skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience ranges from “it’s fine“ to “why do I have to wait for another season? I want more now!“.

They’ve done a great job. And clearly the rumors that they were being heavy-handed censoring the content to be family friendly were untrue.

However it all has such high production values that I’m a little worried they can’t keep it up without raising the price a bunch. Since Apple TV+ is available everywhere it’s not like they can use it as a loss leader to sell their devices. You can watch it on your Samsung TV and never buy a single apple product.

My genuine feeling about TV+ over the last year has been wishing they would slow down a bit so I could catch up on some of the stuff they’ve been releasing because so much looks interesting to me. Even some of the stuff I’ve tried that I wasn’t really expecting to be great I really enjoyed like Shrinking or The Big Door Prize.
Calculation time!

Key assumptions. Wookiepedia lists 120 km for the diameter of the first Death Star [1]. Density of steel is around 8000 kg/m^3 [2]. As a wild guess, I'll assume a uniform sphere with about 1/4 that density (i.e., rho = 2000 kg/m^3), to account for open space etc.

Surface gravity [3] is given by g = (4pi/3) * G * rho * r = 0.03 m/s^2
(i.e., about 0.3% that of Earth).

Escape velocity [4] is given by v = sqrt(2 * g * r) = 60 m/s = 134 mph

This is faster than I would have guessed, but I would expect that to be in reach for a good trebuchet. It's reasonable to assume the compactor is required to load compressed trash into such a device.

[1] https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Star/Legends
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel#Properties
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_gravity#Relationship_o...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity#Calculation
> We use the data to find people with open recalls where Toyota doesn't know who the current owner is.

Shouldnt this be able to go through the State? My state informed me of a recall on a vehicle that I bought used.
Yeah, the 90s in french always tripped me out. 91 = quatre-vingt-onze = four-twenty-eleven
Indian Empire is older than Roman Empire if i'm not wrong and even America had emires before Europeans colonized. You need to read more history
OpenCL is a Khronos open spec for GPU compute, and what you’d use on Apple platforms before Metal compute shaders and CoreML were released. If you wanted to run early ML models on Apple hardware, it was an option. There was an OpenCL backend for torch, for example.
It's a family business owned and run a bunch of stubborn Bavarians. I'm optimistic.
I find python quite hard to read, honestly. The lack of typing in most python means that it isn’t immediately clear what a given piece of code does without diving into its implementation. You have to rely on docstrings (good luck) or descriptive naming.

The issue with null pointers is that they are, as you said, a stand-in for an invalid state. However, most null pointers don’t prevent you from trying to use the underlying data, which can, among other things, cause crashes (think not checking the return value of malloc). Additionally, it doesn’t make formal the litany of possible forms that a value can take — if you codify possible states, then you don’t always need to check everything. I’m currently working to port security firmware from C to Rust, and I’ve found I make fewer state checks, because the data I’m working with has bounded state — the data given cannot be in an invalid state.
I see several comments noting phones in the theater. This also bothers me, but it also feels like this is a generational thing. Younger people who have always had their phones, for whom a two-screen experience is normal, and are socially active while passive watching. It feels like we’ve crested the peak here, and we’re rapidly becoming the “old man yells at cloud” rather than the voice of reason and consideration.
>> Mass media is not the problem. Personalized media is the problem. Mass media fosters consensus while personalized media fosters divergent views.

I'd say Mass Media is a huge problem if you happen to not be a member of the majority. Think about being a PoC in the 1980s where every villain in mass media looks like you. Think about being a PoC parent in the 1980s and having your children see people like you be vilified.

Personalized media is great IMHO.
> A family of five plus snacks is topping out around $60-70 nowadays

I am in NYC. I went on a double date to the movie theatres for Dune 2. It was like $90 for the tickets, $35 for the pop corn and drinks, and $28 for the alcohol.

Where are you getting this family discount at?
Cramming things into one layer can save gigabytes in size. Even if it saves a 100MB, it adds up between multiple CI runs and in deployment latencies.

Docker should address it one day, but until then, we just have to do it in real world scenarios.
Apple TV also has a much heavier sci-fi bent than any of the other services seem to.

With the exception of Ted Lasso, which I agree with you on, the other series listed are all sci-fi.

Maybe sci-fi is part of “dad TV”, maybe not. I’ve never never heard the term before today and honestly I read the article because I thought the title was weird to see what it was about. So good job hooking me I guess.
Hold on... Purity and functional programming are different things. Functional programs can be pure but not necessarily.

Functional programming means functions are first class citizens and can be constructed on the fly. Modern python, c++, rust, even java now do this.

