skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't geared turbofans typically have a fixed gear ratio? This is more like a continuously variable transmission for a turbofan

Yes and no. An electric compressor doesn't mean the turbine doesn't drive the fan. (It might make pre-cooling easier.)
Logical for his career, sure, which was built on the widespread anti-Islamic rhetoric being pushed by media outlets to justify the GWOT. Sam Harris owes even more of his career to this.

How anyone could think the invasion of Iraq and the (fabricated) support for it were anything other than disasters is beyond me. It has nothing to do with the fact that Saddam was a “bad guy”, and everything to do with basic geopolitical realities. Unless you also think we should invade every country that has repressive leaders?
There is a better song to teach the kids - dont work for financial engineers.

If you have a purely creative, engineering or technical background you will end up under, or dependent on financial engineers soon enough.

To get out of that trap, either develop your own business and finance skills. Or work for people who dont have a pure business or finance background. A good mix is best.

And you can then live a life where you dont have to pay attention to content creators on wall st and build things you actually care about.
Thanks for sharing that intuition
> must be a speed limit to this surely,

Why? Scramjets combust supersonic flows [1].

> aerospike

If this is a jet engine, as described, that's the back of the turbine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet
> These algorithms use the data received from userspace in order to index into a lot of arrays and thus benefit from Rust's memory safety.

Yeah, thats not a good argument for Rust specifically. Maybe Zig would be interesting for array-specific things like sentinel-terminated arrays ans their amazing C interop. Further, Zig code is unmatched in how explicit everything is. There is no abstraction hiding complexity, its built on the idea of custom allocators from the ground up.

This seems like someone looking for a usecase for Rust over C, rather than someone looking for a better solution altogether. Thats okay, I guess, but Rust does not do array bounds checking very well and the borrowchecker doesnt help there at all. The large amount of hidden complexity in a lot of the language dont make it more safe by any means.
thanks!

yeah, it would be hard to write a function that was easier to autovectorize. but none of the risc-v hardware i have here actually supports v (or for that matter rv64)
Even without that issue, many Orthodox Christians still use the Julian rather than the modern Gregorian calendar for religious purposes (while still using the Gregorian for daily life). That's why Orthodox Christmas and Easter are on different days than the Catholic/Protestant ones.
There's a whole spectrum to it in the US. I still see pretty young looking skater kids hitting their spots during class time in the urban area where I live. I'm sure in rural parts kids must be up to similar fun with mountain or dirt bikes too.
Indeed, hence the person I’m replying to shouldn’t have said everywhere
If the immigration laws were enforced 100% accurately today, the US economy would falter. Undocumented workers do work in farm, janitorial, restaurant, construction, and other sectors that is irreplaceable through any other reasonable means.

The immigration crisis of today is the result of a failure of legislative body to legislate (10% approval ratings are bad). Including other external factors such as corrupt governments/drug cartels and internal factors such as many companies happy to look the other way when people don't have legal work status.

If you watch videos on immigration seeing ICE, courts, and migrants interacting, the migrants get asylum and then encouraged to find work. It's all tongue-in-cheek. If anything the system could be intentional because without legislation, the executive branch can unilaterally set thresholds and targets for migration in step with economic goals. Even Trump didn't tighten the migration laws drastically until covid hit bringing an economic slowdown (no workers needed during recessions).

The social issues focused on in the media are minor compared to the economic benefits.
I’ll take your point a step further:

If you ask a company, any company, what the most important aspect of their product is, they’ll proudly crow “the quality of it.”

And yet, we still, for some reason, have to deploy the FAA to make sure profits didn’t take a front seat to not killing hundreds of people.

The FAA shouldn’t need to exist. It only does because private industry _never_ holds up its end of the bargain. It’s a race to the bottom. Unfortunately it’s not just consumer products that eventually get enshittified, it’s also big things that can kill us (737 Max 8s and Tesla autopilots apparently).
He said it doesn't integrate well, and he's right. Go works best when you only have Go. (Ok that's true of most languages but it's especially true of Go.)

