skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lack of an industrial base and native experience in doing so. Once one company does it, the experience gained can spread to other companies via employees moving around and forming suppliers for those same companies. For India it also has the issue of brain drain as any of the people working on India's engines could easily jump ship and move to the UK or the US and get pretty good jobs in our aerospace industries and get paid a whole lot more.

Also China does have it's own engines used in its military aircraft.

Designing very efficient engines that are also cost efficient is the focus of a lot of those big primes in the US/UK/Europe so competing with them may be difficult, however there is currently no one trying to make very efficient _supersonic_ engines. All supersonic engines are destined for military jets which care a lot more about peak performance as the primary design parameter. In other words there is no one operating in the segment Boom is trying to develop an engine and they can hire a lot of people from the rest of the US industry who already have a lot of experience designing engines or people who were trained by said people.

Ironically it may be SpaceX who kills off Boom if they're successful in implementing suborbital long distance passenger travel with Starship, though that's still very much an open question if it's possible. Such travel would, if successful, most likely be way faster and cheaper than supersonic long distance travel because of the reduced losses from drag.
> The flare activity began from Region 3614 (to the north), and was still in progress when another flare erupted from Region 3615 (to the south). It's tough to say with certainty at this point which flare was the source of R3 levels, but the flare from 3614 appears to have a likely coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with it.

Region 3615 has been very active: produced an R2 / M-6.7 4 days ago [0] (when it had just rotated into view) and then another R2 / M-7.4 2 days ago [1].

[0] https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/r2-moderate-hf-radio-blackout...

[1] https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/ar-3615-produces-m74-flare
>As I understand it, it is that if various natural constants had values other than those we observe, either life as we know it, or even the universe itself, could not exist.

This is just a fact, no?

The fine-tuning argument is something like, Premise (1) this fact is true, and it must be because of chance, necessity, or design. Premise (2) it is not by chance or necessity. Conclusion: it is by design.

You can reject the premises (probably premise 2), but it's a valid (even if unsound) argument whose conclusion points towards a creator. And its rejection probably warrants some explanation rather than an out-of-hand dismissal.
And Apple has already committed to implementing RCS. However, I will be absolutely gobsmacked if RCS messages appearing in the Messages app show up with the same color as iMessage messages.

They will still be differentiated.

There will still be differences in featureset. (For one thing, Apple has, at least for now, said they will not be attempting to implement Google's fully proprietary E2EE extension for RCS.)

Some (shallow, petty) people will still use it as an excuse to shun other people.

And none of that will be because Apple is deliberately degrading the experience.
Overall, agreed. Some nuance:

> […] but not an actually useful park beyond sitting with a book or a smoke perhaps

Yes, and grass to play improvised football or things like it.

> chock full of amenities europeans would be lucky to have

Not really, because European social life is not organized-activity-oriented. At least nowhere near my perception of American life (8y in CA).

In Europe, you meet first (let’s hang out, meet at a cafe, in the park) and then roam around and maybe do something spontaneous. In many cases, this involves mixed ages (kids playing, grandparents etc).

> Bathrooms

Yes. To be fair, I think it depends on how urban it is. In bigger parks like Golden Gate Park SF, the homeless don’t bother to go that far. If you have bathrooms near urban centers they tend to get misused and scare away regular folks anyways.

> To act like the greenspace is not available or unusuable doesn't speak to what is actually there for use today.

The green space in the US wins overall (again based on mostly CA), if you commit to the car ride to get there. In fact, if you count the national/state parks it might be best in the world.

In terms of green space integrated into urban life, I would say Europe is way better. In the US you can’t easily “integrate” green space that way into car-centric urban sprawl, because everything is already compartmentalized and divided and driving distance afar from other parts.
Yes but how is that the fault of removal services? They can't do anything to stop the usual suspects from filing for a fresh corporation from Delaware each week.
Use precomp or antiz to losslessly pre-transform the zip, and then use solid compression (e.g. tar.xz or zpaq).
Seems more 'Moses-like' than 'Christ-like' to me.
I'm highly critical of the Federal reverse and I think they suppress wages in other ways, but the 2% inflation target in my opinion has no impact on wages broadly.

Assets don't automatically rise in value with inflation. If you own shares in a business generating $100,000 in profit in the current year, then it won't automatically generate $102,000 the next year. In fact, because of inflation it will probably generate less profit because costs are always going up. And if profits are decreasing then so should the value of the company.

Hard assets are slightly different, they will generally go up with inflation, but notably the same is true in the reverse. If you're very poor and have a lot of debt, inflation is great because the value of that debt will be devalued.

And for these two reasons I'm not sure it's as simple as saying inflation is good for the rich. Inflation is bad for companies with high variable costs.

