skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Boom promises... ultra-wealthy people a few hours shorter flights?

This along with another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39794935) begs the question: Does everything here have to be a "We Are The 99%" meme?

Practically every bleeding edge advancement is only available to the "wealthy", it's the "wealthy" who pay the First Adopters Tax so eventually the technology might trickle down to the commons.

I say "wealthy" in quotes since those concerned aren't even that particularly richer than most people. Just people with slightly more surplus money in their wallet to throw around.

I get the audience here is primarily FOSS and considers the very notion of money a fucking heresy, but the real world doesn't operate like that.
it's just supersonic, hypersonics is not involved
Having no logic in the front-end sounds nice, but how well does it deal with an imperfect network connection? If I have 500ms ping, does that mean I have to wait 500ms for each UI interaction?
Yup. Its an interesting example of deliberate ambiguity, and how useful it can be.

This is why I don't like using "ambiguous" as a term of abuse. Ambiguity isn't inherently bad. Languages are ambiguous for a reason.
I don't always use the same editor, and some of the editors I use can't be configured like that. But I'm curious -- what do you do when you want tabs?
Why is MongoDB overkill?
The category of of ILS does not dictate its autoland status. You can do an Autoland on nearly any ILS provided the FAC is aligned with the RWY.

A CAT IIIB ILS will permit in most states a landing with a radio altitude of 0.
Solenoid in a box!
It took them almost 20 years to do a manned flight though. And that's with professional astronauts knowingly taking the kind of risk you can't do with a passenger aircraft, unless you want to do a OceanGate.

That's the tricky bit. I guess they can put something together in that amount of time. But making sure it's safe? More skeptical on that. Look at the recent woes at Boeing for example, and while Boeing's organisational issues are at fault for no small part, it does show all of this is tricky business. Also many other aircraft have had serious design issues, including Concorde.

Also not convinced on the economic potential on all of this. There may be also issues with increased noise, environmental impact (possibly via regulations), and things like that.
Always on the lookout for a quality (low/no js) CSS framework. One that uses sane structural paradigms and doesn't leave a build beholden to 3rd party documentation / questionable design decisions. One that is straightforward to pull back / strip out when the time comes. One with reasonable overheads (branding, download size, etc). And with all that in place - one that handles forms / browser chrome well. Yet to find it, but this looks like it comes pretty close. I'm willing to try it.

That said, I had performance issues on the site in Firefox. Very noticeable when switching between dark / light mode. Not sure if anyone else saw the same?
Why babies smell nice but teenagers smell like goats
The problem with TikTok is not whether it is based in China or the US (2020)
I have this picture burned on my retina with the union reps toasting champagne after successfully negotiating 2% this while my rent went up by 5% using the same arguments.
From Kratos's site:

https://www.kratosdefense.com/products/uav/air/turbines

Kratos has begun the first engine tests at its X-58 test facility. The newly commissioned test facility is used to carry out demonstrator engine development testing, allowing Kratos to grow its offering of low cost and high-performance small jet engines. The fully mobile test facility can accommodate fully instrumented engines up to 3000-lb thrust. Inlet and exhaust noise suppression is provided to reduce environmental impacts. All connections are designed to reduce test article set-up time thereby reducing program costs. The state-of-the-art data acquisition system and communications allow for high speed remote monitoring and real time data processing. Kratos is introducing several engines to support the need for low cost and high-performance engines for cruise missiles, powered munitions and UAVs.

3000-lb thrust is about an order of magnitude smaller than you need for a single row conventional commercial jet with two engines. Yes, they are ostensibly working in the same field but I don't think I can stress enough how different those two things are.
You haven't understood the issue. If a firm needs to lower costs, the alternatives to mild inflation are:

* Negotiating actual salary cuts, or
* Job losses

Ideally in a market, prices adjust up and down freely. Obviously this is not a sensible approach to salaries. Given the bias towards loss aversion, having mild inflation make mild losses is preferable to having, say: 5% deflation, 7% salary cut.

This concept is from Econ 101. And it doesn't mean everyone's wage drops. It means struggling firms can adjust wages less painfully.

Your alternatives to 2% are:

* active deflation, with actual wage cuts

* higher inflation, where you have active salary negotiations each year to predict inflation and negotiate higher or lower than inflation, like in the 70s
There’s a much better known Smarthome company called “Switchbot” which popularized this type of product, but they use Bluetooth instead of Zigbee. They even open-sourced the control protocol.

I had a few in a rental where the landlord asked me not to install smart switches. They were convenient, but of course suffered from huge lag compared to Zigbee bulbs. I wish I had some at the time that could’ve been Zigbee integrated, since I used ZigBee elsewhere.
Due to some of my personal experiences over the years w/ model development, I believe that this is more due to a failure of the current mainline version of Transformers (the ++ version I believe) not scaling properly, vs an indicator of scale.

