skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tips of fighter aircraft wings travel faster than the speed of sound, deal with far more stress (from turns, explosions, etc.), and the wings I expect are more complex and difficult to manufacture - but they fold.

I'm not saying you are wrong, but by themselves those factors aren't entirely convincing to me.

(Also, the wings need to fold and unfold repeatedly over their lifetime; the blades could just be, in theory, shipped in pieces and then assembled once).
When They Severed Earth From Sky (2004); see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761574
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39711968
How about eliminating libraries and provide vouchers for Kindle Unlimited for the poor? Work with Amazon to create some kind of Amazon library using Kindle as the platform.

People with money don’t need public libraries — you can buy pretty much anything easily. People spend $18 on a McDonalds meal, $9.99 for an ebook is nothing. Big city libraries are mostly homeless shelters at this point.

I’m not going to a public library to use the World Book Encyclopedia like I did 35 years ago. Pretty sure most people aren’t. I’m not going to check out some music CDs — I have Apple Music. Unless it’s some kind of rare collections library for academic research, the average library doesn’t need to exist. It’s a vestige like Blockbuster Video.

It would be cool though if people could buy library access for university digital libraries. Being able to access journal articles is pretty awesome.
If it makes you feel better, the AI will write all the code for the tests and come up with all the variations and do all the fuzzing to try to break things. You’ll just have to do a good job of explaining the requirements to it and adjusting them as it becomes clear you didn’t fully describe the outcome you wanted the first time around.
Well, it is reversed in a sense, in that it is "no, de" reversed, it's just not reversed character-by-character. I'd agree that's not generally how we used "reversed" for words, but it tracks more generally, you can reverse something without necessarily breaking it down into its smallest possible parts.

For example, that "Pets a dog" reversed could be either "Dog a pets" or "God a step", obviously words are a more natural breakpoint though.

To really try too hard, in Japanese it'd be something like ノデ so it would be reversed character by character as it'd be split like that (not a Japanese speaker, so take with a lot of salt, I imagine it'd actually use another character to sound more like the English pronunciation of node).
What the Gardasil Testing May Have Missed (2017)
> Especially in the internet, so people can learn.

Have you been on the internet?
I posted a crummy tl;dr below.

I realized while writing this, that it could be a substack series about the domino effect of innovation globally, but I can only write so much in a comment section
Part of it was that users were terrible at updating browsers. You needed to support Internet Explorer 6, or cut off a third of your customers. It sucked.

Now every browser gets updates, automatically and aggressively. The only real outlier is Safari, but even that updates way quicker than older browsers used to.

As a result, who needs backward compatibility?
VSCode remote to my Linux desktop on LAN. The upsell is obvious but I'm not gonna drop $500 on 256 gb of disk space
I launched one on a compuserve domain (I think) around the same time. Built it with FrontPage Express that came for free on a cd with a magazine my dad bought. Day after I launched it I had like 20 emails from random people with questions & comments about the site, crazy. Build it and they will come was def a thing.

Later on in the UK I put a site on a madasafish domain.
Is OTA TV even relevant anymore, except for the specific content that OTA has that isn't (yet) available over the net for free / ad-supported?

I believe it's a waste of valuable spectrum to burn it on TV. It would be better to allocate TV's spectrum to cell services (for example).

Radio should be used when things are moving relative to each other; AM and FM Radio make sense as receivers are often in cars. People don't watch TV in cars.

If the communications is point-to-point, run the wires/fiber and hook up. If you're in a car, boat, airplane, or train -- fine, use 'wireless'. Yet, even today, wi-fi / 5G + some wide-area services for special cases (planes, boats) gets you there.

TV is a vast wasteland (of spectrum).
Sorry, I'm not sure about that. I think traditional NLPs going the way of the, well, titanosaur, and all the companies I could find that used to do something similar seem to have pivoted to GPTs. Even Dialogflow itself has been tied into Google's generative models.