Purity is a nice to have (and arguably rusts borrow system enforces a kind of purity).
They don't -need- to be. There are commercial options (see: https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/onshore-wind/... for example) with segmented blades.

However, I understand that doing a composite/chemical joint basically involves setting up a mini-factory, since your joint quality will depend very much on being able to control the conditions. Mechanical joints require less on site infrastructure, but have an efficiency penalty (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy23osti/84397.pdf).

In any case, I imagine Radia is betting on getting enough volume to make the development cost irrelevant. In the end, you had to transport the roughly the same amount of material onsite anyways, in roughly the same form factor. The cost of a fleet of aircraft can be amortized over a huge geographic span wind farms, while also being attractive from the perspective of delivering replacements.

I definitely think segmented blades are a way forward, but I can also see Radia's argument. I can totally believe that the "real winner" is going to a combination of situation and execution.
Crore is followed by 'Arab', not a thousand crore. The system also goes beyond 'Arab' but you won't normally encounter the higher terms.
Apple has in house expertise for everything from designing their own processors, writing their own OS and applications, world class designers, manufacturing at scale, and sourcing parts and negotiating favorable pricing.

No other company has all these competencies at the same level.
There's only about 3000 billionaires in the world. Again, cost is a moot point.
Gough Map
Isn't stl notoriously slow relative to most c++ implementations given equivalent functionality?

I've always understood stl to prefer rock solid safety+stability+compatibility (+ a bit of dogfooding) with the widest applicable domain (scale etc) over pure, unadulterated performance, but I haven't coded in c++ since college so I know nothing
+1 for hedgedoc. Only weird thing missing is an admin interface and easy way to check if no one is abusing any of those forgotten public pads that are hanging about.
I work for a very large company whose name starts with a G, and they recently put on an event for employees to watch a movie. The person next to me was on their phone the whole time (they appeared about halfway through the movie) and even took a call during the movie while remaining in their seat. If it wasn't a corporate event I would have left. As such, I couldn't even say anything since it wasn't like I had paid for the movie and I didn't want bad blood.

I was utterly baffled a working professional at this particular company could behave like this around their co-workers, thankfully no member of the general public has ever done something like that around me.
Genuine curiosity. What compels a company to write such an extensive handbook about remote work? The company I joined right after covid started was relatively small eng organization ~20 and we're up to 60-70 eng org but the company size is around ~300. There were lots of leadership meetings and communication but that's all we really needed to run a successful remote first company.
The Oxygen Bottleneck: Technological Alien Worlds Need Fire
>The long-running debate over whether the purpose of the corporation is to maximize short-term profits for shareholders or, alternatively, to operate in the interest of all stakeholders to promote long-term value, dates back to the 1932 law review exchange between Merrick Dodd (here) and Adolf Berle (here). Milton Friedman’s 1970 essay, The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, epitomizes the former view, known as shareholder primacy, which posits that the sole role of the corporation is to maximize shareholder profits. In Friedman’s words, “there is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” We have long advocated for a broader view of corporate purpose than Friedman’s and the shareholder primacy theory: first, as described in 1979 in Takeover Bids in the Target’s Boardroom, to empower boards to consider the interests of all stakeholders, including the communities in which corporations operate, in repudiating takeover bids by opportunistic raiders; and later, to encourage directors to resist short-term pressures and allow boards to exercise their business judgment to evaluate the variety of stakeholder interests that are essential to promoting sustainable success and growth in long-term corporate value.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/11/29/understanding-the...
I think I would sum this up with saying that strings are not simple, and there is a delicate balance between making simple things simple and complex things possible without shooting yourself in the foot - both as a user, and as a library designer.

Since Rust prefers to have verbosity and correctness over ease, it makes sense to have multiple types to reflect the different requirements of the underlying data.

I sympathize with some of the std library verbosity when it comes to strings (and paths) but I don't think it's really a big criticism of why Rust's learning curve is steep. You have the same issues in C++, and doubly so in C because it doesn't help you at all and when you screw up the program crashes. When you use strings in an unmanaged language and need to manipulate them, you do need to understand the underlying consequences of how those strings are defined and stored. Comparing to managed languages like Python and Go is a bit unfair, because they're working in a different domain.

Python is a great example of what happens when you try and hide complexity too far from the programmer - the python3 ecosystem fracture took millions of dollars and over a decade to settle - because of the inherent complexity in string representations.

> Rust is the only language I know of that has separate types for owned strings and a borrowed strings.

