skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even without the export ban, there was no real international demand for the F-22. The cost was so high that none of our close allies could even remotely afford it, especially after the end of the Cold War and prior to the rise of China as an expansionist global power. Back when F-22 production was terminated in 2009, everyone was cutting (or at least not increasing) military spending. If Japan or Australia had really pushed to buy the F-22 it would have been possible to produce an export model with the more sensitive items stripped out. They didn't want it.
I could always smell iron filings when standing on an enclosed train platform. There's definitely something floating around there.
I suspect your wits leave you extremely quickly when it happens - Adam Savage said it was incredibly unsettling to be in the car when it went in the water, and that was in a controlled situation with a rescue diver in the back seat.

They do make actual hammers for this situation that also include seat belt cutters because that can also be an issue. That said, I can’t imagine that anyone practices with one since you’d have to replace your window after. I wonder if the Tesla glass can actually stand up to one of them.
Groq is hardware not software... It's like saying the H100 hallucinated.
While I take your point, it’s interesting to note that the US seems poised to return an isolationist leader back into power, pulling funding from NATO and likely resuming a hostile attitude to China. There are many authoritarian leaders looking at how Ukraine and Israel are progressing and considering making a move of their own. Especially as supply issues and wavering political support for overseas military interventions are telling signs of weakness in Pax Americana to protect the world, with attendant peril for the global economy

Edit: Just in case it wasn’t obvious, this evolving situation is counter to the hypothesis that improving military capability means ‘world peace’, particularly when there is always asymmetry and misalignment between geopolitical forces
Why? We already have AWACS that essentially serves as C&C for fighter squadrons.

Although, I could see how it might proceed as you suggest. Allow AWACS to direct squadrons into areas of interest and keep the bigger picture in mind while allowing the squadron level pilots to C&C the drones and focus on the details of which targets to engage. All from a nicely air conditioned "cockpit" from Sunnyvale
Why do they need VC backing? They aren't paying advances to authors up-front, and paying royalties later doesn't require a bankroll of investment (you only have to pay it after the revenue comes in). They would need funds to pay for actually printing the books, but even this should be doable with their existing investors (which includes former publishing CEOs and big name authors) and bank loans. If this were VC-backed I'd feel differently, but as it's described it sounds like a great option for authors who want to take a risk on themselves.
I do often think people forget that when the iPhone app store was released it was a game changer. The whole idea of a single place to download all apps and games was huge for most people including developers. It meant that everything was there, in the one place and managed through that one app.

Now a decade has passed and we're asking for change. That's fine, but we can't forget that when the app store first came out there wasn't this hysteria around the need to sideload. The app store as a place for developers to publish their apps was huge, Apple did the publishing for you. How that we all have more choice, we're expecting Apple to change to provide more choice.

But we can't forget how beneficial the app store and the "walled" approach was.

I do agree with a lot of your points. Now there could be an aspect of predatory behavior by Apple in the way they charge developers etc, but that's where I feel the problem should be tackled.

If the iPhone walled garden app store approach is so bad, then why is it so successful?
> If your password is incorrect, it checks again with the case swapped to account for caps lock being on.

I love this idea, going to add this to future projects.
A wandering white shark's epic journey could provide clues for protection
The B-52 has been operating long enough to have grandkids flying it: https://www.minot.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/264580...
> Web Distribution means Apple is handing over responsibilities previously handled by the Marketplace directly to the developer. Allowing developers to police themselves is obviously riskier.

Doesn't that depend on who the developer is? Certainly it isn't the case that no one exists who the user might trust at least as much as Apple.

> This is simply not true. Device owners are hopeless at maintaining the security of their devices.

"Device owners" includes substantially all people. Many of them are not hopeless and are entitled to make their own decisions. Some of them are even more qualified to do it than the people Apple has reviewing apps.

The hopeless people may be better off sticking to trusted stores, but they can do that without prohibiting others from doing otherwise.

> There are 2 tiers of "vetting services": 1. Marketplaces determine the appropriate content or type of apps allowed in their listings, 2. Apple determines if an app, developer, or marketplace is an outright threat, e.g. if an app turns out to be a scam, or if a bug in an app exposes an exploit, it is "strictly necessary" for Apple to be able to yank the app immediately.

That doesn't change the question. How is it "strictly necessary" for Apple to do that, rather than whoever the owner of the device chooses to do it? It would obviously be possible for a third party like Symantec, Malwarebytes or the makers of uBlock to do the same thing.
Its one of two or three editing suites used industry wide, so most likely. Also has been around the longest, iirc.
Surprisingly easy to learn the basics in a few hours, maybe try it out sometime.
Quantities aren’t high enough.