Both Google search and ChatGPT suggested Rasa and Botpress, for example, but both seem to have pivoted to GPTs these days.

I believe Dialogflow was specifically chosen because it was user-friendly and didn't need local dev/admin. It provided a cloud GUI that anyone could use to compose conversation flows out of intents and responses. Now, it's probably just a relic of a simpler time...
I find that even when type hints are made "mandatory" using Mypy's strict mode, having a dynamically typed language underneath that allows you to cheat using Any or cast() where necessary makes writing Python feel much less cumbersome than writing in actual statically typed languages.

Presumably, a Python with "mandatory" type hints would still allow you to cheat in those same ways.
These days, a lot of the historic compatibility issues are either baked directly into the spec (eg https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-document-quirks) or hard-coded to only apply on specific websites (eg https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...). Unless you work for a company that's too big to fail, you're unlikely to encounter the latter.
Minor correction: that's טו and טז.

אבגדהוזחט - count one through nine

יכלמנסעפצ - count ten through ninety

קרשת - count one hundred through four hundred

so תו would be 406 while טו is 9+6=15
Another one: T-Rex lived much closer to the time when humans landed on the moon than to the time when the stegosaurus existed.
Sure, but people tend to take that to an extreme. It’s more akin to a gish gallop than a reasoned and humble argument.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop
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Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704914
There is an article I think just yesterday showing DuckDb failing for the billion row taxi test, and the author had to go through several boots because of the 0.x novelty of the database
I have noticed with two 7 year old Snapdragon 835 devices that RAM and running a recent Android version makes a huge difference.

I daily drive a OnePlus 5 running Android 14 through LineageOS and the user experience for non-gaming tasks is perfectly adequate. This phone has 6GB of ram, so it's still on par with most mid-range phones nowadays. My only gripe is that I had to replace the battery and disassembling phones is a pain.

Meanwhile a Galaxy S8 with the same SoC, 4GB of memory and stock Android 9 with Samsung's modifications chugs like there's no tomorrow.

I can understand that having two more gigabytes of memory can make a difference but there is a night and day difference between the phones. Perhaps Android 14 has way better memory management than Android 9? Or Samsung's slow and bloated software is hampering this device?

Either way it's irritating to see that many companies don't test on old/low-end devices. Most people in the world aren't running modern flagships, especially if they target a world-wide audience.
At least he isn't carrying those annoying Hydrogen Peroxide for ED ads on YouTube.
As far as I know, they're working on flawless.dev now
I'm fairly sure that it's possible to be a maintainer and not have to bend over backwards for some imagined "community". For the most part you can just accept patches, make decisions regarding the scope of the project and help with development on a best-effort basis.

The default reply to a feature request should be "patches are welcome". If the software is useful, people won't hesitate to contribute fixes.
Thank you for the correction, I already updated the text!
That's far from the worst, though. At least this one says please.

The ones that irritate me are the ones with titles in the form of a direct order, such as "Stop using (technology)!".

That one makes me feel like starting to use (technology) just to demonstrate that I don't take orders from this person. :-)
I don't understand your question. That's how people express emotion, mostly. I'll trust you are not being argumentative:

