skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 30 years ago when I was a programmer and support guy all in one, I had an MS-DOS boot disk and a 300 Megabyte Backpack portable hard drive. It was awesome. I had all of the source code, backups of the customer sites data and my programming environment with me no matter where I went.

Great stuff!
Abort-to-orbit is a confusing term since it suggests the Shuttle's specific ATO mode. I presume the requirement is "safe abort at all points during lunar descent/landing" rather than specifically to orbit (e.g. an abort mode that put them directly on a return-to-Earth trajectory would probably also be fine).
> It helps immensely to understand ones concerns, constraints, and values before assuming they're identical and them swiftly demonizing anyone that dissents. The Rust community really has done itself a massive disservice in alienating everyone that doesn't conform to its monoculture composed mostly of amateurs and unemployable extremists.

I think that it's a little unlikely that the Rust community is mostly composed of "amateurs and unemployable extremists" - a lot of the working software engineers I know are interested in or actively use it.

However, "assuming they're identical and them swiftly demonizing anyone that dissents" is an excellent characterization of, at least, the parts of the Rust community that I see on HN and Reddit.
Electric motors are a pretty important part of this design. The throttle response is much quicker than is possible using gas powered engines.

This allows the craft to self stabilize in a way that isn’t possible without near instantaneous throttle response.

This response is possible with gas motors, but normally requires variable pitch props to respond fast enough which adds a lot of weight and failure points.

We already have fixed wing drones, vtol fixed wing drones, quadcopters, etc that are effectively open source, from off the shelf components, and an order of magnitude cheaper.

I’m very curious what the army thinks this can do that isnt already being done by various YouTubers in their backyard.
They work fine for basic tasks. The other day I wanted to make a basic spreadsheet. I said why not and picked Numbers. Works fine for what I needed.
I appreciate the philosophical direction you're trying to take this conversation, but I just don't find discussing the core subject matter in such an overly generalized manner to be stimulating.
The industry decided to move on to java. Just waiting got the garbage collector to finish before we start the transition.
That's the advantage of an electronic viewfinder :)
WebTV was a literal godsend for a grandmother that insisted on caring for a grandfather and would not put him in a nursing home. It was her visual and intellectual portal to the rest of the world. She was college educated and far more world travelled than most even today. I can still remember slowly tapping out emails on that remote control. But, dammit, $200 box, tv you already owned, and a cheap dial up service and you were good to go. We did eventually move her to laptops and the like but that WebTV got her through 2-3 years of hell on earth.
You're never going to find a solid answer to these questions. The best you can do is ask yourself "does this seem reasonable".
What the PLC does is (vaguely) equivalent to momentarily freezing the image rather than showing a blank screen when packets are lost. If you're in the middle of a vowel, it'll continue the vowel (trying to follow the right energy) for about 100 ms before fading out. It's explicitly designed not to make up anything you didn't say -- for obvious reasons.
Yes, this is very important. Starting a new project is just another form of procrastination where you’re avoiding the already large pile of things that actually need to be done.
Google has an animated 3D dice roller built in! I stumbled upon it by accident when searching for D&D stuff.
It works. Bugs have been found, and some more bugs probably exist, but I think it meets a fairly high bar of quality.
I'm in similar boat. But I love CS and it seems easy for me.

But I butchered myself (meaning no substantial skills on paper) so I am unhireable. People don't even look at my resume. Deactivated LinkedIn because it was causing harm than good.

That's it!
> Fundamentally, all I need to define a graph is a set of vertices v \in V and function Neighbors(v).

Even that is severely overconstrained. It doesn't allow multiple edges to the same neighbor!
Epic album and article! It's great to see this on HN. It gives me a little more hope for the world...
https://web.archive.org/web/20090326232813/http://www.natura...
Did you try Opus?
Just had that happen to me back in November, Delta at ORD. If they can get you on, they'll get you on.
Same thoughts. They should triple-up their public image efforts and make sure any shared ROM link on Ryujinx controlled infrastructure results in a ban or something, otherwise Nintendo comes for them next.
> I think ThinkPads are better than MacBooks. You can get P14 with 32gb of RAM...