This article has some details: https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go

Note that this isn't true of languages like Python (CPython) or Rust which are much more closely tied to C than Go is. Go is a "from scratch as if C never existed" language which is great because it doesn't have any C baggage but it does make integrating with C more awkward.
"The F4 Phantom...America's proof to the world that with a big enough engine, even a brick can fly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqUgUgiToNs
The electron rocket used batteries to drive the fuel pumps for a liquid engine that could get into orbit. It used a lot of LiPo batteries, which it jettisoned as they were used up.
Wikipedia lists two pronunciations for LaTeX: "/ˈlɑːtɛk/ LAH-tek or /ˈleɪtɛk/ LAY-tek".

On top of those, I've also heard the k at the end be replaced with h, which would also be correct, as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_(letter)

The common pronunciation of latex /ˈleɪˌtɛks/ would be incorrect.

For Kubernetes, Wikipedia lists eight different pronunciations: /ˌk(j)uːbərˈnɛtɪs, -ˈneɪtɪs, -ˈneɪtiːz, -ˈnɛtiːz/, with the j after k being optional.

NGINX feels like the most straightforward out of these, even though it is rarely pronounced correctly.

As for myself, I like to call it NG Inks, as in next-gen tattoos, at least whenever I hear it pronounced wrong :)
> the cycle of the moon - 28 days

29.53059 days, so no, that's not super practical, and there's less than 13 of them in a year...
Facebook doesn't favoring AI. Instead, money money money....

Even ads with obvious porn ( Breasts, genitals and intercourse etc. ) on the picture gets through the filter so its pretty clear that money talks.
So You Think You Know Git – FOSDEM 2024 [video]
> their opinions on why this is bad etc.

where did i say it's bad? DSLs aren't inherently bad (or good for that matter).

> You’re reading way too much into this

i think you're projecting your own ideas onto me!
They should just call it "1 mn" where mn stands for "marketing nanometer"
Only 3 points though! And most people have had covid, so it's an even playing field!
I doubt it on both counts. People doing weird awful shit is hardly a modern phenomenon and yet prior generations felt no particular need to guard their children around the clock.
Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap
My big problem with these articles is that they invariably list activities that are NOT risky or dangerous. And what they end up doing is just ramping up sense of danger about non dangerous behavior. If you frame reasonable and safe activities as risk taking, then well, people will conclude those activities are risky.

And second issue is that they do NOT engage with other host of issues that limit outside play. For example, unsupervised playing kids are annoying to many unrelated adults - and adults who strongly dislike kids and want to exclude them from everywhere are very common. Or, simple fact that just meeting friends often requires in advance agreed upon play date and a drive by car. Or, simple fact that before you was bored in your room and outside had things to do, nowdays you have fun stuff at home (computer, tablet, phone) and outside has not much to do above the age of 7.

Half of this feels like fighting fear by adding new dangers and threats to the equation. Hey, not only you need to add risk, if you dont your kid will have serious mental health issues. Hey, lets worry simultaneously about risk taking while doing safe activities while also worrying they dont take enough risk.
Thanks Nico, a small world :-)

I‘ll look into this as fallback method. I don’t like Monaco Editor‘s handling of selections and cursors, it’s quite complicated, but this should be possible to implement…
I know people who insist on putting register addresses (in hex) in their code rather than make a variable because "it's easier to debug by comparing to the user guide. If it was a variable, you would have to look up its value every time". It looks somewhat like this:

*(int*)(0xf003) |= 39;
Thanks, I‘ll look into that!
The words "a lot" is not a number, nor is it a measurement, and most importantly it has no quality.