C++ and Objective-C (kinda) have different types for owned and referenced strings. C++ in particular has the same requirements as Rust, where referenced strings need to be able to refer to literals and it's not acceptable to make the default allocate.
I remember one day many years ago just snapping wondering what had been the the biggest animal to ever exist on earth, and after a few searches it seems like the consensus was *NOT* a dinosaur but the Blue Whale which still exists today, still think about it from time to time. The article only discusses land animals but I wonder if the blue whale still reigns after more modern discoveries.
Just ask nicely. "Could you provide a source for that claim?" No one is owed a citation in casual conversation; you're not holding them to an agreed upon standard, you're asking for a favor. So it's better to be polite and not escalate from a conversation to a debate or argument.
So what's the good VPN?
What are the barriers to doing so?
They're twisted so that they rotate when they catch the air, which is not what you want plane wings to do to the fuselage they're attached to.
I wonder if shingle hashes might help a lot here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinHash
I wrote a few plugins for it, the API is nice and simple: https://github.com/resolume/ffgl
It's relatively affordable, or was during the late pandemic, to simply book a theater. They charge about the same as twentyfive tickets and it's for you and up to twenty friends. Was great to add an intermission to the middle of James Bond to go hit the restroom and get drinks.
I feel this last paragraph accidentally explains it all

> Please understand, gentle reader, I am all for creating hassles and headaches for the Empire. I just doubt that the Empire would have created so many for itself.

The world of the empire in the 9 films seems orderly and well orchestrated. The version seen via Andor is more like what a real authoritarian technocracy would likely operate like. It strives more for the appearance of competency and control than actual positive results. The reason for this thing? Someone assumed it should be there, so it was.
The problem is corporate media which runs as a wing of the US State Dept. If we had state run media that identified itself as such it basically wouldn’t be different.
> I spent a half a day or so relatively recently trying to build our CI base image with Nix (at the recommendation of our infra team), but it was huge, and some stuff didn't work because of linking issues.

You must be talking about the official Nix Docker image[1], which indeed is huge. I've been using it for years for a handful of projects, but if the size is an issue you can use the method mentioned in the article and build a very minimal image with only the stuff you specify.

[1] https://hub.docker.com/r/nixos/nix/tags
For each family memeber too! There's something incredibly sinister about how Apple operates that people just accept. All those dark patterns and control is just so icky I don't understand how anyone aware of this can submit to this. Just from sheer self-respect.
A couple of our local theaters were doing this during the Pandemic. You could rent out the theater for something like $300 and they had a list of movies you could choose from. There wasn’t anything that accommodated the entirely family so we didn’t ever bother with it. I was hoping it’d hold out a bit more, but they’ve gone back to business as usual.
I don’t know about “metropolitan” but definitely… urban? I hate to be ageist but I think it’s mostly teenagers ruining things. They are basically untouchable and uncontrollable and they fully know it and take advantage. The best recent moviegoing experience I had was at 1:00 in the afternoon on a Wednesday because all the hooligan kids were in school and the theater was about a dozen grown adults.
Step 1. Throw more compute at it.
My personal machine is an M1 Air, and have to use PCs for work. The time it takes the PCs to wake from sleep until I can do actual work is a constant annoyance. The MacBook Air wakes just as quickly as an iPhone.

It’s details like that, which set Apple apart.
Japanese changed a couple too. From memory the pronunciation/written form of 4(?) was changed in some cases because it resembled death
Train the AI to make it fly anyway. :)
Is this article not a peer review? Written by Sabine Hossenfelder. German theoretical physicist.

"An exciting new theory reconciles gravity and quantum physics. I think it’s wrong. But I may be too."

I suppose the theory needs to be tested.
The problem is proving the culpability of a particular individual, because it is the organizational structure that drives criminal acts. That's why big organizations have lawyers on their payrolls in order to provide policies to shield individuals. The only way to get around that is to use RICO. I don't think any US attorney wants to use RICO against any big business in the states, thanks to the revolving door.
The more news you watch, the more insane you get. The more news the world watches, the more insane it gets. Notice that I am not saying that insane people obsess over the media, I am saying that people who obsess over the media go insane. To be even more clear: social media is making you unhappy. It is not making you aware of your unhappiness, it is causing it. It isn't pointing out how bad the world is, it's making the world bad.
My condolences. I guess I’m lucky then. We are still at $10/ticket which I think is also absurd but I’m glad I’m not in NYC!
That's why I don't buy Apple
>> Admittedly I've only been in the workforce for a couple decades, but isn't this precisely what large, or at a minimum publicly traded, companies operate on?

>> I've worked for multiple public companies and this is a universal theme among any I've worked with or for. Legally they're even required to do what is best for shareholders, nothing more.