Finally one of the core drivers of inflation is wages. It's very hard for inflation to rise without wages rising, because demand in an economy is ultimately a product of the purchasing power of consumers which is tightly coupled to wages. Without wage growth to get inflation you'd probably need some other driver of demand such as demographics (immigration, high birth rates, etc), fiscal deficits (more public borrowing), or accommodative interest rates (more private borrowing).
I got started many years ago with "SQL For Dummies". It was actually a pretty great book for getting started. Then, go to sqlite.org, read every page on the site, including the file format, read posts on the forum, read the source code. You'll learn a lot, and by downloading sqlite and playing with it, you'll have your own personal db lab. The Python interface to sqlite is very easy to use IMO.
Ah, so now "not talking about what you wanted me to be talking about, because that wasn't the subject of this subthread" is "dodging being wrong."
We learned from Nest that they won't even require a warrant before handing over the code to a smart lock to law enforcement.

No judge needed. Just ask and say "open sesame"
Another question for AI-bros:

I don’t know how to do prompts and I really don’t care right now because I think it’s a waste of time.

What prevents me from learning this "skill" in a few weeks in my spare time if/when it becomes useful? Is it really 10 times harder than learning C++?
This bug definitely didn’t involve SDK integration, because our SDK didn’t exist yet when we found it! I believe CockroachDB was running our instrumentor over their binaries though. So call it an in-between level of integration.
You’re welcome. It’s always welcome to see technical questions delivered respectfully. Props to you!
Whenever I leave a job, or an office closes down, I print up a few copies of the Kak poster, and leave them hidden around:

https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-dont-campaign-and-...

I've also gotten the Scarfolk book, and it is genuinely a weirdly creepy piece of art.
> so you can’t really make a conclusion without engaging in speculation.

Say we take this statement as being true, then neither can you, right? Seems like you’re making a very pointless argument here.
This is false. You have to pay cap gains on anything against the dollar when buying with alt currencies.

This intentionally kills the use of anything other than the dollar for transactions. The record keeping for this sort of nonsense presents a massive and impractical to fight burden.
It's really not that complicated: a little inflation is better for both the economy and the average person than a little deflation, and the tools available are clumsy enough that it's impossible to accurately target 0%. The end result is a target of just enough inflation to avoid deflation if the numbers swing around unexpectedly.
Related note: Lindy's closed in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy%27s
Might be fun to replace the div tags with a custom tag.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html
Which claim, this one?

> Most autodiff packages (such as Pytorch) use something not much more advanced than this, although there are optimizations to speed it up (e.g. reverse mode diff).

We get it: you're a mechanic who thinks that makes you an automotive engineer.
https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

Lots of options here.
Feel free.

But how much of the world's resources have been dominated by folks placing their faith in Eru Ilúvatar?

And I'm sure you're aware Tolkien was a devout Catholic, and described his works as fundamentally Catholic?
Formality is often tied to skill. Writing at a 90 degree angle would require more skill, the ability more rare.

Calligraphy, for example, conveys no extra information but is of higher stature.
Also see "Evenly distributing points on a sphere" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17842057
This is an interesting point. I wonder if a source of inflation you are not taking into account is population growth. If inflation happens when you have the same money chasing fewer goods, it stands to me that given the same money, and the same amount of goods, but more people chasing those limited goods, that you'd have an inflationary effect.

That being said, the person should also be generating more goods if they are a productive member of society which should cancel out their new demand on the base of goods.

This makes me wonder, are we adding many more people who are not making as much stuff as they are consuming? Or potentially is the huge increase in size of organizations causing each individual to be much less productive? I've never heard anyone discuss this side of the equation.
Why would they do that??? Are we really going into this era where we have to reverse engineer every binary we touch?
I remember someone had made a package manager / index tool for SQLite extensions. But I haven't ever been able to find it again
So you're arguing that Boom doesn't have access to existing knowledge? Or that they can't hire in talent?
Why does allowing them to store your watch history mean that they MUST also share it with 3rd parties?

Why isn't "I want _you_ to know but I don't want you to use it against me." an option?
Quantum resistant cryptography seems like the ideal choice for cryptocurrencies, interesting that only a handful have implemented this.
I'd prefer to have that sort of thing stored locally, perhaps synced between all of my browsers/computers (directly, without storing the history unencrypted on servers).
The full thread is here (click on the right arrow to see all the comments).

https://www.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/1bitr75/another_d...
It's pure CSS so a custom tag will not add any styling a <div> couldn't
i haven't a clue what that means but when julia's autodiff is the only one that is implemented using dual numbers i think the claim is pretty obviously false and seemingly everyone has an issue admitting that. without a doubt you'll just say something else sarcastic rather than admit it.
Was there a more than 23% increase in risk due to climate change happening in a single year? 23% is an insane amount for insurance to grow on an annual basis!
Any client software can do this for the users who want it. There is no need for the service provider to track user watch history on the server by default.
What a bizarre loop to find oneself caught in. So sure the other person is lying, but thoroughly unable to come up with any evidence to show for it. And unwilling or unable to consider the implications of that lack of evidence.