Cite numbers, compare them against other numbers, and then come back with an actual position.
> with additional runtime overhead

Hate to be the optimization nerd, but that's not really how any of this works. It's likely that this overhead is two instructions in the likely case (compare and jump), and there's absolutely no profiling being done here to show if this causes a measurable performance difference. It's quite likely that nobody here is profiling this, and is just guessing based on "more code = slower", but there is really no way to predict this in such a general sense. It may be that these bounds checks even cause the compiler to do optimizations later since it can make more assumptions.

At the same time, if performance turns out to he a problem, there is probably bigger fish to fry than removing guardrails (maybe memory layout, maybe access patterns, maybe reordering things.
The devlogs are incredibly inspiring and amazing!
That's actually pretty backwards.

Rockets take off vertically, then pitch over not for aerodynamics but because reaching orbital velocity requires going sideways VERY fast. They don't pitch over at very low altitudes (with rare exceptions) because the air resistance from high-speed movement is simply too great.

Among the exceptions was the Nike Hercules missile interceptor. As its target was ballistic missiles on a hypersonic ballistic trajectory, the Nike Sprint had to go very fast, in the lower atmosphere, going from 0 to Mach 10 in 15 seconds, sustaining 100 Gs and reaching a skin temperature of over 6,000°F, glowing white, within seconds of launch:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kpHE9O8ckno&t=168>

Sounding rockets, used in early rocketry and atmospheric / astronomic research would in fact launch near vertically. Their goal wasn't to go orbital, but merely to get above (most) of the Earth's atmosphere.

Early US sounding rockets were the WAC Corporal (max altitude ~235,000 ft / 72 km) and Aerobee (260 mi / 418 km), each with about 60 kg payload capacity. Neither was an orbit-capable launcher.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAC_Corporal>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobee>
Beyond Linux from Scratch
the problem comes when you decide to make a rule for something that was already possible before. let's say you have your deny-all set up becuase you want none of those. and then they add a rule for right clicking (just a silly example) and suddenly stuff breaks
34 MB? Doesn't seem that big to me.
It is not expensive if you download everything in one month. They are probably be also available legally via torrents.

Additionally if they aren't already available as torrents you can download them all, host them and sell access at a much cheaper rate and I am pretty sure you would come even quite quickly. If they are open source, this is legal.
French readers enjoy La Bougie du Sapeur, only four-year newspaper
Hit the advertiser where it hurts, click on them.

The advertiser needs to pay for every impression of the ad and on every click.
Let's say $0.01 for every 1000 view and $0.1 for every click/conversion.

Don't open the RAR file ofc..
There's a similar problem on iOS, I've already removed two calendar viruses from family's phones.
So is the solution to have two thresholds?
Notify me urgently if the traffic exceeds 100$, giving me a chance to evaluate what's going on but shut it down at 1000$ if I don't act.
In the last two generations we went from having 3 or more kids to having 1 kid. You just weren't able to supervise 5 kids with that level of caution like you are today.

Also biologically your whole legacys survival lies on one kid.
As Nitter is broken and Twitter has ... numerous issues, is there a non-Twitter source for this?
https://www.imec-int.com/en/articles/smaller-better-faster-i...

Scroll down a bit for a nice overview.
BASIC, Pascal have been doing it for decades already, to the point the likes of Mikroe and Parallax don't have any issue staying in business selling compilers.
StarCoder 2
I've been saying for years that cars should be taxed based in volume & mass. Everything else derives from those attributes.