> The problem is that Windows sucks more and more...

Not to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like the ThinkPads have been technical specs, but the overall experience is worse due to the software.

If so, I might challenge your final comment, which is "you get more for your money". Ultimately, I think people want a great experience, not a bunch of specs.
I think that was a premature decision we'll eventually have to reverse. Just as fixing the speed of light, things might not be as constant as current theory states it is.
Well yeah, we're talking a about WHY it's a problem for them to stop.
I agree with the general point but "couple of hours to get to the airport" you must live a long long way from the airport if this is normal.
They may not be able to feel the difference between notes, especially in the higher frequencies, but they can still feel the percussion, bass, etc. They can still dance to the same beat as everyone else even if their eyes are closed. They can feel the overall intensity.
How many fuel launches are required for that?
So we should just believe an anonymous stranger on the Internet.

Got it!
As fast as the terrible wifi on the switch will let you
Recently got a ThinkPad T14s gen 4 with top-of-the-line AMD 7840U, 32GB RAM and 512GB SSD, for just a bit over $1k. It has very good build quality, is powerful yet quiet, and has decent battery life. It supports up to 4 displays. That's basically one of the best Windows laptops you can get.

Of course, it does not have high-DPI mini LED screen, great speakers or 18 hours of battery life, but none of that really matters, and I'd choose this any day over a similarly speced Macbook Pro 14 that would cost me $2,399.
I've had a similar train of thought, based on my experience with earlier Macbooks -- that I would pick the Air over the Pro specifically because it does _not_ have a fan and therefore could never make fan noise. But like spinningarrow, I don't think I've ever heard the fan on my work-issued M1 Pro MBP.
> I didn't think it'd be the Mylar balloon of the Apollo LM

The Apollo LM weighed 15-16.5 metric tons at launch. Not exactly a Mylar balloon.
I opened this expecting to see legitimate criticisms about the culture problems at google, but I can't get past the excessive whining about wokeness. I think that pseudo-progressive policies at hyper-capitalist corporations can contribute to the types of problems we have seen in Gemini. However, conflating those issues with some employee complaining about being "strongly encouraged" to choose their pronouns, and being disgusted by the "15 different crazed pronoun combinations" made me tap out. I don't care to read some culture warrior's weird manifesto.
They might have meant the 172 skyhawk which is what the skylark is based on and is still available.

If you want applesto apples check out the Mosquito helicopter. One person experimental/ultralight helicopter that can basically match this thing for performance
This comes up often, but it's honestly totally fine for a non-technical user who only occasionally uses anything other than Safari and Photos.

The vast majority of their market would not fit into the developer, content creator, or just plain power-user category. There's people who just log on to do internet banking and email when they're not on Reddit or Facebook.

For some anecdata, 16/512+ would be a waste on my parents, in-laws and my whole extended family for that matter. They would benefit from it, but they're not screaming at spinning wheels, and are probably a bit more patient and accustomed to 'slowness', which is pretty subjective.
I worked at WebTV before it was public… back when it was called Artemis Research and had a website that proclaimed we did research in sleep deprivation of rabbits (there was a pet bunny rabbit that wandered the office, occasionally making a mess of things).

I love how wonderfully weird the web was back then! Such a different world; so hard to explain today to those who didn’t know it. And an incredibly talented team.
Nah, it’s the single reason I have zero interest in Mac hardware.
When you look at what's available today...

f/2.7, sharp at fully open, parfocal, zero focus breathing, fully manual zoom lenses...

and what used to be...

f/5.6, sharp only when stopped down even further, massive focus breathing, prime lenses...

well, vintage lenses start to look like toys.
Answer for 3.

It is a waste. I graduated 5 years ago. Joined Master hoping something good would happen. Learnt a few things here and there. Now I am in objectively bad position where I ruined my family relationship, ruined health and ruined most of the things.