And people say religious folks are the brainwashed ones!
What race is this?

I know no one who uses it in a serious way, and we’re forbidden to use those tools in private codebase anyway.

It feels like crypto-bros who repeat "we’re early" all day long without explaining why.
Nah, nobody's begging for people to A) come use time on their GPUs B) come watch them train their biggest models. Nor does it make sense to spend $X00M training a big model using an experimental technique before you announce it, nor does it make sense to hold back breakthroughs as an academic until someone commercializes it at scale. Category error.
All current supersonic aircrafts do that. The only kind of jet engine that can take supersonic intake air is scramjet(supersonic combustion ramjet), which is more like a space age gas torch, not a turbine engine. Shockwaves are going to blow off turbine blades if not done or something along that.
Tbh the commenter offering to pay for friends suggests something a little more serious going on than just bad social skills, but who knows.

It's not just about gender ratios though. In some areas, girls have no qualms about pursuing a Mrs degree in engineering; it's a practical way to achieve their goals and find a happy life. In the bay, you might find yourself on a petition to be fired if you suggest that a wise strategy for a boy who wants to pursue engineering and wants to find "marriage material" might be to find a school with the type of girls who are pursuing their Mrs in engineering.
And all of them have far worse user experiences than the Apple Watch for that exact reason. The Apple Watch is a platform, not an app. It defines the type of communication iPhone and AW apps can have in ways that provide tightly integrated experiences.

Again, there exists a totally different hardware product Apple could build for Android that runs on Android OS expectations but it wouldn't be an Apple Watch.
> Potential race conditions: Destructors might execute during thread termination, while other threads still attempt to access the object. Examples: webkit

Haven’t looked into the bug closely but I will say that WebKit compiles with thread safety on statics turned off, which means they are in a non-standard language mode with far more races.
sqlean or sqlpkg perhaps?

https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean

https://sqlpkg.org/
There are screenshots of the full comment thread here: https://old.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/1bitr75/another_d...

Shewchuk's comment is on the third image.
If I'm doing my math right, each RAM chip only has two data pins attached to it. So you could cut the number of RAM chips in half (or even fewer) and still keep the same throughput.

In other words, these same ultra-fast buffer chips could be added to an otherwise normal module. Or you could put the transceivers from them into normal RAM chips. Having so many chips is for capacity reasons, not speed reasons. There's no need to have more "channels".
Computer Scientists Introduce Gaussian Frosting
look at the knight animation it looks perfect for a game
--and the buzz light year is sooo cuteeee with tha cat
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6483404/

> The error rate produced by a deep learning based methods dropped below that achieved by human observers in 2015 for the first time

Essentially we just need good implementations at this point. We're there, just not widely deployed.
Or ability to remember to feed, clean, or toilet themselves.

It’s that hyper-focus that I suspect many of us have experienced, but without agency and permanent. Worse than slavery.
Will do that. I hate the way OpenAI can't say where their training data is from, even
> extremely obnoxious technologies that degrade humanity as a whole

What's your angle here? Jet aircraft aren't going away in the era we're heading into. We're just going to move to sustainably produced fuels from either biomass or direct carbon capture powered by solar. So there's no reason to make that as an argument against Boom.
i put it in quotes because it's a funny

i've variously seen apps call this "Extra Dark," "Midnight mode," "OLED dark," "Pure Black", ...
Laurent de Brunhoff has died
*Are.

Rogue waves continue to be very deadly even to very large ships, and extremely unpredictable despite much better weather monitoring and communications.
Are you able to seek and selectively extract from squashfs archives using range headers if stored in object storage systems like S3?

Example: https://alexwlchan.net/2019/working-with-large-s3-objects/
You didn't answer their question: Define "better": is a higher CPI better, or is a lower CPI better?

Why is a lower CPI better for the government?

In what way does the CPI calculation translate to a "problem" and why does lower CPI = "smaller problem"?
Australasia has not been connected to anywhere else by land for about 50 million years. The land bridges you're remembering are within australasia, particularly new guinea <-> Australia <-> Tasmania.
What makes you think that? It's a very widely-used and stable format, cited as a great format for archival use.

The Library of Congress has a page that goes into some depth with respect to their sustainability analysis for the format.

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0004...
Why cryptocurrencies specifically?