Ideally, a car that's twice as massive is taxed 10x. Fuck this ever increasing drive for bigger cars. Many cars are now so big they don't even fit in parking spaces anymore. And don't even get me started on how dangerous these are for pedestrians and cyclists.
In Praise of Nushell
At the onset of the Ukraine conflict, links like that would pop up in heated anti-Russia threads on Reddit. Maybe some can be found back on archive. This exploit has been out there for awhile and it makes you wonder why it hasn’t been plugged yet.
https://archive.ph/tkjyP
Can't speak for them, but apparently they have been around for at least 15 years.
That’s not a virus it’s a spam calendar account your family member has accidentally added. That’s not specific to iOS and a different attack to the one described in the article.
Background: https://huggingface.co/blog/starcoder2
What's the point of using `no_std` if you're just going to add an allocator anyway? You may as well just use `std` at that point no? (You can use `std` on embedded devices with a small amount of work.)
Huh. I never noticed that before, but you're right. Do you happen to know if Gibson ever explained what happened to the US, or is that left as an intriguing blank spot?
Do you habe any data to back up your claims? If not you are spreading misinformation yourself.
Not true? Ok, when was the last time you saw a collection of kid-sized bicycles outside the local grocery store, convenience store, or local blue plate joint, with a gaggle of obviously unsupervised kids inside? For that matter when was the last time you saw a group of obviously unsupervised kids anywhere? It's telling that you think a couple kids hanging out in their own yards clears the bar here. If I were to hand my 11 year old a hundred bucks and tell him to be back at sunset how long do you recon it would take before I got a phone call or a visit from the police?
This could just be a real-world example of the difficulty of the alignment problem.

Having no personal insight into the minds of Google engineers who built this thing, my assumption is they wanted Gemini to give diverse results when someone asked for a "person" or an "accountant" (reasonable), but didn't think of cases like "English kings" (unreasonable) where the added context changes the distribution. So they added some one-line hack to the system prompt (we know this is how OpenAI achieves this) which unbiased the former distribution but added lots of bias the latter. Quite an easy oversight to make.

This is what AI risk people have been saying. You can't get AI to behave how you want exactly because it's extremely difficult to encode your values in a way where there's no unintended consequences.
What are the weirdest/most interesting ones in here
They could start by at least following their own ideas and rules. There are so many sidewalks for example that are completely upended by tree roots in my area. City rules say a sidewalk should be flat and not look like the Front Range. This is one of the wealthiest parts of the world for reference, why are we tolerating stuff like this for the elderly and disabled? There's more than enough money available, just a lack of any altruism.
This presupposes that the current socioeconomic system is the fixed norm. I don't think self-sustaining farming communities of the past cared too much which day it was if they had a cause of celebration. Likewise, I don't see why a post-scarcity future society wouldn't party on a Tuesday.
Assuming 50 input tokens per second, you could still be waiting ten minutes for a full 32k token prompt.

What you are talking about is highly optimized inference using accelerators, batching and speculative decoding to achieve high throughout. Once you have that then compute is irrelevant except in terms of cost, but if all you have is a small consumer grade GPU you will be compute limited at the extreme limits of your context window.
Whenever your commercial website underperforms in one of these aspects, it’s a sure sign that you need a qualified technical SEO audit service.
> For some (most) people, it just never occurs to them to search/research their question.

I think this is more of an illusion because you're close to the action. Just think of how many times you looked for your phone while holding it in your hand? or how you missed your keys that where on the table multiple times until someone else pointed it out. How many time you could swear you had to flip the USB 3 times before you could plug it in.

This preception happens whenever there's an imbalance. For you, this system is centric to your life, you know it inside out, while for customer, it's a 1/100 fraction in their life and it's also not functioning at the moment and they need to move on. So there's a mix of inexperience, stress, fear to DIY and f it up, etc.

When you personally contact support for another service, you think of it as normal, you done your homework, it's a serious issue, you rarely do it, you think you're an example of a good customer, the problem is with their product, but on the other side, at scale, it's another customer who didn't bother to RTFM or learn their 100s of courses. At scale, you're not going to sit and imagine the life of every person and plot different complex scenarios of how they got here, your brain just takes the easy way out and say it was clear as day, there's no possible excuse other than they didn't look.

