skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In 2010 and 2011, the FAA issued two fines against Dause and his business for failing to comply with federal aviation regulations, totaling $933,000. But FAA spokesperson Gregor told SFGATE that the fine was never collected by the agency, which eventually referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for further action. The Justice Department did not respond to questions about whether the fine was ever paid.

Amazing how a business can just decide to not pay a fine to the FAA, and apparently it's all cool. If I missed $200 on my income taxes, the IRS would be up my ass within a year for it, but apparently the FAA doesn't urgently need that $1M.

EDIT: It keeps getting better!

> Turner’s parents filed a wrongful death suit against both Dause and the Parachute Center; three years later, a judge awarded the family a $40 million judgment, writing in the decision that Dause was personally responsible for the payment. Francine Turner told SFGATE the family has never received any payments from Dause or the Parachute Center.

So he doesn't have to pay judgments either? I need to learn this guy's amazing financial life-hack!
Yep, we are!
spent*
I don't want to defend child labour too much, I don't know much about the topic.

But is it really so clear that a child not working is somehow a better outcome than a child not being hungry and being able to provide shelter for themselves?
That's awesome. So I'm thinking I might want to do the Washington St leg of this some time, do you remember about how long that part took?
Groove worked amazing until MS bought them out and basically killed them. I've only used it when it was included in Office, but it worked amazingly well. As long as you had at least 1 computer on, it synced pretty reliably. It even worked for Outlook when they were independent but ironical Outlook sync was disabled when they integrated Groove into Office. The next batch of syncing systems were a terrible mess. I think it turned into Sharepoint sync, then decided to go full internet cloud and decided to replace it Foldershare (they bought them about same time they bought Groove), updated it to Livemesh, and killed all that off finalizing with Skydrive which had to be changed to Onedrive. I loved Groove and tried all the iterations but found Dropbox to be hands down the best and have over 30GB free. Unfortunately they only offer 3 free devices now so I might have to go back to Onedrive which had a lot of sync issues last i tried it.
I was paying $1.1 for A100 hour more than a year ago. $2.48 is crazy expensive.
CAS meaning Compare and Swap?
But more pointers is just more cost, not outright inability to do it. The debate wasn't over whether defragmentation itself is costly. The question was whether merely making defragmentation possible would impose a cost on the rest of the system. So far you've only explained why defragmentation on a snapshotting volume would be expensive with typical schemes, which is entirely uncontroversial. But you neither explain why you believe defragmentation would be impossible (no "ability to do it") with your scheme, nor why you believe it's impossible for other schemes to make it possible "for free"?

In fact, the main difficulty with garbage collectors is maintaining real-time performance. Throw that constraint out, and the game changes entirely.
This sounds interesting enough. Could I have it as a more detail text based novel (150-250 pages) or if it's possible a full fledged movie, maybe in similar style as "Big Short"?

Or do you think it has to be a TV show, maybe like "Succession" - do you think you'd be able to write something like "Succession"?
Nowhere near as many as haven't been published by brilliant people toiling in obscure penury for their mere survival.
I remember walking to every computer in primary schools to do operations in the 90s, so I figured might as well play it safe with “20 years.” :)

There’s definitely been solutions to this problem since the dawn of computing, albeit with uneven availability.
> Very hard for me to understand why, in a world of Google docs, anyone would want to deal with the bloated mess that is ms office.

For knowledge workers who live in these tools, the difference is stark. Even for companies who've standardized on Google Workspace or Apple iWork, advanced users will need Microsoft Office.
A lot more than this.

Elton John improvising on an oven manual is the high bar in my opinion. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8GuI4UUZrmw
Cash handling is typically in the neighborhood of 0.2%-0.3%, so you were apparently overpaying:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/business-checking...

And that's assuming you're depositing all of your revenue. If your business allows you to pay some of your suppliers in cash, you could have >50% of your revenue in cash and never pay a bank for cash handling because you're immediately spending it on business expenses rather than depositing it.

> If small businesses give discounts for cash it's because they're committing tax fraud, I presume.

I have seen governments charge a convenience fee for credit card processing. Is the government committing tax fraud?
I feel like I've read this exact story a couple of times in the past 15 or so years.
That claim seemingly stems from a misinterpretation of the paper’s discussion, since no mechanisms are proposed or mentioned there:

> The evolution of the vertebrate immune system occurred in geographically limited populations. Before machine-mediated transportation—
trains, planes, boats and cars—individuals were likely to be exposed to the majority of pathogens in their local geography by the time of reproductive age. As T and B memory/stem cells can survive an individual’s lifetime[60,61], they should be sufficient to provide adaptive immune memory to all local pathogens. Thus, the generation of new T and B lymphocytes in later life was probably no longer advantageous, whereas the production of short-lived myeloid cells would remain important for acute innate responses, even in later life.
https://www.google.com/search?q=informal+leadership
I'm from the UK, but took my driving test in California. The California test did feel like a joke - it lasted 15 minutes and involved 3 left turns, 3 right turns, 3 crossings of an intersection, reversing in a straight line and parking in a bay.

