weight they assign to each context is completely arbitrary and tuned to achieve whatever objectives they have.

This would be far more disastrous if spots at colleges were scarce, but they overwhelmingly are not. There are over 15 million undergraduate students in the United States, and we are undergoing a demographic collapse (https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...). In 2 years, the children of the baby bust (2008-2009) will start applying and enrolling in college, and because there are fewer of them, they will have an easier time getting into the college of their choice.

>95% of us do not attend Ivy League schools. Removing any and all affirmative action would help, at best, five thousand students? This is a manufactured issue. No one is denied a college education because of affirmative action. Any time spent arguing against it is wasted.
What would happen if we actually made things to last?

If our appliances would break on average once in a hundred years?

If our tools were so durable it could survive generations?

If our furniture and our building materials could be reused almost endlessly?

Would the economy shrink? Would the manufacturers go out of business? Or would all the money saved go towards other, better things?
It probably helps that Norway has 79% homeowners which should make the street parking problem less acute.
It's not that unreasonable. During the post-covid inflation and high interest rates getting loans and attracting funding got very much more difficult. Downsizing by 75% probably would result in a failure that just took longer. They chose to keep going in attempts of securing that next step and it didn't work so they shuttered. The environment for funding changed and the less attractive startups shuttered, that's what happens. Maintaining a short runway is a vibe, a path towards a big reward or a quick failure. That risk isn't for everybody.
> Is there a technical limit to how realistic the effect could be?

You won’t feel the acceleration ;) nor the light intensity of the higher velocities (luckily).
That sounds like a lot more effort than just avoiding places that give you shitty paper straws instead of proper plastic ones
This is one of my nightmares... I have 800+ repos on GitHub and I dread the thought of some weird machine learning algorithm somewhere deciding that my account should be banned.

A lot of the stuff I care about on there is backed up elsewhere, but not everything. I even have a tool for this: https://datasette.io/tools/github-to-sqlite - which exports issues, issue comments etc to a SQLite database via the GitHub API.

I do at least trust GitHub not to delete everything, but to instead put my account in some kind of soft-deleted state - and I'm reasonably confident I could get it reinstated via my network. But still, scary.

Why do I have everything on GitHub? Because I genuinely do trust them - they have a 15+ year track record of NOT breaking, and I know that my repos are backed up to three different continents automatically.
From that I'm getting the implicit information that maybe this is less of a thing I should learn and do on top of all the other things and more of a full time thing I need to learn to let someone else do anyway so I can focus my efforts elsewhere.

I was under the impression that a burst of investment in this early stage might be sufficient for now and that this might only take a couple weeks to sort out if I can find some guidance to make sure I don't forget anything major along the way.

There's also that I'm not convinced I know someone I'd trust to be that person
The issues clearly aren't fundamental enough to stop software pirates or the Onion network.
If it happens to you:

1. Remain calm

2. Tweet at your 66k followers

3. Briefly wait while the dozens of those that work at GitHub trip over each other getting your account reactivated
Last fully IC Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla is 1300 kg, Tesla 3 is 1800 kg. That's over 3.5 times more road wear.
> Such that the student can focus on understanding what's happening instead of just writing down what the teacher says.

If you are writing down everything the teacher says, you aren't taking notes, you are transcribing a lecture.

Taking notes should only be the highlights, key ideas, and things you didn't understand or misunderstood when you prepped for the lecture.
You can replace social science with "science about predicting people's behavior" if you want. The important thing is that IQ is one of the most powerful predictors of human behavior in science. So few things get proven to have a major effect on outcomes over and over again. You shouldn't just throw that out.
There are multiple useful solutions. They are just ignored.

Notice you didn't mention any fundamental issue specifically.
As a counterpoint, I’ve also worked in this industry for 25 years, and SQL has had no relevance to my career. I write it very occasionally, and if I didn’t, it wouldn’t make any difference.

The C for loop on the other hand…
Right, which is why there has to be a definite threshold in the standard. Otherwise, you can just keep making it "marginally" smaller, on down until it's a single pixel, and still claim it's okay. That would mean there's no standard, and every/any UI design is equally valid. Standards exist, in part, to avoid such rules-lawyering by having a consensus on what determines a valid design.
Eh, from what little I know about chemistry, there are often many ways to achieve the same goal - hexane was just the chemical I remember for decaffeination. I looked it up just now as well, and it turns out _my_ memory was a bit off - it's neurotoxic, but seems to be safe(r) in small exposure amounts than I remembered.
This 'taimurkazmi' user seems to post a huge number of 'flagged' or 'dead' submissions, so probably has some axe to grind, as judged by those with flagging permissions at least.
One gee over the course of months is insane. Even if you converted the entire "fuel" reaction mass directly into momentum, you're still carrying tens or hundreds of thousands of tons of fuel for any remotely habitable spacecraft. And no engine has perfect mass conversion. Matter-Antimatter has been simulated to be maybe sixty percent efficient, fusion is around 17%, nuclear pulse propulsion a surprising 7%, fission nuclear gas rockets might max out at 12% but those numbers are dodgy as we don't have sharp numbers on gas core reactors.

As an SF writer, it's pretty interesting, though, to think of the weird shapes a society would take when your astronauts are outliving entire civilizations. I imagine a sort of neo-Polynesian culture, with travellers never quite knowing how the place will look if they ever come back that way.
Git seems to work pretty well p2p without the hub.
That's super helpful! I would love to test it out if you offer it for no/low-code projects.
I'm glad you agree.
For sure, there will always be some 'user' type requirements that we need to build a way to input, for starters it will be something like a lock file with component positions of things you need in a particular spot. I see alot of value in automating things you just dont care about, particularly if 'sensible' rules can be applied. For example if the tool could automatically determine trace widths, not just at a net level, but for each link based on how hot you were happy for it to get and what loads it would see.
In LinkedIn I also read some of their key people wrote a post with this wording for the announcement: "I americium precise bittersweet to denote – officially – that Weaveworks volition beryllium closing its doors and shutting down commercialized operations." and I almost had an stroke trying to parse it...
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This is nothing new. I went to a very rigorous high school in the late 90s. It was in no way a secret that every top university and even scholarship competition had caps for how many could make it in from our school. The joke amongst students was that the easiest way to get into a top college was for to move to Wyoming and just become valedictorian.
The middle class thinks about its survival and keeping their assets intact. Building wealth is not possible for most people. But if you have money laying around, buying assets is the way to go, yes. Which is why the price of housing, cars, etc. skyrocketed. That in turn made buying assets even more attractive. Real estate prices grew in absolute terms (as in dollars) for the last few years.

The cheap loans I talked about aren't constant, for example you can't get them right now. They were available when the government artificially depressed the interest rate. A lot of people bought houses and cars that way and they are paying peanuts atm. The banks were/are still turning a profit because the interest rate was low, so the price of money was low for them as well. The government printed money to bankroll this growth until finally the lira crashed down. Basically everyone who earned in the local currency paid the price.