Facial expression - eyes (the muscles around them), mouth (smile, blank, frown, etc) - posture, legs, arms, etc etc etc. You can look disinterested, you can look like it's the best thing ever, or any other human emotion.
It’s not just weak connectivity. I know people in rural areas who still have less than 1 Mbps internet speed over their DSL landline. Using the internet there isn’t a lot of fun.
Good time to buy I guess?
A while back there was an interview with someone at Cloudflare and they were asked what about these Al Qaeda sites you guys are in front of, dude just answered "no comment". Seems that at the time they didn't ask many questions at all, like you said cause they don't want to go in to content moderation.
Because the people with money who are buying your products are all running the latest version of iOS. The ones on a 6 year old Android version are not spending anything therefor it isn't worth investing money in making sure it works for them.
This study found that in baby mice, certain friendly bacteria in the gut make a chemical called serotonin. This chemical helps the baby mice's immune systems accept both the good bacteria and the foods they eat without attacking them. Normally, our bodies can mistakenly see food or good bacteria as invaders, leading to allergies or other immune problems. The researchers discovered that this serotonin from gut bacteria teaches special immune cells to be more accepting, preventing such mistakes. This is especially important in early life when the immune system is still learning what to ignore and what to fight against. So, in a nutshell, the good bacteria in baby mice's guts are helping to train their immune systems to not overreact to things that are actually harmless, using serotonin as a teaching tool.
Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruption for multiple African countries
Free market needs to be allowed to work. If enough universities cancel contracts, then publishers will have to adjust right? Why are we going to ask government to regulate publishing? Everything else they regulate/manipulate gets far more expensive. Health care for instance. Housing (especially in rent control cities.) Education. Transportation (note with deregulation of air travel, flying places became significantly more affordable.
Awesome-Programming-Languages – A GitHub Curated List of Programming Languages
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How web bloat impacts users: negatively. Better do your best to fix it.

This stuff is simpler than we let it be sometimes, folks.
Here is how you do web: https://forum.dlang.org/
Observe the speed
I've often seen this phenomenon at play in religions. They are not intentionally lying even when they put forward outrageous claims; they genuinely believe what they say.
Fair enough, I suppose. I think in the context of smartphones, continuously operating the GPS chip is simply not an option, but in other types of devices that isn't as big of a problem.
Counterpoint from someone better informed about bipolar would be interesting and valuable. That said, it’s a discussion of an article asking “why is this guy like this?” One potential partial explanation is a mental health condition. Certainly it crosses my mind any time there’s a consistent and self-destructive pattern of behavior that it’s not clear the person involved can control.

I don’t know what’s served by pretending otherwise. If mental health challenges are real and important, and they are, then they’ll have observable effects outside a doctor’s office, and we should be able to talk about that.
Quality advertisers have fled so what you're seeing is what's left.
Can you please explain how cranking statistics 10000 and/or creating custom statistics is a more straightfoward way to enforce a certain query plan VS telling the databsee which plan should be used instead?
Those are really great videos.
I didn't do it for quite that long each day, but I did do it pretty much every day until my gums looked healthy. Since then I haven't done it consistently, I just do it when it feels like I should.
I've heard of path dependence but had not considered it in this context. Thanks for the link!
Even as a dev with 3 environment I've not had to tinker my kernel since I left gentoo something like 15 years ago, Ubuntu takes care of it..
IBM's Vela "AI Supercomputer"
These sites can and should be much better. Yes. Definitely.

At the same time, while a 10s load time is a long time & unpleasant, it doesn't seem catastrophic yet.

The more vital question to me is what the experience is like after the page is loaded. I'm sure a number of these sites have similarly terrible architecture & ads bogging down the experience. But I also expect that some of those which took a while to load are pretty snappy & fast after loading.

Native apps probably have plenty of truly user-insulting payloads they too chug through as they load, and no shortage of poor architectural decisions. On the web it's much much easier to see all the bad; a view source away. And there is seemingly less discipline on the web, more terrible and terribly inefficient cases of companies with too many people throwing whatever the heck into Google Tag Manager or other similar offenses.

The latest server-side react stuff seems like it has a lot of help to offer, but there's still a lot of questions about rehydration of the page. I'm also lament see us shift away from the thick-client world; so much power has been embued to the users from the web 9.9 times out of 10 just being some restful services we can hack with. In all, I think there's a deficiency in broad architectural patterns for how the thick client should manage it's data, and a really issue with ahead-of-time bundles versus just-in-time & load behind code loading that we have failed to make much headway on in the past decade, and this lack is where the real wins are.
It's not just a Russian name, it's the Slavic name for Constantinople. It's used in all Slavic-speaking countries when teaching Byzantine history, of course, written with slight distortions depending on the Slavic language in question
Who you going to send to an online pharmacy hosted say in Egypt?
I saw you reposted it (or whatever that mechanism is) so thank you.
I was truly amazed at the cost of relatively minor collusion damage on a friend's EV.