The UK driving test takes more than twice as long and involves way more maneuvers - though it looks like they've dropped three point turns and reversing left around a corner according to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_driving_test#Ma...
Did you mean to say that the metal knife handle hit the boot, but not the steel toe? As in the soft part of the boot?

I've had some ankle fractures I didn't know about in the past, thankfully they didn't lead to more than a few weeks of inactivity, but have had absolutely miserable infections from a mild shin scrape and achillies cut.
I don't think it is the only problem. Even if you learn the language and know it well, if you start contributing on a big project, it's going to be hard to understand exactly what happens and to be sure that you didn't make mistakes. At this point it makes sense to delegate some checking to the computer.
This already sounds like something I would have listened to in the 90s, except with too much autotune.
It's very possible when you play in 2 player mode and maximize your "pennies per point" redemptions. We're doing the $60k in flights to Japan, hotels for the extended family for 2 weeks (another several $thousand), and then multiple weekend trips throughout the year for a suite in an all-inclusive resort that goes for ~$2.5k per night (roughly another $20k total).
Deathswitch loaded with 1 star review "I died"
But pixels can be arbitrarily "deep". That is to say, the amount of context that is needed to figure out the color of a pixel can grow arbitrarily large.
Not last minute, booked a year out when they were ~$10k+ per ticket.
yes I do the cooking, yes I do the cleaning… :)
Office has become a bit of a UX mess in parts, due to the cloud and web integration, but the overall functionality and integrations are still unmatched. Many people also continue to prefer native applications.
The way I see it, Kagi can save me half an hour of searching in a month. Given that it's $10/month for unlimited, I need to make $20/h to break even. If I make more than that, the value proposition becomes better and better.

Anything that will allow me to do more work I will buy, because the more efficient I am, the faster I can make money.
Show HN: Olly – Capable assistant you can text in iMessage and WhatsApp
Enormous number of improvements? That link shows barely any improvements. If there was healthy competition you'd actually see enormous number of improvements.

> The biggest is probably cloud/simultaneous editing capabilities.

That was in response to Google Docs and is more than 10 years old (added in 2013?).
>if that movie went on to be extremely successful you might feel differently though.

Nah, he did 95% of the work. I just put on some facepaint and shambled and moaned a little.
Yeah, he had another choice quote in there:

> The most recent death at the center occurred in April 2021, when 57-year-old Watsonville woman Sabrina Call slammed into the ground after her parachutes tangled.

> “We’re sad, but it’s just like a car wreck or anything else,” Dause told reporters at a press conference two days later. “You have to go on.”

Another one from another article[0]... imagine being this complacent with people literally dying because of your business and its poor operation:

> "It's an unfortunate situation, but if you see a car wreck they don't close the freeway, it's something that unfortunately in this sport, in skiing, in scuba diving, there are fatalities"

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/40-million-ruling-against-skydi...
Don't worry, I'm doing that too. Mega backdoor, etc.
My copy of the book has a foreword by Le Guin where she said something along the lines of being very emotional about current day politics (current at the time of writing) when she wrote the book, and that she was not trying to be nuanced.

That set my expectations for the book and I was able to enjoy it for what it was. It probably also helped that I knew that writing style wasn't typical for her given that I'd read at least seven other books by her before The Word for World is Forest.
A friend recommended this, and I just recently finished it — my first reading of Le Guin. As a student of history and someone interested in how we record it, it was really something for me. I want to read it again already.
Sure; but no kid is going to believe you; or even if they do; they won't care. It needs to be something they can put into action immediately and see results.
> But... you don't have to pay for it. You do need an account, but Kagi has a free tier.

It’s a trial, you get 100 searches for free, then you have to start paying.

I don’t think you can call it a free tier but it’s a nice offer to evaluate the service before paying.
I tried it for a bit and wasn’t happy with the search results, but I might try again though and use up my remaining searches.
I’m not a gun guy either but have had to respond to threats to my safety as well. Good luck and be safe, will definitely be following your journey because I think you are 100% correct.
The first paragraph mentions this: "In Mario Kart 8, ..."

If this was more than a tool for teaching multi-objective optimization, I'd like to see how the Pareto front changes over Mario Kart releases!
Consider living with someone from a culture that doesn't treat growm men as toddlers who can't do the basic job of taking care of their living environment without a woman to baby them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akO8qAx4xjY
Vancouver average detached was $1.2M in 2008, it's $1.8M now. That's not 3X.
My newest desktop is still PCIe 3. Apparently by the time I get around to upgrading, things will be really fast.
I feel the same way about our computing systems these days, and on a similar timeline.
1. You're missing the very important detail that there are multiple combined fees, and you are trying to compare a rebate for one of those fees to the combined fees.