Which is one of the reasons the military likes using civilian ammo.
By AI enabled do you mean a Gpt wrapper?
That is always my refute to people who think that money alone can buy creators. Real creators do not give a fuck about money, they just have to.
Mars attracts: How Earth's interactions with the red planet drive deep-sea circ
As another said, it depends on the country.

But if the options include JAL or ANA, always take them over any US carrier. They are not even the same kind of thing compared to what we endure in the US.
EDIT: Sorry - The article was about it took 17 YEARS to work out all these bugs...

So - it reminded me of the thought of the 737max bugs that boeing is plagued with right now...

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Well, I just looked up every boeing safety event on NTSB since 1970:

https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/ResultsV2.aspx?queryId=d6cc0483-0...

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But thats for commercial...

Im going to dig into this more and make a separate post in r/aviation..
Huh. I think this might be what I get maybe 3 or 4 times a year since my 20s.

This specular, colourless arch in the center of my view that slowly grows into a ring, grows larger and larger until it's just around my peripheral vision, and then is gone and that's that. No symptoms other than a kind of blindness where it is in my vision.

None of the artwork in this page really describe it well for me, though maybe they're trying to be more abstract. The example on Wikipedia is almost a perfect rendering of what I see, now that I've looked it up.

The blindness is a fascinating experience because the brain is clearly trying hard to fill in the blanks. I can look at text in a book and I see text in a book... but if I try to read any of the text it just kind of isn't there. I have to read by looking slightly away from the text.
finding information is much easier
I see this question a lot.

People complain about the products that are best for them. Nobody (with the power to decide what they use) complains about a product long, unless it is still their best choice.

And suppliers of products being complained about are not companies "not worth supporting". They are making the product that is the best fit for the complaining customer! They are not perfect. They can do better. So customers speak up.
FAANG got into a bidding war when money was cheap and stocks were moving fast and turned their SWE jobs into a upper middle class vehicles like medicine, law, finance, etc

Cargo cult startups followed along by naiviete and businesses that had to compete for their same pool of talent followed along by necessity.

But those compensation packages are disconnected from the value generated by the engineers and eclipses it in almost every business and division, so it's not sustainable. The big layoffs are a first part of the correction, and a quieter adjustment will happen as non-cash compensation (options, stock grants, etc) calibrates itself into today's more grounded economy.

The managers saying "80k is a high salary" to you are give-or-take correct (assuming you're in a mid/low cost of living area). Software engineering remains a hot market with lots of money flying into it and will pay better than other engineering fields for a while longer, but ultimately pegs into the same "professional middle class" bucket as the rest.

If you want to be filthy rich, software engineering is only the right choice when you have an opportunity to ride one of the boom waves and FIRE yourself. You probably won't have that opportunity again for years if you aren't on today's cresting wave already. That's the second hill in your bimodal distribution and it's a dwindling aberration.

But if you just like writing software and being financially secure, the first hill is pretty great.
China has more than 200+ J-20s and growing. The J-31 is there too, but likely in smaller numbers for carriers?

Your point on how effective they really are or not is on point though. Ukraine has shown a lot of Russian wunderwaffe aircraft performing less than spectacularly.
care to explain why attention has precision issues with fp8?
Hmm, I mean to say that I have tried all different combinations of temperature, top_x etc parameters and all the responses are almost same, sometimes verbatim ...
Agatha Christie would have to rename her book to "The Body Drifting in the Library".
Potentially because Macbooks represent a more sustainable model for software distribution and don't prevent people from downloading apps directly from websites.
No, force for peace at home. Not peace in theater. That's irrelevant /s
I've flown long distance economy a lot, and business class a few times, and I just wish airlines would serve sandwiches instead of elaborate, mediocre meals. It would probably be better, and it would definitely be easier to eat in a cramped economy seat.
Clarification: bfloat16

“bfloat16 data type and arithmetic instructions (AI and others)”

https://eclecticlight.co/2024/01/15/why-the-m2-is-more-advan...
What is the luxury of an app/software?
From what I’ve seen, it works extremely well if you’re traveling to a western country.
> If someone puts forth a proposal that a fairly awkward and easily misunderstood and error prone expression like "bool > bool" should produce a compiler error, and your response is that if we do that, we may as well just change all of C++'s syntax so that one could rename rustc to g++ and it just work

My first comment gave and example followed by saying "I don't think that's what anyone here is talking about", and my most recent response reiterated that I considered my example as explicitly being outside the boundary of what anyone would consider acceptable. It feels like you're going through great lengths to try to present it as something I actually recommended when I've been quite clear that I don't think it's anywhere close to reasonable. I've been quite clear that I'm not proposing anything; on the contrary, I'm _asking_ about how to decide whether something is a breaking change that's worth it or not because I'm not at all an expert in C++ and I don't pretend to be.