Life just sucks and everything is gray.
Reminder that the settlement against Gary Bowser was from the criminal investigation against him, as was his prison sentence. The civil damages added more for sure, but the US DOJ was a big part of that outcome.
> "why don't programming languages have a built-in graph data type?"

What I find a little funny about that question is that people miss the fact that there isn't even a tree data structure in most languages. Most languages have static arrays, dynamic arrays, linked lists, and... that's it as far as structural types go. Everything else (BSTs, hashtables, etc.) is some semantic abstraction that hides some capabilities of the underlying structure, not a purely structural representation.
>Apple would've sent a message that you can not rely on the web to reach your customers on iOS.

I mean, given the rest of their malicious compliance over the paranoia of losing App store power, this seems to align with their goals. The only kink in this armor comes from old history where the Jobs era clearly didn't like the idea of the web on iPhone, but market forces made them add in all sort of specific exceptions and restrictions for browsers at the end of the day.

But that was in the Jobs era, nearly a decade ago. I can see them wanting to slowly try again.

>Apple removed PWA support so they would not have to open up the APIs to other browsers. Period.

All other browsers of... Mozilla? Most other people are perfectly fine staying in webkit land. Even Google probably wouldn't change much if IOS opened up.
That article is highly recommended by me to anyone thinking about it. Hilarious but also makes its point.
Online images amplify gender bias
Based on "marginally more expensive", I have to say you live in a bubble and likely won't understand the replies.

Just to point out one fact -- people buy $289 Gateway laptops from Walmart and use it as their daily driver.
Andy Rubin was also a very early WebTVer; probably one of the first two or three employees, and was there through the Microsoft acquisition.
I’ve come to love all sides of Miles.
If you're doing software development then you really should buy the Pro.

The limiting factor won't be the memory but the thermal throttling.
That album is more challenging to appreciate for listeners new to jazz, while Kind of Blue is immediately accessible to mainstream listeners.
Beware of the Newsroom-Destroying "Answer Engine"
I'll take it. Better than email rejection after email rejection. At least you can elicit some feedback on a phone/video call.
> Why? Because it puts pressure on developers to keep the bloat under control.

I've yet to notice the impact on getting web sites to stop using incredibly bloated JavaScript that leak memory, video conferencing & streaming apps from using codecs that redline the CPU, or game developers from writing games that make the GPU cry uncle, or...

> 1990 saw the launch of the Mac LC which had a 16 MHz Motorola 68020.

You got lucky, because we got the Mac II Si back then, but they were both kneecapped on the factory floor by the 16-bit memory bus that crippled the 68020's 32-bit memory bus. 2 year old PCs ran circles around it. Planned obsolescence was was one of Apple's crowning achievements back then.

> 1999 brought the Power Mac G4 at up to 500 MHz

The Macbook Air from ten years ago would be Retina I had: a 2-core i7 that could go up to 3.5 GHz. Ask me how well that runs software written for the new M3's. ;-)

> MacBook Airs are the mainline consumer machine these days. Apple does not want users to feel like they need to upgrade them every year (despite what people say).

You might have missed this bit from Apple's blurb on the new MacBook Airs: "13x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air". The fastest Intel-based Macbook Air was produced [checks notes], 4 years ago. It's hard not to read that like they aren't trying to convey a need to upgrade.

If you're wondering why people are saying what they're saying, it's because Apple is saying what they're saying.
You seem to have a remarkably uncharitable view of your discussion partner.
HDMI 1.4b does 1440p75 or 4k30 and HDMI 2.0 was brand new at the time.

> the grass isn't always greener, there's lots of pain points with x86 hardware too. heck, those celerons you're so fond of are down to literally a single memory channel by this point. is a single stick going to be enough raw bandwidth for a developer that wants to be compiling code etc?

What a weird argument; no shit a bargain bin CPU from 10 years ago is worse than a brand new mid-range chip. That's the exact point I'm making. That Celeron was bad 10 years ago. 10 years of progress, billions of dollars of investment and you get the same maximum RAM capacity, less external monitors at a much higher price.
The US uses a progressive tax system. That 25% cut may bring them down under that threshold.