2. Commodity markets literally are an oversimplification.

3. You are conflating unassociated fees! See 1.
In a Memory Mapped device, a read can trigger side effects (in fact, I worked a lot with that), so is not only is about memory.
I think for the most part it's not that current generation of models are dangerous, at least not for things like this, but rather that researchers want to learn how to control them now to be ready for what's coming...

Right now the models' reasoning capabilities aren't good enough that they can add too much to what's already on the web and available by search, but soon they will be. Anthropic spent 6 months talking to researchers about biological threats and came to conclusion that their models would be capable of figuring out the "missing pieces" (information that is not publicly available) for various threats within a couple of years.
The thing that makes tandem jumps potentially more dangerous is that the gear is completely different from a regular sport rig - so it’s important to ask how many tandem jumps your tandem master has. He/she might have 10k jumps, but maybe only 200 on a tandem rig. As a former sport skydiver I wouldn’t go near a tandem jump unless the instructor had at least 500 tandem jumps.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928173
Many motherboards do allow splitting the GPU lanes into two it's just not many consumers see the need for an NVMe drive +GPU+ 2nd high speed device + 3rd high speed device that can't be served off the chipset instead.

For the prosumer crowd if you do something like the z790 you can have x4, x8, x8, and x8 to the chipset to be split as needed (x16 to be split if 3.0.
This is super cool! As someone who is interested but unfamiliar with formal verification, how "powerful" or "complete" would you say FizzBee is compared to the conventional tools such as TLA+? I'm unsure if I framed this correctly but can you do everything in Fizzbee that TLA+ supports?
Show HN: PredicateKit – A type-safe replacement for NSPredicate for CoreData
Hi,

I really like CoreData. I think it's a great piece of software (I know this is a controversial opinion in some circles ;)). My only pet peeve with it has been the string-based querying API based on NSPredicate. It is a major source of bugs/crashes and doesn't really fit nicely in the modern strongly-typed world of Swift. I built PredicateKit as a lightweight replacement for NSPredicateKit (specifically for CoreData) that makes writing predicates as safe and pleasant as writing native Swift code.
Surely there's a limit to how many German headquarters Microsoft needs though.
2.5 times safer compared to anyone jumping, what about compared to the instructor non-tandem jumping on his/her own?
External cable size is limited by flexibility. In theory the 4x variant could drive an external GPU at PCIe 5 x16 bandwidth.

Alternatively, it could drive a 4x16 card and have bandwidth left for fast SSDs and fast Ethernet and various USB stuff at the same time. That sounds great for laptop docks.
It was similar in the original Mario Kart of the SNES. I clearly remember always choosing toad or koopa because they "felt" the more average to me. Donkey Kong was difficult to handle and also had slow acceleration, same with bowser.
Apparently, it's how one bargains with Microsoft to get a better deal on software or employment in that location or whatever.
In Word and Outlook not so much (and the “new Outlook” is much worse), but there have been substantial improvements in Excel.
Bridges in the US are threaten by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars
What's the $/kWh value you're basing your results in?
Using heat for energy storage and then converting back to electricity are ok if you don't care about cost of electricity, the facility or the maintenance. In basically all other cases they are some of the worst ideas. We have much better technologies that are known for the last ~50 years. They are simple, they do work and have volumetric energy density within striking distance of fossil fuels however don't include carbon. Just reading the expired US patents would reveal that.

I guess there are worse things to invest into but come on, we teach the physics needed to comprehend why this is a bad idea in high school.
I loved thinking about people 500 years ago walking on the same stones I was walking on, and thinking about what the exact spot I was currently standing on was like back then. What did it smell like? What did you see? Were the fields this open or were their more trees? Did you run into a lot of people?

Lots you can think about on the trail.
Thank you; I didn’t have the time or patience to deal with the “sources” crowd on this one.
What military lawyers? What States?

The ICRC stated that they couldn't reach consensus and that the Interpretive Guidance provided their own recommendations and does not necessarily reflect the majority opinion of participating experts.

The DPH meeting reports show there was considerable contention beyond the requirement of a continuous combat function or IX. Dissension was significant enough that over a third of the experts involved asked for their names to be removed from the Interpretive Guidance prior to publication which led the ICRC to remove all the experts' names.

Then there are all the papers published criticizing the document for reasons that go beyond just the two most contentious issues, several by experts were among those consulted by the ICRC (e.g. Schmitt, Parks).