The only "ideological thinking that holds back progress" due from "purists" going on here is your insistence that I should be disqualified from asking questions because I happened to try to use a hypothetical example that you didn't like.
They do sell out upgraded seats every flight.

In the later 90s, I used to try to upgraded at check in. It was usually a 2x cost of the was a seat or less vs 3x of you got first class ahead of time. Since the 00s is pretty much never an option. Most flights are over sold and getting a decent seat (prefer front row) is really hard.

And the past couple years, even then they're often sold out when buying tickets less than months ahead of time. Mostly have traveled in occasion for work and mostly shorter notice.
The complaints in that thread, about how hard it is to exchange money for Fortran compilers (and then, if you succeed, trying to figure out the overly paranoid license management software) really brings back "fond" memories of academia 20 years ago. In a world with github and crates.io and pypi and npm, it really is weirdly quaint.
Check out some youtube video on Emirates or Singapore airlines on their suite experience on the A380. You will see how great the food can be before you go take your shower and go to sleep in your full size bed.
I've only had the experience once, years ago, but I thought it was my retina detaching (based on the vague descriptions opthalmologists have given me my entire life). It was the middle of the night, so I went to the ER. They thought I was on drugs, then got angry with me for "self-diagnosing using Google" when I showed them an artist's impression of a scintillating scotoma and said that's what it must be.

Mine was very colourful, and as the arc/spiral/ring grew, most of the inner part retained the unusual visual effect. I made an animated GIF at the time.[1] I remember distinctly that the edges were the pseudocolour that flickers rapidly between yellow and purple, like my perception of pressure phosphenes.

I'm still very curious why it has such a specific appearance. Does it have something to do with the pattern of receptors on our retina? I know there are more numerous, closely-spaced receptors near the middle and fewer spaced further apart the closer to the outer edge, so I've assumed there was a connection, but haven't seen information either way.

[1] Imagine a growing spiral made of thousands of triangles like these, with triangles closer to the middle smaller in size and larger toward the edges. Or alternatively, imagine the painting by Hubert Airy in the article, but made up of these triangles.

>>> WARNING: not for people with sensitivity to rapidly flashing light! <<<

http://www.beneaththewaves.net/aura.gif
Ever since IBM destroyed TWC and Wunderground, things have become worse. Wunderground personal weather stations were the most accurate weather forecasts.
Lmao what are you talking/coping about? What happened to carriage drivers is pretty well-documented. Maybe ask one of these AI chatbots, they will summarize it for you.
I do the same in ICE cars with automatic transmissions and it seems just fine. I think the torque converter handles the opposition elegantly.
This is a terrible idea!

It means that the passwords have far less entropy.

It means the uppercase you password when generating a hash. Good lord.
But they wouldn’t be able to do that with OP’s suggested phrasing, which amongst other flaws calls out Apple specifically (and exclusively).
Your answer is the only correct answer. The original article might have been correct for half a century ago but has nothing to do with today where food is universally bad on airplanes across the world with the only possible exception being airlines like Emirates whose business model is not to run an airline but to get people to fly to their host country.
That's an interesting anecdote.

I fly first class a fair bit (10-12 flights per year), and children in first class is pretty rare. When I've seen it, they've never been rowdy. In fact, my experience is that its usually really quiet, which is one of the things I really value.

Maybe i'm just the luckiest person in the world. But its never happened to me and I fly a moderate amount to have some sample data.

I will concede, that flight rowdiness in general is very different based on time of day. The afternoon is the worst. Fridays and Mondays are the worst. I love night flights, to the point where I prefer them. Everyone is so much calmer on red-eyes.
I don't think my parents are going to understand that they can navigate to a particular website on the mobile browser where they can download apps or perhaps for no different in price at all out of freedom.

They would say why can't I just download it on the app store.

You forget that is why a app store was introduced in the first place on the smartphone. To enable an easy centralised place for all apps and games.

The average/majority of the population were not going to navigate to shitty mobile websites or desktop websites on their mobile browser to download apps in 2008.
Then why do cops and government officials get QI in non-emergency situations?
As a fat and tall guy, it's all about the extra free inches of space. Worst seat is the back isle. Person in front of my pushed seat back and dislocated my knee. Short notice flying for work can really suck.
I think you're both right. Obviously, given the success of no frills airlines, the vast majority of consumers are absolutely price focused. The shorter the route, the more evident this is.

Equally some small minority (assumed from the relative tinyness of business/first class) are prepared to pay for more.

Both can be true at the same time, and are.

For longer flights, the desire for at least some amenities goes up. I don't expect in-flight entertainment from London to Schipol, but London to Sydney without a screen would be brutal.