Also earning more money doesn't mean your take home will be less cause you're in a higher bracket.
yeah, is there a way to deserialize using (val, err) instead of *val when the field is optional?
If you're looking for an alternative view, check out "The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber and Wengrow.
Makes sense. Coframe (https://coframe.ai) comes top of mind
Raspberry Pi is a server too... For home automation.
(Darn; I was two hours late to post this...)
CodeCrafters (YC S22) is hiring an influencer manager (interns welcome)
That’s a lot of smack talk for someone who didn’t provide a link to their own, even more impressive project.

This kind of reaction reminds me of people who can’t fathom why anyone would use a database without an ORM. (And meanwhile I’m confused because nearly everything I do with a database would be twice as difficult and ten times slower with an ORM in the way.)
A family friend of ours just had a child -- 6 years old -- diagnosed with diabetes, and has to wear one of these monitors, with that same app and everything.

Neat idea.
It’s wild that they can say that with a straight face.
My problem was that I brought a USB-C to lightning cable to charge my phone off my computer, but I forgot a USB-C brick (and magsafe or USB-C cable) so that my computer had power. Fortunately there were Apple employees at the conference and they let me borrow a charger while we were hanging out at the bar!
There’s a conspiratorial tone to this which is not surprising when you check the author’s history: Federalist Society, Claremont institute, Trump DOJ, a source cited for criticisms of various environmental policies, and current partner of a law firm founded by an RJ Reynolds heir which represents energy companies.

That provides an easy explanation for why he’s acting like he just discovered a deeply held secret everyone’s been talking about for years, because the alternative is admitting that the problem is vehicle weight and that means acknowledging that the big SUVs and trucks companies have found vastly profitable are also a problem.

A more honest position would be recognizing that all forms of driving have a significant impact which the laws of physics make unavoidable and we should be incentivizing smaller vehicles across the board and reducing the number of solo trips. Unfortunately, I doubt that would be compatible with continued paychecks so we should probably find a different author.
Me too. Seems to be a trend among us, the new generation. Everything looks bleak.
I haven't seen this page in years. Before I got my first computer, I had a webTV for about a year.
Foot in the door technique. Classic trick.

That said, I doubt it here. they thought a feature was barely used and got enough flack to realize it may get them in deep wanted with DMA. But we don't know how strict they are with PWAs specifically. They probably backed off to prevent anymore of the various issues they caused themselves over this whole thing.
I deliberately did not say I wanted jacking to be infeasible — but I DO want it quite far down on the options list, as in there's >10 better things to try first.

(And yes, I've done a fair amount of wrangling vehicles, gear, etc. in snow, dirt, mud, & rocks, and eventually it can often be gotten out. But on a different planet/moon, it really should be not be anything close to a primary option. OTOH, if it's got a set of 6+ pop-out lever-legs to upright itself, tested, etc., that's a different solution)
At some point /shrug. If you want to live like you're richer than you are, go on right ahead. Incredibly illogical but whatever.
Going on a tangent here but it's interesting seeing the love for Apple in this thread right vs the (well deserved) hate in the thread about Apple being fined for 1B in EU [0]

Apple has a serious anti consumer practices and we should not be supporting this company. The EU fine is just a start and hopefully there is a serious crack down to force them to open their hardware and software. Cheers to EU and its wonderful policies, let's hope the rest of the world follows through!

In any case, encouraging their behavior by constantly purchasing their services and computers should be discouraged.