This is one ugly side-effect of having "departments", you only ever see one side. In the past, you both lived in the same town, you have a business, they have a business, you got invited to their wedding, your kids played with their kids, etc. Now you only see people outside your inner circle through one lens. If you're in sales you see $$, if you're in support you see purely clueless people.
The train station I get off at has probably two dozen LED signs. Each one of them just shows the date and time, and not when the next train is coming or anything actually useful to transit riders. But I'm sure they cost a few thousand a piece and parts are expensive for what amounts to a wall clock mounted every 10 feet, and whoever signed off on this station projects probably cut a huge red ribbon with the biggest grin on their face for the press photos.
Unison is great. First time I hear about Winglang, can't be accused of boring yet-another-language!
I deal with these kinds of things, and to me it boils down to these 2 questions

1) What is the actual error rate?
2) What is the acceptable process error rate?
Oh deer god.

We've never been that bad, but we are still using macros for registers instead of block structure pointers, which we have access to...

(although I'll grant that structures can be risky due to undefined packing rules)
i somewhat agree; people volunteer it when posting anything online. but they also volunteer their advertising id on their phones (even if they dont know it) - just as they dont know (and dont care) they are the product when on websites like facebook

i feel the 'antibot' stuff is more related to the adtech industry vs site-scrapers - remember getting a dedicated server and having friends click on links just to pay for it? Geocities and all these free websites, the biggest costs were bandwidth and storage (not that its not now)

since the AI Boom, there's just more hype over people wanting 'credit' (or money) for something they posted on a forum X-units of time ago.

its called the World Wide Web for a reason.. keep it open, even if it is to 'a bot' - never know when somebody's 'bot software' is reading your webpage for somebody who has some disadvantage and needs assistance
At my old school we had glorious two story high steel monkey bars apparatus. At some point they put rubber shavings under it as a safety thing. Several years later, they cut it down to one story. Later they removed the whole thing.

I know exactly what they mean by fear, excitement and risk. It was fun while it was dangerous yet it was extremely rare for a kid to fall off and be hurt.

I fondly remember those steel bars polished by countless human hands like it was yesterday.

I don’t know what’s there now. Probably a big sign that says “Your parents made you a pussy”
Probably because it wasn’t really possible before. Now there is a lot of technology making that easy. One of Apple’s big use cases that they sell is the ability to streamline being an overprotective parent
Can't wait! I've currently settled on Caddy as my reverse proxy, but something rust based and extended with wasm would be great
Theoretically a civilization that could capture 100% of the energy from it's star would be able to use however much of that energy it wanted to heat or cool the planet. They could make the conditions perfect for them. There could be a reason why they'd want the surface to be extremely hot.
I would find OP massively annoying if I wanted to go to swim and he would force himself on it all the time.
you know your kids are just going to start asking for new ipads instead of becoming linux users
Do we get to sue Amazon when we discover they've lied (again)?
Indeed they are not true, but physical selling typically doesn't pretend it is.

> Cryptography at least gives us a chance to verify someone's claims.

Has it a better track record at doing so that e.g. a notary?
Right, Hitchens did it all just to further his career. That's why he went to Kurdistan... and climbed hills in Cuba, Yugoslavia, etc. Became a marxist/journalist rather than an investment banker. Reading his memoir Hitch22, I couldn't help think what a "greedy communist" he sounded like, throughout. If not obvious, this paragraph is sarcasm. It didn't actually further his career, it largely hurt it.

You can call it anti-islamic rhetoric if you want. The reality is that religious nuts are a real problem, and Islam has its leading share. He was also anti-religion, which I respect to a point.

> we should invade every country that has repressive leaders

Not just repressive, combative to the whole region. Forgot WWII? It happened and worked twice. Why not this time? Well culture, history, and execution competence were totally different. Too many variables to consider, maybe in book form at the minimum.

You're also conflating the Bush admins desire to use 9/11 for their own ends. That happened but has nothing to do with Hitchens. As everyone who cares knows now, it had nothing to do with Hussein either. No need to bring it up.
What is the sign of a complex number? Do you mean the phase?
You may also enjoy listening to Hakon Soreide's work. This is from just a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfnIAf7T-PQ