If that is the case, then it may well be possible to fix some of the scaling issues more apparent with smaller transformer models (maybe not, though). This is at least some of the reasoning that I've been applying when developing hlb-gpt, for example. It's partially also why I think changing how we use nonlinearities within the network might impact scaling, due to some of the activation spikes used in more linear regions of the network to control network behavior in a way not originally intended.

Agreed that it does require a ton of resources though. But I do think that the problem can be solved on a smaller scale. If we don't have a cleanly logarithmic curve, then I think that something is dearly wrong with our base architecture. (However, of course, I may entirely be missing something here).
My usage of price controls in that way is intentional. The average argument against price controls (e.g. price ceiling sand price floors) is like saying knives bad because I can cut my fingers off. Price controls are tool, it's about how you use them.

> Subsidies obviously work and have been shown to work for decades.

Subsidies obviously work and subsidies don't work in the same way that price controls obviously work and price controls don't work.

These are tools.

You're not talking about the application of tools, you're simply talking about ideologically preferential ways to change an economy.

Subsidies are considered good and price controls are considered bad because of how they affect private capital not due to any argument that a rigorous data driven modern application of economics would provide. By modern standards those statements "price controls are bad" and "subsidies are good" and their inverses are unfalsifiable.
You've glossed over so many things.

The banks are not just in the business of lending out money. They also take deposits and pay interest on those deposits. It's a fraction of what they make on loan interest payments, but it's still a significant expense.

Borrowers can go bankrupt and default on debt. That's also effectively a huge expense.

Banks are competing to offer the best interest rates to their customers. If a bank could still make a lot of money while offering a lower interest rate than their competitors, they would.

> The more money the banks print

The only way they can print more money, is to issue more debt. But issuing debt is an expense for a bank. Either you do due diligence, which takes a lot of work. Or you accept the risk of issuing risky loans that may be defaulted on, which again, will be an expense. And then there's a mountain of regulations on top of that to try to prevent the banks from taking the second option, which also takes work.

It's not the free money machine you make it out to be. (Edit: Not that I'm saying it's not at all lucrative. But it's a risky and difficult high-skill job, which is extremely important to every aspect of society so that in itself isn't remotely surprising)

> they printed them out of thin air as loans and have to destroy them when the loans are repaid, but total debt only increases every year...

Sure.. that's how the economy has worked since the dawn of time.

Money is just an abstraction over credit in general, and credit is always how most of the economy has worked, even before money was invented.

You need a barn built? You ask your neighbors to help you build it, and promise them some grains or something in return. Boom. Credit (i.e. money) created from thin air. And the more the economy grows, the more this kind of debt is created.

Some of the earliest texts we've discovered was records of this kind of debt. That's exactly what paper (and digital) money is.. a record of debt distilled to its purest essence and made easily tradable.

The difference now is that instead of credit being created through these informal arrangements, you go to the bank, which does the work of ensuring that you're good for the debt. You get some numbers in an account which then lets you go to the neighbors and pay them to help. Whether you repay them by doing work for them directly, or work for someone else in the community, doesn't matter anymore. Which makes the whole system much more efficient.
I really believe it's because deep down, people love the big shiny brand Google Chrome, yet they know it's kinda fucked. So when they see things like this, they are able to justify it in their minds that they made the right decision. Confirmation Bias?
I suspect the person you’re responding to is not really talking about truly low paying jobs - more likely entry level out of college jobs. (Not that I expect those are in aggregate underwater either.)
By 2100, 97% of countries will not sustain their population size
You might find searching HN helpful, for instance, just a few hits from a basic keyword search on stories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36504838

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17212926

There's likely a lot more to be dug up with a less half-assed search.
There's dozens of vendors selling these, they were very useful for automating things around the office in a job I had, for example they set it up to turn the lights on at the start of the day, to turn the aircon on, to open the entrance door when any of the workers did something on the phone (IIRC send a Slack message? or maybe we had an app, don't remember TBH), to automatically lock the door (with a "turning" one).

I've thought of buying one to be able to leave my key at home, but kinda scared of them going wrong and being stuck out.
Can you use this without compiling? I just want to press f5 in my browser. No command line.
NAL - I think their case is that people have no choice but to spend that extra money to purchase a premium Apple product. I don’t buy it, but apparently that’s what the DOJ thinks.
'If they ban TikTok in the US, they will destroy the American dream'
>"This obviously isn't a problem for the rich, whose money is stored almost entirely in assets which by definition rise in value with inflation."