ICEs are not much better. I replaced a wi dscreen on an old 2015 and it cost $400. the mechanic said I was lucky the next year's version had a built in collusion avoidance camera system and I would HAVE to go to the dealer to fix it for ~$1,200
Anyone know if and how Hertz is selling these? If the low resale really is as bad as advertised, it could be good for someone on the other side looking to get their hands on one for a good price.
It is, but it’s worth it in some situations.

It’s so much easier to sit down to an unfamiliar codebase, or to participate in a team of more than three or four serious contributors, when typescript is there to guide you.

I never would have guessed that that would be the benefit that won me over, but it absolutely has, all it took was a two year / six people project to completely sell me on typescript.
There were lines for these machines for months when they first hit. at $1 a go. Folks made money with them.

The place in the Chicago 'burbs with all the good pinballs had one with the extra fancy sound package and all. they kept the force feedback turned up so high that most people got tired before finishing a lap.

My buddy Carl drove a 40's snowplow with manual steering and a cone clutch (which served as an ejection seat for the uninitiated) for work. He sat down and conquered the thing with his first go.

It was epic. His high score stood for a good while, as i recall; what i remember most was his giggle of delight going round the speed track: "it drifts! they got it to drift!"
3/16/2024, 5:16PM EST:

>"The list of 637 programming languages that you might be interested in"

(Well -- at least until someone adds another one! :-) )
The interesting part of this is that seratonin is a neurotransmitter so it's interesting to see it potentially relevant in a different organ system.
Yes, and even $300 per kg on orbit seems rather conservative.

> SpaceX can likely build and launch a fully expendable version of Starship for about $100 million. Most of that money is in the booster, with its 33 engines. So once Super Heavy becomes reusable, you can probably cut manufacturing costs down to about $30 million per launch.

So, $30m per 100t is $300 kg. If Starship is reusable, the flight could cost closer to $10m. If the payload is 150t, the cost of kg is lower still. And all that is in relatively short term.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, all of those technologies will still be around 20 years from now and will likely be powering a lot of everyday stuff. Short timelines are hype, the technology itself is anything but.
> You're basically saying that you know better than the query planner, for now until eternity, and you choose to optimize by hand.

Yes I do know better what data is going to be in the database I am managing that some heuristic mechanism.
'In general, always'?

Not really, no.

What we're talking about here is someone confidently giving an armchair psychiatric diagnosis. It's made of holes, speculations, assertions, and based entirely on a single print media article. In general, that's always bad.

I don't even diagnose my friends who I know well with ADD. The notion that it is "better" - or even remotely acceptable - to make claims about far more sensitive conditions, of a total stranger, based on a newspaper article, is unhinged.

Not to mention the fact that the NYT famously doesn't vet its writers any more, and seems comfortable with articles that make lurid explosive claims based on near-zero actual evidence; even failing to retract stories when key quotes are found to have been fabricated...

But that is beside the point. The casual armchair psychiatry demonstrated above is very much not ok, and really quite uncool.
Apart from incremental compilation cache, a large chunk of it is debug information. Lowering debug info precision helps a lot (although it’s still suspiciously large.)
Who's going to pay for that server? We're talking about $50-100 phones here.
> you're not making any claim other than imagining I claimed articles where the journalist doesn't know anything about the topic are always good.