Their hardware maybe good but we should cease to support this company until their attitude changes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589483
Battery life is important, but does 6hr vs 9hr vs 16hr actually matter to you? Do you actually carry your laptop around all day without access to power outlets? If not, I don't see why that should be a factor.
> they had to make sure their site layout worked on WebTV

They weren't big enough to benefit from the fact that one of the components of WebTV's architecture was an entire "page patching" database and proxy that would fix HTML from popular sites that didn't work correctly on their browser.
This is not advanced, but Rodrigues' rotation formula (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues%27_rotation_formula) which is used to act on vectors given an axis-angle vector representation of the rotation. This calculation or similar is used all the time in 3D programming, but I thought the derivation would be a bunch of unintuitive trig so I never bothered with the proof until I was bored. Given a vector v, v can be thought to act on other vectors u as (v x u). The "v x" can be represented by a rank one anti-symmetric matrix (with 3 degrees of freedom, same as v) which can be thought of as a "rotation generator". In fact, anti-symmetric matrices are the Lie algebra which generate rotation matrices. One way to compute the exponential is by a matrix Taylor series. By some algebraic properties of anti-symmetric matrices, this expanded Taylor series can easily be rearranged into Rodrigues' rotation formula.

This is on the simpler side of applied math but I think it leads well to thinking about interesting things like encodings of geometric objects (vector versus rank-constrained tensor) and to geometric algebra which is becoming more popular in game development.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/ms379574...
Are you required to stand still for throwing? Olympic events involving throwing a weighted object tend to include foot rotation as part of the motion.
European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls
yeah, all you need is adding the chatbot embedding script the the <head> element of WordPress
Here is the guide how to do it: https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/add-code-wordpress-header-f...
I also found a response by chatgpt: https://chat.openai.com/share/907d6fdc-d7a9-402d-86ab-8028f9...
https://chat.openai.com/share/2caf7e50-3b89-4691-951f-b8e876...

Here is the blogs for the platform: https://www.chat-data.com/blog/category/use-cases

Here is the guide: https://www.chat-data.com/api-reference#section/Chat-Data-We...
Interesting, when I got fiber they pulled a fiber without a connector inside the home and welded a pigtail to it with the machine described in the article.

Took a while, was fun to watch.
The most shocking thing to me was the Bridge Crane in the clean room. That's got to be one hell of a complex production process to get that right.
Actually I just did this the other day with an iPad Pro and it was kinda neat. Instead of asking me to enter the serial number, it said something like “it’s this device” or “use this device”. After I tapped that it just continued on and asked me about the condition of the iPad.

I have seen that serial number prompt before though, I don’t know what makes it ask for a serial number versus prompting to use the current device’s serial number. I’m not even sure how it knew what device I was on to be honest.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Osborne
"Cheapest" but not cheap. A $400 Steam Deck can do 3 external monitors with an inexpensive MST hub and has a single USB C port.

The MBA is an extremely close competitor to the Dell XPS line too. And "Pro" doesn't even guarantee you more monitors. The $1600 M3 MBP is just as limited as the "consumer" Air.
People also prefer to fly in personal helicopters.

Simply because people like something doesn't mean it happens. The world has constraints.

And those constraints negotiate between what people want and what makes sense in the real world.

When you literally steam roll the constraints, make alternatives worse and literally flatten whole parts of cities to make things happen. Then that not a simply outcome of 'desire for more space'.

Roads in subburbs aren't so absurdly large because of a desire for more space. Absurdly oversized lawns aren't actually that practical or useful (not to mention costly and environmental disaster).

Your story of 'space above all else' simply doesn't hold up. Yes people want space, but they also want lots of other things. Its a balance. And if you do radical intervention to shift the balance you influence the result.

The simply reality is that one of the driving forces of many suburban developments was that it was simply illegal for black people to move there. In fact, after a wguke prices in parts of the city were so low that you could get a whole lot more space for not so much money. And yet still many people moved to suberbia.

Its almost as if massive investment in on thing and massive disinvestment in the other leads to people wanting to move where the investment is.
Forgive me for saying so but much of humanities discourse seems like obscurantism.
They just had a p14s for sale with 64GB ram for 1000 USD.... I just couldn't bring myself to buy a laptop with 4 hours battery life with typical usage... Will probably pick up an M3 Air.
Fast "hard bop" Jazz from the '50s-60s e.g. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.

It's intense, upbeat music.