Personally I'm in the camp where the worst food in the terminal is still 10 times better than the food on the plane, so I eat before and after, not during. But everyone else seems to love the hour killed discovering what they're being fed. So again, room for different opinions.
Is this place still in business? "OM is not sex" ... what a scam.
> > Nobody stops you from paying $1000 for a shirt made by artisans right now. Do you want to?

> If you don't do <insert extreme edge case> then your point is invalid. /s.

> Look, you dont have to pay $1000 for a shirt made by an artisan to get a quality shirt. It can be a bit more expensive, but much cheaper than that. And this can be true while being fair/reasonable to the artisan and also to the person acquiring it.

In the ideal case, this would be true: Following classical economics, there would be some predictable demand left as you go up the price curve, assuming genuine quality & labour.

However, this doesn't seem to be the case. The existence of low-cost mass-produced options leads to the satiation of demand above that spot of the curve. There still exists demand, but it's weirdly lower than predicted. People can shop down the price curve, but relatively fewer would do the opposite.
Wait, Buick is a luxury car now?
Those optimizations increase the value of labor by greatly increasing the amount of output per unit of labor. Do you understand how much wealthier the modern worker is than the pre Industrial Revolution peasant?
There are very few pieces of software I have most respect for than Excel. It powers entire industries, from Finance to Science to Big Tech, is stable as hell, backward compatible, and won't stop innovating. And now you can run Python on it - I'd say it would dominate the world now, but it's already there.
This is not unique to Apple. All headphones with tiny batteries in the drivers take the piss after a few years aging.

That said, my MacBooks have the best laptop batteries of any computer I’ve owned. My wife went through multiple laptops in the time I kept one in college. Turns out some electronics just suck!
From yet another field where deterministic simulation is often a goal (robotics), the ideal is a simulation test system that is deterministic for a given initialization (e.g. a random seed) so that for an initialization that causes some error to occur, you can reliably reproduce and resolve the error. Of course, you then need to run that system with a range of initializations to have confidence that you didn't just get lucky with the initialization.

In practice, this can be quite hard to do in the presence of uncontrolled non-determinism (e.g. thread/process/GPU scheduling)* and it is often more pragmatic to invest the time in better stochastic testing and logging than deterministic reproduction.

* Yes, these can be made closer to deterministic. But doing so often comes with reduced performance, such that the system you are testing would no longer match the system being deployed, defeating much of the purpose of the test in the first place.
Ask the pilot ?
The Joy computer language and Scheme with SICP are prime examples.

Reading SICP it's the 'easy way' and the Joy docs plus trying to code even simple
as a quadratic eqn solver it's a deep, hard task which requires lots of knowledge on cathegory theory.
How does the screen compare to the original Game Boy, or even the Game Boy Pocket?
I have been scammed before by the top result also. So not only are they taking a 30!!!!!% tax on developers (not only on profit) but they milk ad. money from shysters. Yet you still have the just “use another phone” / don’t release your app with them people. Yeah who? Monopoly B?
With War Bonds and rationing of certain materials instead of debt financing them through foreign governments.

Sorry, you said won, not pay for. But the point stands. If we were to get into a conflict with China, not sure how the military industrial complex would get funded.
Chyrp was my first "microblog" and I loved it, it showed me a lot of what you could do with conventions and simple content. It definitely inspired me to look more into web development and coding in general.
I've spent my life trying to understand computers, all the way from the chemistry of the quality of quartz used to make wafers up to the nuances of LLMs and their robot embodiments.

I'm a level 1 kinda guy. I never quite understood people at other
levels. Do you want to do computers because other people do (level 2), because
you have a better gaming computer (level 3), or you love Apple products? (level 4)

This is a really insightful article. It explains why everyone is "into computers"
but don't want to discuss transistor dielectric breakdown or high-bandwidth memory or functional programming or ...

We need names for the levels such as Deadhead (level 1), Groupie (level 2), Fanboy (level 3) and Comicon (level 4).
Yes, I can't login to OpenAI - I'm also redirected to https://www.arkoselabs.com/
> Doesn't this only detect when you press caps lock and turn it on? That's the result I got from testing it out in the browser console.

No, if CapsLock was set to on when you pressed the key, getModifierState('CapsLock') returns true. It is true that this doesn't let you query the caps lock status directly at will, instead you have to wait for a keyboard event. But it is not merely telling you that Caps Lock itself was pressed, rather that a key was pressed while CapsLock was enabled.

This is exactly how it's working for me as I test it on this textarea.

So if you wanted to add one of those "Hey, Caps Lock is on" warnings to a password field, you could do so, you'd just have to wait for the first key to be pressed.