This isn't true (at least not by definition); no common measure of inflation uses the assets of the rich as a primary input. The closest thing you will find is OER, but that's unrelated to the stock market or other common assets used by the rich to park wealth.
Humans bred cats for thousands of years for utility that had nothing to do with "payload capacity"
It has been discontinued given that Coinbase acqui-hired the Kippt team (2 people)
Wasn't one of the Boom selling points that their aircraft would use conventional engines? Now they are developing their own...
I've read 35 on my Kindle in the last year. A few aren't finished yet. I don't have history enabled for my library account, but at least a dozen from there. A few more from the bookstore. So somewhere around 50 or 60. Around one a week.

I don't typically look at my phone screen unless someone texts me. Once in a while if I'm in a long line at the grocery store or something.
But it can immediately return "no".
This is a very interesting idea, with DenseNets there are oftentimes some terrible memory gotchas that have gotten me over the past 7-8 years or so, so a part of me is sorta leaning back waiting for some memory usage shoe to drop not specified in the paper (even with the activation patterns!)

However, maybe this is not the case. I have a bit of a history of messing with residuals in neural networks, seeing more work on it is good. Fast training networks of course are a very slightly mild obsession of mine as well, and very useful to the field. Here's hoping it pans out as a motif, curious to see where it goes.
Is anyone using this or sqllite archives for anything at scale? They always seemed like a good solution for certain scientific outputs. But data integrity obviously is a concern.
Sure, if you have the privilege to make your life unnecessarily harder than it is, then choosing another CSS framework based on whether it has shady sponsors or not is a great pastime.
I'm not sure it's a meaningful question... for $1600 I can get an iPhone which is more capable than anything you could buy for any price in 1991. Is the argument that this means there's been deflation? To me its a category difference and you can't compare because prices aren't set entirely by capability conferred but also by cost of production and demand.
If the green bubbles didn’t violate Apples own accessibility standards for text contrast (https://medium.com/@krvoller/how-iphone-violates-apples-acce... would agree it’s a silly complaint.
But there is no technical limitation requiring that a message be less readable because it came from an Android. So it’s not just “less cool” they actively make the user experience worse for you when you are messaging someone that doesn’t have an iPhone.
It already is, their EUV IP is licensed from EUV LLC which was formed by the DOE and the researcher labs under congressional oversight.

The light source for their lithography machines is made in the US.
I have a feeling that such a debate will not be productive and have decided to abstain.
The M1 and M2 don't have that bit.
Agreed I’m sure GE development very special material systems
Is it not an improvement over everything being piped to their servers, stored unencrypted, and saved before/after the OpenAI bit?

It's not everything, but there is a reasonable approach where someone would trust OpenAI much more than $startup.
For anyone doing travel planning based on reading here: often your best option is actually a bus (coach). This is because although they're slow, they go straight to many major hotels in the city. This removes the need to negotiate the subway with luggage or deal with Tokyo's idiosyncratic taxis while jetlagged.
Good communication has always been a part of making sure your work is influential.
I would not disagree that you can do it, but I am skeptical that you can do it in 5 years.

Honda did develop their HF118 turbofan engine apparently from scratch, but it took about 8 years [1]. And for the actual commercialization they teamed up with GE and then it took another 10 years until certification of the successor HF120 [2].

[1] scroll down on
https://global.honda/en/tech/eVTOL_gas_turbine_hybrid_system...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Honda_HF120
Discussion a couple of days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39767083
You can do something fairly similar in Japan. They have luggage shipping services that are quite cheap and reliable, and have some days of storage built in. So you can take a train between cities without carrying everything, or maybe skip your big luggage at one city in your itinerary and have it at your hotel in the next city. You could also deliver it to the airport, but you have to build in some hours of lead time.
Damn, should edit this to include a header like "list of minimal CSS frameworks" so that it becomes searchable for folks looking for something like this.
The public blog post is offered as exactly that, public. The copyrighted content that Google trained on was not public, not paid for, not permitted to be used in training, and not used to train people, only AI.

There's no relation between the post and the hypothetical you invented - it's misdirection at best and manipulation at worst to compare them.
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I wish there were more of the minimalist CSS frameworks with opinionated styling. Easy to find very nice generic ones, but harder if you want one with some flavor.
Really? I'd gladly read 6% of a book for a year of pay.
The AFL was effectively an anti-labor organization and the CIO was not "pretty open". They were explicitly and actively organizing all workers.
machine code is very much still an abstraction
Rather than haggle about inflation/deflating I don't see people arguing that the govt should have any authority to dictate what medium of exchange people should use.
Wake me up when it's the year of linux on a laptop again.
It is not available for this device from the looks of it, at least not on normal updates, perhaps an oem kernel or something.
There is different cases regarding PhD subjects, and it vary depending on the country.

The normal two cases is doing a master, and by contacting professors you find opportunities and build with the help of the future PhD director the subject. Second case is there is an open position for a already existing subject.