Given the dissension, I find it strange that such a document could possibly be widely accepted as the authoritative interpretation of what constitutes DPH by States as you claim.
Yes, but many are also very old and don't necessarily have large power lines leading to the car park as it's never been necessary in the past. Newark was mentioned as a case in point, where power is simply not available at the scale they'd need it. Of course, Hertz should have thought of that...
The generated HTML for the tables looks pretty good. How easy is it to attach extra classes to the elements? Is cell content HTML-escaped by default?
Rendering pages server-side and avoiding 5-megabyte bundles might help with that. JIT and other browser-side performance optimizations just delay the problem anyway. The culture around web development needs to change.
Who says that's a net negative?

Boeing certainly provides a very substantial positive to humanity.
I’ve been paying for Kagi for a little while now. The biggest thing for me is knowing each search is independent of the next like a good unit test. It does not feed, as a signal into some algorithm. Any time the thought of canceling Kagi comes to mind, I think about the confidence of searching for really sensitive information, eg medical. I can’t do that on Google confidently.
Microsoft Search? Where is that exactly? Search is the biggest weak point of Microsoft products. Try finding anything in Teams. Now try the Search box at the bottom of Hacker News. See the difference?

Microsoft's revenue from Office was $211B in 2023. That's almost a quarter of a TRILLION dollars in annual revenue. And for that you got what? A presenter mode and data access? Imagine if that revenue was split between three equally strong competitors. That would have spurred innovation.
Isn't actually collecting judgements hard? I thought I read, in some article about how Alex Jones hasn't paid any of his judgement, that it's not uncommon to take decades before seeing any money. Often people settle for a greatly reduced sum that they can get right now, for that very reason.
Maybe you'd be happier with it if you just stuck to LibreOffice and never looked at Microsoft products. It works for me.
And frankly large numbers of features in languages aren't needed by most devs. Marshalling in C#, for example, isn't needed unless you're calling into native code. Making raw syscalls in Rust isn't needed unless you're working on optimizing some low level systems code.
> but C genuinely is relatively tiny,

Relatively tiny and with a disproportionate number of footguns.
A gadget to recover heat from a disk brake would certainly be interesting, but it sounds complex, messy and expensive.

A bigger battery/coolant loop heater sounds more straightforward — the mechanism to convert kinetic energy to current is already there.
The Future of Vector Database
What are you going to use the DIY parachute for?
I had a really different response to that Jemisin story. If you’re going to invoke comparisons with another work, your work should be on the same level. For me it was a bit like Sharknado making a Jaws reference.
I've sued several businesses and individuals in small claims court (in California) including two multinationals on the S&P 500. I have no formal legal training, only what every open source dev learns through licensing. The court bureaucracy was about as hard for me to learn than learning how to convert an out of state drivers license to my new state. Finding a process server was the hardest part. You write your account of what happened in colloquial English, you attach evidence, you show up before a judge and they decide.

You don't actually need a lawyer to respond to bogus charges. Legal trolls make their money assuming most people settle or don't show up. Just submit your evidence, show up in court, and if it is bogus, it will be clear.
I'm attempting something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gij9UQy_JEQ

https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug...

Right now I'm ~90% through a major rewrite to use GC instead of isoheaps, because then I'll go from rewrite-a-bit (Fil-C previously required malloc calls to be annotated and for some unions to be changed) to rewrite-nothing (malloc will Just Work and so will unions).

I hope there are others also trying various alternatives. It's too soon for most of these things to tell what traction they may or may not get.
> Objectively, people are irrational about probabilities. Study after study shows that you can give people probabilities and ask them for decisions, and they will usually be wrong.

For me its not about the probabilities its about the mitigations and ability to make an informed decision

On a consumer protection front, this activity lacks both

There’s no “look both ways before crossing the street”, its “sign this waiver before crossing the street, only 10 people actually died so I don’t know why you’re still on this topic”
If you look at the first place (after clear cheaters) time trials for different tracks, you'll see different choices but clear patterns. The main mode of the game has you race a set of four different tracks, and the online mode throws in all of the tracks; So in those modes the choices are going to be more constrained towards an average good.

For my part, I got the best rank in single player on all pre-DLC tracks with only toad and the default kart, so it's a part of the game you can entirely ignore if you're not competing against other humans.
Read further and you'll find it was just Roku identifying that users were using the same password across multiple services of which were separately breached and credential stuffed.

If anything this reflects positively on Roku that they announced it
I use MS Office and Softmaker Office, both native and with perpetual license. Works fine for me. Not sure why would I need online service that can cut me off at any point with no recourse
Scaling Sales for Technical Founder
Discovery on our journey: Sales teams prefer AI agents to skip small talk, but customers appreciate it. Adding small talk has increased customer engagement by almost 60%. Despite a small sample size of approximately 75 live calls, with 40 including small talk, it's an intriguing observation.
apple already sells a device for taking care of kids, just get them an ipad and it'll keep them entertained all day long! /s