Yes, in the long term. Not in the short term. The problem becomes when corporate Managers go from being long term greedy to short term greedy.

I'll share a, perhaps, controversial opinion. Google and Facebook and OpenAI share and give away enormous excess value. Their give-aways help grow these companies in the long term and the strategy has been super-successful. Google and Meta and OpenAI are examples of good long-term shareholder value creation.

- Example look at the vast array of things Google gives away freely. Colab. Open source projects. Chrome. Transformer research. All of it eventually benefits Google but plenty is excess value given away and creates much downstream value.

- Look at the vast amount of software and AI research Meta gives away. My entire startup was based on their software. If I had relied on Matlab, I would have been fleeced of all my operating cash.

- Example, look at OpenAI giving away ChatGPT 3.5 for free. Yes, it is an act of long-term greed, but in the short term they are giving away huge value. Imagine how Oracle would have done this -- you would have started the login screen with a credit card entry.

The problem happens when you get short-term finalcial-engineering focused managers running a company. They try to juice remaining value, load up with debt, press on customers, squeeze workers, and eventually kill the company.
Except for a brief spike as the Fed tried to coral the housing bubble, we’ve had CRAZY low rates for 20 years.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

A big part of that was inflation was bottled up by basically outsourcing manufacturing to low labor cost China, but that effect is declining for a variety of reasons.

Inflation has been stubborn and even with higher rates the economy is roaring, so higher rates may persist and be a drag on tech employment.
Yeah, the rod did nothing. I also think it would be odd to assume that this thing is single-phase.

As other have suggested, compaction is potentially needed to transport waste from the deeper parts. But there are several security considerations of just ejecting trash as-is from a high security area. I imagine a trash compactor is also a way to destroy the trash to prevent the old “spy tosses a data device into the prisoner cell block waste chute and have his allies follow the death star to pick it up during ejection”.
By the way, the author has a small forum with lots of updates on developments (and bugs) in large scale DPI systems.

https://ntc.party

What governments use today for censorship and spying will tomorrow be a one-click solution for small businesses and script kiddies.
$0 in marginal cost is hard to beat.
Shout out to Planet Morty, they can be great

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-...
My Sony Bravia from 2020 is visible from any angle and can be configured to do black frame insertion.
The obvious way to do this would be with a heavy-lift helicopter, but the article says this:

>Helicopters are more costly than airplanes, and flying with a dangling blade designed to catch wind would prove complex and dangerous.

Um, why not enclose the blade in a tube?

There are heavy-lift helicopters that can go 170 mph and carry 40 tons. No runway required.
ProtonVPN passes too which is funny because I'm solving so many captchas I could power an entire captcha solving saas all by myself. So I'm not entirely convinced by this method.
> It's also a beta product in many way.

I can't remember if it was here or somewhere else I saw the point made that the current Vision Pro is the worst one Apple will ever make. All future Vision* products will likely be technically improved from the current model. So if the Vision Pro is good right now it really can only be refined and get better.
The human eye is only sensitive at about 250hz, and even then it is only for brief flashes, as opposed to continuous motion. 1000hz is overkill.
According to this article, the differentiator for the Vision Pro are the tiny, high density OLED screens.
BTW the most common job in DC in 1996 was JANITORS!

I have to wonder if that survey was taken during the government shutdown when even was furloughed??
Constructing a runtime-invariant-checked utf8 string is not "omitting utf8 validation".
This is a fascinating. A community I've never heard of before and I've never seen discussed in any sci-fi book.

It's science cosplay!

A community that has all the basic trappings of science. They collect data. They make graphs. They run "trials". They have hypotheses. They read papers. They publish "results".

They start from a great place. And they keep all the fun parts of science. But they're missing all of the boring hard parts that make science work. The making sure your trials have controls. Designing trials carefully to avoid other interpretations. Running trial after trial to prove something.

And the way they go about data analysis is 100 years out of date. They're essentially reading case studies. Trying to read into every single outlier and unpack them. There's a reason why that's not mostly forbidden these days. You just delude yourself into thinking that everything works! They also never have controls as far as I can tell, even obvious ones. If you adopt their methodology you'd prove that Pluto influences your diet.

Keeping the fun things about science is a common problem with new and prospective grad students. It's what you really need to watch out for: you'll get a student who is extremely busy but woefully unproductive. The world is full of people who want to do fun things! Look at big problems and take some step in some direction. But then, there are very few people out there who are willing to spend the years it takes to cross all of the t's and dot all of the i's to really prove something in a scientifically useful way.
They started to, and then they gave up on it.

https://www.engadget.com/meta-dissolves-ar-vr-os-team-204708...