Most cryptocurrencies value compact signatures, and so run into many of the same issues facing PKI.
When remote fonts are blocked, the text is rendered with Comic Sans. Not a good look.
> you have to believe in a god to reject it which largely puts atheists and fundamentalists in the same bucket

How do you figure?

Both positions are claims about absolute truth in a domain that is philosophically and scientifically impossible to make absolute truth claims about. If there is faith being practiced, it is in the holding of these opposed beliefs, but that is not equivalent to sharing a belief about god.
Even if Chrome did that, it wouldn't stop Edge from importing Chrome data and uploading it to Microsoft without asking permission.
Authority figures in professional settings should conduct themselves in a manner that befits their stature. They should serve as role models, as exemplars for the others.

But looking at https://www.cs189.org/ it just seems like the prof is a typical right-wing American, generally detached from reality (the cringe fake pronouns really tie it all together). He probably spends a lot of his time on red-pill forums and is unable to escape that particular vortex. He's probably just not mentally able to act in a decent manner -- I kind of have pity for the guy.
I’m sure it might be useful if your primary business is something like, oh let’s say, delivering advertisements based on users preferences and behaviour.
20 years ago was 2004, and Borland Delphi 7 was out. It was Pascal-based, but it didn't had that much difference from C programs.

It had a nice unit system with separate interface & implementation sections. This was very nice. The unit files were not compatible with anything else, including previous versions of Delphi - this was not nice, especially since a lot of libraries were distributed in compiled form.

The compilation speed was amazingly fast. This is one thing that was unequivocally better than C at this time.

There were range types (type TExample = 1..1000), but they more of a gimmick - turns out there are very few use cases for build-time limits. There were some uses back in DOS days when you'd have hardcoded resolution of 640x480, but in the windows time most variables were just Integer.

Arrays had optional range checks on access, that was also nice. We'd turn them off if we felt programs were too slow.

Otherwise, it was basically same as C with a bit of classes - custom memory allocation/deallocation, dangling pointers, NULLs, threads you start and stop, mutexes and critical sections. When I finally switched from Pascal to C, I didn't see that much difference (except compilation got much slower)

Maybe you'd say that Borland did something wrong, and Wirth's Modula-2 would be much better than Borland's Pascal, but I doubt this.
Let's walk through this rationally:

Take the crime they are investigating and ignore that; it is a red herring. Say that there is a stalker who hacked someone's devices and pulled private information and videos from them, and posted them publicly. Something unequivocally bad. We would all agree that there needs to be a way to investigate and stop this person and seek justice for the victims.

Until recently, taking this to the cops would get you a blank stare and nothing would happen. At least now in certain places it is taken seriously. But traditional investigative methods don't work. They would need to get access logs to the places where that data was uploaded, at the very least.

Cops are not particularly great at investigating (most crime is solved by confessions or just catching them in the act). They don't have any reason not to just blindly grab all the data and sort through it by hand, because that's what they know how to do, and if they request it and get denied, why would they care? They either try something else or say 'fuck it'.

Local Judges see a request for records and a block of time and it seems reasonable to get that info. No one is sitting and explaining to them the implications of allowing cops access to personal information from viewer logs. Historically, the lower courts are not the place to seek enlightened rulings.

Google? I honestly have no love for them, and they bend over for China every day for worse stuff, so I would be surprised if they gave two shits about their users, except that if this becomes common enough they might actually have to devote support to these requests, and they hate giving support, so they might fight it just for their own self-interest.

The problem is that there is no settled case law here and no clear legislation, and I would hesitate to take any important cases to the Supreme Court until at least Mr. "Is This a Pube on My Coke Can" is gone.
That’s not a claimed benefit. The article says it only tracks how many people you know are around you, not who they are.

Apple’s usually pretty on top of this kind of thing. For example, there was the privacy-preserving Covid proximity thing, and I believe the Find My network works without allowing others to track you?

Is there some fancy cryptographic algorithm that allows a person to broadcast something that allows others that already know them to recognize that a person they know is broadcasting (perhaps not even a specific person, just one they know) - without allowing people they don’t know to recognize they are the same person if they see them again?
That's true, I'm just banned but it still lets me comment and that's fine with me. No pesky fake internet points to worry about.
And except for yourself participating in the capitalist system you deride, what's your personal contribution to what you easily propose? I'd wager that you yourself are at least subconsciously speaking as untruthfully as anyone else from a rather shaky place of moral superiority.

Also, the very argument above yours isn't that people show a false concern for the well-being of others, it's that whether they do this or not, their own efforts to improve their own lives even for selfish reasons still more often than not help society in general through market mechanisms. It has worked remarkably so far, even if it's imperfect in many ways, like nearly anything human.