In extremly rare cases, the subject is proposed by (brilliant) students to Prof.

but in all cases, you don't work alone and you stand on the shoulders of giants
Wow, this kind of companies should be nuked. I cannot wait the EU to notice this problem.
It has WebSockets so it at least avoids TCP/TLS connection overhead.

But yeah, that's the downside of any thin client.
See: DIA
It’s an introduction to a relatively niche new subfield. If I (an expert in the field but not the subfield) want to learn about differentiable programming, my only option before this monograph was to read through tens of random papers which use different presentation styles, terminology etc. Now I can read through the second half of this, around 100 pages, and jump back to the first half if there’s a prerequisite I don’t know.

That’s how most subfields are born. Assorted papers -> monograph -> textbook. The first arrow is defining the subfield as a discrete topic, which is immensely valuable. Only after you have that you can start optimizing for presentation to nonexperts.
Barrels and Ammunition – Keith Rabois [video]
I do this all the time, but the bags start mostly empty and get filled up with purchases over time.
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super cherry picking and definitions bending:

> no inflation between 2011 and 2022

iPhone 4S, iPhone 14

> increasing 8 times or so between 2000 and 2011

Pentium III @ ~1GHz 1C/1T, Sandy Bridge @ ~3.7GHz 4C/4T
> I’m biased since it’s the most boring season by far

That season has really grown on me over time and rewatches. It has a lot of great character work on Omar, Avon, Stringer, McNulty, Prezbo, Freeman, etc.; Ziggy, Nick, Sobotka is peak tragedy with a lot of fun along the way.

You may be right that it's not as exciting as other seasons, but I personally would call it boring and it sets up and deepens _so_ much of what comes after.
That's impressive. I expected, "Sure, it works, but the CSS is going to be a nightmare." Instead, the CSS is pretty, straightforward and easy to understand.

I love it!
"I haven't yet seen an organization that benefited from OKRs. I'm not saying they don't work, I've just never witnessed them working."

--Me, in the post above.
Drop-In Minimal CSS Frameworks Collected by Swyx
What do you use for the frontend?
> You need a barn built? You ask your neighbors to help you build it, and promise them some grains or something in return. Boom. Credit (i.e. money) created from thin air. And the more the economy grows, the more this kind of debt is created.

You're missing the bigger picture. The difference is that banks are handing out unlimited credit notes for something they don't have, and are charging interest on them.
This is an absolutely beautiful design system, and a beautiful way of presenting one. I love the interplay of the organic serifs and handwritten script for inputs, with all the attention to detail for balanced line heights and weights.

Code for those interested: https://github.com/wintermute-cell/magick.css/blob/master/ma...

Wish there were custom checkboxes and radio buttons - they're the only thing that break immersion at the moment! Everything else is absolutely stellar. Might inspire me to finally make that blog I've been thinking about!
You are not wrong either, hence why I said

> QUGVs are primarily beneficial for educational purposes…

But it still beneficial to give a heads up for anyone before investing efforts and time that QUGVs are simply for these purposes, which is something you can see in some comments in here, personally, I would invest those efforts in drones but YMMV.
is this as widely compatible as 7zip?
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I am dumping my own private keys from my own cartridges I paid for. This is obvious fair use in the spirit of the law.
> Most autodiff packages (such as Pytorch) use something not much more advanced than this

pytorch absolutely does not use the dual number formulation - there are absolutely no magic epsilons anywhere in pytorch's (or tensorflow's) code base. what you're calling duals are the adjoints where are indeed stored/cached on every node in pytorch graphs.

there's a reason no one uses dual numbers (non-standard analysis) for anything (neither autodiff nor calculus itself): because manipulating infinitesmals like this is fraught formal manipulation (it's algebra...) where as limits are much more rigorous (bounds, inequalities, convergence, etc.). my favorite question to ask the non-standard analysis n00bs is: please tell me under what conditions this is true

(dx/dy)(dy/dz)(dz/dx) = 1

edit:

anyone that thinks i'm wrong and this other guy is right should go and do some reading, eg where this guy tried to make this same point and got shot down:

https://math.stackexchange.com/a/341550

spoiler alert: there's a reason you had to learn epsilon-delta proofs and limits and it's not because your math professors are mean.

this is why i hate this kind of "TIL, gee whiz" math tidbits - they're full of exclamation marks and fancy sounding words ("non-archimedean rings" oooo fancy) but almost always come from a wikipedia level understanding, not actual research.
"We should stop training radiologists now. It's just completely obvious that within five years, deep learning is going to do better than radiologists"

G.Hinton, 2016
which, That medical help can get expensive. Not that I expect robot cat technician appointments are.gonna be cheap either.
They must be the 7% of the population not covered by BLS stats when working out the CPI, assuming they're from US, or living in a remote area. Agree that overall, the population has been growing richer for several decades. But what about us folks who subsisted off of GPUs and used cars in 2021-2022? The reality for us is way different.
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