I definitely never argued or even believed any such thing. I started off in this (granted, rather silly) thread with a lukewarm defense of Hossenfelder, then you took a weird tangent on it and I disagreed with your framing (or what I could grok of it). Maybe you have me confused with someone else?
I put one startup on fly.io just because it was too difficult to communicate AWS intricacies to the founders. I'm ok having a fixed secret to authorize client A to talk to API B where needed, and the actual inner network is all inside wireguard tunnels, automatically provided by Fly.
Hidden Giants: how the UK's 500k redwoods put California in the shade
The Times is quoting others so bears no risk in reporting it, especially when they say there are numerous such people.
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Rabeh is a digital marketing company that provides comprehensive services to brands across the Arab world.
Safety profile evaluation of the quadrivalent HPV vaccine in adolescent women
Something that turned me off of GPU lambda services is that they don't offer a way to run everything locally. I have an instance with a GPU where I do my dev. I'm running Postgres, the front end, back end (Node), and my GPU worker thread (Python) on that box. Replicate and other offerings do not let me run the full hosted environment on my machine (you can run the service container but it behaves differently as there's no included router/scheduler). It feels wrong to use a magically instantiated box for my GPU worker.

Really all that I want is for Render.com to have GPU instances (I saw fly.io now has GPUs which is great, but I've both heard bad things about their stability and don't care for their rethinking of server architecture). Please will someone give me PaaS web hosting with GPU instances?

I'm a simple man. If there's a fundamental shift in hosting philosophy I will resist that change. I have loved docker and PaaS as revolutions in development and hosting experiences because the interface is at some level still just running Linux processes like I do on my computer. You can tell me that now my code is hosted in a serverless runtime. But you need to give me that runtime so that I can spin it up on my own computer, on EKS, or whatever if need be.
> the past three years, it has received attention from 13 contributors with 460 commits.

That doesn’t sound like very many commits. Pretty mature!
You can work professionally with audio in Windows, you’ll probably even get better performance out of the same hardware you’d be using for a Hackintosh.
I specifically didn't want to use any libraries as I'm trying hard to avoid bloat, and I kind of enjoy reverse-engineering the CardDav (and next CalDav) clients, while reading the RFCs.

It's likely this will have bugs for the weirdest things, and where I'd appreciate help as long as it's not making things too slow/heavy. It's currently very naive and simple and using https://deno.land/x/xml@2.1.3 for some minor parsing in some of the requests; I drew the line to stop supporting fields and actions as soon as it worked perfectly for me and my wife (Linux and Android + macOS and iOS).

That being said, here's the function to build a vCard: https://github.com/bewcloud/bewcloud/blob/b81710a720d7d6afc2...

And the function to parse a vCard: https://github.com/bewcloud/bewcloud/blob/b81710a720d7d6afc2...
> Most Entrepreneurs are eager to take risks.

That's a romantic myth of the public imagination.

The most successful ones avoid risk as much as possible.
Ask HN: How does taxes work as founder in NL
I live in Netherlands. I'm cofounder of an American company. I'm trying to get information around how taxes work in this particular situation. I looked up on belastingdienst website, could not find relevant information.

If someone can educate me on right way declaring my equity, how I should navigate this and point me to some information sources, I would be really glad.
Hm, not entirely true, depending on what you mean with "the internet shifting".

The internet has grown, and the free sharing is still going strong. Have a look at Wikipedia, Hacker News, Arxiv.org.

To be honest, the stuff that was shared freely in 2000 was not all that great, and most of that which was, is still available. Remember that you had to buy a subscription to Encyclopaedia Britannica back then, and to all the academic journals.

Granted, there are some non-free information silos, but generally I'm pretty happy with the procrastination advice on Reddit being surrounded by annoying ads that drive me away.
Debugging distributed systems by walking around inside of them [video]
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Comprehensive Large Scale AI Systems Blueprint Guide and Roadmap on GitHub.
No you wouldn't. It's not about DRM, it's about the contractual agreements between libraries and publishers. They already track the number of times it's borrowed and for how long. OP is suggesting that it should be dealt with the same as a hard copy, i.e. only one person can borrow it at a time.